Using life stories as data, the research problem was to find patterns in the interpretations of Parkinson's Disease. In one of the patterns—found in 12 of the 23 life stories—Parkinson's Disease is interpreted as a problem of 'shame'. The interpretation of shame could partly be explained by other elements of the pattern. Shame is said to arise from the assumed rule-breaking character of the signs of the disease. Not all rule-breaking behaviour, however, is said to be an explanation for shame. Three conditions are mentioned. The first is the social importance of the rules broken. The rules which are said to cause shame are considered as socially sensitive, as related to important social values. The value particularly pointed to is described as 'social competence'. The second condition is the 'visibility' of the behaviour. Particularly, rule-breaking in public is said to arouse shame. The third condition is the assumption of being labelled as a 'deviant' because of the rule-breaking behaviour. In this pattern of interpretation two consequences are drawn. In the first the life world is divided into a 'private' and a 'public' domain. In the second, found in almost all the life stories in which shame is mentioned, the informants say they feel inclined to 'retreat' from the public domain.


In 2004,the Chinese central government put forward the policy of promoting the rapid development of the central part of China.The city of Ganzhou in Jiang Xi province should make active response to it as follows: rely on the advantages of its resources and industry;break through the restrict of its regional conditions of neither in the east nor in the west;accelerate the institutional innovation;increase the intensity of opening to the outside world; adhere to the scientific concept of development;Hence a fast and fine way toward the economic development.


Soil evaluation should be conducted both physically and chemically. Physical characteristics affect the ability of roots to explore the soil for water and nutrients and the capacity of the soil to hold water as a reserve for plants between rains or irrigation. They also affect the ease at which water moves through the soil, preventing ponding. While not a physical characteristic, the topography of the soil surface also will be an influence on water movement into the soil. Evaluating, Preparing and Amending Lawn and Garden Soil


PURPOSE: A user authentication system using a second connection path and an authenticating method thereof are provided to enhance the reliability of an authentication process by using the second connection path instead of the first connection path for service. CONSTITUTION: A user authentication system using a second connection path includes a service provider system(20), a second user terminal(12), a communication connection/management system(30), a second connection path, and a connection management system(32). The service provider system(20) processes a request of a first user terminal(11) within a predetermined range and performs a user authentication process if the request of the first user terminal exceeds the predetermined range. The second user terminal(12) is registered by the genuine user. The communication connection/management system(30) is connected to the second user terminal(12) in order to require the authentication information and transfer the authentication information to the service provider system. The second connection path is used for connecting the communication connection/management system to the second user terminal. The connection management system(32) records and manages a communication history.


Gas-liquid and gas-liquid-solid reactions in microstructured devices are an active field in scientific research with many industrial applications. High surface-to-volume ratio as well as enhanced heat and mass transfer are advantageous making microstructured devices a promising technology to overcome mass transfer limitations. The implementation of traditional sensors and analytical methods is a drawback when investigating mass transfer phenomena within microstructured devices, since they disturb the flow and reactor characteristics. Offline measurement techniques provide limited insight into flow structure, while noninvasive online measurement techniques either cannot provide local results or require a sophisticated setup. In this work, a noninvasive ultrasonic sensor (SONOTEC, Germany) is used to measure particle concentration and bubble length in Taylor flow. Particle concentration and bubble detection is derived from the ultrasonic signal. Further, an Arduino based slider setup is developed, which is equipped with a computed-vision system to track bubbles in Taylor flow. This setup can be combined with optical analytical methods allowing for investigating the entire life time of a single bubble or liquid slug.


Implicit stereotype is an major domain of implicit social cognition research.There have been implicit stereotype researches on sexes,races,professions and areas but few on implicit COO stereotype.Study on COO(country-of origin)stereotype has significant implications,both theoretical and practical.So in this study we took(a)college students as its subjects,(b)implicit COO stereotype in domestic and foreign laptop brand as its research topic,(c)Implicit Association Test as its research method,(d)Inquisit software as its main research tool.This study finally finds out:there do exists implicit COO stereotype in college students about domestic and foreign laptop brands.College students showed unconscious preference for foreign laptop brands and unconscious bias against domestic brands.


Based on the two-wave harmonic friction drive model, this paper researched the problem about the elastic deformation radial force of the flexspline. Through building the spatial model, it got the expression of the elastic deformation radial force under free boundary conditions. Then got the length condition which can be neglected under fixed boundary conditions. Finally, it analyzed the influence of flexspline's length, thickness, radius to the elastic deformation radial force.


In this paper the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project is taken as a case to analyze supplier development in infrastructure mega-projects. Compared with manufacturing industry, the characteristics of supplier development in infrastructure mega-projects is analyzed in term of development motives, supplier selection, quality management, production mode, owner participation and risks. The critical factors influencing the construction supplier development are identified, which include incentives, collaboration, future market, trust and bilateral communication. Furthermore, focusing on the incentives for the supplier's product quality and production capacity improvement, decision-making framework models are proposed to design the incentive mechanisms.


An innovative approach coupling DFT calculations and simple thermodynamics is developed for determining surface energies and morphologies of Co(Ni)MoS nanocatalysts used in hydrotreatment. According to sulfo-reductive conditions, three regimes are put forward. For high chemical potentials of sulfur, the promoter localization is found to be stable on both particle edges. Intermediate sulfiding conditions enhance the selective affinity of Co for the S edge only, whereas Ni remains stable on both edges. Finally, the destabilization of the mixed phases is found in highly reductive regimes.


In this paper, we present and compare two experimentally feasible photonic crystal fiber (PCF) designs (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\textit{Type-I}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\textit{Type-II}$</tex-math></inline-formula>) which ensure near-zero flattened dispersion with ultra-high phase and group birefringence at THz frequencies. Both structures are based on a subset of a triangular array of circular air-holes, which define the cladding of the PCF and a central elliptical air-hole which breaks the symmetry of the structure, thus introducing high levels of birefringence. Additionally, we investigate the possibility of further enhancing the birefringence properties of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\textit{Type-II}$</tex-math></inline-formula> structure by selectively filling the air-holes with Potassium Chloride (KCl) as strong Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) material. Our investigation reveals that significant enhancement of birefringence can be achieved than its original counterpart with birefringence to be as high as 0.0627 at 6.2 THz and near-zero flat dispersion of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-$</tex-math></inline-formula>0.54 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm$</tex-math></inline-formula> 0.04 ps/THz/cm over the frequency range of 6.2<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-$</tex-math></inline-formula>6.3 THz.


Some anomalous behaviors, such as punchthrough voltage reduction, leakage current increase, and transconductance (g/sub m/) instability have been found in BF/sub 2/ implanted p/sup +/-polysilicon P-MOSFET's. These effects are supposed to be due to B-ion penetration. To prevent the B-ion penetration, RTA has been used. Experimental results show that RTA can improve the effect, however, the RTA process can also cause the generation of interface states, gate-induced-drain-leakage increase, and oxide quality degradation. All of the mechanisms of performance degradation are investigated and modeled in detail. >


Results are presented of measurements of the J/ψ modification in p+Au, d+Au and 3He+Au collisions at forward and backward rapidity (1.2<|y|<2.2) by the PHENIX experiment. The rapidity, transverse momentum and collision centrality dependence of the modifications are presented, and compared between the three light projectile collision systems. The modification for p+Al is found to be small. For p+Au it is depends strongly on collision centrality at forward rapidity. In both cases models describe the data well. The modifications for d+Au and 3He+Au are very similar to those for p+Au, although there is a hint of slightly increased suppression for 3He+Au over p+Au at backward rapidity.


Palestine's economy was historically based on agriculture.2 Apart from important deposits of potash and bromine in the Dead Sea, the country had no other minerals of any economic value.3 During the British Mandate, the role of agriculture did not diminish in the face of industrialization and by 1930, 53 per cent of the settled population was still engaged in farming and pasturage4 (Table 1), compared with 14 per cent in industry.5 93 per cent of those were Arabs, and 5 per cent were Jews.6


Density functional theory is used to investigate the equation of state, phase stability, magnetism, elasticity, and high temperature properties of iron. The equations of density functional theory are solved with the state-of-the-art linearized augmented plane wave (LAPW) method with gradient-corrected exchange-correlation functionals. A parametric tight-binding Hamiltonian, which is fit to the results of the elaborate LAPW calculations, is used to investigate elasticity and high temperature properties, the latter in the cell model approximation. The results of these calculations show that (1) the bcc phase of iron is mechanically unstable above 150 GPa and is unlikely to exist in the inner core (2) the anisotropy of hcp iron is similar in its magnitude and symmetry to that of the inner core, indicating that this is the stable phase of iron in this region and that the inner core is either very strongly textured, or that it consists of a single crystal, and (3) iron is significantly denser than the inner core, indicating the presence of a few weight percent light alloying elements in the solid inner core.


"Customer who viewed this item wills also view that" is an intelligent as well as expert activity that keeps track of customers. Online shopping trends are based on the statistics which execute cross-selling mechanism. This intelligent algorithm will suggest your site visitors with products which were mostly explored by other customers on basis of maximum ratings, purchased or liked and viewed. These suggestions display on product pages that are based on the current product. Various Shopping application and web-sites are using different methods to attract customers. In this paper we are going to study the algorithm and introduction to machine learning approach to find how E-commerce uses recommendation techniques.


Economics, morality and the law are so tightly interlaced in any consideration of the usury question as to be nearly indistinguishable, yet if a study is to be objectively based, the significance of each factor must be weighed independently. However, since the chief purpose of this study is to explore the question from the legal standpoint, only summary consideration will be given here to the first two factors.


A total of 17 species of Odonata belonging to 11 genera under 4 families and spread over 2 suborders have been collected from a very small area of 350 m 2 in Khadki of Pune city during a study conducted from April 2012 to January 2014. Though the post- monsoon abundance of Odonata was high but Odonata diversity was greater in pre-monsoon period when the food and nutrition were abundant. In the present study it is found that Libellulidae is the richest family with maximum number of species (10 species) which is followed by family Coenagrionidae (4 species), Platycnemidae (2 species) and Ashnidae (1 species). The area therefore can be considered as a species rich diversity site in a purely urban backdrop.


Extensively discussed and analysed, globalization has become a phenomenon, unprecedented in the history of the world, by the scale and its evolution. Criticized by some specialists, with positive aspects in view of others others, globalization seems that follows the trajectory.


A model is derived for the frequency dependency of the magnetic resonance integrated absorption for non-Kramers doublets. On the basis of the model, a frequency squared dependency is predicted for the acoustical paramagnetic resonance (APR) integrated absorption which compares favorably with the results of experimental APR absorption data for CaF2:U4+. A transformation is derived from the spin-Hamiltonian which transforms the absorption line shape from that in field variation (H) to that in frequency variation (v). The transformation shows that the line shapes in the two cases are basically different when the absorption line is broadened by crystal field perturbations. The transformation gives the line shape in frequency variation, given the line shape in field variation. The model predicts that the integrated intensity in frequency variation is greater than that in field variation by a term proportional to the average value of the square of the crystal field perturbations. From the model the integrated APR absorption as a function of the square of the resonance frequency gives an intercept explicitly in terms of the zero field splitting between the states of the doublet. The slope gives the strength of the spin-phonon coupling.


judged and selected. In particular, how could or should considerations of practice-its potentialities and limitations-enter into the framing of objectives? In the spirit of dismantling arbitrary, overgeneralized oppositions (rather than simply inverting them as Adams and Adams tend to in the case of the theory:practice gap), perhaps a second dialectic requires attention: that by which "theory" enters into practice (including the practices of description and systematization) and interacts with practice in the formulation of objectives. In addressing these questions it would seem crucial to do as Adams and Adams recommend and engage in close (empirical) analysis of actual practice. They take an important step in this direction by considering the details of a particular case-that of the Nubian pottery typology and its process of construction-but despite the claim that their account of typological practice is based on "the testimony of classifiers and sorters" (p. I47) no testimony other than that of one of the authors is reported; other "classifiers and sorters" figure in the discussion only insofar as they have contributed to the "theoretical" debates about typology that Adams and Adams find so profoundly misguided. It would be extremely interesting to assess the model of typological practice that Adams and Adams propose in light of a comparative analysis of cases that represent some of the other kinds of typological system they describe in the abstract. It is no longer possible to return to the sort of "innocence" about the presuppositions of practice that David Clarke (I973) declared counterproductive in the early I970S. The uncomplicated consensus, the unity of purpose that Adams and Adams associate with the classification phase is irretrievably lost, if only because, as they themselves argue, archaeologists have exhausted many of the questions with which they began and must now grapple with the increasing diversity of new questions, "purposes," and approaches to the record that have been made possible by their own success in many areas. The most promising way forward would seem to be rigorous and open-ended scrutiny of these alternative paths, and this would seem best accomplished through an expansion of Adams and Adams's dialectic to include not just typological concepts and the "objects" they are to order but also the background and theoretical sources of "foreknowledge" that enter into the framing of these concepts.


As device critical dimensions (CD) decrease, they approach the limits of standard metrology techniques and measuring features smaller than 20 nm represents a serious challenge. Within the framework of the 32 nm program at IMEC, a reliable and accurate approach to small feature metrology is required. We describe here a methodology aimed at measuring features down to 10nm by means of scatterometry. The results are compared to calibrated CDSEM measurements [1]. The active fins of a Multi Gate Field Effect Transistors (MuGFET) was measured across wafer and across batch. Scribe to cell correlation, wafer fingerprint, 3D profile, oxide thickness were also investigated. In particular, 3D profile information was compared to TEM. Our approach produced very consistent results for all measurement techniques (scatterometry, CDSEM and TEM) and it is now fully integrated in the IMEC production line to monitor the MuGFET platform.


This paper designs a low-power flyback switching power supply using current-mode PWM control chip UC3843. The design of control circuit and high-frequency transformer's parameters of single-ended flyback converter is given. Simulation model of switching power supply is established by saber software. Simulation result shows that the power supply both have a good line regulation and load regulation with high efficiency, and verifies the correctness and feasibility of the design scheme.


The aim of this thesis was to examine how the two Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter portrayed the actions of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Nato and their allies and Ukraine in the conflic ...


It is the legal responsibility of government,employing unit and employees to establish the harmonious labor relations under the circumstances of economy in transition.The subjects of labor relations must make their respective responsibility definite,and make a careful investigation of problems and countermea- sures in the establishment of harmonious labor relations.


Approximate thermochemical tables are presented for some C-H and C-H-O species and for some ionized species, supplementing the JANAF Thermochemical Tables for application to finite-chemical-kinetics calculations. The approximate tables were prepared by interpolation and extrapolation of limited available data, especially by interpolations over chemical families of species. Original estimations have been smoothed by use of a modification for the CDC-6600 computer of the Lewis Research Center PACl Program which was originally prepared for the IBM-7094 computer Summary graphs for various families show reasonably consistent curvefit values, anchored by properties of existing species in the JANAF tables.


(New York: Viking Press, 1958), pp. 74-75. Further references will be cited par enthetically in the text. 4 "Jude the Obscene," The Pall Mall Gazette (12 November 1895), and reprinted in Laurence Lemer and John Holmstrom, eds., Thomas Hardy and His Readers: A Selection of Contemporary Reviews (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1968), pp. 109-11; Reginald Gordon Cox, ed., Thomas Hardy: The Critical Heritage (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970), pp. 249-52; and Graham Clarke, ed., Thomas Hardy: Critical Assessments (The Banks, Mountfield: Helm Information, 1993), 1:232-34. 5 See The Guardian (13 November 1895), reprinted in Thomas Hardy: Critical Assessments (1:235-36), and P., "A Novel of Lubricity," The Bookman (January 1896), reprinted in Thomas Hardy: Critical Assessments (1:267-68). 6 Margaret Oliphant, "The Anti-Marriage League," Blackwood's Magazine January 1896), 135-49. 7 The Saturday Review (8 February 1896), 153-54. Further references will be cited parenthetically in the text. 8 See R. Y. Tyrrell, The Fortnightly Review, 54 (June 1896), 857-64. 9 See A. J. Butler, The National Review, 27 (May 1896), 384-90. 10 W. W. How, "Letter to the Yorkshire Post, June 9th, 1896," Thomas Hardy: Critical Assessments (1:293). Though How does not explicitly state that the novel he burned was Jude the Obscure, good reasons can be adduced for the prevalent assumption that it was this book that provoked the Bishop's dras tic reaction.


Groups working for change are met with many types of responses. Most attention has been given to reactions of overt repression or support for movements and campaigns. However, there exist a range o ...


Objective To investigate the use of serumal and pleural fluid C-reactive protien in differential diagnosis of pleural effusions. Methods We studied the usefulness of pleural fluid C-reactive protein measurement in a population of 129 patients with pleural effusion, by means of an immunoturbidimetric method. A comparison of pleural effusion C-reactive protein levels in different subgroups of patients with effusion was made. Results According to present diagnostic criteria, 13 patients were classified as transudates and the mean pleural fluid CRP(2.5±0.8 mg/L, P0.01) were significantly lower than those in the exudate effusion groups. Among the 116 patients with exudate effusion, 52 patients were caused by neoplastic disease and the pleural fluid CRP mean (7.1±1.3mg/L, P0.001) were significantly lower than those in exudates from pneumonic effusions (71.7±12.6mg/L,P0.01) and than those in the exudates from patients with effusion associated with tuberculosis (32.9±10.5 mg/L, P0.001). There was a correlation between the pleural and serumal C-reactive protein (r=0.67,P0.001). Pleural fluid CRP20mg/L had good sensitivity ( 89.1 %), specificity (100%) and predictive value of positivity (100%) in the diagnosis of exudate effusions and higher CRP-levels may prove to be a practical, accurate and rapid method for differentiating pneumonic effusions and effusions associated with tuberculosis from others. Conclusions Quantitative immunoturbidimetric assay of pleural fluid C-reactive protein will be a useful diagnostic method to differentiate pleural effusions with bacterial origin from others.


The frequency and an isolation reconfigurable multiple input multiple output (MIMO) dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is presented in this communication. The design employs a low‐profile rectangular DR element with ground plane having cross shape slots. The slots resonance is effectively combined with the DR‐resonance for size miniaturization. Moreover, the slot responds as defected ground structure (DGS) for the DR element upon placement of PIN diodes. Switching amalgam of diodes results in frequency, isolation reconfigurability and resonates the structure in three distinct configurations covering PCS 1900 MHz, Wimax 2.3 GHz, and LTE 2500‐2700 MHz bands. A thorough parametric study was performed to study the effects of cross shape DGS on the antenna parameters. The prototype of the proposed MIMO antenna is fabricated and results were measured to certify the simulated results. Few parameters of MIMO such like diversity gain (DG), envelope correlation coefficient (ECC), and mean effective gain (MEG) are provided to verify the MIMO performance.


The paper substantiates the importance of using the method of mental maps in teaching. The main provisions of the theory of mental maps are described. The paper seeks to investigate the attitudes towards using mental maps in graduate students at pedagogical universities. Using the resulting data, the paper aims to formulate methodological recommendations that would help students develop their ability to build mental maps. The paper also reveals a contradiction between the high level of theoretical knowledge about mental maps among graduate students and the low level of formation of their practical skills to build mental maps.


ABSTRACT The aim was to determine the impact of membrane properties and operating conditions upon predicted performance of osmotically driven actuators. An actuator fitted with a forward osmosis membrane was studied, and significantly we examined the reversibility of the actuation process. It was discovered that the actuation-retraction cycle could be repeated for over 60 cycles before salt concentration became similar on both sides of the membrane. The cycle length and number of operative cycles were shown to be a dependent on membrane properties. It was demonstrated that issue of long actuation time can be addressed using membranes with high water permeability.


A multi-bump strategy combines automatic optimization and flow control and is employed in airframe/intake–exhaust integration design of flying wing. The numerical simulation method of γ - Re ¯ θ t transition model is verified and used for optimization and validated analysis. According to flow features of basic integration configuration, the multi-bump strategy is proposed. Based on the strategy, the optimization framework is constructed and applied to the design. The research results show that the present method has good design effectiveness. The cruise lift-drag ratio improves 4.1% and longitudinal static stability increases 1.1% at large attack angle. The multi-bump strategy is a skillfully deflected means to improve aerodynamic performance.


Recent study and development of DWPT and ERS in Japan are reviewed. Current evaluation issues and future challenges for social implementation are introduced. Important safety issue utilizing control and communication is proposed for international standard. This paper also reviews history and recent trend of Static WPT and Electric Road System(ERS) based on DWPT in Japan. Review current status and activity from Japan of standardization and regulatory such as ISO, IEC,SAE,ITU and CISPR. Report on ongoing challenge plan in Japan using test course for innovative ERS featuring Magnetic or Capacitive Coupling DWPT including at Fiji-Yoshida city is introduced. They will contribute carbon free smart mobility society in the future expected 2050 in Japan. It will also introduced the plan of Fujisan railway which was reported by Fujisan railway study committee at Feb.2021. The draft plan of Fujisan railway with no catenary LRT (expected by using DWPT) are overviewed.


A process for producing a device (1) for measuring the flow of a fluid flowing through a measuring tube (3) made of metal according to the magnetic-inductive principle comprising the steps of - a first and a second collar (11, 11 ') made of metal are fixed from the outer region of the measuring tube (3) with an orientation perpendicular to the tube axis of the measuring tube (3), - the measuring tube (3) is lined in the interior region having an electrically non-conductive, resilient liner (4), - a measuring portion (3b) of the measuring tube (3) located at least partially between the first (11) and the second collar (11 ') is changed by means of a cold forming such that the cross-sectional area of the measuring section (3b) with respect to the cross-sectional areas of an at-front of the measuring section inlet section (3a) of the measuring tube (3) and one on the measuring portion (3b) adjoining the flow-out portion (3c) of the measuring tube (3) is reduced.


To facilitate the identification of drug‐related problems (DRPs) during medication review, several tools have been developed. Explicit criteria, like Beers criteria or STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Peoples' Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment) criteria, can easily be integrated into a clinical decision support system (CDSS). The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of adding a CDSS to medication review software on identifying and solving DRPs in daily pharmacy practice.


Moisture intrusion is the major reason why low-slope roofing systems fail prematurely. With approximately 75% of all roofing activity being reroofing, the roofing professional is faced with deciding what to do with an existing wet roof on almost a daily basis. This paper describes finite-difference computer modeling that has been performed to address moisture control in low-slope roof systems. Based on a large database of finite difference modeling results, algorithms have been developed that allow the roofing practitioners to simply determine if a roofing system design requires a vapor retarder or if the system can be modified to enhance its tolerance for small leaks. This paper illustrates how modeling results were obtained, describes the process employed to develop the algorithms, and demonstrates how these algorithms can be used to design a moisture tolerant low-slope roof. The range of applicability and limitations of these algorithms is also detailed.


In this article we propose a rereading of experiments in ideological and aesthetic engagement conducted by European and Latin-American film-makers in a bid to establish a post-colonial cinema in Mozambique. In order to do this we shall begin by locating this cinematographic 'Third Worldism' within the global context of ideas, utopias, and militant idealism that configured the ethics and aesthetics of the 'cinema-action' in vogue during the 1960s and 1970s. Next, we will discuss the vicissitudes and certain disenchantments that marked the participation of these European and Latin-American film-makers in this Mozambican adventure, hoping, by so doing, to evince the limits and contradictions of anti-colonialism and Third Worldism within the cinematographic field in general.


To prevent the spread of influenza among infants and adolescents attending kindergartens and schools, proper quarantining of those who are ill is necessary. In this study, the rapid antigen test (RAT) was performed in patients to investigate the factors affecting the duration of virus shedding. The study included pediatric patients who were diagnosed with influenza by RAT at Daedong Hospital between November 2016 and April 2019. We identified the influenza subtype, age, gender, fever duration, oseltamivir medications, and time gap between fever subsided and RAT examination through chart review. A total of 330 patients were examined at discharge. The average age for RAT positive and negative patients was 6.32 ± 4.26 years and 8.47 ± 4.54 years, respectively. The average duration of fever for the RAT positive patients was 3.84 ± 1.09 days, and for those who were RAT negative was 4.191 ± 1.39. The average number of doses oseltamivir for RAT positive and negative patients was 7.68 ± 1.57 and 8.72 ± 1.37, respectively. The RAT was performed 24 to 48 hours after fever subsided (TG 24-48H group). At this time, 60 patients were positive and the rate of positive expression was 55.56%. Of the TG 48-72H group, 36 patients (26.09%) were positive. Of the TG 72-96H group, 18 patients (21.43%) were positive. Age, fever duration, number of doses oseltamivir and time gap after fever subsided were the factors that influenced the duration of influenza virus shedding. These factors should be considered during the quarantining influenza patients.


Introduction1. The Benevolent Design: Mapping the Landscape2. Models of Piety: Protestant Missionaries on the Frontier3. The Moral Garden of the Western World: Bodies, Towns, and Families4. Geography Made Easy: Geographies and Travel Literature5. A Beacon in the Wilderness: Moral Inscriptions on the LandscapeConclusion: Moral Geography


Building cooperatively 3-D maps of unknown environments is one of the application fields of multi-robot systems. This article focuses on the exploration problem with multiple robots, starting upon a previously proposed successful distributed architecture. An entropy gradient-based algorithm is used to select exploration viewpoints in the frontier between explored and unexplored regions. The architecture is refined here with a mutual information-based coordination mechanism, whereby each robot selects new exploration viewpoints so that mutual information between robots' individual visible maps is minimized and map's uncertainty is decreased as fast as possible. Results obtained from experiments with real robots equipped with stereo-vision demonstrate how the entropy gradient-based method converges to a map with lower uncertainty.


The authors have developed a new method (mechanism) for transforming diagrammatic models in the basis of graphic languages. This method takes into account the syntax (topology), denotative and significative semantics of the transformation. Thanks to the method the execution time of design workflows during the CAD systems design is reduced, and the workflows quality is also improved.


The applicability of the Loevinger conception of ego development was explored for the period of early adolescence. Recent modifications of the earliest ego levels are summarized, and a new version of the measure is presented: the Sentence Completion Test for Children and Youth (SCT-Y). Questions were considered about the reliability and validity of this new instrument. The main question addressed was whether an oral administration would yield essentially different responses and significantly differing ego-level scores as compared to the standard written administration in an early adolescent sample (9.5 through 15.5 years of age; N = 120). The results indicated that an oral administration of the SCT-Y did not yield essentially different responses or significantly differing ego-level scores, regardless of the respondent's age, gender, reading/writing skills, and preference for either presentation mode. The findings indicate that the revision of the ego development construct and measure for (early) adolescence does not seem to be an artifact of the written procedure.


Xanthodilol, mono- and dioxygenated xanthones, and 1,3-, 2,3-, 3,4-, 3,5-, 1,6-, 2,6- and 3,6-dioxygenated xanthones were synthesized from benzophenone precursors by Friedel-Crafts acylation and subsequent base-catalyzed cyclization to eliminate methanol. 3-Hydroxy-xanthone, xanthodilol, 2,3-dihydroxyxanthone diacetate, and 3,4-dihydroxyxanthone and its diacetate showed potent antiplatelet effects on arachidonate- and collagen-induced aggregation. 3,5-Dihydroxyxanthone and its diacetate, 1,6-dimethoxyxanthone, and 3,6-dihydroxyxanthone and its diacetate showed potent antiplatelet effects on arachidonate-induced aggregation.


As noted in the case reports, and as observed in several other cases, the most prominent lesions are follicular papules. These may be cedematous or not, and there may or may not be associated erythema. These follicular papules may still contain hairs which are often surrounded by a sheath of hyperkeratosis. These remaining hairs are often distorted and clubbed.2 There is definite alopecia in these lesions and they are well circumscribed. This follicular papular lesion when not oedematous may simulate lichen nitidus. Other follicular papular eruptions to be differentiated are keratosis pilaris, lichen spinulosus and lichen scrofulosorum. When these follicular papules are cedematous and erythematous, with associated alopecia, they resemble a mild to moderately severe kerion. Such lesions on the scalp are quite similar to tinea capitis in its various forms but there are usually lesions elsewhere on the body which aid in making the diagnosis of alopecia mucinosa. Other entities to be differentiated are lichen simplex chronicus and contact dermatitis. Our Case 1, presented here, illustrated a further type of lesion, in the patches of poorly demarcated alopecia on the eyebrows, left parietal scalp and pubic area. The hair loss was incomplete in that some hairs of normal appearance remained within the confines of the lesions. Thus alopecia areata is also to be coinsidered in the differential diagnosis. Microscopic examination of lesions of alopecia mucinosa shows cedema and mucinous degeneration of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Mucinosa cysts form in these structures, and a moderate amount of inflammatory infiltrate is present about the involved hair follicle. There is only a slight amount of infiltrate about the vessels in the corium and the epidermis is not markedly involved. The material within the cysts is mucin, and stains as such with the various polysaccharide stains. These are well illustrated in colour in the article by Johnson, Higdon and Helwig.3 The mucinous change apparently does not involve the base of the hair papilla in most cases, and the hair is able to regenerate when the disease process subsides. The etiology of alopecia mucinosa is unknown. The self-healing course and the pathological picture suggest a virus iinfection. The cases reported here within one family lend support to the concept of virus etiology. Attempts at isolating an infectious agent have been unsuccessful. Cases of alopecia mucinosa associated with lymphoblastoma' are apparently secondary to that disease. None of the other cases observed or reported have shown any association w-ith malignant disease. The course of alopecia mucinosa is apparently variable. Some of the cases clear readily either with no therapy or with a small amount of roentgen irradiation. The lesions may persist for from several weeks to several months, but others may not respond to irradiation and persist for 12 to 18 months and longer. Cases of recurrent lesions over a period of several years have been reported. More cases must be observed to accurately define the clinical course of alopecia mucinosa.


Voluntary accountability, where people and organizations willingly subject themselves to scrutiny, seems counterintuitive. The common understanding is that increased accountability has negative consequences for the accountor; and so why would anyone voluntarily seek accountability when it is not required? Current explanations hold that external pressures can explain accountability-seeking behaviour, and the proponents are not convinced by the argument that it is beneficial to the accountor. In contrast, this study finds that accountability often serves the accountor's interests. A six-part typology of accountor-beneficial motivations is developed, the empirical adequacy of which is tested through extensive case studies. The results show that public accountability can be a means rather than a burden in the hands of political executive leaders. These findings challenge the conventional principal–agent understanding of accountability and suggest that the study of the poorly understood practice of democratic accountability would benefit from a more leader-centric perspective.


Abstract Over the last couple of years, White nationalist groups have been at the forefront of American political life, especially with the events in Charlottesville, Virginia. The historical roots of White nationalist movements run deep in the United States and are most closely associated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). In this article the authors explore the history of the KKK outside of the South and how this oft-neglected history gets at elements of intergenerational and intragenerational occlusion. Next, we discuss the type of angry political rhetoric used by the KKK. Finally, a series of activities are provided. These activities enable students to see the presence of the KKK outside of the South, break down elements of intragenerational and intergenerational occlusion as it relates to the Klan, and confront angry political rhetoric in the racist messages of the KKK. These activities give students experience to analyze the messages of White nationalist movements to prepare them as future citizens to counter such rhetoric on the local, state, and national level.


This work presents the design and simulation of a beam scanning antenna at 300 GHz using Luneburg lens for 5th generation communication applications or beyond. The basic antenna consists of a highly directional Yagi-Uda antenna with lens shaped configuration (substrate lens antenna-SLA) and designed using multiple parallel elements such as one reflector and one driven element with 6 directors. The SLA is focused by Luneburg lens, which is modeled using a unique foam material AirexR82 with relative dielectric constant of 1.12, and it is pressed to realize different dielectric constants in order to obey the index law inside the lens. The final nine-element array of SLA integrated with Luneburg lens provides a 50% increase in bandwidth compared with conventional Yagi-Uda antenna along with an increase in the gain of 31.3% compared with single SLA. The designed model can achieve a beam scan coverage up to 146◦ with a maximum gain of 17.1 dBi and an estimated efficiency of 92.9%. The beam scanning antenna provides a wide bandwidth of 83 GHz starting from 289 GHz to 372 GHz. The analysis of the proposed antenna is done in CST suite and is validated using HFSS software.


In the article the basic lexical data of Gaulish are collected
and for the first time used for a glottochronological test to
demonstrate the position of Gaulish within Celtic.


The lament speech form is an integral part of Israel's faith and liturgy, yet its significance has not been adequately accounted for in Christian liturgy and theology. This is astonishing given that Jesus' resurrection is God's response to his lament on the cross. Jesus' cry radicalizes Israel's practice of lament, yet at the same time his lament contains the distinct aspects of revealing a trinitarian kenosis of God and portraying the crucified one as the new locus of encounter with God, all of which highlights the need to give prominence to an apophatic theology. Given the saving significance of Jesus' suffering, our suffering, as taken up into the history of God, is to be viewed as a mode of God's presence; it is not only a condition from which to be delivered but the means by which the hope of a 'new creation' will be realized. Jesus' cry also discloses a complex threefold character to his suffering, which calls for a radical discipleship conceived as participation in the kenosis of the crucified one, who is in complete solidarity with all aspects of suffering humanity.


As the amount of Web services over the Internet grows continuously, these services can be interconnected to form a service overlay network (SON). On the basis of SON, building value-added services by service composition is an effective method to satisfy the changeable functional and non-functional QoS (quality of service) requirements of customers. However, the previous research on QoS- aware service composition in SON mainly focuses on the context where services have simple interactions, and it can not support application scenarios with complex business collaboration in electronic business. In this paper, we propose the HOSSON (hierarchical service composition framework in SON) framework, which can be used to construct more general-purpose SON through describing the relations among services using business protocols. In HOSSON, business protocols instead of interactive messages are adopted to simplify the description of service composition requirements and a novel approach named protocol computing are proposed to implement service composition on demand. Furthermore, two algorithms, OSS and MCSS, are designed to support service selection for QoS-aware service composition. Finally, comprehensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of algorithms.


Abstract: Transient radio phenomena and pulsars are one of six LOFAR Key Science Projects (KSPs). As part of the Transients KSP, the Pulsar Working Group (PWG) has been developing the LOFAR Pulsar Data Pipelines to both study known pulsars as well as search for new ones. The pipelines are being developed for the Blue Gene/P (BG/P) supercomputer and a large Linux cluster in order to utilize enormous amounts of computational capabilities (50Tflops) to process data streams of up to 23TB/hour. The LOFAR pipeline output will be using the Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) to efficiently store large amounts of numerical data, and to manage complex data encompassing a variety of data types, across distributed storage and processing architectures. We present the LOFAR Known Pulsar Data Pipeline overview, the pulsar beam-formed data format, the status of the pipeline processing as well as our future plans for developing the LOFAR Pulsar Search Pipeline. These LOFAR pipelines and software tools are being developed as the next generation toolset for pulsar processing in Radio Astronomy.


This article summarizes the results of an experimental program developed on latex-modified mortars. Fluidity tests, compressive strength tests, flexural strength tests, water absorption tests, adhesion tests on clay bricks and cementitious substrates were carried out. The test bodies were prepared by the pre-wetting method with different latex contents while partially substituting Portland cement by two types of latex: Styrene-Butadiene (SBR) and Styrene Acrylic (SA). In addition, samples of ordinary mortars are made in parallel as references.
The experimental results showed that the substitution of cement in mortars produced a notable improvement on fluidity and adhesion. In the case of clay substrates, a cohesive failure in the support above 10% substitution has been reported, whereas the rupture is always at the interface for all the mixtures tested on cementitious substrates. An improvement was also noted on the flexural tensile strength beyond 60 days. On the other hand, the compressive strength of the polymer mortars decreased with the substitution rate of cement for all the maturities studied. As for the absorption of water, the results show a clear reduction in the percentage of water absorption by increasing the substitution rate


A management priority for giant pandas is developing cryopreserved sperm banks to use in conjunction with artificial insemination to protect extant diversity and transport genetic material between geographically disparate panda populations. To be an effective tool, these banks, sperm viability post-thaw must be optimized. These studies examined the influence of 1) different thaw rates and 2) the chemical stimulant pentyoxyfilline (PF), on sperm viability and motility cryopreserved at rapid rates (-40 to -100 ℃/min).Semen was collected from 11 adult giant pandas and cryopreserved rapidly (-40 to -100 °C/min).In study Ⅰ, sperm was thawed at various rates by plunging into water baths at (1) 22℃ (slow rate thawing); (2) 37℃ (intermediate thaw rate); or (3) 50℃ (rapid thaw rate).When compared to mean pre-freeze giant panda sperm motility (78.1±2.9%), post-thaw motility decreased (P0.05) after rapid (57.5±5.4%) thawing. However, the intermediate (67.5±3.1%) or slow (73.33±2.1%) thawing rates were comparable to the pre-freeze value. In study Ⅱ, sperm was thawed at the intermediate rate and exposed to 0mM, 1mM, 5mM and 10 mM PF for short (15 min) and long periods (24 hrs).Sperm samples exposed to PF for 15 min at (0mM, 1mM, 5mM and 10 mM) had similar (P0.05) sperm motility, progressive status, viability and acrosomal integrity patterns throughout the 90 min examination period.Long-term incubation with 1 mM PF, did not influence motility among time periods (P0.05).Giant panda sperm incubated with 5mM and 10 mM PF were less (P0.05) motile by 4 hrs (5 mM: 24.0±4.7; 10 mM 19.5±3.6%) compared with controls (38.3±5.2%).Additionally, sperm incubated with 10 mM PF had fewer (P0.05) intact acrosomes (56.3 ± 2.8) after 4 hrs incubation, compared with controls (71.0 ± 3.3%). These two studies of giant panda sperm demonstrated that giant panda sperm that are cooled and cryopreserved rapidly in pellet form, have better survival following slow rate thaw. Further, giant panda sperm are sensitive to the common motility enhancer PF. However, this boost is short-term, actually depressing sperm motility after a few hours of incubation and, at higher concentrations, damaging acrosomal integrity.


The invention relates to compositions intended for reducing, ideally for eliminating, regurgitation and/or gastro-oesophageal reflux phenomena affecting a subject. Anti-regurgitation and/or anti-reflux infant formulas and milks intended for feeding newborn babies, infants and young children are more particularly described.


Narrative theory or narratology is the systematic study of narrative and narrative structure [3]. It provides the necessary theoretical tools that can help scrutinize the various ways in which narrative is formed and is deciphered by an audience. In this paper, we suggest the use of narrative theory as: (a) a means to a detailed deconstruction or engineering of a collaborative design process, and (b) an analytical device for the in depth exploration of the design space.


Current efforts move to improve healthcare services in Saudi Arabia (SA). Given the essential roles of these services within the country, ongoing effort to improve health informatics services in SA is required in order to ensure the sector is up-to-date. One area for improvement focuses on the referral system in place in Madinah city. This paper presents a solution to the above problem by proposing a Web-based healthcare information system link that can connect four healthcare centres in Madinah city. This will serve as a pilot project. This link could help healthcare providers to access patient information within their own system. Many healthcare applications have problems with interoperability. Hence, one of the aims of this research is to look at system integration of some of the existing healthcare information systems.


Problem statement: Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder
that afflicts 1-2% of the general population worldwide. It encompasses a variety
of disorders with seizures. Approach: Idiopathic epilepsies were
defined as a heterogeneous group of seizure disorders that show no underlying
cause .Voltage-gated ion channels defect were recognized etiology of epilepsy
in the central nervous system. The aim of this article was to provide an update
on voltage-gated channels and their mutation as causative agents for epilepsies.
We described the structures of the voltage-gated channels, discuss their current
genetic studies, and then review the effects of voltage-gated channels as causative
agents for epilepsies. Results: Channels control the flow of
ions in and out of the cell causing depolarization and hyper polarization of the
cell. Voltage-gated channels were classified into four types: Sodium, potassium
calcium ands chloride. Voltage-gated channels were macromolecular protein complexes
within the lipid membrane. They were divided into subunits. Each subunit had a
specific function and was encoded by more than one gen. Conclusion:
Current genetic studies of idiopathic epilepsies show the importance of genetic
influence on Voltage-gated channels. Different genes may regulate a function in
a channel; the channel defect was directly responsible for neuronal hyper excitability
and seizures.


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The development of mass media of communications has focussed renewed interest on the human voice-our main means of communication. As a result, the prevention and treatment of voice problems has assumed increasing importance. This demand for professional services has outstripped our diagnostic facilities. The average laryngologist still relies on the laryngeal mirror or on the direct laryngoscope, while the speech pathologist depends mainly upon a perceptual evaluation of the voice. Both of these technics depend upon the subjective interpretation of an individual observer and test the visual and hearing acuity of the clinician as much as the larynx and voice of the patient. Radiologic examinations of the laryngeal structures and stroboscopic investigations of the vibrating vocal folds are subject to similar limitations. Compared to other medical specialties, for example, otology or audiology, we have been slow in developing objective standards to measure the function of the larynx or the degree of hoarseness. At the Institute of Laryngology and Voice Disorders we have subjected subjects and patients to comprehensive studies of their larynx and voice, at the same time and under the same experimental conditions. Our studies include a thorough clinical examination by several clinicians, a stroboscopic evaluation, normal and ultra-high speed motion picture photography, aerodynamic studies, an acoustic analysis, and also electromyographic, radiologic, and neurosensory tests when indicated.' These fundamental investigations suggest that aerodynamic and acoustic studies can be utilized as accurate objective measurements for quantita. tive and qualitative determinations of laryngeal function and voice. These conclusions concur with our current understanding of phonation as aerodynamic phenomenon. Fundamental investigations at different laryngeal research institutions support the contention that laryngeal efficiency is based mainly upon an interplay between two physical forces, a fine balance between the subglottic power and the glottal resistance. Measurements of these aerodynamic factors should, therefore, provide a clue to the efficiency of the larynx in trans. lating air pressure into acoustic signals.2.3 Only a brief resume of our equipment and a few illustrations of the resffi are presented here. These investigations represent the joint efforts of our entfre Scientific staff, particularly Drs. Nobuhiko Isshiki, Naoaki Yanagihara, EIV'fa Werner-Kukuk, and Yasuo Koike. The details of experimental design, of the bslc theoretical considerations, and of the actual experiments will be published shortly.'


Knowing the fact that the protocorms' multiplication processes are accelerated in their submersion conditions in liquid medium, against the situation that, these protocorms are vitrocultivated on solid (agarized) medium cultures (which prevails in organogenesis processes), we propose to study the influence exerted by the cultures, practiced in bistratified regime, to Cymbidium protocorms in vitro cultures. In this interest, as supernatant we used bidistilled water, either on sucrose, glucose or fructose solutions, in different concentrations, which were applied over the inoculated protocorms on agarized medium cultures. The basic medium culture used by us in these experiments was Murashige - Skoog (1962) (13). To this, we added different growth regulators, like: 2,4-D (2 mg/l), or mixtures of BA (2 mg/l) with NAA (1 mg/l), or only BA (2 mg/l), or only NAA (1 mg/l). The witness lot consisted of vitrocultivated protocorms on agarized medium culture, without growth regulators, cultivated in monolayer. After 90 days from the initiation of the double-layered medium cultures, we ascertained that, the application of the second layer (the liquid one) over the agarized medium cultures strongly stimulated the multiplication of Cymbidium protocorms, and mostly if the second layer was bidistilled water; the usage of a 5% glucose solution as supernatant, was the most inefficient procedure, matter the micropropagation of Cymbidium protocorms, regardless the content of growth regulators existing in agarized layer of medium cultures.


The current study's objectives are to analyze a broad overview of hash function applications in cryptography and investigate the connections between digital signature applications and cryptographic hash functions. Applications of the hash function are widespread and used for a variety of purposes, including password hashing, file integrity verification, key derivation, time stamping, rootkit detection, and digital signatures. Cryptographic hash functions are a crucial tool used in many sections of data security. A digital signature is a code that is electronically associated with a document and includes the sender's information. As a result, the usefulness of the digital signature in validating digital messages or documents is great. Without mathematics, there would be no cryptographic hash functions. Mathematics is credited with computer science's success, or, to put it another way, it is because of mathematical science that computer science is understood and can be explained to everyone. The study's main goals are to explain hash functions to the reader, as well as some of their uses, including digital signatures, and to provide detailed examples of some hash functions and their creation. Keywords: Hash Function, Cryptography, Digital Stamping


Today's dynamic business environment has pushed service-oriented firms such as banks to collaborate with external partners through open innovation (OI) to address issues of service differentiation, optimize customer experience, and create effective open innovation strategies (OIS). However, the essential elements required to design OIS and the methods to manage these strategies are missing. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the strategic resources essential to creating OIS and identify the tools to manage these resources. Following the fundamentals of the resource-based view (RBV), bank openness (BOP), selection of external partners (SEP), open innovation methods (OIM), formalizing collaboration processes (FCP), and banks' internal practices (BIP) are identified as the strategic elements required for creating OIS, and the role of big data analytics (BDA) in these strategic resources is examined. The data were collected through a survey questionnaire from 425 bank executives employed at different digital banks located in Malaysia. To achieve our research objectives, a quantitative deductive research design was employed and the collected data were processed in WarPLS using the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique to test the research hypotheses of this study. The empirical results reveal that BDA has a significant positive impact on BOP, SEP, and FCP, whereas OIM and BIP have an insignificant positive impact. The findings of this study contribute to designing a robust digital strategy to enhance the banking sector's contribution to the development of financial industries in developing countries by employing BDA as a major strategic policy tool of OIS


Abstract : This paper will provide a background on the direction of the National Guard (NG) as a joint activity of the Department of Defense (DOD), and present an argument that the NG is uniquely suited to present new models for joint activity. In doing so, five of the six major conclusions of the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves report will be used to validate strengths and provide areas for improvement to allow the NG to mature in the joint arena. Before presenting arguments, a brief historical background on the concept of jointness is presented for the DOD. The paper concludes that in order for the NG to react with the speed required by the American public in its state or federal role, it must improve on jointness. However, it is uniquely qualified to lead the way for quality integration of Army and Air Forces at all levels of contingencies due to the dual status role of the NG.


106 children of British troops, both of officers and other ranks, were examined for threadworms using a maximum of 'Scotch tape' tests taken at fortnightly intervals. 62.3 percent were found to be positive. Treatment was given to available 'positives,' their siblings and parents, while certain general hygenic advice was suggested. All members of families were treated with the same drug. Follow-up 'Scotch tapes' were carried out at between 6 and 12 weeks after the end of treatment. The following relapse or non-cure rates were found with the four drugs used: Gentian violet 25 percent, Diphenan 40 percent, Terramycin 50 percent, 'Benadryl' 14 per cent. No detailed conclusions are drawn, but it is noted that none of these four drugs in the dosage used was completely effective in the treatment of oxyuriasis, even after this inadequately short follow-up (AU)


This paper illustrates the common practical schematics used for high voltage bus bar protection. The schematic includes the detailed high impedance AC circuit including shunt and series resistors, nonlinear resistors (Metrosils), current transformers supervision relays circuit and overcurrent relay. The design criteria for each component that ensuring correct selectivity. The DC schematic includes the discriminative and check zones which determine the tripping criteria in which the protection will operate to protect the bus bar and how it is achieving optimal reliability. This paper demonstrates both primary and secondary circuit simulation during internal fault condition by OMICRON RelaySim Test and PSIM softwares with and without Metrosils approaches. Keywords— High impedance differential; bus bar protection; RelaySim Test; PSIM.


AbstractIn the second report of this series of investigations, series of alkanols, alkanoic acids and propyl alkanoates were evaluated for their potential as skin permeation enhancers for testosterone and estradiol delivered from a multilaminate-type transdermal drug delivery (m-TDD) system. Results indicated that permeation rates vary with the length of alkyl chain and the maximum enhancement effect is attained with alkanol having n=6–8 (n is the number of methylene groups), alkanoic acid having n=8–10, and propyl alkanoate having n=10–12. The enhancing effect of series of sorbitan esters and polysorbates on the skin permeation of testosterone was also studied; and the results indicated that sorbitan esters are effective skin permeation enhancer, while polysorbates are not. The effect of enhancer loading on the skin permeation rates of testosterone and estradiol, the barrier property of permselective membrane, the dosage rate ratio of testosterone/estradiol was extensively studied; and the effect of vari...


Your back is healthiest and most stable when it's in a neutral position, which means that your spine's three natural curves are aligned properly. Think of your vertebrae as stacked blocks: If one block is misaligned, the entire stack is affected, and your muscles and ligaments must work harder to support you. Keeping your vertebrae aligned reduces stress on the muscles, ligaments, bones, and joints in your back.


Among U.S. public firms, technological innovation is concentrated on a small set of large players, with innovation "leaders" having considerably lower systematic risk than "laggards." To understand this fact, we build a winner-takes-all patent race model and show that a firm's expected return decreases in its innovation output and increases in that of its rivals. Using a comprehensive firm-level panel of information on patenting activity by fields of technology in 1950–2010, we find strong support for the model's predictions. Our results highlight that strategic interactions among firms competing in innovation are an important determinant of risk and expected returns. (JEL G12, G31)
 Received August 6, 2018; editorial decision October 19, 2019 by Andrew Ellul. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.


This article proposes the method of probability scale index transformation by analyzing from two-dimensional appraisal index standardization transformation method,contrasting three-dimensional and two-dimensional appraisal decision-making matrices,thinking the three-dimensional appraisal index transformation to guarantee the comparasility of different object time series and different time section,namely unification space-time reference standard.It proposes the index weight-changing method based on"different object"and"different time"weightchanging sensitivity analysis.Cutting into the three dimensional appraisal,diagnosis by unbalanced time-space pattern drive factor builds an optimized diagnosis region development decision-making.Taking the city granularity of Fujian Province economical competition time-space pattern and the factor diagnosis as a case,it explains the application of this method.


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The detailed quantitative theory of a symmetrical, four carrier, electrostatic voltage multiplier is developed. It is shown that a machine of this type steps up a given applied d.c. potential in a definite ratio, and a formula for this (transformation) ratio is deduced in terms of the coefficients of capacity and the coefficients of induction of the elements of the machine in a definite configuration. A formula which gives the potential of the receivers every geometrical cycle (quarter turn) is deduced. While the current furnished by a device of this sort is extremely small, it may be used separately to excite an ordinary static machine, so that this machine will give a constant current at a constant high potential.


The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Owner's Expertise on Businnes Performance and Innovation as a moderating. The existence of previous studies that only examine the relationship between the Owner's Expertise in Performance Businnes motivate researchers to conduct research by adding a moderating variable as a development of previous research. Samples were taken of 100 batik artisans in Surakarta, Sragen, Karanganyar & Lasem. The sampling technique with purposive sampling method. To determine the effect may moderate the influence of Innovation whether Owner's Expertise on Performance Businnes used MRA analysis (Moderating Regression Analysis). The results of this study indicate that the Owner's Expertise significant effect on Businnes Performance, but had no significant effect Innovation as a moderating.


Heterogeneous Networks (HetNet) have been proposed as a means of boosting the coverage in areas where users experience weak wireless connectivity. In HetNets, due to the massive deployment of Low Power Nodes (LPN) along side the usual Macro Base Stations (MBS), inter-cell interference becomes a significant issue which, if not properly handled, may degrade the network throughput and the macro- cell edge users performance. In this paper, we focus on the problem of the inter-cell interference to the Macro User Equipments (MUE) generated by the LPNs. We propose an algorithm for flexible spectrum usage among LPNs that enhances macro cell-edge user throughput. By means of a dynamic redistribution of the frequency resources among MBSs and LPNs, this algorithm reduces the harmful interference generated by the LPNs to the macro cell-edge users, hence increasing the throughput of the latter. In addition to helping the terminals which experience high interference, the proposed solution also limits the overall reduction in network throughput, which is usually one of the side effects of interference coordination in HetNets. The simulation results show that, compared to a full frequency reuse for the LPNs, the proposed algorithm improves the throughput of the macro cell-edge users, which are usually the ones experiencing the lowest performance within the network. Overall, with limited impact in terms of HetNet throughput reduction and with good benefit to the cell-edge users performance, this algorithm represents an effective solution to the inter-cell interference problem affecting the HetNets.


Abstract The benzotriazole and 3-amino-1,3,5-triazole derivatives of the title compound are reported, and display strong evidence that these aromatic rings orientate themselves in such a way as to deshield the substituents of the phosphetan ring.


Melamine is an organic compound used in combination with formaldehyde in the manufacture of plastics and also used as a flame retardant especially in buses and aircrafts. In the summer of 2008, multiple illness and deaths of children in China was associated with melaminetainted powdered infant milk. Ever since, there has been serious public health concern over the toxic potentials of melamine especially amongst growing infants. We therefore set to investigate the neurotoxicity of melamine using transient transfection-based reporter gene assay and found that low dose melamine suppressed thyroid hormone receptor (TR)mediated gene expression at 1uM. We further examined the effect of melamine on TR-thyroid hormone response (TRE) binding and found no dissociation of TR from TRE. Melamine did not also suppress co-activator (Steroid receptor co-activator 1; SRC-1) binding with TR, neither did it recruit co-repressors (nuclear co-repressor; N-CoR) to TR in the presence of thyroid hormone. Taken together, our data shows that melamine can interfere with TR-mediated gene expression and consequently may be inimical to the developing brain. INTRODUCTION Melamine is an organic compound commonly used in combination with formaldehyde in the manufacture of plastics including kitchen wares, whiteboards and commercial filters which 1 can withstand temperature up to 120 oC . Melamine plastics are thermostatic and as 1 such, are very difficult to recycle . Melamine is also used in a wide variety of flame retardant to reduce the damaging effect of fire outbreak especially in buses


A bovine trophectoderm cell line was established from a parthenogenetic in vitro‐produced blastocyst. To initiate the cell line, 8‐day parthenogenetic blastocysts were attached to a feeder layer of STO fibroblasts and primary outgrowths occurred that consisted of trophectoderm, endoderm, and very occasionally epiblast tissue. Any endoderm and epiblast outgrowths were removed from the primary cultures within the first 10 days of culture by dissection. One of the primary trophectoderm cell cultures was chosen for further propagation and was passaged by physical dissociation and replating on STO feeder cells. The cell culture, designated BPT‐1, was maintained in T25 flasks and passaged at a 1:3 split ratio for the first 15 passages approximately once every 2 weeks. Thereafter, the cell culture was passaged at 1:10–1:40 split ratios. Transmission electron microscopic examination showed the cells to be a polarized epithelium with apical microvilli, a thin basal lamina, and lateral junctions consisting of tight junctions and desmosomes. Lipid vacuoles and digestive vacuoles were also prominent features of the BPT‐1 cells. Metaphase spread analysis at passage 59 indicated a near diploid cell population (2n = 60) with a mode and median of 60 and a mean of 64. BPT‐1 cells secreted interferon‐tau into the medium as measured by anti‐viral assay and Western blot analysis. The cell line provides an in vitro model of parthenogenote trophectoderm whose biological characteristics can be compared to trophectoderm cell lines derived from bovine embryos produced by normal fertilization or nuclear transfer. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 69: 164–173, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


As average user load in wireless local area network (WLAN) becomes heavy, the fundamental CSMA#x002F;CA mechanism based on binary exponential backoff (BEB) in the 802.11 protocol is under stress. When a large number of users associate with WLAN, the network suffers from severe throughput deterioration and poor short-term fairness due to the inappropriate BEB algorithm. In this paper, we provide an enhanced backoff (EBO) algorithm to improve the performance of WLANs. Our main motivation is based on the observation that disjointing backoff intervals in different backoff stage can greatly reduce the collision probability. In EBO, the size of backoff interval increases by the initial value of contention window after an unsuccessful transmission, and backoff intervals in different backoff stage are disjoint. Meanwhile, to improve the short-term fairness, we slow down the decrement of contention window by resetting the contention window to initial value after T consecutive successful transmissions. Simulation results show that EBO improves the throughput and short-term fairness effectively comparing with BEB in heavy user loaded WLANs.


Schools are in urgent need of redesigning. While some are giving their
students a genuinely fitting start to life in the 21st century, many are not.
We have not yet achieved the critical mass of thinking and practice that
will change the system as a whole.
The people who will be doing the requisite thinking, and exploring the
necessary and effective shifts in practice, are head teachers and their
staffs. Politicians are not in a good position to do this, because their
time horizon is based on the five-yearly election cycle. Genuine radical
change is certainly too slow and too complicated to be reduced to
sound bites and election winners. Even academic educationalists,
sadly, won't do it either, because they do not have the requisite sense
of urgency. Their bent is mostly to be cautious, balanced, analytical,
argumentative and reactive, rather than committed, imaginative and
practical. With a few exceptions, they will not take the lead.


The Global Positioning System (GPS) can be applied in a number of ways to track remote sensing satellites at altitudes below 3000 km with accuracies of better than 10 cm. All techniques use a precise global network of GPS ground receivers operating in concert with a receiver aboard the user satellite, and all estimate the user orbit, GPS orbits, and selected ground locations simultaneously. The GPS orbit solutions are always dynamic, relying on the laws of motion, while the user orbit solution can range from purely dynamic to purely kinematic (geometric). Two variations show considerable promise. The first one features an optimal synthesis of dynamics and kinematics in the user solution, while the second introduces a novel gravity model adjustment technique to exploit data from repeat ground tracks. These techniques, to be demonstrated on the TOPEX/Poseidon mission in 1992, will offer subdecimeter tracking accuracy for dynamically unpredictable satellites down to the lowest orbital altitudes. >


Morphological characteristics of all stages and male genitalia of Adoretus( Lepadoretus) sinicus w ere described,the methods for distinguishing the male and female w ere introduced and the damage of the pest in Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai w as investigated. The result show ed the male and female of A.( Lepadoretus) sinicus could be distinguished according to the form of terminal sternite, external teeth of the protibia,the length to w idth ratio of protarsomere 1 and the ratio of the total length of protarsomeres 2-4 to length of protarsomere 1. The larva mainly attacked Zoysia japonica,Cynodon dactylon and Festuca arundinacea w hile the adult attacked 110 species of plants belonging to 40 families including Rosaceae,Fabaceae,Ulmaceae,Fagaceae,Sterculiaceae,Juglandaceae,Anacarabiaceae, Papilionaceae,Aceraceae and Corylaceae. A.( Lepadoretus) sinicus has become an important pest in gardening plants and more attention should be paid to prevent the spread of the pest.


Activity artifacts in assays present a major problem for biological screening and medicinal chemistry. Such artifacts are often caused by compounds that form aggregates or are reactive under assay conditions. Many pan assay interference compounds (PAINS) have been proposed to cause false-positive assay readouts. PAINS are typically contained as substructures in larger molecules. They are used as computational filters to detect compounds with potential chemical liabilities. Recent studies have shown that molecules containing the same PAINS substructure often have greatly varying hit rates in screening assays. Even the overall most frequently active PAINS substructures are found in compounds that are only rarely active or consistently inactive in many assays they are tested in. These observations suggest that the structural context in which PAINS are presented may play an important role for eliciting false-positive activities. However, this assumption remains to be investigated. Herein, we report the systematic identification of analog series of screening compounds that contain PAINS or exclusively consist of PAINS and the analysis of their activity profiles. Comparison of analogs or different series of analogs containing the same PAINS substructure provides structural context information. For many PAINS, extensively tested series with distinct activity profiles were detected. Furthermore, analogs within the same series often displayed significant differences in hit rates. The analog series reported herein organize PAINS in different structural contexts. Their activity profiles provide many opportunities for experimental follow-up investigations to better understand PAINS characteristics.


Battery Management system is still very difficult task for the electric vehicle (EV). Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have proved to be the battery of electric vehicle manufactures because of its high charge density and low weight. In EVs, essential thing is a smart battery management system (BMS). The Li-ion battery is highly unstable in nature so it is challenging task to estimate accurate state of charge (SOC) of a Li-ion battery. This paper present comprehensively reviews its SOC estimation methods for a Li-ion battery. This paper is provided merits, demerits, critical explanation and their estimation errors.


Routine child height monitoring is crucial in the detection and treatment plan identification for diverse health conditions. Nevertheless, height measurements for several children are currently sparse and inaccurate. To overcome this limitation, we previously reported an antenna impregnated fabric that can monitor height of a child lying upon it. Our proof-of-concept design was validated for a rectangular box used to simulate the child's body. In this work, we take a major step forward and validate the design for an anatomical child model in Altair Feko. Simulation results show that height can be accurately retrieved at 2 cm resolution and provide a path to further improving resolution in the future. The design can ultimately be integrated into bed sheets or mats for easy and routine monitoring of child height in non-clinical settings.


Summary form only given. As we have gone through the era of integrated circuits, more strictly silicon-based CMOS integrated circuits, where integration density has increased from hundreds of transistors on a chip to almost one quarter of a billion transistors on a chip, a way to develop technology itself has come to the point where we must examine any possible new model for research and development. Technology trends which have been well discussed in forums such as consortia in the USA, Japan, Europe, South-east Asian countries are now converging reasonably, with some differences due to the differences of so-called "technology drivers". Common parameters are the minimum geometries, though they have increasingly become more conceptual parameters as opposed to what can be found on a real chip. Obviously, the density of active elements per unit area and the number of interconnect layers are more important parameters for high-density memories and high performance processors, respectively. The purpose of this talk is not to discuss the technology trend itself, but to examine how we have developed technology and how we can possibly continue in the future.


Introduction: Badan Usaha Milik Desa or BUMDes in Government Regulation Number 11 of 2021 concerning BUMDes are legal entities established by villages or with villages to manage businesses, utilize assets, develop investment and productivity, provide services, or provide other types of companies. For the most excellent welfare of the village community. In its application, BUMDes (which in this study is "BUMDes Pandemas Mulya") is expected to be able to collaborate with stakeholders and other parties such as investors, communities, and the people to form a so-called Penta helix so that the capacity and capability of the BUMDes can increase significantly. However, in reality, BUMDes still need to catch up to the target set by the Ministry. Therefore, a tool was created that can increase the capacity and capability of BUMDes itself by utilizing digital technology called "BUMDes Institute Platform Learning." Method: In general, the implementation of creating the "BUMDes Institute Platform Learning" platform is divided into four stages: Needs Analysis, Mapping problems, Validating problems, and Designing applications. The Needs Analysis stage aims to identify issues and material needs for BUMDes actors that will be accommodated in the platform. The needs analysis results are then carried out through a mapping process based on predetermined criteria. The goal is to create clusters between problems and solutions in the form of learning materials that will be included in the platform. Next, the team will validate the results of the problem-mapping process in the validation stage. Then, the team conducts FGDs and internal discussions for the collection process materials to create a learning curriculum and requirements for the application design and development process. After that, the development begins. Results: the application can be implemented for BUMDes even though several improvements will be needed. Conclusions: BUMDes Pandemas Mulya still needs much improvement to develop business units, especially related to business design. So, there needs to be an application that contains information from technical aspects for management (application program) conditions in the field still need completion and periodic assistance that can help educate and teach business aspects.


The invention provides an image enhancement method of a scene transition based on transformation and motion compensation, and a system thereof. An MPEG-4 video coding standard can provide high-quality video effects; however, the overall coding efficiency and visual effects are reduced if the scene transition occurs. An algorithm based on the motion compensation is provided for measuring the similarity of two adjacent images. In order to reduce the calculating amount, a low-frequency signal after a wavelet change is adopted to judge whether the scene transition occurs. The algorithm of the invention can avoid the incorrect judgment arising from the case that two totally different images have the same characteristics.


The article examines parallels in plot and images between Ostrovsky's drama "Without a Dowry" and Dostoevsky's novel "Demons." Ostrovsky's remarks about Dostoevsky in the last years of his life reveal that he distanced himself from the creative principles of the author of "Demons." However, gestures and remarks of the characters of "Without a Dowry," such as Paratov, Vozhevatov, Larisa Ogudalova, as well as motifs and collisions connected with them allow us to suggest that while working on the drama, Ostrovsky was influenced by a "literary recall" of Dostoevsky's novel "Demons" and its characters, namely Stavrogin, Petr Verkhovensky, Liza Tushina. The possible parallels between the characters in "Without a Dowry" and "Demons" are also indicated by their common biblical and literary prototypes: there are allusions to the Serpent-temtper, Hamlet, Prince Harry, Mephistopheles and Faust contained in the stories of Stavrogin and Paratov, allusions to the Serpent and Mephistopheles in the gestures and actions of Petr Verkhovensky and Vozhevatov, while allusions to Ophelia, Gretchen and Poor Liza can be found in the images of Liza Tushina and Larisa Ogudalova. Even despite the differences in the writers' approaches, there are remarkable plot parallels between the two works, common components in the characters' images, similar artistic techniques, which, in our opinion, are signs of a literary "dialogue" between the authors of "Demons" and "Without a Dowry."


Gonadotropin‐releasing hormone (GnRH) I and II are hypothalamic decapeptides with pivotal roles in the development of reproductive competence and regulation of reproductive events. In this study, transcriptional regulation of the human GnRH II gene was investigated. By scanning mutation analysis coupled with transient promoter assays, the motif at −641/−636 (CATGCC, designated GII‐Sil) was identified as a repressor element. Mutation of this motif led to full restoration of promoter activity in TE671 medulloblastoma and JEG‐3 placenta choriocarcinoma cells. Supershift and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays showed in vitro and in vivo binding of NF‐κB subunit p65 and the retinoic acid receptors, RARα and RXRα, to the promoter sequences. Over‐expression of these protein factors indicated that p65 is a potent repressor, and the RARα/RXRα heterodimer is involved in the differential regulation of the GnRH II gene in neuronal and placental cells. This was confirmed by quantitative real‐time PCR. Treatment of cells with the RARα/RXRα ligands, all‐trans retinoic acid and 9‐cis‐retinoic acid, reduced and increased GnRH II gene expression in TE671 and JEG‐3 cells, respectively. Taken together, these data demonstrate the differential roles of NF‐κB p65 and RARα/RXRα, interacting with the same sequence in the promoter of the human GnRH II gene to influence gene expression in a cell‐specific manner.


We investigated the impact of heterogeneity of personality of team members and cognitive ability on flight team performance. Participants were 112 undergraduate students from a science university in China, who were randomly allocated to 56 two-person teams and completed a 3D orbital
 control task model that simulated common flight operation tasks. During the task, participants' personality and basic cognitive ability were measured. Partial correlation analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between heterogeneity and team performance. Results showed that heterogeneity
 in introversion and extroversion was significantly and positively correlated with team performance, as was heterogeneity in liveliness and social boldness. Conversely, heterogeneity in the ability to adapt to circumstances, number and spot addition ability, and comprehensive basic cognitive
 ability was significantly and negatively correlated with team performance. These findings have implications for optimizing the selection and collocation of aircrew.


This is somewhat of a handbook on consumers' cooperatives in Great Britain. It is well-written, scholarly and authoritative. The authors interest their readers early by pointing out that modern cooperation did not get firmly rooted in 1844 as commonly believed, but in 1863 when the Cooperative Wholesale Society was formed. Cooperators in United States have largely overlooked the importance of the wholesale element. All through the English experience, there has been the spirit and interest of the labor unions, while here this influence has not been significant. Educational activities are more important than cooperators in United States have realized. Social activities, entertainment and management are tied into the educational program. Three publication organizations are kept busy with educational literature. Schools and colleges are part of a program much more elaborate than anything imagined here. Cooperation in Britain is not only economic in nature, but strongly social. Shopping areas have been changed, shopping habits modified, trading areas limited and defined, modes of living changed, and considerable modification of social structure has taken place through cooperation. The Cooperative Union in Great Britain has performed outstanding services in tieing the whole range of cooperative societies into a kind of holding corporation where principles and policies are unified and coordinated. Much centralization still needs to be done, according to the authors. 65


Blockchain, spearheaded by the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, is a novel, emerging technology that allows a distributed network of users to synchronise and maintain a decentralised, global ledger of transactions with no central control or authority. One key part of this technology is the process by which blocks and transactions propagate through the underlying network of users, allowing them to come to a consensus on the state of the ledger and advance the blockchain. In this thesis, we explored the propagation process for Bitcoin within the mathematical framework of matrix analytic processes by performing an observational experiment to collect data and fitting phase-type distributions to this dataset. It is well known that the propagation delay of blocks is a key limiting factor in the efficiency and scalability of blockchain technology. It is imperative that the network reaches an overall consensus on the current state of the chain of blocks at regular epochs. If blocks propagate faster through the network, then this happens faster and the time between blocks can be decreased. This means that the blockchain can then process more events as well as verify those events faster. Additionally, recent work on a strategy known as selfish-mining has shown that adversarial miners can take advantage of this delay to inflate their share of mining rewards. We set out to model the block propagation process of Bitcoin blocks. To do so, we set up a distributed, large-scale observational experiment by creating a global data collection system for observing the block propagation process. We collected data on the propagation patterns of 14810 blocks over 5 months from November 2018 until March 2019, and created a novel tool for observing the blockchain from several geographically diverse locations. We fitted Coxian phase-type distributions of a varying number of phases to the data and performed model selection, finally choosing a model with p = 4 phases. We used a variant of the EM-algorithm originally introduced by Asmussen, and made improvements to the computational run-time of the algorithm. We present the final parameter estimates of our model and discuss the merits and shortcomings of this approach. This thesis makes three contributions. The first is an open dataset of Bitcoin block propagation data which we have cleaned and pre-processed to include additional covariates extracted from the blockchain. We present a short exploratory data analysis of patterns in the dataset in Part III. Our second contribution is a phase-type model for the block propagation delay, which we discuss in Part II. Finally, we have made an incremental improvement to the EM-algorithm for fitting phase-type distributions by parallelising it and reducing its memory footprint, which is particularly useful for very large, "big data" datasets. We also believe that our exposition describing the Bitcoin ecosystem in Part I is of value. We have created an accompanying website at https://bitcoin.aapelivuorinen.com/, which contains complementary material, the cleaned dataset, the source code for data collection, and our improved phase-type fitting algorithm.


Trees recycle nitrogen (N) to conserve this valuable nutrient. The processes that regulate N recycling within trees are poorly understood at the molecular level. Because vegetative storage proteins (VSPs) are thought to play im - portant roles in within-plant N cycling, we are investigating the expression of VSP genes to gain insights into how sea - sonally controlled N cycling is regulated in trees. We compared steady-state mRNA levels of three different VSP homologs during short day induced terminal bud formation in hybrid poplar (Populus trichocarpa Torr. & Gray ◊ Populus deltoides Bartr. ex Marsh.) - WIN4 (wound-inducible protein 4), BSP (bark storage protein), and pni288 (pop- lar nitrogen-regulated cDNA 288, a newly identified sequence). We determined that win4 and pni288 transcripts de- crease, while bsp transcripts increase, as the terminal bud is formed. Immunolocalization analysis indicated that, during apical bud formation, BSP accumulates in the ground meristem and in parenchyma cells adjacent to xylem and proxi- mal to the apical dome. Based on messenger RNA and protein expression analysis, we conclude that different VSPs play distinct roles in the poplar shoot apex, with BSP accumulating as a reserve near the shoot apex during terminal bud formation.


(57) Abstract: As is known, sodium percarbonate, in order to enhance the storage stability, is coated with a stabilizing action component. Improved, the need for sodium percarbonate occurs coated with boron-free. Sodium percarbonate particles coated according to the invention, in the coating, sodium carbonate and additionally one or more magnesium compounds, especially magnesium sulphate, in a partially hydrated form optionally only or separate coating contained in the layer. Preferred coated sodium percarbonate particles contain two layers. Preparation of the particles according to the present invention, under the evaporation of water at the same time, in a fluidized bed is achieved by spraying the coating component-containing aqueous solution onto sodium percarbonate. Based on the high storage stability, the particles according to the invention are suitable for use in detergents, the bleaching agent and detergent.


In this paper, we propose a new method for 3D object reconstruction using an RGB-D sensor. The RGB-D sensor provides RGB images as well as depth images. Since the depth and RGB color images are captured with one sensor of an RGB-D camera placed in different locations, the depth image should be related to the color image. After matching of the images (registration), point-to-point corresponding between two images is found, and they can be combined and represented in the 3D space. In order to obtain a dense 3D map of the 3D object, we design an algorithm for merging information from all used cameras. First, features extracted from color and depth images are used to localize them in a 3D scene. Next, Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is used to align all frames. As a result, a new frame is added to the dense 3D model. However, the spatial distribution and resolution of depth data affect to the performance of 3D scene reconstruction system based on ICP. The presented computer simulation results show an improvement in accuracy of 3D object reconstruction using real data. IV International Conference on "Information Technology and Nanotechnology" (ITNT-2018) ICP algorithm [15]; a new registration algorithm based on the Matching Signed Distance Fields [16]. In order to fill small holes and to eliminate noise, the median and binomial filters were used [17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22]. Moreover, the use of the color information in the point correspondence process avoids false positives matches and, therefore, leads to a more reliable registration. Note that by adjusting ICP and reconstruction parameters it is possible to improve the registration and appearance of details that were invisible with just one scan due to the sensor limited precision. Finally, it was shown that with help of low precision sensors as Kinect 3D smooth surface of objects can be reconstructed [23]. A new low-cost approach to reconstruct real-time of a 3D object with Kinect sensor uses a SLAM algorithm (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) [24]. SLAM provides an approximated solution of 3D reconstruction because the accuracy of the system often depends on a heuristic algorithm for obtaining relevant reference points. In order to improve the accuracy and robustness of the ICP algorithm, a regularization by incorporating the spatial distances of SIFT feature pairs with dynamically adjusted weights to balance errors is proposed in [12]. A new outlier rejection method based on a dynamic thresholding and leverages the structure and sparse feature pairs from the texture of the RGB images were also suggested [12]. A new method to robustly estimates the camera motion in a dynamic environment based on RANSAC algorithm was proposed in the article [25]. We propose to utilize a graph-based SLAM algorithm [24] with loop closure detection using dense color and depth images obtained from the RGB-D camera. We show that our system is able to perform the SLAM for three-dimensional modeling in real-time. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses related works. Section 3 describes the proposed system for object 3D reconstruction using an RGB-D sensor. In Section 4 the experimental results are discussed. Finally, Section 5 presents our conclusions.


The design of filters for detection and estimation in radar and communications systems is \\cohsidered, with inequality constraints on the _.. }'• maximum output sidelobe levels. A constrained optimization problem in Hilbert space is formulated, incorporating the sidelobe constraints via a partial ordering of continuous functions. Generalized versions (in Hilbert space) of the Kuhn-Tucker and Duality Theorems allow the reduction of this problem .•" to an unconstrained one in the dual space of regular \\ ' Borel measures. A convergent algorithm is presented "" ]; ~ for computational solution of the dual problem.