The concept of correlation has been widely used in image processing to identify and locate similar parts in different images. In this report we utilized FFT and iFFT to do correlation operations on a set of 2D blood vessel slices to reconstruct the spatial shapes of the vessel body and its axes curve. The radius of the blood vessel was determined and used to draw the 3D structures of the vessel and its axes via MathCAD. We've cut slices from the computer generated figure and the result well fit the given slice bitmaps. We also analyzed both the strong and weak points of our method and presented a brief discussion on how to make a 3D reconstruction by methods in modern optical information processing instead of pure math and computational means.


One of the most non-linear basic process units is distillation unit and has many uses in the main process units. In Hydro-alkylation unit of toluene, three distillation columns used in several ways that generally makes the process to be non-linear. On the other hand, Hydro-alkylation of toluene (HAD) unit has another six basic non-linear units. The importance of this unit is in the production of chemical Benzene. In this paper, first the mathematical model of the process has been extracted using system identification method. Using a model-based predictive control algorithm in the regulatory layer leads to more favorable responses in controlling of the unit. The comparison between two responses comes from the two-control approach. The first one is PID controller and the second one is a model-based predictive control in the regulatory layer, which is responsible for changing the reference signal of PID controller. Simulation of this process is done by Aspen HYSYS process simulator software (v7.2). The model-based predictive controller is located for monitoring the classic PID controller, which improves the optimal point tracking as well as optimization in the thermal load rate of boilers in this process. By prediction on the obtained model the effect of disturbances on the process decreased dramatically which is another important achievement of the proposed approach.


Introduction The prerequisite of improving the situation of traffic accidents and injury prevention is to set up a "Road Traffic Accident and Victim Information System (RTAVIS)" which does not exist in Iran. The objective of this study was to compare the three major sources information including police, emergency medical service and hospitals to show the necessity of integrated road traffic injury surveillance system. Method This prospective cohort study has been done by pursuing each road traffic accident (RTA) case within 30 days of its occurrence by a draft questionnaire and data pooling from participating sources during one year. Results In this study, after aggregating/ pooling the data from all organizations, it was finally revealed that during one year 254 injury crashes happened in Tehran–Abali road (with 45 Kilometer distance) in which 434 people were injured or died. Out of these injury crashes, Police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) stated to be unaware of 67 and 51 cases, respectively. In other words, Police, pre- hospital emergency service and hospital have reported 56.2% 82.9% and 76.4% of the entire number of injuries or deaths respectively. Conclusion None of the information sources including police, EMS and health care facilities has complete information about injuries and deaths caused by traffic accidents. It seems that formulating and implementing a centralized and multidisciplinary data collection system of national traffic accidents with the collaboration of police, Ministry of health and medical education (EMS and medical centers), forensic medicine, and Iranian Red Crescent is necessary.


This paper presents an application of the boundary element method to model the mechanical response of fully three-dimensional, multiparticle, whisker (or short-fiber-reinforced) composites. In the physical systems examined, up to 64 rigid rod-like particles are embedded in an elastic matrix, with the limit in the number of particles being imposed by the limitations in computer memory. The reduction in dimensionality achieved by the boundary element method, combined with the use of modern supercomputers, makes feasible the numerical modeling of very complex geometrical configurations of particles. This frees the analysis from the restrictive assumption of macroscopic homogeneity that is typical in previous analytical or numerical work. Results for multiparticle, three-dimensional systems are compared with two-dimensional particle-in-cell models. With the fully three-dimensional models, we analyze the effects of the particle aspect ratio, volume fraction, degree of alignment and spatial configuration in a system that simulates a bar tensile test. The composite stiffness depends on the placement of particles, with each configuration resulting in a different overall value of stiffness. Therefore, numerical "measurements" of the effective properties of the composite scatter about a mean, the magnitude of which increases with increasing volume fraction of particles. Over the range of our calculations, the mean effective modulus of the composite increases with volume fraction, as anticipated. However, the scatter in the calculated moduli is seen to decrease with an increase in the number of particles when the rest of the parameters are held constant. Composites with fibers aligned in the tensile direction yielded the highest effective moduli. At a fixed concentration, the effective stiffness of the composite increases rapidly with the aspect ratio of the reinforcing rods.


Among alternative refrigerants, ammonia with zero Ozone Depleting Potential (ODP) and Global Warming Potential (GWP), and favorable thermodynamic properties is a sensible choice as a replacement fo ...


Background: Emotional intelligence (EQ) in health institutions is a field presenting a particular interest, because this particular environment of workplace presents some traits that are not met elsewhere. Souldestroying working conditions make it imperative to use and develop emotional skills for two main reasons: firstly in order to have a good work output and incidentally to protect the working staff from souldestroying environment. Objectives: The aim of this study was to measure the emotional intelligence of nurses working in Public


The asymmetric unit is comprised of a molecule of (η 5 -Cp)RuCl(dppe), where dppe is 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, and a co-crystallized molecule of trichloromethane-d solvent. Bonds to the P atoms of the chelating dppe ligand have an average length of 2.279 (2) A and the Ru-Cl bond measures 2.452 (2) A. The Ru atom is located at a distance of 1.851 A from the centroid defined by the five C atoms of the Cp ring, which is planar and coordinates in an η 5 manner


The tensile strength of ferritic-martensitic HCr-0.5Mo-2W, Nb, V stainless steel (PNC-FMS), which had been developed for core component applications in LMFBR by Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute, was evaluated for the effects of thermal aging, sodium exposure, and neutron irradiation. The tensile strength of thermal aged specimens (~1,023K, ~12,000h) decreased at aging conditions above the initial tempering parameter, and the aging effect was considerably enhanced for the wrapper tubes tempered at lower temperatures. The tensile strength of sodium exposed specimens (~973K, ~10,000h) decreased more than aged specimens due to decarburization, and the effect of decarburization was greater in thin wall cladding tubes. Evaluation of the contribution of both thermal aging and decarburization effects on the tensile strength of cladding tubes irradiated in JOYO (~1,013K, ~6,030h, ~29dpa) suggested that the radiation showed smaller effect on tensile properties than thermal aging and decarburization. By using the derived correlations for thermal aging and decarburization effects, the tensile strength decrease for PNC-FMS after long period (30,000 h) in LMFBR environment was quantitatively calculated.


In 2020, an extremely high mortality of juveniles was recorded in a nursery colony of Myotis myotis at Žihobce (Klatovy Dist.), reaching 50.6% of the potential growth. Most juveniles died within two weeks of age (67.4%). The cause of this phenomenon is not known. The results of chemical analyses carried out in five dead juveniles showed neither the presence of heavy metals nor pesticides in the bodies. The dissection of cadavers revealed a good nutrition state. In all dissected individuals, intestinal inflammation was recorded. Most juveniles in the colony were significantly parasitised. In the period of parturition, it was cold and very rainy for several days, the mortality thus may have been caused by chilling of the juveniles. The effort of females to nurse even the dying juveniles which fell down from the colony was observed. The mortality of juveniles was checked in further 28 control colonies in different parts of the Czech Republic in 2020. At eight sites, making up 27.6% of all studied sites, the mortality of 10.1–20.0% was recorded. At the remaining twenty sites (69% of the studied sites), the mortality reached 0–10%. High mortality of juveniles of M. myotis (18.7–39.2%) was also recorded at Vyšší Brod (Český Krumlov Dist.) in the years 1988–1991. In that case, the probable cause was the application of Lastanox (tributyltin oxide), a toxic chemical used for timber treatment in the colony roost.


The accurate exploration of the sentiment information in comments for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) courses plays an important role in improving its curricular quality and promoting MOOC platform's sustainable development. At present, most of the sentiment analyses of comments for MOOC courses are actually studies in the extensive sense, while relatively less attention is paid to such intensive issues as the polysemous word and the familiar word with an upgraded significance, which results in a low accuracy rate of the sentiment analysis model that is used to identify the genuine sentiment tendency of course comments. For this reason, this paper proposed an ALBERT-BiLSTM model for sentiment analysis of comments for MOOC courses. Firstly, ALBERT was used to dynamically generate word vectors. Secondly, the contextual feature vectors were obtained through BiLSTM pre-sequence and post-sequence, and the attention mechanism that could calculate the weight of different words in a sentence was applied together. Finally, the BiLSTM output vectors were input into Softmax for the classification of sentiments and prediction of the sentimental tendency. The experiment was performed based on the genuine data set of comments for MOOC courses. It was proved in the result that the proposed model was higher in accuracy rate than the already existing models.


The article presents ability forming methods of control and evaluating activity of teachers in the educational institution, features of these methods. It also correlates the principles of forming of control and evaluating activity with the pedagogical conditions and methodical mechanisms (ways) of their realization. The ratio of control types and methods in process of learning of basic educational program is described in the article. It also considers special course curriculum «Development of implementation ability of control and evaluating activity of college teacher».


of preventing serious damage or serious risk to health or safety." Lynes spells out in detail the guidance provided to officers by the Chief Supplementary Benefits Officer (CSBO). He states also that " claimants should be encouraged to appeal against any decision which seems unduly harsh, especially where getting into (or getting further into) debt is the only alternative means of meeting the need " (p. 132). There is also a detailed discussion of the CSBO's guidance on regulation 27 relating to payments for clothing. He stresses time and again that the guidance is only guidance " and should not be treated as having the force of law " (p. 163).


An all digital physical parameter sensing network. Sensors under control of a central computer measure factors such as temperature, pressure, flow rate, filter efficiency and the like at numerous locations in a system such as a water treatment plant. Each sensor is precalibrated with voltage offset information, sensitivity variations, corrections for nonlinear behavior, etc. stored in memory at the sensor. All sensors generate corrected voltage signals conforming with the measured physical parameter, so that any sensor can be replaced without requiring recalibration. Basically, the system comprises a central computer, a communications interface between the computer and a single bus, plural sensor nodes along the bus each including a sensor for sensing a physical condition and processing the sensed information to correct for sensor individual characteristics and for transmitting the corrected sensed information to the central computer. Assembling the various sensors and their sealing engagement with their electrical connections.


OUR CHRISTMAS DISTRIBUTION. Since our last distribution of clothing amongst the hospitals, presented by our readers, another contribution has been received from Madame L. Monchablon and her staff of typewriters. Every year she sends us a delightful box, and that ifor this year is no exception to the rule. It contains caps, comforters, socks, shirts, and ties for the men; and for women crossovers and stockings. We regret that the box did not reach us in time to send the things out with the rest of the garments, but such suitable and warm articles of clothing are always acceptable.


Coral assemblages and their faunal sequence for the Silurian and Devonian in four major regions of Japan are reviewed. In Yokokurayama the G, fauna with Hatysttes is Early to Middle Silurian and the G. fauna with Schedohatysttes is mainly Late Silurian. The Kawauchi Formation of Hikoroichi corresponds to G, and a part of G,. The Okuhinotsuchi Formation of Arisu is mainly correlatable with the G,. The Ohno fauna of Hikoroichi with Xystrtphyttum and the FUkuji fauna are both Early Devonian in age, but their composition is quite different from each other. The Nakazato fauna of Hikoroichi is Middle Devonian. These faunas are composed mostly of cosmopolitan genera. The development of coral faunas may indicate the strong contrast in litho- and biofacies between the Pacific side (outer zone of Southwest Japan and Northeast Japan) and the Japan Sea side (inner zone of Southwest Japan) during the Silurian and Devonian. Key w 0 r d s: coral biostratigraphy, paleogeography, Silurian, Devonian, Japan.


HARRY T. FOGLE is former vice principal at Smithsburg Middle School; LINDA D. FREY is principal at Hancock Elementary School; THOMAS W. INGRAM is principal at Maugansville Elementary School; PATRICIA M. LEONARD is principal at Pleasant Valley Elementary School; NANCY JEAN MARTIN is principal at Old Forge Elementary School; and A. THOMAS OYSTER is Vocational Supervisor, all in Washington County, Md. A smooth transition from elementary to middle school is more successful


The advanced stellarator Wendelstein VII-AS is a medium-sized experimental machine with the following properties and aims: a broadly optimized magnetic configuration with improved plasma equilibrium and smaller neoclassical transport losses compared to classical stellarators; operation with net-current-free plasma; field generation with a modular set of coils instead of the conventional helix/toroidal field coil; system; and good access for plasma heating methods, e.g., neutral beam injection, electron cyclotron heating, and ion cyclotron heating. The physics characteristics and the engineering design of the experiment as well as results from the initial operation period are reported.


The pantograph-contact net model is established, and based on the N-S equation of the pressure correction procedure, the SIMPLE algorithm is used to solve the aerodynamic characteristics of different components of the pantograph under strong crosswind conditions. The effects of different crosswind speeds and different deflection angles on the aerodynamic load law of the pantograph components are discussed. Results show that among the various components of the pantograph, the aerodynamic drag and lift of the skateboard are the largest, and the lateral force of the lower arm and the bottom frame is also the largest. The pitching moment of the upper frame is the largest, and the overturning moment and the lateral moment of the sliding plate, the lower arm and the underframe are larger than before, which needs to be taken into consideration when we do calculations and optimizations. The research results can provide a basis for the operational safety and optimal design of high-speed pantograph under strong crosswind conditions.


The ambitious storytelling spearheaded by HBO has challenged local television producers to develop ever more complex and compelling series. ABC TV's 'The Straits' is one show that attempts to rise to the new standard. Viewing this tale of a crime family melting down in Australia's exotic north, Cavan Gallagher finds a series still settling in to its many strengths.


Introduction: The wnt-frizzled (Fzd) signaling cascade, important in development, has recently been implicated in post myocardial infarction scar formation. Fzd receptors (Fzd1-6) interact with wnt...


Dibohemamines A-C (5-7), three new dimeric bohemamine analogues dimerized through a methylene group, were isolated from a marine-derived Streptomyces spinoverrucosus. The structures determined by spectroscopic analysis were confirmed through the semi-synthetic derivatization of monomeric bohemamines and formaldehyde. These reactions, which could occur under mild conditions, together with the detection of formaldehyde in the culture, revealed that this dimerization is a non-enzymatic process. In addition to the unique dimerization of the dibohemamines, dibohemamines B and C were found to have nm cytotoxicity against the non-small cell-lung cancer cell line A549. In view of the potent cytotoxicity of compounds 6 and 7, a small library of bohemamine analogues was generated for biological evaluation by utilizing a series of aryl and alkyl aldehydes.


A new monoclonal antibody to proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), PCIO, which can be used on routinely processed tissue, was applied to 93 cases of gastric carcinoma. Significant intratumoural variation in staining occurred. In addition to a PCNA index (percentage of positive cells per 1000 tumour cells), a semiquantitative PCNA grading system was devised, based on estimates of less than or more than 50% of positive tumour cells in whole sections. Neither PCNA index nor PCNA grade showed any correlation with established histological variables, tumour stage, or the presence of lymph node metastases. No significant correlation was observed between PCNA index and S + G2M phase fraction measured by flow cytometric analysis. To analyse survival tumours with PCNA indices above and below the median level (41%) were compared. Those with a higher index tended to have a worse prognosis, but when PCNA grade was considered, it was found to have definite independent prognostic value, tumours of low grade surviving better than -those of high grade. The ability of semiquantitative PCNA grading to allow for intratumoural variation suggests it may have advantages over absolute counting, which is prone to sampling error when tumour heterogeneity is a major factor. The prognostic value of PC10 staining in gastric carcinoma is therefore promising. Department of Histopathology, UMDS Guy's Hospital, London, SEI 9RT S Jain, M I Filipe, D A Levison ICRF Histopathology Unit, London P A Hall ICRF Molecular Immunochemistry Laboratory, London N Waseem, D P Lane Correspondence to: Dr M I Filipe Accepted for publication 20 February 1991 Gastric carcinoma is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in the United Kingdom' and is second only to lung cancer, worldwide.2 The prognosis of gastric cancer, once it has reached an advanced stage with invasion of the muscle layer, is particularly poor with an overall five year survival of only 11 %. Morphological criteria such as histological type, histological grade, and growth pattern have been used in the assessment of gastric cancer but can't be used to predict clinical outcome.3 Information on cell kinetics may be a useful adjunct to histologically based tumour classifications in the understanding of tumour behaviour. In a variety of malignant neoplasms correlations have been noted between proliferative activity and metastatic potential, recurrence and overall prognosis.4 Current methods of assessing the proliferation and growth of tumours require in vitro or in vivo labelling with H3-thymidine or its nonradioactive analogue, bromodeoxyuridine, or cryostat sections of fresh frozen material (Ki67), or disruption of cellular and tissue architecture (DNA flow cytometry).45 These caveats have limited the use of such methods on archival material and in routine diagnosis. Autoantibodies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) recognise an auxiliary protein of DNA polymerase 6, also known as proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). PCNA is present in nuclei throughout the cell cycle and is synthesised in late GI and S-phase, levels therefore correlating with the cell's proliferative state.67 A monoclonal antibody (PC10) has been described which recognises PCNA in routinely fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissues.89 It has also been suggested recently that the PCNA index may be useful in certain tumours as an independent prognostic variable.1' Methods Samples of advanced gastric carcinoma were available from 93 patients who underwent gastrectomy at Guy's Hospital between 1979 and 1989. No patient had received chemotherapy or radiotherapy before surgery. Fiftyeight men and 35 women (1 66: 1) with a mean age 64 (29-88 years) were studied. The tumours were classified according to histological type (intestinal or diffuse),'2 growth pattern (expansive or infiltrative),'3 and degree of differentiation (well, moderate, or poor).'4 Eleven of the tumours had invaded only as far as the muscularis propria while the other 82 had reached the serosa. Lymph node metastases were present in 74 cases. All tissue was routinely fixed in 10% formalin and paraffin wax embedded. Sections were cut at 5 ,um, mounted on poly-L-lysine coated glass slides, and air dried overnight at room temperature. Oven drying at 60°C for one hour greatly reduces the PCNA immunoreactivity.* PCNA staining was performed using a rapid LSAB kit (Dako). Sections were dewaxed in xylene, rehydrated through alcohol, and then immersed in 3% hydrogen peroxide in methanol for 10 minutes to block endogenous peroxidase activity. Sections were subsequently washed in phosphate buffered saline (PBS), and normal goat serum was applied for 10 minutes to reduce non-specific 655 group.bmj.com on July 7, 2017 Published by http://jcp.bmj.com/ Downloaded from


Deep hashing has received a great deal of attraction in large-scale data analysis, due to its high efficiency and effectiveness. The performance of deep hashing models heavily relies on label information, which is very expensive to obtain. In this work, a novel end-to-end deep hashing model based on pseudo-labels for large-scale data without labels is proposed. The proposed hashing model consists of two major stages, where the first stage aims to obtain pseudo-labels based on deep features extracted by a pre-training deep convolution neural network. The second stage generates hash codes with high quality by the same neural network in the previous stage, coupled with an end-to-end hash layer, whose purpose is to encode data into a binary representation. Additionally, a quantization loss is introduced and interwound within these two stages. Evaluation experiments were conducted on two frequently-used image collections, CIFAR-10 and NUS-WIDE, with eight popular shallow and deep hashing models. The experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method in image retrieval.


Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons are feared phenomena which frequently cause dramatic damage and consequences in different areas of the world. Since their impact typologies are very different according to the human and social contexts in which they break out, after providing a framework on their main characteristics, structures and measuring scales, we provide some considerations regarding the possible kinds of human works and elements which can be involved and the resilience of the populations. Then, we focus the attention on essential aspects to interpret satellite and radar imagery in order to support the observation and forecast of hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons. Thus, we provide numerous pieces of evidence regarding the importance and the added value of remote sensing in recent events as far as concerns for example the possibilities to: monitor the formation and development of these phenomena; estimate their maximum intensity and their turbulence intensity; provide useful indications for civil protection measures and activities; evaluate the amount of damage caused on many components, in terms of ecosystems and anthropic structures; quantify the land use changes between pre and post events; determine the general impact on urban areas and coastal zones etc. As different exemplificative cases for a specific analysis supported by the geomatics interpretation of remote sensing imagery, we have chosen: Hurricane Katrina, for the amount of widespread damage caused; Typhoon Haiyan, also known as Super-Typhoon Haiyan; and Typhoon Tip, considered to be the largest typhoon that ever occurred. According to the scheme defined by previous contributions (Fea et al., 2013a, 2013b), we also provide some didactical input for a participative and critical study of these phenomena, where students can converge methodological and applicative aptitudes, thus becoming actively responsible of their learning process.


By identifying with many of the tensions experienced in Argentina throughout the twentieth century, the role model of Oedipus 's daughter, as has happened in other Western literatures, called great interest in this Latin America country.
From a significant list of five Argentine recreations of Antigone, produced in this period, we will focus only in Alberto's Zavalia (1958), which symbolically associates facts of Argentine history of the nineteenth century to the Antigone myth in order to surreptitiously interpret a present marked by successive wars and dictatorships that, as the author says in the preface of his work, always start mortally wounded, because freedom is reborn from its own ashes .


The thesis is divided into two parts - I and II. -- I Reduction of Offshore Platform Response with a liquid Vibration Absorber – The LVA consists of a liquid-filled cylindrical container mounted near the deck level of the platform. During wave excitation, the liquid in the container swirls into an oscillating motion which interacts with the platform motion to produce a reduction in the platform response. The reduction in the platform response is largely due to energy dissipation through damping of the liquid, and to a smaller extent the inertia of the liquid. In this investigation, the effectiveness of the LVA in reducing the dynamic response of the offshore platform model is studied. The finite element programme for dynamic analysis of two-dimensional fixed offshore platforms, developed by Duvall (1), has been extended by Glacel (2) to include damping effects and a tuned mass damper. This study describes further modifications of the work with an additional option of replacing the actual spring mass model by an LVA. The relatively rigid container wall is discretized by finite beam elements. The work of Housner (3) is employed account for the liquid sloshing loads on the container wall, while the liquid damping is based on a semi-empirical formulation by Stephens et al (4). The structural response of the model is determined for a digitized wave height spectrum, with and without the LVA in operation. The platform is analysed to determine the LVA effectiveness, and the variation of the system response with the LVA parameters. The various parameters considered are, cylinder radius, liquid height, liquid mass, frequency, and damping. Methods of frequency tuning, and damping device mechanisms are discussed. – II Seismic Response of Elevated Liquid Storage Tanks – The structure under consideration consists of a liquid storage tank mounted on an axisymmetric pedestal. The tank is a thin elastic cylinder with an axisymmetric dome-top and a conical base which is relatively rigid. A finite element model is presented for the seismic analysis of the structure. The shell mass and stiffness matrices are generated by using the computer code SAMMSOR-II (56). The procedure of Shaaban and Nash (45) is used to generate the added liquid mass matrix which accounts for the hydrodynamic effect on the tank wall. A digitized acceleration of an earthquake is provided as the ground excitation input, and the displacement response of the whole system determined by mode superposition.


A synthetically challenging 1,2-cis-indoxyl galactoside, X-α-galactoside, was first prepared in this study using a cyclic ketone indoxyl acceptor and a glycosyl trichloroacetimidate donor to produce an enol glycoside and a 4,6-O-di-tert-butylsilylene-protected galactosyl donor to complete the synthesis. The target compound shows enzyme activity in the presence of α-galactosidase.


Objective: To compare the hemodynamic stability with cisatracurium and atracurium in patients with low ejection fraction undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Anesthesiology, Army Cardiac Center, Lahore, from Jan 2018 to Nov 2018. Methodology: A total of 80 adult patients were recruited or invited to participate in this study. Further the cohort was divided in to two groups with respect to their treatment by draw method. Group I contained a total of 40 patients, which were given Cisatracurium 0.2mg/kg at induction of anesthesia. The group II patients constitute the same number but the treatment medication given was 0.5mg/kg Atracurium at induction. Results: Before anesthesia induction, pulse rate was 84.10 ± 5.54 bpm and 83.01 ± 5.72 bpm in group A and B, respectively (p=0.385). At 4 minutes after anesthesia induction, pulse rate was 83.05 ± 5.58 bpm and 86.37 ± 6.62 bpm in group A and B, respectively (p=0.017). Before anesthesia induction, mean arterial pressure was 71.07 ± 7.62 mmHg and 69.22 ± 10.77 mmHg in group A and B, respectively (p=0.378). At 4 minutes after anesthesia induction, mean arterial pressure was 68.22 ± 8.17 mmHg and 72.20 ± 8.09 mmHg in group A and B, respectively (p=0.032) table-II. Conclusion: We may conclude from our study that although there is significant difference of the change in arterial blood pressure due to the both drugs. The group A was having more stable hemodynamic indexes where the drug administrated was Cisatracurium.


Mao Zedong's cultural view is an important part of Mao Zedong Thought.In his writings such as the "New Democracy" and "Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Art and Literature",etc.,he summed up the experiences and lessons of the New Culture Movement since the "May Fourth Movement",explaining the new status and role of the new culture.And he also pointed out the direction of "nationalization,scientificalization and popularization" in the development of China's new culture.Mao Zedong's cultural concept is the scientific summary of the Chinese proletariat and the revolutionary literature and art.It is also the inheritance and development of Marxist cultural ideology.


Using a powdered material (3) consists of a borosilicate glass for a on a work surface (2) coated with a defined layer thickness of the sintered body (1), which in a predeterminable region (10) by means of a heat source (4) is selectively sintered, wherein the predetermined area (10) a cross-sectional area of the sintered body corresponds to, and is applied in the alternating further layers of the powdery material (3) having a defined layer thickness on the first layer and in a predeterminable region (10) are selectively sintered.


This paper presents a summary of the evolution of aeroelastic models for flying wing configurations. Two different flying wing configurations have been studied and synergies with other DLR projects have been used to validate important parts of the loads process. A newly developed in-house software for aircraft loads extends the aeroelastic design process in combination with a parametric model generation software and a structural optimization sequence. During the progress from the DLR-F19-S towards the MULDICON, the numerical methods evolved as well, mainly aiming for higher fidelity to ensure a thorough and sophisticated design. Design and loads related studies were performed with national and international partners from industry and academia. This paper gives an overview on aspect and modeling strategies that distinguish flying wings from classical wing-fuselage-empennage configurations. Finally, an outlook is given on the next steps and on ongoing work.


General Court upholds the EU Commission's decision against Intel* On 12 June 2014 the General Court published its decision in the Intel case thereby upholding the Commission's 2009 decision…


The speaker diarization task consists of inferring "who spoke when" in an audio stream without any prior knowledge and has been object of several NIST international evaluation campaigns is last years. A common trend for improving performances has been the use of several different feature streams as diverse as speaker location features, visual features or noise robust acoustic features. This paper describes an open source toolkit released under GPL license aiming at facilitating research in multistream speaker diarization and reproducing state-of-the-art results. In contrary to other related diarization toolkits, it is explicitly designed to handle an arbitrary number of features with very different statistics while limiting the computational complexity. The release includes a set of scripts to replicate benchmark results on previous NIST evaluations and is intended to provide an easy to use software to study and include novel features into diarization systems.


Specialised business-to-business Internet electronic markets deliver substantial value to companies including greater liquidity, better pricing, and faster transactions. The electronic marketplace sits on the intersection between supply chain and demand chain and makes it the business collaborative platform where resource allocation optimising and efficiency improving occurs simultaneously. The electronic marketplaces can help companies reduce cost structures by accessing stable venues with market pricing to fulfil short-term commodity needs. However, the variances in business processes and data format between trading partners cause overhead cost and time consumption. This paper proposes an agent-based framework to integrate processes between businesses and the electronic marketplace. This framework is composed of workflow systems, collaborative agents, Common Business Language, and electronic marketplace service platform. The business vocabularies and inter-partner processes used to communicate between trading partners are defined as an XML-based format. The result of this framework provides three functions including: (1) process executing; (2) message transforming; and (3) business transactions tracking and management. Trading partners can integrate inter-organisational processes without dramatically rewriting their legacy system.


It was David Hume who said that "a man acquainted with history may in some respect be said to have lived from the beginning of the world". At the present juncture of time, when various civilizations are in the process of being more and more closely interlinked, it certainly seems desirable for all of us to "have lived from the beginning of the world". From this springs the necessity for having a theory of universal history which is applicable to the main historical processes in our world. For without such a theory the facts become unmanageable in their complexity and enormous volume; no sort of intellectual comprehension is possible. A theory or philosophy of history has, of course, to be applicable in the same manner as a scientific hypothesis. That is to say, if it cannot explain important processes, it has to be discarded, either entirely, or partially. Unfortunately, this attitude has not prevailed among philosophers of history, who have thought of their theories in the spirit of quasi-religious revelations. The term "philosophy of history" is a fairly recent one, having apparently been introduced by Voltaire in 1756. But there have been philosophers of history of some sort or other from very much earlier times. In this essay one cannot consider all of them, of course.


A nonlinear, four wall, post-test wall interference assessment/correction (WIAC) code was developed for transonic airfoil data from solid wall wind tunnels with flexibly adaptable top and bottom walls. The WIAC code was applied over a broad range of test conditions to four sets of NACA 0012 airfoil data, from two different adaptive wall wind tunnels. The data include many test points for fully adapted walls, as well as numerous partially adapted and unadapted test points, which together represent many different model/tunnel configurations and possible wall interference effects. Small corrections to the measured Mach numbers and angles of attack were obtained from the WIAC code even for fully adapted data; these corrections generally improve the correlation among the various sets of airfoil data and simultaneously improve the correlation of the data with calculations for a 2-D, free air, Navier-Stokes code. The WIAC corrections for airfoil data taken in fully adapted wall test sections are shown to be significantly smaller than those for comparable airfoil data from straight, slotted wall test sections. This indicates, as expected, a lesser degree of wall interference in the adapted wall tunnels relative to the slotted wall tunnels. Application of the WIAC code to this data was, however, somewhat more difficult and time consuming than initially expected from similar previous experience with WIAC applications to slotted wall data.


Touch-less car interfaces are getting the attention in automobile industries. By using the hand gestures it is possible to control some activities of cars, for this effective recognition system for hand gesture is required. This paper presents the recognition system of hand gesture for touch-less car interface. This system accepts video frames sequence and segmentation is applies on theses frames. Here the new segmentation method is applied by detecting skin portion using HSV, YCgCr and YCbCr color space. From the segmented images their color and edge characteristics are extracted and then stored in the database with their respective labels. Edge histogram descriptor is used for retrieving the shape characteristics from images where a colour structure descriptor (CSD) is used to capture the spatial distribution of color in an image. Then for identification of gesture multiclass SVM classifier is used. For the experiment, hand gesture database from Cambridge is used where video based frames of images are present for 9 gestures.


The present invention relates to a thermal conversion of a hydrocarbon feedstock to steam cracking to olefin product stream of at least one method, the olefin product stream comprising at least ethylene and propylene, the at least one second material in at least a first cracking furnace (1) and partially converted into cracking furnace (2) at least. According to the present invention, the fresh feed (B) is at least one first fractionated fresh feedstock fraction and at least one second fresh feedstock fraction (B1, B2), and the first fresh feedstock fraction (B1) is at least partially fed to a first cracking furnace (1), and the second fresh feedstock fraction (B2) at least partly fed to a second cracking furnace (2).


THE GENERAL PUBLIC VIEWS THE ASSOCIATION OF VARIOUS LIFE STRESSORS WITH POOR SLEEP AS A GIVEN FACT, AND RESEARCHERS HAVE DONE THEIR best to prove the apparently obvious. The majority of the working population reports that work has a significant impact upon their sleep,1 with more than 75% of respondents to a media survey stating they have lost sleep over work issues. Individuals with insomnia frequently attribute their sleep problems to work-related stress or job dissatisfaction.2 One of the more stressful experiences at work must be that of being bullied—the media, medicolegal offices, and the Internet are full of cases and anecdotes, often driven by unions, litigants, and whistleblowers with good reason. In this issue of SLEEP, Niedhammer and her colleagues3 in France add more evidence as to the effects of bullying.

Their cross-sectional survey of nearly 8000 employees recruited from a nonrandom network of occupational physicians in southeast France shows that current bullying is associated with a 4- to 5-fold increase in reported sleep disturbance. Frequency and duration of bullying, and whether or not the respondent also observed the bullying of others, had sex-specific effects upon this association, which are reported (but not shown) to be little affected by adjusting demographic, occupation, working hours, and adverse physical exposures.3 Adjusting for the potential confounding of self-reported health and depression dramatically reduced these associations, although they were still statistically significant, and, for many associations, the odds ratios were in the range of 1.6 to 2.4. Of interest is that the association between experiencing bullying and sleep disturbance disappears after these adjustments among those who didn't report seeing others bullied. This may suggest that the effect is stronger in workplaces where such behaviour is seen as being more widespread, as is often described.4 This may implicate broader measures, such as perceived organizational injustice, and organizational downsizing, which is receiving more attention, especially in the current economic climate.

There are self-acknowledged limitations in the report by Neidhammer and colleagues,3 including caution about generalizing from the 40% response rate, interpreting the direction of causality, and the lack of detail arising from the requirements of large surveys and understanding that measuring sleep was never the focus of the study. One point that is sidestepped is the use of a dichotomous measure for adjustment of depression. By doing so, the authors may have lost important information that may have reduced the observed association even further. Additionally, the effect of bullying upon anxiety has been reported as stronger than on depression,5 but anxiety was not measured. The issue of statistical overadjustment or underadjustment is complex. Do you treat sleep disturbance as independent from depression and anxiety (as in this study) or, at least partly, as attributable to these conditions and, thus, subject to overadjustment?

Depending upon the definition, the prevalence of bullying, or "mobbing" as it is known in some countries, ranges from 5% to over 50%.4 A strength of this paper3 is the triangulated determination of bullying, which gives a figure of around 10% and thus presumably defines a group who have a more severe exposure than in many other studies. The assessment of duration and frequency of bullying is welcome, as previous work has shown not only that the majority of bullying is transient,6,7 but that chronic minor stressors, such as financial problems,8 appear to have an effect upon the development of more chronic sleep disturbance, which, in turn, has been suggested to have a greater impact on other health outcomes. In this context, the replication of chronic bullying being shown to have a stronger effect on sleep disturbance adds to this knowledge.

Addressing study design and definitions in such an area is vital. This is particularly so in areas in which the "exposure" may be influenced by "outcome." In the area of bullying, it has been shown that certain people are more likely to perceive and later report bullying.6,7 These include those people with less assertive neurotic personalities, the obese, and those with depression, anxiety, and chronic physical conditions4,7—all conditions that have been associated with sleep disturbance. To our knowledge, there exist only 2 cohort studies6,9 evaluating the risk of bullying on later psychological and physical health problems, both showing a negative effect.

There exists a wealth of data evaluating the effect of workplace stressors upon later health outcomes. In Niedhammer et al3 the discussion alludes to (but results are not presented) the association of bullying and sleep disturbance being consistent after adjusting for more widely recognized workplace stressors such as demands, decision latitude, and social support. Recent systematic reviews10,11 have concurred that there are consistent effects of these upon downstream psychological health, although inadequate study methodology, particularly in adjusting for confounding, and obvious publication biases have been identified.

It is not only psychological illness that results from workplace stressors. Chronic, but not acute, job strain has been reported to predict recurrent cardiovascular events.12 Identifying the pathways by which psychosocial stressors impact health is a fundamental task in risk modification.13 The biologic mechanisms linking work stressors and cardiovascular events include proinflammatory markers and other psycho-neuro-immunologic mechanisms.14 Given the effects of sleep disturbance upon these markers,15 evaluating the role of sleep disturbance as a potential mediator of this pathway seems warranted. This leads to a requirement to establish adequately powered cohort studies, with reliable and valid determination of workplace stressors such as job strain, bullying, and injustice over a period of time; equally valid measurement of sleep disturbance rather than reliance upon 1 or 2 questions; baseline and ongoing evaluation of the many potential confounders identified in the latest systematic review11 (demographics, life events and demands outside of work, personality and previous psychiatric disorder, physical health risk factors and disease, and family history); and appropriate multiple-response analysis techniques such as generalized estimating equations. Although costly and difficult logistically, given the amount of money spent by governments and organizations on tackling workplace stressors such as bullying, this seems not out of place.


The majority of existing image forgeries involve augmenting a specific region of the source image which leaves detectable artifacts and forensic traces. These distinguishing features are mostly found in and around the local neighborhood of the manipulated pixels. However, patch-based detection approaches quickly become intractable due to in-efficient computation and low robustness. In this work, we investigate how to effectively learn these forensic representations using local window-based attention techniques. We propose Forensic Modulation Network (ForMoNet) that uses focal modulation and gated attention layers to automatically identify the long and short-range context for any query pixel. Furthermore, the network is more interpretable and computationally efficient than standard self-attention, which is critical for real-world applications. Our evaluation of various benchmarks shows that ForMoNet outperforms existing transformer-based forensic networks by 6% to 11% on different forgeries.


In this paper the problem of collision analysis for a mobile robot operating in a planar environment with moving objects (obstacles) is addressed. The pattern of motion of the potential obstacles cannot be predicted; only a bound on their maximum velocity is available. Based on this information, at its current position the robot constructs the Hazard Region that corresponds to the path it contemplates. If the Hazard Region contains at least one obstacle, then there is a potential for this obstacle to collide with the robot (in which case perhaps another path should be planned). We first derive the solution for Hazard Region for two standard path primitives, a straight line segment and a circular arc segment; the solution is exact, except for one special case (for which the approximation error is estimated). This result is then applied to a more complex case when the path presents a combination of those primitives. Such are, for example, the optimal (shortest) paths with constrained curvature (known as Dubins paths [3]), which connect two points, each with a prescribed direction of motion.


Abstract Four two-component mixtures have been assayed using both Vierordt's and first derivative spectrophotometric methods. Such mixtures are acepifylline and phenobarbitone, phenylbutazone and amidopyrine, procaine and caffeine, and sulphamethoxazole and trimethoprim. These selected applications illustrate the relative ease and simplicity offered by first derivative spectrophotometry for the assay of two component mixtures with spectral interferences from matrix formulations.


Using the Double Chooz reactor neutrino detector, we have measured the products of µ − capture on 12C, 13C, 14N and 16O. Over a period of 490 days, we collected 2.3 × 106 stopping cosmic µ −, of which 1.8 × 105 captured on these nuclei in the inner detector. The resulting isotopes were tagged using prompt neutron emission (when applicable), the subsequent beta decays, and, in some cases, β-delayed neutrons. Production of these βn isotopes, primarily 9Li, which are ν¯e backgrounds, was found at a significance of 5.5σ. The probability of 9Li production per capture on natC is (2.4 ± 0.9(stat) ± 0.1(syst)) × 10−4. We have made the most precise measurement of the rate of 12C(µ −, ν)12B to date, 6.57−0.21+0.11×103 s−1, or (17.35−0.59+0.35)% of nuclear captures. By tagging excited states emitting gammas, the ground state transition rate to 12B is found to be 5.68−0.23+0.14×103 s−1 .


China's burgeoning economic growth has been accompanied by soaring demand for electricity. Conscious of worsening pollution in Chinese cities due to increased coal-fired electricity generation, and of growing global concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, Chinese authorities are planning to continue massive investments in hydropower generation. This study uses Sino TERM, a dynamic multi-regional model of the Chinese economy from the TERM family, to examine investment scenarios across China. Preliminary results indicate that (1) Hydropower can significantly boost local economic development, driving a GDP growth of 43% per year on average. It can promote the development of some industries such as construction, trade, transport, and machine equipment, but have a little impact on overall national economy. (2) Hydropower can provide 300 billion kW·h of power annually, thus alleviating conflicts between the supply and demand and ensuring China's energy security. (3) Hydropower can replace 96 million tons of standard coals each year, reducing 200 million tons of CO2 emissions, 2.59 million tons of SO2, with prominent effects on energy saving and emission reduction. Hydropower proportion increases by 1.6%, which is conducive to improving the electric power consumption structure. Key word:Sino TERM; impact of socio-economy; hydropower development; electrical module; emission-reduction; energy security


Abstract : A newly invented laser cavity, made by two roof-top prisms with roof angle smaller than 90 deg., was experimentally investigated. It is shown that this cavity is much less sensitive to crystalline imperfections of the active material than cavities made by plane or spherical mirrors. With such roof-cavity the following results were obtained, for both ruby and Nd(3+) glass pulsed lasers: (1) Single transverse mode oscillation in normal (i.e. not Q-switched) operation, (2) Single longitudinal and transverse mode oscillation in Q-switched operation. A single transverse mode, mode locked ruby laser with pulses half-width of approx. 5 psec has also been obtained. Two appendices are also included. The first one reports on an experimental study of the dynamic behavior of a single mode Q-switched ruby laser and compares the experimental results with theory. The second one reports on a theoretical study of the effect of host dispersion on a self-locked laser. (Author)


The visbreaking of heavy oil is the key technology for the heavy oil development and gathering.However,it will bring some new challenges to its following demulsification and dehydration treatment.This paper selects the typical heavy oil emulsion as the basis for chemical demulsification and adopts light scattering-based automatic detection method to evaluate and analyze the real-time dynamic dehydration speed and rate systematically.In contrast with traditional bottle-test method,by the new method the efficiency and accuracy can be improved greatly.The oil content ratio of dehydration and the water content ratio of purified oil are evaluated,indicating that the heavy oil system after visbreaking treatment followed by chemical demulsification and dehydration is suitable for field requirement.


ABSTRACT During the 1930s, Paris was home to approximately two million immigrants. Around 150,000 of these were Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe who used Paris as the basis for a new Western European influenced Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism. This paper traces the high point of that interwar Parisian Yiddish internationalist cultural development, the Modern Jewish Culture pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair. Through an analysis that places the pavilion within its immigrant Jewish and interwar Popular Front Parisian contexts, this article argues that the Modern Jewish Culture pavilion represented the culmination of decades of leftist cultural work in Paris. The Modern Jewish Culture pavilion highlighted both universal and particular aspects of Yiddish culture and placed them on display in the most international way possible. Buttressed by the rise in European fascism, antisemitism, and antifascism, Yiddish culture-makers in Paris created a cultural display that presented a sophisticated, global, pan-leftist Yiddish culture that spoke to Jews and non-Jews around the world in an attempt to preserve the burgeoning global Yiddish culture and stave off fascism.


The goal of cross-modal retrieval is to search for semantically similar instances in one modality by using a query from another modality. Existing approaches mainly consider the standard scenario that requires the source set for training and the target set for testing share the same scope of classes. However, they may not generalize well on zero-shot cross-modal retrieval (ZS-CMR) task, where the target set contains unseen classes that are disjoint with the seen classes in the source set. This task is more challenging due to 1) the absence of the unseen classes during training, 2) inconsistent semantics across seen and unseen classes, and 3) the heterogeneous multimodal distributions between the source and target set. To address these issues, we propose a novel Correlated Feature Synthesis and Alignment (CFSA) approach to integrate multimodal feature synthesis, common space learning and knowledge transfer for ZS-CMR. Our CFSA first utilizes class-level word embeddings to guide two coupled Wassertein generative adversarial networks (WGANs) to synthesize sufficient multimodal features with semantic correlation for stable training. Then the synthetic and true multimodal features are jointly mapped to a common semantic space via an effective distribution alignment scheme, where the cross-modal correlations of different semantic features are captured and the knowledge can be transferred to the unseen classes under the cycle-consistency constraint. Experiments on four benchmark datasets for image-text retrieval and two large-scale datasets for image-sketch retrieval show the remarkable improvements achieved by our CFAS method comparing with a bundle of state-of-the-art approaches.


ate in their own image and according to their own needs and philosophical bias than in treatments of Jesus and the gospels. The author avoids these pitfalls by sticking to the text of the four gospels and endeavouring to understand them on their own terms. He respects the sacred text as it is without making assumptions about how it might have been or imposing ideas upon it, but letting it speak for itself. After an introductory chapter, he devotes a chapter to each of the gospels examining the text under the headings: introduction, story-line, Jesus in the gospel, the narrative as a whole, and the titles of Jesus, adding in the case of Mark a section on the messianic secret.


In this paper we present a room-to-room thermal model used to accurately predict temperatures in residential buildings. We evaluate the accuracy of this model with ground truth data from four occupied family homes (two in the UK and two in the US). The homes have differing construction and a range of heating infrastructure (wall-mounted radiators, underfloor heating, and furnace-driven forced-air). Data was gathered using a network of simple and sparse (one per room) temperature sensors, a gas meter sensor, and an outdoor temperature sensor. We show that our model can predict future indoor temperature trends with a 90th percentile aggregate error between 0.61-1.50°C, when given boiler or furnace actuation times and outdoor temperature forecasts. Two existing models were also implemented and then evaluated on our dataset alongside Matchstick. As a proof of concept, we used data from a previous control study to show that when Matchstick is used to predict temperatures (rather than assuming a preset linear heating rate) the possible gas savings increase by up to 3%.


MRSI provides MR spectra from multiple adjacent voxels within a body volume represented as a two‐ or three‐dimensional matrix, allowing the measurement of the distribution of metabolites over this volume. The spectra of these voxels are usually analyzed one by one, without exploiting their spatial context. In this article, we present an advanced metabolite quantification method for MRSI data, in which the available spatial information is considered. A nonlinear least‐squares algorithm is proposed in which prior knowledge is included in the form of proximity constraints on the spectral parameters within a grid and optimized starting values. A penalty term that promotes a spatially smooth spectral parameter map is added to the fitting algorithm. This method is adaptive, in the sense that several sweeps through the grid are performed and each solution may tune some hyperparameters at run‐time. Simulation studies of MRSI data showed significantly improved metabolite estimates after the inclusion of spatial information. Improved metabolite maps were also demonstrated by applying the method to in vivo MRSI data. Overlapping peaks or peaks of compounds present at low concentration can be better quantified with the proposed method than with single‐voxel approaches. The new approach compares favorably against the multivoxel approach embedded in the well‐known quantification software LCModel. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Purple spot disease is one of the important diseases on the asparagus in the plastic sheds in Shanghai suburb.It mainly infected the stems and branches of asparagus during mid-May to late October.Morphological identification and blast results of ITS sequence proved that Stemphylium botryosum was the pathogen of purple spot on asparagus in Shanghai.It grows best on PSA at 24 ℃.Monosaccharide,disaccharide and nitrate nitrogen are the best carbonate and nitrogen sources for mycelial growth respectively.Nine fungicides(prochloraz,iprodione,difenoconazole etc.)exhibited the highest inhibition to the mycelial growth of S.botryosum.


In this work we consider a variant of the standard bin packing problem, known as the the two-dimensional guillotine cutting problem. This is a widely occurring problem in industry, for example for reducing the economic and environmental costs of glass production. This variant can also incorporate an additional partial sequencing constraint on batches of sub-items in comparison with the traditional bin packing problem. We propose a hybrid metaheuristic approach combining a dedicated genetic algorithm with a local search for solution refinement. The genetic algorithm has a number of dedicated aspects for the problem at hand, such as a complex phenotype representation with multi gene-types, a partial fitness function and different mutation operators for different parts of the chromosome tuple. Empirical results on public instances demonstrate the effectiveness of the hybrid algorithm and provide insight into interleaving local search with population-based approaches.


The online banking fraud losses were increased significantly in 2014 globally and fraud losses of insurance industry were continuously increased. Profitability of Finance Industry is decreased due to the lowest rates and domestic economic downturn and provides a new finance services for improving revenue. These services should be provided safety and convenience for user therefore, the finance organization are building the FDS(Fruad Detection System). Financial Security Institute is published FDS technical guide in 2014 for supporting to bulid the FDS on Finance organization. The effectiveness of FDS is different depends on how the Finance organization operates the system with operation prospective rather then technical approaching. In this research, will look at the consideration of technical and business point of view about FDS and suggest the operation framework of FDS with IT Goverance perspective.


The evaluation process of conceptual design alternatives in a new product development environment is a critical point for companies who operate in fast-growing markets. Various methods exist that are able to successfully carry out this difficult and time-consuming process. One of these methods, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) that been widely used to solve multiple-criteria decision making problems in both academic research and in
industrial practice. However, due to vagueness and uncertainty in the decision-maker's judgment, pair-wise comparison with Integrated Fuzzy-AHP may be able to accurately capture the decision-maker's judgment. Therefore, fuzzy is introduced into the pair-wise
comparison in the AHP to compensate for this deficiency in the integrated Fuzzy-AHP. This is referred to as integrated fuzzy-AHP. In this paper, a fuzzy-AHP method is used to reduce a set of conceptual design alternatives by eliminating those whose scores are smaller than a
predetermined constant value obtained under certain circumstances. Then, simulation analysis is integrated with the fuzzy-AHP method. Finally, the results of integrated fuzzy- AHP are used for Preference Ratio analysis to reach to the final alternative.


This study discusses the mechanical losses of a gravitational potential energy storage system of load tower types. The aim of this research is to investigate the characteristics of mechanical losses with varied mechanical torque. Analysis of the friction friction theory of bearings and pulleys using the Harris model, then the prototype of the energy storage system is tested directly with the weight load varying in weight to see the characteristics of mechanical losses that occur in prototypes. This information will later be taken into consideration to design and optimize the energy storage system in terms of the selection of falling loads and how to design the energy charging and discharging mechanism. The results obtained are torque losses measurement are partly proportional to the falling mass applied to the system. The value of losses does not increase linearly with the addition of the mass of the falling load. This provides information in considering optimum falling mass weight for energy charging process and also how to consider the control mechanism of energy storage


The preparation technology of the bright crude drug of Hai Qusi, this technique comprises the following steps: (1) synthetic reaction;(2) reactant liquor decolouring;(3) destaining solution filters;(4) filtrate crystallization;(5) crystal is centrifuged;(6) dissolving crude product;(7) lysate crystallization;(8) crystal is centrifuged;(9) it is dried;(10) pulverize;(11) detection;(12) mixing;(13) finished product packing.Through the process of above step, with water as reaction medium, the yield of sea Qu Siming is 75~85%, and with methanol as reaction medium, the yield of sea Qu Siming is 85~95%, and content is all more than 85% (HPLC).


The aim of the present study is to describe and evaluate a new technique for performing Computed-Tomography Retrograde Urethrography (CT-RUG). Males with urethral anomalies detected by retrograde urethrography (RUG) and/or retrograde sonourethrography (RSUG) underwent CT-RUG using the clamp method and three radiologists evaluated the anomalies in each technique separately and blindly. CT-RUG was done successfully in all the cases (n = 22), with means of 6 min duration and 95 mL of contrast; no pain was reported by 81% of the patients (VAS: 0) and very mild pain by the rest (VAS: 0.5–1.2). CT-RUG showed better diagnostic efficacy in cases of periurethral fistula (n = 8), urethral stent (n = 3), previous urethroplasty and urethral lithiasis (n = 2), a similar accuracy to RSUG for measuring the length of anterior urethral strictures (n = 9) and greater accuracy than RUG (p = 0.008). Six cases received 2 CT sweeps, with an effective dose of 4.96 mSv, and the remaining 16 had 1 sweep and received 3.456 mSv. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to describe the clamp method for CT-RUG, a method that is effective and comfortable for both the patient and the operator (retrograde infusion of contrast).


The invention relates to a security element for documents of value such as bank notes, identity cards or the like, with a first security feature which is preferably a diffractive structure, in particular a hologram. a second security feature is arranged in accordance with the invention at least a portion of the first safety element, which consists at least of a subwavelength grating, a blazed grating or a sawtooth grating. The second security feature here consists of at least one perspectively distorted image that appears when viewed at a viewing angle without distortion in the correct proportions, wherein the subwavelength grating, blazed grating or sawtooth grating is optically active. In another viewing angle, the second security feature will not or over the first security feature hardly appear.


Singhasari is one of the largest kingdoms that ever existed in Indonesia and became one that had a mission to unite the archipelago. Generally, Indonesian society often forget about the history of the kingdom that became an identity in each region because of the era of globalization that glorifies western influences and limitations on media information whose actualization can only be learned through pictures or visiting the location of historical places directly so that the introduction of historical values in society is not optimal. Therefore, it is necessary to design a media that educate the public so that they can learn more about the history of the kingdom in Indonesia without having to visit the site directly. The purpose of this research is to build a new learning media based on iOS to preserve the history of the kingdom in Indonesia. The effect of the construction of this application is to educate the public through its iPhone devices so that it can learn more about the history of the Singhasari kingdom without having to visit the location directly. Based on experimental results, this application produces educational media in introducing the rich history of Singhasari through the equivalence partitioning testing process, with the result of a 100% percent of item test success which means the system is readable and valid.


Abstract Over the years, we have heard numerous discussions and views on the nutritional plans for the bodybuilding and fitness practitioner. The most controversial meal of the day is with no doubt the dinner. Supporters of the principle according to which dinner should be eliminated and the last meal of the day should be taken in the afternoon, support their theory with solid arguments, at least theoretically. The others, more tolerant, recommend that dinner is taken at least one hour before going to bed and the latter bring relevant counterarguments to support their opinion. It is no less true that what, how much and when you are eating in the evening is essential in achieving the set goals. For example, for someone interested in increasing body weight and muscle, dinner and its caloric intake is particularly important. On the opposite end are those who want to lose weight and even more, want to keep their muscle. They will definitely not try to get more calories, but will be interested in where these calories come from.


Observations were made over a period of one year on the performance of multi stage stabilization ponds treating domestic waste waters. The unit is composed of Primary anaerobic (P1) and two consecutive Secondary (P2) and Tertiary (P3) facultative ponds. The overall reduction in BOD, bacteria, PO4, SO4, NH3N, Cl− and total solids were 89.4, 99.8, 76.2, 47.7, 79.7, 18.6 and 74.0 percent, respectively. Elimination of H2S was 84.8% in the final effluents. Chlorella vulgaris was found to be the dominant alga followed by Euglena, Ankistrodesmus, Phacus and Synedra as subdominant forms. 9 species of protozoa have been recorded in the first pond and their number declined in the successive ponds.


A 69-year-old gentleman presented with chronic nasal congestion and recurrent sinus infections. Physical examination was notable for a leftward septal deviation and moderate inferior turbinate hypertrophy. Nasal endoscopy did not reveal polyps, purulence, or significant middle meatal edema. After a period of conservative treatment with daily nasal steroid spray and sinus rinses, he underwent imaging for persistent symptoms. A computed tomography scan demonstrated ostiomeatal obstruction, septal deviation, and bilateral concha bullosa (CB) of both the middle and superior turbinates. The CB of the left middle turbinate was especially unique given the 4 separate septations (Figure 1A and B). When the middle turbinate becomes pneumatized, it forms a pocket of air referred to as a CB. Concha bullosa is an anatomical variant with an incidence ranging from 14% to 53%. Reported implications include nasal septal deviation, obstruction, chronic sinusitis, and headache. A classification scheme of CB based on the location of the air spaces includes lamellar (vertical lamellar pneumatization), bulbar (inferior bulbar pneumatization), and extensive (both lamellar and bulbar portions) types. Bulbar and extensive types are more commonly associated with sinonasal pathology. Very rarely, septations of the CB occur when the airspace is divided into distinct cavities. Cases of CB with multiple distinct air cells within the turbinate are infrequently seen and only double and triple septations have been reported. This is the first case of a quadruple septated CB. Although the etiology, function, and complications of septated CB remain unknown, an awareness of the varying pneumatization patterns can help guide treatment.


Brigade. On their arrival the upper part of the west end of the north block was blazing steadily, and the roof was burnt out in spite of all efforts. The fire, however, was cut off from the east block, the children were moved to the south block, and three standpipes were made to play ?upon the burning building. Smoke and water have left their marks on the buildings, but the other blocks, like the children, escaped unharmed. As a final precaution the firemen remained all night with one standpipe in


In my previous article, "Is Mythos Myth, and Logos Reason: Etymological and Philological Reflections"(2020), I observed the foundation of ancient Greek philosophy in its relationship with the notions of mythos and logos. I argued that the history of Western philosophy in its initiatory phase took the format of progress "from mythos to logos," and that this framework holds Homeros and Hesiodos totally different from Socrates and Plato, giving rise to the bifurcation of mythos and logos, and further accounting for the concomitant conceptual differentiation between myth and reason/rationality which has gone around until recently without enough critical assessment. In this article, I seek to argue continuously that misunderstandings come to light when one reaches the conclusion that in the ancient Greek society the words mythos and logos referred respectively to established authoritative speech and emergent reasonable discourse or theory — that neither of them really had anything to do with the fictional properties, or the degree of fictionality, of the messages under consideration. The English translation of mythos into myth — or for that matter, into its later 19th-century Japanese rendering, "神話," — may well be held responsible for the prevalent false notion of mythos. In our age when Reason no more seems to be reason, and Enlightenment no more enlightenment, everything strikes us as a myth, posing questions as to the real nature, or even the adequacy, of the mythos-logos dichotomy. Horkheimer and Adorno did this kind of job while questioning and emphasizing the need of both in the fascist Germany where logos-reason proved to be nothing but a madness.


ABSTRACT: In the understanding of Habermas, "right" in the phrase "human rights" is a legal concept, where human rights are legal rights, i.e., legal norms declared in acts of foundations of the State or announced conventions of international law and/or State constitutions. By conceiving of rights in this way and by treating human rights in a threefold approach (placing them between morals, law and politics), he presents different theoretical definitions of human rights. This paper presents a systematic exposition of these definitions, and focuses on the different problems that motivated Habermas to change and expand his conceptions of human rights. KEYWORDS: Jurgen Habermas. Human rights. Law. Morals. Politics. r eferenciAs ALEXY, R. Die Institutionalisierung der Menschenrechte im demokratischen Verfassungsstaat. In: GOSEPATH, S.; LOHMANN, G. (Ed.). Philosophie der Menschenrechte . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998, p. 244- 264 . ARENDT, H. Es gibt nur ein einziges Menschenrecht. In: STERNBERGER, D. (Ed.).


What happens when social scientific theorising seeks to take instruction from Science Fiction and Fantasy writing rather than using it as a source of convenient examples? This paper discusses the ways in which the figure of the 'embassy' and ambassadorial functions operate within the work of China Mieville. Focusing in particular on three key novels – The City and The City, Kraken and Embassytown – the paper reads the secondary worlds constructed by Mieville as offering their own self-contained problematics of relevance to social science. These concerns the mechanisms of territorial distinction, the nature of communication and the organization of spatio-temporal relations. The embassy emerges as an embodied site for the mediation of specialized communicative relations that are fundamentally irreconcilable, but which nevertheless offer the hope of reaching outside of human temporality. The relevance of these considerations for a social science of the Anthropocene and the Chthulucene are outlined.


Japan has experienced many large-scale natural disasters, such as
earthquakes, typhoons accompanied by heavy rain, and landslides. Based on data
for the damage caused by four recent major earthquakes in Japan, we investigate
the trends in the number of evacuees and evacuation centres after these
disasters as well as the restoration processes for public utilities such as
electricity, gas, water, and communication lines. We compare the restoration
speeds and trends of the damaged infrastructure systems. We also propose
various mathematical models to approximate the recovery trends using both
evacuee-related data and damage recovery process data. These results can be
used to design natural disaster mitigation policies not only in Japan, but also
in other countries. The results of various statistical data analyses and
mathematical modelling techniques are applied to provide policy suggestions.


Failure of power distribution network causes significant disaster due to its concentrated load and great complexity. In order to prevent failures of power distribution network, power distribution network equipment is getting intelligent to monitor and diagnose a power distribution network in real time. However deployment of intelligent equipments costs a lot, because supplementary communication network is required for communication between intelligent equipments. In order to reduce the cost occurred by additional communication network, the cable system which will be introduced in this paper enables power transmission and data communication without additional communication network by installing optical fiber composite power cable. Furthermore it helps efficient management of power distribution network as total integrated solution which monitors, diagnoses and controls the network. (4 pages)


E-learning has become a necessary tool in the developmental agenda of every progressive institution for an effective delivery of the knowledge management system. The specific objectives of this study is to explore whether 1) E-Learning has improved knowledge management in these institutions, and 2) technological barriers has constrained individuals to the improvement of knowledge management in their institutions. This paper investigates the integration of eLearning and Knowledge Management in the dimensions of knowledge generation, capturing, sharing and application in Ghana using five major public universities as case studies. It attempts to unveil the e-learning and knowledge management policies in place at these institutions, and to know the extent to which these policies are catching up with the intended beneficiaries. The situation analysis was carried out by interviews conducted with policy makers at the institutions, and survey among participants (students and lecturers) within the scope of technological and regulatory factors at the case study institutions. Findings from the interviews suggest that elearning has contributed to knowledge management in their respective institutions. Overall, this study contributes to the debate whether bridging technological gaps can bridge knowledge gap in Ghanaian institutions.


The core of the Taoism philosophy of the optimal balance between Yin-Yang is the same as the meden agan Antique Greek philosophy [1]. Both agreed that sustainability is obtained neither through a greater efficiency (yang excess) nor through a greater resilience (yin excess) but with an in-between optimal balance, a window of viability. From their experience of interactions between Man and Nature, particularly in agriculture and health, the Chinese ancestors pointed to the ethics of the harmony and the order. Confucius said: "harmony is over all". To maintain the harmony between Man and Nature is the systemic way for sustainability and Societies have to respect the laws of Nature [2]. Taoism principles made their proofs in ecology [3], which is the economy of Nature: too little diversity (yang excess) leads towards breakage, too much (yin excess) leads to stagnation, and in economy: complementary currencies of diverse types enable economy to flow back towards greater sustainability [4].


The invention discloses a cross-device communication initiating method. A monitoring module, a communication object identification module, a communication module, a management and configuration module and the like are comprised. A core network opens a communication service interface for a system. A user registers attributed devices in the system, wherein a browsing terminal device and a communication terminal device are comprised. When the user browses contents on the terminal devices, a content object is selected. The terminals acquire the object selected by the user and identify the property of the object. Communication options are provided according to the property of the object. The user selects a corresponding communication mode. The terminals synchronize the object selected by the user and communication mode data to the system. The system acquires the communication intention of the user and sends a request to a call service of the communication core network. The call service initiates communication selected by the user according to the indication of the request message. The communication intention data of the user are transmitted to the communication core network in real time, thus the service experience of convenient cross-device communication initiating is provided for the user.


Yow et al. [14] conducted a descriptive epidemiologic study to investigate the distribution of anterior, posterior, and combined arthroscopic stabilization procedures at the United States Naval Academy during a continuous 125-month period. The authors found that isolated anterior instability procedures were performed in 47% of patients, isolated posterior instability procedures were performed in 18%, and combined anterior-posterior instability procedures were performed in 35%. Shoulder instability is common in the United States military population, where the glenohumeral dislocation rate has been reported to be nearly 20 times that of the general civilian population [5]. As an orthopaedic community, we are indebted to our military colleagues for a substantial portion of our collective knowledge pertaining to shoulder instability [12]. From Keller's original report on shoulder capsulodesis [3] to the 30year series of open Bankart repairs by Rowe et al. [9], studying military populations has improved our ability to identify patients who are at a higher risk of experiencing shoulder instability and to stratify affected patients in order to determine who is likely to benefit from a surgical stabilization procedure. Although prior studies on civilians have shown a low incidence of posterior and combined instability compared with anterior instability [8, 11], military studies suggest a much higher incidence of posterior and combined pathologic conditions among active servicemembers [7, 10]. The present study [14] gives additional credence to those findings by reporting similar results in a younger patient population with a greater total number of participants. While active servicemembers comprise a distinctive population, the results of this study raise the potential for similar injury patterns in other athletic, high-demand populations that are subjected to comparable trainingand work-related requirements. Indeed, athletes such as American football linemen [2] are known to have a high prevalence of posterior shoulder instability, and further investigation is needed to determine whether this might also extend to other susceptible populations.


This study investigates the information content of undisclosed limit orders before earning announcements for stocks traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). We also examine the impact of the removal of broker identities on the informativeness of undisclosed limit orders. We document permanent price impact following the submissions of undisclosed limit orders in both transparent and anonymous market. We find no evidence that informed traders use undisclosed limit orders more often than other types in pre-anonymity market. After the brokers' ID is removed, informed traders prefer to use undisclosed limit orders over disclosed limit orders.


Correct prediction of the structure and energetics along the reaction pathway of the formation or dissociation of the glycosidic bond in sugar phosphates is crucial for the understanding of catalytic mechanism and for the determination of transition state structures of sugar-phosphate processing enzymes. The performance of seven density functional theory (DFT) methods (BLYP, B3LYP, MPW1PW91, MPW1K, MPWB1K, M05 and M05-2X) and two wave function methods (HF and MP2) was tested using four structural models with the activated sugar-phosphate α-glycosidic linkage. The models were chosen based on the crystal structure of the retaining glycosyltransferase LgtC complex with methyl α-d-galactopyranose diphosphate and its 2-fluoro derivative. Results of the MP2 method were used as a benchmark for the other methods. Two structural trends were observed in the calculations: predicted length of the activated C1-O1 glycosidic bond of 1.49–1.63 Å was significantly larger than values of a standard C1-O1 glycosidic bond in crystal structures of carbohydrates (1.39–1.48 Å), and the calculated value depended on the DFT method used. The MPW1K, M05 and M05-2X functionals provided results in closest agreement with those from the MP2 method, the difference being less than 0.02 Å in the calculated glycosidic bond lengths. On the contrary, the BLYP and B3LYP functionals failed to predict sugar diphosphate in the (-sc) conformation as a stable structure. Instead, the only stationary points localized along the C1-O1 dissociation coordinate were oxocarbenium ions at the distance of approximately 2.8 Å. The M05-2X, MPW1K and MPWB1K functionals gave the most reasonable prediction of the thermochemical kinetic parameters, where the formation of the oxocarbenium ion has a slightly endothermic character (0.4–1.7 kJ mol−1) with an activation barrier of 7.9–9.2 kJ mol−1.


Empirical analyses for the US suggest that stronger people's control over the school budget is deleterious to student performance. Using Swiss data on ninth graders in mathematics, reading and natural science collected jointly with the PISA study 2000, this paper tests this hypothesis for Switzerland, exploiting inter-cantonal variation in political institutions. For both student performance in reading and mathematics, stronger popular rights appear to lower educational achievement through the school budget channel. In particular, the qualification of teachers is identified as most influential determinant of student achievement, which is shown to be linked to educational spending.


The Association of Visceral Fat Area with Anthropometric Variables and its Risk for Metabolic SyndromeJin Sook Hwang, M.D., Youn Pyo Kim, M.D., Hoon Ki Park, M.D., Ph.D.†, Hwan Sik Hwang, M.D., Ph.D.


The invention relates to a device for melt-spinning and cooling synthetic filaments. The device has a heated spinning beam which, on the underside thereof, carries at least one spinneret for extruding the filaments. A cooling device is arranged below the spinning beam, which cooling device has a blowing chamber and a perforated cylinder which is arranged inside the blowing chamber and has a gas-permeable wall. The perforated cylinder is arranged with an upper end at the spacing below the spinneret for receiving the filaments. In order to avoid deposits and condensation at the upper end of the perforated cylinder, a separate heating means is provided according to the invention, by way of which heating means the upper end of the perforated cylinder can be warmed.


objects (possible worlds) which represent that object as being certain precise ways. Thus, given the definition of determinacy in play, (2) is simply not wellformed. To ask whether a possible world is determinate is to ask whether there is only one member in the set of its precisifications. But there is nothing that is the set of a possible world's precisifications (possible worlds are not the sort of things to be precisified), so the question of whether that set has only one member has a false presupposition. Thus (2) is basically nonsensical. We can replace (2) with: (2)* At every precisification things are precise which seems to capture much of the intuitions behind the original formulation of (2). But (2)* will only generate a worry if we could add: (3)* There is more than one precisification iff there is imprecision But (3)*, as noted previously, is simply false according to the picture being put forward. There are multiple precisifications if and only if there is indeterminacy, but, crucially, indeterminacy does not entail imprecision. It's perfectly determinate that everything is precise, but (let's assume) it's indeterminate which precise way things are. Since precisifications aren't the kind of things which can themselves admit of precisification, they are not the kind of things which can be determinate or indeterminate. Thus sentences of the form 'the actual world is (in)determinate' cannot sensibly be put inside the scope of a determinacy or modal operator. This means that sentences like 'determinately, there is determinacy' or 'necessarily, there


Over the last couple of decades, girls and women have generally outperformed boys and men in the educational system, and in the Danish media, high-achieving girls and women are often referred to as straight A girls (Danish: 12-talspiger). In this article, we conduct a corpus linguistic analysis of the frames constructed around the concept of straight A girls in Danish national newspapers (N = 215 articles). The analysis shows that straight A girls are framed as sick and conform in a societal culture dominated by performance pressure. Th e frames are primarily manifested in contrasting pairs where seemingly positive attributes are aff ected by or turned into negative assessments, and in highly generalizing and exorbitant accounts reflecting a stereotypical conception of the girls. Conversely, the under-achieving boys are framed as easy-going and festive, but concurrently, also more innovative and independent. The article gives a critical account of such stereotypes, which could have substantial consequences for society's understanding and treatment of girls and women under education.


Masonry arch bridges have been studied for many centuries. Numerous analytical methods have been developed, but mainly for the study of the elastic behavior and ultimate strength of arches. A new approach that embodies the nonlinear finite-element procedure is introduced herein for the progressive failure analysis of masonry arch bridges. Failure criteria normally used for plain concrete are adopted to define the failure of masonry as a material under all biaxial stress states. This together with the assumed stress-strain relationships of masonry enables the cracking and crushing of the arch under incremental loading conditions to be analyzed simultaneously. Results for stress distribution, cracking, and crushing at any load level may be traced graphically on a computer. Finally, the iterative procedure produces for the arch the failure load and the associated collapse mechanism. The two-dimensional effects of spandrel fill on the arch behavior are also included in the analysis. The application of the proposed method is demonstrated using single-span arches under concentrated loads and subjected to support movements.


ABSTRACT The differences of the result research of factors which influence the policy of company leverage, push the writer to do re-research to get the current research. The research is focused on several factors which cover active structure, profitability, the company size, business risk and the company growth level in order to be known how the independent variable influence toward dependent variable. The object research is taken from the manufacture company which are listed and go public in Jakarta Stock Exchange from 2000 to 2004. The research sample is taken by using purposive sampling method with judgement type sample sampling, the sample taken fulfill the requirement and special criteria. The research takes sample from 40 companies. The research sample shows that the influences of active structure, profitability, the company size, the business risk and the company growth level toward the company leverage policy as a whole are 23% and 77% respectively the others are company leverage structure, so does the variable of the company growth level. While for the profitability variable, the company size and business risk have influences toward the company leverage policy. Keywords : Tangibility Asset, Profitability, Size, Business Risk, Growth Opportunities and Leverage.


Erucic acid is an unsaturated fatty acid (C22:1) having a large number of applications in the chemical industry because it confers desirable technological characteristics on oils and derived compounds. Among crops yielding large amounts of erucic acid, the Brassicaceae species are the most widely cultivated. The possibility of reducing agricultural inputs for these non-food crops may be an important future challenge in industrialised countries. Two high-erucic Brassicaceae species – Brassica napus var. oleifera and Brassica carinata – were chosen among various species as those best adapted to the north Italian environment, with the aim of testing yield responses in conditions of low input. A large-scale split-plot experiment was set up at the experimental farm of the University of Padova in Legnaro (NE Italy) in 2005/06, and compared two different levels (high and low) of agricultural inputs. High input was characterised by conventional soil tillage, chemical weed control, and high N-P-K fertilisation, and low input by minimum tillage, mechanical weed control, and limited N-P-K fertilisation. The varieties Maplus (NPZ-Lembke) and Hearty (Monsanto) of B. napus, and BRK1 (Eurogen) of B. carinata were sown at the end of September 2005. Yield results of both species were encouraging, with HEAR values (High Erucic Acid Rapeseed) which were even higher than those of canola in the same location. Rapeseed yielded more than Ethiopian mustard, with different behaviour between varieties and significant interactions with input level. Maplus yielded the most, reaching 3.72 DM t ha at high input and 3.12 t ha at low. Instead, Hearty reached slightly higher yields at low input (3.4 vs. 3.2 t ha), indicating its better adaptability to extensive agricultural management. The yield of B. carinata was not affected by input level, and satisfactory performance (2.9 t ha on average) together with low predation by birds, suggests its profitable introduction into field rotations in Northern Italy. For this species, maturity was reached almost 2 weeks later than rapeseed, around on the end of June, a fact which should be carefully considered in order to avoid a harvest overlap with wheat.


This paper is a response to what I see as an important and hitherto unresolved tension in the Nietzsche corpus. In many contexts, Nietzsche seems quite cynical about human nature. Whether or not Nietzsche is a psychological egoist is debatable. But at the very least, he displays a deep suspicion of ostensibly altruistic or idealistic motivations. At the same time, Nietzsche clearly rejects the economic view of human nature which has come to inform our understanding of egoism, the picture of homo economicus inexorably striving to maximize his gains. Indeed, Nietzsche often lauds the idealism of free spirits and other admirable personages, while scorning the more calculating attitudes of the bourgeois. Finally, Nietzsche often expresses his uneasiness with egoism as a concept, suggesting that it is a historically contingent idea that obscures the nature of human agency.Having describing this tension, I argue that Nietzsche's penchant for cynicism is best understood as but a tool by which to expose the limitations of slave morality, and does not reveal his most basic views on human nature. Nietzsche's anti-teleological conception of human action, I argue, forbids the easy assimilation of the will to power to psychological egoism. With this in mind, I seek to demonstrate that the Genealogy of Morals is intended to illustrate how the concept of egoism could only have arisen out of, and is only intelligible within the context of, slave morality, which wielded suspicion about human egoism as a mechanism through which to caricature the hated masters and slander human nature in general. Nietzsche's brand of cynicism, therefore, is to be understood as a means of undermining a cynicism of another sort. As the secular heirs of slave morality, modern cynics are less perspicuous and hard-nosed than they imagine. In praising egoism at the expense of altruism, Nietzsche is actually encouraging self-realization, not endorsing the caricature which slave morality has been made of it. Nietzsche's view of human nature and is far from rosy, and his morality may be difficult to swallow. But given Nietzsche's views on human agency, it would be a mistake to interpret him as a psychological or ethical egoist, for these views raises questions about the basic philosophical premises that underlie these positions.


Castor oil was initially subjected to an interesterification reaction with linseed and tung oils and the resulting intermediate was used for the preparation of polyurethanes and their IPNs with poly(methyl methacrylate). They were characterized for their physico-mechanical, swelling, and thermal properties. The morphologies of IPNs were studied with the aid of scanning electron microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. On comparing the mechanical properties of castor oil polyurethane (CU) and their IPNs (C-IPNs) with those of the castor oil modified with linseed and tung oil (L-IPN and T-IPN, respectively) it was found that L-IPNs showed higher tensile strength, hardness, and better compatibility than C-IPNs. All IPNs showed synergistic effect in elongation and exhibited similar thermal behavior with no significant change with respect to their composition. However, the castor oil polyurethane and their IPNs showed relatively higher elongation and better resistance to solvents.


The present invention relates to photo-labile pro-fragrance conjugate, which: By exposure to a) electromagnetic radiation, photo-labile unit that can be released pro fragrance unit; and b) pro-fragrance compound capable of releasing a i) fragrance raw materials when it is so released; or ii) fragrance raw materials, Including the pro-fragrance unit is either. The present invention relates to a system for providing a location of a fragrance, and the system, laundry detergent compositions, fine fragrances, relates personal care and hair care compositions.