The present invention relates to a method for forming a seat mounting structure for a vehicle seat, the seat structure having a cross member (2) and longitudinal beams (3). For this purpose, the cross member comprises at least one stop means (15) and said stringer includes at least one complementary stop means (8). In assembly, said stop means and said complementary latch stop means engage one another, wherein the stringer and the mounting beam is positioned substantially perpendicular to each other. To engage the latch, the beam surrounds the stringer. The present invention further relates to a seat structure thus manufactured.


Among the artifacts preserved in the Wehrle Collection at The Ohio Historical Society is the unusual cougar or puma elli9Y gorgel illustrated In Figures 1 through 4 (OHS 3490/ 12). According to the access ion record s, this i tem is "S teatite carved to represent lower jaw of puma" and was collected by Jonalhan M Richardson and sons James E. and Frank Richa rdson, in th e vicinity of Wilmington, Clinton Co" Ollio, sometime between 1865 and 1905. During this period, Ihe Richardsons e xcavat ed some 25 mounds In Clinton County. and no more specific provenience lor the gorge! is ava ilable Much of Ihe Richard sons' activity seems to have centered In Ihe years around 1880. Although labelled " steatl te:' the gor get IS made from a dark green chlonte schist similar 10 if not identical w ith the material from wh ich the "g reat pipes" (Hart 1973) generally associated· wi th the Middle and Late Woodtand periods are made These are beheved 10 derive from Ihe Tennessee area , as may the raw matenal This artifact might. in jacl. be rather confidently assigned 10 the Hopewell culture on the basis of raw ma tenal al one. were il nol for Ille re· markable resemblance the gorget bears to cut animal maxilla masks described from Adena (Webb and Baby 1957). A cut puma (Fe /Is conca/or) maxilla was found with a bUrial in the Dover Mound. Mason Co.. Kentucky. and c ut puma mandibles are repo rted from the West enhaver Mound . Pickaway Co .. Oh io. and Mound 77 at the Chilton Site, Henry Co . Kentucky. A cu t wolf maxilla from the Wright Mound 6. Montgomery Co .. Ken tucky. and a simi tar restored art ifact from the Ayres or Ayers Mound. Owen Co.. Kenl ucky. are shown in Figure 5. reproduced from Webb and Baby (1957). The resemblance of the Chnton Co. gorget to these animal masks is so slrik· ing as 10 suggestlhallhe chlor ite sch ist artifact is Adena rather than Hopewell and was mtended to represent an animal maxilla mask. Although we have not lo cated specific references to Adena arti facts made from chlorite schist. a chlorite cone (Anonymous 1970) has been illus· trated from Brown Co.. Ohio. and may well be Adena. That the Clinton Coun ty gorget represents a cougar or puma is indisputable. since a row of relat ively small Incisor teeth is clearly repre· sented Nor does there seem to be any doubt about the authent ici ty of the arll fact. It is true Ihal the Rlchardsons were connected w ith Ihe famous ·· Welch Bu tterfly" (Wetch and Richardson 1879). now generally considered to be a fraud , but the raw material. style of execulion. and even the comparative lack of atten· tlon given to Ihe cougar gorget by its discoverers all suggest thaI it is genuine. II will be noled. also. that the rig hi canine has been broken off and that the front edge of the gorget is very irregular. suggesting Ihat the gorgel may have been reworked. if so. howeve r. we are unable to determine wha t the original artifact wa s like


A compilation of previously unpublished classical works from the 1940s through the 1960s, and more recent works by distinguished geologists, brought together in honor of a curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum and professor of geological sciences at the University of Washington. Part I, on paleontology and stratigraphy, presents


is danger in overly opulent equality. In the section by McConnell and Hooks the problem of support for those who cannot support themselves is discussed. Already there is a generation that has no memory of what life was like without telephones, automobiles, and even radios; soon there will be one without memory of the days before social security. Just as automobiles were suspect for a few years, so is social security now. But it will be accepted; the only question is in what detailed form. And the further question is what next? "Loyalty to members of the family of origin seems to grow weaker with each passing decade." Is it possible that from this breakdown of family responsibility we may come to know and love better our non-kin neighbors? The keynotes of ethics that seem especially to run through the book are unselfishness, justice, equality, and freedom. Unselfishness is involved in the new concept of welfare which includes sharing the results of production. Justice in proportion to need seems to be preferred to justice in proportion to production. Equality is an ideal concerning which the authors seem never quite certain. Perhaps they are impressed with the obvious fact that as human beings we just aren't born equal: some can learn to pole vault fourteen feet while others cannot; some can learn to play the piano while others cannot; some can learn mathematics while others cannot. Consequently, what do we mean when we talk about equality? With all our search for standards and our striving for justice, equality, and other abstractions, this reviewer still wonders if we know what we want or where we are going. We breed and feed hogs to a definite physical end. Can we establish an equally definite end to which we· should like to breed and feed humans? As to freedom, this reviewer suggests that every thoughtful person will be repaid if he exercises his freedom to read this thought-provoking book. And not the least impressive part will b~ the fine commentary by Dean Muelder.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the possible advantages of applying prediction markets to supply network management. Are the same encouraging results possible as in the election application of prediction markets?Design/methodology/approach – This is a paper focused on the requirements and the possible results of the application based on the literature for supply network management and prediction markets. It discusses the potential of prediction markets to improve information management in supply networks.Findings – The paper finds that prediction markets are a new instrument to collect the diverse information among the supply chain members, and to publish this information to the other members.Practical implications – Prediction markets are able to improve the information basis for decision making in supply chains.Originality/value – This paper shows the application of prediction markets in a supply network management case and the possibilities and limitations of prediction markets to co...


Abstract : We have investigated the effects of the co-adsorption of CO with cyanogen on the vibrational spectrum of the CO as determined by high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy. Since cyanogen is easily polarizable (polarizability approximately 53A3), we expected that the intensities of the CO vibrational spectra would be substantially modified by dipole screening effects. The linear CO stretching mode of on-top bonded CO is strongly screened by co-adsorbed C2N2. However, the CO stretching mode of bridge bonded CO is not strongly effected. The effect which we observe for on-top bonded CO is consistent with a dipole screening mechanism with a polarizability for the co-adsorbed C2N2 of approximately 41 A3 in reasonable agreement with the known polarizability Of C2N2. It is known that cyanogen adsorbs on Pt(111) in two bonding states referred to in the literature as the a-state, and the B-state of cyanogen. The dipole screening of the CO vibrations is entirely due to the alpha- state of the coadsorbed cyanogen.


Provided are an M2M data processing method, device and system, which relate to the field of communications. The method comprises: receiving a registration request sent by an M2M device; after the registration request passes the authentication, according to capacity information about a capacity model and the M2M device, acquiring a filled capacity model, the capacity model including three types, i.e. communication capacity, control capacity and measuring capacity, each type of capacity being classified into a plurality of sub-items, and the filled capacity model describing at least one sub-item corresponding to the three types of capacity of the M2M device; and updating an overall capacity model according to the filled capacity model, and the overall capacity model recording the capacity information about all registered M2M devices managed by an M2M service platform according to a type classification form of the capacity model. The present invention can solve the problems that the query time delay is relatively long and hardware resources of the M2M service platform are wasted, and realizes the effect of reducing the query time delay and reducing the wastage of hardware resources of the M2M service platform. The present invention is applied to the communication of an M2M system.


Recent calculations by Van der Voort (see ibid., vol.7, p.L395 (1974)) on vacancy migration in UO2 are shown to be erroneous. The predicted high activation energies for this process are due to fundamental inadequacies in the lattice model. The suggested agreement between such results and experiment is itself based on a misinterpretation of the published diffusion data. Transport studies on fluorite oxides are briefly discussed and are shown to be compatible with the high mobility of the vacancies suggested by Catlow and Lidiard (1974).


The near-infrared absorption spectrum of 14NH3 covering the 6400-6900 cm−1 region has been obtained at a resolution of 0.005 cm−1 using a Fourier transform spectrometer. The spectrum is very complex, with many squeezed or blended lines which cannot be resolved even by Doppler-limited spectroscopy. A total of 1710 lines have been observed, and 381 rotational-vibrational transitions have been assigned to the combination band v1 + v3 and the overtone band 2v3.


A six-cascade in-line amplifier system that utilizes gain equalizers to successfully transmit 100 optical frequency-division-multiplexed (FDM) signals is described. Total net gain of 98 dB is obtained with a gain imbalance of 2.3 dB by employing the Mach-Zehnder filter based tunable gain equalizers; the gain imbalance is 19.3 dB without the equalizers. Bit-error-rate performance of 100-channel FSK signals at 622 Mb/s also confirms the feasibility of the gain equalizers.<<ETX>>


The book is a bit too long. Greenspan intends not only to chronicle Putnam's career but also to portray the publisher's life and that of his family as a register of the multiform developments transforming life in nineteenth-century America. Greenspan thus includes a great deal of Putnam's personal and family history. Such detail, though fascinating in places, distracts from the central and most valuable part of this book: the account of Putnam's career and its importance. We know much of the history of American publishing in the nineteenth century through a collection of extraordinary biographies and house histories: Ellen Ballou's The Building of the House (a history of Houghton Mifflin Company), Eugene Exman's The Brothers Harper and The House of Harper, and William Tryon's Parnassus Corner (a biography of James T. Fields). Greenspan's biography is a fine and necessary addition to this group, which provides the essential introduction to the American book trade in its formative era.


In this paper, a comprehensive analysis on decadal shift of precipitation rainfall pattern and circulation characteristics during summer in North China is made based on such data as daily precipitation, general atmospheric circulation reanalyzed by NCEP/NCAR. The results of the analysis indicate that: 1) The shift of precipitation rainfall pattern during summer in Eastern China can be divided into 5 periods, i.e., 1961-1965 with significantly more rainfall both in North China and Northeast China, 1966-1980 with more rainfall in North China but normally less rainfall in Northeast China, 1981-2000 with more rainfall in Northeast China but normally less rainfall in North China, 2001-2010 with less rainfall in North China and Northeast China but significantly more rainfall in Huaihe River Basin, and 2011-2013 with more rainfall in North China and Northeast China but less rainfall in Yangtze-Huaihe River Basin. 2) In recent years, the precipitation in rainy season (summer) in North China and Northeast China is similar to that during 1961-1965, which is significantly high. However, the circulation pattern is significantly different from that during 1961-1965. For the sea-level pressure field in summer, the low-pressure center in Mongolia was located in South Central Mongolia during 1961-1965, with low pressure trough significantly deepened; while it was located in Eastern Mongolia and toward North China and Northeast China during 2011-2013, with low pressure trough significantly weakened. At 500 hPa height field, Siberia trough and North China trough were deepened but Baikal Lake Ridge was weakened during 1961-1965. Besides, the "step trough" brought more rainfall to North China and Northeast China. During 2011-2013, however, the Baikal Lake Ridge was normal, the geopotential height of Okhotsk Sea was increased, the subtropical high was located northward, and the blocking effect by the eastern part on the North China trough was strengthened, resulting in more rainfall during summer in North China and Northeast China. At 850 hPa wind field, southerly wind was obviously


Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to the WHO in 2013 says that globally affects 64 million people and 2.9 million individuals die because of this cause, is currently in a large increase for what is considered a health disease This disease is underdiagnosed and potentially fatal and is characterized by a limitation in the normal air flow of the lungs and its main cause is the exposure to first and second hand tobacco smoke, this research proposal is mainly based on the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), which suggests 5 main activities to treat a patient with EPOC, the first is physical activity, the second respiratory therapy, third psychosocial support, fourth nutrition and finally education. The education will be the pillar on which our proposal will be based, because with the review of the literature we observe that this part is dictated in a very conventional way and needs to be reinforced, also through the review of the literature we observe that professionals Of health we do not use in a timely and eventual TICS (information technology and communication) reason why it is considered opportune to make an educative proposal based on a TIC so that the health professionals can later implement and in this way to increase The capacity of self-care in a patient with EPOC.


Project instruction can stimulate enthusiasm and initiative of students and improve the quality and efficiency of teaching.The present paper described the background of teaching reform,discussed the design and implementation of the course project teaching and estimated the effect of projectized teaching for achieving the favorable teaching effect.


The objective of the research was to determine the variability of the physical and chemical properties of soil between the forest and livestock use in the site of El Zapote Bolivar canton. Livestock is among the main productive activities being more representative in Manabi, and in the study area has been practiced for years, reason why it is assumed that has caused changes in the soils of the area. We identified two sampling units and by each unit is obtained a composite of 10 samples of soil using a zigzag path. Direct measurements were made on the spot. It was evaluated and established the quality of the soil, through the implementation of a quality index. In comparison with the ground pattern, there was a rise of 0.38 gr/cm3 in the soil bulk density and 2.5 % in the organic matter, as in nutrients such as phosphorus (P) 17 ug/ml and 56 ug/ml (Ca) calcium. Another important finding was a significant decrease in parameters such as the infiltration rate of 10.01 cm/H to 0.51 cm/H, hydraulic conductivity of 3.71 E-05 m/s 2.20E-05 m/s and the pH of 7 to 6.1. As well, it was found that there is a variation in measured parameters and these directly affect the quality of the soil, showing a difference of 0.77 in the soil of forest and 0.30 in the soil of cattle, which is equivalent to a variability of 43.53% between them. The research concludes that the variability that exists between these two types of soil, is due to poor farming practices such as overgrazing.


To particular operating a mobile radio terminal, a personalized manner not to personalize operates a further second identity module, the first identity module MasterSIM including personalized dataset (MSIM) There is provided, a second identification module (VSIM) authentication and / or be examined, and the second identification module (VSIM) in order to personalize the second identification module for storing the (VSIM) user data set is read from MasterSIM (MSIM), is transmitted to the second identification module (VSIM), stored in the second identification module (VSIM), the user data set, in particular one or more unique the method comprising the final subscriber identify (IMSI).


Prestack depth migration is an important imaging method for complex geological structures. In this paper a generalized system of wavefield continuation is presented based on the wavefield splitting theory. The system is coupled by downgoing and upgoing waves, and the commonly used equation of wavefield continuation is only a special case of the coupled system. Based on the approximation of square root operator, a new hybrid migration method with high precision is derived. The method can be implemented numerically through splitting technique. Finally, two numerical migration examples are given, one is the poststack depth migration for a model with large lateral velocity contrasts, another is the prestack depth migration for Marmousi model with complex structures. The numerical results show the effectiveness and high precision of the method. The MPI parallel calculation is adopted in order to raise computational efficiency. The method can be used to obtain precise images for complex structures with large lateral velocity variations. [


Objectives: To compare the efficacy of intralesional with intramuscular injection meglumine antimoniate in the treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. Design: Prospective, comparative, interventional study. Setting: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, [PIMS] Islamabad. Material and Methods: Seventy six (40 males, 36 females) consecutive patients with sores of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis presenting to the Dermatology department, underwent treatment with Intralesional (1 ml/cm2 of Sb) or Intramuscular injection Meglumine antimoniate ((20 mg Sb/kg/day for 21 to 28 days) according to the selection criteria for each group from April 2004 to March 2005. On the basis of demonstration of Leishmania tropica (LT) bodies in the skin slit smears/skin biopsies, 76 patients were included in the study and were followed-up for therapeutic safety and efficacy at different intervals. After completing local or systemic treatment, cure rate was calculated by observing the improvement criteria i.e. flattening, softening, decrease in size of lesion and absence of erythema, induration, . According to the sample selection procedure for the two modalities of treatment 46 (60.5%) patients were found suitable for Intralesional therapy and 30(39.5%) were found suitable for Intramuscular therapy. Results: Males 40(52.6%) constituted a slightly greater number than females 36(47%) The final outcome of intralesional injection meglumine antimoniate at weekly intervals in 46 patients was that 44 (95.65%) got completely cured, whereas among those receiving I/M therapy 25(83.3%) got cured with their lesions getting almost flattened and itch/pain subsided. Z test for proportion was used for comparison which was Z=1.75 showing that proportion of cured patients with IL treatment was greater than IM treatment (P= 0.027 =<0.05) which confirms that there is a significant relationship between route of administration and outcome of lesion .The average number of injections required for 1/L was found to be 6 at weekly intervals and 18 for 1/M treatment. Both the treatments were given according to the recommended guidelines of WHO. Design: Prospective, comparative, interventional study. Conclusion: Intralesional therapy is superior to Intramuscular therapy with meglumine antimoniate in terms of efficacy, safety, outcome.


AbstractNatural minerals are used as sorbents in ion-exchange processes due to their high exchange capacity and their relatively low cost. In the present study the use of natural zeolite as filling medium in fixed- and fluidized-bed reactors for the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions is investigated. The major objective is to compare the removal efficiency of heavy metals by the two processes—fluidized and fixed bed. Fixed and fluidized bed experiments were conducted in order to examine the Mn2+, Zn2+, and Cr3+ uptake by natural clinoptilolite, using the same critical experimental conditions: particle size (90–180 μm), volumetric flow rate of 12.48 BV/h, total normality of 0.01 N, initial pH value equal to 4, and ambient temperature (25°C). The fluidized bed process was conducted in an experimental 50 cm long plexiglass column of 4.4 cm internal diameter and fixed bed experiments in 70 cm long plexiglass columns of 2 cm internal diameter. The fluidized bed breakthrough curves for Mn2+ and Zn2+...


The in vitro formation of fibrin microclots in blood from patients with psoriasis was studied before, during and after treatment. When a bacterial lipopolysaccharide was added to the blood, the microclot test was positive in o% of controls, in 17% of the patients with untreated slight psoriasis and in 100% of those with severe psoriasis. A positive test without added lipopolysaccharide indicates the presence of circulating endotoxins. It was negative in all patients with slight psoriasis but positive in 75% of those with a severe form.


Plume localization and prediction using mobile sensors is the primary contribution of this paper. Plume concentration values, measured by chemical sensors at different locations, are used to estimate the source of the plume. This is achieved by employing a stochastic approximation technique to localize the source and compare its performance with the nonlinear least squares method. The source location is then used as the initial estimate for the boundary tracking problem. Sensor measurements are used to estimate the parameters and states of the state space model of the dynamics of the plume boundary. The predicted locations are the reference inputs for the LQR controller. Measurements at the new locations (after the correction of the prediction error) are added to the set of data to refine the next prediction step. Interpolation, using the sensors locations, is used to approximate the boundary shape. An illustrative two-dimensional example is provided.


This paper investigates the relationships among students at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. The students, who come from a variety of Baltic nations, are subjected to a unique curriculum that emphasizes the English language, cooperative methodology and teamwork. The results of the research show that the approach adopted at this institution has had a significant (positive) impact on inter-group relations.


Nick Gallent, John Kelsey and Iqbal Hamiduddin reflect
on the outcome of the recent referendum on the St Ives
Neighbourhood Development Plan, the requirement that
all new build housing is occupied by 'full time residents',
and the risks – and possible consequences – of this type of
planning restriction


Objective: To identify the symptomatology deemed by General Practitioners (GPs) as useful to diagnose depression, the local vocabulary used to describe it, a...


We investigate the relativistic cosmological hydrodynamic perturbations. We present the general large scale solutions of the perturbation variables valid for the general sign of three space curvature, the cosmological constant, and generally evolving background equation of state. The large scale evolution is characterized by a conserved gauge invariant quantity which is the same as a perturbed potential (or three-space curvature) in the comoving gauge.


1990-the exchange agreement between La Trobe University and Barcelona University had just been signed. I, as Co-ordinator on the Barcelona side, was on my first visit to La Trobe. At the time I knew only four people John Barnes and Lucy Frost from English, Robert Archer and Lilit Thwaites from Spanish. As part of my visit, a drinks party was held for me by the English Department and people from other areas of the University also attended. I was somewhat bemused at the attention I was getting as part of this strange but exciting set up in Barcelona where Australian Studies was being taught. I was constantly asked not only at La Trobe but anywhere I went in Australia: 'Australian Studies in Barcelona. Why?' The answer was always one that surprised. Prof. Doireann MacDermott had introduced what was then called Commonwealth Studies onto the Syllabus in Barcelona in the late sixties and early seventies. Indeed, Barcelona University was the first University outside the United Kingdom to have such studies on offer to its undergraduates.There were a lot of people there to meet me, or so it felt at the time, but standing taller than the others was Laurie Clancy to whom I was eventually introduced by John Barnes. I was well aware that this welcome party was very much part of what was hoped would become a good exchange between the two institutions and, I have to say, I was somewhat worried about exactly what I as coordinator at the Barcelona end had taken on. Was I going to be able to deal with the administration and all that this involved and pull the Australian Studies through to a further stage in its existence? All of this was jumbling around my head as I met more and more people. Laurie put a hand on my shoulder and said 'You can expect a La Trobe invasion!' I must have looked slightly startled as he chortled 'Well, Barcelona dear; come on!' Over the years we did have a stream of visitors from La Trobe and the agreement has proved to be successful with both students and staff.Laurie struck me then as a great racconteur and as somebody with a fast quick wit which, as I came to know, often leftme standing as I tried to grab the crack before replying. Over time, I met Laurie and Neelam his partner and they were extremely generous to me as hosts and taking me out for luscious meals. I remember a memorable day spent with Neelam when she took me out to Ballarat for the day, which ended with a wonderful meal at a restaurant with a large open fire. Both Neelam and Laurie became loyal friends over the years to come.Laurie came to visit us at Barcelona University: twice as a lecturer and once for the EASA (the European Association for Studies of Australia) Conference we held in Sitges. He first came to teach in the English Department at Barcelona University in 1992. His visits as a lecturer were always marked by the quality of his lectures, the great mix of authority but relaxtion with which he taught. It was not unusual to walk past a session Laurie was in and hear gales of laughter wafting out; on other occasions a stillness of concentration and discussion seemed to emanate from the open classroom door.At the time when Laurie came out to Barcelona the Australian Studies Centre did not exist as such but was running as an Australian Studies Program where we had visiting lecturers for short periods of time. He had been assigned an obligatory PhD course on Australian Literature. The group was therefore small and with students who were articulate and who had already done basic groundwork in Australian studies in their undergraduate years if they were from our own institution. If they came from other universities where Commonwealth Literature, as it was still called, was not taught, then they had a lot of ground to cover and Laurie would dedicate extra time to these students so that they would feel comfortable in class and be at the same level as their peers. I remember one day in particular when I walked into my favourite cafe and sitting there at a table littered with texts and notebooks was Laurie with three students. …


Rollover warning is primary means of preventing the transport vehicles accidents.Based on monitoring of rollover angle and lateral acceleration,a vehicle dynamic rollover model is established,linear discriminant function is designed.Rollover accident forewarning algorithm can be put forward,it can judge rollover accidents directly according to rollover angle and lateral acceleration.Effectiveness of rollover forewarning algorithm is verified by a simulation,and the algorithm has less computation,computing speed,etc.,it is very significant to reduce the occurrence of similar accidents.


SUMMARY Jewish theology is firmly committed to enabling all those whom society has disenfranchised. The widow, the orphan, and the wayfarer are but paradigms for all those who cannot fend for themselves. Rabbis and educators can be the change agents for these populations by internalizing the values that Judaism espouses. The examples chosen relate primarily to learning disabilities, but conceptually their underlying principles apply to all disabilities.


Objective To compare the pharmacological action of relieving pain and fever of water-soluble compositions in Cornu antelopis and Cornu caprae hircus and to explore if the latter can replace the former.Methods Woolfe-MacDonald,writhing method was used and models were made with lipolysaccharide vaccine.Results Cornu antelopis and Cornu caprae hircus could decrease the writhing times of mice caused by glacial acetic acid(P0.01),obviously increase the pain threshold value of mice (P0.05 after 60 min),and decrease the temperature caused by vipolysaccharide vaccine.Conclusion Cornu antelopis and Cornu caprae hircus both can relieve pain and fever,so the Cornu caprae hircus is able to substitute the Cornu antelopis.


Tel.: +2347067366161 This study was carried out to evaluate the possible use of local products as alternative and cost effective laboratory media used for the culturing of airborne fungi. Five food crop flours were used in this experiment with Malt Extract Agar [MEA] serving as a control. The poured plates were exposed to indoor air to isolate air-borne microbes. The cultures were incubated at temperature of 28°C±2 for a period of 120 hours where the total count of the fungi were recorded. Their growths on the formulated media were compared with the growth on conventional media. The fungi colonies recorded during the experiment were members of the genus Aspergillus, Penicilium, Trichoderma, Rhizopus and Neurospora. The total number of fungi colonies were higher in Cassava Flour Agar [CFA], Wheat Flour Agar [WFA] and Plantain Flour Agar [PFA] recorded than [MEA] the conventional mycological medium. Therefore, from the result of this experiment, there is hope for the use of local product culture media such as CFA, WFA, and PFA as suitable readily available and cost effective for in-vitro growth of the test organisms.


This chapter utilizes fifteenth-century vernacular culture to challenge the notion that learned understandings detailed in chapter 2 fully determined the meaning of sensuous worship on the eve of the Reformation. Through analysis of the unusual diary of the Nuremberg widow Katherina Tucher (d. 1448) and a critical mass of personal vernacular prayer books, this chapter shows that people made use of some learned ideas about the senses promoted by learned culture but went well beyond them in many cases. Educated, urban lay men and women played games with sensory language in their personal devotional experiences and, in doing so, exercised limited agency as vernacular theologians in their own right. Following this analysis, this chapter shows how male intellectuals responded by increasingly identifying sensuous worship with femininity and non-Christians. It concludes with a summary of part 1.


On Sunday, May 7, 1995, a week before Mother's Day, more than 1,000 people marched in Washington to the White House. Many carried placards bearing photos of their loved ones stricken with HIV. The march, the first of its kind, included mothers who are living with AIDS, mothers who are worried about their HIV-positive children, or mothers who have lost a child to the disease. The purpose of the march was to demonstrate that for everyone living with AIDS, there is a family that suffers as well. Another march is planned for 1996.


Since 2002 EPRI has used advanced FEA techniques to model the behavior of large conductor EHV cables in duct/manhole systems and has designed and constructed a 55m long test rig to simulate the mechanical effects found in service. The rig was commissioned with a 345 kV, 2000 mm copper conductor, XLPE insulated, corrugated aluminum sheathed cable and the first set of experimental heating runs was completed in 2013. The key findings are that i) the magnitude of axial force is lower than extrapolated from smaller conductor cables and ii) thermo-mechanical patterns form, but are less pronounced in the magnitude of lateral deflection.


Purpose – This research aims to test a model that proposes potential antecedents and consequences of an importer's benevolence towards its foreign export supplier. The model posits that an importer's satisfaction with and commitment to its relationship with a foreign export supplier have a positive impact on its benevolence towards the exporter, which in turn positively influences the performance of the dyadic relationship. The model also suggests that the effect of the importer's relationship satisfaction on benevolence is moderated by value similarity and cultural familiarity.Design/methodology/approach – The model was tested through a mail survey of US importers who bought from foreign exporters.Findings – The results largely support the model. The findings of this study also indicate that the importer's relationship satisfaction has a significant influence on benevolence only when cultural familiarity is high.Practical implications – Strategic implications for international marketers are discussed.Ori...


The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of the Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) programme in South Africa, using Mpumalanga as focal area, with the view of developing guidelines to assist service providers in the implementation of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP), Act 92 of 1996. The study was conducted in two phases. In phase 1, a qualitative, quantitative, contextual, explorative, descriptive and case study research design was utilised. The purpose was to explore and describe TOP service providers and facility managers' knowledge regarding the CTOP Act, as well as their experiences and feelings regarding TOP provision, and the feelings and experiences of health care consumers utilising TOP services. Records of attendance regarding the utilisation of the services were also reviewed. Data was collected using unstructured and semi-structured interviews. Phase 2 of the study focused on the development of guidelines to assist in the translation of the CTOP Act to action at service level. The findings revealed that although the TOP programme was operating within the reproductive health for women initiative, TOP service providers and facility managers were not knowledgeable on other legislation that supports the CTOP Act to integrate its implementation. All the participants experienced emotional, physical and psychological discomfort in providing TOP services. Lack of support of the programme also posed a major challenge. These findings formed the basis for the development of the guidelines.


ABSTRACT:  The next generation of targeted biologic therapies for psoriasis will either be directed against new protein targets or improve on the efficacy, safety, or convenience of medications available for an already validated area in the immune response. Adalimumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody directed against tumor necrosis factor‐α, a central cytokine in the immune response in psoriasis that has already been shown to be an effective target for therapy. This medication is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Early phrase II studies with adalimumab have shown excellent efficacy for psoriasis with either weekly or every other week subcutaneous injection. Moreover, the safety and tolerability of adalimumab in large clinical studies of rheumatoid arthritis have shown good results. Thus, adalimumab shows significant promise for the therapy of psoriasis in the future.


The Kondo effect assumes a central role in condensed matter physics. It describes the exchange scattering of electrons with a localized moment and occurs in a wide range of settings from rare earth‐based intermetallics to nanotubes and semiconductor heterostructures. A conceptually simple extension of the model, known as the two‐channel Kondo model, can give rise to singular scattering and the formation of an unconventional metal. Although the observation of the standard Kondo effect has become ubiquitous, its two‐channel counterpart has been proven difficult to realize. This article reviews attempts, challenges, and successes in realizing the two‐channel Kondo effect in artificial structures and real quantum materials.


Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been applied to the legal field as a way of optimizing resources, using Artificial Intelligence to perform tasks that until recently were only done by humans. In the legal area, basically composed of unstructured texts, classification can be an ally in the organization and management of these documents. In this work, judicial pronouncements were classified in the classes provided for in article 203 of the civil procedure code: sentences, interlocutory decisions and orders. The main contribution of this article lies in the demonstration that the performance of the classifier is directly related to the previous selection of words and the balancing of classes used. Preliminary results point to an increase of more than 20% in accuracy, when considering the representativeness of each word in the corpus and the frequency of the word in each class, reaching results above 80%.


This paper deals with the problem of simultaneously classifying sensors and estimating hidden parameters in a network with communication constraints. In particular, we consider a network where sensors measure a common parameter with different precision rank. The goal of each unit is to estimate the unknown parameter and its own specific type through local communication and computation. Here, we present a decentralized version of the centralized maximum likelihood (ML) estimator. Each sensor computes local sufficient statistics by using its own observations and transmits its local information to its neighborhood. By using an Input Driven Consensus Algorithm (IDCA), the local information can be gradually propagated through the entire network, allowing to estimate the global parameter. We prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm and we show that the relative classification error converges to that of the centralized ML as the network dimension goes to infinity. We also compare this strategy with implementation of expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm via numerical simulations.


This paper presents an algorithm which determines the invertibility of any planar, triangular quadratic isoparametric finite element transformation. Extensions of the algorithm to three-dimensional isoparametric finite element transformations yield conditions which guarantee invertibility of 10-node tetrahedra and 8-node bricks. The mathematical basis for the algorithm focuses on the Jacobian as a continuous function defined over a compact set where the Jacobian attains a maximum and a minimum value. The algorithm then determines whether these values are of opposite sign.


A second-power yield of resonantly enhanced third harmonic and three-photon luminescence of 744 nm femtosecond laser pump pulses, weakly focused onto a layer of silver nanorolls on a silica substrate, was spectrally detected in the fluence range of 4–20 mJ cm−2, saturating at higher fluences. The third-harmonic yield and its saturation were explored in terms of ultrafast carrier dynamics, based on direct three-photon or cascade one- and two-photon transitions balanced by Auger recombination (and the final band-filling effect) which limited the radiative recombination output in the form of the third harmonic and three-photon luminescence.


Abstract:
Background: Budd‐Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a rare life-threatening condition and is caused by an obstruction to the hepatic venous outflow. We herein report a case of BCS complicated with inferior vena cava (IVC) and superior vena cava (SVC) stenosis that was managed by a simultaneous IVC/SVC sharp recanalization.
Case presentation: A forty-year-old lady came to the clinic complaining of distended abdomen. She is a known case of antiphospholipid syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus. Triphasic liver computed tomography showed a heterogeneous liver with nutmeg appearance and attenuation of hepatic veins with caudate hypertrophy. There was a severe dilatation of the azygos and hemiazygos veins with multiple posterior mediastinal and retrocrural tortuous collaterals recanalizing the IVC distally. Contrast enhanced CT of the chest showed a chronic complete occlusion of the left brachiocephalic vein with enlargement of the left superior intercostal vein, hemiazygos, and azygos veins. SVC was patent with multiple calcific foci of the wall likely related to chronic thrombosis. Through the right femoral access, inferior venacavogram was obtained, which showed suprahepatic IVC complete occlusion. Then, an upper venous access was obtained through the right internal jugular vein.  Followed by a venogram which showed a complete occlusion at the right brachiocephalic vein with extensive collaterals were noted. Sharp recanalization from the jugular access of the brachiocephalic vein/SVC was performed targeting the balloon within the SVC that was advanced from the azygos vein, which followed by placing a covered stent graft. Then Multiple balloon angioplasties were made at the level of suprahepatic IVC followed by placing a non-covered stent.
Conclusion: It was a Successful recanalization for the completely occluded suprahepatic IVC and placement of IVC stent, and a Successful recanalization for the completely occluded right brachiocephalic vein and placement of a stent.


: Serotonin 5-HT 7 receptor (5-HT 7 R) has been 10 the subject of intense research e ff orts because of its presence in 11 brain areas such as the hippocampus, hypothalamus, and 12 cortex. Preclinical data link the 5-HT 7 R to a variety of central 13 nervous system processes including the regulation of circadian 14 rhythms, mood, cognition, pain processing, and mechanisms of 15 addiction. 5-HT 7 R blockade has antidepressant e ff ects and 16 may ameliorate cognitive de fi cits associated with schizophre-17 nia. 5-HT 7 R has been recently shown to modulate neuronal 18 morphology, excitability, and plasticity, thus contributing to shape brain networks during development and to remodel neuronal 19 wiring in the mature brain. Therefore, the activation of 5-HT 7 R has been proposed as a therapeutic approach for 20 neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders associated with abnormal neuronal connectivity. This Perspective celebrates 21 the silver jubilee of the discovery of 5-HT 7 R by providing a survey of recent studies on the medicinal chemistry of 5-HT 7 R 22 ligands and on the neuropharmacology of 5-HT


Abstract Field trials were conducted during the aman season to understand the dissipation rate, half‐life and TMRL values of endosuifan 35e.c. in soil, green foliage and green grain following application in the flowering stage of paddy with the recommended dose (005% @ 500 litres/ha) and double the recommended dose (0.10% @ 500 litres/ha). The maximum residues on soil after 7 days of application (0.029 and 0.092 ppm) were well below the tolerance limit of endosuifan (0.1 ppm for rice in husk). The initial deposits varied from 4.571 to 11–671 ppm for green foliage and from 1.778 to 4.274 ppm for green grain. Dissipation followed a first order reaction in all cases and the half‐life values varied from 3.3 to 3.4 days for green foliage and from 5.6 to 5.7 days for green grain. Calculated waiting periods (TMRL) varied from 19.3 to 23.7 days for green foliage and from 22.5 to 29.9 days for green grain. The terminal residues of endosuifan at harvest in different substrates varied from 0.007 to 0.042 ppm, well w...


The invention discloses a CVD graphene temperature sensor, a sensing system and a temperature sensor preparation method. The temperature sensor is of a stratified structure and includes a rigid thermal conduction substrate layer, a graphene layer, an aluminum oxide buffer layer and an aluminum oxide protective layer which are distributed from bottom to up sequentially. Compared with the prior art, the temperature sensor of the invention has the advantages of simple structure, small size, small thickness and easiness in operation, and can be adhered to the surface of an object. The preparation method of the temperature sensor of the invention is simple and does not need a power source and leads, and can assist in avoiding temperature drift. The whole structure of the device of the invention can keep stable under low temperature and high temperature, and a temperature measurement range is large, and the device is suitable for various environments. The measuring method of the device of the invention is a non-contact type method, and has little influence on a measured object, and can perform real-time monitoring.


The article discusses the quantitative analysis of the G.652 and G.655 assembled optical fibers lines,and introduces some differences between the G.652 and G.655 fibers standards.The article also analyzes the practical case that the G.652 optical fibers communication system is replaced by G.655 fibers one.


The present study was carried out in the E.E.A. Canaan from INIA (Ayacucho, Peru) with the objective of estimating the individual heterosis in F1 guinea pigs from the crosses between the genotypes Peru (P), Andean (A) and Inti (I) for the characteristics of weight at slaughtering, growth, carcass yield, fat deposition and feed conversion. Information was obtained from 115 descendants between pure lines and crosses of the genotypes PxA, AxP and PxI, being reared as contemporary groups throughout the rearing phase. The incidence of the fixed effects of litter size, sex of the offspring and number of parturition of the mother on the variables under study was analysed through a model of fixed effects, estimating correction factors by least squares for those that had significant incidence (p<0.05). The individual heterosis was estimated as the deviation of the mean of the reciprocal cross compared to the average of the pure parents. The heterosis for the weight at slaughtering character, estimated at the level of crosses PxI (genotype Peru as a paternal route) and the reciprocal PxA, was 11.90 g (1.5%) and 10.25 g (1.3%), respectively; while the growth rate had a heterosis of 0.39 g/day (3.9%) for the PxI cross (Peru genotype as a paternal route). No appreciable levels of heterosis were observed for the other traits. It is concluded that the crossing between improved guinea pigs does not produce significant levels of individual heterosis at the level of the characters related to meat production.


Objective to establish a simple and economic method of isolating rat hepatie stellate cells as a cell model of liver fibrosis.Method to perfuse rat liver with collagenase and pronase E,and isolate rat hepatic stellate cell by density gradient centrifugation.To identify by Desmin immunocytochemistry method.Results The yield rate of HSC was 1×10~7~3×10~7 per rat,and the purity was above 90%.Conclusion the method was simple and economic to be applied.


The utility model discloses a combined scanning frame for ultrasonic inspection and measurement. The combined scanning frame comprises a magnetic wheel assembly and a probe clamping assembly, and further comprises at least two main beams and at least one rotary joint, wherein two adjacent main beams are in shaft pin connection through the rotary joint; the magnetic wheel assembly and the probe clamping assembly slide in the length direction of the main beams and are locked on the main beams. The combined scanning frame for ultrasonic inspection and measurement has the following advantages: 1, the distance between probes or between magnetic wheels can be regulated at random, the combined scanning frame can be rapidly dismantled and assembled, and the combined scanning frame is convenient to carry; 2, a swing arm and a probe clamping arm mutually rotate by 360 degrees, so that the tight fit and excellent coupling of a probe and a workpiece are ensured; 3, the probe clamping arm is a movable component, so that the probe is convenient to replace, and both time and labor are saved; 4, a push-and-pull handle, an arc-shaped groove and a cable tie are arranged and the complicated probe wires can be fixed on the handle, so that wire winding is avoided, and the detection efficiency is improved; 5, the application range is wide, and the combined scanning frame is suitable for weld inspection under various detection environments.


The 20S proteasome maintains homeostasis and regulates important intracellular processes by subjecting most intracellular proteins to endoproteolytic cleavage. This complex hydrolysis machinery has received considerable attention for the treatment of many diseases, including cancer. We report a new set of noncovalent peptide mimics based on TMC-95A and our rational approach to inhibitor optimization using both crystallographic and kinetic studies.


Health care providers may be asked to make recommendations whether individuals with a mental health history and/or are taking psychiatric medication should have access to firearms as part of their work. For example, in the military, some instructions require a waiver from a medical provider for those individuals taking a psychiatric medication to be able to continue carrying a weapon. There is currently little data or established protocols to help objectively guide such recommendations. This study examined the reliability and validity of using a video game simulation of firearms performance and examined variables that might predict such performance. Participants were asked questions about demographics, psychiatric symptoms, and usage of psychiatric medication. They then took a computerized neuropsychological battery and were observed in a video game simulation of firearms performance. Data were examined for relationships among measures of test−retest stability over 1 month, and models were constructed to predict performance. Results showed that most aspects of firearms performance were found to be a reasonably stable construct with good relationships to established neuropsychological measures. When predicting who would perform more poorly on the firearms simulations, performance on the neuropsychological battery was a significant predictor. Being on psychiatric medication had a small but significant effect on one aspect of firearms performance. This study provides a first step in providing a more objective means of guiding medical recommendations about firearms.


This study examined the effects of birth order on interpersonal trust and sex role orientation among firstborn and only children in late adolescence. The following hypotheses were posed: (1) only children will demonstrate higher degrees of interpersonal trust than firstborn children; (2) only children will show higher degrees of androgyny than firstborns; and (3) female only children will show higher degrees of androgyny than male only children. A demographics questionnaire, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and the Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale were administered to 128 undergraduate students. The hypothesis that female only children are more androgynous than male only children received significant statistical support. The hypothesis that only children are more androgynous than firstborn children was not supported. Additionally, female only children approached significance on being more androgynous than female firstborns. The hypothesis that only children are more trusting than firstborn children did not receive any statistical support. Birth order effects do appear to exist, but in conjunction with gender effects. Female only children were the only group found to vary significantly from other groups on sex role orientation. This group warrants iurther investigation, especially in terms of their stereotypic feminine behaviors. These women differed significantly because they had high femininity scores, while the other three groups did not. Gender research may need to focus more on the predictive power of stereotypic feminine behavior on personality. (LLL) **********************************************a************************ Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************


The main objective of this paper is to develop improved methods of evaluating a firm's resources and competencies. A secondary objective is to show how academics and industrialists can tackle difficult problems and produce knowledge that can improve the way such problems are tackled.


This paper discusses the hermeneutical perspective of the prohibition for women to become leaders hadith narrated by Abu Bakrah. The factor that became the background of this study is that there are still many people who understand that women are the second creature, namely "konco wingking". So, they are not deserve to be a leader for people. One of the normative bases is the hadith narrated by Abu Bakrah. The textual-literal understanding of the hadith has implications for the role of women in the public sphere so that there needs to be someone who can answer and place women to their proper degree. This study uses a qualitative method with Schleiermacher hermeneutics approach.The results of this research are the Hadith about the ban on women becoming leaders who narrated by Abu Bakrah through grammatical hermeneutics and psychological perspective cannot be applied in General. Thus, there are no restrictions for women today to be a leader for the people because they currently have a different social background when the Hadith it comes.


A patient with persistent external pancreatic fistula following blunt trauma to the abdomen was studied by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography,showing obstruction of the main pancreatic duct at the area of oancreatic head.Thus the fistula would be persistent; and this helped the surgeon to decide upon surgical intervention for correction.


The article deals with topical issues in the sphere of delivery contracts with retails. The author makes conclusions based on the conducted analysis of regulations, litigation, commercial practices, in particular on the example of legal delivery contracts with retail chains.


This paper stands on the perspective of smart grid and smart electricity needs, presenting the concept of distributed power, making depth study on two levels of "Plug and Play" device information exchange and "Plug and Play" management technology after that. Firstly, the paper presents status of research studies at home and abroad. On this basis, for different forms of distributed power access, the paper proposes two different types of distributed power "plug and play" solutions, makes system development, and finally shows the system.


The importance of temporal artery biopsy In the developed world, GCA is the most common inflam-matory vasculitis and may cause major morbidities, of which blindness is the most feared. Early diagnosis via temporal artery biopsy (TAB) and glucocorticoid treatment are still gold standard recommendations [1], but several issues may complicate this in real-life practice. First, TAB may be falsely negative due to skip lesions or inadequate material, truly negative in non-cranial large-vessel vascu-litis (LVV) [2] or simply refused by the patient. Secondly, prior glucocorticoid exposure will influence the histo-logical findings. This is particularly relevant in cases of proven and treated GCA with a suspected relapse. The development of non-invasive imaging techniques such as ultrasonography, MRI and PET has generated a large amount of data but has not eliminated the need for TAB, despite initial enthusiasm that it would [3]. However, as adjunct investigations in cases of high pre-test probability but negative TAB, all or one of these diagnostic techniques may be very informative. Although high-resolution MRI and colour-coded duplex sonography (CCDS) compare well in terms of sensitivity and specificity [4], neither has been prospectively compared with TAB [1]. Although it is clear that mural inflammatory changes resolve under glucocorticoid therapy, the extent and timing of this resolution varies. In classic cases of GCA, glucocorticoid treatment should commence immediately and a biopsy should be performed as soon as possible, ideally within 1–2 weeks [5]. However, biopsies may still remain positive up to 6 weeks after glucocorticoid exposure [6, 7]. We are also unclear how quickly glucocorticoid exposure eliminates MRI and CCDS signs, with some authors suggesting that there is no change for at least 1 week and that they can persist for up to 2 months after treatment begins [3, 8]. In this edition of Rheumatology, Hauenstein et al.'s retrospective study assesses the impact of prior gluco-corticoid treatment on the ability of high-resolution MRI and CCDS to demonstrate mural inflammation of the cra-nial arteries in GCA. They found that within just a few days, the ability of both techniques to detect mural inflammation is markedly reduced [9]. Using ACR criteria, Hauenstein et al. identified 59 patients with possible GCA who had undergone both CCDS and MRI within 10 days of diagnosis. All patients had received glucocorticoids for <2 weeks. In the initial study population of 59 patients suspected of having GCA, the final diagnosis was only reached by the rheumatologist at …


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Twenty-five years have passed since a teaching technique, called shadowing, was introduced in Japanese EFL contexts. Recently, this technique has gradually been recognized around the world. Given that many studies have been published about shadowing, the time is ripe to summarize the results of the studies and to propose how shadowing should be used. This article introduces shadowing, first referring to theoretical explanations provided so far, especially in terms of attention, cognitive process, and listening process.The article then summarizes past studies on the effects of shadowing on listening and speaking. Next, it discusses challenges in research and also introduces shadowing variations for further use of shadowing. As a classroom teaching tool, this article suggests that beginner level learners should start from shadowing for listening and proceed to shadowing for speaking.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the ability of early urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin to predict postoperative complications in adult patients with ventricular dysfunction undergoing cardiac surgery.

DESIGN
Prospective observational study.

SETTING
Single-center study, university hospital.

PARTICIPANTS
Fifty-six adult high-risk cardiac surgical patients with preoperative cardiac failure.

INTERVENTIONS
None.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS
Demographic and clinical characteristics were obtained, and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin was measured at baseline and at several time points after surgery. Patient characteristics and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels were related to renal and patient outcome. On multivariate analyses, preoperative urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin was an independent predictor of length of intensive care stay (p = 0.004) and in-hospital stay (p = 0.04), but not of acute kidney injury or renal replacement therapy and was not associated with baseline renal function.

CONCLUSIONS
In a cohort of high-risk cardiac surgery patients, preoperative urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin value provided prognostic information that was independent of the onset of acute kidney injury or of preoperative renal function.


In this paper, the usual soft switching style of inverter and the basic principle are in retrospect. The phase shift controlling PWM full bridge converter of ZVS,ZVZCS and ZCS and the application in the arc welding inverter are introduced. The main circuit of soft switching inverter is analyzed and discussed. The futural development of soft swithing arc welding inverter is discussed.


PurposeThis paper aims to provide insight into communication strategies that may enable service ecosystem actors to co-create economic, social and/or environmental value.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve this end, the authors rely upon the literature on value propositions, which represent strategic tools for communicating about the value package (i.e. the benefits that actors can offer to one another along with its costs). This literature stream – in combination with the communication literature – allows the authors to unravel five dilemmas that service ecosystem actors face when communicating about the value package with one another.FindingsTo co-create value in service ecosystems with the help of value propositions, actors need to reflect upon (1) whether to involve third parties when sending messages about their value package (cf. sender), (2) what information to share about their value package (cf. message), (3) whether to invest resources in face-to-face communication when conveying messages about the value package (cf. channel), (4) whether to reach out to a broad audience with value package messages (cf. receiver) and (5) whether to engage in institutional work through communication in response to various interpretations of messages about the value package (cf. effect).Originality/valueThis research advances the literature on value co-creation in service ecosystems by relying upon communication theory to unravel the dilemmas that come along with using and/or creating value propositions as strategic tools for communication.


Porous medium was added to the central area of a conventional scale Swiss-roll combustor,and an experiment research was conducted.The starting process of the combustor under different conditions and its lean flammability characteristics were analyzed by monitoring the combustor's temperature development and the transformation of the combustion products.The experimental results show that,ignition at the central area takes a shorter time for complete combustion compared with that at the entering point and the temperature distribution of the porous media is more uniform;the porous media properties and that the pre-mixed gas flow rate have great influence on the startup characteristics.Furthermore,when the temperature of the combustor center is between 950 K and 1 200 K,it can burn 1.3% natural gas/air premixed gas,indicating that porous medium built-in Swiss-roll combustor can expand the fuel's lean flammability,and is well applicable to low-calorific gases.


The earliest writers report the finding of a spindle shaped bacillus and note only its oxygen requirements, the production of a foul odor and slight pathogenicity. Weaver and Tunnicliff' in 1905 isolated a fusiform bacillus in pure culture but confined themselves to a study of its morphology and pathogenicity. In 1912, in association with Krumwiede"2 I studied fifteen strains from noma, gangrene and various mouth conditions. We found no constant differences in morphology among our strains, and that the only definite basis for grouping was the ability of some to ferment sucrose, a difference which had no relation to the source of the strain. Klimenko" in 1914 studied several strains but gave no cultural or immunological details. He found that his cultures had a slight pathogenicity, which he believe grew less as the strain aged.. Dick and Emge4 in 1914 isolated a fusiform bacillus from a brain abscess shortly before the death of the patient. They gave no cultural characteristics, but found they could produce a paralysis and chronic convulsions when the freshly isolated culture was injected into the meninges of a rabbit. Some time later they repeated the experiment with negative results. Mellon in 1919 isolated a fusiform bacillus from a case of pyemia. His report dealt merely with morphology. In 1923 Tunnicliff reported the cultural reactions of one strain. She stated that this strain required body fluid for growth, though small amounts sufficed, and that it fermented dextrose, lactose, salicin, inulin, but not maltose or sucrose. Knorr 7 in 1922 isolated several strains which he thought fell into two morphological groups but gave no details of cultivation. Varney 8 in 1927 isolated eighteen strains, classifying them into four groups, based on morphology and agglutination reactions. There was no correlation between these groups and the source of the cultures.


Introduction Developing a seamless real-world learning setting using open learning and video in primary maths education Ideally, learning should be a seamless flow across context (Wong & Looi, 2011) and therefore be possible anywhere and anytime in many different scenarios (Ally et al., 2014). Nevertheless, "seamless learning" is much more than just using (mobile) technologies to assist and enhance learning. It could also be described as a learner's frame of mind that should not be taken for granted (Chan et al., 2006; Wong & Looi, 2011). Nevertheless there is not much related work available in our particular area, so we have to emphasize that the combination of the seamless learning concept with mathematics in a real-world study is novel. In a very recent work Schmitz et al. (2015) report about a mobile game application where children play an active role in the simulation of a dynamic process and followed also a design-based research approach and demonstrated that mobile game-based learning environments can productively support seamless learning activities for children, although they also reported --and that is in line to our experience--that the approach to seamless learning design is difficult to achieve; nevertheless they emphasize also that it can help us to bridge the gap between learning both in physical and digital worlds. Moreover, Munoz-Cristobal et al. (2014) emphasize that most previous projects have limited support to the connection of learning activities across spaces, which can be exemplified fundamentally by the flow of artefacts between activities conducted in different spaces, which is similar to our approach. Guided by design-based research and the notion of seamless learning, Sollervall et al. (2012) have designed a learning activity in mathematics with mobile computer support of transitions between different learning contexts. A different approach in medical education was implemented by Bloice et al. (2014). Although this contribution focuses on the evaluation and investigation of our new learning setting, its development itself was a first important step. In contrary to traditional research-questions driven investigation on a theoretical base, a "design-based research" approach is a means to develop an educational setting that fits to a specific "real world" challenge using existing theoretical and empirical knowledge (Brown, 1992; Collins, 1992). "The ultimate goal of design-based research to build a stronger connection between educational research and real-world problems' (Amiel & Reeves 2008, p. 34, see Figure 1) [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Building on this approach we analysed the practical challenges of an Austrian math teacher in elementary school, when (s)he wants to implement a seamless real-world learning setting with elementary learners. To initiate seamless learning an open learning approach as well as an individual usage of mobile devices is central. Pragmatically, our possibility to implement and analyse a variation of the traditional learning setting was limited: It had to build on the curriculum and the covered topics in the textbook, it had to be limited to a set of lessons in one discipline and it had to address the prior learning and teaching experiences and equipment of pupils as well as teachers. Our discussions lead to the idea to develop an open learning setting with worked example video podcasts on the topic "circle." "Open education" practice means that learners are permitted and motivated to select learning paths and learning references according to their personal needs and interests inside the classroom. There is a large variety of approaches of open education practices. The "openness" of such settings refers to the possibility to choose certain learning activities and even sometimes learning goals by the learner. Such learning is also known as self-regulated learning and gained attention in the realm of educational research (Wang, 2011; Kauffman, 2004). …


Abstract : Key attributes of skilled mass handling were identified through an examination of lessons learned by the extravehicular activity operational community. These qualities were translated into measurable quantities. The operational validity of the ground-based investigation was improved by building a device that increased the degrees of freedom of extravehicular mobility unit motion on the Precision Air-Bearing Floor. The results revealed subtle patterns of interaction between motions of an orbital replacement unit mockup and mass handler that should be important for effective performance on orbit. The investigation also demonstrated that such patterns can be measured with a variety of common instruments and under imperfect conditions of observation.


The paper argues, first, that the range of problems confronting humanity constitutes a global emergency; next, that this cannot be addressed by moral exhortation but by the building of 'arks'; finally, that community, cultivation of the virtues, and place may be considered key aspects of such ark building.


We present a continuum theory of frustration‐limited clusters in one‐component glass‐forming liquids that accounts, in part, for the recently reported [Fischer et al., J. Non‐Cryst. Solids, 131–133, 134 (1991)], and quite unexpected, presence in simple glass‐forming liquids of stable clusters at low temperatures (T) and the even less expected persistence for very long times of these clusters at higher T's. The model is based on the idea that there is a local structure that is energetically preferred over simple crystalline packing, which is strained (frustrated) over large distances; although in a curved space the preferred packing could lead to ''ideal'' crystallization at temperatures that are usually above the actual freezing temperature, in ''flat'' space this transition is narrowly avoided. We are led to a new ansatz for the T dependence of the viscosity, which permits us to collapse data for many liquids onto a universal curve.


This study aims to describe character education through technology-based which is carried out in Islamic schools, namely in the form of extracurriculars at MAN 1 Darussalam Ciamis and digital literacy which is included in the curriculum at Al-Azhar Islamic High School 5 Cirebon.  This research was conducted in April-May 2022, with the subject of research by the Vice Principal of the Curriculum section and students. The method used is a descriptive method using a qualitative approach. Data collection used several guidelines including interview guidelines, documentation studies, and observations. The results of the research at MAN 1 Darussalam Ciamis showed that: (1) Robotics extracurricular activities are carried out every Thursday at 15.00-end; (2) Activities are carried out at the Robotics Lab, Integrated Religious Laboratory Building; (3) Activities are carried out with the supervision of a teacher and coach; (4) Material taught in robotics extracurricular activities includes material training and work programs. The results of research at Al-Azhar Islamic High School 5 Cirebon show that: (1) Digital literacy activities are included in the school curriculum; (2) Digital literacy activities are carried out in the School Mosque Hall; (3) The activity is attended by all students of class X, XI and XII every Friday at 07.00-08.00 WIB; (4) Digital literacy activities are carried out with the supervision of the Vice Principal of the Curriculum Section and several teachers; (5) The material taught includes training on various digital applications that are useful in learning, and work programs.


Rewards in games are among the essential features to attract players to engage with the game. Prominent scholars claimed that rewards have positive influences to game engagement.  Despite the importance of rewards in digital games, none of the existing Malaysian digital traditional games incorporated rewards in the games.  Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate the influence of rewards on digital games engagement which focusing on perceptions, competence, and sensory and imaginative immersion on one of the Malaysian digital traditional games, Congkak.  The existing Congkak has been enhanced by incorporating rewards.  Fifty respondents among the millennials were involved in the experiment to measure the influence of rewards using Game Experience Questionnaire (GEQ).  Findings revealed that all constructs tested demonstrate positive influence of rewards on game engagement.  The findings serve as a guideline to game developers to improve the games in order to foster better engagement of Malaysian digital traditional games.


A Stirling engine has cylinders with closed upper ends and open lower ends. The cylinders are plunged out of phase into tanks of fluids at different temperatures. A connecting tube extends through the tanks and upward through the fluids into the cylinders to allow a working gas to be displaced between cylinders through the connecting tube. The connecting tube transfixes and mounts seals disposed within the cylinders and in the fluids. The seals may have a slight clearance between themselves and the cylinders as the fluids have a higher viscosity and inertia than the working gas to provide an effective seal while the engine is operating to displace, compress, and expand the working gas in a Stirling cycle. The fluids transfer and remove heat from the working gas through the connecting tubes, the cylinders, and direct fluid contact. If the seals are disks, have portions of their edges rounded, or are sections of a sphere, no crossheads are required for some configurations of this engine.


The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) held its 1992 mid‐year meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 28–30 May. The theme of the meeting was 'Networks, Telecommunications and the Networked Information Resource Revolution'. The technical program committee consisted of Clifford A. Lynch, Michael Buckland, Cecilia Preston, Janet Vratney‐Watts and Nancy Gusack.


) is not linear inthe variable , and that it is not even convex (it is only level-convex), whereasthe classical theory of optimal transportation usually deals with linear costs. Inparticular, our study for the existence of a transport map does not rely on the useof duality or existence of a potential (a study of these last questions is still to bedone).Bibliographie[1] G. Arronsson, M.G. Crandall and P. Juutinen, A tour of the theory of absolutelyminimizing functions, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), 41, (2004), no. 4, 439{505.[2] T. Champion, L. De Pascale and P. Juutinen, The W


The relative yields of azoxy- and azo-type products in the reactions of aryliminodimagnesium [ArN(MgBr)2 (IDMg)] with nitrobenzene were greatly affected by changes in the molar concentration in tetrahydrofuran, addition of hexamethylphosphoramide to the reagent solution and the structures of mono- and bis-IDMg reagents. All the modes of variation of the product distribution, including extreme cases, were roughly but systematically related to a series of qualitative degrees of aggregation of IDMg. The role of aggregation is ascribed to the assistance of excess reagent molecules in the product formation process in the reaction. From the present and previous results and discussion on the reactions of IDMg and RMgBr, the IDMg aggregation is concluded to be an essential modification factor for useful reactions of the NMg (and also CMg) reagents having a suitable efficiency of single electron transfer.


ABSTRACT Smoked-chicken Samples (36) were collected from 3 sites of smoking processes in Lomé and analyzed by conventional methods. Changes in the proximal composition and microbial germs load of chicken meat after smoking were significant (p < .05). Smoked chicken had good hygienic quality in compliance with regulations and variable water, protein, fat, and mineral contents. Their water activity (0.967 ± 0.011) indicated a highly perishable product with low storability. Low levels of total phenols suggested a light smoking product while Polycyclic Aromatics Hydrocarbons content (> maximum level allowed) pose a health risk. Smoked chickens overall acceptability was over 6 on a 9-point scale, but the seasoned and pre-cooked ones had the highest water loss rates and obtained the highest preference scores. Attributes "not tender enough," "not spicy enough," and "not salty enough" reduced the preference score by 1 to 2 points and should be considered in an improvement step.


A series of Ni80Fe20/Cobalt oxide bilayers were prepared by a dual ion-beam deposition technique that produced a layer composition that varied from rock-salt CoO (a=4.27 Å) to spinel Co3O4 (a=8.21 Å) with increasing O2 content in the assist beam. Each polycrystalline layer (∼20 nm) exhibited a columnar structure perpendicular to the film surface. A strong temperature dependence of coercivity Hc and exchange bias field Hex was found in these Ni80Fe20/cobalt oxide bilayers. At T=10 K, films prepared with 34% O2 in the assist beam exhibited an exchange shift Hex∼-200 Oe that persisted at temperatures higher than 30 K. The variations in Hc and Hex as a function of %O2 are related to the interfacial roughness and magnetic state of CoO or Co3O4. The transition temperature of Co3O4 has increased above the bulk value via exchange coupling with the permalloy.


Bevel gear tooth broken happens frequently in the using of three-claw chuck.This phenomenon was analyzed by means of heat treatment test,performance test,chemical composition analysis and steel structure examination on two bevel gears made of 45 # and 40C r steel rspectively.The cause for tooth broken has been tgund.Based on the result of the study,an effective heat treating plan in order to prolong the service life of three-claw chuck was recommended.


The LHCb experiment pioneered fixed-target physics with LHC beams, thanks to the SMOG internal gas target. Collisions of proton and heavy-ion beams on targets with different nuclear size can be recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of √ sNN ∼ 100 GeV. This note summarizes the physics opportunities offered by the current fixed-target setup and its upgrade envisaged for the LHC Run 3. Unique measurements are being performed with Run 2 data, covering in particular heavy flavour production in nuclear collisions over a wide Feynman-x range and light particle production of particular interest to cosmic ray physics. The increase in luminosity and extension of the choice of target material, which are being pursued for Run 3, open many new possibilities which are reviewed in this document. c © 2019 CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration. CC-BY-4.0 licence.


Twitter has become one of the most significant resources for text mining. Twitter can provide information    about human activities, mobility, and emotional patterns along with location data. Many types of text research can be made with these data, one of which is sentiment analysis. This study evaluates the potential of deriving emotional responses of individuals from tweets while they experience and interact with urban green space. A machine learning model using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and corpus from over 2000 movie reviews has been made. This model is used to classify incoming tweets into positive and negative sentiments. Then the web-based recommender system has been built to provide suggestions for green spaces based on users' preferred activities.


In this paper, we consider a class of approximate controllability of stochastic functional differential inclusions of Sobolev type with unbounded delay in Hilbert spaces. Using the semigroup theory and fixed point theorem, a set of sufficient conditions is obtained for the required result of approximate controllability of stochastic functional differential inclusions of Sobolev type with unbounded delay. Finally, an example is provided to illustrate the obtained result.


Wednesday 2 January On New Year's Eve I saw Gielgud's 'Hamlet' at the New Theatre. (Lilian, Ida and Rosemary, in all the glory of her first long evening dress, and I taxied down to Kettners for dinner, on to the theatre – R's first Hamlet – and taxied home through streets pleasantly riotous with New Year's Eve revellers.) Gielgud, I thought, was better than when I saw his first Hamlet some four years ago, but is not wholly satisfactory. The cuts were few – a good deal of the political explanation went from Scene 1 but Fortinbras was retained and given his proper value in the last scene: there was an odd inexplicable cut in the play scene, Hamlet's renaissance mouthing of his quatrain being omitted – and the play was taken straight through with but one short interval. The Ophelia of Jessica Tandy was disappointing. She conveyed excellently the toppled brain in the mad scene, but with her slight physique and thin voice she did not convince one that Hamlet had ever had any amorous feeling for her, and there was no contrast between Ophelia sane and Ophelia mad. She used no flowers – this was no innovation, but in view of the description of her death it still seems to me that Shakespeare meant actual flowers to be borne. Hamlet followed the tradition of no portraits in the closet scene. The real weakness of Gielgud was that he never conveyed the bantering side of Hamlet's character – in the recorder speech he worked himself into a great and ranting rage, but to my mind Hamlet is quiet throughout, and his sudden turn on the two who would pluck the heart from his mystery was surely quiet – banteringly – whimsically – contemptuously. Frank Vosper as Claudius was excellent. […] The setting was a series of Tudor pictures which were so good that they distracted the mind too much. One felt that Ophelia had been cast for her part as a decoration. The lack of noticeable breaks in the action for changes of scene was achieved by the use of round elevated towers with steps – giving the stage a Craigian look. 'Something too much of this!' I thought several times – an apron stage would have been better. The Gielgud method robbed the quieter scenes of intimacy. But it was a good Hamlet, despite my quirks.


During recent years there has been a trend in remote sensing to higher spatial resolution. The 79 m pixel size of the Landsat MSS was followed by the 30 m pixel size of Landsat TM, and in late 1985 the French SPOT satellite will be collecting panchromatic data with a pixel size of 10 m. There have been other satellite systems which produce data of a high spatial resolution, such as Seasat, the Shuttle Imaging Radars, ESA's Metric Camera and NASA's Large Format Camera. These high spatial resolution systems have provided great spatial detail and large volumes of information, but on the whole users have only been able to analyse small sections of these data. The progression to higher spatial resolution is partly a desire to see everything in a landscape, but often this desire is neither practical


The invention relates to the field of communication and provides an infrared proximity detector self-calibration method and device. The method includes the following steps of reading present static detection data of an infrared proximity detector, rectifying a proximity threshold value and a departure threshold value of the infrared proximity detector according to the present static detection data, and detecting reflected infrared intensity by the infrared proximity detector when self-calibration requirements of the present static detection data are met, wherein the self-calibration requirements include the facts that the infrared proximity detector is not used by other applications and no object is in a detection zone of the infrared proximity detector. Self-calibration of the infrared proximity detector is achieved by the infrared proximity detector self-calibration method and device.


This article describes an experimental program in educational administration offered at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. The program constitutes about 20% of the units in a Master of Arts program in the university's School of Education, and the rest of the curriculum divides about equally between Judaica courses and other education courses. The experiment took place during the 1994-1995 academic year and was the result of a certain degree of dissatisfaction experienced by students and by education committees of synagogues and temples who hire the graduates for educational director positions. The bulk of this article is made up of the description of the implementation of the experimental program, followed by a description of the evaluation of the experiment. In a way, this article offers a set of changes in a small leadership training program. The program and the changes serve as models for adjustment in small leadership preparation programs, particularly those that reside in small private universities. Selections of the pilot study are presented for the first time in this article.


Ameloblastoma is a benign odontogenic tumor. It is locally invasive and unlimited growth capacity, with a propensity for recurrence if not entirely excised. The therapeutic challenge in this type of tumors is to have an adequate resection with a wide margin of normal tissue but also a functional and aesthetically acceptable reconstruction of the residual defect. The role of radiotherapy is currently demonstrated in inoperable cases. We are reporting a case of a 45 years-old male patient with large ameloblastoma of the mandible recurrent 10 years after surgical resection. The patient benefited from exclusive radiotherapy at a dose of 60 Gy.


More than two decades after the fall of apartheid, South Africa remains a land of contrasts. According to 2012's "Reconciliation Barometer", almost half of South Africans seldom communicate with individuals from racial groups other than their own. Enduring prejudice across race, class and gender divides complicates the process of reconciling groups that were segregated under apartheid law – and is therefore a critical matter.


The purpose of this study was to investigate whether education professionals' theories-in-use were congruent with their espoused theories (Argyris & Schon, 1974) regarding the inclusion of parents as team decision-making partners in the initial special education eligibility meeting of individualized education programming (IEP) teams. Particular attention was given to procedural practices education professionals used to include parents as decision-making partners and their descriptions of this practice. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates the inclusion of parents as members of IEP teams, including their right to participate in the special education eligibility decision. Research supports the inclusion of parents as essential members of IEP teams, and their active participation is reported as pivotal for their children's positive educational and social outcomes. Local education agency (LEA) representatives, special education teachers, and school psychologists are responsible for including parents in eligibility decision-making; thus they were the focus of this study. A total of 24 education professionals in eight schools from three Southeastern school districts constituted the research participants. Participants were observed in initial eligibility meetings and responded to a questionnaire and interview questions with descriptions of their procedural practices. Findings showed that education professionals' described practices were more aligned to federal requirements than were their actual practices. Findings also showed that a subgroup of participants, LEA representatives, had limited knowledge of special education procedures.


In this study, a gear shifting mechanism was designed and applied to make the shifting process faster and less destructible for the driver. The new device must be reliable, has a small dimensions, low construction and maintenance cost. This paper aims to improve gear shifting process using devices as: a manual four speed gear box, four pneumatic double acting cylinders, four pneumatic two position five ways directional control valves, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) LOGO unit, an electrical motor, an electrical clutch, a belt, two pulleys, limit switches, push buttons, bulbs, a table (holder) and power supply. According to suggested gear_ shifting method the driver can select the transmission gear ratio without moving his hands from the steering wheel by putting the gear shifting push buttons on the steering wheel. Using this method leaves to the driver the excitement of choosing the shifting moment.


X- ray diffraction calculates the Bragg's angle. the formula is very complex , it is quite difficult to educe the Bragg's angle accurately. It utilizes the relation of X-ray diffraction's figure and crystal structure,then it uses C-Language to design a procedure ,it can not only economize the time, but also educe the conclusion briefly and exactly.


A series of novel polyesters containing conjugated diacetylenes (DA-polyesters) were prepared from various diacetylene diols with/without methyl side groups and isomers of aromatic acid chlorides via an interfacial condensation. A fully aliphatic DA-polyester was also prepared for comparison. All synthesised DA-polyesters are soluble in m-cresol, and the intrinsic viscosities were measured. In addition, compact and coherent films and sheets can be obtained from some of the polymers via solution or melt casting. The structure, morphology, and properties were characterized using spectroscopic methods, including FTIR, Raman, and WAXD and thermal analysis including TGA, DSC techniques. DMA was carried out on the solution-cast thin films and melt-processed samples. Close correlation was found between the structure and properties in these DA-polyesters. In particular, through analysis using isothermal DSC and Raman spectroscopy, the solid-state reactivity of the diacetylene groups in these polyesters was found related to the interchain spacings, which are, in turn, controlled by the molecular structure of the polymers. Results have shown that the aliphatic DA-polyester behaves very differently compared to the aromatic ones. Distinct differences were also observed among meta- and para-disubstituted isomers of the DA-polyesters. Furthermore, the introduction of methyl side groups has dramatically affected the thermal and thermal mechanical behavior by altering the interchain spacing of the polymers. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 37: 965–974, 1999


The analysis of loadings of elastic elements of designs with occurrence of free fluctuations is given at cyclic modes of loading. The ways of decrease(reduction) of dynamics of loadings and settlement pressure determined at elastic fluctuations of system.


Hormones and surgery are the mainstay of treatments available routinely for transsexual patients in the UK. The condition and approach to it by mental health professionals are explored within the paper by the author who has run a specialist psychotherapy service for patients with gender dysphoria for eight years at The Portman Clinic in London. In the paper he describes the challenges posed by the therapist in treating these patients and important factors in the treatment to enable psychotherapy to be a useful treatment option. He details some of his experience of treating transsexual patients within a homogenous outpatient slow-open group analytic psychotherapy group.


A 17-year-old male presented with spontaneous left neck pain and ipsilateral involuntary arm movements. Examination revealed left facial hypoesthesia, right-sided pyramidal signs, and proprioceptive loss in the left arm with pseudoathetosis (video). Cervical-spinal imaging suggested acute hemorrhage at the cervicomedullary junction (figure, A and B). The patient improved over …


Abstract Portuguese post-medieval archaeology corresponds to the period between the early 16th century and the late 18th century, identified in the archaeological record through several distinct artefact categories, of which ceramics are the most abundant. New products such as thin-walled moulded coarsewares and faience are found together with imports from different European countries, China and other Eastern lands. Although sites and finds are mentioned in Portuguese archaeological and art-historical literature from the late 19th century, it only became a scientific discipline in the 1980s. This paper aims to provide a general view of investigations in post-medieval archaeology for more than a century, focusing on contexts and finds, but also looking towards the discipline's future.


The expectation of society from male individuals is to keep presence in public spheres and consistently sustain rationality. Expectation from female individuals is, however, to be emotional-weak, and to build their lives on their house, spouse and children. In such a context, women continue their lives with a work-or-home dilemma. Although it seems that women make progress in moving towards management in many professional fields, there is no evidence of such progress in the field of education. This research presents the problems that female administrators working in the field of education in Tokat and Samsun provinces stemming from their being female. Of the qualitative research methods, semi-structured interview technique was used in the study – in which ten female administrators participated. As a result of the study, it was concluded that women cannot be represented in management positions sufficiently enough due to the social perception, the roles ascribed to them by society, and their responsibilities and duties within the family. Further, women were found not be very eager to become administrators because of obstacles they put themselves. Female administrators participating in the study reported that they encountered some problems in management of educational institutions because of the reasons stated above.

 Key words: Women, female administrators, school administrators in Tokat and Samsun.


Self-crosslinkable acrylic cathodic electrodeposition paint resins modified by organosilicon have been prepared using free polymerization method. In this paper, many effects on the dispersion storage stability, the particle size and distribution of dispersion and the crosslinking degree of the resins are discussed. The experimental results show that using the batch processes, when the polymerization temperature was at 85 ℃, the acrylic resins aqueous dispersion modified by organosilicon is stable and the particle size of the dispersion is minimal. The crosslinking degree of the resins could be improved greatly with incorporation of functional monomers. The organosilicon is copolymerized with acrylic monomers and greatly improved water and chemicals resistance of the films compared with the film based on the pure acrylate coatings.