Rare earth oxide doped molybdenum powders were prepared by the reduction of rare earth nitrites doped MoO_3. The effect of rare earth oxide on the reduction behavior of molybdenum oxide had been studied by means of Temperature Programmed Reduction (TPR), thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction. Doping rare earth oxide in the powder could lower the reduction temperature of molybdenum oxide and decrease the particle size of molybdenum. The mechanism for the effects had been discussed in this paper.


A synchronous reluctance motor (100) comprises: a shaft (23); a rotor core (21) fixed to the shaft (23), and having a plurality of flux barriers formed therein; a stator core (11) having a plurality of protruding stator teeth formed therein; and a multiphase armature winding (15) wound around the plurality of the stator teeth (12). The flux barriers include: a plurality of first flux barriers (41) formed spaced apart in the circumferential direction, and extending in the radial direction; and a plurality of second flux barriers (31) formed mutually spaced apart in the circumferential direction, and having a curved surface protruding toward the center of the rotary shaft in each circumferentially angular region sandwiched by the first flux barriers (41).


e13006Background: Approximately 20% of breast cancers are HER2-positive. Trastuzumab has improved patient outcomes significantly for these cancers. However, acquired resistance occurs in almost all...


We have analyzed the behavior of the correlation length r0 as a function of the sample depth by extracting from the CfA2 redshift survey volume-limited samples out to increasing distances. For a fractal distribution, the value of r0 would increase with the volume occupied by the sample. We find no linear increase for the CfA2 samples of the sort that would be expected if the universe preserved its small-scale fractal character out to the distances considered (60-100 h-1 Mpc). The results instead show a roughly constant value for r0 as a function of the size of the sample, with small fluctuations due to local inhomogeneities and luminosity segregation. Thus, the fractal picture can safely be discarded.


For the first time, an ultra-high-sensitivity method for measuring radio-thermal radiation was developed and used in practice in order to establish the difference in the physical properties of aqueous solutions of substances in the millimeter region of the spectrum. The method is used to study the dynamics of the dielectric properties of aqueous solutions depending on the composition of the base substance and its concentration. The dynamics of dielectric properties establishes a one-to-one correspondence between the number and concentration of ions of the dissolved basic substance contained in water and the number of water molecules involved in cooperative interaction, which gives a consistent microscopic picture of ion-water cooperative interactions in the studied aqueous solutions of K2SO4 and Cs2SO4. The density of water molecules perturbed by the ions of the base substance contained in the hydration shell at normal concentrations is proportional to the number of ions, while the transition to weaker solutions leads to the creation of multilayer hydration shells. This means that the number of perturbed water molecules, depending on the number of ions, increases according to a law different from linear. In accordance with the experimental data, the values of the absorption coefficients of aqueous solutions were determined in a wide range of concentrations for alkali metal sulfates. It is noted that alkali metal sulfates have physical properties that generalize the dynamics of dielectric constants depending on the concentration of the base substance. A monotonic increase in the values of the absorption coefficients of solutions with a decrease in the concentration of basic substances in the region of high dilutions was established with individual dynamics for each basic substance, reflecting the total hydration changes in salt solutions. Research has shown that the proposed method for measuring radio-thermal radiation fixes a significant difference in the values of the dielectric constants of aqueous solutions at high dilutions from their values for water.


This study provides descriptive statistics demonstrating the differences among metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore counties for a range of measures. We used the population-weighted average of the estimates to provide national, U


(c) H' is not Riemann integrable on any closed interval [a, b], for assume that it is. Then H' is continuous a.e. on [a, b]. But it is clear that H'(t) = 0 if H' is continuous at t ,and so H' = 0 a.e. on [a, b]. It follows from (b) that H is a constant on [a, b]-a palpable contradiction. (d) H ' is of Baire class one, being the pointwise limit of the continuous functions H,(x) = n[H(x + lln)-H(x)] ,and so the set of points at which H' is continuous is residual; i.e., its complement is of first category. (e) WriteA = {x: Hf(x) > O) a n d B = {x: H1(x) < O). Thus A n I and B n I both have positive Lebesgue measure for every interval I. In fact, assuming that there exists some interval I = [a, b] such that B n I has measure zero, it follows that H' 2 0 a.e. on I. Therefore, since for all x E I , we conclude that H is nondecreasing on I-a contradiction. Similarly, if A n I had measure zero, then H would be nonincreasing on I. 1. Introduction. Is mathematical truth time-dependent? Our immediate impulse is to answer no. To be sure, we acknowledge that standards of truth in the natural sciences have undergone change; there was a Copernican revolution in astronomy, a Darwinian revolution in biology, an Einsteinian revolution in physics. But do scientific revolutions like these occur in mathematics? Mathematicians have most often answered this question as did the nineteenth-century mathematician Hermann Hankel, who said, "In most sciences, one generation tears down what another has builf, and what one has established, the next undoes. In mathematics alone, each generation builds a new story to the old structure." [20, p. 25.1 Hankel's view is not, however, completely valid. There have been several major upheavals in mathematics. For example, consider the axiomatization of' geometry in ancient Greece, which transformed mathematics from an experimental science into a wholly intellectual one. Again, consider the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries


Incorporating small amounts of biochar into cementitious materials has partial effects on the environment. In this present study, rice husk was collected as agricultural biomass from a local area of Roorkee Uttarakhand, which contains siliceous material to a significant extent. Biochar was prepared from agricultural waste in a muffle furnace at a temperature of 500 ℃ for 90 min and ground to a fineness of less than 10 µm. Prior to incorporation into building envelopes such as mortar and concrete, a basic study on cement pastes is essentially required. For this purpose, different dosages of biochar such as 0, 3%, 5% and 10% wt. were replaced with cement in cementitious materials. Physical properties such as water absorption, density and porosity were investigated. Furthermore, mechanical and thermal properties such as compressive strength and thermal conductivity were studied. Advanced tools like field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) were used to identify the hydration products. As the dosages increased in the cement matrix, the physical properties of sample were increased and porosity decreased. The compressive strength of biochar incorporated cement paste improved according to 0, 3%, 5% and 10% wt. It further reveals that as the dosage increased, the thermal conductivity of the samples decreased significantly. Moreover, the sustainable assessment showed that biochar could reduce embodied carbon, embodied energy and strength efficiency substantially over the control sample. A satisfactory result was obtained at 5% wt. and 10 % wt. of biochar. The overall result revealed that biochar up to 10% wt. can be incorporated into mortar and concrete due to better results than the control mix.


The ability to control temperature in semiconductor processing furnaces is critical to the manufacturing of semiconductor devices. In this paper, a fuzzy PI controller is described that takes into account some of the unique characteristics of such a furnace. Entries in the rule base are used to prevent integrator windup and a fuzzy gain scheduler allows the controller to be tuned once and used over the whole operating temperature range of the system. Substantial improvements are shown for settling times following both large and small step changes in reference setpoint.


Data suggest a relationship between sexual dysfunction, mainly erectile dysfunction in men, and worse disease progression in Parkinson's disease (PD). There is scant evidence on the correlates of sexual activity in PD patients. By involving a subgroup of 355 patients from the PRIAMO (Parkinson Disease Non Motor Symptoms) study, the present 24‐month longitudinal prospective analysis aims to demonstrate that the presence of active sexual life is associated with disease progression in early PD.


Narrative intelligence is fundamental for organizing experiences, understanding our surroundings, and forming predictions about the future [Schank, 1995]. Computational systems that leverage narrative intelligence benefit applications that involve stories including entertainment, education, skill training, and legal decision-making. AI planning research is a popular source of data structures and algorithms for understanding, generating, and reasoning about stories [Young et al., 2014]. Narratologists frequently distinguish the story (i.e. fabula) of narrative from the discourse [Chatman, 1980], and plans have proven useful for modeling both story and discourse [Young, 2007]; they are effective for modeling discourse because a coherent sequence of communicative actions is plan-like [Cohen and Perrault, 1979], and plans are effective for modeling stories because stories are composed of events with cause-effect relations with characters themselves forming plans to achieve goals. Psychological studies have demonstrated that plans capture many of the key aspects of narratives that spectators use to understand narrative discourse [Radvansky et al., 2014; Cardona-Rivera et al., 2016].


The ideality factor determined by measuring the open circuit voltage (VOC) as function of light intensity is often used as a means to identify the dominant recombination mechanism in solar cells. However, applying this Suns-VOC technique to perovskite cells is problematic since the VOC evolves with time in a way which depends on the previously applied bias (Vpre), the light intensity, and the device architecture/processing. Here we show that the dominant recombination mechanism in two structurally similar CH3NH3PbI3 devices containing either mesoporous Al2O3 or TiO2 layers can be identified from the signature of the transient ideality factor following application of a forward bias, Vpre, to the device in the dark. The transient ideality factor, is measured by monitoring the temporal evolution of VOC at different light intensities. The initial values of the transient ideality were consistent with corresponding photoluminescence vs intensity as well as electroluminescence vs current density measurements. Time-dependent simulations of the measurement on modelled devices, which include the effects of mobile ionic charge, show that Shockley Read Hall (SRH) recombination through deep traps at the charge collection interfaces is dominant in both devices. Using transient photovoltage measurements superimposed on the evolving VOC of bifacial devices we further show that the charge collection interface extends throughout the mesoporous TiO2 layer, consistent with a transient ideality signature corresponding to SRH recombination in the bulk of the film. This information could not be inferred from an ideality factor determined from only steady-state VOC values. The method we have developed will be useful for identifying performance bottlenecks in new variants of perovskite devices by comparison with the transient ideality signatures we have predicted for a range of possible recombination schemes.


Nowadays, there is a wide range of different methods available for the monitoring of pollen and allergens, but their relative efficiency is sometimes unclear, as conventional pollen monitoring does not thoroughly describe pollen allergenicity. This study aims to evaluate airborne pollen, allergen, and protein levels, associating them with meteorological and chemical parameters. The sampling was performed in Bologna (Italy) during the grass flowering period, with three different devices: a Cyclone sampler (CS), a Dicothomous sampler (DS), and a Berner impactor (BI). Total proteins were extracted from aerosol samples, and grass allergens Phl p 1 and Phl p 5 were quantified by ELISA. Airborne Poaceae pollen concentrations were also evaluated, using a Hirst-type trap. Proteins and allergens collected by CS resulted about ten times higher than those collected by the other two instruments, possibly due to their different cut-offs, while DS and BI results appeared consistent only for the total proteins collected in the fine fraction (1.3 vs. 1.6 μg/m3). Airborne proteins correlated neither with Poaceae pollen nor with its aeroallergens, while aeroallergens correlated with pollen only in the coarse particulate, indicating the presence of pollen-independent aeroallergens in the fine particulate, promoted by high wind speed.


In the United States, chemical risks are reappearing on the public agenda as a significant environmental law and policy challenge. This challenge is ever-increasing as global chemical production is set to expand significantly.2 As scientists research the toxicology and environmental fates of industrial chemicals, new data suggest that humans and wildlife worldwide are exposed to hundreds of chemicals, and that adverse health effects, including increases in adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes, appear to be on the rise across many populations.3 In response to this developing science and accompanying environmental advocacy campaigns, many consumers are becoming more aware of the possible risks embodied in the products they use—ranging from cosmetics to baby bottles, electronics to food packaging— and demanding safer substitutes. State governments are beginning to ban the use of a small set of individual chemicals, most notably phthalates, flame-retardants, and bisphenol-A (BPA), in products intended for use by children.


This paper presents a low cost, flexible and scalable Smart Home Automation System based on Arduino Technology and Wi-Fi connection, in addition, to apply specific techniques for the reduction of power consumption and load management. The system will be accessible anywhere, anytime for controlling and monitoring. This study relies on Arduino Technology and Node-MCU boards, the electrical appliances are connected to a cloud database that communicates with the user by an android application connected to the internet. A prototype for a specific house has been built, the proposed system is able to control all home electrical units and appliances like lighting, sockets, HVAC units, fire, gas and intruder siren systems, in addition, to monitor the real-time power consumption, the house PV system generation and the current room's temperature and humidity. Furthermore, the system is able to reduce power consumption using predefined algorithms.


As the next-generation display and communication platforms, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets have experienced significant booming due to the development of 5G networks and the increasing demands for working remotely. AR and VR can bring unprecedented experience for gaming, education, medical care and automotive display of their three-dimensional vision, immersive experience and interactive user are by leading companies like Meta, Microsoft, Magic Leap and Focals by North. the system form factor, the field of view and display


There is increasing evidence that exposure to toxic chemicals during the prenatal period constitute a higher health risk than exposure during adulthood. To characterize exposure and identify risk f ...


Unique cultural ecology environment endowed rich intangible cultural heritages in Cangzhou.However some problems still exist in the protection heritage such as heritage crisis,lack of culture,resource development bottleneck,etc.In view of cultural ecology the government should play a leading role in the implementation of the protection of intangible cultural heritage as a whole,through industries,popularization and museums to establish cultural ecology zones.


A 33-year-old female Peruvian patient presented with a 10-year history of secondary generalized seizures. Initial neuroimages showed brain lesions compatible with cysticercosis including an extensive subarachnoid lesion in the right temporo-parietal convexity and multiple intraparenchymal viable cysts and calcifications. She received a course of albendazole (ABZ) at 15 mg/kg/d, stopped at day 15 because of increased liver enzymes that returned to normal values after suspension of ABZ treatment. The subarachnoid lesion markedly decreased in size, and most parenchymal cysts resolved. After 1 year, a ventricle-peritoneal shunt was placed, and a second course of ABZ was needed because of re-growth of the subarachnoid lesion and persistence of four viable parenchymal cysts. All cysts resolved after a second course of anti-parasitic treatment. Neurocysticercosis is a frequent cause of seizures in most of the world. This case illustrates the effect of antiparasitic therapy to kill parasite cysts, the frequent need for successive courses of therapy, and the potential of subarachnoid lesions to grow and cause obstructive hydrocephalus. Even after successful anti-parasitic treatment, the remaining calcified scars persist, acting as foci of relapsing inflammation and seizures.


Despite its strengths, the development model for understanding the history of doctrine has certain inadequacies. It is proposed that the category of "reception" provides a more adequate reading of doctrinal history. Appropriating the reception hermeneutics of Hans Robert Jauss, this approach envisages the expression of doctrine and dogma in any age as part of the living reception of the living tradition. Such a reception-model highlights a certain dynamic evident in the history of doctrine that has implications for the interpretation of doctrine and dogma today.


Background: Fluoroscopy‐guided catheter placement is limited in its ability to determine electrode‐endocardial contact and involves radiation exposure. We hypothesized that (1) intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) would provide superior assessment of linear electrode contact compared to fluoroscopy and (2) slow temperature decay upon discontinuation of the radiofrequency current (time for temperature to fall 90% after a 10‐second test application of the radiofrequency current T90) would indicate optimal electrode‐myocardial contact.


The government of Indonesia has always been aware of the necessary role of education in the development and progress of the nation, so it included it in Article 31 of the 1945 Constitution. Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency, the population aged over ten years who were illiterate in 2017 amounted 4.08% of the total population aged over ten years. Predictive analytics is a method of analysis used to assess risk, and future business trends. The research is to find strategic points that can be utilized and used as references in implementing efforts to reduce illiteracy in Indonesia. The data for the research using secondary data from bps.go.id, namely data on the illiteracy rate for the 2011 – 2019 period. The predictions were made using the Artificial Neural Network Algorithm to produce an output accuracy of 69%.


High efficiency of resource allocation of the market is based on certain social conditions. The most important conditions include operable competition, good moral character, a sound market economy system and fair law. Government plays an important role in creating these conditions.


Intracellular trafficking regulates the distribution of transmembrane proteins including the key determinants of epithelial polarity and adhesion. The Adaptor Protein 1 (AP-1) complex is the key regulator of vesicle sorting, which binds a large number of specific cargos. We examined roles of the AP-1 complex in epithelial morphogenesis, using the Drosophila wing as a paradigm. We found that AP-1 knockdown leads to ectopic folds caused by trafficking defects of integrins. This occurs concurrently with an increase in the apical cell area and induction of cell death due to defects in E-cadherin trafficking. We discovered a distinct pool of AP-1 localizes at the apical Adherens Junctions, where it limits internalization of E-cadherin from the cell surface. Upon AP-1 knockdown, the accompanying hyperinternalization of E-cadherin induces cell death by an uncharacterised mechanism with a potential tumour-suppressive role. Simultaneously, cells increase expression of E-cadherin in a compensatory mechanism to maintain cell-cell adhesion.


As a meansof correcting for many potential interferences, polychromatic analysis offers an effective alternative to eithersample pretreatmentor separate blank determinations. Becauseof the differing spectral characteristics of each interfering species, and the nature of these interferences (static vs. kinetic), the application of polychromatic analysis must be optimized for each analytical procedure to minimize all residual errors. Overall assay precision can be maximized by proper use of flagging procedures (alsobased on polychromaticanalysis).By usinga second wavelengthmeasurement, the analyst can alsoverifythe accuracy ofan analytical measurement in selectedsituations. These applicationsofpolychromatic analysisare a departure from conventionalanalytical procedures inallowingforcorrectionof variousinterferences inthe actualreactionmixture,withoutmaking assumptions about the recovery ofanalyteduringpretreatment or the equivalent absorptivity of interferent in both blank and assay solutions.


JOPERD • Volume 81 No. 4 • April 2010 T he viability of gymnastics as a significant portion of the K-12 physical education curriculum seems to have decreased in recent years. Physical educators raise the specter of lawsuits, bemoan the lack of equipment, grumble about daily schedules that prevent appropriate set-up of apparatus, and express concern about the lack of teaching expertise in this program area. A review of national (AAHPERD), district, and statewide conference programming over the past few years confirms the reduced emphasis on gymnastics. At best, conference attendees may find one session devoted to gymnastics, as opposed to multiple sessions on games, dance, and fitness. These observations motivated the authors to write this article, with the hope that educational gymnastics, taught with appropriate content and methodology, will regain its rightful place as an essential contributor to the development of children's physical literacy and their "motivation, confidence, physical competence, understanding and knowledge to maintain physical activity...throughout life" (Whitehead & Murdoch, 2006, p. 6). Virtually all current physical education curriculum guides and textbooks include sections on learner outcomes based on the national standards for physical education (National Association for Sport and Physical Education [NASPE], 2004), which often refer to gymnastics skills. Standard one, for example, calls for demonstration of competency in motor skills and often refers specifically to gymnastics. Learning expectations for students in kindergarten through second grade include "demonstrate control in traveling, weight bearing, and balancing"; for grades three through five, "develops and refines a gymnastics sequence"; for grades six through eight, "designs and performs gymnastics (or dance) sequences that combine traveling, rolling, balancing, and weight transfer"; and for grades nine through 12, to have the option of selecting gymnastics as an area in which to demonstrate competent participation in physical activity (NASPE, pp. 16-19). A cursory review of standards two though six further reveals the importance of gymnastics programming. Gymnastics, also known as "body management," is a perfect venue for teaching movement concepts (e.g., biomechanical principles about rotation, weight bearing, balance, force creation and absorption), developing and maintaining overall body fitness (especially upper-body strength and endurance and overall flexibility), fostering personal and social responsibility (e.g., developing individual and partner sequences, using reciprocal teaching), and encouraging self-expression while enhancing self-esteem in a success-oriented environment (Wright, 2008). It is clear, then, that fully meeting the national standards requires immersion in gymnastics or body management activities. Confirming this view, Benn, Benn, and Maude (2007) said, Harnessing the natural actions of children offers a great way of developing body management. Educational Gymnastics Enhancing Children's Physical Literacy


Aims: The objective of the present study was to develop a bioadhesive bilayered buccal patch of Nimodipine (15 mg) using Eudragit Rs 100 as secondary layer and a primary layer with Hydroxy propyl methyl cellul ose and Hydroxy propyl cellulose JF. Methodology: Bilayered buccal patches were prepared by solvent casting technique. The absence of physiochemical interactions between NMDP and the polymer were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Bil ayered buccal patches of NMDP were evaluated forin vitrodrug permeation through porcine buccal membrane,in vitrodrug release, moisture absorption, surface pH, mechanical properties and in vitro bioadhesion. Results:The results indicated that suitable bioadhesive bilayered buccal patches with desired permeability could be prepared. The bioavailability study was performed in healthy humans in a crossover experimental design. Bioavailability studies revealed that nimodipine possessed good buccal absorption. The relative bioavailability of the optimized buccal patch was found to be 205% in comparison to 30 mg marketed oral tablet. The formulation CC3 showed 68.84 ± 1.4% release and 46.85 ± 5.1% of drug permeated


The rotating lance, tested in the CaO-Mg and CaC 2 -Mg processes,
 promotes a 20% and 30% increase, respectively, in the desulphurization
 rate, a 50% reduction of temperature drop, and a reduction of
 metal splash occurrences. A criterion was developed that takes into
 account the equipment dimensions and the mass flow rates of gas
 and desulphurization material, with the objective of transposing the
 results obtained at Usiminas steel shop n°1 desulphurization station,
 to other industrial plants. Furthermore, it allows simulations to be
 made with the objective of optimizing the pig iron desulphurization
 processes that use the above mentioned materials as desulphurization
 agents.


: - This article examines concept of the xenophobia in Elizabeth I and its reflection on Othello, the Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra and define its social roots by focus on history and sociological theory. By analysing the events in these dramas, it is made clear that business and religion of Judaism are the most sensible element ingroup conflicts, making xenophobia to manifest in drama characters. Likewise, findings indicate that characters in those mentioned dramas are capable to classify by using the definitions of 'insider and outsider group' and theory of 'integrated threat'. Shakespeare's target in reflecting this phenomenon is to critic the racism and dogmatic behaviours. As a matter of fact, he desired equality and justice himself in Elizabethan society.


A quantum dot connected to metallic leads is represented by the single impurity Anderson model (SIAM). The properties of SIAM are critically dependent on the position of the impurity level with respect to the Fermi level and the strength of hybridization (width of the impurity DOS). We have calculated the electrical conductivity for such a system. The dot level can be split by the presence of either a magnetic moment inside the dot (magnetic quantum dot, which is experimentally realized)or by an external magnetic field or by a structural distortion (Jahn‐Teller distortion). We have calculated the conductivity in such cases also.


In order to improve the working performance of the small agricultural machinery's forward resistance and torque,the vibrational rotary tillage force analysis was taken.Using dynamic software Ls-dyna solver and ANSYS simulation settings,combined with MAT147 material model,the cutting tool of soil on the 3D dynamic simulation was investigated.Preliminary analysis shows that the numerical simulation results are reasonable,and the soil cutting process simulation is accurate and precision.The experimental results show that the vibrational rotary tillage has good effect on forward resistance and torque.It is an effective technical approach and method.


Abstract Published academic writing often seems to be an unchanging form of discourse with its frozen informality remaining stable over time. Recent work has shown, however, that these texts are highly interactive and dialogic as writers anticipate and take into account readers' likely objections, background knowledge, rhetorical expectations and processing needs. In this paper, we explore one aspect of these interactions and how it has changed over the past fifty years. Focusing on what has been called interactive metadiscourse (Hyland 2005; Hyland and Tse 2004), or the ways authors organise their material for particular readers, we analyze a corpus of 2.2 million words compiled from articles in the top journals in four disciplines to discover whether, and to what extent, interactive metadiscourse has changed in different disciplines since 1965. The results show a considerable increase in an orientation to the reader over this period, reflecting changes in both research and publication practices.


Tthe article deals with a technique of calculation of safe exploitation's duration of a miner explosion-proof electrical equipment before carrying out of explosion-proof means's inspection.


We investigate theoretically the behavior of electron spin states near graphene edges at low temperature in the presence of an external electric field. The graphene Hamiltonian is solved directly in the low energy regime including the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Spin propagation in graphene and spin reflection at the edge are explored by calculating the probability of spin flips between the final and initial states. The spin scattering at the edge is affected by the initial location and the propagating direction of the electron with respect to the edge. Results for an example device structure including the effects of the non-uniform electrostatic field and potential near the graphene edge are presented.


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the RE-Powering America's Land initiative to encourage development of renewable energy on potentially contaminated land and mine sites. EPA collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians to evaluate the wind resource and examine the feasibility of a wind project at a contaminated site located on the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation in Minnesota. The wind monitoring effort involved the installation of a 60-m met tower and the collection of 18 months of wind data at multiple heights above the ground. This report focuses on the wind resource assessment, the estimated energy production of wind turbines, and an assessment of the economic feasibility of a potential wind project sited this site.


In this paper, topology control in machine-to-machine (M2M) networks is discussed. A new topology control algorithm, called topology adaption algorithm (TAA), is proposed to address the heterogeneous connectivity requirements from different classes of device nodes. The proposed algorithm uses network flow theory, introduces a fresh insight about how to perform topology control for M2M networks, and provides an energy-efficient solution with low computational complexity. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in terms of total network power consumption and success rate.


DOI:10.38035/DIJEFA Abstract: The increasing competition in the business world requires a company to always make transformation not only to meet the company's targets but also for business sustainability or survival. The similar thing happened with PT.Aneka Digital Suksesindo which is one of the PMA (Foreign Investment Company) from China which is engaged in the distribution of electronic products made in China which is always innovating in order to maintain its existence in Indonesia. Some of its superior products are 1. Black Shark which is mobile gaming that offers maximum performance. It is a smart phone which is able to hold on for hours to play games and fast charging, 2. Amazfit Smartwatch is a smart watch from Xiaomi that can be used to monitor heart rate, real GPS time to record running track, speed and distance. This study aims to explain the implementation of the Blue Ocean Strategy in an effort to improve competitive advantage and also to determine the conditions of the internal and external environment through SWOT Analysis, namely Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat (Threat) at PT. Aneka Digital Suksesindo. Based on the type of research that is descriptive research using a qualitative approach


OBJECTIVE:To systematically evaluate the protective effect of hepatoprotective on liver injury induced by antituberculosis drugs.METHODS:We searched CBM and CNKI.RCTs on prophylactic liver-protecting treatment for tuberculosis patients were involved and compared,and the quality of included studies was evaluated and Meta-analysis was performed by RevMan5.1 software.RESULTS:13 RCTs were included,involving 2 310 patients.All included studies were Chinese literatures with low quality and Jadad score of 1~3 points.Results of Meta-analysis indicated that the number of patients with initial treatment of tuberculosis who received prophylactic liver-protecting treatment additionally was less than that of conventional antituberculosis group.There were statistical differences(P0.05).Serious adverse drug reactions(ADRs) induced by hepatoprotective hadn' t been reported.CONCLUSION:According to the Meta-analysis's result,hepatoprotective could greatly decrease the incidence of liver damage for patients with initial treatment for tuberculosis who receive antituberculosis treatment.However,the evidence is not reliable due to the general low methodological quality of RCTs.Further reasonably designed and strictly implemented,multiple-center and large-scale RCT should be carried out.


In view of the shortage of calitration device for heat flow meter with a diameter over DN50,we combine the quality method and standard table method to overcome the shortcomings due to separate use in the calibration device for heat flow meter with smaller diameter,and set up a calibration scheme for big-diameter heat flow meter to decrease the uncertainty of measurement.The paper has realistic meanings to develop our calorimetric engineering.


High electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) were fabricated from AlGaN/GaN on semi-insulating SiC substrates with WSi, Ir, Pd, and Ni Schottky contacts. The devices had 0.30 /spl mu/m T-gates with a total width of 300 /spl mu/m. Devices with Ir gates had the highest measured Schottky barrier and the best small-signal performance of all gate metal combinations attempted. These devices yielded maximum drain current densities of 1.03 A/mm, peak transconductances of 252 mS/mm, unity current gain cutoff frequencies of 46 GHz, and maximum frequencies of oscillation at 64 GHz. Power measurements of these same devices produced 6.5 W/mm with PAE of 32% at 10 GHz CW when optimizing for power.


The bifocus lens could produce images at the two independent focal length respectively and recovery the object's depth information according to the two bifocal images, which is the principle of depth estimating using bifocal lens. At first the principle of bifocal imaging and it's precision influenced by calibrating precision of principal point are analyzed, and two invariants of principal point are found in the two bifocal images. And then based on the two invariants a novel bifocus depth-estimating algorithm is proposed to steer clear of the principal point calibration and improve the depth estimating precision. Experimental comparisons between the novel algorithm and the traditional algorithm illustrate that the novel algorithms is correct and feasible.


Designing and implementing a remote laboratory has long been a professional job, carried out by experts working in synergy with teachers. Nowadays, thanks to the availability of advanced tools, the implementation can be assigned as a student project related to advanced measurement and automation classes. The development of the project happens to have an important educational validity, since it allows the student to get familiar with principles and technologies that characterize intelligent manufacturing and smart environments, as central elements of Industry 4.0. In particular, the student has the opportunity to increase knowledge of Internet technologies that more and more often are substituting for the proprietary solutions, previously adopted in the industry for process monitoring and automation.


At present,there are several standards and codes relating to compressed air system design in China,but some design details such as compressed air consumption and quality requirement are not involved,that often affects the system design rationality.Therefore,based on practical experience,the authors expound various factors needing considered in compressed air station design for oil and gas plant,such as the properties of compressed air,the flow diagram of compressed air station,the appropriate selection of main facilities of the compressed air system and their control principles as well as calculations.This paper can provide constructive guidance for the detailed design of the compressed air station.


Ten hip arthroplasties for secondary osteoarthitis is seven yound adults using Bateman UPF prosthesis were undertaken. The average age of the patients at the time of surgery was 45 years, and all were female. Following surgery, all patients improved, especially as regards pain. We concluded that deepening of the acetabulm in the original site and use of self-locking stem were important.


Safety-Critical Applications have to function correctly and deliver high level of quality-of-service even in the presence of faults. But radiation problem in embedded system is a serious threat. There is an increasing concern about the mitigation of radiation effects in embedded systems. The protection of processor-based systems to mitigate the harmful effect of transient faults (soft errors) is gaining importance as technology shrinks. This review paper presents various methodologies for facilitating the design of faulttolerant embedded systems and is supported by an infrastructure that permits to easily combine hardware/software soft errors mitigation techniques. The proposed system combines hardware and a software mitigation technique, which facilitates the design space exploration, developed to support the fault tolerance co-design approach and is added to the most vulnerable parts. A wide industrial consensus about the necessity of a set of safety definitions leads to the introduction of several functional safety standards. To achieve an embedded systems comply with these requirements, thorough testing is needed during early design stages of the integrated device. Keywords—Soft error, Hardening Infrastructure, Software Hardening Environment, SEU, SET.


This research is motivated by the need to foster the emergence of SMEs in Timor-Leste since the role of SMEs may be able to provide jobs and contribute to an increase in tax revenue. there are two problems in the study: (1) How CIPP model evaluation training program implemented by IADE, (2) the challenges of program implementation SIYB entrepreneurship training modules what are faced by IADE. Research on the evaluation of SME entrepreneurship training program aims to describe the extent to which the results of the evaluation of the CIPP model of entrepreneurship training programs (2) To know the challenges of entrepreneurship training programs. The method used is descriptive qualitative research focus is to use the model Context, Input, Process, and Product (CIPP) and data collection techniques are interviews, documentation and observation in depth. Analysis of the data used interactive model (Saldana Miles and Huberman, 2014). Its findings are (Input) assistance is still lacking. Lack of monitoring and evaluation. Process (process) Addition of experience and practical knowledge and suitable materials, the need for exercises (exercise) It should be good for TNA. (Product) the addition of knowledge and experience, expansion of business units, increased revenues, and increase the amount of labor.


Author – Bill Proia Editor – Justin Chretien Acknowledgments: Author – Justin Chretien Executive Summary: Authors – Justin Chretien, Bill Proia Editor – Justin Chretien Introduction: Authors – Matthew King, William Proia, Stacy Rudolf Editor – Stacy Rudolf Literature Review: Authors – All members Editor – Justin Chretien, Stacy Rudolf Methodology: Authors – Justin Chretien, Matthew King, Stacy Rudolf Editor – Stacy Rudolf Findings and Discussion: Authors – Justin Chretien, Matthew King Editor – Justin Chretien, Stacy Rudolf Conclusions: Author – Stacy Rudolf Editor – Matthew King Recommendations: Author – Stacy Rudolf Editor – Justin Chretien, Matthew King


David Siddle, whose work over many years on early modern Savoy has embraced issues relating to migration as well as (for example) family structures and relations, inheritance and literacy, here edits and introduces an important collection of essays on this theme across Western and Central Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Three of the chapters deal with north-west England (Langton on coal miners in eighteenth-century south and central Lancashire, Ascott and Lewis on eighteenth-century Liverpool, and Pooley and Turnbull on north-west England from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries). Two others present material on Ireland (Smyth on the rural parish of Clogheen-Burncourt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and, by contrast, Prunty on women in nineteenth-century Dublin), while Fontaine and Siddle reinterpret the migration experience of Alpine societies over three centuries, Fauve-Chamoux provides a detailed study of women, migration and the life course in eighteenth-century Rheims, and Ehmer offers another denselytextured analysis, this time based on what guild records can tell us about the movement patterns of artisans in and through nineteenthcentury Vienna. This is a strongly-themed collection, whose contributors combine quantitative and qualitative approaches with (at times) fascinating results. The quality of individual contributions is (almost inevitably) uneven, but the book as a whole is decidedly successful. Recurrent themes highlighted in the editorial introduction involve the ways in which individual life-stories can be constructed, linking an everwidening array of records, to challenge and complicate the oversimplified patterns that have been drawn using data on birthplace and current residence from official censuses, and to emphasize the importance of migration within towns, between towns of similar size, and from town to country as well as up the urban hierarchy. As Siddle reminds us, this kind of work has been pursued for a quarter of a century, but this collection marks a welcome reaffirmation and extension of such approaches. As Pooley and Turnbull point out, Ravenstein's original 'laws' of migration took account of circulatory Reviews


The purpose of this article is to report on institutional approaches to veteran enrollments in writing classes and to recommend a reorientation of those approaches toward asset-based professional orientation and course development. These recommendations derive from the findings of a 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Initiative Grant that funded a two-year study of student veterans in the writing classroom.Since at least 2003, the CCCC has made public comment on US military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan.1 Subsequently, veteran populations- particularly those from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) who are taking advantage of the generous benefits of the Post-9/11 GI Bill-have surged on college campuses, with over one million veterans and eligible family members using these benefits since 2009 ("One Million"). A spike of veteran enrollments in core courses such as first-year writing (FYW) has followed.2 Because FYW courses are typically small enough for students to interact one-on-one with their instructors and to collaborate with their classmates,3 and because expressive and reflective writing theories shape many first-year students' writing experiences,4 writing classes often function as a transitional space between veterans' military experiences and their college experiences.Current LandscapeSue Doe and William Doe have termed this transitional time for service members residence time, which they describe as the amount of time it takes for a person to become fully acclimated to a new environment, and they call on the concept of induction as the process by which veterans transition into residence time ("Residence"). For Doe and Doe, veterans, in moving from military life to civilian life, may experience a more extended period of induction than during their original transition into the military, and so the goal of educators should be, at least in part, to reduce the length of residence time through close attention to the varied literacies of military service members.Residence time provides a useful framework for engaging with veterans on college campuses in that it emphasizes the sometimes dramatic transitions veterans undergo. While we would emphasize that not every institution or writing program will be affected by a veteran surge, we nonetheless urge writing program administrators (WPAs) to investigate veteran enrollments on their campuses to determine the degree to which these transitions may be taking place in their classrooms. Such a task is not easy. Very few colleges, if any, disclose veteran status to faculty,5 so instructors often only become aware through veterans' self-disclosure as a result of classroom discussion, one-to-one conferences, informal or formal writing assignments, or, in some cases, discussion of accommodation for disability.6 Absent such self-disclosure, many student-veterans remain invisible, especially in classes populated by other adult learners.Nonetheless, the number of veterans entering our classrooms continues to climb. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports that the US veteran population is nearing twenty-two million people, with one million from the current wars now enrolled in colleges and universities (2015 Veteran 18-19). That constitutes nearly 4 percent of students nationwide, though in some geographical locations that percentage is much higher. Further, estimated enrollments reflect only those students receiving GI Bill benefits, and no study has produced reliable data on the number of veterans seeking college degrees after their benefits have lapsed, have been transferred to a family member, or have otherwise remained unused.7 Reflecting the rapid growth of veterans on college campuses, the national Student Veterans Association (SVA) has seen the number of its campus chapters multiply exponentially, from fewer than 50 before 2010 to 950 in fall 2014, with membership doubling from 2013 to 2014 alone (Romney). …


Rodents possess two placental structures: the choriovitelline placenta, which develops first (until the day 11 of pregnancy) and the chorioallantoic placenta, which develops in the second half of gestation, showing considerable developmental changes with advancing gestation. Two prominent regions are formed within the chorioallantoic placenta: 1) Junctional Zone (JZ) and 2) Labyrinth Zone (LZ) [4]. Four differentiated trophoblast cell phenotypes comprising the rat chorioallantoic placenta can be readily identified: 1) trophoblast giant cells, 2) spongiotrophoblast cells, 3) glycogen cells and 4) sincitial trophoblast cells [5-8].


Persistent inflammation- immunosuppression catabolism syndrome (PICS) is charactered by an immunocatabolic phenotype of persistent inflammation, immunosuppression, and catabolism in patients with chronic critical illness as a result of sepsis, trauma, burn, acute pancreatitis and so on. There is a complex interactive crosstalk between immune, inflammation and catabolism. It is of great clinical significance to clarify the internal association among immunity, inflammation and metabolism.

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Persistent inflammation-immunosuppression catabolism syndrome; Chronic critical illness; Inflammation; Innate immune; Acquired immune; Catabolism


The present invention discloses an off-grid wind-solar complementary seawater desalination energy balance control system and a realization method thereof. The off-grid wind-solar complementary seawater desalination energy balance control system comprises a photovoltaic power generation unit, a wind power generation unit, an energy storage unit, a seawater desalination device, and an intelligent controller; wherein the intelligent controller is simultaneously connected with the photovoltaic power generation unit, the wind power generation unit, the energy storage unit and the seawater desalination device; both the photovoltaic power generation unit and the wind power generation unit are connected with the energy storage unit, and the energy storage unit is connected with the seawater desalination device; and wind power is supplied to a load through the energy storage unit. The off-grid wind-solar complementary seawater desalination energy balance control system of the present invention has the advantages of stable energy supply, little energy loss and so on, at the same time, work time of the load is prolonged, and the load needs not to start frequently during the process of work, thus the service life of the load can be effectively prolonged.


The results of experimental studies of the effect of an ytterbium fiber laser radiation parameters on processing efficiency and quality of ZrO2 ceramics widely used in stomatology are presented. Laser operating conditions with optimum characteristics for obtaining high quality final surfaces and rapid material removal of dental structures are determined. The ability of forming thin-walled ceramic structures by laser milling technology (a minimum wall thickness of 50 μm) is demonstrated. The examples of three-dimensional dental structures created in computer 3D-models of human teeth using laser milling are shown.


The authors show the synthesis of a sliding-mode controller using Lyapunov stability theory. One way of synchronizing the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) low energy booster with the medium energy booster is by matching the longitudinal phase of the designated RF buckets of two machines throughout acceleration to a pre-programmed trajectory. This makes the synchronization predictable in advance. The model associated with the phase-locking is time-varying and model parameters are subjected to disturbance due to errors in the bending magnetic field. Also, the disturbance could be due to other feedback loops such as a B-field loop or a beam phase loop in the system. The measured phase error between the two reference waves may not be accurate. The design of a sliding-mode controller for such an application is considered. In the absence of measurement errors and parameter uncertainties and with no disturbance, the controller reduces to a classical gain feedback.<<ETX>>


The particle size and exchange capacity of several samples of montmorillonite were measured. It is shown that the particle size does influence the exchange capacity. Based on recent observations of thickness of particles, the surface area can be calculated more precisely; this in turn can be related to the exchange capacity. This relationship and that existing for kaolinite are compared. It is shown that the exchange capacity is directly related to the broken Si—O, Al—O, or Al—OH linkages.


Insect pests are the primary scourge of agriculture down the ages. It is estimated that 14% of crop productivity is misplaced to insect pests on a global scale. To decrease reliance on insecticide sprays, scientists have genetically engineered plants to make insecticidal proteins encoded through genes from the common bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). Currently, due to their importance, more than 70 kinds of Cry genes are described (cry1 up to cry70). These endotoxins have been categorized as Cry1–Cry69 and Cyt1–Cyt3 and specific subgroups relying on their amino acid sequence. Of these, some Bt genes such as cry1Ab, cry1Ac, cry2Ab and cry9C are already being commercially used in GMP. The crystalline proteins get solubilized in midgut at high pH, releasing d-endotoxin proteins. The exquisite capability of insects to adapt to Bt-toxin and different manage systems helps the conclusion that evolution of resistance by means of pests is the important hazard to the persevered success of transgenic Bt crop. This paper ambitions to overview the resistance improvement of insect pests towards Bt toxin. Insect populations regularly have herbal genetic variant affecting response to a toxin, with some alleles conferring susceptibility and others conferring resistance. Many laboratory and field researches showed, resistance improvement of insects in opposition to Bt toxin. Field-evolved resistance happens when exposure of a discipline populace to a toxin increases the frequency of alleles conferring resistance in subsequent generations. The chance insect resistance poses to the future use of Bt plant-incorporated protectants haveled into emergence of insect resistance management concept. IRM is of received with the aid of actions taken to prolong the improvement of insect resistance to pest control measures in goal pest populations or by way of practices aimed at decreasing the achievable for insect pests to grow to be resistant to a gene. The danger insect resistance poses to the future use of Bt plant-incorporated protectants have led into emergence of insect resistance management concept.


than rural subjects. Even guinea-pigs from two breeders may not give exactly the same value for the same specimen of prophylactic, and those who manufacture prophylactics know that successive batches made by the same staff may not agree closely in value. Among children who are found to be Schick-negative without previous artificial immunization a certain percentage may show a positive reaction if tested some years later. The figure found in the twenty-eight children tested by Sigurj6nsson in Iceland is extraordinarily high, for 50 per cent. of them had become Schick-positive. In most communities the figure would be below 5 per cent. Even though these children have againbecome Schick-positive, it is the capacity of the tissues of the body, as Warin remarks, to produce antitoxin rapidly in response to a suitable antigenic stimulus which is the true measure of protection, and not the amount of circulating antitoxin in the blood or the response to the Schick test at a given moment. Those children who have reverted to the Schick-positive condition have a high degree of potential immunity, though, as Parish and Wright7 and Fraser and Pantin8 have stressed, it would be wise, especially in the face of an epidemic of severe diphtheria or on entry into school, with its risk of infection, to inject one further dose of prophylactic into all children and raise their immunity to a high level. The prophylactic chosen should be one giving good immunity, and alum-precipitated toxoid would here seem to have a high claim; as Dr. Lewis9 pointed out in our last issue, it is important that proper technique should be employed.


Existing opportunistic network coding architectures relies on pseudobroadcast to deliver a coded packet to multiple receivers in a single transmission. In such situation, there is only one primary receiver who acknowledges the reception by synchronous MAC-layer acknowledgements (ACKs) and the other receivers receive it by overhearing and acknowledge the reception by asynchronous ACKs, which are usually piggybacked in outgoing data packets. This may cause a large amount of unnecessary retransmissions if asynchronous ACKs are dropped due to packet losses or they arrive late. Moreover, a large number of redundant retransmissions in IP layer easily cause congestion losses, especially under heavy traffic and thus compromise the throughput gain brought by network coding. In this paper, we propose a framework of joint optimal rate control and code selection (ORC) to mitigate the impact brought by asynchronous ACKs on opportunistic network coding in lossy wireless networks. The operation of ORC consists of two phases. In the first phase, we try to select a suitable transmission rate for the transmission of a coded packet. We formulate this rate control process as a Finite Horizon Markov Decision Process (FH-MDP). We define a metric, called coded packet transmission efficiency (CPTE), to measure the expected cumulative rewards and search the optimal rate control policy. In the second phase, based on the CPTE for a given coded packet, we propose a code selection policy to optimize the performance of opportunistic network coding. We demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed ORC framework by computer simulations.


The thesis presents the ways of dealing with the difficulties in working with disabled
children and it is related to the involving education. The thesis includes short analyses,
which aim is the attempt of determining the teachers who are successful in teaching
children with special educational needs. The analysis also includes the script of the therapeutic classes. The problem of school effectiveness is still present. Knowing the complexity of the problem, we may talk about the teacher's abilities. A teacher is a specialist who understands and knows the needs of his or her students. The teacher is a very creative person, who can use his skills while working with children, making the classes very involving and interesting. He is always appropriately prepared for the classes and uses the teaching methods and educational tools. The efficient teacher carries out the classes correctly, involving all of the students, fulfilling the aims of the lesson. He has the right attitude towards the students and the ability for making acquaintanceships with other people. He presents pedagogical talent and very advanced propriety. The enumerated features enables the creation of appropriate atmosphere while working with children, including disabled children. The present goal of the school or kindergarten is to ensure the education for each child, regardless on their health condition. Not so long time ago, the disabled children with crippledom were exempted from learning duty or they were sent to the institutions or simply they stayed at home under their parents' nurturance


A novel approach for the synthesis of colloidal silver nanoprisms (AgNPrs) with controllable localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) via a chemical shape transformation of silver nanospheres (AgNSs) is presented. The shape conversion is carried out by feeding hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution into a starch-stabilized AgNS colloid under ambient conditions. Oxidative dissolution and the mild reducing action of H2O2 under alkaline conditions serve as the principal reactions for the shape transformation process. After addition of H2O2, the instantaneous shape transformation events can be visualized by the naked eye through the color change of the colloid. Initial concentration of AgNSs, molar ratio of H2O2:AgNSs, H2O2 injection rate, and mixing efficiency are the key parameters for controlling the LSPR wavelengths of AgNPrs as the in-plane dipole plasmon resonance can be selectively tuned across visible and near infrared regions (i.e., 460–850 nm). The obtained AgNPrs exhibited mixed geometries e.g. hexagonal, truncated triangular, rounded-tip triangular prisms, and circular disks with average bisector lengths of 30 to 120 nm and the thickness of 10 to 20 nm. A colloid of highly concentrated AgNPrs having a final concentration up to 11 mM can be produced within 10 min.


■to study speaking. First we introduce the method of recording Event Related Potentials (ERPs). More in particular we discuss the so-called Readiness Potential (RP), an ERP component that precedes voluntary movements. We conclude that contamination of the EEG signal with EMG activity of the muscles involved in articulation and inconclusive results in earlier RP studies preclude strong conclusions on the basis of ERP recordings about the areas of the brain that supervise or dominate the articulation of speech. We argue that, rather than in localizing the brain regions involved in speaking, the importance of the electro physiological recordings is related to the high temporal resolution of the ERP signal. This characteristic allows us to map out the time course of the retrieval of lexical information preceding overt articulation. We discuss an experimental paradigm that we used for estimating the time course of the retrieval of semantic, syntactic and phonological word information. On the basis of our results we present a rough estimate of the time course of the processes involved in lexical access during speaking. We conclude that, in principle, this experimental paradigm can be helpful in determining the locus of nonfluencies in speaking, provided that this locus precedes articulation.


A series of three PVTh4FBT polymers containing different alkyl side chain placement was synthesized. The thermochromic behaviors and DFT calculations indicated that the backbone coplanarity and rigidity of the PVTh4FBT polymers can be effectively modulated by adjusting the side chain position and density. Higher ordered and better oriented edge-on lamellar packing was formed by P1, which possesses the most rigid backbone among the three polymers and pre-aggregates in the solution. P1 also delivered the highest hole mobility (0.26 cm2 V−1 s−1) among the three analogues because its thin-film morphology is in favor of charge transport.


During preparations for a research trip to Eastern Europe, I was scouting out Palmyrene antiquities held in museums that would be accessible for viewing. The National Museum (Narodni Muzei) in Belgrade fell within the parameters of my itinerary, and it is listed in the index of Palmyrene Aramaic Texts as holding a Palmyrene funerary monument (Inv. No. 2985/III = PAT 1771). In their list of previous bibliographic citations for PAT 1771, D. R. Hillers and E. Cussini list only the short mention of the bust by H. Ingholt in Studier over Palmyrensk Skulptur (PS 244A).1 Ingholt's publication of otherwise undocumented funerary busts is often very brief, and my curiosity was piqued by the simple one line epigraph preserved in Hillers and Cussini's entry for PAT 1771:


Treclin, a once‐daily topical formulation of tretinoin and clindamycin, is licensed for the treatment of acne. In our New products review, Steve Chaplin presents the clinical data relating to it efficacy and adverse events.


The flavonoid contents in stems and leaves of Apocynum venetum L. in different years of cultivation, or different picking time in the same year, or wild and cultivated were determined by spectrophotometric method. The regression equation between rutin concentration and absorbance was established for C =0.044 9 A510 nm +0.0448,r=0.956 0. Results showed that the flavonoid contents in stems and leaves of Apocynum venetum L. was the highest in September at the same year, the same as different years of cultivation. The flavonoid contents in stems and leaves of cultivated Apocynum venetum L. was higher than that of the wild Apocynum venetum L.. When the other conditions were same, the total flavonoid content in the leaves was higher than that of stems.


In Max's Manuscript of Economics-philosophy in 1844, two sorts of logic, including historical materialism and humanism logic, were put into presupposition and collision in which historical materialism logic gradually stood out. Then, Marx fulfilled the second transformation of his thought. By the analysis of "dissimilated labor" which looked as if it only belongs to humanism, the basic connotation and characteristics of "Practice" is developed in the process of transformation. On this basis, with the study of "develop the useful and discard the useless" and "dissimilated labor", we are exploring the substantial process of social and historical development. Also, during the course, wrapped in humanism, many fundamentals of historical materialism could be developed.


An analytical method has been developed to determine the true value of a parameter from its observations in the situation where the observations include chance errors but not any assignable error. The method was applied to find out the natural annual maximum and the natural annual minimum of ambient air temperature observed at Guwahati and the reliability of the method has


Aiming at solving the problem that systems' uncertainties and drivers' variations may lead to the parameters' changes of the two-wheeled self-balancing vehicles,a system for two-wheeled self-balancing vehicles based on the active disturbance rejection control(ADRC) was researched. With accelerometer and gyroscope as attitude sensors and coaxial permanent magnet brush DC motor as actuator,the friction between the wheels and the floor was considered. After physics analysis,Newtonian mechanics equation was used to build a system-related nonlinear mathematical model and to get its state-space equation. Then,the system was divided into two separate subsystems. That is,vehicle-balancing and directions-changing. Finally,the system's total disturbance was estimated and controlled,a method to control the two-wheeled self-balancing vehicles was put forward. This method was evaluated on the Simulink model simulation and experiments on different road conditions. The results indicate that the method based on the ADRC can be used to control the twowheeled self-balancing vehicles.


Classical strategies for resource management in operating systems are often complex and innapropriate for embedded systems. Implementations for these strategies may use either virtual function tables or long conditional structures to provide transparent access to different resources. This overhead is unacceptable for embedded systems. The EPOS operating system provides flexible and transparent access to resources for applications without incurring in unnecessary overhead. Metaprogrammed structures are used to predict, according to application usage and in compile time, whether a resource must use a polymorphic representation or may be accessed through direct calls. This way, virtual function tables are only used in the system when strictly necessary, and thus saving resources. In this article, we show that this strategy is a viable alternative for resource management in embedded systems.


It has recently been argued that among the various suggested measures of tripartite entanglement, the two particular measures, viz. the Concurrence Fill and the Genuine Multipartite Concurrence are the only 'genuine' tripartite entanglement measures based on certain suitably specified criteria. In this context, we show that these two genuine tripartite entanglement measures can be empirically determined for the two important classes of tripartite entangled states, viz. the generalized GHZ and the generalized W states using the derived relationships of these two measures with the observable statistical correlators like the Pearson correlator and mutual information. Such a formulated scheme would therefore provide for the first time the means to exactly quantify tripartite entanglement, crucial for the proper assessment of its efficacy as resource. We also point out two specific applications of this scheme, viz. a) Enabling empirical demonstration of the potentially significant feature of inequivalence between Concurrence Fill and Genuine Multipartite Concurrence in quantitatively assessing which of the two given tripartite states is more entangled than the other one. b) Enabling experimental detection of the recently predicted phenomenon of entanglement sudden death for a tripartite system.


This Journal is Korean Society of Photoscience 2012 C 48 The key research areas that are being studied in KCAP are the development of water oxidation photocatalysts that work in the visible region, H + /e ‐ transfer membranes, CO2 reduction catalysts, methods to assemble the above three components into integrated systems, membranes for the separation of water and alcohol. In this talk, the progresses that KCAP has made on above topics will be presented. In particular, the recent progress on the integration of nanocomponents into devices and a novel photocatalytic hydrogenation of CO2 into fuel will be presented. Recent Progresses KCAP Has Made on Artificial Photosynthesis


This policy forum summarises the proceedings of the 2015 Melbourne Institute Macroeconomic Policy Meeting, which took place at the Melbourne Institute on 15–16 October. The focus of this conference was on macroprudential policies. Section 2 provides a brief description of the papers presented and the keynote address. Section 3 refers to the remarks of the panel on 'Macroprudential Policies in Australia: Design and Effects', and the discussion. Section 4 concludes.


effectively) an edited collection, with individual chapters written by academic specialists, most of whom are at or have a link with the University of Leeds. The text is accompanied by a very well-conceived and clearly designed website which includes web links, a glossary, and PowerPoint slides for use in teaching. Any student who fails to be enthused by what this book has to say, and how it says it, must be very difficult indeed to please. This book takes UK degree-level geography textbooks to a new level, and the editor and publisher are to be congratulated on their vision, energy and enthusiasm. Environmental textbook writers now have the book to beat!


It would be easy to get into a routine of one and two, and one and two, and on and on until everyone looks the same. But for me, everyday joy lies in the little conversations I get to have in between their prescription and eye healthcare conversations with those who entrust their care to me.


Drinfeld showed that if G is a Poisson Lie group with corresponding Lie bialgebra g , then the isomorphism classes of Poisson homogeneous G -spaces are essentially in a 1-1 correspondence with the G -orbits of Lagrangian subalgebras in g ⊕ g∗ . The main goal of this paper is to generalize this result to the quasi-Poisson case. We also study the behavior of quasi-Poisson homogeneous spaces under twisting. Some examples of quasi-Poisson homogeneous spaces and corresponding Lagrangian subalgebras are also provided.


OBJECTIVES: To critically appraise the measurement property evidence (ie, psychometric) for 8 observation-based financial management assessment instruments. DATA SOURCES: Seven databases were searched in May 2015. STUDY SELECTION: Two reviewers used an independent decisionagreement process to select studies of measurement property evidence relevant to populations with adulthood acquired cognitive impairment, appraise the quality of the evidence, and extract data. Twenty-one articles were selected. DATA EXTRACTION: This review used the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments review guidelines and 4-point tool to appraise evidence. After appraising the methodologic quality, the adequacy of results and volume of evidence per instrument were synthesized. Measurement property evidence with high risk of bias was excluded from the synthesis. DATA SYNTHESIS: The volume of measurement property evidence per instrument is low; most instruments had 1 to 3 included studies. Many included studies had poor methodologic quality per measurement property evidence area examined. Six of the 8 instruments reviewed had supporting construct validity/hypothesistesting evidence of fair methodologic quality. There is a dearth of acceptable quality content validity, reliability, and responsiveness evidence for all 8 instruments. CONCLUSIONS: Rehabilitation practitioners assess financial management functions in adults with acquired cognitive impairments. However, there is limited published evidence to support using any of the reviewed instruments. Practitioners should exercise caution when interpreting the results of these instruments. This review highlights the importance of appraising the quality of measurement property evidence before examining the adequacy of the results and synthesizing the evidence *Macpherson RA, Lane TJ, Collie A, and McLeod CB. Age, sex, and the changing disability burden of compensated work-related musculoskeletal disorders in Canada and Australia. BMC Public Health. 2018; 18(1):758. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5590-7 [open access] Abstract: BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were (1) to identify age and sex trends in the disability burden of compensated work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in Canada and Australia; and (2) to demonstrate a means of comparing workers' compensation data internationally. METHODS: All non-fatal, work-related MSD claims with at least one day of compensated time-loss were extracted for workers aged 15-80 during a 10-year period (2004-2013) using workers' compensation data from five Canadian and eight Australian jurisdictions. Disability burden was calculated for both countries by sex, age group, and injury classification, using cumulative compensated timeloss payments of up to two years post-injury. RESULTS: A total of 1.2 million MSD claims were compensated for time-loss in the Canadian and Australian jurisdictions during 2004-2013. This resulted in time-loss equivalent to 239,345 years in the Canadian jurisdictions and 321,488 years in the Australian jurisdictions. The number of time-loss years declined overall among male and female workers, but greater declines were observed for males and younger workers. The proportion of the disability burden grew among older workers (aged 55+), particularly males in the Canadian jurisdictions (Annual Percent Change [APC]: 7.2, 95% CI 6.7 to 7.7%) and females in the Australian jurisdictions (APC: 7.5, 95% CI 6.2 to 8.9%). CONCLUSIONS: The compensated disability burden of work-related MSDs is shifting towards older workers and particularly older females in Australia and older males in Canada. Employers and workers' compensation boards should consider the specific needs of older workers to reduce injuries and time off work. Comparative research made possible through research-stakeholder partnerships offers a unique opportunity to use existing administrative data to identify long-term trends in disability burden. Future research can apply similar approaches for estimating long-term trends in


The Smart Transformer (ST) is a Solid State Transformer (SST) with dc-link connectivity and advanced control functionalities for achieving high efficiency and reliability. The Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) converter has been proposed as an option to realize the MV stage with its modularity and multi-level output, and for the isolated DC/DC stage, the Dual Active Bridge (DAB) is a possible solution as it provides the galvanic isolation with a high efficiency. Normally, the power is equally distributed in the cells of the modular converter, but this does not take into consideration that different cells can have a different remaining useful lifetime. The power routing instead proposes unequal power loading of each cell in dependence of the useful remaining lifetime. This paper proposes the discontinuous modulation to instantaneously modify the power distribution among the DAB converters and the loss distribution of the CHB cells. This feature enables to actively influence the remaining useful lifetime of the ST building blocks with higher flexibility.


Reactive ion etching of thick (≳100 μm) epoxy, polyester, and photoresist layers in oxygen was studied as a function of gas flow, gas pressure, gas purity, and rf power density. Etch rates greater than 2500 A/min were obtained with low substrate temperatures. The etch was found to be extremely directional so that structures with aspect ratios as large as 30 to 1 were measured. Both the etch geometry and mask material appear to have some effect on this directionality. In addition the etch was found to smooth the etched surface so that surface finishes better than 200 A were possible.


Explicit construction of the second order left differential calculi on the quantum group and its subgroups are obtained with the property of the natural reduction: the differential calculus on the quantum group $GL_q(2,C)$ has to contain the 3-dimensional differential calculi on the quantum subgroup $SL_q(2,C)$, the differential calculi on the Borel subgroups $B_{L}^{(2)}(C)$, $B_{U}^{(2)}(C)$ of the lower and of the upper triangular matrices, on the quantum subgroups $U_{q}(2)$, $SU_{q}(2)$, $Sp_{q}(2,C)$, $Sp_{q}(2)$, $T_{q}(2,C)$, $B_{L}(C)$, $B_{U}(C)$, $U_{q}(1)$, $Z_{-}^{(2)}(C)$, $Z_{+}^{(2)}(C)$ and on the their real forms. The classical limit ($q\to 1$) of the left differential calculus is the nondeformed differential calculus. The differential calculi on the Borel subgroups $B_{L}(C)$, $B_{U}(C)$ of the $SL_{q}(2,C)$ coincide with two solutions of Wess-Zumino differential calculus on the quantum plane $C_q(2|0)$.
The spontaneous breaking symmetry in the WZNW model with $SL_{q}(2,R)$ quantum group symmetry over two-dimensional nondeformed Minkovski space and in the $\sigma$-models with ${SL_{q}(2,R)/U_{p}(1)}$, $C_{q}(2|0)$ quantum group symmetry is considered. The Lagrangian formalism over the quantum group manifolds is discussed. The variational calculus on the $SL_{q}(2,R)$ group manifold is obtained. The classical solution of $C_{q}(2|0)$ {$\sigma$}-model is obtained.


The fluid model was used to study the nonlinear dust drift waves in dusty plasma.Through the nonlinear interaction,the local vortex structures arise from the ultralow frequency dust electrostatic drift waves.The intensity of vortex will be closely related to the content of dusts and the ratio of the temperature between the ions and electrons.Motion of vortice across the magnetic field gives rise to the anomalous transport in plasma.


Professor Berridge's fascinating book explores the role of embassies and legations in wartime. It deploys an extremely impressive range of examples to illustrate the various categories under review...


In this study, using a material model related to temperature, we calculate the transient temperature field of the gun tube subjected to the action of high-frequency cyclic dynamic thermal pulse and dynamic pressure pulse and analyze the couple effect of thermal pulse and pressure pulse and the distribution laws of the temperature field. Compared to the experimental data, the computational results are satisfactory on the whole. The results are important for the studies of gun tube temperature, life-span prediction as well as the way to improve the life-span of a gun tube. The model and the analysis method adopted here provide important references for gun tube design and improvement.


The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of current knowledge, issues, skills, and tools for equine practitioners to reduce malpractice risk, increase client satisfaction, and enhance practice success. The article will include a brief description of the climate of health care in the United States, a presentation of research evidence linking communication with health outcomes, and a communication model and tools for practice application. The landscape of U.S. health care in the 21st century has influenced consumer use in both human and animal medical care. Current issues and challenges include increasingly litigious climate, problems with health care access and affordability, increased consumer complaints, non-adherence, and rise in medical errors. Although these challenges represent symptoms of a system in need of reform, a critical element underlying these problems is the relationship between health care practitioners and consumers. This face-to-face, interpersonal relationship has been shown to be the most important means of information exchange leading to improved health outcomes in human medicine. In veterinary medicine, the importance of communication specific to the veterinarian-client relationship has been underscored in multiple studies over the past five years. Evidence from human medicine has also shown that the quality of interaction between practitioners and consumers has been correlated with a number of health outcomes including malpractice risk, satisfaction, adherence, and diagnostic accuracy. In human medicine, it has been estimated that 75–95% of the information needed by physicians to make a correct diagnosis comes from the patient-reported medical history. Reliance on client-reported history in veterinary medicine is equally important. Adherence is defined as the extent to which a consumer's behavior corresponds with agreed-on recommendations from a health care provider. In human medicine, rates of patient non-adherence range from 25% to 75%, and for certain medical conditions requiring multiple medications and complex medical regimens, the rates are considerably higher. The veterinary profession has also begun to examine adherence rates and explore multi-dimensional influences of client adherence. Grave and Tanem found that an important determinant for whether dog owners complied with recommended


Background: Nurses, on a daily basis, face ethical dilemmas that arise from situations involving conflicting values or beliefs. Overall, ethical decision making of nurses seems to be a challenging aspect of their duties. This study has examined the relationship between spiritual intelligence and ethical decision making in nurses working in hospitals in Iran. Proportional stratified sampling was used in this study. Data were collected from 376 nurses who completed the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI) and Nursing Dilemma Test. Statistical analyses were done using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations. Findings: The mean spiritual intelligence score was 49.5 ± 14.6, and mean ± SD of the Nursing Principled Thinking was 52.8 ± 12.1 and Practical Consideration was 28.16 ± 7.6. The mean score in the postconventional level was higher than the two other levels. Significant negative correlations exist between the preconventional component of the Nursing Dilemma Test and Personal Meaning Production and the Critical Existential Thinking components of the SISRI (p < .05). There were significant positive correlations between the postconventional (Nursing Principled) and Critical Existential Thinking, Personal Meaning Production, and total score of the SISRI. Conclusion: Hence, we have concluded that spiritual intelligence plays a positive role in the ethical decision making of nurses.


Earlier attempts to test for asymmetric price transmission have been based on an econometric specification that is shown to be inconsistent with reintegration. An alternative specification based on the error correction representation is proposed and applied to transmission between producer and wholesale pork prices in northern Germany. Exogeneity conditions that are necessary for valid inference regarding asymmetry are tested. The analysis demonstrates that transmission between producer and wholesale pork prices in northern Germany is asymmetric, in accordance with common belief, the margin is corrected more rapidly when it is squeezed relative to its long-run level, than when it is stretched. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.


Background: From 1996 electrocardiographic (ECG) and molecular screening in families with long QT syndrome (LQTS), a potentially life-threatening but treatable cardiac arrhythmia syndrome has been performed in the Netherlands. We examined the psychological influence of predictive ECG and molecular screening in these families. Method: In a prospective study the extent and course of anxiety and depression associated with two seguential screening tests: first ECG, second DNA, are described in applicants and their partners from the first consultation until 18 months after disclosure of the DNA-results. Findings: Seventy-seven applicants and 57 partners completed measures of distress at three time points. Both ECG findings and DNA results were associated with increased depression, anxiety and disease related distress in short term. Highest scores of distress were found in those who received inconclusive ECG results. In the long-term the high levels of distress were restored. In carriers, however, the scores of disease related anxiety remained increased. Interpretation: In predictive two step testing in LQTS, applicants are responding to risk information, whether from ECG or DNA.This finding highlights the importance of proper initial pre-test counselling before ECG testing.


The results of study, in which we examined the influence of nanosized magnetite on breath organs histological structure and contractility activity of the airways of guinea pigs by method of mechanography has been presented. In the lungs of experimental animals an inflammatory response developed as a result of long-term inhalation intake of nanosized magnetite. Also the functional status of the airways changed and appeared as changing of amplitude of contractility response under the action of histamine.


A technique for adhesion of fine particles (ca. 5 μ) of the 405 white diatomaceous support on the inner wall of glass tube with organic glue [poly (diethylaminoethyl methacrylate) acetate] is described. The coated tube was drawn to capillary column by using a machine designed according to Desty's. The capillary column was then coated with stationary phase (such as squaiane, QF-1, Dexsil 300, PEG 20 M, OV-1, SE 30 and etc.) by the conventional dynamic or static method. This preparation method has proved easy to duplicate and is simple. The coating efficiency (UTE %) is within 60–90. The theoretical plate number per meter of an SE 30 column is about 4000, and per meter of a PEG 20 M column is about 2500. The columns thus prepared have been successfully used to analyze petroleum hydrocarbons, essential oils, petrochemicals, pheromone, steroid metabolites and others.


ABSTRACTION In Financial Accounting Standards, inventory is one asset that has a fairly large value and is an important asset both in number and role in company activities. Inventory is also an important part of the company's activities, both trading companies and manufacturing companies, because inventory of one asset is very important as a source of corporate income. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of cost of goods sold, current ratio, inventory variability, inventory turnover to the selection of inventory accounting methods. The object of this study consists of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian stock exchange from 2015-2017. The method used is statistics that aim to test hypotheses using the logistic regression method. According to the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (PSAK) No. 14 (revised 2015), inventories are assets available for sale in terms of raw materials or equipment for use in the process or provision of services. The AVERAGE accounting method is used by most manufacturing companies. The AVERAGE method is used by 13 sample companies, while the FIFO method is used by 5 sample companies. Keywords : Cost of goods sold, current ratio, inventory variability, inventory turnover .


A total of 88 rodents – 22 Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus), 36 black rats (Rattus rattus) and 10 house mice (Mus musculus), were caught in different animal facilities and two zoos. Additionally, 10 albino rats and 10 laboratory mice from a specialised vivarium were studied. Samples of hair, intestinal tract and liver were examined microbiologically. Faecal samples from the three synanthropic rodent species were investigated for presence of helminth eggs, and diaphragms of carcasses – for presence of Trichinella larvae. Microbiological examination showed that synanthropic rodents carried enterotoxigaenic Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis strains and some bacteria such as Klebsiella pneumoniaе, Citrobacter freundi, Enterococcus faecalis, Proteus spp. Moraxella atlantae, posing a potential risk for farm animal health. The detected eggs of parasites as Aspiculuris tetraptera, Hymenolepis spp., Eimeria spp., Oxyiuridae spp., were specific for synanthropic rodents.


An on-line vision based vibration measurement system has been developed. Conventional methods of data acquisition for vibration measurements involve employing physical sensors such as accelerometers or other contact-based sensors on the vibrating target. The measurements resulting from physical sensors provide localized reading. Moreover, installation is sometimes difficult and there is an added disadvantage of degrading the accuracy of measurements by employment of an additional mass. However, the advent of latest image processing techniques allow for minimizing these drawbacks, by providing intuitionist exhibition of the actual vibration. In this study, a camera acquires video of vibrating target continuously at desired frame rate. Since the vibration in the target results in transitional shift of target from one image to next image, it is shown here that the shift between them can be used to extract the amplitude and frequency of vibration. Study carried out on various systems is presented here and results show that with sub-pixel level estimation, vibrations of smaller amplitude can also be detected effectively. Results using different interpolation on images are discussed in the end of the article.


This article proposes an original method for simulation code generation in discrete event systems. This method uses the product location information in the running system. The information flux (product id, location, time) is the starting point for the algorithm to generate a queuing network simulation model.


Abstract: Cr doped GaN was grown by rf N-plasma molecular beam epitaxy on sapphire (0001) at a sample temperature of 700 o C. Cr/Ga flux ratio was set to a value from 5% to 20%. Subsequently, scanning tunneling microscopy was performed on these surfaces. Cr incorporates on the GaN surface at 700 o C at a Cr concentration of 5% and less. By increasing the Cr/Ga flux ratio to 20% in CrGaN, linear nano structures were formed on the surface, which were not observed on the bare GaN surface. The RHEED and STM studies reveal that Cr atoms form 3×3 reconstruction when 0.1 ML of Cr was deposited at room temperature on 1×1 adlayer of Ga on GaN (000-1). Cr substitutes Ga on the surface when deposited at 700 o C on the MBE grown GaN (000-1) surface for all the experiments, which we have performed, provided the Cr concentration is low (~5%). PACS: 75.50.Pp, 81.15.Hi, 61.10.Nz, 61.14.Hg Introduction For last two decades, spintronics has become a field of wide interest, where not only the charge but also spin degree of freedom of the charge carriers will be manipulated. Successful spin injection into existing semiconductor-based devices at room temperature is still being investigated. Many scientists have predicted that some Nitride Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors (NDMS) can be used as spin injectors at room temperature. According to Sato


The present study, which aimed to show to the amount of librarians' use of marketing principles at public libraries in Yazd, revealed not only to what extent managers and librarians at public libraries are familiar with marketing concepts in libraries, but also investigated to what extent public libraries would make use of marketing principles while offering services to clients. The current research is applied in terms of objective and was carried out through descriptive survey. The population of the study encompasses managers and librarians at public libraries in Yazd (110 people). Data were gathered via a questionnaire. The results of the study illustrated that manager' familiarity with marketing concept (3.62 percent on mean) and librarian familiarity with marketing concept (3.56 percent on mean) in libraries was relatively high. Furthermore, the findings concerning the adoption and application of 4P's variables at the libraries under study show that product, place, promotion and price are all at a high level with only slight differences.


K-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm is a nonparametric classification method often used in pattern classification for handling binary and multiclass problems in different domains. Although KNN algorithm is a simple data mining approach but it may give inaccurate results when training datasets are imbalanced and incomplete. Different variants of KNN algorithm are developed to handle the discrepancy and inaccuracy in the results. To further improve the efficiency and accuracy, preprocessing can be done to handle imbalanced and incomplete datasets. This paper presents concept of KNN algorithm and brief analysis of variants of KNN algorithm based on their preprocessing techniques.


Privacy has become one of the main impediments for e-health in its advancement to provide better services to its consumers. Even though many security protocols are being developed to protect information from being compromised, privacy is still a major issue in healthcare where privacy protection is very important. When consumers are confident that their sensitive information is safe from being compromised, their trust in these services will be higher and would lead to better adoption of these systems. In this paper we propose a solution to the problem of patient privacy in e-health through an information accountability framework could enhance consumer trust in e-health services and would lead to the success of e-health services.