This invention discloses one hand writing analysis system, which comprises the following steps: by writing on input panel by user to get input word track; testing write track validity to keep write track; getting effective track each point data and recording it into program memory; computing part data even value and forming change data sequence; displaying each proper data for track analysis.


The word "Zhong",when it means "Nei" and "Zheng ",it refers to theoriginal nature of the universe; when it means "He"and "Huo",it refers to th e initial state of the changing universe. According to The Doctrine of the Mean,the original implication of "Mean" is seeking truth from facts.


The present experiment was undertaken to study the cultural, morphological and pathological variation in six isolates of Phytophthora cajani. The isolates were collected from pigeonpea growing areas of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Isolates exhibited considerable variations in cultural characters and growth on potato dextrose agar medium. The universal ITS1 and ITS4 primers showed the difference among P. cajani isolates. There was significance influence of temperature on the growth of isolates, however isolates could not be differentiated based on the temperature. The average growth (1.69 cm2) at 30°C temperature was recorded with all the isolates followed by average growth (1.25 cm2) at 35°C temperature. The maximum radial growth (3.6 cm2) was observed at 96 h in isolate PDC015-1. The isolate PDC013-1 and PDC0143 showed highest 47.0% plant mortality on ICP 7119 genotype. Among the isolates PDC014-3 killed 28.6% plants after 4th day of inoculation.


Concerning the three articles and commentary regarding automotive safety (Pediatrics 58:307, 316, 320, 323, September 1976), I will take this opportunity to remind my colleagues that a sign is available (ABC Manufacturing, Raleigh, MS 39153) that can be posted in the parking lot of physicians and that may be useful in reinforcing the in-office education given by the physician. It reads "Fasten Children's Seat Belts." It is baked enamel on steel, 30 x 45 cm (12 x 18 inches), suitable for outdoor use.


To reveal how crystal size improve the long-term stability of Cu/SSZ-13 zeolites under high-temperature hydrothermal aging, a series of different crystal size of Na/SSZ-13 supports from micron to nanometer level...


In a data communication apparatus (1, 2) having a printing function (1303) of printing, for example, received emails, and a function (1301) of transmitting print completion notifications, if received data is a print completion notification, it may be printed out, but a print completion notification indicating that the printing of the received data has been completed is not transmitted. Then, wasteful transmission of print completion notifications is prevented. Alternatively, the printing itself of the received data is inhibited, which prevents wasteful consumption of printing resources.


The complex [CoL6(Cl)][CoCl4]·H2O, where L6 is the reinforced macrocycle 7-amino-7-methyl-1,5,9,13-tetraazabicyclo[11.2.2]heptadecane, has been prepared and its crystal structure determined. The green-black crystals are monoclinic, space group P21/c, with a= 8.778(2), b= 13.344(4), c= 19.380(8)A, β= 98.48(2)°, Z= 4, and a final conventional R= 0.0736. The cobalt is co-ordinated in a planar fashion in the cavity of the macrocycle, with one axial co-ordination site occupied by the pendant primary amine group, and the other by a chloride. The Co–N bond lengths to the tertiary nitrogens of the piperazine bridge of the macrocycle are 2.01(1) and 2.02(1)A, distinctly longer than those [1.97(1)A] to the secondary amines in the cavity of the macrocycle. The Co–N distance to the pendant primary amine is 2.01(1)A, and Co–Cl to the axially co-ordinated chloride trans to the pendant amine group is 2.26(1)A. Molecular mechanics calculations are used to analyse the highly distorted co-ordination sphere around the CoIII, where the N–Co–N angle involving the nitrogens of the piperazine bridge of the macrocycle is only 73.5(4)°. The calculations reproduce the co-ordination geometry around the CoIII well, including the variation in Co–N bond length and the highly distorted N–Co–N angles.


We have developed a smart energy harvester that generates electrical energy from multi-modal vibrations. The harvester consists of a digital processor and a piezoelectric sensor, which allows the application of a technical method to improve the energy-conversion efficiency. The method is implemented by measuring the vibration displacements, processing the data digitally, and adequately regulating electric switches. These operations are managed by a built-in digital processor. The driving power for the digital processor is satisfied with a part of the energy harvested from structural vibrations. Thus, the harvester operates flexibly with the digital processor to enhance electrical energy generation, and requires neither batteries nor an external power supply. We refer to the proposed device as a self-powered energy harvester. An advantage of digital processing is that observations by a Kalman filter can be used to estimate modal structural vibrations. In addition to reducing sensor noise, the digital filter extracts modal values from the measured displacement data. Here, we describe the basic configuration of the proposed harvester and demonstrate energy harvesting from multi-modal vibrations for a structure with 2 degrees of freedom (DOF). We assess the internal energy consumption of self-powered control devices, such as the digital processor and DC/DC converter. In addition, we show the robustness of the proposed harvester by conducting a harvesting experiment with electrical noise. The results demonstrate that the selfpowered energy harvester generates more electrical energy from 2DOF vibrations than does a conventional harvester, and accurately operates under noisy conditions.


The oligonucleotide primers for amplifying the PlpB gene of PMC48-1 strain were designed according to the sequence of gene of PM70 strain. The amplified gene which is 831bp was inserted into the prokaryote expression vector pGEX -KG, and the resulted recombinant plasmid pKG -PlpB was sequenced. This sequence processes a homology of more than 99% compared with the published sequence of PlpB gene of PM70 in GenBank. The pKG-PlpB was transformed into E.coli BL21 (DE3) competent cells. After induction by IPTG, a 56 kDa recombinant protein was expressed. Western blot analysis revealed that the recombinant protein have a good reaction with antisera of fowl cholera.


The fertigation with liquid effluents has become an interesting alternative for reducing production costs in the cultivation of coffee. The objective of this study was to evaluate doses of effluent from a biodigester (fermentation) in the initial development of coffee plants. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse in pots of 13 dm. The experimental design was randomized blocks, with six doses of fertigation. The treatments were: T1 = water + mineral fertilization; T2 = three applications week-1; T3 = two applications week-1; T4 = one application week-1; T5 = one application every 2 weeks; T6 = one application every 3 weeks. It was evaluated plant height, stem diameter, fresh and dry biomass of shoot and root system and leaf contents of macro and micronutrients. The fertigation with liquid effluent does not provide significant changes in the initial development of coffee plants in a greenhouse. At the initial stage of the coffee plant development, the treatments including fertigation were similar to mineral fertilization. However, high levels of leaf N, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Mn, above the critical levels determined for plant development, were observed when fertigation was applied. These high levels can improve coffee plant performance and production at late ages.


of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by bongkrekic acid was measured. Again, the presence of CoA considerably shortened the time required for bongkrekic acid to act. A possible explanation for these observations is that bongkrekic acid must first be converted into a CoA derivative before it can inhibit adenine nucleotide translocation. Further work is aimed towards the isolation of such a derivative and identification of an enzyme (probably an acyl-CoA synthetase) responsible for its formation,


Surface irrigation is the dominant method of on-farm irrigation in Egypt as well as world wide. Furrow watering is considered as one of the main types of surface irrigation. Most of the cultivated crops are grown under such type of watering. The principal advantage of furrow irrigation is the less irrigated area comparing with that under basin irrigation which equaled total cultivated acreage. Under the present situation of water shortage that facing Egypt resulted in capita share from water for different purposes becomes less than the water poverty edge and expected more decreasing to reach the scarcity level in the few coming decades. Moreover, Egypt is the solely country in the world that its agriculture is depending mainly on irrigation, i.e. irrigated agriculture due to the high arid condition of the country. For clay soils, the horizontal movement of irrigation water is exceeding the vertical downward movement. So, in this direction, a field trial in two seasons was conducted in North Nile Delta region to find out the impact of alternative surface irrigation on beet water relations. Comparing with the traditional furrow irrigation; fixed as well as exchangeable alternative surface irrigation effects on water saving, crop water productivity and on-farm irrigation efficiencies were analyzed.


Plenaries.- Less Chalk, Less Words, Less Symbols ... More Objects, More Context, More Actions.- What's all the Fuss about Competencies?.- A Theory of Mathematical Modelling in Technological Settings.- What Knowledge Do Teachers Need for Teaching Mathematics Through Applications and Modelling?.- Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit.- Modelling for Life: Mathematics and Children's Experience.- Modelling in Lower Secondary Mathematics Classroom - Problems and Opportunities.- Mathematical Modelling - a Conversation with Henry Pollak.- Issues in Applications and Modelling.- Epistemology and Modelling - Overview.- Modelling Body Motion: an Approach to Functions Using Measuring Instruments.- Emergent Modelling as a Precursor to Mathematical Modelling.- Proving and Modelling.- A Developmental Approach for Supporting the Epistemology of Modeling.- What is Distinctive in (Our Views about) Models & Modelling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching?.- Everyday Instruments: On the Use of Mathematics.- Authenticity and Goals - Overview.- How to Replace Word Problems with Activities of Realistic Mathematical Modelling.- The Relevance of Modelling and Applications: Relevant to Whom and for What Purpose?.- Features and Impact of the Authenticity of Applied Mathematical School Tasks.- Elementary Modelling in Mathematics Lessons: The Interplay Between "Real-World" Knowledge and "Mathematical Structures".- Modelling Competencies - Overview.- Levels of Modelling Competencies.- Modelling Both Complexity and Abstraction: A Paradox?.- Studying and Remedying Students' Modelling Competencies: Routine Behaviour or Adaptive Expertise.- Assessing the "Phases" of Mathematical Modelling.- The Arithmetic Operations as Mathematical Models.- Applications and Modelling for Mathematics - Overview.- The Roles of Modelling in Learning Mathematics.- Developing Mathematical Literacy.- Classroom Activities and the Teacher.- Uses of Technologies in Learning Mathematics through Modelling.- Modelling Pedagogy - Overview.- Mathematical Modelling in High School Mathematics: Teachers' Thinking and Practice.- Mathematical Modelling in Teacher Education - Necessity or Unnecessarily.- Building Concepts and Conceptions in Technology-Based Open Learning Environments.- Towards a Wider Implementation of Mathematical Modelling at Upper Secondary and Tertiary Levels.- How Might we Share Models Through Cooperative Mathematical Modelling? Focus on Situations Based on Individual Experiences.- Implementation and Practice - Overview.- Some Conditions for Modelling to Exist in Mathematics Classrooms.- Picture (Im)Perfect Mathematics!.- Learning Mathematical Modelling - From the Perspective of Probability and Statistics Education.- Considering Workplace Activity from a Mathematical Modelling Perspective.- Assessment and Evaluation - Overview.- Modelling Based Project Examination.- Mathematical Modelling and Applications: Ability and Competence Frameworks.- "To Model, or to Let Them Model?" That is the Question!.- Modelling and Applications in Pisa.- Assessment of Applied Mathematics and Modelling: Using a Laboratory-Like Environment.- Educational Levels.- Modelling and Applications in Primary Education.- Possibilities for, and Obstacles to Teaching Applications and Modelling in the Lower Secondary Levels.- Upper Secondary Perspectives on Applications and Modelling.- Teaching Applications and Modelling at Tertiary Level.- Modelling in Teacher Education.- Cases in Applications and Modelling.- Moving the Context of Modelling to the Forefront: Preservice Teachers' Investigations of Equity in Testing.- Modelling in Ontario: Success in Moving Along the Continuum.- Implementation Case Study: Sustaining Curriculum Change.- Mathematical Modelling of Social Issues in School Mathematics in South Africa.


The present study aims to improve current understanding of the sedimentation of subtidal point bars, analyzing interaction between tidal currents and waves in shaping a submerged meander bend of the microtidal Venice Lagoon (Italy), and it is based on coupling of sedimentological studies, geophysical analyses and numerical modelling. The Venice Lagoon is characterized by an average depth of about 1·5 m over subtidal platforms and a mean tidal range of about 1·0 m. The morphodynamic evolution of the lagoon is strongly affected by intense seasonal windstorms, which promote the formation of wind waves triggering sediment resuspension and bottom erosion. The study channel is 70 to 100 m wide, it has a radius of curvature of about 260 m and cuts through a permanently submerged subtidal platform. Water depth ranges from 1·0 to 5·0 m below mean sea level on the subtidal platform and channel thalweg, respectively. Different from classical architectural models, the study point‐bar beds do not show sigmoidal geometries, but consist of horizontally‐bedded deposits abruptly overlying clinostratified beds. Sedimentation in the study bar is hypothesized to stem from the interaction between the in‐channel secondary helical flow, as for most meander bends, and wave winnowing of the subaqueous overbank areas. Laterally accreting point‐bar deposits point out that the curvature‐induced helical flow redistributed sediment from the channel thalweg to the bar top and contributed to the development of the 'classical' fining‐upward grain size trend. The marked truncation surface, separating clinostratified bar deposits from overlying horizontally‐bedded platform sediments is interpreted here as due to bar top wave‐winnowing, which also possibly promoted bank collapses. In the proposed model, sediments remobilized from bar top and subaqueous overbank areas were transported into the channel, forming peculiar 'apron‐like' accumulations, where sand accumulated through avalanching processes and mud settled down from suspension.


Background  Animals in captivity should receive adequate sunlight exposure for sufficient generation of vitamin D [25(OH)D]. In the present study, 25(OH)D serum levels of 84 Callithrix penicillata primates were evaluated.


The transmit matrix,characteristic of misalignment and field of the directional prism resonator are discussed by means of matrix optics.Resonator comprised of a plane output mirror and a directional prism is thought as a critical resonator of self-collimation,also,stable or unstable resonator configuration is decided by the radius of the output mirror,the misalignment sensitivity of the critical resonator is so small,even zero,that is helpful for acquiring the super anti-misalignment stability,and ensures the ideal beam quality.The matrix of Jones is to describe the pbase transformation of the directional prism,there are six types of eigenvector in cavity.


Staphylococcal enterotoxins A (SEA) and D (SED) were added to infant formula and to cream of celery soup to determine the persistence of their serological and biological activities during simulated commercial canning. When both food products were retorted at 123.9°C with Fo values of approximately 3 and 8, the enterotoxins were reduced or inactivated serologically; however, they were found to be biologically active when injected into kittens. It was concluded that SEA and SED remain active under some canning conditions and are potential hazards to health.


In this present study, we propose the concept of tricomplex-controlled metric spaces as a generalization of both controlled metric-type spaces and tricomplex metric-type spaces. In this work, we establish fixed point results using Banach, Kannan and Fisher-type contractions supported with nontrivial examples in the setting of the proposed space. We apply the derived result to find the analytical solution of an integral equation using the fixed point technique under the same metric.


As a typical technology-intensive industry, the renewable energy industry is a standard sample for scholars to study the R&D innovation of enterprises. At present, the industry is strongly supported by the government subsidy policy in China and has developed rapidly in recent years. Its own financing constraints and lack of innovation power are also the main problems for the development of renewable energy enterprises. Taking A-share renewable energy enterprises from 2016 to 2020 as the research object, this paper constructs a panel model to empirically study the relationship between government subsidies and enterprise innovation efficiency. The findings are as follows. First, government subsidies can significantly promote the innovation efficiency of enterprises; second, the government subsidy has an obvious double threshold effect on the innovation efficiency of enterprises, and when the government subsidy is in a certain range, the subsidy effect is the best; third, the government subsidy effect of non-state-owned renewable energy enterprises is better than that of state-owned enterprises; the effect of government subsidies for renewable energy enterprises in the central and western regions is better than that in the eastern region. The threshold effect of government subsidies on enterprise innovation efficiency is also quite different.


Decisions are made daily in businesses and individuals do encounter situations where they are faced with ethical issues. The subject is how one evaluates whether an act is ethical or unethical. This research article discusses real life ethical dilemmas that could be faced in accounting or business environment and applicability of various theories of ethics that were taught in accounting theory course in the undergraduate accounting program. The researcher employs a number of case studies highlighting the stories related to ethics that have been experienced in the past working life. Teleological and deontological theories are being used to explain how one could identify that a particular act is ethical or unethical. The work of accountants requires them to maintain high level of ethics to ensure integrity of the profession.


A turbine blade which is adapted to be supported on a turbine or impeller has a blade profile section to a longitudinal axis of the impeller extending radially in relation and having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side and a suction side. At least one top coat extending in opposite circumferential directions, wherein the sheath has a first hardfacing, which is designed to come up with a serving as a counterpart second hardfacing on a sheath of an adjacent blade, extending in the circumferential direction engages. The first hardfacing defined by a surface portion which varies in the circumferential direction with an increasing radius measured from the longitudinal axis of the impeller from.


In his monograph, Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism, Erik Wielenberg offers arguably one of the most sophisticated defenses of the autonomy thesis to date. Wielenberg argues that (I) the divine command theory is problematic because it cannot account for the moral obligations of reasonable unbelievers; (II) Godless normative robust realism (GRNR) can be formulated in a way that avoids the standard objections to the autonomy thesis; and (III) GRNR provides a better account of intrinsic value. In this paper, I will argue Wielenberg's defenses of the autonomy thesis fails. I will argue that his objection to divine command theories fails, that he fails to address two standard challenges to the autonomy thesis adequately, and, finally, that Wielenberg fails to show that GRNR better accounts for the intuition that certain things are intrinsically good than various forms of theistic


This study examines the impact of global television on local cultures by comparing TV content and audience responses from India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan. It examines what negative values are portrayed and what local audiences perceive as the impact on their societies. Many of the negative values of global TV identified by these audiences could also be found in local programming. Indeed the display of different values could arguably depend more on a broadcaster's programming strategy than a specific programme's country of origin. In general the respondents did not believe that the negative values identified had any significant effect on local cultures or their own way of life. On the contrary, they perceived many benefits in the exchange of knowledge and culture. The findings indicate that the fear of cultural invasion from global television may not be warranted.


This paper proposes a smart agriculture system which include of soil sampling, drone seeding, pesticide/fertilizers spraying and farm condition monitoring through the application of IoT sensors and drones for new farms and farms practicing crop rotation. Drone will collect farm information such as soil humidity and pH value from ground sensor where farmer pre-plug in the farm. The connection between ground sensor and drone are using Zigbee due to its capability of wide range connection. The collected data will then transmit to gateway through LoRa and the information would then store in the cloud as data storage and data analysis. Through the proposed application we believe that the farming work is more automated and crop yield rate will improve.


The binding of ligands to anion binding exosite I (ABEI) and exosite II (ABEII) on prothrombin (II) derivatives plays an integral role in regulating their function. These exosites are located on opposite faces of the proteinase domain and exhibit unique binding specificities. Fragment 1.2 (F12) binds to ABEII and acts as a zymogen-promoting allosteric ligand. Conversely, Na + and active site ligands stabilize the proteinase state. Here, we investigated the allosteric linkage between ABEI and the Na + binding site, active site or ABEII using multiple ABEI ligands and prothrombin derivatives differentially poised along the zymogen to proteinase continuum. Prethrombin 2 (P2) represents the most zymogen-like state that differs from thrombin (IIa) because it is not cleaved at the R 320 site. To mimic the zymogen-like character of P2 in a cleaved IIa molecule, residues responsible for N-terminal insertion and proteinase formation (IVE) were swapped with TAT to produce IIa TAT , a mutant with vastly diminished proteolytic activity. Alanine was substituted with the catalytic serine residue in IIa (IIa S195A ) to represent the proteinase without a ligand at its active site. The thermodynamics of interactions between the thrombin inhibitor and ABEI ligand hirugen (Hir) and the various reference states was assessed using isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Titration of Hir into P2, IIa TAT or IIa S195A revealed thermodynamically more favorable binding to proteinase-like IIa S195A in comparison to zymogen-like P2 or IIa TAT . Binding of Hir to IIa S195A was affected by the concentration of Na + at constant ionic strength. Global analysis done in the presence of increasing concentrations of Na + revealed a 5-fold increase in Hir binding affinity when IIa S195A is ligated with Na + ; demonstrating positive allosteric linkage between ABEI and Na + binding. Using a truncated Staphylocoagulase variant that binds ABEI without N-terminus insertion (SC 13-325 ), we found that SC 13-325 binding alone promoted active site opening and fluorescent inhibitor incorporation in zymogen-like P2. These data reinforce the observation that ABEI ligands promote a proteinase-like state in prothrombin derivatives through positive allosteric linkage with the Na + binding and active sites. Interestingly, inhibitor incorporation and ITC studies both showed that SC 13-325 interacts poorly with II, but strongly with P2 despite both species being zymogens. These findings imply that the ABEII ligand F12, which is produced upon cleavage of II at R 271 to form P2, may display negative allosteric linkage with ABEI. Titration of SC 13-325 into pre-formed complexes of P2/F12 revealed a drastic reduction in affinity of SC 13-325 for P2 when F12 is bound to ABEII. Thus, F12 binding at ABEII negatively affects ABEI binding. Further studies used soluble thrombomodulin (sTM) as the most physiologically pertinent ligand for ABEI. ITC and global analysis of the binding of F12 to P2 in the presence of different concentrations of sTM revealed a ~1200-fold decrease in binding affinity and enthalpy for either the binding of F12 to P2 bound to sTM or the binding of sTM to P2 bound to F12. These data illustrate the strong negative linkage associated with the binding of protein ligands to ABEI and ABEII which yields the appearance of competitive and mutually exclusive binding at the two sites despite the fact that they are on opposite sides of the proteinase domain. Allosteric linkage between ligand binding at the two exosites is centered on the ability of F12 binding to ABEII and favor zymogen-like forms and ligand binding to ABEI to favor proteinase-like forms. Thus, allosteric linkage among exosites is vital to the interconversion of prothrombin species along the zymogen to proteinase spectrum. These ligand-dependent conformational shifts and associated changes in function are likely to greatly contribute to the dynamic roles that IIa plays during coagulation. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Ciacci and colleagues have misinterpreted published data on the safety of trace amounts of gluten in foods labelled 'gluten free'.1 A referenced double-blind placebo-controlled study did not conclude that 10 mg gluten per day is safe in the diet of a coeliac disease (CD) patient; this study concluded the diet should contain less than 50 mg gluten per day.2 Safety of a therapy implies lack of toxicity for a majority of patients studied, which was seen in this referenced study only for patients who received no additional gluten in their diet. A recent United States Food and Drug Administration safety analysis concluded that <1 ppm gluten was required to protect the greatest number of patients with CD.3

It is important for clinicians to understand these data, as 10 mg gluten per day represents the amount of gluten ingested in a diet of 500 g food/day, containing 20 ppm gluten, the European and North American gluten-free standard. Ciacci correctly states there is wide variation in sensitivity to gluten among patients, and conveys the widely agreed recommendation that a gluten-free diet should be as strict as possible. Unfortunately, villous atrophy on follow-up biopsy, as the best surrogate marker for disease control, remains present in about one-third of patients.4

Inadvertent gluten ingestion occurs by accidental contamination in kitchens or restaurants, from foods inherently gluten free yet contaminated at source, or from foods labelled 'gluten free'. Each mechanism of inadvertent gluten ingestion adds to the daily gluten burden for the CD patient. To minimise this burden, the very least that patients should expect is for foods labelled 'gluten free' to contain as little gluten as possible. From a practical perspective, what is achievable? Australia and New Zealand have the tightest gluten-free standards internationally; as a result, about 95% of local foods labelled 'gluten free' contain <3 ppm gluten.5 Until new therapies are developed for patients with CD, it would be prudent to optimise the only treatment that currently exists, the gluten-free diet.


This article provides a big-picture overview of the field of ethics and compliance, paying particular attention to the role and value of collaborating with human resources to achieving effective ethics and compliance programs. I hope this article will be useful to students of ethics and compliance, current and aspiring ethics and compliance practitioners, and professors who teach in the area.

The article begins by exploring the historical milestones of ethics and compliance to establish the context and legal foundation of modern ethics and compliance practice. We go on to discuss the role of ethics and compliance teams in today's companies, and the interplay of ethics and compliance, the general counsel's office, and the human resources department. We then explore the critical function of the code of conduct in an effective ethics and compliance program, from which point we examine the importance of training and role modeling to achieving an ethical culture. We conclude by discussing internal investigations and whistleblowers.

At every stop along the way, we look at the critical role of human resources and other key stakeholders in achieving effective ethics and compliance programs.


Sophia Elisabeth Brenner's poems in Swedish, German, Latin, Italian and French made her well-known in Sweden and internationally and she was called 'the tenth muse'. Her collected poems were published in 1713 and posthumously in 1732. The paper explores how Mrs. Brenner made use of classical mythology and history when composing poems in Swedish. Antiquity provided her with a treasure of motives, but she was not an unqualified admirer of the ancients who, she claimed, had been surpassed by contemporary Sweden.


Electrospinning is a simple and powerful approach to producing nanofibers, but the low yield of fibers has been the major shortcoming that limits their applications. Herein, we attempt to address this problem using bubble electrospinning, which employs polymer bubble on the free liquid surface to produce multiple jets in DC electric field. The principle, multiple jets of bubble electrospinning and morphology of electrospun mat were investigated, and the difference between the new electrospinning and traditional process were discussed in detail.


The addition of stabilizers such as hindered phenols, phosphites, hindered amines, and benzotriazoles to polyolefins provide protection from oxidation due to heat, light, or stress. The level of stabilizer in a polymer is related to polymer performance from the time of processing throughout the polymer's lifetime. As a result, measurement and control of the additive concentration that is melt compounded into the polymer is crucial. Making these measurements in the melt offers many advantages over current off line quality control methods such as GC and HPLC. This paper discusses the on-line method for monitoring the levels of hindered phenols and phosphites in polypropylene. This method is based on UV spectroscopy coupled with fiber optics. Data are presented to show the successful measurement of these additives even in the presence of potential interferants.


An error analysis is presented for the approximation of the statiornary Stokes equations by a finite element method using Lagrange multipliers.


This work is a book review considering the title Hubbell Trading Post: Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest by Erica Cottam.


ABSTRACT A teaching artist–centered research project looks at how an orchestra's partnership with schools impacts students' relationship to classical music.


Biological Variation (BV) of quantities examined in laboratory medicine can be described as of three types, namely; variation over the span of life, predictable cyclical variation that can be daily, monthly or seasonal in nature, and random variation [1]. Random variations of analytes which consist of random fluctuation around the setting point of each individual is known as the intra-individual biological variation. Additionally, each person's setting point may be different from another's, and the overall variation resulting from this difference is known as inter-individual biological variation. In mathematical terms, these are usually expressed as Coefficients Of Variation (CV) and termed as CVw for intra-individual BV and CVg for inter-individual BV [2]. In laboratory medicine, it is essential to take the BV concept into consideration to provide reliable results. Thus, clinical laboratories should minimize all the sources of variations related laboratory processes, estimate the components of BV and appropriately manage them during the entire process leading to the laboratory report. A comprehensive database constituted from BV data of nearly 320 analytes which is updated every 2 years serves as a useful reference for many clinical laboratories [3,4]. Nonetheless, there are still hundreds of constituents for which BV has not yet been estimated. Future work should focus on these specific tests. Clinicians use several approaches in the interpretation of routine laboratory tests of the patients. These include comparison with predetermined cut-off values or reference values, or a comparison between two sequential results for a specific analyte [5]. Comparison between two sequential results is not as straightforward as it seems. It should be remembered that each result has its own inherent random variation associated with laboratory activity (analytical variation, CVa) and Biological Variation (BV) [6]. It has become clear that conventional population based reference values do have serious intrinsic problems and thus, there is a need for revisiting practical applications of conventional population based reference values for getting more useful laboratory data [7]. A major problem with reference values is that biological quantities are not constants that can be measured once in one reference sample group to provide reference values that are applicable in all situations. Knowledge of the underlying BV of analytes examined in laboratories is vital to understanding the proper generation and application of traditional population based reference values. Using the BV data is the best way to detect changes in a patient's health status through a comparison between serial analytical results rather than comparison with population based reference values. This is because of the marked individuality of the majority of analytes. Hence, values obtained in consecutive analyses of samples from a patient may fall within the reference range, but show a considerable difference. When the difference exceeds a certain value, known as the Reference Change Value (RCV), a change in the patient's condition is indicated [7,8].


. The Principal Principle (PP) says that, for any proposition A , given any admissible evidence and the proposition that the chance of A is x %, one's conditional credence in A should be x %. Humean Supervenience (HS) claims that, among possible worlds like ours, no two differ without differing in the spacetime-point-by-spacetime-point arrangement of local properties. David Lewis (1986b, 1994a) has argued that PP contradicts HS, and the validity of his argument has been endorsed by Bigelow et al. (1993), Thau (1994), Hall (1994), Strevens (1995), Ismael (1996), Hoefer (1997)


Gene flow in genus Quercus has been intensively studied because of the characteristic of oak species to intercross and hybridization is a common phenomenon that frequently co-occurs in mixed stands. The mean aim of the study is to evaluate the rate of gene flow and to analyze genetic diversity in molecular traits within a woody community of three sympatric and closely related white oak species of subgenus Quercus (Quercus frainetto Ten., Q. petraea Liebl. Matt. e Q. pubescens Willd.), using nuclear microsatellites (EST-SSRs). A total of 268 oak trees, from 9 stands located in a natural mixed oak forest in central Italy, were genotyped at 12 microsatellite markers, using a PCR 12-plex protocol (Guichoux et al, 2011). This study reports the results of genetic differentiation among the three species in particular to characterize the rate of hybridization and introgression and evaluate gene flow among the three species. All nuclear markers resulted 100% polymorphic and the number of alleles varies from 3 alleles in Q. frainetto to 14 in Q. petraea with an average of 8.611 alleles per locus. The Bayesian cluster analysis (without a priori information), demonstrated elevated capacity in identifying genetically pure and mixed group of individuals while revealing inter-specific gene flow. Each of the groups individuated is characterized by a set of allele frequencies per locus which confirms the morphological traits (Viscosi & Fortini, 2011) recognizable as three species Q. frainetto, Q. petraea and Q. Pubescens. The individuals were not correctly assigned only in 0.75% of total samples. The overall percentage of hybrids varies considerably in the area of study ranging from 3.33% to 36.67% In addition, the genetic composition of stands gave proof of evidence of relationships between environmental factors and spatial distributions of pure species and their hybrids.


Op-amp is a device that is commonly used in an analog circuit that was designed to perform several of functions. Typically, as the CMOS technology becomes more advance, various of op-amp topologies are invented to suit the technology. However, most studies on past technologies have found out that the parameters are still not sufficient enough in order to meet the performance goal of CMOS 0.13μm technology. In order to select the right op-amp for CMOS 0.13μm technology, various performance specifications need to be taken into consideration. Therefore, in this project four types of op-amp topologies (Folded-Cascode, Telescopic, and Multi-stage) are characterized based on gain, output voltage and power consumption using CMOS 0.13μm technology. The development of this project consists of designing each topology by using Cadence Virtuoso tool. These op-amp topologies are compared to select the one that can provide the best performance in term of high gain, and low power.


To deal with the imprecision problem of product defective rate and various uncertainties problems of ordering costs which were inherent in actual inventory systems,Economic Order Quantity(EOQ) problem with fuzzy defective rate and fuzzy ordering cost was studied.Firstly,the uncertainty existing in inventory management was described by using fuzzy theory,and then the fuzzy EOQ model with imperfect quality and fuzzy ordering cost was proposed.Thus the objective of the model was to determine the optimal order lot size to maximize the total profit.Then assuming that the defective rate and ordering cost were the triangular fuzzy numbers,the signed distance,a ranking method for fuzzy numbers,was used to defuzz the objective.After that an optimal lot sizing were proved,which could be reduced to the optimal lot sizing without uncertainties.And the corresponding profit per unit time was derived at the same time.Finally,a numerical example was provided to illustrate the results of proposed model.And by it,the influence of fuzziness of defective rate and ordering cost on the optimal lot sizing was also analyzed.


An important issue in antenna array design is reduction of mutual coupling. In microstrip antennas this reduction can be achieved by using electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structures. These structures prevent the propagation of surface waves on the substrate of a microstrip antenna array. This paper presents a new configuration of a planar compact electromagnetic bandgap structure to reduce mutual coupling between array elements. First, the bandgap feature of the EBG structure is studied by obtaining the dispersion diagram. Next, the EBG structure is placed between two antennas to reduce the mutual coupling level. Simulation results show that a significant value of mutual coupling reduction, more than 22 dB, can be obtained by using the proposed structure.


Silylcupration of allenes has become one of the most efficient procedures for the synthesis of allylsilanes. These substrates are useful building blocks in organic synthesis since they undergo a great variety of highly stereocontrolled silicon-assisted transformations. In particular, the intramolecular carbonyl-ene reaction of oxo-allylsilanes is a powerful strategy for carbocyclic annulation of much potential in synthesis. This article shows a general survey of the recent advances in this field together with the late contributions of our lab to this subject.


Today the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) repealed the "quadruple two"—the scandalous constitutional reform that was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in the "Orange winter" of 2004. Today, in the fall of 2010, six years later, the hands of the Ukraine's political clock have been turned back. Ukraine has returned to the old edition of the constitution, and has again become a presidential-parliamentary republic. The director of the Kyiv Center for Political Research and Conflict Studies, Mikhail Pogrebinskii, gave his assessment of the event, which many have called a coup d'état, in an exclusive mini-interview with ForUm. Mikhail Borisovich, the CCU today declared that the constitutional reform of 2004 was unconstitutional, with the clarification that this decision is final, not subject to appeal, and mandatory for implementation. However, some experts have already expressed the assumption that it will "get hung up" in the parliament. What do you say?


Whilst there have been several reports of the spin Seebeck effect to date, comparison of the absolute voltage(s) measured, in particular for thin films, is limited. In this letter we demonstrate normalization of the spin Seebeck effect for Fe$_3$O$_4$:Pt thin film and YIG:Pt bulk samples with respect to the heat flux J$_q$, and temperature difference $\Delta$T. We demonstrate that the standard normalization procedures for these measurements do not account for an unexpected scaling of the measured voltage with area that is observed in both bulk and thin film. Finally, we present an alternative spin Seebeck coefficient for substrate and sample geometry independent characterization of the spin Seebeck effect.


It is increasingly important to quantify the spatial frequency content of errors on an optical surface. There are a variety of possible mathematical approaches, and this paper evaluates advantages and disadvantages of the standard techniques.


doi: 10.1093/af/vfz026 © Hamernik. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact email@example.com From the Editor Farm animals are important biomedical models


The origins of gate‐induced hysteresis in carbon nanotube field‐effect transistors are explained and techniques to eliminate this hysteresis with encapsulating layers of methylsiloxane and modified processes for nanotube growth are reported. A combined experimental and theoretical analysis of the dependence of hysteresis on the gate voltage sweep‐rate reveals the locations, types, and densities of defects that contribute to hysteresis. Devices with designs that eliminate these defects exhibit more than ten times reduction in hysteresis compared to conventional layouts. Demonstrations in individual transistors that use both networks and arrays of nanotubes, and in simple logic gates built with these devices, illustrate the utility of the proposed approaches.


For special occasions of the reliability of the system requirements,design the double PIC16F877 single-chip microcomputer for master control unit and based on CAN bus dual channel redundancy methods,select two phase stepping motor as a control object,use subdivision control algorithm to control stepping motor.It gives the redundancy control system main hardware circuit and algorithm,finally presents the experiment waveform,and the results are analyzed.


An attorney, as an officer of the court cannot engage in any unlawful activity or provide unlawful advice to his or her client. If found guilty of an unlawful conduct, the attorney may be suspended or prevented from practising. Advising client and writing to the tenant, threatening disconnection of municipal services or to lock out the tenant would constitute unlawful.


Case Report T.M., an 8-year-old boy, was admitted to Alder Hey Children's Hospital on July 17, 1961, with a three-day history of central abdominal pain, accompanied by some nausea and vomiting. On the night before admission he slipped in the bathroom and hurt the lower part of his left chest. This injury did not seem to disturb him much, though, in reply to leading questions, he did say that the abdominal pain had slightly increased during the night. There was no history of pain referred to the left shoulder. On examination he did not look ill or exsanguinated. His temperature was 990 F. (37°C.); pulse 135 per minute, but ofgood volume; blood pressure 1 10,X80 mm. Hg. There was no bruising or tenderness over the site of trauma, and examination of the heart and lungs did not reveal any abnormality. The abdomen looked slightly distended, and there was localized tenderness in the right iliac fossa. Bowel sounds were present, though infrequent. Rectal examination revealed no tenderness, though there was suggestion of slight fullness in the pouch of Douglas. A diagnosis of appendicitis with peritonitis was made and laparotomy was carried out on the day of admission.


This paper aims at investigating the influence of neutral gender words on translating job titles from English  language into Arabic Language. This qualitative research includes 20 postgraduate students doing their M.A in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature at Mu'tah University for the academic year 2015/2016. The sample of the study was selected randomly. The researcher used two research instruments; checklist and interview. The findings of this research showed that neutral gender words influence the process of translation in which translators face difficulties when translating  them. That is, they encounter difficult problem concluding their meanings unless used in a context, text or followed by a pronoun. This research recommends that translators should consider such words' category and be aware of their usage. Also, this study recommends that further future research be conducted in this area to overcome problems in English as a foreign translation, particularly in a Jordanian context. Keywords : Neutral Gender Words, Job Titles, Translation, Postgraduate.


There has been an increasing emphasis on patient assessment in recent literature, including a number of articles and editorials in the lournal. The importance of reassessment, however, has received only scant attention. Although few would disagree that older patients' health can change rapidly over time, variability in self-reported changes in health can be unpredictable, representing a challenge to treatment. The patient-doctor relationship is often the critical element in assessment. The success of the relationship is determined, at least in part, by the physician's knowledge of how individual patients view their health. Being attuned to such changes becomes more important with chronically ill older patients who are seen more often and for longer time periods. Patients' perceptions of their health and treatment are likely to vary on the basis of real changes in their health over time, as well as for other reasons such as the faulty exchange of information. For example, the knowledge and authority attributed to the physician can produce a one-sided communication process in which the doctor assumes responsibility for identifying information relevant to treatment. Thus, older patients can too easily become passive participants, relying instead on the doctor's specialized knowledge and expertise. Also easily overlooked are patients' personal and family concerns, their health beliefs, and changes in general attitudes toward life, all of which gain importance during extended periods of illness and become more likely to influence health perceptions.2 We interviewed 56 patients three times during their first 6 months following referral to a specialized geriatric outpatient clinic, and found little consistency in their self-health perceptions before and after their initial visit,3 and even less when we reinterviewed several months later (P < .01). Moreover, there was no pattern or objective basis for many of the changes, including changes in the ways they dealt with fairly critical health information. We also found that the oldest patients approached each clinic visit with cautious uncertainty about their health if not denial of problems. This uncertainty arose from fears of functional decline and its impact on their autonomy and daily lives-particularly the potential threat of institutionalization. Overall uncertainty may encompass the much larger issue of the impact of chronic illness on the daily lives of the elderly. Adaptive strategies that were previously successful with acute problems may not work with chronic illness. The failure of these strategies can cause uncertainty about how to deal with the illness and how to interact with physicians. Thus, current research suggests the potential difficulty of predicting future patterns of change based on health-related judgments made early in treatment. Although most physicians would be quick to say that the patient always gets a "new look" at each visit, much weight is often assigned to the chart-especially in clinical settings where patients are seen by different physicians. In the case of the geriatric patient, the medical record is, at best, incomplete. Among the implications for geriatric practice are the obvious value of updated information from patients about their health and treatment expectations, and the need for greater sensitivity to the impact of changing perceptions on compliance and on general health behavior.


Optical measurements based on laser light scattering by nanostructures provide fast and contactless measurement of the surface of nanostructures for defects. In this paper, a novel in-process measurement method based on coherent laser light scattering by sub-100-nm structures is presented. It is shown that nanostructure defects can be identified by their unique scattering pattern. This is investigated by using modified algorithms of the discrete dipole approximation (DDA). Also hardware acceleration of the DDA algorithm on a General Purpose Graphical Processing Unit (GPGPU) platform shows a speedup of a factor of 5 over a high end CPU based platform.


The invention discloses a method for preparing clear water concrete protectant, which comprises raw material mixing and a production process. The clear water concrete protectant prepared by the method has the characteristics of avoiding changing the color and appearance of a base layer, improving the durability of the clear water concrete, prolonging the service life of the clear water concrete, along with ultrahigh infiltrability, high breathability, high waterproof performance, high environmental friendliness, colorlessness and transparency. Compared with products of the same kind, the clear water concrete protectant has higher infiltrability, high fouling resistance and high alkali resistance.


The paper analyses the structural characteristics and diseases of rigid-framed arch bridges of Shandong Province,summarizes the effects of recent years′ maintenance and consolidation,and thus preliminarily puts forward effective maintaining and consolidating plans and improving measures from the aspects of structural analysis,(economic) benefits of consolidation scheme,and flexibility of construction.


This study examines the relationship between parental restrictions and children's outdoor activities and identifies the factors that influence these restrictions. A questionnaire survey of 464 children and 359 parents in an elementary school in Tsukuba City, Japan, revealed that parental restrictions could make children's outdoor activities more structured and supervised. Moreover, strict parental restrictions can change the nature of children's outdoor activities from playing with other children to playing with the accompaniment of adults, and can change their location from public open spaces to private territorial spaces. The results also show that the degree of parental restriction is affected by perceived crime danger at children's playgrounds, social relationships with neighbors, and children's demographic characteristics. Based on these results, this study examines the role of urban planning in the improvement of children's outdoor activities.


Despite its apparent simplicity, Inuit art has inspired interest from art appreciaters of many varied levels of sophistication. The symbols and themes in Inuit art works often evoke stirring emotional responses in their viewers. This book studies Inuit art from prehistory to the present and explores the ways in which it has been influenced by and has influenced non-Inuit artists and scholars, concentrating on its methodology and aesthetics. Part One gives the history of the main art-producing prehistoric traditions in the North American arctic, concentrating on the Dorset who once flourished in the Canadian region. It also demonstrates the influence of theories such as evolutionism, diffusionism, ethnographic comparison, and shamanism on the interpretation of prehistoric Inuit art. Part Two demonstrates the influence of such popular theories as nationalism, primitivism, modernism, and postmodernism on the aesthetics and representation of twentieth-century Canadian Inuit art. This discussion is supported by interviews conducted with Inuit artists. A final chapter shows the presence of Inuit art in the mainstream multi-cultural environment, with a discussion of its influence on Canadian artist Nicola Wojewoda. The work also presents various Inuit artists' reactions to Wojewoda's work.


Virtual Reality is a useful platform for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) users as it offers a relatively safe and cost-effective way for BCI users to train and familiarize themselves with using BCI in a virtual environment before using it in a real-world scenario. Hence this paper presents a pilot study of a virtual navigation task, where control signals from a synchronous multi-class motor imagery-based BCI (MI-BCI) is used by the subject to perform a navigation task in a 3D virtual environment, from a first-person perspective displayed on the computer screen. Preliminary results on one healthy subject showed that the MI-BCI was able to distinguish between 4 classes of motor imagery with an accuracy of about 67.5%, and the subject was able to navigate through the virtual environment in 87 trials in contrast to a theoretical minimum of 74 trials. Results from this study provide motivation to further investigate the potential of the MI-BCI in a larger-scale study, with the possibility of future clinical applications such as a training tool for users in BCI-based rehabilitation and other assistive technologies such as neural prosthetics or brain-controlled wheelchairs.


Declaration of interest None. Fundingdetailed in Acknowledgements. The Korean War (1950–1953) is notable for several significant battles, the first collective military action by United Nations members, extremes of terrain and weather, and a lack of public interest despite a total of more than 4 million casualties from both sides (Evans, 2000; Odgers, 2003). In the postwar decades Korean War veterans have received little attention in veteran health literature compared with Second World War, Vietnam War and Gulf War veterans, and few researchers have continued to investigate the health of this ageing group into the 1990s and 2000s. These studies generally suggest that adverse health effects of Korean War service may be persisting well into later life, but their findings are limited by reliance on small, clinic-based samples (Blake et al, 1992; Hyer et al, 1999; McCranie & Hyer, 2000), small numbers of Korean War veterans within larger study groups (Sutker & Allain, 1996; Port et al, 2001), self-referred populations (Spiro et al, 1994; Hunt & Robbins, 2001), longitudinal studies excluding people with pre-existing illnesses (Spiro et al, 1994; Schnurr & Spiro, 1999) and a focus on non-representative prisoners of war (Page et al, 1991; Engdahl et al, 1997; Page & Miller, 2000; Port et al, 2001). Further, few studies have recruited a non-veteran comparison group against which to compare veterans' results. This paper describes results from a study that aimed to investigate psychological health in Australia's entire population of surviving male Korean War veterans and a comparison group of similarly aged Australian men. The impact of Korean War deployment characteristics, such as service branch, age and rank at deployment and combat severity, on veterans' psychological health 50 years after the war was also investigated.


THE DOLLMAKER (1954) completes Harriette Arnow's Kentucky trilogy, which also includes Mountain Path (1936) and Hunter' Horn (1949); the novels are linked not only by their sympathetic portrayal of rural Cumberlanders, but also by their concern with characters who feel unable to act freely in a crisis. The Dollmaker is the best known of Arnow's works and the one in which that concern has been the most misunderstood. Joyce Carol Oates has described The Dollmaker as "one of those excellent American works that have yet to be properly assessed, not only as excellent, but as very much American."' Despite a favorable reception and a small body of recent, and generally feminist, criticism, the novel has yet to receive recognition for its imposing and original treatment of a recurring American theme, the necessity of assuming individual freedom and responsibility. The dollmaker, Gertie Nevels, an uprooted Cumberland sharecropper with five children and a weak husband, encounters injustice and misfortune in the squalid industrial suburbs of World War II Detroit. Faced with bleak conditions, Gertie feels alienated, stifled, and, at critical moments, acquiescent. Through complex reference to the Judas legend, Arnow raises the question of whether acquiescence in such circumstances counts as betrayal or victimization. That Amow probes Gertie's failures and her guilt against this backdrop of formidable determining influences accounts for the novel's peculiar force and tension -and may account as well for critical failure to come to terms with its themes.


Mortality dynamics plays an important role in understanding mortality and life expectancy that will impact on economy of the countries. Many studies have considered Lee Carter method with time index as an indicator to do the forecasting. In order to forecast the mortality rates, the period index in the Lee Carter model is applied to the random walk with drift model. Despite its performance on the forecasting ability on the Lee Carter model, it is lack in term of time varying parameter that leads to higher error when fitted with random walk of drift and less accurate when forecasting the model. This is because the random walk with drift model is only adequate to data with linear series. In this study, we used the concept of non-linear time series model and then proposed a self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) to the period index. It shows that our model outperformed the random walk with drift (RWD) model for forecasting accuracy when Malaysian mortality data from 1980-2010 are considered. Long term forecasting analysis up to 2017 comparing the two models are then performed.


Abstract Objectives Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is a common musculoskeletal dysfunction presenting with pain at the anterior aspect of the knee joint. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether implementation of mobilization-with-movement (MWM) prior to hip or knee exercises can achieve early pain and functional ability improvements in patients with PFPS. Methods Fifteen males and 25 females, 18–40 years of age with PFPS, were randomly assigned into three treatment groups. Patients in Groups A and B received MWMs for 1 week and performed either hip or knee exercises, respectively, for five more weeks. Physiotherapeutic modalities were implemented for 6 weeks in patients of Group C, who served as control. Pain and function was measured pre-intervention, post-MWM application, and post-intervention, using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS). Results The study revealed significantly improved post-MWM VAS and LEFS scores compared to pre-intervention scores for both Groups A and B (P < 0.001). Patients in Groups A and B demonstrated significantly improved post-MWM and post-intervention VAS and LEFS scores compared to Group C (P < 0.001). Post-intervention VAS and LEFS scores, however, between Groups A and B were not statistically significant. Discussion Our findings suggest that MWMs improve pain and function in PFPS patients within 1 week of application. Further improvements may be achieved by implementing either hip or knee exercises.


The virus responsible for the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Initially it is recognized


Canvas is one of the most widely used Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and, due to the pandemic, has become one of the primary tools many students use to access course content. Canvas provides everything that one would expect in a modern LMS: the ability to host and organize content; create, manage and grade assignments and quizzes; communicate via discussion boards and announcements; and integrate with external tools. But the devil is in the details, and Canvas suffers from significant shortcomings, some particular to computing courses, others that impede large course management and efficient instructor workflows. Participants in this BOF will share their successes, frustrations, failures, and workarounds using Canvas in computing courses. In the spirit of common commiseration, each participant will be welcome to highlight one "Canvas gripe", such as a specific example of poor usability or missing feature. (In the interest of time there's a limit of one gripe per person!)


Discloses a data processing apparatus, the program management apparatus, program management system, can reliably and efficiently manage and update the control program of the data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus analyzes the received data (S3), updating the program when the acquired data is transmitted from the high-level apparatus, wherein the program update data is temporarily stored in the storage means. Event program update request occurs at step (S1), a step (S4) proceeds to step (S9), the update process executing program with program data updated and stored in the storage means used, and the completion of the program after the update notification level device to complete the update, wait again become in step (S1) event. Step (S4) of the program update request timing is set after the timing of the program update data transmitted from an upper apparatus.


Question of public involvement in urban development processes grows to be among the major contemporary issues of new urban governance. Local powers, traditionally based on the elected bodies (the council and the mayor) is recently being challenged by growing, often unstructured and informal urban movements. New powers have been renegotiating supremacy relations, often using social media and digital tools. The same time digital tools are used by municipalities to expand public participation. Direct participation in urban management evolve to be a basic civic right, but it is seldom correlated with responsibilities and consequences of common, especially digital, decisions. New apps and programs create many opportunities for public participation, but social media often lack broader consideration, compromise and conciliation. Simplistic digital participation can be easily fuelled by internet ignorance, expertise relativism or 'balanced routine'.


The reaction of 2-guanidinobenzimidazole (GBI) and (η5-C5H5)Ru(PPh3)2(Cl) in refluxing toluene gives the chelate [(η5-C5H5)Ru(PPh3)(GBI)]+Cl– (1+Cl–; 96%). Subsequent anion metatheses yield the BF4–, PF6–, and BArf– (B(3,5-C6H3(CF3)2)4–) salts (77–85%). Reactions with CO give the carbonyl complexes [(η5-C5H5)Ru(CO)(GBI)]+X– (2+X–; X– = Cl–, BF4–, PF6–, BArf–; 87–92%). The last three salts can also be obtained by anion metatheses of 2+Cl– (77–87%), as can one with the chiral enantiopure anion P(o-C6Cl4O2)3– ((Δ)-TRISPHAT–; 81%). The reaction of [(η5-C5H5)Ru(CO)(NCCH3)2]+PF6– and GBI also gives 2+PF6– (81%). The pentamethylcyclopentadienyl analogues [(η5-C5Me5)Ru(CO)(GBI)]+X– (3+X–; X– = Cl–, BF4–, PF6–, BArf–; 61–84%) are prepared from (η5-C5Me5)Ru(PPh3)2(Cl), GBI, and CO followed (for the last three) by anion metatheses. An indenyl complex [(η5-C9H7)Ru(PPh3)(GBI)]+Cl– (96%) is prepared from (η5-C9H7)Ru(PPh3)2(Cl) and GBI. All complexes are characterized by NMR (1H, 13C, 31P, 19F, 11B), with 2D spectra aid...


More and more people live in cities, cities that both present opportunities, in terms of potential sustainable growth and challenges, for example regarding insufficient infrastructure and waste man ...


In the manufacturing industry,equipment which is the material base of organization production plays a very important role.Modern device exhibits complicated structure,perfect functions,and high degree of automation.It can effectively improve equipment management by using advanced information technology.Hence,implementation of an equipment management information system has become an important part of enterprise informatization.With the increasing complexity of the architecture and web applications of the equipment management software,the original CGI,ISAPI and other technologies are difficult to meet the requirements to access and operate distributed objects.The best way to manage the risk is to build a distributed object framework of web design.Therefore,in this paper a method of modeling web-based equipment management system(WEMS) with unified modeling language(UML) was presented.The full life cycle visual modeling of a specific areas system was studied by combining component technology and web technology,aiming to achieve the goal of a reuse system.Finally,a highly reusable WEMS was developed and proved to be effective in the actual project.


Nowadays, demand for slimmer and better performance consumer electronics increases dramatically. As PCB size keeps shrinking, power integrity issues such as high voltage drop and power loss arise due to lack of power and ground planes and broken power and ground shapes caused by densely-populated signal vias. In this paper, a novel design of power and ground bridging trace, placed between anti-pads of through-hole vias, the voltage drop issue can be greatly improved.


Abstract An extract of Calendula officinalis. Linn. (Compositae) was evaluated for its antioxidant potential in vitro. and in vivo.. Calendula officinalis. extract was found to scavenge superoxide radicals generated by photoreduction of riboflavin and hydroxyl radicals generated by Fenton reaction and inhibited in vitro. lipid peroxidation. Concentrations needed for 50% inhibition (IC50) were 500, 480, and 2000 µg/mL, respectively. Extract scavenged ABTS radicals and DPPH radicals and IC50 were 6.5 and 100 µg/mL, respectively. IC50 values were compared with that of ginger extract, which is a standard antioxidant extract. The drug also scavenged nitric oxide, and the IC50 was found to be 575 µg/mL. Extract also produced dose-dependent scavenging of nitric oxide in culture. The oral administration of Calendula. extract inhibited superoxide generation in macrophages in vivo. by 12.6% and 38.7% at doses of 100 and 250 mg/kg b.wt. Oral administration of Calendula officinalis. to mice for 1 month significantly increased catalase activity. The extract produced significant increase in glutathione levels in blood and liver. Glutathione reductase was found to be increased, whereas glutathione peroxidase was found to be decreased after administration of Calendula. extract. These results indicated Calendula officinalis. has significant antioxidant activity in vitro. and in vivo..


In many countries like India, the population is more living in rural areas as compared to cities. There is a large gap present between the facilities people get in cities and rural areas. There is lack of awareness and facilities in villages and hence they don't bother much regarding health monitoring during pregnancy. Pregnancy is a very crucial stage which demands extra care and concern. Hospitals are not nearby in villages so people don't bother to go for a regular check up. To reduce fetal mortality rate and to identify any health related issue, regular check up is very important. In our paper, our system involves the functionality of health monitoring due to the interaction of doctor and pregnant women. A mobile Application is used for the interaction. Parameters like heartbeat rate, temperature, fetus movement and blood pressure is measured using sensors. All the Results are recorded in cloud. Application is used to access the data stored. There is a Standard set for normal condition so there is a alert message indication in doctor's app for showing the fluctuations happening. Main aim of this system is to monitor the crucial parameters and keep the record so that doctor can take care of the Women's and the fetus health. Without going to the hospital, Health status of the woman can be updated.


This report presents the conceptual design of a pilot plant to convert one ton per hour of coal to a clean distillate fuel boiling in the range of C/sub 4/ to 650/sup 0/F and a methanol fuel, both suitable for gas turbine fuels. Two cases are presented representing one site which contains some of the required equipment and services at Texaco's Montebello, California gasification pilot plant and another site suitable for a grass roots installation such as Wilsonville, Alabama. In addition to the two cases studied, a number of alternates are also estimated such as coal preparation, residue melting, Stretford sulfur removal and methanol recycle. Flowsheets, equipment lists, utilities, operating costs and plant estimates are presented. Total plant investment including all the alternate options is $11,886,000 for Case I (Texaco at Montebello) and $12,223,000 for Case II (grass roots).


The prepayment business model means that customers give retailers credit first, make payments in advance, and put off using the goods or services. This business strategy acquires clients by means of discounts on prepaid consumer cards, which is advantageous to the firms to withdraw cash and lock in customers. The limited edition prepayment physical card may be collaboratively customized with a variety of artistic and cultural works, promotional campaigns can be jointly launched using the prepayment business model.However, because this business model uses credit to advance product or service fees, consumers are in a weak position after payment and are vulnerable to infringement and fraud by bad businesses, so the reputation of this business model is polarized. Businesses typically offer significant discounts on prepaid consumption. In order to analyze the SWOT technique and the good and negative effects of the prepayment business model on enterprises, this article will use Starbucks as an example. According to the report, prepayment business models are used by retailers with solid financial standing and excellent company credit to build customer loyalty, secure a steady cash flow, and maintain a deposit pool. Under this consumption model, consumers might profit from the discount.


During the past decade, we monitored longitudinally by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) 22 adult patients with Ph1-positive and BCR/ABL-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who were not eligible for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Although like other


Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third most frequent cause of cancer‐related death. The IRX5 transcription factor plays a different role in multiple cancers and contributes to the development of many tumours. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of IRX5 in HCC. In this study, we found that IRX5 was abnormally upregulated in HCC tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. IRX5 promoted HCC cell proliferation and upregulated the expression of cyclin D1 and knockdown of IRX5 suppressed tumorigenicity in vivo. Furthermore, knockdown of IRX5 increased p53 and Bax expression and decreased Bcl‐2 expression. Thus, IRX5 suppressed apoptosis in HCC cells by inhibiting the p53 signalling pathway, indicating its role as a treatment target for HCC.


In recent days, on the horizon of wireless world, newly proposed multiple access scheme known as Interleave-Division Multiple-Access (IDMA) has made its remarkable impact. Researchers all over world, are making hard marks to establish the scheme to establish its claim as potential candidate for 4th generation wireless communication systems. This paper is concerned with the performance enhancement of iterative IDMA systems under coded & uncoded environment. The performance of an interleave division multiple access (IDMA) system can be improved by the optimized power allocation techniques. Based on the optimized power allocation technique we compare the performance of coded & uncoded IDMA system with random interleaver & tree based interleaver. During the simulation, it has been observed that tree based interleaver demonstrate the similar bit error rate (BER) performance to that of random interleaver however on other fronts including bandwidth and memory requirement at transmitter and receiver ends, it outperforms the random interleavers.


Simplicial fixed point algorithms can be based on either integer or vector labels. An ap-parent advantage of the algorithms with integer labels is their simplicity and stability under round-off errors due to the discrete nature of integer labels. At the same time, the application of all existing algorithms with integer labels is limited by some rigidness of their construction, in particular, in the d -dimensional space they can bear only from d +1 to 2 d labels. The num-bers of labels comparable with the dimension of space make these algorithms not very fast, especially in high-dimensional tasks. This paper overcomes this rigidness and builds a new simplicial fixed point algorithm with 2 d integer labels. To achieve this goal, the paper proves new properties of triangulation K 1 and separates all approximations of fixed points into weak and strong ones. This separation, which has never been used until this moment, is caused by the high number of labels of the new algorithm.


A method for determining stresses from isopachic contours obtained by interferometry or thermoelasticity is proposed in this paper. A Poisson equation that represents the relationship between the sum of principal stresses and an Airy stress function is solved using a finite element method. Therefore, the distribution of the Airy stress function can be obtained from the measured isopachic contours. Then, the stresses are obtained from the Airy stress function. Boundary conditions are required for solving the Poisson equation. In the present stage, tractions along the boundary are used for obtaining the Neumann boundary condition. Results of simulation and experiment indicate that stress components can be obtained from isopachics by the proposed method. Key ords Stress Separation, Stress Components, Isopachics, Sum of Principal Stresses, Airy Stress Function, Finite Element Method, Interferometry


Progressive resorption of alveolar bone occurs following loss teeth and results in severe functional, social and aesthetic problems for those individuals who are unable to cope with dentures.

Existing biomaterials used to augment the jaws with the aim of restoring the alveolar bone to enable successful denture wear suffer from problems of migration and require complex surgical techniques to achieve success. The aim of this study was to investigate glass-ionomer (polyalkenoate) cements (GIC) as a class of materials for use as bone substitute and cements and compare them with currently used calcium phosphate ceramics.

Initial biological testing was undertaken using primary bone cell and organ cultures based on explants of rat calvarial bone. In vivo evaluation involved implantation of GIG, into or onto, the mid-shaft of rat femora and study of diffusion chambers containing GIC implanted into baboons (supplied by Prof L M Jonck).

In vitro certain formulations of GIC were colonised by bone cells which regained their phenotype and laid down a collagen-containing extra-cellular matrix, cells responded less favourably to unset and fluoride-containing GIC and material with a rough surface.

In vivo direct bonding of bone to GIC based on fluoro-alumino-silicate glass occurred, with a mineralised collagen-containing extra-cellular matrix being deposited on the surface of the GIC. Aqua Cem and a fluoride-free GIC showed incomplete osseointegration.

Study of GIC indicated that this ionomeric group of materials, which can be made to resemble bone biomechanically, have potential advantages over currently available calcium phosphate ceramic bone substitutes.


The European Union (EU) aims at increasing the share of renewable energy use, of which nearly half originates from wood sources currently. An energy supply from wood sources strongly relies on green water resources, which are limited and also essential for food security and terrestrial biodiversity. We have estimated the water footprint (WF) of wood for energy consumed in the EU-28 (WFwec) by combining data on energy produced from wood sources in the EU per member state for the year 2015 from the EU energy reference scenario 2016, extra-EU trade in fuelwood and charcoal, and country-specific estimates of the water footprint per unit of wood. We find that the WFwec is large (156 × 109 m3/y), 94% of this footprint is situated within the EU, and it is almost exclusively related to green water (99%). Adding WFwec to the WF related to the EU's consumption of agricultural and industrial products as well as domestic water use (702 × 109 m3/y) signifies an increase of 22% to 858 × 109 m3/y. We show that over half of the internal WFwec is in member states that have a high degree of green water scarcity and hence very limited potential left to sustainably allocate more green water flows to biomass production. The results of this study feed into the debate on how the EU can achieve a sustainable and reliable energy supply. Policies on energy security should consider that increased use of wood or other biomass for energy increases the already significant pressure on limited green water resources.


Gas burst and fragmentation explosions induced by rapid decompression of volcanic rocks in a high‐pressure autoclave have been analyzed. We performed experiments from 4 to 20 MPa on (1) loose pyroclasts and (2) pumice from recent eruptions of Popocatépetl volcano. Our aim is to characterize the source mechanism distinguishing the physical processes that operate in the conduit which determine the dynamics of explosive volcanoes. For this aim we have analyzed experimentally the parameters that indicate the state and behavior of the conduit (i.e., decompression time, fragmentation threshold and speed, forces, and the partitioning of energy), using microseismic monitoring, the decompression time curves, and the sample rheological properties. The initial available potential energy in the system and its partitioning into different types of energies are correlated in space and time with specific stages of the explosive phenomenon. Such correlations, taken together with the energy distribution, enable the distinction of the individual physical processes involved and their causal sequence and relationships. Our observations suggest that in volcanic conduits with regular explosive activity, a source mechanism may operate whereby a causal sequence of processes results in a system that undergoes both rapid and stable transitions. Such behavior may persist over long periods of time.


Gold compounds are among the oldest disease-modifying drugs and are still widely used today for treating rheumatoid arthritis. Despite decades of use, little is known about the mode of action of this class of drugs. Here we have demonstrated that aurothiomalate (AuTM) suppresses hyaluronan accumulation by blocking interleukin (IL)-1β-induced hyaluronan synthase-1 transcription. We have further demonstrated that, in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs), AuTM acts as a specific COX-2 transcriptional repressor in that IL-1β-induced COX-2 transcription is blocked, whereas COX-1 transcription and translation is unaffected. As a consequence, PGE2 levels released by FLS are dose-dependently reduced in cells exposed to AuTM. Of similar importance is the demonstration that AuTM does block NFκB-DNA interaction. In addition, two other transcription factors implicated in inflammatory events, namely AP-1 and STAT3, are blocked as well. The effect on NFκB likely explains the inhibition of COX-2 as well as that of HAS1, as both are genes that depend on the activation of NFκB. Interestingly, AuTM does not interfere with IL-1β-induced IκBα degradation, in most cases a prerequisite for subsequent NFκB activation. Furthermore, evidence is presented that, in FLS, AuTM blocks NFκB-DNA interaction neither by binding to NFκB binding sites nor by interacting with activated NFκB proteins. Taken together, AuTM treatment of FLS blocks two of the most important proinflammatory events that are associated with rheumatoid arthritis. AuTM blocks the release of PGE2 and prevents the activation of NFκB, therefore blocking IL-1β-induced hyaluronan accumulation and likely a series of other pro-inflammatory NFκB-dependent genes.


ZrO2-Al2O3 mixed supports were prepared by the sol-gel method and calcined at 773 K and 973K.The influence of mixed support and calcination temperature on the catalytic performance of Pd/ZrO2-Al2O3 catalysts for the hydrodesulfurization(HDS) of thiophene were studied.XRD,TPR,NH3-TPD,H2 adsorption and N2 adsorption techniques were used to characterize the samples.Pd/ZrO2-Al2O3 catalyst has better hydrodesulfurization activity than those of Pd/ ZrO2 and Pd/ Al2O3 catalysts.The calcination temperature of ZrO2-Al2O3 mixed support had the certain effect on the catalytic performances for HDS over Pd besed catalyst.The ZrO2-Al2O3 calcined at 773 K had larger BET surface area and pore volume.The Pd catalyst supported on the ZrO2-Al2O3 calcined at 773K has higher activity,and this explaned in terms of the stronger metal-support interaction,the more acid sites,the higher metal dispersion and the lower apparent activation energy.


Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a quickly evolving area in computer vision and image processing due to the ever increasing number of digital images. Therefore efficient indexing is a vital part in image retrieval systems. Since the ultimate goal of any CBIR system is to simulate the Human visual system (HVS), applying some of the fundamental concepts used in HVS for identifying images such as colour, position size and shape could greatly help enhance the accuracy. Therefore, this research proposes a simple yet effective text based indexing scheme that relies on spatial relationships among dominant colours of image segments. A new connected component labelling approach along with an efficient graph based image segmentation algorithm is used for segment identification. The indexing scheme is capable of identifying both complete and partial image matches. Experiments carried out using different sets of images have yielded promising results, validating the concept"s viability for Content Based Image Retrieval.


Education in the 21 century requires educators to be more creative, but there are still many educators who use monotonous learning methods so that students tend to get bored and ignore learning. Purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the use of multiple intelligence learning methods when applied in learning Akidah Akhlak. This study uses a qualitative research method with a phenemonological approach. The phenemonological approach used is the Schutz approach. Data analysis is an inductive analysis. The subjects that became the focus of this study were the Akidah Akhlak education teachers, seventh grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah one Jember. The results of the research of the Multiple Intelligences method are effective in learning because it can provide learning motivation to students and are able to hone the intelligence of each student.


Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common, highly heritable inflammatory arthritis affecting primarily the spine and pelvis. This study was aimed to investigate the relationship between the genetic polymorphism in Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase-1 (ERAP1) gene in the position 96144608 for rs27044 SNP in exon15 within chromosome 5 with the susceptibility and severity of the disease in a sample of Iraqi patients, as this SNP was regarded as a major risk factor associated with incidence of AS . A total of 35 blood samples (25 AS patients and 10 healthy controls) were recruited in this study. Genomic DNA was extracted from those blood samples, and it was found that the concentration of extracted DNA was ranged between 200-400 pg/ml with purity of 1.8-2.0. Exon 15 of ERAP1 was amplified by using specific primers designed in this study. Results of amplification showed that a single DNA fragment of 298 bp was obtained after electrophoresis on 2% agarose gel represents the complete nucleotide sequence of exon 15. To investigate the genetic polymorphism in this exon, the nucleotide sequence for the amplified fragment was determined. Results of sequencing showed that the single nucleotide polymorphism in position 96144608 for the rs27044 was cSNP in all healthy controls group, while gSNP was found in 64% polymorphic AS patients with a significant difference than non-polymorphic AS patients (36%), which refers that this variation was regarded as a risk factor associated with the susceptibility of AS in a sample of Iraqi population.


The Sacrament of Holy Orders belongs to the most essential mysteries left by Jesus Christ. The Apostolic succession handed down to the Church is a guarantee of the continuity of the tradition and a proof of the authenticity of the Christian worship focused on the continuously present Lord. Even if the liturgical functions are common to the Church as a whole, the different liturgical traditions elaborated their own understanding of the sacrament and related ministry. This paper reflects on the essence of the Presbyterial ministry in the liturgical space of the Syriac Churches. The author starts from the presentation of the understanding of the sacrament and its validity and next discusses the structure of the rites in both West and East Syriac traditions. The last part of the presentation contains a theological reflection concerning the main consecratory prayer of the Ordination to the Presbyterate. Holy Orders; presbyterate; Syriac Churches; West-Syriac tradition; East-Syriac Tradition; priesthood Normal 0 21 false false false PL X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */
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Over the past twenty-five years, public dispute resolution has emerged as an important area of practice — linked, in part, to ongoing efforts to promote deliberative democracy. As the field has evolved, however, the market for public dispute mediators has shifted. It is already possible to glimpse the further shifts and the new intellectual challenges likely to face the public dispute resolution field over the next twenty-five years.


The concept of wave-induced 2-dimentional radiation stress firstly proposed by Longuet-Higgins is extended to 3-dimentional radiation stress by taking the earth rotation into account.The mathematical expression of wave radiation stress on the unit area of water column is derived when considering the earth rotation.The results in this paper would play a substantial role in the study of wave-driven circulations.


Objectives of financial management is an expected result of the financial activities in a specific period, which is obviously related to the economic environment for any enterprise. In the age of plan economy, the objectives of financial management were maximization of the output. At the time of market economy, the objectives of finance management were maximization of the profit and the stockholder's wealth. The development of the objectives indicates that the present stock's price doesn't really represent the appraisal of the public to the corporation's value; objectives of financial management should not be defined as maximization of the stockholder's wealth in private enterprise.


Although there have been some critics who observe the inconsistencies in David's narrative, few explain how these inconsistencies originate in David's consciousness Only some psychoanalytical readings discuss the coexistence of contradictory elements of David's development in relation to his experiences of self and loss, especially in the early stages of development However, these readings cannot explain some important social elements immanent in the novel because they are generally based on the conception of the self as a separate and autonomous identity. In contrast, this reading is more concerned with the reciprocal relation between the particular individual and his society, than with the individual as a separate identity, as far as the formation of the self is concerned. As a result of this socially-oriented reading, it will be shown that the contradictions in David's development contain more social traits than psychological traits.
Although David Copperfield appears dominated by progressive moments of an earnest self-made man with deep work ethic, some regressive moments draws David repeatedly back into the past, trapped in his nightmarish past. These regressive moments are represented by three modes in the novel David's obsessive class consciousness in his relationship to other people, his total renunciation of the past related to the experiences at Murdstone & Grinby, and his feeling of uncertainty ever-present in the tone of his narration.
According to Bakhtin, self is constructed by the interrelation between 1-for-myself (the image of I from I's point of view) and 1-for-others (the image of I from others' point of view) On the basis of Bakhtin's idea of self, the conflicts and the tensions of David's psychic life are recast as versions of the conflicts of social ideas: the willed idea of bourgeois orthodoxies of earnestness and self-help, and a snobbish ideal of bourgeois class consciousness. These contradictory ideas coexist in an uneasy balance, or an unresolved tension, and they persist throughout David's narrative


As of March 2020, educational processes have undergone a significant transformation by moving to massive and almost exclusive use. The effects of this change have manifested themselves in the school setting, in university education, and in vocational training. All educational agencies have had to adapt very quickly to these new paradigms, to remain at the side of the students and to continue their educational activities, using new computer tools and virtual learning environments towards which, in the past, there was a lot of resistance. All teachers have had a double task: to carry out the educational program in the best possible way and above all to continue to maintain a human relationship with their students. The development and wide diffusion of ICT and communication have brought to light the need to develop new interfaces of online platforms. These trends pose a challenge to all people working with educational technologies. The role of the user interface (GUI) in e-learning is critical because it is the means by which a user can intelligently interact with a machine to perform a task. A user-friendly user interface (GUI) is an essential tool in the design phase of online platforms and sites. Instructional designers and Web designers must work to ensure that the interface allows students to interact nimbly with any type of tool (including mobile tools). This article illustrates the innovations in the GUI both on the E-learning Platform of the University and on the website, the main communication spaces used by the University and the whole Administration.


Ovarian dermoids mostly remain asymptomatic during pregnancy. Large dermoids may present with torsion, hemorrhage or rupture. However, a dermoid cyst causing fetal growth restriction (FGR) and oligohydramnios is a very rare entity. We report a case of a large ovarian dernoid (15×12 cm) hampering intrauterine fetal growth. Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, patient was unable to get ultrasound examinations in early gestation, and thereby surgical intervention was not possible during the second trimester. As a result, this growing teratoma finally led to FGR by either exerting a pressure effect upon the uterus or by dwindling its blood supply.


In order to measure three-axis force, two four-part tactile sensing systems based on piezoelectricity and optics were designed and fabricated. The feasibility and reliability of the two systems were evaluated both numerically and experimentally. A general formula between the applied three-axis force and the four-part tactile sensing signals was developed. It is expected that this formula should benefit the design and fabrication of new tactile sensing systems.


This research paper concerns rethinking the concept of landscape in visual art, traditionally represented in painting as a panoramic view of the external and infinite space of Nature. Based on artists and authors such as Michel de Certeau, Robert Smithson, Anne Cauquelin, Giorgio Agamben, Francesco Careri and Vitor Ramil, we ask: Is this traditional pictorial model adequate for representing the local landscape of southern Brazil, its urban, private and public aspects, and the subjective relationships experienced in a place? The notion of landscape is understood as mutable, continually in flux and dependent on each person's construction and apprehension. During the creative process, we deal with what touches and permeates us. As artists and researchers, we question what is seen around us, by walking and inquiring about what transforms us into an individual subject in a place; how we relate to the city and how we can establish other relationships that reinvent the landscape. This study also reveals activities, since 2012, of the weekly meetings of our Research Group Displacements, Observances and Contemporary Cartographies (CNPq) at the Center of Arts, Federal University of Pelotas-UFPEL in the city of Pelotas, state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The meetings led to many artistic practices that question the concept of landscape in our contemporaniety, enabling us to perceive different possibilities for its modes of presentation. Art proposals developed reveal how the motivations, actions and reflections of the group also unfold singular perceptual approaches. This paper discusses three of this group's researchers in visual poetics and their different ways of investigating the landscape through their artistic procedures involving: dispositives for sharing the view; the transformation of everyday leftover materials; domestic destruction, and fluxes between inside and outside. Words, photography, drawing, cartography, video and walking are means for reinventing poetic landscapes.


In a series of 63 surgical patients with a positive history of rheumatic fever and whose aortic valve was removed either singly or in combination with other valves, the histological examination of the aortic valves showed functional lesions in 22 cases (35%). Organic lesions of inflammatory origin, destruction of the architecture with scarring and presence of hypertrophic vessels, were observed in 19 valves (30%). The other cases were doubtful. This ratio was identical in uni- and plurivalvular involvement. Anatomic aspects and significance of microscopic lesions of the aortic valves were discussed. The role of microthrombi and turbulent flow in the pathogenesis of the functional lesions is stressed. The authors conclude that there is no correlation between the anatomic aspects of the aortic valve deformity and the presence of histologically proven organic lesions of inflammatory origin. This provides support to the current opinion that rheumatic carditis is mainly a disease of the mitral valve.


The concern in groupware design is to choose a suitable architecture. This paper introduces groupware's architectures. Based on the integrated architecture and the copy architecture, it describes their principles and structures. Finally,it gives the examples of each architecture,including shared window,conference component,shared information,conference manager and collaboration cognitive conference system.