This work reports the fabrication of high performance solar‐blind deep‐UV photodetectors using (InxGa1−x)2O3 thin films grown on Al2O3 (0001) substrates. The In contents in (InxGa1−x)2O3 are controlled at x = 0, 0.1 and 0.2, whereas a higher In content leads to phase segregation of Ga2O3 and In2O3. The bandgaps of (InxGa1−x)2O3 films are tuned from 4.93 eV for Ga2O3 to 4.67 eV for (In0.2Ga0.8)2O3. Schottky‐type photodetectors based on metal−semiconductor−metal structure were fabricated. The (In0.1Ga0.9)2O3 photodetector is highly sensitive to solar‐blind UV spectrum and achieves a large on/off current ratio of over 108, a remarkable specific detectivity of 4.5 × 1016 Jones with a prominent responsivity of 23.3 A W−1. Such enhanced performance compared to Ga2O3 is associated with In modulated optical and electronic properties. High‐resolution X‐ray photoemission spectroscopy was used to study the interfacial electronic structure at the semiconductor−metal interface. A large Schottky barrier height of 1.31 eV was found for (In0.1Ga0.9)2O3 devices, accounting for the low dark current. More importantly, the incorporation of In introduces In 4d states hybridizing with O 2p at top of the valence band of (In0.1Ga0.9)2O3, which increases the optical absorption to generate a higher density of photocarriers, and therefore results in greater photocurrents.


As the subject investigated,the planar 2-DOF parallel translational manipulator was treated as non-dimensional structure.The physical model of the solution space,which can reflect the scope in which the geometric parameters change,was established.The relationship between link lengths and theoretical workspace shape and size were discussed.And the atlas for the theoretical workspace of the manipulator was plotted.The atlas is very useful for the design of the manipulator structure.


Although past research has explored the experience of bereaved fathers, few attempts have been made to situate this experience within a pre-existing theoretical framework. This article demonstrates how the narrative moral framework of the philosopher Paul Ricœur, known as his "Petite ethique" can help illuminate some of the features within this experience that contribute to the high rates of mortality and morbidity among these men. To demonstrate its utility, this framework is explored through a secondary analysis of data collected in an earlier phenomenological study that explored the moral experience of bereaved fathers. By clarifying some of the nuance and complexity of the experience of bereaved fathers, Ricœur's "Petite ethique" framework has implications for health-care professionals, bereaved families, and bereaved fathers themselves.


Parties of the cases concerning online market runners put forward their pleading and defense on the judgment. The judges rendered their judgments - sustain, and offered their argumentation. All these defense and argumentation go with the process of rhetoric. Exactly speaking, convincing others is the ultimate purpose, expressing their own claimed wordings. Herein the two Taobao cases give us a chance to review judgment and rhetoric.


The estimate of March 1 stocks allows for a calculation of feed and residual use of corn during the second quarter of the 2014-15 marketing year. The implied feed and residual use during the first half of the marketing year, then, allows for an evaluation of the USDA's current projection of feed and residual use for the entire marketing year. The March 1 stocks estimate of 7.745 billion bushels implied second quarter feed and residual use of 1.425 billion bushels and use during the first half of the marketing year of 3.64 billion bushels. First half use represents 69 percent of the USDA's marketing year projection of 5.3 billion bushels. That is less than the average of 74 percent in the previous four years, but is very close to the 68 percent average for the period 2006-07 through 2009-10. While the March 1 stocks estimate is 136 million bushels larger than the average trade guess, it does not imply that feed and residual use is progressing at a slower rate than implied by the USDA projection. Given the expansion that is taking place in hog, broiler, and dairy cow numbers, the projection of 5.3 billion bushels for the year still appears reasonable. Another read on feed and residual use will not be available until the June 1 stocks estimate is released on June 30.


The embodiment of the invention discloses a call processing method and a gateway, which are used for processing a calling between an MCU (multipoint control unit) and terminal equipment by the gateway. The method provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps: receiving the calling launched by the terminal equipment by the gateway; after the gateway consults with the terminal equipment, establishing a first calling between the gateway and the terminal equipment, and consulting and identifying a media type of the first calling; and adding the consultation of the media type of the first calling in the established calling between the gateway and the MCU, wherein the first calling and the established calling have different media types, so that the consultation of the calling media type is added into the established calling between the gateway and the MCU, the number of callings established by the MCU can be effectively reduced, and the port resources of the MCU are saved.


Acoustic surveys are being used increasingly to estimate the abundance of fish resources. One of the major uncertainties associated with the estimates is the identification of echotraces to species. Significant progress has been made recently in developing algorithms which use echotrace and multifrequency backscattering characteristics to identify fish schools. These algorithms are developed and tested on echotraces which have been identified by trawling, a process akin to groundtruthing. This paper provides a description of an ORACLE online database which holds a digital echogram library of ground-truthed echograms for a number of pelagic species. The database is based on the SIRENO (Seguimiento Integrado de los REcursos Naturales Oceánicos) software, developed by the Instituto Español de Oceanografía. It was developed for an EC project (SIMFAMI) aiming to develop species identification algorithms. The database stores data from acoustic surveys as: echogram images at different frequencies; polygon coordinates identifying the area in the echogram from which the trawl sample was taken; catch data (position, depth , species composition, etc.); and environmental data. The raw acoustic data is not held in the database, but is accessed on request from the host institute by reference to the filename. All acoustic data files are saved in a standard format (HAC files) to enable the exchange of data across multiple software platforms. The database can be filtered to obtain subsets of data verifying certain requirements. The database serves as a model for similar such species identification studies and provides a centralised searchable store of ground-truthed echotraces of the major commercial pelagic species of northern European waters.


The post-antifungal effect (PAFE) is defined as the suppression of growth that persists following brief exposure of yeasts and other fungi to antimycotics and subsequent removal of the drug. There is no data available on the PAFE of chlorhexidine gluconate on oral isolates of Candida albicans . As chlorhexidine gluconate is by far the commonest antiseptic mouth wash prescribed in dentistry, the main aim of this investigation was to measure the PAFE of 10 oral isolates of C. albicans following limited exposure (30 min) to sub-therapeutic concentrations of this antiseptic. The PAFE was determined as the difference in time (h) required for the growth of the drug-free control and the drug-exposed test cultures to increase to 0.05 absorbance level at 520 nm following removal of the antifungal agent. The mean duration of PAFE elicited by 0.005, 0.0025 and 0.00125% chlorhexidine gluconate was 9.91( ± 1.43) h, 1.65 ( ± 0.21) h and 0.67 ( ± 0.12) h, respectively. These findings, reported here for the first time, indicate that even a brief exposure to sub-therapeutic and sub-lethal levels of chlorhexidine gluconate may suppress the growth of oral C. albicans isolates, thereby minimising the pathogenic potential of this opportunistic fungus. Keywords: Candida albicans , chlorhexidine gluconate, post-antifungal effect.


Studies in the laboratory on the durability of concrete are not easy to perform, particularly in the case ofa linkage between a chemical attack and a mechanical property variation. As a result, these studies require significant experimentation times because on the one hand the kinetics ofchemical degradation are very slow, and on the other hand the sample size has to be adapted to the aggregate size. One of the possibilities for solving these problems consists of developing accelerated tests allowing one to reproduce the real degradation undergone by the concrete during its history. This paper deals with the use of strongly concentrated ammonium nitrate solutions as an accelerated method for the degradation of cement-based materials by deionized water. The direct application of this work is to the durability ofconcrete containers used to store radioactive wastes.


Management of penetrating liver injury has had increased successes in the past 30 years with the advent of novel techniques and radiologic advancements.1 Penetrating liver injuries can be managed nonoperatively and operatively. Nonoperative penetrating liver management should only be in select patients. These patients should be hemodynamically stable, with absence of peritonitis and evisceration. These patients should have close serial examination monitoring. Nonoperative management should also be considered in an environment where easy access to operating room and interventional radiology facilities is available. All patients with nonoperative management should obtain CT scans and angioembolization should be considered for hemodynamically stable patients with evidence of arterial bleeding, "blush," or pseudoaneurysm seen on CT. The operative management of penetrating liver injury is very complex and can pose a technically difficult situation for the trauma surgeon.2 Here we present the operative management of a penetrating liver injury to the common hepatic artery (CHA), portal vein (PV), and left lobe of the liver. This was a 52-year-old woman, presented with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the epigastrium. The initial vitals were systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 80 mm Hg and heart rate of 145 beats per minute. In the trauma bay, she was gasping for air, with a pulse, and able to talk with no measurable blood pressure. The decision was made to take her to the operating room based on hemodynamic instability in the setting of penetrating abdominal injury. She was brought into the operating room immediately where she was intubated and massive transfusion protocol was initiated. Exploratory laparotomy revealed a grade 5 liver injury with an expanding hematoma in zone I. The left lobe of the liver was partially avulsed allowing for a nonanatomical liver resection that was completed with an Endo GIA tristapler (Fig. 1). Further exploration leveled CHA injury with partial tissue loss. The right gastric artery (RGA) was transected. Injury to the lateral wall of the PV was also noted. At this point, CHA and RGA were clamped. The PV was pinched with the fingers to avoid exsanguination. After major hemorrhage was temporarily controlled, resuscitation of the patient was allowed. On communicating with anesthesia team, the patient's blood pressure was now measurable with an SBP of 60 mm Hg. Her pH was 7.0 and base deficit of –12.9. The PV was repaired with a 2-0 Prolene in a running manner maintaining hemostasis with finger compression. The CHA had some tissue loss and thus not allowing primary repair. The lumen of this vessel was


The Faculty of Engineering, University of Debrecen has a more then ten-year-long experience in developing vehicles with pneumatic drive. It is an increasing challenge for the teams to improve the performance of the vehicles with rules becoming stricter and stricter year after year. Recently a student team of the Faculty of Engineering started to develop a telemetric system to support the other student teams taking part in this or other competitions and improve the possibility of their successful racing in this way.


Ontology Instance learning is a significant part in the research of ontology evolution and is important for the applications of ontology. One of the key points of ontology instance learning is automatic instances learning from large amounts of unstructured data. In this paper, an effective method of ontology instance learning is proposed, while the experience of the methods of information extraction and the structure of ontology model--introducing maximum entropy model to the study of learning ontology instances from free texts--are also focused. The experiment is based on the Chinese Toponym Ontology. Results show that rapid and effective ontology instance learning is available.


OBJECTIVE
This study examined the impact of high-reliability changes to how measurement-based care questionnaires were administered to patients on rates of questionnaire completion.

METHODS
Medical record data were abstracted from 44,305 adult outpatient return visits to a psychiatry outpatient clinic within two 10-month periods (before and after process changes were implemented). Linear mixed models tested the change in questionnaire completion rates and the interaction effects between time and age, sex, and race.

RESULTS
Patient completion of questionnaires increased by 79% after process changes. Women were more likely to complete questionnaires regardless of the process. After process changes, older patients and White patients were more likely to complete questionnaires.

CONCLUSIONS
High-reliability process changes to measurement-based care questionnaire administration were associated with higher questionnaire completion rates. Racial, age, and sex disparities in questionnaire completion rates were notable and deserve attention in future measurement-based care implementation efforts.


A compact electron beam ion trap (WEBIT) working at room temperature without any cryogenic components is described and experimentally investigated. The trap design is based on permanent magnet technology. For the formation of the electron beam a Pierce electron gun equipped with a cathode of high emissivity is used. The ion trap is created by a compressed electron beam passing through a drift tube system consisting of three sections with corresponding electrical trap potentials. X-ray spectra measured with a Si(Li) semiconductor detector indicate the production of Kr34+, Xe44+, Ce48+, Ir64+, and Hg66+ ions.


The audio system is provided for use with other child carrying seats for use for children or a rocking chair or stroller canopy. The audio system is carried by a canopy of the child stroller or rocking chair. The audio system typically includes electrical conductors for connection to an audio source, a speaker, and the audio source and the speaker. The audio source and the speaker will be carried in a pocket sewn on the outside of the canopy, the components of the audio system can be readily removed from the canopy for repair or replacement.


Development of fascinating products has always been aspired by product designers. Trade-offs are one important aspects to consider improving a product functionality. When significant trade-off is relieved by a sort of invention, functionality of a product reaches new frontier. This paper proposes a method to support ideation of inventive solution based on analysis of trade-offs and physical contradictions in a product, which are mapped to contradiction matrix of TRIZ. Validity of the proposed method was confirmed through a demonstration with Continuous Variable Transmission.


In the absence of a fundamental theory that precisely predicts values for observable parameters, anthropic reasoning attempts to constrain probability distributions over those parameters in order to facilitate the extraction of testable predictions. The utility of this approach has been vigorously debated of late, particularly in light of theories that claim we live in a multiverse, where parameters may take differing values in regions lying outside our observable horizon. Within this cosmological framework, we investigate the efficacy of top-down anthropic reasoning based on the weak anthropic principle. We argue contrary to recent claims that it is not clear one can either dispense with notions of typicality altogether or presume typicality, in comparing resulting probability distributions with observations. We show in a concrete, top-down setting related to dark matter, that assumptions about typicality can dramatically affect predictions, thereby providing a guide to how errors in reasoning regarding typicality translate to errors in the assessment of predictive power. We conjecture that this dependence on typicality is an integral feature of anthropic reasoning in broader cosmological contexts, and argue in favour of the explicit inclusion of measures of typicality in schemes invoking anthropic reasoning, with a view to extracting predictions from multiverse scenarios.


Simple Summary Neonatal cancer represents a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with a wide range of clinical, biological, and prognostic features. Characterizing genetic cancer risk is critical for improving short- and long-term patient care, notably in this category of patients. In this article we aimed to describe the main features of neonates diagnosed with cancer in our centre during a 15-year period and to emphasize the importance of genetic screening and its implication in treatment strategies and prognosis. Abstract The occurrence of cancer in newborns within the first 28 days of life is uncommon, with different clinical presentation from other age groups. Prenatal diagnosis is reported in about half of patients, while a genetic predisposition condition is supposed. The management of a newborn with cancer can be challenging and needs to be tailored according to the histology and the primary tumor site; surgery represents the main strategy, while chemotherapy should be considered with caution because of the higher toxicity and mortality due to different pharmacokinetics in neonates compared to older children. We describe the first Italian series over a 15-year period of patients affected by both benign and malignant neoplastic diseases diagnosed within the first 28 days of life; 74 newborns were diagnosed with neonatal tumors, representing 1.5% of the cancer population in the same period, and a prevalence of germ cell tumors (55%) and neuroblastoma (16%) was observed. Surgery was performed on 80% of patients, while chemotherapy was necessary for about 20% of patients. The 5-year overall survival (OS) exceeded 90%; treatment-related deaths are a major concern, representing 80% of overall deaths. A genetic/syndromic condition was detected in 16% of the population; additionally, a cancer predisposition syndrome (CPS) was identified in about 10% of patients. According to our experience, all newborns affected by cancer should warrant genetic counselling and a screening test for CPS.


Mathematical modeling of heat transfer and hydraulic resistance in pipes with turbulators is carried out on the basis of a proven model. The flow and heat transfer parameters were calculated by calculation based on multiblock computational technologies based on the solution of the factorized finite-volume method (FKOM) of the Reynolds equations (closed using the Menter shear stress transfer model) and the energy equation (on multi-scale intersecting structured grids) for turbulators with transverse section in the form of a square (s/h = 1) and in the form of an edge (s/h << 1). The results of calculations showed the advantages and disadvantages of turbulators with a cross-section in the form of a square and in the form of an edge in relation to each other for various geometric and operating factors.


For the rapid development of commutative,two commutative theorems of rings were given,with the results of the improvement of semi-prime rings and kothe-semisimple rings: Theorem1:Let R is a semi-prime rings.If ▽x1,x2,…,xn∈R,there exist a polynomial p(t) with integer coefficients,containing such that […[[x1-x21p(x1),x2],x3],…,xn]∈Z(R) then R is a commutative. Theorem2:If R is a kothe-semisimple rings and for arbitrary a,b,x2,…,xn∈R,there exist a positive integer K=K(a,b),a word fx(x,y) containing x2 and n=n(a,b)(≥K)y′s,and a polynomial φx(x,y) with integer coefficients such that […[[∑ki=0αibiabk-i-fx(a,b),x2],x3],…,xn]∈Z(R) |∑ki=0αi|=1,then R is commutative.


Few things are more difficult than to see outside the bounds of your own perspective—to be able to identify assumptions that you take as universal truths but which, instead, have been crafted by your own unique identity and experiences in the world. We live much of our lives in our own heads, in a reconfirming dialogue with ourselves. Even when we discuss crucial issues with others, much of the dialogue is not dialogue: it is monologue where we work to convince others to understand us or to adopt our view. HOW DOES YOUR POSITIONALITY BIAS YOUR EPISTEMOLOGY?


Yoghurt is one of most important dairy product consumed throughout the world. However, recently production of yoghurt from other non animal based milk is also on the increase and is necessitated by a number of factors such as health reasons and consumer changing demands. A study was carried out to assess the sensory quality and acceptability of yoghurts made from cow, goat and soy bean milk. Yoghurt was processed from cow, goat and soy bean milk and sensory quality in terms of smell, mouth feel and taste as well acceptability were evaluated. Results showed both sensory quality and acceptability were significantly affected (p<0.05) by type of milk used in making yoghurts. Yoghurt made from cow milk had higher sensory quality scores in all the attributes followed by goat milk yoghurt while soy milk yoghurt had the lowest scores. Furthermore, cow milk yoghurt was more acceptable than the other types of yoghurt and soy milk yoghurt was the least accepted. It can be concluded that the type of milk from where the yoghurts are made from significantly affected (p<0.05) both sensory quality attributes and overall acceptability.


LTHOUGH close inbreeding does divide a population up into lines, members A of which are in general very similar-wRIGHT claims there was never any difficulty in telling to which of his 23 lines of inbred guinea pigs any individual guinea pig belonged-it has often been observed that some characters in some lines become more variable with inbreeding. The characters for which this has been found to be true are those usually called quantitative. It is common to find that the phenotypic variance of a quantitative character increases with extreme inbreeding (EMMENS 1939; REEVE and ROBERTSON 1953; MCLAREN and MICHIE 1954; BIGGERS and CLARINGBOLD 1954). Since close inbreeding reduces genotypic variance, except as described by ROBERTSON (1952) in the early generations which are not under consideration here, one must suppose that homozygosis has actually increased phenotypic variance by increasing nongenetic variance. This seems to be confirmed by the finding of BIGGERS and CLARINGBOLD (1954) that response to estrogen treatment was most variable in inbred lines, less so in random-bred lines but least variable in F, crosses between inbred lines. Members of such F, crosses would be genotypically identical but less homozygous even than the random-bred group. The experimental findings leave no doubt that inbreeding, even to the point of homozygosis at virtually all loci, can result in an increase in total variance which must result from an increase in nongenetic variance. The reason why a highly inbred individual should be more susceptible to nongenetic changes than an outbred one is not immediately obvious. It is well known that mutants are more variable than their corresponding wild-type genotypes and it may be that inbreeding fixes recessive genes at some loci in every line, and that these loci are responsible for increases in variability in the characters they affect. It must not be assumed that such an increase in variability is a characteristic of the homozygous recessive locus itself. WRIGHT (1934a, b) found abnormalities such as extra toes and otocephaly appearing in some of his lines of inbred guinea pigs but not in others. The frequency of occurrence of these abnormalities was different in the lines in which it occurred; extra toes for example occurred in lines at frequencies of 0.3, 1.7, 2.0, 7.7, 13.5, and 19.0 percent. The average seventy of the abnormality was directly related to its frequency in a line. In this example we have two types of variation exhibited, that which distinguishes normal from abnormal individuals and that which renders some abnormals more extreme than others. Detailed work of GOLDSCHMIDT (1937) , GOLDSCHMIDT and HONER (1937) and others, leaves little doubt that in cases of this sort it is not any par-


Abstract. Processes on surface of liquid metals under the action of XeCl-laser with pulsedenergy of 50 mJ are studied. Relaxation time of the surface of melted Gallium and Wood andGallium-Indium alloys is determined. Minimal relaxation time (about 4 ms) was found tobe for Ga and Ga-In alloy. Qualitative description of the processes based on the assumptionof capillary waves formation on the melted metal surface was suggested. Suggestion onthe selection of liquid metal with minimal surface relaxation time was made based on thesuggestion. 1. INTRODUCTIONAt present laser-plasma thrusters (LPT) for correction of orbits of micro-satelliteson the base of laser evaporation of difierent materials are intensively developed (seePhipps 2007). By present time flrst LPT prototypes are studied (see e.g. Phipps et al.2004, Urech et al. 2004). Targets in the form of rotating metallic rod or moving tapecovered with evaporating powder are used in these thrusters. Therewith operationtime of such LPT is low due to fast destruction of the targets. Thereupon the useof liquid metals (LM) with low melting temperature should be very promising forgreat improving of the operating time and reliability of the LPT. In this case thetarget surface is recovered after a laser pulse due to surface tension forces withoutany mechanical system feeding evaporating target material into focal area. Relaxationtime of the LM surface is important parameter deflning maximal pulse repetition rateof the LPT.It should be noticed that surface dynamics of LM after laser action is studiedinsu–ciently. There is only one paper where relaxation time of surfaces of liquid Tinand Bismuth was measured to be 0,3-1 s after the action of ArF-laser (see Toth et al.1999).237


The future management of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union remains one of the most important problems of contemporary international politics. Based on the events of 1979 and 198o there are reasonable grounds to be pessimistic regarding the immediate future. The optimism of the early 197os has disappeared, and a return to the Cold War of the 195os and 196os is a distinct possibility. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ended the era of co-operative d~tente,1 but other factors such as the steady growth of Soviet military power and interventionist behaviour during the midto late 197os also contributed to this deterioration in superpower relations. From one perspective, therefore, 198o may constitute a turning point in the conduct of superpower diplomacy. Yet, are the only options a return to the Cold War, or an attempt, undoubtedly futile, to reinstate co-operative detente? Is there a third alternative? To assess the viability of a third option, one should begin with the three key patterns which have been discerned in superpower diplomacy: co-operative, competitive, and confrontational. While there may be important exceptions, the Soviet-American relationship is now acknowledged to be non-zero-sum in terms of outcomes. That is, the pattern of the conduct of the relationship has been, and will continue to be, a mixed one in which co-opera-


Most buildings of historical and architectural value located in the Republic of Moldova are built of limestone or brick. The facades are decorated with columns, semi-columns and pilasters, balusters, bas-relief, and consoles. The degradation of historic buildings over time leads to the need for rehabilitation and restoration. Often privately owned buildings are repaired with the application of modern materials without taking into account the original materials, without researching the original elements and materials. Authentic decorative elements are replaced by polyurethane foam elements, which due to their easy installation and relatively low cost, can significantly reduce the financial costs of finishing and decorating facades. The interior walls of the brick are covered with plasterboard. The exterior walls of limestone are plastered with cement-based mortar instead of lime-based mortar. In some cases, the walls were covered with polystyrene. All these replacements reduce the architectural and historical value of the buildings lead to the loss of their authenticity. In order to preserve the value of historic buildings, it is necessary to use local materials. This research examines the possibilities of using limestone both for the rehabilitation of masonry and for the restoration of the decorative elements of buildings built in the XVIII-XX centuries.


The influence of new technological software on architectural design is increasing with every passing day. This led to new horizons discovery in spatial analysis and design interpretation and extended by engaging different techniques based on computational design and human-computer interaction. Throughout the architectural design process, decision-making on spatial performance parameters such as visibility, density, and building typology is frequently taken by examining a limited number of materials. They are conventionally optimized by employing repetitive experimentations without systematically evaluating the complete range of potential designs and their efficient outcomes. A computational design analysis approach of spatial morphological structure based on several indicators is presented in response to this challenge. This research compares contextual spatial analysis with computational methods and determines the consistency of Eskisehir technical university master plan expansion mechanisms through the relationship between layout and spatial arrangement, connectivity and accessibility, and built area and open space of the university map in two different periods (2005/2020). For density measurements, Ground Space Index (GSI), Floor Area Ratio (FAR), and Open Space Ratio (OSR) calculations in urban spatial planning are analyzed. Furthermore, the Isovist analysis (Attractiveness, Extent of observation, line of orientation, and arrangement) and their visual quality was examined using the logical interpretation approach. The collected visual and numerical data show that the visual quality of the observer's full view, as seen from the center of the university campus master plan, is directly related to the open space and built environment. The visibility and density characteristics of the university campus master plan showed that these analytical techniques are very responsive to the design limitation and context requirements. The presented application has evaluated the visual aspects of each of the university campus maps to deliver a technique to the designers so that they may implement their requested visual characteristics in future design expansion.


The invention discloses an automatic cleaner of a photovoltaic assembly. The cleaner is formed by an aluminum alloy support body, an alcohol spraying device, a conveyer, an aluminum alloy beam and a polishing device. The conveyer is arranged at the upper end of the aluminum alloy support body, the alcohol spraying device is arranged at the front end of the aluminum alloy support body, the polishing device is arranged on the back of the alcohol spraying device and on the aluminum alloy beam, and the conveyer and the polishing device are on the same horizontal height. The automatic cleaner is used for cleaning the photovoltaic assembly, the tape-out link of the assembly is omitted, the defect that subfissure occurs in the tape-out carrying process of the assembly is overcome, labor is saved so that production cost can be reduced, and the percent of pass of products is improved.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the first Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Pregnancy Success Rate Report in 1997. This article presents a description of the law that initiated the public report, a description of the surveillance system used to accumulate data for the report, and some of the results from ART cycles intitiated in 1995.


As nurse leaders, you are keenly aware that health care is an information-intensive enterprise. As such, knowledge is a strategic asset to the health care organization. To be of organizational benefit however, knowledge cannot reside solely within the individual; rather, it needs to be disseminated. Knowledge can be gained from organizational processes, products, policies, culture, various forms of documentation, and information systems used within a business. It exists for all aspects of the organization's mission: clinical care, education, research, and administrative practices.


New words are generated in quality & productivity every year. Some words point to basis & the words have an advertisement aspect for management consultant firms. Apart from these words, considering that the most important goal of any organization is obtaining (acquisition) high possible productivity or optimum productivity. We should have comprehensive & adequate acquaintance of organizational culture & present situation for making a choice of the best way of increasing productivity. We can say the way of increasing productivity is different in each organization considering important difference in organizational culture & present situation. In this chapter we explore productivity topic (subject) & practical mechanism for productivity establishment & ways of increasing productivity, then we survey established EFQM model (TQM) on Hasheminejad Hospital (Tehran, Iran) as a case study. Ultimately the first place (step) in attainment way toward excellence quality & productivity organization is presented based on output of questionnaire by utilization MADM methods. The First Step in Attainment Way Toward Excellence Quality and Productivity in Organization: Case Study on Hasheminejad Hospital


We produced jets of two immiscible liquids in a standard microfluidic flow focusing geometry, using semi-dilute aqueous polymer solutions as the external phase and immiscible liquids, oil or photocurable polymers as the internal one. We map out the different flow regimes on a "phase diagram". Two new flow regimes – oscillatory jet and spout – are observed, as a result of the non-Newtonian behavior of the external phase. In the spout regime, cusp-shaped interfaces form at the junction, emitting extremely small round jets (spouts), with diameters ranging between 1.2 and 7 μm, i.e. an order of magnitude smaller than the microchannel cross-sectional dimensions. These spouts are found to be stable over remarkably long distances. We analyze the properties of the cusps and the spouts in some detail. The system can be utilized to synthesize fibers of micrometric sizes: the fibers we obtained, under different flow conditions, have diameters ranging between 1.8 and 14 μm and lengths ranging between 0.5 mm and 2 centimeters.


Introduction: Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs) represent a rare group of primary cutaneous lymphomas. Pruritus is common in patients with CTCL and is severe and intractable in the subtypes Sézary syndrome (SS) and folliculotropic mycosis fungoides (MF). Materials and methods: We conducted a systematic review on interventions demonstrating efficacy in reducing pruritus in patients with CTCL. The primary aim of our study was to identify disease-directed and itch-directed therapies effective in reducing CTCL-associated pruritus. Our secondary aim was to outline various tools used to quantify itch in clinical studies. Results: Our study identified multiple disease-directed therapies effective in reducing CTCL-associated pruritus. Most evidence supported the use of histone deacetylase inhibitors. For the agents romidepsin, vorinostat, and quisinostat, reduction in pruritus was achieved in both disease responders and nonresponders. Various therapies were effective in managing pruritus associated with SS and folliculotropic MF. Vorinostat is effective in reducing pruritus in patients with SS. Extracorporeal photophoresis, total skin electron beam therapy, and romidepsin are effective in reducing pruritus in patients with folliculotropic MF. The antiemetic aprepitant is an effective targeted treatment of CTCL-associated pruritus. Aprepitant demonstrated efficacy in reducing pruritus in patients with all stages of MF, including patients with SS. Lignocaine administered via continuous subcutaneous infusion is effective in reducing pruritus in patients with advanced-stage MF, including patients with SS. The most frequently used tools to quantify itch were the Visual Analogue Scale and Numerical Rating Scale. Definitions of a significant reduction in pruritus were extremely varied between studies. Discussion: To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review specifically addressing the management of itch in patients with CTCL. Patients with all stages of CTCL were represented across included studies, including patients with folliculotropic MF and SS. A wide range of treatment options were identified, including options appropriate for patients with end-stage disease.


An autosuggestion search enumerate the suggestion on the go as a user types a query keyword character by character for data saved in the relational database. Now days most of the search engines, web browsers are using the auto suggestion search. Querying or searching, in relational databases becomes one of the most significant issues. The RDBMS accommodate powerful query languages and they do not allow keyword-based search. In this paper the autosuggestion search is going to be practiced in the Relational DBMS.The keywords are constructed and stored as a table and they are queried using the Structured Query Language since the relational database support it. The main intent of this paper is to accomplish the interactive speed and to increase the search performance the auxiliary indexes are constructed as a table for both single query keyword and multi query keyword. For Fuzzy search an innovative technique is refined using SQL in which dissimilarity between the words are allowed. The autosuggestion is practiced on the DBLP dataset in which the techniques are splashed using the Structured Query Language KeywordExact search, Fuzzy search, Multi-keyword query, Relational Database, Single keyword query, SQL.


Background Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Cardiospermum halicacabum is used to treat nerve disorders, stiffness, rheumatism, ear ache, snake bite, and so on. Methods In this study, the reaction parameters were optimized to control the size of the nanoparticle, which was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. Various characterization techniques such as selected area diffraction pattern, UV-visible spectroscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, dynamic light scattering, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and atomic force microscopy were employed to analyze the synthesized AuNPs obtained from C. halicacabum (CH-AuNP) against gastric carcinoma cell line. Results The cytotoxic effect of CH-AuNP against AGS, SNU-5, and SNU-16 cell lines was detected by MTT assay. The induction of apoptosis by CH-AuNP in AGS was analyzed by double staining technique using TUNEL and DAPI staining assays. Further to confirm the molecular mechanism exhibited by CH-AuNP to induce apoptosis, the intracellular ROS level was assessed and immunoblotting was performed to assess the apoptotic signaling molecules that often deregulated in cancerous condition. Conclusion The results clearly prove that CH-AuNP increases ROS and induces apoptosis in AGS, suggesting that CH-AuNP may be an effective anticancer drug with no side effects to treat gastric cancer.


The Arabian Gulf is a unique hypersaline semi-arid environment. About 53,000 ships visit the Gulf annually for oil transportation. The potential for introduction of alien species via ships' ballast water discharge is significant. Fish kills have been associated with massive blooms of the dinoflagellates Cochlodinium polykrikoides in the Sea of Oman, Karenia (Gymnodinium) selliformis, Heterosigma akashiwo off Kuwait and the appearance of these causative algae were first time recordings for this region. Although systematic studies of biota have revealed several first time recordings, based on their geographical distribution, we identified 14 species, ranging from microalgae to fish, as suspect alien introductions. Microalgae from ballast water need be cultured to establish their survival under the harsh environmental conditions of the Gulf and screened for phycotoxins. There is a strong need for maritime awareness on the ballast water problem and to implement ballast water management regulations in the Arabian Gulf consistent with International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations and legal instruments.


Many methods of analysis have been used to test whether animals use resources in proportion to availability. Many of the most commonly used methods have been criticized because they ignore the induced correlation among cells in the multinomial classification table due to the unit-sum constraint. Some methods are also flawed because they assume that relocation data can be pooled across animals even though the animals may select habitats differently. We propose a method, based on the maximum of the joint chi-square, to compare habitat usage to availability for individual animals. This method is combined with a follow-up multiple comparison technique that takes account of the unit-sum constraint. We compare our proposed method to a method based on the sum of individual chi-squares and a method based on compositional analysis by analyzing data on gray partridge and ringnecked pheasant resource use. Simulation is also used to compare methods by evaluating their Type I error rates.


A field experiment on fixed site was conducted during the khaif seasons of 1999, 2000 and 2001 to study the response of organic manures on yield attributes of rainfed groundut and soil nutrient status. Application of FYM @ 10 t/ha recorded significantly higher pod yield (2785 kg/ha) and gross return of Rs. 314471 / ha with THE maximum net realization of Rs. 17597 / ha in pooled results followed by application of RDF. FYM applied @ 10 t/ha every year on a same site resulted in significant increase in available N, P2O5 and K2O.


A deep pre‐Silesian carbonate play has recently come into focus in the Netherlands and poses some real opportunities and challenges to the explorationist. Underneath the very thick cover of Westphalian and Namurian clastic sediments, which cover almost the entire Netherlands, a yet undiscovered petroleum system may be present in Dinantian carbonates. However, lack of well control and the significant depth involved has caused pre‐Silesian formations to be under‐explored. Furthermore, seismic definition below the widespread Permian Zechstein evaporites is often very poor. Nevertheless, recent discoveries in the Caspian Sea area have shown that during the Lower Carboniferous very thick carbonate bioherms can develop. These giant reservoirs related to large build‐ups can provide the required size for deep pre‐Silesian prospects in the southern North Sea area and Dutch onshore. From the sparse well control and extrapolation of limited geological data in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany, it is suggested that thick Dinantian platform carbonates may be present at the northern fringe of the London‐Brabant Massif. For realistic reservoir models of these platforms, areas outside the Netherlands have to be studied, for example the UK Midlands, and south of the London‐Brabant Massif, in eastern and southern Belgium. Although, the latter area has been affected by the Variscan Orogeny, the Dinantian‐aged rocks at outcrop provide a good model for the understanding of the frequency of the major depositional cycles, solution collapse, erosion and dolomitization processes.


Author(s): Carr, Evan Walker | Advisor(s): Winkielman, Piotr | Abstract: Information processing is required for any social thought, decision, or action. Most past and current research in social cognition focuses solely on the content of the information being conveyed. While this is clearly important, in this dissertation, I investigate how basic social responses (i.e., rapid perceptions, judgments, and actions) are impacted by the dynamics of information processing (i.e., its ease, speed, or coherence). To do this, I examine two key determinants of processing dynamics — familiarity (prior stimulus experience) and fluency (ease of stimulus processing). First, Chapter 1 provides a systematic investigation of how familiarity influences the appeal of facial blends. Even though facial blends are usually deemed more attractive than their constituent individuals, Chapter 1 demonstrates that this classic beauty-in-averageness effect reverses when the individuals are highly familiar (thus, an ugliness-in-averageness effect). Second, Chapter 2 extends the examination of familiarity to basic effects on perception, in showing that facial expressions from familiar individuals appear happier. These results also suggest that the familiarity-positivity effect functions by selectively enhancing positive stimulus features, rather than reducing negative stimulus features. Third, Chapter 3 moves towards gauging how categorization fluency (or the effort needed to determine category membership) influences the seemingly automatic discomfort people feel towards "mixed" agents (or those containing human and non-human features, like androids). Chapter 3 shows that classifying on the ambiguous human-likeness dimension makes the mixed agents (androids) more disfluent, and in turn, more disliked. Therefore, these results offer evidence that negative reactions to mixed agents are not obligatory, but instead are dependent on the surrounding judgment and context. Finally, Chapter 4 explores the link between fluency and motivation-related action. These experiments demonstrate that fluency elicits context-sensitive approach action-tendencies (i.e., RTs to initiate arm flexion), which are accompanied by physiological responses indicative of positive affect (i.e., increased smiling and reduced frowning, via facial electromyography). Taken together, the current dissertation shows that familiarity and fluency are flexibly embedded into our rapid perceptions, judgments, and actions towards social stimuli.


Undesirable C4 annual grasses such as summer grass (Digitaria sanguinalis, (L.) Scop., SG) and yellow bristle grass (Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. et Schult., YBG) are prevalent in dairying regions in the North Island of New Zealand. Field surveys of 39 dairy pastures in the central North Island demonstrated that their percentage ground cover has tripled over the last four years (Tozer et al. 2012). The prolific seed production of these species is thought be facilitating this increase in ground cover. However, little information is available on their fecundity in dairy pastures. Counting the number of seeds in a panicle is slow and laborious, therefore a rapid and robust method to assess fecundity is required. In USA crops, Forcella et al. (2000) found a significant curvilinear relationship between YBG seeds per panicle and panicle length, regardless of crop identity, year and weed density. A study was therefore established to determine if panicle length or weight could be used to estimate YBG and SG fecundity in intensively managed dairy pastures in New Zealand.


Neglecting the self-force and radiative effects, we follow the spirit of Wald's gedanken experiment and discuss whether a (2+1)-dimensional Martinez–Teitelboim–Zanelli (MTZ) black hole can turn into a naked singularity by capturing a charged and massive particle. We find that after capturing a charged and massive test particle, an extremal or near-extremal MTZ black hole could turn into naked singularity, leading to a possible violation of the cosmic censorship. There exist ranges of the test particles' energies Δ E which allow the appearance of naked singularities from both extremal and near extremal MTZ black holes.


In this study, dynamic response analysis of a heave compensation system for offshore drilling operations was conducted based on multibody dynamics. The efficiency of the heave compensation system was computed using simulation techniques and virtually confirmed before being applied to drilling operations. The heave compensation system was installed on a semi-submersible and comprises several interconnected bodies with various joints. Therefore, a dynamics kernel based on multibody dynamics was developed to perform dynamic response analysis. The recursive Newton–Euler formulation was adopted to construct the equations of motion for the multibody system. Functions of the developed dynamics kernel were verified by comparing them with those from other studies. Hydrostatic force, linearized hydrodynamic force, and pneumatic and hydraulic control forces were considered the external forces acting on the platform of the semi-submersible rig and the heave compensation system. The dynamic simulation was performed for the heave compensation system of the semi-submersible rig for drilling operations up to 3600 m water depth. From the results of the simulation, the efficiency of the heave compensation system was evaluated to be approximately 96.7%.


A Symposium on Antitrust at the Millennium is the ideal occasion to examine the institutional framework for competition review of mergers. The United States, perhaps more than any other major jurisdiction, has fragmented merger review among multiple authorities. Two federal antitrust agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, share responsibility for reviewing mergers under the U.S. antitrust laws. In addition, both the states and private parties have standing to challenge mergers under those laws, and the states have been quite active in doing so since the mid-1980s, when relaxed enforcement at the federal level motivated state attorneys general to step up their enforcement activities. Unlike Europe, federal clearance of a transaction does not preempt state enforcement action, under either the U.S. or the state antitrust laws.


The Thomas Ollive M abbott Collection at The University of Iowa covers adequately the recorded M abbott interests and accomplish ments. One may see there his work on Milton, W hitman, and Pinkney, and his more extensive work on Poe, including Volumes I, II, and III of the M abbott edition of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1969, 1978). The shelves contain copies of his articles on minor figures in English and American literature, and a file of the Numismatic Review he edited, as well as copies of the sale catalogues of his coin collection. They do not, how ever, exhibit anything of what was perhaps the most important of all the M abbott accomplishments. Classroom teaching, like acting on the stage, leaves few w ritten records; and T. O. M., who often referred to himself as a failed actor, was, as students testify, an inspired teacher. As it happens, the collection does contain, in a series of letters and notes not yet open to the public, a small sample of the Mabbott way with poets and poetry. Most of these letters were w ritten in 1923 and 1924 when he was a new Ph.D. in charge of one of the sections in the M aster's Program at Columbia University. The recipient was a senior at the University of Chicago, majoring in English literature and obvi ously reporting on poets studied at the tim e.1 Some of the passages that follow are combinations of isolated statements, and the whole is arranged so that the general statements precede the more particular observations. Time and experience changed T. O. M.'s emphasis on some of the individual poets, but only deepened his commitment to poets and poetry. The following excerpts from these letters reveal an aptitude, shall we say, for the teaching of undergraduates he was shortly to begin.


Cardiac imaging is still a challenge to CT reconstruction algorithms due to the dynamic nature of the heart. We have developed a new reconstruction technique, called the Flexible Algorithm, which achieves high temporal resolution while it is robust to heart-rate variations. The Flexible Algorithm, first, retrospectively tags helical CT views with corresponding cardiac phases obtained from associated EKG. Next, it determines a set of views for each slice, a stack of which covers the entire heart. Subsequently, the algorithm selects an optimum subset of views to achieve the highest temporal resolution for the desired cardiac phase. Finally, it spatiotemporally filters the views in the selected subsets to reconstruct slices. We tested the performance of our algorithm using both a dynamic analytical phantom and clinical data. Preliminary results indicate that the Flexible Algorithm obtains improved spatiotemporal resolution for a large range of heart rates and variations than standard algorithms do. By providing improved image quality at any desired cardiac phase, and robustness to heart rate variations, the Flexible Algorithm enables cardiac applications in CT, including those that benefit from multiphase information.


Zinc complexes exhibi th igh insulin-like and antidiabetic activities i na nimal sw ith type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). However, molecular mechanisms underlying these activities have not yet been determined. In this study, we investigated activation of the insuli ns ignaling pathway by Zn in 3T3-L1 adipocytes using di(hinokitiolato)zinc complex (hinokitiol: 2-hydroxy-4-isopropylcyclohepta-2,4,6-trienone, [Zn(hnk)2]), which exhibits antidiabeti ce ffect i na nimal sw ith type 2 DM. Our results show that [Zn(hnk)2] strongly induced Akt/protei nk inase B (Akt/PKB) phosphorylation, and optimal phosphorylation was achieved at a concentration of 50 ¯M. The [Zn(hnk)2]-induced Akt/PKB phosphorylation was almost completely inhibited by wortmannin, whereas [Zn(hnk)2]-induced phosphorylation of glycogen synthase kinase3¢ (GSK3¢) was partially inhibited by wortmannin. Further, we examined cellular Zn uptake by [Zn(hnk)2 ]s timulation and evaluated cellular glucose uptake at the same time point. The intracellular Zn concentration incubated with [Zn(hnk)2] was approximately 4.7-fol dh igher than that in the control cells. Moreover, the glucose uptake of [Zn(hnk)2]-treated adipocytes was 3.7-fol dh igher than that of the control adipocytes. These results suggest that [Zn(hnk)2] was abl et o translocate glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) protein to the plasma membrane. Thus, we propose that [Zn(hnk)2] produces the antidiabeti ce ffect by inducing insuli ns ignaling pathways and glucose uptake.


In the US, forms of sousveillance have been part of the repertoire of black liberation movements since the times of slavery. Opposing racialized surveillance by inverting the gaze of the oppressor can be an empowering practice for marginalized populations, yet it also raises important questions: Could sousveillance inadvertently support the ideology of surveillance? When does "dark sousveillance" (Browne 2015: 21) succeed in criticizing and subverting the status quo of racialized surveillance? How do activists negotiate the risk of providing even more data that can be de-contextualized, misinterpreted, and, ultimately, even used against practitioners of sousveillance? I will address these questions with regard to current copwatching practices in Germany. Using the project Cop Map as a case study, I will examine both the potentially liberating power and ambiguities of sousveillance as well as critical factors for success. Cop Map (https://www.cop-map.com), a German copwatching website designed by two artivist collectives, allows citizens to report police presence and racial profiling while ensuring data protection for users of the app. Cop Map is directed against increased state surveillance and police powers, but also reaches out to organizations that mainly address racial profiling. Building on intersectional alliances and networks of solidarity, sousveillance can create spaces to counter racist police practices and raise awareness—especially if embedded in broader efforts and organizational structures to combat (police) surveillance and protect data privacy. The subversive potential of forms of "surveillance from below" is complex, culturally and historically contingent, and predicated on their contextualization within broader movements.


This study chrono-logically investigates teachers' professional knowledge in relation to the digitally 'boosted' educational landscape caused by the COVID-19-pandemic. The aim is to describe how teachers employ their competences under extreme digitized circumstances compared to ordinary, to a greater extent analogically organized schooling. The study is inspired by action research where five secondary and upper secondary teachers document their work between March 19 and April 2020. A contrastive analysis highlights qualitative aspects of teachers' (digital) competence when teaching is affected by digital "interferences" in its corporeal and material framing, a dissolved spatiality and "truncated" senses/sensuousness. Employing different dimensions of knowledge in terms of intellectus and ratio, the study argues that subjective, emotional and relational processes of teachers' digital competence need to be prioritized in contrast to the easily measurable aspects that tend to overrun the discussions about educational digitalization and its knowledge in society.


Using fully literature resource and developing deep information service are serving tenet and development aim. Then we must optimize the structure and function of the library, enlarge the function of the library's system, improve the storage style of the information, advance operation level of the librarian and so on.


Correctness of calculation of energy conversion voltage is examined. Problems of energy conversion and electromagnetic forces calculation in a DC motor as an electromechanical system are solved.


The present investigation was carried out to study the efficiencies of agricultural practices i.e. rowing space, fertilization, irrigation system, ratoons, varieties and host range on the population density of red striped soft scale, Pulvinaria tenuivalvata (Newstead) at Nagada, Armant and Luxor City, Qena governorate during two successive seasons 2002 and 2003 where the results clearly showed that planting sugarcane on 7 rows space, using the recommended nitrogen fertilizer 200 units with 100 kg potassium per feddan, using modern irrigation, and choosing PH 8013 variety were considered the proper agricultural practices which decreased the population of P. tenuivalvata, and resulted in the increasing of both sugarcane yield and juice.


Recent Developments in Arthropod Ecology and Evolution Fifth Symposium in Memory of Merav Ziv Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research Ben Gurion University, Sede Boqer Campus & The Israel Society of Zoologists & The Israel Entomological Society 29 April, 2004 Seminar room, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University, Sede Boqer Campus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------09:45 Introduction and opening remarks 10:00 Ecology student award in memory of Merav Ziv Scientific Program 10:15-10:45 Dr. Sharoni Shafir (Dept. of Entomology, Hebrew Univ.) – Caste-specific differences in risksensitivity.


To investigate acute changes in glucose metabolism in liver and kidneys in vivo after a bolus injection of either fructose or glucose, using hyperpolarized [2‐13C]dihydroxyacetone.


Environmental models are intended to represent or simulate natural environmental processes, often in mathematical or statistical terms. Sensitivity analysis is a modelling tool that is essential in proper use of a model because it enables the model user to understand the importance of variables and the effects of errors in inputs on computed outputs. A few studies have reported sensitivity analyses of flood routing parameters. In this study, sensitivity analysis of the parameters of flood routing with the implicit numerical method is investigated through mathematical, statistical and field measurement procedures in three unmanaged catchments of the Persian Gulf region. The results indicate that the importance rankings of various parameters on output results are peak inflow, roughness coefficient, bed slope, bed width, river length, side slope, weighting factor and base flow. The results also show that the effects of input parameter errors on the output results are significant in some cases, such as the pe...


This research design presents microstrip-patchantenna(MPA) for many shapes of antenna, in this paper with and without cuts ofHexagonal Split Ring Resonator at24.5 GHz for 5G applications. The substrate, FR4, has a relative permittivity of 4.4 and a height of 1.6 mm, respectively used in Microstrip feed. The designs are simulated using Ansys HFSS Software, and the antenna parameters, such as gain, SII& VSWR, band width, and directivity, have been researched. According to the results, when the number of rings increases, resonance is attained at the high of gain with a bandwidth ranging from 223. 2MHz to 1021. 5MHz at the very least.


Weighing Automation System is a system that already exists at PT. Flextronics Technology Indonesia. Weighing Automation System is an automatic scale that functions to display the weight of box unit that are complete with components. However, the results of the scales are compared manually by the operator by comparing the results of the weighing scale with the standard range weight on the PC monitor. Based on this, the author created an auto parser application with the aim of producing a desktop application as a component validation system missing in the box unit, and produce a track record of Weighing Automation System. Based on the objectives to be achieved, the problems to be discussed are how to design and build an auto parser application, how to connect the software with the Weighing Automation System and the auto parser application logic to validate the weighing results.
This research uses the waterfall method, information gathering, development design, application creation and testing, system installation and maintenance. Through this research, an auto parser application that can be connected to software and a Weighing Automation System with logic can validate the weighing results automatically. With this research, it is expected to reduce human errors during the component validation process in the box unit. The conclusion that the auto parser application can help the validation process for missing components in the box unit.


Background: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) is often recommended for the treatment of patients with severe heart failure and cardiac dyssynchrony. The procedure efficacy should be evaluated not only by objective criteria and clinical end points, but also by patients' subjective opinion of their everyday functioning. Aim: To assess the quality of life (QoL) in patients treated with CRT.
 Methods: The study comprised 26 CRT patients: 18 males and 8 females, aged 63.3±9.5 (34-75) years. The QoL was evaluated by NHP questionnaires twice: before CRT implantation and 15±4 months (mean) after the procedure. Results: There was a significant improvement in the mean values of energy (2.9 vs. 2; p Conclusions: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy improves patients' QoL. The psycho-social condition of CRT patients needs further, larger studies and should be taken into account by attending health professionals.


The essential oils, obtained by hydro-distillation of shade dried leaves, seeded leaves and pericarp of Zanthoxylum armatum were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC-FID) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) led to the identification of 23, 21 and 24 different constituents, representing 99.5%, 99.3% and 99.2% of the total oils. The volatile oil of leaves afforded non-terpenic acyclic ketones, notably 2-undecanone (65.6%), 2-tridecanone (16.6%) as major constituents followed by cis-fernesol (6.3%) and limonene (3.7%). 2-Undecanone (30.9%), linalool (39.4%), β-phellandrene (5.2%) and 2-tridecanone (8.8%) were determined in a high proportion in seeded leaves, whereas in pericarp volatile oil, linalool (71.2%) followed by limonene (7.6%), β-phellandrene (4.4%) and methyl cinnamate (10.4%) were analysed as major components. The volatile oils of all samples constituted lesser amount of sesquiterpenes hydrocarbons (0.8–3.6%) whereas oxygenated monoterpenoids showed larger amount in seeded leaves (43.8%) and pericarp oil (83.2%). However, the non-terpenoids were present in appreciable amounts in leaves (82.2%) and seeded leaves (39.7%). Thus, it is concluded that leaves and pericarp of fruits oil are the major source of 2-undecanone and linalool, respectively while seeded leaves revealed good source of both these compounds. Therefore, the leaves, seeded leaves and pericarp of the Z. armatum can be used as a commercial source for the isolation of these individual compounds as a valuable perfumery and flavoring ingredients in industries.


A keratinolytic alkaline proteae (NAPase) from Nocardiopsis sp. TOA-1 degraded a scrapie prion without any chemical or physical treatment. Optimal temperature and pH were 60 °C and above pH 10.0. The scrapie prion was completely degraded within 3 min under optimal conditions.


[Objective]To observe relation between hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy(HDCP) and calciprevia.[Methods]One hundred twenty-eight high-risk pregnancy women predisposed to HDCP were randomly divided into A1 group and A2 group .the pregnancy women in A1 group took orally 1 500 mg calcium supplement with vitamin D chewable tablets(D-Cal) from 20 to 24 weeks gestation every day until delivery. In addition 70 pregnancy women not predisposed to HDCP were used as control (B group). Calcium ion concentration in serum was measured and risk of HDCP analyzed.[Results]Calcium supplementation was associated with a significantly decreased risk of HDCP between A1 group and A2 group (0.01 P 0.025).Difference was not significant between A1 group and B group( P 0.05). Calcium ion concentration difference was significant between A1 and A2.[Conclusion]Calcium ion concentration is low in serum of high-risk pregnancy women predisposed to HDCP. Calcium supplementation can increase serum calcium ion concentration and may play a preventive role in HDCP.


The higher energy and luminosity from the LHC in Run2 has put increased pressure on CMS computing resources. Extrapolating to even higher luminosities (and thus higher event complexities and trigger rates) in Run3 and beyond, it becomes clear the current model of CMS computing alone will not scale accordingly. High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities, widely used in scientific computing outside of HEP, present a (at least so far) largely untapped computing resource for CMS. Even just being able use a small fraction of HPC facilities computing resources could significantly increase the overall computing available to CMS. Here we describe the CMS strategy for integrating HPC resources into CMS computing, the unique challenges these facilities present, and how we plan on overcoming these challenges. We also present the current status of ongoing CMS efforts at HPC sites such as NERSC (Cori cluster), SDSC (Comet cluster) and TACC (Stampede cluster).


Wave propagation in microstructured media is essentially influenced by nonlinear and dispersive effects. The simplest model governing these two effects results in the celebrated KdV equation ut + uux + du3x = 0. However, studies of microstructured materials have shown that higher-order dispersive effects together with higher-order nonlinear effects can give rise to dramatic changes in the behaviour of emerging waves. In the present paper a KdV type evolution equation, including the thirdand the fifth order dispersive and the fourth order nonlinear terms,


We have recast the system of Einstein field equations for locally rotationally symmetric spacetimes into an autonomous system of covariantly defined geometrical variables. The analysis of this autonomous system gives all the important global features of the maximal extension of these spacetimes. We have concluded that the dynamical system analysis can be a powerful mathematical tool for qualitative understanding of the global structure of spacetimes covariantly, without actually solving the field equations.


Esophageal cancer is aggressive diseases requiring surgery as an essential part of treatment. To achieve increased overall survival, complete resection (R0) is preferred. In some case, however, we encounter positive resection margin (R1).
 Further resection will be required, but sometimes it is difficult to do additional procedure because of various reasons, especially the highest location of anastomosis.
 Hypothesis of study is that R1 resection with adjuvant local therapy shows comparable result with R0 resection in intrathoracic anastomosis
 From 2000 to 2017, total 2723 patients received the esophagectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection for esophageal cancer. R0 resection was 1701, and R1 resection was 76 patients. Patients who received distal esophagectomy (n=56) and lack of information about adjuvant therapy (n=24) were excluded
 Because of differences in some variables, we conducted 2:1 propensity score matching to reduce differences between groups.
 Comparison of R1 resection group with adjuvant local therapy to R0 resection group is conducted
 Overall survival (OS) and recurrence free survival (RFS) were estimated with Kaplan-Meier method.
 76 patients were identified with R1 resection. Of those patients, 30 patients showed positive proximal resection margin from frozen section during surgery.
 When compared to R0 resection group (including patients with adjuvant treatment), OS and RFS were statistically lower in R1 resection group (p=0.03 and 0.023, respectively)
 When comparing R1 with adjuvant local treatment group to R0 resection group, there were no statistical differences in both OS and RFS.(p=0.13 and 0.22, respectively)

 In R1 resection group, adjuvant local treatment group show favorable result compared to non-local treatment group, but there were no statistical differences in OS and RFS.(p=0.26 and 0.17, respectively)
 R1 resection with proper adjuvant local treatment enable us to achieve comparable result with R0 resection group in intrathoracic anastomosis
 When anastomosis is made at the highest level of thorax (i.e. thoracic inlet level), it is not easy to perform additional intrathoracic resection.
 If it is difficult to do further resection when resection margin is positive, adjuvant local treatment after surgery can be one reasonable option to improve patient's survival or minimize disease recurrence


Assessments presented in the article are based on research conducted by the Institute of Urban Development. The study was an attempt to answer the question: What are the determinants of land management in Poland? Research in this field should be continued in relation to the 'Polska 2030' (Poland 2030) concept of spacial planning. Housing development demand for urban areas is primarily affected by the urban planning standards used in defining the indicator of built-up areas, implemented in practice, forming a specific pattern - benchmark. Such a pattern was used for the estimation of urbanization needs with an indicator method. Assuming that there are conditions to achieve about 75% of the investments in construction areas equipped with the necessary technical and social infrastructure, the rational, average annual demand for new residential areas will be 2.6 thousand ha, and the total – a twenty-year 52.5 thousand ha. A partial reduction of dispersed urbanization in favour of compact urbanization (including compact urbanisation using the revitalization and re-urbanization) gives the possibility to limit the expansion of residential areas by about 20%, which means to the level of 42 thousand ha. Such specified needs were compared to the estimations conducted with a method of historical analogy, which identified the increase of residential areas by 2030 at a similar level of 54.4 thousand ha.


The invention relates to a dual-targeting genetically modified immunologic effector cell aiming at GPC3 (glypican-3) and ASGPR1 (asialoglycoprotein receptor 1) and applications of the dual-targeting genetically modified immunologic effector cell. The invention discloses the gene-modified immunologic effector cell capable of simultaneously identifying GPC3 and ASGPR1 for the first time, and the gene-modified immunologic effector cell can be used for the treatment of the GPC3 and ASGPR1 double-positive tumor, such as liver cancer.


This paper demonstrates that the relation between stock market and business cycle dynamics can be conceptualized using a dividend discount model. The interaction of changes in earnings and interest rates throughout the economic cycle are shown to cause changes in the level of stock prices. This implies that monitoring and forecasting these factors can help explain and possibly predict stock price behavior over time. Copyright 1998 by MIT Press.


THE AUTHOR REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE USE OF BINDER-MIXES HAVING 87.5% BITUMEN 200 AND 12.5% RUBBER-CONCENTRATE AND BITUMEN/SAND OR BITUMEN/FILLER MIXTURES WITH THE ADDITION OF OLD RUBBER CHIPS. THE BITUMEN AND OLD RUBBER WERE MIXED FOR 1 HOUR OR 30 MINUTES AT 425 K AND STORED FOR 2 HOURS AT THE SAME TEMPERATURE. AS AN EXPERIMENT AN ADDITION OF 0.75% SULPHUR AND 0.03% HEXAMETHYLENE-TETRAMINE WAS MADE TO ACCELERATE THE VULCANISATION PROCESS. FROM THE MEASURED VALUES FOR PENETRATION, SOFTENING POINT RING AND BALL, BREAKING POINT, DUCTILITY AND PENETRATION-INDEX NO QUALITATIVE IMPROVEMENT OF THE BITUMENS QUALITIES WERE RECOGNISABLE. A MORE FAVOURABLE INFLUENCE OF THE ADDITION OF RUBBER TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF BITUMEN AND BITUMINOUS MORTARS COULD BE DEMONSTRATED BY TESTING FOR DEPTH OF IMPACT IMPRESSION, NUMBER OF BLOWS, STRENGTH OF ADHESION AND DEFORMATION AND ELASTICITY OF THE BITUMEN/SAND OR BITUMEN/FILLER MIXES. IN THIS CONNECTION IT WAS ESTABLISHED THAT BECAUSE OF THE LINKING OF THE RUBBER WITH SULPHUR THERE WAS AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE DIMENSIONAL STABILITY OF THE MIX AND BECAUSE OF THE FINE LIMESTONE FILLER THE INFLUENCE OF THE RUBBER APPEARED GREATER. THE TOTAL DEFORMATION AND THE RESIDUAL DEFORMATION WAS LESS WHEN, INSTEAD OF B 200, A BITUMEN/RUBBER MIXTURE WAS USED. IN MANUFACTURING THE RUBBER-CONCENTRATE FROM OLD RUBBER HIGHLY AROMATIC BY-PRODUCTS FROM PETRO-CHEMICAL AND OIL OPERATIONS CAN BE USED AS SOLVENTS.


The steady, asymmetric and two-dimensional flow of viscous, incompressible micropolar fluid through a rectangular channel with a splitter (parallel to walls) was formulated and simulated numerically. The plane Poiseuille flow was considered far from upstream and downstream of the splitter. The geometric parameter that controls the position of splitter was defined as splitter position parameter. A numerical scheme that comprises a fourth order method followed by special finite-difference method was used to solve the boundary value problem. This numerical scheme transforms the governing equations to system of finite difference equations which we have solved by SOR iterative method. Moreover, the results obtained were further refined and upgraded by the Richardson extrapolation method. The results were compared on different grid sizes as well as with the existing results for symmetric flow of Newtonian fluids. The comparisons were satisfactory. The microrotation effects on the splitter plate were significantly high as compared to other locations of the channel. This highest value for the asymmetric channel was higher in magnitude as compared to for the symmetric one. Furthermore, the proclivity of rotation of aciculate elements of the fluid about their centroids rises if either the Reynolds' number increases or/and the distance between the upper and splitter plates decreases.


This study investigated and analyzed the current situation of primary school teachers from minority areas,and discussed the relationships between the current situation of teachers'job burnout and social support.The samples are 361 primary school teachers from Chengbu Miao minority autonomous county,Jianghua Yao minority autonomous county and Longsheng minority autonomous county.The results showed that: (1) The job burnout of primary teachers in minority area was in medium level.(2) There were significant differences on teachers'job burnout in the aspects of sex,the school type,teaching age,etc.(3) There were significant negative correlations between teachers'job burnout and their social support.


This paper reports the first measurements at low temperatures (44–137 K) of rate coefficients for collision induced spin-orbit transitions, using a swarm experiment consisting of a uniform supersonic flow coupled with pulsed laser photolysis and laser-induced fluorescence techniques. It has been stated that both excitation and relaxation rates have a positive temperature dependence. The excitation (respectively relaxation) rate constant is 0.15×10−12 cm3 s−1 (respectively 1.63×10−12) at 53 K and 2.76×10−12 cm3 s−1 (respectively 4.48×10−12) at 137 K. A theoretical modelization of the Al–Ar system has been developed in the 30–300 K range, that reproduces the temperature dependence.


PURPOSE
This in vitro study aimed to evaluate fracture resistance in lithium disilicate onlays fabricated with IPS e.max Press and IPS e.max CAD systems and luted with different adhesive cements.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
Fifty maxillary first molars were prepared using a mesio-occluso-disto-lingual onlay cavity model. Ten onlays from each group were cemented using etch-and-rinse adhesives and high-viscosity composite resin cement, and 10 were cemented with self-adhesive, dual-curing universal resin cement. Fracture resistance was measured.

RESULTS
Significant differences were observed between resin cements (p < 0.05) and between materials (p < 0.05), but the interaction of these variables did not produce a significant difference. The fracture resistance of pressable ceramics was significantly higher than that of CAD/CAM onlays (p < 0.05), and Syntac Variolink was significantly higher than that of Multilink Sprint (p < 0.05).

CONCLUSION
All groups showed clinically acceptable fracture strength results. According to the study, both the onlay fabrication system and adhesive cements can be a viable treatment option.


Pipeline leak detection technology is one of the core issues in the field of pipeline safety research. Based on the classification of hardware-based and software-based methods, this paper summarizes the current mainstream pipeline leak detection technology at home and abroad, and expounds the mechanism, advantages and disadvantages and applicable conditions of each detection technology. This paper mainly introduces the pipeline leak detection technology based on DAS system, summarizes the current detection technology of this system at home and abroad, and proposes to apply VMD composite algorithm and deep learning neural network to pipeline leak detection. This paper also puts forward the design of pipeline leakage monitoring platform based on DAS system and the prospect of applying this system to pipeline monitoring in petrochemical wharf.


This article analyzes the factors that influence students ' employment and the problems existing in offer 原ing career guidance for the students.It also demonstrates that it is essential to develop and promote career guidance to achieve harmonious employment environment for all graduates.


Purpose – Advances in health care are enabling individuals to live longer, healthier lives. Although the use of information technology can improve the quality of life for the elderly, many older consumers choose to limit their interactions with information technology and so may be denied its potential benefits for enhancing quality of life. This paper seeks to explore factors impacting the engagement of consumers aged 65 and older with higher forms of IT, primarily PCs and the internet, and to examine the potential effectiveness of marketing methods toward improving diffusion and increasing engagement.Design/methodology/approach – Citing published research and using previously known models (TAM and Trocchia and Janda's interaction themes) the study highlights possible ways of using marketing tools to increase elder consumer interaction with IT.Findings – Marketers should focus efforts on reference group affiliation, nature of social relations, perception of reality, and physical dexterity as the interacti...


Objective. Detection of beta-2 transferrin in rhinorrhea fluid is a sensitive and specific method for the diagnosis of a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak. Patients may be asked to collect this fluid at home to obtain an adequate volume for detection, and thus the age and storage conditions of these specimens may be variable upon analysis. The purpose of this study is to understand how age, storage temperature, and exposure to mucus affect the ability to detect beta-2 transferrin in CSF. Study Design. Case series with planned data collection. Setting. Tertiary care university hospital. Subjects and Methods. This study consists of 6 patients undergoing endoscopic CSF leak repair. CSF was collected directly from a lumbar drain (n = 4) or from nasal drainage (n = 2). Specimens were stored at 4°C (n = 3) or room temperature (n = 3). Samples were tested for the presence of beta-2 transferrin for up to 7 days using standard immunofixation electrophoresis techniques. Results. Beta-2 transferrin was detected in all specimens through day 7 regardless of storage temperature or collection site (95% exact binomial confidence interval of 0%-46%). Conclusions. Beta-2 transferrin remains detectable in extracorporeal CSF for up to 7 days regardless of storage at room temperature or exposure to nasal mucus. Negative detection in patient specimens up to a week old is therefore not likely to be caused by protein degradation.


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A novel design criterion for the lumped element coaxial transmission line directional coupler is discussed for HF band operation (2 to 30 MHz). This technique utilizes the inherent self-compensating low-pass equalizing characteristic of a high reactance secondary transformer winding. Experimental results of a representative coupler design are shown.


TOMCAT beamline permits to resolve vessels down to a diameter of 2.5 μm (see Fig. 2). Both kinds of tomography data clearly allow for the visual discrimination between healthy and cancerous tissues [4]. Many vessels in the cancerous section appear unshaped or twisted [5, 6], while they are better ordered in the healthy tissue. The casting elastomere penetrated into the cancerous tissue outside the vessels at several locations (Fig. 2), presumably as the result of vessel wall damages in the necrotic part of the tumor.


At the center of IMP thinking is the need for connected relationships to enable the survival and growth of firms (Hakanson & Snehota 1995). Effective relational participation involves understanding of one's own and relational partners' business models including the value they seek from their network (George and Bock, 2010). New ways of collaborating to seek opportunities and challenges are vital in order to competitively evolve the network. This case explores a Danish advertising and communication firm looking for new ways of generating ideas in order to compete in their environment of rapid globalization and emergence of new technologies. Therefore it has facilitated a discussion of opportunities and challenges by inviting others from their network to participate in business model workshops. The workshop process is analysed to explore: (a) how business ideas originate and change over time (b) the effectiveness of relational interaction in articulating challenges and opportunities and (c) its effectiveness in generating ideas. The data collected includes the filming of two business model workshops as well as participant interviews before and after. To gain an overview of the process of change, comparative lexicographic (i.e. semantic) analysis has been undertaken of participants' preliminary thinking, workshop discussions and resulting reflections. Our findings highlight not only the interacting role that internal and external relationships play in developing ideas and ways to use them, but also confirms that previous experience "grounds" the generation, articulation and interpretation of business ideas (Welch & Wilkinson 2002). The stimulus of workshops and reflective interviews show change in the way participants think about relationships, as well as progression in the main issues addressed, including relationship effectiveness, actor specifics, relationship opportunities and finally relationship value. In other words, the participants' relationship conceptualizations change which in turn facilitates business model evolution. Our preliminary results indicate the centrality of specific actors and the importance of their role in this process for such evolution to take place. Keywords: Business model, action research, relationship change, evolution of ideas firstname.lastname@example.com. Phone: (+45) 2167 1606. University of Southern Denmark, Engstien 1, 6000 Kolding, Denmark


The synthesis of a hydroxylated vinyl-appended lactone, in five synthetic steps from tartaric acid, is reported. The C2-symmetrical bis-vinyl diol 12 was converted into the ketene acetal 14 via methylenation of the cyclic carbonate 13 or thermal elimination of benzeneselenenic acid from the selenoxide 17. In both cases, the in situ generated ketene acetal 14 underwent spontaneous Claisen rearrangement to give the nine-membered lactone (+)-15. Lactones of this type are potentially advanced precursors to simplified eleutherobin analogues or other medium-ring lactone natural products.


Abstract This article explores continuities and discontinuities in Polish Catholic discourses on family planning across a time span that tends to be divided in the historiography on Poland and political history in general. The period we analyse begins in 1930, with the pivotal encyclical Casti connubii defining church doctrine on contraception, and ends with the legalization of abortion in 1956, and a state-sponsored family planning campaign the following year. In order to reconstruct Catholic teachings on marriage and family planning we examine advice publications that received official church approval, paying particular attention to their gendered dimensions, the emphasis placed on marriage, and the 'calendar' method. Although our research includes three politically and socially distinct periods, we argue that the content of Catholic teachings on family planning in Poland was consistent throughout. We also show that, although there were some distinct national characteristics, the Polish Catholic discourse on family planning resembled to a great extent the developments in other countries, particularly in regard to visions of marriage and sexuality. As we delineate, by engaging in the discussion on family planning, Catholic authors acted as active constructors of modernity, construed in both periods in relation to science and nationalism.


Made from a polymer having a crystallinity, an elongated cavity a length direction of a void-containing resin molded body containing therein a state oriented in one direction, in the void-containing resin molded product, the cavity in a cross section perpendicular to the orientation direction, the said cavity from the center distance is 10 shortest to the surface of the void-containing resin molded product of the cavity, the distance h from the center to the surface of the void-containing resin molded product ( i) calculates the arithmetic mean value h of the respective calculated distance h (i) (avg) is, satisfies the following equation, h (avg)> T / 100, the relationship, [where, T is the represents the arithmetic mean value of the thickness in the cross section, 10 of the cavity, the a straight line one optionally parallel to the thickness direction, the other line located apart parallel and 20 × T with respect to the one straight line cavity existing sandwiched by the regions at the It is selected from in. ] And the average length of the cavity in the thickness direction perpendicular to the orientation direction of the cavity as r (μm), L / r when the average length of the cavity in the orientation direction of the cavity was L ([mu] m) ratio is void-containing resin molded body characterized by 10 or more.


The articles in this special issue present some of the early findings of Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values (UEP), a five-year large grant project, which began in 2012 and is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Connected Communities programme, receiving supplementary funding from Creative Scotland. The project starts from the proposition that the orientation of cultural policy and state-funded cultural programming towards cultural participation and value is in need of a radical overhaul. We argue that there is an orthodoxy of approach to cultural engagement which is based on a narrow definition (and understanding) of participation, one that focuses on a limited set of cultural forms, activities and associated cultural institutions but which, in the process, obscures the significance of other forms of cultural participation which are situated locally in the everyday realm. Drawing together a large interdisciplinary team of researchers, which meshes interests across the humanities, social sciences and the policy sector, UEP's research seeks to identify and apprehend everyday cultural participation and the values people attach to this, especially in relation to the social sphere. Our aim in doing this is to reorientate the focus of both academic and policy work on "cultural value" and thereby to cast fresh light on the nature and significance of cultural preferences and activities in the UK in the twenty-first century. We can already, part way through the project, point to the consistency of findings across the methods used in our research, which reveal (1) the rich variety of cultural participation activities, the vast majority of which lies beyond the orbit of State cultural support, and (2) the importance of these everyday forms of participation for developing social capital and sustaining social networks, and for defining the parameters of "community". As Elias (1998) reflected, working with the concept of the everyday implies the mobilisation of its opposite, which in this case is the "official" framework of cultural participation and value in the UK (Griffiths, Miles, & Savage, 2008). This can be defined as the largely formal and traditional practices, venues and institutions funded by government through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Following Bourdieu (1984), this framework can be seen to reflect a series of historical and cultural assumptions about certain tastes and forms of activity being canonised by the State as more valuable than others, and which can act as powerful symbols of social distinction. As Miles and Sullivan (2010, 2012) argue, the operationalisation of this framework by the State under the New Labour governments of 1997–2010 involved a decontextualisation of cultural value that was accompanied by the mobilisation of a "deficit model of participation" reflecting middle-class norms and understandings of what was to count as "legitimate" culture. Here, policies that prioritised access to culture in the name of reducing social exclusion were at same time part of a process of discrimination, marking out and marginalising those people and places that did not associate themselves with established culture as passive, isolated and in need of (remedial) attention (Gibson, in press; Miles, 2013). The logics of the "social inclusion" narrative within cultural policy and across cultural practice have recently been extended through discourses of "access" and "participation" into collaboration, co-production and co-curation, although arguably there has not been a real expansion in the cultural activities which are the focus of co-production practices (Gibson & Edwards, 2016).


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Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) on silicon wafer in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol (ME) chain transfer agent was conducted in attempt to create controllable hydroxyl-terminated brushes. The initiator-immobilized substrate, was prepared by the esterification of hydroxyl groups on silicon wafer with 2-bromopropionyl bromide (2-BPB); followed by the ATRP of NIPAM using a catalyst system, that is, Cu(I)Br/2,2′-bipyridine (2,2′-bpy) and a chain transfer agent, that is, ME. The formation of homogeneous tethered poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (poly(NIPAM) brushes with hydroxyl end-group, whose thickness can be tuned by chancing ME concentration, is evidenced by using the combination of grazing angle attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ellipsometry, atomic force microscopy, gel permeation chromatography, and water contact-angle measurements. The calculation of grafting parameters from experimental measurements indicated the synthesis of densely grafted poly(NIPAM) films with hydroxyl end-group on silicon wafer and allowed us to predict a ME concentration for forming a "brush" conformation for the chains. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 3880–3887, 2010


We study the process γγ→π0π0 involving the principal mechanisms, the structure of its cross section and the role of individual isoscalar-tensor resonances in the saturation of its energy spectrum.


Evidence is presented that photochemical ring expansion of bicyclo[2,2,1]heptan-2-ones to cyclic acetals occurs when structural features inhibit enal formation and/or facilitate oxacarbene formation from the biradical formed by α-cleavage.


(57) Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of angiogenesis and cancer treatment, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) / VEGF receptor interfere with the biological activity of the system agent (Compound I) and angiopoietin / Tie receptor system describes the combination of biological functions interfere material (compound II).


Single image dehazing is performed by solving atmospheric scattering model(ASM), which depends on atmospheric light and transmission. Therefore, accurate estimation of transmission and atmospheric light is essential for quality de-hazing. The accuracy in transmission depends on accurate value of atmospheric light. Several methods have been proposed in literature to estimate atmospheric light. However, these methods inaccurately estimates atmospheric light in the presence of objects brighter than atmospheric light in input hazy image. Therefore, a robust method to accurately estimate the atmospheric light is proposed in this paper. The robustness and accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated using HazeRD dataset, which proves the accuracy and robustness of the proposed method.