From the Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston (R.A.), and the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (J.B.) — both in Illinois. Address reprint requests to Dr. Bass at the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 E. Superior St., Lurie 7-107, Chicago, IL 60611, or at j-bass@ northwestern . edu.


The present invention provides a fibril for racket line, a racket line as well as its manufacture method. The racket line has high intension and durability as well as obtaining an excellent batting sense though it is thin. The section shape of the fibril is two to six circular and/or oval distortion section shape showing linear connection, in the section shape, setting the maximum valve of the thickness of the central axes in vertical direction of the circular and/or oval shape as D(mm), the minimum valve as d(mm), the fibril length in the axes direction as L(mm), the relation as follows: D is equal to 0.02 to 0.08(mm), d is more than or equal to 0.01(mm), the ratio of d and D is equal to 0.2 to 0.7, L is equal to 0.06 to 0.4(mm).


Introduction and importance: While incidents are rare elsewhere, paraquat herbicide poisoning is a serious medical issue in some parts of Asia. It can cause the failure of various organs, including the heart, kidneys, liver, adrenal glands, central nervous system, muscles, and spleen. Due to its inherent toxicity and lack of available therapies, paraquat has a very high case fatality rate. Case presentation: The authors discuss a case of a 15-year-old female with an alleged history of paraquat ingestion who presented with complaints of vomiting, abdominal pain, and loose stools. Initially, she had gastrointestinal symptoms, but she developed renal failure and respiratory symptoms and died of multiple organ failure. Clinical discussion: Acute gastrointestinal tract necrosis and multiorgan failure are the initial effects of paraquat intake, and among those who survive the immediate post-ingestion interval, the lung is the target organ for poisoning. Ingestion of large amounts of liquid concentrates results in fulminant organ failure: pulmonary edema, cardiac, renal, and hepatic failure, and convulsions. The course of treatment can range from supportive care alone to various integration of immune modulation, antioxidant therapy, hemoperfusion, and hemodialysis. Conclusion: Patients presenting to the emergency department with an alleged history of ingestion of paraquat poisoning should be admitted even if they have mild symptoms initially. There is no specific antidote available. Early renal failure, along with progressive pulmonary fibrosis, can lead to death.


1. A method is reported for the quantitative estimation of physostigmine at concentrations between 10 –6 and 10 –8 molar. This method depends upon the quantitative relation of the inhibition of serum cholinesterase activity to the physostigmine concentration in the above range of inhibitor concentration. 2. A colorimetric method for the estimation of physostigmine is described. 3. The decomposition of physostigmine in buffered solutions at pH 5-9 has been studied. The rate of destruction is a reflection of the physostigmine and hydroxyl ion concentrations. 4. The rate of serum inactivation of physostigmine has been shown to be related to the concentration of both the drug and the cholinesterase activity when the serum activity is greater than 15-20% of the normal uninhibited activity. When the physostigmine concentration is sufficient to depress the cholinesterase activity more completely, the rate of physostigmine destruction is slow. This is interpreted as an inhibition due to excess substrate (physostigmine).


Dr. Greenblatt has written a wide-ranging, closely argued, and challenging book on the malleability of the self as evidenced in six writers in sixteenth-century England: More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. That the idea of "fashioning" the self-—as in Spenser's famous phrase about the intention of The Faerie Queene—had a special new force in the sixteenth century is cogently argued in the opening pages. (The discussion helps a great deal towards understanding Ophelia's phrase "the glass of fashion.") Selffashioning is not examined in literature alone, nor is it indeed the ultimate object of scrutiny. This book is the interpretation of a culture, and self-fashioning is taken as a central aspect of the relation between sixteenth-century authors and what they wrote and the society they lived in. The shape of "inwardness," it is argued, is vitally connected with the dangerous collisions of religious controversy and the omnipresent structures of power. It is a question whether cultural analysis does not at times overshadow literary analysis, but in general Dr. Greenblatt deserves the greatest credit for his sustained attempt to demonstrate the inseparability of author, writing, nation, and cultural climate. The book also insists on a further inseparability, between sixteenth-century society and our own. "We sense . . . that we are situated at the close of the cultural movement initiated in the Renaissance and that the places in which our social and psychological world seems to be cracking apart are those structural joints visible when it was first constructed. . . . To experience Renaissance culture is to feel what it was like to form our own identity . . . " (pp.


The invention relates to the field of Chinese herbal medicines, and in particular relates to a pure Chinese herbal medicine preparation for treating burns and scalds as well as pyogenic infections and open traumas. The pure Chinese herbal medicine preparation consists of the following components in parts by weight: 45-90 parts of rhubarb, 45-90 parts of coptis root, 40-80 parts of amur cork tree bark, 45-90 parts of ambrette, 35-75 parts of woundwort, 45-95 parts of broomjutre sida herb, 15-50 parts of notoginseng, 45-90 parts of humifuse euphorbia herb, and 4500-9000 parts of distilled spirit of which the alcoholic strength is 60 degrees. The pure Chinese herbal medicine preparation for treating burns and scalds as well as pyogenic infections and open traumas can achieve the technical effects of treating burns and scalds, pyogenic infections, other open traumas and malignant severe boils, and can be used for quickly relieving pain caused by burns and scalds at the same time.


A 24 year-old patient reported having stepped on a millipede. When examined the patient presented cyanotic and erythematous macules on the first three toes of his right foot, and also complained of local pain and paresthesia, with palpable arterial flows. Millipedes are cylindrical segmented arthropods that when threatened form into curls and release quinones and other irritant and pigmentary substances. The cyanotic color reminds ischaemic tissular distress fact that may confuse professionals in Emergency Rooms when the clinical report is unclear.


As scholarship in the field of seventeenth-century American lit erature moved beyond a primary focus on the intellectual legacy of ortho dox ministers to devote more exploration to internal rifts and marginal voices, the Antinomian controversy of 1636-38 was quickly established as the dominant example of New England religious dissent and its central figure, Anne Hutchinson, came to symbolize the possibilities for women's religious expression and resistance. Even as the field continues to diversify, Hutchinson remains a touchstone for discussions of gender in the period, and she has continued to stand as the period's representative exponent of religious dissent. As befits the centrality of the Antinomian controversy within early American literary scholarship, the frameworks that have been brought to bear upon it have ranged widely: compelling studies have ad dressed Hutchinson as protofeminist and gender transgressor, as one who used language differently, as a religious thinker whose theology had radi cal social implications, and as the symbol of a new and threatening eco nomic order.1 Beyond interpreting Hutchinson's effect on the religious and social tensions that informed 1630s Massachusetts, scholars have traced the lasting resonance of her image within the entire tradition of American literature and culture.2 Banished and excommunicated in her own time, Hutchinson has been academically institutionalized in ours. And the vast majority of studies of Hutchinson approach her as a self-contained figure: she is the exceptional woman, and she stands alone. But this focus on Anne Hutchinson is not without problems, particu larly from a feminist perspective. If our commitment to Hutchinson's im portance is based in her outspokenness and the difference scholars find in her theology, selfhood, and language, the crux of the Antinomian texts surely comes at the point in her examination before the General Court where she breaks from her cagey elusiveness under questioning and, for once initiating rather than responding to discourse, speaks freely of the {1


[Objective]To explore the effective control of persisting epilepsy status induced by LiCl-pilocarpine and the optimal condition of reducing the death rate of these animals.[Methods]Thirty SD rats were injected with LiCl-pilocarpine intraperitoneally to induce their persisting epilepsy status.One hour later,they were randomly divided into group A only administrated with scopolamine,group B with scopolamine and diazepam,and group C with scopolamine and chloral hydrate.The indexes including the rats epilepsy plexy persisting status,mortality,and death time were observed and compared respectively.[Results]The epilepsy plexy persisting status of the rats in group A was lasting for 16 to 20 hours with the death rate of 87.5%.The persisting status of the rats in group B was controlled within 15 minutes with the death rate of 62.5 %.The symptom of the animals in group C was completely controlled within 3 to 10 minutes after administration and all the rats survived.[Conclusion]Chloral hydrate could effectively control the experimental rat s epilepsy persisting status and decrease the their mortality.


Drilling and blasting activities in PT. Semen Bosowa Maros quarry aims to dismantling limestones of the host rock with fragmentation expected size of ≤100 cm, considered the maximum size of rock crusher receive opening. The drilling pattern used is staggered pattern, while blasting pattern used is blasting streak pattern, with ignition of one line and straight lines of the one between next line. Based on observations in the field, the boulder that came from the blasting activities are relatively high at 20.63 %. To reduce the resulting chunks of the rock blasting activity, it's important to change the geometry of blasting base formulation expressed by R. L. Ash, thus changes the distance to 3.1 m; spacing to 3.7 m; stemming height to 3.14 m; bench height to 5.80 m and depth of blasting hole to 6.10 m. With the new blasting geometry, lump sized rocks >100 cm generated from operating activities actual blasting theoretical calculations amounting only 14.82 %.


According to the spirit of the 2010 education plan,the province of Hubei fight to the countries in conducting " explore ways to realize public good vocational education " and so on three national educational system of the pilot,this article,society of development on gender,meaning construction,promoting school-enterprise cooperation,integration of resources dislocation competition,sharing and mutual benefit and adhere to the employment-oriented four aspects to elaborate how to develop higher vocational education.


India is an agriculture-based country. A large section of Indian population is involved in agriculture. In central part of India, major agriculture is in paddy cultivation. In Chhattisgarh state a large section of woman labours are associated with paddy cultivation jobs (Census of India, 1991). They use different type of hand tools for various steps of paddy cultivation. Hand tools need to fit the contours of hand; they need to be held securely with suitable wrist and arm posture, they may be utilizing strength and energy capabilities without over loading the body. For effective use of tools and implements that require workers to maintain a power grip during task performance, adequate space must be provided on the handle (Okunribido, 2000). International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 5 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


.................................................................................iv INTRODUCTION............................................................................1 SOURCES OF INSPIRATION.............................................................3 Happenings...........................................................................3 Class Work...........................................................................5 Wedding Blogger.....................................................................9 Trash the Dress book................................................................12 Letters.................................................................................13 Moment Work.......................................................................16 RESEARCH MATERIAL..................................................................18 Pinterest...............................................................................18 Texts...................................................................................18 CHALLENGES..............................................................................23 Writing...............................................................................23 Performance.........................................................................24 TECHNICAL.................................................................................26 Sound..................................................................................26 Visual..................................................................................27 SCRIPT........................................................................................29 Trash the Dress: A Solo Play......................................................29 FINAL PRESENTATION..................................................................41 CONCLUSION...............................................................................43 WORKS CITED..............................................................................44 APPENDIX....................................................................................46 Trash the Dress Gallery.............................................................46 Production Photographs.............................................................48 VITA............................................................................................50


When I started studying Homoeopathy 37 years ago, I was amazed by the antiquity of knowledge about homoeopathic medicines, described in books published almost a century ago. This can, of course, be regarded as a good sign: This knowledge is timeless. On the other hand, such sources portray the homoeopathic professional society as a conservative group, not interested in new scientific developments. Would the authors of these old books agree with such an attitude? Probably not, Hahnemann was in many scientific respects ahead of his time, and if we read John Henry Clarke's description of Aconitum napellus, we get the impression that he collected all knowledge available at that time. Clarke apparently did not know the chemical constituents of Aconitum, but did not ignore such knowledge, as we can see in the description of Aceticum Acidum.


In the stock market, influenced by information acquisition, risk preference and other factors, investors' investment decision and behaviors are difficult to be fully rational, so the "rational person" assumption of traditional finance theory is not realistic. Based on behavioral economics, this paper expounds the theoretical basis of prospect theory and explains the irrational investment decision behavior of investors in stock market based on prospect theory. Finally, the paper concludes the investment decision-making frame based on prospect theory. The study of prospect theory can explain investor's emotion and irrational decision-making, and then analyze the investor's investment decision behavior.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the static performance characteristics of orifice compensated hole-entry hybrid journal bearing considering the combined influence of rise in temperature and non-Newtonian behavior of the lubricant. The required governing equations have been solved using the finite element method and a suitable iterative technique. The non-Newtonian lubricant has been assumed to follow the cubic shear stress law. The thermohydrostatic (THS) rheological performance of asymmetric hole-entry hybrid journal bearing configurations are studied. The computed results indicate that variation of viscosity due rise in temperature and non-Newtonian behavior of the lubricant affects the performance of asymmetric hole-entry hybrid journal bearing system quite significantly. Design/methodology/approach – The THS rheological solution of a hole-entry hybrid journal bearing system requires the simultaneous solution of Reynolds equation, 3D energy equation and 3D conduction equation along w...


Hospital food is yet again in the spotlight, with the news that NHS trusts in England will soon have a contractual obligation to improve the quality of meals sold to staff and visitors as well as those served to patients.


Artemisia annua L. is an important medicinal plant that produces substantial quantity of artemisinin, an antimalarial agent. In India, it grows wild in the Ladhak region and has harboured considerable variability over the years. EST-derived SSR markers were used to measure the genetic diversity among the A. annua germplasm collected from geographically separated Leh (11,500 ft) and Nubra (9600 ft) valleys (Ladakh, India). After analysing 68,974 non-redundant (of 3,60,906 available) ESTs of A. annua, 4,342 SSR markers were developed. On an average, one SSR was found per 8.9 kb of EST sequence with dinucleotide motifs in highest frequency (52.2%), followed by tri (42.4%), tetra (3.6%), hexa (1.2%) and pentanucleotide (0.6%) repeat types. A set of 16 primer pairs were designed by considering only the SSR-containing ESTs from the artemisinin biosynthetic pathway. In total, 38 alleles were identified from 13 polymorphic SSR loci, ranging from 1-7 alleles per locus and displayed moderate genetic diversity with an average of 0.24. It was found that the genetic diversity among individual from Nubra valley was narrower than that of Leh valley, suggesting the importance and feasibility of introducing elite genotypes from different origins for Artemisia germplasm conservation and breeding programmes.


Chronic cholecystitis is generated when multiple cases of cholecystitis have been presented, showing mucosal atrophy and thickening of the gallbladder wall. It is alithiasic when the inflammatory process occurs in the absence of stone, which in turn is related to infectious processes, burns, abdominal trauma, sepsis, pulmonary thromboembolism, dehydration, heart disease or Diabetes Mellitus (DM). The latter generates a sub- diagnosed complication called diabetic neuropathy that develops changes at the intestinal level and at the gallbladder level. Changes such as incomplete emptying or decreased ejected volume in the postprandial state, as well as histological changes that lead to the development of cholecystitis. It is important to take into account the patient's medical history, background, previous treatments and the clinical portrait supported by laboratory and research studies to intervene in a timely manner. The clinical case of a 50-year-old male patient with long-standing diabetes, chronic alithiasic cholecystitis, and pyocolecisto as a complication.


The COVID-19 pandemic forced institutions of higher education into an emergency remote teaching practice. In this study, the researchers utilized a convergent triangulation mixed-methods study design to investigate the technological challenges and growth that faculty experienced in seven schools at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as a result of the transition to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantitative data were collected through an anonymous online survey that asked faculty to rate their competency in each of the 14 technology-related tasks twice—once for the pre-pandemic period and once for the current period. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted virtually or in person. One hundred faculty participated in the quantitative survey. A significant difference between faculty self-rated competency levels in the pre-pandemic period and the current period was observed, suggesting technology knowledge growth from the forced transition. Qualitative interviews of 19 faculty revealed five overarching themes: inconsistency in instructional support, pandemic-induced technological growth, power of togetherness, maintaining continuity through flexibility, and resilience against adversity. This study provided faculty with the experience to perform effective self-reflection and gain insights into their pedagogical practices. Future research should focus on professional development that can help faculty remain up-to-date on technology utilization and establish a contingency plan to better prepare for the unknown.


Abstract Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (SWPBIS) has been shown to be effective in improving prosocial student behaviors, which increases the likelihood of inclusive placements for students within school settings. However, to date, the SWPBIS model has lacked research-based knowledge about partnership-oriented family engagement practices that involve families and educators of students with mild to moderate problem behavior (i.e., problem behavior that does not require intensive, individualized intervention) using shared decision making to address student behavioral outcomes across home and school settings. This article reports the results of a pilot study examining Partnering for Positive Behavior (PPB), a partnership-oriented teacher-family member meeting strategy designed to address the needs of students struggling to meet classwide behavioral expectations. Participants were five educators in elementary and middle school settings. Data were analyzed utilizing a qualitative approa...


Abstract Acoustic impedances of dense snow samples have been measured with the two-microphone impedance measurement tube method developed by Chung and Blaser [1]. The parameters ( h , k , R ) of the rigid frame model proposed by Zwikker and Kosten [2] were used successfully by Buser [3] for rather snow ( p ≤ 400 kg/m 3 ). However, for dense snow, the measurements indicate a great deviation from theory, especially for high frequencies. This difference is not reduced by using the new parameter λ app (apparent thermal conductivity) introduced by Zwikker and Kosten for a granular medium (see reference [2], pp. 25–48).


Obsolete part procurement has to be inevitably dealt with especially in the electronic industry. Business process reengineering (BPR) has been adopted as an effective approach which can significantly improve performance of procurement process. BPR requires that there exist a fundamental and a proven, reliable methodology, which is generally applicable and repeatable. Towards this end, this paper presents the fundamentals and methodology of procurement process reengineering based on accountabilities and activities. Subsequently, Flextron which is a low volume and high mix electronic manufacturing service provider, is used as a case study to analyze obsolete part procurement process and implement procurement process reengineering for obsolete parts.


A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the
DEPARTMENT OF SOILS, WATER, AND ENGINEERING
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
WITH A MAJOR IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
In the Graduate College
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
1975


A total of 384 randomly selected cattle were examined for the presence of gross lesions and cysts, according to standard inspection procedures for developing countries. Out of the total 384 male cattle presented for slaughter, 303 (79.3%) of the lungs of cattle had different gross lesions and cysts. Hydatid cyst (40.9%), emphysema (15.4%), congestion (12.2%) and calcification were the major gross lesions and cysts found in the lungs. Cattle with an older age (OR = 1.74; 95% CI = 1.10–2.78; p = 0.018) and a poor body condition score (OR = 6.10; 95% CI = 2.29–16.59; p = 0.001) were more likely to have hydatidosis and calcified cysts than cattle with a younger age and a good body condition score. Furthermore, emphysema and congestion were more common in crossbred cattle (OR = 2.57; 95%CI = 1.19–5.28; p = 0.012) and younger cattle (OR = 2.87; 95%CI = 1.40–5.83; p = 0.004), respectively. The hydatid cyst was the most common cyst and the cause of lung condemnation in the Asella municipal abattoir. Therefore, better meat inspection procedures, proper lung disposal systems, and preventing the entrance of stray dogs to the abattoir would reduce the prevalence and transmission of diseases to humans.


EFFECT OF IN VITRO HUMAN DIGESTION ON THE VISCOSITY OF HYDROCOLLOIDS IN SOLUTION: A DIETARY FIBRE STUDY Hrvoje Fabek Advisor: University of Guelph, 2011 Professor H.D. Goff The effects of a simulated in vitro digestion model on the viscosity of solutions of locust bean gum, guar gum, fenugreek gum, xanthan gum, gum Arabic, psyllium, flaxseed gum and soy soluble polysaccharides (SSPS) were examined in this study. All hydrocolloid solutions were formulated for low viscosity (LV), medium viscosity (MV) and high viscosity (HV), which were subsequently subjected to 3 treatments of equal volumes each. The treatments consisted of 1) H2O-dilutions, 2) acid and alkali in the absence of enzymes/bile and 3) an in vitro digestion model simulating the gastric and duodenal phases with pH changes in the presence of hydrolytic enzymes and bile salts. All hydrocolloids showed substantial reductions in viscosity, with dilutions exerting the greatest effect. Depending on the concentration, xanthan gum retained 20-50% of its initial viscosity while the other solutions were in a lower range of 1-16%, thereby showing considerable resilience to the 3 simulated conditions.


The invention provides a brickwork pressure-shearing device for exerting shearing force on two sides of brickwork while exerting pressure on two horizontal planes of the brickwork. The device is characterized by comprising a pressure exerting unit and a shearing force exerting unit, wherein the pressure exerting unit is provided with at least four fastening components and two opposite pressure plates, and the two opposite pressure plates are detachably connected with the fastening components; the shearing force exerting plate is vertical to the pressure plates and provided with a first shearing force component and a second shearing force component opposite to the first shearing force component; the two pressure plates are respectively contacted with the two horizontal planes and used for exerting pressure on the horizontal planes, and the pressure is changed by regulating the fastening components; the first shearing force component and the second shearing force component are respectively contacted with the two sides and used for exerting the shearing force on the sides. According to the brickwork pressure-shearing device provided by the invention, the anti-shearing performance and the anti-pressure performance of the brickwork can be compositely measured due to the arrangement of the shearing force exerting unit and the pressure exerting unit; the device is simple in structure, low in cost and simple to operate, and the test efficiency is greatly improved.


A variety of politics are waged through recourse to the language of 'citizenship' and 'democracy': from George W. Bush's selling of free trade for the Americas by invoking freedom and democracy, to the calls for citizenship and equality by popular movements throughout Latin America and other regions. This article links these paradoxical and transnational constructions of 'citizenship' to the daily economic and political struggles of indigenous women in rural Mexico. A transnational and what Cindi Katz calls a 'topographical' analysis of local processes deepens and complicates our understanding of local changes as they articulate with global dynamics, and it transforms how we conceptualize the global. Drawing on an ethnography of local gendered political transformation in Cherán, Mexico, I map processes visible locally onto spatialities of power and meaning across scales, weaving together various symbolic and material processes—the intentional actions and negotiations of individual women; the history of Cherán as a place and community; neoliberal economic globalization; and the effects of profoundly gendered and racialized nationalisms—in order to produce a situated knowledge of global citizenship politics. This approach highlights how women in Cherán, situated within global political economic relations and the symbolic horizons of 'modernity', transform the meaning and practice of citizenship and political subjectivity.


Chapter Objectives In recent years UK supermarkets have come under increasing scrutiny over their treatment of suppliers, particularly of own-label products, yet the development of strategic supply networks has been an integral part of most supermarket strategies for the past decade. This chapter explains the rationale for greater collaboration in supermarket supply chains, discusses the main areas in which collaboration takes place and presents some insights from the literature on buyer-supplier relationships and the impact of supply chain collaboration on the performance of UK supermarkets and their suppliers.


The article enlightens the problem and some theoretical and methodological prerequisites of formation of an intellectually mature person within the framework of acmeological approach to the development of a person. The author defines the complex of values, criteria and indicators of intellectual maturity of a student's personality basing on the peculiarities of educational environment at the institutions of higher learning.


Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are important measures to evaluate potential risks of privacy leakage from machine learning (ML) models. State-of-the-art MIA defenses have achieved favorable privacy-utility trade-offs using knowledge distillation on split training datasets. However, such defenses increase computational costs as a large number of the ML models must be trained on the split datasets. In this study, we proposed a new MIA defense, called SEDMA, based on self-distillation using model aggregation to mitigate the MIAs, inspired by the model parameter averaging as used in federated learning. The key idea of SEDMA is to split the training dataset into several parts and aggregate multiple ML models trained on each split for self-distillation. The intuitive explanation of SEDMA is that model aggregation prevents model over-fitting by smoothing information related to the training data among the multiple ML models and preserving the model utility, such as in federated learning. Through our experiments on major benchmark datasets (Purchase100, Texas100, and CIFAR100), we show that SEDMA outperforms state-of-the-art MIA defenses in terms of membership privacy (MIA accuracy), model accuracy, and computational costs. Specifically, SEDMA incurs at most approximately 3 - 5% model accuracy drop, while achieving the lowest MIA accuracy in state-of-the-art empirical MIA defenses. For computational costs, SEDMA takes significantly less processing time than a defense with the state-of-the-art privacy-utility trade-offs in previous defenses. SEDMA achieves both favorable privacy-utility trade-offs and low computational costs.


The basic optical properties and optical constants of the ionomer thin film have been investigated by means of transmittance and reflectance spectra. The real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the complex refractive index and dielectric constant of the thin film were determined. The oscillator energy Eo, dispersion energy Ed and other parameters have been determined by the Wemple– DiDomenico method. The optical band gap Eg was determined and the optical absorption spectra show that the absorption mechanism is a direct transition. The most significant result of the present study is to determine optical constants and optical band gap of the thin film.


Zinc oxide (ZnO) crystals can be grown by vapor phase transport, hydrothermal solution growth, and high pressure melt growth. Three inch size single crystal has been demonstrated by the hydrothermal growth technique. We will emphasis on the hydrothermal technology of large size ZnO crystal. Material characteristics are discussed and compared to ZnO fabricated from vapor phase and melt growth. A route to obtain high-quality, single-crystalline ZnO films with mechanically untouched surfaces is employed to screen the doping of ZnO under the conditions of growth near the thermodynamic equilibrium. Future trends in ZnO crystal growth technology will be discussed.


Lately, we have seen a twist of survey sites. It introduces an incredible chance to share our perspectives for different items we buy. Be that as it may, we face the data over-burdening issue. The most effective method to mine significant data from surveys to comprehend a client's inclinations and make an exact proposal is vital. Customary recommender systems (RS) think about certain variables, for example, client's buy records, item classification, and geographic area. In this work, we propose an algorithm called MaxEnt classifier to improve prediction precision in recommender systems. Right off the bat, we propose a social client wistful estimation approach and ascertain every client's conclusion on things/items. Furthermore, we consider a client's own wistful qualities as well as mull over relational nostalgic impact. At that point, we think about item notoriety, which can be induced by the wistful disseminations of a client set that mirror clients' exhaustive assessment. Finally, we combine three components client assumption comparability, relational nostalgic impact, and thing's notoriety closeness into our recommender framework to make a precise rating prediction. We direct a presentation assessment of the three nostalgic factors on a genuine data gathered from IMDB.


SYNOPSIS. Monocercomonas molae from the hindgut of the sunfish Mola mola is described. The host was taken from southern California coastal waters in October, 1964. The body of the flagellate is 8.0 × 10.7 microns. A single basal granule complex gives rise to 4 flagella, one of which is recurrent. The axostyle is relatively stout, with argentophilic granules, and possesses a periaxostylar ring. The capitulum of the axostyle continues into the sickle-shaped pelta, and the parabasal body is rod-shaped or lobed and roughly triangular in cross-section.


Infant (TSFI) was used to evaluate their sensory processing skills. Results: There was no difference between the groups in terms of age (corrected age for preterm infants) and gender. Term infants were found to be higher in the TSFI total score (p<0.001). According to the TSFI total scores, 60% of the preterm infants had sensory processing disorder (SPD) while 13% of the term infants had SPD. Tactile processing, motor praxis, visual-tactile integration (p<0.05) and vestibular processing (p<0.01) scores of the preterm infants were found to be lower than the term infants (Table 1).


Department of mechanicalEngineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz,IranE-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com: 3 February 2010Revised: 13 March 2010Accepted for publication: 16 March 2010Key words: intraocular lens, lens dislocation, phacoemulsificationRecent studies have reported many casesof dislocation of an intraocular lens (IOL)within the capsular bag, although theexact incidence has not been reported.


The northwestern margin of the Hetao Graben, North China, is bounded by a pronounced 160-km-long Langshan Piedmont fault (LPF). The kinematics and recent tectonic activity of this rift-border fault and its accommodated extensional strain can help us better assess the seismic potentials. In this study, on the basis of high-resolution satellite images, digital elevation models acquired by small unmanned aerial vehicles using structure-for-motion techniques, field observations, and radiocarbon (14C) age dating, we demonstrate that (1) the LPF is a Holocene active normal fault with an average dip of ∼60°; the extension rate is estimated to be ∼0.4–0.7 mm/y, lower than geodetic strain rate; (2) the ongoing tectonic activity along this fault has played a significant role in controlling the present topography of the Langshan Mountains and neighboring areas; (3) slip partitioning probably occurred in the western Hetao Graben; namely, normal slip dominated the basin-bounding faults, and right-lateral slip occurred on the buried faults within the flat-lying graben. We suggest that precisely determined fault slip rates and geometry are needed with the aim of further quantifying the extensional strain distribution. The results of this study would be helpful in achieving a better understanding of fault development and evolution in actively extending regions.


In this paper,the author makes a comparison on the characteristics, efficiency and evolutionary tendency of the two main classical corporate governance patterns in the world and analyses the current situation of corporate governance of listed companies in China.Based on these analysis,it comes to a conclusion that relying mainly on internal corporate governance and consummating gradually external corporate governance are the suitable choice for present corporate governance pattern in China.


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Training generalized correspondence between verbal behavior at school and nonverbal behavior at home was investigated with a preschool child. At school, the child was taught to promise to engage in certain behaviors at home later that day and the following morning. Reinforcement was provided at school the following day if the child had performed the promised behavior. Delayed reinforcement of the verbalizations (promises) was used to program generalization of correspondence behavior. In a multiple baseline across target behaviors, it was found that correspondence across these two settings could be trained successfully, and that delayed reinforcement of verbalizations resulted in generalization. In addition, the results demonstrated that correspondence could be trained with behaviors having some educational or therapeutic significance.


A specific fixed depth chipping experiment is conducted to investigate the mechanism of chipping upon water jet drilling in rocks. It is shown that the net impinging time: t for a fixed depth chipping is closely associated with the bottom incident pressure: p evaluated by the Thi+rd Power Method, and that the fixed depth chipping occurs in the case that the bottom incident pressure: p is greater than a thresholding pressure: pth. The relation of p t determined by the experiment is explained, basing on the fracture mechanics, and it is discussed that the chipping upon drilling is a kind of the fatigue fracture and initiates at a circumference of the advancing bottom. In order to forecast the incidence of the chipping upon water jet drilling, a chipping potential is subsequently proposed as a function of p and pth. It is clarified that the chipping potential PC in the case of p = pth = Se, where Se: the erosion strength of materials, is available for forecasting the incidence of chipping upon drilling.


Compensation of personal harm has always drawn the attention of the media, of the public at large and, therefore, of politicians as well. Tort law as far as it is concerned with compensation of personal harm has always been, and will always be, a politically sensitive area of private law. Ever since Ulrich Beck wrote his book 'Die Risikogesellschaft (1986)' it has become commonplace to say that we live in a risk society. In the Netherlands people have become painfully aware of the risks inherent in our society as a result of the Bijlmer plane crash in 1992, the outbreak of the Legionnaires disease in Bovenkarspel in 1999, the explosion of a fireworks factory in Enschede in 2000 and the fire that broke out on New Year's eve 2000 in a pub in Volendam.


While international projects may appear as attractive investments, such projects usually involve elevated levels of risk and uncertainty. Morris and Hough (1990) found that 63 percent of 1,778 projects funded by the World Bank between 1974 and 1988 experienced significant cost overruns owing to risk factors including safety risks. The loss or injury of trained and experienced workers, and the worker disruption to progress of work, undeniably represent reduction in the performance of construction. The cost of accidents which includes increased insurance cost, lost productivity, and disruptions, provides an economic motivation to try and prevent accidents from happening; safety culture can set the tone for implementation of safety in construction site environments. Based on the above premise, this study attempts to develop a research instrument that can be utilized by construction contractors working in international markets to assess the safety culture of the native workforce in order to better manage the risks of safety, as well as to take better procurement and management decisions. The research instrument has been developed through structured surveys and interviews of major U.S. contractors (general and specialty) pursuing international business opportunities in the commercial and industrial sectors, in various countries around the globe. The research deliverable provides a structured mechanism for international contractors to assess and curtail site safety risks on international projects and to better respond to the challenges faced by their management in implementing safe construction projects internationally. Strategically, this provides them with a structured approach to decision making under uncertainty for procurement of construction projects in an international context.


The free vibrations of simply supported magneto-electro-elastic cylindrical shells are studied. A series solution is assumed in the circumferential and axial directions of the shell to preserve the three-dimensional character of the structure. The constitutive equations of the magneto-electro-elastic medium involving mechanical, electrical and magnetic fields are used to derive the finite element model for the system. The influence of the piezomagnetic effect on the structural frequencies of the cylindrical shell is studied. A comparison is made between a shell with a layered configuration and one with a multiphase system. The study is carried out for a typical shell with simply supported boundary conditions for different ratios of length to radius and radius to thickness to analyse the frequency behaviour.


Abstract : Incorporating vapor-space-corrosion inhibitors in operating steam- turbine oils has been shown by laboratory experiments to be feasible. Two oils appear suitable for use in steam-turbine lubricating systems. Further confirmatory testing of side effects is underway.


The significance of the framework programmes for research and technological development of the European Union is constantly increasing. In Horizon 2020, the current framework programme of the EU, 80 billion euro will be distributed among researchers based on scientific excellence. Unlike in the agricultural or structural policy of the Union, where funds are mainly distributed based on previously defined quotas, framework programmes for research and development (R&D) are strictly competitive. As a result of the economic crisis and budgetary restrictions, the competition for such funds is constantly increasing. All the Member States and associated countries of Horizon 20 202 are aiming at the largest possible share of available funds, which is also encouraged on government level. Such EU provided funds can ideally supplement government expenditure on R&D.The first 15 Member States of the European Union, the so called EU15 or old Member States usually perform much better than the "new" member states, which have joined the EU in or after 2004 (EU13). I will compare the performance and participation data of one EU15 country - Austria - with one EU13 country - Hungary. I try to find an answer to the question: why is Austria more successful in the framework programmes of the European Union than Hungary? After a short overview of the history of the framework programmes for research and technological development I will compare the participation data and success rates of Hungarian and Austrian researchers in the framework programmes (number of projects, size of budget). Finally I will mention some reasons why Austria is more successful than its eastern neighbour, Hungary.Historical overview of the framework programmes for research and technological developmentThere is no broad academic literature on the emergence and development of Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Union. Guzzetti3 and Krige4 are authors of two general historical overviews about the origins and growth of the European Framework Programmes. In 1957, in the Treaties of Rome, no collaborative mandate was given in the area of science and technology outside nuclear energy. In the mid-1960s even EURATOM had to abandon its original objective of Europe-wide cooperation - it seemed as if the European countries would cooperate only outside the Community framework if at all.5 From the early 1970s sectorial programmes with the aim of closing the "technology gap" were launched.6 Authors like Sandholtz7 or Papon8 emphasise the importance of such programmes mainly aimed at increasing competitiveness in specific sectors, well in line with international trends of science policy, to focus on innovation and applicability of research efforts. These initiatives still lacked the ambition to maintain or develop a broad research base in Europe. A typical example for such a sectorial programme was ESPRIT, the "flagship" programme for the promotion of R&D in the information technology industry, launched in the early 1980s. In the following years, both the EC budget devoted to R&D and the legal framework were significantly expanded. Nevertheless, Reger and Kuhlmann9 emphasise that this tendency did not mean that the EU would have replaced national policies - if we compare the R&D budget of the Member States to the EU budget, the latter is still relatively small. Increased amounts of funding could not overcome the so-called "European Paradox" either. As Georghiou10 explains, in spite of a generally high level of investment in science, the technological and commercial performance in Europe has worsened since the mid-1980s.Other authors put the emphasis on analysing the role of the European Commission in setting the agenda of science policy in Europe. Peterson11 sees the emergence of the Framework Programme as the result of the interplay between developing stakeholder networks and senior-level Commissioners. …


Abarkooh alluvial aquifer is located in southwest of Yazd city at the center of Iran. Groundwater is the main source for irrigation and domestic uses. These activities are also considered as the potential causes of the groundwater contamination in this plain. The study was carried out to assess hydrogeochemical properties of groundwater with the aim to find probable sources of major contaminants including nitrate and heavy metals. In this regard 37 water samples were collected and analyzed for major ions (Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cl, HCO3 and SO4), nitrate and heavy metals with environmental priority including arsenic (As), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd). Values of electrical conductivity (EC) increase from recharge area at the west to the eastern discharging parts where the playa is present. The abundance of cations and anions vary in the order of Na7>>Mg27>Ca27>Ka7 and Cl8>>SO428>HCO38, respectively. The highest values of Na and Cl are observed at the east where the saline water intrusion is probable due to the intensive abstraction of groundwater which reverses the groundwater flow direction direction. Pb and Cd are highly correlated with Na, Cl and EC, confirm their geogenic source due to saline water intrusion. Nitrate is high at the west where the un-managed application of fertilizers in agricultural lands is so dominant. A geogenic source for As was proposed based on the results of principal component analysis (PCA). The study confirms the main role of anthropogenic processes in contamination of Abarkooh aquifer generally resulted from over-exploitation of the aquifer and agricultural activities.


Grid GIS is a new technology which integrates the Grid with GIS. The analysis and application of geospatial information based on WebGIS now has new contents and application approaches based on Grid GIS, so the assignment and realization of computation tasks are more complex. The algorithm Com-Pool which is applied in Grid GIS can realize the task scheduling for its simple and practical characters, but it also has restriction on resource utilization. The task analysis and scheduling for geospatial information can be realized by using the Analyse–X algorithm based on stream computing effectively.


The current 4G LTE network architecture is organized into very large and rigid regions, each with an access edge consisting of only base stations and an Internet edge comprised of centralized packet gateways (PGWs) that enforce almost all network policies. In this architecture, there is minimal interaction among regions other than interference management at the edge, and all users' outgoing traffic must traverse a PGW and possibly go through the Internet, even if the other endpoint is served by a close base station in the neighboring regions. The centralized policy enforcement, rigid organization of large regions, and a lack of inter-region interaction make the current cellular network architecture incredibly inflexible and inefficient. First, a recent study [1] shows that the lack of a sufficiently close PGW is a major cause of path inflation, suboptimal routing, and QoS degradation in large carriers. Second, there is no support or simple solutions for IP-based mobility between regions ("inter-PGWs"). Thus, users crossing regions experience service interruption [2]. Third, the sheer amount of traffic and centralized policy enforcement at PGWs, and the inability to directly route traffic between regions take a heavy toll on the scalability and reliability of PGWs and the cellular architecture as a whole. Fourth, with the exponential growth of mobile data and rapidly changing traffic patterns, the current architecture is ill-suited to adapt to the rise of new applications such as machine-to-machine (e.g., connected vehicles, telehealth) and bandwidth-intensive applications. Rather than organizing mobile wide area networks as rigid regions with no direct traffic transit, we argue that the cellular networks should have a fully connected core topology, small logical regions, and more egress points. In addition, operators should leverage software defined networking to manage the entire network with a logically-centralized controller. The controller directs traffic through efficient network paths that might cross region boundaries, supports and optimizes inter-region handoffs, and dynamically adapts to traffic patterns with efficient inter-region traffic engineering. Such an architecture raises unique scalability challenges in comparison with data-center and enterprise networks due to the geographically distributed nature of mobile WANs. Indeed, a logically-centralized controller in one pointof-presence with a flat architecture quickly becomes infeasible, if the mobile WAN spans a large region. This is due to the high latency between the controller and the data plane switches, the amount of signaling load from mobile users, and the very high number cellular handoffs.


In order to meet market demands for stainless steel strip, the No. 3 CR mill was installed. No. 3 CR mill is a new 12-high cluster type rolling mill.This mill has several excellent features :– excellent shape control system consisting of an IMR bender, levelling, BUR crown adjustment and presetting of actuators ;– automation (WR, coil, paper, etc.) ;– compact design.Through the use of No. 3 CR mill, we can provide high quality product and achieve high productivity. The facilities and operating conditions are described in this report.


In a large class of hard-real-time control applications, components execute concurrently on distributed nodes and must coordinate, under timing constraints, to perform the control task. As such, they perform a type of atomic commitment. In traditional atomic commitment there are no timing constraints; agreement is eventual. The authors present a definition of timed atomic commitment (TAC) which requires the processes to be functionally consistent, but allows the outcome to include an exceptional state, indicating that faults have caused timing constraints to be violated. The authors also present a high-level language construct that facilitates the use of TAC in distributed real-time programming and discuss its behavior when faults occur.<<ETX>>


Every year, 20% of teenagers at school suffer from common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression (WHO, 2011). Indonesian Health Ministry reported that the prevalence of emotional disturbance of students at age 15 year and above is about 6% (Riset Kesehatan Dasar, 2013). This fact above reaffirms the importance of school-based mental health as a strategic program to elevate adolescent well-being. This study specifically aims to validate mental health screening and diagnostic instrument to collect more accurate and comprehensive data about children and adolescents' mental health state and manage it using Integrated Mental Health Information System (Sistem Informasi Kesehatan Mental/SIKM). The participants in this study were 308 students consisted of elementary school, middle school, high school students, and 28 teachers in Yogyakarta. Data collection was conducted through online survey using mental health scale and knowledge questionnaire. Additional data was collected through interview and focus group discussion. The data shows that students' mental health state in Yogyakarta belonged to moderate category (81%) and high (19%). Focus group discussions revealed no system and policies have established to support students' mental health at schools. Generally, according to assessment done by the teachers, the level of students' well-being was described as such: 10.71% belonged to high category, 75% moderate, and 14.28% low. These findings provide early data to determine appropriate intervention programs in the future.


Cancer is one of the main diseases that threaten people' health and life. The prognosis of cancer has close correlation with early diagnosis and early treatment. The Raman spectral fingerprints analysis of the cancer provided the rationale for early diagnosis and the mechanism research of cancer.


ABSTRACT In this article, the first hitting times of generalized Poisson processes Nf(t), related to Bernštein functions f are studied. For the space-fractional Poisson processes, Nα(t), t > 0 (corresponding to f = xα), the hitting probabilities P{Tαk < ∞} are explicitly obtained and analyzed. The processes Nf(t) are time-changed Poisson processes N(Hf(t)) with subordinators Hf(t) and here we study and obtain probabilistic features of these extended counting processes. A section of the paper is devoted to processes of the form where are generalized grey Brownian motions. This involves the theory of time-dependent fractional operators of the McBride form. While the time-fractional Poisson process is a renewal process, we prove that the space–time Poisson process is no longer a renewal process.


This article draws from an evaluation of a school-based student support program operating in the Elizabeth-Munno Para region of South Australia ("Author", 2005). Based on a community development model, The Turn Around Program (TAP) extends beyond the parameters of the classroom to provide educational, social and health services to students and families affected by economic and social disadvantage. Data collected from children, parents, teachers and school principals, indicated that the Program enhanced the capacity of families and communities affected by disadvantage and poverty to more effectively support and nurture their children. The marked improvements in parenting capacity and in child-parent interaction and communication provided children with a more open and supportive home environment, which in turn, improved children's experience of schooling and their capacity for learning. Through an examination of key aspects of the Program, the paper demonstrates how TAP has successfully melded long held ecological perspectives on schooling and child development with a number of strategies that promote the development of socially sustainable communities.


The impregnation of salicylic acid following a supercritical
fluid technology was determined experimentally for various adsorbing
matrices such as Florisil, zeolite, silica gel and Amberlite under a wide
range of experimental conditions. A thorough characterisation of these
supercritical adsorption processes requires a large number of runs under
various experimental conditions in order to cover all possible sources of
variance, which may result in a tedious and time-consuming task. The
overall information contained in the data set generated in this series of
experimental runs can be analysed more efficiently using chemometrics.
Here, multivariate data consisting of adsorption values determined for each
material were analysed with principal component analysis and partial
least-squares regression (PLS). The corresponding PLS models were
subsequently applied to predict the impregnated amounts for other
experimental conditions. Results showed a reasonable concordance between
the experimental and predicted values.


The migratory and omnivorous common crane (Grus grus) uses a nature reserve with crucial ecological value that provides supplementary food resources, although the extent of their use by these cranes is unknown. In this study, we used DNA metabarcoding of plants through the chloroplast rbcL gene to investigate the diets of 25 common crane fecal samples and performed analyses in conjunction with supplementary feeding. The results showed that common cranes preferred plants of the families Poaceae and Cyperaceae, similar to common cranes in other nature reserves. Before supplementary feeding, Poaceae and Cyperaceae accounted for 43.83 ± 20.58% and 53.51 ± 19.24%, respectively, while after that, they accounted for 61.23 ± 35.19% and 24.07 ± 28.20%, respectively. The relative abundance of Hordeum increased significantly in January, accounting for 33.88 ± 31.32%, which was mainly affected by supplementary feeding. Therefore, under supplementary feeding, foraging grounds and feeding preferences of common cranes may change correspondingly. The quantity of corn kernels and wheat grains can be increased appropriately in supplementary feeding measures in the nature reserve, and more supplementary feeding sites should be set up in response to the shortage of wild bird food resources. This study applied an effective method to study the diet preference of common cranes under supplementary feeding and further provided insights to improve management measures in the nature reserve.


AbstractThe focus of this study is the characterization of the diurnal cycle of low-level wind and divergence field (under two different synoptic situations observed during the South American Low-Level Jet Experiment) within the South American domain encompassed between 20° and 35°S east of the Andes, using Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR). The objective is to highlight the existence of a spatial variation of these quantities and differences in the strength of their diurnal cycle between the two synoptic situations. Inertial oscillations and thermally driven circulations as well as convection-related contributions to mesoscale convergence and their implications for deep convection initiation/maintenance are addressed in each selected subregion. Prevalence of synoptic-scale forcing over the diurnally forced circulations, or vice versa, is also analyzed. Both mesoscale wind diurnal cycle and related divergence fields are sensitive to varying synoptic conditions and display regional variability. The...


Abstract: This article examines forty-five Quaker women who preached and protested against orthodox Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1656 to the 1670s. These women protested by their unauthorized arrival to the colony, holding Quaker meetings, disseminating Quaker literature, disturbing Puritan church services, "walking naked" in public, and not attending required Church services. Some historians consider these early women to be irrational, single, social deviants who were on the margins of society. On the contrary, evidence indicates that seventeenth-century Quaker women who lived or visited the Massachusetts Bay Colony were usually literate, married mothers of middling socioeconomic status in their twenties or thirties who believed it was necessary to protest against Puritan authorities. These early Quakers made it easier for women to gain power without rejecting seventeenth-century gender roles regarding marriage and motherhood. Inadvertently, they began to challenge the role of women in society, which laid the groundwork for future reform movements.It is often difficult for Americans to grapple with the religious past of early Puritan settlers. Many Americans continue to be taught that Puritans settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to promote "religious liberty," and that led to American freedom of religion. The past is significantly more complicated than this simple cause and effect statement. Puritans settled in colonial America for religious liberty; however, they defined liberty to mean that they allowed everyone to practice their "true" form of Christianity. During the seventeenth century, if one practiced anything else, he or she was asked to change his or her views or leave the colony. Many who decided to worship in unorthodox ways were fined, imprisoned, whipped, mutilated, banished, and even executed. One significant group that experienced these punishments was the Quakers, or the Society of Friends as they came to be known. Quakers rejected the Puritan beliefs of predestination, trained ministers for religious leaders, and the idea of established churches. An essential tenet of Quakers was their belief that God revealed himself to people through "the light within." This led many Quakers to use "signs and wonders" to express their religious beliefs.Quakers arose in England during the English Civil Wars (1642-1651) to protest against English societal norms and, specifically, orthodox Puritan beliefs. Quakers began as an unorganized movement until George Fox (1624-1691) brought structure to the group. Until the 1650s, the group did not even have a clear name to call themselves-some referred to each other as "Friends" or "children of light." Eventually the group adopted the term Quaker. This ambiguity lends itself to much interpretation about early Quakers and their beliefs. Nevertheless, estimates indicate that by 1660 they had a significant following in England-between thirty to sixty thousand out of a total population of 5 million.1 Quakers challenged Puritans in England and, beginning in the 1650s, in the British North American colonies.There is some controversy about the social and economic origins of early Quakers in both England and in Massachusetts. Histories written about Quakers residing in England have a slightly different view of the social origins of the group than histories written about Massachusetts Quakers. English historians Barry Reay in The Quakers and the English Revolution (1985), Alan Cole in "The Social Origins of the Early Friends" (1957), and Adrian Davies in The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725 (2000) all agree that early Quakers were of the "middling" sort; few were from the gentry or landless.2 On the contrary, Carla Gardina Pestana in The City Upon a Hill Under Siege (1983) argues that early Quakers who traveled to Massachusetts were from a lower social and economic status than Quakers in England.3 This disagreement has more to do with defining what "middling" status means than fundamental differences in evidence. …


The present invention discloses one artificial crystal implanted in a bag and its strap has elasticity at the root part smaller than that in body part and tail part. After the artifical crystal is implanted into the bag and when the crystal suspending ligament is tensed, the crystal bag will be tensed, the bag part in the strap tail contacting the crystal equator part will contract centripetally,the root part and body part of the artificial crystal will bend and the optical part of the artificial crystal will move backwards so as to reduce the regulating force of the crystal inside eye, the retina image clearly and to make the artificial crystal possesses better and near and far seeing effect.


This study was conducted in order to identify the relationship between hotel service quality, relationship marketing, customers' satisfaction and customers' loyalty of the deluxe hotel in Busan. Data were collected from the customers of N deluxe hotel in Busan. Based on 220 valid questionnaires, empirical analysis was conducted by SPSS for Window 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. Through the exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, we identified hotel service quality factors as 'responsiveness and empathy', 'tangibility', 'assurance', and 'reliability'. We also found hotel relationship marketing factors as 'food & beverage product', 'hotel information', and 'convenience'. 'Customers' satisfaction' and 'customers' loyalty' factors were identified. Results showed that 'assurance', and 'tangibility' had influence on relationship marketing, however, 'responsiveness and empathy' and 'reliability' did not. Also, 'responsiveness and empathy' only had a effect on customers' satisfaction. Relationship marketing–customers' satisfaction, customers' satisfaction–customers' loyalty, and relationship marketing–customers' loyalty had a significant relationship. These results offer good examples of the current hotel industry in Busan and how to become more competitive. According to the results, this study will give some good implications for the hotel service quality and relationship marketing. Finally, the study closes with a discussion of implications for practice, limitations, and suggestions for future research.


The Fisher-Pitman permutation test is shown to possess significant advantages over conventional alternatives when analyzing differences among independent samples with unequal variances.


Introduction: The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women in the world according to WHO ranges from 35-37%, similarly found in pregnant women in Indonesia, Riskesdas in 2013 reported a prevalence of 37.1%. Although the treatment of iron deficiency anemia for pregnant women has been entered into ANC treatment, the prevalence has not given the expected thing. However, in Sumedang District, the prevalence of anemia in pregnant women in 2016 lower, 9.69%, pharmacoepidemiological data related to the use of blood boosting vitamins in Jatinangor is still limited. this research was conducted in Jatinangor as target area of Universitas Padjadjaran.Objective: To know the blood Enhancer supplement consumption practices on pregnant women in Jatinangor.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in July-August 2018 with pregnant women in Jatinangor, based on the formula large sample descriptive, sampling conducted in 12 villages and subjects were selected consecutively. Data analysis was carried out descriptively interview data using a closed questionnaire.Results: within research recorded 532 pregnant woman, 110 pregnant women are eligible to participate. It was found 96 pregnant women taking blood boosting vitamins, 69 Taking folicacid, 27 taking irontablets, 15 consuming B12, 2 consuming B6. It was found who did not take vitamins, 14 pregnant women for several reasons, 8 people felt healthy, 3 people felt the complaints were mild so it does not require vitamins, 4 others were afraid of the side effects.Conclusion: Most of the respondents already know how to consume suplments


This paper deals with robust control problem of Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy bilinear systems. Based on proportional parallel distributed compensation (PPDC) approach, $H_{\infty}$ synthesis criterion, and linear matrix inequality (LMI) tools, sufficient global asymptotic stability conditions with decay rate and external disturbances attenuation of the controlled system are established. Finally, an illustrative example of stabilizing a nonlinear mass-spring-damper mechanical system is given to illustrate the effectiveness.


In large-scale urban agglomerations, heavy rail in the form of metro and commuter train serves as the backbone of the metropolitan public transport network. Transport systems are subject to recurrent disruptions that may result in severe consequences for network performance and society at large. The objective of this paper is to compare the robustness of selected public transport networks which exhibit different properties to both random and targeted attacks and gain insights on the role of network structure and development pattern. The authors adopt a complex network theory approach, investigating network performances under alternative sequential disruption scenarios corresponding to the successive closure of either stations or track segments. Targeted attacks are simulated by the removal of the most central network elements. Network performance is measured both in terms of the capacity of the network to function in terms of connectivity as well as the impedance induced that remain connected. Two exemplary networks are selected – the polycentric Randstad region and the largest and rapidly developing Shanghai metro network. The results indicate that both networks are highly vulnerable to targeted attacks with the Shanghai network exhibiting greater robustness in all scenarios. The connections between the urban cores are most critical in the multi-centric Randstad network while the Shanghai network is most susceptible to disruptions in the edge of its core, risking cutting off its long branches. Our findings provide more nuanced insights on the relations between network structure and robustness.


Both 1,3-butanediol, which causes ketonemia, and phlorizin, which induces glucosuria, were given to steers in an attempt to simulate lactation ketosis and to determine effects of ketonemia and glucosuria on plasma metabolite concentrations and on kinetics of glucose metabolism. Four steers received four treatments (control; 1,3-butanediol mixed with the control ration; control plus phlorizin given by subcutaneous injection; and control plus 1,3-butanediol and phlorizin) in a Latin square design. Each treatment lasted 14 days. All steers received a 30% grain, 70% forage ration in equal portions at 2-h intervals. Plasma and urine metabolite concentrations and kinetics of glucose metabolism were measured on each of the last 3 days of each treatment period. Carbon-14 glucose, given by single injection, was used to measure glucose kinetics. Compared with controls, 1,3-butanediol increased glucose pool size. Phlorizin caused glucosuria, decreased plasma glucose, increased plasma free fatty acids, increased glucose irreversible loss, decreased glucose total entry rate, and decreased glucose recycling. Treatment with 1,3-butanediol plus phlorizin caused glucosuria and ketonuria, decreased plasma glucose, increased blood ketone


Aspergillus niger MA was selected as the initial strain for β-mannanase production from a number of strains.After Co60 mutagenesis of A.niger MA,a genetic stable and β-mannanase overproducing mutant A.niger MA-56 was obtained through primary and secondary screening.The activity of β-mannanase was improved about 64.78% and reached 9.31×104 U/g.The results of enzyme characteristics of β-mannanase showed that the optimum temperature was 70℃ and the optimum pH was 2.5-3.5.Moreover,β-mannanase was also stable at pH 2.5-9.0 at 60℃. Among different metal ions,Cu2+ showed stronger inhibitory effect on the activity of β-mannanase.


5109 Background: GTTs including invasive mole and choriocarcinoma are usually cured with chemotherapy assessed by a normalisation of the pregnancy hormone hCG. Relapses detected by a rising hCG can...


Software upgrades have made analyzing for fluid and structural interaction easier and more common than in the past but, alas, not much quicker.


In August 2002, the Geological Survey Branch (GSB) of the Ministry of Energy and Mines was asked by the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management to undertake a Level 2 Mineral Resource Assessment (MRA) of the Coast Information Team's (CIT) project area which encompasses approximately 11 million hectares. This was followed by a similar request in February 2003 to do the Lillooet Land Resource Management Plan (LRMP) area. The primary purpose of these assessments was to provide more detailed information on metallic and industrial mineral resource potential in support of concluding detailed land use plans. The Coastal resource assessment was carried out in early October, 2002 and final results delivered to the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management and the CIT at the end of December 2002. The Lillooet assessment was completed in April 2003. This report summarizes the methodology used in these projects and briefly reviews the results which are now posted on the MapPlace website (http://www.mapplace.ca). A review of the original Level 1 MRA methodology is also included here because the Level 2 MRA used the results from the original assessment.


This reflexive discourse investigates, in genealogical terms, the political-administrative category of the quality of education. The context: Colombia. The problem: the commercial consideration of educational quality as an increase in figures in the government campaigns of the governments on duty. The idea that a quality education has to do with the increase of infrastructure, coverage and training is sold to the company. At no point has the hypothesis been reached that the educational problem in the country is not a question of quantity but of quality. Therefore, this work, on the one hand, problematizes the notion of educational quality; On the other hand, he proposes to speak of an intersectoral training project between: the family, the school, the community and the State.


Parker Winkler studied abroad in Nanjing, China, the spring semester of 2017. He will graduate in the spring of 2019 from the University of Kansas with bachelor degrees in Political Science and in East Asian Language and Cultures: Chinese Language and Literature.


We deal with the $(\mathbb{Z}\omega, \chi)$-theta Fock-Bargmann space consisting of holomorphic automorphic functions associated to given discrete subgroup in $\mathbb{C}^g$ of rank one and given character $\chi$. We give concrete description of its elements, it looks like a tensor product of a theta Fock-Bargmann space on the complex plane $\mathbb{C}$ and the classical Fock-Bargmann space on $\mathbb{C}^{g-1}$. Moreover, we construct an orthonormal basis and we give explicit expression of its reproducing kernel function in terms of Riemann theta function.


The formation process of a microdischarge (MD) in both μm- and nm-sized catalyst pores is simulated by a two-dimensional particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision model. A parallel-plate dielectric barrier discharge configuration in filamentary mode is considered in ambient air. The discharge is powered by a high voltage pulse. Our calculations reveal that a streamer can penetrate into the surface features of a porous catalyst and MDs can be formed inside both μm- and nm-sized pores, yielding ionization inside the pore. For the μm-sized pores, the ionization mainly occurs inside the pore, while for the nm-sized pores the ionization is strongest near and inside the pore. Thus, enhanced discharges near and inside the mesoporous catalyst are observed. Indeed, the maximum values of the electric field, ionization rate and electron density occur near and inside the pore. The maximum electric field and electron density inside the pore first increase when the pore size rises from 4 nm to 10 nm, and then they decrease for the 100 nm pore, due to a more pronounced surface discharge for the smaller pores. However, the ionization rate is highest for the 100 nm pore due to the largest effective ionization region.


Beamlike photon pairs generated by pumping the Type-II BBO crystal. Then inserting into the 2x2 fiber, the polarization entangled photon pairs be measured from the output.


Abstract : The objective this HBCU program was to measure the different types of signal noise in mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) materials, and to correlate the type and magnitude of the noise to measured defect levels in the same samples. This type of study had been previously been done for thick MCT layers grown by liquid phase epitaxy decades ago. This program was to look at the more advanced epitaxial MCT layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Samples were measured with a Noise Spectrum Analyzer down to cryogenic temperatures and by a Photo-Induced Current Spectroscopy Technique. Results of these measurements showed that the 1/f noise in the MCT epitaxial samples was indicative of interface states between the epilayer and the substrate, and not due to alloy fluctuations in the epilayer.


Four Aloe species namely A. zebrina, A. abyssinica, A. vera and A. indica possess 2n = 14 including eight large and six small chromosomes. In A. zebrina two CMA-positive bands were at the terminal region in pair IVand two proximal bands at both the members of pair VI. A. abyssinica had two CMA-positive bands, one on a member of pair IV and the other on a member of pair VI. Two CMA-negative bands were found in A. indica and three such bands in A. vera. CMA-negative band regions of these chromosomes showed DAPI-positive bands. A. zebrina possess 14 DAPI-positive bands one on each chromosome. Ten and seven DAPI-positive bands were observed in A. indica and A. vera, respectively. The AT-rich areas were 12.88 μm in A. zebrina, 10.9 μm in A. indica and 6.3 μm in A. vera. The AT-rich areas of these three species were directly proportional to the number of bands. CMA- and DAPI-banding properties indicated the probable involvement of GC- and AT-rich base sequences in karyotypic diversification of these four Aloe species.


A new way of implementing two local anomaly detectors in a hyperspectral image is presented in this study. Generally, most local anomaly detector implementations are carried out on the spatial windows of images, because the local area of the image scene is more suitable for a single statistical model than for global data. These detectors are applied by using linear projections. However, these detectors are quite improper if the hyperspectral dataset is adopted as the nonlinear manifolds in spectral space. As multivariate data, the hyperspectral image datasets can be considered to be low-dimensional manifolds embedded in the high-dimensional spectral space. In real environments, the nonlinear spectral mixture occurs more frequently, and these manifolds could be nonlinear. In this case, traditional local anomaly detectors are based on linear projections and cannot distinguish weak anomalies from background data. In this article, local linear manifold learning concepts have been adopted, and anomaly detection algorithms have used spectral space windows with respect to the linear projection. Output performance is determined by comparison between the proposed detectors and the classic spatial local detectors accompanied by the hyperspectral remote-sensing images. The result demonstrates that the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is promising to improve detection of weak anomalies and to decrease false alarms.


Aiming at human-machine interface scale evaluation for product design,a quantitative method of human-machine interface scale evaluation was presented.Four basic evaluation targets were defined,and the uncomfortableness degree factor of human arthrosis was presented,then the status of human-machine interface was computed in whole or in part.The method is useful in improving product design and enhancing the amenity of products.


Breakthrough curves of Ca2+ stemming from leaching of CaCO3 amended acid lateritic soil (Typic Haplustult) were studied in the laboratory before conducting a leaching experiment in the field. The results obtained with soil columns and undisturbed cores revealed that the Ca2+ recovered in the leachate when CaCO2 (powder) was mixed with the soil was three times compared with that when it was dusted on the surface. On a small field plot under saturation, CaCO3 (powder) was dusted and leaching with tube-well water continued for 12 hours. Concentration of Ca2+ in soil solution was determined in samples collected periodically. The amount of calcium recovered at 25 cm depth was equivalent to about 150 kg CaCO3/ha and at 55 cm it was 100kg/ha following the percolation of 28cm of water.


Abstract : A preliminary design was completed for a facility that uses municipal solid waste as file for generating electricity and cogeneration steam for a seawater desalination unit. An average city of 100,000 population is the basis of the design. The design showed that heat from the combustion of municipal solid waste will provide nearly 2% of per capita electrical power needs and 7% of fresh water requirements. This thesis proposes a new arrangement of known technologies for use in Public Works. The United States is facing increasingly complex problems with the management of mounting quantities of Municipal Solid Waste. Developing new power plant sources for electrical generation now requires searching for scarce energy resources and regularly contends with great opposition. Lastly, lack of fresh water supply has become a prime concern to many cities. Most often the organizations responsible for the management of Solid Waste, Electrical Generation, and Water Resources operate independently focusing primarily on separate requirements. Within this thesis it is demonstrated that a collective effort among these three fundamental infrastructures can benefit all. (AN)


Yaël-Alexandra J. Monereau was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.S. degree in construction management from Southern Polytechnic State University and since then she has taken leave from a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology and is presently teaching at a Harmon STEM School in Tampa, FL. Recently, teaming up with Prewitt Solutions, LLC., Yaël hopes to help develop STEM education amongst the generations. From 2011 to 2013, she worked as a Product Analyst at Genuine Parts Company-Rayloc. Within the Genuine Parts Company-Rayloc division she teamed up with another engineer to headline the Disc Brake Pads portion of the business. Presently, she co-founded Elyape Consulting, LLLP., which specializes in infancy start-ups, with a higher priority given to local non-profits. Her research interests include augmented reality, construction, energy, user-computer interface, virtual reality, and virtual augmentation. Ms. Monereau, is an active member of the Associated General Contractors (AGC), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Through her tenure within these organizations she has served on the Board of Directors for NSBE, as well as multiple leadership roles throughout her undergraduate career with AGC and ASME.


Six new lanthanide complexes with the Schiff base were synthesized in absolute methanol at the atmosphere argon The Schiff bases derived from the reaction of pridoxal with glycine Elemental analysis and conductance measurements show that the complexes have the general formula of [LnL Cl 2·3H 2O],(Ln:La,Y,Sm,Gd,Dy,Yb L=C 10 H 10 O 4N 2) The complexes were characterized by elemental analysis,molar conductivity,IR,UV spectra and H-NMR spectra


Cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Getting a cancer diagnosis and receiving anticancer treatment can have a major impact on cancer patients. Some patients experience significant reductions in quality of life, for instance due to fatigue or psychological distress. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has proven to be an effective intervention to help cancer patients to cope. However, the original format of MBCT, with weekly group meetings, comprises a number of challenges for cancer patients, including travel and lack of flexibility. Especially fatigued cancer patients with pain symptoms might experience barriers to participate. Internet-based MBCT (eMBCT) might overcome these problems, as eMBCT is easily available from home at any time. In the present symposium, we will address some recent evidence regarding the effectiveness of eMBCT for cancer patients. Furthermore, the relationship between therapist and patients in eMBCT will be discussed.


Subject
 Terrorism threat in South-east Asia.

 Significance
 At an ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting last month, Singapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said the region should expect an increase in activity by Islamist militants. In recent months, authorities across South-east Asia have arrested numerous suspected militants and foiled terrorist plots.

 Impacts
 If there is a significant uptick in militant returnees from the Middle East, the threat level in the region may have to be re-evaluated.
 The Philippine military will focus its counterterrorism efforts on the Sulu archipelago.
 Indonesia and Malaysia will use recently revised anti-terrorism laws to increase detentions of suspected militants.


The matching and learning of structural and spatial representations with Hopfield like recurrent neural networks is explored, by formulating and minimizing different energy functions. Building upon recent techniques from statistical physics, such as deterministic annealing which helps avoid some local minima, and the softmax which enforces a one-way constraint without a penalty term, a new optimization technique is introduced--the softassign. The softassign is specifically geared to the types of problems being examined--matching problems--which often require two-way (assignment) constraints. It eliminates the need for penalty terms in these objective functions.
The softassign is applied to three types of problems, the first of which is the matching of structural representations--graphs, A new algorithm is introduced which can match unweighted, weighted and attributed relational graphs. This algorithm employs a sparse distance measure between the links of the two graphs. Experiments on randomly generated graphs, and on graphs generated from images are presented.
The second problem is the matching of spatial representations--two sets of feature points located in two dimensional space. The feature points may be specified solely by their Cartesian coordinates, or there may be a feature vector associated with them. It is assumed the two sets of feature points are related by an affine transformation. Within Computer Vision this is known as a pose estimation and correspondence problem. A new algorithm is introduced and experiments on randomly generated point sets are run. Experiments on hand-written characters are presented.
Finally the problem of learning spatial and structural representations is addressed. A new algorithm for clustering is introduced, which uses as distance measures versions of the point matching and graph matching algorithms. Point set and graph prototypes are learned in an unsupervised fashion. Experiments on randomly generated data sets, and data sets generated from hand-written characters are run.


: This study aims to investigate the material loss review published by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on 98 failed banks from 2008 to 2015. The text mining techniques via machine learning, i.e. bag of words, document clustering, and topic modeling, are employed for the investigation. The pre-processing step of text cleaning is first performed prior to the analysis. In comparison with traditional methods using financial ratios, our study generates actionable insights extracted from semi-structured textual data, i.e. the FDIC's reports. Our text analytics suggests that to prevent from being a failure; banks should beware of loans, board management, supervisory process, the concentration of acquisition, development, and construction (ADC), and commercial real estate (CRE). In addition, the primary reasons that US banks went failure from 2008 to 2015 are explained by two primary topics, i.e. loan and management.


In order to measure the electron cloud density, a microwave transmission measurement was set up over 30 m in the SPS beam pipe. The use of TE waveguide modes eliminates direct interaction with the highly relativistic beam. An electron cloud present in the beam pipe should lead to a small phase shift of the CW microwave signal. Since this phase shift is modulated by the bunch revolution frequency, it translates to a phase modulation which can be measured. However, defying all expectations, a huge beam-induced signal attenuation was found which cannot be understood by current electron cloud models. This attenuation showed erratic memory effects in the order of microseconds after the passage of a batch or single bunch. Both effects are present for a wide range of microwave signal frequencies and beam parameters. Models to possibly explain this effect are discussed.


This article examines adaptive resource management (ARM) as it has been applied to the US horseshoe crab fishery over the past decade. As a critical yet constructive exercise, I have three goals: to suggest how adaptive management, for all its promise, can still be improved; to add a nuanced case study to the literatures on the quantification of nature and environmental decision-making; and to use the example of ARM to make certain temporal aspects of contemporary natural resource management more salient to science and technology studies scholars—that is, to show the ways in which time matters in environmental science, policy, and the analysis thereof. I draw attention to the time-related aspects of adaptive management by developing the notions of temporal orientation and chronological accountability. Temporal orientation refers to the time-based perspectives and epistemological commitments—that is, past-facing empiricism versus future-oriented modeling—that scientists of different types bring to bear on environmental problems. Chronological accountability refers to the missing link in adaptive forms of environmental governance: firm time lines and commitments to reflexively revisit management decisions. The time-related aspects of natural resource management deserve greater attention among both environmental managers and analysts of environmental policy.


After enactment of EU Directive on unfair commercial practices, different forms of unfair and unconscious behaviors of traders have come in the centre of interest of modern legal theory. In the first part of this paper, the author analyzes purpose of existence of prohibition of unfair commercial practices, as well as scope of application of this prohibition,using as a starting point scope of application of Directive on unfair commercial practices. Afterwards the author makes a review of legal regulation of unfair commercial practices in Serbian law, which, modeled on EU law, adopts so called three level approach in the regulation of this institution. Finally, the author points to different forms of realization of consumers' protection from unfair commercial practices, while special attention has been dedicated to the provisions of Consumer Protection Act on protection of collective interests of consumers.


This paper studies the problem of intervention design for steering the actions of noncooperative players in quadratic network games to the social optimum. The players choose their actions with the aim of maximizing their individual payoff functions, while a central regulator uses interventions to modify their marginal returns and maximize the social welfare function. This work builds on the key observation that the solution to the steering problem depends on the knowledge of the regulator on the players' parameters and the underlying network. We, therefore, consider different scenarios based on limited knowledge and propose suitable static, dynamic and adaptive intervention protocols. We formally prove convergence to the social optimum under the proposed mechanisms. We demonstrate our theoretical findings on a case study of Cournot competition with differentiated goods.


It was the most important goal for an optoelectronic imaging system to achieve ultrahigh-resolution in the application of astronomy observation,space reconnaissance and resource survey.A lot of research works had been performed by scientists and engineers all over the wolrd to acquire ultrahigh-resolution power,which meant the ability of obtaining valuable huge and accurate information.The recent approaches to achieve ultrahigh-resolution by means of improving on optical system,image sensor,image processing and their combination were summarized.The explanation and analysis on some principle and technological methods were given,in order to bring forward the suggestion to the further research and development for ultrahigh-resolution.


Research on Tutur ?ang?ang Bangbungalan text is about the analysis of the structure, function, and meaning. This analysis has the objective to describe the structure and to describe the function and meaning contained in the text of Tutur ?ang?ang Bangbungalan. This research uses structural theory, function and semiotics. Structural theory used is the structural theory by Nurgiantoro. The theory used function is the function theory developed by Damono and semiotics theory  use of semiotics Charles Sanders Peirce. The methods and techniques used are divided into three stages, namely (1) the stage of presentation of the data by using methods and techniques refer to techniques used are recording, and assisted with translation techniques (2) the stage of data analysis, using qualitative methods and techniques used in descriptive analytic techniques, and (3) the stage of data analysis using informal methods aided by deductive and inductive techniques. Tutur ?ang?ang Bangbungalan disclosure of the text structur include an analysis of the formal structure that includes the language and style of the language and a narrative structure that divides Tutur ?ang?ang Bhangbungalan to 7 (seven) among which are the subject 4 (four) episodes, plus a discussion of the upakara, rites and spells. Functions contained in it, which is a function of affirmation and social functions. As for the meaning contained in it, namely gamia gamana, harmony, and prohibition


For protecting an unpackaged semiconductor chip 200 in a value and / or security product 100 is proposed, at least one protective element 300, 300 'for the unpackaged semiconductor die 200 from incident through at least one outer side 101 of the value and / or security product 100 electromagnetic provide radiation. The at least one protective element is formed to the optical refractive and / or diffractive optical electromagnetic radiation.


Abstract This account highlight recent developments in the field of supramolecular tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) chemistry. Progress in synthetic TTF chemistry has enabled the preparation of elaborate molecular systems and architectures. System based on host–guest interactions may act as, for example, sensors or molecular switches. Among these systems mechanically interlocked architectures such as catenanes and rotaxanes are now prime candidates for the construction of artificial molecular machines and the fabrication of molecular electronic devices.


The systemic approach in psychology has its roots in family therapy. Developed from inspiration in general systems theory, cybernetics theory, among others, this systemic approach has received critics from postmodern social constructionism, for its structuralist and mecanicist views. Scientific literature offers new epistemological paradigms, with inspiration from dynamical systems, which allow a new look for the systemic approach in psychology. Thus, it is suggested the adoption of an integration of self-organization perspective in parallel with self-regulation. Key-words: Systems Psychology; Social Construcionism; Dynamical Systems. 1. INTRODUCAO


A cylindrical waveguide with a square-law medium is used to demonstrate theoretically the possibility of optical image transmission along multimode waveguides over long distances (from hundreds of meters to a few kilometers). Expressions are derived to determine the position of the distant cross sections where the image is formed, and the number of image elements which can be transmitted to these cross sections. Requirements on the radiation source are formulated allowing for the chromatic aberrations in the waveguide.