This study was conducted in the laboratories of the Department of Food Sciences/College of Agriculture and in the animal house of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Central Laboratory at Tikrit University for the period from the beginning of September 2020 to the end of February 2021, with the aim of identifying the types of fungi contaminating corn grains and their products in Iraqi stores and markets and estimating the concentration of Aflatoxin B1 toxins using ELISA technique, the results of Aflatoxin B1 tests showed that all samples contained a higher percentage of what is allowed to be used in human food, which was between (39.5-29) μg/g. The results also showed that feeding of corn samples and its products contaminated with Aflatoxin B1 to rats fed for 21 days affected the significant decrease (p<0.05) in body weight and weight gained for laboratory rats, as well as liver, kidney and spleen enlargement for those animals. There was also a significant decrease in the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin and an increase in the number of white blood cells compared with the control group. The results also showed a significant increase in the activity of liver enzymes for AST, ALT and ALP, and an increase in the concentration of renal parameters for both urea and creatinine concentrations.


It is shown that in the simple context of the elementary one-meson exchanges, the use of the "improper" delta "functions" could lead to the physically correct results. The same results were obtained by involving limiting values of the integrals over "proper" functions, thus providing the examples of the sequences connected with delta "functions". That formulation of sequences of integrals emerged automatically from the physical considerations concerning hypernuclear processes.


We have used DETECT2000, a Monte Carlo simulation program of the light photon transport inside a scintillation block, to improve the performance of our next positron emission mammography system. The scintillation block is composed of two arrays of crystal that are held together by an interconnecting layer. At first, we used previously acquired data on the block to find good surface parameters for the scintillation block. We have found that the surface of the crystals are smooth and have good reflectivity. When a good set of parameters was found, DETECT2000 was used to find geometric changes to the block that would increase its performance. The simulation determined that the removal of the interconnecting layer would yield the best results. The practical results on a modified block yielded excellent results, showing the power of Monte Carlo simulations.


In lunar exploration mission, it is very critical to determine the attitude and position of the lunar rover with a high degree of accuracy both for exploration achievement of scientific goals and for safe navigation. In this paper we address the problem of determining the attitude and position on the moon surface and provide a celestial navigation algorithm for lunar rover autonomous navigation. A CCD sun sensor is used to provide lunar rovers a vector observation by sun imaging and sun vector is computed in the lunar navigation frame using ephemeris data. A CCD earth sensor is designed to provide another vector observation, the image processing and earth centroid computation based on nonlinear least square is described. Finally, the attitude estimate using q-method and the position propagation is presented, simulation experiments are conducted, that corroborate the presented algorithm.


The authors describe newly developed miniaturized hair-pin resonator filters suitable for microwave integrated circuits (MICs). The size of the experimental filters has been reduced to one-half that of the conventional hair-pin resonator filter without increasing insertion losses. Trial receiver front-end MICs using these filters have been developed and have shown good characteristics, such as low noise and a high image suppression ratio. It is concluded that these miniaturized filters are suitable for use in mobile radio equipment in the L- and S-bands.<<ETX>>


The emerging technology of neuroimaging may contribute to personalized learning, the adaptation of teaching methods to individual learning needs. In order to proceed with this application in a socially responsible way, it is necessary to carefully consider the practice of education during the innovation process. In this chapter we discuss the results of focus groups in which we reflected on the opportunities and concerns regarding this application with a selection of societal stakeholders: three focus groups with randomly selected parents of one or more children attending secondary school, three focusgroups with randomly selected secondary school teachers and four focus groups with secondary school children attending one particular school. Our analysis shows that a different framing of 'the learning child' and 'neuroimaging' can lead to a different attitude towards the application of neuroimaging for personalized learning. It is important to anticipate on these different framings in subsequent structuring of science-society dialogue.


Particle emissions are detrimental to health. Road traffic is one of the sections causing particle pollution. Especially cities suffer under this pollution. Because of legal regulations particle pollution caused by traffic must be diminished considerably. City-logistics measures can contribute to the reduction of particle emissions in a substantial manner, e. g. by bundling delivery goods thus reducing vehicle mileage and by allocating a car pool of "clean" diesel-driven vehicles. According calculations are to be made to find out the effects of these measures to reduce the particle emissions in city areas.


With the advent of mobile apps such as Periscope, Facebook Live, and now TikTok, live-streaming video has become a commonplace form of social computing. It has not been clear, however, to what extent the current ubiquity of smartphones is impacting this technology's acceptance in everyday social situations, and how mobile contexts or affordances will affect and be affected by shifts in social norms and policy debates regarding privacy, surveillance, and intellectual property. This ethnographic-style research provides a snapshot of attitudes about the technology among a sample of US participants in two public contexts, both held outdoors in August 2016: A sports tailgating event and a meeting event. Interviews with n = 20 bystanders revealed that many are not fully aware of when their image or speech is being live-streamed in a casual context, and some want stronger notifications of and ability to consent to such broadcasting. We offer design recommendations to help bridge this socio-technical gap.


Gu Shenzi's Monstrous Stories is a collection on legendary and monstrous stories in the Middle Tang Dynasty, which has its own artistic characteristics on theme selection, thought intension, expression skills, plot setting and language skills. And it obtained a positive place and had a deep influence on the process of development of legendary novels in the Tang Dynasty and ancient Chinese novels.


Based on the concept of path gain the existance of loop free weighted event graph place invariant is proved and the form of its place invariant and the minimum place invariant are embodied.The place invariant of Petri net which is merged by two Petri nets on places is discussed. A geometrical approach to compute place invariant and judge its existence is presented via decomposing loop free Petri net into some weighed event graphs merged on places.


The dual fuzzy linear system A˜x = B ˜x + ˜y where A, B are bothcrisp matrices, ˜x and ˜y are fuzzy vectors is called a singular dual fuzzy linearsystem while the coefficients matrix of the extended linear system of it be acrisp singular matrix. In this paper, on the solving the singular dual fuzzylinear system using Drazin inverse is discussed


In this article, it is seen useful to analyse national and international tendencies on professional associations considered as a field of civil society. In this respect, the locus of professional associations within the classification of organisations in civil society is to be elaborated together with their internal dynamics. The associations of accountants in Turkey are selected as sample of this research. Another goal of this article is to analyse the explanatory capacity of the concept of civil society in relation to professional associations. In this context, connections of professional associations as a component of 'governance' with the state are regarded relevant for this research. Also there is an emphasis on the international dimension of this field of civil society through looking at the international ties of associations of accountants in Turkey.


Abstract We introduce exact methods for the simulation of sample paths of one-dimensional diffusions with a discontinuity in the drift function. Our procedures require the simulation of finite-dimensional candidate draws from probability laws related to those of Brownian motion and its local time, and are based on the principle of retrospective rejection sampling. A simple illustration is provided.


After promoting women employment, it is of immense need for our economy to take into consideration the fact that where and how they are spending or investing their funds. For appropriate utilization of funds, women need to be financially literate. In a metro city, Delhi, this study is conducted to determine the level of financial literacy among Salaried Females. Financial Literacy is a sum of financial attitude, financial behavior and financial knowledge. In the given study these three variables were analyzed to determine the level of financial literacy among working women in Delhi. It has been determined that the level of financial attitude score, financial behavior score, financial knowledge score and financial literacy score is not at par as desirable. The hypothesis of average scoreshas been tested by applying t-test which confirms the deviation in the values. Also the correlation between the three variables and Score of financial literacy is also determined. The methodology used is similar to the methodology recommended by OECD INFE in their studies on Financial Literacy. The results concluded that there is an average level of financial literacy among the salaried females of Delhi, which is matter of concern.


FIELD: organic chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, pharmacy. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising (E)-7-[4-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-isopropyl-2-methyl-[(methylsulfonyl)amino]pyrimidin-5-yl]-(3R,5S)-3,5-dihydroxyhept-6-enoic acid as an active component or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt and inorganic salt with polyvalent cation also. Also, invention proposes a method for preparing the stabilized pharmaceutical composition. Invention provides preparing the stabilized pharmaceutical composition. EFFECT: valuable medicinal properties of composition. 25 cl, 4 ex


NO ONE COULD help but be deeply appreciative of the honor of being selected as a recipient of the Hoover Medal. Few, if any, of the recipients will have had such reason as I for a feeling of humility when we compare our attempts to serve our community and nation with the high standards set by the donor of this medal, Conrad N. Lauer, and by the great American, Herbert Hoover, in whose honor the medal was named and who was its first recipient.


Screw shear connectors are being more commonly used in compound concrete sections in Colombia; however, they have been designed in line with Colombian Seismic-Resistant Standards (NSR-98) rather than those established for stud shear connectors. This work represents a starting point for analysing screw shear connector behavior. 54 specimens were made for the experiment, consisting of a metallic profile and two concretes slabs where the connectors were embedded. 1/2" (12.7mm), 5/8" (15.9mm) and 3/4" (19.1mm) diameter screws were used and placed at different distances. The push-out test was used with these specimens and results were provided by using some equations for determining this type of connector's strength in steel-concrete sections.


I N THE olden times, man's view of the universe was quite different from ours. People believed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe, and all the heavenly bodies revolved round it. That is of course what we observe: we see the sun, the moon and the stars going round the Earth. So the ancient peoples' cosmology was built on that observation. They really did quite an impressive bit of hard observation—as much as is possible with naked eyes. For example, the ancient Greeks knew that the motion of the planets was different from that of the stars. While the stars appeared to go around the Earth, their positions with respect to one another did not change. But the planets' positions changed from night to night, and they appeared to wander in the starry background. Aristarchus and other astronomers made very detailed observation on the planets, and noticed the peculiarity of their motion. Take, for example, the motion of the bright red planet Mars. If you keep track of its position from night to night, you would see that for some time it appears to move in one direction with respect to the background stars. But then the motion slows down, and finally stops. Then it turns back and moves in the opposite direction. After some time it stops again and continues its forward motion. The planet continues this wobbling motion, now going forward now


A cold roll forming machine of side beam has been introduced with analysis of the new electrical equipment design and its implementation means.The application of programmable controllers and DC speed control system in large cold roll forming machine have been analyzed with the introduction of the machine's typical,advanced, and scientific characteristics.


Supercritical geothermal system originated in Japan Trench subduction zone has the potential to generate a terawatt-scale of energy in Japan. For development of the supercritical geothermal system, technologies to efficiently drill into the deep ductile formation with temperature over 400°C and to complete wells with sufficient integrity are indispensable. A concept of well stimulation method to create fracture clouds that uses rock failure phenomena induced by the thermal-shock or thermal-stress generated by a decompression, boiling and consequently a rapid cooling of the completion fluid in the wellbore has been previously presented. In the current research project, the authors are extending the concept to develop a new innovative drilling method that uses thermal-shock failure phenomena artificially induced at the bottomhole. An industrial-government -academia joint study project is now in progress which consists of the following five subtasks: (1) development of a new drilling tool that can generate a thermal -shock failure of rock induced by depressurization, boiling and cooling at the bottomhole, (2) experimental and simulation studies on the mechanism of thermal -shock failure of high temperature rock, (3) development of wellbore hydrothermal simulation technology applicable under supercritical formation condition, (4) development of a new concept casing packer, and (5) study on acid and corrosion-resistant materials against supercritical environment.


The article discusses views by some Russian social scientists, mainly ethnologists and historians from the second half of XIX till the beginning of the XXI centuries, about dynamical tendencies of the ethnic processes and desirable changes in that sphere. The positive and negative prognoses of ethnic dynamics, views by Nikolay Danilevsky, some questions connected with the notion of ethnicity and some other subjects are discussed. Several science schools that appeared for the last century, some of which are still continuing to develop and others already not, are regarded. The attention is paid to the fact that the ethnic policy inter alia the language policy has not been already optimal but frequently depended on prevailing political doctrines but has been adjusted by the mass behavior. The question about what should be considered as a positive solution of ethnic and language problems is still open. The attention is paid to the fact that doing professional ethnological examinations is necessary and that many factors of the ethnic processes lie outside the sphere of ethnicity.


Considering the challenges to music education in the United States, the author suggests ways music educators can be more broad-thinking, inclusive, humane, and musical as they practice their profession. Critical reflection and communication among music teachers are encouraged as preparation for action.


The embryogenesis of Notoptera and Dermaptera is compared, and their relationship is discussed. The periplasm is scanty in the notopteran eggs, and the blastoderm is thin. The embryo of this order is categorized as the short-germ type, and the immersion of embryo into the yolk is of the invagination type. Notoptera and Dermaptera, to which a closer affinity to the former has been attributed by some authors, according to present studies are quite different in some important embryological features, and the closer phylogenetical relationship between them is thought to be doubtful. Brief comparisons of embryogenesis of Notoptera with those of some other orthopteroid orders are also given.


In this manuscript, a novel 'Wavelet Mutation based JAYA Optimization (WMJO), algorithm is developed for GMPPS (Global Maximum Power Peak Searching) for partially shaded solar PV (Photovoltaic) panel condition. In classical GMPPS algorithms like Particle Swarm Optimization, Differential Evolution, Genetic Algorithm, etc., the major issues are, longer searching time during dynamic change condition, and computational complexity. The mitigation of these issues is the key contribution of this developed WMJO algorithm. In WMJO algorithm, the searching particles are pushed towards the global maximum peak by JAYA optimization algorithm, and the concept of Wavelet Mutation (WM) is used to explore the solution space. Therefore, the hybridized form of JAYA optimization algorithm and WM, WMJO algorithm searches GMPP (Global Maximum Power Peak) very accurately, which enhances the GMPPS efficiency in a steady-state condition. Moreover, in every iteration for dynamic condition detection, here an envelope of power is created, where the range is 5% below the lowest value of worst power and 5% above the highest value of the maximum achieved power in that iteration. In dynamic solar irradiance change condition, the envelope of power detects the situation and accordingly explores the searching particles to quickly capture the GMPP zone. Both these tactics increase the tracking efficiency in steady-state condition as well as decreases the GMPPS duration in dynamic irradiance change condition. The performance of WMJO algorithm is evaluated on different types of characteristics of solar irradiance pattern, through MATLAB simulation.


1. Simone JV, Cornet JA, Abildgaard CF. Acquired von Willebrand's syn‐ drome in systemic lupus erythematosus. Blood. 1968;31(6):806‐812. 2. Federici AB, RandJH, et al. Acquired von Willebrand syn‐ drome: data from an international registry. Thromb Haemost. 2000;84(2):345‐349. 3. Collins P, Budde U, Rand JH, Federici AB, Kessler CM. Epidemiology and general guidelines of the management of acquired haemophilia and von Willebrand syndrome. Haemoph Off J World Fed Hemoph. 2008;14(Suppl 3):49‐55. 4. Mital A, "Acquired von Willebrand Syndrome". Adv Clin Exp Med Off. Organ Wroclaw Med Univ. 2016;25(6):1337‐1344. 5. Macik BG, Gabriel DA, White GC, High K, Roberts H. The use of high‐dose intravenous gamma‐globulin in acquired von Willebrand syndrome. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1988;112(2):143‐146. 6. Federici AB, Stabile F, Castaman G, Canciani MT, Mannucci PM. Treatment of acquired von Willebrand syndrome in pa‐ tients with monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance: comparison of three different therapeutic approaches. Blood. 1998;92(8):2707‐2711. 7. Tiede A, Rand JH, Budde U, Ganser A, Federici AB. How I treat the ac‐ quired von Willebrand syndrome. Blood. 2011;117(25):6777‐6785. 8. Federici AB. Use of intravenous immunoglobulin in pa‐ tients with acquired von Willebrand syndrome. Hum Immunol. 2005;66(4):422‐430.


This article summarizes the key practical insights and results from a study published by the authors in Business and Society. It demonstrates that collaborative engagement with companies on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues provides institutional investors with material benefits including opportunities to share resources, time, and knowledge as well as to increase the weight of investors' demands in the eyes of corporate management. The article also notes that these collaborations come with typical barriers to collective action, such as properly funding such initiatives. The primary focus of the article is to explore the multiple roles that an organization such as PRI can play to overcome these challenges and support the collaborative engagement process. The authors begin by setting out a conceptual framework to address this question, then describe the findings of three actual case studies in which PRI played such a role.


Microcomputers have come to be widely used on automobiles today for a variety of control purposes. Electromagnetic interference generated by onboard microcomputers is induced into the vehicle's radio re ceiver and disturbs the broadcast signal or appears as noise between the broadcast bands. Therefore, effec tive measures have been sought that would eliminate this problem. The switching operations of the logic elements in a microcomputer are performed in synchronization with a high-speed clock pulse. The switching produces sharp current and voltage changes containing higher harmonic components that become a source of electro magnetic interference. These harmonic components are propagated to the input-output wire harness (power source line, signal lines) of the control unit, and subsequently they leak out and radiate in the sur rounding environment. (1)) (2), (3), (4) Typical methods for reducing this electromagnetic interference include the insertion of noise filters in the input/output terminals of the control unit, improvement of the grounding pattern on the printed circuit boards and the use of shielding materials. (4), (5), (6)


The fi rst purpose of this paper is to theorize on the kind of knowledge that fi rms need in order to upgrade. The second purpose is to discuss some specifi c ways to upgrade, especially given the problem of contextual knowledge that manufactures face. To understand upgrading among garment manufacturers in developing countries, we must analyze the meaning of fashion garments. The paper introduces the theoretical notion of contextual knowledge, which furthers the two main fi ndings of the paper. The fi rst fi nding is empirical: it is a different situation to have a garment-producing fi rm in a developing country design for fi nal consumer markets in developed countries than it is to have garments designed by someone close to these markets. This is due to a knowledgegap in the global market. As a result of this fi rst fi nding, the second and more theoretical one deals with the knowledge context by examining its two dimensions – the lifeworld and the province of meaning.


In recent years, the demands of depigmenting agents in cosmetics have been increased to treat skin conditions such as hyperpigmentation and melasma. Tyrosinase is a major enzyme involve in hyperpigmentation. Kojic acid dipalimate (KAD) is an ester derivative of kojic acid and exhibit excellent tyrosinase inhibiting activity on human skin.


sification, pathogenesis and treatment. Curr Opin Neurol 2014;27: 468-476. 3. Zech M, Gross N, Jochim A, et al. Rare sequence variants in ANO3 and GNAL in a primary torsion dystonia series and controls. Mov Disord 2014;29:143-147. 4. Zirn B, Grundmann K, Huppke P, et al. Novel TOR1A mutation p.Arg288Gln in early-onset dystonia (DYT1). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2008;79:1327-1330. 5. Fuchs T, Saunders-Pullman R, Masuho I, et al. Mutations in GNAL cause primary torsion dystonia. Nat Genet 2013;45:88-92. 6. Vulinovic F, Lohmann K, Rakovic A, et al. Unraveling cellular phenotypes of novel TorsinA/TOR1A mutations. Hum Mutat 2014;35:1114-1122. 7. The Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC), Cambridge, MA. [cited 2015 June 25]. Available from: http://exac.broadinstitute. org. Accessed 25 June 2015.


In the process of intelligent manufacturing, appropriate learning algorithm and intelligent model are necessary. In this work, a novel learning algorithm named random vibration and cross particle swarm optimization algorithm was proposed. The proposed algorithm is used for the prediction and optimization of machining process. Tool wear is an important factor that affects the machined surface quality during machining process, so it is necessary to find qualified tool wear prediction model and obtain the best combination of machining parameters to prolong tool life. In this study, the adaptive network–based fuzzy inference system was established to predict the tool wear width size. The random vibration and cross particle swarm optimization algorithm was tested using benchmark functions, and the results showed that random vibration and cross particle swarm optimization algorithm is able to find global optimum. Compared with the adaptive network–based fuzzy inference system trained by particle swarm optimization algorithm and adaptive network–based fuzzy inference system trained by differential evolution models, the results showed that the adaptive network–based fuzzy inference system trained by random vibration and cross particle swarm optimization algorithm can give a more accurate predicted value for offline prediction of the tool wear width size. In order to obtain the best combinations of cutting parameters under different removal area, the multi-objective optimization based on random vibration and cross particle swarm optimization algorithm was established. The optimized cutting parameters were verified and could be accepted to prolong tool life and improve machining efficiency.


In reply to the W. Li and L. Balfour (1996) critique of our study Intersubtest scatter on the Mainland Chinese version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (J. J. Ryan, X. Y. Dai, & A. M. Paolo, 1992), some minor omissions in the original article are clarified and additional data are presented. The major conclusion from the 1992 article is substantiated via generalization to other samples. Thus, among Chinese adults and adolescents who experienced the Great Cultural Revolution, education and IQ were highly correlated, and intersubtest scatter decreased as intelligence level increased. The latter finding is contrary to that for Americans in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised standardization sample, who demonstrated increased scatter as the magnitude of the Full Scale IQ increased (J. E. McLean, A. S. Kaufman, & C. R. Reynolds, 1989).


In all three of his novels-Catch-22 (1961), Something Happened (1974), and now Good as Gold (1979)-Joseph Heller has explored the moral landscape of American culture during that period in which the United States emerged as the dominant nation in the Western world and fully adopted the principles and activities of power politics on a global scale. His heroes-Yossarian, Slocum, and Gold-all deal with the tangle of temptations that America, at the time of its ascendance, presents. All try to come to terms with themselves in a system wherein the power morality of the nation-state, that web of shifting alliances based on self-interest, has filtered down through the corporate order to family and individual relationships as well. In Catch-22 Heller dealt with the basic values of the profit system and presented the war as the inevitable product of an insane culture that valued material gain more than human life and whose morality was based on the impact of power and the operation of the free market, a combination that defines human beings as commodities among other commodities. In Something Happened he portrayed the moral and psychological dilemmas of a protagonist living within that culture at the pinnacle of its power-within a cocoon that both protects and deadens, permitting the hero many possessions and pleasures but denying him any sense of vital human connection, even within the family.


The normalized difference snow index (NDSI) plays an important role in mapping snow cover with spaceborne visible and shortwave-infrared imagery. The NDSI variation depends on illuminating-viewing geometry and snow physical properties, including equivalent grain size (EGS), snow depth (SD) and impurity concentration, as well as fractional snow cover (FSC) within a mixed pixel; however, it is still not fully understood. To quantifiably characterize the pattern of snow NDSI variation, we use a light scattering model of snow to calculate bidirectional reflectance and consequent NDSI values for a wide range of illuminating-viewing geometries, SD, and EGS values. In the model designated bicontinuous snow model using Geometric Optics theory and Radiative Transfer Equation (bicontinuous-GO/RTE), snowpack is represented by a bicontinuous microstructure, and bidirectional reflectance is simulated based on geometric optics and vector radiative transfer equation. The discrete ordinates radiative transfer (DISORT) algorithm is used to simulate the soot concentration effect on snow NDSI. A soil spectral reflectance model (SOILSPECT) is utilized with the assumption of the linear spectral mixture of snow and soil to quantify the effect of FSC on NDSI. As for discontinuous forests, an analytical hybrid geometric-optical and radiative transfer (GORT) model in conjunction with the bicontinuous-GO/RTE model and the PROpriétésSPECTrales (PROSPECT) model is used to examine the effect of canopy cover, which is related to the maximal FSC viewable to satellites. Modeling results indicate that: 1) snow NDSI is comparably low at off-nadir viewing angles, and this effect is exacerbated by the decline in solar elevation but limited by large EGS; 2) snow NDSI increases with EGS yet becomes saturated at EGS of 500 $\mu \text{m}$ ; 3) the effect of SD that is as low as 1 cm on NDSI is rarely noticeable; 4) the concentration of internally mixed soot up to 1 ppm has little reducing effect on snow NDSI (<0.05); 5) the angular effects on the NDSI thresholding method to identify binary snow cover for soil background are nonsignificantly pronounced in the cross plane (CP); 6) NDSI increases linearly with FSC for soil background at nadir as well as in the CP; 7) the SNOw-MAPping algorithm (SNOMAP) method could omit snow cover at large zenith angles for solar zenith angles $> 20^{\circ }$ in forests; and 8) forests complicate the nonlinear relationship between NDSI and canopy cover with fully snow-covered ground beneath canopies. These findings imply important uncertainty sources of binary and FSC mapping with NDSI.


Phone-Scanner: A device for identifying implanted chipkodov is a mobile electronic device, it is based is the possibility of a cellular (mobile) phone and scanner magnitnoschityvayuschim devices connected to the plug connector Scanner phone flexible cable, magnitnoschityvayuschee device has the shape of a small ball-point pen, at the end of housing integrated magnetic head, the back of the summed connecting cable for identification chipkoda data magnitnoschityvayuschego device supplied to email memory scanner phone, then, the scanned data are displayed and sent sMS-request to the specialized database and sMS answer comes in automatically, by analogy with the request for the balance of the mobile operator, the phone is equipped with a scanner function of self-destruction in case of irretrievable loss scanner phone to nesanktsianirovannogo inability to use the method of overvoltage and bursting chip, on command from the computer base.


A transmission experiment was performed to study the high-speed potential of a long-distance gigabit lightwave system employing a single-frequency 1.5 μm laser and a new long wavelength III–V avalanche photodetector. A 120 km length of standard production single mode fibre was used in the test, in which a bit error rate of 2×10−10 was achieved at 1 Gbit/s. This distance is the longest reported to date for rates higher than 500 Mbit/s, and the product of bit rate and distance (120 km Gbit/s) is the highest value achieved for any bit rate. The distance was limited by the 32.3 dB loss of the transmission path together with a total of 5.6 dB in power penalties associated with chirp broadening of the laser line.


The present study investigated how different graphical overviews affected learning with hypertexts, given differing levels of learners' prior knowledge, on N = 87 students. Overall, the learners seemed to profit more from global overviews (of the overall structure) than from local overviews (of several substructures). This was true in particular when the subject of investigation were learning outcomes at the macro-level of the text. With low prior knowledge, the learners showed better comprehension when they had access to a graphical summary of content. For learners with high prior knowledge, a more demanding graphical browser type was particularly useful when the text required deeper comprehension at the micro-level.


1. The cyst‐nematodes, which belong to the genus Heterodera Schmidt, are obligate plant parasites. Several species cause crop diseases of economic importance. These nematodes differ greatly in structure from the other, vermiform, plant‐parasitic and soil‐inhabiting nematodes, for although the migrant larval phase of cyst‐nematodes is vermiform, this phase is only transient. The principal phases are the sedentary female, which feeds upon the plant root, and the cyst, which derives from the female and consists of the eggs surrounded by mucilage within the dead female cuticle. The term 'egg' includes the contents within the shell, which at maturity is usually a coiled, second stage, larva.


Experiments were conducted to study transition to turbulence in pipe flows started from rest with a linear increase in mean velocity. The data were taken at the Unsteady Flow Loop Facility at the Naval Underwater System Center, using a 5-cm diameter pipe 30 meters long. Instrumentation included static pressure, wall pressure, and wall shear stress sensors, as well as a laser Doppler velocimeter and a transient flowmeter. A downstream control valve was programmed to produce nearly constant mean flow accelerations, a from 2 to 12 m/s 2


Utilization of peat land for agriculture in Indonesia is increasing and some efforts in improving the peat soil fertility is being highly concerned. In addition to fertilizers, farmers add some fresher organic matter as the ameliorants, such as compost to support better microbial growth in the soil for increasing the decomposition process. Theoretically the addition of compost onto peat soil would lead to priming effect, hence it would accelerate the decomposition of peat organic matter. This study was to observe the impact of decomposition process due to adding compost to respiratory CO2 of peat soil. Peat soil from Central Kalimantan was used for experiment, incubated with KOH and then the respiratory CO2 was measured with titration method. Two different sizes of peat soil materials obtained from sieving peat soils, i.e. 5 mm and > the 5 mm. Each peat soil materials were mixed with 10%, 25%, and 50% compost to the total 100 grams. Post the compost addition, the samples were incubated for 20 days, and the respiratory CO2 was gauged for 4 times at 5 days interval during the incubation. It was showed that the more compost mixed to the peat soil materials, the more CO2 produced. The highest CO2 was 912.00 mg/g/day from compost incubation and a mixture of 50 gram of compost and coarse peat soil material produced 460.8 mg/g/day.


Purpose
This study aims to examine the real effects of financial misconduct on corporate innovation.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors use a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2006 to 2017. This study uses several empirical strategies to deal with endogeneity concerns, including Heckman's two-stage correction approach, propensity score matching and instrumental variables.

Findings
The authors' findings consistently show that financial misconduct impedes corporate innovation. Furthermore, the authors' analysis demonstrates that the negative impact of financial misconduct is more pronounced in nonstate enterprises. The authors also show that financial misconduct discourages innovation through information, short-termism and financing channels.

Practical implications
This paper is of particular interest to policymakers, as firm behavior is heavily regulated and altered by securities laws and regulations over time. The authors recommend firms to observe financial regulatory laws to promote capital market integrity and enhance shareholder value through innovation projects. The authors also recommend that regulators provide incentives that encourage corporate transparency and use new technologies to detect financial misconduct quickly.

Originality/value
Few studies in literature investigate the real consequences of financial misconduct on firm investments. Hence, this paper fills this gap by analyzing the implications of financial misconduct on corporate innovation. This study is one of the first to provide new insights into the adverse effects of financial misconduct on firm-level innovation, supported by empirical evidence.


Thermophiles and coliforra bacteria were present in the intestinal tract of certain arctic animals and were sometimes found in soil and water. Thermophiles survived for a longer period than coliform bacteria when they were inoculated into soil and water simultaneously, and therefore, under natural conditions, some of the thermophiles found in these materials may originate from animal and human feces even though a sample may give a negative test for the presence of coliform bacteria.


The emergence of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in late 2019 has had profound global implications, precipitating an unprecedented public health crisis. This research paper delves into the complex dynamics surrounding the effectiveness of vaccines in combating the coronavirus, providing an indepth analysis of their development, distribution, and impact on public health. The COVID-19 pandemic, characterized by the rapid spread of the virus and the substantial burden on healthcare systems and economies worldwide, prompted an extraordinary global effort to develop vaccines. This paper begins by reviewing the remarkable strides made in vaccine development, highlighting the advent of various vaccine platforms such as mRNA vaccines, vector-based vaccines, and protein subunit vaccines. These vaccines represent innovative approaches that have been instrumental in controlling the pandemic. A central focus of this research is to explore the realworld impact of COVID-19 vaccines. Through a comprehensive examination of available data and research studies, we assess the efficacy and safety profiles of different vaccine formulations. Notably, we explore how these vaccines have succeeded in reducing infection rates, the severity of illness, and mortality, thereby altering the course of the pandemic. The paper also touches upon the critical issue of vaccine hesitancy, delving into the multifaceted factors influencing public acceptance and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. Our findings underscore the significant contributions of vaccination campaigns in curtailing the spread of the virus. Mass vaccination efforts have not only led to a decline in cases and hospitalizations but have also saved countless lives. We emphasize the importance of continued research and monitoring, as emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 pose potential challenges to vaccine efficacy. The discussion encompasses the ongoing adaptations of vaccines to address these variants, emphasizing the need for nimble and flexible vaccine strategies. In conclusion, this research reaffirms the indispensable role that vaccines play in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond merely reducing the incidence of infection, they have proven to be pivotal in averting severe disease outcomes and preventing mortality. Achieving global herd immunity and controlling the virus's long-term impact necessitate not only the continued deployment of effective vaccines but also the persistence of public health measures. This paper not only contributes to our understanding of the scientific facets of vaccine development and efficacy but also sheds light on the sociocultural and behavioral determinants of vaccine acceptance. As the world continues to grapple with the consequences of the coronavirus, this research paper serves as a testament to the resilience of science and the global community's capacity to respond to unprecedented challenges. It emphasizes the ongoing need for international collaboration, rigorous research, and datadriven decision-making to ensure that the promise of vaccines is realized in the battle against COVID-19


We propose a real-time interactive system that enables users to generate, manipulate and edit the shape model of a tree based on growth simulation by directly indicating its global and spatial information. For this purpose, three-dimensional (3D) spatial information is introduced to the well-known L-system as an attribute of the growth simulation. Moreover, we propose an efficient data structure of L-strings in order to speed up the process.


In recent years, blockchain has substantially enhanced the credibility of e-commerce platforms for users. The prediction accuracy of the repeat purchase behaviour of e-commerce users directly affects the impact of precision marketing by merchants. The existing ensemble learning models have low prediction accuracy when the purchase behaviour sample is unbalanced and the information dimension of feature engineering is single. To overcome this problem, an ensemble learning prediction model based on multisource information fusion is proposed. Tests on the Tmall dataset showed that the accuracy and AUC values of the model reached 91.28% and 70.53%, respectively.


It requires mutual communication and corresponding development of different kinds of education at different levels and in different forms to construct a life-time educational system and build up a learning society. Self-study examination as a two-in-one form of education combining the state examination system and socialized open education,has been well integrated with any other existing educational forms ever since it came into being. In order to contribute to the building of a learning society,new ways and approaches in the self-study examina- tion system has been tried out to integrate itself with other forms of education,which consequently results in va- rieties of models of integration.This paper attempts to explore the essentials,types,approaches,significance and principles of self-study examination in relation to other forms of education.


Underwater radiation noise is a very important factor for most ships, such as fishing boats, warships, and so forth. The magnitude of its energy depends on the vibration of the hull in contact with water. The vibration of the hull caused by the power plant, while the vessel is cruising, is the dominant source of underwater radiation noise, which is the subject of our investigation. In this paper, the coupled finite element/boundary element method is used to investigate ship structural vibration and underwater radiation noise. The finite element method (FEM) is employed to analyze modes and vibration responses of an entire ship for different kinds of excitations in consideration of fluid-structure interaction. The boundary element method (BEM) is used to analyze the underwater radiation noise. A FEM model is first constructed by using 30 geometric parameters and five kinds of finite elements. Then, the reduced matrix method is used to eliminate the local modes in order to obtain the overall bending and torsional modes of the ship. Last, vibration displacements of the hull are treated as the velocity boundary condition of BEM to calculate underwater radiation noise. Numerical results show that (1) the calculated sound-pressure levels of underwater radiation noise are in a good agreement with experimentally measured results; (2) although the vibration isolator is used, the propulsion diesel engine is the dominant source of the underwater radiation noise among all machines in the engine room and the maximum sound-pressure levels increase as the sailing speed of the ship increases; (3) the underwater radiation noise of the ship with gearbox excitation is greater than that of the ship with diesel generator set excitation, which should be noticed by the ship designers during the design stage.


2.1.Date of QMRF: 05.05.2010 2.2.QMRF author(s) and contact details: Molcode model development team Molcode Ltd. Turu 2, Tartu, 51014, Estonia email@example.com http://www.molcode.com 2.3.Date of QMRF update(s): 2.4.QMRF update(s): 2.5.Model developer(s) and contact details: Molcode model development team Molcode Ltd. Turu 2, Tartu, 51014, Estonia email@example.com http://www.molcode.com 2.6.Date of model development and/or publication: 04.05.2010 2.7.Reference(s) to main scientific papers and/or software package: [1]Karelson M, Dobchev D, Tamm T, Tulp I, Jänes J, Tämm K, Lomaka A, Savchenko D & Karelson G (2008). Correlation of blood-brain penetration and human serum albumin binding with theoretical descriptors. ARKIVOC 16, 38-60. [2]Karelson M, Karelson G, Tamm T, Tulp I, Jänes J, Tämm K, Lomaka A, Savchenko D & Dobchev D (2009). QSAR study of pharmacological permeabilities. ARKIVOC 2, 218–238. 2.8.Availability of information about the model: Training, selection and test sets are available. Algorithm is defined. 2.9.Availability of another QMRF for exactly the same model: None to date.


Objectives/Hypothesis Potential pathways for recycling potassium (K+) used in the maintenance of inner ear electrochemical gradients have been elucidated in animal models. However, little is known about K+ transport in the human cochlea. This study was designed to characterize putative K+ recycling pathways in the human ear and to determine whether observations from animal models can be extrapolated to humans.


The present invention relates to battery cell balancing using duty ratio control, and more particularly, to a battery cell balancing method and a battery cell balancing method that detect a temperature of a resistance caused by a current flowing in a cell during battery cell balancing, And more particularly, to a battery cell balancing method and system with improved accuracy and efficiency by detecting a voltage of a battery cell after a predetermined time after a cell balancing operation.


Stetson Kennedy was a folklorist, oral historian, writer, anti-poverty government employee, and a lifelong Floridian. Most of all, he was a tireless activist for liberal causes throughout the twentieth century-battling against racism, poverty, anti-immigration and anti-labor movements, and fighting for environmental protection. He died on August 27, 2011, at the age of 94, but his legacy lives on in the Stetson Kennedy Foundation, with a mission to "carry forward mankind's unending struggle for human rights in a free, peaceful, harmonious, democratic, just, humane, bounteous and joyful world, to nurture our cultural heritages, and to faithfully discharge our commitment of stewardship over Mother Earth and all her progeny" (http://www .stetsonkennedy.com/foundation.html). Stetson was a friend and mentor to me and many others, and he will be missed.Stetson Kennedy was an accidental folklorist, born to a prominent family in Jacksonville, Florida, where his father owned a large furniture business. As a teenager, Stetson worked in the family business to collect the "dollar down, dollar-a-week" debts owed by the poorest residents who rented furniture from his father. He began to write down the folk idiom, colloquial speech, and personal stories that he heard in the neighborhoods of Jacksonville. At the same time, his consciousness of the class struggle and racial inequity that pervaded his home state of Florida was raised. He determined to write about what he heard and saw, using the vernacular speech and folklore he was collecting as a vehicle.Stetson studied for one year at the University of Florida, where he met folklorist Alton Morris and author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. He dropped out of college to move to Key West and continue to do what we now call "fieldwork"- collecting the folklore and oral histories of Cubans, Conchs, and other characters in the southernmost reaches of Florida. It was during this time that he met Alan Lomax, and his work came to the attention of Benjamin Botkin, who tapped him (at the age of twenty-one) to be the Head of the Folklore, Ethnic Studies and Oral History Unit of Florida's Federal Writers Project (FWP). In this way, he became Zora Neale Hurston's supervisor on the FWP and worked with her, Alan Lomax, Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, Robert Cook and others to document Florida folklife. This material was used in the Florida State Guidebook for the FWP and for Stetson's first book, Palmetto Country (1942).When the United States entered World War II and the FWP quickly folded, Stetson infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to "fight fascism at home." He gathered evidence and documentary material for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, journalist Drew Pearson, and the producers of the "Superman" radio series. His efforts to document the Klan's terrorist activities by exposing their folklore (secret passwords, handshakes, etc.) to a mass audience resulted in the loss of their nonprofit status in Georgia. The Klavern at Stone Mountain subsequently filed for bankruptcy. When Kennedy came out from undercover to testify, his life was in jeopardy and his land in North Florida was set afire by Klan members. He published a book that documented the culture of several "homegrown hate groups," Southern Exposure, in 1946. Stetson at that point went overseas and eventually landed in Paris, where he became friends with Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre. It was Sartre who made it possible for Kennedy to publish his expose of the Klan, I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan (1954) and his satirical Jim Crow Guide to the U. …


The most prevalent primary malignant bone tumor affecting children and adolescents is osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma is characterized by the formation of immature bone or osteoid tissue by neoplastic cells. They arise predominantly in the long bones, occasionally in the axial bones, and seldom in the soft tissues. Patients with osteosarcoma are currently treated with preoperative (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy followed by tumor resection and further postoperative chemotherapy. Wide margin resection often is necessary and leaves large bone defects. These defects must be reconstructed and repaired using appropriate materials and methods to restore function and structure. Currently, autograft, allograft, prosthetic implant, or a combination is used for defect reconstruction. Despite the available options, reconstruction of large bone defects and improvement in survival rates are still challenging. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM) may be promising alternative strategies to regenerate bone and may change conventional treatment strategies in patients with osteosarcoma. TERM in the form of scaffolds, healing promotive factors, or stem cells could be designed to be useful for bone reconstruction and regeneration and also for delivery of anti-cancer therapeutic agents. Combining TERM approaches with immunotherapy, chemoimmunotherapy, radioimmunotherapy, and gene therapy together with advances in diagnostic procedures may change palliative results to curative achievements in the future. This review comprehensively discusses current options, challenges, possible strategies, and future directions in managing patients with osteosarcoma.


Target detection in synthetic aperture radar image utilizing polarimetric information has attracted considerable attention. Single-target detector (STD), partial-target detector (PTD), and geometrical perturbation-polarimetric notch filter (GP-PNF) are three traditional polarimetric detectors based on polarimetric information. STD aims at detecting single targets, whereas PTD is suitable for partial targets. GP-PNF focuses on detecting targets with features, which are different from the homogeneous background. Both STD and PTD need a prior knowledge of the target, whereas GP-PNF needs to estimate the local clutter automatically. All these three methods use a feature vector to describe the character of the target or clutter. In fact, the feature vectors of the clutter and target may distribute in a subspace. Especially for the heterogeneous background, a feature vector cannot accurately describe the clutter. Motivated by this, this paper extends the clutter model from a complex feature vector to a complex feature subspace, which is suitable for a heterogeneously patched region and derives extended PTD and extended GP-PNF. Experimental results show the extended detectors' validation and superiority to traditional detectors for target detection in heterogeneous regions.


Manipulation of denormalized numbers in circuits for floating-point operations comes at a reasonable cost. IEEE standard 754 defines the use of denormalized values. They are incorporated into high-performance CPUs and they are gaining space in commercial products. This paper describes the extra processing steps that are required for the manipulation of denormalized numbers in floating-point addition and floating-point multiplication. It also provides the results of several experiments that show the average additional cost that designers face when creating these basic operations using cell libraries, for some CMOS technologies.


Thank you very much for reading fundamentals of light microscopy and electronic imaging. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their favorite books like this fundamentals of light microscopy and electronic imaging, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some infectious bugs inside their laptop.


Chemists and chemistry educators need to improve chemistry's image to the lay public. This author provides the readers with lecture notes for the "One Minute Professor" to be used at cocktail parties and other social gatherings.


This paper explained the technology that taking calces of pyrite as theraw materials, using the way of chemical process of mineral, dislodging the detrimental impurities with the measures of dipping lye and dipping acid oxide, wich Aimed to get the rate of recovery of valuable metallic elements Au 87%, Ag 76%, Cu 82%. Finally, the grade of 60.35% iron concentrate was abtained.


Objective To investigate the characteristic of growth behavior and biological behavior effect of autografted adipose-derived stem cells(ADSCs).Methods Wistar male rats whose weight were from 200g to 250g were randomly divided into two groups.:normal heart +ADSCs transplatation group(control group) and myocardial infraction +ADSCs transplatation group.Adipose tissue were obtained from the epididymis of the rat .ADSCs were isolated from the adipose tissue and cultured in vitro in DMEM medium.ADSCs passaged 3 with labled DAPI were implanted into infract myocardium.Results More pure ADSCs could be obtained from 2 passaged(which cultured from adult rats adipose tissue and multiplicity lasting propagate and passage).The positive rate of Troponin T immunohistochemically in the implanted ADSCs were(16.24±2.31)% in the implanted myocardial infraction group after four weeks.ADSCs tended to extend and migrate to the perimeter of myocardial infarction.However,Troponin T were negative in the control groups and marked cell accumulated.Conclusion MSCs isolated from adult rats adipose tissue and having multilineage potential could be lasting propagate and passage.ADSCs maybe differentiate into cadiocyte in infracted myocardium.ADSCs that maybe be resulted from the body's microcirculation


Are the consequences of your behavior under your personal control or determined by forces outside of yourself? Think about it for a moment: When something good happens to you, do you take credit for it or do you think how lucky you were? When something negative occurs, is it usually your responsibility or do you just chalk it up to fate? The same question may be posed in more formal psychological language: Do you believe that there is a causal relationship between your behavior and its consequences? Julian Rotter, one of the most influential behaviorists in psychology's history, proposed that individuals differ a great deal in where they place the responsibility for what happens to them. When people interpret the consequences of their behavior to be controlled by luck, fate, or powerful others, this indicates a belief in what Rotter called an external locus of control (locus simply means location). Conversely, he maintained that if people interpret their own behavior and personality characteristics as responsible for behavioral consequences, they have a belief in an internal locus of control. In his frequently cited 1966 article, Rotter explained that a person's tendency to view events from an internal versus an external locus of control can be explained from a social learning theory perspective. In this view, as a person develops from infancy through childhood, behaviors are learned because they are followed by some form of reinforcement. This reinforcement increases the child's expectancy that a particular behavior will produce the desired reinforcement. Once this expectancy is established, the removal of reinforcement will cause the expectancy of such a relationship between behavior and reinforcement to fade. Therefore, reinforcement sometimes is seen as contingent upon behavior, and sometimes it is not (see the discussion of contingencies in the reading on work of B. F. Skinner). As children grow, some will have frequent experiences in which their behavior directly influences reinforcement, while for others, reinforcement will appear to result from actions outside of themselves. Rotter claimed that the totality of your specific learning experiences creates in you a generalized expectancy about whether reinforcement is internally or externally controlled. "These generalized expectancies," Rotter wrote, "will result in characteristic differences in behavior in a situation culturally categorized as chance-determined versus skill-determined, and may act to produce individual differences within a specific condition" (p. 2). In other words, you have developed an internal or external interpretation of the consequences for your behavior that will influence your future behavior in almost all situations. Rotter believed that your locus of control, whether internal or external, is an important part of who you are, a part of your personality. Look back at the questions posed at the beginning of this chapter. Which do you think you are, an internal or an external? Rotter wanted to study differences among people on this dimension and, rather than simply ask them, he developed a test that measures a person's locus of control. Once he was able to measure this characteristic in people, he could then study how it influenced their behavior.


The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of dehydration on the prediction of energy expenditure using minute-by-minute heart rate monitoring. Twelve male subjects with a maximal oxygen uptake capacity of 45ml kg'* «min*' completed a 16minute multistage walking protocol. Individual linear regression equations (HR vs. VO2 and HR vs. RER) were established. Subjects then completed two 30-minute field trials, one in a hydrated state and the second in a dehydrated state. HR's recorded during the field trials were integrated into the two regression equations to determine estimated kcals/min from each individual field trial. Prior to completing the second field exercise, subjects were asked to perform a passive dehydration trial until they lost 1% of their total body weight. Estimated values were compared with actual values obtained fi'om the portable system during the two field exercises. A One way ANOVA with repeated measures revealed significant differences between estimated and actual EE (kcal/min and total kcals) for both hydrated and dehydrated trials (p= .0209, p= .0118, respectively). No significant differences were found between estimated and actual substrate utilization for both the hydrated and dehydrated trials. Heart rates recorded during both the hydrated and dehydrated trials demonstrated that some subjects exercised at the lower end of the calibration curves created firom the laboratory data. Prediction results were altered when those subjects were removed from the data set for the hydrated (n=4 removed, n=8 remaining) trial and dehydrated (n=2 removed, n=9 remaining). This suggest when predicting energy expenditure using minute-by-minute heart rate monitoring, it is imperative that subjects exercise within the established calibration curve to ensure exercising heart rates correspond with those achieved during the laboratory trial. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.


The hardware design and implementation of an embedded network multichannel data acquisition are described in this paper. The hardware circuit is consisting of two parts: master control circuit and data acquisition circuit. In the first part, it concludes master controller design, memory circuit, serial port circuit, and network circuit; in the second part, the signal modifying circuit, filter circuit, A/D and D/A transfer circuit are designed. At last, the hardware debug strategy of the system is introduced.


Many species of the genus Silba Macquart (= Carpolonchaea Bezzi) are important pests of fruits and vegetables during their larval stages but taxonomically the adults are poorly known. Representatives of 15 species of the genus from widely separated localities in the Old World have come to hand during studies on the family. This paper clarifies the identities of the males of these 15 species, six being described as new to science.


The question of the right and the wrong uses of knowledge lay at the core of Dante's approach to politics in his tract, Monarchia . Dante's diminishing of the role of Scripture in political argument did not mean that he rejected God's role in human affairs - quite the reverse. The first fifteen of the sixteen chapters of Book I of Monarchia consisted of an attempt to demonstrate the proposition that the rule of one man was necessary for universal peace, the means for achieving the happiness and well-being of humanity. Dante set out to demonstrate that the papacy's arguments, whereby it claimed that the emperor derived his temporal power from the pope, were wrongly founded. Dante also had to confront juristic arguments to some extent because of the way in which the papacy elaborated its claims in terms of canon law. Keywords: Dante; Monarchia ; papacy; Scripture


Abstract : In the United Kingdom, a central issue of contemporary foreign policy is whether or not to enter into full membership of the European Monetary Union (EMU). Membership has profound implications for the development of the European Union (EU) and the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and potentially upon the much heralded Anglo-American special relationship'. On a practical level, excluding the political implications of membership, joining the EMU means surrendering the pound sterling for the euro and in doing so the British would also surrender control of monetary policy. This thesis will examine the historical links between British defence and monetary policy and argues that there are strong historical bonds that link the two in the political psychology of Britain. This link has created for Britain twin nationalistic icons in the pound and the military. This thesis illustrates that a paradox exists in that membership in the EMU would improve British defence spending and yet nationalistic forces resist membership.


To determine preliminarily if clinical or histological features of patients with laryngeal dysplasia/early carcinoma correlate with voice and disease outcomes.


Now a days there isa require of data characteristic security in disseminated database while preserving solitude. In the proposed work, we judge problem connected in publishing mutual data for anonymizingperpendicularly and parallel partitioned data. We deem the attack which might use a subset of the in general data. After in view of entire investigate work we formulate the distributed database classification in which first, we pioneer the notion of data solitude which guarantee the seclusion of anonymized data for dissimilar data contributor. Second, we current algorithms for exploiting the monotonicity of confidentiality constraints for checking data privacy professionally with the encryption representation using encryption algorithm. Third, we distribute the data to end user with the anonymization as well as security algorithm, and inspection the verification schema with TTP, which will give the guarantee to present high level safety to database. Experiments we use the hospital enduring datasets suggest that our advance achieves improved or comparable usefulness and competence than existing and baseline algorithms while fulfilling of proposed sanctuary work.


Karl Barth's ecclesiology is marked by a deeply Christological character set within a Trinitarian context. While the emphasis of Barth's early ecclesiology was primarily critical in nature and exhibited stark apocalyptic contrasts, his mature ecclesiology moved in ever more Christological, constructive, and analogical directions while not abandoning its highly dialectical and eschatological qualities. Barth's mature ecclesiology is characterized by an emphasis upon the covenantal unity of Christ with his church grounded in an eternal election, upon the inalienable distinction and asymmetrical relation that ever remains between them, and upon church's calling by the Holy Spirit and ordained task of witness. This witness is not a repetition or extension of the perfect and complete work of Christ but the commission to proclaim this perfect work and to live a life of correspondence to it, all for the sake of a watching world.


We test the technical efficiency, measured by the degree of integration, of agriculture markets for five crops in the Punjab province of Pakistan using daily wholesale market prices from the Agriculture Management Information System (AMIS). We find that potato, onion and mango markets are well integrated both horizontally and vertically, with the speed of price adjustment in most cases (mango is the exception) being very rapid. We also find that kinnow and basmati rice markets are both vertically fairly well integrated. Furthermore, we find that trends in cropping patterns over the period 2000 to 2014 are in line with the changing market demand and government price interventions. The reforms introduced by the Punjab Agriculture Marketing Regulatory Authority (PAMRA) Act 2020, aimed at increasing competition in agriculture markets, have the potential to significantly improve economic efficiency.


The designed acousto-optic radiometer spectrometer for radioastronomical research is described. The considered basic module has a 500 MHz bandwidth, 1000 number of channels, and linear dynamic range of 25 dB. The main characteristics of the spectrometer are discussed including an Allan dispersion plot.


In general, it is well known fact that the stone mastic asphalt (SMA) pavement has a high resistance against rutting. However, performance of SMA is not well measured by general method used in the laboratory. The objective of this study is to investigate an applicability of deformation strength ( ) for performance estimation of SMA, and to find out the correlation between rut depth and dynamic stability, and of SMA. This study carried out wheel tracking test and Kim-test with optimum asphalt content (OAC) determined by mix design. The results indicated that the of SMA was very poorer than those of dense-graded asphalt mixtures. showed similar WT dynamic stability and rut-depth level. It was found that Kim-test was not reflected higher rutting resistance of SMA like as indirect tensile strength (ITS) test and Marshall stability test. Also, it was revealed that dynamic stability and rut-depth of WT had some problems to estimate rutting resistance of SMA mixtures.


This research examines the effect of the crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic on dividend policy in Indonesia. The purposive sampling method was used to collect data from corporates listed on the IDX from 2014 to 2020 and analyzed using static and dynamic panel data approaches. The fixed-effect models (FEM) were selected for the static panel data regression. Meanwhile, the first difference-generalized method of moments (FD-GMM) and system-generalized method of moments (SYS-GMM) were used for determine the robustness of the estimated dynamic panel data. The results showed that the crisis due to the pandemic led to higher dividend distribution on SYS-GMM. Furthermore, companies maintained the dividend level as a positive signal for investors which lifted the sluggish trade condition in the capital market. Profitability and previous year dividends positively affect dividend policy robustly. Furthermore, the results showed that age affects dividend policy on FD-GMM. Financial leverage has a robust effect, and firm size has an effect on FD-GMM in different directions, while investment opportunity does not affect dividend policy. Statistically, the FEM selected that violates the best linear unbiased estimation was proven to form parameters that were not much different from the estimates produced by the dynamic model, both from the coefficient of influence direction and significance, and the omitted variable bias occurs as evidenced in the robust test with dynamic model was solved. This research is also used as a reference for considering investors' investment decisions in the new normal condition. Therefore, dividend policy can be considered as a positive signal to investors with the ability to stock trading activities in the capital market.


The article highlights some principal transformation processes in the post-Communist transformation countries of Central and Southeast Europe. This comprises (1) environmental change, (2) growing spatial disparities, (3) democratic transformation with a focus on administrative decentralisation and (4) the consequences of a rise in national and ethnic consciousness. As its main source this article is based on the Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, edited as a thematic map series since 1989 by the author of this article.


The utility model relates to a tooth-paste squeezing device, which comprises a body provided with a groove in the middle portion, slide ways are provided on the two sides of the groove, and pulleys are provided on the slide ways. The utility model has advantages of simple structure, convenient operations and quick application.


Cells constantly sense their environment to adapt their behavior to changing needs. Kull and Schroeder discuss the requirements, potential, and limitations of current technologies for quantification and manipulation of cellular signaling in the context of inflammatory signaling in hematopoietic cells.


The fusion techniques have been developed quickly in recent years and become an important remote sensing research topic. This paper systematically discusses the technique used in pixel level image fusion including IHS transform, YIQ transform, HLS transform, HSV transform, PCA transform, HPF transform and wavelet transform image fusion method. Then a fusion experiment of IKONOS image is made to compares the different merging methods from spectral quality and the spatial quality in order to choose the suitable method for the high resolution image.


In higher vocational colleges,calligraphy teaching is of great significance in enhancing students' humane comprehension,improving their employment ability,and enforcing campus cultural construction.From the aspects of more investigation in calligraphy teaching,triggering students' motivation,making use of modern teaching technology and enhancing quality management,this thesis analyses how to carry out calligraphy teaching in higher vocational colleges strategically.


There are several active Afrobeat groups that are scattered across Europe and America but one major group that has engrafted the relevance of Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Afrobeat into the stream of world Music is the 'Fela Musical'. The Musical is based on the music and lyrics of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, chronicling his achievements from birth till his demise in 1997. Written by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis, the Musical x-rays the life and times of Afrobeat exponent with modern day musical complexities and choreography that has held the audience spell bound. The group has toured several cities around the world (including Nigeria, where Fela was born). While it has received resounding applause and commendation from many across the globe, the Musical has been condemned by others as lacking the basic ingredients inherent in Fela's music. Furthermore, they argue that there is no way a Musical from another country other than Nigeria can give a true description of Fela and his music. The study therefore will examine the music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti from the perspective of the 'Fela on Broadway' Musical. It will analyze the creative dimensions of the production as important elements in understanding how Fela's identity is defined, constructed and reinforced on the 'Broadway'.


Although Confucius and Socrates lived in different countries,they all wanted to change the societies through moral education due to similar social backgrounds.And their thoughts about moral education are different in characteristics and have had a very profound influence on the education in the East and the West.Then it will be positive to compare and draw lessons from the ideas of Confucius and Socrates'moral education to promote the moral education in China.


In the present text I am trying to establish what was Tiberius position in the imperial family and what was the role he played in Augustus succession plans before his leaving to Rhodes in 6 BC. The analysis of different categories of sources carried out in the article shows that Tiberius was at that time only the minor candidate to succession, finding himself overshadowed by Marcellus and Agrippa, and then by Gaius and Lucius Caesar. Only Augustus adopted sons' death in 2 AD and 4 AD opened Tiberius the way to the imperial power.


Developing an atomic scale study of the structure-property relationships of grain boundaries in high-Tc superconductors is essential to understand their current dissipation mechanism and for incorporating these materials into viable devices. Thin YBa2Cu3O7-δ films have been deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on SrTiO3 symmetric bicrystals. Transport measurements in a magnetic field have been conducted across the grain boundaries through a wide bridge. The data obtained are consistent with microstructural observation in a VG Microscopes HB603 U and a VG HB501 UX dedicated STEM. Of particular interest in the study of high-Tc materials is the use of EELS, which can highlight the presence of non-superconducting regions through interpretation of the onset positions and finestructure (ELNES) of characteristic core-edge features. The V(I) curves recorded across a 24° boundary for several magnetic fields (fig. 1 - left) show an onset critical current density followed by a linear differential ohmic behavior which gives a negative intercept.


An extract of a mixture herb medicines is provided to show excellent inhibitory effect on whole blood agglutinating capacity, blood platelet membrane receptor, and calcium mobilization in the blood platelet and inhibit blood flow adhesion capability induced by blood cell deformation stress, thereby being usefully used to prevent and treat diseases caused by blood circulation disorder such as arteriolosclerosis, cerebral hemorrhage, stroke, and cerebral infarction. A composition for preventing and treating thrombotic disease through blood circulation improvement comprises an extract of a mixture consisting of 18-22 parts by weight of Mume Fructus, 1-4 parts by weight of Amomi Fructus, 1-3 parts by weight of Amomum tsao-ko Crevost et Lemaire, and 1-3 parts by weight of Santalum album, wherein the extract is obtained by using a polar solvent such as water, methanol, ethanol and a mixture thereof.


A multi‐instrument study of the regolith of Jezero crater floor units by the Perseverance rover has identified three types of regolith: fine‐grained, coarse‐grained, and mixed‐type. Mastcam‐Z, Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering, and SuperCam Remote Micro Imager were used to characterize the regolith texture, particle size, and roundedness where possible. Mastcam‐Z multispectral and SuperCam laser‐induced breakdown spectroscopy data were used to constrain the composition of the regolith types. Fine‐grained regolith is found surrounding bedrock and boulders, comprising bedforms, and accumulating on top of rocks in erosional depressions. Spectral and chemical data show it is compositionally consistent with pyroxene and a ferric‐oxide phase. Coarse‐grained regolith consists of 1–2 mm well‐sorted gray grains that are found concentrated around the base of boulders and bedrock, and armoring bedforms. Its chemistry and spectra indicate it is olivine‐bearing, and its spatial distribution and roundedness indicate it has been transported, likely by saltation‐induced creep. Coarse grains share similarities with the olivine grains observed in the Séítah formation bedrock, making that unit a possible source for these grains. Mixed‐type regolith contains fine‐ and coarse‐grained regolith components and larger rock fragments. The rock fragments are texturally and spectrally similar to bedrock within the Máaz and Séítah formations, indicating origins by erosion from those units, although they could also be a lag deposit from erosion of an overlying unit. The fine‐ and coarse‐grained types are compared to their counterparts at other landing sites to inform global, regional, and local inputs to regolith formation within Jezero crater. The regolith characterization presented here informs the regolith sampling efforts underway by Perseverance.


Based on College Students Aerobics Competition in Shanxi after attending student- athletes contest the failure to analyze coping strategies adopted to analyze,using competition failure coping questionnaire survey of student athletes. The results showed that different gender,age,grade,and participate in the games etc have an impact on the number of student athletes race after the failure of coping.


The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), endemic to rainforests of the Western Ghats in southern India, is an endangered species. Most of its population now lives in fragmented pockets of rainforests. Considerable research has been carried out on its reproductive biology both on wild and captive populations in North America and Europe. We review studies carried out on birth seasonality, life-history parameters, and reproductive physiology and behaviour. The captive populations differ considerably from wild populations on several parameters of reproductive biology. Because of a low population turnover in this species due to a delayed age at first birth and long inter-birth intervals, and further degradation of its natural habitats, rapid population replenishment or augmentation is unlikely. This article shows that the study of reproductive biology may provide an important key to the conservation of this species. It also indicates that several aspects of reproductive biology of lion-tailed macaque still remain to be addressed.


When a new topic is introduced in the curriculum, teachers seek various ways to teach students the related concepts. For the novel topic 'materials' in the revised Dutch curriculum, I developed an experiment in which students determine Young's modulus using a guitar string. The experiment not only covers several concepts related to 'materials' it also provides a clear link to the physics of music and illustrates to students, aged 16, why the topic 'materials' could be of interest.


A Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis (unsexed), which died at Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, was forwarded to Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, January, 1966. Some myological sketches taken from its skinned body are here illustrated. In dorsal view (Fig. 1), the m. latissimus dorsi pars posterior, a very variable muscle (george & Berger 1966), is of Sula, Fregata and Nunnopterum type in which this muscle is variably wider (Kuroda 1961). The adaptive function of this muscle in birds' flight should further be studied . The m. pectoralis major components consist of pars proprius (superficialis), sub-lateral pars lateralis and deep-seated pans profundus. Attached on the under surface of the profundus, the third layer pars medius can be identifiable (Fig. 2; cf. Kuroda 2000). Newly named pars clavicularis (Fig. 2E) of the pectoralis major is shown. About this muscle, I shall report in a later paper (also refer to Kuroda 1960). The muscular belly (venter musculi) of brachial (wing bone) muscles in long-winged large birds tend to be shortened with elongation of their tendons. The pattern in Pelecanus of humero-ulnar musculature is shown in Fig. 3. The small branch muscle connected to tendon of the m. humerotriceps was identified, but its tendon to reach coracoid (Berger 1956) was not confirmed. Some weight measurements are here added, which are as follows: 1. Pelvo-pedal muscles (one side): thigh muscle weight 93g, tibial muscle weight 74 g, total pelvo-pedal weight (with toes) 249g. 2. Thoraco-brachial muscles (one side): Pectoralis proprius 116g , P, lateralis 40g, P. profundus 26g, Scapulo-humeral muscles 72g, Ulnar muscles 26g, Supracoracoideus 1.8g. 3. Cerebrum and cerebellum 14.2g, Optic lobes and medulla spinalis 2.3g, Kidney


Multimodal learning aims to process and relate information from different modalities to enhance the model's capacity for perception. Current multimodal fusion mechanisms either do not align the feature spaces closely or are expensive for training and inference. In this paper, we present X-Norm, a novel, simple and efficient method for bimodal fusion that generates and exchanges limited but meaningful normalization parameters between the modalities implicitly aligning the feature spaces. We conduct extensive experiments on two tasks of emotion and action recognition with different architectures including Transformer-based and CNN-based models using IEMOCAP and MSP-IMPROV for emotion recognition and EPIC-KITCHENS for action recognition. The experimental results show that X-Norm achieves comparable or superior performance compared to the existing methods including early and late fusion, Gradient-Blending (G-Blend) [44], Tensor Fusion Network, [48] and Multimodal Transformer [40], with a relatively low training cost.


Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a pregnancy complication defined as a glucose intolerance of varying severity with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. The prevalence of GDM is growing rapidly worldwide. Two major metabolic disorders, chronic insulin resistance and β-cell dysfunction, are currently linked to the pathogenesis of GDM, although the cellular mechanisms involved are not yet completely understood. Maternal genetic predisposition coupled with environmental and fetoplacental factors initiates a chain of events that affects mother and fetus, both in the short and long term. Understanding of pathophysiology and risk factors will enhance the possibility of effective screening, early intervention, and even prevention.


The relationships of adsorption abilities of cesium and strontium in the presence or absence of oxygen in the atmosphere during carbonization of rice hull charcoal was investigated. Rice hulls were carbonized at 400–1000 °C by flowing nitrogen gas containing 100% nitrogen or 3% oxygen. The amount of acidic functional groups was higher with 3% oxygen. The rice hull charcoal carbonized in any atmosphere decreased the amount of acidic functional groups with increase in carbonization temperature. A correlation was found between cesium adsorption rate and acidic functional group content. However, there was no correlation between strontium adsorption rate and acidic functional group content. The specific surface area was largest at 237 cm2/g at 800 °C for charcoal carbonized with 3% oxygen and largest at 124 cm2/g at 600 °C for charcoal carbonized with 0% oxygen. From the measurement results of pore distributions, it was found that the volumes of mesopores were larger in charcoal carbonized in 3% oxygen atmosphere than that carbonized under 0% oxygen. There was a high correlation between the pore volume of mesopores and the adsorption amount of strontium. It seemed that rice hull charcoal carbonized with 3% oxygen had a large adsorption rate of strontium.


Bacterial translocation from the gut may occur under a variety of different clinical circumstances and has been implicated in the development of multiple organ failure. The aim of this study was to determine the distribution of bacterial translocation occurring in a model of chemically induced peritonitis. We also sought to document the degree of the associated immune and inflammatory response.


Abstract – One of the most frequent disasters in Indonesia is fire. There are situations where homeowners are not aware that their house is on fire, such as when the owner is not home or at night when the owner is sleeping. Lack of information regarding the condition of a house that has caught fire can result in enormous material losses or can endanger a person's life if the fire is not resolved immediately. In this case, it is necessary to have a monitoring system that can provide information regarding the presence of early fire symptoms that can be accessed anytime and anywhere. This system will later be able to display fire, smoke, and temperature values from sensor readings that have been stored in the Firebase Realtime Database which will later be displayed on Mobile Apps. If there is a fire there will be a warning in the form of a buzzer and notification on the smartphone and the system will spray water through the waterpump. The results of this study are a fire early warning monitoring system on a smart home system using Internet of Things (IoT) based NodeMcu. It is hoped that this system can reduce or minimize the occurrence of fires and losses due to fires.


Attribution of environmental pollution phenomena and their causes represents a real challenge due to the complexity of the scenarios to be examined and the multiple sources to be considered. Furthermore, the definition of the parameters to be monitored, considering the specific phenomenon, becomes very difficult, especially in relation to the available technological solutions and operational needs. Various elements, naturally present in the scenario under examination, can be used as perfect sensors/indicators to detect the status of the environment and effectively reveal the relationships between specific sources of pollution and target areas. This study demonstrates how pollution attribution is achieved using remote sensing of cyanobacteria, which are excellent bioindicators due to their sensitivity to multiple stressors and rapid response to habitat changes throughout the event. The study was conducted in the coastal waters of the Campania region (southern Italy) for the period before, during and after the COVID-19 lockdown. Along the coastal area examined, a special focus was dedicated to Lake Avernus. This program detected the presence of specific cyanobacteria species, some toxic, and revealed the relationship between their presence and anthropic pollution activities. This paper demonstrates how deployment of multidisciplinary analysis with choreographed use of remote/proximal sensing and in situ sampling across space and time utilized the cyanobacteria to characterize the impact of human activities. The study allowed environmental forensic teams to identify and confirm the anthropogenic origin of the environmental variations that stimulate the cyanobacterial blooming. © 2022 WITPress. All rights reserved.


A series of saturated linear dimethyl diesters [MeO2C·[CH2]n·CO2Me, n= 1–8 or 12], hitherto only examined by low resolution mass spectroscopy, have been examined using a high resolution instrument. An important decomposition mode for M– CO2Me and M– CH2CO2Me ions is loss of keten with associated methoxy-migration. In this manner, ions with compositions corresponding to those normally derived from saturated aliphatic ether groupings are generated. Carbonium ion-stabilising substitutents in substituted dimethyl succinates and glutarates in general enhance the abundance of the rearrangement ions, which frequently are among the most abundant in the spectra.


In contemporary biomedicine, care practices are increasingly interlaced with research and development activities, leading to the emergence of new biomedical domains, such as personalized medicine. Personalized medicine involves the shaping of unprecedented relationships between clinical practice and technoscientific innovation processes, which need to be explored in their social and technological dimensions. In this article, based on ethnographic research carried out within an institute of care and research in Northern Italy, it will be analysed the reconfiguration of medical practice and health professions due to the increasing adoption of organizational strategies in support of the circulation of knowledge, biological materials and technologies between scientific laboratories and care settings. From the analytical point of view, a special attention it will be paid to the organizational arrangements performed by physicians and scientist in order to support the dialogue between research laboratories and care contexts, in which personalised medicine is shaped.


Appropriate early weaning (EW) technology can maximize the value of maternal sheep production without impact the normal growth and development of lambs. However, there is no mature EW technology for dairy sheep lambs. This study aimed to establish an appropriate EW technology for the crossbreed offspring of Dairy Meade (DM) sheep and Small-tailed Han (STH) sheep. The male lambs with similar birth weight were separated as four groups: three experimental groups (EW, n=6 of each group) of 7, 15 and 25D weaning after birth which using restricted milk replacer (MR) and the control group (CON, n=8) which artifi-cially-reared with breast milk. The results showed that there was no significant difference in growth performance among each group at D90. In terms of organ weight, except the heart weight EW7 was higher than CON (p < 0.05), there was no significant difference between others (p > 0.05). The routine analysis of blood showed that there was no significant difference in major components between EW and CON groups. Histological analysis of digestive system showed that there was no significant difference between EW groups and CON except the rumen papillae width of EW25. The results of rumen fermentation parameters showed that there was no significant difference in pH and microbial proteins (MCP) content between EW groups and CON. In total, Different weaning time did not significantly affect the growth and development of dairy sheep lambs. Early weaning at D7 is a better strategy for the improvement of financial value of maternal sheep.


We discuss a new notion of risk measures that preserve the proprty of coherence called Copula Conditional Tail Expectation (CCTE). This measure describes the expected amount of risk that can be experienced given that a potential bivariate risk exceeds a bivariate threshold value, and provides an important measure for right-tail risk. Our goal is to propose an alternative risk measure which takes into account the fluctuations of losses and possible correlations between random variables. Link :http://pinguim.uma.pt/Investigacao/Ccm/icsaa11/page7/page7.html


This study aims to empirically explore company size and corporate governance as determinants of risk management disclosure by investigating the effect of a combination of determinants on risk management disclosure practices in manufacturing companies. This study used a random sampling method. The sample for this research is 189 manufacturing companies (3 years of observation) listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2019-2021 period. The COSO 2017 spreadsheet was used to measure the level of risk management disclosure. Panel data regression analysis using the Eviews program version 10 was used to examine the effect of company size and corporate governance on risk management disclosure. The results showed that company size, institutional ownership, and audit committee had a positive effect. In contrast, the size of the board of commissioners hurt risk management. The independent board of commissioners with managerial ownership shows results that do not affect risk management in manufacturing companies in Indonesia.


In 2 cases of chewing gum (ruminatio) in infants and in one older child, Mansbacher successfully applied the feeding of dense mush without or almost without milk.


........................................................................................................................... xiii Chapter One: Peptidic and Non-peptidic Scaffolds to Disrupt Protein-protein Interactions that Involve -Helices ...............................................................1 1.1 Protein-protein interactions ................................................................................1 1.2 Efforts to target the protein-protein interaction .................................................1 1.3 Efforts to target the protein-protein interactionsinvolving -helix ..................2 1.4 Peptidic -Helical mimetics ..............................................................................3 1.4.1 Cyclic peptides ....................................................................................4 1.4.2 Direct covalent bonding of the side chains of the amino acids...........4 1.4.3 Metal coordinate bonding ...................................................................6 1.4.4 Connecting side chains of unnatural amino acids at i and i + 7 positions .............................................................................................7 1.4.5 Connecting i and i + 7 side chains with a photo-controlled azobenzene linker................................................................................8 1.5 Miniproteins .......................................................................................................9 1.6 Foldamers .........................................................................................................10 1.7 Synthetic non-peptidic -helical mimetics with linear scaffold ......................11 1.7.1 -Helical mimetic scaffolds developed by Hamilton and coworkers ..........................................................................................14 1.7.2 -Helical mimetic scaffolds developed by Rebek and coworkers ..........................................................................................16 1.7.3 Trisubstituted imidazole scaffold ......................................................17 1.7.4 Benzylideneacetophenone scaffold ...................................................18 1.7.5 trans-Fused polycylic ethers scaffold ...............................................19 1.8 Synthetic non-peptidic -helical mimetics with other scaffold .......................20 1.8.1 Nutlin ................................................................................................20 1.8.2 1,4-Benzodiazepine-2,5-dione scaffolds ...........................................21 1.8.3 Coactivator binding inhibitors ..........................................................22 ii 1.9 Summary of non-peptidic -helical mimetics .................................................23 1.10 Possibility of design general non-peptidic -helical scaffold .......................23 1.11 Balance between rational design and combinatorial chemistry .....................25 1.12 Cancer: our target ...........................................................................................26 1.12.1 Hallmarks of cancer ........................................................................26 1.12.2 Apoptosis ........................................................................................27 1.12.3 p53/MDM2 interaction ...................................................................28 1.12.4 Bcl-2 family protein-protein interactions........................................30 1.13 References ......................................................................................................31 Chapter Two: Design and Synthesis of 2,5-Terpyrimidinylenes as More Druglike 1,4-Terphenylene Mimetics ................................................................36 2.


 Abstract—Davis in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) distinguished the importance of subjective norms. However, Davis observed the difficulty to distinguish between the users own attitude and the referents on one's intent by others. This has formed a need for further research to investigate the phenomenon of subjective norms and to identify the key antecedents that determine subjective norms. As m-commerce gains popularity, further examination of how subjective norms affect individual attitude might help contribute to the greater usage. This paper, therefore, contributes in decomposing subjective norms (SN) into four norms: personal injunctive norm (PIN), personal descriptive norm (PDN), societal injunctive norm (SIN) and societal descriptive norm (SDN). The aim of this paper is to decompose SN and to distinct the antecedents of SN. The initial results of 412 university students in Jordan indicate that personal injunctive norm, personal descriptive norm and the societal injunctive norm are indeed antecedents of SN.


Results concerning the ecological features of introduced and local tree species in town greening system in forest-steppe conditions are presented based on both field and experimental studies.