September-October THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE AND RELIGION ON CHINESE MUSLIMS LIFE: AN OVERVIEW OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION FOR MUSLIM WOMEN IN CHINA. 1 Abbas J., 2 Zhang Wenhong, 3 Jaffar Aman, 4 Shaher Bano, 5 Alla-Ud-Din School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road, Baoshan District, Post Code 200444 : Shanghai, China. 5 Faculty of Social Science, Department of International Relations, University of Balochistan, Sariab Road Quetta, Pakistan, Post Code 87300 Contact: email@example.com ABSTRACT: This study defines the historical background of Islamic education, cultural values under global influence and the components of education including secular knowledge for Chinese Muslims women under various regimes. The traditional culture, spiritual, religion based along with secular education has critical allure in shaping the life of Muslim females in China. Therefore, education is taken as the key point in the society as the state controls, supports and interprets the usage of religion and culture in the society. Primarily, it makes comparison in uneven circumstances on female education based on religion within an atmosphere that is interlinked issues and it has dependency on the cultural diversity as well as multiplicity. The state controlled supportive measures for treating the minorities' rights for practicing their religion and right to the secular as well as the religious education and then implementing educational systems based on religion by linking the relationships among the cultural as well as Islamic influences and Nonspiritual Education. The religious education has the vital role in the life of Chinese Muslims Women. Subsequently, they are influenced from global cultures to some extents and Islamic culture yet has dominating influence on Chinese Muslims.


Through the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the associated explosive evolution of connectivity, issues surrounding reliability, security, privacy and safety have become sources of ever increasing concern. Furthermore, as Big Data is becoming the fabric and currency that bonds the IoT, we have seen an increased demand for advanced data mining and analytics tools over the last decade. In this presentation we review some historical trends and challenges related to this evolution of networking and connectivity and discuss areas of most likely focus over the next decade. In particular, ongoing efforts and future directions for research led by IEEE and the IEEE Reliability Society will be discussed.


Brochothrix thermosphacta, Enterobacteriaceae and the Pseudomonas-Moraxella group grew more rapidly on the fat than on the lean surfaces of chilled vacuum-packaged beef striploins of pH 5.45–5.85. On the fat, both B. thermosphacta and Enterobacteriaceae grew to outnumber the Pseudomonas-Moraxella. When Enterobacteriaceae and B. thermosphacta were present initially in about equal numbers, Enterobacteriaceae outgrew B. thermosphacta on both the fat and the lean surfaces of packs stored at 5°C. At 1°C the growth rate of the Enterobacteriaceae was greatly reduced. As a result, on the fat at 1°C, B. thermosphacta grew considerably faster than did the Enterobacteriaceae.


Abstract Using nonparametric noise models the complexity of the errors-in-variables problem is reduced to that of a generalised output error problem. Via experiments with periodic excitation signals one can easily obtain nonparametric estimates of the input-output noise models in a preprocessing step. The following assumptions are hereby made: (i) the system operates in steady state, (ii) at least P = 7 signal periods are available, and (iii) consecutive signal periods are independently distributed. Due to the noise colouring, assumption (iii) is an approximation. In addition assumptions (i) and (ii) reduce the frequency resolution of the experiment. In this paper we present a method that handles these three restrictions: 2 periods of the transient response to a periodic excitation are sufficient, and the correlation among consecutive signal periods is suppressed.


Primary Examiner-Robert L. Richardson Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Cushman, Darby & Cushman (57) ABSTRACT A circuit for inserting color information into a video signal during either recording or reproduction. The circuit extracts a burst signal from a chroma signal input and generates a first color carrier phase-locked with the burst signal. The chroma signal is modulated in accor dance with the burst signal and the first color carrier. A second color carrier is generated from the first color carrier. The two color carriers are mixed together cre ating a color signal which will be selectively inserted into the chroma signal. The insertion of the color signal is controlled by an additional image information gener ating circuit.


The divine service communicates with signs-—and symbols in particular. The vertical communication from God to human beings gives rise to the horizontal one from person to person in the language school of the service. Service communication is characterized by the sending and receiving of signs. Priest and church musicians must together choose the communicative signs and assess their effect in the continuing liturgic understanding of the congregation. In 1996 Forum Musik-Teologi was formed in Denmark for discussions between priests and church musicians. The discussions were to have their star ting-point in an overall conception of the preaching of the Word in all aspects, also musical ones. The first meeting in April 1997 bore the heading "Music, Theology and Culture— W hat Do They Have in Common?". The following annual meetings have had these themes: "The Language of the Church", "The Place of the Church Choir in the Service", "Can Time Be Heard?", and "Art in Church/The Musical Action of the Year 2000 Fund". Four working parties form part of the activity in the Forum: l. On the different qualities of hymn melodies—musically and theologically. 2. The divine service in musical shape. 3. Biblical poetry and prose in musical settings to be used in divine service. 4. Art and church. The author links to the above reflections on the concept of time and divine service, reflections on the congregation's mutual praise as a sign of the reception of the gift of faith, reflections on the interplay between text and music in hymns, reflections on the need of liturgic pedagogics, and reflections on divine service as a cultural phenomenon and as a game. The co-operation between music and theology does not aim at the aestheticizing of the forms of the divine service but at making service multilingual: communication in divine service on the horizontal person-to-person area shall use as many sign languages as possible within the frames set by historical continuity and pedagogical efficiency.


Image registration measurement systems (MSs) often possess the following specific properties: the measurement results of these systems demand for further complex processing; these MSs deal with large amounts of data; and they possess a high level of invariance. In this paper a general description of measurement systems invariant with respect to a given group of transformations (e.g., translations, reflections, rotations of field of view) is considered. Then the problem of an optimum measurement computer system (MCS) synthesis for a given invariant MS is stated. It consists in obtaining a mapping (describing processing algorithm), delivering an optimum to the MCS as a whole. It is shown that proper allowance for invariance can significantly simplify MCS's synthesis problem solution and, as a consequence, appreciably cut down the computational costs involved both for constructing an optimum computational component of MCS and for its subsequent functioning.


Comparing with the traditional caries diagnosis,quantitative light-induced fluorescence(QLF) technology is a new developing one which can measure small changes in the mineral content of enamel lesions quantitatively and allow longitudinal monitoring of changes in lesion area and depth.The summary concerns some traditional dental diagnostic methods especially QLF technology,involving its principles,system structure,detection factors,and so on.


Graph-based algorithms have gained significant interest in several application domains. Solutions addressing the computational efficiency of such algorithms have mostly relied on many-core architectures. Cleverly laying out input graphs in storage, by placing adjacent vertices in a same storage unit (memory bank or cache unit), enables fast access during graph traversal. Dynamic graphs, however, must be continuously repartitioned to leverage this benefit. Yet software repartitioning solutions rely on costly, cross-vault communication to query and optimize the graph layout between algorithm iterations. In this work, we propose DREDGE, a novel hardware solution to provide heuristic repartitioning optimizations in the background without extra communication. Our evaluation indicates that we achieve a $1.9 x$ speedup, on average, over several graph algorithms and datasets, executing on a 24x24-core architecture, when compared against a baseline solution that does not repartition the dynamic graph. We estimated that DREDGE incurs only 1.5% area and 2.1% power overheads over an ARM A5 processor core. CCS CONCEPTS • Hardware $\rightarrow$ Hardware accelerators; Application specific processors; • Mathematics of computing $\rightarrow$ Graph theory;


This paper attempts to understand the deep-rooted nature of corruption in everyday life in villages in India and the process of it acquiring social legitimacy. Using constructivist grounded theory ...


We consider the error floor of coherently and differentially detected PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) in time-dispersive fading channels; PAM includes PSK (phase shift keying) and QAM as special cases. We introduce a new Zak (1968) transform based method for computing the error floor. This method can be applied to arbitrary modulation formats and a very general class of time-dispersive channels. We prove that unfiltered BPSK exhibits no error floor when the sampling phase is chosen adaptively and (for coherent detection) the basis pulse satisfies a symmetry condition. For filtered BPSK there is an error floor, which depends on the filter bandwidth. For higher-order modulations, there is always an error floor; it can be attributed to I-Q crosstalk.


We consider the problem of designing a sparse code multiple access (SCMA) codebook that is based on permutation. Conventional SCMA is a multidimensional codebook-based non-orthogonal spreading technique, in which each layer of incoming bits are directly mapped to multidimensional codewords which have nonzero entries on the same resources. In this paper, unlike the traditional SCMA scheme, the data bits to be transmitted determine the nonzero entry locations based on the permutation. The proposed SCMA codebooks are converted to a multiuser code-division multiple-access (CDMA) detection system before applying an iterative decoder. The complexity of the proposed iterative decoder is lower in comparison to exponential message passing algorithm (MPA) and outperforms in terms of bit-error-rate (BER).


In 1966 it was shown that the maximum factor by which the amplitude of forced vibration of blades can increase due to mistuning is, with certain assumptions, 1/2(1 + √N), where N is the number of blades in the row. This report gives a further investigation of the circumstances when this factor can be obtained. These are small damping, and a relationship must hold between the mistuning distribution y(s) and the interblade coupling function c(r), where r is the mode number. The mistuning distribution must be symmetric about the blade on which maximum amplitude is to occur, s = 0. The coupling function must be symmetric about r = R, where R is the mode number of the excitation. If the coupling is purely mechanical, additional conditions apply. The coupling function c(r) must consist of a number of identical symmetric substrips. A 1976 result for mechanical coupling is amended.


The aim the research is to find out and analize satire of the stand up comedy "Mesakke Bangsaku" by Pandji Pragiwaksono. The writer use qualitative descriptive research in observing with content analysis technique. Resources of the research is video tape of stand up comedy "Mesakke Bangsaku" Pandji Pragiwaksono brings transcript into the writing process. Script product of transcription then, identify with use of satire's theory. Based on analysis result, it find out satire with the highest percentage in the cynicism category which was as many as 39 of data or 38,23%. Another finding is, sarcasm category as many as 37 data (36,27%), ironic 4 data (3,92%), and antiphrase 1 data (0,98%).


Object of the present invention is to provide a curable resin composition and a reflection sheet thereof, the curable resin composition even when a large amount of titanium oxide can be obtained with excellent resolution, and high reflectivity and high definition cured . The curable resin composition of the present invention is characterized in that it comprises: in one molecule containing olefinic resin, unsaturated groups and carboxyl groups, and a bisacylphosphine oxide photopolymerization initiator, and mono acyl phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization agent, and titanium oxide, initiator, and organic solvent.


This paper presents a fundamental investigation into scaling effects for the mechanical properties and electrical output power of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters. The mechanical properties investigated in this paper include resonant frequency of the harvester and its frequency tunability, which is essential for the harvester to operate efficiently under broadband excitations. Electrical output power studied includes cases when the harvester is excited under both constant vibration acceleration and constant vibration amplitude. The energy harvester analysed in this paper is based on a cantilever structure, which is typical of most vibration energy harvesters. Both detailed mathematical derivation and simulation are presented. Furthermore, various piezoelectric materials used in MEMS and non-MEMS harvesters are also considered in the scaling analysis.


YI QIAO DISSERTATION ADVISOR: GABOR T. MARTH Unlike normal tissue cells, which contain identical copies of the same genome, tumors are composed of genetically divergent cell subpopulations, or subclones. The abilities to identify the number of subclones, their frequencies within the tumor mass, and the evolutionary relationships among them are crucial in understanding the basis of tumorigenesis, drug response, relapse, and metastasis. It is also essential information for informed, personalized therapeutic decisions. Studies have attempted to reconstruct subclone structure by identifying distinct allele frequency distribution modes at a handful of somatic single nucleotide variant loci, but this question was not adequately addressed with computational means at the start of this dissertation work, and recent efforts either enforce certain assumptions or resort to statistical procedure which cannot guarantee the complete landscape of solution space. This dissertation present a computational framework that examines somatic variation events, such as copy number changes, loss of heterozygosity, or point mutations, in order to identify the underlying subclone structure. Chapter 2 discuss the presence of intra-tumoral heterogeneity, and for historical interest, a method to reconstruct the parsimonious solution based on simplifying assumptions in tumor micro-evolution process. Analysis results on clinical datasets concerning Ovarian Serious Carcinoma and Intracranal Germ Cell Tumor based on this method, which confirmed the genomic complexity, are also presented. Due to the reason that the linkage information i.e. whether two mutations are colocalizing in the same cancer cell is lost during tissue homogenization and DNA fragmentation, common sample preparation steps used in whole genome profiling techniques, often there are more than one subclone model capable of explaining the observation. Chapter 3 describes an extended method that is able to search for all models consistent with the observation. Consequently, the solution to a specific input dataset is then a set of possible subclone structures. The method then trim this solution space in the case that more than one sample from the same patient are available, such as the primary and relapse tumor pairs. Furthermore, a statistical framework is developed that, when further trimming is not possible, predicts whether two mutations are co-localizing in the same subclone. The formal definition on the problem of subclone structure reconstruction, as well as techniques to pre-process various types of genomic variation data are given given here as well. Results on the analysis of published and novel datasets, ranging from cancer types including Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Sinonasal Undifferenciated Carcinoma and Ovarian Serious Carcinoma, and data types including whole genome sequencing, copy number array, single nucleotide polymorphism array and single nucleotide variant calls with deep sequencing are also included. They show that the method is applicable to these wide range of cancer and data types, able to independently replicate the published conclusion based on manual reasoning, and gain novel insights into the pattern of tumor recurrence and chemoresistance. It also shows that the method can be valuable in prioritizing variants for function study. Chapter 4 summarizes the entire work, and provide future prospects in subclonality research. (This page is left blank intentionally . . . ) THIS WORK IS DEDICATED TO MY WIFE, XIAOMENG HUANG, WHO IS KIND, SMART, GENTLE, AND ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL; WHO IS DILIGENT, WHEN I AM WEARY; WHO REMAINS STRONG, WHEN I AM DOWN; WHO CONTRIBUTES IDEAS, WHEN I AM STUCK; WHO KEEPS ME ACCOMPANIED ON MY JOURNEY, AND MAKES LIVING EVER SO MORE ENJOYABLE, EVERYDAY. THIS WORK WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN POSSIBLE, HAD SHE NOT BEEN PART OF MY LIFE. I SHALL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE GRACE SHE BESTOWS UPON ME. ♥ THIS WORK IS DEDICATED TO MY PARENTS, XIAOCUI ZHAO AND SHAOPING QIAO, WHO STRIVE TO PROVIDE ME WITH LOVE, CARE, SUPPORT, AND INSPIRATION, SOMETIMES AT THEIR OWN SACRIFICE. THIS WORK WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN POSSIBLE, HAD THEY NOT BEEN AS SUPPORTIVE AND UNDERSTANDING IN MANY OF MY DECISIONS. ♥ THIS WORK IS DEDICATED TO ALL WHO SUFFER FROM CANCER, A HORRIBLE DISEASE THAT TORMENTS BOTH THE PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILY. IT IS TO MY UTTERMOST HOPE THAT THIS WORK CAN BE OF EVEN THE SLIGHTEST HELP TOWARDS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF DEFEATING THIS COMMON ENEMY OF MAN-KIND.


India is fastest growing large economy in the world, it still popularly known as the country of villages. Digital marketing industry in India is a booming career today. In a country with a rapid growth economy, it is expected to have a very high significant growth in Digital marketing career. The growth in the digital marketing trends is making a very substantial impact on marketing and advertisement. Digital Marketing industry in India is spread to almost all the business sectors. Some of the applications of E-Marketing are shopping and order tracking, online banking, payment systems and content management.
The power of digital marketing allows geophysical barriers to disappear making all consumers and businesses on earth potential customers and suppliers. It is known for its ability to allow business to communicate and form a transaction anywhere and anytime.

Keywords: Digital marketing, Technology and rural marketing, E-marketing.


Currently, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are widely deployed in enterprise networks for detecting network attacks. Most existing commercial IDSs are based on misuse detection model. In misuse detection, although known attacks can be detected, unknown ones cannot be detected because attack signatures for unknown attacks cannot be generated. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting network attacks including unknown ones against servers such as web servers, mail servers, FTP servers, and DNS servers, using protocol specifications and site access policy. Furthermore, we propose a method to predict damage from detected attacks using neural networks.


Abstract : We assessed distributions of breast cancer tumor characteristics and molecular prognostic biomarkers by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position among paraffin-embedded tumor biopsy specimens from 135 US women (48 white women, 44 black women, 43 Asian women) diagnosed with breast cancer between 1966 and 1990. No racial/ethnic or socioeconomic differences in distribution were observed for tumor stage, lymph node involvement, estrogen, progesterone, and epidermal growth factor receptors, oncogenes Her2/neu and p53, cytoplasmic proteins cathepsin-D and ps2, and two indices of cell growth, Ki67 and DNA ploidy, adjusting for age at diagnosis, menopausal status, place of and, for racial/ethnic comparisons, working class composition of census block-group a diagnosis. Black and Asian women, however, were 3.5 times (95% confidence interval CI = 1.2, 10.1) and 3.7 times (95% CI = 1.3, 10.6) more likely than white women to have a tumor size of 20 mm or larger, and Asian women were 3.4 times (95% CI = 1.1, 10.4) more likely than black women to be positive for androgen receptor, adjusting for these same factors. No differences in distributions by socioeconomic position were observed for these latter two tumor characteristics. These data suggest that racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer survival are unlikely to be explained by differential distributions of prognostic biomarkers.


In this book the authors, who are parallel computing experts and industry insiders, describe how to design and implement maintainable and efficient parallel algorithms using a pattern-based approach. They present both theory and practice, and give some specific examples using multiple programming models. The book begins with two introductory chapters related with "Why is necessary to Think Parallel" and presenting background related with hardware trends that have lead to need explicit parallel programming.


Thank you for reading switched current signal processing and ad conversion circuits design and implementation. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their chosen novels like this switched current signal processing and ad conversion circuits design and implementation, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some malicious virus inside their computer.


We need to give information about the definition and historical process of "operetta" before starting this study titled "Operettas from the Ottoman period to the present". Operetta was a term used for short and unpretentious operas in the eighteenth century. At the end of the nineteenth century, "operetta" was called "small opera" and "musical theater" as a stage work, born out of the comic opera genre, developed in Paris and Vienna, one of the cultural and artistic centers of Europe. The operettas, which explained fun and emotional subjects in a simple language and appealed to a wide audience, also had the satiric feature of the lower class. In the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Period, when the influence of westernization began to be seen, interest in western style music increased along with the developments in Turkish music. Western style music was initially adopted by the people around the palace and later by the public and began to be performed. During this period, operettas were staged by Italian groups, and operettas were written by Turkish composers using Turkish and Western music together in the last quarter of the 19th century. In operettas written, the musical and instrumental features of Turkish music were used together with the harmony of Western music, and works were tried to be written using two different structures together. In this study, the development of operetta from the Ottoman period to the present day, which emerged in line with the Westernization movement, was discussed. The operettas that were written in this period but were not supported by the conditions of that period, could not be completed and therefore were not performed and forgotten, and operettas that have survived to the present day and have the characteristics of Turkish Music have been identified according to the sources. "Arif's Hilesi", known as the first Turkish operetta written in the Ottoman period and composed by Dikran Çuhaciyan, and the "İstanbulname" operetta composed by Turgay Erdener, one of the last generation composers, were also examined. Keywords: Ottoman, Republic, Period, Turkish, Operetta


Modern medical solutions to overcome disabilities and deseases tend to increasingly utilize implantable microelectronic systems, which are controlled and monitored from outside the body. One example is the electrical stimulation of nerves which have lost their natural functionality by an accident. This ASIC was developed as the central component in implantable, batteryless electro-neural stimulation systems. The first application being an implant for restoring basic movement abilities of a disabled hand, caused by a spinal cord injury. It allows stimulation of nerves with two independently controlled currents on one or more of 12 neural electrodes. The system is controlled and powered using an 80 kBit/s transcutaneous RF-telemetry link. The on-chip microcontroller was optimized to perform multi-tasking protocol handling and signal processing at a low-power level. The ASIC provides an 8-bit ADC to secure the integrity of the stimulation sub-system before activating, and a low speed load-shift keying RF-link to transfer protocol and measurement data to the external device.


BIM is highly acceptable in the current scenario to because of its versatility and carry a universal application for all projects. BIM is capable in handling obstacles and empowering the designers to reach the end goals.BIM has received a mixed response and many barriers to this innovation's universal appropriation have been found. However, there isn't a single barrier that might be removed entirely to enable more widespread BIM appropriation. A large number of crucial components of a good BIM selection are being impeded by these limits. BIM is a tool used to improve forms while keeping a certain target in mind; it is not an objective in and of itself. In the research paper, BIM is been implemented in a real-time construction project and this method of handling projects carry numerous advantages over traditional methods acting as a bridge between all the individual or group associated with the project. To make BIM more available to the AEC industry, the research attempts to create knowledge of the obstacles preventing its implementation. Key Word: B.I.M., Construction, Designing, A.E.C., Live Project, Analysis, Management.


This chorus, spoken by several cast members in Jacobs' poetic drama, symbolizes the feeling many women have of being &dquo;in the middle,&dquo; pushed and pulled by other persons and by their own divergent needs and dreams. The drama is a series of scenes in which women of diverse ages and backgrounds share their joys, sorrows, concerns, and dreams. The play deals with issues of loneliness, sexism, ageism, and personal relationships. The title derives from the children's game, with the women in the vignettes passing a button from one to the other as each shares her life experiences. &dquo;Since women represent a sizeable majority of the aging population, all issues of aging are intrinsically connected with women's issues&dquo; (Coyle, 1989). &dquo;As a personal experience, old age is as much a woman's concern as a man's-even more so, indeed, since women live longer&dquo; (De Beauvoir, 1973). Jacobs' play provides an insightful journey into those personal life experiences of women 20 to 80 years of age. Shared are the bitter memories of a woman whose husband deserted her for a younger woman; also shared are the rewarding life events of a very old


Objective: To construct the RNAi expression vectors of osvdac7 gene from rice,and to obtain transgenic plants which osvdac7was down- regulated expression. Method: RNAi expression vectors of osvdac7 gene were constructed with pMCG161 vector through the traditional digestion and ligation technology; The transgenic positive plants were obtained by Calli transformation method,and checked by real- time quantitative PCR( RT- PCR). Result: Two RNAi expression vectors of the osvdac7 gene were constructed successful,and twenty- one transgenic plants were obtained. Nine lines that the expression of osvdac7 gene was down- regulated. Conclusion: Nine transgenic plants with down- regulated expression of osvdac7 gene were obtained successfully. These laid the foundation for studies on biological function of osvdac gene family members in rice.


Switching between transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarization states in the output from a semiconductor laser is experimentally obtained through injection locking from an external TM polarized radiation. Switching, which is connected to the loss reduction of the TM modes caused by the injection‐locking mechanism, is faster than a few nanoseconds, the resolution limit of our apparatus.


Measurement of the parameters of EAS almost always requires repeated measurements of the densities of shower particles either at a single point, as in the determination of the density spectrum, or at many points simultaneously, as in the determination of the number spectrum. The apparent densities so obtained depend on the type of detector, on the energy and nature of the particles, and on the method of calibration.Calculations and experimental evaluation of apparent densities for different types of detectors are presented, and show, for example, that a cloud chamber and proportional counter sampling the same shower give apparent densities that differ by at least a factor of two. For plastic scintillators, the response depends on the thickness and on the energy of the incident particles.


With the advent of viewing services based on the Internet, the importance of object-based viewing services for interpreting objects existing in space and utilizing them as content is increasing. Since 2014, the Software Defined Media Consortium has been researching object-based media and Internet-based viewing spaces. This paper defineds a framework in event participants and professional recorders each freely share recorded data, and a third party can creates an application based on the data. This study aims to provide an SDM ontology-based contents management mechanism with a detailed description of the object-based audio and video data and the recording environment. The data can be shared via the Internet and is highly reusable. We implemented this management mechanism and have developed and validated applications that are capable of interactively playing 3D content from any viewpoints freely. CCS CONCEPTS • Applied computing → Document metadata; Sound and music computing; • Computer systems organization→ Special purpose systems;


This study seeks to investigate the factors that triggered ethnic politics during the Kogi state 2019 gubernatorial election in Lokoja Metropolisand how it undermined the electoral process during the Kogi state 2019 gubernatorial election. The study collected data from primary and secondary sources. This study used a sample of 400 people from the studys population of 137,301. Meanwhile, weighted mean was used to analyze the data collected. Besides, the alternative hypothesis which states that there is significant relationship between factors that promotes ethnic politics such as political marginalization and illiteracy, electorates value system, weak electoral laws and corruption and the Kogi state 2019 gubernatorial election in Lokoja Metropolis is accepted. Also, the alternative hypothesis which states that there is significant relationship between the ways ethnicity undermined the credibility of electoral process during the Kogi state 2019 gubernatorial election in Lokoja Metropolis is accepted. Lastly, media and civil society organizations should work closely to raise public awareness on the dangers inherent in ethnic politicsand advocate for accountability and transparency in the electoral processes in Nigeria.


Objective:To investigate the efficacy of Bushen Daozhuo Granule in treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia(BPH).Methods:One hundred and twenty cases of clinically diagnosed BPH patients were randomly assigned two groups.The control group received doxazosin(Cardura) 4mg,every night and the treatment group was given Bushen Daozhuo Granule(200mL each time,2 times every day),both for 4 weeks.Before and after the treatment,the international prostate symptoms score(IPSS),quality of life(QOL),Qmax,bladder residual urine volume(RU) and TCM syndrome score were obtained,and the total curative effect and the total effective rate of diseases and syndromes were calculated.Results:Compared with the control group,the detection index of IPSS,QOL,Qmax,RU were significantly improved in treatment group(P0.05).The total curative effect of TCM syndrome of the disease,and the total effective rate were improved in the treatment group,compared with the control group(P0.05).Conclusion:The Bushen Daozhuo Granule plays an important role in improving lower urinary tract symptoms and systemic symptoms of BPH.This provides a set of practical and effective treatment for clinical treatment of BPH.


(54) WETTING OF WATER REPELLENT SOIL BY (52) U.S. Cl. ....................... 516/203; 516/204:516/916: LOWHLB EO/PO BLOCK COPOLYMERS 516/920, 47/58.1 R; 47/58.1 SC AND ENHANCING SOLUBILITY OF SAME (58) Field of Classification Search ................. 516/204, 516/203,916,920; 47/58. 1 R, 58.1 SC (75) Inventors: Stanley J. Kostka, Cherry Hill, NJ (US); See application file for complete search history. Paul Thomas Bially, Sewell, NJ (US) (56) References Cited


The Students in China are used to listening passively in classroom,so it is difficulty to fit the active e-learning style. Depending on the work of the e-learning system for distance education of Tsinghua University,this article tries to design and develop a subsystem of intelligent evaluation,and find a way to facilitate and induce students' learning in online environment.


This paper studies the ideally dissociated gas flow in the boundary layer when the contour of the body within fluid is porous. Firstly, the momentum equation has been obtained from the corresponding starting boundary layer equations and the necessary set of porosity parameters has been introduced. Then, the boundary layer equations of the considered problem have been brought to a generalized form by means of transformations. The obtained equations have been numerically solved in a three- parametric approximation. A necessary program has been written to solve them. Based on the obtained solutions, conclusions concerning behaviour of certain boundary layer characteristics have been drawn. 1. STARTING EQUATIONS We have studied the ideally dissociated gas flow i.e. air in the case of the so-called frozen boundary layer, where the contour of the body within fluid is porous. The primary aim of this investigation is to obtain generalised boundary layer equations of the considered problem by means of generalised similarity method and to solve them. Furthermore, based on the obtained conclusions, we should see the influences of certain parameters on physical values and characteristics of the boundary layer. If we exclude the pressure from the equations of the laminar plane and steady boundary layer of the ideally dissociated gas (air) (2, 5), then the system of equations of the frozen boundary layer is:


Objective: This paper describes in detail the design of campus card system protection system based on encryption technology. Methods: The design and implementation of the server-side management-side management module, rights management module, communication module, and log management module are described in detail design, application of key technologies, and specific implementation aspects. RESULTS: A set of theory and design schemes for security fire prevention of campus card systems based on encryption technology was proposed. Conclusion: Applying the techniques proposed in this paper can effectively improve the level and level of security protection for campus card systems and provide support for information security protection.


The present invention relates to a high pulling rate sheet billet continuously-casting low-carbon crystallizer protective slag. Said protective slag is formed from the following ingredients: (by wt%) melting material 50-65%, lithium carbonate 1.2-3.6%, sodium carbonate 2.3-6.0%, fluorite is 3.0-6.9%, quartz sand 6.0-9.5%, satellite 7.0-10.0%, manganese ore powder 5.0-9.0%, ferrous and 1.0-3.5%, carbon blank 2.0-7.0% and bentonite 2.0-5.5%.


Text streams are becoming more and more ubiquitous, in the forms of news feeds, weblog archives and so on, which result in a large volume of data. An effective way to explore the semantic as well as temporal information in text streams is topic mining, which can further facilitate other knowledge discovery procedures. In many applications, we are facing multiple text streams which are related to each other and share common topics. The correlation among these streams can provide more meaningful and comprehensive clues for topic mining than those from each individual stream. However, it is nontrivial to explore the correlation with the existence of asynchronism among multiple streams, i.e. documents from different streams about the same topic may have different timestamps, which remains unsolved in the context of topic mining. In this paper, we formally address this problem and put forward a novel algorithm based on the generative topic model. Our algorithm consists of two alternate steps: the first step extracts common topics from multiple streams based on the adjusted timestamps by the second step; the second step adjusts the timestamps of the documents according to the time distribution of the discovered topics by the first step. We perform these two steps alternately and a monotone convergence of our objective function is guaranteed. The effectiveness and advantage of our approach were justified by extensive empirical studies on two real data sets consisting of six research paper streams and two news article streams, respectively.


thawing of relations with Iran between 2003 and 2006. Leturmy and Robin commence their volume with an introduction that adequately sets the scene for the subsequent technical papers. Eight of these are structurally focussed, with the last five being related to stratigraphic and petroleum geological issues. In a brief review, such as this, I have chosen to mention just a few of these papers. Hatzfeld et al. outline recent advances in understanding the kinematics of the Zagros Mountains by use of GPS and Quaternary geological features, notably with reference to the Kaizerun Fault Zone, showing that deformation includes both basement and cover sediments. Regard et al. detail the structural and stratigraphical lateral transition between the Zagros orogenic belt and the Makran accretionary prism/trench subduction zone complex. A right-lateral motion is identified in which the Makran is thrust over the Zagros, along a crustal plane that dips to the NE. Navabpour et al. outline the evidence for Mesozoic extensional brittle tectonics in Interior Fars, of particular relevance when combined with an appreciation of palaeogeographic evolution of the same interval. Aubourg et al. present new magnetic fabric data from the Fars province that relate to the Neogene compression of the Zagros margin. They identify, in addition to the Late Miocene– Pliocene event, an earlier Early Miocene age event where many structures were initiated. Emami et al. examine the regional structure of the Mountain Front Flexure in Lurestan, notably the S-shaped Pusht-e-Kuh Arc with constituent Anaran anticline and its subvertical forelimb. They identify a significant collapse of the anticline with development of deep and narrow half-graben within the fold belt system. Robin et al. focus on the Mesozoic deepwater carbonates from the southern Tethyan passive margin. This contains a detailed synthesis of data from radiolarian assemblages, in addition to comprehensive logging of outcrop stratigraphy and integration


ABSTRACT Objectives: To determine the (a) health status and caregiving appraisal and (b) influence of perceived burden on health and appraisal in a sample of caregivers helping service member/veterans (SMVs) following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods: Participants were caregivers (N = 283, female = 96.1%, 86.2% = spouse/partner) of SMVs who sustained a mild–severe or penetrating TBI. Participants completed the Caregiver Appraisal Scale (CAS) and the SF-36v2 Health Survey (SF-36v2). Participants were divided into three burden groups: high, neutral, and low. Results: Almost half the sample (48.8%) reported negative feelings on the CAS Perceived Burden scale. A substantial proportion had lower scores than a normative sample on four SF-36v2 physical health scales (35.1–64.5%) and four mental health scales (70.7–79.8%). A significant main effect was found across caregiver burden groups on three CAS scales (p = 0.010 to p < 0.001), two SF-36v2 component scores (all ps < 0.001), and eight SF-36v2 scales (p = 0.001 to p < 0.001). Caregivers with high perceived burden reported significantly worse scores, except CAS Caregiving Ideology. All CAS and SF-36v2 scales were significant predictors of CAS Perceived Burden scores (all ps< 0.001), with the SF-36v2 Social Functioning scale accounting for the most variance (32.6%). Conclusions: Health care and social services are needed for caregivers who help SMVs to foster resilience, wellness, and growth.


An intelligent deodorant system is provided to remove a bad smell and to purify an air effectively using the minimum quantity of deodorant by checking an extent of diffusion of various bad smells generated in an opened space. The intelligent deodorant system includes: an evaporation device part having a detecting device comprising plural bad smell sensors(50) for detecting a generation extent of a bad smell gas, a nozzle(95) for spraying a deodorant, control devices(60,70,80) for controlling an air flow rate and a spraying rate, and a control motor(90) for controlling a blowing direction; a deodorant supply part having a tank(32) with an ultrasonic sensor(20) for measuring the quantity of the deodorant, a pump(31) for supplying the deodorant to the spray nozzle, and a control device(30); a system monitoring device(10); and a remote manage device(110).


Magnetic islands sometimes play important roles in toroidal plasma confinement from a viewpoint of MHD stability. For example, a seed island triggers a NTM in Tokamaks. On the other hand, it is possible that the island flattens the pressure profile at the resonant surface, contributing to the stabilization of the pressuredriven resonant MHD mode .. In the LHD experiment, a seed island width changes larger or smaller. during the plasma discharge[1,2J, which is accompanied by the change of the perturbed magnetic field b" Because the magnetic diagnostics measuring the profile of the field (b,) originating from the island motion is an effective method to obtain its structure, a toroidal array of magnetic flux loops is set at the outer ports in LHD as shown in Fig.l. Each flux loop has total cross-sections of about NS=12m2, which leads to enough electromotive force voltage to detect the slow (few lOOms) and small (few Gauss) change of the magnetic field. The shapes of the flux loops at the toroidal angles ¢=-162, -54, 54, 90, and 162 are planar (solid line in Fig.1) that we use here. The detected magnetic fluxes IJ>Rs are normalized by the total cross section N S to b1 whose component is in the major radial direction. The 4-pairs of perturbation coils placed at the top and bottom of LHD around ¢=±90[degJ (bold line in Fig.I) produce a seed island with the structure of m/n=1/1 mode. The typical discharge with a seed island (11)~c""150[1ll1llJ) is shown ill Fig2 in which the island width 11) grows from 150 to 200[mmJ as shown in Fig.2(d). The magnetic field b, varies with time (Fig.2 (e)). The bl profiles are shown in Fig.3. At t=0.48[sJ, (w=wvoc ) the flux loops detect zero field b" At t=1.73[sJ, (w=200[mmJ) the finite field h, appears. The fitting :urve b, (¢) = bl~l cos(¢ ¢n~,) well expresses the b, profile which has the dominant toroidal mode n=L Here, br=l and 4>n=l are the maximum amplitude and its toroidal angle respectively. We carry out the magnetic diagnostics of non-rotational magnetic island in LHD. It is confirmed that the finite magnetic field appears with a change of the magnetic island width. References 1) K.Narihara et aI., Phys. Rev. Lett.87,135002 (2001) 2) N.Ohyabu et aI., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88,055005 (2002)


Autonomous robotic exploration of an unknown environment is a key technology for robot intelligence. In order to improve the efficiency of it, we propose a strategy based on frontier point optimization and multistep path planning in this paper. In the frontier points' optimization section, we present a random frontier points' optimization (RFPO) algorithm to select the frontier point with the highest evaluation value as the target frontier point. The evaluation function of frontier points is defined by considering information gain, navigation cost, and the precision of the localization of the robots. In the path planning section, we propose a multistep exploration strategy. Instead of planning the global path from the current position of the robot to the target frontier point directly, we set a local exploration path step size. When the robot's movement distance reaches the local exploration path step size, we reselect the current optimal frontier point for path planning to reduce the possibility that the robot may take some repetitive paths. Finally, the relevant experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of this strategy.


Background and Objectives: Increased frequency and intensity of drought events are predicted to occur throughout the world because of climate change. These extreme climate events result in higher tree mortality and fraction of dead woody components, phenomena that are currently being reported worldwide as critical indicators of the impacts of climate change on forest diversity and function. In this paper, we assess the accuracy and processing times of ten machine learning (ML) techniques, applied to multispectral unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data to detect dead canopy woody components. Materials and Methods: This work was conducted on five secondary dry forest plots located at the Santa Rosa National Park Environmental Monitoring Super Site, Costa Rica. Results: The coverage of dead woody components at the selected secondary dry forest plots was estimated to range from 4.8% to 16.1%, with no differences between the successional stages. Of the ten ML techniques, the support vector machine with radial kernel (SVMR) and random forests (RF) provided the highest accuracies (0.982 vs. 0.98, respectively). Of these two ML algorithms, the processing time of SVMR was longer than the processing time of RF (8735.64 s vs. 989 s). Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that it is feasible to detect and quantify dead woody components, such as dead stands and fallen trees, using a combination of high-resolution UAV data and ML algorithms. Using this technology, accuracy values higher than 95% were achieved. However, it is important to account for a series of factors, such as the optimization of the tuning parameters of the ML algorithms, the environmental conditions and the time of the UAV data acquisition.


Juvenile Daphnia pulex develop neck spines in response to a chemical agent released by predatory Chaoborus larvae. While these defensive structures reduce the vul- nerability of Daphnia to the insect predator, they also entail a demographic cost. We investigated the nature and degree of this cost through an analysis of cohort life tables involving both the typical morph (TM), which lacks neck spines, and spined morph (SM) at 22°C in two different food regimes: "natural" food conditions (53-,m filtered pond water) and "ideal" food conditions (1 x 105 cells/mL Chlamydomonas sp.). No consistent pattern of differences between TM and SM occurred with respect to survivorship, clutch sizes, body sizes, mean egg volume, or number of juvenile instars. Development rates of both juvenile and adult instars, however, were significantly slower in SM. The presence of neck spines increased the age at maturity for D. pulex by 8.4- 14.6%, and the duration of adult instars exposed to Chaoborus-factor, whose eggs will develop into SM, was 2.8% longer than for those not exposed. This caused delayed repro- duction in SM and resulted in a population growth rate (r) that was / 8-9% lower than in TM. This relatively large demographic cost of spine formation in D. pulex produces a strong selection pressure to forgo the formation of these spines when Chaoborus predators are absent.


A new variety, Geranium ocellatum var. albiflorum, is described here from Tehri district of Uttarakhand state, India. The new variety is readily distinguished from G. ocellatum var. ocellatum by its central white spot at the petal base, dichasial inflorescence and peduncle length. A detailed description, photographs and conservation status are provided for the new variety. A key to the varieties of G. ocellatum is also provided.


This paper presents two design methodologies for hardware/software (HW/SW) architectures. The first one uses High Level Synthesis (HLS) based on Catapult C Synthesis. From C++ descriptions, this design flow is able to automatically produce hardware blocks that can fully operate with CPU cores on Xilinx prototyping platforms (FPGA). The second methodology relies on a manual RTL (Register Transfer Level) design to produce potentially better optimized IPs. To evaluate the performance of each flow, an application/design study using both methodologies is made on an optimized deblocking filter function, which is part of a complete H.264/AVC video coding system. A tradeoff between design time and performance is presented and discussed with respect to both methodologies: The HLS design flow time is less than the half of manual design flow time. However, the application throughput, in term of kilosMacroblock per second, is more than three times speeder when using a manual design.


Column oriented database system re-examines how and when data is compressed. Column oriented database has become quite popular among relational database system because of its performance benefits. Column oriented database stores its data as a adjacent records thus it has the advantage in the area where combination of many separated units of queries requires large amount of data. They are more efficient for read-only query which requires accessing only the memory. This paper provides a detail description of compressing large sized data and storing in cloud using different compression and query execution techniques. In this paper, we compare the performance of row store based on different configurations with column stores and shows that row oriented database performance is quite slower. This paper then analyzes the performance difference and shows that there is a significant difference in storage level. This paper will discuss about efficiently extracting data stored in cloud for improving the performance of query execution. Finally this paper conveys the performance benefits and utilization of column oriented database in accessing and storing large database in cloud. Keywords— column oriented database, data compression, runlength encoding technique, null suppression.


As shown previously in adipocytes of hypophysectomized (hypox) rats, 3-O-methyl-glucose transport is already maximal in the basal state and insensitive to insulin. It is normalized by prolonged administration of GH to hypox rats. This study shows glucose transport in the presence and absence of phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors in the fat cells of normal and hypox rats. Enhanced glucose transport in insulin-stimulated normal fat cells as well as enhanced glucose transport in adipocytes of hypox rats is inhibited by PDE inhibitors. The low Km phosphodiesterase activity, which is known to be acutely stimulated by insulin in normal adipocytes, is found to be increased in the fat cells of hypox rats, and further stimulation by insulin is not possible. Normalization occurs after GH administration for 4 days. Then, the low Km PDE activity is again low and stimulated in the presence of insulin. The similarity between the behavior of the activity of the glucose carrier system and that of the low Km PDE suggests that both may be dependent on a GH-induced membrane factor which would be acutely inhibited by insulin.


Object tracking and motion estimation are key components in large number of applications, ranging from the navigation of autonomous vehicles to video data compression. This object tracking uses the motion estimation for continuous tracking of distinctive features in a successive manner. This helps to detect the motion of features used in computing to detect the exact or appropriate solution by optimizing the block size. To obtain the better prediction quality by using variable size motion estimation, proposed a block matching algorithm for motion estimation, object tracking, and video data compression.


We fabricated for the first time, extremely low-leakage TiN single metal gate complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (CMOSFETs) for low-standby-power application by utilizing plasma oxidation and plasma nitridation in gate dielectric formation. The drive current and the subthreshold leakage current of the pMOSFET at a power supply voltage of 1.2 V are 172 µA/µm and 2.3 pA/µm, respectively. The gate leakage current was successfully suppressed to below 1 pA/µm at Vg=-1.2 V.


This paper takes a circulating fluidized bed boiler with the capacity of 480 t/h in a power plant as the object. Based on the combustion adjustment experiments and particle size analysis of coal and fly ash,the factors are found influencing carbon contents in fly ash.The result shows that the coal particle size distribution deviates from the boiler design requirements because of the crushing and screening system,resulting in the carbon content increasing in the fly ash.A reconstruction of the crushing and screening system is suggested.And the range of operating parameters is given out to provide theoretical basis for the economical operation.


The damages produced by animal pests in different e cosystems of environment is essential, because they cause extensive losses ever y year. The irrational use of chemical pest control determined a new pest management broac h to study and use of some ecological control means in different agroecosystem s. Our aim was to study and use some ecological control methods based on indirect and di rect strategies: 1) the pest monitoring in orchard ecosystems and useful fauna identification (by visual control, manual collection direct with pincers, striking method – shaking down o a tarpaulin); 2) the use of some physico-mechanical (manual collection direct with pincers, striking method – shaking down on a tarpaulin; use of barriers – panels, vases, at tractant traps – alimentary, visual, reflective mulching), biological (the natural enemies conserva tion) and chemical methods with low level toxicity to control the pests from studied ec osystems. The experiences were carried out in 2006-2008 at Cluj-Napoca (Romania), in laboratory a nd some private gardens, at apple-tree, plum-tree and cherry-tree. 1) Concerning the indire ct strategies, after collecting and identification of biological materials, the harmful fauna proved to be very different, represented both by invertebrates and vertebrates, producing important damages; the useful fauna is represented both by predators and p arasites. 2) The direct strategies has aim the use of unpollutant, alternative methods in studied orchard ecosystems. The following materials has been used: a) reflective re pell nt for aphids micronized mica dust, which had a very good action, removing the pests fr om the host plants; b) coloured sticky panels in 7 variants (white, silver, light-green, e merald-green, light-blue, dark-blue, red) + control (yellow), which recorded a very good effi cacy at all variants, catching aphids, psyllids, adult flies, small beetles, wasps; c) yel low ceramic plates with water between the tree rows with a very good efficacy, the average ca ptures being of about 1000 aphids/vessel; d) vegetal and mineral repellents, selective for us eful fauna decoction of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium L.) for aphids and butterflies larvae, decoction of walnut tree ( Juglans regia L.) repellent for aphids, brew extract ( Urtica dioica L.) repellent for aphids; kaolinite against a large number of pests, making a delicate whitish film which sticks on insect bodies, removing them. All the variants recorded a good eff icacy removing the pests.


time perhaps more to the current author's liking, but still far from a judicious consideration of all issues that contributed to this sad chapter in our past. The author begins by stating that he will eschew hagiography and will speak unabashedly as a critic of what resulted from missionary interaction with native peoples. Well and good, but the broad connotation invested in the term "genocide" diffuses the book's impact rather than enhances it. Here the concept goes beyond conscious intention to eradicate an ethnic group; it expands comprehensively to include any act by anyone at anytime that might eventually turn out to have had a negative impact on a host culture. This inclusive definition makes it possible to condemn missionaries as guilty of complicity with what later evolved into the ruination of native cultures. Some readers will wonder if such facile accusations really help clarify complex issues. Perhaps it is necessary to use startling language and tendentious arguments to shake us out of our lethargy. We should be made to confront the ugly aspects of previous experience in order "to overcome that past and generate a constructive healing process, leading to a world of genuine, mutual, respect among peoples, communities, and nations" (p. ix). This book represents an honest historical perspective that deserves careful consideration. After absorbing its fervor, perhaps readers can then move forward to achieve a more balanced and judicious synthesis of viewpoints about our mottled past.


In this paper, collaboration between the Japanese scientific community and the EISCAT Scientific Association on the new Svalbard radar project is briefly discussed. Some of the important research topics we intend to pursue in conjunction with the Svalbard radar are summarized. They are: identification of the polar cusp region, solar wind control of the polar cusp, electrodynamics in the polar cusp and polar cap regions, contracted-oval substorms, and thermospheric dynamics at high latitudes.


This paper sets forth an analytical framework for studying the impact of infant and child mortality on fertility in India. Previous investigations in this area based largely on macro-level data have been inconclusive and controversial. The research design proposed here involves a cross-sectional retrospective study of the biological replacement and insurance effects of infant and child mortality of fertility. The study population is proposed to include a large number of currently married women ages 15-49 years in 2 communities that differ maximally in their level of infant mortality. Respondents in both communities should include those who experienced a loss of 1 or more child during their reproductive period and those who did not experience such loss. Hypotheses suggested for the micro-level analysis are: 1) the infant mortality-fertility relationship is stronger in a high mortality community; 2) a high mortality community promotes higher fertility among both couples who experience child loss and those who do not; 3) couples in both types of communities who experience child loss will have relatively higher fertility less use of contraception and larger desired family size; and 4) in a noncontracepting population in which breastfeeding is common women experiencing an infant death will have shorter next birth intervals than those who do not experience such loss. Hypotheses proposed for the macro level analysis are: 1)e fertility in a high mortality community is higher than that in a low mortality community among both couples who experience child loss and do not lose a child; and 2)) in both types of communnities the fertility of couples who experience child loss is higher compared to that of couples who do not experience this loss. Multiple classification analysis including number of births among currently married women at the survey point number of subsequent births among women of parity 3 or over with the 3rd birth at least 1 year before the interview the length of the birth interval among women of parity 2 or higger ever use of contraception and additional number of children desired as the dependent variables is recommended.


Abstract : Computer mapping is used here to effect the 'solution' to the problem of locating on the earth's surface those sets of antipodal points for which equal values occur for some function f and equal values occur for some function g when both of these functions may be regarded as continuous over a sphere. An existence theorem in mathematics (proposed by Ulam and proved by Borsuk) states that at least one such set of antipodal points must always exist. Geographers, naturally enough, are interested in finding the locations of such sets for pertinent real phenomena on the earth's surface.


Prominence variation is known to be determined in part by discourse factors, such as the givenness or newness of the discourse entity being realized to the discourse. However, few empirical studies have been carried out to explain a wider range of phenomena occurring in natural speech corpora. In this study, corpus linguistics methods are applied to a task-oriented monologue corpus to show that the given/new dichotomy does not explain the data at hand. Rather, there are marked linguistic con gurations in which discourse focusing status combines with other linguistic cues to meaning { such as grammatical function and form of referring expression { to convey subtle shades of given/new that can be captured by using a computational discourse model to de ne attentional focusing status.


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With the successful control of many of the most serious occupational hazards to health, the focus of occupational medicine in developed countries has shifted to other work related disorders that are rarely fatal but cause substantial disability. This paper hypothesises that many of these disorders do not arise from detectable organic pathology, but rather are a psychologically mediated response to triggering exposures that is conditioned by individual characteristics and cultural circumstances. If correct, this has important implications for the way in which such illness should be managed and prevented. Proposals are made for ways in which the hypothesis could be tested.

Occupational medicine first emerged as a specialist discipline in response to chemical, physical, and biological hazards that caused serious and often fatal disease. A framework was developed for the management of such hazards that entailed assessment of the relation between exposure and risk; reduction of exposure (by elimination of the noxious agent, improved engineering, modified systems of work or the use of personal protective equipment); and monitoring to check that controls on exposure were effective. This approach has been notably successful, preventing much avoidable morbidity and mortality. For example, in Britain, occupational diseases such as bladder cancer in the rubber industry (from exposure to 2-naphthylamine)1 and phossy jaw (caused by exposure to white phosphorus)2 have now been eliminated.

As many of the most serious occupational hazards have been successfully addressed, attention has shifted increasingly to other work related disorders which are rarely fatal, but which nevertheless give rise to widespread illness and disability, and account for substantial loss of time from work and demand for healthcare. Thus, when Harrington and Calvert conducted a survey of managers and occupational physicians in 1996, both professional groups identified musculoskeletal disorders and occupational stress as the two …


So infrequent is the occurrence of the genuine canalis craniopharyngeus medius in the adult human cranium (0-2 per cent. skulls), that any particular instance of such appears worthy of record, particularly when, as in the present case, concomitant departures from the normal are manifest elsewhere in the same subject. It is here not so much intended to review the literature of the craniopharyngeal canal, as to describe briefly a given example in man, and to augment our knowledge of its incidence in the anthropoid series.


Abstract A sensitive and rapid assay for the 6 thioguanine nucleotides (6TGN), major intracellular active metabolite of 6 Mercaptopurine, in human Red Biood Cells (RBCs) was developed. This assay is based on the hydrolysis of 6TGN to 6 Thioguanine (6TG) followed by a solid-phase extraction prior to HPLC analysis. A KROMASIL-C18 column was used to separate. Analytical recovery for 6TGN was 58 % (coefficient of variation 6 %). The limit of detection was 25 pmol per 8.108 RBCs The assay was linear within the range 25–1600 pmol per 8.10s RBCs. The advantage of this technique is that it does not require any toxic solvant. This assay may contribute to monitoring the patient's compliance in leukemic children undergoing 6 Mercaptopurine therapy.


In this paper, a 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a circular sedimentation tank is presented, where the interfacial momentum transfers, buoyant forces, and the effect of sediment-induced density currents were included in the model. A convection–dispersion equation governed the mass transfer in the clarifier, and the double-exponential law was used to describe the settling velocity dependence on the concentration. The predicted values in the radial and axial directions and the solids distribution were in satisfactory agreement with experimental results from Deininger. The results showed that the tangential velocity distribution was not uniform, and the surface return flow was identified. The turbulent kinetic energy was relatively large and decreased drastically in the inlet zone, whereas the turbulent kinetic energy was relatively small in the settling zone. A density current was also formed. Furthermore, the influence of the inlet baffle length and location on suspended solids settling is ...


This restriction unit (20) is provided with: at least one restriction aperture (24) through which deposition particles are made to pass; and a plurality of restriction parts (25) between which the at least one restriction aperture (24) is located. The restriction parts (25) each have a cross-sectional shape which is an inverted recess shape formed by a top wall (21) and aperture walls (23).


The high-spin cobalt(II) complex [Co(pfp)2(H2O)2]2–(pfp = perfluoropinacolato dianion) reacts reversibly with oxygen to give the ion [Co(pfp)(Hpfp)O2]–, isolated as a stable tetralkylammonium salt; no oxidation of the cobalt atom appears to have occurred, and it is thought that the oxygen is attached to the metal by π-bonding.


Suplja stena natural bridge is situated in eastern Serbia, in the valley of Prerast river, close to the town of Majdanpek. More precisely, it is located at about 1 km distance from an asphalt road and the mouth of the Prerast river into the Saska river. Natural bridge is formed in a 100 m wide stripe of Jurassic limestones, at the contact of carbonate and non-carbonate rocks. The opening below a thin rocky arch is 29-34 m high and 7-9 m wide at the base, while the arch itself is about 8 m thick, sheltering the riverbed at the length of 22 m. The natural bridge is protected as a geomorphological natural monument of national and European significance.


Abstract : The extreme temperature firing indicated that a band design and a method of molding have been achieved which produce a band that is retained in flight at all firing conditions. The rapid fire results showed that very satisfactory performance of the band is obtained even in a very hot gun. In chromium-plated barrels the nylon bands produce a spectacular increase in gun life. One barrel has been fired for over 2400 rounds on a severe schedule with practically no wear, while a similar barrel fired on the same schedule with gilding-metal bands was worn out after 1000 rounds. Unplated barrels also show an increase in life with nylon bands, but not to a similar extent. No evidence of band loss in rapid fire has been observed. Yaw performance in rapid fire has been in some cases inferior to that observed with gilding-metal bands, but none of these cases having occurred at less than 150 rounds of burst firing, they are not considered to be of importance in service use. The short-range dispersion obtained in rapid fire is generally comparable with that obtained with gilding-metal bands. In accuracy firing (slow fire in a Mann barrel) acceptable dispersion at long range is obtained. A report bearing on the storage life of nylon bands is in preparation.


The paper introduced a 30 -points of temperature monitor inspection used in grain depot. It has small, cheap, convenient and so practical, and manual method of instrument, the its manufacturing and calibration were fully detailed.


It is an accident of history – and of very mundane history at that – that the two articles that follow are able to be published in this issue of Cultural Studies. They are both reprints of mimeographed papers that had long sat forgotten on my bookshelves, and would still be there had I not, at the beginning of the year, set about clearing out my study in order to decorate it. And there they were, buried beneath a pile of Open University (OU) course texts, unloved and unread for far too long. For it was clear, on re-reading them, that they offer, in their informality, a distinctive insight into the quite different ways in which two of the key founding figures of cultural studies engaged with questions of the popular and popular culture at a particular historical moment. Both of the articles derive from seminar presentations that Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall gave at the Open University a month apart from one another: Williams in August 1978 and Hall in September. The seminars were ones I convened as part of the process of planning the OU's Popular Culture course, a course to which both Williams and Hall contributed, albeit in different capacities: Williams as the external assessor for the course, and Hall as a new member of the team responsible for producing the course. OU courses at that time were somewhat unique in both their form and the manner of their production. They comprised, in the case of the Popular Culture course, 32 weekly study guides, produced in glossy print format and posted direct to the thousand or so students who enrolled in the course for each of the ten years it was presented. These were accompanied by weekly broadcasts of television and radio programs, jointly produced by the OU and the BBC and transmitted by the latter, and three commercially published readers presenting the course's students with collections of essays on popular film and television (Bennett et al. 1981b), on key contemporary debates in cultural theory (Bennett et al. 1981a), and on different moments in the historical development of popular culture in Britain (Waites et al. 1982). There was, in addition, a one week's summer school focused on the seaside town Blackpool that had to be planned, prepared and run for all students enrolled in the course.


Bhāratanāt.yam is an ancestral classical Indian dance whose practice has nowadays spread to many countries. The dance is documen83 Research in Computing Science 114 (2016) pp. 83–96; rec. 2016-03-11; acc. 2016-05-15 ted in ancient texts and is very elaborated: there are around 12 types of items of dances, such as alarippus, padams, jatisvarams, or tilanas, more than a hundred of ad. avus (basic movements that in conjunction compound a dance), 10 man. d. alas (static positions), and 10 types of hastas (hand gestures); there are also other components as feet positions, and eyes movements, among others. Thus, this ancestral dance is complex because it incorporates many corporal aspects that should be dominated by the practitioner in order to perform a recital. The definition of a formal language will facilitate the documentation of this dance in a systematic way that will help to improve the teaching-learning process and also the development and communication among the community of its performers. The objective of this work was to define a basic formal language for Bhāratanāt.yam that could be processed automatically by a syntactic analyzer, in order to facilitate the process of learning and teaching this ancestral Indian dance. From all elements of the dance, a basic subset was selected to define a base lexicon. An augmented transition network (ATN) was built to defined a formal language that includes nine classes of terminal symbols (words categories) and seven classes of non-terminal symbols or sub-networks. The design of formal languages for ancient dances, and its correspondent grammar through ATN, is a didactical tool that facilitates the teaching-learning process, and also the documentation of complete dances that can be shared among the practitioners.


The dose effects of zopiclone on sleep were studied in 12 subjects. Subjects who complained of insomnia and had their complaint verified by nocturnal polysomnography were included in the study. Four consecutive nights of adaptation and screening, while on placebo, were followed by six 3‐night drug administration periods separated by a 4‐day placebo washout period spent at home. Each of the subjects received placebo, 2·5, 5·0, 7·5, 10·0 or 15·0 mg of zopiclone administered in a double‐blind, randomized, six‐way Latin square design. Zopiclone at all doses significantly increased total sleep time and decreased latencies to sleep compared to placebo dose. Dose differences were found for total sleep time and wake during sleep with 5·0 mg and larger doses differing from 2·5 mg. No further improvement was produced by doses greater than 5·0 mg. Sleep staging effects changed in a dose‐dependent fashion with the 7·5 mg and higher doses significantly different from both placebo and the 2·5 mg dose. In general, hypnotic effects leveled off at the 5 mg dose while sleep stage effects increased with higher doses.


Since water resources of desert Naein City are very limited, a approach which saves water resources and meanwhile meets the needs of the greenspace for water is to use city's sewage wastewater. Proper treatment of Naein's sewage up to the standards required for green space uses may solve some of the problems of green space development of the city. The present paper closely examines available statistics and information associated with city's sewage system, and determines complementary stages of sewage treatment facilities of the city. In the present paper, population, per capita water use, and required discharge for various greenspace pieces including different plants are calculated. Moreover, in order to facilitate the application of water resources, a Crude water distribution network apart from drinking water distribution network is designed, and a plan for mixing municipal wells' water with sewage wastewater in proposed mixing tanks is suggested. Hence, following greenspace irrigation reform and complementary plan, per capita greenspace of the city will be increased from current amount of 13.2 square meters to 32 square meters. Keywords—Sewage Treatment Facility, Wastewater, Greenspace, Distribution Network, Naein City


In the article the issue of bandy promotion is considered both in Russia and abroad, the methodology of training process is revealed including tactical and technical skills of conducting a play.


The structural, dielectric and piezoelectric properties of [Bi0.5(Na1-XKX)0.5]TiO3 ceramics were studied for the compositional range, X=0–1.0. The samples were prepared by a conventional sintering technique. From X-ray diffraction results, it was found that the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) between (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 (rhombohedral) and (Bi0.5K0.5)TiO3 (tetragonal) exists in the range of X=0.16–0.20. Polarization-Electric field hysteresis loops show that the remanent polarization at X=0.20 (BNTK20) is larger than that at X=0.0 (BNT). Peaks of electromechanical coupling factor, dielectric constant, piezoelectric constant and elastic compliance were obtained at X=0.16–0.20 of the MPB region. Dielectric and piezoelectric properties are enhanced in the MPB region for [Bi0.5(Na1-XKX)0.5]TiO3, similar to that observed for Pb(Zr, Ti)O3.


Encouraging expermnces gained from the Michigan Terminal System (MTS) are reported as a response to a recent survey of multiprocesslng orgamzatlons by Enslow [7] This paper discusses the importance of the degree of symmetry w]thm multiport system orgamzatlons, the ease of Implementation expermnced with the symmetmcally orgamzed operating system nucleus for MTS, throughput statistics for MTS which are better than those generally documented in the hterature, and underlying reasons that might account for the impressive statistics Since some of these results are at variance with the conventional wisdom concerning mult~processor systems, a strong recommendation is made for additional modeling and measurement analysis based upon these experiences.


The Dixon Entrance Quadrangle (1:250,000 scale, Alaska-Canada Topographic series) includes southern islands of Southeast Alaska as well as the northern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. The Alaska portion of the quadrangle was evaluated to identify and delineate environments favorable for uranium deposits using criteria developed for the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program. The evaluation is based on data from aerial and ground radiometric surveys, geochemical sampling, published geologic reports, and helicopter-supported surface reconnaissance. Bed rock is mostly masked by surficial cover, and detailed geologic maps are available for only a small part of the quadrangle. Known uranium deposits are associated with the Bokan Mountain peralkaline granite stock of Devonian age from which uranium and thorium ore have been produced and which is considered favorable for autometasomatic uranium deposits. Orthomagmatic, pegmatitic, magmatic-hydrothermal, and contact-metasomatic environments related to the Bokan Mountain granite are considered unfavorable because they do not appear to meet grade or tonnage criteria. Additional uranium occurrences and uranium radiometric and geochemical anomalies were discovered away from the Bokan Mountain granite, but none appeared related to granitic complexes similar to Bokan Mountain. No other geologic environments that meet favorability criteria for the occurrence of uranium depositsmore » were found by the reconnaissance-level field investigations conducted in the quadrangle. The Forrester Island US Wildlife Refuge was not evaluated.« less


16 Rationale Gallium-68 ( 68 Ga)-labelled Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) is often produced on-17 site, where usually a fixed amount of peptide is conjugated to the generator-eluate. However, fluctuations 18 in specific activity might influence tracer distribution and tumor accumulation. Therefore, our aim was to 19 investigate the potential effect of varying administered peptide amount on 68 Ga-PSMA-11 uptake in tumor 20 lesions using PET/CT in patients with primary prostate cancer (PCa). Additionally, the impact of tumor 21 lesion volume on this potential effect and on accumulation in reference organs was assessed. 22 Methods Imaging data of 362 men with primary PCa who received 68 Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT were 23 retrospectively included. Scan quantification was performed for normal tissue and primary tumor lesions. 24 Patients were divided into three groups based on their tumor lesion volume. Correlation and (multivariable) 25 linear regression analyses were performed. 26 Results Median index lesion volume was 9.50 mL (range 0.064–174 mL). Groups were based on quartiles 27 of prostatic lesion volume: ≤4.11 mL (group 1), 4.11–20.6 mL (group 2), and ≥20.6 mL (group 3). No 28 correlation was found between administered peptide amount and tumor uptake (SUV peak or SUV mean ) for all 29 groups, except for a significant correlation for SUV mean in the first group (p=0.008). Linear regression 30 analysis supported these findings. 31 Conclusion No evident effect was observed of administered peptide amount on 68 Ga-PSMA-11 uptake in 32 tumor lesions, except for a significant positive correlation between administered peptide amount and tumor 33 SUV mean for group 1. Findings imply that no receptor saturation occurs in men with primary PCa at peptide 34 levels of ~2.5 µg .


Finite-difference time-domain studies of a variety of cylinder arrays with nanometer-scale diameters (nanowires) interacting with light are presented. Scattering and absorption cross sections for metallic nanoscale objects can be obtained from such calculation. The method is verified by comparing the analytical results for cylindrical nanowires. Calculate the optical properties of Ag nanowires and study the explicit time-domain behavior of more cylinders.


As shown in Fig A, we collect filters in the last convolutional layer of VGG16 on ImageNet 2012 after network decoupling and present the results of the number of times they are activated. ImageNet 2012 contains 50,000 validation images, so the number of times each filter is activated falls in the interval [0, 50000]. The leftmost bar represents the number of filters that never been activated (i.e., silent filters), and the rightmost bar represents the number of filters that are activated every time (i.e., energetic filters). The middle bars represent the number of filters, which respond to specific inputs (i.e., dynamic filters). For instance, the rightmost bar represents that there are 60 filters, which are activated 50,000 times during evaluating on ImageNet 2012, in the last convolutional layer of


When hot and ductile rocks fail they do so with an astonishing variety. Observations from crustal deformation show that when the fluid content is low (less than a few per cent) they form the cores of anastomosing mylonitic shear zones, which feature strong gradients in grain size towards their metamorphic fluid rich centre (Fusseis et al., 2009). In circumstances where the fluid/melt content is high they form macroscopically visible ductile fractures (Weinberg and Regenauer-Lieb, 2010) which allow melt transfer into the shallower crust forming the feeder zone of granites. We show here that all of the above phenomena are new types of instabilities well known from high temperature deformation of ceramics, i.e. materials that otherwise show brittle cleavage at cold laboratory conditions. The new failure modes boil down to a series of microscopic processes, where upon increasing temperature and decreasing applied stress failure modes transition from brittle cleavage to transgranular and intergranular "creep fractures", summarized by Ashby's classical deformation mechanism maps (Ghandi and Ashby, 1979).

Although Material Scientists are well aware of these creep enhanced fracture modes we have been lacking concise evidence in the laboratory and field proving the existence of these failure transitions. As creep fracture processes are happening on relatively slow geodynamic time scales they have been argued to provide the critical mechanism linking plate tectonic processes and deep fluid transfer processes (Regenauer-Lieb, 1999). In these considerations fluids are viewed as creating their own pathways through facilitating shear localization by creep fractures, rather than being a passive constituent simply following brittle fractures that are generated inside a shear zone caused by other localization mechanisms.

Recently, the missing laboratory (Rybacki et al., 2008) and field evidence for creep fractures have been found (Fusseis et al., 2009). Ghost images of both creep fractures and brittle fractures can also be seen in OH diffusion profiles on grain boundaries (Sommer et al., 2008) and fully embedded intragranular cracks in mantle xenoliths (Sommer et al., 2012). In order to illustrate the fundamental implications for deep fluid transfer we extend classical solutions of material sciences to geodynamic conditions and incorporate melting reactions into the numerical formulation. We will show the implications to a number of applied field studies.


Main principles of quality management of innovative projects Are considered. Necessity of their development taking into account a tendency of development of conceptual approaches to quality management of innovative projects is shown.


The article presents specialized software methods for reducing stress concentration. Objects of study are cylindrical test specimens subjected to axial loading. Notching with different shapes and sizes on the specimens were formed to reduce the stresses in the endangered areas. The geometric parameters of notches identified through the specialized built-in modules to the ANSYS software. An analysis performed were to show the influence of stresses acting on the fatigue limit during different cycles. The results of the study were present in a graphical form.


We report on a lattice investigation of heavy quark diffusion within pure SU(3) plasma above the deconfinement transition, with the quarks treated to leadin g order in the heavy mass expansion. Using a multilevel algorithm, several volumes and lattice spacings, as well as tree-level improvement and perturbative renormalization, we measure the relevant "colour-electric" Euclidean correlator, finding that it clearly exceeds its perturbative co unterpart. Even without analytic continuation, this suggests that at temperatures just above the cri tical one, non-perturbative interactions felt by the heavy quarks are stronger than within the weak-coupling expansion. After introducing rough modelling of the spectral shape, diffusion coefficien ts down to D∼ 0.5/T appear possible.


The unique mechanical and electrical properties of carbon nanotubes represent a potential for developing a piezo-resistive strain sensor for smart structures. This study demonstrated a new processing technique of multi-walled carbon nanotube strain sensors with tunable strain gauge factors. A digital-controlled sprayingevaporation deposition process that uses a 12-array bubble jet nozzle attached to a digital x-y plotter combined with a heated substrate which induces evaporation of the solvent was developed. The experimental results showed that the prepared carbon nanotube strain sensors are capable of measuring strains through highly linear electrical resistance change. The fabricated sensors exhibit a high stretchability (in excess of 45%) and sensitivity with a highest gauge factor of 35.75. The gauge factors of the fabricated strain sensors could be easily tuned by controlling the number of printed layers of carbon nanotubes. The cyclic loadingunloading test results revealed that the strain sensors exhibited excellent long-term durability. These superior sensing capabilities of the fabricated CNT/Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) strain sensors offer them potential applications in wearable smart electronics and structural health monitoring.


Political communication is essential in a democratic polity. Nonetheless, a growing number of theoretical and empirical works are asking for a re-appraisal of democracy in a more realistic direction and challenge core assumptions of what political communication actually is. Proponents of realistic democratic theory have pointed out that the electorate often makes decisions based on flawed assumptions and that voters are unable to comprehend and process much of the political communication the electorate is exposed to.


At some point near the turn of the century social class displaced religion as the principal source of political conflict in England. The class interpretation of English voting contradicts another historical tradition, which treats religion, not social class, as the major force behind party affiliation in the period before World War I. This note uses aggregate data on political behavior in London to contribute to the debate on the relative importance of class and religion in English voting behavior from 1885 to 1910. The evidence presented here indicates that the role of social class has been overstated in recent historical research and, by implication, confirms the findings of those scholars who identify religion as the crucial determinant of party choice before the war.


Abstract : This study has revealed that a vehicle can be produced to meet all essential requirements specified in the QMR for a new 1/4-ton truck, with the exception of reliability. Reliability as stated in the QMR is unrealistically high and beyond the present state of the art. There will be some reduction of land mobility due to the floating capability requirements. The cost of the floatable vehicle would be higher than the desired target cost by 46%. An austere vehicle can be produced for the desired target cost of $1900, but this vehicle would not be the most effective vehicle for its initial and operational cost. The vehicle determined the most suitable by this study does not differ greatly from the present M151.


A repetition-rate electron beam pumped KrF laser amplifier is being built at the Electrotechnical Laboratory to develop the technologies required for an inertial confinement fusion energy driver. The pulsed power system of the prototype amplifier has already been competed and generates pulses of -300kV, 80ns with a repetition-rate of 1Hz. The high voltage electric short pulses are obtained by step-up pulse transformers, magnetic switches and a water dielectric pulse forming line instead of a conventional Marx generator with gap switches. One of the key technologies with this system is the cooling method of pressure and anode foils in a HIBACHI structure to increase those lifetimes. Our design adopts radiation and conduction as the main cooling processes and allows the foils to reach a high temperature. HAVAR and molybdenum are chosen as pressure and anode foil respectively instead of conventional titanium foils. The maximum temperature of the foils were numerically estimated to show the feasibility of the design.


The dynamic spectrum access (DSA) among multiple heterogeneous primary spectrum owners (POs) and secondary users (SUs) in recall-based cognitive radio networks is investigated in this paper. In our framework, SUs demand a different amount of spectrum for their transmissions. Each PO provides a portion of radio resources for leasing and also offers its own primary users (PUs) a certain degree of quality of service (QoS). Furthermore, POs are allowed to have different spectrum trading areas and as well as heterogeneous activities between POs' users. We propose a Two-stage resource allocation scheme with combinatorial Auction and Stackelberg Game in spectrum Sharing (TAGS) to deal with the allocation problem in such a complicated system. In the first stage, a spectrum allocation is decided by running a geographically restricted combinatorial auction without the consideration of spectrum recall. In the second stage, a Stackelberg game is formulated for all users to determine their best strategies with respect to the potential spectrum recall. Both theoretical and simulation results prove that TAGS provides a feasible solution for the problem and ensures the desired economic properties for all individuals.


In this paper,we mainly study some properties on relatively countable compactness.We give some characterizations of relatively countable compactness in terms of collections of subsets of X which are locally finite on X and investigate the relations between relatively countable compactness and relatively sequential compactness.