As the important vibration isolator used in suspension system,analyses of static and dynamic characteristics and matching of vibration isolate performance for hydrobushing are important in research and development.Based on fluid-structure interaction finite element method,FSI finite element model of hydrobushing is built.The static and dynamic simulation of the FSI model are conducted to validate the model.Based on the verified model,key parameters of hydrobushing are simulated.The parameters will provide guidance for the test and parametric analysis.Meantime,the method is used to verify the results of parametric analysis.


The theory of cancer stem cells(CSC) is a breakthrough in tumor basic and clinic research.It will certainly have great influences on the investigation of tumors formation,development and tumors diagnosis and treatment,which include lung cancer.The authors review the articles on cancer stem cells and lung cancer at home and abroad,in order to discuss the research progress of cancer stem cells on tumors,especially lung cancer.


This paper aims to study the using para-rubber plate for transferring the force on concrete specimens instead of capping with sulphur. Four formulas for mix design of para-rubber plate are setup. Each formula is mixed in two rolls mill machine and formed the para-rubber plate by Compression Molding. After obtaining the para-rubber plate specimens, the measuring of compression set, tensile strength, 7o sttain, tear strength, hardness of para-rubber plate are performed. Consequently, the para-rubber plates are taken into capping the concrete and tested the compressive strength. These results are compared to that with sulphur capping. From the results, it is found that adding carbon black over 60 phr affects to develop the hardness but the other properties are declined. In testing the compressive strength of concrete with para-rubber plate, it is found that the formula having the results close to that using of sulphur is the formula that using latex at 100 phr, carbon black (grade N330) at 100 phr and calcium carbonate at 50 phr. In this formula, the compressive strength is larger than using sulphur at7Vo. This indicates that there is possibility in developing the formula of para-rubber plate for capping material in the future


This paper is a case study in problem solving, representing part of a program of research on complex information-processing systems. We have specified a system for finding proofs of theorems in elementary symbolic logic, and by programming a computer to these specifications, have obtained empirical data on the problem-solving process in elementary logic. The program is called the Logic Theory Machine (LT); it was devised to learn how it is possible to solve difficult problems such as proving mathematical theorems, discovering scientific laws from data, playing chess, or understanding the meaning of English prose.


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US citizens who attend international medical schools (US IMGs) are more likely to be of Hispanic, Black American, or Asian descent compared to US medical students. As physicians, US IMGs contribute diversity to the health-care workforce; their experiences and perspectives have improved the health outcomes for populations typically underserved. To become a competent medical professional is a challenging experience, especially for IMGs who may have entered medical school with less than optimal academic histories. During this journey, some students develop academic and clinical deficiencies. Addressing these deficits through remediation interventions are critical to the student's performance as a physician. This study measured the resiliency, self-efficacy, and self-compassion of IMGs who completed remediation while in medical school. Results indicate older students experienced failure more often and were found to have significantly higher levels of self-compassion compared to younger students. Males were assigned significantly more remedial interventions compared to the female participants. Finally, strong positive correlations suggested that the more remediation interventions students were provided, the more likely they were satisfied with their overall remediation experience. These findings indicate that by varying support strategies and encouraging student's orientation to resiliency, self-efficacy, and self-compassion may assist them in overcoming their deficits.


The present article proposed an algorithm of Deep Learning for blueberry (Vaccinium Corymbosum) classification based on their quality characteristics. The problematic is the high export demand of the fruit in Peru and the lack of an automatic quality inspection in most of the small and medium business. The objective of this research is to achieve an accuracy greater than 90% in order to compete with the losses of the companies that uses manual inspection. Also, the processing time needs to be low so the program can be used in an industrial machine. For the developed of the network, an enclosure for image acquisition with indirect lighting and an inclination of 20 was designed. The images captured by a Raspberry Pi are analyzed by a convolutional neuron network (CNN) and according to the result a signal is sent to a PLC s7-1200 of a sorter machine in order to filter the non-exportable blueberries y pneumatic actuators. The results of the research indicate a validation accuracy of 95.64% and an average of 156.68ms of processing time.


Under the Bayesian Ying-Yang (BYY) harmony learning theory and system, we present an annealing approach to making parameter learning on Gaussian mixture with automated model selection. The annealing EM algorithm and its generalization have been derived and discussed. Moreover, several experiments have demonstrated that they are efficient to determine the number of clusters or Gaussians automatically during learning the parameters.


The systematic investigation on the piezoelectric properties of lanthanum-substituted lead zirconate titanate (PLZT) films was carried out. Polycrystalline PLZT films with La-contents of 0, 3, 6, 9 and 12 mol% were formed on Pt/Ti/Si0 2 /Si substrates at 700°C by chemical solution deposition (CSD). 111 preferred oriented PLZT films were directly grown on the substrates, and PZT seeding layers were introduced onto substrates for randomly oriented PLZT films. The longitudinal displacement curves were measured with D-E hysteresis loops simultaneously at ±300 kV/cm by AFM probing system. The maximum longitudinal displacements were attained at La content of 6 mol% in both orientations. The change in optical length induced by the longitudinal displacement was estimated to be from 0.2 to 0.4%. On the other hand, the shift in resonant wavelength induced by applying DC bias voltage is typically to be 0.5 to 1.0% in PLZT films. Therefore, we concluded that the influence of piezoelectric displacements on electrooptic effect is not small.


A mortise and tenon rotary type telescopic truncheon comprises a telescopically-connected truncheon pipe body, and is characterized in that the truncheon pipe body comprises a first pipe body and a second pipe body which are telescopically sleeved, the second pipe body is telescopically sleeved in the first pipe body, the front end portion of the inner wall of the first pipe body is provided witha locking groove, and the sleeved end portion of the second pipe body is arranged on an elastic mortise and tenon component matched with the locking groove. The mortise and tenon rotary type telescopic truncheon has rational structure design and can realize locking rollers through a metal mortise and tenon component, the structure components of the telescopic truncheon are few, the performance isstable and reliable, the manufacture is convenient, and the truncheon can eliminate various defects in existing resistance locking truncheons, and is an upgraded product for replacing existing resistance locking type telescopic truncheons.


AIM To investigate the effects of total flavones of metasequosia(TFM) on experimental cardiac hypertrophy and its mechanismMETHODS Volumeoverload cardiac hypertrophy of rats were induced by aortocaval shunts The rats were given ig TEM (400,40 and 4 mg·kg -1 ·d -1 ) for 5 wk after operationThe concentration of free calcium in the isolated ventrcular cells,the content of AngⅡ and MDA,and the activity of SOD were measured respectively RESULTS TFM reduced the radios of VW/BW and contents of RNA and protein in the myocardium, decreased the concentration of free calcium in the isolated ventrcular cells and the content of myocardial AngⅡ and MDA,increased the activity of SOD in dosedependent mannerCONCLUSION TFM can prevent volumeoverload induced cardiac hypertrophy in ratsThe effects may be related to its action of antagonizing RAS and oxidation and reducing Ca 2+ overload


Ultraviolet B (UV-B) exposure to skin causes photo-damage response and represents the primary etiological agent for skin photo-carcinogenesis. UV-B exposure induces DNA damage and apoptosis in epidermal cells and is the main factor that challenges skin homeostasis, promoting aging or even skin cancer through a variety of mechanisms that include the oxidative stress, i.e., accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) stress response that leads to unfolded protein response, engagement of DNA damage responses, extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling upon release of metalloproteases (MMPs) among many other molecular and cellular events that trigger the photo-damage. Autophagy, which is a cellular catabolic and energy conservation process, allows fundamental adaptations of cells to metabolic needs and stress through bulk degradation of damaged and worn out cells and cell organelles, toxic substances and metabolic intermediates. Cellular dysfunction is observed in aged tissues and senescent cells that undergo through stress response notably UV-B induced genotoxic stress. Conversely, promising anti-aging strategies aim at inhibiting the mTOR pathway and thereby activating autophagy to counteract aging associated damage has been found to significantly improve the aging related disorders. Recently, autophagy has been found to regulate skin homeostasis by positively regulating nucleotide excision repair through enhancing DNA damage recognition by the DNA damage sensor proteins XPC and DDB2 via different pathways. To investigate whether by improving cellular autophagy levels could alleviate skin photo-damage, promote cellular viability and decrease DNA damage response and by switching off autophagy response depriving skin cells of autophagy can affect the UV-B induced photo-damage. We found that improving autophagy with Rapamycin is essentially critical in regulation of UV-B mediated cellular stress by decreasing the formation of DNA photo adducts, improving the viability and decreasing the oxidative, ER stress and DNA damage response. Autophagy induction in cells prior to UV-B –irradiation prevents skin cell from nuclear damage as is evident from Tunnel assay and Acridine Orange and Ethidium Bromide (AO/EtBr) co-staining in microscopic studies. Increased autophagy levels also relieves oxidative stress mediated manifestation of ER stress response in HDFs. Relieving ER stress response with Salubrinal, (an eIf2α inhibitor) decreases DNA damage response in cells. P62 silenced cells show enhanced DNA damage response in both western blotting as well as in confocal microscopy analysis of key DNA damage response sensor protein pχH2AX by increasing its expression. ATG7 silenced HDFs revealed an unexpected consequence by decreasing the UV-B -induced DNA damage response compared to UV-B treated HDFs. Rapamycin treatment also decreases the expression of key DNA damage and cell cycle regulator proteins DDB2, P21, P27 in HDFs. Further, the tumor suppressor axis PTEN/pAKT was disturbed towards damage on UV-B irradiation in P62 silenced HDFs. Rapamycin restores the cellular PTEN levels whereas Chloroquine did the opposite in UV-B treated HDFs, indicating that increasing autophagy levels in skin cells enhances the tumor suppressive activity of PTEN towards protecting cells from radiation induced genotoxic stress response. Together, our results suggest that autophagy is essential in protecting skin cells from UV-B radiation -induced photo-damage and holds great promise in devising it as a suitable therapeutic strategy against photo-damage disorders. Highlights Autophagy is the immediate molecular event induced following UV-B exposure to primary HDFs Autophagy regulates oxidative, ER stress and DNA damage response in UV-B exposed primary HDFs Relieving ER stress response in UV-B exposed HDFs offers significant protection to HDFs from UV-B by decreasing the DNA damage Autophagy offers pro-survival capacity to HDFs under UV-B induced genotoxic stress Autophagy deprivation in HDFs with P62/ATG7 silencing potentiates UV-B -induced DNA damage response


The present paper aims to analyze and explore two Chinese versions of Pride and Prejudice in light of language expression,aesthetic standard and translation style,hoping to find out whether translators' feminist consciousness has an effect on translation process as well as the final makeup of translation,and to enrich the applications of feminist approach in translation studies in China.


Abstract Background COVID-19 measures affected the lives of many older adults. Yet, little is known on changes in health among older adults, especially in periods when COVID-19 measures relaxed. We aimed to assess changes in health of older adults during multiple turning points of the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyse differences in changes in health between subpopulations of older adults. Methods This longitudinal study includes data from Dutch older adults (≥65 years) participating in the Lifelines COVID-19 Cohort and consists of seven questionnaires administered every 2-4 months between May '20 and October '21. The outcomes were quality of life (n = 14,682), physical fitness (n = 14,761) and feelings of isolation (n = 14,611). Changes in health and differences between subpopulations were analysed by multivariable linear mixed-effects models. Fluctuations in COVID-19 measures were described by the Government Stringency Index. Results Changes in quality of life and feelings of isolation of older adults coincided with fluctuations in the stringency of COVID-19 measures. In periods when measures were tightened, quality of life and feelings of isolation decreased and when measures relaxed, they improved. For example, when measures relaxed after the first lockdown in May '20, quality of life improved with 0.23 [95%CI: 0.16, 0.29] (p<.001). For physical fitness, changes were characterised by a slight decline of 0.26 [95%CI: 0.15, 0.37] (p=.001) during the study period. Differences in subpopulations were found for feelings of isolation for which differences between men and women congregated after a longer period of relaxed measures with 0.59 [95%CI: 0.49, 0.69] (p<.001). Conclusions Quality of life and feelings of isolation among older adults recover after periods of stringent measures. For physical fitness, the slight but continuing decline suggests a negative impact of COVID-19 measures. Our findings might indicate the need for health policy strategies to mitigate this effect. Key messages • Changes in quality of life and feelings of isolation of older adults coincided with fluctuations in stringency of COVID-19 measures and display recovery after periods of stringent measures. • Changes in physical fitness were characterized by slight decline and did not recover after stringent measures, suggesting an impact of COVID-19 measures on physical health of older adults.


Pinch technology is developing and its application is widening, reaching new horizons. The original concepts of pinch approach were quite clear and, because of numerous ways, application engineer gets confused among these numerous flexibilities. Therefore, there is a need for a rigorous and robust model which could guide the optimisation engineer on deciding the applicability of the pinch approach and direct sequential step of procedure in predefined workflow, so that the precision of approach is ensured. Exploring the various options of a novice handson algorithm development that can be coded and interfaced with GUI and keeping in mind the difficulties faced by designers, an effort was made to formulate a new algorithm for the optimisation activity. As such, the work aims at easing out application hurdles and providing hands-on information to the developer for use during preparation of new application tools. This paper presents a new algorithm, the application which ensures the designer does not violate basic pinch rules. To achieve this, intermittent check gates are provided in the algorithm, which eliminate violation of predefined basic pinch rules, design philosophy, and Engineering Standards and ensure that constraints are adequately considered. On the other side, its sequential instruction to develop the pinch analysis and reiteration promises maximum energy recovery (MER).


Analyses of symbiotic bacterial communities in the plant pest Bemisia tabaci reveal high prevalence of Candidatus Hemipteriphilus asiaticus on the African continent Laurence Mouton, Helene Henri, Rahim Romba, Zainab Belgaidi, Olivier Gnankine, Fabrice Vavre (2022), bioRxiv, 2021.10.06.463217, ver. 3 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Zoology https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.06.463217


We consider the following boundary value problem where 1≤p≤n−1 is fixed. Criteria are developed for the existence of two positive solutions of the boundary value problem. For special cases we also establish upper and lower bounds for these positive solutions. Several examples are included to dwell upon the importance of the results obtained.


The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of polyherbal formulation Rumalaya Forte on experimentally induced insulin resistant myocardial infarction in rats. Materials and Methods: The effect of polyherbal formulation Rumalaya Forte (160 and 320 mg kg–1 b. wt., po) was studied on the high fat diet induced insulin resistant myocardial infarction animal model. Vitamin E (100 mg kg–1 b. wt., po) was used as standard. The study was evaluated with the help of various biochemical parameters and histopathological examination. Results: Results showed that the Rumalaya Forte treatment prevented myocardial infarction, increase in blood glucose level, body weight and weight gain due to antioxidant property and showed a significant dose dependent decrease in the parameters like alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, creatinine phosphokinase, total cholesterol, total triglycerides, weight and number of adipocytes and in infarction size. The histopathological examination also reveals the significant protection in the Rumalaya Forte treated group with a minimal or no red coloration in a dose dependent manner. Rumalaya Forte 160 mg kg–1 b. wt., po groups showed relatively less disruption of myofibers with Rumalaya Forte 320 mg kg–1 b. wt., po and vitamin E showing maximum fiber integrity. Rumalaya Forte 320 mg kg–1 b. wt., po was found to be more effective compared to Rumalaya Forte 160 mg kg–1 b. wt., po Conclusion: The pleiotropic effect of Rumalaya Forte can be utilized as add on therapy for treatment of myocardial infarction.


In recent times, distributed denial of service (DDoS) has been one of the most prevalent security threats in internet-enabled networks, with many internet of things (IoT) devices having been exploited to carry out attacks. Due to their inherent security flaws, the attacks seek to deplete the resources of the target network by flooding it with numerous spoofed requests from a distributed system. Research studies have demonstrated that a DDoS attack has a considerable impact on the target network resources and can result in an extended operational outage if not detected. The detection of DDoS attacks has been approached using a variety of methods. In this paper, a comprehensive survey of the methods used for DDoS attack detection on selected internet-enabled networks is presented. This survey aimed to provide a concise introductory reference for early researchers in the development and application of attack detection methodologies in IoT-based applications. Unlike other studies, a wide variety of methods, ranging from the traditional methods to machine and deep learning methods, were covered. These methods were classified based on their nature of operation, investigated as to their strengths and weaknesses, and then examined via several research studies which made use of each approach. In addition, attack scenarios and detection studies in emerging networks such as the internet of drones, routing protocol based IoT, and named data networking were also covered. Furthermore, technical challenges in each research study were identified. Finally, some remarks for enhancing the research studies were provided, and potential directions for future research were highlighted.


Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new network paradigm that changes network architecture. However, it turns out that the SDN network also has several issues, one of which is security. The higher the traffic on the network, the higher the possibility of security threats that will occur. Therefore, it is necessary to detect attacks that might occur on this SDN network. This study will detect attacks on the SDN network with the stages carried out, namely the process of building an SDN architecture using a mininet emulator, then network simulation according to the topology, retrieval of traffic data using wireshark and performing data analysis using the Weka application on the NSL KDD dataset. The results of this research found that a DDos attack a ping of death is an attack that sends messages continuously to the recipient, causing the computer to crash, then analysis of attack classification data is carried out using a dataset to compare machine learning algorithms that have high accuracy was Random Forests. The targeted output in this research is published in the Journal of Computing.


Once upon a time, at a race track far, far away, a young bank teller named Peregrine was spending a pleasant evening watching and wagering on the trotters. Though Peregrine was not a frequent spectator at the track, he did enjoy scanning his racing form and trying to devise profitable betting techniques. But, alas, his strategies were hardly of the creative (nor, sad to say, lucrative) sort, and by about the sixth race he always found himself throwing strategy to the wind and simply placing his bet on the horse which looked best to his untrained eye. And thus it was as Peregrine was walking down to the rail that he made his unexpected discovery. For there by the fence, though partially hidden by a shrub, lay an old weather-beaten cardboard box. Removing it from the shrub and brushing off the top, he saw the words 'Open here' printed with an arrow pointing off to the side. Peregrine was not one to disobey directions when they were clearly given, so he followed the arrow off to the side and carefully opened the box. Peregrine did not know what to expect, but this uncertainty on his part did not diminish his surprise at finding, under several layers of white tissue paper, an amazingly well-preserved straw hat. Peregrine gave a small laugh, but his mirth quickly dissipated, for on turning the hat around he found, hanging from the brim by a string, a tag with the simple but singular inscription, 'Wear me'. Peregrine looked puzzled for a moment. Then he smiled and said, 'Oh well, I will try anything once!' (This brave boast was of course untrue, for as we have said, Peregrine was a bank teller.) So, removing the tag and scanning the crowd to make sure that he was among strangers, he placed the hat on his head. Peregrine expected no results from this bit of whimsy on his part, and thus he found what happened next especially curious. The horses were warming up for the sixth race, and as they passed in front of him, Peregrine found himself staring intently at Number Six. Looking at his racing form, Peregrine discovered that Number Six was named Rocking-horse Winner, was six years old, and had never won a race. He looked at the tote board; the odds against Rocking-horse Winner were 66 to i. He looked at the horse again. And suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, he found himself saying to himself, 'That horse is going to win. I don't know why I think so, but I firmly believe it.' Peregrine was quite befuddled by this situation, for he was not accustomed to entertaining uninvited beliefs. Nevertheless, time was short. So


The UK Government's Levelling Up White Paper (HM Government, 2022) provides an analysis of the socioeconomic disparities across the UK. One of the four key prongs to their approach to reduce socioeconomic disparities is to boost productivity through the private sector, particularly in manufacturing. It acknowledges that better employment and higher incomes are necessary particularly across the north of England due to lower performance in median pay if the country is to find itself on better footing for a stable future in order to see 'the gap between the top performing and other areas closing' (p. ii). However, the narrow focus on improving productivity to achieve this through job creation and higher incomes is teleological, ignoring wider structural issues that lead to 'bad work' and further entrench inequalities. This article challenges the White Paper's claims of a clear and positive causal link between increased productivity in industries, particularly manufacturing, and increased pay and better jobs. This challenge is made with reference to other obstacles to improved jobs and better pay including a heavily deregulated labour market, poor and exploitative business practices and a lack of worker rights. This leads to a conclusion that productivity increases alone will not necessarily have a direct positive impact on job quality and pay without additional measures to tackle other causes of poor work and wage inequalities.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the addition of zeolite and Trichoderma S.p on the quality of organic fertilizer from chicken manure. This study used an experimental method with 4 treatments: P0, control treatment; P1, Fecal Fermentation (FF) with 5% zeolite; P2, FF with zeoilt 7.5%; P3, FF with 10% zeolite. Observational analysis was carried out at the Fertilizer Testing Laboratory of the Blitar Regency Agriculture Service which included parameters of C-organic levels, NPK levels. The results showed that the value of C-Organic and N,P,K levels of fermented fertilizer added with Zeolite still met the SNI threshold on the manufacture of organic fertilizer from poultry manure. The highest results were obtained in the P3 treatment with a higher organic C-value than the control P0 treatment. Meanwhile, the highest total N, P, K levels were the control treatment P0. Based on the results of observational data, research has shown that the addition of zeolite in the manufacture of organic fertilizer from chicken manure can increase the value of macro-nutrient content which can increase soil fertility and prevent soil degradation.


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In telepresence, it is critical for the local user to control the remote agent's movement through his own locomotion in order to ensure a high degree of realism. Since the local user's environment is normally different from that of the remote agent, there exists a motion mapping from the remote agent to the local user. After the path of the remote agent is predicted or recognized, it should be transformed to fit into the local environment, considering the constraints from the local environment, and ensuring utmost similarities in the shape and length of the paths. Moreover, terminal position of the local user in the local environment after a piece of known movement should also be carefully arranged after path transformation for his consecutive motions. These issues are incrementally addressed from the optimization point of view. Two schemes are proposed for path transformation problem. Extensive simulations and comparisons show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approaches.


This paper presents a deep analysis of different feed-forward (FF) techniques combined with two different proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control to guide a real piezoelectric actuator (PEA). These devices are well known for a non-linear effect called "hysteresis" which generates an undesirable performance during the device operation. First, the PEA was analysed under real experiments to determine the response with different frequencies and voltages. Secondly, a voltage and frequency inputs were chosen and a study of different control approaches was performed using a conventional PID in close-loop, adding a linear compensation and a FF with the same PID and an artificial neural network (ANN). Finally, the best result was contrasted with an adaptive PID which used a single neuron (SNPID) combined with Hebbs rule to update its parameters. Results were analysed in terms of guidance, error and control signal whereas the performance was evaluated with the integral of the absolute error (IAE). Experiments showed that the FF-ANN compensation combined with an SNPID was the most efficient.


Abstract : This report is based on data collected from 202 respondents. Since all AFSC 90430 personnel are students in Phase II training, only members with the 5-, 7-, and 9-skill levels were considered for the study. The 202 respondents constitute 87 percent of assigned AFSC 904X0 personnel holding the 5- through 9-skill levels. Topics emerging were: Career Ladder Structure, Career Ladder Progression, Specialty Descriptions, Training Analysis, Job Satisfaction, Special Issues, Implications. (EMK)


Cloud computing can manage various IT possessions and provide virtual scalable  services below its directness and virtualization features. Hence, cloud users can save massive capital investments in their own organization by deploying or utilizing these IT services through cloud. Due to the openness and virtualization, numerous malicious facility providers may exist in these cloud environments, and some of them may save service data from a client and then together deduce the client's private information without authorization. So from the perspective of cloud clients, it is essential to take assured technical actions to protect their privacy at client side. Noise complication is a real approach in this regard by utilizing noise data. For example, noise service requests can be created and injected into real client service requests so that malicious service providers would not be able to differentiate which requests are actual ones if these requests occurrence probabilities are about the similar, and consequently connected client privacy can be protected. Existing typical noise generation strategies have not considered possible variations of incidence probabilities. In this scenario, the probability fluctuation could not be hidden by usual noise generation strategies, and it is a serious risk for the client's privacy. To address this probability variation privacy risk and methodically develop a novel time series pattern based noise generation strategy for privacy protection on cloud.


Field testing of the portfolio model in selected career and technology education (C&TE) programs and support documents was conducted during the 1995-96 school year. The model was used by 16 child care and early childhood professions teachers and 4 horticultural science teachers in Texas with 366 students. The teachers, who received training in authentic assessment, acted as coaches, facilitators, and advisors in the portfolio process. The portfolio evaluation for the child care field test consisted of scoring sheets and rubrics for portfolio documents; rating or score sheets; letter grades and self-evaluation; and a holistic approach to evaluate the entire portfolio. The general response of students to the portfolio was positive. Students' intended purpose for the portfolios included three uses: employment, personal use, and college credit with child care directors, parents, and college scholarship and articulation boards as audiences. Two assessment instruments were created and used for evaluation of the horticulture field test: a telephone survey of teachers and a questionnaire and student evaluation form. Teachers' evaluations of the portfolios were very positive. Students felt the purpose of the portfolios was to represent themselves and get a grade and named the teacher as the primary audience. (Appendixes to the 19-page report include a list of 34 references; correspondence; evaluation forms; examples of child care portfolio items; and the article, "Using Portfolios to Assess Student Performance.") (YLB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Authentic Assessment for Occupational Competency for Career and Technology Education FINAL REPORT YEAR THREE Ginny Felstehausen. Project Co-Director Home Economics Education Sue Couch, Project Co-Director Home Economics Education David Lawyer, Project Co-Director Agricultural Education & Communication Susan W. Bolen, Graduate Research Assistant Home Economics Education Brent McDonald, Graduate Research Assistant Agricultural Education & Communication Home Economics Education and Agricultural Education & Communication Texas Tech University in cooperation with Texas Education Agency


This papers discusses the New Testament studies in Africa, unlike those in an Anglo-American setting, tend not to stand on their own 'African biblical studies is one strand in the closely woven cord that is African Theology. The separation of biblical studies from other theological disciplines, so common elsewhere, does not happen in African biblical studies.


Objective:To explore the changing trend of physical growth of children in Panyu district,compare their nutritional status.Methods: 2 608 healthly children were divided into 22 groups according to sex(boy and girl) and age(0~7 years) by random cluster sampling.Results:In the past 20 years,the five indicators constantly increased.Physical development and growth of children had significant difference between urban-rural,sex and the north-south regional,and the difference was obvious before 2 years old,then decreased after 3 years old gradually.Conclusion:The physical growth of children in Panyu district is in line with the development of natural,the status of growth and nutrition improves than the last decade,but the feeding situation before 2 years old needs further improvement,nutrition education should also be strengthened.


A defining aspect of the large strain, fully developed plastic flow regime, or "critical state", for granular materials undergoing localized failure is the continual growth of new force chains amidst collapse by buckling of old force chains in the persistent shear band. This paper explores the constitutive response inside shear bands, in particular, the birth-death evolution of force chains for a Cosserat medium, whereby closure relationships for stresses and couple stresses satisfy the isostatic condition, albeit in a spatiotemporal average sense only. The continuum stress-equilibrium relations comprise a hyperbolic system of partial differential equations giving rise to characteristic lines referred to in the literature as stress chains.


Target audience Those who are engaged or interested in the field of localized magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and expect an ultrafast acquisition of high-resolution localized magnetic resonance spectra under inhomogeneous magnetic fields are target readers. Purpose In vivo localized two-dimensional (2D) MRS, which is employed to alleviate the problem of low spectral resolution of one-dimensional (1D) by spreading resonances over a 2D plane, arguably constitutes one of important techniques for noninvasive analysis of tissue metabolites [1]. However, the applications of conventional 2D spectroscopy are restrained due to the following two aspects: first, long acquisition time is evitable to ensure the resolution due to the long magnetization recovery time between the repeated excitations with different indirect dimension evolution times; second, high-resolution spectra cannot be obtained under inhomogeneous magnetic fields. Thereby, a pulse sequence addressed as asymmetrical gradient based single-scan spatiotemporal localized correlated spectroscopy (AGE-SEL-COSY), within which the encoding and decoding is carried out under asymmetry gradient, was performed to obtain high-resolution 2D correlated spectra under inhomogeneous magnetic fields within a single scan in less than one second. Method Spatiotemporal encoding technique proposed by Frydman et al constitutes a solution to the time expense of conventional multi-dimensional experiments by compressing the 2D experiment into a single-scan [2]. Adiabatic chirp π pulses are employed for encoding and an echo planar spectroscopic imaging module is utilized to repeatedly read out the encoded information. In original spatiotemporal encoding localized 2D correlated spectroscopy (SLCOSY) [3], the encoding and decoding module are implemented in the presence of bipolar gradients with the same intensity. The direct dimension of SLCOSY is immune to linear field inhomogeneity along the Z direction by shifting the echo positions in k-space during data post-processing. This manipulation may be difficult when dealing with large linear inhomogeneity along Z axis or just fail when dealing with inhomogeneity along X and Y axes. Therefore, AGE-SEL-COSY (Fig.1) sequence is developed, within which the encoding/decoding gradients are set asymmetrically and additional asymmetrical gradients along X and Y axes are employed to obtain robustness against linear inhomogeneity along X, Y and Z axes, namely 3D linear inhomogeneity. All experiments were performed on an 11.7 T Varian NMR System (Varian, Palo Alto, CA) under the temperature of 296 K. The proposed AGE-SEL-COSY was tested on two different types of samples, including chemical solution and biological tissue to demonstrate its performance under inhomogeneity. For comparison, spectra by conventional 2D COSY were required with each costing 35 minutes. The 2D spectra acquired by AGE-SEL-COSY were recorded in a single-scan, costing less than a second. The raw data were saved and processed using home-made software based on MATLAB. All 2D spectra are displayed in magnitude mode. Results and discussion The results of experiments on ethyl 3-bromopropionate and propionic acid were demonstrated in Fig. 2. It can be seen that the conventional 2D COSY has better performance under homogeneous field. When dealing with 3D linear inhomogeneity, it broadens obviously along both dimensions from 4.9 Hz and 11.0 Hz to 554.2 Hz and 562.7 Hz in direct and indirect dimensions, respectively. As a comparison, the AGE-SEL-COSY spectra under homogeneous and 3D linear inhomogeneity are almost identical, suggesting its robustness against 3D linear inhomogeneity. The results of experiments on pig marrow tissue were presented in Fig. 3. From the partial accumulative projections of the 2D spectra, it can be seen that the resolution is improved from 147.4 and 150.0 Hz to 58.2 and 69.0 Hz, respectively, in direct and indirect dimensions. As an additional proof, the cross peaks in Fig. 2(b) are clearer than those in Fig. 2(a), suggesting an easier assignment. The results demonstrate the feasibility of AGE-SEL-COSY to obtain high-resolution 2D spectra in the presence of 3D linear inhomogeneity. Conclusion From the experimental results, AGE-SEL-COSY is capable to perform well under 3D linearly inhomogeneous magnetic fields. Also, it takes only a single-scan to obtain a 2D correlated spectrum, forming an acute comparison to a conventional 2D COSY costing thirty minutes. The single-scan nature of AGE-SEL-COSY can be valuable for alleviating motion artifacts in in vivo experiments. Before applications to in-vivo systems, some improvements enhancing the SNR and ironing out the inhomogeneity apart from linear parts can be helpful. The AGE-SEL-COSY offers perspectives to obtain high-resolution correlated spectra of in-vivo systems under inhomogeneous magnetic fields within greatly reduced time. Acknowledgments This work was partially supported by the NNSF of China under Grants 11105114, 11174239 and 11375147, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 2010121010. References [1] M.A. Thomas, et al. Localized two-dimensional shift correlated MR spectroscopy of human brain. Magn. Reson. Med. 58-67 (2001). [2] L. Frydman, et al. The acquisition of multidimensional NMR spectra within a single scan. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 15858-15862 (2002). [3] Y.Q. Lin, et al. Ultrafast localized two-dimensional magnetic resonance correlated spectroscopy via spatially encoded technique. Magn. Reson. Med. DOI 10.1002/mrm.24731 (2013). Fig. 1 sequence of asymmetrical gradient based spatiotemporal


This paper describes the current hospital information management to face the challenges put forward in the new situation response:① strengthen the modern concept of a new information management;② improve information management and services of the new model;③ improve the overall quality of personnel;④ tracking information New scientific progress.For the provision of hospital information management experience.


This CD Rom training package provides a new format for developing the knowledge and skills required for effective anti-racist social work practice. The CD is laid out in sequence: Introduction, Racism, Issues of Racism in Social Work and Case Studies. The CD does not have to be used sequentially, however, and I suspect that some users will go straight to the case studies out of interest and because they want to grapple with real issues. The CD addresses anti-racist social work at several levels. It provides an introduction to postwar immigration and the subsequent emerging racism in British society from the 1950s onwards and an overview and introduction to literature and early postwar research into white reactions to the immigration of black people into the UK. This part of the CD examines race and racism in relation to social work practice with the elderly, disabled, mentally ill and children and families. There are segments covering consciousness raising, theoretical issues, reflecting on actions and on analyses of various components of racism and anti-racist social work practice. The knowledge-based sections are well presented, easily accessible and provide a good introduction to relevant issues. The research presented is Sheila Patterson's early 1950s work and a follow-up study carried out in 1963 into immigration and its social manifestations. These studies provide an interesting historical, social context for understanding racism and therefore contemporary anti-racist social work. The format does not lend itself readily to an in-depth analysis of race and racism but the referencing is excellent and enables the user to access relevant written material for further study. The primary aim, however, is to provide an anti-racist practice learning tool for social workers. This is achieved through the use of two types of interactive format. The CD literally comes to life in the two interactive segments. One is on


We review and synthesize the research literature examining group affect and its consequences, focusing on groups who interact together to accomplish a task. We use a definition of group affect that incorporates the mutual influence of a group's affective context and affective composition (the amalgamation of group members' state and trait affect). Our focus is on the influence of group affect on individual members' behaviors and attitudes and on group-level outcomes. We call for more research in this area, including the study of more specific discrete group emotions and a broadening of the types of groups studied in this research area.


Objectives: Cuban medical solidarity was analyzed through the Comprehensive Health Program as a modality for international cooperation as well as its origin, evolution and development through time. Method: A retrospective longitudinal descriptive observational study of Comprehensive Health Program from its start in 1998 to 2010 was conducted. Results: A classification by stages was established by means of the systematization of a group of experiences and events that evidenced its favourable evolution. The leading role of the political and philosophical thought of Commander-inChief Fidel Castro in the design, evolution and development of the program was demonstrated.Conclusions: The value of the formation of health professionals together with Cuban Medical Brigades was evidenced as a sustainability in the work carried out, premise that was stated from its conception, its significance in the opening and development of new cooperation projects in these countries such as the Operation Miracle, the Study of Disability, the Specialized Care Program Barrio Adentro and new cooperation strategies.


The planar process Si detector is a kind of new type charged particles detector with fineproperties, it is possibly made X-ray detector suitable to the practical applications. In order to re-search into this possibility, detector temperature properties must be studied. In the paper experi-ment apparatus is introduced, temperature properties of the planar process Si detector are moresystematically measured, the temperature range is from -20℃ to +50℃. The results are pre-liminarily analyzed.


The game is an important tool that provides motivation for the individual at almost any age while entertaining it, as well as providing achievements to the individual and socially. The use of this tool as an educational tool or material can help increase the success of learning-teaching processes.  For this reason, the aim of this research was to develop a measurement tool that could be used to efficiently collect data or diagnose the preparation, planning, implementation, and evaluation processes of education and training processes. The sample size of this study, in which the validity and reliability of the scale were carried out, consists of 677 people who have different levels of learning. In this study, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin, Barlett's Sphericity Test, Explanatory Factor Analysis, Cronbach's Alpha, substance total correlation, and Confirmatory Factor Analysis were performed to ensure the validity and reliability of the game and educational material use scale.  At the end of these statistical operations, GaEMUS consisted of 22 items. An Exploratory Factor Analysis was performed on this structural condition. It was determined that the scale provided a four-factor scale structure: The Cognitive Process Dimension, The Psychological Dimension, The Psychomotor Development Dimension, and The Social Dimension.


A 20-day-old boy weighing 2.7 kg presented with tachypnea and cyanosis. Radiography (Figure 1) and echocardiography suggested obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. There was a gradient of 19mm Hg at the level of the superior vena cava and azygous vein junction and 4mm Hg at the patent foramen ovale. Emergency repair was undertaken. After opening the pericardium, the vertical vein was looped. There was a supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with a vertical vein draining into the azygous vein and an aneurysmal superior vena cava of 4–5-cm in diameter (Figure 2). Under cardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegic arrest, the heart was deflected in the right pleural cavity and the left atrium was opened. A secundum atrial septal defect was closed directly. The common pulmonary venous chamber was anastomosed to the left atrium. After coming off bypass, the vertical vein was ligated. The superior vena cava came down to almost half of its original size. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged in a stable condition. Funding


As a rising high-tech industry,the software industry occupies a quite important position in the course of promoting China's information.Henan has both advantages and disadvantages in developing software industry.To bring the advantaages into full play,to overcome the unfavourable situation,and to make the development strategy of Henan's software industry will be of great importane for promoting the optimization and upgrade of Henan's industrial structure.


Application ofhigh performance anion chromatographij (HPAEC) to distillers worts was ableto resolveaseries ofindividualfractions (A, B, C, D, EandF)whicheluted between a(l-4) lineardextrins (DP4-7)andwhich were ubiquitous in worts. Their positions in the chromatogram andtheir behavioursuggested that they might be aCl-6) brancheddextrins. Twoofthesefractions (Cand D) were purified and shown to be a(l-6) branched dextrins by treatment with an a(l-6)debranching enzyme (pullulanase). Further characterisation by HPAEC and Matrix AssistedDesorption lonisation/Time of Flight (MALD1-TOF) mass spectrometry revealed that theunknownfractions, Cand D, were a(l-6) branched dextrins consisting of6 and 7 glucose unitsrespectively. Possible structures were suggestedfor these twofractions and it ivas shown thatthey were comprised of maltosyl and maltotriosyl branches attached by a(l-6) links tomaltotriose, maltotetraose and maltopentaose. The behaviour ofthese dextrins was studied inthe context ofthe Scotch whisky process under both laboratory and production conditions andthey werefound to be importantsubstratesfor the debranchingenzyme, limit dextrinase, duringfermentation. The study of these dextrins provided a useful tool for monitoring the effects of


The new concept of combustion control by the plasma swirler is presented.The plasma swirler with multiple staggered electrodes can be placed at the expansion section or the nozzle exit section of a combustor.The plasma swirler can enhance combustion stability by ionizing the air to produce active free radical and enhancing the air swirling.In the experiments,the flame response to the plasma swirler is examined with OH distribution by planar laser induced fluorescence system.The experimental results show that the flame reaction zone is broadened with the increase of the plasma exciting power,demonstrating that combustion is more sufficient and stable.The design of plasma swirler is feasible.Moreover,the advantages of the plasma swirler are presented,and the characteristics of the flow field with the plasma exciting are analyzed by numerical simulation.Generally,mechanisms of the plasma swirler combustion control are summarized as swirl effect,chemical effect and thermal effect.


A healthy society is one where members make efforts to work together as people from diverse backgrounds towards achieving society's goals. Although this seems to be a difficult task, some societies have made, and continue to make conscious efforts to achieve this purpose by enacting laws that prohibit discrimination based on disability, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and colour. This article examines the perceptions and conceptualisations of disabilities as portrayed in the Bakossi and isiXhosa oral traditions of Cameroon and South Africa respectively. The article argues that the oral traditions of these communities are heavily loaded with images that highlight stereotypical notions that these societies hold towards disabled persons. The images reveal that these categories of people are the most stigmatised, prejudiced and marginalised. In other words, people with disabilities have been pushed to the margins of society, and face socially-constructed barriers that prevent them from fully participating in many domains of society's mainstream activities. Undertaken against the background of the sociological and psychoanalytic theories, the study concludes by recommending that inasmuch as disabled people are recognised as existing among the Bakossi and amaXhosa, they should be wholly integrated into their respective societies and treated like other members of the society; as some of them have hidden potentials that can be exploited to salvage society from various trials and tribulations.Â


Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) is now recognized as a very useful technique for estimating acoustic velocity with a good time resolution in many applications. Previous research showed that the most important parameter in LDV for acoustics is the particle displacement and particularly its magnitude compared with the size of the probe volume formed by the crossing of the laser beams. Specific techniques were developed to estimate the acoustic wave when the displacement is of the same order of magnitude as the probe diameter and when it is much smaller. In this study, we investigate situations where the displacement is much higher than the probe volume. The measuring process has been simulated numerically and it appears that the process leads to an under‐estimation of the velocity around zero. This under‐estimation is due to the processing of the laser Doppler signal in the case of high displacements. The associated signal is a non poissonnian randomly sampled signal to which classical processing methods ar...


The coating of TiC onto steel substrates in chloride based salt baths under the protection of an argon atmosphere were carried out. Influence of the processing conditions on the coated layer has been analyzed. By menas of metallography and x ray diffraction, the structure and properties of the TiC coating were identified.


Given a set of facilities F and a query point q, a k-farthest neighbor (kFN) query returns the k farthest facilities f1,f1,⋯,fk from q. This study considers the moving k-farthest neighbor (MkFN) query that constantly retrieves the k facilities farthest from a moving query point q in a road network. The main challenge in processing MkFN queries in road networks is avoiding the repeated retrieval of candidate facilities as the query point arbitrarily moves along the road network. To this end, this study proposes a moving farthest search algorithm (MOFA) to compute valid segments for the query segment in which the query point is located. Each valid segment has the same k facilities farthest from the query locations in the valid segment. Therefore, MOFA retrieves candidate facilities only once for the query segment and computes valid segments using these candidate facilities, thereby avoiding the repeated retrieval of candidate facilities when the query point moves. An empirical study using real-world road networks demonstrates the superiority and scalability of MOFA compared to a conventional solution.


An aging in hydrocarbon fluids (the transformer oil and diesel fuel) of cables with sheaths produced of polymers having different resistance to swelling and using different extruders has been carried out. While the aging resistance of cables is mainly determined by the resistance of its polymer sheath to the swelling, it is shown that the cable resistance to aging in hydrocarbons can be significantly increased by using of twin extruder to produce a two-layer sheath in one operation. This way of sheathing is proposed to increase the oil resistance of cables.


The consequences of an ageing workforce are magnified in the public sector because it generally has an older demographic profile than the private sector (OECD, 2006). The challenge of attracting and retaining capacity within the public service as large numbers of experienced public servants retire is set to be a growing concern in many OECD countries. This report looks at the degree to which pension reform may be assisting in meeting this challenge....


Formed in 2010, Positive Now is a group of diverse people living with HIV who are working to build and enable an all-Ireland network of people living with HIV, and to ensure that the voices of HIV positive people are represented at all levels. We endeavour to constantly challenge HIV related stigma and discrimination.


Objectives: This work has as main objective to find out how the use of personal data can assist in the promotion of public policies to combat Covid-19 without disrespecting the General Law for the Protection of Personal Data To this end, the article was divided into 3 parts: a) concept of sensitive personal data and other terms related to it, as well as the scope of its protection by said Law;b) analysis of the normative panorama about data related to health in Brazil;c) advantages and precautions regarding the use of personal data for the elaboration of public policies in the fight against covid-19 Methodology: the work is the result of a bibliographic review using the dialectic method, which made it possible to check the compatibility between the concepts provided for in the legislation and its applicability within the scope of public policies to combat the coronavirus Results: the research demonstrated that the use of personal data, especially sensitive data, has been an important tool for the promotion of public policies to deal with the pandemic, but caution and compliance with data protection laws is necessary in order to respect privacy and other personality rights of the people involved Contributions: the theme is important both for the area of law, especially personality rights and medical law, as well as for scholars in the area of public policies in the area of health, as it demonstrates how to reconcile the issue of the use of sensitive personal data for the promotion of public policies to combat Covid-19 © 2020, Centro Universitario Curitiba - UNICURITIBA All rights reserved


At the end of my second quarter as a SIO Ph.D. student, I realized I still had no concept of what a dissertation actually is. How do the demands of a dissertation compare to what I have accomplished in the past? Is it conceivable? Am I capable? How long do dissertations tend to be? How many chapters are they supposed to have? How big are these chapters? How are they related? Are they related? How many pages, words, figures, or references are we talking about here? What the hell have I gotten myself into?


OBJECTIVE To analyze the application of ultrasound imaging positioning-guided internal jugular vein catheterization and the infection rate after the catheterization.METHODS A total of 360 patients who intended the internal jugular vein catheterization were randomly divided into the ultrasound group(using ultrasonic positioning to guide surgery and catheterization,under the guidance of ultrasound imaging in real time) and the control group(using conventional straight look punctures for catheterization).RESULTS The ultrasound group had a high success rate of one time puncture.The puncture time in the ultrasound group was significantly shorter than that in the control group,and the incidence of postoperative infections was significantly lower than that of the control group;the number of the patients with positive secretions cultured at the exit of long-time indwelling jugular vein catheters were as follows:7(3.9%)cases of catheterization infections in the ultrasound group,20(11.1%)cases of catheterization infections in the control group,the difference between the two groups was statistically significant(P0.01).CONCLUSION Simple and safe is the ultrasound imaging positioning-guided puncture for the internal jugular vein catheterization,and it has a high success rate of one time puncture with less concurrent infections,and it can extend the use of internal jugular vein catheter,reduce the use of antibiotics and shorten the duration of the puncture,therefore,it has important clinical practical value,especially for those patients who face the puncture difficulties.


Pregnancy-related venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains one of the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality, the incidence of which peaks in the post-partum period. From the time of discharge from midwifery services at around 2 weeks post delivery until the postnatal check by the GP at 6–8 weeks, VTE remains a significant risk. During this period, although the health visitor may be the only health-care professional to have contact with families, they currently have no training in VTE or VTE risk assessment, and early recognition of symptoms is not currently part of their role. Using a case study to demonstrate the potential need for targeted service provision for families living with pregnancy-related VTE, this paper analyses its impact on women and families. It explores the introduction of VTE education, risk assessment and early recognition to the health visiting agenda in line with other professional groups to improve physiological and psychosocial outcomes for affected families.


Analysis of Coleoptera fragments from a woody peat overlain by alluvial sands, near the margin of Minesing Swamp, records the adjustment of the beetle fauna to climatic change at the time of the sp...


The article is a theoretical review that explores the potential of educational stylistics as a field of research, from two perspectives: 1) with the analysis...


To evaluate the effects of shearing and Ralgro® implants on the performance of fast-gaining feedlot lambs during the summer, 84 group-fed crossbred wether lambs (34.8 ± 1.8 kg) were shorn on day 0 of the feeding period (ES), shorn 3 wk later (LS), or left unshorn (NS), and either implanted with 12 mg Ralgro on day 0 (R) or not implanted (C). Lambs were blocked by initial weight. Heavy and light pens of lambs were shipped to market when the average weight within a pen was 52 kg after 40 and 55 d, respectively. Between days 0 and 40, mean average daily gain (ADG) of all lambs was 384 g and feed conversion was 4.38 kg dry matter kg−1 gain. During the first 40 d of the feeding period, shearing did not affect ADG (P > 0.05), but ES lambs had higher feed intake and poorer feed conversion than NS lambs (P < 0.05). Performance of the LS lambs was similar to the NS lambs prior to shearing, and similar to the ES lambs after shearing. A delay period between implantation and growth response was observed. Ralgro did n...


The connotation of city symbolic image was redefined.Based on the comparison,the main shortages of Yibin's city symbolic image were listed and analyzed.The specific countermeasures for promoting the city's background image and symbolic image were put forward,so as to provide reference for establishment of Yibin City's symbolic image and development of export-oriented economy.


An aesthetic experience consists of bright, emotional, and sensually expressive perceptions accompanied by experiences and their expressions. These expressive forms and sides of subjects and the phenomena of reality are accompanied by bright images, experiences and are shown in appearance, psychophysics and motility of an individual, in his aesthetic consciousness and behavior. A person's experience undergo processing, changes, generalizations, shift, hypertrophy or reduction of features and details, depending on personal tastes and preferences, age, person's vital aesthetic experience and a physical condition. The features of an aesthetic experience characteristic are dynamics and its ability to be easily recalled in memory and in a sensual aesthetic and art conscience. Person gains his own aesthetic, cultural and artistic experience, that is received and interpreted individually. It can be realized, classified and analyzed, becoming a base for the further cultural person model cultivation. An aesthetic person's experience becomes a basis for the man further general development. Aesthetic culture can be characterized as an ability to feel one's world connectivity, to factually experience, to express the fullness, profundity and verity of these relations. Aesthetic culture is the measure of human quality and ability integration creating the character base.


Wutong River irrigation water article generalized system simulation,through the water balance equation of water on the elements of different frequencies were calculated,and the irrigation water were analyzed and surface water irrigation in different years,the joint use of groundwater for irrigation program.


In 2011, ISECG released the Global Exploration Roadmap (GER), advancing the "Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination" by articulating the perspectives of participating agencies on exploration goals and objectives, mission scenarios, and coordination of exploration preparatory activities. The GER featured a stepwise development and demonstration of capabilities ultimately required for human exploration of Mars. In 2013 the GER was updated to reflect the ongoing evolution of agency's exploration policies and plans, informed by individual agency and coordinated analysis activities that are relevant to various elements of the GER framework as well as coordinated stakeholder engagement activities. For this release of version 2 of the GER in the mid 2013 timeframe, a modified mission scenario is presented, more firmly reflecting the importance of a stepwise evolution of critical capabilities provided by multiple partners necessary for executing increasingly complex missions to multiple destinations and leading to human exploration of Mars. This paper will describe the updated mission scenario, the changes since the release of version 1, the mission themes incorporated into the scenario, and risk reduction for Mars missions provided by exploration at various destinations.


Flip chip packaging was developed nearly 50 years ago by IBM for the purposes of improved reliability and automated semiconductor assembly. For the first 35 years the use of flip chip technology was limited to a few large IDMs and automotive companies. Beginning fifteen years ago, companies providing flip chip bumping services were established. The primary reason for adoption of flip chip in the 1990s was to enable higher I/O count chips and to improve the power and ground distribution through the use of area array interconnects. Beginning in the early 2000s high speed serial links and other I/O with fast edge rates required the use of flip chip interconnects to improve signal propagation. In the future a greater percentage of devices will utilize flip chip interconnects as these chip requirements continue to drive increased demand. Future challenges include the requirements for better power and ground distribution, finer pitch interconnects and higher I/O count devices while protecting the every more fra...


Impact of blood pressure on dimple on chin was the objective of this study. Normal pressure of blood is crucial to life. Without the power that controls our blood to stream around the circulatory structure, no oxygen passed on through our tissues and organs. High pressure of blood also causes distinct syndromes. An estimate of 189 subjects partook in this survey. Subjects were undergraduate students in Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. Blood pressure was also examined by device. It was concluded from the survey that there was impact of systolic pressure of blood but there was no impact of diastolic pressure of blood on chin dimple.


In current analysis, A numerical approach for magnetohydrodynamics Stagnation point flow of Micropolar fluid due to a vertical stretching Surface is reported. The impact of buoyancy forces is considered. In additions the effects of the thermal radiation and thermal conductivity with
 non-zero mass flux have been analyzed. we implement the dimensionless variable technique and the systems of coupled non-linear PDEs are transformed into ODEs by using the appropriate similarity technique. Moreover, by using package ND-Solve on Mathematica problem is numerically integrated
 with the help of shooting technique. Numerical approach for magnetohydrodynamics Stagnation point flow of thermal Radiative Micropolar fluid due to a vertical stretching Surface. The impact of thermophoresis and Brownian motion are considered. We implement the dimensionless variable technique
 and the systems of coupled non-linear PDEs are transformed into ODEs by using the appropriate similarity technique. To observe the influence of the physical parameters, graphically valuations are performed for numerous emerging parameters like Brownian motion, mixed convection parameters,
 thermophoresis diffusion, Hartman number, Radiation parameter, Prandtl number, Stretching parameter and other dimension less parameters. These several protuberant parameters of interest are engaged for velocity, temperature and nonlinear micro rotation profile and studied in detail.


Malaysia aims to reduce CO2 emissions intensity by up to 45% by 2030 based on its 2005 levels. This paper presents an analysis on optimal CO2 emissions reduction in Malaysian road transport sector using a linear programming CO2 minimisation model. Sensitivity analysis was also applied to investigate the effects of mitigation measures such as low carbon fuels, fuel efficiency improvement, travel demand management, and integrated mitigation strategies on CO2 emissions. The results demonstrated that the optimal CO2 emissions in the road transport sector could be reduced by only 2.8% (1.14 Mtons CO2) in a year. However, a reduction of up to 40% (16.44 Mtons CO2) could be achieved if integrated mitigation measures were implemented. Moving forward, Malaysia should intensify the ongoing efforts and promote fuel efficiency and green investment to achieve the intended CO2 emissions reduction.


Abstract In 1972 the Japanese composer, Makoto Shinohara wrote "Tayutai" (Fluctuations) for koto, percussion instruments and voice. This text contains a detailed analysis based on the hypothesis that three approaches have been neatly synthesized in the work: the application of traditional Japanese techniques, the influence of Darmstadt‐like serial developments as well as a purely experimental approach.


1 Game Theoretic Controller Synthesis To guarantee that a safety speciication is met despite the action of the disturbances we cast the design problem as a zero sum dynamic game. The two players in the game are the control u and the disturbance d and they compete over cost a function that encodes the safety speciication. We seek the best possible control action and the worst possible disturbance. Note that if the speciications can be met for this pair then they can also be met for any other choice of the disturbance. Consider a controller synthesis problem (H; 2F). The game can be cast in the standard min-max setting by introducing a cost function induced by the discrete metric. The discrete metric is simply a map m : 1 if (q 1 ; x 1) 6 = (q 2 ; x 2) It is easy to check that m satisses the axioms of a metric. The metric induces a map on subsets of Q X by deening:


Background and Purpose: Pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM) is an anomaly with an extramural location of the union between the bile duct and the pancreatic duct system in the duodenum, and is probably caused by disarrangement of the embryonic connection between the two duct systems that presents varied clini- cal manifestations. The aim of this study was to analyze and categorize various patterns of connection between the two duct systems in PBM patients in order to improve the precision of the diagnosis of PBM and to establish safe surgical procedures to treat it. Materials and Methods: We made group classifications of the patterns of connection between the two duct systems in 226 PBM patients based on radiologic or/and anatomical examinations. Results: The 226 cases of PBM were divided into three groups: Group A, 2 patients with a complicated con- nection pattern, Group B, 176 patients with a notch or a small duct segment distal to the terminal bile duct, Group C, 48 patients without a notch or the segment at the terminal bile duct. Conclusion: In Group A, the terminal bile duct was probably connected to one of the multi-branched main ducts of the ventral pancreas, while in Group B, it was probably connected to a second branch of the ventral pancreas, and in Group C, directly to the main pancreatic duct.


The deterioration behavior of concrete specimens partially exposed to Na2SO4 and MgSO4 solutions was analyzed by using environmental scanning electron microscopy,energy dispersive spectrometer and X-ray diffraction as well.The effect of concrete carbonation on the "sulfate salt weathering on concrete" was investigated.The results show that the ettringite and gyp-sum crystals formed in the interfacial transition zone cause the concrete damage.Na2SO4 crystals could be identified in the carbonate concrete.


Relatives and patients should be considered partners in the management of schizophrenia, but this is often forgotten in clinical drug trials. We measured self-reported psychologic well-being in 90 schizophrenic outpatients and their relatives (n=51) by using the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-53) in the context of a clinical drug trial. The relatives participated by meeting a community psychiatric nurse three times during 12 weeks. Psychologic distress decreased significantly in the patients and relatives. The outcome of the patients was independent of both drug efficacy and relatives' participation. The participation of relatives in drug trials for chronic schizophrenic outpatients seems to be beneficial by improving their psychologic well-being. We suggest that relatives should be invited to join the drug trials of schizophrenic patients. The intervention described here is easy to use and integrate into clinical practice.


According to the literature review and systematic analysis, with the research methodology and analytical framework of the competitiveness, with the hospital actual situation, the paper established a set of targeted, scientific and systematic evaluation index system. The paper built 9 level-rate units and 9 level variable-into-tree models based on the sub-index of hospital competitiveness evaluation index system and standardized modeling method—in-trees archetype generating set method. At the same time the paper qualitatively analyzed feedback dynamics complex relationship between all indexes, constructed some typical feedback archetypes and proposed targeted countermeasures.


This paper discusses the high accident rates on National Highway (NH) sections in the Nashik District of India; it includes a route map. There are 236km of National Highways in Nashik, only 1.84% of its total road length, but 52.76% of the total accidents of the district during 1981-90 occurred there. The paper discusses: (1) the spatial trends of accidents on NH 3 and NH 50, both of which pass through Nashik; (2) the results of a traffic census on important roads in Nashik for 1981-90; (3) observations on the NH 50; (4) the time distribution of accidents on the National Highways; (5) the seasonal trend of fatal, serious, and minor accidents on the National Highways; (6) analysis of accidents for different categories of roads; (7) observations of the physical features and road conditions of different sections of NH 3 and NH 50; and (8) the accident environments on the NH 3 and NH 50. The results of the study emphasise that the main safety initiatives on Indian National Highways should be specific very local improvements of accident black spots, correction of short geometric curves, provision of paved shoulders, increase of sight distance, removal of roadside hazards, flattening sides and slopes, and placing guard rails on high embankment and bridge approaches.


Two-point MMPI code-types of drug abusers in a psychiatric, residential, drug-free therapeutic community were obtained to identify the most frequent two-point codes of drug abusers and see if a large proportion of the protocols could be classified into a small number of two-point codes. Responses indicated that the 48/84 and 49/94 codes were most frequent, and 80.6% of the MMPI protocols could be classified into only seven two-point codes, 48/84, 49/94, 24/42, 89/98, 46/64, 78/87 and 28/82.


It is commonly assumed that the quality of the tourist experience decreases with increasing numbers. This asumption is correct when the tourist experience is seen in romantic terms, but there are other kinds of experience that are not vulnerable to increasing numbers. Examples are given from different tourist sites: mountains, green belt, stately homes and parkland, beaches, seaside towns and villages, primitive cultures, historic towns and capital cities. Tourist sites should not be publicized in self-destructive terms. Nor is the fashionable policy of dispersing tourists into more and more nodes a long-term answer to visitor pressure; alternatives exist and should be encouraged.


With the development of the computer technology and the Internet, the component model of software, which is platformneutral and languageneutral, has been playing an important role in the Internet applications. The Simple Object Access Protocol(SOAP)combines the proven Web technology of HTTP with the flexibility and extensibility of XML and facilitates interoperability among a wide range of programs and platforms. All the applications based on SOAP should be developed upon the SOAP application server. The SOAP application server is designed and complemented in the paper.


We thank Omar et al. for their interest in our article entitled ''Ethical Perspectives on Living Donor Organ Transplantation in Asia.'' We are aware that there is no legal compensated living donation in Sweden. With respect to their article ''Compensated Living Kidney Donation: A Plea for Pragmatism,'' to which we referred in our article, we agree that they discussed a proposed scheme of compensated kidney donation as a way of addressing the current kidney shortage because true altruism in living organ donation is usually unsuccessful. As such, we stated that some believe that a regulated market is an ethical vehicle for shortening waiting lists and decreasing illegal organ sales. However, when we added ''this concept forms the basis for compensated living donation in Sweden,'' we did not mean to imply that compensated living donation is actually happening in Sweden. What we wished to convey is the possibility of implementing compensated living donation in Sweden because altruism only in living kidney donation is generally an unsuccessful doctrine in increasing organ donation and just compensation may gain public support and increase living donation. Some European countries share this view, and this position has been voiced by other authors. Again, just compensation is an ethical question. Allan M. Concejero, M.D. Chao-Long Chen, M.D. Chang Gung Memorial Hospital–Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan


The aim of this paper is to analyze the issue of income convergence for Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain (PIIGS), towards France.The empirical analysis uses per capita GDP, in PPP and 2005 constant prices and covers the period from 1950 up to the recent pre-crisis year of 2009. The methodology applied uses non-stationary panel unit root tests both without as well as with structural breaks endogenously determined.The results clearly demonstrate the gain in power from combining structural breaks with panel data. Our findings provide evidence in favor of convergence for all the five countries with France.


Building the socialist harmonious society is a general trend of Chinese social development.The core of building the service-oriented government is to set up a stable,scientific,and standardized political and administrative system.Administrative functions should put their emphasis on offering good public services.Their implemental approaches should include the following aspects: establishing a decision-making and evaluation mechanism of public service with public participation;putting the quality of public service into the index system of performance evaluation of leading officials;introducing market competitive mechanism into the supply of public service;NGOs playing an active role in public service;and finally,setting up an interactive and cooperative mechanism among government,NGOs and the public.


Abstract The Zambelli photovoltaic pumping station supplies drinking water to the Lessinia mountain area near Verona. The specific design of this stand alone plant is characterized by direct connection, i.e. without intermediate battery storage, between PV-generator and the variable frequency inverters powering two asynchrone motored piston pumps. Completely automatic operation, including maximum power tracking, is assured by a process controller providing also data monitoring of the system, of which first operating data are presented.


In the present paper we give the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for the variational or Henstock vector integrals K R R αdf and K R R dα f of multidimensional Banach space-valued functions.


To detect HPA‐15 alloantibodies, we previously developed a human platelet antigen 15 (HPA‐15)‐expressing cell line‐based modified rapid monoclonal antibody immobilization of platelet antigen (CL‐MR‐MAIPA) assay. In this study, the protocol was modified for easier performance by introducing the mixed‐passive haemagglutination (MPHA) principle.


The coordination is ability that constituting of basic movement and movementfundamental to various skill of athletic branch. It is require to be taught early possibly thatis since children age. Because learning coordination after passing childhood will get ofmany constraints for learner. Almost all children age there are at formal education level ofelementary school. The goal of physical education at elementary school ought to orientedfor enrichment various skill of all motor determined by ability of coordination. There areseven factors which determined coordination ability, that is: ability to (1) link, (2) differentiate,(3) balance, (4) adapt, (5) find and maintain rhythm, (6) react, and (7) change.Students of elementary school grouped become two groups, first, low group studentconsisting of class of I, II, and III, and second, upper group student consisting of class ofIV, V, and VI. Low group student is play group situation, so that is the best time to putdown base skill of motion. The upper group student is the best time to develop variousskills of athletics. All of the students at elementary school are potential for multi lateraltraining, and construction of various athletic skills.The items of coordination ability consist of recognition of feeling to object, controlling toobject, balance, reacting, and accuracy to object. The principle of study coordination atelementary school were started from easy to difficult, from simple to complex, from lightto heavy. That is needed teacher creativity to create a model of coordination learning. Itcould be exploit the environment as a media and a source of learning. Kata Kunci: Pembelajaran, Koordinasi, Siswa Sekolah dasar.


Sulfate reduction rates of the sedkment at the depth of 0-5cm were measured for 15 month from September, 1984 to November 1985 in eutrophicated blackish Lake Nakanoumi, Japan.The sulfate reduction rates were usually high at the surface sediment and decreased with increased depth. The average sulfate reduction rate of the sediment (0-3cm) at the central position (St.4) and heavily ponuted area Yonago Bay (St.11) was 53.8±25.0 and 104.4±72.1 nmol day-1 ml-1, annual estimated decomposition rate of organic matter was 14.2 and 27.4 g-cm-2, respectively.


An ultrasonic motor using flexible transmission line with oblique slits driven by a Langevin transducer was investigated. The maximum rotation speed of 182 r.p.m., the maximum torque of 0.086 mNm and the maximum driving efficiency of 0.083 % were obtained.


Recent writing on American slavery asserts that the slaves of the Old South possessed a distinctive culture which, to a large (but indeterminate) extent protected them from the dehumanizing effects of servitude. This expressive and dynamic folk culture drew part of its form and much of its content and function from Africa, but evolved into a syncretic Afro-American creation. Scholars such as Eugene Genovese, John Blassingame, Leslie Howard Owens and Nathan Huggins have argued for the centrality of religious beliefs and practices in the slave community. Rather belatedly, given the earlier impressive work of musicologists, folklorists and sociologists, these (and other) historians of slavery have given some consideration to the derivation, form and meanings of the religious songs of the slaves the spirituals.1 The purpose here is to examine some of the varying estimates of these songs as advanced over several generations. Such an exegesis should indicate the contours of a body of literature which current slavery historiography is reviving and refining. It should also suggest the value and limitations of these songs as source material for assessing black responses to slavery.


Objective:To investigate the therapeutic effect and safety of Busheng-Huoxue capsules(capsules with the effect of nourishing kidney and invigorating blood circulation according to TCM theory——editor's note) on osteoporosis pain of aged male patients.Methods:The diagnosed osteoporosis patients were randomly divided into two groups:33 patients in the control group[mean age(83.61±7.9) years],and 33 patients in the test group[mean age(82.15±8.2)years].The patients in the test group took Busheng-Huoxue capsules plus caltrate-D(600 mg ·d-1),and the patients in the control group took alend-ronate(70 mg per week) plus caltrate-D(600 mg ·d-1) for 12 months.Before treatment and every month after treatment,the pain intensity(0-10) and release degree of pain grades(0-4) were recorded and the efficiency rate of analgesia was calculated.The bone mineral density(BMD) of lumbarvertebra(L2-4) and femoral neck was determined respectively.Serum osteocalcin(BGP) and urine pyridinoline(PYD) were measured.And blood routine,urine routine,hepatic and renal function were also examined.Results:After the treatment,pain intensity of osteoporosis in two groups was obviously lower than that before treatment(P0.05,P0.01),and compared with the control group,that of the test group has significant statistical differences(P0.05).The total efficiency(obvious efficacy and efficacy) rate of the two groups was similar(84.8% vs 84.4%,P0.05),but the obvious efficacy(obvious remission and complete remission) rate in the test group was obviously higher than that in the control group(P0.05).After the treatment,the BMD of two groups,serum BGP of the test group was significantly increased(P0.05),and PYD/Cr was significantly decreased in two groups(P0.01).No obvious adverse events were observed in two groups.Conclusion:Busheng-Huoxue capsules can effectively alleviate the osteoporosis ache of aged male patients,which is similar to the effect of alendronate,and elevate the bone mineral density thus promoting the quality of life.


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The elongation of the second internode of Meteor pea seedlings and the relationship of this elongation to cell division and cell elongation in the epidermis and cortex has been determined after treatment with either IAA or GA or both together, and in combination with decapitation, and removal of the first or second leaves either separately or together. The cells from the side of the internode subtending the second leaf are consistently longer than on the other side, and this effect is intensified by application of GA and abolished by application of IAA. Decapitation and defoliation together abolish the usual stimulation of cell elongation by GA. It is concluded that the results are in harmony with the hypothesis that the cell elongating effect of GA is the result of an increased production of auxin in the apical regions and young leaves.


The bioactive components of Allium chinense inhibited multiplication of Candida albicans and its minimal inhibiting concentrations(MIC) was 0. 2%(V/V). The leakage of 260nm absorbing materials was increased in a dose-dependent manner after C.albicans treated by the bioactive components. The bioactive components inhibited glucose-induced acidification of the medium and increased Methylene Blue staining, also in a dose-dependent manner. The structure of β-(1-3)-D-glucan , which is a main composition of C.albicans cell wall, was changed by the bioactive components, analyzing by FT-Infrared spectrometer.


Clinton administration officials are now figuring out their next step after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated part of the Harbor Maintenance Tax, which funds port and river dredging. Observers say a new financing mechanism is not likely to be in place soon, but the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund's $1.1-billion balance should keep the program going for a while. Developing an alternative approach that is legally defensible and politically palatable to varied port interests will be a challenge. Among the possibilities are a fee on ship tonnage or a modified cargo fee.


The design idea of the Transport Stream storage and control system is firstly introduced in this paper. 1394 technology is simply shown from three aspects including 1394 concept, characteristic and protocol stack. The hardware and software design of this system is explained in detail. The application future of this system is proposed at last.


Social and economic development has accelerated the process of globalization, which has brought new changes and challenges to college English teaching. Teachers should not only cultivate students' English ability, but also infiltrate cultural consciousness from it, imparting western cultural history, customs and social values dialectically, so as to improve college students' comprehensive English application ability. Based on the current situation of college English teaching, this paper expounds the favorable influence of cultural awareness in college English teaching, points out the problems and puts forward corresponding strategies.


1-day-old broilers were randomly divided into seven groups,and 1% superfine powder,2% superfine powder,0.2% concentrate-granule,0.4% concentrate-granule,1% concentrate-granule and 2% fine powder were added to the feedstuff of broiler from group A to F,respectively,and group G was as control without any Chinese herb medicine.Lymphocytes transformation rate,phagocytic activitiy of leucocytes and index of phagocytose were determined on day 7~(th),14~(th),21~(st),28~(th),35~(th),and 42~(nd),respectively.The results showed that Andrographis paniculata(Burm.f.) Nees could significantly enhance the activity of lymphocytes and leucocytes(P0.05),A.paniculata superfine powder and concentrate-granule were superior to fine powder in enhancing cellular immunity,and superfine powder had better effect than concentrate-granule in the same pharmaceutical dosage.


The mechanics environment of storage and transport process was analyzed. The dynamics model of package in the railroad vehicle was established based on the dynamic model for vehicle/track coupling system. The model was simulated with Matlab.


In order to find what teachers think is an appropriate means of communication with their deaf pupils, I assumed a bilingual perspective and designed a questionnaire to assess their opinions of two kinds of signing, American Sign Language and Signed English. Eighty-five teachers responded and their overall opinion was that: deaf children should begin signing at as early an age as possible, should use Signed English as their base language, should eventually be bilingual in Signed English and American Sign Language; and likewise that their teachers should be bilingual. There was also an attitude overall in favor of the implementation of bilingual education for deaf children in total communication programs.


Recently I have proved that for every odd integer q there exists integers t and s (dependent on q) so that there is an Hadamard matrix of order 2tq and a symmetric Hadamard matrix with constant diagonal order 2s q2. We conjecture that "for every odd integer q there exists an integer t (dependent on q) so that there is a skewHadamard matrix of order 2tq". This paper makes progress toward proving this conjecture. In particular we prove the result when q = 5 (mod 8) = s2 + 4r2 is a prime power and all orthogonal designs of type (l, a, b, c, c+│r│), where 1+a+b+2c+│r│ = 2t, exist in order 2t. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics Publication Details Seberry, J, On skew Hadamard matrices, Ars. Combinatoria, 6, 1978, 255-276. This journal article is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/infopapers/988 ON SKEW HADAMARD MATRICES


Psychobiotics are a group of probiotics or groups of live bacteria which mainly affect the central nervous system (CNS) and its related functions and their behaviors which are regulated by the gut-brain-axis (GBA) through various pathways like as immune, humoral, neural, and metabolic pathways which improve the gastrointestinal (GI) function as well as the antidepressant and anxiolytic capacity of brain. There are many common gram-positive bacteria which are commonly used as psychobiotics. The major source of these bacteria is fermented dairy food products as well as other products. The application of psychobiotics has led a new field of researchers which focus on a new area in neuroscience and mental health. In the past few years, some of psychobiotics strains were reported to inhibit inflammation and decreased cortisol levels, which result in an amelioration of the symptoms of disturbed mental health like anxiety and depression. This psychobiotics are very effective in improving several neurodegenerative as well as neurodevelopmental disorders also. But the evidence for the effects of psychobiotics on mental and neurological conditions are remains limited in research field yet. Some animal and human studies are found but they are not sufficient and human research on psychobiotics is limited also. So, studies of psychobiotics are needed to increase in order to know their effectiveness and mechanism as treatments for various nervous as well as psychiatric disorders in the future. This paper reviews the beneficial properties of psychobacteria, their mechanism of action in brain and use of this bacteria in several mental and psychological disorder.


The Dissemination and Communication Plan will set out the details of the different types of dissemination activities to be undertaken during the project lifetime. In addition to the dissemination approach that will be applied, this deliverable also provides the necessary guidance for an efficient dissemination strategy. The Plan identifies communicating objectives and goals, the target audience, the message, medium and means and the timeline for communicating actions. D7.1 is a way to reinforce this activity in GEOSS (http://www.geo-tasks.org/geoss_portfolio) by trying to stimulate the ENEON to participate in it.


The electrochemical corrosion resistance and mechanical properties of FV520( B) martensite precipitation hardening stainless steel after solution and different aging temperature were tested by electrochemical corrosion test,room temperature tensile test and Charpy impact test. The microstructure,fracture morphology and precipitation hardening precipitates after aging at different temperature were theoretically analyzed by optical microscopy,scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy and so on. The polarization curves at different aging temperature were drawn. The law of electrochemical corrosion resistance properties and the change rule of mechanical properties at different aging temperature were obtained,which has guiding significance for the decision of heat treatment process parameters.


This study is intended to find out the effects of demographic variables on the perceptions of university administrators about the implementation of e-learning management and delivery practices. Simple Random Sampling technique was exercised to choose public and private sector universities which were functioning in Lahore and Gujranwala division, recognized by Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. The data was collected from university academic administrators. A pilot study was conducted to develop a questionnaire for administrators. Data were analyzed through SPSS-21. Findings were confirmed that the four demographic variables have a significant effect on the perceptions of university administrators about elearning management practices and delivery practices. Therefore, it is recommended that universities should focus on demographic variables on changing the perception of the administrators during implementing the e-learning infrastructure.


Nonlinear loads are the source of harmonic injections in power system. These are complains in distortion of sinusoidal voltage and current waveforms. This paper objective is to detect harmonic sources and calculations of their injection levels to enhance power quality. For the proposed methodology the Niche Binary Particle Swarm optimization (NBPSO) technique is used to place optimally Harmonic Measurement Analyzer (HMA) units in power system to make entire system observable and worthwhile.


Bakrie Telecom realizes it is importance to know the customer needs that have not been fulfilled and the effectiveness of its CRM (Solusi Esia). The purpose of this study is to analyze the Importance-Performance Matrix and designing performance measurement systems and measure of Solusi Esia performance, then propose development program of Solusi Esia for the next year. Designing a CRM Scorecard start from cascading the vision, mission and strategy of the company to the vision, mission and strategy of Solusi Esia, then translate into fours CRM Scorecard perspective, setting strategic objectives, building a strategy map, set targets, and strategic initiatives and weighing of each strategic objective as lag indicators relative to a leading indicator in each perspective using pair wise comparisons. The score of Solusi Esia Performance is 3.46 considered good. Some development programs are call center phone charge change to be free of charge, establish training centers, network operations, voice recording the conversation between costumer and costumer service and periodically doing a market survey.