Modern products are characterized by an interdisciplinary development in fields like mechanics, hydraulics and controls. This development process can be optimized by using the coupled simulation. In this contribution facts will be shown why today the coupled simulation with more than two involved software tools is not used in the R&D process in mobile machine industry. Beside these facts methods of resolution will be described how a coupled simulation could work avoiding these problems. They are based on the idea of a simulation platform for a standardized coupled simulation. Point of departure The development of new products today is supported by the use of simulation tools. Actually in the research and development processes (R&D process) it has been shown, that the simulation tools can reduce research time and costs dramatically. So it is an intention of companies to support most of their research work with simulation methods. The trend of simulation today is heading for the virtual prototypes, i.e. companies try to create complete simulation models of their products. Due to the example of a tractor the state of simulation shall be shown for companies in the range of mobile machines. A tractor consists of a huge amount of components and small assemblies. The components are mostly supplied. The competence for the components sticks to the component manufacturer. The main competence of the vehicle manufacturer sticks to the integration of the components to the vehicle and their control. Beside structure and load tests of the vehicle with finite element methods studies of drive dynamics are done. The implemental tool is here the multi body simulation (MBS) software. For the simulation process the vehicle manufacturer has to build a virtual prototype with the supplied components or with the system reaction of the supplied components. However there is often a lack of parameters for the sub models or there is a lack of expertise in this particular range. The manufacturer also has to deal with a huge proliferation of variants and a low output. This must be economic with the simulation. Because of the high complexity of vehicles and the different technical fields, like mechanics, hydraulics and controls to be dealt with, it is very difficult to create one simulation model of a whole vehicle in only one simulation tool. State of the art Over the years different methods of modeling a technical system have been developed. Today each technical field has his suitable established software tool to simulate. To deal with fact that modern products are characterized by an integration of different technical fields, a lot of specialized software tools have been enhanced to multi-domain-tools. Libraries of different technical fields have been added to the software tool. Thus the user is able to simulate complex systems with one tool. On the other side interfaces have been developed to couple different software tools and by this way to couple different technical fields. This kind of simulation is called co-simulation or coupled simulation. It is based on the transfer of energy and power with the help of state variables. These variables describe the states of a system (e.g. position, pressure). They are time-variant and derived from the mathematical description of each sub system. So with the help of the coupled simulation a user can create a simulation model of a system including different technical fields. In opposition to a multi-domain-tool simulation this kind of simulation uses specialized software tools for each technical field. Basically, the choice of the software of a certain technical field is free, only the communication variables have to match each other. By using specialized software tools very detailed sub models can be created and therefore a very detailed model of the whole system. However with a more detailed model the calculation work and therewith the simulation time will be increased. Even a coupled simulation with very low detailed models needs more time to simulate in comparison to a simulation within one tool. And the user of a coupled simulation needs a special knowledge of this way of simulation. This knowledge is mostly lacking in mobile machine companies and they often do not have the knowledge of the supplied components. That is why the coupled simulation, especially the coupled simulation with more than two software tools, is not used in companies today. However the coupled simulation offers the theoretical possibility next to a high detail level of the sub models that members of different bureaus, sections or even companies can work together on one simulation model because the whole system consists of several sub models that helps to dispose work. By doing this a special look should be taken to topics of knowhow-protection and parameter and data administration. To analyze these items a research project called GUSMA started on august 2008. The main topics of this project are the analysis if a coupled simulation with integration of different business partners could work and if this simulation method could be propagated and at least used in the range of mobile machines. Project conception for the research project GUSMA GUSMA is a German shortcut for the research project and means (translated to English): "Coupled Simulation of Mobile Machines between different business partners for the virtualization of the product design process". The project is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and hosted by the Centre of Research Karlsruhe. Partners are the Professorship of Mobile Machines and the companies: AGCO GmbH, Hydac System GmbH, INTEC GmbH, LMS Germany GmbH and Fluidon – Gesellschaft für Fluidtechnik mbH. The main object of the project is the standardization of the coupled simulation procedure to simplify the simulation process, so that more users can work with this simulation technique in the range of mobile machines. A closer look will be taken to the know-howprotection of the sub models to realize a simulation with participation of different business partners. The key-note of this project is a simulation platform where the coupled simulation should be done in a standardized way. The system to be simulated will be separated into parts of different technical fields. With the help of specialized and established software tools each sub model will be created and then exported in a platform compatible form. By exporting to platform and the associated conversion the know-how of the sub models must be protected. Ideally the numerical solver can be exported, too, so the sub model may run stand-alone. The platform needs a graphical user interface (GUI). With the help of the GUI the user will be able to create the simulation model of the whole system by connecting each sub model. For this connection the user need to know the inputs and outputs of the sub models. A visualization of these values is necessary. In addition an administration of the sub model parameters as well as an identification of the initial values should be possible. An opportunity of data handling completes the requirement list of the platform. Below the current state of the project is shown with a closer look to the simulation platform and the connecting variables. Realization of the project objects / Status quo In the project GUSMA the development of the standard for the coupled simulation will be acquired on the example of a hydropneumatic front axle suspension of a tractor. This suspension consists of mechanical, hydraulic and control elements. Figure 1 shows the principle of the front axle suspension. A swing arm (2) is linked to a frame (1). The front axle (3) is located in the center of the swing arm and is able to oscillate. Both can swing to the frame. Two hydraulic cylinders (4) and three hydraulic accumulators (5) complete the front suspension. If the tire is moved upor downwards, the plungers of the hydraulic cylinders displace oil to the accumulators. The nitrogen reservoir of the accumulator acts like a spring and the hoses and orifices act like a damper. A level control is added to the suspension. The setting of the level control is done by different pre-pressures of the chambers of the hydraulic cylinders. The suspension is able to deal with different load conditions. Fig. 1: Sketch of a front axle suspension [1] The mechanical sub model of the front suspension is built by the vehicle manufacturer with the MBS-tool SIMPACK. It consists of the frame, the swing arm, the front axle and the cylinders. He also creates a sub model of the level control with Matlab/Simulink. The hydraulic manufacturer creates a hydraulic sub model with the software tools AMESim and DSHplus. It consists of the cylinders, the accumulators and the hydraulic power supply. The simulation of the whole system will be done as a coupled simulation by the professorship of mobile machines. In this project the professorship imitates the vehicle manufacturer. The software tool for the platform is Matlab/Simulink for a start. In Matlab/Simulink there is a graphical user interface with visualization tools and possibilities of data handling. In addition Matlab/Simulink is widespread especially in control technique simulation. For the simulation of the whole system the sub models will be connected to each other by the intercommunion of the state variables. Figure 2 shows an example of such a whole system. This example consists of one mechanical, two hydraulic und two control sub systems. The inputs and outputs are shown for each sub model. Fig. 2: Structure for the coupled simulation The basic principles to this structure are the energy and power transfer between the sub models. On the platform a connection of sub models of different or of the same technical fields is possible. The communication variables can be differed into internal variables (inside a technical field, blue arrow) and external variables (between different technical fiel


Symbian operating system uses the TRAP mechanism to capture system exceptions and control memory allocation process.In case of system exception,the cleanup stack structure can ensure the system memory leak does not occur.Through two steps constructor,programmers can modify the C++ default constructor rules to ensure the memory safety.


Abstract : Vitamin D or 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (calcitriol)inhibits proliferation, induces differentiation and modulates cell cycle progression in a variety of normal and malignant cells. We demonstrated in the Dunning rate prostate cancer(Mat-Ly-Lu) and a human xenograft model (PC-3) that calcitriol has significant anti-proliferative activity, arrests cells in GO/G1, modulates expression of p27 and p21, induces PARP cleavage and significantly enhances the anti-tumor activity of conventional chemotherapeutic agents, especially paclitaxel. In addition, we have completed a phase I trial of high dose calcitriol in which we determined the MTD of subcutaneous calcitriol and calcitriol pharmacokinetics. Since paclitaxel has considerable potential as an agent for the therapy of prostate cancer and calcitriol potentiates paclitaxel and is active as a single agent, we propose to examine further the therapeutic potential of calcitriol by: (1) determining the schedule and time-dependent parameters of calcitriol and paclitaxel for optimum potentiating activity in MLL and PC-3 prostate cancer models; (2) determining the role of calcitriol in the induction of apoptosis and the role of changes in intracellular Ca + 2 in these activities; and (3) evaluating the toxicities, MTD, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and activity of paclitaxel and calcitriol when administered to patients with prostate cancer.


S H Lin (ed) 1984 Singapore: World Scientific v + 514 pp price £65.50 ISBN 9971 966 17 4 This book consists of six contributed chapters from different authors and as such is yet another example of a specialist introductory text which exhibits the customary advantages and flaws of multiple authorship. My viewpoint on the book is as an interested layman with potential technical applications for multi-photon phenomena.


Embedded Systems assume an increasing importance in several biomedical applications. These applications present dissimilar requirements and characteristics, posing problems at the computing and communication levels. Low power consumption, size, weight and secure wireless communication are some of its key features. This work proposes a platform that makes use of an autonomous communication module, and relies on personal digital assistants to act as Masters to interconnect the embedded systems to computer networks. Information is sent to a main server that maintains and provides access to a database. Data security is assured in all systems by using cryptographic algorithms and protocols. Two embedded systems have been developed based on this platform, a simple system for movement monitoring, and another for biomolecular recognition. Experimental results show that it was possible to implement a secure communication channel without sacrificing platform autonomy. Furthermore, we show that the optimization of the communication module lead to a significant increase in the total platform autonomy (about 70% for the movement monitoring system).


Control of Cnidocamp flavescens was made at the larval stage by injecting omethoate 40EC into the holes bored in the trunk of Platanus orientalis, resulting in more than 83.9% of the larvae being killed, having a dead peak of the Iarvae in the fourth day to the sixth day after injection.


Influence of soybean phenological stage and leaflets age on infection by Phakopsora pachyrhizi This work was conducted to study the influence of soybean growth stage and leaf age on the infection of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the soybean rust pathogen. Soybean plants (cv. BRS 154 and BRS 258) at the V 3 , R 1 and R 5 growth stages were inoculated with a 1 x 10 5


Unconditional secrecy (UNS) of a wireless transmission scheme refers to the minimum amount of secrecy of the scheme subject to eavesdropping by eavesdropper (Eve) with any number of antennas and any noise level. For each coherence period of wireless channels, the UNS achievable is known to be limited by the entropy of user's reciprocal channel state information (subject to a proper level of quantization). While UNS rate may be too limited for environment with low mobility, it is possible to design physical layer encryption methods to increase the computational complexities that Eve has to overcome in order to break further secrecy beyond UNS. In this paper, we quantify the UNS of several classic transmission schemes and examine the complexity needed to break further secrecy beyond UNS of these schemes. We also provide a UNS and complexity analysis of a recently proposed physical layer encryption scheme called randomized reciprocal channel modulation (RRCM), and show an example where the complexity may exceed Eve's capability.


The syntheses and X-ray single-crystal low-temperature structures of the four new ammoniates [Li(NH3)4]3As7⋅NH3 (1), [Rb(18-crown-6)]3As7⋅8 NH3 (2), Cs3As7⋅6 NH3 (3), and (Ph4P)2CsAs7⋅5 NH3 (4) are reported. The compounds were obtained by either direct reduction of As with Li/Cs in liquid NH3, solvation of Cs4As6/Rb4As6 in liquid NH3, or by extraction of solid Cs3As7. While compound 1 contains isolated As polyanions, AsM contacts (M=Na−Cs) lead to neutral [Rb(18-crown-6)]3As7 units in 2, a three-dimensional, extended network in 3, and one-dimensional, infinite [CsAs7]2− chains in 4, respectively.


• JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, vol. 151, no. 1, 1 July 1993 pages 389-396, PARMELY M.J. ET AL 'Adenosine and a Related Carbocyclic Nucleoside Analogue Selectively Inhibit Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Production and Protect Mice against Endotoxin Challenge' • LIEBIGS ANNALEN DER CHEMIE, no. 5, 1985 pages 1036-1040, KOLB M. AND BARTH J. 'Synthesis of 5'-[(3-Aminooxypropyl)amino]-5'-deoxyadeno sine' • CIRCULATORY SHOCK, vol. 44, November 1994 pages 97-103, LEE J.C. ET AL 'Low-Molecular-Weight TNF Biosynthesis Inhibitors: Strategies and Prospectives'


We evaluate the performances of ab initio GW calculations for the ionization energies and highest occupied molecular orbital-lowest unoccupied molecular orbital gaps of 13 gas phase molecules of interest for organic electronic and photovoltaic applications, including the C60 fullerene, pentacene, free-base porphyrins and phtalocyanine, PTCDA, and standard monomers such as thiophene, fluorene, benzothiazole, or thiadiazole. Standard G0W0 calculations, that is, starting from eigenstates obtained with local or semilocal functionals, significantly improve the ionization energy and band gap as compared to density functional theory Kohn-Sham results, but the calculated quasiparticle values remain too small as a result of overscreening. Starting from Hartree-Fock-like eigenvalues provides much better results and is equivalent to performing self-consistency on the eigenvalues, with a resulting accuracy of 2%‐4% as compared to experiment. Our calculations are based on an efficient Gaussian-basis implementation of GW with explicit treatment of the dynamical screening through contour deformation techniques.


We have developed software for creating databases of course materials on the World-Wide Web. The goal is to allow instructors at different institutions to share materials and develop them jointly. Our first two databases, in computer architecture and object technology, comprise thousands of problems and lectures downloaded (with permission) from course Websites around the world. The database is searchable by classification or fulltext string. To populate the databases with up-to-date material, we started by building a list of course Websites. Using several sources, we came up with a list of 73 sites in computer architecture and 40 sites in object technology. However, only a minority of the instructors have allowed us to use their material. To provide access to a larger amount of material, we are extending our search capability to include material on the Web as well as in the database. Users of the database will not, of course, have an automatic right to reuse and adapt material that is not in the database; however, they will be able to ask the copyright holders for permission individually. The search engine that we are integrating with the database finds course Websites by searching a filtered set of educational domains for sites containing keywords characteristic of course material in the target discipline. We present preliminary results of using this search engine.


The study area is situated in Japan Sea side margin of the Shakotan Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan, where MIS5e Terrace is preserved along the cost. Numbers of tight drilling have done to establish new method for terrace analysis. Buried wave cut terrace and sea cliff (when the MIS5e Terrace was formed) are reconstructed by distribution of the terrace deposits and these bottom of unconformity planes. The precise site and altitude of former shoreline was also obtained. Altitudes of the former shoreline from the 7 sections are almost the same 22 to 27m in height. Previous data of the height of shoreline are obtained from the topographic MIS5e Terrace surface. The altitudes have variation from 30m to 60m. It suggests that the traditional method for the MIS5e terrace analysis had some errors in the study area.


Data collected, especially in last two decades reveals that we do not suffer from paucity of the medical human power. On the contrary, India has now one of the largest medical human-power in the world. At the time of Independence, we had only one doctor for every 6700 persons, we now one for less than 900 persons; this ratio is even better in the urban areas, where we have a doctor for less than 400 persons. According to 1981 Census, 41.2 per cent of all (7,63,437) doctors and only 27.2 per cent of allopathic doctors were located in the rural areas, not more than 14.8 per cent of all registered doctors work in the public sector.i A recent study done in a socio-economically average district in Maharashtra found only eight percent of all qualified doctors in the public sector. Further, 20,000-30,000 doctors of all systems are trained every year and enter the medical market, chiefly in the private sector.


This paper focuses on Richard Wagner's first accomplished opera "Die Feen". Through the reconstruction of historical background and the analysis of dramatic techniques, the changes and acceptance of Gozzi's original, and the commentaries of other interpretations, it tries to demonstrate that this opera inherited the old tradition from the Romanticism of E. T. A. Hoffmann, yet didn't actually reflect the revolution spirit in 1830's, and so already represented the inception of Wagner's conservative tendency after the 1848/49 Revolution. Some contemporary German scholars attempt to connect "Die Feen" with transitions of the time, so as to shape Wagner's image into a leftist artist and to diminish his intimacy with Nazi ideology. These efforts are shown to be only contrived transfigurations.


ABSTRACT:
Introduction: Individuals with heart failure present reduced muscle strength associated with loss of muscle mass, generating limiting symptoms such as dyspnea and muscle fatigue, which generate inability to perform activities of daily living (ADL). The reduction of upper limb strength and its relation to the functional capacity of these individuals is still poorly understood. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the relationship of palmar grip strength and functionality in individuals with HF. Methods: Twelve individuals with HF, age 63.7 ± 11 years, functional class II to IV (NYAH) and left ventricular ejection fraction of 32.5 ± 11% were assessed for palmar grip strength (MPF) and functional limitation through the London Chest Activity of Daily Scale (LCADL). Results: FMq was 21.3 ± 5 kgf; 37.8 ± 10% predicted for age and sex and the LCADL score of 62.4 ± 9 and LCADL% total reaching 83.3% ± 13 of the total percentage. Conclusion: We conclude that the patients with HF studied present a reduction in palmar grip strength and low functional capacity.


Objective: Stable angina pectoris with phlegm and blood stasis syndrome was taken as the research object.The relationship between physical and chemical inspections and scales were studied.It may probably provide new ideas for syndrome differentiation of stable angina pectoris.Method: The cross-sectional survey method was used in the clinical epidemiological survey.The self-rating scale,the dialectical scale and the TCMSAQ-QBS were used to collect the study data of the patients.Well 29 physical and chemical indicators such as lipids,blood glucose,ECG were taken to collect clinical data.Pearson correlation analysis,Logistic regression,and multiple linear regression methods were used to study the relationship between them.Result: 11 indicators of the physical and chemical examination dialectical were related to the four dimensions of scale of the dialectical scale(spleen deficiency dimension,phlegm dimension,blood stasis dimension and disease dimension),four dimensions of the TCMSAQ-QBS(syndrome dimension,exercise tolerance dimension,sleep dimension and treatment satisfaction dimension),and two dimensions of the self-rating scale(exercise tolerance dimension,disease dimension).And regression models could be built between them(P0.05).Conclusion: Physical and chemical examinations and scales of stable angina pectoris have consistency in the terms of the diagnosis of disease,the evaluation of the illness and the judgment of the prognosis.Furthermore,the relationship between the scale dimensions and some indicators such as fasting plasma glucose,triglycerides,C-reactive protein and the ECG for the specific anatomic sites of myocardial ischemia provides new ideas for the syndrome differentiation of coronary heart disease.


A high-efficiency noble-metal-free oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalyst was obtained based on the pyrolysis of the inexpensive precursor cobalt dithiolene (an S4-chelate complex) on simultaneously reduced graphene oxide (GO) as a support matrix.


One of the major open issues in neural networks includes a network construction problem (NCP) to find a procedure, polynomial time if possible, that produces a minimal structure (minimum size, threshold and weight) of a multilayer threshold feed-forward network where its output must not exceed any given admissible distortion from a sample, The NCP includes a subproblem, a network training problem (NTP), where the size is prespecified. Approximate versions of the NCP/NTP have been solved with iterative algorithms for the network construction/training. This paper provides a mathematically rigorous solution to the NCP using rate distortion theory from information theory and linear algebra. This solution is used to develop a mathematical procedure that specifically constructs a minimal structure from the sample. The procedure attains the exact minimum though its computational time is, at worst, nonpolynomial. The paper also constructs a polynomial-time shortcut for approximate minimum sizes, which is a promising alternative to current algorithms.


Loops in programs are the source of many optimizations leading to performance improvements, particularly on modern high-performance architectures as well as vector and multithreaded systems. Among the optimization techniques, loop peeling is an important technique that can be used to parallelize computations. The technique relies on moving computations in early iterations out of the loop body such that the remaining iterations can be executed in parallel. A key issue in applying loop peeling is the number of iterations that must be peeled off from the loop body. Current techniques use heuristics or ad hoc techniques to peel a fixed number of iterations or a speculated number of iterations. To our knowledge, no formal or systematic technique that can be used by compilers to determine the number of iterations that must be peeled off based on the program characteristics. In this paper we introduce one technique that uses variable dependence analysis for identifying the number of iterations to be peeled off. Our goal is to find general techniques that can accurately determine the ideal number of iterations for loop peeling, while working within the context of other loop optimizations including code motion.


The paper systematic introduced the basic point and knowledge about knitwear.It concretely introduced the method of analysis or calculation and parameters about all kinds of cashmere sweater,summed up the knitwear about the most appropriate fashion close suitable shape to enhance sleeve's beauty and shape.By number and shape,the theory and practice achieved a consistent and functional aesthetics from taking into account,the specific reference is given constant.It had important reference value to personnel engaged in knitting technology and enterprises engaged in knitting industry.


Landslide occurs mostly during rainy seasons in Korea, and rainfall is the largest factor causing landslides. This study is intended to establish the rainfall standard to predict the risk of landslides, taking into account of regional / geological characteristics. To that end, historical data of landslides and rainfall data were investigated and analyzed. To predict the landslide risk using rainfall data, rainfall data which were related to causing landslide previously, was selected and analyzed to establish the rainfall standards and real-time rainfall approach was applied to establish the rainfall standards and determine the potential risk. Reliability in predicting the landslide risk using rainfall data, is heavily dependent on the spatial density of rainfall observatory stations and in this study the risk analysis using rainfall data focuses on predicting the time of landslide occurrences. In this study, rainfall standards by region are proposed using 250 landslide historic data and past rainfall data. Reliability of established rainfall standards was verified and rainfall standards would lead to reliable prediction of landslide occurrence time.


The effect of the addition of chain stoppers to solutions of hydrogen-bonded reversible supramolecular polymers was studied by vapor pressure osmometry and static and dynamic light scattering. Vapor pressure osmometry showed that within the range of concentrations studied the average degree of polymerization is independent of the overall monomer concentration and roughly inversely proportional to the mole fraction of chain stoppers, in agreement with theoretical predictions. The correlation length as measured by static light scattering has a maximum at the overlap concentration in solutions without chain stoppers. In the presence of a fixed fraction of chain stoppers, the results coincide with those without chain stoppers at low and high concentrations, but there is a plateau in the correlation length at intermediate concentrations. From the data, information about the association constant and the persistence length of the chains is obtained. The effectiveness of the chain stopper is discussed, and the re...


Type of funding sources: Foundation. Main funding source(s): Hartstichting and Stichting Hartekind

 Subjects with bicuspid aortic valve disease (BAV) have a higher risk of developing valvular and aortic complications. There is debate if hemodynamic stress associated with long-term exercise training may accelerate the development of complications. Current exercise guidelines are rather restrictive and primarily based on expert opinion. Hence, more insight is needed into the association between exercise volumes and disease characteristics in BAV subjects, especially since exercise training is a powerful strategy to improve cardiovascular health.

 To assess the association between lifelong exercise volumes and disease characteristics in BAV subjects.

 We enrolled BAV subjects ≥35 years old who have not undergone an aortic valve or aorta intervention. Lifelong physical activity was determined using a validated questionnaire and quantified as Metabolic Equivalent of Task minutes per week (MET-min/wk). Participants were classified as 1) insufficiently active, 2) active, or 3) highly active, based on their lifelong physical activity volumes (<500, 500-1000 and >1000 MET-min/wk, respectively). Disease characteristics were assessed from echocardiographic images that were obtained during the most recent visit to our outpatient clinic, whereas patient characteristics were extracted from electronic health records.

 152 participants (54±10 years, 55% male) were included of which n=59 insufficiently active, n=47 active and n=46 very active. Median lifelong physical activity volumes were 235 [108-387], 713 [653-828] and 1499 [1198-1875] MET-min/wk (p<0.001), respectively. Subject characteristics did not differ across groups (Table 1). No difference was found in aortic valve dysfunction across exercise volume groups, measured as peak aortic valve velocity (1.8 [1.5-2.4] m/s vs. 1.7 [1.4-2.6] m/s vs. 1.8 [1.5-2.5] m/s, p = .52) and presence of moderate-severe aortic valve regurgitation (n=7 (12%) vs. n=7 (15%) vs. n=6 (13%), p=.89) Also, aortic diameters at the level of the sinus of Valsalva (36.0±4.9 mm vs 35.8±5.5 mm vs 36.7±6.1 mm, p=.69) and ascending aorta (36.5±6.3 mm vs 39.0±7.0 mm vs 37.5±7.0 mm, p=.18) did not significantly differ across groups.

 Lifelong exercise volumes are not associated with characteristics of disease severity in BAV subjects who have not undergone an aortic valve or aorta intervention. These observations may support a less cautious approach for habitual physical activity and exercise training in BAV subjects, so they can profit from the cardiovascular health benefits of a physically active lifestyle.


Under circumstances of high temperature and radiation,the fasteners of Pressurized Water Reactor(PWR) internals suffer from such dynamical loadings as water-flows and earthquakes.In particular,the flow-produced vibrations result in fastener looseness and detachment so as to damage the structural integrality.As such,the anti-looseness performance of fasteners deserves extensive concerns.Pertaining to the anti-looseness structures for fasteners of a specific PWR internals with 40-year design life-cycle,the flow-produced vibrations are tested through internal modeling.Accordingly,an equivalent vibratory examination is conducted to attain testing parameters.Furthermore,the vibratory acceleration is used to examine the anti-looseness performance.Thereafter,this approach sets a reference for engineering applications.


This bachelor's thesis focuses on creating a booking system for medium sized hotels and guesthouses. First of all, an analysis of already existing systems had to be made. Another necessary part was to realize which type of information is the owner of the accommodation allowed to keep according to the Czech legislature. The web application is designed on the determined piece of knowledge. The website allows to book an accommodation and to keep track of the guests. The HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL technologies were used to create the website.


The sap flux density (SFD) was used as a measure of water capacity through stems of eucalyptus in this paper. It was found that daily SFD increased with daily vapor pressure deficit (VPD) in nonlinear regression Y = AX3 + BX2 + CX + D (R2 = 0.702 1, n = 135, p = 0.01) at both sites (Hetou and Jijia) in the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province, China, where Y was daily SFD, X was mean daily VPD, A, B, C, D were constants. But extremely high VPD might limit stem water conductivity. The environmental factors, such as air vapor pressure deficit (VPD), solar radiation (RAD), etc., were the main determinants of SFD for E. urophylla plantations. The upper threshold of diurnal SFD was 51.55-55.65 mL·cm-2·h-1 under the selected extremely high environmental conditions.


Objective:To analyze the effect of clavicular hook plate in treating complete acromioclavicular joint dislocation.Methods:31 cases with complete acromioclavicular joint dislocation were treated using CHP and its effect evaluated.All patients were followed up for 6 to 18 months with average 12months.Results:According to Karlsson grading system,22 cases were excellent,9 cases were good and no case was poor.There were no such complications as infection,breakage or loosing of the clavicle hook plate.The X-ray showed good reduction in all patients.No subluxation occurred after removal of implants.Conclusions:Clavicle hook plate,which can provide reliable fixation and allow early functional exercise,is a sound way for complete acromioclavicular joint dislocation.


This study aims to describe and explain the conversion of cross-major courses taken at the independent student exchange. This study used a qualitative method with 10 key informants, namely students participating in student exchanges at Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia from the Teaching and Education Faculty and supporting informants, namely 4 lecturers from Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia Jakarta. Primary data was taken using structured interviews. Techniques Data analysis in this study was carried out using the Miles model with data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions and triangulation. The results of the study prove that the courses that are converted are different from the courses taken at the receiving university from the courses at the original university. This research is still limited because it only examines independent student exchange students from the Teaching and Education Faculty, so recommendations for further research can hopefully examine all students at the receiving university.


: We study the compactness of the embedding between Besov spaces defined on some type of isotropic fractal sets in the Euclidean space. The "degree of compactness" of such an embedding is expressed in terms of its entropy numbers.


Daughters of Joy will prove to be a gold mine of information, since the author's massive research makes the book a primary source as well as a thoughtful study of soiled doves on the frontier.....Butler has portrayed the stark realities of prostitution in the American West With sensitivity and insight.


We tend to take time for granted. The hours, minutes and days pass by at what we perceive as a fixed rate. But whilst time itself may be a constant, however it is measured (though I am aware that this itself is a contentious topic), the way in which we represent it is much more constructed than is often acknowledged. In the Middle Ages, such now-accepted basics as the way the hands of a clock moved round, that hours were of consistent length, or when the year started, were up for negotiation.


INTRODUCTION One of the most differential characteristics between the Internet and other traditional media relates to the relatively easier " global market reach " enabled on this new medium. Internet technologies foster direct, fast, and flexible communication between producers, suppliers, and final customers across countries (Bridges, Goldsmith, & Hofacker, 2005). The Internet global reach is likely to have relevant implications for both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) markets. Internet-related technologies are also argued to have " equalizing effects " (Cavusgil, 2002; Hamill, 1997; Samiee, 1998a), as skills and information assets tend to be more critical factors than financial resources or firm size in order to achieve success in global e-markets. Nevertheless, companies will necessarily have to face important challenges and risks in this new global business environment. Global marketing practices are especially likely to be changed by the introduction of Internet technologies, owing to the differential characteristics of the Internet medium—speed, ubiquity, interactivity, and two-way communication. This article examines the impact of Internet technologies on global marketing activities: global e-marketing.


A chiral nucleon–nucleon potential has been recently further improved by employing a semi-local regularization in momentum space. As such, a potential has not been tested yet in an electromagnetic process, we apply it to the deuteron photodisintegration reaction with photon energies up to 100 MeV. Results of our calculations show a weaker dependence of a selected observable on the cut-off parameter and a faster convergence with respect to the chiral expansion order compared to older chiral potentials.


Objective To investigate whether portal collagenase administration can reverse liver cirrhosis.Methods Rabbits divided into 4 groups:group 1: Rabbits received carbon tetrachloride(CCl4) subcutaneously(sc) for 12 weeks,then have an operation to put an cannulation in portal vein,collagenase portally for 4 weeks.group 2:Rabbits received CCl4 sc for 12 weeks,then have an operation to put an cannulation in portal vein,normal saline portally for 4 weeks.group 3: Rabbits received olive oil sc for 12 weeks,then have an operation to put an cannulation in portal vein collagenase portally for 4 weeks.group 4: Rabbits received olive oil sc for 12 weeks,then have an operation to put an cannulation in portal vein normal saline portally for 4 weeks.Then take tissues of liver,portal vein,brain,kidney,lung and heart in 4 groups.After the zoopery,use chloramine T to test the hydroxyproline content in liver tissues after perfusion,and do pathological examination of liver.Results After CCl4 and portal vein perfusion,liver hydroxyproline content in collagenase-treated rabbits was significantly decreased as compared with that in saline-treated controls.Further,liver histology showed complete regression of collagenase-treated rabbits.No toxicity of liver,kidney was observed.Conclusions Portal administration of collagenase can promote the reversion of established liver cirrhosis in the rabbit CCl4 model.No toxicity of liver and kidney was observed.


The difficulties in machining guide set of stainless steel were analyzed. Then the reasonable machining technics were introduced.This machining technics is validated by the practice,and is proved to be useful.


Orange County is one of twelve California counties that operate a 24-hour emergency shelter for abused children. The Orange County shelter, Orangewood Children's Home (Orangewood), is a well-designed and maintained facility. The living quarters are arranged around an inner courtyard that creates a park-like setting. Security for the facility continues to be upgraded and is well designed to prevent unauthorized entry.


Morphological traits can influence the ability of animals to perform ecologically relevant tasks that are essential for their growth, survival and fitness. Understanding such links in juvenile animals is of particular importance, as periods of juvenile life are often associated with high rates of mortality and can be critical with respect to evolution of life histories and viability of populations. To study such links, an important first step is to assess relationships between juvenile morphologies and measures of performance. Altricial songbirds can provide novel insights into morphology–performance relationships owing to the high locomotor demand placed on juveniles after they leave the nest. Therefore, we examined the relationships between the size and developmental stage of juvenile traits and juvenile flight ability among 13 coexisting songbirds in east‐central Illinois. Among potential traits, we focused on relationships between flight ability and four measures of wing development at fledging as well as two body measures thought to reflect an individual's overall quality and musculature. Among measures of wing development, wing emergence was the strongest, most consistent predictor of ability within and among species. Relative wing length and wing emergence‐loading were often good predictors of flight ability as well, while relative wing‐loading was rarely a good predictor. Estimates of body mass and body condition were poor, inconsistent predictors of flight ability both within and among species. Our results highlight the importance of wing development for flight performance of juvenile songbirds. Furthermore, our evaluation of different wing characteristics suggests that the importance of macro‐scale transmissivity and wing/disc loading towards flight ability changes with respect to juvenile ontogeny. Though mass likely interacts with wing characteristics in determining flight ability, our results suggest that body mass and condition are likely reflective of other, non‐flight measures of fledgling performance. Few studies on altricial songbirds have examined morphology–performance relationships in juveniles. By linking wing emergence with juvenile flight ability, our research has taken a first step in assessing the adaptive significance of variation in wing development for juvenile songbirds. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.


Objective To explore systemically the extent and distribution of C.jejuni and C.coli contamination in food products, to establish and improve the surveillance network for food-born pathogens and to provide fundamental information for policy makers to work out related intervention program.Method Free markets in 8 cities and 2 counties were chosen as surveillance spots according to their geographic locations and their economic levels. Samples of 5 categories of foods were collected, including raw meat, raw milk, vegetable, eggs and aquatic products. According to the testing methods recommended by WHO and the national laboratory manual for monitoring food pollutants, samples were pre-enriched in Preston broth containing campylobacter growth supplement and specific antibiotics. Enriched broth was inoculated in selective agar CCDA plates. Suspected colonies were purified on Columbia blood agar plates. The isolates were Gram stained and tested by motility test, catalase test, oxidase test, hippurate hydrolysis and indoxyl acetate hydrolysis.Results 730 samples were examined and the overall positive rate was 5.34%( 39/730 ). 34 strains of C.jejuni isolates and 13 strains of C.coli were isolated. Positive rates varied in different categories of foods, with the highest (6.72%) in raw meats, followed by vegetables 5.88% and aquatic foods (0.95%). The pathogens were not found in raw milk and eggs. The highest positive rate among various raw meats 7.34%( 19/260 ) was found in chicken. Conclusion This study indicated that foods in Fujian Province were contaminated by Campylobacters in different degrees. Surveillance and management should be improved in the process of farming, slaughtering and transportation to prevent cross-contamination, outbreak and prevailing of campylobacters infection.


In view of the fact that mechanical resonance in the turntable servo system has serious effects on the whole system,this paper adopts hierarchical identification method with fewer quantity of computation to identify the plant containing mechanical resonance. After suppressing the resonance effectively by identification results, dynamic performance of the system has been improved greatly. The method not only overcomes the difficulty of large quantity of computation and storage, but also gets over problems of fussy debug procedure and low precision result proposed by the old method, and as a further result of which, it also improves the automatic debugging standard and the system's performance adequately.


We introduce MyAppCorner, a novel interface for interacting with public multi-touch displays. The system aims to provide a personal space for the users and give them a sense of ownership. It allows users to create their own private window and drag and drop available applications from the menu into their window. The menu can also be dragged to different parts of the screen, hence making it easily accessible for all users. We present the design, development, testing and evaluation on MyAppCorner interface. The interface was integrated in a 72" and 62" multi-touch screens to give the actual feel of a public display. The system was then tested to help us discover its drawbacks and see if it supports multiple users and whether it meets public space needs.


This article reports the fabrication of ordered arrays of ZnO nanorods and TiO 2 nanotubules by using a simple solution-based method and the application of these arrays as the working electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) with an aim of offering superior electron transport conduits than in the conventional nanocrystalline nanoparticle films. The faster charge transport and lower recombination properties of one-dimensional (ID) nanostructure array electrodes as compared with those of the nanoparticle one observed and proved that such arrays of 1D nanostructure are the more promising electrode for DSCs in the future.


Aiming at the problem of poor gathering effect of seedling transplanting combination mechanism that is designed independently, the intensive study has been done by using the main tools of TRIZ: the functional analysis, the physical contradiction and technical contradiction, the Su-Field model. And four feasible solutions have been found during the intensive study. Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of solutions and Taking the actual engineering situation into consideration, the final solution is obtained by collecting the advantages of the former solutions. The final solution can solve the poor gathering problem very well.


Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary area of the science composed of biology, mathematics and computer science. Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to manage biological data that helps in decoding plant genomes. The field of bioinformatics emerged as a tool to facilitate biological discoveries more than 10 years ago. With the development of Human Genome Project (HGP), the data of biology increased fabulously and marvelously. The ability to capture, manage, process, analyze and interpret data became more important than ever. Bioinformatics and computers can help scientists to solve it. Here are introduced roles of bioinformatics, meanwhile Web tools and resources of bioinformatics are reviewed and its applications in agriculture and relevance with other disciplines is also highlighted. Application of various bioinformatics tools in biological research enables storage, retrieval, analysis, annotation and visualization of results and promotes better understanding of biological system in fullness. This will help in animal and plant health care based disease diagnosis and treatment.


Objective To analyze the growth characteristics in patients assigned to wait and scan in vestibular schwannomas (VSs) during long-term follow-up. Background The wait-and-scan policy and radiotherapy (RT) are conservative management strategies for VSs. A better insight into the natural history of the tumor and growth patterns is quintessential in planning optimal management. Methods The charts of 576 patients with unilateral sporadic VSs who were assigned to wait and scan at our center from 1986 to 2013 were reviewed. A systematic review of radiosurgical literature was done and compared with results of wait and scan. Results The overall mean follow-up was 36.9 ± 30.2 months. One hundred fifty-four patients with a 5-year follow-up were analyzed separately for patterns of tumor growth. Varied combinations of growth patterns were observed. Eighty-four (54.5%) tumors showed no growth throughout 5 years, 12 (7.8%) showed slow growth throughout 5 years, 2 (1.3%) tumors showed fast growth throughout 5 years. A total of 134 tumors (87%) showed favorable growth patterns for wait and scan. When the results of wait and scan were compared with those of RT, it pointed to the possibility that at least a portion of control of tumor by RT could be attributed to the natural course of the tumor. Conclusion The wait-and-scan modality is ideal for management of VSs in the elderly population and also in younger patients with intrameatal tumors. Considering the fact that a large percentage of tumors do not require any form of treatment, the role of RT in VSs needs to be reinvestigated.


Only Presidents Herbert Hoover and Lyndon B Johnson appointed commissions to study the American Criminal Justice System in the Twentieth Century. Both commissions recommended higher education for the police. The common assumption is that the 1931 "Wickersham Commission" report accomplished little and the 1967 "President's Commission" report was the prime stimulus of police education. This research indicates: (1) police education was stimulated by the Wickersham Commission; (2) police educational attainment grew exponentially until 1967; (3) between 1931 and 1967 changes in social values, structures, institutions and technology modified the Social context to create a new threshold facilitating adoption of the President's Commission recommendations; (4) a surge in police educational attainment and proliferation of educational programs followed the 1967 report; (5) this surge intensified a trend, rather than initiating one; and (6) conventional assumptions about disparities in educational accomplishment betw...


After defining and describing the characteristics of interlocutory as distinct from interim injunctions, this article reviews the procedures and tests that are followed when obtaining or acting on injunctions prior to trial. It outlines American alterations to the traditional prima facie test, and describes the dissenting view in England before concluding that the American view changed the law very little. It shows a return in the UK to the former prima facie test by weighing and balancing various factors including irreparable harm and bargaining power. Against this background, the author discusses the risks involved in obtaining an injunction and methods for appeal of decisions. It also considers introduction of the Mareva injunction to Canada.


A series of liquid crystalline ligand-containing monomers with chemo-responsive properties has been prepared and studied. These molecules are functionalized derivatives of the 2,6-bisbenzimidazolylpyridine (Bip) ligand. Tailoring the size of the aromatic core and the length of two pairs of alkyl substituents allows the preparation of mesogens with a range of tunable thermal liquid crystalline transitions and phases. The binding of lanthanide- and/or transition metal salts to the ligand containing mesogens results in a transition from a liquid crystalline to an isotropic state. Acyclic diene metathesis of the monomers yielded either oligomers or polymers, dictated by whether the alkene is either terminal or nonterminal, respectively. Both oligomers and polymers exhibit enantiotropic liquid crystalline behavior and become isotropic in the presence of metal ions.


While preparing this IJAHP issue for publication, I received an email from Rozann Saaty, Tom's widow and collaborator, to inform me that the hundreds of papers and notes from Tom's lifetime of work had been organized and were ready to be moved to their final home at the University of Pittsburgh, where Tom worked the last part of his life.


This article analyzed the severe adverse effects of Puerarin Injection in 18 cases.It is suggested that in its clinical use Puerarin Injection should be used more carefully to prevent its negative effects.


OS modularity, real-time, communications, faulttolerance, and security in the context of the dual kernel RTLinux and RTCore BSD operating sys-


The utility model relates to a medium-voltage penetrating type insulated wire with electric flashing devices, which relates to the technical field of electrically conductive connection. The utility model is characterized in that the insulated wire is provided with a C-shaped puncture cable clamp, the inner upper part of the puncture cable clamp is provided with a set of fixed conductive needles and the inner lower part of the puncture cable clamp is provided with a sliding conductive needle base. The sliding conductive needle base is provided with a set of movable conductive needles and is provided with an ejector rod of which the one end is provided with a turning handle, and the ejector rod penetrates through the lower part of the puncture cable clamp and is connected with the sliding conductive needle base. The puncture cable clamp is provided with a thread-nut kinematic pair at the ejector rod penetrating point, one side of the puncture cable clamp is fixedly connected with a loading cable clamp which is provided with a fastener assembly and a flow guiding wire is arranged between the sliding conductive needle base and the puncture cable clamp. The utility model has the advantages of simple operation, high safety, good contact, strong discharge current capability, short operation time and light labor intensity, operators need not contact with electrification bodies and can accomplish real 'earth potential' electrification fire connection operation. The utility model can be widely used in the electrification fire connection operation field of medium-voltage and low-voltage insulated wires.


Continuous casting (CC) of steel is a process that nowadays produces more than 95 % [1] of crude steel. To further advance this process, electromagnetic (EM) field, which affects the fluid flow as well as the temperature and segregation is added to the CC process. In general, there are two types of electromagnetic devices applicable to the CC process; one are the electromagnetic breakers (EMBR) which implement direct current, and the other are the electromagnetic stirrers (EMS) which implement the alternating current. Which of the process is used depends on what are the desired effects. Both of the processes are modelled by implementing the Lorentz force into the momentum equation and if necessary the Joule heating term into the energy equation. However, the way how these two terms are modelled depend on the type of the implemented device. In case of EMBRs the assumption of low Rem is made and consequently, the current density is calculated by solving the Poisson's equation for electric potential. The EMS on the other hand, requires a low-frequency approximation and the solution of induction equation The complete set of governing equations for CC process [2] under the influence of magnetic field includes mass, momentum, energy, species concentration, and Maxwell's equations together with Ohm's law and charge conservation equation. Additionally, the turbulent kinetic energy and dissipation rate equations together with Abe-KondohNagano closures are used to account for the turbulence, the lever rule model is used to model the microsegregation, the mixture continuum model is used to model the macrosegregation, fractional step method is used to model pressure-velocity coupling and the enthalpy-temperature relation is used to calculate the temperature from the enthalpy. The solution is sought for on a five-nodded local subdomain by constructing an approximation function with multiquadric radial basis functions as a basis and collocation is used to find expansion coefficients [3,4]. Present paper presents the discretization of governing equations, together with boundary condition for both EMBR and EMS devices with meshless local radial basis function collocation method [5].


What are the prospects for GO in the removal of trace metals and what are the potential impacts of GO on aquatic organisms?


In the title molecule, C25H18Cl2N2O2, the dihedral angles between the pyrazole ring and its N- and C-bonded benzene rings are 8.28 (11) and 40.89 (10)°, respectively. The dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 39.03 (11)°. The title molecule exists in a trans conformation with respect to the acyclic C=C bond. In the crystal, molecules are linked into inversion dimers by pairs of intermolecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, generating R 2 2(14) loops.


'ABSTRACT , This paper investigites the potential effectiveness of counter advertising in influencing tpe buying habits-of convinced audience. One month before the actual study, 109.Subjects. indicated a brand preference in a consumer questionnaire. The subjects were randomly assigned.to groups that viewef one of the following: 11) a pro-Bayer aspirin commercial, .(2) a counter-Bayer aspirin commercial, (3) both proand counter-Bayer dcnnerciels, and


Describes work in progress towards development of integrated pen-based software systems for processing visual languages (VL). The primary assumption is that graphical input, editing and VL parsing facilities can be treated as system resources to be shared among many applications. Prototypes of a pen-stroke editor, VL parser, and VL-based application are described.<<ETX>>


This paper presents the bandwidth enhancement of a Proximity Coupled Feed Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna using a new Defected Ground Structure - an 'inverted SHA' shaped slot on the ground plane of the proximity coupled feed rectangular Microstrip patch antenna. The parameters such as Bandwidth, Return loss, VSWR and Radiation efficiency are improved in the proposed antenna than simple proximity coupled feed rectangular Microstrip patch antenna without Defected Ground Structure. A comparison is also shown for the proposed Microstrip patch antenna with the antenna structure without Defected Ground Structure. The proposed antenna resonates in S-band at frequency of 2.4 GHz with bandwidth of 180 MHz. A very good return loss of -47.9223 dB is obtained for the Microstrip patch antenna with an 'inverted SHA' shaped Defected Ground Structure. Implementing an 'inverted SHA' shaped defect in the ground plane of the proximity coupled feed rectangular Microstrip patch antenna results in 5.3% improvement in bandwidth with 16.01% reduction in the overall area of the ground plane as compared to the Microstrip patch antenna without Defected Ground Structure. Full Text: PDF DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v3.i2.pp428-434


with the "classical type." "It is therefore a significant misinterpretation of Luther to classify him one-sidedly as a representative of the 'classical type' as the Lundensians do" (p. 222). But one might equally question whether Althaus does justice to Luther when he links Luther's understanding of the Atonement with that of Anselm: "He [Luther] decisively follows the Latin line" (ibid.). The extensive literature in Luther research on his understanding of "law and gospel" does not unanimously concur with Althaus' claim that while Luther did not use the expression tertius usis legis, it occurs "in substance" in Luther (p. 273). Althaus' discussion of this problem and his critics is now available from Fortress Press in the English translation of his Gebot und Gesetz: Zum Thema "Gesetz und Evangelium" (The Divine Command: A New Perspective on Law and Gospel). Similarly, the claim that Luther teaches "an unconditional, eternal predestination both to salvation and to damnation" (p. 275) needs qualification. At least it needs more of a qualification than Althaus gives when he says that Luther's concern here is pastoral rather than theoretical (p. 286). The above criticisms are not intended as detractions from the book. In fact, these criticisms reflect not only the scope of the work but also the willingness of Althaus to deal independently with the problems of Luther research. That is, he did not see Luther's theology as an historical relic nor as a phenomenon for repristination. Rather, he tried "to present a living picture of Luther's theology on the basis of my own on-going study of the sources, and so to present this picture that it will be fruitful for theological study—and thereby also fruitful for the proclamation of the gospel in our time" (p. v ) . The success of this may be seen in the section on the church (pp. 287-344). Those who are cynical about "churchly" man and optimistic about "secular" man (often the same animal), as well as those who see the church as the architect and builder of the Kingdom of God or the Great Society might profitably listen to Luther's words concerning the church (quoted on pp. 291 ff.). At the same time one can see Luther making clear that the church is not a static ideal and has a responsibility through its members for the needs of the world. To his own time Luther could say: "This is not the time to run away from but, on the contrary, to run to the church and to work within the church for its renewal" (p. 312 f.). C A R T E R L I N D B E R G


Polyphase matrix extension of scaling vectors is a fundamental approach for the construction of compactly supported biorthogonal multiwavelets, but at the expense of high computations. In this paper, a novel approach through factoriza- tion of the unimodular matrix over the Laurent polynomial ring is developed so that closed-form solution can be obtained for the construction of compactly supported biorthogonal multiwavelets from the scaling vectors based on some conditions. Moreover, the relationship between any two different extensions for the same scaling vector functions can be obtained from one to another via finite steps of the product-preserving transformations, which leads to a complete solution set for the polyphase matrix extension problem.


The paper presents the results of the experimental measurement and the simulation of electric characteristics of dc glow discharge with the hollow cathode in neon, carried out during cooling of the discharge to the temperature of liquid nitrogen. The experiments were performed at pressure P = 18–187 Pa and discharge currents I = 0.01–3.5 mA. The behavior of the border of transition to the normal glow discharge during cooling was studied. Cooling in a subnormal discharge mode at constant current led to a change in the discharge regime. Upon cooling, the boundary of the transition to the normal glow discharge shifted to lower current, the electric field in the positive column of discharge and at the boundary of the normal glow discharge increased, but the reduced electric field decreased throughout the entire range of pressure and the discharge current.


In this study, indium-zinc oxide (IZO)/silver (Ag)/IZO (ZAZ) flexible transparent electrodes were prepared on polyethylene terephthalate substrate using radio frequency sputtering technique. Experimental results showed that when the Ag film transited from semi-continuous state to continuous state, the ZAZ electrode exhibited high optoelectronic performance. The best ZAZ sample had a quite wide range of high transmittance and an average transmittance of 78.9% in visible light region, and sheet resistance of [Formula: see text]/sq and a Haacke Index of [Formula: see text]. The bending test revealed that the [Formula: see text] (change in sheet resistance) of ZAZ electrodes after 1000 bends was still less than 25% while the electrical properties of IZO films deteriorated after only 100 bending tests.


Through the pure legal theory, within the thesis of normativity (without the thesis of morality) and the thesis of separation (without the thesis of reductive), Hans Kelsen proposes an object of legal science that is different from the one proposed by the philosophy schools of natural law and empirical-positivistic law. The idea transforms the legal science into a unique and distinctive science. Based on the philosophical research method, a legal norm, according to Hans Kelsen, must have two characters: the meaning of actions that want legal norm; and the relative moral norms with normative characteristics.


This study aims to determine the effect of the application of the Recitation Learning Method on Students' Ability in Writing Debate Texts for Class X SMA Negeri 1 Lawe Bulan in the 2021/2022 academic year. The method used in the quantitative approach. The research approach in this thesis uses a quantitative research approach. the population in this study were all students of class X SMA Negeri 1 Lawe Bulan in the 2021/2022 academic year, totaling 92 students consisting of 4 classes. The sample in this study was 21 students, namely class X IPS 1, which was taken using a purposive sampling technique or determined sampling. As for the results of the research and discussion that have been described in Chapter IV, it can be concluded that the Application of the Recitation Learning Method as a Debate Text Writing Learning for Class X Students of SMA Negeri 1 Lawe Month in the 2021/2022 Academic Year. This is evident from the average value of the initial test of Learning Writing Debate Text for students, which is 55.71 with a standard deviation of 9.95 and an increase in the final test score with an average value of 80.48 with a standard deviation of 7.85. the student and if it is associated with the Indonesian KKM score for high school is 75, then the Debate Text Writing Learning for the final test of students is included in good ability. In addition, at the observation t value > t table which is 9.00 > 2.08, then from the results of testing the hypothesis above, it can be concluded that there is an increase in the application of the Recitation Learning Method as an Effort for Learning to Write Debate Texts in Class X SMA Negeri 1 Lawe Months Years Learning 2021/2022


Time-lapse seismic tomography can provide detailed insights into magma movements in an active volcano and may help to predict volcanic hazards in the future.


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Last week [the end of July 2000] was truly the week of Vysotskii. As for the day of the twentieth anniversary of his death, Vysotskii, it seems, took over the TV screen from all else. Whatever button you pushed, you would hear either songs of Zhorzh Bengal'skii or a Hamlet monologue or the inimitable rasping voice demanding, "A little slower, horses, a little slower," or one of Vysotskii's countless friends reminiscing publicly about him.


OBJECTIVES
To compare prescription trends, costs, switch patterns, and mean adherence among oral anticoagulants in the Texas Medicaid population.

STUDY DESIGN
Secondary analysis of Medicaid prescription claims data.

METHODS
All oral anticoagulant prescriptions for patients aged 18 to 63 years with 1 or more prescription claims for an oral anticoagulant from July 1, 2010, to December 31, 2015, were included in utilization and expenditure trend analyses. Switch patterns and adherence, measured by the proportion of days covered (PDC), were analyzed over 1 year for patients newly initiated on oral anticoagulant therapy.

RESULTS
Over the 5.5-year study period, direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) use increased steadily and the proportion of oral anticoagulant prescription expenditures accounted for by DOACs increased substantially. By December 2015, DOACs accounted for one-third of anticoagulant prescription claims and more than 90% of total oral anticoagulant prescription expenditures. The mean cost per prescription was 30 times higher for DOACs than warfarin. A higher proportion of patients with a DOAC as an index drug switched drugs. The overall mean ± SD PDC was 0.71 ± 0.21, with no significant differences among patients on dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban. Using a PDC cutoff point of 0.80 to indicate adherence (vs nonadherence), 42% of patients were categorized as adherent.

CONCLUSIONS
Texas Medicaid prescription data show a gradual increase in DOAC use with a rapid increase in prescription expenditures. Further exploration of the causes of higher switch rates among DOAC initiators compared with warfarin initiators and nonadherence to DOACs is needed to understand the challenges related to DOAC adoption in practice and to improve patient outcomes.


This study in redaction criticism is a careful, detailed consideration of a particular subject in the second Gospel. The author has chosen to trace Mark's presentation of the disciples in their relationship with Jesus through the methodology of redaction criticism. It is a revision of his doctoral dissertation, presented to the faculty at Duke University in 1986. The movement toward redaction criticism is traced through the developments of source and form studies, Carefully Dr. Black emphasizes that each of the critical disciplines is a method of study and not a foregone conclusion. That which begins, however, as an apparent good example of the newer criticism's value in studying and understanding the New Testament concludes with the impression that redaction criticism makes little difference in the interpretation of the Gospel according to Mark. Book Reviews Review and Expositor, 87 (1990)


The Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) is planned for launch in 1981, and is a joint project of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. The instrument will consist of a superfluid helium-cooled 60 cm telescope with a large array of infrared detectors at the focal plane. The primary purpose of the mission is to perform an all-sky survey in the infrared region from 8 to 120 micrometers. The dewar contains 70 kg of superfluid helium which will maintain the telescope and detectors at 2K for one year. The dewar contains a supercritical helium cover tank which will be ejected after the experiment has been in orbit for two weeks.


A novel cell population denominated IFN‐γ‐producing killer dendritic cells (IKDCs) have been recently described. These cells are lymphocytes lacking B‐ or T‐ receptors, but they can be identified by the presence of B220+CD38+CD49b+ and low CD11c, among other cell surface markers. The main characteristics of IKDCs are the production of IFN‐γ and the ability to spontaneously kill tumor cells. We found that this population increases in B6.MLR‐Faslpr/J mice. Interestingly, IKDCs increase with age and are more abundant in mice older than 6 months onward. To analyze whether these cells have any role in the induction of the lupus‐like phenotype in the B6.MLR‐Faslpr/J mice, IKDCs were purified and transferred into 6‐month‐old B6.MRL‐Faslpr/J mice, then the presence of anti‐nuclear antibodies (ANAS) and anti‐dsDNA antibodies were analyzed 2 and 4 months after the transfer. The results showed a reduction in the levels of these autoantibodies and increased survival of these mice, indicating that these cells may have a regulatory function. In vitro assays demonstrated that IKDCs reduced the proliferation of both autoreactive B and T cells, suggesting that these may be the mechanisms used by these cells to ameliorate the lupus‐like phenotype in the B6.MRL‐Faslpr/J mice.


A low-cost and efficient method for producing pre-clinical scale quantities of 44gSc is presented. Production involves proton irradiation of natural unenriched calcium metal followed by rapid separation of radioscandium from the target using hydroxmate functionalized resin.A low-cost and efficient method for producing pre-clinical scale quantities of 44gSc is presented. Production involves proton irradiation of natural unenriched calcium metal followed by rapid separation of radioscandium from the target using hydroxmate functionalized resin.


The present work aims to highlight throughout the contents presented the main aspects of sarcopenia in the elderly, promoting to readers an understanding of the diagnosis, possible treatments, and exams that are relevant for the identification of the disease. The general objective of the research is to describe the main aspects of sarcopenia in the elderly, regarding the specific objectives, are highlighting information about the elderly; assessing how sarcopenia develops; present procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of sarcopenia among the elderly. For a better foundation of the contents presented, a literature review was carried out, highlighting some of the main concepts and analyzes of renowned authors on sarcopenia, consolidating how this disease impacts the routines and quality of life of the elderly. It can be concluded that over the years some research has been developed and treatment methods have been developed seeking to give the elderly an opportunity to treat sarcopenia, especially with the practice of physical activities aimed at strengthening the limbs and joints.


The main purpose of constructing system frame is to reduce coupling between function modules and enhance reuse of function modules.Design schema is a method of establishing objects which is based on the successful work of former people,and its basic principle is to add the abstract layer in the system,so that the layer can separate and occlude detail of the implementation.This paper introduces a process of analysis and design on system frame of real-time data processing.This article discusses the main technique of analysis and design schemas thoroughly.These are abstract factory schemas,builder schemas and adapter schemas.Methods of these schemas are implemented in Delphi developing environment.


Often in mathematics, it is useful to summarize a multivariate phenomenon with a single number. In fact, the determinant - which is denoted by det - is one of the simplest cases and many of its properties are very well-known. For instance, the determinant is a multiplicative function, i.e., ( )


Thermodynamically stable metallo-formyl complexes of rhodium porphyrins are prepared directly by the reaction of benzene solution of Rh(porphyrin)(Cl)(CO) complexes with CO and solid KOH.


Theories possessing non-canonical kinetic terms are often studied for Q-ball states in an ad-hoc manner. This paper seeks to generalise their study for both thinand thick-wall Q-balls. Specifically, we show that theories whose potential cannot house Q-balls can do so by virtue of their non-canonical kinetic terms. Furthermore, we also constrain the theories that possess an energetically stable thick-wall limit, with ramifications for their early universe phenomenology. ar X iv :2 11 2. 12 54 7v 1 [ he pph ] 2 1 D ec 2 02 1


ABSTRACT: Istanbul, which joins two continents-Asia and Europe, is an important city with its cultural, natural and environmental heritages. In the past and today, increasing population has caused an enormous transportation problem. To overcome this problem, two bridges were built on the Bosphorus and a third bridge will be built on the north side of Bosphorus. Although zone plans made in the 1960s suggested the urban growth to east-west direction, urbanization was triggered to northward by Bosphorus Bridges. Main research questions of this study are: What is the influence of a third Bridge on urbanization processes in Istanbul? Which protected areas will be damaged? To find out the influences of 3 rd Bosphorus Bridge on the urbanization in Istanbul, four Landsat satellite images were classified. First bridge was built on the Bosporus in 1973 and the second bridge in 1988. Therefore, time periods of the images were determined as 1972, 1987, 2002 and 2009. SLEUTH simulation software was used to predict the urban sprawl of Istanbul for the year 2030. The result of the prediction map was shown that 28.88 % forest and 71.43 % agricultural areas and open spaces will be transformed to urban area.


George F Winter explores maternal alcohol consumption and the moral and clinical influences that govern advice on drinking alcohol during pregnancy


Amyloplast DNA (apDNA), when subjected to digestion with restriction endonucleases, yields patterns nearly identical to that of DNA from mature pea chloroplasts (ctDNA). Southern transfers of apDNA and ctDNA, probed with the large subunit (LS) gene of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (Rubisco), shows hybridization to the expected restriction fragments for both apDNA and ctDNA. However, Northern transfers of total RNA from chloroplasts and amyloplasts, probed again with the LS gene of Rubisco, shows that no detectable LS meggage is found in amyloplasts although LS expression in mature chloroplasts is high. Likewise, two dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of etiolated gravisensitive pea tissue shows that both large and small subunits of Rubisco are conspicuously absent; however, in greening tissue these two constitute the major soluble proteins. These findings suggest that although the informational content of these two organelle types is equivalent, gene expression is quite different and is presumably under nuclear control.


Dormancy mechanisms constitute a major adaptation of plants in the colder temperate zones. Dormant organs are especially resistant to winter cold, and it is known that an annual cold period is not only tolerated but is actually required for the resumption of growth in some temperate zone species. A cold requirement for completion of the annual cycle of growth and development in flowering plants native to the temperate zones is well known (Salisbury & Ross, 1969). However, little or no information is available on the role of low winter temperatures in the life cycle of temperate zone ferns. Preliminary experiments suggested that six local fern species differed widely in their dependence on a cold treatment for renewed growth. Three species (Osmunda claytoniana L., Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth, and Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro) required at least 30 days of outdoors cold treatment, during November-February, to produce appreciable bud-break indoors. The other species (Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh., Adiantum pedatum L. and Thelypteris palustris Schott) broke bud after a cold period of only 12 days.


While a knowledge citizenship profile includes having capabilities of civic responsibility, tolerance, solidarity and self-motivation, two discerning features of knowledge citizenship that are of particular interest to both retirees and businesses that are experiencing a dearth of skills as baby boomers retire, include a culture of knowledge sharing and a commitment to participating in life-long learning opportunities.


With most summarization research focused on the news domain and scientific papers, little is known about the capabilities of the state of the art at summarizing more informal text. Today, the vast majority of text on the web is informally written on social media, and staying on top of the fast-paced stream of posts originating from one's subscriptions and followees is a burden to many. The TL;DR challenge marks a first step towards developing new summarization technology for social media, focusing on abstractive summarization. This paper reports the results of the challenge and describes our manual evaluation of the submissions. Finally, we discuss the expected properties of a good summary after analyzing the comments provided by human annotators.


Popular memorial practices, including traditional jazz funeral processions, are continually being refashioned and re-appropriated for devotional, commercial, and political purposes in New Orleans. Belying nostalgic representations of the jazz funeral as a "dying tradition," neighborhood-based parades produced by working-class African Americans continue to provide a space for the articulation of local subjectivities, particularly for those most affected by the violence of contemporary urban life, [blackness, memory, New Orleans, urban space, performance, violence, heritage]


We illustrate the close connection between cryptographic protocols and games. Several two-person game theoretic concepts and techniques are used here to model and analyze different two-party cryptographic protocols in a malicious model in order to find equilibrium conditions that allow to protect honest parties against all possible strategies of adversaries.


A novel state error port-controlled Hamiltonian (PCH) system method is presented for speed control the direct current (DC) separately excited motor. The unity power factor regulation of three phase pulse width modulated (PWM) rectifier is also implemented. Then, the state error PCH system control theory, the PCH model of the PWM rectifier and DC motor are proposed. Moreover, the control algorithm of the duty ratio switch function is presented for the PWM rectifier. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the controller has good speed tracking and unity power factor control performances.


A PIN diode and a low noise preamplifier are included in a nuclear spectroscopy chain for X‐ray measurements. This is a laboratory session designed to review the main concepts needed to set up the detector‐preamplifier array and to make measurements of X‐ray energy spectra with a room temperature PIN diode. The results obtained are compared with those obtained from radioactive sources with a high resolution cooled Si‐Li detector.


Coding is a ubiquitous part of the qualitative research process, but it is often under-considered in research methods training and literature. This article explores a number of questions about the coding process which are often raised by beginning researchers, in the light of the recommendations of methods textbooks and the factors which contribute to an answer to these questions. I argue for a conceptualisation of coding as a decision-making process, in which decisions about aspects of coding such as density, frequency, size of data pieces to be coded, are all made by individual researchers in line with their methodological background, their research design and research questions, and the practicalities of their study. This has implications for the way that coding is carried out by researchers at all stages of their careers, as it requires that coding decisions should be made in the context of an individual study, not once and for all.


Let f (z1, . . . ,zk)∈ C(Ik,I) be a given function, where I is (bounded or unbounded) subinterval of R, and k ∈ N. Assume that f (y1, y2, . . . , yk) ≥ f (y2, . . . , yk, y1) if y1 ≥ max{y2, . . . , yk}, f (y1, y2, . . . , yk) ≤ f (y2, . . . , yk, y1) if y1 ≤ min{y2, . . . , yk}, and f is nondecreasing in the last variable zk. We then prove that every bounded solution of an autonomous difference equation of order k, namely, xn = f (xn−1, . . . ,xn−k), n = 0,1,2, . . . , with initial values x−k, . . . ,x−1 ∈ I , is convergent, and every unbounded solution tends either to +∞ or to −∞.


The novel approach to the intelligent greenhouse control is based on predictive thermal models and actuator action plans to increase control performance. As operating the actuators essentially changes the thermal dynamics, the overall thermal model is decomposed into sub-models based on the state of the actuators. For the intelligent control it is essential to know the actuator configuration to select the most appropriate sub-model, but unfortunately information available about actuator states is not reliable enough to be directly applicable. This paper proposes a method to detect the difference between the believed and the actual state of the greenhouse and to identify the most likely model for the actual state. The method can be used to support the intelligent control in case of actuator malfunction or other accidents and is also suitable to provide possible reasons of the malfunctions to support the greenhouse personnel to take the necessary repair actions.


Typical vision backbones manipulate structured features. As a compromise, semantic segmentation has long been modeled as per-point prediction on dense regular grids. In this work, we present a novel and efficient modeling that starts from interpreting the image as a tessellation of learnable regions, each of which has flexible geometries and carries homogeneous semantics. To model region-wise context, we exploit Transformer to encode regions in a sequence-to-sequence manner by applying multi-layer self-attention on the region embeddings, which serve as proxies of specific regions. Semantic segmentation is now carried out as per-region prediction on top of the encoded region embeddings using a single linear classifier, where a decoder is no longer needed. The proposed RegProxy model discards the common Cartesian feature layout and operates purely at region level. Hence, it exhibits the most competitive performance-efficiency trade-off compared with the conventional dense prediction methods. For example, on ADE20K, the small-sized RegProxy-S/16 out-performs the best CNN model using 25% parameters and 4% computation, while the largest RegProxy-U16 achieves 52.9mIoU which outperforms the state-of-the-art by 2.1% with fewer resources. Codes and models are available at https://github.com/YiF-Zhang/RegionProxy


Through approximating l1-norm,a recursive identification algorithm is presented for the purpose of energy prediction in an ice storage system.The proposed algorithm exhibits robustness with respect to disturbance and measurement noise.Since the real system is modeled as a time-varying system,the forgetting factor is introduced as well to cope with measured data by setting different weights.For the implementation,KingView is adopted for data acquisition,with friendly human machine interface design,and MATLAB is used to carry out the on-line prediction computing.In the ice storage system,DDE technique is applied for the real time data exchange between the configuration software and MATLAB.Experimental results demonstrate that the developed predictor works well in energy prediction of the ice storage system.


The present invention relates to a kind of preparation method of polyester filament, especially relate to a kind of preparation method of colorized fire-retardant delustering hollow polyester filament.It mainly is to solve existing in prior technology Masterbatch, delustering agent are joined in the viscosity of melt can have influence on spinning in the fire-retardant slice time and the process the friction of equipment, therefore can't prepare the technical problem of the polyster fibre that has coloured, fire-retardant and mat finish etc.Preparation method of the present invention is: add the copolymerization fire retardant in the preparation process of polyester slice, thereby form fire-retardant slice; Respectively fire-retardant slice, Masterbatch, delustring master batch are carried out pre-crystallization, drying, evaporate moisture; Fire-retardant slice is mixed with Masterbatch, delustring master batch, feed twin (double) screw extruder and carry out heating and melting, fused mass is filtered mixing, metering distribution, the spray silk becomes tow again; Tow by the lateral blowing cooling forming, is oiled, gets product after the drawing-off, network, coiling through oil tanker.


This article seeks to explore the determinants of China-ROK relations during the period 1993–2018, employing event data and statistical analysis. The analysis found that China's trade dependence on ROK, and vice versa, had a positive effect on China-ROK relations. The relations were also positively affected by China's economic development. In contrast, the relations were negatively affected as China's population aged and while conservative administrations governed ROK. The empirical findings of this article provide essential insights, identifying the factors that promote or hinder the development of cooperative China-ROK relations, suggesting guidelines to policymakers on both sides.


Varying coefficient models result from generalized linear models by allowing the parameter of the linear predictor to vary across some additional explanatory quantity called effect modifier. While Hastie and Tibshirani (1993) have used spline smoothing techniques in varying-coefficient models with univariate response here the local likelihood approach is considered within the framework of multivariate generalized models. The local likelihood approach has several advantages. It allows the derivation of asymptotic properties under weak assumptions, consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimates are shown under rather general conditions. The estimation procedure may be performed with standard software. This holds even for the additive bias reduction method which is proposed. The results are given for continuous effect modifiers and asymptotically optimal rates of smoothing are derived. An alternative normalization of weights is proposed which corresponds to the augmentation of the information supplied by the observation. A data example demonstrates the applicability of the results.


Accurate electron-impact differential cross sections for various optically forbidden transitions in Cu I, Mg II, and Zn II are used to calculate apparent generalized oscillator strengths (GOS's) in the electron-impact energy range 15less than or equal toEless than or equal to100 eV. Most curves of the GOS versus momentum transfer squared, K/sup 2/, appear compatible with the Lassettre-limit theorem. Extrapolation to the optical oscillator strength values is meaningless for the 15-eV curves of Mg II and Zn II for which the unphysical region is significant. The GOS minima, where they exist, near K/sup 2/..-->..0 are extremely important in assessing whether a given transition is interpretable in terms of the Born approximation.


In today's world, telecommunication is the field in which the maximum research work is being done and speech compression is the most vital part of communication. For high compression rate speech coders, voice excited linear predictive coding (VELP) is most widely used. This paper presents real time analysis of VELP by implementing it on TMS320C6711 DSP kit using Simulink RTW (real time workshop) which explains simulink model of VELP, VELP analysis, VELP synthesis, VELP implementation on DSP kit. VELP can be briefly explained as the signal is passed through analyzer, which generate the filter co-efficients and residual signal. The residual error signal has less redundancy than original speech signal and can be quantized by smaller number of bits than the original speech. The residual error signal along with the filter coefficients are transmitted to the receiver. At the receiver, the speech is reconstructed by passing the residual error signal through the synthesis filter. To model a human speech production system, all-pole model (also known as the linear prediction model) is used. For the real time analysis of VELP, it is implemented on DSP kit using MATLAB Simulink model


In this paper, we theoretically study the laser-induced modification of the vibrational parameters of a carbon dioxide molecule regarding its tunnel ionization. Our study predicts a 5% increase in the ionization rate in anti-Stokes channels that corresponds to pumping the Σu mode up to vai=10. The molecule is imparted with an additional energy from the pre-pumped vibrational states, which is absorbed during ionization. As a result, the tunneling rate increases. This amplification of tunnel ionization of the CO2 gas target can potentially be used for the laser separation of carbon isotopes.


A number of empirical Bayes models were developed to investigate the differential methylation analysis. However, it is not clear which empirical Bayes model performs best in differential methylation analysis. In this paper, five empirical Bayes models were constructed and applied to the differential methylation analysis of A2780 cells between before and after 1, 3, and 5 round of cisplatin treatment. The log-normal model with the background variance showed the lowest minimized negative log-likelihood. It inferred increasing number of differentially methylated loci from 1 to 3 to 5 rounds of cisplatin treatment on the A2780 cells, which was consistent to cisplatin resistant IC50 data. Among differentially methylated loci selected from each empirical model, three time dependent methylation patterns were defined: stochastic hypomethylation, stochastic hypermethylation, and random methylation. If the empirical Bayes model of the DNA methylation assumed log-normal distribution, both stochastically hypomethylated loci and stochastically hypermethylated loci were enriched with a number of transcription factor binding sites. Almost no TFBS enrichment was observed if the gamma distribution was assumed in the empirical Bayes model. In summary, by comparing the performances of the differential methylation analysis and the TFBS enrichment analysis, log-normal distribution is a better statistical assumption than the gamma distribution in the empirical Bayes model.


The neutron induced reactions on stable Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen isotopes are investigated by using the Talys1.4 toolkit with the default parameters. The neutron incident energy covers a range from 0.20 MeV to 85.00 MeV. For C-12 and N-14, the Talys1.4 results agree with the experimental data, while the parameters should be adjusted for O-16. Some E-n windows are found by comparing the main channels of n + C/N/O reactions, which induce element change. In these E-n windows, a specific element is activated to a different one while leaving the other element atoms unchanged. The results will facilitate the research of doping effects in organic materials by using neutron activation technique.


The main objective of this project on a three years period of time (2006-2009) is to delay the transition point appearance on the wing, and therefore to maintain most of laminar flow over the wing, equipped with a flexible skin on which actuators and sensors are installed. Control laws will relate pressures measured by optical fiber sensors to the displacements of the shape memory actuators, which will respond in order to maintain most of laminar flow over the wing. Wind tunnel tests will further allow analysis and validation of results obtained by simulations. This project is funded by CRIAQ, Thales Aerospace, and Bombardier Aerospace and is realized by the following partners: ETS, Ecole Polytechnique, IAR-NRC, Thales Aerospace and Bombardier Aerospace.


There exist a multitude of multimedia sources nowadays where audiovisual material is accompanied by labels. In many cases, the semantic content of these labels is not referring to the totality of the material they accompany; but only to a certain subset of it. Consider, for example, labels that refer to objects that are part of an image; or, alternatively, labels that refer to an event that is part of a video. Knowledge of the subset of the material to which the labels refer to can be very useful; for example, it can inform us regarding the detectability of the entity under the presence of selective occlusions or noise; or, it can be used to help segment out the referent from the material itself - and, among many other uses, to optimize the recognition of the entities that the words refer to. Towards these goals, in this paper we will present a method which allows such semantic spatiotemporal localization: given multiple instances of the material, and accompanying labels, we will produce subsets of the material which are most informative regarding the label; and which can be thought of as the spatiotemporally localized grounding of the concept represented by the words. The method is illustrated for the specific case of spatially localizing labels describing human faces or parts and artifacts of them; such as "beard", "glasses", "male", "old". No prior information about the spatial locus of the referents of these words is given; the algorithm blindly identifies the regions that are most informative for each label, and can be readily applied to robot vision.


There are serious deficiencies in economic business and management theories concerning the cybernetics of socioeconomic systems and countries when these theories are to be implemented to accelerate change from a routinized society and economy to an innovative one such as is needed for example in todays transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe CEE The Japanese experience with the total quality TQ concept of 1951 suggests that total quality is a potentially usable tool But the current practice of total quality management TQM reengineering and other contemporary management approaches demonstrates some deficiencies which demand that the concepts be refined Some ideas on how to make TQ M a more systemic and hence useful concept are suggested