Protected areas (PAs) are a cornerstone for conservation biodiversity. Madagascar, as a hotspot for biodiversity, has a network of 114 terrestrial protected areas covering the main forest types occurring on the island. Deforestation continues unabated despite the network covering 11% of the island. Here we present a case study approach reporting on four PAs from the humid forests, dry western forests, and southwestern dry and spiny forests and thickets. To describe deforestation in and around the case sites, we have considered a time window of 30 years for analysis, focusing on six years with reliable data: 1990, 2000, 2010, 2015 (the year of latest PA network update), and 2017. We have considered forest versus other land covers within the PAs in "buffers" at a distance of 500 m, 2.5 km, 5 km, and 10 km from the border of the PA. These buffers were set from the border towards the center of the PA (inside the PAs) and from the border outside the PAs. The smallest PAs, Kasijy (IUCN IV), and Behara Tranomaro (no IUCN category), showed the least forest loss. Tsaratanana (IUCN I) had the highest deforestation rates within the last two years of analysis, with deforestation concentrated in the core area. Ranobe PK-32 (no IUCN category), originally with the largest forest extent, has lost most of its forest cover and showed the highest annual deforestation rate (3.5%) between 2015 and 2017. All four cases prove to be very challenging to manage. Future conservation activities require tailored interventions to account for site-specific current and potential future threats, as detailed in this contribution.


Abstract Takayasu arteritis (TA) is an idiopathic inflammatory vasculitis mostly affecting young females in the second or third decades of life. Corticosteroids and conventional immunosuppressants remain the mainstay of treatment for TA, but refractory cases are dealt with biological agents. The high cost and longer duration of therapy are issues of concern. Here, we report a case of a patient with refractory TA who underwent successful treatment with tocilizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody against interleukin-6 receptor.


Moral hazard comes from people's opportunism inclination, is to bring artificial disadvantageous consequence risk to artificial disadvantageous consequence risk others and society. Moral hazard frequency buying insurance the field happens in social insurance is high , scatter most bring about the loss maximum , keep watch degree of difficulty broadly most, also maximal. The as- sured tries to make use of the information advantage that self grasps, before the behavior running after the at the same time that oneself beneficial result maximizes doing out the benefit damaging an assurer. Existence is all corresponding on all moral hazard projects in social insurance behaviour and damage. Specifically for the cause that moral hazard produces in social insurance,respond to the moral hazard keeping social insurance within limits from aspect such as perfect social.


Alan Alexander Milne was born 18 January 1882 and died 31 January 1956, yet the characters he created have timeless appeal. Here are a few ideas for introducing his books to the children you care for.


Stall characteristics and stall cell behavior in a linear cascades system of a single stage axial compressor are presented by applying a numerical analysis of compressible N-S equations. The system consists of a rotor and a stator, where flow is assumed to be periodic over six blades and ten vanes respectively. Although the number of blades and vanes per period is much less than that in the real-rig, and the analysis is conducted in a laminar viscosity mode, computed stage performance from normal operation to deep stall agrees fairly well with experimental data. In deep stall, rotor cell propagates in linkage with stator cell at a computed speed of 65 % of the rotor speed. This speed is considerably close to the measured value of 55 %. Stall cell propagation is discussed on flow patterns showing stall development, stall induction in the follower blade and interaction between the rotor and stator.


34 Background: The National Academy of Medicine recommends that cancer patients be informed of their prognosis to enable informed treatment decisions, but research shows few patients receive this information. This problem is greater for minorities, who experience poorer quality clinical communication and end-of-life care relative to white patients. This study describes patient-oncologist discussions about treatment goals/prognosis during clinic visits with African American patients.

METHODS
Data were from a larger study of communication between African Americans and medical oncologists at two cancer hospitals in Detroit, MI. The present study included video recordings/transcripts of clinic visits with patients with Stage III (n=20) or IV (n=6) cancer and their oncologists (n=9). Two investigators read the transcripts independently to determine whether treatment goals and/or prognosis were mentioned; disagreement was resolved through discussion. Discourse analysis was conducted to describe interactional strategies oncologists used to discuss or avoid discussing these topics.

RESULTS
Treatment goals were discussed during most visits (n=24; 92.3%); prognosis was discussed less frequently (n=19; 73.1%). Oncologists often used vague language to describe prognosis (e.g. prognosis is a bit worse in your case). Only one visit included a clear survival estimate. Oncologists used clear language when the goal was cure, but when describing other goals, they often used technical terms (e.g., reduce the risk of recurrence); imprecise terms (e.g., keep the cancer in check); and emphasized uncertainty (e.g., these lesions are suspicious). Oncologists missed opportunities to further explain or elicit patient questions or preferences by directing the discussion to the urgency and details of treatment.

CONCLUSIONS
Oncologists used ambiguous language to discuss treatment goals/prognosis and missed opportunities to discuss patient perspectives or other options, including palliative care. Interventions are needed to improve communication about these important topics, especially among minority patients with advanced cancer.


A method to characterize and model a microstrip line coupled with complementary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) is investigated. The detailed parameter extraction approach based on three characteristic frequencies is presented. Good agreement between the results of the equivalent circuit model and the full wave simulations supports the effectiveness of the proposed modelling methodology. In particular, it is found that the shunt capacitance in the equivalent circuit has a negative value which appears to contradict the general physical perception. The physical rationality of the problem is discussed and justified. It is found that the negative capacitance is a natural part required to approximate more closely the distributed nature of the CSRR-loaded microstrip line and the whole equivalent circuit still satisfies Foster's reactance theorem. To extract the effective permittivity of the CSRR-loaded microstrip, the dielectric window concept and the effective medium theory are both applied. Both their results show the negative permittivity at the vicinity of the resonance. Finally, the application of the CSRRs in microstip highpass filters is presented to highlight the unique features of the CSRRs and the validity of their equivalent circuit descriptions. Compared with conventional structures, the proposed highpass filters not only have via free structure but also exhibit extremely steep out-of-band rejection. This may lead to useful applications.


The impact of momentum anisotropy on the heavy quark transport coefficients due to collisional and radiative processes in the QCD medium has been studied within the ambit of kinetic theory. Anisotropic aspects (momentum) are incorporated into the heavy quark dynamics through the non-equilibrium momentum distribution function of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons. These non-equilibrium distribution functions that encode the physics of momentum anisotropy and turbulent chromo-fields have been obtained by solving the ensemble-averaged diffusive Vlasov-Boltzmann equation. The momentum dependence of heavy quark transport coefficients in the medium is seen to be sensitive to the strength of the anisotropy for both collisional and radiative processes. In addition, the collisional and radiative energy loss of the heavy quark in the anisotropic hot QCD medium have been analyzed. The effects of anisotropy on the drag and diffusion coefficients may have a visible impact on the measured observables associated with heavy quarks, such as the nuclear suppression factor and flow coefficients in high-energetic heavy-ion collisions at the RHIC and LHC.


I have read "Early Dual Versus Mono Antiplatelet Therapy for Acute Non-Cardioembolic Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" by Wong and colleagues1 with great interest. In this meta-analysis, the authors included 14 randomized, controlled trials (9012 patients) comparing dual versus mono antiplatelet therapy for acute noncardioembolic ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) within 3 days of ictus. They found that when compared with mono antiplatelet therapy, dual therapy was associated with a reduction in stroke recurrence, and composite vascular events, but without a significant increase in the risk of major bleeding. As the authors state, …


In the following investigation the modeling of the complete electromechanical system of a doubly fed induction machine is discussed for power production/electric propulsion purposes, when being incorporated as a shaft generator into a ship's system. When the doubly fed induction machine serves as a power production machine, contributes to lower emission of CO2 and fuel saving since its capable of working at different speed (lower) than synchronous. This coincide with the enforcement with which the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the EU demand reduction of Ship's emissions. The final goal within the frame of this paper is the development of a reliable mathematical model for the mechanical system which includes rotor dynamics and dynamics of tilting-pad journal bearings. The rotor dynamics are expressed in terms of complex variables for the planar coordinates. The total approach aspires to the development of a well established basis for studying the interactions between the electrical and mechanical subsystems and capable of expanding with more complicated models suitable for a reliable design or analysis of various types of faults.


A new technique is presented for the recycling of flexible pavements, half-way between the two recycling techniques used until now since it takes advantage of the machinery used for hot recycling, but using a cold recycling binder. Tests have been made at laboratory scale, where good characteristics of the recycled mixes were noticed, this leading to the execution of two full scale trials, the first in a batch-type plant and the second one in a continuous plant. In both cases, the analysis of the core samples confirmed the good expectations from the laboratory data. We think we are in front of a new technique for the use of the aged asphalt mixes without the curing problems of cold recycled mixes and with the possibility of recycling 100% of the mix in plant, greatly exceeding the rate obtained with hot recycling. As for the rest of the recycling techniques, it allows energy and binder savings as well as it avoids the opening of new quarries since it uses those of the aged mix. For the covering abstract see ITRD E121480.


"Analog Electronic Technology" is a significant technologic fundamental course,its teaching contents and methods have been reforming at all times.Some beneficial attempts are proposed in this paper.The analysis and research are carried out on the aspects as follow,the cooperation between blackboard and multimedia,the difficultles of priliminary contents to students, the necessary of analog design projects,the inspiration of interests and the teacher's viewpoint etc.As a consequence,the students get higher interests and understand the contents better,so good teaching result has been obtained.


Different starch types were examined for their effects on dilute model oil-in-water systems containing casein. Inclusion of the higher amylose starch types of maize, wheat and potato starch resulted in the greatest increase in emulsion particle size (0.78-89μm) compared to the control (0.42μm), which had no starch. All starch types significantly increased the viscosity and particle sizes of the emulsions; however the increase was not enough to positively influence the stability of the emulsion. Potato starch caused the greatest reduction in emulsion stability. Emulsions containing waxy-maize starch were generally most like the control in terms of having similar particle sizes, and caused the smallest increases in apparent viscosities. Results indicate that the amylose fraction of the starches used may have been the principle cause of emulsion destabilisation.


The Military Physical Education Center, known by the abbreviation Pusdikjasmil, is an implementation body that is directly under the TNI AD. Pusdikjas has the task of providing education in the military physical field to support the duties of the Indonesian Army. At the Pusdikjas agency, student data is obtained from the addition of students attending education each year. The process of admitting students to Pusdikjas institutions produces abundant value data and is repeated every year. By using data mining techniques, abundant student data can be grouped and analyzed to find information that is useful for Pusdikjas agencies. The algorithm used in this research is K-means clustering. The data used from 2018 - 2022 was 1428 data on coaching education students, with the variables used being NRP, attitude & and behavior, knowledge & and skills, and physical. Processed using the JavaScript programming language, this research produces optimal clusters, namely 2 clusters. cluster 1 with a total data of 751 students in cluster 1 describes a very satisfactory category of students, and cluster 2 with total data of 676 students. Cluster 2 describes the satisfactory student category. As for testing the quality of the clusters contained in the system using silhouette with results reaching 0.6543347543126016.


Abstract: The discharge of neurons in the deeper layers of the superior colliculus (SC) was studied while monkeys performed two visual discrimination tasks that required different amounts of cognitive processing. In a search paradigm the animal's task was to saccade to the location of an odd‐colored stimulus located in an array of distractors of uniform color (pop‐out visual search). The visual stimuli remained on the screen as the discrimination process distinguished target from distractors. In a choice response task the color of a central cue signaled which stimulus from a previously presented array of colored stimuli was to be the target of a saccade. The stimulus array was turned off well before the central cue was presented. Most neurons showed activity aligned on both the visual input and the motor response in single‐target tasks. Many of these same neurons showed additional discharge that was correlated with the required higher‐level decision processes in both of these more natural visual tasks. In the case of pop‐out search the SC has been shown to be functionally involved in the decision processes. The cue‐aligned activity in SC in the choice response task is surprising because no transient visual stimulus appeared in the response field of the neuron.


BACKGROUND
Chia oil (CO) is popular for being the richest vegetable source of α-linolenic acid (60-66 %). However, this content of polyunsaturated fatty acids limits the incorporation of bulk CO in food products due to its high probability of oxidation. This justifies the study of alternative wall materials for microencapsulation. No reports regarding the use of dairy protein/vegetable protein/polysaccharide blends as wall material for the microencapsulation of CO were published. Therefore, this work analyzed the behavior of a whey protein concentrate (WPC)/soy protein isolate (SPI)/arabic gum (AG) blend as wall material. The complex coacervation (CC) process was studied: pH (4.0); total solid content (30% w/v); WPC/SPI/AG ratio (8/1/1 w/w/w); stirring speed (600 rpm) and time (30 min); room temperature.

RESULTS
The oxidative stability index (OSI) of CO (3.25±0.16 h) was significantly increased after microencapsulation (around 4 times higher). Besides the well-known matrix-forming ability of AG, WPC helped increase the OSI of microencapsulated oils. Meanwhile, SPI contributed to the increase of the encapsulation efficiency due to its high viscosity. Enhanced properties were observed with CC: encapsulation efficiency (up to 79.88%), OSIs (from 11.25 to 12.52 h) and thermal stability of microcapsules given by the denaturation peak temperatures of WPC (from 77.12 to 86.00 °C). No significant differences were observed in the fatty acid composition of bulk and microencapsulated oils.

CONCLUSION
Microcapsules developed from complex coacervates based on the ternary blend represent promising omega-3-rich carriers for being incorporated into functional foods. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


1. A new Germany in Europe? 2. Unification and 'Germany in Europe' 3. Continuity in trade and internal market 4. Mixed outcomes in energy and environment 5. Change in competition policy 6. Change in structural funds and the CAP 7. A new Germany in Europe.


Primary cilia have been associated with fluid sensing capacities of various epithelial cells. These microtubule containing membrane protrusions are tightly connected to the cytoskeleton through the microtubule organizing center that is part of the perinuclear centrosome complex. In vitro, the presence of cilia has been associated to fluid shear stress.


Air transport in general and balloon transport in particular have an effective role in transporting passengers and goods from one place to another as well as clearly saving effort and time. The invention of the balloon was one of the technological revolutions in the field of air transport, which played a clear role in revitalizing the domestic tourism movement for many countries. The entry of the balloon into the city of Luxor has caused a major leap in the field of tourism development through seeing many of the monuments spread from the air. That is, seeing these monuments in their natural state, and many nationalities use the balloon in Luxor for the purpose of tourism, which is in the early morning or at the end of the day.


Soybean is a crop of great importance for Brazil, and knowledge of their nutritional status allows production and high quality products. Thus, the present work aimed to evaluate the culture of the soybean cv. BRSMG 68 (Vencedora), submitted to macronutrients omission on the development, nutritional status and the visual symptomatology of nutrient deficiency. The design used was completely randomized, with seven treatments that corresponded to the complete (macro and micronutrients) solution and the individual omission of N, P, K, Ca, Mg and S. The treatments were applied two weeks after the emergency of the soybean. The nutrient solution was constantly oxygenated and replaced weekly, and the pH monitored daily remained around 5. After six weeks of application of the treatments, the height of the plants, number of leaves, stem diameter was evaluated, matter dry accumulated in the roots, it leaves aerial and the nutritional state and the characterization of the visual symptoms. The macronutrient deficiency promoted a decrease in production of root and shoot dry mass of soybean cultivar BRSMG 68 (Vencedora) in nutrient solution, for the full treatment. The most limiting nutrient for dry matter production of soybean compared to complete treatment were N, S and K, with decreases of 90, 76 and 73%, respectively. Individual omissions resulted in morphological changes, which were translated by characteristic visual symptoms of nutritional deficiency of the respective nutrient.


Asymptotic limits of Negative Group Delay (NGD) in linear causal media satisfying Kramers-Kronig relations are investigated. Even though there is no limit on the NGD-bandwidth product of a linear medium, it is shown that the out-of-band to center frequency amplitude ratio, or out-of-band gain, increases with the NGD-bandwidth product, and is proportional to the amplitude of undesired transients when waveforms with deflned \turn on/ofi" times propagate in the media. The optimal dispersion characteristic exhibiting NGD, which maximizes the NGD-bandwidth product as a function of the out-of-band gain, is obtained through Kramers- Kronig relations. It is shown that the NGD-bandwidth product has an upper asymptotic limit proportional to the square root of the logarithm of the maximum out-of-band gain. The derived NGD- bandwidth upper asymptotic limit of the optimally engineered causal dispersion characteristic is validated with two examples of physical media, a Lorentzian dielectric medium, and an artiflcially fabricated loaded transmission line medium.


In an experiment with a neutral detector in the electron-positron storage ring VEPP-2M on the basis of the interference behavior of the cross section for the reaction e/sup +/e/sup -/..--> pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/ in the region of the phi meson we have measured the probability of the decay phi..--> pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/B(phi..--> pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/) = (0.63/sup +0.37//sub -0.28/) x 10/sup -4/ and the phase of the interference with the nonresonance amplitude psi = -20 +- 13/sup 0/.


Personality profiling has long been used in psychology to predict life outcomes. Recently, automatic detection of personality traits from written messages has gained significant attention in computational linguistics and natural language processing communities, due to its applicability in various fields. In this survey, we show the trajectory of research towards automatic personality detection from purely psychology approaches, through psycholinguistics, to the recent purely natural language processing approaches on large datasets automatically extracted from social media. We point out what has been gained and what lost during that trajectory, and show what can be realistic expectations in the field.


The aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of expanded noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT‐plus) for fetal chromosome abnormalities in the second trimester (12–26 weeks). We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 39,580 pregnancies with NIPT‐plus. Screening positive cases were diagnosed with karyotyping and single‐nucleotide polymorphism array analysis (SNP array)/copy number variation sequencing (CNV‐seq) with follow‐up. The positive predictive values (PPVs) of trisomy 21, 18, and 13 (T21, T18, and T13), sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs), and microdeletion and microduplication syndromes (MMS) by NIPT‐plus were recorded. We assessed the predictive value of NIPT‐plus based on maternal age and conventional indications. Of 39,580 pregnancies with NIPT‐plus, 511 (1.3%) had prenatal screening positive results of fetal chromosome abnormality, of which 87.7% (448/511) had invasive prenatal diagnosis. NIPT‐plus performed better in predicting fetal SCAs and chromosome aneuploidies for pregnancies with advanced maternal age (AMA) than young maternal age (YMA). Besides, the PPVs of T21, T13, and chromosome aneuploidies showed an upward trend when comparison was based on maternal age in 5‐year subintervals. The termination rates of 45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, and 47,XYY were 100% (11/11), 20.0% (3/15), 91.7% (22/24), and 7.1% (1/14) with postnatal follow‐up. Last but not least, the PPV for MMS is 41.7% (30/72), which may have a positive correlation between the size of CNVs. Pregnant women with screen‐positive results for common trisomies (T13, T18, and T21) were more willing to conduct invasive prenatal diagnosis compared to those with positive results for SCAs or MMS. However, the current study demonstrated SCAs and MMS had the lowest PPV. This highlights the importance of confirmatory prenatal diagnosis in those patients and the potential impact on genetic counseling and informative decision‐making.


Cable harness production medium comprising: at least one assist data display screen to the production of cable harnesses, at least one attachment surface associated with said at least one display screen, said at least one surface attachment being configured to receive at least one cable duct element.


Objective To study first aid methods of brain-heart syndrome and reduce the mortality from brain-heart syndrome.Methods With first aid emergency department treatment.Downregulation blood pressure and internal cerebral pressure.Control cerebral hypertrophy.Treatment cerebral bleed.At the same time preserve cardiac muscle.Improving myocardial nutrition,impede arrhythmia and cardiac shock.Immediately cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation.Results 64 cases were introduced to hospital by first aid treatment.32 cases were died.Conclusion It is necessary of taking active measures immediately,fast and effective emergency treatment to brain-heart syndrome.


Objective To examine whether maternal low blood glucose (BG), low body mass index (BMI) and small stature have a joint effect on the risk of delivery of a small-for-gestational age (SGA) infant. Design Women from a perinatal cohort were followed up from receiving perinatal healthcare to giving birth. Setting Beichen District, Tianjin, China between June 2011 and October 2012. Participants 1572 women aged 19–39 years with valid values of stature, BMI and BG level at gestational diabetes mellitus screening (gestational weeks 24–28), glucose challenge test <7.8 mmol/L and singleton birth (≥37 weeks' gestation). Main outcome measures SGA was defined as birth weight <10th centile for gender separated gestational age of Tianjin singletons. Results 164 neonates (10.4%) were identified as SGA. From multiple logistic regression models, the ORs (95% CI) of delivery of SGA were 0.84 (0.72 to 0.98), 0.61 (0.49 to 0.74) and 0.64 (0.54 to 0.76) for every 1 SD increase in maternal BG, BMI and stature, respectively. When dichotomises, maternal BG (<6.0 vs ≥6.0 mmol/L), BMI (<24 vs ≥24 kg/m2) and stature (<160.0 vs ≥160.0 cm), those with BG, BMI and stature all in the lower categories had ∼8 times higher odds of delivering an SGA neonate (OR (95% CI) 8.01 (3.78 to 16.96)) relative to the reference that had BG, BMI and stature all in the high categories. The odds for an SGA delivery among women who had any 2 variables in the lower categories were ∼2–4 times higher. Conclusions Low maternal BG is associated with an increased risk of having an SGA infant. The risk of SGA is significantly increased when the mother is also short and has a low BMI. This may be a useful clinical tool to identify women at higher risk for having an SGA infant at delivery.


For vector maps, obtaining precise locations to hide the data integrity marker with existing fragile watermarking algorithms is technically challenging. Using a fragile watermarking technique based on a LSB data insertion, a feature-based fragile watermarking algorithm that inserts watermark for each feature and detects the tampered features with high accuracy was proposed. In the proposed algorithm, the watermark calculation used the hash function for each feature as the data integrity marker, and generated new vertices on the feature to embed the watermarks. While the insertion watermark for each features ensures superior precision of location to verify the data integrity on the map, the proposed algorithm also maintains the original content the map. The invisibility test showed good results, demonstrated by RMSE values close to zero. This scheme produces a distortion watermarked map on a scale of 10-7-10-8 meter in the real world. This characteristic is influenced by the precision parameter and number of digit LSB insertion. The experimental results also shows that the proposed algorithm can detect attacks such as vertex/ feature modification, vertex/feature addition, and vertex/feature deletion. A consequence of the algorithm is an increasing in file size of the watermarked maps, but in a range less than 200%.


Abstract : Chronic disease management is the process of evaluating and treating a medical condition or disease state which can not be readily cured so as to minimize it's negative impact on the individual. Examples of chronic disease management include the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, and asthma. In the management of these diseases, the goal of treatment is not to simply try to maintain an ideal blood pressure or blood sugar. but to reduce the risk of early mortality and morbidity associated with these disease states and to keep the individual as functional as possible. To do so, the treating physician must periodically evaluate the patient to assess his or her functional status and end-organ status as well as review co-morbid conditions and risk factors which might contribute to the progression of the patient's disease state. The following paper is a discussion of chronic disease management in the family practice selling. This paper discusses chronic disease management in the family practice selling.


Studies on the drag of 28 kinds of cylinder-shaped particles with different sizes and materials were experimentally carried out in steady upward gas flow. The drags were determined by high-resoluti...


The extent of damage by cutworm, Agrotis ipsilon (Hufn.) on 12 hybrids and cultivars revealed that the foliage damage was first observed during the third week of December and increased upto second week of January while tuber damage was first recorded in the fourth week of December and continued to increase till harvest. Varieties showed more foliage damage as compared to hybrids. Kufri Chandramukhi suffered maximum foliage damage (2.66%) while hybrid JN 2626 suffered minimum damage (0.90%). Medium sized tubers were more prone to cutworm damage as compared to small and large sized tubers. Kufri Chandramukhi had maximum yield losses i.e. 40.50 and 42.75 q/ha on 75 and 90 days after planting (DAP), respectively. JN 2626 hybrid showed lowest yield losses i.e. 12.75 and 13.00 q/ha on 75 and 90 DAP, respectively.


A key component in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser optic system is the amplifier frame assembly unit (FAU). The cast aluminum top plate that supports the FAU is required to withstand loads that would occur during an earthquake with a recurrence period of 1000 years. The stringent seismic requirements placed on the FAU top plate induced a study of the cast aluminum material used in the top plate. Ultrasonic testing was used to aid in characterizing the aluminum material used in the plates. This report documents the work performed using contact ultrasonic testing to characterize the FAU top plate material. The ultrasonic work reported here had 3 objectives: (1) inspect the plate material before cyclic testing conducted at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER); (2) determine the overall quality of individual plates; and (3) detect large defects in critical areas of individual plates. Section III, ''Pre-cyclic test inspection'', describes work performed in support of Objective 1. Section IV, ''Ultrasonic field measurements'', describes work performed in support of Objectives 2 and 3.


Dyslipidemia is an abnormal condition of cholesterol levels. Dyslipidemia triggers various serious diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes with co-morbidities. Dyslipidemia was closely correlated with metabolic syndrome disorders such as obesity. There are several causes of dyslipidemia, such as diet, smoking, lack of exercise, and genetics. Until 2018, the prevalence of dyslipidemia in Indonesia was still high, marked by an increase in LDL and total cholesterol, as well as an increase in detected cases of coronary heart disease. Meta-analytical studies revealed that dyslipidemia was strongly suspected to be correlated with an increase in Covid-19 morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this community service activity is as a means of education and outreach to the community to increase knowledge about dyslipidemia and efforts to control it through a healthy lifestyle and proper and regular exercise. The activity was carried out through a webinar on August 8, 2021, with the theme "Fit During a Pandemic, Free of High Cholesterol", attended by approximately 78 registered participants with three material topics. Evaluation of activities in the form of pre-post-test of knowledge of dyslipidemia, post-test of healthy lifestyle attitudes, and questionnaires for the implementation of the webinar which were fulfilled by 29 participants. The results of the Wilcoxon test showed that there was no significant difference in knowledge between before and after attending the webinar. The knowledge of the participant was elevates from 82.8% to 86.2% after attending the webinar. The results of the post-test analysis on attitudes showed that 93.3% of


The conditions on the effective (de Sitter space) scalar potential that are required to obtain a successful new-inflationary-Universe scenario are codified into a general prescription. These conditions ensure that sufficient inflation, density fluctuations of an acceptable magnitude, and reheating to a high enough temperature to produce the astrophysically observed baryon asymmetry result. We exemplify our prescription for a quartic potential and show that if the scalar field is a gauge singlet, then it is possible to tune the parameters of the potential to satisfy the conditions we have prescribed.


Abstract The introduction of casemix funding for Australian acute health care services has challenged Social Work to demonstrate clear reporting mechanisms, demonstrate effective practice and to justify interventions provided. The term 'casemix' is used to describe the mix and type of patients treated by a hospital or other health care services. There is wide acknowledgement that the procedure-based system of Diagnosis Related Groupings (DRGs) is grounded in a medical/illness perspective and is unsatisfactory in describing and predicting the activity of Social Work and other allied health professions in health care service delivery. The National Allied Health Casemix Committee was established in 1991 as the peak body to represent allied health professions in matters related to casemix classification. This Committee has pioneered a nationally consistent, patient-centred information system for allied health. This paper describes the classification systems and codes developed for Social Work, which includes a minimum data set, a classification hierarchy, the set of activity (input) codes and 'indicator for intervention' codes. The advantages and limitations of the system are also discussed.


The paper studies existing approaches and methods used in the task of objects tracking on video, which is one of the most important tasks facing both visual data analysis systems as a whole and road traffic control systems mounted on moving participants of the scene directly (including self-driving vehicles). The proposed approach is used for road scene perspective transform estimation, the search area location, and works in conjunction with a convolutional neural network for objects tracking. The proposed approach helps significantly increase tracking efficiency (on average 10 %, up to 20 % for certain object classes) on a subset of the road scenes videos shot from a moving vehicle and can be used in practice in environment perception modules mounted directly to vehicles.


The paper presents two novel PM-OLED column driver circuits with different grayscale modulation methods and pre-charge methods. There are two major kinds of grayscale modulation methods: pulse width modulation (PWM) method and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) method. They have the same effect for OLED grayscale display. The paper compares these two methods in circuit and layout design, then expatiates on the voltage and current pre-charge, and designs two novel pre-charge methods corresponding to these two column driver circuits. Simulation and layout results indicate the layout area of the former is about a half of that of the latter and the power dissipation of the latter is about a third of that of the former.


Abstract In this paper, a modular waveguide filter platform suitable for educational and prototyping purposes is presented. The waveguide filter platform is dimensioned to work in the F-band (4.9–7.05 GHz). The design of the platform is discussed and versatile application possibilities are shown in many examples. The platform can be used to realize generalized Chebyshev filters with or without cross-couplings by exploiting TE101 and TE102 mode cavities. Transmission zeros can be introduced by the utilization of wires or aperture couplings. Filter topologies based on the extracted pole technique can be examined as well. Small changes in the set-up also allow the realization of a gap waveguide filter, a diplexer set-up as well as filters with frequency-dependent coupling apertures. Most required components can either be purchased cheaply or be manufactured with a three-dimensional printer.


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The utility model discloses a fixing device for camshaft engines. The fixing device comprises a supporting plate, a first supporting piece and a second supporting piece. One of two opposite sides of the supporting plate is provided with at least two first mounting positions, and the other side is provided with at least one second mounting position. The first supporting piece is arranged in one of the first mounting positions and fixed to the supporting plate. The second supporting piece is arranged in one of the second mounting positions and fixed to the supporting plate. The first supporting piece is provided with a first clamping groove. The second supporting piece is provided with a second clamping groove. The fixing device can meet the requirements for the sizes of camshafts of multiple types of engines, and therefore the universality of the fixing device for the camshaft engines is achieved.


Service Providers (SP) have deployed virtualized network functions (VNFs) as key elements for handling traffic in the SP domain. Packets are steered to follow a certain order through a set of VNFs before reaching their destination. The provision of such chaining is called Service Function Chaining (SFC). However, current SFC implementations require complex management and are tailored to specific platforms or devices. In this paper, we propose PhantomSFC, a fully virtualized SFC architecture that aims to clearly decouple the service plane from the underlying network. The approach enables SFC to be network agnostic, allowing it to be deployed in multiple scenarios. Besides, SPs can scale resources allocated to SFC execution according to service demands. A proof-of-concept (PoC) prototype of the PhantomSFC architecture is built as a DPDK application to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. Results show it can handle SFC operation with reasonable performance, considering latency, jitter, and throughput.


This study aimed to describe home literacy (HL) activities of Spanish-/English-speaking children of low–socioeconomic status backgrounds and examine the relationship between HL and performance on standardized assessments. Parents of 65 dual-language learners (DLLs) in kindergarten completed an HL questionnaire. Parents reported an average of 17 books at home and engaged in active HL activities for 24 minutes a day on average. The relations between HL activities and performance were evaluated using correlations and regression. Analyses revealed a significant relation between HL and children's language abilities, as measured by a bilingual measure of morphosyntax and semantics. Children's reported interest in reading was also positively associated with their phonological awareness skills. HL was significantly related to child interest in reading and language performance. These findings suggest that home literacy plays a role in the language and literacy development of DLLs.


Work function measurement for adsorption of diatomic I, Br and Cl on W crystal using electron beam retarding potential method


Niobium junctions based on a step milled onto SiO2/Si substrates were fabricated by patterning niobium thin films of thickness d = 25–200 nm to form step-edge junctions of height h = 25–200 nm and length L = 1.5–20 µm. Measurements of the current–voltage (I–V) characteristics reveal a strong dependence on the ratio d/h (0.25–5.3), with junctions changing from non-hysteretic to strongly hysteretic in I–V as d/h changes from less than to greater than unity. The temperature dependence of Ic(T = 1.5–7 K) shows a step-like behavior that is indicative of complex vortex motion within the junctions.


This article, originally a presentation at the International Union of Marine Insurance Conference held in London in September 1990, discusses efforts underway by ship management companies, in consultation with classification societies, to cooperatively devise self-regulatory codes that would enable professional performance to be recognized at the point of contracting a manager. It is suggested that these codes be recognized by both insurers and port States, so that effective qualitative judgments of performance can be the basis for both insurance premiums and liability defenses.


We read with great interest the meta-analysis by Mistry et al1 evaluating the impact of pre-treatment with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) on the outcomes of patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing endovascular thrombectomy (ET) procedures. Even though current recommendations advocate that IVT pre-treatment should be offered to all eligible patients with large vessel occlusions before the initiation of endovascular reperfusion therapies, the comparative efficacy of direct ET versus bridging therapy (IVT+ET) in large vessel occlusions represents one of the most controversial topics of acute stroke care.

This meta-analysis1 included 13 cohorts (12 observational studies and 1 individual patient data meta-analysis of 5 randomized controlled clinical trials) and a total of 3553 patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with ET (62.5% with IVT pre-treatment). The investigators reported that bridging therapy was associated with higher rates of successful recanalization …


Probiotics are the health promoting viable microorganisms that exhibit a beneficial effect on the health of the host on ingestion viable microorganisms. For the isolation of Lactobacillus strains with probiotic potentials, a total of 65milk samples (25 frombuffalo and 40 fromcowmilk) were analyzed and 44 isolates were identified as LacticAcid Bacteria (LAB) on the basis of morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics. These LABswere tested for antimicrobial potentials against E.coli (MTCC 443), bile tolerance and acid tolerance and 16 isolates passed these tests satisfactorily. These isolates included Lactobacillus plantarum (45%), L.acidophilus (20%), L.bulgaricus (12%), L.lactis (12%) and L.rhamnosus (12%). The data showed that these LAB isolates could be used as potential probiotics fromthe milk of domestic animals for food fortification.


Abstract. In this paper I present new methods for bias adjustment and statistical downscaling that are tailored to the requirements of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP). In comparison to their predecessors, the new methods allow for a more robust bias adjustment of extreme values, preserve trends more accurately across quantiles, and facilitate a clearer separation of bias adjustment and statistical downscaling. The new statistical downscaling method is stochastic and better at adjusting spatial variability than the old interpolation method. Improvements in bias adjustment and trend preservation are demonstrated in a cross-validation framework.


The English translation of Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere converges with a recent trend toward the revival of the 'political culture concept" in the social sciences. Surprisingly, Habermas's account of the Western bourgeois public sphere has much in common with the original political culture concept associated with Parsonian modernization theory in the 1950s and 1960s. In both cases, the concept of political culture is used in a way that is neither political nor cultural. Explaining this peculiarity is the central problem addressed in this article and one to follow. I hypothesize that this is the case because the concept itself is embedded in an historically constituted political culture (here called a conceptual network)-a structured web of conceptual relationships that combine into Anglo-American citizenship theory. The method of an historical sociology of concept formation is introduced to analyze historically and empirically the internal constraints and dynamics of this conceptual network. The method draws from new work in cultural history and sociology, social studies, and network, narrative, and institutional analysis. This research yields three empirical findings: this conceptual network has a narrative structure, here called the Anglo-American citizenship story; this narrative is grafted onto an epistemology of social naturalism; and these elements combine in a metanarrative that continues to constrain empirical


The aim of the current research was to analyze the population structure and expression of KISS1 gene associated with reproductive traits through Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) level and DNA sequencing analysis based on KISS1 gene. Genotypes of 23 goat does consist of Kacang goats (n=7), Kejobong goats (n=8) and Senduro goats (n=8) were investigated using DNA sequencing, 16 out of 23 samples were synchronized to examine their FSH level using ELISA method. The data were analyzed using MEGA X software for DNA sequences and General Linier Model (GLM) for FSH plasma level. The phylogenetic tree showed the high homology between Indonesian native goats with other species showing a gene conservatism. A significantly higher FSH plasma levels were obtained from Kacang and Kejobong than Senduro goat (P = 0.002), litter size (LS) 3 than LS 1 (P = 0.0175), further CAATGCGCAACGCT haplotype and GA genotype at g.2459 G>A have a higher FSH plasma than other haplotypes and genotypes (P = 0.0027; P<0.0001) and are associated with high LS (3.0±0.18). Neither sample collection times nor parities have different significantly. The current trial indicated that CAATGCGCAACGCT haplotype and GA genotype at g.2459 G>A were correlated with reproductive traits.


Research carried out by the Environmental Defense Fund has shown that in Rocky Mountain states a linear, or one-to-one relationship exists between acid sulfates in rainfall and sulfur dioxide emissions from copper smelters located up to 1000 miles away. The study tracks wet deposition from eight sites that are part of a national monitoring network, and sulfur emissions from 10 smelters distant from the monitoring sites and located in four states nestled between the Sierra Mountains and the Continental Divide. The basic conclusion of the study is that the transport of pollutants from southern Arizona and Mexico contributes to acid rain in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. 1 figure.


In order to transform the need of continuous casting billets section for No.2 continuous caster and adjusting technology in Xinsteel steelmaking plant,hot charging roller way in the heating range and rough rolling pass from one to three are reformed in the case of no changing equipment.Meanwhile,it brings about the hot charging-hot conveying of continous casting billets.


Objective:To evaluate the effect of Indomethacin suppositories on albumin concentration and insulin resistance of post-operation patients with serious intra-abdominal infection.Methods:38 post-operation patients with serious intra-abdominal infection were divided into two groups randomly.One as treatment group(n=19)and the other as control group(n=19).Albumin,blood glucose,fasting insulin concentration were measured At 72 hours after the operation and 144 hours.Insulin resistance index was calculated using the homeostasis model assessment(HOMA).Finally,the results of two groups were analyzed.Results:The albumin concentration of Indomethacin group at 72 hours was significantly higher than that after 72 hours,Insulin resistance of 144 hours was lower than the control group(P0.05).Two groups were compared with no significant differences of fasting blood glucose levels(P0.05).Conclusion:Postoperative abdominal infection using indomethacin suppository can significantly reduce insulin resistance,and significantly reduced the decomposition of albumin.


In this paper we introduce a new subclass AΣ,mα of the bi-univalent function sense of Yamakawa in which both f and f–1 are m-fold symmetric analytic functions. The coefficient bounds for |am+1| and |a2m+1| of the subclass AΣ,mα also determined.


Spectral and morphological data for 282 Seyfert and emission-line galaxies spanning radio to X-ray wavelengths are compiled. The data include a large number of optical emission-line measurements which have not been reported previously. These data are intended to provide a convenient summary of the relevant properties of these galaxies, as well as a data base to search for correlations among the various parameters in order to obtain a better understanding of the active galaxy phenomenon. The paper presents the data and analyzes the distributions of various properties of Seyfert 1 and Seyfert 2 galaxies and starburst galaxies. It is found that Seyferts 2s have a higher 60 micron/forbidden O III 5007 A flux ratio than Seyfert 1s. This result, combined with the fact that Seyfert 2s are more heavily reddened, indicate that they have a higher dust content. It is also found that starburst nuclei are comparable to Seyfert 2s in far-infrared and 20 cm luminosities, although their optical spectra are markedly different.


In order to realize real-time surface vessels' video image sea-fog removal,a fast video image seafog removal method based on guided filtering is proposed.For a single image,according to the classical atmospheric scattering physical model,the dark channel prior is used to estimate atmospheric light and initial transmittance.Then the transmittance is optimized by guided filtering,and fast defogging is obtained by solving the atmospheric scattering physical model.For video images,the frame difference method and guided filtering are combined,and fast video defogging is realized by using guided filtering to estimate fog mask of video frames.Compared with other single image and frame by frame video image defogging algorithm from subjective and objective image quality evaluation,the simulation experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can realize fast single sea-fog defogging,and improve the efficiency of video defogging.


Traditional technology diffusion literature focuses on the diffusion of technologies within the extant manufacturing paradigm. By contrast, few studies have explored the determinants and mechanisms of technology diffusion when moving across manufacturing paradigms. In this article, therefore, we aim to explore the intrinsic and institutional factors, as well as the impact mechanism on technology diffusion in the context of manufacturing paradigm shift. Specifically, this article investigates the role of the government in this scenario. A firm-level survey is conducted to investigate the National Programme "Made in China 2025" and its first demonstration city Quanzhou. The data comes from multiple sources, including questionnaires, official statistics data, and patent databases. Logistical regression is used to analyze 236 valid observations. Results reveal that besides the intrinsic factors including the characteristics of general purpose technology (GPT) and economic expectation, GPT-oriented service platforms also have significant impacts on technology diffusion in a manufacturing paradigm shift. In addition, government interventions, especially indirect ones, have significant moderating effects on this influential mechanism. This study provides insight into how government can promote technology diffusion in a manufacturing paradigm shift. These results will be of interest to policy makers, industrialists, and academics.


Little attention has been given to the influence that social factors may have on biological rhythms. We maintain that this neglect stems from historical and technological circumstances in that most research in chronobiology has been aimed to discover the physiological basis for rhythmicity and that it is very difficult to study the rhythms of interacting animals. We review selected elements of the somewhat scattered literature that deals with social influences on circadian, ultradian and infradian rhythms. We find that social factors have been shown to result in the synchronization, desynchronization and disruption of biological rhythms in a wide range of organisms. By employing a time-lapse video tape recording system we were able to study the individual activity of interacting tegu lizards (Tupiranmbis teguixin). We found that some individuals demonstrated (1) social synchronization, (2) the formation of "time-territories", (3) free-running rhythms against a LD 12:12 lighting schedule, and (4) apparent arrhythmicity. We related these phenomena to the social hierarchy of the lizards. Lizards ranked intermediate often occupied time-territories separate from the dominant lizard, and under certain conditions the lowest ranking lizard exhibited a free-running rhythm that was completely uncoupled from the lighting cycle. Under other conditions the lowest ranking lizard was socially synchronized. Also using closed circuit television techniques, we studied the running wheel rhythms of three individually marked female laboratory rats housed in the same cage in continuous dim red light. The rats could compete for the running wheel by synchronizing their activity or minimize competition by desynchronizing their activity. An inspection of the raw activity data revealed that omega X was displaced from D and S, thus occupying a separate time-territory, while D and S were closely ranked socially and closely synchronized in time. Cosine curves were fit by computer to the data of each rat using the least squares method. The percent rhythm (the percent of the total variability explained by the cosine curve) and the period length (the duration of one complete cycle of the rhythmic variation) proved to be particularly useful. We found that the free-running period lengths of D and S were nearly identical while that of omega X was quite different. So omega X's rhythm was not only displaced but also uncoupled from D and S. While housed with D and S, omega X's percent rhythm was very low and erratic. However, when D and S were temporarily removed from the activity cage, the percent rhythm of omega X rose markedly and its period length increased to a value nearly identical to that of D and S from before. Upon reintroduction of D and S to the home cage, omega X became displaced from the latter : its percent rhythm dropped dramatically and its free-running period length was again much different from D and S. We explore the possibilities (1) that disturbances of the timing of rhythms could affect individual fitness at the level of ecological and social intergration, (2) that crowding may cause rhythm reschedulings and disruptions that produce effects similar to those documented in "jet-lag", (3) that time-territoriality could be a mechanism involved in the partitioning of resources among individuals in natural populations. Finally, (4) commonly housed animals even in controlled laboratory environments can modify one another's activity and perhaps physiological rhythms. This could confound attempts to control for biological rhythmicity using controlled lighting schedules. Thus, an awareness of the interaction of social behavior with rhythms may help physiologists and behaviorists to collect more reproducible data in the future.


Three topics are discussed in this article: 1. Water conservation, centered on the study of nutrient enrichment of water quality and measures of prevention and control; 2. Effect of hydraulic engineering on environment; 3. Urban and watershed environmental water conservancy. At the end of this paper, the strategic target of environmental construction of our country is presented.


A cosmological model is given that has good physical properties for the early and late universe but is a hypersurface in a flat five-dimensional manifold. The big bang can therefore be regarded as an effect of a choice of coordinates in a truncated higher-dimensional geometry. Thus the big bang is in some sense a geometrical illusion.


Lead free phase pure K0.5Na0.5NbO3 ceramic has been synthesized using colloidal coating method. The coated sample is calcined at 800 °C and sintered at 1100 °C. The sintered product showed more than 95% of theoretical density. The SEM micrograph showed uniform, dense and well developed microstructure. The maximum dielectric constant (er = 11043) showed marked improvement over conventionally prepared samples and has been attributed to uniform mixing and homogeneous composition.


This chapter deals with contact-induced change in Italo-Albanian and its effects on the Balkan inheritance of this minority language. The introduction is dedicated to the general characteristics of Albanian and its varieties from a historical, dialectological and geographic perspective, followed by a section on the historical and present situation of the Italo-Albanians. While Section 3 discusses the role of Balkanisms in Standard Albanian, Section 4 gives a general overview of the fate of these Sprachbund criteria in Italo-Albanian. In Section 5, contact-induced changes in the verb systems in single Italo-Albanian dialects are investigated, with special regard to the changes in the future tense, in the analytical perfect and verbal aspect, followed by a discussion of the innovative causative construction and other periphrases. Finally, changes in the domains of mood and voice in the Italo-Albanian dialects are described, most of them of recent date and, in part, not accepted by conservative speakers. All contact-induced developments in the minority language, as well as those parts of its grammar that have resisted foreign influence, are contrasted with their Standard-Albanian counterparts. As will be shown, many traditional Balkan features have been weakened or lost, whereas others have even expanded, but always in the direction of Romance models, to which Italo-Albanian functionally has adapted or which it has calqued.


Objective The present study was designed to discuss the preliminary application of HCMV gB antigen detection.Methods Using normal MRC-5 and Towne strain as a negative control and a positive control respectively,92 blood specimens from patients of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation were tested of HCMV gB,IE and pp65 antigens.The samples were grouped by the time after transplantation to discuss the application of gB detection in monitoring of HCMV infection.Results Leukocytes stained blue were negative and brown were positive.Scores of HCMV gB,IE and pp65 antigens were in a positive correlation comparing between any two of them(r_(gBIE)=0.827;r_(gBpp65)=0.877;r_(IEpp65)=0.912).The positive rate of HCMV gB antigen(82.6%) was lower than that of HCMV IE antigen(92.4%,P =0.065),but there was no significant difference between the positive rate of gB and pp65 antigens (90.2%,P - 0.035).Within 1 year after transplantation,the positive rate among the gB,IE and pp65 antigens was the same,while in the group of longer than 1 year after transplantation,gB positive rate was slight lower than both IE and pp65(P = 0.005).Besides, in the gB negative but IE or pp65 positive samples of the group,the scores of IE or pp65 antigens ranged in a low level(1~6/5×10~4 WBC).Conclusion HCMV gB had a potential application of early diagnosis in patients of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.In addition,it maybe indicated the infectious ability of HCMV.Probably,gB was more appropriate than IE or pp65 in the long term follow -up monitoring.


Abstract Objectives: To evaluate the Senior Fitness Test in healthy older people in Norway. A secondary aim is to evaluate the use of European measures in the sub-tests compared with the American standards. Design: An explorative, descriptive study of a convenient sample of independent, healthy older people. People more than 60 years old were recruited through elderly centres and social contact groups in an urban area. Result: A total of 172 older people, 48 males and 124 females, were tested. There were significant differences between age groups with declining function with increasing age in leg strength, endurance and mobility. A cut-off point in performance, with start of declining function, was established around 70 years of age. Significant differences in arm curl and in 6-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) in favour of men were noted. Men were also stronger than women in the chair stand test; women, however, were more flexible. Conclusion: The Senior Fitness Test is a practical test for clinical use. The use of slightly heavier weights resulted in slightly fewer repetitions in strength tests, but the results revealed that the tests showed similar changes with increasing age and between the age groups, with no adverse events, indicating that these new scores for the arm curl test can be normative for a Norwegian sample of elderly people.


Al-Âmidî is known as Seyfüddin Ali b. Muhammad al-Amidi was born in Diyarbekir in 551/1156 and died in 631/1233 in Damascus. Al-Âmidî is known for his works in kalam, fiqh method, philosophy and logic fields. Al-Âmidî's book Ebkârü'l-Efkâr fî Usûli'd-Dîn is an important and voluminous work on the wisdom of kalâm. Al-Âmidî put forward his methodological conception of hadith and tradition under the heading of "Sunnah" of the fiqh method of al-ihkâm fî Usûl al-Ahkâm. Al-Âmidî, Ebkârü'l-Efkâr fî Usuli'd-Dîn, the book of kalam, under the title of 'proof of Hz Muhammad's prophecy', he gives examples of rhetorical proofs, miracles, Qur'ān, sensational miracles, and traditions when he explains, too.


Just as the development of relativity theory and quantum mechanics have been the defining events of twentieth-century science, the burgeoning field of cognitive science is often trumpeted as being a glimpse into the future of the center of science in the coming century. In this paper, we examine this claim, asking whether the so-called cognitive ``revolution'' is indeed revolutionary or, on the other hand, is merely a flash-in-the-pan, scientifically speaking. As a point of perspective on this question, the paper looks at the claims and accomplishments of artificial intelligence, as well as the research agenda of workers in the currently fashionable field of artificaila life. the paper concludes with some speculations about what directions the ``cognitive revolution'' is likely to take over the coming decade or two.


China′s mining enterprises have accumulated a large amount of tailings,the grade of ore is still high in tailings,even higher than industrial grade,and there are lots of useful components in the ore tailings.Still more,long time and large number of pile up always lead all kinds of negetive effect.This paper first analyzed the development potential of the tailings and the negative impact;and then analyzed the current state of research and utilization of tailings;last,given the relevant policy recommendations.


Resistance to begomoviruses, including bipartite tomato mottle virus (ToMoV) and monopartite tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), has been introgressed to cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) from Solanum chilense accessions LA1932 and LA2779. A major gene, Ty-3, responsible for resistance to ToMoV and TYLCV was previously mapped on the long arm of chromosome 6. In the present study, we identified a 14-cM S. chilense introgression on the long arm of chromosome 3 in some resistant breeding lines derived from LA1932. A new begomovirusresistancelocus,Ty-4,wasmappedtothe2.3-cMmarkerintervalbetweenC2_At4g17300andC2_At5g60160 in the introgression. Analysis of a population segregating for Ty-3 and Ty-4 demonstrated that Ty-3 accounted for 59.6% of the variance, while Ty-4 only accounted for 15.7%, suggesting that Ty-4 confers a lesser effect on TYLCV resistance. Recombinant inbred lines (RILs) with Ty-3 and Ty-4 had the highest level of TYLCV resistance. The PCR- based markers tightly linked to the Ty-4 locus as well as the Ty-3 locus have been recently used in our breeding program for efficient selection of high-levels of begomovirus resistance and now allow for efficient breeding by marker-assisted selection.


Conversion of large amounts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells to protoplasts is studied using various preparations extracted from Helix pomatia hepato-pancreatic juice. The most favourable yield in two hours incubations (88 per cent) is obtained with 20 ml cytohelicase, a chitinase and glucanase enriched extract, per 400 g of yeast cells, harvested at the end of the logarithmic growth phase and preincubated in presence of 2-mercaptoethanol.


The video quality impairments are mainly caused by noisy transmit channel.No-reference evaluating method is an important way to predict the video quality due to without any other loader to the transmit channel.Aiming to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of no-reference video quality evaluating model,a novel variable-weight evaluating model is proposed.Motion intensity is introduced to qualify the variation of video content.And a weight control function is obtained based on the statistic studying method.Then the weight of clearness and smoothness can be adjusted in real time through the weight control function.The variable-weight evaluating model takes into the human perceptual properties.The experimental results show that the variable-weight evaluation model outperforms the existing evaluation models and achieves high correlation with the subjective test results.


In recent years, qualitative research became an increasing methodical approach besides quantitative analysis. For that, there are approx. 20 software packages. Two of them are GABEK/WinRelan® and ATLAS.ti™, which are less used than others. The aims of this study are (1) to compare directly both tools with each other by applying the tools, using a pre-interview and (2) to conduct expert interviews to come to a better understanding of how and why either GABEK/WinRelan® or ATLAS.ti™is used. As qualitative research is helpful to answer questions associated with hypothesis-generating research processes, such as quantitative methods, this paper aims (3) how those qualitative approaches can be analyzed by computer-assisted software. This paper conducted a literature review of both CAQDAS and applied the tools by using a pre-interview for the first comparison of both tools. In the further research, it is planned to conduct expert interviews with users to collect data for a deeper direct comparison of both tools. The results at this stage show that (1) there is no direct comparison of both tools, (2) GABEK/WinRelan® is less know than ATLAS.ti™ and (3) there are differences between the two tools, such as up-to-dateness and user friendliness. The paper concludes at this stage, that both tools have their advantages and disadvantages. GABEK/WinRelan® is with its "Gestalten"-approach (perceptive appearance of holistic processing of complexity) is a deep analysis tool, whereas ATLAS.ti™ has many functions, will be kept up-to-date and is more widespread within the scientific community.


The marginal analysis of profit maximization model solves output product decision in a certain level.This article first proposed the theory of profitmaximizing output decision,and then through a set of empirical data analysis to further clarify the profit maximization model of decision making in the production methods and ideas,at last puts forward its opinion and suggestions on this method in the theoretical and technical deficiencies department.


The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), launched in 1999 on Terra and 2002 on Aqua spacecraft respectively, is a scanning radiometer that covers a wavelength range from 0.4 μm to 14.4 μm and scans the Earth over an angular range from -55° to +55°. After a few years in the Terra mission, it became extremely challenging to characterize the changes in the sensor gain and response versus scan angle (RVS) at short wavelengths due to significant degradation and increased polarization sensitivity. To better characterize the system-level degradation, the MODIS Characterization Support Team (MCST) developed an enhanced approach in Collection-6 (C6) L1B algorithm by supplementing the on-board calibration data with the Earth-scene response trends at various scan angles obtained from the pseudo-invariant desert sites. However, the trends at short wavelengths experienced significant impact due to the increased polarization sensitivity, especially at the end of scan. In this study, a polarization correction algorithm developed by MCST is applied to the Terra MODIS RSB response trends obtained from the desert sites. The trends after polarization correction are used to derive the gain and RVS based on the existing MODIS C6 calibration algorithm. Impact of the polarization correction is examined for gain, RVS and their fitting uncertainties over the entire mission. The results of this study provide useful information on how to further improve accuracy and stability of the calibrated L1B product.


Correction for 'Biomass-derived interconnected carbon nanoring electrochemical capacitors with high performance in both strongly acidic and alkaline electrolytes' by Xianjun Wei et al., J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 181–188.


This article investigates the effect of shocks to the occupational structure of exporting firms induced by the introduction of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) in importing countries. We rely on specific trade concerns data to identify trade‐restrictive TBT measures, combined with matched employer‐employee data for French exporters over the period 1995–2010, and information on the product‐destinations served by each exporter. Controlling for time‐invariant firm/occupation fixed effects and for time‐varying sector/occupation shocks, the 2SLS estimates show that exporting firms adapt to the imposition of TBTs at destination by increasing the share of managers at the expense of blue collars, white collars and other professionals.


Studies at Pecos, Texas, of Schizaphis graminum (Rond.) (biotype C) and Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) suggested that facultative production of alates had 2 main consequences. Alate emigration contributed significantly to the decline of both species on sorghum, and also removed significant numbers of immature primary parasites (such as Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cress.)) within the alates. These results imply the need for concurrent monitoring of alate production and for evaluation of the impact of natural enemies in the field. Direct measurement of alate production on plants gave a more reliable index of migration intensity than did aerial sampling methods, which did not permit distinction between resident and transient aphids


Portland, Oregon, has attracted continuing attention for its achievements in planning, urban design, and growth management, and for its participatory approach to this work. It has stopped freeways, rebuilt its downtown, resurrected neighborhoods, built public transit, designed urban villages, and drawn urban growth boundaries. More than that, over the course of more than three decades, it has built an extensive and powerful structure of planning for neighborhoods, downtown, the city, and the metropolitan region. This article examines in detail two episodes in this process—the Northwest District Plan (1969-77) and the Southwest Community Plan (1994-2001)—as a means of demonstrating how this structure is actually the cultural product of the concerted mobilization of meaning through the use of language in planning, organizing, democratizing, and institutionalizing these practices. To suggest that language has structural power is to recast the arguments about the character and status of ostensible structural determinants of action.


In order to solve the problem of low accuracy of traditional neural network code test set and verification set, we use VGG network structure to deal with it. Its main feature is that it has a simple structure and replaces all convolution kernels with 3 × 3. Compared with the pooled cores of Alexnet, VGG uses 2 × 2 pooled cores. Number of parameters is large, and most of the parameters are concentrated in the full connection layer. Proper network initialization and use of batch normalization layer are very important for training deep network. In Alexnet, there is only one convolution in each convolution layer, and the convolution kernel is 7*7. In VGGnet, each convolution layer contains 2 ~4 convolution operations. The most obvious improvement of VGGnet is to reduce the size of convolution kernel and increase the number of convolution layers. Based on the traditional convolutional neural network, we train a better classifier to realize the recognition and classification of cifar-10 data sets. The accuracy of verification set is improved from 52.9% to 70.3%, and the accuracy of test set is improved from 54.7% to 71.5%.


We have reported that the highest ratios of O2 uptake and CO2 output to ventilation (VO2/VE and VCO2/VE) occur during moderate rather than maximal exercise and that lower ratios better predict early cardiac death than lower peak VO2 or anaerobic threshold values. Therefore we postulated that plotting simultaneous VO2/VE‐vs‐VCO2/VE values of incremental exercise studies against each other on X‐Y axes would give an easy‐to‐understand single display that might quantify cardiovascular performance exceptionally well. Plots of 90‐s rolling averages of VO2/VE‐vs‐VCO2/VE were optimal. The diagonal oval racetrack patterns of VO2/VE‐vs‐VCO2/VE in normal subjects were distinctive. In over 300 normal subjects, reference formulas in mL (STPD)/L (BTPS) for highest VO2/VE = 42.2 – 0.189yrs +0.036cm less 3.0 for women and for highest VCO2/VE = 38.9 – 0.155yrs + 0.038cm less 1.9 for women. The patterns and highest values for patients with left or right heart failure were also examined. Patients with more severe heart failure had lower VO2/VE‐vs‐VCO2/VE values at rest with exercise values moving in an abnormal direction. We conclude that highest VO2/VE and VCO2/VE values, elicited without maximal exercise, are important parameters. Further, plots of VO2/VE‐vs‐VCO2/VE yield distinctive patterns that alone well assess cardiac performance and disease. No government, industry, or institutional support.


Often complex datasets will have a large number of features for each of its samples. Sometimes, this can have a negative effect on the performance of models trained on the raw data. By reducing the number of features this problem can be avoided. However, this may cause a loss of information. One method to mitigate this is by using a type of unsupervised neural network structure called autoencoders. Autoencoders can be used to generate a reduced feature space which the models can then be trained on. This paper uses Convolutional Variational Autoencoders in order to create these latent features and then determines their effectiveness of improving performance of machine learning classifier models.


An accurate image-analysis method was developed to assess quantitatively the spot-like lesions on fruits resulting from pathogen attack. The technique was applied to evaluation of the development and severity of anthracnose of mango fruit, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. In this method, a stepper motor rotates the mango fruit along its longitudinal axis while acquiring a sequence of 360 images of its total surface (one image for each degree). This set of images is used to create a pseudocylindrical 'equal-area' projection of the fruit in a two-dimensional map containing complete morphometrical and photometrical information of its surface. The lesion area can easily be evaluated from this map with image-analysis procedures. Quantitative data (percentage of area affected) can be used to establish an assessment scale for the disease based on lesion spots measured, as well as for detailed laboratory studies of mango anthracnose development. The average error of the method is −0·1%, standard deviation 0·44 (r2 = 0·99), and it may be adapted for use with most commercial image analysers and for other diseases with spot-like symptoms.


Early in the history of experimental poliomyelitis it was demonstrated that the serum of both monkeys and humans, convalescent from the disease, had the property of neutralizing the action of the virus when the 2 were mixed in vitro. As therapeutic value has been ascribed to such serums a number of attempts have been made to produce antiserum with similar properties in large, poliomyelitis-refractory animals. In most instances horses have been employed and the results, although sometimes successful, have been irregular and seem to depend upon individual differences in responsiveness of the animals. The immunization of sheep has met with success in some hands (Howitt 1 ) and failure or irregular results in others (Stewart and Haselbauer 2 ). The production of poliomyelitis antiserum in goats has also been reported. In these various types of animals, virus inoculations have usually been continued over a long period of time, in some instances years, before potent neutralizing serums were demonstrated. A method of immunization in which the time as well as the number of injections could be decreased would be a distinct improvement. We were subjecting a sheep to a series of virus injections for the purpose of producing an antiserum when it occurred to us that virus adsorbed to a colloidal carrier might prove to be a better immunizing agent than the crude virus. There is evidence that the antigenicity of substances may be enhanced by injecting them in combination with a colloid. Hektoen and Welker 3 have reported the continued maintenance of a high precipitin level in rabbits following one injection of protein adsorbed to alumina-gel. Since the virus of poliomyelitis has been adsorbed to this substance by Sabin 4 and others, we decided to investigate the suitability of such a combination as an immunizing agent in sheep.


In network management, when it comes to security breaches, human error constitutes a dominant factor. We present our tool topoS which automatically synthesizes low-level network configurations from high-level security goals. The automation and a feedback loop help to prevent human errors. Except for a last serialization step, topoS is formally verified with Isabelle/HOL, which prevents implementation errors. In a case study, we demonstrate topoS by example. For the first time, the complete transition from high-level security goals to both firewall and SDN configurations is presented.


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The invention discloses an assembly machine of a rotor and a stator of a motor, which comprises a base provided with a stator clamp device. The upper portion of the stator clamp device is provided with a rotor pressing device. The stator clamp device comprises a base clamp portion matched with a stator structure, and the lower portion of the base clamp portion is connected with a cylinder. The rotor pressing device comprises a first structure rod vertically arranged on the base and a second structure rod vertically connected with the first structure rod. A cylinder is fixed on the second structure rod and connected with the rotor pressing clamp vertically corresponding to the base clamp portion. The assembly machine of the rotor and the stator of the motor greatly improves assembly accuracy of the rotor and the stator of the motor, reduces errors of match of coaxiality and cylindricity of the motor, and ensures quality of the motor. In addition, assembly speed is fast, and working efficiency is greatly improved.


A hard freeze last weekend resulted in leaf loss in emerged corn seedlings across central and northern Iowa. Several recent articles in ICM news provide insight on the situation. Photos 1 and 2 here show damage in one field in Story County; corn was at about V2 when the frost occurred.


Three oriental tobacco cultivars (Nicotiana tabacum L.) were used in this experiment (Gul spy , Gul sor and Samsun-1) with four seedling ages (7 , 8 , 9 and 10 Weeks) after planting to study the effect of correlation and path-coefficient analysis for dry weight of seedling leaves on growth characteristics for three Oriental Tobacco Cultivars seedling . A randomized complete block design in the split plot a management with three replications was used. The main plot contained the cultivars, while the sub plot seedling ages . The results showed that the cultivars significantly differed for characters: seedling length, stem diameter and root length, fresh and dry weight of leaves/seedling and percentage of dry matter in the leaves. So the results showed a positive highly significant Correlation between root length with seedling length, stem diameter and with seedling length and stem high with fresh weight of leaves/seedling and dry weight of leaves/seedling . The study showed that fresh weight of leaves/seedling was most important character which has indirect effect positive and highly significant through characters stem high and root length, root length character had most important direct effect on dry weight of leaves seedling . The results showed that the genetic variation values were highly for most traits, so the environmental variation values were highly for stem high. Broad sense heritability values highly for all traits, except stem high. The results showed decrease heritability value because increase the genotype and phenotype variation values . The results showed that the determination coefficient values were highly for characters: fresh weight of leaves/seedling , stem diameter and root length.


One of the major cost factors in realizing many items of portable electronic equipment relates to the passive components that are assembled to the circuit. For example a wireless phone may have as many as 600 passives and these add significantly to the cost as well as degrading reliability. There is currently a major drive to reduce the quantity of add on components by forming them as an integrated part of the circuit. This paper describes and discusses how recent advances in thick film technology allow the incorporation of passive devices in surface mount networks commensurate with industry requirements. Performance and life test data on resistor networks processed from standard and photo patterned thick film materials is presented. A specific proof of concept network containing 24 resistors in a 0.25 by 0.375-inch package was fabricated. Currently, the process allows 187 networks on a 4.5-inch square alumina plate. The photo-patterned materials allow the fine line geometries required in this application. The conventional thick film resistors are designed for a 5% tolerance, with 1% CV. The package is designed to work at a power dissipation level of 12 Watts/in 2 and a thermal analysis of the package is presented. In order to facilitate compactness and ease of assembly, connection to the circuit is made using BGA techniques, with 10 to 12 mil solder spheres. Testing methods, fixtures and PFMEA considerations are discussed. The presented materials and processes provide a reliable and cost effective to fabricate resistor networks. A discussion of future work, to incorporate capacitors and inductors into the circuit to provide a fully integrated passive capability, concludes the paper.


Your organization may be special, and you may be really good at your job, but holding up Apple as a benchmark, and using their success as an excuse for spurning structure, is not a winning strategy.


The experimental course of instrumental analysis is an important segment in training students ' quality and plays an important role in improving the teaching quality of instrument analysis. Based on the main objective of atomic absorption spectrophotometer experimental course,the main teaching objective is to let students master the basic operation technology of the instrument and cultivate creative abilities. Around the objective,this article makes the reform of the teaching system. It includes teaching content,teaching methods,teaching tools and teaching form of the instrument analysis experiment. We put forward the on-site preview systems,add creative able experiments,open laboratories,and enrich the parameters experimental etc. In the teaching of instrumental analysis experiment,teaching sites and teaching time are integrated. The teaching time and space constraints are broken to form a new mode of teaching. It is found that these measures can improve the teaching quality. The result shows the effectiveness of the experiment. And the comprehensive creative abilities of students are improved evidently.


The objective of this explanatory research was to analyze the relation among personal characteristics, the number of team member, communication and working atmosphere with team work as perceived by the officers of environment and sanitation section, Office of the District, Bangkok Metropolitan. The data was collected from the officers of the Office of the District, Bangkok Metropolis Municipality who were working in the Environment and Sanitation Section of Bangkok Metropolis. The samples were selected by Purposive sampling from sanitation officers at the operational level, along with specialized experts and public health officers from operational level to expert level. There were 218 samples and 175 returned questionnaires. The data were collected by using questionnaires during the period from 15 th May – 15 th June 2013. The data were analyzed by using computerized packaged program; statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson's Product Correlation Coefficient. The study found that the majority of the populations were female; age 21-30 years old; bachelor degree; holding the position as a sanitary technical officer at an operational level; working experience 1-5 years, and the average team consisted of 2-4 team members. The communication, working atmosphere, and team work as perceived by the studied population were at a high level (= 4.05, 3.80 and 3.78 consecutively). The study found no association between personal characteristics and number of person in a team with team work as perceived by the studied population. The study found the association between communication and working atmosphere with team work as perceived by the studied population in medium level and high level with statistical significance at p-value<0.001 (r = 0.692 and 0.801 consecutively). This researcher suggests there should be development of team work in the Environment and Sanitation Section in Office of the District, Bangkok Metropolitan in the aspect of the component of team by allocating the working role in accord with the capability, personality and the interest of the member. Each member should accept the state of working with other person and promote the working atmosphere. Team leader should take action in resolving conflict, creating common consciousness of responsibility so that cooperation and positive attitude be mutually created through having activity and working together.


Attendees at the conference 'GPE@60 From Galaxies to Large Scale Structure and the CMB' held 1-3 September 2015 to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor George Efstathiou.


Reliable communication is essential to alleviate incidents and escalate rescue operations. However, wireless communication is very challenging in underground mine due to irregular confined shapes and rough environments. A recent wireless standard LoRa (Long Range) is promising in mine environments because of its ultralow power consumption, long range, and deep penetration capabilities. In underground mine, sensors are deployed for continuous monitoring the working environments as well as tracking objects and miners. Therefore, different types of traffic are generated with different QoS requirements. LoRaWAN, the standardized medium access control (MAC) protocol is based on pure ALOHA that can not meet the requirements of mission-critical communications. The mission-critical applications require very low latency and high reliability. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of LoRa and LoRaWAN technologies in an underground mine in the presence of different kinds of traffic; and subsequently we propose redundant retransmission aided adaptive latency reduction protocol for low latency communication. In this protocol the ACK-TIMEOUT is adjusted based on the air time of the previous uplink transmission and the contention stage. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol significantly improves the performance of the system and outperforms LoRaWAN in terms of data extraction ratio (DER) and average transmission delay.


A new type of cryogenic temperature fatigue testing machine was installed in 1983 at the National Research Institute for Metals, Tukuba Laboratories. This machine is featured by the continuous operation at 4K without replenishing liquid helium. A closed-loop helium recondensation system enables a long-term fatigue test at 4K longer than 1, 000h. The total operation time reached 5, 500h in these seven years.


Among the above malfunctions, incomplete pacemaker patient electrical circuit is uncommon but not rare. An electrode lead system fracture with complete discontinuity will result in an inoperative pacemaker system. Insulation break, lead fracture can cause failure to capture, over sensing and under sensing. In this case report we are describing an elderly patient with permanent pacemaker, implanted 4 years back, diagnosed as lead fracture, the patient was managed by implantation of a new lead.


One of the crucial tasks towards the realization of the vision of the Semantic Web is the efficient encoding of human knowledge in ontologies. The proper maintenance of these, usually large, structures and, in particular, the adaptation of ontologies to new knowledge (ontology change) is one of the most challenging problems in the Semantic Web research. Due to the uncontrolled and decentralized nature of the Semantic Web, ontology change is a complicated and multifaceted task; this has led to the emergence of several different, but closely related, research areas that deal with the problem. In this report, we attempt to draw a clear line between these research areas, by underlying their relations, interactions and overlaps. Our work uncovers a certain gap in the current research and proposes a supplementary research direction, based on belief revision. We argue that our approach uncovers an interesting new dimension to the problem that is likely to find important applications in the future.


The assessment tools are essential for assessing the teaching-learning process, for that reason, the need for research on the topic is created to improve evaluation processes in physical culture, the main object of study; the student. Since assessment instruments have a positive impact academically and intellectually; more than that these instruments can give an evaluation integrative approach, using them as useful tools in the process of teaching - and considering that the problem arose because of lack of information, of interest to promote and encourage proper evaluation in Physical Culture….


Introduction: The paper presents a history of surgical treatment for lung metastases from colorectal cancer and subsequently an analysis of the treatment results, presenting some differences of lung metastasectomy. Materials and methods: A review of the literature from the years 2000-2010 for the resection of metastatic tumors of colorectal cancer and our experience and results from the material of 60 patients operated in our unit in 2004-2007. Results: Pulmonary metastasectomy of the secondary lesion of the colon gives the best results in cases of primary low pathological staging of a resectable primary colorectal cancer (T1 to T2 preferably limited to 3 number of lung metastases and/or a one metastasis to the liver disease in free time exceeding 36 months and the normal level of intestinal-embryonic marker.(CEA). Conversely-factors pleading for the surgical resection renouncement for metastases are: medium and high degree of advanced colorectal cancer (T3-4, N1-2), multiple metastases to the lung or liver disease-free time of less than 12 months and an increase in serum CEA (above 10 ng/ml. Conclusion: 1. Results of surgical treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer to encourage a wider patient eligibility, taking into account prognostic factors. 2. Decisions about the way of surgical treatment for metastatic disease should be taken based on the assessment of the patient (organ function), number of metastases, and the value of CEA. 3. Regardless of the primary cancer focus, the G feature of differentiation, the number and size of metastases surgical resection extend patients life.


This paper studies the dynamic correlation matrix estimation of highly volatile financial returns, which is used to build a dynamic correlation network. The widely used method of calculating time-dependent linear correlation matrices by moving window of a fixed sample period can have fundamental problems when applied to fat-tailed returns. A multivariate volatility model, DCC-GARCH, is employed to filter the fat-tailed returns and estimate the dynamic correlation of returns in order to overcome such difficulties. The time-dependent correlation matrices are calculated and compared with the ones that are calculated by the traditional calculation method to highlight the advantages of the proposed dynamic correlation based method. As a case study, the model is fitted to the Japanese stock returns to analyze dynamic changes in the correlation matrix. The method is not limited to financial returns, but can also be applied to build a dynamic correlation network of other time series data with high volatility.


The belief is widespread in educational circles that ethnically mixed schools contribute to inter-ethnic tolerance and community cohesion. Some political science studies, however, have found that trust and participation are lower in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods. This paper explores the relation between classroom ethno-racial diversity, ethnic tolerance and participation in England, Sweden and Germany using data from the IEA Civic Education Study among 14-year-olds. Controlling for various conditions at the individual and classroom levels, it finds a positive effect of classroom diversity on ethnic tolerance in Sweden and Germany, which is in agreement with the contact perspective on inter-ethnic relations. However, it does not find an effect on tolerance in England. Moreover, classroom diversity only shows a positive relation with participation in Sweden. The effect of diversity thus varies substantially across the two outcomes of interest and the three countries examined. It is therefore tentatively concluded that country-specific factors shape this effect to a significant degree.


In the past 60 years,the reservoir migration in our country have experienced several different set periods,such as land swaps,administrative compensation,developmental resettlement,to standardize according to law and so on.And there existed a lot of bequeathal problems.In order to help the reservoir migration get rid of poverty and become better off,our country implemented late-stage support policies toward those large and medium-sized reservoir migration who migrate to rural areas.This is on the basis of the conclusion of the reservoir area's maintenance fund,construction fund and late-stage support fund.What's more,it also regulated the support object,period,standard,method and the capital source.In allusion to the implementation difficulties of late-stage support,and in order to make full use of the expected effect of those policies,we should clarify the concept of support,improve legislative level,ameliorate the management mode,and proceed innovation in capital integration,project support and supervision mechanism.