A simple method, based in the frequency domain, was developed for calculating the dynamic response of a stall-regulated wind turbine. Emphasis is placed on two aspects of the method, which are necessary in order to obtain a reasonable linearization of behavior when the blades are stalled. First, the tangential (in-plane) component of turbulence is included, in addition to the axial component. Second, the linearized relationship between lift coefficient and angle-of-attack is adjusted to account for the effects of dynamic stall: separate linearizations are used for excitation and damping of vibration. A thorough comparison is made between linear and non-linear dynamic-stall methods, with the conclusion that the accuracy of the linear method depends upon the frequency and amplitude of oscillation. The linear dynamic-stall method is accurate at blade vibrational frequencies, but it can be inaccurate at frequencies in the vicinity of 1P or below, when the angle-of-attack oscillates with an amplitude of 3° or more. Load spectra of a Nordtank 500 turbine, calculated using the frequency-domain method, are compared with measurements. The frequency-domain method provides estimates of load spectra and aerodynamic damping (stability) that are useful for preliminary design and optimization, but the method lacks sufficient accuracy and generality to be used for certification. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This article is an excerpt of the analysis of the derived dialect semantics of verbs with the aim of studying the pragmatic aspects of linguistic meaning. Defines how estimating vocabulary relates to the expressive one and subjective modality relates to expressiveness. It was found that expressive word always implies the meaning of the emotional component. Assessment is contained in the derived verbs formed from estimating nouns, may occur in the process of word formation based on metaphor. Emotional assessment may be caused not only by figurativeness but also by intensity. Investigation of deep semantics of the derived words, including subjective components within the meaning of the concept makes it possible to understand the world of media negotiations of Baikal and Irkutsk region.


As quality education and patriotism are inseparable,Chinese poems,which embody the quintessence of patriotism,are undoubtedly an important means of molding the spirit and character of the young.Measures should be taken on effectively introduce them into the classroom.


The article hypothesizes that in the earthquake forming process,the surface must have the small chang—rise gradually,and stick out gradually when taking the earthquake breaking the crack as the spool thread.Based on these,the paper discusses the relationship between the earthquake destructiveness and the biggest area which the surface sticks out,forewarns and forecasts earthquake through the surface rise acceleration.


Teaching and learning developing and understanding models in science education approaches to science instruction students' and teachers' perceptions of the nature of science social interactions in science classrooms language and imagery science education research in Europe.


Electrochemical insertion of alkali metal (lithium or sodium) into carbon electrodes is studied in non-aqueous organic electrolytes at room temperature. The extent of insertion into carbon and its reversibility process were found to be affected by the type and particle size of the carbon materials. The possibility of designing an alkali-ion battery cell is discussed, using natural graphite, graphitized carbon black and carbon black as negative electrodes.


After the financial crisis,a new round ASEAN-oriented business cooperative upsurge has taken shape in East Asia.Meanwhile,ASEAN is committed to establishing the ASEAN Community,developing its Charter,perfecting its organizations,strengthenning its power,and promoting its shift towards European Union model with a view to enhancing its leadership in the East Asia regional cooperation,which is attributed to the game of East Asia international strength,ASEAN's positive pursuit as well as its own conditions.


Conflict and contrast may not be officially written into the charter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), but the multi-disciplinary and multi-ideological constituency of the organization ensures that lively and often passionate debate is to be had at its meetings. Indeed, given the diversity of the national, socioeconomic, political, educational, linguistic, occupational, academic and philosophical backgrounds represented in IASPM, it is something of a wonder that the fledgling association is hanging together at all, let alone growing at such a pace. In the four brief years of its existence, IASPM has expanded to embrace a membership of over 450 musicologists, sociologists, other scholars and teachers, librarians, musicians, critics, writers, music industry people, and students and lovers of popular music from thirty-one countries in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. The rapidity of IASPM's growth must be attributed to the urgency of the need it fills-the need for an institutional framework, on a global scale, for the exchange of viewpoints and information on that ever-expanding realm of music which no one has yet been able satisfactorily or uncontroversially to define, yet which permeates the consciousness of the modern world. Montreal is a completely bilingual city, boasting a visually striking landscape and a varied and vivid musical culture. A local newspaper's schedule of special events had the IASPM conference listed between conventions of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Jehovah's Witnesses-for some attendees of the conference, this was a graphic symbol of the peculiar epistemological position of popular music: poised somewhere between transcendence and oblivion. A bus tour afforded a sweeping glimpse of the Montreal environs, and frequent recourse was made by all attendees to the many sidewalk caf6s and night-spots along the Boulevardes Ste-Catherine and St-Denis in the locale of the Universit6 de Quebec, the gracious host institution for the conference. Among the supporters of the conference were the Ministere des Affaires culturelles du Qu6bec, the Ministere des Communications du Canada, the Departement de musique de l'Universit6 du Qu6bec a Montrdal, the Secr6tariat d'Etat du Canada (Multiculturalisme), the Ministr the topics covered were all extremely worthwhile. The eighteen paper sessions running over the five-day period that formed the bulk of the conference can be categorized as follows: -area studies (Quebecois and Canadian Popular Music; Popular Music and National Cultures; Black Popular Music in the U.S. and Caribbean; Popular Music in Latin America; South African Popular Music; Rock in a National Context) -politics and music (Poltical Interventions: the State and Popular Music; Political Interventions: Interventions into Politics; Rock for Ethiopia) -technology (Music, TV, Video; the "Warm Kiss" Video Project; Technology) -theoretical issues (Aesthetics & Ideology; Semiology and Popular Music) -assorted topics (Musical Analysis; Folk & the Media; Women, Popular Music, Feminism; Music & Youth Culture). The conference was conducted in English and French, with simultaneous translations of papers and comments from the floor.


Genetic testing is used many purposes. After mid-1980s, genetic testing is also used in the field of forensic science and it also applied to investigate the criminal cases. In Korea, we also have discussed the use of genetic testing in criminal investigation after early 1990s. After about 15-years hot debates, was born this year. Genetic testing is powerful in excluding suspects from an investigation and acquitting the innocent. DNA profile database is the institute which is constitutes by the results of the individual genetic testings. DNA profile database is composed of Felon Index, Forensic Index, Population Index. Protection of citizen`s privacy is more seriously considered when the institute makes the Population Index. We should consider some points when we discuss the DNA profile database. Firstly, the act of sampling of genetic materials may cause bodily harm and generally constitutes an invasion of privacy. Secondly, we should determine in which kinds of crimes the DNA profile database may be allowed. Thirdly, we also should determine in which stage of the criminal process the genetic material for test and storage may allowed. Fourthly, we always remind that the meaning of the genetic testing in the criminal procedure is limited. Fifthly, the genetic testing and maintenance of the DNA profile database for the criminal procedure should be qualified and regulated by authoritative body whish has the professional knowledge and experiences at that field. Sixthly, the guideline for the DNA profile database should be made for the quality control and the protection of the subjects. Most of all, in genetic testing for the criminal procedure the abuse of the genetic information may not happen because the information which is obtained by that test is very limited. But if the samples are stored and other types of genetic test are performed by using these samples, we may get much information about the subjects. So we should have some means for protection of the collected samples. These has been long and hot discussion in Korea whether the DNA profile database should be allowed or not. But we are on the new stage by the rapid development of the science and technology. We should determine in which kinds of crime the DNA profile database may allowed and how to perform the testing and how to protect the privacy and other harms.


Background: The present study was done with an objective to evaluate the effect of melatonin as an antioxidant in patients suffering from periodontitis.Methods: This study was conducted in the Department of Periodontics, Rural Dental College, Loni. Patients of chronic periodontitis, of age between 18 to 65 years of either gender ready to give informed consent to participate in the study were included. Postoperative patients, patients having night duties, drivers and those using heavy machinery, pregnant women, lactating mothers, patients with any clinically significant systemic disease and patients on any other drugs were excluded from the study. Patients were divided into three Groups. Group A included patients who underwent SRP (Scaling and Root Planning) alone, Group B included patients who underwent SRP & supplemented with Vitamin E 200 IU daily at night for 4 weeks. Group C included patients who underwent SRP & supplemented with tablet melatonin 3 mg daily at night for 4 weeks. Estimation of Malondialdehyde (MDA) for serum lipid peroxidation8, Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and Glutathione peroxidase (GPx) was done on day 0, day 30, day 60 and day 90.Results: A total 240 patients were enrolled in the study. It was demonstrated that there was considerable oxidative stress in periodontitis patients, as established by high serum MDA levels, which was reduced significantly by melatonin reflecting its antioxidant potential. Pretreatment levels of SOD and GPx also were low, which were improved with the treatment of melatonin far better than with vitamin E.Conclusions: Melatonin acts as an antioxidant in the patients of periodontitis which has positive effect on biochemical parameters of periodontitis, conferring a new facet to the management of periodontitis and an attempt to impede the disease progression.


Abstract One usually writes the incomplete integrals as the sums of discrete probabilities by repeating the procedure of integration by parts. This work provides another approach by employing the binomial expansion.


This paper discusses the features of land-use general plan map and the l imitations of traditional mapping method It chiefly discourses how to use the t echno logy of CAC to devise the map, stresses the special properties of the method, su ch as efficiency, high-quality, economy, etc, and points out that the method is the development direction in the future


ABSTRACT In field experiments with drilled salad onions, a single weeding made at 4 weeks after 50% crop emergence was sufficient to prevent significant yield loss due to weeds. Weed removal 5 or 6 weeks after 50% crop emergence was generally unsuccessful in averting crop losses. It is well known that the relative timing of crop and weed emergence is important in determining the balance of crop-weed interactions. In the present experiments, the pattern of crop and weed emergence varied between sites and years but the removal of early emerging weeds, at 4 weeks after 50% crop emergence, avoided weed interference consistently. In the transplanted bulb onion experiments, the crop began with an advantage over the weeds, and a single weeding made at 5, 6 or 7 weeks after planting was effective in preventing a reduction in yield. There was no difference in response between crops grown organically and those grown conventionally. Yield loss was due mainly to weed competition occurring prior to handweeding or mech...


Agassant.The online version of Mixing by Ica Manas-Zloczower on ScienceDirect.com, the. Mixing and Compounding of Polymers. PDF 454 K.The polymer industry as we know it dates only from the first part of the nineteenth century, where. Lowered the ability of the rotors to mix the compound but allowed various chemicals in the compound. Theory and Practice, 2nd edn ed. I.Mixing and. Most of the existing theoretical models focus on the competitive forces involved in.Mixing and Compounding of Polymers 2E: Theory and Practice Ica Manas-Zloczower on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Completely.To impart the knowledge of compounding and mixing processes for the polymers and to study. Mixing and Compounding of Polymer Theory and Practice, 2 nd.The twin-screw mixing process for semi-solid immiscible alloy casting has been. Z ed 1994 Mixing and Compounding of Polymers: Theory and Practice.this theory to Newtonian fluids. Mixing and Compounding of Polymers: Theory. mh 510 pdf Presently a common practice Bigg 1977 Crawford 1982 Radhakrishnan.Polymer Processing. Theory and Practice.model 2D mixer as determined using FEM with particle tracking. Compounding of Polymers: Theory and Practice, Carl Hanser Verlag.mer pair A and B can be described by the mixing. 1Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, No.


Non-invasive monitoring of cellular metabolism offers promising insights into areas ranging from biomarkers for drug activity to cancer diagnosis. Fluorescence spectroscopy can be utilized in order to exploit endogenous fluorophores, typically metabolic co-factors nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and estimate the redox status of the sample. Fluorescence spectroscopy was applied to follow metabolic changes in epithelial ovarian cells as well as bladder epithelial cancer cells during treatment with a chemopreventive drug that initiates cellular quiescence. Fluorescence signals consistent with NADH, FAD, and tryptophan were measured to monitor cellular activity, redox status, and protein content. Cells were treated with varying concentrations of N-4-(hydroxyphenyl) retinamide (4-HPR) and measured in a stable environment with a sensitive fluorescence spectrometer. A subset of measurements was completed on a low concentration of cells to demonstrate feasibility for medical application such as in bladder or ovary washes. Results suggest that all of the cells responded with similar dose dependence but started at different estimated redox ratio baseline levels correlating with cell cycle, growth inhibition, and apoptosis assays. NADH and tryptophan related fluorescence changed significantly while FAD related fluorescence remained unaltered. Fluorescence data collected from approximately 1000 - 2000 cells, comparable to a bladder or ovary wash, was measurable and useful for future experiments. This study suggests that future intrinsic biomarker measurements may need to be most sensitive to changes in NADH and tryptophan related fluorescence while using FAD related fluorescence to help estimate the baseline redox ratio and predict response to chemopreventive agents.


The Health Information Technology Laboratory APUI-Sant6 (APUIS-HITL) is a nonprofit organization, whose mission is to use information technology for the benefit of healthcare. The laboratory and its multidisciplinary staff fulfil this mission by facilitating the development of standards, developing prototypes and models, conducting research and providing information services in support of accessible, affordable, appropriate and efficacious healthcare in the public and professional interest. One of the aims of this


On May 22, 2012, a shallow earthquake of Ms=5.8 (Mw =5.6) hit Pernik region and caused damages on many buildings in the town of Pernik and near-by village s. The maximum observed intensity is of VIII degree EMS. This seismically calm area has produced the stronge st Bulgarian earthquake for the latest 80 years. A short seismological insight of the source activity is fol lowed by an engineering analysis and evaluation of the seismic impact for Sofia city, only about 20 km away. The a rray of recorded data by the local digital SGM Netw ork of Sofia is exploited to obtain input characteristics, relevant to the aseismic design of structures. Pro cessed data for some representative recording spots is extracted, s ubmitted and discussed. Destruction and damages ind uced by the earthquake in the Pernik area are illustrated a nd the building vulnerability aspects are considere . Some inferences, conclusions and recommendations about s eismic risk mitigation are made.


Clinical trial rating scale based outcome measures have been criticized of lacking relevance and meaning to end-users, particularly patients. This is concerning since inferences regarding the usefu ...


This paper employs analysis of electromagnetic force harmonics to determine a stator/rotor slot combination for a reduction of electromagnetic noise in induction motors. Three kinds of slot combinations are investigated to improve existing designs of induction motors. The effect of the proposed slot combination technique used for redesigning motors is verified by evaluating the calculated electromagnetic noise and comparing with the measured overall acoustic noise of the motors. The measured acoustic noise is also compared with that of the original designs.


In fact, one of the brightest, Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas had said in his Presidential Address of the American Economic Association: "My thesis in this lecture is that macroeconomics in this original sense has succeeded: Its central problem of depression prevention has been solved," (Lucas 2013). He was not alone, regarding asset bubbles, 'benign neglect' was the general attitude, among academic macroeconomists, while central banks were simply focusing on inflation, based on the 'divine coincidence' argument, according to which, to maintain a stable inflation would suffice to keep economic activity close to its potential (Blanchard et al. 2014).


The status of mangroves in Thekkumbad island of Kerala state was documented and assessed using the following parameters; total area covered, diversity, population structure and threats to mangroves. The study was conducted in Dec. 2008 using the plot quadrate method. Ten plots were non-randomly distributed in the study area. Eleven true mangrove species and six associates were found in the study area (H'=1.76). The dominant species were Rhizophora mucronata , Bruguiera cylindrica, Sonneratia alba and Excoecaria agallocha with important values 35.83, 32.43, 13.31, 25.02 respectively. Considering the small area of the island , the diversity was relatively high compared to nearby mangrove rich areas. However the continuous anthropogenic activities posses threat to the survival of mangroves. Thus the management of the present mangrove is urgent for a sustainable living. --- Department of PG studies and Research in Botany, Sir Syed College, Taliparamba, Kerala – 670142, India --- Please Cite This Article As: P. Sreeja and K.M. Khaleel. 2010. Status of Mangroves in Thekkumbad, Kannur, Kerala. J. Exp. Sci. 1(8):1-2.


The main aim of this paper is to present the various dimensions of the City Marketing Pilot Plan (CMPP) for Nea Ionia. This text focuses on the provision of a marketing plan guide, in order that the multidimensional image of Nea Ionia is effectively promoted. It includes the processes of Place/ Distribution and Promotion, and the larger part focuses in two equally significant key issues. The first one is the analysis of the Critical Path Model (CPM) aiming at the provision of a strategic guideline to the planners and decision makers of Nea Ionia in order to implement the CMPP. The overall concept is to provide to Nea Ionia an element that in the forthcoming years will help in a strategic way the effective promotion and support of its multidimensional image. After analysing the economic profile of the area, the advantages and the current situation of the cultural sector, it evaluates which factors constitute the competitive advantage in culture, since culture is one of the main promotional axes of Nea Ionia. The second key issue is the analysis of the proposed marketing model of '8ps' by Morrison. The text focuses on the creation and implementation of 'packaging' by taking account of the multidimensional character of Nea Ionia's final provided good. The CMPP is based on the Strategic Planning process, always starting from the identification of the city's vision (focusing on its branding) and the primary urban development objectives that have to be satisfied. Thus, the CMPP has a strategic character, based on its structure in connection to the identification of the most appropriate promotion methodology that provides the opportunity to the city to examine and evaluate some first results of the implementation of place marketing actions. A very important factor is that the CMPP has to take place in a particular temporal horizon (410 'working' days), and during this period city's actors, marketers and decision makers, have to collect and evaluate valuable information that is related with the development, or the change, of the CMPP structure either as a whole, or its parts. The data for this paper are provided by the INTERREG IIIc CultMark project (Cultural Heritage, Local Identity and Place Marketing for Sustainable Development) that has been in operation in five European places since 2004: Nea Ionia/ Magnesia/ Greece (lead partner), Chester/ UK, Kainuu/ Finland, Rostock-TLM/ Germany and Pafos/ Cyprus.


The invention discloses a printing technology of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic coiled material floor patterns. The printing technology of the PVC plastic coiled material floor patterns comprises the following steps: firstly, imprinting and coating a releasing agent on the surface of a transfer basement membrane, then printing an ink pattern layer and an adhesive according to design patterns, and drying so as to obtain a transfer membrane; conveying a coiled material floor base material and a transfer membrane together to be between a rubber roller and a mirror surface roller of a printer, and bonding the adhesive on the surface of the ink pattern layer of the transfer membrane and the surface of the coiled material floor basement material sufficiently, wherein ink patterns on the transfer membrane are bonded on the surface of the coiled material floor basement material by the adhesive; the transfer membrane is separated and coiled after changing into a transfer base membrane; the surface of the coiled material floor base material with ink patterns is pasted with a transparent membrane and then is subjected to calendering or embossing treatment so as to obtain a coiled material floor finished product. The printing technology of the PVC plastic coiled material floor patterns, which is provided by the invention, have the advantages that patterns are printed on the surface of the transfer membrane in advance, and then are transferred to the surface of the coiled material floor base material through heating and compression, thereby obtaining floor patterns which are beautiful and vivid in color and intense in layering; the grade of the PVC plastic coiled material floor patterns is improved greatly; meanwhile, the technology is simple, and the production cost is low.


Urogenital tract infections in the pediatric and adolescent populations vary depending on both age and sex. Pediatricians are quite familiar with the infant with a bacterial urinary tract infection who had a congenital anatomic anomaly or the pre-school-aged or adolescent girl with cystitis. Similarly, adolescent boys who present with cystitis or pyelonephritis will almost always have one of several predisposing conditions such as a congenital anomaly, a neurogenic bladder, an obvious systemic disease such as diabetes mellitus, or an immunodeficiency disorder. The urinary tract infection that occurs under these circumstances is managed in the traditional manner by obtaining a specimen for culture and sensitivity testing and tailoring antibiotic and other appropriate therapy according to the patient's clinical status and the organism involved. The male adolescent with pyuria and/or dysuria without any of these predisposing conditions most likely has a sexually transmitted disease. If, however, a documented bacterial urinary tract infection is found, the patient should have a full urologic evaluation including an intravenous pyelogram, voiding cystourethrogram, and possibly cystoscopy, if these procedures have not been previously performed. Cystitis and pyelonephritis that occur without underlying problems in male adolescents are quite rare and will not be discussed further in this review.
 Between 1971 and 1979 sexual activity among adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 years increased by 66%, with 38% having had a first sexual experience by age 16 years.1


We determine the critical points of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability of a surface of arbitrary cross section having pinned edges. Often these points coincide with the diffusion eigenvalues but sometimes they do not.


This study is an analysis of the impact of international businesses in the world economy. It examined the effect of globalization in the economic growth of international businesses and the world economy; and the organizations that act as alliances in international business, such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. The study observed that while some countries may be favoured by particular changes in international business, others may be adversely affected. This does not mean that international business does not have unfavorable effects. Major changes in international business will also produce major adjustments. The process of adjustments may be a gainful one. The study concludes that in spite of the national economic policies of each country, politics and law play important role in international business, which does not tend to restrict its views to the interest of one country, but it tries to analyze the different national interests which are relevant to the national level of decision-making. I. Introduction With the passage of time there will be many changes globally that would affect the economy of many countries. Globalization was one of the major changes that the world witnessed recently, and similar to this kind of major make over, there are expected to be more isolated yet more effective changes made. Sussman (1997) observed that in the last 10-15 years, trade has been major changes. These changes are ones that directly affect the lives of the working class, and have raised a great deal of concern for millions of people. This is because of the fact that democratic principles might well be overwhelmed by capitalist endeavors. However, from a governmental perspective it appears that these strategies are ones that would not interfere with democracy. It seems that the government believes that the alliances would aid the effect of globalization, thereby creating better trade in North Western hemisphere. According to Gbosi (1999), there is whole set of national policies in every country. These policies are always designed to serve some part of national constituency. As international business or trade involves flows across boundaries of sovereign states, the conduct of international transactions is different from that of domestic trade. This study will examine the international business imperative; alliances in international business; the politics and law in international business; international economic integration, market transition and development. THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IMPERATIVE Revolutionary changes in technologies have provided the mechanisms that propel the growth of international business. The intensification of competition at both domestic and international levels has driven firms to look beyond their domestic markets for new opportunities. The progressive removal of barriers to trade and capital movements has stimulated greater flows of exports, imports and foreign direct investment (FDI). Multinational enterprises have emerged as the key agents of international economic coordination. They provide the capability to generate innovations and deliver new goods and services to the market; they also provide the capability to exploit these technological advances at a global level, and they are a depiction of the capacity of international managerial coordination to operate efficiently across international boundaries. Crafts (2000) observed that the growing economic strength of the newly-industrializing countries (e.g. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea) and the opening up of China and Eastern Europe have provided an additional stimulus to international business services.


Internet of things (IOT) is expecting a basic employment in restorative administrations, industry to extend the precision, reliability and benefit of electronic contraptions. It has pulled in much consideration as of late for its capability to diminish the strain on social insurance framework brought about by a maturing populace and an ascent in constant ailment. Analyzes are contributing towards a digitized government disability structure by interconnecting the open accommodating resources and human associations affiliations. This paper displays every region of the model, assessing their qualities, shortcoming, and individual's commitment of IOT in human services space, application and future difficulties of IOT in social insurance. Difficulties that human services IOT appearances including security, protection, wear ability and low power activity and exhibited and proposals are made for future research bearings. We do believe that this work will be important for authorities and experts in the field, helping them to understand the tremendous capacity of IOT in restorative territory and ID of huge challenges in Internet of Things (IOT). In this paper, have talked about innovations, distributed computing and issues in IoT. Likewise, we have discussed about the shrewd gadgets, therapeutic applications and looked at the philosophies in IoT.


mom the Stone Age to Christianity. By William Foxwell Albright. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1957. 432 pages. $1.45. Two O'Clock in the Morning. By Walter R. Alexander. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1956. 86 pages. $1.75. The Word of God and the Word of Man. By Karl Barth. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. 327 pages. $1.65. Current Problems in Religion. By Harmon F. Bell. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. 648 pages. $10.00. The Beginning and the End. By Nicolas Berdyaev. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. 256 pages. $1.35. Sermons on the Psalms. By Harold A. Bosley. New York: Harand Brothers, 1956. 208 pages. $3.00. Spiritual Renewal Through Personal Groups. By John L. Castee1 (Editor). New York: Association Press, 1957. 220 pages. $3.50 Prayer and Personal Religion. By John B. Coburn. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1957. 96 pages. $1.00. Joy In Believing. By Henry Sloane Coffin. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. 248 pages. $2.95. Living With Yourself. By Martin L. Cole. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1956. 60 pages. $2.00. Ephraim of Israel. By Paul Constant. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. 104 pages. $3.00. The Papacy, A Brief History. By James A. Corbett. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1956. 191 pages. $1.25. Adolescent Development and Adjustment. By Lester D. and Alice Crow. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956. 555 pages. $6.00. Philosophy of Education. By John Dewey. Ames, Iowa: Littlefield, Adams and Company, 1956. 312 pages. $1.50. The Prayers of Susanna Wesley. By W. L. Doughty. New York Philosophical Library, 1956. 63 pages. $2.50. The Saving Person. By A n g u s Dun. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. 127 pages. $2.00. God In His World. By Charles S. Duthie. New York: Abingdon Press, 1956. 176 pages. $2.50. When I Became A Man. By Theodore Parker Ferris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. 288 pages. $3.75. Candles On The Glacier. By Kenneth J. Foreman. New York: Association Press, 1956. 184 pages. $3.00. Faith, Freedom And The Future. By P. T. Forsyth. Naperville, Illinois: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., 1956. 355 pages. $3.00.


New Superior Varieties are one component of technology to increase the productivity of food crops. Ex-Coal Mined Land is marginal land, and can be used for agriculture by applying location-specific technology. The purpose of this study was to determine the performance and productivity of hybrid corn: Bima-20, Bisi-2, NK-22 and Nasa-29 on ex-coal mining land. The study was conducted on the ex-coal mined land in Kutai Kartanegera Regency, East Kalimantan Province from April to July 2018. The technology applied was through Integrated Crops Land Management (ICLM) and was designed in the form of 4 replications randomized block design (RBD) consisting of 4 hybrid corn varieties treatment, namely Bima-20, Bisi-2, NK-22 and Nasa-29. Data collected includes plant growth and yield components. The results showed that maize Bima-20, Bisi-2, NK-22 and Nasa-29 were able to adapt on the ex-coal mined land, although it was not yet in accordance with the potential yield. Productivity of each variety (dry shelled): Bima-20 = 6.8 t ha−1, Bisi-2 = 7.2 t ha−1, and NK-22 = 7.1 t ha−1 and Nasa-29 = 7.9 t ha−1.


Behaviour of COPs during epitaxial growth is investigated for two growth conditions. The critical thickness where COPs disappear depends on the growth conditions. In the case of atmospheric pressure epitaxy using SiHCl/sub 3/, the epitaxial thickness where COPs disappear is 0.4 /spl mu/m. In contrast COPs do not disappear up to 5 /spl mu/m in the case of reduced pressure epitaxy using SiH/sub 2/Cl/sub 2/. The shrink of COPs during epitaxial growth depends on the anisotropy of growth; they remain on the epitaxial layer surface when the growth condition is isotropic.


Introduction. Online customer reviews present one of the most important factors in book purchasing or borrowing decisions. Given that only well-organized reviews are useful, Amazon has already started linking multiple formats and editions of the same book. Nevertheless, this method is not suitable for books that have appeared in many formats and editions as some attributes do not apply to all versions.

Research questions. In our study we were interested in the aspects of a book users perceive as important and the extent to which these attributes match FRBR entities. We were also interested in the relation between specific attributes in the reviews and the numeric rating of the book.

Methods. We used content analysis on two random samples of Amazon customer reviews. The sample included a total of 600 reviews of three well-known fiction book titles that have many formats and editions that accommodate the different preferences of readers.

Results. The results show that readers take into consideration book information at various abstraction levels that match those in the FRBR model. Most reviewers comment on the book content while review readers consider reviews that comment on different aspects of a book as more helpful.

Conclusions. Given that subjective opinion is an important factor in the users' book selection decision, it would be reasonable to rethink the presentation and organisation of online book reviews.


The use of Voltage Source Converters (VSCs) in HVDC transmission and, more generally, in flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS), raises concerns over the endurance of turn/turn insulation of grid/converter interface transformers. In this paper, tests performed on oil-impregnated paper specimens are discussed. The results indicate clearly that shorter rise times and higher repetition frequencies have a strong impact on both partial discharge inception voltage and breakdown voltage. These results suggest that deeper investigation might be important to understand the long term behavior of these insulation systems.


Abstract : The objective of the research project was to determine the feasibility of using a Low Memory Requirement Voice Recognizer to activate gun turrent control. Such a system would enable a single individual to manually pilot the helicopter while activating gun functions by voice command. To develop an effective voice recognition system, major limitations of existing voice recognition technology needed to be overcome. The major limitations of current voice recognition systems are: (a) they are normally capable of recognizing only one speaker and one mode of speaking, (b) recognition time is slow when working with sizeable vocabularies, (c) they require extensive hardware with resultant excessive weight and size limitations (for aircraft applications), and (d) they are difficult to interface with, and access artificial intelligence/expert software systems.


IntroductionThe Kerguelen Islands, located in South IndianOcean (49 S, 70 E), are subjected to cold sub-Antarctic oceanic climate. The hydrographic systemis complex (rivers, fjords and lakes) and no endemicfreshwater ichthyofauna is present. Many fish specieshave been introduced between 1951 and 1991(Ducheˆne 1989; Duhamel et al. 2005), exclusivelySalmonidae (Salvelinus fontinalis, Salmo trutta andSalmo salar…). The majority of these speciesquickly acclimated and then colonised new rivers.The Kerguelen Islands present a favourable environ-ment for studying these species because of theabsence of freshwater endemic ichthyofauna, thehomogeneity of sites and the simplicity of freshwatercommunities.Environmental contaminants (heavy metals, organicpollutants…) may be responsible for physico-patho-logical troubles (highest disease sensibilities, sexualvariations…) in wild fish populations in many worldregions. However, the pressure of human activities onfish populations disturbs the determination of the realresponsibility of environmental contaminants in phys-ico-pathological perturbations observed. In the Ker-guelen Islands, the living Salmonid populations arepotentially protected from anthropogenic perturba-tions. However, the recent studies carried out in twoKerguelen rivers, Chaˆteau River and Ferme River haveshown differences between the two sites in the


Along with the increasing the of the land-use change of the fertile agricultural land in Java, the better awareness has been subjected to the importance of function peat land for agricultural development. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a tuber plant that potentially developed as important carbohydrate source. The objective of this research was to identify superior cassava variety candidate of selected cassava developed by of Research Centre Biotechnology, LIPI which has high adaptation capability and yield in Central Kalimantan peat land area. This research was conducted from July 2010 through May 2011 in Central Kalimantan Province (Kalampangan dan Pulang Pisau in total of area 1.5 and 2.25 ha respectively). There were three genotypes of cassava tested, i.e. Iding (high amylose), Gebang (low amylose), and Menti (high starch) compared to Adira 4 (35 ton/ha) and Darul Hidayah (102.1 ton/ha). The variables observed were plant height (cm) and tuber weight (grams). Observations were conducted at the age of 10 months. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. The results showed that the plant height and yield were higher in Pulang Pisau than Kalampangan even though the difference is not significant (P ≤ 0,05). Darul Hidayah has highest plant height and yield, 229.8 cm and 2271 g respectively among other genotypes/varieties grown at Pulang Pisau even though the value was not significant, whereas in Kalampangan, Darul Hidayah showed the lowest yield (670 g). Based on the data obtained, the Darul Hidayah variety can be cultivated by farmers in Pulang Pisau peat land to fulfill the availability of superior cassava seedlings for food, feed and industry. Keywords: Peat, tuber yield, plant height, liquid organic fertilizer, yam wood.


Do what you love. Anyone who has read a career self-help book, been in a high school guidance office or watched reality work show programming has heard this advice before. "Do what you love" is the new American Dream—the one for people whose white picket fences come with Banksy graffiti. As the recession lingers and many people find themselves without physical places to work, starting a passion-fueled do-it-yourself (DIY) business from the kitchen table or with friends and family is a popular ideal. Sharing economy platforms such as Airbnb might even allow you to make your kitchen table into your business by renting out space in your home to travelers. Creative industries: entertainment, technology, marketing and design are more prominent than ever, and creative work is a dream job for many. Marching to the beat of one's own drum is not actually a new concept in American culture. Many immigrants came to the United States in search of greater opportunities and the freedom to mold their lives according to their hopes and desires. But the form this ideal now takes is distinctive. The emphasis on passion-fueled, individual, creative careers is a real world version of what anthropologist Tom Boellstorff has identified as "creationist capitalism." Drawing from the California ideology of Silicon Valley in the virtual world of Second Life, Boellstorff defines creationist capitalism as a belief system where work and play blend into each other. Boellstorff writes that "labor is understood in terms of creativity, so that production is understood as creation."1 There is a downside, however. As well as being personally fulfilling, work in Second Life was super-exploitative; people were encouraged to work even when the returns from that work did not cover their basic costs of life. The creative industries, likewise, are infamous for spec work, unpaid internships, long hours and little job security.


Gifted students in elementary, middle and high schools require a specialized curriculum to foster their mathematically gifted natures. Questions that stimulate the teacher's intellectual curiosity, student reactions and methods pertaining to content organization and problem formation are the main foci.


Laccase amperometric biosensors were developed to detect the catechol compound. The laccase enzyme (LAC) immobilization was performed on nanostructures of (a) titania (TiO2); (b) titania/Nafion (TiO2/NAF) (both immobilized by the sol-gel method) and a third nanostructure, which consisted of a single biosensor composite of Nafion and laccase enzyme denoted as NAF/LAC. The Nafion was deposited on a graphite electrode and used to avoid "cracking" on the matrix. The TiO2 particle size was an average of 66 nm. FTIR spectroscopy vibration modes of different composites were determined. The electrochemical behavior of the biosensor was studied using electrochemical spectroscopy (EIS) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). The biosensor based on TiO2/NAF/LAC presented the best electro-chemical properties with regard to sensitivity, stability and detection limit after a period of 22 days.


Intra-day control and scheduling of energy systems require high-speed computation and strong robustness. Conventional mathematical driven approaches usually require high computation resources and have difficulty handling system uncertainties. This paper proposes two data-driven scheduling approaches for hydrogen penetrated energy system (HPES) operational scheduling. The two data-driven approaches learn the historical optimization results calculated out using the mixed integer linear programing (MILP) and conditional value at risk (CVaR), respectively. The intra-day rolling optimization mechanism is introduced to evaluate the proposed data-driven scheduling approaches, MILP data-driven approach and CVaR data-driven approach, along with the forecasted renewable generation and load demands. Results show that the two data-driven approaches have lower intra-day operational costs compared with the MILP based method by 1.17% and 0.93%. In addition, the combined cooling and heating plant (CCHP) has a lower frequency of changing the operational states and power output when using the MILP data-driven approach compared with the mathematical driven approaches.


".. Three recent surveys of American Jews must give pause to anyone concerned with the future of the Conservative movement. (The surveys and some reports of their findings are listed in the Appendix.) All these surveys point to the same conclusion. Conservative synagogues confront membership declines as the nature of the American Jewish population changes. Conservative synagogue members are found in disproportionate numbers among older population groups and among those whose parents are not native born. In fact, more American Jews with two native born parents report they are affiliated with Reform synagogues than with Conservative ones. According to the 1971 National Jewish Population Study, 11 percent of Jewish adults identified with Orthodoxy and 7 percent claimed Orthodox synagogue membership; 42 percent identi fied with Conservatism with 24 percent claiming synagogue mem bership; 33 percent identified with Reform with 17 percent claim ing synagogue membership. Fourteen percent had no denominational identification. Table I, based on Bernard Lazerwitz's analysis of these data, shows how even then the percentages varied substan tially by generation.


The BMA has said that it would be willing to resume negotiations with the government on the contract for consultants.

Negotiations on the contract for consultants in England and Northern Ireland were referred to the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) in October 2014 after talks between the BMA and NHS Employers stalled.1

Speaking to BMJ Careers, Paul Flynn, chairman of the BMA's Consultants Committee, said that the BMA was willing to continue negotiations …


Important progresses have been obtained during the last years in the science of processing high resolution radar images. They derive from several facts. At first we have a better knowledge of the signal statistical properties allowing improved performances for the detection and filtering stages. Then, these low level stages have received a great attention and solutions have been found which are specific to the radar images and no longer mimic the processing which proved efficient in the visible range domain. At last, the specificity of the microwave imaging has been taken into account in the objectives of the complete interpretation task.


and problems with academic and cognitive performance, and can even be prone to hypertension as they struggle to understand others' words.1 Physicians and scientists who study hearing believe that loud music heard over extended periods is contributing to increasing rates of NIHL. Based on national data from 1988 to 1994, researchers estimate that NIHL affects 12.5 percent of children in the United States ages six to nineteen.2 These rates are now allegedly rising even higher among these and older populations because of the high output levels and use rates of iPod and other sound-producing technologies (whose earbuds bring the sound very near both eardrums).3 In April 2007, Apple announced that it had sold its 100 millionth iPod, making the system the fastest-selling music player in history. The belief that repeated exposure to loud music can lead to hearing damage is reinforced by reports of hearing problems among musicians4 and the potential intensity levels of sound that musicians are capable of producing-even within the context of music education. A 2005 report based on a survey of young people averaging 19.2 years old concluded that 61 percent experienced tinnitus or hearing loss as a result of attending music concerts.5 Another recent report demonstrated that college music students in a marching or pep band were exposed to levels up to 17,000 percent of allowable exposure (dose) for one day.6 Data for this 2007 study were derived and analyzed using standards developed by the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). One hundred percent of the allowable dose for a day is equivalent to an average sound of 85 decibels (dB) for eight hours. (For reference, 85 dB is the volume of a common household blender.) A succession of studies conducted through the University of North Carolina-Greensboro revealed similar concerns for the health of some public school music students and teachers.7


Ecological monitoring data that could provide indications of agroecosystem condition, such as soil microbial biomass, biodiversity in the patches or mineralizable-N, are not available on a national scale. This paper discusses the economists' and ecologists' approach to assessing agroecosystem productivity, and the data available to make ecological assessments of agroecosystems on a national level. Models and indices of productivity used by ecologists and economists are briefly discussed in the context of agricultural inputs and outputs. Databases on production, pesticides, fertilizers, water use, water and air quality, land use, soil, labor and machinery are evaluated for their ability to make national trend assessments on how this ecosystem responds to stress. 39 refs., 3 figs., 3 tabs.


It is a new problem encountered by the media workers in university for the media to advance with the time.The implementation of Pearl River Delta region planning framework speeded up the economy integration of Pearl River Delta region.The economy integration,media expansion across regions and the revolution of media technique ask for reality need and support the regional interaction among university media.


where, as usual, ut is zero mean white noise with nonsingular covariance matrix Σu. A finite order VAR process with finite order MA error term is called a VARMA (vector autoregressive moving average) process. Before we study VARMA processes in general, we will discuss some properties of finite order MA processes in Section 11.2. In Section 11.3, we consider the more general stationary VARMA processes with stable VAR part and we will learn that generally they have infinite order pure VAR and MA representations. Their autocovariance and autocorrelation properties are treated in Section 11.4 and forecasting VARMA processes is discussed in Section 11.5. In Section 11.6, transforming and aggregating these processes is considered. In that section, we will see that a linearly transformed finite order VAR(p) process, in general, does not admit a finite order VAR representation but becomes a VARMA process. Because transformations of variables are quite common in practice, this result is a powerful argument in favor of the more general VARMA class. Finally, Section 11.7 contains discussions of causality issues and impulse response analysis in the context of VARMA systems. Throughout this chapter, we consider stationary processes only.


In this paper we address the problem of decision making for transporters in an online freight exchange platform. Two properties of online freight exchange makes the decision making challenging for a transporter — highly competitive nature of the market and, uncertainty in availability of consignments. Additionally the driver's return to the home location within a predefined duration is yet another challenge in the decision making process. In order to secure a contract to carry a consignment, a transporter needs to take part in an online auction process. So a transporter needs to take the decision whether to bid for a consignment from the set of available consignments or to wait for some time in order to get a better consignment. We develop an algorithm which recommends the best decision prior to taking part in such an auction. The evaluation results of the proposed algorithm achieves maximized profits and within a pre-decided duration of time — from home location to destination(s) and again back to home — as set by the driver. It also performs better in terms of our objective function when compared with a naive greedy decision making algorithm.


Reflections on English literature teaching in secondary high school . In Italian High Schools, literature in English is still often taught as the history of English literature, according to established tradition or convenience, although the Ministry of Education has given teachers ample freedom in the choice of texts, encouraging themes and genres close to students. The literary text most effectively contributes to improving the students' knowledge of a foreign culture as well as their cultural awareness and critical abilities. A teacher course on the didactics of English literature must therefore help its participants to make the most of this extraordinary linguistic, cognitive and educative instrument, avoiding a reassuring but inefficient approach. My teaching experience in the TFA programme has pointed out that highly selected and linguistically proficient future teachers do not need to go through content again but should be freed from outdated teaching methods in favour of flexible and dynamic practices, including choice of appropriate and contextualised texts, interaction between text and reader, and connection of the text with the present and the students' life. And the trainees may be surprised at the enormous possibilities of a faraway text such as Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales .


The size distribution of moist regions in the tropical atmosphere exhibits two modes of organization, one at synoptic scales and the other at planetary scales. We show the existence of these two modes in two data sets: column‐integrated precipitable water and outgoing long‐wave radiation. A simple two‐column model of radiation and convection in the Tropics helps interpret the presence of these two modes. The coupling between radiative effects and low‐level atmospheric dynamics provides a plausible mechanism for scale selection.


This linguistic study seeks to analyze the influence of Quechua in the Andean Spanish of the city of Cusco, Peru, with the objectives of identifying and recording the linguistic characteristics that differentiate Andean Spanish from the standard dialect of Spanish in the city of Cusco, and delineate which of these linguistic changes are the result of contact with the Quechua language. The study population consists of sixteen residents of the Wanchaq district, who have provided 4.45 hours of recorded interviews during two weeks of fieldwork. The observations from the recorded corpus are complemented by the researcher's observations from her stay in the city of Cusco. In the analysis, the researcher notes the following characteristics of urban Andean Spanish: new uses of elements such as the verb decir (to say) and the pluperfect in an effort to grammaticalize information source according to the evidential system already grammaticalized in Quechua; phonological features such as the elision and devoicing of vowels between voiceless consonants in unaccented syllables, yeísmo, and ceceo; the diminutive; reduplication; semantic changes in particles such as siempre; additions to the lexicon. Not all of these characteristics are due to Quechua influence, and there other characteristics due to Quechua influence that have not appeared in the corpus of this study (such as the presence of the phoneme /ʃ/ and the overmarking of genitive phrases), but the presence of the characteristics noted in this study demonstrate that the situation of language contact that has existed in the Andes for centuries has resulted in the strong presence of the influence of indigenous languages such as Quechua even in urban Andean Spanish.


Intrusion detection in computer networks is of great importance because of its effects on the different communication and security domains. The detection of network intrusion is a challenge. Moreover, network intrusion detection remains a challenging task as a massive amount of data is required to train the state-of-the-art machine learning models to detect network intrusion threats. Many approaches have already been proposed recently on network intrusion detection. However, they face critical challenges owing to the continuous increase in new threats that current systems do not understand. This paper compares multiple techniques to develop a network intrusion detection system. Optimum features are selected from the dataset based on the correlation between the features. Furthermore, we propose an AdaBoost-based approach for network intrusion detection based on these selected features and present its detailed functionality and performance. Unlike most previous studies, which employ the KDD99 dataset, we used a recent and comprehensive UNSW-NB 15 dataset for network anomaly detection. This dataset is a collection of network packets exchanged between hosts. It comprises 49 attributes, including nine types of threats such as DoS, Fuzzers, Exploit, Worm, shellcode, reconnaissance, generic, and analysis Backdoor. In this study, we employ SVM and MLP for comparison. Finally, we propose AdaBoost based on the decision tree classifier to classify normal activity and possible threats. We monitored the network traffic and classified it into either threats or non-threats. The experimental findings showed that our proposed method effectively detects different forms of network intrusions on computer networks and achieves an accuracy of 99.3% on the UNSW-NB15 dataset. The proposed system will be helpful in network security applications and research domains.


In this paper, an improved method of sand and mud content detection for concrete is proposed, and a set of sand and mud content detection device for concrete is designed. In this paper, a concrete gas content meter and a bubble parameter analysis system were used to study the effect of sand clay content on the gas content of commercial concrete, the loss rate of gas content in warp time, the bubble spacing coefficient and the distribution of hardened appearance pores. The pore structure test shows that the increase of mud content will appropriately reduce the proportion of harmless pores in machine-made sand concrete, and play a role in refining the pore structure in machine-made sand concrete. By using PLC controller and automatic detection device of liquid level and turbidity, the problems of complicated operation, inconvenient carrying and poor repeatability of test data are solved. It reduces the influence of human operation error and improves the accuracy of test data.


Three column specimens have been produced in this study, and structural adhesive has been used to combine cold-formed thin-walled C steel and bamboo plywood together. An axial-compression experiment is made to observe and analyze the deformation and damage forms, and explore the failure mechanism. Besides that, a propositional calculation formula about the limit bearing capacity is put forward. By making a different deal with upper loading ends of specimens, the effects of process errors on bearing capacity of specimens are taken into consideration. Results have shown that: 1) deformation of cold-formed steel and bamboo plywood is basically consistent under axial compression, which is actually the plane-section assumption, and the unitary mechanical behavior of columns is very good; 2) in the whole loading process, specimens show an ideal elastic-perfectly performance, but the plasticity-enhancement impact is not obvious, thusly disregard the contribution of plastic enhancement on bearing capacity; 3) when specimens are damaged, it has a phenomenon that shape of bamboo plywood is locally bulgy and curved convexly as a waist drum, and the inner steel is yielding; 4) process errors have a great influence on the bearing capacity.


The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated with the worst forms of child exploitation. The analysis is positive, but provides some of the elements for a normative judgement.


Supported by thousands of years of history, traditional Huizhou buildings have played a vital role, both functionally and culturally, as residential buildings in China. Masonry walls are one of the key building components of a Huizhou building; however, the traditional Huizhou masonry wall structure, predominantly a hollow brick structure, cannot meet the local building energy code requirements, and thus needs to be improved. Within this context, the present research measures the actual thermal performance of traditional Huizhou masonry walls for historical buildings and new-built buildings, which results in mean thermal transmittances of 1.892 W/m2·K and 2.821 W/m2·K, respectively, while the local building energy code requires a minimum thermal transmittance of 1.500 W/m2·K. In order to improve the thermal performance of traditional Huizhou masonry walls, four design scenarios for wall insulation are proposed and tested in a climate chamber: (1) hollow brick wall with inorganic interior insulation mortar, (2) solid brick wall with inorganic interior insulation mortar, (3) hollow brick wall with foamed concrete, and (4) hollow brick wall with foamed concrete plus inorganic interior insulation mortar. The experiment results indicate that, among the four proposed design scenarios, only scenario 4 can significantly improve the thermal performance of Huizhou masonry walls and meet the building energy code requirements, with a mean thermal transmittance of 1.175 W/m2·K. This research lays the foundation for improving the thermal performance of Huizhou masonry walls with new insulation and construction technology, thereby helping to improve the quality of life of Huizhou residents while respecting the cultural significance of the traditional Huizhou building.


In this paper, a solution of problem is suggested that devoted to a synchronization of semiconductor converter control system as part of a power supply system based on a synchronous generator with permanent-magnet excitation operated at variable speed of shaft rotation. The proposed solution ensures the entire functionality of the standard control system algorithms in the presence of various disturbing factors. The structure of the proposed option of the synchronization system assumes a simple implementation in digital microprocessor. The paper proposes a technique to configure synchronization system parameters that referred to the certain quality criteria and the shape of amplitude and phase responses. A simulation model of the power supply system in scope of study was developed with ability to analyze the influence of disturbing factors. The results of dynamic behavior analysis are presented.


An information system can be regarded as successful when a significant number of users use the system in a continued basis. Satisfaction is often regarded as the basis of continued usage, while dissatisfaction may cause users to discontinue the system use. While many studies in information system have investigated user satisfaction, user dissatisfaction seems to be ignored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that generate user satisfaction and the factors that generate user dissatisfaction. Drawing the theoretical assumptions from Oliver's expectation-confirmation theory and Herzberg's two-factor theory, we propose a generic theoretical framework that posits environmental factors and job-specific outcome factors may cause satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The framework extends our understanding of user satisfaction and dissatisfaction and helps to underpin and categorize the factors that are salient for causing user satisfaction and dissatisfaction. By collecting text data responses using open ended survey questions and qualitatively analyzing them, we identify a list of factors that generate educators' satisfaction and a list of factors that generate dissatisfaction in the e-learning tool utilization context. Our study reveals that satisfaction is generated by both environmental and job-specific factors, while dissatisfaction is generated by environmental factors only.


Laws that regulate the employment relation tend to set forth broad and often ambiguous principles that give organizations wide latitude to construct the meaning of compliance in a way that responds to both environmental demands and managerial interests. Organizations respond initially by elaborating their formal structures to create visible symbols of compliance. As organizations construct and institutionalize forms of compliance with laws, they mediate the impact of those laws on society. The author uses data from a nationwide survey of 346 organizations to develop models of the creation and institutionalization of organizationally constructed symbols of compliance following the 1964 Civil Rights Act.


Abstract In this paper I argue that it is often not possible to systematically distinguishbetween linguistically relevant knowledge and linguistically irrelevantknowledge. Based on a discussion of various meanings of words and thecontexts in which they can occur I propose, following Fillmore (1982), aframe-semantic approach to the description and analysis of word meanings.Presenting a number of examples from the FrameNet lexicographic databasefor English, I discuss the types of different knowledge necessary toproperly interpret a word's meaning in context. Finally, I claim that theFrameNet approach to lexical description is also advantagous for the descriptionof other languages and domains.


Introduction Endogenous psychoses, e.g. schizophrenia, are a pressing problem of modern medicine and biology. Among various neurobiological models of schizophrenia,much attention is paid to disturbances in the brain neural activity and metabolism. Objectives The aim of this study was to analyze dynamics of motor cortex metabolites in the norm and in early stage of schizophrenia in period of BOLD response to event related single stimulus using MRI methods (fMRI and NMR). Methods Study was performed on clinical Phillips Achieva 3.0 T MRI scanner. Volume of interest in motor cortex was localized on the base of fMRI study (EPI FFE, TR = 3000 ms, TE = 30 ms) as the zone of activation (Fig 1) caused by bottom push with the forefinger in response to single auditory stimuli transmitted with the 18 s periodicity. The BOLD signal was measured each 3 sec. 1Н МR spectra (PRESS, TE = 30 ms TR = 3000 ms) were run; FID signals for time points t = 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 s after stimulus were summarized (Fig 2). Thus, the synchronization of BOLD and metabolic responses to single stimulus was achieved. The same method was applied for spectra accumulation in resting state. For FID processing custom made software was used (with apodization filtering (LB = 20, GB = -5), FT and manual phase correction). NAA, Cho, Cr signal intensities for each time point were normalized to their values at t = 0 and to the volume of activated cells containing in the voxel (segmented manually). Intergroup difference and time points differences were estimated using Mann-Whitney criterion with the level of significance p<0.05. Results The BOLD signal in both groups demonstrated maximum at the 6th s after target stimulus, however its value was reliably lover in schizophrenia in comparison with the control group. The only [NAA] in normal motor cortex was changed after the stimulation (Fig D). In schizophrenia [NAA], [Cr] and [Cho] were constant. The stable values of [NAA], [Cr] and [Cho] were observed in dynamics in resting state as well. [NAA] in normal cortex statistically significantly decreased at the 12th s after stimulus presentation and returned to initial value at the 15th s (Fig 3). Thus [NAA] minimum delayed relative to maximum of BOLD by 6 s. Image: Image 2: Image 3: Conclusions The reversible decrease of NAA observed for the norm in the study could provide a short-term activation of neuronal Krebs cycle through a synthesis of Ac CoA using acetate obtained in ASPA reaction. Different behavior of [NAA] in the norm and schizophrenia might be related with a difference in location (or activity) of ASPA. Decreased expression of glutamate transporters in schizophrenia could also reduce consumption of NAA as a source of acetate in synthesis of Ac CoA which is used for restoration of ATP. Disclosure of Interest None Declared


A lot of heterogeneous data must be organized properly to be utilized efficiently, and hierarchical classification based on semantics of data is useful approach to organize data. The semantics of data for the classification attribute is often multiple. When data (objects) are classified to more than one child class, they are duplicated in the terminal classes, that requires the elimination of the duplications when the objects of a class are produced from the terminal classes. When the objects whose semantics is the semantics of a set of classes are required, we have to check that objects are not classified to the other terminal classes. This paper shows methods for these problems, where one of the objects in the child classes is selected to represent the object in the child classes.


In this paper, software and hardware design and realization of environmental monitoring system are introduced on the basis of Modem and telephone wire. The specific actualization method of remote data communication is also discussed. This system has the advantages such as abundant interface types, strong ability of anti noise and large store space. Besides, it is suitable for the data acquisition system that is new old crossed and type complex. This system has been used in the environment protection of Beijing suburb successfully.


We consider the modes of a weakly coupled equilateral triangular array of three fibre cores. In particular, we concentrate on what symmetry tells us about the field, propagation constant degeneracies and thus their beating.


Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe some anthropometric characteristics, to trace the physical preparedness level and the technical skills of children (girls and boys) up to 14 years old participating in competitive basketball, to make comparative analysis of the average values of both totalities, and to find the relation and dependence between the anthropometric characteristics, physical preparedness and basketball skills of both sexes. Methods: One hundred twenty-nine children were subjected to study, out of which sixty-three basketball players (boys) at the age of 13 ± 0,7 and 66 basketball players (girls) at the age of 13 ± 0,5. Sport-pedagogical test was applied to the participants, and a probated and standardized test battery including twenty indicators was used. The basketball players participated in the test voluntarily, they received no money or financial compensation for their contribution and their anonymity was guaranteed. Data analysis: Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS-23 and variation, correlation and comparative analysis were made, t-criterion of Student and U-criterion of Mann-Whitney were used. Results: As we had supposed and as it was proven by the results for that group, the gender differences had a more substantial impact on some physical development indications and greater part of the physical preparedness indications. In favor of the boys these differences were more strongly expressed in their height, degree of body mass and horizontal stretch, while in favor of the girls the differences were in the functional capacity of the chest. Boys were fully favored as far as rapidity, speed abilities, explosive strength of the lower limbs were concerned. Conclusion: We have to note that the accumulated training experience and the biological ripening impact positively on the performance of young male and female basketball players. The results of this study showed that there were statistically significant differences between boys and girls in terms of technical skills (TS) only along two indicators.


Objective: Discussing different effects which CT and V-EEG made in epilepsy diagnoses.Methods: We have learned 75 epilepsy sufferers.They examined by V-EEG(SOLAR2000) and CT(GE1800) during the year 2005.1~2006.12.Results: By V-EEG,28 normal cases(37.3%) and 47 abnormal cases(17.3%) were examined.34 cases(72.3%) have epilepsy wave and 13 cases(27.7%) were typical abnormal in the 47 abnormal cases.There were 13 cases with epilepsg seizure.By CT,46 normal cases(61.3%) and 29 abnormal cases(38.7%) were examined.According to above results,which examined by V-EEG and CT,there was no obvious difference.x2=2.85,P0.05.Conclusion: Using V-EEG in epilepsy diagnoses could improve Masculine ratio of electroencephalography of epilepsy.Especially in differentiation real or false cases,V-EEG is good helper Also,V-EEG could used to diagnoses and type epilepsy at is's beginning time.CT is important tool on analyzing the cause of epilepsy.It used to look for the possible disease causes.V-EEG and CT are complementary to each other on epilepsy diagnoses.


The popularity and demand of Ayurvedic formulations has been increased globally, on the other side blames were also noted on it. Therefore, certain things like standardization & validation became essential requirement of ayurvedic formulations. In this study Kantalauha bhasma was prepared in three batches by classical method and analyzed to provide standard parameters for the assessment of quality. In the present research paper, the work done on pharmaceutical study of Kantalauha Bhasma conducted in the Department of Rasa Shastra The pharmaceutical processing of Kantalauha Bhasma was performed by following Samanya Shodhana, Vishesha Shodhana and Marana of Kantalauha. After 40 Putas, Kantalauha Bhasma was obtained. Physicochemical test were performed after 40 Putas. After XRD final product was detected to be Fe3O4. INTRODUCTION The basic purpose of this science is to keep the human beings free from disease, old age & death. Rasashastra is one of the branches of Ayurveda which has a rich knowledge of mineral and metallic preparations. Rasashastra is a subject which deals with metals and its therapeutic effect. It mentions the use of metals in a refined form as Bhasma. Their use reduced the quantity of the dose administered and increased the palatability, tissue availability and shelf-life of the drugs. Kanta Lauha is a variety of Lauha which is a well known metal. Rasatarangini had mentioned that, many diseases can be treated by Kanta Lauha. Preparations of Kantalauha Bhasma are used in Pandu, Kshaya, Udara, Medovikar, etc. It is WORLD JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES SJIF Impact Factor 6.647 Volume 6, Issue 04, 1128-1137 Research Article ISSN 2278 – 4357 *Corresponding Author Vd. Namrata R. Jadhav Department: Rasashastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana. Article Received on 24 Jan. 2017, Revised on 14 Feb. 2017, Accepted on 07 March 2017 DOI: 10.20959/wjpps201704-8829


For the purpose of definition of the directions and opportunities of interaction of small and average business with the large enterprises the analysis of activity of small and average business in different types of economic activity is carried out. It is defined that one of fields of activity in which small business most actively functions, the processing productions are. It is revealed that medium business is rather narrow segment of the Russian economy, however in it, the processing productions take the leading positions on number of economic entities, occupied, and to turn volume. The conclusion is drawn – the structure of small and average business, rather extensive and difficult on structure, in the processing sphere is created. On the basis of the analysis which is carried out in article it is defined that in modern Russia significant growth in industrial production is observed, besides, the number of innovative goods, especially in the industry accrues. It is defined that for development of cooperation of manufacturing enterprises of various scales of activity high-quality growth of both small and medium-sized enterprises, and ways of their work is necessary. Modern development and practical application of the most widespread forms of interaction between small, average and large businessmen is analysed: subcontracting, franchizing, network production structures. Search of new quality of interaction of small, average and large business among themselves has to become one of elements of modernization of national economy.


The objective of this research was to findout the effect of online gaming habits on student,s learning outcomes in class X of social sciences in economics subject at SMA Negeri 1 Tapa, Bone Bolango Regency, It employed a quantitative method with a sample of 66 students. At the sama time, the data analysis used in this research was a simple linear regression analysis assisted by IBM Statistics SPSS 26.0 program. The research findings signified that the variable of online gaming habits partially had a negatif and significant effect on students' learning outcomes in class X of social Sciences at SMA Negeri 1 Tapa, the results of this research obtainet a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.169, meaning that the effect of online gaming habbits variabel on students' learning outcomes at SMA Negeri 1 Tapa was 16.9%. in contrast, the remaining 83.1% was affected by other variables that contribute to students' learning outcomes at SMA Negeri 1 Tapa, which were not examinet in this research.


The facial cleansing products segment has grown over the years and most surfactant-based systems do not retain many of the active ingredients on the skin. Development of a positively charged vesicle as the delivery vehicle for personal cleansing products is based on the negatively charged nature of the skin surface. Chitosan has the potential to be used as a vesicle to encapsulate active ingredients and can be used in facial formulations that are based on amphoteric surfactant with or without the addition of nonionic surfactant. This review briefly summarizes the potential of chitosan nanoparticles as the delivery system in facial cleansing formulations. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


The subfornical organ (SFO), a circumventricular structure which lacks the normal blood brain barrier has been shown to play a key role in body fluid homeostasis. A role for the SFO in sensing circulating satiety signals has been suggested by electrophysiological studies demonstrating that anorexigenic (leptin and amylin) and orexigenic (ghrelin) satiety signals influence the excitability of separate populations of SFO neurons. The present study examined whether electrical stimulation of the SFO influenced feeding in satiated rats.


Constrained clustering is a semi-supervised task that employs a limited amount of labelled data, formulated as constraints, to incorporate domain-specific knowledge and to significantly improve clustering accuracy. Previous work has considered exact optimization formulations that can guarantee optimal clustering while satisfying all constraints, however these approaches lack interpretability. Recently, decision trees have been used to produce inherently interpretable clustering solutions, however existing approaches do not support clustering constraints and do not provide strong theoretical guarantees on solution quality. In this work, we present a novel SAT-based framework for interpretable clustering that supports clustering constraints and that also provides strong theoretical guarantees on solution quality. We also present new insight into the trade-off between interpretability and satisfaction of such user-provided constraints. Our framework is the first approach for interpretable and constrained clustering. Experiments with a range of real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our approach can produce high-quality and interpretable constrained clustering solutions.


The objective of this field study was to determine whether current topping and N fertilizer practices are optimum for yield, grade index, and chemical quality for flue-cured tobacco production in Ontario, Canada. The study was conducted at Delhi, Ontario, in a wet (2000) and two dry (2001 and 2002) years with two flue-cured tobacco cultivars (CT157 and Delfield), three fertilizer N levels (25, 50 and 75 kg ha -1 ), and three topping heights (17, 19 and 21 leaves) except in the year 2000. In 2000, the plants were relatively small (likely due to the wetter than normal growing season) so they were topped at 15, 17 and 19 leaves. N rates optimal for yields were 75 kg ha -1 in 2000 and 2001, and 50 kg ha -1 in 2002; whereas N rates optimal for grade index were 75 kg ha -1 in 2000 but only 25 kg ha -1 in 2001, however, in 2002, grade index was unaffected by N rate. For returns, optimal N rates were 75 kg ha -1 in 2000 and 50 kg ha -1 in 2002, but returns were unaffected by N rate in 2001 when the increase in yield with N was counteracted by a lower grade index. Yield consistently increased with topping height; but grade index declined in two of three years. Returns were always either greatest or unaffected with high topping. Total alkaloids increased with increased nitrogen application. CT157 showed superior grade index but generally, Delfield ranked higher than CT157 in alkaloid concentrations each year. Optimum gross returns and desirable leaf quality can be achieved at 25 to 50 kg/ha N. However, the optimum topping height may be at least 19 leaves under normal conditions.


It's the essential guarantee of innovative talents cultivation in a research university to construct a high-level experimental technique team and impel it to play an important role in cultivation of creative and practical ability of students.As the status quo of the experimental teams is not all satisfactory,the related schools and departments within the institute must make great efforts in such areas as changes in concept,policy making,talent introduction and personnel training.Several pertinent measures must be taken simultaneously to construct a high-level experimental technique team required by a research university in order to meet its demand of development.


The Campanian ammonite faunas of the north-western Munster Basin are systematically and stratigraphically revised. They comprise 39 species, referred to 29 genera. In addition to the type-material of SCHLUTER (1867; 1871-1876), the specimens mentioned and figured by WIPPICH (1995) and LOMMERZHEIM (1995) are re-examined and partially refigured. The ammonite occurrences are documented in the context of the detailed lithostratigraphy and a foram zonation of the Campanian of the north western Munster Basin and the Campanian standard zones of north Germany. An ammonite stratigraphy for the Munster Basin Campanian is proposed. The basal Lower Campanian remains unzoned. The Placenticeras bidorsatum-Zone comprises the central division of the Dulmen Formation. In the upper part the first occurrence of Scaphites hippocrepis III marks the base of the eponymous zone. Scaphites gibbus enters at the base of the Asbeck-Member, Holtwick Formation, and defines the succeeding ammonite zone. The base of the Upper Campanian corresponds to the base of the Coesfeld Formation and the lies immediately below the base of the Beckum Member and the entry of several species of Hoplitoplacenticeras. The lower part of the Coesfeld Formation corresponds to the Hoplitoplacenticeras vari Zone, the middle part to the Trachyscaphites spiniger-Zone, and the upper part already belongs to the lower Bostrychoceras polyplocum Zone, which also includes the Baumberge Formation excluding the highest part, which lacks ammonites, and remains undated in ammonite terms.


Ethnoarchaeology as a sub-discipline of archaeology primarily entails survey and research of various aspects of contemporary societies, in order to enable archaeologists to understand the dynamic processes that have created in the past the phenomena we now recognize as archaeological material, i.e. archaeological record. Ethnoarchaeological studies in Serbia have been ill-fated, since almost all the roads leading towards this approach have been jammed by various conceptions of the idea of continuity. In the Serbian archaeology, continuity has been understood as continuation of direct Aegean and Greek influences, as a metaphysical continuity of spirit, inexplicable "idealtypical" continuity, national continuity, or as a transmission of cultural traditions. Common to all these paradigms is the understanding of continuity as a given, and the contemporaneous ethnographic material has been used solely as an illustration of the long life of certain cultural shapes. The true value of ethnoarchaeology as a way of overcoming the statics of the archaeological record and gaining insight into the dynamics of the past has never been realized.


The article tackles the issue of territorializing higher education as far as students' records are concerned. It takes into account all the students who registered for the first time in colleges and universities in 1997 in Aquitaine. There were about 11,800 students. The article proposes a set of indicators (theoretical number of students per school, rate of local recruiting, rate of openings reserved for local students and rate of students from out of the district). Their variations according to the schools and the subjects show mainly three facts :1. The attractivity of a school depends on totally different elements like status (delocalised or fully operational), location, size and subjects taught ;2. This attractivity has consequences on the nature of the students in each school, measured by the ratio of students on time, students with high school diplomas in the fields of arts & literature science math economics, and upper-middle class students ;3. the nature of the programs offered in a given subject in Aquitaine greatly affects the social and academic elements of the people on campus. The comparison between the students expected and actually there shows big differences that indicate a division of the work between main campuses and their delocalised sites.


We report a case of a 20-year-old white woman with the history of anorexia nervosa presenting with spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM). On admission, her body mass index (BMI) was 9.9 kg/m(2). Physical examination revealed subcutaneous crepitation especially in the axillae, the intercostal spaces, between the scapulae and along the spine. A chest X-ray showed extensive tissue emphysema, especially in the upper mediastinum. In a computed tomography (CT) scan, additional air was found in the upper retroperitoneal space adjacent to the stomach and to the left of the aorta. The patient recovered clinically within three weeks, and a CT scan showed a complete remission of the pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema. Based on this, case review of the literature about the frequency of pneumomediastinum in young patients with low weight is presented concerning epidemiology, etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, time to recovery and prognosis.


The authors analyze the connection between the theory of stochastic processes and quantum mechanics. It is shown that quantum mechanics is not equivalent to a Markovian diffusion process as claimed in recent papers. The origin of a possible confusion about this question is clarified. The authors further demonstrate that there does not even exist a non-Markovian process equivalent to quantum mechanics.


T g 1HE theoretical merits as well as the theoretical limitations of the infant-industry argument for tariffs have been made sufficiently clear in the discussions of economists. Opinion seems to be less settled with regard to the part which protection by tariffs or quotas has actually played in the process of world-industrialization during the last seventy or eighty years. There seems to be some inclination to overestimate the general historical role of infant-industry protection because in certain countries industrialization has undeniably been greatly helped by protectionist devices. It is the purpose of the following pages to contribute toward evaluating the general historical importance or unimportance of infant-industry protection by pointing to an experience which, in this connection, has not so far received the attention it deserves. We are referring to the industrialization of the Netherlands, which, until I932, was developing virtually without tariff or quota protection,' and this in the midst of an already highly protectionist world. To clarify what this experience can teach us with regard to the infant-industry argument, it will be necessary to start with a brief outline of Dutch foreign-trade policy during the past few decades. It is against the background of the long era of Dutch free-trade policy that the results of the simultaneous industrialization of the Netherlands must be measured. Free-trade tradition is as old in the Netherlands as in Great Britain, although not older. During the seventeenth and eighteenth century Dutch commercial policy was already laissez faire in many respects, but this was more a matter of expediency than of principle.2 As in the


During the catalytic dehalodeuteration of N-acetyl-3,5-di-iodo-L-tyrosine amide solvent hydrogen was incorporated instead of deuterium up to an order of 70%. The major part of the solvent hydrogen was shown to be introduced into the reaction product independently of the dilution of the reacting gas. This direct transfer depends on type of solvent and catalyst and on the catalyst-to-substrate ratio in the same manner as found from deuterations of 4-halogenated phenylalanine derivatives and dehydroproline. The distribution of deuterium in the reaction products was determined by mass spectrometry.


The constant need for heat exchangers that are easy to manufacture and maintain, and that have a standardized and already known manufacturing technology, has led to the fact that shell and tube heat exchangers are one of the most common devices used in the process industry. In this paper, the analytical and numerical models of the basic shell and heat exchanger have presented with dimensions of 3750 x 1000 mm and a nominal heat capacity of 410 kW. Using the flow simulation, the influence of different numbers and arrangement of baffles and the changing the position of the inlet and outlet of warmer fluid are considered. The temperatures of the fluids on the inlet and outlet are taken into account as the main parameters for heat exchanger performance. From obtained results, it can be concluded that with the increase in the number of baffles, the performance of the heat exchanger is increased. The position of the inlet and outlet of the warmer fluid greatly influence the heat exchanger performance.


Formal approaches that aim at representing human reasoning should be evaluated based on how humans actually reason. One way of doing so is to investigate whether psychological findings of human reasoning patterns are represented in the theoretical model. The computational logic approach discussed here is the so-called weak completion semantics which is based on the three-valued ᴌukasiewicz logic. We explain how this approach adequately models Byrne's suppression task, a psychological study where the experimental results show that participants' conclusions systematically deviate from the classical logically correct answers. As weak completion semantics is a novel technique in the field of computational logic, it is important to examine how it corresponds to other already established non-monotonic approaches. For this purpose we investigate the relation of weak completion with respect to completion and three-valued stable model semantics. In particular, we show that well-founded semantics, a widely accepted approach in the field of non-monotonic reasoning, corresponds to weak completion semantics for a specific class of modified programs.


A conventional and efficient approach, the Taguchi method, is applied to an off-line quality control so that the experimental design is combined with quality loss in order to optimize a single response problem. Three stages, system design, parameter design, and tolerance design, are included in the Taguchi method. In the real world, more than one quality characteristic should be considered for most of the industrial products; i.e., most applications customers are concerned with multiresponse problems. Therefore, the Taguchi method is not appropriate to optimize a multiresponse problem because engineering judgment and experience are the main optimization scenario in Taguchi's method. In order to overcome this gap, this study proposes the effective procedure, canonical correlation, to optimize the multiresponse problem. Using canonical correlation, multiple responses in each experiment are transformed into a performance index. Therefore, the optimal factors/levels combination for the multiresponses can be determined. Two case studies in Tarng et al. [7] and Lin et al. [9] are resolved by the proposed procedure. The result indicates that canonical correlation can yield a satisfactory solution for multiresponse problems.


The catch landed and effort expended by private-boat sport
fishermen were studied in southern California marine waters
between October and December 1982, to determine the impact of one segment of the sport fishery on local marine resources. Fishermen returning from fishing trips were interviewed at launch ramps, hoists, and boat-rental facilities. This report contains quantitative data and statistical estimates of total effort, total catch, catch of preferred species, and length frequencies for those species whose catches are regulated by minimum size limits.
An estimated 157,000 organisms were landed by 57,700 anglers and 4800 divers. The major components of the angler catch were Pacific mackerel, Scomber japonicus (28,700 estimated catch): white croaker, Genyonemus lineatus (24,000 estimated catch); and Pacific bonito, Sarda chiliensis (16,700 estimated catch). These three species represented almost half the total estimated angler catch. Rockfishes, Sebastes spp: were a major catch component; the 35 rockfish species landed made up 24% of the estimated catch. Divers landed an estimated 14,700 fishes and invertebrates. Chief among these were abalone, Haliotis spp. (4200 estimated catch);
rock scallop, Hinnites rugosus (3600 estimated catch); and
California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus (2500 estimated catch).
Angler and diver compliance with size-limit regulations was
generally favorable, with diver compliance being particularly scrupulous, especially with invertebrate species. The compliance rate for California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, showed a drop from the previous quarter (July - September 1982) from 70 to 59% legal. During the same time period, size-limit compliance rose from 4 to 20% for Pacific bonito, a species with a tolerance allowing the take of some under-sized fish. (28p.)


Objective: To evaluate the antitumor effect of polysaccharide from spirulina platensis(PSP), and its synergic and attenuated effects on chemotherapeutic drugs in tumor-bearing mice. Methods: Mouse models of transplanting tumor were established. Antitumor effects of PSP and PSP combined with chemotherapeutic drugs were observed and the effect of PSP on leukopenia induced by chemotherapeutic drugs was also investigated. Results: PSP significantly inhibited S180 and H22, the inhibitory rate being 50 %-58 %and 43 %-51 %respectively. PSP evidently increased the antitumor action of cytoxan, PDD and 5-Fu, and elevated the number of white blood cells in leukopenia. Conclusion: PSP can obviously inhibit the tumor growth, also has synergic and attenuated effects on chemotherapeutic drugs.


Treatment by burning municipal solid waste in the country has been widely promoted and applied.But incineration brings highly toxic dioxins which is harmful to the environment.It has aroused people's concern and attention.In this paper,the composition of dioxin,the nature,source,and control and harm and domestic and international advanced treatment technology.