This White Paper provides a step-by-step approach on how to procure e-mobility solutions. Chapter 1 covers the implementation of a so-called innovation procurement. Chapter 2 covers all relevant aspects that are related to the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) of the World Trade Organization with a link to the most relevant aspects of EU Trade Agreements that enhance the competitiveness of European companies. The chapter also presents an overview of the most recent and relevant EU initiatives to maintain a level playing field in public procurement within and across the boundaries of the EU Internal Market. Chapter 3 covers the possibilities to include social and environmental criteria within government procurements. Chapter 4 concludes on the findings of the e-Mobility paper and provides the reader with useful practices and tools to follow up on the procurement of e-mobility solutions. For the context of this White Paper, e-mobility solutions are transport solutions which are based on heavy duty vehicles with a zero-emission tailpipe pollution, which are a category under article 4 (5) of the Directive 2009/33/EC of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of clean road transport vehicles in support of low-emission mobility amended by Directive (EU) 2019/1161 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019


The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an on-line Cumulative Sentence Analysis CSA instruction on university engineering students' English reading comprehension. Within the framework of CSA instruction, the reading comprehension process can be divided into six steps: identifying finite verbs, finding key words, separating clauses, identifying subjects and main verbs, adding words stepwise, and translating the sentence. The results showed that the experimental group achieved a higher level of reading comprehension performance following the instruction. Inter-group comparison also revealed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group in the post-test, while no difference was found between these groups in the pretest. The findings clearly demonstrated that on-line CSA instruction is an efficient and feasible approach to helping engineering students cope with their problems of reading English texts.


The recently enacted Social Security basic hospital care, care in skilled nursing Amendments of 1965 provide a tremendous homes, and home health care services. In opportunity to assure that, eventually, all addition older people can purchase, for persons needing medical or health care will $3.00 a month, supplementary medical in be able to receive this care, regardless of surance that covers physicians' services and their ability to pay for it. Public Law 89-97 certain other costs. has appropriately been heralded as a great Acceptance by the Congress of the ne step forward in guaranteeing to our older cessity for a broadly based, contributory citizens that they no longer need face the approach to the basic expensive health care specter of serious illness without resources needs of our older citizens has established for adequate care. Thus a great burden the principle that all older Americans who of fear and financial stress has been lifted, are insured under the social security pro Less generally recognized is the fact that gram or are presently over the age of 65 PL 89-97 is also a monumental child health should have this protection as a matter of measure, opening the way for needed right. This, in addition to being eminently health care—including preventive servworthwhile in itself, has the additional ices—for all children whose families are value of relieving public welfare agencies unable to pay for such care. If full adof some of their present medical care costs vantage is taken of the new provisions, so that such funds may be used to establish essential medical care is guaranteed to the or improve medical care for other groups one-fourth of all children in the United in our population and to meet those med States who live in low-income families. ical needs of older persons that are not cov ered by the social insurance provisions. A second approach in the 1965 Social Security Amendments is the expansion of To accomplish these and related goals for existing programs. The act provides for an other indigent and medically indigent increase in the annual authorizations for people, the Social Security Amendments the maternal and child health and crippled provide several major approaches: children's programs. It also authorizes For the aged—the group for which the project grants to state and local health need for basic health insurance protection agencies and to medical schools and teach under the social insurance system has been ing hospitals affiliated with these schools so well established—the act will provide for comprehensive health programs for ^^—( school and preschool children. ELLEN WINSTON, Ph.D., is U.S. Commissioner of The funds authorized for the maternal Welfare, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and child health and crippled children's and Welfare, Washington, D C. programs are increased, beginning with $45


The lightning sferic has been shown to be a valuable radio signal for detecting perturbations of the lower ionosphere caused by the lightning activity itself and by other terrestrial and space events (Shao et al., 2012, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1668). Adding to many existing methods, we have recently proposed an improved ray theory (RT) model for investigating the lightning sferic transmission in the Earth‐ionosphere waveguide (Qin et al., 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025599). In the present study, a further modification to the RT model was made to increase its accuracy in modeling the lightning sferic in a broader frequency band and a larger distance range. The modification included two aspects: a new incident angle finding technique and a novel method for deriving the high‐order hop series. To quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of the modification, a comparative study of this modified RT model with its previous version and the full‐wave finite difference time domain model was carried out. The results showed that this modified RT model did better than its previous version and was in close agreement with the full‐wave finite difference time domain method in modeling the lightning sferic in frequencies bands lower to 3, 5, and 7 kHz for distances up to 500, 800, and 1,000 km, respectively.


Rabbits from three inbred lines, all descended from a common ancestor, have very similar, but distinct, RL-A alleles. Leukocytes from rabbits homozygous for these similar alleles do not cross stimulate in the mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) test. Unrelated, noninbred, RL-A-identical rabbits, produced by genetic crosses of known genotypes, also fail to cross stimulate in the MLC test. Thus, the locus controlling the MLC response and the RL-A locus are closely linked, but not identical. The RL-A-MLC histocompatibility complex is also linked to a third locus, the He blood group locus.


In this response to Robinson and Levin's comments on Thompson (1996), it is argued that describing results as "significant" rather than "statistically significant" is confusing to those persons most susceptible to misinterpreting this telegraphic wording. Contrary to Robinson and Levin's view, it is noted that the utility of the characterization of results as being due to "nonchance" is limited by the nature of the null hypothesis assumed to be true. It is suggested that effect sizes are important to interpret, even though they too can be misinterpreted; recent empirical studies of publications indicate that effect sizes are still too rarely reported. Finally, the value of "external" replicability analyses is acknowledged, but it is argued that "internal" replicability analyses can also be useful, and certainly are superior to statistical significance tests regarding evaluating result replicability, because statistical significance tests do not evaluate replicability.


We incorporate minimum mean square error (MMSE) beamforming (BF) schemes utilizing various number of transmit antennas with signal space diversity (SSD). Coordinate interleaving (CI) is performed in the spatial and time domains. The system has no channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and imperfect CSI is assumed at the receiver in order to study the benefit of SSD under channel estimation errors. A parallel transmission takes place between the transmitter and the receiver, where MMSE BF is performed according to the erroneously estimated CSI. It is demonstrated that by using time or spatial CI, it is possible to highly improve the error performance of a MMSE BF system without the need of extra bandwidth, time slots or significant complexity increment. Different CI strategies used in this work present alternative solutions for different system design criteria in terms of error performance and latency.


An approach is proposed for real-time coordination of signal phase timings for a network. Currently, network coordination is done using off-line methods, which are based on average traffic volumes for various movements. On-line approaches adapt offline methods by constantly inputting updated average volumes computed from detector data over the "last" decision horizon. Our method first identifies platoons and predicts their movement in the network (i.e., their arrival times at intersections, their sizes, and their speeds) by fusing and filtering the traffic data obtained, from various sources, in the last few minutes. The signals are set so that the predicted platoons are provided appropriate green times to optimise a given performance criterion. If two platoons demanding conflicting movements arrive at an intersection at the same time, then either one or the other will be given priority for green time, or one of them is split to maximize the given measure of performance. This study discusses how such conflicts are resolved and the corresponding algorithmic procedure.


Ground seawater quality was investigated, and the algal growth potential (AGP) tests were performed along the Tongyeong coast to examine the inflow of materials, which is needed for the red tide species Cochlodinium polykrikoides to grow. The study was conducted to determine the mechanism for C. polykrikoidesred tides. Water temperature, salinity, pH, and dissolved oxygen (DO) ranged from 16.05 to , 18.20 to 32.11 psu, 6.00 to 7.61, and 3.41 to 7.91 mg/L (41.4-96.1%), respectively. No seasonal variation was observed in water temperature. The salinity, pH, and DO saturations at most stations were lower than those of coastal seawater at Tongyeong. The -N, -N, -P concentrations ranged from 0.43 to 16.00 , 1.50 to 132.38 , and 1.30 to 6.29 , respectively; the values at some stations were much higher than observed in Tongyeong coast seawater. Using seawater from station B, C. polykrikoides grew consistently, with a high growth rate, similar to the red tide in nature. This seawater appeared to contain materials needed by C. polykrikoides to grow. Therefore, C. polykrikoides red tides seem to occur wherever the ground sea water contains materials that are needed for its growth.


Cascade calculations of hadronic hydrogen atoms are performed to obtain the x-ray yields as a function of the target density. An extension of Leon-Bethe{close_quote}s Stark mixing rates to m{ne}0 states is made without the introduction of the parameter k{sub STK}, which is necessary in the Borie-Leon model to enhance the Stark mixing rates. Although the energies of their {ital L} x rays are too low to observe, we can roughly estimate the 2{ital p} absorption width of pionic and kaonic hydrogen atoms from the measured {ital K} x-ray yields. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}


Executive social irresponsibility has received increasing research attention in recent years, following the consensus for a broader stakeholder approach to managerial decision making. Despite the importance of the subject, there remains insufficient research on contextual factors that mold executives' orientation toward social responsibility. Through three studies, we demonstrate that difficult business goals can reduce executives' tendency to consider social responsibility in their decision making. Further, we find that focalism—a cognitive bias based on affective forecasting theory—can mediate positive relationships between business goal difficulty and socially irresponsible executive behavior. Our findings also suggest that, expanding executives' thought processes beyond the narrow focus of a business goal achievement can be a good strategy in reducing socially irresponsible executive behavior, even in the presence of difficult goals.


The paper introduces a new patch-based dissimilarity measure for image comparison employing an approximation strategy. It extends the Average Common Sub-matrix measure computing the exact dissimilarity among images. In the exact method, dissimilarity between two images is obtained by considering the average area of the biggest square sub-matrices in common between the images, by exact match of the extracted sub-matrices pixel by pixel. As an extension, the proposed dissimilarity measure computes an approximate match between the sub-matrices, which is obtained by omitting a controlled number of pixels at a given column offset inside the sub-matrices. The proposed dissimilarity measure is extensively compared with other well-known approximate methods for image comparison in the state-of-the-art. Experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approximate measure in terms of execution time with respect to the exact method, and in terms of retrieval precision with respect to the other state-of-the-art methods. c © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of KES International.


Abstract Kaplansky's Infinite Abelian Groups, originally published in 1954, has recently been republished. In recognition of its continuing significance after 65 years, the authors illustrate some important ideas and techniques described in the book. In particular, a class of groups is defined for which there are affirmative answers to the author's two famous "Test Problems."


The method of joint use Mathcad and Pro/E to get solid model of hourglass cam is proposed in this paper. That is, the required important dimensions and parameters of hourglass cam during solid modeling can be determined with Mathcad programming at first, and then the Mathcad file and features of cam are correlated to realize solid modeling. Lastly an example is given to demonstrate the feasibility of this method.


This paper reports on a fast, nondestructive and sensitive measurement technique that uses atomic spin precession and non-destructive Faraday rotation probing to measure all three components of the magnetic field with kHz bandwidth. In contrast to other vector magnetometer techniques that modulate an applied magnetic field, here the initial atomic polarization is modulated and the magnetic field components are extracted from the resulting free-induction decay (FID) signal, monitored via paramagnetic Faraday rotation. An ensemble of up to 106 cold 87Rb in the F = 1 hyperfine ground state was used and held in an optical trap as the field sensor.


United States computer industry has effected changes within many other industries and within society generally. Unfortunately, thatsame American computer industry has not noticed the manner in which its own environment has been altered by some other forces of change. Those other forces radiate from an array of new competitors in computing-competitors of the sovereign variety, not solely of the traditional business variety. These new sovereign competitors have studied the broad commercial computer market, have analyzed their own societies and technological capabilities and have targeted select sectors of the international computer market for development. As a result of these studies, analyses and development efforts, the American computer industry finds itself pitted against well-managed sovereign competition in computing-a competition that enjoys the added leverage of trade policies coordinated with national computer policies. No single, individual American computer company can expect to cope with these sovereign competitors, neither in research and development (R&D) nor in trade policies. By way of analogy, no single, individual foreign firm can expect to compete against American's NASA in aerospace R&D and space-related work.


The global concern about the persistent stagnation and even decline in economic growth accompanied by chronic unemployment, poverty and its resultant problems has led to increased search for strategies which could stimulate economic activity in many economies. Small business development has been at the centre stage of these efforts based on the notion that small businesses form the context within which entrepreneurial activity takes place. Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been found to have a higher potential for job generation because of a lower cost per job created. The study was prompted by the fact that a large number of SMEs in the manufacturing sector have not been performing well while others have closed shop yet they are expected to enable the government of the Republic of Kenya to achieve its 2030 vision. The study particularly sought to find out those key factors that contribute to the failure of small businesses in order to enlighten the entrepreneurs about them so as to avoid them. The main factors investigated includes: capital, technology, management, franchising, product diversification, and government policies.  This paper however concentrates on capital and technology. The study was carried out using a descriptive research design. The sample under study was collected through stratified random sampling technique in selecting the respondents. The data was the collected through interviews and questionnaires. Data was analyzed and presented using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study found that capital is vital for superior performance and increase of competitiveness of the firm.  Technology was also found to be important though the SMEs are mostly manual driven.  The recommendation are to have policies governing the finance sector and particularly in regard to collateral. Government can assist the SMEs by acting as their guarantor having carried out the risk analysis and mainstreaming the SMEs identification.  Higher learning institutions could also be used for technology driven information incubation, dissemination and implementation by the SMEs. Key terms: Collateral, Finance, Competitiveness, Incubation, ICT, Industrialization


Research on ironic mental control processes makes the underappreciated point that attempts to solve problems sometimes make them worse Social scientists now know much about what ironic processes look like less about why they occur and too little about how to change them. Features of the exacerbation process itself suggest parsimonious approaches to treatment based on interrupting the "solutions" that keep ironic mental processes going (eg compliance-based paradoxical intervention) Extending Wegner's explication of ironic intrapersonal (mental) processes we propose that ironic interpersonal (social) processes also maintain many human problems and may be more accessible to intervention Treatment development in this area will benefit from attending more to how problems persist than to how they originate, and from targeting ironic cycles that occur between people as well as within them


We propose a new declustering scheme for allocating uniform multidimensional data among parallel disks. The scheme, aimed at reducing disk access time for range queries, is based on Golden Ratio Sequences for two dimensions and Kronecker Sequences for higher dimensions. Using exhaustive simulation, we show that, in two dimensions, the worst-case (additive) deviation of the scheme from the optimal response time for any range query is one when the number of disks (M) is at most 22; its worst-case deviation is two when M /spl les/ 94; and its worst-case deviation is four when M /spl les/ 550. In two dimensions, we prove that whenever M is a Fibonacci number, the average performance of the scheme is within 14 percent of the (generally, unachievable) strictly optimal scheme and its worst-case response time is within a multiplicative factor three of the optimal response time for any query, and within a factor 1.5 of the optimal for large queries. We also present comprehensive simulation results, on two-dimensional as well as on higher-dimensional data, that compare and demonstrate the advantages of our scheme over some recently proposed schemes in the literature.


Asbestos causes several asbestos related diseases (ARDs). Not only occupational asbestos exposure but also environmental asbestos exposure can cause ARDs. In Korea compensation for workers with ARDs has been provided by workers' compensation. Because the asbestos damage relief act (ADRA) was enacted in 2011, ARDs by environmental exposure can now be compensated. Korea is the sixth country in the world to compensate environmental asbestos victims. In the ADRA, the list of compensable diseases eligible for relief consists of lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, and asbestosis. Because the back ground and criteria of each ARD for relief is different, physicians need to be familiar with all of them in order to deal with ARD patients. In this paper, the properties of asbestos, history of ARDs, and contents of the ADRA are discussed. Although the relationships between occupational asbestos exposure and ARDs have been well established, those for environmental exposure have not. More specifically, the relationship between lung cancer and environmental asbestos exposure is still not clear because of strong confounders. The first wave of asbestos problems arose from occupational exposure directly involving asbestos production, the second wave arose from usage of asbestos products, and the third wave would be related to asbestos ubiquitous in the environment. In Korea the second wave is just beginning to swell. Physicians must to prepare for these waves to crest in the near future.


This paper introduced three common situations in population survey:unequal probability sample, no response and hotgenious between population and sample. Combined with concrete examples, this paper expatiate how to use knowable information to weight sample cases and variables, and then give an unbiased population estimation.


Combining with the canopy reconstruction project of a railway station,the process of slipping construction is introduced in the article.The process was monitored on site.The data was recorded by vibrating frequency acquisition instrument after the end of each class of slippage distance.Through the monitoring by vibrating wire strain gauge,strain and stress of different measuring points during each class of slippage distance was obtained,further,on the basis of the strains and stresses obtained,the synchronism and the security of slipping construction are analyzed.The results show that the external loads has small impact on the structure body in the process of slipping construction,and the entire process of slipping construction is safe and reasonable.The structure after slipping construction can meet the serviceability requirements,and the results of this article will provide an important basis for the actual slipping construction of steel structure.


This study extends previous studies (Milton, 2001, 2002, 2008) made on the first ever Brazilian book club, the Clube do Livro (1942-1989). It examines the background of the censorship of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) and gives examples of items which were cut by the Clube do Livro in its translations. It then attempts to explain how, despite rigorous censorship, the Clube do Livro managed to publish translations of two works from Romania which contained much socialist realism at the peak of the dictatorship.


Lots of patients frequently come to our orthopaedic OPD with complaints of deformities (Figures 2 and 3), stiffness of joint, non union of fractures or an ugly swelling. It is not uncommon to see patient left handicapped by a quack after a simple fracture. Not only do these quacks treat injuries but they also put their hands on other orthopaedic ailments like rheumatoid arthritis. Most of time history is same.


The ICFA mini-Workshop on impedances and beam instabilities in particle accelerators, which took place in Benevento (Italy) from 18 to 22 September 2017, was intended to continue the tradition of dedicated conferences on the subject of beam coupling Impedances in particle accelerators, initiated with the 2014 ICFA mini-Workshop on "Electromagnetic Wake Fields and Impedances in Particle Accelerators" held in Erice (organized by Vittorio Vaccaro, Maria Rosaria Masullo and Elias Metral). The aim of the event was therefore to provide an up-to-date review of the subject, while widening its scope to include recent advances on beam instabilities and different instability sources. The workshop was hosted by the University of Sannio at Benevento, under the auspices of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the Italian Physical Society (SIF) and CERN - and with the sponsorship of the European network ARIES, as well as the running projects for LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU), Collimation and High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC).


.SummaryOzet Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of different doses of prednisolone in the puppies having ex perimentally induced meconium aspiration syndrome. Institution: This study was carried out in The Animal Labora tory of Yüzüncü Yıl University, Medical School. Materials and Methods: Eleven puppies in their first 24 h of life were included in the study. Meconium used in the study was obtained from human babies in the first day of their life, and was released slowly to the trachea of pup pies at the dose of 3 ml/kg. Two mg per kg of standard prednisolone to three puppies and 30 mg per kg of megadose prednisolone to other three puppies were given intravenously. Blood gases and vital functions of the ani mals were monitored, and chest X-rays were obtained. The study was over at the 20th hour after aspiration and the lungs were scored by histopathologically.


"Coordination of the inside and outside" is one of the key contents in Nei-jia-quan practice, aiming at the harmonization of the interior cultivation and the exterior body movement. Yet in the practice of Taichiquan, the way leading to the coordination and harmonization as such remains obscure. Therefore, the paper attempts to map out the possible routes by dividing itself into four major parts: First that comes to view is the practice starting from the molding of the outside form to the cultivating of the inside content, constructed by the practice of body movement to achieve the demand of "three coordinations outside," and then move on to the training of the body consciousness. What follows is the move from the cultivating of the inside content to the molding of the outside form, letting keen body consciousness to bring out relaxation and softness, on which basis the body is able to move each part with the idea instead of force, to achieve the demand of "three coordinations inside." Only after that should we come to the "combination of the inside and the outside;" it is when the body can move truly and perfectly as a whole. Last but not the least, an honest mind will always find an echo in the action outside. As the basis of martial art, the principle of the combination of the inside and the outside is also true with the treatment of people and things. We should sincerely keep in mind that a person who is truly honest and candid will always turn out to be the same in expression and in action; the sheer spontaneity and unity of knowing and acting comes as a consequence of earnest practice. Based on teaching experiences gained in the past years, there would be doubts and difficulties in cultivating the mind, thus hindering the practice of Taichiquan. Therefore, the paper also attempts to clarify five difficult problems and their possible solutions: First, difficulties in understanding the idea of relaxation and softness; second, the inability of the body which is so weak and unprepared to catch up with the idea of the mind; third, difficulties in not knowing how to relax the whole body; fourth, tending to exercise and impose force in each movement, which is incorrect and hard to quit; last but not least, subjective differences of relaxation and softness in practicing Taichiquan.


We provide the foundations of automated deduction in the propositional Gödel logic. The propositional Gödel logic is one of the simplest infinitely valued fuzzy logics, which generalizes classical propositional logic. We propose an extension of the Davis–Putnam–Logemann–Loveland (<italic>DPLL</italic>) procedure to this logic and prove its refutational soundness and finite completeness. Using the <italic>DPLL</italic> procedure, we solve the deduction problem <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${T\models \phi }$</tex-math> </inline-formula> (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\boldsymbol{T}$</tex-math></inline-formula> is a finite theory and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\boldsymbol{\phi }$</tex-math></inline-formula> a formula), which covers the finite <italic>SAT</italic> problem for a theory and the <italic>VAL</italic> problem for a formula, obviously. This paper serves, on the one side, as a technical basis for the design of a <italic>SAT</italic> solver; on the other side, gives some preliminary theoretical results concerning the logical and computational foundations of fuzzy inference, which is our main aim.


We present results from the NASA GISS ModelE2.1‐G‐CC Earth System Model with coupled climate‐carbon cycle simulations that were submitted to the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) Coupled Climate‐Carbon Cycle MIP (C4MIP). Atmospheric CO2 concentration and carbon budgets for the land and ocean in the historical simulations were generally consistent with observations. Low simulated atmospheric CO2 concentrations during 1850–1950 were due to excess uptake from prescribed land cover change, which erroneously replaced arid shrublands with higher biomass crops, and assumed high 2004 LAI values in vegetated lands throughout the historical simulation. At the end of the historical period, slightly higher simulated CO2 than observed resulted from the land being an insufficient net carbon sink, despite the net effect of CO2 fertilization and warming‐induced increases to leaf photosynthetic capacity. The global ocean carbon uptake agreed well with the observations with the largest discrepancies in the low latitudes. Future climate projection at 2091–2100 agreed with CMIP5 models in the northward shift, of temperate deciduous forest climate and expansion across Eurasia along 60°N latitude, and dramatic regional biome shifts from drying and warming in continental Europe. Carbon feedback parameters were largely similar to the CMIP5 model ensemble. For our model, the variation of land feedback parameters within the uncertainty arises from the fertilization feedback being less sensitive due to lack of increased vegetation growth, and the comparably more negative ocean carbon‐climate feedback is due to the large slowdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation.


The efficiency of collecting, analyzing and managing information will have profound influence on enterprise development in the era of knowledge economy. The successful development and application of the information system has become one of the main factors that affect the competitiveness of enterprises. Much resource has been invested to build the information system. However, presently, there are no systematic methodologies to quantify the impact of risks arising from information system development (ISD) process on the final software operation. It is imperative that enterprise management needs such methodology in place to evaluate the impact of various risks on the ISD outcome. In this paper, we introduce structure equation model (SEM) to the evaluating process, taking into account risks at the source and the composition of risks. The evaluation model of ISD risks is then constructed and tested with actual cases. The model is found to be useful in differentiating the types of risks and their impact. It serves as a powerful tool for managers in formulating risk management strategies.


This paper proposes a new regularization scheme to address blind color image deconvolution. Conventional blind monochromatic image deconvolution algorithms handle each color channel independently, thereby ignoring the inter-channel correlation present in the color images. Further, most existing blind color deconvolution algorithms do not take the parametric information of the blurs into consideration. In view of these, a regularization scheme is proposed to perform blind color image deconvolution. A new regularization operator is developed in the blur domain. A reinforcement blur modeling scheme is adopted to evaluate the relevance of manifold parametric blur structures, and the information is integrated into the deconvolution scheme. In addition, a regularization scheme for image is developed to recover edges of color images and reduce color artifacts. Experimental results show that the method is able to achieve satisfactory restored color images under noisy environment.


Because of the shortage of copper in Heilongjiang River area, the bronze culture is not popular with less bronze objects unearthed. The paper introduces the bronze sword unearthed in Heilongjiang area recently to propose that, though it is comparatively rare to find out bronze sword, it shows the historical truth of population boom in Heilongjiang area offering evidence for Heilongjiang river area civilization study.


Bringing the patient perspective into healthcare is now widely recognized as a somewhat-urgent need, and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an excellent example of attempts to do more of this. In this commentary, the author puts PROMs into a broader perspective and then speaks more specifically about this particular initiative. The question addressed is, how well can PROMs increase patients' participation in their care?


Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder unknown etiology. T h e disease occurs throughout the world. It commonly affects young adults and presents most frequently with bilateral hilar adenopathy, pulmonary infiltration, skin or eye lesions. Although no organ or tissue system is immune from the attack of sarcoidosis, the extend and the severity of extrapulmonary involvement varies. T h e diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis is relatively straightforward in patients who have well-recognized radiographic findings supported by histologic evidence of widespread epithelioid granulomas in more than one tissue. T h e depression of delayed-type hypersensitivity, imbalance of O K T 4 : T 8 subsets, hypergammaglobulinemia, circulating immune complexes, raised serum angiotensinconverting enzyme level, and hypercalcemia are some of the immunologic and biochemical features that enhance the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. T h e story of extrapulmonary sarcoidosis, however, is quite different. In patients with predominantly extrapulmonary disease and a normal or a nonspecific chest roentgenogram, it may be extremely difficult to secure the diagnosis. In extrapulmonary sarcoidosis, we frequently commit the sins of underdiagnosing and overdiagnosing. Many times we are forced to make a diagnosis on the basis of a noncaseating granulomatous lesion with nonspecific or weak biochemical and immunologic support . This situation will last until we find the cause of sarcoidosis. Meanwhile, it behooves us to remember that, al though granulomatous inflammation is typical of sarcoidosis, it is by no means specific. Other conditions, including bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal, protozoal, metazoal, and viral infections, inhalation of organic dust, and vasculitides, can produce granulomatous response. It is therefore important to obtain a complete clinical history that includes occupation, hobbies, use of recreational drugs, and exposure to infection agents. Biopsy specimens should be subjected to special stains for acid-fast bacilli and fungi, examined by polarized light, and submitted for microbiologic cultures. Electron microscopic and sophisticated mineralogic examinations of the tissue may be required in certain cases. T h e diagnosis of extrapulmonary sarcoidosis requires a logical interpretation of information provided by the clinician, radiologist, histologist, mineralogist, and immunologist, among others. Despite such an extensive evaluation, in some cases only the passage of time combined with the appearance of a new clinical or laboratory finding will uncover the right diagnosis. T h e following four cases underl ine the difficulty in solving the granulomatous puzzle. They also alert sarcoidologists not to fall into the t rap of overdiagnosing their favorite disorder.


Purpose
This paper aims to foster a new discussion on endogeneity in hospitality and tourism research.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper elaborates on some of the common sources of endogeneity and the methods available to address them.

Findings
The authors present a variety of methods that can be used to mitigate the endogeneity problem. The authors provide simulation evidence regarding the risk of incorrectly selecting instrumental variables. The authors also provide several important practical recommendations for future research.

Research limitations/implications
There are other issues and methods of correcting for endogeneity, that is not covered in this paper. However, the paper focuses on issues and methods that can be generalized to most contexts.

Originality/value
The paper provides practical recommendations for more rigorous regression estimation.


In recent years, the price increase of 3He has triggered the search for alternative neutron detectors. One of the viable options is a scintillation-based neutron detector. Usually, photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are used in these detectors for photodetection. However, the increase in performance requirements such as the operability in magnetic field and spatial resolution necessitates an advanced neutron detector. Therefore, we developed a detector prototype with an active area of 13 cm $\times\,13$ cm using silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). As compared to PMTs, SiPMs offer more compactness, more robustness, and a lower sensitivity to magnetic field. The final detector is aimed to be used in the future at the TREFF instrument of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) in Garching, Germany, for neutron reflectometry (NR). First measurements were carried out at TREFF and at the dedicated detector test instrument V17 at BER-II of HZB in Berlin, Germany. In this study, we report the results for detection efficiency, gamma discrimination, 2-D position resolution, count rate, and detection linearity.


It studied the shearing properties of reactive powder concrete(RPC) with different steel fiber volume ratio with two kinds of testing method,the double-face direct shearing test and the four-point loading shearing test.There was substantial difference between two kinds of shearing test method and the four-point loading shearing test was much better for RPC.The experimental results showed that the adding of steel fiber in RPC matrix led to not only increase shear strength but also improved shearing strain.But the reinforced effect of cracking strength an shearing modulus of RPC were very limited according to increase of steel fiber volume ratio.The shearing modulus of RPC can be used as 32 GPa.Analysis results showed that there was a boundary volume ratio for reinforced effect of steel fiber.The calculation method of composite material theory can estimate the shearing strength of RPC in a reasonable precision.But the calculating results of specification for fiber reinforced concrete too underestimated the real shearing performance of RPC and it should increase the coefficient of the calculating formula.


A key consideration in ultrasound medical device safety is the potential for cavitation related bioeffects. Device testing should address possible cavitation pathways, such as bubble formation, either in the focal region or at the device-tissue interface along with possible consequences regarding both safety and effectiveness. This has been particularly important in a number of emerging transcranial therapies including ablation, neuromodulation, and targeted opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in conjunction with microbubbles. Subharmonic, and ultraharmonic emissions have been identified as indicators of treatment outcome and are a basis for safety and feedback control in BBB disruption. However, there remains a scarcity of baseline cavitation threshold data in the living mammalian brain, particularly at lower ultrasound frequencies. In our ongoing study, we are measuring and evaluating in vivo cavitation response in mice using a passive cavitation detector (PCD) for ultrasound frequencies as low as 40 kHz. Additional measurements are being carried out using a hydrophone imbedded in the brain tissue of mouse cadavers to characterize absolute pressure values as well as evaluate the sensitivity and reliability of the PCD measurements. Analyzed data will be presented along with detailed methodology and potential implications in future product evaluation will be discussed.


A hybrid vehicle of the invention has an engine, a planetary gear unit including a carrier linked with crankshaft of the engine and a ring gear linked with a drive shaft, a motor MG 1 inputting and outputting power to and from a sun gear of the planetary gear unit, and a motor MG 2 inputting and outputting power to and from the drive shaft. During a drive of the hybrid vehicle in a light load state and under a drive restriction of the motor MG 2 , the hybrid vehicle corrects a target revolution speed Ne* of the engine to make a calculated average charge-discharge electric power Wbave of a battery equal to a charge-discharge electric power demand Wb*, while keeping a torque of the engine unchanged (steps S 300 to S 330 ), and controls actuation of the engine and the motors MG 1 and MG 2.


LONG-TERM RESULTS OF A SECOND ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOS TOMY IN CHILDREN: RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF 40 CASES After endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV), certain patients present with signs or symptoms of intracranial hypertension, or radiological evidence for treatment failure during the follow-up period. To determine the efficacy of repeat ETV in the pediatric population, the authors have retrospectively analyzed their experience with a series of 40 pediatric patients treated in 2 departments. The review included clinical history, preand postoperative imaging, and intraoperative findings. The majority of the patients underwent 2 surgeries each, with only 2 patients requiring 3 procedures. The analysis revealed that the repeat procedure was effective in 75% of the patients, with 25% of the patients ultimately requiring ventriculoperitoneal shunting. The study concludes that second ETV can be peformed in select patients, with subarachnoid adhesions being the major negative prognostic factor for success. [p. 539]


Books system in China has experienced five periods of evolution:the occurrence period,development period,writing paper period,printing books period and e-book period.This paper holds that the history of the changes of books system in China is just the history of the reduction of the production cost and transaction cost of information,and the changes of the books system and the reduction of the production cost and transaction cost of information is mutual promotion.Recognizing that is benificial for us to grasp the direction of the changes of the books system.


Background. Fractures of the long bones of the lower limbs are frequently encountered in traumatology setting. Aim. Our objective was to describe the epidemiological and clinical aspects of fractures of the long bones of the lower limbs screwed and treated in the Orthopaedic and Trauma Department of the University Hospital of Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona. Methods. This is a descriptive retrospective study from January to December 2019 of fractures of the long bones of the lower limbs admitted to the department. Results. Three hundred sixty-one patients were studied. The male gender predominated (Sex ratio =1.95). The age group between 15 and 30 was the most affected (38.78%). Workers were the most affected (29.09%). Road accidents were the most frequent etiology (73.13%). Pain was constant. The closed fractures of the 2 leg bones were the most observed (49.03%). Conclusion. Fractures of the long bones of the lower limbs concern all professional strata. The resurgence of public road accidents requires preventive measures.


This study uses a spatial econometric model to evaluate the impact of transportation capital and provincial competitiveness on economic growth in Vietnam. Data from 63 provinces and cities in Vietnam were collected between 2010 and 2017. The results reveal that both direct and indirect effects of transportation capital are positive and statistically significant, and that the spillover effect is strong. On average, a 1% increase in the transport capital of a province directly contributes to the province's GDP increase to 0.03%, and a 1% increase in the transport capital of all 62 other provinces indirectly contributes to the GDP increase of the remaining province to 0.242%. The results confirm the high efficiency of synchronous investments in the transport infrastructure. In addition, the study points to the necessity of improving labor quality, which is closely related to the services provided by the provincial government: general education, vocational training, and employment service growth.


The paper introduces the general structure and main parts of the boiler feedwater pump.It also establishes the model of the boiler feedwater pump parts with SolidWorks,and conducts virtual assembly and interference check as well as kinematics simulation for the pump.These methods can improve design efficiency and quality,reduce development cost and shorten development period.


Within Canada, Aboriginal peoples drown at much higher rates than non-Aboriginal peoples (Health Canada, 2001). Drowning is commonly understood as a problem that has its roots in individuals' failure to learn to swim, a failure of adults to supervise children properly, or a failure to engage with safety practices (such as wearing a lifejacket or boating only when sober). This understanding of aquatic-related injury reflects the neo- liberal tendency to assign individual blame for poor health, rather than viewing health as being produced within particular socio-historico-politico environments. In this paper we use Bacchi's (2007) "What's the problem" approach to policy analysis to argue that it is misguided to understand high rates of drowning in Aboriginal communities as being caused primarily by the aforementioned factors, as they fail to account for the ways in which social determinants influence Aboriginal peoples' health. Language: en


This paper proposes an interpretation of Theodor Adorno's philosophy in the way of an analysis of his concepts of remembrance of nature in the subject and reconciliation. The perspective of negative dialectics as a philosophy of expression will allow to understand Adorno's questioning about the contemporary possibility for philosophy as reflection centered on the expressive core of human's activities, be these art, philosophy or moral experience as well.


Ovulation in chicken is the process of emergence the egg yolk by controlling the steroid hormones, which is followed by oviposition that influence by several factors. Egg yolk is a huge oocyte contains fat in water emulsion with about 50% dry weight, its rounded and centrally located. The experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of oviposition time on egg external traits (egg weight, egg length, egg breadth), yolk characteristics (yolk weight, yolk high, yolk diameter, yolk index, and the proportion of yolk weight to egg whole weight), and investigate the correlations between these characteristics by using Ross 308 hybrid.When the flock was 30 weeks age, 150 fertilizes egg was used, which collected in three times, Period (1) = 9:30 am, Period (2) = 11:30 am, and Period (3) = 1:30 pm, which supplied from KOSAR company.The results reveal significant differences between the times of collection for all the yolk characteristics and egg external traits.It does conclude the yolk characteristics were differs significantly between the oviposition times and the yolk weight was highly correlated with yolk diameter, egg breadth, and proportion of yolk weight to the whole egg weight.


We model fixed investment incorporating the inventory decision of the firm. Using Dutch listed nonfinancial firms during 1985-2000, we find that the inventory stock is negatively associated with fixed investment. The results suggest that the inventory stock may be used by the firm as a buffer in response to unexpectedly high demand. In addition, the firm may hold the inventory stock as a contingency substitute for the financial source of fixed investment. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd/University of Adelaide and Flinders University of South Australia 2004.


THE best material for ossicular chain reconstruction is still undecided, although the advantages of organic over synthetic substances are widely recognized. Dentine has several properties which might be thought to render it superior to other currently available alternatives for this purpose. It is acellular and thus unlikely to provoke a strong immunological rejection reaction. The structure of dentine is such that it can readily be cut into any desired form which will remain rigid despite considerable delicacy of shape. Dentine is readily available and a bank of preformed prostheses of different sizes and shapes could easily be established. In 1969 one of us (A.G.G.) ran a small clinical trial using dentine for ossicular chain reconstruction (Gibb and Stewart, 1972). Initial optimism was tempered by the observation in one case, a mere seven months after implantation, of marked resorption of the dentine prosthesis where it had been in contact with the tympanic membrane. It was therefore decided to investigate in rats the survival of dentine in the middle ear, and to examine the reaction of the middle ear to this material. The animal experiments were carried out at the University of Nijmegen. Dentine was implanted into the middle ears of Wistar rats. In a number of rats it was also placed into thigh muscle so that rejection phenomena in the ear could be compared with those in another site in the body. This was thought desirable because of the claim made by other workers (Van den Broek and Kuijpers, 1967) that the middle ear is in some way protected from the usual rejection reaction. In the ear, prostheses were placed against intact bone of the ossicular chain and promontory, against recently fractured ossicular bone, or against the tympanic membrane. The dentine was obtained from three sources: autogenous, from the recipient rat's own upper incisor; allogeneic, from a genetically different rat; and xenogeneic, from human molar root. Prior to implantation the dentine was treated in one of four different ways: Non-demineralized dentine— 1. Fresh implants; stored in saline at o °C. and used within 60 minutes of removal. Some were treated with Penicillin solution. 2. Preserved in 1/5000 Aqueous solution of Cialit at 4 °C. for 4—7 days. 3. Autoclaved at 135 °C. for 35 minutes.


How often have you heard a post-LASIK patient say his surgery "isn't working anymore" or it has "expired?" While the corneal tissue that was ablated is gone forever, eyes can change over time, and laser vision correction does not stop time.


Abstract : It has been shown that for the prototype system K+HCl = KCl + H, one quantum of vibrational excitation accelerates the reaction about two orders of magnitude, and that translational energy is only about 10 percent as effective as a comparable amount of vibrational energy. The input of an excess of translational energy is shown to decrease the reaction probability.


1970s have witnessed a paradigm shift in the translation field due to the fact that lingustics oriented theories lost their significances and instead culture oriented ones came into prominence. It is clear that various culture oriented theories have been developed and the cultural phenomenon has come into prominence in the translation studies so far . With a new paradigm in the translation field, linguistics started losing its dominant position and as a result, culture oriented studies became popular in the translation field, which, however, does not mean that assessments in this regard are not only confined to this field. If we confine field only to the translation field, there may be some misunderstandings regarding culture oriented theories, which are available in the translation field. In this study, we also make connections with cultural turns, which particularly occur in cultural studies and in doing so analyze translation theories.


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ASPHALTIC MATERIALS In this paper no attempt is made to recommend any particular types of materials. This is a decision that must be made at the local level based on what is readily available at the lowest cost. Basically, the various asphalt products used contain petroleum asphalt (AP) mixed with a spreading agent or heat to make it work able. When the heat or thinner has dispersed, the petroleum asphalt remains to act as the glue for stabilizing the material being placed. There are advantages and disadvantages of most of the products that will be offered and one's decisions as to what to use will have to be based on experience or on-the-job technical knowledge.


The paper introduces technique of adopting paste the stainless steel linear within the RC container wall in the chimney of radioactive gas exhaust center in a research establishment,it states technique of construction of container wall and stainless steel linear at the same time as well as supervision control of the construction,it aims to accumulate experiences for such kind of construction.


BACKGROUND AND AIMS:
Bupivacaine is available in isobaric and hyperbaric forms for intrathecal use and opioids are used as additives to modify their effects. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and haemodynamic effect of intrathecal isobaric Bupivacaine‑Fentanyl mixture and hyperbaric Bupivacaine‑Fentanyl mixture in common urological procedures.
METHODS:
Eighty American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 and 2 patients undergoing urological procedures were randomized into two groups. Group A received 3 ml of 0.5% isobaric Bupivacaine with 25 μg Fentanyl while Group B received 3 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric Bupivacaine with 25 μg Fentanyl. The parameters measured include heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate,maximum sensory block level achieved and onset and duration of motor and sensory blockade. Stastical analysis was done using SPSS software (version 20). Baseline variables between the two groups were compared using Chi-square test. The mean of two groups were compared using student t-test.
RESULTS:
The haemodynamic stability was better with isobaric Bupivacaine –Fentanyl mixture (Group A) than with hyperbaric Bupivacaine- Fentanyl mixture (Group B). The mean onset time in Group A for both sensory block (4.25 min) and motor block (5.25 min) was longer when compared with Group B. The duration of sensory block (130.75 ± 5.72 min) and motor block (183.00 ± 7.23 min) was less with isobaric Bupivacaine group when compared with hyperbaric Bupivacaine group (sensory blockade 189.50 ± 9.59 min and motor blockade 230.25 ± 8.62 min). 32(80%) patients
had a block height of T10 in Group A whereas 34 (85%) patients had a block height of T6 in group B. More patients in Group A required intravenous sedation when compared to Group B.
CONCLUSION:
Isobaric Bupivacaine- Fentanyl mixture was found to provide adequate anaesthesia with minimal incidence of haemodynamic instability.


The article overlooks the religions life of the soldiers in the army of Rome in the МП centuries A.D. The author assures that the cult in the army were not of propagate nature. It was direct an interior need of those serving in the legions.


ABSTRACT. James Graham Ballard (1930-2009) was a British author who, along with Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock and John Brunner, initiated a revolutionary trend in speculative fiction known as New Wave. In this paper I chose to examine his first four novels, published in the early and mid-1960s, and to identify a number of themes and literary techniques they share.Keywords: J.G. Ballard; New Wave; British science fiction; surrealism; painting; catastrophicJ. G. Ballard's earliest novel, The Wind from Nowhere, was written in 1961 and published for the first time in January 1962 by Berkley Books.Briefly, a global catastrophe occurs because streams of wind start blowing all around planet Earth, accelerating with five miles per hour every day. As the wind reaches unprecedented speed, it tears down buildings, blows away cars, destroys planes and runs ships aground, effectively destroying human civilization as we know it.Far-fetched as this may sound, such a pattern of violent circular winds is dominant in the upper atmosphere of giant gas planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.However, what makes The Wind from Nowhere a memorable book is the way in which these extraordinary phenomena are perceived by ordinary characters, and the ways in which individuals and societies cope with the catastrophe.The opening chapter focuses on Donald Maitland, who, due to a heavy wind that carries dust and reduces visibility, cannot fly from Britain to Canada. Maitland is what later on came to be thought of as an emblematic Ballardian character. He is an educated Englishman, an introvert, he is at the bitter end of a marriage with a powerful, outspoken woman, he has a sharp sense of observation and a preference for solitary meditations in abandoned places.The next chapters switch to an American submarine commander, Lanyon, whose mission is to travel from northern Italy to southern France in order to retrieve a general's dead body, and to a British executive, Simon Marshall, who is in charge of a telecommunication center involved in the government's efforts to cope with the crisis.As the wind's speed increases to more than 180 miles per hour, buildings collapse, the topsoil gets blown away, industrial machinery is wrecked. People build corridors of sandbags (a Blitzkrieg reminiscence that was actually used to fight Thames floods in post-war years) and take shelter in subway tunnels.Meanwhile, an industrial magnate named Hardoon uses his wealth, machinery and personal army to build a pyramid designed to stand the cataclysmic wind. However, Hardoon proves to be cruel. He refuses safety to the very people who built the pyramid. His goons murder characters they were supposed to save, and Simon Marshall, in his dying moments, broadcasts a warning to the world.After a final confrontation, the pyramid is flooded and topples in a ravine, while Maitland, Lanyon and a few others escape. And the wind begins to subside, just as mysteriously as it had started.Part of the novel's appeal consists in the gradual development it is based on, a steady worsening of conditions which the narrator documents with realistic details and backs up with scientific data and global news. It begins with an average character in an average situation (riding in a taxi to catch a flight which was delayed by heavy wind and poor visibility), progresses through stages where individuals, communities and societies react quite convincingly to extreme situations, and ends in a complete disaster. Paradoxically, the readers feel relieved at the ending, rather than appalled.Another interesting aspect is that, unlike Golden-Age hard science fiction, The Wind from Nowhere features a balance between iron-willed, hyper-masculine characters like Commander Lanyon and New-Wave, introspective characters such as Donald Maitland. Moreover, the hard-SF axiom that with enough science and enough technology Man will triumph over nature is shaken from the cornerstones. …


As one of the most cutting-edge technologies in Fintech, the application of blockchain has been prevailing across a series of industries. By adopting literature research, this paper analyzes the origin, characteristics and working principle of blockchain. According to the features and requirements of traditional auditing, this paper finds the superiority of blockchain technology, for example, distributed ledger, consensus mechanism and timestamp could facilitate auditing in three ways: (1)improve timeliness of auditing and reduce auditing cost; (2)ensure data integrity and realize automatic auditing; and (3)realize pre-warning and real-time supervision to reduce auditing risk. However, although blockchain has brought unprecedented opportunities to the development and reform of audit industry, the blockchain technology still faces a number of challenges, such as data security, talent and technology support, industry and recognition promotion, and practical application and execution. Concerning these limitations, this paper looks forward to further research field which could contribute to the upcoming improvement of blockchain auditing. Keywords—Blockchain; Distributed ledger; Decentralization;


The CLARO-CMOS is a prototype ASIC primarily designed for single-photon counting with multi-anode photomultipliers (Ma-PMTs), that found applications also in the read-out of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and microchannel plates (MCPPMTs). The chip allows fast photon counting up to 40 MHz, with a power consumption of less than 1 mW per channel. The prototype is realised in a 0.35 micron CMOS technology. In the LHCb RICH environment, over ten years of operation at the nominal luminosity for the upgrade, the ASIC must withstand a total fluence of about 6×1012 1 MeV neutron equivalent cm-2 and a total ionising dose of 400 krad. We present the results of multi-step irradiation tests with neutrons and with X-rays up to the fluence of 1014 cm-2 and 4 Mrad, respectively, including measurement of single event effects during irradiation and the evaluation of chip performance before and after each irradiation step.


Advanced surveillance diagnostics were applied to key nuclear power plant valves to improve the availability of the power plant. Two types of valves were monitored: boiling water reactor (BWR) three-stage, pilot-operated safety/relief valves and pressurized water reactor (PWR) feedwater control valves. Excessive leakage across the pilot-disc seat in BWR safety/relief valves can cause the second-stage pressure to reach the critical value that activates the valve, even though the set pressure was not exceeded. Acoustic emissions created by the leak noise were monitored and calibrated to indicate incipient activation of the safety/relief valve. Hydrodynamic, vibration, control and process signals from PWR feedwater control valves were monitored by a mini-computer based surveillance system.


Liquid piston compression technology is being explored as a way to achieve high-pressure gas compression in Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) systems. When combined with a porous medium, a liquid piston compressor is able to provide near-isothermal compression, and high efficiency. However, the gas being compressed can dissolve into the liquid resulting in loss of compressed gas output. Also, the dissolved gas in the liquid lines can cause aeration that causes damage to pumps and valves. To understand this gas transport phenomenon in the liquid and to evaluate the total amount of gas dissolved, a numerical model was developed. Dispersion due to the porous medium is found to be the dominant mode of mass transfer. The dispersion coefficient is calculated based on an experimental correlation that is given in terms of flow velocity, porous medium geometry and molecular diffusion coefficient. The numerical model is used to investigate a case study in which a water liquid piston is used for air compression. The amount of dissolved gas under various conditions is calculated, such as gas concentration of the inlet flow to the compressor and discharge pressure to the storage tank at the end of compression. The effects of different types of liquids are also quantified by applying in the model the different solubility values of gases in liquids.


One of the main factors of intensification in crop production is the effective using of mineral fertilizers. There must be a clear and correct approach to the development of the crop fertilizer system, in the context of the current reduction of the soil's natural fertility and high environmental burden. A scientifically sound fertilization system must ensure not only high crop yields with optimum product quality indicators, but also the preservation or different increase of soil fertility while maintaining environmental safety. The effectiveness of mineral fertilizers depends on both the ratio of nutrients and their forms. With the same amount of active substance, different forms of fertilizers provide different results, due to the physiological characteristics of fertilizers and plants. The rational application of fertilizers is only possible when understanding the deep connection between soil agrochemistry and plant physiology.

The highest yield of sunflower hybrids was obtained in the case of fertilizer application at a dose of N60P90. The application of mineral fertilizers with different doses increases the yield of sunflower hybrids by 0.16-0.43 t / ha. However, the level of mineral fertilizer efficiency varies and depends on other factors. Therefore, the question of the effectiveness of the application of mineral fertilizers during the cultivation of sunflower in the conditions of the zone of insufficient moistening of the Steppe of Ukraine needs more systematic study.

Key words: sunflower, mineral fertilizers, mineral nutrition, cultivation technology, yield, plant density, biological yield.


Spatial association is the essential characteristics of spatial related things and phenomena.Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) provides an effective method to reveal the spatial association.The formation of urban social space and its characteristics make the phenomenon of urban social spatial pattern also show significant spatial association.Based on factor analysis,the ESDA methods were applied to urban social space research with the Central Urban District in Shanghai as a case study.From the global and local dimensions,spatial association characteristic of the main factors of urban social space were revealed,by using the indicators and methods of Global Moran's I index,Moran scatter plot and LISA(Local Indicators of Spatial Association).Global spatial autocorrelation analysis showed that the main factors of urban social space were all with significant spatial association,but there were differences in the degree of spatial association.The factors of socio-economic status and living conditions had stronger spatial association than other factors.Spatial agglomerations of similar socio-economic status and living conditions groups had more prominent contributions to the formation of urban social space.Local spatial autocorrelation analysis demonstrated that the main factors had different local spatial association from the overall pattern,there are obvious "hot spots" and "cold spots",and also some spatial "outliers".The socio-economic status and the residential condition factors show more obvious "hot spots" and "cold spots ",which manifested the characteristics of significant "homogeneous agglomeration,heterogeneous segregation ".


ALTHOUGH the career of Samuel Keimer has been scrutinized by several biographers, and was made the subject of an extended study some years ago, the peculiarities of his personality and the significance of his achievement have not been examined with disinterested sympathy. In his own days he was a man of few friends; up to our own his reputation has suffered from the adverse criticism of Franklin, while the relative paucity of records dealing with him has discouraged critics from a fresh examination of his character and accomplishment. In addition, the importance of his work as an intermediary, albeit an indirect one, between the culture of England and that of colonial Pennsylvania, has never been fully recognized, and hence there has been less incentive than might else have been the case to appraise impartially the extent and importance of that which he did. The details of Keimer's early life offer few problems, should one wish merely to outline it. Perhaps no man in writing of himself has shown a greater preoccupation with his own sufferings, real and imaginary, than Keimer. Surely no man of the time has told of his own doings with a more unashamed and amazing fidelity. This 1 Stephen Bloore, "Samuel Keimer," PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, LIV. 255-87. This study, however, considered Keimer chiefly as "a footnote to the Life of Franklin."


Results: There were 46 patients which include into the study. The Endometrial thickness categorised as <5mm, 5-10mm and >10mm. Out of that 6 patients had ET <5mm and 19 each from two other categories. Out of these patients 32 had Hysteroscopy as further management for endometrial sampling. 6 patients had pipelle endometrial sampling. 6 patients had abnormal endometrial sampling which further clinical intervention required. That is 13.63% from total number of patients who referred to the RAC clinic. Out of this 6 patients 5 had confirmed Endometrial CA in final histology report. The other one diagnose as having complex endometrial hyperplasia without atypia. All the patients with abnormal histology had ET >5mm. All the patients had Endometroid type Adenocarcinoma and none of the patient had serosa breakdown with the Malignancy and all confined to the Uterus. All these patients had Laparoscopic assisted Total Abdominal Hysterectomy + BSO. Out of these, two patients referred to the Oncology for further follow up. Conclusions: Nearly 11% of patient diagnosed with endometrial Cancer who followed in RAC pathway and Endometroid Type Adenocarcinoma is the sole Histology type in these patients. Most vulnerable group in this study is women with age > 70 year group. So RAC clinic pathway referral system is very important in early detection and early intervention in endometrial cancer. These data proved that patient need to be refer in RAC pathway in order to diagnose patient with 10% risk of endometrial cancer with history of PMB.


METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO SETS, AT LEAST ONE OF ISSUER AND ANOTHER AT LEAST RECEIVER SIGNALS SUCH BEING MADE AT LEAST BY TYPE VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN AN ASSURED-WIRE CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT BOTH DRIVERS 6, 7 OF TRANSMISSION LINE AND OPERATION ARE BALANCED AND WHAT PLANNED ADAPTATION 25 55 ENTRY OF THESE SIGNALS IMPEDANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF SON OF TRANSMISSION AND A RECEPTION THESE SIGNALS OUT OF THAT LINE ON DIFFERENTIAL DEVICE 42, 172, SUCH SIGNALS BEING IN THE BAND OF 50 HZ 30 MHz.


An attempt was made to quantitatively evaluate the effect of sympathomimetic amines by measuring the decrease in ear temperature, which reflects the constriction of the peripheral vessels, in intact rabbits and dogs. In rabbits, the decrease in ear temperature was proportional to the increasing dose of epinephrine, norepinephrine or ethylphenylephrine when the drugs were given intravenously. The linear regression between the logarithmic dose and the area under time-decreasing curve was highly significant for each drug. The action of l-epinephrine was approximately two times more effective than that of dl-norepinephrine, and the effect of ethylphenylephrine persisted longer than that of the others. Little decrease in ear temperature was observed after intravenous injection of isoproterenol. The ear temperature lowering action of norepinephrine and ethylphenylephrine was inhibited by the pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine. In rabbits and dogs, when ethylphenylephrine was orally given, the linear regression between the logarithmic dose and the area under time-decreasing curve was also highly significant. The present results indicate that the determination of ear temperature is useful for the evaluation of potencies of preparations containing the vasoconstrictors tested.


The paper proposed an edge detection algorithm aiming at impulse noise image,the algorithm references traditional median filter idea,and uses cross convolution template to calculate image gradient.First,takes judgment for each point attending gradient calculation in image by threshold,if it is noise point,its pixel value will be replaced by result of median filter with 3x3 windows,and then participates in the gradient calculation.If the point is non-noise point,will directly participates calculation with its pixel value.Second,we refine the gradient image,and extract the image edge.Experiments show that the new algorithm has good detection effect and suppressing noise performance,the image edge of exaction is fine,the outline is clear.Compared with the traditional edge detection algorithm and wavelet transform edge detection algorithm,this algorithm is relatively good on suppression noise ability and edge effect.


Properties of polyimide irradiated with high-energy Ar and Kr ions (energies 40 and 210 Mev, respectively) are discussed. Irradiation resulted in the degradation of imide rings followed by the formation of amido groups and crosslinks. Circular dichroism of the polyimide IR absorption bands and the dependence of the chemical stability of the polymer on ion fluences were studied.


This essay seeks to establish the underlying tensions behind Eggers's fiction and in particular the relationship between his fiction and philanthropic non-fiction.


This study set out to investigate whether the implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in a comprehensive English class would have a positive effect on students' study motivation and language proficiency. A two-phase eight-cycle action research project was conducted in one of the author's classes. Questionnaires, interviews, classroom observation and a teaching journal were employed as data collection instruments. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data revealed that the majority of students showed positive perceptions towards the use of TBLT in their English learning class and acknowledged a growth in their study motivation, indicated by increased interest, enjoyment and study autonomy, and their language skills, especially speaking and writing as well as some other related skills like information retrieving. However, problems arose in the process, showing that more literature reading and further research are needed by the author for better implementation of this language teaching approach in English learning classes in the future.


In recent years cloud computing impact all fields such an IT, industries etc...Hence researchers, organizations focus the cloud computing implementation in different sectors. The number of cloud-based services has amplified hastily and shaped desired outcome in the past years. The cloud computing also impact health care side because of its availability, security, portability, efficiency, and convenient low cost, dissimilar health care services (pay-as-you-go). Health care is vital part in human life so peoples must provide high priority for that. The cloud computing take care the health care carefully and gives the medical assistance whenever the peoples need that. Patients can get quality of health care services such a medical assistance anywhere and anytime with help of PC and other portable devices. Efforts are being made to shrink these costs, improving hospital service and quality outcomes for patients without any inconvenience. The ultimate aim of this paper is to testing the task scheduling in healthcare with help of our CloudSun tool. The emergency resource allocation policy is first process the critical patient's medical data and send the alert SMS to hospital uses and patient's care takers.


Polycyclic dihydrothiazoles, processes for their preparation, and their pharmaceutical uses are provided. Preferred compounds are represented by the formula I wherein the radicals may have various meanings. The compounds are particularly useful as anorectics.


A novel and fast technique for cryptographic applications is designed and developed using the symmetric key algorithm "MAJE4" and the popular asymmetric key algorithm "RSA". The MAJE4 algorithm is used for encryption/decryption of files since it is much faster and occupies less memory than RSA. The RSA algorithm is used to solve the problem of key exchange as well as to accomplish scalability and message authentication. The focus is to develop a new hybrid system called MARS4 by combining the two cryptographic methods with an aim to get the advantages of both. The performance evaluation of MARS4 is done in comparison with MAJE4 and RSA


In Brazilian Portuguese reduction occurs in some pronouns, for instance,  ce (from voce); el and ez (from the pronouns ele and eles);num  (from nao) and others that have been analyzed as becoming clitics (VITRAL & RAMOS, 2002). In order to prove this hypothesis,we collected a corpus with almost 500 utterances containing the reduced forms above. The reduced forms were acoustically analyzed considering the  intensity and duration parameters and then compared with those parameters of real clitics. This paper presents the research results and the conclusions we have achieved in this work.


The common catnip plant, Nepetn Cataria, indigenous to Europe but now naturalized and widely distributed throughout the United States, contains about 0.3% of a volatile oil. This oil carries the characteristic odor of the plant and generally is obtained from the whole fresh plant by distillation with steam. Although some earlier work had been done on the chemical nature of this oil, i t was Kremers3 who first found about S5yo of the oil to be soluble in an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution ; acidification of the resulting alkaline solution precipitated an acid as a viscous oil that slowly crystallized on standing. The acidic material prepared in this maimer is practically odorless. The characteristic catnip odor which is so attractive to many species of the cat family, remains in the relatively small (about 15y0) neutral portion of the oil. An investigation of the chemical nature of the acidic fraction of the oil of catnip has been made by M e ~ e r . ~ She studied the crystalline acid, m. p. 71-72', obtained from the acidic fraction, and from molecular weight determinations together with analyses of the acid and a number of its salts and solid esters, assigned to it the formula, CI0H1603. It was found to be optically active, $ 4 ~ +3S036' for a freshly prepared absolute alcohol solution; this value changed to +36'28' after two days and to +5' after three months. The acid showed a carbonyl function that gave derivatives with sodium bisulfite, hydroxylamine and semicarbazide; however, it did not reduce Fehling solution. In some experiments it was possible to obtain a positive iodoform reaction, but in other attempts this reaction was obtained with difficulty. Reaction with acetyl chloride and acetic anhydride indicated the presence of an ester-forming hydroxyl group, but 110 definite acetyl derivative was isolated. Meyer carried out a series of oxidation experiments using both chromic acid and permanganate as oxidizing


During robotic assembly of flexible payloads, gravity and inertial forces acting on these payloads may induce both static shape deformation and vibration of the thin-walled payloads. Static deformations, which arise from deformation of the part due to its own weight under the influence of gravity, lead to misalignment of mating points of the part. Unwanted vibrations, arising from inertial forces acting on the part as it is positioned for assembly, must be damped out before it can be mated with other parts. This paper investigates the development of dynamic models of arbitrarily shaped flexible thin-walled payloads grasped by a smart gripper, comprised of multiple linearly actuated fingers with non-contact proximity sensors. Such an actuated gripper allows both part-reshaping and active damping of unwanted vibrations of the part. Finite element modelling techniques are used to generate dynamic models of these arbitrarily shaped parts. Component mode synthesis methods are used to combine the dynamics of the actuated gripper with the dynamics of the thin-walled parts. The resultant dynamic model, developed with finite element modelling, is of high order, and hence model order reduction methods are employed to reduce the model order but retain the essential dynamics of the thin-walled payload gripper system. Using a two time-scale modelling technique, an integrated closed-loop modal truncation and control design procedure is used to design a shape and vibration controller for thin-walled payload. Simulation results modelling thin-walled sheet metal parts manipulated by an industrial robot confirm the validity of the proposed modelling approach.


This work has as its main goal a contrast of two renowned cognitive theories of consciousness, Bernard Baars' (1988) Global Workspace Theory and Daniel Dennett's (1991) Multiple Drafts. Although Dennett shows some appreciation to the Global Workspace Theory, his own Multiple Drafts Model does not seem very compatible with it. The specific goal of this work is to verify such compatibility by asking if the Global Workspace Theory suffers from Daniel Dennett ́s criticism of the Cartesian Theater. The first chapter exposes Dennett ́s perspective on the evolution of consciousness, in contrast to the view based on The Global Workspace Theory. The former understands that language and culture play a central role in the origin of consciousness; the latter understands consciousness has mainly a biological origin. In the second chapter, both theories of consciousness are exposed and reviewed. The third chapter focuses on a contrast of the two theories and some implications of the Cartesian Theater. Also, we noted that the concept of a Cartesian Theater is vague, and through a rigorous analysis, 10 requisites for a theory to evade the Cartesian Theater, following Dennett's words, were identified. The Global Workspace Theory was shown to meet a few of these requisites. Finally, making use of Todd ́s (2009) analyses, we concluded that Dennett ́s main critics to some aspects of the Cartesian Theater are weak. So it follows that the criticism to the Cartesian Theater does not pose serious problems for the Global Workspace Theory. Key-words: Consciousness; Cartesian Theater; Multiple Drafts; Global Workspace Theory.


A method for generating electricity using high wind pressure generated by fast moving vehicles channeling the induced wind in the direction of the wind turbine; converting the energy of the wind into mechanical energy by using wind turbine; and converting the mechanical energy into electrical energy by using a generating device and can be used for applications.


Preface to the Fourth Edition 1. Introduction to land law 2. Farm business tenancies 3. Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies 4. Residual protection of farm workers 5. Business tenancies on farms and estates 6. Public access 7. Planning 8. Compulsory purchase and compensation 9. Utilities - rights and wayleaves 10. Liability of the occupier of land 11. Water and watercourses 12. Sporting matters 13. Environment 14. Milk quotas 15. Employment 16. Rating and council tax Further Reading Table of Cases Table of Statutes Table of Statutory Instruments Index


Data from the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments, and revised expectations of the antineutrino flux from nuclear reactors suggest the existence of eV-mass sterile neutrinos. 3+2 and 1+3+1 scenarios accommodate all relevant short-baseline neutrino data except for the low-energy MiniBooNE anomaly. We analyze the angular distribution of upward going atmospheric neutrino events in the IceCube-40 dataset for evidence of sterile neutrinos within these scenarios. Depending on how systematic uncertainties are handled, we find strong evidence for, or weak evidence against sterile neutrinos. We show that future IceCube data will definitively settle the issue.


edge of the hull and L is the total length. Also in this figure, the net resultant of these two curves is shown, a quantity related to the lift distribution due to pressure forces on the hull. The net resultant was found by subtracting the pressure distribution on the top deck from that of the bottom deck. The maximum absolute error in these measurements was ±11%. The final phase of the aerodynamic investigation was a flow visualization study of the airstream on the upper deck. These experiments were performed by observing the motion of pieces of fine thread taped to the deck in strategic locations. Some typical results are shown in Fig. 3. Results of the Hydrodynamic Study Measurements of the total hydrodynamic drag force for fixed trim angle and waterline were conducted in the small tow-tank facility of the U.S. Naval Academy. For a more detailed discussion of this facility see Ref. 3. The total hydrodynamic drag coefficient based on wetted area CT was then computed for each of these measurements. The residual drag coefficient CR was subsequently calculated using the suggestion of Refs. 4 and 5. That is, CR = CT — CF


The purpose of this present paper is to investigate some mapping properties of functions which map the unit disc onto a overlapped leaf-like curve, having real part greater than zero. Also we define a class of $ \lambda $-pseudo starlike functions related to a leaf-like curve. Integral representation, inequalities for the initial Taylor-Maclaurin coefficients and Fekete-Szegö problem for subclasses of analytic functions related to various conic regions are obtained as our main results.


Several explicit examples of quasiexactly solvable "discrete" quantum mechanical Hamiltonians are derived by deforming the well-known exactly solvable Hamiltonians of one degree of freedom. These are difference analogs of the well-known quasiexactly solvable systems, the harmonic oscillator (with∕without the centrifugal potential) deformed by a sextic potential, and the 1∕sin2x potential deformed by a cos2x potential. They have a finite number of exactly calculable eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.


Introduction. The problem of chronic diseases such as caries is very complex
 because it appears very early in life, often during childhood. The number of
 involved people is growing as well as the number of affected teeth and
 surfaces that eventually lead to teeth loss. The aim of this study was to
 determine the dental status of adolescents age 12 and 15 in three
 municipalities in Bosnia, Foca, Cajnice and Kalinovik. Material and methods.
 The study included 506 school children both genders of six schools in three
 municipalities (Foca, Cajnice and Kalinovik). Teeth examination and criteria
 for diagnosis and coding were estimated based of criteria of the European
 Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD). To estimate dental health DMFT index
 [number of carious teeth (D), missing (M) and filled teeth (F)] and related
 indices (Person Caries Index, Teeth Caries Index, Average Caries Index and
 DMFT structure) were used. Results. Dental health status and caries
 prevalence were presented through the values of the Average Caries Index. The
 value of Average Caries Index for examined children was 6.17. Of all examined
 children 96.05% of them had at least one carious tooth. The average value of
 Teeth Caries Index was 23.04%. Conclusion. Dental health of the children in
 the examined region was characterized by high values of untreated carious
 teeth as well as the other components of DMFT index. Therefore, preventive
 measures and primary dental care must be implemented better among school
 children.


Objective Previous studies that have reported trends on abdominal obesity among US children were usually based on anthropometric assessments. However, little is known about the recent trends in central adiposity measures by DXA and abdominal obesity since 2011–2012. Study Design A serial cross-sectional analysis of US population-weighted data among children from NHANES 2011 to 2018 was conducted. Results Between 2011–2012 and 2017–2018, there was a relatively stable trend among children aged 8–19 years in trunk fat and trunk fat percentage. During the same time periods, there were no significant changes in prevalence of abdominal obesity by waist circumference (18.6 vs. 21.1%) among those aged 2–19 years, and abdominal obesity by WHtR (34.1 vs. 36.2%) among those aged 6–19 years. However, a significant increase trend among boys aged 2–19 years was found in prevalence of abdominal obesity by waist circumference (16.1–22.7%; P = 0.004). For Mexican American youth and non-Hispanic Asian boys, there is a significant increase in mean trunk fat percentage and waist circumference. Conclusion Between 2011–2012 and 2017–2018, there have been no significant changes in central adiposity measured by DXA and prevalence of abdominal obesity among US children. Our study further supports that there is an urgent need to improve their lifestyle to reduce abdominal obesity for US children, especially for Mexican American youth and non-Hispanic Asian boys.


Yassigume village is located in Burdur province at SW Turkey. Yassigume village has several environmental problems beside old lake levels. Main aim of this article is explain environmental problems of Yassigume village which they are common most of villages in Turkey.


Energy use rationalization and the substitution of fossil with renewable hydrocarbon sources can be considered as some of the most challenging objectives for the sustainable development of industrial activities. In this context, the environmental impact of recovered papers deinking is questioned (Bystrom & Lonnstedt, 2000) and the use of recovered cellulose fibres for the production of bio-fuel and carbohydrate-based chemicals (Hunter, 2007; Sjoede et al., 2007) is becoming a possible alternative to papermaking. Though there is still room for making radical changes in deinking technology and/or in intensifying the number of unit operations (Julien Saint Amand, 1999; Kemper, 1999), the current state of the paper industry dictates that most effort be devoted to reduce cost by optimizing the design of flotation units (Chaiarrekij et al., 2000; Hernandez et al., 2003), multistage banks (Dreyer et al., 2008; Cho et al., 2009; Beneventi et al., 2009) and the use of deinking additives (Johansson & Strom, 1998; Theander & Pugh, 2004). Thereafter, the improvement of the flotation deinking operation towards lower energy consumption and higher separation selectivity appears to be necessary for a sustainable use of recovered fibres in papermaking. Nevertheless, over complex physical laws governing physico-chemical interactions and mass transport phenomena in aerated pulp slurries (Bloom & Heindel, 2003; Bloom, 2006), the variable composition and sorting difficulties of raw materials (Carre & Magnin, 2003; Tatzer et al., 2005) hinder the use of a mechanistic approach for the simulation of the flotation deinking process. At this time, the use of model mass transfer equations and the experimental determination of the corresponding transport coefficients is the most widely used method for the accurate simulation of flotation deinking mills (Labidi et al., 2007; Miranda et al., 2009; Cho et al., 2009). Solving the mass balance equations in flotation deinking and generally in papermaking systems with several recycling loops and constraints is not straightforward: this requires explicit treatment of the convergence by a robust algorithm and thus computer-aided process simulation appears as one of the most attractive tools for this purpose (Ruiz et al., 2003; Blanco et al., 2006; Beneventi et al., 2009). Process simulation software are widely used in papermaking (Dahlquist, 2008) for process improvement and to define new control strategies. However, paper deinking mills have been involved in this process rationalization


The role of adaptive perceptual training for the improvement of categorical perception of Chinese [pa] and [pha] by native Japanese speakers learning Chinese is explored in this paper. It is found that adaptive perceptual training improved categorical perception of [pa] and [pha],and the effect transferred to the perception of [ta] and [tha],which indicates that perceptual training improves categorical perception of aspirated/unaspirated contrast as a whole. It is also found that the improvement is continuous during the training process. The results indicate that adaptive perceptual training provides an efficient alternative to improve TCFL phonetic teaching.


Micro, medium and small companies, known by the acronym MIPyMES, have been gaining more and more importance both in their contribution to the economy, but in the same way they have been affected with great demands for their development, as is the case of the establishment KIKI´S dedicated to the sale of cleaning products and hardware which starts from the problem of not having the regulatory and strategic elements that allow it to be competitive. That is why this article aims to describe elements of a business plan that made it possible to strengthen the cleaning supplies company through the use of marketing strategies and techniques that helped increase its sales and competitiveness. The methodology used was quantitative and qualitative, marketing tools such as benchmarketing were used and surveys were applied, which had a favorable impact on the company, since in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic the management for sales was complicated, therefore they designed strategies considering the guidelines for the establishments.


The triangle cross-section carbon fiber reinforced plastics could be used as absorbing composite materials, in which the incident microwave can be reflected many times to be greatly attenuated. The microwave absorbing property is affected significantly by the distribution of the triangle cross-section carbon fibers in the composite materials. In this study, the distribution of the triangle cross-section carbon fibers in the triangle cross-section carbon fiber reinforced plastics is investigated by experimental and theoretical simulations. In order to study the angle arrangement and the homogeneity of the carbon fibers in the composite materials, the cross-section morphology of the samples is observed by the SEM. And a process based on the Monte Carlo Method is established to simulate the distribution of the triangle cross-section carbon fibers in the triangle cross-section carbon fibers reinforced plastics. The simulation results agree with the experimental data, which indicates that the triangle cross-section carbon fibers are arranged in a random in angles and approximately homogeneous distribution. This simulation method could be used to simulate the cross -section morphology of the triangle cross-section carbon fibers reinforced plastics with arbitrary fiber contents.


6.1 The basics of wave propagation 6.1/a Effects of changes in standard parameters 6.2 Feedback between outer hair cells 6.2/a Feedback topology 6.2/b Response of three rows of cells 6.3 Modeling squirting wave excitation of the OHC array 6.3/a Explicit solution of the many-cell problem: full wavelength resonance Results and derivations 6.3/b Explicit solution of the many-cell problem: half-wavelength resonance


We have examined knowledge of CF and its genetics, perceptions of burden, and attitudes toward family planning and the use of CF-PND and carrier screening (HD) in 27 CF Center physicians (CF-MD); 55 ancillary Center staff (ST); 362 ehiIdbearing-age parents (PAR) of 214 children with CF; 245 aunts and uncles of these children (A&U); 80 family MD's (LMD); and 58 clergymen (CL) serving these families. Health professionals (CF-MD, LMD, ST) highly favor PND for CF (100%, 95%, and 96% respectively). PAR and A&U also favor this option (S2%, 81%) while CL are less favorable (55%). HD also is highly desireable to all groups. Significant associations (p<0.02) were found between PAR attitudes toward PND of CF and: religion, religiosity, abortion attitudes, and number of children. PAR PND attitude was not influenced by: age, sex, prior death of a child with CF, education, family history, or CF burden. A&U perceived CF as more serious, burdensome, and emotionally stressful than PAR (p<0.0001). Increased knowledge of CF and its genetics, and acknowledged interaction with CF families (among non-Catholic CL) correlate highly (r=0.85) with more favorable attitudes toward PND. Wide utilization of such technologies is anticipated.