OBJECTIVE
The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of an information seminar concerning health at work, as an in-work training procedure.

DESIGN
A quasi-experimental before-and-after study was conducted through a 20-question survey on health at work. This questionnaire was administered before and after the seminar. Quantitative changes were evaluated through frequency indicators and the statistical significance of the changes was established through the chi-squared and Student's t tests and one-way two-tailed ANOVA.

SETTING
Primary care in Castilla y León.

PARTICIPANTS
A three-and-a-half hour long information seminar, with 102 primary care professionals--doctors, pharmacists, vets and nurses--was held.

RESULTS
Results showed an improvement in the complex of training-information areas used as criteria to evaluate the acquisition of knowledge on health at work. The greatest positive change (36%) was found for matters relating to general principles of health at work for risk factors, and for work-connected pathologies.

CONCLUSIONS
The information seminar is proposed as a procedure to use in on-going training of primary care health professionals.


57 eISSN Number: 2462-2389 © 2018 UMK Publisher. All rights reserved. Effect of fiber loading on physical and mechanical properties of unsaturated polyester/Donax grandis hypodermal fiber composite Sofiyah Mohd Razali, Mahani Yusoff*, Sitti Fatimah Mhd Ramle, Irshad Ul Haq Bhat, Abdul Hamid Mar Iman Faculty of Earth Science, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Locked Bag No.100, 17600 Jeli, Kelantan, Malaysia Faculty of Bioengineering and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Locked Bag No.100, 17600 Jeli, Kelantan, Malaysia


Cahier du LAMSADE N° 232 We consider min set covering when the subsets are constrained to have maximum cardinality three. We propose an exact algorithm whose worst case complexity is bounded above by O_(1:3957n). This is an improvement, based on a re_ned analysis, of a former result (O_(1:4492n)) by F. Della Croce and V. Th. Paschos, Computing optimal solutions for the min 3-set covering problem, Proc. ISAAC'05, LNCS 3827, pp. 685_692.


A new method for the preparation of metaphase chromosomes for flow analysis has been evaluated. It has been shown that this method, which involves detergent lysis of metaphase cells and polyamines to stabilize the DNA, yields lower coefficients of variation and background levels in the DNA histograms than is currently obtained by hexylene glycol based methods. A conventional flow cytometer (FACS-Il) has been used to resolve the human karyotype into about 14 peaks after ethidium bromide


Dzud is a term referring either to conditions when melting snow refreezes to form an icy layer covering the grass, or to unusually heavy snow falls in Eurasian arid and semi-arid regions. Under dzud condition, animals cannot obtain food under snow or ice layer, which sometimes results in a dzud disaster, i.e. massive livestock kills. It has been recognized that the dzud disaster is directly induced by the harsh winter conditions but often influenced by drought in the previous summer. In this study, a data-intensive reanalysis on regional determinants of dzud disaster was conducted for more than 300 soums (an administrative unit equivalent with county in US) in Mongolia. Various climatic, hydrological, and vegetation variables were developed from satellite remote sensing (RS) data, which includes daily mean air temperature, dew-point temperature, and evapotranspiration, monthly precipitation, and 16-day NDVI from 2003 to 2010. Annual livestock census data were collected for every soum in Mongolia. Each variable was standardized to z-score and utilized for stepwise multiple regression analysis to identify factors statistically significant for explaining soum-level livestock mortality. The regression models were successfully constructed for two-third of total soums. Considerable spatial variability in the determinants of livestock mortality were found across soums in Mongolia. As the primary determinants, summer NDVI and dryness equally explained 22% of the soum mortality, while 33% and 16% of the mortality were explained with winter temperature and precipitation, respectively. Spatial patterns were also identified with winter precipitation and temperature being primary determinants in mountain regions and northern cool and semi-arid regions, while summer NDVI and dryness were important in southern hot and arid regions. Our results indicate combined efforts of monitoring RSbased summer NDVI and dryness and forecasting winter temperature and precipitation can provide useful tools for dzud disaster early warning.


The main purpose of this research is to determine the effect of NaOH concentration and size of banana stem pieces on the concentration of oxalic acid produced. The experiment procedure is add 20 grams of banana stems that have been dried into 200 ml NaOH then heated and stirred at temperature of 100°C for 1 hour. Then the molten mixture was added with hot 500 ml of water, then cooled and filtered. Filtrate was taken and added to 100 ml CaCl2. Solution is filtered and the sediment is taken. Sediment is inserted into the Erlenmeyer and 200 ml dilute H2SO4 added and then filtered. 10 g active carbon is added into filtrate of the solution, then filtered. Taking 10 ml of the filtrate above to be titrated. From the research has been done, it can be concluded that the greater the concentration of NaOH, the greater the amount of oxalic acid obtained. The longer the size of the banana midrib, the greater the amount of oxalic acid obtained. And, the maximum amount of oxalic acid obtained is 2.99 g that reach at a concentration of 50% NaOH with a length of the banana leaf 2.5 cm.


Chewing is one of the most important functions of the stomatognathic system and is the subject of several studies. The masticatory function depends on a complex composed of muscles, ligaments, bone structures and teeth, controlled by the central nervous system. The muscles involved in this function perform movements and postures that sometimes approach, or push away the teeth, or exacerbate the interocclusal pressure. In the course of human development the masticatory function presents different behaviors linked to the organic and behavioral conditions inherent to each stage of life. The present thesis aimed primarily at performing clinical and electromyographic evaluation of chewing muscles as a way of characterizing the behavior of this stomatognathic function in different life cycles. The secondary objectives were to relate the chewing characteristics in the different life cycles with the facial antrometric values, the electromyographic potentials of the masticatory muscles and the bite force potencies. The study was carried out in the School Clinic of the Department of Speech and Hearing Therapy of the Federal University of Sergipe (Campus Lagarto), with a sample of 120 volunteers of both sexes, distributed in 4 groups, with 30 members each, according to their equivalent age groups To the cycles of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and senescence. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of the Federal University of Sergipe. The volunteers were screened following inclusion and exclusion criteria and those who obeyed the criteria were invited to study groups composition; After that, they were submitted to the investigation of the anthropometric facial values, the acquisition of incisor bite force and between molars bilaterally, and finally, the clinical evaluation of the masticatory function concomitantly with the electromyographic evaluation of the masseter muscles. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The main results pointed out that the masticatory behavior is equivalent, in relation to its clinical and electrophysiological characteristics, in the cycles of childhood and adolescence, without any significant distinction between the sexes; The masticatory characteristics inspected in the adult individuals were distinct and increased when compared to the findings of the other cycles, it was seen that the gender variable influenced the clinical and electrophysiological parameters of mastication; Among the elderly, the subtle decrease in masticatory performance was observed in relation to the responses of the other groups, but it was not observed that the sex variable influences this function. However, it has been observed that mastication behaves differently in each life cycle, with a tendency of increasing performative improvement from the cycle of infancy to adulthood and a functional physiological decline in the cycle of senescence.


ABSTRACT GPS satellites (and now GNSS also) generally include more than three (or four) atomic clocks which are monitored and controlled for being highly synchronized and traceable to coordinated universal time as national and international standards. Thus for synchronization of time, the GPS signal is first received, then processedwith help of a"local master clock", time server, or primary reference, and passed on to "slaves" or other devices such that their "local clocks" are properly synchronized to coordinated universal time The accuracy ranges from better than 1 microsecond to a few milliseconds depending on the protocol used for synchronization. Synchronization is the process of GPS that provides atomic clock complete accuracy without using a local atomic clock. Local atomic clocks are sometimes further desired as a solution for long-term back-up in case of loss -of –GPS information, GPS interference, weather-related outage, or other scenarios.Synchronization of GPS clock removes the necessity ofphysical clock setting which was an error-prone method, to provide traceability to UTC, a national and international standard so thatseveraloutcomes can be associated even if they are time-stamped by different clocks. This includes numerous benefits such as: legally validated time stamps, secure networking, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency . Keywords: GPS module, Microcontroller,power supply,AVR,satellite, UTC, IST, NMEA Cite this Article: Geetanjali Raj, Upasana Sharma.Microcontroller Driven GPS Clock. International Journal of Telecommunications & Emerging Technologies . 2020; 6(1): 32–36p.


When people appreciate,study or create works of fine art,they tend to think over them partially.The essay points out this may result from their learning method and mental literacy during the early experience of learning painting.The essay offers vivid examples in illustration of this phenomena as well as its negative effects.


All-electrical driven magnetization switching attracts much attention in next-generation spintronic memory and logic devices, particularly in magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) based on the spin-orbit torque (SOT), i.e., SOT-MRAM, due to its advantages of low power consumption, fast write/read speed, and improved endurance, etc. For conventional SOT-driven switching of the magnet with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), an external assisted magnetic field is needed to break the inversion symmetry of the magnet, which not only induces the additional power consumption but also makes the circuit more complicated. Over the last decade, significant effort has been devoted to field-free magnetization manipulation by using SOT. In this review, we introduce the basic concepts of SOT. After that, we mainly focus on several approaches to realize the field-free deterministic SOT switching of the perpendicular magnet. The mechanisms mainly include mirror symmetry breaking, chiral symmetry breaking, exchange bias, and interlayer exchange coupling. Furthermore, we show the recent progress on the study of SOT with unconventional origin and symmetry. The final section is devoted to the industrial-level approach for potential applications of field-free SOT switching in SOT-MRAM technology.


This document contains results and other material that is supplementary to Duffie, Eckner, Horel, and Saita (2009). Section I extends the basic model to allow for unobserved cross-sectional heterogeneity of default risk. Section II allows for a nonlinear dependence of default intensity on distance to default, through a simple non-parametric specification. Section III provides some information on out-of-sample predictive accuracy. Finally, Section IV provides the specification and parameter estimates of the time-series model for covariates. The Monte Carlo EM algorithm described in Appendix A and the Gibbs sampler described in Appendix B of Duffie, Eckner, Horel, and Saita (2009) are extended to treat unobserved heterogeneity as follows. The extension of the Monte Carlo EM algorithm is: 0. Initialize Z (0) i = 1 for 1 ≤ i ≤ m and initialize θ (0) = (β, 0.05, 0), where β is the maximum likelihood estimator of β in the model without frailty. 1. (Monte-Carlo E-step.) Given the current parameter estimate θ (k) , draw samples Y (j) , Z (j) (k)) of the frailty sample path Y = {Y t : 0 ≤ t ≤ T } and the vector Z = (Z i : 1 ≤ i ≤ m) of unobserved heterogeneity variables.


A wireless microwave-based antenna monitoring system has been developed for measurement of comprehensive vital signs. The system employs a unique electromagnetic energy coupling sensor/antenna and is also equipped with a mobile app to display the processed values in real time, which facilitates use by mobile users. New RF components have been used, which has eliminated the need for a costly and bulky network analyzer. The developed system is more suitable for clinical use and monitoring of remote patients. Accuracy of the developed wireless system has been validated by comparing results to traditional network analyzer measurements as well as an FDA approved vital sign monitoring device where excellent agreement was observed. Specifically, an average difference of 0.7% in the measured phase and 1.4% in the magnitude of the reflection/transmission coefficients, 4.8% in measured heart rates, and 8.1% in measured respiration rates were observed.


: In this contradictory world, plethora of paddy harvesting machines are available in the market featuring the manually operated ones to the fully automated machines but the major drawback is none of them finds to be useful for farmers having small fields because of various reasons from their whooping cost and their complexity in operation also the fact that they make the paddy being harvested useless for further sowing, our project eradicates the before said scenario by providing automated harvesting with simple design, our project incorporates a swinging sway arm fixed with cutter which is attached to the autonomously operated vehicle, which senses the presence of the crop in the field and moves accordingly to cut the crop and it is collected by the human after cutting operation is completely over.We are using ultrasonic sensor which is detect the obstacles coming front of the vehicle, PIR sensor used to detect the presence of humans and animals. DC motors are used for motion of the vehicle and servo motor is used for cutting operation. 40T blade is used for cutting operation. on direct current but is a lightweight motor used for portable power tools and appliances. Larger DC motors are used in propulsion of electric vehicles, elevator and hoists, or in drives for steel rolling mills. The advent of power electronics has made replacement of DC motors with AC motors possible in many applications. Workings of a brushed electric motor with a two-pole rotor (armature) and permanent magnet stator. "N" and "S" designate polarities on the inside axis faces of the magnets; the outside faces have opposite polarities. The + and - signs show where the DC current is applied to the commutator which supplies current to the armature coils.


For the construction of 14 cross passages connecting the twin tunnels of the Sophiaspoortunnel (The Netherlands), the Artificial Ground Freezing technique was applied as temporary soil improvement. AGF by Brine and Liquid Nitrogen was implemented. Automatic data acquisition and recording systems were installed to monitor the variation of the temperatures in the soil during the freezing intervention in order to control the behaviour and the efficacy of the treatment. The LN process was managed through an automatic system controlling the LN flow versus temperature and the shut-down of the supply in case of safety hazards inside the shafts. Within the new 160 km long Betuweroute freight railway line (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), the Sophiaspoortunnel is the longest structure under construction. The heart of the Sophia rail tunnel is a bored tunnel with a length of 4.24 km, comprising two separate parallel tubes with an outside diameter of 9.45 m. The twin tunnels were excavated by a TBM equipped with hydroshield. Seven service shafts, approximately 30 m deep, were constructed in between the tunnels at a spacing of 520 m. From each shaft two cross passages were constructed connecting the shaft with both tubes, for a total of 14 cross passages. The Artificial Ground Freezing technique was utilized for temporary waterproofing and soil support to allow the excavation of the cross passages. The natural soil to be frozen was consisting in loose sand and clay under a hydrostatic pressure up to 250 kPa. The frozen bodies around the cross passages were created utilizing both the Brine and Liquid Nitrogen methods. The measurement of the ground temperature is essential to monitor the development and the efficacy of the freezing process, i.e. the achievement of the wall closure and the required design thickness. To this extent, automatic data acquisition and recording systems were installed to monitor the variation of the temperatures in the soil and at the contact with the tunnel lining during the entire freezing activity. Furthermore, a comprehensive computerized system of sensors and cryogenic valves was designed and implemented in order to manage the whole Nitrogen process, both for the dosage of the flow, related to the exhaust gas temperature, and, as a safety measure, for the shut-down of the supply in case of hazards inside the shaft.


ABSTRACT This paper is aimed at comprehensive investigations of the thermal performance of parallel plate and rectangular microchannel counter flow heat exchangers based on axial conduction, number of transfer units, and non-dimensional power density. The geometrical parameters of the two configurations are optimized for a given heat transfer rate, effectiveness, and pressure drop. A reduced order model of rectangular micro channel counter flow heat exchanger is developed in which it is transformed into a hydrodynamically and thermally equivalent parallel plate micro heat exchanger. To improve the accuracy of the model, correction factors obtained from detailed computational fluid dynamics model are introduced. Various factors affecting the dimensionless power density of both the counter flow micro heat exchangers are studied. It is found that the axial conduction plays an important role on the performance of rectangular channel counter flow micro heat exchanger. In the limiting case where the channel aspect ratio tends to zero, the dimensionless power density of rectangular channel is found to approach that of a parallel plate counter flow micro heat exchanger.


Abstract Let $({\mathcal {A}^{\mathbb {Z}}} ,F)$ be a bipermutative algebraic cellular automaton. We present conditions that force a probability measure, which is invariant for the $ {\mathbb {N}} \times {\mathbb {Z}} $-action of F and the shift map σ, to be the Haar measure on Σ, a closed shift-invariant subgroup of the abelian compact group $ {\mathcal {A}^{\mathbb {Z}}} $. This generalizes simultaneously results of Host et al (B. Host, A. Maass and S. Martínez. Uniform Bernoulli measure in dynamics of permutative cellular automata with algebraic local rules. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 9(6) (2003), 1423–1446) and Pivato (M. Pivato. Invariant measures for bipermutative cellular automata. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 12(4) (2005), 723–736). This result is applied to give conditions which also force an (F,σ)-invariant probability measure to be the uniform Bernoulli measure when F is a particular invertible affine expansive cellular automaton on $ {\mathcal {A}^{\mathbb {N}}} $.


Very fast transient overvoltages(VFTOs) generated during the routine operations of disconnector switch in GIS greatly threaten the insulation of power equipment such as GIS. So far, the agreement on accident cause and insulation failure mechanism of GIS has not been reached at home and abroad. Using the steep fronted impulse generator, we studied discharge characteristics of SF6 rod-plate gap under very fast transient overvoltage and lightning impulse. The study shows that short SF6 gap has a critical radius phenomenon similar to long air gap. Under the same pressure, the gap breakdown voltage decreases with the decrease of the electrode radius; but the breakdown voltage is substantially constant when electrode radius is lower than a critical value. This critical value decreases with the increase of SF6 gas pressure. Moreover, from the view of space charge, we also analyzed the main reason of critical radius phenomenon.The results show that the migration of space charge and stepped leader formation are related to the amount of injection charge.


*Correspondence to: Mounika Rani Gude, Department of Pharmacy, Global College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad, India, E-mail: monirani97 @gmail.com Received: July 7, 2021, Accepted: July 21, 2021, Published: July 28, 2021 Citation: Gude MR (2021) A Brief Note on Drug Safety Surveillance. J. Pharamacovigil. 9:326. doi-10.35248/2329-68184.108.40.2066. Copyright: © 2021 Gude MR. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Pharmacovigilance is like a sunshade to describe the processes for monitoring and evaluating ADRs and it is a key component of effective drug regulation systems, clinical practice and public health programmes. The number of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) reported resulted in an increase in the volume of data handled, and to understand the pharmacovigilance, a high level of expertise is required to rapidly detect drug risks as well as to defend the product against an inappropriate removal. This would consider litigious and important drug safety issues that have the potential to affect public health adversely beyond national boundaries. Recently, pharmacovigilance has been confined, mainly to detect adverse drug events that were previously either unknown or poorly understood. Today many pharmacovigilance centers are working for drug safety monitoring in this global pitch, however, at the turn of the millennium pharmacovigilance faces major challenges in aspect of better safety and monitoring of drugs [1].


We summarize recent theoretical works on artificial graphene realized by honeycomb lattices of semiconductor (CdSe, HgTe, CdTe) quantum dots forming a two-dimensional single-crystalline sheet. In the case of CdSe, we predict conduction bands with Dirac cones at two distinct energies and nontrivial flat bands. An analogous behavior is found in HgTe but, in addition, the strong spin-orbit coupling opens large topologically nontrivial gaps, leaving a flattened band detached from the others. We deduce that honeycomb lattices of HgTe quantum dots may constitute promising platforms for the observation of a fractional Chern insulator or a fractional quantum spin Hall phase. Similar predictions are made for CdTe but with smaller nontrivial gaps.


ABSTRACT The global nature of the modern business world has expanded the set of skills and attitudes necessary for success, even among new bachelor degree graduates. Although US business schools have primarily integrated international concepts through their curricula, students who stay at their home institutions for their entire degree programs do not live and experience the global business environment to the extent necessary for twenty-first-century careers. Short-term, semester- or year-abroad programs help to bridge this gap. However, carefully constructed undergraduate double degree programs can provide students with much richer experiences. This article provides a model for creating international undergraduate double degree programs in business, highlighting the main challenges and offering successful proven solutions employed by a group of American and European business schools that other institutions can adapt to accelerate internationalization and deepen students' international experiences in American business schools.


We present a complete calculation of the SU(3)-breaking corrections to the hyperon vector form factors up to $\mathcal{O}({p}^{4})$ in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. Because of the Ademollo-Gatto theorem, at this order the results do not depend on unknown low energy constants and allow to test the convergence of the chiral expansion. We complete and correct previous calculations and find that $\mathcal{O}({p}^{3})$ and $\mathcal{O}(1/{M}_{0})$ corrections are important. We also study the inclusion of the decuplet degrees of freedom, showing that in this case the perturbative expansion is jeopardized. These results raise doubts on the reliability of the chiral expansion for hyperons.


Based on a case study of Peking University as the domestic first-class university,this paper draws up " Questionnaire on Teaching Status and Development of Working Full-time Teacher in Peking University" through theoretical analysis,interviews and small-scale pilot tests,and conducts a survey on all the teachers,reflecting the teachers' teaching status of Peking University in various dimensions. This study found that the overall teaching status of Peking University presents a good condition,shows a significant difference in teaching performance with regard to gender and teaching years,education background and professional title is not the significant factors influencing teachers' teaching level. Teaching attitude and teaching time are positively correlated with teaching academic level. Teaching ecology has great influence on teaching status and teacher development. This paper proposes that we should reform and design the system and build good teaching ecological atmosphere; adhere to the concept of diversification in teaching reform; teaching decided by learning is the principle what should be insisted; exchanges between teachers should be strengthened and diversified teaching resources should be offered.


A43-YEAR-OLDWOMAN presented with progressive left visual loss, gait impairment, and urinary incontinence. Examination revealed paraparetic gait, pyramidal deep tendon reflexes, and bilateral Babinskisign.Hererythrocytesedimentation rate was raised. Extensive diagnostic workup (including measurement of antinuclear antibody, extractable nuclear antigen, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, antiphospholipid antibodies, angiotensin-convertingenzyme,and antibodiestoaquaporin-4)ruledout systemicorinfectiousvasculitis.The results of cerebrospinal fluid biochemicalandmicrobiologicalanalysiswerenegative.Oligoclonalbands were absent. Spinal magnetic resonanceimaging(MRI)disclosedacervicodorsal T2-hyperintense lesion withcervicaltractswelling(Figure, A); brain MRI showed acute ischemiclesionsinwatershedareasofthe left centrum semiovale (Figure, B). Magneticresonanceangiographyrevealed bilateral middle cerebral artery occlusion. Catheter angiography confirmed these findings (Figure, C) and evidenced narrowing of the left ophthalmic artery (Figure, D), posterior cerebral artery (Figure, E), and right anterior cerebralartery,withactivationofleptomeningeal collateral circulation. Althoughneuromyelitisopticaor multiple sclerosis are common in young women with this clinical onset, laboratory results, characteristicmultifocalintracranialvesselnarrowing or occlusion, and ischemic parenchymalinvolvementintheabsenceofknownvasculiticcausesled to the diagnosis of primary central nervous system (PCNS) vasculitis. After treatment with high-dose intravenous methylprednisolone sodium succinate followed by oral cyclophosphamide, the spinal lesion recovered within 2 weeks, whereas vascular MRI findings also persisted, unchanged, at 8-month follow-up. The patient regained the ability to walk independently, but mild visual and bladder dysfunctions persisted. COMMENT


Financial incentive is increasingly used as a mean to promote preventive care utilization (PCU), but the current Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme (EHCVS) in Hong Kong is ineffective for encouraging PCU.


Aims:
We report the discovery of the super-soft X-ray source XMMU J052016.0-692505 in the LMC with XMM-Newton.

Methods:
We analyse the EPIC spectra of XMMU J052016.0-692505 and study the likely optical counterpart LMCV2135.

Results:
Using an absorbed blackbody spectrum we derive a bolometric luminosity of ⪆ 1034 erg s-1 for the X-ray source at LMC distance. Assuming that the bolometric luminosity does not exceed the Eddington luminosity of a ~ 1.0 Mȯ star we derive a blackbody temperature of (25-70) eV and an LMC absorbing column density of < 6× 1021 cm-2. The likely optical counterpart of XMMU J052016.0-692505 is the LMC variable star LMCV2135 which is a MACHO and OGLE variable. The infrared and optical colors and magnitudes of this star are consistent with a hot star of likely spectral type B. The long-term MACHO light curve shows variability with a timescale of ˜ 500 and ˜ 1000 days. The optical spectra obtained at the 1.9-meter telescope of the South African Astronomical Observatory show strong Hα and Hβ emission lines (with EWH_α˜ 34 A) which indicate a B0-3e star. The radial velocities of the Hα and Hβ emission lines show a variation from ˜ 400-450 km s-1 to ˜ 5-20 km s-1 which is consistent with the systemic velocity of the LMC and an intrinsic variation most likely due to the rotation of the Be disk. We discuss LMCV2135/XMMU J052016.0-692505 as a Be/white dwarf binary system in the LMC. The super-soft X-ray spectrum of the source could be due to a stable nuclear burning white dwarf with a mass of ˜ 0.9-1.0 Mȯ.


Once the optical, electronic, or photocatalytic properties of a semiconductor are set by adjusting composition, crystal phase, and morphology, one cannot change them anymore, respectively, on demand. Materials enabling postsynthetic and reversible switching of features such as absorption coefficient, bandgap, or charge carrier dynamics are highly desired. Hybrid perovskites facilitate exceptional possibilities for progress in the field of smart semiconductors because active organic molecules become an integral constituent of the crystalline structure. This paper reports the integration of ferrocene ligands into semiconducting 2D phases based on lead bromide. The complex crystal structures of the resulting, novel ferrovskite (≃ ferrocene perovskite) phases are determined by 3D electron diffraction. The ferrocene ligands exhibit strong structure‐directing effects on the 2D hybrid phases, which is why the formation of exotic types of face‐ and edge‐sharing lead bromide octahedra is observed. The bandgap of the materials ranges from 3.06 up to 3.51 eV, depending on the connectivity of the octahedra. By deploying the redox features of ferrocene, one can create defect states or even a defect band leading to control over the direction of exciton migration and energy transport in the semiconductor, enabling fluorescence via indirect to direct gap transition.


The collaboration of private companies in the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to address global challenges of climate change, social inequality and environmental degradation. This collaboration can also boost their own organizational performance. However, the research on the relationship between SDG commitment and organizational performance remains inconclusive. The diversity of findings could stem from cross-cultural differences in corporate environments. The aim of this study, therefore, was to analyze the interaction between SDG commitment and organizational performance and to examine how this interaction is influenced by cultural factors. Using simultaneous equation modeling on a sample of 3,420 companies from 30 countries for the period 2015 to 2020, our results show that engagement with SDGs has an impact on organizational performance levels which is further enhanced by the catalytic effect of certain cultural factors.


Full tensor gravity gradiometers acquire multiple gradient components that are inherently related to one another. One way in which this redundancy of information can be exploited is enhanced interpolation. That is, the estimation of the field between observation points is made more accurate by the presence of many simultaneously measured components. A method of full tensor interpolation based on the relationships between the gradient components in Fourier domain will be presented and its effectiveness demonstrated in both qualitative and quantitative manner. Such an interpolation method can be evaluated qualitatively by gridding the field arising from a random array of buried source objects as is would be acquired at a given line spacing. The resulting map is then compared to one generated from the same source field using a conventional gridding and only the vertical component of the gravity gradient. For the line spacing chosen, all of the source masses could be located using full tensor interpolation whereas none of them could be resolved using conventional gridding. Resolution can be measured quantitatively by use of a source detection algorithm. This objectively determines whether two nearby sources can be resolved as being separate entities. A Monte Carlo technique was used to measure resolution success as a function of line spacing. For the source model chosen full tensor interpolation was able to match the resolution performance of conventional gridding even if the line spacing is greater by a factor of 1.55.


The paper focuses upon the problem of trans-cultural transfer in subtitling as a type of audiovisual translation. The methodology of the research involves analysis of the key procedures used for translating culture-specific concepts taking into consideration the principles of dynamic equivalence and the restrictions, applied to the text and the translator in the course of subtitling. The author defines these restrictions and argues their nature. Special attention is payed to the challenges of the audiovisual translation determined by specificity of trans-cultural transfer. As the result, the author brings to light the key strategies of subtitling audiovisual products containing culture-specific concepts and historically marked culture-specific slang Considering that audiovisual content is a polycode text. The results can be used in applied and theoretical translation practice, as a guide in subtitling practice, as a tool for teaching audiovisual translation.


A method of testing metal samples is provided to simulate stretch flanging of trimmed surfaces. A sample having planar sides and a sidewall extending between the planar sides is placed in a fixture so that the planar sides are confined. The sidewall of the sample is bent about a curved surface while restricting buckling out of a planar area. One testing machine is disclosed in which a test specimen is clamped in a die with a nesting slot while a punch bends a sample against a forming surface that has a radius. In another testing machine, a mandrel and clamping element engage the planar sides of the sample while first and second bending members engage first and second end portions to bend one of the sidewalls of the sample about the mandrel.


Physical culture in ancient China is the world sports culture of the part of the world make an important contribution to sports development.In its long process of historical development to create a variety of sport.Many of the modern sports categories and projects can be found in the shadow of China's ancient sport.The article on the project originated in China and contain elements of physical culture in ancient China project description,and from the cultural point of view,the rise and fall of ancient sports history and development of research and elaboration of a nation is come the world,national sports and physical culture of blending the world to combine the major point is the trend.


The purpose of this study is to examine undergraduate students' perceptions of extracurricular programs that have been operated in the form of untact distance education, and to seek the direction of operating extracurricular programs the form of untact distance education. To this end, the study stated three research problems and reached the following conclusions and implications: First, special lecture-type programs that simply provide information were suitable for operating extracurricular programs in the form of untact distance education. Second, the students counted decreased concentration as the biggest difficulty when participating in the programs in the untact distance education. Third, when operating extracurricular programs in the form of untact distance education, it is necessary to prepare to include teaching strategies including the quality of content and interaction, which are program factors.


Numerous initiatives have been taken recently aimed at improving the availability and quality of human resources for European R&D. More adequately skilled researchers will be needed in Europe in order to attain the Lisbon goal to increase the investment in research by 2010. The position of women researchers has also been a cause for growing concern in ongoing efforts to safeguard the diversity and reproduction of European knowledge and know-how. Since 1990s, Finland has made systematic investments in researcher training to improve its quality and efficiency. This paper presents one method to identify the gender profile of Finnish researcher training. Combining different methods provides at least a tentative answer to the question as to whether there are any inherent, structural biases in the science community, in science policy or research funding that may prevent or hinder women's entering into and advancing in research careers. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.


There are places in every town where people like to be: to
come together, to talk to each other, to relax, or just to enjoy
the atmosphere and the environment. Most of these places
have long roots in the past and history. And of course it
appears and adds much to the physical appearance of these
places. These places may be streets, squares, surrounded
by buildings, or buildings themselves, but popular places
may be parks, boulevards, riverbanks or even bridges.
It is wise to extend the life of these beloved places as people
do not always like changes. It helps to strengthen local
identity, to maintain and reutilize the built heritage and it also
accords well with the ideology of sustainable development.
In this respect there are many joyful phenomenon in Hungary.
The creative ways of remodelling, reutilizing or revitalising
different elements of the historic environment helps to regain
the former liveliness of places in the settlements and to bring
people again more closer to each other.


L ike the current spate of jokes, but joking aside, there is both good and bad news aboi the current spate of insurance joking aside, there is both good and bad news bout long-te m di ability ance plans. On the positive side, it can be reported that LTD is today a firmly established and integral part of the employee benefits package, whether insured, self-insured, or part of the pension plan. (For example, the number of new participants under insured LTD plans alone in recent years has been growing at the rate of i,ooo,ooo annually.) As for the bad news, many employers who once thought LTD was a relatively inexpensive benefit are now faced with sizable rate increases from insurance companies and some insurers, primarily because of overall adverse experience. And almost overnight, underwriting restrictions have appeared that make this coverage considerably less attractive than it used to be. Here, we shall discuss not only management's responsibility in designing an effective LTD plan, but the difficulties encountered in doing so and some possible solutions.


Precision spectroscopy of the simple hydrogen atom has inspired dramatic advances in optical frequency metrology: femtosecond laser optical frequency comb synthesizers have revolutionized the precise measurement of optical frequencies, and they provide a reliable clock mechanism for optical atomic clocks. Precision spectroscopy of the hydrogen 1S–2S two-photon resonance has reached an accuracy of 1.4 parts in 1014, and considerable future improvements are envisioned. Such laboratory experiments are setting new limits for possible slow variations of the fine structure constant α and the magnetic moment of the caesium nucleus μCs in units of the Bohr magneton μB.


In this article, I describe the contours of global media networks in terms of interorganizational linkages and spatial distribution of foreign direct investment in the entertainment industry. The results of multidimensional scaling revealed that there were significant differences in the positional structures of global networks in the entertainment industry. However, in the case of the structural relations between the interorganizational and geographical dispersion networks, the quadratic assignment procedure analyses revealed structural similarities between both networks in the entertainment industry. A multiple regression analysis also showed music and film industries played a significant role in explaining interorganizational and geographical dispersion networks. The findings indicate the benefit of distinguishing between interorganizational and geographic dispersion networks in understanding global media networks.


SummaryA 66 year-old woman presented (1 year after a Myocardial infarction) with a large embolic Stroke which resolved completely under heparin tretment. As in most published cases, the cmbolization cannot be absolutely demonstrated. Alrge cardiacthrombus, partially mobile in a left venricular aneurysm was discovered by 2-dimensional echocardiography. The size and mobility of thrombus prompted us to perform aneurysmectomy with thrombectomy, to prevent repeated embolization. Early evolution was uneventful but the patient died suddenly 6 months The role of the left ventricular aneurysm as an embolic source, and its treatment arc disused.


Combining the experiences in concrete construction of canal aqueduct of Fangshui river,steel trestle scaffold platform was used for laying the template of the casting concrete construction.Thus safety and quality of casting concrete construction process were ensured.It could prove that in the hydraulic engineering construction process,the technology of setting up supporting shelving system should be arose more recognition and that was important in quality of project and safety in production.


The bureaucratic characteristics of the court process are examined as achievement-of face-to-face interactions in a courtroom where plea bargaining and other official and unofficial activities occur. Bargaining sessions are insulated from intrusion by standard practices which protect focused interactions. Defendants are "processed" not in any automatic way, but by carefully orchestrated lines of interaction, which render those defendants indistinguishable to judges and other observers. These features are due not to "overcrowding," but to the way conduct is organized in the court. Defendants' contributions to the courtroom's social order are related to character assessment, a central activity in plea bargaining.


The study deals with the representations of periodization and the temporary historical consciousness the teacher training. Periodization is a fundamental concept to teach and learn about historical concepts because it determines greater possibilities for comprehension and expansion of learning in relation to temporality and the construction of a historical consciousness to understand past, present and future. The methodology used is of a qualitative type with a case study design. The collection of information was through questionnaires, interviews and personal narratives. The results indicate that students in teacher training have a conception of periodization dominated by a traditional chronological and neopositivist model; they know new historiographical models to understand the historical reality, nevertheless, when designing teaching they resort to dating and chronology. The construction of didactic artifacts are timelines where the model used is quadripartite periodization. Hence, the construction of historical consciousness is based mainly on past relationships and, to a lesser extent, past-present.


This paper presents a new service delivery and provisioning architecture for home appliances, the basic idea is to subtly incorporate the SIP architecture into the OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative) based service delivery and provisioning system. Thus the strengths of OSGI and SIP based Internet telephony system are unified so that wide range of services and devices can be supported. A prototype system is implemented to show the features of the system.


Abstract In the geometry of curves in 𝔼3, if the principal normal vector field of a given space curve ϕ with non-zero curvatures is the principal normal vector field of another space curve ϕ*, then the curve ϕ is called a Bertrand curve and ϕ* is called Bertrand partner of ϕ. These curves have been studied in di erent space over a long period of time and found wide application in di erent areas. Therefore, we have a great knowledge of geometric properties of these curves. In this paper, revested results for spacelike Bertrand curves with non-null normal vectors will be given with the previous studies on Bertrand curves in 𝔼13. Follow this revested results, the Bertrand curve conditions of a spacelike curve are obtained in 𝔼13. In addition, new curve samples that meet the obtained conditions are constructed and the graphs of these curves are given.


Two simple and sensitive spectrophotometric methods were developed and validated for quantitative determination of escitalopram(Esc). The first method is based on the formation of charge-transfer complexes between the drug as n-donor and 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ), 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) and p -chloranilic acid ( p -CA) as I€ -acceptors to give highly colored complex species. The products exhibit absorption maxima at 456, 841, 413 and 518 nm in acetonitrile for DDQ, TCNQ, TCNE and p -CA, respectively. Beer's law was obeyed in the range of 8.28–373.00 I¼g mL -1 . Moreover Kinetic spectrophotometry was adopted for analysis of Esc with TCNE, using initial rate and fixed time methods. The second method is based on the formation of yellow ion-pair complexes between escitalopram and four sulphonphthalein acid dyes, namely; bromocresol purple (BCP), bromophenol blue (BPB), bromocresol blue (BCB), and bromocresol green (BCG) in chloroform. The formed complexes are measured at 407, 413, 415 and 416 nm for BCP, BPB, BCB and BCG, respectively. Under the optimum reaction conditions, linear relationships with good correlation coefficients (0.9996 - 0.9999) are found between absorbance of the formed complexes and concentrations of escitalopram in the range of 2.07–41.44 I¼g mL -1 . Spectral characteristics and stability constants of the formed ion associates are discussed in terms of the nature of donor and acceptor molecular structures. The molar absorptivities and association constants for the colored complexes were evaluated using the Benesi-Hildebrand equation. The proposed methods were successfully applied for determination of the drug in tablets with good accuracy and precision. Â


Realizing a future of 2D semiconductor‐based devices requires new approaches to channel passivation and nondestructive contact engineering. Here, a facile one‐step technique is shown that simultaneously utilizes monolayer fluorinated graphene (FG) as the passivation layer and contact buffer layer to 2D semiconductor transistors. Monolayer graphene is transferred onto the MoS2, followed by fluorination by XeF2 gas exposure. Metal electrodes for source and drain are fabricated on top of FG‐covered MoS2 regions. The MoS2 transistor is perfectly passivated by insulating FG layer and, in the contacts, FG layer also acts as an efficient charge injection layer, leading to the formation of Ohmic contacts and high carrier mobility of up to 64 cm2 V−1 s−1 at room temperature. This work shows a novel strategy for simultaneous fabrication of passivation layer and low‐resistance contacts by using ultrathin functionalized graphene, which has applications for high performance 2D semiconductor integrated electronics.


There are approximately two thousand unpublished letters by Franz Rosenzweig, for the most part addressed to Gritli Rosenstock-Huessy, awaiting publication. These unpublished letters are no less than Rosenzweig's love letters to his beloved Gritli. They cast an unexpected and lively light on Rosenzweig's New Thinking, his Judaism and his attitudes toward Christianity and Germany. They contain numerous philosophical and theological remarks and offer us valuable insights into the birth and development of Rosenzweig's masterpiece, the Star of Redemption. In short, they offer readers a multitude of new facets that enrich and deepen our understanding of Rosenzweig's life and thought. These letters are now in a typed version, which a few people possess.1 The systematic study of these letters is essential to our understanding of Rosenzweig's life and work. At times they provide us with additional information, as is the case of the growth of his thought about eternity.2 At other times they are an amplification of what we already know, as for


This paper presents a new method for model-based object recognition which uses a single, comprehensive analytic object model representing the entirety of a suite of gray-scale views of the object. In this way, object orientation and identity can be directly established from arbitrary views, even though these views are not related by any geometric image transformation. The approach is also applicable to other real and complex sensed data, such as radar and thermal signatures. The unprocessed object model is comprised of a set of basis images with complex exponential harmonic terms as coefficients. A new model is formed comprised of the reciprocal set of the object basis set. The projection of an acquired image onto the reciprocal basis thus produces samples of a complex exponential, the phase of which reveals the pose parameters. Estimation of this phase for several degrees of freedom corresponds to the plane wave direction of arrival (DOA) problem; thus the pose parameters can be found using DOA solution techniques. Results are given which illustrate the performance of a simplified, preliminary, implementation of this method using real-world images.


An evaluation on the effect of Calcutta city waste compost (cwc) along with the application of fertilizers with respect to yield of rice was made on an alluvial soil (Typic Ustifluvent) of West Bengal. The CWC was applied alone and in combination with fertilizers. Significant effect of compost on yield and growth of rice has been predicted along with uptake of macro-and micro-nutrients. Though high level of nitrogen application has been found to be effective, low level of nitrogen application in combination with compost closely followed the former treatement in respect of growth parameters, nutrient uptake and yield of rice. A perusal of profit figure indicates highest increase in the margin of profit by supplementing city waste compost with urea as compared to other treatments.


Fussy control is used for the self-adaptive adjustment of threshold voltage of photoelectric color sorters and an expert system is used to set quantization factors,Ke,Kec and Ku,of the input and output variables of the fussy controller to improve the control accuracy and adaptive ability of the whole control system.Through the test of KST-240 photoelectric color sorter made by a company,it is learned that the sorting rate of the color sorter has increased by 1%,compared with manual threshold voltage adjustment mode.Threshold voltage fussy expert control system can improve the sorting rate of the color sorter through the self-adaptive control of threshold voltage and reduce the manufacturers' after-sale technical support cost.


Pharmacy has an edge over other retailers when it comes to skin care, and is in a position to provide advice and education around the correct use of corticosteroids, ultimately helping customers and creating a better performing therapeutic skin care section.


The invention was also possible to use a recycled raw material such as PET bottles Dropouts. Thus, it provides a suitable heat-shrinkable polyester film of the PET bottle recycling chief mark application conditions. According to the invention, the bottle, at least one surface of the base layer for reproducing comprises a material and depositing a layer that does not contain a bottle recycled raw material, the heat-shrinkable polyester film or a plastic bottle for the layer which does not include the bottle recycled raw material to the printing surface the recycled raw material and the base layer comprising 45 to 80% by weight, an amorphous material the principal component as front and back layers, a heat-shrinkable polyester film laminate 10 during the 80 ℃ hot seconds immersed in the main shrinkage direction of the kkeonaeteul heat shrinkage and more than 30%, the heat shrinkage rate in the main shrinkage direction and the direction perpendicular to and not more than 10%, and a heat-shrinkable polyester film stretched in at least one axis. The heat-shrinkable polyester film, a heat-shrinkable label, PET bottle recycled raw material


EGGERS1and Hamrick and Howe2have written excellent monographs on mixed tumor of the lip. This communication is not an attempt to duplicate their work, but it is an endeavor to bring mixed tumor of the lip to the attention of dermatologists. We feel that such tumors may be commoner than the paucity of reported cases indicates. REPORT OF A CASE L. W., a 34-year-old white man, was first seen in June, 1951, because of a lesion of the right lower lip. The patient stated that the lesion had been present for approximately one year and had been slowly increasing in size. It was asymptomatic. There was no history of trauma to the lip. Examination revealed a firm, round, smooth nodule about 1.5 cm. in diameter on the right side of the lower lip. The nodule appeared to be within the lip, was not adherent to the


VOGT, H.; GONZÁLEZ, M.; ADÁN, A.; SMAGGHE, G. y VIÑUELA, E., 1998: Side-effects of azadirachtin, via residual contact, in young larvae of the predator Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens). Bol. San. Veg. Plagas, 24(1): 67-78. Two formulations of azadirachtin, applied via residual contact in laboratory at the highest field recommended concentrations: 0.3% NeemAzal-T/S and 0.15% Align, were highly toxic to the first-instar larvae of the predator Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens). The oily formulation, NeemAzal-T/S caused a more severe effect, but in both cases the pesticides disrupted larval development inducing high larval mortality along the different instars and preventing pupation and adult emergence. Other effects observed were: development delay, inhibition of weight gain and several moult deficiencies: distorted mandibles, abnormal melanization, gut extrusion, inability of complete shedding off the old cuticle, desorientated movements and a lesser mobility. Under the transmission electron microscope, several malformations became apparent: inclusion of electron-dense bodies, distorted microfibrils, alterations of mitochondria and a lesser density of muscle fibers. Key-words: Chrysoperla carnea, larvae, azadirachtin, Align, NeemAzalT/S, sideeffects, residual contact.


In this paper, we propose a neural network based dimensionality reduction approach to classify the four different categories of cardiac arrhythmias such as 'Normal', 'Bradycardia', 'Tachycardia' and 'Block' using MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database. We designed a nonlinear auto-encoder with three hidden layers and applied it to a dataset of ECG signal. It was found that our method is able to compress the data with less reconstruction error than that of linear transformation such as Principal component analysis. Using a deep neural network, we get the best accuracy (92.1%) for classifying the cardiac arrhythmia groups into four categories compared to Ensemble of Binary Support Vector Machine Decision Tree and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) feed-forward Neural Network with back-propagation. The classifier performance is evaluated using Positive predictive Value (Precision), False discovery Rate, True Positive Rate (Recall) and False Negative Rate. This method has a great importance for researcher to predict the potential cardiac disease before it is too late.


This thesis is all about the visual attention, starting from understanding the human visual system up till applying this mechanism to a real-world computer vision application. This has been achieve ...


Quite understandably, historians have been most interested in American Negro slavery during the stormy era of King Cotton and States f Rights, the period in which slave labor became an explosive and divisive political issue. No one writing about the South in the 1850Ts dares to ignore slavery, but there has been a tendency to keep it well in the background before the cotton era. This is because of a prevailing notion that slavery was moribund until revived by the relentless pressure of cotton cultivation, which in turn was caused by the harsh and impersonal agency of the Industrial Revolution.


Abstract In several studies, the beneficial effects of the application of chloride on root growth have been reported. However, the effect of chloride application on the morphology of roots has not been studied extensively. The effects of the use of chloride salts and sulfate salts on the growth of rice (Oryza sativa L.) until the 7-leaf stage were investigated in soil and water culture experiments. In the soil culture experiments, the root biomass in the chloride treatment showed a 58% increase compared with the sulfate treatment. Total root length, top root ratio (T / R ratio) and root length per primary root revealed the existence of root growth promotion by chloride. In the water culture experiments, root growth was also stimulated by chloride, as in the soil culture experiments. In order to analyze the effect of chloride application, the ion composition and pH of the soil solution or water culture solution were used to determine the amounts of ion species in the solution using the MINTEQA2 computer program, and the results were applied to estimate the osmotic pressure of these solutions. The osmotic pressure of chloride salts was obviously higher than that of sulfate salts based on van't Hoff's law of osmotic pressure and a positive correlation between the osmotic pressure and root length was obtained. The results suggest that the higher osmotic pressure induced by chloride would be involved in the root growth promotion of rice.


OBJECTIVE
To analyze the cost effectiveness of HIV screening project in three Guangxi infectious disease special demonstration project countries in 2013.

METHODS
To calculate the funds used for the HIV screening project and to study the data on HIV/AIDS and HAART. A five-tree markov model was used to evaluate the quality adjusted life year (QALY) of this HIV screening project and to analyze the related cost effectiveness of the project.

RESULTS
The cost of HIV screening in Guangxi infectious disease special demonstration project areas was 19.205 million Yuan and having identified 1 218 HIV/AIDS patients. The average costs for HIV/AIDS positive detection in three project countries were 14.562, 18.424 and 14.042 thousand Yuan per case. The QALYs gained from finding a HIV/AIDS case were 12.736, 8.523 and 8.321 on average, with the total number of QALYs gained from the project as 5 973.184, 3 613.752 and 2 704.325. The overall cost effectiveness ratio of the project was 1.562 thousand Yuan per QALY, and 1.143, 2.162 and 1.688 thousand Yuan per QALY in these three project countries. Project country "A" showed better cost effectiveness index than country B and C.

CONCLUSION
The HIV screening project in Guangxi seemed relatively cost-effective but the average cost of HIV/AIDS positive detection was expensive. To strengthen HAART work for HIV/AIDS could improve the cost-effective of the project.


Abstract:Reflecting on Barthes's dissection of the "mythical object" identified as Einstein's brain, this article shows that the section of Mythologies entitled "Einstein's Brain" not only occupies the mathematical center of the volume but also, splitting Einstein apart from himself, concludes with an abbreviated version of its general theory of myth. The article then extends Barthes's inquiry in two directions: first, it examines three contemporary versions of Einstein (concerning his mind, his soul, and his brain, which was preserved and segmented into two-hundred-some parts immediately upon his death); second, it considers the relationship between the disposition of Einstein's brain in the context of twenty-first-century neuroscience and the significance of Einstein's brand in the context of cloud-based commercial culture.


Minorities' attitudes can be compared to attitudes of fellow citizen within the host country as well as to attitudes of the motherland. Given the heterogeneity of Luxembourg's minority groups, this country is a relevant example case in which the comparison needs to involve answering a two-folded question. First, the authors analyze the level of measurement equivalence, that is, the extent to which different groups can be compared. Second, the authors examine whether ethnic-cultural groups within Luxembourg resemble citizens from their native country more than their country of residence. Using European Values Study (EVS) data from 2008 the authors demonstrate different types of outcomes. Results indicate that cultural background is more important than national context in the case of culturally more distant minorities to Luxembourg's resident population and that national setting is the prevailing factor when minorities are from neighboring countries. The effect of a common national setting is also important with regards to the issue of measurement equivalence, where it contributes to greater comparability of intranational, cross-ethnic comparisons.


A BSTRACT . We prove an extension of the Akemann - Ostrand theorem, regarding the simultaneous, left and right regular representations of the free group, modulo compact operators, to the case of the partial action of PGL 2 ( Z [ 1 p ]) × PGL 2 ( Z [ 1 p ]) op , on ℓ 2 (PSL 2 ( Z )) , in the presence of a non-trivial cocycle. We use this result and the operator algebra techniques developed previously to prove that the essential spectrum of the Hecke operators is contained in the bounds prescribed by the Ramanujan Peterson Conjectures, which determines the asymptotics of exceptional eigenvalues.


Preparation of powders for high-resolution microscopy presents specific challenges not present in bulk materials. Nanoscale powders (diameters <~100 nm) can be directly deposited on to a TEM grid with drop casting and are usually thin enough for electron transparency in a 200 kV instrument or above. Microscale powders (diameters ~1 um), on the other hand, must be thinned to electron transparency for high-resolution spatial and chemical analysis.


Ideology plays an important role in pictorial symbol,which is the expression of human relationships of thought and spiritual life in picture.People in modern society are surrounded by pictures,and further manipulated by many false pictures.Take pictorial symbol of body as an example,and aesthetics has become"some violence of pleasure".Reflecting views from Danial Bell,Guy Debord and Baudrillard is helpful for us to have a clear-headed understanding of pictures.


[Objective] The study aimed to provide scientific basis for developing mulberry plant source pesticides. [Method]Bioassays in laboratory were employed to investigate anti-feeding,growth inhibitory functions of 1-DNJ extracted from mulberry leaves on the 4thS. exigua. [Result]The result showed that the highest anti-feeding rates were over 69 and 99% respectively at 48h,when concentration of 1-DNJ were 0. 25 g / L and 1. 00 g / L,respectively. The insect weight in 48 h and 72 h were less than 24 h and showed negative growth. The developmental inhibition assay indicated that weight and pupatation rates decreased with the increasing 1-DNJ concentration. While,the pupal weight of 4th S. exigua non-distinctive inhibited. However,the mortality rates of contact toxicity and stomach toxicity were less than anti-feeding and growth inhibitory effect. [Conclusion] These results implied that mulberry was treasuries of bioactive substances useful as pesticides.


The different forms of mental disorders including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and psychotic disorders can negatively influence food intake and appetite and cause weight loss. The purpose of this paper is to propose intravenous fluid therapy for psychiatric inpatients.


Nanocomposite based on zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures and poly [2-methoxy-5(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-phenylene vinylene) (MEH-PPV) of various weight percent have been obtained using sol-gel method. The substrates were deposit at 0.1 wt% to 0.4 wt% of ZnO with pure MEH-PPV to investigate the concentration effect of MEH-PPV/ZnO nanocomposite. The structural properties were characterized using FESEM and AFM to obtain the morphology of nanocomposite. From the AFM, it was found that the roughness is more uniform. The optical properties were obtained using ultraviolet-visible spectrometer (UV-Vis). It was found that the transmittance band increased with decreased of weight percent of ZnO nanostructures. For photoluminescence (PL) spectra shows that 0.4 wt% of ZnO at visible emission is due to emission characterisitic of PPV backbone which is arise from the relaxtion of excited π-electron to the ground state. This study will provide better performance and suitable for optoelectronic device especially OLEDs application.


This report summarises the information on urban metro systems in Developing Countries obtained by TRL as part of its research programme for the Department for International Development. The principal risks associated with the financial viability of any urban rail scheme are given as major unforeseen design changes, cost / time overruns, lower patronage than expected, and financing / debt repayment. Ground conditions are the major source of cost overruns. Of the 13 new metro systems that TRL has data on, only three were completed as scheduled. Three were completed within budget, four experienced cost overruns of 10-50% and six had overruns of 50-100%. Of metros in nine cities, only one achieved its expected patronage, while three achieved only half that figure and five had patronage that was 50-90% lower. Bus-metro integration is considered crucial to success. Bus services should be prohibited from offering a route parallel to that of the metro. Through tickets on combined bus / metro routes should offer a discount. Governments should be prepared to fund most of the capital cost of the metro, with some income derived from joint office / station developments. Successful projects require high demand, using surface or elevated structures rather than tunnels, a flexible fares system and clear-cut reponsibilities.


Using nonlinear finite element method with a type of st raight element,the static and dynamic increment equilibrium equations of cable- strut system are obtained.The former is solved by Newton-Raphson method and the latter is directly integrated by using Newmark-β method.Based on the discussi on above,a 500 kV guyed transmission tower in Jiangyin is analyzed.


Using wind stress data from COADS and temperature data from Levitus, analyses are made to describe the relationship between the upper layer dynamic fields and the temperature fields, and interannual variations in the large scale dynamic fields of the South China Sea(SCS). The pattern of Sverdrup circulation in summer and winter and its relationship with the upper sea temperature are expounded. It is found that the sea temperature spatial variation is very similar to the circulation structure in the upper ocean, which suggests that the sea temperature variation involves the Sverdrup balance. With increase of depth within the seasonal thermocline, the relationship between the mean sea temperature and the stream function fields exhibits an even better similarity than the surface case. Another emphasis is put on the anomalous Sverdrup stream function of the SCS during El Nio and La Nia events. It is found that the summer circulation in the El Nio year is stronger than in the normal years, which strengthens the anti cyclonic gyre in the southern SCS and the cyclonic gyre in the northern SCS. However, the impact of El Nio makes the circulation in winter weaker than in normal years though the southern and the northern cyclonic gyres combine into a basin wide cyclonic gyre. During the period of La Nia, the most obvious variation of summer circulation occurs in the central SCS, the northern gyre is generally weakened and the southern gyre is modified slightly. The winter circulation during La Nia is strengthened in the entire SCS.


On April 2, 2020, Luckin coffee issued a public statement acknowledging financial fraud which caused their stock price to collapse. This paper studies the cases of Luckin coffee's fraud, focusing on the analysis of the impact of financial fraud on the financial risks of enterprises. This paper uses the Altman's Z-score model and decomposes the firm's financial risks into five factors. It is shown that the inflated revenue can have a substantial impact on four of the factors which can mislead the investors. After the financial fraud, the reputation of an enterprise will be affected, which will reduce its financing ability in the future and eventually lead to an increase in its financial risks.


This document describes a method of troubleshooting in transmission systems, which are responsible for carrying power from generating stations to consumer stations is presented. This work focuses on a method for diagnosing faults in transmission systems and the location of problems within very small time allows us to analyze and take preventive decisions to clear a fault and cause the least damage to equipment and personal. The restoration of the SEP would be less likely since it is an efficient method for troubleshooting. Parameters are analyzed such as pre and post-fault current phase angles voltages. A location method is simulated to obtain a more accurate and actual behavior against interference system image. It is expected that the proposed method has a wide range of application in engineering and improve SEP behavior.


Utilization of the subclavian artery in establishing an anastomotic shunt between major portions of the cardiovascular system for application to congenital cardiovascular anomalies was first suggested by Blalock and Park (1944). Subsequently, its practicability has been demonstrated in uncounted instances, Blalock (1948) and Ravitch (1953) describing over 1,100 cases in which this procedure was used for treating the tetralogy of Fallot. Clagett (1947) first employed subclavian arterio-aortostomy in coarctation of the aorta. Other series discussing the use of subclavian shunts have been reported by Shumacker (1951), Gross (1945), and many others.


Strengthening of non-structural measures for flood protection by enforcing natural retention processes is not only required by the EU-Floods-Directive but also implicates a variety of socioeconomic conflicts related to the multipurpose use of floodplains especially at large river systems. For the presented study the Austrian Danube was investigated on the entire 350 km length, determining reaches with high relevance for flood water retention. This novel analysis based on onedimensional and two-dimensional hydrodynamic-numerical modelling, uses hydrological and hydraulic parameters of the new FEM-method (Floodplain-Evaluation-Matrix) to evaluate retention effectiveness on various spatial scales. The results show strong influence of floodplain morphology on flood retention variability and hydraulics with respect to different flood wave shapes and recurrence intervals. Floodplain morphology and flooding characteristics were identified as main parameters for hydrological and hydraulic effectiveness. The integrative FEM-method highlighted the need for a scale- and morphology-specific floodplain management especially for large rivers like the Danube.


AbstractAs many cities face traffic congestion, pollution, and urban sprawl, transit villages with transit-oriented development (TOD) and higher ridership have been a core theme for academics and p...


Environmental influences on organisms were studied on most common mollusks in the mangrove swamp and lower intertidal zone of Atlantic Ocean, Nigeria. Samples were collected between January and December, 2016. Five samples each of common whelk and Littorina littorea of relatively equal size and weight were collected at night from different stations and transported to the laboratory in a well ventilated container. Heavy metals in the tissues were digested with 5mL of HNO3 and 3mL of concentrated hydrochloric acid in 5:1 ratio and analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. Marine environment had higher metals residue than the brackish water in both organisms and both seasons. The order of accumulation of metals in the soft tissues of L.littorea and B.undatum from both sampling environments were; Fe > Zn >Mn >Pb > Cd. The concentrations of heavy metals in the soft tissues of L.littorea and B.undatum revealed that, the geochemical composition had great effects on metal accumulation, with Fe, the most dominant elements in the Earth's Crust, having the highest concentrations. Cadmium the least metal reported in this study has no known biological functions. The adverse human health effects associated with exposure to heavy metals, even at low concentrations are diverse, hence the needs for thorough investigation of the water qualities in this region to ascertain the degree of the toxicity of heavy metals pollution and the response of the environment. Keyword: Metals, Mangrove swamp, Ocean, Common whelk, Littorina littorea INTRODUCTION Over the years, the elemental composition in the world's oceans is being updated with highly specialized oceanographic vessels, new analytical instrumentation, contamination-free sampling protocols and large scale data inter-comparisons to measure reliable trace concentrations of many dissolved constituents in seawater. Brackish and marine ecosystem are very reach in biodiversity, thus their contamination will adversely affects the balance of aquatic ecosystem and the human health. Increased population, rapid urbanization, oil and gas production, illegal (local) refineries in the Niger-Delta Creeks, heavy rainfall throughout the year, abuse of chemical fertilizers and misuse of pesticides especially in the rural populists have created numerous environmental and ecological problems in Nigeria's coastal area and marine environment [1,2] Excess of metals such as Fe, Mn, Zn are harmful and are readily bioaccumulate along the food chain [3, 4]. Similarly, nonessential metals such as Cd and Pb are very toxic even at a low level of exposure and are not important for metabolic activities [5]. Bioaccumulation is the net build-up of substances from water in an aquatic organism as a result of enhanced uptake and slow elimination of such substances [6] Terrestrial and aquatic molluscs are widely used as bioindicators due to their seeming reflection of environmental trace metal contamination [7].Gastropods, accumulate metals to high concentrations than any other group of invertebrate, and are potential bioindicator of aquatic health [8]. Bioaccumulation of metals in gastropods had been reported by several investigators, [9], studied bioaccumulation of metals in snail Helix aspersa. [10] studied bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Cu,Zn, Fe) in freshwater snail (Pliaovota; Oliver 1804) from Ikpoba River of south Nigeria. [11] studied heavy metals accumulation in Oxyloma hirasei from the Upo wetland. [12] studied metal accumulation in pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis in freshwater. [13] studied bioaccumulation of heavy metals in soft body tissues of gastropods Thais mutabilis and sediments from intertidal zone of Bandar Abbas. B. undatum and L. littorea are benthic filter feeders. They ingest metal-enriched particles directly, thereby giving an indication of their bioaccumulation ability of metals [14]. They are dominant gastropods species that serves as source of food to populate in Niger Delta region, Nigeria. It becomes imperative that the metal levels in these organisms need to be analyzed for the safety of mankind. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study area: The Ikebiri River drains into the Atlantic Ocean at Ebidoughene (Station 1). The stations submerged with water during high tide and exposed to the air during low tide. The area is sandy and has rocky cliffs. Upstream to this station are the other stations; Ngbokolo (Station 2) and Obomikorogbene (station 3). These are fluctuating environment. The salinity is variable depending on the tide, the amount of freshwater entering from rivers or as rain, and the rate of evaporation. The salinity of the water in this environment fluctuates widely between negligible to 35 ppt. The habitat is the mangrove swamp. These stations do not experience tide and the water are slightly stratified, the saline water circulates in at the bottom, mixes with fresh water, and then flows out at the top (salinity thus increases


Russian wild ryegrass (E Zymus junceus Fisch.) is well adapted to the Northern Great Plains region of Canada and the United States (Heinrichs and Lawrence, 1956, and Campbell, 1961 and 1963). Its general acceptance as a species for pasture seeding, however, has been slow because of high seed costs brought about by low seed yields. Solutions to seed production problems have been sought by several workers who studied the influence of various management factors on the seed yield of this grass. Stelfox et al. (1954) and Stitt (1954) found that a combination of wide row spacings and nitrogen fertilizer were essential for good seed yields. Schaaf (1961) found that early sp r in g seedings produced more seed in the subsequent two years than later seedings. Lawrence (1961) studied methods of harvesting this species and found that swathing was preferable to straight combining from the standpoint of maintaining seed quality. The present study was undertaken to provide information on fertilizer effects on seed yields of Russian wild ryegrass grown on irrigated land. Although the data were obtained from an experiment at one site only, the soil at the site was heavy clay, typical of many irrigated areas in southwestern Saskatchewan on which Russian wild ryegrass is grown for seed.


1. Introduction 2. The new wave of globalization 3. What role for comparative advantage? 4. Lead firm strategy and global value chain structure 5. Economic insecurity in the new wave of globalization 6. Financialization and the dynamics of offshoring 7. Economic development as industrial upgrading in global value chains 8. Outsourcing economics.


Background: Chest expansion measurement is included as a standard mode of measurement to evaluate patient's baseline status of respiratory function. There are various anatomical and physiological differences between adult and paediatric respiratory system hence, adult values of chest expansion cannot be used as reference values in paediatric population. Also, there is lack of recent data that has evaluated chest expansion values in paediatric age group. So, the present study was undertaken to find out normal chest expansion values in children between 5-12 years of age. It is important to know the reference value for precise interpretation. Methodology: A cross sectional observational study was carried out in 600 children between age group of 5-12 years and with normal BMI(without H/O any cardiac/respiratory illness, musculoskeletal or neurological diseases, spinal deviations, cough and cold). Chest expansion measurements were assessed in sitting position at three levels that is, 2nd, 4th and 6th intercostal spaces(ICS), using an non- elastic measuring tape. It was taken as thoracic circumference at the end of maximum exhalation and inspiration. An average of three such readings at each level was taken into consideration. Results: To find value of chest expansion at 2nd, 4th and 6th ICS levels a average values of the three measurements taken at each level at same time was taken into consideration. Conclusion: The normative values of chest expansion in healthy children between age group of 5-12 years is 2nd Intercostal space- 1 inch/ 2.5 cm, 4th Intercostal space- 1 inch/2.5 cm, 6th Intercostal space- 1.7 inch/ 4.25cm. KEY WORDS: Chest Expansion, Normative Values, Children, Paediatric.


The utility model discloses a reusable attaching device for fixing an attaching lifting scaffold to a wall body. The attaching device is designed into a front part and a back part, wherein the front part is a disposable connecting rod (6) left in the wall body; the back part is a reusable assembly. The assembly at the back part is connected with the connecting rod (6) at the front part, forming an attaching device of the wall body. The assembly at the back part comprises an attaching seat (1), a fixing sleeve (2), a tightening screw bolt (3), an axle sleeve (4), a taper sleeve (5), etc. After the attaching lifting scaffold climbs with a certain height along the wall body, staff can dismount the attaching device from the site of the wall body under the scaffold, then for again fixing an attaching facility of the wall body for a next stroke of the scaffold. The utility model has the advantages of convenient and fast installation, strong applicability, high safety and repeated use. The engineering cost can be decreased. The utility model solves the attaching arrangement problem of fixing an attaching lifting scaffold to a super thick wall body.


The article compares two models of education: the scout model of group education and the model of educating an individual, based on the ideas of personalism. These different approaches do have something in common. Jacek Kuron and Anna Radziwill believed that a person's duty is responsibility for the world and the imperative to change the world for the better, and the best way to achieve this is to be a teacher.


Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are obtained by reprogramming somatic cells. This powerful disease-modeling research tool is central to certain experimental approaches to therapy. A recent study showed that iPS cells can be generated with a very high degree of efficiency.


This study introduces one of the modern techniques in the field of cognitive psychology and complements to the training process for artistic gymnastics coaches, in order to develop the level of athletic performance and skill performance in general. In particular, the study contained two homogeneous and equal groups, one experimental and the other controlled. The researcher applied a training program on the skill of mental imagery accompanying the skill training on the experimental sample consisting of (8) juniors in artistic gymnastics, to know the effect of this type of training in developing the level of skill performance of some basic skills on the ground movement apparatus (wheel with quarter turn – back flip – back somersault straight). The duration of the program was defined as (08) weeks at the rate of (03) training units per week, and the units of the proposed program included exercises (muscle and mental relaxation, basic mental imagery and multidimensional mental perception). The results indicated that there is a positive direct relationship between the development of the level of mental imagery and the level of skill performance of the motion skills under study. Accordingly, the researcher recommends the need to incorporate such mental programs while planning various preparation programs, in order to develop the mental abilities of athletes to improve the level of skill performance.


Secondary Surveillance Radars are widely used in many aspects of users' information support, such as air object recognition and radio beacon tracking. The study considers a two-channel data transmission system as an SSR model and assesses its relative data capacity subject to intentional (correlated and uncorrelated) and intra-system interference as well as fluctuation (masking effect) noise in the request and response channels. It is shown that the aircraft transponder design built on the principles of a single-channel queuing system with denial of service has a significant impact on Secondary Surveillance Radar relative data capacity and the information security of both the aircraft transponder and the entire Secondary Surveillance Radar.


The private sector has helped cut NHS waiting lists, but at what cost, a primetime documentary asked last week. Nicholas Clarke questions whether the programme makers went far enough


For getting variable speeds, the brushless DC motors are the best to use in different application now a day. It has wide applications and more advantages over brushed DC motor. It gives better performance than the brushed DC motor. In this paper, a close loop speed response of three phase BLDC motor is mentioned. The results of different bandwidth are taken. In close loop test, the speed of the motor is been constant by speed controller. The Hall Effect sensors are used to sense the position of the rotor. Inverter is used to feed gate pulses to turn on the motor. The simulation of the close loop three phase brushless DC motor is done in MATLAB environment. Different results of simulation are shown in this paper.


Information management through syndication and folksonomy tools.

The companies, associations and groups of today have to use innovative information management techniques. Syndication has been useful for some time, but its use did not spread until the explosion of blogs. This area has now been addressed and most websites currently have the option to syndicate, allowing us to subscribe to a huge number of different information sources, so that we are constantly kept up-to-date. In addition, it is increasingly important to correctly manage information, to be aware of events around us, in our company or group, to know what is being said about society, receive warnings, etc. and all of this is possible using these tools; which also afford us the possibility of exchanging information with both public and private groups; as well as disseminating contents outside our areas, since thanks to these standard formats, and with minimum effort, we have the option to place this content in multiple locations.


According to the hardened processing characteristic of the copper fiat wire made by continuous extrusion,a kind of automatic control system based on the PLC is designed.The human-computer interface of the configuration kings is used for information exchange,and the stepper motor positioning is controlled by the PLC pulse output,so the automatic control of hardening device can be realized.The position accuracy and reliability of the hardening device are enhanced as well.


This paper discusses the need to dynamize the existing conceptualization of business models, and proposes a new typology. One important conclusion is that a business model can be flexible only up t...


We describe a general class of multivariate infinitely divisible distributions and their related stochastic processes. Then we prove inequalities which are the analogs of Slepian's inequality for these distributions. These inequalities are applied to the distributions of M/G/∞ queues and of sample cumulative distribution functions for independent multivariate random variables.


Jordan is characterized as a "water scarce" country. Therefore, conserving ecosystem services such as water regulation and soil retention is challenging. In Jordan, rainwater harvesting has been adapted to meet those challenges. However, the spatial composition and configuration features of a target landscape are rarely considered when selecting a rainwater-harvesting site. This study aimed to introduce landscape spatial features into the schemes for selecting a proper water-harvesting site. Landscape metrics analysis was used to quantify 10 metrics for three potential landscapes (i.e., Watershed 104 (WS 104), Watershed 59 (WS 59), and Watershed 108 (WS 108)) located in the Jordanian Badia region. Results of the metrics analysis showed that the three non–vegetative land cover types in the three landscapes were highly suitable for serving as rainwater harvesting sites. Furthermore, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to prioritize the fitness of the three target sites by comparing their landscape metrics. Results of AHP indicate that the non-vegetative land cover in the WS 104 landscape was the most suitable site for rainwater harvesting intervention, based on its dominance, connectivity, shape, and low degree of fragmentation. Our study advances the water harvesting network design by considering its landscape spatial pattern.


We describe a system that detects independently moving objects from a mobile platform in real time using a calibrated stereo camera. Interest points are first detected and tracked through the images. These tracks are used to obtain the motion of the platform by using an efficient three-point algorithm in a RANSAC framework for outlier detection. We use a formulation based on disparity space for our inlier computation. In the disparity space, two disparity images of a rigid object are related by a homography that depends on the object's euclidean rigid motion. We use the homography obtained from the camera motion to detect the independently moving objects from the disparity maps obtained by an efficient stereo algorithm. Our system is able to reliably detect the independently moving objects at 16 Hz for a 320 x 240 stereo image sequence using a standard laptop computer.


The Industrial applications based on the Wireless Sensor Networks demands the most efficient techniques for monitoring, controlling and alerting mechanisms with low cost, less power and memory consumption. The dynamic Run-time Reconfigurations in the applications will cater the needs by adding new functionality or replacing an existing functionality with a new one, without having to physically reach the individual node. The component based embedded systems demonstrates the technique of remote monitoring and runtime reconfigurations in an industrial processes. The model is designed with the Renesas (R5F100LE) board. The RL78 controller monitors the threshold values of temperature, voltage and over load conditions. The data retrieval and storage is done through the Amazon Web Server (AWS cloud).


Despite treaty agreements and Native focused health efforts, health disparities among American Indians and Native Hawaiians (AIINH) have persisted for decades as federal, state, and tribal efforts to address them have waxed and waned. These disparities are even more pronounced among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals . The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established that LGBT people experience, over a lifetime, an array of health issues such as victimiza tion, violence, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, HIV, stigma, and dis crimination and have recommended that an agenda be enacted that will "assist NIH in enhancing its research efforts in the area of LGBT health . . . and advance understanding of LGBT health" (National Institute of Medicine [NIM] , 20 1 1 , p. 6). The need to understand the variation found among LGBT people is vital and many have made a call to address this lack of information and to help close the health disparity gap (Lombardi, 20 10 ; NIM, 20 1 1 ) . In an effort to add to the literature and, more impor tantly, to provide information on how to better serve and improve the health of American Indian and Native Hawaiian transgender people, this study identified key health research needs . The term trans gender is complex and has a number of meanings but generally it describes "people who have gender identities , expressions, or behaviors not traditionally associated with their birth sex" (Mayer et aI, 2008, p. 990) and may include cross-dressers, transvestites, transgender ists, drag queenslkings and other gender variant identities. Among All NH people there are regionally specific terms for trans gender that may include cultural terms such as mahu, mahuwahine, mahukane, winkte, heyoka, midleehi, ditbah, and the contemporary term two-spirit (Roscoe, 1 998) . It is important to note that the trans gender term is evolving and varies by region and individual .


Social networking applications are a treasure trove for forensic examiners. The amount of potential evidence that they hold could sway the course of any investigation. However, the large number of mobile operating systems, their continuous updates, and the constant emergence of new social networking applications in the market, create challenges for forensic practitioners today. This paper hopes to alleviate some of those challenges by conducting a forensic analysis on two popular social networking applications; Instagram and Path on an iPhone 5s mobile device. The analysis process consisted of installing both applications on the device, performing common user activities via these applications, obtaining a forensically sound logical image of the device, and finally conducting manual- and automatic (for result verification)-forensic analysis on the acquired image. The ultimate goal of the analysis was to determine whether the activities conducted through these applications are stored on the mobile device's internal memory or not. The test results show that a portion of the activities is indeed stored in the internal memory. Therefore, the significance, extent, and locations of the stored information were all determined and documented in this paper.


Oldham Council is investing £21 million in two new leisure centres in Oldham and Royton . Due to open in 2015, the centres are being constructed by Wilmott Dixon.


Species of the tropical gobiid genus Gnatholepis have been misidentified and confused for many years. A gobionelline, Gnatholepis is the only strictly marine genus of that subfamily. Gnatholepis was reviewed from a morphological view-point, as recent publications distinguishing species (morphologically and genetically) have not always been in agreement.The genus is considered to include nine described species, with two distinctive sister-taxa (G. argus and G. gymnocara) and seven less easily distinguished taxa: one species-group formed by G. anjerensis, G. knighti, G. ophthalmotaenia and G. yoshinoi and another species-group of G. cauerensis, G. pascuensis and G. thompsoni. Of these, the G. cauerensis spe-cies-group is the most complex, with several subspecies-names available. There is also a distinctive taxon from the Red Sea that represents a new species, described herein.


My purpose in this paper is to show that the relations between law and politics are of a contingent nature and not conceptual in character. The paper begins with a reference to the debate between legal positivism and natural law doctrine, since this is the starting point of recent debates on the connections that law has with politics. Then, I examine two famous neo-iusnaturalist explanations in order to show how the supposed conceptual nexus between law and moral has been pursued. In order to argue for my position on the relations between law and politics, I rely on the conception of Hans Kelsen regarding legal norm, on his ideas that political relativism characterizes democracy and absolutism characterizes autocracy, and on his treatment of the notion of justice. I also take some hints from the concept of ends in law of Rudolf Stammler as well as from the conception of the transcendental ethics of Hermann Cohen. To summarize, what the reader will find in the paper is a defense of a Neo-Kantian inspired understanding of the relations that law has with politics.


The Personalized Electronic Health Record System for Monitoring Patients with Chronic Disease (PEHRS-MPCD) is designed to permit tracking and monitoring of the symptoms of patients with chronic disease and provide healthcare professionals with data on patients' lifestyle changes, medication (drug) changes, diet changes and symptom changes. The current method of assessing the symptoms of patients with chronic disease uses an episodic approach that includes phone calls to the patient, paper surveys of health status and on-site examinations. A preventative approach that can actively involve the patient, monitor multiple conditions and provide real time information about a patient's health condition is proven to be effective in chronic disease care. PEHRS-MPCD is designed to continually monitor patients. The goal of the application is to continuously gain and provide patients' information to themselves and healthcare professionals in-order to improve the efficiency of the diagnosis and timely intervention which would yield better quality of care and quality of life for the patient. This personalized electronic health record system (PEHRS-MPCD) will be objective in providing feedback about patient lifestyle changes and choices, and in channeling this information to healthcare providers. PEHRS-MPCD would (a) allow for relevant data to be entered by the patient, (b) make relevant data available to patient's care provider, at real-time and at doctor's visit, (c) generate reports and graphs for the data and (d) provide secure storage of the data. PEHRS-MPCD is a work in progress as a lot of its functionalities and user interface design are still being amended. This paper describes the purpose, need and design of the application.