Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a well-known problem in the field of autonomous mobile robotics where a robot needs to localize itself in unknown environments by processing onboard sensors without external referencing systems such as Global Positioning System (GPS). In this work, we present a visual featurebased SLAM, which is able to produce high-quality tridimensional maps in real time with a low-cost RGB-D camera such as the Microsoft Kinect. It is suitable for future planning or common robot navigation tasks. First, a comprehensive performance evaluation of the combination of different state-of-the-art feature detectors and descriptors is presented. The main purpose behind these evaluations is to determine the best detectordescriptor algorithm combination to use for robot navigation. Second, we use the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm to get the relative motion between consecutive frames and then refine the pose estimate following the composition rule. However, the spatial distribution and resolution of depth data affect the performance of 3D scene reconstruction based on ICP. Due to this, we propose an adaptive architecture which computes the pose estimate from the most reliable measurements in a given environment. We evaluate our approach extensively on common available benchmark datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that our system can robustly deal with challenging scenarios while being fast enough for online applications.


In their 30-year update to Limits to Growth, Meadows et al. call for a vision of sustainable development that includes systemic change brought on by new perspectives on the purpose of development, new ways of measuring progress, and changes in social norms. Here, I discuss Meadows et al.'s work in the context of the literature on sustainable development and well-being as well as the development trajectory of Bhutan. I suggest that Bhutan's development approach mirrors Meadows et al.'s recommendations and provides one model for sustainable development. The ideal of maximizing Gross National Happiness (GNH) exemplifies Bhutan's commitment to holistic development and dovetails with arguments about the shortcomings of approaches that emphasize economic growth. I provide examples of how GNH has been put into practice, describe how happiness is being measured, and discuss the emergence of social norms and a shared Bhutanese identity that may contribute to sustainable development. Bhutan's development success suggests that an alternative to growth-centric development is viable. However, while Bhutan's standard of living has increased, the country faces challenges, the most important of which may be their ability to manage rising consumption levels. Importantly, other nations have begun measuring well-being and considering similar development approaches.


AIM: To evaluate the bactericidal effect of Er:YAG laser radiation on Enterococcus faecalis in experimentally infected root canals.METHODS: 130 extracted single-rooted human teeth with radiologically straight root canal were collected.After root canal preparation and sterilization,the root canals were inoculated with Enterococcus faecalis for 4 weeks.Then the were teeth randomly divided into 4 groups and received the treatment of Er:YAG laser + 52.5 g/L sodium hypochlorite(NaClO) +9 g/L normal saline(NS) + distilled water(Er:YAG/NaClO),Er:YAG laser +9 g/L NS + distilled water(Er:YAG/NS),52.5 g/L NaClO and 9 g/L NS(NaClO),respectively.The numbers of bacteria on the surface of root canal walls at different depths(0~100,100~200,200~300 μm) inside dentinal tubules were counted before and after treatment,data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance(one-way ANOVA).RESULTS: The bactericidal efficiencies of Er:YAG/NaClO,Er:YAG/NS and 52.5 g/L NaClO were significantly higher than that of 9 g/L NS.However,only Er:YAG/NaClO group showed no bacterial growth(bactericidal efficiency reached up to 100%) on the surface of root canal walls and at the depth of 100~200μm inside the dentinal tubules.CONCLUSION: Er:YAG laser + 52.5 g/L NaClO +9 g/L NS + distilled water may achieve strong bactericidal effect on Enterococcus faecalis.


Since founding the firm of Pyatok Associates in 1985, Michael Pyatok has entered seven design competitions, winning first place in five and finishing second in another. Five of these were related to multifamily housing. This article examines these housing competitions in light of an office practice specializing in affordable housing and frames the discussion within the broader context of the national political economy. It evaluates the utility of housing competitions for generating design innovations and offers a critique to make them more relevant both to community needs and to the exigencies of professional practice.


The Walsh-Hadamard transform plays a major role in many image and video coding algorithms. In one hand, its intensive use in these algorithms makes its acceleration a challenge, in order to speed-up the algorithm execution. On the other hand, the available fast implementations are not efficient across different platforms. In this work, a parallel-based implementation of the WHT is proposed for CPU and GPU platforms using the OpenCL standard. OpenCL achieves portability at code level, but its performance suffers when the same code is used for CPUs and GPUs. To achieve top performance, we propose two WHT versions: OpenCL-GPU for GPUs and OpenCL-CPU for CPUs. Broadly, OpenCL-GPU executed on a GPU runs faster than OpenCL-CPU executed on a multicore CPU, with speedups that range from 120.87 to 1016.35. However, OpenCL-GPU performance drops substantially when ran on a multicore CPU machine, where OpenCL-CPU achieves higher performance, as it exploits the OpenCL support for SIMD instructions.


This month marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of ACM. The computing field has changed enormously since 1947, and yet in some ways it seems hardly to have changed at all. Computers conveyed a message of excitement then, and they still do. Programming remains a field of intellectual endeavor that challenges our ingenuity. Despite all the talk of automatic programming and artificial intelligence, the world needs as many professional programmers as it ever did. Despite all the work on program verification, software methodologies, and higher level languages, we still cannot write large programs that work perfectly the first time they run. ACM has changed with the times, and in some ways it has come full circle. In 1947 computing was dominated by people whose primary field was something else, most often mathematics or electronic engineering. Many of ACM's early presidents were prominent in physics, applied mathematics, or numerical analysis. Computer science departments did not exist, nor did computer science as a field of study. In the intervening years, computing came to be dominated by people for whom computing was their primary profession, and ACM came to be dominated by academic computer scientists. In 1987 we can see the reemergence of users-those whose primary field is not computing-as a vital part of the computing milieu. Physicists have become experts on supercomputers; video artists have become experts on computer graphics; financial analysts have become experts on spreadsheets. Within ACM, practitioners have again become dominant, particularly in governance. Of the last seven ACM presidents, only one was a full-time academic during his tenure. As I argued in an earlier "President's Letter," the dominance of practitioners will prove a destructive trend if it leads to the neglect of the interests of academic computer scientists within ACM. It is vital for the health of ACM that both communities be well served, and one of ACM's accomplishments has been to promote the interaction between these two communities. This issue of Communications is part of our anniversary celebration. It includes profiles of three recipients of the Grace Murray Hopper Award: Donald E. Knuth, Brian K. Reid, and Allan L. Scherr. The Hopper Award is given each year to a computer scientist in recognition of outstanding technical achievement accomplished before the age of 30. It is named for that utterly unique Lady of the Navy and of Computing, Retired Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper. Other articles in this issue also emphasize the history of ACM. Mina Rees's 1982 article on the Computing Program of ONR is reprinted in full, with an introduction by Rees herself. This is not the first major anniversary for ACM, and so this issue also reprints two previous retrospectives: a 15-year retrospective written by Franz L. Alt in 1962, and a 25-year retrospective written by Lee Revens in 1972. To bring us upto-date, the issue further includes a history of the past 15 years written by Anita Cochran, who also happens to be chairman of the Fortieth Anniversary Committee, and a personal retrospective and "Self-Assessment Procedure" on ACM, written by Eric A. Weiss. Finally, 1 want to let you know of another aspect of our 40th-anniversary celebration: a special session on the history of ACM to be held at the Fall joint Computer Conference in Dallas on the afternoon of October 27. The session will be chaired by Walter Carlson. president of ACM from 1970 to 1972. Following the session, there will be a public reception for the three living founders of ACM, Edmund C. Berkeley, Robert Campbell, and Harry Goheen, and for the earliest living president of ACM, Franz Alt. I hope many of you will be able to join us there.


Predicated execution as required in Modulo Scheduling technique for parallelizing innermost loops with conditional statements is examined. We obtain an improved semantics for predicate operations together with an optimal and efficient algorithm for their use.


The sixth-century AD Petra Papyri indicate the existence of a wealthy land-owning class in Petra, Jordan. To see whether this situation is reflected in archaeological data, the evidence of rural settlement in the Petra region between the first and early seventh century AD is reviewed. The results indicate that after the expansion of sedentary life in the first century AD, rural settlement began to contract by the third century. The decline continued through the fourth century. The settlement pattern that emerges in the fifth century AD is that of nucleated agricultural villages and towns. This development is seen as related to the profound economic change in the region brought about by the cessation of interregional trade through Petra.


Pasteuriapenetrans is an obligate parasite of root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne spp. and has been identified as a promising biocontrol agent for suppressing these economically important agronomic crop pests. Soil is a dynamic natural resource. It forms a thin cover of unconsolidated minerals and organic matter on earth's surface and functions to maintain the ecosystems on which all life depends. The Paste urea group of gram-positive, endospore-forming bacteria ishyperparasites of nematodes and they are an example of disease producing bacteria. All the economically important genera of phytonematodes have an association with these bacteria. Potentials of Pasteuriapenetrans and close bacterial nematode parasites are reviewed. Several aspects concerning the identification and recognition of P. penetrans are discussed, with description of the bacterium's life cycle, biology, host range and specificity. The application of traditional and molecular taxonomic methods for the identification of isolates and species as well as the available technologies for in vivo and in vitro mass culture is also reviewed. Keywords : Biological Control, Pasteuriapenetrans, Nematodes.


Self-improvement is analysed with the data collected from the special course. What is described, are the self-improvement research programs of the psychology department students. The student self-improvement is given in variety of forms. What is described, are the levels and stages of the self-improvement. Conclusions about the importance of the self-improvement as a vital strategy for the individual are made.


Based on an analysis of the background, purposes, principles, target, main systems and implementation difficulties of China's renewable energy law, this paper maintains that the Renewable Sources of Energy Act marks the dawn of a new era in the development of renewable sources of energy, especially of the industrialization in China. However, it is uncertain whether the Act will mold a bright future for China's renewable sources of energy. Therefore, there is still room to improve the Act in its contents and forms.


'˜displayed'discursive registers in the public space in abidjan:
considerations, chatting, admin and other stories
Using interviews with city employees in Abidjan (Ivory Coast, 1996-97)
which discussed the occupation of the public domain and space, the article analyses the grouping and categorising of discourse by speakers. Two
opposing fields of practice and discourse are identified, in speakers' storytelling and description : the space of '˜functional'social relationships
(administrative procedures for using parts of thoroughfares and reserving market stall positions) and the space of '˜personal'or community
social relationships (helping ancestors or descendants, family members,
villagers, etc.). These groupings are '˜displayed'discourse registers, which
actors recognise in their practices and enunciative positions. These groupings of practice and discourse (legal procedures and customary procedures) are diametrically opposed or complementary, or are insoluble and
thus make it impossible to '˜work'. The groupings and the social categorisations they create are designated by differenciated terms : . on one
side law, legality, administrative procedures, papers, documents, director, service, town or village hall, etc, and on the other considerations,
chatting, stories, files on conflicts, younger brothers, friends, etc. As far
as a conflict of legitimacy can be discerned, the dominant legitimacy
for referring to municipal employees' activity is always legality and the
inhabitants. The way various speakers manage these opposing registers
and legitimacies allows one to identify a field of social practice which is
relatively widespread in Ivory Coast.


The central claim of the book is that property is a universal and uniquely human custom. Contra cultural relativists, every human society has property tools, utensils, and ornaments. Contra biologists, only Homo sapiens has property in things other than food, mates, and territories. Contra philosophers and legal scholars, the bedrock of property is custom, not rights. Contra social scientists and ordinary people, property is indeed a custom and not something that must be instituted by government. Property operates at the three levels. At the micro-level core of property is an organism that perceives the physical world through its body. The meso-level of property is the community within which the organism resides. At the macro-level of property are the institutions that unite strangers of different communities through the modern democratic concept of rights. Whereas the custom of property is ancient, moral, and universal to all people, property rights are modern, amoral, and majoritarian.


Users make frequent use of Web search for learning-related tasks, but little is known about how different Web search interaction strategies affect outcomes for learning-oriented tasks, or what implicit or explicit indicators could reliably be used to assess search-related learning on the Web. We describe a lab-based user study in which we investigated potential indicators of learning in web searching, effective query strategies for learning, and the relationship between search behavior and learning outcomes. Using questionnaires, analysis of written responses to knowledge prompts, and search log data, we found that searchers' perceived learning outcomes closely matched their actual learning outcomes; that the amount searchers wrote in post-search questionnaire responses was highly correlated with their cognitive learning scores; and that the time searchers spent per document while searching was also highly and consistently correlated with higher-level cognitive learning scores. We also found that of the three query interaction conditions we applied, an intrinsically diverse presentation of results was associated with the highest percentage of users achieving combined factual and conceptual knowledge gains. Our study provides deeper insight into which aspects of search interaction are most effective for supporting superior learning outcomes, and the difficult problem of how learning may be assessed effectively during Web search.


This paper presents a complete base-band chain for WLAN applications in 1.4 V 90 nm CMOS. The chain consists of a 6/sup th/ order elliptic Gm-C 10/100 MHz filter and five VGA stages. The design is DC-offset free and uses optimized transconductance for linearity and low-voltage operation. Moreover, the integrators in the filter are compensated for losses through a frequency transformation. The IIP3 is 2 dBm at 13.5 dB minimum gain, while dissipating 13.5 mW.


Success of a stripd bass (Morone saxatilis, Walbaum) stocking program in the Biloxi Bay and St. Louis Bay systems in Mississippi was investigated by monitoring the Occurrence of juveniles in bag seine collections in the Biloxi, Tchouticabouffa, Jourdan, and Wolf Rivers. A total of 554 juvenile striped bass were collected during the study. Hydrographic data and stomach analyses indicate that neither water conditions nor food was a limiting factor to juvenile striped bass survival. Appearance of juveniles subsequent to the stocking of Atlantic coast fry and lingerlings coupled with lateral line scale count data indicate that all juveniles collected were of Atlantic coast origin, originating from stocked fry and fingerlings. Absence of juvenile striped bass in samples when stocking did not take place indicates either


Sixteen patients with advanced cancer were given medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA),* 600 mg intramuscularly weekly for 4–8 weeks. Fourteen of 16 patients developed significant lowering of serum LH levels after MPA. All 5 male patients developed significant decline in serum testosterone levels after MPA. Seven of 16 patients developed significant lowering of urinary estrogen levels after MPA, but 6 patients developed substantial increases in urinary estrogen after treatment, suggesting that MPA, like testosterone, may be converted to estrogen in vivo. All 3 patients who showed antitumor response had significant decreases in urinary estrogen secretion after MPA treatment. Eleven of 16 patients developed striking depression of serum cortisol after 8 weeks of MPA, but there was no decline in serum cortisol in 4 patients studied after 4 weeks. The metyrapone test was abnormal in 5/5, the ACTH stimulation test was abnormal in 3/5, and the water excretion test was abnormal in 2/5 patients who developed low serum cortisol after MPA. T' declined slightly in most patients after MPA but dipped to hypothyroid ranges in only 1 patient.


Conceptions of relative degree and minimum phase are connected to many control problems. To apply it, one needs to know an input which renders an affine system minimum phase. We present necessary and sufficient conditions of the existence of such outputs and discuss its relations with backstepping method of stabilization. In the case of more than one relative degree, the obtained conditions result in the new setting of the stabilization problem.


Review(s) of: Me, Myself and Prague: An Unreliable Guide to Bohemia, by Rachael Weiss, A&U, $24.95 tpb, ISBN 9781741148206, March.


PURPOSE
Small fields are frequently used in proton beam therapy for radiosurgery and patch-fields. Characterization of such fields requires small detectors. However, proper corrections such as ion recombination (Pion) and polarity (Ppol) need to be evaluated in proton beam which is the subject of this study.

METHODS
Five microchambers from 3 different vendors (PTW: pinpoint; Standard imaging: A16, A14SL and IBA: CC01 and CC4) were evaluated. Proton reference condition (range-16 cm, SOBP 10 cm, 10x10cm2 field) was used for the measurements. All measurements were taken in a water phantom using dedicated cable and electrometers. Pion and Ppol were measured for various dose rates (beam current ranging from 0.2 nA to 8 nA).

RESULTS
The readings versus voltage for most microchambers are relatively linear and do not change much. Our results indicate that all microchambers can be safely used in lower voltage range (100-300V) except A14SL where signal is abnormal. The data for Pion can be fitted for pulsed or continuous beam that are produced from Cyclotron at very high frequency. It is obvious that proton beam can be categorized by either of these beams and Pion calculated by either equation provides values that are within experimental uncertainty (0.4%). The magnitude of Pion is nearly identical to that of the photon beams. The dose rate change up to 16 fold does not have any effect on Pion for most chambers. The Ppol values are 1.017, 0.989, 1.005, 0.995 and 0.998 for pinpoint, A16, A14SL, CC01 and CC4 chambers respectively.

CONCLUSION
It is concluded that for microchambers 100-300V provide satisfactory reading with minimal (<0.5%) recombination effect. Polarity effect is also in the same order of magnitude as that of the other radiation beam. Except A14SL most microchambers are well suited for small field dosimetry in proton beam.


Buildings slogans can not only reflect the cultural characteristics of cities,but also play a very important role on the exhibition and promotion of buildings. This thesis aims to find out all the essential elements as well as principles in an excellent building slogan through a rhetorical analysis on phonetics,vocabulary and grammar.


Objectives. To characterize the services and activities performed by anticoagulation clinics (ACCs) across the United States, examine the anticipated impact that oral direct thrombin inhibitors (DTIs) will have on the clinical services of ACCs, and elicit possible management strategies to realign services provided by ACCs and opportunities for restructuring clinical services.


Children with developmental disabilities, for example, cerebral palsy, are thought to have a higher risk of asthma or other breathing-related issues.


The crystallographic polarity along the [0001] direction of wurtzite CdS single crystals was determined by ion scattering. The energy distributions of 2‐keV He+ ions scattered from the polar surfaces of CdS show this method to be very sensitive for distinguishing between the (0001)Cd and (0001)S face.


Scorpion neurotoxin from Buthus martensii Karsch has been isolated previously in our laboratory. In this study we constructed two recombinant plasmids using expression -vector pBV221 and pExSec1(-szz)to express the toxin in E.coli. The expression of both constructs was detected by SDS-PAGE.


From the Publisher:
The Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications Three-Volume Set covers one of the "hottest" subjects in today's intersection of Applied Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. The uniqueness of the set is that it is very applications-oriented. Examples of applications in different fields of modern science are particularly emphasized. In addition, three CD-ROMs are included, providing a rich collection of interactive software, image material, and other resources.


Full of vivid animal figures,Albee's plays are rich in metaphor.Applying archetypal criticism,this paper presents a comprehensive study of the various animal figures like dog,cat,sea lizard,and goat in Albee's works,such as The Zoo Story,A Delicate Balance,Seascape and Goat,or Who's Sylvia.Penetrating the collective unconsciousness under each animal image,it reveals Albee's archetypal animal figures.Meanwhile,by using the animal metaphor to explain the human existence,the paper cogently proves Albee's major critical theme:the false security is a kind of death.


Shared buffer is commonly used to utilize the buffer in the switch. In order to minimize the cell lost of high class traffic in multi-class switch, the threshold is set to drop the low class cells in the shared buffer. This will give more space to accommodate the high class traffic cells. In this paper, we analyse the performance of shared buffer with different threshold settings. The multi-class shared buffer architecture is developed for 16×16 ports switch, which is targeted for Xilinx FPGA implementation. The performance of the multi-class shared buffer switch is analysed in term of the achievable throughput as well as the drop probability. Based on the simulation with different threshold settings, it is observed that the optimum selection of cell drop threshold depends on the size of the shared buffer that triggers the RAM threshold.


Stereo Particle Image Velocimetry measurements of the flow field around a unity aspect ratio wing with a sinusoidal leading-edge have been carried out at a Reynolds number Re = 140, 000 for two angles of attack, α = 0o and 15o. These measurements are intended to be used for improved computational modeling of the flow employing Detached Eddy Simulations. For this reason, numerical predictions have also been carried out for the mentioned flow cases, using both the "F2-shielded" modeling and the "delayed" modeling approaches for the SST k-ω turbulence model, as well as a reference Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes calculation. The results have demonstrated the superior performance of the "delayed" modeling at high incidence. However, the latter approach unexpectedly fails at low incidence, hence indicating the need for improved boundary layer transition modeling.


GaN-based photonic-crystal membrane nanocavities with Q factors up to 800 have been realized at the wavelength of ∼480nm. The tuning behavior agrees well with numerical calculations using the finite-difference time-domain method. Theoretically, the lowest energy mode of a cavity that consists of seven missing holes in the Γ-K direction promises a Q factor as high as 4×104 with a mode volume of about 1.3×(λ∕n)3.GaN-based photonic-crystal membrane nanocavities with Q factors up to 800 have been realized at the wavelength of ∼480nm. The tuning behavior agrees well with numerical calculations using the finite-difference time-domain method. Theoretically, the lowest energy mode of a cavity that consists of seven missing holes in the Γ-K direction promises a Q factor as high as 4×104 with a mode volume of about 1.3×(λ∕n)3.


Leprosy is an infectious and non-fatal disease that mainly involved skin and peripheral nervous system and caused by Mycobacterium Lepra. This case is a 41-year-old woman with intermittent nasal bleeding and a mass (1.5×2.5 cm) in the right side of lateral nasal wall and a (1×1 cm) mass on septum in the left side of the nose. Considering the probability of intranasal tumor, endoscopic biopsy for histopathologic examination had been done and the result confirmed the diagnosis of leprosy. After unexpected proving of pathologic leprelepromatose, the patient put under 3-drug- treatment.


Now that there is a common mental health problem among the university students,the mass organizations in institutions of higher learning making use of their own advantages,may actively instruct the university susdents′ to overcome their mental obstruction.The article has analyzed the functions of psychological instruction of the mass organization in the institutions of higher learning from the perspective of the group psychological tendency,and put forward some suggestions on how to strentghen the mass organizations so that the position for psychological education can be establisbed.


We depict the case of a patient who progressively develops a motor deficit and respiratory failure, which eventually proves to be botulinus intoxication, after a series of puzzling results of various investigations leading to a different diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATIONS CASE PRESENTATION The patient, aged 31, with no preceding significantly personal pathology, was admitted in a regional hospital for an onset of "blurred" vision, followed by diplopia, nausea, vomiting, shivering, fever, approximately 12 hours after having eaten – along with his family - fish, sweets, and no alcoholic drinks, followed by a physical effort. Subsequently the patient's status worsened by the occurrence of lower limb muscular weakness (the patient could not sit or stand up without help) then respiratory failure, which required orotracheal intubation and temporary assisted mechanical ventilation. A botulinus intoxication was suspected, and he received a dose of antibotulinus serum. During the hospitalisation the patient was given corticosteroids, anticholinesterase drugs, antibiotics (cephalosporin, amino glycosides), with progressive recovery of the respiratory function during a week and a partial recovery of the motor deficit. Testing for seric botulinus toxin was negative. To mention that the tests were performed only for types A, B and D of botulinus toxin. At this moment the patient was referred to our hospital with the suspicion of myasthenia gravis. The physical examination revealed fixed mydriasis, lower limb hypotonia with decreased deep tendon reflexes , low blood pressure, bradicardia, constipation. There were no ocular movement disturbances, no deglutition impairment nor sensory impairment, but the patient complained of increased fatigability even on the smallest physical effort.


The behavior of transferred-electron bulk negative differential conductivity devices with nonuniform geometries and various doping profiles is analyzed. Computer solutions were obtained for appropriate transport equations generalized by a scheme to simulate arbitrary areal variation. The solutions show that the effects of doping and geometrical nonuniformities on domain dynamics are similar. The product of doping and transverse area plays an important role in determining the space-charge properties. An important practical implication of the above result is demonstrated by a scheme for device design using combinations of geometrical and doping nonuniformities to achieve a desired control characteristic. Various equivalent device configurations yielding a linear frequency-voltage characteristic over a wide frequency range are proposed.


In order to investigate the effect of deficit irrigation and chemical fertilizers on yield and some physiological traits of quinoa an experiment was conducted in 2019 as split plot based on a randomized complete block design in two locations (Mashhad and Neishabour). Irrigation included, I0: full irrigation, I1: no irrigation at emergence stage, I2: no irrigation at stem elongation stage, I3: no irrigation at flowering stage, I4: no irrigation at seed setting stage. Fertilizer treatments included control (no fertilizer application); chemical fertilizer application according to local practices; manure application of 10 tons; and manure application of 20 tons per hectare. In general, seed yield, percentage of protein and seed oil in Mashhad was higher than in Neishabour. I2 treatment had the least negative effect on relative leaf water content. Application of chemical fertilizers, 10 tons and 20 tons of animal manure increased the percent of seed protein by 1.43, 1.66 and 2.37 compared to the control, respectively. The highest percentage of seed oil (5.91%) was obtained for treatment I2 in Mashhad and the lowest percentage of seed oil (4.18%) was obtained for treatment I4 in Neishabour. The lowest seed yield due to I1 treatment was observed in Neishabour and the highest seed yield was related to I0 treatment with 20 tons of manure and was observed in Mashhad. The results showed that the yield and water stress tolerance potential of quinoa can be modified by irrigation, fertilizer source and location.


We have used high-resolution images obtained with JunoCam onboard the Juno spacecraft during its close flyby of Jupiter on 2017 July 11, to study the dynamics of the Great Red Spot (GRS) at the upper cloud level. We have measured the horizontal velocity and vorticity fields using the clouds as tracers of the flow. We have analyzed a variety of cloud morphologies that serve to characterize different underlying dynamic processes. Long undulating dark gray filaments (2000–10000 km) circulate around the outer part of the vortex moving at high speed (∼120–140 m s−1) where mesoscale waves (wavelength 75 km) indicate stable conditions in this region. At mid distance from the center, a large eddy (radius ∼500 km) is observed in a region of intense horizontal wind shear whereas on the opposite side, compact cloud clusters with cell sizes of ∼50 km, indicative of shallow convection, are observed. The core of the GRS (∼5000 × 3000 km2) is turbulent where the circulation has weakly cyclonic and anticyclonic regions. This variety of phenomena occurs in the upper ammonia cloud layer and haze (thickness ∼20–50 km) that represents the top of a dynamical system with a much deeper circulation.


This article embarks from the debt management basic meaning,elaborated the debt management positive role firstly,because,our country special financing environment has expounded the enterprise debt management necessity;finally,combine with the risk and acquit of managed in debt,started risk early warning analysis of managed in debt,to choose has grasped the debt the quantity with,established the most advantageous capital structure and soon five aspects to carry on the detailed elaboration to the debt management risk guard countermeasure.


Abstract The functions of a large number of genes, including gene families with domains of unknown functions (DUF), still remain unclear. In this study, we analyzed four members of OsDUF1664 (OsDUF1664.1-OsDUF1664.4) in rice Nipponbare. By phylogenetic analysis, DUF1664 members in rice and Arabidopsis were classified into three major groups (I, II, III). Under drought conditions, the expression level of OsDUF1664.3 in rice was significantly elevated. Overexpression of OsDUF1664.3 in Escherichia coli led to a significant enhancement of catalase (CAT) and peroxidase (POD) activities, and improved bacterial resistance to drought. The results of this study will provide important information for further study of the function of the OsDUF1664 family in rice.


In today's world, man largely communicates through the Internet what happens over wireless networks, whether it's happening in the user's own home or in a public place. Along with wireless networks, the benefits of using it also come with disadvantages. To access wireless networks, you must use a computer and have Internet access. The paper presents the percentage of access to a personal computer and the percentage of internet access also analyzed the types of attacks on wireless networks. The last part of the paper provides an overview of a number of laws and regulations in the Republic of Croatia relating to the information society and legal infrastructure, and legal regulation that binds directly to wireless networks is presented.


At the recent CGIAR Livestock Fish Mega Program consultation, David Nyagaka from Novus International argued that the private sector has an important role to play: Once it gets hold of technologies, it can convert them into something tangible which the farmers would be able to use. However, care is needed in approaching the private sector. He was speaking in the margins of the CGIAR Livestock Fish Mega Program stakeholder consultation meeting in Addis Ababa, 24 and 25 August 2010.


OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of safety, feasibility, and efficacy of oral administered glycine in prevention of angiographic restenosis six months after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). BACKGROUND: The amino acid glycine modulates immunological response and enhances the production of endothelial derived nitric oxide (EDNO) factor. This factor has been shown to possess anti‐atherosclerotic properties, actions of which are thought to reduce neo‐intimal hyperplasia. Furthermore, glycine significantly elevates arginine serum levels. This amino acid has been extensively studied for its effects on the endothelium, nitric oxide (NO) metabolism and effects on several biochemical pathways interfering with the process of restenosis after PCI. METHODS: A prospective double blind placebo controlled randomized study evaluated safety and feasibility of chronic oral administration of glycine. In addition, the efficacy was determined by evaluation of six months angiographic restenosis rates. RESULTS: 214 patients scheduled for elective PCI were randomized to receive glycine or placebo. At follow‐up, there was no significant difference in side effects and in major adverse cardiac events (MACE) between both groups. Six‐month angiograms revealed similar restenosis rates for the glycine group (17.5%) and for the placebo group (20.2%) (P = 0.82). CONCLUSION: Chronic oral administration of glycine was safe and feasible and had similar side effects compared to placebo. However, chronic oral administration of glycine did not lead to a significant reduction in restenosis rates at six months after elective PCI.


Recent reports have increased our knowledge of the consecutive steps during 60S ribosome biogenesis substantially, but 40S subunit formation is less well understood. Here, we investigate the maturation of nucleolar 90S pre‐ribosomes into cytoplasmic 40S pre‐ribosomes. During the transition from 90S to 40S particles, the majority of non‐ribosomal proteins (∼30 species) dissociate, and significantly fewer factors associate with 40S pre‐ribosomes. Notably, some of these components are part of both early 90S and intermediate 40S pre‐particles in the nucleolus (e.g. Enp1p, Dim1p and Rrp12p), whereas others (e.g. Rio2p and Nob1p) are found mainly on late cytoplasmic pre‐40S subunits. Finally, temperature‐sensitive mutants mapping either in earlier (enp1‐1) or later (rio2‐1) components exhibit defects in the formation and nuclear export of pre‐40S subunits. Our data provide an initial biochemical map of the pre‐40S ribosomal subunit on its path from the nucleolus to the cytoplasm. This pathway involves fewer changes in composition than seen during 60S biogenesis.


Many high-performance components having complicated geometrical features nowadays are made by 3D printing (AM). 3D printing is also known as additive manufacturing (AM). titanium alloys. Many high-performance components made out of titanium alloys are used in the manufacture of simple components to complicated turbine components such as turbine blades. The main reason for selecting titanium alloys in the manufacture of highperformance components because, they are very light, have good tensile strength, and excellent resistance to corrosion. Titanium alloys have the capability of maintaining their properties at elevated temperatures. This makes them suitable for the manufacture of components that operates at high temperatures. Many components in the aircraft industry are being made by using titanium alloys. An attempt has been made in this research work for exploring the types of titanium alloys, types of the additive manufacturing process, microstructure, properties, and applications of titanium alloys. This research paper not only attempts in presenting the current literature but also provides future directions. Thus, it is valuable for both academicians and practitioners who would like to pursue research in this field.


In this work1, we propose a novel approach for image categorization, which we will refer to as Bag-of-Scenes (BoS). It is based on the association of Sparse coding (Sc) and pooling techniques applied to histograms of multi-scale Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and its improved variant. This approach can be considered as a 2-layer hierarchical architecture. The first layer, encodes general local patch's structure via histograms of LBP, and the second, encodes the relationships between pre-analyzed LBP-scenes. Our method outperforms SIFT-based approaches using Sc techniques and can be trained efficiently with a simple linear SVM. Our BoS method achieves 87.02%, 87.71% and 79.05% of accuracy for Scene-15, UIUC-Sport and Caltech101 datasets respectively.


The aim of the study was to explore the difference among high emotional intelligent and low emotional intelligent people on Achievement motivation and difference among male & female on Achievement motivation. For this study 80 students were selected from Aurangabad city. In this study emotional intelligence scale constructed by Hyde, Pethe and Dhar used for classification of high & low emotional intelligent people. The Achievement motivation of Deo, Mohan is used for data collection. Mean, S.D. and t test are used for data analysis. There is significant difference of high and low emotional intelligent people on achievement motivation and there is also significant difference of male & female on achievement motivation.


: One of the most impressive finding in the field of chemoprevention is to prevent the occurrence of cancer by modulating the biotransformation of carcinogens. Our study was designed to elucidate the possible mechanism of chemoprevention by Gynandropsis gynandra through the biotransformation of unmetabolized aflatoxin B 1 (AFB 1 ) excretion in urine, distribution in liver by the phase I and phase II detoxification enzymes and the prevention of DNA damage caused by AFB 1 . The animals were pre-treated with the extract of Gynandropsis gynandra for seven days followed by a single injection of AFB 1 dissolved in dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO). The urine samples were collected on days one and three after AFB 1 injection and analyzed for the unmetabolized AFB 1 concentration. On day three after the injection, unmetabolized AFB 1 and GSH content in the liver was measured followed by the activities of Cyt-P 450 , GST and QR. Pretreatment with the drug showed an enhanced rate of unmetabolized AFB 1 excretion in the urine and a diminished distribution in the liver with maintained activities of the phase I and II enzymes. These results indicate that G.gynandra extract affords a potent chemoprevention against AFB 1 through modulating the rate of biotransformation and detoxification and further prevented the DNA damage that was observed in AFB 1 induced male albino rats.


A good discovering trend formed since executing the eleventh "Five-Year Plan" continued in the hydrocarbon exploration offshore China in 2011,during which the new historical high was reached both in exploration expenditure and work,and a series of rich rewards were achieved by knowledge innovation and technology improvement on a basis of paying special attention to basic and regional researches.Besides continuously expanding discoveries in the mature exploration areas,seveval breakthrouths in exploratory fields,such as the lithologic reservoir and gas exploration in Bohai sea,the shallow exploration in the eastern South China Sea,the high-tempetature and high-pressure gas exploration in the western South China Sea and the low porosity and permeability reservoir exploration in East China Sea,were made successively,creating an excellent begining of the twelfth "Five-Year Plan".In this paper,the major work features and results are summarized for the hydrocarbon exploration offshore China in 2011,with these breakthroughs being paticularly reviewed,and some challenges and their solutions are presented for the future exploration.


Verifying the integrity of outsourced data is an important issue in cloud storage. Recently, many integrity verify protocols have been proposed that can support the public verifiability, data dynamics, and privacy against verifiers but involve a third‐party auditor's participation. In this work, we propose a novel identity‐based storage management and integrity verify protocol for secure outsourcing in multi‐cloud. From theoretical analysis and a lot of simulation experiments, we show our proposed protocol is secure and efficient, without using any trusted organizer. Furthermore, the protocol enjoys many important security attributes including prevention of various attacks, user anonymity, local password verification, and so on. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Background: Communication breakdowns are a common cause of adverse events in high consequence industries. It has become increasingly evident that within healthcare systems that poor communication is the causal factor of a large percentage of sentinel events. Methods: All communication exchanges between surgeon and perfusionist were monitored via observation for 18 cardiovascular surgery cases. Breakdowns were analyzed by stage and type of breakdown and a communication protocol designed based on the breakdowns. The protocol was then implemented, and use of the protocol was then monitored for 16 cardiovascular surgery cases. Results: Breakdowns decreased at each stage of cardiovascular surgery. Specific types of breakdowns decreased dramatically, most by more than half. Conclusions: This study shows that protocolizing communication can have a profound impact on communication breakdowns in the cardiovascular surgery operating theatre.


The effects of a wide concentration range of NaCl and sorbitol on three photosynthetic electron transport reactions of Pisum sativum L. cv. Feltham First chloroplasts were examined as a function of time from thylakoid membrane isolation. Rates of electron flow from water to diaminodurene (DAD) and ferricyanide were determined polarographically, whilst photoreduction of 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP) was monitored spectrophotometrically. Assay of thylakoids immediately after isolation showed that the rate of photoreduction of all three electron acceptors decreased with increasing salt concentration. However, 100 min after leaf homogenisation the response pattern of ferricyanide and DCPIP photoreduction to increasing NaCl, but not increasing sorbitol concentration, became significantly modified. This was not the case for DAD photoreduction. The results are discussed in relation to the assessment of the possible effect of salinity on photosynthetic electron transport in vivo.


Background The pandemic of Corona Virus (COVID-19) hit India recently; and the associated uncertainty is increasingly testing psychological resilience of the masses. When the global focus has mostly been on testing, finding a cure and preventing transmission; people are going through a myriad of psychological problems in adjusting to the current lifestyles and fear of the disease. Since there is a severe dearth of researches on this issue, we decided to conduct an online survey to evaluate its psychological impact. Methods From 26th to 29th March an online survey (FEEL-COVID) was conducted using principles of snowballing, and by invitation through text messages to participate. The survey collected data on socio-demographic and clinical variables related to COVID-19 (based on the current knowledge); along with measuring psychological impact with the help of Impact of Event–revised (IES-R) scale. Results There were a total of 1106 responses from around 64 cities in the country. Out of these 453 responses had at least one item missing; and were excluded from the analysis. The mean age of the respondents was around 41 years with a male female ratio of 3:1 and around 22% respondents were health care professionals. Overall approximately one third of respondents had significant psychological impact (IES-R score > 24). Higher psychological impact was predicted with younger age, female gender and comorbid physical illness. Presence of physical symptoms and contact history predicted higher psychological impact, but did not reach statistical significance. Conclusion During the initial stages of COVID-19 in India, almost one-third respondents had a significant psychological impact. This indicates a need for more systematic and longitudinal assessment of psychological needs of the population, which can help the government in formulating holistic interventions for affected individuals.


A recommender system (RS) supports online users in e-commerce by proposing products that are assumed to be both useful and interesting. Knowledge-based recommendation systems form one branch of these online sales support systems that is particularly relevant for high-involvement product domains like consumer electronics, financial services or tourism. A constraintbased RS is a specific variant of a knowledge-based RS that builds on a CSP formalism for problem representation and solving. This article formalizes the different variants of a constraint-based recommendation problem based on consistency and the empirical part compares the performance of different constraint-based recommendation mechanisms in offline experiments on historical data.


The authors show that the spectrogram does, in general, have cross-terms. Depending on the signal structure and the window used, the cross-terms may sometimes be reduced or completely eliminated. If the cross-terms are located far from the origin in the ambiguity domain, they can be easily eliminated. If, however, the cross-terms are located near the origin, it is very difficult to reduce the cross-terms. To explore the mechanism of the cross-terms in the spectrogram, the ambiguity domain interpretation is adopted. Some experimental results are provided to illustrate this mechanism.<<ETX>>


The present study focuses on the problem of mixed convection fl uid fl ow and heat transfer of nanofl uid in a ventilated square cavity. The cavity contains two heated blocks subjected to external Al2O3–water (with particle diameter of 47 nm)nanofl uid, while temperature and nanoparticle concentration are dependent on thermal conductivity and eff ective viscosity insidea square cavity. The governing equations have been solved utilizing the fi nite volume method,while the SIMPLER algorithm is used to couple velocity and pressure fi elds. The natural convection eff ect is obtained by heating from the blocks on the bott om wall and cooling from the inlet fl ow. Using the developed code, the eff ect of Richardson number, the aspect ratio of hot blocks, solid volume fraction, and cavity inclination angles on the thermal behavior and fl uid fl ow inside the cavity are studied. The study has been executed for the Richardson number in the range of 0.1 ≤ Ri ≤ 10, solid volume fraction 0 ≤ φ ≤ 0.06, aspect ratio 0.5 ≤ AR ≤ 1, and cavity inclination angles between 0° and 90°.The obtained results are presented in the form of streamline and isotherm counter and Nusselt diagrams. It was observed from the results that for both obstacles and in all ranges of the parameters in this study, adding nanoparticles to the base fl uid or increasing the volume fraction of the nanoparticles causes the Nusselt number increases. Also, the rate of heat transfer increases when the Reynolds number increases.


Acute retinopathy and vitreous hemorrhage (VH) are very rare ocular manifestations of sarcoidosis. A 42-year-old male patient complained of blurred vision and floaters in his left eye for three weeks. On the ophthalmologic examination, bilateral acute retinopathy and VH were observed. Superotemporal branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO), retinal fibrovascular membrane and VH in the left eye were noted via fundus fluorescein angiography. Mediastinal lymphadenopathies were detected during systemic evaluation of the patient. Transthoracic lymphoid biopsy from the mediastinal region, confirmed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis histologically. Although the patient was treated with oral steroids for sarcoidosis, he underwent pars plana vitrectomy and membranectomy due to progressive VH and tractional fibrovascular membrane. Sarcoidosis should be considered within the differential diagnosis list in patients with bilateral acute retinopathy, BRVO, and VH. Improved outcomes can be achieved through early recognition of the underlying disease and appropriate therapy.


Abstract When a cylindrical probe vibrates laterally in a fluid at a Reynolds number of order 10, a circulatory pattern of flow is established in the fluid near the probe. In a plane transverse to the probe, a symmetric arrangement of four streaming cells is maintained by the probe's vibration. A computational model has shown that inertial particles introduced to such a flow will be attracted to the centers of the streaming cells. We present preliminary experimental data supporting this prediction and outline a strategy whereby particles captured in this way can be transported from place to place as a result of periodic variations in the excitation of a fluid containing two independent probes. Specifically, we model the time-averaged flow around two probes by superposing two copies of a velocity field obtained analytically for the single-probe case and demonstrate that a cyclic change in the two-probe flow can engender acyclic variations in the positions and character of fixed points. A fixed point that's initially attractive to inertial particles can be moved from the vicinity of one probe to the vicinity of another and then annihilated or altered via bifurcation so that it will surrender the particles it carries. If parametric variations in such a flow are slow relative to the dynamics of particles migrating to attracting points, then the net displacement of inertial particles from one trapping point to another as a result of a cyclic change in the flow exhibits certain features of a geometric phase.


In two previous papers we have proposed models to estimate the Covid-19 epidemic when the number of daily positive cases has a bell shaped form that we call a mode. We have observed that each Covid variant produces this type of epidemic shape at a different moment, resulting in a multimodal epidemic shape. We will show in this document that each mode can still be estimated with models described in the two previous papers provides we replace the cumulated number of positive cases y by the cumulated number of positive cases reduced by a parameter P to be estimated. Therefore denoting z the logarithm of y - P , z follows approximately the differential equation z = b - az^r where a,b,r have also to be estimated from the observed data. We will show the obtained predictions on the four French modes April, November 2020, May and September 2021. The comparison between the prediction obtained before the containment decisions made by the French government and the observed data afterwards suggests the inefficiency of the epidemic lockdowns.


The distribution of stresses in a typical two-dimensional fretting-fatigue problem has been analyzed by assuming homogeneous, isotropic and linearly elastic material. "Closed type" solutions have been obtained that are "exact" within the assumptions used. According to the numerical results presented, a small region of the plate immediately outside the contact area would appear to be most critical from the viewpoint of crack initiation. However, under certain conditions (e.g., in the presence of micropores or other types of discontinuities) cracks could also initiate at some subsurface sites.


In the light of teaching claim of the chemistry speciality in the new century and the current situation of the students' in teachers colledge the ideas.methods and shapes of experimental teaching have been reformed and remarkable results were achieved


Background: BCS class II and IV drugs, which have low solubility, provide a number of challenges for formulation scientists working on oral delivery of drugs. Aims: The aim and purpose of the present work was to design a gel liquisolid tablets for Atorvastatin calcium a water insoluble drug to increase its dissolution rate there by its bioavailability. Materials and Methods: The preformulation studies like solubility studies of API in different non-volatile solvents, optimization of gelling agent and adsorbent quantity were performed. Gel liquisolid compacts (GLS1-GLS10) and directly compressible tablets (DCT 1 and DCT 2) of Atorvastatin calcium were prepared and evaluated for flow properties, post compression parameters and in vitro dissolution studies. Structural analysis of GLS was done using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Xray powder diffraction (XRD) techniques. Finally, the ideal batches (GLS1 and DCT 1) were subjected for in vivo bioavailability studies. Results: The solubility was found to be highest in propylene glycol (150.05 ± 0.4278 mg/mL). In vitro dissolution studies of the prepared GLS had shown maximum dissolution within one hour when compared to that of prepared DCT tablets. DSC and XRD studies revealed that the drug in the GLS had been solubilized. From the obtained pharmacokinetic data such as AUC, tmax and Cmax through in vivo bioavailability studies it was established that GLS have shown better bioavailability compared to that of prepared DCT tablets. Conclusion: This study confirms that Atorvastatin calcium prepared by GLS have better dissolution and bioavailability compare to conventional DCT dosage form and therefore GLS could be a promising drug delivery for Atorvastatin calcium.


This paper presents a study that looked into the use of AR Technology with Authentic learning elements to develop AR-enhanced learning materials that can be used in a classroom.


In this talk, Miller will explore the interconnected issues of water, immigration, and politics in the nation's fastest-growing region. As he does in the book by the same title, Miller will touch on the powerful concept of place to order our experience in this arid region and set that experience within some of the most fraught expressions of life—human and biotic—in this land of little rain (and much angst).


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In the aerospace community the perception of quality no longer relates to only whether the product performs to specification . The perception now includes whether or not the hardware was produced "on-time and on-cost". To live up to the expanding expectations and maintain a competitive stance, design cycles times have to be reduced to maintain sound control on program costs and schedules. As the continuous change occurs, traditional analytical approaches are being scrutinized for streamlined efficiency. When shown to be antiquated, new approaches are adopted to rise to the challenge. A major challenge has been to transform old paradigms into new paradigms. Once such change has been to remove the barriers between disciplines and form product development teams to encourage cross-pollination of engineering activities. As part of the natural evolution of the teams, CAE tools have to become embedded within the CAD environment. This embedding of tools tremendously reduces duplication of effort, redundant data bases, amount of coordination, and thereby program costs. The foundation of the paper being presented here is the application of CAD embedded CAE tools. The "new paradigm" that will be demonstrated by this paper is the Simulation Driven Design (SDD) environment. The application example that will be used is a landing gear exposed to the following environments: variable speed drop test and retraction. The CAD tool that will be applied is CATIA. CATIA provides a solid modeling environment for designing components and mechanical assemblies. The CAE tools that will be applied are CATDADS, PolyFEM and EASY5. CATDADS is a tool that is used to predict the behavior of mechanical assemblies. The equations of motion are automatically formed and solved. Positions, velocities, accelerations and reaction loads are predicted for all components in the assembly. PolyFEM is a finite element analysis package that includes interfaces to CAD products, an automatic mesher, and a p-type finite element solver. EASY5 is a control design tool which distinguishes itself from other tools on the market by its hydraulics libraries. The CAD/CAE tools are used in conjunction to achieve the desired "total system prototype" prior to any physical devices being constructed.


To achieve medical insurance coverage for non-employee urban residents,the State Council decid- ed carry out an essential medical insurance pilot program for the urban residents from 2007.In order to provide refer- enees for other cities,this paper analyzes 20 urban Resident Essential Medical Insurance Program in 11 provinces. Based on comparing in the aspects of population groups,finance and reimbursement,several issues related to develop medical insurance had been discussed.


The present invention relates to a method of updating the home node of a cordless terminal and a private telecommunications network to achieve such a method, apparatus, or mobile service server handling cordless terminals and a server. A geographic area defining a cordless terminal can maintain radio contact with a mobile service server to the mobile service server the geographical area, and each has a respective cordless terminal mobile service server as home node. Network, handling the cordless terminal device and the server determines the cordless terminal is in the time measurement (step 92) within a geographic area a which belongs to a new mobile service server other than the old mobile service server, if the metric exceeds a threshold (step 96), this will set the cordless terminal belongs to a new mobile service server (step 100).


The behaviour of a smectic B phase (BBOA) has been investigated by means of shear wave reflectance techniques in the case of propagation parallel to the normal of the layers. No transmission of the shear wave has been observed. In addition, the experimental results in the A and B phases show a relaxational process, which leads to an apparent finite value for the shear modulus. Our results are discussed in the frame-work of the de Gennes-Sarma model and appear to support this model.


At present, the state vigorously pursues various policies on the protection of "intangible cultural heritage" protection, which injects vitality into the re-development of traditional culture. Based on the research, starting from the perspective of craftsmanship and people's livelihood, the economic, cultural and social value of handicraft are re-recognized and explored. The present situation of some traditional handicraft industries is analyzed, and some innovative strategies to promote the inheritance and development of traditional handicraft are explored, trying to enlighten the reform and development of traditional handicraft. Starting from the summary of exploration experience and combing of exploration practice on traditional handicraft reproduction at home and abroad, the mode and organizational form of traditional handicraft reproduction is discussed. Moreover, the practical significance of traditional handicraft reproduction is analysed from three aspects: rural construction, livelihood economy and local culture. From the national yuan-field, the sustainable development of traditional handicraft reproduction is discussed from three aspects: government, school and people. Taking the wheat straw reproduction in Pucheng, Shaanxi Province as an example, the process of traditional handicraft reproduction and the possibility of its widespread implementation are expounded. It is pointed out that reproduction is the source of vitality and power for the modern transformation of traditional handicraft.


are not pursuing a classical" a scientific, or even a, conventional general course. They are doing far better; they ar~ pursuing a course made for them. It is a high school course, and they are high school p~pils, Note the significance of this. A handful of boys and girls, that, according totraditional standards, have; not the slightest claim even for a moment's consideration as candidates for admission to any high school, not only gain entrance and cordia) welcome to a high school that gives abundant promise' of becoming a school second to none, but they compel a share of the best thought of principals and teachers in constructing and adopting courses of study and practical work that' will be of greatest advantage to them. Truly. here is most encouraging evidence of the possibility, the practicability of loosening the grip of the traditional mechanism of ,organization and of courses of study fixed as though cast in a mould, in spite of many so-called electives, and doing for the individual pupil that .which is best for him:" The boys' shop work is also made entirely practical. They make objects that are actually used in the schoolroom, such as towel I racks, stands, bookcases, etc. It seems safe to say, after a careful study of the work of these pupils whom WI: have' been considering, that the experiment of removing the barriers from the 'high school in order to admit them to the opportunities afforded there, have been entirely successful. There has I been no conflict of courses, or of , classes: no lowering of the conventional high school standard. What has been done is simply this: A number of pupils have been placed in an environment where they have received advantages that they could not otherwise have secured, These bovs and girl} have welcomed the opportunity ansi are "making good.", IRVING O. PALMER, ,In a recent address Superintendent Principal Technical High School. Spaulding spoke of this work as f<$llows:, "It is confidentlv believed that milch more can be done for these pupils in this high school than it would be possible to do for them in the grammar school. And they are here. True, they .......


The rubbish bin is needed globally because of the place to collect the rest of the rubbish. The rubbish bin is available in the public area, home, and office. This study redesigned the Rubissh bin to make it more ergonomic and efficient when used and recruited 100 students of Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai (45 female participants and 55 male participants) by measuring their anthropometry of the human body. Anthropometric data measured in the form of Lebar Bahu (LB), Tinggi Kepalan Tangan (TKT), Tinggi Pinggang Berdiri (TPB), Lebar Telapak Tangan (LTT), Lebar Telapak Kaki (LTK), and Jangkauan Tangan Kedepan (JTD). After that, the data in the normality test can be seen that the chi-square <chi square table, that mean is normally distributed. The uniformity test states that the 6 anthropometric data were uninformed, and the data sufficiency test shows that the results of data processing were sufficient to represent all samples (N '<N). The results of testing and calculation of percentiles can be measured in redesign ergonomic efficient rubbish bin based on anthropometric data in the form of LB (P5: 34.61 cm), TKT (P95: 81.75 cm), TPB, (P95: 106.67 cm), LTT (P95: 10.28 cm), LTK (P95: 11.95 cm), JTD (P95: 83.27 cm). Therefore, the redesign of the rubbish bin has been determined in an ergonomic size so that it can be used practically, safely, and comfortably.
Keywords: Antropometric Data, Ergonomic, Redesign, Rubbish Bin.


This chapter contains sections titled: Technological Standard, CDs Not Available, Small Libraries of CDs, Subsequent Developments, Other Digital Players of Recorded Music, Lessons from Case Study


Advances in immune‐mediated targeted therapies have proved to be a double‐edged sword for patients by highlighting the risk of iatrogenic infective complications. This has been exemplified by progressive multi‐focal leucoencephalopathy (PML), a hitherto rare devastating viral infection of the brain caused by the neurotrophic JC polyoma virus. While PML achieved prominence during the first two decades of the HIV epidemic, effective anti‐retroviral treatment and restitution of T cell function has led to PML being less prominent in this population. HIV infection as a predisposing factor has now been supplanted by T cell immunodeficiency induced by a range of immune‐mediated therapies as a major cause of PML. This review focuses on PML in the context of therapeutic immunosuppression and encompasses therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, novel immunomodulatory agents such as Fingolimod and dimethyl fumarate, as well as emerging data on PML in primary immune deficiency.


The integrated gate-commutated thyristor (IGCT) is an advanced semiconductor device for high frequency, high power applications. This work presents a detailed discussion of experimental dynamic characteristics of IGCTs at ambient temperatures ranging from -40/spl deg/C to 50/spl deg/C. A lumped-charge physics-based IGCT model with full temperature response is also developed in this work. A chopper circuit with an inductive load is employed to test the IGCT switching behavior both experimentally and by simulation. Comparison between the experimental and simulation results is made and discrepancies are discussed.


The chemical visitors of the International Exhibition will not easily forget the magnificent collection of products displayed in the French court by M. Menier of Paris. Among these compounds, equally remarkable for their variety and beauty, the large crystals of cyanine, rivalling in splendour and purity Mr. Nicholson's acetate of rosaniline, have attracted general attention. M. Menier, who has produced this new dye on a very large scale, has most liberally placed at my disposal some of the finest of these crystals for examination, hoping that their more minute investigation might perhaps lead to a method of giving solidity to this new colour, which in brilliancy and purity of tint is second to none of the several blues lately derived from coal-tar.


This work presents a transmission strategy for closed-loop MIMO systems, where compact feedback messages meant for transmit weight adaptation are also used to convey basic link adaptation requests that can improve the link reliability or the data throughput without additional feedback overhead. The proposed link adaptation varies the number of orthogonal transmit beams and the symbol modulation employed on each beam. The simulation study focuses in a system with four transmit and two receive antennas, with constant data rate and two different underlying beamforming schemes: a recently proposed Jacobi beamformer, and a Grassmanian codebook approach. It is shown that both schemes can obtain an improvement of around 1 dB in bit error probability (BEP) performance, in slowly fading and spatially uncorrelated channels, compared to the case where both beams are used all the time. The application of the proposed technique to other precoding algorithms is briefly discussed.


Public policy analysis is interested in how policies emerge and develop in order to address societal problems. Issues related to water, such as the contamination of surface waters, floods, or plastic pollution in oceans are often highly complex, concern different jurisdictions, and require the collaboration of public and private actors. This complexity is addressed through integrated water management principles. However, these principles give room to open questions such as: what are the main challenges of policy analysis (research and practice) in terms of multi-level actor involvement (politics), cross-sectoral solutions (policies), and new institutional arrangements (polity)? To answer these questions, the seven papers of this Special Issue combine approaches borrowed from policy analysis with principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Each article tackles a complex, water-related problem and collectively, the papers present empirical evidence from case studies located around the world. We learn from all these analyses that adopting a policy perspective helps disentangling the procedural components of IWRM (the involvement of actors, the definition of the appropriate management area, the attribution of competences, etc.) from more substantial ones (like the development of a management plan and the implementation of measures). Addressing cross-sectoral and multi-level challenges is a difficult task, and policy analysis can help shedding light on both, the legitimacy of processes, and the effectiveness of their outputs and outcomes.


The Electrical Power System developed for a lunar rover is presented and the design of the main subsystems is analysed with a view to the AMALIA lunar mission. In particular, an unusual configuration of the battery subsystem, based on a 1S battery and a highvoltage-diversity BCDR was developed and tested. The experimental results demonstrated that any bus voltage in the 12-48V range can be managed with a satisfactory conversion efficiency by using a non-insulated TLNPC converter. Other design issues of the main EPS units are discussed.


The article is devoted to landscape-environmental and geotechnical characteristics of the territory of Truvor Gorodishche. The author considers geological structure and tectonics, geomorphological features, relief development, hydrology, vegetation. The article analyzes landscape-morphological structure of the territory 0f Truvor Gorodishche and its surroundings, and provides guidance for the conservation and reconstruction of the landscape basis.


Has it ever occurred to you that,with your own hands,you can change the settings around you?For example,you can paint a little,downy bear on an old coaster,some beautiful roses on a computer speaker,or doodle on a wall when you renovate your home.Nowadays,as the art of"hand painting"is sweeping China,some young people,with their creative minds and deft hands,are transforming their lives with their creations.


Uptake of Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine remains low among travellers, with cost of vaccines likely being one of the main hurdles. We found that smaller doses of JE vaccine administered via intradermal (ID) had similar effect on seroconversion than standard doses administered via subcutaneous. ID is a cheaper yet effective route of JE vaccine administration, and could potentially increase vaccination uptake among travellers.


The development of mobile applications generally falls into two categories: those designed to be device-neutral and delivered via a smartphone browser, and native apps developed for a specific mobile platform such as iOS or Android. A reasonably defensible technical argument can be made for moving in either direction, which is why an additional point of view is needed. The intent here is not to pronounce either as better than the other. Each has its merits. Rather, the intent is to identify those areas where one approach might better enable the desired functionality.


A preliminary study on the wintering ecology(habitat,population density,sex ratio,diurnal activity mode,behavioral responses for human approach,food and vertical migration) of Emei Shan Liocichla(Liocichla omeiensis) was conducted at Emei Mountain in Sichuan Province during winters from 2010 to 2013,and some conservation suggestions were presented.


The Effectiveness of Rhizospheric Bacteria Mix Inoculant Associated with Maizein Latosol Lampuog Soil. Two greenhouse experiments were carried out to evaluate theeffectiveness of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) ino-culants on plant growthof maize. In the first experiments, eleven single isolates were screened for associationeffectiveness with maize. Inoculation improved plant perfomance by increasing roots, shootsand total plant dry weight. Five isolates with the increase of plant dry weight ranging from 27-47% over control were then selected for mixed inoculants. In the second experiment, tenmixed inoculants consisted of 3 single isolates were evaluated on plant growth, N plant yield,and N derived from fertilizer and contribution from fixation. The later parameter was.determined by "N method. Three mixed inoculants namely M5, M8, and M9 showed highereffectiveness with the increase of plant weight 27-29% over control. Plant N yield of plantsinoculated with those mixed inoculants were 176-194 mg N/pot as compared to 144 mg Nlpotin control plants. Lower '%eIx cess atom % in inoculated plants indicated some Ncontribution from fixation which ranged from 1 5 -2 1 %.


The vector-borne diseases (VBDs), malaria, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, dengue, etc., are increasing and have been spreading to newer areas recently due to the increased risk of transmission fuelled by developmental activities, demographic changes and introduction of new products. All over the world, more than 50% of persons Withfilariasis receive their infections from the bites of mosquitoes, particularly Culex quinquefasciatus (Say). Thisspecies of mosquito and the incidence of filariasis are quite abundant in India, particularly in Chidambaram town of Tamil Nadu. Natural products are generally preferred because of their less harmful nature to non-target organisms and due to their innate biodegradability. Prabakar and Jebanesan of Vector Biology Division, Department of Zoology,Annamalai University,Annamalai Nagar carried over studies to assess the larvicidal properties of leaf extracts of fiveCucurbitacious plants against C. quinquefasciatus. Larvicidal efficacies of extracts of five species, viz. Momordica charantia Linn. (Bitter Gourd, Hindi Karela), Trichosanthes anguina Linn. (Snakegourd, HindiChachinda), Luffa acutangula (Linn.) Roxb. (Ridged or Ribbed Gourd, Hindi Kali tori), Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. syn. B.cerifera Savi(AshGourd, Hindi-Petha) and Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsumura & Nakai syn. C. vulgaris Schrad. (Watermelon, Hindi Tarbuz) were tested against the late third larval age group of C. quinquefasciatus. The plants of M. charantia, 1. anguina, L. acutangula, B. hispida and C. lanatus were collected from in and around Annamalai University campus, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu. The leaves were washed with tap water, shade-dried, and powdered. One gram of the plant residue was dissolved in 100 ml of methanol (stock solution). The solution was used for assaying mosquito larvicidal activity.The larval mortality was observed after 24 hr exposure. The LCsovalues of M. charantia, 1. anguina, L. acutangula, B. hispi'da and C. lanatus were 465.85, 567.81, 839.81, 1189.30 and 1636.04 ppm, respectively. The present study reveals that there is a scope to use M. charantia to control the mosquito larvae of C. quinquefasciatus and the extract in mosquito coil formulation and isolation of the insecticide component is underway in the laboratory [Prabakar & ]ebanesan, Bioresour Technol, 2004, 95 (1), 113-114] . ge to cont. weevil atural


The article presents a personal, chamber reading of fragments of interviews, stories, paintings, memories of the artist Aneta Dragushanu and her attitude towards man and art. A personal touch to familiar theories related to the eternal gaze, search and returning and their manifestation in the works of the author. There is no doubt that every work of Dragushanu, sketch, drawing, and canvas is its way to share with us, a way to seek the human in of the day. We find this pursuit and search for truth in the attitude towards models as well. The search is not for the ideal, perfect image, but for the living person. The one she knows, without posture and intent, the one she has met, talked to, realized. This insight into seemingly insignificant things, into the small details of everyday life, of the purity of human communication is its pursuit of the impermanent, the eternal.


Spherical environment maps capture all of the light visible from a given point in space. From such a representation it is possible to render any perspective view along any direction from a fixed eye position located at the center of the sphere. In this paper this idea is extended to allow for eye movement within a bounded region of space. A novel method for reconstructing views from a set of precaptured images is presented. Image information is manipulated to create new views of the captured environment. These views provide correct parallax information from the particular viewpoint and, therefore, enable occluded regions to be viewed. Unlike other related methods, there is no reliance on geometric information, thus making the approach completely content independent. Basic interpolation techniques are employed to improve the quality of the reconstructed images and results are presented.


Online social network has gradually become an important medium for People's Daily communication and information sharing. Internet users can discuss hot news events, share pictures of daily life, comment on movies, books, food and so on in different social networks anytime and anywhere. The massive activity data left by a large number of Internet users in the social network is the online projection of users' real social relations, which contains huge data mining value. The characteristics of settlements similar to the real society are ubiquitous in social networks, and a large number of relational data with the characteristics of settlements can be defined by communities. Through the research of the potential information behind the community, we can dig out the transmission mode and change law of the information.


A periodic arrangement of atoms in a crystal presents a periodic potential for electrons. The bragg diffraction of electrons from the atoms may lead to a band gap, which represents a range of frequencies the electrons cannot have in the crystal. An analogous effect takes place in photonic crystals, which are periodic arrangement of layers of dielectric media. Scattering at the interface of the different layers produces a band gap for photons. The current effort to make integrated optical chips requires guiding light around sharp corners with a radius of curvature on the order of a wavelength. Photonic crystals serve this purpose by providing efficient sharp bend waveguides. An array of defects in a photonic crystal localizes modes in the band gap. This effect is used to build linear and 900 bend waveguides. Thesis Supervisor: Leslie Kolodziejski Title: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Public transit will become much more attractive and convenient if wireless signage at bus stops provides information about the next buss arrival. Persons who would benefit from this type of real-time information include handicapped users, senior citizens, and tourists who may not have sufficient information about the bus systems they want to use. Wireless communication is more cost effective than fiber optics and modems in the long run. Moreover, LEDs, which would be used to display the signage, are also cost effective


A 14‐year‐old boy presented with aplastic anemia 3 months after contracting rubella. Stem cell transplantations from his identical twin were carried out. Successful engraftment occurred only when conditioning therapy was given prior to the infusion of the syngeneic stem cells, supporting an immune mechanism to explain the pathogenesis of virus‐associated aplastic anemia. Am. J. Hematol. 64:303–305, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Background Internationally, researchers have called for evidence to support tackling health inequalities during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (COVID19) pandemic. Despite the 2020 Marmot review highlighting growing health gaps between wealthy and deprived areas, studies have not explored social determinants of health (ethnicity, frailty, comorbidities, household overcrowding, housing quality, air pollution) as modulators of presentation, intensive care unit (ITU) admissions and outcomes among COVID19 patients. There is an urgent need for studies examining social determinants of health including socioenvironmental risk factors in urban areas to inform the national and international landscape. Methods An in-depth retrospective cohort study of 408 hospitalized COVID19 patients admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham was conducted. Quantitative data analyses including a two-step cluster analysis were applied to explore the role of social determinants of health as modulators of presentation, ITU admission and outcomes. Results Patients admitted from highest Living Environment deprivation indices were at increased risk of presenting with multi-lobar pneumonia and, in turn, ITU admission whilst patients admitted from highest Barriers to Housing and Services (BHS) deprivation Indies were at increased risk of ITU admission. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) patients were more likely, than Caucasians, to be admitted from regions of highest Living Environment and BHS deprivation, present with multi-lobar pneumonia and require ITU admission. Conclusion Household overcrowding deprivation and presentation with multi-lobar pneumonia are potential modulators of ITU admission. Air pollution and housing quality deprivation are potential modulators of presentation with multi-lobar pneumonia. BAME patients are demographically at increased risk of exposure to household overcrowding, air pollution and housing quality deprivation, are more likely to present with multi-lobar pneumonia and require ITU admission. Irrespective of deprivation, consideration of the Charlson Comorbidity Score and the Clinical Frailty Score supports clinicians in stratifying high risk patients.


The psychiatric nurse has broadened his role and better defined his functions, using himself as a therapeutic instrument in developing "a therapeutic interpersonal relationship with a person in need of help. The purpose of this study is: 1) to present the interactions between a nurse and a hyperactive patient of a psychiatric ward of a hospital with custodial and therapeutic character; 2) to analyze the nurse's interventions in light of the interpersonal relationship theory. Four encounters were analyzed, from which the authors were able to observe: the level of involvement and commitment present in each encounter; the increasing ability of the nurse to observe and intervene; moments of patient and nurse's anxiety and situations of inadequate and therapeutic interventions


Lead (Pb) is a heavy metal that naturally exists in the earth's crust and diffuses in small amounts through natural and artificial processes. This study aims to determine the amount of lead contained in the fruit jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) in the median street Bandar Lampung City. To know the factors that affect the lead content of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is done regression analysis. Research shows that the lead content of the jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) in the median of Bandar Lampung City road has exceeded the consumption limit, besides the factors affecting the lead content of the jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) to be the tree season, the geometry of the bend, the topography of the incline and the derivative.


The partial shade on photovoltaic array appears repeatedly in natural environment to change single peak into multi-peaks in P-V curve. An improved algorithm following the traditional particle swarm optimization is proposed,where the global mode and local mode are adopted to locate the maximum power point.To accelerate the speed of particle swarm optimization,a lot of random and interfered variables are removed to realize an obvious structure optimization.The improved particle swarm optimization algorithm prevents power tracking from falling into the local optimum,and finds the true maximum power point.Simulation and test show that for partial shading,the improved algorithm can accurately and quickly search out the maximum power tracking point with 95% tracking accuracy,and searching efficiency is 28%higher than that of the traditional particle swarm algorithm.Especially,the local optimum can be avoided.


For expand space,a hotel conference room need to be cut a column and expanding span.A frame beam become into one cross 10.2m by two crosses 4.2 m+6 m,internal forces increase significantly.Based on calculation and analysis,determined that to reconstruction and reinforce it by method of section-steel bonded.Describes the design method and reinforcement process and focus of construction.Engineering practice has proved that demolish column by method of section-steel bonded,safe and reliable,low investment,fast and interference small,the effect was very good.


The principle of laser jamming to TV-guided missile is studied at first.Then,a model of perspective projection is set up to produce the approximate binary image of the target and background after analysis to the requirements of image simulation.The perspective projection method is simple for generating the approximate binary image,avoids the difficulty of realizing high fidelity image of target and background.A simulation is made on saturated jamming of laser to TV-guided missiles.The numeric results indicated that the mathematical model is rational,and the saturation jamming effect is obtained.


Introduction: Expressed emotion (EE) is a global index of attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of relatives who have family members with a mental or psychiatric disorder. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to study EE in relatives and patients' perceived EE in a borderline personality disorder (BPD) outpatient sample. Methods: The sample was composed of 134 relatives and 111 BPD outpatients who were receiving psychological treatment. Relevant clinical outcomes, number of medical visits, EE in relatives and perceived EE in BPD patients were measured. Subsequently, descriptive statistical analyses, dependent-samples t tests, and correlation analyses were performed. Results: Relatives' EE was not significantly different than patients' perceived EE. Expressed emotion factors were weakly associated to emergency department visits and hospital admissions. Discussion: Contrary to EE studies in other diagnoses, results show that the BPD patients' emotional climate in their proximate relationships might not influence health care use.


Have you noticed the glut of ''handbooks'' in the academic marketplace recently? Go ahead. Google ''Blackwell handbook,'' ''Sage handbook,'' ''Oxford handbook.'' These volumes have established quite a following, or so one must assume by imagining the market rationale of presses that continue to produce them en masse. Handbooks are almost certainly too expensive and too unwieldy to be considered student textbooks. But they create and at least seem to fulfill a pedagogical demand. In ''the information age,'' a time of overabundance in the knowledge industries, a handbook endeavors to tame the profusion, holding out the promise of a discrete, knowable, authoritative synthesis, and proffering a palliative for the anxiety of never being able to read, much less to assign, everything, even within a relatively narrow segment of an academic field. The lures of editing or writing for a handbook seem at least as irresistible as being a reader of one. Handbooks legitimize fields and subfields (and themselves), authorize or reinscribe the authority of individual scholars as experts, and perform a recognized service to an academic field by mapping its coordinates. These are appealing, productive routines of the handbook, but they bear further scrutiny as modes of educating ourselves and/or our students. The motivational calculus of the handbook is based on the supposition, even the presumption, that a particular chapter might be the only exposure a reader will have to a subfield or a field, a position that demands at least a pause in our rush to edit them, contribute to them, or depend on them for our own or others' learning. As valuable as handbooks may be, those operations of legitimization, authorization, and mapping offer three useful loci to scrutinize positions the handbook stakes in securing its readership. The field (or its subfields) that ''merits'' a handbook assumes an aura by the mere fact of the handbook's production, and the material character of the work enhances that sensibility. A ''handbook'' in ordinary parlance is a guide or manual offering


The acoustoelasticity method which makes use of the birefringent effect of polarized shear wave is a promising technique not only for stress analysis but also for measuring texture-induced acoustic anisotropy in metallic materials. In this study the texture-induced acoustic anisotropy originated by plastic deformation under compression was measured by the acoustoelasticity method in order to investigate the effects of strain-rate and temperature during the tests. Alminum and copper polycrystalline materials were used as specimens and static compression


Anodic coatings are an interesting option for the soleplates of irons. They are hard, scratch resistant, easy to clean and they show good gliding properties. At PGE a process was developed on the basis of oxalic acid to anodize soleplates made of aluminium 6061 T6. Important aspects of the process are: roughness, gloss, easy gliding and tribological behaviour. The process was optimised for these rather specific parameters.


Abstract: Comparing with the main market, the initial Inarket is diffenent in the aspect of the investment risk. As thekey part of the exchange market, the securities exchange tax and securities income tax influence the initial market, andthe current security system limits the efficiency of thc initial market, which is unfavourable to keep the faimess andprovent speculation. Therefore, some suarestions are made: carrying out light tax to the securities exchang tax, levyingsecurities exchange income tax, regulating the tax to the securitly investment, etc.


Mopah Airport Merauke is an airport located in the city of Merauke, South Papua, Indonesia.  The purpose of this study was to determine whether the effect of service performance and baggage conveyor belt facilities on Lion Air airline passenger satisfaction in baggage claim at Mopah Airport Merauke. This research uses quantitative research methods.  This research was conducted at Mopah Airport Merauke where the objects of this research were passengers or the people in the city of Merauke.  The source of the data used in this study was obtained from distributing questionnaires to respondents of Lion Air airline passengers at Mopah Airport Merauke.  The number of samples in this study is 100 respondents determined by the slovin formula. The results of this study were concluded to answer the formulation of the problem, that: 1. The Influence Variable of Service Performance (X1) has an effect on the Passenger Satisfaction Variable (Y) as evidenced by the calculated T value on the variable effect of service performance (X1) which is greater than T table, namely 8,636 > 1,660 with a Sig value.  smaller than the probability value of 0.000 <0.05;  2. The Baggage Conveyor Belt Facility Variable (X2) has an effect on the Passenger Satisfaction Variable (Y) as evidenced by the calculated T value being greater than T table, namely 11,118 > 1,660 with a Sig.  smaller than the probability value of 0.000 <0.05; 3. The effect of service performance (X1), the baggage conveyor belt facility (X2) has an effect on the passenger satisfaction variable (Y) of 0.604, it is known from the R Square value, which means that the variables X1, X2 affect the Y variable by 60.4%.
Keywords: Effect of Service Performance, BCB Facilities, Mopah Airport Merauke


Research on institutional complexity has overlooked the fact that moral judgements are likely involved when individuals face a plurality of logics within organizations. To analyse the moral microfoundations of institutional complexity, we build on Boltanski and Thévenot's economies of worth framework and explore how individuals produce moral judgement in response to the institutional complexity triggered by a major shift in the sustainability strategy within an oil sands company. Fifty-two interviews with employees, managers and executives reveal how actors rely on four types of justification that combine different moral principles and related objects with the aim of either forming (sheltering and solidifying work) or challenging (fragilizing and deconstructing work) a new compromise with regard to sustainability within the organization. Our results show how the economies of worth framework can enrich institutional complexity theory by bringing morality back into the analysis as a core dimension of inhabited institutions while advancing the microanalysis of compromise-making around sustainability in organization studies.


We continue study of projective Fra\"{\i}ss\'e limit developed by Irvin, Panagiotopoulos and Solecki. We modify the ideas of monotone, confluent, and light mappings from continuum theory as well as several properties of continua so as to apply to topological graphs. As the topological realizations of the projective Fra\"{\i}ss\'e limits we obtain the dendrite $D_3$ as well as quite new, interesting continua for which we do not yet have topological characterizations.


The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the transport velocity evacuation supporters carried a vulnerable person to evacuate from Tsunami in Tsunami evacuation tower. For that, this study used 5 transport methods (wheelchair, transport chair, rollator, simple stretcher and shoulder) and 3 transport routes (straight line slope, spiral slope and stairs). As a result, it was found that evacuation can be done smoothly by properly guiding the evacuation supporters and their vulnerable person to evacuate on spiral slope by using wheelchair and a healthy person to evacuate on stairs.


Work-based training is studied via qualitative interviews with 25 students in four vocational training programs, who were met first in school, then in the workplace. Following a description of the internship periods undergone by the students, the process of work-based training is analyzed. The progression of internships and learnings, as described, demonstrates that the activities assigned to the students have enabled them to increase their knowledge and begin their integration into the labor market. The study also examines the students' development at the hands of their mentor and other employees, highlighting the difficulties they encounter.


This paper presents research results of a model power transmission system by using a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) to improve the transient stability of electric power system. The fuzzy logic control strategy is suggested. The fuzzy rule-bases are designed and explained. SMIB system simulations are carried out. From the results they were demonstrated that stabilizing effect by mean of SMES was very significant.