The paper presents theoretical analysis of the properties of the rapeseed oil methyl esters and comparing them with the diesel oil properties. The essential differences in the physic-chemical properties have been emphasised, such as: Cetane number, viscosity, density, fraction content, calorific value and temperature properties of the rapeseed oil methyl esters in respect to the diesel oil. The influence of individual properties of fuels on the combustion needs to be comprehensively approached, taking into account mutual relationships between individual characteristics of diesel oil. The numbers of the basic fuel properties depend on the fractional content, such as: viscosity, density, Cetane number or surface tension influencing the course of the physic-chemical processes taking place in the self ignition engine and the combustion. The influence of many fuel properties on the combustion process is sometimes contradictory. The range of the fuel's influence on the combustion depends also on the thermodynamic parameters of the engine. The new and current problem concerning the fuels for the self ignition engines is an introduction into the operation of the rapeseed oil esters and their mixtures with the Diesel oil are an object of the paper. The question, how will the vegetable oils affect the combustion process, remains open.


Thank you for reading indicators for monitoring the millennium development goals definitions rationale concepts and sources. As you may know, people have look numerous times for their chosen books like this indicators for monitoring the millennium development goals definitions rationale concepts and sources, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some malicious bugs inside their laptop.


the Royal Automobile Club to orgaaize comprehensive trials of low pressure tyres in 1924. In the carburetter section interesting exhibits are the Hobson power jet type; and the newest triple diffuser Zenith. There is also a special Zenith type for Morris cars. Other exhibits on the Zenith stand include air stranglers and controls for standard tvpes of carburetters; also a range of special inlet pipe fittings enabling this system of carburation to be applied to any malke of car. A development in oonnexion with sparking plugs is a miniature Lodge type for use on miniature engines; als for fitting in positions where it is impossible, or difficult, to employ an ordinary size plug. This model is known as C.E. Another Lodge exhibit is the well known priming plug to facilitate starting an engine in cold weather. This ingenious device has been improved in several details. The Gamage display in the accessory section is a minor exhibition in itself. Incidentally, it is interesting for the wide range of foot-warmers; and the various types of gloves and gauntlets for keeping the hands and wrists warm.


In our sense truth shaft couplings are mechanical components with five degrees of freedom. With the aid of Tshebyshev's fundamental equation for mechanisms and with the partitions, known from the theory of numbers, we can synthesize and analyze all kinds of such structures. The analysis shows some kinematic faults in the usual arrangements.


I was privileged to contribute to the creation of a new field, Geoscience Education Research. This liminal field, with roots in both education research and geosciences, is deepening how people think and learn about the Earth. In this article, I recount some of my twists and turns along way, and ponder whether such a zig‐zagging pathway was essential or a distraction. And if essential, what made it possible? Twenty‐first century geosciences aporous boundaries, with insights flowing in and out from health sciences, social sciences, humanities, business, and other physical sciences. Such boundary regions are fertile ground for both basic and use‐inspired research. If you feel drawn to a boundary region, perhaps my story can provide encouragement or advice.


Lactobacillus plantarum were natural components of the normal intestinal microbiota in both humans and animals,and it could be isolated from fermented meat or milk. Rats were randomly assigned into four treatments feeding of Lactobacillus plantarum X3-2B,to evaluate the effects of suplenentation of Lactobacillus plantarum with different dosage on microbial flora in rat's gut. The results indicated that different dosage increased consumption index( CI) of rats and decreased p H of feces( Minimum high dose group), viable counts of Lactic acid bacteria and Bifidobacterium of experimental group were significantly higher(p 0.05)than negative control group. Enterobacteriaceae,Enterococcus of experimental group were lower after fed X3-2B for 14 days compared with fed for 1 day(p0.05),and Lactobacillus plantarum X3-2Bcould resist the growth of harmful bacteria and adjustment role of the intestinal microflora.


The heat treatment effect on transformation properties of a NiTi Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) film is discussed. TiNi SMA films were deposited by using sputter deposition techniques, and were then solution-treated and aging-treated. The phase transformation properties were investigated by means of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), X-ray diffractometer and a transmission electron microscope (TEM). As sputtered film had an amorphous structure with fluctuating density of titanium atoms. The films solution-treated at 600°C and aging-treated at 400°C had several kinds of phases. The rhombohedral phases, austenite phases and amorphous phases could be distinguished within the same film. The film solution-treated at 800°C and aging-treated at 400°C showed the largest enthalpy of the transformation and had the preferable crystalline structure. The samples solution-treated at 1000°C, in which NiTi were resolved partially into Ti2Ni and Ni4Ti3 were more brittle.


This paper discusses the vital position of the Qi Great Wall in its military defence pattern in light of the relationship between the Great Wall and weapon warehouse after macroconceiving of the Qi weapon warehouse defensive pattern according to the place names inscribed on the unearthed military weapons in the Qi State.


According to the manual monitoring and measuring still applied to the main water drainage system in many coal mines and the fault diagnosis relied on the man's experiences,a status monitoring and measuring and fault diagnosis system of the mine main water drainage device was designed based on the LabView. The system could make an on- line monitoring and measuring on the flow of the water drainage pipeline,the water level of the water sump,the vacuum of the water pump,the pressure at the water outlet,the temperature of the electric motor,the vibration of the motor and others. With the preparation in the signal treatment and analysis as well as the fault diagnosis program,an on- line evaluation was realized on the mechanical status of the electric motor applied to the water pump. The experiment showed that the system operation was stable,the data collection was real time and accurate and the evaluation of the electric motor applied to the water pump was reliable.


At present, the feature extraction of protein sequences is the most basic issue to predict protein structural classes and is also the key problem to decide the quality of prediction. In order to predict protein structural classes accurately, we construct a 14-dimensional feature vector based on protein secondary and super-secondary structure information to reflect the content and spatial ordering of the given protein sequences. Among the vector, seven features about -helix bundle, hairpin motifs, Rossman folds, -plaits and other super-secondary structure information are first proposed in our paper. Experiments show that our method improves overall accuracy of lower similarity datasets 1189 and 640 by 0.9% - 3.8% and 0.5% - 4.2% respectively compared with other methods and has a competitive advantage for predicting proteins in and classes.


Aim: to compare the frequency and quantity of meat and fish products consumption in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia (AHU) and gout. Patients and Methods: the single-center study included 112 patients aged more than 18 y.o. with AHU or gout who had uric acid (UA) level >360 μmol/l, examined in the period from January 2022 to January 2023. The diagnosis of gout was made in accordance with the gout classification criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) / European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2015. Patients who did not meet the criteria of ACR/EULAR 2015 were diagnosed with AHU. The clinical study included medical history, examination, anthropometric data, standard physical examination. The laboratory study included the determination of fasting serum uric acid, creatinine, C-reactive protein. All patients in the study filled out the Food Frequency Questionnaire. Results: 57 (49.1%) patients with AHU, of which 31 (54.4%) were male, and 55 (50.9%) patients with gout, of which 51 (92.7%) were male, were examined during the study. In the group with gout, versus the group with AHU, statistically significantly higher levels of serum UA (504.7 and 431 μmol/l, respectively, p=0.0003) and creatinine (103.8±30 and 78.0±19.3 μmol/l, p=0.005) were detected. The consumption of meat products (beef, lamb, chicken, pork) in patients with gout and AHU in most cases did not differ. About a quarter of patients in both groups did not eat fish at all. Conclusion: data on the comparable frequency concerning consumption of meat and fish products by patients with gout and AHU have been obtained, which can serve as the theory confirmation that dietary characteristics do not play a major role in the genesis of gout, although they are associated with the UA level. KEYWORDS: gout, asymptomatic hyperuricemia, obesity, meat products, fish products, uric acid. FOR CITATION: Eliseev M.S., Zhelyabina O.V., Cheremushkina E.V. Frequency and quantity comparison of meat and fish products consumption in patients with gout and asymptomatic hyperuricemia (preliminary data of the pilot study). Russian Medical Inquiry. 2023;7(7):445–451 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.32364/2587-6821-2023-7-7-7.


Macrophages the most plastic cells of the hematopoietic framework are found taking all things together tissues and display incredible utilitarian variety. They have parts being developed, homeostasis, tissue fix, and insusceptibility. While anatomically particular, inhabitant tissue macrophages show distinctive transcriptional profiles, and useful capacities, they are completely needed for the support of homeostasis. Notwithstanding, these reparative and homeostatic capacities can be undermined by persistent abuses, bringing about a causal relationship of macrophages with illness states. In this survey, we talk about how macrophages control typical physiology and improvement and give a few instances of their pathophysiologic jobs in infection. We characterize the "trademarks" of macrophages performing specific capacities, considering novel bits of knowledge into the variety of their ancestries, personality, and guideline. This variety is fundamental to comprehend on the grounds that macrophages have arisen as significant remedial focuses in numerous significant human illnesses


Development of bioetanol in this time still experience of
assortedly [of] constraint. One of them because price of costlier
bioetanol of sold oil price in Indonesia. Bioetanol expanding in
Indonesia represent first generation. Therefore, require to look for
[by] raw material of bioetanol other which not such a staple food,
its availability abundance and less exploited by society Through
this innovation [is] [done/conducted] [by] making of bioetanol of
fruit of Maja with variable addition of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
counted 1%, 2% and 3% [at] ferment process during 3, 4, and 5
day.
Making of etanol with fruit raw material of Maja
[done/conducted] by fruit powder hydrolysis of maja become
glucose. Hydrolysis [done/conducted] with addition of acid of
H2So4 [at] temperature 120oC during 2 [hour/clock], later;then
condensation of hidrolisa made cool. condensation of Hidrolisa
cool, ferment by enhancing Sacharomyces cereviceae as media
pengkonversi of glucose become etanol. [So that/ to be] getting
purer bioetanol [to] process distilasi [at] temperature below/under
Azeotropes.
Result of got Attempt as a whole have fulfilled SNI
3565:2009 quality 1. Test the quality of product with parameter
of[is rest of maximal evaporation that is 8,9 mg / L ( Maximal 25
mg / L). Highest Rendemen result of attempt [is] 7,5%


With the further development of farmers'professional cooperatives,the shortages of funds become the major bottleneck in its development.In order to solveeffectively this problem,this paper analyzes the operating mechanism of mutual fundsof farmers'professional cooperatives from three aspects such as operational structure,operational procedures and operational results of internal mutual funds of Farmers'professional cooperative,on this basis the running path of mutual funds of Farmers'professional cooperative was built.Meanwhile,the appropriate countermeasures to improve theoperating mechanism of mutual funds of farmers'professional cooperatives were put forward.


Since Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed, its border with Uganda has become a hub of activity. Contrasting developments on the Ugandan side of the border with those on the South Sudanese side, the paper draws on empirical fieldwork to argue that the CPA has created new centres of power in the margins of both states. However, in day-today dealings on either side of the border, South Sudanese military actors have become dominant. In the particular case of Arua and the South Sudan-Uganda border, past wartime authority structures determine access to opportunities in a tightly regulated, inconclusive peace. This means that small-scale Ugandan traders – although vital to South Sudan – have become more vulnerable to South Sudan's assertions of state authority. The experience of Ugandan traders calls into question the broad consensus that trade across the border is always beneficial for peace-building The paper concludes that trade is not unconditionally helpful to the establishment of a peaceful environment for everyone.


Objective: Experience of the conventional and a de novo Mitral repair techniques for the treatment of Severe Mitral Regurgitation (MR) in a Tertiary Care Cardiac Hospital of Pakistan.
Study Design: Descriptive cross sectional
Place and Duration of Study: Cardiac Surgical Division, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology and National Institute of Heart Diseases, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Methodology: This was a cross sectional study conducted over a period of 5 years from 2016 to 2020, which included SeventyFive (n=75) patients in the trial, 55 females and 20 males. The mean age was 23±9.5 years (range from 16 to 52 years). Amongst all cases of mitral regurgitation (MR) were five (6%) myxomatous degenerative changes, three (4%) ischemic MR & Sixtyseven (91%) patients had rheumatic aetiology. Five (05) patients with myxomatous diseases required only ring annuloplasty. In patients with ischemic MR, two required chordal shortening for anterior leaflet resuspension, and one required quadrangular resection of the posterior leaflet. Restrictive annuloplasty±Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) was alsoperformed as part of the procedures. Sixty-seven (91%) patients having severe Mitral Regurgitation with rheumatic aetiology, required a myriad of procedures; including neo-chordae suspension for anterior & posterior mitral leaflets, quadrangular resection & reattachment of the posterior mitral leaflet. A novel innovative procedure, "Posterior annulus-sliding-plasty" (Nasir's Technique) was adopted in patients with relatively fixed posterior mitral leaflet. Semi-rigid rings (Carbomedics® or Medtronic CG future®) were used in all the patients to stabilize our repair.
Results: There was no operative mortality. Patients were followed up for 01-year. Most of the patients have been found to have adequate intact Mitral Valve Repair. Only 01 patient developed Grade-II MR after 06 months (ischemic aetiology). This patient is being followed up at 06 monthly intervals with transthoracic echo and is being treated as per guideline-directed medical therapy (GMDT) for functional MR.
Conclusion: Mitral Valve Repair in the carefully selected subset of patients with severe MR, irrespective of aetiology can effectively be treated with satisfactory short-term and medium-term results.


We have explored the geodynamics of late-orogenic collapse via numerical models to study the effects of lithospheric thinning on mantle and lower crustal melting. Our goal is to better understand the formation of migmatitic terrains and the role of mantle melt in generating the geochemical spectrum of granitoids observed during the lithospheric re-equilibration. These numerical models combine finite elements thermo-mechanical modelling coupled with a Gibbs free energy minimization strategy that allow tracking melt composition. Our models assume a "jelly sandwich" strength profile of the lithosphere and the existence of sub-lithospheric small-scale convection caused by the increased post-subductional mantle water contents. The models take into account the viscosity lowering effects of water and partial melts, and dynamically adjust the composition of the mantle and crustal residue after extraction of partial melts. Effects of mantle magmas underplating the crust have been studied. Using Gibbs energy minimization allows for precise tracking of the crustal melt composition (major oxides) as a function of time and location.


This article contains four parts. In the first part, the scope of research, its method, basic assumptions, and the definition of trade- union concept ar e given. The second part deals with the 1961 Constitution that was a radical departure from its predecessor and the trade union law. The constitution allowed flourishing democratic institutions. Part three focuses on the 1980 Constitution in terms of trade union law, trade union activities and collective bargaining. The military banned ali strikes, outlawed the trade unions and suspended collective bargaining or wage negotiation. Part four, on the other hand, explicates post- 1980 area with a strong emphasis on execution of amendments in those lows and regulations. in the final part it is argued that the 1980 Constitution, including amendments in constitution and trade- union lows, limits organized labor movement and other channels of democratic struggles.


Multiple informants in the evaluation process and the identification of the relationship between risk factors and children's behavioral problems could help mental health professionals planning necessary strategies for preventing and managing behavioral problems. This study examined the relationship between risk factors and behavioral problems in a group of 25Brazilian children and their parents. Parents evaluated their children's problems (CBCL), their own problems (ASR), and the Family Adversity Index. Children provided information about themselves through a semi-structured interview (SCICA). Elevated family adversity indexes correlated positively with high scores for Internalizing Problems (CBCL) and Total Self-Report Problems (SCICA). The marital discord factor was associated with the presence of externalizing, internalizing and total problems. These results reinforces the need of multiple informants, suggest that several factors are associated with the presence of childhood psychopathology, and that public policies are needed to reduce risk factors, in order to promote mental health in childhood.


City infrastructure agencies routinely implement road projects that address various elements of urban infrastructure. The majority of these projects are short‐term in nature (e.g., utility repair), as they are completed in a few hours within 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. of a workday. The implementation of these projects during working hours, in spite of the inconvenience imposed on road users, helps the agency avoid extra labor costs associated with nonregular working hours. Careful scheduling of these projects can prevent unduly increased travel delays (road users' interest) while keeping project costs low (the agency's interest). This study presents a bi‐level framework for scheduling short‐term urban road projects that analyzes the implicit tradeoffs between the two stakeholders' interests. The upper‐level model establishes the optimal schedule considering the project characteristics, such as cost and duration. The lower‐level model captures the dynamic user equilibrium conditions that yield the road users' path and departure time choices. The bi‐level model is a mixed‐integer program with nonlinear constraints. Recognizing the relatively low efficiency of traditional solution methods, this paper proposes a deep‐neural‐network‐ensemble‐assisted active learning (DN2EA2L) algorithm and adopts a fixed‐point algorithm for solving the bi‐level model. The numerical experiment uses the Sioux Falls network to demonstrate the efficiency of the DN2EA2L, compared to conventional metaheuristic methods. It is shown that travel time increases due to the project implementation during the peak hours can outweigh the agency's saving in wage costs. Further, it is shown that a significant reduction in the road users' value of time enables the agency to schedule more projects during regular working hours.


The invention discloses a parallelism detecting method of a dynamic shear rheometer device based on the picture processing. The parallelism detecting method comprises the steps that coloring on surfaces of an upper steel disc and a lower steel disc is conducted, marking is conducted on the circumference outside the upper steel disc, the upper steel disc and the lower steel disc are rotated, and an interval picture of each marking place; binarization processing and pixel-scale calculating are conducted on the pictures to get partial intervals; comparing is conducted on a plurality of partial intervals, ranges of distances are acquired, the parallelism of the upper steel disc and the lower steel disc is judged and the like. The parallelism detecting method of the dynamic shear rheometer device based on the picture processing has the advantages that non-contact and non-abrasion are achieved, and high-precision detecting with zero cost is realized.


The occurrence of toxic freshwater blooms of cyanobacteria has been frequently reported during the last 15 years in Lalla Takerkoust lake (35 km southwestern of Marrakech city) In this study, it has been confirmed that the collected cyanobacteria bloom could produce different variants of microcystins at high concentration of 11.5 mg equiv. MC-LR g-1DW of the cyanobacteria cells. In order to study the effect of microcystins on faba bean seedling cultured in vitro, the crude aqueous extract of the toxic bloom was prepared and sterilized by filtration, and then it was supplemented to BNM medium at different concentrations. After 10 days of in vitro seedlings growing in BNM medium, plants fresh and dry weights were determined, plants shoot and root length was measured and then the roots were subjected to histological microscope observation of root hair, root tip and root cortical cells. The results revealed that microcystins exposure induced a decreasing of seedling growth and biomass accumulation in a concentration dependent manner. In addition, seedling young roots exhibited a brownish aspect, necrosis and tissue lysis. At a microcystin's concentration of 40


Polarization‐resolved photodetection in a compact footprint is of great interest for ultraminiaturized polarimeters to be used in a wide range of applications. However, probing the states of polarization (SOP) in materials with natural anisotropy are usually weak, limited by the material's natural dichroism or diattenuation. Here, a twisted unipolar‐barrier van der Waals heterostructure (vdWH) to construct a bias‐switchable polarization detection for retrieval of full SOP (from 0 to 180°) for linear polarized incident light is reported. As a demonstration example, this study realizes the concept in a b‐AsP/WS2/b‐AsP vdWH relying on the natural anisotropic properties of the materials without using additional plasmonic/metasurface nanostructures to realize linear polarimetry in the mid‐infrared range. Polarimetric imaging is further demonstrated with the developed linear polarimetry by directly displaying the Jones‐vector‐described SOP distribution of certain target object. This method, with the capabilities of detecting full linear SOP, is promising for the next‐generation on‐chip miniaturized polarimeters.


The reductive cross coupling of pyridinium salts derived from readily available primary alkyl amines with aryl halides has been achieved under mild reaction conditions using a nickel catalyst.


This paper presents a project management policy in which the appearance of software faults during system construction is used to determine the timing of system integration activities (e.g., team meetings, analyzing modules for interface inconsistencies, system fault correction, and so on). System integration is performed only if a threshold fault count has been exceeded; otherwise, module development is allowed to continue. We derive an expression for calculating fault thresholds and analyze the policy to reveal the presence of three operating regions: (1) a region in which development should continue with no system integration, (2) a region in which system integration occurs if a threshold fault count has been exceeded, and (3) a region in which system integration should always take place. Analytical and numerical results demonstrate how the fault thresholds change with system complexity, team skill, development environment, and project schedule. We also show how learning that occurs during each round of system integration leads to less frequent integration in the future, and lower total construction effort. Simulation experiments reveal that the fault threshold policy can be applied even if several homogeneity assumptions in the model are relaxed, allowing for differences in the propensity among modules to accumulate faults and the effort needed to correct these faults. Finally, the fault threshold policy outperforms a fixed-release policy in which system integration occurs whenever a fixed number of modules has been released.


The article considers methodological approaches to solving complex environmental problems which play a significant role in formation of the authentic image of the city, the mentality of its citizens, as well as in improving the consumer qualities of the city's depressed areas. The novelty of the author's approach is manifested in interdisciplinary consideration of the problems, in understanding of urban space formation as a system of interacting and intersecting social, economic, urban, and natural ecological function fields, forming together the physical space of the city, which, in turn, is presented by a variety of environments with individual characteristics. The development of the modern standard of area improvement is perceived by the author through the implementation of the main provisions of the city environmental land register that could provide a solution to a broad range of environmental problems.


Mountain settlements are the basis on which mountain people survival and the main space for humankind to make use of and transformation.Its construction and optimization is a main link for mountain people to get rid of poverty and become better off.To construct a saving society and develop recycling economy are new need for mountain settlement development in China.At last,the paper provided an optimization pattern of human settlement of China mountain areas with recycling economy angle of view,namely green settlement.We made some suggestion on how to high efficiently and sustainably utilization of mountain resources.


In this paper, the effects of the human body, bandage, and moisture on the performance of passive UHF RFID tags is analyzed. The tags used for measurements include a commercially available RFID tag and tags developed on paper and rayon bandage substrates, using brush-painted conductive silver ink. In order to evaluate the tags' performance, wireless measurements are done on different body parts, when changing the humidity level, and when increasing turns of bandage. The results show that the bandage-integrated tag antennas can be used in the vicinity of the human body in wound-healing and sensing applications.


The image of "moon" of the poems by Liao Gong-xian,a means of creating poetic imagination,is the esthetic symbol ofimage he pursues and studies.The image of "moon",on the one hand,can show us an idyllic imagery,and on the other hand,it is shot through with inharmonious political complaints of discourse.Meanwhile,the connotations of the image "moon" vary at different phases of creation of poems by Liao Gong-xian.


The literature proposes two basic statistical techniques: imputation and weighting. They mitigate the negative impact of non-response test results. One of the weighing methods, used by some foreign statistical offices, is calibration, which consists of correcting the output weights resulting from the sampling scheme using a variety of auxiliary variables. Calibration can also be used in the complete surveys, and the starting point in its practical application is to establish an appropriate baseline — artificial weights. This article presents an example of how to use the calibration approach. With it one can create contingency tables based on the data from complete surveys (censuses, administrative records).

http://ws.stat.gov.pl/WS/2012/1/WS_01_2012__3_Tomasz JÓZEFOWSKI Marcin SZYMKOWIAK — Estymatory kalibracyjne w badaniach statystycznych.pdf


Turbo-generators represent large, axis-rotating mass machines, supported mostly by deep foundations; to control deformations. Turbo-generators foundations are usually designed using both static and dynamic load patterns. Dynamic loads, resulting from un-symmetric masses are usually evaluated using turbine manufacturer catalogues, based on prototype physical models; that mostly consider foundations as a fixed platform. Neglecting foundations vertical and horizontal stiffness, arising from foundation configuration and soil conditions, results in an uneconomic structural design. This paper presents a mathematical model, based on energy principles, and considering foundation stiffness to evaluate turbine raft foundation displacements. An actual turbo-generator foundation has been presented, as a case study. Finally a parametric study, has been performed to figure out effects of foundation geometric and structural parameters on its behavior, when subjected to turbine dynamic loads. [A.T. Kassem. Displacement Analysis of Turbo-generator's raft foundations resting on Friction Piles. J Am Sci 2018;14(4):1-7]. ISSN 1545-1003 (print); ISSN 2375-7264 (online). http://www.jofamericanscience.org. 1. doi:10.7537/marsjas140418.01.


Taking AutoCAD for windows as the supporting software, using ADS in Windows asr system developing means, and employing the manner of modularization and gradual enlargement as well as OOP method, we have leveloped a three -- dimensional Parametric CAD system (WFCAD) Of welding fixtures. The WFCAD system can complete the weld workpiece's information processing, fixture size computing three dimensional model drafting, three -- dimensional dynamic simulation, and making the assembly and parts drawing from three -- dimensional model drafting. The WFCAD system has good extending property, opening property and a good man -- machine interface. The handsome and compact standard Windows man -- machine interface is used in WFCAD system.


Using the second harmonic generation properties of a KNb03 crystal, 860 nm pulses from a GaAs laser diode are frequency doubled to 430 nm. The Laser Diode Source's pulse timing width of less than 1 ns, and upper value production of lo3 lo4 blue photons per pulse, fulfills the requirements of low light level calibration in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. The advantage of the laser diode is the fast pulse rate (>lOkHz) compared to lower rate (15-20Hz), higher intensity, 337nm nitrogen laser sources. The stability and operating points of the laser diode source are determined by studying the sensitivity of blue photon production on crystal temperature and orientation.


Economic Security Act of 2003 - Provides for a program of temporary enhanced unemployment compensation which may add the greater of 15 percent or $25 to the amount of weekly regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) for which an individual is eligible under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Modifies eligibility requirements for regular compensation, where applicable for purposes of benefits under this Act, to: (1) set an alternative base period ending at the close of the most recently completed calendar quarter; and (2) allow individuals to seek less than full-time work or not accept full-time work.Sets forth program requirements for Federal-State agreements, formulas for determining weekly benefits, nonreduction and coordination rules, payments to States, and financing.Applies program agreements to weeks of unemployment: (1) beginning after the date on which such an agreement is entered into; and (2) ending before July 1, 2004. Makes a modification relating to alternative base periods applicable only to initial claims filed after September 11, 2001. Makes a modification relating to part-time employment and increased benefits applicable to weeks of unemployment in such agreement period, regardless of the date on which an individual's claim for benefits is filed.


The present study has been intended to assess the applicability of didactics of constructivism in the instructional process of technology education and identifying the prominent constraints that hinder the implementation of constructivist didactics in technological education classes. A descriptive survey research methodology was designed in order to attain the purpose. Simple random sampling and availability sampling techniques were utilized to select sample from the study site. Accordingly, 42 teachers and 147 students were selected from four technology education departments. The data were collected through questionnaire and observations. The analysis of quantitative data was made by descriptive statistics like frequency counts, percentage, t-test, and Ch-squire test.The result of the study revealed that most of technology education instructors neither undertake prior skill analysis nor attempted to integrate prior knowledge and skill lessons in their daily class lesson. Moreover, technology instructors are not enthusiastic to engage students to discover a new skill and apply in to practice. Diverse and goal free evaluation techniques were not employed to assess the skill mastery level of students. Furthermore, the research has shown that in availability of facilities, and diversity of student interest and lack of teachers training in modern techno- pedagogy found to be the major challenges in the practicality of constructivist didactics in technology education. Thus, it can be concluded that the major challenges in the utilisation of constructivist approach in teaching technology education are shortage of the required facilities and trainings. Therefore, it was recommended that the university should have to fulfil the required facilities and design specific and peculiar professional development programmes in order to acquaint instructors with modern instructional skills and techniques of technology education. conceptualization and understanding is the stage in constructivist pedagogical tenets in which, learning technical skills and theories, is a matter of associating and attaching a new meaning to past cognitive experiences, constructing new skills, explanations, and experiences and making decisions. It is followed by the stage of reflection in which, constructivist teacher encourage students to reflect on their current skills and


Purpose – to investigate the relation between the functional state and the physical fitness of studentswith different levels of biological development. Methods of the Research. 1) Physical fitness tests (combinedforce test, 100 and 1000 m running, 4×9 m multi-stage fitness test, standing long jump, body leaning forwardfrom seated position, pull-up on the beam); 2) Biological methods (anthropometry, determination of the level ofbiological development, blood pressure, adaptive capacity, Robinson and Kerdo indixes, life index, Shtange andGenchi's tests; 3) methods of mathematical statistics. The study involved 332 pupils of the Carpathian Lyceumwith enhanced physical training between the ages of 13 and 17. Results. As the level of biological developmentincreases, the functional reserves of the organism decrease, as shown by the low life index and the Robinsonindex. These changes were accompanied by an increase in systolic blood pressure and adaptive capacity,indicating the stress of the organism's regulatory systems. As the level of biological development increases, sodo the indicators of comprehensive strength exercise, standing long jump, flexibility and pull-up on the beam. Inaddition, the stamina and agility of adolescents with low levels of biological development are decreasing.Conclusion. The increase in the level of biological development is accompanied by a growth in the developmentof force and speed-force qualities, as well as flexibility. However, during the period of intense puberty, againstthe background of the slowing of the differentiation of the cardiorespiratory fitness and the increase in thetension of the mechanisms of neuro-humoral regulation of body functions, the growth of aerobic possibilities(stamina) is slowed down. The development of physical abilities and functional reserves of physiological systemsis heterochronous, due to the different growth rates of the organism and biological development. Taking intoaccount the identified physical and functional conditions of adolescents with different levels of biologicaldevelopment in the course of physical training will make it possible to carry out more effective dosing ofphysical loads in adolescence.Keywords: functional state, adolescents,biological development, physical-fitness, physical qualities,functional reserves.


PURPOSE: To provide a method by which the generation of interference noises by a beam splitter of a half mirror system is suppressed and which is capable of forming interference fringes uniform over a large area at a high contrast on a resist. CONSTITUTION: The light emitted from a coherent light source 11 is converged by an objective lens 12, is passed through a special filter 321 and is collimated by a collimating lens 13 to parallel beams which are made incident on a diffraction grating 14. The zero order light transmitted through this diffraction grating is shielded by a light shielding plate 15 and the diffracted ±1st order light is reflected by two sheets of mirrors 16, 17. These light beams are superposed and exposed in an exposing position A. The diffraction grating 14 is made deeper concentrically in the depth from the center toward the peripheral part and the diffraction efficiency is so controlled as to compensate the intensity distribution of the coherent light source 11. The interference fringes of the high contrast and uniform over the entire exposing surface are thus formed. COPYRIGHT: (C)1995,JPO


Wireless communication using Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems increases efficiency for a given total transmits power. Here investigate a novel approach to perform decodingorder optimization in the vertical Bell Labs layered space-time (V-BLAST) planning. Allowing for instantaneous transmission of multiple, independently encoded data streams, the V-BLAST transmit-receive method applies to the uplink of a multi-user communication system. A multi-antenna receiver decodes data streams consecutively, trade with inter-stream interference by means of cancelling and nulling; interference from before decoded streams is cancelled by subtraction, and residual interference is nulled by linear equalization. The order in which the streams are decoded can have a visible impact on system presentation. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) channels can offer high capability to wireless systems and the capacity increases linearly with the number of antennas. There are many schemes that can be applied to MIMO systems such as space time block codes, space time trellis codes, and the Vertical Bell Labs Space-Time structural design (V-BLAST). We study the broad-spectrum MIMO system, the general VBLAST structure, and the Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) Zero-Forcing (ZF) detectors in this paper.


In this paper we propose to rethink the development of intelligent agents based on cognitive architectures as a developmental learning process, inspired by theories of learning in children and cognitive development. The idea is targeted to explore architectures, methods and tools to systematically develop intelligent agents capable of integrating both practical knowledge and skills designed by developers and knowledge and skills acquired by interacting in properly designed learning environments.


When earthquakes from a single source govern a structure's design, decisions are sensitive to the probability distribution of times between characteristic earthquakes and correlations between time elapsed and magnitude. Scarcity of data prevents a purely statistical study of these matters while absence of trustworthy theories prevents a purely analytical approach. Based on simulation using a physically founded mathematical model and on data from various parts of the world, we postulate a slip-predictable model and four candidate distributions with random parameters for the distribution of interoccurrence times in subduction zones: lognormal, gamma, inverse gaussian and Weibull. Probabilities are updated using data from three groups of subduction earthquakes. In all cases the lognormal distribution minimizes the disutility due to choosing a single model. The same distribution with fixed parameters gives almost equally good results.


Zinc, an important micronutrient for the storage, structural stabilization, secretion and action of insulin, is present in highest concentration in pancreas. The transport of zinc occurs through the zinc transporter-8 (ZnT8) to the insulin secretory vesicles. Zinc Transporter-8 Autoantibodies (ZnT8A) has been found to be associated with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Recently it is recognized as a new autoantigen in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and its autoantibodies have been found in 50-60% of individuals with T1DM. Moreover, ZnT8A exhibit humoral auto reactivity which is not displayed by any of the other islet autoantigen like glutamine decarboxylase (GAD), insulin or tyrosine phosphate-related molecules (IA-2). Immunity against ZnT8 is dependent on clinical characteristics, which may provide evidence for early recognition highlighting the importance of this transporter in the pathogenesis of T1DM.
Information regarding this article was retrieved through PubMed, Google Scholar and other search engines available in the University by using the keywords zinc, ZnT, ZnT8, SLC30A8 (Solute carrier 30 member 8) and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. Information was gathered through original researches, reviews and epidemiological studies published up to August 2019.The aim of this review is to summarize the emerging role of ZnT8A in diagnosis and understanding the genetic basis of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.


Purpose – The Hospitality Industry Diversity Institute (Hidi) has put together a review of diversity research that looks at the entrance of diversity into the management conversation, how it compares and contrasts with affirmative action, the transformation of diversity into a broad based and inclusive concept, and some concerns with a broad diversity definition. This paper aims to address these issues.Design/methodology/approach – The methodology includes qualitative archival research which has been done to establish the review. The design of the paper flows through the entrance of diversity to an inclusion of diversity today, with a concern on a broad definition of diversity.Findings – The research has led the author to affirm The Diversity Task Force's 2001 definition of diversity, whereby diversity includes "all characteristics and experiences that define each of us as individuals" (Diversity Task Force, 2001).Research limitations/implications – Hidi wishes to be mindful of a broad definition of diver...


This framework seeks to develop a solution to fully automate unmanned vehicles through autonomous charging, presenting a kind of pad where autonomous vehicles start charging just by landing on them. It is a project that is aimed to big fleets of drones where the need to have them operating is an imperative, such like military, commercial or humanitarian crisis.
Once the mat is designed and working, a research on new sources of power, such as solar and wind will be analyzed, authorizing the deployment of such framework even in remote areas, where the access to power is limited.


Farmers are the subject for rural community cultural construction. Development of rural community cultural construction can not go without participation of farmers. At present, there exist a lot of factors that impede farmers' participation in community cultural construction. Firstly, basic cultural facilities and occasions are lacking for participation of farmers. Secondly, farmers have no enough knowledge in community cultural construction and have relatively low autonomy in participation. Thirdly, the relatively low cultural quality of farmers also constrains the ability of farmers to participation in community cultural construction. This article puts forward several measures to promote farmers to participate in community cultural construction, such as, to strengthen community education, enhance the quality of farmers and intensify the enthusiasm and ability of farmers to participate; to enlarge capital investment to set up cultural facilities and occasions and to offer solid material foundations for farmers' participation; to cultivate positively community cultural organizations and to push forward farmers to participate in community cultural construction; to resort to community culture and elegant culture to enhance the rural cultural level and to absorb farmers to participate in community cultural construction.


We consider nonlinear pricing policies that are designed by a social welfare maximizer who operates under a non-negative profit requirement. In our two-type economy, we characterize the set of all feasible nonlinear pricing policies and the frontier of the utility possibility set. Our results provide a link between distortion in consumption and individual, as well as, social welfare.


Taking some large-span prestressed concrete continuous beam bridge as the background project,the paper considers the stress of the zero block under the most unfavorable status of the hanging arm,undertakes the analysis by adopting large finite elementary program,Midas FEA,and sums up the stress distribution features of the prestressed concrete box-girder in complex stress status.


The security of encryption algorithms depends heavily on the computational infeasibility of exhaustive key-space searches. We use the RC4 cipher, utilized primarily in the area of data communications, as a test case for determining the effectiveness of exhaustive key-searches implemented on FPGAs using a network on chip (NoC) design architecture. Preliminary results show that a network of key-checker units implemented on a Xilinx XC2V1000 FPGA using Celoxica DK2 design tools can exploit the speed and parallelism of hardware such that the entire key-space of a 40-bit RC4 encryption can be searched in minutes. Furthermore, it has been found that the clock rate of the circuit diminishes as the number of key-checker units increases. Future work is proposed to find a method for predicting an optimal balance between the size of the network (number of key-checker units) and the clock rate in order to maximize performance.


The clinical diagnosis of atrophy of the brain, based upon the AEGfindings, seems to rest upon a rather weak foundation as Iong as quantitative judgments are given without knowledge of a standard and the deviations from this standard. 5 year's AEG-cases, making a total of 602, are investigated. 270 of these are judged normal, 332 abnormal by the radiologists. The distribution of different neurological diagnoses is found almost identical in the two groups, though there is a tendency towards an increase of volume of the ventricular system in vascular brain disease. Furthermore the average-age is much higher in the abnormal (46.3 years) than in the normal group (32.4 years), independent of the clinical diagnosis. In the cases with a dear reduction in the intellectual capacities or dementia a correlation between clinical and radiological diagnosis seems to exist, and the atrophic processes involve the whole brain, not only the cortex. The same correlation does not include the patients with other psychical deviations, e.g. neuroses. No correlation is found between EEG-abnormalities and an increase in the volume of the ventricular system.


This work is a comprehensive cross-methodological experimental study of phonological processing disorders in dyslexic Russian-speaking children. We developed and standardized a Russian-language test battery to assess phonological processing skills (The Russian Test of Phonological Processing), wich we then used to assess the features of phonological deficits in children with dyslexia and conduct an analysis of reading difficulties and their structural brain correlates using modern methods of videooculography and neuroimaging. The first phase's findings revealed that more complex phonological tests were also more difficult, whereas children's performance in these tests was found to be a significant predictor of reading speed. The project's second phase identified five common patterns of eye movements during reading in children with and without dyslexia. We discovered that children with dyslexia exhibit the same patterns as their typically developing peers, albeit with a three-year delay. Finally, the third phase revealed significant differences in gray matter volume in the cerebellum, insula, and parietal lobule between group of children with dyslexia and control group of typically developing children.
These findings have significant implications for clinical practice, interdisciplinary research on dyslexia, and possibly the educational system.


Dietary Arginine is supposed to be largely extracted by the liver for ureagenesis but favourable effects of dietary Arginine are mainly ascribed to a systemic utilization for NO synthesis.


Background and Objective: Hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit is a psychological crisis for the family. However, reminiscence has positive effects on the improvement of mental health. In this regard, this study aimed to investigate the effects of reminiscence writing on distress tolerance and spiritual health of mothers with hospitalized newborns.
Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed on 40 mothers of newborns admitted to the intensive care unit of Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Isfahan, Iran from February 2021 to August 2022. The research samples were divided into two experimental and control groups. During the hospitalization of the newborns in the hospital, the mothers in the intervention group recorded their daily memories with their newborns in a notebook for half an hour every day for 6 days. Data collection tools were demographic questionnaires, Distress Tolerance Scale by Simmons and Gaher, and the Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire by Polotzin and Ellison which were completed by mothers in both groups. At the descriptive level, the mean and standard deviation values as well as frequency distribution tables were used. Moreover, at the inferential level, Chi-square, Fisher's exact, independent t-test, and Mann-Whitney tests were employed.
Results: The distress tolerance and the spiritual health scores of the mothers in the intervention group before the intervention were 45.03±5.57 and 39.63±18.16, respectively, which were increased to 56.95±12.32 and 68.60±30.07 after the intervention, respectively. After the intervention, the scores of distress tolerance and spiritual health in the intervention group were significantly higher than those in the control.
Conclusion: Reminiscence in mothers of newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit can positively affect the anxiety and spiritual health of mothers.


The longstanding concept that corneal epithelial stem cells reside mainly in the limbus is supported by the absence of major corneal epithelial differentiation markers, that is, K3 and K12 keratins, in limbal basal cells (these markers are expressed, however, in corneal basal cells, thus distinguishing the mode of keratin expression in corneal epithelium from that of all other stratified epithelia), the centripetal migration of corneal epithelial cells, the exclusive location of slow-cycling cells in the limbal basal layer, the superior in vitro proliferative potential of limbal epithelial cells, and the transplanted limbal cells' ability to reconstitute corneal epithelium in vivo (reviewed in refs 1–4). Moreover, previous data indicate that corneal and conjunctival epithelia represent two separate cell lineages (reviewed in refs 1–4). Majo et al. 5 suggested, however, that corneal and conjunctival epithelia are equipotent, and that identical oligo-potent stem cells are present throughout the corneal, limbal and conjunctival epithelia. We point out here that these suggestions are inconsistent with many known growth, differentiation and cell migration properties of the anterior ocular epithelia. Majo et al. suggested that corneal and conjunctival stem cells are equipotent because corneal epithelial cells could form goblet cells, and because cultured (thus somewhat 'de-differentiated') pig corneal and conjunctival cells shared a similar phenotype 5. They may have overlooked, however, reports showing that cultured rabbit corneal/ limbal epithelial cells, but not conjunctival cells, expressed K3/K12 keratins 6–8 ; conversely, conjunctival epithelial cells, but not corneal cells, formed goblet cells when transplanted into athymic mice 8,9. Similar phenotypic specificity was preserved in cultured human limbal/corneal and conjunctival cells 10. Moreover, human and rabbit studies showed that limbal epithelial cells, but not conjunctival cells, could restore a true corneal epithelium (reviewed in ref. 4). These data have established that limbal/corneal and conjunctival epithelia are not equipotent and that they represent two distinct cell lineages governed by their own stem cells (reviewed in refs 4, 9 and 10). Majo et al. suggested that corneal epithelium contained stem cells because corneal epithelium gave rise to large colonies, serially transplanted mouse central corneal epithelium could regenerate, and transplanted mouse limbal cells did not migrate centripetally 5. Although their data showed that some pig corneal cells have significant proliferative potential, this property is not unique to stem cells: some transit amplifying cells such as hair matrix are known to be able to divide numerous times. Hence, a more meaningful test is to …


Several attempts have been made to produce a (generally adopted) semantics for the generative communication coordination language Linda. However, none has been universally recognised as deenitive. Therefore, there are various possible interpretations regarding the semantics of Linda operations. This report presents a survey of a variety of those attempts to produce a semantics for Linda. Also, an attempt is made to identify the areas of confusion which arise, and the possibilities which selecting diierent choices provide.


Elastic modulus error is the key factor influencing to the forming precision of grinding tool bended in the aspheric processing. The mathematical model of the grinding tool bended has been established through mechanics and the mathematics method, the error formula has been inferred and the influence of elastic modulus error has been analyzed, the calculating example has been given. The result indicates had to confirm material's elastic modulus value according to the precision request of workpiece in choosing grinding tool material and control it in the certain scope, thus guaranteed the grinding tool the forming precision, further improve the workpiece the face shape precision.


A package device and a forming method comprising: forming a dielectric layer over a substrate; forming an interconnect structure over the dielectric layer; and a die bonded to the interconnect structure. Then removing the substrate, and the dielectric layer is patterned. Forming a connection member on the surface of the dielectric layer, wherein the connecting member is electrically connected to the die. The present invention also provides a package.


The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of dysprosium soaps (myristate and stearate) in methanol have been determined by conductometric measurement. The value of CMC decreases with increasing chain length of fatty acid component. The molar conductance at infinite dilution, and degree of ionisation have been evaluated. The results show that dysprosium soaps behave as weak electrolytes.


In this manuscript, Yuan et al. proposed two new methods for estimating isotope ratio of background air vapor (delta_a) based on data collected from standard keeling-plot setups. The study is timely given that delta_a is an important variable that can yield insights into certain aspects of water cycling, but nonetheless remains underexplored as its estimation is not possible with the traditional keeling plot approach. After going through the manuscript, I feel that both of the proposed methods are interesting, the-oretically well grounded and based upon realistic assumptions. Nevertheless, I have some comments that may be of help for strengthening this manuscript, as the following. Although the theoretical framework underlying the IP method is sufficiently sound, I


The Mała Panew is a meandering river that flows 20 km through a closed forest. During times of high discharge the riverbed and floodplain are transformed under the influence of riparian trees. The changes provide the opportunity to measure the intensity of erosion and sediment accumulation based on tree ages, the dating of coarse woody debris (CWD) in the riverbed, and the dating of eccentric growth of tilting trees and exposed roots.


Applied differential mean value theorem to prove equality is very familiar in mathematical analysis.This thesis gives some methods of this type.


'Simultaneous treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases' is a instructive theory of the treatment in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases according to the present situation.'toxic pathogen theory' and 'collateral disease theory' are two of the pointcuts of the further research of the theory.'Toxic pathogen',used as a term of TCM,is easy to be accepted by people,and attracted the attention of the world.However,in actual work,either from theory or in clinical practice,'toxic pathogen theory' is surviving suspicions which directly affect the effectiveness and the instruction meaning.The author focuses on current shortage and gives opinions on how to standardize and clarify the meaning of 'toxic pathogen theory' and how to make the best of 'toxic pathogen theory' for clinical practice.


As Wales enters a new century with its industrial might an increasingly distant memory it is becoming more difficult for historians to picture that industrial tradition other than through written sources to be found in traditional archives. In these changing times exploring the cinematic depictions of this industrial heritage is particularly insightful and can often offer alternative perspectives to the historian than those offered through the written word. The usefulness of such cinematic images is complicated by a whole array of factors and historians need to tread carefully when utilizing them in their historical analyses. The complex and often fraught relationship between film and history can be considered from three different perspectives. First, the history of cinema and film can be studied as a history of an industry, an art-form or as a cultural institution. Second, film can be studied as a historical document or a source which can provide significant observations on the nature of the community which produced and viewed these films. In this guise, it could be argued that filmic representations of the past are a barometer of a nation's social and cultural life and, as such, film can be viewed as a primary historical source. Finally, film can be treated as a medium in its own right; a medium capable of presenting various accounts of the past and performing a role as a secondary historical source. For the purposes of this paper, the second of these approaches will be adopted in assessing Jill Craigie's Blue Scar (1949). This film, Craigie's only feature film, presents an account of a significant event in twentieth-century economic and political British history, namely, the nationalization of the coal mines. As such it can be considered an important historical source in its own right. Peter Furtado has recently claimed that a film dealing with history often encounters a hostile reception from professional historians:


We have grown ultrahigh-density self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) of InGaAs with sheet densities up to 2.5×1011 cm-2 and lateral diameters down to 10 nm, where the dot density increases with increasing As pressure during dot growth under optimum growth conditions. A ground-state photoluminescence (PL) spectrum shows a spectral width of 47 meV for the highest-density sample. Optical excitation-density dependences of the PL intensity and time profile are studied. The PL intensity from QD excited states increases with increasing excitation power, originating from a state-filling effect in QDs, which is directly confirmed by a plateau-like behavior on the PL decay curve. We find that the filling effect is significantly suppressed in the above ultrahigh-density dot ensemble, which suggests potential applications to superior energy-saving lasing and spin-functional optical devices.


The gastrointestinal tract is a complex ecosystem. Recent studies have shown that the human fecal microbiota is composed of a consortium of microorganism. It is known that antibiotic treatment alters the microbiota, facilitating the proliferation of opportunists that may occupy ecological niches previously unavailable to them. It is therefore important to characterize resident microbiota to evaluate its latent ability to permit the development of pathogens such as Clostridium difficile. Using samples from 260 subjects enrolled in a previously published clinical study on antibiotic-associated diarrhea, we investigated the possible relationship between the fecal dominant resident microbiota and the subsequent development of C. difficile. We used molecular profiling of bacterial 16S rDNA coupled with partial least square (PLS) regression analysis. Fecal samples were collected on day 0 (Do) before antibiotic treatment and on day 14 (D14) after the beginning of the treatment. Fecal DNA was isolated, and V6-to-V8 regions of the 1 6S rDNA were amplified by polymerase chain reaction with general primers and analyzed by temporal temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TTGE). Main bacteria profiles were com- pared on the basis of similarity (Pearson correlation coefficient). The characteristics of the microbiota were determined using PLS discriminant analysis model. Eighty- seven TTGE profiles on Do have been analyzed. The banding pattern was complex in all cases. The subsequent onset of C. difficile was not revealed by any clustering of TTGE profiles, but was explained up to 46% by the corresponding PLS model. Furthermore, 6 zones out of the 438 dispatched from the TTGE profiles by the software happened to be specific for the group of patients who acquired C. difficile. The first approach in the molecular phylogenetic analysis showed related sequences to uncul- tured clones. As for the 87 TTGE profiles on D14, no


The thermal stability and structural characteristics for gate stack structure of HfO2 dielectrics deposited by atomic-layer deposition (ALD) were investigated. The structural characteristics and chemical state of the HfO2 films in relation to the film thickness and postannealing temperature were examined by x-ray diffraction and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. An interfacial layer of hafnium silicate with an amorphous structure was grown on the oxidized Si substrate at an initial growth stage. The structural characteristics of the HfO2 films are closely affected by the interfacial layer and are depended on the thickness of the films. The 45 A thick HfO2 film with an amorphous structure was changed into a polycrystalline structure after rapid temperature annealing of 750 °C for 5 min, while thicker films were grown into a polycrystalline structure of monoclinic or tetragonal crystal structure. The silicate layer grown at the interfacial region is not stable even at 700 °C under ultrahigh vacuum condition...


Recently proposed thermal-shear and spin-Hall contributions to the particle polarization in heavy-ion collisions are discussed. Alternative definitions of the thermal-shear contribution, i.e. those of Becattini-Buzzegoli-Palermo on the one hand and Liu-Yin on the other, are very similar in the midrapidity region while quite different at forward-backward rapidities, which are measured in fixed-target experiments. It is shown that the thermal-shear contribution to the global polarization with momentum averaging extended to all momenta is very different within these alternative definitions. The spin-Hall contribution to the global polarization, defined similarly to the Liu-Yin shear one, is identically zero, if averaging runs over all momenta. Only application of restrictive momentum acceptance and the boost (to Λ rest frame) correction result in nonzero global spin-Hall polarization. If the spin-Hall contribution were defined similarly to Becattini-Buzzegoli-Palermo shear one, the global spin-Hall polarization would be non-zero even without any acceptance and the boost correction.


Let $G$ be a reductive group over an algebraically closed field $k$ of separably good characteristic $p>0$ for $G$. Under these assumptions, a Springer isomorphism $\phi : \mathcal {N}_{\mathrm {red}}(\mathfrak {g}) \rightarrow \mathcal {V}_{\mathrm {red}}(G)$ from the nilpotent scheme of $\mathfrak {g}$ to the unipotent scheme of $G$ always exists and allows one to integrate any $p$-nilpotent element of $\mathfrak {g}$ into a unipotent element of $G$. One should wonder whether such a punctual integration can lead to an integration of restricted $p$-nil $p$-subalgebras of $\mathfrak {g}= \operatorname {Lie}(G)$. We provide a counter-example of the existence of such an integration in general, as well as criteria to integrate some restricted $p$-nil $p$-subalgebras of $\mathfrak {g}$ (that are maximal in a certain sense). This requires the generalisation of the notion of infinitesimal saturation first introduced by Deligne and the extension of one of his theorems on infinitesimally saturated subgroups of $G$ to the previously mentioned framework.


Pubic hair removal is a body modification practice done worldwide for different socio‐cultural reasons, which is more common in women than in men, more common in younger than in older people, and more common in sexually active people than in abstinent individuals. Since there is no medical indication for genital epilation and depilation, with a few exceptions, there is only very limited evidence in the literature about the methods used and their risks. In order to provide users with guidance from a dermatological perspective on the use of different procedures and associated risks, the existing data were collected, analyzed and evaluated in a systematic literature search. For this purpose, a total of 290 articles in the English‐ and German‐language scientific literature were identified in databases (PubMed, Google Scholar) according to defined search strategies, and 61 publications with scientific significance were identified after assessing relevance. It became clear that depilation methods (shaving, trimming, chemical depilation) are used more frequently compared to epilation methods (waxing, sugaring, mechanical epilation, electro‐epilation, laser, intense pulsed light, drug epilation). The different risks and undesirable effects were analyzed in a method‐associated manner and prophylactic strategies to avoid complications were developed.


Over-the-air computation (AirComp) of a function (e.g., averaging) has recently emerged as an efficient multiple-access scheme for fast aggregation of distributed data at mobile devices (e.g., sensors) at a fusion center (FC) over wireless channels. To realize reliable AirComp in practice, it is crucial to adaptively control the devices' transmit power for coping with channel distortion to achieve the desired magnitude alignment of simultaneous signals. In this paper, we solve the power control problem. Our objective is to minimize the computation error by jointly optimizing the transmit power at devices and a signal scaling factor (called denoising factor) at the FC, subject to individual average power constraints at devices. The problem is generally non-convex due to the coupling of the transmit powers at devices and denoising factor at the FC. To tackle the challenge, we first consider the special case with static channels, for which we derive the optimal solution in closed form. The derived power control exhibits a threshold-based structure: if the product of the channel quality and power budget for each device, called quality indicator, exceeds an optimized threshold, this device applies channel-inversion power control; otherwise, it performs full power transmission. We proceed to consider the general case with time-varying channels. To solve the more challenging non-convex power control problem, we use the Lagrange-duality method via exploiting its "time-sharing" property. The derived power control exhibits a regularized channel inversion structure, where the regularization balances the tradeoff between the signal-magnitude alignment and noise suppression. Moreover, for the special case with only one device being power limited, we show that the power control for the power-limited device has an interesting channel-inversion water-filling structure, while those for other devices (with sufficiently large power budgets) reduce to channel-inversion power control. Numerical results show that the derived power control significantly reduces the computation error as compared with the conventional designs.


A series of N -substituted α-5,9-dimethyl-6,7-benzomorphans bearing N -2-hydroxyalkyl and N -2-bromoalkyl substituents have been synthesized and their analgesic, hypothermic, and depressant activities determined. The analgesic activities were not outstanding but the N -2-bromoethyl- and the N -2-bromopropyl derivatives produced prolonged hypothermia and depression. Possible mechanisms of these prolonged actions are discussed.


The functional response of adult Hippodamia variegata Goeze to Aphis gossypii Glover was fit for Rolling II model.The daily biggest predational number is 172.6 head of Aphis gossypii.It tooks 3.34 minutes to eat a head of Aphis gossypii, functional coefficient was 1. 575; The relationship between predation efficiency and individual interference could be fit for Hassell and Varley model E = 0. 979 5P-1.016;The functional response of adult Hippodamia variegata Goeze to the density of itself could be fit for Watt model A = 103.55P-0.6305.


The family, whether conjugal or joint (consisting of brothers living together), became the primary unit of Iranian society long before the Sassanid period. The terms dūtak (literally "smoke") and katak (literally "house") were employed to denote the concept of "family." They appeared primarily in the composites katak-xvatāy (master of the house, head of the family; paterfamilias) and katak -bānāk (mistress of the house; mater-familias). The criteria defining the institution of the family (in its fundamental and simplest form) are: kinship in the descending and lateral lines; common worship (particularly the cult of the domestic fire and of the spirits of deceased paternal ancestors) and religious rituals; economic unity (common family property; in the joint family, unseparated brothers had only ideal shares, and were juridically partners, brāt-hambāγ), as well as production and consumption in common. Juridically, the Iranian family constituted a group of agnates (1) led by the head of the family; they wer...


Malignant diseases, including haematologic malignancies, are associated with defects in the cell death mechanism. These defects are not only important for the growth advantage of the malignant clone, but when understood can be used for specific therapeutic targeting of malignant cells while sparing normal cells. The promising groups of agents that trigger, directly or indirectly, apoptosis of haematologic cancer cells are reviewed in this article. Some of the agents have recently been approved for therapy, some are under the clinical evaluation in various phases of clinical trials and some are tested under the experimental laboratory conditions.


His hypothesis was a catheter that could be inserted directly into the heart, for such applications as directly delivering drugs, injecting radiopaque dyes, or measuring blood pressure. In 1929 while working in Eberswalde, he performed the first human cardiac catheterization. He anesthetized his own lower arm in the cubital region and inserted a urinary rubber catheter into his antecubital vein, threading it upward. He Walked to Xray Department one floor below and advanced the catheter 60 cms into right ventricle under the flouroscopic guidance. This was then recorded on X-ray film showing the rubber catheter lying in his right arm.


Methyl 3,4-dicarboxy-3-hydroxyeicosanoate (1) was isolated from the acetone extract of the fruiting bodies of Ciborinia camelliae Kohn. The planar structure of 1 was elucidated by spectroscopic methods.


Purpose: No report of rigid bronchoscopy (RB) has been described from Singapore. Methods: We did a retrospective review of medical records of patients undergoing RB between November 2009 and November 2019 at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Results: 135 patients underwent 203 RB. RB was done for malignant central airway obstruction (MCAO) in 91 and benign diseases in 44 patients. The techniques used were Nd: YAG laser (n=56), stenting (n=63), transbronchial needle aspiration (n=5), clot removal (n=9), ballooning (n=15), argon plasma coagulation (n=5), and electrocautery (n=37). Procedural complications occurred in three (2.2%). Median survival was 10.1 months (interquartile range [IQR], 2.2 to 45.3) in the whole group, 7.8 (IQR, 2 to 18.3) in MCAO and 42.6 (IQR, 8.9 to 77.5) in benign diseases respectively. Twenty-two (16.3%) patients requiring intensive care unit survived for 7.1 months (IQR, 1.6 to 9.8) after RB. Twenty-eight (21%) patients required repeat RB 68 times. Of these 34 (50%) were for granulation tissue removal. Conclusion: RB was safe and improved survival however, the demand was low. The most common indications were re-canalization of MCAO and granulation tissue removal. The later was the most resource consuming indication for repeat RB. Future research should focus on minimization of granulation tissue formation.


This paper compares the progress made by NDUs, in comparison with matched units without NDU status, on research, audit and networking activities. We focus on two activities: (a) for research: involvement by staff in research, resources acquired and dissemination activity through publication and conference presentation and (b) for audit and networking: information on completed and current audits, and details of visits made by staff to and from other organisations. The data are drawn from questionnaires and interviews to the clinical leaders and staff and reports prepared by NDU-comparator pairs. Research and dissemination activity, though not high, are significantly greater (p<0.01) in NDUs than comparators. NDUs have a more widespread research culture as measured by involvement in research by all grades of staff. Research in NDUs focuses on local attempts to improve practice and has some way to go before it can be generalised into healthcare settings beyond the unit where it was carried out. There is no difference in number of audits undertaken by NDUs and comparators but NDUs carried out more audits to evaluate nursing work and comparators did proportionately more on practice topics and user issues. There is no association between research and audit activity; more audit does not result in less research. Networking activity by staff is significantly greater (p<0.01) for NDUs, suggesting they are seen as a resource to other centres. NDUs are active in research and networking — significantly more so than comparators. We suggest that audit can act as a conduit for implementing research findings and monitoring evidence-based practice.


Myocardial injury during active coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) infection is well described; however, its persistence during recovery is unclear. We assessed left ventricle (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) using speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in COVID‐19 recovered patients and its correlation with various parameters.


Every published article must contain an Abstract. All variables should appear lightface italic; numbers and units will remain bold. Abstracts must be a single paragraph. In order for an Abstract to be effective when displayed in IEEEXplore as well as through indexing services such as Compendex, INSPEC, Medline, ProQuest, and Web of Science, it must be an accurate, stand-alone reflection of the contents of the article. They shall not contain numbered mathematical equations, numbered reference citations, nor footnotes.


The article is devoted to the scientific and theoretical analysis of the formation of idea of protection of social and
economic rights and freedoms as a determining factor of development of social states on the territory of Europe. Within
the study the historical and legal aspects of constitutional recognition and protection of social and economic rights are
revealed.
Key words: human rights, social and economic rights and freedoms, protection of rights and freedoms, preservation
of rights and freedoms.


This process applies to all branches of law, including civil legal proceedings. In this work there are the particularities of the Institute appeals of civil cases, the prospects for its modernization, taking into account the requirements of the principle of justice.


A NEW, 3,000-MILE telephone and telegraph network was put into full operation on March 26, 1958, to provide both military and public service to some of Alaska's most remote northern points.


The description of traditional and modern approaches is resulted in creation of information resources of the major kinds of the documentation, merits and demerits of existing kinds of data carriers are considered, methods long-term archiving traditional and electronic documents are described.


An arrangement for providing a driving voltage from a primary power source (10) to a plurality of loads SPD (SPD1, SPD2, SPd3, SPD4, SPD5), comprising in combination: backbone wiring which carries a low voltage derived from said primary power source (10), wherein said primary power source (10) supplies AC, said low voltage on said backbone wiring being CA, characterized in that a conversion stage which converts said low voltage to a voltage AC drive voltage higher and supplies said voltage AC drive said plurality of loads SPD (SPD1, SPD2, SPd3, SPD4, SPD5), said conversion step comprises a plurality of step-up transformers (21, 22, 23, 24, 25) receiving said low voltage AC supply and said voltage AC drive higher voltage to a corresponding plurality of said SPD loads, and further comprising a transformer re conductor (20), said low voltage AC supplied to said low AC said trunk wiring.


Short shoots of Betula papyrifera Marsh, may be vegetative or reproductive. The latter bear a female inflorescence. Early flushing and rapid growth of short-shoot buds depend on the age and position of the short shoot. Axillary short-shoot buds flush later than 2- to 4-year-old short-shoot terminal buds, which in turn flush later than 5- to 10-year-old shoots. Mean relative growth rate (RGR) of 5- to 10-year-old short-shoot buds is greater than that of younger short-shoot buds. It is suggested that older short-shoot buds are relatively autonomous and that the flushing long shoot exhibits an inhibitory influence on the proximal axillary buds and possibly on young short-shoot terminal buds. Reproductive short shoots differ from vegetative short shoots in that they have lower leaf area ratios and leaf RGR, higher specific leaf area, smaller leaf areas, and fewer side nerve pairs and they grow more in length than in width. These findings are related to reproductive cost. The developing inflorescences act as p...


Subjective evaluation plays a key role in autonomous driving feature validation for safety, comfort, and driving quality. As for being objective, it is also important to evaluate the autonomous features with key performance indicators (KPI) depending on physical parameters before stepping into the delivery phase. To provide better driving experience for autonomous features, calibration parameters need to be tuned carefully while considering safety and comfort. Calibration parameters can be evaluated in terms of safe, unsafe, comfortable, or uncomfortable states through questions that allow the evaluation of the passenger's feelings during real-world testing which includes predefined scenarios and environments. In this paper, we proposed a method that performs the rating of the free lane change maneuver in terms of safety and comfort by employing the machine learning algorithms to model the passenger feedback according to the questionnaire for the subjective evaluation of the test maneuver execution. After trying several machine and deep learning regression techniques, we have shown that Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) regressor can be used to model drive feeling accurately for validation and calibration purposes. The constituted evaluation model can be utilized to improve quality of the autonomous driving, optimize calibration parameters and achieve user acceptance.


Political psychology and foreign policy, Margaret G. Hermann. Part 1 Perception studies: perception and foreign policy - an overview, James Voss and Ellen Dorsey the cognitive maps of British leaders, 1938-1939 - the case of Chamberlain-in-cabinet, Stephen G. Walker and George L. Watson on being more rational than the rationality assumption - dramatic requirements, nuclear deterrence, and the agenda for learning, Lloyd S. Etheredge. Part 2 Personality studies: personality and foreign policy - historical overview of research, David Winter Moammar Qadafi - comparing two methods of personality assessment, Charles Snare birth order and leader personality, Valerie M. Hudson. Part 3 Group dynamics: decision-making groups, Fritz Gaenslen modelling foreign policy advisory processes, Cynthia Orbovich and Richard Molnar policy-making in the context of small groups - the Cuban Missile crisis revisited one more time, Helen E. Purkitt conclusion - political psychology and foreign policy - an intellectual reckoning, Eric G. Singer and Valerie M. Hudson.


This contribution describes an optical cell suitable for high pressure studies between at least -130 degrees and 150 degrees which can be assembled for about $50 and is simple to use.


Let Cn be the symmetric inverse semigroup on the finite set Xn={1,2,…,n},and ξ,σ are two group elements of Cn.The paper obtains the sufficient condition when C(ξ)={α∈Cn|ξα=αξ} and C(σ)={β∈Cn|σβ=βσ} are isomorphic.


Application of InGaAs/InGaP double‐heterostructure (DH) lasers increases the band offset between the cladding layer and the active layer more than the use of conventional 1.3 µm InGaAsP/InP lasers. As a first step in realizing 1.3 µm InGaP/InGaAs/InGaP DH lasers, we proposed InGaP lattice‐mismatched epitaxial lateral overgrowth (ELO) technique and successfully carried out the InGaP growth on both GaAs (100), (111)B and InP (100) substrates by liquid phase epitaxy. In this work, we grew the InGaP crystal on GaAs (111)B substrate by adjusting Ga and P composition in In solution, to obtain In0.79Ga0.21P (λ = 820 nm) virtual substrate for 1.3 µm InGaAs/InGaP DH lasers. To grow the InGaP all over the lateral surface of the substrate, the growth time was extended to 6 hours. The amount of InGaP lateral growth up to 2 hours was gradually increased, but the lateral growth was saturated. The InGaP lateral width was about 250 µm at the growth time of 6 hours. We report the result that optical microscope observation, CL and X‐ray rocking curve measurements and reciprocal lattice space mapping were carried out to evaluate the crystal quality of the grown InGaP layers. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


In the current context of climate change and life on Earth, the purpose of this paper is to establish the effects of different light treatments (i.e., LEDs—white, blue, red, and sunlight) and two different substrates (i.e., gauze and biochar) on garden cress sprouts. In this respect, sprouts' fresh weight and fresh length were statistically analyzed. In the case of the fresh weight, the results indicated that the most suitable substrate for better growth is biochar under all of the light treatments, with a 5.78% weight increase. On the other hand, the highest particular value regarding weight was obtained for gauze substrate under sunlight treatment, with a 4.08% weight increase compared to biochar substrate and sunlight treatment. Furthermore, red LED and biochar used as substrate improved the development of short radicles, with a decrease in length of 94.80% compared to gauze substrate and red LED treatment. The effect of LED irradiation was completed with biochemical analyses concerning polyphenols, flavonoid content, and antioxidant activity. Results suggest that blue LED is the most suitable source of artificial light to promote the accumulation of secondary metabolites, with a 9.88% higher concentration of flavonoids compared to the other light variants (2.22 ± 0.40 mg rutin equivalent/g fresh weight) and 37.98% higher concentration of polyphenols compared to the other light variants (2.76 ± 1.05 mg gallic acid equivalent/g fresh weight) in garden cress sprouts. The illumination with white LED produced the highest effect concerning antioxidant activity, with a 37.60% higher free radical scavenging activity.


We study the lepton flavor violating (LFV) decays $Z\to\ell^\pm_i\ell^\mp_j$(li,j = e,μ,τ) in the framework of the minimal 331 model. The main contributions arise at the one-loop level via a doubly charged bilepton with general LFV couplings. We obtain an estimate for the corresponding branching ratios by using the bounds on the LFV couplings of the doubly charged bilepton from the current experimental limits on the decays li → ljγ and $\ell_i^-\to \ell_j^+ \ell_k^- \ell_k^-$. A bound on the bilepton mass is also obtained through the current limit on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. It is found that the bilepton contributions to LFV Z decays are not expected to be at the reach of experimental detection. In particular, the branching ratio for the Z → μ±τ∓ decay is below the 10-10 level for a bilepton mass of the order of 500 GeV.


Chronic alcohol administration is resulting the generation of reactive oxygen species, thereby leading to liver damage. There is a lack of reliable hepatoprotective drugs in modern medicine in the alcohol induced liver damage. Plant products play a vital role in the hepatoprotection by its antioxidants property. Natural products are the important source of remedies for the treatment of diseases including hepatic disorders. So the identification of a potential hepatotherapeutic agent for the protection of liver from various hepatotoxins will provide a useful way for the prevention of these liver related diseses. This study evaluates the hepatoprotective activity of Mikania scandens (L) willd.(MS) in rats. Administration of alcohol at 40%v/v ethanol (2ml/100g body wt. p.o), for 21 days showed a significant elevated levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), total bilirubin (TB), triglycerides, cholesterol and lipid peroxidation(LPO). There was also a significant decreased levels of catalase, glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase when compared to normal control rats. Pretreatment of rats with 500 mg/kg body weight of extract and fractions of Mikania scandens (L) willd. or silymarin(100 mg/ kg) was found to protect the rat from hepatotoxic action of ethanol as evidenced by significant reverse action when compared to group administered alcohol only. Histopathological studies show marked reduction in fatty degeneration and centrizonal necrosis in animals receiving Mikania scandens (L) willd.along with ethanol as compared to the control group.


Abstract A sequence of positive Borel measures with infinite support on the unit circle is given, converging in the weak star topology to a measure with support consisting of a finite number n 0 of mass points. The sequences of monic rational functions orthogonal with respect to inner products determined by the measures are studied, with the focus being on the asymptotic behavior of the zeros. The main result is twofold: For a fixed n  >  n 0 , n 0 of the zeros ("interesting zeros") tend to the mass points of the limiting measure, while the remaining n  −  n 0 zeros ("uninteresting zeros") may not converge at all. However, by considering subsequences, limits may be obtained and the remaining zeros (and their limits) will be located in a closed disk | z | ≤  R


The contribution by the units in York and Leeds to tissue‐engineering research is considerable, and they describe here their work to assess a natural matrix for use in the urinary tract, and to develop an in vitro regimen for assessing the biocompatibility of potential biomaterials. They describe how they have developed a simple, reproducible and rigorous regimen which will help to identify the causes of potential bio‐incompatibility.


Arabic Literature contains prose and poetry. Aase consists of Masal speeches (Khatabah, Novels, and Essays (Rasail) So- me characteristics of pre-lslamic prase lasted until Aslamic period without any changes on their purposes likeloving, appreciatting, in- sisting, encouraging, mourning, and apologi- zing.


This paper reviews recent developments in scanning TEM (STEM)-based characterization of localized surface plasmons. It will be shown that localized surface plasmon resonances can be mapped with STEM cathodoluminescence as well as with monochromated electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) [1]. The spectral and spatial resolution of the techniques will be discussed, and examples will be given that demonstrate the unique capability of STEM-based plasmon analysis in comparison with other experimental techniques.


STEPHEN L. KELLER, Uprooting and Social Change: The Role of Refugees in Development, Manohar Book Service, New Delhi, 1975, Pp. xx+357, Rs 65. Some victims of disaster are forgotten, others are discovered and rediscovered for study by academics. The Bengali and Punjabi refugees of the post-partition days fall in the first category. The Bengalis have been unsuccessful, suffering in consequence from self-depreciation and a sense of rejection, and triggering political forces which the rest of the country fin.ds difficult to live with. The Punjabis have been successful, often in ways which at least some of them do not want to talk about. And total success, we kno~~, can be as dead an


This paper investigates resource allocation for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular network where D2D users communicate in the cellular band. We formulate the optimization problem of subchannel and power allocation, which aims to maximize the sum rate of D2D transmitters while satisfying interference constraints at the base station (BS). Since the problem is NP-hard, solving it requires a huge amount of computation. Therefore we reduce its computational complexity by dividing it into two subproblems: a subchannel allocation problem and a power allocation problem. To solve the subchannel allocation problem, we propose two heuristic algorithms: the max greedy SNR scheme and the minimum interference scheme. The max greedy SNR scheme achieves higher sum rate and has lower computational complexity compared to the minimum interference scheme. However it requires global channel state information (CSI) of all nodes, which demands huge feedback overhead. On the other hand, the minimum interference scheme requires the location of each node. After subchannel allocation, the BS finds the optimal transmit power of each D2D transmitter by using the difference of convex (DC) programming. Simulation results verify that our proposed subchannel allocation schemes outperform the random subchannel allocation scheme, and the optimal power allocation results in the improved sum rate of D2D transmitters.


DR. CHILTON suinmarised the main points and described the field work (1947-1952) 011 wllicli the results were based. He stressed the need for preliminary cultivations for eliminating the rhizomes of Johnson Grass before any weed killers were applied. This might involve 6 separate ploughings and might cost $15 per acre. Reinfestation of the land by seedlings could then be prevented by the use of 2,4-D and T.C.A. The first was best applied in the drill in a 24 to 30 ins. band, a t the rate of 2-3 lb. acre. Depending on the rainfall, the procedure might destroy 75-80 % of the weed seedlings. A winter covercrop might then be planted 3 to 4 weelrs afterwards. In spring and summer, various other weedBiller treatments were applied, and these were fully described in the paper. They involved the use of z,4-D and T.C.A., as well as pre-emergence sprays and sodium chlorate for dealing with Johnson Grass rhizomes that might have developed in the stubble crops. THE CHAIRMAN agreed that the pre-emergence stage was the most vulllerable for the colltrol of weeds by the herbicides described, as experienced in Hawaii. He aslred for further informatioll on the use of T.C.A. DR. CHILTON reported that in Louisiana best results with T.C.A. were obtained a t 20 lb./acre, broadcast basis. The substance was more effective when applied over wet areas than over dry. MR. STENDER stated that in his territory a t least two estates would have gone out of productioil because of grass weeds (Bermuda Grass and Paniczlm re+ens) except for the use of T.C.A. as weedlriller. The substance was used a t a rate of zo lb./acre and applied during plougl~iing and discing, although sometimes up to 8 or 10 treatments, amounting to IOO lb. per acre of T.C.A., were needed for fuli control.


In this paper, we illustrate a preliminary approach to the translation of Web data between heterogeneous formats. This work fits into a larger project whose aim is the development of a tool for the management of data described according to a large variety of formats used on the Web and the (semi)automatic translation of schemes and instances from one model to another. Data translations operate over XML representations of instances and rely on a uniform representation of models that we call metamodel. The metamodel shows structural diversities and dictates the needed transformations. Complex translation can be derived by combining a number of predefined basic functions performing XML transformations expressed in XQuery. Practical examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the approach.


We have obtained K-band photometry of J0422+32 using the ARC 3.5 m telescope in January 1997 to search for the ellipsoidal variations expected from the secondary star. J0422+32 is a soft x-ray transient that erupted in August of 1992, containing a compact object primary and a late-type secondary star. Both a neutron star and a black hole have been proposed as the primary component for this system. The inclination of the orbit, however, is not known well enough to be able to decide between the two. We explore the use of infrared observations, where the secondary star is the dominant luminosity source, to measure the amplitude of the ellipsoidal variation of the system. The GENSYN light curve synthesis program is used in conjunction with these variations to estimate the orbital inclination, and hence the mass of the binary system.


FIELD: power industry. SUBSTANCE: mobile plant for combustion of fragments of solid-propellant rocket engines in the form of elongated box of rectangular cross section, which is transported in horizontal position by motor-vehicle train and set to working vertical position by means of power hydraulic drives of tow truck of motor-vehicle train, includes chamber-type combustion furnace in the box, which is interconnected with combustion product cleaning device located above it. Chamber-type combustion chamber with granular material layer at the bottom has loading device providing the alignment of fragment on surface of granular material layer, and bottom granular material removal door together with non-combustible residues of fragment with direction to separator for separation of granular material and non-combustible fragment residues. Combustion product cleaning device in fluidised bed of active granular material includes basket for active granular material and control devices for supply of combustion products from combustion chamber and bed fluidisation. Upper part of the cleaning device in the elongated box is formed with separating baffle with exhaust pipe in the form of open internal branch pipes on short sides of the box. EFFECT: improving environmental safety and cleanness of utilisation process in field conditions; increasing the efficiency and reducing the design heating. 8 cl, 4 dwg