The Steve Fund, a national advocacy organization focused on the mental health of young people of color, on Sept 15 published a report with recommendations for college leaders to better support those students who are currently facing unprecedented mental health challenges The recommendations were formed by the organization's Crisis Response Task Force, a group of students, mental health experts, colleges, nonprofits and corporate executives created to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout on the mental health of young people of color The report, Adapting and Innovating to Promote Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being of Young People of Color: COVID-19 and Beyond, also addresses the nation's ?racial reckoning? and how the death of George Floyd and wide acknowledgment of systemic racism can put additional emotional stress on those students The task force recommended that college leaders take a ?trauma-informed approach? to decision-making and show empathy toward racial injustices experienced by students of color in order to build trust Counseling centers and mental health support staff on campus should collaborate with faculty members;student affairs;and diversity, equity and inclusion staff members to respond to increased counseling center demand Antiracist policies and the promotion of inclusion and belonging overall can have a positive impact on the mental health of students of color, the report stated


The Nitrate to Ammonia and Ceramic (NAC) process is an innovative technology for immobilizing liquid form low level radioactive waste (LLW). An experimental study has been conducted to measure the heat transfer properties of the NAC product slurry. The results indicate that the heat transfer coefficient for both concentration slurries is much higher than that of pure water, which may be due to the higher conductivity of the gibbsite powder. For the 20% concentration slurry, the heat transfer coefficient increased as the generalized Reynolds number and slurry temperature increased. The heat transfer coefficient of 40% is a function of the Reynolds number only. The test results also indicate that the thermal entrance region can be observed only when the generalized Reynolds number is smaller than 1,000. The correlation equation is also developed based on the experimental data in this paper.


Airborne palynomorphs from eight localities in Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria were analyzed palynologicaly for their phytoecological indicator species. A total of fourty-seven (47) pollen type belonging to twenty- nine (29) plant families were encountered. Indicator species identified were those of forest (2378), savanna (6819) and human impact (823) pollen grains. The predominant indicator species were pollen of Alchornea cordifolia Sw., Berlinia grandifolia (Vahl) Hutch. And Dalz., Commiphora africana, Elaeis guineensis Jacq., Nauclea latifolia Sm., Lannea acida A. Rich., Syzygium guineense, and members of the families Poaceae, Combretaceae/ Melastomataceae and Asteraceae tubiliflorae complex. Analysis of variance for the various phytoecological indicator species shows that there was no statistical significant difference (P>0.05) between the pollen recorded for the various indicator species. Indicators of Savanna species were the highest pollen contributors. The variation in the monthly pollen counts (of families) and individual pollen types at different sites suggests that the atmospheric concentration of pollen is influenced not only by the meteorological factors, but is essentially a function of the frequency, density and abundance of plant species as well as their flowering behavior at a given locality. Results confirmed the vegetation of the study area to be Derived Savanna despite high level of anthropogenic activities. The results of this study have shown the various phytoecological indicator species in the study environment; most of which are at the verge of extinction through series of anthropogenic activities. Such plants could be properly conserved and their exploitation managed to prevent extinction thereby enhancing biodiversity sustainability.


The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Team handled 150 arrests in 138 patients in 1992 at the newly constructed hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Given that there were 15,311 admissions during this year, the number of patients who underwent CPR represents 0.9% of the total patients admitted. In 1990, the last full year at the old and now vacated hospital, 42% of initial resuscitative efforts were successful, and 22.9% of patients were discharged home. These values for 1992 were 43% and 15.9%, respectively. The latter value, the lowest since a 14.3% discharge rate in 1984, is not statistically different (chi square P>0.10) from the 22.9% value in 1990. Interestingly, 50 published reports of in-hospital cardiac arrests during the past 30 years have demonstrated an overall discharge rate of about 15%, without notable improvement over the last three decades.' Unlike Dartmouth's statistics, some of these studies eliminated arrests in the emergency room from analysis, a group with a poor overall survival. The Dartmouth Team response time for 50 arrests examined over the last 8 months of 1992 indicated an average response time of 2.7 minutes. See Table I for demographics of the cardiopulmonary arrests.


We introduce a modified version of the Ultimatum game where people bargain over losses instead of gains. Results show that when people bargain over losses, they make more aggressive offers, in terms of their own monetary well-being, as compared to when they bargained over gains.


Machine vision (MV) is the technology which provides camera based analysis of images for various applications such as automatic quality inspection, pattern recognition, process flow control and pattern classification. The machine vision system is expensive as it contains high resolution camera and lenses. The paper proposes an algorithm to develop a low cost web camera based vision system for screw thread inspection. The Bayesian super-resolution method is used to super-resolute the images captured using low resolution web cameras. The parameters such as major, minor and pitch diameters, depth and thread angles are measured by using the proposed dimension measurement method. The results of web camera based automatic inspection of major diameter, minor diameter, pitch diameter, thread and depth of hex lag screw thread shows an error of range 0.000 to 0.310 mm. The comprehensive experimental results reveal that the proposed approach is suitable for real-time high speed quality analysis in various industries.


Can fiscal and political decentralization help to circumvent or cauterize the problems of predation, authoritarianism, internecine conflict, social inequity, economic underperformance, and other governance failures that plague Africa's neo-patrimonial states in general and natural resource-dependent countries in particular? This chapter explores that question by distilling lessons from the experience of Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, biggest economy, most populous country, and long-standing decentralized federal polity. Nigeria has granted extensive policy autonomy and fiscal resources to its subnational governments with some salutary effects, but without escaping the resource curse or attaining robust developmental or democratic governance. The chapter explores challenges and pathologies in the design of Nigerian fiscal decentralization that may account for the country's predicament. Additionally, it explores the experiences of Ghana and Kenya, two new or prospective African oil exporters that have instituted significant experiments in good oil revenue governance and/or political decentralization. The chapter begins with an examination of the potential roles of decentralized institutions and fiscal federal constitutions in neo- patrimonial, natural resource-dependent, African settings. It then assesses six aspects of the design and performance of Nigeria's fiscal decentralization (vertical fiscal inter-governmental relations, horizontal fiscal relations, conflict resolution institutions, resource management rules, democratic political processes, and fiscal or constitutional reform agendas) before reviewing these same issues in the Ghanaian and Kenyan contexts. The analysis highlights some of the positive lessons and many of the negative aspects of Nigeria's fiscal and political decentralization. The major achievement associated with fiscal federalism in Nigeria is the relatively balanced and durable accommodation of national and


Resource-constrained project scheduling is to allocate limited resources to activities to optimize certain objective functions and to determine a start time for each activity in the project such that precedence constraints and resource requirements are satisfied. This study suggests a multi-project scheduling model which can level work loads, make the most of production capacity and restrain the delay of delivery by developing a heuristic algorithm which minimizes the project completion time and maximizes the load rate under resource constraints.


The blades of wind turbines may be imbalanced under the terrible environment, and it may cause economic losses and even damage the wind turbine if it cannot be timely identify and dispose .In this paper, characteristics analysis and fault diagnosis research are carried out for rotor imbalance. Firstly, a wind turbine simulation model is set based on GH Bladed , and the signals of different imbalanced conditions are get by setting imbalanced parameters.Secondly, the time-domain characteristics of blade load and tower op load signals under different working conditions and the frequency-domain characteristics of nacelle vibration signal are analyzed.Then, a fault diagnosis model for rotor imbalance of wind turbine is established base on support vector machine (SVM). Finally, the signals of approximate imbalance conditions are used as the training and testing samples.The testing results show that the fault diagnosis model has the ability of reasoning about faults of rotor imbalance.


To the President, Dr Anthony Cross, Members of Council, Fellows (both old and new), Ladies and Gentlemen: thank you for the invitation to speak on this occasion. It is one that I have been looking forward to. I want to add my own welcome to those new Fellows, Diplomats, Certificants and prize winners here today. Firstly, and ahead of the formal Welcome to Country tomorrow, I wish to acknowledge that we are meeting on the land of the Kaurna people, and pay my respects to their Elders, both past and present. I also want to pay my respects to those Elders of our College that are present today, particularly Tom Hamilton, the first President of ACEM whom this speech honours, and who I think has probably been to every Oration ever made! I am very pleased that he is here today. This is the 30th Annual Scientific Meeting of the College, which marks the 30th anniversary of the decision to found the College. I think it is important that we note this because it is a big deal. While we are nowhere near the oldest college in Australia and New Zealand, there are several that are younger than us, including our critical care colleagues in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care. I think it is fair to say that the courageous decision made by our Founding Fellows 30 years ago to form a college has stood us in very good stead, and provided both an example to and inspiration for our critical care colleagues in taking the same path. There have been a number of achievements over the last 30 years, including the following: • The first Fellows by examination in 1986 (including the current Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Baggoley, Trish Saccasan-Whelan and others) • The introduction of the National Triage Scale in 1991, with a big note of thanks to Ed Brentnall and Gerry FitzGerald for the work that led to it, and noting the enormous influence it has had on triage not only in Australia and New Zealand, but the UK, Canada and numerous other countries as well • Our role as one of the four founding societies for the International Federation for Emergency Medicine in 1991 • Our formal recognition as a medical specialty in 1993 • Our accreditation by the Australian Medical Council in 2007, which has just been renewed for another 2 years • Celebrating our Silver Jubilee in Wellington in 2008 Today is my last day of 20 years, serving on either Board of Censors (as it was then) or Council, including 10 of those years on both simultaneously. I know you are thinking that it is about time I left! In any case, this experience and my other experiences as outlined by Anthony in his introduction have given me some special insight (I think) into how the College has travelled, and what are the challenges for the future for both ACEM and for Emergency Medicine in general. There is a lot I want to say about this, including some things maybe I shouldn't. So, as the College enters its fourth decade, what are the challenges that we face? I believe that the College and emergency medicine in general is at an important transition point, though I am not sure how much we understand this, and I will speak more about it later. There are three particular challenges we need to meet, and I will talk about each of them in turn. They are: • Who are we treating? • Who are we training? • Who are we and what are we going to be in the future?


Now a day's due to global warming and climate changes there are challenging situations in field of agriculture. To reduce the cost and improve the productivity along with product quality the automisation in the field of agriculture is indeed necessary, which will also reduce the farmer's efforts. This paper proposes a design of a wireless sensor network (WSN) with the help of MSP430 controller which is able to monitor the temperature, humidity, soil moisture and status of rain in an agriculture environment. This system also controls the water supply demand to crops depending upon present climate conditions within the crop field. This system utilizes low power, cost effective microcontroller MSP430, a temperature sensor LM35, humidity sensor SYSH220, rain detector, soil moisture sensor for sensing the field climate parameters and a wireless Zigbee transceiver for remote logging of data at central location to control the climate state with the help of motor and valve control circuitry.


Deconstructionism brings modern translation studies a plural and dynamic research dimension.Based on the objective criticism of Structuralism,this paper makes an analysis of the nature of language and meaning under Deconstructionism and draws a conclusion that diachronism,transculturalism and pluralism can better embody the essence of translation.Deconstructionism does more than just deconstructing and destroying,and it emphasizes the continuity and stability of the "defferance" of meaning,the rebuilding of the meaning of works after deconstruction and the positive spirit of pursuing the most "relevant" translation.Although it is not a concrete translation principle,Deconstructionism broadens the thinking of translation studies and brings a good deal of enlightenment to our modern translation research field.


The article provides the research results, whose goal is to study problems of business-process controlling and to design methodological approaches and recommendations on practical realization of complex management of business-processes by using digital technologies at enterprises of service sector. The authors show and substantiate in theory business-processes at enterprises providing hairdressing services. A new vision of managing businessprocesses in current conditions of business is shown. Key principles and criteria of business-process optimization are identified, recommendations on resolving problems of using digital technologies are provided, which are necessary to optimize business-processes at the enterprise and on practical realization of complex management of businessprocesses at enterprises by using digital technologies, such as chat-bots and OCR/ICR systems meant for optical recognition and digitalization of enterprise work. The article shows that the use of modern digital technologies provides endless possibilities for business-process improvement by special systems that can change and enhance them continuously. It can simplify management methods, cut the cost of process optimization. The authors propose to introduce the system of business-process controlling and recommend to use indicators of enterprise work efficiency in view of separate processes.


Using the linear approximation method, the normalized intensity fluctuation(NIF) for bias signal modulation is calculated in a gainnoise model of a singlemo de laser driven by colored correlated noises, in which each is colored; and the influences of the strength of bias signal modulation, the frequency of period si gnal, the correlation strength and correlation time of noises on NIF is studied in detail. We observed that a minimum appears in the NIF versus pump noise inten sity curve and quantum noise intensity curve; the normalized intensity fluctuati ons of a singlemodel laser for bias signalmodulation and direct signal modul ation are compared.


Provided are fluorine-containing boric acid composite particles comprising a condensation product of boric acid and a fluorine-containing alcohol represented by the general formula R F -A-OH (where R F is a C6 or lower perfluoroalkyl group or a polyfluoroalkyl group configured to include a C6 or lower perfluoroalkylene group and a C6 or lower terminal perfluoroalkyl group in which some of the fluorine atoms of the perfluoroalkyl group have been substituted by hydrogen atoms, and A is a C1-C6 alkylene group). The fluorine-containing boric acid composite particles may be a condensation product of boric acid and both fluorine-containing alcohol and alkoxysilane having a molar ratio of 1.0 or less with respect to the fluorine-containing alcohol. These fluorine-containing composite particles have excellent adhesiveness to inorganic substrates and the like.


This historical-critical study seeks to better situate the Jack Johnson controversy amid contemporary theories of race, culture, and the news media. The study invokes theories of Whiteness to better demonstrate how dominant White interests, as reflected by the White news media, contained the boxer by consistently defining him on their terms. This perspective contrasts with pervasive accounts that position Johnson as a paragon of resistance within an epic narrative. In contrast, the analysis argues that Johnson ultimately reinforced White stereotypes and caused White interests to expand color barriers in sports and develop new stereotypes to contain future Black athletes.


Objective: This research was conducted to find potential candidate compounds from one hundred thirty-seven Indonesian marine natural products capable of preventing SARS-CoV-2 with a computational approach.
Methods: The physicochemical properties and Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity (ADMET) profile of compounds were predicted using ADMETLab. The candidate compounds were filtered using AutodockVina. Molecular docking was carried out using AutoDockTools on the SARS-CoV-2 3-Chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro) and Papain-like protease (PLpro) that is essential for the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle. Also, AMBER22 was used to perform molecular dynamics simulations in this study.
Results: Based on molecular docking results, Pre-Neo-Kaluamine has good activity against 3CLpro with a bond energy value of-10.35 kcal/mol. Cortistatin F showed excellent binding activity on PLpro, with energy value results of-10.62 kcal/mol. Acanthomanzamine C has dual targeting activity and interacts well with protein 3CLpro and PLpro with binding energy values ranging from 10 kcal/mol to 14 kcal/mol.
Conclusion: The molecular docking results were corroborated by molecular dynamics simulation results and showed good stability of the candidate ligands, and we found that there were three potential compounds as protease inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 including Pre-Neo-Kaluamine for 3CLpro, Cortistatin F for PLpro, and Acanthomanzamine C which had dual targeting activity against both proteases.


Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) depletion is associated with numerous diseases in humans. Recently it was revealed that genetic blockage of the NAD+ synthesis pathway in humans causes birth defects in multiple organ systems and miscarriage. Additionally, mice with NAD+ deficiency created through dietary restriction of tryptophan and vitamin B3 were shown to have congenital anomalies affecting virtually every organ system along with miscarriage. Perturbations in NAD+/NADH affect mechanisms of teratogenesis presented by Wilson and others, including genetic alterations, altered energy sources, and lack of precursors and substrates needed for biosynthesis.


Abstract : This volume contains a Manpower, Personnel, and Training (MPT) Analysis Aid to assist in Army MANPRINT (Manpower and Personnel Integration) analyses in the period through Milestone I of the materiel acquisition process. It presents guidance for planning and conducting MPT analyses which adhere to the requirements of DODD 5000.1, DODI 5000.2, and DOD 5000.2-M and to the overall objectives of the Army MANPRINT program. Available MPT models are described, along with sources of data.


Now the damaging of hardware and a mass of maintenance in the laboratory lie in Training of Computer Assembly and Maintenance,aiming at such problems,this article puts forward to a solution of applying Vmware virtual machine in teaching,it can solve problems. The article elaborates the characteristics of virtual machine and introduces its typical model.It presents that the virtual machine sometimes can fill in the real environment in teaching.


This paper deals with the environmental benefits of ICES. It discusses specific cases and demonstrates how use of appropriately sized community energy systems that combine heat and power generation both conserve scarce fuels and reduce air-pollution emissions. The goal of the Community Systems Program is to help communities develop and put into practice effective energy-conservation programs. To do this, the program develops and applies approaches to community energy conservation that: combine use of the energy resources available within a community, reducing reliance on external and scarce fuels; increase the use of fuel-efficient energy systems in supplying utility services; substitute energy systems that use non-scarce fuels for those that consume oil and natural gas; and reduce the end-use demand for energy through planning and development practices. One strategy in the program is to promote the widespread application of ''grid-connected community energy systems''; two systems discussed briefly here--those at the Univ. of Minnesota and at Clark Univ.--are shown to not only conserve energy but offer environmental benefits with reduced emissions.


Long-range concentration fluctuation (spinodal-type decomposition) with a wavelength of 45 AA has been reported by Wagner, Poerschke and Wollenberger in a concentrated Cu-Ni alloy during electron irradiation. The differences from thermodynamic models in the kinetics of this decomposition have prompted the present investigation of an irradiation-induced process. The system is treated as a dissipative structure in which a small bias in the vacancy-interstitial recombination reaction and irradiation mixing effect in enriched zones of the alloy produces fluxes of interstitials leading to growth and shrinkage of such zones. The system is modelled in a mean-field treatment as a homogeneous lossy medium with a non-linear coupling of the defect concentrations and an averaged parameter characterising these zones. A linear stability analysis shows that an instability can develop in such a solid solution leading to concentration fluctuations. The model yields a temperature- and dose-independent wavelength which is not inconsistent with experimental observations.


This study was undertaken to describe pre-service elementary teachers' misconceptions about various aspects of light, shadow and mirror images before they learn the geometrical optics at the university level. The participants of the study were 317 junior and sophomore level students studying at the departments of science and computer education. Students' misconceptions were assessed via a revised three-tier geometrical optics misconception test. Its' validity and reliability evidences were rechecked. The findings denoted that the revised test is a valid and reliable measuring tool for assessing pre-service elementary teachers' misconceptions of  geometrical optics. The internal consistency of the test was measured via Cronbach alpha and it was found as 0.65. The results revealed that most of the pre-service elementary teachers have limited conceptual understanding and they hold 12 prevalent misconceptions in geometrical optics. The instructors can consider the findings of current study while making their teaching plans for geometrical optics for pre-service science and computer elementary teachers.


Several observational studies have confirmed the relationship between thyroid hormones and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but this correlation remains controversial. We performed a two-sample Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis based on the public available largest summary datasets. Summary statistics with 49,269 individuals for free thyroxine (FT4) and 54,288 for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) were used as exposure instruments. Genome-wide association studies of the susceptibility (N = 1,644,784), hospitalization (N = 1,887,672) and very severe disease (N = 1,383,241) of COVID-19 were used as the outcome. We used the inverse variance weighted (IVW) method as the primary analysis, and MR-Egger regression, weighted median, and Robust Adjusted Profile Score (RAPS) were utilized as sensitivity analysis. Genetic predisposition to higher serum levels FT4 within the normal range was negatively associated with the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization (OR = 0.818; 95%CI = 0.718-0.932; P = 2.6 × 10-3) and very severe disease (OR = 0.758; 95%CI = 0.626-0.923; P = 5.8 × 10-3), but not susceptibility. There is no evidence that genetically predicted circulating TSH levels are associated with COVID-19 susceptibility and severity risk. Neither apparent pleiotropy nor heterogeneity were detected in the sensitivity analysis. In summary, we found that higher FT4 levels may reduce the risk of COVID-19 severity, suggesting that thyroid function testing may be required for patients with COVID-19.


The promulgation and implementation of the new national standard have a profound impact in the field of security in urban rail transit.Combined with the practical applications of face recognition systems,portable explosives detection systems and gas detection systems,the article analyzes the gap between existing security technologies and new technical requirements in the national standard.It also points out some difficulty in the process of implementation.It's proposed that the research and development,application and management of security technology should be based on the new national standard. And in order to effectively implement the new national standard,we should train staff,develop the market and gain experience in practice.


The world economy is more complex than it has ever been. This paper looks at some frameworks used for description, analysis, and prediction in the three areas of economic growth, equality, and development, while also highlighting some important past and current trends. The selection of frameworks and trends represents clearly a necessarily brief and subjective choice of the author on the basis of his perception of their "usefulness" for purposes of public and private decision-making. The paper starts by discussing how economic growth is impacting the classification of the economies of the world. It then looks at how countries' economies can be viewed in terms of ease of doing business, of adaptability to openness and change, and of types of capitalism adopted. In the second section, issues of economic inequality within and between the countries of the world and their citizens are examined. In the third section, the paper looks at development. It starts by briefly discussing the merits of going beyond GDP and of looking at the Human Development Index (HDI) in order to try to measure other forms of progress, such as in health and education. The paper then traces the evolution of development economics and the advice given to policy makers in developing countries, and also examines the role of institutions in development and the controversies surrounding foreign aid. It concludes by looking briefly at additional dimensions of human development such as empowerment and sustainability. The picture that emerges is one of a world in which decision-makers have to make use in a combined way of a plurality of disciplines to understand the realities confronting them and to design and implement good policies. In so doing, they have to confront the challenges of appropriate sequencing, must very often choose second-best options, and have to make clever use of the lessons learned from countries with very different geographical, political, economic, social, legal, technological, and cultural environments and constraints.


A fundamental tension between accessibility and governance exists in the design of healthcare information systems. In order to be useful in practice health information must be distributed, but as the information moves between systems -- and different information governance policies -- the risk of privacy and security violations increases. The lack of a persistent policy enforcement mechanism thus inhibits the dissemination of health information, making it less useful for research and treatment. In this paper, we argue that trusted computing and policy management technologies are required to allow for broad distribution of health information while preserving security and privacy. We also introduce the concept of derived resources, which helps to address many of the unique challenges in the governance of health information.


The pressure-induced bcc-hcp phase transition in barium has been studied with use of first-principles total-energy calculations. The volume dependence of the complete energy surface from the bcc to the hcp structure has been determined as a function of the atomic displacements corresponding in the bcc phase to the ${\mathrm{T}}_{1}$ N-point phonon mode and a long-wavelength shear. The results predict that the frequency of this ${\mathrm{T}}_{1}$ N-point phonon mode decreases with increasing pressure, however, before the mode goes soft, the hcp phase becomes the lowest-energy structure and the transition is first order.


Abstract : The data management system presented in this report is intended for use by U.S. Coast Guard personnel in developing recreational boating safety education programs. RBSEM provides an integrated approach which involves computerized, manual, and interactive operations, with substantial judgemental input by Coast Guard personnel at several stages. A specialized data file is constructed by drawing a sample of accidents from the current Coast Guard boating accident file. The sampled accidents are subjected to several analytical procedures. Fault trees are used to identify accident initiators. Documentation for the revision of existent cause analysis trees and for the development of new trees for four additional accident types is included. The accidents are reviewed to determine the presence of 'associated factors' (events and conditions related, though not necessarily in direct causal fashion, to accident occurrence). Operator alternatives (behaviors which might have averted or mitigated the severity of the accident) are identified.


Mrs. Barnes is the founder of the Fireside League, a movement intended to teach the immigrants to read and to speak English by the use of simple textbooks based upon the Bible. The success of the league gives particular value to the following article.


The relative efficacy of the biological compound Spinosad was tested in five concentrations (1%, 2%, 3%, 4% and 5%) mg / kg of covered food mixed with the food of the southern cowpea weevil and the grain beetle of vermicelli and the rusty flour beetle. The results of the study showed The highest killing rates are 100%, 89.7% and 59.7% for each of the siren beetles, the southern cowpea weevil and the rusty flour beetle, respectively, after the exposure period of 196 hours. The results of the study also showed that there was no development in the life of the three species of insects. The stores and for all the concentrations of spinosad used, with a high significant difference with the comparison factor. Also, the compound spinosad gave good protection for cowpea seeds, wheat and pulp. The rate of food loss was reduced compared with the comparison treatment in which the loss rate increased very clearly as a result of the activity of the population of the insect species of the three studied beetles.


This article argues that actors legitimize the benefits associated with professional status through practices congruent with social values. Such congruence is 'thin' when activities correspond with the values of industry actors and 'thick' when practices relate to broader social principles. The category of 'semi-professionals' is extended to actors whose legitimization of professional privileges remains precarious as their 'thin' congruence with narrow principles impedes broader correspondence with wider social values. The 'thin' congruence with narrow notions of sustainability by leading British and American accounting firms, banks and credit-rating agencies since the outbreak of the most recent financial crisis is illustrated as contributing to their persistent 'semi-professionalism'. It is maintained that only through 'thick' congruence with wider notions of sustainability may these and other market actors more broadly legitimize the privileges associated with professional status.


. In the reform era, legal protection and respect for human rights are sometimes still faced with the fact of negligence in law enforcement, especially The Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Procedure Code are two separate pieces of legislation (Law No. 8 of 1981) process. So that it is not uncommon for wrongful behavior to occur by law enforcers, and not infrequently members of the public who are considered to have committed a criminal act are then declared innocent in the judicial process. Problems; How is the state's responsibility towards the defendant who was decided by the court to be proven innocent in a criminal case? The research method on this problem is carried out through normative and empirical legal research. The results of his research that; the responsibility of the state to provide legal protection to suspects who are proven innocent, this is an order from the state constitution, as well as to provide legal protection for human dignity and other rights connected to Indonesian law enforcement, which must be enforced by law enforcers. Legal protection of human dignity by implementing the principle of presumption of innocence is also an obligation that must be accounted for by law enforcement at all stages of the criminal law enforcement process, from the investigation, prosecution to judicial process. The form of compensation for defendants who are proven innocent, namely the Government Regulation Number 92 of 2015, Concerning the Second Amendment to Government Regulation Number 27 of 1983, Concerning the Implementation of the Criminal Procedure Code, and Related Matters, Rehabilitation. In its implementation, the provision of rehabilitation and compensation has not yet been felt to obtain the legal certainty that should be obtained by the defendant who is legally proven innocent.


The general focus of domain adaptation methodology is transferring learned knowledge from labeled train domain to unlabeled test domain. Domain adaptation tries to minimize the domain shift problem by modeling a classifier using labeled training domain data which taken under definite conditions and this classifier is utilize to test the data which taken under distinct conditions. Common adaptation approaches will learn a freshly acquired feature vector space using labeled data domain (source) and unlabeled train (target) data domain having alike characteristics and a supervised, unsupervised or semi-supervised classifier will carry out the further task. Here is a design of an incremental KM-ELM classifier which can utilize for better classification of various domain adaptation task. This classifier is a fusion of high performing K-Means algorithm and fast neural network Extreme learning machine (ELM). Here utilizes the cross-domain learning capability of ELM with PCA, GFK (Geodesic flow Kernel) methods for addressing domain adaptation task. First PCA and PLS are used to create the subspaces of testing data and training data and these subspaces will considered as a points in Grassmann manifold. After that the geodesic based domain shift representation will carry out and integration of these data points creates the intermediate cross domain. This will form a new space having feature vectors from training domain and testing domain where the likelihood of these vectors in this space is maximum.


The first half of the seventeenth century saw a fundamental change in the popular style of English architecture. As every schoolboy knows, the work of the Stuart Court architect Inigo Jones introduced the fashion for building all'antica, that is for the coherent display of the antique architectural orders on facades, following Renaissance building practices by then common throughout Europe. Certainly previous English architect-masons had used them in isolated but coherent ways, as on the gate to the Old Schools in Oxford and on that to Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, but no one had used the Orders to compose an entire facade, as Jones was to do at the Banqueting House in Whitehall from 1619. Jones may have been avant-garde at home, but in the context of the Europe of his day it is commonly held that he was backward in his architectural preference for the plain and simple. After all, his later work coincided with that of Bernini and Borromini, and his own reaction to Baroque excess had been recorded in the now famous note in his Roman Sketchbook of 1615 that whatever fancies could be entertained internally, externally buildings should bear the public countenance of a 'wise man' and, continuing the gender-based analogy, be 'masculine and unaffected'. In this new study of Jones's architecture, the second in as many months after a gap of some forty years, the late architectural historian and critic Giles Worsley sets out to overturn this view of Jones as anachronistic by placing him in what he calls the 'European Classicist Tradition'. This involves detailed study of the contemporary work by French architects such as François Mansart and Jean Androuet du Cerceau, Dutch architects such as Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post, German architects such as Joseph Heintz and Elias Holl and, most famously, the Italians Vincenzo Scamozzi and Alessandro Tesauro. In thus demonstrating the contemporary prevalence of a taste for antique fidelity, even simplicity, Jones emerges with restored European credentials. In fact this reputed anachronism is the first of three myths that Worsley sets out to debunk, for the most part successfully. The second is the idea propagated most forcefully by Rudolf Wittkower that Jones was a Palladian, or more accurately that his main inspiration and the meaning behind his work derived from the work of the Vicentine master. Worsley takes the case of Stoke Park in Northampton (c. 1629, and strikingly illustrated here on the front cover), with its apparently unorthodox play of solid and void, and points out that its attribution to Jones has been questioned principally on the grounds that it failed to fit the Palladian canon. Worsley observes that, 'This confusion has led to such constructs as Sir John Summerson's "Artisan Mannerism" – essentially a rag-bag of everything classical in the early Stuart period other than Jones's grander buildings'. In this iconoclasm Worsley's Inigo Jones should be seen as a continuation of his earlier opposition to Summerson's theories articulated in Classical Architecture in Britain: The Heroic Age (Yale University Press, 1995). Even if the reader disagrees with some of Worsley's conclusions, his work has always had a refreshingly original and bold quality. Jones emerges in this present study as a more rounded architect than the Palladian interpretation could possibly allow. Worsley shows that Jones was every bit as much an admirer of the models and ideas of the Bolognese theorist Sebastiano Serlio, for example, who finally comes of age in this book in getting the recognition he deserves as the inspiration behind so much of English seventeenth-century architectural practice. Worsley takes the motif of the Serliana, or Venetian window, and demonstrates that its


Interpolation is a common operation in many applications, like communications, measurers, speech coding, radars, navigation systems, etc. As the information technologies advances, new fields of applications for the interpolation as a required operation to perform appears. The problem of an accurate choice of the interpolation method for specific application is relevant today. In the paper, to provide an effective reconstruction of periodic discrete-time signals in practical applications, five key requirements for the interpolation method that must be satisfied are presented. It is concerned that there is no interpolation method nowadays to be able to fully satisfy the mentioned requirements. Analysis of the sampling theorem generalizations for periodic signals is performed. A novel interpolation algorithm for the arbitrary finite duration periodic signals reconstruction is considered. The algorithm is based on using of the finite-length basis interpolation functions ones derived from the sinc-function. The advantages and disadvantaged of the new algorithm are listed. Comparison of the proposed algorithm and the existed signal reconstruction methods is performed.


The utility model relates to an oilstone super-finishing fixture of a bearing inner race, which comprises a spigot shaft, a bearing, a mandrel sleeve and a driving plate, wherein the center of the spigot shaft and the center of the driving plate are on the same straight line, the spigot shaft is sheathed with the bearing, and the outer part of the bearing is connected with the mandrel sleeve. The utility model removes two sets of pinch rollers, changes a fixed inner support into a rotary inner support, is positioned by the spigot shaft with a flange, compacts a workpiece, rotates along with the workpiece, and simplifies tooling design. The utility model has the advantages that the processing quality is not influenced by the surface error of the radial positioning of a ferrule, and the end surface of the ferrule does not have sliding friction so as to increase production efficiency. The fixture eliminates the pinch rollers, the fixed inner support, support ceramic plates and the like so as to make positioning and compacting carried out simultaneously. The circular deviation and the waviness of the product are greatly improved, the vibration amplitude and the noise of bearing parts are reduced, and the inner diameter has no scratches or scuffs. The machine tool is regulated simply. The geometric accuracy, the surface roughness and the appearance quality of the bearing inner race are greatly improved.


The spatial arrangement and combination of elements in thing is its inherent structure. It determines directly the nature and property, so it is not "stipulation of quantity". It is restricted by the stipulation of the elements in thongs leads to qualitative change. We can't regard it as "the basic form of quantitative change causing qualitative change".


We review the most decisive currently available measurements of the surface effective temperatures, Teff, of white dwarf (WD) primaries in cataclysmic variables (CVs) during accretion quiescence, and use these as a diagnostic for their time-averaged accretion rate, . Using time-dependent calculations of the WD envelope, we investigate the sensitivity of the quiescent Teff to long-term variations in the accretion rate. We find that the quiescent Teff provides one of the best available tests of predictions for the angular momentum loss and resultant mass-transfer rates which govern the evolution of CVs. While gravitational radiation is completely sufficient to explain the of strongly magnetic CVs at all Porb, faster angular momentum loss is required to explain the temperatures of dwarf nova primaries (nonmagnetic systems). This provides evidence that a normal stellar magnetic field structure near the secondary, providing for wind launching and attachment, is essential for the enhanced braking mechanism to work, directly supporting the well-known stellar wind braking hypothesis. The contrast in is most prominent for orbital periods Porb > 3 h, above the so-called period gap, where differs by orders of magnitude, but a modest enhancement is also present at shorter Porb. The averaging time which reflects depends on itself, being as much as 105 years for low- systems and as little as 103 years for high- systems. We discuss in some detail the security of conclusions drawn about the CV population in light of these time scales and our necessarily incomplete sample of systems, finding that, due to the time necessary for the quiescent Teff to adjust, the consistency of measurements between different systems places significant constraints on possible long-timescale variation in . Measurements for nonmagnetic systems above the period gap fall below predictions from traditional stellar wind braking prescriptions, but above more recent predictions with somewhat weaker angular momentum loss. We also discuss the apparently high Teff's found in the VY Scl stars, showing that these most likely indicate in this subclass even larger than predicted by stellar wind braking.


This paper proposes a Bilingual Social Networking Service (SNS) Agency Robot for persons who have difficulty operating smartphones or tablets due to physical disabilities. This robot, in which a voice user interface is embedded, enables them to communicate with others who suffer from the same disease or medical specialists in their mother tongues. The authors implemented the prototype by integrating the RoBoHoN provided by Sharp, whose Software Develop Kit (SDK) is available, as a communication robot and some external cloud services by a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). An evaluation experiment showed good results in functions and services.


A facile template-engaged strategy is developed to synthesize hollow NiFe mixed metal oxyphosphide spheres using different Fe ions (Fe2+ and Fe3+) as modulators. Benefiting from the optimized compositional and structural features, the as-obtained hollow spheres show excellent performance for the oxygen evolution reaction.


The magneto‐optic rotation of light reflected from thin ferromagnetic films has been found to depend on the optical properties of the substrate as well as the optical properties of the ferromagnetic material. Rotations greater than the thick film longitudinal Kerr rotation were observed at certain thicknesses of ferromagnetic films deposited on silver surfaces.


Data-flow languages are an elegant solution to the programmability of general-purpose multiprocessors. However, data-flow semantics introduce large overhead at execution time. Indeed, the effective representation, storage, and processing of data is diltScult due to the functionality of the dataflow model of computation. In this paper, various aspects of ~,his issue are explained in detail and several solutions that have been put forward in the current literature are surveyed. We present also alternatives: in the first one, we raise the level of computation to that of arrays for more efficient operation. In the two others, the opposite approach is taken, and the notion of array is entirely done away with at the execution level in order to take advantage of the data-flow semantics at their best logical level of performance.


The current situation of ventilation system in a uranium mine is introduced,the reasons of radon pollution in the uranium mine is analyzed,and the technical measures of controlling radon pollution are put forward.After the adjustment of the mine ventilation system,the effects of ventilation and attenuating radon concentration are obvious.


The authors analyze the movements in work hours and employment of female employees as reported in Decennial Censuses from 1940 to 1980 and in Current Population Surveys from 1980 and 1988. Women with relatively little schooling were working fewer hours in the 1980s than in 1940; the reverse is true of well-educated women. These patterns remain when the data are disaggregated by marital status and the presence of children, and they are also little affected by controls for changes in real wages. In conjunction with results reported in the authors' parallel study on men (January 1993 ILR Review), these findings suggest that gender differences in work behavior are becoming less manifest than skill differences.


Objective To study the curative effect of ureteroscopy in combination with ESWL in the treatment of upper urinary tract stone of solitary kidney.Methods From Jan.1995 to July 2004,48 cases of upper urinary tract stones of solitary kidney were treated by combination of ureteroscopy and ESWL.Results The successful rate was 93.8%.Only 3 cases were shifted to opening-operation.During a follow-up of 1~12 months after the operation,the stone clearance rate was 91.1% and no postoperative complications such as urethral obstruction,stricture and(or) atresia occurred.Conclusion Ureteroscopy in combination with ESWL for upper urinary tract stone of solitary kidney has the advantage of complementarity,less damage,safety,speedy recovery,and less complications.


In this study, the influence of scan strategies, such as scan order and scan patterns, on compressive load capacity was investigated for the aluminum alloy AlSi12-made lattice structures fabricated by selective laser melting. The scan order of concentric scan patterns affected compressive load capacity. Better mechanical properties were obtained when the scan order was set from the outside. Setting the scan order from the inside caused coarsening of the grains at the center of the strut, thus worsening the mechanical properties due to the reduced area fraction of the finegrained regions. The mechanism of such grain coarsening was explained based on the heat transfer direction. Furthermore, the scan pattern also affected the size and orientation of the grains in the lower zone of the strut as well as its geometrical accuracy. A stripe pattern with a rotation of 67° from layer to layer decreased the geometrical accuracy but increased the hardness of the strut owing to the smaller size and random orientation of the grains in the lower strut zone.


This study reports the occurrence of bat species and their ectoparasites to a mangrove area of the State of Pernambuco. The bats were captured for seven consecutive months in four mangrove areas. Sampling occurred for 12 consecutive hours each night collection where mist-nets were used. Eighty-three bats of 14 species were captured. Of these, only 53 Phyllostomidae family bats found themselves parasited. We identified seven species of flies of the family Streblidae parasitizing bats. The diversity of bats is H' = 2.19 for all areas sampled and the prevalence of streblid ranged from 8.3 to 66,6. The mean intensity ranged from one and five. It is reported for the first time the occurrence of Lophostoma brasiliense to the mangrove ecosystem, besides two species of streblid to Pernambuco.


This research focuses on optimal post-intentional attack operation considering switching transmission systems. The applicable models for this process focus on the application of bi-level optimization methods that are capable of analyzing two possible scenarios in order to reduce the time of loss or departure from the demand of the electricity system. The main objective of this work is related to maintaining the minimum requirements that allow the operation of the Electric Power System, for this the approach of equations will be carried out that allows establishing the mathematical models in the event of intentional attacks, it must maintain the operation of the Electric System and react in the event of contingencies through the Optimal Switching of Transmission Lines.


Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is minimally invasive, safe, and cost-effective and can be coupled with modern ancillary techniques such as next-generation sequencing. In addition, as the clinical and phenotypic heterogeneity of tumors is increasingly recognized, cytological specimens are ideal for resampling and tracking the genomic and phenotypic alterations that tumors undergo during progression. Cytology specimens and techniques have also been increasingly used in bedside-to-bench approaches. Currently, several genomic tests based on cytological samples are commercially available and are used in routine clinical practice. For example, for thyroid aspirates in the "atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/ FLUS)" or "follicular neoplasm/suspicious for a follicular neoplasm (FN/SFN)" category of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology, several molecular tests are nowadays commercially available, each with strengths and weaknesses (as recently reviewed by Nishino); specifically in lung cancer, molecular testing of cytology specimens has been being successfully performed for a long time. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small (20-22 nucleotides long), noncoding RNAs that posttranscriptionally control the translation and stability of messenger RNAs (mRNAs), and they have a significant role in the regulation of cellular function, signaling networks, and biological processes. Interestingly, many of these miRNAs map to regions of the human genome that are altered in cancer and are aberrantly expressed in cancerous tissues and/or body fluids from cancer patients. Therefore, they can be used to classify tumors according to the tissue type and stage of disease. In addition, because of the stability of miRNAs in tissues and fluids and the possibility of their quantification in very low amounts of sample material, miRNA-based expression panels are potentially far superior to mRNA expression panels for routine clinical use in molecular analysis with cytopathological samples. In fact, some of these miRNA panels already have found their way to the clinics. For example, Interspace Diagnostics has been offering ThyraMIR, a 10-miRNA expression classifier, as a reflex test for aspirates that are negative with the 7-gene ThyGenX (mutational) panel. Another example, also in thyroid, is RosettaGX Reveal by Rosetta Genomics, an miRNA classifier to be used directly with FNA smears in AUS/ FLUS cases. In lung cancer, MI-Lung is probably the best known example of an miRNA-based panel; in this case, for predicting the main histological subtype of lung cancer. Despite small cell lung cancer (SCLC) representing approximately 10% to 15% of lung cancers and being an aggressive type with rapid tumor growth and an early onset of metastases, miRNA profiling studies performed in an attempt to improve outcomes are still limited. To the best of our knowledge, Ranade et al published one of the first studies: the expression of 880 miRNAs was evaluated in 34 formalin-fixed, paraffinembedded SCLC tumor specimens, and it was found that miR-92a-2* was associated with survival. Other


The purpose of this study was to find the effective control of bacterial and fungal bioaerosol in a gymnasium. Airborne bacteria and fungi were collected using the 6-stage Andersen impactor inside and outside of gymnasium. Purification method is to install HEPA filters at air inlet. It was found that the total concentrations of outdoor airborne bacteria and fungi were 895CFU/m3 and 1505CFU/m3 around the gymnasium in Beijing in summer. The total levels of bacterial and fungal aerosol indoors were averaged to 831CFU/m3 in the case of no one, and in the case of some one is 1860CFU/m3. Before and after the setting of the purifier the total levels of bacterial and fungal aerosol indoors were 1216CFU/m3 and 1860CFU/m3. Outside of the gymnasium the bacterial aerosols and the fungal aerosols showed the highest collection rates at F-1, F-3 stage and F-4, F-5 stage separately, while inside of the gymnasium at F-4, F-5 stage contemporary.


The matrix elements of the Coulomb interactions of the configuration dn−1sp were obtained for L‐S coupling in the form of linear combinations of certain radial integrals. The method used can be extended to the configuration ln−1l′l″.


SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has built and is currently operating a first generation prototype Marx klystron modulator to meet ILC specifications. Under development is a second generation prototype, aimed at improving overall performance, serviceability, and manufacturability as compared to its predecessor. It is designed around 32 cells, each operating at 3.75 kV and correcting for its own capacitor droop. Due to the uniqueness of this application, high voltage gate drivers needed to be developed for the main 6.5 kV and droop correction 1.7 kV IGBTs. The gate driver provides vital functions such as protection of the IGBT from over-voltage and over-current, detection of gate-emitter open and short circuit conditions, and monitoring of IGBT degradation (based on collector-emitter saturation voltage). Gate drive control, diagnostic processing capabilities, and communication are digitally implemented using an FPGA. This paper details the design of the gate driver circuitry, component selection, and construction layout. In addition, experimental results are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the protection circuit.


By analyzing and synthesizing methods, comparing and comparing, logic and history, the article has raised some basic problems of the current state of Vietnamese education in the late nineteenth century. Besides, the article also presents the perspectives of some reformers on contemporary education and its innovative solutions. In addition, the article has pointed out and analyzed some of the causes leading to the failed reformers' ideology of educational reform, thereby drawing lessons for the educational innovation of Vietnam today.


We introduce a coarse-grained numerical model that represents a generic DNA hydrogel consisting of Y-shaped building blocks. Each building block comprises three double-stranded DNA arms with single...


In order to observe the endogenous development characteristics of Cryptosporidium suis sucp strain,five-day-old piglets were inoculated with C.suis sucp strain and samples were observed by transmission electron microscope and scanning electron microscope.The results showed that various stages of C.suis existed in caecum,colon and rectum of the piglets.At the later stages of infection,numerous Cryptosporidia only occurred in rectum.Microvilli of colon and rectum atrophied and desquamated around the Cryptosporidia.One unknown wide band,which probably was filled with nutrition materials,was found between dense band and feeder organelle in metaphase of trophozoites by transmission electron microscope.It,however,disappeared in the other endogenous development stages,including the later stages of trophozoite,various types of merozont and macrogamont.There was a typical feeder organelle,which vertically or sidelongly located above dense band at the bottom of parasitophorous vacuoles.


The relationship between organizational configurations and performance has been a frequent albeit controversial subject of research in the field of strategic management. Many studies have failed to find a link between configurations and performance, leading prominent researchers to question the value of the concept of organizational configurations. Before the concept can be discarded, however, other plausible explanations for the lack of findings should be examined. This paper examines the possible role of statistical power. Specifically, it may be that the sample sizes in many studies are too small to detect relationships between configurations and performance when such links are, in fact, present. Analysis of 24 tests of the configurations–performance link revealed that only 8 percent had samples large enough to detect all important relationships. Thus, there is reason to suspect that insufficient statistical power may help to explain extant results. Given these findings, suggestions are presented for improving the ability of configurational studies to detect relationships. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Corruption is an extraordinary crime, and then the prevention must also be extraordinary, simultaneously (national) in the form of early warning that involves all elements; government, industry, and society. To realize it the system needs to be built which in this study is called the Corruption Early Prevention (CEP) as a Decision Support System for President of the Republic of Indonesia. This study aims to examine 1) how is the construct of the Corruption Early Prevention as a Decision Support System for President of the Republic of Indonesia?, and 2) how is the design form of the system of Corruption Early Prevention as a Decision Support System for President of Republic of Indonesia? The research method is using Neuro-Research which is the collaboration of qualitative and quantitative research methods and the model development of Information Technology (IT). The research found that: 1) the construct of CEP is theoretically feasible, valid and reliable by content to be developed in the context of the prevention of corruption in Indonesia as an early prevention system that diagnoses Indonesia simultaneously and in real time, and 2) the concept of system design and business process of CEP is predicted to be realized in the IT-based program.


Dehydroaromatization of methane to aromatics provides a promising approach for cost-effective conversion of methane. This work was designed to study the promoting effect of nano Fe on the Mo/HZSM-5 catalyst in methane dehydroaromatization (MDA). Mo/HZSM-5 and nano-Fe modified catalysts were synthesized and then evaluated in a fixed-bed reactor along with an integrated online gas chromatography and a mass spectrometry system. The fresh or/and spent catalysts were characterized by ICP-MS, H2-TPR, CH4-TPSR, NH3-TPD, XRD, SEM, TEM, N2 adsorption/desorption, TGA, and DRIFT spectroscopy. Nano-Fe doped Mo/HZSM-5 catalysts prepared with an innovative method show enhanced MDA performances especially stability. Moreover, research demonstrates that carbon nanotubes can not only form on the Mo/HZSM-5 catalyst without the addition of Fe but also exist for a long time, which clarifies the carbon nanotubes formation mechanism. It was concluded that nano Fe plays an important role in promoting the growth of carbon nanotu...


This paper discusses about primitive morphological operations in multi scale environment. The morphological operations are main source for defining composite morphological operations. These are applied in various image processing operations. In addition to them morphological operations are having special applications also. So the study of morphological operations in various environments will provide broad look (wide/matured look) of these operations, which throws light on understanding of these basic principles which will help in further new applications of this mathematical morphology. So in this paper morphological operations are discussed in a new


Carroll published his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and it was followed by Through the Looking Glass in 1872. Alice's story began as a piece meant to entertain three little girls on a boating trip in 1862. Both of these books were considered children's novels that were satirical in nature and they show Carroll's wit. Of all Lewis Carroll's works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, has a unique standing in the category of nonsense literature. Alice is quite different from all other Victorian children's literature. Yet, as odd as this story appears in relation to the other Victorian children's stories, this short novel is odder still because it was written by an ultra-conservative man, in short, a Victorian gentleman. Alice was called a children's feast and a triumph of nonsense. About 180,000 copies of Alice in various editions were sold in England during Carroll's lifetime. Since then the book has been translated into every major language, and now it has become a bestseller, ranking with the works of Shakespeare and the Bible in popular demand. Of all Victorian children's stories that are enjoyed equally by children and adults, none is more popular than Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Wonderland is a dream, but the Looking-Glass is self-conscious. It is a dream that shows us something real. Our imagination is a gift, something that can teach us and add to our joy. Wonderland helps us to practice wonderment, to see the seemingly impossible beauty in the world around us. Concept of the looking glass self, states that a person's self grows out of a person's social interactions with others.


A new algorithm for the design of Hidden Markov Models (HMM) from observed symbol and bisymbol probabilities is presented. The algorithm provides a global optimum and makes use of linear vectorial models of sequences of probabilistic vectors estimated during an off-line learning process. Moreover, a method to enhance observed data so as to comply with the constraints of HMM strings is proposed. An optimal estimate of the number of states of the HMM for the given observed data is also provided.


The issues of an integrated approach to the forensic psychiatric assessment of persons who have committed sexual crimes by information and telecommunication technologies are considered. The main stages of decision-making are identified and analyzed. The features of the formation of ideas about the problem being solved, decision-making strategies, and the choice of alternatives are considered. Approaches to assessing the subject's ability to comprehend and regulate legally significant behavior are defined. An algorithm for forensic psychiatric assessment is formulated, according to which the most significant are the severity and nature of the leading psychopathological symptoms and the degree of its influence on the cognitive and volitional components of behavior regulation.


OSHA 5(a)(1) – General Duty Clause SAFETY ORIENTATION OSHA Section 5(a)(1) PURPOSE Preventing injuries in the workplace is a primary consideration for Millard. An orientation program has been developed to introduce employees to the warehousing environment and the safety program of Millard. The orientation program is designed to give the employee a basic knowledge of Standard Operating Procedures in the warehouse, including required personal protective equipment, proper lifting technique, certain safety programs such as lockout/tagout, and general rules for safe conduct.


Moreover, most areas in urgent need of restoration lack "climax" forests. Given the importance of understanding successional pathways to establish goals and guidelines for restoration plantings, it is unfortunate that Elliot and coauthors continue to use "climax" forest conditions as the reference point for measuring restoration success. Studies of natural regeneration and restoration plantings should be conducted in parallel whenever possible to maximize understanding of local ecological processes, tree species characteristics, requirements of local fauna and flora, and obstacles to regeneration at different spatial scales. Ultimately, an understanding of successional pathways and their local variations is required to restore tropical forest ecosystems, protect biodiversity, and promote livelihoods or rural populations at large, landscape scales. Although local stakeholders are frequently discussed in Restoring Tropical Forests, they are primarily viewed as "resources" for restoration projects (Chapter 8). Yet, local communities are the main beneficiaries of forest restoration projects and their active participation should be sought during all stages of project development, including decisions regarding restoration approaches and goals, selection of species, and long-term monitoring. The wellbeing of local community members is directly impacted by the success or failure of restoration projects. Restoration practitioners should be viewed as "resources" to help local communities design projects that suit their needs and values well into the future. Aside from these issues, Stephen Elliott and his many collaborators should be commended on providing an essential step-by-step guide to how to restore many functions of tropical forests using native species plantings. In addition to illustrating the many steps needed to initiate this long-term process, their book provides new hope for the future of many tropical regions.


Abstract The effects of cold reduction before annealing and final annealing conditions on the r and n values, press formability, and textures of commercially pure aluminium sheets and the correlation among these properties have been investigated. Cold reduction before annealing strongly affects r values of fully recrystallized sheets: r 45 and r markedly increased with increasing cold reduction (> 90%), and the order of r value with test direction changed owing to recrystallization. Two regions can be distinguished: in the first (50 to about 84% reduction), the order of r value is changed from r 45> r 90>r 0 to r 90 r 0 r 45, whereas in the second (reductions >90%),r 45 >r 90 >r 0 is changed to r 45 > r 0≳r 90. For sheets cold rolled to 90% and larger reductions, r 45 and r show high peak values, and good drawability is gained at partial recrystallization. The variation in r value with increasing annealing temperature and its variation with cold reduction before annealing can be qualitatively correlated w...


Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), N.K. Banerjee, points out in the preface that CWDS 'felt that this was the best way we could restore the memory of a great thinker as the first to acknowledge its crucial significance', apart from the fact that the sex ratio 'is the most sensitive indicator which can break through unilinear theories of the changing status of women or the state of society with existing dominant paradigms of development or globalisation' (p.11 ). The first essay by Vina Mazumdar and Kumud Sharma is a glowing tribute to Asok Mitra (1917-99), an outstanding scholaradministrator and the legendary census commissioner for the 1961 Census of India. This census put India on the world map by virtue of its comprehensive questionnaire, tabulation plan, ancillary studies on numerous aspects of the economic, social and cultural diversity, and incredible demographic diversity. The authors point out that 'during his tenure as the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India between 1958-68,1,250 volumes were published on 26 fields of enquiry', yet very little is known about 'the remarkable role that this fragile, soft-spoken man played in the


Scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) designed to fit into scanning elec- tron microscopes (SEMs) are now becoming commercially available and you might ask, "Why would I want to put an SPM in my SEM"? The primary reason is that the too forms of microscope are very complimentary. Each microscope extends the power of the other. The SEM can do things that are hard to do with an SPM, and vice versa. Not long after the introduction of the STM and the AFM, a few re- searchers built custom SPMs and installed them in their SEMs. The reports of these projects to build hybrid microscopes and examples of the data they produced can be found in the scientific literature.


Working as a defense contractor, one knows the importance of security regulations and directives. However, do these regulations really protect our mission critical data? One would like to think so, but no the answer is; it is really up to the security administrative team and the individual staff to ensure the security of systems. This paper will briefly discuss two important security regulations/laws important to the defense department; the impact of the regulations to security systems; and what an organization can do...


. The fine structure of stellar photospheric convection (the stellar equivalent of solar granulation) can be analyzed with the aid of high-resolution spectroscopy. Photospheric absorption lines are slightly asymmetric and wavelength-shifted due to unequal photon contributions from bright and systematically Doppler-shifted granules and from darker intergranular areas. Numerical simulations of stellar surface convection in different stars have now been carried out, and such three--dimensional and time-dependent models predict the detailed stellar line profiles (including asymmetries and wavelength shifts), thus enabling a direct confrontation between observations and theory.


PURPOSE: A system for operating an air conditioner for a vehicle is provided to improve cooling performance. CONSTITUTION: A system includes a hydraulic motor(27) supplied with hydraulic pressure by a power steering oil pump(21) connected with a driving axis of an engine(17) by a belt(23) to be driven through a supply oil pipe(33) to generate rotate pump and installed on a rotary axis of a compressor(3); a pressure controller, a duty solenoid valve(41), installed on one side of a bypass oil pipe(39) connecting the supply oil pipe and a discharge oil pipe(37) guiding hydraulic pressure supplied through the supply oil pipe to a power steering reservoir(35) and having duty controlled by control signal of a control unit(31) to control hydraulic pressure supplied by the power steering oil pump to the hydraulic motor; and a temperature sensor(29) sensing temperature of an evaporator(1) to input to the control unit.


Every three years or so, the International Conference and Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management (ICWL) brings together lobster scientists, fishery managers, and industry representatives from around the world for a week of scientific presentations, workshops, and discussions on lobster biology and management. The first ICWL was held in Perth, Australia, in January 1977. Its purpose was to bring together a small group of lobster researchers from the USA and Australia to discuss common issues and themes. That initial workshop spawned a continuing series of meetings that have become the international lobster conference for scientists—the equivalent of an international congress meeting. The second conference was in St. Andrews, Canada, in 1985; the third in Havana, Cuba, in 1990; the fourth in Sanriku, Japan, in 1993; and the fifth in Queenstown, New Zealand, in 1997. The number of participants and the international representation at the conference has grown from 34 scientists and managers from 6 countries at the first meeting to over 200 participants from 25 countries at the September 2000 meeting in Key West, Florida (USA). All told, 126 oral presentations and 43 poster presentations took place during the five-day meeting.


In order to provide theoretical basis for sowing and seedling establishment under drought condition,the drought resistance and water requirement of switchgrass were investigated at germination and seedling establishment stages.The seeds of different switchgrass species(Pathfinder,Traiblazer and Alamo) were treated with low temperature(4℃) and 8 M sulfuric acid under different PEG concentrations(-0.1~-0.5 MPa).The water requirement thresholds of switchgrass seeds were evaluated at radicle emergence,plumule emergence and seedling establishment stages.Results showed that the times required for achieving the 50%radicle emergence,plumule emergence and seedling establishment of all seeds increased with environmental water potential decreasing.Water requirement threshold at seedling establishment stage was higher than that at radicle emergence and plumule emergence stages.Both low temperature treatment(4℃) and 8 M sulfuric acid treatment shorten the times required for achieving the 50%radicle emergence,plumule emergence and seedling establishment of all tested seeds,and enhanced the water requirement threshold in each stage.Pathfinder variety had lower requirement for environmental water potential than Trailblazer and Alamo varieties under the same treatment.Therefore,seedling establishment stage was the most sensitive to ambient water stress.Pathfinder variety showed the highest stress tolerance and drought resistance among three varieties.


We achieved a record high index sensitivity of 400 nm/RIU in a cw photonic crystal nanolaser with a potential spectral linewidth of 0.1 pm order. We also demonstrated spectrometer-free sensing utilizing nanolaser array.


C ardiovascular outcomes among sildenafil users: results of the International Men's Health Study" was published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice in 2008. The following are comments regarding this publication discussing the relevance at the time of publication as well as in 2013.1 In 1996, 2 years before the approval of sildenafil for treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) in the United States, our research group published results from the Determinants of Myocardial Infarction Onset Study documenting that the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) was transiently more than doubled in the hour following sexual intercourse [1]. This finding was later confirmed in multiple studies [2,3]. Sildenafil was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1998. Later that year, the FDA released a report discussing 130 deaths, including 77 cardiovascular deaths among men who received prescriptions for sildenafil in the first 8 months after its release [4]. Even before this report, there was a concern about the potential cardiovascular risks associated with PDE5 inhibition. On the one hand, the vasodilator properties suggested that it may have salutary effects for patients with coronary artery disease. Indeed, sildenafil was initially developed as an antianginal and antihypertensive agent. On the other hand, at the time, there was some concern that sildenafil might exhibit some PDE3 inhibition and resultant detrimental cardiovascular effects. Although this was subsequently refuted, the concern over cardiovascular safety of sildenafil persisted. Further complicating the matter was the quandary over whether sexual intercourse or sildenafil might be responsible for any of the reported cardiovascular events. It was in this context that the International Men's Health Study (IMHS) was planned. The IMHS was a large multinational prospective cohort study designed to identify potential cardiovascular risks among men with documented ED who had received at least one prescription for sildenafil. In addition to data on therapy for ED, the study collected detailed data on cardiovascular risk factors. The IMHS enrolled 3,813 men and followed them for an average of 9.2 months [4]. The study found a relatively low incidence rate of all-cause mortality (0.4 per 100 person years), MI (0.6 per 100 person years), and stroke (0.1 per 100 person years). Only two study participants had a documented nonfatal MI within 24 hours of sildenafil use. The low incidence of events precluded a formal analysis of the association between sildenafil use and the incidence of an acute cardiovascular event in the subsequent hours. The IMHS was stopped early in view of the low cardiovascular event rate and the publication of 1Correction added on 07 April 2014, after first online publication: The last statement of the first paragraph has been deleted. © 2014 International Society for Sexual Medicine


The synthesis of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) capped by poly(1‐vinylpyrrolidin‐2‐one (PVP, average M¯w = 10 000 kDa) yields moderately dispersed (6–8.5 nm) product with limited morphological control while larger NPs (15–20 nm) are reliably prepared using trisodium citrate (Na3Cit) as a reductant/capping agent. Excellent size control in the intermediate 10 nm regime is achieved by hybridizing these methodologies, with highly monodisperse, polycrystalline Au NPs forming. For a Na3Cit:PVP:Au ratio of 3.5:3.5:1, anisotropic NPs with an aspect ratio of 1.8:1 suggest the systematic agglomeration of NP pairs. Enhanced control of NP morphology is allowed by the 1,2‐tetradecanediol reduction of AuIII in the presence of straight chain, molecular anti‐agglomerants. Last, ligand substitution is used to controllably grow preformed Au seeds. In spite of the extended growth phase used, the replacement of phosphine by 1‐pentadecylamine affords highly monodisperse, cuboidal NPs containing a single clearly visible twinning plane. The allowance of particle growth parallel to this close‐packed plane explains the remarkable particle morphology.


Ammonia is a critical component in fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, and fine chemicals and is an ideal, carbon-free fuel. Recently, lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction has proven to be a promising route for electrochemical ammonia synthesis at ambient conditions. In this work, we report a continuous-flow electrolyzer equipped with 25–square centimeter–effective area gas diffusion electrodes wherein nitrogen reduction is coupled with hydrogen oxidation. We show that the classical catalyst platinum is not stable for hydrogen oxidation in the organic electrolyte, but a platinum-gold alloy lowers the anode potential and avoids the decremental decomposition of the organic electrolyte. At optimal operating conditions, we achieve, at 1 bar, a faradaic efficiency for ammonia production of up to 61 ± 1% and an energy efficiency of 13 ± 1% at a current density of −6 milliamperes per square centimeter. Description Protons from H2 for ammonia synthesis Electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen (N2) and hydrogen (H2) could advantageously decentralize the current mass production of fertilizer. One promising method being explored involves lithium ion cathodic reduction in an organic solvent electrolyte, followed by reaction of the lithium with N2. However, conventional H2 oxidation catalysts for the complementary anodic process are unstable in these conditions. Fu et al. report that a gold–platinum alloy can robustly catalyze this oxidation and thus steadily produce the protons for ammonia under continuous flow conditions. —JSY A gold–platinum alloy catalyst proved stable for hydrogen oxidation to couple with nitrogen reduction in an ethereal solvent.


I discuss the theoretical interpretation of the top-quark mass, which is extracted in standard and alternative measurements at the LHC. In particular, I point out that the top mass extracted in analyses relying on the use of Monte Carlo event generators must be close to the pole mass and review recent work aiming at estimating the theoretical uncertainty.


A life in disarray Alone and confused, vulnerable and frightened, the isolated dementia victim who has no family support or other help is found in increasing numbers in our communities. Although the person may have lived independently for years, now he or she is becoming less able to safely and effectively manage an independent life. The cognitive or intellectual impairments which characterize dementia-memory loss, declining communication skills, disorientation, confusion, failing judgment-all contribute to a decline in the ability to live alone. Household tasks once done with ease may now be overwhelming. Personal care once attended to with pride may now be neglected. A life which was once ordered and coherent has become a life in disarray. As the incidence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias increases


A mechanistic investigation on the ethanol self-condensation reaction (Guerbet reaction) catalyzed by a bis(pyridylimino)isoindolate Ru(ii) catalyst was performed using a specifically designed continuously-stirred tank reactor (CSTR).


Isolated cardiac muscle is one of the major tissues used in pharmacological research. It is compact, easily prepared, and functions as a syncytium yielding rapid responses to a variety of agents. Described in this unit are methods of preparing and handling isolated cardiac muscle, a preparation rich in autonomic receptors.


BALB /c mice were immunized with G1b- 1 protein,the main allergen from wheat. The splenocytes of the immunized mice were fused with NS- 1 myeloma cells. Cell fusion and limited dilution assay were used to screen hybridoma with stable secretion character and mice ascites were induced by the selected bybridoma. Monoclonal antibodies( McABs) were purified using affinity chromatography and further tested by their specificity,subtype,titers and cross-reactivity. The antigen epitope specificity of the McABs was examined by ELISA method. Four cell lines secreting McABs against wheat G1b- 1 protein were obtained,named 1C4,4H5,1A9 and 4F5,respectively. The four McABs belong to IgG1 subtype and their titer was above 9- 10. Moreover,all the four McABs specially recognized wheat G1b-1 protein and had no cross-reaction with other familiar foods. In order to establish a double-antibody sandwich ELISA system to detect wheat GIB1 proteins,we paired off the four monoclonal antibodies for ELISA assay and found 1C4 and 4h5 might have different epitopes. Four mice anti-wheat G1b- 1 protein McABs were prepared successfully and a double-antibody sandwich ELISA method was set up in this work,which may facilitate other wheat allergen protein detection.


We present the first simultaneous observations of ion acoustic and electron plasma waves in laser-produced dense plasmas with Thomson scattering. In addition to measuring the standard plasma parameters, electron temperature and density, this novel experimental technique is shown to be a sensitive method for temporally and spatially resolved measurements of the averaged ionization stage of the plasma. Experiments with highly ionized gold plasmas clearly show that the inclusion of dielectronic recombination in radiation-hydrodynamic modeling is critically important to model cooling plasmas. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society }


The symmetric‐top spectra of 10 isotopic species of GeH3CN have been observed and measured. From the rotational constants obtained the following structural parameters have been derived: r(C–N)=1.155±0.001 A and r(Ge–C)=1.919±0.001 A, assuming r(Ge–H)=1.529 A and a tetrahedral distribution about the Ge atom. From an analysis of the splittings observed in the 1→2 transitions of GeH3CN a quadrupole coupling constant for the nitrogen nucleus of −5.0±0.1 Mc/sec has been obtained. Analysis of the Stark effect gives a dipole moment of 3.99±0.05 D.


As the amount of distributed energy storage (DES) in a power system continues to increase, it will not be long before there are multiple DES aggregators participating in frequency regulation, and the realization of their coordinated control is a critical topic of current research. This study focused on the primary frequency regulation (PFR) power allocation strategy among multiple DES aggregators participating in PFR. This study first calculated the PFR demand according to a system frequency response model of the power system with DESs. Next, a PFR power allocation model of DES aggregators was developed based on model predictive control. The objective of this model was to minimize the overall frequency regulation cost while satisfying all of the constraints of DESs. Finally, the distributed interior point method was used to solve the model rapidly. The correctness and effectiveness of the proposed model and algorithm were verified on two unified transmission and distribution systems with DES aggregators used to supply the PFR service. The results revealed that the proposed model could effectively allocate PFR power to the various types of energy storage, with the additional benefits of slowing down the shift in the state of charge for energy storage units and ensuring the continuity of energy storage participation in frequency regulation.


Silicon (Si) is considered to be the most promising anode material to replace graphite due to its higher theoretical capacity. Nanotechnology has played an important role in addressing the serious ...


It has become more and more evident that forest sequestration sink plays an important role in coping with climate change. Analysis of carbon sequestration policy based on CGE model can provide a solid basis for policy design. The prerequisite of CGE model construction is to build the social accounting matrix( SAM) of the forestry sector. Based on the 2007 Input-Output Tables of China an taking account of other statistical data,this paper compiles the 2007 Chinese social accounting matrix of the forestry sector. This SAM checks the accounts related with the forestry sector,and reasonably estimates the data not included in the statistical yearbook. It can serve as the data basis for the modeling and application of CGE model.


Cibugary Farm (Cibubur Garden Dairy) is the only cow dairy agro-tourism in East Jakarta. This is a good opportunity for this agro-tourism. Along with the program that will be run by the East Jakarta Government by 2021, namely "Cipayung Ecotourism", the development of Cibugary Farm into an agro-ecotourism site can support this program. Until now, the label owned by Cibugary Farm is only in the form of agro-tourism. For this reason, this study identified the potential of Cibugary to become an agro-ecotourism object (maintaining the educational element while preserving culture and the environment). The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative analysis, with data sources in the form of secondary data obtained from previous research and related agencies. The results of the study show that the Cibugary tourism object has the potential to be used as an agro-ecotourism object. This can be done by adding elements of Betawi culture in tourism activities and facilities and involving the community in their management.


This database was constructed to support research in radiation biological dosimetry and risk assessment. Relevant publications were identified through detailed searches of national and international electronic databases and through our personal knowledge of the subject. Publications were numbered and key worded, and referenced in an electronic data-retrieval system that permits quick access through computerized searches on publication number, authors, key words, title, year, and journal name. Photocopies of all publications contained in the database are maintained in a file that is numerically arranged by citation number. This report of the database is provided as a useful reference and overview. It should be emphasized that the database will grow as new citations are added to it. With that in mind, we arranged this report in order of ascending citation number so that follow-up reports will simply extend this document. The database cite 1212 publications. Publications are from 119 different scientific journals, 27 of these journals are cited at least 5 times. It also contains reference to 42 books and published symposia, and 129 reports. Information relevant to radiation biological dosimetry and risk assessment is widely distributed among the scientific literature, although a few journals clearly dominate. The four journals publishing themore » largest number of relevant papers are Health Physics, Mutation Research, Radiation Research, and International Journal of Radiation Biology. Publications in Health Physics make up almost 10% of the current database.« less


With the rapid development of Chinese higher education,the former job-assigning system for all college graduates,in which the household register followed with the students' enrollment,moving with them after graduation,is unable to adapt to the needs of the social change development any more.The present household registration system shows us a few problems,therefore,to reform on the household registration administration model of college students becomes a major part of China's household registration administration.


Enolase, a dimeric enzyme, in the presence of Mg$\sp{2+}$ catalyzes the reversible dehydration of 2-phospho-D-glycerate (2PGA) to form phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) in the glycolytic pathway. Studies in the inactivation of rabbit muscle enolase by NaClO$\sb4$ show that both Mg$\sp{2+}$ and 2PGA protect the enzyme from the inactivation. The protection provided by Mg$\sp{2+}$ and 2PGA is attributed to a series of interactions between the ligands and the active site residues, and to the interactions throughout the side chains of the secondary elements in the two monomers. However, surprisingly, in the absence of Mg$\sp{2+}$, 2PGA still protects the apo-enolase from inactivation even at high concentrations of metal chelating reagents such as EDTA and EGTA. This is not supposed to occur because, according to the literature, the substrate binds to the enzyme only when a divalent metal ion is bound in the high affinity site I. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy was applied to the apo-enolase sample to identify the trace metal ions, but those trace metal ions are not responsible for the protection of the apo-enolase by 2PGA. The effects of several inhibitory substrate analogues, phosphoglycolate, phosphonoacetic acid, 3PGA and glycerol 2-phosphate, were characterized. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)


Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have been widely used for a wide range of applications such as Art collections, Crime prevention and Intellectual property. In this paper, a novel CBIR system, which utilizes visual contents (color, texture and shape) of an image to retrieve images, is proposed. The proposed system builds three feature vectors and stores them into MySQL database. The first feature vector uses descriptive statistics to describe the distribution of data in each channel of RGB channels of the image. The second feature vector describes the texture using eigenvalues of the 39 sub-bands that are generated after applying four levels 2D DWT in each channel (red, green and blue channels) of the image. These wavelets sub-bands perfectly describes the horizontal, vertical and diagonal edges that exist in the multi-resolution analysis of the image. The third feature vector describes the basic shapes that exist in the skeletonization version of the black and white representation of the image. Experimental results on a private MYSQL database that consists of 10000 images; using color, texture, shape and stored relevance feedbacks; showed 96.4% average correct retrieval rate in an efficient recovery time.


The CANDLES trigger system is used for the study of Double Beta Decay of 48Ca. The detector of this experiment consists of CaF2 crystals as the sources and the detectors, immersed in the liquid scintillator as a 4π active shield. Because the decay constant of liquid scintillator (~a few10ns) is a few ten times shorter than that of CaF2 scintillator (~1μs), if we trigger the signal by the pulse height, the energy threshold of liquid scintillator lights are a few ten times lower than CaF2's one. High counting rate of the liquid scintillator causes dead time. In order to avoid this problem, we have developed a Dual Gate Trigger. In this paper, we describe the trigger system of the CANDLES experiment and its performance.


The present invention relates to an at least partially permeable to UV radiation, liquid-tight multi-layer film, preferably in the form of a tubular film comprising a layer sequence of a layer (a) based (at least one thermoplastic olefin homopolymers or copolymers as one of the outer layers, an adhesive layer b) an inner layer (c) based on at least one homo- and / or copolyamide, an adhesive layer (d), a layer (e) based on at least one homo- and / or copolyamide as one of the outer layers, wherein the thermoplastic olefin homo- or copolymer of the layer (a) has a VICAT softening temperature of at least 100 ° C, the use of such multi-layer foil as the inner tube of a Einlegeschauchs for the renovation of underground pipes, such a liner hose and a Rohrsanierungsysstem suitable for renovation of underground pipes, preferably underground Sewer pipes.


The effect of stress stimulation on gold (Au) induced lateral crystallization (GILC) of amorphous Ge on insulating substrates is investigated. As a result, the GILC is significantly enhanced by using compressive residual stresses of up to 200 MPa in TEOS-SiO2. In addition, it is found that the annealing temperature necessary to cause the GILC for a short annealing time (60 min) can be decreased to 130 °C. We have demonstrated that the GILC enhancement was caused by the stress stimulation contributed to bond rearrangement and Au easily diffused into Ge. This study proposes a unique low temperature crystallization technique that introduces a residual film stress on metal induced lateral crystallization, paving the way for the low-cost fabrication of flexible electronic devices on low-softening temperature plastic substrates.


Objective To study the expression of aquaporin1(AQP1) in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion mice after recombinant human erythropoietin(rHuEPO) was injected.Methods 96 Kunming mice were randomly divided into the sham group,ischemia-reperfusion group,recombinant human erythropoietin group at different time points(6h,24h,3d and 7d) on average.The expression of AQP1 in hippocampus was examined by immunochemistry and western blot methods.Result The results of immunochemistry and western blot showed that the expression level of AQP1 increased significantly in I/R group than in sham group( 0.05),but decreased significantly in recombinant human erythropoietin group compared with I/R group( 0.05).Conclusion recombinant human erythropoietin could downregulate the expression level of AQP1 in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion mice