U S A B L E T H E O R Y I S like sensible shoes: less sexy than the high heels of methodological purism, but functional and convenient for long walks in the empirical mud of the real world. The book is a paragon of reasonability and moderation, and it is not least this that makes it so interesting and indeed extraordinary. It is on method, but in a way that is far from the Methodenterror of standard methods textbooks. Reading it we learn as much about society and social theory as we learn about the logic of inference or the nature of theory as such. The book is radically middle-of-the-road, in every respect: it adheres to rational choice, but only to a moderate version with which no reasonable person can disagree; it concedes that sociology is less theoretically advanced than one might want it to be, but at the same time insists that theory, even general-causal-predictive theory, remains a realistic objective; and it is also adamant that sociology-as-is is much better than it is often said to be. Rather than dictating to practicing sociologists what they are to do or not to do, Rueschemeyer offers constructive suggestions as to how they can do better what they are doing anyway, not by applying fancy principles, but by building on and learning from the accumulated achievements of their discipline. Instead of giving up on sociological theory, Rueschemeyer suggests that we lower the demands we make on it, so we can recognize the very real beauty that already exists. Rather than top-down, theory-building à la Rueschemeyer proceeds bottomup: from the rich fount of empirical research and theoretical insight that has over the decades been produced by sociological scholarship. In short, this is a methods book for the sociologist, not the methodologist; it is constructive rather than forbidding; it encourages pragmatic experimentation instead of preaching dogmatic prescriptions; it teaches by examples, illustrations, and summaries of substantive results of sociological research – and is, not to forget, a pleasure to read. The argument of the book is built on a three-fold lead distinction, separating ''full-fledged theories'' described as ''logically integrated sets of hypotheses with definite empirical implications'' from ''comprehensive


An approximate technique has been developed for solving elliptic boundary-value problems. It is based on reducing finite-element systems of equations to the boundary which divides the domain into subdomains. The system of equations obtained after reduction admits an approximate solution due to neglecting small coefficients of the boundary matrix constructed by means of an auxiliary coarse grid division over the boundary. The series of numerical examples for theory of elasticity problems presented in the paper demonstrates the method's applicability.


Objective To evaluate whether the calcium-channel blocker diltiazem has protective effects against cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in a mouse model. Study Design Original basic science in vivo investigation. Setting Academic setting: Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery laboratory at University of Connecticut Health Center. Subjects Thirty-nine female CBA/J mice. Methods Pure tone– or click-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) were recorded in CBA/J mice to determine auditory thresholds. All mice had baseline ABRs recorded. They were then given a single cisplatin bolus (14 mg/kg), followed by 5 consecutive days of intratympanic diltiazem or saline control. Follow-up thresholds were recorded on days 7, 14, and 21 postcisplatin. Tone-evoked ABRs evaluated the otoprotective effect of 2-mg/kg diltiazem in 9 mice, and dose effect was examined in response to click-evoked ABR with 2- or 4-mg/kg diltiazem in 2 groups of 15 mice. Results Saline-treated ears had significantly elevated tone-evoked auditory thresholds when compared with diltiazem-treated ears (P = .038) on day 7 postcisplatin only. Click-evoked ABR thresholds were significantly elevated in saline-treated ears versus diltiazem-treated ears for the 2-mg/kg group (P = .001) and 4-mg/kg group (P = .011) on days 7, 14, and 21 postcisplatin. Conclusion Intratympanic diltiazem has significant protective effects against cisplatin ototoxicity at 2 and 4 mg/kg. This is the first in vivo study to demonstrate that diltiazem offers a potentially novel therapy for cisplatin-induced ototoxicity.


Forest fuel is a renewable source with the potential to substitute fossil fuels in several application fields, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting rural areas by fostering income and jobs. Contribution margins in fuelwood supply are small and ensuring supply chain efficiency plays a crucial role in delivering high quality products at competitive costs. This paper provides a review of research trends related to this issue in the field of harvesting and storing fuelwood and the impact of recent technology during the last decade. Whereas the basic suitability of supply chains and machines was research's main priority 20 years ago, the focus shifted to improving the efficiency of machines appropriate for harvesting fuelwood during recent years. Significant increase of productivity could be achieved by introducing fuelwood harvesting heads for processing whole trees to bunches convenient for forwarding (»multi-tree handling«), and adapted working techniques (»boom-corridor thinning«) were developed. Development of compaction measures for bulky raw materials, like logging residues, applied during or before processing and forwarding, culminated in dedicated machines (»bundle-harvester«). Improving the final product quality by appropriate storage practices was emphasised. The phrase »moisture content management« voiced the urgent need for prompt monitoring of fuelwood drying behaviour, which was answered by research in the form of meteorological data based drying models. Among the treatments applied before and during storage, covering has evolved as the most suitable measure. Furthermore, research advocated for greater attention to dry matter losses during storage and the development of basic energy density.


We consider a model for quark and lepton masses and mixings based on S{sub 4} flavor symmetry. The model contains six Higgs doublets where three of them give mass to the leptons, and the other three gives mass to the quarks. Charged fermion and quark masses arise from renormalizable interactions while neutrino Majorana masses are generated through effective dimension five Weinberg operator. From the study of the minimization of the scalar potential we found a residual {mu}{r_reversible}{tau} symmetry in the neutrino sector predicting zero reactor angle and maximal atmospheric angle and for the quark sector we found a four-zero texture. We give a fit of the mass hierarchies and mixing angles in the quark sector.


The morbidity of cerebral apoplexy is as high as 75%, there are 5–6 million patients with cerebral apoplexy but no corresponding amount of rehabilitation therapists. They need rehabilitation training robot urgently. A novel terminal-guided rehabilitation robot for finger was proposed. The robot has 12 degrees of freedom, which can train the twelve joints of the four fingers except the thumb. The kinematics of the index finger rehabilitation training system, which is composed of the index finger and the training device, is solved. An algorithms was put forward what can determining the largest internal circle in finger space. Kinematics simulation of two kinds of training trajectory what is suitable for the finger with different sizes was carried out.


In this paper we present an integrated circuit designed for PMT pulse processing. This circuit was developed for the RICH detector of the AMS experiment. It integrates 16 identical channels and have to deal with spatial constraints (low power consumption, radiation hardness). It processes the 16 analog signals coming from anodes of a multi-anode PMT and the signal coming from a dynode. It integrates a control logic for the output multiplexing, a test mode that can be activated for the calibration of each channel and an offset cancellation system has been designed for the dynode channel. This offset cancellation is important in order to cancel thermal drifts and offset spreads.


This paper deals with implementation of intelligent head up display for vehicle safety system. The Implanted new intelligent transport system offer the potential for improved vehicle to driver communication. The most commonly viewed information in a vehicle is from the Head up display, where speed, tachometer, engine RPM, navigation, engine temperature, fuel gauge, turn indicators and warning lights provide the driver with an array of fundamental information. TFT LCD, LCD Back light led, plane mirror, lens and controllers parts were designed to head up display system. Finally, In this paper, we analyze intelligent head up display system for vehicle of driver safety.


The recent invasion of southern California by the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS), Homalodisca coagulata (Say) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), has triggered a statewide control eVort. Management of GWSS will include biological control using resident and imported natural enemies. Currently, very little information is available on the role of generalist predators in suppression of GWSS eggs, nymphs or adults. We have developed a sharpshooter egg-speciWc monoclonal antibody (MAb) for use as a diagnostic tool for predator gut content analysis. The MAb was tested by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for speciWcity to the diVerent life stages of GWSS, smoke-tree sharpshooter (STSS), Homalodisca liturata Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), and various life stages of 27 other arthropod species. We found that the MAb only reacted to the egg stage of both sharpshooters and, to a lesser extent, to the adult stage of gravid GWSS and STSS females. Moreover, the ELISA was more responsive to younger GWSS eggs than older ones. Laboratory trials were conducted to determine how long GWSS egg antigen remained detectable in the guts of the green lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea Stephens (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) and the ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) using both an indirect and sandwich ELISA format. We found that GWSS egg antigen was detectable for up to 30 and 12 h in the guts of C. carnea and H. axyridis; respectively, and that the sandwich ELISA was much more sensitive than the indirect ELISA. Finally, 98 Weld-collected lacewings were examined for sharpshooter remains using our sharpshooter-speciWc sandwich ELISA. The assay detected sharpshooter egg antigen in 8.2% of the lacewings examined. This work represents a Wrst step towards identifying the GWSS predator complex. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


The high cost and complexity of commercial illumination systems envisioned for soft x-ray projection lithography (SXPL) will require that their minimum replacement period is likely to be 6-12 months. For a laser plasma soft x-ray source, this corresponds to approximately 109 laser pulses. Given that a deposited film just 100 Å thick of a typical target element (Au, W, Ta, etc.) will reduce the reflectance of a multilayer mirror by an order of magnitude, it is clear that the contamination rate of condenser elements from plasma source debris must approach zero. In the present Sandia laser plasma source SXPL illumination systems, reflectance values of multilayer-coated plasma-facing optical elements are reduced by ~50% within 106 laser pulses. Clearly, large improvements in target debris production and/or mitigation are needed.


The presence of kinin-forming enzymes in the kidney has been postulated by several authors to explain the presence of kallikreins or kinin in urine (Werle, 1955; Fasciolo et al., 1960; Webster & Pierce, 1960; Prado et al., 1962; Hilton, 1962). The problem, however, has not been investigated systematically. This paper is concerned with the demonstration of kininogenin in the rat kidney homogenates and its localization in subcellular fractions of this organ.


The Okubo [5]-Weiss [6] criterion has been extensively used as a diagnostic tool to divide a two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamical flow field into hyperbolic and elliptic regions and to serve as a useful qualitative guide to the complex quantitative criteria. The Okubo-Weiss criterion is frequently validated on empirical grounds by the results ensuing its application. So, we will explore topological implications into the Okubo-Weiss criterion and show the Okubo-Weiss parameter is, to within a positive multiplicative factor, the negative of the Gaussian curvature of the underlying vorticity manifold. The Okubo-Weiss criterion is reformulated in polar coordinates, and is validated via several examples including the Lamb- Oseen vortex, and the Burgers vortex. These developments are then extended to 2D quasi- geostrophic (QG) flows. The Okubo-Weiss parameter is shown to remain robust under the -plane approximation to the Coriolis parameter. The Okubo-Weiss criterion is shown to be able to separate the 2D flow-field into coherent elliptic structures and hyperbolic flow configurations very well via numerical simulations of quasi-stationary vortices in QG flows. An Okubo-Weiss type criterion is formulated for 3D axisymmetric flows, and is validated via application to the round Landau-Squire Laminar jet flow.


BACKGROUND
Single-port laparoscopic surgery (SPLS) has been introduced for totally extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair. The aim of this study was to report our initial experience with SPLS TEP inguinal hernia repair in 100 patients by a single-port laparoscopic surgeon who had no prior experience of conventional TEP hernia repair.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
Between October 2012 and December 2013, 100 patients underwent SPLS TEP inguinal hernia repair by a single surgeon. The procedures that were performed in the preperitoneal space did not differ from those in conventional TEP repair. Patient demographics, type of hernia, and operative and postoperative outcomes were analyzed. Also, we compared the results of current series with the data of the other studies for single-port TEP inguinal hernia repair.

RESULTS
Among the 100 patients, SPLS TEP inguinal hernia repair was successful in 99 patients; 1 patient required additional incisions for inserting the trocar. The mean operative time and postoperative length of stay were 97.8 minutes (range, 55-185 minutes) and 1.3 days (range, 1-4 days), respectively. In the current series, the operation time was longer than those in the other studies for SPLS TEP repair. Recurrent hernia, history of lower abdominal surgery, and peritoneal tear during the operation were significantly associated with prolonged operation time. The other data, including perioperative complications, were similar.

CONCLUSIONS
In our experience, the transition from standard hernioplasty to SPLS TEP inguinal hernia repair by an experienced SPLS surgeon was feasible. However, a learning curve is necessary.


Introduction. X linked juvenile retinoschisis (XLJR) an X-linked retinal disease affecting males is characterized by foveal schisis. Our purpose was to genotype the females of the same family with XLJR to establish carrier status of the 639delG mutation in the RS1 gene.


The unimolecular metastable decompositions of bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl) ether, CF3CH2OCH2CF3 (1), and ethyl 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl ether, CH3CH2OCH2CF3 (2), induced by electron ionization, have been investigated by mass-analyzed ion kinetic energy (MIKE) spectrometry and energy-dependent collision-induced dissociation (CID) spectra in conjunction with thermochemical data. In the metastable time window, the molecular ions of 1 decompose into the ions at m/z 113 by the loss of CF3 and m/z 83 by the consecutive losses of CF3 and CH2O, while those of 2+ • decompose into the ions at m/z 113 and m/z 59 by the elimination of CH3 and CF3 , respectively. The decomposition of the latter fragment ion is similar to that of the m/z 59 ion from the corresponding fluorine-free analogue, diethyl ether, CH3CH2OCH2CH3 (3), that is, fragment ions m/z 41 and m/z 31 are observed, which correspond to the competitive losses of H2O and C2H4, respectively. The metastable ions m/z 113 from 1+ • and 2+ • decompose in a variety of ways: in addition to the fragment ion m/z 65, which is generated by the elimination of CHFO, four other fragment ions with m/z 83, 63, 61, and 31 are observed , which correspond to the competitive losses of CH2O, (CH2O+HF), CH2F2, and C2HF3 (or C2H4F2O), respectively.


It is ironic that at a time when the nurse's role in the NHS is expanding, the nurse's role in continuing care may be endangered.


Formerly, the joining method between a short pipe and elbow tubes of steel pipes had been applied to a manual welding process. This work tried statistical controlling methods of fitting size accuracy between a short pipe and elbow tubes, and improvements of its process to apply to a welding robot. These statistical controlling methods and improvements could apply to the automatic welding process of that both pipes joints, instead of a manual welding. Also, these methods and improvements get the fitting size of weld joints with high reliability and accuracy with representation. Therefore the system of welding robot for short pipe-elbow tubes joints could realize a production process with high accuracy and high productivity.


We present a physically based treatment of the molecular rotational partition function for the case of the interaction of a macromolecular receptor with a small biologically active molecule. This leads to the proposal of a new substituent parameter that we call the Orientational Parameter. Its physical interpretation is that it gives an account of the substituent's influence on the percentage of molecules achieving the correct orientation to interact with the receptor. Finally we propose a universal way to calculate its values, avoiding the need of building long tables. A comparison between the old and new ways to calculate it is presented. We provide here an example to show shown its usefulness in QSAR studies


Loin sections of pork muscle were heated to 75 or 85°C internal temperatures in microwave or conventional electric ovens. Cooking losses and time, percentage moisture and total vitamin B6 were determined. Cooking time was longer, total cooking loss less and moisture content greater for pork cooked in an electric oven than for that cooked in a microwave oven. Differences in vitamin B6 due to type of oven or internal temperature were small and not significant when calculated on a cooked weight basis. When calculated on a dry weight basis samples cooked in the conventional oven contained more vitamin B6 than did those cooked by a microwave oven.


The introduction of the American Airlines' TrAAm project brought numerous modifications to support the addition of guideway, stations and the operation of three-car trains to the existing AIRTRANS system at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Since the power distribution system is an essential part of every people mover system, modification and expansion of the AIRTRANS power distribution, including the addition of the power factor correction equipment, were needed to meet the requirements of the American Airline's TrAAm system. This paper describes how the power factor correction equipment was considered, evaluated and then used to meet the TrAAm operational requirements, and at the same time improve the AIRTRANS system energy-efficiency. In addition, this paper discusses the use of the Central Control computer to automatically control and monitor the power factor correction equipment.


A multislice, 2.5 dimensional model was used to calculate the state variables waveforms of an asynchronous machine. In this model a magnetic field is calculated in orthogonal to the machine axis, two- dimensional intersections with use of the finite element method. The wavelet transform was used to visualize the waveform harmonic components. The performed analysis showed that the wavelet transform can be successfully used in the analysis of the asynchronous machine waveforms, as an alternative to the short time Fourier transform. The calculations were performed in the Academy Computational Center in Cracow, Poland.


Abstract Asymmetric synthesis of 6-formyl-1-alkoxycarbonylbicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene-2-carboxylic acids has been achieved and the absolute configurations of the products of a novel buffer-mediated rearrangement have been established.


A batch of "crude copper oxide" during Customs inspection and supervision was identified to judge whether it is solid waste.By screening,the sample was prepared into three analyzed samples with different particle sizes.Through the analysis of appearance,chemical analysis,X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and X-ray diffraction spectrum,it was concluded that the sample was mainly composed of copper,cuprous oxide and copper oxychloride.The sample was judged as residue resulting from copper material machining and polishing process.It was solid waste,rather than industrial product or natural copper ore.Meanwhile,the harmful elements such as lead,cadmium,mercury,arsenic and fluorine were analyzed,offering scientific basis for Customs supervision and resources recycle.


Research to know the effect of anti-inflammatory of infuse bryophyllum pinnatum (Kalanchoe pinnata) against edema on leg thigh Swiss Webster male mice and to see relationships increased concentrations with increased anti-inflammatory effect. This research was conducted in the Science Laboratory, Faculty of Fisheries, Agriculture, and Biology of the Bangka Belitung University. The method: The animals test that used were 25 Swiss Webster male mice were divided into 5 groups, namely group I: negative control (aquadest), group II: positive control (aspirin), group III, IV, V given infuse bryophyllum pinnatum (Kalanchoe pinnata) with concentrations 20%, 40%, and 80%. This research uses a method by injecting acetic acid in mice thigh. The measured data is a murine thigh volume for 3 hours using a caliper. Data analysis using the Kruskal-Wallis, the results showed that there were no significant differences as a value greater than 0.05 is 0.533. This suggests that increasing the concentration did not give a considerable influence on the volume of edema thigh male mice Swiss Webster. From the Mann Whitney test between the concentration of 20%, 40%, 80%, and negative controls showed that the difference in significance because of the value of significantly less than 0,05. This shows that there is a potential infusion of leaves bryophyllum pinnatum (Kalanchoe pinnata) towards healing leg edema in the thigh swiss webster male mice.


Abstract : The free molecule flow over concave bodies is investigated using the moment method in kinetic theory. The relation between the incident molecular velocity distribution function and the boundary transform is given by a triple integral. (Author)


To solve problem of distributed collaborative information,resources sharing and knowledge r euse among designers during process of crane design,study cloud manufacturing technology,to construct Crane parameter collaborative design system research based on cloud service,combined parameterized variant design and distributed collaborative design effectly,improved the ability of fast response to the market.A case study of ladle crane frame parametric design was presented to vailidate the feasibility of the system.


An innovated simple fabrication process is adopted to fabricate a novel gate self-aligned (GSA) graphene field effect transistor (GFET). First, stacked source/drain electrodes with triple-layer metal are formed. Then, after slightly etching of the second metal layer, laterally recessed profiles are formed, which leads to the self-aligned (SA) gate. A noticeable feature of the GSA-GFET is that the access resistance is not changed with the level of the lateral recessing, which leads to a very small access resistance. Compared with the non-SA-GFET with same gate length and width, the contact resistance of the GSA-GFET is reduced by 68%, the peak gm is 3.6 times improved, the on/off ratio is increased from 1.8 to 3.2.


The article presents scientific data on changes in morphological and biochemical parameters of blood in cows with ketosis. It was found that the number of erythrocytes and leukocytes decreased in cows with ketosis. In cows with ketosis, ketogenesis increased, which led to the accumulation of excess ketone bodies in the body. The degree of ketonuria was directly proportional to the concentration of ketone bodies in the blood (p <0.001). In patients with ketosis of cows found hypoglycemia, blood glucose decreased by 16%. The activity of aspartate and alanine aminotransferase in the blood of cows with ketosis was higher by 116 and 81%, respectively, in healthy animals.


An Official Report has reached us on a Conference of Authorities on Australian Fauna and Flora held at Hobart, Tasmania, from 7th to 9th December, 1949. This conference was convened by the Animals and Birds Protection Board of Tasmania, a member of our Society. All States except Queensland were represented.


Critical thinking has been recognized as an essential skill in general education and language learning activities. In recent years, critical thinking has been identified as one of the 21st-century skills that students need to develop in modern society (Partnership, 2009). The development of critical thinking skill is important to the students' educational success in their current and future grades as thinking is a way of learning content. The use of social media attains to increase critical thinking skills. The more the students engage with social media, primarily as part of language learning activities, the more they can develop higher order skills by reading and making judgments about the credibility of sources of information.

This paper is written to achieve the objectives: 1) to find out the process of teaching reading using Twitter to foster the students critical thinking skill, 2) to find out the cores of critical thinking emerged in the students' answer to the questions related to the Twitter post, and 3) to find out the students' responses to the use of Twitter in English learning activities to improve their critical thinking skills.

This research is qualitative research, particularly a case study. This research was conducted to the third semester students of class A at English Education Department of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. The research data were obtained from observation, document analysis, and questionnaire. The data were transcribed, categorized into central themes, and interpreted into a description form and response results.

The findings show that the process of teaching reading is established by implementing the four features of critical thinking classroom, such as frequent evaluative questions, encouragement of active learning, developmental tension, and fascinating with the contingency conclusion. Moreover, the data from the students' paper shows the strength and the weakness of the students answers to the questions related to the Twitter posts. In term of strength, the high and middle-achieving students could present the cores of critical thinking skills such as interpretation and analysis in their answers. While in term of weakness, low achieving students could not present all of those cores. One of the students merely present interpretation in her answer.

In conclusion, the finding shows that the use of Twitter in teaching reading could foster the students' critical thinking skills. Then it was recommended that the next research offers the various methodologies how to involve critical thinking skills in the classroom and the more variety of materials should be used to encourage the students' critical thinking.


This paper aims to draft an overview of what being a midwife in Byzantium meant, according to the literary sources. Midwife in Byzantium appears to be a rather complex and elusive figure to study. This is due to both the scarce references in the sources and the vague definition of midwifery itself in the ancient world. The main fields of activity of Byzantine midwives were three: medical, religious and care. As a first attempt of studying Byzantine midwife all-round, this paper ends by suggesting further research perspectives in order to get a clearer and more complete understanding of such figure.


Two sweet sorghum varieties(XT-2 and T601) with seven different planting densities of treatments,were need to analyze the reducing sugar,total sugar content,sucrose content,activities of SS and SPS at different growing stages.The total sugar content in two varieties had the same,increasing tendency with the highest value at mature period.The reducing sugar content changed in a tendency of increasing maintaining decreasing in XT-2,and in a tendency of increasing,reducing in T601.The sucrose contents of the two varieties showed the same increasing tendency with the highest value at mature period.In addition to the density treatment B6(6170 plants ha–1),SS activity showed a tendency of rising-decreasing-hiding in T601,and no obvious changing hale in XT-2.Except for density treatment B2(11 110 plants ha–1),B4(7929 plants ha–1),SPS activity showed a tendency of rising-reducing-rising in XT-2,and no obvious rule in T601.For XT-2,the optimal density was 9250 plants ha–1,the total sugar content was 14.2%(on a fresh matter basis),for T601 the optimal density was 11 110 plants ha–1,the total sugar content was 14.31%(on a fresh matter basis).The latter is the best choice for total sugar accumulation.Activity of SS is decline,SPS activity Declined and increased.SPS activity in the full ripening stage are favorable to sugar accumulation.In this care,it is the best time for harvest.


Background: Health care systems worldwide are aiming to achieve the 'Triple Aim': improving population health, patient experience and cost efficiency. The Institute of Healthcare Improvement highlights that a key enabler of the Triple Aim is an 'integrator', who organizes a close collaboration between all actors, such as care providers, professionals or community institutions. The U.S. has introduced a range of reforms as part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). Specific to delivery system reform the ACA provided provisions for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to create a national voluntary program to establish Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). These organizations are intended to fulfil this 'integrator' function and play a central, facilitating role in moving providers and systems towards the Triple Aim. CMS defines ACOs as "[…] groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to the Medicare patients they serve […] When an ACO succeeds in both delivering high-quality care and spending health care dollars more wisely, it will share in the savings it achieves for the Medicare program." Since their introduction in 2010, ACOs have rapidly proliferated. In just six years there are now over 800 public and private ACOs, covering around 28 million people. With new Medicare reforms coming into effect soon, the ACO sector may cover over 100 million people in the next five years. Many other OECD countries are now also introducing integrated, accountable care initiatives to tackle historic institutional and financial fragmentation. These initiatives have moved up the political agenda in these countries and there may be important lessons from the US ACO experience that could inform policy in this area. Aims: This session brings together contributions from researchers and managers from four countries, Germany, the UK, France and Australia, who have been conducting in-depth analyses of the design, implementation and policy context of ACOs. They will discuss in their presentations the lessons learned from US ACO models and strategies being undertaken in their home countries that align with these models. Implications of their findings for the US and the four home countries will be elaborated. This session is aimed to help policy decision makers and health care managers to better understand these key issues. Target Audience: Policy makers, researchers and other healthcare professionals interested in implementing Accountable Care models Leadership from Accountable Care Organizations or population-based integrated care models - CEO, CFO, COO, CMO, Quality Improvement Leader, IT leader etc.


Based on a non-solvable matrix Lie algebra L,the derivations and automorphisms of L were studied by the multiplication operation of block matrix.Using constructive proof methods,it is proved that the center of L is trivial and all its derivations are inner,in other words,L is shown to be a complete Lie algebra.Then,when R is an integer ring and its character is not 2,all the automorphisms of L are determined.


In a recent publication Geng et al. (1) reported the growth of graphene thin films on liquid Cu surface, using chemical vapor deposition. The authors state that the graphene nucleation typically occurs on grain boundaries in solid polycrystalline Cu, which results in an inhomogeneous density and size distribution of hexagonal graphene flakes. Therefore, liquefaction of the Cu leads to the formation of a uniform single-layer graphene. Although I agree with the general description and the fact that liquefaction of polycrystalline Cu will eliminate grain boundaries, I think the conclusion that it leads to the synthesis of continuous, uniform graphene film in general is misleading.


Since non-orientable compact 2-manifolds without boundary cannot be embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space, all their models in that space occur with self-intersections. A practical motivation for looking at the phenomenon of self-intersections is to repair surface models of solid shapes. Mapping into space. Let M be a 2-manifold and f : M → R 3 a continuous mapping. For the time being assume f is smooth meaning derivatives of all orders exist. In the case at hand we have three real-valued functions in two variables. The matrix of partial derivatives is therefore J = ∂f1 ∂s1 ∂f2 ∂s1 ∂f3 ∂s1 ∂f1 ∂s2 ∂f2 ∂s2 ∂f3 ∂s2 , consisting of the three gradients. The rank of this matrix is at most two. The mapping f is an immersion of its derivative has full rank (rank 2) at every point of M, and it is an embedding if f restricted to its image is a homeomorphism. For smooth mappings, there are three types of generic self-intersections, all illustrated in Figure II.9. The most interesting of the three is the branch x x x Figure II.9: From left to right: a double point, a triple point, a branch point. point, which comes in several guises. We can construct it by cutting a disk from two sides toward the center, folding it, and re-glueing the sides as the self-intersection, as shown in Figure II.10. Triangle meshes. Classifying the types of self-intersections is easier in the piecewise linear case in which M is given by a triangulation K. Since M is a 2-manifold, the triangles that contain a vertex form a disk, or perhaps half a


An electric impact wedging positioning machine, to overcome the shortcomings of the original using the hammer strikes the wedge hammer forging die fastening wedge, using mainly composed of a motor, a pulley carrier, pulley shaft, the flat cam, impact such as an impact iron electric impact mechanism aspect, the present invention may be positioned so that the impact hammer forging die wedging fastening wedge, having a small working space occupied and easy to use, safe and reliable.


A model of integrated assessment of the quality of IT services, based on its evaluation of guaranteed on a set of discrete distributions with the given parameters.


A new series of 24- and 28-membered macrocyclic systems associated with "hard" (N and O) and "soft" (Se or Te) donor atoms have been developed via template free (2 + 2) condensation reactions of bis(aminoalkyl)selenides/tellurides, {NH 2 (CH 2 ) n } 2 E (E = Se, Te; n = 2,3) with 2,6-diacetyl-4-methylphenol. A macroacycle, Se{(CH 2 ) 2 N=C(CH 3 )C 6 H 2 (OH)(CH 3 )C=O(CH 3 )} 2 , has also been obtained. These compounds have been characterized by ESMS, IR, and 1 H, 13 C, and 77 Se NMR spectroscopy.


ABSTRACT In the UK, local authorities (LAs) have been placed at the forefront of domestic energy-reduction strategies as the responsible actors for coordinating policy in this sector. Yet, there has been little research regarding the role of LAs in this policy agenda, and their abilities to bring together stakeholders in the successful design and implementation of strategies to reduce energy demands. The paper aims to fill this gap by highlighting the relevance and importance of the energy policy sphere to local government studies, building on the idea of resilient LAs within the context of tensions between the localism agenda and the actual implementation of energy efficiency polices. This is achieved through multiple rounds of semi-structured interviews with LA officers. Our findings reveal that LAs, operating under a localism agenda, lack the freedoms and resources from central government to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders, resorting to short-term policies.


Shrink Rap Radio #433 December 11, 2014    Transactional Analysis: Past, Present, and Future. Interview of Dr. Vann Joines by Dr David Van Nuys (Transcribed from www.shrinkrapradio.com by Kai Heimpel)    Introduction My guest today is Dr Vann Joines, licensed Clinical Psychologist and Marital and Family  Therapist and President and Director of the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy,  Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is also a certified Teaching and Supervising Transactional   Analyst and the 1984 winner of the Eric Berne Memorial Award for the Integration of  Transactional Analysis with Other Approaches. For more information about Dr Joins'   background, please consult our show notes at shrinkrapradio.com. Now, here is the Interview.  Dr. Dave: Dr. Vann Joines, welcome to shrinkrapradio.  Dr. Vann Joines: Thank you, glad to be here.  Dr. Dave: Well, I'm glad to have you here on the show because I've had a listener request or  two in the past for some coverage of Transactional Analysis, and because I'm planning a   Continuing Education course on therapies that emphasise, air quotes, parts  for example, Freud's  early theory talks about It, Ego, and Superego, and the Jungians talk about the various archetypes  and so on. I've been told that you are the goto guy to talk about Transactional Analysis, so   maybe a good place for us to start is: What is Transactional Analysis?  Dr. Vann Joines: Well, it's both a theory of human personality and interaction, and also a  method of psychotherapy and personal growth.  Dr. Dave: Okay. Maybe I should ask you how you first came upon it and what it was that  grabbed you about it.


THE REPORT ANALYSES INFORMATION WHICH THE DRIVER TAKES IN AND PROCESSES, AND INVESTIGATES THE LIMITS OF DRIVER PERFORMANCE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION WHICH FITS HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RELATIONSHIPS ARE SHOWN BETWEEN THE INFORMATION PROCESSING OF THE DRIVER AND TRAFFIC ENGINEERING PARAMETERS, USING DIFFERENT MEASURING TECHNIQUES. INITIAL RESULTS OF THIS EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION SHOW THAT PERCEPTION (VISUAL CHANNEL) OF THE INFERIOR DRIVER DEPENDS CHARACTERISTICALLY ON TRAFFIC CONDITIONS IN THE MAIN STREAM. FURTHER IN THE REPORT, THE SENSORY-, MENTAL- AND MOTOR-BEHAVIOUR OF THE DRIVER ARE INVESTIGATED USING AN ACTIVITY ANALYSIS. EFFECTS RESULTING FROM THIS INPUT DATA SERVE AS OUTPUT DATA FOR EVALUATING THOSE DEMANDS ON A DRIVER WHICH CAN BE TOLERATED. AS AN INSIGHT INTO THE DEMANDS PLACED ON A DRIVER AN EXTENSION TO THE USEABLE FIELD OF VISION IS USED FOR WHICH A MEASURING TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED. RESULTS MEASURED INDICATE CLEARLY A NARROWING DOWN OF THE USEABLE FIELD OF VISION IN JOURNEYS WITH AN ADDITIONAL TASK AND ALSO IN "CROSSING" SITUATIONS IN TRAFFIC DIRECTLY IN THE REGION OF A CROSSING.


In 1989, Danzer presented a set of four tetrahedra which, along with their mirror images, form aperiodic tilings of space when assembled according to certain matching rules. Though not the rst known aperiodic set in three dimensions, the Danzer tetrahedra are attractive for a number of reasons, including several similarities to the two-dimensional Penrose tiles and Robinson triangles. We present an expanded version of Danzer's paper[Dan89], giving explanations and proofs and removing some of the notation to provide a more readable and comprehensible exposition of these tiles and their basic properties. The tetrahedra in a Danzer tiling always meet face-to-face and vertex-to-vertex. Thus the next fundamental unit of the tiling beyond the tiles themselves is the vertex con guration, a ball of tiles clustered about and sharing a central vertex. Danzer's paper states that there are exactly 27 vertex con gurations. We give a practical algorithm to compute a complete \atlas" of vertex con gurations, and show that there are, in fact, 174. Every patch in a Danzer tiling is duplicated an in nite number of times in every tiling, and the distance to the nearest identical copy is within a bounded multiple of the radius of the patch. Using a computational approach, we show how to place a bound on .


Kids may not like the peas and carrots served up by the nation's school lunch program, but many of the country's leading food companies enjoy the billions of dollars in sales that bring those vegetables to their plates. Behind the overcooked vegetables and steam-table pizza that some 29 million American children confront each school day is an industry that rivals defense contractors and media giants in its ability to bring home the federal bacon--er, the seasoned lettuce cup. School lunch. A prosaic, even nostalgic event, multiplied hundreds of millions of times--187 billion lunches served--becomes, voila! a $6.6 billion annual all-you-can-eat lunch line, one of the most popular and sturdy of all federal social programs (see Figure 1). Except for food stamps ($27 billion), it is the most expensive of all federal food programs. Pass the gravy! But there's more. Add to that the $1.8 billion for school breakfasts and the nearly $1 billion school commodities program (a relic of the 1930s, when the Department of Agriculture started buying food and giving it to the schools directly) and you realize that, at $9.5 billion, providing food to school children is a major federal commitment. Consistent with the intent of the original school-lunch program, created by Congress in 1946 to provide "nutritious agricultural commodities" to children, the major purpose of today's school-lunch program is to ensure that children, especially those from poor and low-income families, have nutritious food at school. The school-breakfast program started as a pilot in 1966 and was made permanent in 1975. How these programs, and the money that travels with them, have grown steadily over the years is a story that illustrates many of the underlying mechanisms of social policy creation in the nation's capital. But can this aging machinery adapt to the demands of a fast-food culture? We created school lunch to feed the hungry. Can we now ask it to fight obesity? A Special-Interest Stew Since the strength and longevity of these programs come from an ample and well-balanced diet of public compassion, political sensitivities, and powerful lobbying, change does not come easily. There are occasional food fights between those who have stakes in the programs, but the rules are well established. The interests of the schools--primarily teachers, administrators, school nutritionists, and food-service workers--are represented by groups like the School Nutrition Association and the National School Boards Association, both headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, a stone's throw across the Potomac River from Capitol Hill. With well-funded and sophisticated national organizations, these groups lobby for more federal money while fighting to keep federal mandates to a minimum. The giant food and beverage industry--names like Tyson and Archer Daniels Midland--is also involved. Its various lobbying arms, including food processors, distributors, service management companies, soft drink makers, and agricultural giants, work to ensure that the government buys food products from its members and keeps schools open to vending machines and a la carte offerings in the school cafeteria, a little oasis of choice that represents millions of extra dollars of revenue each year. Food advocacy and nutrition groups like the Food Research Action Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities represent the interests of children who consume the food offered by schools. They are the nutrition watchdogs, providing reliable and timely information about any food issue that comes before Congress. While these three sets of lobbying groups have opposing interests on some issues--the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, for instance, will throw its weight behind programs for the poor before pushing programs that cover all children--they share the goal of maintaining or increasing federal spending on school lunch and related nutrition programs. …


The design departments have devoted significant attention to improve organizational performance of the sports institutions, in terms of creativity, innovation, beauty, coordination, organization, and problem solving. However, there is still need to find out new ideas and designs for the administrative levels in the sports institutions. Thus, the present study was conducted to identify the relationship between design management and organizational performance. In the current study, all the heads of sports federations in the Paralympic Committee for the academic year 2020-2021 were recruited as the participants for the study. Participant selection was done using purposive sampling method. A total of 30 individuals were recruited as the participants for the study. Based on the findings of the study, the researchers concluded that a roadmap existed in the form of a strategic approach for the Paralympic Committee, in order to achieve unique expectations by developing a plan for organizational performance.


Fruit malformation is a commercial strawberry production problem. To investigate the cause of this phenomenon, the nutrient status of normal, semi-deformed and fully-deformed fruits of 'Selva' cultivar fruits was determined. The content of Ca, Zn and Mg in misshaped fruits was below the level of normal strawberry fruit suggesting that a deficiency of these elements could induce malformation. This phenomenon also affected the quality parameters. Misshapen fruit had less health and food value; a 19%-28% reduction in vitamin C and 40% less total anthocyanin content. Maintaining proper mineral elements composition of plants and fruit may therefore prevent fruit malformation and produce a more nutritious product.


The invention discloses a large pressure difference U-shaped differential pressure gauge. The large pressure difference U-shaped differential pressure gauge comprises a left pressure testing tube (4) and a right pressure testing tube (7), wherein a left pressure testing tube connection mouth (1) is arranged at the upper end of the left pressure testing tube (4) and is provided with a left regulating valve (2). A right pressure testing tube connection mouth (9) is arranged at the upper end of the right pressure testing tube (7) and is provided with a right regulating valve (8). The lower end of the left pressure testing tube (4) and the lower end of the right pressure testing tube (7) are connected with each other through a reverse osmosis cavity (5), and a reverse osmosis film (6) is arranged inside the reverse osmosis cavity (5).


In this paper, a set of measured scattering data for civilian vehicle is presented. An electromagnetic scattering measurement system was built in the microwave anechoic chamber to obetain the scattering data for civilian vehicles. The two dimensional radar image was learnt based on the frequency and aspect sweeping data obtained from measurement. The scattering centers of the radar image was extracted by the CLEAN algorithm. Then the vehicle motion model in typical road scene such as vehicle meeting and veheicle following was analysied. The dynamic evolution of scattering centers during the road scene was studied. And the scattering center model of civilian vehicle during the road scene is applied in the anti-collision radar dynamic measurement system.


With the progress made by demographic analysis, the first attempts to formalize the dynamics of populations seem to have lost much of their theoretical and practical interests. But, if researches favouring the global approach – through which Quetelet and his disciple Verhulst became famous in the 1830s, then Pearl and Reed in the 1920s – have become obsolete, as far as prediction of human populations growth is concerned, they nevertheless represent a very significant landmark in the history of the "mathematisation"of the social sciences.


Abstract PROESCHER and Seil (1917) observed that vanadium was toxic to mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. Since then numerous investigators have reported on the adverse effects of this element when ingested by various mammalian species. Some of the effects of vanadium poisoning have been reviewed by Patty (1949). The heart, kidneys, lungs, spleen and central nervous system all have been shown to be affected. Romoser et al. (1960), appear to be the first to show that vanadium retards the growth rate of chicks. One of the primary modes of action of vanadium apparently is its ability to affect the reactions of sulfur-containing compounds. Mountain et al. (1953) reported a reduction in the cystine content of the hair of rats fed diets containing as little as 0.01% vanadium. Higher levels reduced body weight gains but could be counteracted by the administration of methionine. Mascitelli-Coriandoli and Citterio (1959a, b) presented evidence to …


The paper discusses the formation of the information competence of students technologists in secondary special educational institution, the use of methodological principles and provisions of synergy and technology of its realization in educational practice.


Presentation No one could have imagined a decade ago that heavy metal studies would have grown at the rate it has. It would not be accurate to say that it has spread across the globe from any particular point, but rather through effective communication, music media publicity publication output, symposia and conferences, the movement has emerged by scholars consolidating their commitment already at work in metal music studies. Indeed, this was noted along with the idea for a metal studies soci...


A series of chemical equilibrium, chemical nonequilibrium, and thermal nonequilibrium calculations are performed for various chemical processes related to a Single Stage To Orbit Hydrogen Fueled Airbreathing Hypersonic Vehicle (SSTOHFAHV). The processes include air dissociation downstream of a 60and 30-deg oblique shock and Hi-air combustion. The calculations are applied to two typical SSTOHFAHV trajectories.


In the past two decades, extensive research and studies have been performed on graphene because of its exceptional physical properties. Owing to its ultrahigh carrier mobility, quantum Hall effect and unique optical transmittance, graphene is considered to be a multi-functional component for realizing next-generation optoelectronic and photonic devices. Significant efforts have been made towards efficient synthesis, transfer, and integration of graphene for use in device scale. However, the critical hurdles lie in developing 3D and conformal graphene, which are ideal for integrated hybrid photonic systems. Here, we review different methods of synthesizing graphene, specifically recent advances in the synthesis of direct, conformal, 3D graphene. In addition, we comprehensively summarize the latest progress made towards directly grown, 3D, conformal graphene-based photonic and optoelectronic applications. Finally, several important challenges for large-sale implementation of directly grown graphene-based optoelectronic and photonic devices are discussed.


This paper seeks to understand the effects of institutions on the practice of human resource management (HRM) in Greece. Hence, it evaluates how alternative approaches to institutions conceptualize contexts such as Greece, and the relevance of such approaches in the light of empirical evidence. The latter would suggest that, in common with other Mediterranean economies, Greece has been undergoing a long evolution, marked by reforms both towards greater liberalization and greater coordination. However, the ultimate direction remains unclear, and embedded ways of doing things – above all, a strongly paternalist tradition – persist. Again, as with other Mediterranean economies, the Greek economy is an essentially dualistic one, divided between larger organizations (both within the state and private sectors) and the SME sector: the relative importance of the latter has increased in recent years. Empirical research evidence would underscore the importance of conceptualizing institutions as subject to both continuity, and uneven, contested, yet constant change, and the extent to which internal diversity persists within national institutional frameworks.


Whilst the bones of domestic cats (Felis catus) are recovered from archaeological sites in Iberia routinely, they are rarely subjected to detailed analysis. Consequently, there is limited understanding of the nature of cat–human relations, especially in contrast to northern European regions. In this paper, we present a unique assemblage of 899 cat bones recovered from the medieval site of El Bordellet (Vilafranca del Penedes, Spain) and dated between the end of the 10th century ad and the beginning of the 11th century ad. Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis provides the first clear evidence of skinning related to cat fur exploitation in Christian medieval Iberia. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


A previous study showed that 'bright' vowels (i.e. front vowels, which have higher second formants) are favoured for on-beat words in hip-hop music. Here we partially replicated these findings in a more diverse sample of pop songs from the Rolling Stone Corpus. Stressed monosyllables were classified by their vowel's place of articulation and their metric position. Bright vowels were 9–13% more likely on weak (but not strong) beats and metric positions immediately surrounding than other metric positions. Favouring bright vowels on and surrounding weak beats may mitigate masking by the snare drum, which typically plays on weak beats.


Objective:To evaluate the effect of biochemotherapy on the treatment of renal cell carcinoma after radical nephrectomy. Methods: A total of 69 patients with renal cell carcinoma were divided into two groups by therapeutic methods. Only interferon-α and 5-fluorouracil were used in group A; in group B, interleukin-2 combined with interferon-α and 5-fluorouracil were used after operation. The survival rate was compared between the two groups. Results: The difference of 1-, 2-and 3-year survival rate of the patients in early-stage (stage I and II) renal cell carcinoma between the two groups had no significance (P0.05). There was a significant difference in 3-year survival rate between the two groups in advanced (stage III) renal cell carcinoma (P0.05). There was no severe toxicity. Conclusion: Interleukin-2, interferon-α and 5-fluorouracil combination therapy was effective for advanced renal cell carcinoma, which was better than interferon-α and 5-fluorouracil.


Chapter 1: Executive Summary: An "On-Boarding" Process for Leaders at Every Level.PART I: BEFORE YOU ACCEPT A NEW LEADERSHIP ROLE.Chapter 2: Sell Yourself First: How to Negotiate for a Leadership Position.Five-Step Career Plan Worksheet (Downloadable).Negotiating Worksheet (Downloadable).Chapter 3: Do Your Due Diligence: Make Sure the Job, the Culture, and Your New Boss Fit Your Strengths and Weaknesses.Five Cs Situation Analysis Guidelines (Downloadable).SWOT Form (Downloadable).Due Diligence Checklist (Downloadable).PART II: THE 100-DAY ACTION PLAN.CHAPTER 4 You Must Start before Day One: Especially with Your Boss and Key Stakeholders.100-Day Checklist (Downloadable).Stakeholder List (Downloadable).On-Boarding Conversation Framework (Downloadable).Relocation Checklist (Downloadable).On-Boarding Checklist for HR (Downloadable).Chapter 5: Decide How to Engage the New Culture: Assimilate, Converge and Evolve, or Shock.ACES Framework.Chapter 6: Take Control of Day One: Make a Powerful First Impression.Day One Checklist (Downloadable).New Manager Assimilation Session.Chapter 7: Get Buy-In for the One Burning Imperative and Create the New Strategy (by Day 30).Imperative Workshop.Chapter 8: Use Key Milestones to Drive Team Performance (by Day 45).Goal Recording and Tracking Worksheet (Downloadable).Chapter 9: Invest in Early Wins to Build Team Confidence (by Day 60).Team Charter Worksheet (Downloadable).Chapter 10: Get the Right People in the Right Roles (by Day 70).Performance/Potential Grid (Downloadable).Chapter 11: Shape the Team Culture with an Ongoing Communication Campaign (throughout Your First 100 Days).Communication Campaign Milestones (Downloadable).Culture Change Management (Downloadable).Communication Planning (Downloadable).PART III: WHAT LEADERS KNOW.Chapter 12: Adjust to the Inevitable Surprises.Crisis Management Checklist (Downloadable).Crisis Communication Checklist (Downloadable).Chapter 13: Avoid the Most Common Mistakes.Chapter 14: Build Loyalty, Trust, and Commitment.APPENDICES: TEAM, MARKETING, AND STRATEGIC PLANNING TOOLS USEFUL ACROSS STEPS.Appendix I: Strategic Planning.Appendix II: SIPOC Tool.Appendix III: Decision Tool.Appendix IV: Brand Positioning.Appendix V: Creative Brief Tool.Appendix VI: Marketing Asset Management Tool.Appendix VII: Partnerships/Alliances Guidelines.Appendix VIII: Strategic Map Tool.Appendix IX: Profit Pools Tool.REFERENCES.INDEX.ABOUT THE AUTHORS.


Languages change continuously: the changes occur in phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax, lexicon and semantics. Over time, a treasure trove of new words is
created, but also another one containing lost words or, in any case, words with a more
or less altered meaning. It also includes forms that have disappeared from use, but which have maintained their vitality for centuries. In this paper, we have considered a category of syncategorematic or grammatical words - conjunctions: their form is often conditioned not only by the function performed but also by the sequence in which they
are placed. Their diachronic changes, both in form and function, therefore depend on
the syntax, which sometimes modifies their phonetic structure and sometimes their
grammatical value. Their changes have a different or perhaps broader influence,
because they affect not only the changes in the lexical repertoire, but also in syntactic
structures. Analyzing Italian conjunctions in this diachronic light, we found four groups
of phenomena that led to the disappearance of variants, forms or meanings: changes in
the lexical list of conjunctions and the disappearance of phono-orthographic variants
replaced by one form with the result of homologation of the system in contemporary
Italian; changes in the semantics of some conjunctions (some forms survive at the lexical level, but with the meaning changed); the disappearance of forms in the contemporary language (where the form survives only in literary use or in certain formal registers) and the definitive disappearance of forms. From the analyzes, it emerges that the disappearances that occurred in the category of conjunctions reflect a general tendency towards a shrinking of the system, to the reduction of the number of forms with the elimination of numerous phonoorthographic variants (which also occurred in other grammatical categories) but also with the fall into disuse of very vital lexical units in the Middle Ages. The analysis of the sample shows that some types of conjunctions, particularly concessive, causal and temporal ones, had a "superabundance" of forms that were eliminated over time, felt increasingly archaic starting from the sixteenth century and fell into disuse entirely in the nineteenth century. The most significant and emblematic example are probably concessive conjunctions. In the first prose in ancient Italian the number of units (and their frequency of use) was rather scarce (for example, in the Novellino we have identified only six concessive conjunctions: ancorché, avvegna che, benché, quanto che, quantunque and (con) tutto che). With the great authors of the fourteenth century, the system was enriched both in the variety of units and in the frequency to such an extent that in the Decameron we recorded 23 different concessive conjunctions (ancorché, avvegna che, benché, che che, come che, donde che, dove che, dovunque, eziandio se, malgrado, nonché, nonostante che, onde che, ove che, perché, per quanto, posto che, quando pur, quanto che, quantunque , sebbene, se pure and (con) tutto che). Today, however, only 14 are fully active. A similar situation also occurs in the other types of conjunctions. According to what has been shown, the shrinking process is still ongoing and we could expect other reductions in the number of units in use which today are beginning to prove archaic (allorché, allorquando, ancorché, appena che, checché, conforme che, donde, quasiché).


In recent years, intensive researches focused on customer equity management. This paper reviews researches on the customer equity management and concludes the numerous studies in three sectors: customer equity analysis, strategy development and customer equity optimization. We classify the customer equity evaluation models in three categories: customer retention model, customer behavior model and customer transition model. We also point out respective applicable scope and restrictions. Further, the paper also makes comments on theoretical contribution and deficiency of current studies on customer equity.


Submitted for the MAR10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Spindle Checkpoint Regulated by Non-Equilibrium Collective Spindle-Chromosome Interaction; Relationship to Single DNA Molecule Force-Extension Formula LEIF MATSSON — The spindle checkpoint, which blocks segregation until all sister chromatid pairs have been stably connected to the two spindle poles, is perhaps the biggest mystery of the cell cycle. The main reason seems to be that the spatial correlations imposed by microtubules between kinetochores and nonlinear dependence on the increasing number of such kinetochores, have been disregarded in earlier studies. From these missing parts a nonequilibrium collective spindle-chromosome interaction is obtained for budding yeast (Saccharomyces cereviciae) (J. Phys. Cond. Matter 21 (2009) 502101). The interaction, based on a non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, senses and counts the stably attached kinetochores and senses the threshold for segregation. It blocks segregation until all sister chromatids pairs are bi-oriented, regulates tension such that segregation is synchronized, explaining how the cell might decide to segregate replicated chromosomes. It also predicts kinetochore oscillations at a frequency which agrees well with observation. Finally, a relationship between this interaction and the force-extension formula of a single DNA molecule is obtained. Leif Matsson Department of Physics, University of Gotheburg Date submitted: 24 Nov 2009 Electronic form version 1.4


This paper emphatically introduces the performance feature of metal material surface after rapid melt reconsolidation(RMRS) treatment, and its technical application to surface treatment of gear with cemented steel.


The invention construction relates to a heating dry floor heating panel is installed in the floor, and more particularly, is provided with a plurality of conduits to allow the heating fluid circulating within the under-floor heating panel, and the floor heating panel, a side end of the connecting portion formed on both sides connecting the closure member and a conduit coupled to the unit to be connected to the pipeline, and the guide closure member is formed so as to support a plurality of floor heating pipes passing to one side, with a demand-coupling members selectively adjust the length of the floor heating panel as can be configured so that, the present invention is made to facilitate easy to work by connecting the assembly construction for floor heating panel during the heating installation, and with light weight and cost of operation heating construction with one at the same time having a reducing effect and flooring construction of the raw material is a separate floor There is no need to install, energy-saving due to direct heat transfer It has the effect, to one to provide a high-rise building, constructed during the warming a floor combine to reduce the height even in the same stories by mortar, Ltd., Ltd. omitted for the prefabricated floor heating panel structure.


China has planned the Belt and Road Initiative to start collaborations among relevant economies in the technology innovation sector. This study examined the impact of technology innovation on environmental quality among the host economies of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries by using panel data of 45 economies from 1991 to 2019. The study employed a fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) panel to estimate the long-run associations among suggested variables. The outcomes validated a healthy cross-sectional dependence within the panel BRI economies. One estimated result of FMOLS specified that increases in patents and trademarks improved the quality of the environment in only Europe in the long run. Trademarks also enhanced the environment in BRI, MENA, and Central Asia. In the short run, the panel heterogeneous causality showed bi-directional causality among patents, trademarks, and CO2 emissions. The results of this study articulated the environment-friendly policies in technology innovation in BRI regions.


resolved shortly after the antibiotic therapy, and activity and appetite recovered gradually. The blood cultures obtained on the sixth and seventh hospital days isolated Klebsiella pneumoniae, which had the same antibiotics susceptibility. She was discharged on the 14th hospital day, when the antibiotic therapy finished. The patient's serum immunoglobulins and complements were normal 1 month after the discharge. The mechanisms of secondary bacteremia complicating rotavirus gastroenteritis remain unclear, but it is speculated that translocation of endogenous enteric bacterial flora occurs through the intestinal epithelium injured by rotavirus infection. Furthermore, it is possible that the intestinal wall of young children is relatively vulnerable. However, the case presented here suggests that this complication may occur even in immunocompetent children older than 2 years.


Higher technical requirement is demanded on electric reliability,mechanical reliability and operation reliability of post porcelain insulator for UHV.The new ideas about strength design and insulation coordination in statistical terms is proposed and the damage probability of post porcelain insulator designed with normal way and recommended method in bending test is analyzed.It is proposed that decreasing the dispersibility of porcelain is key to improve the reliability of post porcelain insulator;increasing the strength of flange and cementing can improve the reliability of insulator units when porcelain's dispersibility is high;Un-equivalent margin strength coordination can improve the reliability of post porcelain insulator effectively in overall design.


Let s_1,...,s_d be d positive integers and consider the multiple Hurwitz-zeta value zeta(s_1,...,s_d;-1/2,...,-1/2)/2^w where w=s_1+...+s_d is called the weight. For d<n+1, let T(2n,d) be the sum of all these values with even arguments whose weight is 2n and whose depth is d. Recently Shen and Cai gave formulas for T(2n,d) for d<6 in terms of t(2n), t(2)t(2n-2) and t(4)t(2n-4). In this short note we generalize Shen-Cai's results to arbitrary depth by using the theory of symmetric functions established by Hoffman.


This study attempts to show that there is no significant difference in performance between volunteers and non-volunteers in terms of cooperation in a psychological experiment.


In this paper, we propose the Active Learning Method, the method to acquire the control knowledge actively by the method of trial and error. In this method, the input-output information is collected for the control object by the method of trial and error, and the controller is constructed based on the information. In the Active Learning Method, the output is decided actively and the action result is evaluated, and the data with high evaluation are modeled. This modeled pattern information becomes the behavior policy optimized based on the evaluation. For this modeling, the method called Ink Drop Spread method (IDS) is used. In this system, the object system is modeled functionally from the data by the fuzzy-like processing. By using the model of bar gymnast, the learning simulation is done for the behavior policy, and we examine the validity of this method.


We have developed a real-time imaging cell sorting system composed of a micrometer-sized gel-electrode-embedded microfluidic sorting chip and a real-time image analysis/recognition unit equipped with a high-speed camera and image processing circuits. For the microfluidic continuous cell sorting, we have examined the precise position and velocity control of flowing particles and the precise acquisition of microscopic images of flowing particles. The results showed that (1) hydrodynamic focusing can line up particles precisely within a range of 5 µm particle size distribution, (2) active air pressure-driven flow velocity control can create the flow in the microfluidic pathways up to 160 mm/s with 0.15 MPa air pressure maintaining linear correlation between air pressure and flow velocity, and (3) 1 µs flash illumination can prevent the blur even under 200 mm/s flow. Applying the above elements into the system, the recognition error of target particles was within 5% for 2 µm particles with 2.5 mm/s flow. The experimental results demonstrate the potential of the image index-based on-chip cell sorter for practical application.


Objective This is a non-proprietary white paper authored by network operators. The key objective for this white paper is to outline the benefits, enablers and challenges for IP and Optical convergence and the rationale for encouraging an international collaboration to accelerate development and deployment of interoperable solutions based on high volume industry standard data and control plane solutions.


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Providing a power semiconductor device having a wafer (10), which includes a transmitter in the emitter side (11) of the electrode (2) with the following layers between the collector side of the collector electrode (25) (15): - (n-) doped drift layer (3), - a first n-doped region (81), which is disposed between the drift layer (3) and the collector electrode (25), -p doped base layer ( between 4), which is provided on the drift layer (3) and the emitter electrode (2), the base layer (4) and the emitter electrode (2) in direct electrical contact, -n doped source region (6), which provided on the emitter side (11) and embedded in the base layer (4) and in contact with the emitter electrode (2), - a gate electrode (7), with the base layer (4), a source region (6) and the drift layer (3) electrical insulation. Emitter electrode (2) within the contact region (22) in contact with the base layer (4) and the source region (6). An active semiconductor element (18) is formed in the wafer (10), an active semiconductor element (18) comprises a layer or portions of such layers: positioned on the source region in contact with the emitter electrode contact region (22) emitter side (11), where the source region (6) and the base layer (4) is capable of forming such a portion of the orthogonal projection of the conductive channel. The device further comprising a p-doped wells (5), but outside the active cell (18) is provided in the base layer (4) in the same plane. Well (5) directly or at least one via electrically connected to the base layer (4) to the emitter electrode (2).


The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians Committee—Suzanne R. Jenkins, VMD, MPH, Chair; Michael Auslander, DVM, MSPH; Lisa Conti, DVM, MPH; William B. Johnston, DVM; Mira J. Leslie, DVM, MPH; Faye E. Sorhage, VMD, MPH. Consultants To The Committee—Mary Currier, MD, MPH (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists); Nancy Frank, DVM, MPH (AVMA Council on Public Health and Regulatory Veterinary Medicine); Donna M. Gatewood, DVM, MS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA); Carolin L. Schumacher, DVM, PhD (Animal Health Institute); Charles E. Rupprecht, VMD, PhD (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention); Charles V. Trimarchi, MS (New York State Health Department). Endorsed by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). Address all correspondence to Suzanne R. Jenkins, VMD, MPH, Virginia Department of Health, Office of Epidemiology, Post Office Box 2448, Room 113, Richmond, VA 23218.


The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) provided evidence supporting early treatment of selected patients with OHT, especially in high-risk individuals identified by a glaucoma risk prediction model. A new phase designed to gather data to guide even more personalized care is about to begin.


This paper analyses problems of the 4MG200 series shearer's servo variable mechanism for using,and put forward the method of improvement.It achieves good results.Now it is spread and used.


Migration flows affecting Europe over recent years have generated a wave of solidarity but also fear and threats. European countries are divided into host countries or countries of transit due to their economic attractiveness but from the beginning, it was clear that asylum policies were far from similar and insufficiently flexible. Although Romania is considered as one of the transit countries for immigrants heading to Western Europe and it has not been confronted with an influx of refugees, it has developed specific policies in line with the acquis communautaire in order to be prepared for any situation of influx. The purpose of this research is to assess how asylum policies have been implemented in Romania and what improvements are necessary in order for them to become more sustainable. In Romania's case, we used a SWOT analysis in our research methodology. This study aims to address relevant topics regarding the recent increasing trends of asylum applications and to analyse how the asylum policies in Romania can generate an adequate response. Furthermore, specialized institutions may consider our recommendations on how to improve the management of the asylum system in Romania.


Review(s) of: Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China, by Anne E. McLaren, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. x + 209 pp. US$54.00 (hardcover).


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Abstract For neutrino scattering from polarized electron, the weak interaction term in the cross section is significantly suppressed by the polarized term. The magnetic moment term does not receive any correction from the electron polarization. Hence, the study of the magnetic moment of neutrinos through scattering from the polarized electron leads to a stronger bound on the neutrino magnetic moment compared with the unpolarized case. On the other hand, neutrinos which are electrically neutral can couple directly with photons in Noncommutative (NC) QED. In this paper, we calculate the NC QED corrections on this scattering are calculated. The phase difference between the NC term and the polarized weak


The promoting effect of ZnO or K2O promoter on Cu/SiO2-Al2O3 catalyst for the vapor-phase synthesis of 3-methylindole from glycerol and aniline was studied.The catalyst samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction,transmission electron microscopy,H2 temperature-programmed reduction,NH3 temperature-programmed desorption,and thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis.The results indicated that the addition of an appropriate amount ZnO or K2O to Cu/SiO2-Al2O3 increased the activity and selectivity as well as the stability of the catalyst remarkably,and ZnO exhibited better efficiency than K2O.ZnO not only reinforced the interaction between the active component and the support,promoted the dispersion of copper particles on the support,but also inhibited the sintering of copper particles during the reaction.K2O could suppress the sintering of copper particles during the reaction to some extent although it did not improve the dispersion of copper particles on the support.The addition of ZnO or K2O to Cu/SiO2-Al2O3 increased the number of weak acid sites in different degrees,which promoted the synthesis of 3-methylindole.


Six cerium(III) nitrate complexes with variously substituted 2,6-diphenylpiperidin-4-one thiosemicarbazones have been prepared and characterized by elemental analyses, molecular weight determinations, molar conductance, IR, magnetic, cyclic voltammetric and thermal studies. Generally, cerium(III) may be easily converted to cerium(IV). In order to ascertain the oxidation state of the cerium in the prepared complexes, the cyclic voltammetric studies have been carried out. It has been observed that increase of potential produces an anodic peak in both the complexes. This indicates that the complexes are getting oxidized which consequently means that they were in the reduced form initially. Thus it is confirmed that cerium is present in +3 oxidation state in its complexes. This is further supported by the studies on concentration effect and sweep rate. Based on the above observations, 10-coordinated structure has been proposed for the complexes.


With the development of economy and society, people demand more and more about cities, which makes the cities' livability become the focus of attention. Based on five aspects of national life which include economic level, living conditions, living environment, infrastructure and public security, this paper mainly studies Harbin livability. In order to complete it, twenty-six typical indicators are used. The principal component analysis and comparative analysis are used, in the end we come to the Harbin livability evaluation. The results show that livability is poor in Harbin. Many measures could be adopted to improve the habitability of Harbin.


Understanding social problems myths and facts - how do we know sexual variance alcohol and other drugs crime and delinquency violence poverty the problems of ageing gender inequality race ethnic groups and racism homosexuality and homophobia work education family problems health care and illness - physical and mental war the environment and population.


It is well known that an n-dimensional crystallographic group can be reconstructed from its point group, the integral representation of the point group which arises from its action on the translation lattice, and the 2-cocycle which glues the point group to the lattice ([2]). In practice, this constitutes a complicated list of invariants. When confronted with the classification of objects possessing a rich structure, the algebraic geometer first attempts to find more coarse birational invariants. We begin such a programme for torsion-free crystallographic groups. More precisely, if Γ is a torsion-free crystallographic group and k is a field then the group algebra k[Γ] is a non-commutative domain (see [6], chapter 13). It can be localized at its centre to yield a division algebra k(Γ) which is a crossed product; the Galois group is the point group and it acts on the rational function field generated by k and the lattice (regarded multiplicatively), which is a maximal subfield ([3]). What are thecommon invariants of Γ1 and Γ2 when k(Γ1) and k(Γ2) are isomorphic k-algebras?


Training vision-based pedestrian detectors using synthetic datasets (virtual world) is a useful technique to collect automatically the training examples with their pixel-wise ground truth. However, as it is often the case, these detectors must operate in real-world images, experiencing a significant drop of their performance. In fact, this effect also occurs among different real-world datasets, i.e. detectors' accuracy drops when the training data (source domain) and the application scenario (target domain) have inherent differences. Therefore, in order to avoid this problem, it is required to adapt the detector trained with synthetic data to operate in the real-world scenario. In this paper, we propose a domain adaptation approach based on boosting LDA exemplar classifiers from both virtual and real worlds. We evaluate our proposal on multiple real-world pedestrian detection datasets. The results show that our method can efficiently adapt the exemplar classifiers from virtual to real world, avoiding drops in average precision over the 15%.


Since man and the dog seem to be the only mammals which suffer naturally from pathological processes in the prostate gland associated with ageing, dogs have been widely used in comparative investigations of the phenomena. There are. however, many differences between the canine and the human prostate, not only in anatomical and histological structure, but also in the character of the lesions associated with presenility and senility. Of these differences, one of. the most striking is the comparative incidence and nature of neoplasia of the epithelial elements.


Abstract— Paired iris smooth muscles from rabbits were prelabelled either in vitro by incubation for 30 min at 37°C in an iso‐osmotic salt medium containing glucose, inositol, cytidine and 32Pi, or in vivo by administration of the isotope intracamerally into each eye 1 h before death. One of the pair was then incubated at 37°C for 10 min in an unlabelled medium containing 10 mm of 2‐deoxyglucose and the other was incubated in the presence of norepinephrine (NE) or other adrenergic agents. Triphosphoinositide (TPI) was found to contain more 32P than any other phospholipid (almost 39% of total lipid radioactivity) in both the in vitro and in vivo experiments. NE (50 μm) increased the loss of 32P from TPI (the TPI effect') by 28–30% in the 32P‐labelled muscle. The TPI effect was accompanied by a significant increase in 32P labelling of phosphatidic acid (PA) and phosphatidylinositol (PI) but not phosphatidylcoholine. In this tissue the TPI effect was found to be mediated through α‐adrenergic receptors. At 14 days after surgical sympathetic denervation, incorporation of 32P into phospholipids of the denervated muscle increased by an average of 6% over that of the normal muscle. The increase in TPI, PI and PA was 7%, 4% and 9% of that of the control respectively. There was little change in phospholipid content of the denervated muscle. The increase in sensitivity to NE (12.5 μm) caused by denervation produced about 18% increase in the TPI effect and a 25% increase in the 32P labelling of PA, but not PI. In view of our previous findings on the requirement of the TPI effect for Ca2+, this observation could suggest that an increase in Ca2+ influx, following the interaction between the neurotransmitter and its receptor could stimulate TPI‐phosphodiesterase, thus leading to increased PA via increased diglyceride. This denervation‐induced supersensitivity to NE appears to be postsynaptic in nature. 32Pi was injected intracamerally into each eye 1 h before electrical stimulation of one of the sympathetic trunks. After stimulation for 30 min there was a significant loss of 32P from TPI and a significant increase in the labelling of PI and PA of the stimulated muscle. It is concluded that TPI and its enzymes could play an important role in neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction of smooth muscle.


Social Security's tax treatment of distinct groups varies widely among postwar generations: Women, whites, and the college educated have lower lifetime net tax rates than do men, non-whites, and those without a college education. Among income groups, the middle class faces the highest lifetime net tax rate


One of the key steps of automatic digital elevation model production from aerial photos or satellite remote sensed images is introducing a robust matching algorithm. In this paper a feature-based matching method is presented. The characteristics of this algorithm are that: first, the matching input for the first matching procedure are the radiometric and geometric noise invariant properties of image patches; second, the local matching inputs are used for extrinsic optimal matching procedure (presently only for the scan line).


This study analyzes a firm's decision to adopt an open source strategy in the development of a primary system product that has an indirect network effect on complementary accessory products, and evaluates its impact on market competition and social welfare. It shows that firms are likely to switch from a proprietary development strategy to an open source strategy as the network effect decreases, and a firm's strategy also depends on consumers' attitude toward future utility. This result implies that the presence of open source systems can benefit proprietary firms due to consumers' higher willingness-to-pay for accessory products, and can lead to greater industry profit and social welfare. This study also shows that when the system development cost is non-negligible, firms prefer an open source strategy due to the cost-saving effect, but society is worse off due to a fragmented market with multiple system products.


Although there is a considerable ethnographic literature on the Indians of the northwest California coast, almost no mention has ever been made of the existence of seagoing canoes from this part of the world. Moreover, whenever the suggestion was made that such canoes did indeed exist in this region, it was regarded as an exaggeration and received the extreme skepticism of such important workers in the region as Kroeber and Loud. Thus the presence of such watercraft here has never been taken seriously. Neither the early survey of Friederici (1907) nor the more recent ones by Olson (1922) and by Heizer and Massey (1953) make any mention of seagoing vessels for this area. There is, however, a vivid description by the journalist, Stephen Powers, who, during a visit among the Wiyot Indians of Humboldt Bay in the early 1870's, observed a canoe of truly seagoing proportions (1877:69): I saw one on Humboldt Bay, which had been launched by them on Smith River, and which had therefore demonstrated its sea-worthiness by a voyage of over a hundred miles. It was forty-two feet long and eight feet four inches wide, and capable of carrying twenty-four men or five tons of freight. Itwas a "thing of beauty", sitting plumb and lightly on the sea, smoothly polished, and so symmetrical that a pound's weight on either side would throw it lightly out of trim. Twenty-four tall, swarthy boatmen, naked except around the loins, standing erect in it, as their habit is, and with


We propose a novel polarization change monitor by analyzing geometrical relation of pilot symbols in Stokes space. The proposed monitor is experimentally verified and result shows that the polarization change in the range of quasi static to 3MHz can be captured.


Security troubles of restricted sources communications are vital. Existing safety answers aren't sufficient for restricted sources gadgets in phrases of Power Area and Ef-ficiency'. Elliptic curves cryptosystem (ECC) is area efficent for restricted sources gadgets extra than different uneven cryp-to systems because it gives a better safety degree with equal key sizes compared to different present techniques. In this paper, we studied a lightweight hybrid encryption technique that makes use of set of rules primarily based totally on AES for the Plain text encription and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) protocol for Key encryption. The simplicity of AES implementation makes it light weight and the complexity of ECDH make it secure. The design is simulated using Spyder Tool, Modelsim and Implemented using Xilinx Vivado the effects display that the proposed lightweight Model offers a customary security degree with decreased computing capacity. we proposed a key authentication system for enhanced security along with an Idea to implement the project with multimedia input on FPGA


Wind power technology is expanding rapidly, more and more wind farms are being connected to the power systems. Incorporation of large scale wind farms presents various challenges that must be tackled, such as system operation and control, stability, reliability and power quality. Power quality problems such as voltage flicker and harmonic distortion due to non-linear loads, sags due to faults are some major issues considered in this paper. Doubly fed Wind turbine induction generator connected to a grid is analyzed using MATLAB/ SIMULINK. Owing to continuously varying wind speed components, the active and reactive power along with terminal voltage fluctuates unremittingly. The proposed wind electric generators use good control techniques to extract maximum power at the every available speed and to mitigate harmonics and other power quality issues.


Objective: The present study was aimed at estimating the values of radiation doses received by physicians and patients during interventional cardiology procedures performed at a public hospital in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Materials and Methods: Measurements were made in two cardiologists with more than ten years of experience and in 31 adult patients, with 22 of them being clinically followed-up after the procedure. The individual irradiation parameters were documented. Results: The values for maximum patients skin dose ranged between 612 and 8,642 mGy, achieving more than 2,000 mGy in 53% of the patients; such dose values may cause deterministic effects. As regards the physicians, the mean effective dose per procedure was 11 µSv, and the highest mean equivalent doses in the limbs were 923 µSv in the left foot, 514 µSv in the right foot, 382 µSv in the left hand, and 150 µSv in the left eye. Depending on the number of procedures, the doses received by the physician may exceed the dose limits established by the Brazilian and international standards. Conclusion: The obtained results indicate the necessity of adopting strategies for optimizing


Using quantum chemical density functional calculations, we study two possible pathways for manipulating the optical and electronic properties of all-carbon fullerenes structures. In the first, the optical properties of C{sub 60} are shown to be enhanced via reduction of the perfectly spherical Ih symmetry structure to energetically feasible lower symmetries. A D{sub 3d} symmetry structure of C{sub 60} proved to be 39 meV lower in energy than the Ih conformation. This reduction in symmetry activates otherwise silent modes in the IR and Raman spectra, possibly achievable via solvation effects. In the second pathway, fusing a building block of an-all carbon hexagonal unit as a connector between two C{sub 60} cages is considered. Optimizations on a resulting series of dumbbell-like structures, molecular C{sub 126}, C{sub 132}, C{sub 138}, C{sub 144}, and C{sub 180}, impart distinct variation in the electronic properties of these novel structures with size. These structures are further shown to support stable anionic radical forms.


A selective adsorption method of noble metal catalyst is provided to simply and easily form a metal circuit pattern layer and various types of metal pattern layers on the surface of polymer and to produce minute circuit boards owing to a thin circuit layer of copper or nickel. A selective adsorption method of noble metal catalyst comprises the following steps of: masking the surface, on which photosensitive metal ions are adsorbed, of polymer with photomask and irradiating light sources in order to oxidize the photosensitive metal ions, which are placed on non-masked surface of the polymer(ii); and reacting the non-oxidized photosensitive metal ions to noble metal catalyst so as to adsorb the noble metal catalyst on the surface of the polymer(iii). The polymer is one material selected from the group consisting of polyimide, polyethylene terephthalate polyester and aramid. The photosensitive metal ion is one ion selected from the group consisting of Ti, Mo, W and Sn. The light source represents ultraviolet rays.


Considering its central position in East Gondwana reconstructions, the Indian subcontinent figures prominently in the studies, which were envisaged under the recently conceptualized international project—""LEGENDS"" (Lithospheric Evolution of Gondwana East from interdisciplinary Deep Surveys), a major initiative by international scientific community to study continents of the southern hemisphere. The CC-8 subcommittee of the International Lithospheric Programme (ILP) has also accepted the LEGENDS initiative.


GP‐2250, a novel anticancer agent, severely limits the energy metabolism, as demonstrated by the inhibition of hexokinase 2 and glyceraldehyde‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase and a decrease of ATP. Rescue experiments with supplementary pyruvate or oxaloacetate demonstrated that a TCA cycle deficit largely contributed to cytotoxicity. Activation of the energy‐deficit sensor, AMP‐dependent protein kinase, was associated with increased phosphorylation of acetyl‐CoA carboxylase and Raptor, pointing to a possible deficit in the synthesis of fatty acids and proteins as essential cell components. Binding of p65 to DNA was dose‐dependently reduced in nuclear lysates. A transcriptional deficit of NF‐κB (nuclear factor kappa‐light‐chain‐enhancer of activated B cells) was substantiated by the downregulation of cyclin D1 and of the anti‐apoptotic Bcl2, in line with reduction in tumour cell proliferation and induction of apoptosis, respectively. The upregulation of p53 concomitant with an excess of ROS supported apoptosis. Thus, the anticancer activity of GP‐2250 is a result of disruption of energy metabolism and inhibition of tumour promotion by NF‐κB.


To solve the problem of periodic color-difference of copper foils produced by welding pure titanium cathode drum,a hot working technology of refining microstructure of the weld and the bead-on-plate weld in weld-piece was studied.The results show that when working temperature is too low,the deformation coordination can not be maintained due to the great difference of grain size between the weld and the base metal,and the weld-piece is easy to rupture.The welding solid microstructure can not be refined effectively when working temperature is too high.The bending time can not be afforded,or else the accumulated deformation can easily drop into the second peak value region in which the recrystallization grains will grow up abnormally.


Magnetic resonance imaging has revolutionized the diagnosis of foot-related pain, defining many soft tissue injuries that had previously been poorly recognized and greatly enhancing our understanding of pathological abnormalities of the navicular bone. The concept of multiple injuries contributing to lameness has been recognized. It has become clear that lesions may predate the onset of lameness. A better understanding of pain causing lameness is required.