Abstract : Amendments to the Selective Service Act passed in 1967 resulted in a substantial increase in Air Force accession of non-prior-service college graduate airmen. The study was conducted to determine if the assignments given this group related to their academic specialties. Data from a sample group of these airmen revealed that a majority had received assignments in which their academic training could be used. The sample studied was substantially weighted by airmen who entered under the Delayed Enlistment Program. (Author)


An investigation was made of the generation of the second, third, and fourth optical harmonics of the radiation emitted by a laser in which the active medium was neodymiumdoped yttrium aluminum garnet. The laser was operated under Q-switching fast-repetition pulse conditions. It was observed that the intensity of the fourth (ultraviolet) harmonic of λ = 266 nm was highly stable.


Abstract Mechanoresponsive luminescent (MRL) elastomers, which change their fluorescence color or intensity upon deformation, can facilitate simple strain detection through optical signals. Several polymers have been endowed with MRL properties by blending them with excimer-forming dyes, whose assembly and emission color are affected by deformation of the blended materials. However, access to elastic MRL polyurethanes based on this approach has proven difficult and usually requires the covalent incorporation of such dyes in high concentration. Here, we show that much simpler access to MRL elastomers is possible by blending thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers with a small weight fraction of a telechelic sensor macromolecule carrying two excimer-forming oligo(p-phenylene vinylene) dyes at the termini. While the mechanical properties of the two polyurethanes, which were selected because of their dissimilar mechanical behaviors, remain unchanged, the additive imparts these materials with MRL characteristics. Notably, the reliable and reversible detection of strains as low as 5% is possible. The highly sensitive mechanochromic response mirrors the deformation and relaxation processes occurring in these model polyurethanes and enabled a detailed analysis of the processes underlying the shape-memory properties in one of the polyurethanes, in which such behavior was imparted by a crystallizable soft segment.


The Role of the Bishop of Rome in Condemnation of Arian Teaching in the Period of the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea.
The article examines the role of the bishop of Rome in condemning the Arian doctrine on the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. In the first three centuries of Christianity, the Roman bishop manifested a special awareness of the authority of the Church in vigorous proactive participation in resolving disputes in the universal Church. Active positions were expected from the bishop of Rome during the rise of Arianism, a heresy which denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. Instead, because of objective and subjective reasons Rome failed to respond to the crisis in the Church. But even if Rome made great efforts to overcome Arianism, those efforts would be unrealistic, because in comparison with the emperor the Bishop of Rome was not an influential figure, especially in the East.


Our goal at the Naval Postgraduate School Shock and Vibration Computational Laboratory (SVCL) has been to develop and validate modeling and simulation capabilities to improve the survivability of ships subjected to realistic underwater explosions.


An ABC intracolumn stacking scheme was discovered in a discotic columnar liquid-crystalline phase, which formed by self-assembly of hexameric supramolecular disks. Strong DDA-AAD hydrogen bonding dictated the formation of hexameric disks. Molecular structural simulation suggested that interplay among secondary interactions (π−π, electrostatic, and steric) between the hexameric disks determined the formation of this columnar phase.


This article is an interview with Rodney Short, the chief executive of the Australian Maritime College. He outlines the current approach to training at the College, including the introduction of competency-based training, and compares it to the previous relatively simple training on the job which took place in the past.


The upward continuation of 1:2500000 gravity anomalies was calculated for different heights,and direction of 135° horizontal derivatives respectively,the Derbugan fault showed as a gravity field demarcation line of NE extension,Through calculating the 0 ~ 20 km upward continuation by the Euler deconvolution,based on the method of DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform),of the 1:100000 high-precision gravity and magnetic data to track the fault trajectory,and combining 1:1000000 magnetotelluric sounding inversion and the geological interpretation of seismic profiles of Hailar basin,we identified Derbugan fault with the characteristics of southeast direction dip and cutting lower crust.Combining the study of the measured geological section and the microstructure,it is considered that tectonic attribute of the Derbugan fault is not the matching belt between massif and massif,orogenic belt and orogenic belt in different periods,but it is a NE extending,large-scale extensional deformation zone cutting lower crust in Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous.And it is also the boundary fault zone of control basin between the uplift region and the basin in Genhe,Labudalin and Hailar in Late Mesozoic era.


Aquaporins (AQPs) are key regulators not only of water transport in the cytoplasm but also of angiogenesis. Although AQPs in the normal hepatobiliary system have been studied in mammals, little is known about the localization and changes of AQPs in the hepatic microvascular system including sinusoids in cirrhotic liver, which might contribute to portal hypertension.


Delicious planted in 1977 and grown on ABSTRACT trellises or as free-standing trees. Latham, A. J., Dozier, W. A., Jr., Knowles, J. W., and Hollingsworth, M. H. 1985. Suppression of Smoothee Golden Delicious and Winter apple bloom by fungicides that inhibit sterol synthesis. Plant Disease 69:776-778. Banana were the pollinator cultivars used The proportion of spurs blooming on Redspur Delicious apples in 1983 was significantly lower in each orchard. The pollinators were after season-long applications in 1982 of bitertanol and etaconazole (fungicides that inhibit alternated in the row in three-tree blocks biosynthesis of ergosterols) and some fenarimol-captan treatments than with benomyl and so that each Delicious tree in the orchard carbamate fungicides. Return bloom in 1984 was significantly less after season-long applications of was within two trees of two different bitertanol or etaconazole than after benomyl, suggesting detrimental effects to apple buds by the pollinators. Trellised trees were grown as former fungicides. Return bloom in 1984 from trees not sprayed during 1983 was positively a horizontal palmette system on a fourcorrelated with leaf numbers at harvest in 1983. Trees partly defoliated by scab caused by Venturia wire trellis with the wires spaced 46 cm inaequalis showed less return bloom in 1984. apart. The trees were grown on M26


— 70% of building fires in Indonesia are caused by electrical short circuits, the rest are caused by other things such as negligence and also gas. Electrical short circuits contribute to the biggest problem in cases of building fires in Indonesia due to concern for maintenance and checking which is often missed due to problems with routine and periodic checking schedules that are not monitored in a lifetime or continuously. One of the methods used to overcome this problem is to continuously monitor the measurement values on the electrical sub-panels in real time. Manual checking is no longer effective due to electrical problems. One minute ago we checked and we can conclude that the panel is in good condition and safe. Because electricity can suddenly have problems without us realizing it and it really needs to be handled extra quickly to take action to cut off the power lines so that short circuits or hot copper sections do not occur which can cause panel fires and can also cause building fires. With today's increasingly sophisticated digital technology, we can innovate by implementing IoT (Internet Of Thing) using the Bynk Android Application as a remote control for monitoring load values and also being able to trigger 3-phase power lines using only a smartphone anywhere as long as the internet is connected so that when If there is an electrical problem with the sub panel inside the building, it will be handled/disconnected immediately. From the research results obtained, the Solid State Relay component can be combined with a microcontroller as the main control line to cut off large electric currents, where the microcontroller uses a 5 Volt input control and SSR (Solid State Relay) uses a 3 Volt - 32 Volt output so that it can be modified and can cut off and monitor traffic only with a smartphone using the Blynk Application.


The literature on apothecial production by Monilinia spp. is reviewed with particular attention given to Japanese work. Four stages of apothecial development are distinguished? stromatal development, stromatal maturation, apothecial initiation, and apothecial differentiation. Information is given on growth conditions which have been found suitable in laboratory studies for apothecial production by M. fructicola, M. fructigena, M. mali, and M. oxycocci. The temperature, light and moisture regimes, substrates, and incubation times used were similar to those that are encountered in the field in regions of Japan where apothecia are frequently found. The effect of weather conditions and of fruit size and time of ripening of hosts on apothecial production is discussed. The Monilinia fungi are characterized by the production of monilioid spores and stromatic tissue on which apothecia are borne (Honey, 1928). Members of the genus are pathogens of the Rosaceae and Ericaceae and some cause considerable economic losses to crops. Honey (1936) divided the genus into two sections based on the presence or absence in conidial chains of disjunctors (small structures which develop between mature conidia and facilitate spore dispersal). Those that do not possess disjunctors were included in the Junctoriae and those with dis? junctors, in the Disjunctoriae. There are about 30 known species of Monilinia of which nine have been recorded in Japan. Details of the Japanese Monilinia spp. are summarized in Table I. Most studies have been made on the species comprising the Junctoriae because of their economic importance as serious pathogens of apples, pears, and stone fruits. The diseases on fruits are usually referred to collectively as "brown rot" since brown lesions develop on infected tissues, particularly those of fruits. The biology and control of the Monilinia spp. causing brown rot have been reviewed by Wormald (1954) and more recently by Byrde and Willetts (1977), while Harada (1977) has published a report of his detailed studies on the Japanese species of Monilinia. In a more recent article, Batra (1983) reported an investigation of Monilinia spp. on Ericaceae. The sexual spore of Monilinia spp. is the ascospore produced in an apothecium. There are numerous reports in the literature of the discovery in the field of apothecia of most ofthe species. However, there are only a few reports of successful apothecial formation by these fungi in the laboratory, and consequently the factors involved in the initiation and differentiation of ascocarps of Monilinia are not well understood. Also most of the successful studies have been carried out in Japan and details ofthe work are not readily available to many western workers. The purpose of this article is to review the data available on apothecial pro? duction by Monilinia fungi, with particular reference to the Japanese species. Attempts are made to interpret the findings using published information on


In the beginning of the twentieth century, Paul Sudeck, a surgeon in Hamburg, Germany, first published a paper about post traumatic bone dystrophy [56]. He described a posttraumatic pain syndrome with edema and trophic changes.As the sympathetic nervous system seems to be overactive at first glance, the term "Sympathetic Reflex Dystrophy"was used for many years [11]. Studies, which raised doubts on the role of the sympathetic nervous system in the pathophysiology of this pain syndrome, led to a new descriptive term – "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome" (CRPS), the official one in recent years [55].


Object-oriented databases are becoming increasingly popular in business. Some areas of research interest include formal object-oriented database models, query optimization, analysis and design techniques, and concurrency control. Many of these issues have been well researched as they pertain to the relational model and to centralized databases. Specifically, many studies have concentrated on relational database concurrency control but few have concentrated on object-oriented database concurrency control. Once a concurrency control mechanism is proposed and implemented, the next phase is to analyze its performance using simulation techniques. This paper includes the simulation study for the object-oriented database concurrency control mechanism named O2C2. Contributions of this study include offering a method of simulating concurrency control in an object-oriented database model. This includes extending prior studies that deal only with reading or writing a single data item without implications to the rest of the database. Specifically, the method of simulating concurrency control in an object-oriented database model is applied to the mechanism O2C2. The simulation demonstrates some intuitive, yet important properties about concurrency control in object-oriented databases. For example, as the mix of transactions progresses from operating mostly with instance objects to operating with more class and method definitions, throughput decreases.


PAGE The feminist movement of the 1970s was plagued with fragmentation as it sought to produce a singular woman's identity under which all feminists were expected to unite. Women who felt that their interests were not represented by this primarily white, middleclass, heterosexual identity criticized the movement for not adequately addressing their needs. Marge Piercy's 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time exemplifies this tension within the radical feminist movement. Connie Ramos, the novel's protagonist, is an impoverished Chicana who is hospitalized after defending her niece from an act of domestic violence. While living in the hospital, Connie visits a utopian future world where gender, sexuality, race, and class are vastly different from in her own world. Through Connie's character Piercy explores the experiences of a marginalized woman's journey from victim-hood to political awareness. Although Piercy creates a fictional imagining of a particular theoretical moment in 1970s feminism, her work reflects and reinforces the radical feminist tendency to prioritize gender over race and class.


Peanut seeds were prepared with variation in heating condition.Reduction in the level of aflatoxin as a result of either variation in time of heating at specific temperatures,or variation in temperature of heating at specific time,were monitored.From the work,it was obvious that heating caused reduction in the level of aflatoxin in peanut.Along with the increase of temperature and time,the reduction of aflatoxin increased.The rate of reduction of the aflatoxin during heating depend on the initial level of contamination.AFTG_1 is more thermo labile than AFTB_1.


Abstract Strains of Botrytis cinerea resistant to dicarboximide fungicides were isolated from glasshouse vegetable crops in the Auckland region in 1980. The isolates showed cross-resistance to 4 dicarboximide fungicides (dichlozolinate, iprodione, procymidone, and vinclozolin), to dicloran, and to quintozene, and most were also resistant to benzimidazole fungicides. Growth was reduced, but not stopped, on media containing 10-1000 mg/litre of dicarboximide fungicides. The resistant isolates varied in their ability to invade plant tissue. In the glasshouses sampled, presence of dicarboximideresistant strains of B. cinerea appeared to reduce fungicide efficacy slightly. Strains of Phytophthora infestans resistant to metalaxyl were isolated from poroporo and potato crops where blight control based on the use of this fungicide was no longer effective. These isolates attacked poroporo or potato plants sprayed with 500 mg/litre metalaxyl, and a poroporo isolate also attacked plants sprayed with either ofurace or...


The main factors that cause soil erosion and land degradation are the rough and steep topography, geology and climate of the country. Turkey's steep topography, variable temperature, precipitation regime and young pedological structure are three natural factors, which cause soil erosion. Besides these factors, misuse of land, overgrazing on pasture lands and forests, and over-harvesting of forests, fires, making farmlands and improper policies on forests are additional negative impacts which are stemmed from human activities.


Disclosed is a polymer electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell that has a high ionic conductivity even at a high temperature without humidification. The polymer electrolyte membrane comprises a film composed of a polyimide copolymer containing phenylbenzimidazole, and an acid impregnated within the polyimide copolymer film. Disclosed is another polymer electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell that has good chemical resistance and improved physical properties when compared to those of the previous polymer electrolyte membrane.


On the basis of information from various national studies in the EU it is estimated that an increasing number of small and medium-sized enterprises will face changes of owners-managers in the coming years. The main objective of the study, based on the sample of Slovenian small and medium-sized enterprises, was to find out how Slovenian owners-managers are preparing the management and ownership succession.The results indicate that one fifth of the surveyed ownersmanagers are preparing the transfer of management and/or ownership in the next five years. More than one fifth of those owners-managers, who are not preparing the transfer of management and/or ownership, share the opinion that "succession planning is not necessary". As the succession planning is one of the main factors of the succession effectiveness, raising the owners'-managers' awareness of the importance to start preparations and succession planning should be one of important measures of entrepreneurship policy. Key words: succession, succession planning, successor, small and mediumsized enterprises, family enterprise


Contents: Foreword, Marie-Luisa Frick and Andreas Oberprantacher Introduction: a man and his quest for global justice, Chandra Muzzafar Part 1 Power Unleashed? The Use of Force in International Relations and the Future of International Law: From a unipolar to a multipolar world: a post-Bush US presidency for a post-Western world, Anthony Carty Did Captain America kill international law?, Chin Leng Lim Opting for truth: the Roman Catholic Church in international affairs, Jodok Troy Difference arguments in international law and relations, Sienho Yee. Part 2 Conceptual Disputes in Contemporary International Law: Peace through law revisited: Kelsen's vision of international law at the beginning of the 21st century, Andreas Th. MA ller Post-bellum war crimes tribunals and contemporary international law: adjudging state responsibility and 'war guilt' issues, Edward McWhinney The concept of human security: does it add anything of value to international legal theory or practice?, Lyal S. Sunga. Part 3 Knowledge Production and Epistemic Violence in International Relations: The epistemic violence of the international security system in Africa, Belachew Gebrewold Human rights and the challenges of intercultural dialogue in the 21st century: a perspective from sub-Saharan Africa, Michael O. Maduagwu Overcoming cover-science in Latin American social sciences and humanities a " an intervention, Johannes Maerk The tyranny of the status quo: economic modeling, economic policy paradigms, and the financial crisis, JesA * s Crespo Cuaresma. Part 4 Global Social Justice and the Question of Power: International economics and the question of power: a manifold but obscured relationship, Andreas Exenberger Was Marx right after all? A critical analysis of the global financial crisis, Elmar Altvater Capitalism vs. ecology: nature, too, expects justice!, TA rkkaya AtaA v Cooperation and global public goods: aspects of fairness in international relations, Ulrich Metschl Index.


Abstract : Recent research results indicate that eddy current conductivity measurements can be exploited for nondestructive evaluation of subsurface residual stresses in surface-treated nickel-base superalloy components. According to this approach, first the depth-dependent electric conductivity profile is calculated from the measured frequency-dependent apparent eddy current conductivity spectrum. Then, the residual stress depth profile is calculated from the conductivity profile based on the piezoresistivity coefficient of the material, which is determine separately from calibration measurements using known external applied stresses. This report presents results that indicate that in some popular nickel-base superalloys the relationship between the electric conductivity profile and the sought residual stress depth profile is more tenuous than previously thought. In particular, it is shown that in IN718 the relationship is very sensitive to the state of precipitation hardening and could render this technique unsuitable for eddy current residual stress profiling in components of 36 HRC or harder, i.e., in most critical engine applications.


Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of high-Reynolds-number wall-bounded turbulent flows is prohibitively expensive if the energy-containing eddies in the near-wall region are resolved. This motivates the use of wall-layer models in which an approximate solution of the near wall dynamics is bridged to an LES of the outer flow. The main interest of the present work are wall-modeling strategies based on Detached Eddy Simulation (DES). In these approaches, the near-wall solution is closed using a Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes model with a subgrid closure applied to the outer flow. As is well known, the original DES formulation applied directly as a wall model results in a shift in the velocity profile, corresponding to an under-estimation of the skin friction. A new formulation is proposed in this contribution in which the wall-parallel components of the modeled stress are reduced in order to lower the influence of the model and increase the resolved stress. The effectiveness of the new model is evaluated via comparison against DES predictions using the original and recently-proposed versions of the method. The effect of grid resolution and model parameters are also assessed using computations of turbulent channel flow at a Reynolds number based on friction velocity and channel halfwidth of 5000. The predictions show that the anisotropic form of the model stress yields an improved prediction of the mean velocity profile in better agreement with the logarithmic law and with larger resolved stress in the near-wall region.


The purpose of this study was to investigate range of motion (ROM) and muscle activities according to the skills of Surya Namaskara in Vinyasa Yoga. Six females (skilled 2, unskilled 4) of university students participated in this experiment. The research factors were ROM and muscle activities for static poses on Surya Namaskara in Vinyasa Yoga. The six infrared cameras (Oqus 300, Qualisys Inc, Sweden) and Zero Wire EMG (Aurion, Italy) were used to acquire raw data, and the Qualisys Track Manager and Noraxon (MyoResearch XP Master Edition, USA) were used to process data. The %MVIC and ROM were analyzed with Visual 3D (C-Motion Inc, USA) and Noraxon. In conclusion, ROM and %MVIC between two groups were remarkable different according to the static poses of Yoga, therefore instructors have to provide step-by-step information that was suitable to themselves (ROM and EMG of poses).


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Microscopic living organisms locomote in viscous fluids through spontaneous beating of filamentous structures anchored at one end, such as flagella and cilia. Prokaryotic flagella rotate rigidly like a corkscrew, while eukaryotic flagella are flexible and oscillate in a plane. We observe similar biomimetic beating behavior \emph{in silico} by clamping an active filament at one end and solving for hydrodynamics interactions. Highly active filaments become unstable to transverse perturbations and exhibit autonomous oscillations. This transition into a limit cycle occurs via a supercritical Hopf bifurcation. The time period and amplitude of beating increase with increasing filament length, but collapse to a master curve on appropriate scaling. An analytical calculation of the spectrum of the filament model in the free-draining approximation fails to capture oscillatory behavior, emphasizing the crucial role played by hydrodynamic interactions.


Abstract We compared the oviposition behavior and host discrimination ability of wild and mass-reared Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) females parasitizing Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae) larvae. Both kinds of parasitoid females were presented simultaneously with parasitized and non-parasitized larvae in choice tests, and their superparasitism performance was evaluated under a mass-rearing situation. At the time of the test, D. longicaudata had 156 generations under mass-rearing conditions. Our goal was to determine the effect of the mass-rearing process on the foraging decisions of this species. One of the primary findings was the apparent ubiquity of superparasitism by D. longicaudata females. Both types of females showed similar patterns in each of the phases of oviposition behavior evaluated. The only notable differences were among the percentages of transition between behaviors, mainly related to the intensity with which each activity was performed. Under a mass-rearing situation, both strains of females had a similar tendency to increase superparasitism (i.e., number of oviposition scars per puparium and the proportion of superparasitized larvae) over time. The mass-rearing process appears to have induced the selection of more aggressive, fertile and precocious females. Despite these observations, we concluded that the process of adaptation to mass-rearing conditions has not substantially influenced the foraging and ovipositional behaviors in this species.


The Multigrid method used with OpenMP/MPI hybrid parallel programming models is expected to play an important role in large-scale scientific computing on post-peta/exa scale supercomputer systems. In the present work, gcoarse grid aggregationh is proposed for robust convergence of multigrid solvers with large numbers of MPI processes. The robustness and performance of the proposed method has been evaluated using up to 4,096 nodes (65,536 cores) of the Fujistu FX10 supercomputer system. The results of the proposed method have proved to be excellent, especially for strong scaling computation.


A plurality of LED terminals (106a ~ 106c) is provided for each of a plurality of LED (2a ~ 2c), the anode of the corresponding LED (2), which are connected. The step-up circuit 10 boosts the input voltage (Vbat). A plurality of constant current sources (12a ~ 12c) are being installed for each of a plurality of LED (2a ~ 2c), is temporarily connected to the LED (2a ~ 2c) corresponding to the LED through the terminal (106a ~ 106c). A plurality of switches (14a ~ 14c) is arranged for each of a plurality of constant current sources (12a ~ 12c), for the constant current source 12 corresponding to the input voltage the output voltage (Vout) of (Vbat) and the step-up circuit 10 of which is selectively output. Control circuit 20, by monitoring the voltage (Vled_a ~ Vled_c) of the plurality of LED terminals (106a ~ 106c) individually, on the basis of the respective voltages, and controls the connection state of the corresponding switch 14 to.


Professional development activities have historically targeted teachers as the recipients of reform efforts. In order to affect lasting change in terms of what mathematics is taught and how it is taught, however, programs must recognize the different intersecting needs and perspectives of a school's education constituencies—administrators, teacher-leaders, teachers, students, and parents. Professional development programs that include components for each group have the potential to dramatically extend the impact of the resources dedicated to the reform.


The present paper is the first part of the studies dealing with the chemical stimulant (kairomone) initiating oviposition behaviour of Tetrastichus schoenolii, an egg parasite of the yellow paddy borer, Tryporyza incertulas ("Walker). It demonstrates the location of the kairomone in Tryporyza, incertulas and Scirpophaga sp., and describes a method of extraction of the active ingredient from the host.The results demonstrate that the kairomone which elicits both the host-searching and oviposdtion behaviour by T. schoenobii female is located in both the hairs of host egg mass and the anal tuft of the female moth. The active ingredient was successfully extracted by acetone-water (1:1) solvent. However, it cannot be extracted by n-hexane. If acetone-water extract of the host egg-hairs was applied to a paper model egg, the model egg will elicit both the antennal drumming and inserting ovipositor of the parasite.


Annual Reviews have been publishing authoritative reviews in science for some 70 years. Last year the scope of their activities was broadened to include biomedical engineering, and this volume is the second in the new series. The format is slightly unusual: while the content is typical journal review material, the presentation is that of a hardback book. In all, 26 individual reviews are included in this second volume. The following will be of particular interest to readers of this journal: Bioengineering models of cell signalling; Electrophysiological modelling of cardiac ventricular function; Quantitative measurement and prediction of biophysical response during freezing in tissues; Two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy; Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging; Wavelets in temporal and spatial processing of biomedical images; and In vivo near-infrared spectroscopy. Further details and full contents listing can be found on the publisher's website: http://bioeng.annualreviews.org.


The brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) is a nocturnal, primarily arboreal, rear-fanged colubrid native to parts of Australasia (Savidge, 1987; Greene, 1989). Throughout their range, brown tree snakes eat a variety of prey, including lizards, rats, and birds (Greene, 1989; Shine, 1991; Rodda, 1992; Rodda et al., in press). Brown tree snakes on Guam have a wide diet consisting mainly of lizards and lizard eggs, but a variety of other items were found in snake stomachs, including odd items such as cooked spareribs (Savidge, 1988). Savidge (1988) noted an ontogenetic shift in Guam brown tree snake diets; small snakes consumed lizards and lizard eggs and larger snakes consumed birds, bird eggs, and mammals. Brown tree snakes were introduced to Guam in the late 1940s or early 1950s as a passive stowaway in cargo (Savidge, 1987; Rodda et al., 1992). Since the brown tree snake's introduction on Guam, its population has irrupted: population densities may occasionally reach 50-100 snakes/ha (Rodda et al., 1992). The snake has virtually extirpated the island's avifauna (Savidge, 1987), and concern that the snake will invade elsewhere has spawned intensive trapping programs (U.S. Dep. Agric., 1996). Managers use live mouse lures in brown tree snake traps. The desire to avoid using mice has given rise to a quest for inanimate attractants for brown tree snakes (Fritts et al., 1989; Shivik and Clark, in press). Substances such as blood and saliva have shown promise in laboratory studies (Chiszar et al., 1992, 1993, 1997, in press), but have proven ineffective in the field (Rodda et al., 1997). Therefore, it is important to validate laboratory methods with field tests. Furthermore, previous lures based on odors associated


Abstract Feedbacks involving cirrus clouds may Play an important role in modulating the response of the climate system to external forcing. A standard radiative-convective model with high vertical resolution (10-mb grid spacing in the upper troposphere) is used to investigate some of these feedbacks in response to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. It is shown that such a high resolution (or, indeed, an even higher resolution) may be necessary to resolve the change in tropopause height following a doubling of carbon dioxide. The cirrus cloud is allowed to adjust its height and ice water content in response to the warming, and experiments are repeated 1) for fixed and moist adiabatic lapse rates, 2) with and without a prescribed relative humidity feedback, 3) at low as well as high vertical resolution, and 4) with the inclusion of a simple correction to account for the uncertain number of small ice crystals in cirrus clouds. In this model the ice water content feedback is found to be posi...


THIS ARTICLE OFFERS AN ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF USING THE REGULATORY POWERS DELEGATED BY THE CLEAN AIR ACT FOR ACHIEVING THE REDUCTION OF MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS. STATUTORY PROVISIONS FOR STATE VEHICLE INSPECTION RECALL INITIATED BY THE EPA, AND MANUFACTURER WARRANTY OF EMISSION LEVELS APPEAR TO PROVIDE CRUCIAL INCENTIVES FOR REALIZING THE ACT'S TECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS. ALTERNATIVES TO THE PRESENT STATUTORY SCHEME ARE DISCUSSED UNDER INNOVATION TO OVERCOME IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS, AND REVISION OF TECHNOLOGICAL GOALS.


Radio-marked subadult and territorial adult Florida sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis pratensis) used home ranges averaging 2,132 ha and 447 ha, respectively. Territorial adult range size was influenced by season, social status, and habitat quality. Subadult range sizes were largest and territorial adult ranges were smallest during the nesting season. Open, upland habitat (pastures and pasture-transition) use was greater (P : 0.05) than expected. Forested habitat, open water, and emergent palustrine wetlands were used equivalent to or less than their availability.


In this work a series of N–modified graphene composites with different N/C ratios have been synthesised. The incorporation of Fe atoms into the N–modified graphene composites leads to the formation of Fe/N/C ensembles on the outer graphene layers along with Fe3C and metallic Fe phases in the bulk of the graphite nanoplates as revealed by X-ray absorption and XPS analyses. The adequate choice of the N/C atomic ratio of precursors to prepare Fe/N/graphene based materials is crucial to obtain electrocatalysts with an optimal performance for the ORR. The activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of the Fe/N–graphene based electrocatalysts increases with increasing amount of accessible nitrogen, that is, with the amount of nitrogen by surface area.


Background and Purpose—Acute stroke treatments are underutilized primarily because of delayed hospital arrival. Using a community-based participatory research approach, we explored stroke self-efficacy, knowledge, and perceptions of stroke among a predominately African American population in Flint, Michigan. Methods—In March 2010, a survey was administered to youth and adults after religious services at 3 churches and during 1 church health day. The survey consisted of vignettes (12 stroke, 4 nonstroke) to assess knowledge of stroke warning signs and behavioral intent to call 911. The survey also assessed stroke self-efficacy, personal knowledge of someone who had experienced a stroke, personal history of stroke, and barriers to calling 911. Linear regression models explored the association of stroke self-efficacy with behavioral intent to call 911 among adults. Results—Two hundred forty-two adults and 90 youths completed the survey. Ninety-two percent of adults and 90% of youth respondents were African A...


s were registered in BIOSIS CI. The leading scientific institutions are VA Medical Center, Mayo Clinic and University of Chicago (the USA), University of Sydney (Australia), etc. The 'core' journals are Sleep, Sleep Breathing, Sleep Medicine, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, International Journal of Obesity, etc. Conclusions: Our data could contribute to further improvement of the international visibility of smaller countries in the fields of OSA and DM. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose. P421 Obstructive sleep apnea and glaucoma a comorbidity of rising actuality M. Milkov, C. Grupcheva, P. Petrov, S. Mirchev, L. Matev and C. Madjova Medical University Varna, Varna, Third City Hospital Sofia, Sofia, Medical University Pleven, Varna, Bulgaria Objectives: Our purpose was to analyze the dynamics of the publication activity worldwide devoted to the association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and glaucoma. Methods: A retrospective search of relevant publications on these interdisciplinary problems abstracted in the information portal PubMed was carried out. Several basic bibliometric characteristics of these publications and their summaries were analyzed. Results: During a 15-year period, there were a total of 23 relevant abstracted publications by 109 individual authors. There were two prospective studies, two review articles, two letters-to-the-editor, one meta-analysis of strictly selected trials and 16 original articles. The authors were mainly from France, Germany, and Spain. While in 2001–2010, seven papers were abstracted only, in 2011–2015, their number was already 16. These articles occurred in 18 journals as 12 ophthalmological journals contained 17 articles but two sleep medicine journals two articles. In J. Glaucoma and Graefe's Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol., three articles were published each. Glaucoma incidence rate in OSA patients and vice versa was analyzed in eight papers, the immediate mutual relationship between both diseases in five, the risk of glaucoma development in OSA patients as well as the diagnosis of visual disorders in the patients with both diseases in three each, and the novelties in the treatment of such patients in two papers. Conclusions: The present preliminary scientometric investigation testifies to the occurrence of a new scientific direction in the field of comorbidity of OSA and glaucoma linking the newest promising achievements of ophthalmology and sleep medicine. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose. P422 Perceived relationships between pain, sleep and mood: attributions of symptom interaction in patients awaiting total hip arthroplasty T. Bl agestad, S. Pallesen, J. Grønli, N. K. Y. Tang and I. H. Nordhus Department of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychosocial Sciences, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom Objectives: Beliefs and expectancies are central cognitive facilitators or impediments to the recovery process in chronic pain; yet how chronic pain patients perceive symptoms of pain, sleep and mood to interact has not received much attention. We aim to explore perceptions of how worsening or improvements in sleep, pain and mood affect each other. Method: Patients awaiting total hip arthroplasty (N = 291, mean age 67.8, 65.3% female) rated 12 statements about how sleep, pain and mood, respectively, were perceived to worsen or improve when symptoms were either worse or better than usual. Statements were rated on a response scale ranging from much worse (–2) via no change (0) to much better (2). Results: Of the patients included in the study 56% reported symptoms indicating insomnia (Bergen Insomnia Scale). Anxiety and depression was indicated in 17% and 10% (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale). Most patients rated their pain as horrible/ unbearable and that pain occurred always/daily (McGill Pain Questionnaire). When experiencing worsening of pain, a majority perceived that sleep (90%) and mood (70%) worsened, whilst experiencing weaker pain improved sleep and mood in 50%. Poor sleep increased pain and worsened mood in 45% and 60% of the patients, respectively. Better sleep decreased experience of pain and improved mood in 50%. Worsened mood increased pain (46%) and worsened sleep (52%). Improved mood decreased pain (25%) and improved sleep (35%). Conclusions: In terms of subjective perceptions these patients put stronger emphasis on pain as influencing other symptoms than pain being influenced by other symptoms. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose. a 2016 The Authors Journal of Sleep Research a 2016 European Sleep Research Society, JSR 25 (Suppl. 1), 5–377 224 Poster Session 2


In Italy, 500,000 cases of varicella are estimated each year, most of them occurring in children aged between 0 and 14 years.


Summary.  Background: Whether an increase in the daily oral maintenance dose of clopidogrel may improve clinical outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is still debated. Objectives: This meta‐analysis aimed to estimate the relative effect of a 150‐ vs. 75‐mg daily maintenance dosage of clopidogrel on clinical and laboratory end‐points in patients undergoing PCI. Methods: We searched electronic and printed sources (up to 14 December 2010) for both randomized control trials and observational studies satisfying the predefined inclusion criteria. Results: We retrieved 12 reports of studies including a total of 23 814 patients. Clopidogrel, 150 mg day−1, was associated with significant reductions in major adverse cardiac and/or cerebrovascular events (odds ratio [OR], 0.67; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.48–0.94), myocardial infarction (OR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.60–0.86), target vessel revascularization (OR, 0.27; 95% CI, 0.12–0.62) and stent thrombosis (OR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.53–0.77) and decreased adenosine diphosphate‐induced maximal platelet aggregation. However, as compared with 75 mg day−1, the 150‐mg daily maintenance dosage significantly increased the risk of minor bleeding (OR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.08–1.36). Conclusion: As compared with the currently recommended 75‐mg day−1 maintenance dosage of clopidogrel, the 150‐mg day−1 dosage can reduce major adverse cardiac and/or cerebrovascular events but may increase the risk of minor bleeding.


User applications that require transactional file access generally use user-level transactional protocols such as logging, atomic rename, since the POSIX interface does not support transactional file operations. The user-level protocols are complex and require specific persistence properties of file systems for correctness. If the kernel provides transactional access to file data, application developers can avoid the complex and error-prone application-level protocols. Many previous studies on kernel-level transactional support have several critical limitations such as complex APIs, file system-dependence, and low transaction concurrency. In this paper, we propose a kernel-level write-ahead logging (WAL) technique, called KWAL. KWAL maintains user-transparent WAL files and redirects transactional IOs to them. Since KWAL is implemented as a stackable file system, it can be mounted over any native file systems, without modifying them. To provide a higher transaction concurrency while guaranteeing isolation, KWAL supports byte-level write conflict detection and repeatable read isolation. We also utilize a block remap technique to resolve the duplicate write problem of WAL-based transaction scheme. To demonstrate the usefulness of KWAL, we implemented a simple key-value store using KWAL APIs, fixed the wrong transaction implementation of the Git application, and simplified the implementation of the storage engines of MySQL and SQLite.


A Boeing 707 fuselage section was drop tested at the NASA Langley Research Center to measure structural, seat, and occupant response to vertical crack loads. Post-test inspection showed that the section bottom collapsed inward approximately 2 ft. Preliminary data traces indicated maximum normal accelerations of 20 g on the fuselage bottom, 10 to 12 g on the cabin floor, and 6.5 to 8 g in the pelvises of the anthropomorphic dummies.


A new channel assignment (CA) model named optimum channel assignment (OCA) model is presented.First,the difference equations for the general CA problem is established from the features of channel assignment practice,then the OCA model is formulated and its solution is derived by using the Pontryagin minimum principle,these analytically derived results are then further validated by our computer simulations.The new model provides a fast,efficient CA algorithm,and remedies the current shortage of the overall performance evaluation for channel assignment schemes.


Abstract. Upwelling is an oceanographic process that transfers cool and nutrient-rich waters toward the sea surface. Due to the relation between low sea surface temperature (SST) and high nutrient-rich water, the upwelling regions can be easily recognized in satellite imagery. An optical flow (OF) method, Horn–Schunck, is used to discover the upwelled water motion (UWM) and its pattern using sequential (pair) SST imageries. The SST imageries of Aqua and Terra satellites between 2004 and 2012 are processed to extract the properties of upwelling in the Shevchenko area (Caspian Sea). Results show that the upwelling is periodic (with an ∼24  h period) and it matches with a Fourier model. In addition, the UWM has a specific direction from morning to night. It is also shown that the OF cannot extract correct UWM if the SST imageries are selected on different cycles. Level of chlorophyll_a in the same area is used to independently validate the existence of the upwelling.


Folk intellectual images are the result of people's ideologies and feelings,which show a specific feature of folk people.The images of folk intellectuals reflect the ever-lasting views of knowledge,talent philosophy,and the culture of respecting for intellectuals.There are also a folk ideology of "a fish leaping over the dragon gate" and utilitarian measure of value in folk people.


This article discusses the administration of educators and education personnel. In carrying out their duties, educators and education staff get guidance and development, then increase in rank according to predetermined criteria, then an evaluation of the performance of educators and education personnel will be carried out, which if they perform well will receive appreciation in various forms and if judged poor it will get a warning. Teachers in schools have a role in the administration of educators and education personnel, such as making reports on school and staff data, proposing promotions, and so on, which are discussed further in this article.


The cutoff wavenumbers of an eccentric dielectric loading a circular waveguide are calculated. Analytical formulations are developed based on the boundary value method. The cutoff wavenumbers are then calculated as roots of the resulting characteristic determinant. Several examples for special cases are introduced for comparison followed by a general example.


Recently, Cassak and Shay [Phys. Plasmas 14, 102114 (2007)] proposed a new scaling for asymmetric reconnection referred to as Sweet–Parker-type scaling. We set into question the derivation of those scaling laws.


We provide a mechanism that uses two biased coins and implements any distribution on a finite set of elements, in such a way that even if the outcomes of one of the coins is determined by an adversary, the final distribution remains unchanged. We apply this result to show that every quitting game in which at least two players have at least two continue actions has an undiscounted ε-equilibrium, for every ε > 0.


This paper develops a simple approach to balanced model reductions for unstable linear continuous-time SISO systems. First, the controllability, observability, and cross Gramians are directly obtained from the coefficients of the transfer function using the Routh army in a closed-form. Based on these Gramians, a simple algorithm is proposed to compute a reduced order model based on balancing and truncation technique for unstable systems. If the unstable system can be balanced, then the proposed algorithm gives a reduced order model which has the same number of unstable poles as the original model. This algorithm is simpler and numerically more efficient in computing the Gramians than presently existing algorithms. Thus, it can be very useful for adaptive control or model reduction of time-varying discrete-time systems.


Taking the language attitude of Chinese students in Seoul National University as the research goal, the paper makes a deep qualitative study. There are three stages in the study: in the first stage, 50 primary subjects are selected through a questionnaire survey. In the second stage, a multi-dimensional questionnaire survey of language attitude is conducted for several senior subjects. In the third stage, a qualitative interview survey is conducted for senior subjects, aiming to solve the unsolved and doubtful problems in the first two stages. Based on the findings of the three stages, this paper discusses whether language loyalty is equal to language maintenance, whether mother tongue anxiety will occurs, the language identity of multilingual and bilingual.


A polishing pad has been playing a crucial role in conventional mirror polishing though many problems occur such as process instability, polishing non-uniformity and maintaining difficulties etc. Recently, a new mirror polishing method, which uses fine polymer particles, has been proposed and developed for overcoming the problems. At the same time, the feasibility of this new method when using oil as dispersion medium has been certified as well for polishing the materials unstable in water. In this paper, the tool plate, one of the most important elements in the new method, has been investigated to find an optimal type for the new polishing method when using oily slurries. Several kinds of tool plates have been discussed about the polishing characteristics and it is clear that the tool plate must have not only proper roughness and high rigidity, but also good affinity to the slurry. Furthermore a thin elastic layer covering on the surface of a hard tool plate is desirable. In addition, the urethane rubber plate with high hardness and tensile strength is the best one with relatively superior polishing characteristics, endurance and easiness of surface preparing among the discussed plates up to now.


In recent decades, multiple flood events have had a devastating impact on soybean production in Argentina. Recent advances suggest that the frequency and intensity of destructive flood events on the Argentinian Pampas will increase under pressure from climate change. This paper provides bottom-up insight into the flood risk for soybean production systems under climate change and the suitability of adaptation strategies in two of the most flood-prone areas of the Pampas region. The flood risk perceptions of soybean producers were explored through interviews, translated into climatic indicators and then studied using a multi-model climate data analysis. Soybean producers perceived the present flood risk for rural accessibility to be of the highest concern, especially during the harvest and sowing seasons when heavy machinery needs to reach soybean lots. An analysis of climatic change projections found a rising trend in annual and harvest precipitation and a slight drying trend during the sowing season. This indicates that the flood risk for harvest accessibility may increase under climate change. Several adaptation strategies were identified that can systemically address flood risks, but these require collaborative action and cannot be undertaken by individual producers. The results suggest that if cooperative adaptation efforts are not made in the short term, the continued increase in flood risk may force soybean producers in the case study locations to shift away from soybean towards more robust land uses.


Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a bacterial infection of ascites and a common complication in patients with cirrhosis, associated with a high morbidity and mortality rate. Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae bacteria are usually the major pathogens involved in SBP, with Klebsiella pneumoniae accounting for 50% of these. Individuals with chronic liver and /or kidney disease associated with long-standing ascites are predisposed to SBP. Nosocomial SBP presents most commonly a poorer outcome. Although Listeria monocytogenes peritonitis is a relatively rare focal manifestation of Listeria infection, its incidence is increasing. It is associated with a mortality rate approaching 30% in cases of systemic involvement, despite first-line therapy. To our knowledge, this is the first case of L.monocytogenes-associated SBP described in Italy. Clinicians should be aware of the uncommon agents of SBP, such as Listeria, because, if diagnosed early, early antibiotic administration is crucial in minimizing adverse outcomes.


John Lennon complained way back in 1984 that nobody told him there would be days like this.' And when I began writing academic papers, nobody told me I would receive responses like Imrie and Raco's (2001). Having chosen initially to engage with Rob Imrie and Mike Raco's article, How new is the new local governance? Lessons from the United Kingdom, which was published in Transactions last year, I feel I must respond to their rejoinder, 'A critique without a focus': a response to Ward's re-interpretation of urban politics. I do so, however, with the recent words of Harvey (1999), McDowell (1999) and Peck (2000) ringing in my ears. Each author draws attention to the intellec-


eRAl further instances of this disorder of the heart's action, which ^<ls described in the December number of this Journal, have now been ltllrated. Lewis (Heart, 1912, iv. 171) discusses eight new cases:? ) a woman of 50 years who had an attack of tachycardia lasting probably for three months. The rate of the rhythmic auricular con'Actions exceeded 300 per minute, the highest count being 324, while e ventricles usually responded to alternate auricular beats. (2) Male, lged Go, who had been subject to attacks of tachycardia with a entricular rate of 140 to 150 for thirty years. In his last attack,


Heterostructural CoFe2O4/Pb(Zr0.52Ti 0.48)O3 composite nanofibers with diameters about 100 nm were prepared by electrospinning. The thermal decomposition process, structure and morphology of the precursor composite fibers and the calcined CoFe 2O4/Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 nanofibers were investigated by thermogravimetric and differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and high-resolution TEM (HRTEM). It is found that just the spinel CoFe2O4 (CFO) and perovskite Pb(Zr0.52Ti 0.48)O3 (PZT) phases coexist in the composite CFO/PZT nanofibers obtained at calcination temperature of 950°C. The grain sizes of CFO and PZT increase with the calcination temperature whilst the grain growth process would be limited due to the separation effects for these two phases. When the grain sizes of CFO and PZT in the nanofiber reach about the size range of the nanofiber diameter, these grains are alternatively distributed along the nanofiber length direction and the well-defined heterostructure is formed between these nanograins of CFO and PZT.


Semi organic crystals have been intensively studied aiming applications in nonlinear optical (NLO). Such applicability requires crystals with both high quality and thermal stability, which make the full characterization of this material a topic issue. In this paper, single crystals of L‐isoleucine hydrochloride monohydrated (L‐Ile.H2O.HCl) was synthesized by slow evaporation technique and characterized by thermal analysis and X‐ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. XRD results at 298 K showed that the sample crystallize with the orthorhombic structure, and the lattice parameters obtained by Rietveld refinement were a = 5.873(3) Å, b = 24.814(4) Å, and c = 6.873(5) Å. Thermal analysis measurements shows four decomposition stages between 328 ‐480 K which were associated with loss of water by desolvation, loss crystallization water and decomposition of L‐Ile.HCl. XRD measurements as a function of temperature up to 428 K show an irreversible phase transformation. This transformation was obtained after 32 hours keeping the L‐Ile.HCl.H2O sample at 413 K. The analysis shows that phase transformation occurs due to water and chlorine losses without destroy the amino acid carbon chain and in the end of transformation only the precursor amino acid remains. L‐Ile.HCl.H2O present low thermal stability and the phase transformation is time and temperature dependent.


This paper analyzes the functional design and structure design of the database security model networks, research and further realizes the key features of the model. The system is suitable for network security database management system, which has a certain universality and portability.


Vietnam is considered as one of the countries having rich resources from forest and sea, with a high average annual rainfall. However, in view of IWRA, water volume per capita annually in Vietnam is lower than the standard for nations having water resources at average level. Vietnam was recognized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as having three out of more than 200 biological zones of the world. Flora and fauna in Vietnam are very rich and abundant, but due to indiscriminate exploitation, along with weak management, biodiversity levels are significantly reduced. This is also one of the causes of environmental pollution and degradation in Vietnam, besides the impacts from production activities, population migration from rural areas to urban areas, rapid urbanization, climate change and sea level rise, etc.


This paper provides a summary of the types of manufacturing processes currently being used in the fabrication of micro heat exchangers with the main focus on passages with hydraulic diameter of less than 200 micrometers. The following manufacturing processes are reviewed: LIGA, Chemical Etching, Stereolithography, and micro-machining. A comparison of different techniques related to tolerances, material compatibility, and ease of manufacturing is given. Processes capable of high volume fabrication are highlighted.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


In an introductory article on the reproductive cycle of Neotoca bilineata, an account was given of the breeding cycle of the female as observed in the laboratory (Mendoza, 1939). In this second paper of the series, a description is given of the changes which the ovarian soma undergoes during gestation. Previous articles on the reproductive cycles of viviparous teleosts usually have failed to give complete accounts of the somatic cycle although the later papers on Fitzroyia lineata (Scott, 1928), Xiphophorus helleri (Bailey, 1933), and Cymatogaster aggregatus (Turner, 1938) are notable exceptions. It is the purpose of this account first, to supplement the original, brief description given by Turner in 1933 and second, to contribute to a better understanding of the marked changes which a typical viviparous ovary undergoes during gestation. The discussion includes (1) a brief reference to the gross morphology of the ovary, (2) the general ovary-embryo relations, and (3) a detailed account of the cyclic changes in the ovigerous folds, the epithelium, the free cellular elements, and the blood supply.


The research aimed to identify the role of investigative media in monitoring corruption issues, promoting a culture of integrity in Iraqi society, and monitoring the functions of investigative media that deal with corruption issues.
The researcher used the descriptive analytical method, the researcher used a survey method (questionnaire) for data collection, and the sample was selected in incidental way of 70 items, the the most important results were:
1. The investigative media contributes to the maintenance of the job system, public money, and good dealing with citizens and give the awareness.
2. Investigative media has a realistic character through discussion the issues and the events; and follow them continuously, and has the ability of explanation and clarification, accuracy and credibility of the issues dealt with.
3. There are professional, financial, psychological and social pressures related to investigative media work.
4. The most corruption issues that are difficult for the investigative media to investigate are misappropriation of public funds. files of the Integrity Commission, monopoly and sale of positions, election rigging and manipulation of goods prices.
5. The most prominent solutions are enactment of new laws relating to the protection of investigative journalists and enable them carry out their work, and provide legal and institutional protection for the surveyors.
6. There are high of statistical differences of the respondents according to gender and years of service, while variables (age, academic achievement) have a medium and low value.


Digital TV switchover in Australia was completed on 10 December 2013. This article evaluates the country's transition to digital TV, focusing especially on the financial costs and revenues for central government. It begins by setting digital switchover in Australia into international context, summarizing the goals and the process and identifying similarities and differences with the roll-outs in other countries. It then analyses in detail the spending programmes the federal government implemented to support the transition and the revenue raised by selling vacated spectrum, providing the first public assessment of the net impact for government. This analysis finds that the whole policy so far has resulted in a net cost to government of A$333 million in 2014–2015 prices. This is a striking conclusion, given the substantial net benefit that was so confidently anticipated during early digital TV policy development in the 1990s, but it needs qualification and explanation. Finally, the article draws some lessons for future ex ante analyses of spectrum clearance and other communications infrastructure projects.


Purpose: To provide further insight into the role of proliferation and other cellular processes in chemosensitivity and resistance, we evaluated the association of a diverse set of gene expression signatures with response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer. Experimental Design: Expression data from primary breast cancer biopsies for 1,419 patients in 17 studies prior to NAC were identified and aggregated using common normalization procedures. Clinicopathologic characteristics, including response to NAC, were collected. Scores for 125 previously published breast cancer–related gene expression signatures were calculated for each tumor. Results: Within each receptor-based subgroup or PAM50 subtype, breast tumors with high proliferation signature scores were significantly more likely to achieve pathologic complete response to NAC. To distinguish "proliferation-associated" from "proliferation-independent" signatures, we used correlation and linear modeling approaches. Most signatures associated with response to NAC were proliferation associated: 90.5% (38/42) in ER+/HER2− and 63.3% (38/60) in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Proliferation-independent signatures predictive of response to NAC in ER+/HER2− breast cancer were related to immune activity, while those in TNBC comprised a diverse set of signatures, including immune, DNA damage, signaling pathways (PI3K, AKT, Ras, and EGFR), and "stemness" phenotypes. Conclusions: Proliferation differences account for the vast majority of predictive capacity of gene expression signatures in neoadjuvant chemosensitivity for ER+/HER2− breast cancers and, to a lesser extent, TNBCs. Immune activation signatures are proliferation-independent predictors of pathologic complete response in ER+/HER2− breast cancers. In TNBCs, significant proliferation-independent signatures include gene sets that represent a diverse set of cellular processes. Clin Cancer Res; 22(24); 6039–50. ©2016 AACR.


PATENT PENDING. Time-of-arrival (TOA) localization is tightly coupled with sensor time synchronization. Synchronization can be obtained by GPS, atomic clocks or message exchange protocols. All methods affect the energy sources and the synchronization protocols use valuable bandwidth. We present self-synchronized localization algorithms that rely exclusively on TOA measurements performed by the sensor network on passing sources rendering it completely passive. Localization performance is close to that provided by a perfectly synchronized network. Such algorithms can also be used for sensor network synchronization and communication networks in general.


The technique of Optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) is becoming increasingly popular as pre-amplifiers for seeding laser systems [1,2] and as potential amplifiers for extremely high peak power systems. This is because they are capable of amplifying a broad bandwidth and can have large gains. Our previous study of the ASE contrast of the Vulcan laser system [3] demonstrated that the parametric fluorescence (PF) generated by the nanosecond OPCPA pre-amplifier acted to seed the rest of the amplification chain.


Abstract : The atmosphere and tone of transatlantic discourse have improved markedly in recent months. Sustaining transatlantic security cooperation will require narrowing lingering European-American differences over threat perceptions, strategy, and military priorities. There is sufficient commonality of assessments and interests to fashion complementary European and American policies toward key challenges, including countering terrorism and further proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD); promotion of Palestinian-Israeli reconciliation and reform in the wider Middle East; and relations with China, Russia, and Ukraine. Progress in these areas requires an enhanced transatlantic dialogue, particularly more systematic U.S.-European Union (EU) policy consultations, coupled with a mutual willingness to make policy adjustments. Priority should be given to developing convergent approaches to deal with warnings of imminent WMD terrorism; failure of diplomatic efforts to constrain Iran's nuclear program; security and governance problems in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian Authority; and China's global rise and military acquisitions. In fashioning an equitable transatlantic division of labor for the management of global security affairs, America's European partners have many important nonmilitary assets that should be factored into the equation. Washington will remain reluctant, however, to treat Europe as a full partner until it demonstrates significant progress on key NATO and EU defense improvement goals.


High impact severe weather events like thunderstorms are associated with strong winds, dust, thunder, lightning, heavy rainfall, hail etc. Such events have devastating consequences particularly leading to aviation hazards, loss of life and damage to property, vegetable crops and food. A severe thunderstorm had caused large scale damage to life and property over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and North-eastern states during 15-16 April 2020. Similarly, a fusillade of lightning strikes associated with intense thunderstorm spread across the two states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on 25-26 June 2020 killed more than 100 people. In the present research, a comparative study has been carried out by investigating synoptic, thermodynamic and dynamical features leading to these two intense systems. Global Forecast System model at 12 Km resolution along with the Weather Research and Forecasting model version 3.6.1 at 3 Km resolution have been used for the analysis of operational forecasts of these two cases i.e. 15-16 April and 25-26 June 2020. The low-level convergence associated with the cyclonic circulation of strong moist winds from the Bay of Bengal region was responsible for the severe thunderstorm of 15-16 April 2020. Whereas the event of 25-26 June 2020 during the monsoon period, was associated with low level convergence over Bihar and Uttar Pradesh supported by high values of low-level humidity. The global and regional model (GFS and WRF) forecasts indicated the favourable environmental factors for the occurrence of thunderstorms in both the cases.


Provided is an acoustic wave splitter with a large out-of-band attenuation. In plan view, electrodes (25a, 26b) are positioned such that the area of a region in which the electrodes (25a, 26b) which configure an impedance conformity part (L) and a transmission-side filter chip (31) overlap is greater than the area of a region in which the electrodes (25a, 26b) and a receiving-side filter chip (41) overlap.


Deoxypodophyllotoxin (I), which was isolated from Anthriscus sylvestris HOFFM., has strong toxic activity towards killifish (Oryzias latipes) (TLm48 : 0.058ppm) and shrimp (Altemia salina) (TLm48 : 0.15 ppm). Furthermore, I exhibited the phytogrowth-inhibitory activity against two kinds of plant roots. On the other hand, deoxypicropodophyllin (II), a stereoisomer of I, showed none of these activities. From these results it can be assumed that the difference of activity between I and II is due to a difference in their conformations. Through analysis of the proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectra it was clarified that 1) the conformation at the 5a position of I is quasi-equatorial, whereas that of II is quasi-axial, and 2) the B-ring of I takes a half-chair form, whereas that of II takes a half-boat form.


This paper proposes a reflection on the interest to design and to use vocabulary exercises as complementary material for the teaching of legal translation. In this proposal exercises are classified in two main categories: according to the moment when they are suggested to the students, before or after translating the text, and according to the objectives, either to prepare the translation of the text or to review previous studied lexical/vocabulary units. Its usefulness is shown in a double sense: first of all, they contribute to enrich the lexical and cultural knowledge of the student in both languages, and secondly to develop cognitive abilities such as the deduction and the reformulation, both of them necessary to carry out not only a legal translation but any type of translation.


In this paper, we focus on deterministic quality of service (QoS) guarantees in terms of end-to-end response time and jitter that can be granted to multicast multimedia applications. These deterministic guarantees are based on a worst case analysis. With regard to the computation of the bound on the end-to-end response time, we first show that the trajectory approach dominates the holistic one, whatever the scheduling policy used in the node. We then design a solution based on this result for multicast multimedia applications subject to end-to-end deadline and jitter constraints. The solution we propose allows to achieve a fair delivery of the multimedia content to a group of clients. This solution is a basic block that can be used to design new interactive multimedia applications, such as live multicast, voting games and question/answer games. Because of the domination property, this solution allows to accept more flows meeting the requested QoS. Moreover, this solution can be easily implemented on existing routers


Statistical analyses are based on a mixture of mathematical theorems and judgments based on subject matter knowledge, intuition, and the goals of the investigator. Review articles and textbooks, aiming for brevity and simplicity, sometimes blur the dif- ference between mathematics and judgment. A folklore can develop, where judgments based on opinions become laws of what "should" be done. This can intimidate authors and readers, waste their time, and sometimes lead to analyses that obscure the information in the data rather than clarify it. Three familiar examples are discussed: the choice between Normal- based and non-parametric methods, the use of multiple-comparison procedures, and the choice of sums of squares for main effects in unbalanced ANOVA. In each case, commonly obeyed rules are shown to be judgments with which it is reasonable to disagree. A greater stress on model selection, aided by informal methods, such as plots, and by informal use of formal methods, such as tests, is advocated.


Using a Y specific probe (pY353/B) taken from a flow sorted mouse Y chromosome library we have identified a family of RNA transcripts encoded by the Y chromosome. These transcripts which are approximately 1.3 Kb in length are present in testis PolyA+ RNA but can not be detected in either male liver, spleen, kidney, brain, heart or lung tissues. Isolation and sequence analysis of a corresponding cDNA shows it to contain a potential coding sequence of 696bp. These data show that the Y chromosome is transcriptionally active in the adult mouse testis.


A scattering zipper is a system obtained by concatenation of scattering events with equal even number of incoming and outgoing channels. The associated scattering zipper operator is the unitary analog of Jacobi matrices with matrix entries. For infinite identical events and independent and identically distributed random phases, Lyapunov exponents positivity is proved and yields absence of absolutely continuous spectrum by Kotani's theory.


This paper presents an overview of how Internet has revolutionized the setting of freedom of speech. In particular, it is focused in to main aspects: On one hand, the delimitation of freedom of expression in the new media, differentiating in particular between web pages dedicated to the dissemination of information, protected by the freedom of speech; and those that are intended to provide other telematics services, which should not have this protection. Secondly, it is also studied the legal status of this freedom when it is exercised through Internet.


A. Overview This document will discuss the concern that there may be forbidden insects in retail containers of orange juice. [See the footnotes for acknowledgements1 and the bibliography of research papers used in researching this topic.]2 The first half of the document will describe the concern, including information on the insect and its presence in juice, and the second half will discuss the halachic issues this raises.


We develop an efficient characterization method for temperature compensated micromechanical resonators by employing empirical data analysis with an a priori model. We have previously demonstrated that electrostatic-tuning of a composite resonator with an accurate lookup table can achieve a temperature stability of ±3.2 ppm, but this characterization method was not suitable for commercialization since it required measurements at every temperature point of interest. This paper presents a technique that can reduce the number of temperature points for calibration by 67% without compromising accuracy. We also demonstrate a one-point calibration method with which ±7 ppm calibration error can be achieved using a single temperature point measurement.


A ring R is called generalized ZI (or GZI for short) if for any a 2 N(R) and b 2 R, ab = 0 implies aRba = 0, which is a proper generalization of ZI rings. In this paper, many properties of GZI rings are introduced, some known results are extended. Further, we introduce generalized GZI rings as a generalization of GZI rings, and quasi-abel rings as a generalization of generalized GZI rings. Some important results on Abel rings are extended to generalized GZI rings and quasi-abel rings.


This paper examines the new notion/process of "messaging stickiness" (Theobald, 2013) which is primarily coined to mean the production and flow of effective communication in an age of digital Infoglut. It explains such a notion/process both as concept and applicability in order to clarify the principles and techniques underlying the composition of "stickier messages" amidst the current messaging meltdown. Based on these examination and explanation, the paper moves to investigate how Moroccans, especially young people, receive and assess the Moroccan commercial telecom discourse encoded by Maroc Telecom, Inwi, and Meditel-nowturned Orange by means of a field survey and Van Dijk's approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. This is partially aimed to contribute to the development of effective local-global communication policies that maximize customer-centered benefits and minimize manipulative effects engendered by economically, politically, and socio-culturally loaded slant and spin.


To measure the Ag/Co interfacial free energies, biaxial zero creep experiments were performed on Ag/Co multilayer films deposited on the Si (111) wafers. As the samples were heated from room temperature to 450°C, the residual stress in films, which was in situ monitored by substrate curvature technique, decayed gradually to zero due to the increasing plastic deformation in films. After held for several hours at 450°C, they reached a zero creep state while the equilibrium stresses were measured. The annealed element layers were immiscible, and exhibited the column grain distribution and (111) preferred orientations. Based on the Josell model, the free energy of Ag/Co (111) interfaces at 450°C was found to be 1.02 ± 0.17 J/m 2 .


This paper proposes a neural network (NN)-based control scheme in an Adaptive Actor-Critic (AAC) learning framework designed for output reference model tracking, as a representative deep-learning application. The control learning scheme is model-free with respect to the process model. AAC designs usually require an initial controller to start the learning process; however, systematic guidelines for choosing the initial controller are not offered in the literature, especially in a model-free manner. Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) is proposed for obtaining an initially stabilizing NN nonlinear state-feedback controller, designed from input-state-output data collected from the process in open-loop setting. The solution offers systematic design guidelines for initial controller design. The resulting suboptimal state-feedback controller is next improved under the AAC learning framework by online adaptation of a critic NN and a controller NN. The mixed VRFT-AAC approach is validated on a multi-input multi-output nonlinear constrained coupled vertical two-tank system. Discussions on the control system behavior are offered together with comparisons with similar approaches.


The relationships of the surface morphologies to the surface chemical compositions in poly(ethylene oxide)-segmented nylon (PEO–Ny) membranes prepared by the phase-inversion method were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA), and static secondary ion mass spectrometry (SSIMS). The PEO–Ny's used were high semicrystalline PEO-segmented polyiminosebacoyliminohexamethylene (PEO–Ny610), low semicrystalline PEO-segmented poly(iminosebacoylimino-m-xylylene) (PEO–NyM10), and amorphous PEO- segmented poly(iminoisophthaloyliminomethylene-1,3-cyclohexylenemethylene) (PEO–NyBI). SEM observation showed that the surfaces of the PEO–Ny610 and PEO–NyM10 membranes were composed of crystalline spherulite and that the PEO–NyBI membrane surface had a nodular structure. ESCA analysis exhibited the enrichment of the PEO segment at the surfaces of the PEO–Ny610 and PEO–NyM10 membranes. On the other hand, the enrichment of the Ny segment was observed in the case of the PEO–NyBI membrane. SSIMS analysis revealed that the outermost surfaces of the PEO–Ny membranes except the PEO–NyBI membrane were almost covered with the PEO segment. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 77: 517–528, 2000


A device for providing the sensation of force which is capable of providing a sensation of force to a user through a pressure plate includes: a vibrating actuator, a liquid medium that transmits the vibration of the actuator, and a pressure plate. The pressure plate is deformed by the vibration that is transmitted through the medium. Typically, the actuator is fixed to a casing that is provided with the aforementioned pressure plate on part of the outside wall and a sealed space is formed by the actuator, the casing and the pressure plate. The medium is sealed within the sealed space.


PurposeDiversity and inclusion is a key focus of the profession. This paper investigates the ecological inherited niche of Indonesia and which employers accounting students choose and whether this will result in a diverse and inclusive profession. The authors conceptualise diversity as the demand-from the profession encompassing professional accounting firms, and inclusion as the supply of individuals wishing to enter the profession.Design/methodology/approachThe 1377 responses to a questionnaire survey of students deciding on their career paths were analysed using a multinomial logistic regression and path model.FindingsThe findings show that a lack of diversity in the profession is caused by the ecological background, constructing a local niche, that prevents diversity. This is manifest in ethnicity, gender and education, whereby the local niche consists of Chinese males recruited from B-rated private universities. To bring diversity and inclusivity into the workplace, the profession needs to entice people from multi-faceted groups and match ecological niche underpinnings to expectations of the professional landscape. Non-Chinese females are needed to become role models and trail blazers to establish a diverse profession. The public interest will then be better served.Originality/valueThis study uses niche construction as the theoretical framing and demonstrates that the profession needs to take action to become truly diverse and inclusive.


Fusion-biomass hybrid model is a new alternatives to produce more energy generating synergy effects by efficiently utilizing the high temperature heat from fusion reactor that might be considerably wasted by thermal cycle, and also energy loss from biomass combustion or biochemical processes. The underlying process of this fusion-biomass hybrid model is endothermic reaction of high temperature heat from the fusion blanket of Dual Coolant Lithium Lead. This paper aims at making an economic analysis of diesel and hydrogen production via carbon neutral process of fusion-biomass hybrid model. Thermal output change of fusion reactor matching with biomass plant capacity is investigated to know the levelized cost of fuels (LCOF). A sensitivity analysis is performed to learn the LCOF according to variables. Lastly, net present value (NPV) change depending on fusion heat cost change gives implication for the deployment in the future. The results can help in deciding which product is economically justified in the circumstances of technical and cost limitation.


Importance. Within the framework of modern education reform, the training of an education specialist with a set of personal qualities formed on the basis of social intelligence acquires a special sound. However, the issue of scientific and methodological support for the development of this personality trait within the modern space of the university is ambiguous and far from its scientific solution and practical implementation in practice. The purpose of the research is to study the conditions for the formation of social intelligence, to discover the mechanisms of its relationship with the empathy of students of pedagogical training areas.
Research methods. The following methods were used: content analysis of scientific literature on the topic of research, generalization, systematization, structuring of information, methods of psychodiagnostics, methods of mathematical statistics (correlation analysis).
Results and Discussion. The relationship between social intelligence, emotional flexibility and the ability to understand and manage the emotions of respondents is revealed. In addition, one of the research tasks was to establish the connection of social intelligence with the level of empathy development. It should be noted that the majority of respondents have average and low indicators of emotional intelligence, which indicates an insufficient formation of personal qualities that affect self-motivation to any activity. Moreover, this circumstance affects the ability to recognize the emotions of other people. According to some scales, for example, "Managing one's own emotions", low results were revealed, so the inability and incorrect expression of one's own emotions significantly complicates communication processes among students. High indicators of the "Moral normativity" scale indicate a competent self-assessment of social roles, a high orientation towards compliance with the norms of behavior at the university and in society as a whole. A correlation was found between empathy and emotional intelligence, adaptive potential and penetrating abilities in empathy, which can be used in the process of training of a specialist in the field of education.
Conclusion. Practical application of the obtained results is possible for the development of psychological and pedagogical conditions and technologies for the development of social intelligence of students in the field of educational activity.


THEY ARE clearly going to hunt. They search silently for prey, following each other in a line, stopping regularly to listen and peer up into the trees. Finally, they approach trees where they hear the crashing of monkeys as they jump from branch to branch the sound of potential prey. But they see only Diana monkeys, which they rarely prey upon. Falstaff moves on, followed by five other males. Half an hour later, they hear the characteristic cough of a red colobus. Macho and Schubert embrace each other and then all five carefully approach the tall tree in which these monkeys are foraging, oblivious to the presence of the hunters. Falstaff and his band stop to study their targets before selecting the trees they will climb. Schubert and Macho start climbing very quietly, taking care to avoid moving any branches. The others scatter out further west, anticipating the direction in which the colobus monkeys will flee once they catch sight of Macho and Schubert. Falstaff, the old hunter, moves some way in this direction, while the younger males sit and wait for things to happen.


This paper presents a review of research progress in fire performance of concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns. Experimental results of CFST columns in fire are reviewed with influence parameters, such as heights, cross-sectional dimension, section types, concrete types, concrete strengths, load ratio, load eccentricity, fire exposed sides and so on. Some conclusions of CFST columns under fire conditions are summarized. Deficiencies in the fire performance experiments of CFST columns are identified, which provide the focus for future research in the field.


An asynchronous parallel multisplitting accelerated overrelaxation (AOR) method is set up for the particularly structured system of nonlinear algebraic equations Aφ(x) + Bψ(x) = b, and the global convergence of the new method is proved.


As the perfect fusion of intelligent robotics and China's classic culture, Opera robots, two omni-directional wheeled robots were made in my research centre. They can smoothly fight with each other just as Opera actors. A novel trajectory tracking method based on robotic dynamics model and wavelet sampling theorem for Opera robot is proposed in this paper. The formula for calculating torque of each driving motor when the robot moves along spline curves is studied in detail. By experiment, the robot can be derived smoothly to track predetermined trajectory.


The electronic transport properties of a series of samples prepared by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition with a transition from a-Si:H to {micro}c-Si:H were measured applying the photoconductive frequency mixing technique. The authors found both improved stability against light-soaking and different values for the photomixing electron lifetime and mobility close to the onset of microcrystallinity as compared to the amorphous state. In particular, the mobility-lifetime product of charge carriers in some of the {micro}c-Si:H samples turns out to lie about two orders of magnitude higher than that of a-Si:H films. The mobility on the other hand, is shown rather to decrease in the transition to the {micro}c-region. Additional measurements of the range and the depth of long range potential fluctuations yield a possible explanation for the results in that grain boundaries may serve as scattering centers and barriers against recombination.


A recent, nonlinear viscoelastic theory for predicting the thermomechanical response of glassy polymers has been shown to predict behaviors from enthalpy relaxation to temperature-dependent mechanical yield in various modes of deformation quite well. The foundation of this theory rests on a "material clock" that depends on the potential energy of the system. The molecular basis for the clock and the Rational Mechanics framework for the constitutive equation are briefly reviewed. The theory is then used to predict and explain much more complicated behavior of glassy polymers: the change in compressive yield stress during physical aging at different temperatures, the peculiar enthalpic response of glassy polymers previously compressed to different strains, "volumetric implosion" on samples subjected to tensile strains, and the dependence of the shift factor on aging time and applied stress.


Soil chemical and microbiological characteristics variations in time were studied in the frame of a project aiming to elaborate a platform for oil pollution risk assessment, during an electro remediation process. On the background of very slight variations of the soil macro-elements contents different organic carbon and total nitrogen contents accumulation are registered at the electrodes, under the influence of potential difference and other factors as well. Nitrates contents register a great leap in the last stage of the experiment due to weather conditions but remain within the normal agricultural soils limits. Mobile phosphorus and potassium contents vary insignificantly within the limits of a good agricultural soils supply. The reaction remained slightly alkaline all along the experiment with a slight pH increasing tendency. All the samples have a chloride salinisation with slight and moderate intensities and sodium chloride is predominant in their composition. The bacteria numbers increased in some of the collecting pits and decreased in the others.


One of the well established risk factors for colorectal cancer is dietary profile. A well recognized negative association of dietary fiber with colorectal cancer warrants further understanding of the underlying mechanism. Bacterial fermentation of dietary fibre results in formation of short chain free fatty acids in the gut. There are two receptors for these fatty acids one of which has been implicated in colorectal cancer. Free fatty acid receptor 2 has been associated with development of colorectal adenoma in a mouse model. We analyzed the differential expression of FFAR2 gene in colorectal cancer patients. Further, we generated genetically engineered colorectal cancer cell line with reduced level of expression of these receptors. These engineered cells were found to have enhanced rate of cell proliferation. In order to understand the mechanism of increased proliferation, we explored the involevement of glucose uptake and cAMP pathways. While there was an increased level of glucose uptake in engineered cells, there was no evidence of involvement of Protein kinase A mediated cAMP pathway. Further studies are needed to fully establish the connection between dietary fibre, gut microbiota and colorectal cancer. Citation Format: Amal AlGhamdi, Saeed AlMahri, Maaged AlAkiel, Sameer Mohammad, Mohammad Aziz. Role of short chain free fatty acid receptors in colorectal cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 5299.


Elachista tanaella sp. n. is described from northernmost Norway. It differs from other Elachista species of the region by plain grey forewings, distally wide valvae with large hump in the male genitalia and in the female genitalia by a long tube-like colliculum gradually widening into the antrum. The habitat are bogs just above the timberline dominated by Carex rotundata.


— IEEE 802.3bw-2015 (PHY) specifies the physical layer of automotive ethernet which drives a single balanced twisted-pair medium (100BASE-T1). The PHY implementation requires analog/mixed signal circuits, pulling verification into the mixed signal domain. PHY verification cannot be completed with a common UVM test environment due to the analog circuits involved. Still a single verification environment is desired, this yields less time spent in test development and improved communication between engineers, resulting in faster time to market with better verification quality and less development cost. The problem of combining digital and analog circuits in a single UVM verification environment is addressed by introducing dedicated UVM mixed signal extensions. The application of the verification environment is demonstrated by verifying the PHY, which is part of an Automotive Ethernet system.


Variation in major gastrointestinal surgery rates in the older population suggests heterogeneity in surgical management. A higher prevalence of comorbidities, frailty and cognitive impairments in the older population may account for some variation. The aim of this study was to determine surgeon preference for major surgery versus conservative management in hypothetical patient scenarios based on key attributes.


The, operation was iridectomy in 5, and section' across' the' wound scar in l of the cases; in 2, the operation was optico ciliary neurotomy. With regard' to the iridec. tomy and section cases the signi6cant fact' is that the ey-es made a good recovery-that is to say, iridectomy in one instance was performed upon both eyes, and in three cases upon the infecting eye only, with the result that in all of these the symptoms were arrested and the disease cured. The samne also was'the case in the patient in whom the section operation was performed. There can only be one inference to be drawn from these facts-namely, that the operation in each instance.arrested the disease by opening up the infecting wound and thus allowing the infection to bs destroyed by more perfect antiseptic treatment. Thus tbe axiom may be evolved that in all-cases of' infective cyclitis in which reasons are present for preserving the infecting eye, the treatment' should consist in making a section through the wound scar, laying it open, and exposing it to the efficitent action of thorough antiseptic douching-a method which is merely illustrative of a general surgical principle. The point is one of exctreme interest. It seems to suggest the solution to' the effective arrest of an attack of infect'ive cyclitis-a disease which, owing to the introduction an'd practice of Listerism, has now become of so rare occurrence. The second question contained in the Committee's report, to which I shall now allude, is as follows: " When the exciting eye, retaining useful vision, is not excised, what is its final state?" rhe terms of this query might have been differently expressed. They presuppose that every case of infective cyclitis. is of the same intensity, which is far from being the fact. In these' cas-6s, just as in tetanus, the infection may be of a mild or very vifulent type. It is impossible to comprehend how useful vision could'be long retained in an eye in which a'v'irulent attack of infective cyclitis has supervened. Hence we find from the report-above mentioned that in the 36 cases in which the "exciting eye, not being disorganized 'by 'the' immiediati result of the injury, was allowed, for'one reason or another, to remain," complete recovery occurred in 9, partial in 17, and'in 10 'cases the eyes were lost. We may, therefore, assume that the result in each instance was merely dependent upon the intensity of the 'attack. In the mild attacks the eyes suffered but little, and made complete or partial recoveries; in the bad cases the globes were destroyed. I will now. refer to 3 cases out. of the large number which have been under my care, not because they all made good recoverie?, but because the injuries which they received were of so eevere a nature, that anyattempt to save the eyes appeared at first to be practically impossible. Of these cases, 2 were under treatment i'n the hospital, and the third was seen in private.


Based on optimal families of FH sequences derived from m sequence over GF(p), a construction of families of FH sequences with given minimum gap is presented. The Hamming auto correlation and cross correlation properties of the FH sequences are theoretically derived and simulated by computer simulation. The correlation properties of these FH sequences are quite good, but not good as that of the optimal FH sequences.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the concept of the "call center couple" (CCC) as a symbol of the new middle class (NMC) and how it will influence markets, work, and family in India.Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on the demographic shifts taking place in India's urban centres.Findings – The rise of the NMC will forever democratize the family and employment markets.Originality/value – The paper provides insights into the emerging middle class through the experiences of "CCCs".