− Because the operation and control of most critical infrastructures are highly dependent on electronics, it is important to understand the vulnerability of those electronics to intentional electromagnetic interference (EMI). The possibility of interference using readily available consumer devices is a particular concern. We investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of using compact stun guns to intentionally interfere with electronic systems. Test articles included individual computers and computers networked through a central hub. 60KV and 600KV devices were used in the experiments. Results indicate that stun guns are effective in disabling digital electronic systems.


Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques offer a non-destructive method of analysis which can readily be adapted to continuous analysis of flowing samples. Very few papers, however, have been published on the use of the technique for quantitative analysis and these have been confined to hydrogen analysis [1, 2, 3]. This paper describes some applications of the technique to the field of quantitative analysis, using a magnet with a degree of homogeneity sufficient to provide simple spectra.


A smartphone-compatible device provides remote electrocardiogram (ECG) tracings of sufficient quality to allow outpatient management of children and adolescents with arrhythmias, according to information presented at the Heart Rhythm Society meeting in San Francisco, California.


The development of immune structure of small intestine wall occurs consistently in three stages. The first stage is a laying (from 30 – 34 days to 3 – 4.5-months age of the fetus). The second is formation (in fetuses from 3 – 4.5 to 6 – 6.5 months) which has 2 stages: the first is differentiation of mesenchymal cells into lymphoci (in embryos from 3 to 4.5 months) and the second is a formation of single lymphoid nodules (in fetuses from 4.5 to 6 – 6.5 months). The third stage is a specialization (in fetuses from 6 – 6.5 months up to 15 days old in calves). The beginning of specialization is the formation of lymphatic nodules, forming within it blood centers and differentiation of plasmacytoids from plazmoblasts.


New developments in urban planning, urban landscape, real estate management and so on, call for new demands for 3D Object Model. The building models are the most important in 3D object model. With the development of 3D data acquisition, the visualization aspect often is detail considered, however, only a few investigation about the creating and storing of 3D object model is discussed. In this paper, firstly the method of creating building model is presented, this includes the data structure and model of 3D building model. Secondly, a data structure combining the data model of building model and R-tree index, which is used to store 3D building data, is presented. Finally, a system prototype is in development, joining aspects of visualization interface and a database for building model, and several results are illustrated.


This paper presents an approach to provide 24-hour nonstop financial services using high availability software architecture based on clustering technology. The classical cluster architectures (such as shared disk, shared memory, and shared I/O bus) cannot satisfy the application requirements. The approach makes use of RPC (remote procedure call) to implement the fail-over and data recovery. Different fail-over policies are applied to different kinds of failures (such as hardware failure, process failure and so on). A prototype system has been developed and tested.


This study aimed to evaluate Canchaquiro Sheets (Tournefortia scabrida Kunth) as a contributor of nitrogen through the same physical chemistry evaluation also incorporate the stubble on a test cultivation of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.).
The results indicate that fallen leaves of Canchaquiro (Tournefortia scabrida Kunth), provide nutrients to the soil, so it could be used as a fertilizer for crops, if you are looking to improve the initial soil characteristics.
The present study was based on the application of fallen leaves of Canchaquiro (Tournefortia scabrida Kunth) in three treatments tested, where it was observed that the organic matter in the soil increased 2.99% to 3.26% at T0 and T2 Nitrogen 0.15% increased to 0.16% respectively. While in bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) increased 74.82% to 77.47% for organic matter, and nitrogen increased 3.47% to 4.52% at T0 and T2 respectively, showing that the incorporation of Canchaquiro (Tournefortia scabrida Kunth) improves the nutritional characteristics of the crop.
Due to the lack of research on the Canchaquiro (Tournefortia scabrida Kunth) and its ability to fix nitrogen, this work made her way in the research and production of information on the possible qualities of Canchaquiro (Tournefortia scabrida Kunth) as a natural contributor to Nitrogen, where it was evident against a culture test Frejol (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to include it on the floor, contributes to nitrogen fixation and contribution of micro and macro nutrients to the soil.


We present a compilation of galaxies in the NGC 1023 Group, an accumulation of late-type galaxies at a distance of 10 Mpc. Members at high and intermediate luminosities were identified from their spectroscopic velocities. Members at low luminosities were identified from their morphologies on wide-field CCD images. The faint-end slope is in the range -1.27 < alpha < -1.12. There is evidence for two dwarf galaxy populations: one in the halo of NGC 1023 that is dominated by dwarf elliptical galaxies, and one in the infall region surrounding NGC 1023 that contains mainly dwarf irregular galaxies. Similar distinctive populations are observed in the Local Group.


The bit error rate performance of data transmission schemes is evaluated when operating over the Rayleigh fading urban radio mobile channel. Two typical situations are analysed : the fast fading with differential detection and the frequency-selective fading with coherent detection, for BPSK, QPSK and MSK modulations. Conditions for which the fast fading or the frequency-selective fading effects may be neglected are given in terms of the data rate. The influence of the shape of different spatial and frequency correlation functions on the bit error rates is also analysed.


Epoxidised silsesquioxane (EPSQ) polymer was prepared by hydrosilylation process involving epoxy-disiloxane (EDS) and vinyl silsesquioxane (VSQ). They were characterised and analysed using Fourier Transformed Infrared (FTIR) and H-and Si-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Pattern development was successfully performed affording well defined features of micron scale using suitable solvent developer. It was demonstrated that the feature definition was highly dependent on time of solvent dissolution and stirring rate. Optimization of several parameters such as resist thickness, pre-bake and post-bake time, ultra-violet (UV) intensity and exposure time are still required for the improved performance photo-resist material. However the results proved that the EPS can be potentially used as photoresist in photolithography application.


The invention discloses a controlled-salinity cultivation method for plating crop on moderate and medium and severe saline-alkali soil, comprising: before sowing, irrigating saline-alkali soil for pressing salt and making soil moisture with fresh water; applying base fertilizer based on the principal of organic fertilizer into the saline-alkali soil; meanwhile, applying compound fertilizer suitable for the saline-alkali soil as the assistant material; then, ploughing soil, and raking with a leveller to preserve soil moisture; furrowing and making a ridge; covering films and sowing on the high position of the ridge; carrying out close planting; and spraying growth regulator. The cultivation method has the advantages of strong adaptability and high crop output, can be used for improving the utilization ratio of the fertilizer, quickeing the soil fertility cultivation process and bringomg high agricultural use benefits.


A female infant born at 36 weeks to a 25-year-old G2P2 mother by normal spontaneous vaginal delivery after an uncomplicated pregnancy, presents with respiratory distress and shock at 1 month of age. She has had 2 days of increased work of breathing with tachypnea and tracheal tugging; 2 weeks of cough, rhinorrhea, and nasal congestion; and currently an episode of cyanosis lasting 2 minutes. Weight gain has been appropriate since birth. On physical examination, rectal temperature is 34°C, heart rate is 126 beats per minute, blood pressure is 58/31 mm Hg, and oxygen saturation is 40% in room air. The patient has prolonged capillary refill indicative of poor peripheral perfusion, coarse breath sounds with rhonchi bilaterally, and hepatosplenomegaly. A chest radiograph shows diffuse coarse bilateral interstitial opacities with lucency over the right middle lobe (Fig 1).

Figure 1.
Chest radiograph demonstrating bilateral diffuse coarse interstitial markings with subsegmental left lower lobe opacity, right mid-lobe lucency, and small right-sided pleural effusion.

Initial laboratory studies include an arterial blood gas with pH of 7.03, a Pco2 of 70 mm Hg, calculated bicarbonate of 18 mEq/L, and a base excess of –13; the patient's serum lactate level was 6.7 mmol/L. The white blood cell count is 25.6 × 103/μL (25.6 × 109/L) with 41% neutrophils and 38% band forms. The C-reactive protein level is 107 mg/L. The serum total bilirubin is 1.3 mg/dL, alanine aminotransferase is 22 U/L, and aspartate aminotransferase is 88 U/L. Her prothrombin time (PT) is 31.9 seconds (international normalized ratio: 3.1), and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) is 51.9 seconds. The cerebrospinal fluid cell count (CSF) cell count, differential, protein, and glucose are normal. Samples of blood, urine, CSF, and endotracheal tube aspirate were sent for viral and bacterial culture and polymerase chain reaction assays. Quantitative …


Rhizotrons can enable root growth to be quantified without destructive sampling. Root growth can be analysed in real-time to explore the interactions between roots and soil-borne pathogens. Rhizotrons were constructed from plexiglass sheets separated by thin strips of plexiglass to allow a 4 mm wide growing space. By using Hoagland's nutrient solution solidified with 5% agar, growth of cucurbit roots was examined for periods of up to 7 days, the period over which seedlings are most at risk from infection by pathogens such as Pythium aphanidermatum. Cucurbita maxima × C. moschata hybrids have been shown to tolerate infection by P. aphanidermatum and could therefore be potentially useful rootstocks for grafted cucumber plants. At 25°C in the dark and in the absence of P. aphanidermatum, primary roots of the hybrid variety Hercules grew at 0.78 mm hr -1 , not significantly different from the rate of 0.80 mm hr -1 in the presence of P. aphanidermatum inoculum in the growing medium. The overall rate of secondary root growth was time 2.5 mm hr -1 in the absence of the pathogen, significantly greater than the rate (time 1.8 mm hr -1 ) when P. aphanidermatum was in contact with the root system. The rate of production of secondary roots decreased from 0.46 roots per hour to 0.30 new roots per hour in the absence and presence of the pathogen respectively. The use of rhizotrons could be of significant assistance in future screening of cucurbit germplasm for potential value as rootstocks in disease management programs.


complement to Ruins of Desert Cathay and Serindia. The pictures, here so admirably reproduced, range in height from 7 feet, and therefore size precludes some of them from being adequately presented in book form. Accordingly the book of text is accompanied with a portfolio of thirty-three plates, each measuring 25 by 20J inches, twelve of which are in colour ; and there are also fifteen smaller plates, most of them coloured.


The fatty acids composition and the related health lipid indices (IA, atherogenic and IT thrombogenic) of Blue Fin Tuna's (Thunnus thynnus L.) raw roe and their cured product bottarga, both considered a delicacy, were studied. The fatty acid (FA) composition of tuna's roe and bottarga showed a relevant proportion (40.87% and 36.62% respectively) of poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) with a prevalence of the n – 3 series, that showed values almost ten folds higher than those of n – 6 fatty acids, in both classes of analyzed samples. The IA and IT indices resulted comparable in tuna's roe and in the bottarga samples respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first detailed report on the fatty acids composition and the related lipid health indices in tuna's raw roe and in their cured product "bottarga".


Aim: This observational clinical case series examined patients with keratoconus (KC) fit with keratoconic bi-aspheric (KBA) lenses to assess visual acuity (VA), wavefront aberrations, physiological fitting, subjective comfort, and manufacturer's fitting guidelines. Materials and methods: Seven adult patients (11 eyes, four females, mean age: 34.15 ± 14.12) with nipple cones from the Hadassah Academic College contact lens clinic (Jerusalem, Israel) were fit with KBA lenses by modifying the initial base curve (BC) to obtain an acceptable physiological fit. The uncorrected and corrected distance (D) and near (N) Snellen VA and the ocular wavefront measurements, and responses to a self-administered five-point scale questionnaire were compared after 2 weeks of wear using paired two-tailed t-test or MannWhitney U test, as appropriate. Results: Visual acuity and total root mean square (RMS) improved signif icantly with the lenses (DVAuncorrected = 0.04 ± 0.02, DVAcorrected = 0.66 ± 0.22, NVAuncorrected = 0.34 ± 0.30, NVAcorrected = 0.95 ± 0.12). Subjects reported an average of 7.0 ± 2.7 hours of wear daily, with good scores in visual stability, satisfaction with VA and quality of vision, improvement of mood and quality of life, and low scores in foreign body sensation, pain, red eye, and itching during wear, and difficulty with lens removal. An average of two BC modifications from the diagnostic lens were necessary (0.16 mm steeper in nine eyes, 0.27 mm flatter in two eyes). Conclusion: Keratoconic bi-aspheric lenses can provide 7 hours of comfortable wear, significantly improved VA and total RMS aberrations, alongside subjective satisfaction. Base curve modifications can be reduced by fitting a diagnostic lens 0.75 mm steeper than the flattest keratometry reading.


Solid solutions of 0.8Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3-(0.2-x)Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPb(Al1/2Nb1/2)O3 (PZT-PZN-PAN, PZT-PZN-xPAN) with x from 0 to 0.1 were fabricated and the dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric properties were investigated in detail. Results show the crystal structure changes from coexists of tetragonal and rhombohedral to single rhombohedral phase. At a critical composition of 0.02, a maximum quasi-static piezoelectric coefficient d33 (410 pC/N) was obtained. Furthermore, it is found that the increment of PAN content could lead to increase the strain of PZT-PZN-xPAN ceramics, and a large strain response of ~0.24% with normalized strain Smax/Emax as high as 767 pm/V was obtained for the PZT-PZN-0.1PAN under a low electric field of ~3 kV/mm, which makes it a promising material for solid-state actuator applications.


Objective To study the effect of early theory of human nature care in limb function recovery of patients with severe craniocerebral injury.Methods The clinical data of 200 cases of severe craniocerebral injury in our hospital from 2009 March to 2011 March were compared.Results The Barthel index score of the treatment group was (14.2 ± 4.8) higher than that of conventional group,and the Fugl-Meyer score (18 ± 2.5) higher.There was statistically significant difference between the two groups,P < 0.05.Conclusions Early humanistic nursing theory can strengthen symptom relief and recovery of limb function for postoperative patients.

Key words:
Humanistic nursing; Nursing intervention; Severe craniocerebral injury; Intervention treatment


This thesis argues that Bush Administration has a clear strategic vision of its diplomatic undertakings in Southeast Asia.This strategic vision is a threefold one:promoting American values;building and strengthening bilateral relationships;participating in and influencing the progress of regional mechanisms.With the respective analysis of these three aspects,the paper asserts that U.S.will keep practicing the established strategy but it will face certain resistance.


Hot Carrier Injection is one of the serious reliability issues of the NMOS transistors in the nanoscale regime. The effect of channel strain on hot carrier reliability of 45 nm strained Si/relaxed Si1−xGex CMOS and its impact in inverter and SRAM cell is presented in this paper. The introduction of the strain in the MOSFET boosts the impact ionization and hot carrier injection in the NMOS transistors. The existing hot carrier (HC) model of n-channel MOSFET is modified by incorporating mole fraction dependent impact ionization rate of strained Si MOSFET and the results are validated using TCAD simulations. The degradation of the inverter and SRAM cell due to HCI is analyzed using Cadence circuit simulator including the estimated threshold voltage variations in affected NMOS transistors. The 6T-SRAM cell and the inverter is designed using the strained CMOS technology. The effect of HC degradation in strained n-channel MOSFET on the static, read and write noise margins of the SRAM cell is analyzed. The noise margins which are improved by stronger pull down network designed with strained n-channel MOSFETs found to be degraded after the hot carrier stress. It is also observed that in strained CMOS inverter, the propagation delay is degraded due to HC injection in the higher rate than in the unstrained CMOS inverter.


The paper describes the use of an avalanche diode to provide the combined functions of optical detection and harmonic electrical mixing. A simple analytic theory of avalanche optoelectronic mixer operation is presented and used to evaluate the conversion loss and noise performance of the mixer. The theoretical predictions are compared with experimental measurements of harmonic optoelectronic mixing up to the fifth harmonic. Measured conversion losses relative to direct optical detection ranged from 3 dB for fundamental mixing to IS dB for fifth-harmonic mixing. Frequency response limitations are briefly discussed.


The paper describes the floristic diversity and specifies its use value in terms of feeding preferences of konik polski horses and their consumption of permanent grassland in a section of the Wieprz river valley in Roztocze National Park. The flora assessment was conducted by analyzing 79 phytosociological relevés using the Braun-Blanquet method. The results of phytosociological surveys made it possible to distinguish 7 complexes in the Phragmitetea class, 5 complexes and 1 plant community in the Molinio-Arrhenatheretea class, and 1 complex in the Nardo-Callunetea class. Natural values of the examined associations were described based on the total and average number of species in a phytosociological relevé, the Shannon-Wiener index, and the phytosociological structure of plant communities. The use value of dry weight of the analyzed meadows and pastures was estimated by means of the use value number (UVN) and taking into account the and yield size. The phytocoenoses identified in the meadows in the section of the Wieprz river valley under study exhibited high natural values (H' = = 3.20–4.62). The dry weight yields of the examined communities varied (from 1.32 to 5.37 t ha ), but their sward usually had poor and very poor use value (UVN = from –0.55 to 5.8). Furthermore, it should be noted that the sward of wet meadows is readily consumed by the grazing animals, which contributes to the improvement of the natural and use value of meadows.


Tests were made of a ductile concrete joint designed to minimize steel congestion common to seismic-resistant building joints. An experimental comparison was conducted on two full-sized, beam-column joints. One was a conventional joint using hoops in accordance with the seismic-resistant design specifications of ACI 318-71; the other was a modified joint using steel fibrous concrete in the joint region in lieu of the hoops. The joints were subjected to loading representing the effect of two major earthquakes. The modified steel fibrous concrete joint developed a higher ultimate moment capacity and was somewhat stiffer than the conventional joint. The modified joint appeared to be more damage tolerant and resisted cracking better than the conventional joint. Fabrication of the modified joint was simpler and concrete placement was made easier because of reduction of steel congestion. It is estimated that use of the modified joint in building construction would result in savings of about $100 per joint.


ABSTRACT Molybdenum (Mo) is an essential element for higher plants. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of different Mo levels on the photosynthetic characteristics, yield and seed quality of two oilseed rape cultivars (ZS11 and L0917) using a pot experiment at four Mo levels [0 (control), 0.15, 0.3 and 1.0 mg kg−1]. Results showed that the dry matter significantly increased with Mo concentration increasing at the stem elongation stage. The net photosynthesis rate (Pn), stomatal conductance (Gs) and transpiration rate (Tr) were the highest at the 0.15 mg kg−1 level but reduced at 0.3 and 1.0 mg kg−1 levels. The yield and harvest index were highest at 0.15 and 0.3 mg kg−1 for ZS11 and L0917, respectively. Gray correlation model analysis showed that the synthetic characteristics of seed quality (expressed as gray relation degree) followed the sequence of Mo1.0 > Mo 0 > Mo 0.3 > Mo 0.15 mg kg−1 for L0917 and Mo 1.0 > Mo 0.15 > Mo 0 > Mo 0.3 mg kg−1 for ZS11. Our results demonstrate that the yield of oilseed rape reached a maximum at 0.15 and 0.30 mg kg−1 for ZS11 and L0917, respectively, while the integrated seed quality is optimal at 1.0 mg kg−1 for both cultivars in Mo-deficient soil.


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This document is a working report concerning the Task 5.1 of the project VolHand 09 VTT 14. This task is competence of the GipsaLab. This report presents several aspects of modelling, observation and control towards a new generation of Electrical Power Steering(EPS) systems. In particular authors design an observer to estimate the driver's applied torque (steering wheel torque) and the load torque (tire/ground contact friction). Simulation of the proposed control and observer are shown at the end of the document.


To understand why and how subjectivity and disagreement in label collection matters or doesn't matter I examine the history of systems evaluations and measurement performed by humans and trace the roots of human computation/crowdsourcing and the context in which it arose. Before we can begin fruitful discussions about subjectivity and disagreement we need to ask ourselves what/who it is that human raters are supposed to represent. I offer multiple different perspectives and scenarios that showcase just how varied and ill-defined the role of a human rater can be. I will conclude with some practical recommendations with respect to the questions researchers and practitioners ought to ask themselves before employing human raters, and some challenges with both methodology of such data collection and subsequent analysis of such data.


ABSTRACT Nowadays, extrusion-based additive manufacturing techniques have been utilised from domestic to industrial end-product fabrications. However, parts fabricated through these techniques are facing poorer part strength issues due to its high nature of anisotropic fabrication strategies. Moreover, it may be improved if it can be predicted in the initial stage of fabrication through part strength modelling technique. In this direction, many researchers have attempted to model part strength estimation models that could be utilised for prediction purposes and hence controlled and improved the part strength. However, due to the anisotropic nature of 3D printed parts, models developed in the existing literature are showing more prediction errors, which can affect the final part strength. To overcome this issue, a new part strength modelling technique based on ANN technique has been defined in this study, which reduces the prediction error significantly. For the validation of the developed model, a comparative study has been performed by considering previously developed models and corresponding data available in the existing literature. Results obtained from the proposed ANN model show that prediction errors reduced significantly and it can be one of the possible alternatives to predict part strength of anisotropic behaviour of 3D printed parts.


: This article examines the ideas about business developed by Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis from Laborem Exercens to Fratelli tutti , the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church and the document "The vocation of the business leader" of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Likewise, it collects the analyzes of existing authors. Finally, through this tour, we try to show the possible new avenues of research on social doctrine in business matters that have not yet been fully explored, as well as to propose some practical applications to researchers and businessmen.


Wire harness tube is provided with an aluminum tube, a heat shrinkable tube covering the outer surface of the aluminum tube, and an adhesive layer provided between the heat shrinkable tube and the aluminum tube.


Summary Kfar Tikva, for persons with special needs, has evolved from an institution-like setting into a kibbutz-like community and now is working to achieve full-citizenship status for residents and non-residents alike. Common principles of services for people with disabilities such as deinstitutionalization, normalization, inclusion, least restrictive environment, and mainstreaming worked well in the past, but they have become obstacles to complete decision-making authority and self-determination. Kfar-Tikva is committed to (a) help residents make choices regarding their personal and social life, (b) provide "tools" for effective choice and decision-making including social, educational, and vocational tools, and (c) become an economically and legally independent community based on kibbutz principles or those of any freely-chosen community.


In this review, we present important concepts to describe inorganic–organic interfaces in hybrid solar cells. We discuss the formation of hybrid interfaces, provide an introduction to the ground-state electronic structure of the individual components, and detail the overall electronic landscape after combining into a hybrid material for different relevant cases. We then explore the impact of hybrid interfaces on photophysical processes that are crucial for the photovoltaic performance of hybrid solar cells. Within this framework, we discuss methods for hybrid interface modification toward the optimization of hybrid solar cells, such as doping, the application of interlayers, and morphological control.


PURPOSE: To easily form a metal colloid pattern which has excellent heat resistance at a satisfactory adhesive strength. CONSTITUTION: In the method of forming a metal colloid pattern 5 on a substrate 1, the surface of the substrate 1 is coated with a photosensitive resin composition comprising polysilane soluble in an organic solvent, and the organic solvent to form a photosensitive layer 2; the photosensitive layer 2 is selectively exposed to form a latent image part 2a of a pattern; the photosensitive layer 2 is brought into contact with a metal colloid-containing liquid; and the metal colloid is adsorbed on the exposed part 2a to form the pattern 5 of the metal colloid.


The laboratory water-temperature-radiation cycle test was designed and carried out to simulate the damage of asphalt mixture caused by the environmental factors of rain,high temperatures and sunshine.The ultrasonic changes were determined while passing through the asphalt mixture specimen under different temperatures and water contents in different process of water-temperature-radiation cycles.Then,the damage of specimen was assessed preliminarily based on the ultrasonic changes.The splitting strength and freezing-splitting strength attenuation were defined as the damage parameters.Besides that,the regression prediction model of the ultrasonic velocity and damage coefficient of asphalt mixture was constructed by using the Support Vector Machine(SVM)to predict the asphalt mixture damage in different conditions.This ultrasonic evaluation and prediction method can assess the damage of asphalt mixture specimen without destroying the specimen itself.The results show that the preliminary judgment of the asphalt mixture damage degree under the water-temperature-ultraviolet cycle can be determined by the changing of the ultrasonic waveform and spectral characteristics.The ultrasonic damage assessment based on support vector machine theory indicates that the maximum and minimum value of the correlation coefficient are 0.97 and 0.90 respectively,and the average prediction error is 4.53%,which reflected thehigh accuracy and stability of this method.


A dual-band circularly polarized (CP) patch antenna with wide 3-dB axial ratio beamwidth (ARBW) is presented for BeiDou Navigation System (BDS). Simple stacked circular patches are used as the main radiations for achieving dual-band operation. To enhance the ARBW for the two operation bands, an annular metal strip loaded ground plane (AMSL-GP) is presented. Besides, edge resistors are inserted to the GP for further ARBW enhancement at the lower band. In realization, a compact singleinput feed network based on a coupled-line trans-directional (CL-TRD) coupler is designed to provide two orthogonal modes at the two frequency bands simultaneously. Experimental results show that the bandwidth for 10-dB return loss is from 1.15 GHz to 1.65 GHz, which covers BDS B1 (1.561 GHz) and B2 (1.207 GHz). The 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidths for the lower and upper bands are 9.6% and 7.1%, respectively. At 1.207 GHz, the antenna has 3-dB ARBWs of 185◦ and 187◦ in the xoz and yoz planes, respectively. And the values are 192◦ and 194◦ at 1.561 GHz.


The core problem of College English teaching is the adoption of teaching approach.From the micro viewpoint,the choice of the teaching approach is governed by the degree of difficulty of learning materials and the language proficiency levels of language learners.Teachers should design a new language teaching approach based on different levels of learners and different difficulty degrees of contents.


Abstract : The mesoscale surface structure of an explosively deepening storm that developed during Intensive Observation Period (IOP) 5 (18-20 January 1989) of the Experiment on Rapidly Deepening Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA) was examined to determine the influence of surface forcing on explosive cyclogenesis. Aircraft, buoy and ship observations were converted to a 20 km gridded data set in order to generate objective analyses of the surface pressure and temperature fields comparable to the best hand analyses. The Brown-Liu boundary layer model was then used to calculate surface sensible heat fluxes from the gridded data sets. These analyses showed that the most significant feature that distinguished the IOP-5 storm from a typical nonexplosive storm was the region of sustained positive heat fluxes that occurred east of the low center. This feature, combined with substantial warm advection and conditions of moist symmetric neutrality in the baroclinic zone of the warm front, supports destabilization of the boundary layer and enhanced low-level baroclinicity. Thus, the positive heat fluxes fuel the convective transport of heat and moisture to the upper atmosphere and enhance the sensible and condensation heating that contribute to explosive cyclogenesis.


Two stochastic neural models implementing a mix of clustering and factor analysis techniques are presented: the axial k-means and a more sophisticated local component analysis. Both converge to a local (resp. global) optimum of their objective function. Simulations and comparisons with classical algorithms are presented. The dynamicity of the model, i.e. instantaneous adaptation to any new data vector, is a desirable feature if many applications,


To assist health care professionals, the California Department of Health Services has published a medical information sheet that summarizes the clinical features of HPS and that is designed to assist in evaluating cases of possible HPS.'8 A question-and-answer sheet is also available that is designed to address common questions that the general public might have concerning HPS and ways to prevent infections."9 Recommendations for reducing the risk of hantavirus exposure have been published by the California Department of Health Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.'," Copies of these documents are available by contacting the state or local health departments in California.


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Students, faculty, and staff from other colleges and universities in the Duluth-Superior area may join the Reciprocal User Program to use library collections and resources.


Each application should have at least one investigator from the Faculty of Medicine and one or more investigator (s) from any of the other 5 Faculties at AUB. One should serve as the Lead Principal investigator (Lead-PI). A Co-Investigator is someone making a significant contribution to a project. All PIs and Co-investigators should review the proposal and indicate their agreement to serve by signing on the online submission system. The application will not be processed if all signatures have not been collected. It is the responsibility of the LEAD PI to ensure the timely collection of all electronic signatures.


Firms increasingly adopt online and multi-channel marketing strategies to reach and persuade consumers. Therefore, designing an effective marketing mix is critical to their success. The aim of my dissertation is to understand the strategy behind firms' channel choices and assess marketing effectiveness. It consists of three large-scale empirical studies examining several important aspects of online and multi-channel marketing. My first essay focuses on the business-to-business (B2B) interactions involving online platforms, which serve as new channels for traditional merchants to reach consumers and grow business. Using data from the daily deal market, we specify a structural model that examines consumer choices on the demand side and firm strategies on the supply side. In particular, we incorporate merchant heterogeneity and allow prices to be jointly determined by merchants and platforms through negotiation; both of these match the real-world complexity but are challenging


Internet not only takes chances to corporations,but also takes challenges to corporations. In this paper,we study value chains. Based on data warehouse,we develop a distributed intelligent information system (A System Based on Agent for Analyzing the Value Chain of Corporation)for corporations. The system may support managers to make decisions.


Objective To establish a method for determination of the borneol content of Lingyang Qingfei Granules.Methods Gas chromatography in Appendix Ⅵ E of Chinese Pharmacopeia(2010 edition, 1 volume) determination was used as follow: chromatographic column: HP20M(30 m×0.32 mm×1.0 μm)(PEG20M); column temperature: 140℃;gasification temperature: 280℃; detector temperature: 300℃; carrier gas: Nitrogen(chromatographic purity); flow rate:35.5 mL/min, the split ratio: 40:1; sample size: 1 μL. Results Borneol of Lingyang Qingfei Granules in the sample weight in the range of 1.85-11.13 mg showed a good linear relationship, the average rate of recovery was 97.71%-101.24%, RSD was 1.35%(n = 6), in accordance with the relevant provisions, other methods of study were in conformity with the relevant provisions. Conclusion This method of GC is rapid, simple, and convenient to operate, its precision, repeatability and stability are all good, it can be used for the content determination of borneol of Lingyang Qingfei Granules.


Preface Banking & Financial Infrastructure Continuity: Pandemic Flu, Terrorism & Other Challenges The Global Financial Crisis: Increasing IMF Resources & the Role of Congress The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis & Policy Implications China & the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States The Global Financial Crisis: Foreign & Trade Policy Effects Index.


Jaro Křivohlavý describes forgiveness as conscious effort to "decrease the value of negative thoughts, emotions, motivation, and behaviour towards a person who is seen (comprehended) as an aggressor, and decrease the negative evaluation of what is understood as an offence, an injustice, possibly even a crime, while trying not to forget what had happened".2 Forgiveness cannot be understood in a simplified manner as a state of psychological well-being in relation to the aggressor. It is rather conscious effort to change one's internal attitude, directed towards psychological well-being. That is why forgiveness is metaphorically described as emerging from a prison.3


AMONG THE 4 0 odd drawings by Sebastiano del Piombo that survive there exists just one universally accepted and identifiable individual male portrait drawing. This is the small sketch of the head and shoulders of Antonio Salamanca, in the British Museum, measuring 22 .5 by 16.4 centimetres. This drawing remains an anomaly in Sebastiano's oeuvre. Of other portrait drawings by Sebastiano there survives only the group of the Pope and the Emperor Charles V and, possibly, the study of an unidentified woman in the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Neither of these provides an exact comparison to the Antonio Salamanca. Besides those two, like the majority of Sebastiano's surviving drawings, appear to have been designs intended to be worked up into paintings while the Antonio Salamanca remains, insofar as is known, a stand-alone sketch. The drawing is executed in Sebastiano's habitual black chalk on white paper. It was dated in the catalogue of the 2008 exhibition to around 1519 , owing both to its similarities to the portrait of Christopher Columbus, dated that same year, and to Salamanca's age at that date; he was born in 1478 . Despite its rarity and compared to the amount of attention that has been paid to Sebastiano's actual portrait commissions, little interest has been taken either in the drawing, or the sitter. The drawing first appeared in the Sebastiano literature in Luitpold Düssler's monograph of 1942 , in which he denied the attribution, writing: 'möglicherweise ist er Kopie nach einem Porträt des Meisters'. The authorship of Sebastiano himself was only re-affirmed conclusively in the British Museum Catalogue of 1962 , although between that date, and the 2008 exhibition at least, the drawing has been ignored; even in his monograph Michael Hirst only afforded it a passing mention. Despite this neglect, however, the first recorded owner of this drawing was that eminent French eighteenth-century collector of drawings, Pierre-Jean Mariette, whose collection was dispersed at his death in 1774 . The Salamanca sketch's distinguished provenance continued, via Sir Thomas Lawrence and Samuel Woodburn, until it reached the British Museum in 1860 . Although there are no indications on the drawing itself to identify the sitter the mount added by Mariette still carries the following line: Antonii Salamancae Antiquitatum cultoris effigie Sebastianus Pontific. Signator dictus Frater Plumbi delin. While this label has often been taken as prima facie evidence for the identity of the sitter, the inscription by itself does not necessarily provide definite proof of who he was. More concrete evidence does exist elsewhere, however, that serves to confirm


Etiology ofembolic stroke is very heterogeneous. It could be related to large vessel disease, small vessel disease, thromboembolism of cardiac origin. Clarification of etiology of stroke is important prerequisite for adequate selection of its secondary prevention measures. Standard work-up allows identification of its etiology in 60-90% of cases. 1n the rest 10-40% of cases stroke is considered cryptogenic. The majority of cryptogenic strokes are embolic. In keeping with this, a concept of embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) was suggested. 1n the paper authors review most sigificant causes of ESUS. Occult atrial fibrillation is one of the common cause of ESUS. 1t could be detected only by means of long term ECG monitoring. Standard 24-hour ECG monitoring after stroke detects around 5% of cases ofpreviously unknown paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, while long-term monitoring of ECG allows detection ofparoxysmal atrial fibrillation in 15% of cases. Patent foramen ovale could lead to stroke in patients with deep vein thrombosis in the legs and pelvis due to paradoxical embolism. Atherosclerosis of aortic arch is observed in the half ofpeople older than 45 years. Large, ulcerated, non-calcified or floating atheromas could cause a stroke. Malignant tumors could lead to cerebral embolism through non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis. Tumor embolism into cerebral arteries could also be seen in rare cases. The rate of cerebral embolism is high in mixomas. Approaches to diagnosis and secondary prevention of ESUS are discussed in the paper.


Lee responds to a letter from Maury, who was abroad and not planning to return to the United States. Lee discusses the present state of affairs of the country and calls for Virginia's sons, including Maury, to assist in its recovery.


Based on Talbot effect and Moiré fringes of Ronchi gratings which is defined as Moiré Deflection Technology (MDT), lenses' power is calculated. Moiré Deflection Technology can be used for non-contact measurement of phase objects and surfaces and MDT is more widely used in the lenses' power measurement. The power of measured lenses can be figured out accurately according to the relationship between moiré fringes tilting angle and the tested lens's power. Area array CCD recorded moiré fringe image generated by two gratings mechanical interference to measure lenses' power. After appropriate digital image processing such as gray scale equality, image enhancement, image thinning etc, the moiré fringes image is processed by thinning to single pixel width. The pixels of the moiré fringes are labeled to fitting lines to calculate the slope coefficients. However, the moiré fringe image appears to have an unequal light distribution. Based on this phenomenon, a binary processing method, which is based on background gray-scale extension, was proposed. At first, a statistical method is used to calculate gray values from a sampling image with block-based processing. Then the linear interpolation is employed to generate new gray values instead of image pixels to obtain a background image and the moiré fringe image should be corrected by the obtained background image. At last, binarized the image by 2D OTSU threshold algorithm. The experimental results show that the method is simple and effective to segment the moiré pattern from the original moiré fringe image. This method can be used to improve precision of lenses measurement.


The measurement of electromagnetic field at two sites in Hanwang and Chouziba for monitoring aftershock series has been done in continuous observation after the M_s8.0 Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008.The measurement was done in two periods.Recorded data covered 35 aftershocks with magnitude more than M_s4.0.Comparing with the seismic data recorded at Hanwang station for 15 events, the coseismic signal of aftershocks exists on all components of the magnetic and electric fields at two different sites.The EM coseismic signals arrived simultaneously with the seismic waves, but not at the origin time of the earthquake.The signal produced at the origin time of the earthquake is much smaller than coseismic signal of the waves. It can t be identified from the time series.In addition, the generation of coseismic electromagnetic signals can be explained by earthquake dynamo mechanism.Analysing and comparing the relationship between the seismic displacement and EM coseismic signals, the mechanism of EM coseismic signal generation appear to be driven by seismic waves.That is, the EM observation system set up in geomagnetic field moved with the ground motion so that the EM coseismic signals were produced.The observations of seismic displacement and electromagnetic signals verified it.


As an important renewable energy form, wind power obtains rapid development recently. More advanced accurate and reliable techniques for wind speed forecasting are required. It can reduce the disadvantageous impact to the power system. According to the outstanding feature of EMD algorithm, this paper presents a new technique for wind speed forecasting based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and ARMA. EMD is a new method for analyzing nonlinear and non-stationary signal. It is an adaptive wavelet decomposition strategy. We make full use of the characteristic of the EMD and the ARMA in the EMD-ARMA model. Actual wind speed data are used to test the approach. It concludes that the EMD-ARMA model is an effective method in wind speed forecasting.


Energy consumption in Building sector is one of the major contributors to Australia's stationary energy greenhouse gas emissions. The greening of buildings is essentially one of the ecological measures. Green roofs have been around for centuries as used on domestic houses in Northern and Western Europe. There has been significant development of extensive green roofs in Western Europe and North America in last two decades mainly through retrofitting to existing buildings. In comparison with other developed countries, Australia has been slow in adapting green roofs. The main reason is lack of relevant and reliable research to provide confidence in the economic and environmental benefits of green roofs. Beside that green roof's design and performance varies with each region, orientation, structure and microclimate. Because of this uncertainty and lack of tested exemplars, designers and developers hesitate to use them. The objective of this paper is to analyze the performance of an extensive green roof by modelling using DesignBuilder Energyplus; state of the art Building simulation software, on an institutional building in Rockhampton, Queensland (Australia) for cost saving in cooling energy. The result showed that an energy saving of up to 6% can be achieved for a four storied building in subtropical Queensland (Australia). Key-Words: Rooftop greenery system, Extensive green roof, Subtropical climate.


Projecting climate impacts of a half‐degree warming increment is of high priority on post Paris Agreement science agendas. As the real world has already witnessed a 0.5°C global mean surface temperature warming increment, the observed climate changes associated with the half‐degree warming may be analogues for future projections. This hypothesis is examined by comparing the heat extreme changes in China derived from the observational records to projections of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) low‐warming experiment, which is the first short‐term stabilized simulation dedicated for the 1.5 and 2°C warming targets. The results of the CESM historical simulations are also evaluated. From the perspective of spatially aggregated, the heat extreme changes in China under the historical 0.5°C warming are detectable in observations. The nighttime extremes manifest more significant increase than daytime extremes. Heat extreme changes under the past half‐degree warming increment are reasonably captured in the historical simulations with slightly weaker magnitudes. The changes in the intensity indices in observations are better reproduced by the historical simulations than the frequency and duration indices. For the heat extreme changes in the future 0.5°C warming, the observational records can serve as conservative analogues in daytime extremes, while the nighttime extreme indices show comparable or weaker changes. The future reduction of anthropogenic aerosol emissions will amplify the increase of heat extremes in comparison to present day especially during daytime in China. Given the possibly intensified extremes associated with future aerosol reductions, more attention should be paid to the currently heavy polluted regions.


As a kind of large-scale standardized test, the College English Test Band Four and Six (CET 4/6) can evaluate the English level of the students through its detailed test content. How to calculate and estimate the relationship between the pass rate of CET 4/6 and the English level of the students has been long concerned by the teaching staff and related teaching administrative personnel. This paper will analyze the grades of CET 4/6 over time and explain the scores, and then utilize the fuzzy theory to do the multiple objective fuzzy assessment and combine the experts' experience, so as to build evaluation mathematical model of pass rate of CET 4/6 and the English level of the students. Through the forecast of the CET 4/6 grades and the analysis of the English skills of the students, this paper can validate the accuracy of the model and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the CET 4/6.


The equity in higher education for the disabled in China is very important in the equity in education.This study,through an analysis of such problems as the imperfect system of educational management for higher education for the disabled,the shortage of investment in education,the imperfect policies involving both entrance examinations and financial assistance,the singleness of specialties and curriculum,the insufficient barrier-free environmental facilities, and the disabled persons' great difficulty in employment and further studies after their graduation,suggests adjusting the educational policy for the disabled, perfecting the system of educational management,increasing the investment in education,quickening the step of establishing specialties and curriculum and building barrier-free environmental facilities,and carrying out the preferential policy for the employment of disabled persons,for the purpose of promoting the equity in higher education for the disabled in China.


The disappointing results of the policies of the Washington Consensus led Latin America to look for other options, which could be divided broadly into three different models for development and for coming to terms with the globalized world: to the north, the continuity of neoliberal policies within the framework of trade alliances with the United States; in the Southern Cone, orthodox macroeconomic policies combined with re-industrialization strategies, in an attempt to build a «globalization with a human face»; and in some Andean countries, experiments of a more radical nature. This article argues that, in all cases, basically what is at stake is the future of capital and its relation with the State and with Labor; and it is this that will determine the way in which the region comes to terms with the rest of the world.


We study individuals' behavior in an environment that is deterministic, but too complex to permit tractable deterministic representation. Under mild conditions, behavior is represented by a unique probabilistic model in which the agent's inability to think through all contingencies of the problem translates into uncertainty about random states. We interpret this probabilistic model as embodying all patterns the agent perceives in his environment, yet allowing for the possibility that there may be important details he had missed. The implied behavior is rational in the traditional sense, yet consistent with an agent who believes his environment is too complex to warrant precise planing, foregoes finely detailed contingent rules in favor of vaguer plans, and expresses a preference for flexibility.


Identification of potential hazards is the basis of modern occupational safety management and hazards can threaten whenever and wherever including the agricultural sector. To develop the economic strength of the agricultural sector, it is necessary to increase productivity. One way that can be done is to increase employee productivity through the Employee Safety and Health program. The purpose of this study was to determine the potential physical hazards in the PPKS PTPN VII Bekri Business Unit. This type of research is interviews and observations that aim to find an overview of the assessment of physical potential hazards in the palm oil processing PT. Perkebunan Nusantara VII Bekri business unit. The physical potential hazards found in the Palm Oil Processing Plant (PPKS) are the potential hazards of noise generated by machines> 85dB, hot working climate inside the factory, vibrations from the processing process, and improper lighting in the factory. Physical potential hazards contained in the PPKS unit are auditory and non-auditory disturbances on the dangers posed by noise, headaches and dehydration as well as attacks that can arise due to heat, discomfort due to inappropriate lighting resulting in potential work accidents and the appearance of musculoskeletal disorders due to a potential vibration hazard


The objective of this investigation was to prepare and evaluate oral fast dissolving films (FDFs) of nicotine hydrogen tartrate (NHT) for smoking cessation therapy. The films were prepared using 2%, 3%, or 4% hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC E3 LV or HPMC E5 LV) by solvent casting method. The in-vitro dissolution, in-vitro disintegration, tensile strength, folding endurance, and morphology of the films were evaluated. All formulations exhibited essentially similar release patterns, i.e., rapid release during the initial few minutes, followed by a relatively slow release, finally approaching a plateau level in about 10 min. The presence of type and concentration of plasticizer had negligible effect on release of NHT from the films. The in-vitro disintegration time of all formulations was greater at high polymer concentration and when higher grade of polymer was used. A linear relationship between concentration of polymer used and disintegration time of film was observed for formulations prepared using HPMC E3 (R 2 = 0.9908) as well as HPMC E5 (R 2 = 0.9955). The tensile strength was always higher for films prepared using HPMC E5 LV compared to those prepared using HPMC E3 LV. Nicotine-containing FDFs prepared in this investigation were found to be a promising approach for nicotine replacement therapy to provide relief for nicotine craving in smoking cessation therapy.


PURPOSE: To exactly notify fault maintenance information to notification destinations such as a service center by constituting the fault maintenance information necessary for the fault recovery to be transmitted by a FAX communication without being interposed by a user when a fault occurs in a maintenance object device. CONSTITUTION: A FAX data generation means 13 converts the fault maintenance information specified by a fault maintenance information specifying means 12 into the data format of a FAX communication. A telegraph data generation means 14 is extended to the FAX data generation means 13, for instance, and the telegraph information of a notification destination to be the attach object of the fault maintenance information specified by the fault maintenance information specifying means 12 is prepared by the data format of the FAX communication. A FAX data transmission means 15 transmits the fault maintenance information prepared by the FAX data generation means 13 to a FAX 30 indicated by the FAX number specified by the fault maintenance information specifying means 12. At this time, the FAX data transmission means 15 transmits the information with the telegraph information prepared by the telegraph data generation means 14. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


Lambda-Carrageenan, a food additive, injected into the yolk sac of fertile chicken eggs had teratogenic and lethal effects on chick embryo development. Anomalies were mainly localized in the cephalic end (exencephaly, abnormal beak, anophtalmy, etc.). All abnormal chicks of the group injected with carrageenan showed two or more anomalies. Growth of newborn chicks in the carrageenan-injected group was significantly diminished until the 4th day of age.


The subject innovation is manually combine relates to a remote controlled vacuum cleaner includes a main body 100 and the motor 43 to generate a suction force is mounted in the chamber 61 inside, is installed in the dust collecting chamber 62, the motor (43 ) suction the dust collecting pack 45 and the main body 100 are respectively installed on left and right portions being driven to the left / right wheel motor drive unit 132 and 134 as a parameter of the main body 100 so that the dust collector to be sucked by the the left and right wheels 42 and 44 and the main body of the auxiliary wheel (49) installed at the lower central portion of the system 100 to be rotated along with the left and right wheels (42,44) and said body (100 so as to move ) is arranged at the lower front portion of the suction duct (the secondary inlet the medium 43), the front part of the collecting chamber (a remote control vacuum cleaner comprising a suction port (51) to be coupled and 62), the main body 100 52 is disposed, a secondary inlet 52 can open and close the opening such that a sliding 200 been installed, the user will have to be carried out by direct cleaning manually operated depending on the janitor or using the remote control is performed to clean remotely, improving the user's convenience and practicality of the cleaner.


Oneofthemostimportant issues that bediscussed inmulti-agent systems, isthecommunication between agents. Inexisting applications usually acommunication protocol defined between agents. Butdefining aprotocol between agents cause someproblems; forexample itispossible that agents recognize asubject, butbecause itisnotdefined intheir protocol, theycan't express anything about that. Inthis paper wepropose anewmethod forevolution ofacommunication protocol between intelligent agents, after that theexperimental results will bediscussed andatthe endofthepaper future worksandconclusion.


The paper is to present the results from eight surveys about the phytoplankton and water quality conducted near the Haiyang and Rizhao after the bloom of Enteromorpha prolifra from July to September 2008.The results include the identification of 62 phytoplankton species,belonging to 4 phyla,31 genera.72.58 % of the identified phytoplankton species belong to Bacillariophyceae (20 genera,45 species),whereas 22.58 % to Dinophyta (8 genera,14 species), with 3.23% being Xanthophyta (2 genera,2 species),and 1.61 % Chrysophyta ( 1 genera,1 species).The average density of phytoplankton was 3.52×10~6 ind ? m~(-3),and the greatest percentage,thai is,92.02% is diatom (3.24× 10~6 ind·m~(-3)),with dinoflagellate and other species of phytoplankton accounting for 6.70 % (2.36 × 105 ind-m"3) and 1.28% (4.5×10~4 ind·m~(-3)),respectively.In addition,the average community abundance,diversity index and homogeneity were 1.266 (0.96-1.89),3.012 (2.06-4.17) and 0.638 (0.43 _0.79),respectively.It was also found that the density of phytoplankton gradually decreased from the inshore area to the offshore area.The phytoplankton community successions of Haiyang and Rizhao were similar.The first dominant species were succeeded from Chaetoceros curvisetus,Ceratium tripos,Chaeloceros affinis, Skeletonema costatum to Thalassionema nitzschwides.The average eutrophication index were 0.115 (0.022-0.203) and 0.150 (0.059 -0.349) of Haiyang and Rizhao,respectively,and the seawater were poorly eutrophicated.The green tide of Enteromorpha prolifra had an impact on seawater quantity and phytoplankton community.When the nutrient was decreased,the dominant species changed from the diatom to the dinoflagellate.After Enteromorpha prolifra was dead and decomposed,the activated phosphate in the bottom seawater was higher than that in the surface seawater in Haiyang.


The utility model relates to a micropore drilling system based on open and stop technique, including base, stand, the drilling mechanism on the support is located to the support, locates the air cushion mechanism on the base, three-dimensional pressure sensor, singlechip, drilling mechanism lies in and supports epaxial rocking arm including lieing in the back shaft on the support, lies in and supports epaxial connecting plate, lies in the electric main shaft on the connecting plate, the electricity main shaft passes the support, air cushion mechanism lies in under the electric main shaft, the layer board of air cushion board up end is fixed in including lieing in the air cushion board on the base in air cushion mechanism, the layer board up end is equipped with the recess, pressure sensor is fixed in in the recess, the terminal surface is equipped with the gas flow groove under the layer board, layer board one side be equipped with with the communicating suction nozzle in gas flow groove, gather on the air cushion board have with the communicating air vent in gas flow groove. The utility model discloses can improve machining efficiency, reduce workman intensity of labour and technical requirement, eliminate the cutting and tremble, guarantee the surface quality in hole, real-time supervision, control bore depth and drill bit position


Background: Haematological parameters in neonates are significantly deranged in the presence of an acute gastro intestinal surgical condition. This study analysed pattern of admission haematological abnormalities and their relation to postoperative outcomes in acute surgical newborns.
Methods: Conveniently obtained record files of neonates (≤ 30 days of age) who undergone surgery for acute surgical conditions between January 2014 and January 2015 at El Shatby hospital, Alexandria-Egypt were studied. Information collated included patients demographic characteristics and haematological investigations results of blood samples drawn at time of admission.
Results: A total of 156 neonates with available admission blood investigations results were studied. Low haemoglobin level was present in 3.2% (5) of cases all being peritonitis neonates, P=0.01. About 39.1% (61) of newborns had raised renal function tests results, P=0.01 and most of them had also abnormal serum electrolytes, P=0.03 and C-reactive protein, P=0.00. Most of cases with abnormal liver function tests results had hyperbilirubinaemia, P=0.04, and hypoglycaemia, P=0.03. Many of newborns with abnormal bleeding indices had raised renal function tests results, P=0.03. Hyperbilirubinaemia was found in 43.2% (54/125) of cases, P=0.00 and most of them had also hypoglycaemia, P=0.00. Anaemia was significantly associated with development of postoperative complications=0.01.
Conclusion: Haematological parameters in neonates are significantly disturbed by acute gastrointestinal surgical conditions. Serum electrolytes, C-reactive protein and bleeding indices are useful indicators of renal function.

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A kinetic model for the glow discharge plasma deposition process in the axial-flow reactor is proposed. In particular, the realtionships between the deposition characteristics (i.e., generation rate, generation frequency, deposition rate, and gas efficiency) and the process parameters (gas flow rate and gas pressure) are examined by numerical modeling technique. Some results has been explained.


The reliance of even the crudest form of commerce on the use of intermediaries has been recognised by English law since earliest times 1 and the resultant complex implications for principal, agent and third party have been developed and refined by the courts ever since. Despite this substantial body of law the crucial question of whether an agency relationship has actually been brought into existence remains perhaps the most difficult of all to answer. The courts have mainly had to face the issue in a series of cases in which agency has been either pleaded or denied by one party for a specific advantage, rather than for the purpose of establishing a general relationship. Leaving aside claims of agency by estoppel by third parties, agency disputes have arisen in the courts between inter alia sellers and buyers, manufacturers and distributors, auctioneers and purchasers, motor vehicle dealers and finance companies, carriers and stevedores and even shop stewards and trade members. Not surprisingly the courts have been wary of finding or rejecting agency, as the case may be, to provide an unbargained for advantage for one or other of the parties and have thus been reluctant to infer agency from the mere existence of some other contractual relationship between the parties.? Moreover there is increasing evidence of a positive judicial attitude to the question, witnessd by the numerous cases in which agency has been denied even where one party is described as the agent of the other, and findings of agency to do what the courts have regarded as justice on the facts of a given case" or general situation" even where the agency relationship is expressly denied." All this has led Professor Fridman to conclude that: 7


The irreversible adsorption of spherical particles on surface features of various shapes (collectors) was studied using the Random Sequential Adsorption (RSA) model. Collectors in the form of circles and rectangles were considered, including the limiting cases of squares. Numerical simulation of the Monte Carlo type enabled the particle configurations to be determined, together with their density distribution (coverage) and the saturation coverage for various collectors to particle size ratio L̅ = L/2a and collector width to particle size ratio b̅ = b/2a. An unexpected feature found in these calculations was that the local coverage distribution of adsorbed particles was highly non-uniform, exhibiting a maximum at the centre and at the periphery of these collectors. The main finding of these calculations was the averaged number of particles  adsorbed at the saturation state on collectors as a function of the L̅ and b̅ parameters. It was revealed that  was highest for the square collector (for a fixed value of L̅). For L̅ > 5, our numerical results could be well approximated by the analytical expression  = Θ∞ L̅2 for circles,  = 4Θ∞ L̅2π for squares and  = Θ∞ b̅L̅2/π for rectangles. It was demonstrated that the theoretical results are in an agreement with experimental data obtained for latex particles adsorbed onto patterned surfaces obtained by a polymer-on-polymer stamping technique for gold-covered silicon and on photolithographically-patterned silane layers on silica.


This paper is concerned with the dialectical and rhetorical consequences of the use of dissociation in ethical argumentation on abortion. Disputants make strategic use of dissociation to advance their standpoints, to establish the starting points of the discussion and to argue in favor or against abortion as well. From the pragmadialectical perspective (van Rees 2002, 2003, 2005a, 2005b, 2006), dissociation is defined as an argumentative technique by which a unitary concept is divided into two different concepts of which one is intended as positive while the other one as negative. The analysis of a religious text on abortion shows that by means of dissociation abortion can be conceived of as "an unspeakable crime" or "the deliberate killing of an innocent human being" as opposed to "interruption of pregnancy", the term preferred by pro-choice supporters. I claim that the protagonist uses dissociation as a rhetorical strategy aimed at persuading both the interlocutor and the audience.


This paper analyzes the performance of a multi-hop wireless communication system, consisting of a source node, N intermediate nodes or relays, and a destination node in a Rayleigh fading environment with decode-and-forward relaying at each intermediate node. The data is therefore transmitted from source to destination through N+1 hops. Two types of modulation, namely, M-ary phase-shift keying (MPSK) and orthogonal M-ary frequency-shift keying (OMFSK), are considered for the transmitted data. In case of MPSK, each relay performs coherent detection, while in case of OMFSK, each relay performs non-coherent detection. Using a difference equation approach, analytical expressions for the end-to-end symbol error probability are derived in both cases. We find that (1) although the performance degrades with increasing number of hops for fixed average signal-to-noise ratio per hop, the incremental degradation in performance with the addition of each extra hop decreases, (2) when each node transmits with fixed power, multi-hop transmission offers significant performance improvement over direct transmission.


Increasing wildfire and declining snowpacks in mountain regions threaten water availability. We combine satellite‐based fire detections with snow seasonality classifications to examine fire activity in California's seasonal and ephemeral snow zones. We find a nearly tenfold increase in fire activity during 2020–2021 versus 2001–2019. Accumulation season broadband snow albedo declined 25%–71% at two burned sites (2021 and 2022) according to in‐situ data relative to un‐burned conditions, with greater declines associated with increased burn severity. By enhancing snowpack susceptibility to melt, both decreased snow albedo and canopy drove midwinter melt during a multi‐week dry spell in 2022. Despite similar meteorological conditions in December–February 2013 and 2022–linked to persistent high pressure weather regimes–minimal melt occurred in 2013. Post‐fire snowpack differences are confirmed with satellite measurements. With growing geographical overlap between wildfire and snow, our findings suggest California's snowpack is increasingly vulnerable to the compounding effects of dry spells and wildfire.


Excitation- emission- matrix( EEMs) data have been compressed with a frequency grade threshold based on a Daubechies( db) wavelet packet transform. First,the tree of the wavelet packet was formulated; secondly,the best-tree was determined by the principle of minima; finally,the frequency grade threshold was used to compress the wavelet packet coefficient. Experimental data were used to test the compression ability of this method.The compression results indicated that wavelet packet compression could retain more information than wavelet compression. The frequency grade threshold method based on wavelet packets was adopted to compress EEMs. The frequency grade threshold method afforded higher reconstruction percentages and compression percentages than other threshold compression methods: the maximum reconstruction percentage reached 90%,and the compression percentage was larger than 98%,with errors between spectra of lower than 1%. With the use of parallel factor analysis( PARAFAC) of the original EEMs data and the compressed data,it was possible to obtain the characteristics of the excitation and emission spectra of each component. The results of PARAFAC show that wavelet packet transform can compress and recover the information in EEMs data effectively.


As the improvement of smart grids, the customer participation has reinvigorated interest in demand-side features such as load control for domestic users. A genetic based reinforcement learning (RL) load controller is proposed. The genetic is used to adjust the parameters of the controller. The RL algorithm, which is independent of the mathematic model, shows the particular superiority in load control. By means of learning procedures, the proposed controller can learn to take the best actions to regulate the energy usage for equipments with the features of high comfortable for energy usage and low electric charge meanwhile. Simulation results show that the proposed load controller can promote the performance energy usage in smart grids.


A novel autofocusing technique is developed for image from stripmap-mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. The approach is based on maximizing the image sharpness function that induces the solution to maximum-posterior estimation. In this letter, closed-form expressions are derived for the gradients of the sharpness function with respect to the coefficients of the polynomial expansion, which makes the use of conjugate gradient algorithm available. Additionally, we also design a modified adaptive-order searching strategy, and it helps to remarkably reduce the computational load while maintaining the accuracy. Real airborne SAR data experiments and comparisons demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


Bispecific T cell engagers (BiTEs) are a growing class of cancer therapy that redirects effector T cells against target-expressing tumors. Mouse models to assess efficacy and cytokine release associated with T cell engagement are needed. JAX humanized NOD scid gamma (Hu-NSG™) mice are engrafted with cord blood-derived CD34+ HSC and have shown robust T cell reconstitution. In this report we evaluated two novel BiTEs, EGFR-CD3 and BCMA-CD3, in Hu-NSG™ mice implanted with MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells and NCI-H929 multiple myeloma, respectively. Following the initial dosing, we measured human cytokines and analyzed T cell activation by flow cytometry. Clinical observations and body weight change were also monitored. Treatment with EGFR-CD3 for 2 weeks resulted in complete tumor regression when the dosing was initiated around 100 mm3. 50% of the treated-tumors remained nonpalpable for 10 weeks after dosing ceased. EGFR-CD3 also inhibited tumor growth in mice bearing tumors of ~400 mm3 average in volume. In both cases human IFN-γ, IL-6, and IL-10 levels were elevated from the first dose before returning to the baseline and the frequency of CD69+ cells in T cell subsets increased after the treatment. BCMA-CD3 treatment also induced T cell activation and elevated levels of human IFN-γ, TNF-a, IL-6, and IL-10. NCI-H929 tumor growth inhibition by BCMA-CD3 showed donor to donor variability. We observed that significant growth inhibition in one donor while the other donor did not respond. Together, our Hu-NSG™ platform enables preclinical evaluation of drug efficacy and cytokine release induced by BiTEs and has the potential to be applied to other immunotherapies.


Hypertension and type-2 diabetes are interrelated metabolic disorders that strongly predispose an individual to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and to renal failure. Hypertension is likely twice as common in subjects with diabetes compared to those without. Currently, there is considerable need for safe agents that can reduce risk for diabetes and hypertension without any adverse effects. However, several functional foods and natural herbal remedies have potential in this regard. Yogurt which is an established functional food, it is fermented milk that contains probiotic bacteria. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the use of natural food additives and incorporation of health-promoting substances into the diet. Medicinal plants play an important role in the treatment of diabetes and hypertension. The purpose of the present study was to assess the inhibitory potentials of Azadirachta indica-yogurt as anti-diabetic and as anti-hypertension. Several quantitative measurements were also carried out on the A. indica- yogurt to quantify the total phenolic content, estimation of antioxidant capacity and peptide content.


Prevalence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in HIV infection: a meta-analysis. Clin Infect Dis 2014;59:1302–1311. 3. Xu Y, Yang G, Liu H, et al. Epidemiologic features of AIDS in China, 2004-2013. Clin Infect Dis 2015;60:167–169. 4. Qu F, Cui E, Guo T, et al. Nasal colonization of and clonal transmission of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus among Chinese military volunteers. J Clin Microbiol 2010;48: 64–69. 5. Xiao YH, Wang J, Li Y, MOH National Antimicrobial Resistance Investigation Net. Bacterial resistance surveillance in China: a report from Mohnarin 2004-2005. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2008;27:697–708. 6. Du J, Chen C, Ding B, et al. Molecular characterization and antimicrobial susceptibility of nasal Staphylococcus aureus isolates from a Chinese medical college campus. PLOS ONE 2011;6: e27328. 7. Li Q, Zhuang T, Lin Y, Xi J, Yao G. Risk factors affecting nasal colonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus when admitted in intensive care unit. Chin Med J (Engl) 2014;127: 1804–1807. 8. Ma XX, Sun DD, Wang S, et al. Nasal carriage of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus among preclinical medical students: epidemiologic and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant S. aureus clones. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2011;70:22–30. 9. Gorwitz RJ, Kruszon-Moran D, McAllister SK, et al. Changes in the prevalence of nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in the United States, 2001–2004. J Infect Dis 2008;197: 1226–1234. 10. den Heijer CD, van Bijnen EM, Paget WJ, et al. Prevalence and resistance of commensal Staphylococcus aureus, including meticillin-resistant S aureus, in nine European countries: a crosssectional study. Lancet Infect Dis 2013;13:409–4415.


As an emerging complex social network, the Social Internet of Vehicles (SIoV) potentially exposes user location privacy. In this letter, we propose a location privacy protection method based on double ${k}$ -anonymity that hides user locations and request information. The cloud server is introduced as a trusted third party to isolate the direct communication between users and the service provider, while correlation between identities and requests is also reduced by means of a permutation and combination method. Extensive simulations are conducted to demonstrate that the method can protect user location privacy to the greatest extent possible while still ensuring service availability.


This chapter provides an overview of the relationship between civil society and the family. Despite the family's central role in social, cultural (and biological) reproduction, it is largely absent from the majority of contemporary literature on civil society. This is surprising given the continued importance of family life in the routines and responsibilities of individuals around the world. Ideas (or ideals) about family life colour one's decisions about where to work, where to live and how to spend one's time and money. This book explores the extent to which family relationships and connections can help in understanding civic and political engagement. Exploring the relationship between civil society and the family is important not only to fill a gap in the literature, but also because the family will become an increasingly important agent of social change.


Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely used for solving large scale unconstrained optimization problems. Many studies have been devoted to develop and improve these methods. In this paper, we compare our new CG coefficient


Strengthening and expanding the extensive united front is an important magic weapon of the CPC to gain victory after victory in revolution,construction and reform.In the thirty years after reform and opening up,the CPC has obtained valuable experinces to blazing new trails in developing the united front,which are that enhancing the CPC's public credit is the important precondition to make united front popular,and for united front,strenthening polical integretion is the basic guarantee to collect sthength,coordinating intrests is the basic means to promote social harmonious,developing democracy is the effective way to maintain social stability,and serving the governing missions is the ultimate aim.


In this paper, our focus is on improving the energy consumption of sensor nodes in large networks. A sensor's durability and reliability depend on its battery's capacity and on the energy consuming tasks it performs in order to fulfill its functions. To achieve this goal, we propose a new "biomorphic" paradigm that imports solutions to existing engineering problems from the biological world. We show that this paradigm offers better solutions through the introduction of an additional type of sensor node and allowing the network to self-organize and "learn". This allows the network to perform better in a dynamical environment in accordance to its acquired knowledge. Simulation results show an improvement in energy utilization, and therefore, an increase in the life of the sensors and their networks.


Practical work to develop a system capable of shape-adaptive cutting is carried out. The system consists of a shape-recognizing unit, a data-processing unit and a lathe-driving unit. The system is established based upon an inherent ability of the NC lathe, although several methods have been developed in other investigations to control the tool post using exclusive mechanisms for achieving a non circular profile on a rotating workpiece. To draw out the full ability of the NC lathe, a new approach, called the direct control method, has been taken. In this method, servo mechanisms of the NC lathe are incorporated as inherent elements of the system, and controlled directly by pulse signals generated by a personal computer. In this paper, the construction of the shape-adaptive cutting system and the workings of each part are shown. Moreover, parameters that govern the dynamic characteristic of the tool post are determined on the basis of the result of the computer simulation. Subsequently, the system is tested. The result of tests demonstrates that the shape-adaptive cutting system is applicable to manufacturing.


Spherical and quasi-spherical nickel oxalate compound precipitated particles were prepared by feeding oxalate acid in the form of solid particles into the nickel ion solution,and a lot of waste water will be reduced due to this special feeding way instead of the traditional oxalate acid solution.It has been experimentally verified that feeding one batch at a time,ultrasonic effect,shortening aging time,lowering the aging temperature,taking nickel nitrate as the source of nickel ion,and adding of surfactant would be beneficial to the attenuation and dispersing of the precipitated particles,and especially the pH of solution shows greater effect on the morphology of particles.Feeding of solid oxalate acid into the nickel ion solution from the initial pH of 11 to lower levels,a dissolution-recrystallization phenomenon of precipitated particle occurs and the shape of particles will transfer from quasi-spherical to needle-like or rod-like.The precipitated particles obtained under alkaline conditions were mainly composed of complex nickel oxalate contained ammonia,while in acidic solution it was nickel oxalate,which both could decompose into nickel oxide particles at the temperature of 400℃.


We give a comprehensive analysis of the Euler-Jacobi problem of motion in the field of two fixed centers with arbitrary relative strength and for positive values of the energy. These systems represent nontrivial examples of integrable dynamics and are analysed from the point of view of the energy-momentum mapping from the phase space to the space of the integration constants. In this setting, we describe the structure of the scattering trajectories in phase space and derive an explicit description of the bifurcation diagram, i.e., the set of critical value of the energy-momentum map.


Abstract A 6 year field study comparing the effects of 5 fertilizer sources applied at 4 levels to 3 rabbiteye blueberry (Vaccinium ashei Reade) cultivars was established on a Typic paleudult soil in southern Misssssippi. Fertilizer sources had little influence on plant height, vigor, chlorosis, or fruit yield. The first year, 'Tifblue' was lowest in vigor and fruit yield, but after 4 growing seasons, had the highest plant height and fruit yields. Chlorosis symptoms were more prevalent at the highest fertilization rate, in the cultivar 'Woodard', and with Ca(NO3)2 fertilizer. During the first 5 years, fruit yields increased as fertilization levels increased from 0 to 5.9 g N/plant but additional fertilization did not influence yields There were no differences in plant vigor due to cultivars but the highest rate of fertilization decreased vigor. The cultivar X fertilization rate interaction was significant for plant height in 1983 and for fruit yields in 1984 and 1985. 'Delite' and 'Woodard' plant height i...


Quantitative RT-PCR was employed to analyze the expression of five important microRNAs(miRNAs),namely vv-miR160a,vv-miR171a,vv-miR159,vv-miR164c and vv-miR167c,and their target genes in winter buds growing on grapevine cv.Fujiminori's shoots with treatments of cut-back at various times.Results showed that the various treatments have different effects on the expression of miRNAs and their target genes,of which vv-miR160a,vv-miR171a and vv-miR159 showed distinct increases in expression in the winter buds differentiating to flower buds,and they showed the highest express level in inflorescences,while vv-miR164c and vv-miR167c exhibited obviously decreased expression and were lowly expressed in inflorescences.All the five miRNAs showed no distinct variation in the winter buds of control plants,indicating these miRNAs are involved in the second flower development of winter buds.The inverse expression trends between miRNAs and their target genes suggest that these miRNAs negatively regulate their target gene expression.


Slippery when wet: Water molecules at the interface between a protein (e.g. bovine pancreatic phospholipase A2) and a micellar substrate act as a lubricant and facilitate movement and binding of the protein at the surface (see picture). Studies of the hydration dynamics before and after complexation reveal that these interactions are crucial for enzymatic function.


The objective of the study is to know about the management of chemist laboratory of SMA N2 South Bengkulu. The method of the study is descriptive qualitative. The objects are chemist teacher and the user of laboratory SMA N2 South Bengkulu. The techniques of the data are interview, observation and documentation study.  The conclusion shows that: 1. the planning of the equipments of chemistry laboratory during this time do by arranges the draft what they need every year, 2. The amounts of the equipments is limited 3. The using of chemistry laboratory runs well. 4. The inventories of chemistry laboratory are procedurally. 5. The protection of chemistry laboratory is low because they do not have laborer. 6. The cleaning out of the equipments of the laboratory is not procedurally because the user has no knowledge about it.


With the expansion of the role of IT, organizations tend to maintain a support request system/ Issue Tracking System (ITS) to handle issues. ITSs are designed to streamline the process of customer support and keep a track of all the reported issues. Incident Management (IM) makes efforts to re-establish standard business operations reducing the impact and maintaining the quality and availability [1]. An incident also refers to a ticket. The manual categorization of raised issues infers an improper assignment of incident tickets, cause delays in the entire procedure of dispatch. The focus of this research is to automate the incident categorization (IC) and transfer to the appropriate support group forecasting the resolution for frequent issues based on the past.


The elbow joint is a complex joint, which, when impaired in function, leads to severe disability. In some cases however, an arthroplasty might be an appropriate treatment. In the past four decades, large steps have been taken to optimize this treatment in order to achieve better post-operative outcomes. To understand these progresses and to discover aspects for upcoming improvements, we present a review on the past developments, the present state of affairs and future developments which may improve patient care further.


The Tsyganenko long magnetospheric model (1987) has been used in conjunction with ultra-violet images taken by the Viking spacecraft to investigate the relationship of the auroral distribution to different magnetospheric regions. The model describes the large-scale structure of the magnetosphere reasonably well for dipole tilt angles near zero, but it appears to break down at higher tilt angles. Even so, a wide variety of auroral configurations can be accurately described by the model. It appears that the open-closed field line boundary is a poor indicator of auroral arc systems with the possible exception of high-latitude polar arcs. The auroral distribution typically called the oval maps to a region in the equatorial plane quite close to the Earth and can be approximately located by mapping the model current density maximum from the equatorial plane into the ionosphere. Although the model may break down along the flanks of the magnetotail, the large-scale auroral distribution generally reflects variations in the near-Earth region and can be modeled quite effectively.


Abstract The rapid development of intelligent technology puts forward higher requirements for portable and flexible energy storage devices. In this paper, nitrogen and oxygen co-doped graphene quantum dots were used as electrode material of flexible planar micro-supercapacitors (PMSCs) and the electrode/gap width was 6 μm/2 μm. Electrochemical performance of the flexible devices was investigated at different bending angles with scan rates of 0.01 V/s to 10000 V/s. When bending 75°, the area capacitance and the energy density were 2.61 μF cm−2 and 0.36 nWh cm−2 at the scan rate of 0.01 V/s, and the power density was 173.66 μW cm−2 at the scan rate of 10000 V/s. When bending 0°, the area capacitance and energy density were the same as that when bending 75°, and the power density was 198.36 μw cm−2. The output current of the two flexible devices was 200 μA when bending 75° and 250 μA when bending 0°. The capacitance retention was 87.5% when bending 75° and 90.4% when bending 0° at the scan rate of 500 V/s after 10000 cycles. The results indicated that the bending has little effect on the electrochemical performance of the flexible PMSCs.


A graphene oxide/polyaniline composite was synthesized by an in situ polymerization process. This product was simply prepared in an ethylene glycol medium, using ammonium persulfate as oxidant in ice bath. The composite was characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and electrochemical test. The composite material showed a good electrochemical performance.


This paper develops an energy-aware hierarchical cell configuration framework that encompasses both deployment and operation in downlink cellular networks. Specifically, we first formulate a general problem pertaining to total energy consumption minimization while satisfying the requirement of area spectral efficiency (ASE), and then decompose it into deployment problem at peak time and operation problem at off-peak time. For the deployment problem, we start from an observation about various topologies including the real deployment of BSs that there is a strong correlation between the area covered by an additional micro BS and the increment of ASE. Under such an assumption, we prove the submodularity of ASE function with respect to micro BS deployment and propose a greedy algorithm that is shown to be a constant-factor approximation of optimal deployment. Although the greedy algorithm can be also applied as an offline centralized solution for the operation problem, we further propose online distributed algorithms with low complexity and signaling overhead to have more practical solutions. Extensive simulations based on the acquired real BS topologies and traffic profiles show that the proposed algorithms can significantly reduce the energy consumption.


The spatial distribution characteristics of the heavy metal contents and the heavy metal fractionation in farm land soils around the Lantian smelter,Xi'an city,Shaanxi province were studied by analyzing,investigating and sampling in the field,and the heavy metal pollution level was evaluated with the pollution index method.The results showed that the highest contents of Pb,Zn,Cu and Cd in the topsoil with a distance of 100 meters from the smelter were up to 1 341.693,188.877,251.015 and 21.810 mg/kg,and were 3.833,0.630,2.510 and 36.349 times that of the national soil environment quality standard(level 2),respectively.The contents of four heavy metals in topsoil arisen,then declined,and finally tended to steady with the distance between sampling spot and smelter. Heavy metal contents decreased with soil depth in soil profile,and it decreased significantly in the layers of 0~30 cm,while changed smoothly below 30 cm soil layers.The combined pollution index of all the sampling spots in topsoil were beyond 3,which indicated that the study area has been polluted severely.In topsoil,Pb was dominantly associated with reducible fraction,Cu was primarily associated with the residual fraction with the average value of 74.619 mg/kg,and the dominant fractions of Zn were reducible fraction and residual fraction,while 72.508% of Cd was associated with reducible and residual fraction.


The objectives of the study were estimate the additional yield that may be achieved by reducing the yield gap in actual rice area, evaluate if irrigated rice production meet future demand for rice without increase area and determine sowing date that allows maximum yield potential. The yield gap (Yg) was determined by the difference between yield potential (Yp) and actual yield (Ya). The Ya was obtained from surveys applied to the rice producers. The Ya was 51% of Yp, and the Yg was 49%. In a scenario of high demand, if the yields follow the historical rate of gain, the production should not be sufficient to meet projected demand without 6% expansion of the currently cultivated area, whereas for a scenario of low demand it should be sufficient. Moreover, for the low and high demand scenarios, if the national average yield reaches 80% of the rice Yp, a reduction until 29% in the current irrigated rice area can occur. Sowing between September and mid-November is a way of making it possible to obtain yields close to 80% of Yp without increasing production costs. This study can be used as an aid in the search for world food security.


The article reveals the ongoing research, the object of which is intergenerational relations in children and adults territorial communities. Based on historical and pedagogical analysis of research of the problem and understanding of global challenges to the modern education, the authors provide scientific substantiation of the development process of intergenerational relations in children and adults communities. A conceptual model of knowledge about children and adults educational territorial communities is worked out; the most important historical stages in the development of children and adults territorial communities are highlighted; major theoretical, historical and pedagogical background of the theories regarding children and adults communities are identified; a comparative analysis of the diversity of models for children and adults territorial communities in Russia and abroad is implemented; the basic models of modern children and adults territorial communities are identified and theoretically proved, taking into account the different interpretations of the term of "territory". The results significantly extend the research methodology for the problems of children and adults communities represented in the Russian and foreign studies. The results of the study are partially implemented and will continue to be implemented into the practice of formation and development of children and adults communities as educational institutions, and in certain regions, depending on the characteristics of the community models. The results can be used during lectures and seminars on the overall social and comparative pedagogy, social psychology at the universities, as well as in the training of school principals, coordinating councils of the territories, and organizers of curricular and extra-curricular work with children and adolescents.


Abnormal EEGs were found in 12 out of 48 patients (25%) suffering from Meniere's disease. No significant differences were noted between the preoperative EEG records and those performed 10 days after ultrasonic irradiation of the labyrinth. No significant correlation was noted between the EEG findings and the findings concerning caloric directional preponderance. Before treatment 28 patients out of 48 showed a directional preponderance, in 17 directed from and in 11 towards the diseased labyrinth. After ultrasonic irradiation 33 patients showed a preponderance, in 27 directed from and in 6 directed towards the diseased labyrinth.