Recent escalation in the internationalisation activity of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has necessitated a reassessment of traditional internationalisation theories. The dual trends of globalisation and advancing technologies have altered the competitive landscape of international business, increasing opportunities for SMEs to enter international markets once dominated by multinationals. Despite a profusion of literature concerning the processes of firm internationalisation, a framework for SME internationalisation is lacking. Existing rationales have been criticised for their failure to adequately account for the idiosyncratic nature smaller firms' internationalisation processes, particularly those engaged in high technology industries. It is proposed in this study that institutional legitimacy theory may offer a valuable and timely complement to these existing rationales in the context of high-technology SME internationalisation. This thesis explores the question 'does institutional legitimacy have a role in the internationalisation process of small-to-medium sized high-technology firms, and if so, what are these roles?' To examine this research question, a theoretical framework for the effect of institutional legitimacy in high-technology SME internationalisation is proposed, and tested through the analysis of four multi-level cases. Four successful Australian high-technology SMEs form the empirical basis for this study. Propositions are developed from this framework to investigate the roles of four key sources of legitimacy, as derived from the institutional legitimacy literature. Within the confines of this research, there is supporting evidence that institutional legitimacy plays an important role in the internationalisation performance of Australian high-technology SMEs.


The objective of the current review is to review and identify the research gap on the effect of different growth media on rooting percentage, roots and shoot growth performance of grape cutting. Factors affecting rooting of grape cuttings can be internal or external factors. Internal factors affecting rooting of cuttings include the amount of stored food in cuttings, the age and maturity of tissue, the formation of callus and adventitious roots and the presence of leaves and buds on cuttings. The external factors include rooting media, chemical and hormone treatments, light, temperature, mechanical treatment and mist spray. Rooting media is one of the most important factors for rooted cutting production especially in grape. It is one of the factors affecting rooting and growth of grape cuttings. Types of media have significantly influenced the rooting and vegetative growth of cuttings. Different planting media have significantly influenced the vegetative growth of cuttings; due to the level of organic matter content, water holding difference. The suitability of the rooting medium depends on the species, type of cuttings, growing conditions, season of the year and the cost effectiveness of the medium components. A media which is light, rich, porous, well drained and free from pathogens is considered ideal for growing of grape. A good potting medium must be easy to supply, process and a cheap source. Choosing the most suitable growing media for the achievement of a successful plant production is very important.


In recent years,MLCC is more applied to many of electronic products.But failure phenomenons are ofen happened after temperature shock and stress screen because of unreasonable design and handling.Analyze the reason of failure;Put forward the measures to solve the problems.


Calcium influx into the goldfish scale was measured by incubating individual scales in fish saline containing Ca. The influx was proportional to the calcium concentration of the incubation medium and was not affected by the presence of 0.1 mM KCN. The influx into the scale taken from fish acclimatized to low temperature (8°C) was significantly lower than that into scale taken from fish acclimatized to 25°C. The influx into the scales of starved fish was not significantly different from that in normally fed fish. On the other hand, when fish were starved in deionized water after removal of all scales from one side of the body, the influx into the remaining scales was significantly greater than that into the scales of the intact fish starved in tap water. Extract of the corpuscles of Stannius from mature chum salmon, salmon prolactin or eel calcitonin did not affect the influx when added to the incubation medium. Thus, calcium influx into the isolated scale seems to be a passive process affected by the condition of the fish.


: The physics of the processes governing the production of fluorescent X-rays and the interpretation of the measured cross sections in terms of various fundanienial parameters relating to the emission have acquired new interests in the lust twenty years, The survey of literature shows that the cross sections have been measured using both direct sources of radiation (X-rays and gamma rays) and external conversion X-rays in a variety of experimental geometrical set ups using different types of photon spectrometers, The measurements have been made both for total shell cross sections (c K, L and M shecll etc,) and foi emission of different groups of lines {e. »■ Ka. Kjj. etc ) depending upon the resolution of the available energy dispersive detectors and other factors J^ecenlly, some measurements on the angular dependence of the cross sections have also been reported. The different aspects of the measurements along with the theoretical calculations, made using different parameters such us, photoiom/aiion cross sections, fluorescence yields and radiative decay rates etc., are di.scusscd


The sprite laments the despoliation of his, and the narrator's, lost Slavic homeland, then disappears. The story is, at four pages, very short, and its handling of the theme of exile and loss a bit self-indulgent. But with its conclusion leaving a lingering "subtle scent in the room, of birch, of humid moss . . . ," "The Wood-Sprite" emerges as rather haunting and more than competent, especially considering that the author was still in his early twenties. This early story offers a modest addendum to the rather impressive collection of citations of Shakespeare in Nabokov's Russian writings (Grabes 496-51 1; Schuman 512-17). The four pages of the story contain two allusions to Shakespeare's works, both of which, appropriately, are to spritelike, magical creatures. In the first reference, the Wood-Sprite mentions a co-creature, a "kindred spirit, a Water-Sprite" (Nabokov 5). Of this elvish colleague, we learn that


Coal has played an important role in the economies of many countries worldwide, which has resulted in increased surface and underground mining in countries with large coal reserves, such as China and the United States. However, coal mining is subject to frequent accidents and predictable risks that have, in some instances, led to the loss of lives, disabilities, equipment damage, etc. The assessment of risk factors in underground mines is therefore considered a commendable initiative. Therefore, this research aimed to develop an efficient model for assessing and predicting safety risk factors in underground mines using existing data from the Xiaonan coal mine. A model for evaluating safety risks in underground coal mines was developed based on the optimized particle swarm optimization-backpropagation (PSO-BP) neural network. The results showed that the PSO-BP neural network model for safety risk assessment in underground coal mines was the most reliable and effective, with MSE, MAPE, and R2 values of 2.0 × 10−4, 4.3, and 0.92, respectively. Therefore, the study proposed the neural network model PSO-BP for underground coal mine safety risk assessment. The results of this study can be adopted by decision-makers for evaluating and predicting risk factors in underground coal mines.


IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 59 Because scanning devices are less expensive and easier to use than they were just a few years ago, a wide range of applications employ 3D scanning technology. As a result, various organizations can now produce models of cultural artifacts and works of art. Members of the National Research Council of Canada, developers of high-accuracy scanning equipment, have applied their technology to scanning paintings, sculptures, and archaeological sites. Recent work emphasizes the importance of portable, reliable equipment that researchers can easily deploy at the scanning site. Zheng and Zhong scanned archaeological relics in cooperation with the Museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses, China. Their goals included creating a database of information about the excavation site and testing and employing virtual restoration techniques. Recently, Marc Levoy and a team from Stanford University scanned many of Michelangelo's sculptures, including the 5-m tall David in the Galleria dell'Accademia. They used several types of scanners, including a high-resolution laser triangulation system mounted on a custom-made mechanical gantry and a time-of-flight long-range sensor. The large quantity of data collected should have a major impact in future development of shape reconstruction algorithms. Numerous other projects have been conducted or are currently underway. In this article, we describe a recent project to acquire and build a 3D model of the Michelangelo's Florentine Pieta. Figure 1 (next page) shows a photograph of the Pieta and an image of our model. The work we describe here is unique in that an art historian, not a technologist, conceived and specified the project. Our goal wasn't simply to produce the statue's model but also to provide the art historian with material and tools to enable him to answer his own research questions. The project gave us the opportunity to explore the value of 3D scanning and visualization in a nontechnical discipline, art history. The project's second goal was to develop scanning technology accessible to other cultural heritage projects both in terms of cost and usability. Such technology could potentially be used in widespread commercial applications, such as e-commerce, where equipment cost must be minimal.


In this note we report on a project to get a verified program to compute the Smith normal form of a matrix in Isabelle/HOL. The presented approach tries to tackle the problems that arise in an environment without dependent types as well as we try to reuse previous developments, keeping also the focus of the formalization on its full generality.


An embodiment of the invention discloses a diode and a manufacturing method thereof. The diode comprises a substrate, a second electrode region, a body lead-out region, a gate dielectric layer and a gate region, the substrate comprises a well region which is a first electrode region, the second electrode region and the body lead-out region are positioned in the surface of the well region, the body lead-out region is a lead-out region of the first electrode region, the first electrode region and the second electrode region are opposite in polarity, the gate dielectric layer is positioned on the surface of the well region, the gate region is positioned on the surface of the gate dielectric layer, and the gate dielectric layer is positioned between the second electrode region and the body lead-out region so as to isolate the second electrode region from the body lead-out region. The gate dielectric layer substitutes for a field oxide isolation region in the prior art and as well isolates multiple devices, and the total-dose radiation effect resistance capability of the diode is far higher than that of a diode in the traditional CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) process as the thickness of the gate dielectric layer is far smaller than the thickness of a peripheral field oxide isolation region of the diode in the traditional CMOS process.


True random number generators (TRNGs) have drawn a lot of focus due to their numerous uses in data encryption and transfer. The encryption method or privacy protocols of the data protection centre often use the real random numbers produced by the true random number generators. TRNGs were already being used to save energy in the recent times developed stochastic computing paradigm. This methodology utilizes the extended symmetric key cryptography technique, which utilizes the very same framework for both the encryption and decryption processes. The encryption and decryption keys used in traditional cryptography techniques are identical and are kept private. The technique employs a randomized numbers generator to generate keys, which increases technique performance. The algorithm uses 512-bit keys for increased security and offers the idea of intrinsic key creation at the receiving end using the 512-bit key provided by the transmitter. To avoid conventional warfare assaults as well as any damaging cyber threats, this private key will be stored in the transmitter side databases and sent to the side of the receiver in a different way. This approach performs encryption and decryption more effectively for huge information than previous techniques do. With huge documents with reduced latency, this technique offers a higher pace compared to previous methods.


A manufacturing method according to one embodiment comprises sequentially forming a thin-film transistor (TFT) layer, a planarization layer (110), and a display element part on a substrate. In forming the TFT layer, an upper electrode (108) is covered, and a passivation layer (109) is formed so as to adjoin the planarization layer. In forming the display element part, a lower electrode is formed so as to adjoin the planarization layer. In connecting the upper electrode of the TFT layer and the lower electrode of the display element part, a contact hole (110a) is first opened in the planarization layer until the passivation layer is exposed at the bottom. Dry etching using a fluorine-containing gas is subsequently applied to the passivation layer exposed at the bottom of the contact hole, whereby a contact hole (109a) in which the upper electrode is exposed at the bottom is opened. A liquid-repellent film (121) that contains fluorine in the composition thereof is formed on the inner wall surface that faces the contact hole in the passivation layer. The lower electrode is then formed along the inner wall surface of the passivation layer and the planarization layer that faces the contact hole.


Pole assignment algorithm is adopted to discuss that the higher utilization and congestion avoidance of network can be get if poles are assigned in different area according to network state.The use of foregoing information makes network state is achieved by source ahead of time,so devastating influence of time delay to network performance is avoided.The algorithm not only guarantees no buffer overflow and fair and sufficient utilization of bandwidth,but also makes source rate responding to the change of network state rapidly and dynamically.Simulation results approve that pole assignment achieves better dynamic performance of network.


Analyzes the problem in numerical control Machining of plate and profiled parts. The method is proposed to delaminate numerical control Machining programs by VB6.0, thus the programs are simplified and optimized and the burden of programmer is lightened and the efficiency is much increased.


Natural gas has great potential as feedstock for the production of liquid fuels and provides an alternative to conventional oil processing in view of the decreasing oil reserves and the rising oil prices.


This paper presents an analytic study of vaporization of ablating in the gas stream responsible for this ablation. The distributions of the temperatures and sizes of carbon and tungsten particles, injection into the wall region of the radiating compressed layer through the ablating surface are derived and plotted. It is shown that before the microparticle vaporizes it travels into the compressed layer to a depth of the order of magnitude of the thickness of the gaseous products of decomposition. This results in the formation of a two-phase radiation-absorbing and scattering zone.


Fifty-four Medicago laciniata (L.) Miller accessions from diverse locations in eastern Australia, Africa and Israel were characterized for genotypic differences by restriction endonuclease cleavage of genomic DNA and probing with radio-labelled DNA sequences to detect restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP). Digestion of the genomic DNA with the restriction endonuclease, Barn HI, and probing with the complete ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeat unit of soybean (pGmrl) and its subclones revealed that the variable region in M. laciniata spans the Barn H1 sites of the intergenic spacer region between the 18s and 26s DNA. The length variation in the rDNA repeat unit clearly distinguished South African from Australian accessions. The rDNA variants from SA1847 (Morocco) and SA7750 (Tunisia) were the same as the Australian accessions and slightly larger than the rDNA spacer variant unique to SA3428 (Israel). When Eco R1 digested M. laciniata genomic DNA was probed with peroxidase and extensin cDNA clones, all Australian accessions were again characterized by the same RFLP genotype with further differentiation between African and Israeli accessions. An accession of unknown origin, SA3412, possessed the same RFLP genotype as the Australian accessions for all endonuclease and probe combinations. For the African accessions, differences in RFLP genotype were more frequent than differences in phenotype (leaflet laciniation and colour). However, of three South African accessions with the same RFLP genotype, SA26844, SA26847, and SA26848, SA26847 had more pronounced leaflet laciniation.


This report presents two approaches for driving two-photon transitions between hyperfine states in the Rb ground state. These hyperfine states are intended for use as qubit states in quantum information processing with neutral atoms. The first approach uses microwave and radio frequency fields, and experiments on microwave singleand two-photon transitions showing the magnetically dependent Zeeman splitting are presented. The second approach uses two near infrared laser light fields, and a Raman laser setup using two external cavity diode lasers with relative frequency and phase locking is presented. A phase lock is not yet possible because the combined line width of the lasers (around 6 MHz) is comparable tot he locking bandwidth of the phase locked loop, but a robust relative frequency lock with a large capturing range is achieved. A theoretical analysis of two-photon transitions is also included. Bachelors Project in physics Universiteit van Amsterdam


Matrix computation units have been equipped in current architectures to accelerate AI and high performance computing applications. The matrix multiplication and vector outer product are two basic instruction types. The latter one is lighter since the inputs are vectors. Thus it provides more opportunities to develop flexible algorithms for problems other than dense linear algebra computing and more possibilities to optimize the implementation. Stencil computations represent a common class of nested loops in scientific and engineering applications. This paper proposes a novel stencil algorithm using vector outer products. Unlike previous work, the new algorithm arises from the stencil definition in the scatter mode and is initially expressed with formulas of vector outer products. The implementation incorporates a set of optimizations to improve the memory reference pattern, execution pipeline and data reuse by considering various algorithmic options and the data sharing between input vectors. Evaluation on a simulator shows that our design achieves a substantial speedup compared with vectorized stencil algorithm.


Abstract This paper aims to assess the machinability of aluminium alloy 6351 heat treated and artificially aged (T6) when subjected to continuous turning using cemented carbide, diamond-coated carbide, and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) cutting tools. Cutting forces, surface finish, and machining temperature were investigated. The results indicated that the cutting forces decrease with increasing cutting speed and increase with increasing feed rate and depth of cut. The PCD tool presented the lowest tangential and axial forces, but the highest radial force. Surface roughness did not present a considerable variation with cutting speed but increased with increasing feed rate and depth of cut. The best surface finish was produced by the PCD tool material. Tool-chip interface temperatures increased linearly with increasing cutting speed but were less affected by the feed rate and depth of cut.


Objective The aim of our research is to investigate the clinical effect of the TVT for women with stress urinary incontinence. Methods 184 women with stress urinary incontinence underwent the TVT. The results of operation, the approach of anaesthesia, complications of operation and changes of urodynamics were observed. Results The procedure showed effectiveness in all patients. The cure rate was 96.2% , improvement rate was 3.8%. The frequency of urinary retention in patients underwent local infiltration anesthesia was lower than those underwent epidural caudal block (P0.05). Conclusions TVT is an effective and safe way for treating stress urinary incontinence. Under local infiltration anesthesia, the volume of hemorrhage is less and operation in wound is small, the recouery time is short and, the frequency of urinary retention is low. It can be conducted at the same time with other qynecological procedures.


The invention provides a variable area-based page assembly method and a variable area-based page assembly system. The system comprises a page area management module, and the module divides a page into a variable area and an invariable area; primitives in the variable area are assembled, reference page information of the page is marked, the data of the variable area are transmitted to external equipment, and a quick combiner in the external equipment combines the data of the variable area and the data of the invariable area to obtain dot matrix data of the page. Correspondingly, the method comprises the steps of page division, reference page determination, identification of the variable area and the invariable area and combination. Only the primitives in the variable area are assembled, only the data of the variable area are transmitted, and the data of the variable area and the data of the invariable area are combined by an external combining module, so the data volume of the outwardstransmitted data is reduced, the assembly time is greatly reduced, and particularly assembly of multi-page variable data format files is quickened.


nephroma and secretory carcinoma of the breast and salivary gland. However, NTRK rearrangements are being increasingly identified in a range of soft tissue neoplasms. Due to their morphological heterogeneity, recognition of these NTRK fusion-driven sarcomas is problematic, with a wide range of histological features reported. Thus far, several broad patterns have been described, including an inflammatory myofibroblastic-like pattern, a fibrosarcoma-like pattern and a lipofibromatosis-like pattern. Aims: We present two cases of retroperitoneal NTRKfusion associated sarcoma demonstrating a distinct perineurioma-like pattern and discuss features that should prompt immunohistochemical evaluation with pan-TRK, a surrogate marker of tumours harbouring NTRK fusions, and/or fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) for NTRK gene rearrangement. Methods: Immunohistochemical staining on formalinfixed, paraffin-embedded tissue was performed for pan-TRK as well as a panel of other immunostains. Subsequent FISH analysis was performed to identify NTRK gene rearrangement. Electron microscopy was also used to examine the ultrastructural features in one of the tumours. Results & Conclusions: In both cases, the sarcoma demonstrated spindle cell morphology reminiscent of a perineurioma. Case 1 showed positive nuclear and cytoplasmic staining with pan-TRK but Case 2 was negative for this immunostain. Subsequent FISH analysis showed NTRK1 gene rearrangement in each case, confirming the diagnosis of NTRK-fusion associated sarcoma. Electron microscopy examination of Case 2 concluded ultrastructural features of a mesenchymal spindle cell neoplasm with perineurial differentiation. We therefore report findings of a new perineurioma-like morphological pattern of NTRKrearranged sarcoma. Pathological identification of these tumours is now critical since NTRK-rearranged tumours are one the few translocation-associated sarcomas amenable to the recent advent of highly effective targeted TRK inhibitor therapy.


JavaScript is particularly difficult to implement efficiently because most of its expressions have all sorts of different meanings that involve all sorts of different executions. To give a single prominent example, the expression "obj.prop" might denote five radically different operations. It might fetch the property "prop" from "obj". It might scan the linked list of "obj"'s prototype chain and access the property "prop" of one of these objects along the way. It might involve calling a user defined function if "prop" is an accessor. It might involve allocating an object if "obj" is a primitive value. At last, it might involve jumping through another component of the standard runtime system if "obj" is a proxy object. No syntactic element nor type information let the execution engine discover in advance which evaluation schema to use. Checking all the possible interpretations in sequence and then execute literally, that is following the prescription of the language specification, the proper one would deliver very slow performances. All mainstream implementations use alternative strategies. Amongst all the possible interpretations, they favor the one that corresponds to the most frequent situation for which they elaborate a faster execution plan, and, as importantly, for which they elaborate a fast guard that let them decide as quickly as possible, if the faster schema would preserve the original semantics or not. Typically, that what "inline caches" and "hidden classes" achieve [2, 1]. Using a single test, the comparison of the object's hidden class with the inline cache, the guard checks if the offset where to read the property is known or not. If it is, the property is directly fetched using a single indexed memory read. Otherwise, the slower execution path checking all the possible situations, for instance, the situation where the property is an accessor, is used. The common intuition is that dynamic compilers (jit compilers) are in a better position to use this heuristics-based strategy as they have the program


treating depressive disorders. The model includes the evaluation of concurrent medication to identify those that may cause depression. Thus, complete prescription drug review for adverse effects complicating the patient's health is an accepted and recommended step in the physician's patient examination." The pilot study conducted at the WMMHC demonstrated the possible existence of medication-related therapeutic problems among patients receiving health care at more than one healthcare facility. The first step to obtain rational drug therapy is to acquire complete prescription drug information from the patient. Then programs such as the DUE at WMMHC are needed to initiate problem identification and recommendation to foster better patient care.


Strong oversight of health plans is needed to ensure that they comply with federal mental health parity laws and regulations.


This article discusses current problems and trends in the field of phraseodidactics (the art of teaching phraseology). Phraseodidactics is an evolving field of research in the Russian Federation. Most of studies have been undertaken by European linguists, phraseologists and educators. However, a substantial part of research lacks unanimity of opinions and systematization; there is some dispute on the necessity of introducing phraseological units to foreign language students as well as on the volume of phraseological optimum, a set of phraseological units to be studied by students. Therefore, there is a need to carry out a review of the literature on phraseodidactics. Fifteen papers addressing phraseodidactics and phraseological competence have been selected and analyzed. The purpose and contribution of this paper is to offer a clearer picture of the modern state of affairs in the field of phraseodidactics, to identify current trends and problems, and to offer possible solutions.


The distinctions between mainline and regional airlines is blurring with the regionals flying longer stages and using larger regional jets (RJs). These newer RJs fly faster, longer and provide a higher level of passenger comfort than previous small jets. Manufacturer Embraer has introduced new models while Bombardier has focused on stretch versions, although it is considering a new jet in the 110-130 seat capacity. A big factor in the growth in the use of regional jets will be whether the large airlines can reach labor agreements with relaxed scope clauses, allowing larger RJs to be used.


T he purpose of this study was to find out about the implementation of remission of female prisoners in the Class II A Tangerang Women's Penitentiary and also to find out the obstacles to the implementation of remission against female prisoners in the Penitentiary. The method used in this study is normative and empirical legal research methods by collecting secondary data and primary data related to research problems. The results of the study indicate that remission is the right of prisoners to get a criminal reduction if during good coaching. Remission is the right of the prisoner if the person in question carries out acts such as doing services to the state and taking actions that are beneficial to the state or humanity, as well as committing acts that help the activities of the prison. There are several factors inhibiting remission in the Class II A Tangerang Women's Penitentiary, namely the difficulty of female inmates meeting the special requirements for the implementation of remission, which is paying fines and replacement money in accordance with court decisions .


This new paper applies the novel direct data driven control into UAVs formation dynamic network and designs the distributed controller for each UAV, while guaranteeing the desired flight performance. Firstly, a new control architecture is constructed as an unified framework for UAV task implementation, including the management layer, functional layer and physical layer together. Secondly, we explain one special dynamic network, i.e. network modules, exist in above control architecture, and the process about how to operate these network modules in described in detail. Thirdly, after introducing the idea of distributed control and the dynamic network system, our main contribution concern on how to apply direct data driven control to design these distributed controllers for all UAVs respectively. Furthermore, the detailed derivations and one improvement are combined to complete our own proposed theoretical results. Finally, one simulation example confirms above theories.


509 There has been a growth in sports-related mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) or concussion awareness and incidence during the past two decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( 2006 ) has increased estimates of annual incidence from 300,000 during the 1990s to the contemporary number ranging from 1.6 to 2.3 million, refl ecting better understanding on the part of caretakers and athletes and more accurate reporting of injuries. Despite many advances in our understanding of concussion, many athletic injuries go undiagnosed. Although reports have varied, up to one half of sports concussions are not recognized, not deemed as serious injuries, or are not consistently identifi ed to the athletic training staff. Using the American Academy of Neurology defi nition of concussion as "any trauma induced alteration in mental status that may or may not include a loss of consciousness," we now know that the vast majority, approximately 90%, of athletes with MTBI are not rendered unconscious. From the outset, this frames an often diffi cult population not only to treat but also to study. Nonetheless, during the past decade, signifi cant strides have been made in our ability to identify and properly manage athletes with MTBI (Meehan & Bachur, 2009 ). Our knowledge of athletic concussion has grown in several important aspects. First, we now know that the physiological changes have a metabolic basis, refl ecting both extracellular and intracellular dysfunction in neurotransmitter release, ionic shifts, Na/K ATPase activation, and other perturbations, which lead to a period of hyperglycolysis. The resultant ionic shifts may lead to neuronal depolarization and suppression and energy expenditure in an attempt to restore homeostasis (Hovda et al., 1999 ). Although usually transient, the effects on the cerebral blood fl ow may be hazardous, particularly if a recurrent injury occurs. In addition to the metabolic effects, we know that alterations to the neuronal cytoskeleton are a possible consequence, leading to alterations in axoplasmic fl ow, and if of suffi cient severity, the inability of the dendritic connections to be maintained, with permanent injury in neuronal connections. In many cases, there appears to be an immediate disruption of neuronal membranes (Buki & Povlishock, 2006 ). The pathological accumulation of tau protein, the major structural protein of the neuron and its interconnecting fi bers, has been shown in autopsy studies of former professional athletes. Current evidence suggests that secondary concussions, likely leading to more lasting or cumulative effects, occur in the minority but may happen soon after the original injury (De Beaumont et al., 2009 ; Guskiewicz et al., 2005 ). The possibility of the second impact syndrome and cumulative brain injury leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the latter originally described in retired boxers but more recently identifi ed in professional football players and wrestlers, are two entities that are compelling reasons for mandating proper management of the brain-injured athlete (Omalu et al., 2006 ). The role of genetic predisposition, particularly the well-known relationship of the apolipoprotein ApoE E4 genotype in increasing vulnerability to brain trauma, remains incompletely understood insofar as application or screening potential to mitigate the potential for chronic effects (Rabadi & Jordan, 2001 ). In our laboratory, using a weight-drop method in a rodent model, we have observed that a single nonlethal MTBI, which leaves the animal with no long-term behavioral or clinical defi cits and no hemorrhage on brain examination, may nonetheless cause axonal damage in fi bers projecting from the frontal lobe to the brain stem within the corticospinal tract. Using amyloid precursor protein immunofl urorescence staining, a single impact to the cranium will universally result in the presence of axonal damage in the medulla and pons (Mills et al., 2009 ). Further investigation using tau protein and apoptotic and other markers should lead us to greater understanding of the relationship between cranial impact with linear and rotational forces and their impartation of kinetic energy to the cortex, mesencephalon, and brain stem. The proper management of the athlete with MTBI requires identifi cation during the contest, accurate sideline or locker room testing, and correct decision making regarding return to play during that same contest (Mayers, 2008 ). Several guidelines have been proposed to assist the caregiver during this CRITICAL REVIEW — INTRODUCTION


Bollmannia Jordan is a poorly studied group of American seven-spined gobies with representatives in the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic and tropical eastern Pa - cific oceans. We review the taxonomy of the western Atlantic species and provide redescriptions for the four valid species: B. boqueronensis, B. communis, B. eigenmanni and B. litura. Bollmannia jeannae is considered to be a junior synonym of B. boqueronensis. We also describe a new genus and species of deep-water goby and discuss its affinities to Bollmannia and other genera of the Micro - gobius group of the Gobiosomatini. An identification key is provided for all western Atlantic members of the Micro- gobius group. Results of this study highlight the need for a combined morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis to resolve the relationships among the genera of the Microgobius group. Zusammenfassung Bollmannia Jordan ist eine kaum erforschte Gruppe


For creating new cultivars of red clover it is necessary to use traditional and modern methods: heterosis and ecological breeding. These methods have been used in breeding for a long time, but it was necessary to modify them to the cultivation of red clover considering its biological features (perennity, length of ve-getation period, winter hardiness) in conditions of harsh continental climate in Siberia. The complex-hybrid population, late maturing, diploid based the cultivar SibNIIK 10 has been created based on best polycross offspring by polycross method in West Siberia. The winter hardy, early maturing, diploid based cultivar has been created as the result of combination together with FWRC FPA for the first time ever in Siberia. The research cites a comparative study of two cultivars of red clover (SibNIIK 10 and Prima) of different types of maturity and ploidy by main economically valuable traits. Early maturing tetraploid based cultivar Prima in herbage and dry matter yield exceeds late maturing cultivar SibNIIK 10 by 9–30 and 17–44% and in seed by 18% (in good years).


A key challenge in programming crash-consistent applications for Persistent Memory (PM) is achieving high performance while controlling the order of PM updates. Managing persist ordering from the CPU typically requires frequent synchronization points, which expose the PM's high persist latency on the execution's critical path. To mitigate this overhead, prior proposals relax the persistency model and decouple persistence from the program's volatile execution, delegating persistence ordering to specialized hardware mechanisms such that persistent state lags behind volatile state. In this work, we identify the opportunity to mitigate the effect of persist latency by leveraging the task-level parallelism available in many PM applications, while preserving the stricter semantics of synchronous persistence and the familiar x86 persistency model. We introduce COSPlay, a software-hardware co-design that employs coroutines and rapid userspace context switching to hide persist latency by overlapping persist operations across concurrent tasks. Modest CPU extensions enable the hardware to fully overlap persists of different contexts, while preserving intra-context ordering to meet crash consistency requirements. COSPlay boosts the throughput of crash-consistent applications by up to 1.7 × on systems with basic PM support. For systems with higher persist latency due to added backend memory operations, such as encryption and deduplication, COSPlay's performance gains grow to 2.2 − 7.3 ×.


The histone demethylase enzyme Kdm5b is identified as a regulator of neural stem cells (NSCs) from the subventricular zone (SVZ) of adult mice. shRNA knockdown and cell culture assays demonstrate that Kdm5b inhibition promotes neurogenesis and derepresses Reln (reelin) in SVZ NSCs.


Abstract. Temporal and spatial variability of prevalence of the fungal disease aspergillosis (ASP) affecting Gorgonia ventalina colonies was assessed at several reef sites in La Parguera, southwest Puerto Rico. During 2005 and 2006, all G. ventalina colonies were checked for signs of ASP twice a year, within permanent 20 m2 (10×2m) band transects at each of six sites located in three reef zones. Overall, there was high variability in disease prevalence in both space and time (0–28%). The average prevalence of ASP increased significantly from 5.1 ± 9.5% in March 2005 to 14.4 ± 16.0% in September 2006. There was no consistent temporal trend in ASP prevalence affecting all reefs, but shelf-edge reefs had significantly lower prevalence than inner and/or mid-shelf reefs in all sampling periods. Higher disease prevalence found in shallower areas may be related to higher water temperatures in these habitats, and unseasonably high temperatures during the winter and spring of 2006 associated with the extensive bleaching event of 2005.


The changes in the dimensions of international law require a corresponding reorientation in its study; neither the international lawyer trained in the classical methods of international law and diplomacy nor the corporation, tax, or constitutional lawyer are equipped to handle this subject without cooperation with each other, and with economists and political scientists. International law is becoming a more and more complex and many-sided subject.3


Aromatic polyamides and polyazomethines with side oxadiazole rings have been synthesized by using aromatic diamines containing pendent substituted oxadiazole groups and a diacid chloride having diphenylsilane or hexafluoroisopropylidene, or an aromatic dialdehyde with fluorene unit, respectively. These polymers were easily soluble in amidic solvents. Very thin films which were deposited from polymer solutions onto silicon wafers exhibited smooth, pinhole-free surface in atomic force microscopy investigations. The polymers showed high thermal stability with decomposition temperature being above 400°C. Some of them exhibited blue photoluminescence, in the range of 450-480 nm, making them promising candidates for future use as high performance materials in the construction of light emitting devices.


The game theory about the value of man and nature shows that man and nature are in a relationship of interdependence,mutual conflict and correspondence.In ancient times,man was respecting and reverent to nature.However,in modern times,because of over-expansion of human value,the man and nature are separated from each other and even stand opposite.The writer of this article holds that the paradigm of human centralism should be broken and that the intrinsic value of nature should be respected.The value concept that man and nature should be development harmoniously should be established so as to realize the "win-win game" of man and the nature.


To prepare wave-absorbing building materials with industrial ferrite ,not only beneficial to the solution of electromagnetic pollution in daily life but also with low preparation cost, is of considerable practical value. The preparation routes of ferrite wave-absorbing mortar and paint are explored. The effective separation technology and the influence of the mixed quantity on the wave-absorbing property and other routine properties are also analysed.


This study examined high school students' experiences in a Sport Education unit being implemented with smaller teams and fewer roles. The participants included one physical education teacher and her 70 ninth-grade students. Each week, we conducted two to three observations and four to six informal interviews with the participants for over eight weeks. We also conducted a structured interview with the teacher and four interviews with 12 students. Data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using open and axial coding. Two themes emerged from data analysis. First, Sport Education transformed students from passive into active learners, reflected in team autonomy and problem solving. Second, smaller teams produced higher engagement especially in those students who rarely participated in the traditional team sport unit, reflected through their willingness to 'work together' to be successful. The results point to the importance of team autonomy and problem-solving opportunities that transformed students into active learners.


In industrial life tests, reliability analysis and clinical trials, the type-II progressive censoring methodology, which allows for random removals of the remaining survival units at each failure time, has become quite popular for analyzing lifetime data. Parameter estimation under progressively type-II censored samples for many common lifetime distributions has been investigated extensively. However, how to estimate unknown parameters of the mixed distribution models under progressive type-II censoring schemes is still a challenging and interesting problem. Based on progressively type-II censored samples, this paper addresses the estimation problem of mixed generalized exponential distributions. In addition, it is observed that the maximum-likelihood estimates (MLEs) cannot be easily obtained in closed form due to the complexity of the likelihood function. Thus, we make good use of the expectation-maximization algorithm to obtain the MLEs. Finally, some simulations are implemented in order to show the performance of the proposed method under finite samples and a case analysis is illustrated.


In this research, the connectivity status between natural environment (forests and rivers) and urban parks in view of ecological networks in a city is evaluated and on the basis of these evaluation results, a future connectivity enhancing recommendations are suggested. As a result, the 96.8% of the connectivity role of the neighborhood parks were core or connected parks and as in terms of the ecological pattern on the outer park, 84.1% of the case neighborhood parks were connected to the ecological element at least one side. Therefore, it can be expected to play a role as corridor that enables the direct connection with the natural environment if the connection plan is well established. As a result of connectivity evaluation of the parks, inside of the parks had low ecological element overall and had ecological elements. To increase the connectivity of ecological network, the cities already built shall secure primarily green territory where can connect with the isolated park due to the surrounding with the developing areas and when planning for new cities or residential complexes, it shall establish a connection plan with the nearby at the beginning.


The aim of this research was to determine the antidiabetic and antimicrobial properties of ethanolic extract of Rhizophora mucronata leaves, as well as the phytochemical elements contained in the leaf extract. Extracts from R. mucronata leaf samples were obtained by maceration in ethanol-based solvents. The ethanolic extract of R. mucronata leaves is known to have an antidiabetic effect on mice, evidenced by its ability to reduce blood glucose levels. Giving ethanol extract at a dose of 600 mg/kg BW gives the greatest antidiabetic effect. The antibacterial activity of the extract against the tested bacteria and fungi was also limited due to the presence of contaminants in the ethanolic extract. The analysis of secondary metabolites using LC-MS revealed that the ethanolic extract of R. mucronata leaves contained 25 different secondary metabolite compounds. Furthermore research to purify and identify the compounds in the ethanolic extract of R. mucronata is required to develop this resource as an antimicrobial and antidiabetic drug based on natural materials.


Estimation of the in-situ block size is known as a key parameter in the characterization of the mechanical properties of rock masses. As the in-situ block size cannot be measured directly, several simplified methods have been developed, where the intrinsic variability of the geometrical features of discontinuities are commonly neglected. This work aims to estimate the in-situ block size distribution (IBSD) using the combined photogrammetry and discrete fracture network (DFN) approaches. To this end, four blasting benches in the Golgohar iron mine No. 1, Sirjan, Iran, are considered as the case studies of this research work. The slope faces are surveyed using the photogrammetry method. Then 3D images are prepared from the generated digital terrain models, and the geometrical characteristics of discontinuities are surveyed. The measured geometrical parameters are statistically analysed, and the joint intensity, the statistical distribution of the orientation, and the fracture trace length are determined. The DFN models are generated, and IBSD for each slope face is determined using the multi-dimensional spacing method. In order to evaluate the validity of the generated DFN models, the geological strength index (GSI) as well as the stereographic distribution of discontinuities in the DFN models are compared against the field measurements. A good agreement has been found between the results of the DFN models and the filed measurements. The results of this work show that the combined photogrammetry and DFN techniques provide a robust, safe, and time-efficient methodology for the estimation of IBSD.


The process of convective transfer of substances during filtration in a po-rous medium (horizontal layer) is considered. An approach to determining the coordinates and action time of a special typeof impulse sources (pollution, heat, explosion, etc.) is proposed, based on the assumption that the latter have no significant effect on the filtration background. For identification, infor-mation about the trajectories (which coincide with the flow lines)of the movement of the impurity substance and the time intervals of the flow of pol-lution from their sources to the corresponding places (points) of observation (detection) is used. It is proposed to identify the coordinates of point sources using characteristic (in relation to the convection equation) functions, a priori information about the movement of pollution, and given coordinates of the nodes of the constructed hydrodynamic mesh. Significant simplifications for the process of constructing the solving algorithm are achieved by replacing the existing model problem of finding the functions of the quasipotential and the flow in complex by the corresponding inverse problem (which, among other things, provides the possibility of effectively constructing ahydrodynamic motion mesh). Its solution is based on the procedure of quasiconformal map-ping of the corresponding quadrangular complex quasipotential domain into a given physical domain. Numerical experiments are presented and analyzed. In particular, it was found that the accuracy of identification of pollution sources depends significantly on the available values of quasiconformity residuals. Their greatest values are achieved on those flow lines that pass through char-acteristic points (so-called «key points») or near stagnant zones. It is possible to reduce the errors generated by the latter, in particular, with a large number of partition nodes. The developed algorithm provides opportunities for its fur-ther transfer to more complex cases of fluid motion,in particular, with addi-tional consideration of the diffusion component, generalization to space, etc.


Craniosynostosis is a severe disorder that may be caused by activating mutations in Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FgfRs) that affects development of the skull and is characterized by premature fusion of the cranial sutures. In addition to dysmorphology of the skull, affected individuals also have facial dysmorphology. We have previously used an avian model to explore the role that a disease‐causing allele of FgfR2 (FgfR2C278F) plays in producing malformations of the middle and upper face at early stages of development. In that work we observed a wider midface, which resembles what is observed in human patients, and this was directly related to decreased cell proliferation and a disrupted net polarization of the mesenchymal cells in the growing facial primordia. We have extended this work by examining the role of the Map kinase, PLC‐gamma, and PI3K pathways downstream of Fgf signaling in producing facial dysmorphology, as well as directly blocking FgfR activation. We implanted beads soaked in small molecular inhibitors (MEK1/2: U0126, PLC‐gamma: U‐73122, PI3K: LY 294002, FgfR activation: SU5402) into the right side of the developing avian face at HH22 and examined morphological and cellular outcomes at various times of development. First, we determined that each inhibitor substantially and specifically down‐regulated its respective pathway using immunohistochemistry to assess expression of down‐stream targets of activation of each pathway. We then determined that each pathway significantly reduced cell proliferation and altered cell polarization in the mesenchyme. Blocking each pathway also created severe craniofacial malformations that were observed at early and late time points. There are many inputs to each of these pathways, and our data suggest that each participate in regulation of a similar set of cellular processes that contribute to the emergence of morphogenetic processes in facial development.


A widespread social concern has been caused by the corruption with high frequency in universities in recent years.Only by providing against possible trouble,can incorruptibility risks be controlled and reduced.Both motivation and opportunity are the central factors leading up to corruption.Opportunity is the external cause.It comes into existence because of the loss of restriction system for the authority.Motivation is the internal cause.It can be translated into action because of the collapse of ideological and moral defence lines.Early-warning to the power operation not only relies on the system building and supervision with technological means that can reduce corruption opportunity,but also relies on the culture infiltration that can firmly construct ideological and moral defence.It's the key element in preventing incorruptibility risks efficiently to strengthen the system construction,raise the incorruptible consciousness and create the easy supervision environment.The early-warning and prevention mechanism of incorruptibility risks based on system,culture and technology,that can combine binding force of system,persuasive power of the education and balance power of supervision,gives us satisfying choice.Only by ramming the cornerstones of system building,supervision with technological means and culture penetration,can we achieve the goal of preventing and controlling corruption from fountainhead from our study.


1 Principia Cybernetica Ends: Metasystem Transition Theory As the name Principia Cybernetica implies, it is a project intended to clarify the fundamental principles and produce a uniication of the foundations of the domains of cybernetics and systems science. The philosophical system created by Principia Cybernetica is seen as a clearly thought out and well-formulated, global \world view", integrating the diierent domains of knowledge and experience. It is based in the perspectives of cybernetics and systems science, which see the world not in terms of space, time, and matter, but of organization, structure, information, and communication. It will provide answers to the basic questions: \Who am I? Where do I come from? Where should I go? How true is my knowledge? What is the nature of things? What are good and evil?" The philosophical system developed by Principia Cybernetica is systemic and evolutionary. Blind variation and selection retention 1] is postulated as a fundamental process resulting in the metasystem transition (MST) 2] |the primary act of evolution, the free and spontaneous emergence of higher levels of organization and control 3, 4]. Thus we call this philosophical system Metasystem Transition Theory (MST Theory). As the fundamental quanta of evolutionary change, all physical, biological and cultural evolution can be described in terms of successive metasystem transitions. The phenomena explained in terms of metasystem transitions include the origins of life, of sexual reproduction, of multi-cellular organisms, of neural organisms capable of coordinated action and learning, of thought and language, and of human society and industry. In the future we predict the development of global human society and human meta-or super-beings, which preserve the cybernetic organization of human minds through direct human-machine and human-human connections. Principia Cybernetica will develop MST Theory through a process of semantic analysis of the senses of terms in the context of their historical development. This development will be meta-foundational, stressing both the need for fundamental principles and the possibility of multiple complementary foundations. Semantic analysis will proceed through a process of progressive formaliza-tion, where originally vague and intuitive deenitions are replaced with increasingly formal usages, while still retaining the previous intuitive senses. Through this process Principia Cybernetica aims to construct consensus within the cybernetics and systems science communities about the uses of terms and fundamental theory.


The multiple scales method is used to the free vibration of nonlinear single-degree-of-freedom system,Then the bifurcation response equation and the responed curve is obtained.


OBJECTIVES
Ceftaroline and ceftobiprole are new cephalosporins, which are active against MRSA by inhibiting PBP2a. Recently, high rates of resistance to ceftaroline were reported from Ghana. The objective of this study was to assess rates of resistance to ceftaroline and ceftobiprole in MRSA from Africa and to describe potential missense mutations of PBP2a.

METHODS
MRSA isolates derived from Staphylococcus aureus colonization (n = 37) and infection (n = 23) and were collected in Côte d'Ivoire (n = 17), DR Congo (n = 6), Gabon (n = 21) and Nigeria (n = 16). The MICs were determined by the broth microdilution method. The mecA gene was sequenced and missense mutations were associated with the corresponding MLST ST.

RESULTS
In total, 16.7% (n = 10) and 15% (n = 9) of isolates were resistant to ceftaroline and ceftobiprole, respectively. The corresponding MICs of ceftaroline and ceftobiprole correlated significantly (r = 0.92). Isolates belonging to ST241 harboured a triple mutation of PBP2a (N146K-N204K-G246E), which was associated with high rates of resistance to ceftaroline (90.9%) and ceftobiprole (81.8%).

CONCLUSIONS
Resistances to ceftaroline and ceftobiprole were only detected in Nigeria and were associated with ST241 and a triple mutation of PBP2a.


FEC scheme based on LDPC codes is presented in this paper. We show that LDPC codes provide a significant system performance improvement with respect to the state-of-the-art FEC schemes employed in optical communications systems.


A recent quantitative study claims language structure, whether quantified as morphological or information-theoretic complexity, to be unaffected by the proportion of those speaking the language non-natively [A. Koplenig, Royal Society Open Science, 6, 181274 (2019)]. This result hinges on either the use of a categorical notion of 'vehicularity' as a proxy for the proportion of L2 (second-language) speakers, or the imputation of an assumed zero proportion of L2 speakers for languages that are considered non-vehicular but for which no direct estimate of that proportion exists. We provide two alternative analyses of the same data. The first reanalysis treats uncertain non-vehicular languages as missing data points; the second one employs multiple imputation to fill in the missing data. Mixed effects models find a statistically significant negative relationship between proportion of L2 speakers and morphological complexity: in both reanalyses, a higher proportion of L2 speakers predicts lower morphological complexity. We find no statistically significant evidence for a relationship between proportion of L2 speakers and information-theoretic complexity, however.


The in vitro antiprotozoal and cytotoxic activity of the aqueous extract, the 80% methanol extract, and its different soluble fractions and subfractions from Brucea sumatrana seeds were assessed against two Trypanosoma (T. cruzi and T. brucei brucei), Leishmania infantum and chloroquine and pyrimethanine-resistant K1strain of P. falciparum and against MRC-5 cell-lines respectively. Results indicated that the 80% methanol extract showed a cytotoxic effect against MRC-5 cell lines with CC50 value of 0.54 μg/ml. It however exhibited pronounced and non selective activity against T. cruzi (IC50 = 1.52 μg/ml, SI = 0.03) and L. infantum (IC50 = 2.41 μg/ml, SI = 0.22). It however displayed pronounced and selective effect against T. brucei brucei (IC50 2.16) and chloroquine and pyrimethamine-resistant K1 strain of P. falciparum (IC50 2.16). All soluble fractions and subfractions from the partition of the 80% methanol extract were found to exhibit an antiprotozoal activity with IC50 values ranging from T .cruzi, T. b. brucei, L. infantum and chloroquine and pyrimethamine-resistant K1 strain of P. falciparum with IC50 values of 0.33, 81, 81 and >81 respectively. The chloroform soluble fraction rich in alkaloid was cytotoxic against MRC-5 cell lines (CC50 = 27.09 μg/ml) and showed good activity against T. b. brucei (IC50 = 8.36 and SI = 3.24) and moderate activity against T. cruzi, L. infantum and chloroquine-pyrimethane-resistant K1 strain of P. falciparum (20 50 50 = 1.55 and 0.43 μg/ml respectively), they however displayed pronounced antiprotozoal activity against T. cruzi, T. b. brucei and chloroquine and pyrimethamine-resistant K1 strain of P. falciparum with IC50 values ranging from P. falciparum (SI = >6.2 and >1.72 respectively). These extracts however showed good and low activity respectively against L. infantum (IC50 = 24.05 and 6.82 μg/ml respectively).


Aim: The aim of this study is to summarize our experience regarding thoracic operations performed through the use of the extended transcervical approach. Material and Methods: Transcervical extended approach utilizes a collar incision in the neck with elevation of the sternal manubrium with a mechanical retractor. A bilateral visualization of the laryngeal recurrent and vagus nerves is usually performed to avoid injury of these structures. The procedures performed solely through the transcervical incision, or combined with videothoracoscopy (VATS) or/and subxiphoid incision were analyzed. Results: There were 1,984 transcervical operations from September 01, 2000 to September 30, 2016, including 405 transcervical-subxiphoid VATS maximal thymectomies for myasthenia gravis, thymomas or rethymectomies, 1,224 transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy (TEMLA) procedures for staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), 332 resections of the mediastinal tumors and the mediastinal metastases (mostly from thyroid cancer), 17 pulmonary lobectomies combined with TEMLA for NSCLC and 6 attempts of closure of the right main bronchus postpneumonectomy fistula. There were 5/1984 (0.3%) patients who had to be converted because of technical difficulties, in no case there major bleeding, or other severe intraoperative complications or deaths. There were 14/1984 (0.7%) patients who required revision because of postoperative bleeding (through the original incision in all but one patient, who necessitated thoracotomy). There was morbidity of 6.2 % (128/1984) and mortality of 0.4% (7/1984). Conclusions: Transcervical extended approach with elevation of the sternal manubrium enables performance of various thoracic surgical procedures with minimal invasiveness, low mortality and morbidity and very high effectiveness.


We know that the person might be referred by his nickname and we finds the information using internet. Extracting information from the internet not an easy task because the same name having different entity or same entity might be referred by different name like name and its nickname. So we should know the nickname to find out the information about particular entity. We know that various sites of web contain aliases of popular celebrity in various field like music, cinema, sport etc., and does not contain alias information about common man. There is one existing methods of extracting aliases through lexical pattern based retrieval tested using real-world name-alias pairs using training data related to limited domains. In this paper, we discuss what are the problem arrive while retrieving the information, and how we should correct alias extraction in Inter-disciplinary fields. Keyword : Retrieval ,semantic metadata


Most studies dedicated to the examination of employer branding in industrial/organisational psychology investigated it using samples of applicants. The objective of the present research was to study the influence of the employer branding of a company on its employees' attitudes. More precisely, we examined the interactive effect of the employment offering as portrayed by organisational communications and the employment experience as lived by employees on their affective commitment (AC). Furthermore, we analysed the mechanisms underlying these relationships, i.e. perceived organisational support (POS) and psychological contract violation (PCV). One-hundred eighty-six department managers of a large multinational retailing company involved in employer branding practices were surveyed. Results indicated that employment offering and lived employment experience interact in the prediction of both POS and PCV and this interactive effect carries over to AC. Implications of these findings for both researchers and practitioners are discussed.


The aim of study to assess the bacterial load of the three fish ponds (Tilapia, cat and carp) and bacteria were counted by the previous methods. Total viable count of bacteria flora we focus on A. hydrophila isolated from Qassim area in Saudi Arabia. A total of 150 strains were obtained from three types of fish ponds (50 Tilapia fish, 50 Cat fish and 50 Carp fish). Sample from Tilapia, cat and carp were cultivated on NA (Nutrient Agar), TSA and modified Rimler–shott (mRS) agar showed 1.2×10 cfu/ml, 8.7×10 cfu/ml, 6.5×10 cfu/ml; 1.2×10 cfu/ml, 2.7×10 cfu/ml, 1.5×10 cfu/ml; 5.5×10 cfu/ml, 2.5×10 cfu/ml, 6.7×10 cfu/ml respectively. A total of 80 colonies showed a yellow color in mRS in which further biochemical and morphological study showed that 35% of isolates were confirmed as A. hydrophila from the all presumptive aeromonads. In the present study the 68 % isolates of the A. hydrophila produced β-haemolysis while 43 % isolates of A. hydrophila exhibited significant protease production. In the present study the chi-square test showed that there was no significant difference between the hemolytic and protease activity. Also there was no statistical difference found in the presence of genes. Molecular techniques revealed that isolates were confirmed as A. hydrophila with 98% similarity to the GenBank BLAST. it was GSJ: Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2020 ISSN 2320-9186 567 GSJ© 2020 www.globalscientificjournal.com resulted that the 57% isolates of A. hydrophila possess haemolysin gene (hlyA), 130 bp. While 35% isolates were positive for aerolysin gene (aer) showing expected band at 309 bp. There was a large bacterial flora found in fish ponds although the fish farms have good and optimal conditions in Qassim area of Saudia. The bacterial specie A. hydophila also identified from this flora. A. hydophila virulence showed haemolysis activity and proteases activity the genes of hemolysin and aerolysin confirmed its virulence. INTRODUCTION Fish and fishery products are of great importance worldwide due to their nutritional value, clear health benefits and wholesome properties and the seafood are nutritive, they are highly susceptible to contamination [1] A. hydrophila has been shown to be widely distributed [2]. Aeromonas species are mainly organisms of aquatic environments and are present in fresh water, estuarine and coastal water bodies, not excluding chlorinated water [3]. While According to [4]. Aeromonas species are isolated from rivers, lakes, streams, canals, sediments, marine as well as chlorinated water especially during hot months and it can be isolated from many sources, such as food, drinking water, sewage, environmental water [5]. Moreover it can isolated from food including fish, vegetables and the intestine of apparently healthy humans with diarrhea [6]. A hydrophila are universal and opportunistic bacterium that constitutes the normal microflora of fish and can induce diseases in fish under stressful conditions and the damages induced to both wild and farmed freshwater fish population is extensive, leading to mortality and severe loss of income [7, 8]. A. hydrophila is a gramnegative, facultative anaerobic rod approximately 0.8-1.0 × 1.0-3.5 μm in size that is motile via single polar flagella that morphologically resembles members of the family Enterobacteriaceae [9] also it is oxidase and catalase positive [10]. Although Aeromonas was initially positioned in the family Vibrionaceae, successive phylogenetic analyses point out that the genus Aeromonas is not closely related to vibrios resulting in the relocation of Aeromonas from the family Vibrionaceae to a new family, the Aeromonadaceae [11]. A. hydrophila is the causative agent of MAS (Motile Aeromonas Septicemia). Both wild and GSJ: Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2020 ISSN 2320-9186 568 GSJ© 2020 www.globalscientificjournal.com farmed fishes have been reported to be affected by this disease [12]. There are many reports said A. hydrophila may play role of the disease for fishes as a causative agent of outbreaks such as hemorrhagic septicemia, ulcer syndrome, and enteritis [13]. Fish species affected by MAS include tilapia [14], catfish [15] and common carp [16]. On other hand A. hydrophila has been identified as causative agent of human diseases such as septicemia, meningitis, wound infections as a result of exposure to contaminated marine environment and diarrhea [17].Currently, the genus comprises of 17 DNA hybridization groups (HGs) or genomospecies and 14 phenospecies [18]. Aeromonas are divided into three species that are phenotypically and genetically differed namely A. hydrophila, Aeromonas caviae and Aeromonas sobria. Aeromonas species produce a variety of virulence factors, including cytotoxic and cytotonic enterotoxins, aerolysins, haemolysins, proteases, haemagglutinins and lipases [19]. The hemolysin genes it is most effective way to detecting and characterizing aeromonas virulence factors [20]. Two hemolytic toxine have been described the A. hydrophila a hemolysin (hyl A) (Hirono,I,et al 1991) and aerolysin (aer A) [21]. The 16S rRNA is very useful in classifying Aeromonas spp. up to genus level [22]. Carp fishes and catfishes the importance of the agriculture of these species increased particularly in concrete tanks, and it can be produced in many confined water bodies in Saudi Arabia. In contrast, the tilapia fishes is fast growing and it is able to growth on brackish water so this support to impartment of this fishes. Therefore, the present study was designed with a view to achieve the following objectives. The evaluation of bacterial flora in (tilapia, carp, and cat) fish pond and isolation and identification of A. hydrophila. To determine hemolysis and aerolysin genes in A. hydrophila, which is still not studied in Saudi Arabia. GSJ: Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2020 ISSN 2320-9186 569 GSJ© 2020 www.globalscientificjournal.com Materials and Methods


This paper proposes a new fuzzy logic approach to p erform analysis and detection intrusion in 802.11 wireless networks. The algorithm consists of five st p : First, construct the networks and generate man y c ses of daily traffic and intrusion. In the same time, catch diff erent values of system and network parameters and a ssoci te to them a potential degree of severity alarm. Second, generat e fuzzy rules from numerical data using Mendel Wang method. Third, implement a new rule base on each computer an d start system; then adjust it to catch parameters cyclically and compute severity alarm. If it detects intrusion, th en it will send a message to every network node. Fo urth, in case of errors or no system response would start learning m echanism by injection of numerical values and gener ate fuzzy rules.


Diabetes mellitus is one of the major leading causes of death worldwide, owing to its serious complications. Its complications are not only responsible for morbidity, disability, and mortality but also produces financial burden at individual, family, community, and national levels. As per Siddha system, tridosham or the three humours namely vatham, pitham and Kapham are in a state of equilibrium, potentiate the well-being of human body. Imbalance of any of these humours initiates the disease and its further progression. A proper channel of analyzing and refocusing the alarming disease diabetes, a parallel terminology of Madhumegam in Siddha, in the light of tridosham, it has been revealed that pitham is the prime humour to initiate the disease and the consequent alteration in kapham and vatham results in further vascular complications. Pacifying the vitiated humours by medicinal herbs based on their organoleptic characters especially taste, lays the basis of therapeutic regimen. In this constitution based individualized medicine, taste place a major role in selection of medicinal herb for an individual. This article deals with the siddha intervention of management of diabetes with special reference to the taste of herbs.


The concept of sculptured nematic thin films (SNTFs) is formalized through an inclination function that describes the SNTF morphology. A 4 x 4 matrix ordinary differential equation (MODE) for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a SNTF is set up. Propagation in the morphologically significant plane is shown to be described through two 2 x 2 MODEs. Of these two, one can be solved analytically but it is sensitive neither to the inhomogeneity nor to the anisotropy of the SNTF. The other 2 x 2 MODE has to be solved numerically, for which purpose a piecewise-uniform inclination approximation is used here; and the reflection and the transmission of parallel-polarized plane waves turn out to be sensitive to the SNTF morphology.


Between January 1981 and March 1994, neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, detected thirty-four cases of Down syndrome (DS) with thyroid dysfunction. Of these 34 infants, 14 were diagnosed as having CH and the rest had various degrees of transient thyroid dysfunction. The incidence of CH in DS is estimated to be 1 in 41, being about 100 times more frequent than in the general population. Nevertheless, the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in infants with DS was lower than that previously described in older children with DS. Periodical examination of thyroid function in children with DS is therefore recommended.


PURPOSE: A supersonic diagnosis apparatus and an output control method thereof are provided to improve user convenience by providing efficient UI(User Interface) to control the output in a combinational mode. CONSTITUTION: A user interface(110) receives an output control command. A determining unit(120) determines whether power exceeds the predetermined threshold or not. An output control unit(130) maintains the output below the threshold corresponding to a first mode. The output control unit controls other outputs included in a combinational mode except for the first mode according to the output control command.


Background: As an important part of the promotion of immunization programs and the suppression of infectious diseases, paid vaccines can prevent a variety of diseases and meet the needs of different populations. However, few studies focus on the public's intention to pay for vaccination. Methods: The survey was conducted from 10 July to 15 September 2021, adopting a cross-sectional survey in China. We used a multi-stage sampling strategy to recruit participators from 120 cities. Participants filled out questions which assessed their intentions to pay for vaccination. A linear regression analysis was given to identify the predictors associated with the subjects' attitudes. Results: There were 11,031 residents who finished our questionnaire. Chinese residents' intention to receive paid vaccines scored 74.5 points. Residents who were male (β = −0.03) and older (30–44 (β = −0.03) or 45–59 (β = −0.06) or ≥60 (β = −0.08)), living alone (β = −0.03), who had moderate to severe anxiety (β = −0.03) or severe anxiety (β = −0.03) were more likely to refuse vaccination, while those who lived in Western China (β = 0.03) who had higher PSSS scores and HLS-SF12 index might acquire the intention to pay for vaccination. Conclusions: The study found that gender, age, region, living alone, anxiety, social support, and health literacy were the main influencing factors of residents' attitudes. Governments and health institutions should take targeted measures to improve the health literacy and mental health of the population in order to facilitate the implementation of vaccination withdrawal and immunization policies.


Graphs provide powerful abstractions of relational data, and are widely used in fields such as network management, web page analysis and sociology. While many graph representations of data describe dynamic and time evolving relationships, most graph mining work treats graphs as static entities. Our focus in this paper is to discover regions of a graph that are evolving in a similar manner. To discover regions of correlated spatio-temporal change in graphs, we propose an algorithm called cSTAG. Whereas most clustering techniques are designed to find clusters that optimise a single distance measure, cSTAG addresses the problem of finding clusters that optimise both temporal and spatial distance measures simultaneously. We show the effectiveness of cSTAG using a quantitative analysis of accuracy on synthetic data sets, as well as demonstrating its utility on two large, real-life data sets, where one is the routing topology of the Internet, and the other is the dynamic graph of files accessed together on the 1998 World Cup official website.


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In this paper, we assess patterns in activity of Gulf of Mexico sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi over a 24-h period in the Pensacola bay system, Florida. Although seasonal migration of sturgeon is well documented, little information is available pertaining to daily variation in activity. We surgically implanted 58 Gulf sturgeon with acoustic transmitters in the Escambia (n = 26), Yellow (n = 8), Blackwater (n = 12) and Choctawhatchee rivers (n = 12) in June, July, September and October 2005. Gulf sturgeon location was monitored using an array of 56 fixed-station acoustic receivers. The relationship between frequency of Gulf sturgeon observations recorded on all acoustic receivers and time of day for all seasons combined indicated a strong diel activity pattern. Gulf sturgeon were frequently detected at night in all seasons with the exception of summer. Consecutive hourly observations indicated lateral movement of Gulf sturgeon between independent acoustic receivers on 15% of all observations of individuals. The use of an acoustic receiver array not only provides continuous data within a defined area, but also provides insight into nocturnal behavior of Gulf sturgeon not previously identified.


'Look Both Ways' is Sarah Watt's directorial debut that dramatises human attempts to cope with loss, death and suffering, finding a way to deal with life's randomness. The film pays great attention to detail in characterisation and dialogue, placing particular accent on reducing the verbal exchanges between characters to bare essentials and stressing the unspoken, allowing the audiences to come to their own conclusions.


Vector density is one of the most frequently used monitoring parameters of entomological surveillance under any vector control programme. Vector control applications are guided by the density of vectors or their abundance in different seasons and settings. The vectors of different common vector-borne diseases viz. malaria, filaria, kala-azar, dengue, chikungunya, Zika and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) have different bionomics. Scientists, researchers, and public health entomologists of various research institutes and programmes are engaged in studying vector bionomics through vector surveillance activities. The most common parameter used to estimate the density of vector and non-vector species of both mosquitoes and flies is the collection of species in a given unit of time. In the malaria control programme, it started as a collection of resting vector mosquitoes at a specified time of dawn and dusk. These are expressed in a number of forms viz. 'per man hour', 'per ten man hour' and 'ten man hour' to ascertain the level of vector population and its increasing or decreasing trend with climatic factors which may be correlated with the active transmission of the disease. The minimum level of density at which active transmission was evidenced has been termed as 'critical density'. Various vector species have different critical densities. Many other parameters are used to estimate vector or non-vector populations but such different units may often lead to confusion among the field functionaries. This article describes the significance of 'per man-hour density', the methodology which has been in practice for ages and the statistical method for its calculation. To avoid misconception, it should be understood that the density expressed for a particular species is the 'differential density' and not the absolute density.


The goals of this retrospective study were to determine whether there is a threshold hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA value associated with spontaneous or antiviral therapy—related hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) clearance. We also investigated whether there is an HBV DNA value that can be used for differentiating inactive carriers from patients with HBeAg‐negative chronic hepatitis B. HBV DNA levels in sequential serum samples of 165 Chinese patients with different stages of chronic HBV infection were quantified by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)—based assay. Our results showed that almost all of the patients (89%) who remained HBeAg‐positive had HBV DNA levels that were persistently above 105 copies/mL. Serum HBV DNA levels decreased by a mean of 3 log10 in patients with HBeAg loss, but 51% had levels above 105 copies/mL at the time HBeAg first became undetectable. Mean serum HBV DNA levels were significantly lower in HBeAg‐negative patients. HBV DNA value above 105 copies/mL would exclude all inactive carriers, but 45% of patients with HBeAg‐negative chronic hepatitis would also be excluded if testing were only performed at presentation and 30% would be excluded if testing were performed on 3 occasions. In conclusion, serum HBV DNA levels decreased significantly in patients with HBeAg loss, but there was no threshold HBV DNA level associated with HBeAg clearance. Given the fluctuating course of HBeAg‐negative chronic hepatitis, it is not possible to define a single cutoff HBV DNA value for differentiating inactive carriers from patients with HBeAg‐negative chronic hepatitis. (HEPATOLOGY2002;36:1408–1415).


New people at PDRL Farnaz Motamediyan (MSPI'12) will work in close collaboration with a company partner (Volvo CE) to look at an extension of her thesis project and target creativity and multi-project...


Overcoming the Challenges of Twinning and Pseudo Symmetry in Solving the Structure of Flavodoxin from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans 29577 by X-ray Crystallography


Results are presented from a search for heavy, right-handed muon neutrinos, N µ , and right-handed W R bosons, which arise in the left-right symmetric extensions of the standard model. The analysis is based on a 5.0 fb − 1 sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected by the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No evidence is observed for an excess of events over the standard model expectation. For models with exact left-right symmetry, heavy right-handed neutrinos are excluded at 95% confidence level for a range of neutrino masses below the W R mass, dependent on the value of M W R . The excluded region in the two-dimensional ( M W R , M N µ ) mass plane extends to M W R = 2.5 TeV.


This thesis will be direct to solve problems connected with supplies managing. In theoretical part it will summarize the literature facts about supplies, importance, structu-re and price of supplies, then about stores, structure and importance of stores. In analytic part will be analyse the state and developement of supplies in last two years and the state of stores and using of their potential.


The light and heavy liquid water (H2O–D2O) mixtures in the 0–1 molar fraction were studied in the mid-infrared by Fourier transform infrared attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy. Five principal factors were retrieved by factor analysis (FA). When D2O is mixed with H2O, the HDO formed because of the hopping nature of the proton (H or D) results in three types of molecules in equilibrium. Because of the nearest-neighbor interactions, the three molecules give rise to nine species. Some of the species evolve concomitantly with other species giving the five principal factors observed. We present the spectra of these factors with their abundances. The calculated probability of the species present at different molar fractions which when the concomitant species are combined gives the observed abundances. To appreciate clearly the difference between the principal spectra, a Gaussian simulation of the bands was made. Because of the numerous components that make up the stretch bands, they are not ver...


The author hopes to point out the existing interconnection between the legal
principles advocated in former times by Beccaria, the distinguished criminal lawyer, and the
current dogmatic that dominates the criminal law. And not only proving the validity and
interaction of those postulates at our current times, but that it recognized that they are
parameters of justice and of social legitimacy.


At the end of the 1920s Aleksander Wat quits publishing his literary texts and focuses on editorial and journalistic activity thus developing the model of a romantic "rigorist of action" created by Adam Mickiewicz. The purpose of this article is, first of all, to compare the ideological postulates of Mickiewicz and Wat regarding the relationship between language and action, as well as to demonstrate the convergence of their social and political background. Secondly — I will examine the journalistic activity of Wat from the period of "Miesiecznik Literacki" (1929–1930): analyze his critique of Futurism (as too "literary" and only apparently engaged) and a new formula of non-fiction (presented in essays devoted to the social role of reportage).


Recently,network in all aspects of application is more and more widely in universities,such as teaching,scientific research,school management,teachers' professional development,the student individuality development and other fields. How to manage network reasonably and effectively is an important work. For discovering and solving problems of network timely in the case of unattended,a monitoring system of universities' network based on Cacti EZ technology was proposed in this paper. The failure and recovery information of the current network equipment could be obtained using Cacti EZ technology real-timely. Then it could be sent to the managers by email.It could shorten the time of trouble shooting and improve the efficiency of network management.


The material discussed in this chapter concerns the experiential qualities and representations of how urban dwellers may occupy the city. The chapter aims at a better understanding of the multisensory city and at exploring how its mediations could add to representing, describing and designing city spaces in different and innovative ways. By advancing a new spectrum of experience and engagement, designers have the potential to shape the cities that are re-presented. Currently, there is a gap between the 'planned' and the 'lived' city and a lack of focus on socio-spatial practices often prevents a 'potential' city from becoming an 'effective' city. In order to bridge the gap, we can read the city in a different way, paying more attention to actual patterns of activity, in sensory terms. To do this we must look to multi- and interdisciplinary studies with a spatial focus on different sensory dimensions and urban life.


"Most people are convinced that Albert Einstein is one of the greatest geniuses in huma n history, and his special theory of relativity is one of the greatest achievements of science say the authors of the book, two German physicists, Georg Galeczki and Peter Marquardt. So we earlier thought . B t now we must conclude that the opposite is true, because research has shown: the genius was wrong!" And further, on 276 pages the scientists gathered together all the critical alleg ations of Einstein's theory. But the main conclusion is given in the subtitle: "The theory of relativity is already outda ted." This scientific criticism reads like a detective story, because the case conc rns the false arguments, objections that have been ignored, researchers who were simply bribed ... Criminal history begins in the second half of the XIX century, when Englishman James Cl erk Maxwell and Heinrich Hertz of Germany have developed a theory of light and electromagnetic waves . According to it the light has wave nature. But since we are dealing with waves, you need a medium in whi ch they could propagate. This medium was called ether. Immediately the question arose: whethe r the ether is stationary in relation to Earth? And if it moves, how to measure its speed? The issue was taken to by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley, who in 1881 performed his famous experiment. They measured the speed of light reflecting between the two mirrors. Dur ing the first series of experiments, the light was moving in the same direction as the Earth, and the second in the opposit direction. As a result, Michelson and Morley got the difference in the speed of light. Acc ording to their calculations, the speed of ether wind was equal to 8 km/sec. However, the instruments at t hat time were very imperfect, and the measurement error could seriously distort the result obtained. N ev rtheless, even Michelson and Morley didn't believed very strongly in the results obtained. But instead to care fully check the data again, the experiments were simply abandoned, and in textbooks of physics begins to reign conviction: the speed of light is always the same, and therefore, there is no ether wind. Requiem for the theory? http://nasa_ktp.republika.pl/Requiem_uk.html


of and faculty Our research indicates that current university-sponsored post-bacc programs are highly successful in strengthening students' preparation for graduate school by providing opportunities for advanced coursework, mentorship, faculty-directed research, and exposure to cohort and community-building strategies. But these programs are expensive to operate, lack scale, and frequently fail to recruit or admit candidates from less selective institutions where the largest number of talented students of color and lower-income backgrounds start their postsecondary journeys. In this sense, the traditional academic gatekeeping and rationing that limit access to current post-bacc programs symbolize the metaphorical distance between opportunity and privilege that continue to constrain diversity and equity within the academy.


Many cities in China are seeking to establish cloud computing facilities for public and business services. However, despite large investments in the cloud, there are still several barriers to strategic cloud deployment in China.


Operation state of composting plant was evaluated by using evaluation theory of fuzzy math,which not only overcame the unilateral trait of single or few guidelines,and reflected its characteristic involving multi-factor,multi-variable and multi-layer,but also embodied its fuzziness.


A B S T R A C T Five agro-residues namely sugarcane bagasse, sugarcane tops, sugarcane trash, corn husk and corn stover with particle sizes of 0.5 mm, 1.0 mm and 10.0 mm were subjected for pretreatments with different lignolytic fungi. The pretreatment with Phanerochaete chrysosporium resulted in maximum weight loss in 0.5 mm particle size at the end of 30 days incubation. This fungi produced the cellulose yield 0.427, 0.407, 0..400, 0.413 and 0.413 (g/g) in sugarcane bagasse, sugarcane tops, sugarcane trash, corn husk and corn stover, respectively with particles size of 0.5 mm in 30 days incubation period however did not show much increase in hemicelluloses content. The fungi Pleurotus florida had resulted in a maximum reduction in lignin content between 28.57 and 30.07% in the particles of size 0.5 mm in the substrates. K e y w o r d s


in some cases, their partners are not white native speakers or their destinations are not English-speaking countries. Revisiting language desire, chapter 7 concludes that the concept of desire 'is continually shaped and reshaped in relation to experiences of negotiation of identity in the communities in which language users are located' (p.146). The chapter also suggests several implications of language desire for English education and Japanese society. This book clearly shows that the desire for language and culture canmediate language use and learning by encouraging certain images of idealized speakers and cultural artifacts. This study offers a meaningful framework for future research into transnational flows and transformations of linguistic and cultural resources in an era of globalization, arguing that practices based on desire interact with social conditions and ideological components.


(1) An arc spectrographic detection and estimation of gallium was studied. (2) The gallium content of a number of hot springs of Japan was estimated.


The village-town enterprise is a vast history development in our country, but it still has lots of defects,Especially the layout conflicts with the development of the town. With the market economy system finally founded, we must as soon as possible establish and perfect relevant policies,improve the scientific and reasonable layout of enterprises in towns and, continuously increase our country's development of the town.


Much has been written about Norwegian noun phrases, or those of the Scandinavian languages in general, including several book-length treatments within different theoretical models (Lodrup 1989, Delsing 1993, Borjars 1998, Julien 2005), still the book under review here offers a truly original perspective on the topic. The book is a slightly revised version of the author's PhD thesis from University of Tromso, and according to the author, the book 'presents a unified, economic account of the intricate relationship between form, meaning and interpretation in the Norwegian Nominal System, in its own right and on its own terms.' (p. 1) The approach taken is described as 'Post-chomskyan Bouchardian Neo-Saussurean' (p. 3).


The present outbursts of nationalism in postsocialist eastern European countries are a reaction to the long years of Communist Party rule which have destroyed the traditional fabric of society and dismantled most points of social identification. Thus when people now attempt to distance themselves from the official ideological universe, the only positive reference point at their disposal is their national identity. In the new struggles for ideological hegemony, national identification is used by the former opposition as well as by the old party forces, where they still exist. On the one hand, national identity serves as a support for the formation of a specific version of the "moral majority" (in Poland, Slovenia, and Croatia), which conceives of Christian values as the ideological "cement" holding together the nation and demands the prohibition of abortion and other such regressive measures; on the other hand, the former Communist Party in some countries (Serbia, for example) has assumed an authoritarian populist-nationalist discourse, thus producing a specific mixture of orthodox communist elements and elements usually associated with fascism (a violent mass movement structured around a charismatic leader and directed toward an


By introducing a set of mode-shape expanded formulations and making use of all kinds of conditions about orthogonality and normalization which are subject to different corresponding dynamic system,we deduce an accurate algorithm with uniform analysis for computing mode-shape sensitivities.The expressions of the methods are concise,and the performance is easy.Then it can be efficiently applied to the fields of modal updating,damage identification,and structural optimization.


Abstract Data from literature and a stoichiometric material balance model were employed to estimate associated emissions with flaring of sweet gas in Nigerian oil and gas companies. Emission factors were obtained using AP 42 formula. Results showed that thousands of tonnes, ranging from 6500 to 22,000 tonnes of natural gas were flared from 1997 to 2016. At flaring stack efficiencies of 97% and 98%, the associated emissions are: CH4, C2H6, C3H8, iC4H10, nC4H10, iC5H12, nC5H12, C6H14, C7H16, C8H18, C9H20, CO2, and N2 from unburnt natural gas and in addition to CO2, CO, N2, NO, NO2, H2O and H2 from incomplete combustion. At both flaring stack efficiencies, the amount of emissions from unburnt condition ranged from1,608 tonnes N2 to 9,146 tonnes CO2 all higher than any emission standards in the world, while the amounts of emissions from incomplete combustion ranged from 467,964 tonnes for CO2 the lowest to 2,476,011 tonnes for N2 the highest all higher than any emission standards in the globe. Emission factors of emissions from unburnt natural gas ranged from 0.000090 tonne/tonne for C10H22 to 0.026235 tonne/tonne for CH4 while those of the emissions from incomplete combustion ranged from 0.10285 tonne/tonne for H2 to 1.13137 for CO2 tonne/tonne. It was observed that thousands of tonnes of emissions are released into the atmosphere during flaring of sweet natural gas either at complete or incomplete combustion. It is recommended that flaring of natural gas should be reduced to a minimal level to safeguard the environment.


According to the service data of pressure tap' data,the macroscopic model of water distribution system in Xi'an was founded by means of statistical regression analysis,which was based on present status of water distribution system and pressure tap's data which was selected by integrated utilization of correlative variable coefficient and variable standard deviation of pressure tap's data.On the whole,the model,which was the base to schedule the water supply of every water plant,can reflect relation of the quantum of water supply and hydraulic pressure.