Nicardipine is a second-generation dihidropyridine calcium antagonist with relative coronary and cerebrovascular selectivity. To study the effects of nicardipine on systolic and diastolic myocardial function, we used three experimental models. In isolated feline papillary muscle, nicardipine produced a dose-dependent calcium antagonistic effect manifested by depressed indexes of contraction and relaxation. In an autoregulating blood-perfused isolated rabbit heart preparation, nicardipine markedly increased coronary blood flow and slightly decreased systolic pressure at a given end-diastolic pressure. The systolic pressure and +dP/dt versus volume curves, however, were shifted to the left during nicardipine administration, indicating improved systolic function. This increase was accompanied by decreased volume elastance and is probably due, at least in part, to the coronary turgor effect. In humans at rest, intravenous nicardipine administration produced pronounced coronary and systemic vasodilation with improved left ventricular systolic performance and enhanced relaxation accompanied by reflex sympathetic activation. With exercise to ischemia, nicardipine preserved the salutary effects on left ventricular function seen at rest and significantly blunted the increase in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure observed in the control setting. Administration of intracoronary nicardipine to patients produced a slight and transient depression of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function that was accompanied by a pronounced coronary vasodilator response and later by improved ventricular function. This improvement was manifested by decreased end-systolic volume and increased +dP/dt without changes in heart rate, arterial pressure, end-diastolic pressure, or end-diastolic volume. Global diastolic function indexes, including the time constant for isovolumic relaxation, peak filling rate normalized for stroke volume, and volume elastance, were unaltered. Thus, the pharmacology of nicardipine with regard to myocardial function is complex, and the net results seen in a given situation can represent the summation of a variety of different effects that can be difficult to dissect in vivo. (Circulation 1990;81(suppl III):III-139-III-147)


All-dielectric metasurfaces based on high-index particles with large aspect ratio for efficient manipulation of electromagnetic waves in visible and microwave frequency domains are discussed. Microwave metasurface exhibiting the multiband unidirectional response insensitive to the polarization of the incident wave is demonstrated. A novel type of all-dielectric metasurfaces which support dominant toroidal dipole response over a wide frequency range in the visible is proposed.


The article analyzes the political and diplomatic relations of the Ottoman Empire and the Central Asian khanates on the basis of documents from Turkic-language sources introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. An analysis of the Ottoman and Central Asian documents, identified by us in the Turkic-speaking sources, led to the conclusion that initially the ideas of a political union and unification with the Ottoman Empire on the basis of a single religion came from the Central Asian rulers. The revealed materials allow shedding light on the history of relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Central Asian khanates in the first half of the 19th -early 20th centuries. On the basis of previously unknown documents, the course and chronology of relations between the Central Asian states and the Ottoman Empire are considered, their assessment is given through the prism of the ideological ideas about the place of religion in the life of society


We present a three dimensional radiative transfer model (the High Energy Astrophysics Radiative Transfer (HEART) code) to explain the broadband spectra from various high energy astrophysical objects. Our code can recreate many emitting region geometries, including inhomogeneous plasma distributions, as well as take into account all the important radiative transfer mechanisms such as Compton scattering, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung radiation and Coulomb scattering. The kinetic equation is used to accurately model evolving electron/positron distributions. With time-dependent modelling of these phenomena we attempt to further our understanding of the underlying mechanisms giving rise to the broadband spectra.


Abstract Global textile and clothing (T&C) export restraints had been enforced for nearly 50 years under the Short-Term Arrangement, Long-Term Arrangement, and the Multi-fibre Arrangement. With the formation of the World Trade Organization in 1995, a 10-year quota phasing out transitional period governed by the Agreement on Textile and Clothing was agreed with quota abolition by the end of 2004. This paper analyses the T&C exports from developed and developing countries under the Multi-fibre Arrangement and Agreement on Textile and Clothing from 1990 to 2004 and reveals that there existed a gradual shift of increasing T&C exports by developing countries. The scenarios for the 20 leading global T&C exporters, which assumed 80%–90% of the global export value, were analysed separately by time-series regression modelling during the prescribed period. Results showed that developed countries were seriously affected in the past 15 years and some developing countries would likely become potential global leaders in T&C exports with the abolishment of quotas.


In this paper, a 12-bit voltage output D/A converter developed in linear compatible CMOS (LC2MOS) were described. The schematic diagram of the converter is provided to show the converter's operational principle. In developing the 12-bit D/A converter, the optimization of two unit circuits is focused. The 12-bit voltage-output DA converter finds wide use in the data acquisition and feedback control system in the fields of communication and radar.


This research aimed to explore the factors having an effect on enhanced active pupil participation in the context of the sustainable school. The research was applied during a school year to a primary school in Lavrion (Greece), with the participation of two teachers and pupils from two classes of the upper two grades. Action Research was the method selected to organise the research conducted in the framework of a school programme focusing on sustainable waste management. It involved activities both at school and within the local community. An analysis of research results showed that specific perceptions of both pupils and teachers, some of the features of the learning processes adopted, and the current school culture were the determining factors, either facilitating, or inhibiting active pupil participation. The action research enabled teachers not only to identify factors inhibiting active pupil participation, but also to intervene to manage them.


ABSTRACT This study responds to the demands of the rapidly changing landscape of education, the 21st century competencies and development of curriculum. Those competences are being interpreted all over the world resulting to differing curricular changes. In the Finnish National Core Curriculum 2016 they are presented as seven transversal competences that guide all subject-specific instruction and must also be addressed through multidisciplinary learning modules. Our analysis aims to connect the relevant curriculum theory and new perspectives to everyday school practices. The perspective is that of the teacher education students: how the student teachers experience the demands and possibilities of the new national curriculum. A science teaching/learning module for promoting the Big ideas of Science education was introduced to them in an out-of-school environment. The results show how confident the student teachers (N = 108) were when facing the challenge of integrating the competences into teaching. The future use of this type of pedagogy was predicted by the Structural Equation path model. The results show that in general integration of the competences was not experienced as hard, but it was more challenging to figure out how to fit them into the daily school routines and timetables.


The effect of a sterile crude extract from the frozen Anisakis simplex Rudolphi, 1809 (Dujardin, 1845) third stage larvae on the transplantable culture of mammalian cells is described. At the first time fibroblasts cells line Vero (from African green monkey, kidney) obtained from the «BioloT», St Petersburg, Russia, on a nutrient media EMEM were used. In the in vitro conditions a significant antiproliferative action of crude somatic extract expressed by complete destruction of the monolayer of fibroblast-like cells after 48 hours of cultivation is proven. Therefore, our results can be regard as a manifestation of a pronounced inhibitory effect of the studied extract on the proliferation of Vero culture, which is of considerable interest in the field of cell technology and Parasitology and may be use as the basis for subsequent experiments to study the pathogenesis and prevention of anisakiasis in humans and animals.


A kind of smart water level detection system is designed by adopting the design plan of smart water level sensor and transmitter composed ADμC812 MCU.The author introduces the hardware configuration such as the signal detection and modulation circuit,signal transmitter interface circuit and software flow like signal sampling,scales transformation conversion,signal compensation and so on.The test result indicates that the output voltage and water level of the sensor show linear relationship,the sensor can be used for water level detection of boiler.


Hu Zi's Tiaoxi Yu Yin Ts'ung Hua was an accomplished work at the start of the Southern Sung period, when scholars favored Yuan-You studies. At the time, a growing liberal political environment resulted in this book honoring Yuan-You academic achievements by advocating prestigious poets such as Su Shih and Huang Ting-Jian. The collected works contain many canonical compositions of the Northern Sung era, with elaborate comments and documentaries, marked "Tiaoxi Yu Yin Yueh" as the general note. It not only supplements The Anthology of Poetry, in which certain works were banned (due to censorship), but also preserves the detailed characteristic formation of Sung poetry. As everyone knows, Su Shih and Huang Ting-Jian promote the characteristic formation of Sung poetry, and we could realize this process through Hu Zi's comments on these two poets. Hu's comments on Su and Huang's works show two aims: first, to uphold Yuan-You studies, to commend the two masters' personalities and literary styles, and to act out "following Du Fu and accompanying with the Poetic School of Jiangxi;" and second, to elaborate the allusions and source of Su and Huang's poems, reflecting the style "every word has its allusions" and the fashion "use knowledge to write poems." These are the key points that differentiate Sung and Tang poetry. An examination of "Tiaoxi Yu Yin Yueh" reveals that Hu Zi uses a variety of sources from different schools to collect various documentaries of that time. As Taoist Pai-Shih Shih Shuo states, the original function of Shihua is to help beginners compose their own poems. However, it could also help veterans learn from each other by exchanging views. This is perhaps the reason that Hu Zi holds Tiaoxi Yu Yin Ts'ung Hua in such high esteem.


These research results indicate that the quality of relevant literature on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment of ION is generally subpar. Future research should focus on studies where the intervention is acupuncture treatment and standardized and rigorous multi-center large-sample clinical trials.


The core-shell morphology study is crucial for composite materials, comprised of a low conductive core with a highly conductive thin carbon shell. The study analyzed carbon morphology evolution for the two series of Li4Ti5O12/C samples with carbon content increasing from 0.9 to 5.6 wt%. The conventional X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) study allowed us to conclude about the efficiency threshold of carbon layer growth over lithium titanate core for two carbon deposition methods – both sucrose and acetylene decompositions. Although the carbon layer thickness is increasing with carbon concentration growth in LTO/C composites, the efficiency of carbon coverage was shown to decrease with the threshold carbon concentrations about 1–2%. The chemical bonding analysis based on the same XPS data was used for C@LTO interface characterization. The proposed approach can be used for optimization of producing different composites with core-shell structure (carbon-based composites, materials with protective layers, and materials with gradient core-shell structure). © The Author(s) 2018. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [DOI: 10.1149/2.0031903jes]


In this paper,characteristics and principle of aerosol fire-extinguishing agent were discussed with some examples.An essentiality concerned super-fine powders theory was put forward for developing the product. Oxygen balance precondition is for a fine particle fire-extinguishing agent.The fine particle fire-extinguishing agent possesses better effect.


This study aims to find empirical evidence about the effect of budget participation, participation in strategic planning, motivation, organizational commitment, budgetary slack. The sampling method used in this study was purposive sampling method and obtained 15 research samples as an observation item found in Banten Province. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) software. The results of this study indicate that the variable Budget Participation has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment, participation in strategic planning has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment, Motivation variables have a positive and significant effect on Organizational Commitment, Organizational commitment has a positive and significant effect on Budgetary Slack, Motivation has a negative effect against Budgetary Slack, Budget Participation has a positive and significant effect on Budgetary Slack.


To increase the reliability of the skin test of herpes simplex virus, procedures in the preparation of soluble antigen from virus-infected chorioallantoic membrane of hen eggs were standardized. The product was stored in a lyophilized state for less than three months before tests, and the antigen after reconstitution was used at a constant concentraion in terms of units of complement-fixing antigen, i.e. 2 units per 0.1 ml. A total of 220 individuals, who were normal healthy persons or patients with non-herpetic diseases, were tested with the antigen and simultaneously bled for the purpose of serological tests. A good correlation was found between the result of the skin test, which was determined by the size of erythema read 2 days following inoculation, and the titer of complement-fixing antibody, with the exception of a minority of the persons whose skin reaction to the above antigen was obscured by appearance of nonspecific reaction. Neutralizing antibody titers also paralleled the results of the above two tests.


The following theorem is proved: Assume X is an irreducible complex character of the finite group G and G is 7r-solvable where ir is the set of prime divisors of x(1). Then G contains an element of order f(x). Introduction. All groups in this paper are finite. The question referred to in the title is the following: Let X be an irreducible complex character of a finite group G and let f(x) be the smallest positive integer such that {X(g)1g9 EG} C Q(a) where a is a primitive f(X)th root of unity. Does G contain an element of order f (x)? By using factorizations of quasi-primitive irreducible characters into products of characters we obtain the following result: THEOREM. Assume X is an irreducible complex character of a finite group G and C is xr-solvable where r is the set of primes dividing x(1). Then G contains an element of order f(x). This theorem yields the following Corollary which was proved independently by Amit and Chillag [1]. COROLLARY. If X is an irreducible character of a solvable group C, then G contains an element of order f(x). We wish to thank Professor I. M. Isaacs and the referee for carefully reading the original manuscript and making helpful suggestions. In particular, the notation f (x) was suggested by Professor Isaacs in honor of W. Feit. 1. We introduce some definitions and notation. Let a be a nonempty set of primes and h be an element in a group C, h is a a-element if (h) is a a-group. Any g E G may be written uniquely as g = g,ga,9 where g9 is a a-element, g,' is a a'-element and both g9 and g,' are powers of g. The elements 9a and g,' are called the a-part and a'-part of g. If Q is a Galois extension of the field Ql, C(Q/I1) denotes the Galois group of over Q1. If X E Irr(G) and a is a set of primes, then X is a-special provided that x(1) is a u-number and that for all subnormal subgroups S of G and all irreducible constituents 0 of Xs, the determinantal order O(0) is a a-number. PROOF OF THEOREM. The result is clear for linear characters so by induction on x(l) we assume that the theorem is true for irreducible characters b and groups H satisfying the hypothesis if D(1) < x(1). If X = j,G where b E Irr(H) and Received by the editors January 30, 1985 and, in revised form, May 1, 1985. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 20C15.


Our goal is to recover and extend the difficult results of George Hagedorn (1994) on the propagation of coherent states in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the case of generic crossings of eigenvalues of the (matrix valued) classical Hamiltonian. This problem, going back to Landau and Zener in the thirties, is often called the "Mode Conversion Problem" by physicists and occurs in many domains of physics (see the paper [23] by W. Flynn and R. Littlejohn). We want to obtain a geometrical description of the propagation of states in the framework of semi-classical analysis and WKB-Lagrangian states. It turns out that, in the very beautiful (but not well known!) paper [7] published in 1993, Peter Braam and Hans Duistermaat found that there is a formal normal form for this problem. A formal normal form for the dispersion relation were already founded by Arnold [3]. In our paper, we show, using Nelson's wave operators method, that, in the hyperbolic case, their normal form can be extended to a local normal form in the phase space. Then, we extend this classical local normal form to the complete symbol, getting a microlocal normal form, and derive from it a precise geometric description of the semi-classical propagation of states of a symmetric system of pseudo-differential equations near a generic hyperbolic codimension 3 singularity of the characteristic set (defined by the so called "dispersion relation"). We describe in a sketchy way the elliptic case. The complex Hermitian case will be worked out in [10].


The prospective study was conducted in the Department of Gastroenterology, THQ Hospital, from April 2021 to April 2022 to evaluate the association between mucosa-associated psychological functioning and intestinal microbiota in IBD remission patients. The study was conducted on 200 patients with comparable numbers of UC and CD. At inclusion, clinical phenotyping of disease status, including disease activity, was done using modified Truelove and Witt's activity index (MTWAI) and CD activity index (CDAI). Biopsies were used for DNA extraction. The microbial profile of UC and CD patients was evaluated in correlation to depression. Like anxiety, the highest taxonomic changes were noted in the Firmicutes phylum. Many negative correlations were noted between the abundance of various taxa in Firmicutes phylum and depression. An analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between anxiety, the abundance of certain microbial taxa, and the quality of life (QoL) of individuals with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). The results showed that there was a significant correlation between anxiety and a relative increase of taxa in CD only. Additionally, the QoL of those with CD had a negative correlation with the increase in taxa. For UC, the relationship was partly accurate. However, higher QoL was associated with the abundance of the RF32 family and Sutterella, indicating that these taxa could be potential markers of favorable outcomes.


The present invention, edge width is narrow, an object of the present invention to provide edge-specific peak detection is possible to measure even higher precision is difficult pattern charged particle beam apparatus. To achieve the above object, a charged particle beam (1, 2 (a)) the opening forming member having a passage opening (31), the charged particles emitted from the sample (23), or the charged particles detector for detecting charged particles generated by impinging on the opening forming member (28 (a), 28 (b)) a charged particle beam apparatus provided with the charged particles emitted from the sample deflector for deflecting unit (33 (a), 33 (b)) and, a control device (40) for controlling the deflector, the control device, among a plurality of edges on the specimen, the first edge a first detection signal which signal is emphasized with respect to relatively other edge of the signal, among the plurality of edges, the signal of the other edge is emphasized with respect to relatively the first edge of the signal by using the second detection signal, to perform pattern measurement charged To propose a child-ray device.


The sections in this article are

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Introduction

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Formation and Migration of Oil

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Oil Reserves Classification

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Oil Resources

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Oil Production History and Reserves Development

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Oil Production Forecast
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Oil Production Based on Currently Producing Fields

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Oil Production from Discovered Fields that Will be Developed

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Oil Production from Yet to be Found Fields

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Oil Production Due to Additional Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and UnconventionalOil Production
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Oil Production from Natural Gas Liquids

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Impact of CO2 Emissions

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Oil Price Outlook

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Discussion and Conclusion

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carbon dioxide emission


Objective To analyze and explore the causes of bone cement leakage in percutaneous vertebroplasty(PVP). Methods Clinical data about 105(146 vertebrae) patients who were treated by percutaneous vertebroplasty in our department from March 2011 to February 2014 were retrospectively analyzed. Postoperative X-ray and CT examination were performed in order to observe the bone cement leakage and analyze the related causes. Results The bone cement leaked in 47(63 vertebrae) patients with 4 cases in vertebral canal, 4 cases in neural foramen, 8 cases in intervertebral disk, 10 cases on the side of the vertebrae, 7 cases in veins and the other 14 cases at the site of the puncture, and the rate of leakage was 43.15%. The main reasons of the bone cement leakage were inaccurate needle direction in 15 cases, repeated puncture in 13 cases, inappropriate time of bone cement injection in 9 cases, excessive amount of bone cement injection in 7 cases, and unclear imaging equipment in 3 cases. Conclusion Cement leakage is a common complication of PVP. This study shows that the main reasons of the bone cement leakage are inaccurate needle direction, repeated puncture, inappropriate time of bone cement injection, excessive amount of bone cement injection, and unclear imaging equipment.


World's "Little Red Songbooks," whose songs he barely touches upon, for example, can fill several books on their own. Many of these songs, like those in Rebel Voices, Joyce Kornbluh's 1988 classic anthology of the many memorable IWW songs that resonated in New Deal strikes, post war civil rights and New Left protest movements, became the voice of the mid-century folk revival, of what Pete Seeger and Sing Out magazine popularized as "songs of social significance." "Life Flows On" builds on this tradition, although not in a sustained way. Still, it is a lovely read with fascinating origin tales of many songs readers will delight in remembering. It is not, however, a history of folk songs as folk songs. Wells concludes with an autobiographical chapter on Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) and Woody Guthrie, but his focus remains on the songs they wrote and sang, less on the folk revival that swirled about them. Anecdotes are lively, engaging and fascinating, but the analysis tends to treat texts literally, as documents mostly of the moment they are written. Two of Wells' own criteria for folk song—their aurality/orality and the embedded (and invented) traditions of song—are deeply historical processes of transmission and change, and the thematic chapters strain to illuminate those characteristics. Wells occasionally notes how new lyrics emerged with different times, but it is never at the core of his project, which is more descriptive than analytic. He is at his best when he acknowledges the songs often have subtexts, irony, and reflect the carnivalesque, and I only wish for more such analysis. But as his too-brief Introduction forecast, this is not a theorized discussion of the folk as an invented tradition, or of the revivals that championed some songs and not others, or of the people who sang them and the values and attitudes they may have brought to them. Yet, like I, readers will enjoy tales of the origins of many of the songs we still sing variously as lullabies, patriotism and protest and begin to think of how those meanings resonate (or not).


Although the host-guest chemistry of cucurbit[n]uril (CB[n]) has been studied extensively over the last decade, their applications were little explored until recently due to the lack of functionalization methods and their poor solubility in common organic solvents. The direct functionalization method of CB[n] developed recently not only solved the solubility problem but also opened up the way to synthesize various tailor-made CB[n] derivatives. Furthermore, the functionalization of CB[n] allowed us to explore numerous applications of CB[n] derivatives. The aim of this thesis is to develop CB[n]-based functional materials useful for biological applications, such as targeted drug delivery, antiadhesion therapy, and biogenic amine sensor.
Chapter 2 describes novel carbohydrate clusters in which a number of carbohydrate moieties are attached to the periphery of a rigid cucurbit[6]uril (CB[6]) scaffold like a wheel. Multiple copies of carbohydrates on a CB[6] scaffold enhance the affinity and selectivity in the binding with protein. CB[6]-based glucose, galactose, and mannose clusters (GlcCB[6], GalCB[6], and ManCB[6], respectively) were synthesized and fully characterized. Turbidimetric assay illustrated the specific and multivalent interaction between the CB[6]-based carbohydrate clusters and concanavalin A (ConA). Isothermal titration calorimetry established that ManCB[6] behaves as a trivalent ligand to ConA with a binding constant K = (1.9 ∂ 0.2) ⊥ 105 M?V1, which is almost 25 times higher than that of monomeric methyl-??-mannopyranose (Me-??Man) to ConA. The new type of carbohydrate clusters forms stable host-guest complexes with a wide range of guest molecules including FITC-spermine conjugate by taking advantage of the cavity provided by the CB[6] scaffold. Intracellular translocation experiments demonstrated the facile delivery of FITC-spermine@Gal-CB[6] into HepG2 cells which recognized the galactose moieties of the complex. The specificity and enhanced binding affinity due to the multivalency suggest the potential utility of the CB-based carbohydrate clusters in targeted drug delivery.
Chapter 3 describes pseudopolyrotaxanes (ManCB[6]@PV) formed by ManCB[6]s threaded on a polyviologen (PV) linear polymer to increase the multivalent effects. This type of structures offer a flexible and dynamic platform for the multivalent display of ligands, which provides even stronger multivalent interactions with bacteria, and may thus show an effective inhibitory activity for bacterial binding onto epithelial cells. Mannose units on ManCB[6]@PV selectively interacted with the FimH proteins on ORN 178 E. coli strain and thus efficiently aggregated the bacteria. The hemagglutination inhibition assay showed that ManCB[6]@PV exhibit a 300-fold enhancement over Me-??Man. The ability of ManCB[6]@PV to inhibit ORN 178 bacterial binding to the urinary epithelial cell (UROtsa cell) was investigated in vitro by flow cytometry. In the absence of the ManCB[6]@PV, the FITC-labeled ORN178 significantly interacts with…


Early years - (1944-1958) youth and politics - (1958-1966) Dar Es Salaam University - (1967-1970) a brief historical review fighting Amin (1-4) - (1972-1979) the Uganda National Liberation Front - (1979-1980) fighting Obote (1-2) - (1981-1983).


Synthetic polymers commonly lack any sizable extension into the second dimension (thickness) and are best described as more or less flexible threads. Recently there have been two synthetic approaches to address the problem of how to make macromolecules "thick": one is referred to as molecular brushes, the other as dendromized polymers. Dendromized polymers (denpols) differ from molecular brushes in that their side chains are not linear but highly and regularly branched (dendrons), which results in a considerable density of molecular segments in the direct neighborhood of the central backbone. Denpols, especially those of higher generation, have the built-in character of a cylindrical object, a feature which found application in basic experiments in nanoscience in which the bottom-up approach was investigated. These objects can reach lengths of several hundred nanometers and widths of 5–7 nm depending on their chemical structure and generation number and, in this regard, are amongst the largest molecules ever prepared. It seems difficult, for both synthetic and space reasons, to extend the denpol concept to a degree such that the dimensions of biologically relevant cylindrical objects such as the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV envelope: diameter 18 nm, length ca. 300 nm) can be mimicked. Therefore, we set out to merge the brush and denpol concepts. Herein, we report a joint synthetic and scanning force microscopy (SFM) inves-


The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) will require large aperture quadrupole magnets for the Hadron beam in the insertion region. Key requirements include high field, compact size, and tight control of the fringe fields. A 120 mm aperture, 308.4 mm outer diameter actively shielded ${\rm {Nb}}_{3}{\rm {Sn}}$ quadrupole model is under development to support these goals. This work is being carried out by a collaboration of BNL, JLAB and LBNL. A compact shell-based structure preloaded with a bladder and key system was developed for this project. In this paper, the effect of the compact structure on the mechanical behavior was investigated. In particular, the impact of the assembly tolerances and coil size variations on the actual coil stresses and bladder pressures was computed and compared with results from larger bladder and key structures developed for the LHC IR. The longitudinal preload is provided by stainless steel rods. Differently from other bladder and key magnets, the rods are first preloaded axially before coil axial load is applied. This new design aims to increase the overall stiffness of the system and reduce the longitudinal coil displacement during powering. Based on the results of a 3D mechanical analysis, the preliminary pre-load targets for the EIC quadrupole assembly will be reviewed and discussed.


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It has been almost forty years since Richard Poirier began Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing by adverting to the prevailing assumption that Frost "is more easily read than are his contemporaries." Despite subsequent interventions by readers as "strenuous"—it is Poirier's word—as William Pritchard, Katherine Kearns, and Mark Richardson, the assumption persists. That a modern poet ought to be difficult, and that Frost's poems are not, remains a predisposition that many readers of Frost, if I may judge at least from the behavior of my students, continue to bring to the page. Frost's strongest poems often take as their subject the expectation that they will go under-read, with "The Road Not Taken" being the most famous case in point. When teaching the poem I continue to be astonished at its power to disarm an attentive reading and to encourage instead a careless and self-congratulatory one. "'The Road Not Taken,'" I say to the class. "What do you think of when you hear that title?" Invariably the students answer with, "Oh, yeah, the road less traveled by." This is the takeaway; this is the line written in order to be remembered. And Frost knows we will remember it. He knows we will remember it and carry it with us, like a talisman or a magic ring, just as we are likely to do something similar with another takeaway line, "'Good fences make good neighbors.'" What we are less likely to remember, or to find too burdensome to carry with us, is another line from "Mending Wall," "He will not go behind his father's saying." Going behind what is being said sounds like a formula for a kind of literary criticism students assume to be on the teacher's mind when


MIMO for wireless communication is an antenna based technology where multiple antennas at each end are used to minimize the bit errors, optimize speed and data integrity also it meant for improvement of the efficiency and reliability of a system. Conventional technology which use single antenna at both source and destination results in problems such as fading, cut-off, intermittent reception. To extend coverage area, data rate, quality of service etc. several systems have been come up with goal of low complexity and having high gain. This paper describes and evaluates various types of transmit diversity techniques namely MRC, STTC and STBC and relay selection algorithms wherein evaluation is done by using Amplify and Forward and Decode and Forward protocols. The proposed approach uses Alamouti (STBC) on transmitter side followed by AF and then DF by relay to achieve highest gain, and to improve the spectral efficiency.


Spam filtering is seen as the considerable concern to the researchers, and there are some techniques and email filtering systems are implemented. They are, however, not so effective for Vietnamese language. Although methods for filtering English spam email can be still used in Vietnamese language, but Vietnamese has its own particular characteristic. The biggest difference is a signified word in Vietnamese usually a compound. When a compound used in spam email is separated into single words, it becomes words that are usually used in both spam and ham emails. This leads to the difficulty for the system to filter spam emails. The objective of this paper is to present a new model using the application of Naïve Bayesian algorithms to analyze the segmentation of Vietnamese language. The process of demonstration and evaluation of this model shows the feasibility of this technique in filtering Vietnamese email.


Enhanced oil recovery methods are applied more frequently nowadays, mainly because of economic reasons. The classic waterflooding methods that aim to maintain the reservoir pressure are substituted or updated by the Water Alternating Gas technology (WAG). It involves alternating injection of water and gas, or simultaneous injection of water into the bottom of reservoir and gas into the cap of it. The new intelligent methods (which use synergy of gathering and processing reservoir data, special injection systems and modification of viscosity if injection fluids) are very promising in new EOR. The application of high-nitrogen content gas, residue gases after methane- nitrogen separation processes, carbon dioxide or solutions containing carbon dioxide and nitrogen are considered in terms of the oil recovery efficiency, defined as obtaining of a maximal depletion during twenty years of exploitation. For the selected small oil reservoir in the Polish Lowland, it was performed model research with usage of a pseudo-compositional simulator. Various aspects of gas injection concerning increasing of the reservoir pressure and increase of recovery has been analyzed. Presented results show possibility to increase of recovery factor from 11% and 36% up to 53/56% in case of CO 2 /N 2 and CO 2 EOR. The presented results are promising and show potential possibilities of rising oil recovery up to 60% for average oil price higher than 40 $ per bbl.


Reports 4 Aug - 3 Sept 1953 observations at this lake at 1800 ft elevation in a large shallow basin in the Melville Hills of Mackenzie District. This belated note is prompted by the lack of other investigations there and by the fact that most of the breeding-bird records constitute range extensions. Only 35 bird species were recorded. The absence of some species could be correlated to an absence of varied habitat: no extensive willow thickets and no rock outcrops. Eleven mammalian species were seen. A barren-ground grizzly was observed to approach a muskox and turn away. There is no known record of a grizzly killing a muskox.


The profit maximization problem of the retailer is a subject of vital importance for its economic viability since it is influenced by many parameters. Once such parameter is the generation cost, i.e. the wholesale market price. The present paper proposes an integrated model for profit maximization that combines the solution of the economic dispatch problem in the generation side and the profit maximization problem in the demand side. With this approach, the market price is known in advanced and not simulated as a stochastic variable. The results of the study denote that the profit maximization is sensitive to parameters such as the elasticity of the consumers, the demand response model and the price limit. Thus, special a detailed parametric analysis is needed for these parameters to assess their influence on the level of the profits.


We study a fair allocation problem of indivisible items under additive externalities in which each agent also receives utility from items that are assigned to other agents. This allows us to capture scenarios in which agents benefit from or compete against one another. We extend the well-studied properties of envy-freeness up to one item (EF1) and envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) to this setting, and we propose a new fairness concept called general fair share (GFS), which applies to a more general public decision making model. We undertake a detailed study and present algorithms for finding fair allocations.


This paper studies systematically the emergence,transmission and development of the Inner Mongolian Naadam by means of document research,on-the-spot investigation and comprehensive analysis. The research shows that"Naadam",which comes from the primitive nomadic life of Mongolian nationality,means a grand meeting and an occasion of great festivity in which archery,equestrianism and wrestling predominate in Gen Gi Khan period's"According to Hu Leelor Station",the Yuan Dynasty's"Hoax Horse Feast",the Qing Dynasty's "Nairi"and today's "Naadam". The First Ordos International Nadam Festival is celebrated in Inner Mongolia,which marks "Naadam"recognized by the world. However,"Naadam",as a part of the traditional national culture,disappears gradually with the promotion of the internationalization and commercialization.


The energetics of the interactions of N2 and CO with initially clean tungsten surfaces are analyzed to establish the dependence of chemisorption upon surface structure. For N2, calorimetric measurements yield a heat of adsorption of ∼90 kcal mole—1, constant over the range of coverages accessible at T=300°K. This suggests that the equilibrium binding sites for nitrogen are energetically equivalent. Desorption obeys bimolecular kinetics, with an activation energy of ∼81 kcal mole—1, unchanging to the highest surface concentrations (n∼250×1012 molecules cm—2).This constancy confirms the energetic equivalence of the surface sites filled by nitrogen, and demonstrates the presence of adatoms without lateral interactions. Alternative proposals for the occupation of binding sites of different strengths are examined and rejected as caused by experimental error.In contrast, evolution of CO takes place in distinct steps, with activation energies of 53, 75, and ∼100 kcal mole—1 for β material. Stepwise desorption st...


Forgiveness is an important aspects of the grief process for many people, and related to events that occur in our life such as war. The purpose of this study was Assess forgiveness and its relation to some variables for Syrian Students refugees in Jordan within the context of a real-life transgression occurred with them. To achieve study purpose there was a sample consist of (193) Students in Ages (11-18) chosen randomly by Stratified Cluster method, and The researchers used Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS).This questionnaire consists of (18) items intended to elicit students' opinions about forgiveness using a (4) point Likert scale. They include three Subscales: Forgiveness of Self(items: 1-6), forgiveness of others(items: 7-12), Forgiveness of Situations (items: 13-18).The face validity and construct validity of Forgiveness Scale / Subscale was verified and it was good. The reliability of Forgiveness Scale was verified by Cranach's alpha coefficient and split half method to find internal consistency reliability and it is an acceptable values (0.764), (0.721). The results showed that the level of forgiveness was moderate on (HFS) scale and Subscales, and its averages in descending order:Forgiveness of Self, Forgiveness of Situations, and Forgiveness of Others). There aren't statistically significant differences in (HFS) scale and Subscales: Self Forgiveness & Situations Forgiveness due to student gender and his developmental stage,  While differences in Forgiveness of Others statistically significant for males. Keywords: adolescence ,society, war  ,Forgiveness Scale, migration . DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-9-06 Publication date: March 31 st 2020


Cognitive psychology identifies different assumptions about the mental representations that form the basis of theories of comparison. Each representation requires a different process to generate a comparison, and both the computational complexity and the output of the different processes differ. Spatial models require a low-complexity process but only reveal the distance between points representing individuals. Featural models are more intensive than spatial comparisons but provide access to particular commonalities and differences. Structural models are more computationally intensive but support a distinction between alignable and nonalignable differences. Social comparison theories make assumptions about how knowledge is represented, but they are rarely explicit about the type of comparison process that is likely to be involved. The merging of work on social comparison with more explicit cognitive science theories of comparison science has the potential to both identify gaps in the literature and expand our knowledge about how comparison operates in social settings. This chapter first discusses the concept of mental representation and then addresses spatial models of comparison, featured models of comparison, structural models of comparison, transformation models. The chapter concludes with a discussion of similarity models and social comparison.


Purpose – Illustrates how the NHS workforce‐review team looks at the area of medical workforce planning and some of the problems that planners face.Design/methodology/approach – Describes a structure for workforce planning and examines some of the challenges workforce planners and those working in the human‐resources field face.Findings – Argues that workforce planning is more than simply number crunching; it requires the application of both art and science skills.Practical applications – Demonstrates how the workforce is calculated in terms of the need, demand and supply for the future.Social implications – Highlights the important advantages, for individual organizations as well as for society as a whole, which can result from successful workforce planning.Originality/value – Fills a gap in the literature about whether workforce planning is an art or science.


Inclusion of range, course and speed parameterization is proposed for Modified Gain Bearings Only Extended Kalman Filter to track a torpedo using bearings-only measurements. Parameterization is included to obtain fast convergence in estimated torpedo motion parameters. The ownship is assumed to be under torpedo attack and the bearing measurements are available from hull mounted array of the ownship. Observer uses estimated torpedo motion parameters to calculate optimum evasive maneuver.  Monte-Carlo simulation is carried out and the results are presented for typical scenarios  with and without parameterization. It is noted that parameterization reduces the time of convergence and the results are satisfactory.


Three 'lovely' mysteries reprinted by request ; three novels in one volume ; Dead Dolls Don't Cry : Main Character: Don Blaydon ; Widow Is Willing : Main Character: Mark Hunt ; Blackmail For A Brunette : Main Character: Joe Hagan


In 2004, the New Jersey Department of Education issued a mandate to the 17 leadership preparation program providers to revise their leadership preparation programs after completing a critical friends review. This case study explores the challenges, programmatic, and political experiences of one preparation program as state support dwindled. Presenting the pre- and postprogram designs, the case study provides an account of the program's transition to an 8-week module, recently offered in face-to-face, hybrid online, and fully online formats. The case study concludes with a discussion of how diminishing state support exposes leadership preparation programs to external political forces.


Our aim is to create a LibGuide directing researchers of all levels and interests to reliable, useful resources regarding Action T4 and the Nazi persecution of the handicapped.


Drainage reorganization events have the potential to drive incision and erosion at high rates normally attributed to tectonic or climatic forcing. It can be difficult, however, to isolate the signal of transient events driven by drainage integration from longer term tectonic or climatic forcing. We exploit an ideal field setting in Aravaipa Creek Basin of southeastern Arizona, USA, to isolate just such a signal. Aravaipa Creek Basin underwent a period of transient incision that formed Aravaipa Canyon, evacuating a significant volume of sedimentary basin fill and Tertiary bedrock from the previously internally drained basin. We use digital terrain analyses to reconstruct the pre‐incision landscapes of both Aravaipa Creek Basin and the adjacent Lower San Pedro Basin, which we use to quantify the magnitude of incision and erosion since the drainage basins integrated. Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide burial dates from 10Be and 26Al concentrations in latest stage basin fill in Aravaipa Creek enable us to calculate long‐term incision and erosion rates from 3 Myr to the present. A 10Be concentration–depth profile from the Lower San Pedro Basin confirms that the San Pedro River incised into its high stand deposits prior to 350 000–400 000 years ago. Combining our landscape reconstructions with these age constraints, we determine that the transient rates of incision that created Aravaipa Canyon were 150 m/Myr or more, but that the background rate of erosion since integration is an order of magnitude lower, between 10 and 20 m/Myr. These results support our growing understanding that tectonic and climatic forcings need not apply for all episodes of rapid, transient incision and erosion during landscape evolution. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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A WWW server for protein domain homology prediction, based on BLAST search and a simple data-mining algorithm (Hegyi,H. and Pongor,S. (1993) Comput. Appl. Biosci., 9, 371-372), was constructed providing a tabulated list and a graphic plot of similarities.

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We consider generalised iteration of two entire functions and study further growth properties of generalised iterated entire functions of finite iterated order.


High-resolution transmission measurements have been made on three sample thicknesses of both /sup 235/U and /sup 239/Pu at liquid nitrogen temperature and also on three of /sup 238/U at room temperature using neutrons from the water-moderated ORELA target. The data on /sup 235/U and /sup 239/Pu from 1 to 10,000 eV were obtained using /sup 6/Li glass scintillation detectors at 17.909-and 80.394-m flight paths. The /sup 238/U data from 1 to 100 keV were obtained using a new NE 110 proton-recoil scintillation detector at a 210.558-m flight path.


The European System of Central Banks (The ESCB) Will be estasbished in 1998 All European Union Central banks will be part of the ESCB The Statute of the European System of Central Banks provides two key elements by stipulating the objective -the priority of price stability and independence. Nevertheless, it is not cear that how will the ESCB achieve its final objective of price stability. Therefore, in most EU countries plans for price stabiuty are greeted with skepticism or disapproval by a large section of the general public There are good reasons for this reaction. This paper examines this problem.


Benzo [d] imidazole-7-carboxylic - (((hydroxyamino) iminomethyl) biphenyl-4-yl) methyl (2 '-) -1H- a process for preparing 2-ethoxy--1 method acid and esters of formula I, wherein R is H or (non) branched C1-C4 alkyl, ArCH2, Ar2CH, or Ar3C, wherein Ar is (un) substituted phenyl group, the carboxylic acids and esters of formula I synthesis of key intermediate azilsartan (azilsartan), the corresponding nitrile of formula IV with an aqueous hydroxylamine reaction, or in this solvent mixture in a polar aprotic solvent.


Method by which an ambient air temperature (PAT) around a vehicle for controlling a vehicle operation based on an engine intake air temperature (IAT), a vehicle speed (VSS), an engine intake air flow rate (MAF), an engine operating time (ERT) as well as a final predicted ambient air temperature (LPAT ) is predicted, wherein the ambient air temperature (PAT) to the lesser of the engine intake air temperature (IAT) and the last predicted ambient air temperature (LPAT) corresponds, as long as a by an idle counter (248) is specified idle time (IC) is greater than zero, wherein the idle time (IC) is increased when the engine intake air flow (MAF) is below a threshold C1 and the vehicle speed (VSS) is below a threshold C2, and the idle time (IC) expires, if the idle counter (248) reaches a predetermined count, and wherein when the idle time (IC) expires and the engine operating time (ERT) above a threshold C4 is, the ambient air temperature (PAT) on the basis of the latest predicted ambient air temperature (LPAT) and an offset temperature value C6 is determined.


A sintered piezoelectric ceramic compact, the ceramic material consists of a solid solution having a primary connection, which consists of PbTiO wherein a mole fraction of Pb of 0 up to 20 mole percent replaced by at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Ba, Sr and La group, where Ma is Mn and Md is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Sb, Ta and W group, wherein the solid solution having a tetragonal crystal system, wherein 0.525 ≤ A / (B + C + D + 2E) ≤ 1 applies if the mole fraction of Mn, Nb, Sb, Ta, and W by A, B, C, D and E is shown, and wherein the ceramic compact is in an unsaturated polarized state in which corresponds to the electromechanical coupling factor of 80% or less of the electromechanical coupling factor of a piezoelectric ceramic sintered compact in saturated polarized state.


Can a troupe that has performed 4,200 times for 960,000 spectators over a twenty-year period contribute to the development of Canadian theatre? The troupe in question, Quebec's Théâtre Parminou, thinks it can. The Canada Council disagrees. The result of the disagreement: an $85,000 cut to the operational funding of a troupe the Canada Council believes lacks artistic merit. The cut hurts. The Theatre Parminou is a touring troupe and one of its trucks needs to be replaced if it is to continue to play in the regional halls and school auditoriums that are its main venues. The nine permanent sta ff members, all members of the cooperative that runs the Parminou, already have salaries slightly below the Canadian average but after years of perfecting their skills they find themselves forced to accept lower salaries and longer hours to keep the troupe afloat. The forty contractual salaries that have allowed the Parminou to act as a training ground for young Quebec actors are now more than the troupe can afford. But worst of all, the Canada Council's decision to completely cut their operational support has left members of the collective feeling like they've been disowned. In co-artistic director Maureen Martineau's words: "All of a sudden they're telling you that you're no longer a member of the Canadian theatre family. You can keep doing what you do, but as far as they're concerned, you really have nothing to contribute."


Through the case of the energy saving obligations for energy companies in Denmark and the theory of technological innovation systems this paper aims at providing an increased understanding of indirect policy-driven innovation within energy efficient technology. The preliminary findings show that energy saving obligations has influence on both the structural components and the functions of the innovation system. Specifically the functions of Market formation, Resource mobilization and Development of external economies appear to have increased activity because of the obligations and they are generally increasing the commercialization of new energy efficient technology.


This paper investigates the level of voluntary disclosure by listed Corporations of South Pacific Stock Exchange (SPSE). The major objective of the paper is to contribute towards the literature on level of voluntary disclosure in a developing country context. The focal point of the research was to use the empirical data from the twelve of the 2019 audited listed company annual reports from the SPSE. This research is informed by organizational legitimacy theory. The paper shows that the level of voluntary disclosure in SPSE companies has increased from the previous studies. However, the increase is not substantial. The paper shows that corporations who do not have monopoly power fear about their social contract and disclose more voluntary information in order to legitimize their activity. Corporations with monopoly power do not care about their social contract as they are certain that the society has no choice but to accept them as they are the only one in the market, so they do not legitimize their activity to a great extent. Legitimacy theory holds true for non-monopoly firms and does not hold true for monopoly firms.


Discloses a method of mass spectrometry, including the provision of the flight area and the detector or fragmentation device, ions pass through. Ion potential profile is maintained along the flight area so as to proceed toward the detector or fragmentation device. Then, the potential flight region of the first length is maintained, at least some ions to the second potential from the first potential while advancing a first length of the flight area It is changed. Modified potential, the outlet of the first length of the flight region gives a first potential difference, by the potential difference, the ions are accelerated when the ions leave the flight region of the first length. Thus, the kinetic energy of the ions is increased before reaching the detector or fragmentation cell. .FIELD 1C


Abstract : The purpose of this grant was to purchase equipment to enable us to study the influence of people's beliefs about thermodynamics and the influence of those beliefs on their ability to interpret infra-red images. For this project, we purchased an Inframetrics Thermacam PM250 to collect thermal images. In addition, we purchased a Compaq Deskpro personal computer for processing the images. The computer was used to run a variety of images processing programs including Thermonitor. The Thermacam stores both video and still picture output.


The paper describes an infrared scene generator (IRSG) mounted on a Flight Motion Simulator (FMS) for hardware in the loop simulation of IR air to air missile seekers. The scene generator projects target, flare and background images, that are optically collimated to the seeker under test. The target and flare images are generated using high temperature (1200 degree(s)C) blackbody sources and controllable irises. A dynamic Variable Neutral Density Filter (VNDF) is used in the target and flare channels to simulate the range closure and attenuation effect of the atmosphere. The background channel consists of a back illuminated IR transparency located in front of an extended area blackbody. The target flare and background images are combined using two beam combiners. One of the beam combiners has two degrees of freedom to simulate the motion of the flare relative to the target within the field of view (FOV) of the IRSG.


This study aims to determine (1) the effectiveness of rural community empowerment national program (PNPM-MP) and (2) factors related to the level of the effectiveness of the program in supporting agricultural development. Research was conducted in Ngambur sub district of West Lampung Regency from February to April 2012. Respondents were 68 farmers taken proportionally from 21 farmer groups. Method used was a descriptive analysis. The correlation between variables was tested using Rank Spearman correlation analysis. Result showed that the PNPM-MP was quite effective in supporting agricultural development in Ngambur Subdistrict of West Lampung Regency. The factors related to the level of the effectiveness in supporting agricultural development were the level of knowledge of the group members, the role of facilitator and district management team activities, and the amount of the PNPM-MP fund. The factor not related to the effectiveness of the PNPM-MP in supporting agricultural development in sub Ngambur West Lampung Regency was the level of participation of group members.


(57) [summary] mycobacteria substance, especially M. Vake substances central nervous system using, for example pain, psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, and stress-related disorders, for example treating the symptoms of depression.


Miss Kingsbury, professor of social economy, and Miss Fairchild, associate professor of social economy, at Bryn Mawr College, have set themselves to the task of finding satisfactory solutions to the following problems : Has Russia prospered under the Soviet regime? Has the lot of the worker and the peasant been improved? Have the objectives of the Five-Year Plans, the first to lift the industrial level of the country, and the second to raise the standard of living of the Russian masses, been realized, and to what extent? Accordingly, both authors visited Russia in 1929-1930, traveling extensively for nine months and investigating factories, construction enterprises, and villages. In 1932 they returned to the Soviet Union to re-check certain data and to ob-


TWA Telaga Warna is a Nature Conservation Area which is mainly intended for tourism and nature recreation. TWA Potential of Telaga Warna is not yet known with certainty, given its intangible nature and has recently experienced a decrease in the number of visitors. For this reason, it is necessary to know the potential and strategies for developing tourism objects in TWA Telaga Warna. The method used in this research is based on the analysis of the area of operation of the object of natural tourist attraction (ADO - ODTWA), the index of the feasibility of an object and the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). Based on the research, it was found that TWA Telaga Warna has potential tourism objects that are worth developing (77.55%) and the TWA Telaga Warna development strategy is the SO strategy, namely maximizing the strength (strength) owned and maximizing the opportunity (opportunity) by preserving the natural good flora. , fauna, natural beauty and water availability of TWA Telaga Warna are the satisfaction of visitors, making infrastructure so that visitors can enjoy natural panoramas and easy access to information, and making tour packages at TWA Telaga Warna in collaboration with the hotel.


The objective of this paper is to study the flexural behaviour of cold formed I –section with triangular corrugation. The effect of parametric change on the flexural strength of cold formed steel (CFS) I section is presented in this paper. The web is corrugated at regular interval into a triangular shape along the length of the beam. Totally twelve specimens are theoretically and analytically analysed by changing depth of corrugation, hw also span. All specimens are numerically analysed under two point loading with simply supported condition. The theoretical results are verified with finite element analysis using ABAQUS software. Theoretical analysis is done with code provision of AISI S100-2007, AS/NZS 4600:2005 specification. Within the parametric study the effect of corrugation in web on the flexural strength capacity is discussed and presented.


Fault block mountains and broad valleys characterize the Yuma area, southwestern Arizona. Fewer than 20 oil tests have been drilled in an area of over 450 mi/sup 2/. Recently released reflection data, integrated with earlier work and with data from oil and gas tests and water wells, reveal a complex geologic history.


Abstract The renewal of Islamic law has always coincided with the development and renewal of thought in the Muslim world with respect to the sacred text and discussing topics more closely related to philosophy or thought. Of the many prominent figures of Islamic law thinking are contemporary Islamic legal thought, such as Fazlur Rahman which offers specific moral and legal ideal terms in the meaning of texts and the early division of Islamic tradition, Muhammad Shahrur offers theoretical limits in the provisions of Islamic law, and Abdullah Ahmad An-Na'im who offers an alternative answer based on the theory of nasakh in melalukan reformulation of Islamic law that arises because the theories or results of traditional Islamic legal thinking is no longer relevant to the circumstances of the times. So the offer of renewal of contemporary Islamic legal methods such as Fazlur Rahman, Muhammad Shahrur, and Abdullah Ahmad An-Na'im. Contemporary thinking is applied in the Islamic law reformation method which can be used as a renewal in Islamic family law such as Rahman's double motion theory, Shahrur's boundary theory, and nasakh theory as an alternative answer by Na'im in the context of renewal of family law in accordance with the objectives of Islamic law applies in every place and time (shalih likulli zaman wal makan) . Keywords: theory and application, contemporary, renewal, Islamic family law


Facial emotion recognition has been used as a representative pedestrian activity in studies examining the effect of changes in road lighting. Past studies have drawn conclusions using results averaged across performance with the six universally recognised expressions. This paper asks whether expression choice matters. A reanalysis of past data for each unique expression does not suggest a change in the conclusion that facial emotion recognition is not significantly affected by the spectral power distribution of the lighting.


This review will discuss recent work on the question of rogue waves on the open ocean. Observations of waves on the open sea are consistent with weakly non-linear modifications to a linear random process, at least most of the time even in violent storms. The occurrence of large waves might then be attributable to the random alignment of many small independent components. Extracted from a random background, this process would then look like the linear focusing of an initially dispersed wave group.


Drug side effects (DSEs), or adverse drug reactions (ADRs), constitute an important health risk, given the approximately 197,000 annual DSE deaths in Europe alone. Therefore, during the drug development process, DSE detection is of utmost importance, and the occurrence of ADRs prevents many candidate molecules from going through clinical trials. Thus, early prediction of DSEs has the potential to massively reduce drug development times and costs. In this work, data are represented in a non-euclidean manner, in the form of a graph-of-graphs domain. In such a domain, structures of molecule are represented by molecular graphs, each of which becomes a node in the higher-level graph. In the latter, nodes stand for drugs and genes, and arcs represent their relationships. This relational nature represents an important novelty for the DSE prediction task, and it is directly used during the prediction. For this purpose, the MolecularGNN model is proposed. This new classifier is based on graph neural networks, a connectionist model capable of processing data in the form of graphs. The approach represents an improvement over a previous method, called DruGNN, as it is also capable of extracting information from the graph-based molecular structures, producing a task-based neural fingerprint (NF) of the molecule which is adapted to the specific task. The architecture has been compared with other GNN models in terms of performance, showing that the proposed approach is very promising.


As part of the rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi Department of Transportation awarded a design–build contract for the replacement of the 2.1-mi-long US-90 bridge spanning Bay St. Louis. With a January 25, 2006, start date, the deadline for opening two lanes of traffic was May 16, 2007, followed by a February 15, 2008, deadline for opening the entire bridge. The bridge was constructed as two separate structures except for the navigation unit, where the deck and substructure are continuous between the eastbound and westbound structures. To allow for such an aggressive construction schedule, several concepts were used. Plans were delivered in stages to allow construction to proceed before the final submittal. The use of precast components including girders, piles, and capbeams was maximized. Pile bents to a height of 75 ft above fixity were used, with no battered piles. The pile and girder sections were varied to allow for utilization of more precast fabricators. Precast, prestressed piles, ranging in length from 50 to 164 ft, form the bridge foundations of the pile bents (24- and 36-in. piles) and waterline footings (30-in. piles). Typical superstructure elements consist of BT-78 girders (maximum span of 154 ft) and AASHTO Type IV girders (maximum span of 112 ft). A spliced haunch girder system with a 250-tt main span and 200-ft end spans was implemented at the navigational channel to satisfy the vertical and horizontal clearances.


Dear Editor, The enteral mode of nutrition delivery in the critically ill confers gastrointestinal, immunologic and survival advantages over parenteral nutrition (PN), especially when initiated early. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) exhibit hypercatabolism, needing higher energy requirements. The focus of TBI management is cardiorespiratory resuscitation (CPR) and neuroprotective strategies, often resulting in the neglect of nutrition as an important physiologic requirement. A retrospective study was performed to determine the effectiveness of an evidence-based proactive nutrition protocol in improving the nutrition of mechanically ventilated neurosurgical patients admitted to the neuroICU (NICU).


Provided are a method for preparing a yttria stabilized zirconia sol for the electrolyte of a solid oxide fuel cell to reduce a manufacturing cost and to allow the microstructure of thin film to be controlled easily, and a method for preparing an electrolyte thin film by using the sol. The yttria stabilized zirconia sol is prepared by dissolving zirconyl nitrate in water to prepare a zirconyl nitrate solution; adding a chelating agent to the zirconyl nitrate solution and stirring it; dissolving yttrium nitrate in water to prepare a yttrium nitrate solution and adding a chelating agent; mixing the prepared zirconyl nitrate solution and the prepared yttrium nitrate solution; and maturing the obtained mixture at a room temperature for a day and filtering the mixture to remove the reaction residue and the impurities.


This article proposes a three-stream self-attention network (TSNet) for indoor semantic segmentation comprising two asymmetric input streams (asymmetric encoder structure) and a cross-modal distillation stream with a self-attention module. The two asymmetric input streams are ResNet34 for the red-green-blue (RGB) stream and VGGNet16 for the depth stream. Accompanying the RGB and depth streams, a cross-modal distillation stream with a self-attention module extracts new RGB plus depth features in each level in the bottom-up path. In addition, while using bilinear upsampling to recover the spatial resolution of the feature map, we incorporated the feature information of both the RGB flow and the depth flow through the self-attention module. We constructed the NYU Depth V2 dataset to evaluate the TSNet and achieved results comparable to those of current state-of-the-art methods.


We calculate all of the form factors for the one-photon, $K_L \rightarrow \pi^+ \pi^- \gamma^* \rightarrow \pi^+ \pi^- e^+e^-$ contribution to the $K_L \rightarrow \pi^+ \pi^- e^+e^-$ decay amplitude at leading order in chiral perturbation theory. These form factors depend on one unknown constant that is a linear combination of coefficients of local ${\cal O}(p^4)$ operators in the chiral lagrangian for weak radiative kaon decay. We determine the differential rate for $\K$ and also the magnitude of two CP violating observables.


Coulomb interactions are essential to the dynamics and optical properties of exciton-polaritons. Here, we report experimental observation of polariton-polariton interactions far beyond theory in a one-dimensional whispering gallery microcavity. Based on the unique half-light half-matter nature, we were able to clarify the effects of excitons, quantum confinement and non-thermalized polariton distribution in the measurements of the polaritonic interactions. Spectacularly, our position-scan and power-scan investigations both revealed that the polariton-polariton interaction strength is up to two orders of magnitude larger than theoretical predictions. These results suggest that polaritonic interactions are far more complicated than expectation and should be re-examined in polariton physics and devices involving polaritonic interactions.


Gadolinium doped Yttrium Chromite nanoparticles are synthesized following sol-gel method. The formation of the nanoparticles are confirmed by XRD and TEM measurements. Dielectric permittivity and dielectric loss are estimated within the temperature range 298K to 523K and in the frequency range 20 Hz to 1 MHz. Dielectric permittivity follows the power law e′(f) ∝ Tm. It is observed that the temperature exponent m increases with the decreasing frequency. The temperature variation of resistivity shows that the samples have semiconducting behavior. The activation energy is also measured.Gadolinium doped Yttrium Chromite nanoparticles are synthesized following sol-gel method. The formation of the nanoparticles are confirmed by XRD and TEM measurements. Dielectric permittivity and dielectric loss are estimated within the temperature range 298K to 523K and in the frequency range 20 Hz to 1 MHz. Dielectric permittivity follows the power law e′(f) ∝ Tm. It is observed that the temperature exponent m increases with the decreasing frequency. The temperature variation of resistivity shows that the samples have semiconducting behavior. The activation energy is also measured.


We have developed a variety of electrically small, near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) antennas. Their NFRP elements have been generally low profile but not conformal. Several examples and their performance characteristics will be presented. These will include both single- and dual-band, linearly (LP) and circularly polarized (CP) NFRP antennas. Several of these designs have been transitioned to electrically small planar versions to meet market inquiries. These planar NFRP antennas will be reviewed. The investigation of their use for electrically small sensors, such as smart dust, will be discussed.


AbstractFlood forecasting in mountain basins remains a challenge given the difficulty in accurately predicting rainfall and in representing hydrologic processes in complex terrain. This study identifies flood predictability patterns in mountain areas using quantitative precipitation forecasts for two summer events from radar nowcasting and a distributed hydrologic model. The authors focus on 11 mountain watersheds in the Colorado Front Range for two warm-season convective periods in 2004 and 2006. The effects of rainfall distribution, forecast lead time, and basin area on flood forecasting skill are quantified by means of regional verification of precipitation fields and analyses of the integrated and distributed basin responses. The authors postulate that rainfall and watershed characteristics are responsible for patterns that determine flood predictability at different catchment scales. Coupled simulations reveal that the largest decrease in precipitation forecast skill occurs between 15- and 45-min lea...


The utility model discloses a novel electronic drive control device for rapier loom. The utility model is characterized in that the novel electronic drive control device for rapier loom is provided with a single chip machine, the single chip machine is connected with a sample taking enlarge circuit, a drive circuit and a sensing input circuit. The single chip machine is also connected with a push-button entry circuit, an operating status display circuit and a regulating circuit, and a power circuit is connected with the single chip machine and each circuit. The utility model has the advantages of stable and reliable running performance, reliable and safety operation and various protections, which can display the maximum latent energy of the machinery equipment and can extend the service life of the machinery equipment. The utility model also has low failure rate, small volume, convenient repairing and multiple additional functions, which can accomplish the automation controlling of the weaving operation process of the rapier loom and can effectively increase the weaving quality and the weaving yield of the rapier loom.


This paper investigates the structure of a poly trope in which a magnetic field, having both poloidal and toroidal components, is present. The influence of the toroidal component on the oblateness of the configuration is also considered.


Paper delivered at the Southern African Energy Efficiency Confederation (SAEEC) 2017 Conference, Emperors Palace, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa, 14-15 November 2017


Within the scope of this paper, a new research field - information systems and management in media industries is introduced. The paper illustrates the importance of viewing the media firm as holistic digital firm from the information systems and management perspective. It reviews current literature, research work, and provides an overview of opened research gaps.


Abstract The bottleneck of all processes that are using field-scale numerical simulators is the computationally expensive objective function evaluation. Hence, always a gap exists between simulation runs and real-time processing. In this study, a new approach is presented that uses online-adaptive artificial neural networks to develop proxies that mimic the behavior of the actual reservoir simulator. In this approach, initially Latin hypercube sampling is used and then an intelligent sample selection algorithm is developed to improve the online network prediction. The cited approach improves the surrogate model development in two directions. First, proxies can be used while they are developing and, second, samples are selected intelligently and this reduces computational cost.


This study originated from the problems of students with hearing impairment grade D III B do not understand the concept of the division of numbers, from the results of tests that researchers do, of the 10 questions are given only two numbers that are answered correctly, it rose not from the ideas of his own but due to chance alone original answer is correct, when the next time it was given back to the matter of students' answers had been right to be wrong, and a student again, learning should have mastered the basic division of numbers in the class D II. Therefore, researchers interested in improving deaf children's ability to understand the concept of sharing through the use of original media candy. This type of study is classroom action research conducted in collaboration with colleagues or classroom teacher. The subject of this study is a class D III B, two children with hearing impairment (KL, and RH). The study was performed in one cycle during the six sessions. Data were collected through observation, and tests given to children. The results showed the ability of children with hearing impairment to understand the concept of division is progressing by using the original media sugars in learning activities. The final results obtained by KL gain (80%), and RH obtained (100%). It can be concluded that the use of original media sugars can increase the ability of children with hearing impairment to understand the concept of division, it is advisable for teachers to be able to use the original media of candy to increase understanding of children in the division.


From a biodiversity conservation viewpoint it is crucial to estimate the sensitivity of species and populations to climate change, especially of key species such as top predators.
Here, the El Nino-Southern Oscillation phenomenon (ENSO) was used as a natural experiment to estimate the sensitivity of a population of the rainforest-dwelling broad-snouted caiman, Caiman latirostris, to extreme floods.
Caiman abundance declined by 35% annually between 1996 and 1998, and then increased, without reaching 1996 levels, indicating a marked effect of the 1997 El Nino. Accordingly, the Southern Oscillation Index was positively correlated with caiman abundance, indicating lower caiman abundance with warm ENSO events.
The relationship between the relative annual mean abundance of caimans and the maximum daily annual discharge of the Iguazu River was analysed. This relationship was parabolic, with caiman abundance increasing at discharges from 500 to 1500 m3 s-1 and then decreasing at discharges from 1500 to 2500 m3 s-1, indicating an adverse effect of both extreme low and high river discharge. No effect of illegal hunting was measurable.
This study evaluated whether the negative effect of extremely high water levels on caiman abundance could be due to a decrease in the availability of the habitat more commonly used by small ( 120 cm TL), i.e. the type of habitat flooded during extreme floods.
An increase in extreme floods, as forecast for the Atlantic rainforest owing to climate change, may seriously affect the population of rainforest caimans through the reduction of adequate habitat for juveniles. This counter-intuitive result, in which an excess of water reduces the abundance of an aquatic top predator, should be considered in conservation plans of rainforest-dwelling crocodilians.

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Within the framework of the contraction hypothesis of the
gauge group of the Standard Model, the behavior of the amplitude
of the dominant Higgs boson production process in the
four-lepton decay with an increasing temperature T is analyzed.
It is shown that the modified process breaks down into
a number of channels depending on the contribution of the
color components in the loop of virtual quarks, leading to the
creation of the Higgs boson. The dependence on T of the cross
section of each channel is found. Comparison with LHC data
on Higgs boson creation cross sections at energies (temperatures)
of 7, 8, 13, and 14 TeV showed that the hypothesis about
the contraction of the gauge group of the Standard Model does
not contradict these data.


The utiligation and conversion of CO 2 have been paid close atteution for many years.Reseach on coversion of CO 2 to C has a great significant in environment protection and source utiligation.In this paper,the current research of converting carbon dioxide to carbon by reduction has been reviewed,and the prospect of the research has been recounted too.


This study examined differences between college students with and without disabilities who utilized college counseling center services. Although we found no differences between students with (n = 234, 9.2%) and without (n = 2,308, 90.8%) disabilities on number of counseling sessions attended, significant findings included: students with disabilities were more likely to self-terminate and more likely to be referred out than students without disabilities. Results suggest that students with disabilities are a diverse group requiring special consideration in college counseling settings. Recommendations for college counseling practice are discussed.


Objective To explore the change of microcirculation after cardiac arrest (CA) and in the subsequent basic life support (BLS) phase in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and to investigate `the influences of anticoagulation and thrombolysis thereon. Methods Twenty-four healthy rabbits underwent alternating current stimulation so as to establish rabbit model of ventricular fibrillation. After CA was caused BLS was given to the rabbits. Then the rabbits were randomly divided into 2 equal groups: control group only receiving BLS, and experiment group given heparin, an anticoagulative drug, and urokinase, a thrombolytic drug by intravenous injection in addition to BLS. The dynamic change of microcirculatory blood flow of ear was recorded before CA and every 3 min after CA. Thirty minutes after CPR the rabbits were killed with specimens of heart and kidney taken out to undergo histomorphological examination. Results The blood flow of microcirculation in the rabbit ears reduced sharply after CA (P0.05); and then decreased gradually in the BLS phase along with time (P0.05); however, velocity of decrease tended to slow down since 9 min after the beginning of BLS in the experiment group. The 2 curves of mean microcirculation blood flow intersected 9 min after BLS and then the curve of the experiment group became more level compared to that of the control group. Erythrocyte aggregation could be seen in the heart and kidney specimens of the rabbits of the control group, however, not in the experiment group. Conclusion Blood flow of microcirculation reduces sharply after CA, and there is red blood cell accumulation in the microcirculation of tissues. Intervention of anticoagulative and thrombolytic drugs improve the microcirculatory perfusion and prevent micro-thrombosis in the microcirculation.


Location information is being proposed to assist network management and to provide new wireless services. To accurately locate mobile terminals in dense urban environments and indoors, survey data is used to approximate the joint probability density function (PDF) of the mobile locations and measurements that is used to estimate the mobile location. This method provides accurate mobile terminal location estimates but the cost of collecting the required survey points is high. This paper introduces the use of the Variational Bayes technique to approximate the joint PDF of locations and measurements as a Gaussian Mixture Model with a prior distribution of model coefficients. The parameters of the prior distribution are common for multiple survey sets that are collected in network areas with known commonalty such as from the same building or city neighborhood. Methods are presented for calculating these parameters by using data from the survey sets so that the Mean Square Error (MSE) of mobile location error is minimized. The use of prior distributions creates information sharing when calculating the parameters of the joint PDFs for each survey set. This reduces the number of survey points in each survey set required to achieve a desired accuracy. The efficiency and robustness of this method to different measurement noise distributions is demonstrated for a simulated dense urban environment.


The characteristics of carbonated steel slag-slaked lime(SS-SL) brick(i.e.,strength,drying shrinkage,water absorption and soundness) were mainly investigated.The results indicate that the strength of the SS-SL brick after carbonation is increased by 3–4 times,the drying shrinkage is significantly reduced and the soundness problem is solved.The optimal slaked lime/steel slag ratio for the carbonated SS-SL brick is 0.2.The properties of the as-prepared brick can meet the requirements for MU20 grade building bricks in the Chinese standard.Furthermore,the related mechanism of the carbonated SS-SL brick and the environmental effects were analyzed.


Significant developments in helicopter flight simulation and research programs during 1991-92 are reviewed. Emphasis is given to an update on in-flight simulation activities.


Ceratina japonica have a lot of yellow maculations in their body. Those are very diverse in their lengths, sizes and shapes. These variations were herein presented and compared among many individuals in the level of intraspecies.


Background:

The Aboriginal Staff Alliance (ASA) are Aboriginal people in a network of the Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN) and the University Departments of Rural Health (UDRH) across Australia. There are 11 UDRH's with another 3 recently announced for development. ASA members are located in rural areas. Objectives:

The ASA network aims to ensure inclusiveness of Aboriginal People's across rural and remote Australia and assists Aboriginal communities towards self-determination of local health priorities including developing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce. Method:

The presence of the ASA within the UDRH's enhances partnerships and inclusion of research activities by providing a mechanism for representation on Aboriginal health issues as a collaborative voice. The network also provides support to each ASA members, thereby reducing the feeling of working in cultural isolation. Results:

The ASA ensures that non-Aboriginal health workers, professionals and academics are equipped with cultural safety protocols when addressing Aboriginal health. To facilitate this process the network has developed a set of cultural protocols and procedures for use within the UDRH's covering areas such as research, community development, cultural safety, student placements and the delivery of cultural training.

The ASA forms a network model that can be developed within other research and academic infrastructures. The ASA acts as an advisory, advocate action group, to enhance respect, credibility, transfer of knowledge, resources and support that will encourage health education and cultural inclusion for Aboriginal peoples.


Needlestick Transmission of Hepatitis C to Hospital Staff The availability of tests to detect antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV) has led to questions about the transmissibility of HCV by needlestick to hospital staff, the role of testing for the virus in this setting, and the value of administering immune serum globulin to exposed workers. Kiyosawa and colleagues in Matsumoto, Japan, studied 357 needlestick accidents in 349 employees of Shinsu University Hospital that occurred between 1981 and 1989. Serum was obtained from sources at baseline and from recipients at baseline, every two to four weeks for at least six months. Serum was screened for antibody to HCV by the Ortho HCV Antibody ELISA Test System, with confirmation by the Ortho recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA). A diagnosis of hepatitis C required development of hepatitis (i.e., increased serum concentration of transaminases) and anti-HCV seroconversion. No anti-HCV was found at baseline in 196 staff involved in 200 needlestick accidents. In 110 (55%) or 200 accidents, the donor was anti-HCV-positive. Acute hepatitis C developed in three of 110 anti-HCV negative staff who were exposed to needlesticks involving anti-HIV-positive persons (2.7%, confidence interval = 0.6%8%). Hepatitis developed in an additional two patients, but they had no serologic evidence of hepatitis A, B, or C, or an infection with cytomegalovirus or Epstein-Barr virus. No anti-HCV seroconversions occurred in the absence of increased serum transaminase concentrations. Anti-HCV seroconversion was not seen during five years of observation in 53 initially seronegative healthcare workers who did not sustain needlestick injuries.


The main objective of this study is the petrologic characterization of beachrocks in the coastal zone and inner continental shelf in the central coast of Pernambuco. This study used techniques that help in the classification, composition and diagenesis of beachrocks. Thus it was possible to verify that the beachrocks has values of 60% to 85% of the framework composed of detrital grains of quartz. The carbonate cement found in the samples is composed of calcite rich in Mg. The diagenetic sequence was recognized and composed of cryptocrystalline coating; prismatic fringe isopachs; pseudo-peloidal aggregates; radial fibers aggregates; micritic cement, and equant cement. Besides these cementing phases, infiltrated marl was identified. These data indicate that the precipitation of cement occurred in a shallow marine environment under the influence of fresh water from the vadose meteoric environment, which shows that the beaches were cemented in the intertidal zone.


Samples of soil were collected in 1955 from three field experiments in which 0, 13.1, 26.2, 52.3, and 104.7 pounds of P per acre had been applied as superphosphate to one series of plots in 1953 and to a second series in 1954. In a greenhouse experiment conducted in 1957, sorghum was grown on quantities of these samples without further phosphate fertilization and on quantities of the samples from the control plots after treatment with superphosphate at rates equivalent to those applied in the field. Conditions in the greenhouse experiment were such that the yield of P in the test crop increased linearly with the quantity of P applied to each soil in each year. Samples of soil from all phosphate levels and years of application were analyzed in the laboratory for labile inorganic P by the 0.025N HCl, 0.03N NH₄F method of Bray and Kurtz, the anion-exchange resin method of Amer et al., and the NaHCO₃ method of Olsen et al. The quantity of P extracted with each method increased linearly with the quantity of P applied to each soil in each year. The ratios of the slopes of the linear plots of yield of P obtained with the 1953 and 1954 applications to the 1957 applications were calculated for samples of soil from each of the three field experiments, and these were designated as availability-coefficient ratios of residual and currently-applied P. Corresponding slope ratios calculated from the quantities of labile P extracted were designated as extractability-coefficient ratios of residual and currently-applied P. The six availability-coefficient ratios thus obtained from the two residual years in the three experiments were correlated with the corresponding extractability-coefficient ratios, the best correlation (r = 0.98) being obtained with extractability-coefficient ratios derived from the 0.025N HCl, 0.03N NH₄F method, second best (r = 0.90) with the anion-exchange resin method, and third best (r = 0.51) with the NaHCO₃ method. These results show that appropriate laboratory tests provided an estimate of the relative residual value of fertilizer P that was largely independent of the nature of the soil.