This paper focus on the problem of how to measure in a reproducible way the localization precision of a mobile robot. In particular localization algorithms that match the classic prediction-correction model are considered. We propose a performance metric based on the formalization of the error sources that affect the pose estimation error. Performance results of a localization algorithm for a real mobile robot are presented. This metric fulfils at the same time the following properties: 1) to effectively measure the estimation error of a pose estimation algorithm, 2) to be reproducible, 3) to clearly separate the contribution of the correction part from the prediction part of the algorithm, and 4) to make easy the algorithm performance analysis respect to the great number of influencing factors. The proposed metric allows the validation and evaluation of a localization algorithm in a systematic and standard way, reducing workload and design time.


The present invention relates to a method of assessing a network, in particular a network having a main line and a plurality of branch lines. The method includes the steps of: (i) introducing test signals into the main line, the main line being coupled to the branch lines; (ii) imposing a modulation on test signals which propagate along the branch line and, (iii) monitoring test signals returned along the main line. The imposed phase modualtion is detected interferometrically such that the test sgnals from the designated branch line can be distinguished with respect to the signals returned from other branch lines.


The performance of RF circuits is affected by that of the on-chip spiral inductors.On-chip inductor with gradually changed layout structure has been presented.In this structure,the sum of metal width and space of each coil is fixed while the ratio of the metal width to space is gradually reduced from outside to inside.Some valuable design rules have been obtained through a large number of data analyses.The experimental results have also corroborated the validity of the proposed method.For example,Q factor of 11 has been obtained for a 5 nH inductor at 2.7 GHz.It is 19.6% better than the conventional inductor with fixed metal width and space.


Emulsion graft copolymerization of poly(hydrogenmethylsiloxane) (PHMS) and butyl acrylate (BA) in the presence of functional comonomer N-hydroxyl-methyl acrylamide (NMA) was conducted by batch emulsion copolymerization to modify the properties of polysiloxane. Morphology of graft copolymer particles was characterized by transmission electron microscopy. The effect of polymerization method, PHMS content, initiator concentration, and NMA content on stability of emulsion, morphology, size of particle, and rheological properties were investigated. It has been found that stability of emulsion is better by semicontinuous emulsion polymerization than that of batch emulsion polymerization and it increased with increasing PHMS-NMA concentration. Increasing PHMS concentration and NMA concentration, the particle size and the viscosities increase. The property of resistance to electrolytes of graft copolymer emulsions and swelling property of film were also discussed. Results showed PHMS-g-P [butylacrylate (BA)-N-hydroxyl-methyl acrylamide (NMA)] graft copolymer emulsion has good resistance to electrolytes and the water absorption of its film increases with increasing BA-NMA content grafted onto PHMS. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 71: 2209–2217, 1999


The classification of mindsports such as the card game of bridge within sport and society continues to be keenly debated. The concept of 'physicality' is often cited as being a prerequisite for an activity to be classed as a 'sport', a characteristic typically seen as lacking in mindsports. However, by drawing upon monist conceptualisations of the mind, body and world being intertwined, it is possible to problematise such arguments by highlighting the interconnected sensations experienced when participating in bridge. This article explores such a notion through phenomenologically-inspired analysis of 52 interviews with elite-level bridge players. The findings detail the importance players placed upon aspects of kinaesthesia, physical presence within the competitive environment, and the role of other social actors within their own understandings of their competition experience. These sensorial, emotional and embodied accounts of elite-level bridge shed light on the physical negotiations and socio-cultural influences involved in mindsport, which allude to a greater degree of 'physicality' than has previously been discussed.


Article history: Received August 16, 2013 Received in revised format 12 September 2013 Accepted 1 November 2013 Available online November 5 2013 This paper performs an investigation on measuring the effect of different factors on customer relationship management (CRM) for different branches of an Iranian banks located in various regions of city of Tehran, Iran. The proposed study selects a sample of 275 managers and using structural equation modeling examines the effects of five variables including CRM knowledge, employment's information technology skills, specialty, strategic use, CRM performance on the performance of CRM. Cronbach alpha has been calculated for the questionnaire as 0.881, which is well above the minimum acceptable level. The survey has concluded that there were meaningful relationships between all four mentioned variables and performance of CRM. In other words, knowledge and information technology influence on improving employments' skills, which increase strategic use of CRM components and this would improve CRM performance. © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


Several time-use studies in engineering education have shown that students use less time studying than has been allocated in the curricula. It is questionable whether a scarce use of time can lead to deeper understanding and the ability to apply knowledge in problem-solving. The alarming results from earlier time-use studies led to a search for answers to the following questions: How much time do first-year engineering students use for their studies and other activities? Do they spend enough time on studying and other learning activities? Is their time use in agreement with the curriculum? What learning outcomes and grades do students achieve from their studying efforts? Factors that influence student time use and approaches to learning are discussed. A deep approach to learning is desirable and is seen to support comprehension and lead to better learning outcomes. Learning approaches that students choose are both student-related and influenced by the learning environment. How can the learning environment be designed so that students are motivated to assume a deep approach to learning and devote more time and effort to out-of-class studying? Answers to these questions will be helpful for teachers, tutors, teacher educators and designers of curricula, as well as students themselves.


Alexander Korepanov is an outstanding composer, whose name is known beyond the Udmurt Republic or the Povolzhye region. His works are actively performed by many Russian musicians but primarily they are popular with musicians of Udmurtia, including young performers. A. Korepanov's works contain a variety of genres: apart from stage production (ballets, music for drama performances) and music for choirs, the composer has priorities connected with instrumental music, such as large forms of music for orchestras, concerts for solo instruments and individual instrument pieces. A. Korepanov is an author of numerous plays for the piano, including ensembles. The article deals with the analysis A. Korepanov's Chamber Symphony, its figurative dramaturgy, theme, structure, features of orchestration in the context of the composer's style.


The invention relates to a process for the preparation of metal powders, in particular iron powder, comprising the following steps: preparation of single or mixed oxalate of one or more metals, consisting of grains with a morphology of needle, average acicularity ratio (length / diameter) of 4 to 20, and a length of 5 to 10 m; - Reducing said metal oxalate by treatment with hydrogen gas; or else, - decomposition of said oxalate, in air, into an oxide, then reduction of said oxide.The metal powder, for example the prepared iron powder has a spongy and filamentous structure and equal to or even exceeds the current specifications for such a metal powder for example, such an iron powder, which makes it particularly suitable for many uses, in particular for use in heating compositions for thermal batteries, in the case of iron powder.The invention concerns, in addition, the raw or annealed metal compact obtained by applying a compacting pressure on the powders according to the invention.


Fluvial facies are not only the main sedimentary facies in the quan 3 members of the north Lower Crataceous in Songliao Basin,but also are very important oil reservoirs.The division of sequence boundaries of fluvial facies is the basement and premise of the fluvial facies analysis.Therefore,study on recognition of sequence boundaries of fluvial facies has important significance for exploring oil reservoirs in the north of Songliao Basin.In this paper,based on the fluvial facies sedimentology,the influence of tectonic subsidence,climatic variation and sedimentary deposition on the generation and development of the sequence in the basin is studied.Base on high-resolution sequence stratigraphy theory and research methods,through observing target stratum drilling core of core well petrology logos of fluvial sequence boundary are obtained,and the sequence boundaries are identified by mutations in logging and seismic profile unconformity.


Presents a method that combines the path planning and the steering control of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) in uncertain environments. The two problems are solved independently, using off-line and on-line procedures respectively, the link between them being established by a set of critical points defined along the trajectory. The path planner evaluates these points by modeling the free space using a quadtree. The steering control algorithm derives the local feedback control to guide the AMR through a collision-free trajectory. The approach taken considers a modification of the generalized potential field technique leading to improvements in the motion smoothness and in the trajectory local optimization. Simulation results are presented.<<ETX>>


Abstract Hot air drying is a commonly used technology in the preservation of red radish. This study was designed to investigate the correlations among total polyphenol content, total flavonoid content, antioxidant activities and polyphenol compounds in hot air dried red radish via chemometric analysis. UHPLC-QqQ-MS/MS analysis detected nine non-anthocyanin polyphenols and one anthocyanin in fresh and dried red radish samples, and found that hot air drying at 80 °C caused an increase in the p-coumaric acid and ferulic acid content of the red radish. The integral effect of hot air drying on the polyphenol profile of red radish was analyzed by principle component analysis, while sparse partial least squares-discriminant analysis showed that hot air drying induced changes mainly in the contents of poncirin, naringenin, phloetin and cyanidin-3-glucoside. These polyphenol degradations occurred as non-spontaneous and endothermic reactions during the hot air drying process, following first-order reaction kinetics.


We have examined the inheritance of a transgene locus in the zebrafish, Daniorerio and demonstrated that its methylation is af fected by the sex of the parent contributing the allele. This parent-of-origin effect on the zebrafish transgene appears to be identical to imprinting as seen in mammals except that in zebrafish, passage of the locus through a female tended to decreased its methylation, whereas passage through a male increased it. Methylation of the transgene in gametic tissues differed from somatic tissue with the locus being hypomethylated in sperm and hypermethylated in the unfertilized egg. The potential identification of imprinting in the zebrafish has important ramifications with respect to the evolution of the process as well as for understanding the role of imprinting in mammals. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.


An AMD control system is usually built based on the original model of a target building. As a result, the fact leads a large calculation workload exists. Therefore, the orders of a structural model should be reduced appropriately. Among various model-reduction methods, a suitable reduced-order model is important to high-rise buildings. Meanwhile, a partial structural information is discarded directly in the model-reduction process, which leads to the accuracy reduction of its controller design. In this paper, an optimal technique is selected through comparing several common model-reduction methods. Then, considering the dynamic characteristics of a high-rise building, an improved balanced truncation (BT) method is proposed for establishing its reduced-order model. The abandoned structural information, including natural frequencies, damping ratios and modal information of the original model, is reconsidered. Based on the improved reduced-order model, a new reduced-order controller is designed by a regional pole-placement method. A high-rise building with an AMD system is regarded as an example, in which the energy distribution, the control effects and the control parameters are used as the indexes to analyze the performance of the improved reduced-order controller. To verify its effectiveness, the proposed methodology is also applied to a four-storey experimental frame. The results demonstrate that the new controller has a stable control performance and a relatively short calculation time, which provides good potential for structural vibration control of high-rise buildings.


We demonstrate empirically that the collapse of long-term lending relationships amplified the severity of the Great Depression and affected the pace of recovery. We overcome the lack of loan-level data for this period by developing a new measure of continuing relationships that can be calculated at any level of aggregation. Our approach is based on the idea that loan rates charged in continuing relationships are less responsive to changes in bank funding costs than are those charged on other loans. After establishing the validity of this approach for a period when microeconomic data on lending relationships do exist, we show, first, that the marginal impact of bank suspensions on economic activity in the early 1930s was significantly higher in areas with more continuing relationships and, second, that the rebuilding of lending relationships destroyed by suspensions helps explain economic performance during the 1937-38 recession. Jon Cohen Department of Economics University of Toronto Max Gluskin House 150 St. George Street, 322 Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G7 Canada email@example.com Kinda Cheryl Hachem University of Chicago Booth School of Business 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 and NBER email@example.com Gary Richardson Department of Economics University of California, Irvine 3155 Social Sciences Plaza Irvine, CA 92697-5100 and NBER email@example.com


Abstract : This paper applies the concepts of comprehensive security and risk analysis to the problem of building a new national consensus in support of our reoriented national security strategy. The paper starts with a review of comprehensive security and demonstrates its applicability to analysis of the full spectrum of American political, economic, and military objectives. After looking at some of the prerequisites for consensus and discussing the trends that work against it, the analysis turns to elements of the strategy where our ability to achieve a fundamental consensus is most at risk. The most significant general risk derives from newly revived domestic pressures for us to disengage ourselves from the rest of the world and turn more to solving our domestic problems. Such a policy orientation would be self defeating; analysis of U.S. interests worldwide, including particularly our dependence on gains from international trade, supports this holding. Recognizing, however, that domestic needs in fact have legitimate claims on the attention of our leadership and on our resources, the analysis indicates that these needs can best be met by a growing economy.


Background: Vaping is an epidemic among teens. In 2019, nearly 25.6% of Florida high school students reported currently vaping which caused more than 60 deaths and 2600 lung injuries. More than half of these patients being under the age of 24. In the past year, our pediatric program has cared for several teenagers with vaping related illnesses, some even required mechanical ventilatory support. Seeing these previously healthy teens struggling to breath is the motivation behind this project. The primary aim of this project was to reduce children's access to vaping products …


Plans for a new telescope that would be one of the biggest probes ever sent into space have been outlined by a group of astronomers.


This paper decomposes US and Euro area excess stock and bond return innovations into news factors using the Campbell–Schiller methodology. The results indicate that stock return volatility is mostly due to volatility of future excess return news. Inflation news plays a minor role although it is significantly correlated with excess return innovations. For the bond market too, it is future return news—not inflation news—that moves bond returns most. For finite investment horizons, however, asset market movements give a differential importance to the various news components. Results are comparable for the US and the Euro area, but differ in terms of magnitudes. In addition, sensitivities ('betas') to a set of state variables are estimated, yielding high interest rate betas and low money growth betas. Generally, inflation, unemployment and leading indicator betas are significant. Asset market exposures to oil and exchange rate changes are more significant for the Euro area than in the US.


The effects of copper-microencapsulating and annealing on the electrochemical properties of La0.75Mg0.25Ni3.44Al0.06 hydrogen storage alloy electrode in different temperature has been systemically explored.It was indicated by experiments that copper-microencapsulating and annealing results in increasing cycling stability of La0.75Mg0.25Ni3.44Al0.06 hydrogen storage alloy electrode.The results of linear polarization and impedance spectroscopy show that hydrogen storage alloys coated could increase exchange current density I0,reduce electrochemical reaction resistance.It is found that copper-microencapsulating and annealing could increase electrocatalytic activity and enhance diffusivity of the charge in powder surface,so the high-rate discharge performance of the coated electrode is successfully improved.


Purpose: In order to solve the problems of blood in short supply and perniciousness of stored blood transfusion, the type-2 000 cell-saver was used in sixty-one surgery patients to study the effects. Methods:Cell-saver was used in 61 patients, who had been estimated more than 400 ml bleeding in operation, without contraindication nor emergency massive haemorrhage. Prepared the cell-saver before the operation and transfused the enriched blood in operation whenever necessary. Anesthesia selection,operation name,bleeding volume,recycling volume,stored blood being used or not,body temperature after opera-tion, complications and prognosis were recorded. Results: 1. In recycling enriched blood,RBC,WBC, hemoglobin, hemotocrit were normal but platelet,albumin,globulin were lower. The shape of RBC was normal, and all were negative but one, be-cause of contaminated blood,in the results of blood culture. 2. The parameters of blood route and protein were significantly different between in the first day of post-operation and before operation, then recovered to normal level in one week .The function of blood coagulation and electrolyte had no changes before and after operation. 3. The patients body temperature in-creased to the highest in the second day post-operation and decreased in the next five days,even recovered to normal in one week. All patients were discharged from hospital after recovery,except one death because of continued oozing blood after op-eration.Two patients appeared haematuria after auto-transfusion.4.The 73.8% of auto-transfusion patients were not trans-fused with stored blood any longer. Conclusion: It was a good and safe method to use auto-transfusion cell-saver to relieve short supply of blood source,and the complications were negligible.


This paper is a literature overview of biomedical PUR modifications with natural polymers such as starch, cellulose and gelatin. Properties like biodegradability and biocompatibility of modified PUR cause that these materials may be used as wound dressings, tissue scaffolds, tissue implants and also vascular grafts.


While the Kurdish areas of the Middle East are increasingly interacting with each other and developments in one influence developments in another part, the relative influence of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the first and most important Kurdish entity, has declined of late. This is because of the emergence of the Islamic State (ISIS) as well as the Syrian Kurds' successes – buttressed by the American air force – against ISIS. The KRG also finds itself at a disadvantage as the TurkishKurdish peace process has increasingly gained an independent life of its own as the ruling party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) which had built a close relationship with the KRG leadership, for the first time suffered significant electoral losses. Introduction In mid-June 2015, the reliably unreliable Sabah, the daily most closely affiliated with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, thundered that the Western coalition (read America) was engaged in an operation to acquire the Syrian oil fields and link them to the Mediterranean.1 The source of this consternation was the military operation launched by the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces, with primarily American air support, against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)-controlled border town of Tel Abyad in northern Syria. Sabah was reflecting the Turkish government's deep unhappiness with the fact that a Syrian Kurdish organisation affiliated with, if not created by, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an entity deemed to be terrorist by both Washington and Ankara, had in effect emerged as a de facto ally of the United States in the fight against ISIS. In reality, the rise of ISIS and its successes in capturing vast chunks of Syrian and Iraqi territory, including its occupation of Iraq's third-largest city Mosul in the summer of 2014, represent the latest complication and change in the evolution of the Kurdish question in the region. The collaboration between the United States and the PYD, which is not on its list of terrorist organisations, had begun with the siege of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane – an event that, as will be argued later, would profoundly alter the course of Turkish politics by contributing to the success of the Turkish Kurdish * Henri J. Barkey is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington. 1 Yahya Bostan, "Amaç, petrole yeni güzergâh çizmek", in Sabah, 15 June 2015, http://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2015/06/15/ amac-petrole-yeni-guzergh-cizmek. party, the People's Democratic Party (HDP), in the June 7, 2015 parliamentary elections. The PYD's successes in Syria in defending Kobane as well as the collaboration with Washington have imbued Turkish Kurds with a new sense of self-confidence. The combination of Kobane and electoral successes that also saw the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lose its parliamentary majority for the first time since 2002 has also eclipsed the traditional Kurdish powerhouse, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq (KRG), led by Massoud Barzani and his Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The KRG and Barzani have been at the heart of the Kurdish question since the end of the Second World War. Especially after the two Iraq Wars in 1991 and 2003, the Iraqi Kurds have slowly and surely acquired the attributes of a quasi-independent state. The KRG is an internationally recognised federal entity within Iraq, and its President Barzani is received in many capitals as if he were a head of state. The pivotal and privileged position the KRG has occupied among the Kurds has therefore translated into significant influence on all things Kurdish, including the Turkish-Kurdish peace process launched by the AKP government in collaboration with the PKK's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan. A prima facie case can be made that the combination of events in Syria and Iraq, the reversals suffered by the KRG in its own fight with ISIS, and the KRG's declining fortunes due to the deteriorating overall security situation in Iraq, lower oil prices, and the rise of the HDP in the 2015 elections are all factors likely to diminish its importance and its future role in the peace process in Turkey. However, Turkey is entering a period of tumult and uncertainty, in which many assumptions, including that of the peace process' irreversible course, will be tested, with possible deleterious consequences. Whether the peace process goes forward or is interrupted by a return to violence, the fact of the matter is that the KRG's options are quite limited. The KRG itself could also become a casualty of new Turkish coalition politics, a weakened Erdoğan, and the rise of Turkish nationalism. Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government The fortunes of the Kurds in Iraq took a turn for the better following the 1991 Iraq war launched after Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait. The no-fly zone established in northern Iraq, however limited and precarious, provided an opening for Iraqi Kurds to begin the process of state and nation formation. However, this was not an easy process. They had experienced periods of terrible repression, been subjected to genocidal attacks, and been used by both Iran and Iraq as pawns in their own wider struggle for regional supremacy. Years of war and resulting economic and environmental devastation saddled the region and its people with grave burdens. If these were not enough, the divisions among Kurds – principally between Barzani and his KDP and his rival Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) – spilled over into a mini Kurdish civil war, the end of which had to be brokered by the United States. The difficult years between 1991 and 2003 were not all wasted, though, as the Iraqi Kurds gained some experience going at it alone, literally isolated as they faced official rejection from all of their neighbors, who feared the spillover effect on their own Kurdish minorities. The US-led coalition that protected Iraqi Kurds from Saddam's potential incursions and revenge operated from Turkish air bases. The irony of the situation was not lost; Turkey, which had militated against any recognition of the Kurdish identity and not just within its own territory, had assumed, even if indirectly, the midwife role to the first Kurdish state. The 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the subsequent undoing of the Iraqi state had the unintended consequence of further solidifying the Iraqi Kurdish separateness, and the new Iraqi constitution pronounced Iraq to be a federation, with the KRG representing one of its two constituent states. The civil war and Sunni insurgency, triggered by an ineffective American occupation and the perception of Shi'a ascendancy at the expense of the traditional Sunni power holders, ravaged Iraq. The KRG, affected by the instability and violence in the rest of Iraq, nevertheless emerged as an oasis of relative stability. Paradoxically, for companies and governments operating in Iraq and Baghdad, a far safer KRG became a substitute location to open offices and base employees. High oil prices and the agreement between the KRG and the government in Baghdad that allocated some 17 percent of all Iraqi oil revenues to the Kurdish authorities meant that for the first time since 1991, the north had a separate source of income that it could use as it pleased. The KRG's changing fortunes and the AKP's international and domestic ambitions combined to facilitate a 180-degree turnabout in Turkey's relations with Iraqi Kurds. The AKP had prioritised economic stewardship, export-led growth, and improving living standards as its main sources of legitimacy. The oil-revenue-blessed KRG represented a sizable export market. As an aspiring regional power wanting a greater say in the wider Middle East, Turkey could not afford to ignore its new and immediate neighbor the KRG. Finally, contemplating a new approach to the domestic Kurdish problem that had been Turkey's most important challenge, Ankara realised that improved relations with the KRG could prove to be a quick signal that the new Turkey was capable of good relations with Kurds. In so doing, Ankara sought to shift the burden and pressure to compromise onto the PKK. Domestic and international agendas intermingled; as the then-prime minister's foreign policy advisor Ibrahim WORKING PAPER 12 3 July 2015 Kalın argued, "the current state of the [domestic] Kurdish issue alone cripples Turkey's ambitions to speak with confidence about democracy, transparency, and human rights in the Middle East."2 In the context of the much-heralded "zero problems with the neighbors policy" enunciated by the AKP government, maintaining a cold war with Iraqi Kurds seemed counterproductive. Besides, Turkish absence in the KRG opened the door to Iranian influence. In many ways, the events since the mid-2000s vindicated the AKP's approach. Turkish trade has mushroomed, and while Iraq is Turkey's second-largest export market, the bulk of these exports are accounted for by the KRG. Turkish exports to Iraq increased from less than 2 billion dollars in 2004 to well over 10 billion in 2013. Visitors to the KRG cannot help but notice the prevalence of Turkish products in stores as well as the presence of Turkish banks and companies involved in construction, transportation, consumer goods, and the like. Paradoxically, due to the deterioration in political relations between Baghdad and Ankara, the former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki decided when in power to implement a semi-visible boycott of Turkish companies, which in turn helped further improve the KRG's standing in Turkey.3 Finally and equally importantly, the change in the policy with the KRG would prove to be an important marker in the AKP's struggle with the mighty Turkish military establishment that continued to call the shots on all matters relating to national security and especially the Kurds. Improving relations with the KRG as a first step in initi


Clustering is an important data mining technique. There are many algorithms that cluster either numeric or categorical data. However few algorithms cluster mixed type datasets with both numerical and categorical attributes. In this paper, we propose a similarity measure between two clusters that enables hierarchical clustering of data with numerical and categorical attributes. This similarity measure is derived from a frequency vector of attribute values in a cluster. Experimental results establish that our algorithm produces good quality clusters.


Political communication in modern industrial democracies can be defined in terms of an "interface". Political discourse must be mediated by television news. Focusing on presidential campaigns which he assesses as turning points in recent French history, Eliseo Veron notes that these campaigns are subject to regulations aimed at preventing a full utilisation of television's potential. In the author's view these regulations are ill inspired. "Official campaigns" are stripped of their appeal and their speeches often deprived of basic conditions of enunciative legitimacy. At the same time, "parallel campaigning" is boosted by being allowed uninhibited freedom to capitalize on marketing techniques and advertising formats. Arguing that impoverishment of political discourse is consubstantial, not to television, but to advertising, Eliseo Veron shows that institutionalized diffidence towards television ironically fosters the very ills it means to exorcize.


The aim of this investigation was to determine the possible value of quantitative blood cultures in the diagnosis and management of febrile children with or without focal signs of infection. The magnitude of bacteremia was determined by a recently described Quantitative Direct Plating (QDP) procedure; heparinized blood (0.5 ml each) was plated onto blood and chocolate agar plates. Data on Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis bacteremia of 79 pediatric patients, who were not on prior antibiotic therapy, was correlated with the type and severity of the disease. Regarding H. influenzae and S. pneumoniae, 23 (85%) of 27 patients with meningitis or epiglottitis had more than 100 organisms/ml of blood, in contrast to 2 (5%) of 40 patients with upper respiratory infection, otitis media, pneumonia, arthritis, or cellulitis (p<0.001). No significant difference was noted in the magnitude of bacteremia due to N. meningitidis between 12 patients with or without meningitis. The possible predictive value of the quantitation of bacteremia is illustrated by the observation of three children with seemingly mild respiratory infection and counts in excess of 100 organisms/ml who, within 20 hours, developed meningitis or epiglottitis. From these observations it is suggested that high bacterial counts in excess of 100 organisms/ml of blood should alert the physician to the existence or possible development of serious disease.


The invention enables opening and closing the front of the cavity housing case 1 and the case 1 of the related to a distribution panel which is installed at the entrance of each room of each household or general buildings, the cube shape, which is installed into the entrance wall switching a connection between provided a transparent cover (2), said case (1) and the distributor (10) for supplying or blocking the utility power 100 that is drawn installed in, utility power 100, and the emergency generator 200 blackout detecting switching device 20, and the inverter 30 to change the emergency power source 200 into an alternating current, comprising an emergency lighting 40 to be lit in an emergency, and the emergency lighting 40 and the emergency generator 200 to by providing in addition to the flasher which can detect whether power is supplied to between, it is not necessary to separately install the distribution boards and the emergency light and to reduce the installation work and costs, since the emergency lighting of the panel board is installed in a doorway is to act as a passage guide light anger To be able to easily identify an emergency, such as an outlet, and can contribute to the fast and safe evacuation of the people, it is easy to determine the presence of error in emergency lighting. Apartment houses, general buildings, distribution boards, emergency lighting


In this thesis, a study of the optimization of aircraft trajectories using parametric optimization theory is presented. To that end, an approach based on the use of predefined trajectory patterns and parametric optimization is proposed. The trajectory patterns are in fact flight intents, formed flight segments which model procedures commonly flown by airlines, following air-traffic-control rules. The patterns allow to describe the trajectory by a small number of parameters, whose values, continuous or discrete, can be chosen to optimize a given property of the trajectory. A mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem is formulated to obtain the optimum values.

Firstly, the approach is used to solve the general problem of minimum direct-operating-cost cruise (unsteady, with variable mass, and without any constraint on speed or altitude) with given range. The trajectory pattern considered in this application is formed by segments at constant Mach number and constant altitude, restricted to take discrete values: Mach numbers multiple of 0.01, and altitudes defined by flight levels. The unrestricted problem in which the Mach numbers and the altitudes are continuous variables is also considered. The optimized procedures define not only the optimum values of speed and altitude for the different cruise segments, but also the optimum lengths of each segment. The main objective of this application is to analyze how the optimized procedures change when the Mach numbers and the altitudes are restricted to take discrete values. The effects of the cost index, of the initial aircraft weight and of an average horizontal wind in the optimized procedures are also analyzed.

Next, the problem of minimum-fuel cruise at constant altitude with fixed range and fixed arrival time is solved and the optimized procedures obtained using the proposed approach are compared with known optimal laws obtained using singular optimal control theory. The trajectory pattern considered in this application is similar to the previous one, formed by segments at constant Mach number restricted to take discrete values. The comparison shows that the optimized procedures approximate very well the optimal laws and give results that are very close to the optimal values.

Following, the approach is applied to a set of aircraft, taking into account the losses of separation that may arise among them. An algorithm for conflict resolution (CR) is presented, in which conflict-free trajectories are optimized. The optimality criterium is defined so that the deviation from the intended (preferred) trajectories in the lateral profile is minimized. This problem is solved in two phases: one in which a first valid solution is found by means of a random search, and another one in which this first valid solution is optimized. The resolution trajectory patterns take into account changes of the nominal waypoints (vectoring) and changes of the aircraft speeds. The algorithm is applied to the case of multiple conflicts among commercial transport aircraft in converging traffic in the terminal area. Different scenarios are considered, which include locked aircraft, that is, aircraft whose trajectories are known and fixed. The cost of the global resolution process is assessed, in terms of extra distance travelled, extra flight time and extra fuel consumed for each aircraft.

Finally, the previous CR algorithm is extended to solve the problem of optimizing conflictfree trajectories that meet scheduled times of arrival (STA). In this application, the resolution process has three steps: avoidance, which generates conflict-free trajectories that meet the given sequence of arrival (which is a hard constraint of the problem); recovery, in which the resolution trajectories are modified to meet the STA (which is a primary objective); and, optimization, to minimize a combination of costs (secondary objective). Two algorithms are presented: one in which the optimization step is applied globally (to all aircraft) after the other two steps are performed for all aircraft, and another one in which the optimization step is applied locally to each aircraft after the other two steps are performed for the given aircraft; this second algorithm is efficient when the scenario is very demanding (in which the global optimization is not effective). Results are presented for two scenarios, one with a traffic of 30 aircraft in an hour, all of the same wake-turbulence category, and another one with 35 aircraft in an hour and with aircraft of different categories.

In all cases, a kinetic trajectory predictor (nonlinear point-mass model with variable mass) is used, which is accurate, flexible and transparent, and provides the high-fidelity prediction required in all the applications.


FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: innovation deals with a peroral medicinal form to be delivered into a stomach, the mentioned medicinal form includes safe and efficient quantity of biphosphonate and pharmaceutically acceptable filler, it is also characterized with an oval shape and film-like covering to simplify rapid passing through an esophagus and prevent irritation in mouth cavity, vestibule of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus. EFFECT: higher safety and efficiency. 5 cl, 5 tbl


In the course of one generation, between 1850 and 1880, the number of registered inhabitants of Warsaw more than doubled, from around 150,000 to ca 300,000.1 In the same period of time, the number of Jews registered as inhabitants in the Polish capital grew threefold, from below 40,000 to more than 120,000.2 It formed the largest Jewish settlement in the world, and at the time, surpassed any other Jewish community of European diasporic history. In the earlier decades of the nineteenth century, Jews originated from smaller towns and the countryside of the central Polish provinces; later, a steady influx of Jews from the Tsarist Empire added to this internal process of urbanization. As contemporary observers stated from the mid-nineteenth century, they formed an agglomeration of co-existing smaller units, defined by origin, religious persuasion, and cultural choices. Jewish and non-Jewish contemporaries alike were well aware of this extremely dynamic demographic process. Jewish observers worried about the consequences of this dynamism, realizing early on that a more traditional communal set-up of community would be subverted by the sheer number of Jews living in the capital. And in fact, the period between the middle and late nineteenth century offers a number of striking changes in the institutional fabric of the community. During this period, demographic, political and cultural changes heralded the emergence of the first Jewish metropolis, a place which "breaks the cake of custom," as Robert


47 Introduction ^ 48 Experimental 50 Results and Discussion 58 References 80 CHAPTER 3 83 Liquid-liquid Extraction, Sequential Separation, Preconcentration o f Pb(II), Hg(H) and Cd(II) with Pyridine Based Cryptand. Abstract 84 Introduction 85 Experimental 87 Results and Discussion ' 93 References 12284 Introduction 85 Experimental 87 Results and Discussion ' 93 References 122


This report provides a summary of states currently administering end-of-course (EOC) assessments. The number of EOC assessments administered by states, the subjects most likely to have an associated EOC exam, and the purpose of EOC exams (for example, percentage of the final course grade and/or graduation requirement) are reviewed. State policies regarding the testing of students who transfer from private schools or out-of-state schools are summarized. In an effort to help school districts and states avoid similar difficulties, some of the problems encountered by Texas school districts during the initial administration of their spring 2012 EOC assessments are also discussed. Finally, a brief review of Florida's EOC assessment program is provided.


Background  Retinol binding protein‐4 (RBP‐4) is a member of adipocytokines, which is potentially associated with fibrosis, vasodilation, and angiogenesis in addition to insulin resistance.


Saint Mary's faculty assembly unanimously passed a reso lu  tion at W ednesday's m eeting that supported The Observer's independent status. " What we wanted to do was show support for the indepen dence o f The O bserver," said Susan Alexander, author of the resolution and a Saint M ary 's associate professor in sociolo gyThe d ocu m e n t s ta tes th a t " freedom o f express ion and debate by means o f free and v ig o ro u s s tu d e n t m ed ia are e ssen tia l to the e d u ca tio n a l env ironm ent o f a lib e ra l arts college in a dem ocratic soci e ty," and, therefore, supports the c u r re n t s ta tu s o f The O bserver as an independen t student newspaper. " We, as faculty, understand that the sta ff at The Observer have policies in place and no one else needs to step in , " Alexander said. The resolution is the second pub lic statement by members o f the Saint M ary's community re g a rd in g the s ta tus o f The O bserve r. The Governance issued a statement in s u p p o rt o f T h e O b s e rv e r ' s cu rren t sta tus la s t month. A lexander sa id th a t th is re s o lu  t io n was im p o r t a n t no t o n ly to support the newspaper's inde pendence, but that it was also Board o f essentia l tha t


The present invention discloses method of monitoring EEPROM in simulating chip. When the simulating chip detects the executing page writing operation of EEPROM in simulating chip, it sends notifying signal to the simulator and stores the EEPROM page address in register. Immediately the simulator inquires the register in the simulator chip to obtain the current write page address and adds the write operation and corresponding page address to the record for accumulating EEPROM page write times. The simulator monitors EEPROM via monitoring the record. Applying the present invention makes it possible for the simulator to provide the EEPROM page write time information in all time, to monitor the write operation of the target program on the EEPROM, to find error EEPROM write operation in target program and to promote the replacement of EEPROM near to its life. The present invention is used in simulation and target program test of simulator.


The increase in the renewable energy penetration level imposes the microgrid concept, which can be consisted of several inverter-interfaced distributed resources (DERs) and loads, operating in dual state; either connected with the utility grid or isolated in island mode. The power sharing among the connected DERs is carried out by the combination of the droop characteristics of each DER according to the active and reactive power demand of the loads. When a fault occurs within the microgrid operating in island mode, it is very difficult to be detected due to the lack of large current production capacity. The fault situation can be further complicated, if the fault takes place between two phases or between a single phase and the earth. This paper proposes a fault detection method for the symmetrical and asymmetrical faults, which is independent of any further communication means. The three-phase faults can be detected through the impedance variation of the islanded microgrid, while the asymmetrical ones by the negative sequence components of the output voltage of each DER. A significant contribution is the voltage recovery after the fault clearance with a seamless transient effect. After the fault clearance, the microgrid will continue feeding its loads, through the implementation of a positive- and negative-sequence control strategy. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is evaluated through a set of simulation tests, conducted in PSIM software environment.


In this paper, the restart processes of two generic rectangular hypersonic inlets with different internal contraction ratios have been experimentally studied under a freestream Mach number of 5.0. ...


We have measured the moment A{sup sin{phi}}{sub LU} corresponding to the polarized electron beam-spin asymmetry in SIDIS. A{sup sin{phi}}{sub LU} is a twist-3 quantity providing information about quark-gluon correlations. Data were taken with the CLAS Spectrometer at Jefferson Lab using a 5.498 GeV longitudinally polarized electron beam and an unpolarized liquid hydrogen target. All three pion channels (pi{sup +}, pi{sup 0} and pi{sup -}) were measured simultaneously over a large range of kinematics within the virtuality range Q{sup 2} ~ 1.0-4.5 GeV{sup 2}. The observable was measured with good statistical precision over a large range of z, P{sub T}, x{sub B}, and Q{sup 2}, which permits comparison with several reaction models. The discussed measurements provide an upgrade in statistics over previous measurements, and serve as the first evidence for the negative sign of the {pi}{sup -} sin{phi} Moment.


Objective To analyze and to compare the genetic characteristics of 16S rDNA gene of Brucella with other halobacteriaceae and pathogenic bacteria,and to construct phylogenetic tree to find the specific sequence.Methods 16s rDNA of Brucella isolated from clinical sample was amplified and sequenced,which was then compared with sequences of halobacteriaceae and other pathogenic bacteria downloaded from EMBL.CLUSTALA and MEGA software were used for the comparison of the sequences and building of the phylogenetic tree.Results 16s rDNA was successfully amplified and sequenced.Meanwhile,a specific sequence of 5′-ATCCCGGTCGCGGTTAGTGG-3′ was identified.Phylogenetic tree showed that the distance was very close among different species of Brucella and was also closer to acetobacter sp.,but was farther to other halobacteriaceae.Conclusions A specific sequence is present in 16S rDNA of brucella which could be used as a probe to detect Brucella.


The empirical literature offers evidence that loss of a caregiver in childhood is a significant predictor of psychopathology in adolescents and adults. There is a paucity of empirical research exploring the intrapsychic effects of caregiver loss in an at-risk population of hospitalized children. The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale: Global Rating Method (SCORS-G) was used to analyze Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) narratives for five commonly used TAT cards. Narratives were assessed on eight dimensions, including complexity of representations of people, affective quality of representations, emotional investment in relationships, understanding of social causality, experience and management of aggressive impulses, self-esteem, and identity and coherence of self. Interrater reliability was obtained by using three independent raters. On average, the participants reported a mean age of 13 years and 35 percent were females. Analyses of variance (ANOVAs), correlations, and regression analyses show that age is a significant predictor of self-esteem in children who have experienced caregiver loss (R 2 = 0.34, p < .05). Further exploration revealed that depending on how early the loss occurred, IQ was a significant predictor of children's sense of self-esteem (R 2 = 0.84, p < .05) and their emotional investment in relationships (R 2 = −0.78, p < .01). Implications for treatment of children are discussed.


Given the tremendous amount of waste generated per day would need to be an attempt to address the problem, the Government Sijunjung District of Sijunjung make a socialization to overcome the problem, namely the Regional Regulation No. 08 of 2013 on the management of waste that aims to improve public health and environmental quality and to utilize waste as a resource. Trash that are produced by the District Sijunjung community is for household waste or household with a percentage of 77.89% of organic waste is carried out 2-4 times a day to transport it to the landfill. The purpose of this study were (a) to identify and analyze the socialization of implementation of Regional Regulation No. 08 of 2013 concerning waste management in Sijunjung, (b) to determine and describe the factors that become an obstacle to the socialization of the implementation of the Regional Regulation No. 08 of 2013 on waste management in Sijunjung. This research was conducted at the Environment Agency Sijunjung who socialize regulation No. 08 of 2013 on waste management, accordance with the object mentioned above, the necessary data technique election informants in this research is purposive sampling, while the informants in this study is as follows: Head of the Environment Agency, Section of Environment, Head of Environmental Degradation Control, Sub Division of Administration, the District Public Sijunjung Sources of data in this study are primary data and secondary data. For the technique of data collection was done by interview, observation and literature study. Methods of data analysis used in this study is a qualitative descriptive analysis. From the results of research on the area of socialization Regulations No. 8 of 2013 on Waste Management, especially in Sub Sijunjung seen from the aspect of communication, resources, attitude or disposition as well, bureaucratic structure. The obstacles encountered in the implementation of the socialization of Bylaw No. 8 of 2013 on Waste Management in Sub Sijunjung among others: (a) lack of ability and profesonalisme human resources to carry out the implementation of waste management, (b) the lack of facilities and infrastructure that support the implementation of waste management, (c ) lack of employee attitudes for interaction, communication and coordination between authorities in conducting waste management, (d) lack of coordination, performed the Environment Agency with other relevant agencies Keywords: Socialization, Bylaw No. 8 of 2013 On Waste Management


A case study of a 28 year old seminarian who faces a crisis of responsibility and accountability in her internship. Reflections from several people from several different fields review the case.


Discusses the Chancery Division decision in John Smith & Co (Edinburgh) Ltd v Hill on the extent to which a landlord holding only a reversionary interest in a sub-lease can sue upon a temporary nuisance which affected the demised property. Reviews the facts of the case, involving claims that the continued presence of scaffolding for almost a year hindered efforts to assign a sub-lease, the principles established in earlier jurisprudence, the court's grounds for finding a temporary interference actionable if the injury caused to the reversion was permanent and the significance of the ruling.


The ability to store as much energy as possible for the least weight is of paramount importance to the pulsed power supply of electromagnetic guns. One method of achieving high-energy density is with rotating machines made of composite materials with high shape factors. The shape factor F/sub s/ for rotating machines is defined to be a dimensionless factor which is the linear scaling factor between the stored energy density of a rotor and its strength-to-density ratio. A completely general derivation for the shape factor of thin spinning rotors of uniform thickness has been obtained and applied to various rotor geometries and properties. Four rotor configurations were evaluated in detail-anisotropic, isotropic, laminated composite, and nonlaminated composite and their relative optimum shape factors were compared. The rigorous mathematical analysis presented shows that the theoretical maximum shape factor for a uniform material rotor (isotropic or anisotropic) is F/sub s/=1.0, and that for any composite rotor (laminated or not), it is F/sub s/=0.5, whereas for all practical, well-designed thin rotors of uniform thickness, the maximum F/sub s/ appears to occur in a narrow range of 0.4-0.45. Comparisons between the shape factors of two composite rotor designs applicable to electromagnetic guns, a laminated disk (LD) rotor and a rim rotor (RR), are also presented.


The trends and findings from a descriptive analysis of 25 years of research studies examining the effectiveness of technology to support the compositional writing of students with learning and academic disabilities are presented. A corpus of 85 applied research studies of writing technology effectiveness was identified from among 249 items in the scholarly literature. The use of technologies to support each of the components of the writing process is reported in terms of the research designs used, the writing processes supported, and the historical trends in research publication. The research designs represented in the research base suggests that, overall, there is a developed program of research; however, this does not hold for the individual writing process areas (planning, transcription, editing, and revising). Among the four process areas, the largest number of studies is of technologies to support transcription with revising the next most frequent and few studies of planning/organization and editing. Comparison of the historical trends in research to trends in technology development revealed that little new research investigating basic digital writing support tools, as used by students with learning and academic disabilities, has appeared in the last 10 years despite the growth and development of technology. Across the total corpus of applied research studies, basic evidence-based practice criteria related to number of studies and number of participants was not met in the areas of planning and organization, editing, and revising technologies. Applied research studies of the effectiveness of transcription tools nearly meet the criteria for number of studies and number of participants, and nearly enough to warrant further analysis of study quality and effect sizes. Taken together these findings underscore the critical need for further research on the effectiveness of contemporary technologies to support compositional writing.


Microalgae are efficient at using solar energy to turn CO2 and nutrients into biomass containing lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and other compounds that may be used to produce bioproducts for human and animal consumption and pharmaceutical use. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the NaNO3 and NaCl concentration on the growth kinetics, the biomass composition and the ability to biofix CO2 using the microalga Spirulina sp. LEB 18. The assays were carried out according to a 2 central composite design (CCD) with different concentrations of NaNO3 (1.25, 1.88 and 2.50 g L) and NaCl (1.00, 15.0 and 30.0 g L). The assays were carried out in 2 L vertical tubular photobioreactors at 30°C, 12 h light/dark and an injection of 12.0% v/v of CO2 at 0.3 vvm. The best growing results (Xmax = 1.60 g L, Pmax = 0.109 g L d, μmax = 0.208 d) and CO2 biofixation rate (197.4 mg L d) were observed in the assay with 1.25 g L NaNO3 and 1.00 g L NaCl. Increasing the NaCl concentration produced biomass with a higher carbohydrate content, while increasing the NaNO3 concentration reduced the protein concentration. According to the results, in addition to using Spirulina as a source of protein, it can also be used as a source of carbohydrates and to biologically remove CO2 from the atmosphere.


A mechanism is presented that explains the full range of dynamics exhibited in the oxidations of iodide ion by both bromine(III) (bromite) and bromine(V) (bromate) in closed and open reactors, including clock reactions and oscillations. This comprehensive model comprises 28 steps and 14 species, includes IBr as a reactive intermediate, and contains a reaction sequence autocatalytic in HOBr. Kinetics curves and phase diagrams simulated with this model show very good agreement with experiment.


Inhibitory effect of onion juice on the browning of various fruits and vegetables was examined. When fruits and vegetables were ground in the presence of the onion juice, the juice suppressed the browning of butterbur (Petasites japonicus Miq.), burdock (Arctium Lappa L.), eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), sweet potato (Ipomoea batats Poir.), mushroom (Agaricus bisporus Sing.), seed and placenta parts of sweet pepper and bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), apple (Malus domestica Mill.), loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.), plum (Prunus salicina Lindley), cherry (Prunus avium L.), peach (Prunus Persica Batsch) and papaya (Carica Papaya L.). However, the juice did not suppress the browning of shiitake (Lentinus edodes Sing.) and the rind of banana (Musa paradisiaca L.). With cut fruits and vegetables, dipping in the onion juice suppressed significantly the browning of lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) and apple, and partially potato, while it had no effect on burdock. The browning of the rind of banana was reversely promoted by onion juice.


In the last decade students of the so-called App generation committed a "positive disruption" on existing practices of cognitive experience and the ways to access knowledge. Developing a natural feeling of reality through a permanent online presence they are using a variety of web tools and mobile apps in a NETWORK SOCIETY (under construction). In the introduction we show how a paradigm shift from INSTRUCTOR-CENTERED TEACHING to a STUDENTBASED PARTICIPATORY LEARNING occurs within a variety of "disruptive practices" imposed by the requirements of global market interaction on education models. In this paper we focus especially on how DISRUPTIVE EXPERIENCE of so-called DIGITAL NATIVES could be followed within dynamic in-class scenarios. A social and cognitive phenomenon of "disrupting ourselves" will be approached here in the following ways. On the one side it highlights radical changes of natural communication of the App generation and their impact on educational models. On the other side it emphasizes how educators could simulate a close-tomarket professional ambience to follow available SPONTANEOUS PROTOCOLS of multichannel communication. The learning advantage extracted by instructor's SPONTANEOUS PROTOCOL (mostly as a DIGITAL IMMIGRANT) evolves student requirements (mostly as a DIGITAL NATIVE) on demand and is based on responding to nonverbal signals of so-called DIGITAL NATIVES. This way we have a SPONTANEOUS SETTING of disruptive practices within participatory learning: FIRST, instructor (mostly a DIGITAL IMMIGRANT) acknowledges an appropriate place and time to various roles interacting with DIGITAL NATIVES by using a


: Various levels of government contract-out the provision of public services such as health and education to community organizations, which have traditionally received core funding for these services. In recent years, however, with the adoption of neoliberal policies and New Public Management ideals, Canadian federal and provincial governments have increasingly off-loaded the provision of social services to community organizations through a project-funding regime. Community organizations and their workers now find themselves facing new challenges created by this new funding regime. This article explores the ways in which the daily lives of these workers have been organized and influenced by project-funding regime procedures and rules, which benefit the state but create hardships for workers. This analysis draws on staff interviews and focus group data collected from three community organizations in three provinces across Canada. The qualitative analytic approach includes both a thematic analysis and the identification of practices that benefit the institution but complicate worker activities, as identified by the Psycho-Social Ethnography of the Common-Place method, which borrows from Institutional Ethnography. Through the analysis of procedures of increased accountability, short-term funding, hiring on contract, use of information and communication technologies, and forced partnerships, the authors delineate the ways in which a neoliberalized ruling system benefits and manages staff activities while complicating the lives of the workers. Recommendations and responses to this situation are discussed.

Sommaire: Differents paliers de gouvernements donnent la prestation des services publics comme la sante et l'education en soustraitance B des organismes communautaires, qui recevaient traditionnellement leur financement de base pour la prestation de ces services. Ces dernieres annees, cependant, avec l'adoption des politiques neoliberales et les ideaux de la nouvelle administration publique, le gouvernement federal et les gouvemements provinciaux canadiens se sont de plus en plus decharges de la prestation des services sociaux sur les organismes communautaires, grâce a un regime de financement de projets. Les organismes communautaires et leurs employes se trouvent maintenant confrontes a de nouveaux defis Crees par ce nouveau regime de financement. Le present article explore la maniere dont la vie quotidienne de ces employes a ete organisee et influencee par les procedures et les regles du regime de financement de projets, qui profitent a l'Etat mais creent des complications pour les organismes communautaires. Cette analyse est basee sur des interviews des membres du personnel et sur des donnees de groupes de discussion recueillies aupres de trois organismes communautaires dans trois provinces du Canada. L'approche analytique qualitative comprend a la fois une analyse thematique et l'identification de pratiques qui profitent aux institutions mais qui compliquent les activites des employes, comme l'a demontre la methode Psycho-Social Ethnography of the Common-place, qui emprunte a l'ethnographie institutionnelle. Par le biais de l'analyse de procedures d'imputabilite accrue, de financement a court terme, d'embauche par contrat, de l'utilisation de technologies de l'information et de la communication, et de partenariats forces, les auteurs delimitent la maniere dont le systeme neoliberal actuel profite des activites du personnel qu'il gere tout en lui compliquant la vie. Des recommandations et des solutions sont offertes pour faire face a cette situation.


Background: Stroke is a disorder of brain function as well as global focal sudden and acute that occurred more than 24 hours, due to interruption of blood flow to the brain. One risk factor for stroke is dyslipidemia. Blood lipids consist of blood cholesterol levels, LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein), the levels of HDL (High Density Lipoprotein), and triglyceride levels. Purpose: To determine the ratio of blood lipid profile levels in ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke at Hospital Dr. H. Abdul Moeloek Bandar Lampung. Results: The prevalence of most types of stroke is ischemic stroke 73%. In ischemic stroke high cholesterol levels by 62.4%, low HDL levels by 51.2%, high LDL levels by 57.6%, the levels of high triglyceride levels by 53.6%. While in hemorrhagic stroke high cholesterol levels by 40.9%, low HDL levels by 44.0%, high LDL levels by 43.2%, the levels of high triglyceride levels by 53.6%. Conclusion: Increased levels of cholesterol, LDL and HDL levels decrease more significantly in ischemic stroke compared with hemorrhagic stroke. Whereas triglyceride levels obtained comparable results between ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.


This paper discusses the construction and testing of a Lyot‐Ohman type polarization interference filter. This filter has a band width of approximately 1A peaked at H alpha. Previous filters have been fabricated, mainly of quartz. For a 1A passband filter a quartz thickness of approximately 24 cm would be needed for the thickest plate. This filter has been constructed using ammonium dihydrogen phosphate. Because the birefringence of this material is much higher than that of quartz, the tolerances associated with its construction are severe. By the use of mica corrector plates or optical shims, the tolerances can be made less critical. The final filter is equipped with a Senarmont compensator at each end so that the passband can be adjusted over a range of about 3A.


Abstract Aims A significant proportion of adults who are admitted to psychiatric hospitals are homeless, yet little is known about their outcomes after a psychiatric hospitalisation discharge. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of being homeless at the time of psychiatric hospitalisation discharge on psychiatric hospital readmission, mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits and physician-based outpatient care. Methods This was a population-based cohort study using health administrative databases. All patients discharged from a psychiatric hospitalisation in Ontario, Canada, between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2014 (N = 91 028) were included and categorised as homeless or non-homeless at the time of discharge. Psychiatric hospitalisation readmission rates, mental health-related ED visits and physician-based outpatient care were measured within 30 days following hospital discharge. Results There were 2052 (2.3%) adults identified as homeless at discharge. Homeless individuals at discharge were significantly more likely to have a readmission within 30 days following discharge (17.1 v. 9.8%; aHR = 1.43 (95% CI 1.26–1.63)) and to have an ED visit (27.2 v. 11.6%; aHR = 1.87 (95% CI 1.68–2.0)). Homeless individuals were also over 50% less likely to have a psychiatrist visit (aHR = 0.46 (95% CI 0.40–0.53)). Conclusion Homeless adults are at higher risk of readmission and ED visits following discharge. They are also much less likely to receive post-discharge physician care. Efforts to improve access to services for this vulnerable population are required to reduce acute care service use and improve care continuity.


The centrality of erotic dimension in our Western societies is reflected, among others multiple phenomena, in broad and diverse market niches designed to generate profits through the offer of bodies, goods and services that promote the maximization of sex-sensory experiences and body optimization in aesthetic and erotic terms. Production of subjectivities is played within the framework of a market that provides experiences that combine fun, effort and self-promotion under the inescapable logic of social markers of difference. In the context of these contemporary phenomena were eroticism, gender and market interweaved, this article intends to undertake a performatic and performative analysis of an experience of observing participation in a workshop on "Women Seduction" held in the city of Cordoba. The paper will analyze the body techniques taught, learned and tested in the workshop. Then, it examines the specific type of regulatory ideal of femininity that was being proposed by the erotic-body subpoenas we were urged to reiterate and also by the expert speech of the workshop teacher. In this way the article seeks to build a dense description of this instance, seeking for expanding the ways to approach and learn how these paradoxical spaces gather experiences and discourses of normalization and revival of old female mandates, and also transforms conventions related to gender and sexuality.


The food crop agricultural sector in Pati Regency in 2019 succeeded in producing more than 592 thousand tons of rice with a harvest area of 99,453 hectares (BPS, 2021). This achievement must be increased without overexploiting the land. Field data for 2020 shows a population of 1,324,188 people, a population growth rate of 0.58%. Farmers apply a sustainable agricultural system. These findings were analyzed using the calculation of the carrying capacity of agricultural land developed from population pressure (Soemarwoto, 1985). Furthermore, it is described as an explanation of the calculation results. The results showed that the carrying capacity of agricultural land in 2020 is worth 1.35, meaning that it can provide rice for its residents, even a surplus. Indicates high land productivity. Meanwhile, the prediction of the carrying capacity of agricultural land in 2030 will be 1.28 which indicates a decrease in value of 0.07 but it is still able to meet the food needs of the population. The application of the concept of sustainable agriculture by farmers needs to be carried out and supported by various policies from the local government so that the sustainability of agricultural conditions in Pati Regency is maintained.


A theoretical model (QSPR) using multiple linear regression analysis for predicting the vapor pressure (pv) of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has been developed. A series of 51 compounds were analyzed by multiple linear regression analysis. First, the data set was separated arbitrarily into a training set (39 chemicals) and a test set (12 chemicals) for statistical external validation. A four-dimensional model was developed using as independent variables theoretical descriptors derived from Dragon software when applying the GA (genetic algorithm)?VSS (variable subset selection) procedure. The obtained model was used to predict the vapor pressure of the test set compounds, and an agreement between experimental and predicted values was verified. This model, with high statistical significance (R2 = 0.9090, Q2 LOO = 0.8748, Q2 ext = 0.8307, s = 0.24), could be used adequately for the prediction and description of the log pv value of other VOCs. The applicability domain of MLR model was investigated using a William?s plot to detect outliers and outsides compounds.


The problem of Bayes sequential point estimation when the prior is not completely known is considered. When auxiliary data are available, a general empirical Bayes approach to the problem is proposed. The empirical Bayes procedures are shown to be asymptotically non deficient in certain cases involving exponentially and normally distributed data, provided that the number of auxiliary observations becomes large as the cost per observation becomes small.


In a lens space X of order r a knot K representing an element of the fundamental group pi_1 X = Z/rZ of order s = 4g-1. Then with respect to the genus one Heegaard splitting of X, K has bridge number at most 1.


Abstract This article explores representations of juvenile post-feminist masculinity across two television texts: Two and a Half Men and Entourage. These programs exhibit a contradictory continuum of masculine performances allowing men to "have it both ways," or to be both sensitive and casually sexist within contemporary culture. By detailing how similar kinds of masculinity exist across two seemingly disparate channels and television programs, this analysis also decouples automatic assumptions about representation as being primarily linked to notions of "quality" or "complex" TV emerging from cable and pay cable channels, and instead demonstrates the importance of looking for representational similarities as much as differences and distinctions across channels in order to fully understand the relational shifts between constructions of masculinity and post-feminist illogics.


: In the late 1930s, the NAACP launched a campaign to equalize Black and white teacher salaries in the de jure racially segregated schools of the American South. By 1960, little racial inequality in teacher salaries remained, and racial gaps in per-pupil school spending in the region had greatly narrowed. Using newly collected county-panel data spanning three decades, this paper first documents heterogeneous within-state impacts of the NAACP's campaign on teacher salaries. In states that reinforced successful NAACP litigation by introducing universal minimum salary schedules based on objective criteria, the relatively large wage penalty historically suffered by Black teachers in school districts with higher Black enrollment shares disappeared by the mid-1950s. In states that resisted by adopting salary schedules that used the unvalidated National Teacher Examination as a measure of teaching efficacy, that penalty remained and even grew worse in the short term. In the second part of the paper, we estimate the effect of teacher pay on educational attainment exploiting variation in Black salary gains over time across counties with different Black enrollment shares, and across states by whether subsequent state policy reinforced or resisted court rulings favorable to the NAACP. We find limited evidence that Black teacher salary gains contributed to the dramatic increases in school enrollment and grade progression that southern Black children experienced at mid-century.


We present a Bayesian framework for XML document retrieval. This framework allows us to consider content-only (CO) queries. We perform the retrieval task using inference in our network. The proposed model can adapt to a specific corpus through parameter learning and it uses a grammar to speed up the retrieval process in large or distributed databases. We also experimented list filtering to avoid overlap in the retrieved element list.


Referring to archival documents, the author attempts to make the first ever reconstruction of the history of the first higher school of art in Kuban — Yekaterinodar (Kuban) Free Higher State Art Workshops, as part of a national project to create a network of art schools of a new type. Based on the discovered and carefully analyzed sources, the author reveals the essence of this experiment, traces the stages of its development, and uncovers its origins, arguing that it did not arise as a wave of "revolutionary romanticism", but rather resulted from the objective requirements of the new era, that had been emerging and forming in the late 19 th  — early 20 th centuries. Along with the consistent presentation of the history of the reform of the workshops, the article shows a number of its striking regional features, such as a successful combination of continuity of pre-revolutionary schools traditions with active adoption of innovative principles of the Free State Art Workshops, as well as the complete absence of political motives, ideas and conflicts in the school reform, quite untypical of the period of the Civil War in Russia. One of the main purposes of the author is to try and prove that the period of the Free State Art Workshops gave rise to the modern state system of art education, whose successor today is the Krasnodar Art College. The author specifically emphasizes the contribution of Peter Stepanovich Krasnov to the transformation of the Kuban art school into free workshops, as he was head of the school as of its establishment in 1911 and did a lot not only for its conservation, but also for its consistent and continuous state of the art development, regardless of the political and ideological changes in the country.


The article examines the development of Russian-Indian trade and economic relations from 1992 to 2017. The relevance of the topic is that currently the economic sanctions of some Western countries and the USA against Russia forced to strengthen the Eastern vector of its foreign policy. India is a leading country in the South Asian region, has nuclear capabilities, has demonstrated high rates of socio-economic and military development, and it has all chances to be among the world powers. The rapid growth of India draws attention of politicians and scientists. Deeper cooperation with India may become a good stimulus for the development of the Russian economy and to deepen bilateral strategic relations, in the conditions of aggravation of competitive struggle in world politics and economy is extremely important for both countries. The study of the historical experience, its content, potential, problems and perspectives seem to be relevant and useful. In the study of this topic, the author has considered the formation of modern normative-legal base of Russian-Indian trade and economic relations, has studied the structure and dynamics of trade turnover, revealed the main causes of the existing problems and identified prospects. As a methodological basis of the present study, we used the historical descriptive method which allowed the author to analyze the history of Russian-Indian economic relations. The results of the analysis the author concludes that today, there are a number of external and internal factors that negatively affect economic relations between the two countries, but Indian and Russian governments are determined to strengthen relations in this area, creating a favorable environment for the development of business contacts between representatives of business circles of Russia and India, and the commitment to take economic relations to a level commensurate with the status of "privileged strategic partnership".


The preference and satisfaction survey about landscape elements at two apartments were compared. To analyze the preference and satisfaction, we selected A, B two apartments which were in same city. The site layout of A apartment is parallel and B apartment is orthogonal. According to the results of questionnaire 160 people, they want to have more green space, recreational facilities, sports facilities, training facilities. We also analyzed the result with sex and age.


This study uses continuum thermodynamics of pure thermoelastic fluids to examine their phase transformation. To examine phase transformation kinetics, a special emphasis is placed on the jump condition for the axiom of entropy inequality, thereby recovering the conventional result that stable phase equilibrium coincides with continuity of temperature, pressure, and free enthalpy across the phase boundary. Moreover, this jump condition leads to the formulation of a constitutive relation for the phase transformation mass flux, $-\left[\left[\frac{1}{T}\mathbf{q}\right]\right]\cdot\mathbf{n}^{\Gamma}/\left[\left[s\right]\right]$, where $\left[\left[\frac{1}{T}\mathbf{q}\right]\right]\cdot\mathbf{n}^{\Gamma}$ is the jump in entropy flux normal to, and across the phase interface $\Gamma$, and $\left[\left[s\right]\right]$ is the corresponding jump in entropy. This relation implies that phase transformations must be accompanied by a jump in temperature across the phase boundary. Encouraging agreement is found between this formula and limited available experimental data. Further evidence is needed to conclusively validate this proposed constitutive model. This continuum framework is well suited for implementation in a computational framework, such as the finite element method.


Although payloads based on the auristatins and maytansines are the best-known tubulin inhibitors used in the preparation of antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs), other payloads such as the vinca alkaloids, taxol and its analogues and colchicine have also been utilised. More recently, the tubulin inhibitor eribulin, derived from the marine sponge Halichondria okadai has been developed as an ADC payload, and one ADC based on eribulin (MORAb-202) is presently being evaluated in clinical settings for the treatment of folate-receptor-positive solid tumours.


A B S T R A C T Total count airborne radiometry, total field aeromagnetic, residual field intensity and digital elevation model maps were used to study the pattern of movement of soluble uranium with groundwater around uranium mineralized areas of the Peta Gulf Syncline in north-eastern Nigeria. Qualitative interpretation of airborne radiometric map of the area showed a very prominent anomaly trending northeast-southwest direction. A magnetic discontinuity was also identified on the total intensity aeromagnetic map of the area and was interpreted as Faults, trending northeast- southwest direction, a 2-D magnetic model showed a depression in the Basement, which constitute a graben and basement uplift that constitute a horst. The result of uranium activity concentration in groundwater from the area showed uranium activity concentration value >30µg/L recorded along the anomaly at Kundiga (KD) and Yirmirdalang (YD) that falls on points all coinciding with these northeast-southwest trending anomaly that is prominent on the airborne radiometric, total field aeromagnetic and the residual total field intensity suggesting that the movement of soluble uranium in groundwater is primarily through this anomaly (secondary porosity). Other movements of groundwater in the area may be associated with general subsurface flow direction within the regolith as suggested by the configured flow directions from hyraulic head configuration map of the area.


The present invention relates to a wire 134 and a cable 130 in the from the ceramic oxide fibers encapsulated within a matrix containing aluminum.


The case of a 27-year-old male with a destructive aneurysmal bone cyst of the right mandibular condyle, coronoid process and ascending ramus is presented. Surgery revealed an eggshell-thin, partly perforated cortices. Intraoral approach was used for a complete resection of mandibular condyle, coronoid process and affected ascending mandibular ramus. Curettage of the adjacent soft tissues performed; no extra oral incision was used. In this case following resection, the defect was primarily reconstructed with prefabricated reconstruction plate with condylar head to maintain functional mandibular ramus height, avoid malocclusion and asymmetry. Post-operative examination and radiographic images revealed good symmetry and perfect occlusion as well as almost normal mandibular function. Intraoral approach can be used to access to the mandibular condyle region and ascending ramus with no risk to facial nerve and skin scar so cosmetically more favorable.


This publication aims to support organisations in the introduction, further development and accompanying quality approaches to training in the company. It is intended primarily for people in charge of training in companies and for trainees. Educational staff at schools, inter-company educational establishments and institutions in the field of vocational training can also benefit from the approaches to improving quality provided by the compendium. The recommendations for action have been developed in the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) pilot project programme 'Quality development and quality assurance in in-company initial vocational education and training' with which small and medium-sized enterprises in particular can systematically and consistently tackle questions of quality. The recommendations for action are based on the results of 10 projects that were funded as pilot projects by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).


CD44, a single pass transmembrane glycoprotein, initially characterized as lymphocyte homing receptor, has now been implicated in various stages of cancer development. The Anomaly in CD44 expression distinguishes most human cancers. CD44 is also identified as cancer stem cell marker. This review will comprehend the versatile role of CD44 during cancer initiation, proliferation, invasion, metastasis and as the regulator of cancer cell metabolism.


The surface photoeffect in a heavily doped semiconductor was investigated using the influences of band-gap narrowing and carrier degeneracy. Variation of the surface photovoltage with the normalized surface potential is presented graphically. A comparison with earlier work done under identical conditions is made. The temperature-dependent behaviour is also studied.


This response to Hester Eisenstein's article focuses on the question of religion. In the section of her article under the heading 'Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror' Eisenstein joins other feminists who draw our attention to the ways in which some feminist discourses, organisations and individuals in recent years have chimed in with other more mainstream voices to cast Muslim societies as particularly and uniquely oppressive to women. Eisenstein rightly points to the imbrication of these feminist views in the US imperial project and spells out an analysis through which we can reject them. The model of thinking that threads feminism and colonialism/imperialism together is not new. In its analysis of representations of Third World women in Western feminist texts Chandra Talpade Mohanty's now canonical essay 'Under Western Eyes' (Mohanty [1986] 2003) identified a Western view that placed religion and tradition as constitutive elements of the essential oppression of 'the Third World woman'. These modalities were juxtaposed, implicitly or explicitly, to the secularism, liberation and self-determination that characterised the Western female subject in the feminist texts that Mohanty analysed. The 'war on terror', and before that the global rise of various forms of religious fundamentalisms, has brought a new urgency to the need to consider the ways in which religious discourse shapes our worlds. In an article in the Canadian feminist journal Thirdspace Chris Klassen (2003) tells of moving from religious studies to women's studies in order to pursue doctoral study on feminist witchcraft only to find that she was not entirely welcomed in women's studies either. She attributes to the influence of Simone de Beauvoir a dominant view among second-wave feminists that religion was 'necessarily patriarchal and therefore irredeemable' (2003). Klassen's story of alienation in women's studies cannot be generalised (and de Beauvoir's influence cannot be entirely blamed for a lack of feminist openness to religion) but neither would it be an isolated experience. I take her account of a tension between women's studies and the legitimation of an open engagement with religion as the background to this article. I support her view that feminists should be engaging with religion because it is


A three-stage Greinacher rectifier is designed using ultra-low-leakage CMOS diodes and characterized at 13.56 MHz for a 1 Vpp sinusoidal input and a $10\;\upmu\;\text{A}$ load current in 250 nm CMOS bulk technology. The measured dc output voltage is 1.9 V with 72% power conversion efficiency providing a $19\;\upmu\;\text{W}$ output power. This ultra-low-power and high-efficiency ac/dc power converter with $0.13\; \text{mm}^2$ chip area can be used with RF energy harvesters to power implantable or wearable biomedical devices in body sensor networks. The automated design optimization methodology using a gradient method and foundry models is presented and discussed. The measured performances are presented for various frequencies, load currents, and input voltages. The robustness against process and temperature variations is studied through temperature measurements and corner simulations.


The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) aimed at strengtheningthe globalcoffee sector through the promotion of its sustainable expansioninamarket- based environment for the bettermentofall participants in the sector. This goal was meant to be achieved through five strategies, namely, (1) promoting international cooperation on coffee matters, (2) encouraging consumption that balances demand and supply, (3) providing market development, (4) facilitating fair-trade and (5) enhancing coffee financing for small scale farmers in developing countries. An exploratory aiming at assessing to what extent the ICA has succeeded in encouraging consumption of coffee in order to boost export market for small-scale producers in Manicaland, Zimbabwe showed that theICAis failing to promote distinctive coffeeconsumption. 90% of the responses stated that the ICA is promoting coffee consumption to a lower extent, an average of 7.5% agree that it is to a moderate extent while 2.5% agreed that ICA is promoting the consumption of coffee to a greater extent. This study recommends that the ICO  should provide assistanceinvalueadditionofground coffee produced by smallscalefarmers in order to create competitive advantage to the sefarmersandbein position to with stand price volatility which are current saffecting coffee production and exports.


This article examines the links between capital accumulation, productivity and immigration to determine which factor was the leading cause of the boom conditions in Canada over 1870 to 1929. The results of an econometric analysis using cointegration techniques and causality tests suggest that capital accumulation and productivity growth preceded the massive immigration boom in Canada during the years before the Great Depression. Domestic sources of investment played a leadership role in the accumulation of capital during the investment booms, and increased the incentives for labor to migrate to Canada. Foreign capital then chased immigrants to satisfy the additional demand for capital and served to prolong the investment booms. Suggested Running Head: Investment, Immigration and Productivity Booms in Canada.


OBJECTIVE To learn the dependency between CVD and blood pressure of DM and EH.METHODS 200 patients of DM and EH from Jan 2011 to Jan 2012 were divided into 4 groups(SBP﹥140mm Hg,≤140 mm Hg,≤130 mm Hg,≤120 mm Hg).Analyzed the CVD of 4 groups in one year.RESULTS The incidence of CVD in patients with SBP ﹥140 mm Hg was higher than SBP ≤140 mm Hg,≤130 mm Hg and ≤120 mm Hg(P﹤0.05).The incidence of CVD in patients with SBP ≤140 mm Hg,≤130 mm Hg and ≤120 mm Hg had no significance(P﹥0.05).CONCLUSION Patients of DM and EH with SBP ≤140 mm Hg can increase compliance of pharmacy and reduce side effect.


A computer program has been written to generate tables of formulas for the Newcomb operators of planetary theory. The Newcomb operators are expressed as polynomials in two variables, one of which stands for a simple differential operator , and the other for an arbitrary integer. The polynomials are generated by a recurrence scheme. The program is coded in FORTRAN, using simple array manipulation techniques to perform the algebraic operations. Formulas for over 100 New-comb operators have been produced by the program and typeset photographically on an S-560 Photon system. Digital computers can be used to pcrl'orm tedious algebraic and analytic processes. Programming systems are being developed in several laboratories to deal with such problems, and it seems that accounts of individuM computer applications of this type may be of some generM irrterest. An algebraic problem which occurs in molecular quantum theory was discussed in a recent paper [1J. References were given in that paper to algebraic applica-tiotrs of computers which have been reported by other workers, The present paper is concerned with an algebraic problem that arises in planetary theory. This is the construe-lion of formulas for' the classical Newcomb operators [2, 3] and for a recent generMization of these operators, that was developed to deal with the problem of near commensura-bility, such as occurs for certain minor planets [4]. The purpose of tile Newcomb operators is reviewed in Section 2, and tile mathematical procedure used in our programs is summarized in Sectkm 3. Each Newcomb operator is a polynomial in two variables. When these polynomials are used in planetary calculations, one of the variables is replaced by a differential operator, and the other takes integer values. Each Newcomb operator is labeUed by two indices that also take integer values. The formulas for the Newcomh operators are produced by a ]?owrltiN program which we have written and which uses some simple array manipulation tcchni(lues. The internal representation of the formulas and the coding methods that are used are described briefly itt Section 4. A table of expressions for :d)out 180 Newcomb operators was produced by this program and written on a magnetic tape in a simple representation. This was converted by a second program to the cmltrol codes of the S-560 Photon system which was used to typeset the formulas photographically. Sect, ion 5 describes how this was done, and contains art example of the Photon output. Section 6 contains …


Objective To discuss the relation between complication and prognosis from the patients with acute and subacute severe hepatitis.Methods Make a retrospective clinical analysis to 215 patients with acute and subacute severe hepatitis from 302nd Military Hospital of China.Results The complications at the first three places of incidence from the patients with acute severe hepatitis are hepatic encephalopathy,electrolyte disorder and brain edema;The complications at the first three places of mortality are cerebral hernia,hepatorenal syndrome and hepatic encephalopathy;The complications at the first three places of incidence from the patients with subacute severe hepatitis are ascites,electrolyte disorder and hepatic encephalopathy;The complications at the first three places of mortality are cerebral hernia,hepatorenal syndrome and brain edema.Conclusion To prevent and decrease the incidence of severe complication in an active way is a key to lower the mortality of patients with acute or subacute renal failure.


In this paper the Taguchi technique was utilized to optimize the process parameters in End milling. The process parameters considered were depth of cut, feed and Speed. The investigation was carried out on FG 260 grade Grey cast iron material. Roughness average (Ra) and Root mean square roughness (Rq) of Surface texture was considered as output response. L9 orthogonal array of Taguchi technique, Signal to noise ratios and Analysis of variances (ANOVA) were employed with the help of Minitab 18 software to investigate the surface roughness characteristics for End milling operation. This study showed that Speed has a greater effect on both Ra and Rq surface roughness value followed by depth of cut and feed respectively.


Introduction: To report clinical outcome after posterior capsule rupture complication in a cataract patient with partial-thickness macular hole. Case presentation: A 49-year-old woman was presented with blurred vision of the left eye two years before admission. The blurred vision increased, accompanied by eye dazzled on light exposure. There was a history of myopia on both eyes and partial-thickness macular hole in the left eye. The left eye visual acuity was 3/60 with S-7.00 correction became 5/12 no improvement with pinhole. There was a partial-thickness macular hole on the left eye in the optical coherence tomography macula. Cataract surgery was performed with intraoperative posterior capsule rupture (PCR) complication. Follow-up had been monitored from day-1 until day-60 postoperatively. Conclusions: The decision of performing cataract surgery prior to macular hole surgery is a good decision. Any intraoperative complication such as posterior capsule rupture should be followed up closely to avoid macular hole worsening. Long-term follow-up should be done to prevent the late complication after surgery.


Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States. Carol Greenhouse. ed., with Roshanak Kheshti. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. + 205 pp.