The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other research, predict a significant future increase in the frequency and intensity of heavy rainfall events in many regions. This increase runoff and soil erosion, and reduce agricultural productivity, as well as increasing risks of flood damage to crops and infrastructure. Implementing adaptation measures and improved land management through erosion control and soil protection are among those that protect water and agriculture and limit their vulnerability. Soil erosion control practices are often based on long-term climatic averages. Special attention is needed to provide protection against average high-return frequency storms as well as severe storms with low-return frequency. Suitable and affordable soil conservation plans, coupled with an appropriate enabling environment, are needed. A watershed and community were selected in the mountainous area of North West Syria. The fields represent the non-tropical highland dry areas and dominated by olive orchards on steep slopes. Farmers were aware of resource degradation and productivity reduction, but lacked financial capital to implement the needed adaptation measures. A micro-credit system was established with the help of the UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grants Program (GEF-SGP) with small grants available for each farmer. Haphazard implementation on scattered fields proved inefficient in demonstrating obvious impact. Therefore, each watershed was classified into three erosion risk categories (high, moderate and low), derived from maps of flow accumulation, slope steepness, slope shape and land use. Using field survey of land ownership, the boundaries of 168 farms in the watersheds were mapped. Farmers' fields were classified using the erosion-risk map and considering the on-farm erosion hazard and the off-farm effect on other farmers' fields following the hillslope sequence. More than 60% of the farms were classified into high erosion risk areas. Accordingly, a community-watershed plan was established and revised with the community committee. Loans to implement soil and water conservation measures were distributed to 52 farmers based on the priorities of their farms. Results from four runoff events in 2009 showed that one erosive runoff event can deliver more than 50% of the total soil loss. Implementing semi-circular bunds reduced rill erosion by 40% and captured 3.4 tons of sediments per hectare. The effect of this approach in limiting the negative impact of extreme rainfall events, at watershed and field levels, are now being quantified and modeled.


Transport models of diffusion-induced bubble growth in viscous liquids of finite and infinite extent are developed and evaluated. Results from the present study are compared with results from the often-cited papers by Amon and Denson (1984) and Arefmanesh et al (1992) and found to be in good agreement. Predictions for the bubble radius and pressure from the finite- and infinite-liquid models are compared over a range of conditions. As anticipated, predictions from the two models coincide at early stages of the growth process, and differ at late stages of the growth process when the equilibrium bubble radius Is approached for the finite-liquid model. Agreement between the two models at intermediate stages is observed only for relatively low growth rates.


PURPOSE: An air cavity and an air lubrication mode vessel having a stern shape equipped with a stair form around a propeller are provided to reduce a carbon dioxide generation by minimizing a frictional resistance by reducing a friction area of a hull and water due to air lubrication. CONSTITUTION: An air cavity and an air lubrication mode vessel having a stern shape equipped with a stair form around a propeller comprise a bilge dam, a stern dam (210), multiple air supply pipes (400), a slot (220), and stairs (230). The bilge dam and the stern dam are adhered to a bilge and a stern part (120) except for an entrance part (110) to a width direction of a hull (100) with a constant interval. Multiple air cavities are formed by extending the bilge dam and the stern dam to a longitudinal direction of the hull. The air supply pipe is piped perpendicularly to a board in order to supply air to the air cavity. The air supply pipe has a valve for controlling an opening, and a feeder (420) which supplies a compressed air. Multiple slots are formed to a longitudinal direction of the bilge dam with a constant interval. Multiple slots are formed at the bilge dam in order to funnel air between the air cavities and to supply a part of the air to a ship. The stairs induces a speed difference by an increase device of an artificial flux or a slip stream of a propeller, and causes a successive vacuum, and blocks that air ejected from the bilge and the ship is flowed in the propeller.


SCHOLARS HAVE sometimes defined classicism as a debate between copying and representation. Speaking of the French artist Nicolas Poussin, art historian Richard T. Neer claimed: "Copying is the death of art, because a Copy is not really a picture in Poussin's understanding of the term: lacking idealization or elevation, it is just the replication of Nature."1 For Poussin, the "most deplorable" example of this kind of copying is printmaking, considered here as the unthinking production of the original. 2 Poussin contrasts this to painting, which he claims has a literary and intellectual quality. Disciplines Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity | Classical Literature and Philology | Fine Arts | French and Francophone Literature Comments This book chapter is published as Nemiroff, J.M. Piranesi's Imitation of the Classics in Classicisms, edited by Larry F. Norman and Anne Leonard, 2017. Posted with permission. This book chapter is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/163 EDITED sv Larry F. Norman and Anne Leonard


A belay device on a rope comprises a position where a first climber can be belayed, and another position where the first climber can be belayed only in a top-rope mode. The belay device comprises a cam 11 cooperating with a reset spring 24 which can be adjusted through an adjusting knob 28, so the hardness of the spring 24 can be adjusted according to two preset values which correspond to a first value of the belay operating mode and a second value of the top-rope operating mode.


We propose a computational model for obtaining the transmission coefficient of a relativistic electron transported through a semiconductor-based multiple quantum well structure, in the presence of an external, constant electric field. For this purpose, a relativistic version of the transfer matrix formalism for piecewise constant potentials, based on the Dirac equation, is used. The effects of the electric field and geometry on the relativistic transmission coefficient are investigated. The results obtained in the relativistic framework are compared with the non-relativistic ones. This model could be used in problems with polarization and point-dependent effective mass, with possible applications to the field of optoelectronic devices.


Some metrological characteristics of fluoride selective electrodes with liquid internal contact (ИСЭ<F<01) and with solid contact (Воль< та<3000) are investigated. The influence of various base electrolytes' contents on the metrology of these electrodes is studied. A method of potentiometric identification of fluoride ions within the concentration diapason from 2 to 100 mkg/dm3 in salted waters is developed.


The author of this paper aims to present current situation and problems of terminology monitoring and administration in Slovakia that lacks appropriate terminology discussion and terminography activities. In order to raise the awareness of the terminological issues, a centralised national term base was created intending to draw on the subcorpora of respective fields. The subcorpora not having been completed so far, terminology entries are to be filled in with available internet data. The author draws special attention to the key information of the terminology entry – definition, which, however, is not always to be found on the internet. Therefore, the team opted for the so-called defining context as a temporary substitute. The structure and content of both definition and defining context is to be analysed, which may serve for further semi-automatic retrieval in the specialised corpora. Slovak language has seen spontaneous and uncontrolled accumulation of terms for more than 17 years due to the political, economic and social transformation of Slovakia after 1989, which resulted in coinage of excessive and often unnecessary terminological variants of both domestic and foreign provenience. In spite of a rich history of terminological activities, Slovak society has been facing a double vaccum in its post-war history – on one hand in terms of analysis and development of foreign and domestic terminological theories, technologies and methodologies and on the other studies comparing foreign and Slovak terminological systems. Moreover, the new political and economic situation has caused a massive braindrain in the academic and scientific sphere, thus Slovakia lacks available full-time and skilled terminologists not to mention sufficient linguistic curricula and existent terminological education. Although terminological activity in Slovakia has suffered the greatest fallout in the last 50 years, it was not suppressed completely. Quality bilingual or unilingual specialised dictionaries have been sporadically published, quality theses elaborated and articles on the theory of terminology written and published especially in the revue Kultúra slova but have only seen modest feedback.


A variable fractional delay (VFD) filter is widely used in applications such as symbol timing recovery, arbitrary sampling rate conversion and echo cancellation. This paper presents an implementation of variable fractional delay filter on FPGA. The implementation utilizes an efficient structure so called Taylor structure. The main advantage of this structure is to reduce number of multiplier and adder when compared with Farrow structure or modified Farrow structure. The result of implementation will be reported as throughput and area utilization.


The contribution to the diffuse X-ray background near 1 keV cosmic (extragalactic) origin is poorly known. Data from a slow scan across the Small Magellanic Cloud by the Wisconsin soft X-ray experiment on OSO 8 are analyzed to search for absorption of a possible cosmic component to the diffuse flux. No indication of an X-ray shadow near 1 keV is found, setting an upper limit to the intensity of the flux originating beyond the SMC that is inconsistent with a cosmic spectrum of 11 E to the -1.4 photons per (sq cm s sr keV), even allowing for depletion of the absorbing elements in the SMC. Unless emission by the SMC or an upward fluctuation in the galactic or cosmic diffuse flux at the position of the SMC has canceled out the expected absorption, the contribution to the diffuse flux at 1 keV from beyond the SMC must be less than 50% of that expected for an extrapolated E to the -1.4 source spectrum.


Yield estimation and yield-driven design optimization play important roles in microwave design. Existing surrogate-based yield estimation/optimization methods need to develop separate surrogate models or a large surrogate model with high complexity to deal with multiport problems, which is computationally inefficient. This article proposes a novel surrogate-based method to expedite yield estimation/optimization of multiport microwave structures using combined quadratic mappings and matrix-valued transfer functions. For multiport structures, the responses of different transfer functions corresponding to different pairs of input–output ports are computed with separate residues, while the responses of transfer functions for all pairs of input–output ports are computed with a common set of poles. Taking advantage of this, we propose to formulate a set of quadratic functions to map the relationship between the separate residues and statistical/geometrical parameters while employing merely one quadratic function to map the relationship between the common poles and statistical/geometrical parameters. The resultant mappings together with the matrix-format transfer function form an efficient surrogate to expedite the yield estimation and optimization processes for microwave structures. Compared with existing surrogate-based methods, the proposed method can achieve similar yield estimation accuracy in a shorter time due to fewer electromagnetic (EM) simulations. Three microwave structures are used to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method. Based on accurate yield estimations, we further perform yield-driven design optimization incorporating the proposed surrogate for all the three examples.


It has been reported that AtMAP65-1 dimer induces the formation of large microtubule bundles by forming cross-bridges between microtubules. More important, it has been reported that the C terminus of AtMAP65-1 contributes to microtubule binding and the N terminus to AtMAP65-1 dimerization. The interaction between microtubule and AtMAP65-1 is crucial since it can directly affect mechanical properties of microtubules and further the organizations and some functions of microtubules. In order to quantitatively know the interaction between microtubule and the C-terminal segment of microtubule associated protein (AtMAP65-1), we measure the unbinding force between them with dual-optical tweezers. Force histograms reveal quantized force distributions. Based on Bell-Evans-model of multiple bonds, histograms are fitted and kinetic parameters are obtained. The most probable unbinding force for the single bond is 20.0plusmn1.1 pN. Position of transition state of the bond is given to be Deltax=2.1 plusmn 0.1 nm. Intrinsic dissociation rate constant k0 is 0.0002plusmn0.00005 s-1.


Interaction of the antimalarial drugs quinacrine and chloroquine with DNA has been studied extensively in order to understand the origin of their biological activity. These studies have shown that they bind to DNA through an intercalative mode and show little sequence specificity. All previous experiments were carried out using the racemic form of these drugs. We have investigated the binding of the enantiomeric forms of quinacrine and chloroquine to synthetic polynucleotides poly (dA‐dT) · poly(dA‐dT) and poly (dG‐dC) · poly(dG‐dC), and found interesting differences in their binding parameters.


The necessity of applying variable water flow systems is analyzed. Variable water flow systems and their theory of energy-saving are recommended. Factors affecting constant pressure difference control method and advantages and disadvantages of the control plan are analyzed theoretically through pipe system head curve and pump performance curve. Running conditions of parallel-connected variable and constant speed pump are discussed using pump performance curve, and the correct switch steps are pointed out. Conclusions are drawn that the more the value of the constant pressure difference is, the less the effects of the control plan are, and vice versa; and that the improved plan based on valve lift and variable pressure difference has sensible effects of energy-saving; and that the energy-saving effect of parallel-connected variable and constant speed pumps is more sensible than that of constant speed pumps.


The CheMin mineralogical instrument on MSL will return quantitative powder X-ray diffraction data (XRD) and qualitative X-ray fluorescence data (XRF; 14<Z<92) from scooped soil samples and drilled rock powders collected on the Mars surface. The geometry of the source, sample, and detector is shown. A transmission geometry was chosen so that diffracted intensities in the low-20 region (5-15 deg), important for phyllosilicate identification, could be detected.


The main subject of this paper is the influence of Kierkegaard's philosophy on the concept of Adorno's dialectics. This article is focused on the analysis of Adorno's work published in 1966 titled Negative Dialec-tics. Adomo 's concept of dialectics, which is based on undefined experience, is broadly similar to the "negative" concept of existential philosophy of Kierkegaard. Although Adomo uses the Hegelian dialectics to expose the ways in which Kierkegaard's thoughts fali into idealism. Finally, Adomo adopts Kierkegaard's criticism of Hegelian identity of thinking. Adomo, in Negative Dialectics refers to Kant, Hegel Heidegger, but seldom to Kierkegaard. A careful analysis shows that a number of themes and concepts of its predecessor have been assimilated to his philosophy.


History weighs heavily upon the western Am erican novel; it may, in fact, be a defining characteristic of the genre. In The Novel of the American West, John R. M ilton speculates that western novels may seem to be historical novels in that the western novelist, motivated by the comparative "newness" of the Am erican West, understands the past as contemporary with the present (44 -4 5 ). O f course, M ilton is here thinking of the frontier West of the nineteenth century, which such authors as Rudolfo A naya and Leslie M armon Silko have sur passed by several centuries. Perhaps a more compelling reason for the affinity between the western novel and history, suggests A . B. Guthrie Jr., is that the past, being "documented," is less confusing than the pre sent (in M ilton 160). M ilton goes on to explain:


A 26 year old woman received epidural analgesia for an uneventful spontaneous vaginal delivery. Two weeks later, she presented with a headache with initial impression of spinal headache and received pain medication, to which she responded well. One week later, she presented with a similar headache. Due to her persistent symptoms, CSF leak was suspected. She received epidural blood patch that relieved her symptoms. Two weeks after the last discharge, the patient was received in the hospital in the state of altered mental status following a cardiac arrest. As per the family, one day prior, she had a brief loss of consciousness. On the morning of the presentation, she was found unresponsive in the bed. Emergency Medical Services found the patient in cardiac arrest. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) resumed her circulation in 30 minutes. Upon arrival in the hospital, Computed Tomography (CT) scan of the head was promptly done that showed bilateral subacute subdural hematomas with mass effect. The patient was declared brain dead the next day. The presence of post dural puncture headache complicated by atypical neurological deterioration following epidural anesthesia should prompt the consideration of [any care provider] the existence of intracranial complications and radiological diagnosis should be obtained.


- Communication can take many different forms, including gestural, written, vocal, and visual. These types can frequently be converted into one another's formats. For someone who cannot understand or does not have the ability to recognise the type of communication being employed, this step becomes extremely crucial. This project's main goal is to convert text formats into speech formats and vice versa using the MFCC Algorithm, which is more accurate and efficient than conventional systems. The project's target audience includes people who cannot read i.e illiterates, and those who have visual impairments i.e blind people.To make the system more user-friendly, a web application is created specifically for this purpose. All messages are uploaded to the cloud, i.e., the firebase console, via a wireless channel.The project makes use of an Arduino UNO and an ESP8266 NodeMCU Wi-Fi module for this purpose. In today's world, any communication involving the internet and network applications necessitates security And protection. For this purpose, a powerful data hiding RBA algorithm has been developed.


Reprinted from ACS Symposium Series, No. 176 / Nuclear and Chemical Dating Techniques: Interpreting the Environmental Record / Lloyd A. Currie, Editor


Most software testing techniques test a target program as it is and fail to utilize valuable information of diverse test executions on many variants/mutants of the original program in test generation.


Robert Clarke and colleagues conduct a meta-analysis of unpublished datasets to examine the causal relationship between elevation of homocysteine levels in the blood and the risk of coronary heart disease. Their data suggest that an increase in homocysteine levels is not likely to result in an increase in risk of coronary heart disease.


The utility model relates to an ion beam sputtering film coating device which is composed of a film coating chamber, an ion gun, a rotary target, a substrate holding bracket, etc., wherein the film coating chamber is in a cylinder shape; the ion gun is positioned at the top part of the film coating chamber; the rotary target is arranged at the middle part of the film coating chamber with an inclination angle of 45 DEG; the ion gun educes a grid axial lead is positioned on the same vertical axis with the center point of target material at one side of the rotary target; the substrate holding bracket is dextrad arranged at the same height of the middle part of the film coating chamber; the specimen surface on the film coating chamber is vertical to a reflecting beam current direction; baffles are arranged among the ion gun, the rotary target and the substrate holding bracket; the bottom part of the film coating chamber is connected with a vacuum suction device. The utility model has the advantages of convenient operation and high film coating quality, and is used for preparing optical ultrathin multilayer films of X-rays and soft X-rays.


Carbonate reservoirs have always been a very complex and difficult system to evaluate with respect to the effective identification of hydrocarbons and associated formation water. The combination of multiple porosity systems, complex mineralogy and oftentimes independent bound versus movable formation waters has made optimum petrophysical evaluations difficult to attain. In an effort to better understand the complexities related to such reservoirs, NuTech Energy has taken their carbonate evaluation capabilities to another level with their introduction of Complex Vision. This petrophysical analysis approach has incorporated proven texturally based algorithms with new log derived information to create a model that is significantly more robust in its capabilities of unraveling the hydrocarbon versus water issues associated with complex carbonate systems. This presentation will present several examples of this application and how it has been used to "uncover" hydrocarbons where previously unrecognized potential had been missed. This tool has been effectively applied to multiple formations in areas ranging from West Texas to the Ark-La-Tx as well as the Mid Continent area.


The development during the Crimea crisis as well as Russia´s escalating numbers and extent of exercises has put Swedish security policy on the agenda after being almost invisible for over a decade. This work aims to investigate on which fundament Swedish security policy rests and why Sweden choose to stand outside an alliance. The answers then also answers the main question; how to understand Sweden´s security policy in today´s Europe. To do this, I examine alliances in general, and NATO in specific from a scientific point of view whereas I look upon the subjects from realistic and liberalistic perspective. Then I examine what NATO is, where it´s going and how Sweden´s relationship with NATO looks like. In the analysis I use this knowledge on a number of variables that is essential for examine any security policy. The variables are given a value as realistic or liberalistic and summed up to answer on what ground the security policy rests. This also gives the reason to why Sweden isn´t a part of a military alliance and thereby how we can understand Sweden´s choice and it´s security policy.


The 2017 international meeting of the Swiss-based Network for Transdisciplinary Research, known as td-net, took place September 11-15 on the campus of Leuphana University (pictured) in Luneburg, Germany. It highlighted the theme of "Intercultural Endeavors" in transdisciplinary research and education, explored in keynote addresses, plenary panels, and concurrent sessions supplemented by training workshops and special meetings. This report is an overview of the program with an emphasis on important contributions pertaining to the conference theme.


The present article is a contribution to the study of unsteady, nonlinear, Darcy flow through porous media by use of a finite element approximation. Many mathematical models proposed assume that th...


We make explicit Poincar\'{e} duality for the equivariant $K$-theory of equivariant complex projective spaces. The case of the trivial group provides a new approach to the $K$-theory orientation.


Climate change is impacting people and their environment at an ever-growing rate. Underdeveloped countries like Guyana, which are heavily dependent on agriculture for sustenance are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change compared to developed countries. Globally, climate change negatively impacts agriculture with serious implications for livelihoods. For this study, 114 semistructured interviews were conducted in 18 villages on the Essequibo Coast, Guyana, where agriculture is the major economic activity. Climate data (temperature and rainfall) were obtained for the past three decades from the Hydrometerological Office, Guyana. We found that temperature has been increasing over the last three decades. Rainfall patterns were observed to be fluctuating with a general increase over time. A majority of the farmers experienced the effects of climate change but they were also unaware as to why these were occurring. Most farmers were affected by floods, which is becoming much more prevalent as a result of climate change. This resulted in major crop losses and had high financial impacts on farmers. Farmers have been using various methods to adapt to the changes. In the past, farmers used leaves and bushes to get rid of pests and diseases. Presently, farmers were using more chemicals and fertilizers. It is recommended that emphasis be placed on awareness to better equip farmers to cope with climate change challenges. This study complemented similar studies from different regions of Guyana and globally to offer resources to farmers and policy-makers on strategies for climate change impact and mitigation in farming.


Half of the present invention the linear sensor networks transmitting sensor node, the long preamble element preamble and repeatedly transmitted that includes the (remaining length of the destination address, a preamble, a data length, the collision acts upon eliminated), the receiving sensor node is transmitting sensor a chamber temporality by providing their duty cycle information, the ACK to a node, check the received data, each sensor node to predict that participate in data transfer through the system to control so that each sensor node can operate without idle time accordingly and to meet. That is, the half of the Invention - The medium access control method of the linear sensor network can minimize the sleep delay on the transmission path and reduce the addition of energy and the transmission time consumed in accordance with the collision, information about the duty cycle in a direction opposite to the transmission path it passes through the sensor network can be dynamically applied to change the number of the preamble, transmission timing, etc., it is possible to increase energy efficiency by reducing the transmission of unnecessary long preamble through it. Further, by informing the conflict to the transmission path onto the sensor node through the transmission of the collision detection information, it is possible to provide reliability in a wide range of collisions that may occur in a real sensor networks. Medium access control, semi-linear structure, sensor networks, low-power, real-time, reliability and collision


In this paper, we propose a weakly-supervised approach called Order-Constrained Representation Learning (OCRL) to predict future actions from instructional videos by observing incomplete steps of actions. Most conventional methods focus on predicting actions based on partially observed video frames, which mainly study low-level semantics such as motion consistency. Unlike performing a single action, completing a task in an instructional video usually requires several steps of action and longer periods. Motivated by the fact that the order of action steps is key to learning task semantics, we develop a new frame of contrastive loss, called StepNCE, to integrate the shared semantic information between step order and task semantics under the framework of the memory bank-based momentum-updating algorithm. Specifically, we learn the video representations from step order-rearranged trimmed video clips based on the proposed task-consistency rule and order-consistency rule. Our StepNCE loss can be used to pre-train a video feature encoder, which is then fine-tuned to carry out the instructional video prediction task. Our approach digs deeper into the sequential logic between different action steps with respect to a certain task, which is able to promote the video understanding methods to a new semantic level. We evaluate our method on five popular instructional video and action prediction datasets: COIN, CrossTask, UT-Interaction, BIT-Interaction, and ActivityNet v1.2, and the results show that our approach gains improvements from conventional prediction methods.


Phonemes have a pivotal and deserving role in the creation of a poem as well as its meaning. In fact, the poet tries to put together phonemes (sounds) which are a combination of vowels and consonants, based on syntagmatic axis and paradigmatic axis in order to make a poem in such a way that attracts the audience attention. Mourice Grammont had a completely different point of view to the phonemes and their consequent inductions. According to his theory every phonemes is followed by a particular induction and based on drawn phonetic diagram, in which there is two main classifications of explosive and non-explosive, nonexplosive sounds (1-labiodental, 2-velar, 3- sibilant, 4-semi vowel) have the most usage and among them velar sounds (س/s), (ز/z) have the most frequency. These sounds are the expressive of feelings like regret, rancor, fear, and discomfort. We by study of poet's life, realize that the use of this sounds is correlated to the conditions of poet's life.


In this paper we discuss how mathematics can be integrated into biological research as well as the benefits and challenges related to this process. The focus is on the research of diseases at the interface between wildlife, humans and livestock with some illustrative examples applications of mathematical models to disease research we have been personally involved with.


The modeling of large biomolecular assemblies frequently requires a combination of multi-resolution data from a variety of biophysical sources. Several algorithmic solutions to this docking problem have been proposed which are usually based on the spatial cross correlation. In [1] it was shown that Laplace-filtering techniques can improve the docking performance of these algorithms. This note presents the implementation and first results of the Laplace-filter enhanced fitting into the interactive SenSitus program, which supports the docking by virtual reality (VR) techniques (3D-stereoscopic view and haptic rendering). This implementation has to consider the special needs of the interactive rendering strategy. We employ reduced models using vector quantization to achieve the required force update rate.


Condoms are an integral part of STD and HIV/AIDS prevention. Until recently, the only condom available to women in the world has been the male condom. Currently available method of dual protection that woman can initiate, female condoms offer an important alternative to male condoms. Given the high rates of unprotected sexual activity among youth and the need to develop effective intervention programs, it is critical to examine why female condom use is not popular.This book, therefore, provide important information for the concerned body (both governmental and nongovernmental organization) to plan important intervention to improve the service provision and to achieve changes in the service utilization.


To solve the problem of differential human motion recognition of different users in human-computer interaction, SVM is used to classify and recognize the motion posture. We use Kinect sensor to capture human motion, generate depth image, and establish three-dimensional human model after processing. Then the target behavior recognition adopts a two-level SVM classifier to map various action signals to the feature space to form a feature vector with a certain dimension. During the process of outputting recognition results, corresponding confidence is output and the motion posture is determined by the change classification of motion features. The experimental results show that this research method uses the invariance and orthogonality of support vector machine to improve the recognition rate of vector optimization to more than 95%. Its the action recognition effect is good, which has better robustness with similar algorithms.


Abstract. This descriptive study aims to determine: 1) the suitability of learning objectives with basic competencies (BC), 2) the distribution of cognitive process levels of learning objectives based on Bloom's taxonomy revision, and 3) the completeness of the components of the formulation of learning objectives in the lesson plan (LP) for high school biology teachers at SMA Negeri 14 Gowa. There were 11 LP studied, namely 6 LP for the even semester of class XI and 5 LP for the even semester of class XII for the academic year 2020/2021 which consisted of 22 BC, 80 indicators of competency achievement (ICA), and 80 formulations of learning objectives. The instruments used are assessment sheets and checklists. The data is processed by calculating the percentage (%) of each category. It was concluded: 1) the suitability of the learning objectives with the dominant BC (63.75%) was appropriate, 28.75% was quite suitable, and 7.50% was not suitable; 2) distribution of levels of cognitive process learning objectives based on the revision of Bloom's taxonomy dominant (53.75%) C2, each level has been represented but not proportionally; 3) the completeness of the dominant learning objective component (97.50) is incomplete, containing only audience and behavior components, some even have only behavior components.Keywords: lesson plans, learning objectives, suitability, distribution, completeness.


TPS599Background: Approximately 50,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) each year. Without treatment, it is estimated that only 20-30% of DCIS will lead to invasive breast cancer. However, over 97% of women are currently treated with guideline-concordant care (GCC) including surgery and/or radiation. An alternative to GCC is active surveillance (AS) which focuses on early detection of invasion rather than "treatment" of DCIS. The COMET study will compare risks and benefits of AS versus GCC in the setting of a Phase III pragmatic prospective randomized clinical trial. The study is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Methods: The primary objective is to assess whether the 2-, 5-, and 7-year ipsilateral invasive breast cancer rate for AS is non-inferior to that for GCC. Secondary objectives include determining whether AS is non-inferior to GCC for 2-year mastectomy rate; breast conservation rate; contralateral breast cancer rate; overall and...


The Web has been widely used as a platform for asynchronous collaboration. However, Web based synchronous groupware are still rare, especially those using standard Web browser as front-end. In this demonstration, a groupware system built on GWT and AJAX Push technology will be presented. The system provides a common foundation for developing synchronous groupware applications that consist of a set of groupware tools for various specific collaborative activities. It provides not only a desktop-application like user experience within a browser, but also retains the common Web user experience with link following and backward/forward navigation. The objective of this work is to make synchronous collaboration an integral part of collaboration support on the Web.


One of the benefits that Behaviour & Information Technology (BIT) enjoys over some other scientific journals is that the field is hugely diverse and papers cover a wide range of topics. My hope is that this means that every reader finds that each issue contains at least some papers which are directly relevant to their own interests. I hope too that they find other papers which on first sight may not be relevant, but which turn out to either contain or trigger new ideas and thoughts. In this issue, two papers have really resonated with me in terms of their relevance to my own experience – the first on fraud and deception and the second on reading papers on screen using Portable Document Format (PDF). Indeed, this latter topic is so important that we have a discussion paper from the Executive Editor and a call for papers for a special issue of BIT on the topic. The first paper ends the first section of this issue and deals with rogue websites, which spoof genuine journals and steal submission and other fees from unsuspecting authors. I have not actually encountered this myself but I can see how easy it would be to fall into the trap. The well publicised 'Nigerian Oil scam' and its variants usually combine poor spelling or punctuation with unbelievable offers of wealth. It was only recently that I learned that such scams were not aimed at people like me, who would see through them, but at more vulnerable sections of society who might be tempted. The obviousness actually serves as a filter to find the gullible. I find this very distasteful. However, many of the emails which get through my spam filter are much harder to detect. Some are really quite convincing although when I hear from a bank that my account needs to be verified, it's an obvious scam if I am not actually a customer! So too, winning a lottery that I have never entered, or being selected for such a special deal that it seems to be too good to be true are helpful indicators of fraud. But the scammers are getting more sophisticated and fraudulent journal sites are probably just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to parting us from our cash. I would hate to have to give up internet shopping for fear of fraud but we do all need to be eternally vigilant. One of the proposed prevention approaches that I have heard about is a charge for emails. The amount would be a fraction of a penny and would have no real economic impact on legitimate individuals or businesses but it would stop mass emailing being free. Of course, setting up the systems to support this might be costly and indeed could open a new door for fraud. In the meantime, I guess the message is to trust no-one! The second topic concerns the use of PDF and reading on screens. Over the years, we have published many papers about reading on screens being more difficult than reading on paper. As the technology has improved so more obvious issues like poorer character contrast, resolution and the need to adopt uncomfortable postures have gradually been eroded. But some people still prefer to read on paper. I must confess that I don't. I love my Kindle for extended reading and I am perfectly happy for BIT to have moved away from paper as the main communication channel. My office as editor used to be buried in paper with authors being asked to provide three or four copies to support refereeing and printed proofs being what I used to construct editorials. My office is not exactly paperless, and is certainly not as tidy as I would like, but being able to read papers and construct editorials on computer works well for me. However, I do find that the idiosyncrasies of PDF can be annoying. I also know that people with disabilities can find ordinary PDF documents unreadable and although there is Universally Accessible PDF (PDF/UA), it does not seem to be widespread. I am therefore looking forward to next year's special issue which will focus on 'Improving the Usability and Accessibility of PDF for Better Use as a Communication Medium'. If you can contribute, please do.


This study first discusses the structural problems of Zambia and the policies of adjustment that have been tried. It then uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyse the impact of variou ...


n this thesis, a quasi-RH/LH dual-band 3-dB branch-line coupler (BLC) constructed in microstrip form is proposed. The designed BLC circuit replaces conventional chip inductors in the coupler arms with microstrip stubs for easier circuit integration and lower fabrication cost. All microscripline sections in the coupler arms made meandered to reduce the circuit size is implemented on a RT/Duroid 6010 substrate. Next, proposed in this thesis is a dual band bandpass filter(BPF) made of quarter-weavelength steeped-impedance resonators(SIRs), which are coupled to the input and output ports through parallel coupling transmission lines. The direct coupling between the input and output ports makes the whole structure a cross-coupled filter,thus create zeros near the passband skirts.


The purpose of this work is to investigate the cognitive structure in the self-regulated learning environment. In the experimental study design with a pretest-posttest control group is employed. The study sample consists of 29 undergraduate students, who continue their first semester of biology education program. Experimental and control groups were formed through random assignment of this student. The data of the survey were gathered up by concept maps. This Data was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The paired groups t-test and independent groups t-test were used for testing of research hypotheses. As a result of the study, biology instruction in the self-regulated learning environment changed students' cognitive structures in a positive way and it was more successful than classical courses. But the cognitive structure all of pre-service biology teachers were determined as radial type.


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Experimental researches are conducted on natural Wenzhou clay to study its undrained cyclic deformation,pore pressure behavior and effects of loading frequency.Taking the stress-induced anisotropy into account,all the specimens are initially restored to the in-situ stress state under K0 consolidation.The emergence of the inflexion points on the accumulative strain curves can be considered as a suitable failure criteron for K0-consolidated clay and the corresponding peak strains ?s,tp of all the tests are about 3%.For a given dynamic stress ratio,the stress duration t is a key factor which comprehensively reflects the effects of loading frequency and cyclic number.Finally,based on the similarity,the accumulation during undrained cyclic shearing is equivalent to a static creep process,and a proposed anisotropic elastic visco-plastic constitutive model is used for the simulation.The predicted results indicate that the creep equivalent simplification is suitable in practice,and that the accumulation behavior of natural clays can be fairly predicted.


There are contradictory findings regarding the use of the MMPI to discriminate between patients with organic and functional pain. The MMPI was administered to patients, 43 with organic and 39 with functional pain, at a university hospital pain clinic. Multivariate analyses were nonsignificant, strongly suggesting that the clinical usefulness of this scale to differentiate between patients with organic and functional pain is highly questionable.


In this chapter, we describe a decentralized model of future grid, formulate a problem to maximize real-time renewable integration, and introduce approaches for solving the problem in a decentralized manner.


Chromosomal breaks and abnormal chromosomes were found in the peripheral blood and bone marrow cultures from six persons who were accidentally exposed to total-body irradiation 8 and 10 1/2 yr previously. These type of abnormalities were found in these same patients by Bender and Gooch 2 1/2 yr and 3 1/2 yr after the radiation exposure and by us 7 yr after the accident. The frequencies of the abnormalities remain higher than the normal controls. There is good evidence that there is an increased incidence of cancer and leukemia among populations exposed to radiation. It has been suggested that chromosomal aberrations are involved in the development of some cancer or leukemia in irradiated persons. However, none of our patients has these diseases. It is possible that the development of clinical cancer or leukemia (phenotype) depends not only on the presence of abnormal cells (genotype), but also, on factors that give advantage to these abnormal cells.


Abstract. The purpose of the scientific article is to establish the relationship between the principle of independence of a judge and the procedure for the election (appointment) of members of the High Council of Justice. The methodological basis of the study was the method of legal science as a system of means of learning law. The conceptual and methodological basis of the work was a comparative legal and comprehensive approach. It was emphasized that a judge has the inherent freedom to impartially and impartially perform his professional duties without political interference. It is substantiated that, based on the fact that constitutional power in Ukraine should be exercised on the basis of continuity and integrity.


Personification is a common literary and artistic mode of expression in literary works.Compared with that of adult literature,the use of personification in infant literature is of distinctive uniqueness.This paper aims at probing into the personification features of infant literature from the perspective of similarities between infant thought and primeval thought.


Simple Summary Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver malignancy associated with poor prognosis. Treatment options are limited partially due to resistance to traditional chemotherapeutic agents. Immunotherapy has changed the treatment landscape in metastatic and recurrent solid tumors such as malignant melanoma and non-small-cell lung cancer. Application of immunotherapy regimens in patients with HCC has led to encouraging results in terms of both safety and efficacy. In this review, we summarize the key points of currently available clinical trials and immunotherapy perspectives for HCC. Moreover, we explore the role of tumor microenvironment as a predictive and prognostic marker to immunotherapy response and its clinical implications. Abstract Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of one of the most frequent liver cancers and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Current treatment options such as surgery, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, liver transplantation, and radiofrequency ablation will benefit only a very small percentage of patients. Immunotherapy is a novel treatment approach representing an effective and promising option against several types of cancer. The aim of our study is to present the currently ongoing clinical trials and to evaluate the efficacy of immunotherapy in HCC. In this paper, we demonstrate that combination of different immunotherapies or immunotherapy with other modalities results in better overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) compared to single immunotherapy agent. Another objective of this paper is to demonstrate and highlight the importance of tumor microenvironment as a predictive and prognostic marker and its clinical implications in immunotherapy response.


Taftan stratovolcano (4050 m.) is located in flysch zone of eastern Iran about 100 km south-southeast of Zahedan city. The Taftan volcano had erupted into the Cretaceous and Eocene sedimentary and igneous rocks. The Taftan is now in an active post volcanic and fumaroles stage. The Taftan and Bazman volcanic centers in Iran and Sultan volcanic center in Pakistan are considered as Baluchistan volcanic arc which were formed by subduction of Oman oceanic crust under Lut and Helmends blocks along southern margin of Makran zone.


Measuring the distance between partitions is useful for clustering comparison in different fields. For example, in bioinformatics the measuring mostly obtains through a maximum matching distance MMD, although this is algorithmically demanding and hardly fits certain instances. In fact, another distance measure is being tested, namely one based on information theory and termed variation of information VI. Alternatively, this paper proposes the Hamming distance HD, displaying large range and great measurement sensitivity, while also relying on a neat binary string representation of partitions. Novel distance HD is computationally handy and shares with VI important characterizing axioms. Developing from the combinatorial concern to translate the traditional Hamming distance from subset to partition lattices, HD constitutes a valuable computational tool for clustering and information processing where a distance between partitions is to be measured.


Apocalyptic studies are nowadays a prominent field of enquiry within biblical studies. Yet, scholars have not been able to agree upon a definition of the term apocalyptic. The following study attempts to move this debate foreword by acknowledging the term as a modern scientific designation that scholars apply to historical sources and thus requires a definition based upon its use in modern scholarship. Since the use of the term has become a modus operandi in biblical and modern studies, an analysis of the various applications of the term by modern scholars provides the point of departure for a reflection upon its definition by means of a comparative study.


ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the between-day reliability and usefulness of a fitness testing battery in a group of youth sport athletes. Fifty-nine youth sport athletes (age = 17.3 ± 0.7 years) undertook a fitness testing battery including the isometric mid-thigh pull, counter-movement jump, 5–40 m sprint splits, and the 5–0-5 change of direction test on two occasions separated by 7 days. Usefulness was assessed by comparing the reliability (typical error) to the smallest worthwhile change. The typical error was 5.5% for isometric mid-thigh pull and 3.8% for counter-movement jump. The typical error values were 2.7, 2.5, 2.2, 2.2, and 1.8% for the 5, 10, 20, 30, and 40 m sprint splits, and 4.1% (left) and 5.4% (right) for the 5–0-5 tests. The smallest worthwhile change ranged from 1.1 to 6.1%. All tests were identified as having "good" or "acceptable" reliability. The isometric mid-thigh pull and counter-movement jump had "good" usefulness, all other tests had "marginal" usefulness.


A non-woven fabric comprising an olefin resin composition (I) including an olefin polymer (i) satisfying a specific condition; a spunbonded non-woven fabric obtained by melt-extruding and molding the olefin resin composition (I) at a resin temperature of 220DEG C or less, and a method for manufacturing the same; a multi-layered non-woven fabric including the spunbonded non-woven fabric; a non-woven fabric and a multi-layered non-woven fabric comprising composite fibers configured from the olefin resin composition (I) including the olefin polymer (i) satisfying the specific condition and an olefin resin composition (II) including an olefin polymer (ii) satisfying a specific condition; and a textile product using the spunbonded non-woven fabric, the non-woven fabric comprising the composite fibers, or the multi-layered non-woven fabric.


FIELD: biotechnology, food processing industry, medicine. SUBSTANCE: strain Bifidobacterium bifidum is obtained by sequential cycles of lyophilic drying and reducing on thioglycol cultural medium (50 cycles). Clones with excellent antioxidant activity have been selected according to maximum accumulation of bifidus-bacteria biomass in sterile defatted milk not less than lg 9 after cultivation for 16 h. Strain has superoxide dismutase activity not less than 19.7 unit/mg of microbial protein mass. Strain Bifidobacterium bifidum can effectively growth in cultivation media and accumulate necessary titer of viable bacteria, has high acid-forming activity, antagonistic action against pathogenic and conditional pathogenic microflora, and excellent antioxidantaction. Culture has marked probiotic action cased by its superoxide dismutase activity. Strain is useful in preparation of functional foodstuff, bioactive supplement, cosmetic and toiletry agents. EFFECT: bifidus-bacterium strain for manufacturing of products with excellent probiotic and healthy effect. 2 tbl, 5 ex


Every culture has a system of beliefs that guides their interaction with nature. The literature suggests that indigenous communities rely heavily on the pursuance of an ideal of natural justice, which leads them to have a balanced relationship with nature. In this paper we seek to deepen the understanding of indigenous people's concept of natural justice and morality systems guiding their interaction with nature. An exploratory case study was conducted in which we gathered qualitative data through in-depth interviews and participant observation in a Letuama village from the Colombian Amazon. We conducted a grounded analysis of the data in search for subjective moral norms guiding environmental behavior. The six basic principles that emerged recurrently were: Economy, Reciprocity, Antagonism, Cleverness, Parallelism, and Tradition, with Reciprocity being common across all other categories. We found enough evidence to suggest that among the Letuama, Reciprocity is a culturally rooted moral principle acquired through the socialization process that strongly drives their human-nature as well as their social relationships. Some implications for future research and current theories are discussed.


Helicobacter pylori plays a part in the progress of chronic superficial gastritis-atrophic gastritis-intestinal metaplasia-atypical hyperplasia-canceration.The curative effect of western medicine on eradicating Hp is better than that of traditional Chinese medicine.However,western medicine has some disadvantages such as drug tolerance,noxius effects,intestinal flora disturbance and high recurrence rate.Compared with western medicine,traditional Chinese medicine is safe to relieve the clinical symptoms,cure drug resistant strains,reduce the adverse reaction and enhance the treatment effect.The integrated therapy of traditional and western medicine can enhance the efficacy and improve the treatment effect.


and G.M. Flato We appreciate the detailed critique of the lake component of our regional climate model (RCM) provided by Lofgren (this issue). It would appear that some confusion has arisen regarding the interpretation of the 'residual term', R, which we hope to clarify below. As in McFarlane et al. (1992), R is computed so as to allow the coupled model to reproduce approximately the observed lake surface temperature and ice-cover evolution. Ideally, R would represent only the unresolved heat fluxes noted in Eq. (1) of Goyette et al. (2000; hereafter GMF). This would be the case if the surface fluxes produced by the model (Fa) were 'perfect' in some sense. In practice, of course, there are errors in the modelled surface fluxes. As Lofgren (this issue) points out, surface fluxes over the Great Lakes are poorly known from observations, and so it is difficult to evaluate or correct such errors. The result is that R includes not only the unresolved heat fluxes noted in Eq. (1) (and which should, as Lofgren points out, very nearly average zero), but also the annual mean error (which, as stated explicitly by GMF, is not necessarily zero). In the model employed by GMF, the surface fluxes are computed using the same boundary layer parametrizations employed in the general circulation model (GCM) of McFarlane et al. (1992). This was done so that the RCM formulations would be as consistent as possible with the GCM which provides the lateral boundary conditions. The crucial point is that the boundary layer formulation has not been 'tuned' to produce a zero mean climatological flux at certain locations. There appear to be at least three remedies that could be adopted: 1. One could insist that R average to zero over each lake. The result would be that the net error in Fa would cause the lake surface to heat up or cool down, leading to an unrealistic climate. This option was deemed unacceptable. 2. One could locally 'tune' the parametrizations inherent in Fa so thatFa would be approximately zero when averaged over a particular lake. In general, this would require a different choice of parameters over each lake. This would be possible, in principle, but without better observational guidance, this would amount to little more than guesswork. 3. One could consider R to be composed of Fh + Fb + ∆F, where ∆F is a constant 'flux adjustment' employed to offset errors and unknowns in the fluxes appearing on the RHS of Eq. (1). This is the approach widely used in coupled climate modelling and it is the approach we have adopted, although in the manuscript this was not stated as clearly and directly as it could have been. This approach has the advantage of yielding model simulations with a fairly realistic and steady climate. It avoids the uncertainty inherent in local tuning of surface fluxes (option 2). And there is no reason to expect that assigning a fixed flux adjustment is any more harmful than arbitrarily tuning parameters to achieve a zero mean. Lofgren's detailed analysis of the heat budget of the hypolimnion, while interesting and informative, is not really relevant to the model described by GMF. In our model, the hypolimnion is not explicitly represented; it is merely any water below the mixed layer and by construction it does not gain or lose heat. The non-zero-mean contribution to R arises at the surface as a result of errors in Fa. A point made by Lofgren (this issue) that does bear repeating is the assumption, inherent in fixing R once and for all, that the lake(s) will continue to behave in the same manner under a changing climate. If the climate change were sufficient to cause a substantial alteration in behaviour, such as a transition from dimictic to monomictic, then the assumption of fixed R will indeed introduce a substantial error. 506 / Brent M. Lofgren


High involvement, enthusiasm, and passion for excellence are required when architecture firms develop projects to be submitted for design competitions. Notwithstanding the emotions and the energy necessary to prepare these submissions, failure is extremely likely; on average, only one out of ten submissions wins. Project failure is a frustrating experience that usually evokes negative emotions, such as sadness, anger, and grief–emotions strongly conflicting with enthusiasm and passion. These contradictory emotional states elicit an intriguing question: how do these organizations deal with the resulting dilemma of upholding the positive emotions needed for developing outstanding competition projects, while experiencing frustrations likely to undermine enthusiasm and passion? Elite architecture firms have proven to handle this dilemma, and therefore we set out to empirically explore their developed practices. We studied coping practices through embedded case studies at two successful elite architecture firm...


The natural role played by coherent states in the geometric quantization program is brought out by studying the mathematical equivalence between two physical interpretations that have recently been proposed for this program. These interpretations are based, respectively, on the modular algebra structure of prequantization, and the reproducing kernel structure of phase space quantization. The arguments are presented in this paper for the particular case where the phase space of the system considered is the cotangent bundle T*M of a homogeneous manifold M, and for didactic reasons, the latter is taken to be a real vector space.


To develop a cost-effective condition-based maintenance strategy, accurate prediction of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) is the key. It is known that many failure mechanisms in engineering can be traced back to some underlying degradation processes. This article proposes a two-stage prognostic framework for individual units subject to hard failure, based on joint modeling of degradation signals and time-to-event data. The proposed algorithm features a low computational load, online prediction, and dynamic updating. Its application to automotive battery RUL prediction is discussed in this article as an example. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through a simulation study and real data.


This research adopts a dynamic self-regulation framework to test whether there is a curvilinear relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level. Furthermore, to establish a boundary condition of the predicted relationship, the authors build a cross-level model and examine how approach motivation and avoidance motivation moderate the complex relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance.,To obtain results from a within-person analysis, the authors collect multi-source data from 125 technicians who provided monthly reports over an 8-month period.,The authors find evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level and differential moderating effects of approach/avoidance motivations.,This study is one of the first to challenge the assumption that creative self-efficacy always has a positive linear relationship with creativity. It provides a more complete view of the complex pattern between creative self-efficacy and creativity at the within-person level.


Red cell survival studies were carried out on 14 psychiatric patients receiving phenothiazine drugs. No shortening of red cell survival was demonstrated.


A lab experiment was conducted to study the denitrification in soil mixed with different nitrogen sources (sludge, 10, 30, 50 ton. ha). Ammonium sulphate, and urea at 250 kg. ha. Mixed with soil and packed into leaching tubes (15 cm length and 5 cm diameter). Water was added up to 60% of the field capacity then tubes were incubated at 37 C for 10 weeks. Nitrogen (N-NH4 and N-NO3) was extracted by 0.01 M KCl solution biweekly to determine the concentration of NH4, NO3, Urease, and nitrification microorganisms' counts. Results showed that ammonium was decreased rapidly in the first period of incubation while nitrate was increased with the period of incubation. Sludge (50 kg. ha) treatment has recorded the highest concentration of N-NO3 on the tenth week at 78.973 mgm.kg -1 in soil as compared to control treatment that gave 21.007 mgm.kg soil. The highest activity of urease was in sludge treatment at 274.30 μgm N-NH4 .gm -1 soil per 2 hours and the least value was 34.39 μgm N-NH4 .gm -1 soil per 2 hours in control treatment. The nitrification microorganisms' counts were the most in eighths week of incubation at 30.8*10 Cfu mg. dry soil.


If innovation is the Holy Grail of firm growth, then innovative teams are the organizational cornerstone of success. Existing theoretical models emphasize internal team processes and external condi...


Telescopic denture has advantages such as transfer the occlusal force to the long axis of the abutment, easiness of oral hygiene management, increase of retention and stability, splint effect due to secondary fixation between abutments and have been reported a higher success rates than conventional removable partial denture (RPD). However, there are disadvantages such as complex laboratory procedures, long treatment periods and high costs, and high incidence of complications. This clinical report describes two cases, a 4-point supported telescopic denture using telescopic crown and a 2-point supported telescopic denture using conical crown with functionally satisfactory results. Frequent complications of telescopic denture, which are reported in various literature were reviewed. Clinical and laboratory procedures were performed in consideration of complications that reported. (J Korean Acad Prosthodont 2018;56:308-16)


【Task】 The present invention relates to a rotary contactor of a motor vehicle, fixed between the movable member which (7) adapted to be rotatably connected to a steering wheel of a vehicle, and is configured to be mounted to the steering column a member (3), the inside of the fixed member, said movable member (7) is housed, and the fixing member, wound between said movable member (7) and the fixing member (3) a wound to have flexible conductive ribbon (15), to face the ribbon, wherein the member (3) (7), rotatably mounted relative to one another, via its ends, the movable a flexible conductive ribbon is attached to the member (7) and the fixing member (3), a plurality of elastic band-like ring closure member (21), each elastic band ring closure member, said fixing member (3) first teeth disposed on the inner side 27a), and by a second mesh with teeth (27b) which is disposed outside the movable member (7), said ribbon (15), the inner surface (23) of the fixing member (3), and the having a plurality of sections (29) pressed against fixed to the outer surface (25) of the movable member (7), and the plurality of elastic strip ring closure member (21), said movable member (7) of the cover which is arranged above ( 31) and a. According to the present invention, the one elastic strip ring closure member of the elastic strip ring closure member (21) (21a) is so particularly noticeable, the cover (31), see the noticeable elastic strip ring closure member (21a) it is transparent to allow, and the have the number of rotations performed by the movable member (7), and a mark related to the direction of rotation (R), these marks, the movable member (7) is rotated Then, the elastic strip ring closure member (21a), of the reference mark (R), the number of rotations performed by said movable member (7), and to be substantially the same position as the mark corresponding to the rotational direction It is located. .The


Virtually an entire village of thirty-nine people living adjacent to a large field of Bt-maize (Dekalb 818 YG) on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines were stricken by a disease with respiratory, intestinal, and skin reactions, and fever. The symptoms occurred during the period when the maize was producing airborne pollen. The residents, some of whom lived only a few meters from the plants, certainly inhaled the pollen. The maize was genetically engineered to produce the insecticide called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). In response to Bt-toxin, IgA, IgG, and IgM antibodies were detected in their blood samples, indicating an immune reaction to GM maize pollen.


The importance of proper application of adjectives in Japanese is discussed By discussing the sentences whiched formed with the characteristic adjectives and feeling adjectives, both the main differ- ences among the sentences formed with characteristic or feeling adjectives and the features of these sen- tences are emphasized.


A fire in a high building often causes a severe consequence due to the difficulty to control it and evacuate the people in it.Therefore,there is a high standard on a fire design in which the water supply for fire rescue is the core of it.This paper discusses the method of water supply for a fire fighting,indoor and outside door fire hydrants and water pumps in a high building.


The well-known Shepp-Vardi algorithm (1982) for positron emission tomography (PET) is used to estimate the intensity function of the emissions of short-lived radioisotopes absorbed by the brain or other tissues. In the PET application, radioisotope emissions are modeled as a nonhomogeneous Poisson point process. The Shepp-Vardi algorithm produces the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of the intensity function of this process. The intensity function provides an image of the radioisotope density in the brain or other tissues. The PHD intensity filter is a multiple target tracking filter. Its information update is shown to be the first step of the Shepp-Vardi algorithm. The correspondence with PET reveals that the filter is estimating the intensity function of a nonhomogeneous Poisson point process that approximates the Bayes posterior multi-target point process. The iterated PHD intensity filter uses the Shepp-Vardi algorithm to the compute the MAP optimal approximation. PET estimation has a fundamental noise instability that is overcome in practice by various regularization procedures. Grenander's method of sieves is a regularization procedure that is compatible with the PHD intensity filter.


Based on a thorough research on be-subjunctives in English,this paper argues that it seems to be more reasonable to put most so-called be-subjunctive structures into the category of imperative than into the category of subjunctive.At the same time,contrasted with traditional imperatives,the new category will be labeled "Indirect Imperatives".


Objective To compare the quality of life(QOL) after lobectomy by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS) and standard posterolateral thoracotomy for the patients with lung cancer.Methods 130 patients with lung cancer,were randomly divided into VATS(n=45) and standard posterolateral thoracotomy groups(n=85).Self reported QOL was assessed using a Chinese version of functional assessment of cancer therapy lung(FACT-L) in these patients on day 21 after the operation,guided by an attending physician or nurse.FACT-L scales of physical well-being,emotional well-being,functional well-being,social and family well-being,as well as lung cancer subscales were compared between the two groups.Results VATS was found to have less impact on the patients' reported scores of PW,EW,FW and lung cancer subscales compared with standard posterolateral thoracotomy group.The score of SFW was similar between VATS group and standard posterolateral thoracotomy group.Conclusions Compared with standard posterolateral thoracotomy lobectomy,VATS leads to a better QOL and less functional impacts for patients with NSCLC.


In this work a surface potential based compact model is presented for GaN material based High Electron Mobility Transistors. We have developed model for charges, drain current and gd (output conductance) which is surface potential based and physically accurate. Our model has shown excellent agreement with experimental data for drain current and gd. This model is capable of showing correct physical behavior and is robust which can be observed through various benchmark tests, such as AC symmetry test, DC symmetry test and self-heating test. We have used Agilent ICCAP, ADS and Synopsys Hspice for our simulations.


Basketball players, coaches, and spectators have long postulated whether playing games on their home court versus competing on an opponent's court provided an emotional, psychological, or physical advantage. Studies in various sports (basketball, baseball & hockey) have indicated an advantage to playing at home. Though in other studies it has been shown that during the postseason, playing in front of home spectators may actually create a disadvantage. Research has suggested differing reasons for this phenomenon including crowd support, familiarity of playing environment, and judges' biases.


Theoretical voting models predict convergence of two parties' trade policy platforms. In contrast, real-world observations reveal substantial differences in the platforms of competing parties. This paper modifies the standard probabilistic voting model in a way that allows for divergence of policy platforms. Two parties are shown to adopt different policy platforms if the impact of trade policy choices on expected election outcomes depends on the specific identity of the policy-promising party; that is, if the chance to win depends not only on what trade policy is promised but also on which party does the promising. Copyright 1998 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.


Receptor models (RMs) identify pollution sources by solving a mass balance equation using measured chemical composition of samples either in combination with known source profiles or not. This approach has been extensively used in North America and South-Eastern Asia mainly on particulate matter (PM). Also, in Europe RMs found wide acceptance and contributed to the identification of sources in support of remediation measures development. With the aim of harmonising the activity on receptor modelling in Europe and supporting the implementation of Directive 2008/50/EC, a survey on the use of this methodology was carried out. In this study we discuss the sources of uncertainty in the input data, and the uncertainty contribution deriving from critical steps. We describe a methodology to assess RMs performance in intercomparison exercises developed and evaluated by the JRC within the framework of the forum for air quality modelling (FAIRMODE).


A new technique that offers very high stability and repeatability in varying the optical path length by a few millimeters at a millisecond rate is demonstrated. The technique is simply based on a rotating optical cube with parallel facets. The optical path length is varied at a nonlinear rate, and the data can be presented in the frequency or the spatial domain.


This article examines Australian indigenous participation in environmental planning to challenge some of the claims made by advocates of more participatory modes of planning. Calls for the enhanced participation of civil society in planning are associated with an international trend toward the decentralization and devolution of many areas of natural resource policy and state responsibility. Democratic decentralization has been widely advocated as being more efficient and equitable than state control. These claims are examined with reference to three stories involving environmental planning and Australian indigenous peoples. The stories suggest that rather than a "new political economy of planning" whereby the spaces for democracy are enlarged by the activities of civil society, the participation of civil society and decentralization can result in political processes whereby public deliberation is suborned by interest group politics.


The first real-time transparent fiber-THz-fiber $2\times 2$ MIMO transmission system with a record line rate of 125.516 Gbit/s and net data rate of 103.125 Gbit/s is demonstrated at 360 GHz-430GHz based on photonic down-conversion.


Based on the investigated data and the present ecological environment development in the medium route project of South-to-North Wa- ter Diversion,the author pointed to that the main problems of ecological environment development in water source area are soil erosion and water pollution,and the reasons were analyzed.Finally,the author put forward some suggestion about policy and regulation,ecology,economic and environment monitoring to improve the ecological environment sustainable development in water source area.


Background/Aims: Hallmark of diabetic macular edema is the enhanced permeability of retinal endothelial cells (REC) induced by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A165), which acts through activating specific receptors. To improve the predictability of inhibitors' potentials to block harmful effects of VEGF-A165, we investigated if its signaling pathways triggered in REC are redundant. Methods: Immortalized bovine REC monolayers were treated with inhibitors specific for various protein kinases in combination with VEGF-A165. Permeability was monitored continuously by measurements of the cell index (CI) to reveal even subtle and transient changes. Expression of tight junction (TJ) proteins was determined as additional indicator of barrier stability. Results: After a sharp but transient CI drop caused by VEGF-A165 early after its addition, further exposure resulted in a continuous CI decline over several days associated with loss of TJ protein claudin-1. Both phases were blocked by inhibition of VEGF receptor 2. Tested inhibitors of intracellular kinases had a limited or no effect, or were efficient only in certain phases of exposure to VEGF-A165, e.g. inhibiting protein kinase C only prevented the early response. High concentrations of some inhibitors even resulted in VEGF-independent barrier destabilization. Conclusions: Specific kinase inhibitors differently affect VEGF-A165-triggered processes in distinct phases of its action. VEGF-A165-initiated signaling is redundant and blocking of key proteins of single pathways is not sufficient to suppress REC barrier breakdown.


Medicinal inorganic chemistry is a developing research area that began in 1962 with the synthesis of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II), later known as cisplatin. It is mainly used in the treatment of several types of cancer, including ovarian, head and neck, bladder, cervical and lymphoma. Since the activity of palladium complexes have generally been shown to be lower than that of platinum analogs with similar structures, many palladium (II) and palladium (I) neutral complexes were found to exhibit antitumor activity.
Then, in present investigation, we have synthesized and characterized a new designed Pd(FIP)2 complex (where FIP is (2-foran-2-yl) 1H-imidazo–[ 4,5–f] (1,10-phenanthroline). Also, the cytotoxicity and growth inhibitory effects of the complex were determined on the human leukemia cell line of K562, (chronic myelogenousleukemia), as cancer model cell line. The cytotoxicity and anti-proliferative properties of Pd(II) complex was evaluated by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. In this study, various concentrations of Pd(II) complex (0 to 120 M) were used to culture of the tumor cell lines after 24 h incubation time. The 50% cytotoxic concentration (Cc50) of this complex was determined 95 µM. Results show that the Pd(II) complex produced a dose and time – response suppression on growing of K562 leukemia cell lines.


Context. Plasma loops or plumes rooted in sunspot umbrae often harbor downflows with speeds of 100kms − 1 . These downflows are supersonic at transition region temperatures of ∼ 0.1MK. The source of these flows is not well understood. Aims. We aim to investigate the source of sunspot supersonic downflows (SSDs) in active region 12740 using simultaneous spectro- scopic and imaging observations. Methods. We identified SSD events from multiple raster scans of a sunspot by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, and we calculated the electron densities, mass fluxes, and velocities of these SSDs. The extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) images provided by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the EUV Imager onboard the Solar Terrestrial Rela- tions Observatory were employed to investigate the origin of these SSDs and their associated coronal rain. Results. Almost all the identified SSDs appear at the footpoints of sunspot plumes and are temporally associated with the appearance of chromospheric bright dots inside the sunspot umbra. Dual-perspective EUV imaging observations reveal a large-scale closed magnetic loop system spanning the sunspot region and a remote region. We observed that the SSDs are caused by repeated coronal rain that forms and flows along these closed magnetic loops toward the sunspot. One episode of coronal rain clearly indicates that reconnection near a coronal X-shaped structure first leads to the formation of a magnetic dip. Subsequently, hot coronal plasma catastrophically cools from ∼ 2MK in the dip region via thermal instability. This results in the formation of a transient prominence in the dip, from which the cool gas mostly slides into the sunspot along inclined magnetic fields under the gravity. This drainage process manifests as a continuous rain flow, which lasts for ∼ 2h and concurrently results in a nearly steady SSD event. The total mass of condensation (1 . 3 × 10 14 g) and condensation rate (1 . 5 × 10 10 gs − 1 ) in the dip region were found to be su ffi cient to sustain this long-lived SSD event, which has a mass transport rate of 0 . 7 − 1 . 2 × 10 10 gs − 1 . Conclusions. Our results demonstrate that coronal condensation in magnetic dips can result in the quasi-steady sunspot supersonic downflows.


Many important economic decisions are based on a parametric forecasting model that is known to be good but imperfect. We propose methods to improve out-of-sample forecasts from a mis-specified model by estimating its parameters using a form of local M estimation (thereby nesting local OLS and local MLE), drawing on information from a state variable that is correlated with the misspecification of the model. We theoretically consider the forecast environments in which our approach is likely to o¤er improvements over standard methods, and we find significant fore- cast improvements from applying the proposed method across distinct empirical analyses including volatility forecasting, risk management, and yield curve forecasting.


The present invention relates to a method and a clay sintered body produced by a method of manufacturing a high strength clay sintered body by forming a secondary phase (Anorthite) was added to the by-product tailing occurs in the tungsten mining the clay composition, the production method of the present invention and is a clay, clay, china clay, characterized in that the addition of 10-50% by weight of the tailings in a clay composition consisting of Masato, etc., and pulverized, and subjected to 24-36 hours pre-heating and baking step at a temperature of 1,050 ~ 1,150 ℃ after molding , it is possible to effectively recycle waste in tailings around the mine through the present invention, it is possible to obtain a sintered clay with a beautiful appearance.


Logic simulation programs have become a standard part1 of digital design aid systems. This paper describes a Synchronous Logic Simulator which is part of the design aid system presently being used by the BOEING Aerospace Division in Seattle, Washington. This program is currently running on an SRU 1108 computer system and is used, primarily, to aid in the development and debugging of new designs and to provide error free data for component selection and wiring programs. The first part of the paper contains a general discussion of the Synchronous Logic Simulator with emphasis on the program's capabilities and the type of data provided by the logic designer. The remaining sections describe how the simulator is organized and explain the principle algorithms utilized by the program.


Analyzing geochemical data from stream sediment samples is one of the most proactive tools in the geochemical modeling of ore mineralization and mineral exploration. The main purpose of this study is to develop a geochemical model for prospecting copper mineralization anomalies in the Sahlabad area, South Khorasan province, East Iran. In this investigation, 709 stream sediment samples were analyzed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and geostatistical and machine learning techniques. Subsequently, hierarchical analysis (HA), Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, concentration–area (C–A) fractal analysis, Kriging interpolation, and descriptive statistics studies were performed on the geochemical dataset. Machine learning algorithms, namely K-means clustering, factor analysis (FA), and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) were employed to deliver a comprehensive geochemical model of copper mineralization in the study area. The identification of trace elements and the predictor composition of copper mineralization, the separation of copper geochemical communities, and the investigation of the geochemical behavior of copper vs. its trace elements were targeted and accomplished. As a result, the elements Ag, Mo, Pb, Zn, and Sn were distinguished as trace elements and predictors of copper geochemical modeling in the study area. Additionally, geochemical anomalies of copper mineralization were identified based on trace elements. Conclusively, the nonlinear behavior of the copper element versus its trace elements was modeled. This study demonstrates that the integration and synchronous use of geostatistical and machine learning methods can specifically deliver a comprehensive geochemical modeling of ore mineralization for prospecting mineral anomalies in metallogenic provinces around the globe.


Abstract : This report covers a 1-year research effort designed to develop a laboratory sequential diagnostic inference task, and assess the impact of introducing a computerized expert-aid system on performance of that task. The report details the laboratory task that was developed to be performed on a microcomputer, the expert system that assisted in the inference task, and the results of an initial experiment where subject performance was tracked under both manual and expert-aided conditions. Assessment of subject performance included a number of both subjective and objective measures such as accuracy, time to perform the task, subjective certainty, cognitive strategies, etc. Results indicate that: a) the development of the laboratory inference task was successful, and the various task manipulations had a great impact on performance measures: b) subjects' performance substantially changed as a result of using the expert system: and c) subjects' strategies were identifiable and did not qualitatively change as a function of introducing the expert system. Implications of the findings for the design and utilization of expert systems are discussed, as well as directions for future research.


Vulcanization gives birth to the nonuniformity of rubber network, the identification of which is the basis of improvement of performance of rubber products. We established a visco-hyperelastic constitutive equation to reveal the quantitative distribution of the inhomogeneous network phases according to a three-phase model. The cross-linked network was assumed to be composed of the cross-linking cluster, the low network chain density domain and the fluid-like mass. The incorporation of clay with high specific surface area induced the effective uniformity of network structure by decreasing the content of the cross-linking cluster and increasing that of the low network chain density domain. These structural variations were responsible for excellent mechanical properties and strong strain-induced crystallization ability probed by the in situ synchrotron wide-angle X-ray diffraction. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2014, 131, 40324.


Currently, the most innovative methods for toxicology assessment and skin research are based on 3-dimensional reconstructed tissues of the human skin. Decades of research revealed that skin cells when cultured in a 3D environment can build complex tissues which closely mimic native human skin in its architecture and physiological properties. This is a pivotal prerequisite for the successful replacement of animals in toxicological tests and for assessing the efficacy, for example, of product ingredients. The present review illuminates the demands of the cosmetic industry for tissue models of the human skin. It distinguishes between their use for toxicological safety assessment as part of validated and/or scientifically accepted in vitro methods on the one hand and their use in early development of cosmetic products on the other hand. The 3D Skin Comet assay for genotoxicity testing and the in vitro skin irritation test based on reconstructed skin tissues (PhenionTM FT-Skin model, Open source Reconstructed Epidermis – OS-REp) are examples for the first aspect. The second aspect is illustrated by the use of a full-thickness skin equivalent to study the anti-aging effects of Quassia amara wood extract on human skin and of a 3D hair follicle model, derived from human skin, to analyze metabolic changes after coenzyme 10 treatment. Educational Review


Simple beam theory is usually employed to predict the flexural properties of nanowires (NWs) in the lateral manipulation, which results in a linear curve. However, three factors, namely, changes in the load position and direction of the AFM tip, surface effects, and the large displacement of the NW, are not considered in simple beam theory. In this work, a simple geometrical model is proposed to analyze the large deflection and rotational angle deformation of NWs in the lateral manipulation. The traditional solution to the differential equation of the deflection curve turns the solution of an integral equation. Results show that contact force does not linearly increase with increasing displacement, and the curve exists a maximum amount due to changes in the load position and direction of the AFM tip. Moreover, the rotational angle and deflection have a nonlinear relationship. Comparison of the results of this work with other authors' measurements illustrates that the use of simple beam theory in manipulation underestimates the deflection and effective modulus of NWs. Our model provides a good approach to predict curves, rotational angles, and contact forces that closely match experimental results.


The more recent developments in knowledge of the Australia antigen are reviewed, particularly those of clinical importance. The role of Au antigenaemia in acute and chronic hepatic disease, and in primary liver cell cancer, as well as its association with non‐hepatic disorders of the serum sickness type such as polyarteritis nodosa, arthritis, glomerulonephritis, and urticaria, is discussed. Although it is now accepted that the "carrier" state In blood donors is frequently associated with asymptomatic but nevertheless often serious liver disease, the natural history of the disease in these "carriers", and therefore management, is less clear. Furthermore, the greater risk of infection with the serum hepatitis virus in laboratory and medical staff due to their exposure must be minimized.


Objective To explore how to improve the teachin g effect of applying the electrical audio -visual aids in the analytical chemistry .Methods To compare two similar classes in dif ferent teaching way.Results Alternately applying the electrical audio -visu al aids and enlightening teaching is effective for teaching.Conclutions It has im-proved the teaching effect in the analytical chemistry.


ARRIVAL is a Specific Targeted Research Project funded by the FET (Future
and Emerging Technologies) Unit of the European Commission (EC), priority
IST (Information Society Technologies), within the 6th Framework Programme
of EC, under contract No. FP6-021235-2.
Algorithmic methods have reached a state of maturity as a consequence of
decades of research where real-world problems were posed to the algorithms
community triggering important developments in the field. Despite this success,
the current state of algorithmic research still faces severe difficulties, or cannot
cope at all, with highly-complex and data-intensive applications as those dealing
with optimization issues in large-scale communication and transportation
networks. The complexity and size of such optimization problems pose new challenges
for algorithmic research, and their efficient solution requires a radically
new foundational paradigm.
In this project, we are interested in establishing such a new paradigm and
considerably advance the current state of algorithmic research by attacking
optimization questions in perhaps the most complex and largest in scale (transportation)
setting: that of railway systems. Railway optimization deals with
planning and scheduling problems over several time horizons. We focus on two
important and actually unexplored facets of planning that pose even harder
optimization questions: robust planning and online (real-time) planning. These
two, tightly coupled, facets constitute a proactive and a reactive approach, respectively,
to deal with disruptions to the normal operation.


An ultra-wideband balanced bandpass filter (BPF) by using multilayer liquid crystal polymer (LCP) circuit technology with self-packaging feature is presented in this paper. The differential-mode (DM) half circuit of the proposed filter is provided and analyzed, showing that the balanced filter exhibits a four-pole ultra-wideband Chebyshev filtering response. In addition, the common-mode (CM) signals can be suppressed in a wide bandwidth region owing to the all-stop coupled-line topology in the CM equivalent circuit. Finally, an LCP balanced BPF with ultra-wideband Chebyshev response is designed, fabricated and measured. Simulated and measured results are recorded in good agreement, well validating the design method.


The narrative function of children's picture books connects the exquisite, meaningful and colorful paintings with easy and imaginative words. A teaching process, which is called the circulation process, happens when teachers and children are reading the pictures and words repeatedly. This process involves four stages: lead-in, telling the story, retelling the story and utilizing the retold story. Teacher may understand children's knowledge, cognitive features as well as nature of picture books and paintings effectively. Then the vivid illustration of story line encourages children to think from others' views and communicate with different people in the world. In such a way, we aim to establish a brand new teaching culture consisted of national memory and traditional Chinese culture elements.


One of the useful formalisms for designing concurrent systems is the process algebra called CSP, or Communicating Sequential Processes. CSP statements can be used to model a system's control and data flow in an intuitive way, constituting a kind of hierarchical behavioral specification. Furthermore, when coupled with simulation and modelchecking tools, these statements can be executed and debugged until the desired behavior has been accurately captured. Certain properties (such as absence of deadlocks) can be proved, to help verify the correctness of the design. To make the verified specifications executable in a practical sense, refinement to a programming language is required. In this work, an new object-oriented application framework is described which realizes the basic elements of CSP—processes, sy nizing events, and communication channels—in natural terms as C++ objects. In ad a new software tool is provided to customize the framework by translating CSP ments into invocations of the framework elements. CSP specifications, thus reexp in C++ and compiled, form the control portion of a system, able to be linked with o software written in C++ that completes the functionality.


The present invention is a dual-mode mobile relates to a smart card recognition method and apparatus of the terminal, this invention, a particular wireless communication protocol, a plurality of smart card modules have been given an identification information for receiving the service; And the smart card module, the at least two communication comprises a module, with the at least second set of any one module group of communication module main telephone number for performing wireless communication according to the smart card module is connected among the plurality of smart card modules and of the wireless terminal, characterized in that to set up a communication module connected to the master device, the smart card provides a recognition apparatus and method according to this. Smart cards, SIM, UIM, UICC, USIM


Abstract : this study is a class action research which was conducted in twocycles, the subject of this study was 39 tenth grade students in X.1AK SMK FarmasiIkasari Pekanbaru academic year 2015/2016, it aimed to increasestudent science skillprocess by applied model discovery learning and assessment authentic.Researchprocedureconsist of plan, action and observation, and reflection. Data was collected inthis research was science skill process in three domain those were cognitive, affectiveand psychomotor.The data was collected using test and observation. In addition to dataof science process skills , there are also the result of the application of authenticassessment that the reference assessment intact in the application of this model . Theresults showed that each domain process skills increased.Science skill process incognitive aspect that was seen from test result in cycle I was 82 (enough) and increasein cycle II, that was 86 (good).The students passing studying in cycle I was 32 (82,05%)and increased in cycle II became 38 (97,43%). The average of affective aspect in cycle Iwas 73 (less) increased in cycle II that was 86 (good). Science skill process inpsychomotor aspect was 70 (enough) in cycle I and became 86 (good) in cycle II. Thoseresults proved that the implementation ofmodel discovery learning and authenticassessment was able to increase the student science skill process in class X.1AK SMKFarmasi Ikasari Pekanbaru academic year 2015/2016.. Key words : Model Discovery Learning, Assessment Authentic, Science Skill Process