Even though the so-called cultural turn in geogra- phy coincided with the elaboration and "mainstreaming" of feminist geographies, these two intellectual trajectories are not easily aligned, and the relationships between them have at times been characterized by tension, particularly within the context of American geography. In this paper, I outline the history of these various tensions and uneasy alliances, sug- gest possible causes for these tensions, and discuss in what ways (or not) this uneasy alliance might matter in terms of the intellectual trajectories of both subfields.


A subsurface flow constructed wetlands system was used in this pilot‐scale field study to treat runoff from a container nursery. The goal of the study was to determine the statistical significance of certain factors on the removal of simazine (2‐chloro‐4,6‐bis[ethylamino]‐s‐triazine) and metolachlor (2‐chloro‐N‐[2‐ethyl‐6‐methylphenyl]‐N‐[2‐methoxy‐1‐methylethyl] acetamide). The factors analyzed included the hydraulic flowrate, media depth, cell aspect ratio, and the presence or absence of Scirpus validus. Analysis of variance using the general linear model procedure determined that vegetation and flowrate significantly (α = 0.05) affected herbicide mass removal. The results showed that vegetated subsurface flow cells generally remove more simazine and metolachlor than nonvegetated cells. Decreasing the hydraulic loading rate and, therefore, the areal simazine mass loading rate to vegetated cells from 1659 to 415 mg/m2 caused an increase in the percentage of total mass removed from approximately 60 to 96%. Similarly, metolachlor mass removal percentage increased from approximately 62 to 96% when the areal mass loading to vegetated cells decreased from 1037 to 260 mg/m2. Media depth and aspect ratio did not significantly (α = 0.05) affect effluent simazine and metolachlor concentrations. Peak effluent metolachlor concentrations were less than 300 μg/L from vegetated cells receiving hydraulic loading rates of 204 and 102 m3/d·ha. Peak simazine concentrations in the effluent of vegetated cells receiving similar hydraulic loadings were approximately 1400 and 750 μg/L (204 and 102 m3/d·ha), respectively.


Abstract : This paper describes the experience in teaching Astilleros Espanoles(AESA) steel fabrication workers in the practical use of line heating (L/H) for accurate bending of plates, and the operational deployment of this technology in all shipyards in the group. This project is set within the developing dimensional accuracy improvement program which is aimed at improving productivity, quality and allowing the implementation of a continuous improvement process. The approach used is for facilitating a systematic technology transfer from Japanese specialists overcoming initial reluctance promoting active participation with a commitment from workers and foremen, and assuring practical documentation of experiences in the form of a shop operating manual.


Photodegradation of acetochlor [2-chloro-N-(ethoxymethyl)-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphe myl) acetamide] was carried out in water and water-H2O2 solution under high pressure mercery lamp(HPML) or sunlight illuminating. The result shown that the photodegradation of acetochlor followed the first-order kinetics. The photolysis rate constants were 1.04 times 10-1 min-1 by HPML illuminating and 1.93 times 10-2 h-1 under sunlight illuminating, respectively. H2O2 increased the photodegradation rate of acetochlor in water solution. At least 12 photodegradation products of acetochlor were found by GC-MS analyses. Among them, three components, namely 8-methyl-1 -methoxymethyl-4-methyl-2-oxo-1,2,3,4-tet rahydroquinone( I ), 2 - methyl - 6 - N - methoxyethyl - N - oxacycloethylene - aniline( II), N- chloroacetyl - 7 - ethyl - 2, 3 - dihydroindole(III), were identified by TLC and GC-MS.


A flow sheet for simplified reprocessing of long-cooled light water reactor (LWR) fuel is presented. The standard Purex process is modified so that after the first solvent extraction cascade (co-decontamination), plutonium is was-hed out of the organic phase without reduction. This step also washes out enough uranium that the U-Pu product can be directly used as LWR fuel. A finish partitioning step, with plutonium reduction, decontaminates the remaining uranium product. Neither the U-Pu product nor the uranium product requires further purification, process yields are excellent, and plant equipment can be simplified


The main finding of the present study was the improved endurance gain in BALB / C mice, following the application of a patch (T-NES®-HIT Tech.), enriched with an active central pad, based on micronized silver. In order to transfer very thin Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) magnetoelectric signals, the pad contains a nanotechnological material (silver micronized by plasma vaporization) that is appropriately activated with optical, magnetic, electrical, and acoustic signals. It has been reported previously that the ELF magnetic field, induces an action on cellular glycocalics, fundamental for cellular communication and recognition, and a direct activation of protons and ionic fluxes. The treated animals underwent exercises with Rotarod and several parameters were evaluated and compared with untreated control mice. The following parameters were measured: steady state generic training, long slow distance, high intensity "endurance" and steady state split session training. The ELF magnetic field of T-NES®-HIT Tech. micronized silver patch device, applied to BALB / C mice, markedly improved their endurance gain performance as evidenced by the increase of their aerobic capacity, maximum heart rate and maximum aerobic speed.


The EU avails itself increasingly of soft law instruments, in certain situations to the detriment of legislation. The general assumption underlying this more diversified use of legal instruments is that this contributes to the legitimacy, effectiveness and transparency of Community action and, as such, to good governance. This assumption raises doubts, however, from various perspectives. This contribution focuses on one such perspective, i.e. that of the horizontal division of powers or institutional balance between the EU institutions; to what extent does the use of soft law by one institution entail an unacceptable bypassing of the competences of the other institutions in the decision-making process? In dealing with this question, the author among other things looks into the concept and classification of EC soft law, the competence to adopt soft law and the limits that can be placed upon this competence, the meaning of 'legitimacy' and of 'institutional balance', the existing guarantees for protecting the institutional balance in this regard and changes that may be required.


The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) has worked diligently to position itself as 'a multi-media platform that provides original research, reviews and debate relating to clinically-relevant aspects of sport and exercise medicine, including physiotherapy, physical therapy, and rehabilitation'.1 Its global community and partnership network includes well over 10 000 sport and exercise medicine (SEM) physicians and sport physiotherapists—each with an ethical obligation to prioritise athlete health, safety and well-being . When the BJSM chooses to amplify an issue, the sport and exercise medicine community listens. When the BJSM chooses to remain silent, as it has on the impact of racism, colonialism and white supremacy on athlete health, safety and well-being, that silence speaks volumes.

Racism is a human rights issue and a public health issue. The murder of George Floyd has become the catalyst for reflection, reckoning and reform the world over. The BJSM is not exempt. Much like the Translating Research into Injury Prevention Practice model2 would suggest, the BJSM must better understand the presentation and burden of racism, colonialism and white supremacy, and identify factors that …


The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) was explicitly founded on the basis of nudge theory and was closely linked to it from the beginning. However, nudge theory has not contributed much to either the BIT's policies or governance in England and Wales. One explanation is that nudge theory is a limited policy tool, as critics claimed, but this has to be tempered with awareness of administrative explanations for disapplication. The ways in which nudge theory was disapplied are the subject of this paper. Nudge theory is defined, followed by a description of work of the BIT, before a comparison of the two. The first finding is that the BIT seems to have exhausted its policy ideas, implying that nudge theory and behavioural science is limited in policy applications. The second is that the disapplication of nudge theory reflects, in part, nudge theory's lack of coherence and definition. Implied in this is the suggestion that the strict moral criteria of nudge theory leaves relatively few nudges that can be made, and that there is a trade-off between effectiveness.


The aim of the study was to establish the prevalence of diaphragmatic dysfunction (DD), depending on the strategy of mechanical ventilation (MV).
Materials and methods. We completed the prospective single-center cohort study. Data analysis included 82 patients (1 month – 18 years old), divided into I group (lung-protective MV) and II group (diaphragm-protective in addition to lung-protective MV).
Patients were divided into age subgroups. Stages of the study: 1st day (d1), 3rd (d3), 5th (d5), 7th (d7), 9th (d9), 14th (d14), 28th (d28). We studied amplitude of diaphragm movement; thickening fraction, parameters of acid-base balance and MV. Results are described as median [IQR - interquartile range] with level of significance p.
Results. In patients of the 1st age subgroup in I group there were episodes with under-assist during MV, while in II group diaphragm overload was registered only on d5.
In patients of 2nd subgroup in I group we found over-assist of MV with excessive work of the right hemidiaphragm and low contractions of left dome at all stages of study, while in II group – the only episode of diaphragmatic weakness on d3 due to under-assist of MV. In the 3rd subgroup the proper diaphragmatic activity in I group was restored significantly later than in II group. In 4th subgroup of I group there was episode of high work of diaphragm on d5, whereas in II group – all data were within the recommended parameters for diaphragm-protective strategy of MV. In 5th subgroup of I group excessive work of both right and left domes of diaphragm was significantly more often registered than in II group, however, in II group there were found episodes of both type changes – diaphragmatic weakness and excessive work.
Conclusion: The prevalence and variety of manifestations of DD depend on the strategy of MV. Low incidence of DD was associated with lower duration of MV: in 1st age subgroup in 1.5 times; in 2nd age subgroup – in 2.4 times; in 4th age subgroup – in 1.75 times; in 5th age subgroup – in 4.25 times.


In situ stress is the natural stress existing in the stratum without engineering disturbance, also known as initial stress, absolute stress, or original rock stress. In order to master the in situ stress of the Manmushu Tunnel and Mamo Tunnel in Southwest China, the casing stress solution method is adopted in this paper. Through the combination of field measurement and laboratory test, the basic data such as initial strain during stress relief are collected, and the in situ stress values are analyzed in combination with indoor temperature compensation test, confining pressure calibration, and relevant rock mechanics tests. The measured results show the following: (1) the maximum horizontal principal stress σh.max ranges from 6.44 MPa to 19.74 MPa; the vertical principal stress

 σ

 v

 ranges from 4.11 MPa to 13.48 MPa; and the minimum horizontal principal stress ranges from 4.32 MPa to 11.22 MPa. (2) The maximum horizontal principal stress directions of the five measuring points are all located in the NW direction, which is basically consistent with the maximum principal stress direction of the regional tectonic stress field. The maximum horizontal principal stress (σh.max), the minimum horizontal principal stress (σh.min), and the vertical principal stress (

 σ

 v

 ) all increase with the increase of buried depth, and the relationship is approximately linear. It is suggested that, in the actual construction process, the construction method and construction parameters should be optimized scientifically and reasonably to reduce the disturbance of blasting on the tunnel surrounding rock. After tunnel excavation, support measures should be taken quickly, timely, and scientifically to reduce and control the deformation of the surrounding rock.


Point-to-plane corona discharge is widely used for modifying polymer surfaces for biomedical applications and for sterilization and decontamination. This paper focuses on an experimental investigation of the influence of the single-point and multi-point corona discharge electric field on gel surface. Three types of gelatinous agar were used as the gel medium: blood agar, nutrient agar and Endo agar. The gel surface modification was studied for various time periods and discharge currents.


What is the problem and what is known about it so far? Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are done frequently to evaluate possible problems. These scans often identify unexpected growths (tumors) in the adrenal glands that are not related to the reason the scan was ordered in the first place. These are called incidental findings. Tumors in the adrenal glands may produce levels of hormones that can cause high blood pressure, diabetes, or other medical problems. Currently, if a patient with an incidentally found and noncancerous adrenal tumor has hormone levels that are within the normal range, the tumor is assumed to be nonfunctional and unimportant. However, whether these tumors really are of no consequence has not been thoroughly evaluated. Why did the researchers do this particular study? To find out whether there is any increase in the risk for diabetes among patients who have an incidentally found adrenal tumor. Who was studied? 242 patients who had an incidentally found adrenal tumor on a CT or MRI scan of the abdomen and no evidence of cancer, and 1237 patients whose CT or MRI scan of the abdomen did not show an adrenal tumor. How was the study done? The researchers reviewed the records of patients to see whether the patients' hormone levels were normal and whether they later developed diabetes. What did the researchers find? Patients with incidentally found adrenal tumors had a higher risk for diabetes over the following years than those without tumors, even though their measured hormone levels were normal. What were the limitations of the study? The researchers could use only the information that was available in the patients' records, and some patients might have had diabetes or abnormal hormone levels that were not documented in the available records. What are the implications of the study? Incidentally found adrenal tumors may be associated with an increase in diabetes even if they appear to be nonfunctional based on measured hormone levels. More research is needed to find out whether additional monitoring of these patients would be beneficial.


The purpose of the study was to analyze the contents of psychological measurement used in psychological studies of dances over 28 years(1976-2004) in Korea and to provide measurement issues and future directions for research of dance psychology. The contents of psychological measurement were analyzed, focusing on frequency of measurement, measurement area, measurement item and factor information, and reliability and validity information The results of content analysis of psychological measurement were summarized into five categories: (l)increased use of psychological measurement, (2)use of adapted measurement developed by foreign sport psychologists, (3)necessities of varied measurement subjects, (4)omission of measurement information, and (5)nonuse of reliability and validity test. Thus dance psychologists should develope new, translated, and modified dance-specific psychological measurements with sound academic effort and attitude for the growth of dance psychology.


is reflected in a steady growth in tolerance for unpopular minorities and points of view. Younger age cohorts display greater tolerance, and so do they in six other democracies examined, albeit very briefly, by the authors. The importance of this last point is to hold out the hope that more detailed cross-national investigation will confirm the general validity of the argument. To return to the social network effect, the authors contend that centrality is a necessary condition for political impact and that what one might call instrumental participation is driven by the desire to have some meaningful effect upon governmental outcomes. Political impact, they suggest, goes to the well positioned, to those who are close to the action. Whatever changes may occur in the attributes and characteristics of a population, including rising levels of education, wealth, life expectancy, and so on, the structures of potential influence do not necessarily display commensurate change. The seats near the center remain restricted in number. Whereas a given level of education may once have been enough to acquire the requisite level of network centrality, once it becomes common to nearly everyone, it no longer serves to differentiate the potentially influential from ordinary citizens. Education, the authors contend, is a sorting mechanism as well as an instrument for cognitive growth, and in a society where such a large proportion have attained high levels of formal schooling, it no longer works very efficiently to generate political engagement. Engagement follows from the recognition of interests, a large fraction of which are generated by one's job or associational involvement, and those forces bear only indirect ties to the level of education. Ironically, even as the baseline continues to rise, educational attainment today seems to have a greater role than ever in determining income levels and hence social equality. But, as this excellent study demonstrates, there is neither a simple nor even a direct link between the amount of one's factual knowledge about politics or commitment to democratic principles and one's political potential.


Perovskite type non-noble metal-based catalytic materials
have been developed for their possible applications in
diesel exhaust emission control. These materials have been
evaluated for their applications in regeneration of diesel
particulate filter (DPF) and also as diesel catalytic
converter (DCC). Both the applications require low
temperature oxidation catalysis properties. Temperature-
programmed desorption studies revealed the lowtemperature
oxygen desorption of perovskite catalyst,
which may be useful for the oxidation of carbon/soot at
lower temperature. Laboratory evaluation results on
activated carbon show the carbon oxidation activity of
the catalyst in a temperature range of 300–450°C. However,
this was achieved under the tight contact of carbon
and catalyst. Catalyst coated-ceramic foams have been
used to fabricate laboratory prototype of regenerative
type DPF. Although its evaluation on a vehicle shows
significant reduction in smoke density, however, the
regeneration temperature was still higher than desired.
The DCC shows 10–25% reduction in smoke density
depending on engine conditions. The perovskite-type
catalyst appears to follow a redox mechanism for soot
oxidation through oxygen removal and replenishment,
while hydrocarbons adsorbed on soot particles may
also help in oxidation of the carbonaceous part.


The necessary basis for any cost-effective highway and bridge deck pavement management program is reliable, complete and up-to-date information concerning the state of pavement surface. An imaging system using the Shadow Moire method for the quantitative inspection of highway pavement surface in real-time has been developed. The pavement surface reconstructionalgorithm presented herin uses two moire interferograms of any point on the surface to obtain overlapping information for correct elevation estimation.


Glyphosate concentrations were determined in water, sediment and fish (Brycinus macrolepidotus) samples from designated areas with intense agricultural activities along Ossiomo River, Nigeria. Three sampling stations were selected to reflect areas of possible sources of pollution. The pesticide analysis was carried out using Gas chromatography (GC) equipped with electron capture detector. Levels of glyphosate in water ranged from 0.004 – 0.006 mg/l, sediment, 0.008 – 0.015 mg/kg and fish, 0.010 – 0.034 mg/kg dw. The pesticide concentrations in fish were significantly (p<0.05) higher than water and sediment.The sediment log BSAFs (0.1– 0.4) were lower than the water log BCFs (0.4–0.8), an indication of the high affinity of glyphosate to sediments and lipid tissues. However, the observed glyphosate concentrations in the matrices were lower than the maximum contaminant level (MCL).Estimated health risk assessment indicated that glyphosate concentrations in the fish (Brycinus macrolepidotus) from Ossiomo River do not pose cancer risk to humans on consumption.


Since pioneering work performed by Rouxel et al. that emphasizes the effects of anions in the ionic intercalation process, the role of oxygen ions in lithium ionic battery electrodes is of great interest since it will give new directions to further enhance the battery capacity. In this paper, Bi2Fe4O9-CeO2 was synthesized and was used as an anode for second lithium batteries application. A large amount of oxygen vacancies exist in both CeO2 and Bi2Fe4O9. In CeO2, oxygen vacancies are mainly located at the 111 plane, and in Bi2Fe4O9, oxygen vacancies are mainly located at the 002 plane. Li+ insertion into Bi2Fe4O9 produced high spin tetrahedral Fe2+, which is Jahn-Teller active and induces shrinkage of the Bi2Fe4O9 lattice and releases O-2. The released O-2 is further reduced and contributes to similar to 70 mAh/g during the first discharge process. The 002 plane of Bi2Fe4O9 is very reactive for oxygen reduction, where there are not only a lot of oxygen vacancies but also tetrahedral Fe3+ ions participating in producing more oxygen vacancies. This work gives new directions for future design of lithium battery electrodes, which can reversibly evolve/reduce O-2, and the O-2/O2- (or O-) redox couple is responsible for charge transfer.


This article focuses on questions that arise about diagnosis and treatment for people with hypokalemic periodic paralysis. We will focus on the familial form of hypokalemic periodic paralysis that is due to mutations in one of various genes for ion channels. We will only briefly mention other "secondary" forms such as those due to hormone abnormalities or due to kidney disorders that result in chronically low potassium levels in the blood. One can be the only one in a family known to have familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis if there has been a new mutation or if others in the family are not aware of their illness. For more general background about hypokalemic periodic paralysis, a variety of descriptions of the disease are available, aimed at physicians or patients.


The rheumatic nodules that receive so much attention from British writers on rheumatism in children are almost universally considered a rare condition with us. In all our textbooks there is a striking uniformity of expression that these nodules are common in England, but are rarely seen in this country. Thus Holt and Howland 1 say: "They are certainly not common in this country, and although we have made it a rule to examine rheumatic patients for them, we have seen them but seldom, and they have been prominent in only eight or ten cases. This has also been the experience of most observers in this country. From published reports, however, they appear to be much more frequent in England." In the 1911 edition of Holt 2 the prominent cases had been placed at "two or three." Koplik 3 says: "The so-called subcutaneous rheumatic nodules are seen in children less frequently


A very dense population of the millipede Narceus annularis (Raf.) was studied. Population size and sex ratio of adults in 3 hectares were determined five times during 1966. From this information the seasonal ecology of the millipede is outlined. Speculation on the significance of the population as a forest mineral reservoir and how this is calculated are given.


It is of fundamental biological importance to know 1) whether there are classes of environmentally sensitive mutations that are neither "spontaneous" nor "random" and 2) if so, what the genetic mechanisms are likely to be. Our laboratory has been investigating the origin of nonrandom mutations in eukaryotes for some 10 years (Steele, 1979; Steele et al., 1984; Steele and Pollard, 1987). Recently, Cairns et al. (1988) presented interesting data suggesting "directional" mutation phenomena in bacteria. Mutants of Escherichia coli requiring lactose for growth (lac-) can be "encouraged under certain conditions to produce lac + (wild-type) revertants if they are cultured in the presence of lactose. The general interpretation of this phenomenon is that it is consistent with a Lamarckian process of adaptive evolutionary genetic change (the phenomenon is real; the basic process has been confirmed in another system; Hall, 1988). Indeed Cairns et al. do not hesitate in drawing this conclusion; after discussion a possible genetic process, they suggest it " . . . provide(s) a mechanism for the inheritance of acquired characteristics." The purpose of this letter is to point out that, although the data of Cairns et al. are new, the explanation they use and the implications they describe for evolution are not new. The same mechanisms were proposed at least 1 year earlier by Steele and Pollard (1987); we outlined a mechanism to explain the process of somatic hypermutation in immunoglobulin variable (V-) region genes, which occurs in antigen stimulated B lymphocytes (Moller, 1987). In addition, the same basic concepts as applied to the origin of mutations in the germline genes of higher animals were outlined in a book I wrote 10 years ago (Steele, 1979). These "reverse transcriptase-based directional mutator" ideas were used to explain controversial acquired paternal inheritance data in the immune system published by Gorczynski and Steele (1980, 1981). The contents of the book and both these papers caused substantial commentary in the pages of Nature, Science, New Scientist, and elsewhere during 1980 and 1981 (e.g., Steele, 1981). The controversy surrounding the Gorczynski-Steele experiments centered on the ambiguous report by Brent et al. (19811, who were apparently unable to replicate the phenomenon. Careful analysis of their data revealed that they had in fact published positive transmission results (Steele, 1981); viz., significant paternal transmission of delayed skin graft rejection responses appeared in the progeny of male mice made neonatally tolerant to the same foreign skin tissue used to test their progeny. Subsequent to this report, positive acquired paternal transmission reports have appeared from other independent groups (Mullbacher et al., 1983; Cooper-Willis et al., 1985) as well as later studies from my own and Dr. Gorczynski's laboratories (Steele, 1984a,b; Gorczynski et al., 1983; Steele et al., 1984). It should be noted that most of the Mullbacher et al. study was conducted in the same laboratory as that of Brent et al. Although it is clear that Cairns et al. are working in an experimental area entirely different from that of myself and colleagues, the same conceptual tools and explanatory models have been employed by both groups. However, Steele et al. have priority for the development of a substantial portion of the mechanisms of these basic Lamarckian processes, viz., "reverse transcriptase-based directional mutator mechanisms." These allow feedback of ''environmentally'' selected mutations to the genes in the genome of individual cells or the germ line of higher organisms. For individual B lymphocytes, this process allows the cell, under antigenic ("natural") selection pressure, to test the utility of V-region variants. Because the DNA-to-RNAto-DNA copying loop is intrinsically error-prone, this enables the rapid generation of variants upon which the forces of natural (antigenic) selection can act. It is postulated that "nonrandom" mutations localized to the DNA within and surrounding rearranged Vregions arise quite rapidly within the B-cell compartment of the immune system after antigenic stimulation. These antigen-driven responses thus involve "directional" genetic change as B cells bearing superior variant receptors on their surface are selected for their utility or antigen-binding strength (this is manifest during the course of an immune response by the increase in the overall antigen-binding affinity of the serum antibody population). One of the starting points for our work was the seminal "protovirus" ideas of Temin (1971), who, together with Baltimore, established the facts of reverse transcription in eukaryotic viruses (Temin and Mitzutani, 1970; Baltimore, 1970). Temin in fact began describing retroviral variation in 1960 and has been publishing work on this ever since (see, e.g., Mizutani and Temin,


The invention relates to an early strength fast hardening terminated anchor mortar material, which is characterized in that the material is formed by mixing and stirring cement, sand, porous fine sand, finely ground steel slag powder, fly ash, an early strength agent, rubber powder, silicon ash, a water reducing agent and an excitant. The parts by weight of the components are as follows: 100 parts of cement, 30-250 parts of sand, 5-25 parts of porous fine sand, 5-30 parts of finely ground steel slag powder, 10-30 parts of fly ash, 0.1-3 parts of early strength agent, 1-10 parts of rubber powder, 0-8 parts of silicon ash, 0.2-2 parts of water reducing agent and 1-5 parts of excitant. Finely ground converter slag which is naturally stored for 3-6 months is adopted for the finely ground steel slag powder and the specific surface area is 400-800m/kg; the content of magnesium oxide is 8-15%; the porous fine sand is shale ceramic sand or fly ash ceramic sand or the mixture of the shale ceramic sand and the fly ash ceramic sand based on random mixture ratio, with grain size of 0.10-2.6mm. The material provided by the invention has good mechanical property and adhesive property, low chloride ion content and shrinkage property, and high impermeability and anti-cracking performance, thereby preventing the prestressed reinforcement of track slabs from rusting.


I estimate a dynamic model in which a board of directors and a CEO interact to set the levels of CEO incentives and e¤ort. The intent is to understand the e¤ect that CEO incentives have on …rm value. In the model incentive levels are the result of CEO risk aversion, the cost of CEO e¤ort, the e¤ect of CEO e¤ort on …rm value, the volatility of shocks to …rm value, and the preference a board has over giving a CEO equity ownership. Model estimates show that CEO e¤ort is an important component of …rm value, and that CEO's exert a substantial amount of e¤ort, on average 94.7% of the possible maximum. A one percentage point increase in CEO ownership is found to increase …rm value 7.6 basis points, with the net (of the increase in CEO ownership) bene…t to shareholders being 4.6 basis points. Keywords: CEO Compensation, Dynamic Principal-Agent Model, Structural Estimation * I wish to thank Toni Whited for her guidance and encouragement. I also thank Michael Raith, Boris Nikolov, Cli¤ Smith, Ed Owens, and Paul Nelson for their comments and criticisms, which have greatly improved this paper. Additional thanks to Chet Reeder and Ivan Ivanov for their feedback. I thank the participants in the Simon School AEC 510 Ph.D. student seminar for their comments and discussion. From 1992 to 2007 the average CEO held 3.6% of the equity of his …rm, worth $108 million 2000 dollars. CEOs acquired most of this ownership as a part of their compensation package intended to align their incentives with those of shareholders. This study seeks to quantify the gain shareholders receive from incentivizing CEOs. It also seeks to understand the economic mechanisms behind any such gains. Identifying these e¤ects is di¢ cult because CEO e¤ort is unobservable, and the relation between CEO ownership levels and CEO e¤ort is endogenous. To address these issues, I develop and estimate a dynamic model of interaction between a CEO and a …rm's board of directors. The …ndings indicate that CEO e¤ort makes an important contribution to …rm value, which is sensitive to changes in the level of CEO ownership. On average, a 1% increase in CEO ownership increases shareholder value by 0.049% after taking into account the increase in CEO compensation. The model estimates imply that CEOs exert a substantial amount of productive e¤ort, so that much larger ownership stakes are required to incentivizing them further. Connecting the level of CEO ownership and …rm value is hard because CEO e¤orts to increase or decrease …rm value are unobservable and because incentive pay is set in equilibrium. The link from ownership to …rm value goes through e¤ort, and not measuring this e¤ort leads to a downward bias of the estimate of the causal relation. For example, consider two …rms, one with an lazy CEO and one with a hard-working CEO. With everything else held constant, because incentive pay is set in equilibrium, in the data we would observe the lazy CEO with high incentive pay, and the hard-working CEO with low incentive pay. However, because the two …rms are otherwise identical, the two CEOs end up exerting the same amount of e¤ort. In the data we would see identical values, and thus no relation between incentive pay and value, even though incentive pay is clearly working in this example. By developing and estimating a structural model, I can identify the e¤ect of ownership on


The first convergence project of IASB and FASB created the widely equivalent international and U.S. accounting standards for business combinations IFRS 3 and SFAS 141. The purchase price must be allocated to identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed with the residual amount recognized as goodwill. This purchase price allocation requires the acquirer firm's management to exercise judgment and to use their private information. We investigate whether the management opportunistically or efficiently uses the discretion to initially recognize goodwill. Our empirical study is based on hand-collected and archival data for a random sample of 149 IFRS and US-GAAP business combinations of European and U.S. acquirer firms completed between 2005 and 2008. We show that the classic motivations of accounting choice such as debt contracting and political visibility only marginally influence the recognition of goodwill. We find that discretion potentials related to future goodwill impairment testing are already taken into account when initially recognizing goodwill in business combinations. However, our results provide also evidence that the accounting for goodwill in business combinations is not only associated with managerial reporting opportunism but also reflects the target firm's going concern and synergies resulting from the business combination.


Image held by Fitzroy Library.
Structural details of prefabricated iron building being demolished at 17-19 Moor Street, Fitzroy, in 1972. Believed by the owner to be the original Fitzroy Lock-up.
Donated by Louise Eliot.


Parthenin, sesquiterpenelactone has been isolated from the aerial parts of Parthenium hysterophorus along with stigmasterol, β-sitosterol, isoparthenin, coronopilin and 11,13-dihydroparthenin. The compound has been converted into anhydroparthenin by conventional and microwave methods. The compouns were characterized by their spectral (IR mass, 1 H, 13 C NMR) data and evaluated for their antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and antifungal activity against Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, Fusarium oxysporum.


An investigation of tobacco use on the isolated Micronesian island of Tobi provides the basis for a general discussion of the role of tobacco in human societies. Although physiological and psychological variables are attended to, the primary focus is on social and cultural aspects of the tobacco complex. All adult Tobians are heavy smokers; all tobacco is imported; all contacts with the outside world are made to yield tobacco. Nevertheless, periodic tobacco shortages occur. Changes in rates and character of interactions are correlated with fluctuations in tobacco supplies, because tobacco use has deeply penetrated patterns of sociability in a variety of ways. This penetration is a result of the understandings that Tobians have of tobacco, the physiological effects associated with smoking, and certain features of their understandings of the self. A complete explanation of tobacco's attraction for humans, therefore, is seen to depend upon more than the simple notion of tobacco as an "addictive substance;" the social and cultural ends to which its rather amorphous arousal are put must also be investigated.


Criminal offenders often experience hardships beyond the imposition of a court-imposed sanction. These hardships typically take a variety of forms, but can be grouped into a number of relatively well-established categories, including loss of employment, public opprobrium and injuries sustained during or around the time of the commission of the crime. Other examples are deportation from Australia and the imposition of traditional forms of punishment.1 Collectively, these harms are termed incidental hardships or extra-curial punishment.2 Formally, extra-curial punishment is defined as a 'loss or detriment imposed on an offender by persons other than the sentencing court, for the purpose of punishing the offender for his [or her] offence or at least by reason of the offender having committed the offence'.


Energy drinks are very popular among young people. The aim of the study was to analyze the consumption of energy drinks on a group (13%), with less consumption of cola-type caffeine drinks (7%). The study showed that nutritional education have reduced the frequent consumption of EDs among young athletes.


In article the brief review of problems of Ukraine manufactures of reductors and the description of opportunities of increasing of the twisting moment of worm gears in result of by using steels as materials of worm pair and the phenomenon of non-adhesion friction.


The recent, international centenary celebration retrospective of the work of Yasujiro Ozu, during which has played every one of the director's thirty-six extant films (from the fifty-four he completed over the course of his career), has been the perfect opportunity to assess--or perhaps to re-assess--the nature of the unique cinematic style associated with this director. After seeing so many of Ozu's works in rapid succession, and indeed after teaching Ozu at screenings and deliberating with such esteemed minds as Steve Neale and Graham Healey, one thing that emerged quite pressingly was the actual development of his style. Only David Bordwell's Ozu and The Poetics of Cinema gives us anything close to a sense of just how the style that was crystallized in 1949 with Late Spring came to be; specifically how its central facets (the pillow shots, the 360 degree shooting space, the static camera, etc) were honed and refined from 1929, when his first extant work Days of Youth was made. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This, then, was broadly what I set out to (partially) rectify. I hope to have covered some new ground with this article, and perhaps to have corrected some long held misapprehensions surrounding Ozu's style. There have been surprisingly (and one must say distressingly) few new features on Ozu in the leading film journals in recent months. But the retrospective has produced an excellent collection of essays published by The Japan Foundation as a programme for last year's 27th Hong Kong International Film Festival (the first to play Ozu's complete body of extant work). And also a piece by Richard Combs in the recent issue of Film Comment, in which he tries to uncover the Ozu behind the historical author usually taken as read; that is, the Ozu behind the dominant perceptions of the filmmaker that have been held largely since Donald Richie established an implacable currency for them in 1974 with his book Ozu: His Life and Work. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is more or less within this context that my work was produced. Although the more overt pretensions to extending the scope of Ozu criticism (or scholarship), present particularly in Combs' interesting piece, are not to be found here, it is my hope that a better understanding of the foundations of thought on a director whose work remains vital, essential, can be at least pointed to with this feature. If it only heralds a step in this direction, I will take it has having been successful. I would like, at the outset, to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to Robin Wood, Steve Neale, Sheldon Hall and Graham Healey, with whom I have discussed Ozu at length and who all read and offered insightful and useful comments on this piece at various stages of its development. Thanks also to Richard Lippe and Florence Jacobowitz, whose suggestions made the work fuller and invariably better. If one looks back even perfunctorily over the history of the reception of Japanese cinema in the West, indeed even at the indigenous reception accorded the acknowledged giants of Japanese film, one is, I think, presented with a not insubstantial number of dichotomies. In the main, at least until the mid 1970s, the overriding opposition that fuelled such intense critical and even industrial discourse seemed to boil down repeatedly to whether certain films or filmmakers were, in essence (that is: style, subject matter, treatment, etc.), Japanese or Western. Indeed, where the three grand masters (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa) were concerned, a simple line was conceived wherein the most Japanese and the least Japanese occupied either extreme whilst the most harmonious, or 'balanced' figure took his place at the centre. It should require no elucidation from me to grasp that Kurosawa and Ozu were the directors at each end of the scale, whilst Mizoguchi (somewhat simplistically) sat in the centre. The result of this strain of thought, from Japan more than anywhere else, was that: following Kurosawa's great success with Rashomon in 1951, winning the Venice Golden Lion and the best foreign film Academy Award, only lavish and/or exotic Jidai-Geki (period films) garnered international distribution. …


Co-liquefaction of micro algae (Chlorella, Spirulina, and Littorale) with coal (Australian Yallourn brown coal and Illinois No. 6 coal) was carried out under pressurized H2 in 1-methylnaphthalene at 350−400 °C for 60 min with various catalysts. Co-liquefaction of Chlorella with Yallourn coal was successfully achieved with excess sulfur to iron (S/Fe = 4), where sufficient amount of Fe1-xS, which is believed to be the active species in the coal liquefaction, was produced. The conversion and the yield of the hexane-soluble fraction were close to the values calculated from the additivity of the product yields of the respective homo-reactions. In the reaction with a one-to-one mixture of Chlorella and Yallourn coal, 99.8% of conversion and 65.5% of hexane-soluble fraction were obtained at 400 °C with Fe(CO)5 at S/Fe = 4. When Littorale and Spirulina were used as micro algae, a similar tendency was observed with the iron catalyst. On the other hand, in the co-liquefaction with Illinois No. 6 coal, which is kno...


The article introduces the request for program control of cyclic natural gas reforming furnace, such as operation interface, manual operation, ignition system, alarm and video display, security interlocking function.


Undergraduate program accreditation for undergraduate engineering programs is challenging to faculty. Departments are required to accumulate data and then apply measures to both their outcomes and objectives in their program. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, ABET, is an accreditation organization for college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. The quality of engineering programs has become a fundamental issue in the educational system in the United States. Accreditation confirms that the institution or the program meets minimum quality criteria. ABET has become more important when licensure is required in many states for engineers to practice. According to information provided in ABET website, "Many state board of professional licensure in engineering and surveying require applicants to have graduated from an ABET‐accredited program. In states where non‐ABET graduates are permitted to be licensed, an additional four to eight years of work experience may be required." (www.abet.org)


Background: The estimated prevalence rate of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) in children is 6 per 1.000. Parenting children who are intellectually impaired and have PDDs is known to be linked to the impaired well-being of the parents themselves. However, there is still little available data on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in parents of children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA), or other PDD diagnoses in children of normal intelligence. The present study aimed to evaluate aspects of HRQL in parents of school-age children with AS/HFA and the correlates with child behaviour characteristics.


Comparing with other neural networks based models, CMAC is successfully applied on many nonlinear control systems because of its computational speed and learning ability. However, for high-dimensional input cases in real application, we often have to make our choice between learning accuracy and memory size. This paper discusses how both the number of layer and step quantization influence the approximation quality of CMAC. By experimental enquiry, it is shown that it is possible to decrease the memory size without losing the approximation quality by selecting the adaptive structural parameters. Based on Qlearning approach, the CMAC structural parameters can be optimized automatically without increasing the complexity of its structure. The choice of this optimized CMAC structure can achieve a tradeoff between the learning accuracy and finite memory size. At last, the application of this Q-learning based CMAC structure optimization approach on the joint angle tracking problem for biped robot is presented.


Background and purpose:Since 1980's,WHO guidelines have been widely used for tumor response evaluation.The value of RECIST guidelines,which was developed on the basis of WHO guidelines in 2000,needs to be further verified in the clinical practice.The purpose of our study was to evaluate the RECIST criteria in assessment of treatment response in breast cancer patients with metastases and compared with WHO criteria.Methods:CT images of 67 breast cancer patients who had metastases were respectively enrolled in 3 phase-Ⅲ clinical trials,the evaluation took place before and after initiation of treatment.Lesions were selected and measured on digitized images with use of electronic calipers,for each lesion the maximum diameter,maximum perpendicular diameter were determined.Measurements of all lesions were summed up to obtain the patient response,which was categorized as:complete response,disappearance of lesions;partial response,30% decrease in tumor diameter(uni-dimensional),or 50% reduction in tumor area(bidimensional);progressive disease,20% increase in tumor diameter,or 25% increase in tumor area;stable disease,neither complete response,partial response,nor progressive disease.Differences in response assessment between the two techniques were compared statistically according to the χ2 test.Results:A total of 205 lesions(lung metastases,119;enlarged lymph nodes,53;liver metastases,29;chest wall metastases,4)were analyzed.These two techniques were concordant in 61 classifications(91.0%).The response assessment produced by RECIST measurement was improved compared with those of WHO measurement in 4 patients,and worse in 2 patients,respectively.There is no significant difference between the total efficiency judged by these two criteria.Conclusions:Uni-dimensional measurements are in concordant with bidimensional measurement,and are appropriate for assessment of treatment response in breast cancer patients with metastases.


The high prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection explains why not negligible proportions of candidates for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have this infection. In this perspective article, Dr. Socié and colleagues discuss the clinical problems that derive from hepatitis C virus in transplant recipients. See related article on page 249.


Electrically small antennas (ESAs) are a critical enabling technology for many wireless applications. The usually incompatible demands for electrically small, efficient, and broad bandwidth systems becomes further acerbated by practical demands of low weight, low cost, and easy manufacturing. A variety of metamaterial-based and metamaterialinspired designs have been achieved that meet many of these demands from the VHF and UHF bands to millimeterwave frequencies. These designs, their fabrication and experimental validation will be reviewed.


To study factors influencing the cytotoxicity of immunotoxins (ITs), we compared the in vitro cytotoxicity of conjugates in which the plant toxin abrin and the bacterial toxin Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE) were coupled by 2 different procedures to 2 MAbs, 9.2.27 and NR‐ML‐05, which bind to different epitopes on the melanoma‐associated antigen p250. The individual target cell lines differed widely in sensitivity to the different ITs, as assessed by measurement of protein synthesis inhibition. The action of the ITs was highly specific, as the toxicity of abrin and PE conjugates was respectively 20–540 and 2,200–550,000 times higher in antigen‐positive cell lines (FEMX, SESX, OHS) than in the antigen‐negative line KPDX. The PE conjugates prepared with the 2 different MAbs differed in potency by factors of 16–126 in the target‐cell lines, but were consistently more toxic than the abrin ITs. The results demonstrate that the cytotoxicity of ITs varies with the nature of both of its moieties and that optimal results require that toxins and MAbs be matched. Moreover, the 2 coupling procedures affected differentially the binding and potency of some ITs. Each of the 2 toxins was conjugated to a sheep anti‐mouse antibody (SAM) and the toxicity of these 2 conjugates was tested in an indirect approach using 9.2.27 and NR‐ML‐05 as primary MAbs. The results showed that the indirect procedure would have correctly predicted the most potent antibody‐toxin pair, indicating that the approach may be valid for selecting suitable combinations of MAbs and toxins for use as direct ITs. © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The breach of users' location privacy can be catastrophic. To provide users with privacy protections, numerous location privacy methods have been developed in the last two decades. While several studies surveyed existing location privacy methods, the lack of comparative, empirical evaluations imposes challenges for adopting location privacy by applications and researchers who may not be privacy experts. This study fills the gap by conducting a comparative evaluation among a range of location privacy methods with real-world datasets. To evaluate utility, we consider different types of measures, e.g., distortion and mobility metrics; to evaluate privacy protection, we design two empirical privacy risk measures via inference and re-identification attacks. Furthermore, we study the computational overheads inflicted by location privacy in CPU time and memory requirement. The results are thoroughly examined in our work and show that it is possible to strike a balance between utility and privacy when sharing location data with untrusted servers.


Objective: To detect expression of VEGF in placenta for the mechanism of the preeclampsia placenta.Method: Immunohistochemical staining method with pathological image analysis technology were taken to detect the expression of VEGF in 10 cases of normal pregnancy group,17 patients with mild preeclampsia and 13 patients with severe preeclampsia placentas.Result: Expression of VEGF mainly lies in placental trophoblast cells' membrane and the cytoplasm.With the normal pregnancy,expression of VEGF in placentas decreased significantly in mild and severe preeclampsia placenta groups,There was significant difference.Conclusion: Decreasing the expression of VEGF in preeclampsia trophoblast cells is the pathogenesis of preeclampsia so as to provide a new direction in the clinical treatment of preeclampsia.


Temperature-dependent viscosity effect in buoyancy driven flow of a gas or a liquid in an enclosure filled with a porous medium is studied numerically based on the general model of momentum transfer in a porous medium. The exponential form of viscosity-temperature relation is applied to examine three cases of viscosity-temperature relation: constant, decreasing, and increasing. Application of arithmetic and harmonic mean values of the viscosity is also investigated for their ability to represent the Nusselt number versus the effective Rayleigh number. Heat lines are illustrated for a more comprehensive investigation of the problem.


SUBTITLE: REMEMBERING THE FLIGHT THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY. REPLICA OF SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS CONSTRUCTED FOR 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT.


The collaborative innovation of Industry-University-Research Institute (IUR) in high-tech industry is a complex and uncertain process, and its innovation efficiency is also affected by many factors. Previous studies have mostly considered the influencing factors of the whole stage innovation efficiency, ignoring the differences of some factors on the R&D efficiency values and the technology transfer efficiency values of high-tech industry. Therefore, based on the two-stage efficiency values of different industries in high-tech industry from 2014 to 2016, this paper makes an empirical analysis of five factors influencing the two-stage efficiency of the collaborative innovation of IUR, using the two-stage DEA-Tobit model. So as to provide reference for improving the efficiency of collaborative innovation of high-tech industry.


Received: 9 September 2017 Accepted: 21 December 2017 This paper aims to identify the optimal working effect of peripheral-inlet and outlet (PIO) circular secondary clarifiers (CSCs). For this purpose, the simplified multiphase mixture model was adopted for the 2D numerical simulation of hydraulic features of the solid-liquid two-phase flow in CSCs. Specifically, the closed-form time-averaged flow equations were established by the RNG kε turbulence model, the differential equations were discretized by the finite volume method, and the coupling velocity and pressure equations were solved by the pressure-implicit with splitting of operators (PISO) algorithm. Then, numerical simulations were performed to disclose how the retaining baffle-deflection baffle distance and retaining baffle depth influence the distribution of the velocity field and sludge volume concentration field in a PIO CSC. The simulation results show that the optimal performance of the CSC appeared at the baffle distance of 300mm and the retaining baffle depth of 600~1,000mm. All in all, a proper increase of distance and depth can enhance the sedimentation efficiency and outflow quality, but an excessive increase can only accomplish the very opposite. The research findings provide valuable references to the optimal design of actual secondary clarifiers.


It is well established that the mid-range attraction of the NN force is an important part of the nuclear binding and is believed to be mediated to a large extent by correlated two pion-pairs in the scalar-isoscalar channel. This has been implemented in the OBEP potential by the exchange of the fictitious "σ" meson [1]. According to most model calculations, the latter is a broad resonance of about 500 MeV decaying hadronically mostly into two pions [2]. In nuclear medium, where chiral symmetry is partially restored, the σ, as the chiral partner of the pion, is strongly modified. Hence a closer look at the dynamics of the sigma meson in nuclear medium is certainly very much needed. Starting from the linear σ model in the large-N limit which reproduces the phaseshifts in ππ-scattering and preserves the constraints from chiral symmetry, one finds for the σ meson in the vacuum a mass of 600 MeV and several hundred MeV width [3]. In the nuclear medium the σ-meson undergoes a strong mean-field renormalization as well as direct coupling to particle-hole (p − h) excitations. These couplings is examined using the standard σ-ω model where the ω meson provides the repulsion necessary for the stabilization of the system against two-pion condensation. The full sigma meson in this approach is given by [3]:


In this paper, a novel architecture for wideband input impedance matching consisting of two common gate (CG) transistors is presented. One CG transistor is placed on top of the other in a current reuse fashion such that both transistors appear in parallel at the input. As a consequence, the transconductance requirement for input matching from each NMOS transistor is reduced to half compared to a simple CG LNA. The proposed input matching technique has been used to design an UWB LNA simulated using IBM 130nm CMOS process with Spectre RF. The proposed architecture accomplish large bandwidth and high gain with comparatively small power consumption. Post Layout simulation results depict S11 and S22 well below -6.5 dB and -15 dB respectively. The gain and 3 dB bandwidth are 15 dB and 2.1 GHz respectively. The LNA demonstrates minimum NF of 3.7 dB @ 3.53 GHz in the passband, input referred 1dBCP of −15.32 dBm with IIP3 of -10.5 dBm. The proposed LNA consumes only 1.87mA from 1.4V power supply.


It is described a program for identifying Medication Errors (ME) associated with the unit-dose integral dispensation system in the pediatric unit from Dr. Peset University Hospital at Valencia. The period of study encompasses 2 months (from June to July, 2001) that allowed for the identification of 87 patients with 109 ME (incidence: 151 ME per 1,000 patients day). Medication errors had their origin, from highest to lowest, in the processes of transcription, dispensation and pharmaceutical validation, preparation and prescription, with 56.9, 47.2, 9.4 and 27.8 ME/1,000 patients-day, respectively. The most frequent ME categories have been: absence of a prescribed medication (38.5%), incorrect dosage (22.9%), non-prescribed medication (12.8%) and incorrect posologic interval (10.0%). Antibiotics, NSAI, antiasthmatics, antiulcerous and systemic corticoids were the main drugs implicated in ME. Identification and quantification of potential sources of medication errors in processes associated with dispensation in the unit-dose area allow for the introduction of methods that improve the quality of the system's weakest areas. The established validation method decreases the probability of ME/patient in at least 12.1% of pediatric patients


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The progress to "cloud-based learning" and transition to "personalized learning" occur within digital transformation of education. Within this context, the authors analyse regulatory documents and recommendations outlined by the professional, teaching, and psychological communities and making the research relevant. The research question put up in the paper is: how to plot maps for developing the information competency of students in conditions of digital transformation. Theoretical substantiation is presented for the following phenomena under study: digital transformation, mapping, individual educational path, the information competency of students. It is pointed out that mapping is the process of creating maps for reducing the unpredictability effect and solving the problem of choice, a way of visualization of the future, and a strategy of one's self-development. It is highlighted that the individual educational route is the authors' approach to self-fulfilment in the real and virtual world. They describe the approach to understanding the student information competency as the key meta-subject educational one. This competency consists of the cognitive, motivational, and activity-based components which are provided with details by students via "understanding", generating their own meanings, and enriching their subject experience. In the paper, the stages of pedagogical support and fulfilment of maps for developing the said competency are described, too: the ascertaining one, transforming, and analytical ones. The pedagogical experience of mapping is summed up which is associated with the students' plotting and fulfilling various types of maps outlined by the authors: subject maps, meta-subject (mental) maps, portfolio maps as the digital footprint, start-up maps. The total of various maps represents the databases and analytical methods of their research. For studying the former, the authors used the expert appraisal method and applied some psychological techniques. The principal research results can be summarized by the statement: in the period of digital transformation and the pandemic, maps have to be plotted for settling emotions in conditions of lockdown and uncertainty, for supporting the relevant student initiatives, and for shaping their profound unmistakable "digital footprint", which characterizes the students' high information competency development level.


Interview of members of the Student Society of Oral History of Philosophy (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) with Barbara Cassin, a member of the French Academy. The main topics of the interview are Barbara Cassin's intellectual biography, the origin of the Dictionary of untranslatability's idea, the philosophical influence of Martin Heidegger, contemporary studies of untranslatability and their practical application.


Significance Physiological regulation and behavior depend less on neurons than on neuronal circuits. Neurosignal integration is the basis of neurocircuit function. The modalities of neuroinformation integration are evolutionarily conserved in animals and humans. Here, we identified two modalities of neurosignal integration in two different circuits by which serotonergic ADFs regulate pharyngeal pumping in Caenorhabditis elegans: disinhibition in a feedforward circuit consisting of ADF, RIC, and SIA neurons and disexcitation, a modality of neurosignal integration suggested by this study, in a feedback circuit consisting of ADF, RIC, AWB, and ADF neurons. Feeding is vital for animal survival and is tightly regulated by the endocrine and nervous systems. To study the mechanisms of humoral regulation of feeding behavior, we investigated serotonin (5-HT) and octopamine (OA) signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, which uses pharyngeal pumping to ingest bacteria into the gut. We reveal that a cross-modulation mechanism between 5-HT and OA, which convey feeding and fasting signals, respectively, mainly functions in regulating the pumping and secretion of both neuromodulators via ADF/RIC/SIA feedforward neurocircuit (consisting of ADF, RIC, and SIA neurons) and ADF/RIC/AWB/ADF feedback neurocircuit (consisting of ADF, RIC, AWB, and ADF neurons) under conditions of food supply and food deprivation, respectively. Food supply stimulates food-sensing ADFs to release more 5-HT, which augments pumping via inhibiting OA secretion by RIC interneurons and, thus, alleviates pumping suppression by OA-activated SIA interneurons/motoneurons. In contrast, nutrient deprivation stimulates RICs to secrete OA, which suppresses pumping via activating SIAs and maintains basal pumping and 5-HT production activity through excitation of ADFs relayed by AWB sensory neurons. Notably, the feedforward and feedback circuits employ distinct modalities of neurosignal integration, namely, disinhibition and disexcitation, respectively.


Learning through game scene is considered a game-based learning approach. Teaching and learning process using game scene is deemed interesting and effective due to the nature for this approach which seems alive with asserted activities. Students experience their own game via narration through the virtual world they undertook. This investigation is targeted towards conceptual change and explanation for basic programming theorem through navigated game scene by evaluating motivation and student experience. 55 respondents consisted of semester three students from computer software application certification a program from a community college is selected for the undertaken study. Motivation and experience surveys are reference based on intrinsic motivation inventory instrument (IMI). Findings were tabulated based on t-test statistics and descriptive to get the frequency, mean, standard deviation and percentage. Initial results reflected student acknowledgement on utilizing game scenes in terms of elaborating basic game programming key points in providing elevated learning experience.


Myths and misunderstandings the making of post-war urban dispersal moving out settling in suburban neurosis and the new-town blues suburban solidarities - social life on the new estate invincible suburbs? brave new towns? - some conclusions and connections.


This paper presents a method to analyze the reflectometry responses of a branched network of non-ideal wires. A modified bounce diagram that uses a transition matrix to keep track of signal flow is used. This approach is further improved by including the complex propagation constant to include the frequency dependent filtering effect (phase delay and attenuation) of the non-ideal transmission lines


This paper describes the use of student peer evaluation, a form of 360-degree performance assessment, to provide student input to the overall grades in college classes in which students participated as teams. The paper discusses the experiences of two faculty members using the approach with both graduate and undergraduate students. Lessons are outlined for instructors who are considering this approach. The peer evaluation method asks students to assess the contribution of other members to the group, so that grades reflect the efforts of individual students as well as the grade for the group project. Students complete a brief form to provide the 360 degree assessment of their peers. (Author/SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. USING 360-DEGREE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES IN STUDENT EVALUATION By Norman F. Foy, associate professor, Mercy College & (:) Gloria Schlisselberg, associate professor, Mercy College Abstract: This article describes the use of student peer evaluation, a form of 360 degree performance assessment, to provide student input to the overall grades in college classes. The authors discuss their experiences using the approach with both graduate and undergraduate students and provide lessons learned to instructors considering this approach in their educational setting. This article describes the use of student peer evaluation, a form of 360 degree performance assessment, to provide student input to the overall grades in college classes. The authors discuss their experiences using the approach with both graduate and undergraduate students and provide lessons learned to instructors considering this approach in their educational setting. 1 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY


Straight lines can fit to a system with several methods which present properties of the system. For a multi criteria system using these methods like least mean square and mean incision, cannot get the appropriate answer. In this article, we present a new method that begins with the calculation of the system error. Then, if the calculated error is much more than a specific value, therefore the system supposed to be a multi criteria system. Here in this case, we perform a classification between data of the system by using minimum distance techniques. Finally, each part of the classified data fits with the straight lines in order to reduction of the error. In this paper, final results describe by several examples of its superior application in edge detection in the image processing.


Disorders of the oxygen transport play an important role in the development of multiple organ disfunction syndrome and are a marker of tissue hypoxia and ischemia. Disorders of the oxygen transport could be use for predicting patient survival and as criteria for the severity of the pathological process. The aim of this study was to explore the indicators of systemic oxygen transport in the perioperative period in patients with traumatic deases in multi-stage surgical correction at polytrauma in terms of standard and advanced intensive care. Materials and methods. A prospective study of 88 patients with traumatic deases was conducted. The dynamics of indices of oxygen delivery (iDО2) and oxygen consumption (iVO2), oxygen extraction coefficient (KEO2) at different variants of intensive care was studied. Results. The patients in both groups was noted iDO2 decline, which was due to massive blood loss and decreased cardiac output on admission to the operation room. Despite the fact that during the acute period was held stop bleeding, correction of hypovolemia and posthemorrhagic anemia, the average level of iDО2 was quite low. iDO2 was multidirectional nature of the changes in the studied groups at the second and third stages of the study. In turn, the average values KEO2 characterized the degree of tension compensatory mechanisms and metabolic changes caused by hypoxia and hypoperfusion. Normalization of oxygen homeostasis parameters was achieved in the fourth stage of the study. Conclusions. The maximal intensity of development of compensatory mechanisms and changes of oxygen transport occurs within the first 5 days after the injury. The optimized intensive care which has been used in the treatment patients of Group II, has positive effect on the ability to potentiate adaptive defense mechanisms and reduce oxygen debt.


Asphalt rubber will be produced by adding crumb rubber into the base asphalt particles through physical and chemical processing.The performance indexes of the asphalt have been tested,and the results indicate that asphalt plastic-rubber has good performance.AR-AC20 was adopted in Lu'an-Wuhan Expressway.AR-AC20 demonstrates good serviceability by optimizing the gradation design of mixture and strengthening the construction control,which would offer useful reference for similar projects.


Coastal sand dunes have been closely related to human activities. In recent centuries, the landward sides of sand dunes have been modified by the creation of farmlands and erosion control forests, as well as the construction of harbors, airports, roads, and residential areas. On the sea side of sand dunes, coastal structures, including revetments and detached breakwaters, have been installed to prevent coastal erosion. By these reasons, the total area of sand dunes has significantly decreased in Japan, and the ecosystem therein has been greatly affected by these changes. The number of endangered species per unit area is particularly large when compared with those in forests and wetlands. These facts encourage the need for the conservation and restoration of sand dunes and their ecosystem. Meanwhile, investigating sand dunes in the natural state is indispensable for future planning of such conservation planning. This study focuses on the vegetation in sand dunes, which is the primary producer of the ecosystem. In previous studies, it has been suggested that the accretion of sand has the greatest influence on the distribution and survival of vegetation in sand dunes. However, although many studies have explored relationships between coastal sand dune vegetation and environmental factors, effects of landforms on the vegetation growth and distribution have rarely been examined. Here we investigate the spatial relationships between vegetation and landforms in the Tottori sand dunes using high-resolution ground surface information obtained from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and unmanned aerial vehicle-based structure-from-motion (UAV-SfM) photogrammetry. Sand dunes vegetation was classified into several communities, and a vegetation map was created based on the orthorectified images obtained by UAV-SfM photogrammetry. We analyzed the spatial correlation between vegetation and landforms. In particular, there is a relationship between the aspect of slope and distribution of vegetation. The distribution of vegetation and landforms is likely affected by the constant wind from the south having a speed of more than 5 m per second, as well as the seasonal winter wind from the northwest having a speed of more than 10 m per second. Because coastal sand dunes are a part of the dynamic ecosystem, it is necessary to further explore the dynamic relationships of vegetation growth with changing landforms, which will be clarified by their continuous monitoring.


IF ONE compares a map showing the distribution of population in the United States with maps which show the location of production surpluses of the five principal grains, he will discover the principal explanation of the directional flow of these surpluses from the states west of the Illinois-Indiana state line to states east of that line and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. In an endeavor to explain the volume, the direction of flow, and seasonal characteristics of the grain movement out of Chicago, two sets of forces must be recognized-those which affect the volume of shipments by limiting the volume of receipts, and those which bear directly on the variation and directional flow of the shipments to destination points. In earlier discussions3 the authors have described in some detail the territorial origins of Chicago grain receipts. Analysis was made of various forces affecting the annual and seasonal variation in the flow of grain to market from different parts of the supply territory, and the competition of other markets was examined. Not enough was said in that report, however, about the changing production conditions which have been operating to limit the size of total receipts. A major influence has been the regional shifts in grain and livestock production which have been going on since the end of the


OBJECTIVE The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) reported no racial/ethnic differences in the incidence of diabetes in individuals with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). Therefore, it has been hypothesized that factors associated with racial/ethnic disparities act prior to the development of IGT. Because impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and obesity were also very prevalent in the DPP, we examined IGT, IFG, and obesity as effect modifiers of ethnic disparities in the San Antonio Heart Study. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were 3,015 Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites aged 25–64 years. The median follow-up period was 7.8 years. IGT, IFG, and diabetes were defined by the 2003 American Diabetes Association criteria, and obesity was defined as BMI ≥30 kg/m2. RESULTS Mexican Americans had an excess risk of incident IGT (odds ratio 1.48 [95% CI 1.16–1.89]) and incident IFG (1.71 [1.31–2.23]) compared with non-Hispanic whites. Mexican Americans also had a higher incidence of diabetes among individuals who had normal 2-h glucose (2.20 [1.48–3.29]) and IGT (1.72 [1.08–2.74]) at baseline. There was an interaction of obesity on the relationship between ethnicity and progression to IGT or diabetes (P = 0.034), with Mexican Americans having a greater risk among the nonobese (1.73 [1.36–2.21]) and a comparable risk among the obese (1.08 [0.75–1.56]). CONCLUSIONS Ethnic differences can be detected at both the early and later stages of the diabetes disease process. However, non-Hispanic whites lose much of the ethnic advantage once they have developed obesity.


The author examines the course, forms and causes of the defeat of the anti-republican uprisings in the lands of the former Duchy of Savoy, annexed to France during the Revolution of the eighteenth century. The aim of the study is to analyse the transformation of popular protest in Savoy over the course of 1793. The events of January–October 1793 are considered in this article in the light of the concept of the "popular counter-revolution". The annexation of the Savoy to France was strongly supported by its population, but immediately after the introduction of the civil system of the clergy and the circulation of banknotes, the social situation in the region came to a head. The decree of the French National Convention on mass conscription into the republican army also contributed to the social upheaval. The protest had its own characteristics and evolved from a traditional form of rebellion to a local civil war, in which a simple political programme of the rebels also emerged. However, the peasants were unprepared to participate in hostilities, had no military experience, and the forces and resources of the Sardinian army were limited. Realising that the plan to return Savoy under the rule of the king by the end of September 1793 was unworkable, the troops had to return to Piedmont. The restoration of the Republican rule over the rebellious department marked the beginning of a policy of revolutionary terror in Savoy.


Summary A periodic fall of platelet number characterizes an acquired pathological condition named cyclic thrombocytopenia. We observed a patient in whom the episodes of thrombocytopenia (platelet number less than 50×109/l) were followed regularly by thrombocytosis (700–2 300 × 109 platelets/l). The period of platelet count fluctuation was about 30 d. Morphological examination of bone marrow showed the cyclic disappearance of mature and immature megakaryocytes: bone marrow cultures revealed a periodic severe defect of both multilineage and single‐lineage progenitor cell growth. When platelet count was falling, a mild defect of platelet aggregation and ATP release was observed. while platelet function was normal when platelet count was rising. Prednisone. thymopentine. high‐dose intravenous γ‐globulin and splenectomy were without effect. After 4 years of cyclic platelet and megakaryocyte fluctuations, stable amegakaryo‐cytic thrombocypenia developed and the patient died of haemorrhagic stroke.


The purpose of the study is to compare the perception of advertising and communication channels between convention and visitor bureaus (CVBs) and meeting planners in the USA. By employing 245 of CVBs and 226 meeting planners through an online survey method, the results of the study reveal clear channel discrepancies between CVBs and meeting planners in terms of preference, attitude and usage of communication and advertising channels. In addition, the study identifies different linkages between advertising channels and advertising effects in the two different groups. Implications for industry practitioners as well as suggestions for future study are discussed. Copyright © John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In order to promote scientific and systematic drought management,the definition,characteristics,and management ideas for drought are briefly reviewed.Practical approaches to drought risk management are summarized,including establishing a drought mitigation plan,which normally contains three basic components: a monitoring system,risk assessment,and prevention and mitigation.The objects and methods of drought monitoring are briefly reviewed. The content of drought risk and risk assessment,and the framework of drought prevention and mitigation are also presented.Based on the current status and development tendency of drought prevention and mitigation plans in China and other countries,it is pointed out that the plans are insufficiently systematic and pertinent.


To obtain the positive mutant Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous strains producing the astaxanthin, a novel breeding strategy of atmospheric and room temperature plasma (ARTP) mutagenesis with 2-deoxyglucose resistance screening was developed. After three successful rounds of recursive breeding, one strain designated B-2m-8 was selected, which was elevated by 187.14 % compared to that of the parent strain 5-7. This work provided an appropriate strategy for obtaining high astaxanthin-yield strains by a novel random mutation method with an efficient screening assay. The results of mutation method and resistance screening indicated that ARTP combined with 2-deoxyglucose resistance was an efficient breeding approach for the rapid evolution of astaxanthin-producing Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous strains. Finally, the prospect of ARTP mutagenesis is discussed. Key Word Index: Antioxidant; Atmospheric and Room Temperature Plasma; 2-Deoxyglucose; Mutation; Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 21-06-2018 Date of acceptance: 09-07-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


This system aims to make it easier for owners to monitor the condition of the koi pond, and minimize the death of koi fish, and can maintain water quality and maximize koi growth and development. Therefore, a system was created that can monitor the discharge and the level of turbidity of water in the koi pond. This system consists of Arduino Uno, NodeMCu, Waterflow Sensor, Turbidity Sensor and buzzer. This system can determine the condition of the pump, whether the pump is running maximally, the signal is not optimal or the pump off based on the water flow produced by the pump, which is then read by the waterflow sensor. When the water discharge > 40 L/hour then the pump turns on maximum, when 40 L/hour > discharge > 0, then the pump flame is not maximal, and when there is no water discharge produced by the pump then the pump is off, if the water turbidity value > 400 NTU, then the water is in a cloudy state and the buzzer as an alarm so that the owner checks the filter and the pool drain will sound, and later the data read by the sensor will be saved to the firebase and will be displayed on the mobile application, and tegram will send a notification in the form of a short message , when the pump is not running optimally, the pump is off, and when the water is cloudy.


in patients after PPROM was 41% (33/81) and that of positive amniotic fluid cultures was 22% (18/81). Logistic regression indicated that decreased cervical length, a positive amniotic fluid culture, and gestational age at amniocentesis, but not prolonged latency, bear a significant relationship with the development of histologic chorioamnionitis after PPROM. Similarly, in terms of the development of the funisitis as the outcome variable, logistic regression demonstrated that only gestational age at amniocentesis was significantly and independently associated with an increased risk of development of funisitis after PPROM. Conclusions: We demonstrated the shorter the cervix in patients with PPROM, the greater the risk of ascending transcervical infection after PPROM documented by the increasing odds ratios of placental inflammation.


In the review the monograph of Efremova Marina Alexandrovna is viewed. Timelessness of the declared subject, peculiarities of the monograph, position of the author concerning the expressed provisions is expressed.


The study, entitled Evaluation of Parttime Student Performance At Muhammadiyah University of Malang. This research parttime students grouped in three major groups. Three groupings of students based on parttime work units, parttime students and faculty administrative departments, laboratories, institutions and others. The purpose of this research is to find out how the level at performance of parttime student at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang period 2009/2010. To know descriptions of the performance indicators that need improvement and development. In getting the picture parttime student performance, the used are indicators of quality job performance appraisals, attendance, attitude, cooperation, initiative, knowledge of the work, responsibility, and honesty. Analyze is methods rating scale. Data analysis technique used is the range of scale as the reference category parttime student performance. The results of data analysis shows that level of performance parttime student at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang rarely 538. Performance value is categories. The results of data analysis for group work units and administrative departments of the Faculty 153. This value is included in the category very well. The results of data analysis in the laboratory working group of units, agencies and other units respectively - joined by 156 and 225. Both values are included in both categories. From the result above, it can be concluded that the level at performance the students parttime faculty and administrative departments, laboratories, institutions and other units are different. The best performance parttime student performance faculty and administrative departments, while the performance of laboratory parttieme students, institutions and other units of the second best because it has a performance score was included in both categories. Overall performance parttime student at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang odd period 2009 / 2010.


The cellulosic fabrics cotton, rayon, and Tencel® are commonly used in the textile industry (Kroschwitz, 1990). The chemical composition of the fabrics is similar, but they differ in the arrangement of the cellulose polymers in the fabrics (Collier and Tortora, 2001). The basic polymer for all cellulosic fibers consists of repeating glucose units. For the cotton fabric, the cellulosic polymers within the cotton fibers have a high degree of polymerization (approximately 6,000 to 10,000 units), highly reactive hydroxyl (-OH) groups, and the ability to support hydrogen bonding with the 70% crystalline area. The remaining 30% of the fiber is amorphous. Like cotton, rayon is composed of cellulose, but the cellulose chains in rayon are shorter with the degree of polymerization being between 400 to 700 units. Thus, about 30% of the cellulose is crystalline with 70% being amorphous. Tencel® lyocell (generic classification) is a highly crystalline fiber with high strength capacity. In 2007, over 9 Tg (10 million tons) of textile waste went into landfills in the U.S. (U.S. EPA, 2008). The anaerobic conditions found in landfills result in slow biodegradation rates of cellulosic materials. To divert fabric waste from landfills, an alternative method of fabric disposal would be application of cellulosic fabric waste to surface soil where aerobic conditions could result in enhanced biodegradation rates. Information on cellulosic fabric biodegradation rates in surface soil would also be valuable in providing estimates of the length of time that fabrics have been buried in soil, contributing useful data to forensic investigations (Janaway, 2008). The objective of this field study was to determine the biodegradation rates of 100% rayon, cotton, and Tencel® woven fabrics buried in an aerobic Captina silt loam soil.


Abstract : Contents: Movement disorders due to drug and disease; Familial RBC cholinesterase defect; Titrimetric cholinesterase method; Anticholinesterase tolerance in man; Anticholinesterase tolerance in rats.


Pre-inversion corrections and analysis of transmission radar data is important for producing reliable tomographic images. In order to extract high-resolution, quantitative information from radar tomographic data, it is important to process the data as accurately as possible. This is especially true when analyzing data collected in a time-lapse mode, where changes in geophysical attributes with time may be less than a few percent, or when the spacing between acquisition wells is on the order of several meters. Using high-resolution tomographic radar data collected in a variety of geological environments, this study illustrates how different pre-inversion travel time and amplitude processing steps affect the velocity and attenuation estimates. In some cases, the distortion caused from incorrect processing can lead to severe artifacts in the tomogram including the appearance of anisotropy. This paper presents methods for recognizing and correcting the raw data for errors caused by incorrect station geometry ...


* euroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a rare, potentially fatal, and often misdiagnosed complication of neuroleptic drug use. It is more likely to affect young men1'2 and those with a major affective disorder, rather than with schizophrenia.3'4 High-potency and depot phenothiazines have been particularly implicated as causative agents, especially in higher doses."5 This condition is particularly important because it might go unrecognized and thus become fatal for the patient.2'4-6 Typically, the onset of NMS is sudden and is charctenzed by marked elevation in temperature, rigidity like that in Parkinson's disease, an altered state of consciousness, and autonomic dysfnction (especially hypertension, tachycardia, and diaphoresis). The pathogenic mechanism is unknown, though dopamine-receptor blockade


The role of telehealth and its effect on reducing mental health burden from COVID-19 is of pressing concern. It is pertinent that the psychological impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic must be recognized within the group of health care workers. Telemental health services are area that require imminent intervention for the support of health care workers in Pakistan, as they are applicable and practically feasible.


With the aging world population, the prevalence of aging‐related disorders is on the rise. Diseases such as Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), Parkinson's, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and osteoarthritis are age‐related, and most of these diseases are comorbidities or risk factors for AD; however, our understandings of molecular events that regulate the occurrence of these diseases are still not fully understood. Brain and muscle Arnt‐like protein‐1 (Bmal1) is an irreplaceable clock gene that governs multiple important physiological processes. Continuous research of Bmal1 in AD and associated aging‐related diseases is ongoing, and this review picks relevant studies on a detailed account of its role and mechanisms in these diseases. Oxidative stress and inflammation turned out to be common mechanisms by which Bmal1 deficiency promotes AD and associated aging‐related diseases, and other Bmal1‐dependent mechanisms remain to be identified. Promising therapeutic strategies involved in the regulation of Bmal1 are provided, including melatonin, natural compounds, metformin, d‐Ser2‐oxyntomodulin, and other interventions, such as exercise, time‐restricted feeding, and adiponectin. The establishment of the signaling pathway network for Bmal1 in aging‐related diseases will lead to advances in the comprehension of the molecular and cellular mechanisms, shedding light on novel treatments for aging‐related diseases and promoting aging‐associated brain health.


We investigate the use of limited wires as shortcuts for increasing the lifetime of hybrid sensor networks. The routing strategies and wiring schemes for this hybrid sensor network are designed. Using analysis and simulation, we evaluate the length of network lifetime when varying the network size, cluster size and node densities. The analytical results show that wires can increase the network lifetime significantly. Cluster size is the fatal factor that affects the lifetime of this network, whereas network size and node density of network affect the network lifetime slightly.


The article reveals Y. Lotman's view of the cultural code as an explosion, which is opposed to a gradual movement. The stages of the explosion are depicted.


An analysis of the different method of spraying liquid. Reviewed arrangements for the implementation of these methods. Considered options such dispensers as an aerosol dispersion, productivity and the shape of the aerosol plume. The possibility of using different nozzles in the mechatronic control systems.


Continuous temperature monitoring by flexible hydrogel‐based electronics achieves rapid advances, overcoming the drawbacks of rigid and unportable thermocouples. However, an open question is whether and how the thermosensitive hydrogel designing can prevent mechanical mismatching between devices and skin‐tissues and reduces interfacial failure. Herein, a versatile hydrogel‐based thermistor epidermal sensor (HTES) paradigm is engineered consisting of thermosensitive and self‐adhesive function layer (PEST) in tandem with a surface spraying Ag interdigital electrode. Leveraging the advantage of catechol chemistry inspired tannic acid‐coated cellulose nanocrystals, the resultant PEST achieves the adhesion‐cohesion equilibrium along with superior thermosensitivity. The assembled HTES thereby yields unprecedented features of superior thermosensitivity (TCR = 1.43% °C−1), exceptional mechanical integrity (hammering 200 cycles, current variation <9%), impressive interfacial compatibility (adhesion strength, 25 kPa), and environmental stability (thermosensation retention of 98% over 5 days). By in‐situ microstructure observation, the unique geometrical synchronization of HTES with arbitrary curvilinear surfaces (e.g., sphere, cone, and saddle) stemming from elastic dissipation and discrete rupture of the adhesive fibrillar bridges is validated, affording competitive advantages than that of the state‐of‐the‐art thermistor electronics for alleviating the interfacial deterioration, which dramatically inspires advanced HTES design strategies and paves the way for commercialization of attachable thermistor electronics.