A large experimental effort called TREX13 was conducted in April–May 2013 off Panama City, Florida. As part of this effort, reverberation and clutter measurements were taken in a fixed-fixed configuration in very shallow water (~20 m) over a 22 day period. Results have been presented previously characterizing reverberation, clutter and noise in the 1800–5000 Hz band. The received data are taken from the triplet sub-aperture of the Five Octave Research Array (FORA). The array was fixed 2 m off the sea floor and data were passed to a nearby moored ship (the R/V Sharp). An ITC 2015 source transducer was fixed 1.1 m off the seafloor nearby. Pulses comprised of gated CWs and LFMs were used in this study. Matched filtered plots of the reverberation and clutter along particular bearings are presented using the FORA triplet beamformer. There are clear indications of biologic scattering. Statistical characterization of the biologic components of the reverberation are presented using K-distribution based algorithms...


In this paper,we prove the first mean value theorem for definite integrals newly,introduce some betterment with its applications of the first mean value theorem for definite integrals.


This article 'gives voice' to disabled employees by documenting their experiences of negotiating workplace adjustments under the terms of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, 1995.This ad hoc process of 'negotiation' is explored through in-depth interviews that reveal persistent problems with the character of legislation and its implementation in public sector organizations. Negotiations on adjustments were characteristically highly individualized and outcomes almost entirely contingent upon the knowledge, attitudes and goodwill of poorly trained line managers. The adjustment process itself often led to instances of bullying by managers, resulting in stress and ill health among employees.An analysis of managers' behaviour in the context of wider debates on power and organizational decision-making concludes that, even where outcomes are positive for employees, managers still choose to abdicate responsibility in this area. Such behaviour represents a form of non-decision-making that is essentially political in character and has wider implications for equality agendas.


The emission of light fragments with energies \ensuremath{\ge}1A MeV from asymmetric $^{14}\mathrm{N}$ induced reactions at 14A MeV and 32A MeV has been studied. The overall energy- and angular dependence of the isobaric $^{3}\mathrm{H}$${/}^{3}$He and $^{6}\mathrm{He}$${/}^{6}$Li ratios is understood in terms of standard statistical emission processes from an incomplete fusion source and an intermediate source only if the effective Coulomb barriers are reduced much more than the normal quantum penetration accounts for.


The current trends in Internet of Things (IoT) lead to the deployment of low-power devices covering a wide range of application scenarios. These devices have the goal of executing simple tasks, automatically, usually with strict requirements in terms of space and cost. Typically, these devices have to rely on batteries or by harvesting energy devices (e.g., solar panels), in order to operate. On the other hand, IoT devices may be equipped with powerful multi-core CPUs to achieve performance goals, making the management of the energy budget a challenging task. This requires the development of an effective management system, that takes into account current and future energy budget availability, to dynamically bound the actual allocation of processing resources. Specifically, when exploiting solar panels for power supply, we can leverage on the weather forecast, to estimate the availability of energy in the near future. This paper introduces a predictive energy budget management system, targeting multi-core based embedded platforms. Thanks to both local and large-scale weather information, our solution aims at predicting the future incoming power and, accordingly, tuning the exploitable performance level to keep the system running under any environmental condition.


Running and operating physical secondary back up sites can be expensive. But using the cloud, organizations can lean out some of these associated costs by adopting Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for business continuity. Business organizations that adopt cloud for business continuity stand to enjoy a number of benefits. These benefits include faster provisioning of computing services, workflow automation, consistency and faster deployment during the cloud migration journey. In spite of the advantages that cloud offers, institutions of higher learning (IHL) in Africa and Kenya in particular, have been slow in adopting it due to various challenges. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the challenges of current configurations and factors that hinder the adoption of cloud for business continuity in institutions of higher learning in Kenya. The paper proposes a framework leveraging on Infrastructure as code and considerations that they must evaluate before adopting cloud for business continuity. Data was collected by use of questionnaires. The questionnaires were given to 92 university staff that had intricate knowledge on cloud computing and analyzed through SPSS. A conceptual framework based on People, Process and Technology (PPT) was used. An experimental study that draws largely from infrastructure as code (IaC) was carried out to simulate a recovery from a local data Centre to Amazon Web Service (AWS) using two cloud formation tools Ansible and Terraform. The experimental results were presented and indicate that, IaC addressed key challenges faced by current setups such as high human resource cost, cumbersome effort, time, higher risk of human error and high maintenance costs. It is hoped the proposed framework will shed light on how IHL can increase their success rates to seamlessly adopt cloud for business continuity.


Arctic climate is changing fast, but weather forecast and climate models have serious deficiencies in representing the Arctic atmosphere, because of the special conditions that occur in this region ...


SUMMARY Purpose: The aim of this paper is to document the oral hygiene and nutrition habits of young people (aged 18 to 25) in Greece. Material and Methods: In a random sample of 100 people in Greece aged 18 to 25, a questionnaire including 23 questions (4 demographical and 19 other) was given. The frequency, the usual reason for visiting the dentist, the frequency of brushing, the type of toothbrush and the criteria for choosing toothbrush and toothpaste were searched. The nutrition habits were recorded as frequency in receiving sugar or no sugar meals during the day. The statistical analysis included frequencies and the use of chi-square test for interrelation with the demographical questions. Results: 72% of the sample visits the dentist at least once a year, while the reason for visiting was prevention in 69%. 85% brushes at least twice a day, and the same percentage uses medium hardness toothbrush. The choice of the toothpaste is based on flavour and fragrance in 25%. The frequency of receiving sugar meals was recorded as 45% once daily and 43% in 2 or 3 times daily (p<0.05 between smokers and non smokers). 78% of the young people receives less than 5 meals and snacks per day. There was no statistically significant difference between different available monthly budgets in the sample for the oral hygiene and nutrition habits. Conclusion: More than 1/3 of young people in Greece aged 18 to 25 visits the dentist at least once yearly for prevention and uses medium hardness toothbrush. The frequency of sugar consumption was significantly higher in smokers when compared to non smokers. Statistically significant differences were not observed between males and females except for the frequency in brushing (p<0.05). A review of the literature was performed for issues related to this project.


Physicians are people, too, with our own struggles, facing the same challenges our patients face, including an ongoing pandemic, rising inflation, and uncertainty in the political system. Physicians must navigate these personal concerns and those of their families in addition to caring for others in a busy and stressful profession.


chapter 1 List of Illustrators chapter 2 Foreward chapter 3 About the Author chapter 4 Acknowledgements chapter 5 Taking the Pulse chapter 6 Profiling the American Archeologist chapter 7 Educating the American Archeologist chapter 8 Archeological Employment in the Americas chapter 9 Archeological Research in the Americas chapter 10 Publication and Professional Activities chapter 11 Paying for American Archeology chapter 12 What's Next? chapter 13 Bibliography chapter 14 Appendix


As the authors indicate in their introduction, the aim of this text is to show how it is possible to determine the macroscopic properties of individual fractures and fracture networks in rock systems. All rocks are fractured to some degree, at least in the upper 10–15 km of the crust, so this is


In high speed,high accuracy machining process of complicate surface,micro-line chains were utilized as tool path to generate free-form splines and surfaces,the discontinuities between line segments destroyed part surface smoothness and caused feed rate and acceleration fluctuation.To deal with this problem,a tool path optimization method based on Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline(NURBS) curve fitting was proposed.A segmentation algorithm based on tool path geometric characteristics analysis was used to distinguish the Micro-line Chains.Least square NURBS curve fitting algorithm combined with boundary continuity conditions was implemented to resume tool path smoothness.A feature point searching method was proposed to set the original curve parameters and error-bounded node vector as well as control point adjusting were used to guarantee the fitting precision.Experiment results showed that optimized tool path based on the proposed NURBS curve fitting algorithm obtained good smoothness to fulfill the high performance requirements in free-form surface machining.


The upstream Yangtze River is located in the southwest of central China, where it flows through several ecosystems and densely populated regions that constitute a unique complex coupled system. To determine how the characteristics of supply and demand in a water-coupled system will vary under the influence of climate change and human activity in this area in the next 85 years, the upper Yangtze basin was considered as the study area and was divided into seven sub-basins according to seven main control sections: Shigu, Panzhihua, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba, Zhutuo, Cuntan, and Yichang; a method for water supply and demand research considering climate change was proposed. Based on simulated runoff in the study area under changing environmental conditions, this study analyzed the available water supply and constructed a long-term water demand forecasting model using the classified water use index method under macro regulation in the study area from 2016 to 2100. The results show that the total water demand in the upstream Yangtze River appears to first increase and then decrease in 2016–2100 and will reach its peak around 2028. The ecological pressure in the upstream Yangtze River increases gradually from upstream to downstream but will not reach the surface water utilization stress threshold (hereinafter referred to as stress threshold) for the next 85 years. The contradiction between monthly supply and demand is more prominent under ecological restrictions. Under the RCP4.5 scenario, water demand exceeds the stress threshold in each sub-basin across several months (mainly March, April, and May), and the water demand nearly reaches the damage threshold in May as the basin extends below the Zhutuo section.


Independent Scientist email@example.com In this manuscript I produce the most fundamental description of physics and reality I believe to be possible. Specifically, using programs and entropy as my tools, my strategy is to define reality as the ensemble of all realized experiments (the ensemble of what "I" has indubitably proven), the domain of science as the set of all realizable experiments (the set of what "I" could prove) and finally nature as the group of all possible transformations of the ensemble. Then, at its most fundamental level, physics is —quite simply— the probability measure that makes reality maximally informative (to "I"/ the observer) within the domain of science and under the constraint of nature. The procedure yields novel physics in the form of the mathematical origin of (an extended version of) the Born rule as the probability measure connecting the domain of science to reality, while the geometry of spacetime itself is automatically emergent in the structure of said extended Born rule; a process which, notably, is self-limited to precisely four space-time dimensions. Thus producing, automatically, uniquely and necessarily, the equations for the familiar four-dimensional geometric quantum mechanical universe as the inescapable result of applying a formalization of the practice of science to an indubitable description of reality.


We used imaging, laser altimeter and thermal infrared data to map a 0.5 by 0.5° area containing the landing site of the Zhurong rover of the Tianwen‐1 mission. We analyzed the regional topography and thermophysical characteristics, and identified and characterized cones, impact craters, polygonal troughs, ridges and aeolian bedforms. An absolute model age of 757 ± 66 Ma was obtained for the major unit dominating the study area, younger than previous geological mapping results. We propose several targets of high scientific interest for Zhurong and a stratigraphic model composed of five layers (from bottom to top: Noachian basement, Early Hesperian volcanic ridged plains, Vastitas Borealis Formation materials, rocky materials and loose materials). The geomorphic features identified, the proposed stratigraphy and the regional geological evolution scenario set the stage for the Zhurong rover to continue to carry out its exploration of Mars.


: Electric transition probabilities in the ""O spectrum, and the '"C(a, y,, ,)"'0 capture cross sections are calculated with antisymmetric wave functions by the generator coordinate method. The influence of bound states on radiative capture is shown to be automatically included in the model. The reduced a-widths of the '^O bound states are discussed, and compared with previous theoretical and expérimental estimâtes. The microscopic E2 capture cross sections to the 0* and 2* states yield an astro'physical S-factor of 0.09 MeV • b at 0.3 MeV. An attempt to treat the El multipolarity by relaxing the long-wavelength approximation leads to a large underestimation of the y-widths. Adopting the expérimental y-width and the theoretical reduced a-width of the 11^ State provides S^, = 0.30 MeV • b at 0.3 MeV.


In the opening paper, Professor J P Watson (Guy's Hospital Medical School, London) dealt with the genesis and diagnosis of psychogenic impotence. He began by suggesting the concept of a psychogenic inhibition of the normal physiological process of erection and stressed that in order to gain an understanding of the factors involved, it was necessary to explore the relationships of the couple by adequate discussion with both partners, so as to find out 'who is doing what, to whom, with what'. Abnormalities of mood, most commonly anxiety or depression, may inhibit erectile function. Anxiety may arise from a previously unsuccessful attempt at intercourse or from repeated episodes of premature ejaculation. The development of such anxiety can lead to a situation in which the man plays a 'spectator' role, evaluating and criticizing his own performance during the act of intercourse and often thus inhibiting his erection. The onset of erectile difficulty may also accompany a depressive illness; anger engendered by marital disharmony, or a sense of guilt, possibly stimulated by episodes of unfaithfulness to his partner. The knowledge that intercourse may produce pain, such as dyspareunia in the woman or even angina in the man, may also lead to impotence as indeed to a reluctance to even attempt the sexual act. Other psychological factors sometimes associated with impotence include attention lost during intercourse as a result of some mental preoccupation and attitudes to sex which may be such as to devalue an experience no longer found enjoyable. Sexual dysfunctions may also arise from overwork, exhaustion or organic illness, whilst on occasions, simple ignorance of the mechanisms and techniques of foreplay and intercourse prevent adequate mutual responsiveness. Certain environmental factors can affect the man's potency and these may be classified as animate or inanimate. Thus, when intercourse has to take place in crowded accommodation, where perhaps children are sleeping in the same room, or people may be likely to enter whilst intercourse is taking place, a man's ability to participate may be affected. Similarly, some aspect of the physical environment may prove equally inhibiting. Impotence may relate to a breakdown in the relationship of the partners, ranging from an


The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for realizing MIMO and HSDPA common carrier and a power control device, which can realize the MIMO and HSDPA common carrier and reduce the interference of MIMO and assisting pilot frequency to HSDPA, wherein the method mainly comprises the following steps: obtaining resource occupancy situation or/ and quality of received signals of a multi-input multi-output MIMO user or a high-speed downlink packet access HSDPA user ; and controlling transmission power of the assisting pilot frequency according to the situation of resources occupied by multi-output MIMO user or high-speed downlink packet access HSDPA user or quality of received signals.


The complexity of geometry-based methods for integrating vector data and DEM grids seriously limits their application on large area.To overcome this deficiency,a novel"drift"algorithm is put forward and designed based on the idea of grid cell decomposition and the partition model of the spherical Degenerate Quadtree Grid(DQG).An experiment was developed in which USGS GTOPO30 DEM data,ASTER GDEM data and the 1∶1 000 000 DCW roads data sets for the China and Chongqing area were used test the proposed drift algorithm.Tests show that the the"drift"algorithm is only 25% of the traditional one,and the mean error of the drift operation on vector nodes can be controlled within about half a DQG cell.Moreover,the phenomenon of vector polyline going across the multi-scale DEM grids would are avoided completely.


The self-assembly membranes (the SAMs) was prepared on aluminum alloy at three different temperatures. The electrochemical properties of Al alloy with SAMs and bare Al alloy were investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in a 3.5wt. % NaCl solution. The measured EIS data was simulated by an equivalent circuit. The results demonstrated that the Impedance value of 1 h preparation time was greater than the other time. To illustrate, with the preparation time was long, they have not better the performance of self-assembled monolayers.


This help's a visually challenged person to live like any other normal person on this planet without any personal guide. This device does not require any implant or surgery to enable vision, rather this is a piece of device that can be carried. Our nature has the answer for everything. This makes use the concept of echolocation used by bats.


—On the basis of scanning and transmission ultrastructural investigations of nine species of parasitoids in four superfamilies along with scanning data on seven other species in three additional superfamilies, several new sensory and secretory antennal structures are defined. These are: uniporous gustatory sensilla (UGS), multiporous gustatory sensilla (MGS), male ventral (MVG) and lateral (MLG) glands, male and female dorsal gland (MDG, FDG), and accessory glands (AG) associated with MGS. Using these structures, two functional areas, "touch and taste area" and "release and spread area", are proposed in an attempt to associate them with behavior and to clear some nomenclatural problems in different taxa. It is suggested that the role of these areas is chemical communication during sexual and host recognition. Limited observations indicate that non-parasitoid Aculeata also have some of these structures.


In our previous work, we have measured the neutron spallation cross sections of 12C and 209Bi in the 20-to 150-MeV energy range. Here in this succeeding study, the neutron activation cross sections on spallation reactions for 59Co and natCu have been measured in the quasi-monoenergetic p-7Li neutron fields in the 40-to 120-MeV energy range which have been established at two cyclotron facilities of Takasaki Research Establishment of Japan Atomic Energy Research institute (TIARA) and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN). The neutron spectrum has been measured with the TOF (Time of Flight) method using an organic liquid scintillator, and the absolute value of peak neutron fluence has been determined from the proton recoil counter telescope at TIARA and the activation method of lithium target at RIKEN. In this study, the following seventeen neutron activation cross section data are reported which produce 56Mn, 54Mn, 52Mn, 58Co, 57Co, 56Co, 55Co, 59Fe from 59Co reactions and 56Mn, 59Fe, 60Co...


The effect of i.p. administration of several hormones on PRPP concentration and on the rate of de novo purine synthesis in the liver was studied in mice. PRPP was assayed enzymatically in livers removed 15 min following the administration of the hormones. The rate of de novo purine synthesis in the liver in vivo was gauged by the incorporation of precursor (14C)formate into total liver purines. (14C)formate was administered intraveneously 15 min following the hormones and incorporation into liver purines allowd for 4 min.Glucagon (2mg/kg), L-epinephrine (1mg/kg), db cAMP (40mg/kg), angiotensin II (65ug/kg) oxytocin (25U/kg)and vasopressin (25U/kg), were found to increase PRPP concentration by 2 to 6 folds and to accelerate the rate of purine synthesis by 2 to 3 folds.All the above hormones are known to exert glycogenolytic effect in the liver, through either cAMP-dependent or calcium-dependent mechanisms. The increased synthesis of PRPP, which causes the acceleration of purine synthesis, could reflect a metabolic effect of the hormones, such as the glycogenolytic-induced increased formation of substrate Rib-5-P,or activation of PRPP synthetase by an as yet unidentified mechanism.


GaN films were deposited on Al films with corning 7101glass substrates by electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced metal organic chemical vapor deposition system(ECR-PEMOCVD).RHEED and XRD indicate that the GaN films deposited under higher TMGa flow rates have strong c-axis preferred orientation.SEM shows that the surface of the GaN films becomes smoother with the increase of TMGa flow rate.The origin of the three Raman peaks A1(TO)、E1(TO)and 281.1cm-1 appearing in the Raman spectroscopy is discussed.The down shift for the E1(high)mode may be due to the intrinsic stress and crystallite size effect,and the A1(LO)mode down shift may be also caused by crystallite size effect.


Skin diseases in children are often challenging. Fungal in-fections are more frequent than bacterial and increasingly frequent [1]. Ektoparasitoses are among the frequent der-matoses in children and show increasing incidence [1]. Pediculosis capitis is assumed to be the most frequent epi-zoonosis in children. The head louse (Pediculi capitis) are wingless bloodsucking insects. They cause strongly itching papules with subsequent scratch artefacts and eczematisa-tion. A possible complication is the bacterial superinfection [1]. The spectrum of pathogens in children ' s tinea capitis is broad, including zoophilic and anthropophilic dermatophytes. Recently, especially the zoophile pathogen Trichophyton benhamiae (formerly Trichophyton species of Arthroderma benhamiae ) is frequently observed in Germany [10]. Source of infection are Guinee pigs and other small rodents, such as hamster and rats [6]. An ektoparasitosis with coin-cident fungal infection of the scalp is a rarity in Europe and needs high awareness. We are reporting here on a 12-year-old boy with head louse affection and a tinea capitis profunda caused by the zoophilic dermatophytes Trichophyton benhamiae .


With the implementation of the sustainable development strategy, the control system of industrial production also needs to be kept up with the pace of environmental protection and energy conservation.This paper discusses the design and implementation of wireless network transformation of briquette control system in chemical production. The hardware and software implementation scheme is designed for industrial wireless network control functions. The brief solution and the corresponding network architecture are designed. The security, routing and control performance of the network are tested. The results show that the system has good fault tolerance and real-time performance.


In recent years the number of researches studying aggression in the context of emotional intelligence has increased, however, the problem of the relationship between the level of aggression and the level of development of specific emotional intelligence components is still poorly studied. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of foreign studies focused on aggression and its connection with emotional intelligence and its components. The article considers studies demonstrating the relationship between the General level of aggression, physical and verbal aggression, overt and relational aggression, anger and hostility and emotional intelligence. The article presents the results of studies showing the specific role of emotional intelligence and its components in reducing the level of aggressive behavior, and the ability of emotional intelligence to be a predictor of aggressive behavior. A better understanding of these psychological processes will help to develop and implement more effective programs for the prevention of aggressive behavior.


Abstract In the present study, the natural and simultaneous first language acquisition of a German–Italian bilingual boy and an Italian monolingual girl from 1;8 to 2;1 are analyzed and compared. The investigation focuses on the rate of acquisition and the size and composition of the productive lexicons. At the end of the observation period, the bilingual boy has acquired twice as many words as the monolingual child. The rate of acquisition of both children markedly increases (vocabulary spurt) after their lexicons have reached the size of 50 words. The data reveal a noun preference (noun bias) in the lexicons of the bilingual and the monolingual child. The comparison of the Italian lexicons of the bilingual child and of the monolingual child do not show striking differences regarding word categories. In both lexicons, common nouns, proper nouns, and onomatopoeic words are the most important word categories, whereas verbs play a marginal role.


The activation of vibrational-induced dissociation of CO2 in cold non-equilibrium plasma discharges is investigated by means of a 0D self-consistent kinetic model, which, with a state-to-state approach, is able to calculate the CO2 vibrational distribution function (vdf) of the asymmetric mode levels, the electron energy distribution function and the corresponding vibrational-induced and electron impact CO2 dissociation rates. The conditions for the onset of such activation are linked to the achievement of a sufficiently high CO2 vibrational excitation characterized by the presence of a non-equilibrium plateau in the CO2 vdf, resulting from the combined effect of electron–vibrational and vibrational–vibrational collisions, which, by overpopulating the higher vibrational levels, enhances dissociation. Such non-equilibrium conditions are maximized at lower gas temperature, lower pressure and higher power density values. In particular, for the power density, an activation threshold value can be obtained from simulations and its dependence on the gas temperature and pressure can be investigated. The dependence of the maximum vibrational temperature reached at the end of the discharge as a function of the gas temperature and pressure is also analyzed. A satisfactory agreement from our simulation results with the Kotov's criterion for vibrational activation has been found.


We reexamine the effects of price limits on stock volatility of Taiwan Stock Exchange using a new methodology based on the Extreme-Value technique. Consistent with the advocates of price limits, we find that stock market volatility is sharply moderated under more restrictive price limits.


Residues of chlorpyrifos-methyl [ O, O -dimethyl O -(3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridyl) phosphorothioate], its O -analogue and pyridinol hydrolysis product were determined in Coastal bermudagrass, Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., and corn. The insecticide was applied in the field as aqueous sprays of an emulsifiable concentrate at rates of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 lb AI/acre. Residues of the parent compound and its O -analogue were analyzed by gas chromatography by using a flame photometric detector sensitive to phosphorus; the pyridinol was analyzed as the trimethylsilyl derivative by using electron-capture gas chromatography. Total residues in corn and grass treated at all levels declined to less than 1 ppm (mostly pyridinol) during 21 and 28 days of weathering in the field. Residues of the parent compound diminished rapidly; no trace (<0.01 ppm) of the O -analogue was detected.


Evacuation is one of the most urgent measures of disaster response. It requires spatiotemporal decision making by many individual agents under circumstances that include an unknown impact of the disaster on the environment, which impedes the evacuation planning, and potentially destroyed, blocked or lacking communication infrastructure, which impedes central management. This paper suggests and investigates a novel paradigm for evacuation planning: decentralized planning based on sharing local knowledge. The paradigm is not only independent from infrastructure, and adapts to dynamic disasters, but also is as successful as centralized management in many scenarios.


SAS 9.2 supports three Web application servers: Red Hat JBoss, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. Every application server deployment and configuration can vary, but the life cycle of the SAS 9.2 middle tier application in the Web application server environment is the same. The intent of this paper is to provide various best practices for the SAS 9.2 middle tier in the context of its life cycle in a Web application server environment. The paper provides information about deployment, configuration, tuning, administering, monitoring, troubleshooting, and migrating from one environment to another all in the context of the SAS 9.2 middle tier application. It will also discuss the various best practices to improve the operating efficiencies of the SAS 9.2 middle tier application in the Web application server environments.


In order to make secure transactions over networks, various protocols have been proposed, but there are subtleties involved in original protocol design, some of them have been found after a long time after publication. In this paper, we used model checking method by means of SMV to verify SET protocol in Electronic Commerce. Model checking combines some of the advantages of both testing and theorem proving. Other advantages include that model checking can start once the first prototype of the model and specification have been finished. The symbolic model checking ware (SMV) was applied for analyzing the authentication, confidentiality and integrity of SET protocol, attacks were found. Then, the influence of attacks was discussed. Finally, the protocol model was optimized. The result of analyzation and checking indicates the importance of dual signature on SET protocol.


This article has a purpose to consider 'The grey man' with a 'close-reading'. And It focuses on the thesis of the 'revolution' in 1960th South Korea that was repeatedly represented in this fiction. I want to invented a new method to examine this fiction. Two characters in this fiction, Kim Hak and Dokko Jun have contrast perspective each other on the revolution. For Kim, revolution is optimistic but for Dokko, it is pessimistic. Especially Dokko keeps to a assertion that the revolution will be impossible in South Korea. But Kim and Dokko have same position on the revolution as a result. This is a kind of 4?19 representation of the author and presents a thought of a possiblity or a limit of the revolution in this time. Now to conclude, the interest and passion on 'writing' of Dokko means the following. That is to say, it is the main subject of the author that the writing should be alternate the revolution in actual world.


The same class of nonlinear equation of evolution discused.The solution can be approximated by the Ishikawa iteration with error,and the result improves and extends a lot present results.


Context. The progenitors of Type Ia supernovae are usually assumed to be either a single white dwarf accreting from a non-degenerate companion (the single-degenerate channel) or the result of two merging white dwarfs (the double degenerate channel). However, no consensus currently exists as to which progenitor scenario is the correct one, or whether the observed Type Ia supernovae rate is produced by a combination of both channels. Unlike a double degenerate progenitor, a single-degenerate progenitor is expected to emit supersoft X-rays for a prolonged period of time (~1 Myr) as a result of the burning of accreted matter on the surface of the white dwarf. An argument against the single-degenerate channel as a significant producer of Type Ia supernovae has been the lack of observed supersoft X-ray sources and the lower-than-expected integrated soft X-ray flux from elliptical galaxies. Aims. We wish to determine whether it is possible to obscure the supersoft X-ray emission from a nuclear-burning white dwarf in an accreting single-degenerate binary system. In the case of obscured systems we wish to determine their general observational characteristics. Methods. We examine the emergent X-ray emission from a canonical supersoft X-ray system surrounded by a spherically symmetric configuration of material, assuming a black-body spectrum with Tbb = 50 eV and L = 1038 erg s-1. The circumbinary material is assumed to be of solar chemical abundances, and we leave the mechanism behind the mass-loss into the circumbinary region unspecified. Results. We find that relatively low circumstellar mass-loss rates, Ṁ = 10-9−10-8 M⊙ yr-1, at binary separations of ~1 AU or less, will cause significant attenuation of the X-rays from the supersoft X-ray source. These circumstellar mass-loss rates are sufficient to make a canonical supersoft X-ray source in typical external galaxies unobservable in Chandra. Conclusions. If steadily accreting, nuclear-burning white dwarfs are canonical supersoft X-ray sources our analysis suggests that they can be obscured by relatively modest circumbinary mass-loss rates. This may explain the discrepancy of supersoft sources relative to the Type Ia supernova rate inferred from observations if the single-degenerate progenitor scenario contributes significantly to the Type Ia supernova rate. Recycled emissions from obscured systems may be visible in wavebands other than X-rays. It may also explain the lack of observed supersoft sources in symbiotic binary systems.


In his lecture "The Rise of Asia's Universities", delivered at the Royal Society in London in 2010, Richard C. Levin, then President of Yale University, criticized higher education in Asian nations for being narrowly specialized and unimaginative, and for emphasizing rote learning. According to him, higher education in these nations should emulate the 'world class universities' as defined by a small group of elite British and American universities, and should borrow from the philosophy of liberal education as articulated by Cardinal Newman and practiced by American universities. His perspective does not take into account the rich insights of the Confucian view of adult learning as a process of intellectual and moral transformation that involves the personalization of what has been learnt and the building of a broad world view. The Confucian model and the model of liberal education are different views of learning set in different cultural contexts, and each has important elements from which the other can benefit. Higher education in China should also learn from its own cultural heritage instead of just unquestioningly emulating a model borrowed from the west. 1 I. Richard C. Levin on Higher Education in Asia In 2010, at the Royal Society in London, Richard C. Levin, then President of Yale University, delivered an address titled "The Rise of Asia's Universities". He severely criticized higher education in Asian nations, and urged that such nations should learn from the strongest British and American universities that, according to him, define the concept of 'world class universities'. They should learn from the American model of undergraduate education, which exemplifies the philosophy of liberal education as articulated by Cardinal Newman; only then can they sustain economic growth and develop the scientific research and innovation that drive such growth. This paper is a response to Levin's address from a Confucian perspective. After laying out the details of his observations in this section, I will present the Confucian view of adult learning in section 2. In section 3, I return to Levin's observations, Dr. SHUN KWONG-LOI, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley. Email: email@example.com. An earlier and much briefer version of this paper was presented at a symposium hosted by New Asia College on December 2, 2013, in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of its partnership with the Yale-China Association. A summary of that presentation was published in New Asia Life Monthly 41:4 (December, 2013): 24-27. Subsequently, an expanded version was presented to students at the University of Texas at St. Antonio, as part of my visit to the University as Brackenridge Residential Scholar on March 26-29, 2015. Another further expanded version was presented in a class on Confucius that I taught at the University of California, Berkeley, in fall 2015. I have also benefitted from comments by Doil Kim, Winnie H.C. Sung, and Zheng Zemian on an earlier draft of the paper.


Extremely strong efforts are currently being made to develop DSM-V and ICD-11, a work which shall be finalised in the coming years. Many colleagues from all over the world, currently commenting on this topic, wonder whether this is really needed. Before giving a preliminary answer it seems to make sense to look back at the principles of psychiatric classification (Möller 2001, 2005). Especially since the Kraepelin dichotomy of dementia praecox and affective psychosis (Möller 2008a), we have considered a categorical approach as an adequate way for classifying psychosis. The introduction of operationalised criteria in the DSM-IV, and the ICD-10 research criteria, leads to an increased interrater in reliability. Based on such a categorical approach, however, it was questioned whether a typological approach fits the characteristics of psychotic disorders much better. From there it is a small step to a purely symptom-oriented dimensional approach, which describes psychiatric disorders in a syndromal way, without including aetiopathogenetic hypotheses. A switch to such a dimensional approach, which was discussed as one future direction of psychiatric classification in the context of the current discussion of DSM-V (among others in the DSM-V task force ''deconstructing psychosis''), would be the most radical development and could avoid a lot of theoretical pre-assumptions about causal hypotheses, which are still associated with ICD-10 and DSM-IV (although this classification system pretends to be nearly theoretical and calls for a primary syndromal approach). This would indeed increase the validity of psychiatric classification, but it would also reduce the information from traditional diagnostic categories with all the current implications concerning aetiopathogenesis, therapy and prognosis. Among other consequences, it would have the following:


A pediatric office‐based intervention was implemented following a randomized, controlled design, aimed at improving child feeding practices, growth and ultimately reducing risk for overweight and obesity later in life. Educational materials on feeding and physical activity called Growing Leaps and Bounds was delivered by the health care provider during each well‐baby clinic visit. A total of 232 infants at 4 clinics (2 urban, 2 suburban), followed for 24 months completed the study. The intervention (I) group offered significantly less soda (p=0.006), sweetened tea (p=0.01), punch (p=0.02) or cow's milk (p=0.001) to infants compared to the control (C) group. I group delayed introduction of drink/food other than breast milk (p<0.05). Furthermore, parents in I group had higher perceived parental monitoring (p=0.05) and restriction (p=0.01) on infant feeding. While I group exhibited at baseline more adverse socioeconomic indicators than the C group, growth trajectory or body size indices did not significantly differ between the groups at the end of the follow‐up period. Education provided by health care providers may help modify parental behaviors related to child feeding and increase parental sense of responsibility toward child eating behaviors.


This paper is based on findings from a study conducted to examine learning environments in daycare centres, whether they are a haven for learning of misbehaviour. This study is based on interviews of caregivers and observations of activities during teaching and learning situations. The sample consisted of two hundred and seventy pupils and six caregivers. Respondents were purposively selected from public and privately owned preschools in the urban area of Masvingo district in Zimbabwe. Learning environments have the capacity to enhance children's learning or impede it through misbehavior. The findings point to the fact that some caregivers are not aware that learning environments can be a haven of learning or misbehaviour. The caregivers from the private preschools who are paraprofessionals lack the skills and knowledge to deal with the three to five year olds at their centres. The rooms in some instances were too small for the number of children to move freely. Children hence fidgeted, made noise, hit each other over play items and refused to share items for play. The caregivers from the public preschools, that is those attached to existing primary schools, were manned by qualified personnel who had the knowledge and skills to handle children at preschool level. However, though the environments were conducive for learning, children were not allowed to make free choices in their learning. Children were exposed to formal learning as a result the activities were too academic. The researcher recommended that there is need for staff development workshops in this area with the personnel at the local teachers' colleges and universities. Caregiving is a dynamic skill and caregivers can only keep pace with the pedagogical demands and expectations through workshops at their particular preschool or in conjunction with other centres. The quality assurance section of the Ministry of Education should have time to check on the structure of the learning environment at the various daycare centres whether private or public so as to monitor the quality of care and learning given to preschool children. Misbehaviours abound if environments are not structured for optimum learning.


PURPOSE: An automatic vending apparatus for providing an advertisement and a method thereof are provided to automatically sell products in unmanned manner. CONSTITUTION: If money payment is completed through a GUI(Graphic User Interface) for product sales, a product sales unit(110) provides an ordered product. A communication interface receives advertisement contents and an advertisement schedule through a connected network. A storage unit(170) stores the advertising contents and the advertising schedule, and a control unit(160) reproduces the advertising contents stored at the storage unit on a touch screen according to an advertising schedule stored at the storage unit.


Crohn's disease is a chronic granulomatous illness associated with a number of extra-intestinal manifestations that may be involved with many organ systems. Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) has been considered as relatively rare extra-intestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease. In this case, we described the whole diagnostic and therapeutic process in a Crohn's patient with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, reviewed articles describing such cases reported in PubMed and summarized its clinical characteristics. The main common symptoms in all 13 reported cases are dyspnea, cough, fever and chest pain. One patient just showed imaging changes without symptoms. No similar case was reported in children. The common imaging manifestations are diffuse groundglass opacities, multiple nodular consolidation or bilateral infiltrates. Majority of the patients were diagnosed as pulmonary infection and prescribed empirical antibiotics initially and ineffectively. 7 in 13 patients was received treatment with glucocorticoids, 3 with infliximab. 3 patients showed spontaneous remission. All the 13 patients had a wonderful improvement of pulmonary disease. One in 13 patients developed severe organizing pneumonia because of initiation of azathioprine. In conclusion, COP is a pulmonary interstitial disease which demands us to exclude all possible or potential factors to develop organizing pneumonia (OP) such as drugs, infection, connective tissue disease especially mesalazine, azathioprine. Clinical characteristics of cryptogenic organizing disease are extremely similar to infectious pneumonia. Sometimes, its manifestation may be respiratory failure. We deemed that combination of careful history review, evaluation of disease and lung biopsy is imperative to obtain a definite diagnosis. Moreover, physicians should be alert to asymptomatic pulmonary disease especially when Crohn's disease remains active continually despite treatment of various medications. Corticosteroid is the standard treatment. However, treatment with infliximab infusion rituximab or macrolides may be appropriate choices when corticosteroid therapy is non-effective.


In this paper we analyze the effect of school entry and exit in the Chilean market- oriented educational system. During the period 1994-2012, nearly 2,150 schools closed (more than 2,800 if pre-K and kindergarten centers are included), around one-fifth of the current stock of schools. At the same time 3,770 new schools entered the school system, mostly private-voucher schools. Given this significant school turnover we estimate the potential "productivity gains" associated to market's creative destruction dynamics by studying its impact on students' standardized achievement tests. We find that, at the municipality level, school turnover predicts changes in school performance -after control- ling for students' socioeconomic status- only for low population municipalities, while it has no effect for high population municipalities. Moreover, we find a negative impact on school performance if turnover is associated with a significant school replacement. Finally, we estimate the potential educational costs of this dynamics, trying to identify the causal effect of school closure on grade repetition and high-school dropout rates. Using a large panel of individual student data that contains academic achievement and socio-demographic characteristics, we identify a causal effect of school closures on grade retention and school dropouts. School exit is associated with a 60 per cent increase in the probability of grade repetition in 5th grade and a 79 per cent increase in the probability of school dropout in tenth grade.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether revenue-expense matching is inversely associated with cost of capital and information asymmetry, respectively, in the equity markets.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses a firm-specific measure of revenue-expense matching consistent with Dichev and Tang (2008). To obtain a proxy for cost of equity, this paper uses the average ex ante implied cost of capital estimate calculated from analysts' forecast data, which are based on the Feltham–Ohlson residual income valuation framework. In additional tests, this paper uses the probability of informed trades (PIN) as a proxy for information asymmetry among equity investors. This paper employs both OLS and fractional logit regression models to test main predictions.

Findings
This paper documents that firms with high revenue-expense matching enjoy a lower cost of capital, supporting the direct impact of high matching on cost of capital by increasing the precision of public information signals. Further, matching of contemporaneous revenues and expenses is inversely associated with information asymmetry, suggesting that the indirect impact of high matching on cost of capital through its impact on information asymmetry is also plausible.

Originality/value
Although an extensive body of literature has established a link between various disclosure/earnings properties and cost of capital, this research is the first to establish a link between matching and cost of capital. This paper fills the void in the literature by showing that revenue-expense matching – a fundamental property of accounting earnings – affects equity investors' required rate of returns.


BACKGROUND
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) stromal viscoelasticity can be measured using MR elastography (MRE). Bowel preparation regimens could affect MRE quality and knowledge on repeatability is crucial for clinical implementation.

PURPOSE
To assess effects of four bowel preparation regimens on MRE quality and to evaluate repeatability and differentiate patients from healthy controls.

STUDY TYPE
Prospective.

POPULATION
15 controls (41 ± 16 years; 47% female), 16 PDAC patients (one excluded, 66 ± 12 years; 40% female) with 15 age-/sex-matched controls (65 ± 11 years; 40% female). Final sample size was 25 controls and 15 PDAC.

FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE
3-T, spin-echo echo-planar-imaging, turbo spin-echo, and fast field echo gradient-echo.

ASSESSMENT
Four different regimens were used: fasting; scopolaminebutyl; drinking 0.5 L water; combination of 0.5 L water and scopolaminebutyl. MRE signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was compared between all regimens. MRE repeatability (test-retest) and differences in shear wave speed (SWS) and phase angle (ϕ) were assessed in PDAC and controls. Regions-of-interest were defined for tumor, nontumorous (n = 8) tissue in PDAC, and whole pancreas in controls. Two radiologists delineated tumors twice for evaluation of intraobserver and interobserver variability.

STATISTICAL TESTS
Repeated measures analysis of variance, coefficients of variation (CoVs), Bland-Altman analysis, (un)paired t-test, Mann-Whitney U-test, and Wilcoxon signed-rank test. P-value<0.05 was considered statistically significant.

RESULTS
Preparation regimens did not significantly influence MRE-SNR. Therefore, the least burdensome preparation (fasting only) was continued. CoVs for tumor SWS were: intrasession (12.8%) and intersession (21.7%), and intraobserver (7.9%) and interobserver (10.3%) comparisons. For controls, CoVs were intrasession (4.6%) and intersession (6.4%). Average SWS for tumor, nontumor, and healthy tissue were: 1.74 ± 0.58, 1.38 ± 0.27, and 1.18 ± 0.16 m/sec (ϕ: 1.02 ± 0.17, 0.91 ± 0.07, and 0.85 ± 0.08 rad), respectively. Significant differences were found between all groups, except for ϕ between healthy-nontumor (P = 0.094).

DATA CONCLUSION
The proposed bowel preparation regimens may not influence MRE quality. MRE may be able to differentiate between healthy tissue-tumor and tumor-nontumor.

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
2 TECHNICAL EFFICACY STAGE: 2.


The supposed communication of one mind with another at a distance, without any means known to physical or psychological science, is a generally accepted definition of telepathy. Thus when persons sensorially isolated from each other experience congruence and coincidence of thoughts, emotions or actions they are considered as being in telepathic communication. Clairvoyance surmises the apprehension of particular objects and stimuli also without the employment of any of the agencies of the five senses. Although telepathy and clairvoyance have been thus recognized as distinct conjectures, either or both comprise features of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). Both are conceived of as transcending the anatomical structures and physiological functionings that comprise the five senses. They therefore constitute a mysterious, additional sense which as yet cannot be ascribed to material bases or causes. However, the operations, if not the exact natures, of these recondite abilities have been, it is claimed, experimentally and precisely ascertained.' Despite much skepticism and unfavorable opinion, telepathy and clairvoyance, with attendant suppositions, have persisted and, at times and under stress of circumstances, flourished. Too many people of integrity and honesty have affirmed instances in their lives of various kinds of concurrence and near or actual coincidence in thoughts and actions and perception of hidden objects or stimuli, when they were outside the possibility of sensory intercommunication, to allow for the ignoration of the proposition. It is also unlikely that traditional allegations so extensively credited and venerable as telepathy and clairvoyance should be entirely without features of consequential signification. On account of these, and other reasons to be considered later, it is granted that fairly cogent bases exist for the appearance of communication between minds at distances and the apprehension of concealed objects and stimuli, under circumstances that preclude the employment of the usual sensory agencies. However, it is contended that such phenomena have been incorrectly analyzed and grossly misinterpreted. While appellations and implications of these reconditenesses have been generally employed as the specious, ostentatious and arrogant accouterments of hocus pocus, they may incidentally still constitute an admissible masquerade which assuredly dissembles some interesting and perhaps important realities.


We present the results of a search for bright high-redshift galaxies in two large Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) scan-maps of Galactic regions. A Mexican hat wavelet technique was used to locate point sources in these maps, which suffer high foreground contamination as well as typical scan-map noise signatures. A catalogue of point-source objects was selected and observed again in the submillimetre continuum, and in HCO + (3 → 2) at zero redshift to rule out Galactic sources. No extragalactic sources were found. Simulations show that the survey was sensitive to sources with fluxes > 50 mJy, depending on the local background. These simulations result in upper limits on the 850-μm counts of SCUBA galaxies of 53 per deg 2 at 50 mJy and 2.9 per deg 2 at 100 mJy.


We examine the competition of the observed stripe spin density wave (SDW) with other commensurate and incommensurate SDW phases in a two-band model of the pnictides. Starting from this microscopic model, we rigorously derive an expansion of the free energy in terms of the different order parameters at the mean-field level. We show that three distinct commensurate SDW states are possible and study their appearance as a function of the doping and the electronic structure. We show that the stripe phase is generally present, but its extent in the phase diagram depends strongly upon the number of hole Fermi pockets that are nested with the electron Fermi pockets. Electron pockets competing for the same portion of a hole pocket play a crucial role. We discuss the relevance of our results for the antiferromagnetism of the pnictides.


The article investigates the effectiveness of prophylactic measures in persons with risk factors of coronary arterial disease (RF CAD). For this reason unorganized population (aged 30-59) was examined and CAD was diagnosed by standard means of epidemiologic methods. The persons with RF were revealed. Functional state of hemostasis system, as well as definition of total blood cholesterol level was performed by two brevity screening systems of investigation (initial and second-screening systems). Seven years of prospective research proved the effectiveness of proposed prophylactic methods in men and women with CAD RF. Complex prophylactic treatment considerably reduced the possibility of development CAD and stroke, mortality.


Results: The VE against RVGE caused by homotypic G1P[8] RV strains in children receiving a RotarixTM full series vaccination compared to unvaccinated children was found to be 95% [95%CI 77-99%]. Against RVGE caused by heterotypic G2P[4] RV strains, the VE was found to be 85% [95%CI 64-94%]. G4P[8]-specific VE was 90% [95%CI 19-99%]; and G3P[8]-specific VE was 87% [95%CI -5-98%]. Comparison between the genotype distribution among vaccinated and unvaccinated children revealed that less G1P[8] RV strains were isolated in vaccinated children than in unvaccinated children (11/70 vs. 29/89), whereas more G2P[4] RV strains were isolated from vaccinated children (46/70 vs. 34/89).


In this work, we try to collect useful emotional stress information from electrocardiogram (ECG) signals via a real-time wearable Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied on collected ECG signals for feature extraction, which carries important information for stress level identification. After the stress level is classified using K-Nearest Neighboring (KNN), adaptive convolutional coding is considered for ECG signal protection during transmission according to their various stress levels, which is able to provide an acceptable low Bit Error Rate (BER) and efficient energy consumption at the same time.


Large scale software-centric information system projects on public sector are often based on public tenders, in which the established request for quotation (RFQ) process is utilized in various forms. The way the information systems in these cases are procured is typically a long and energy consuming process. In this process, after the initial realization that there is a need for which the system is required for, the procuring organization, i.e., the future customer or an organization acting in behalf of the customer, first tries its best to determine, detail and document the need and then, based on received proposals, tries to evaluate the best candidate to fulfill the need with an proposed solution. In the past, these RFQ-based procuring processes aimed at and mostly also resulted in waterfall-type development processes, where again a considerable time was spent in specifying, implementing, testing and tuning the constructed information system before it finally was ready and accepted to be deployed for the operative use. The approach utilizing well-documented needs, the tendering phase, and waterfallish development process after the awarding phase has numerous shortcomings. One of the most important problems is the strong dependency on the upfront designs and the implicit assumption that the need and the solutions to that need can be communicated effectively with tendering documents


This guide provides assistance to schools and those working with schools in establishing and supporting tobacco free policies. The first edition of "Full Spectrum" was released in 1998. The purpose of this second edition is to provide updated information, including the new Arizona law prohibiting use and possession of tobacco products on all school campuses, and to provide revised policy information reflecting the new law. Includes how to set up policies, examples of policies, new legal code on smoking on campuses, and programs for helping schools and students be tobacco-free.


SummaryThe liliaceous perennial plants, Tricyrtis spp., are cultivated as ornamental plants in Japan. Natural populations of several Japanese Tricyrtis spp. are severely threatened by indiscriminate collection and habitat destruction. In this study, a plant regeneration system based on somatic embryogenesis has been developed for efficient clonal propagation of T. hirta, T. hirta var. albescens, T. formosana, T. formosana cv. Fujimusume, T. flava ssp. ohsumiensis, and T. macrantha ssp. macranthopsis. Flower tepal explants of these genotypes were cultured on media containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) or 4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid (picloram, PIC) alone or in combination with N-(1,2,3-thiadiazol-5-yl)-N′-phenylurea (thidiazuron, TDZ). Calluses induced on media containing 2,4-D produced somatic embryos following their transfer to a plant growth regulator-free medium, indicating that these calluses were embryogenic. A combination of 4.5μM2,4-D and 0.45 μM TDZ was most effective for inducing embryogenic calluses from tepal explants. Among various explant sources, filaments were most suitable for inducing embryogenic calluses on a medium containing 4.5μM 2,4-D and 0.45 μM TDZ. Embryogenic calluses were only obtained from filament explants for T. macrantha ssp. macranthopsis. Embryogenic calluses could be maintained by subculturing monthly onto the same medium, and a 1.5–3.5-fold increase in fresh weight was obtained after 1 mo. of subculture. Depending on the plant genotype, 50–500 somatic embryos per 0.5g fresh weight of embryogenic callus was obtained 1 mo. after transfer to a plant growth regulator-free medium. Most of the embryos developed into plantlets, and they were successfully acclimatized to greenhouse conditions. Regenerated plants showed no alteration in the ploidy level as indicated by chromosome observation and flow cytometric analysis.


The utility model relates to a power cable, in particular to a power cable convenient for the internal temperature measurement. The power cable comprises an electric conductive wire core, and a semiconductive tape layer, a conductor shielding layer, an insulating layer, an insulating shielding layer, a buffering water-resisting layer, a welding corrugated aluminum sheath layer, an outer sheath layer and an electric conducting layer which are winded outside the electric conductive wire in sequence from inside to outside, and a temperature measuring optical cable arranged in the buffering water-resisting layer. During the running process of the cable of the utility model, the surface temperature in the cable length direction can be measured, the accuracy is high, and safe running of the circuit can be ensured effectively. In addition, the temperature measuring optical cable is positioned inside the power cable, the product is simpler and more practical, the laying cost is reduced, the reliability is high, and the power cable can be widely used for the power supply of high voltage and ultrahigh voltage cable lines.


This article is part of the analysis of business
cycles and the convergence of integrated economies. In contrast to work on the
convergence of business cycles in a monetary union, we study the
synchronization of business cycles within
the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), characterized by
heterogeneity monetary. Thus, we first extract cycles from GDP
using the Baxter and King (1999) filter; then
we date the cycles using the Bry and Boschan (BB, 1971) algorithm, and finally
we measure cyclical co-movements using the Harding and
Pagan (2006) concordance index. Furthermore, sigma-convergence is used to
measure the degree of closeness over time of the identified economies, on the
one hand, and beta-convergence to measure their adjustment process over time
with respect to a reference value, on the other hand. The results obtained
attest to the asynchronous nature of business cycles in the ECCAS zone over the
period from 1990 to 2018. Thus, a weak trend towards convergence, both nominal
(inflation, basic budget balance, public debt ratio) and real (GDP/capita and
GNI/capita) has been observed since 2001.


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Abstract The leaf oils of the two species of Brombya were examined by GC and GC/MS. They were found to be dominated by sesquiterpene hydrocarbons. Brombya platynema gave an oil which was either dominated by germacrene D (11–78%), β-bisabolene (0.8–22%), bicyclogermacrene (14–22%) and kessane (1–17%) or by β-bisabolene (19–53%), γ curcumene (26.7%), bicyclogermacrene (7.7%) and ar-curcumene (10.6%). The rare Brombya sp. (Gap Creek L.S. Smith 11116) produced a leaf oil dominated by β-bisabolene (22.9%), ar-curcumene (14.6%) and α-santalene (9.2%).


With Trump as a president of the US from January 2017 and his decisive actions, which have undermined many agreements reached by previous American administrations (like withdrawal from the TTP, the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, the UNESCO, etc.), the international system and regional subsystems are under serious reconfiguration and readjustments. This accentuates the necessity to systemize Trump's actions and initiatives in the realm of foreign policy and foreign trade, to interpret these actions' logic, and to evaluate the changes that Trump's policies have brought about. It is of high importance to analyze Trump's strategy in the Indo-Pacific which is the priority region in his foreign policy agenda and the region where two major threats to the US and its allies are coming from - the rise of China as a country that pursues unfair trade and economic policies and reveals assertiveness in securing its core interests, and the threat from the North Korea. The aim of the article is to analyze China's place in Trump's Indo-Pacific strategy. By studying American conceptual documents, Trump's and other American high-level officials' speeches, the article characterizes Trump's free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, reveals its commonalities and peculiarities vis-a-vis Obama's rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific strategy. The article also addresses the issue of Trump's policies in the region on the economic front, because this is where Trump administration has introduces dramatic changes. Trump's Indo-Pacific strategy is examined in the article in the context of its impact on the US-China relations. The relations between the two countries - without exaggeration, one of the most consequential for the world - may seriously deteriorate due to not only the evolving US-China trade war, but also contradictions between them over various issues in the IndoPacific region. The article analyzes the aggravation of tensions between the US and China in 2017-2018 over South and East China Seas, Taiwan issue, and North Korea issue.


Background: Honey has been shown to accelerate wound healing, which is especially important in the management of patients with full-thickness wounds of skin in dermatologic surgeries. Objective: To evaluate the effects of honey in accelerating healing of full-thickness skin wounds in mice. Methods: Two groups of male NMRI mice (n=12) were subjected to full-thickness skin wounds under general anesthesia. They were then randomly allocated to receive either single daily applications of placebo or honey (n=6 for each group). On each of the 4 th , 7 th and 10 th days after operation, 2 mice from each group were sacrificed using an overdose of anesthetic. Macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of wounds were studied pathologically, histologically, and for resilience, ultimate tensile strength and toughness. Results: Honey increased the formation of granulation tissue, density and activation of fibroblasts, keratinization in surface of wound, thickness of basement membrane and epidermis, and thickness of collagen fiber. It also decreased infection, inflammation, edema and dehiscence, and increased resilience, ultimate tensile strength and toughness of wound. Conclusion: Honey accelerates healing of full-thickness skin wounds in mice.


The Covid-19 pandemic encourages the vigilance of various elements of society to take precautions, including in rural areas. This community service activity aims to provide assistance in designing outdoor media for the Covid-19 prevention campaign in Desa Sungaibuluh, Singingi Hilir, Kuantan Singingi. This activity involves the subject of activity from determining the design concept, types of media, to production. The design process also pays attention to design principles, namely the selection of shapes, illustrations, colors, typography, and messages. This activity produced two types of media that were considered effective for the Covid-19 prevention campaign in rural areas, namely billboards and banners. Both of these media are installed in public places and crowds.


A practical component to an upper year electrical and computer engineering course in information engineering or multimedia systems is presented. Developed to introduce students to image indexing and retrieval, the experiment uses a Microsoft Windows binary of the freely available MPEG-7 Experimentation Model from ISO for image description. The experiment is broken into three interdependent stages spanning a three week period. Each stage demonstrates various concepts associated with image indexing and retrieval. Students require C/C++ programming skills to parse binary encoded MPEG-7 descriptions, output ASCII description data, and perform retrievals on indexed information. The laboratory is distributed in nature, and each participating student is made to work on a small, mutually exclusive image set. The experiment drives home the urgency of the media indexing problem in light of the rapidly growing market need for multimedia management applications resulting from the huge influx of multimedia data. Through feedback, student views indicate that despite being long and time consuming, the experiment provides an interesting, original and stimulating experience.


FIELD: mechanical engineering; pipe connectors. SUBSTANCE: proposed demountable connector and connecting assembly are designed for connecting at least two pipe members. Connected has housing with pipe inlet sections, each designed for fitting one of pipe members. Connector is furnished with joining device and two fasteners. First fastener comes into meshing with pipe member, being made for deformation between pipe member engagement position and position providing free movement of said fastener along pipe member. Second fastener is designed for holding first fastener in pipe member engagement position. Second fastener is made in form of ring or holder. First fastener is made in form of split ring or holder. Connecting assembly contains great number of connectors. Each connector is provided with pipe sockets with parallel longitudinal axes. Pipe sockets are arranged with sidewise displacement relative to each other. EFFECT: provision of easy assembling of connector and facilitated assembling of pipe members. 13 cl, 17 dwg _


This present paper will approach the design and analysis of two six-phase electrical machines, a synchronous permanent magnet and a squirrel cage induction motors, for electrical power steering systems. Finite element method will be used in order to analyze, in a comparative manner, the performances of the two electrical machines.


Michelle B. Landes and Larry S. SchlesingerBin Ni, Murugesan V. S. Rajaram, William P. Lafuse,ol.1400124http://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/2014/09/24/jimmunJ Immunol€ published online 24 September 2014MaterialSupplementary4.DCSupplemental.htmlhttp://www.jimmunol.org/content/suppl/2014/09/24/jimmunol.140012Subscriptionshttp://jimmunol.org/subscriptionsInformation about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: Permissionshttp://www.aai.org/ji/copyright.htmlSubmit copyright permission requests at: Email Alertshttp://jimmunol.org/cgi/alerts/etocReceive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at:


Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common reason for which antimicrobials are prescribed in pregnancy Worldwide. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria, Candida colonization and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns among pregnant women attending antenatal in a District Hospital in Eastern Uganda.
Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in which pregnant mothers who had come for routine antenatal care were counseled and their consents obtained before taking off urine samples for laboratory diagnosis. For those samples found to have pus cells, culture and sensitivity test was done to identify the organisms and determine susceptibility to particular antibiotics and antifungal agents.
Results: Gram negative isolates were more sensitive to meropenem (100%), and ciprofloxacin (93.8%) but less sensitive to trimethoprim/sulphurmethoxazole (20%), Ceftazidime (7%), and Cefepime (6%). Gram positive isolates were more sensitive to vancomycin (100%), meropenem (87%) and linezolid (88.1%) but less sensitive to Cefotaxime (31%) and Trimethoprim / sulphurmethoxazole (14%). All bacteria isolated in this study were multi-drug resistant (MDR). All Candida isolates were susceptible to Econazole and Nystatin whereas all isolates were resistant to Griseofulvin.
Conclusion: The prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women in Butaleja district is high with many of the bacteria isolated exhibiting resistance to the commonly used antibiotics. Antifungal resistance was common in this study.


Fractional Fornberg-Whitham equation has a vast application in physics. There exist various investigations for the above problem by considering the variables and parameters as crisp/exact. In practice, we may not have these parameters exactly but those may be known in some uncertain form. In the present paper, these uncertainties are taken as interval/fuzzy and the authors proposed here a new method viz. that of the double parametric form of fuzzy numbers to handle the uncertain fractional Fornberg-Whitham equation. Using the single parametric form of fuzzy numbers, original fuzzy fractional Fornberg-Whitham equation is converted first to an interval based fuzzy differential equation. Next this equation is transformed to crisp form by applying the proposed double parametric form of fuzzy numbers. Finally it has been solved using homotopy perturbation method (HPM). Present method performs very well in terms of computational efficiency. The reliability of the method is shown by obtaining an approximate numerical solution for different cases. Results are given in term of plots and are also compared in special cases.


Improvements have been made in the differential pulse transformer bridge which increase its inherent precision by approximately an order of magnitude and extend its range to measurements with electrolytes of twenty times the concentration previously feasible. A circuit is described which permits study of the errors introduced by polarization and self‐heating when electrolytic conductivity measurements are carried out with rectangular voltage pulses. Also described is an equipment for four‐terminal resistance measurements with single‐voltage pulses, which allows high‐field conductance measurements free from errors caused by contact resistance, self‐heating, and space‐charge accumulation; it has been applied to semiconductors.


The Bachelor thesis titled "Alternative educational trends - alternative school" deals with the theoretical description of alternative schools. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of term alternative school, the historical development of alternative schools in the world and a special chapter is devoted to history of alternative education in the Czech Republic. Following chapter devoted to classic alternative schools, their development and processes. The practical part focuses on the analysis of alternative approaches in the schools and their mutual comparison.


This article investigates a nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enhanced Internet of Things (IoT) network. In order to provide connectivity, a novel cluster strategy is proposed, where multiple devices can be served simultaneously. Two potential scenarios are investigated: 1) NOMA-enhanced terrestrial IoT networks and 2) NOMA-enhanced aerial IoT networks. We utilize stochastic geometry tools to model the spatial randomness of both terrestrial and aerial devices. New channel statistics are derived for both terrestrial and aerial devices. The exact and the asymptotic expressions in terms of coverage probability are derived. In order to obtain further engineering insights, short-packet communication scenarios are investigated. From our analysis, we show that the performance of NOMA-enhanced IoT networks is capable of outperforming OMA-enhanced IoT networks. Moreover, based on simulation results, there exists an optimal value of the transmit power that maximizes the coverage probability.


Thank you very much for reading the authority and relevance of the bible in the modern world. As you may know, people have look numerous times for their favorite books like this the authority and relevance of the bible in the modern world, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some infectious virus inside their desktop computer.


Tumor cell migration is a very important phenomenon occurring during the formation of metastases, and requires a precise understanding of the correlation between adhesion anchoring and cytoskeleton reorganization, as the cell moves forward. To understand such processes, different methods have been used to measure the displacement of fluorescent beads embedded within a gel, as a way to determine indirectly the traction stresses exerted by the cells. Here, a method for obtaining this traction is used, based on a minimization algorithm under force penalization. The method is applied to the case of migrating T24 cancer cells on polyacrylamide substrates. Results obtained on substrates with different rigidities are discussed. It is found that such cancer cells exert smaller traction as compared to other cell types.


The necessity to develop the functional requirements to the automatic system for vehicle accident identification in the automated systems of emergency response to the accident is shown. The list of accident kinds, which are subject to automatic identification is substantiated. Proposals on the design and use of some sensors, in particular, vehicle element deformation sensors are presented.


Background:
 Malignant cells exploit cellular metabolism for their survival through various mechanisms. A significant dependency of malignant myeloid cells on glutamine metabolism has been demonstrated in vitro. Glutamine can be metabolized by glutaminase to form glutamate, a precursor for the citric acid cycle. CB-839 is an oral allosteric inhibitor of glutaminase that has been shown to reduce the level of glutamate in AML cells, with a consequent decrease in oxidative phosphorylation and survival. We report an updated interim analysis of a phase Ib/II clinical study evaluating the safety and efficacy of CB-839 in combination with azacitidine for the treatment of patients with MDS.
 Methods:
 This is a single arm phase Ib/II trial of CB-839 in combination with azacitidine (AZA) for patients with intermediate and high-risk MDS. Eligibility includes adult patients with high-risk MDS (IPSS Int-2 or high risk) or Int-1 risk MDS with high-risk mutations in TP53, ASXL1, EZH2, or RUNX1. Patients with prior hypomethylating agent (HMA) treatment were eligible. The primary outcome for the phase Ib portion was to identify the safety and recommended phase II dose of CB-839 in combination with AZA, confirmed as 600mg bid continuously with standard 7-day AZA dosing. The primary outcome for the phase II portion is clinical efficacy using IWG response criteria. Secondary endpoints include evaluation of pharmacokinetics (PK), drug exposure levels, and overall survival.
 Results:
 23 patients with MDS were enrolled between December 2017 and June 2020. Baseline characteristics are listed in Table 1. The median age was 71 (range, 49-83). 7 patients had prior HMA exposure (median 6 prior cycles, range 4-9), and 1 patient was previously treated with a non-HMA regimen. 8 patients (34.7%) had therapy-related MDS. 9 patients (39.1%) had complex cytogenetics. The most frequent mutations were ASXL1 (43.5%), TET2 (43.5%), TP53 (34.8%), and RUNX1 (30.4%).
 The most common drug-related non-hematologic adverse events (AEs) of any grade were nausea (52.2%), constipation (39.1%), fatigue (26.1%), anorexia (17.4%), and generalized weakness (17.4%). The most common therapy-related grade >3 AEs were transaminitis (13%), thrombocytopenia (26%), and neutropenia (30.4%). Five patients (21.7%) required dose reduction(s) of CB-839, with reductions due to transaminitis (n=2), myelosuppression (n=2), weakness (n=2), nausea (n=1), and fatigue (n=1). 30 and 60 day mortality were 0% and 4.3%, respectively.
 Best responses are detailed in Table 2. Objective response was defined as CR, morphologic CR (mCR), or hematologic improvement (HI), and was achieved in 15 out of 23 (65.2%) patients, including 5 CR and 10 mCR with or without HI. CR/mCR/HI rate was 62.5% (5/8) in previously-treated patients. Median number of cycles received was 4 (range, 1-17). 5 patients proceeded to allogeneic stem cell transplant. At median follow-up of 10.3 months (range, 1.0-28.5), 6 patients remain on study. Median OS (mOS) has not been reached; 1 year overall survival is 53.1% (Figure 1). Patients with TP53 mutations had CR/mCR rate of 62.5% (5/8) and mOS of 8 months. Patients with complex cytogenetics had CR/mCR rate of 66.7% (6/9) and mOS of 10.1 months.
 Bone marrow samples from a subset of patients were analyzed by multiparameter flow cytometry to fractionate phenotypically defined malignant leukemic stem cells (LSCs) as well as blast populations. We isolated hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC, Lin−CD34+CD38−) expressing at least one LSC marker (CD45RA, CD123, or IL1RAP). At the same time, we isolated HSPCs that were triple-negative for CD45RA, CD123, and IL1RAP to enrich for pre-malignant stem cells. Analysis of representative samples showed a reduction in LSCs after treatment. We also observed an increase in progenitor cells (Lin-CD34+CD38+), showing increased differentiation after CB-839 treatment. This pattern was seen in 5 responders examined. We did not observe a reduction in LSCs in patients that did not respond clinically.
 Conclusions:
 CB-839 in combination with AZA is a safe and effective regimen for patients with advanced MDS. Encouraging responses were seen in previously-treated and genomically high-risk patients. Of interest, CB-839 demonstrated in vivo activity against LSCs, with an increase in myeloid progenitor cells consistent with myeloid differentiation in responding patients. The trial continues to accrue. (NCT03047993)

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Borthakur:PTC Therapeutics: Consultancy; GSK: Research Funding; PTC Therapeutics: Research Funding; BioTherix: Consultancy; Nkarta Therapeutics: Consultancy; Treadwell Therapeutics: Consultancy; Abbvie: Research Funding; Jannsen: Research Funding; Oncoceutics: Research Funding; Incyte: Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding; Curio Science LLC: Consultancy; FTC Therapeutics: Consultancy; Xbiotech USA: Research Funding; Polaris: Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Research Funding; BioLine Rx: Consultancy; Cyclacel: Research Funding; Argenx: Consultancy; BioLine Rx: Research Funding; BMS: Research Funding. Jabbour:Adaptive Biotechnologies: Other: Advisory role, Research Funding; Amgen: Other: Advisory role, Research Funding; BMS: Other: Advisory role, Research Funding; Genentech: Other: Advisory role, Research Funding; Takeda: Other: Advisory role, Research Funding; AbbVie: Other: Advisory role, Research Funding; Pfizer: Other: Advisory role, Research Funding. 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This study examines the relationship between macro- (organizational design), meso- (leadership behavior) and micro-level (employees' personality) organizational characteristics and the individual's ability to manage the exploration–exploitation duality (balancing of exploring new and exploiting existing paths). This study aims to reveal how employees' ability to manage this duality can be enhanced and how these characteristics interact with each other. It is a work in progress, focused on building theoretical background and applying a new research design. An experiment is planned on two samples of Master students with a business background from Austria and Slovenia, using an experimental vignette methodology. Outcomes of this research will enable department and human resource managers to provide conditions at work for employees to balance their intention to explore new avenues while at the same time exploiting existing ones, as both behaviors are necessary to trigger organizational innovation and growth. This study will contribute to the organizational ambidexterity literature by recognizing the contextual and interactive role of macro-, meso- and micro-level organizational antecedents of individuals' ambidextrous behavior.


Teaching and learning are largely conducted through talk, yet the relationship between the talk and the activity goals it is intended to achieve is rarely problematized or treated as a matter for conscious choice. In this paper, I describe a tool for the analysis of classroom talk, developed in the context of teacher-researcher collaboration, which draws upon activity theory and systemic linguistics. Three main units of analysis are proposed: episodes of talk, which are the chief interactional means by which actions are operationalized; the sequences from which such episodes are constructed; and, minimally, the moves through which each sequence is negotiated. The concept of mini-genre is then used to distinguish different patterns of sequential organization. In the second part of the paper, I contrast episodes from two different activities, showing how different choices of follow-up moves create significantly different kinds of opportunity for student engagement and learning. In conclusion, I suggest that...


T his paper proposes a bi- level linear programming problem with rough parameters in constraints , the objective functions are to be maximized with different goals, the approach in this paper was based on the goal programming method to develop the optimal solution of the two- level decision- maker, then we used the concepts of tolerance membership function to generate the optimal solution for this problem. An auxiliary problem is discussed as well as an example is presented.


Organizational Surveys is part of the Management Application Series, a group of texts concerned with the practical application of contemporary research and knowledge rather than with the development of new knowledge or techniques. The authors have a finely balanced background. Dunham teaches at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Smith is with Sears, Roebuck. Dunham and Smith have designed the book for managers, and their goal is &dquo;to provide practicing managers and those aspiring to be managers with the expertise necessary to conduct surveys properly and to use the results effectively.&dquo; The book should easily succeed at accomplishing its specific goal, and-perhaps because its authors are well versed both in theory and application-it is a text which should be valuable to all read-


Grid resiliency is defined as the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Following large-scale disruptions of the power grid such as a complete blackout, parallel power system restoration accelerates the recovery process by allowing for simultaneous restoration in each island through network partitioning, thus enhancing grid resiliency. However, existing network partitioning strategies have not sufficiently considered variable renewable resources yet, and may not be flexible or computationally efficient to accommodate additional requirements from the evolving bulk power grid. To bridge these gaps, this study proposes a propagation-based optimization approach for power grid network partitioning. The requirements of blackstart resources, power balancing, synchrocheck relays for ties lines, and increased ramp rate requirements due to variable renewable resources are modeled in the constraints. Through propagation on the physical connectivity of grid assets, the network partitioning issue is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. The linearity ensures highly computational performance and optimality of the solutions from the proposed approach to identify the cutset edge possibilities for bulk power grid applications. Graph reduction strategies are proposed to further improve the computational performance for online or nearly online applications. Case studies based on two IEEE benchmark systems show that the proposed MILP model is able to determine the optimal cutset for network partitioning in approximately 0.28 seconds, and the proposed network reduction strategy is able to further improve the computational performance by approximately 9%.


The first Hyde Park school opened with 117 pupils in an iron building in 1908. However, the roll was increasing so quickly with the children of railway workers that a hall had to hired to accommodate them.


A 30 year-old Scottish primigravida married to a 32 year-old Mauritius-born Indian was included in a routine a-fetoprotein (AFP) screening programme. Maternal serum A F P a t 18 weeks gestation was 8 multiples of the median (MOM) for that gestation. A second sample at 19 weeks was also elevated. being 8 .75 MOM. Amniocentesis was performed and the amniotic AFP was 1.5 MOM which is within the norm:.l range. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of amniotic fluid showed only a single band 0'' cholinesterase activity and, in particular. no acetylcholinestcrase band (Smith et al. 1979). Ultrasonic examination at the time of amniocentesis revealed no abnormality. A repeat scan, I week later, again failed to detect any abnormality. I n particular the scan showed no evidence of multiple pregnancy, neural tube defect. abdominal wall defect or placental tumour. Serum A F P immediately after the amniocentesis was 4 . 4 MOM and occasional fetal cells were seen in the Kleihauer test. Subsequently there was a further rise in the serum A F P to 120 MOM (Table I ) with an i n creasing percentage of fetal cells seen in the Kleihauer test followed by a fall in the serum


All cloud fields exhibit variable structures (bulge) and heterogeneities in water distributions. With the development of multidimensional radiative models by the atmospheric community, it is now possible to describe horizontal heterogeneities of the cloud medium, to study these influences on radiative quantities. We have developed a complete radiative cloud scene generator, called MONET (French acronym for: MOdelisation des Nuages En Tridim.) to compute radiative cloud scene from visible to infrared wavelengths for various viewing and solar conditions, different spatial scales, and various locations on the Earth. MONET is composed of two parts: a cloud medium generator (CSSM -- Cloud Scene Simulation Model) developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, and a multidimensional radiative code (SHDOM -- Spherical Harmonic Discrete Ordinate Method) developed at the University of Colorado by Evans. MONET computes images for several scenario defined by user inputs: date, location, viewing angles, wavelength, spatial resolution, meteorological conditions (atmospheric profiles, cloud types)... For the same cloud scene, we can output different viewing conditions, or/and various wavelengths. Shadowing effects on clouds or grounds are taken into account. This code is useful to study heterogeneity effects on satellite data for various cloud types and spatial resolutions, and to determine specifications of new imaging sensor.


Ag : Si3N4 nanocermets were fabricated by the magnetron cosputtering method and were thermally treated at different temperatures. The off-resonant third-order nonlinear susceptibilities were determined to be of the order of 10−10 esu at 800 nm by the optical Kerr effect experiment. Further time-resolved pump–probe researches prove that heat treatment is a feasible way to improve the performance of ultrafast response for this material. The research results demonstrate that in addition to the common use in microelectronics, the Si3N4 nanocermets are promising in future applications in optical communication and photoelectric fields.