The utility model discloses a reation kettle formula ammonia nitrogen blows and takes off scrubbing tower, its characterized in that is equipped with reation kettle in the bottom of tower body, and the fan is established in one side of reation kettle, the fan passes through the wind channel to be connected with the bottom of tower body, packs and fills in the lower part of tower body, and the water -locator is established in the top of packing, the water -locator passes through the pipeline to be connected bottom the reation kettle opposite side being equipped with the circulating pump on the pipeline, keeping off the fog board and establish in the top of water -locator, be equipped with the defroster at the top of tower body, the below at the defroster is established to the washing liquid inlet tube. Through the setting, the utility model discloses increase the reation kettle of bottom, sewage gets into the utility model discloses afterwards, taking off back sampling test and if not up to standard, handling once more once through the circulating pump through blowing, it is up to standard that the end is cut to the ammonia nitrogen standard of using water. The air -conditioning control device has the advantages of simple structure and convenient operation.


Even Prime Minister Theresa May has been in the firing line for paying a woman employee less, despite publicly denouncing the BBC's wage gap: "We've seen the way the BBC is paying women less for doing the same job... I want women to be paid equally," she said. Shortly after this, it was revealed that Downing Street's woman Communications Chief was paid less than her male predecessor or successor. LSE Business Review: What can organisations do to close the gender pay gap? Page 1 of 3


Objective: The objective of this work is the development of an accurate seizure forecasting algorithm that considers brain's functional connectivity for electrode selection. Methods: We start by proposing Kmeans-directed transfer function, an adaptive functional connectivity method intended for seizure onset zone localization in bilateral intracranial EEG recordings. Electrodes identified as seizure activity sources and sinks are then used to implement a seizure-forecasting algorithm on long-term continuous recordings in dogs with naturally-occurring epilepsy. A precision-recall genetic algorithm is proposed for feature selection in line with a probabilistic support vector machine classifier. Results: Epileptic activity generators were focal in all dogs confirming the diagnosis of focal epilepsy in these animals while sinks spanned both hemispheres in 2 of 3 dogs. Seizure forecasting results show performance improvement compared to previous studies, achieving average sensitivity of 84.82% and time in warning of 0.1. Conclusion: Achieved performances highlight the feasibility of seizure forecasting in canine epilepsy. Significance: The ability to improve seizure forecasting provides promise for the development of EEG-triggered closed-loop seizure intervention systems for ambulatory implantation in patients with refractory epilepsy.


The complexities of power systems have called for more advanced technologies to be deployed to maintain the system's integrity. More accurate and real-time base tagging of electrical data has therefore been employed to suit this paradigm shifts in electrical advancements. This paper gives an overview of real-time wide area monitoring of power systems using synchroscopes, for remote monitoring and fast service recovery from electrical faults. This has been done through a comprehensive review of existing research literature in this field.


Residential early parenting programs are aimed at making parenting a better experience by increasing parenting confidence and developing safe, effective child rearing practices.


We present a photometric and spectroscopic study that helps to constrain the orbital period of the system V767 Cyg for the first time. From the analysis of the V filter light curve besides of that for the radial velocity curve for different Balmer series lines, we find a most likely orbital period of 0.165± 0.012 days for the binary system. The data we present were obtained during two different observational campaigns.


In the original plan (and original drafts) of this paper the attention was focused quite narrowly on colonial policies and the years 1878–1917. However, in the course of research and writing I became convinced that the period I chose to cover was not quite as felicitous, or convenient, as I believed it would, for unless I had access to archival material and put the primary emphasis on the bureaucratic (and mostly local) decision-making level I would not be able to carve for myself a field of research that could be presented in a comprehensible fashion. At the same time, while delving deeper and deeper into the subject, I confess that my interest shifted away from bureaucracy and its colonial policies to colonialism in the broader sense as an expression of certain cultural and demographic trends. My interest shifted because, first, I found it repeatedly difficult to distinguish between what could legitimately be labeled as policy and what was or may have been (who knows really?) merely an arbitrary decision, a momentary whim, of some guberniia or uezd potentate, or perhaps not even his but of his secretary who prepared the document and just pocketed a bribe of a few rubles in exchange for twisting the legal meaning of the decision one way or another. Second, even if I raised my focus above the local bureaucratic level, there would still not be much to chew intellectually. Poland, the Balkans, Central Asia, the Far East–yes, these were areas which attracted the attention of the more powerful minds in and outside of government and policies toward them were formulated in the context of interesting debates. But Bessarabia? Except for a few individuals who, especially at the time of its annexation, had high hopes for the role it might play in the future expansion of Russia, hardly anyone bothered with it. Why, until the turn of the century the St. Petersburg bureaucrats had a hard time even placing it on a map; they thought it was somewhere north.


What actually takes place is that systems change their configuration to improve their survival and reduce the energy they must expend in order to persist. The fitness landscape is easily understood in terms of balls rolling on surfaces or species evolving over time, but it is just as effective in describing a subsystem whose behavior is modified within the context of a circumscribed environment. In particular, the notion of a fitness landscape well describes the brain's regulation of its frequency components within its own sensory, cognitive, and control environment.


The paper studies the development of institutionalization for cross-border cooperation. The special attention is paid to the correlation between worldwide experience and Russian practice of cross-border cooperation development and legal registration, as well as, peculiarities of structuring government management system for cross-border relationships.


Abstract : This report describes the process for integrating the BUILDER Sustainment Management System (SMS) with the US Army Installation Status Report for Infrastructure (ISR-I). A common building component and assessment data framework between SMS and ISR-I was developed to link local facility condition and functional requirements managed through the BUILDER Sustainment Management System (SMS) to enterprise-level quality and mission metrics reported in the ISR-I. To accomplish this, the applicable facility components for all 63 ISR-I rating standards booklets were mapped to the corresponding BUILDER inventory items based on the UniFormat II classification system (ASTM E 1557-02). This data framework enables BUILDER to extract condition and functionality data from the ISR-I for certain building systems and components. It also establishes a foundation for uploading quality and mission capability ratings to the ISR-I for facilities that have been assessed using BUILDER. The outcome is a higher level of interoperability between the BUILDER SMS and ISR-I systems. BUILDER can use ISR-I condition data to drive the development of local installation annual work plans, and BUILDER-generated condition indices can feed ISR-I reporting requirements.


The BCI communication is a technology which allows to people to communicate with a machine or a computer using their own brains and normally a EEG helmet. This field of knowledge is a great challenge for engineering (and for other fields). Now days BCI communications are being very studied and developed, having great advances. The importance of developing better BCI system falls in the believing that it can help a lot of people who are suffering of some kind of paralysis or some kinds of motor inability. We believe that this technology can be very useful for those people and that their lifestyle could be increased significantly, to whom little improvement means a lot. CSP is very a well-known algorithm and it has been widely used in many BCI system especially in those systems which use EEG helmets. CSP is used to reduce the dimensionality of the EEG signals allowing to choose how many channels the user needs. The main of this work is to make a review in CSP algorithm and about LDA too, which is a classification technique. Furthermore, an algorithm based on these two techniques has been developed which improve the results obtained using the simple CSP. The algorithm developed is able to classify between two classes but an extension have been done making able to distingue between four imaginary movements. These extension is based in a simple vote system. Whit the purpose of comparing and checking the well behavior theses algorithms they have been test over a public set of data. This set of data is given from IV BCI competition. These data have been wildly used in multiple articles which has allow us to compare the algorithm whit others, like the RSTFC algorithm which have been also tried in this work. Finally, some conclusions about BCI system and the algorithm have been done. To accomplish that we used some plots about the results and about the filters that CSP provides.


Isaac Watts, the celebrated hymn writer, logician of substance, and a Dissenting minister par excellence in early eighteenth-century, wrote this superlative praise: "if there were any Man, to whom Providence would permit me to commit a second Part of my Life and Usefulness in the Church of Christ, Dr. Doddridge should be the Man." Whereas much has been written about Watts, less historiographical attention has been given to Doddridge, the two counter-examples of G. F. Nuttall and Isabel Rivers...


We discuss the problem of defining a residual global symmetry for classification purposes in the context of a spontaneously broken gauge theory of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions, where strong interactions are associated with a local color SU(3)' group. We show that a weakly broken SU(3)/ sub c/ [different from but related to SU(3)'] can always be realized as a good classification symmetry for a class of models with integer-charge quarks and massive gluons. For fractionally charged quark models, the symmetry SU(3)/sub c/ is exact even for massive gluons, only if the full theory contains an Abelian U(1) symmetry associated with electric charge. If there is no such U(1) symmetry in the theory, and we wish to preserve a three-color classification symmetry in the fractionally charged quark model, then the gluons must be left massless. (AIP)


Pure motion-control at the speed and precision required for disk drives is difficult by itself, but the problems become even worse when it comes to emergency conditions like the loss of supply voltages. To prevent the head from crashing into or sticking on the media in this case, it has to be moved to a park position-still with broken power supply. This and many other functions are integrated in the motion-control circuit, covering the range from power/analog to digital circuitry.


Abstract : The Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) provides information on the performance of selected weir jetty systems constructed in the United States and discussion of their functioning. A companion CHETN (Seabergh 2002) presents the design elements of weir jetty systems.


The greatly expanded bibliography is quirky and hard to use. Primary and secondary sources are mixed, and extensive subheadings, including separate listings for English and Spanish language titles, make some titles hard to find. For example, one can find Brian McBeth's book on Juan Vicente Gomez and the oil companies in the section on petroleum, but not in the section on Gomez. Winfield Burggraaff's book on the armed forces in politics from 1935 to 1959 appears in the section on "politics and government" but not in the one on Perez Jimenez.


Polyvinyl chloride, commonly abbreviated PVC is a rather hard and rigid material. In order to extend its use it requires additives during the manufacturing process which are referred to as plasticizers, among them the Dioctyl Phthalate (DOP). This latter has a tendency to escape from the PVC matrix specially when in contact with liquids. In order to analyse this phenomenon we use the classical equations of mass diffusion (Fick's second law). However this method leads to results which are not always in good agreement with experimental ones, especially when the concentration of plasticisers is high. This situation requires the elaboration of an enhanced mathematical model that can deal with this particular type of forced diffusion characterized by the contact with a liquid and particular boundary conditions. The validation of the proposed model was obtained by comparing the theoretical results obtained with the model and those obtained by experiments.


The MSFC/J70 Orbital Atmospheric Density Model, a modified version of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Jacchia 1970 model is explained. The algorithms describing the MSFC/J70 model are included as well as listing of the computer program. The 13-month smoothed values of solar flux (F sub 10.7) and geomagnetic index (S sub p), which are required as inputs for the MSFC/J70 model, are also included and discussed.


OBJECTIVE
We aim to report the incidence, mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) between 1990 and 2019 and provide predictions to 2035.

METHODS
We use estimates from Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors Study 2019 to analyse the incidence, mortality and DALYs.

RESULTS
In 2019, there were more than 209,149 incidence cases, with age-standardised rates (ASRs) of 2.5. Laryngeal cancer accounted for 123,356 death cases, with ASRs of 1.5. Laryngeal cancer was also responsible for 3.26 million (3,034,634 to 3,511,354) DALYs, with ASRs of 38.8 (36.1 to 41.8). In 2019, Central Europe had the highest age-standardised incidence rate. At the national level, the highest incidence rate was observed in Mongolia. Total number and rate were significantly higher among males than females across all age groups. DALYs were attributable to Alcohol use, Smoking, Occupational exposure to sulfuric acid and asbestos. The age-standardised incidence rates in seven GBD regions and 59 countries are projected to increase between 2019 and 2035.

CONCLUSIONS
Despite the current and predicted decline in age-standardised incidence globally, the absolute number of estimates continue to increase. Prevention programmes should concentrate on modifiable risk factors, especially among the males across all age groups.


A communication network based monitoring and control system for water treatment facilities is provided to transmit measurement data by using each PLC and process it. Water treatment facilities(11a,11b,11c) are installed to water treatment installation(201) by one to one correspondence. A PLC(20) corresponds to each water treatment installation by one-to-one correspondence. The water treatment equipment is controlled based on the control sequence program stored in measurement data from the water treatment facilities. The PLC communications module is connected to the communications network(61). The signal transmission between the upper device storage and the PLC are performed. The upper control device processes measurement data inputted through the PLC communications module and stores in the upper device storage. The region operator apparatus(50) is connected to the upper control device. The region operator apparatus produces the local control signal and transmits it to the upper control device.


The Las Campanas Redshift Survey data are used to investigate structures ofthe galaxy number distribution. We construct two volume-limited samples with sizes of $113 \times 113$ and $126 \times 126$ h -1 Mpc, and calculate the second- to ninth-order moments with the count-in-cell method. The galaxy distribution at ≥ 30 h -1 Mpc is found to be statistically homogeneous. On the other hand, we find a multifractal scaling at h -1 Mpc. From the scaling exponent, we obtain the generalized dimension, which decreases from 2 toward 1 as the order is increased from 2 to 9. Galaxies are known to lie, around voids, in planar structures with filamentary dense regions. The present result indicates that these void-filament structures are predominant up to 30 h -1 Mpc. Statistically, they appear to be the largest-scale significant structures in the Universe.


Reaction column for simultaneous multiple measurement via affinity assay with at least one substrate bed, comprising at least one affinity reactive component being bound to each substrate bed, and the volume of each bed being up to 600 mu l.


—The development of space Internet is in full swing. However, the spatial specificity of this network that exists across multiple layers such as land, sea, and air leads to security threats from different levels. To this end, we propose to design a framework for a large-scale simulation and experiment platform for space Internet called SpaceSpider to realize the ground simulation of all elements of space Internet and establish an attack and defense environment for space Internet to support core technology verification.


Patterned TiO2 stripes were formed on a sol-gel crystalline WO3 film by using a chemically modified sol-gel method (pat-TiO2/WO3), and the coupling effect on the photocatalytic activity was studied. Although the photoinduced electron transfer from TiO2 to WO3 was confirmed by labeling and visualization of the reduction sites with Ag particles, the photocatalytic activities of TiO2 for both the gas-phase oxidation of CH3CHO and the liquid-phase oxidation of 2-naphthol decreased significantly with the coupling. This finding was rationalized in terms of the decrease in the rate of the electron transfer from the semiconductor-(s) to 02 with the coupling, which was estimated from the kinetic analysis of the photopotential relaxation. When the excited electrons were removed by a SnO2 underlayer, the WO3 film exhibited a high photocatalytic activity exceeding that of TiO2 for the oxidation of 2-naphthol.


In practical situations, most experimental designs often yield unbalanced data which have different numbers of observations per unit because of cost constraints, missing data, etc. In this paper, we consider the Bayesian approach to hypothesis testing or model selection under the one-way unbalanced fixed-effects analysis-of-variance (ANOVA) model. We adopt Zellner's g-prior with the beta-prime distribution for g, which results in an explicit closed-form expression of the Bayes factor without integral representation. Furthermore, we investigate the model selection consistency of the Bayes factor under three different asymptotic scenarios: either the number of units goes to infinity, the number of observations per unit goes to infinity, or both go to infinity. The results presented extend some existing ones of the Bayes factor for the balanced ANOVA models in the literature.


Results We identified seven cases of uterine PEComa diag-nosed and treated at our center. The search strategy identified 51 papers for a total of 121 cases of uterine PEComa.The uterine corpus was the most frequent localization (n=55; 45.7%), and uterine bleeding was the clinical presentation in 36 (32.5%) cases. In most cases, the diagnosis was at the final pathological examination (n=39; 83%). Among those who recurred or dead due to disease, the median time to recurrence was 18 (2 – 82; IQR 4 – 21.7) months and the median time to death was 17.5 (5 – 43; IQR 12 – 35) months. The malignant group reported a higher rate of recurrence and cause-specific death than the benign group in all classifications. The Bennet system (figure 1 – 2) reported the highest HR for relapse and death due to PEComa in the malignant group ver-sus the benign group (HR 14.17; 95% CI 4.29 – 46.72 for relapse; HR 33.17, 95% CI 4.39 – 4246.79 for death). Conclusion Preoperative diagnosis of uterine PEComa is uncommon without specific clinical presentation. Among pro-posed classification systems, the Bennet system reported the highest ability to distinguish between benign and malignant behaviors.


Phytochromes are red-light sensing proteins of bacteria, algae, plants, and fungi. A central feature of the function of phytochromes is a light-induced conversion between a red absorbing (Pr) state and a far-red absorbing state (Pfr). The photosensory unit (CBD-PHY) of Deinococcus radiodurans bacteriophytochrome is a dimeric protein consisting of a C-terminal chromophore binding (CBD) domain and a phytochromeassociated (PHY) domain. Recent crystal and solution structures of CBD-PHY have shown that the separation between the two PHY domains increases when the protein is converted from Pr to Pfr state as a result of red-light absorption. Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) based measurements were designed in this work to be used as an alternative, non-invasive, and cost-efficient way for probing the PHY domain separation in Pr and Pfr. CBDPHY engineered with cysteine insertions at the ends of the PHY domains (E373/CC/G374) and one surface cysteine substituted with serine (C93S) was expressed in E. coli strain BL21 (DE3) cells and purified with high-pressure liquid chromatography. A maleimide-based labeling scheme was developed for attaching a FRET donor (D) – acceptor (A) pair (Alexa Fluor 488 – Alexa Fluor 546) to the cysteine insertions. Steadystate fluorescence emission spectra, fluorescence decays, and steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropies were measured for determining FRET efficiencies and corresponding D-A distances in Pr and Pfr. Emission spectrum of DA-labeled CBD-PHY in Pr and Pfr revealed FRET-associated intensity changes in both D and A emission. Surprisingly, FRET signal was absent from time-resolved results. Furthermore, none of the measurement techniques revealed a difference between Pr and Pfr, and there was discrepancy between D-A distances determined from steady-state results and those evaluated from earlier solution structures. Multiple explanations can be proposed for the unexpected results. It is evident that further development of protein labeling protocols is still needed. There is also a possibility that the system is more complicated than what was initially expected because of processes such as quenching of the dyes or FRET between the dyes and biliverdin molecules bound to the CBD-domains.


Photosystem I (PS I) particles prepared from pea chloroplasts using either digitonin or Triton X-100 as the solubilizing detergent were used to investigate the EPR characteristics of the electron acceptors A0, A1, and (Fe-S)X. The signal from component A1 appears asymmetric in both digitonin and Triton X-100 solubilized samples. However, the difference spectrum which represents the isolated signal from component A0 is symmetric in Triton X-100 solution, but not in digitonin. Upon deuteration of digitonin solubilized PS I, the signal from A1 became partially narrowed to give a spectrum comparable to that of deuterated Triton X-100 solubilized particles. However, deuteration did not produce new spectral features in the digitonin solubilized preparation, but emphasized those already present Upon storage of either type of particles at 77 K, it was found that the signal from component A1, but not that from A0, decayed. The difference spectrum of A1 obtained with g = 2.0058 and a peak-to-peak linewidth of 0.95 mT is compatible with the identification of A1 as an anionic semiquinone. In digitonin solubilized particles, component A0 and not A1 affected the EPR signal of the iron-sulphur center X, which suggests a magnetic interaction between A0 and X. These results suggest that component A0 is closer to X than is A1, and that A1 may not be in a linear electron transport pathway between A0 and the iron-sulphur centers. They also show that Triton X-100 perturbs the structure of the reaction center.


Knowledge is a concept-like gravity. You cannot see it, but you can observe its effects. Minimize knowledge is an invisible, intangible asset and cannot be directly observed. Many people and organizations do not explicitly recognize the importance of knowledge, in contrast to their more visible financial and capital assets Pires, 2016. To measure in a proper and impartial way it is necessary to teach in an imaginative and diverse way providing students with the maximum amount of information on a given problem, by means of multiple paths Pires, 2016. Measuring knowledge or academic performance changing the learning curves of different cognitive functions it would be something that would change completely the learning/study methods and the ways of monitoring the progression of any student. More, it would be possible to achieve individually objectives for certain cognitive functions, through a learning curve less extensive because we would focus the attention in the fundamental details Pires, 2016. The computer analysis of the answers and self-assessment provides multidimensional scores about the subject knowledge Hunt, 2003. As intelligent living creatures that we are, we are not isolated from the surround space. We live on it, breath from it and have influence on us in many ways. For a correct evaluation of our behavior's we need to include in the equation all the possible factors that have the condition to affect us. That is only possible if we are always connected to everything and everything is connected to us. Chen, 2002 defines the generic metadata attributes as a tight relation of: space, time, contents persons, events and objects related between them. Chen, 2002 also use a layer description to establish from the ground up the structure of a lesson and a course. If we can establish links between all the subjects above we will achieve the ultimate learning experience. This is the objective of this paper, demonstrate that it is possible based in a ten years research-phase I.


Adverse trend is being faced by the mature blast furnace process,such as increasing ratio of dependence on foreign iron ore and smaller particle size iron ore and increasing depletion of coking coal resource,which restricted the healthy development of iron and steel industry.However,the fluidized bed process for ironmaking with obvious advantage can be hoped to make up for their weaknesses in China.In this paper the researching progresses of sticking problem impeding commercialization are analyzed.Existing fluidized bed processes selected different projects in the key link for avoiding the difluidization,which lead to the exorbitant cost,as the cost of all ironmaking process rebounded.So reducing the cost of restraining sticking is the key of the industrialization of fluidized bed process for reduction.


The theory of constructivism,which is the further development of learning theories after the shift from behavist to cognitivist,lays stress on the idea of students-centeredness,and advocates the initiative exploration of new knowledge and the construction of the meaning of new knowledge to be learnt.At present,it is indispensable to adopt the constructivist teaching model,which is a demand for primary education of the time,and also an important developing trend of the basic music classroom teaching.


Abstract Impulsive vibrations generated during the operation of a rolling Hertzian line contact under elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) conditions, typically found in tapered rolling bearings, are analysed using two-dimensional surface roughness profiles containing spherical asperities. The cause of these vibrations is modelled as a series of collisions between the asperities forming the surfaces in contact. Asperity heights are considered to vary according to a Gaussian distribution, and an innovative method, based upon probability, is developed so that the rates and the magnitudes of collisions between asperities of various heights under different lubrication conditions can be studied. The magnitude of individual collisions are predicted to allow them to be compared with those measured using a calibrated master piezoelectric transducer.


We examine to what extent the GICS sector categorization of equity securities may be systematically reconstructed from historical quarterly firm fundamental data using gradient boosted tree classification. Model complexity and performance tradeoffs are examined and relative feature importance is described. Potential extensions are outlined including ideas to improve feature engineering, validating internal consistency and integrating additional data sources to further improve classification accuracy.


Audio watermarking is becoming a popular method in digital processing because it has the capability to secure the audios by embedding watermarks in them. Audio watermarking is getting to be distinctly a prominent strategy in advanced digital image processing since it has the ability to secure the audios by infusing watermarks in them. This paper is survey on a various watermarking methods.


In this paper we are concerned with proving versions of the classical Dixmier approximation theorem in the setting of algebras of τ -measurable operators S (M, τ) and its M-bimodules, where M is a semi-finite von Neumann algebra equipped with a semi-finite normal faithful trace τ .


Lymphatic metastasis is the most common and basic way of tumor diffusion, and is also a main cause of death of cancer patients. During lymphatic metastasis, development of fresh lymphatic vessel is essential. The discovery of VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) family has made use better understand the molecular mechanisms for the generation of lymphatic vessels within neoplasms. In this article, the latest progress in the studies of lymphatic metastasis and its treatment strategy are reviewed. Some notions about the treatment of lymphatic metastasis by electroporation on the basis of the experience of the authors were also discussed.


Abstract— The purpose of this study is to understand and analyze the effect of earnings management variables in terms of taxation by using deferred tax expense, deferred tax assets and tax planning on consumer goods manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2020. 35 companies become research sample through the selection of purposive sampling method as a method of determining the sample with certain provisions and considerations. Panel data regression method with statistical software views is used in this study. The data collection needed is the published annual report of consumer goods manufacturing companies for the period 2016 to 2020. The researcher used the method of quantitative descriptive analysis of logistic regression. From the results of research that has been done, it is found that in terms of taxation, the burden of deferred tax, assets on deferred tax and tax planning is not significant on earnings management actions. Deferred tax assets show negative results, this is because earnings management is carried out to minimize company expenses. Meanwhile, tax planning shows negative results where tax planning is carried out in order to minimize profits to achieve shareholder goals
Keywords: Beban Pajak Tangguhan; Aset Pajak Tangguhan; Perencanaan Pajak; Manajemen Laba


In one-dimensional quantum mechanics, or the Sturm-Liouville theory, Crum's theorem describes the relationship between the original and the associated Hamiltonian systems, which are iso-spectral except for the lowest energy state. Its counterpart in 'discrete' quantum mechanics is formulated algebraically, elucidating the basic struc�


10 worker suffering from occupational vitiligo due to p-tert. butyl phenol have been observed in an Austrian resin factory. The dust concentration and its content of p-tert. butyl phenol in the working area were measured. On the basis of these results preventive measures were taken to reduce the exposure of the workers to p-test butyl phenol. In the presented cases an involvement of internal organs--as described by Rodermund et al. (1975)--could not be observed.


This paper describes a method for the isolation of highly purified sarcoplasmic reticulum from plaice fast muscle. The interrelationships of pH, KCL, Ca2+, Mg2+, ADP and temperature have been investigated. Protein composition of plaice white muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum was found to be comparable to that described for rabbit fast muscle, with a major component of 100 000 daltons. Arrhenius plots of the Ca2+-AT Pase are linear over the range 0–30°C. Activation enthalpy (60±1.5 kJ/mol) was found to be independent of KCl concentration. The calcium concentration required to give half maximal activation of the AT Pase (KCa) was found to decrease with increasing temperature, from a maximum of 1.7 μm at 0°C to 0.55 at 20°C.


The optimal power flow is a power flow problem in which certain variables are adjusted to minimize an objective function such as cost of the active power generation or the losses,while satisfying physical operating limits on various controls, dependent variables and function of control variables. Current interest in OPF covers around its ability to solve for the optimal solution that takes account of security of the system. Practical solutions for OPF problems with separable objective functions have been obtained with special linear programming methods,but the classical OPF has defined practical solutions, the Newton approach is a flexible formulation that can be used to develop different OPF algorithms suited to the requirements of different applications. In other words, the optimal power problem seeks to find an optimal profile of active and reactive power generations along with voltage magnitudes in such a manner as to minimize the total operating costs of a thermal electric power system, while satisfying network security constraints. The OPF method is based on load flow solution by the Newton's method, a first order gradient adjustment algorithm for minimizing the objective function and use of penalty functions to account for inequality constraints on dependent variables.


There are many methods to study the necessary part of catalyst-its charactterization,by means of H_2-TPR,the characterization of the catalyst A-B/Al_2O_3 is studied,and its reductive process in dynamics is also discussed,which provides a basis for the michanism and the reductive capacity of this catalyst.


The mode of deglaciation in the northwestern White Mountains of New Hampshire has been controversial since the mid 1800's. Early workers believed that active ice deposited the Bethlehem Moraine complex in the Ammonoosuc River basin during recession of the last ice sheet. In the 1930's this deglaciation model was replaced by the concept of widespread simultaneous stagnation and downwastage of Late Wisconsinan ice. The present authors reexamined the Bethlehem Moraine complex and support the original interpretation of a series of moraines deposited by active ice. We found other moraine clusters of similar age to the northeast in the Johns River and Israel River basins. Ice-marginal deposits that probably correlate with the Bethlehem Moraine also occur west of Littleton. The Bethlehem Moraine complex and equivalent deposits in adjacent areas were formed by readvance and oscillatory retreat of the Connecticut Valley lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. This event is called the Littleton-Bethlehem Readvance. Throughout the study area, sequences of glaciolacustrine deposits and meltwater drainage channels indicate progressive northward recession of the glacier margin. Radiocarbon dates from nearby New England and Quebec suggest that the ice sheet withdrew from this part of the White Mountains between about 12 500 and 12 000 14 C yr BP. We attribute the Littleton- Bethlehem Readvance to a brief climatic cooling during Older Dyas time, close to 12,000 BP.


We give explicit upper and lower bounds for N(T, χ), the number of zeros of a Dirichlet L-function with character χ and height at most T . Suppose that χ has conductor q > 1, and that T ≥ 5/7. If ` = log q(T+2) 2π > 1.567, then ∣∣∣∣N(T, χ)− Tπ log qT 2πe − χ(−1) 4 )∣∣∣∣ ≤ 0.22737`+ 2 log(1 + `)− 0.5. We give slightly stronger results for small q and T . Along the way, we prove a new bound on |L(s, χ)| for σ < −1/2. CONTENTS 1. Statement of Results 1 2. The Main Term 3 3. The Gamma Function 5 4. Bounds on L(s, τ), and Bounds on fm(s) 8 4.


The present invention provides a novel medicinal drug for preventing or inhibiting acute kidney injury, the medicinal drug containing an angiotensin II receptor antagonist or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient, and being used for treatment or prevention of acute kidney injury. Also provided is a novel method for preventing or inhibiting acute kidney injury, comprising administering an effective dosage of an angiotensin II receptor antagonist or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof to a patient in combination with an anticancer agent and/or an antitumor agent.


The invention relates to a touch control panel with an improved electrode pattern, a discrete resistance chain is formed on the inner side of a series electrode chain of a conductive layer of the touch control panel, thereby forming a uniform electric field supply; wherein the design of the discrete resistance chain can lead the voltage drop produced by the series electrode chain due to the distance to achieve the effect of compensating voltage; the touch control panel further applies a T-shaped homogenized electrode chain to be formed on the inner side of the discrete resistance chain for achieving the purpose of homogenizing and outputting voltage of a discrete resistor; further, the touch control panel further applies a second homogenized electrode chain which is configured to be parallel to the bottom of a T-shaped homogenized electrode, thereby carrying out secondary homogenization on voltage output of the T-shaped homogenized electrode. The quite excellent average electric fielddistribution can be achieved through the pattern configuration of the touch control panel.


Several expert panels have recommended interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) as an integral part of improving the quality and safety of care delivery to meet the complex health needs of patients. IPCP is attained by collaborative communications between two or more health professionals from various disciplines who share in clinical decisionmaking. IPCP increases patient satisfaction and improves health outcomes, yet few health professional students learn how to work within collaborative interprofessional teams. The health professional programs at one Midwestern University implemented Interprofessional Education (IPE) programs with the goal of facilitating IPCP team work and to foster effective communications among the health professional students. The successes that resulted were positive comments from students, faculty, and clinical staff and increased student confidence in interactions with other disciplines. The challenges that were encountered include scheduling difficulties, apathy of faculty and students, and incompatible clinical practice experiences. Understanding challenges and negotiating ambiguity of implementing IPE/ IPCP community-based programs is important in developing a well-trained interprofessional workforce and closing the gap between health professionals' education and clinical practice experiences. Received: 06/01/2015 Accepted: 10/13/2015 Published: 11/09/2015 © 2015 Brommelsiek & Peterson. This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. H IP & Community-Based Interprofessional Education Programs EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY 2(3):eP1084 | 2 Introduction Over the past two decades, numerous reports have recommended the inclusion of interprofessional practice as an integral part of improving the nation's health care system and for meeting the increasingly complex health needs of patients (World Health Organization [WHO], 2010; Lancet Commission, 2010; Interprofessional Education Collaborative [IPEC], 2011; Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2000, 2003, 2013). The Institute of Medicine in their report, To Err is Human, (IOM 2000) focused on quality and safety in healthcare, recommending improved interprofessional communication to reduce morbidity and mortality rates. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century suggested interprofessional collaborative practice as a strategy for health professionals to effectively work together in care teams (IOM, 2001). In a more recent report, the World Health Organization (2010) analyzed the global workforce shortage, identifying increased IPE as one solution for improving the delivery of safe, competent care, and for addressing health professional workforce needs. Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) first emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid 1960's with early initiatives focusing on primary care and community-based care (Barr & Waterton, 1996). Interprofessional education is an approach to better prepare healthcare students for future careers as members of interprofessional care teams (Bridges, Davidson, Odegard, Maki, & Tomkowiak, 2011). The Center for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) (Finch, 2000) defined IPE as an educational opportunity when two or more health professions learn with and from one another. CAIPE also viewed IPE as a way to improve collaboration, improving both quality and delivery of health care services. As a standard for healthcare delivery, interprofessional teams are becoming more common. Yet, there remain gaps between the demand for interprofessional health providers and the incorporation of interprofessional learning into core curricula (Gilbert, 2005). Students in healthcare professions, including advanced practice students in nursing, pharmacy, social work, dentistry, and clinical psychology, are entering the workforce without the necessary skills to function effectively as members of interprofessional clinical teams (McNair, Stone, Sims, & Curtis, 2005). Efforts to improve this inadequacy are ongoing through the implementation of evidence-based practice and incorporating interprofessional skills training into the classroom and clinical education of health professional students. IPE and IPCP have been identified as strategies to improve quality and safety in healthcare by providing students opportunities to work as collaborative teams (IOM, 2003). According to Barnsteiner, Disch, Hall, Mayer, and Moore (2007), teamwork among health professionals is seldom intuitive, but a skill that must be acquired through education and clinical training. The vast majority of health professional students continue to receive their training within the confines of their own discipline. Teamwork with other disciplines has frequently been omitted from curricula with the assumption that health professionals will learn interprofessional collaboration in the workplace following graduation (Newhouse & Spring, 2010). IPE and IPCP, as part of the core curricula of health professional education, help to facilitate interpersonal communication (Brock et al., 2013), foster flexibility among the health professions (Koppel, Barr, Reeves, Freeth, & Hammick, 2001), and promote adaptability within ever-changing healthcare delivery systems (Freeth, Meyer, Reeves, & Spilsbury, 1998); all important attributes for improving health outcomes. IPCP has also been credited for helping to reduce hospital stays, admissions, and readmissions (Dietrich et al., 2004; Tieman et al., 2006), as well as a way for improving the management of complex health issues such as multiple chronic conditions (WHO, 2002). Additionally, IPE and IPCP can lead to greater confidence and job satisfaction among the health professions (Keller, Eggenberger, Belkowitz, Sarsekeyeva, & Zito, 2013). As the U.S. population increasingly grows older and more culturally diverse, an integrative approach to care will require increased numbers of health professionals trained in IPE and IPCP. IPE may be implemented in freestanding programs or through integration of two or more established professional programs (Barr & Wateron, 2000). Casto (1987) advocated the development of IPE curricula early in students' professional clinical education and clinical practice in order to encourage the benefits of working H IP & ISSN 2159-1253 Health & Interprofessional Practice | commons.pacificu.edu/hip 2(3):eP1084 | 3 collaboratively as members of interprofessional care teams. According to Clark (2006), IPE is conceptually derived from social learning theory and includes components of leadership, communication, and conflict management among interprofessional team members. Closely aligned with experiential learning, a process-based method (Kolb, 1984), IPE draws on an individual's reactions and actions informed by group experiences, such as flexibility and cooperation as a member of a team. Similar to the experiential processes, IPE often includes conflict resolution, helping students learn to negotiate differing opinions and values while gaining insight, understanding, and trust among team members (Orchard, Curran, & Kabene, 2005). Although IPE and IPCP have numerous benefits in the delivery of care and for improving quality and safety, implementation of these programs is not a seamless, natural process for most health professional programs. Integrating interprofessional teamwork and learning into pre-existing health education frameworks comes with its own set of barriers and challenges. Lash, Barnett, Parekh, Shieh, Louie, and Tang (2014) described potential barriers to IPE as a lack of institutional support for cross-discipline curriculum, shared learning spaces, and incongruity of perceived benefits of IPE programs among health professionals. Other major challenges for implementing IPE programs identified in the 2013 report, Learning to Improve Health from Interprofessional Models Across the Continuum of Education to Practice: Workshop Summary, are the lack of preparation of health professional faculty to deliver IPE training and classroom and clinical scheduling conflicts among the various professional programs (IOM, 2013). A significant challenge facing implementation of IPE and IPCP programs is that the provision of these concepts is relatively new in many U.S. institutions ,coupled with a lack of familiarity of IPE and IPCP by practicing health professionals. This lack of awareness may interfere with the didactic and clinical integration of IPE/IPCP into the educational experiences of health professional students. The purpose of this paper is to discuss one Midwestern university's strategies for implementing IPE and IPCP programs for health professional students and to discuss the challenges associated with implementing these initiatives within various health professions schools and communitybased healthcare facilities. In response to the growing need to educate and develop a collaborative and interprofessionallyoriented healthcare workforce, the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Advanced Nursing Education Program (ANEP) awarded funds to assist in the development of IPE curricula that included several community-based IPCP experiences. These projects required creating an interprofessional practice framework that was flexible enough to negotiate unforeseen challenges as well as adaptable for working with multiple health professions schools and community partners.


Objective To discuss the relationship between obesity and risk factors of cardio-cerebrovascular disease,and provide suggestions for intervention. Methods The relationship between BMI and blood pressure,blood lipids and blood glucose,and the relationship between age and the obesity rate in 300 cardres aged 40 to 65 years taking part in yearly physical examination in Nanning were analysed. Results With the increase of BMI, the levels of blood pressure ,blood lipids and blood glucose were changed accordingly(P0.01); The indexes of DBP、TC、TG and FBG in obese group and overweight group were higher than those in normal group,and the indexes of DBP and TG in obese group were higher than those in overweight group,all the differences were significant (P0.01).The incidence rates of overweight and obesity also increased with the increase of age(χ2=7.0816,P0.05).Conclusions It's very important to prevent cardio-cerebrovascular disease with controlling body weight and preventing obesity.


Background Demanding working conditions and secondary exposure to trauma may contribute to a high burden of stress among 9-1-1 telecommunicators, decreasing their ability to work effectively and efficiently. Web-based mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can be effective in reducing stress in similar populations. However, low engagement may limit the effectiveness of the intervention. Objective The aim of this study was to assess participant engagement in a Web-based MBI designed for 9-1-1 telecommunicators. Specifically, we sought to describe the following: (1) participant characteristics associated with intervention engagement, (2) participant perspectives on engaging with the intervention, and (3) perceived challenges and facilitators to engaging. Methods We used qualitative and quantitative data from participant surveys (n=149) that were collected to assess the efficacy of the intervention. We conducted descriptive and bivariate analyses to identify associations between demographic, psychosocial, and workplace characteristics and engagement. We conducted a thematic analysis of qualitative survey responses to describe participant experiences with the MBI. Results We found that no individual participant characteristics were associated with the level of engagement (low vs high number of lessons completed). Participant engagement did vary by the call center (P<.001). We identified the following overarching qualitative themes: (1) the participants perceived benefits of mindfulness practice, (2) the participants perceived challenges to engage with mindfulness and the intervention, and (3) intervention components that facilitated engagement. The participants expressed positive beliefs in the perceived benefits of practicing mindfulness, including increased self-efficacy in coping with stressors and increased empathy with callers. The most commonly cited barriers were work-related, particularly not having time to participate in the intervention at work. Facilitators included shorter meditation practices and the availability of multiple formats and types of intervention content. Conclusions The findings of this study suggest that efforts to improve intervention engagement should focus on organizational-level factors rather than individual participant characteristics. Future research should explore the effect of mindfulness practice on the efficiency and effectiveness of 9-1-1 telecommunicators at work. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02961621; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02961621


Optimisation of public transport use (such as angkot or microbus) is required due to the difficulty to increase the roadway capacity by widening of road in order to manage supply. Therefore, an alternative approach is required by managing transport demand so that the system can be controlled. This approach is required especially for the new developed housing in Dalung Village, Badung Regency. Dalung area (in North Kuta District) is part of Samigita development project where the the number or people travelling to work are about 613 persons (189 persons working in public service and 424 persons in private company). The majority of people in this area are travelling by private vehicles. One aspect that needs to be studied is the general cost for the journey to work both by private vehicles (motor bikes) and public transport. Mode choice model used is Binomial Logit Model. The model equation is Log {(1 – PP ) / PP} = 2,248 – 0,001 (CP – CU). Results of analyses indicate that if the cost difference between public transport and private transport increases, the probability of using private vehicles will increase; Although the cost of the two modes of transportation is set at the same cost, the majority of workers will still use private vehicles (about 79%), and this is also the case even when the cost difference is Rp 2.800,00. The cost balance between private vehicles and public transport is achieved when the cost of using private vehicles is about 1.4 times more than public transport cost.


The invention provides an anti-explosion high-voltage switch clamping jaw. The anti-explosion high-voltage switch clamping jaw comprises a copper connecting pillar, a cushion block, a fixing nut and a lock nut, wherein threads are arranged on the front portion and the rear portion of the copper connecting pillar, a U-shaped notch is formed in the front end of the copper connecting pillar, the cushion block is movably placed in the U-shaped notch of the copper connecting pillar, the fixing nut is installed at the front end of the copper connecting pillar through the threads, and the lock nut is arranged on the outer side of the fixing nut. The anti-explosion high-voltage switch clamping jaw solves the problems that the mode of connection between existing anti-explosion high-voltage switch in and out cables and a switch device is complex, connecting strength is low, and quality is hard to control.


Knowledge of the response of periodontal tissues to artificial crowns and fixed partial dentures is crucial in the development of treatment plan with predictable prognoses. Crowns and FPDs increases the incidence of gingival inflammation adjacent to restorations, particularly if restoration rests on free gingiva, has sub-gingival finish line, poor marginal adaptation or improper crown contours. The periodontium of the tooth to be restored should be healthy before starting the restorative procedure. The successful functional and esthetic rehabilitation of tooth with predictable prognosis depends on establishing a physiologic periodontal climate and facilitation of maintenance of periodontal health. This case report describes the effects of tooth preparation procedure and poorly designed crowns on health of adjacent periodontal tissues and esthetics.


The 'BRS Vitoria' is a black hybrid seedless grape with a raspberry-like taste. These characteristics meet the main demands of the grape industry in Brazil, and also this cultivar show good tolerance to downy mildew. However, there is no information available on the phenological characteristics and thermal demand of this grapevine in subtropical area. The objective of this work was to characterize the phenological behavior and determine the thermal demands in degree-days of this grapevine in the Northern region of the Paraná State. The trials were conducted during two consecutive seasons (regular crop of 2013 and off-season crop of 2014). The study verified the phenological behavior and the thermal demands of 20 representative grapevines trained in a overhead trellis system, spaced at 2.5 x 5.0 m. For the characterization of the phenological stadia, two canes of each grapevine were marked. These canes were evaluated according to the duration in number of days of the following stadia, starting from winter pruning: a) cotton swell, b) sprouting, c) inflorescence emergence, d) flowering, e) veraison f ) ripening. The thermal demand was calculated by the total degree-day (DD) from pruning to ripening, as well as for each of the phenological subperiods, considering 10 °C and 12 °C as base temperatures. Results showed that the duration of the pruning to ripening was 130 days, and thermal demand was 1,679.96 DD for the regular crop and 134 days and 1,831.84 DD for off-season crop, being the temperature-base of 10oC the most adequate to calculate this demand.


Aims and methods Staff from five community mental health teams (CMHTs) were trained to use structured rating scales for akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and Parkinsonism. Detection rates of these side-effects were compared for the six months before and after the intervention. Results Fifty-seven per cent of the target professionals participated, screening 200 (52%) eligible patients. This resulted in significant increases in the recording of all three side-effects as positive but no increase in their formal diagnosis. Clinical implications Detection rates of these side-effects can be increased to those predicted by research with significant reductions in drug dose and non-adherence and without clinical deterioration.


Being based on the theoretical considerations presented in part I a general solution procedure is given, which during the process uses basic solutions with negative components, too. Criteria for the variables which have to enter the basis solution and for those which have to leave it are proposed. Hereby the value of the discrepancy does not increase. The first basis solution with is discussed. The case, in which the objective function is unbounded over the feasible region is considered in details. Then by specification the primal-dual algorithm and a primal simplex method are developed from the general solution procedure.


The author used known relations for four elastic coefficients (tension modulus, shear modulus, bulk modulus and Poisson's ratio) and also a new discovered relation between latent fusion heat and the Young's modulus of metals belonging to the same subgroup of the Periodic Table for verification of handbook values of elastic moduli of pure metals. The values of Young's moduli of Lithium, Gallium, Silver and Gold presented in Smithells Reference Book [1] and some other handbooks are wrong. The values of bulk moduli of Rb, Cs, In, Ga, and Li, and of some other metals absent in the handbooks should be established for better verification of the corresponding sets of elastic coefficients. The relation between the relative magnitude of Young's moduli of metals belonging to the same subgroup and of corresponding relative magnitude of fusion heats may help to establish the magnitude sequence of the E-moduli of some metals (e. g. E Au > E Ag ).


Obesity is the most common nutritional disorder in the developed world and is assuming great significance in the developing world. Although obesity is the condition which results from excess body fat, few definitions are based on measuring or estimating the fat content. Indeed, both clinical practice and population studies depend only on measuring weight and height: weight corrected for the individual's height is then accepted as a crude indication of the body's fat content. A widely accepted method for simplifying the tables for weight and height is to calculate the body mass index (BMI) which is the weight in kilograms divided by the height in metres2 measured in indoor clothing without shoes. A normal BMI is between 20 and 25 kg/mZ whereas overweight is defined as a BMI of 25.1-29.9 kg/m2. Obesity is considered as a BMI > 30 kg/m* because a BMI above this level is associated with increasing morbidity and mortality. Obesity as a primary reason or as a secondary complicating factor is possibly the commonest presentation to all medical specialties.


Cervical human papilloma virus (HPV) infection among women from 17 to 62 years of age in Montenegro was studied using in situ hybridization and cytological testing. Cervical HPV infection was diagnosed in 44.3% of women. The most common HPV genotype was 31/33/51 found in 56.9%. HPV positive samples for types 16/18 were identified in 41% HPV positive samples. The results showed that 57% and 45% of women who had had their first sexual intercourse before and after the age of 18, respectively, had cervical HPV infection. Cytological findings of Papanicolaou (Pap) test class III were significantly more common in women smokers. Cervical HPV infection among women in Montenegro is most com- monly caused by HPV genotypes for which a prophylactic vaccine is available, or by phylogenetically related types, thus offering the opportunity of using vaccines to reduce the incidence of HPV infection.


to inform much research in composition studies. One particular emphasis has been on admitting the "personal" into our public discourse, on locating ourselves and research participants in our research studies. In what Adrienne Rich calls "a politics of location," theorizing begins with the material, not transcending the personal, but claiming it. The goal is, Rich says in an echo of Helene Cixous, "to reconnect our thinking and speaking with the body of this particular living human individual, a woman" (213).' This new emphasis on the personal, on validating experience as a source of knowledge, raises a number of recurring questions: How does a politics of location informand change-research practices? How do we both affirm the importance of "location," and yet understand the limitations of our ability to locate ourselves and others? How do issues of power, gender, race, and class shape a politics of location? What ethical principles are consistent with feminist scholarship and can guide researchers? Although these questions are clearly important in feminist scholarship, they are not merely feminist issues. They mark an important point where feminist theories can inform composition studies. And although we believe women's experiences are an important starting point for research because they have been ignored and omitted in studies of many kinds, we also believe that what can be learned from women's experiences and from feminist theory has wider implica-


This work is to set up a solder 3D printing system for solder ball printing. Effect of major factors that may affect the performance of the system has also been investigated. Therefore, performance of the system was optimized. A pneumatic DOD (drop-on-demand) solder 3D printing system was set up for solder ball printing. The effects of major factors were studied by control variable method, such as peak pressure, supply pressure and signal pulse width. Formation of liquid solder droplets during printing was simulated by 2D VOF (volume of fluid) two-phase flow model. The built DOD solder ball 3D printing system can prepare solder balls with good sphericity and uniformness. The formation of solder balls is split into four stages, ejection, necking of molten solder, fracture of liquid thread and formation of droplet. It also shows the peak pressure in ejection chamber increases alongside the rise of supply pressure and signal pulse width. The system provides a more cost-efficient solution for solder-based interconnections.


Thisstudy presents anovel CMOS out-of-plane linear accelerometer. Thiscapacitance type out-of-plane accelerometer contains special designed gap-closing sensing electrode arrayswithfully differential sensing circuits. Moreover, thisstudy established a post-CMOS wet-etching processto realize asub-micron sensing-gap between stationary andmoving electrodes intheout-of-plane direction. Thus, thesensing capacitance canbesignificantly increased forhighfill-factor ofsensing-electrode


Bessenrodt and Ono, Chen, Wang and Jia, DeSalvo and Pak were the first to discover the log-subadditivity, log-concavity, and the third-order Tur\'{a}n inequality of partition function, respectively. Many other important partition statistics are proved to enjoy similar properties. This paper focuses on the partition function $\overline{p}_k(n)$, which counts the number of overpartitions of $n$ with no parts divisible by $k$. We provide a combinatorial proof to establish that for any $k\geq2$, the partition function $\overline{p}_k(n)$ exhibits strict log-subadditivity. Specifically, we show that $\overline{p}_k(a)\overline{p}_k(b)>\overline{p}_k(a+b)$ for integers $a\geq b\geq1$ and $a+b\geq k$. Furthermore, we investigate the log-concavity and the satisfaction of the third-order Tur\'{a}n inequality for $\overline{p}_k(n)$, where $2\leq k\leq9$.


The cleavage of F–CN bond in the presence of Fe(II) silyl complex, [Cp(CO)FeSiMe3], was studied using density functional theory calculations and compared with the mechanisms for E–CN (E = C, N, and...


• Speech recognition and language understanding performance can be improved through an OOV expectand-learn procedure. • A limited domain vocabulary can be utilized to effectively acquire OOVs by the word relatedness theory through web knowledge bases. • With data-driven semantic relatedness, both the global and local learning procedures are able to successfully harvest more than 50% of OOVs, leading to better recognition and understanding performance. • This work demonstrates that o OOV learning may benefit dialog system o the proposed expect-and-learn strategy outperforms the traditional detect-and-learn in both higher effectiveness and no human involvement. 1. Linguistically semantic relatedness o Defined by linguistics, e.g., WordNet (WN), Paraphrase Database (PPDB) (Ganitkevitch et al., 2013) 2. Data-driven semantic relatedness o Distributional semantics, e.g., continuous bag-ofword embeddings (CBOW) (Mikolov et al., 2013)  Detect-and-Learn (Qin et al., 2011; 2012): o Discover OOV words during the conversation o Example: S: "I heard something like SELF, can you repeat it?" U: "It's SELFIE." o Drawbacks • Limited number of new words • Required human efforts to correct spellings and pronunciations  Expect-and-Learn (proposed): o Use semantic relatedness to automatically enrich the vocabulary and language model beforehand


Beginning in January 2006, the Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) announced its decision to replace Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for public companies. That decision impacted Canadian investors and businesses and changed the way financial information is reported in Canada. So how have things gone since the decision was made? What has Canada learned? And what can the United States learn from the Canadian experience? The authors have found some answers. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


Economy is one of the major sub-system of any social system. Economy is the organization of production and distribution and consumption of goods and services within a socio cultural system. It refers to the ways people make their livelihood. The ancient economy of this tribal is governed by its geography and its natural resources endowment. They lived a very simple rural life, isolated from the larger world. In the olden times this tribesmen, isolated from modern civilization and advance technology, depended their livelihood directly on their lands. Agriculture is the mainstay of their economy and they largely depend on their forest resources. Their simple life demands not more than their basic necessities and they are able to maintain themselves with whatever is produced from their village. Their entire economic operations are based on the direct production of the land. Over time the interaction which developed between this tribal and the larger world outside their secluded system gradually introduced changes in their economy. Modernisation and cultural contact with the larger society have brought about economic changes in this tribal community. The wave of modernisation is seen to be breaking down the traditional mode of subsistent economy resulting to a new mode of modern commercial agricultural economy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 03-11-2018 Date of acceptance: 17-11-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


【Objective】The content of starch on spring wheat were pushed lower by the dry and hot wind in Ningxia area,study on effect of high temperature and drought on the formation of starch of spring wheat would be significant to improving yield and quality of spring wheat in the Northwest area.【Method】Effect of high temperature and drought on the formation of starch after flowering on spring wheat were studied on pot experiment. 【Result】The results showed that,ADPG,UDPG,SSS and SBE activities decreased 5%- 10%, changing drastically with the growing of wheat under high temperature after anthesis or soil drought. Drought stress,high temperature and drought interaction effects on different water treatment had tremendous effect on Ningchun 4,the difference of ADPG,UDPG,SSS and the grain amylose content were significant on different treatments of water stress,and the activity of ADPG were significantly affected by water stress,but no significant effect on the amylopectin content and total starch content was displayed.【Conclusion】Tthe amylose content and its key enzymes were mainly affected by high temperature and drought after anthesis,which affected the total starch content,for this reason,it was suggested that the reasonable measures were taken to ease the harm of high temperature and drought and improve the yield and quality of the spring wheat.


The present article consists of three sections. The first section considers some dimensions of the discussion on (cid:145) rights (cid:146) in the framework of religious thought with the centrality of jurisprudence, and distinguishes four types of rights, defining each of them. This section aims at specifying the central point of the subject of this study. In the framework of jurisprudence, rights (cid:150) as opposed to obligations (cid:150) contain benefits for a Muslim, and they have been mentioned inside Shari ʿ a in a variety of direct or indirect forms through legal or non-legal languages. Sometimes, such rights have not been mentioned in Shari ʿ a. The latter type constitutes of rights that we may cause them to be confirmed by Shari ʿ a through some certain mechanisms. In the second section of this study, the nature of the theory of Ib (cid:226) ḥ a (literally, (cid:145) permissibility (cid:146) ) and important


The S&A drug database for handhelds, sold to dermatologists for 8 years, was uploaded as a new iPhone application (app), February 2010. Our program notes all warnings at the several FDA levels: boxed warnings, bold warnings, warnings, and adverse effects, reflecting greater interest in drug warnings by all parties, including consumers, regulators, industry. The FDA has a program called MedWatch, which collects reports of adverse drug reactions, including serious and fatal reactions. In 2007, The Institute for Safe Medical Practices (ISMP) published a list of the fifteen drugs most often reported as primary suspects for serious and fatal reactions in the FDA's MedWatch program for the eight years ending in December, 2005. Our iPhone app now notes all drugs which made this list.


Abstract This comparative case study presents one key challenge that 2 experienced teachers faced when using simulations: control. Simulations are activities that place high demands on teachers, including the ability to anticipate pitfalls in advance, act in multiple capacities, shape the direction of the activity without unduly interfering, and to be comfortable with the structured chaos that simulations engender. Together these demands strain teachers' restraint when it comes to control. Utilizing a series of interviews, observations, teacher visions of practice, and documents related to the simulations and context, data were collected on experienced teachers' perspectives and practices with simulations. As this article indicates, the use of simulations requires teachers to engage in (soft) control that is applied both subtly and conservatively to maintain simulation's dynamism, verisimilitude, and students' productive engagement. Without such discretion, (hard) control serves as a destructive form of intervention, serving to undermine these teachers' articulated goals. Although simulations are the instrument of this investigation, the findings presented in this article are relevant to the larger challenges social studies teachers face in their struggle with control as they aim to teach in more powerful and student-centered ways.


On range searching with semialgebraic sets.- Graph layout problems.- Parallel recognition and ranking of context-free languages.- On the expansion of combinatorial polytopes.- Neural networks and complexity theory.- Theory of computation over stream algebras, and its applications.- Methods in parallel algorithmcs.- On the complexity of small description and related topics.- Weak parallel machines: A new class of physically feasible parallel machine models.- The complexity of graph connectivity.- A perfect parallel dictionary.- Some remarks on the test complexity of iterative logic arrays.- The degree structure of 1-L reductions.- Promise problems and access to unambiguous computation.- On the complexity of incremental computation.- Rational transductions and complexity of counting problems.- Negation elimination in equational formulae.- Object interaction.- Strong normalization of substitutions.- Probabilistic and pluralistic learners with mind changes.- Parallel complexity of iterated morphisms and the arithmetic of small numbers.- On computational power of weighted finite automata.- The shuffle exchange network has a Hamiltonian path.- Poset properties of complex traces.- A threshold for unsatisfiability.- Dataflow semantics for Petri nets.- About boundedness for some datalog and DATALOGneg programs.- Merging and sorting strings in parallel.- Characterization of context-pree languages by erasing automata.- Insertion and deletion of words: Determinism and reversibility.- Small universal one-state linear operator algorithm.- Mobility in the CC-paradigm.- The emptiness problem for intersections of regular languages.- On finite automata with limited nondeterminism (extended abstract).- Definitions and comparisons of local computations on graphs.- Efficient unidimensional universal cellular automaton.- Inferring a tree from walks.- Almost every set in exponential time is P-bi-immune.- A functorial semantics for observed concurrency.- Modelling concurrency with semi-commutations.- Decision problems for cellular automata and their semigroups.- On the nature of events.- New parallel algorithms for convex hull and triangulation in 3-dimensional space.- Two simple characterizations of well-founded semantics.- Fully abstract semantics for higher order communicating systems.- Superposable Trellis Automata.- Maintaining proximity in higher dimensional spaces.- Characterizing regular languages with polynomial densities.- A strategy for speeding-up the computation of characteristic sets.- One-rule trace-rewriting systems and confluence.


kingmakers in their own right, yet acknowledges that these journalists were in an ongoing dialogue with their media owners, and so parameters existed about the boundaries of the 'acceptable' and the 'unacceptable'. By the time of the 1975 Federal election, these had been stretched to breaking point in news media organizations such as News Limited. By setting its time frame quite tightly, it can only suggest, in its Epilogue, at two key subsequent developments in Australian political communication. One is the way in which the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, which held power for 13 years, the longest period of continuous Labor rule in Australia, did so through a deft strategy of management of national political journalism. The other is the rise of the Liberal–National party coalition government since 1996, which has been the beneficiary of the corollary of the shift of the middle classes to Labor – the growing attraction of the Liberals to upwardly-mobile working-class suburban families, who felt disenfranchised from the group-oriented politics of the Australian Labor Party – and the direct appeals made to this 'aspirational' politics by various media, ranging from the 'tabloid' newspapers to talkback radio (cf. Brett 2003). Nonetheless, for those seeking an understanding of how contemporary Australian political communication has evolved and the relationship it has to the role and significance of media proprietors and the everyday practices of political journalists, this book is an excellent starting point.


Graphene research and in particular the topic of chemical functionalization has been exploded in the last decade. The main aim is to induce solubility and thereby enhance processability of the material, which is otherwise insoluble and inapplicable for technological applications when stacked in the form of graphite. In this frame, initially, graphite was oxidized under harsh conditions to yield exfoliated graphene oxide sheets, soluble in aqueous media and amenable to chemical modifications due to the presence of carboxylic acid groups at the edges of the lattice. Some donor-acceptor hybrid materials with photoand/or electro-active components were prepared and characterized, while their charge-transfer properties were evaluated. However, it was obvious that the highly defected framework of graphene oxide cannot be really utilized in applications that are governed by charge-transfer processes, for example in solar cells. The alternative route for solubilizing and modifying graphene by exfoliating graphite is the current method of choice for the realization of novel hybrid materials and further boost their direct applicability in artificial photosynthesis and the construction of photovoltaic devices. In this review article, the routes for obtaining donor-acceptor graphene-based hybrid materials for managing charge-transfer phenomena, mainly, but not exclusively, with porphyrins and phthalocyanines are presented. Earlier examples and studies performed on graphene oxide modified with organic electron donors are also given.


A grain depot intellectualization integrated control system comprises an upper computer. The upper computer is connected with output ends of a plurality of repeaters sequentially through a terminal receiver and a router, the repeaters are connected with a warehouse-outside air temperature-humidity sensor, a ventilating device, an LED screen and a plurality of optical fiber temperature-humidity sensor systems, and the input end of each optical fiber temperature-humidity sensor system is connected with a warehouse-inside air temperature-humidity sensor, a gas detector and a plurality of optical fiber temperature sensors. When the grain depot intellectualization integrated control system is used, the optical fiber temperature-humidity sensor systems send the grain temperature, air temperature and humidity and gas information measured by the optical fiber temperature-humidity sensor systems to superior equipment according to communication requirements, and the upper computer carries out monitoring according to downstream data received by the upper computer and gives an alarm when an abnormal condition occurs. According to the grain depot intellectualization integrated control system, not only is distribution of temperature measuring points wide and is positioning performance strong, but also the situation that electronic parts and components are resistant to phosphine corrosion when used for detecting the temperature of grains can be eliminated, a wireless communication structure is adopted so that grain conditions can be monitored remotely, both monitoring effects and safety are strong, and the application range is wide.


Understanding changes to geomechanical properties accompanying exposure of shale to supercritical carbon dioxide (sc-CO2) and the effects of the interaction of shale with sc-CO2 is essential to evaluate CO2 utilization for waterless fracturing and CO2 storage. There is limited understanding of the impact of sc-CO2 on time-dependent deformation of shale rocks. This study investigates the short-term creep behavior of Green River shale samples under vacuumed and sc-CO2 conditions. To avoid tertiary deformation, a high pressure high temperature triaxial cell was utilized to conduct creep tests under relatively small stresses. The power-law model describing creep demonstrated an excellent fit to experimental behavior. Power-law model parameters reflect significant ductility of Green River shale and very small time-dependent deformation. Short-term saturation with sc-CO2 (three days) significantly reduced static moduli by 19 to 38%. From a viscous creep perspective, exposing this shale to sc-CO2 caused a reduction in time-dependent deformation. Our observations, combined with findings in the literature, highlight the critical role of water saturation in enhancing creep response before and after exposure to sc-CO2.

 Characterizing rock transport and geomechanical parameters is essential for shale reservoir stimulation success, long-term productivity prediction, and understanding the effectiveness of carbon dioxide (CO2) storage formation shale cap rocks. Shale samples under constant applied stress demonstrate time-dependent deformation that is indicative of viscous creep. Understanding creep deformation is important for both short and long-term responses. For short-term response, studies report that creep increases hydraulic fracturing gradient by causing stress isotropy (Yang & Zoback, 2016). On the other hand, long term response influences transport and productivity by impacting matrix permeability and fracture closure (Villamor Lora, et al., 2016; Sone & Zoback, 2014). Furthermore, creep deformation may cause adverse issues such as wellbore stability and reservoir subsidence (Du, et al., 2018). ) storage formation shale cap rocks. Shale samples under constant applied stress demonstrate time-dependent deformation that is indicative of viscous creep. Understanding creep deformation is important for both short and long-term responses. For short-term response, studies report that creep increases hydraulic fracturing gradient by causing stress isotropy (Yang & Zoback, 2016). On the other hand, long term response influences transport and productivity by impacting matrix permeability and fracture closure (Villamor Lora, et al., 2016; Sone & Zoback, 2014). Furthermore, creep deformation may cause adverse issues such as wellbore stability and reservoir subsidence (Du, et al., 2018).


Zr-2.5%Nb pressure tubes are important components of CANDU nuclear power plants. In-reactor performance depends on a number of microstructural parameters such as crystallographic texture, dislocati...


Spinach (Amaranthus tricolor L.) contains vitamins and mineral that multritionally required by human. However the safety and hygienies of spinach to be consumed is of important, eskspesially vegetable contaminated with heavy metals. Toleable safety regulator for spinach account for is 0,0179 mg/Kg (ppm). The aims of this study is to determine the metal content of Pb in spinach, soils which planted. Lead content was determinaed using an atomic absorption spectrofotometer at the wavelength of 283,3 nm. The results showed that the hightest of Pb was appeared (0,0020 mg/Kg (ppm)) and accoduty in soils (0,0020 mg/Kg) (ppm)) limit of standart SNI (01-7387-2009) the level of Pb Maximum 5 mg/Kg and soils 10 mg/Kg.
Keyword : Lead metals, polutions, spinach, water spinach, soils


This paper reports an experience feedback about a Master-2 and Engineering-School level training in HCI based on the transfer of knowledge and technology from research and industry. We emphasize the importance of training students to promising research areas such as user interface plasticity and to recent technologies for developing mobile media and MS surface table applications. The whole training enhances user-centered methods to encourage students to focus on the use of applications.


The three oil fields Pampo, Linguado and Badejo are located in the southwesternmost known producing areas of the offshore Brazilian Campos Basin. They were discovered as a result of reflection seismic survey and produce from fractured lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) basalts, coquinas of the Aptian Lagoa Feia Formation, carbonates of the Albian Macae Formation and from Eocene sandstones of the Carapebus Member of the Campos Formation. This work describes the prospects, their results, the main reservoirs, correlations, continuity and diagenetic problems. Two early production systems are in operation engaged in gathering a better knowledge of the fields for the planning of a definitive production system.


The structure of marine planktonic ecosystem models is discussed. The progress in marine planktonic ecosystem modelling in the 1990s is also reviewed and compared with earlier studies on modelling. The featuress of marine planktonic ecosystem modelling in the 1990s are as follows. The numbers of state variable have increased from 2-4 to 3-7. Emphasis has been placed on the role of physical foreing to ecosystem, and the turbulence mixing in the vertical direction is parameterized according to a turbulence scheme in many models. Most of the studies are based on the madals developed in the 1990s, still some on the models appearing before 1990 or the modified version of the old models. One-dimensional models contribute to a great part of the references and there have been several studies of 3-dimension physical-biological modelling. Most of the studies focus on the North Arctic Ocean and some are applied to broad areas such as Equatorial Pacific, the Arabian Sea and the East China Sea.


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: in the method of depositing hard coatings with porosity of not more than 16.0 vol. % in terms of total volume thereof, based on mechanical methods using compressed air which is fed with flow coefficient from 10 to 100, hydraulically setting coating materials are deposited, said materials containing one or more polymer protective colloids with cationic charges and one or more polymers based on vinyl laurate, 1-methylvinyl acetate, vinyl pivalate, a VeoVa9 ® or VeoVa10 ® product (Shell brand names), methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, ethyl acrylate, ethyl methacrylate, propyl acrylate, propyl methacrylate, n-butyl acrylate, n-butyl methacrylate, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate, norbornyl acrylate, ethylene, propylene, 1,3-butadiene, styrene, vinyl toluene or vinyl chloride. EFFECT: applying coatings with reduced rebound of coating material from the base and, consequently, reducing the amount of wastes and simultaneously obtaining hard coatings whose properties are on par with those of hard coatings obtained using mechanical methods using compressed air fed with flow coefficient from 144 to 240. 3 cl, 3 tbl, 7 ex


The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether there are any statistically significant differences in movement efficiency of 4 and 6 years old boys and girls. We were also interested in the differences occuring among the boys and girls of the same age.
A MOT 4−6 test including 18 movement exercises has been used for testing the children. 17 of those movement exercises are graded according to a three-level scale (0, 1, or 2 points). The sum of all the points achieved represents the movement efficiency of an individual child. The testing sample included 60 children, comprising of 30 4-year-olds and 30 6-year-olds. The data was collected during the study year of 2014/2015, namely from October 2014 until May 2015.
The data was processed with a statistical programme SPSS. We have proven that statistically significant differences exist between the groups of 4-year-olds and 6-year-olds, while the differences among boys and girls were not proven to be statistically significant.


Although a basic market-oriented employment mechanism and system have set up,labor system still needs to be reformed and improved because labor relation,employment between urban and rural,and foreign relations.By analysing three cause above,the article thinks there are three trends to reform and develop employment system,such as: strengthening to protect benefits of labors in order to construct harmonious labor relations;Coordinating employment between urban and rural and strengthening public employ service in order to create equal employment;and participating negotiation actively as a whole in international affairs in order to match between domestic and international employment problem in the globalization.


New Perspectives on Aesthetics, Politics, and Society in Eastern Europe December 2-12, 2015 in Berlin The Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland in cooperation with the Humboldt- Universitat zu Berlin and the Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) cordially invite doctoral and postdoctoral scholars from the fields of History, Political Science, Literature, Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Geography, and Sociology...


Data from 70 patients confirmed that I/sup 131/ clearance is one of the most precise diagnostic methods for differentiating eu- from hyperthyroid conditions. (OTS)


The present writer is in receipt of a communication from an honored and esteemed correspondent, a distinguished member of the faculty of a well-known French university, in which the utmost surprise is expressed at the "action — or rather the inaction of the American men-of-war when, off Nantucket, they suffered merchant ships to be sunk by the U-63 within the range of their guns." " I t seems to me" (the French writer continues) " that there was there a violation of the rights and sovereignty of the United States. I state my opinion on this point of international law in a short note which you will find included herein." The note, which was written in French, covered some five pages and began by a quotation from Baron Ferdinand de Cussy's work on Phases et Causes cilebres du droit maritime des Nations, t. 1, p. 250, as follows:


We introduce and investigate the modified total variation (TV)-Stokes model for two classical image processing tasks, i.e., image restoration and image inpainting. The modified TV-Stokes model is a two-step model based on a TV minimization in each step and the use of geometric information of the image. In the first step, a smoothed and divergence-free tangential field of the given image is recovered, and in the second step, the image is reconstructed from the corresponding normals. The existence and the uniqueness of the solution to the minimization problems are established for both steps of the model. Numerical examples and comparisons are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the model.


The analysis of existing methods of authentication on mobile devices points out that existing approaches either do not provide the necessary level of security, or cause some inconvenience to users. The research suggests one of the ways to improve the security of existing authentication systems while maintaining the convenience of using mobile devices. It introduces continuous user authentication based on the features of their interaction with the device's touch screen. This article investigates the main classes of methods for processing behavioral characteristics applicable to the user authentication task based on behavioral biometrics. The data on the features of interaction with a touch screen was collected from twenty-one users, including the author of this research. The prototype of the authentication system capable of authenticating users quite accurately was obtained as a result of the feature extraction and model fitting based on the isolation forest technique.


Cement stabilized macadam base,which has the excellent plank property and water stability,as well as the strong strength and rigidity,can improve the pavement bearing capacity effectively and is convenient for construction,what's more,it is environment-friendly,so it is widely applied in high-grade highway construction.Usually basic diseases are prevented comprehensively from the aspects like material selection,mixture ratio design,construction quality control so as to reduce the diseases and prolong the asphalt pavement.


The olfactory bulb response to direct electrical stimulation was studied in succinylcholine-paralyzed rabbits. The following results were obtained.1) The response set up by direct stimulation of the olfactory bulb is composed of two most stable components, i. e. spike and slow potentials. The response was compared with the findings of other investigators.2) Regional difference of the response pattern is due to the thickness of the layer of olfactory nerve fibers. The spike is most prominent near the anterior portion of the bulb. In the hindmost portion, probably the accessory bulb, a complicated response was found.3) Response amplitude-recording distance relation indicates that spike is rapidly decreased in amplitude, while slow potential does gradually. This depends mainly upon the lower threshold of slow potential than that of spike and also interglomerular transfer of activation.4) Absolute and relative refractoriness of the spike was different from that of the slow potential. Absolute refractoriness of both potentials were respectively about 2 msec and 6 msec.5) By means of the depth recording, element corresponding to the spike was discriminated from that generating the slow potential. It was found that the former is localized in superficial layer, while the latter in somewhat deeper one.6) Gamma-aminobutyric acid and gamma-amino-beta-hydroxybutyric acid depressed the slow potential markedly while the spike remained unchanged. Close similarity of the slow potential to the cerebral dendritic potential was pointed out.7) Procaine suppressed completely the spike, whereas the amplitude of slow potential was not markedly affected. Likewise strychnine abolished the spike but caused the slow potential to augment a little.8) The spike and slow potentials were not significantly affected by curarine applied topically or intravenously.The above evidences seem to offer further support for our hypothesis about origins of the spike and slow potentials: The former is due to the action potential of olfactory nerve fibers in the superficial layer, and the latter results largely from the activity of dendrites of mitral and tufted cells.


The invention discloses a bamboo strip defect online detection method based on machine vision. A camera is used for photographing the four surfaces of a bamboo strip continuously along the length direction of the bamboo strip to obtain the gray images of the surfaces of the bamboo strip. The image treatment is implemented on every captured frame of digital images and whether defects exist on the small section of the bamboo strip in the frame of the images is judged according to the bamboo strip defect detection method. If the small section of the bamboo strip in the frame of the images is provided with detects, the whole bamboo strip is considered to be provided with detects and simultaneously an instruction of the existing defects is sent to a sorting mechanism. If small sections of the bamboo strip in all frames of the images of the whole bamboo strip are provided with no detects, the bamboo strip is considered to be provided no detects. Simultaneously, an instruction with no detects is sent to the sorting mechanism. The method can implement the online detection on the defects of bamboos with different color shades and simultaneously detect the four surfaces along the length direction of the bamboo strip.


Abstract The effect of continuous illumination and a daily light dark cycle on the free feeding weights of pigeons was determined. Small unsystematic fluctuations occurred within each day during continuous illumination while substantial gains occurred immediately before the dark cycle. The daily accentuation in weight gain did not occur when a daily period without food was substituted for the period of darkness.


This paper aims to optimize the two-stage helical pairs (TSHPs) in a helical hydraulic rotary actuator (HHRA) in terms of volume, transmission efficiency, and maximum contact stress. Volume and transmission efficiency can be determined through analytical mathematical models. However, calculating the contact stress of helical pairs necessitates complex and time-consuming finite element simulation. To address this issue, a method for predicting the maximum contact stress using an ensemble of metamodels (EMs) is proposed, with an automated finite element simulation process developed for data provision. The superiority of the EMs is validated through comparative analysis with three stand-alone metamodels. The optimization is carried out using the NSGA-II algorithm, including four combinations of the three objectives, and global sensitivity is analyzed over the objectives. The results indicate a trade-off relationship between maximum contact stress and volume in the optimal space. Moreover, considering multiple combinations enhances the robustness of the optimization results. The method is effectively applied to the design of the TSHPs and provides a new idea for the related actuator design.


Direct α-allylation of ketones catalyzed by a palladium(0)-diphosphine system took place employing O-allylisourea as the allylating reagent under neutral conditions at room temperature in DMF.