The article presents the study results on the indication and species differentiation of the Babesia genus protozoa in the organism of ticks taken off dogs and cattle. Diagnostic tests were performed using a multiplex PCR test system, being a self-engineering product, which allows to determine the DNA presence of 6 Babesia genus species in any biological samples, namely: B. canis, B. divergens, B. caballi, B. major, B Bigemina, B. bovis, three of them being species-specific, by the bands' size at the amplification products' electrophoregrams. The above test system contains 2 direct and 3 reverse primers flanking the DNA fragments of the gene encoding the 18S rRNA of the Babesia genus protozoa.The subject of the study were ticks obtained from 17 dogs of different breeds and sex-age status and 12 units of livestock (cattle). As a result, the babesial DNA was detected in 11 samples, eight of which were differentiated as Babesia canis, two as Babesia bovis and one as Babesia divergens. Based on the results obtained, the animals, whose ticks, taken off them, had babesia detected, one or another strategy was developed for treatment and prophylaxis measures.The approach suggested in the present article permits identifying the possible risks of babesia invasion at the earliest stages of the disease. Presence or absence of the Babesia genus protozoa in the body of sanguivorous ticks permits avoiding treatments rather toxic for the organism, or to carry out preventive therapy long before the babesiosis clinical symptoms' manifestation. It is vitally important for pregnant females and especially sensitive to babesiosis dog breeds.The prospect of further research is development of the PCR test systems for indicating and differentiating other tick-borne infections and invasions.


The phenomenon of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) was first experimentally observed 33 years ago. FQHE involves strong Coulomb interactions and correlations among the electrons, which leads to quasiparticles with fractional elementary charge. Three decades later, the field of FQHE is still active with new discoveries and new technical developments. A significant portion of attention in FQHE has been dedicated to filling factor 5/2 state, for its unusual even denominator and possible application in topological quantum computation. Traditionally, FQHE has been observed in high-mobility GaAs heterostructure, but new materials such as graphene also open up a new area for FQHE. This review focuses on recent progress of FQHE at 5/2 state and FQHE in graphene.


Three kinds of worlds have been proposed by Roger Penrose, the physical world, the mental world and the mathematical world. The mathematical world may contain relations which do not exist in physical world. It is proposed in this paper that as the evolution of the universe and the biosphere progresses more and more relations from the mathematical world are needed to explain the universe and the biosphere. Specifically, the example from the membrane transporter systems in the prokaryotes and eukaryotes has been taken. It is observed that the membrane transporter systems in the eukaryotes are more complex than in prokaryotes and more and more relations from the mathematical world would be needed to explain these systems in eukaryotes as compared to prokaryotes. This is consistent with the hypothesis proposed in this paper since eukaryotes are considered more advanced than prokaryotes. Evolution of the Universe and Biological Organisms Progressively Involves More Information from the Mathematical World Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of : Evolution of the Universe and Biological Organisms Progressively Involves More Information from the Mathematical World


The invention provides an auxiliary-winding-free primary side controlled LED (light-emitting diode) driving circuit and PFC (power factor correction) constant-current control circuit thereof. The LED driving circuit comprises the PFC constant-current control circuit, a first capacitor, a first resistor, a potential-divider network, a transformer, a secondary side diode and an output capacitor, wherein the first end of the first capacitor is connected with a power port of the PFC constant-current control circuit, and the second end of the first capacitor is connected with a grounding port of the PFC constant-current control circuit; the first end of the first resistor is connected with a sampling port of the PFC constant-current control circuit, and the second end of the first resistor is connected with the grounding port of the PFC constant-current control circuit; the potential-divider network is used for dividing voltage between the grounding port and the ground, and the output end of the potential-divider network is connected with a feedback port of the PFC constant-current control circuit; a synonym terminal of a primary side winding is connected with a grounding port of the transformer, and the dotted terminal of the primary side winding is grounded; the positive pole of the secondary side diode is connected with the dotted terminal of the secondary side winding; the first end of the output capacitor is connected with the negative pole of the secondary side diode, and the second end of the output capacitor is connected with the synonym terminal of the secondary side winding. The auxiliary winding is omitted, the cost is reduced, the output voltage range is enlarged, and the compatibility of the whole machine is improved.


Glyphosate is worldwide the most used herbicide because it is an efficient weed killer with favorable environmental and toxicological properties such as very low human and animal toxicity. Chemically, glyphosate is a phosphonate, i.e. it resembles phosphate. Consequently, glyphosate is strongly sorbed by the same soil minerals as phosphate, especially aluminium and iron oxides, allophane/imogolite and other variable charge minerals, whereas sorption by 2:1-layer silicates is modest. However, this similarity between the two compounds indicates that phosphate may affect glyphosate sorption and degradation. Therefore, phosphate may affect the leachability of glyphosate and, in turn, the risk of groundwater contamination with this xenobioticum. Although the effect of phosphate on glyphosate sorption was pointed out shortly after the introduction of the herbicide in 1974, much is still unclear about interactions between glyphosate and phosphate. Therefore, it has been attempted to summarize available knowledge on influence of phosphate on sorption and degradation of glyphosate and its main metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) at different scales from the isolated mineral to the field level. The summary has shown that the interaction between glyphosate and phosphate can exhibit great variation from mineral to mineral and from soil to soil according to investigations in several laboratories. Phosphate has been shown to suppress glyphosate sorption by some minerals and soils but for most minerals and soils the effect is limited or even absent. This discrepancy has been interpreted as existence of two kinds of sorption sites including common sites subject to glyphosate-phosphate competition and to sites specific for either glyphosate or phosphate, where the two sorbates are sorbed independently of each other (additive sorption). Phosphate seems to have a positive effect on glyphosate degradation in some soils but no or little effect in other soils. Transport of presumably colloid-bonded glyphosate and AMPA in structured clayey soils with macropores has been demonstrated both in several lysimeter studies and few field trials; the leaching is augmented by heavy rainfall shortly after glyphosate application. However, the role of phosphorus in this transport has not been investigated. In sandy soils without macropores, glyphosate and AMPA do not seem to leach.
These results are in agreement with those of a Danish field trial, where concentrations of glyphosate and AMPA in soil samples and leachates were monitored during the year following glyphosate application to plots on a flat sandy soil that have received different amounts of phosphorus (and lime) since 1944. This trial showed that less than 0.1 g/ha corresponding to 0.013 % of applied glyphosate was translocated during the monitoring period and the leachate concentrations of glyphosate and AMPA were less than the EU drinking water threshold, 0.1 μg/L and often below the detection limit (0.01 μg/L). The contents of glyphosate and AMPA in the soil samples did not change significantly during the monitoring period, except for decreasing glyphosate content in the samples from one of the four plots investigated, but this decrease was ascribed to favorable pH conditions for the microbial degraders because of liming. The very limited translocation of glyphosate and AMPA found in the leachate and subsoil during the monitoring was attributed to transport by the plants as also seen in other investigations. Therefore, a main conclusion of this trial was that the soil phosphorus status did not influence glyphosate and AMPA dissipation at that site.


Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remain at increased risk of recurrent ischemic events. An abbreviated dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) duration as short as 1 month has been suggested for those at high bleeding risk (HBR). Whether the benefits of 1-month DAPT are preserved in HBR patients presenting with non-ST-elevation ACS (NSTE-ACS) is subject of debate.

 To assess the impact of NSTE-ACS presentation on the ischemic and bleeding outcomes of HBR patients undergoing PCI with a cobalt-chromium everolimus-eluting stent followed by a 1-month versus 3-month DAPT.

 The XIENCE Short DAPT Program encompasses three prospective, international, single-arm studies evaluating the safety and efficacy of a 1-month (XIENCE 28 USA and Global) or 3-month (XIENCE 90) DAPT duration. The program enrolled HBR patients who had undergone successful XIENCE stent implantation for acute or chronic coronary syndrome (excluding ST-elevation ACS). Event-free subjects discontinued DAPT at 1 or 3 months post-PCI. The primary endpoint was the composite of all-cause death or myocardial infarction (MI), while the key secondary endpoint was Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) type 2–5 bleeding between 1 and 12 months post-PCI. Ischemic and bleeding events associated with 1-month versus 3-month DAPT were assessed according to clinical presentation using propensity-score (PS) adjustment.

 Out of 3,364 HBR patients (n=1,392 on 1-month DAPT and n=1,972 on 3-month DAPT), 1164 (34.6%) underwent PCI for NSTE-ACS. At 12 months, the risk of death or MI was similar between 1- and 3-month DAPT in patients with (adjHR 1.12, 95% CI 0.73–1.70) and without NSTE-ACS (adjHR 0.92, 95% CI 0.65–1.29; p-interaction = 0.33). Landmark analysis between 1 and 3 months post-PCI showed significant treatment effect modification according to clinical presentation (p-interaction = 0.03) with greater benefit of 1-month DAPT in stable patients. BARC 2–5 bleeding was consistently reduced in both NSTE-ACS (adjHR 0.58, 95% CI 0.38–0.90) and stable patients (adjHR 0.86, 95% CI 0.63–1.18; p-interaction = 0.15).

 Among HBR patients undergoing PCI with an everolimus-eluting stent, 1-month compared with 3-month DAPT was associated with similar 1-year risk of ischemic events and reduced bleeding, irrespective of clinical presentation. Between 1 and 3 months post-PCI, however, stable patients seemed to derive greater net benefit from 1-month DAPT compared to those with NSTE-ACS.

 Type of funding sources: Private company. Main funding source(s): Abbott


We investigate the Andreev reflection in the parallel double-quantum-dot structure, by considering one metallic lead and one $s$-wave superconductor to couple to the quantum dots simultaneously. It is found that the Fano lineshhape has opportunities to appear in the linear conductance spectrum of the Andreev reflection, which can be reversed by tuning the dot level or local magnetic flux. However, the property of the Fano effect is very complicated, in comparison with the normal electron tunnelling case. This is manifested as the special Fano form of the linear-conductance expression and the interference manner among the Feynman paths. We believe that this work can be helpful for understanding the Fano interference in the Andreev reflection process.


Impossible differential and zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis are two of the most powerful cryptanalysis methods in the field of symmetric key cryptography. There are several automatic tools to search such trails for ciphers with S-boxes. These tools focus on the properties of linear layers, and idealize the underlying S-boxes, i.e., assume any input and output difference pairs are possible. In reality, such S-box never exists, and the possible output differences with any fixed input difference can be at most half of the entire space. Hence, some of the possible differential trails under the ideal world become impossible in reality, possibly resulting in impossible differential trails for more rounds. In this paper, we firstly take the differential and linear properties of non-linear components such as S-box into consideration and propose a new automatic tool to search impossible differential trails for ciphers with S-box. We then generalize the tool to modulo addition, and apply it to ARX ciphers. To demonstrate the usefulness of the tool, we apply it to HIGHT, SHACAL-2, LEA, LBlock. As a result, it improves the best existing results of each cipher. keywords Impossible differential cryptanalysis, zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis, MILP, automatic tool


Copyright 2018 by Gurpinar B. This is an open-access article distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which allows to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and reproduce in any medium or format, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited. cc Objective This study aims to identify the digastric nerve as an alternative to access the facial nerve in case of post-traumatic facial nerve paralysis. Study design Retrospective study. Setting Tertiary care hospital. Subjects and Methods Eleven peripheric facial paralysis cases between 2005-2016 following trauma to the parotid gland are presented. Initial emergency treatments were done elsewhere but all returned back to treat facial paralysis after 11-18 months to our institute. The digastric nerve was identified and a facial-hypoglossal nerve anastomosis was performed. Results Pre-operative House-Brackmann scores were 6 for all cases. Post-operative scores were between 3 and 4. Pre-operative needle electromyography revealed no motor unit action potentials; after 7 months post-operatively, we had motor unit action potentials in every case. Conclusion In cases of trauma and secondary approaches of the parotid gland, a safe step for finding the facial nerve is to find the digastric nerve and follow it through the main trunk.


 Monte Carlo simulations of carrier transport in InGaAs/InP double heterojunction phototransistors (DHPTs) show that straightforward modifications to the definitions of common emitter gain and base transit time r-establish the first order validity of simple analytical models of phototransistor performance based on carrier diffusion.


Objective To discuss the application effect and experience of problem based learning (PBL) in acupuncture acology. Methods Fourty-five students were devided into 3 groups, each group including 15 students, one group was teached by LBL teaching method (LBL group), one group was teached by typical PBL teaching method (PBL1 group), one group was teached by typical PBL teaching method combined with "compound multimedia patient" (PBL2 group), and the teaching effect were evaluated through the questionnaire survey and examination results after the acupuncture acology teaching proceed separately. Results Compared with LBL group, PBL groups got more score in evaluation of themselves and teachers by questionnaire, the difference were statistically significant (P 0.05 or P 0.01); PBL2 group got the highest score in theory test, the difference were statistically significant (P 0.05 or P 0.01). Conclusion PBL teaching with the model of "compound multimedia patient" can enhance the students' learning effects remarkable in acupuncture acology.


T could be no starker critique of the mid century white-collar workplace than The Apartment (1960). In Billy Wilder's iconic film, "Consolidated Life" names more than the powerful Manhattan-based insurance company that employs the protagonist C. C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon); the phrase also describes the modus operandi of the new model of Fordism. The corporation literally consolidates life, extending its rationality beyond the walls of the office in order to underwrite the very elements that we generally regard as exempt from work—the subjects, activities, and spaces of our familial and communal lives. More to the point, The Apartment implies this consolidation by depicting work and leisure as increasingly indistinct, for both are integral parts of a Fordist "mode of accumulation" that depends, Nancy Fraser has argued, "on mass industrial production, mass commodity consumption, and the vertically integrated corporation" (161).1 While Consolidated Life executives spend their after hours as carefree playboys, their leisure never accedes to authenticity, because it is manufactured and canalized by its reliance on commodity consumption. In The Apartment, Fordism even threatens to automate and standardize virtually every aspect of individual existence, right down to the capacity to care for others. What was life—spontaneous, creative, and unpredictable—becomes prefabricated, deadened, and calculable. Thus, Wilder's film initiates its critique with an indelible image that depicts the common Fordist denominators to which the consolidated life would reduce all leisure, if not all love: the white-collar corporate drone repeating a monotonous task in the open-plan office. But this summary neglects the degree to which cautionary tales


Ti‐based materials are frequently used worldwide for orthopedic implants. New β‐type or glassy alloys with nontoxic alloying elements are investigated with expected improved biofunctionality. The surface regions and surface layers formed at the materials are decisive for the integration of the implant in the body. Thus, the investigation of the surfaces with analytical methods such as XPS and AES is an essential task. We investigated such materials with different alloying elements after electrochemical passivation by both XPS and AES depth profiling. We discuss chemical changes due to the ion sputtering and motivate the use of non‐differentiated spectra for AES quantification. The behavior of the alloy elements in the investigated depth profiles is discussed. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Objective
To summarize the clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatments of 50 children with no history of anti-coagulation rodenticide poisoning.

Methods
Fifty children lacking of poisoning history were admitted to our hospital from Feb 2011 to Dec 2015, who were due to hemorrhage and finally diagnosed as rodenticide poisoning.The clinical manifestation, characteristics of blood coagulation dysfunction, toxicology screening results and treatments of 50 cases were retrospectively analyzed.

Results
All 50 cases were from rural area, and denied the history of taking rodenticide by mistake.The time from the onset to admission to the hospital was from 1 d to 120 d, with an average of 11.66 d. Major clinical manifestations included: 34 cases(68%)of skin ecchymosis, 26 cases(52%)of epistaxis, 10 cases(20%)of bleeding gums and 4 cases(8%)of hematoma at the injection site, with PT 20 to over 200 s and APTT 31 to over 200 s(maximal detection value). The children were diagnosed as rodenticide poisoning when one of brodifacoum, bromadiolone, and diphacinone-sodium or combination of brodifacoum and bromadiolone were detected from their blood specimens, with an concentration of 5 to 3 270 μg/L.The diagnosed children were intravenous dripped with specific antagonist vitamin K1 and the critically ill children were added fresh frozen plasma.All children recovered from hemorrhage within 24 hours after treatment.The level of PT, APTT was close to normal after 3 to 7 days of treatment, and the using of vitamin K1 was accumulated about 30 to 70 mg.The children were given maintenance treatment of vitamin K1 for three months after discharge until the condition was stable.

Conclusion
Commonly used rodenticide has the characteristics of fat soluble, easy to accumulate, long incubation period, and long treatment period and so on.Children with no bleeding performance have the clinical tendency of acute bleeding, prolonged PT and APTT should be considered the possibility of rodenticide poisoning.Blood or urine samples should be screened for toxicology as soon as possible, and meanwhile children should be given antagonist treatment with special antidote vitamin K1 until the coagulation function is stable in normal range to avoid recurrence of the illness.

Key words:
Anti-coagulant; Rodenticide; Poisoning; Vitamin K1


Structure and electronic magnetic properties of polycrystalline Nd_ 0.5Sr_ 0.4Pb_ 0.1M_ 1-xFe_xO_3 were experimentally studied,and the electronic magnetic properties were explained by the double exchange model.Single-phase samples were obtained in the range x=0.00~0.08.There is no appreciable structure change resulting from substitute Fe for Mn in entire series.Space group is Pbnm.But doping Fe strongly restrains double exchange interaction.The transition temperature which ferromagnetic metal state transits to paramagnetic semiconductor one decreases as temperature increases from 5K to 325K when x≤0.06.Ferromagnetic state is fully disappear and changes into the insulator state when x≥0.08.


With the rapid advance of material science and technology, composite materials are of more and more importance in engineering, physics and mathematics theory owing to their high intensity and physical performance. Therefore it is essential to accurately predict the physical performances of these composite materials. Up to now, the papers on the method for predicting the physical parameters of composite materials with random distribution are very few. For the elliptic PDF problems with stationary random coefficients, Jikov and Kozlov developed the homogenization method, and proved the existence of the homogenization solution. However, they did not give the numerical method for computing the homogenization parameters and solve the homogenization equation. In this paper, first of all, homogenization heat transfer model of molecular cracks of composite materials will be introduced. Secondly, the author would like to apply multi-scale and mixed finite method to approximation the heat transfer model. Finally, the existence, uniqueness and convergence of the multi-scale and mixed finite approximation solution are proved.


In this study, the thermophysical properties of nanofluids obtained by adding certain ratios to the pure water such that CuO, ZnO, MgO particles and CuO + ZnO, MgO + CuO, MgO + ZnO hybrid particles were determined theoretically using the models in the literature. Thermal conductivity, specific heat, viscosity values of nanofluids with different concentrations such as 0.5%, 1%, 2% and 2.5% were calculated and the models were compared. hybrid conductivity, specific heat, viscosity values of nanofluids with different concentrations were about the models by comparing the obtained results. Theory and Methods: Hybrid nanofluids are an extension of mono nanofluids, obtained by suspension of hybrid nanoparticles in a basic liquid. Thermophysical properties of nanofluids and source research has been done. In order to determine the thermal behavior, models developed for thermophysical properties in the literature were examined. Results: The results have shown that the heat holding and carrying capacity of metal oxides in nanofluids is higher than pure water. It has been observed that the thermal conductivity Abstract Nanofluids and hybrid nanofluids containing nano-sized metal oxide particles are known to perform better in terms of thermal conductivity when used as working fluids in thermal systems. The thermal and physical properties of working fluids are important parameters in the solution of many heat and flow problems. In this study, the thermophysical properties of nanofluids obtained by adding certain ratios to the pure water such that CuO, ZnO, MgO particles and CuO + ZnO, MgO + CuO, MgO + ZnO hybrid particles are nano-sized were determined theoretically using the models in the literature. Thermal conductivity, specific heat, viscosity values of nanofluids with different concentrations such as 0.5%, 1%, 2% and 2.5% were calculated and the models were compared.


This paper makes a thorough analysis of the existing operating system,according to the characteristics and reality of labor security.It analyzes and designs the new system from macro decision-making,business management to public service,etc.Through the analysis and design,the author aims to build an efficient,rapid,safe and integrative information system for labor security industry.


The article explores the comfort of the region and its zoning based on natural and climatic, social and economic conditions for human living.We completed this study by solving the following tasks: – Selection of statistical indicators characterizing the comfort of living; – Calculation of synthetic indicators by bringing them to dimensionless normalized val-ues; – Retrospective integral assessment of the comfort of living in different areas and eco-nomic zones of the region. Selection and analysis of a large array of indicators of economic, housing and utility, en-vironmental and social comfort of living for different areas and economic zones of the re-gion in a quite profound retrospective allows you to approach to their objective assess-ment as close as possible. The presented method to assess comfort of living quantitatively and the region territory zoning can be applied by the municipal and regional authorities in order to equalize the development of the areas and economic zones in terms of social and economic conditions. Keywords— Economic, Social, Housing and Utility Comfort, Environment, Zoning


This paper introduces the concept of grid technology,key technologies and key problems to be solved.It also studied the worldwide research progress of grid technology,through which to learn some experiments about the construction of grid.The combination of grid with digital library is the emphasis of this paper.Finally the design method of above combination is presented.


Introduction:
 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the medical use of stroke patients. This study evaluated the health-seeking behavior of stroke patients and changes in stroke care services at the time of three domestic COVID-19 outbreaks in Korea using the Korean Stroke Registry (KSR) data.

 Methods:
 We reviewed data from patients with acute stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) from Jan 2019 to May 2021. There were three domestic COVID-19 outbreaks (1st: Feb to Mar 2020, 2nd Aug to Sep 2020, 3rd Nov 2020 to Jan 2021). Outcomes included patient characteristics, times from stroke onset to hospital arrival, and in-hospital stroke pathways.

 Results:
 The study included 34,271 patients who visited hospitals that contribute to the KSR. In the first outbreak, in Daegu city (the main epicenter), the number of patients decreased by two-thirds compared to the pre-COVID period, and the number of TIA patients was particularly decreased (9.97% to 2.91%). Unlike other regions, the median onset-to-door time increased significantly in the epicenter (361 min vs. 526.5 min, p=0.016), and longer times were common for patients with mild symptoms and who were in their 60s or 70s. The median onset-to-door time increased in the epicenter during the second outbreak, but it was not statistically significant. At the third outbreak, the median onset-to-door time was reduced even in the epicenter compared to the previous one. The number of patients decreased with each outbreak compared to the previous one, but the decrease gradually became smaller.

 Conclusions:
 Korean stroke patients in a COVID-19 outbreak region showed clear changes in health-seeking behaviors and showed a pattern of adaptation to the COVID-19 environment. There is a need for continued attention to an appropriate triage system and public education on the importance of early treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Here, we report a novel approach for the bottom-up assembly of hierarchical building blocks:  simple molecular building blocks (MBBs) and the resultant supermolecular building blocks (SBBs) to build highly coordinated nets. A specific network, the (3,24)-connected rht, was used as a blueprint to construct a metal-organic framework where the MBBs/SBBs augment the net.


This paper builds upon a case study of the way organizational activities are represented with numbers in a performance report. A common notion in accounting literature is that accounting numbers en ...


A system was developed to study the capacity of wireless systems in indoor channels using a three-dimensional multi-polarized multiple-input-multiple-output(MIMO) channel measurement system designed for indoor channels.The system was used to measure the three-dimensional spatial distribution of the incident signals and calculate the radial pattern of the antenna to get the system capacity.The measurement system was used to measure the capacity of an MIMO system with three polarizations to evaluate the influence of the multi-polarized antenna's direction on the capacity.The results show that for an indoor channel the three polarization system is superior to a single polarization.Thus,the system can be used to optimize the design and layout of multi-polarized MIMO systems to increase the capacity.


Like many of her contemporaries, Margaret Fuller had great hopes for the West. The Western lands, open for America's future, held the promise of what America could become. In Summer on the Lakes, Fuller sketches what she hopes America will become. Using the landscape aesthetics of her age, such as the work of Andrew Jackson Downing and the Hudson River School of landscape painting, Fuller describes the ideal landscape as one that is more feminine and nurturing, one in which humankind lives in harmony with nature. Fuller's landscape descriptions both point to a better future for America and critique the values of her contemporaries. Fuller contrasts America's more male vision of conquest of the land with her feminine ideal of harmony with nature—a cultivated garden—to show what America's future should be, as it builds westward.


The solubility and the emulsification properties of a crude freeze dried alkaline protein extract (APE), 30% protein, obtained from coconut milk press cake by one step extraction at pH 11, were characterized at pH 2 to 11, and the cream and subnatant fractions of the emulsion studied by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. The protein solubility followed U profile, showing a minimum at pH 3 to 4, close to but not identical to reported iso-electric points of 4 - 5 for many coconut protein fractions. The extract showed good capacity to form oil-in-water emulsion outside the low solubility pH range. The bands that appeared to play a role in the emulsification were found at 32 and 42 kDa in SDS-PAGE electrophoresis, but the most predominant absorbed band was at 23 kDa.


The present invention relates to systems and methods for predictive polarization curves for fuel cell system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for prediction of the performance metric of the fuel cell. Consistent with the present disclosure may include a sensor system of the fuel cell stack for communication, control and predict system performance metric system. The system may determine performance metrics of the current density predicted based on the input provided by the sensor at a plurality of time periods, the calculated current density is less than the lower threshold of the first parameter and the second parameter is calculated at a current density above the high threshold. The first and second parameters may be used within a certain time selectively adjust the fuel cell polarization curves. Based on the polarization curve, predictable performance metrics of the fuel cell stack. The control system may implement a control action based on the performance metric.


This research explores the phenomenon of firm performance as it relates to the business strategy, characteristics of Chinese Family Business (CFB) in Hong Kong's Electronic Companies, and technology strategy adopted by these firms. The motive to do this research is that there has been very little work on business strategy in export-oriented "developing economies - latecomer economies" as referred by Zahra and Covin (1993). There has also been little work on technology policy/strategy in Hong Kong, although there have been many suggestions that Hong Kong firms "need" to change and up-grade their business strategies. Added to this, Hong Kong firms have interesting characteristics (Chinese Family Business, CFB), which may be related to their business and technology strategies. Performance may be determined by the strategies they adopt. In this research, the key dimensions of "technology strategy/policy" are identified, including Imitation, Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturing (ODM), which are important in Hong Kong, but which have not been explored much in the literature. Hong Kong firms were selected in this topic since as China is found to become the world's manufacturing base and a lot of that industry, especially in Electronics Industry that this is an important topic.


While wine's fascination derives by its heterogeneity, which in Italy is well represented by the denomination of origin system, the internationalization of markets requires large investments implying higher degree of production's control and standardization. These requirements have been resolved with an increasing recourse to the consultancy services of professional winemakers. We apply network analyses techniques to affiliation networks of winemakers with wineries reported by the oldest Italian guide: 'I Vini di Veronelli' during the period 1997 through 2006. Our results confirm the importance of professional winemakers in the industry, and suggest this as the mechanism behind the growing standardization of industry practices.


The purpose of this study was to examine district level financial data to assess equity across districts, to compare equity benchmarks established in the literature using selected functions from the state's financial database, and to determine the predictive value of those functions to the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) tests of 1997.


The focus of the paper is to present the processes in formulating a system of performance indicators to evaluate the implementation of the National Construction Industry Automation Plan in the Republic of China. We approach the formulation as a 'construction automation transformation system' which consists of three major components: (I) the inputs, such as funding, manpower and supports, (2) the sub-systems, and (3)the outputs. There are three sub-systems as defined: the processing sub-systems, the receiving sub-system and the socio-economic sub-system. Corresponding to each sub-system, a set of output performance indicators is developed. Program output performance indicators are proposed to measure the effectiveness of the processing sub-system. The industry effectiveness performance indicators and the national welfare indicators are recommended to measure the effectiveness of the receiving sub-systems and the socio-economic sub-system respectively.


The high chromium cast iron(HCCI)type of self-shielded flux-cored wire was developed,and the microstructure of the hardfacing metal was analyzed.The results showed that the microstructure of the hardfacing metal was consisted of martensite,retained austenite and M7C3 carbides.The hardness of the hardfacing metal was increased with increasing of the carbon addition.When the carbon addition reached to 15%,the hardnest of the hardfacing metal began to decreased.The hardness of the hardfacing metal increased from HRC62.7 to HRC63.5 with 2% ferromolybdenum adding into the flux-cored wire.The primary carbide grew along the direction perpendicular to the base metal.Moreover,the surface micro-hardness of the primary carbide was about HV1 783.64 and the side was HV1 127.96.With increasing of the carbon content,the growth direction of the primary carbide was more preferred.


(57) [Summary] The present invention relates to the field of research of obesity. Obesity is a public health problem that is serious and growing. They were identified compound i.e. spherical OBG3 reduce weight gain in animals. The compounds reduce body mass, it appears to be effective in treating obesity-related diseases and dysfunctions. These obesity-related diseases and dysfunction, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, diabetes and hypertension and the like.


"How I Ended This Summer", a gripping Artic-set two-hander, is the latest festival hit to emerge from Russia. Nick Hasted talks to its director Alexei Popogrebsky


As the name suggests, canine round cell tumour (RCTs) are composed of cells with a round morphology. There is some discrepancy amongst authors as to which tumours belong to this category, but most designate lymphomas, melanomas, plasmacytomas, transmissible venereal tumours (TVTs), histiocytomas, and mast and neuroendocrine cell tumours.


Evelyn Waugh's works were translated in many languages and studied by scholars and journalists from numerous countries. In Spain, Waugh's almost entire oeuvre was translated after the Francoist dictatorship. This article analyses the reception of two of Waugh's novels ― Work Suspended and Other Stories and The Love One― during and after the Francoist regime. In order to undertake this research, the censorship files guarded at the General Archive of the Administration in Alcala de Henares were consulted as well as the monographs and newspaper articles produced during and after the totalitarian regime. These documents prove that during Franco's period only one novel passed successfully through the censorship department, and the other one was studied mainly after the Francoist regime.


Owing to the business of legacy software, the migration of procedurally oriented systems to object-oriented platforms is a feasible approach by abstracting object-oriented models in existing software systems with reverse engineering method. This paper proposes an improved object-extraction method based on the key data types of subroutines. We introduce the concepts of type complexity and type coefficient to analyze the relationships between subroutines and user defined data types in a non object-oriented system. This method has been implemented successfully in our experimental automatic C to C++ conversion system, which can better help students to grasp the characteristics of object-oriented language.


Abstract: The growth of tin oxide thin film by Aluminum doping and Fluorine has been carried out with the sol-gel spin coating technique. The growth aims to determine the quality of the thin layer formed based on variations in doping aluminum and fluorine. The basic ingredients used were SnCl2.2H2O, while the doping materials used were Al (Aluminium) and F (Fluorine) with variations in dopant concentrations (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25)%. The growth of a thin layer using measured glass (10x10x 3) mm as a substrate. The growth of thin films includes substrate preparation, sol-gel making, thin film making, and heating processes. The growth of thin layer was dripped on a glass substrate with sol-gel spin coating technique at 1 M sol concentration and treated with maturation for 24 hours. The next step is making a thin layer using a spin coater at a speed of 2000 rpm for 3 minutes. After that, the substrate is heated in an oven at 100°C for 60 minutes. The results showed that the transparency level of the tin oxide layer increases with increasing amounts of doping Aluminum and fluorine. Key words: Aluminum, Fluorine, Sol-gel, Spin Coating, Thin Film, Tin Oxide


Geothermal energy transported to earth surface through volcanoes and hydrothermal systems. Based on numerical model analysis of deep drilling and exploitation data of some Kamchatka and Kurile Islands geothermal reservoirs , and heat and mass flow rates estimations of some Kamchatka volcanoes , the following conceptual model of geothermal energy transport is suggested : if magma trapped in upper crust – hydrothermal system occur, if magma reached earth surface – volcano occur. The consequence is: active volcanoes (discharging magma) are not a promising target for geothermal wells drilling. Some examples of existing Kamchatka and Kurile Islands geothermal fields are following as examples.


Mesoporous MCM-41 silica-immobilized aluminum chloride was employed as a new catalyst for cleaving methylchlorodisilanes to methylchloromonosilanes. The parent and AlCl3-grafted MCM-41 samples were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, N2 sorption, and EDAX. The nature and concentration of the acid sites of AlCl3-grafted MCM-41 samples were monitored by in situ IR using pyridine as a probe molecule. The result of catalytic cleavage reveals that the synthesized catalysts possess considerable activity in the catalytic decomposition reaction and high selectivity to methylchloromonosilanes. The AlCl3-grafted MCM-41 catalyst can be used for the cleavage of methylchlorodisilanes under atmospheric pressure. The influence of reaction time on the performance of the catalyst was also investigated. The conversion of methylchlorodisilanes and yield to methylchloromonosilanes can reach 70.5% and 63.4% over the AlCl3-grafted MCM-41 catalyst, respectively. Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements to view the free supplemental file.


The article is devoted to the analysis of Holocaust representations in Felix Nussbaum's paintings according to historical-philosophical, visual-anthropological, semiotic analysis. Topic of the article is justified by insufficient study of Holocaust images in painting, including the way of representation the memory of the Jewish genocide in painting, experience of deportation to death camps, Holocaust traumas. The relevance of the article is due to insufficient study of the work of the German artist of Jewish origin Felix Nussbaum, who was a victim of Holocaust. Nussbaum as an artist represents an artistic movement «New Objectivity» which was focused on reflecting real essence of things; the artist was also influenced by modernist movements as well as the anti-Nazi one. Nussbaum is a victim of Holocaust who was forced to flee from Germany with his family, constantly go into hiding, and in the end he perished in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Significant period of Nussbaum's legacy is dedicated to the reflection of horrors in the camp Saint-Cyprien (an internment camp), where he was sent. The author considers the concepts of cultural memory in foreign historiography, concepts of the existentialism philosophy, through the prism of which he analyzes the practices of Jewish genocide (Jewish isolation, destiny of refugees, etc.) and what images panting used for its representation. The article investigates, how events of Holocaust affected the formation of artist`s subjectivity, his artistic manner, symbols and artistic means which he uses in his works. In the perspective of visual-anthropological analysis author highlights problematic topics and typology of images, which were reflected in the paintings of Felix Nussbaum, namely: traumatic experience of emigration for survival, experience of deportation and life in the camp, feelings of fear and approaching of death, family theme and personal experiences of the Holocaust. The author highlights autobiographical, historical-philosophical, artistic aspects of Felix Nussbaum`s paintings. The article considers what artistic means Nussbaum used to oppose the policy of Jewish genocide through painting. Based on Felix Nussbaum's work, the author analyses how the artist depicts «traumatic places» (based on Aleida Assmann), and how he expresses his traumatic experience in artistic images.


There are often mechanical problems of emergency power generation units in nuclear power plant, which bring a great threat to nuclear safety. Through analyzing the influence factors caused by mechanical failure, the existing defects of the design of mechanical support system are determined, and the design idea has caused the direction misleading in the field of maintenance and transformation. In this paper, research analysis is made on basic support design of diesel generator set, main pipe support design and important components of supercharger support design. And this paper points out the specific design flaws and shortcomings, and proposes targeted improvement program. Through the implementation of improvement programs, vibration level of unit and mechanical failure rate are reduced effectively. At the same time, it also provides guidance for design, maintenance and renovation of diesel generator mechanical support system of nuclear power plants in the future.


The paper considers the effect of carbon content and heating temperature on hardness and the amount of retained austenite after quenching in wear-resistant cast irons containing 14% chromium and 3% vanadium. A model for calculation of structural composition and hardness of high-carbon alloys containing chromium and vanadium quenched from a certain temperature is also proposed.


The paper describes a laboratory source for generating high‐level, A‐type acoustic impulses. The basic part of the source is a steel cylinder closed at one end with elastic foil. The blast is produced by an abrupt break of the foil caused by an increased pressure of air compressed inside the cylinder. By adjusting the air pressure inside the cylinder the impulses peak SPL may be set within a range of 150–170 dB. As the peak SPL is increased from 150 to 170 dB, the rise time and A duration of impulses decrease respectively from 350 to 14 s and from 1.1 to 0.4 ms. An advantage of the source is that it produces impulses with highly repeatable parameters; for a given value of air pressure inside the cylinder, standard deviation of peak SPL distribution is only 1.3 dB. The source is omnidirectional in the horizontal plane and has a nearly circular directional pattern in the vertical plane. The source is a good alternative for generating impulses with the use of explosives and is particularly useful for measure...


Numerous scholars have used political philosophy to characterise the US environmental justice (EJ) movement's conception of justice. I build upon that work by identifying and critically evaluating the ideas of justice that manifest in mainstream (non-EJ) environmental politics. I do so through a comparative analysis of two groups of activists concerned with the threats posed by pesticides to human health in California. Mainstream agri-environmental activists' narratives and practices evince libertarian and communitarian ideas of justice that support the neoliberalisation of an already compromised regulatory system, as they motivate and legitimise policies, practices, and discourses that undermine the state's environmental protections and shift environmental responsibility to individuals. In contrast, California's EJ activists, like the broader EJ movement, marshal a pluralist notion of justice as distribution, recognition, participation, and capabilities, which rejects the neoliberal project and explicitly criticises the social inequalities and relations of oppression that help produce environmental inequalities.


Penzym ® "100" enzymatic screening test was evaluated with Manchega ewe's milk samples. Specificity of preservative-free ewe's milk samples was 83.0 at 15 min and 96.9 at 22 min of incubation time. The "false positive" results obtained at 15 min of incubation time were present in samples with high total solid and thiocyanate concentrations. Addition of preservative increased specificity compared with preservative-free ewe's milk samples, indicating interaction with method response. This study shows that utilisation of Penzym® enzymatic test is very satisfactory when readings are performed at incubation time of 22 min with preservative-free ewe's milk samples.


Mafic granulites from the North China craton can be divided into two textural types, referred to as A- and B-types. A-type mafic granulites display garnet+quartz symplectic coronas, and outcrop in the eastern and western zones of the craton, whereas B-type mafic granulites exhibit orthopyroxene+plagioclase±clinopyroxene symplectites or coronas, and are mainly exposed in the central zone of the craton. Most A-type mafic granulites preserve the prograde (M1), peak (M2) and post-peak near-isobaric cooling (M3) assemblages, which are represented respectively by inclusions of hornblende+plagioclase+quartz, a peak mineralogy of orthopyroxene+clinopyroxene+plagioclase+quartz+garnet, and overprinted by garnet+quartz symplectic coronas. These mineral assemblages and their P–T (pressure-temperature) estimates define anticlockwise P–T evolutionary paths. The B-type mafic granulites preserve the peak (M1), post-peak near-isothermal decompression (M2) and cooling (M3) assemblages, which are represented by the peak assemblage of orthopyroxene+clinopyroxene+plagioclase+quartz+garnet±hornblende, post-peak orthopyroxene+plagioclase±clinopyroxene symplectites or coronas, and later hornblende+plagioclase+magnetite symplectites, respectively. These mineral assemblages and their P–T estimates define clockwise P–T paths. The anticlockwise P–T paths of the A-type mafic granulites in the eastern and western zones of the North China craton are consistent with a model of underplating and intrusion of mantle-derived magmas. In combination with lithological, structural and geochronological data, the eastern and western zones of the North China craton are considered to represent two continental blocks that developed through the interaction of mantle plumes with the lithosphere from the Palaeoarchaean to the Neoarchaean era. The B-type mafic granulites and associated rocks in the central zone represent a magmatic arc that was metamorphosed and deformed during amalgamation of the eastern and western continental blocks in the late Palaeoproterozoic era. The mineral reaction relations and clockwise P–T paths of the B-type mafic granulites from the central zone record the tectonothermal history of the collision that resulted in the final assembly of the North China craton at c. 1800 Ma.


Last year marked the first full year of econom ic recovery from the deepest recession in the period after the Second World War. Although growth in the first quarter was subpar, robust activity followed through the end of the year. The total value of goods and services produced in the U.s., adjusted for inflation, grew 6.2 percent, or fractionally less than the 6.8 percent first year average of past business cycle upturns.


self-controlled and orderly in the modern world? Parts of Reid's answer, such as the role of the machine in imposing discipline and the effect of the schools, are fairly familiar. The striking part of the paper, on the other hand, reports the voluntary acceptance by numerous factory workers of the current doctrines of economic progress because they saw in this progress the prospect of material and social gains for themselves. Geoffrey Crossick's article, "The Petite Bourgeoisie in Nineteenth-Century Britain," presents an excellent historical analysis of both the ideas of the petite bourgeoisie and their social bases. I found it the best one in the collection. Finally, in the tenth essay Elizabeth Roberts gives some local evidence from oral history showing that industrial workers may not have been as poor as official statistics purported to show. Much of this evidence concerns food and drink: how and where the workers obtained food, how they cooked it (very much better than has long been claimed), how it tasted (also much better), and the like. Health statistics support her thesis that the workers were in fact rather well nourished. The effect of the paper is a vivid re-creation of daily life in admittedly one area. It is a pleasure to read. All this is rich and tasty fare. It is well served, with no dialectical trapezes from which one is expected to swing before sitting down to dinner.


Optimal prediction and coordination of the energy demand of electric vehicles (EVs) is essential to address the energy availability and range anxiety concerns of current and potential EV users. As a result, different EV demand predictors are developed in the literature based on traffic simulators and/or locally-generated EV charging datasets, to provide the required inputs for EV demand management programs. These predictors, however, may not reliably scale to model the EV energy requirements in different regions, particularly with the scarcity of real-world data on EV driving patterns. This work proposes a data-driven, machine learning (ML)-based EV demand predictor based on vehicular traffic flow data between different origin-destination (OD) pairs. The proposed model incorporates the driving patterns in the regions under consideration to determine the corresponding EV energy consumption and hence, the minimum EV energy requirements per trip. The data used in this work is obtained from TomTom Move O/D Analysis portal for the cities of Dubai and Sharjah, UAE. Different ML models are trained on the dataset to develop the EV demand predictor, namely random forests (RF), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), multilayer perceptron (MLP) and linear regression models. Results reveal that the MLP offers a superior performance to all other models, with an $R^{2}\ >\ 0.8$ and a symmetric mean absolute percentage error of ≈ 20% on both the training and testing data subsets, and a significantly lower training time compared to RF and XGBoost. This makes it suitable for EV demand predictions to incorporate regular updates in vehicular traffic flow data for further model tuning.


Thank you very much for downloading visual complex functions an introduction with phase portraits. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search hundreds times for their favorite readings like this visual complex functions an introduction with phase portraits, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some infectious bugs inside their desktop computer.


A buck-type power factor correction (PFC) converter is not only effectively capable of eliminating utility input current harmonics; its related characteristics also include high efficiency, absence of inrush current, capability of obtaining low dc output voltage, ability to protect against short circuit, and so forth. On the other hand, because this type of rectifier must employ inductors design for high inductance, the buck-type PFC converter tends to increase the volumetric size and weight, and this has prevented its widespread use. This paper presents a new control strategy for this type of converter which can reduce the size and weight of the inductor and also eliminate the ripple components included in the output voltage waveform. The operating principle, simulation and experimental results obtained by a prototype rectifier are described.


In this paper,the integrated utilizingtothe main rodents of Myosplax baileyi,Ochotonidae in northwest grassland of Sichuan is researched,and the new methods to control harmful rodents,protect grassland ecology environment and change calamity for benefit are also explored and analyzed.


The IGBT(Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) is a power semiconductor device that has gained acceptance among circuit design engineers for motor drive and power converter applications. IGBT devices(International Rectifier, proposed model etc) have the best features of both power MOSFETs and power bipolar transistors, i.e., efficient voltage gate drive requirememts and high current density capability. When designing circuit and systems that utilize IGBTs or other power semiconductor devices, circuit simulations are needed to examine how the devices affect the behavior of the circuit. The interaction of the IGBT with the load circuit can be described using the device model and the state equation of the load circuit. The voltage rise rate at turn-off for inductive loads varies significantly for IGBTs with different base life times, and this rate of rise is important in determing the voltage overshoot for a given series resistor-inductor load circuit. Excessive voltage overshoot is potentially destructive, so a snubber protection circuit may be required. The protection circuit requirements are unique for the IGBT and can be examined using the model. The IGBT model in this paper is verified by comparing the results of the model with experimented results for various circuit operating conditions. The model performs well and describes experimented results accurately for the range of static anf dynamic condition in which the device is intended to be operated


The establishment and development of national defense education(NDE) entail redefining its basic disciplinary concepts.According to the requirement of NDE theory,we can redefine NDE as "the education which is implemented by the country for raising citizens' national defense consciousness,enhancing citizens' national defense ability.It is an important part of the national defense development and civil education.The core of this definition implies that NDE is implemented by the country,and it applies to all citizens and its purpose is to strengthen citizens' national defense consciousness and improve their national defense ability;and that NDE is not only an important section of national defense development,but also an important part of civil education.


In the relation data theory,the solution of attribute set closure is not only the foundation of proving Armstrong justice system,but also is the foundation of various kinds of mode decomposition algorithm in the design of a relational database logic pattern.The article research the mechanism of attribute sets closure algorithm,and make it in realization by using VC++.


Dysplastic melanocytic nevi (DMN) are distinctive cutaneous nevomelanocytic lesions that possess unique clinical and histopathological features. In our previous study, we showed that the fine structure of melanosomes in epidermal melanocytes of DMN are abnormal and reveal deranged melanogenesis. This study is an extension of our previous study and clarifies the fine structure of melanosomes in both epidermal melanocytes and keratino-cytes with observations in an additional 10 cases of DMN with and without a marked mesenchymal response. We found (a) that a poor mesenchymal response does not exclude fine structural abnormality of melanosomes in DMN; (b) that abnormal melanosomes are manifested by a spherical shape with either fine granules or incompletely developed lamellae and/or both; (c) that melanization occurs unevenly on the spherical granular and/or incompletely on the lamellar matrices; and (d) that these abnormal melanosomes are transferred to keratinocytes before being completely melanized, and they reveal marked degradation. We suggest that the fine structural characterization of abnormal melanosomes is a new adjunct for histopathological diagnosis of DMN.


The experience of our environment is based on the information that reach us by means of our sensory organs, and which are subsequently processed in our brains. Digital interpretation implemented to mathematical models of the studied subjects brings us to the so-called virtual reality that allows us to replace some natural human senses, in this case the visual ones, by computer-generated infonnation. The procedure is expanded to three-dimensional (3D) scanning i. e. searching of the special form of the obse1ved subject/object, then digital recording of the space point cloud (pixels) which correspond to the item, then vectorisation of the fonn, rendering and finally animation. In this way, by watching the display, the impression of the virtual environment can be generated in the human perception. Moreover, in this way the human model can be realized in a characteristic way in such a virtual space. The implementation of this virtual reality, in accordance with the possibilities that it provides, has been the subject of very intensive research in the world, and in Croatia as well. The work presents some possibilities of applying virtual reality in the field of ergonomic analysis of the collision process of two vehicles.


O'Connell, Joanne Curry Assessment Issues. Native American Rehabilitation: A Bibliographic Series, No, 1. Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff. Native American Research and Training Center. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. 86 G0083C0095 40p. Native American Research and Training Center, Box 5360, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ ($4.00). Reference Materials Bibliographies (131)


This paper deals, in a highly practical manner, with the question of determining the true strength of concrete in its final functional state, and it also contains recommendations on safety, and on the dispersal of results. Some testing methods are mentioned and discussed, which are applicable to working site use, and detailed information is given on the precautions that should be taken so that a non destructive auscultation should give reliable data on the actual strength of the concrete.


Has a low voltage operation and sufficient luminous efficiency and luminous intensity, further provides a gentle red light-emitting semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof environments. GaN, InN, the AlN or any two or more of the mixed crystals of these, using a metal organic chemical vapor deposition method, under a predetermined temperature condition, the emission capable sites wavelength of 618~623Nm, Eu or the Pr, Ga, the added active layer so as to replace the in or Al, between the p-type layer and the n-type layer, a red light-emitting semiconductor forming in a series of forming step and forming the p-type layer and the n-type layer the method of manufacturing elements, and the red light-emitting semiconductor red light-emitting semiconductor device manufactured by the manufacturing method for the device.


Efficient implementation of discrete-time Hilbert transformers using switched-capacitor techniques is presented. The proposed network is composed of structurally allpass filters as basic building blocks. As a result, the phase difference of 90 degrees is obtained, for the Hilbert transform pair, with very small sensitivity with respect to capacitance ratio errors. A design example is considered, which includes experimental results obtained in the laboratory with a prototype Hilbert transformer.


Telemedicine is redefining the boundaries of the doctor and patient encounter. No longer do the doctor and patient need to be in the same room. No longer does the doctor have to visually see the patient to develop a diagnosis. New telecommunications infrastructures have created the possibility for a virtual office visit, outside of the constraints of time and space. This radical change in physical boundaries creates a profound transformation of the doctor and patient relationship, the organizational cultures of the healthcare institutions involved, and the administration, management, and reimbursement of services. Debakey (1995) argued that telemedicine, or the use of telecommunications technologies within the field of healthcare, has the potential for having a greater impact on the future of medicine than any other modality. Although the term telemedicine can include a wide variety of applications and technologies, including database management, distance education, and electronic patient records, this chapter will focus the application of telemedicine on delivery of remote electronic clinical consultations. This chapter will discuss telemedicine's historical development, the transformation of the clinical environment from an external, internal, and individual perspective, and future trends. The intersection of communication technology and medicine is not new. In 1877, 21 local doctors built one of the first telephone exchanges to allow easier communication with the local drugstore (Starr, 1982). However, more recent characterizations of " telemedicine " date back over the past three decades. Lovett and Bashshur (1979) divided the development of telemedicine into three stages. The first stage was characterized by pioneering efforts exploring use of telecommunications modalities in the delivery of care across distance with few public or private resources to support them.


The blow fly is considered to be a medically-important insect worldwide. This review is a compilation of the currently known occurrence of blow fly species in Thailand, the fly's medical importance and its morphological identification in all stages. So far, the 93 blow fly species identified belong to 9 subfamilies, including Subfamily Ameniinae, Calliphoridae, Luciliinae, Phumosiinae, Polleniinae, Bengaliinae, Auchmeromyiinae, Chrysomyinae and Rhiniinae. There are nine species including Chrysomya megacephala, Chrysomya chani, Chrysomya pinguis, Chrysomya bezziana, Achoetandrus rufifacies, Achoetandrus villeneuvi, Ceylonomyia nigripes, Hemipyrellia ligurriens and Lucilia cuprina, which have been documented already as medically important species in Thailand. According to all cited reports, C. megacephala is the most abundant species. Documents related to morphological identification of all stages of important blow fly species and their medical importance also are summarized, based upon reports from only Thailand. KeywordsBlow fly, Distribution, Identification, Medical Importance, Thailand International Journal of Parasitology Research ISSN: 0975-3702 & E-ISSN: 0975-9182, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2012 Introduction Thailand is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It comprises 77 provinces that cover 6 regions by location and its hot and humid climate supports a variety of tropical ecosystems. Unlike the temperate zone, tropical ecosystems provide wider niches for the survival of organisms, which are thus able to support a much larger variety of plant, animal and microbe species. Blow flies form one of many insect groups that are commonly found in the country and their families are classified as follows: Kingdom Metazoa, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Hexapoda, Order Diptera, Suborder Brachycera and Family Calliphoridae. They are characterized typically as being metallic blue, green, purple, or non metallic in color and they vary in size [1]. Blow fly larvae serve as carrion feeders that play an important role in recycling organic materials in the ecosystem. Furthermore, adults have been reported as pollinators of mango flowers in Australia [2] and Taiwan [3]. Over 1,450 blow fly species are distributed over all continents in the world, except Antarctica [1]. Based on citation in this review, the first document related blow fly was reportedly found in 1976 [4] and the first taxonomic key for blow flies (subfamily Calliphoridae) in Thailand was documented by Tumrasvin et al, [5]. The first text book relating to medically-important blow fly species of Thailand was written in the Thai language in 2010 by Associate Professor Dr. Kom Sukontason and Associate Professor Dr. Kabkaew Sukontason [6]. Over the past 36 years, there have been many scientific articles that demonstrate blow fly occurrence in several parts of Thailand as well as the fly's biological aspects and medical importance. Although this information has increased gradually, it is still scattered. Therefore, the objectives of this review were to gather and update all information on blow flies, based upon scientific reports from only Thailand and the experience of this author. This review emphasized on mainly 3 aspects, including (i) the occurrence of blow fly species, (ii) morphological identification of all stages and (iii) their medical imCitation: Nophawan Bunchu (2012) Blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Thailand: Distribution, Morphological Identification and Medical Importance Appraisals. International Journal of Parasitology Research, ISSN: 0975-3702 & E-ISSN: 0975-9182, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.-57-64. Copyright: Copyright©2012 Nophawan Bunchu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


In a market economy, the decisions on the interaction of individual and legal entities with non-profit organizations, as well as risk assessment of investments, contributions, grants and other targeted sources of financing the activities of non-profit organizations are impossible to make without the pro-vision of reliable financial (accounting) statements. Such reporting should be confirmed by independ-ent auditors. The article also reveals the goals of the establishment and functioning of non-profit organizations in the Russian Federation; the criteria for classifying them as the need for a mandatory audit and sanctions for non-compliance with given instructions. An algorithm of actions is also provided in order to timely and systematically reflect the necessary conclusion on the official websites of controlling organizations in the territory of the Russian Federation.


The verification of heterogeneous systems, in particular of analog/mixed-signal system, is still a problem. In this session the first two research papers describe new methods to verify analog/mixed-signal systems using an assertion-based approach. The last two papers give an insight into industrial practice.


The late discovery of a nerve injury in a traumatized extremity, particularly when following the debridement of a wound, the adjustment of a dislocation, the setting of a fracture or the application of a splint, is a serious event in the experience of the traumatic surgeon, and certainly the burden of responsibility rests on that surgeon who only after some operative intervention on an extremity discovers the presence of a nerve injury that was not mentioned in the preoperative records. As a rule, the average surgeon feels that the examination of an extremity for a nerve injury is a process requiring considerable technical skill and neurologic knowledge, and that such an examination, to be reliable, should be made by a neurologist. While this is true in some respects, it nevertheless does not excuse the surgeon for overlooking and neglecting a nerve injury. It is commonly believed that to examine an


In this paper, in order to predict and prevent electrical fires that occur in the power system, we measured the informations of electric power, and then proposed a system to predict the electrical fire using these informations. To this end, we analyzed the correlations for over-current, overload and overheating. These states are caused by the grounding current and the leakage current, and are the main causes of an electrical fire. Use these correlations to derive the derivative of the fuzzy rules for membership function. The designed algorithm was simulated by utilizing the informations of the actual power of the switchgear-panel.


Antibodies are essential effectors of the immune system. Within this study different isolated antibody domains were investigated in vitro. First, the role of conserved residues in the VH/VL interface concerning folding, stability and VH/VL binding was assessed. For the CH2 domain, a stability increase was generated by N- or C-terminal amino acid additions. The unfolded nature of the CH1 domain in isolation was studied by amino acid exchanges with CL. Here, a mutant with strong acceleration of the CL induced folding was identified. The obtained data is useful for antibody engineering.


Towards the Sources of Creativity. On the Challenges of Freedom in Art in the Perspective of Conception of Indifference

Abstract

The search for the origin of creativity cannot exclude the issue of freedom. The meaning of freedom as a source of creative acts was highlighted in On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters by Friedrich Schiller. His words "Art is the daughter of freedom" are the starting point of the analysis in the following article. The interpretation of the myth of the creator of the labyrinth – Daedal – indicates that links between creativity and freedom can be found even in ancient times, when neither science nor philosophy existed. Numerous concepts of freedom have accumulated through the ages, and the purpose of this article is not to reconstruct them, but to shed light on relationship between freedom and creativity in one of the possible theoretical contexts only. The concept of making indifference present, put forward and developed by the author in other texts, allows to extract specific aspect of freedom in certain forms of artistic creation. The poetry of Friedrich Holderlin is notably precious and symptomatic in this regard. This article provides an analysis of specific aspects of Holderlin's works that reveal specific challenges of freedom linked to the "anticipation" and "retrospection" of indifference.

Keywords: freedom, creativity, art, anticipation of indifference, retrospection of indifference, Holderlin, Schiller.


A medical pump according to the invention 40 and 40 ', in particular infusion pump for conveying a medium, has a receptacle 42 or 42' for a 'separate, disposed on the hose, the hose clamp according to the invention 2 and 2' of the pump 40 or 40 on. Two relatively movable clamping sections 4 and 6 or 4 'and 6' of the hose clamp 2 and 2 'are in relation to each other to a closed relative position can be brought, in which they disconnect the arranged therebetween hose so that through the interior of the tube no may medium flow. Moreover, the clamping portions 4 and 6 or 4 'and 6' are in relation to each other can be brought into an open relative position in which the 'disposed between the clamping portions 4 and 6 or 4 and 6 tube is not disconnected, so that through the interior to flow of the tube medium. The pump of the invention 40 and 40 'is characterized in that in it, in particular in the receptacle 42 or 42' is 26 or 54 is provided for the hose clamp 2 and 2 ', a sensor, which in the in the receiving 42 and 42 'recorded hose clamp 2 or 2' at least detect whether the clamping portions 4 and 6 or 4 'and 6' are in the closed or open relative position.


Finite automata whose computations can be reversed, at any point, by knowing the last [Formula: see text] symbols read from the input, for a fixed [Formula: see text], are considered. These devices and their accepted languages are called [Formula: see text]-reversible automata and [Formula: see text]-reversible languages, respectively. The existence of [Formula: see text]-reversible languages which are not [Formula: see text]-reversible is known, for each [Formula: see text]. This gives an infinite hierarchy of weakly irreversible languages, i.e., languages which are [Formula: see text]-reversible for some [Formula: see text]. Conditions characterizing the class of [Formula: see text]-reversible languages, for each fixed [Formula: see text], and the class of weakly irreversible languages are obtained. From these conditions, a procedure that given a finite automaton decides if the accepted language is weakly or strongly (i.e., not weakly) irreversible is described. Furthermore, a construction which allows to transform any finite automaton which is not [Formula: see text]-reversible, but which accepts a [Formula: see text]-reversible language, into an equivalent [Formula: see text]-reversible finite automaton, is presented.


With the features of the serious pollution in urban rivers,on the basis of comprehensive consideration in the natural geographical features and socioeconomic aspect and from the dominant factor affecting the vulnerability of ruban rivers,a vulnerability evaluation index system is established;and a vulnerability assessment model established based on matter element analysis method and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to diagnose the river's vulnerability and its spatial distribution;then compared their results,so as to provide a useful reference for the use and protection of rivers.Taking the Chanba River for example,an evaluation index system is established with the above method.The results show that the largest degree of vulnerability is the downstream of Maduwang on the Bahe River and Changjiawan on Chanhe River with the key regions with vulnerabilities for many sewerages and water consumption while the other regions are better.The results of two methods are more consistent,so as to show more credible.


The article provides an analysis of the stage in which the Romanian agriculture is found as regards the performance and competitiveness, by reference to the results of North America - United States and Canada, as well as the European Union. The paper analyzes the main features of advanced agriculture in terms of agricultural efficiency, namely the North American (American and Canadian) production systems, as well as the current state of agricultural development in the Member States of the European Union.


Significant effort has been invested by the Semantic Web community in methodologies and tools for creating ontology mappings. Various techniques for mapping creation have been developed; however less interest has been shown in the actual usage of the created mappings and their application in concrete mediation scenarios. In this paper we show how mappings can be converted to logical rules and evaluated by a Datalog reasoner in order to produced the desired mediation result. The mediation scenario discussed in this work is instance transformation: data expressed as ontology instances is transformed from the terms of one ontology in to the terms of another ontology based on mappings created in a design-time phase. We analyze the required reasoning task and describe how the mappings created at design-time can be grounded at runtime. We also explore strategies and techniques that we employed in order to improve the efficiency of the overall process.


The aim of this study is to identify the issues which need to be addressed if scholarship is to recover the eschatological teaching of Jesus. Eight areas are distinguished: (1) definition of terms used in the academic study of apocalyptic and eschatology; (2) the cultural presuppositions and orientation of the scholar; (3) evaluation of the sources; (4) the kingdom of God and Son of man sayings; (5) the relationship between Judaism and its hellenistic environment; (6) the wisdom and apocalyptic traditions; (7) the impad of the destruction of Jerusalem on the transmission of the Gospel traditions; (8) the notion of human partnership with God in Second Temple Judaism. While it is not possible at present to resolve these issues, this study aims to identify some of the outstanding issues behind the wider problem of the eschatological teaching of Jesus. 145 Since the publication of Schweitzer's Quest of the Histoncal Jesus in 1906 (ET 1910), New Testament scholarship has overwhelmingly recognised eschatology as the conceptual framework of Jesus' teaching. Schweitzer had his predecessors in Reimarus (1778), Strauss (1835/6), and Weiss (1892), but, to employ the terminology made famous in the natural sciences by Kuhn (1962), the revolution came about, or was perceived to come about, not so much with the cumulative efforts of his predecessors as with the paradigm shift introduced by Schweitzer. More recent scholarship, particularly in North America, has challenged the legacy of Schweitzer, located Jesus in a different milieu. and posited a significandy different interpretation of his teaching. The recent treatment of the historical Jesus by Crossan (1991), and the work of Mack on Mark (1988) and Q (1993) are perhaps the most graphic representatives of this tendency. This process has been documented by Borg (1986) and Patterson (1995). who identify areas in which scholarly consensus has turned against the premises on which Schweitzer's notion of eschatology in the teaching of Jesus was founded. While Patterson speaks of a new consensus superceding that inaugurated by Schweitzer (1995:35-41), it is clear that a plethora of unresolved issues makes any consensus in the foreseeable future unlikely. The aim of this study is to identify these outstanding questions. and to indicate their implications for scholarly understanding of the teaching of Jesus. Many of the outstanding issues are precisely those claimed for the new consensus implicidy by org (1986) and explicidy by Patterson (1995). These include the 0254-9356199 0 NTSSA R ep ro du ce d by S ab in et G at ew ay u nd er li ce nc e gr an te d by th e Pu bl is he r ( da te d 20 09 ). 146 RECONSTRUCTING THE ESCHATOLOOICAL TEACHING OF JESUS authenticity of, and relationship between, the Son of Man and Kingdom of God sayings in the synoptic tradition (Borg 1986:525-528), and reevaluation of the foundation documents of the synoptic Gospels, particularly in the light of the rediscovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (patterson 1995:35-41). More fundamental than these is the nature and definition of eschatology and its relationship with apocalyptic (cf Borg 1986:521; Kloppenborg 1987b; Patterson 1995), and the impact of the social environment on scholarly perceptions (cf Patterson 1995:29-32). Further issues, the importance of which these scholars do not discuss, include the relationship between Judaism and the surrounding hellenistic world in the first century, particularly in Galilee, the relationship between the wisdom and apocalyptic traditions in Judaism, and the significance of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 CE on the transmission of the Gospel traditions. Also of importance to understanding eschatology is the conceptualisation of human partnership with God in realising the divine purpose on earth. These issues, and their relevance to understanding the eschatological teaching of Jesus, will be discussed in tum. 1 APOCALYPTIC AND ESCHATOLOGY The definition of terms is in many ways a prerequisite to academic discourse, despite the dangers of anachronism and abstraction in modem academic vocabulary (cf Jacobson 1992a:413). Some scholars maintain a distinction between eschatology and apocalyptic, and argue that, while apocalyptic is absent from the authentic Jesus traditions in the Gospels, there is nonetheless an element of eschatology Oacobson 1992a; Kloppenborg 1987b; 1996; Patterson 1995; cf Borg 1986). The viability of such a distinction has been questioned by Tuckett (1996:161-63), while conceding many of the points which previous scholars have made. While it is clear that apocalyptic derives its meaning from the notion of revelation, and eschatology from that of the last in a sequence of events (cf Kittel 1972:697), it is equally clear that these refer to an overlapping range of events and conceptions. Some degree of fluidity needs therefore to be recognised, and Borg's redefinition of eschatology in exclusively cataclysmic terms (1986:521) akin to that envisaged in such passages as Revelation 21 is unhelpful. Any conception of a sequence of events culminating in divine intervention in history and the establishment of a new dispensation must be recognised as eschatological, whether it envisages a new creation or simply the inauguration of a new age in the present creation. It is possible to debate whether or not such conceptions are informed by apocalyptic thought, but they are nonetheless eschatological. The use of symbolic language in Scripture has long been recognised, but there seems to be a need to clarify the academic categorisation of such language regarding eschatology. The distinction drawn in recent scholarship between apocalyptic and what Borg calls 'mythical' (1986:129) and Kloppenborg 'symbolic' eschatology (1987b:306) is inadequate if not entirely invalid. Myth and symbolism are inherent in R ep ro du ce d by S ab in et G at ew ay u nd er li ce nc e gr an te d by th e Pu bl is he r ( da te d 20 09 ). NEOTESTAMENTICA 33(1) 1999 147 religious discourse, and eschatological discourse is no exception (cf Cwnpsty 1991). Apocalyptic eschatology is no more or less literal than any other expression of eschatological conceptions. No conceptualisation of eschatological expectations can be reduced to spatio-temporal parameters (cfWtlder 1950; Crossan 1973), and none has any meaning apart from the conviction that the God of Israel is the creator of the world, and that he had in the past and would again in the future intervene decisively in hwnan history to bring about his will upon earth (cf Rowland 1982; Collins 1984; Sanders 1992:279-303). Prophecy and apocalyptic alike derive their mythology and ideology from this fundamental understanding of God and the world (cf Hanson 1975; Cook 1995). Whether they expect cataclysmic destruction and new creation or the inauguration of a new age in the present world is of secondary importance. Anticipation of historically tangible decisive divine action is integral to the eschatology of the Gospels, and no redefinition or exclusion of apocalyptic can alter this. This is not to say that apocalyptic eschatology, insofar as it is a literary exercise in lurid speculation (cf Collins 1984), fashioned the thought world of all Jews of the period. Nevertheless there is a well-attested hope for liberation and divine justice, not necessarily on a cosmic scale, nor even necessarily with absolute finality. This must be given its due weight both in interpretation of the gospels and in scholarly reconstructions of the teaching of Jesus. 2 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND SCHOLARLY INSIGHT Patterson raises the issue of the influence of the environment in which the scholar operates on both the formation of his/her ideas and their reception in the academic community. Patterson makes his point in criticism of Schweitzer and the reception of his insights in European scholarship in the early twentieth century (1995:28-32), arguing that a climate of 'cultural pessimism' in the Europe of the time made scholarship sympathetic to apocalyptic ideas, in contrast to the optimism which pertained when Weiss published his findings to a less receptive readership a decade and more earlier (1995:32). While Patterson may be unduly reductionist, he nevertheless makes a valid point. There is a need for scholars to show more critical selfawareness. However, Patterson's presentation of his argwnent is seriously inadequate, for at least two reasons. Firstly, he tends to overstate the correlation between the cultural context of the scholar and his/her academic findings. He overlooks the triwnphalism and historical romanticism which pervaded parts of Europe during the nineteenth century, which could have been just as receptive to eschatology, if not to apocalypticism, as the supposed pessimism of the early twentieth century. More seriously, Patterson would seem to have been a bit slow in applying his point to his own context, and in recognising corresponding factors in North Anierica which may have influenced scholarship of the Cold War era and subsequently. To what extent has Crossan's depiction of Jesus as a 'counter-cultural social critic' (patterson 1995:34) in the Roman Empire of the first century CE R ep ro du ce d by S ab in et G at ew ay u nd er li ce nc e gr an te d by th e Pu bl is he r ( da te d 20 09 ). 148 RECONSTRUCTING THE ESCHATOLOGICAL TEACHING OF JESUS (1991), and its reception in intellectual circles opposed to the dominant ideology of United States during the Reagan-Bush era, been influenced by the context in which it was written? The interrelationship between ideological conviction and scholarly insight is even more explicit in the writings of Mack (1988; 1993), which attribute the proverbial American dream and the imperialism of the Cold War precisely to the eschatology which Mark has supposedly introduced to the teaching of Jesus, thereby corrupting it beyond recognition. Scholars need to be critically aware of their own ideological pre


This paper considers the relationship between worker influence and structures of corporate governance in firms where workers are one of several constituencies that exert managerial power. The basis of the analysis is this: to contribute to the value of the firm, corporate governance structures that give managerial power to workers should accomplish two purposes. The structures should provide a way for workers to resolve conflicts of interest among themselves; and the structures should provide a way for workers and managers to make credible commitments to each other. Conversely, if the corporate governance structures do not accomplish these purposes, firm value is more likely to be maximized by structures that provide little or no managerial influence to workers (at least through the devices of corporate governance). The paper analyzes the institutional implications of these generalizations by developing a conception of the "political culture" of firms, distinguishing, in particular, among "hard" and "soft" forms of worker participation in governance. The paper concludes that there are unlikely to be demonstrable efficiency gains from either form of participation; and that these forms face grave difficulties in adjustment to new production methods and prospective shifts in sectoral prosperity.


Organic light emitting diode (OLED) lighting with a highly improved efficiency and low haze is demonstrated by selective microlens arrays (SMLAs). Black grid lines in the emission region became brighter with a low haze using the SMLAs, and the spectrum of the emitted light had no shift.


Large steel industries have nonlinear loads including electric arc furnaces and harmonic field measurements have shown that harmonic content of a waveform varies with time. Since the large loads are supplied from the power system grid, it must be recognized that not only will the system of utility be impacted, but neighboring customer system could be impacted as well. In this paper time-varying harmonics are evaluated by international harmonic standards IEEE Std. 519 and IEC 61000-3-6 using a cumulative probablistic approach.


Objective: to evaluate the effect of therapeutic listening on people's anxiety in the immediate preoperative period. Method: a quasi-experimental and intervention research study carried out from July to October 2018 with 150 people in a Hospital from Minas Gerais/Brazil. Anxiety was assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the physiological measures. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis and Chi-square, Spearman and Wilcoxon tests were performed. Results: of the 31 people with anxiety, 20 had a reduction in the anxiety levels and in the physiological measures mean values after the intervention. A significant relationship was found between the gender, monthly family income, previous surgical complications and significant life events variables and the anxiety measure. A weak positive correlation was found between anxiety and respiratory rate and a weak negative correlation between anxiety and age group. Conclusion: when identifying patients with anxiety, interventions such as therapeutic listening can be implemented to make the perioperative period healthier.


The present invention relates to devices (2300, 3500, 3900, 5300 and 5400) of field electron emission in nanorods doors, these devices with relatively short distances spikes Issuer doors, thus ensuring a relatively high density of spikes of transmitters and a low voltage release, and such devices manufacturing processes. These methods employ a combination of classical techniques (lithography, etching, etc.) of processing devices with a nanorods deposit electrochemically. These processes are relatively simple, efficient and effective and they give emission devices field effect that are suitable for use in applications such as radiographic imaging, lighting, displays emission by field effect ( ACS) to flat screens, etc.


he last decade of this millennium has witnessed a great deal of progress T towards finalising the political map of Arabia. While there have been hiccups along thc way, it is nevertheless reasonable to surmisc.that during the 1990s the Ilass of settled Arabian land boundary delimitations has' moved from half-full to 9/10ths full with impressive speed, and largely within a pragmatic and co-operative regional context. Within Arabia, essentially only thc eastern three quarters of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen boundary remains to be settled.'


The intensification of swine production systems generates accumulation of manure, which if not stabilized can generate negative impact on the environment. At the same time, the demand for organic materials to amend the soil for the production of cut flowers has increased. The objective of the work was to evaluate the use of swine compost as an amendment in different proportions through the growth of wallflowers (Matthiolaincana). The trial consisted of four treatments with three repetitions each: T1: 15l/m 2 , T2: 30l/m 2 , T3: 60 l/m 2 and T4: no incorporation of compost. A 12m x 1m flowerbed was used, divided into 12 experimental units. Phosphorus (P), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), potassium (K), nitrates (NO3 ), pH and electrical conductivity (EC) in a ratio of 1 / 5 (v/v sample / water), and organic matter (OM) were analyzed for each treatment. In addition compost quality and the presence of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. were also analyzed. The carbon / nitrogen (C / N) ratio of the compost was 14.1 and the respirometric index (IRE) of 0.55 mg O2 g -1 MO h -1 According to the TMECC (2001)[1], these values establish that the compost was stable and mature, on the other hand, the absence of pathogens E. coli and Salmonella ssp. was verified. The high electrical conductivity (CE) (5.53 dS.m -1 ) and the high concentration of sodium (11464 mg/l) in the compost were limiting for the development of wallflower (wallflower plant). The amendment with doses superior to 30 l/m 2 , caused a reduction of the growth and consequently lower quality of the floral stick. The evaluated swine compost is viable as an amendment to produce cut wallflowers up to 15l/m 2 .


Pueraria tuberosa, commonly known as Vidarikand in India, is an important plant used in traditional medicine. However, there are at least three other botanical entities traded under the same name, namely Ipomoea mauritiana, Adenia hondala and Cycas circinalis. A DNA marker-based method has been developed for identifying P. tuberosa, which is the authentic vidari according to the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India. A putative 600 bp marker specific to P. tuberosa was identified using the RAPD technique. Further, the RAPD amplicon was converted to a sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) marker. PCR using designed SCAR primers revealed the expected amplicon (320 bp) only in P. tuberosa and not in the other species, thus aiding in distinguishing the authentic P. tuberosa from its commonly used substitutes and adul-terants. Authentication of medicinal raw drug identity and quality using molecular markers holds great promise in resolving issues of controversial identity and quality control, but has not yet been capitalized by the traditional medicine sector.


As the main body of the criminal procedure,the victim should enjoy extensive rights. But for a long time,the victim's rights have been neglected. Among his all rights,the right to know is the logical premise and basis for other rights. The victim's right to know was regulated in the Criminal Procedural Law,but the contents,ways of enjoyment and relief measures of the right have defects,which have led to many problems in the theory and the practice; consequently,the victim's main body status was impaired. The victim's right to know should be perfected based on the legalization of the system of reply after case filing and solving.


ABSTRACT The discourse on tolerance has become axiomatic for political and cultural life in the era of (post-)liberal modernity. In the event of any form of violence, the discourse is invoked as a 'solution' to 'intolerance'. But what if we considered the tolerance discourse itself as an axiom of violence? Its discursive labour creates configurations of power relations that transform the existing human affairs and relations into fixed conditions and categories of difference. Instead of taking tolerance as an analytical proxy, this paper ethnographically elucidates how the tolerance discourse is refused and resisted with the social grammars, practices and ethical vernaculars of care, mercy and solidarity. By focusing on the spaces of public kitchens in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina and the ethics of immediacy they engender, I explore the actually existing forms of living with difference beyond the threshold of tolerance discourses.


Abstract : For certain applications greater pumping speed of the sputter pump is desirable. The pumping speed is directly dependent on the s rength of the applied magnetic field, the value of the anode voltage, and the area of the titanium cathodes. The difficulty in increasing the pumping speed by varying the anode voltage or the area of the cathodes is that of providing the associated large magnetic fields. For this reason, a standard sputter pump was modified and the introd ction f RF energy was explored to see if the pumping speed would increase. The RF energy was applied at the ion cyclotron frequency of the ionized gas in the system. The ions should gain energy and therefore an increase in pumping speed would be observed. The results of this experiment show that the p mping speed is not increased by the introduction of RF energy. (Author)