Abstract The nursery/greenhouse industry is the fastest growing segment of U.S. agriculture. Consumer demand for excellent product quality requires luxury applications of water and agricultural chemicals. These cultural practices tend to yield significant volumes of runoff rich in nutrients and pesticides. A capture and recycle system at the Nursery/Floral Crops Research and Education Center at Texas A&M University was fitted with 12 gravel filtration sub-surface flow (SSF) and 12 bog-like free-surface flow (FSF) wetland cells. Three cells of each type were planted with Canna x generalis Bailey 'Cherry Red', Iris L. x 'Clyde Redmond', both species, or no wetland plants. Runoff was continually collected from the nursery and recycled through wetland cells prior to application via overhead impact sprinklers or subcanopy microsprinklers. Short-term (10 wk) differential effects between overhead and subcanopy irrigation during production of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Pistacia chinensis von Bunge, Quercus virginian...


Machining tubular or strand profiles with laser radiation requires a homogeneous and synchronous heating of the machining zone. A mere rotation of the tube is often insufficient. Special optical constructions make the cutting and welding of tubes much more efficient. A patented procedure enables a homogeneous heating and melting around the glass tube on fixed profiles with a statical laser beam and does not limit the profile length. The article introduces selected procedures with and without rotary motions for the cutting and welding of siliceous strand profiles with kW CO2 laser systems.


MicroRNAs are a family of small,endogenous,and non-coding RNAs,which regulate gene expressions at post-transcriptional level.Some members of the miRNA family were initially discovered as small temporal RNAs(stRNAs) that regulate the growth and transitions in Caenorhabditis elegans.It has now been clear that stRNAs are only the prototypes of a large family of small RNAs,miRNAs, that now claim hundreds of members in worms,flies,plants and mammals.The functionalities of miRNAs are not only in the regulation of growth,but also in the diversity of expression patterns and probable regulations of many aspects of development and physiology.We survey the history of animal miRNAs,biogenesis,regulation mechanism,biological functionalities,research approach and the distinctions between animal miRNAs and plant miRNAs.


The extraction for separation of m-phenylenediamine, m-aminophenol and resorcinol was carried out with n-butanol(BuOH) , n-butyl acetate(BuAc) and 4-methyl-2-pentanone(MIBK) as extractant under different acid and alkali conditions. The extract was detected with HPLC and the experiment showed that the separation effect was improved by increasing the acidity or alkalinity of the solution. BuAc and MIBK which were better than BuOH can completely separate this mixture and the best one was MIBK. The optimal operation condition was obtained with MIBK as extractant , resorcinol was the only substance in the extract fluid when the mole ratio of H+/-NH2 of the mixture was 1.32; while the extract fluid only included m-phenylenediamine when the mole ratio of OH-/-OH of the mixture was 1.11.


Business environment is full of ups and down and this makes companies to develop different ways of using resources. By expanding life cycle of products, these ways can be cost effective and not harmful for environment. As Reverse Logistics (RL) uses a product after end of its life, it reduces pollution, therefore it has been considered as a part of sustainable development. The core goal of current research is developing a framework by which it evaluates Third Party RL Provider (3rdPRLP) using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) based on Fuzzy Additive Ratio ASsessment (FARAS). Thirty-seven criteria were identified, which are classified into seven main criteria. The main criteria were ranked as follows: product lifecycle position C1, RL process function C2, organizational performance C3, organizational role of RL C4, IT system and communication C5, general company consideration C6, geographical location C7. Market coverage, destination, financial considerations, integrated system, reclaim, efficiency and quality, and growth are each group's dominant sub-criteria. In addition, the current research helps the logistics managers to better understand the key attributes' complex relationships in the environment of decision-making.


Polarization sensitive mechanism of the POL-neuron model of desert ant(Cataglyphis) offers the basis for the study on bionic polarization navigation.Referring to the angle ambiguity error of the existing signal processing method of POL-neuron model,a new angle method is proposed based on high-order polynomial fitting after analyzing the working principle of the model.According to the relationship between navigation direction and the rotation angle of reference axis,so the effective angle range can be increased from [-45°,45°] to [0°,180°] linearly.Finally,the corresponding experiment is also done to test the performance of this new angle method using a 4-channel polarized light navigation sensor in real skies.The result demonstrates that this method can solve the angle ambiguity error of POL-neuron model effectively,and improve the angle range dramatically.


The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition is a research institute within the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. The Max Planck Institute is committed to fundamental legal and economic research on processes of innovation and competition and their regulation. Its research focus is on the incentives, determinants and implications of innovation. The Institute informs and guides legal and economic discourse on an impartial basis. It hereby provides its opinion on the EU Commission's proposals for amendment of the Community Design Regulation and for recast of the Design Directive


This report describes developments of the continuous model of trade and equilibrium in two-dimensional space introduced by Martin J. Beckman in the early 1950s. The original model is extended by treating several interrelated commodity flows and an explicit production activity, transforming the contents of one flow (labor services) into another (finished goods). A residential-industrial agglomeration pattern arises that corresponds to the two flows.

This general model, which is capable of representing very diverse spatial organizations, but at the same time contains very little information, is specified by using the generic theory of differential equations. Therefore, if structural stability of the flows of commodities is assumed, it is possible to obtain a rather precise topological characterization of the stable flow and of the corresponding spatial organization. The main conclusion reached is that extreme care should be taken when deriving the results of classical market area from nonlinear models. The classical theory is linear and, therefore, always structurally stable. Without linearity (i.e. homogeneous space) stability is no longer guaranteed, but must be expressly assumed. The conclusions about basic spatial organization then become very different.


The Taylor–Ulitovski technique has been successfully employed to fabricate glass-coated microwires having internal nucleus made of alloys of various immiscible elements. Series of alloys CoxCu100−x, Co29Ni25Mn1Cu45, and (FeSiBC)50Cu50 have been studied from structural and magnetic points of view. The influence of thermal treatments on the structure and magnetic properties has been moreover studied with a final aim to obtain such type of microwires with enhanced hard magnetic properties. A maximum coercivity of around 750 Oe is achieved in the optimum conditions.


We theoretically confirmed that hypercoordination results from the delocalization of lone pair electrons on the first-row atom Y to the σ bond between the second-row atom E and X. We designed gauche conformers of EXnCH2CH2Y (EXn = PR2, SiR3; Y = OR, NR2) that are stable relative to the anti conformers, due to the hypercoordination.


Optically active styrene-methyl methacrylate and styrene-methacrylonitrile copolymers were obtained by template assisted asymmetric copolymerization of 3,4-cyclohexyhdene-D-mannitol-1,2;5,6-bis-O[(4-vinylphenyl)boronate] (1) with the corresponding comonomers followed by removal of the template and deboronation. By polymer analog modification methods, several optically active functional copolymers were obtained starting with these copolymers. The resulting polymers were subjected to different types of spectroscopic analysis. Thus, the results obtained from IR, 13C-NMR and GPC were of great value for detailed structural analysis of these polymers providing both qualitative and quantitative informations in terms of mode and neatness of substitution and degree of functionalization. The chiroptical measurement results obtained from circular dichroic (CD) studies have been utilized to analyze precisely the substituent dependent local solution stereochemistry of these chiral polymers. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


This study intends to find out the interrelationships of the factors that affect the performance of the Labkesda employees of Lebak Regency. There are many variables that might influence, but only Locus Of Control, Compensation, and Job Satisfaction were selected. The research method used is a quantitative survey method with causality studies with 56 sample data using the random sample technique, while the analysis used is correlation and regression analysis. The results prove that there is an effect of locus of control on job performance, there is an effect of compensation on job performance, there is an effect of job satisfaction on job performance, there is an effect of locus of control, compensation and job satisfaction together on job performance. These findings indicate that the Lebak Regency Labkesda organization should pay attention to and encourage locus of control, compensation and job satisfaction to continue to be improved.


A Feed-Forward (FF) multi-bit ΣΔ modulator with passive analog adder and 4-bit Successive Approximation (SA) quantizer is presented. The modulator covers the 10KHz bandwidth according to electromyography application. The design utilizes the same DAC array of the SAR quantizer to realize analog summation for the FF signal, which significantly reduces the power dissipation and the silicon area. The modulator operates at 1MS/s with IV supply. The prototype chip implemented in 65nm CMOS achieves 80dB SNDR and 81dB DR with 22.4μW power consumption. The Figure of Merit (FoM) is 0.13 pJ/conv.-step.


The dynamics of clones of intestinal epithelial crypts populated by mutant stem cells offers the hope of new and independent evidence of continued crypt replication throughout adult life, an important prediction of recent models of intestinal stem cell biology. It is shown here that the experimentally most tractable measurement - scoring of the fraction of groups of mutant crypts found as isolated singletons, pairs, or clusters of ≥3 mutant crypts — should tend to an asymptotic distribution as animals age. In particular, if the rate of mutation is low relative to the rate of crypt production then 1/2, 1/6 and 1/3 of groups of mutant crypts should be found as singletons, pairs, and larger clusters, respectively, as animals reach old age. Such a result is not immediately obvious, and if obtained from an experiment could easily be misinterpreted as implying that the crypt cycle must slow radically as animals age.


Foreword Robert Jay Lifton 1. Introduction: inscribing trauma in culture, brain and body Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson and Mark Barad Part I. Biological Perspectives on Trauma: Introduction Mark Barad 2. Neurobiological and neuroethological perspectives on fear and anxiety Vinuta Rau and Michael S. Fanselow 3. Some biobehavioral insights into persistent effects of emotional trauma Mark E. Bouton and Jaylyn Waddell 4. Learning not to fear: a neural systems approach Gregory Quirk, Mohammed R. Milad, Edwin Santini, and Kelimer Lebron 5. Mechanisms of fear extinction: towards improved treatments for anxiety Mark Barad and Chris K. Cain 6. Developmental origins of neurobiological vulnerability for PTSD Rose Bagot, Carine Parent, Timothy W. Bredy, Tie Yuan Zhang, Alain Gratton and Michael J. Meaney 7. Somatic manifestations of traumatic stress Emeran A. Mayer 8. Does stress damage the brain? J. Douglas Bremner Part II. Clinical Perspectives on Trauma: Introduction Laurence J. Kirmayer 9. Cognitive behavioral treatments for PTSD Elna Yadin and Edna B. Foa 10. PTSD among traumatized refugees J. D. Kinzie 11. PTSD: a disorder of recovery? Arieh Y. Shalev 12. The developmental impact of childhood trauma Bessel A. van der Kolk 13. Adaptation, ecosocial safety signals and the trajectory of PTSD Derrick Silove 14. Religion and spirituality after trauma James K. Boehnlein 15. Post-traumatic suffering as a source of transformation: a clinical perspective Cecile Rousseau and Toby Measham Part III. Cultural Perspectives on Trauma: Introduction Robert Lemelson 16. Trauma, adaptation, and resilience: a cross-cultural and evolutionary perspective Melvin Konner 17. Bruno and the holy fool: myth, mimesis, and the transmission of traumatic memories Allan Young 18. Failures of imagination: the refugee's predicament Laurence J. Kirmayer 19. Trauma, culture and myth: narratives of the Ethiopian Jewish exodus Gadi BenEzer 20. Post-traumatic politics: violence, memory and biomedical discourse in Bali Leslie Dwyer and Degung Santikarma 21. Terror and trauma in the Cambodian genocide Alexander Hinton 22. Trauma in context: integrating biological, clinical and cultural perspectives Robert Lemelson, Laurence J. Kirmayer and Mark Barad Epilogue: trauma and the vicissitudes of interdisciplinary integration Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson and Mark Barad Index.


OBJECTIVE
To explore the therapeutic effect of focused ultrasound (FU) on chronic cervicitis unitarily and its influential factors.

METHODS
Three hundred and thirteen patients of chronic cervicitis were treated with the device of CZF model focused ultrasound. The therapeutic effects in 300 cases with complete records, as well as the relationship between the diameter of cervical erosion and the exposure time to FU were analyzed.

RESULTS
The effective rates of FU in treatment of chronic cervicitis unitarily were 100.0% (53/53), 95.2% (120/126) and 91.7% (111/121), respectively, for mild, moderate and severe cases. The overall effective rate was 94.7% (284/300). With other parameters of FU unchanged, the exposure time to FU showed an exponential relationship with the diameter of erosion, and the regression equation was D = 31.71e(0.4808t) (R(2) = 0.9966).

CONCLUSIONS
The controllability and achievement ratio of FU to treat cervical erosion could be enhanced when exposure time and manners were fully considered based on the diameter and type of cervical erosion. A satisfactory therapeutic efficacy could be achieved with FU to treat cervical erosion unitarily.


Interstellar methanol has been observed extensively at radio frequencies from the ground, and, very recently, it has been observed at higher frequencies, by means of the Herschel satellite. Being a complex molecule, methanol has a rich spectrum exhibiting rotational and internal torsional motions. However, by the same token, the determination of the cross sections and rate coefficients for the excitation of methanol by the principal perturbers, helium and molecular hydrogen, is a far from trivial task. We have recently extended and considerably improved previous calculations of these data. In the case of molecular hydrogen, results are now available for the excitation of both A- and E-type methanol, not only by para- but also by ortho-H2 . These data have been used to model the HIFI observations of the outflow source L1157 B1. The methanol emission is computed self-consistently, in parallel with the dynamics and the chemistry, allowing for the optical depths in the emission lines by means of the LVG approximation. The results of these calculations are summarized.


Determination of the silicon etch rate of a number of n- and p-type doped epitaxial silicon wafers with different crystal orientations, dopant types, and dopant levels have been made. Oxidation behavior of the silicon in solution is found to be affected by the doping level of the arsenic doped wafer. Observed variation in the removal rate of the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process for these doped silicon wafers is correlated with the etch rates. The surface quality of these wafers following CMP and standard clean chemical treatment is found to impact the defect level and cleanliness of the post-CMP cleaning process. Resistance to oxidation and chemical dissolution of silicon is explained by the generation of surface charge, charge transfer mechanism, etching anisotropy, and activation energy for surface reaction caused by the dopant and crystal orientation. Information obtained thereof is useful to develop the wafer-manufacturing process, starting from silicon crystal to the final clean substrate or epi wafer with low surface defects.


A method of road traffic sign detection based on color segmentation and region descriptions is introduced. The method firstly uses color clustering algorithm in RGB space to segment the interested color area, and then conducts an morphological processing, and Finally recognize the traffic sign by using the Hu invariant moments. The results show that: the traffic sign recognition method based on color clustering and Hu invariant moments has a strong robustness to image translation, scaling and rotation, and this method has the features of simply implement, fast recognition and high accuracy, it has high practical value.


This research presents about college strategy based on pesantren in realizing the interconnection of religion and science in Sekolah Tinggi Tekhnologi dan Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo. Interconnection of religion and science as a concept that offers for the relationship between discipline of science of religion and general science. The estuary of the interconnection of religion and science is to unite and make a connection between religious education and science. This research uses qualitative approach of case study type. The results show that; 1) The interconnection strategy of religion and science conducted by Sekolah Tinggi Tekhnologi (STT) Nurul Jadid and Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan (STIKes) Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo include; internal and external environment analysis, vision and mission determination, mindset change, curriculum development with integration pattern, strengthening of human resource quality, formation of religious culture. 2) the impact of the interconnection of religion and science is; the inclusive attitude in understanding the development of science and religion, has a global perspective, the achievement of the vision and mission of the institution as the leader of the vision and mission of pesantren.


This material is a rewriting and expansion of notes for beginning graduate students in seminars in combinatorics (Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego). Solid skills in linear and multilinear algebra were required for these seminars. We focused on a review of linear algebra and a careful development of the general matrix canonical forms as a training ground for the necessary proof and notational skills.


This article is the result of an experience that the author is committed to creating the first industrial design center in Uruguay. It focuses on describing the educational planning that allowed the start-up of the study center.


Combinatorial library composed of rigid rod‐like peptides with a triple‐helical scaffold was constructed. The component peptides were designed to have various combinations of basic and neutral (or hydrophobic) amino acid residues based on collagen‐like (Gly‐Pro‐Yaa)‐repeating sequences, inspired from the basic and amphiphilic nature of naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides. Screening of the peptide pools resulted in identification of antimicrobial peptides. A structure‐activity relationship study revealed that the position of Arg‐cluster at N‐terminus and cystine knots at C‐terminus in the triple helix significantly contributed to the antimicrobial activity. The most potent peptide RO‐A showed activity against Gram‐negative Escherichia coli and Gram‐positive Bacillus subtilis. In addition, Escherichia coli exposed to RO‐A resulted in abnormal elongation of the cells. RO‐A was also shown to have remarkable stability in human serum and low cytotoxicity to mammalian cells. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers (Pept Sci) 106: 453–459, 2016.


A modified form for the surface-height-fluctuation correlation function of rough surfaces, gγ(R) ∝ ∫ a0/ξ R/ξ x^2H (e^–x/x)dx, is investigated which depicts behavior related to self-affine fractals for 0 < H < 1, and for H →0 with a0 « R « ξ reveals logarithmic behavior gγ(R) ∝ ln(R/a0).


In many geophysical situations, fluid is contained in long narrow fractures embedded within an impermeable medium of different thermal conductivity: and there may be a uniform vertical temperature gradient imposed upon the system. We show that whenever the slot is tiled to the vertical, convection develops in the fluid, even if the background temperature increases with height. We then investigate the transport of passive material governed by this flow. The dispersion coefficient of a passive contaminant transported by this flow DT = f[R sin2ϕ] k2 cot2 ϕ/D, where k and D are the thermal and compositional diffusivities, ϕ is the angle of tilt and R is a Rayleigh number for the slot. Using typical values for the physical properties of a water-filled fracture, we show that the Earth's geothermal gradient produces a convective flow in a fracture through the mechanism above; this has an associated dispersion coefficient DT ∼ 102-103D in fractures about a centimetre wide. We show that this shear dispersion could transport radioactive material, of half-life 104 years, tens of metres along the fracture within one half-life; without this dispersion, the material would only diffuse a few metres along the fracture within one half-life. If there is a background salinity gradient along the slot in addition to the thermal gradient, analogous steady flow solutions exist; if the flow is stable, the salinity may either enhance or reduce the steady flow and associated dispersion of passive tracer.


PURPOSE: A roll film cutting device using laser is provided to enhance the quality of a cut film and the reliability of processing by uniformly processing the section of a roll film. CONSTITUTION: A roll film cutting device using laser comprises a laser beam source, a head module, a beam collimation member, and a light reflecting unit. The laser beam source is fixed to a frame. The head module comprises a light receiving unit and a laser nozzle. The head module is installed on the frame to be separated from the laser beam source and be able to move. The light receiving unit receives laser beam supplied from the laser beam source. The laser nozzle radiates the laser beam to a roll film. The beam collimation member is installed on the frame in order to be arranged between the laser beam source and the light receiving unit of the head module.


THE INVENTION CONCERNS A PROCESS FOR SCRAP WASTE HEAT OR A LOAD IN A BUCKET WITH BOTTOM TRANSMITTING GAS IS PREPARED IN A ROOM HEATER WITH COVER THAT SEALED AGAINST THE EDGE SEALING RING HIGHER AGAINST THE TRUCK AND DEVICE SEALING ON THE WALL OF HEAT AND DEVICE FOR DEFINING SPACE INPUT OVER CHARGE OF WASTE TUBE cONNECTED TO INPUT HOT GAS AND SPACE IN sHAPE GAP BETWEEN THE TRUCK AND THE FLOOR AND WALL OF THE HOUSE, cONNECTED TO OUTPUT TUBE AIR USE OF WARMING, THE ABSOLUTE PRESSURE IN SPACE ENTRY IS HIGHER THAN IN SPACE IN sHAPE INTERVAL. INVENTION IN SPACE BETWEEN INTERMEDIATE C SPACE ENTRY AND A SPACE IN sHAPE INTERVAL B, C WHICH IS SPACE WITH A SEAL 50 AGAINST SPACE AND A SEAL AGAINST SPACE 44 B AIR LOCK IS INTRODUCED BY TUB E 54. THE INVENTION INCLUDING THE APPLICABLE ACIERIES.


The LLC resonant converters are widely used in various sectors of the electronics-based industries due to their advantages of high efficiency, high energy density, electrical isolation, low electromagnetic interference (EMI),wide output ranges and high operation frequency. A Good power factor for the LLC resonant tank is required to achieve high efficiency over a wide input voltage range. A unity voltage gain can be accomplished over the whole loading conditions by having switching frequency equal to resonant tank frequency in LLC converter, however it is not suited for constant current – constant voltage (CC-CV) battery applications. The use of a buck converter at the output of an LLC resonant converter to regulate the charging current and voltage for battery charging applications is proposed in this paper. The use of a buck converter allows the output voltage of the LLC converter to be varied, ensuring CCCV charging. The proposed system is analyzed and studied in MATLAB/Simulink.


Software-Defined Vehicular Network (SDVN) is a networking architecture that can provide centralized control for vehicular networks. However, the design for routing policies in SDVNs is generally influenced by several limitations, such as frequent topological changes, complex service requests, and long model training time. Intelligent Digital Twin-based Software-Defined Vehicular Networks (IDT-SDVN) can overcome these weaknesses and maximize the advantages of the conventional SDVN architecture by enabling the controller to construct virtual network spaces and provide virtual instances of corresponding physical objects within the Digital Twin (DT). In this paper, we propose a junction-based hierarchical routing scheme in IDT-SDVN, namely, intelligent digital twin hierarchical (ELITE) routing. The proposed scheme is conducted in four phases: policy training and generation in the virtual network, and deployment and relay selection in physical networks. First, the policy learning phase employs several parallel agents in DT networks and derives multiple single-target policies. Second, the generation phase combines the learned policies and generates new policies based on complex communication requirements. Third, the deployment phase selects the most suitable generated policy according to the real-time network status and message types. A road path is calculated by the controller based on the selected policy and then sent to the requester vehicle. Finally, the relay selection phase is utilized to determine relay vehicles in a hop-by-hop process along the selected path. Simulation results demonstrate that ELITE achieves substantial improvements in terms of packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and communication overhead compared with its counterparts.


Abstract : The efficiency of short cylindric diffusers was experimentally investigated in a supersonic wind tunnel provided with exchangeable nozzles with a conical supersonic section designed for M equals 2; 2.5; 3.0; 3.5; 4.0; and 5. 0 and a half cone angle of alpha equals 8 degrees for all M numbers. The diffusor lengths varied from one to eight calibers of the nozzle exit cross sections. Compressed nitrogen was used as the working substance. A graph of the ratio of the aerodynamic stagnation pressure during startup of a nozzle with diffusers to the relative diffuser length showed the advantage of using diffusers at higher nozzle M values. A diffuser length of up to 3-4 nozzle calibers practically exhausts the possibility of decreasing the starting pressure of nozzles with calculated M values of less than 3. Diffuser lengths up to 6-7 calibers are expedient on nozzles for nearly hypersonic M values. Sufficiently long cylindrical diffusers have an efficiency of 0.75-0.85. Diagrams are presented for selecting minimum diffuser lengths in the range of M equals 2-5. The experiments revealed that the maximum rarefaction attainable with cylindrical diffusers at the nozzle exit section during discharge into a normal atmosphere is 0.04 atm. (Author)


If engineering students were to read this book, appreciate it, and understand it, and then try to put its ideas and proposals into practice, it would be to their everlasting benefit. It would also be to the distinct advantage of those with whom they come into contact, both as students and in their subsequent careers as engineers! BRIAN M. SHAW Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hertfordshire


Target tracking is one of the most significant concerns in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In a densely deployed WSN, spatial trajectories in future mission monitoring can provide comprehensive communication but with dynamically changing network, targets were lost, compromising stability. Some approaches pursue minimum overload and energy consumption occurring during tracking at the cost of tracking accuracy, while some other mechanisms aim to achieve the best tracking accuracy without consideration of energy consumption. In this paper, we present a new method called, Radial Distance and Lucas Cluster-based Ridge Regression (RD-LCRR) to detect and track the target in WSN considering both energy efficiency and accuracy. Initially, we sense the object via Radial Distance Edge Propagation Object Sensing model based on the cluster formation and then identify moving objects through additive value. Next, the object to be tracked is obtained by applying Lucas Kanade Cluster-based Ridge Regression model. Here, target detection is first initialized via Lucas Kanade and finally, the tracking of the actual target is performed through Ridge Regression. The performance of the RD-LCRR method is considered for different scenarios and experiments are performed in a simulation environment against state-of-the-art methods. Results of the experiments show that the presented target detection and tracking method enables a significant reduction in the amount of energy consumption, target tracking time with higher accuracy rate.


A 41-year-old, right-handed woman presented with left hemiplegia due to an infarct in the right middle cerebral artery territory (Fig. 1A). She underwent conservative management and was transferred to the rehabilitation department at 1 week after onset. She showed complete weakness of the left extre


Voice over IP (VOIP) the transmis sion of voice over traditional packetswitched IP networks is one of the hottest trends in telecommunications. As with any new technology, VOIP introduces both opportunities and security challenges. Lower cost and greater flexibility are among the prom ises of VOIP for the enterprise, but security administrators will face signif icant issues. Administrators may assume that since digitized voice trav els in packets, they can simply plug VOIP components into their alreadysecured networks and expect a stable and secure voice network. Unfortu nately, many of the tools used to safe guard today's computer networks, namely firewalls, Network Address Translation (NAT), and encryption, don't work "as is" in a VOIP network.


Humanity is a concept with rich connotation closely related with value,ideal,personality and existence of human.Psychological persuasion is to change personal knowledge,behavior and mind by means of explanation and illustration so as to stabilize feeling,solve contradiction.In modern enterprise management,to get humanistic concern and psychological persuasion involved in the whole process of ideological and political work through 'five combination" is real need to carry out scientific development view and urgent need to construct harmonious enterprise.


The utility model discloses a timing indicator for traffic signals, comprising a countdown display screen, wherein the left side of the countdown display screen is provided with a straight-going signal display screen and a left-turn signal display screen, the straight-going signal display screen arranged on the upper part and the left-turn signal display screen arranged on the lower part. The utility model not only has the function of countdown display, but also of the straight-going and left-turn signal display, which can replace traffic lights, thereby reducing the manufacturing and installation cost of the whole traffic signal system.


With enormous help and funding from the governments, industries and institutes around the world, autopilot has become more mature, and soon it will become the future. It can be foreseen that autopilot can be more realistic with the advance techniques, such as Global Positioning System (GPS). Previous researches on autopilot focused on anti-collision and best driving path search, they had few studies on grouped autopilot system. This grouped system can be applied to tourist coaches, family tour, or transporting of aids. This paper aimed to simulate the full unmanned autopilot system, focus on the autonomous safety decision of vehicles behavior. Moreover, we modify the flock algorithm of animal behavior, to attract the group vehicles together without block the others.


A new nematode, Oryctonema genitalis gen. et sp. nov., which possesses features of both the Rhabditidae and Angiostomatidae, is described from the genital system of the dynastid beetle, Oryctes monoceros O1. in West Africa. Multiplication of O. genitalis occurs in the bursa copulatrix of female beetles and the nematodes sustain themselves for long periods in the numerous aedaegal ducts of the male beetle. The possible influence of these nematodes on host viability is discussed.


The authors of the article aim to identify the principles and patterns of mutual influence of socially significant projects of transformation of the urban environment and urban regimes in the Russian Federation. Clarence Stone's concept of urban regimes is used as a theoretical framework. Based on the author's system of criteria of social significance, 6 projects of urban environment transformation in 4 cities were selected and analyzed: Okhta Center and Tuchkov Buyan in St. Petersburg, Zaryadye Park and the development of fields of the Timiryazev Academy in Moscow, St. Catherine's Church in Yekaterinburg and concreting of the embankments of the river Vologda in Vologda. If the initial phase of all projects took place in the realities of local urban growth regimes, with the predominance of the interests of the established coalitions of business and government, then the subsequent increase in the role of public activism in all projects and the change of goal-setting under its influence led to a change in the local urban regime during their implementation. It is shown that in five studied cases, during the implementation of projects, there was a transition of local urban regimes from "growth" to "progressive", and in one – from "growth" to a greater extent towards the "status quo" regime. The general principles and patterns of mutual influence of socially significant transformation projects and urban regimes in the Russian Federation are identified and described: competitive public interaction of all types of actors; change or relocation of the project as a spatial way of conflict resolution; the prevailing shift from the realization of the interests of government and business in favor of society; involvement of paternalistic tools as a way to achieve consensus. Such conditions of mutual influence of socially significant projects and urban regimes can develop in a certain period in any major Russian city, then we can expect in it similar to the described results of space transformation. The results of the study clearly demonstrate the beginning of the process of local transformation of the dominant urban regimes in the Russian Federation.


SUMMARYA review of the literature on the immunology of CFS reveals that people who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) have two basic problems with immune function that have been documented by most research groups: 1. immune activation, as demonstrated by elevation of activated T lymphocytes, including cytotoxic T cells, as well as elevations of circulating cytokines; and 2. poor cellular function, with low natural killer cell cytotoxicity (NKCC), poor lymphocyte response to mitogens in culture, and frequent immunoglobulin deficiencies, most often IgGl and IgG3. These findings have a waxing and waning temporal pattern which is consistent with episodic immune dysfunction (with predominance of so called T-helper type 2 and proinflammatory cytokines and low NKCC and lymphoproliferation) that can be associated as cause or effect of the physiological and psychological function derangement and/or activation of latent viruses or other pathogens. The interplay of these factors can account for the perpetuation of ...


Considerable variations in the content of free amino acids, elhanol-soluble carbohydrates, starch, protein, chlorophyll, phylic acid, RNA and DNA exist in different regions of the long filaments of Cuscuta reflexa. The distinction is especially pronounced when comparison is made between the hanstoria-bearing curls of the parasite and the apical portions of the overhanging filament.


Application Specific Integrated Lenses (ASILs), based on a unique holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal material system, which offer high efficiency, fast switching and low power are being developed for display and telecommunication applications. The basic properties and key benefits of ASILs in wearable displays are reviewed.


In this paper, we analyze the error of channel estimation using the pilot tones associated with interpolation technique. Our method is based on a unified mathematical decomposition of the channel estimation error, which takes both the signal-to-noise ratio at pilot sub-carrier locations and the interpolation kernel used into account. This method has been recently proposed by the authors and illustrated over a channel model. We complete here the previous analysis and provide news results over a power line severe real channel.


Cables insulated with plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) were aged at temperatures between 80 and 180 °C in air and their conditions were assessed by indenter modulus measurements, tensile testing, i ...


Acute pancreatitis is sudden inflammatory disease of pancreas, which can vary from a mild form to severe life threatening condition. The management of pancreatitis usually consists of intensive care and multidisciplinary approach, often including surgical intervention or digestive endoscopy. In this article, we present a 68-year-old female with recidivous acute pancreatitis who underwent a series of endoscopic examinations and at the end also an unusual surgical intervention due to numerous complications. At first, it seemed that there was an idiopatic etiology because neither an anamnesis of alcohol consumption nor metabolic risks or CT signs of cholelithiasis were found. The condition was complicated by the development of acute necrotic collection, gastrointestinal bleeding and development of walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN). Later, the biliary etiology was revealed after cholecystolithiasis was found on abdominal ultrasound. The WOPN was endoscopically drained because of the local compression syndrome. After the drainage, we noticed two cases of stent migration and the secondary infection of the WOPN. At the end, the migrated stents caused transient bowel obstruction and were stuck in the distal ileum. After three unsuccessful attempts to endoscopic extraction, the condition was solved by surgical intervention and double enterotomy was performed. The postoperative care was not easy anyway, being complicated by the dehiscence of the surgical wound with the need of opening the wound and use the VAC system to heal it up.


Recent work has identified the lack of space usage rule (SUR) data -- e.g. "no smoking", "no campfires" -- as an important limitation of online/mobile maps that presents risks to user safety and the environment. In order to address this limitation, a large-scale means of mapping SURs must be developed. In this paper, we introduce and motivate the problem of mapping space usage rules and take the first steps towards identifying solutions. We show how computer vision can be employed to identify SUR indicators in the environment (e.g. "No Smoking" signs) with reasonable accuracy and describe techniques that can assign each rule to the appropriate geographic feature.


In this paper,the ceramics of BaTiO3 were prepared using BaCO3 and TiO2 as raw material,Y2O3 as doping agent.XRD and SEM are employed to analyze sample's phase and microscopic structure.The dielectric properties of BaTiO3 modified by Y3+ ion doping were tested.Tests show that target substance with dielectric constant 13965.4 and dielectric loss 0.110 can be synthesized when concentration of Y3+ is 0.3mol% and the system is heated at 1310℃ for 2h.


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In this paper we present a proof-of-concept for the solution of a problem of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) due to human error. ADRs due to carelessness or human mistakes is very common in elder people or in people who are administered with multiple prescriptions for the day, but they face difficulty in tracking their medications over time. This paper deals with the development of a Smart Medicine Dispenser to manage the very real problem of patients confusing the dosage and timing of their medications, particularly vulnerable patients or patients on numerous medications. We have devised a device named SMART MEDICINE DISPENSER (SMD) which will contain all the prescribed doses for a fortnight or a month and will dispense them at accurate timings. This device will monitor the patient's medication habits and will also reduce the risk of overdose or taking the wrong medication. We have used the basic yet brilliant concept of electromagnetism in our design with compare to exiting product, and the components used are also easily available making SMD very inexpensive as compared to the current solutions in the market.


The general listening rates of radio broadcasting and listeners habits are examined and questioned carefully inside the contemporary diversified communication field. Within the case of Turkey the listening rates and forms of TRT should be questioned inside the field of media where high rates of competition are remained. This is important because the existence of public radio as a balancing element is perceived to be necessary. Where the economic conditions and competition between the broadcasting companies are considered to be the preservation of the public broadcasting to posterity the role of the institutions that give communication education becomes important. Within the given context the main problem of this study is to determine how are public radio broadcasting perceived and the position of TRT in the given field in between communication faculties and students. A survey is applied in the study in order to determine the opinions of target listeners about the listening rates, the preferences about the public radio, the purposes of public radio listening, the views about the language used in TRT and the position of TRT in the competing field. The data gathered as a result of this study indicates that a high rate of communication faculty and the students are listening the radio and as a choice of public listening TRT is listened relatively more than private radios. When the same comparison is made concerning the television rates the viewing rates are decreased against the case of TRT. The target listeners confirm that TRT radio provides much more information, entertainment and qualified broadcasting. Also they find TRT as more sufficient in the usage of Turkish as native language.


THE area of community mental health and the organization of community mental health services has become a focal point in psychiatry. Problems concerned with the de¬ velopment of mental health centers, the role of psychiatric units in general hospitals as an integral part of such centers, and the gradual reduction in the size of public mental hospitals dominate current thinking and planning. Such planning, however, requires a careful evalua¬ tion of our present services and a projection of


OBJECTIVE
To compare two techniques of the transarticular screw placement in the lower cervical spine, and to suggest and confirm a new technique of the placement.

METHODS
The techniques of transarticular screw placements used by Takayasu (group A) and Dalcanto (group B) were applied in eight cervical specimens. The splits of facets,the encroachment of the cervical nerve roots and transverse foramens were observed and analyzed. The numbers of transarticular screws which not gone through the facets were counted in both group A and B, respectively.

RESULTS
Sixty-four transarticular screws were implanted,thirty-two for group A, the same for group B. Although no splits of the facets were seen in group A, two transarticular screws did not go through the facets. There were ten splits of facets in group B, in which seven involved the inferior border of the inferior facets and three for the lateral border. No superior facets were found to be broken both in group A and B. Eight screws encroached the transverse foramens in group A and none in group B. Eleven of anterior branch and eight of posterior branch of lower cervical nerve roots were involved in group A, two and nine respectively in group B.

CONCLUSION
There are high risk of injury of anterior branch of cervical nerve root and vertebral artery if the screws are too long and the Takayasu's technique is used. However, the rate of facet split is high if the Dalcanto's technique is applied.


The issues related to the development of models for predicting the divergence of scales of spatially dispersed quantum clocks are considered. The graphs of discrepancies between the scales of the onboard clocks of navigation satellites (NS) GLONASS and GPS relative to the scale of the central synchronizer are given. Mathematical models are proposed for predicting the departure of the onboard clock scales from the CA scale, consisting of three analytical components and an autoregression equation. The first two components analytically define linear and parabolic trends in the divergence of the scales. The third component is represented by a trigonometric polynomial with non-multiple harmonics. The parameters of all three components are estimated using the least squares method (OLS) based on the data of discrepancies in the NS clock scales individually for each NS. The forecast of residual stochastic changes is made using the autoregression equation. To work out forecasting models, it is proposed to use a software simulator of the instability process of quantum clocks.


The lack of nurses and the increasing turnover rate have been the main subjects when looking at the news about the health care sector. The constant lack of nurses can cause a lack of motivation and ...


Let X be a closed manifold of dimension 2m ≥ 6 with torsion-free middle-dimensional homology. We construct metrics on X of arbitrarily small vol- ume, such that every middle-dimensional submanifold of less than unit volume necessarily bounds. Thus, Loewner's theorem has no higher-dimensional analogue.


Triglycerides represent the principal component (95-98%) of most edible oils obtained from seeds and fruits. Small amounts of sterols, free fatty acids, hydrocarbons, tocopherols, phospholipids and triterpenic acids are also present. Content and composition of these components can vary due to the agronomic and climatic conditions, seed quality, and oil extraction system and refining procedures [1 , 2 ], Different vegetable oil samples (hempseed, linseed, rapeseed, sunflower and sea buckthom oil), obtained from seeds and fruits cultivated in Romania, were investigated, using gas-chromatography (GC) with flame ionization detector (FID). The goal of the present study was the identification and quantifıcation of fatty acids as FAMEs (fatty acid methyl esters), in the total lipid extracts (TLE) and in the esterified sterol fractions (ESF).Total, free and esterified sterols were also quantified, as trimethylsilyl ether derivatives (TMS). The main fatty acids found in both of the studied fractions were: palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acid at different concentrations, depending on the oil type. The hempseed oil was the one which contained both omega6 and omega-3-linolenic acid including y-linolenic acid at concentrations of 3.07% in TLE and 2.77% in ESF. It was observed that the sea buckthom berries oil contained an unusual higher percent of palmitoleic acid in both of the studied fractions (25.53% in TLE and 6.51% in ESF). The total phytosterol profile was also different, the predominant phytosterols in ali vegetable oils being P-sitosterol and campesterol. Rapeseed oil contains more brassicasterol, a marker for its recognition. In hempseed and rapeseed oil the dominant form of sterols was the esterified one. The total sterol concentrations ranged from 267mg/100g oil (linseed oil) to 748 mg/100 g oil (sea buckthom oil), while cholesterol (<3 mg/lOOg) was found in traces. The sea buckthom berries, rapeseed and hempseed oils proved to be the richest sources in phytosterols, being recommended as functional foods.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To fix without bringing the thermal properties of a fixture and a cylindrical lens into agreement by a method in which the cylindrical lens is fixed to an auxiliary fixture having the same coefficient of thermal expansion, benders are fixed to the auxiliary fixture and a print head block, and the cylindrical lens is provided in the laser diode arrangement of the print head block. SOLUTION: A holder 25 holds a cylindrical lens 20 by tension and fixes it to an auxiliary fixture 30. A combination lens 40 is inserted into the fixture 30 on the opposite side of the fixture 30 with the lens 20, and these are made to have the same thermal expansion. Next, benders 50 are fixed at both ends of the fixture 30, and the lens 20, after being coated with a reflection preventive film, is arranged in a laser diode arrangement 70. The fixture 30 is fixed to a print head block 80 by the bender 50 having an ultraviolet curing adhesive. Since the lens 20 and the fixture 30 are flexible, the difference of the thermal expansion between the fixture 30 and the laser arrangement 70 does not affect the laser arrangement of the lens 20.


Purpose – This study aims to examine the interaction of formal and informal cross-border knowledge-sharing practices of four large multinational corporations (MNCs) in aerospace, software, IT services and telecommunications industries. The goal was to determine the manner in which coordination and control mechanisms facilitated knowledge transfer. Design/methodology/approach – Case studies comprised secondary data and semi-structured interviews with corporate headquarters and subsidiary managers in large MNCs conducted in the USA, Canada, Mexico, China, India and Eastern Europe. Findings – The primary finding of this study is that knowledge transfer mechanisms arise as a result of both formal and informal structures of the MNC. Formal structures which create either mutual dependencies or occasions for knowledge exchange facilitate transfer. Formal structure which inhibits knowledge transfer can be overcome by knowledge brokers and evaluation metrics. Research limitations/implications – These findings sugg...


AbstractThe borders of Israel have been discussed ever since the state's creation in 1948 and the controversy surrounding the Israeli military presence in Palestine contributes to the uncertainty. ...


Radiation from the 2.5 GeV electron synchrotron at the Bonn Physikalisch Institut has been used to measure the spatial distributions of photoelectrons from the molecules N2 and O2. Values of the asymmetry parameter beta of various ionic states have been determined over a photon energy range of 16 to 25 eV using a Seya monochromator to produce plane polarised radiation to a bandwidth of 500 mV. Good agreement with He I and Ne I resonance line measurements by other workers is observed and a comparison with theoretical studies is given. Additional measurements on N2 and C0 which complement the published date of Marr et al. (1979 , 1980) using the Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Daresbury Laboratory are provided in tabular form.


Can classrooms become effective training grounds to nurture high ethical standards in businesses? This paper examines the potential of one such attempt made by the All India Council of technical Education (AICTE), to usher in a new generation of business leaders, entrepreneurs and professional, who understand the need for adhering to the standards of corporate governance, and become practitioners and advocates of an ethical business culture. Universal Human Values, (UHV), is a new course mandated to be taught to all undergraduate and postgraduate degree students, under the new education policy, and is aimed towards a conscious cultural shift. This paper examines the impact of teaching UHV to students and seeks to understand the possibility of students adopting a value based lifestyle that encompasses both their personal and professional choices. This paper also makes an attempt to understand the impact of Universal Human Value Course on bringing change in the mind of students which ultimately lead to social change in their behaviour and actions to lead harmony and happiness in society and nations at large.

The identification of values, based on right understanding enables the formation of a vision for humanistic education, humane conduct and humanistic constitution that leads to the Universal human order and ensuring harmony with self and others to lead a happy and mutually fulfilling life. In short, the use of digital education for teaching Universal Human Values is an attempt to bring change in the mindset of the young generation for bringing social change.

This paper is an attempt to bring a certain set of proposals to explore oneself and expense of living in order to better understand human life and bring social change through the education of Universal Human Values.

The research methodology is based on primary and secondary sources.


A. Chugunov, S. Koltsov, L. Vidyasova The article represents the results of Russian mass media content-analysis in the topics related to e- governance. The study has found a correlation between the themes and messages published on official implementation state programs and projects, stages in the transition to electronic services.


OBJECTIVE:To study the general pattern and characteristics of the ADRs associated with carthamus injection to guide rational drug use.METHODS:ADRs to Carthamus Injection in 34 cases,reported in domestic medical journals during 1994~2005,were collected and analysed.RESULTS:ADRs of carthamus Injection often occurred in aged group.The onset of ADRs was usually within 30min after injection.ADRs could involve multiple organs and systems,and clinical manifestations were various,mainly allergic reactions.Severe allergic reactions could result in anaphylactic shock.CONCLUSION:Clinical physicians and pharmaceutist should pay attention to the ADRs of carthamus injection and rational drug use.


Newcastle disease (ND) is a severe and fatal disease of poultry caused by Newcastle Disease
Virus (NDV). The disease is of economic and public health importance and has been a threat to the
growth of poultry industry. A hundred and twenty day-old broiler chickens were procured from a
commercial breeder farm. Glucose, vitamin, antibiotics were administered accordingly. Birds were
tested for antibodies to NDV and vaccines were administered accordingly. Feed and water were
also provided ad-libitum. Birds were randomly distributed into groups. Experimental birds were
challenged at five weeks of age. Blood samples were collected for haematology assay periodically
after challenging with NDV. The erythrocyte response in the chickens had varying patterns; there
were significant reduction in values of Total Erythrocyte Count, Packed Cell Volume, Hemoglobin count in infected chickens. Monocytes were reduced significantly in the infected birds to 7±0.6% as
compared to uninfected birds which had 10±0.9%. There were no significant changes in the
Eosinophil and basophil absolute values in both infected and uninfected birds during the course of
the study. This study showed that haematological values of broiler chicken significantly differ (p=<
0.05) from uninfected and infected birds with virulent NDV. Generally, there were no significant
differences in the profile of the vaccinated birds. Hence the need for vaccination and research
towards anti-NDV therapeutic discoveries cannot be overemphasized.


I n the fourth chapter of J-K. Huysmans's A Rebours, we find many of the . important themes that structure the entire work. In this part of the novel, the protagonist, des Esseintes, displays his characteristic willingness to remain separated from society and to create an aesthetically agreeable space for himself within his country home. We may view this chapter of the book as a microcosm of the rest of the work, in that it is just one in a series of episodes in which des Esseintes attempts to find happiness through the cuit of artifice. These efforts are • creative ones, such as the cultivation of rare orchids, the creation of a jewelled tortoise shell, and the enshrinement of poetry: They occur in an asocial environment and are designed solely to elicit the pleasure of their creator. If des Esseintes occupies himself with creating art in this way, it is out of a desperate need to construct meaning, and, ultimately, to believe in his own immortality. Many critics have viewed this cuit of artifice as a symptom of des Esseintes's neurosis. However, in the following study, I would like to suggest that this task is more appropriately a reaction to art's loss of the ritual function. In his text, Illuminations, Walter Benjamin asserts that at the end of the 19th century, technology and its ability to reproduce all sorts of images brought about a crisis, since for the first time in history, non-religious art was more dominant than sacred art. The secular cuit of beauty, developed during the Renaissance and prevailing for three centuries, clearly showed that ritualis-


This volume fills a longstanding void in the scholarly treatment of Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs, focusing on how these sermons are "structured by configurations of gender" (399). This, at least, is the general frame of this study. More specifically, the author explores the rhetorical strategies by which Bernard crafts a "performative" text, one meant to lead to what the author describes as "devotional transformation [which is] realized through and by language" (8). Building on Burcht Pranger's exploration of the theatricality of Bernard's sermons, by which such texts stand as an example of the "artificiality" of monastic exegesis, Engh suggests that we read this literature in terms of what she calls a "countererotics," an interpretive strategy meant to establish the privilege of Cistercian monastic life through the practice of "Christomimesis": "Ultimately, the Cistercian monk mimics a model of a masculinity to be acquired and conquered by everyone and which, as discussed, is also [a] model of progress and perfection, unto participation in divine transcendence" (405). That is, Bernard's purpose, in "performing the bride" as he does, was meant to offer his monastic brothers (and later readers) a glimpse into transmutations of gender—precisely by means of an elaborate "literary fiction" by which "a dual-sexed bride mimic[s] the dual-sexed bridegroom, a male absorbing all femaleness, a celibate man 'writing like a woman' in a world without women" (408).


At the conclusion of "Benito Cereno" Herman Melville "elucidate[s]" a curious "item or two," including Cereno's ultragentlemanly apparel. This return to the issue of Cereno's clothes reiterates the Yankee Delano's preoccupation with Cereno as a dandy, restaging Delano's tendency to focus unswervingly on the apparently complex markers of class superiority signaled by such genteel refinement—and, within the logic of that preoccupation, to ignore the seemingly transparent truth presented by the naked black body. Melville mobilizes the figure of the dandy. I suggest, to interrogate the Yankee's veneration of social form, a veneration at odds with the North's smug self-figuration in 1855 as homogeneously democratic and classless, as morally superior to a South reviled for its social inequalities and slaveholding. By orchestrating the encounter between Yankee and dandy, Melville maps a peculiarly northern political field, pointing to an obfuscatory rhetoric of "apparent symbol[s]" that articulates the slave only polemically and ignores him otherwise.


Incomplete multi-view clustering has attracted increasing attentions due to its superiority in partitioning unlabeled multi-view data with missing instances in real application. However, most existing methods cannot fully exploit both the view-specific and cross-view relations among data points and ignore the high-order correlations across all views. To address these issues, we propose a novel Incomplete Multi-view Subspace Clustering with Low-rank Tensor (IMSCLT) method, which could be the first tensor-based incomplete multi-view clustering method to the best of our knowledge. Specifically, the subspace representations with low-rank tensor constraint are employed to exploit both the view-specific and cross-view relations among data points and capture the high-order correlations of multiple views simultaneously. In addition, we devise a novel module which can learn a discriminative similarity graph for multi-view learning task by approximating the inner product of the view-specific and common subspace representations. Augmented Lagrangian alternative direction minimization strategy is adopted to solve the proposed IMSCLT. The experiments on several benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of IMSCLT.


different wave fom. The data of i n t e q r a t d charge/differential (uILMt of the -le can be collected and processed by a carguter. several equations are sugyested to express the polarization reversal process of the sample under electric field. The software ocgnpensation of linear ccanponents of thesaturatebranchof hysteresis loop is better than that of the har&mre. Abnond phenomenon has been observed f m the relations between polarization and period. 'Ihe coefficients of Faurier series or W a l s h series that fit charge waves correlate to the physics process of the polarization reversal. special software has been ccpapiled to create


The present investigation was carried out to determine the relationship and genetic variability among 49 tef inbred line using principal component analysis for drought prone areas. To improve tef productivity, farmers need high-yielding and drought tolerant tef cultivars. The objective of this research is to evaluate genetic diversity among drought tolerant tef inbred lines for yield, yield-contributing traits. In this study, Component I had the contribution from the traits viz., days to heading, days to physiological maturity, plant height, panicle length, culm length, number of spikelets per panicle, number of primary panicle branches per main shoot, lodging index, above-ground biomass and harvest index which accounted 40% to the total variability. Grain filling period, number of total tillers per plant, number of fertile tillers per plant, days to mature, peduncle length, number of florets per spikelet and thousand-seed weight has contributed 14% to the total variability in component II. The remaining variability of 13%, 7% and 6% was consolidated in component III, component IV and component V by various traits like days to seedling emergence, culm length, peduncle length, lodging index, above-ground biomass yield, grain yield, harvest index, number of total and fertile tillers per plant. The cumulative variance of 79% of total variation among 18 characters was explained by the first five axes. Thus, the results of principal component analysis revealed, wide genetic variability exists in this drought tolerant tef inbred lines. Drought tolerant traits with high genetic variability are expected to provide high level of gene transfer during breeding programs.


By using Zn4CO3(OH)6·H2O as the precursor, cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) as the surfactant, ZnO nanorods with several nanometer diameters were synthesized. The product was characterized by means of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED). Its room-temperature photolu-minescence properties were also studied. The results show that the as-prepared products have high crystallinity and grow along the [001] direction, combining with good near UV emission properties. The mechanism for the ZnO nanorod growth was also discussed.


Background: Given that hospitals are one of the pillars of the health system, reforming the health system is not possible without improving the performance of hospitals. Accreditation is a regular assessment of hospitals that emphasizes on continuous quality improvement and patient safety. This study aimed to identify the challenges of the new generation of hospital accreditation using the Three-Branch Model and proposing solutions to improve its effectiveness.
Method: This mixed exploratory research was conducted using a targeted sampling method of 20 semi-structured interviews along with a content analysis approach. As a result, an initial model was designed. Later, the initial model was modified using the Delphi technique, which was also approved by experts. In order to test the model, a researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among 384 hospital staff based on Morgan's table using stratified quota sampling method. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis using Smart PlS 3 software.
Results: After analyzing and combining, the data were categorized under 31 basic codes, 5 concepts, and 3 main categories by Three-branch Model. The main codes included behavioral challenges, structural challenges, and contextual challenges.
Conclusion: According to the findings, the main challenge was related to the behavioral category followed by the structural category, which indiates that the current focus is on intra-organizational issues. Therefore, it can be said that the contextual challenges have received less attention.


The aspect of sustainability is one of the key elements of development today, and therefore, the criteria for the sustainability assessement for buildings and engineering structures have to be developed. Life cycle assessment, LCA, is suitable for these criteria development. In order to ensure successful implementation of the criteria in practice, they should be simple. The aim of this thesis is consequently to find practical tools for environmental impact assessment that are based on LCA. A selected building will be analysed by using these tools, and environmental impact profile of the in-built construction materials and products will be determined.

First, the thesis describes the LCA method, in general terms as well as in relation with construction. Environmental product declarations (EPSs) and the environmental profile database Okobau.dat (developed specifically for construction materials) are presented. The core part is the LCA analysis of materials and products built in the selected building (Riko ModEko). The reference wooden frame structural wall system building (Riko ModEko) is compared to the building with the same conceptual design and glued wooden massive walls, and to the concrete masonry-filled frame building. Based on the results of the analysis conducted, it can be concluded that some of the employed environmental indicators are still in the developmental stage and their credibility has to be further confirmed. Further, the materials built in the concrete masonry-filled frame building have a poorer performance in three categories employed, when compared to the Riko ModEko buildings.


Time series microarray data analysis provides an invaluable insight into the genetic progression of metastasis. In this paper we analyzed time series microarray data of cancer metastasis. Predictive clustering using decision trees on time series data integrates clustering and prediction. We present an implementation of PCT on cancer metastasis gene expression data to obtain high level descriptions of clusters of gene expression samples in terms of clinical variables in an unparalleled serendipitous manner. We evaluate time series data from microarray experiments. Each data set records the change over time in the expression level of epithelial cells to facilitate dispersion by induction of Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT). Implementation of PCT with CLUS-TS on the cancer metastasis gene expression data enables us to understand the early event during tumor metastasis. Summing up, we applied predictive clustering trees to the cancer metastasis gene expression data, where the goal was to obtain integrated high-level descriptions of clusters of gene expression samples in terms of clinical variables. Our preliminary results hint at the potential to understand the molecular pathogenesis of tumor metastasis through predictive clustering using decision trees approach.


With the rapid development of China's new energy vehicle industry, the supply security of lithium resources is crucial. To ensure the healthy development of the new energy vehicle industry and the security of supply of key mineral resources, it is necessary to accurately determine the supply and demand pressure of lithium resources and their sources. This study analyzes the lithium stock and flow at the end of the new energy vehicle chain by constructing a material flow analysis framework for the new energy vehicle industry and compiling a lithium resource flow table for the new energy vehicle industry, and the results show that 1) the supply and demand pressure on lithium resources in China is increasing year by year, and the external dependence of lithium resources has reached 75% in 2019; 2) China's domestic lithium battery production and consumption accounted for nearly 70% of the lithium consumption in various industries, of which 60% of the lithium batteries were assembled on new energy vehicles, and the net outflow of lithium exceeded more than the lithium consumption of new energy vehicles in 2019. The lithium consumption of new energy vehicles was more than five times that of the previous year. Insufficient supply of domestic lithium ore, lithium inventory, and import and export are the key reasons for the pressure on lithium supply and demand in the new energy vehicle industry; 3) By the end of 2019, the cumulative scrap lithium batteries in new energy vehicles contain about 10,000 tons. The lithium accumulated in new energy vehicles has 26,500 tons. These results provide a theoretical basis for policy recommendations to ensure the healthy development of the new energy vehicle industry and to promote international cooperation in the development, utilization, and recycling of lithium resources.


Session object is a initial built-in device which could restore specific users' required communication information.Users could merely visit own session variables but proved no approaches to visit other users'.The essay analyzed and explored loss and procession of session variables.


We report the unusually low swelling capacity of highly stretched polystyrene chains grown on a silicon surface using "living" free radical polymerization. The control over the lateral density leads to brushes with a very high grafting density (up to >1.0 chain/nm2). Neutron reflectivity measurements have evidenced two specific features of such brushes:  (i) the controlled nature of the surface polymerization through a very homogeneous growth of homopolymer and copolymer chains; (ii) the highest volume fraction in good solvent Φ(z=0) = 0.85 ever seen due to the highly stretched configuration of the dry chains, hindering a complete swelling of the layers and suggesting a significant deviation from predicted scaling laws.


This paper focuses on the processes of institution of borders in post-Soviet Central Asia and offers highlights of how some of the local communities cope with the decisions made by the central governments in the region with respect to borders. In particular, this paper offers insights into the cases when certain decisions of the governments confl icted with preferences of the population residing in the bordering areas. This in turn resulted in the situations when local communities in the affected bordering areas decided to protest such decisions by rather untypical means such as declaring "independence" from their respective countries and annexing roads and water facilities which they believed were vital for sustaining their communal life. Such examples exemplify the cases when interests of local communities do not necessarily fi t into the plans of central governments resulting in inter-state border frictions.


ZnSe nanocrystals are prepared in water by a wet chemistry method. By selecting an appropriate pH value and surface-capping agents, a whitish blue fluorescence peaking at 470 nm is observed under ZV irradiation. The intensity of this fluorescence increases dramatically under reflux and saturates after ~ 40 hrs. The final mean size of the ZnSe nanocrystals measured by transmission electron microscopy is aboyt 2 nm in diameter. The quantum efficiency of the fluorescence form the final solution is estimated to be ~1%, although the preparation conditions have not yet been completely optimized. These properties are discussed in comparison with those of similarly prepared CdTe and differently prepared ZnSe nanocrystals.


A system, apparatus and method are provided for measuring and removing the influence of pulsatility on contrast agent flow in a region of interest of a vascular system of a patient. Once the change of blood speed over the cardiac cycle is known (pulsatility), this influence is removed from acquired image sequence for outcome control such that 'quasi-stationary', regular flow acquisition is passed on to subsequent visualization and analysis processes. A contrast agent injector is also provided that simultaneously measures and uses ECG to inject a known contrast agent at a fixed point over the cardiac cycle or such that a known amount of contrast agent will arrive at a known time at a region of interest in the vasculature of a patient, thus controlling one of the main unwanted variables in an acquisition of blood flow sequences.


The paper approaches the thought of Jose Marti in order to identify and analyze some of their ethical traits as bearers of a new ethics. The search for this new morality stands as an essential and dynamic topic that crosses all his ideas and is expressed in several of his productions. As emblematic examples: El Presidio Politico, Madre America, Nuestra America y El Manifiesto de Monte Cristi. However its most important function is to establish a new awareness about the resistance and struggle in a context framed in the independence of Cuba and the Antilles.


The article presents the reviews that have been presented on the book, 'In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record', which has been written by Lewis R. Binford. Review(s) of: In Pursuit of the Past. Decoding the Archaeological Record, by Lewis R. Binford, Thames and Hudson, London (1983), 256 pp., 147 illustrations, ISBN 0500050422. Includes endnotes.


We evaluate the amplitude of magnetization fluctuations by means of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We calculate its influence on the transition temperature within a Landau formalism. The variation of the transition temperature with the thickness d involves a critical value on the order of 5 to 10 A. A reasonable agreement is obtained with the behaviour of Ni films Evaluation de l'amplitude des fluctuations thermodynamiques de l'aimantation a l'aide du theoreme de fluctuation-dissipation. Calcul, dans le cas d'un formalisme de Landau, de leur influence sur la temperature de transition


Knowledge Tracing (KT) is a challenging task in personalized learning where the objective is to track the progression of students' understanding of the concepts over time based on their learning history. Typically, there are many more exercises than knowledge points. Tracing the state of the concepts seems a reasonable approach but ignores the additional information contained in the exercise itself. Moreover, there are numerous relationships between knowledge points, and the modification of one point's state can affect related points. In this paper, we introduce a method that splits exercises into constituent knowledge points, and incorporates the exercise features to improve the differential representation of the exercises containing the same concepts. We also describe two ways of propagating knowledge point states: one-way and two-way, which update the state of the current knowledge point and its related knowledge points. Our model is tested on two real datasets, and the experimental results show that our model outperforms the existing methods.


Abstract An efficient and practical method for the synthesis of 2-sulfonylquinolines through copper-catalyzed deoxygenative C2-sulfonylation of quinoline N-oxides with 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane bis(sulfur dioxide) (DABSO) and phenyldiazonium tetrafluoroborates is demonstrated. Products with various substituents were obtained in moderate to high yields.


Objective Type 2 diabetes patients with cerebral infarction and acute shortage of hyperlipidemia 's condition and prognosis were analyzed in diabetic patients with cerebral infarction and acute lack of interaction of hyperlipidemia were analyzed. Methods 60 patients with type 2 diabetes in patients with acute ischemic stroke effective analysis of the clinical data, and with 30 pure ischemic stroke patients were analyzed. Results Type 2 diabetes in patients with acute ischemic stroke in vivo TG was(2.05±1.07)mmol/L, LDL-C content of(3.12±1.07)mmol/L; rather simple ischemic stroke patients TG was(1.9±0.65) mmol/L, LDL-C content of(3.02±0.67)mmol/L; compare the differences were statistically significant(P0.05). Conclusion Patients with ischemic stroke and simple compared to type 2 diabetes in patients with acute ischemic stroke fibrinogen and platelet aggregation with a rising trend, and the emergence of the phenomenon mostly cerebral infarction, and showed multifocal pathological phenomenon. Court mainly of type 2 diabetes in patients with acute ischemic stroke and neurological recovery glycemic research, to promote functional recovery of patients with neurological basis for providing treatment and prognosis.


During the next two decades, automobile manufacturers and automotive parts suppliers face the challenges associated with creating cost-effective improvements in sensor/actuator technology to increase vehicle reliability and quality in order to meet customer wants and needs. Focused upon powertrain sensors and actuators, this paper reflects upon the past, surveys the present, and offers a view of the future.


Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com the birth in the case of the second twin in transverse position, with some authors favouring a surgical option and others a internal version and vaginal pelvic extraction (VIGEP). Kurzel et al. [1] showed that 52% of caesarean sections in 541 twins were indicated by alterations in the presentation of the second twin and technical impossibility of performing a VIGEP. Smith et al. [2], observed an increase in the incidence of caesarean section associated with external version of the second twin, compared with pelvic extraction, and that the VIGEP, could be the indicated way of birth for the second twin in transverse situation with greater than 1500 g of estimated weight. Mauldin et al. [3] performed a cost analysis of the modes of attending the second twin in transverse situation. Maternal and neonatal costs were significantly lower in the Group delivered by VIGEP. Although maternal morbidity was similar in the different groups, the duration of hospitalization was clearly lower in the case of VIGEP. Children born by VIGEP, had significantly less incidences of lung disease and neonatal infectious disease than other groups. These authors, when clinical observations were associated with hospital costs, concluded that the VIGEP of the second twin in transverse, presented as a more logical care strategy. On the other hand, the commitment to reduce the incidence caesarean rate, implies that efforts should be made in all areas where surgery can be avoided without affecting the perinatal outcome, and the assistance of the second twin in transverse situation, seems to be one of these areas.


As educational games become more pervasive, the evolution of game design software is inevitable. This study looked at student perceptions of teacher created Serious Educational Games as part of a project striving to create a game development software where teachers and students create games as part of educational activities. The objective was to use evidence from student perceptions to inform further development of the software. A mixed method design ascertained data from 181 male and 178 females from 33 teacher created games. Results indicate that the software is relatively effective by the supporting documentation and training lacked in several areas. This information led to the creation of a commercial game development software set for release in 2010.


Precast concrete panels appear to be a viable method for expediting construction of Portland cement concrete pavements. The use of precast panels allows for the construction of pavements to occur during off-peak travel times, such as nights and weekends. This significantly reduces user delays caused by construction, and hence user costs. Additionally, by incorporating prestressing, significant advantages will be realized in the form of increased durability and reduced pavement thickness. The objective of this paper is to describe the key aspects of a concept for a precast prestressed concrete pavement that was generated through a feasibility study.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate price discovery for cross-listed stocks on the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) and the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and find out the determinants of price discovery between the two markets. Design/methodology/approach – Gonzalo Granger Component Shares and Hasbrouck Information Shares were estimated annually for a sample of 19 cross-listed stocks between 1998 and 2012. Then dynamic panel regressions were used to investigate the driving factors behind price discovery between the NZX and ASX. Findings – Strong downward trends were observed in the contribution to price discovery of the NZX, both for New Zealand firms cross-listing on the ASX and Australian firms cross-listing on the NZX. While in the early years in our sample period, price discovery is dominated by the home market, by 2012, 50 per cent of price discovery for New Zealand firms takes place on the ASX, and the NZX acts as a satellite market for Australian firms. It was also observed that the N...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS Radioimmunogimaging and Radioimmunotherapy, S. W. Burchiel and B. A. Rhodes, Eds., Elsevier, New York 1983, pp. 207-222. "Synthetic and Structural Aspects of Technetium Chemistry as Related to Nuclear Medicine':, Inorganic Chemistry in Biology and Medicine, Tc Chemistry, E. Duetsch and B. L. Barnet 1980, pp. 103-119. Baldos et al., CA 96:57736f (1982). Baldas et al. CA 97:60987q (1982). Karde/ et al., CA 95:17322r (1981). Baldas et al., CA 95:54003h (1981). Baldas et al., CA 95:214309t (1981). Primary Examiner-John F. Terapane Assistant Examiner-J. E. Thomas Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Cushman, Darby & Cushman (57) ABSTRACT Compounds of the formula I:


The effectiveness of performance feedback and back-up reinforcers is ordinarily monitored by their combined effect on the target behavior. Supplementary monitors of reinforcer effectiveness can also be useful when, for example, the target behavior is slow to change. In this study, the supplementary monitor was the rate at which children from an institutional contingency management program pressed buttons that allowed them access to their own (self audit) or another person's (co-actor audit) performance scores. The feasibility of this supplementary monitor was indicated by the findings that children used the audit apparatus and that their scores, rather than the novelty of the procedure, were reinforcers. The procedure was useful to the treatment team because it showed which of the children's daily scores were most reinforcing and who checked their scores. Although children made both self and coactor checks, self scores were usually more reinforcing. The audit as a supplementary monitor offers the advantages of being easy to measure, of providing information on the reinforcing value of social stimuli (coactor audits), and which type of feedback is most reinforcing.


PISTOL FOR ELECTROSTATIC SPRAYING POWDER MATERIAL different colors and different characteristics. COMPRISING A feedblock (10), (11), (12), HIGH VOLTAGE AND barrel portion INTERCHANGEABLE, comprising a spray nozzle (4) consisting of a tubular body electrically insulative, with a wick (44), COUPLING IN A HOUSING BODY (30) PISTOL WHERE THERE MEANS FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTION WITH THE SOURCE OF HIGH TENSION, wherein the nozzle (4) a first conduit (41), surrounding a rOD HOLDERS Baffle ( 2), CENTRAL, and a second conduit (42) for fixing the inside of the stem (2) end and that the conduit (41) has a side opening (43), with a coupling part (14A), ( 14B) SPLICING OF A HOSE (35) FOR CIRCULATION OF MIXTURE POWDER-AIR SPRAY, Provided the charging electrode ELECTROSTATIC (1, 34) EXTERIOR the first conduit (41) and being fixed NOZZLE TO BODY PISTOL BY A MEMBER COAXIAL (5).


The glass transition, heat-resistant pr op erty, internal friction of CPE/AS blend and CPE, AN, St grafted copolymer have been studied by DSC, TGA and DMA. The result shows that the existence of graft c omponent in CPE grafted copolymer, the copolymer has multi-phase structure with micro-phase separation and the internal force between the phase is strong. The T g of rubber phase and plastic phase separated from CPE grafted copolymer are higher than their original components. But in CPE/AS blend the phase struc ture is separation and adhesive force between phases is weak. The T g of co mponents in mechanical blend has not difference than their original components. The thermal degradation speed and internal friction of grafted copolymer are low er than mechanical blend.


We have analyzed the Italian and English governmental website to examine their structures and the means they propose to retrieve information. As a matter of fact their approach is totally different: the Italian website employs a hierarchical system which offers only one way to access each public service; the English one on the contrary uses an associative model, which distinguishes itself for the various viewpoints to describe the individual service. This kind of organization assimilates significantly the methods of the faceted classification 1 which we applied suggesting an alternative way to structure a


A method for simultaneously measuring whole field in‐plane displacements by using optical fiber and based on the dual‐beam illumination principle electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is presented in this paper. A set of single mode optical fibers and beamsplitter are employed to split the laser beam into four beams of equal intensity.One pair of fibers is utilized to illuminate the sample in the horizontal plane so it is sensitive only to horizontal in‐plane displacement. Another pair of optical fibers is set to be sensitive only to vertical in‐plane displacement. Each pair of optical fibers differs in longitude to avoid unwanted interference. By means of a Fourier‐transform method of fringe‐pattern analysis (Takeda method), we can obtain the quantitative data of whole field displacements. We found the uncertainty associated with the phases by mean of Monte Carlo‐based technique.


Manual annotation of textual documents is a necessary task when constructing benchmark corpora for training and evaluating machine learning algorithms. We created a comprehensive directory of annotation tools that currently includes 93 tools. We analyzed the tools over a set of 31 features and implemented simple scripts and a Web application that filters the tools based on chosen criteria. We present two use cases using the directory and propose ideas for its maintenance. The directory, source codes for scripts, and link to the Web application are available at: this https URL


The hazardous diazo transfer reagent mesyl azide, has been safely generated and used in situ for continuous diazo transfer as part of an integrated synthetic process with an embedded safety quench. Diazo transfer to β-ketoesters and a β-ketosulfone was successful. In-line phase separation, by means of a continuous liquid-liquid separator, enabled direct telescoping with a thermal Wolff rearrangement.


Clustering is an activity that aims to group a data that has a similarity between one data with another data. K-Means clustering is a non-hierarchical data clustering method that attempts to partition existing data into one or more clusters / groups. In this study clustering was conducted using the K-Means algorithm using data on the achievements of the National Middle School National Examination in 2018 obtained from the official website of the Center for Education and Culture Assessment of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. The results of the cluster with the K-Means algorithm are obtained for cluster 1 there are 14 provinces, cluster 2 there are 5 provinces, and cluster 3 there are 15 provinces with cluster 1 level is a cluster with a high national test score, cluster 2 is a cluster with a low national test score and a cluster 3 is a cluster with moderate national examination scores. While the results of the evaluation of the K-Means algorithm with the number of clusters 3 produce an evaluation value of Connectivity 11,916, Dunn 0.246 and Silhouette 0.464.


Rectal biopsy in a case of lumbosacral agenesis showed the presence of autonomic nerve elements normally supplied by spinal levels distal to the agenesis. Certain implications are suggested regarding the embryogenesis of this condition from data about the development of neural, bony, and muscular elements. Recommendations regarding management are given.


A theoretical model is developed to describe the acoustic characteristics of plane ultrasonic acoustic waves impinging on a porous coating, namely, a rigid surface periodically corrugated with subw...


Air traffic control is essential for flight safety.How to implement risk assessment on it is a pressing problem that needs to be studied.According to the interacting characteristics of factors affecting the risk of air traffic control,a risk assessment model is established for air traffic control based on triangular fuzzy mathematics and ANP.Then an application example in an air traffic control system is given,the index weights are calculated and the key indicators for air traffic control risk are found out.The results show that main factors affecting the safety of air traffic control units are the performance of management standards,the number of staff training,staff language and communication,etc.The air traffic control unit should focus on improving these factors.Fuzzy-ANP method can help determine the focus of risk assessment.


Fifty patients suffering from Celiac Disease were presented to the screening dental clinics of the Faculty of Dentistry, King AbdulAziz University for dental evaluation. They were subjected to clinical genetic examination, pedigree construction, oral mucosal and dental clinical evaluation. An autosomal recessive mode of inheritance was evident in some of the studied cases, while others showed sporadic occurrence. Oral mucosal and dental clinical examinations revealed recurrent oral ulcerations, enamel hypoplasia in most of the Celiac Disease patients. Oral mucosal and dental clinical examinations are important in diagnosing and monitoring cases of Celiac Disease


During the summers of 1969-71, an average of 11,152 acres of cotton was examined weekly at an average season al cost of $1.65 per acre. Resulting information Contributed to grower decisions to eliminate pesticide applications season long from 84, 82, and 71%, respectively, of the acreage during these years and to make 1.6, 1.7, and 3.8 applications, respectively, per treated acre, largely for control of the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders). Costs were much lower than under a grower-sponsored program in 1968, when 13,263 acres each automatically received 6 pesticide applications.


Recently, with the expansion of campuses in China, school buses separately cannot meet the needs of students for daily travel. Electrical vehicles have been favored by students contributing to their environmental, convenient, and economical characteristics in their daily life, consequently, related problems emerged. It is considered that the charging of electric vehicles is inconvenient, unsafe, unclear payment details, mainly because of limited sites, lack of maintenance, and site occupancy. In addition, there are certain limitations and backwardness in the payment method of existing charging piles. Students cannot query and manage the charging status of their vehicles in real time. Therefore, it is significant for us to construct and improve electric vehicle charging facilities for better campus environment.Purpose: From the perspective of service design, a solution for the existing problems in the electric vehicles charging piles on campus in China is proposed to facilitate the daily life of teachers and students on campus.Method: Taking the campus of Huazhong University of Science and Technology as an example, the statistics of existing charging piles are collected to enrich our understanding of the pile distribution on the campus, deeper information are excavated via stakeholder interviews in the statistics. After the interview, questionnaires are designed and relevant user role cards are established. Service design related analysis methods: visual analysis by establishing user journey maps, service blueprints, sand table models, role playing, etc. The contact points are discovered to construct the service system design.Conclusion: We demonstrated the 'instant flash charge' service scheme, plan the service blueprint, and design the relevant service vouchers. Users can instantly receive convenient charging services through the APP. Operators can also detect the usage status on the back-end computing modules, check and repair the broken charging piles in time, and finally provide users with a complete and smooth charging service.


An assurance case presents a clear and defensible argument, supported by evidence, that a system will operate as intended in a particular context. Assurance cases often inform third party certification of a system. One emerging proposal within the 'trustworthy AI' and Autonomous Systems (AS) research community is to extend and apply the assurance case methodology to achieve justified confidence that a system will be ethically acceptable when used in a particular context. In this paper, we develop and further advance this proposal, in order to bring the idea of ethical assurance cases to life. First, we discuss the assurance case methodology and the Goal Structuring Notation (GSN), which is a graphical notation that is widely used to record and present assurance cases. Second, we describe four core ethical principles to guide the design and deployment of AI/AS: justice; beneficence; non-maleficence; and respect for personal autonomy. Third, we bring these two components together and structure an ethical assurance argument pattern - a reusable template for ethical assurance cases - on the basis of the four ethical principles. We call this a Principle-based Ethical Assurance Argument pattern. Throughout, we connect stages of the argument to examples of AI/AS applications and contexts. This helps to show the initial plausibility of the proposed methodology. The aim of this paper is to start to shape the debate around ethical assurance cases. We welcome comments to the corresponding author. 2 Artificial Intelligence Act: machine learning (ML), including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning; logic and knowledge-based approaches, including knowledge representation and expert systems, inductive logic programming, inference engines, and symbolic reasoning; or statistical approaches, including Bayesian networks and search and optimisation techniques (European Commission 2021, Annexes). Although defining AI partly in terms of these techniques carries the risk of becoming outmoded, and also means that many systems that are now considered 'traditional' are included under the term 'AI', we adopt this definition because we want to take a broad view of AI, rather than identify it with any single technique, however dominant in current applications.


The usual method of measuring the roundoff noise generated in a digital filter may lead, at least in case of sign-magnitude truncation, to an excessive result due to incomplete cancellation of the useful output signal. A simple method for determining a corresponding corrective term is presented.


Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that primarily affects small joints, characterized by inflammation and cellular proliferation in the synovial lining of joints that can ultimately result in cartilage and bone destruction. This study aims to detect the IL-6 and TNF –α in addition to assess some diagnostic parameters in105 Rheumatoid arthritis patients and compared with healthy individuals as control. The mean level of ESR and CRP in RA patients were increase significantly (P<0.05) in (81.25±14.35 and 224 ± mg/dl), respectively than control. The mean IL-6 and TNF-α serum level were significantly higher (p ≤0.05) in RA patients (197 &   308) pg/ml, respectively compared to the control (5 & 57) pg./ml. There was no significant correlation between anti-CCP with RF, IL-6, TNF-α (p≥0.05) and only significant with RA33.