As a topic of research in psychology, emotions were treated with neglect and depreciation.  However, we observe today a resurgence of interest in research of this topic. We consider it appropriate to retake and discuss some contributions of Vigotski related to emotions. This paper examined aspects pointed on the book Teoria de las emociones - estudio historico-psicologico. He commented the dualism present in the organic theory of emotions (William James and Carl Lange). He also criticized the philosophical theories of emotions. We also pointed out the possible hindrance to support his theory of emotions on the contributions of the philosopher Spinoza: differences between the historical-dialectical materialist outlook and Rationalism-idealism of Spinoza. Although the goal of building a dialectical-materialist theory of emotion has not been reached, Vigotski innovated since sought to integrate art, ethics and science in his analysis.


Background and aims: Although much has been written about the risk factor predictors of CAC extent, few studies have been carried out on symptomatic patients. Similarly, no study has directly compa ...


The problems occur in converter transformer of ±500 kV Jingmen converter station are analyzed,including the change of insulators in tap changing switch,the oil leakage of and the false oil level during oiling.The corresponding solutions are further presented,which is proved to be feasible by the engineering practice,providing references to deal with similar problems in the future project.


The author is Chief Assistant of the Laboratory of Criminalistics, Ghent University, Belgium. During World War II he served with the Intelligence and Action Corps of the Belgian Army and with the Resistance Movements. In 1948 he graduated from Ghent University in Criminology and subsequently served as a lecturer in criminalistics at the Police Academy of the Indonesian National Police and as an advisor in criminalistics to this force. Mr. Cuelenaere has had a special interest in secret communications having published articles in this field of work. His comprehensive bibliography covering these somewhat infrequent but important problems is published for the assistance of our readers.-EDITOR.


We assess the long-term financial returns from high-quality collectible real assets, and review the unique risks that are associated with such investments. Over the period 1900-2012, art, stamps, and musical instruments (violins) have appreciated at an average annual rate of 6.4%-6.9% in nominal terms, or 2.4%-2.8% in real terms. Despite the similarity in long-term returns, short-term trends can vary substantially across these different types of emotional assets. Collectibles have enjoyed higher average returns than government bonds, bills, and gold. However, it is important to recognize the quantitative importance of transaction costs in collectibles markets. In addition, price volatility is larger than is suggested by conventional measures of risk, and these assets are also exposed to fluctuating tastes and potential frauds. Yet, despite the large costs and many pitfalls, investment in emotional assets can pay off, because of the non-financial yield they provide.


We propose a method for programmable shaping of the amplitude and phase of the extreme ultraviolet and x-ray attosecond pulses produced by high-order harmonic generation. It overcomes the bandwidth limitations of existing spectral filters and enables removal of the intrinsic attosecond chirp as well as the synthesis of pulse sequences. It is based on partial phase matching using a longitudinally addressable modulation. Although the method is in principle applicable to any form of partial phase matching, we focus on quasi-phase matching using a counterpropagating pulse train. We present simulations of the production of isolated attosecond pulses at 250 eV, including a 31 as transform-limited pulse, tunably chirped pulses and double pulses.


With the rapid development of information technology and its penetration into the field of education, it has become a worthwhile research topic to explore how to combine Outcome Based Education(OBE) model with data mining techniques to obtain predictions of secondary school students' employment rates. Therefore, this paper first collected attribution data affecting the employment rate of secondary school students, and then used three models to predict the highly correlated attribution data. Finally, based on the analysis and prediction results, the OBE model was implemented for the corresponding classes. The experimental results found that the combination of machine learning algorithms and educational practices facilitated the development of secondary education and significantly increased the employment rate of secondary school students.


Technical and scientific studies have been conducted for the cultivation of Eucalyptus, with special attention to large-scale clonal propagation. However, in some studies are necessary to obtain aseptic material from seeds, and as far as we are aware efficient protocols of asepsis for this purpose are still not available. Therefore, this study aimed to define a protocol for sterilization of seeds of Eucalyptus grandis for in vitro establishment and germination. Four methods of sterilization were tested using different application sequences of the disinfectants, as benomyl fungicide, hydroalcoholic solution (70% v/v) and sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl). The experiment was conducted in completely randomized design with five repetitions. The percentage of establishment and contamination were evaluated at the end of the experiment. Washing with sterile water and 70% alcohol for 30 s, 2.5% sodium hypochlorite for 20 min, 1% benomyl for 20 min and three washes with sterile water was the best method found, accounting to 87.5% of establishment.


Enterprise initiatives come in a number of guises but, whether they are grant‐funded or a commercial aspect of a university's business, the key driver is output. This usually means numbers – of students, of businesses, of ideas developed and sold, of financial gain and reputations made. A critical element impeding progress to the successful development of enterprise is marketing. This is something of a misnomer within organisations as amorphous as universities. The ability to develop products and services and to market them effectively to what should be a captive audience can prove even more trying than dealing with the mountain of paper work that accompanies most, if not all, enterprise initiatives. This paper describes the difficulties experienced by Business Start‐Up@Leeds Met in marketing enterprise at Leeds Metropolitan University, lessons learned and the future direction in terms of marketing approach.


The KOESWall system that minimizes the horizontal deformation of reinforced wall effectively was developed bt E&S Eng. Co., Ltd. in 1999. Due to its systematical feature i.e. isolated construction method. KOESWall system is able to use as temporary structures more economically without the facing blo...


7162 Background: Markers of response and survival in patients (pts) who benefit from erlotinib (Elb) remain controversial. In another study, pts who developed a rash on Elb survived longer. The primary objective of this study is to prospectively identify downstream markers of EGFR linked signaling pathways that are predictive of response. The secondary objectives are to estimate response rate (RR), disease control rate, time to progression, survival, and if a grade (gr) 2 rash is a predictor of response and survival.

METHODS
Pts with advanced NSCLC (Stage IIIB with pleural effusion and IV, no prior systemic treatment, performance status 0-2, no symptomatic CNS metastasis, and adequate renal, hepatic and hematologic function) were accrued to this single arm study. Elb was taken orally once a day until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Starting at 150 mg per day, the dose was escalated by 25 mg once every 2 weeks until a gr 2 rash developed, other toxicities precluded escalation, or a maximum dose of 250 mg reached. Response was evaluated by RECIST criteria. Paraffin-fixed tumor tissue was collected on all patients for correlative studies.

RESULTS
Over 8 months, 137 pts (58 M, 79 F) were recruited with a median age of 70 (41-92). Most pts were Caucasian (92%) and had adenocarcinoma (54%). Dose escalation occurred in 53/117 of pts, with 11 getting a dose of 250mg. Only 58 pts have been evaluated for response so far. The preliminary RR is 1% (1/58) with stable disease rate of 18% (32/58). Pts have received a median of 4 cycles of treatment (range 0-10). Most pts went off trial because of progression of disease (38%, 52/137) with only 8% (11/137) stopping because of toxicities (42% unknown). Of the 123 pts evaluated for toxicity, 44 (36%) and 10 (8%) had a grade 1 / 2 and 3 rash respectively. Grade 1 / 2 diarrhea occurred in 16% (20/123) and Grade 3 diarrhea in 10% (13/123). One pt died of pneumonitis of unclear cause.

CONCLUSIONS
Mature toxicity, response, and survival data as well as laboratory studies which include IHC, EGFR mutation and FISH analysis, and genotype and allele frequency will be available at the meeting. [Table: see text].


Urinary, bowel, and sexual dysfunction caused by iatrogenic lesions of the pelvic plexus remain a common complication of radical pelvic surgery. Preservation of these nerves during surgery is hampered by their poor visualisation within the pelvic cavity and their small size. Recently, increased awareness of the high incidence of post-operative autonomic dysfunction has led to the development of nerve-sparing surgical techniques. This study aims to expand our knowledge of the anatomy of the pelvic plexus, to contribute to further enhancement of nerve sparing surgical techniques. Dissections of the hypogastric nerves and pelvic plexuses were performed on 10 cadavers. We showed that nerves from the pelvic plexus that supply the rectum can be mobilised to a length of 10-15 mm and thus can be identified and safely divided, leaving the pelvic plexus intact following the extrafascial excision of the rectum. Likewise, the hypogastric nerves, which are enveloped in a layer of parietal fascia, also remain intact. The fascia containing the hypogastric nerves was separated from the fascia propria by a loose areolar layer. Pelvic plexuses measured about 30 by 30 mm in size. Radiological images showed the plexuses to be positioned about 5 mm below a line joining the upper surfaces of two acetabula. This study shows that extrafascial excision does not damage the hypogastric nerves or the pelvic plexuses and provides a way to radiologically assess the proximity of a tumour to the pelvic plexus. Such knowledge aids in preoperative planning to reduce the incidence of post-operative pelvic autonomic dysfunction.


The short-channel effects (SCE) in advanced fully depleted silicon-on-insulator MOSFETs are investigated by showing the importance of the intergate coupling. Experimental results highlight that part of the SCE is due to the contribution of the opposite-gate, leading to systematic overestimation of the threshold voltage roll-off and drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL) effects. Numerical simulations confirm that the impact of back-gate SCE depends on the device structure (film and oxide thickness) and bias. A basic model is presented, which enables the identification of the genuine SCE at each gate. To mitigate or fully cancel the threshold voltage roll-off and DIBL, we propose simple and pragmatic back-biasing schemes.


T-Matrix method is widely used in calculating light scattering by particles.Among programmes of computing T-Matrix,most of them are implemented in FORTRAN language.In this paper,C++ language,mostly common computer language presently,is utilized to implement T-Matrix,meanwhile,attention is given to some problems during this process.


Over US$2 trillion in off-balance sheet assets and liabilities will come under new reporting standards thanks to IFRS 16, which introduces a major change to global accounting. It's a change that demands the attention of all in our profession, as Chris Sheedy discovered.


The invention provides an improved ESD protective device, which is used for eliminating the current flowing through an ESD protective device when in normal electrifying and comprises a detecting circuit, a driving circuit and a discharge tube, wherein the driving circuit comprises a one-stage or multistage phase inverter, and the final-stage phase inverter is a CMOS phase inverter, wherein the CMOS phase inverter comprises a loading tube and a driving tube. The improved ESD protective device is characterized in that a first voltage division circuit is connected between the loading tube and the driving tube. The invention also provides a corresponding control method and an integrated circuit. The improved ESD protective device limits the electric potential of a grid electrode of the discharge tube by using the first voltage division circuit to connect the loading tube and the driving tube of the last-stage phase inverter of the discharge tube, thus solving the problem that the NMOS tube 31 can not be conducted when in normal electrifying and further eliminating the corresponding adverse influence using the system to electrify.


A model is created for  blind people that can guide and support them while traveling on the highways just with the help of a smartphone application. This can be accomplished by first converting the scene in front of the user into text and  then converting text into voice output. Then a method for the generation of image legends based on deep neural networks. With an image as an entry, the method can display an English sentence describing the contents of the image. The user first provides a voice command, then a quick snapshot is captured by the camera or webcam. This image is then fed as input to the image caption generator template that generates a caption for the image. Next, this caption text is converted to speech, which gives rise to a voice message on the description of the image.


SUMMARY In September 2002, a two year long R&D project started at the Survey of Israel, aimed at the exact characterization of a three dimensional cadastre system. Six leading professionals, forming an interdisciplinary team, were appointed to specific positions, as follows:-Project Manager (cadastre expert)-3D Cad geodesy expert-GIS expert-Urban planner and architect-Underground engineering expert-A legal (real property) expert The total number of financed working hours of the team for two years is 9700. The total budget of the project is 800 000 US $. The main goal of the project is the definition and promotion of the application of a 3DCadastre in land management practice. Three practical experiments will be completed. One in the old city of Acre, the second in the center of Tel-Aviv, and the third in a planned urban center of a new town. These three sites represent different cadastral realities and a range of complicated property problems in space. The principal results of the first six months of activity are briefly summarized in the paper.


Since human beings demand the mobile lifestyle and convenience based on internet technology, the Wireless LAN Networks have been extensively incorporated in the Mobile Internet Devices. In comparison to the other Wireless Broadband Technology such as 3.5G (HSDPA) and Mobile WiMAX, the maximum transmission rate of 3.5G (HSDPA) and Mobile WiMAX is apparently insufficient (i.e. less than 4 Mbps in the upstream). However, as IEEE802.11n is implemented with OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology, the maximum transmission rate can reach up to 600 Mbps which is primarily utilized in the Fixed Networking Environment. Hence, provided that the advantage of IEEE802.11n bandwidth can be adopted in the Mobile Communication, the "True" High- Performance Mobility can be realized for the industry of Information Communication Technology. The Research is performed through the LAB methodology. Under the Single Access Point, Multiple Access Point, High-Density and Ultra High-Density Access Point architecture, we emulate the vehicular ratio within the signal coverage of each operating mode via the programmable signal attenuators and then analyze the performance of TCP/IP, IPTV and VOIP. As depicted in the LAB result, IEEE802.11n can be adopted in the Vehicular Internet Environment. Under the High-Density Access Point mode, the performance at the speed ratio of 50 to 60 KM/HR can be better than IEEE802.11g operated in the Fixed Networking Environment; while in the vehicular environment of 40 KM/HR, the IPTV and VOIP can remain basic mobile communication quality. The application and capability analysis result proved that IEEE802.11n not only can be adopted in the Public Shuttle Bus and Lightweight Transit Rail system, but also provide a valuable reference for the Mobile Wireless Broadband Industry.


This paper describes applications for micro-PMU technology that address emerging issues in the distribution system due to stresses from dependencies on high DER penetration and microgrids. Lessons from the deployment of micro-PMU technology at a major utility and microgrid are shared in the paper, offering opportunities for enhanced analytics to inform command and control methods to manage the impact of these dependencies on events in distribution networks.


The interactions between triphenylphenoxy polyoxyethylenyl polyoxypropylene (PEP) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), dodecyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) were investigated respectively by using surface tension method. The mixed critical micelle concentration (CMC) values determined from the experimental data were used to calculate the molecular interaction parameters and molecule-exchanging energy according to the regular solution theory of the two mixed surfactant systems. The effects of surfactants, cosurfactants and temperature on the phase behavior and thermodynamic properties of the two mixed surfactant microemulsion systems were examined. The results show that the strong synergistic interactions exist in the micelles and the adsorbed film phase of both (PEP+SDS) and (PEP+CTAB) systems, as well as the system energy is reduced. The synergistic interaction in the (PEP+SDS) system is stronger than that in the (PEP+CTAB) system. The largest W/O microemulsion zone is formed in the (PEP+SDS)/n-hexanol/n-heptane/water microemulsion system, and the phase behavior of this system exhibits temperature insensitivity. During the formation of microemulsion , the standard free energy ΔGs for the transfer of the cosurfactant from the continuous oil phase to the interface is negative, and the standard enthalpy –ΔHs of the aforesaid transfer process is zero. It indicates that the process is a process without heat effect, and its ΔGs is decided by the standard entropy ΔSs.


AbstractEmployee performance appraisal is an assessment process carried out to produce high quality and dedicated employees. The processing system of employee performance appraisal results in the West Onion bone staffing agency is still doing the calculations manually so it cannot produce a final score. Decision Support System (SPK) that is used in helping to support decisions is the analytical hiearchy process (AHP) method, the system development method used is the waterfall method, and the data collection method used is interview technique, literature review, and observation. made produce a decision support system that can calculate the level of employee achievement and can provide benefits in making decisions for employee performance appraisal.


CdS quantum dots (QDs) embedded in ZnSe-based microcavities were studied. The distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) consisted of quarter-wavelength-thick ZnSe, and ZnSe-MgS superlattices were grown, which exhibited a high reflectivity of 92% with just five periods. Microcavities with ZnSe λ cavities were sandwiched with the DBRs and clear cavity resonance modes were observed. The CdS QDs were embedded at the antinode position of the ZnSe λ cavity and were selectively excited by longitudinal-optical (LO) phonon-assisted energy relaxation to the QDs coupled to the cavity modes. This scheme made it possible to observe vacuum-field Rabi splitting with a coupling with QDs for the first time.


Culture construction and ideological and political work in health care are important to build harmonious medical environment and strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization have something in common in content. They share the same core idea of " people-oriented" and show humanistic care. Because of their invisibility,culture construction and ideological and political work are thought to be " soft power". They relate to each other and mutual promotion which will make hospitals enrich their connotation,show their characteristics and meet medical needs better. These two aspects also have realistic significance in improving the reform of medical and health system,speeding up the development of healthy industry.


This test procedure provides the requirements for sub-system testing and integrated operational testing of the submersible mixer pump and caustic addition equipment by WHC and Kaiser personnel at the Rotating Equipment Shop run-in pit (Bldg. 272E).


Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells are a subtype of breast cancer that lack of estrogen receptors (ERs), progesterone receptors (PRs) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). This type of breast cancer has poor prognosis and accounts for 15–20% of newly diagnosed breast cancer (BC) cases. Annona muricata is a tropical plant and has been used as a folk medicine to treat several diseases such as malaria, inflammation, diabetes and recently it was known to have anticancer activity on various cancer types. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain to be explored. The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti‐proliferative activity and mechanism of action of Annona muricata ethyl acetate (AMEA) extract and one active fraction on BT‐20 TNBC cells.


SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination of healthy individuals is highly immunogenic and protective against severe COVID-19. However, there are limited data on how disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) alter SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine immunogenicity in patients with autoimmune diseases. Here we investigated the induction and stability of vaccine-specific antibodies, B cells, and T cells in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients on different DMTs in a prospective cohort study up to 6 months after homologous prime-boost mRNA vaccination. We analysed 103 MS patients of which 86 received anti-CD20-based B cell depletion (aCD20-BCD), fingolimod, interferon-{beta}, dimethyl fumarate, glatiramer acetate, teriflunomide or natalizumab, and compared them to 17 untreated MS patients. In contrast to all other DMTs and untreated patients, treatment with aCD20-BCD or fingolimod significantly reduced anti-S1 IgG, serum neutralizing activity, and RBD- and S2-specific B cells. MS patients receiving fingolimod additionally lacked S1- and S2-reactive CD4+ T cell responses. The duration of fingolimod treatment, rather than peripheral blood B and T cell counts prior to vaccination, determined whether patients successfully developed humoral immune responses. Fingolimod blocks the ability of immune cells to recirculate and migrate within secondary lymphoid organs demonstrating that functional immune responses require not only immune cells themselves but also access of these cells to the site of inoculation and their unimpeded movement. The absence of humoral and T cell responses in fingolimod-treated MS patients suggests that these patients are at risk for severe SARS-CoV-2 infections despite vaccination, which is highly relevant for clinical decision-making and adapted protective measures, particularly in light of additional recently approved S1P receptor antagonists for MS treatment.


A systematic study of zeta potential for a spherical double layer (SDL) around a colloidal particle in electrolyte solutions, is performed using density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulation. The usual recipe under the solvent primitive model is employed to model the system, where macroion, counterions, and coions are represented by charged hard spheres of uniform charge density and the presence of solvent is taken into account by modelling it as neutral hard spheres. All the components of the system are embedded in a dielectric continuum in order to consider the electrostatic effect of the solvent. The density functional theory employs a suitable weighted density approximation to calculate the hard-sphere contribution, whereas the residual electrostatic interactions are calculated as a small perturbation around the uniform fluid. The zeta potential profiles of a SDL in the presence of a number of electrolytes have been calculated and are found to be considerably influenced in the presence of solvent with an increase in the concentration of the electrolyte. The theory successfully predicts the maxima and sign reversal of the zeta potential profiles at high macroion surface charge density and in the presence of multivalent counterions, as obtained from the Monte Carlo simulation.


In recent years in Poland a very distinctive form of proliferative gill disease of rainbow trout, accompanied by the presence of amoeba-like cells, was observed. The disease appeared to be the nodular gill disease for the first time diagnosed in Poland. Amoeba-like cells seemed to be related to pathological gill lesions, whereas other potential agents such as bacteria and parasites were excluded. It has been suggested that those cells are inland free living amoebae.


Here we investigate the spin-dependent subband structure of newly-developed Mn-based modulation-doped quantum wells. In the presence of an external magnetic field, the s-d exchange coupling between carriers and localized d electrons of the Mn impurities gives rise to large spin splittings resulting in a magnetic-field dependent subband structure. Within the framework of the effective-mass approximation, we self-consistently calculate the subband structure at zero temperature using Density Functional Theory (DFT) with a Local Spin Density Approximation (LSDA). We present results for the magnetic-field dependence of the subband structure of shallow ZnSe/ZnCdMnSe modulation doped quantum wells. Our results show a significant contribution to the self-consistent potential due to the exchange-correlation term. These calculations are the first step in the study of a variety ofinteresting spin-dependent phenomena, e.g., spin-resolved transport and many-body effects in polarized two-dimensional electron gases.


The article analyzes the base method of linear motor vehicle′s traction calculation,compares the deference of flexible multi-particle model and rigid multi-particle model,designs traction calculation software with rigid multi-particle model.In combination with Guangzhou metro line 4,simulation of linear motor vehicle′s traction calculation is performed,and the result is analyzed.


Syst Engn Inst Engineer Equipment, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China. Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Software, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China. Jiangxi Normal Univ, Nanchang 330027, Peoples R China.


The utility model relates to an LED (light-emitting diode) fluorescent lamp which comprises a lamp tube body, an LED module and a driving device, wherein the LED module comprises a PCB (printed circuit board), an aluminium-base heating panel and an LED chip, wherein the cross section of the aluminium-base heating panel is a crescent cambered surface; the inner cambered surface of the aluminium-base heating panel is provided with concave-convex stripes along the longitudinal direction; the inner cambered surface of the aluminium-base heating panel is provided with a groove along the longitudinal direction; and the PCB is arranged in the groove of the inner cambered surface of the aluminium-base heating panel. By adopting the LED fluorescent lamp, the heat dissipation effect of the fluorescent lamp and the light reflectivity are improved, the structure is simpler, and the cost can be lowered.


Combination of electric and magnetic forces on charged molecules of flowing fluid in the presence of a significant electromagnetic fields on surfaces with a nonuniform thickness (as in the case of upper pointed surface of an aircraft and bonnet of a car which are examples of upper horizontal surfaces of a paraboloid of revolution—uhspr) is inevitable. In this study, the influence of imposed magnetic field and Hall effects on the flow of 29 nm CuO–water nanofluid over such object is presented. Suitable similarity variables were employed to nondimensionalize and parameterize the dimensional governing equation. The numerical solutions of the corresponding boundary value problem were obtained using Runge–Kutta fourth-order integration scheme along with shooting technique. The domain of cross-flow velocity can be highly suppressed when the magnitude of imposed magnetic strength and that of Hall parameter are large. A significant increase in the cross-flow velocity gradient near an upper horizontal surface of the paraboloid of revolution is guaranteed with an increase in the Hall parameter. Enhancement of temperature distribution across the flow is apparent due to an increase in the volume fraction.


Justified the selection of stages in the formation of ground cover from the epilithic lichens to higher plants depending on the capacity of the soil cover in rocky plant communities.


A new heuristic algorithm is proposed for extraction of all homogeneous fine-grained texture segments present in any visual image. The segments extracted by this algorithm should comply with human understanding of homogeneous fine-grained areas. The algorithm sequentially extracts segments from more homogeneous to less homogeneous ones. The algorithm belongs to a region growing approach. So, for each segment, an initial seed point is found which is then sequentially grown through its adjacent neighborhoods till the segment borders. The algorithm examines neighboring pixels using texture features extracted in the image by means of a set of texture windows. The segmentation process terminates when the image contains no more sizable homogeneous segments. The segmentation procedure is fully unsupervised, i.e., it does not use a priori knowledge on either the type of textures or the number of texture segments in the image. Using black and white natural scenes, a series of experiments demonstrates efficiency of the algorithm in extraction of homogeneous fine-grained texture segments in a similar way as humans do.


Unsaturated flow through fractured rocks is a concern in the siting and performance of waste disposal facilities. We simulated unsaturated flow through a two-dimensional cross-section of volcanic tuff, using a two-phase flow simulator treating the fractured medium as randomly heterogeneous. Random field simulations revealed preferential flow in the welded units and in the uniformly permeable matrix continua of the nonwelded unit. The magnitude of the variance of water flux through fractures, increased with both the variance of fracture permeability and the infiltration rate, reaching a plateau in the welded units after flowing about 10 correlation scales of the vertical fracture permeability. Calculation of covariances of water flux normal to the layering revealed long range correlations in all units, suggesting that the water flux boundary condition may be important for unsaturated flow in dual continua media.


A simple scheme is implemented for the measurement of the spatial coherence of paraxial stationary fields, based on the measurements of their radiant intensity with and without a planar binary transparent phase mask.


This Note will review the history of commercial rent regulation in New York City and examine existing commercial rent regulation proposals, both in terms of their underlying goals and their methods of operation. The Note will argue that, as a matter of general economic and public policy, the legislature should not enact commercial rent regulations. In light of these policy considerations, the Note will then examine specific conclusions of the Commission in its Final Report and its assessment of proposed strategies to deal with the problem related to the escalation of commercial rents for small businesses and neighborhood consumers in New York City.


Abstract Arsenic (As) is a carcinogen and it is ubiquitous in the environment. Its accumulation in plants can enter the food chain, thereby causing adverse impacts on human health. Based on studies using Xenopus oocytes, engineered microbes, and model plants, aquaporins play key roles in arsenite (AsIII) passage across the cell membrane. Herein, we summarized the roles of aquaporins in AsIII uptake, transport, and accumulation. The coupling action between polar-localized aquaporins and positive transporters probably explains the efficient As transport mediated by bi-directional channels. The expression of aquaporins is regulated at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels via microRNAs. However, in response to As, the proteins can be modified through phosphorylation and be degraded via the ubiquitin 26S proteasome system. Further, a proposed model comprising reactive oxygen species, Ca, Ca-dependent kinases, and transcriptional factors is constructed to reveal the signaling pathways and aquaporins' responses to As in model plants. We also provided strategies to identify and investigate putative aquaporins in plants. Identification and modification of aquaporins' residues critical for their substrate selectivity, and optimization of their expression pattern by employing appropriate promoters can be employed to reduce As accumulation in crops. Based on the characteristics of their functions and expression patterns, it is promising to employ aquaporins for genetic-engineering of crops to reduce As content and increase food safety.


Smooth transition according to the present invention a medical catheter, a catheter body comprising an inner cavity, the catheter body is positioned by the body portion and the sealing portion of the drainage liquid draining is derived, said upper portion defines a plurality of drainage along its axis the direction of the drainage groove profile, which is unique in that: said drain portion and the sealing portion is a non-smooth transition region integral structure. The present invention effectively reduces the catheter insertion wound and tissue trauma to the human body is pulled out, while avoiding the extra painful to the patient, and to overcome the drawbacks of the draft tube made of transition bonding. Catheter body may be made into a variety of shapes, the inner core may be made of a cross, or an I-shaped glyphs, which are selected according to different needs. The present invention trauma, drainage faster and more thoroughly, effectively avoids the incomplete drainage of inflammation lead, the adhesive can be substituted into the existing market transition drainage tube is used.


Weak gravitational lensing surveys using photometric redshifts can have their cosmological constraints severely degraded by errors in the photo-z scale. We explore the cosmological degradation versus the size of the spectroscopic survey required to calibrate the photo-z probability distribution. Previous work has assumed a simple Gaussian distribution of photo-z errors; here, we describe a method for constraining an arbitrary parametric photo-z error model. As an example we allow the photo-z probability distribution to be the sum of NG Gaussians. To limit cosmological degradation to a fixed level, photo-z distributions comprised of multiple Gaussians require up to a 5 times larger calibration sample than one would estimate from assuming a single-Gaussian model. This degradation saturates at NG ≈ 4 in the simple case where the fiducial distribution is independent of NG. Assuming a single Gaussian when the photo-z distribution has multiple parameters underestimates cosmological parameter uncertainties by up to 35%. The size of required calibration sample also depends on the shape of the fiducial distribution, even when the rms photo-z error is held fixed. The required calibration sample size varies up to a factor of 40 among the fiducial models studied, but this is reduced to a factor of a few if the photo-z error distributions are forced to be slowly varying with redshift. Finally, we show that the size of the required calibration sample can be substantially reduced by optimizing its redshift distribution. We hope this study will help stimulate work on better understanding of photo-z errors.


In large-scale multiple testing, the permutation test based on making a null statistic has been widely employed in the literature. Because it enables us to use the null permuted samples and estimate the p-value more accurately. Some test statistics, which can be modified to a null statistic, have been proposed for two independent groups. In this paper, we propose a new statistic and corresponding F-test, which can be applied for three or more groups. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method has a smaller interquartile range (IQR) than the usual permutationmethod and estimates p-values more accurately than its rival.


Palaeopumice strand deposits (1800 to 4000 years B.P.) occur in the Balmoral Beach Aboriginal Shell Midden excavations. In composition, the pumice clasts are low-potassium dacites and contain up to 5% xenocrysts, phenocrysts and glomerophenocrysts of orthopyroxene, pyroxene, plagioclase and iron oxide minerals. The matrix includes smaller grains of these minerals in an abundant, highly vesicular rhyodacite volcanic glass. The 3300 year old and younger pumices typically contain rare xenocrysts and phenocrysts of magnesian olivine, forming an unusual mineral assemblage. One older pumice clast is a quartz-bearing rhyodacite, with distinctive trace element geochemistry. The typical dacites, resemble those erupted from the Tonga-Kermadec island arc in the Southwest Pacific, due both to the presence of olivine and the variably depleted trace and rare earth element contents. This implies a 4000 km drift caused by the East Australian oceanic current, before the pumice was stranded in Port Jackson. SUTHERLAND, F.L., & B.J. BARRON, 1998. Balmoral Beach Aboriginal shell midden, Port Jackson, Australia: pumice petrology and sources. Records of the Australian Museum 50(3): 241-262. Pumice regularly washes up on Australian coasts, usually after storm activity. In an early observation, Clarke (1842) remarked "An investigation of the range of this drift pumice along the shores of Australia and Tasmania would not be an unimportant employment". Since then, a few studies identifying pumice sources have been made. One major pumice stranding in southern Australian coasts and sub Antarctic islands, starting in late 1963, was traced to a 1962 submarine eruption in the South Sandwich Islands over 8000 km away (Sutherland, 1965; Coombs & Landis, 1966). This pumice dispersed on the southern polar currents may have even circumnavigated the Southern Ocean to restrand as fine pumice gravel on Australasian coasts by mid-1965 (Sutherland & Olsen, 1968). More recently, studies of pumice stranded on cays and beaches along North Queensland have suggested Southwest Pacific sources, mostly from the Tonga-Kermadec island arcs some 4000 km away (Bryan, 1968; Stanton, 1992). This pumice travels on the South Equatorial Current, east to west from Fiji to the Coral Sea. Here the current splits and the main branch runs north to south along the Australian shelf deflecting off southern New South Wales to run from west to east (Rotschi & Le Masson, 1967; Tomczak & Hao, 1989; Burrage, 1993). Thus, Southwest Pacific sources could be expected to supply a large proportion of the pumice washing up on New South Wales coasts (Fig. 1). Extended sources could be involved as the tropical convergence separating the east to west flowing South Equatorial Current from the returning west to east currents ranges from 18-25°S (cf. Martinez, 1994, and Nelson et al., 1994).


C) when subjected to load time stress (procedures). All the variables measured showed distinct significant differences with the minimum measurement recorded at 12 hr holdtime period while the maximum values were attained at the post-load time period for RR, HR and PR and at un-load time period for the RT. The higher magnitude of increase in RR in the animals during the period of loading therefore suggests that these animals were more stressed at this period than at any other loadtime period. The interaction between breed and loadtime period indicates that the magnitude of increase in RR was higher (p<0.05) in White Fulani than in Sokoto Gudali cattle. The lower magnitude of increase in RR in the Sokoto Gudali cattle again suggests that this breed was less stressed than the White Fulani cattle during the strenuous loadtime stress since adverse effects of stress factors due to loading, unloading and holding of animals is inevitable during and after transportation of animals. It is therefore pertinent to minimize simultaneous actions of these stress factors in order to reduce economic losses and stress to animals due to loadtime stress.


Clinical examination by usual means indicates variations in the rate of sweating from the skin surfaces of various portions of the body. Attempts to measure these differences quantitatively (Kuno (1), Galeotti and Macri (2)) have confirmed these clinical observations, and the development of more accurate methods (3) has permitted a quantitative evaluation of differences from normal, in a variety of conditions which clinically suggest such changes. Such observations constitute the subject of this report.


After some two and a half years of preparation, a guideline for the rational use of energy is now available for the plastics-using industries. This practical manual publishes the results of the Industry energy concept for the plastics-using industry project and indicates specific energy-saving and cost-reduction potentials for small- and medium-sized enterprises in particular. The scope of the project involved energy analyses in individual plastics-using industry firms and the obtainment of energy data from companies throughout Germany. Surveying and evaluation was augmented by research and discussions with system and machine manufacturers. An essential result of the project has been the fact that energy costs have been cut in practically every plastics-using industry enterprise. Amortization periods are in many cases below two years.


The emergence of spatial correlations around a nonequilibrium steady state is studied by means of a stochastic description based on a multivariate master equation. The dependence of the strength and range of the correlations on the distance from equilibrium is determined. The formalism is applied to chemically reacting systems and to simple fluids submitted to a temperature gradient. © 1984 The American Physical Society.


Purpose: The study aims at identifying the relationship between employee engagement and job satisfaction in health institutions in Karbala city through a sample of health workers and administrators.
Methodology: To achieve this goal, the theoretical literature on the two variables was reviewed. In addition, 240 questionnaires were distributed in these institutions using a random selection method. Finally, SPSS was used to analyze in this study. The researchers relied statistically on a model which indicated the statistical equation against which the minimum sample size required to represent the community can be correctly determined (N> 50 + 8 (P)) (Natarajan, 2006: 42), and this means that the sample size should be greater than of the number of independent sub-variables in the value of the constant (8) plus even a fixed amount of (50) views.
Main Findings: The most significant consequences of the investigation are the enlistment techniques that guarantee the determination of the perfect individuals to work in occupations equivalent with their capabilities, and Ensuring the support of representatives in the structure of employment and dynamic procedure, just as interest in the improvement of clinical administrations.
Application of Study: Effective human resource management and optimal investment of skills and abilities that can lead to the growth and survival of Karbala's health organizations and institutions.
Novelty/Originality: This investigation attempts to investigate the most unmistakable news esteems on the front pages of Al Ghad and Al Rai papers just as recognize the contrasts between them regarding the sorts of the news, the sources, and the method of showing them.


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Populations of white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) have undergone substantial declines across Europe. Remaining populations tend to be fragmented and in many catchments they are restricted to upland streams. Information is needed concerning their spatial ecology to assist with conservation and rehabilitation of existing fragmented populations, as well as possible reintroductions.

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A novel method for the long-term tagging of white-clawed crayfish was used to study the spatial ecology of a white-clawed crayfish population fragment in a small, moderate-gradient upland stream. Internal passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags enabled adult crayfish (carapace length >27 mm) to be permanently tagged, each with a unique identification code and resulted in a high number of recaptures. Of 501 crayfish tagged 413 were subsequently relocated at least once.

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Crayfish did not make extensive movements, the median annual distance moved was 84.8 m yr−1, equivalent to annual net movement of 0.233 m day−1, substantially less than reported in previous studies. The lower levels of movement may reflect the study encompassing all seasons, including winter, when crayfish are relatively inactive.

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Significantly more crayfish moved downstream compared with upstream and distances moved downstream were significantly greater than those in an upstream direction. This may be linked to the relatively high gradient of the stream and a reduced passability of the abundant riffles to upstream movements of crayfish.

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A small weir acted as a barrier within the stream, preventing upstream movements of crayfish. Even small barriers may limit the movements of white-clawed crayfish and have the potential to limit connectivity within populations and prevent expansion or recolonization.

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The results presented suggest that fragmented populations of white-clawed crayfish in upland streams are unlikely to expand rapidly and reconnect to other population fragments, even where habitat is suitable. In establishing stream populations care should be taken to ensure that even small barriers to movement are removed unless these are intended to exclude non-native biota, especially crayfish.

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TO THE EDITOR: In their study of manual therapy, physical therapy, and general practitioner care for patients with neck pain, Hoving and colleagues concluded, In daily practice, manual therapy is a favorable treatment option for patients with neck pain compared with physical therapy or continued care by a general practitioner (1). We consider this an overstatement of the significance of their results. We note that although the manual therapy outcomes showed higher scores, scores were later referred to as not statistically different. We also see terms like trend, a way of saying that the results did not impress the statistician but at least are pointing in the right direction. Strictly speaking, such trends could simply be the result of some unknown or random error. Hoving and colleagues stated, The success rates for manual therapy were statistically significantly higher than those for physical therapy. However, they then stated, Manual therapy scored better than physical therapy on all outcome measures, although not all differences were significant. It seems that to appreciate the favorable effect of manual therapy, one has to be very careful about which outcomes are selected, since some will not show differences but arbitrarily defined success rates will. Hoving and colleagues noted that patients receiving manual therapy had fewer work absences, but then they stated that this was not significant. Again, such an observation might be attributable to random or some unknown error. While significant differences might increase a study's chances of being published, statements like Our results consistently favored manual therapy on almost all outcome measures are never justified. Such statements no longer refer to statistical or clinical significance but rather address the more nebulous quality consistently favored. While heeding Bacchetti's fair warning for reviewers (2), we believe Hoving and colleagues would have done well to mind their methods. We wonder what would have happened to the results of this study if the patients were followed for 8 to 12 weeks. If the groups had equalized even more by then, and all of the consistently favored outcomes were lost, would the cost of manual therapy compared with general practitioner care have been worth it? Chronic pain costs society a great deal. Part of that cost is spent on therapies that remain unproven.


Background: Many women after giving birth have feelings of worry about having sex after childbirth, disappearing sexual arousal and other feelings of worry. This condition if left unchecked can cause disharmony in the family.Objective: This study aims to analyze the relationship between maternal knowledge and the emergence of post partum sexual arousal.Methods: Using cross sectional, it was carried out for 2 months starting from October to November 2022 postpartum mothers (0 - 40 days) in the PMB L work area in October-November with a total of 25 people.Result: 40% of mothers with high knowledge have high sexual arousal and only 6.7% have low sexual arousal, the P-Value = 0.006 < 0.05. This shows that good knowledge of postpartum mothers has a positive and significant influence on the emergence of sexual arousal. , the value of OR > 1 of 6.125 (0.979-38.312) strengthens the notion that good knowledge of postpartum mothers on post partum sexual arousal is a factor in whether or not there is sexual arousal in postpartum mothers..Conclusions: P-Value = 0.006 < 0.05. These results indicate that good knowledge of postpartum mothers on postpartum sexual arousal has a positive and significant influence/relationship on the emergence of postpartum women's sexual arousal, OR value > 1, which is 6.125 CI value / interval belief ( 0.979-38.312) the stronger the assumption that knowledge is a determinant of the emergence of post partum sexual arousal. It is hoped that midwife health workers can provide information on post partum care so that they can emphasize the types


A winter survey for scale insects of Tsuga canadensis Carriere, Eastern hemlock, at 279 sites in 31 towns in Fairfield and New Haven Counties, CT, indicated that Fiorinia externa Ferris and Tsugaspidiotus tsugae (Marlatt) (Homoptera: Diaspididae) are serious pests throughout much of the area. A 3rd diaspidid scale, Phenacaspis pinifoliae (Fitch), occurred only in low densities at 4 sites and was not considered a pest of hemlock.

The heaviest infestation of F. externa was in the town of Greenwich where trees at 15 of the 18 sites sampled supported high densities (>75 scales/100 needles). In the 9 towns comprising the major area infested, F. externa occurred on hemlocks at 81 of the 113 sites (71.7%) sampled. T. tsugae occurred in all 31 towns surveyed but only at 89 of the total 279 sites (31.9 %) were hemlocks infested. At one site each in New Canaan and in Westport, densities of T. tsugae were high (>75 scales/100 needles). At 58 sites, both species occurred together on the same trees and occasionally on the same needles.

A survey conducted at the Montgomery Pinetum and the Bartlett Arboretum, Fairfield County, CT, revealed that F. externa and T. tsugae were able to colonize and mature on a wide variety of exotic conifers. Adult female F. externa occurred on the following conifers examined: all 9 Abies spp.; all 3 Cedrus spp.; all 12 Picea spp.; 12 of 14 Pinus spp.; Pseudotsuga menziesii Britton; both Taxus spp.; and all 4 Tsuga spp. F. externa was not observed on Pinus griffithi McClelland or on Pinus lambertiana Douglas indicating possible resistance of these pines to scale attack.

Adult T. tsugae occurred on 3 Abies spp., Cedrus atlantica Manetti, 3 Picea spp., and 2 Tsuga spp.


Exactly 30 years ago, Attila Kuba published the first paper about the reconstruction of hv-convex binary images from the horizontal and vertical projections. Since then, various aspects of this problem have been studied: computational complexity of the reconstruction, reconstruction of special (e.g., 4-connected or 8-connected) hv-convex images, efficient reconstruction heuristics, number of feasible solutions, uniqueness, generation of hv-convex images according to several parameters, etc.

This talk is intended to provide a survey on the above results, and show the new perspectives of research on the field. Concerning the latter, we will present results on reconstructing hv-convex images from just one projection, a study about the complexity of the reconstruction in the case of two projections, and a method to measure the hv-convexity of an arbitrary binary image which can serve as a basis of novel-type reconstruction heuristics.

" This research was supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TAMOP-4.2.4.A/2-11/1-2012-0001 'National Excellence Program'. "


Aim. In our study we aimed to determine antibacterial effect of peach leaves extract. Methods. In Erzincan Horticultural Research Institute Gen Garden varietes seven cardinal peach's (Persica vulgaris Miller (Rosaceae) tree leaf methanol extract was used for this purpose, Antibacterial effect was evaluated by cutplug method whereas minimum inhibtory concentration (MIC) was determined by microdilution method. Results. In this study peach's (Persica vulgaris Miller ) leaf extract antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was not determined, on the other hand the antibacterial effects on Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli O:157 H:7, Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella typhimurium, Streptococcus pyogenes, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Listeria monocytogenes, Micrococcus luteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Yersinia enterocolitica was determined. The lowest minimum inhibitory concentration on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Yersinia enterocolitica detected as (0.01 mg/mL), the higest concentration on grup of Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli O:157 H:7, Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pyogenes was determined as (10 mg/mL). Conclusions. As a result of our study peach's (Persica vulgaris Miller) leaves extract spectrum showed broad antibacterial effect. Starting from such plants, thought to be started the process of the formation of new antibacterial agents.


By analogy with the magnetic vortex of the Landau-Ginzburg theory of superconductivity, we construct extended models of hadrons with SU(2) Yang-Mills fields coupled to fermions and a spontaneous-symmetry-breaking scalar isospinor. These models are in four space-time dimensions.


In spite of the development of scientific and medical technology, the rate of prevalence and death of the chronic disease gets higher. Therefore people come to know prevention is more important than treatment in disease. In Western, it is nearly after 1970's when it is revealed that the major factor of chronic disease comes from habitual behaviors in everyday life. But that is common idea in Oriental Medicine since thousand years. In Oriental Medicine, the main cause of disease is composed of natural factor including climate condition, living-life factor, psycho-social factor, constitutional factor, inbody-pathologic-substance factor, and other factors including habits of using drug and medical service, injury, environmental pollutions, and occupational etiologic factors. Among these, the major factors of disease in modern society are lifestyle factors like the tendency of choosing and intaking food, the level of physical activity and labor, smoking and drinking alcohol, psychological tendency, the habits of using drug and medical service and so on. This is a practical aspect of oriental medicine where the most important etiologic factor comes from human behaviors, not from external factors like germ or virus. So that etiology in Oriental Medicine where improvement in the way of life is needed to prevent disease would play an important role in modern society.


The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the validity of the use of sensibility parameters as a low computational cost tool to implement service restoration in medium voltage distribution networks. A linearization of the relationship between accumulated powers - active and reactive - in a node and the voltages of all nodes can be carried out by means of sensitivity parameters, in order to determine the influence in voltages, caused by variations in powers in the network nodes as intending supply restoration of loads. The validity of this analysis tool is made comparing it with the restoration/reconfiguration classical methods that uses either a constructive process or an opening process of mesh. It was observed that the service restoration by the use of sensitivity parameters normally presents a very small number of complete calculations of load flow when compared with the classical methods, in addition to a significant reduction in the switching operations, with obvious advantages in the time of restoration, and in the rates of network reliability.


Two field experiments were conducted at Baramoon Research Station, Mansoura, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, during the two seasons of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, to investigate the effect of irrigation intervals and foliar application with nano potassium and boron fertilizers under mineral potassium fertilization on plant vegetative growth parameters and mineral content in leaves of globe artichoke, French Hyrious variety. The experiment included 36 treatments, representing the combinations of three irrigation intervals (10, 20 and 30 days) as vertical-plot, three rates of potassium fertilization (50, 75 and 100%) as horizontal plot and four foliar application rates of Nano-fertilizers (without, 3000 ppm K, 50 ppm B and 3000 ppm K + 50 ppm B) as split plot. The design of the experiment was a strip-split plot with three replicates. The results revealed that the fertilization of globe artichoke plants with potassium at 100% (200 kg/fed. potassium sulfate.) or 75% (150 kg/fed. potassium sulfate) with foliar application by a mixture of 3000 ppm nano-K+ 50 ppm nano-B treatment and irrigation every 20 days to obtain the best vegetative growth parameters and the highest nutrient contents.


Background: In clinical aphasiology, laughter has been mentioned as an important ingredient in treatment but few studies have directly investigated its contribution. Aims: To increase our understanding, we designed this study to specifically investigate laughter as a conversational resource. Methods & Procedures: A naturally occurring conversation was videotaped and subsequently reviewed to identify conversational segments that included the laughter of a person with aphasia. Using conversational analysis, 47 laughter segments were coded and categorised to reveal similarities and differences in their sequential organisation. Outcomes & Results: Results showed four ways in which laughter was used to achieve conversational goals: as a turn-taking cue, a display of understanding, an orienting cue, and as instruction to hear. Descriptive comparison of laughter uses in aphasic and nonaphasic conversation showed similarities in organisational structure of laughter segments but differences in conversational context. Laughter was frequently associated with "trouble spots" in this study: no report of laughter associated with "trouble spots" was noted in nonaphasic literature. Conclusions: From a theoretical perspective, these results, in concert with those from previous studies of conversation, provide evidence that a nonlinguistic behaviour - laughter - contributes to the re-establishment of social interaction and meaning-making despite linguistic deficits. From a clinical perspective, laughter may be recognised as a viable conversational strategy, allowing for increased communicative access that positively impacts perceptions of competence and psychosocial well-being of persons with aphasia.


Microbacterium sp. No. 205 (ATCC 21376) has high activity of transformation of inosinic acid (IMP) to 3',5'-cyclic AMP (CAMP) via inosine (Ino) and that addition of peptone (Polypepton, Nihon-Seiyaku), a pancreatic digest of casein, as an organic nitrogen source into a fermentation medium enhances CAMPproduction.1)2) Wenoticed that the addition of Bacto Casamino acids (Difco), an acid hydrolyzate ofcasein, did not support the CAMPproduction or the dephosphorylation of IMP to Ino. These facts suggested that some oligopeptides in the polypepton may have activated the dephosphorylation of IMP to Ino. In this paper, we report that some hydrophobic dipeptides were the smallest proteinaceous activation factors of this dephosphorylation. For culture, Microbacterium sp. No. 205 (ATCC21376) and three kinds of synthetic media were used. The first 2721


The benefits of pair programming are unquestioned provided the pairs work in close proximity. Globally distributed software development creates opportunities for remote pair programming. What must be done to yield the same benefits?


A dynamically‐polarized proton target operating at 5 Tesla and 1 K has been built to polarize an epithermal neutron beam for studies of parity violation in compound‐nuclear resonances. Nearly 0.9 proton polarization was obtained in an electron‐beam irradiated ammonia target. This was used to produce a neutron beam polarization of 0.7 at epithermal energies. The combination of the polarized proton target and the LANSCE spallation neutron source produces the most intense pulsed polarized epithermal neutron beam in the world. The neutron‐beam polarizer is described and methods to determine neutron beam polarization are presented.


THE TARGET OF the United Nations Water Supply And Sanitation Decade was to provide "Safe Water Supply And Adequate Sanitation For All" by the year 1990. Though this has not been achieved, much progress has been made particularly in the provision of safe drinking water. During the decade, the population lacking safe water supply in developing countries, reduced from 56% in 1980 to 31% in 1990, but the population lacking adequate sanitation facilities only reduced by 10% from 54% to 44%. The situation is particularly bad in the urban sector where the population lacking safe water reduced by as much as 15%, while the population lacking adequate sanitation reduced by just a mere 3%.(Carter,Tyrell & Howsam.1993) The urgent need for providing adequate wastewater treatment and disposal facilities in these densely populated urban areas is very clear, and must be considered seriously. A significant proportion of the urban population in developing countries can be categorised as a "High Income Group". This group is generally supplied through a piped water supply system with individual house connections; but rarely are they provided with a sewerage system to carry away the considerable volume of wastewater generated. Individual septic tank and soakaway arrangements often satisfy the immediate requirements, but long term implications; the environmental impact; or the efficiency and effectiveness of the systems are not given much consideration. The Water Decade objectives were mainly based on reducing health and social problems, but with improvements in personal hygiene standards and the increasing emphasis on protecting the environment, providing a wastewater treatment system must be looked upon as a valuable investment for the future. With a suitable sewerage system conveying wastewater to a central location, an efficient and effective process of treating the waste to meet high environmental standards can be conveniently provided at an affordable cost. There are many sewage/wastewater treatment systems available but Waste Stabilization Pond (WSP) systems seem to be the most common system widely recommended for developing countries. The WSP system is indeed an effective and a very economical means of treating wastewater. They are not systems only reserved for poor nations with hot climates; many western European countries with widely varying temperature conditions use them very successfully with over 4,000 systems operating in France and Germany alone (Mara,Mills,Pearson & Alabaster 1992). However, it must be noted that WSPs' in Europe generally serve small rural communities with populations of less than 2,000; and are tucked away in remote locations. While a WSP system in a developing country generally serves the high income groups who are concentrated in a rapidly developing urban area. WSP or Grass Plot systems are not always feasible or desirable in every situation, and often other conventional systems similar to those employed in developed countries provide the only viable alternative. Indeed, such systems have been in operation in a somewhat smaller scale in many countries for some time. The paper aims to focus attention on general principles concerning wastewater treatment by briefly describing the philosophy and basis of wastewater treatment works design, as practised in UK. It also discusses the operation of three types of treatment plants that could be adopted in developing countries at an affordable cost. It is not the intention of this paper to evaluate or compare WSP or other low cost systems with Biological and Activated Sludge treatment processes described, but merely to indicate the adaptability and simplicity of systems that could be employed to derive the maximum benefits.


Part I of this Article discusses Imbler's adoption of absolute immunity for prosecutors. Part II discusses Imbler's extension of absolute immunity to a prosecutor's violation of his disclosure duty under Brady v. Maryland. Part III describes the ease with which prosecutors are able to evade the Brady rule and the difficulty of enforcing compliance with Brady. Part IV discusses the absence of any meaningful sanctions to deter and punish prosecutors for willful violations of Brady. Part V proposes a bad faith exception to absolute immunity of prosecutors for Brady violations.


This paper provides a description of the risk sharing features of pension plan design in selected OECD and non-OECD countries and how they correspond with the funding rules applied to pension funds. In addition to leading to a better understanding of differences in funding rules across countries with developed pension fund systems, the study considers the trend towards risk-based regulation. While the document does not enter the debate over the application of riskbased quantitative funding requirements to pension funds (as under Basel II or Solvency II), it identifies the risk factors that should be evaluated and considered in a comprehensive risk-based regulatory approach, whether prescriptive or principles-based. The three main risk factors identified are the nature of risks and the guarantees offered under different plans designs, the extent to which benefits are conditional and can be adjusted, and the extent to which contributions may be raised to cover any funding gap. In addition, the strength of the guarantee or covenant from the sponsoring employer(s) and of insolvency guarantee arrangements should be carefully assessed when designing funding requirements.


Vol. 10(3) Pg. Abstract Today, the role of higher institutions of learning on the social and economic development of the communities surrounding them, cannot be understated. This paper focuses on assessing the economic impact by UiTM Negeri Sembilan campuses on their local communities. UiTM Negeri Sembilan is a multi-campus university that has three campuses in the same state differing in location and population size, and are managed mainly through a centralised administrative system, with a certain degree of local campus autonomy on certain aspects. The respondents comprised of business owners, managers, and workers from 62 local business establishments surrounding the University campuses. The findings show that all three campuses have impacted their local economy positively in terms of gross income to local businesses in varying degrees. UiTM Seremban recorded the highest impact due to its largest population and its urban location. This suggests that all campuses support the growth of businesses and the economic development within the local communities. The results contribute the knowledge that not all multi-campus universities would have the same impact on the local community. Despite the same administration, the same policies, yet the economic impact may not be the same showing the major factors influencing are location and student/staff population.


Background: Hope Foundation for Cancer Care has been organizing programs for parent–child camps for family suffering with cancer. Communications between parents and their minor children are expected to improve by talking about cancers and emotional management for being uncertain, worried or even scared when faced with cancers. Aim: Hope Foundation for Cancer Care strives to support families to apply the befits from the camps to their day-to-day family lives to let the family members know that communication about cancer is not a once-off experience but continuous efforts in the future. Methods: Without knowing how the camps might turn out beforehand, the research set off at a semistructured depth interview to gather information about the subjective interpretation of participants. Results: The study shows that most participants were quite impressed with the camp, which ran in a casual way, and they were satisfied with related themes in those activities. They were very willing to share their personal experiences with the camp for better mutual understanding and more intimate feelings revealed among family members. Attending the camp also offered those parents to rest and free from taking care of their children, and changed the way they used to communicate. Besides, the participants suggested to shorten the durations of each scheduled session to lessen the physical pressure of patients. Conclusion: In the end of the research, it is considered great challenge to strike a balance between recreational output and experiential output. After all, it has long been the very incentive to design an environment for cancer patients and their children to learn to relax, which seems too loose when it lacks balance. On the other hand, one of the main goals is set to open communication access to understand cancers, which may be reached by other service programs. Therefore, derivation of diverse methods and programs are now one of our priorities.


The innovative definition of luxury developed over the past 45 years by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is based on service excellence, melded with top-notch facilities and operations. Four Seasons began by focusing on what was then a small segment of the market—the affluent frequent traveler—and in the process, built a global luxury brand. As the experience of Four Seasons demonstrates, personal service can be a source of superior profitability, reputation, and growth. Four Seasons' success depends on choosing employees who provide service that is genuine and innovative, on developing standards that are both meaningful and flexible, and on maintaining a unique culture that makes delivery of both possible.


Summary: A 39‐year‐old woman, with a 23‐year history of medically intractable seizures of the complex partial type, underwent a left anterior temporal lobectomy and hippocampectomy. Histologic examinations revealed a massive occurrence of corpora amylacea, neuronal loss, and gliosis in the pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus. The distribution of corpora amylacea in this case was quite distinctive and unlike the patterns of "nonspecific" corpora amylacea formation seen in aging or other neurodegenerative conditions. The pathogenetic aspects of the accumulation of these peculiar bodies are discussed in relation to hippocampal sclerosis.


We study how market structure influenced the diffusion of new treatment technology (ICSI) among U.S. fertility clinics that performed in vitro fertilization (IVF). We find that competitive (i.e., non-monopoly) markets were more likely to have a clinic that offered ICSI than monopoly markets. Our results account for the potential endogeneity of market structure with respect to entry-foreclosing technology adoption and unobserved market characteristics that might increase the return from offering ICSI. We also provide evidence that ICSI diffused faster to competitive markets because the returns from the new technology were greater there. Early-adopting clinics in competitive markets experienced a significant increase in size, while early-adopting monopoly clinics did not. However, monopoly clinics that adopted ICSI soon after its invention were more likely to delay the entry of rival firms than monopolists that adopted ICSI later.

http://apps.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/hamiltonb/wpapers/Technology Diffusion and Market Structure.pdf


across elite society in Tipperary, connecting that society into the wider culture of the British Empire. A vital link in all of this was provided by the schoolboys who left Tipperary and were educated in England's public schools (where sport was central to the curriculum), later bringing back a love, or just a knowledge, of such sport to their homes. You can see also in County Tipperary, in the years covered by the book, the stirrings of the democratisation of access to formally organised sport. This democratisation was most pronounced in the years after 1880 when the extraordinary growth of sports clubs was a marker of an unfolding societal shift in the balance of power. For Ireland's rising middle class and for people who were dragging themselves out of extreme poverty, assuming positions of authority in sporting organisations was a signal moment. In the growing number of athletics events and regattas that were held through the 1870s in Tipperary, the early stages of this process were apparent. It flowered spectacularly with the establishment of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and it is to be regretted that the time frame of this book was not extended to 1890, the better to understand the story that is to be told. This is particularly the case given that it was in Tipperary that the GAA was founded and where it enjoyed its greatest early successes. Nonetheless, the story of the years before 1880 includes much hurling. As Pat Bracken illustrates, claims that hurling was almost extinct before the founding of the GAA have been overstated. It can be found year after year, from the Famine to the Land War, in fields across Tipperary where groups of men gathered to play on Sunday afternoons and on holidays. That the game was increasingly in conflict with the enforcement of the law has allowed Bracken to mine petty sessions records and court reports in newspapers to demonstrate how it continued to enjoy significant popular support. Between this world of popular play and the sports of the gentry who lived in Tipperary's country houses, Pat Bracken has produced a fine history.


An investigation of a new, inexpensive depth camera device, the Microsoft Kinect, for passive gait assessment in home environments is presented. In order to allow older adults to safely continue li...


Introduction: Osteoarthritis (OA) represents a failure of the di-arthrodial, synovial lined joint. Among the elderly, knee Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of chronic disability [1]. Because of the increased lifespan and obesity the prevalence of osteoarthritis is in the rise in India. Aim of the Study: Whether platelet rich plasma is useful in OAknee or not. Objectives: To evaluate the role of Autologous Platelet Rich plasma (APRP) in the treatment of patients presenting with primary osteoarthritis and to analyze whether it could be a cost effective disease modifying measure. Materials and Methods: Total 100 OA Knee cases are selected from the Katuri Medical College and Hospital, randomly. First 50 were given A PRP injection to the OA Knee, Next 50 were given normal saline. Platelet-Rich Plasma: Platelets are cytoplasmic fragments of megakaryocytes, that are formed in the marrow [26] and are approximately 2 μm in diameter. They contain more than thirty bioactive proteins, of which many of them have a fundamental role in hemostasis or in tissue healing [28]. Fundamental protein growth factors which are actively secreted by platelets will initiate all the wound healing process [29] PRP includes three proteins in blood which is known to act as cell adhesion molecules: Fibrin, fibronectin and vitronectin [30]. Discussion: Osteoarthritis is a disorder of synovial joints characterized by focal loss of hyaline cartilage with proliferation of new bone and remodeling of joint contour, mainly due to uncoupling of balance between cartilage regeneration and degeneration. Osteoarthritis is a dynamic repair process of synovial joints that may be triggered a variety of insults. We in our study had randomly chosen 100 patients with classic findings of Osteoarthritis and divided them in to two groups. Both the groups were comparable on baseline characteristics of age, height, weight, BMI, pre injection WOMAC score. Fifty of these patients were administered an intra articular injection of Platelet Rich Plasma and other fifty received Normal Saline. The Efficacy of Platelet Rich Plasma in reducing pain, stiffness and physical function were assessed and scored on WOMAC index for both study and control group. The Results were analyzed using unpaired 't' test and chisquare test. Age distribution revealed mean age in group I to be 53.14 and the mean age in Group II was 53.68. Outcome Analysis: The study group and the control group are advised to follow up at 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months. Outcome analysis for the efficacy was done for reduction in pain, reduction in stiffness and improvement in physical function using WOMAC scale. The Patients were also assessed for reduction in pain using Visual analog scale both at pre injection and at 6 months post injection. Conclusion: Our study has thrown up an interesting choice of treatment modality using Platelet Rich Plasma in the treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis and it has proved efficacious in the observation period of six months.


Aedes aegypti populations collected from four different localities in Tamil Nadu, India were analysed using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers to assess the level of genetic variations within and between populations. RAPDs were found to be polymorphic enough to detect genetic polymorphisms at both micro (within the city, <10 km) and macro spatial scales (between three districts, ~500 Km apart). Hetrozygosity within populations varied from 0.1150 ± 0.2140 to 0.3715± 0.1545, but pattern of genetic diversity was not found to be associated with the geographical distance between the populations and the prevalence of dengue infections.


Israel  is  widely  believed to possess nuclear weapons, but has never confirmed the existence of its nuclear program. Historians have for a long time largely relied on limited access to U.S. government documents and on the oral histories of those with inside knowledge of Israel's nuclear program. However lately declassified documents demonstrated a semi-official recognition  by the US Department  of Defense that Israel a de facto acknowledgement by the US as a nuclear power. While the documents confirm what is already known regarding Israel's nuclear arsenal, the political implications are potentially far-reaching, particularly in relation to Israeli's negative attitude  to Iran's  alleged nuclear program. Israel nuclear program is an essential part of long-term Israeli national security strategy and a security doctrine. National security has been at the forefront of the Israeli experience for seven decades, with threats ranging from terrorism, to vast missile arsenals, and even potential existential nuclear dangers. Israel state's national security doctrine, in its broadest sense intended to protect and promote the state's national security interests. One of the main features of this nuclear program development is the specifically nuclear relationship between  Israel and US which acting as official guarantor of Israel security and consider it as the main recipient of American protection. The aim of this article is to describe and analyze nuclear strategy's concept from a historical perspective-that is, to trace its evolution. Israel has long enforced a policy of opacity with regards to its nuclear program even though its existence is a common knowledge throughout the world. Today Israel considers Iran as the main geopolitical enemy. Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it would be a "game changer" in the region and spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Israel faces a threat to its national interest in that Iran could become a greater relative regional power. Israel has been particularly outspoken in the opposition to the JCPoA signed in 2015 as it concern was that even if Iran acts rationally according to realist understandings of national interest, it still may not be receptive to diplomatic efforts to stop its nuclear program.


Traditional approaches of spatial spectral estimation are usually based on the second-order statistics. The higher-order cumulants and the poly-spectrum contain more information and are capable of reducing the Gaussian noise. In this paper, we present a new spectrum estimation method for direction-finding, the FOMUSIC algorithm, which is based on the eigen-structure analysis of the fourth-order cumulants. The derivation of the algorithm is given in detail and its performance is illustrated by both the computer simulations and the experiments of a direction-finding system. The obtained results demonstrate that the fourth-order cumulants based method outperforms the traditional methods, especially when the noise is an unknown colored one.


In the present manuscript, one new species, Coenodomus wangi Ranjan, Singh & Kirti, sp. nov., is described and diagnosed with its closely similar species, C. dudgeoni Hampson, 1896 and C. rotundinidus Hampson, 1891. An updated checklist of global Coenodomus species is provided.


When it falls to the present-day historian to record the dependence of a great man on the work of a predecessor it is fortunately no longer necessary for him to assert apologetically that this fact "in no way diminishes the greatness of his genius" : as though the task of the literary critic were merely to detect who was 'copying,' and to award appropriate marks. The curiously romantic conception of genius in the nineteenth century allowed of the incorporation into the critical work of the period of every biographical experience, while denying that cultural experience could legitimately be used in creation. Thus, it has long since been agreed that the figure of Truth who in Goethe's 'Zueignung' hands him the veils of poesy was in private life known by the name of Charlotte von Stein ; but no voice in the massed chorus of Goethe literature seems to have asked whether there is any relationship between this figure of Truth and a certain 'leggiadra e bella donna' whose glamour and grace are celebrated in the allegorical neo-platonic stanzas of Girolamo Benivieni, the friend of Lorenzo de' Medici and Politian, who later became the disciple of Savonarola. Benivieni's poem was an attempt in the style of Lorenzo's Selve d'amore.1 It begins with a beautiful description of nature :


Lumpy skin disease is a poxvirus disease of economic importance. The first clinical cases of LSD in Armenia were registered in December 2015 among cattle which further was confirmed in laboratory in local and international levels. The source of LSDV was not identified and the role of vectors is not clear but there are some insects presented in country and which are known as a vector of LSDV transmission. For the control and prevention of the further spread of LSDV the vaccination with sheep pox live vaccine was conducted. During 2016 and first 9 months of 2017 in total 487518 cattle were vaccinated. In 2016 about 50% of total cattle population, which were located in risk zones, were vaccinated and in parallel with other control measures it have helped to stop further spread of LSDV in country.


Jiemian reservoir will start to store water in October,2006.The seismicity background information of the reservoir area is analyzed in this paper,including the epicentral distribution of historical and nowaday earthquakes,the depth of the source and the focal mechanism solution.In the meantime,by considering the characteristics of reservoir-induced earthquake,we think reservoir-induced earthquake will possibly happen in Jiemian reservoir area.


Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) involves the application of negative pressure on a wound bed for its positive effects on wound healing. Indications for NPWT concern various types of wounds, skin grafts and flaps, partial-thickness burns, open abdomen management and closed incisions.
Negative pressure wound therapy has been used for centuries in human medicine. Its first use dates back to the Roman era (around 27 BCE) when human generated pressures were used. Later, European and Russian physicians developed various advanced methods and systems to apply negative pressure on wounds or other injuries. The on-going positive findings in human medicine triggered researchers in veterinary medicine to apply this technique on animal patients.
However, much still has to be investigated regarding NPWT, especially in veterinary medicine, as there are many factors playing a role in the mechanisms of this treatment. New methods and techniques are continuously being developed and the existing studies show great potential for NPWT.


Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are enzymes that included, in a more range of detoxifying reactions by conjugation of glutathione, to electrophilic material. Polymorphisms n the genes that responsible of GSTs affect, the function of the GSTs. GSTs play an active role in protection of cell against oxidative stress mechanism. Polymorphisms of GSTP1 at codon 105 amino acids forms GSTP1 important site for bind of hydrophobic electrophiles and the substitution of Ile/Val affect substrate specially catalytic activity of the enzyme and may correlate with reach to different diseases in human like diabetes mellitus type2 disease. Correlation between these polymorphisms and changes in the parameters file of diabetic patients has also been found, therefore, the results variation considerably among the studies; therefore, these control study was designed to leading to detecting know, as there are no studies on this performed in the people of Iraq. The polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism was used to study GSTP1genetic polymorphism in 60 T2DM patients and 50 healthy individuals. Our results showed that presence of the GSTP1 heterozygous mutant allele Ile/Val was more common in subjects with T2DM than in the control group (40.00% and 32.00%, respectively; p = 0.01), as well as the found of the homozygous mutant of GSTP1 allele Val/Val was common in T2DM patient and not found in the control group (3.33% and 0.00%, respectively; p = 0.001).GSTP1 genotypes do not have an effect on blood lipids after infection with diabetes mellitus. Agarose gels used to determined genotypes according to the bands were that appeared in electrophoresis of gel.


We augment the existing literature using the Log-Periodic Power Law Singular (LPPLS) structures in the log-price dynamics to diagnose financial bubbles by providing three main innovations. First, we introduce the quantile regression to the LPPLS detection problem. This allows us to disentangle (at least partially) the genuine LPPLS signal and the a priori unknown complicated residuals. Second, we propose to combine the many quantile regressions with a multi-scale analysis, which aggregates and consolidates the obtained ensembles of scenarios. Third, we define and implement the so-called DS LPPLS Confidence™ and Trust™ indicators that enrich considerably the diagnostic of bubbles. Using a detailed study of the "S&P 500 1987" bubble and presenting analyses of 16 historical bubbles, we show that the quantile regression of LPPLS signals contributes useful early warning signals. The comparison between the constructed signals and the price development in these 16 historical bubbles demonstrates their significant predictive ability around the real critical time when the burst/rally occurs.


The analysis of the spatial-temporal conjugacy of evolution of ice conditions in the Bering Sea with ice conditions in the seas of the East Arctic sector (the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea) and the Pacific basin (the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan) is carried out on the basis of the available information on the ice cover conditions of the seas. The processes of evolution of ice conditions in the water areas of the Bering Sea and the above seas run on, as a rule, in an antiphase to the ice conditions in the adjacent seas. In active development of an ice cover by the seas of the Arctic and Pacific basins it is expected the slowed-down development of ice conditions in the Bering Sea. The Bering Sea can serve as a certain indicator of climatic changes on noted water areas of the East Arctic seas and the Pacific basin seas. However, if the influence of the Arctic on ice conditions of the Bering Sea is quite unambiguous then the influence of the Bering Sea on ice conditions of the Arctic seas, the Chukchi Sea in particular, is more sophisticated. Ice cover growth in the Bering Sea is, as a rule, accompanied by the subsequent ice cover growth in the Chukchi Sea. Positive anomalies of ice cover in the Chukchi Sea (June-November) lead to decrease of ice cover in the Bering Sea (December-May). The direction (sign) of connections between ice processes on water areas Chukchi and Bering of the seas depend on their advance time.


While a large body of research has established that effective enforcement of speeding laws is essential for reducing the economic and social costs of road accidents, some studies have suggested that interventions aimed at moral beliefs about speeding and peer-related and other social contagion effects may be important complements to law enforcement activities. This article presents tentative evidence of the complementary nature of interventions to influence moral beliefs and steps to strengthen the enforcement of traffic laws. It does this by presenting and discussing the results of a survey that elicited information about the attitudes of motorists in Cape Town regarding speeding fines and aspects of the administration of traffic laws in South Africa. The self-reported fine-paying behaviour of the respondents correlates with instrumental factors shaped by the effectiveness of enforcement actions (e.g., compliance and monetary costs) as well as normative factors influenced by the moral beliefs of drivers and their social groups as well as the perceived legitimacy of traffic laws and officials. Regression results also provide evidence of a statistically significant relationship between the respondents' self-reported fine-paying behaviour and their moral beliefs regarding payment of speeding fines.


In a healthy civilized society dignity of mankind is preserved. This preservation is apparent by the respect of rights of all people. Disrespect of rights comes in through many and multiple means. Here comes the role of the Law to define and identify the law clearly and provide ways and means to redress the infringement of any kind by any one in a manner that society feels satisfied. Courts are established to administer justice. Justice is thus the soul of peace in all societies.Where a person appropriates a thing without having a lawful right he is termed an extorter or usurper (Ghasib/غاصب). A lawful owner has the right to own a thing lawfully acquired by him as against the whole world. Thus all other than him will exercise any control over it with his permission or consent, which too must be a free consent, made without any coercion, threat or inducement.


Engineering students face a future in which professional skills (e.g., working in multidisciplinary teams, ethics, and communicate effectively) will be equally important as hard skills (e.g., design systems and solve technical problems). However, the development and assessment of these skills by the time of graduation is still a challenge for higher education institutions. In ABET terms, the student outcomes describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the end of their undergraduate program. Thus, an ABET outcome might include a set of several skills. One strategy for developing these professional and hard skills is to expose engineering students to hands-on, real-world experiences. In this paper, a full analysis of how a multidisciplinary competition like the Solar Decathlon can contribute to the simultaneous development of various student outcomes is presented. The Solar Decathlon (SD) competition is an initiative of the U.S Department of Energy that challenges students to design, build, and operate sustainable, solar-powered, and affordable houses. A survey of all members of the team composed of students from the Universidad Icesi and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali participating in the Solar Decathlon for Latin America & Caribbean 2015 was carried out three times during the competition: at the beginning stage, in the middle of the project, and at the end of the competition. The goal was to analyze the attainment of student outcomes and their development over time. This team was comprised of 40 students from eight professional disciplines (including four industrial engineering students) for more than a year. Furthermore, this study presents how the interdisciplinary composition of the team evolved throughout the development of the project in order to fulfill the requirements of the competition. The role and participation of industrial engineers in this type of project was also examined as well as the primary personal and professional challenges experienced by the participants. Findings suggest that working and communicating effectively with students from other disciplines (i.e., multidisciplinary teaming) were among the main professional challenges students faced during the project. Likewise, respect for other people's perspectives and different paces of work between disciplines were the most common personal challenges. Lessons learned and recommendations for future competitors (institutions and students) are also presented.


The Australian Medical Association has warned that the country's public health system is facing a major crisis because of underinvestment and claims that 1500 hospital patients die unnecessarily every year as a result.

It said that public hospitals urgently require a $A3bn (£1.3bn; €1.5bn; $1.9bn) cash injection to meet the existing nationwide shortfall of 3750 beds and to ensure that "lives are not at risk."

Speaking after the release of the association's annual public hospital "report card," Rosanna Capolingua, the association's president, said that the hospital system, which is jointly …


Compression sets of 30 indoor natural ageing specimens of 16 practical formulation vulcanizates for NBR, NR, fluoro rubber, Silicone rubber and EPDM under all conditions for 20~30 years were tested, and the changes were discussed. The long term changes of the compression sets were all predicted by using the measured data of 30 specimens of 16 formulas, and compared with truly measured data. It was shown that the conformance point of the both was good, the method was valid.


The problem of approximately solving an ill-posed Hammerstein type operator equation KF(x) = y in a Hilbert space is considered, where K is a bounded linear operator and F is a non-linear monotone operator. The method involves the Dynamical System Method (DSM) – both continuous
and iterative schemes, studied by Ramm (2005), and known as Tikhonov regularization. By choosing the regularization parameter according to an adaptive scheme considered by Pereverzev and Schock (2005) an order optimal error
estimate has been obtained.