Man-hour quota is the foundation of the enterprise's cost accounting and the workers' income, which is directly related to the enterprise's productivity and employee's motivation. Aiming for the situation in the small and medium sized enterprises that the establishment of man-hour quota is lake of standardization and science, and it often relies on the experience, a synthesized method based on IE technology was presented in this paper. The time quota is make up with the assistant processing time which is calculate through the MOD method after the process analysis, human-machine operation and Therbligs analysis and the process time which is estimated by elemental standard time data. Furthermore, the learning curve is applied to optimize the result. Finally, an example is given to verify the validity of the method.


This paper presents the shared annotation task devised by the Multilingual FrameNet project together with partner projects. The shared framenet annotation task intends to probe how comparable frames are across languages by annotating translated and comparable texts using the same semantic standards in multiple languages. This paper reports on the initial work of agreeing on annotation standards, building annotation tools, and the results from the first joint frame annotations, from a TED talk and its translation into Brazilian Portuguese. The results indicate that the joint annotation task is feasible with existing FrameNet frames: over 80% of frame-bearing words in the Brazilian Portuguese translation of the TED talk fit precisely in frames found in Berkeley FrameNet's release 1.7. However, even languages as typologically similar as English and Brazilian Portuguese show some differences in density of framebearing words and the frequency of frame-bearing words by part-of-speech.


Examining the teaching process of China from the point of view of complexity thinking,it is found that,for a long time,the traditional simple thinking controls the classroom instruction,which makes the teaching process lost its vitality,and suppresses the students' creativity and subjectivity.Commencing from the connotation and characteristics of complexity thinking,considers that,the classroom teaching process is a complex system,expecting to offer some guidance to teaching practice effectively.


Numerous studies on heat integration have made significant progress in reducing external thermal energy in chemical plants. However, the notion of work exchange between high- and low-pressure streams to reduce the costly mechanical energy has not been fully explored. In this paper, an upgraded graphical method is proposed for the synthesis of direct work exchanger networks (WEN) using direct work exchangers under any operating conditions, such as isothermal, isentropic, and polytropic. In this method, the improved composite curves of work sources and work sinks are plotted in the pressure index (μ) versus work (W) diagram. On the basis of thermodynamic and numerical analysis, two improved linear-approximation auxiliary lines for every work sink are presented to assist identifying the feasible match. Several matching rules are proposed to accurately identify the feasible matches between work sinks and work sources. From the proposed method, the maximum amount of mechanical energy recovery, the minimum amou...


This paper describes an algorithm for the estimation method of ego-vehicle's heading angle. Why the angle is important is that the heading angle gives it the predictable information for the vehicle localization while driving. If driver can know about vehicle localization, a collision is predictable in advance. The main idea is that area size of the lane changing uniformly according to the vehicle heading angle while the vehicle is moving on uniform velocity when vehicle changes the lane. The proposed algorithm has 2 steps mainly. Firstly, road lane belonging to driving vehicle is detected. Secondly, the area size of the lane can be calculated. In a result, the area size change regularly according to the fixed velocity of the vehicle under the uniform velocity. The virtual images are used to guarantee uniform velocity and heading angle of vehicle.


This paper addresses the students' point of view of teachers and teaching this gap by comparing and contrasting memories of teachers collected from forty women and men who attended two single-sex secondary schools in New South Wales, Australia, from the 1930s to the 1950s. The paper employs narrative and linguistic analysis, while gender is the main analytic lens through which the data is viewed.While both women and the men identified teachers as representatives of the knowledges they taught and as agents of control, they recalled their teachers in different ways. Narratives about the teachers highlighted the difference in the gender regimes between the two schools. While the male teachers emerged as a diverse group of people, the only narrative resolution for the powerful femininity of the female teachers was in the motif of the secular nun. Professional women's work as teachers was imbued with an emotional and spiritual dimension that was absent in the accounts of the male teachers.


In this paper,the stress and deformation properties of a double-layer subgrade with a soft under layer are studied in terms of FEM.The results indicate that the plastic zone of subgrade appears in the upper layer soil of the interface,and then,it expands to the interface and both upper and lower layer with the increase of load,as the lower layer soil is soft,the plastic zone expands rapidly.Finally,when the plastic zone reaches the foundation bottom,the subgrade reaches its ultimate bearing capacity.According to the foundation design for the regional multi-storey buildings,this research provides an effective analytical method for a better understanding to the soft soil strength and deformation characteristics.The results serve the engineering design as references.


On the basis of an analytical mean-field model, we consider phase separation and coil−globule transitions in solutions of polymer chains with annealed excluded-volume interactions. In our model, th...


This article introduces operational ocean monitoring technologies for the purpose of coastal flooding warning in Taiwan. The in-situ sea state data and field images are linked to the coastal monitoring network of Taiwan. This network provides real-time meteorological and oceanographic information, which is not only for the climate change study but also for the hazard mitigation purposes as well. The whole network has been operated for more than 10 years in Taiwan. It plays an important role on the decision making for the mitigation of coastal flooding.


A solid understanding of NMR spectroscopy is a basic learning goal for any student of chemistry. The hands-on approach to learning is the most powerful method for instructors in both classroom settings and in the teaching laboratory. Direct experience with acquiring and processing NMR spectra to determine product purity or to monitor the course of a chemical reaction is extremely valuable, especially for organic chemistry students.


Objective: to study gratitude, considerated as an existential attitude, giving a special interest to its possible relation with psychological well-being in older adults. The information was collected through two instruments. Participants: 27 adultts between 63 and 96 years of age, at a residence and day center, selected through incidental sampling. Results show that gratitude, measured as an existential attitude, is significantly related to four out of five dimensions considered in the psychological well-being.


In this paper, a new two translational degrees of freedom (DOFs) flexure-based micromotion stage (FMMS) is presented. Two flexure-beam joints are used to design the stage for large motion range and meanwhile the symmetric layout of four kinematic chains restricts its parasitic motion in the XY plane. A detailed analytical model is established to evaluate the parasitic motion and dynamic property of the stage. Finite element simulations are carried out to inspect the performance and verify the theoretical model. Finally, the prototype is fabricated for performance tests. Linear and circular trajectory tests indicate that the proposed stage has a large workspace of about ±300 × ±300 μm2 with the maximum relative coupling error of 0.6%, and good positioning and tracking performances. In addition, the results from dynamic tests show that the natural frequencies for two translational vibrations are 209.7 Hz and 212.4 Hz, respectively.


The present invention provides a low-altitude aircraft airspace conflict resolution method and apparatus, the method acquiring information of the first flight of the aircraft and at least a second aircraft flight information within a predetermined spatial range of the first aircraft; based on the first flight information of the flight information and a second aircraft is an aircraft, the aircraft to determine the presence of a third conflict with the first flight from the aircraft, the at least one second aircraft; the information of the first flight of the aircraft and each said information of the third flight of the aircraft, determining the probability of rejection preset relief policies, and policy according to each free flight delay estimate the probability of each selection policy relief; using the selected probability ratio of the maximum relief for rejecting conflict resolution strategies. Aspect of the present invention can achieve a complete aircraft conflict detection and conflict resolution in a distributed manner, reducing the amount of calculation of conflict resolution, conflict resolution to improve efficiency.


Julia Clem, MD, is a graduate of University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC SOM) and is now a Family Medicine Resident at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana. Brandon Barthel, MD, (above), is Assistant Professor of Medicine in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Truman Medical Center at UMKC SOM. introduction A high sugar, high fat, processed food-laden diet has contributed significantly to the burden of obesity and chronic disease in America. Not only do Americans consume fewer than the recommended daily servings of fruit and vegetables, but the average American eats approximately 200 pounds of red meat and poultry each year.1 This volume is higher than needed to meet the average daily calorie and protein requirements of a healthy diet. According to recent data published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), just over 42% of Americans are obese.2 Rates of obesity-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus are at an all-time high. These common chronic diseases are known to be heavily impacted by diet and lifestyle. As a result, many people are looking to modify their diets for weight loss and improve their overall health. Many Americans will go to extreme lengths to lose weight, as is evident from the proliferation of fad diets like the South Beach diet and the cabbage soup diet. Many physicians recommend plans such as the Mediterranean diet to help patients manage chronic comorbidities and pursue their health goals. Though perhaps less often recommended by physicians, a whole food, plant-based diet is another evidence-based option which can promote weight loss and ameliorate many so-called lifestyle diseases. Physicians need to understand the benefits and possible risks of alternative diets in order to effectively counsel patients on their adoption.


The optical properties of uncapped InAs∕GaAs quantum dots sitting on multiple layers of buried quantum dots are investigated through a series of samples with a different number of buried quantum dot layers. Two photoluminescence peaks are observed, one from surface quantum dots and one from buried quantum dots. Close spatial and optical correlations between surface and buried quantum dots are demonstrated. Due to the carrier transfer from buried to surface quantum dots, the photoluminescence emission from surface quantum dots is significantly improved. As a result, the surface quantum dot–buried quantum dot sample shows potential for biological sensing.


Keywords: effectiveness, authentic material, reading comprehension

Reading which is one of the language skills and considered as a passive skill is essential to be mastered by the students since it plays significant role in language acquisition such as in learning language components such as grammar and vocabulary. In addition, reading can enhance student's knowledge about many information such as economy, social, culture, etc. The reading skill can be improved by selecting interesting reading materials such as from authentic materials because authentic materials contain text that close to real life and very contextual.
The formulation of the research problems were: 1) How are the students' pre-test and post-test scores in reading comprehension in the experimental group? 2) How are the student's pre-test and post-test scores in reading comprehension in control group? 3) Is there significant difference between the students' achievement taught by using authentic material and without using authentic material?
The purposes of this study were to: 1) find out the students' pre-test and post-test scores in reading comprehension in the experimental group. 2) find out the students' pre-test and post-test scores in reading comprehension in control group 3) find out if there is significant difference between the students' achievement who are taught by using authentic material and who are taught without using authentic material
Research Method: 1) the research design in this study was experimental design,2) the population of this study was all students of first year at SMAN 1 Durenan Trenggalek , 3)the sample was X C and X D class consisting of 74 students and using random sampling, 4) the research instrument was test, 5) the data analysis was using T test.
According to the result of data analysis, the pre-test score in reading comprehension of the students in experimental group were 2688 and the mean was 72,648. Meanwhile the post-test score of the students in experimental group were 2904 with the mean 78,486. The pre-test score of the students in control group were 2678 with the mean 72,378 and post-test score of control group were 2958 with the mean 79, 94. Based on the result of computation the data using t-test it could be concluded that the t count were 0,804. Meanwhile, the t table with degree of freedom 72 and in significant level 5% were 2,00. If the value of t count and t table were compared, the t count 0,804 was less than the t table 2,00. Therefore, the Ho (null hypothesis) that stated there is no significant difference score between the students who are taught by using authentic materials and who are taught without using authentic material was accepted. In the other hand, the Ha (alternative hypothesis) that states there is significant difference score between the students who are taught by using authentic material and who are taught without using authentic material was rejected. In other words, the use of authentic material in improving reading comprehension achievement of the first grade students of SMAN1 Durenan was not effective.


The Person-Centered Approach (PCA) is a structuring clinical tool of Family and Community Medicine (FCM), and its teaching is an essential part of Medical Residency Programs in this specialty. The theoretical foundation of PCA is based on the work of the North American psychologist Carl Ransom Rogers, considered the precursor of Humanist Psychology. The purpose of this article is to present the fundamentals of PCA in Rogers' work and their relevance to the clinical practice of FCM. The main concepts are presented in three points: 1) Actualizing (or formative) tendency; 2) PCA and the production of insight; and 3) The three key concepts (or key attitudes) of PCA: congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathetic understanding. The perspective of construction and improvement of the humanist clinic, through Roger's work, is alive and, precisely for this reason, this reference offers enormous potential for qualifying the FCM clinic.


Demonstrator of a laser threshold magnetometer. The perspective shows the cavity where the scientists measured the amplification and magnetic-field-dependent stimulated emission. Credit:


PT.Sumatera Timberindo is a company engaged in the production of the manufacture of doors. In the production process of this company has the potential to produce waste. The problems experienced by the company is the number of solid waste such as scrap wood as many as 23% of raw materials every month and the value of productivity tends to be unstable. Through the Green Engineering approaches (Green Productivity) used in this study are expected waste reduction efforts made can affect the improvement of environmental conditions and increase productivity perusahaan.Penelitian begins by identifying the source of the cause of the problem, setting objectives and targets, prepare alternatives and alternative contribution elected menestimasi productivity and environmental performance. Alternative repair formulated and selected based on feasibility in terms of economy (by counting the Green Productivity Index and financial), in terms of the environment (by calculating the carbon tax), and socially (by reviewing aspects of people's income), then do the planning proposals alternative implementations within the premises. The results of the research, found an alternative solution to overcome problems with the company's engineering and technology-based reuse of scrap wood into charcoal briquettes. This alternative contributes to the increased productivity of material usage by 17%, men 24%, capital 7%, energy 25%, carbon tax decreased by 53.29% and waste decreased by 87.44% .Penerapan hue Green Engineering and environmental monitoring a whole can help companies meet one of the requirements of ISO 14001.


Procedure and results of computations of stellar model atmospheres and spectral energy distributions are discussed. Model atmospheres of some chemically peculiar stars are computed taking into account detailed information about their abundances: -- R CrB-like stars of Teff $\sim$ 7000 K, -- Sakurai's object (V4334 Sgr) of 4000 $<$ \Tef $<$ 7000 K -- Przybylski's star of Teff $\sim$ 6500 K.
We show that our self-consistent approach provides a unique possibility to investigate the temporal changes of physical parameters of chemically peculiar stars.
Some problems of computation of model atmospheres of M and C-giants are also considered.


We present a systematic and constructive methodology to devise various hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for linearized shallow water equations. It is shown that using the Rankine--Hugoniot condition to solve the Riemann problem is a natural approach to deriving HDG methods. At the heart of our development is an upwind HDG framework obtained by hybridizing the upwind flux in the standard discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approach. Essentially, the HDG framework is a redesign of the standard DG approach to reducing the number of coupled unknowns. An upwind and three other HDG methods are constructed and analyzed for linearized shallow water systems. Rigorous stability and convergence analysis for both semidiscrete and fully discrete systems are provided. We extend the upwind HDG method to a family of penalty HDG schemes and rigorously analyze their well-posedness, stability, and convergence rates. Numerical results for the linear standing wave and the Kelvin wave for oceanic shallow water systems a...


Objective
To investigate the effect of pueraria injection combined with ribavirin on immune function and inflammatory factors in children with viral myocarditis.

Method
s According to the random number table method, 98 children with viral myocarditis treated in our hospital from March 2017 to March 2018 were divided into control group (n=49) and observation group (n=49). On the basis of routine treatment, the children in the control group were treated with ribavirin intravenous drip, and the children in the observation group were treated with pueraria injection on the basis of the control group. The immune function indexes and inflammatory factors were compared between the two groups.

Result
s There were no statistically significant differences in the immune function indexes between the two groups before treatment (P>0.05); after treatment, the levels of CD3+, CD4+, and CD4+/CD8+ in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P 0.05); after treatment, the levels of IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α in the observation group were lower than those in the control group (P 0.05).

Conclusion
The use of puerarin injection and ribavirin can effectively improve their immune function and reduce the levels of inflammatory factors in the treatment of viral myocarditis.

Key words:
Viral myocarditis; Puerarin injection; Ribavirin; Immune function; Inflammatory factor


HIGHLIGHTS The study responds to the lack of information on India's environmental policy engagement space by engaging in a literature review and analysis. We analyzed recent environment policy development cases to characterize the engagement interface. On contentious issues, while policy engagements that emanated from the 'closed', 'invited' and 'claimed' spaces resulted in standoffs, those negotiated in the 'deliberative' space were more successful. We developed an analytical framework of the 'environment policy development triangle' depicting how the four distinct 'engagement spaces' (closed, invited, deliberative and claimed) are created along the gradient of power sharing, inclusiveness and impact. We argue the need for the reimagining of India's environment policy making process with stakeholders discarding authoritative and confrontational engagement approaches and collaborating in newly created and strengthened deliberative spaces. SUMMARY Various stakeholders from science, policy and practice aspire to shape public policy. What are the engagement spaces they operate in, and what are the characteristics of these spaces and the implications for effective policy making? The literature on the public policy formulation process in developing countries is sparse, and this study attempts to bridge this gap. We analyzed India's recent environmental policy making engagements using the lens of 'policy spaces'. We found that strong civil society coalitions have successfully 'claimed' the policy making space. Conventional policy making operating in 'closed' and 'invited' spaces is yet to accept this change, resulting in frequent standoffs. However, when policies emanated from the 'deliberative' space, there have been successes as well. The policy development space has consequently become contested, with nature conservation, forest-based livelihoods and corporate interests all staking their claim. To break this impasse, we recommend a graduation from confrontational and authoritative engagement approaches to deliberative arenas.


The purpose of this study is to provide ways to utilize and create valuable medical information utilizing Medical Big Data created by field in hospital information system. The results of this study first creates new medical information of Medical Information system through medical big data analysis and integration of created data of PACS linked with many kinds of testing equipment and medical image equipment along with medical treatment information. Medical information created in this way produces various health information for treatment and prevention of disease and infectious disease. Second, it creates profit statistics information in various ways by analyzing medical big data accumulated through integration of billings and receipt, admission breakdown of patients. Profit statistics information created in this way produces various administration information to be utilized in profit anaysis and operation of medical institution. Likewise, data integration of personal health history, medical information of public institutions, medical information created in hospital information system produces valuable medical health information utilizing medical data.


The yarn of sparkled various color are blended with triangle polyester fiber,cationic polyester fiber and viscose fiber.The material selection,spinning technological process,main processing parameters and the quality of yarn are discussed.


Early beverage choices are a predictor of children's later beverage consumption, nutrient intakes and body weight. Beverage intakes and associated calories and nutrients were examined using NHANES 2009–2010 for non‐Hispanic white (NHW), non‐Hispanic black (NHB) and Hispanic American (HA) children <1–5 y (n=1,442) with reliable Day 1 24‐hr recalls. By 1 y of age, 22, 31 and 26% of NHW, NHB and HA, respectively, consume fruit drinks, and 11, 5 and 12% drink soda. Fewer NHB children (67%) drink milk than HA (78%), and those who do consume 12.6 oz./d, about 3–5 oz./d less than HA or NHW (p<0.01). NHB are most likely to consume fruit drinks (40% vs. 28% HA, 29% NHW; p<0.05) with 12.5 oz. consumed daily. HA (23%) are most likely to consume soda, but drink smaller amounts than NHB (6.3 oz./d; p<0.05). More HA (60%) drink 100% fruit juice than NHW (50%; p<0.05). HA who drink fruit juice consume less daily than NHB (8.2 oz. vs. 9.7 oz.; p<0.01). For milk drinkers, milk contributes 63–74% of total daily vitamin D, 43–52% of calcium and 25–35% of potassium intakes, at 15–21% of calories. For those who drink soda and fruit drinks, these beverages supply 26–34 and 32–40% of added sugar intake, respectively. Children from all race/ethnic groups, particularly NHB, can benefit from drinking milk while reducing consumption of nutrient‐poor beverages to help improve their diets. Supported by the Dairy Research Institute/National Dairy Council.


Glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase(GPATase) is the key regulatory enzyme in purine biosynthesis. It catalyses the first step in de novo pathway. As a purine nucleoside, inosine is an important product in food and medicine industry. GPATase plays an essential role in the pathways of inosine biosynthesis. Research on it will be helpful to the increasing of inosine production, and may take important development in industry. Its classification, function, structure, gene expression and regulation are mainly introduced in this paper. This knowledge is the basis of the further work for increasing the inosine production.


Background: There is limited evidence regarding the impact of multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on exercise capacity and fatigue in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact on exercise capacity and fatigue following PR, and to examine whether baseline fatigue was related to change in peak oxygen uptake (ΔV̇O2peak). Methods: Forty-one patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis attending a 4-week inpatient PR program were recruited to this pre-post study. Both maximal exercise capacity, defined as V̇O2peak and measured with a cardiopulmonary exercise test, and fatigue, assessed with the Fatigue Assessment Scale (score 10–50 points), were measured before and after PR. Results: There was a statistically significant improvement in V̇O2peak (1.2 ± 2.3 mL/kg/min, p = 0.002), and fatigue decreased significantly (–1.7 ± 3.9 points, p = 0.009) following PR. Unadjusted linear regression analyses demonstrated that age (B = –0.076, p = 0.017) and baseline fatigue (B = 0.196, p = 0.001) were predictors for change in V̇O2peak, while in adjusted analyses (age, sex, baseline V̇O2peak, baseline fatigue, and diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide), only baseline fatigue predicted change in V̇O2peak following PR (B = 0.165, p = 0.026). Conclusion: A 4-week multidisciplinary PR program improves maximal exercise capacity and reduces fatigue in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis. Baseline fatigue only partly predicted change in V̇O2peak following PR.


The current genetic (Y-haplogroups, mitochondrial DNA) and linguistic ("Yazyki mira", ASJP, WALS) databases for Turkic peoples were analysed. The correlation coefficients between genetic, geo- graphic and linguistic distance matrices were estimated. In genetic MDS space, the location of populations corresponds to their geographic location (correlation 0.56), while in linguistic MDS space, it depends on the database being used.


Electron auroras have been mainly studied by optical methods, because they are bright. However, proton auroras can also be a target of optical observation as the technology in optical measurement of a faint object has progressed. For example, A. V. Roldugin et al. (2014) showed that the H-alpha (656.3nm) emission of January 22, 2012 was caused by solar wind protons. The emission was determined with a spectrometer, which obtained the meridian arc spectrum image. However, when the brightest proton aurora H-beta (486.1nm) is observed, emissions from nitrogen molecular ions by an electronic origin may be a contamination. They cannot be completely eliminated even using a bandpass filter. For the observation of H-beta it is necessary to evaluate the contamination due to the emission of electron auroras. Two all-sky monochromatic imagers (PAI1 and PAI2) have been operated at Showa Station for observation of proton aurora. They have passbands of H-beta and the background, respectively. Use of these data enables us to extract proton aurora from the observed image which depicts mixture of proton and electron auroras. In this study proton aurora has been extracted using the data obtained by PAI1 and PAI2, and they have been evaluated in the point of view whether the features characterized by proton auroras are seen or not. The data analyzed in this study was obtained from February 25 to July 11, 2013 and from February 26 to October 15, 2014. The size of images is 512∗512 pixels, and pixel counts are increased by 8 ∗8 pixel binning. Since the cameras and optical systems of PAI1 and PAI2 are identical, we have only corrected shift and rotation of the field of views of the two imagers using stars identified in the images. Sensitivities of the two imagers have been calibrated taking the difference between the transmittances of the two filters into account. As a result of subtracting the background we obtained a proton aurora image. However, the images show no characteristic features of proton aurora except for the all-sky proton aurora similar to those observed by Takahashi et al. [1995]. In addition, in this way of analysis of all-sky image data, it is difficult to quantitatively discuss contamination of electron aurora in the proton aurora image. It is concluded that precise evaluation of proton aurora using only all-sky images is impossible and that we should obtain a spectrum in the wavelength range that includes the wavelength of proton aurora in order to precisely eliminate the background. According to the results of analysis we developed a proton aurora spectrograph (PAS), which will be installed it at the optical observation site at Tjornes in Iceland in early September 2016. PAS has a narrow field-of-view along the geomagnetic meridian and disperses light into the field-of-view by a diffraction grating. An image of space vs wavelength is obtained. An example of the obtained data will be introduced. In the future a long-term observation will be conducted and geomagnetic conjugate proton aurora will be investigated using the data obtained by PAS.


The method for determining the content of 2,4-bis(n-octylthiomethyl)-6-methylphenol in antioxidant 1520 by HPLC is studied.The determination is performed on the Waters 2695-2996 HPLC with Waters SunFireTMC18 column.The mobile phase consists of methanol and distilled water(95∶5,volume ratio) with the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min.UV detection is employed with the wavelength at 285 nm.Under the optimized conditions,the compounds from the sample are completely separated.The concentration of 2,4-bis(n-octylthiomethyl)-6-methylphenol appears linear relation with peak area in the range of 0.2 to 2.0 mg/mL.The linear equation is A=140.17c-28.74(R2=0.995 4).The recovery of the analysis is in the range of 99.96% to 100.24%.


BACKGROUND Hypertension is a major public health challenge especially among blacks. It is associated with target organ damage, one of which is the kidneys. Majority of these target organ complications have been documented by various workers in Nigeria. However, only a few studies on hypertensive renal disease in our environment were complemented with renal histopathology. OBJECTIVE This study sought to determine the prevalence of benign hypertensive nephrosclerosis among patients with essential hypertension, identify the possible risk factors and determine the relationship, (if any) between the clinical diagnostic parameters and the histopathology findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was a cross-sectional study of patients being followed up for essential hypertension at the cardiology and nephrology outpatient clinics of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile Ife, Nigeria between September 12, 2012 and January 31, 2014. The study population comprised of adults aged 40 and above who had been hypertensive for at least 5 years. Hypertension was defined as persistent systolic blood pressure ≥ 140mmHg and or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90mmHg (JNC VII guideline) or persistent need for antihypertensive medication. Patients whose hypertension is secondary to kidney diseases, pregnancy induced hypertension, HBsAg , anti HCV and HIV positive patients, patients with proteinuria >1500mg in 24hrs or hypertensive heart failure NYHA class II, III, IV and other causes of secondary hypertension were excluded from the study.All patients had blood drawn for serum creatinine, urea, and 24-hours urine collection for protein estimation. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated using CKDEPI equation. Those with eGFR 150mg had the serum creatinine and 24-hours protein estimation repeated after 3 months to establish CKD. Each patient had echocardiography and /or dilated fundoscopy done to assess for evidence of other target organ damage i.e. left ventricular hypertrophy and/ or hypertensive retinopathy. Clinical diagnosis of hypertensive nephrosclerosis was made based on established clinical diagnostic criteria. Those who fulfilled these criteria were biopsied after taking informed consent. The presence, pattern and severity of vascular, glomerular and tubulo-interstitial changes were noted. Histological diagnosis of hypertensive nephrosclerosis was made in those fulfilling the established criteria. Data was analysed using SPSS package version 20. A total of 271 patients were recruited. Of these, 63(23%) patients were lost to follow up leaving 208 available for analysis. The age of those available for analysis ranged between 45 and 65 years with mean age of 57(± 5) years and mean eGFR of 85.28(± 18.94) ml/mins. Of these, 125 (60%) patients met the clinical diagnostic criteria for hypertensive nephrosclerosis, and all had mild to moderate CKD (CKD stages 1 - 3). Markers of renal dysfunction identified were isolated hyperfiltration in 2 patients (1.6%), hyperfiltration with proteinuria in 3 patients (2.4%), isolated proteinuria in 105 patients (84%), reduced eGFR<60ml/min in combination with proteinuria in 9 patients (7.2%) while the remaining 6 (4.8%) had isolated reduced eGFR <60mls/min. Forty of these patients had renal biopsy done but adequate tissues were obtained in only 37 of them. Seventeen of the 37 biopsies had segmental glomerulosclerosis either in combination with focal global glomerulosclerosis (3 cases) or with arteriosclerosis and or/ arteriolosclerosis and focal global glomerular sclerosis (14 cases); 13 had global glomerulosclerosis with vascular lesions; 2 other had global sclerosis without vascular lesions while the remaining 5 were apparently normal on light microscopy. Interstitial fibrosis was demonstrated in 18(48.65%) patients. Tubular atrophy and dilatation was seen in 12(32.43%) and 10(27%) patients respectively. Of all the 37 biopsies only 26 biopsies fulfilled the criteria for diagnosis of hypertensive nephrosclerosis. The extent of global sclerosis correlated with the severity of arteriosclerosis (r=0.470, p= 0.015), hyalinosis (r=0.475, p=0.014) and interstitial fibrosis (r = 0.484 p=0.012). Global sclerosis was found to correlate with eGFR (r = - 0.470, p =0.015) while the extent of arteriolosclerosis correlated with BMI (r = 0.437, p =0.02) and 24-hours urinary protein excretion (r = 0.407, p = 0.039). Age at contact, presence of other target organ damage or duration of hypertension did not correlate with the severity of glomerular lesion, arteriosclerosis and/ or arteriolosclerosis and interstitial fibrosis. Only 70% of patients that fulfilled the clinical criteria were confirmed by renal biopsy. Low eGFR and increasing 24-hours urinary protein excretion were the only predictors of biopsy proven hypertensive nephrosclerosis identified in this study (p=0.001 and 0.007 respectively). In conclusion, HN is common among patients with treated essential hypertension; it presents as a mild to moderate form of CKD, while diagnostic histological features were only found in about 70% of the clinically diagnosed subjects.


This bachelor thesis deals with a problem of contextuality of verbal humour in film. It's purpose is to point out a neccessity of understanding humouros effect of source language, and its authentic translation to target language.


Voluntary negative labeling may provide a solution to the current controversy over labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. The U.S. experience in the dairy sector with milk from cows treated with recombinant bovine somatotropin offers an example of how a voluntary negative labeling strategy evolved.


Power transmission system is of one component in the supply of electricity. Then it takes one of transmission system good. To maintain of transmission system good needed protection system accordance with the requirements of protection . protection system functioning of to localize disturbance as small as possible . protection system of transmission normally using of distance relay and OCR-GFR relay. distance relay serves as a main security and OCR-GFR for as backup. calculation of short circuit and relay coordination using digsilent program 14.1.3. based on the results of calculations and simulations showed that the distance relay coordination is good and necessary for resetting the relay OCR-GFR due to changes in short circuit. Keywords: transmission, coordination, distance relay, ocr-gfr relay, ETAP


Objective: To determine the prevalence of forward head posture among university students and its possible correlation with other posture related factors.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 197 students from four different universities. A modified questionnaire was used to collect the data and posture was assessed using a plumb line. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 21.
Results: The prevalence of forward head posture was found to be 63.96%, including male and female students. The forward head posture was found to be correlated with shoulder rolling forward.
Conclusion: The forward head posture is very prevalent among the university students. It is correlated shoulder rolling forward.


This article mainly approaches the analyses of PE culture;The theory base of the construction of PE culture; how to build the environment of PE culture; the training of PE consciousness. The aim is to increase the culture taste; to build healthy, lively atmosphere; to increase students' synthetical quality the consciousness and the ability of PE training all their life.


The CSU DemoSAT-B 2011 project was a high altitude balloon payload with the ability to measure CO2 concentration, pressure, temperature and relative humidity. Because climate change has become a major concern in today's society, there is a clear need to develop a system that will monitor and trace the global carbon cycle both seasonally and spatially. This payload was launched on a weather balloon up to an altitude of 100,000 ft at the Ramah reservoir in Eastern Colorado Springs, CO on July 30 of 2011. Multiple tests were conducted to ensure the payload's ability to survive adverse "edge of space" environments. These tests included the standard DemoSAT protocols (whip, drop, stair and flat sat) as well as a vacuum chamber and cold test (liquid nitrogen). The system utilizes a nondispersive infrared sensor to measure CO2 concentrations, which must be analytically corrected using data from a diaphragm-strain gage pressure sensor. Upon recovery it was learned that the payload suffered catastrophic failure to the data logger. Consequently, no data was recovered.


Communications software on microcomputers enhances the management of communications and online searching by automating the repetitive tasks of logging on to various database services and improving the efficiency of the connection by minimising the time spent online. Five packages which provide a full spectrum of facilities to be found in the range of communications software on the market are reviewed here. The packages are ACT's Communique, Learned Information's Connect, Datasoft's Datatalk, Head Computers' Headline, and Userlink's Information Transfer. This small sample covers the needs of certain categories of users: the business sector; users of specific services; the library and information community; and finally, the unskilled online searcher, or end user, who requires an intelligent front end to the variety of search command systems on the hosts. The basic and useful software features of all five packages are described, with a checklist for comparison, followed by a detailed description of each package.


A study was conducted to develop reliable measures of parents' perceptions or concerns about their children's progress in the domain of peer relations, and to assess the relationship between perceptions of progress and concerns. The study sample consisted of 62 white, preschool children (34 girls and 28 boys) and their mothers and teachers. Participants were recruited from 14 child care centers in Indiana and Illinois. A home visit was scheduled with each family to obtain measures of mothers' perceptions of progress, perceived parental control over the child's behavior, perceived difficulty of affecting change in the child's behavior, and concerns. Mothers were asked to complete a questionnaire about their policies for informal peer play activities in the home, and to report on their child's peer contacts outside of school. Teachers were asked to rate children's classroom social behaviors and peer relations on the Preschool and Kindergarten Teacher Rating Scale. It was found that girls were viewed as being more advanced in peer relations than boys. For both genders, mothers of preschoolers saw their children as more sociable than prosocial. Although the level of concern reported by mothers in the sample was not high, when higher levels of worry were reported, these were more often associated with children's sociability than with their prosocial behavior. Mothers were particularly concerned about behaviors that they saw as difficult to influence and control. Mothers who held a high opinion of their child's sociability worried less, and tended to be more involved in their child's informal play activities, than mothers with lower opinions of the,: child's sociability. A 20-item bibliography is included. (AC) **** s c**.A**;:**;.::**;.A.:.::******i...**A:,.**************** Reproductions supplied by EMS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERICI )(This document nes teen reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it C Minor cnanges na,,,e been mace to improve reproduction duality Points of new or opinions stated in this docu ment do not necessarily represent oft.c.al OERI position or policy Mothers' Perceptions and Concerns About Their Preschool Children's Progress in Peer Relations Susan M. Profilet, Gary W. Ladd University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY 3<..1So.r TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1992, San Francisco, California.


The earliest socialization in human beings, a process whereby family and society are built, takes place through communication. The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Family Communication Scale using a random sample of 340 Chilean adults. Exploratory factor analysis (principal axis) and confirmatory factor analysis (free asymptotic distribution) adjusted to data without multivariate normal distribution were applied (Doornik-Hansen test: p<.001). A factorial solution of two constructs was found with χ2 test=9.466 (p=.305), CFI=.983, TLI=.968, RMSEA=.023 (p=.781), and SRMR=.104, as well as internal consistencies of .895 and .854 in both constructs. The evidence obtained supports the idea that the scale adequately measures the variable of interest through two constructs and six items. The data confirm the good psychometric indicators that support the use of the scale in the area of research and family intervention.


SWOT analysis is a strategic analysis method that is often used.To probe the sustainable development of agro-industrialization of poor areas, the author takes Shanxi Province as an example and makes a SWOT analysis of the internal strengths and weaknesses,external opportunities and threats that face the agro-industrialization and holds that as far as the poor areas in Shanxi Province are concerned enterprising strategy is the optimal choice.


FREQUENTLY in plant breeding programs with selfpollinated plants, lines have been evaluated from a series of selfed generations. The variability structure considered would be a sequence of generations which have been evaluated as single plant-progenies from a randomly selected plant within each line. Generations and years are confounded. Horner and Weber (8) generalized the genetic variances and covariances for such data. However, even though one assumes a negligible genotype by environment interaction, the analysis is difficult to interpret since the estimate of a genetic variance may vary considerably between years. A partition of genetic variability depends upon the magnitude of the variance estimates, and one must conclude that a partition could reflect the expansion and contraction of the measurement scales rather than the true genetic partition. However, reliable estimates of genetic variance may be available from such data. An objective of this paper was to generalize the variance structure for such data and to evaluate and interpret the data from the F a through Fr generations from a soybean cross, Adams X Hawkeye. The generalized variance structure would have utility for analyzing data from other self-pollinated crops and for predicting genetic progress. Partitioning of genetic variability into additive and nonadditive genetic variances contributes basic information necessary for the proper evaluation of selection procedures. Fisher (2) and Fisher et al. (3) derived several genotypic variances and covariances for early generations of a selffertilized population. These were described and extended by Mather (11). Homer et al. (7) derived an expression for the set of variances and covariances for a self-fertilized population. The genetic parameters in these studies were defined with reference to the F2 population. Hanson and Weber (4) considered the resolution of genetic variability with reference to the population of homozygous lines generated by a segregating population which will serve as the basis for partitioning in this paper. However, the genetic parameters defined by this method are directly commutable


This paper reports our methods and experimental results for two TRECVID 2012 tasks of instance search and multimedia event detection. For the instance search, we applied the BM25(Best Match 25) method, the state-of-the-art ranking function in the field of text retrieval, to the video retrieval task. Our BM25 features the following three factors: (i) the keypoint importance degree (ii) keypoint frequency in the video, and (iii) normalization by the video length. The keypoint importance degrees are the weights of the local features detected from instance topic images. They were estimated by two different approaches: using the instance search video collection and using google images search results obtained by inputting the topic keywords. We defined the four submission runs for this task as follows: (a) NTT-NII 1 run applying BM25 with IFF(Inverse Frame Frequency) weight; (b) NTT-NII 2 run applying BM25 with RSJ(Robertson-Sparck-Jones) weight; (c) NTT-NII 3 run the same as above, but slightly different parameter values; and (d) NTT-NII 4 run NTT-NII 1 run combined with a NII's independent run. Here, IFF and RSJ are the methods of estimating the weights on keypoint importance degrees. Note that the details of NTT-NII 4 run will be omitted in this paper. The overall experimental results showed that NTT-NII 1 scored the highest search accuracy among our four submission runs and that the use of BM25 as the baseline ranking approach for the instance search task is promising. For multimedia event detection, our system utilized text data in addition to image data. For image features, we tried SIFT-based local features and color histograms separately. In the training phase, a space was determined by integrating image and text information using canonical correlation analysis (CCA). Video frames were transformed into the obtained space and an SVM-based classifier was applied for each event in the detection phase. The evaluation results indicate that CCA-based image and text information integration does not work effectively when only the provided text meta data are used. 1. INSTANCE SEARCH: NTT-NII 1 RUN 1.1 System Overview Figure 1 shows an overview of our NTT-NII 1 instance search system. To improve the search accuFigure 1: Instance search system for NTT-NII 1 run. racy of the instance search task, we attempted to incorporate the BM25 ranking function(Robertson and Walker 1994), the state-of-the-art ranking function in the text retrieval field, in the video retrieval task. We extracted the keypoints from 21 instance topic images and video frames using the Harris-Laplace detector(Harris and Stephens 1988), and featured the keypoints on the basis of the 192-dimensional compact color SIFT method(Mikolajczyk and Schmid 2004)(Zhu and Sato 2012). The frame images were extracted from 76751 videos by the rate of one frame per second, and we obtained about a total of 740, 000 images. The first 128 dimensions in the compact color SIFT description correspond to the normal luminance SIFT and the latter 64 dimensions involve the chrominance information. The BM25 ranking function especially focused on the importance degrees of the keypoints and, using degrees, it ranked the videos according to the keypoint frequencies normalized by the video duration lengths. 1.2 Matching Keypoints The extracted keypoints from instance topic images and video frames were featured by the 192dimensional vectors and they were matched according to the cosine value between the two vectors. Then the keypoint pair showing the highest cosine value larger than 0.95 was considered as matched. The matching procedure was performed for every keypoint pair and it thus required huge computer power and most of the total computational time in our instance search system. The matched results are used afterward to calculate the factors in BM25 ranking function. 1.3 Inverse Frame Frequency(IFF) The IFF estimates the importance degree of keypoints extracted from instance topic images. About 180, 000 different keypoints were extracted from 21 instance topic images and the IFFs are calculated using the video collection of instance search task as follows: IFFi = log ( N − ni + 0.5 ni + 0.5 ) (1) Here, IFFi is the IFF weight of the ith keypoint. N is the total number of frame images in the video collection and ni is the number of frame images containing the ith keypoint. Recall that ni was already calculated by the matching keypoints procedure described above. The number 0.5 is added to avoid the zero division. IFFi becomes high when ni is small and so it indicates the occurrence tendency of each keypoint in the video collection. The frequently-appearing keypoints have low importance degrees because they are not useful in distinguishing and retrieving the videos of interest from the entire video collection. 1.4 BM25 Ranking Function with IFF Weights The relevance score between the instance topic q and the video v was calculated by the following BM25I ranking function:


Abstract : Detailed measurements in three-dimensional boundary layers and separated flow fields, developing on a prolate spheroid and flow visualizations are presented. The discussion is concentrated on the possible topological structure of separation patterns resulting from laminar on turbulent boundary layer flows at different Reynolds numbers. (Author)


This study investigates, under El Niño/La Niña conditions, the effects of sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) in the East Indian Ocean (EIO) on tropical cyclone (TC) genesis over the western North Pacific (WNP), and a possible mechanism is proposed. It is found that the EIO SSTA exerts a secondary modulation to cyclogenesis relative to the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the negative correlation between the EIO SSTA and WNP TC frequency is significantly weakened by the ENSO events. Under El Niño (La Niña) conditions, no matter what phases of EIO SSTA, TC genesis generally shows similar features with low (high) frequency in the western‐central WNP (15°–25°N, 120°–150°E) and high (low) frequency in the southeastern WNP (5°–15°N, 150°–170°E). In particular, the effects of warm EIO SSTA on the WNP TC activity represent an asymmetry between El Niño and La Niña. That is, the warm EIO SSTA and El Niño share combined effects to decrease TC genesis over the western‐central WNP. By contrast, under La Niña conditions, the influence of warm EIO SSTA on TC activity over the western‐central WNP is partially drown out by La Niña. Meanwhile, weaker monsoon trough with intense anomaly of easterly jointly induced by the two factors suppresses TC genesis over the southeastern WNP.


Detailed areal mapping in central Camaguey Province and reconnaissance mapping in northern and eastern Oriente Province, Cuba, have revealed two major structural zones: (1) A zone of intense deformation, including thrust faulting, which lies north of the geographic axis of the island; and (2) a belt of domical mountains bounded on the north by Nipe Bay and the coast, and on the south by the Cauto trough and Guantilnamo basin.

In Camaguey, extensive masses of serpentine and overlying tuffs have been complexly folded and overridden from the north by a block, at least 25 miles long, of limestones that form the Sierra de Cubitas and Sierra de Camajan. The overthrust carried a northern fades of Cretaceous and Eocene limestones over a southern fades of tuffaceous rocks of similar age, and had a displacement of at least six miles. In places serpentine was thrust over younger formations, and most of the shearing in the serpentine is attributed to diastrophism. A thrust zone exposed in Loma La Vigia, 15 miles north of Holguin, suggests a similar tectonic history for northern Oriente Province. Chaotic giant breccias that include waterlaid debris indicate that the overthrusts moved across the ancient land surface in both Camaguey and Oriente districts. The folding apparently began in the Cretaceous and culminated in overthrusting during early middle Eocene time. Post-Eocene deformation appears to be limited to warping or doming to maximum angles of about 20 degrees.

The zone of domical mountains is somewhat more than 100 miles long from east to west by 25 to 30 miles wide, and comprises three main units: (1) the Sierra de Nipe and (2) Sierra del Cristal domes, principally of serpentine; and (3) the Cuchillas uplift, which includes the Cuchillas de Toar and Sierra de Purlal, composed of serpentine and pre-serpentine rocks. These uplifts are overlapped progressively on all sides by sediments ranging in age from Upper Cretaceous to Oligocene and Miocene, the older beds in places being highly folded. The mountains owe their present relief of 2000 to 4000 feet to the doming of an extensive erosion surface in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene. The north and east flanks of the Cuchillas uplift extend below sea level, and drowned streams and elevated coral reefs show regional instability since the last major doming.


The Italian 'Norme per la tutela sanitaria dell'attività sportiva agonistica' (Competitive Sports Activity Healthcare Law) dates back to 1982, when the Italian Government, in agreement with the Italian National Olympic Committee, committed to the National Health System the ascertainment of physical health of people practicing competitive sports of whatever type. Since then, a 'competitive sports eligibility visit' (usually on an annual basis) is mandatory for those engaged in competitive sports activity, that is participating in competitions officially recognized by one of the Federations of the Italian National Olympic Committee, and around 1 200 000 such visits are carried out yearly in Italy. The visit includes clinical examination, ECG recording at rest and after submaximal exercise, spirometry and stick urinalysis. Thereafter, a physician specialist in Sports Medicine may either issue a certificate of eligibility for a specific competitive sport or disqualify the athlete from that activity if a given cardiac or extra-cardiac disease is diagnosed based on baseline or supplemental evaluations. Of note, as in other countries the athlete engaging in competitive sports – and not the National Health System – is made responsible for his own physical health, these regulations have made Italy a singular case worldwide, fostering a series of relevant outcomes regarding national standards of healthcare. Among these, one of the most important is the conception and development of the Italian Cardiological Guidelines for Eligibility in Competitive Sports, a summarized version of the 2009 edition of which is published in this issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine. These Guidelines form an evidence-based reference for Sports Medicine specialists facing cardiology-related problems as to competitive sports eligibility, providing concise information on clinics, prognosis, bibliographic updates, and criteria for competitive sports eligibility in the whole spectrum of cardiac diseases. An initial chapter reporting a


Many organizations in recent years have adopted an offshore model to deliver most or part of their information technology needs. While offshoring can be associated with significant cost savings and implementation benefits, it can also be a challenge to effectively manage the international client-vendor relationship. Thus, it is argued that the effective management, coordination and structuring of the international client-vendor relationship is critical to project management success. In this paper an agency perspective is applied to examine the management of international client-vendor relationships in offshore information technology (IT) projects. This paper synthesizes key relational findings from eight offshore IT projects consisting of 29 client interviews. The authors' findings suggest that the relational tenets of agency theory (shirking, privately held information, task programmability and monitoring) play key roles in successfully managing international project relationships. Based on the findings, propositions are presented to guide future offshore IT project research and organizations to successfully manage and structure their client-vendor relationships.


The temperature field and thermal stress of Man type gas holder is simulated by using the theory of sunshine temperature field based on ASHRAE clear-sky model and the finite element method. The distribution of surface temperature and thermal stress of gas holder under the given sunshine condition is obtained. The results show that the thermal stress caused by sunshine can be identified as one of the important factors for the failure of local cracked oil leakage which happens on the sunny side before on the shady side. Therefore, it is of great importance to consider the sunshine thermal load in the stress analysis, design and operation of large-scale steel structures such as the gas holder.


Sustainable agricultural land use requires an assessment of degradable soil organic matter (SOM) because of its key function for soil fertility and plant nutrition. Such an assessment for practical land use should consider transformation processes of SOM and its sources of different origin. In this study, we combined a 120‐day incubation experiment with thermal decay dynamics of agricultural soils altered by added organic amendments. The aim was to determine the abilities and limits of thermal analysis as a rapid approach revealing differences in the degradability of SOM. The carried out experiments based on two independent sampling sets. The first sample set consisted of soil samples taken from non‐fertilized plots of three German long‐term agricultural field experiments (LTAEs), then artificially mixed with straw, farmyard manure, sheep faeces, and charcoal equal to 60 Mg ha⁻¹ under laboratory conditions. The second sample set based on soil samples of different treatments (e.g., crop type, fertilization, cultivation) in LTAEs at Bad Lauchstadt and Muncheberg, Germany. Before and after the incubation experiment, thermal mass losses (TML) at selected temperatures were determined by thermogravimetry indicating the degradability of organic amendments mixed in soils. The results confirmed different microbial degradability of organic amendments and SOM under laboratory conditions. Thermal decay dynamics revealed incubation‐induced changes in the artificial soil mixtures primarily at TML around 300°C in the case of applied straw and sheep faeces, whereas farmyard manure showed mainly changes in TML around 450°C. Charcoal did not show significant degradation during incubation, which was confirmed by TML. Detailed analyses of the artificial soil mixtures revealed close correlations between CO₂‐C evolution during incubation and changes in TML at 300°C with R² > 0.96. Results of the soils from LTAEs showed similar incubation‐induced changes in thermal decay dynamics for fresh plant residues and farmyard manure. We conclude that the practical assessment of SOM could be facilitated by thermal decay dynamics if modified sample preparation and evaluation algorithms are used beyond traditional peak analysis.


This study was conducted to answer the problem "Is Entrepreneurship Learning Outcomes on Attitude and Behavior Basic Competence can Entrepreneurial Enhanced Through Cooperative Learning Mind Mapping" . Thus, this research aims to improve learning outcomes in basic competency entrepreneurial attitude entrepreneur behavior after the application of the Mind Mapping . To that end , the results of this study would be useful: (1) theoretical, (a) for the academic/educational institutions, the subject of the information in the development of science, particularly in improving learning outcomes Entrepreneurship, (b) for researchers, as experience is extremely valuable in conduct scientific studies, and further research is as a comparison as well as reference materials for relevant research, (2) practical, (a) for the teacher, can assist teachers in improving student learning outcomes in the classroom through the implementation model of Mind Mapping, (b) for students, more motivated and interested in participating in the process of entrepreneurial learning in order to improve student learning outcomes in learning, and (c) for schools, provide information and input to the script on the use of models Cooperative learning activities. Study is a classroom action research is descriptive, where the setting and subject of research conducted in 10 marketing class 3 which were 30 students at SMK Negeri 4 Makassar. This study conducted two cycles consisting of four activities: planning (planning), execution (action), observation (observation) and reflection. Data collection techniques used are observation, testing and documentation. With the increasing number of products to organize learning outcomes on average test scores in the first cycle of the category of very less ie 51.42 percent increase to 88.57 percent which is well on the second cycle. The results showed that the application of cooperative learning model to improve learning outcomes Script grade students of SMK Negeri 4 Makassar class 10 Marketing 3. As a follow-up suggested the need for the application of the developed models Mind Mapping learning as an alternative to increase motivation and learning outcomes in order to improve the quality of the learning process in schools, Cooperative learning Mind Mapping can be often applied not only on the competence of managing the product but other subjects as well, in case the student can focus more attention to learning when the learning process takes place, sought as early as possible to overcome the difficulties experienced, both by students and teachers in the learning process. Keywords: Mind Mapping Based Entrepreneurship Learning


We present detailed stellar specific angular momentum ( j∗) measurements of ten star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5 − 2 using both high and low spatial resolution integral field spectroscopic data. We developed a code that simultaneously models the adaptive optics (AO) assisted observations from OSIRIS/SINFONI along with their natural seeing (NS) counterparts from KMOS at spatial resolutions of [0.1 − 0.4] arcsec and [0.6 − 1.0] arcsec respectively. The AO data reveals 2/10 systems to be mergers and for the remaining eight the mean uncertainties Δ̄ j∗ decrease from 49% (NS), and 26.5% (AO), to 16% in the combined analysis. These j∗ measurements agree within 20% with simple estimates ( j∗) calculated from the Hubble Space Telescope photometry and NS kinematics, however higher resolution kinematics are required to first identify these disks. We find that the choice of surface mass density model and the measurement of effective radius from photometry are the key sources of systematic effects in the measurement of j∗ between different analyses. Fitting the j∗ vs M∗ relations (Fall, 1983) with a fixed power-law slope of β = 2/3, we find a zero-point consistent with prior NS results at z ≥ 1 within ∼ 0.3 dex. Finally, we find a ∼ 0.38 dex scatter about that relation that remains high despite the AO data so we conclude it is intrinsic to galaxies at z > 1. This compares to a scatter of ≤ 0.2 dex for disks at z ' 0 pointing to a settling of the Fall relation with cosmic time.


The utility model relates to a novel miniature cultivation machine capable of operation through driving on the machine, which belongs to agricultural machinery used for agricultural land cultivation. The utility model effectively overcomes the defects of the existing miniature cultivation machinery. The novel miniature cultivation machine consists of a diesel engine, a machine frame, a working transmission box, a walking driving wheel, a switching oil tank, a driven walking wheel, a rotary cultivation cutter shaft, a rotary cultivation cutter frame, a rotary cultivation speed reducer, an operation driving mechanism and a walking gear box through being connected. The novel miniature cultivation machine can be used for cultivation of land parcels in any size, and can give full play of the advantages of the novel miniature cultivation machine particularly on vegetable greenhouses, terraced fields, hill sloping fields, forest and grain plant combination land parcels, orchard gardens, flower pond nursery gardens, green belts, roadside and village side irregular deserted land parcels and the like. Because machine operators can drive on the machine, the occurrence of accidents can be avoided, and the utility model has the advantages of small size, low height, simple structure, convenient steering and capability of convenient switching on cultivation and walking, and the flexibility and the flexibility of the novel miniature cultivation machine are shown, and the novel miniature cultivation machine is very suitable for the cultivation of various kinds of land.


This chapter focuses on the inner rationale and consequences of four different archetypal positions regarding how ethical and political values are tackled in welfare economics. Welfare economics is standardly associated with the welfarist framework, for which social welfare is based on individual utility only. Beyond this, we distinguish the value-neutrality claimfor which ethical values should be and are out of the scope of welfare economics-, the value confinement idealfor which ethical values are acceptable if they are minimal and consensual-, the transparency requirementfor which any ethical values may be acceptable in the welfare economics framework if explicit and formalized-, and the entanglement claimwhich challenges the very possibility of demarcation between facts and values.


The utility model discloses an expanding rotating mechanism of a cylinder work piece, which comprises a bracket, an expanding device and a propulsion device which drives the bracket to move on the body of the machine tool, wherein, the expanding device is arranged on the bracket, and the expanding device comprises an expanding head, a driving device I which drives the expanding head to be opened and a driving device II which drives the expanding head to rotate. Through the opening and the withdrawing of the expanding head, the expanding and the releasing of the cylinder work piece can be realized; when the expanding head expands the cylinder work piece, the rotation of the expanding head can drive the cylinder work piece to rotate. The expanding rotating mechanism can perform the high precise correction (shaping) for the work piece at a high speed; the efficiency is high, and the action of the oil cylinder and the motor can be controlled by program, thereby being easy to realize the automation; the repeat positioning precision is high and the reliability is good; the application range is wide; the shaping and expanding of the cylinder work piece with different diameters can be realized by replacing the expanding sleeve; and the structure is simple, the operation is convenient and the manufacturing is easy.


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We consider a noninteracting disordered 1D quasicrystal in the weak disorder regime. We show that the critical states of the pure model approach strong localization in strikingly different ways, depending on their renormalization properties. A finite size scaling analysis of the inverse participation ratios of states (IPR) of the quasicrystal shows that they are described by several kinds of scaling functions. While most states show a progressively increasing IPR as a function of the scaling variable, other states exhibit a nonmonotonic `re-entrant' behavior wherein the IPR first decreases, and passes through a minimum, before increasing. This surprising behavior is explained in the framework of perturbation renormalization group treatment, where wavefunctions can be computed analytically as a function of the hopping amplitude ratio and the disorder, however it is not specific to this model. Our results should help to clarify results of recent studies of localization due to random and quasiperiodic potentials.


Query Expansion technology can reduce word mismatch between query and related documents,improve retrieval result through adding similar or related terms to original query.In the algorithm proposed in this paper,terms or phrases which have closely related sense are added to the original query and express users' query intention more precisely.This algorithm costs O(L)time which is independent of the SER-Base,and this is very practical for highly real-time search engine.


High performance junctionless Ge Gate-all-around pFETs with fin width down to 9 nm are demonstrated. The device with the Leff of 250 nm and channel doping of 8×10 cm- has Ion/Ioff= 1×10, SS = 95 mV/dec, and Ion = 390 μA/μm. The gate controllability can be further improved with low EOT gate stack of ~ 0.7 nm for the SS down to 84 mV/dec. Junctionless devices also show higher mobility at the large VGs - Vt region than the inversion mode devices due to less dependence on surface roughness scattering. The configuration of fin width and channel concentration to achieve low SS is investigated.


Radioprotective mechanisms of Rutin (RUT) and Quercetin (QRT) against gamma radiation was studied by investigating recovery of endogenous spleen colony-forming units, haematological alterations in peripheral blood in Swiss albino mice. Radiation induced haematological alterations in peripheral blood was studied; mice were treated with RUT (10mg/kg.b.wt.) and QRT (20mg/kg.b.wt.) once daily for five consecutive days and exposed to 7.5 Gy of gamma radiation after the last administration. RUT and QRT treatment before exposure to 7.5 Gy of gamma radiation resulted in a significant (p<0.01) increase in cellular components of blood at various post-treatment time points when compared with the respective irradiated groups. Irradiation of mice reduced the spleen colony forming units in the spleen and the number of spleen nodules was inversely related with the increase in radiation dose. The potent antioxidant nature of RUT and QRT mitigate the oxidative stress induced by gamma radiation and thus protect the mice from hemopoietic damage.


This paper studies experimentally the conditions and motives for voluntary solidarity, following a game theoretical approach. The 'solidarity game' that is used in this study consists of groups of four players and is based on the solidarity game of Selten and Ockenfels (1998). In each group, two winners, which are either randomly selected or on the basis of their performance on a quiz, distribute 20 credits each (reflecting real money). We tested four hypotheses regarding the effect of various conditions on voluntary sharing, related to the motives for solidary behaviour, viz. self-interest, fairness, neediness and meritocracy. For most of our hypotheses the experiments provided support, although there are a few exceptions. Players share more with others in the first round of the four shots game than in the one shot game, but their gifts decrease quickly as the game progresses, which confirms that they act largely out of self-interest. Players give more to a player from whom they have received money in the previous rounds (fairness, resulting in direct reciprocity). However, players do not give more to co-players who have been generous to others in the previous round, which would have been proof of indirect reciprocity. Players do not give more to a loser than to a winner in the current round, and, consequently, do not equalize the differences in revenue. However, they give more to players who have received relatively little in previous rounds, which suggests that neediness of the potential beneficiary is also a motive. Finally, winners give more in the random based conditions, when they do not really 'deserve' to be a winner, than in the performance based conditions, which offers support for the meritocracy hypothesis. The motives that the subjects expressed themselves for their sharing behaviour in answering some post-hoc questions, mirrors their actual behaviour pretty well. Additionally, we also analyse the effect of some personal characteristics, and the party preferences and media use of the players.


J. G. Ballard – sometime science fiction (sf) writer, catastrophist, literary provocateur, war writer, and diagnostician of late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century consumer society – launched his career as a novelist with four tales of the transformed earth. In The Wind from Nowhere (1962a), the human world is reduced to rubble by an inexplicable storm that vanishes as suddenly as it appears, while in The Drowned World (1962b) Ballard inundates most of the planet, leaving only small pockets of habitable land near the poles, Greenland and Russia. The Drought (1964) depicts a desiccated landscape on which no rain can fall, and The Crystal World (1966) sees the organic world remade in mineral form. Bar The Wind from Nowhere, the action of these novels is largely taken up with their characters' attempts to adapt psychologically to radically altered environments that they seem to half perceive, half create. That these fictions take place in what Ballard called 'inner space' has raised interesting problems for readers and critics alike. Ballard wrote of the symbols of inner space that they are 'time sculptures of terrifying ambiguity' (Ballard 1997 [1963]). This collection came about because of a shared belief that J. G. Ballard consistently raised many of the questions that cluster around what is now being called the Anthropocene. Ballard's studied ambiguity and ambivalence calls into question the relationship between the individual and society, the morality of science and technology, and the binaries of subject/object, nature/society, and human/non-human. In Latour's (1999) terms, scientific knowledge is produced as it cycles through laboratories, scientists, politicians, and different forms of media. In this sense it is textual, and so part of its formation and evolution takes place in fiction, even as it shapes contemporary fictions and our readings of the literature of all ages (Trexler 2015). Ballard's literary work negotiates and critiques the shifting sands of the media landscape, offering insight into mediated experiences of the 'natural', of climate change, and of the Anthropocene. Ballard's characters are frequently drawn to landscapes where time is destabilised in some way, zones in which they can renegotiate their relationship with time on a grander scale – evolutionary, geological, or cosmic – as the concept of the Anthropocene compels us to do. Ballard has always been way ahead of us. Not just in terms of prophecy – though he has had his fair share – but in terms of the ways in which he was thinking and writing, and affecting the thinking and writing of his readers, about the world: the external, objective, material world, the inner, constructed, imaginative world, and the complex mesh that binds the two. New materialisms call for a radical rethinking of scientific and philosophical and political ontologies of matter, while registering the material conditions of any constructivist paradigm, which will in turn be altered by such recognition (Coole and Frost 2010). In alerting us to the agential capacities of non-organic matter, Ballard could be said to have anticipated this turn. Meanwhile, Burnett (2018) has called GREEN LETTERS: STUDIES IN ECOCRITICISM 2018, VOL. 22, NO. 4, 341–353 https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2018.1580021


This article analyzes the fundamental principles(openness and transparency;fair competition;just;good faith) of Government Procurement Law by an overview of all and definite discussion of each principle.To its opinion,the entire design of the principles is based on confining the procurement power and other special elements.Through analyzing the meaning,requirement and relative problems of each principle concretely,this article gives several suggestions to apply the principles.At last,it stresses on the current principal goal of GPL which contains confining procurement power and pursuit of good faith in government procurement.


This project is making the robot that play soccer and mostly focused on the designing the software that will command the soccer robot. The system is the combination of three functional parts: programming platform, simulation platform and physical test platform. In the soccer tournament, each team is represented by five robots, a goal keeper, two defenders, and two strikers. Basic structure for the robot soccer tournament is using a camera for detection the ball, other robots and environments. The computer was used to control the robot"s motions and actions in current and predicted situations. All of the action and movement of the robot is control by a programming language, C++. This programming will be test by using Simurosot Simulator then the program will test to the hardware.


According to the long-term observation data of artificial Robinia peseudoacacia growth and soil moisture in hilly-gully region of the Loess Plateau, the variation processes of artificial Robinia peseudoacacia growth and soil moisture were studied.The results showed that growth process of Robinia peseudoacacia was divided into three stages,the growth rate of artificial Robinia peseudoacacia had the characteristic of"slow-fast-slow".In the third growth stage,the growth rate fluctuated.As artificial Robinia peseudoacacia grew, soil water content of the deep soil layer (5~8 m)of artificial Robinia peseudoacacia also fluctuated, indicating that artificial Robinia peseudoacacia growth was dominated by soil moisture.In addition restoration possibility of soil moisture of deep soil profile was also analyzed.


Schoolwork is an important foundation for employment of undergraduates.To achieve successful employment,college students need career-oriented schoolwork planning.This paper investigates some students in Xiasha and analyzes the current status of schoolwork planning,discusses the meaning and value of career-oriented schoolwork planning,and explores the measures of the career-oriented schoolwork planning from students and school,and provides a new way for carrying out this work.


Buffer minimization is an important design issue in optical circuit switching networks because of the high cost of optical buffers. In this paper, we show how to design routing strategies that can reduce buffer requirement in such networks. We propose two classes of buffer-efficient routing schemes and compare their performance in terms of complexity, buffer requirement and blocking probability.


Through reading, it is understood that modern storytelling in the form of Tamil literature embraces different themes in different forms and the expression of the same. Accordingly, the publication of the short story, which encompasses various forms of emotion, beautifully reveals the living conditions of many oppressed and sublime people from time immemorial outside of his fiction. In an effort to draw attention to the dilapidated manor, which has been subjected to a multifaceted crisis in many ways throughout history by a diverse group of selfish people, particularly the beliefs they hold in the lives of those who have been made thieves, as well as how the Karisal regional writer has created and illustrated them in his short story literature, as well as their pre- and post-theft belief-based activities in their short stories.


The optical near field originates from the non-Markovianity of quantum coherent dynamics due to the light–matter interaction. To observe the optical near field localized near the surface of a nanomaterial, a local nanoprobe must be in close proximity, and the effect of the local nanoprobe cannot be ignored. Therefore, we elucidate the effect of the local nanoprobe on the non-Markovianity of the optical-near-field interaction, estimating the trace distance between the density matrices in the non-Markovian and Markovian cases and its integration as a quantitative measure of the non-Markovianity. The effect of the local nanoprobe plays an important role in the quantum coherent and non-Markovian dynamics via the optical near field, and furthermore, this result suggests that the local nanoprobe can control the non-Markovianity in the quantum coherent dynamics.


The ability of computers to store data is unlimited. As a result, we have at our service as much data as we want, but at the same time emerges the problem of converting them in useful information and knowledge. There are many cases where this information is required to be perceived directly and quickly. The visualization of data is the way to take advantage of the strongest human sense, in order to achieve our goal. Data visualization is the graphical representation of data, aiming to reveal the complex information at a glance. In this paper, the visualization of the research field of four professors of ATEI of Thessaloniki is attempted. The general idea of visualization, as well as the implementations of some real examples, is also presented. For the data mining, the tf-idf weighting scheme is used upon the words of a corpus, for the extraction of the important concepts. The creation of a thesaurus including the interesting concepts, is compulsory. The counting of their occurrences is done by writing a program in Java. Finally, the vector array which is created, together with the thesaurus, forms the input for the VOS viewer, which is a program for creating knowledge domain visualization maps.


Nanotechnology is the study and manipulation of matter at the molecular or subatomic scale. Advancements in this diverse and vast field of science are rapidly producing innovative materials andprocesses with a wide range of applications. Despite the diminutive scale of nanotechnology, the influenceof the field is far reaching and is poised to exert a profound effect on the built environment. Beyond selfcleaning surfaces and anti-fog coatings, nanotechnology suggests an extension of the scalar range at which architecture operates. Challenging its modes of fabrication, emerging research within this micro-science confronts energy intensive modes of material production in favor of ostensibly effortless processes thatemulate nature. This paper considers the potential for research in the growing field of nanotechnology to instigate a new generation of performative materials made possible through the design of customized molecular structures that remain veiled from the naked human eye. Through a review of current nanotechnology research, it queries a series of shared principles between science and design in an attempt to identify productive areas for future collaborative research in architecture. Furthermore, it confronts the premise of visibility of research through the exploration of a state of materiality that is naturally imperceptible in its formal organization, yet strikingly conspicuous in its active and situated processes.


Men and women at Northwest University (n=751), Xi'an, China were asked to judge the attractiveness of photo- graphs of female patients who had undergone micrograft surgery to reduce their waist-to-hip ratios (WHR). Micrograft surgery involves harvesting adipose tissue from the waist and reshaping the buttocks to produce a low WHR and an 'hourglass' female figure. This gynoid distribution of female body fat has been shown to correlate with measures of fertility and health. Significantly larger numbers of subjects, of both sexes, chose post-operative photographs, with lower WHRs, as more attractive than pre-operative photographs of the same women. Some patients had gained, and some had lost weight, post-operatively, with resul- tant changes in body mass index (BMI). However, these changes in BMI were not related to judgments of attractiveness. These results show that the hourglass female figure is rated as attractive in China, and that WHR, rather than BMI, plays a crucial role in such attractiveness judgments (Current Zoology 56 (2): 175-181, 2010).


R FROST, America's senior poet, said, " I rate colleges by the libraries they have." This conviction is shared by the trustees, the administration, and the faculty of Northwestern Michigan College who have voiced wholehearted approval for the erection of a library as the first major building in the master campus building plan. Grand Traverse County can also take pride in this event by virtue of its support at the polls for the N. M. C. building program. Consequently, a new library building, projected to house thirty thousand books and 275 people, was completed in 1961. A community college library planned to satisfy ten years of growth is not an extravagant projection. The minimum number of books for a two-year college library is twenty thousand volumes as prescribed by the ACRL standards. Currently, the Northwestern Michigan College library contains about ten thousand volumes. Therefore, we, along with most two-year college libraries, face the task of doubling our book collections to meet minimum standards. Increased demands of enrollment, curriculum, and community will certainly raise our need in ten years. Our new library has also been planned to house a functional program as economically and efficiently as possible. Books, people, and services have been consolidated in a way that will put every Mr. Rink is Librarian, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City.


Quantifying how brain functional architecture differs from person to person is a key challenge in human neuroscience. Current individualized models of brain functional organization are based on brain regions and networks, limiting their use in studying fine-grained vertex-level differences. In this work, we present the Individualized Neural Tuning (INT) model, a fine-grained individualized model of brain functional organization. The INT model is designed to have vertex-level granularity, to capture both representational and topographic differences, and to model stimulus-general neural tuning. Through a series of analyses, we demonstrate that (a) our INT model provides a reliable individualized measure of fine-grained brain functional organization, (b) it accurately predicts individualized brain response patterns to new stimuli, and (c) it requires only 10–20 minutes of data for good performance. The high reliability, specificity, precision, and generalizability of our INT model affords new opportunities for building brain-based biomarkers based on naturalistic neuroimaging paradigms.


Objective. To report a case of segmental neurofibromatosis located in the fronto temporal orbitary region. Description. A 54-year-old patient with a right progressive exoftalmos due to a tumor inside the orbit. He was operated 18 years ago with an histopatology diagnosis of neurofibroma. He recovered well from the surgery, but 3 years ago the right exoftalmos reappeared. The MRI shows multiple subgaleal tumors located in the right fronto temporal area, inside and outside the orbit. Intervention. A right fronto orbitary craniotomy was performed with the resection of soft non encapsulated subgaleal lesions. Conclusion. Segmental neurofibromatosis is a rare afection wich is very difficult to deal with, because of the high incidence of recurrence of the neurofibromas. Despite this, in cases like this one a surgical treatment is highly recommended to prevent not only visual defects but also cosmetic alterations.


MXenes are a recently discovered family of two-dimensional nanomaterials formed of transition metal carbides and carbon nitrides with the general chemical form Mn+1XnTx, where 'M' is a transitional metal, 'X' is either C or N, and 'T' represents a surface functional group (O, -OH or -F). MXenes are derived from layered ternary carbides and nitrides known as MAX (Mn+1AXn) phases by selective chemical etching of the 'A' layers and addition of functional groups 'T'.

In our work, we focus on one of the most well studied MXene, titanium carbide (Ti3C2Tx). Single to few layer flakes of Ti3C2Tx (in a solution dispersed form) are used to create a continuous film on a desired substrate by using spin coating technique. Losses inherent to the bulk MXene and existence of strong localized SP resonances in Ti3C2Tx disks/pillar-like nanostructures at near-IR frequencies are utilized to design an efficient broadband absorber. For Ti3C2Tx MXene disk array sitting on a bilayer stack of Au/Al2O3, high efficiency (>90%) absorption across visible to near-IR frequencies (bandwidth ~1.55 μm), is observed experimentally.

We also experimentally study random lasing behavior in a metamaterial constructed by randomly dispersing single layer nanosheets of Ti3C2Tx into a gain medium (rhodamine 101, R101). Sharp lasing peaks are observed when the pump energy reaches the threshold value of ~ 0.70 μJ/pulse. This active metamaterial holds a great potential to achieve tunable random lasing by changing the optical properties of Ti3C2Tx flakes.


the article introduce the hardware design of data compression technology of remote measurement based on DSP,in the article,the whole hardward system was divided into two modules: Data acquisition module and DSP algorithm module.The data acquisition module receives the data and transport the data to the DSP algorithm module through the AD and the FIFO write data under the control of the CPLD.The data were compressed after DSP receives the signal.The choose of components and design program of whole hardware and Implementation process was introduced in every module.Experiments show that the program is effective.


The paper presents the results of the 2nd phase clinical examination of the safety and efficiency of the transcranial magnetic stimulation TMS, compared to the electroconvulsive therapy and standalone pharmacotherapy. 75 patients were enrolled into the study. They were divided randomly into three groups. The significant improvement of clinical state (diminishment of depressive symptoms) was achieved in all groups. The best effect was observed in the group of patients treated with the electroconvulsive therapy, combined with the drugs. However, transcranial magnetic stimulation, along with pharmacotherapy did not prove to be more effective than standalone pharmacological treatment. Possible explanations of ineffectiveness of the transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy is given.


This study presents loading effects of composite characteristics which are generalized by ply orientation, thickness, radius of shell curve etc. The solution methodology is based on Higher Order Shear Deformation Theory (HSDT) for doubly curved, moderately thick, laminated shells which have symmetric and asymmetric ply orientation, under simply supported boundary conditions.


Measurements have been made of proton elastic scattering differential cross sections for proton scattering at 135/sup 0/ and 165/sup 0/ from 2 to 7 MeV, of inelastic scattering cross sections for proton scattering from 3.9 to 5.7 MeV, and of the radiative capture cross sections from 1.9 to 5.7 MeV detecting primary and cascade gamma rays. Optical potentials with Hauser-Feshbach and coupled-channel models have been used to analyze the data. This analysis yields an energy dependent absorptive potential of W = 2.63+.73 whose mean value of 5 MeV at E/sub p/ = 4 MeV is consistent with previously reported, but anomalously small values. The diffuseness of the real potential is .54 fm, which is consistent with values found for /sup 92/Zr and /sup 94/Zr. The adopted model values are used to deduce a total proton strength function which displays the features of both the 3s and the 3p single particle resonances.


Basing on the analysis of theoretical foundations, management and organization of the process of placing convicts in prison, the paper offers a way to improve such activities. The author argues that the current mechanism of keeping convicts in prison has hardly any qualified and timely educational, pedagogical, psychological effect on them. In this regard, it is suggested that the process of placement in prisons must start from the expiry of the term of the convict's stay in the quarantine unit and end with the period of serving the sentence allotted by the legislator under the ordinary conditions. The paper presents the results of studying the adaptation of convicts in some prisons. This work on the adaptation of the convicts has a positive impact on their placement in prisons.


The Mirror Alignment Recovery System (MARS) is a Shack-Hartmann based sensor at the center of curvature (CoC) of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) spherical primary mirror used to align the 91 mirror segments. The instrument resides in a CoC tower next to the HET dome, a location which provides a challenging set of problems including wind shake and seeing from two different domes. The system utilizes an internal light source to illuminate the HET and a reference mirror to provide focused spot locations from a spherical surface. A custom lenslet array is sized to the HET pupil image, matching a single hexagonal lenslet to each mirror segment. Centroids of the HET mirror segment spots are compared to the reference spot locations to measure tip/tilt misalignments of each segment. A MARS proof-of-concept (POC) instrument, tested on the telescope in 2001, utilized a commercial wavefront sensor from Adaptive Optics Associates. The final system uses the same concept, but is customized for optimal performance on the HET. MARS replaces previous burst-antiburst alignment techniques and provides a more intuitive method of aligning the primary mirror for telescope operators. The POC instrument has improved median HET stack sizes by 0.3" EE50, measured at the CoC tower. The current alignment accuracy is 0.14" rms (0.28" rms on the sky), resolution is 0.014", measurement precision is 0.027" rms, and segment capture range is ± 5". With continuing improvements in HET dome ventilation and the addition of software customized for removal of tower motion during measurement, the alignment accuracy is expected to reach approximately 0.04" rms in the final MARS, to be installed in late 2002.