The study draws the attention of growers on the threat faced withering fruit trees because of the damage that can inflict the almond bark beetle Scolytus (Ruguloscolytus) amygdali GUERIN in almond, peach, apricot, plum, Cherry and even Apple trees. Rearings conducted in the laboratory show that the almond bark beetle grow on these species and lead to substantial losses.


By applying methods of investment appraisal, this paper offers a financial approach for determining the optimal level of segment-specific marketing activities and market development under the conditions of imperfect markets and uncertainty. Within the scope of marketing planning and controlling, the model is suited to optimizing an enterprise's market activities and taking interdependencies between market segments, production, and investments into account. Applying duality theory of linear programming allows for identifying the income determinants and deriving formulas for a correct valuation by using (corrected) net present values (NPVs). Under certain conditions, they can also be used to easily evaluate and financially interpret the effects of parameter changes. The author uses sensitivity analysis to support these findings and to obtain more information on the effects of these determinants.


Abstract 1. Habitat fragmentation is considered one of the major threats to invertebrate diversity in semi‐natural grassland. However, the effects of habitat fragmentation through mowing on the rich insect fauna of these grasslands have not been sufficiently investigated and experiments are especially rare.


Objective To observe the therapeutic effect of unrelated-donor peripheral blood stem cell transplantation(URD-PBSCT) for acute/chronic leukemia.Methods 49 patients with acute/chronic leukemia received HLA completely matched/mismatched URD-PBSCT following conditioning regimens with cyclophosphamide(Cy)/TBI in 28 cases or busulfan(Bu)/Cy in 21 cases and prophylactic preventing graft-versus-host disease(GVHD) with cyclosporine A(CsA)/methotrexate(MTX)/Mycophenolate mofetil(MMF)/ATG(Thymoglobuline) in 49 cases from January 2005 to October 2009.Results The median days for reaching of neutrophil 0.5×109/L and platelet 20×109/L were+14.8(range+10~+23) and+18.6(range+13~+27) respectively after transplantation.Grade II acute GVHD had happened in 14 patients and was controlled by prednisolone.Limited and extensive chronic GVHD had happened each in 28 cases.None developed VOD and CMV infection.Transplantation-related side effect was not different between two conditioning regimens.Follow-up period after transplantation was 5 ~63months,41patients were disease free survival,8patients died of relapse.The fusion gene bcr/abl changed into negative in 21 cases of chronic granulocytic leukemia.Conclusion URD-PBSCT is an effective approach for the treatment of hematological malignancies.


,n this thought provoking article, :illiam Riggs discusses the importance and principles of leadership, and how they can help eficiency, community satisfaction, and innovation in public planning and governance. Leadership in the public sector is more about creating an environment for success and unleashing the power of others.


The article deals with content of the first typewritten issue of "Student Scientific works Journal" as a historical document. The issue was prepared by 2-year students of the Biology and Soils Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)) on the basis of the biological summer practice. Data about science life of some journal's authors are given.


Statement of the problem . The quality of the finished steel products made from converter steel, in terms of reducing pollution with non-metallic inclusions, is largely determined by the oxygen content of a crude steel tapped from the converter in a casting ladle. Significant contamination of steel with non-metallic inclusions during deoxidization, carburization and alloying of the crude steel in the ladle negatively affects the subsequent thermal treatment of metal products. Decreasing of the crude steel oxidation is achieved in practice by improving the mixing of the converter bath by using a combined blowing: top oxygen blowing and a bottom blowing by neutral stirring gas. It is important to know how to place the tuyeres for neutral gas blowing at the bottom of the converter relative to the reaction zone formed in the upper part of the metal bath during impinging of the oxygen jets from above. For this purpose, by using the cold modelling, the organization of directed circulation streams in a converter bath under combined blowing has been studied, which contributes to the intensification of mixing of the bath with the decreasing of the crude steel oxidation. Conclusions. In order to increase the intensity of the circulation flows and to mix the converter bath with the elimination of stagnant zones, it is necessary, with a combined blowing, to blow a neutral blending gas through the tuyeres under the bases of the reaction zones formed by the impinging of the oxygen jets from the multi-nozzle lance into the bath.


In this letter, we obtain the exact bit error rate (BER) of the successive interference cancellation (SIC). Then, the relationship between SIC and the optimal multiuser detector is determined. Next, a nonlinear scheme is proposed to detect code division multiple access (CDMA) signals in the presence of unknown interferers. The proposed scheme is derived based on maximum entropy estimation of the probability density function (PDF). Analysis and simulation show that the BER performance of the proposed scheme approaches that of optimal multiuser detector and also \sic for low signal to interference ratio values.


Benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene and o-xylene degradation was evaluated under anoxic denitrifying conditions. These aromatic hydrocarbons were supplemented as single carbon sources or in dual or quaternary mixtures in order to identify key interactions during the degradation process. The results showed that toluene, together with ethyl-benzene, were the most readily biodegradable compounds under anoxic conditions among the aromatic compounds and their combinations tested. However, ethyl-benzene degradation time was significantly increased when combined with toluene as carbon source. Both benzene and o-xylene demonstrated to be highly recalcitrant compounds for anoxic denitrification, their degradation being rapidly inhibited likely as a result of the accumulation of toxic metabolites excreted during the degradation process. In this sense, mineral medium renewal was required to achieve complete degradation of these pollutants. Any combination of the aromatic compounds revealed an inhibitory interaction during the biodegradation process, an increase in the biodegradation time and therefore a decrease in pollutant degradation rates being observed upon addition of more than one compound.


The Institute of Race Relations has over the last twenty-three years been monitoring the 508 deaths in custody in suspicious circumstances of individuals from BME, migrant and refugee communities, which rarely make the headlines and for which no person is ever convicted (to be published as the report Dying for Justice). Here, in an extract, the author examines the culture of racism and the impact of privatisation and sub-contracting in the detention and deportation of 'failed' asylum seekers. In case after case it exposes how the vulnerable, mentally- and physically-ill are neglected – leading to deaths by self-harm and inadequate treatment. The death during deportation of Joy Gardner, which involved disproportionate and reckless use of force, is examined in depth. The use of equipment of control for those who are clearly fearful of being forcibly returned, remains a vexed issue.


Emotional intelligence (EI) is said to be a set of human abilities related to a person's perceiving, utilising, understanding and managing emotions (Mayer & Salovey, 1997). The increasing interest amongst researchers and practitioners alike in the role of emotions in the workplace has given rise to a line of research on the effect of EI in predicting employee well-being in work organisations. Within this body of research it is generally assumed that employees with high EI may also experience high well-being at work (e.g., Lopes, Grewal, Kadis, Gall, & Salovey, 2006). However, empirical findings in this respect are somewhat mixed. While some studies have identified a significant relationship between EI and work well-being (e.g., Brackett, Palomera, Mojsa-Kaja, Reyes, & Salovey, 2010), others have not found any such relationship (e.g., Livingstone & Day, 2005). Considering these inconclusive findings, some researchers (e.g., Fiori, 2009) have suggested that emotional abilities may only reflect an individual's effortful and controlled ways of dealing with emotions. Accordingly, the use of EI ability may need to be activated or motivated in order for it to have effect in real life. To date, however, few researchers have explored the factors that may elicit or inhibit the effect of EI on work-related affects and behaviours (e.g., Rode et al., 2007). The sparseness of theoretical and empirical insights in this regard, warrants further exploration. Accordingly, this study focusses on two specific personal factors Positive Affectivity (PA) and Individualism and examines how they may moderate the effect of EI on work


The invention provides a compound represented by a formula I, and an application thereof in preparing anti-tumor medicines. The substituent R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and X are defined as in the specifications.


Trajectory Prediction (TP) is fundamental in Air Traffic Management (ATM). This research focuses on TP for the execution phase of the flight. In contrast to exploit black-box machine learning-based solutions, we tackle TP as an estimation problem, resorting to mathematical tools arising from statistical signal processing. Our first goal is to find an optimal and robust 4D (3D space plus time) TP solution, and the real-time estimation of the aircraft's active guidance mode, observing flight data collected from Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), and transponder selective mode (Mode S) transmissions. Notice that this work is at a very early stage and only preliminary results are available. Keywords-component; Trajectory Prediction; Statistical Signal Processing; 4D-TP; Robustness; Guidance Mode Identification; ADSB and Mode S data.


Oil and gas are non-renewable types of natural resources. On the other hand, in the current era human dependence on oil and gas is very high. To meet Indonesia's national needs for natural resources, Article 33 of the Indonesian Constitution has mandated that "the earth, water and natural resources contained therein be controlled by the state for the greatest prosperity of the people." But in its development the distribution of welfare over natural resources, especially oil and gas, has not been able to be well distributed in Indonesia. The "Jakarta Sentris" concept is still the basis for distributing natural resources, especially oil and gas. This makes regions that are rich in natural resources not necessarily have prosperous people and not necessarily high-income areas. Therefore, legal reform is needed in the field of oil and gas management by regions in Indonesia.


The development and construction projects have led to a large number of artificial slopes and ecological damages.The ecological restoration has greatly accelerated the control process of soil erosion,and highlighted the great role of soil and water conservation in the construction of ecological environment.However,in some especially difficult sites,general ecological restoration technology can not work and meet the people's requirements.Therefore,the engineering revegetation technology for the difficult sites will be widely studied and applied.The concepts,technical systems and application types of the engineering revegetation technology are analyzed and discussed in this article.


This work presents results of test series, performed for earlier on designed and successfully fabricated silica few-mode microstructured optical fibers (MOF) with six GeO2-doped cores, induced twisting 100 revolutions per meter, typical "telecommunication" outer diameter 125 μm, core diameter 8.7 μm, air hole diameter 4.6 μm, pitch 7.2 μm, and core quasi-step / graded refractive index profiles with height 0.0360/0.0275, respectively. Part I introduces attempts for splicing of typical telecommunication optical fibers and fabricated samples of MOFs by commercially available field arc fusion splicer kits and results of differential mode delay map measurements, performed for laser excited large core (multimode) optical fibers with core diameters 50 and 100 μm, jointed via free space to described above 2 m long pilot samples of 6-GeO2-core MOFs at both receiving and transmitting ends under laser-excited gaussian optical pulse launching with precision offset conditions, while Part II is concerned with researches of spectral responses, measured for fiber Bragg gratings, recorded in these MOFs.


A fit-and-well 52-year-old worker, with negative familiar story, was admitted to Emergency Department (ED) with haemodynamically unstable but well bore broad complex tachycardia of 180 b.p.m. (Figure 1). Twenty years before the patient had heart-surgery to repair atrial septal venous sinus defect with patch. The defect determined anomalous pulmonary venous return in right atrium with left to right shunt and moderate pulmonary hypertension. The surgery, 20 years before, was complicated by a single event of supraventricular tachycardia pharmacology resolved. Next follow-up was normal although at transthoracic echocardiography severe right ventricular (RV) dilation was reported. In the ED the patient had palpitation but not chest pain or dyspnoea. General clinical examination was normal but he was hypertensive (170/137 mmHg) and with heart rate of 180 b.p.m. Valsalva manoeuver was performed and adenosine (6 mg–12 mg–12 mg) was administered without benefit. Eventually, the patient was cardioverted to sinus rhythm with a single 100 J shock. His baseline ECG (Figure 2) showed sinus rhythm, normal axis, as well as right bundle branch block and T-wave inversion in leads V1–V4 and a waves with a small spike upward in lead V1 which represent characteristic epsilon waves.
 Successively patient was admitted to Cardiology Department where transthoracic echocardiography showed severe RV dilation and moderate hypokinesia with a tricuspid annular plane excursion of 15 mm, TAV 9.6 cm/s, fractional area change of 29%. The right atrium was moderate dilated (volume 70 ml, indexed volume 35.53 ml/m2). Left chambers were normal. No shunts were observed. An electrophysiology study with isoprenaline infusion was performed but no arrhythmias were induced. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was normal save for global RV dilatation, increased RV end diastolic volume (156 ml/m2), and global RV systolic dysfunction (reduction of RV ejection fraction 31%). Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy was excluded as patient's background suggested RV dilation was due the overload caused by the history of left–right shunt. Blood tests and personal history negative initially exclude myocarditis and cardiac MRI confirmed the absence of oedema. An accurate ECG analysis excluded Brugada syndrome. Following discussion between electrophysiologists, clinical cardiologists, and the patient who first need to be informed, trans-venous ICD was implanted. 179 Figure 1ECG in ED.               Figure 2 Baseline ECG.                 Figure 3 Cardiac MRI.


Aromatic nitriles were synthesized through copper-catalyzed cyanations of aromatic bromides using benzoyl cyanide as the cyanide source. A series of functional groups were tolerated under the reaction conditions to provide the products in good yields. Moreover, this protocol avoids using of highly toxic alkali cyanides and expensive palladium catalysts.


Keith Beattie, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Visiting Research Fellow in Film and Visual culture, ANU A PENETRATING EYE: THE MICROPHOTOGRAPHY OF JEAN PAINLEVÉ According to Gaston Bachelard, '[t]he destiny of every image is magnification.' Béla Belász reinforced the importance of magnification when he argued that via the camera and image enlargement 'hitherto unknown objects and events [are revealed]: the adventures of beetles in a wilderness of blades of grass...the erotic battles of flowers and the poetry of miniature landscapes.' If, then, as Bachelard claims, magnification is the fate of the image, 'only [magnified] images of nature', as Belász insists, 'bear the convincing stamp of unquestionable authentic reality.' The connections between image magnification and such a documentary reality are integral to the microphotography of Jean Painlevé (1902-1989). Painlevé's combination of the familiar and the exotic within magnified images of various species, particularly marine organisms, contributes to an expansion of the realm of the visible through representations of the normally unseen. This paper situates the 'penetrating eye' of Painlevé's microphotography in relation to the long history of 'theatrical' and entertaining uses of microscopy and microphotography, and the rigorous and measured applications of microscopy in science. More specifically, Painlevé's microphotography is situated within and against the contexts of documentary photography and early twentieth century French Surrealism; particularly the version promulgated by Georges Bataille in his short-lived journal Documents. The resultant 'Surrealist documentary' effect of Painlevé's images is summarised in Raymond Durgnant's assessment that 'attitudes usually kept stiffly apart – Surrealism + science, modernism + ultramodernism' are aligned and reconciled by Painlevé. This paper explores these intersections and examines the ways in which Painlevé's microphotography can be used to rethink Surrealist and documentary photography, and the representation of nature. Leonard Bell, Department of Art History, The University of Auckland 'PASSAGES: NEW SOCIAL SPACES AND THE WORK OF MIGRANT CENTRAL EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHERS IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE MID TWENTIETH CENTURY' This paper has several intertwined concerns: photography and cross-cultural interactions; the ways photographic practices can travel, and the value in the writing photographic histories of detailed investigations and close 'readings' of photographs in their particular socio-cultural contexts of production and use. Peter Osborne claimed that 'all of exile's manifestations involve a crisis in the experience and representation of space and its meanings' (Traveling Light, 2000). That proposition will be explored in the work of two photographers, who came to New Zealand as refugees from Nazism: Frank Hofmann from Czechoslovakia and Irene Koppel from Germany. One photograph by each will be focused on in terms of the complexities and problematics of spatialities – that is, not just of physical


This paper describes the applications area of computer programs that carry out formal algebraic manipulation. The first part of the paper is tutorial and severed typical problems are introduced which can be solved using algebraic manipulative systems. Sample programs for the solution of these problems using several algebra systems are then presented. Next, two more difficult examples are used to introduce the reader to the true capabilities of an algebra program and these are proposed as a means of comparison between rival algebra systems. A brief review of the technical problems of algebraic manipulation is given in the final section


Downstream - On Biblical hermeneutics in the context of the recent Anglo-Saxon debate This paper, delivered at the 2000 meeting of the Rudolf Bultmann Society at Hofgeismar in Germany, offers a survey of recent developments in literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Contributions to the systematic reflection on issues relevant for theology are also considered and the author's own proposal is outlined. It is argued that the hermeneutic character of theology remains necessary in the Christian tradition. This is, however, not founded on the proposition of the linguistic nature of revelation, but on the fact that theology is the reflective human speaking about God.


We summarized new Research progress in the etiology and pathogenesis、syndrome differentiation、drug therapy and acupuncture treatment to Hyperlipidemia in this article.


Significance: The development of new separation strategies based on host-guest chemistry are of current interest for the purification of valued products from petroleum feedstocks. Herein, the authors report a tetrahedral Fe4L4 capsule that can selectively separate coronene from a mixture of eight polyaromatics, including anthracene, phenanthrene, pyrene, chrysene, triphenylene, perylene, and corannulene. Comment: The Fe4L4 cage undergoes anion-metathesis-driven phase transfer that allows the selective encapsulation of coronene from a mixture of polyaromatics in nitromethane, bringing it into a new nitromethane phase by transiting through an intermediate aqueous phase. The complexed coronene was released from the capsule upon addition of benzene, and both the cage and the purified coronene can be easily separated via further phase separation. N


Transition condition for executing the transition process to the manner mode in the memory 42 (schedule, location, moving status) stores. CPU33 is an indication of whether to shift to the manner mode based on the transition condition stored in the memory 42 requests the user, the user instruction whether the proceeds to the manner mode in response to the request accepted from, when receiving from the user an instruction to shift to the manner mode, it performs a control for shifting the mode of the portable telephone 1 to the manner mode.


The compositions of the diet of the two hake species Merluccius paradoxus and M. capensis are described and compared for the area off Namibia between 20°S and the Orange River and 100–450 m depth. The main constituents of the diet of both species are small crustaceans, fish and cephalopods, the relative importance of each item varying both geographically and seasonally according to availability of the prey, thus illustrating the opportunistic nature of hake feeding. Daily feeding activity of M. capensis was studied during eight 24-h cycles, and it seemed that predation on crustaceans and myctophids took place mainly during daylight. Values of food intake for a 90-d period were estimated for three length classes of M. capensis, and the results demonstrate the importance of hake as a predator in the marine ecosystem off Namibia.


This work reports some recent advances in diffraction theory by canonical shapes like wedges or cones with impedancetype boundary conditions. Our basic aim in the present paper is to demonstrate that functional difference equations of the second order deliver a very natural and efficient tool to study such a kind of problems.† To this end we consider two problems: diffraction of a normally incident plane electromagnetic wave by an impedance wedge whose exterior is divided into two parts by a semi-infinite impedance sheet and diffraction of a plane acoustic wave by a right-circular impedance cone. In both cases the problems can be formulated in a traditional fashion as boundary-value problems of the scattering theory. For the first problem the Sommerfeld-Malyuzhinets technique enables one to reduce it to a problem for a vectorial system of functional Malyuzhinets equations. Then the system is transformed to uncoupled second-order functional difference-equations (SOFDE) for each of the unknown spectra. In the second problem the incomplete separation of variables leads directly to a functional difference-equation of the second order. Hence, it is remarkable that in both cases the key † For a thorough and up-to-date overview of the scattering and diffraction in general the readers are referred to a special section of the journal "Radio Science" edited by Uslenghi [1]. 240 Zhu and Lyalinov mathematical tool is an SOFDE which is an analog of a second-order differential equation with variable coefficients. The latter is reducible to an integral equation which is known to be the most traditional tool for its solution. It has recently been recognised that reducing SOFDEs to integral equations is also one of the most efficient approaches for their study. The integral equations which are developed for the problems at hand are both of the second kind and obey Fredholm property. In the problem of diffraction by a wedge the generalised Malyuzhinets function is exploited on the preliminary step then "inversion" of a simple difference operator with constant coefficients leads to an integral equation of the second kind. The corresponding integral operator is represented as a sum of the identical operator and a compact one [2]. However, in the second problem the situation is slightly different: the integral operator can be represented by a sum of the boundedlyinvertible (Dixon's operator) and compact operators. This situation was earlier considered by Bernard in his study of diffraction by an impedance cone, and important advances have been made (see [3–6]). The Fredholm property is crucial for the elaboration of different numerical schemes. In our cases we exploited direct numerical approaches based on the quadrature formulae and computed the farfield asymptotics for the problems at hand. Various numerical results are demonstrated and discussed. 1. DIFFRACTION BY AN IMPEDANCE WEDGE WITH A SEMI-INFINITE IMPEDANCE SHEET ATTACHED TO ITS EDGE This section deals with diffraction of a normally incident plane wave in a wedge-shaped region which consists of an impedance wedge and a semi-infinite impedance sheet joint at the edge of the wedge. The looked-for fields on both sides of the impedance sheet are expressed in terms of the Sommerfeld integrals. Inserting the Sommerfeld integrals into the boundary conditions on the faces of the wedge and across the impedance sheet, and inverting the resultant expressions, one obtains a system of difference equations for the spectra. Eliminating one of the spectra leads to a functional difference-equation of higher order. The latter can be converted by means of a recently developed technique for second-order functional difference-equations into an equivalent integral expression. For points located on the imaginary axis of the complex angle α the integral expression turns out to be an integral equation of the second kind which permits an efficient solution by use of quadrature Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 6, 2008 241 method. From evaluation of the Sommerfeld integrals by virtue of the saddle-point method a first-order uniform asymptotic solution follows. The results to be given below follow the same line as [2, 7]. Therefore, the following exposition is confined to main steps and the readers are referred to [2, 7] for details. 1.1. Statement of the Problem Figure 1 depicts the scattering obstacle. For convenience, a cylindrical co-ordinate system (r, φ, z) is chosen in such a way that the edge of the wedge and one rim of the semi-infinite impedance sheet coincide with the z-axis, the wedge faces and the impedance sheet are half-planes given by φ = ±Φ and φ = Φ0 with 0 < Φ ≤ π. In the following, it is assumed that 0 ≥ Φ0 ≥ −Φ. Figure 1. Diffraction of a normally incident plane wave in a wedgeshaped region. A plane wave impinges perpendicularly on the edge from the direction φ = φ0 with Φ0 < φ0 < Φ assumed in this study. The alternative case can be dealt with analogously. The incident electric field oscillates along the edge of the wedge-shaped region and is given by (a time-dependence e−iωt is assumed and suppresed in this section) E z (r, φ) = E0 exp [−ikr cos(φ− φ0)] , (1) where E0 is the amplitude of the incident wave. 242 Zhu and Lyalinov This incident wave will be scattered by the obstacle. Owing to the translational symmetry of both the incident wave and the wedgeshaped region with respect to the z-axis, the boundary value problem is a two-dimensional one and the total electric field has only one component Ez(r, φ). In the region surrounding the wedge and the sheet, Ez obeys the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. On the faces of the wedge φ = ±Φ, the boundary conditions to be met by Ez read 1 r ∂ ∂φ Ez ∓ i k η± Ez = 0, (2) η±Z0 being the surface impedance of the upper (lower) wedge face and Z0 the intrinsic impedance of the surrounding medium. The electric property of the impedance sheet is given by ys/Z0, the shunt admittance. On the impedance sheet at φ = Φ0, Ez is subjected to the semi-transparency conditions [8]: [ 1 r ∂ ∂φ Ez ]+ − [ 1 r ∂ ∂φ Ez ]− + i k ys 2 [E z + E − z ] = 0, [E z − E− z ] = 0. (3) Furthermore, Ez must satisfy the Meixner's edge condition Ez = O(1) as r → 0 and the radiation conditions [9] (see also [10]). 1.2. Higher-Order Functional Difference-Equation According to Sommerfeld, the solution can be constructed through a superposition of plane waves


A new method for estimating the palatability of rodenticides is introduced. It is describing the palatability by a linear regression equation in which the acceptance co-efficient is taken as the ordinate(x) and the logarithm of concentrations of the roden-ticide in baits as the abscissa(Y). The advantage of this method is that the trend of variation of the palatability of baits caused by the concentration changes can be refle-cted. The method is demonstrated with two rodenticides, zinc phosphide and vitamin D3. The correlation coefficient determination shows that there exists a very significa-nt negative correlation between the acceptance coefficient and the logarithm concentra-tion for zinc phosphide (r= -0.8923, p0.001) and the absolute value of the correla-tion coefficient is slightly less than it should be if statistically significant(p= 0.05) for vitamin D3,so it can be considered that the vitamin D3 is better than zinc phos-phide in palatability or rodent acceptance. And the regression calculation shows that the regression equation for zinc phosphide is:
Y = 0.4153-0.2541X.
In addition, the results show that a minimum of the applicable concentration is 0.1% and the optimum is 0.2% for vitamin Ds but the two are one, i.e. 2% for zinc phosphide.


Eucommia ulmoides leaf and green tea were used as the raw materials to develop a beverage. With the concentration of flavonoids as the index,the technology of extracting Eucommia ulmoides leaf was determined,and by orthogonal experiments, the optimal processing conditions for the beverage were found out. The launching of the beverage helps to make full use of local natural resources and add new beverages to the market.


ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING ASPECTS OF THE 1996 US presidential election was the evident inverse relationship between the results that year and those of the election contested exactly one hundred years earlier. Most of the states won by Bill Clinton were carried by the Republican William McKinley in 1896, while nearly all the states won by Bob Dole were those carried by William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate. In 1896 there were 45 states, and of them 28 were won by the Democrats and 17 by the Republicans in the 1996 presidential election. Twenty-one of the 28 Democratic states in 1996 (or 75 per cent of the total) had been Republican a hundred years earlier; 15 of the 17 Republican states in 1996 (or 88 per cent of the total) went for the Democrats in 1896. This impression of the two election years being mirror images of each other, at least so far as the pattern of presidential results is concerned, is even more evident when looking at the distribution of Electoral College (EC) votes. (The five states created since 1896 are omitted from the entire discussion.) Of the 358 EC votes the 282 that went to the Democrats were from 'McKinley states', and they constitute 78 per cent of the Democrat total. In the case of the Republicans, 133 out of 148 EC votes were from 'Bryanite states' - that is 90 per cent of the 1996 Republican EC vote.


Purpose
Familiar identity theft, which occurs when an individual known to a victim steals his/her identity, is a common problem in the USA. The purpose of this study was to understand familiar identity theft victims' reporting behaviors using Black's (1976) theory of law as a conceptual framework.

Design/methodology/approach
Data were obtained from the 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 administrations of the National Crime Victimization Survey – Identity Theft Supplement. A series of cross-tabulations were conducted to examine the relationship between reporting behaviors and age, minority, gender, income, marital status and education. Fisher's exact test was used to interpret the findings.

Findings
Key findings include older familiar identity theft victims who personally lost greater sums of money because of identity theft victimization were more likely to report to law enforcement than younger familiar identity theft victims who personally lost less money. Married familiar identity theft victims were less likely to report to law enforcement than those who were not married.

Originality/value
This study extends the work of Golladay (2017) to explore the reporting behaviors of a population of identity theft victims that have been largely overlooked in empirical literature.


The commercially available 2,2'-dipyridylamine was used as a supporting ligand in the palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction. The reactions between aryl iodides and terminal alkynes with different steric hindrance can be efficiently performed in the absence of copper in neat water at room temperature. The superior catalytic performance of the catalytic system was attributed to water solubility of the palladium 2,2'-dipyridylamine complex. Palladium nanoparticles with small size and narrow size distribution were formed after the cross-coupling reaction.


Automated computational tools are needed to estimate the position of a slice of interest within a contiguous stack of slices. Such estimation is useful to retrieve relevant slices from a volume of slices in clinical analysis or it can be used as an initialization step to other post-processing and image analysis techniques. In this paper, we present a novel method to determine the location of a slice of interest within a given volume by formulating it as a regression problem. The input variables for the regression are obtained from simple intensity features computed from a pyramid representation of the slice. We assess the performance of the proposed method by comparing the estimated positions of slices of interest in CT data with manual annotations. Our method was validated on a dataset of 45 volumes and promising results were obtained for 5 different target slices, the average error being 2 slices.


In this paper we challenge the Optionality Criterion that goes with Recanati (2010)'s philosophical position called 'Truth-Conditional Pragmatics' (TCP). According to this criterion, any primary pragmatic process of interpretation other than saturation of context-sensitive expressions is intrinsically optional. This sense of 'optional' opposes a notion of mandatory which is too strict in so far as saturation, the only process considered as obligatory, does not always provide us with minimal propositions. This leads us to reconsider the notion of mandatory and to reformulate the core tenet of TCP in the following way: some primary pragmatic processes of modulation may have an optional demand but this does not avoid that on other occasions the same processes may be mandatorily demanded.


This article aims to examine the act of sound sensation in John Tavener Work (1944-2013) following the idea of logic of sensation created by Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and phenomenology of the body Xavie Zubiri (1898-1983). Through the concepts of from both philosophers it might be possible to draw the sound experience of vibration that proposes the sacred art of minimalism in the Anglo- Saxon composer.


ABSTRACT The present study aimed to examine the influence of facilitating conditions on the effectiveness of a Virtual Community of Practice. To do so, we first analysed the influence of facilitating conditions on the effectiveness of a Virtual Community of Practice. Second, we examined the mediating role of a sense of virtual community between facilitating conditions and effectiveness. Finally, we tested the moderating role of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use in this relationship. The sample was composed of 110 employees of an NGO who used an intranet platform to create, share, store, and use knowledge about their practice. Results showed that facilitating conditions had a positive influence on effectiveness, and that a sense of virtual community partially mediated this relationship. We also found that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use moderated the effects of facilitating conditions on effectiveness through a sense of virtual community. The manuscript concludes with theoretical and practical implications of the study.


Observations have shown that the Eddington ratios (the ratio of the bolometric luminosity to the Eddington luminosity) in QSOs/active galactic nuclei (AGNs) cover a wide range. In this paper we connect the demography of AGNs obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with the accretion physics around massive black holes and propose that the diversity in the Eddington ratios is a natural result of the long-term evolution of accretion disks in AGNs. The observed accretion rate distribution of AGNs in the nearby universe is consistent with the predictions of simple theoretical models in which the accretion rates evolve in a self-similar way. We also discuss the implications of the results for the issues related to self-gravitating disks, coevolution of galaxies and QSOs/AGNs, and the unification picture of AGNs. Subject headings: black hole physics — accretion, accretion disks — galaxies: active — galaxies: evolution


An Integrated Methodology For OptimizingStructural Composite DampingD.A. Saravanos*, and C.C. Cbamis**National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLewis Reserch CenterCleveland, Ohio 44135ABSTRACTA method is presented for tailoring plate and shell composite structures for optimalforced damped dynamic response. The damping of specific vibration modes is optimizedwith respect to dynamic performance criteria including placement of natural frequenciesand minimization of resonance amplitudes. The structural composite damping is synthe-sized from the properties of the constituent materials, laminate parameters, and structuralgeometry based on a specialty finite eIement. Application studies incIude the optimiza-tion of laminated composite beams and composite shei1s with/_ber voIume ratios and plyangles as design variabIes. The results illustrate the signit_cance of damping tailoring tothe dynamic performance of composite structures, and the effectiveness of the method inoptimizing the structural dynamic response.INTRODUCTIONFiber composite materials are broadly utilized in light-weight structures, as they read-ily provide superior specific modulus and strength. In addition to stiffness and strength,polymer-matrix composite materials provide higher material damping than most metals be-cause of their "viscoelastic" matrix and heterogeneity. High specific stiffness and strengthare sufficient conditions for improved static performance, but they do not always ensureimproved dynamic performance. Passive structural damping is also a crucial dynamic prop-erty in vibration and sound control, as it generalJy improves resonance phenomena, settlingtimes, and fatigue life. Composite materials are primarily targeted for structures requir-ing good dynamic performance, such as engine, aircraft, and space structures. Therefore,the inherent damping capacity of composites becomes a significant design factor, makingpolymer-matrix fiber composites even more attractive as structural materials.*National Research Council--NASA Research Associate.**Senior Research Scientist.


The present paper investigates the comparative study of stress among adolescent of class 12 th . The sample consisted of 1200(600 boys and 600 girls) students, Further subdivided into private and government student of Raipur in around the areas. There were student belong to different subject stream like Art, Commerce and sciences. The data were collected from different area of Raipur (Chhattisgarh). Using t-test and oneway ANOVA statistical technique. The finding revealed that the stress experienced by both girls and boys adolescents.


In Reply.— I think that Dr Conn's comments on my response to the question on infrequent defecation or Hirschsprung's disease are not supported by others who have written about disorders in the passage of stools in infants. The first paragraph specifically states that the spontaneous passage of large soft stools is unusual for Hirschsprung's disease. I discussed this disorder in some detail to address the specific questions raised by the corresponding physician. In my experience, the absence of abdominal distention has not proved to be a reliable sign to exclude Hirschsprung's disease in children with unusual difficulty with defecation. Certainly no pediatrician would oppose performing a sweat test on any child with malodorous stools, although a weight gain of 3 kg in four months would make this diagnosis an unlikely explanation. Of note, the first recommendation for infrequent stooling was that adequate fluid intake be provided. The other recommendations were


Punish recidivists with increased sentences is explicitly promulgated in many countries' penal codes.However,in China,no full concern has been given to the fact of high rate and cruelty of crimes committed by recidivists.There has been few countermeasures against recidivists in our criminal policy,and the relevant provisions in the criminal law fail to fight against recidivists effectively,hence punishing recidivists with more severe punishment is strongly suggested.


A 13 psi pressure perturbation occurred at approximately 68 seconds on the right Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor (RSRM) during the STS-54 space shuttle mission. While pressure perturbations are a normal characteristic of RSRM operation, the magnitude of the STS-54 perturbation and the resulting thrust imbalance between the left and right motors was outside of flight experience. A joint Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and Thiokol Corporation (RSRM manufacturer) team soon narrowed the probable cause to a temporary nozzle restriction due to slag expulsion. In support of the team, Rockwell Aerospace performed fluid finite element simulations and vehicle flight dynamic correlations to investigate possible slag expulsion mechanisms responsible for pressure perturbations. Results of the simulations and analyses provided evidence that the combination of flight induced accelerations acting on accumulated slag and nozzle vectoring were the most probable cause of RSRM slag expulsion.


Objective
To investigate the effect of repeated application of low-frequency transcranial magne-tic stimulation (rTMS) when combined with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) in the treatment non-fluent aphasia after a stroke.

Methods
Forty-eight stroke survivors with non-fluent aphasia were randomly assigned to a control group, an HBO group or an observation group, each of 16. All received conventional rehabilitation therapy consisting of drug therapy, speech training and conventional physical exercises, while the HBO and observation groups were additionally given HBO and rTMS combined with HBO respectively. The 1 Hz rTMS was applied over the Broca′s homologues of the unaffected hemisphere. Before and after 4 weeks of treatment, the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) was used to evaluate the subjects′ language function and the Modified Barthel Index (MBI) was used to assess their ability in the activities of daily living.

Results
There was no significant difference in the average WAB scores among the three groups before the treatment. After 4 weeks of treatment the average WAB and MBI scores of the HBO group and the observation group had improved significantly, and there was then a significant difference among the three groups. The observation group was performing significantly better than the HBO group and the control group in spontaneous speech, auditory comprehension, repetition, naming, AQ score and MBI score. Pairwise comparisons showed that the observation group′s average WAB score, spontaneous speech, auditory comprehension, repetition, naming, AQ score and MBI score were the best, followed by those of the HBO group and then those of the control group. All of the differences were statistically significant.

Conclusions
Low-frequency rTMS combined with HBO can significantly improve the language function and the quality of life of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Such combined therapy is worthy of clinical promotion and application.

Key words:
Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Hyperbaric oxygen; Stroke; Non-fluent aphasia


This article examines the work situation of persons with disabilities—their employment rates, the strength of their connection to the labor force, the terms with which they are hired, and the specific conditions of their jobs. The article is based on an analysis of the California Work and Health Survey, a telephone survey designed to be representative of the adult population in California. The survey, conducted annually for 3 years beginning in 1998, combines the features of Federal labor market surveys, such as the Current Population Survey and its supplements, with health surveys like the National Health Interview Survey, thereby allowing the two kinds of information to be integrated into a single data source. The California Work and Health Survey was initiated in June 1998 with 1,771 respondents, interviewed in English or Spanish. Respondents were selected from a random digit dialing sample of Californians aged 18 or older, with oversamples of person with disabilities, African-Americans, and Asians and Pacific Islanders. The 1999 survey included interviews with 2,040 adults in the State, of whom 909 were part of the 1998 survey and another 1,131 were new respondents, including oversamples of African-Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders, persons with disabilities, and persons aged 45 to 70 years. The 2000 survey included interviews with 2,168 California adults, of whom 627 were part of the 1998 and 1999 surveys, 638 were part of the 1999 Disability and the characteristics of employment


Large length-diameter ratio peg-in-hole assembly is a hard and significant issue in modern industry. The prediction and control of the contact force/torque play a crucial part in flexible assembly. They ensure that the contact force/torque data are within limits in assembly process, which can prevent jam and protect devices. In this paper, we propose a novel contact force/torque prediction and analysis model to solve the large length-diameter ratio peg-in-hole assembly problem in which the contact states are difficult to be obtained. Firstly, we establish a new force/torque prediction model with measured data to obtain the precision actual contact force/torque which is critical for assembly control. Then, a new contact analysis model for large length-diameter ratio peg-in-hole assembly is built to estimate the assembly contact states. At last, based on the proposed contact force/torque prediction and analysis model, we design a robot pose adjustment strategy for large length-diameter ratio peg-in-hole assembly. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed model can meet the demands of large length-diameter ratio peg-in-hole assembly. The predicted error rates of force/torque are lower than 1 % and the mean force/torque in assembly process are lower than 5 N / 0.5 N.m by our model.


the selections because the source materials, unlike those of the succeeding decade, were spared destruction at the time of Japan's surrender. The wealth of primary materials makes this era particularly fruitful for serious study. Four chapters, primarily the excellent work of Hatano, deal with the critical period from the Manchurian Incident through Japan's surrender (1931—1945). By discarding the "fifteen years war" interpretation, Hatano's periodization challenges the validity of that staple of Japanese Marxist interpretation. His scheme, however, allows the historian to isolate the Pacific War instead of integrating it into a larger, East Asian context. The war did, after all, stretch from the borders of India to the Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, and Australia. Periodization, then, is not a closed issue, but open for innovative research and reassessment. In the final chapter, Iokibe Makoto, Hosoya Masahiro, and Asada examine the literature of the Allied Occupation of Japan. Their essay focuses on the state of Japanese scholarship and prospects for future comparative studies and macrolevel analysis of the years between 1945 and 1952. An addendum to the accompanying bibliography lists recent important publications up to 1987 on the subject. In general terms, the essays and bibliographies acknowledge Japan's Marxist historians, but downplay their role in advancing historiography. For instance, Rekishigaku kenkyukai's 1972 edition of Taibeiyo sensosbi series is not a rehash of the 1956 edition. It is a whole new approach derived from extensive research in basic documents. Surely Fujiwara Akira's work, notably the stimulating Taibeiyo sensoshiron, merits more than a bibliographic entry. There are inevitable lacunae. For example, not all the titles cited in the bibliography are translated. This leaves a nonspecialist wondering what Mansbu kenkoku jiinenshi or Mantetsu means (p. 63). Consistency of organization fluctuates; one contributor gives all titles, while the next gives only the author and number keyed to the accompanying bibliography; still others give both types of citations. Brief summaries or conclusions for all the essays would have been helpful. These cavils aside, this volume stands as an enormous contribution to the field of modern Japanese studies. My selfish wish is that it had been available twenty years earlier. Today it offers us new lenses and a fresh perspective in which to view the epoch. One hopes it stimulates non-Japan specialists to consider cooperative efforts. Far more likely, it should encourage a new generation of Japan specialists to mine this rich seam of Japanese intellectual thought in order to reassess the dynamic, sometimes violent, and still unfolding international relations of Imperial Japan.


The elimination of lead in electronics assembly has presented challenges on the process. During the conventional eutectic tin-lead solder reflow process, the delamination of the interface between the leadframe pad and the encapsulant has been found to be a precursor to the popcorning of plastic IC packages. The melting point of lead-free solder is more than 30-40/spl deg/C higher than that of eutectic tin-lead solder, which will require much higher peak reflow temperatures. Compared with the delamination during conventional lead-containing solder reflow process, the delamination problem would be expected to become more severe during a lead-free solder reflow process as the process temperature is higher and the thermo-mechanical stress caused by the CTE mismatch is larger than those during a eutectic solder reflow process. In this paper the entire thermal and moisture history of a plastic IC package is simulated from the start of level 1 moisture preconditioning to subsequent exposure to a lead-free solder reflow process lasting about 8 minutes. The transient development of the strain energy release rate due to thermal stress only G/sub t/, hygrostress only G/sub h/, vapor pressure only G/sub p/ and combined total strain energy release rate G/sub tot/ are computed and studied using the modified crack surface displacement extrapolation method (MCSDEM). Finite element models were constructed for a 160-leaded PQFP package. The initial crack length was varied from 0.1 mm to 3.5 mm to study the effect of crack size on the relative contributions of G/sub t/, G/sub h/ and G/sub p/.


Beginning with an analysis of a landmark article in an American law journal, this study describes the growth of claims to a right to privacy in Britain and contrasts the nature of the British and American interpretations of the precedents of this right.


The comber alphavirus was isolated from a fish cell line from the brain of an apparently healthy Serranus cabrilla specimen collected during wild fish surveillance in southern Italy. The comber alphavirus is a new member of the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae. ABSTRACT The comber alphavirus was isolated from a fish cell line from the brain of an apparently healthy Serranus cabrilla specimen collected during wild fish surveillance in southern Italy. The comber alphavirus is a new member of the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae.


The meter management system by B/S mode based on J2EE was introduced. This system which includes the function of data input,data inquiry,data revision,data report and so on unified managed the province's electric meter. Taking into account the performance and characteristic of the system,it was developed using Model—View—Controller framework pattern. And in the meantime every logic layer was developed using all kinds of design pattern,design wisdom and experience to improve the design. At last,it discusses the guiding and reference significance of the system.


SirNeurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is a rare (1:40 000) autosomal domi-nant disease that is caused by mutations of the NF2tumoursuppressor gene. NF2 is characterized by benign nervous systemtumours such as vestibular schwannomas (VSs), intracranialmeningiomas and spinal tumours. Kondziolka et al (1998)reported the outcomes of radiosurgery for unilateral sporadic VSs,but NF2 patients were excluded and follow-up was limited. Theconsequences of radiosurgery for histologically benign NF2tumours merit study due to the mutagenic potential of ionizingradiation. Somatic mutation could contribute to the transformationor acceleration of existing tumours, and to the development ofsecondary tumours, because NF2 patients have an inactivatedgerm-line NF2allele. Ionizing radiation is known to have sucheffects in hereditary retinoblastoma (Wong et al, 1997). Weconducted this study because the prevalence of, and risk factorsfor, malignant nervous system tumours in NF2 are unknown.We surveyed genetics, otolaryngology and neurology/neuro-surgery centres in North America and Europe with a total of 1348NF2 patients. There were nine malignant nervous system tumoursin the estimated 1242 NF2 patients who did not have previousradiosurgery. This prevalence of 725 per 10


Important tables. Preface xi. Acknowledgements. Symbols and abbreviations. Part 1 BEHAVIOUR OF STRUCTURES. 1 Introduction. 2 Loads on buildings and structures. 3 Concurrent coplanar forces. 4 Non-concurrent coplanar forces. 5 Moments of forces. 6 Framed structures. 7 Construction materials. 8 Shear force and bending moment. 9 Properties of sections. Part 2 UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURAL DESIGN. 10 Introduction to structural stability, durability and environmental conditions. 11 Simple beam design. 12 Beams of two materials. 13 Deflection of beams. 14 Axially loaded columns. 15 Connections. 16 Addition of direct and bending stress. 17 Portal frames and arches. 18 Gravity retaining walls.


We present a spectroscopy technique to measure temperature locally in a polydimethylsiloxane micro-optofluidic chip with integrated optical fibers and minimal optical components. The device was fabricated in one step with fiber coupler grooves followed by the manual integration of the optical fibers. The experimental setup consists of a micro-optofluidic chip with a pair of optical fibers for excitation and fluorescence collection, a laser module, and a spectrometer. The laser module is coupled to one of the optical fibers to guide the light into the microchannel. The fluorescence signal is collected by a second integrated optical fiber placed orthogonally. A spectroscopy technique is used to measure the local temperature in a microchannel (500 μm wide and 125 μm in height) using Rhodamine B as a temperature indicator. It is shown that for a flow rate between 200 and 400 μL/min, the local temperature can be determined.


Microstructuring is an effective strategy to manipulate the active sites of electrocatalysts to improve their performance, but there are few reports that focus on continuous three-dimensional (3D) ...


In order to eliminate the mutual-inductance between the current wire and voltage wire in the measurement of grounding impedance,this article presents a calculation method to eliminate the affect of the mutual-inductance.The Daxuecheng 110 k V substation is measured,and the mutual-inductance between the voltage line and the current line is compared with the testing results. The resistive and the inductive components of the Daxuecheng 110 k V substation grounding system are analyzed.


This paper proposes a method for achieving accurate ego-vehicle global localization with respect to an approaching intersection; the method is based on the data alignment of the information from two input systems: a Sensorial Perception system, on-board of the ego-vehicle, and an a priori digital map. For this purpose an Extended Digital Map is proposed that contains the detailed information about the intersection infrastructure: detailed landmarks accurately measured and positioned on the map. The data alignment mechanism is thus based on superimposing the sensorial detected landmarks with the corresponding, correctly positioned map landmarks stored in the new Extended Digital Map. The data Alignment Algorithm requires as input, beside the information from the two input systems, the ego-vehicle driving lane. This information is inferred by using a probabilistic approach in the form of a Bayesian Network; the uncertain and noisy character of the sensorial data require such a probabilistic approach in the quest of the ego-lane.


This paper introduces the mechanism, technological characteristics of hot metal desulphurization technology with granular magnesium, factors to influence desulphurization results as well as its application in WISCO.


Zn~(2+)/chitosan composite film had been prepared by adding Zn(Ac)_2·2H_2O into chitosan solu- tion and ZnO was grown on Zn~(2+)/chitosan composite film through chemical solution deposition method. The resulting samples were characterized by FFIR,XRD,AFM and SEM.The results show that in the sur- rounding of chemical solution,a ZnO nanoparticle film was formed on the surface of Zn~(2+)/chitosan com- posite film,then some ZnO nanoparticles grown into ZnO nanorods unorientedly with the hexagonal wurtzite structure and the length of 0.5~2μm.Moreover,certain angles were existed between ZnO nanorods and surface of Zn~(2+)/chitosan composite film.The greater the quantity of Zn~(2+),the more easily ZnO nanorods grew on the surface of Zn~(2+)/chitosan composite film,and the stronger the interaction between ZnO nanop- article and Zn~(2+).


A sward of perennial ryegrass was either directly ensiled at 181 g dry matter (DM) per kg fresh weight with formic acid applied at 3·6 1/t fresh material or wilted for 65 h to achieve a DM concentration of 407 g DM per kg. Physical and respiration loss were measured in the field and losses during ensiling were estimated from buried bags. The silages were offered to 58 British Friesian steers, initially 3 months of age and 101 kg live weight (LW). Ten steers were allocated to an initial slaughter group and the remainder were offered the two silages either ad libitum or at two restricted levels of feeding. These animals were slaughtered after a mean period of 112 days to estimate the increments in the components of the body. Loss of DM in the field increased from 4·3 to 86·6 g/kg on wilting and proportionately 0·75 of this additional loss was due to respiration. The fermentation characteristics of the silages were broadly similar except that the concentration of ethanol was higher in the unwilted than in the wilted silage (57·6 v . 5·6 g/kg DM). Losses of DM during ensiling were slightly higher with the unwilted (104·4 g/kg ensiled) than with the wilted (80·1 g/kg) material. Losses of nitrogen were relatively higher and energy losses lower than was the loss of DM. Wilting significantly depressed the digestibility of gross energy from 0·651 to 0·631 ( P ad libitum level steers ate proportionately 006 more wilted silage ( P > 0·05) resulting in similar intakes of digestible energy. At the ad libitum level of feeding steers given wilted silage gained more LW (+55 g/day) and empty-body weight (+64 g/day) than those given unwilted silage ( P


Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski, one of the most prominent Polish writers of the nineteenth century, was associated with Polish, Belarussian and Ukrainian Polesie for a long time in his life. This economically poor region was characterized by isolation from other parts of Eastern Europe and, also, by considerable religious and ethnic multiculturalism. In terms of religion, Eastern Christianity predominated there, and from the national point of view – the peasant population called Ruthenians. A characteristic feature for Polesie in the nineteenth century was a very slow pace of socio-economic changes. In the literary texts by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski about Polesie we can find many references to the economic and social stagnation in this area. Kraszewski, to some extent, blamed for this very conservative Eastern Christianity upheld in the traditional existence of the people living in Polesie.


Background: The cost and availability of asphalt concrete filler materials have made pertinent the need for research into possible alternatives to conventional fillers for asphalt concrete production. Researchers have shown that the inclusion of mineral fillers in hot-mix asphalt concrete improved its mix design properties considerably. This research investigated the effect of Coconut shell ash on the durability and Elastic modulus of asphalt concrete, Materials and Method: An experimental approach was adopted to investigate the durability and elastic properties of asphalt concrete. Tests were carried out on a set of asphalt concrete specimens prepared using bitumen at the optimum bitumen content and under severe moisture condition. First and second durability, and elastic modulus of the briquette specimens were evaluated. Results: Results showed that using coconut shell ash as void filler under severe moisture condition improved durability (reduced moisture damage) and elastic modulus of asphalt concrete at 15% optimum modifier content. Conclusion: The study concluded that coconut shell ash is a good void filler and should be incorporated in asphalt concrete production.


This paper studies and proposes the use of RSM (Response Surface Methodology) to enhance the performances of the ACOR (Ant Colony Optimization for Real domains) algorithm. Several RSM models, such as CCD (Central Composite Design), Box-Behnken and Doelhert, are employed and applied to construct a metaheuristic function in order to find the optimal set of parameters for an ACOR algorithm when solving an electromagnetic problem. The problem used for testing is a benchmark proposed by the electromagnetic community namely the Loney's solenoid. The ACOR optimal parameters are searched for two different objectives, the best solution and the average best solution over a set of tests.


The Coast Guard used their ice-breaker vessel, the CCGS Des Groseilliers, to break through the ice in the harbour, leaving a trail for barges and Zodiacs to travel inland to pick up the expedition team. After this daring and exciting departure, the rest of the expedition was underway!


Abstract.
 A checklist of corticolous lichens collected during Spring 2003, 2005 and 2008 at Weeks Bay National Estuarine Reserve (30°25′09.91″ N; 87°49′50.27″ W), Fairhope, Baldwin Co., Alabama, USA is presented.


A Connected Dominating Set (CDS) serving as a virtual backbone, is an effective way to optimize the network's topology and minimize communication overheads in network. A minimum connected dominating set (MCDS) offers an optimized way of routing messages in wireless networks. In this paper the target coverage is achieved with adjustable sensing range in the proposed distributed CDS based on prime node-ID (CDS-PN) modelled in unit disk graph (UDG) [1]. CDS-PN has time complexity of O(n2) and message complexity of O(n), where n is the number of nodes. Theoretical performance analysis is presented to verify efficiency of our approach.


Abstract:We have known for over a century that John Marston held a share in Children of the Queen's Revels, the all-boy playing company that first performed The Dutch Courtesan in 1604, but how this knowledge affects our understanding of his plays requires further exploration. Drawing on neglected documentary sources, this essay reappraises the company's links with the Chapel Royal choir to argue that Dutch Courtesan capitalizes on the skills that most clearly connected its performers with the royal choir, even while scrutinizing the ways in which the company turned pleasurable recreation into profit.


The present investigation is carried out in the search of an alternative to increase the production and productivity; in the cultivation of simple was carried out the property San Gerardo of property of Mr. Ivan Leon, located in the canton Babahoyo, County of The Rios, parish Febres Cordero whose coordinated geographical they are South latitude 1°, 49', 0"; longitude West 79, 32; the investigation had a duration of six months.
The treatments are 4 hybrid of watermelon like they are the Cazalitype 78.010, Cazalitype 9730 F1, Sharon F1 and Quetzal (Witness) that prepared at random in a Design of Complete Blocks (DBCA), with three repetitions. To determine differences among the treatments, the test of multiple ranges was used from Tukey to 0.05% of probability.
Of the results settles down that inside the agronomic behavior of the watermelon cultivation, the hybrid Quetzal, the long adult of shaft presents with 3,28 m, the hybrid Sharon F1, presents the biggest diameter of shaft 1,64 cm, the hybrid Quetzal (witness), it presents the biggest number of shafts for plant 9,31, the biggest number of leaves 133,50 present it the treatment T1 Cazalyitype 78.010, hybrid that more flourished it is the Quetzal with 18,60 flowers to the beginning of the flowered and 18,70 flowers at the end of the flowered. the hybrid Sharon F1, presents the biggest number of fruits for plant with 1,60, the hybrid one that bigger precocity to the crop presents is the Czalitype arriving to the crop to the 63,33 days after to sow; and, the hybrid Cazalitype 78.010 with 24.5 cm, the long adult of fruit presents, with 21,10 cm, it presents the biggest fruit wider, with 5,55, he has the biggest fruit weight, the biggest yield for hectare and the biggest profitability.


This paper describes electromagnetic modeling and experimental investigation of the symmetrically fed log-periodic dipole antenna (LPDA) array. The array consists of two conventional LPDAs combined in H-plane to achieve symmetric radiation pattern suited for illuminating parabolic reflector antenna. The LPDA array feed is designed for 1-10 GHz bandwidth. The VSWR of the LPDA array feed remain below 2.0 for both stand along and when used as a feed for reflector antenna. Radiation patterns and gain of the 1.65 meters diameter reflector antenna fed by suggested LPDA array are experimentally measured and agree with simulations.


This paper presents national and regional phosphorus (P) budgets for agriculture in Turkey by using Eurostat/OECD common methodology. Regional P budgets presented in this paper are the first estimations for Turkey known to date. In Turkey, the values of P surplus for agriculture (PS) and P use efficiency for agriculture (PUE) in 2011 were 2 kg P ha-1 yr-1 and 77%, respectively. PS values varied from -2 to 15 kg P ha-1 yr-1 among regions in 2011. In 2008, PS and PUE values (0 kg P ha-1 yr-1 and 96%, respectively) were lower than the average EU values (3 kg P ha-1 yr-1 and 104%), including Norway and Switzerland. The relationship between PS values and some socio-economic properties in Turkey regions were also analyzed. According to the results, the correlations of PS with gross domestic product per capita, permanent meadows and pastures share in utilized agricultural area (UAA), population density, illiterate share and arable land share in UAA were statistically significant. We can conclude from the study results that the environmental effect of agricultural phosphorus on water bodies varies greatly both among regions in Turkey and among European countries because of high variations in PS values.


A wickedly funny collection of letters from Vladimir, a Soviet disinformation expert, to Alex, his young charge, on how to manipulate the American media.


Leadership is a process of influencing others towards achieving organizational goals. The most important aspect of the leadership process is the result of a complex series of interactions between the leader, the people being led, and the situation. This complex interaction can be directed to generalizations about leadership as something that is problematic as a factor influencing the leadership process. This must be supported by the appearance of the head of the madrasa. The appearance of the madrasa principal is determined by factors of authority, character and skills, behavior and flexibility of the madrasa principal. The results of the study concluded that Al-Ma'arif Boja School instilled the habit of speaking politely to the principal, teachers, staff and peers. The school also makes it a habit to smile and greet when meeting the principal, teachers, staff and friends. Schools also make it a habit to say hello when entering class, make it a habit to ask permission from the teacher when going to the bathroom to train students to respect elders and the same age both in madrasas and outside madrasas. In terms of social values, the madrasa head teaches teachers, staff, and students the meaning of caring for one another. The principal of the madrasa always pays attention to teachers and staff, because caring for one another will create a harmonious family atmosphere.


Electromagnetic force device is one of the key components of the modal testing suspension system,the design of this structure not only has a direct influence on the following difficulty of control system design,but also affect the performance of the system.Therefore on the basis of the electromagnetic force device analysis,to simulate the magnetic field analysis with ANSYS,get the magnetic line of electromagnetic force device,the distribution of magnetic induction,and educe the characteristic of electromagnetic force device's magnetic field distribution.Its result provided a theoretical basis for optimization the structure of the electromagnetic force device.


The launch of a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket scheduled for June 13 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility has been postponed due to clouds impacting the ability to test a new ampoule ejection system designed to support studies of the ionosphere and aurora.


The invention belongs to the technical field of printing plate material production and particularly relates to a dedusting agent for conducting dedusting treatment on a CTP plate material and an application method of the dedusting agent. The dedusting agent comprises, by mass percentage, 0.9-3.0% of main agents, 8.0-18.0% of subsidiary agents and the balance water. The main agents are selected from one or more of sodium fluoride, potassium fluoride, ammonium bifluoride, ammonium chloride and sulfamic acid, and the subsidiary agents are selected from one or more of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid and acetic acid. The dedusting agent for conducting dedusting treatment on the CTP plate material is good in removal effect, high in treatment efficiency and simple in application method.


and monist distortions are present in the majority of classic political conceptions. These distortions contribute to the fact that the world of theories of justice and democracy continues to be too "straight", when the timber of humanity and societies is not. This question has caused and still causes both ethical injustices and institutional dysfunctions in liberal democracies. This is somewhat surprising with regard to a large part of the liberal-democratic tradition since one of its strong points is the defence of pluralism, now understood as a value worth defending, rather than a mere fact with which it is necessary to coexist in the least harmful way possible. However much it is repeated, it will never be possible to stress sufficiently the historic change which this tradition has meant for the ethical and functional improvement of the political organisation of a large part of humanity. Nevertheless, we know that this is a process that also displays a number of its own theoretical shadows and practical totalitarian versions. One of the keys to better thought and action lies in achieving a critical control over that pair of distortions –abstraction and monism– that dwell in our discourses. Doing so is not always easy; it requires intellectual effort and empirical sensitivity, but is necessary in order to refine both our analytical capabilities and our moral and political actions. Twelve elements for a political and moral refinement of plurinational


A mixture of uranium sesquinitride and carbon was prepared by the reaction of UC or UC2 with N2 in the temperature range from 700 to 1400°C. When the mixture of uranium sesquinitride and carbon is kept at temperatures above 1200°C in the atmosphere of N2 at low pressure, the state where uranium carbonitride (UC1-x, Nx) and carbon are present together in chemical equilibrium will be established. A thermodynamic analysis suggests that, in the equilibrium state, the composition of UC1-xNx is determined by the chemical activity of carbon, ac, which is related to the chemical potential of the carbon, μE c, by the equation, μc=μc°+RT 1n ac. Here μc° refers to graphite, which is usually taken as the standard state of carbon (ac=1). Mixtures of U2N3 and carbon with several degrees of graphitization were heat-treated at 1400°C, and the composition of UC1-xNx in the reaction product was determined. From these experimental results and the thermodynamic analysis, values of the activity of the carbon coexisting with UC1-xNx were estimated.


As a special part of freshmen,those who major in economic management at the Agricultural University have both the common trend of freshmen's psychological development and the major-oriented personalities.Adversity psychology exists universally among the freshmen of economic management.This paper first analyzes the causes of such psychology and then puts forward some effective countermeasures against the adversity psychology.


The world situation in 1941 opposing commanders chronology - the road to war American and Japanese orders of battle early events, 7 December 1941 the first attack wave "this is not a drill" the second attack wave results of the attack Pearl Harbour today wargaming Pearl Harbour.


As new servers have been introduced and installed in a computer room which already has various servers, many problems, such as a lack of room space, a lack of rack space, and a rise in power consumption, have arisen. The increasing number of operators and rising cost of maintenance caused by the problems lead into a rise in IT expenditure for the computer room. To solve the problems, server integration & virtualization technology, which is used to save power consumption and space and reduce maintenance cost, has gradually been expanding. In this paper, old six UNIX servers were integrated into two in the virtualization process of UNIX servers, in which one partition (DLPAR) per server was created, and more than three DB instances were generated in the created partition for DBMS. As a result, multiple physical servers were made as integrated virtualization servers which ended up solving the space problem in a computer room, securing a rack space and increasing the efficiency of a thermo-hygrostat. More specifically, the server integration & virtualization process brought about the following saving rates: 72% of rack space (U) in a computer room, 90% of power (W), and 59% of cooling (BTU).


Neutron bombardment on semiconductor material causes defects, one such primary physical effect is the formation of displacement defects within the crystal lattice structure, and such defects effectively decrease the mean free path and thus shorten the recombination time. Ionizing radiation causes creation of electron-hole pair in the gate oxide and in parasitic insulating layers of the MOS devices. Calculations show increase of the dark current in depletion region caused by a single neutron. Determination of energy and angular distribution of primary knock on atoms, with 14 MeV neutron irradiation in silicon are presented.


The internal magnetic field in a magnetically confined plasma may be deduced from the analysis of circular polarization of spectral lines emitted by the plasma. The theory of the measurement and a detailed design of a polarimeter constructed to measure the poloidal field profile in the Texas Experimental Tokamak (TEXT) are presented. The instrument measures the difference between left‐hand and right‐hand circularly polarized line profiles, a quantity directly proportional to the magnetic field component in the direction of observation. The high throughput of the Fabry–Perot interferometer employed in this design, combined with efficient light‐collecting optics and lock‐in detection of the polarization signal, allows measurement of the fractional circular polarization of the magnetic dipole line Ti xvii 3834 A with an accuracy on the order of 10−3. The line‐of‐sight averaged poloidal field is determined with uncertainty as small as 50 G. The line emission used in the present measurement is not well localiz...


The present study is an attempt to know the relationship of creativity with academic anxiety and find out whether tribal students with high and low academic anxiety differ in their creativity. For the analysis of data t-ratio were computed to compare the means of elaboration, originality and total creativity scores of tribal students having high and low academic anxiety. Tribal students with low academic anxiety exhibit more elaboration and originality than the students with high academic anxiety. Tribal students with high academic anxiety have less originality ability than the tribal students with low academic anxiety. Students with low academic anxiety have more total creativity than the tribal students with high academic anxiety. The process of enhancing a person's abilities and potentials in order to get them ready for society is called education. According to this viewpoint, education is a process of wholeperson development that aims to instill the information, skills, and attitudes that enable people to effectively interact with their environment. But, in today's fiercely competitive world, performance quality has emerged as the most important determinant of individual and societal advancement. Parents want and pressure their children to perform at the best level possible since the world measures students according to academic standards. Few questions have been brought up by the significant focus placed on academic accomplishment by educational scholars. What elements help pupils succeed? How much do these things affect academic success? Academic success is influenced by a number of variables, including socioeconomic status, motivation, IQ, study habits, and attitudes of students towards education.


Alkenone-based estimates of sea surface temperature (SST) in the northwest Atlantic during the last 10,000 years are presented and used to assess scenarios for Holocene climate variability. Alkenone concentration and unsaturation records are presented from cores KNR140-39GGC, KNR140-51GGC, MD95-2028, MD95-2031, and MD952025 from the Blake Ridge (32°N), Carolina Slope (33 0N), Fogo Seamount (420N), Narwhal (44 0N), and Orphan Basin (50'N) respectively. The southernmost core, from the Blake Ridge, indicates very little temperature variation over the Holocene. Somewhat inshore and to the north of that location, the Carolina Slope record shows a slight cooling trend of about 1.50C over the past 5,000 years, which is interrupted by a brief but sudden drop of about 10C between 3,000 and 2,000 years before present. Lack of age control for the core from Fogo Seamount prevents any conclusions about the time frame of alkenone variation at that location. At the Narwhal site, which is not far from the Laurentian fan, a strong and consistent cooling of 90C is the most recent pattern of variation. Alkenone concentrations from the Orphan Basin were not sufficient for reliable measurement of a Holocene temperature trend. The general pattern of strong cooling in the northern slope water region and very modest cooling south of Cape Hatteras, where the Gulf Stream separates from the coastline and heads out to sea, may suggest a shift in mean Gulf Stream path as a possible culprit for the temperature record seen at the Narwhal site. However, changes of incoming solar radiation or seasonality of alkenone production over the Holocene provide alternative mechanisms for alkenone temperature variation. Thesis Supervisor: Julian P. Sachs Title: Associate Professor


The State of Para comprises 26% of Brazilian Amazon region, where a large diversity of arboviruses has been described. This study sought to assess the prevalence and distribution of hemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibodies against antigens of four alphaviruses (Togaviridae: Alphavirus ) from the species: Eastern equine encephalitis (EEEV), Western equine encephalitis (WEEV), Mayaro virus (MAYV), and Mucambo virus (MUCV) in 753 serum samples of horses in Para State, Brazil. All investigated arboviruses were detected and indicate that horses are susceptible to these alphaviruses, and show evidences of their active circulation in farm animals in the Brazilian Amazon.


BOSTON'S SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR: F r o m Urban B a t t l e g r o u n d to Paths of Peace T h e most confounding thing about pedestrian corridor projects is thai we should have to establish them at all. There was a time in America when footpaths ran through towns and farms in partial disregard of property own- ership, very much like the English and Scottish common law footpaths. Our footpaths are derived from a second parentage as well: the Indian trails of common access thai American colonists adopted as their own. T h e common footpaths and trails would, by custom, remain accessible to the public so long as thcs were trod at least once every year. It was recognized, in our past, lhat public rights ii1'access and private rights to privacv were not irreconcilable. But that was eons ago. With the consolidation and fencing of propcrn under real estate law and the industrial- ization of American cities, idiosyncratic common ways were extinguished, except for the lew remnants that were pre- served under public title. Then, loo, there was the lack of foresight, chiefly in the nineteenth century, in not reserving path corridors within or along public corridor land as it was sold or granted to the railroads or retained and developed as highways. T h e demise of the common law footpath was very much present in m\ mind as ! In.-trail work on Uo.stons Southwest Corridor Project park master plan in the sprint;' of 1 ~~. The decade earlier I had traveled to I'.imland to studv river corridors and footpaths and to learn how people and cities were served In them. I he Southwest Corridor represented industrial blight and an overwhelming lack of access. Down its middle ran the old l'enn Central railroad — which ran atop a grim, soot-covered, trranite-faccd embankment for its greater length and along down-at-rhc-hccl industrial sprawl and menacing wastelands. Kver since its emergence more than a century a»o, this corridor had divided communities and sealed them off from access to the city's center. Could anything be done to redeem it? P L A C E S


Z. Chen et al. (1997, 1998) have introduced a modified notion of planarity, where two faces are considered adjacent if they share at least one point. The corresponding abstract graphs are called map graphs. Chen et al. raised the question of whether map graphs can be recognized in polynomial time. They showed that the decision problem is in NP and presented a polynomial time algorithm for the special case where we allow at most 4 faces to intersect in any point-for only 3 are allowed to intersect in a point, we get the usual planar graphs. Chen et al. conjectured that map graphs can be recognized in polynomial time, and in this paper, their conjecture is settled affirmatively.


ABSTRACT Power generation without environmental impairment is a challenging task for humankind. Presently pyrolysis process using various catalysts is among the finest technologies for generating alternate energy. This research aims to explore the pyrolysis of discarded bus/truck tires with zeolite ZSM-5. A fixed-bed reactor was employed to pyrolyse scrap tires at a temperature range of 300–580°C. Furthermore, it investigates the temperature and catalyst-to-tire ratio impact on the evolved oils' generation and composition. Density, kinematic viscosity, and gross calorific value of the obtained oil, are analysed. CT ratio has increased the gas generation but decreases oil production. Elemental analysis of pyrolytic liquid oil revealed carbon percentage increment and decrement of sulphur percentage when CT ratio was increased. FT-IR showed data revealed the strong presence of aromatic compounds and other valuable hydrocarbons in the upgraded pyrolytic oils. The pyrolytic oil showed provided a high calorific value of 40.38 MJ/kg, comparable to conventional diesel oil of 42 MJ/kg. GC-MS analysis identified a higher amount of o-xylene, toluene, naphthalene, and d-limonene in derived oil when the CT ratio of the process was increased from 0.1 to 0.25, denoting the capability of the evolved oil as an alternative energy source and value-added chemical substances.


This paper examines the participation of member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s dispute settlement system and its associated negotiations. In so doing, it highlights the dispute settlement system's important contribution to the WTO and the need for CARICOM member states to engage more actively with this aspect of the WTO's work. The paper concludes by articulating some of the lessons learnt from CARICOM member states' experiences to date and offering some concrete suggestions on how the region can improve its current record of engagement.


The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the category of the comodules of the coring can be made into a braided monoidal category.Firstly,the conditions making the category into a monoidal category are obtained by using the fact that if C is a coring,then C can be made into a C-comodule.The conditions are that the algebra and coring in question are bialgebra and bi-ring,with some extra compatibility relations.Then,given a monodial category of comodules of the coring,the braiding is constructed by means of a twisted convolution invertible map and the sufficient and necessary conditions making the category form into a braided monoidal category are obtained.The category of entwined modules is contained in the category of the comodules of the coring.Lastly,the construction can be applied to the category of entwined modules as an example.


Encephalitis is a rare complication of measles infection and is of three distinct types: (1) acute encephalitis, (2) subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), and (3) subacute measles encephalitis (subacute inclusion body encephalopathy, progressive infectious measles encephalitis) in the immunosuppressed. [1] Acute encephalitis during recovery from measles is probably an autoimmune process and not a productive brain tissue infection. SSPE starts its usually progressive course several years after measles infection in early childhood. [1] Brain histology is characterized by inflammatory infiltrates, glial nodules, degeneration of neurons in the gray matter, neuronophagia, hyperplasia of astro- and microglia, and intranuclear inclusion bodies of Cowdry type A with abundant measles virus antigen. [2] Subacute measles encephalitis occurs in patients with defective cellular immunity from lymphoproliferative illnesses or immunosuppressive therapy. Usually several months after a clinical course of measles, encephalitic signs and symptoms such as seizures, myoclonism, stupor, and coma develop. [1] Histologically, diagnostic features include intranuclear eosinophilic and sometimes intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies in neurons and oligodendrocytes with abundant paramyxovirus nucleocapsids and abundant measles virus antigen. [2] Inflammatory cells are often absent because of immunosuppression.

Despite the ubiquity of measles infection and the HIV pandemic, only very few studies on complications of measles virus infection in patients with AIDS have been published. We report here a hemophilic HIV-positive patient who died from subacute measles encephalitis. A short abstract …


In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of maximally defined strong solutions to SDEs driven by multiplicative noise on general space-time domains $Q\subset\mathbb{R}_+\times\mathbb{R}^d$, which have continuous paths on the one-point compactification $Q\cup\partial$ of $Q$ where $\partial \notin Q$ and $Q\cup\partial$ is equipped with the Alexandrov topology. If the SDE is of gradient type (see (2.5) below) we prove that under suitable Lyapunov type conditions the life time of the solution is infinite and its distribution has sub-Gaussian tails. This generalizes earlier work \cite{KR} by Krylov and one of the authors to the case where the noise is multiplicative.


Cell hybridization of phytohemagglutinin (PHA)‐stimulated human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) with murine lymphoma (EL‐4) provided three hybridomas (MHH‐16, MHH‐20, and MHH‐22) which spontaneously produced human mitogenic factor (MF). MHH‐16 was serially subcloned by limiting dilution procedures, which resulted in maintaining two subclones producing human MF spontaneously for more than one year (PQL‐3 and PQL‐5 subcloned lines). Human MF (MHH‐MF) derived from supernatants of PQL‐5 line cultures had a molecular weight (m.w.) of about 26,000–30,000 daltons (the major peak) with a minor peak with an m.w. of 15,000 daltons on Sephadex G‐100 chromatography, and at a high concentration of NaCl (1 m), the activity of the 26,000–30,000‐m.w. fraction became weak and that of the 15,000‐m.w. fraction became predominant. MHH‐MF had an isoelectric point of pH 5.0–6.5. On DEAE‐cellulose chromatography, MHH‐MF was eluted at a fairly low salt concentration (sodium phosphate buffer 0.02 M, pH 8.0, NaCl 10 mm). After periodate treatment of this MHH‐MF, the mitogenic activity almost disappeared. MHH‐MF was relatively unstable to heating at 56 C for 20 min. In the presence of tunicamycin (0.3μg/ml), an inhibitor of N‐linked glycosylation, the synthesized MHH‐MF showed a decrease in m.w. as follows: the major peak shifted from 26,000–30,000 to 23,000 daltons and the minor peak from 15,000 to 10,000 daltons on Sephadex G‐100 chromatography.


BackgroundDrug‐coated stents may treat both mechanisms of restenosis, namely, geometric remodeling and neointimal hyperplasia. Paclitaxel, an antimicrotubule agent, has been shown to inhibit smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration, and may be an excellent candidate for local elution from a stent platform. MethodsTo study the antirestenosis effects of drug‐coated stents, we impregnated paclitaxel (175–200 μg/stent with programmed elution over 6 months) on Gianturco–Roubin® II (GR®II) stents. These stents and control stents without drugs were implanted in porcine coronary arteries (stent/artery approx. 1.1) and evaluated 4 weeks later. ResultsThe vessel size and the stent‐to‐artery ratio were similar between the groups. However, at 4 weeks, the paclitaxel group had significantly reduced in‐stent restenosis compared with the controls (51 ± 27 versus 27 ± 27% diameter stenosis, P  < 0.05 and 669 ± 357  versus 403 ± 197 μm neointimal thickness, P  < 0.05). This study further confirmed the biocompatibility of the polymer, with no foreign body reaction in any of the groups. ConclusionsThis study shows that the paclitaxel‐coated stents significantly reduced in‐stent restenosis without eliciting inflammation.


During the recent years blended learning has become more common strategy in higher education. In Oulu University of Applied Sciences School of Business and Information Management blended learning was developed in a project where about 20 teachers from two degree programs developed courses from the point of view of individual, blended and online learning. A focus group interview was organised with voluntary students in order to get insights to student's experiences.

Students wish that they would have activities and feedback along the course - not big assignments or exam at the end of the course. Blended learning should be tied to real life cases which are connected to theories. Two-way interaction plays a critical role when blended learning is used in order to avoid the isolation of students. Learning Cafe type of assignments, where talented students' expertise could be used in coaching, received excellent feedback because of the better interaction.


The research findings of mechanical performance and the design and construction experiences of the aluminum alloy bridges in foreign countries are summarized and analyzed.In consideration of the influences of welding heat effect and low elastic modulus of the aluminum alloy,the proposal that the aluminum alloy bridge structures should be more rationally designed is made.On the basis of analysis of the stability performance of the aluminum alloy flexural elements,the effective measures for enhancing the aluminum alloy structure stability are put forward.With reference to the research findings on fatigue of the aluminum alloy bridges obtained by the Netherland scholars,the structural details and global fatigue performance of the aluminum alloy bridges are analyzed.The researches and construction practice of foreign countries demonstrate that the aluminum alloy can be safely and economically applied to bridge engineering.


The utility model relates to an intermittently rotary machine for pouring and sealing powder of a non-PVC big transfusion soft bag, which comprises a power transmission component, a center rotary disk, a tube cutting and nitrogen filling component, a filling component, a high temperature heat sealing component, a low temperature heat sealing component, a bag outlet component, a machine frame component and an electric control box, wherein the tube cutting and nitrogen filling component, the filling component, the high temperature heat sealing component, the low temperature heat sealing component and the bag outlet component are arranged beside the center rotary disk which is connected with the power transmission component, and are supported by the machine frame component; a tube cutting and nitrogen filling service position, a filling service position, a high temperature heat sealing service position, a low temperature heat sealing component service position and a bag outlet service position are orderly arranged, and bag clamps which are used for hanging transfusion bags are arranged around the center rotary disk. The utility model has the characteristics of accurate positioning, nitrogen protection for medicinal powder, accurate filling quantity, simple and reliable seal, compact structure, low cost, small ground occupation area, reduced labor intensity of operators, high production efficiency, high product quality, etc., and people do not need to contact packaging bags and the medicinal powder in the whole filling process.


This paper presents a design methodology for concentrated-wound, permanent-magnet, radial-flux machines. A multiphysics approach is adopted where the electromagnetic and thermal capabilities are evaluated in parallel. A scalable thermal and electromagnetic design procedure is formed which centres on a calibrated thermal model. Results are presented which illustrate an optimum machine diameter, split-ratio and active length exist for maximising either power-density or efficiency.


Vacancy-type defects in heavily phosphorus-doped Si epitaxial films were probed by monoenergetic positron beams. Doppler broadening profiles of the annihilation radiation and lifetime spectra of positrons were measured for the epitaxial films grown on the Si substrates by plasma chemical vapor deposition. For the as-deposited film, divacancy-phosphorus complexes were found with high concentration. After 600° C annealing, vacancy clusters were formed near the Si/Si interface, while no drastic change in the depth distribution of the divacancy-phosphorus complexes was observed. By 900° C annealing, the vacancy clusters were annealed out; however, the average number of phosphorus atoms coupled with divacancies increased. The relationship between the vacancy-type defects probed by the positron annihilation technique and the carrier concentration was confirmed.


Every company needs on a regular basis control and make an overview of its economy, innovation climate, market and organization. The analyze of the company will be more objective if some outsider r ...


The B(E2: 01+ → 21+) (B(E2)↑) transition probability of even‐even nuclei from 56Ni up to 82Se are confronted with curves obtained in a approximation to the generalized seniority and shown to fit in with a neutron sub‐shell closure at N=38 and a scenario involving p‐n interaction.