Collaborative emergency management mode provides a new idea for further reducing system safety risk in the chemical park. In this paper, the cloud computing and the expert system were used for the framework design of the emergency management information system to enhance emergency response capability of collaborative emergency managementmechanisms. The use of middleware integrated with multi-source data achieved the unified data manipulation interface. Intelligent delivery of information system was provided. Using agent-middleware technology to build decision layer could make massive data analysis, data mining and decision from the "cloud computing" platform access for every user. It can provide the necessary theoretical and technical support for enterprises in the chemical park, to give full play to the collaborative emergency management capability.


Business Process Reengineering breaks the fortress of departments and reorganizes the cracked processes.All the business will be oriented by the process that will improve the links between processes and optimize the processes to improve efficiency.The passage discusses how to reengineer business process in front of the fast changing market,competitive environment and customers' requirement by a real case of an enterprise in ZheJiang.


t may not be generally known that applications of Newton's Third Law extend far beyond the world of physics to the more ordinary matters of academic behavior. Paraphrased non-technically, the Third Law states that "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." Anyone who has served on a committee or chaired a department even briefly will immediately recognize some behavioral analogies. Interpreted a bit more directly, academics are often slow in action, but lightning in reaction. Such habits result naturally from the high proportion of reaction to action in academic duties, typically at least 80% reaction-arguing with colleagues and correcting student efforts-compared to about 20% action in research and writing. So universal is this habit of reaction that committee work can be vastly speeded by using the principle to structure the first part of any meeting-up to half an hour-which may otherwise be taken up pleasantly but unproductively with faculty gossip and academic sparring of various sorts. Even when the group gets down to work, however, the academic mind tends to proliferate possibilities rather than concrete alternatives, often seemingly as intellectual exercise rather than serious expression of opinion. To break this deadlock, immediate reaction can be obtained by presenting a tangible, xeroxed proposal to each committee member. With something definite to which they can object, the committee springs into reaction, and their opinions now become clear by implication as well as by direct statement. It is a pity that so few of the collective works of academic scholarship have made use of this central principle of academic psychology. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, symposia on specific periods or topics, and similar projects all suffer from two main difficulties. First, the typical disinclination of the scholar to commit to paper anything but his final (unattainable) thought results in late contributions and unacceptably slow production of any collective project. Here the organizing editor has asked the scholar to exercise his highest and hardest function-to act. A second problem concerns the actual writing of the project. Even if we dare assume that scholars are competent writers, dictionary and symposium articles often require a special format that is unfamiliar and possibly unsuited to the scholar's perception of the assignment. Again the editor has asked the contributor to work against his instincts, and again the results will often be an article that is unsatisfactory in design or expression. Despite these obvious difficulties for editors, encyclopedias and other scholarly collaborations continue to pursue the same old methods, expecting scholars to perform unnatural acts-


This paper proposes a sEMG-based method for on-line torque prediction and control of robot joints. More in detail, the Mean Absolute Value (MAV) features extracted from the sEMG signals acquired from five muscles of the shoulder and of the elbow are used as input to two trained time delayed neural networks (TDNNs) to estimate the joint torque of an active exoskeleton robot for movements executed in the sagittal plane. The sEMG-driven TDNNs, trained with a dataset composed by shoulder and elbow joint torque values registered in isometric conditions, allow to on-line control the exoskeleton joints for slow movements of the upper limbs. Finally, the method was tested and validated through experiments conducted on a healthy subject.


Ferromagnetic resonance phenomena in rare earth iron garnets (except Gd iron garnet) are dominated at room temperature and above by the rapid spin relaxation of the rare earth ions. The rare earth ion relaxation controls the $g$ values and the line widths, as well as the temperature dependence of these quantities. It is shown that in the appropriate limit the $g$ value of the microwave spin resonance line satisfies the relation $g=\frac{{g}_{A}({M}_{A}+{M}_{B})}{{M}_{A}}$, where ${g}_{A}$ and ${M}_{A}$ refer to the ferric lattice and ${M}_{A}+{M}_{B}$ is the net saturation magnetization of the crystal. This relation obtains essentially when the $B$ lattice relaxation frequency is high in comparison with the $\mathrm{AB}$ exchange frequency and relaxation frequency of the $A$ lattice. The theory accounts quite well, with no disposable parameters, for the sequence and temperature variation of the $g$ values reported for Dy, Ho, Er, Yb, and Sm iron garnets. When at low temperatures the $B$ relaxation frequency becomes sufficiently low, the $g$ value should approach the usual result for two coupled undamped lattices, in the absence of anisotropy effects on the $B$ lattice. The theory predicts further that at ordinary temperatures the exchange frequency resonance will occur at the usual position and its width will be proportional to the damping constant of the $B$ lattice.


A new method of proving the global minimality of closed submanifolds in Riemannian spaces, a development of the calibration method of Harvey and Lawson, is worked out. A criterion for global minimality of currents in compact homogeneous spaces is proved, and it is used to construct series of specific examples and prove a theorem about certain types of globally minimal surfaces in homogeneous spaces. Bibliography: 10 titles.


The article updates the memoirs of the famous philosopher, logician, theorist of literature, translator Pavel Sergeevich Popov (1892–1964), dedicated to the pioneer of philosophical and psychological thought and the founder of a full-fledged Russian psychological school in the first half of the 20th century, Georgy Ivanovich Chelpanov (1862–1936). The article precedes the publication of Chapter V "G.I. Chelpanov" of P.S. Popov's memoirs "Images of the past. Memories from university, gymnasium, and childhood years". P.S. Popov's text allows you to re-look at G.I. Chelpanov as a person and philosopher, not only to appreciate his personal qualities as "a propagandist, an agitator, and even an advertiser" of experimental psychology but also to update his philosophical ideas. The author proves that the value of P.S. Popov's archival materials lies in the discovery of additional research perspectives for understanding both the published heritage of G.I. Chelpanov and the entire historical, cultural, and intellectual context of philosophical discussions of the first half of the 20th century. According to the author, domestic intellectual culture's experience shows the productivity of the reception of ideas only in connection with the specific contexts of their creation and the fate of their creator. Therefore, understanding the inextricable link between personality and thought is essential for actualizing the philosophical and humanitarian heritage.


So far the land surface temperature (LST) estimation from space is made by many kinds of sensors, as the operational product, ASTER1 and MODIS2 onboard TERRA satellite made the land surface temperature product in early 2000. Just after this, AATSR3 onboard the European satellite ESA published the land surface product. The operational land surface temperature estimation has about 10 years history and the improvement of the estimation algorithm are made. The LST estimation has the intrinsic difficulty which the unknown variables are more than the formulae. To avoid this difficulty, MODIS and AATSR use the statistical method which the surface emissivity is assigned as the known variable and ASTER uses the semi–analytical method which estimates the land surface temperature and emissivity simultaneously from the atmospheric-ally corrected satellite radiance. The both methods has complementary advantages and disadvantages so that these methods improved independently. The author tried to integrate the split window formula to the semi–analytical method as the additional formula to make the problem determine for the SGLI sensor onboard GCOM–C1 which will be launched 2015 by JAXA. This paper describes the detail of the integration and the estimation results.


The effect of transfluthrin (TF) or D-allethrin (DA) pyrethroid (PYR) vapors, often contained as main ingredients in two commercially available mosquito repellent mats, on cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes of rat brain and liver was assessed. Immunodetection of CYP2E1 and CYP3A2 proteins revealed their induction in cerebrum and cerebellum, but not in liver microsomes of rats exposed by inhalation to TF or DA. This overexpression of proteins correlated with an increase of their catalytic activities. The specifically increased expression of CYP isoenzymes, due to PYR exposure in the rat brain, could perturb the normal metabolism of endogenous and xenobiotic compounds and leads to increased risks of neurotoxicity by bioactivation, lipid peroxidation and DNA damage.


In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the primary weakness of US foreign policy, particularly in Southeast Asia which is home to the largest Muslim community in the world, was that it was driven by concerns over archipelagic Southeast Asia as the "second front" in the "global war against terror." Military warfare and coercive legislation and enforcement are grossly inadequate in winning the hearts and minds of a community. Religion-wise, Asia is not a tabula rosa. Many religions have long co-existed in Asia. The virtues of religious freedom are not alien to Asia but need nurturing given the dominant imperatives of governance, control, and economic growth.


In Sri Lanka, the active promotion of chemical products to prevent disease in shrimp hatcheries has led to an increase in the use of drugs and chemicals without much emphasis on understanding their efficacies. A survey was carried out to evaluate trends in the use of drugs and chemicals as therapeutic treatments for shrimp-hatchery diseases. A wide range of chemicals and drugs are being used, both for prophylactic treatment and to prevent or control parasitic, fungal and bacterial diseases in hatcheries. Without proper scientific investigation into treatment regimes, there has been a tendency for individual hatcheries to select their own treatment regimes and to do their own experimentation. Little knowledge exists among hatchery operators as to the hazardous effects of the chemicals in use. Lack of legislation on the use of chemotherapeutants in aquaculture has led to the uncontrolled use and improper selection of chemicals for use in shrimp hatcheries.


Summary In Queensland, site preparation design is the stage of planning for Pinus plantation establishment, during which both watershed protection and runoff management needs are met, and runoff control systems and the boundaries for different site preparation systems are located in the field. The aims and methods of site preparation design are described in this paper.


A study has been made of pseudoscalar mesons produced centrally in pp interactions. The results show that the η and η appear to have a similar production mechanism which differs from that of the π. The production properties of the η and η are not consistent with what is expected from double Pomeron exchange. In addition the production mechanism for the η and η is such that the production cross section are greatest when the azimuthal angle between the pT vectors of the two protons is 90 degrees. Submitted to Physics Letters 1 LAPP-IN2P3, Annecy, France. 2 Athens University, Physics Department, Athens, Greece. 3 Bergen University, Bergen, Norway. 4 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K. 5 CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland. 6 IHEP, Protvino, Russia. 7 IISN, Belgium. 8 JINR, Dubna, Russia. 9 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan. 10 Faculty of Engineering, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan. 11 RCNP, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. 12 Oslo University, Oslo, Norway. 13 Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980, Japan. 14 Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata 990, Japan.


2010704 (1 of 9) © 2021 The Authors. Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH C. Fai, Dr. C. Hages Department of Chemical Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32605, USA E-mail: email@example.com Prof. I. G. Scheblykin, Dr. E. L. Unger Chemical Physics and NanoLund Lund University PO Box 118, Lund 22100, Sweden Dr. E. L. Unger, Dr. T. Unold, Dr. A. Merdasa Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialen und Energie GmbH and HySPRINT Innovation Lab Kekuléstraße 5, 12489 Berlin, Germany Dr. A. Merdasa Department of Clinical Sciences Lund Lund University Sölvegatan 17, Lund SE-22100, Sweden E-mail: email@example.com ReseaRch aRticle


This paper reviews the research state of consumption values from the five aspects of its definition,structure,category,and research method and content.Furthermore,it points out the existing problems on consumption values research and gives an outlook for its future study: widening research perspectives,expanding research objects,making scientific measuring tools,and attaching importance to comparative study on consumption value differences.


In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of India has provided a legal recognition to 'passive euthanasia' in March 2018. In May 2018, David Goodall, an Australian scientist ended his life through Physician Assisted Death in a Swiss clinic at the age of 104 for old age rather than terminal illness. These two events sparked a fresh debate regarding euthanasia and the proponents and opponents of euthanasia argued voraciously for and against it albeit the central theme remained same- 'the dignity of human life'. This monograph elaborates on the philosophy and popular terminology of euthanasia. It also deliberates on the socio-cultural differences in the conceptualisation of euthanasia and an unbiased critique of the pros and cons of euthanasia with the intention to redress the balance. The monograph finally discusses the current scenario and future directions related to euthanasia.


Nitrogen supply to Merlot vines ( Vitis vinifera L.), grown under controlled conditions, affected must quality and the anthocyanin content in berry skins irrespective of vegetative growth. High N supply delayed fruit maturation; berries had a higher arginine and a lower anthocyanin content with relatively more abundant acylated anthocyanins compared to berries of vines supplied with low N. During maturation the anthocyanin content in the skin of berries decreased; this was more significant in high-N vines. It is concluded that high nitrogen supply affects the metabolic pathway of anthocyanins in different ways, e.g. it delays the quantitative and qualitative biosynthesis and enhances their degradation during the final steps of berry maturation.


The samples of pure Fe were treated by surface gas-phase RE permeation plus laser melting solidification (LMS). The microstructures were observed by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), meanwhile the corrosion resistance was investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and anedic polarization. The results show that this treatment can remarkably improve the density and uniformity of microstructure, and enhance corrosion resistance of the pure Fe surface.


In multicomponent surveys, the travel path of seismic waves from the subface interfaces to geophones may not be vertical to the ground; consequently, vertical and horizontal geophones receive mixed wavefields comprising P- and S-waves. Vector separation of wavefields is crucial for subsequent imaging and shear wave splitting analyses. However, conventional methods cannot address the nonlinear polarization of pure wave and can also produce incorrect results due to the presence of dipping interface. To address the above issues, we propose a vector wavefield separation method based on the slope of events and polarizability. The proposed method calculates the slope of the events for determining the propagation direction of the wavefield. The polarizability is used to evaluate whether the resulting wavefield is purely composed of one type of body wave, while the wavefield type is determined based on the angle between the polarization and propagation directions. When the wavefield is mixed, P/S separation is realized based on vector decomposition in an affine coordinate system optimized by the propagation direction. We use both numerical and field data to demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed method. The numerical example confirms that the proposed method yields more accurate results than the conventional vector decomposition method. The field data application also indicates that the new method can effectively resolve the P- and S-waves from the noisy seismic wavefield.


Bacteria regulate FtsZ protein levels through transcriptional and translational mechanisms for proper cell division. A cis-antisense RNA, StfZ, produced from the ftsA-ftsZ intergenic region was proposed to regulate the FtsZ level in Escherichia coli. However, its structural identity remained unknown. In the present study, we determined the complete sequence, identified the promoters, and effects of StfZ on the FtsZ level. We show that StfZ is expressed at 1:6 ratio of StfZ:ftsZ mRNA at all growth phases from three promoters as three isoforms of 366 nt, 474 nt, and 552 nt. Overexpression of StfZ reduces FtsZ level, increases cell size, and blocks cell division. Thus, the cis-encoded StfZ emerges as a novel factor for maintaining the FtsZ level at different growth phases in E. coli.


This work presents a set of measures to evaluate the structural complexity of business process models at a conceptual level, and also the general plan of a family of experiments whose aim is to validate the measures proposed. We believe that the early evaluation of business process models would provide business process management with support which would make their maintenance tasks easier. This proposal is based on the standard notation for business process modelling BPMN and on the adoption and extension of the FMESP framework.


Unique advantages of satellite communication over fiber-optic communication include on- demand linkage and easy access to remote or mobile sites. These advantages are particularly important in life-critical medical services of teleradiology, distributed treatment planning and medical triage support applications. This paper reports on experiments designed to use the supercomputer power, 3D volumetric modeling technology, and NASA ACTS (Advanced Communication Technology Satellite) Ka-band communication to validate the suite of deployable digital radiography technologies for image-based medical triage as well as remote cooperative delivery of health care. The success of the experiments demonstrates that high speed (giga-bit) satellite communication (particularly, ACTS) providing access (via the steerable antenna) to high performance computation and high resolution 3D visualization are not only practical but also crucial for many medical applications, especially for remote regions or moving populations. This demonstration is expected to stimulate new medical services as well as delivery mechanisms that transcend both time and distance barriers. The availability of remote access to supercomputing via high-speed portable connections will have a profound impact on the provision of image-based medical services, and this certainly bears important implications for future PACS development.


In this issue of Blood, Ivaldi et al showed that the BGLT3 long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) locus increases the production of γ-globin, the fetal form of β-globin.1 The BGLT3 transcript itself plays a role, and the locus displays enhancer-like features.


Based on the evaluation on various modulations, we propose a choice of IR PHY to consist of baseband and passband multicarrier schemes. 0-6M Hz is reserved for baseband modulation which is decided by the choice of data rate. 15-30M Hz is reserved for 5-dedicated-channel multicarrier scheme. For 6-15M Hz, we put this as a co-existing band and both approaches can use it. The modualtions for baseabnd and multicarrier are suggested as this paper. We further suggest to consider WDM in IR PHY. Introduction Since IBM recaped diffused IR as a possible PHY for wireless LANs [1], many proposals to define the IR PHY of the IEEE 802.11 have been proposed [2-4]. The primary task to make the final decision is the choice of modulation and speed. Several speeds have been mentioned and they are 1, 2, 4, and 10M bps. The possible modulations include Manchester, binary PPM, 4-ary PPM, 16-ary PPM, NRBI (non-return-to-zero with bit insersion), MRLC (modified run length codes), DCGPPM (differentially coded and guarded PPM), PSK and FSK. We evaluated various possible combinations of above Submission Page 1 K.C. Chen March 1994 DOC: IEEE 802.11/94-80 proposals based on the conclusion from the channel measurements and simulations done by the IBM, UC Berkeley, Portugal and Spainish universities, and National Tsing Hua University, then propose a complete structure for IR PHY. Summary of Direct Detect Modulations [5] analyzed the error rate performance of various direct detect modulations in indoor channel with direct path and under shadowing. It is observed that the performance depends heavily on data rate. More practical implementation issues were also considered, including spectral efficiency, power efficiency (i.e. average number of pulses per bit), estimation of threshold, pulse in each symbol (i.e. synchronization). If direct detect modulation is used, [5] suggested 16-ary PPM or 4-ary PPM at I-2M bps, DCGPPM at 10M bps, DCGPPM or 4-ary PPM at 20M bps, OOKINRBIIMRLC at 40M bps, MRLC at 50-100M bps. MRLC is the only direct detect modulation working at 100M bps while no complicated equalization is assumed. However, MRLC at 100M bps is still not satisfactory under shadowing. A limitation of applying direct detect modulation is expected. Proposed IR PHY Structure In light of the simplicity of direct detect modulation, IR has a strong edge on baseband modulation. However, to serve high bandwidth application is another critical edge for IR. The picture for IR PHY is therefore pretty clear that it must consist of a baseband modulation and multi-carrier modulation beyond the baseband. The proposed frequency plan is 0-6M Hz for baseband modulation and IS-30M Hz for FSKIPSK type multicarrier signaling which can be FQPSK as it promises most data transmission rate with constant envelope to alleviate a great deal of problems such as phase noise. Or, it can be any modulation adopted by the higher-speed FH PHY. For baseband modulation, it is proposed to conduct the conclusion of [5]. At 10M bps, 4-ary PPM is the next best modulation behind DCGPPM. 6-15M Hz band acts as a co-existing band. Therefore, baseband modulation can use 0-15M Hz at most and multicarrier approach can use 630M Hz, that is, 8 carriers at most. The frequency range is, of course, subject to the component technology for future improvement. In the mean tiime, we would like to propose consideration on both 880 nm and 1.3 micron wavelength infrared into utilization. Both are good for transmission in air and components are widely available for both. If so, we can have a further "wavelength division multiplexing" (WDM) to provide more transmission throughput and "coexisting" situation no longer exists. Notice: DCGPPM, a pending patent, was filed by the IBM Corp. and invented by K.C. Chen while working with the IBM T,J. Watson Research Center. This documentation cites DCGPPM only for technical research purpose and has no implications on IBM's products, marketing, and position at the IEEE 802.11. Submission Page 2 K.C. Chen March 1994 DOC: IEEE 802.11/94-80 Acknowledgement The first author would like to appreciate the support from the United Microelectronics Corp. for this research.


The BIRS workshop 12w5119 was a great success despite it being the coldest week of the year, with temperatures between -20 and -40 celsius the entire week. The workshop topic was "Interactive Information Theory." It is important to note that this title and topic may be interpreted in a variety of ways, i.e. there is no standard definition of what constitutes "interactive" information theory. The goal of our workshop was to bring together researchers from different areas, each with their own interpretation of this topic, to interact.


ABri amyloidosis is a rare, neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive impairment, spastic tetraparesis, and cerebellar ataxia resulting from amyloid deposits in the brain. Spasticity with increased deep tendon reflexes and tone are early symptoms, muscular rigidity evolves later. Progressive mental deterioration usually starts with apathy and impaired memory with progression to complete disorientation. Qeios · Definition, February 10, 2020


[1] In the present investigation, for the first time, fundamental characteristics of autumn and winter average sequences of sea level heights (SLH) that were recorded in the Lagoon of Venice (northern Adriatic, in the Mediterranean Sea) during the period 1872–2004 are investigated. Interannual-to-decadal variability of Venetian SLH is found to reflect the variability of the most prominent Euro-Atlantic teleconnections (EATs). In particular, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the East Atlantic/Western Russian, and the Scandinavian patterns are found to contribute to generate the ∼5-year, ∼8-year and ∼22-year peaks that dominate the spectra of seasonal Venetian SLH. Among the possible oceanic and atmospheric phenomena downscaling interannual-to-decadal large-scale atmospheric signals into the observed variability in the Venetian SLH, we explore inverse barometer effect, wind-driven setup, and the thermohaline circulation of both the Adriatic and the Mediterranean seas. All these phenomena are assessed to display some of the typical features of the shared interannual-to-decadal variability of both Venetian SLH and EATs. Our analysis shows also that the decadal variability of winter Venetian SLH is closely linked with variations in solar activity: in particular, the winter SLH multidecadal pattern is found to be correlated, with very high statistical confidence, to the Hale Cycles pattern (∼22 years), which describes the series of sunspot cycles with alternating opposite polarity. The marked signature of Hale Cycles on the leading mode of multidecadal sea level pressure winter variability (which is practically indistinguishable from the inverse wintertime NAO) is also detailed to further support the hypothesis of a Sun-Venetian SLH association.


The reduced directional coupler (RDC) consisted of two titanium diffused lithium niobiate parallel stripe waveguides with a split electrodes configuration and two external X-half fiber couplers is analyzed and compared with devices based on classical directional couplers.


One of the most fascinating puzzles of comparative politics is why the extent of the modern state's reach into core areas of public policy varies so wildly. This paper suggests a preliminary explanation of the size of the nonprofit provision in the areas of social services, health care, and education, and the share of government funding in these sectors' total revenue in Europe, the United States, and Australia. The larger a space the churches secured for religious provision in the 19th century, the larger is the nonprofit sector today. The longer and fiercer they fought, the more generous is contemporary public funding. There are four patterns: In the Lutheran countries the churches did not mobilize against the state, and the nonprofit sector is small and largely financed by the government. In Catholic countries with minimal state-church conflict the nonprofit sector is small and government funding levels are low. In Catholic countries with massive state-church conflict the nonprofit sector is large and government funding is high. The Reformed Protestant countries are all mixed-denominational, with a significant Catholic minority. In these countries the outcomes depend on whether the churches created a cross-confessional coalition or not. If a cross-confessional coalition emerged, the nonprofit sector is large and generously financed by the government. If a cross-confessional coalition did not materialize, the nonprofit sector is large and the government funding level is low.


The study of correlation between TSP and PM10 index data records was carried out with typical cities of Changji,Turpan and Kashgar in the northern,eastern and southern Xinjiang,northwestern China,respectively in2011 and from 2005 to 2008. Results show that these two indexes significantly influence the ambient air quality grades of dryland cities in Xinjiang. In the periods of dust storms in spring and heating period of time in winter,the ambient air quality grades resulted from the TSP standards were apparently changed comparing with that resulted from the PM10 standards. The air quality was substantially gotten better when applying PM10 index instead of TSP index.As a result,the annual average pollution days resulted from PM10 standards in 2011 were decreased over 50-60 d which can not reflect the real status of local air quality comparing with TSP standards in dryland cities of Xinjiang.Moreover,the air quality resulted from the TSP standards could truthfully indicate the local particulate pollution situation.Finally,the paper suggests policy- makers tighten the daily average standards of PM10 when revising the new ambient air quality standards in order to make the assessment of air quality in accordance with the results from TSP and PM10 indexes in China.


The present invention belongs to the field of nanotechnology, in particular, to a high strength, ordered porous graphene compact fiber and its preparation method. The present invention is graphite oxide Graphite oxide was prepared, dispersed in water, release formulation graphene oxide dispersion, lye is added to adjust the pH, to obtain a spinning solution, the spinning dope is then extruded into the coagulation bath curing, the stretched lead coagulation bath, dried to obtain a porous wound graphene oxide fibers, chemical or physical methods and finally reduction, a compact ordered porous graphene fibers. The porous structure of the present invention to obtain a compact having a graphene ordered fibers, pore size and adjustable orientation, the fiber cross section shaped structure, rich surface roughness, and has good strength and electrical conductivity, the energy in the device, an electrochemical sensor and water treatment and other fields have a wide range of applications. The method of the present invention provides a simple, low cost, high efficiency, fibrous structure and controllable properties, prepared continuous scale can be achieved.


Biodegradable materials derived from polysaccharides, proteins and lipids are edible and have gained high concern nowadays due to the abilities and potential that can replace conventional plastics, thus it also can turn as food contact edible coatings and/or films. This work focused on the preparation and characterization of biodegradable films based on fish gelatin with enhanced flexibility by the incorporation of palm oil and different contents of an emulsifier. Emulsifiers act as surface active agents that capable in reducing the surface tension of the water-lipid interface or the water-air surface. The effect of emulsifier contents on physical, optical and mechanical properties of fish gelatin films was analyzed. The emulsifier addition caused a significant increase in film flexibility, without affecting other functional properties, such as water vapor permeability, solubility or color. Morphology analysis showed a better distribution of palm oil by using the emulsifier, indicating the beneficial effect of the combination of palm oil and emulsifier to manufacture flexible films.


This article deliberates on the topic of managing the organization's creativity. Attempts have been made to define this concept with regard to its various dimensions. In order to refer to the practice of the above issues was presented and discussed in detail the methodology of Design Thinking. Its essence is brought down to the search for creative solutions to business and social problems. It includes various entities, including consumers, in finding the answers to these various issues, which contributes to better meeting their needs. The last part of this study illustrates three case studies presenting the possibilities of creative problem-solving related to the activity in the municipal services industry. Two first case studies refer to the previously mentioned Design Thinking method. In contrast, the third case study is an example of the creative approach of a company dealing with a selective waste collection for the needs of the disabled people. It is also an example of social innovation and open innovation.


Leadership is central to policy ambitions for improvement in Scottish education with leadership positioned as one of the key drivers for improvement to achieve excellence and equity for all learners. To foster teacher engagement in and leadership of change and to prepare enough teachers for headship, building leadership capacity is crucial. The question we explore is: how is it possible to design a career-long leadership development strategy to secure the capacity necessary to fulfil these policy intentions while fostering the autonomy of teachers in professional learning? First, we examine leadership development in the reform agenda and second, we consider the task of balancing system and individual needs in career-long leadership development. We then detail the approaches used to build a cohesive leadership system and its ongoing development.


Liver fibrosis accumulation is considered a turnover disease, with formation exceeding degradation, although this hypothesis has never been tested in humans.


Abstract. In a gene sequencing system, ensquared energy is an important parameter for base-calling software. Nevertheless, the displacement between wafer and camera, which is caused by vibration and position error of the wafer stage while photographing, will decrease the image quality and further influence the ensquared energy. Our study established the relationship model between the dynamic factors and ensquared energy. Several experiments were carried out on the sequencing platform. The results revealed that the ensquared energy has a linear relationship with the location standard deviation of dynamic errors. In the sequencing platform described, if the ensquared energy value required is larger than 65%, the location standard deviation should be controlled below 140 nm. Furthermore, the ensquared energy calculated by a DNA nanoballs image is accordant with the conclusion in the meantime. The performance parameters of the wafer stage and vibration suppression could be drawn up reasonably.


We have developed a planner for redundant manipula-tors that is fast, eeective and versatile, based on the idea of treating each link of a rigid-linked robot as if it were slightly exible and under the innuence of a potential eld. We describe the extensions to the basic method that allow it to plan paths for manipulators with revolute joints (linear and spherical joints having been covered in an earlier paper), as well as for manipulators with exi-ble links and with a large number of degrees of freedom. The planner can either be used within an advanced tele-operated system, or as a path reenement stage of a practical planner that we propose, which includes a rule-based global planning stage.


Bicarbonate (NaHCO3) stress was usually considered to be a mixed stress with salts and high pH. The NaHCO3-specific signaling in plants were rarely reported. In this study, transcriptome analyses was conducted in order to identify the NaHCO3-specific singling in Arabidopsis. Weighted correlation network analysis were performed to isolate the NaHCO3-specific modules in comparison to acetate treatment. The genes in the NaHCO3-root-specific module, which exhibited opposite expressions between NaHCO3 and sodium acetate treatments, were further examined with their corresponding knock-out mutants. The gene Exclusively Bicarbonate Sensitive 1 (EBS1) encoding an S-ribonuclease binding protein was identified to be specifically involved in plant tolerance to NaHCO3, but not to the other two alkaline salts, acetate and phosphate. We also identified the genes that commonly regulated by bicarbonate, acetate and phosphate. Multiple brassinosteroid associated gene ontology terms were enriched in these genes. Via genetic assays, it was found that brassinosteroid signaling positively regulated plant tolerance to NaHCO3 stress while negatively regulated tolerance to acetate and phosphate. Overall, our data genetically identified the bicarbonate-specific genes, and conclude that alkaline stress is mainly dependent on the specificities of the weak acid ions rather than high pH.


Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease related to oxidative stress. Previously, we reported that superoxide dismutase activity (SOD) is lower in asthma as compared to healthy controls and related to airflow obstruction and reactivity. In this study, we hypothesized that serum SOD would be informative for progression of asthma over time. To test this, asthmatic adults (n=47) [age:40+3, mean%FEV1:77+5, FEV1/FVC: 0.69+0.1, gender: M/F=17/30, severe asthma n=12] were evaluated longitudinally over 4 years. SOD levels at the start of the study were significantly lower in Asthmatics as compared to Control subjects (p


Dynamic response of wind-induced vibration and systematic parameter analysis of huge cylindrical reticulated structure is carried out using time domain solution,and the effects of geometric parameters,structural parameters,damping ratio parameters and aerodynamic parameters are obtained.At last,through analyzing wind-induced vibration coefficient of structure,suggested value is presented,which can be used for the reference of the wind-resistance design of huge cylindrical reticulated structures.


Graphene oxide, decorated with surface oxygen functionalities, has emerged as an alternative to precious-metal catalysts for many reactions. Herein, we report that graphene oxide becomes superactive for C–C coupling upon incorporation of a highly oxidized surface associated with Bronsted acidic oxygen functionality and defect sites along the surface and edges. The resulting improved graphene oxide (IGO) demonstrates significantly higher activity over commonly used framework zeolites for the upgrade of low-carbon biomass furanics to high-carbon fuel precursors. A maximum 95% yield of C15 fuel precursor with high selectivity is obtained at low temperature (60 °C) and neat conditions via hydroxyalkylation/alkylation (HAA) of 2-methylfuran (2-MF) and furfural. Coupling of 2-MF with carbonyl compounds ranging from C3 to C6 produces precursors of carbon numbers 12 to 21 with a high yield. The catalyst regains nearly full activity upon regeneration. Extensive microscopic and spectroscopic characterization of the...


In some sense, the ENIAC needs no introduction. Essentially everyone in the computing field has heard of the machine and knows that it was a very early electronic computing system. Many have seen the small subsets of the ENIAC on display in various museums. A number of books have been written about it, e.g., [1] and [2] , and it is discussed in many others, e.g., [3] and [4] . However, some background is in order before discussing the details of the ENIAC's operation and simulation.


Objective To obtain a general overview of gallstone disease in Shanghai. Methods 3415citizens aged 20 in the community of Shanghai were randomly selected to undergo a clinical epidemiological study and an ultrasound examination to screen for cholelithiasis. Results Overall prevalence rate of gallstones was 6.5% (8.6% in women and 5.1% in men). Among the 3415 persons investigated, 65 had already undergone cholecystectomy. The percentage of asymptomatic gallstone was 70 .5% . Prevalence of gallstone diseases (gallstones plus cholecystectomy) increased with age significantly. Conclusion Compared to the research in Shanghai ten years ago, especially for the persons older than 50 years, the gallstone disease has become more frequent. The proportion of asymptomatic gallstones and the awareness is increasing.


treatment completion, the responses were evaluated by PET-CT scan and assessed by investigators using LYRIC criteria. Results: Median follow-up time was 21 months (range; 4–28) from the start of combined treatment. The objective response rate among all treated patients was 80 % with the 44% CR rate; 5 (12%) patients had an IR and 1 patient SD. The PD was the best response in 2 patients. Median OS was not reached, 39/41 (95%) of patients were alive at the time of analysis. Median PFS was 10 mo (7-12) with 32% of patients alive and free of disease progression. Twelve patients undergo allo-HSCT. Adverse events (AE) during treatment were observed in 36 (88%) of patients. The most common AE were fatigue (76%), nausea (66%), pruritus (37%), headache (37%). Grade 3-4 adverse events included 2 cases of leucopenia and thrombocytopenia, uveitis, colitis, pneumonia, infusion reaction in 1 case each. All cases of immune related AE resolved completely after treatment with glucocorticosteroids. Conclusions: This analysis shows that nivo and benda combination have promising activity in the treatment of r/r cHL with a manageable toxicity profile. The combination showed efficacy despite the previous failure of the benda containing regimens or immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy. Nivo/benda combination may be used as the bridge therapy for allo-HSCT in selected patients with r/r cHL.


This paper studied on the rules of heavy metals(Cd,Pb,Cu,Zn and As) accumulated in Cunninghamia lanceolata,Poplus euramericana and Dendrolimus punctatus in Anhua,Hunan.The result showed the contents of Cd,Pb,Cu,Zn and As in the three species all presented in the order W(As)W(Zn)W(Pb)W(Cu)W(Cd),but it varied in Cd,Pb,Cu,Zn and As absorption and distribution.Generally,their contents were higher in the roots than in the shoots,which was as the same as control.The absorption ratios of different heavy metal varied in the same species,and varied in stem /root.This study was important for sustainable using soil polluted by heavy metals and ecological recovery.


The invention provides an intermittent flue gas-drive oil production method. The method comprises the steps that a horizontal well with a first horizontal section and a second horizontal section is arranged firstly, high-temperature steam is injected into the horizontal well, steam huffing and puffing are conducted to preheat an oil layer, and oil fluid of a wellbore and a near-wellbore area is discharged; high-temperature steam is injected into the second horizontal section continuously, steam huffing and puffing are conducted on the oil fluid, after a chemical activator is injected into the first horizontal section for cleaning the wellbore, hot water is injected, and residual oil fluid in the first horizontal section is discharged to a stratum; ignition and gas injection are conducted in the first horizontal section, the first horizontal section generates flowing oil and tail gas and discharges the tail gas, injection of the high-temperature steam to the second horizontal section is stopped, and the flowing oil is lifted to the ground; air is injected into the first horizontal section intermittently so as to produce flue gas to enable the oil layer to be burnt continuously, and the second horizontal layer make the flowing oil lifted to the ground. By means of the intermittent flue gas-drive oil production method, the flue gas produced by burning the oil layer can be directly injected into the stratum to displace thick oil, and the recovery ratio is high.


We have developed a new method to measure confinement time, τ, of trapped ions in a toroidal RF trap. An electron beam which creates Ar ions in the RF trap is modulated sinusoidally with angular frequency ω0. The total number, N, of the confined ions is modulated with phase delay φ of the electron beam current IB. τ is derived from φ using the relation, τ=(1/ω0)tan φ. This new method of τ measurement has the advantage of less disturbance of ion confinement because the synchronous detection of φ at ω0 can minimize the modulation amplitude of IB.


In this article the socioeconomic profile of the employed population in the informal sector of the municipality of Villavicencio (Colombia) is determined, and for this, the data obtained from the Great Integrated Household Survey GEIH (2015-2018) are used and a probit model is applied. It is concluded that being a woman, having a low level of education, earning low income, being single, working more hours per week, not having a work contract, not having a retiree plan, belonging to the subsidized health regime, increase the probability of being in the informal labor market.


According to the ejection fraction (EF) patients with heart failure may be divided into two different groups: heart failure with preserved (HFpEF) or reduced (HFrEF) ejection fraction. In recent years, accumulating studies showed that increased mortality and morbidity rates of these two groups are nearly equal. More importantly, despite decline in mortality after treatment in regard to current guideline in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, there are still no trials resulting in improved outcome in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction so far. Thus, novel pathophysiological mechanisms are under development, and other new viewpoints, such as multiple comorbidities resulting in increased non-cardiac deaths in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction, and forearm hyperemic responses were presented recently. Finally, proinflammatory cytokines are increased in HFPEF and predict future HFPEF development. In this review, new pathophisiological mechanisms, and clinical trials are reviewed, along with a discussion of novel treatment strategies that are currently under investigation or hold promise for the future.


In this study, the micro-structure of rice starch was characterized by measuring the particle-size distribution and the water vapour sorption isotherm at ambient temperature. Because of the slow adsorption and desorption processes, the application of the Jäntti extrapolation method was examined. Evaluation of the isotherm was carried out by a modified Frenkel–Halsey–Hill method. A new method describing the hysteresis loop by bond number is presented.


The present invention relates to a device with a cooling chamber in a continuous production apparatus for a nonwoven fibrous web to be produced, the spinning sphere, filament cooling process air for from the air supply chamber may be introduced into the thermoplastic filaments extending in the aerodynamic. The apparatus also includes a deposition apparatus of a stretching unit, depositing a nonwoven fibrous web filaments having a lower draft channel. The air supply chamber, which is arranged adjacent to the cooling chamber is divided into at least two chamber sections, the processing air of different temperatures can be injected from the respective chamber sections.


To the Editor.— The treatment of plantar warts has always posed a problem. Surgical excision, electrofulguration (by itself or accompanied by curettage), application of keratolytic pastes, podophyllum resin, liquid nitrogen therapy, and radiotherapy have all been used. Although each physician may prefer one or the other of the previously mentioned treatments, the truth of the matter is that with any one of them relapses are very frequent; and when the procedure has been destructive, the healing of the wound is long and uncomfortable. Scars on the soles are also a problem because of the placement of the foot. With cantharidin therapy, the patient runs the risk of developing warts on the edges of the lesion, and radiotherapy entails risks that do not justify its routine usage in the treatment of a benign process. Other procedures, such as scraping, that require frequent visits of the patient to the clinic, are very


For gas-sensing mechanism of metal oxide, metal oxide gas sensor chip needs to work in a hot environment from 150°C to 400°C and must open to detected gases. These different characteristics, compared with integrated circuit (IC), lead significant challenges for metal oxide gas sensor packaging design. In this paper, to get best packaging design, we discuss the influence of the sensor chip conductivity(A), shell conductivity(B), metal wire conductivity(C), glass insulation conductivity(D), sensor chip size(E), source power(F) and shell thickness(G) on the gas sensor package thermal performance by modeling and finite element analysis(FEA) method, and then verify the FEA method though an experiment. The results show that the influence to the mean temperature of the shell top center decreases in the order: F>B>C>E>D>A>G according to the R values, while the influence to the sensor chip temperature decreases in the following order: C>D>B>E>F>A>G.


RF resonant cavity thrusters are a new concept in propulsion that has the advantage of comparatively large thrust, simple structure and high reliability. Their workings are unknown, but since their reproduction by multiple independent laboratories they show evidence of a potential revolution in the physical sciences, but also require more systematic study of both the phenomenon and the various claims in the production of the device. An EMDrive system comprises a frustum microwave resonance cavity, microwave source, and load. The microwave beam generated by microwave source was input into the frustum microwave resonator to form a pure standing wave and electromagnetic pressure gradient. Thus, along the axial direction of the frustum microwave resonator, net thrust is formed. Current, unverified, theories related to EMDrive predict a net radiation pressure that scales with the Q factor (amount of reflections inside the cavity before the radiation is absorbed) of the cavity, which has been observed. This article, based on classical electromagnetic theory, introduce a building of a propellantless microwave propulsion system work at 2.45GHz. The measurement of Q-factor of this resonance cavity and relative analyze had been completed follow the EMDrive theory.


With the 240,000 hours allotted to our group starting in Feb. 2015 and the extension of the allocation (additional 240,000 hours) in Sep. 2015, we have worked on problems that range from applications of high performance computing on Blue Waters to investigate conformational dynamics of plant receptor-like kinases involved in Brassinosteroid signaling to a methodological study utilizing evolutionary information to guide protein simulations. This allocation has lead to two publications and several manuscript submissions are planned in near future. Given our productive usage of the computing time originally allocated to us, we believe that time allotted to our group will be put to good use and will allow us to continue to do the science uniquely enabled by the computational power of Blue Waters. We request an allocation of 290,000 node hours for the current allocation period (Mar 2016-Feb 2017) in order to continue our research work. Below, we have provided project updates and publications directly resulting from our work on Blue Waters.


This paper presents a novel algorithm that modifies the speech uttered by a source speaker to sound as if produced by a target speaker. In particular, we address the issue of transformation of the vocal tract characteristics from one speaker to another. The approach is based on estimating spectral envelopes using radial basis function (RBF) networks, which is one of the well-known models of artificial neural networks. The simulation results show that the proposed method achieves nearly optimal spectral conversion performance. Moreover, average cepstrum distance to the target speech is reduced by 87%, and in the listening tests, around 84% of mean opinion score (MOS) is obtained.


The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of surgical treatment for otitis media with effusion (OME). It was designed as retrospective study and conducted in Aden during a period of six years. 132 children were diagnosed with otitis media with effusion. Males were 59.8% and females 40.2% and the mean age was 9.9±2.8 years. Most of the patients were from rural areas (78.8%). The mean duration from starting symptoms was 11.3±4.2 months. The most common cause was adenoids (45.5%). All preoperative tympanograms for both ears were type B. The postoperative tympanogram was in the right ear 88.7% type A, 3.0% type B and 8.3% type C. In the left ear were 87.9% type A, 1.5% type B and 10.6% type C. The surgical procedures were adenoidtectomy with tympanostomy tube, adeno-tonsillectomy with tympanostomy tube, and myringotomy with tympanostomy tube. The most frequent, complication was myringosclerosis 12(9.1%). The mean of preoperative hearing threshold of the right ear was 33.7 dB ± standard deviation (SD) 16 dB, also for the left ear was 33 dB ± SD 15.7 dB (p<0.05). The mean of postoperative hearing threshold of the right ear was 22.5 dB ± SD 11.2 dB, and for the left ear was 21.8 dB ± SD 10.8 dB (p<0.05). The hearing gain was 11.2 dB, and was equal in both ears. We concluded that surgical treatment of OME in the form of myringotomy and tympanostomy tubes with adenoidectomy is effective, safe and rapid, helping to restore the hearing of child immediately after operation.


This study was conducted to determine the effects of stevia ( Stevia rebaudiana bertoni) and charcoal supplementation ongrowth performance, immune response and carcass characteristics of finishing pigs. A total of 420 pigs (LYD) were ran-domly allocated into 7 treatments with 3 replications. Dietary treatments were 1) T1 (basal diet), 2) T2 (basal diet+0.3%stevia), 3) T3 (basal diet+0.6% stevia), 4) T4 (basal diet+0.3% charcoal), 5) T5 (basal diet+0.6% charcoal), 6) T6 (basaldiet+0.3% stevia+0.3% charcoal) and 7) T7 (basal diet+0.6% stevia+0.6% charcoal). During the experimental period, aver-age daily gain (ADG) was higher in T2 and T6 groups than the other treatments ( p<0.05). Feed conversion ratio (FCR) washigher in T6 group compared to the others (p<0.05). There were no significant differences in total cholesterol level andglutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT) activity of blood among treatments. In glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT)activity, T3, T5, T6 and T7 groups showed lower values (p<0.05) compared to T1. Insulin-like growth factor-1 concentra-tion was higher in T2 and T6 groups than the others (p<0.05), but there were no significant differences in immunoglobulinG, lymphocyte, eosinophil, basophil and atypical lymph levels among treatments. In neutrophil, T6 showed higher levelcompared to the others (p<0.05). In the carcass characteristics, T6 showed higher level of a carcass grade compared to theother treatments. However, carcass length did not show any significant difference among treatments. As a result, dietarysupplementation of 0.3% stevia and 0.3% charcoal showed higher ADG, higher FCR and better immune response resultingin better growth performance and carcass characteristics of finishing pigs. Key words: stevia, charcoal, growth performance, immune response, carcass characteristics, pig


Based on the present situation and the security threat to Power Information System(PIS),a new PIS security model was built by referencing existing information system security model and framework,and determining many factors as well as their sub-factors affecting PIS security.By using fuzzy theory,a multi-class fuzzy comprehensive judgment model and its evaluation method were given.According to the features of PIS,the fuzzy judgment matrix and the weight coefficients of factors were determined.The security performance of PIS was evaluated in a way of fuzzy measurement.Calculation examples prove that this method can determine PIS security level,hence validating the model is practical and the method is effective.


The SCSS test accelerator, which was constructed to check the feasibility of XFEL/SPring-8, is being operated for user experiments using stable EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) SASE. This accelerator provides a high-quality electron beam with parameters, such as a bunch length of 300 fs and a peak current of 700 A, for power saturation of the EUV SASE. Evaluating the parameters is very important to ensure the stable generation of SASE. Bunch-length measurement systems to evaluate the parameters have been developed. The systems use the rf zero-phase crossing method, the EO sampling method with temporal decoding and an 800 nm laser, and a method for observing OTR (near the infrared region) by a streak camera (fesca-200), which is mature technology. All of the measured bunch lengths were about 300 fs (FWHM), which is consistent with the individual methods. The most important result is that the streak camera with optimum tuning directly measured the temporal structure with femto-second resolution, and the reliabilities of these systems were mutually checked.


Summary

Christmas Island, at 2° N, 157° W in the Central Pacific Ocean, supports 18 breeding species of sea-birds. Data on the breeding seasons collected by the authors and other visitors to the island are analyzed in individual species accounts. Population estimates are given, the distribution of each species on the island is outlined, and for some species information on the sexual and moult cycles of marked individuals is presented. The Discussion concerns the ultimate and proximate factors controlling breeding seasons and the role of social factors in maintaining breeding synchrony in sea-birds, the diversity of the breeding regimes exhibited on Christmas Island (summary and analysis in Fig. 2 and Table 5), and comparison of these regimes with those found in the birds of Ascension Island and the Galapagos Archipelago.


Material Culture Review 66 (Fall 2007) / Revue de la culture matérielle 66 (automne 2007) In 1983, under the auspices of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, the author undertook to travel into the gold mining regions surrounding Dawson City, the "Klondike capital" of the Yukon. The remains of old placer mining activities were located and recorded, some dating to before the Klondike gold rush, and interviews were conducted with long-time residents regarding the history of the region.1 The findings of this work were augmented by a literature survey that was undertaken after the initial fieldwork was completed. This paper, based upon the examination of artifacts during this work and investigations conducted in subsequent years, focuses on an assemblage of in-situ artifacts from the goldfields surrounding Dawson City. It covers an area of approximately 3,500 square kilometres primarily south and east of Dawson City, Yukon, south of the Klondike River, east of the Yukon River and north of the Stewart River. The territory includes adjacent areas near Dawson City, primarily to the west in the Fortymile and Sixtymile regions (Fig. 1). Secondary reuse refers to any object which was manufactured for a specific use and subsequently physically modified so that it may be used for a different purpose. This is distinct MICHAEL GATES


By analyzing the changes of reflux ratio,the optimum feed positions within the two distillation columns in the experimental device for double-effects distillation HGL of forward feed was determined.Equipment expense was estimated to correlate the number of theoretical stage with cost.Furthermore,the suitable number of the theoretical stage of the two distillation columns in the experimental device was determined.Finally,equipment parameters were determined and the estimate of equipment expense was confirmed.


This study builds a moderated mediation model based on ecosystem theory. Through the study of 534 vocational high school students in Chongqing, we investigated their Internet addiction, emotional regulation difficulties, aggressive behavior and family closeness. The results show that: (1) according to demographic statistics, 38.4% of the total number of students were diagnosed with Internet addiction. (2) After controlling for gender, age, family and personal economic status, PIU had a positive predictive effect on aggressive behavior. (3) PIU indirectly affects aggressive behavior through the mediating effect of emotion regulation difficulty. (4) The indirect effect was moderated by family closeness. These results are helpful to understand how family intimacy affects adolescents' PIU, emotional regulation difficulties and aggressive behavior tendency from the perspective of different subsystems of developmental system theory and their interactions. The prevention and intervention of adolescent PIU should not only pay attention to their psychological state, but also improve the influence of PIU on adolescents' bad behavior from the aspect of family relationship.


The long afterglow blue luminescence materials SrSiO3:Eu2+,Dy3+ are prepared by solid state method with the powdered carbon.Effects of the doping ions Eu2+ content are studied.The tructure,morphology and spectra properties of the samples are characterized by XRD,SEM,UVand PL-PLE spectra,respectively.The results show that sample SrSiO3:Eu2+,Dy3+ is monoclimi structure;the sample pellet is like the bouquet of flowers excitation spectrum is broad in ultraviolet and visible regions;the peaks are 308 nm,359 nm,420 nm respectively,emission spectrum is a broadband one,and the peak is 470 nm;the best molar concentration of Eu2+ is 7mol%.The sample SrSiO3:Eu2+,Dy3+ is a new type of long afterglow blue luminescence materials.


In this study I design and present a new instrument, Cross-Cultural Orientation Inventory (CCOI), to measure the cross cultural orientation of a person. I define cross-cultural orientation as the readiness of a person to interact with, and form a sustainable relationship with a person from a different culture. I posit that CCOI would be a valid measure of cross-cultural orientation of a person, which in turn, would be related to the cross cultural behavioral competence of that person. I design a questionnaire to represent CCOI, and assess its reliability and validity empirically. I discuss my results and the utility of the new measure for HR practitioners in recruitment and selection processes.


The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising out of the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing to the growth of insecurity. While earlier studies have touched on how globalization has increased economic insecurity and how geopolitical changes may have contributed to military insecurity, this volume looks for some common threads: in a globalized world without a global government, with a system of global governance not up to the tasks, how do we achieve security without looking inward and stepping back from globalization? In each of their areas of expertise, contributors seek answers to questions about how we achieve protection of those people who are most insecure without resorting to economic, military, or mafia protectionism.


Learning styles are important determinants of the use the electronic learning materials in education. These materials consist of many structural elements, of which some respect individual learning styles more and some less. In the realized research, the question has been solved of whether the particular components of electronic teaching materials are the same for different groups of students with respect to their individuality, which can be manifested by preferred learning styles. The course and some of the partial results of the realized research, focused on the use of learning styles in education realized in the form of e-learning, are presented in this study.


This research investigates the effect of BSC on the financial performance of banks operating in Palestine, across BSC's four perspectives: financial; customers; internal business processes; innovation, growth and learning. It seeks to identify the relationship between BSC and the financial performance of banks operating in Palestine.

For this purpose, the research population comprises all 14 banks operating in Palestine. As a result of the small size of the population, the 'complete census' method has been used: the sample is the whole population. The questionnaire was distributed to 130 respondents (employees) at banks: branch managers, heads of departments, directors of departments and financial controllers. Financial performance was used as a dependent variable, while the following four independent variables served as hypothesized determinants: (i) financial perspective, (ii) customers' perspective, (iii) internal business processes perspective, and (iv) innovation, growth and learning perspective. The Multiple Linear Regression test at 95% confidence was used, resulting in three significant variables: financial perspective; internal business processes perspective; and innovation, growth and learning perspective. Overall, the adjusted R2 = 0.62. This measure is acceptable, and reveals that the resulting model interprets 62% of the determinants of financial performance.

The most important results of this study are: (1) the BSC model can be used to enhance the financial performance of banks operating in Palestine, and (2) the customers' perspective in the BSC model did not have the same effect as other perspectives. Moreover, (3) in their measurement of performance, banks operating in Palestine apply clear strategic performance measures, including traditional financial and non-financial measures, while noting that their use of these measures does not mean that they apply them under the remit of a BSC model. These measures can be reclassified within the four perspectives of the BSC model.

The main recommendations are that (1) banks operating in Palestine should implement BSC as an integrated system for strategic management, and as a means for decision-making by management. Its application achieves many advantages that enhance the competitive position and financial performance of banks. Furthermore, (2) banks operating in Palestine need to pay more attention to strategy, and measurements that are included in the customers' perspective of BSC. There is also a need to (3) conduct training courses for bank employees on BSC and how it can be used. Finally, there is a need to (4) conduct further investigation of the effect of adopting BSC as a strategic planning tool on the financial performance of banks operating in Palestine, as well as (5) a study of the effect of BSC when taking into consideration the type of bank - Islamic or commercial, local or foreign.


intracranial trauma suffered by many infants should be described as cerebral congestion, oedema, and contusion rather than intracranial haemorrhage. I emphasized this point in 1922,1 and it was again brought out by J . N. Cruickshank in the report on his extensive pathological investigations. My clinical experience in the Liverpool Maternity Hospital during the past fourteen years supports the view that the intracranial condition in many damaged infants is one which, while full of danger to life during forty-eight to seventy-two hours after birth, may resolve after this period has been successfully passed, and leave no permanent physical or mental disability. We have got beyond the stage of believing that the death of a damaged infant is always a merciful release, and we are fully justified in employing every line of treatment likely to help the baby to survive the early period of danger, even though we may not be able to make an exact differential diagnosis between intracranial haemorrhage on the one hand, and cerebral congestion, oedema, and contusion on the other. I hope that Dr. Moncrieff's suggestion will receive trial in many places, and that the results will be reported.-I am, etc.,


The utility model relates to a collapsible many rotors plant protection machine who belongs to the agricultural machine field. It includes the power paddle, driving motor, and the main rotor arm, the bearing diagonal pipe, the locking dish, the centre plate is gone up to the umbrella disk, and the adjustment lockplate flies to control the control box, vice rotor arm, lower centre plate, the battery mounting bracket, the medical kit, the shower nozzle, the locking spring, locking post etc. Bearing diagonal pipe clamp wherein, bearing diagonal pipe, bearing diagonal connect, the locking dish, the umbrella disk, umbrella-type mechanism is constituteed to locking spring and locking post etc. Is located the middle part of plant protection machine to utilize the bearing diagonal pipe clamp to connect the rotor respectively, go up the centre plate, the adjustment lockplate, vice rotor arm, the rack section is formed to lower centre plate and vice rotor arm pipe clamp etc. The utility model discloses an use umbrella-type mechanism, realize receiving and releasing fast so that transport of plant protection machine, utilize locking dish and adjustment lockplate to realize the fast switch over of plant protection machine lock-out state to have leave a blank chronic, payload advantage such as big.


Background: As the duration of the Q‐T interval is dependent upon the length of the preceding cardiac cycle, changes in QT interval duration mainly reflect, in normal subjects, the physiological beat‐by‐beat variability of the sinus node. However, little information is available on short‐term Q‐T variability in patients with an abnormal neural modulation of the sinus node.


This study was conducted with the aim of determining the base sector and non-base sector in Bojonegoro Regency and Tuban Regency. This research is based on secondary data in the form of time series data obtained through the Central Statistics Agency website in 2022 and processed using Location Quetient, Shift Share, and Klassen Typology analysis tools. And obtained the results of the analysis there are two base sectors in Bojonegoro Regency and three base sectors inTuban Regency.
Keywords: Base Sector; Location Quetient, Shift Share, and Klassen Typology


An analysis of the implementation of linked data (LD) and linked open data (LOD) techniques in Europeana is presented. The final report recently published by the Library Linked Data Incubator Group ( XG-LLD ) is examined, and its application in Europeana is analyzed. Details of the work already done and the activities to be developed are provided. Then, the article examines the LOD implementation following the Europeana data model (EDM) for each of its components. Finally an assessment on the use of these techniques in the field of cultural institutions is done.


This paper provides a theoretic and systematic analysis on the battery state of charge (SOC) estimation errors caused by sensor noises. The considered noises include the bias and the variance of both current and voltage sensors. Specifically, the bias and the variance of the SOC estimation error are derived as explicit functions of sensor noises, battery parameters, and observer tuning parameters. The derivation is performed for the Kalman filter, which is the most commonly used method for SOC estimation, and the least squares method. It is found that the observer parameter tuning is subject to a tradeoff between suppressing the estimation bias and variance. Either one of these two errors becomes dominant under different observer parameter ranges. The fundamental estimation error that cannot be mitigated through observer tuning has also been identified. The results have been validated by both simulation and experiment. The obtained theoretical findings are of great practical significance as they could be used to guide sensor selection and observer design, as well as enable online uncertainty management.


Pointer is an important data type which embodies a significant trait of C programming language. This article mainly formulates the concept, operation and application of pointers in C programming language. Some examples are included in the article to make it more clear that how to program with pointers conveniently and the problems which may arise while using pointers.


The preventive healthcare project GeMuKi: Gemeinsam Gesund Vorsorge Plus für Mutter und Kind (Strengthening health promotion: enhanced check-up visits for mother and child), which has been funded by the Innovation Fund of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) for four years, is about supporting health in the first 1,000 days of a child's life. The project aims to reduce the risk of overweight and obesity in mother and child, strengthen the health literacy of mothers-to-be and young parents, improve cooperation between medical and non-medical healthcare professionals, and strengthen the communication skills of the professionals involved in care.


Nowadays, Health Provider Institutions (IPS) increasingly drive their efforts to comply with legal requirements to provide basic health service. Others go beyond that and manage to implement a Quality Management System that guarantees the provision of services. However, such concept has evolved as well as the patient. Currently, the purpose is not to achieve patient satisfaction, but to create a real service experience around them, their families and those who provide the service, according to the principle of care focused on the person. The Emergency Service, one of the most critical units due to its nature within the hospital complex, is where patients are less satisfied since it is there where they face a number of Moments of Truth in high sensitivity conditions. The latter may be favorable or critical, and not entirely contemplated in a Model of Attention. However, if they can be defined in a tool such as the Customer Journey Map, which identifies the gaps that institutions cannot see, but are made visible when the patient is involved, such tool may become the starting point for the elaboration of a Service Strategy that, within its purposes, will turn a critical moment into a memorable experience. This work studies the Emergency Service of a Clinic of III and IV level of complexity of Bogota based on the current care model. A Patient Experience Map will be proposed, which will serve as the basis for generating a Service Strategy focused on person-centered care.


(1997) Pediatrics 100, 600; Swanston HY, Tebbutt JS, O'Toole BI, et al. . Sexually abused children 5 years after presentation: a case-control study. . Oct; . : . –8. .

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 Question What are the 5 year outcomes (behaviour, depression, self esteem, anxiety, eating problems, drug use, suicide attempts, self injury, running away, criminal activity, and attributional style) in children who have been sexually abused compared with children who have not been sexually abused?

Cohort study within a case control study.

Sydney, Australia.

84 children who had been sexually abused (74% girls) were evaluated at the Child Protection Unit of 2 hospitals from 1988–90. They were 5–15 years old, lived in the metropolitan area, and had experienced some form of abusive sexual contact with either physical evidence or a clear and consistent description of events that the hospital staff deemed confirmatory. Exclusion criteria were consensual sexual activity between peers and developmental delay. Control children were matched for age and sex and chosen at random from area schools. Follow up was 81%.

Children and non-offending parents were interviewed at baseline and at 5 years. Prognostic factors were abuse characteristics, …

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Summary 1. Results of this study point to the critical role of potassium in amino acid utilization following protein depletion. Rats depleted only of protein failed completely, even when offered a complete source of amino acids, if at the same time potassium was withheld. If phosphorus was withheld during the repletion period, the rate of recovery was lessened, but complete failure and deaths did not result as with potassium deprivation. Deprivation of sodium, calcium or magnesium did not appear to have immediate limiting effects on the appetite of protein depleted rats for a complete amino acid source, or on their ability to recover lost weight. 2. Fourteen mg of potassium per rat day appeared to meet the requirement for this element. Addition of 10 mQv of potassium per liter to an intravenous protein hydrolysate appears to supply an effective, safe ratio of potassium to amino acid nitrogen.


The situation of the desertification in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is critical.In order to understand the dynamic characteristics and influencing factors of the desertification,the authors analyzed the remote sensing images from 4 different periods(i.e.,1975,1990,2000,2007) in the study area and performed the statistical analysis by means of MapGIS 6.7 and SPSS.Principal factor analysis was employed to find the main factors influencing the desertification.The results show that from 1975 to 2007 the area of desertification in some areas decreased by 2.43×103 km2,but the total area of desertification still accounted for over 60% of the total study area.The geomorphic type played an important role in the desertification.The desertification area of wind-borne landforms accounted for 43.1% of the study area.In a short period,desertification caused by human activities and villainous climate in the middle reaches of the Yellow River accounted for 52% and 48%,respectively.


In this paper, we proposed a new mechanism that solves the fairness problem between unicast traffic using the TCP and multicast traffic using the UDP, and satisfies the requirement of various receivers fairly in the Internet. The proposed mechanism decentralizes the load of blanket transmission rate control from sender to designated server, and uses the method that talc designated server intercepts the sender's data and controls the transmission rate suitable for it's local network. Therefore, the proposed mechanism not only provides multicast service by accurate estimation of the network status of each receiver, but also realizes both the inter-session fairness and the intra-session fairness problem.


This study investigated the exploratory behavior 0f 15 legally blind preschoolers as they compared to 15 sighted preschoolers (matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status). Each child was videotaped interacting with a novel toy and a commercial toy for the purpose of looking for initiative-aggressiveness, interest, mode of examination, sensory utilization, assistance needed to solve each toy, and verbalizations during exploration and about the "solution" of each toy.


A feedback-based coding algorithm is studied for broadcast packet erasure channels (BPECs) with energy harvesting receivers. A probabilistic algorithm is outlined, which is able to achieve the capacity region of two-user BPECs. The probabilistic algorithm is carefully studied from the optimization perspective. In this paper, we take into account the energy levels of receivers. Two new feedback schemes are proposed to reduce the energy consumption of receivers and we explain the advantage of each feedback scheme. We formulate the problem of maximizing the minimum weighted throughput of receivers for each feedback scheme. After several convexifications, we make the formulated optimizations tractable and propose an algorithm to solve the problems globally without compromising optimality. Once optimization problems are solved, we propose an energy-aware scheduling for packet broadcasting. Finally, a packet header design is proposed to enable utilization of the energy-aware scheduling. Simulation results verify that to achieve the optimal throughput, network-coding is necessary.


By using quantitative research methods and deductive reasoning, this research paper aims to address the importance of four marketing mix components (4Ps) on purchase decisions of customers of Apple Inc., by launching a survey in Hanoi, Vietnam, to generate primary data. The chosen sampling technique is quota sampling and several "quotas" were built. Descriptive analysis and hypothetical analysis (t-test, one-way ANOVA and Regression) using SPSS 20.0 are applied. Other implications of the research and limitations were also discussed below.


This article examines two conceptions of the democratic process – "liberal economic theory" and "civic republican theory." It concludes that neither theory satisfies its own respective criteria for legitimacy in the context of environmental policymaking. The article advocates a Deweyan-style pragmatism in environmental policymaking, recognizing that the best we can hope for is "muddling through." The article also responds to criticisms that have been leveled against this inherently incremental approach.


Hybrid accelerator, incorporating travelling wave (TW) and standing wave (SW) structures is proposed and discussed. Accelerator can sum up an RF focusing in the SW buncher and lower losses in the TW accelerating structure walls. Moreover, the structure without dumping load is proposed. Input power and beam loading are chosen to minimize power reflection from buncher maintain travelling wave regime in the accelerating structure while beam loading is on. In this case SW buncher operates as a dumping load, so all input power either goes to beam or dissipates in the wall losses, it increases structure efficiency. RF characteristics and beam dynamics simulations have been performed.


The role of photography in the process of the social control of the power over the actions, people's behaviour, and forming public opinion is considered. Photography is presented as a manipulative technology of the information war.


The renewing of the Chinese textbooks is claimed to be closely related to the new education reforms,in particular,in the early of Republic of China,in relation to compilation conceptions,contents,and linguistic styles.


An experimental study is made on the alignment of an optically linked autonomous model-spacecraft triad with features similar to those in a separated-spacecraft interferometer. Each model spacecraft is magnetically levitated and free to rotate about a fixed axis. Two laser beams are used to simulate the light from a distant star impinging on the collectors of a space interferometer. The laser beams reflected from the servo-controlled mirrors on the collector model spacecraft impinge on an optical sensor array mounted on the combiner model spacecraft. Simple rule-based cooperative controls are developed for optical alignment in the presence of rotational drift induced by external impulsive or persistent disturbances. These controls are driven by events defined by the laser-beam activation of certain sensors. The resulting controlled system is a hybrid continuous-time and discrete-event system. Experimental results show that the derived control laws are effective in achieving optical alignment of the model spacecraft triad, using only a small number of optical sensors with binary outputs, provided that the relative angular drift speeds are sufficiently small.


We present a framework for the specification and the analysis of information flow properties in partially specified distributed systems, i.e. , systems in which there are several unspecified components located in different places. First we consider the notion of Non Deducibility on Composition ( NDC for short) originally proposed for nondeterministic systems and based on trace semantics. We study how this information flow property can be extended in order to deal also with distributed partially specified systems. In particular, we develop two different approaches: the centralized NDC ( CNDC ) and the decentralized NDC ( DNDC ). According to the former, there is just one unspecified global component that has complete control of the n distributed locations where interaction occurs between the system and the unspecified component. According to DNDC , there is one unspecified component for each distributed location, and the n unspecified components are completely independent, i.e. , they cannot coordinate their efforts or cooperate. Surprisingly enough, we prove that centralized NDC is as discriminating as decentralized NDC . However, when we move to Bisimulation-based Non-Deducibility on Composition , BNDC for short, the situation is completely different. We prove that centralized BNDC ( CBNDC for short) is strictly finer than decentralized BNDC ( DBNDC for short ), hence proving the quite expected fact that a system that can resist to coordinated attacks is also able to resist to simpler attacks performed by independent entities. Hence, by exploiting a variant of the modal µ -calculus that permits to manage tuples of actions, we present a method to analyze when a system is CBNDC and/or DBNDC , that is based on the theory of decomposition of formulas and compositional analysis.


Information Visualization online tools have gradually found its way into various contexts of use and Higher Education Institutions are not an exception. The considerable amount of data and information continuously produced in Higher Education Institutions provide Information Visualization professionals an interesting set of challenges which, if looked through a broader perspective all share a common goal: to assist and contribute to decision making. However, tools presently available, or in an ongoing stage, take different approaches regarding interface, interaction and goal design in Higher Education Institutions, Information Visualization tools. This paper presents a review and analysis of some Higher Education Institution Information Visualization online tools, according to an up-to-date theoretical framework. Its conclusions include some final thoughts on what is driving, or not, work and outcomes in this particular context of use.


Refuse incinerating power generation technology not only can make the quantitative reduction and harmless treatment of urban domestic garbage,but also the energy generated can be applied to power generation as well as other aspects.In addition,it takes small occupation area.So it's an obviously advantage in environmental protection and resource utilization.In our country,the study and application of refuse incinerating power generation technology is main in the developed area.This paper expatiated on the optimal selection of waste incinerator and the factors affect the efficiency of the waste incineration and generating electricity.


Topological insulators are identified as systems where a gapped bulk supports in-gap edge states, protected against symmetry-preserving local perturbations. In one dimension the robustness of the edge states shows up as a pinning of their energy levels in the middle of the bulk band gap. Here we propose a scheme for probing this unique feature by observing transport characteristics of a one-dimensional finite-sized topological insulator attached to external leads. We present predictions for transmission spectra using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Our analysis covers both time-independent and periodically driven (Floquet) topological insulators, with time-independent and periodically driven boundary perturbations which either preserve or break the protecting chiral symmetry.


In the drop- or stretch-forming of operationa of frames of airplane parts which consisted of the heattreatable 6061 alloy sheet, unacceptable products were made many times extraordigrain growth or orange peel in materials.Sheets of six different thickness from three different manufactures were picked up and examined their tendency of grain growth and studied on the correlation between the forming process and the grain growth.It seems that the tendency of grain growth is different according to the manufacturer although the grain size (0.05mm) are almost same. The grain growth area has poor mechanical properties compared with the normal area. When the cold work is applied it must be restricted to 5% only before the solution treatment and can be made more after the treatment. The grain size becomes the maximum value when the cold work reaches 6∼7% (about 11kg/mm2 load). When the grain size exceeds 0.1mm, the surface is completely covered with the orange peel effect.


OBJECTIVE:To study the pharmacokinetics,clinical and bacteriological efficacies of moxifloxacin in the treatment of lower respiratory tract infection.METHODS:18 cases of lower respiratory tract infection were collected and treated with moxifloxacin 400 mg/d intravenously.The blood concentration of moxifloxacin was determined by HPLC.Both clinical and bacteriological efficacies were both recorded.The sputum specimens collected before and after the therapy were cultured to measure the MIC by broth dilution method.RESULTS:The peak concentration,trough concentration and steady state blood concentration of moxifloxacin reached(3.69±0.05)mg/L,(1.43±0.10)mg/L and(4.25±0.06)mg/L,respectively.Among 18 cases of lower respiratory tract infection treated with Moxifloxacin sodium chloride injection,15 cases were cured,1 case was significantly effective and 2 cases improved.The total effective rate was 88.89%.Most of the clinical symptoms and signs improved obviously after 3 days.Bacteria clearance was 88.89%.CONCLUSIONS:Treating lower respiratory tract infection,Moxifloxacin sodium chloride injection can achieve effective therapeutic concentration and get good curative effect.


We have developed a new technique to measure the ferromagnetic antiferromagnetic exchange biasing (FAEB) energy with relatively small reversible rotations of the magnetization from the unidirectional easy direction. This new technique uses the anisotropic magnetoresistance to determine the angle the magnetization makes relative to the easy direction as a function of an externally applied magnetic field. This technique, based on reversible magnetization changes, gives FAEB energies roughly twice that of the traditional irreversible magnetization reversal measurements.


"Education Technology Ability Standard of Primary and Middle School Teachers" has published in recent ten years,but in the "modern educational technology" course it is rarely used.and we can construct the "modern educational technology" course system again according to "standard" by using the "service learning" teaching model of "the true problem of Primary and Middle School schools teaching—— Classroom Teaching——learning/teaching experiment——problem solving-Reflection.And we also focus on introduction of the "standard","new curriculum standard" and "new pattern",for promoting full integration between the "standard" and "modern educational technology" course teaching.


In this paper a stochastic approximation register ADC is proposed. The ADC is capable of achieving an ENOB of up to 10 bits. The ADC is composed of a variable noise engine, a bank of comparators with Gaussian offset noise, and a DAC. The ADC is simulated to achieve over 10 ENOB across various non-idealities using a comparator bank containing 1200 digital-cell based comparators with an input referred offset standard deviation of 12 mV.


The association of M-polynomial to chemical compounds and chemical networks is a relatively new idea, and it gives good results about the topological indices. These results are then used to correlate the chemical compounds and chemical networks with their chemical properties and bioactivities. In this paper, an effort is made to compute the general form of the M-polynomials for two classes of dendrimer nanostars and four types of nanotubes. These nanotubes have very nice symmetries in their structural representations, which have been used to determine the corresponding M-polynomials. Furthermore, by using the general form of M-polynomial of these nanostructures, some degree-based topological indices have been computed. In the end, the graphical representation of the M-polynomials is shown, and a detailed comparison between the obtained topological indices for aforementioned chemical structures is discussed.


The action systems framework has recently been applied to the area of synchronous VLSI design. Synchronous action systems explicitly model synchronous twophase behavior, making a formal description transparent, in the sense that its hardware implementation can be obtained by a direct mapping. The design methodology is based on correctly transformations of asynchronous circuit descriptions into synchronous equivalent designs. In this paper, we analyse other aspects of designing synchronous circuits in the framework of action systems, namely the synchronization of subsystems.


To the Editor: In Queensland, Australia, a steady increase in community-acquired (CA) Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) during 2003–2012 could not be explained by patients' demographic characteristics or environmental factors (1). Several risk factors have been implicated in the increased rates of CA-CDI, primarily exposure to antimicrobial drugs, gastric acid–suppression drugs, and corticosteroids (2). Given the recent rise in prescription of corticosteroids and proton pump inhibitors in Australia, we hypothesized that the observed increase in CA-CDI was associated with increased drug prescriptions.


The ADA recommends GLP-1 agonists as second-line therapy against type 2 diabetes. What makes this class unique in its impact on hyperglycemia?


The invention discloses a method for preparing a quick-drying solid-mold casting coating material. According to the method, the quick-drying solid-mold casting coating material is prepared from the following ingredients in parts by weight: 65-75 parts of quartz powder, 5-7 parts of plant ash, 10-12 parts of corundum powder, 10-12 parts of sodium bentonite, 4-6 parts of nano attapulgite, 1-2 parts of lignosulfonic acid, 0.8-1.5 parts of polyvinyl alcohol, 5-7 parts of starch paste, 1.4-1.6 parts of silica sol, 1-2 parts of nanoscale ceramic powder, 0.5-0.8 part of red ferric oxide powder and 525-535 parts of water, wherein a binder consists of a normal-temperature binder and a high-temperature binder, and the mass ratio of the normal-temperature binder to the high-temperature binder is 2: 3. The solid-mold casting coating material prepared by the method has excellent gas permeability and quick-drying performance in both high-temperature environments and low-temperature environments, thereby being capable of meeting the production requirements of large-sized cast parts.


We challenge the prevalent claim that outgroup members are dehumanised. In study 1, we conducted a systematic content analysis of historical documents from Nazi Germany and showed that, even in these supposedly prototypical cases of extreme dehumanisation, victims are described in ways that only make sense when applied to humans. In studies 2a-c, we test Haslam's influential dual model of dehumanisation. We show that outgroup members are thought to possess positive human attributes to a lesser extent but negative human attributes to a greater extent. In study 3, we test Leyens' prominent infrahumanisation model and demonstrate that, contrary to a body of previous work, outgroup members are not thought to experience all secondary emotions less intensely. Rather, they are thought to experience prosocial emotions less intensely but antisocial emotions more intensely. In a final study, we question the hypothesised relationship between dehumanisation and modulation of prosocial behaviour. We demonstrate that describing someone in uniquely human terms can actually reduce prosociality towards them when those terms are antisocial. Taken together, these studies cast doubt on the claim that representing others as 'less human' holds explanatory power in the study of intergroup bias.


Nowadays, the earth's available oil reserves decreases gradually while a great demand for oil is increasing.To improve oil recovery technique, the development of new profile control agent has important scientific significance and application value. A new copolymer of acrylamide (AM) and Isobutane-Ethylhexyl acrylate (2-EHA) was synthesized as profile control agent by free radical copolymerization. FT-IR and 1H-NMR were used for the structure characterization. Thermo gravimetric analysis, Core/Sand pack experiments and water drive displacement tests of copolymer particles were used to evaluate the properties. The results showed that the copolymer particles had good thermal stability, alkaline resistance, anti-salt property and excellent blocking property as profile control agent.