logarithms m ay be constructed previous to that in Hogben's Mathematics for the Million. I have, for some years, in teaching mathematics to boys in Selective Central and Technical Schools, used Curzon's The Art of Arithmetic, Book V III . I do not know the exact date of publication of this series, but it was in use several years before the appearance of Hogben's book. Curzon gives methods of calculating the logarithms of integers from 1 to 1 0 which are very similar to those of Hogben. Thus 2 10 = 1024 = 103 ; hence m ay be found the logarithms of 2, 4, 8 ; 6 # = 10077696 — 107 ; from which log 6 , log 3 and log 9 emerge; 74 = 2401 =̂ = 3 . 8 . 100, giving log 7. Curzon then finds 10°, for a = £, J, f , and so on, by taking square roots and combining results. The results of all these are then used to draw a graph, which is used for simple calculations until the principle is grasped, when tables are introduced. I am aware, o f course, that this does not meet Mr. Inm an's objection that only 2 -figure accuracy is possible by this means, but I find that boys of fourteen are normally satisfied with this explanation as an adequate answer to their first W hy. M y own method of approach, having tried several, is now to make use of the natural curiosity of a boy when he is first given a textbook with tables of logarithms at the end. H e wants to know what they are for, and by examina tion of the tables we see how log 2 and log 3 are related to log 6 , log 8 , log 9 ; we find log 1*0, log 9*999. As soon as the real utility of the tables dawns, someone always asks " W h y? " and then we turn to the simple calculation and graphical work mentioned above. One further point. I have always found the usual textbook method of determining the characteristic to be confusing. Thus we often see : " The characteristic is one more than the number of figures before the decimal point " , and " The characteristic is one less than the number of noughts after the decimal point " . A t the suggestion of a late headmaster I adopted the following method with success, and I wonder how many other teachers have come across, or have used, the method : the table gives the logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 1 0 . Thus 2*7 has a logarithm 0*4314. The numbers are all in " standard form " . I f we require log 27*0, the decimal point is one place to the right of the standard form position, and the characteristic of the logarithm is one. I f we require log 0*27, the point is one place to the left of the standard form position and the characteristic is minus one. This, in m y experience, removes the confusion, but, o f course, the standard form idea must have been taught first. This does not imply that multiplica tion and division of decimals must be done by the " standard form " method, which is not now fashionable, but the answers to multiplication and division sums can easily be expressed in this way. The fact that large and small numbers are so commonly expressed like this by physicists and astronomers is sufficient justification in any case for introducing the notation quite early. W . A . Parks. 1776. A note on logarithms. As an addition to Mr. Inm an's article in the Gazette, May 1943, on the construction of logarithm tables, the following suggestions are made. Let xj ( 2 + x) = z, then


We examined the effects of 14 antibiotics on the isolated strains of B. pseudomallei from melioidosis patients in Thailand. The organisms caused pneumonia and was found to survive in macrophages in mice. Thirteen strains of B. pseudomallei isolates showed resistance to avariety of antibiotics such as ampicillin, cefazolin, cefotiam, gentamycin, erthromycin, and clindamycin. Piperacillin, ceftazidime, ceftizoxime, minocycline, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and ofloxacin were moderately active antibiotics. Imipenem was the most active antibiotic. Efficacy of imipenem and levofloxacin were also examined against the organism in the macrophage. Imipenem showed the strong MIC, (MIC=0.125 mg/L), but a 4×MIC dose did not inhibit intracellular growth of the organism in mice peritoneal macrophages. In contrast, a 4×MIC of levofloxacin inhibited the intracellular growth although the MIC=1mg/L. Levofloxacin therapy showed a significantly (P <0.01 or P <0.05) higher survival rate than imipenem/cilastatin, piperacillin and minocycline against experimental B. pseudomallei pneumonia in mice. Imipenem/cilastatin and ceftazidime showed almost the same effectivity against the infection, although imipenem/cilastatin required half the dosage of ceftazidime.Levofloxacin may be the first choice in the treatment of melioidosis caused by B. pseudomallei.


AIM
Topical administration of siRNA nanocarriers is a promising approach in the treatment of pulmonary disorders. Pulmonary surfactant, covering the entire alveolar surface of mammalian lungs, will be one of the first interfaces that siRNA nanocarriers encounter upon inhalation therapy. Therefore, it is of outstanding importance to evaluate the impact of pulmonary surfactant on the performance of siRNA nanocarriers.

MATERIALS & METHODS
The effect of natural lung-derived surfactants on the siRNA delivery capacity of dextran nanogels (DEX-NGs) was evaluated in vitro using flow cytometry and confocal microscopy.

RESULTS
Although the interaction with pulmonary surfactant decreases the cellular internalization of siRNA-loaded DEX-NGs significantly, the gene silencing potential of siRNA-loaded DEX-NGs was maintained. On the other hand, cationic lipid-based siRNA nanocarriers (Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX) were incompatible with pulmonary surfactants.

CONCLUSION
Our data suggest that pulmonary surfactant can enhance the intracellular siRNA delivery by DEX-NGs, thereby possibly providing new therapeutic opportunities.


A novel implementation of parallel Floyd-War shall (PF) algorithm based on hybrid MPI and OpenMP is approached to exploit the parallelism inside a multi-core node computer. Different schemes of PF based on diverse matrix partitions are implemented and the efficiencies of PF with multi-thread and multi-process are analyzed by using of Chinese traffic network data. The result indicates that the efficiency of the implementation with multi-process and 2 threads in each process is about 80% higher than multi-process single-thread one.


We investigate conditions on a finite set of multi-partite product vectors for which separable states with corresponding product states have unique decompositions, and show that this is true in most cases if the number of product vectors is sufficiently small. In the three-qubit case, generic five-dimensional spaces give rise to faces of the convex set consisting of all separable states, which are affinely isomorphic to the five-dimensional simplex with six vertices. We construct, as a byproduct, three-qubit entangled positive partial transpose edge states of rank 4 with explicit formulas. This covers those entanglements which cannot be constructed from an unextendible product basis.


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Background and purpose: To determine if computed tomography (CT) perfusion (CTP) abnormalities in patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIA) are associated with development of ischemic strokes ...


This paper presents two-dimensional vector measurements of major hysteresis loops of magnetic particle tape measured with a vibrating sample magnetometer. The measurements, presented in magnet and sample coordinates, may be used to evaluate how well the computations of a vector model fit the corresponding measured data. The measurement process is described, and the characteristics of the measurements are discussed.


One of the many favourable aspects of the collapse of the USSR was the vastly increased access to the archives of Soviet institutions by historians, economists and other specialists that resulted. This led to an intense study, by specialists from the successor states of the USSR, mainly Russia (which inherited the archives of all the central Soviet institutions), and by foreign academics, of the huge mass of documents on the Soviet period accumulated in what became the archives of the successor states. One major result of this study was the publication of a large mass of archival documents. By now, not only individual volumes, but a number of series of volumes, containing original documents in a wide variety of fields, have been published. In addition, numerous articles and books utilizing archival sources have been published. Furthermore, some archival documents containing previously unknown information are now available on the web. For example, Ukrainian archivists have placed on the web numerous documents relating to the 1933 famine in their country. This new approach to the study of the USSR, and the additional knowledge resulting from it, is known as the archival revolution in the analysis of the Soviet system. Overviews of the new insights thus obtained about Stalinism have recently been published both by historians (Khlevnyuk, 2001; Litvin and Keep, 2005) and economists (Gregory, 2004; Gregory and Harrison, 2005), two journals/annuals have published special issues on the archival revolution, and there is a website devoted to political economy research in Soviet archives (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/persa). The purpose of this paper is to provide a survey of the new knowledge which is shorter than Gregory and Harrison's survey article, links the new knowledge to what was previously known, discusses some issues excluded from previous surveys, and considers questions likely to be of particular interest to JOIE readers.


Finance/Economics Economics (Professional Sport) Saturday, June 9, 2018 20-minute oral presentation (including questions) 9:20 AM Abstract 2018-275 Room: Annapolis C Relevance/significance of the topic to sport managementSports differs from other industries in that it requires two firms to create the core product: the game itself (Greenwell, Fink, & Pastore, 2002; Neale, 1964). While revenue sharing is often considered solely in its ostensible role as a remedy to competitive imbalance (Fort & Maxcy, 2003; Szymanski & Kesenne, 2004; Zimbalist, 2002), it may also serve as a means to more equitably redistribute revenues for the contributions made by the visiting team to game production.


The development and application of single-photon detectors are introduced.The operating principles of photomultiplier tube(PMT),avalanche photodiode(APD) and superconducting,single-photon detector(SSPD) are expounded.The characteristic,advantages and disadvantages of them are discussed.Then give a view for the perspective and the development of these devices.


The inland waterway is the navigation passage in inland waters including rivers, lakes, reservoirs and channels, in which the buoy plays an important role in the pilotage for guiding vessels (especially in large size) to avoid dangerous water areas. However, the inland waterway buoys can easily be drifted or even damaged by a vessel crash, which may lead to a serious waterway traffic accident. In order to increase the security of buoys, the collision risk estimation is seriously required to detect potential Vessel-Buoy collision events ahead of time. Motivated by this demand, we propose a real-time Vessel-Buoy collision risk estimation model to reduce the collision probability. In this study the Kalman Filtering (KF) is firstly introduced to predict trajectories. Then an improved KUNZI model is built to estimate collision risks. The experiment results show a real-time dynamic Vessel-Buoy collision risk estimation and reveal the advantages compared to a traditional estimation model.


This paper introduces and analyzes an evolutionary model of a financial market with a risk-free asset. We focus on the local stability of the wealth dynamics, applying recent results on the linearization and stability of random dynamical systems (Evstigneev, Pirogov and Schenk-Hoppe (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, forthcoming). Our results give conditions on the linearization of the model at an equilibrium state, ensuring local convergence of sample paths to this equilibrium. The concept of local stability is closely related to the notion of evolutionary stability. A locally evolutionarily stable investment strategy is derived.


Objectives To describe a case of successful treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia with ceftaroline fosamil after failure with vancomycin and daptomycin. Case Summary A 53-year-old female with a past medical history of cancer (unknown source/type) and hypothyroidism was admitted to the hospital with cervical and paravertebral abscess with suspected sepsis. In the emergency department (ED), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed possible spinal abscess and narrowing of the spinal canal. The patient was initiated on vancomycin 1,250 mg (~15 mg/kg) every 12 hours and cefepime 2 g every 8 hours empirically. On hospital day 4, blood and wound cultures revealed MRSA susceptible to vancomycin, but with a vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 2. Repeat blood cultures were also positive on hospital days 2 and 4. Per infectious disease team consult, therapy was converted to daptomycin 8 mg/kg/day. Although the patient responded well, acute kidney injury (AKI) on hospital day 15 prompted a change in therapy to ceftaroline fosamil 400 mg intravenous every 8 hours. For the remainder of the hospital stay, blood cultures were negative and white blood cell count was within normal limits. On day 20, the patient was discharged to a long-term care facility for continued ceftaroline treatment. Discussion The management of MRSA bacteremia remains challenging due to increasing antimicrobial resistance. Although the standard therapy for serious MRSA infections is vancomycin, treatment failures are becoming common in clinical practice due to increasing MICs (≥2 μg/mL). Other therapies may include daptomycin and off-label treatment with telavancin, quinupristin/dalfopristin, or ceftaroline fosamil. This report describes a patient with paravertebral abscess and MRSA bacteremia failing 3 days of vancomycin therapy due to MIC greater than or equal to 2 μg/mL and persistent bacteremia. Treatment with ceftaroline fosamil was well tolerated and resulted in continued clinical improvement. Based on this case report, ceftaroline fosamil may be a reasonable alternative for invasive MRSA infections. Conclusions This case report describes successful treatment of MRSA bacteremia with ceftaroline in a patient who responded poorly to conventional therapy, specifically vancomycin due to an elevated MIC (2 μg/mL).


Although Heidegger may not always win one's assent he certainly has the gift of setting one thinking. usually along lines that are novel if somewhat devious. Even such a short and relatively clear piece as his conference Was ist das . die Philosophie (1956) invites one to think from an unusual point of view. It brings the attentive reader to set the problem in a new light and invites him to approach it from various directions. In the present case. for instance. one is not just asking about philosophy ~ : the reader is. in fact. already in philosophy, questioning it from within, and therefore presupposing that he has at least some idea of what philosophy is. Here, at the start. we meet two traits which are characteristic of Heidegger's way of philosophizing: his stress on the importance of correctly posing a problem: and his recognition of a hermeneutical circle.


Limited spectral bandwidth inevolved 4G Cellular standards suchas3GPPLongTermEvolution (LTE)increasingly requires wireless communication networks thatcanoperate ator nearoptimal peaksum-rate capacity, autonomously adaptto avoid interference, andpreserve lowlatency communication. The complexity oftheMIMO parameter estimation, iterative decoding anddemodulation, andinterference mitigation forthespectrally efficient communication increasingly outstrip theMoore'slaw capabilities oftheunderlying DSPtechnology. Ourpaperdefines anewgeneration ofsoftware defined radio architecture solutions andintroduces joint optimization ofhardware, software, and algorithms forevolved lowpower4Gcellular systems.


Two-dimensional black phosphorene (BP) has attracted much interest for application in electronic devices. Contacts between BP and metal electrodes are critical components of BP-based devices and can dramatically affect device performances. In this paper, we adopted first-principles calculations to explore binding energies, electronic structures, and potential distribution for interface systems of Al-, Au-, Cu-, Ni-, and Ti-monolayer BP in surface contact and edge contact (EC) types. Moreover, we also used density functional theoretical coupled with the nonequilibrium Green's function method to investigate contact resistances and Schottky barrier heights (SBHs) for transport systems of monolayer BP with Al, Au, Cu, Ni, and Ti electrodes. Our calculated results indicate that the contact type between BP and metals may greatly affect electrical properties of BP–metal contacts. Changing contact type between metal electrodes and BP channel can change the type of Schottky barrier of metal–BP contacts. The contact barrier of metal–BP depends on the metal material. Selecting an appropriate contact type and metal can effectively regulate the contact barrier of metal–BP. Specifically exciting, our estimated lateral SBHs for the Ni–BP system in EC-type agree well with the experimental results. We have provided a new strategy on choosing an appropriate contact type to achieve low contact resistance for the metal–BP interface.


Following a literature review of international practice, the authors' main research concluded that New Zealand procedures fell short of good international practice, which typically incorporates 'strategic assessment' followed by proposal-specific 'detailed evaluation' procedures. The original research was supplemented by further (as yet unpublished) research work in this field to develop more complete and detailed evaluation procedures for rail proposals. This paper explores why rail often appears to perform poorly on the basis of current procedures, and concludes that this is partly due to New Zealand's history of transport funding. The hypothecation of road transport taxation, has lead to a 'user-pays' perception of accountability to motorised road users. One of the consequences of this is that some benefits are either inadequately or inappropriately valued within current evaluation procedures.


This paper discusses the circular version of list coloring of graphs. We give two definitions of the circular list chromatic number (or circular choosability) χc, l(G) of a graph G and prove that they are equivalent. Then we prove that for any graph G, χc, l(G) ≥ χl(G) − 1. Examples are given to show that this bound is sharp in the sense that for any ϵ 0, there is a graph G with χc, l(G) > χl(G) − 1 + ϵ. It is also proved that k‐degenerate graphs G have χc, l(G) ≤ 2k. This bound is also sharp: for each ϵ < 0, there is a k‐degenerate graph G with χc, l(G) ≥ 2k − ϵ. This shows that χc, l(G) could be arbitrarily larger than χl(G). Finally we prove that if G has maximum degree k, then χc, l(G) ≤ k + 1. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 48: 210–218, 2005


Method for operating a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus with a gradient and a high-frequency system, which serve inter alia for location coding, comprising the following features: - An imaged area of an inspection object is stored in an imaging volume of the apparatus, - in a time sequence image data sets are produced at least parts of the region to be imaged, - by comparing at least a first to a second image data set, which have been produced successively in time, a change in position of at least part of the region to be imaged is determined with respect to the imaging volume, and - for at least one image data set generated chronologically thereafter the compared image data sets, a spatial coding according to the determined change in position is adjusted.


Khotijah L, Zulihar R, Setiadi MA, Wiryawan KG, Astuti DA. 2014. Effect of sun flower oil addition (Helianthus annuus) in diet on nutrient intake, growth performance and characteristics of estrous of pre-mating Garut sheep. JITV 19(1): 9-16. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14334/jitv.v19i1.989 Nutritional status of ewes at pre-breeding phase is critical for good reproductive process. Thirty-two ewes Garut sheep (initial body weight 22.5±2.21 kg) were used in a completely randomized design to evaluate the effects of addition of sunflower oil in the diet on nutrient intake, growth performance and characteristics of estrous of pre-mating garut sheep. Ewes were fed grass and supplemented with one of four isonitrogenous high concentrate diets containing four levels of sunflower oil; they were (M0) no addition of sunflower oil; (M1) 2% sunflower oil; (M2) 4% sunflower oil and (M3) 6% sunflower oil addition. Results showed that the addition significantly reduced dry matter intake (p < 0.05), highly significantly reduce crude protein, Ca and P intake (p < 0.01), higly significant increased ether extract intake (p < 0.01) and significantly increased long of estrous (p < 0.05). There was no difference in crude fiber intake, TDN intake, body weight gain, length of estrous onset and response of estrous for ewes fed the four experimental diets. Response on estrous of treatments M0, M1, M2 and M3 were 62.50; 50.00; 75,00 and 62.5% respectively. It is concluded that the addition of sunflower oil up to 6% in the pre-mating ration affects the nutrient intake without interferering the performance, and it tends to improve the charachteristic estrous of Garut ewes.


In this article, the author attempts to analyze the institution of civil liability arising from the movable property lease agreement, using the example of Russian legislation and the legislation of a number of European states. Within the framework of this study, the author also raises more general doctrinal issues related to the place of liability under a rent agreement in the system of civil liability, as well as in the system of legal liability in general. In order to determine the place and role of the institutions under consideration, the author considered various views and interpretations of the terms under study, as well as studied the individual historical aspects of the formation and development of the civil liability institution. Among other things, the main part of the study is devoted to the consideration of individual measures and cases of contractors' liability under the rent agreement. At the end of work, the researcher assessed the effectiveness and efficiency of the Russian model of legal regulation of civil liability arising from the rent agreement.


In this paper we present a mechanism for the generation of the superposition of higher-order Bessel beams, which implements a ring slit aperture and spatial light modulator (SLM). Our experimental technique is also adapted to generate nondiffracting speckle fields. We report on illuminating a ring slit aperture with light which has an azimuthal phase dependence, such that the field produced is a superposition of two higher-order Bessel beams. In the case that the phase dependence of the light illuminating the ring slit aperture is random, a nondiffracting speckle field is produced. The experimentally produced fields are in good agreement with those calculated theoretically.


The effects of β-(1,6)-galactosyl trehalose trisaccharide (β-GT) that was preferentially produced by Escherichia coli β-galactosidase on cryo- and thermo-protections of protein were investigated with those of other sugars at the level of 8% (w/v). As compared to a control without sugar additive, β-GT effectively enhanced 32-54% of the cryoprotection of fish actomyosin against repeated freeze-thawing and frozen storage, and also 49% of the protection against thermal inactivation of pyrophosphatase, respectively. As a result, it was significantly more effective than sorbitol and trehalose in both cryoprotection and thermoprotection. Thus, β-GT would be possibly applied as a sugar substitute for cryo- and thermo-protective applications of food protein.


Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com High grade gliomas are some of the deadliest human tumours. Conventional treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have only a limited effect. Nowadays, resection is the common treatment of choice and although new approaches, such as perioperative magnetic resonance imaging or fluorescent microscopy have been developed, the survival rate of diagnosed patients is still very low. Amongst the new nanotechnology platforms used for delivery into the brain tissue are: polymeric nanoparticles, liposomes, dendrimers, nanoshells, carbon nanotubes, superparamagnetic nanoparticles and nucleic acid based nanoparticles (DNA, RNA interference [RNAi] and antisense oligonucleotides [ASO]). These nanoparticles have been applied in the delivery of small molecular weight drugs as well as macromolecules – proteins, peptides and genes. The unique properties of these nanoparticles, such as surface charge, particle size, composition and ability to modify their surface with tissue recognition ligands and antibodies, improve their biodistribution and pharmacokinetics. All of the above mentioned characteristics make of nanoplatforms a very suitable tool for its use in targeted, personalized medicine, where they could possibly carry large doses of therapeutic agents specifically into malignant cells while avoiding healthy cells.


. The interest in advertising will influence buying interest before making the decision. This study aimed to describe the factors affecting millennials' purchase decisions in Makassar city from buying the trending clothing on an online shop "shopee." This study's research type is a descriptive statistic with the sample amounts to 45 taken by purposive sampling. Methods of data collection used questionnaires and interviews. The results show that millennials are interested in the trendy clothing advertising products on an online shop "shopee" because of the benefit, needs, price, trust and belief, the products, and an online shop "shopee" itself.


As the gap between "good" and "bad" jobs widens, the opportunity for upward mobility from entry-level to well-paying career jobs declines. On-the-job search is particularly important as a mobility strategy to those with undesirable jobs. This paper examines the effects of low pay, lack of fringe benefits, and other job-related attributes on the likelihood of job search among the employed in the metropolitan labor market. The data come from the 1997–1999 Current Population Survey Contingent Work Supplements. Findings from logistic regression analyses suggest that undesirable job characteristics, rather than expected wage gain, are the major factors motivating on-the-job search. These characteristics include nonstandard, nonunionized, low-skilled, and low paying jobs, and lack of fringe benefits. Jobs with low wages and few benefits are typically associated with nonstandard, nonunionized, and low-skilled work. This paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of these findings for workforce development and career advancement.


When a large number of neuronal cells get excited simultaneously and suddenly, epileptic seizure occurs. Such an unprovoked abnormal activity in the brain causes a lot of problems to the patients. The normal body function get disturbed severely as high number of electrical discharges are produced by the neurons. Such electrical activities of the human brain are recorded in a graphical form known as Electroencephalography (EEG). To understand the exact dynamics of the brain, EEG serves as an efficient method as it is highly non-invasive in nature. In this paper, Power Spectral Density (PSD) is used as a feature extraction technique and then it is classified with the help of Correlation Dimension (CD) for epilepsy classification from EEG signals. Results show that an average classification accuracy of 68.88% is reported along with an average Performance Index of 7.69%.


The Crucial of the effective macrocontrol investment is to control investment correctly,but it isn't means normal comprehensive utilization. Analysed deeper of specific issues on reality.On the basis of inheritation and blazing new trails,aimed at methods by using macrocontrol investment medium.


The traditional concept considers that the corporate has responsibility for only shareholders.Its cost will increase if undertaking the CSR,and it is not beneficial to the shareholders.The CSR concept considers that a corporate is responsible for all the Stakeholders,the shareholders being one of them.Then the two kinds of concepts are in long-term struggle,and the CSR concept wins ultimately and has all-round development.Based on the historical development perspective,this article describes the evolution of the Western CSR and the implications for our country.


This paper investigates the bounds of an integral operator for several kinds of convex functions. By applying definition of (h - m)-convex function upper bounds of left sided (1.12) and right sided (1.13) integral operators are formulated which particularly provide upper bounds of various known conformable and fractional integrals. Further a modulus inequality is investigated for differentiable functions whose derivative in absolute value are (h - m)-convex. Moreover a generalized Hadamard inequality for (h - m)-convex functions is proved by utilizing these operators. Also all the results are obtained for (α, m)-convex functions. Finally some applications of proved results are discussed.


The conditions for national sport systems and talent development efforts are changing with the globalisation of sports. In the present study we explored the relationship between domestic talent development and the immigration of players from abroad through a comparative multiple-case study of Danish and Norwegian women's handball. Quantitative data demonstrated how there has been a remarkable increase in not only the number, but also the performance level of immigrant players arriving into Danish women's handball, in particular, in the first decade of the 2000s. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 experienced coaches and sport directors who have in-depth knowledge of group dynamics in elite handball. Using Lave and Wenger's theory of situated learning in communities of practice the analysis demonstrated the ambiguous consequences of considerable immigration on the position and learning situation of domestic talent. Inbound trajectories of domestic talent may be supported by apprenticeship from many skilled role models (e.g. immigrant players), while an outbound trajectory may also appear, specifically if the young domestic players are continually hampered from participation in matches. It seems that it is not the high number of players from abroad, per se, that may block the development of local young talent, but first and foremost the structuring of training and match practices in the clubs and national leagues.


In the struggle to reduce infectious disease in Tatarstan from 1917 to 1994, five major stages can be distinguished. Stage I (1917-1923). The very difficult sanitary and epidemiological legacy inherited from tsarist Russia was further aggravated in 19118-1920. as a result of civil war, intervention, economic ruin and famine. During these years, the epidemic situation as a whole worsened, especially in connection with an unprecedented rise in the incidence of typhus. Thus, in 1920, compared with 1918, the incidence of typhus increased 54 times, typhoid fever - 1.6 times, smallpox - 2 times. In 1921, the incidence of cholera was 390.0 per 100,000 population. The fight against these terrible diseases had to be carried out in the most difficult conditions: there were not enough doctors, paramedical workers, there were no hospitals, medicines - hunger raged!


The response of hexagonal (4H) silicon carbide (SiC) power metal–oxide–semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) to gamma-ray irradiation was investigated under elevated temperature and humid conditions. The shift in drain current–gate voltage (ID–VG) curves towards negative voltages and the leakage of ID with a current hump due to elevated temperature irradiation were suppressed under high humidity conditions relative to dry conditions. This result can be explained in terms of the reduction in trapped oxide charge and oxide–SiC interface traps generated by irradiation due to the humid conditions. In addition, during irradiation at elevated temperature in humid conditions, electron traps at the oxide–SiC interface obviously decrease at doses above 100 kGy.


In their correspondence of 1669, Huygens brothers introduce the distinction between "esperance" and "apparence", that is to say between mean length of life (or life expectancy) and probable length of life (or median length of life). Unlike Lodewijk, Christiaan adopts a probabilistic approach; he considers more meaningful the probabilities to reach specific ages and the probable length of life than the "reste de vie", computed by his brother, which is only a mean.


AlF3 evaporated thin films of 20–80 nm thickness have been used as self‐developing positive resists and also as negative resists forming metallic Al structures. The exposure mechanism of AlF3 resist has been investigated, and nanometer scale features have been fabricated in both cases at exposure doses of about 20 C/cm2 and 2 C/cm2 at 100 keV, respectively. Using reactive ion etching, AlF3 resist patterns have been transferred into Si3N4, resulting in feature sizes as small as 20 nm.


【Objective】 To study the mechanism of calcitonin gene related peptide(CGRP) releasing in patients with lumbar disc herniation(LDH).【Methods】The patients were randomly divided into control and LDH groups(n = 40,in each).Heme oxygenase-1(HO-1),carbon monoxide(CO),cGMP and CGRP in plasma were detected by immunoassay and RT-PCR,respectively.【Results】Compared with control group,HO-1,CO,cGMP and CGRP significantly increased in LDH group,and the increasing of HO-1 and CO,CO and cGMP,cGMP and CGRP were positive correlation(P0.05).【Conclusion】Plasma CGRP in patients with LDH significantly increases,and HO-1-CO-cGMP pathway may be one of its mechanisms.


The article puts forward the thesis about the need for additional substantiation of the dating of a group of paintings by V.E. Tatlin from the RGALI collection (Moscow), presumably attributed to the end of the 1910s. For the first time, a hypothesis is formulated about the possibility of their creation at the end of the 1920s, so a number a number of pros and cons are considered. As a result of the study of technical and technological aspects, the existing datings of the paintings "Still Life with Melon" and "Lily of the Valley Leaves in a Jug" were corrected. Also on the radiograph of "Still Life with Melon" compositional changes were found, bringing the work in its original version closer to the composition of Mikhail Larionov's painting "Leaves of lettuce squash".


The objective ofthis study is to determine the factors that contribute to the merger ofbank in Malaysia and to determine its implications to human resource management. In this study, qUlllitative method in the form ofstructured interview were used to obtain feedbacks from ten respondents from the commercial bank's employees (Malayan Banking Berhad, Bank Bumiputra-Commerce, Hong Leong Bank and Bank Utama), representative from the Malaysian Industrial and Trade International (MIT/), representative from the Malaysian IndUStrial Development Fund (MIDF) and representative from the Sarawak Bank Employees Union (SBEU). Information was also obtained from books, journals, newspapers, articles from theinlernet, news bulletin and recordings ofinterview from the respondents. Data were analyzed according to the objectives and its implications to the human resource management. The findings showed that the factors that caused merger of banks were globalizatiOlI, liberalization, financial crisis, economy crisis and AFTA In conclusion, factors that contribute to the merger of banks also had impacts on human resource managemmt In the area of human resource pLanning, human resource development, compensation and benefits as well as industrial relation and labor.


The evolution of today's connective forms of teaching and learning draws attention to expansion of 'space ' in which teaching and learning moments: engaging the attention, knowledge transfer, acquisition, demonstration, experience, experiment research and practice, conclusions are organized around a more free method. Due to these phenomena and the previous experience gained, the aim of the article is to present the possibilities of mobile learning and ICT-based environment. It shows how the mobile device based (independent of place and time) short content access, control of learning self-issues, customized test questions (centralized storage of results) or per item assessed curriculum can be implemented. In the background of the solutions presented are assessments of a 2012 and 2013 based empirical studies carried out among an electronic framework and online forms. The results support the need for a new type of mobile learning support systems.


Objective: To evaluate whether gender-related differences exist concerning oxidative stress levels in aged patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Design: Case-control. Setting: Clinical and research center. Patient(s): Elderly subjects of both genders with or without CAD. Intervention(s): None. Main Outcome Measure(s): Serum hydroperoxides (HP) as index of oxidative stress levels. Result(s): The HP levels were comparable in aged control subjects of both genders (376 20 arbitrary units [AU] in women, 333 19 AU in men) but significantly increased in CAD (456 15 AU) compared with all control subjects (357 14 AU). Moreover, among CAD patients, the HP levels were higher in women than in men (536 33 AU and 428 15 AU, respectively). Multivariate analysis, in which CAD represented the dependent variable, indicated that dyslipidemia was independently associated with CAD in men (odds ratio [OR] 5.8), whereas HP >50th percentile represented the only strong independent risk factor for CAD in elderly women (OR 8.4). Conclusion(s): Differences in oxidative stress levels between elderly males and females might provide a biochemical basis for the epidemiologic differences in CAD, which might help to open new opportunities in the management of patients with cardiovascular disease from a gender point of view. (Fertil Steril 2008;89:608–13. 2008 by American Society for Reproductive Medicine.)


Directing against tube-burst and leakage problems of heating surface in utility boilers due to high-temperature oxidation,taking Gangyan 102 steel as the base metal,three kinds of coatings,namely PS45,FeCrAl,and 4Cr13,have been sprayed respectively,a test of high-temperature oxidation resistant coatings on heating surface being carried out.Results show that the oxidation resistant capability of Gangyan 102 boiler tube material proper without coating is worse,after spraying protective coating by using electric arc,the oxidation resistant behavior of 102 steel has been enhanced by a big margin.In three kinds of coatings,owing to Cr and Ni content in PS45 coating is higher,a protective coating of Cr2O3 with compact texture and stable behavior can be continuously formed on surface of the specimen,boasting outstanding oxidation resistant behavior,making the specimen to be fully protected.


Purpose  The evidence suggests that a longitudinal training of communication skills embedded in a rich clinical context is most effective. In this study we evaluated the acquisition of communication skills under such conditions.


Pharmaceutical company Galderma has acquired Spirig Pharma, a move that will boost its line of products for treating various dermatologic conditions.


Abstract: Three new species of Homalomena (Chamaecladon clade) are described and illustrated from Sumatera (Sumatra), Indonesia: H. hasei P. C. Boyce & S. Y. Wong, H. mobula P. C. Boyce & S. Y. Wong and H. plicata P. C. Boyce & S. Y. Wong. Citation: Boyce P. C. & Wong S. Y. 2016: Studies on Homalomeneae (Araceae) of Sumatera IV: Three new ornamental Homalomena (Chamaecladon clade) species. — Willdenowia 46: 253–260. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3372/wi.46.46206 Version of record first published online on 28 July 2016 ahead of inclusion in August 2016 issue.


Abstract
This chapter is designed for use by commercialization teams evaluating the commercial relevance of a new invention. To be relevant commercially, an invention must create value in one or more markets, which involves solving a problem or satisfying customer needs currently unmet. Unmet needs create market opportunities, and the goal is to identify and evaluate the profitability of these opportunities. The chapter provides an overview of concepts and techniques commonly used in the process. Important distinctions between market and industry concepts are introduced along with common rubrics for categorizing inventions in terms of their technological and market implications. These concepts are then used to discuss the roles of prior experience, lead users, and brainstorming in identifying market opportunities for various types of inventions. Techniques covered include market analysis, Porter's five forces of industry profitability, analysis of political, economic, social, and technical environments (PEST), and the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). The use of these techniques is illustrated for two startup commercialization teams.


In the article the author shares her know-how of the students` work within the framework of her author`s course "Tolstoy and cinematograph". E.L.Raichlina focuses the attention of the readers on special features of cinematograph being interpreted in Tolstoy`s creative work. The author also mentions Tolstoy`s attitude to cinematography.


A method for objective evaluation of bending edges of metal strips, in particular of Cu or Cu alloys, wherein the three-dimensional topography of the bending edge by means of optical imaging methods, in particular by means of the fringe projection method measured while for each pixel (x, y) of the measurement field height information h (x , y) is determined and are calculated as result variables from the height information medium roughness, being carried out with those result variables a classification of Biegkante.


Colleges and Universities have got a lot of autonomy in higher education reform and are faced with more and more financial risks. It is very important to analyse the potential financial risks and take corresponding preventive measures.


Poster: "ECR 2014 / C-0082 / CT features of lung adenocarcinomas presenting as ground-glass opacity and the correlation of the proportion of consolidation with pathological invasiveness" by: "L. P. QI, X.-P. Zhang, Y.-S. Sun, L. Tang, Y. Cui; Beijing/CN"


The Multitasking Virtual Machine has been provided with many useful features like Isolation API or Resource Consumption Management API. The latter one can be used to help in managing resources in Java applications. However, using RM API does not guarantee separation between a resource management activity and a business activity. In this paper we present the concept of The Transparent Resource Management (TRM) system. The system can be used to run Java applications with resource management policies added dynamically, as a separate aspect. Each application runningin the TRM system can be started with a reusable graph of different states. Each state encapsulates currently used resource management policy. An active state can change automatically during runtime, depending on the state of an application, the state of the whole system, as well as on the utilization of different resources in different applications.


Two new species of Sclerophoma Hohn. are described from dieback of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) in British Columbia, Canada, viz. S. xenomeria n. sp. (conidial Xenomeris abietis Barr), and S. semenospora n. sp. Morphological and cultural characteristics are compared with S. pithyophila (Corda) Hohn., another common species in the same disease syndrome.


A cellular network simulator for a personal computer is described. The simulator takes information for a given network and gives the user an environment in which to experiment with the dynamics of the chosen network. The software was written in C for the IBM-compatible personal computer for easy accessability to users for neural network research and education. The software makes use of graphics modes to display line plots and cell output trajectories for a set of chosen cells and displays color tiles representing cell outputs for an entire network.<<ETX>>


The dous AWWA Exposition Fresh increase Annual Ideas (ACE) in poster Conference participation has session seen a and tremenat over the AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE) has seen a tremendous i crease i artic patio ver the past three years. In 2006, six AWWA sections were represented at the poster session. The number grew to nine in 2007, and in 2008, 17 sections sent their best presenters to compete at ACE. This increased involvement is a testament to the overall objectives of the program.


Based on the analysis of whole procedure of two torpedoes salvo,the cause of mutual-guiding is explained,and the mathematical models of salvo mutual-guiding and target attack on parallel direction of the torpedoes are established.The mutual-guiding probability and target acquisition probability are calculated by Monte-Carlo method under different base course distance between two torpedoes,and the influence of different error distributions of target course and velocity on the target acquisition probability is also calculated during one or two torpedoes attack.The simulation results indicate that target acquisition probability of two torpedoes salvo is higher than that of single torpedo,the reasonable course distance can effectively avoid mutual-guiding and obtain higher target acquisition probability.


The embodiments of the invention provide a relay node selection method and apparatus. The method comprises: an AP receiving relay indication information sent by a relay node, and according to the relay indication information, establishing an association with the relay node; the AP receiving an association request message send by an STA, and according to the association request message, establishing an association with the STA; and the AP determining a destination relay node corresponding to the STA in the relay node which the AP establishes the association with so as to communicate with the STA through the destination relay node. According to the embodiments of the invention, a relay mechanism is added between the AP and the STA, and the AP establishes the associations with the relay node and the STA, obtains the destination relay node which is selected by the STA or the AP and is corresponding to the STA, and communicates with the STA through the destination relay node, so that the system throughput can be improved, and the problems of substantially decreased throughput and low communication reliability in case of large WLAN coverage scope are solved.


"Many of the traditional regulations of the employment relationship no longer correspond to the real social and economic situation or to the labour market." [Marco Biagi, Italy, in Private Employment Agencies 267, 267 (Roger Blanpain ed., 1999)] Do workers' unions promote gender equality? The scholarship in the past thirty years has increasingly questioned the ability of unions to give voice to the needs of all workers, including foreign workers, workers with disabilities, elderly workers, gay and lesbian workers, and women. This article shows that unions promote a patriarchal division of labor in society through an empirical study of most of the sectorial collective agreements with employers in Israel. The fathers' role in these collective agreements is to support their family; the mothers' role is to raise the children. Thus several collective agreements provide mothers with flexible working hours and reimbursements for daycare centers, while not providing these rights to working fathers. Significant collective agreements grant working fathers, but not working mothers, with a special "family supplement" that is added to their monthly wages, increasing the gender wage-gap. INTRODUCTION Almost thirty years have passed since Richard Freeman and James Medoff first asked "[w]hat do unions do?"1 In their highly influential book, Freeman and Medoff challenged the traditional view that unions only create monopolies that lead to exaggerated wages and inefficiencies. They claimed instead that unions have two faces: "monopoly" and "voice." Unions play an important role in "voicing" workers' needs and desires to the management. Freeman and Medoff followed Albert O. Hirschman's view in "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty," emphasizing the importance of "voice" in maintaining stability and preventing employment turnover. (2) While an individual employee might fear altering his employer to his needs, unions have the ability to voice workers' collective needs. (3) Following Freeman and Medoff, many researchers accepted unions' role as voicing workers' needs. Yet researchers also raised questions: Whose voice do unions represent? Is it the voice of all the workers or only some of them? Groups such as women, foreign workers, workers with disabilities, elderly workers, gay and lesbian workers--are their voices heard? Do unions promote equality and diversity? The present research contributes to the current debate by looking at the results of collective agreements and negotiations in Israel from the perspective of gender. This paper is based on an empirical study of most of Israel's sectorial collective agreements in the private and public sectors. This paper shows that collective agreements (and unions) do, in fact, promote a patriarchal division of labor. Several collective agreements provide mothers with flexible working hours and reimbursements for day-care centers. Working fathers are generally not entitled to these rights. Instead, their role is to financially support the family. Therefore working fathers--but not working mothers--are entitled to special "family supplement[s]" that are added to their monthly wages. The result of this empirical research reaffirms literature claiming that unions tend to represent the 'median' worker and under-represent 'outsiders' and workers in precarious fields. In the past few decades, feminist scholars took part in a debate regarding several questions: What is considered a "women's interest"? What is considered "gender equality"? What are the best ways to promote gender equality? (4) While feminist scholars from the "first wave of feminism" who struggled for "formal gender equality" emphasized the similarities between men and women, as well as those between one woman and another, feminist scholars from the "second wave" emphasized the differences. Furthermore, while "first wave" feminists struggled for women's right to vote and women's right for equal pay, "second wave" feminists struggled for "maternity leave" and "affirmative action. …


BACKGROUND
Laproscopic nephrectomy has become a popular procedure since first being introduced in 1990.

OBJECTIVE
Evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of laparoscopic pediatric nephrectomy.

MATERIAL AND METHOD
The authors reviewed the in-patient medical records at Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kean University between 2007 and 2011. Laparoscopic nephrectomy was performed on 9 pediatric patients. The demographic data, indications for surgery, route of approach and peri-operative outcomes were analyzed.

RESULTS
Ten nephrectomies (6 L; 4 R) were performed on the nine patients (mean age 8.8 years: 7 males; 2 females). One patient underwent a bilateral nephrectomy at a different time. A trans-and retro-peritoneal approach was used on 1 and 9 cases, respectively. The respective mean operative time and hospital stay was 108.8 minutes and 5.8 days. The mean estimated blood loss was 31.8 ml (minimal-100 ml): no blood transfusion was required. Post-operatively, there were no major complications and the mean pain score was 2.3 (0-5). Only one patient was converted to an open nephrectomy and that due to massive adhesion.

CONCLUSION
Laparoscopic pediatric nephrectomy has been a feasible and safe procedure at our institution.


Since that JNK kinase was activated in a similar manner in response to short time treatments, up to 4 h, with both7-ketocholesterol and 5,6-secosterol, we have done unfortunately an evident mistake in the preparation of the panel C Figure 4 in the paper we published in the Journal of Cellular Physiology (Anticoli et al., 2010). In particular, we have inadvertently prepared the panel C using two western blot images of data obtained with7-ketocholesterol (already used for panel A preparation) instead of those obtained with 5,6-secosterol at the final concentration of 10 7 and 10 mM. Here, we show the new Figure 4 with the western blot bands obtained with 5,6-secosterol treatment. As it is evident, the results obtained with the two oxysterols are very similar and for this reason nothing of what we have discussed and concluded, neither the figure legend, in the original paper need to be changed.


The article studies the landscape planning of Baosheng Electric Cable City from the concept,landscape structure,scenic spot design,vegetation planning and so on.It elaborates that the modern industry enterprise's landscape planning and design should unify the enterprise characteristic,manifest the enterprise culture and form the unique style.


The problem of implementing an finite impulse response (FIR)-system using a specific lattice structure has been previously considered especially for the minimum phase case. It is treated here for linear phase systems. In the design procedure (the application of the Schur-Cohn stability test) for the linear phase case, the last reflection coefficient is /spl plusmn/1, which leads to a singularity in the design equation. In spite of that, a solution can be found, yielding approximately half of the numerical expenditure of the minimum phase case and the same number of operations as for the direct structure.<<ETX>>


We investigated the impact of repeated runner removal after harvest and row cover during fall on strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) cvs. Polka and Wendy cropping potential in the joint project of the University of Helsinki and the Rural Advisory Services Finland. Field trials were carried out in 2017 to 2019 on strawberry farms in Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland, at 62°49′N. The treatment effects on the crown carbohydrate reserves, flowering, and yield were recorded. Runner removal three times in three-week intervals after harvest decreased the crown starch reserves but increased the length of the apical inflorescence initials as observed through flower mapping in November, and the numbers of inflorescences and flowers in cv. Polka. Floating row cover after flower induction in September to October hastened floral development in the fall and increased the numbers of inflorescences, flowers, and fruit in cv. Wendy. Although the effects may depend on a cultivar and weather conditions during fall, repeated removal of runners after harvest and covering plants with a floating row cover after flower induction are recommended to increase strawberry yield potential in the Northern climate.


This paper conducts a probabilistic assessment of the dynamic primary frequency response characteristic (the PFRC is also known as $\beta$ in practice) for thermal unit. The PFRC is time-varying as it is sensitive to the steam pressure and valve opening that naturally vary with the generator loading. To depict the dynamic PFRC in a probabilistic manner, an analytical expression of the PFRC is first derived by establishing a low-order primary frequency response model that considers heat storage dynamic. Based on which, the point estimate method that is capable of managing the correlation is adopted to portray the probabilistic features of time-varying PFRC for thermal unit. Numerical simulations are presented to validate the proposed low-order primary frequency response model and different solutions are applied for the probabilistic assessment of the PFRC, where the obtained results show that the proposed point estimate method can achieve satisfactory performance owing to its accuracy and efficiency.


Endangered Species Permit Number 1011 (formerly Permit No. 973) authorizes ODFW to take listed spring chinook salmon juveniles from Catherine Creek (CC), Lostine River (LR) and Grande Ronde River (GR) for research and enhancement purposes. Modification 2 of this permit authorizes ODFW to take adults for spawning and the production and release of smolts for the Captive and Conventional broodstock programs. This report satisfies the requirement that an annual report be submitted. Herein we report on activities conducted and provide cursory data analyses for the Grande Ronde spring chinook salmon Captive and Conventional broodstock projects from 1 January-31 December 2000.


This book draws upon the resources of both contemporary analytic theology and the theological interpretation of the New Testament in order to investigate a set of important issues in Christology. It is the first work in analytic Christology to draw upon both recent scholarship in biblical studies and recent contributions to analytic philosophy and theology. This book explores the themes of union with Christ and the faith of Christ as these are developed by the "apocalyptic" and "New Perspective" interpreters of Pauline theology, it offers an careful analysis of recent dogmatic proposals about the identity of Christ and the doctrine of election, it provides an examination of debates over the subordination of the Son in Hebrews, it probes the relationship of the incarnate Son to his Father in Johannine theology, and it offers an exegetically grounded theological engagement with recent work on the place of logic in the doctrine of the incarnation.


FIELD: usage of information carriers, possible use when determining access rights. SUBSTANCE: method for identification of objects access rights and inputting ode information includes typing code on identifier by selective rotation of its elements with code marks, periodic change of code on identifier by moving code plate in opposite sides from identifier axis, around which code plates are rotated, due to additional apertures in plate, and also change of position of code marks relatively to code reading devices of control devices by turning the plate in each one of additional apertures for certain angle relatively to base of identifier. EFFECT: increased capacity of code. 3 dwg


The invention discloses preparation and an application of an ammonia oxidizing bacteria immobilized bioactive filler based on a polyurethane carrier, and belongs to the technical field of water treatment. The bioactive filler comprises two parts: an embedding body and the polyurethane carrier; a porous structure of the polyurethane foam carrier adsorbs a bacteria-containing embedding liquid, wherein the embedding liquid is prepared by mixing an ammonia oxidizing bacteria concentrated solution and a polyvinyl alcohol solution; a whole sheet of polyurethane foam is used as the embedding carrier, the embedding liquid is immersed to the interior of the polyurethane foam by a squeezing way, the embedding body is formed after boric acid secondary cross-linking and is combined with the polyurethane carrier to obtain a filler shape meeting requirements, and thus the ammonia oxidizing bacteria bioactive filler is obtained. The prepared ammonia oxidizing bacteria immobilized bioactive filler not only solves the problems that ammonia oxidizing bacteria are difficult in advantage establishment, easy to lose and the like, but also improves the processing ability of a reactor, shortens the start-up time, and has broad application prospects.


Indices are a common and useful way to summarize a changing field for both the lay and the specialist reader, and it's time that we had them for information security.


Perception via the traditional senses of vision, audition, touch, gustation, or olfaction implies mechanisms (the sense organs) and neural structures (the sensory pathways) that transduce, transmit, and process physical energy (in vision, audition, and touch) or molecules (in gustation and olfaction). The same holds for the non-traditional senses of nociception, thermoception, equilibrioception, and others. In contrast, time does not emanate from a physical source and we do not have a sense organ for time, yet we have a vivid experience of it. Perception of time (chronoception) for brief events manifests in two remarkable abilities arguably subserved by separate processes. One is the ability to discriminate whether or not two punctate (instantaneous) events occurred simultaneously; the other is the ability to discriminate whether or not two brief events lasted the same duration. These punctate or brief events are delivered by presenting stimuli that can be perceived with our senses. Those stimuli are the occasion for some elusive machinery in the brain to extract the signals that render our perception of the time of occurrence of punctate events and our perception of temporal durations. The duration of a stimulus is defined as the time elapsed between its onset and its offset. Then, perception of the duration of a stimulus presentation requires a second-stage process based on the output of first-stage processes determining the perceived onset and offset of the stimulus. This chapter focuses only on the first-stage processes and, specifically, on the methods used to assess their functioning and the utility of such methods to characterize timing processes. First-stage processes imply capture and transduction at the corresponding sense organ, followed by transmission of the sensory signals up the applicable pathway onto a central mechanism in the brain. Transduction, transmission, and processing of stimulus signals incur temporal delays that differ across sensory modalities but such delays also vary across stimulus types within the same modality and across repeated presentations of the exact same stimulus. When two punctate events occur simultaneously, the arrival times of


Introduced by a philosophical overview and briefly from the point of view of social sciences, mainly represented by Mœssinger, the main part of the paper is a psychological presentation of self and identity. The presentation is focused primarily on human individual identity. The concept of individual identity, as comprehended today in the West, is the fruit of a long development of understanding of the human person from Augustine, the Reformation, the Enlightenment; and, later on, from Erikson, Freud, Mœssinger, Dubar, Martin, Parfit, Guindon and others presented in the paper. However, according to Guindon, human identity is understood as a totality of physical, performing, individual, psychosexual and psychosocial identities. In this paper we are going to focus particularly on each facet of self-identity as presented in Guindon's system.


Up to now, in the development of power electronics systems, the reduction of the initial costs or the increase of the power density have been of primary concern. However, with increasing energy costs also the power conversion efficiency is gaining higher and higher importance. Accordingly, while maintaining high power density, an efficiency as high as possible must be obtained. In this paper the maximum attainable efficiency and the dependency of the efficiency limit on technological parameters is determined for single-phase PFC boost rectifiers. In a first step basic PFC boost rectifier topologies are briefly compared with regard to high efficiency and a dual-boost PFC rectifier with integral common-mode filtering is selected as basis for the investigations. Next, simple approximations of the technological limits of the system performance are calculated in the efficiencypower density plane. With this, the Feasible Performance Space and the reduction in power density which has to be accepted for increasing the efficiency are clarified, and the trade-off limit curve (Pareto Front) of a multi-objective, i.e. efficiency and power density design optimization is determined. Furthermore, a comprehensive numerical efficiency optimization is carried out which identifies an efficiency limit of 99.2% for a 3.2kW system. The theoretical considerations are verified by experimental results from a laboratory prototype of the ultra-high efficiency system achieving 99.1% efficiency at a power density of 1.1kW/din3, as well as those firom an ultra-compact dual-boost PFC rectifier (95.8%, 5.5kW/dn3) and a very low switching freluency (3kHz) conventional PFC boost rectifier (96.7%, 2kW/din3). Finally, the sensitivity of the efficiency optimum with regard to various technological parameters is analyzed and an outlook on the further course of the research is given.


The recent advance in distributed data management techniques are growing, today the world need databases to be able to store and process big data effectively, demand for very high-performance when reading and writing, these effects especially in large scale and high concurrency applications, such as search engines hence the traditional database limits itself for such complex requirements, therefore various types of non-relational databases that are commonly referred to as NoSQL databases which is abbreviation of " Not only structured query language". Their primary advantage which is worth emphasizing is that, unlike relational databases, they handle unstructured data. NoSql is the solution for use cases where ACID is not the major concern and uses BASE instead which works up on eventual consistency. Here introducing Coherence which is a technology developed by oracle which works on NoSQL Principles.


A feedback control system is installed in the HL-1 tokamak with a thick copper shell (d=5 cm). The control field coils outside the copper shell are fed by a six-pulse thyristor rectifier. The power supply is operated by a pulse-width-modulated regulator which consists of a dual-mode circuit without dead zone and a PID circuit. The operation on the HL-1 shows that the horizontal and vertical plasma positions can be controlled to +or-2 mm.<<ETX>>


Serious problems of low level repeated development in China's Hi-tech Industrial Development Areas(HIDAs) are studied in this paper.Through a comprehensive analysis,we find that the main reason lies in that the group behavior of local government's HIDA industrial policies brings about unreasonable results in the view of the whole country,i.e.repeated development and wasting resources.The local government's bias to the direct supporting for its HIDAs and the enterprise's behavior of seeking for lease will cause low level repeated development or even the bad coin driving out the good one.Suggestions are proposed finally that the governments should change their strategies of HIDA development,including ceasing the direct interference to the HIDAs and making full use of the market adjusting function to keep the.good projects surviving and eliminate the bad ones.


Excess molar enthalpies, measured at 298.15 K in a microcalorimeter, are reported for the binary systems formed by mixing 2-methyltetrahydrofuran with hexane, heptane, octane, decane, or dodecane. Smooth representations of the results are described.


This thesis introduces the application of control system for side trimmer which comes from CMI,including the structure of the control system and the main control functions'achievement,and summarize the features of WinAC.Make the improvement for the speed matching between blades drive and line speed.


The environment treatment of Tangzishan,Huzhou city,Zhejiang Province,involved three mountains.Based on the complicated surroundings in the area,the requirements of construction and schedule,deep-hole bench blasting combining short-hole blasting was proposed for this project.In this paper some usual technological problems and difficulties occurring in blasting design and construction under complicated circumstances along with the solving solution and optimized blasting parameters were discussed.The construction went smoothly,speedy and safely,and therefore,the blasting achieved its goal.Good social effects and economical returns were obtained.


The influence of substrate temperature, composition of the working gas and DC and MF modes of reactive magnetron sputtering of an alloy 90%In + 10%Sn on the structural state, electrical resistance, transparency, and the band gap of the films ITO, deposited on glass substrates have been studied. The dependence of electron-optical properties of ITO films on the conditions of their production explains by the influence of the relaxation of internal stresses and crystallinity.


Results obtained in the separate determination of copper (1 to 5%) and bismuth (0.1 to 1%) in an aluminum alloy, in the presence of lead (1%), iron (0.1%), and traces of arsenic, antimony, and cadmium, are reported. The determination at lambda = 435 m mu oc copper diethyldithiocarbamate, extracted with chloroform from an aqueous solution at pH 8.8 containing ammonium citrate and sodium ethylenediaminotetraacetate, is possible with an error of plus or minus 0.073 referred to the copper percentage. Bismuth can be determined on another portion of the solution of the alloy, at 460 m mu in the form of an iodide complex in the presence of sulfur dioxide, after an extraction at pH 1 to 1.1 from the aqueous solution containing tartaric acid and cupferron, and a successive extraction from the chloroform solution with 2N sulfuric acid: the error is plus or minus 0.023 on the bismuth percentage. For the bismuth also a determination lambda = 375 m mu was attempted, in the presence of hydrobromic acid and ascorbic acid; the mean error is plus or minus 0.020 on the bismuth percentage, with a precision higher than that of the other method. (auth)


We use a global (volume averaged) model to study the dissociation of the chlorine molecule and the electronegativity in a low pressure (1-100 mTorr) high density chlorine discharge. The collisional energy loss per electron ion pair created is evaluated for the chlorine atom and the chlorine molecule. The electron energy distribution function (EEDF) is allowed to vary from being Maxwellian like to being Druyvesteyn like. We explore and compare the reaction rates for the creation and destruction of the positive ions Cl+ and Cl2+, the negative ion Cl− and the atomic chlorine in the ground state Cl(2P). Furthermore, the dissociation mechanism in the chlorine discharge is investigated as a function of discharge pressure. The discharge is dominated by atomic chlorine at low pressure, but with increasing pressure the discharge becomes less dissociated. The electronegativity of the discharge increases rapidly with increasing pressure, but decreases as the discharge power increases.


Acute kidney injury(AKI) is a common clinical critical disorder. Its incidence is increasing gradually. There has been no uniform standard for the definition and diagnosis of AKI since ten years ago, making it difficult to compare the results from different studies. Since 2002, ADQI, AKIN and KDIGO guidelines have been published in succession for the evaluation and management of AKI, respectively. These guidelines have provided the definition and classification of AKI, which are appropriate for defining the epidemiology of AKI and for the design of clinical trials. At present, serum creatinine combined with urine output remains the cornerstone for diagnosing and classifying AKI. However, serum creatinine is not a sensitive index as it can't reflect the change of kidney function in time, and urine output is also susceptible to many factors such as use of diuretics and urinary tract obstruction. Neither of them is perfect as an index for both defining and classifying AKI. Therefore, finding early, sensitive and reliable biomarkers of kidney damage is the future direction of research. In this paper, we have reviewed evolution of the definition, diagnostic criteria, and recent research of AKI.


This paper presents the case that education in the 21st Century can only measure up to national needs if technologies developed in the simulation community, further enhanced by the power of high performance computing, are harnessed to supplant traditional didactic instruction. The authors cite their professional experiences in simulation, high performance computing and pedagogical studies to support their thesis that this implementation is not only required, it is feasible, supportable and affordable. Surveying and reporting on work in computer-aided education, this paper will discuss the pedagogical imperatives for group learning, risk management and "hero teacher" surrogates, all being optimally delivered with entity level simulations of varying types. Further, experience and research is adduced to support the thesis that effective implementation of this level of simulation is enabled only by, and is largely dependent upon, high performance computing, especially by the ready utility and acceptable costs of Linux clusters.


The microwave spectrum of vinyl formate has been observed in the region 10–25 Gc/sec. Both ``a'' and ``b''‐type transitions have been assigned for the ground and one of the excited vibrational states. The rotational constants obtained are consistent with a planar structure with the carboxyl oxygen cis with respect to vinyl group and the terminal vinyl carbon trans with respect to the acid group. The components of the dipole moment | μa | and | μb | were determined for the ground and excited vibrational state. The dipole moment μ is 1.48 D and | μa | and | μb | indicate it is probably oriented along the line between the oxygens.


Acacia petrensis, a new species growing on limestone rocks and nearest related to A. mahrana in Yemen, is described from northern Somalia.


THE TREATMENT of whooping cough is a problem which still presents a challenge. Its high mortality and severity in the younger age group have focused attention of physicians on this disease in an effort to find better ways to treat it. Until about ten years ago, the treatment of whooping cough was entirely symptomatic, but at present, with the use of convalescent serum and immune whole blood, the employment of potent or high titer serums is encouraged. These serums are obtained from human beings, or from rabbits, who have been repeatedly immunized with pertussis vaccine. Bradford,1in 1935, using immune blood from patients, concluded that it was probably effective in the prevention and modification of whooping cough if given before the catarrhal symptoms appear. The benefit was less apparent when given after the disease was established. Using the opsonocytophagic index and the decrease in the number of lymphocytes as


Existing approaches for evaluation of software development processes use employee feedback as a main source of data. We were interested in assessing the possible benefit of using event logs as an additional source of data in software development process evaluation. In this master's thesis, we reviewed existing approaches that take into account the sociological, technical and economic aspects of business processes. We have developed a new approach which in addition to employee feedback introduces the use of quantitative event log data generated by development environment tools to improve the accuracy of evaluation. We tested our approach in three companies using multiple case study method. Similarity of cases allowed us to verify the replication of the results. The management of all three companies confirmed that our approach provided useful information about the efficiency and acceptance of development processes. We confirmed that the use of event log data in evaluation is useful because it helps reduce possible deviation of developers' estimates from actual situation.


Objective To understand the undergraduate nursing students' awareness of the basic situation of occupational exposure in Kunming Medical University, and to understand their knowing status of occupational exposure knowledge. Methods We used self- designed questionnaire to investigate 449 undergraduate nursing students in Kunming Medical University to obtain the status of occupational exposure and protection knowledge level of students.Results(1) 449 students were investigated, and 258 of them had been in clinical practice,and occupational exposure occurred in 48.8% of them.(2) Occupational exposure factors included grade,washing hands and wearing gloves;The results showed that:Grade was a risk factor and wearing glove and washing hands were protective factors.(3) There was relevance between accepting the occupational protection education and the occupational exposure. Conclusions A useful measure to reduce the occurrence of occupational exposure is Pre-service training for undergraduates nursing students. Operation should be in strict accordance with operating specifications. Schools and departments should implement occupational protection system,so as to strengthen the related knowledge vocational education,enhance self-protection awarenes,and reduce or minimize the occurrence of occupational exposure.


Objectives
Carotenoids including β-carotene, α-carotene, lutein + zeaxanthin, lycopene, and β-cryptoxanthin may be protective against cancer and cardiometabolic disease through inhibition of oxidative stress and inflammation pathways. Little is known about which pathway would be more important for the beneficial effects of carotenoids.

Methods
From 2003-2009 the Sister Study enrolled 50,884 US women aged 35-74 who had a sister with breast cancer but had never had breast cancer themselves. From this cohort, 524 post-menopausal women were randomly sampled to measure carotenoids and biomarkers of oxidative stress. Plasma carotenoids were quantified by HPLC and adjusted for batch and season. Urinary 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α (8-iso-PGF2α) and its metabolite (8-iso-PGF2α-M) were measured by GC/MS and adjusted for creatinine. The biomarker 8-iso-PGF2α can reflect both oxidative stress and inflammation. To separate the 8-iso-PGF2α biomarker into a more specific oxidative stress component versus inflammation, a novel 8-iso-PGF2α/PGF2αmodeled ratio approach was used, exploiting the fact that the required biomarker, prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) was also quantitated by our GC/MS assay. Multivariable linear regression models were used to assess the associations of dietary and plasma carotenoids with the measured and calculated biomarker levels.

Results
Total plasma carotenoids were inversely associated with both 8-iso-PGF2α and 8-iso-PGF2α-M levels (P trend across quartiles = 0.02 and 0.004). This inverse association was also apparent for the 8-iso-PGF2α/PGF2α ratio (P trend across quartile = 0.01), suggesting a greater suppressive effect on oxidative stress. β-carotene and α-carotene were also associated with significant decreases in the fraction of 8-iso-PGF2α from oxidative stress. Interestingly, lutein + zeaxanthin was associated with decreases in both oxidative stress and inflammation, suggesting strong biological effects. Dietary carotenoids were not associated with these oxidative stress markers.

Conclusions
Plasma carotenoids were associated with decreased levels of both 8-iso-PGF2α and its metabolite. Health effects of plasma carotenoids may be primarily due to their antioxidant effects. Specific carotenoids might have additional anti-inflammatory effects.

Funding Sources
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.


To assess if microstructural bone lesions in individuals at risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are related to the spectrum of anti–modified protein antibodies (AMPAs) and affect the risk of developing RA.


Airlines' customer relationship programs, developed for marketing purposes, may start to be used for security screening, but a lack of coordination and reluctance by airlines to cede control of their massive databases could slow the trend. The article describes efforts to introduce open platforms or weave new database applications into legacy systems.


1 Jean-Yves Lacoste, La phenomenalite de Dieu. Neuf etudes, Paris, Seuil, 2008. A French version of this review appeared in Revue Philosophique de Louvain 107 (2009). 2 J.-Y. Lacoste, Experience and the Absolute. Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man, transl. by. M. Raftery-Skehan, New York, Fordham University Press, 2004, p. 197n. 17 and p. 101 for the rejection of the so-called 'philosophy of religion', and p. 203n. 4, p. 92 and p. 141 for the distance taken from theological knowledge, but see already p. 1, "the supposed border between these two kinds of knowledge [i.e. philosophy and theology] tends to disappear in the present work". 3 Lacoste, Presence et Parousie, Geneve, Ad Solem, 2006, p. 194, and the article 'Philosophie, theologie et verite. Remarques frontalieres', pp. 85-116. Also La phenomenalite de Dieu, p. 10. For an analysis of these works, up to Presence et Parousie, see Transversalites 110 (2009) 171-222. Contributions are from Jean-Luc Marion, Jerome de Gramont and Emmanuel Falque. NOTE


The specifities of knowledge and skills in the field of Mathematics teaching methodology which the teachers should posses lie in the need for closer integration with different scientific disciplines, above all of their own field and didactics, then with psychology, logic, mathematics teaching methodology for senior classes, philosophy, etc. In the context of these relations, the paper points out some aspects of knowledge and skills necessary for successful practical work of teachers. Several teaching situations show all the complexity of the teaching process and the need for a wider education of teachers.


Agricultural output and productivity have changed dramatically in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU) since the fall of the Berlin Wall, exactly 20 years ago. Initially, market reforms caused a strong decline in agricultural output. The extent to which this output decline was associated with changes in productivity depended on the speed with which labor could exit agriculture and agricultural factor and output markets could develop. These, in turn, depended on the initial conditions and implemented reform policies. As the initial conditions and reform policies were very different across countries in the region, productivity evolved very differently across countries.


The formulation of the problem in this study is can the application of the make a match learning model improve the social studies (IPS) learning outcomes of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Buton regency? The purpose of this study is to determine the increase of IPS learning outcome through the application of make a match learning models at grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Kapontori, Buton Regency. This research is a classroom action research. The subjects of this study were 20 students and teachers of IPS subjects' grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 of Buton Regency, the instruments used in this study were observations and test. The results of the study showed that the use of cooperative learning Make A Match methods can improve the learning activities of grade VIII students in SMP Negeri 1; 1) in the first cycle student learning activities reached 69% and experienced an increase in the second cycle to 84%. It has achieved the established indicators, at least 70% of all student activities have been carried out; 2) the use of Make a Match learning methods can increase teacher activities in carrying out the learning process. In the first cycle teacher activities reached 75%, experiencing an increase in the second cycle to 94%. This has reached a redetermined indicator which is at least 70% of all teacher activities achieved; 3) the use of cooperative learning on the Make a Match method can improve the learning completeness of grade VIII students at SMPN 1 Kapontori. In the first cycle students' mastery learning only reached 60% and experienced an increase in the second cycle to 80% of all students scored 70. It has reached the predetermined indicators that at least 70% of all students in this learning score 70. Keywords: Learning Model, Make a match, Learning outcomes


In this study, with a focus on the rotating stall phenomenon in the vaneless diffuser of a centrifugal compressor, 2D-PIV is conducted to better understand the flow structure. Although many studies have reported concerning this problem, most data is obtained through experiments under lower speed conditions, using a simplified model or equipment. Unlike such studies, a ship board turbocharger compressor with a higher impeller rotation speed is selected as an application for the present measurement. In the measurement, an ensemble-averaged phase locking technique is also selected to compensate for the lack of time resolution of the PIV system. Since rotating stall in vaneless diffuser results in a huge amplitude of pressure fluctuation, the trigger signal for the ensemble-averaged measurement was constructed from diffuser wall pressure. The equipment layout for PIV is set to a cross sectional measurement of constant span height in the diffuser passage. PIV is conducted through a sight glass mounted on the diffuser shroud wall, the field of view of which is limited by its size. To obtain the whole flow structure of the diffuser passage, the measurement is repeated for different cyclic phases of the phenomenon.Five different span heights ranging from diffuser hub to shroud were selected as velocity measurement planes. The result obtained at the mid span indicates a typical pattern of the flow field containing containing low and high-velocity regions mutually in a circumferential direction. Considering other results obtained at different span heights, the whole flow structure is visualized and utilizing this data, both a wall separation pattern and a stall propagation mechanism are considered.Copyright © 2013 by ASME


This research was aimed to determine the effect of different concentrations of maltodextrin on antioxidants and stability of the natural dye powder of sappan wood under various pH and temperature conditions. This study used a completely randomized experimental design with five treatments and three replications. The treatments in this study were: A (addition maltodextrin 5%), B (addition maltodextrin 10%), C (addition maltodextrin 15%), D (addition maltodextrin 20%), and E (addition maltodextrin 25%). Before the drying process, maltodextrin was added to the sappan wood extract that had been created. Yield, color analysis, solubility test, color stability test based on pH and heating temperature fluctuations, water content, and antioxidant activity are among the observations made. The addition of maltodextrin had a substansial impact on yield, and color the addition of maltodextrin had a substantial impact on yield, color analysis, solubility, water content, and antioxidant activity, according to the findings. The best treatment in this study was treatment A (addition maltodextrin 5%) with the characteristics of yield 18.33,%, hue value in color analysis was 39,58%, with yellow red color, solubility 87,33%, water content 6,83, and 17,80 ppm antioxidant activity (strong category), as well as maltodextrin which was stable against various pH and temperature treatments.
Keyword: sappan wood, maltodextrin, antioxidant activity, color stability.


The size field in encoded JPEG file header is very important to the image displaying, so it should be designated to avoid the problem of confusedly displaying. The current measure of constructing of a pseudo header does not deal with this issue very well. To address this problem, the paper presents an algorithm which uses luminance-DC-frequency-coefficients-scale differential algorithm to obtain the width of a header-missing JPEG fragment without using any original meta-data. We use both the algorithm and the construction of decipher prerequisites to get the value. The results of experiments have shown that they can obtain the width information and the location of 8∗8 blocks sequence of header-missing JPEG fragment with resilience and accuracy.


A three-stepwise robust statistical method combining the robust statistical theory with distribution features of rainfall for detection of outliers in telemetry system is described. The proposed robust statistical method adopts the Tukey fence insensitive to outliers as identification bounds and presents a three-stepwise pattern to adapt the distribution of rainfall data. Moreover,the modified method based on dividing precipitation data into several groups further improves detection efficiency. The results show that the new method is suitable to the hydrological need.


New Zealand faces a potential natural gas shortage by 2009 as reserves of the Maui gas field are depleted. The challenges and benefits of investment in new resources to ensure continued supply of gas to meet the country's growing energy needs are discussed. The author calls for greater investment in oil and gas exploration through a favourable political and economic climate, access to adequate geological research, and expansion of the domestic gas market.


The invention provides a method for reducing the resin content in masson pine thermo mechanical pulp by a combination of lipase and talcum powder. The method comprises the following steps of: adding the lipase to the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp, reacting the two at 20-75 DEG C to decompose triglyceride fatty acid contained in resin in the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp, and performing inactivation on the lipase to obtain the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp treated by the lipase; and adding the talcum powder, which adsorbs resin particles in the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp treated by the lipase, to the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp treated by the lipase at 15-70 DEG C, and washing the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp by water to remove the talcum powder which adsorbs the resin particles. According to the method, the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp is treated by the combination of the lipase and the talcum powder, about 40% of the resin in the masson pine thermo mechanical pulp can be removed, and thus the bleachability of the paper pulp can be improved.


ABSTRACT This article contributes to the ongoing debate over China's behaviour in the multilateral trading system established by the World Trade Organization (WTO). It offers a systemic review of all completed WTO disputes against China in the past two decades and a critical analysis of four political factors embedded in China's impressive record of compliance. In doing so, it develops an analytical framework for future studies on China's approaches to WTO compliance and its interaction with international trade rules more broadly. While China's trade policy has become more sensitive to the changing external environment, this framework will remain highly relevant to studies of China's behaviour on trade and other economic matters and ways to engage with the emerging global superpower in the years ahead.


Objective To evaluate ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) parameters in a broad sample of high-risk hypertensive patients. Methods The Spanish Society of Hypertension is developing a nationwide project in which more than 900 physicians send ABPM registries and corresponding clinical records to a central database via www.cardiorisc.com. Between June 2004 and July 2005 a 20 000-patient database was obtained; 17 219 were valid for analysis. Results We identified 6534 patients with high cardiovascular risk according to the 2003 European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology guidelines stratification score. Office blood pressure (BP) was 158.8/89.9 mmHg and 24-h BP was 135.8/77.0 mmHg. Patients with grade 3 BP in the office showed ambulatory systolic BP values less than 160 mmHg in more than 80%. A non-dipping pattern was observed in 3836 cases (58.7%), whereas this abnormality was present in 47.9% of patients with low-to-moderate risk [odds ratio (OR) 1.54; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.45–1.64]. The prevalence of non-dippers was higher as ambulatory BP increased (≈ 70% when 24-h systolic BP > 155 mmHg) and was similar in both groups. At the lowest levels of BP (24-h systolic BP < 135 mmHg) a non-dipping pattern was more prevalent in high-risk cases (56.6 versus 45.7%; OR 1.51; 95% CI 1.40–1.64). Conclusion There was a remarkable discrepancy between office and ambulatory BP in high-risk hypertensive patients. The prevalence of a non-dipper BP pattern was almost 60%. In the lowest levels of ambulatory BP, high-risk patients showed a higher prevalence of non-dipping BP than lower-risk cases. These observations support the recommendation of a wider use of ABPM in high-risk hypertensive patients.


Detection of TB transmission has relied on the occurrence of a cutaneous reactions to purified protein derivative (PPD) given intradermally. A new type


A commercial dry coal cleaning plant (50 2 6 mm feed) using an air-dense medium fluidized bed has been established in China. It is an important clean coal technology (CCT) due to insufficient water resources in China and abroad. This article studies the fluidization performance and bed density homogeneity of a vibrated fluidized bed and a double-density fluidized bed. The experimental results obtained with a 2000 mm 2 80 mm 2 200 mm model apparatus showed that the vibrated fluidized bed can efficiently separate <6 mm fine coal with an E p value of 0.07 and a lower separation limit of 0.5 mm. A double-density fluidized bed was formed by specially designing the bed structure with a pyramidal part. It can produce three products in a fluidized cascade at aseparation density of 1.49 g/cm 3 with an E p value of 0.06 and a separation density of 1.85 g/cm 3 with an E p value of 0.07.


Increasing yield instability due to climate change could be mitigated by higher interand intra crop diversity. During the course of the INSUSFAR project, several questions
regarding the impact of more diverse crops on agricultural systems are adressed. To answer these questions, varieties, mixtures, and composite cross populations of wheat will be investigated in field experiments and on-farm. Based on the results, the socio-economic, ecological and yield performance of these varieties and the extent of
genetic changes in genetically diverse populations will be tested. In addition, effects of plant breeding on the adaption of varieties to different input levels will be analysed.


A direct variational method is applied to the linear and nonlinear Mathieu equation with damping. It is found that the nature of the periodic solutions and the characteristic curves are modified due to the presence of the damping. A threshold value of β is required to overcome the damping for the existence of the periodic solutions. Stability analyses for the periodic solutions are also carried out.


In this paper, we extend our previous research results from the stabilization of dynamic neural networks to the stabilization of unknown nonlinear systems, and present an approach of H∞ control for nonlinear systems via dynamic neural networks. The proposed H∞ controller is intended to attenuate the adverse impact of modeling error, considered as a disturbance, to a prescribed level with stability margins. A numerical example demonstrates the performance of stabilizing control on an unstable unknown nonlinear system.


We consider the first passage percolation with i.i.d.\,weights on edges of a cubic lattice. Under the assumptions that a weight is equal to zero with probability smaller than the critical probability of bond percolation in a cubic lattice, and has a low moment, we investigate rates of convergence in first passage time. In addition, we give an application of our result to variance of the first passage percolation in the case where the limit shape has flat edges.


In these preliminary studies, Ss viewed the illuminated I square and the T rectangles (solid white figures on a black ground) in a dark room while fixating a pinhole of lighr. The angular separation of adjacent I and T contours was 38'. Duration of figural aftereffect (FAE) was measured by presenting a succession of T exposures until S reported that the T figures appeared aligned. It was found chat, if the interval between T exposures were greater than 1 sec., the number of such exposures rather than the interval between them was associated with d~lration of FAE. Optimal results were obtained with the shortest T exposure available (1 msec.). W h e n T figures were presented for 1 msec. at 2-sec. intervals, 10 Ss gave a mean duration of FAE of 14.9 sec. after a single I-msec. I exposure. Physiological nystagmus may be discounted as a causal factor in these conditions. This finding weakens the Osgood-Heyer theory of FAE (Osgood & Heyer, 1952 ). Duration of FAE varied with I durztion, but only if an adequate inter-trial interval (30 sec.) was used. Wi th shorter inter-trial intervals it seems that a c ~ ~ m u l a t i v e effect occurs, leading to a constarit displacement irrespective of stim11111s variation. Summation of FAE produced by successive I presentations at S/sec. was demonstrated over a 20-sec. period in one experiment. Mean duration of FAE ( 1 0 Ss) declined throughout an experimental session in which the inter-trial interval was only a few seconds, but only 1 of 7 Ss showed a significant decline when the inter-trial interval was 30 sec. It is possible that a preceding T figure displaces the I figure, thus weakening its effect; or it may be that less FAE is produced under conditions where fatigue is a factor. Pilot experiments showed that the size of I figure is not an important variable, confirmed the distance paradox, suggested an optimal I-T interval of 500 to 1000 msec., and lent weight to the view that FAE is cortic:~lly determined. The phenomenology of FAE, together with results from Japanese scudies (e.g., Obonai & Suzumura, 1954) , shows that maximal displacement is related to the perception of apparent movement. The time over which an aftereffect can be exerted corresponds to the duration of negative after-images. One is led to relate these facts in a theoretical framework involving reverberating circuits and travelling waves of excitation in Area 17.