SUBSYNCHRONOUS damping controller (SSDC) can be considered as an effective means to improve the damping characteristics of various controllable devices of the power system. In general, linear system analysis tools are applied widely in determination of the preliminary parameters for the damping controller. However, due to increasing amount of nonlinearities in the power system more detailed analysis techniques, such as electromagnetic transient (EMT) analysis, must more often be utilized in the final tuning of the controller. In this paper EMT analysis based target function approach for tuning and optimization of the SSDC implementation of Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) is presented. Presented approach improves the feasibility and effectiveness of EMT analysis based tuning of the damping controller and enables illustration of the effectiveness of the controller in e.g. various operation conditions. As a conclusion, feasibility and performance of the presented approach is illustrated by means of practical SSDC design example.


The paper analyzes the importance of the secure production management in architectural project,points out the technological organization measures for the secure production of the construction enterprise,points out there is a changing and increasing process from the secure civilized state to the secure civilized behavior,so as to improve the secure production management by establishing the secure and civilized construction sites.


Abstract Objective: Clopidogrel napadisilate has better chemical stability than clopidogrel bisulfate. Our trial's objective was to compare the efficacy and safety of clopidogrel napadisilate with clopidogrel bisulfate in participants with ischemic stroke. Research design and methods: The study was a phase 4, 4 week, randomized, parallel-group, non-inferiority trial. Patients with ischemic stroke were randomized to receive either clopidogrel napadisilate 75 mg or clopidogrel bisulfate 75 mg. The primary study endpoint was change from baseline in P2Y12 percentage inhibition at week 4. The primary analysis was conducted in the per-protocol population. Non-inferiority was confirmed if the lower limit of the 95% confidence interval (CI) of the treatment difference was greater than or equal to −9.0% points. Results: Sixty-one participants were randomly assigned clopidogrel napadisilate and 60 were randomly assigned clopidogrel bisulfate. Thirty-nine participants in the clopidogrel napadisilate group and 39 in the clopidogrel bisulfate group were analyzed for the primary endpoint. At 4 weeks, mean P2Y12 percentage inhibition had increased in both treatment groups. The estimated mean change from baseline was 22.3% with clopidogrel napadisilate and 21.4% with clopidogrel bisulfate; the estimated treatment difference of 0.9% (95% CI, −8.6 to 10.4) confirmed the non-inferiority of clopidogrel napadisilate to clopidogrel bisulfate. Conclusions: Clopidogrel napadisilate was non-inferior to clopidogrel bisulfate as assessed by change in P2Y12 percentage inhibition. Rates of adverse events were similar between the two groups. Therefore, clopidogrel napadisilate is a useful alternative option for the dosing of ischemic stroke patient populations.


In this paper, set theory is introduced to the design of authenticated key agreement scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks, and a scheme based on bilinear dynamic accumulator is proposed. The previous schemes based on classical random graph and others mainly achieve key agreement between nodes, and separate authentication and key agreement. From the perspective of set theory, this work transforms authenticated key agreement into set element relationship certification, and integrates identity authentication and key agreement. It includes identity authentication, key agreement, and broadcast authentication. Sensors verify the identity of each other by exchanging ID and witnesses. Legitimate nodes generate a shared key. Broadcast messages are used to dynamically add/delete nodes, and update witness. Experimental results show that the new scheme not only achieves effective integration of authentication, key agreement and broadcast certification; but also has better security, scalability, and adaptive changes in the network structure. It is suitable for higher node performance and security requirements scenarios.


It is clear from decades of research that, to a very large degree, success in music, games, sports, science, and other complex domains reflects knowledge and skills acquired through experience. However, it is equally clear that basic abilities, which are known to be substantially heritable, also contribute to performance differences in many domains, even among highly skilled performers. As we discuss here, our research shows that working memory capacity predicts performance in complex tasks even in individuals with high levels of domain-specific experience and knowledge. We discuss implications of our findings for the understanding of individual differences in skill and identify challenges for future research.


ary of Demeter in Paros) tend to occur in the context of behavior (Miltiades' military aggression against Paros) that is immoral in a broader sense and that marks the individual, sooner or later, for destruction. Herodotus himself mentions édikÆmata as the inevitable cause of divine punishment for men (2.120.5). In an important interpretive passage (1.34.1), he even suggests that piety, in the most technical sense that Mikalson seems to give to the word, had nothing to do with the causes of the "nemesis from the gods" that caught up with Croesus. Mikalson does not discuss this second passage, but one guesses he may consider it as a not very important exception. As he says in this chapter (151), the word nemesis, like atasthalia, the notion of reversal of fortune, divine phthonos, or notions related to hubris, are elements of Herodotus' religious thought that derive from the poetic/literary tradition, according to the distinction established in chapter 1 (47). In Herodotus' narrative of later events, these literary motifs are secondary to the cultic side of religion (165). This conclusion may not find everyone in agreement, but it reflects the emphasis of the study as a whole. In both chapter 3 and in the Appendix, Mikalson makes some illuminating remarks about Herodotus' broad and cosmopolitan attitude towards the divine. But his book focuses on cult, not on theodicy or theology, poetic or otherwise. For scholars who want to review the religious practices of the Greeks at the time of the Persian Wars, it will provide a useful resource.


The present invention relates to a kind of use multi-mould prepares the method for lyophilized excipient of arbitrary shape and the product being obtained according to the method, more particularly to a kind of use multi-mould prepares the preparation method of the lyophilized excipient mainly containing active component and binding agent of arbitrary shape and the product being obtained according to the method.


Simulators often require calibration inputs estimated from real-world data, and the estimate can significantly affect simulation output. Particularly when performing simulation optimisation to find an optimal solution, the uncertainty in the inputs significantly affects the quality of the found solution. One remedy is to search for the solution that has the best performance on average over the uncertain range of inputs yielding an optimal compromise solution. We consider the more general setting where a user may choose between either running simulations or querying an external data source, improving the input estimate and enabling the search for a more targeted, less compromised solution. We explicitly examine the trade-off between simulation and real data collection to find the optimal solution of the simulator with the true inputs. Using a value of information procedure, we propose a novel unified simulation optimisation procedure called Bayesian Information Collection and Optimisation that, in each iteration, automatically determines which of the two actions (running simulations or data collection) is more beneficial. We theoretically prove convergence in the infinite budget limit and perform numerical experiments demonstrating that the proposed algorithm is able to automatically determine an appropriate balance between optimisation and data collection.


The assessment of nonresponse bias in survey-based empirical studies plays an important role in establishing the credibility of research results. Statistical methods that involve the comparison of responses from two groups (e.g., early vs. late respondents) on multiple characteristics, which are relevant to the study, are frequently utilized in the assessment of nonresponse bias. We consider the concepts of individual and complete statistical power used for multiple testing and show their relevance for determining the number of statistical tests to perform when assessing nonresponse bias. Our analysis of factors that influence both individual and complete power levels, yielded recommendations that can be used by operations management (OM) empirical researchers to improve their assessment of nonresponse bias. A power analysis of 61 survey-based research papers published in three prestigious academic operations management journals, over the last decade, showed the occurrence of very low (<0.4) power levels in some of the statistical tests used for assessing nonresponse bias. Such low power levels can lead to erroneous conclusions about nonresponse bias, and are indicators of the need for more rigor in the assessment of nonresponse bias in OM research.


No other social community has been that booming ever than Facebook. A query among freshmen at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) displays this strongly ongoing trend too. Compared to the freshmen-studies of the last three years we can demonstrate the way Facebook already influences the communication behavior of todays students. Does the use of Facebook lead to a more competent understanding and intensive practice of Web2.0 applications in general? Does Facebook pave the way for Web2.0 or absorbs it by implementing and enabling Web2.0 functionalities on the platform? And what does this mean for teaching and learning aspects so far? Using a couple of statistical analysis methods for complex investigations (hierarchical cluster analysis, the principle component analysis and the varimax rotation) we tried to answer these questions and found out that the usage of Facebook already leaves its marks on the communicational behavior of students. An influence on the usage of other Web2.0 applications cannot be stated with significance so far but it seems that Facebook has a repressive factor rather than a promotive one; it serves as a substitute for them.


Today's hospital room is dominated by electronic devices that monitor, control, and document a patient's condition. The devices do what machines do best: tedious, repetitive tasks such as cardiac and respiratory monitoring requiring unerring accuracy. However, the proliferation of the devices, fueled by technological advances and the application of computers, is causing environmental and usability problems. Innumerable controls, displays, and alarms produce sensory overload. The devices congest the workspace, present tripping hazards, and produce unwanted noise, heat, and light. Using the equipment is not intuitive and requires substantial training. As a result, nurses and physicians spend more time working with the equipment and less time providing direct patient care. Reversing this trend requires better design and integration of equipment through the application of a usability engineering approach to product design and a commitment to design standards.


"All languages have 'emotive interjections' (i.e., interjections expressing cognitively based feelings)" (Wierzbicka 1999, p. 276)—and yet emotion researchers have invested only a tiny research effort into interjections, as compared with the huge body of research into facial expressions and words for emotion categories. This article provides an overview of the functions, meanings, and cross-linguistic variability of interjections, concentrating on non-word-based ones such as Wow!, Yuck!, and Ugh! The aims are to introduce an area that will be unfamiliar to most readers, to illustrate how one leading linguistic approach (natural semantic metalanguage [NSM]) deals with interjectional meaning, and to start a discussion about an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of emotive interjections. Examples are drawn from English, Polish, and Cantonese.


This research empirically examines the difference that type of counsel, public or private, makes in the bail amount set for Hispanic defendants. Data were collected on all felony defendants assigned to the district court in a midwestern county. Specifically, the authors hypothesized that Hispanic defendants who retain the assistance of private counsel will receive lower bail amounts than defendants assigned a court-appointed attorney. Several independent controls were employed including the legal variables—offense seriousness and prior arrests —and the extralegal variables—sex, age, and residency . These data were analyzed using ordinary least squares multiple regression. The analyses show that although Hispanic defendants utilizing private counsel receive lower bail amounts than defendants assigned a court-appointed attorney, only the variables age, residency, and offense seriousness significantly affect bail amount set.


Introduction:  Early stage colorectal tumors can be removed by endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) but larger tumors (≧20 mm) may require piecemeal resection. The development of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has enabled en‐bloc resection of lesions regardless of size and shape. However ESD of colorectal tumor is technically difficult. As the resources, we perform EMR with small incision (EMR with SI) for more reliable EMR, and also ESD with snaring (simplified ESD) for easier and safer ESD.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To thin the thickness of a lens barrel in storing by decreasing a moving amount of a retracting lens moving frame in a collapsible lens barrel. SOLUTION: The lens barrel includes a means for driving a lens holding frame, and a movable cylinder 15 for holding the lens holding frame in the inside. The means for driving the lens holding frame drives the lens holding frame between a collapsed state and a photographable state. The lens holding frame includes: the retracting lens holding frame 38 for holding a lens group 3 retracting at least one lens group in the outside rather than an inner diameter of the movable cylinder in the collapsed state; and a retracting lens moving member for moving to hold the retracting lens holding frame 38. The retracting lens moving member is composed of a plurality of moving members 40, 50. When the retracting lens holding frame is in a range from a retracting position to a prescribed position on an optical axis, the plurality of the moving members 40, 50, integrally move. When the retracting lens holding frame is on the optical axis, and in an optical axis direction in the photographable area they relatively move with each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT


This chapter provides a review of theory and evidence concerning the relative persuasiveness of gain- versus loss-framed messages in health contexts, with particular attention to research surrounding proposed moderators of message framing effects, including type of health behavior advocated, message recipients' involvement with the health issue and approach/avoidance tendency, and desirability of the end-state emphasized in the message. The review suggests that several theoretical perspectives including prospect theory, dual-process theories, and regulatory focus theory have been used to explain message framing effects. It is argued that there has been a lack of effort to integrate the different theoretical perspectives into a broader framework based on which the relative effects of message framing can be understood. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the current state of research and directions for future studies.

Keywords:

Using Message Framing in Health-Related Persuasion;
Theory and Evidence


Even Individual Real-Estate Investors Can Violate The Antitrust Laws* When you think about a government antitrust investigation, you probably picture monopoly accusations against large companies…


We investigate the crystallization of amorphous silicon (a-Si) films, by flash lamp annealing (FLA), formed by electron beam (EB) evaporation on textured glass substrates. We confirmed that EB-evaporated a-Si films formed on textured glass can be crystallized by FLA. Optical reflectance on EB-evaporated a-Si can be reduced by using the textured glass, leading to a reduction in the fluence of a FL pulse required for the crystallization. The fluence of a FL pulse for the crystallization of EB-evaporated a-Si films tends to increase with temperature during EB evaporation of a-Si films. The pre-existing crystal grains in precursor Si films may affect the mechanism of their crystallization. The usage of textured glass substrates leads the formation of polycrystalline Si (poly-Si) films with fine grains. This may result from the prevention of lateral thermal growth and the suppression of explosive crystallization (EC). Unlike in the case of the crystallization of EB-evaporated a-Si films on flat glass substrates, poly-Si films formed on textured glass substrates are not cracked. This may be due to the suppression of the emergence of EC.


Objective To investigate the effect of oridonin on G2/M phase arrest of human stomach cancer SGC-7901 cell growth in vitro and its molecular mechanism.Methods The inhibition of oridonin on SGC-7901 cells was detected by MTT assay.Effect of oridonin on the phase distribution of SGC-7901 cell cycle was observed by flow cytometry(FCM).Western blotting was used to analyze the expression of Cdk1 and CyclinB1.Results IC50 of oridonin on SGC-7901 cells was 15.64 μmol/L.The effect of oridonin on SGC-7901 cells presented the increasing percentages of cells in G2/M phase as the concentration of oridonin increased.With the increase of oridonin dose,the expresstion of Cdk1 and CyclinB1 proteins was remarkably decreased.Conclusion Oridonin can down-regulate the expression of Cdk1 and CyclinB1,which may be the mechanism of arresting SGC-7901 cells in G2/M phase.


In the wave of globalization,digitization,networking,the original communication form of agricultural sci-tech periodical can not meet the development of the times and diversified readers' need,the periodical network is the inevitable trend of its development.The authors analyze the status of the agricultural sci-tech periodical network,and study related problems existed in the development of the periodical network,and accordingly proposed some promotion measures,such as,build a new editors team for agricultural sci-tech periodical,increase the amount of information and shorten release cycles,build agricultural sci-tech e-commerce platform,multi-directional advance agricultural sci-tech periodical using the network.


This communication details the first reported case of renal artery intraarterial pulse wave Doppler obtained prior to, and following primary stenting of a renal artery stenosis. Doppler wave forms were recorded proximal, within, and distal to the lesion and reported with the angiographic and hemodynamic results. The changes in average and maximal peak velocities following stent deployment continued the abolition of the resting transstenotic gradient and renal artery stenosis. Intraarterial pulsed wave Doppler complements angiography and translesional gradient measurements as a physiological marker of a successful procedure.


Diesel engine technologies have gone through significant progresses in the past decade. Though the tailpipe NOx and particulate matter emissions have been reduced to a large extent by the applications of after-treatment systems such as selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems and Diesel particulate filters, engine fuel economy usually needs to be compromised considerably to achieve appropriate engine-out emissions. Most of the current Diesel engine control studies focus only on the Diesel engines themselves, while most of the current aftertreatment controls are limited in the scope of aftertreatment systems alone. The opportunities of further improving the overall powertrain system performance by considering the engine and aftertreatment system in an integrative way have been rarely exploited. In this paper, a new framework for integrated control of both engine and aftertreatment system is devised. A backstepping-based active NOx control method is proposed by treating the engine-out NOx concentration as a control input for the ammonia coverage ratio control of a two-cell SCR system. Simulation results based on the UDDS driving cycle show that up to 5.86% of engine fuel consumption can be reduced without a significant penalty on the tailpipe emissions.


The above volume is a rare reminder both of a remarkable archive and a culture ''from below''. This appears to have been relegated to an ever more marginal status within the social dynamics unleashed by the contemporary development of the information and knowledge society and the global dispositions of financial and industrial corporations. Hence, the paramount function of this publication, destined chiefly for researchers in cultural studies, is to inform about the varied history of cultural expression by working (or unemployed) people and their sympathisers from other walks of life, primarily, though not exclusively, in the German-speaking world. The Fritz-Hüser Archive and Institute act both as a memory bank and an organising centre for exhibitions on aspects of this culture ''from below'', past and present. It is perhaps apposite, and certainly not fortuitous, that this Institute should be located in Dortmund, the largest town of the Ruhr Area, where there was once a major European concentration of coal and steel production, now making way for computer and research-linked industries, leisure and retail services. Such restructuring also means that the traditional working class is in a process of social recomposition, calling for new styles and media of self-expression and the inevitable historicisation of earlier forms of working-class culture. In his introduction, Rainer Noltenius, the director of the Institute from 1979 until 2003, provides an instructive overview of how this unique collection came about. Its foundational core reaches back to the tenacious acquisition since the 1920s of materials from the worker culture movement of the Weimar Republic by a former steelworker, Fritz Hüser, who later became the director of the municipal library at Dortmund. He donated his private collection, largely preserved despite Nazi attempts to destroy this entire legacy of the (German) working-class movement, to the municipality on condition that it budget for the rooms and personnel of an institute for German and extra-German workers' literature. By accepting this condition this municipality, albeit a major one, took on the financially demanding, though honourable onus of preserving and augmenting


Role of Te doping in titanium disulfide using linear combination of atomic orbitals method and Compton spectroscopy is reported. The theoretical Compton profiles (CPs) of TiSTe derived using various exchange and correlation potentials like Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof, Perdew-Wang generalized gradient approximation and von Barth-Hedin (VBH) are compared with corresponding experimental CP to check the applicability of considered potentials. From the total and partial density of states, we observe that doping of Te at S site vanishes the narrow band gap of TiS2 leading to metallic character of TiSTe. A good agreement between experimental and VBH potential based CP of TiSTe shows better performance of VBH approximation in this mixed metal-like dichalcogenide.


In this paper, we determine the graphs (respectively, trees) with maximum spectral radius among all graphs (respectively, trees) with zero forcing number at most $k$.  As an application, we give a sharp lower bound for the zero forcing number of graphs involving the spectral radius.


Pest control specialists construct and use decision rules to guide pest control actions. These decision rules usually consist of a sampling protocol for use in estimating or classifying pest densities and guidelines for actions based on these estimates. The bases for these guidelines are economic or action thresholds. The behavior of a pest control decision rule is rarely appraised in any formal manner. Decision theory is an avenue for appraising and comparing decision rules and a method whereby sampling intensity and guidelines for taking pest control actions can be considered jointly. The value of sample information, from the perspective of improved pest management, is calculated using decision theory. This value is used as an objective function for decision rule formulation and appraisal. Methods for calculating the value of sample information are presented and illustrations are provided.


Abstract : Calspan's studies produced phenomenological descriptions of at least five new fog types, provided realistic verification on which to base new numerical modeling techniques, and developed synoptic and statistical relationships which could be used in operational forecasting. Under the current contract, Calspan conducted an objective evaluation of these predictive approaches, along with a select group of numerical models, by testing against data sets derived from at-sea observational studies. The results of this evaluation demonstrated that, with high-quality data, certain models can provide operationally useful forecasts for marine obscuration. It is also concluded that new knowledge of the physics of marine fog occurrence can help optimize the application of various forecast techniques and also serve as a back-up forecast tool. As a chief objective of this investigation, we outlined a preliminary version of an obscuration forecast system which, when fully developed, would incorporate this new knowledge and delineate the application of specific numeric and/or synoptic and statistical approaches; i.e., the system would specify a forecast tool tailored to the attendant meteorological scenario and functional within operational constraints. This report summarizes the research effort and results which led to the conceptual design of this forecast system.


We present a frame work for studying the stability and convergence of a class of variable order one-step rational schemes based on the rational interpolants of Lambert 1974, Luke et al 1975 and Fatunla [1982,1986]. The frame work allows for the global formulation of non-linear one-step methods by introduction of some coefficients {C(,)}, i= 1,2,p - 1; ] = 2,3,p; j - i > 0 where p is the order of the resultant scheme.


This research presents the relationship between theory and practice in teacher education through a case study. To conduct the study the internship of a Degree Course in Chemical Sciences student from the University of Sao Paulo, in a state school in the city of Ribeirao Preto – SP, Brazil. This research analyzes whether the Educational Residency Program enables the undergraduate students to have the opportunity to get closer to school practices than mandatory internships. It provides interns the analysis of theory and its implementation, pondering on what can or cannot being applied at school.


We report on the experimental demonstration of adiabatic light transfer between the outer waveguides in a finite array of evanescently coupled optical waveguides with negligible excitation of all the intermediate waveguides. Such a counterintuitive light transfer scheme is an optical analogue of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage via an auxiliary dressed state proposed in atomic physics for multilevel systems.


The invention provides a heat tracing ejector. The heat tracing ejector comprises an upper joint 1, a shell 3, a framework 2, a motor 4, a screw rod and nut assembly 5, a lock releasing device 6, a push-pull device 8, a middle joint 7, a spring 9, a piston 11, a heat insulation bin shell 10, a heater 13, a balancing pole 14, an ejection head 12 and a lower joint 15. The lower end of the upper joint 1 is connected with the shell 3, the framework 2 is fixed inside the shell 3, the middle joint 7, the heat insulation bin shell 10 and the ejection head 12 are sequentially connected below the shell 3, and the lower joint 15 is connected to the lower end of the ejection head 12. The motor 4, the screw rod and nut assembly 5, the lock releasing device 6 and the push-pull device 8 are sequentially connected below the framework 2, and the push-pull device 8 axially penetrates the middle joint 7 to be downwards and sequentially connected with the piston 11 and the balancing pole 14. The heat tracing ejector has the advantages of compact structure, convenience in use and maintenance and high applicability, and the problem of low tracing well log measurement accuracy caused by overlong ejection time is effectively solved.


By general agreement, ancient Near East designates the region extending from modern Turkey to Afghanistan, from the Black Sea to Yemen and Oman. Sometimes it includes Egypt, and it may thus correspond approximately to the current term Middle East. But precisely what it encompasses, how it functions as a rubric governing description and analysis, and where its antiquity begins and ends, are matters of some debate. How did this area come to comprise a distinct and independent cultural sphere in the modern scholarly imagination? Are we justified in continuing to treat its material record as a meaningful unit, and if so, why and how? In short, what is our purview? And when we speak of the "art" of the ancient Near East, do we use a label or concept consistent with prevalent or persistent notions in its constituent cultures, or do we impose an anachronistic (and thus inappropriate) modern construct? In this chapter I distinguish two aspects of this issue, because they entail different sets of questions and have been approached by different groups of specialists. The first involves the critical reception of Near Eastern antiquities in the West, especially following the nineteenth‐century rediscovery of Mesopotamian antiquity. The objects initially recovered from archaeological explorations were incorporated into existing aesthetic frameworks established primarily for histories of ancient Greek art, and evaluated accordingly. The "Art" of the "Ancient Near East"


This article attempted a consideration on the expression structure of both languages in Japan and Korea focusing on the structure of giving and receiving auxiliary verb. The approach of this study collected total 1,604 examples using seven giving and receiving auxiliary verb expressions such as ?-te yaru? ?-te ageru? ?-te sasiageru? ?-te kureru? ?-te kudasaru? ?-te morau? ?-te itadaku? in Japanese novels, compared each Korean translation version and analyzed their corresponding relations. As a result, following conclusion has been reached. They were possible to set as two consistent types in Japanese and Korean and three inconsistent types in Japanese and Korean and the consistent corresponding rate and the inconsistent corresponding rate were 36.1% and 63.9%, in which the latter rate was indicated to be higher. Of inconsistent corresponding types, ?V1/V2-O? type is noted that japanese expression of giving and receiving auxiliary verb is corresponded as unmarked form in Korean, which showed the highest corresponding rate accounting for 49.4% of the whole. This suggests that Japanese expresses the directivity of movement one by one using giving and receiving auxiliary verb, while Korean is neutral in expressing this directivity. Also known at ?V1/V2-distinct auxiliary verb? type, it can be found that giving and receiving auxiliary verb expression in Japanese is not limited to giving and receiving auxiliary verb, ?eo-juda? in Korean, but it can be replaced by distinct auxiliary verbs such as ?eo-beorida? ?go-malda? ?eo-mukda? etc. , so Korean is possible to use various auxiliary verbs compared to fixed Japanese. On one hand, ?V1-te morau(itadaku)? all came up as conversion consistent type (I-B type) corresponded to ?V1/V2-eo juda(jusida)? expression in Korean, which is understood as natural result in that completely consistent type (I-A type), expression of ?-eo badda(badeusida)? does not exist in Korean.


T he aim of this research is to know the effect of the loss of Ahok and Jarot in the general election in DKI Jakarta. The method of the research is qualitative by taking the references from some books, newspaper and magazine namely Tribun Kaltim Kaltim Post,Gatra and the others .The results of the research are (1).The supporters including the support of the Political Party involves the religion domain,(2). The supports of the Political Party do not avoid the actors of the   religion followers who are the actors involved in the general election ;(3).The Voters should be given  the religion aspects .(4).The loss of the couple Ahok and Jarot caused by religion domain; (5).The couple who get the victory because  the religion centiment;(6).The winner will be gentlement because they       will end happily and fairly and the couple of Ahok-Jarot has to be ensured that  the  income does never  exchanged.The suggestions in  this  results are (1).The Political party supporters have to support based on political affairs ,(2). The Political party supporters not enter the religion affairs (3).The commisioners of KPU have to sentence to whoever relates the politics and religion in the compaign ,(4).The loss does not any relate with others but political affairs,(5).The supporters do not get any profit but to play fairly,(6).The all sides in the society has to keep it peaceful.,(7).General election is just competition not a war.


The reaction of hydrogen plasma with Si(110) surface was investigated at the floating condition. The evolution of hydride components in Si(110) were monitored with the infrared absorption spectroscopy in multiple internal reflection geometry (MIR-IRAS). IR data indicate that the surface was terminated with hydrogen by the exposure to hydrogen plasma, and also indicate that the atomic arrangements of Si(110) surface were distorted, then abundant parts of the surface were changed in amorphous phase with forming dihydride. However, characteristic structures of -Si-Sichains on crystalline (110) face were retained.


Quality of life following thoracotomy for lung cancer Background. The aim of the study was to assess the preoperative and postoperative quality of life (QoL) in lung cancer patients undergoing thoracotomy and to compare the impairment of QoL in resected and exploratory thoracotomized (ET) patients. Patients and methods. Forty-three patients age 31 to 82 (mean 61) thoracotomized (lobectomy 29, bilobectomy 1, pneumonectomy 8, ET 5) for non-small cell lung cancer were assessed using the EORTC QLQ-LC30 and QLQ-LC13 questionnaire preoperatively and a mean of 45±17 days after the thoracotomy and before eventual chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Results. After thoracotomy there were significantly impaired functional scales (physical functioning, role functioning, social functioning) and symptom scales (fatigue, constipation, appetite loss, dyspnoea, pain). The remaining symptoms (nausea/vomiting, insomnia, diarrhoea, coughing), global health status, functional scales (emotional functioning, cognitive functioning) and financial difficulties were impaired non-significantly. However, haemoptysis significantly improved and completely disappeared after thoracotomy. There were no significant differences between resected and ET patients. Conclusions. The study established significant impairment of QoL in the first two months after thoracotomy, but no significant differences between resected and ET patients.


ONE great problem that occurs at once, and keeps on occurring, is to get the players to adapt themselves to film technique. Many of them, of course, come from the stage; they are not cinema-minded at all. So, quite naturally, they like to play long scenes straight ahead. I am willing to work with the long uninterrupted shot: you can't avoid it altogether, and you can get some variety by having two cameras running, one close up and one farther away, and cutting from one to the other when the film is edited. But if I have to shoot a long scene continuously I always feel I am losing grip on it, from a cinematic point of view. The camera, I feel, is simply standing there, hoping to catch something with a visual point to it. What I like to do always is to photograph just the little bits of a scene that I really need for building up a visual sequence. I want to put my film together on the screen, not simply photograph something that has been put together already in the form of a long piece of stage acting. This is what gives an effect of life to a picture-the feeling that when you see it on the screen you are watching something that has been conceived and brought to birth directly in visual terms. The screen ought to speak its own language, freshly coined, and it can't do that unless it treats an acted scene as a piece of raw material which must be broken up, taken to bits, before it can be woven into an expressive visual pattern.


The goal of this paper is to present a simple and novel system for capturing core data about anaphora and presupposition projection. With respect to presupposition there is no novelty: I simply use a variant of the strong Kleene trivalent logic to treat presupposition projection. What is new is that I add some apparatus from dynamic semantics to extend the trivalent system to also cover e-type anaphora. Heim, in her dissertation [1982], gave two treatments of e-type (donkey) anaphora. One (chapter 2) treated anaphora by means of explicit existential quantifiers in a fully static (and very standard) semantic framework, the other (chapter 3) introduced the first compositional dynamic semantics for anaphora. One of Heim's main arguments for adopting the second approach was that her dynamic system provided a unified treatment of anaphora and presupposition, something no other account provided. Heim's account of anaphora and presupposition has been modified and extended by, among others, Beaver [2001] into a unified and powerful system for the treatment of both. The dynamic treatment of presupposition projection has been criticized by Schlenker [2008, 2009] for its lack of explanatoriness. However, alternative treatments of presupposition projection such as Schlenker's local context approach and the trivalent approach do not obviously integrate well with an account of e-type anaphora. In later work, Heim [1990] suggests integrating a static (presumably trivalent) presuppositional approach to definites with situation semantics and an e-type treatment of pronouns as disguised Fregean descriptions to cover donkey anaphora, a treatment elaborated in Elbourne [2005]. This paper is not the occasion for a full discussion of these semantic theories, but I will pause to note the following:


This work doesn't try to demonstrate, in any way, that current method in the development of the construction of knowledge in design and in particular in the graphic image are going through an identity crisis. The approach deals with the purpose of enriching the disciplinary field to new ground with the intention of adding possibilities that already exist. The design of the graphic identity, focused and based on a design method as it is now giving way recognizes as a relevant practice, but the intention of this paper is to extend or transform existing possibilities in the situation knowledge in the area of the graphic identity from the case method, as it has been proven in the professional designers have recognized in this process a highly recommended practice for the design methodology development.


The paper reflects the results of studies carried out on experimental plots of a peasant farm. The vegetation index is calculated for an adequate assessment and analysis of the growth and development of a plant. Conclusions are drawn about the need for a comprehensive assessment of crop growth conditions. For a detailed assessment of the cultural condition in individual fields, it is necessary to rely on aerial photography materials from UAV, providing high detail images with a spatial resolution of 5–10 cm/pixel.


In this paper, Sichuan Dechang Wind Farm is taken as the research object. A wind power prediction model is established based on the BP neural network, the weight and the threshold of the BP neural network are optimized with FOA algorithm, and the wind power in the next 24h is predicted based on the numerical weather prediction and historical operation data. A wind power prediction system of Dechang Wind Farm is designed and developed based on the actual business requirements of the power plant. Based on the tests, this system operates stably and reliably, which can provide reference for wind power prediction of other wind farms.


We describe a brother and sister from one family and a girl from a second, unrelated family; they have a syndrome of pre- and post-natal growth deficiency, developmental delay, a friendly personality, microcephaly, and a distinctive facial appearance marked by thick eyebrows, full cheeks, and a short nose with the columella inserted below the nasal alae. We think this is a new syndrome probably inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.


This paper describes a novel surface processing technique aimed at the chemical fixation of proteins on substrate surfaces. The essential feature of this newly developed technique is a combination of chemical and enzymatic processes. A simple technique using chemical modification and selective enzymatic digestion for immobilizing biomembrane-embedded proteins on inorganic solid bases, while strictly regulating their vectorial orientation, was developed. These processes are applicable to a wide range of membrane-embedded and individual proteins, because they exploit the most fundamental principle of proteins, that any protein has at least one N-terminus and one C-terminus. After thorough protection of the carboxyl and amino groups on the molecular surface of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) embedded in purple membrane (PM), in which the bR molecules are uniformly oriented, the derivatized bR was subjected to successive enzymatic digestions to regenerate the unique N-terminal amino group on the molecular surface. The...


This study examines the management of financial resources (MFR) in Norwegian municipalities in the context of a financial scandal called the Terra scandal. Two research questions are addressed. First: what was the regulatory response to the wrongdoing in the Terra scandal? Second: what preventive measures of financial debacle, similar to the Terra scandal, have Norwegian municipalities taken? The Norwegian regulatory response to the Terra scandal was soft in nature, requiring few changes for the municipalities. The preventive measures in place vary between the examined municipalities. Few measures have been developed after the Terra scandal, suggesting the municipalities have not done much to proactively change their MFR-control systems, however, size matters. Larger municipalities have striven to build competence or improve their internal control system. Some of the smaller municipalities are depending on dispassionate individuals who safeguard them from financial debacle. Although effective in the short run, this leaves the municipalities vulnerable in the long run.


The process of high-current relativistic electron beam propagation in a coaxial drift chamber located in homogeneous magnetic fields has been studied theoretically.


In the present investigation. a computational procedure is developed for behaviors of stress waves induced in elastic solid material. Finite volume method is applied to the elastodynamic equations and flux vectors for computations are evaluated according to Godunov method. In order to obtain second order accuracy, the two-stage Runge-Kutta method is used for time integration and the MUSCL approach is employed for flux evaluation. Simulations are conducted for stress waves in a rectangle solid and in a wedge at the appex angle of 165 degrees. The computational results are quite reasonable.


In 1968, Liu described the problem of securing documents in a shared secret project. In an example, at least six out of eleven participating scientists need to be present to open the lock securing the secret documents. Shamir proposed a mathematical solution to this physical problem in 1979, by designing an efficient k-out-of-n secret sharing scheme based on Lagrange's interpolation. Liu and Shamir also claimed that the minimal solution using physical locks is clearly impractical and exponential in the number of participants. In this paper we relax some implicit assumptions in their claim and propose an optimal physical solution to the problem of Liu that uses physical padlocks, but the number of padlocks is not greater than the number of participants. Then, we show that no device can do better for k-out-of-n threshold padlock systems as soon as k ⩾ 2 n , which holds true in particular for Liu's example. More generally, we derive bounds required to implement any threshold system and prove a lower bound of O ( log ( n ) ) padlocks for any threshold larger than 2. For instance we propose an optimal scheme reaching that bound for 2-out-of-n threshold systems and requiring less than 2 log 2 ( n ) padlocks. We also discuss more complex access structures, a wrapping technique, and other sublinear realizations like an algorithm to generate 3-out-of-n systems with 2.5 n padlocks. Finally we give an algorithm building k-out-of-n threshold padlock systems with only O ( log ( n ) k − 1 ) padlocks. Apart from the physical world, our results also show that it is possible to implement secret sharing over small fields.


Although there are a number of benefits and recommendations that are common to most educational institutions that adopt a learning management system (LMS), there are also some positives and negatives peculiar to the particular institution under consideration. This study looks at the implementation of a LMS at a leading business school in the Caribbean. This school was chosen because there were some characteristics in terms of the governance structure and organization of the school that brings out some peculiarities that may be found in other business schools. In addition to identifying these peculiarities and the issues that they raise, some recommendations are made for how these can be addressed to ensure that the benefits of the LMS can be maximized. From these experiences a methodology will be posited which can be used by other educational institutions considering adopting a LMS.


This is a draft of a column, published in the October 2005 issue of Trial Magazine. It concerns the Supreme Court's decision in Miller El v. Dretke (125 S.Ct. 2317). It supports Justice Breyer's sole concurrence, arguing that the only way to avoid Batson problems is to eliminate peremptory challenges altogether.


Feminizing adrenal tumors in young boys are rare; such patients initially show bilateral gynecomastia, and may have signs of virilization. We present a patient with bilateral gynecomastia, left adrenal adenoma, and elevated estrogen levels but normal levels of 17-ketosteroids.


IN a paper published in Science, Nov. 25, 1892, I undertook to study the evidence relating to paleolithic man in the eastern United States from a new point of view,-that furnished by certain recently acquired knowledge of the contents of quarries and shops where modern aboriginal flaked implements were made. It was shown that all rudely flaked forms could be sufficiently accounted for without the necessity of assuming a very rude state of culture, and that any people, paleolithic or neolithic, would in roughing out blades-the principal product of the: flaking process-produce precisely these forms and in great numbers as refuse It further appeared that the finding of these objects in sporadic cases in glacial gravels or in any formation whatsoever, could not be considered as proving or tending to establish the existence of a particular grade of stone-age culture for the region in which the formation occurs, since they may as readily pertain to a neolithic as to a paleolithic status. It was conclusively shown that no worked stone that can with reasonable safety be called an implement has been reported from the gravels, and that it is therefore clearly useless, not to say unscientific, to go on enlarging upon the evidence of an American paleolithic period and multiplying theoretic details of its culture.


Pipe flanges are usually welded or screwed to the pipe end and are connected with bolts. This approach is very simple and widely used for a long time, however, it results in high development cost and low productivity and some safety problems at the welding area. In this research, a new approach of forming pipe flange based on cold forging and floating die concept is presented. This innovative approach increases the effectiveness of the material usage and save the time cost compared with conventional welding method.To ensure the dimensional accuracy of the final product, finite element analysis are carried out to simulate the process of cold forging, and orthogonal experiments method are used to investigate the influence of four manufacturing factors and predict the best combination of them. In addition, a real product is manufactured in terms of the best factors predicted by FEA and optimization method to validate the proposed approach. The experimental results show that the approach is effective for the forming of pipe flange, and can be widely used later.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


Plots were located in Corona, Calif., and were three rows of trees; evaluations came from the middle row. Tree spacing was 20 by 20 ft. Experimental design was completely randomized. Each treatment was evaluated by counting the number of adult whiteflies from 80 (10 per tree; 8 trees) young growing shoots (terminals) which are the whitefly's preferred feeding and oviposition sites.


Alternative action organizations (AAOs) are collective bodies engaged in carrying out alternatives to dominant socioeconomic and cultural practices through actions that aim to provide people with alternative ways of enduring day-to-day difficulties and challenges in hard economic times. They are often interpreted as merely "philanthropic" actors, although it is not rare to see them go beyond the provision of direct services to people in need and end up pursuing political goals through political means. This article focuses on the process of politicization, that is, the transition of issues from the private to the public sphere and thus the use of public forms of contention (e.g., protest) proposing public solutions at the collective level instead of private solutions at the individual level. We argue for the role of the crisis in the politicization of AAOs. In particular, we show that the appropriation of the context as a context of economic crisis in the discourse of AAOs has a visible effect on their politicization, in terms of both repertoire of actions and goals. Furthermore, we show that social solidarity organizations, those that are not inherently politicized, are the main protagonists of this crisis-triggered transition. The article draws on statistical analysis of the data collected through the coding of AAOs' websites in Greece, Italy, and Spain.


Infrastructures such as bridges, tunnels, dams, retaining walls, docks, parking garages and buildings are constructed from reinforced concrete. These structures deteriorate due to cyclic temperature and loading variations, aging, as well as physical causes such as accidents and aggressive chemical attack from the environment. Post tension tendon ducts commonly used in bridges are filled with grout and steel tendons. The voids in the grout inside the tendon ducts can occur due various reasons such as improper filling, material mixing, blockage due to tendons etc. The water can penetrate in these voids inside the tendon ducts which can initiate corrosion. It is therefore vital to detect voids/ unfilled or defective portions of the tendon ducts at an early stage of the construction phase to ensure the strength and safety of the structure. Different types of NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) methods are frequently used for monitoring such infrastructures during regular operation to prevent failure, increase life span and improve safety. One of these NDT techniques, ultrasonic testing, is relatively simple in operation and gives more accurate description of air pockets, voids, cracks, and delaminations in the concrete structures compared to other NDT methods.

ELOP has developed a rolling ultrasonic scanner COBRI (COncrete and BRidge Inspection) together with a complete software solution for asset management of structures for faster and better inspection and monitoring of the internal condition of the concrete. It will provide asset owners with information about when, where and how to inspect, maintain and more accurately assess damages and overall condition of their structures. The COBRI scanner contains an array of transducers assembled in two separate rollers used in pitch-catch mode. It uses a patented elastomer solution to provide dry coupling to the concrete surface during scanner movement, without the need for any added fluid couplant. The system uses SAFT (Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique) algorithm for image reconstruction to increase image quality and signal to noise ratio. It will provide users with improved tomographic (B, C and D-scan) image quality and 3D imaging.

In the current work, we have used the COBRI scanner to explore its ability to image grouting defects inside tendon ducts used in concrete structures. The concrete specimen used in the evaluation has two tendon ducts positioned at 8 cm from the top surface with dimensions of 70 cm in length, 55 cm in width and 25 cm in thickness with average aggregate size of 22 mm. One of the tendon ducts is completely empty. The second one is half-length fully filled with grouting along the prestressed steel and other half only three quarters filled, leaving an air cavity on the top. The scanner is rolled approximately 50 cm over the concrete surface and the tomographic (B, C and D-scan) SAFT images are generated at different locations of the concrete specimen together with a 3D volume image. The results showed that the COBRI scanner is able to differentiate the filled and partially filled tendon ducts in the concrete structure. As COBRI is a rolling ultrasound scanner, it will help the bridge owners to scan and assess the grouting defects in the tendon ducts much more efficiently than other scanners available in the market.


A study has been made of the possibility of making Nb 3 Al wires by interdiffusion between Al and Nb at relatively low temperatures (lower than 1000°C). This method should allow the fabrication of a copper stabilized wire by coworking Nb and Al composites in a copper matrix before the diffusion treatment. Results concerning the diffusion temperature and time de pendence of J c and T c are presented. While J c (64kG) is quite high, of the order of 1.5×105A/cm2, T c is 15.56°K, lower than the usually reported value. X- -ray measurements of the lattice parameter are also reported and correlated with the measured value of T c .


SUMMARY
Water-soluble and exchangeable basic cations, and electrical conductivity, were measured in temperate and tropical soils. The 'availability' of cations in temperate soils is a function of both the amounts of exchangeable ions and the electrical conductivity of the solution, especially for divalent cations. In tropical soils the solubility of Ca and Mg seems less clear. The implications for some management problems are discussed.


This study was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of Nucleo CMP Forte therapy as a single therapy on the regeneration of spinal cord injury in laboratory rats. Twenty adult white rats were used in this study , divided into two groups, each group consists of ten animals control group and Nucleo CMP forte treated group Spinal cord had been transected in all animals of experiment control group and . Nucleo CMP Forte (30 mg/kg) was given intramuscularly in Nucleo CMP immediately after spinal cord transection in CMP treated group. In the group of Nucleo CMP, The group of which administered CMP. Animals of each group sacrificed on two periods of time after 6, 12 weeks, clinical assessment for the motor and sensory functions were done throughout the time of experiment, macroscopic and microscopic examination of the spinal cord were done after sacrificing of the animals. Results indicate that the axonal regeneration. In Nucleo CMP Forte the results showed that the improvement of motor and sensory functions, degree of spinal cord cooptation and the glial scar formation and axonal regeneration were less than that Nucleo CMP Forte, this being more obvious in respect to the macroscopic findings in which the degree of spinal cord cooptation was better than the other group, microscopic findings also showed massive glial scar formation and axonal regeneration in the same group.


Intrusion Detection Systems are tools used to detect attacks against networks. Many of these attacks are a sequence of multiple simple attacks. These complex attacks are more difficult to identify because (a) they are difficult to predict, (b) almost anything could be an attack, and (c) there are a huge number of possibilities. The problem is that the expertise of what constitutes an attack lies in the tacit knowledge of experienced network engineers. By providing an ontological representation of what constitutes a network attack human expertise to be codified and tested. The details of this representation are explained. An implementation of the representation has been developed. Lastly, the use of the representation in an Intrusion Detection System for complex attack detection has been demonstrated using use cases.


Purpose
This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

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This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

Findings
This research paper addresses retailer IKEA's strategic challenges surrounding corporate sustainability activity and branding across their diverse markets. The employee respondents' sustainability perceptions of IKEA included its organizational personality, the presence of competing forces in-store, and IKEA leading by example as a sustainability enabler. Varying perceptions on sustainability caused uncertainty and instability in IKEA's business model; for example, some store managers felt uncomfortable funneling sustainable messaging onto in-store customers. Therefore individual manager approaches to sustainability are a key driver in IKEA's sustainable delivery. Three change implementation phases were identified in an attempt to remedy these location-based inconsistencies.

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The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.


Seromucoids are carbohydrate-protein complexes present in blood and there is considerable confusion in the literature about the nomenclature of these compounds, due, not only to the lack of uniform nomenclature but also to the variety of methods used to determine their concentration. We have followed the recommendation of the American Committee on Protein Nomenclature (1908) that .. compounds of the protein molecule with a substance or substances containing a carbohydrate group other than nucleic acid are to be classed as glycoproteins." Meyer (1953) further subdivided the glycoproteins into (a) Mucoproteins in which the protein-carbohydrate linkage is polar in nature and which are therefore readily split into their components and (b) Seromucoids in which the protein-carbohydrate linkage is presumably co-ordinate in nature and are therefore less readily split into their components. The seromucoids are soluble in such protein precipitants as sulphosalicylic acid, trichloracetic acid and perchloric acid but are precipitated by phosphotungstic acid. Thus they can readily be separated from the other proteins in serum and determined by measuring either their carbohydrate or their protein content. It is this seromucoid fraction we have determined using the method of Mandel, Gorsuch and Cooper (1955). The other serum proteins are precipitated with perchloric acid, the seromucoids are then precipitated from the perchloric acid filtrate with phosphotungstic acid and the protein content of the precipitate determined using biuret reagent.


Related U.S. Application Data Described herein are electrodeposited corrosion-resistant multilayer coating and claddings that comprises multiple (63) Continuation of application No. PCT/US2010 nanoscale layers that periodically vary in electrodeposited 037856, filed on Jun. 8, 2010. species or electrodeposited microstructures. The coatings may comprise electrodeposited metals, ceramics, polymers (60) Provisional application No. 61/185,020, filed on Jun. or combinations thereof. Also described herein are methods 8, 2009. for preparation of the coatings and claddings.


The article considers the problems of correlation of recognition of a contract as null and void as an independent means of protecting civil rights. It is noted that the reform of civil legislation in 2013–2015. Equally affected is the legal regulation
of both of these methods, at the same time not resolving a number of problematic issues regarding their scope and grounds. The article concludes that, despite the attention to this issue in the literature, as well as the presence of certain conclusions of the highest judicial instances, the doctrine of civil law is not characterised by unity in the ratio of non-conclusion and invalidity of contracts. In the aspect of the issues raised in the article, an analysis is made of the understanding of the essential conditions, the coordination of which is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, as well as the approaches to the ratio
of conclusion and reality existing in the doctrine of Russian civil law. Situations are considered when the requirement to declare the contract null and void and the requirement to declare the contract invalid are substantially close to each other
by legal nature. The author's approach to distinguishing between these methods of protection on the basis of their grounds is proposed, suggesting that the non-conclusion and invalidity of contracts are two different levels of their defects.


Time delays in system subcomponents or control may result into unacceptable system operation or uncertainty in specialised technical systems like aircraft control, plant control, robotics, etc. In parallel computing, different computing subunits share their tasks to balance loads to increase performance and throughput. To be able to do so, subsystems have to communicate among themselves, which adds further delay on top of the existing system delay. It is possible to improve performance and stability of the whole system, by designing observer for every subsystem in the system, overseeing the system-state and compensating for existing time-delay. This paper reviews the present literature to identify a linear time-delay system for load balancing and evaluates the stability and loadbalancing performance of the system with and without an observer. Stability is analysed in terms of oscillation in the system responses and performance is evaluated as the speed of load-balancing operation.


This Contribution shall give an overview of the LABURNUM-Project logic. The LABURNUM Project is a regional case study as a contribution to the HGF Strategy Funds project "Sustainable Global Development - Perspectives for Germany. In the context of an integrated concept of sustainable development spatially explicit regional approaches have to be included. This applies with priority to intensively used and partially urbanized agrarian landscapes regarding water regime, soil fertility and yield protection, ecologically functional diversity of species and abiotic regularization functions. Main task of the Project is to check the sustainability of the land use - with help of quality objectives, -standards and indicator systems - on the basis of its adjustment degree to the guiding principle. In a comparative investigation of two middle European landscapes well-proven and new methods and concepts of landscape assessment and optimisation as well as indicator systems have to be tested and developed further regarding the sustainability of the current land use. The chosen regions (Eilenburger end moraines near Leipzig in Saxony and the Eider-Treene-Sorge lowlands in Schleswig-Holstein, both in Germany) have strong differences in land use intensity, land management and land use history in the passed decades. On the basis of normative specifications and an analysis and an evaluation of the actual condition of the regions scenarios for future land use options are defined and the effects of their conversion on the landscape-ecological functions are evaluated. The results then are used for the spatially explicit refinement of the guidelines. Functional and structural indicators, as well as indicators of the temporal dynamics, and their conversion to regional environment quality objectives play a relevant role in the concept. In figure 1 the methodology is schematically represented. The project is a cooperative action of the Environmental research centre Leipzig-Halle GmbH (UFZ) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and has started in January 2001 and will be finished in December 2003.


Here we carry out a review of recent research in the Spanish context regarding textbooks, didactic materials and the field of Physical Education. Information is drawn from studies available in various databases such as ISOC, DIALNET, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, TESEO, and REDALYC. Special attention has also been given to congresses, seminars and activities that have recently been held nationally and internationally and which have focused on the fields of Physical Education and teaching materials. We will begin with some initial comments on the need to carry out the present review and we will go on to summarize and classify the main studies found.


New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown that dementia and Alzheimer's disease are now the leading cause of death in England and Wales.


Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) represent a class of anaerobic microorganisms that conduct dissimulatory sulfate reduction to obtain energy. The present study aimed to detect and control SRB activities using a very rapid detectable culture medium and reduction of potential economic loss in the petroleum sector. This study is an attempt to isolate SRB from sea water by rapid and sensitive culture media and to control their effect using eight commercial biocides (Aldehydes and quaternaries). The present work studies the effect of composition of four recommended culture media (Postgate medium B, Starkey, Baar's and API media), besides, the presence of metal coupons in these media to enhance the growth of sessile SRB. Furthermore, the present study evaluates the efficiency of filtration of these culture media on the growth of SRB. The results revealed that modified Postgate medium B was the recommended medium for SRB growth. In addition, the results showed that rapid and abundant growth of SRB when the metal coupons were immersed in the culture media which were deficient in iron. The unfiltered culture media improved the SRB growth. The growth of SRB was depressed by 15 ppm of the commercial quaternaries rather than 20 ppm of the aldehydes. (E. A. Ghazy, M.G. Mahmoud, M. S. Asker, M. N. Mahmoud, M. M. Abo Elsoud and M. E. Abdel Samie. Cultivation and detection of sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) in sea water. Journal of American Science 2011; 7(2):604-608). (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience.org 0.09 % (C), 0.07 % (Si), 0.37 % (Mn), 0.017 % (S), 0.028 % (P), 0.005 %(Al), 0.015 %(Ni), 0.11 %(Cr), 0.004 % (Mo), 0.006 % (Cu), and 0.007 % (V).The electrodes were polished with emery papers 200.400, 600, grade for fine polishing .They were washed with distilled water then degreased with acetone and finally dried till use. 2.4. Pipe line description by ESHPETCO Length 7 Km (above the ground surface); diameter 18", construction date since 1982; fluid was crude petroleum oil with water content 0.05 % Vol. sulfur content 4.5 % wt, pH value was 6-6, 5 and temperature 20-30


While it is a common antenna, the unloaded conducting microstrip dipole suffers from a very limited bandwidth, because it is a resonant structure supporting a standing wave of current. The authors present the characteristics of a microstrip dipole modified to behave like a travelling wave structure.


Methods: From 2004 to 2008, 830 consecutive patients underwent sinus surgery or endonasal endoscopic biopsy at an academic tertiary care center. The preoperative computed tomography (CT) images for these patients were reviewed, and 116 patients were identified with complete unilateral maxillary sinus opacification. We then analyzed presenting symptoms, physical examinations, specific CT findings, and pathology. Results: The most frequent diagnoses were as follows: chronic rhinosinusitis (52.6%), fungus ball (29.3%), antrochoanal polyp (2.6%), benign tumor (10.4%), and malignancy (5.1%). Fungus ball was the most common diagnosis (10/18, 55.6%) in the subgroup of patients with isolated maxillary sinus opacity without disease in the other sinuses. Nasal discharge and foul-smelling breath were more common in inflammatory disease than in neoplastic disease. Neoplastic disease was more likely to present as epistaxis; a polyp or mass revealed by nasal endoscopy; mass effect in the cheek, palate, or gingiva; and bony erosion on CT. Erosion of the maxillary posterolateral wall and extra-sinus extension suggested malignancy. Conclusion: Although unilateral maxillary sinus opacity is usually inflammatory in origin, fungal sinusitis and neoplastic disorder are also likely. A careful history-taking, a thorough head and neck examination including nasal endoscopy, and CT evaluation are all imperative for reaching a correct diagnosis.


In 2013, ADEME published its energy and climate scenarios for the period 2030 to 2050, suggesting possible avenues to achieve a four-fold reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 by cutting energy consumption by half and deploying renewable energy sources for electricity generation on a substantial scale. Both of these objectives were the basis for targets set by the President of France and subsequently adopted by Parliament in the Energy Transition Law to promote green growth. With this new study, ADEME submits an exploratory scientific prospective study. Questions of balance between production and demand and cost efficiency of renewable-based electricity mixes are investigated through an advanced optimisation. The electricity mixes are theoretical: they are created from scratch and do not take into account the current situation or the path needed to achieve a 100% renewable-based electricity system. It aims at highlighting the technical measures to be implemented (strengthening grids, load shedding and storage) to support a policy of growth in renewable electricity technologies. It is also be used to identify the key factors for developing renewable technologies at lower cost such as lower costs of technologies, demand-side management, development of flexibility, support of R and D of least-mature technologies and the social acceptance of renewable electricity installations.


A novel approach to the synthesis of 3‐(6‐(7‐chloroquinolin‐4‐ylamino)hexyl‐2‐imino‐5‐(4‐chloro/nitro/methoxy benzylidene) oxazolidin‐4‐one 4(a‐c) and 4‐(6‐(7‐chloroquinolin‐4‐ylamino)hexyl) ‐ 2(4‐chloro/nitro/methoxy benzylidene)‐1,6‐diox‐4,9‐ diazaspiro[4,4] nonane‐3,8‐dione 5(a‐c) has been described. Treatment of 1,6‐diamino hexane with 4,7‐dichloroquinoline yielded N‐(7‐chloroquinoline‐4‐yl)hexane‐1,6‐diamine (1). Condensation of amine with chloroacetylchloride afforded 3‐(6‐(7‐ chloroquinoline‐4‐yl‐amino)hexyl)‐2‐imino‐oxazolidin‐4‐one (3) which reacted smoothly with p substituted aldehydes to give 3‐(6‐(7‐ chloroquinolin‐4‐ylamino)hexyl‐2‐imino‐5‐(4‐chloro/nitro/methoxy benzylidene) oxazolidin‐4‐one (4 a‐c) in excellent yield. These imino substituted oxazolidinone (4a‐c) react with glycolic acid to give spiro oxazolidin‐4‐one 6(a‐c) derivatives. N‐(7‐chloroquinoline‐ 4‐yl)hexyl‐1,6‐diamine (1), 3‐(6‐(7‐chloroquinoline‐4‐yl‐amino)hexyl)‐2‐imino‐oxazolidin‐4‐one (3), 3‐(6‐(7‐chloroquinolin‐4‐ ylamino)hexyl‐2‐imino‐5‐(4‐chloro benzylidene) oxazolidin‐4‐one (4a) and 4‐(6‐(7‐chloroquinolin‐4‐ylamino)hexyl)‐2(4‐ methoxybenzylidene)‐1,6‐diox‐4,9‐diazaspiro[4,4]nonane‐3,8‐dione 5(c) were screened for their in‐vitro antimicrobial activities against bacterial species E.coli (MTCC119) and B.substilis (MTCC 96)) and fungal species A.niger (MTCC 1344) and C.albicans (MTCC 871) by Agar‐well assay method against the standard drugs (streptomycin for bacteria and fluconazole for fungi).


Abstract Displacement reactions are very popular in nature, ranging from texbook knowledge of the Zn-CuSO4 system to modern functional nucleic acid–involved metal ion displacement. Though synthetic chemistry harvests a lot from displacement reactions, analytical chemistry benefits greatly from various displacement reaction strategies, such as sensitivity improvement. In particular, the use of indicator displacement assay for new sensor development is of great interest worldwide. In this review, we summarize the advances in utilization of displacement reactions for improved spectrometric analysis. The main contents include displacement-based preconcentration schemes for trace metal analysis by analytical atomic spectrometry, indicator displacement assays focusing on the use of advanced nanomaterials, and displacement immunoassays using spectrometric measurements, with 117 references.


. A new formalism for treating the relativistic celestial mechanics of systems of N, arbitrarily composed and shaped, weakly self-gravitating, rotating, deformable bod ies is presented. This formalism is aimed at yielding a complete description, at the first post-Newtonian approximation level, of (i) the global dynamics of such TV-body systems ("external problem"), (ii) the local gravitational structure of each body ("internal prob lem"), and, (iii) the way the external and the internal problems fit together ("theory of reference systems").


Empowerment is a key element of popular participation in rural development projects. In this sense, it is crucial to know the different approaches capable of or with the potential to generate empowerment. This paper presents the results of a study done in the district of Boane, Mozambique, with the objective of evaluating the impact of the Farm Field Schools approach in terms of farmer, organizational and community empowerment. Data were collected through interviews of both farmers and extension agents. The results show that this approach has contributed to empowering the participants, strengthening the interactions and relationships among farmers, as well as between farmers and extension agents, to develop farmers' problem analysis and decision-making capacities, and to promote collective action. However, it was not successful in promoting the relationships between farmers and researchers. Overall, FFS seem to be more promising in promoting empowerment at the individual and organizational levels.


This paper presents a new approach for matrix root-clustering in sophisticated and multiply-connected regions of the complex plane. The parametric sweeping method and a concept of the closed forbidden region covered by a set of modified three-parametrical Cassini regions are used. A conformal mapping approach was applied to formulate the main results of the paper. An application of the developed method to the problem of matrix root-clustering in a multiply connected region is shown for illustration.


A. High inequality as an obstacle for the fast poverty reduction 16 B. The labor market challenges 17 a. Analysis of labor market deficiencies focusing on SMEs and informal economy 17 b. Role of migration in the labor market 18 c. Declining employment in the mining sector 19 d. Role of labor market institutions and minimum wage 19 C. Maximizing the return on social protection and delivering on the social wage 21


This is the main artery of Rabat, running from intersecting Avenue Laalou in the north, where one of the city gates was demolished, and ending at the Jamaa Al-Souna in the South. It encompasses what used to be known as rue el Gza, Bab Jdid and Bab Teben, avenue Dar el Makhzen, cours Lyautey and avenue des Touarga. A primarily residential area, it became the administrative center of Morocco under the French protectorate. It runs through the old Medina and the Ville Nouvelle and was conceived by city planners working under Marshal Lyautey as a means to join the traditional and modern parts of the city. The first commercial construction began in 1915, and it became an administrative center when construction started buildings for the operations of the French authorities. The Parliament, Central Bank, main strain station, Central Post Office, are all found along this street, in between gardens, cafes, palm trees and shopping. In the Protectorate era a tram ran the length of the Avenue. A new system was restored to the Avenue in 2011.


The Bartram's hairstreak, Strymon acis bartrami (Comstock & Huntington) (Lycaenidae), occurs locally within the pine rocklands of southern Florida and the lower Florida Keys (Minno & Emmel 1993; Smith et al. 1994), where it is endemic. Due in large part to habitat loss, S. a. bartrami populations have declined considerably during the last several decades (Salvato & Salvato 2010). In response to this, S. a. bartrami was listed as candidate species for federal protection in 2006. Hennessey and Habeck (1991) and Worth et al. (1996) described many aspects of S. a. bartrami natural history. Salvato and Hennessey (2004) and Salvato and Salvato (2008, 2010) also discussed S. a. bartrami ecology and provided a review of known parasites and predators for the species. Although larval parasites have been recorded for other lycaenids throughout the New World (Arnaud 1978; Stireman & Singer 2003a, 2003b), little has been reported for S. a. bartrami. To our knowledge, the only observation of S. a. bartrami larval parasitism was provided by Hennessey and Habeck (1991) who collected a single unspecified braconid wasp from a late instar larva on Big Pine Key, Florida. Tracking the fate of late instar S. a. bartrami larvae is difficult due to the fact that this species tends to pupate in ground litter (Worth et al. 1996; Salvato & Hennessey 2004). On 11 December 2010 MHS and HLS observed eggs (n = 2) of a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) attached to the cuticle of a late instar S. a. bartrami larva (Fig. 1) in the Long Pine Key region of the Everglades National Park (Miami-Dade County, Florida). The S. a. bartrami larva was encountered on pineland croton, Croton linearis Jacq. (Euphorbiaceae), the only known host plant for the species. After photographing the observation in the field, the parasitized larva was subsequently collected. Within approximately 72 h of the initial observation the white egg casings dropped off the larva, exposing dark spots (necrosis) on the cuticle. The S. a. bartrami larva was maintained in a screen mesh cage and provided fresh food plants. MHS and HLS have successfully reared numerous S. a. bartrami larvae under these conditions over 15 years of research on this species. However this S. a. bartrami larva, which behaved lethargically in the field and laboratory, fed only minimally until 15 December 2010, when it became moribund while attempting to pupate. Five days later on 20 December 2010 a tachinid larva emerged from the S. a. bartrami larva. The tachinid larva was placed in a small plastic cup containing a layer of soil in which it quickly pupated. An adult fly emerged on 6 January 2011. The adult fly (Fig. 2) was pinned and sent to JOS who examined and identified it as a female Chetogena scutellaris (Wulp). Often, a male Chetogena specimen is required to determine the particular species, as females in this genus can be nearly indistinguishable (Parchami-


ABSTRACT The contents and chemical speciation of vanadium(V) in different types of soil and soils with different particle were studied by the modified BCR method. The results indicated that the V content was in the order of as red soil > cinnamon soil > chernozem soil, and the content of V in red soil was as high as 264.9 mg/kg, which posesa potential risk to the environment and biosecurity. In cinnamon soil, V exhibitedan obvious gradation effect; that is, the content of V in fine particles was higher than in large particles. In addition, V(IV), with low toxicity, accounted for more than 87% of the total V in the three types of soil, and most V existed in the residual fraction. The pH was the main factor affecting the V valence state in the soil, and when the environmental conditions change due to various agricultural measures, such as applying fertiliser, long-term cultivation and intensive irrigation, V(IV) is easily oxidised to V(V) with high toxicity, and reduceable and oxidisable V is converted into an acid-soluble fraction, which leads to increased bioavailability and a potential threat to the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen environmental risk assessments and monitoring of heavy metals in cultivated soils, especially in areas with high background values.


Boron clusters have been widely studied theoretically for their geometrical properties and electronic structure using a variety of methodologies. An important cluster of boron is the B$_{12}$ cluster whose two main isomers have distinct geometries, namely, icosahedral ($I_{h}$) and quasi planar ($C_{3v}$). In this paper we investigate the linear optical absorption spectrum of these two B$_{12}$ structures with the aim of examining the role of geometry on the optical properties of clusters. The optical absorption calculations are performed using both the semi-empirical and the ab initio approaches. The semi-empirical approach uses a wave function methodology employing the INDO model Hamiltonian, coupled with large-scale configuration interaction (CI) calculations, to account for the electron-correlation effects. The \emph{ab initio} calculations are performed within a time-dependent-density-functional-theory (TDDFT) methodology. The results for the two approaches are in very good qualitative agreement with each other. Quantitatively speaking, results agree with each other in the lower energy region, while in the higher energy region, features predicted by the TDDFT approach are red-shifted as compared to the INDO-CI results. Both the approaches predict that the optical absorption begins at much lower energies in the icosahedral cluster as compared to the planar one, a fact which can be utilized in experiments to distinguish between the two geometries. At higher energies, both the isomers exhibit plasmon-like excitations. 73,1 4%


In 2017 Japan has reversed the downward trend in living-wage equalisation (Eq-Idx) that began in 2013, increasing its Eq-Idx by three points, to a 69 index. This is the result of the combination of the drop of the US hourly rate, an increase of Japan's hourly rate in local currency (1,9%), a currency devaluation (-2,9%) and the customary drop of PPP cost of living (-3,6%), despite the 1,1% decrease of its hourly rate in US dollars.
South Korea sustained the growing trend of its Eq-Idx that resumed in 2014 after a brief downturn in 2013 and is now at 71, three points below its highest index in 2012. This is the result of the combination of the drop of the US equivalent rate, an increase of the local currency rate (1,4%), a currency revaluation of 2,7% that produced a 4% increase of its hourly rate in US dollars despite a 2,8% increase of its PPP cost of living. South Korea has also been able to remain ahead of Japan's Eq-Idx for the second year.
In contrast with Japan and South Korea, Australia continued to decrease its Eq-Idx that began in 2014, with 4,4% drop of its hourly wage rate in local currency, a 3,1% revaluation of its currency and a consequential 1,9% increase in PPP cost of living produced a two-point loss in its Eq-Idx. By the same token, a strong drop of Singapore's hourly wage rate in local currency (-4,4%) and a 1,5% increase of its PPP cost of living, produced a 1 point loss in its Eq-Idx position.


The invention discloses a fuel economizer with a heating function and an infrared optical interference function. The fuel economizer comprises a shell body, electric heaters and rare earth layers. An oil inlet and an oil outlet are formed in the exterior of the shell body. A capillary channel which is communicated with the oil inlet and the oil outlet is arranged in the shell body. The electric heaters are arranged on two sides of the capillary channel and can be used for heating fuel in the capillary channel. The rare earth layers are arranged between the electric heaters and the capillary channel and are tightly attached to the electric heaters. According to the fuel economizer, a heating and infrared interference method is adopted to dispose the fuel passing through the capillary channel at high speed. Therefore, the fuel economizer enables the size of the fuel to be increased, enables activity of the fuel to be high, can support long-time burning, enables the fuel to be fully burned in an air cylinder after the fuel is ignited, and achieves fuel economizing effects.


This paper presents a frequency-based approach energy management in an Electrical Hybrid Boat (EHB) application. An association of a variable speed DieselPermanent Magnet Generator (Diesel-PMG) with a supercapacitor and a battery bank is proposed to satisfy energetic demand of EHB. The supercapacitor and the battery bank are connected to DC-link via bidirectional DC/DC converters, while the variable speed Diesel Generator is connected to DC-link through a three phase controlled rectifier. The two DC/AC converters connected to two electric motors are used as thrusters system which emulates energetic demand of Electrical Hybrid Boat in propulsion operations. Power requirements of the thrusters are then emulated in a programmable electrical load to simulate the load profile. The contribution of this paper is focused on load's profile sharing between a variable speed Diesel Generator, a supercapacitor and a battery bank according to dynamic responses of each source. The performances of proposed method are evaluated through experimental results obtained by a dSPACE-based test bench.


The incorporation of Fe in GaAs was studied by cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy (X-STM). The observed local electronic contrast of a single Fe atom is found to depend strongly on its charge state. We demonstrate that an applied tip voltage can be used to manipulate the valence and spin state of single Fe impurities in GaAs. In particular we can induce a transition from the Fe{3+)- 3d5 - isoelectronic state to the Fe{2+} - 3d6 - ionized acceptor state with an associated change of the spin moment. Fe atoms sometimes produce dark anisotropic features in topographic maps, which is consistent with an interference between different tunneling paths.


ABSTRACT This article provides an exploratory analysis of the life narratives of migrants in the Portuguese-speaking world. By interweaving the life experiences of eight participants in three thematic clusters – 'shared past', language and sense of community – we propose a critique of the deep-seated idea of the Lusophone space as a community constructed by the harmonious conviviality of different countries and people. Drawing on contributions from cultural studies, social psychology, anthropology and sociology, we first aim to give voice to the human subjects who embark on migrations and then to understand how the engendered process of identity construction is framed by their social world, simultaneously reframing it. Thus, we aim at shedding light on the ways in which aspects of the political discourses on Lusophony are used (and are instrumental) to the migrants' identity narrative (re)construction.


The concept Oftopological space is a generalized structure used recently as a mathematical model for the analysis of information systems. The theory ofrough sets provides a formal tool for dealing with incomplete information in terms of three valued logic. The idea of rough set consists of the approximation ofa set by a pair ofsets, called the lower and upper approximation ofthis set [1,2]. Since its introduction, the theory has generated a great deal of interest along logicians [3,4,5] as well as among researches dealing with machine learning and knowledge acquisition for expert systems [6-19]. Substantial progress has been achieved in understanding practical implication and limitations of this approach. It is used for knowledge acquisition and analysis [13,20] based on the theory ofrough sets, this limitation severely reduces the applicability ofthe rough set approach to problems which are more probabilistic than deterministic in nature. Attempts to overcome this restriction [21] took place via many directions, VP-model [22] and topological model [23] are two of this direction. The purpose of this work is to introduce a hyperdization for the topological generalization on VPmodel.


The histological and ultrastructural changes of the immune organs were dynamically observed in the experimental heat stress broilers.The result showed that the immune organs revealed transient hyperemia,edema and the gradually atrophy.The immune responses were profoundly suppressed.The interstitial proliferation was found.It′s mechanism would be the apoptosis with a certain degree of degenerative necrosis.


In this paper we study numeral systems in the λβη-calculus. With one exception, we assume that all numerals have normal form. We study the in- dependence of the conditions of adequacy of numeral systems. We find that, to a great extent, they are mutually independent. We then consider particular ex- amples of numeral systems, some of which display paradoxical properties. One of these systems furnishes a counterexample to a conjecture of B ¨ ohm. Next, we turn to the approach of Curry, Hindley, and Seldin. We dwell with the general problem of obtaining their results with the additional requirement of noncon- vertibility of numerals. In particular we solve a problem that they left open. Finally, we give the first example of an adequate unsolvable numeral system without a test for zero in the usual sense, thus solving a problem of Barendregt and Barendsen.


Protection of weaker party in new civil code has different dimension. This theses focuses on definition of weaker party and its civil protection in general, and also in some institues. It defines weaker party in general, consumer as specific weaker party and also entrepreneur as weaker party. This theses focuses on criteria of weakness of contractual party in introductory chapters. Specific chapter deals with protection of entrepreneur by public law, with accent to Expressive Market Power Act. Czech legal regulation of protection of entrepreneur, consumer and regulation of protection by Expressive Market Power Act is confronted with foreign legal regulation. Where it is appropriate, this theses states legal regulation on European Union level and compares current legal regulation with this previous.


Reflexive agents not only communicate in terms of information exchanges, but also provide these exchanges with meaning from a hindsight perspective. This is an anticipatory mechanism because an expectation can then be specified. At the level of the social system, meaning can additionally be communicated. When meanings are differently codified among subsystem, the potential asynchronicity (∆t) in the updates of the various subsystems provides the social coordination by the communication with a second anticipatory mechanism. Interactions between these two anticipatory mechanisms can lead recursively to co-evolution and stabilization of specific expectations along trajectories. However, the wider horizon of knowledgeable expectations can be expected to meta-stabilize and globalize previously stabilized trajectories of expectations. The expectations can oscillate between local stabilizations and globalization. The subdynamics of stabilization and globalization can be considered as analytically independent. Stabilization can be modeled as a consequence of interactions among incursive formulations of the logistic equation, while the modeling of globalization requires the use of a hyper-incursive formulation of this equation. Various hyper-incursive models can be distinguished. Unlike a weakly anticipatory (incursive) system, a globalized/globalizing (hyperincursive) system (co-)constructs its own future states. The strongly anticipatory subdynamic counteracts on the historical manifestations of the social system by rewriting parts of it. When the globalizing subdynamic bifurcates from the historical one, the system can rapidly become more knowledge-based. Contact: Prof. Loet Leydesdorff School of Economics (HEC) (March-July 2005) Université de Lausanne BFSH 1, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland Tel: +41-21-692 3469; +41-21-652 8864 Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


The demonstration teaching of public psychology is to interpret and reflect the teaching contents by using the process of teaching,teach in examples and interpret in words,and its essence is a kind of intuitive teaching.This teaching should be carried out firstly by establishing such a sense that to develop the demonstration curriculum resources,above all teachers we should select the psychological events in the class of teaching psychology,and in addition also need to grasp the depth of the materials with adequate educational wit,and finally avoid the problems prone to occur in the intuitive teaching.


The long term success of any geothermal energy utilization depends on understanding ground water movement and recharge areas. Water and steam condensate from sub-fields in the Olkaria geothermal field have been studied using the stable isotope ratios of hydrogen and oxygen to gain information on thermal fluid flow and trace the origin of thermal waters. Isotope fractionation factors and mass balance equations were used to characterize reservoir fluid composition of wells in the geothermal field assuming single stage steam separation. Comparison of the two methods yields coherent results for the oxygen-18 isotope ratio but the deuterium isotope ratio varies to some extent. The reservoir fluid isotope composition of the thermal waters suggests three recharge zones for the field, one from groundwater from the eastern Rift wall with δD about = -24‰, groundwater from the western Rift flank with δD about = -30‰ and the other from an evapo-concentrated source with about δD=36‰. Qualitative interpretation of the available data suggests that the evapo-concentrated source largely contributes to recharge of the East field, North East field and a part of the Domes field. Groundwater from the western rift wall recharges the West field of the area and the eastern Rift wall groundwater contributes to the southeast part of the Domes field. The isotopic composition of some thermal waters in the Olkaria geothermal field indicates that there could be mixing between the waters from the flanks and the evapo-concentrated source.


Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy and mechanisms of Compound muniziqi granules in treatment of chloasma.Methods 103 chloasma patients were randomly divided into two groups: 53 cases in experimental group,who take Compound muniziqi granules of 6g each time and 3 times per day;50 cases in control group,who take vitamin C of 0.1g each time and 3 times per day as well as vitamin E of 0.1g each time and 3 times per day.The period of treatment in each group last four weeks and the patients are treated for totally two periods,then the treatment effect are observed.Serum estrogen(E2,FSH,LH) levels of the 103 patients'serum before and after treatment and the control group's serum are tested by radioimmunoassay.Results After finishing the treatment,a comparison is made between experimental group and control group.The effective rates of two groups were separately 73.58% and 42.00%.The patients'serum level of E2,FSH and LH in the two groups before treatment was signifcantly higher than the healthy control group(P0.05),the treatment group after treatment of serum E2 and LH levels were significantly lower(P0.05),while there is no significant difference in FSH(P0.05);in control group,there was no significant difference between the indicators before and after treatment(P0.05).Conclusion Mechanisms of Compound muniziqi granules in treatment of chloasma may be related with the regulation of endocrine,which consequently influences the level of estrogen.


This paper introduces Nash bargaining into a search model in order to identify various channels through which agent gender affects selling price and selling time in the resale market for houses. The theory can be used in conjunction with the empirical model to determine agent bargaining power and how it is affected by dealing with the same or opposite sex agents. A decade of MLS data from Virginia reveals that listing agent sex and the mix of listing and selling agents involved in a transaction affect prices and liquidity. The bargaining power of agents depends on their sex and that of the agent on the other side of the transaction, but it also depends on housing market conditions. Female selling agents have stronger bargaining power when facing female listing agents than when facing male agents in rising or falling markets. The bargaining power of male selling agents is stronger when facing female listing agents than when facing male agents in the rising market, but it is invariant with respect to listing agent sex in the declining market.