Contents: Miguel A. Pereyra: Preface - Robert Cowen: CESE Presidential Address. What Did We Forget? - John W. Meyer: Building Education for a World Society - Bernd Zymek: Two Faces of Internationalisation: Empirical Findings and Socio-historic Interpretation - Masako Shibata: New Geographies and Regionalism in Education in Asia: Some Reflection on Europe - Shin'ichi Suzuki: Toward Learning Beyond Nation-States: Where and How? Conflicting Paradigms of Nationalism: East Asia & Europe - Veronika Susova: Empire in the School: Political Socialization Strategies within Educational Systems of Multiethnic Empire-States: Cisleithania and European Russia 1875-1918 in Comparison - Leslie Bash: Faith, Science and Modernity: Some Issues for Education in the 21st Century - David Coulby: Old and New Empires: Religion in Schools, Universities and Madrassas in Europe - George Flouris/George Pasias: Education at Risk? Discourses of Dystopia and the New `Panopticon' in the `Europe of Knowledge' - Hannu Simola/Risto Rinne: Researching the Political Effects of Quality Assurance and Evaluation in Education - Reflections on Some Comparative Issues in Sociology and the Politics of Education in the Audit Society - Francois Orivel/Estelle Orivel : Analyse economique de l'E-Learning : Quelques pistes pour le futur - Virpi Honkanen: Higher Education Graduates' Self-Employment in Europe - Philippe Moguerou: Is There a Brain Drain of Doctorates from the European Union to the U.S.? - Agnes van Zanten: Parental Closure Strategies and New Educational Inequalities: New Opportunities, New Dividing Lines - Pedro Abrantes: On the Strange Habit of Reading Adversity Instead of Diversity: Madrid's Middle-Schools and Their Latin-American Students - Olivier Meunier: Towards a Recognition of the Diversity of the Knowledge Forms in Contrast to the Globalisation of Education Systems? - Jagdish S Gundara: Educating the Police for a Multicultural and Globalised Britain - Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Faraco/Malika Bedra Tefiani/Afsata Pare-Kabore : Gibraltar, l'abime global. Les relations culturelles et educatives entre l'Europe et l'Afrique dans un contexte postcolonial - Davide Zoletto: The "Value" of Cultural Diversity: Cultures of Integration and Global Intercultural Management.


An evaluation of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) safety parameters issues concerning the current situation of therapeutic protocol and device reliability is presented. Harmonization in terminology was analyzed, as well as possible misunderstandings that might arise from the lack of it. A notable example studied is the recommendation of safety parameters by the 2012 resolution of the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine, when compared to international consensus and guidelines. The TMS device reliability is discussed considering technical standards and the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection reference limits for magnetic field exposure, applicable to both patients and therapeutic staff. The critical issues are pointed out, providing suggestions toward terminology harmonization and evaluation of metrological reliability of TMS systems.


In this paper, a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is proposed to tune several inter-system handover (IS-HO) parameters in a heterogeneous scenario with changing traffic distribution. Performance assessment is carried out by implementing FLC and IS-HO algorithms in a dynamic network simulator including GSM and UMTS radio access technologies. Preliminary results show that, although the FLC is able to modify network parameters to re-distribute traffic between technologies, its speed of response is severely limited. A sensitivity analysis is then performed to quantify the effect of several internal parameters in the FLC on the speed of response. Experiments show that tuning ranges and steps for the controlled IS-HO parameters have a strong impact on performance. Results show that, by adjusting tuning ranges and steps, a significant reduction in blocked call rates (BCRs) can be obtained in some iterations when compared to the default settings.


Confluence shows the relationship of Confucianism and science in ancient China.Ancient scientists ran through the thoughts and spirits of Confucianism in theoretic accomplishments,value concepts,as well as purposes,processes,methods and basic knowledge of the scientific researches.Therefore,science in ancient China is one of Confucianism.


Abstract Identities are dynamic, constantly shifting processes of self-understanding mediated by local and institutional repertoires, behaviors, resources and enacted through one's positioning in practice. This definition considers identities as both ideas, as well as actions in terms of how the learner becomes a participant in activities. A tension in studying identities is that the researcher must collect data that encompasses both observable actions and how the learner reflects on these actions. Drawing upon positioning theory, this paper presents a methodological approach to study this tension. More specifically, data from a study of emergent bilinguals in elementary school is used to understand how learners' identities are shaped during the nascent years of school.


Gasification is a thermo-chemical process that produces syngas, which is a mixture of hydrogen, methane and carbon monoxide from coal or biomass. The proportions of this mixture is determined by, among other factors, the oxidizer used, which may include air, oxygen, steam or their mixtures in predetermined proportions. In this research, a mixture of oxygen and air was used to gasify coal from Mui Basin in Kenya, using fixed-bed dry-fed gasifier. When oxygen content in the oxidizing agent was varied between 21% 100%, the optimum oxygen concentration was found to be 61%, at which the low heating value of the syngas was 12.98 MJ/m, and the cold gas efficiency was 75.2%. This research was aimed at enhancing the exploitation of Mui Basin coal for electricity generation for Kenyan citizens and to add to the wealth of knowledge on gasification technology.


Mouthguards or gumshields are used to protect patients' teeth against damage from sports injuries or bruxism. Dental care professionals have a role in producing these appliances and supporting patients in their use


With the introduction of a Medicare item number for examination of children's vision, it is timely to review a new book on binocular vision. This small book is one of a series aimed at primary-care optometrists. The other titles include visual fields and low vision. The author, Bruce Evans, is a well-known British optometrist, who is both researcher and clinician. The book has a very English feel to the way it covers the material presented. There are numerous references to orthoptics. In Australia, children's vision has been influenced more by American optometry and as a result the term vision training is used more often than orthoptics. This is not just semantics. The therapeutic techniques differ and there is a greater emphasis on the careful testing of accommodation from an American model. The impact of behavioural optometry in Australia and America is also evident in the more aggressive use of low plus lenses for many of these conditions. I suspect many undergraduates will find this book useful. It covers many aspects that students tend to find difficult. It has one of the best diagrammatic representations of the cover test that I have seen and the description of how to perform visuoscopy on a patient with eccentric fixation is the best and most clinically relevant I have read. Not surprisingly, given its English origins, the book covers the use of the Mallet unit in considerable detail. Most optometrists in Australia do not use associated phorias to assess binocular vision. For those who wish to explore the topic, it is covered in considerable detail. Strabismus is covered in just 22 pages. Most of the information is theoretical; several pages are devoted to anomalous correspondence. In a clinical setting neither optometrists nor ophthalmologists, who see a lot of strabismus, have directly assessed this condition since the 1980s. I think it is unfortunate to suggest this is still happening in modern practice. This is not to suggest the condition is not of theoretical importance but that it does not change patient management. The chapter on amblyopia has good advice on appropriate visual acuity tests for preliterate children. The recommendation that fulltime opaque occlusion is necessary to treat amblyopia is not borne out by a number of studies carried out by the PEDIG group since 2002. Apart from my reservations about full-time occlusion the advice on amblyopia treatment is good. The chapter on incomitancies covers the usual conditions one will see in children, without terrifying the clinician with numerous conditions that are generally only seen in the very old or the very sick. The last chapter in the book is on accommodation. I would have thought that the assessment of accommodation in optometric practice is important and should be covered early in the book along with the chapter on convergence problems. The author comments that accommodative weakness is a common cause of remote near point of convergence. This point seems to be overlooked frequently, when investigating poor convergence. This book is best suited to undergraduates. It is not and does not pretend to be a complete book on disorders of binocular vision. The concise and practical nature of the material should make it very popular with undergraduates and primary care practitioners who have little experience in this area. Book reviews


Weak radiofrequency fields have been used to perturb nitrogen transitions in the formamide-15N and ammonium-15N molecules. Observation of the proton spectra has completed the determination of the relative signs of the coupling constants in formamide-15N. Chemical shifts precisely related to tetramethylsilane are reported and a discussion of a method for presentation of shift results is included.


Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze if and how advertising and gender equality in Sweden may affect and relate to each other. We want to analyze advertising images from 1950 s until 2016 and examine the relationship between different discourses.

Method: This study uses a qualitative method where a feminist image analysis of advertising images are used to create a deeper understanding about the field.
Theoretical framework: The empirical findings are analyzed through theoretical framework using discourse analysis, gender equality and feminism theory. Categorization and stereotypes are key tools for exploring patterns and statements in the advertising images.

Findings: We found that advertising lags the discourse of gender equality. Through a historical image analysis we could see that the advertising images are not completely following the emerging gender equality discourse in Sweden. The traditional stereotypes from 1950's still exist in advertising images in 2016 but we can see some changes in terms of new stereotypes. In the end of the study we could see that advertising images does not fully reflect the prevailing gender equality discourse in Sweden.

Keywords: Advertising, image analysis, discourse analysis, gender equality, feminist theory, categorizations, stereotypes.

Nyckelord: Reklam, bildanalys, diskursanalys, jamstalldhet, feministisk teori, kategoriseringar och stereotyper.


Professor Lu Jie is a distinguished expert on Chinese moral education and has made great contributions to both theoretical research and the practice of moral education by leading the contemporary reform of moral education. She holds the posts of Director of the Professional Division of Moral Education in the Chinese Association of Education and Head of the Moral Education Group on the Board of the Chinese Educational Scienti®c Research Project. She is also the the leader of the advisory group which drew up curriculum guidelines for the primary school textbooks, Moral Character and Life and Moral Character and Society. Some of Professor Lu's important articles on education, especially on moral education after the Chinese reform and open policy was implemented, are included in her recent book Transcendence and innovation. Her main ideas in this book are summarized in this review.


Suggested reference for convolutional codes : "Fundamentals of Convolutional Coding" by Rolf Johannesson and Kamil Zigangirov, IEEE Press, 1999. An encoder for a binary block code takes a block of information bits and converts it into a block of transmitted bits (a codeword). A binary convolutional encoder takes a stream of information bits and converts it into a stream of transmitted bits, using a shift register bank. Redundancy for recovery from channel errors is provided by transmitting more bits per unit time than the number of information bits per unit time. Maximum likelihood decoding can be done using the Viterbi algorithm; other decoding algorithms such as SOVA (soft output Viterbi algorithm) and the BCJR algorithm are also commonly used. In practice the information stream is of finite duration and one typically appends a few termination bits to the input stream to bring the shift register bank back to the all zeros state, so that the convolutional code is in effect used as a very long block code. Often convolutional codes are used as inner codes with burst error correcting block codes as outer codes to form concatenated codes. Errors in Viterbi-like decoding algorithms for convolutional codes tend to occur in bursts because they result from taking a wrong path in a trellis. The burst error correcting capability of the outer code is used to recover from such burst error patterns in the decoding of the inner code. See Section 15.6 on pp. 760 -761 of the text of Lin and Costello (2nd edition) for a short discussion of this idea.


Sleep stage classification is critical for diagnosing sleep quality. While deep neural networks are becoming popular for automatic sleep stage classification with supervised learning, large-scale labeled datasets are still hard to acquire. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has become one of the most prominent approaches to alleviate the burden of labeling works. However, existing SSL methods are mainly designed for non-temporally correlated data and only learning representations from an instance level. Hence, the objective of this paper is to learn robust and generalizable representations for physiological signals with self-supervised learning. Specifically, we make the following contributions: (1) we propose a novel co-training scheme by exploiting complementary information from multiple views (time view and frequency view) of physiological signals to mine more positive samples, which overcomes the drawback of popular InfoNCE and achieves semantic-level representation learning; (2) we extend our framework with a memory module, implemented by a queue and a moving-averaged encoder, to enlarge the pool of negative candidates and keep the up-to-date representation; (3) extensive experiments conducted on sleep stage classification demonstrate state-of-the-art performance compared with SSL baselines, achieving 71.6% and 57.9% accuracies on two sleep datasets, SleepEDF and ISRUC respectively. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/larryshaw0079/CoSleep.


After the World War Ⅱ, the changes of Japan brought about the revolution of China-studies. The main difference manifests in two aspects: separation of academia and politics in the administrative system, and scientific studies of China in universities. This article examines the origin of Japan's modern China-studies using the dialectic approach of "discipline/ institute" in order to describe the interaction between "organizational resources/knowledge resources" at that time.


This study presents interesting insights on water age dynamics in vertical soil profiles. The authors build on previous model simulations (Sprenger et al., 2017) at 4 different northern-latitude sites based on the use of a 1-D physically-based model (SWIS). While in the previous publication the authors focused on flow and isotope transport dynamics, here the focus is on the modelled age dynamics. The article is very well


Statistical resource sharing provides a mechanism for improving operating efficiency in many areas of business and engineering. This mechanism is particularly useful in communication networks, where resources, such as link transmission capacity and buffer space, are shared among different user sessions. This sharing creates potential workload backlogs that need to be addressed. A baseline model of the backlog is represented by a workload W A+B of a stationary queue of capacity φ and independent arrival processes A andB. Processes A andB can be interpreted as independent demands for a generic resource φ.


The security of vehicular networks has been paid increasing attention to with the rapid development of automobile industry and Internet of Things (IoT). However, existing approaches mainly focus on ensuring data authentication and integrity, which are not sufficient to assess the credibility of received messages. Recently, reputation systems are proved to be effective approaches to solve the above problem. This paper proposes a new reputation system for data credibility assessment based on the blockchain techniques. In this system, vehicles rate the received messages based on observations of traffic environments and pack these ratings into a "block". Each block is "chained" to the previous one by storing the hash value of the previous block. Then, a temporary center node is elected from vehicles and it is responsible for broadcasting its rating block to others. Based on ratings stored in the blockchain, vehicles are able to calculate the reputation value of the message sender and then evaluate the credibility of the message. Simulation results reveal that the proposed system is reliable in collecting, validating, and storing reputation information in vehicular networks.


Microwave power losses IL(Pin) introduced by a superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ film microstrip transmission line with a constriction have been investigated experimentally in the temperature range 78–90K. For microwave current flow with amplitude greater than the critical value Ic(rf), losses growing rapidly with increasing input microwave power arise in the line. Hysteresis of the functions IL(Pin) is observed when the microwave power is increased and then decreased. Calculations show that the losses in the line are due to the formation of resistive transverse domains, whose temperature is above the critical value, in the region of the constriction. It is shown that a small constriction consisting of a HTSC film in a microwave transmission line can be regarded as a concentrated nonlinear resistive element, which can be used as basis for building a microwave power limiter.


Experiments were performed on the cold-formed steel C-section (CFS-CS) joints using the screw and adhesive material as the main subject of the study to assess the tensile stress-strain capacity. Since the connection has become the foremost aspect of the CFS-CS structure, a number of studies have been focusing to provide a better understanding with regard to the behavior of the connection. Even more so, further studies have also been carried out focusing on alternate solutions to improve the connection capacity. Considering all the above, this paper discusses the influence of varying types of connection on the tensile behavior of CFS-CS elements with particular using the self-drilling screw and 3M Scotch-weld DP810 as an adhesive material. The configurations of the screw(s) used in this study were 1, 2, and 3, while the percentages of adhesive material being used were 50%, 75%, and 100%.  The results showed that the use of a higher amount of adhesive does not significantly increase the load capacity, but alleviate the failure condition. The results also showed that all test specimens satisfy the minimum requirement according to design specifications. Article DOI:  https://dx.doi.org/10.20319/mijst.2017.32.5163 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.


We apply to supersymmetric quantum mechanics the theorems known on the nodal structure of the solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation. This enables us to derive a new criteria for supersymmetry breaking based on the excited states of the system and not on the zero modes.


Predator avoidance may be a reason why Swift Foxes ( Vulpes velox ) are one of the most burrow-dependent canids in North America. Typically Swift Foxes have multiple dens, which they frequently move among. As part of a larger study to reduce Coyote ( Canis latrans ) related mortalities on Swift Foxes, we installed artificial escape dens in areas occupied by Swift Foxes on Rita Blanca National Grassland, Dallam County, Texas. For this paper, our objective was to determine the effects of artificial escape dens on Swift Fox den use patterns. From January 2002 to August 2004 we captured, radio-collared, and monitored 55 Swift Foxes. We documented annual number of dens used, rate of den use (fidelity), distance between dens, den area, and den sharing. We compared treated (artificial dens installed) and untreated (no artificial dens) areas but found no differences in annual number of dens ( P = 0.64; mean = 8), rate of den use ( P = 0.96; mean = 35%), mean distance between dens ( P = 0.99; mean = 2,311 m), den area ( P = 0.55; mean = 5.72 km 2 ), or den sharing ( P = 0.46; mean = 42% of time). We did not observe an effect of artificial escape dens on Swift Fox den use patterns probably because artificial escape dens were designed for temporary escape cover rather than diurnal den use.


Using 4-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, or 4D-STEM, we measured the strain at the silicon and germanium doped silicon interface, a material commonly used in transistors. The current best strain mapping technique is iterative ptychography, which relies on using a large convergence angle to create overlapping Bragg disks to reconstruct the sample phase. We are developing iterative Bragg ptychography that uses small convergence angle and has overlapping disks only when strain changes. Comparison of our method with old methods including correlation approach and differential phase contrast (DPC) on a simulated 4D-STEM sample has shown that iterative Bragg ptychography provided the highest resolution at the interface.


Why have ethnic minority women –a group experiencing 'double barriers' in society and politics– gained inroads into formal politics in Belgium more quickly than ethnic minority men? Our qualitative analysis of candidate selection shows that political parties prefer ethnic minority women candidates because their 'intersectional identity mix' is maximally complementary to groups embodied by the incumbents. It enables party selectors to maximize the representativeness of the list by including a limited number of newcomers. The groups that are able to cash in on such a 'complementarity advantage' vary depending on the identity of the incumbents and the political salience of social groups' identities.


This project gives a broad look at how Dbase IV programming languages can be used in writing user application programs.
A property management and valuation company Diya Fatimilehin & Co. (Estate Surveyors and Property Valuers) was taken as a case study. This was chosen due to the dynamic nature of property management and the need for the necessary education on the added value given.
The project will give an efficient information system for the Company.
The activity of the Company was studied analyzed and implemented with Dbase IV programming language.


Background. Antiplatelet therapy lowers the risk of recurrent stroke. Policosanol, a mixture of 8 high molecular weight sugar cane wax alcohols, has shown to reduce platelet aggregation. Objectives. To investigate whether the therapy with policosanol plus aspirin (AS) could improve the neurological outcome as compared to placebo + AS in patients with a recent ischemic stroke. Methods. Ninety-two (92) patients with a modified Rankin Scale score (mRSs) ≥2 ≤4 after suffering an ischemic stroke within 30 days before enrollment were randomized to placebo or policosanol (20 mg/day) + AS (125 mg/day) (pla + AS or poli + AS) for 24 weeks. The primary efficacy variable was to obtain a better stroke outcome (mRSs ≤1) as compared to pla +AS. Reduction of platelet aggregation was a secondary variable. Results. After 12 and 24 weeks on therapy, the rates of patients treated with poli + AS (10/46, 21.7% and 32/46, 69.6%, respectively) who achieved mRSs ≤1 were significantly (p0.01 and p0.0001, respectively) greater than those treated with pla + AS (0/46, 0.0% and 7/46, 15.2%, respectively). Poli + AS treatment given for 6 weeks reduced significantly (p0.00001 vs baseline, p0.01 vs pla + AS) the mean mRSs value (24.1%), and this effect improved thereafter, so that it was reduced by 31.0% and 55.2% after 12 and 24 weeks on therapy, respectively. Poli + AS treatment also reduced significantly arachidonic acidand adenosine diphosphateinduced platelet aggregation by 41.0% and 24.8%, respectively. Treatments were well tolerated. There were not withdrawals due to adverse experiences. Conclusions. In patients with recent ischemic stroke, poli + AS treatment improved the neurological recovery and decreased platelet aggregation as compared to pla + AS.


Liners play an important role in minimizing migration of contaminants and are frequently constructed with natural materials serving as the primary barrier to contain chemicals and potentially harmful pollutants from municipal toxic waste leachates. To improve the performance of liners, additives like lime and cement at low percentages were added to Red Soil of Bangalore. Heavy metals like hexavalent chromium, copper and zinc and alkali metals like sodium and potassium were taken as contaminants. Batch leaching tests on 50 samples were performed according to ASTM D 3987 – 85 for soil and soil mixtures with contaminants. The heavy metals were potentiometrically monitored using ion selective mercury and platinum electrodes. The alkali metals were determined using a Flame Photometry. It has been observed that the retention of heavy metals elements followed the order copper> zinc>chromium over a period of 7 to 28 days. Chromium, zinc and copper attained equilibrium in this period as confirmed based on conductivity and pH data. Cement and lime had significant effect on copper and zinc. Specific adsorption of Cu onto CaCO3 surfaces may control Cu concentration in solution. Zn adsorption increases with pH; Zinc hydrolysed at pH > 7.7 and these hydrolyzed species are strongly adsorbed to soil surfaces. Cr was retained only by 50% and additives did not have much effect as it is subjected to nonspecific adsorption (temporary). Cr was found to be highly mobile in alkaline soils. It was observed that the retention of alkali metals follows the order: K > Na. Cement and lime had positive effect on the retention of Na and K. Sodium ion retarded immediately due to the removal of exchangeable cations, whereas potassium retarded more than sodium due to the lower hydrated radius of potassium. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) characterization tests were performed to understand the soil mineral structure. Regular porous, sponge like, particles were detected in virgin soil containing crystals possibly of alumino sicilicate. Energy Dispersive Spectroscope (EDS) analysis indicated the presence of Si, Al, Ca, Ti, Fe, K, and Na. These results indicate the possibility of using Red Soil as an adsorbent.


Abstract A novel C 3-symmetric arsine was employed in the one-pot cyclopropanation of olefins with carbonyl-stabilized arsonium ylides formed in situ from phenacyl bromide in the presence of NaHCO3. This new arsine demonstrates good stereoselectivity and activity in the one-pot cyclopropanation of arylidenemalononitrile. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications® for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.] GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


This paper discusses the findings of a ten-year study of filicide in Victoria, Australia, using the data from selected case files held in the Victorian coroner's office for the period 2000-09. The study sought to examine whether separation is a factor in filicide cases, as well as the role of other factors, such as domestic violence and mental illness. Also, the study sought to identify whether filicide perpetrators had contact with support services, including family and friends, general practitioners, mental health services and child protection services, in order to ascertain how these services might more appropriately identify those families most at risk prior to the filicide. The study found that while separation was a factor identified in a significant number of cases, more cases analysed showed evidence of mental illness, mainly depression. These findings suggest the need for improved strategies in preventing filicide by identifying risk factors and improving service responses for victims prior to these tragic events. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 'While separation was a factor identified in a significant number of cases, more cases analysed showed evidence of mental illness, mainly depression' Key Practitioner Messages: * Filicide is uncommon but does occur. * Perpetrators fall into three main groups and a different scenario is associated with each group. * Associated (risk) factors were found to be mental illness (especially depression), separation, domestic violence and substance abuse. * Any client/patient with mental illness and partner separation should be probed for thoughts of harm. * Engagement with services is a protective factor. Language: en


Excerpt A drug that is good for one type of epileptic seizure may be bad for another; for example, Dilantin is an excellent anticonvulsant, but in many cases it increases the number and severity of...


This study investigates the reclassification of English locative verbs with the following question: What factors caused the change? Firstly, the patten of the class change is observed in terms of both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and then possible factors that cause the change are investigated sequentially by examining whether the factors may be operable. In addition, this study observed what factor can work at the base and what factor can be applied extensively. Reclassified verbs have changed their class from Ground-only to alternating verb class, and there is a preference to use most alternating locative verbs in Figure precedent constructions. This study reveals that there are two processes or two levels of processing that affect the syntactic change involved in the use of locative verbs, but they are independent. In one case, semantic change directly affects the structure of locative verbs. In the second case, the cognitive process directly causes the class change. However, this change is not affected by semantic change. Figure Precedence Principle can be an important factor in explaining the change in the use of locative verbs by reflecting on the cognitive process of human brain.


In the optics of the new education philosophy, the author proposes to consider feedback as a basic process of pedagogical interaction and moves to affirm the dualism of its focus: on the teacher and the student. The article aims to explore the conditions for ensuring effective written corrective feedback (WCF) between a teacher and a student in professional foreign language education. The method for studying the effectiveness of WCF in the locus of creating argumentative essays based on video lectures hosted by TED.com was the analysis of written assignments of the MA of the Department of Economics, the RGGU, involved in the academic work on the basis of a feedback loop, and the results of their survey. Diagnosis of WCF types in the corridor of cross-professional competencies development reveals the preference for a combination of indirect feedback and metalinguistic commenting for MA with B2-C2 language proficiency. The article presents the structural elements of peer review as the key feedback format in the teacher's control of written work, the criteria for mutual evaluation of students' written tasks in peer editing, and provides recommendations for producing WCF in the perspective of academic discourse socialization. The author concludes that WCF is part and parcel of the methodological strategy in the professional foreign language education process, which develops highly cognitive complex skills along with Self Skills and Soft Skills. The article alludes to the Russian films "Feedback", 2017 and 2020, as a parallel line of artistic thought.


S100A6 is over‐expressed in several human tumors, including pancreatic carcinoma, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, breast, colon, and gastric carcinoma, but little is known about the role of S100A6 in endometriosis. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of S100A6 over‐expression on β‐catenin in endometrial stromal cells.


1 Dept. of ENT&HNS, Muzaffarnagar Medical College & Hospital, Muzaffarnagar, U.P INDIA 2 Faculty Campus, Muzaffarnagar Medical College & Hospital, Muzaffarnagar, U.P INDIA Email: email@example.com, Phone No.-9888882901 3 Faculty Campus, Muzaffarnagar Medical College & Hospital, Muzaffarnagar, U.P INDIA Phone No.-9888882902 Corresponding Author Dr Hamjol Singh Chakkal House No.1185, Sector 34-C, Chandigarh-160022 INDIA Email: email@example.com, Phone No.-9888882961 Abstract ObjectiveThe relative position of the developing tympanic segment of facial nerve (fallopian canal) to that of the stapes and oval window niche may lead to Ossicular anomalies responsible for a conductive hearing loss. We hereby present five cases of unilateral conductive hearing loss due to a dehiscent tympanic segment of the facial nerve causing impingement and/or anomalous development of the stapes crura. Result-The stapes was found to be mobile in each of five patients suspected of having a conductive or mixed hearing loss due to otosclerosis. A dehiscent, inferiorly malpositioned, tympanic segment of facial nerve was found to be impinging on the stapes crura in all the cases and to be associated with malformed stapes crura in one of the case. No further middle ear surgery was performed in any of the cases.


There is growing agreement among scholars that supply networks play an important role for the innovative performance of firms. We focus on supplier-supplier innovations as a less investigated outco...


The mechanic performance of ejecting pneumatic fire extinguisher is determined by the following parameters: air speed at funnel exit, outfire range and ejecting stability; and the second and third parameters depend on the fire extinguishing agent pellet's velocity on funnel exit and the amount of fire extinguishing agent pellets detained in the funnel when extinguisher is working. In this research, the CFD-DEM coupling model was adopted to simulate the working process of ejecting pneumatic fire extinguisher, and the type of 6MF-30 pneumatic extinguisher was used to test the reliability of the coupling model. The funnel throat angle X1, the adding position of fire extinguishing agent X2, and the funnel length X3 were selected as the influencing factors, and total 23 experiments were conducted by the simulation model under the quadratic orthogonal rotation design. The virtual tunnel was designed according to the tunnel equipped to 6MF-30 pneumatic extinguisher. The virtual fire extinguishing agent pellets were found on the EDEM interface, coupled to the original CFD by Lagrangian model. The pretest results showed that this model had strong convergence which was proved by its stable airflow performance when running at the time of 0.2-0.25 s, and stable pellet number when running at 0.34 s. The air velocity at exit calculated by the CFD-DEM coupling model was similar to the theoretical value. It could be found that the number of aggregating virtual pellets detained in the region between the air tunnel and the fire extinguishing agent's channel was consistent with the result of research by other scholars. The simulating experiment data were exported for analyzing. The average velocity in axial direction on each point at funnel exit was read by Fluent, and after subtracting the average value 197.550, the deviation data of the 23 experiments were got and selected as the outlet wind velocity(index Y1). The max virtual pellet velocities in axial direction monitored by EDEM within 0-0.4 s of all experiments were selected as the spouting velocity(index Y2). The vertical coordinates of every virtual pellet at 0.37, 0.38, 0.39, 0.4 s in all experiments were read by EDEM, and 'countif' function was used to calculate the number of virtual pellet located in the tunnel(as assessment index Y3) when working. After the significant test and the variance analysis, the regression equation building was done by using SAS9.1. The result showed that the fire extinguishing agent pellet's velocity on funnel exit and the amount of fire extinguishing agent pellets detained in the funnel were significantly correlated to the three factors(P0.0001, P0.001 respectively), but the air speed at funnel exit had no correlation with these factors. By using response surface method combined with weighting method, the optimal aggregative index could be obtained under the condition that the funnel throat angle was 20°, the adding position of fire extinguishing agent was 140 mm and the funnel length was 700 mm. Under this condition, the efficiency of ejecting pneumatic fire extinguisher was mostly improved. The virtual test designed by the optimized parameters showed that the fire extinguishing agent pellet's velocity on funnel exit increased to 41.24 m/s, and the number of fire extinguishing agent pellets detained in the funnel decreased to 209. The verify test of the physical prototype indicated that the optimized parameters could improve the working effect of ejecting pneumatic fire extinguisher, which was manifested in extending the outfire range by 2.15 m, reducing the possibility of reburning and shortening the outfire time by 1.7 s.


The article deals with questions connected with diseases of the urinary system among the rural men. The occurrence of diseases is usually met among people with secondary education, the elderly and the disabled, the unemployed or people who work in hard and harmful conditions of work.


The invention and development of the internal combustion engine has had perhaps the greatest impact of any technological advances on the pattern of urban society. The automobile has taken over the city, and it has already caused serious deterioration in the quality of urban living. The article examines possible ways to solve the problem and create a balanced transportation system.


In this work, XPS investigations on the composition of anodic films electrochemically grown on heat‐treated Ti‐50Zr (at.%) and Ti‐13Zr‐13Nb (wt.%) alloys in 0.15 mol dm−3 Na2SO4 at room temperature are reported. The XPS analyses on anodic films of different thicknesses revealed for both alloys a gradual enrichment of the oxide film in Ti as the film thickness was increased. For the thickest oxide films, this Ti enrichment in the oxide was about 8% for the Ti‐13Nb‐13Zr alloy and about 9% for the Ti‐50Zr alloy, when compared with the nominal values for both alloys determined by inductively coupled plasma‐atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP‐AES). Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Abstract Greenhouse gas (GHG) and ammonia (NH3) emissions, land and water use associated with feedlot cattle (n = 40 hd treatment−1 trial−1) treated with or without productivity-enhancing technologies were modelled for a multiyear study (n = 4). Heifers (H) were assigned to the following treatments: (1) implanted (HTBA); (2) provided with melengestrol acetate (HMGA); (3) nonimplanted control, weight-adjusted (CON_Adj) to achieve the same final carcass weight (CW) as 1 (HCON_AdjTBA); or (4) CON_Adj to achieve the CW as 2 (HCON_AdjMGA). Steers (S) were assigned as follows: (1) implanted (STBA); (2) implanted and provided with ractopamine hydrochloride (SRAC; conducted in the last 2 years); (3) CON_Adj to achieve the same CW as 1 (SCON_AdjTBA); or (4) CON_Adj to achieve the same CW as 2 (SCON_AdjRAC). The GHG and NH3 emissions from HTBA, HMGA, STBA, and SRAC were 3.8%, 3.0%, 10.1%, and 8.5% lower and 4.3%, 2.9%, 7.4%, and 7.6% lower, respectively, than the respective control cattle. The land required to produce feed was also reduced by 6.6%, 4.8%, 9.9%, and 10.9%, while water use was reduced by 6.4%, 4.8%, 10.1%, and 11.1% for HTBA, HMGA, STBA, and SRAC, respectively. This modelling study clearly demonstrates that conventional beef production systems have a lower environmental footprint than nonconventional systems.


We construct the rank-$n$ finite temperature logarithmic conformal field theory (LCFT) starting from the $n$-coupled scalar field theory in the BTZ black hole background. Its zero temperature limit reduces to a rank-$n$ LCFT in the AdS$_3$ background whose gravity dual is a polycritical gravity. We compute all two-point functions of a rank-$n$ finite temperature LCFT. Using the retarded Green's functions on the boundary, we obtain quasinormal modes of scalar $A_n$ which satisfies the $2n$-th order linearized equation. Furthermore, the absorption cross section of $A_n$ indicates a feature of $\ln^{n-1}[\omega \ell]$-correction to the Klein-Gordon mode.


This article discusses the issue of operability of regulatory information. This refers to free, guaranteed and chargeless access of citizens to the regulatory and legal information of public authorities in order to collect, process, store, protect, disseminate and use both  in the interests of society and in their own, as well as develop and send proposals to public authorities. for consideration and decision. Discloses the principles of access to this information, as well as the types of material carriers of this information. It is concluded that in order to ensure the operability of regulatory information, it is necessary to create a consolidated system of regulatory information in the state, which is advisable to create on the basis of the Legislation web portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, since almost all the regulatory legal acts of the state and international acts, with the exception of regulatory legal acts of regional public bodies. The above can ensure the effective participation of citizens in the management of public affairs.


In this study, tungsten oxide microstructures/nanostructures with different morphologies were prepared by the hydrothermal synthesis methods. The morphologies and structures of the obtained products were characterised by field-emission scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The photocatalytic properties of tungsten oxide microstructures/nanostructures were characterised by the degradation of rhodamine B solution. The results indicate that tungsten oxide microspheres prepared by using tungstic acid and hydrogen peroxide solution as raw materials show the highest photocatalytic activity. By changing the concentration of tungstic acid used in the synthesis process, the morphologies of tungsten oxide microspheres can be controlled. The influences of the amount of chemical reagent addition on its morphology and catalytic properties were discussed. In order to further improve the photocatalytic activity of the samples, Ag nanoparticles were loaded on the obtained tungsten oxide microspheres. The photocatalytic experiment results indicate that the photocatalytic performance of tungsten oxide was improved by Ag loading. The results indicate that Ag-loaded tungsten oxide microspheres are favourable for their photocatalytic applications.


University systems today are continually challenged with decreasing state funding appropriations, the need to provide more services to students to remain appealing and competitive in a tough recruitment market, with increasing expectations from faculty for support and infrastructure investment, and with alumni demands to maintain a level of excellence that assists in maintaining the value of their college degree. All of these competing requests require money that must be raised through private sources. In order to maintain levels of quality that their consumers and stakeholders have come to expect, the university must have dynamic leaders in university advancement operations. This is a critical component of the higher education structure, and every institution must be prepared to find success in this arena or risk the embrace of mediocrity. Through the application of attribution theory to defined external and internal barriers to leadership success, this study is designed to ascertain casuality for the lack of gender parity at the leadership levels in university advancement operations when the profession itself is dominated by women. A mixed method approach to data gathering was conducted which involved qualitative interviews with nine female chief advancement officers and a subsequent electronic survey distributed to approximately 1,525 institutional advancement professions. The research procedure and participants are defined in Chapter 3. The Ties That Blind x Over 200 responses were collected from institutional advancement professionals and examined the perceived external challenges and internal challenges to leadership in institutional advancement operations, particularly as they diverge between the sexes. Differences and similarities of leadership styles between men and women are reviewed focusing on organizational culture, the concept of self-efficacy, and causality. An analysis of the research is presented in Chapter 4. The themes that emerge from the qualitative interviews are detailed in descriptive text offering the researcher and reader a description of the leadership experiences of the women interviewed. These responses were then triangulated with the data collected from the quantitative survey to uncover unifying themes and further explore the research questions presented. The results of the findings are discussed to determine ideas the data uncovers and assumptions that can be made from the findings. The information will provide a valuable addition to the limited body of knowledge in this area while also providing additional ideas for future research in leadership. The Ties That Blind xi


We called attention to Part ii. of the Fifth volume of the Journal of this Society in our December number. We have just received the first part of the sixth volume, and are glad to find that the subject of Agricultural Geology once more finds a place in its pages, and that the Secretary, Mr. Jenkins, is again its advocate and exponent. In the present part, Mr. Jenkins applies his geological training to an exposition of the surface-geology of Belgium, whither he had gone in the latter part of the summer of 1869 to report on the Agriculture of that kingdom, accompanied by Dr. Augustus Voelcker, the Society's chemist.


Five analyses of seismic velocity employing acoustic tomography were conducted across the location of the sites proposed for Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) drilling on the continental shelf of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula. The resulting interval velocities were supplied to the ODP Site Survey Panel before drilling and are now presented in light of the results of ODP Leg 178 drilling, during which three of the five proposed sites were drilled, as a tie between traveltimes and depths at all sites, and as a tool to aid genetic interpretation of seismic units in future studies. We present details of the methodology, the five stack sections across each site, and the picked horizons used for the velocity analysis. The results of the analysis are presented as interval tomographic velocity sections on a depth scale. Finally, we compare tomographic and stacking velocity profiles for each site location. We summarize the main features of the velocity fields obtained in this study in a short concluding section. OBJECTIVE This report provides seismic velocity information that was generated specifically to respond to comments of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site Survey Panel on the data set provided by proponents of ODP drilling Proposal 452, which proposed drilling the Pacific margin of the 1Tinivella, U., Camerlenghi, A., and Rebesco, M., 2001. Data report: Seismic velocity analysis on the continental shelf transect, ODP Leg 178, Antarctic Peninsula. In Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D., and Ramsay, A.T.S. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 178, 1–25 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/ publications/178_SR/VOLUME/ CHAPTERS/SR178_016.PDF>. [Cited YYYY-MM-DD] 2Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale–OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42/c I-34010 Sgonico (Trieste), Italy. Correspondence author: firstname.lastname@example.com Initial receipt: 24 January 2001 Acceptance: 1 June 2001 Web publication: 29 August 2001 Ms 178SR-231 U. TINIVELLA ET AL. DATA REPORT: SEISMIC VELOCITY ANALYSIS 2 Antarctic Peninsula. The velocity analyses were submitted to the ODP Site Survey Data Bank in 1996. Because of the importance of velocity information to the interpretation of the Leg 178 drilling results and, in general, to drilling results on glacial margins, we have assembled the data for publication in the Leg 178 Scientific Results volume in the form of a data report so that the results of this analytical study may become more widely available. The information presented refers to five locations on the Leg 178 outer continental shelf transect (Shipboard Scientific Party, 1999a) (Figs. F1, F2). METHODS Stacking velocity information (interval velocity derived using Dix's formula from the root-mean-square [RMS] velocity) is the prime seismic velocity information obtainable from a multichannel seismic reflection (MCS) survey. However, although stacking velocities are useful in data processing (they allow correct stack and enable data migration), their use as interval velocities to predict the subbottom depth of a target reflector is, in general, not recommended, especially if the available offset is short compared to the depth of the target. In addition, semblance-velocity analyses and constant-velocity-stack analyses imply that a gross spatial average (the acquisition spread) is applied to the velocity estimation and that a very simple earth model (i.e., homogeneous horizontal layers) is assumed. In order to obtain additional and independent velocity information and to compare it to the stacking velocities, we have adopted reflection tomography as described in detail by Carrion et al. (1993a, 1993b). We briefly recall its basic concepts below. The space is discretized by long pixels, which are zones where the propagation velocity of seismic waves is assumed to be constant. The pixel shape may be irregular, and the lateral boundaries are vertical straight lines; the upper and lower boundaries coincide with the interpreted reflecting interfaces (see Böhm et al., 1999). The pixel shape is dictated by the available resolution with a surface acquisition geometry (Böhm et al., 2000) that allows good estimation of the lateral gradients but is poor for the vertical variations between two reflectors. A vertically averaged velocity is estimated between the upper and lower reflector. Traveltimes are picked manually or in semiautomatic mode (Tinivella, 1998) along selected horizons on common-offset and commonshot gathers. An iterative inversion procedure is started with any initial model, even very far from the true solution. Rays are traced according to Fermat's principle (Vesnaver 1994, 1996a, 1996b) to simulate the seismic wave propagation in that velocity field and reflector position. Data inversion is completed according to the simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT) (Van der Sluis and Van der Vorst, 1987; Stewart, 1991). At each step, the velocity distribution is updated first, obtaining an estimate of the depth location of the reflection point for each source-receiver position and for each considered reflector. Then, observing the pattern and the dispersion of these reflection points, a new reflector geometry and local velocity structure are introduced, while also considering lateral velocity gradients. The final solution is obtained by alternately iterating these two steps until a minimum dispersion is obtained for all reflectors. An example of a final solution is presented in Figure F3 (from analysis near the location of Site 1103). 3500


This paper presents theoretical and experimental investigations on valveless microfluidic switch using the coupled effect of hydrodynamics and electroosmosis. In the experiment, two sheath streams (aqueous NaCl and glycerol) and the sample stream (silicon oil) are introduced by syringe pumps to flow side by side in a straight rectangular microchannel. External electric fields are applied on the two sheath streams. Under the constant inlet volumetric flowrates, the sample stream is delivered to the desired outlet ports using electroosmotic effect. The liquid fractions of sheath streams are measured using fluorescence imaging technique. The results indicate that under suitable cooperation of electric fields, the sample stream can be delivered to the desired outlet ports.Copyright © 2009 by ASME


The decomposition of jute and cellulose by aerobic bacteria from soil has been investigated. Bacterial decomposition of jute is rapid under aerobic conditions only when the fibre is actually wet. The mean optimum temperature for the growth of these bacteria is near 37°C and the optimum pH is near the neutral region. Jute leached in hot water is more resistant to bacterial attack owing to the removal of micro-nutrients. Lignin is not only the most resistant constituent of jute, but it also offers some protection to the cellulosic fraction of the fibre. Hemicellulose is the most easily assimilable major fraction of jute and its presence also leads to increased consumption of α-cellulose. However, about 25% of the xylan content of jute is as resistant to bacterial attack as the α-cellulose fraction. Jute α-cellulose occupies an intermediate position between cotton α-cellulose and filter paper in susceptibility to attack. Bacterial decomposition of cellulose appears to be favoured by increase in surface and a...


This paper presents a novel methodology to investigate engine behaviour using an original numerical approach based on the direct temporal coupling between IFPENGINE, a 1D engine simulation tool used for the simulation of the gas exchange system, and IFP-C3D, a 3D CFD code used to simulate combustion and pollutant emissions. The coupling method is used to compute steady conditions of the whole engine dynamic system but could also be applied for transient operating conditions. To demonstrate the capabilities of the model a 4-cylinder turbocharged gasoline engine is modelled at two different operating points and the comparison with experimental measurements is shown.


The concept of mucoadhesion is one that has the potential efficiency to improve the highly variable residence times experienced by drugs and dosage forms at various sites in the gastrointestinal tract, and consequently, to reduce variability and improve efficacy. Intimate contact of the drug with the mucosa should enhance absorption. Artocarpus heterophyllus (Jack fruit) is one of the most evergreen trees in tropical areas and widely grown in Asia including India. The latex contains 71.8% resins consisting of 63.3% yellow fluavilles and 8.5% white albanes. The dried latex yields Artostenone, convertible to Artosterone, a compound with androgenic action. The work accomplished so far reveals that jackfruit latex possesses the desirable properties required for a polymer to be used as mucoadhesive agent/binder. The flow properties of the latex as well as that of granules depicted by its compressibility index, Hausner's ratio, Kawatika factors, angle of repose etc. are found to be within the desired range. Moreover FTIR spectroscopy, Differential Scanning Calorimetric study has shown that there was no chemical interactions between the drug and latex neither there is prominent endothermic decrease of melting point of the drug due to presence of latex in the powder mixture. Investigation in terms of in-vitro dissolution study, comparative mucoadhesion study, compatibility study with the selected formulation, stability study etc reveals that Jackfruit latex has potential to act as natural binder in mucoadhesive solid dosage form (tablet) and can also be suitably used for formulating tablets. Keywords Mucoadhesion, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Metformin hydrochloride, Jack fruit latex, in-vitro dissolution study.


The invention discloses a novel papaya milk tablet and a processing method thereof. The novel papaya milk tablet is prepared by the following raw materials by weight: 50-90 parts of sugar-free whole milk powder, 16-30 parts of papaya powder, 1-5 parts of edible essence, 5-12 parts of traditional Chinese medicine juice, 1-5 parts of vitamin C, 20-35 parts of xylitol, 10-18 parts of isomalto-oligosaeeharides, 8-15 parts of non-dairy creamer, 0.2-1 part of citric acid, 6-12 parts of magnesium stearate and a proper amount of water. In the novel papaya milk tablet, the papaya powder, the sugar-free whole milk powder, the xylitol and the isomalto-oligosaeeharides are used as main materials; traditional Chinese medicine juice having the functions of reducing blood pressure and clearing fever and inducing dieresis are added; and the novel papaya milk tablet is prepared by the steps of mixing the auxiliary ingredients, preparing soft power dough, pelletizing and drying, tabletting and sterilizing, sealing and packaging. The novel papaya milk tablet has rich milk flavor and papaya flavor, tastes sweet and sour, contains low heat energy and rich nutrients, and is suitable for being taken by consumers.


: Sports Anatomy is a professional basic course, as well as an applied pilot course of physical education. Its knowledge points are "multiple, complex, and chaotic". Its theory is Abstract: It is prone to produce weariness and fatigue in the actual learning process. The teaching is difficult and the effect is poor. This paper tries to promote the reform and innovation of curriculum teaching by innovating the concepts and ideas of classroom teaching, optimizing teaching content, trying new teaching models, innovating teaching methods, and changing the assessment and evaluation mechanism. It discusses the morphology teaching concept of "student-centered", and the teaching content is refined into several teaching fragments to construct a teaching content system. It also discusses a new teaching form which uses manual activities to strengthen muscle structure and movement instead of the traditional form of teaching, observation, and experiment. Moreove, the paper analyzes the synchronous and integrated teaching mode of theory, experiment and practice, and shows the new homework results of students' drawing atlas and TikTok videos. Through the above research, this paper summarizes a series of theories and experimental methods for cultivating students' innovative ability, improving students' practical ability and comprehensive quality, and enhancing the quality of classroom teaching.


Rechargeable aqueous zinc ion batteries are attractive for high safety, low cost and high energy density. However, the viable cathode materials, e.g., vanadium oxides, suffer from strong Coulombic ion-lattice interactions with divalent Zn2+, leading to very limited stability when cycled at high charge/discharge depth with high capacity. Here we report a synthetic strategy to make oxygen-deficient vanadium oxide cathode, in which the facilitated Zn2+ reaction kinetic enhances capacity and Zn2+ pathways for high reversibility. Benefited from the robust cathode, the aqueous Zinc ion battery shows an unprecedented stability over 200 cycles with high specific capacity of ~400 mAh g-1, achieving 95% utilization of its theoretical capacity, and long cycle life up to 2000 cycles at high utilization of 67%. This work opens up a new avenue to synthesize novel cathode materials for advanced batteries by designing oxygen-deficient structure.


Objective To discuss and compare the clinical features of respiratory infection caused by WU polyomavirus(WUPyV)and respiratory syncytial virus(RSV)in children.Methods From January 2008 to September 2010,multiplex PCR was applied to detect kinds of viruses including WUPyV,RSV and so on in the hospitalized children with respiratory tract infection.The clinical data about WUPyV-positive cases or RSV-positive cases were collected.Results There was a total of 1 701 specimens,with 46 WUPyV-positive cases(2.7%)and 365 RSV-positive cases(21.5%).There were 22 cases(47.8%)and 88 cases(24.1%)of simple infection for WUPyV and RSV,respectively.There were significantly more co-infection in children with RSV infection than that in children with WUPyV Vinfection.The positive rate of WUPyV infection peaked in spring,while the positive rate of RSV infection reached its peak in winter;the median age of children with WUPyV infection was 26.2 months old,significantly older than that of children with RSV infection whichwas 14.9 months old(U = 669.5,P 0.05).Clinical characteristics of children infected with WUPyV and RSV were similar.Howerver,there were more cough(χ2 = 13.34,P 0.01)and wheezing(χ2 = 10.53,P 0.01)in children with RSV infection.The disease caused by WUPyV infection was mainly bronchial pneumonia,while the disease caused by RSV infection was mainly capillary bronchitis.Conclusions Respiratory tract infections in children are partly caused by WUPyV infection.WUPyV infection has a higher rate of co-infection with other viruses.The clinical manifestation of WUPyV infection was similar to that of RSV infection.


The Indian economy is booming and the dark old days of the 'Hindu rate of growth' appear to be a distant memory. This is the view of the optimists who are forecasting the emergence of India as a major economic power in the next five decades. Certainly the economic trends are encouraging, even impressive by the standards of the recent past. At a press conference in June 2004, British prime minister Tony Blair said that there was a case to expand the G8 to bring in India and China as both were 'self-evidently important' countries. The G8 is one of the most influential annual economic gatherings of the world's superpowers. Yet there is a disquieting feature to the new optimism—the most optimistic reviewers are foreign observers who are also the least familiar with how India actually works. But the new international hype has also caught Indian forecasters in its spell with many commentators increasingly setting aside any reservations they may have about the downside of the assumed prosperity of India. India media hype has encouraged this perspective.


Michigan ranks fourth in carrot production for the combined fresh and processing markets. Fungal foliar diseases caused by Alternaria dauci and Cercospora carotae occur annually in the state, causing blighted and weakened leaves and petioles. Our objective was to update current disease management strategies for both organic and conventional production by testing Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)–approved and conventional fungicides against C. carotae and A. dauci. Field trials conducted in 2015 and 2016 found that the copper-based fungicides (copper hydroxide and copper hydroxide/copper oxychloride) were the only OMRI-approved products that, as indicated by relative area under the disease progress curve (rAUDPC) data, consistently limited foliar blight. In field trials of conventional fungicides, all treatments limited symptomatic foliar area and protected petiole health compared with the control in both years with one exception: propiconazole was similar to the control in 2016 for petiole health and in 2015 for rAUDPC values. During 2016 when disease pressure was high, pyraclostrobin/fluxapyroxad outperformed iprodione, pyraclostrobin, azoxystrobin/propiconazole, and cyprodinil/fludioxonil for the control of foliar blight. Yields differed significantly among conventional treatments only in 2016. In plots sprayed with pyraclostrobin/boscalid, pyraclostrobin/fluxapyroxad, chlorothalonil, and boscalid had higher yields than penthiopyrad, iprodione, and propiconazole. These results can contribute to management strategies for C. carotae and A. dauci in organic or conventional production systems.


The integrality evaluation of marine pipeline is a sort of complicated system engineering. It includes evaluations on residual strength, remaining life, costs, system reliability and risk, as well as corresponding countermeas ures based on the evaluations. This paper introduces the failure patterns of mar ine pipeline, and the inspection and rehabilitation techniques, expatiates the general ideal and methods of marine pipeline integrality evaluation.


Background: Type II diabetes is a major public health problem in India. The epidemiological shift of the disease towards younger and middle aged individuals has resulted in longer duration of life with diabetes among the patients. Diabetes being a lifestyle disease, requiring robust behavioural and social adjustments influences the quality of life of an individual to a largest extent. Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted among 200 type II diabetic patients attending JSS Hospital, Mysuru for a period of one year. Information regarding socio-demographic characteristics like gender, education, occupation was collected in a pretested   proforma by interview technique. Assessment of Quality of life was done using the WHO BREF questionnaire. Glycemic status of subjects was assessed using glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1C) levels. The Data entry and Statistical analysis were done using Microsoft Excel and SPSS 22version. Descriptive statistics like mean and standard deviation of QOL calculated and analysed with Sociodemographic variables, inferential statistics like Chi-square and Man-Whitney U test was done. Results: Among 200 study participants majority, 53.5% belonged to age group of 41-60 years, 57.5% were males, 67.5% belonged to lower socio economic class according to BG Prasad classification, 85% were married, 51% were Obese, 44.5% were having family history of diabetes, 48% were having Hypertension, 68.5% were on oral hypoglycemic, 10.5% were on Insulin, 20.5% were on both oral hypoglycaemic and Insulin. Overall Quality of Life was poor in 114 (57%), 114 (57%) had Poor Physical QoL score, 109 (54.5%) had poor psychological QoL score, 108 (54%) had poor social QoL score and 113 (56.5%) had poor environmental QoL score and 87 (43.5%). Median score of overall score of QoL was less in uncontrolled diabetes when compared to controlled diabetes status, this difference was statistically significance (P value- 0.04). Conclusions: Patients with type 2 diabetes have a substantially lower quality of life. QOL was poorer in subjects with uncontrolled glycemic status compared those with good diabetic control.


From Morocco to Europe: Scientists are studying the pathway and weather effects of a five-kilometre-high cloud of Saharan dust in a large-scale experiment


Programmed cell death (PCD) pathways are frequently damaged
during processes of malignant transformation. Abrogation of PCD
can significantly affect the response of the cancer cell to a
therapy. Therefore, understanding of molecular mechanisms
regulating PCD in cancer cells is of potential clinical
interest. In this study we analyzed PCD pathways in the cells
of two leukemia cell lines: human U937 promonocytes and chicken
v-myb-transformed BM2 monoblasts. PCD of these cells was
induced using three agents: arsenic trioxide induces PCD by
elevation of the intracellular level of hydrogen peroxide,
cycloheximide acts as inhibitor of proteosynthesis and
camptothecin inhibits activity of DNA topoisomerase I thus
causing DNA damage. We found the mechanisms of PCD activated in
BM2 and U937 cells by these agents partially different. Under
conditions when U937 cells undergo caspase-mediated apoptosis,
BM2 cells die by caspase-independent pathway. In addition, DNA
damage caused by camptothecin results in a switch from
apoptosis to autophagy in BM2 cells. Interestingly,
camptothecin fails to induce similar effect in U937 cells.
v-myb oncogene of avian myeloblastosis virus codes for
regulator of proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. Our
results suggest that v-Myb oncoprotein over-expressed in BM2
but not in U937 cells can be significantly engaged in
regulation of programmed cell death pathways in leukemic cells.


Mechanical and Automobile Engineering Department, ITM University, Gurgaon 122017, India; Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc., Dayton, OH 45440, USA; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, MD 20742, USA


This paper seeks, on the one hand, to know the struggle of interests between those who wanted the development of this port terminal and those who prevented it, even though it was inserted in the program that the National State was seeking for Bahia Blanca; and on the other hand, to show the tactical alliance between French capital and wide sectors of the Punta Alta community in order to defend common interests. Arroyo Pareja had to face great difficulties practically from the beginning: the beginning of the First World War a year and a half after the beginning of the works; the premature death of its designer and promoter, engineer Abel Pagnard; the lack of intelligence within the company among him. The company's disintelligence between the Parisian investment group and the Argentine construction companies; the repeated strikes and labor conflicts; the more or less deaf opposition of the English capital based in Bahia Blanca and which had a port monopoly in the area; a certain sector of the Navy, suspicious of sharing the port area with commercial activities; the misgivings of certain commercial sectors in Bahia Blanca which gave rise to the idea of creating a nearby economic pole to rival the hegemony the city was beginning to hold at the beginning of the 20th century. What was to be the largest cereal port in South America was reduced to a 300-meter-long masonry pier that was put into service in 1920, which was far from fulfilling the expectations with which it was built. On the other hand, it was never able to connect with any other railway but the Rosario-Puerto Belgrano, a line of French capital that always had serious economic problems, as it will be explained later on.


 Ever since late 2019, the COVID pandemic has given the world a great deal of pain and financial loss. Virologists around the world are working hard to eradicate it. Vaccines and treatment methods have been found, which cannot be accomplished without the joint efforts of the world virologist community. Naturally, facilitating global communication would help advance the research. This paper analyzes syntactical features of English virology texts and finds that: In these texts, verbs and postpositive attributes are used frequently, complicated logic needs careful analysis, and personification is often used. Having some knowledge of these sentence features may contribute to better communication in the virology community


This research was conducted to determine, and identify whether there is a significant effect of work quality and work professionalism on service quality. This research was conducted at the Agency for Personnel and Human Resources Development (BKPSDM) Padang City. This study used a quantitative. Determination of the sample in this formula slovin sampling, a sample of 97 employees who had received service at the Agency for Personnel and Human Resources Development (BKPSDM) of Padang City was obtained. The data in this study were collected through questionnaires distributed to respondents. Data analysis was performed using classical assumption test and multiple linear regression. The results of processing this data analysis indicate that there is a positive influence on the quality of work on the Quality of Service at BKSDM Adjusted R Square of 0.180%, the significance value of 0.000 is less than 0.05. Work professionalism has a significant effect on satisfaction of Service Quality Adjusted R Square by 0.265%. the significance value of 0.000 is less than 0.05. parsialeously work quality and work professionalism have a significant effect on service quality of 0.176%, the significance value of 0.000 is less than 0.05.


Background: Total knee replacement (TKR) is a common operative procedure to improve pain, function, and quality of life in patients with severe grade knee osteoarthritis. The current study aimed to compare bilateral versus unilateral total knee replacement (TKR) on pain intensity and recovery of function.Methods: A total of 80 patients (bilateral 50, unilateral 30) aged 63.28 (9.4) years undergone TKR participated in the current study. The participants were admitted for 5-7 days in the hospital. Participants in both the group received similar inpatient and outpatient physiotherapy sessions. Pain intensity and function capacity were assessed at baseline, day 7, and day 30 postoperatively using visual analogue scale (VAS) and lower extremity functional scale (LEFS), respectively. Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. Results: Both the group showed a significant reduction of pain intensity and improvement in the functional capacity following TKR at 30 days post-operatively (p<0.001). However, there was a non-significant difference noted between bilateral versus unilateral TKR on the reduction of pain intensity and improvement in the functional capacity at 30 days postoperatively (p>0.05).Conclusion: Bilateral TKR was associated with a similar reduction of pain intensity and recovery of function compared to unilateral TKR, suggesting the use of Bilateral TKR in patients with bilateral knee osteoarthritis to reduce costs and co-morbidity related to staged bilateral TKR.


To measure the polymer/monomer interaction parameter as a function of composition, a set of partially cross-linked synthetic latices has been produced by batch and semicontinuous emulsion polymerization. The degrees of cross-linking have been measured by DMA and also predicted by computer simulation based on kinetic data. With equilibrium monomer swelling experiments achieved on films made from these polymers, two curves of the interaction parameter vs. the polymer fraction have been computed. These curves compare favorably with a theoretical model based on a Unifac procedure for the estimation of monomer activity. Two different data bases, liquid-liquid and liquid-vapor equilibria, have been used in the Unifac model. For the polystyrene/n-butyl methacrylate system, a linear relationship found between the interaction parameter and composition is both predicted and measured experimentally. In all cases, this interaction parameter is found to increase with polymer concentration. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the happiness of the elderly in Busan based on the 2019 local community health survey. It was attempted to be used as basic data in preparing various strategies to improve the happiness of the elderly in Busan, who have entered a super-aged society in the future. There were statistically significant differences in the happiness according to demographic characteristics in both male and female elderly in spouse, education level, religion, household income, welfare recipients, and unmet medical care. Factors affecting happiness in both male and female elderly were spouse, education level, religion, household income, welfare recipients, annual unmet medical care, subjective stress, subjective oral health level, and experience of depression. Subjective stress was the most influential variable on the happiness of the elderly. Subjective stress was the most influential variable on the happiness of the elderly. Therefore, in order to increase the happiness of the elderly, it will be necessary to develop and provide a systematic and efficient program that reduces stress according to the characteristics of the elderly.


The invention discloses a waterproof adhesive, which is prepared from raw materials including 100 parts of asphalt, 10 to 50 parts of rubber, 10 to 50 parts of resin and 100 to 200 parts of solvent, wherein the asphalt is No.70, No.90 or No.110 petroleum asphalt; the rubber is natural rubber or/and synthetic rubber, and the synthetic rubber is styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) or/and neoprene; the resin is one or a random combination of more of petroleum resin, coumaroneindene resin and abietic resin; and the solvent is one or a random combination of more of isopropyl acetate, acetic ether, butyl acetate, isobutyl alcohol, isopropanol and ethanol. The waterproof adhesive is directly sprayed onto treated cement concrete pavement, bridge surface or steel bridge surfaces, and has low viscosity, high permeability, high waterproof performance, high adhesive force, high compatibility with and high affinity to asphalt concrete in a paved layer, the coating has high toughness and strength, the adhesive force for cement of the adhesive can reach over 1.2Mpa and the adhesive force for steel plate can reach over 1.5Mpa; meanwhile, the adhesive disclosed by the invention is nontoxic, safe and environmentally friendly, and the total content of benzene series is not more than 0.5g/kg.


This is an article based on slag concrete ,in which the authors introduce its working principle, characteristics, some problems of application to water resources engineering and the corresponding solutions..


With the oncoming of knowledge economy,the companies in the industrial cluster have to improve their innovative capability and the speed of the innovation diffusion.In this paper,firstly,the industrial network is discussed from the viewpoint of social network and complex network.Then,the cluster innovation system,innovation diffusion process,and diffusion model are analyzed.Finally,a micro-scope model framework of the innovation diffusion based on agent is given.


-A new method is developed for measuring the dynamics of the head/disk interface in magnetic disk files. This method utilizes the modulation of a sinusoidal readback signal that results from head/ disk spacing variation. Measurements of slider dynamics using this readback signal modulation (RSM) technique are compared with measurements made with the laser-Doppler vibrometer (LDV) for transient slider motions that are introduced by several different means of slider disturbance. The RSM measurements are calibrated experimentally by use of the LDV together with the functional form provided by the Wallace equation, which expresses the dependence of the readback voltage on various recording parameters including the head/disk spacing. The RSM technique for head/disk spacing measurement variation has a resolution of 50 nm without correction, and this can be improved to 5 nm by removal of the systematic error that is associated with the recorded signal. A frequency range of 20 Hz to 100 kHz is achievable. Since the read/write head of the disk file is used as the measurement transducer without modification, and relatively simple and inexpensive additional instrumentation is required for the implementation of the RSM technique, it is expected that this method may become a useful tool in the research and development of magnetic disk files.


Factor such as Authentication, security, confidentiality & integrity are some of the most dominant Important factors required for online transaction. Online banking 24/7 availability and responsiveness has added this service into our day to day life due to location independence UPI mobile wallet. Digital financial transaction is under various threats like phishing, pharming, malware, Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack. Attacker would find under different attack ways to keep on attacking the digital transaction. Three factor authentications are a game changer. Security over the digital transaction continues to be a key focus area for monetary establishment. Firms must guarantee consistence strategies to meet the increasing regulatory law to safeguard the Digital transaction and save hard earned money and expressing the limitation for various authentication techniques. By using the three-factor authentication where we use a combination of three authentication techniques such as password certificate and biometric OR TOTP. We can secure the transaction from the inception to the end.


An enantioselective arylation-cyclization cascade has been accomplished using a combination of diaryliodonium salts and asymmetric copper catalysis. These mild catalytic conditions provide a new strategy for the enantioselective construction of pyrroloindolines, an important alkaloid structural motif that is commonly found among biologically active natural products.


The present invention is a method of Zn2 + fluorescent probe for imaging activity in a cell, which is characterized in 1,5-bis (7-hydroxy-8-methyl coumarin alkylene) - disemicarbazide referred probe s3 , trace amounts of Zn2 + fluorescence enhancement probe, probe s3 and Zn2 +, respectively, can penetrate into the active cells, the cells having a good compatibility, Zn2 + after intracellular staining with fluorescence inverted microscope revealed by probe s3 clear blue fluorescent cell images, a probe cell active s3 fluorescent reagent according to the film, the chemical structure of the probe s3:


With the continuous development of large-scale scientific computing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation has become an essential tool for solving practical problems. Among the many open-source software in the field of CFD simulation, OpenFOAM plays an important role as a leader. However, due to its generality, the simulation results in some fields are not yet up to the desired effect. In this paper, we analyze and study the difficulties in cavitation simulation, and design and implement a new solver for hydrofoil cavitation simulation supporting linear equation solvers of different modules for hydrofoil cavitation simulation cases, and successfully apply it to the cavitation simulation experiments of NACA0009 hydrofoil. In addition, the parallel computa-tional performance of this solver is also experimentally analyzed, which can provide some reference and help for the research in the field of hydrofoil cavitation simulation.


Abstract While previous studies have used trust in the government as an exogenous variable to measure political protest and other forms of social unrest, we treat it as a dependent variable. Thus, we attempt to identify variables that affect trust in government, and we also distinguish between those variables that transcend race and those that differentially affect black and white respondents. Using data from the 1987 General Social Survey, we regress trust in the government on a variety of demographic and ideological measures. Results show that political apathy and belief that the government is unresponsive to the needs of the people lead to low levels of trust, regardless of the respondent's race. However, ideological variables such as political and religious views display different patterns for black and white respondents. While these variables do not affect black respondents' attitudes toward the government, they have a strong effect for white respondents. Implications of this study are discussed.


In the present study,the normalized difference vegetation index( NDVI) estimated from MODIS data were employed to analyze the temporal and spatial dynamic of different grassland types during growth season( April to October) in the recent 10 years( from 2003 to 2012) in Xilingol. The NDVI decreased from northeast to southwest in Xilingol in spatial. The maximum spatial differences occurred in 2005 and the minimum spatial differences occurred in 2007. The spatial variation of the same grassland type was similar during the study period. Temporal series analysis showed that the whole regional NDVI in 2012 was the maximum which followed by 2003. However,the minimum regional NDVI variations occurred in different period for different grasslands. For example,sandy grassland and desert steppe had minimum regional NDVI in 2005 and major NDVI fluctuations from 2004 to 2006,however,meadow steppe and typical steppe had minimum regional NDVI in 2007 and major NDVI fluctuations from2007 to 2009. Spatial variation analysis showed the coefficient of variation( CV) of sandy grassland from 2003 to2012 was less than 0. 1 which indicated this type grassland was very stabilization. The CV of meadow steppe,typical steppe and desert steppe gradually increase which also was stable at 0. 1 to 0. 2. These results indicated that the ecological vulnerability of Xilingol was stabilization. The correlation analysis between main meteorological elements and NDVI indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between NDVI and precipitation which has a coefficient of 0. 83. However,there was negative correlation between sunshine period and NDVI and no significant relationship between average temperature and NDVI.


This paper optimizes the design of a monopole antenna using machine learning (ML) techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) and Gaussian process (GP). The gain performance of a monopole antenna is modeled in the principle plane. The proposed antenna's gain pattern is then mapped with dielectric constant values in order to achieve seamless connectivity of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission in a 5G network. We developed mathematical estimates for the proposed algorithm and compared the results to current techniques. The simulation results show that the proposed model can support high-capacity 5G communication system services and is accurate when dealing with nonlinear problems. Finally, the simulation model outputs are efficiently validated using measurement results.


This study aims to examine the structural relationship of social justice leadership with the person-organization fit. One of the methods applied to test the relational situations is the structural equation modeling. In addition, the sample consists of 318 secondary school teachers found by the simple random method. In the study, the Personal Information Form has been developed by the researchers, and the Social Justice Leadership Scale and the Person-Organization Fit Scale have been used to collect data. The Cronbach Alpha value of the Social Justice Leadership Scale has been found as 98 for all items, and the value of the Person-Organization Scale has been found as 93. In analysis of the data, the programs called IBM SPSS 25 and AMOS 24 have been used. First of all, the extreme data analysis has been made, and the distribution of normality has been tested. In conclusion, it has been found that critical consciousness, stakeholder support, participation and distributive justice dimensions predict the organizational fit positively and moderately, and that the model formed is acceptable.


BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has caused significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Diabetes mellitus (DM) and related comorbidities have a significant impact on clinical presentation and outcomes. The aim is to compare clinical presentation and outcomes among COVID-19 patients with or without DM. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Data from 312 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 at a single hospital were collected respectively from January to April 2021. It included demographic data, clinical symptoms, underlying comorbidities, clinical chemistry, and hematological laboratory findings. Different inflammation indices were calculated. The findings of COVID-19 diabetic and nondiabetic patients were compared. RESULTS: The percentage of COVID-19 patients with DM and hypertension or cardiovascular diseases was significantly higher compared to non-diabetic patients (78.6 % vs. 35%, and 46.4% vs. 23%, P <  0.001) respectively. The diabetic patients showed a significant increase in D-dimer and alkaline phosphatase levels (1922.2 vs.1154.5, P = 0.007 and 85.3 vs.75.5, P = 0.01) respectively. On the other hand, diabetic patients showed a significant decrease in serum albumin (3.5 vs.3.6, P = 0.012). The mean death probability indicator (ANDC), and ICU admission were higher in diabetic patients (72.2%, and 36.6% ; respectively) versus the non-diabetic patients (60.7% and 26.1% ; P <  0.001, 0.071; respectively). Also, the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was significantly higher in diabetic patients as compared to non-diabetic patients. CONCLUSION: The diabetic patients had more comorbidities, a higher rate of ICU admission


Archives are the repositories of sources from the past, however they are also its subjects, sites and the politics of their own. An archive is a product of the forms of decisions taken by its various stakeholders, beginning from those who wrote the papers to the people (archivists) who cared, processed, curated them, to the state machinery that determine the importance of such papers, to the scholars who framed the content of the form after years of spending time with them. In a democracy, the records are the means by which the servants of the public are held accountable to the people. Records have different functions - they are memory to an organisation, tools in the hands of administration, they encapsulate eons of experience, they become source of legal rights, information, and that they merit utmost attention. The article, thus, delves into the two aspects of an archive – Poetics of the Archive i.e., rationale, politics and historical evolution of the institution; and Grammar of the Archive i.e., the methods of conservation and preservation of the records in India.


often forgotten, or reduced to debates around the 'age of consent'. Essays by Lind and Monk, however, redress this imbalance by exploring the regulatory techniques used in English law which attempt to deny young people room to discuss and explore sexuality. Their accounts of the construction of childhood 'innocence' and the institutionalization of heterosexuality in schools map out the ever-widening terrain of the legal and political debate. Law is, of course, a difficult animal with which to engage for both the academic and the activist. As Backer points out in the final essay, one can never predict where theorizing might go (p. 200). Similar things can also be said about activism and litigation, because of the contingencies involved as popular culture in any society reacts to and absorbs what may appear to be legal change. Rauhofer's essay with regard to the campaign for same-sex marriage in Germany illustrates this by pointing out many of its possible unintended consequences for lesbians and gay men. The difficulties involved in acting strategically are also emphasized by Dempsey. He recounts the challenge of developing a distinctively Scottish campaigning agenda within the broader context of the United Kingdom. These practical examples reinforce Backer's critique of much queer writing. He argues that there is a danger that postmodern attempts to destabilize and de-essentialize heterosexuality have fallen into the trap of modernity. The assumption that the dominance of heterosexuality can be removed and that a new and better world can be created is, he argues, based upon a linear view of 'progress' and in many cases seeks only to replace one hegemony with another. His cautionary note is broadly shared by the other contributors to the book, who seek to interrogate law and legal discourses, rather than making any claims for their transformative potential. The label 'queer' (alluded to in the book's title) is of course a contested notion and not explicitly discussed by the contributors, except by Loizidou who seeks to expand it for her own purposes to go beyond sexual identity (p. 173) to a broader notion encompassing 'effective resistances' (p. 174). There is perhaps a practical danger in this approach: the further 'queer' is stretched, the more meaningless it becomes and the less strategically useful it will be. The other contributors appear, however, to have taken 'queer' to be a shorthand for non-normative sexualities and have not debated its parameters in this book. This is indicative of the book's overall tone – while theoretically informed most of its essays are pitched at a level which students on units in law, gender and sexuality will understand and enjoy. Unfortunately Loizidou's essay, although interesting, is difficult for those not versed in Lacanian psychoanalytical theory and who have not seen the film Heavenly Creatures, and perhaps fits least well within the overall collection. In producing such a compact book several of the contributors have not really had sufficient space to develop their argument, leaving the reader wanting to know more in terms of both analysis and background detail. Nevertheless the editors are to be congratulated for bringing together this exciting collection which has helped push out the boundaries of lesbian, gay and transgender legal scholarship. One thing remains abundantly clear – there is still plenty of scope to continue theorizing this area.


Noninvasive methods of drug delivery are a highly desired property of new drug candidates. Since oral drug absorption experiments in animals are both experimentally difficult and expensive, a number of in vitro models for predicting oral drug absorption have been developed. Chromatographic models to predict drug absorption are much easier to use than cell cultures, animal models, or other partitioning methods. Among chromatography columns, the IAM.PC.DD 2 Drug-Discovery column is significantly effective in modeling the hydrophobic and hydrophilic contribution to a drug's partitioning.


The strain is comprised by four components, elasticity, plasticity, viscoelasticity, and viscoplasticity. Plasticity and viscoplasticity are the reasons for the permanent deformation of asphalt concrete, normally called rutting. The formation of rutting is still uncertain because of the complicated material behaviors of asphalt concrete and the loading conditions. In order to accurately predict rutting, a single-layer elasto-visco-plastic rutting model which is established. The viscoplastic behavior of the material in the model is based on the creep law. The time hardening law and the strain hardening law are both adopted to simulate the viscoplastic characteristics of asphalt. A trapezoid-shaped load amplitude was applied in the FEM analysis. The power law equation of permanent deformation is used to predict rutting after N loading repetitions. The results show that the predicted rutting with strain hardening law are more accurate than those with time hardening law. At last, discuess the influence on the result of the rutting analysis when the two different creep laws, time hardening law and strain hardening law, apply on the elasto-visco-plastic rutting model.


As the fashion industry starts to rethink the fast fashion business model, it will need to employ designers who are aware of the myriad of decisions in determining how to reduce the enviornmental impacts of their garments. We propose the use of a Design Canvas which guides the first year college student through the decision making process of a single design. This tool uses a problem-based learning approach to encourage the student to explore different issues, inform their decision-making and understand the interconnectivity of the process of apparel design. Students can continue to use this framework through their college years and beyond.