.................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 4 Connection to Adoption in Elementary Education ............................................................ 4 Background Information .................................................................................................... 6 Adoption Issues in the Classroom...................................................................................... 7 Research Question ........................................................................................................... 11 Terms ............................................................................................................................... 12 Literature Review ................................................................................................................ 13 Historical Information ................................................................................................ 13 Theoretical Information ............................................................................................. 18 Current Information ................................................................................................... 29 Methodology ......................................................................................................................... 31 Research Goals........................................................................................................... 31 Methods...................................................................................................................... 31 Emergent Themes ...................................................................................................... 37 Results ................................................................................................................................... 39 Raw Data .................................................................................................................... 39 Discussion .................................................................................................................. 43 Action Documentation ............................................................................................... 46 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................ 46 Appendices A-M .............................................................................................................. 48-60 References ............................................................................................................................. 61 ADOPTION AWARENESS 3 Abstract Adoption is a complex and delicate issue, and too often, outdated and biased attitudes toward adoption influence people's perceptions of adoption and adoptees. Adopted children are particularly vulnerable to negativity toward the adoptive family structure, and adoptees have special emotional needs that must be addressed in the elementary school classroom. Research demonstrates a variety of ways teachers can bring awareness to adoption issues, de-stigmatize adoption in the classroom, and in turn, create a safe and nurturing classroom environment. TheAdoption is a complex and delicate issue, and too often, outdated and biased attitudes toward adoption influence people's perceptions of adoption and adoptees. Adopted children are particularly vulnerable to negativity toward the adoptive family structure, and adoptees have special emotional needs that must be addressed in the elementary school classroom. Research demonstrates a variety of ways teachers can bring awareness to adoption issues, de-stigmatize adoption in the classroom, and in turn, create a safe and nurturing classroom environment. The researcher designed an anonymous survey to distribute to a sampling of elementary school teachers; the survey results generally supported the researcher's hypothesis that adoption issues are not properly addressed in elementary education. The results established that elementary school teachers were not adequately prepared to support adopted children in class because they do not have the necessary training, resources, or support at the school and district levels. ADOPTION AWARENESS 4 Adoption Awareness in the Elementary School Classroom Imagine that your 6-year-old son is in his first grade classroom, and it is his turn to be Student of the Week. He is presenting information to the class about his family, but he in fact has two families to talk about because he is adopted. He is bravely exploring the issue and excitedly sharing the information when another student asks, "But which ones are your real parents?" A second student chimes in, "So Shaun isn't really your older brother?" The teacher has no response for either classmate's comment. Your son finds himself confused, ashamed and unable to answer the question, and he no longer wants to talk about his family. Unfortunately, scenarios like this occur frequently when elementary school assignments require children to reveal information to others about their adoptive status. A fundamental misunderstanding of adoption often results in people asking uninformed and ignorant questions regardless of whether or not they intended to be insensitive to the issue. In this situation, the teacher's reply to the students' questions could have been instrumental in providing valuable information, dispelling adoption myths, and preserving your son's self-confidence, but a lack of proper education and training prevented an important positive intervention. Connection to Adoption Awareness in Elementary Education I am an adoptee, and my interest in this particular topic stems from a lifetime of experiences in different educational and social settings. At a very young age, I often found myself having to reconcile privacy concerns concerning what information I wanted to reveal about my adoption and what information I preferred to keep private. Additionally, I have had to navigate around insensitive language and biased attitudes in the classroom toward adoption from both peers and teachers. ADOPTION AWARENESS 5 My birth mother was very young when she chose adoption, and I did not always want to reveal the nature of my adoption to every person who asked because the conversation often turned to, "How old was she when you were born?" There was always a risk that were I to reveal my birth mother's age, the questioner's uninformed response and barrage of further questions would leave me reeling, feeling embarrassed, uncomfortable, and outraged. When such negative conversations arose, I was also in an uncomfortable position because I felt the need to defend my birth mother from people who could not possibly understand the complexity of her story and the loving choice she made. Furthermore, as an adopted student, I found certain class projects difficult to complete because they focused on family structure and biological heritage. For example, when my teacher assigned a Family Tree project, I had to determine how to represent my unique family structure with the limited tree handout the class received; there was no way to accommodate extra family member names that would represent both of my families. In addition, ethnic heritage projects presented a similar issue as I was required to determine my ethnic background and create a family crest based on my findings. I was confused and frustrated because I had to designate which ethnic background represented my own: my adoptive family's or my birth family's. A deeply troubling question arose from these experiences—how does an adoptee choose which family to use in these class assignments? More importantly, why is an adoptee even in a position where they have to choose? At no time during the span of my elementary education did these or other family-oriented assignments give me an option to include information about my adoptive status. ADOPTION AWARENESS 6 Background Information Too often, outdated beliefs and attitudes toward adoption influence people's perceptions of adoption and adoptees. When adoptions became legally regulated by states in the 1850s with the development of a formal adoption system, legislators sealed adoption records and reissued new birth certificates to protect adoptive families; by 1950, most states legally required birth certificates and court records to be permanently sealed, thereby commencing an era of secrecy and its correlate shame (Silber, 1997). Accordingly, the majority of adoptions were handled by public agencies and considered "closed"—that is, all information remains confidential and inaccessible to all involved in the adoption (adoptee, adoptive parents, and birth parents), and the biological and adoptive families have no contact (Hilborn, 2005). However, a movement toward openness developed in the 1960s and proponents for openness in adoption fought to unseal birth certificates and records for adoptees (Silber, 1997). A changing attitude toward unmarried mothers had emerged and people no longer accepted the perceived need to keep adoption secret. In the early 1980s, the first "open adoptions", in which adoptive parents and birth parents agreed to ongoing contact between their families and the freedom of access to information, were legalized, reflecting a new awareness of the importance of shared information in alleviating the stigma associated with adoption (Hilborn, 2005). "Semiprivate adoptions" were made available as well, in which birth parents and adoptive parents exchange non-identifying information for the welfare of the adoptee, but there is little to no contact between their families (Hilborn, 2005). Private adoption agencies and attorneys sprang up and became the key movers in the adoption process,


In this paper, we proposed a two-stage approach to use real-time prediction for truck scheduling in open-pit mines. We studied the truck scheduling problem using two economic concepts: risk and utility. To schedule trucks by computer, a recursive formula of the truck loading time has been established in this paper. The utility is used to measure the benefit that may be gained by using a particular scheduling strategy. The risk is used to measure the difficulty for a truck to be loaded in time. Inspired by Occam's razor, we noted the relationship between the risk and the number of factors considered in the algorithm. On this basis, how to reduce the risk of scheduling when the prediction is inaccurate is studied. To verify these methods, we performed simulation experiments based on real data. The experimental results show that our approach can balance the efficiency of trucks and shovels. The impact of the inaccurate prediction on the output can be reduced by risk reduction.


which had died of coccidiosis. The name "E. mustelae" was later found to be preoccupied by E. mustelae Iwanoff-Gobzem, 1934, in view of which Kingscote (1935) renamed his species E. vison. Levine (1948), who also found this species in a mink, pointed to its morphological similarity to E. sibirica Yakimoff and Terwinsky, 1931, E. irara Carini and da Fonseca, 1938, and to E. ictidea Hoare, 1927, all of which occur in species of Mustelidae. He suggested that future experimental cross-infection studies might reduce them to synonymy. Kingscote (1934), on grounds of morphology and sporulation time, considered E. ictidea to be a distinct species. E. mustelae was first described from the weasel (Mustela nivalis) in Kazakhstan (Iwanoff-Gobzem, 1934). In that paper the author's name was given as "Frau Tierarztin P. S. Iwanoff, Gobzem," but the generally accepted form appears to be "Iwanoff-Gobzem." Levine (1948) found E. mustelae in a mink and described it in much greater detail than was given by Iwanoff-Gobzem, but agreement between the 2 descriptions was not entirely satisfactory.


This article examines the governorship in Gibraltar of General Sir Archibald Hunter in the years from 1910 and to 1913. It highlights the difficulties that governors of strategically important British outposts, such as the imperial fortresses of Gibraltar, Malta and Bermuda, faced in discharging the dual roles of civil governor and military governor. Drawing upon evidence from Hunter's biographers, the National Archives in London and repositories in Gibraltar, this article examines the effect on the careful balance of interests between the Colonial Office, the War Office and the local civilian community when such a balance was tested almost to destruction by a governor more used to front-line military action than to colonial government. This article also sheds light on why Hunter's subsequent career was stifled—something that his biographers have hitherto failed to explain.


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Wilson disease (WD) is a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder of copper metabolism that is characterized by excessive deposition of copper in the liver, brain, and other tissues. WD is often fatal if not recognized and treated. The most commonly affected structures in the brain include the putamen, globus pallidus, nucleus caudatus, thalamus, and brain stem, neurological symptoms are present in approximately 15% of the children with WD, usually manifesting with movement disorders. Objective: study the prevalence of WD among children presenting with extrapyramidal abnormal movements, frequency of the clinical presentations, hepatic manifestation, abnormal laboratory findings, abnormal MRI findings, the prevalence of presymptomatic cases of WD among family members and frequency of neurological deterioration with D penicillamine. Patients and methods: We recruited 40 patients presenting with extrapyramidal abnormal movements. All cases were subjected to full history taking, complete Turkish Journal of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation; 32(3) ISSN 2651-4451 | e-ISSN 2651-446X www.turkjphysiotherrehabil.org 41794 neurological examination, full liver function, serum ceruloplasmin, 24 urinary Cu before and after using D penicillamine, slit lamp examination and brain MRI. Results: The study included 40 patients, divided into 3 groups. The tremors group included 22 patients (55 %) with a mean age at onset of symptoms was 9.5± 1.36 years. Eighteen patients (80%) had kinetic tremors while 4 patients (20%) had postural tremors; none of them fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of WD. The chorea group included 3 patients (7.5%) with the mean age of onset of symptoms was 6.5 ± 2 years; none of them fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of WD. The dystonia included 15 patients (37.5%) with a mean age of onset of symptoms was 11.6 ± 1.65 years. Among this group, two patients were diagnosed as WD ( both had mildly increased GGT, low serum ceruloplasmin, increased 24 urinary Cu excretion after D penicillamine, Kayser Fleischer rings and abnormal MRI brain hyperintense signals detected in basal ganglia and brain stem). Another patient presenting with dystonia was diagnosed by genetic analysis as Niemann Pick disease type C (NPC). Conclusion: neurologic WD commonly presents with dystonia and dysarthria in children. All family members for cases with WD should be screened for early detection of the presymptomatic cases. NPC should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pediatric movement disorders.


Although the output power of an induction motor (IM) is generally lower than that of the interior permanent magnet synchronous motor, IMs are widely used in industrial world due to their solidity, low cost, self-starting, etc. For designing high-performance IMs, a computer-aided engineering approach using the finite-element method is essential. However, because a finite-element analysis of IMs takes a long time due to the long transient state in the time domain, it is difficult to perform the optimization using evolutionary algorithms. To overcome this difficulty, a sensitivity-based topology optimization (TO) method for IMs in the frequency domain was proposed. However, this method has a drawback: because the magnetic nonlinearity in the rotor and stator cores cannot be considered, the physical quantities also cannot be accurately estimated. To consider the magnetic nonlinearity in the TO of the IM, the sensitivity analysis with the rotor rotation of the IM using the time-domain adjoint variable method is proposed here. The proposed sensitivity analysis method for the steady state of the IM was evaluated, and it was applied to the TO of a squirrel-cage IM. The effective rotor structure, which is composed of the iron core and secondary conductor, was derived from the multi-material level-set method.


In order to solve the problem that it is hard to process the HVOF tungsten carbide coatings,super high speed grinding experiments were carried out.The grinding forces and the surface roughness were measured,and the surface microstructure was observed under different grinding conditions.The results have shown that,with the substantial increase in wheel speeds,the grinding forces and surface roughness can be significantly reduced.Under the conditions of super high speed grinding,the plastic gives priority to the coating material removal way.In a word,under the conditions of super high speed grinding,the surface quality and the grinding efficiency and service life of the grinding wheel in coating workpiece grinding have been obviously improved.


Techniques described herein, by concentrating the example target sequences prior to sequencing the sequence is directed to a method of determining the oligonucleotide sequence.


DUEING the last century more and more aspects of man's needs for health protec¬ tion and health care have been met through social organization. The physical environment, which can so readily contribute to the causation of disease, has been brought under increasingly systematic control. Health services for both prevention and treatment have become orga¬ nized in a hundred ways; both their financial support and their technical provision have be¬


Objective:To establish a method for quality control of Mesalazine enteric coated tablet.Methods:Mesalazine was identified by UVS,and the content of Mesalazine was determined by RP-HPLC.Spherisorb CN column was used,with methanol as the mobile phase(40:60,pH was adjusted to 3.0 with phosphoric acid).The detection wavelength was 220nm.Results:The method showed a better linear correlation within the range of 0.6~3.4μg(r=0.1999).The average recovery was 98.31% with RSD of(0.54%).Conclusion:The method is simple and rapid,highly accurate and precise.It can control the quality of Mesalazine enteric coated tablet effectively.


An improved composite surface model for the calculation of the normalized radar backscattering cross section (NRCS) of the ocean surface at moderate incidence angles is presented. The model is based on Bragg scattering theory. A Taylor expansion of the NRCS in the two-dimensional surface slope yields nonzero second-order terms which represent a first approximation for the effect of the geometric and hydrodynamic modulation of the Bragg scattering facets by all waves that are long compared to these facets. The corresponding expectation value of the NRCS varies with the wave height spectral density of all these waves, and it depends in a well-defined way on frequency, polarization, incidence angle, and azimuthal look direction of the radar. We show that measured NRCS values at frequencies ranging from 1 GHz (L band) through 34 GHz (Ka band) and wind speeds between 2 and 20 m/s can be well reproduced by the proposed model after some reasonable tuning of the input ocean wave spectrum. Also, polarization effects and upwind/downwind differences of the NRCS appear to be relatively well represented. The model can thus be considered as an advanced wind scatterometer model which is based on physical principles rather than on empirical relationships. The most promising field of application, however, will be the calculation of NRCS variations associated with local distortions of the wave spectrum by surface current gradients or wind effects.


Streptococcus pneumoniae consists of a major cause of communityacquired pneumonia in the elderly, resulting in considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although pneumococcal communityacquired pneumonia presents usually as non-bacteremic disease, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) concerns infection of normally sterile sites, such as blood or cerebral fluid. The risk for Invasive Pneumococcal Disease increases in particular groups of patients, including hematologic malignancies, infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), asplenia functional or anatomic, chronic diseases and extreme ages (<4 and >65 years old). The prevention against IPD is achieved by vaccines against Streptococcus pneumoniae. Today, there are two available types of vaccines, the polysaccharide pneumonococcus vaccine (PPSV23 and the pneumonococcus conjugated vaccine (PCV13). Pneumon 2017, 30(1):32-40. Ioannis Tomos1 MD, Elias Perros2 MD, PhD, George Dimopoulos3 MD, PhD, FCCP, FCCM


(1) Background: The internet is a popular information source; however, research evaluating online nutrition-related dementia information is limited. This review characterised content, quality, and accuracy of online dementia-specific nutrition resources for dementia prevention and treatment. (2) Methods: JBI methodology for scoping reviews guided the study. Searches used Google search engine with terms related to dementia and nutrition. Webpages from government, organisational and commercial sources were included; blogs, social media and media sources were excluded. DISCERN tool evaluated content quality; accuracy was assessed against ESPEN and WHO guidelines. Differences in mean DISCERN scores were calculated using ANOVA. (3) Results: 105 webpages from eight countries were included. Webpages were mainly from organisational sources (n = 65) and covered nutrition-related prevention (n = 52) including diet–disease relationships (n = 81). Fewer webpages provided information on dementia related eating issues. The total mean DISCERN score (SD) was 50 ± 8, indicating overall good quality. All government webpages provided accurate information. Commercial webpages had some inaccuracy (ESPEN: 3% mixed, 3% inaccurate; WHO: 3% mixed, 3% inaccurate). (4) Conclusions: Information was of reasonable quality and mostly accurate. Further information on dementia-related eating issues is needed. Future research could address readability, understandability and actionability and examine other sources, such as social media, blogs or forums.


— The commercialization of Eucalyptus and Poplar plantations in western Uttar Pradesh attracted other parts of central and eastern UP in the past few years. In Eastern UP, plantation practices vary according to different agro-climatic conditions, land capability and socio-economic status of farmers. The status and pattern of these commercial practices across eastern region of UP reflect that traditional agriculture / farmers are transforming into multifunctional directions and are increasing in a progressive manner. With a view to study planting pattern, demand- supply gap and economic returns of these commercial species, the socio-economic studies in six districts viz. Raebareli, Barabanki, Gorakhpur, Bahraich, Sonbhadra and Prayagraj of the region was carried out . The planting pattern of trees showed that on an average, 23 % trees were scattered on farms, 36 % were in blocks/orchards, 24 % were on bunds and 17 % were around homesteads etc. Due to huge demand of these two species in plywood/veneer and other wood based industries, a wide demand supply gap persists. The results depicted that in districts, Gorakhpur, Bahraich and Raebareli where plywood/veneer industry exists; highest demand supply gap of 135450, 151410 and 75230 cft/yr respectively for Eucalyptus and 55741,111050 and 48100 cft/yr respectively for Poplar was recorded. The market value of Eucalyptus and Poplar trees are almost same with a gain of Rs. 2000 to 2500 per tree by 3.0 to 3.5 qt of wood after 6-7 years of planting. The results clearly show that there is a great scope of planting of these two species in the commercial manner in the region of Eastern UP as they are fast growing, exempted from felling and transit permit and availability of market places in wood industries. Thus, commercial approaches for developing profitable, ecologically and socio-economically viable plantation models of these species may further open a new path for economic strengthening of farmers and increasing green cover of the region.


Abstract Perceived crowding in outdoor recreation research is generally approached from a sociological or interpersonal basis. The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual approach to perceived crowding where people/environment interactions are emphasized, rather than social relationships. Crowding is treated as a perceptual reaction to an environmental situation, where environmental constraints interfere with the functioning and task performances desired by an individual. It is postulated that crowding can occur without the presence of others, that it can be the result of functional density and not simply the result of social processes involving the interacting of others.


email@example.com 79 | P a g e Abstract: This study examined the relationship between work re-design and Effectiveness of Oil and Gas Firms in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey in its investigation of the variables. Primary data was generated through selfadministered questionnaire. The accessible population for this study comprised of 260 employees of five (5) Oil and gas servicing firms which were listed on the first tier of the Nigeria stock exchange as obtained from daily official list. The sample size of 154 was determined using the Taro Yamane's formula for sample size determination. The reliability of the instrument was achieved by the use of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient with all the items scoring above 0.70. The hypotheses were tested using the Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 23.0. The tests were carried out at a 95% confidence interval and a 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between work re-design and effectiveness of Oil and Gas Firms in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study recommends that


For solving the difficulty in wall rock control of coal roadway with water bursting and broken roof during the process of tunneling,a novel technique is presented and researched.Taking the characteristics of Tuanbai colliery No.10 as the background,such as a big water bursting,a full development of bedding fracture of direct roof,easy fragmentation of roof in the process of tunneling,more structure of collapse columns,destruction of roof integrity,different degrees of destruction of wall rock under the passive support of traditional steel "Ⅰ",and the easiness to occur collapse accidents at faults and collapse column,the leading factors causing the destruction of coal roadway was analyzed by field investigation,sampling,experimental analysis and engineering practice.The control measures of water-bursting and broken surrounding rock were proposed.Then a combined bolt-mesh-anchor control technology that uses waterproof anchorage agent to highly increase pre-stress was put forward,and the design parameters were optimize by FLAC numerical simulation.Through applying the technology to roadway No.10-110(1) and analyzing the monitoring data of coal pressure,it shows that the support effect is good.


Purpose: To present a case series of patients that developed Urrets-Zavalia syndrome (UZS) after deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) for treating keratoconus and discuss the mechanisms for the syndrome. Materials and methods: Retrospective chart analysis of patients who developed UZS after DALK at the Cornea Unit, Hospital São Geraldo, Federal University of Minas Gerais. Results: We present a series of 3 patients with features consistent with UZS, after undergoing DALK. Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) was noted in the early postoperative period in 2 cases, despite the fact that the other case reported eye pain, headache, and nausea at the night after the surgery with undocumented IOP. Although at different extents, the pupil remained atrophic and dilated in all 3 eyes, and 2 of them developed anterior subcapsular cataract. Conclusion: Iris ischemia resulting from occlusion of iris root vessels due to elevated IOP higher than diastolic blood pressure causes UZS. Elevated IOP should be monitored, especially in young patients with low diastolic blood pressure, in order to avoid the occurrence of the syndrome.


Retinal capillary angioma is a tumour‐like nodule of the retina and was first described in 1904 by von Hippel. This disease is characterised among the congenital syndromes known as the phakomatoses. It is the only known phakomatosis that does not exhibit skin lesions.


The Ministry of Justice of Japan (MOJ) submitted a draft for a new legislation on international jurisdiction to the Diet of Japan on 2 March 2010. An English translation of the draft is presented as Appendix 1. The draft is scheduled to amend the Code of Civil Procedure and the Civil Provisional Remedies Act. This article highlights a few of the draft's characteristic provisions. Flexibility seems to have been the main priority of its drafters. To illustrate the background of the reform the article starts with briefly summarizing the case law on international jurisdiction that Japanese courts have developed during the last 40 years. The MOJ Draft of 2010 was preceded by a Working Group Draft published in June 2008 and an interim draft of the Drafting Committee published in July 2009. The MOJ Draft adopted in February 2010 is the result of a selection from several choices for each provision, which also included the choice not to create any black-letter rules on certain issues. Therefore it is important and useful to trace the development of each provision in the preparation process by knowing what options the Working Group Draft had proposed and what was taken in the MOJ Draft. Appendix 2 offers a comparative overview of three Drafts in form of a chart.


The planning of the large-scale airport logistic park contains many aspects, combined the airport logistic and the urban planning two big specialties.The combination of these two specialties is the key factor of the success of the planning on the airport logistic park.Through understanding domestic and foreign correlation logistic theory and the correlation case research,the basic request of the airport logistic park is clear.Through analysis of domestic and international markets, this paper identifies the market positioning of Tianjin Airport Logistic Park.By applying advanced techniques of modern airport logistic,it analyses all key factors, and finally gets the organic combination of airport logistic with urban planning. This case brings some new ideas and attempts for the development of large-scale airport logistic park.


Single-Edge-Notch-Tension, SEN(T), specimens have been found to provide good similitude for surface cracks in pipes, where a surface-cracked structure has lower constraint condition than bend-bars and C(T). The lower constraint condition gives higher upper-shelf toughness values, and also a lower brittle-to-ductile transition temperature. Also, the SENT specimen eliminates concern of material anisotropy since the crack growth direction in the SENT is the same as in a surface-cracked pipe. While the existing recommended and industrial practices for SEN(T) have been developed based on assumption of monomaterial across the crack, their applicability for the evaluation of fracture toughness of heat-affected-zone (HAZ) is evaluated in this paper. When conducting tests on SEN(T) specimens with prescribed notch/crack in the heat-affected-zone (HAZ), the asymmetric deformation around the crack causes the occurrence of a combination of Mode-I (crack opening) and Mode-II (crack in-plane shearing) behavior. The extent of this mode mixity is dependent on the relative difference between the material properties of the adjacent girth weld and pipe base metals, as well as the amount of crack growth in the test. This mode mixity affects the measurement of the crack-tip-opening-displacement (CTOD) and evaluation of fracture mechanics parameter, J. The CTOD-R curve depicts the change in toughness with crack growth, in a manner similar to the J-R curve methodology. Observations also show a mismatch in the length of the crack growth that is measured on the fracture surface, attributable to the material deformation differences across the two adjacent materials (weld and base metals). This paper discusses the experimental observations of Mode-I and Mode-II behavior seen in tests of SEN(T) specimens with notch/crack in the HAZ and as the crack propagates through the weld/HAZ thickness. The paper addresses the issues related to and the changes needed to account for such behavior in the development of recommended practices or standards for SEN(T) testing of weld/HAZ. The effects of mode mixity in HAZ testing is critical to the development of crack growth resistance, CTOD-R and J-R curves employed in Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) of pipelines.© 2014 ASME


This work presents a semi-automated procedure for monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon using a multi-temporal dataset of satellite imagery. Degradation in forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon region is mainly due to selective logging of intact/un-managed forests and to uncontrolled fires. For this study, part of a Landsat TM scene located in the State of Mato Grosso, in the "deforestation arc" of the Brazilian Amazon was selected. Landsat TM images acquired in years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and one RapidEye image acquired in 2013 was used in this study. The proposed approach can be used for monitoring deforestation and forest degradation activities by selective logging and fires. The current availability of high spatial resolution data such as Sentinel-2 is expected to allow improving the assessment of deforestation and forest degradation processes using the proposed method and, consequently, facilitating the implementation of actions of forest protection.


When a nerve trunk is cut or is killed at any point by crushing or other means, all the fibers peripheral to the point of injury undergo degeneration. The time required for the process to reach a given end-point differs, first, for the several kinds of fibers found in the animal body and, second, for varying temperatures. It has long been known that the nerves of warmblooded animals will disintegrate much earlier and with greater rapidity than those of cold-blooded forms. Too little attention, however, has been paid to the governing factor of temperature, with the result that the literature contains numerous conflicting accounts of the histological picture of a degenerating nerve at the end of a particular period of time. In most cases the observations of each of the disagreeing investigators have been correct, the differences resulting from a failure to take into account the variations in temperature to which the nerves have been subjected. This applies primarily, of course, to those experiments carried out on cold-blooded animals. Specific observations on the precise relationship between speed of degeneration and a recorded change in temperature have not been many and for the most part have been rather casual. Monckeberg and Bethe ('99) found that to reach a certain stage in the degeneration process-the formation of ellipses-required somethinglike only a third as long a time in frogs operated on in the summer as in those similarly treated in winter. The same condition could be seen in rabbits even sooner than in the "summer"p frog. Merzbacher ('03) made a comparison of results in the bat when the animal was hibernating and when kept awake. There was a delay in nerve degeneration of several weeks in the hibernating animal, a delay rightly interpreted to be the result of a lower temperature and not a property of hibernation itself. Further experiments by Merzbacher on frogs kept at different temperatures confirmed these results. More recently (Rindovie, '25) the temperature coefficient of degeneration has been calculated and for the interval between 14°C. and 240C. has been VOL. 20, 1934 303


Calculations of the excitation function of 209Bi (α, n)212At, 209Bi (α, 2n)211At and 209Bi (α, 3n)210At reactions have been focussed on alpha induced reaction. Energy ranges of alpha particles were taken into computations as 10 MeV to 70 MeV. The objective of this study is to compare the computed results with the experimental data existing in the literature for each reactions. The calculated 209Bi(α,xn) reaction cross-sections were computed using computer code COMPLET and were then compared with the experimental nuclear reaction data obtained from EXFOR library in the literature. This calculated data was analyzed and interpreted with tabular and graphical descriptions. Good agreement was found between the experimental and theoretical data. The results were briefly discussed within the text of this research work.


Over the last 30 years there have been tremendous advances in CHO cell culture process engineering. Novel process concepts, such as fed batch, perfusion and continuous cultures, evolved from a deep understand of CHO metabolic needs and extensive media/feed formulation development. This knowledge has led to large gains in protein productivity that can be captured with culture duration and/or scale. The biotechnology industry is consistently pressured to reduce cost of manufacturing and improve per batch productivity. Independent, but related to this burden, is the ability to support an ever growing patient population with high doses of therapeutic protein. As such, Biogen partnered with MIT to take a holistic view of the potential future of biomanufacturing to identify technologies that can make step changes in productivity and cost reduction. These efforts have cast doubt that CHO would be the optimal host in the future, whereas a non-mammalian host could be a key to realizing the most significant gains in productivity and reduction in cost of manufacturing.


The survival of 39 patients with stage 1 or 2A Hodgkin's disease was determined actuarially. All received adequate radiotherapy. The 8‐year survival of 16 patients who remained free of disease was determined as 69%. The 13 patients who had relapses, classified as localized, and who received adequate radiotherapy for the relapse had an 8‐year survival of 24%. Ten patients with subsequent generalized relapse, who received palliative treatment, showed an 8‐year survival of 0%. Most relapses occurred in the second and third year after initial radiotherapy. It is concluded that prophylactic irradiation of apparently uninvolved lymph node bearing areas may improve the survival of patients with Hodgkin's disease.


Few layer graphene was synthesized using rice husk ash (RHA) and potassium hydroxide (KOH). This methodology demonstrates the utility of RHA as carbon source for graphene synthesis and as a protective barrier against oxidation of parent rice husk and KOH mixture. Oxidation may occur during synthesis process due to high temperature annealing of RHA and KOH mixture. Electrochemical characterization showed decent capacitance value 86 F·g-1 at 500 mV·s-1. XRD and Raman spectroscopy analysis confirmed the presence of graphitic structure. Transmission electron microscopy visually confirmed presence of few layer graphene. Novelty of this synthesis technique can be described as one-pot, one chemical synthesis technique. Use of natural precursor makes this technique highly cost effective for large scale production.


T he subject, "Psychological Reaction to Trauma," is a study, which, like space, has no definite limitations. Because I must arbitrarily set boundaries, they will be confined to the upper extremities. Trauma may be defined in many ways. It may be described as involving one or more wounds of the extremity. A more comprehensive understanding of such an experience can be given by revealing briefly the reaction of the organic structures to such an insult. Wounds may alter the economy of the body by a combination of local and or general effects. The local changes may include the formation of edema, loss of blood or plasma, and the malfunction of the extremity. The neo-endocrine system, following such a wound, may alter the behavior of the entire body. In addition, the trauma itself may serve as a source of humeral agents. These include the prod-


We consider software-hardware implementation of a digital filter (FIR-filter) using the residue number system and scaling of output samples of each filter channel. It is shown that scaling leads to a significant reduction in instrumental and temporal costs.


Sustainable engineering is very important for logistics systems. Nowadays, sustainable warehouse management is a key factor in market success. Workforce fluctuation and inverting the number of customers' demands make a lot of problems in distribution warehouses. This study addresses a sustainable approach for the workforce scheduling problem recognized in a real distribution warehouse. The problem arises from the high variability of demand for workers over one workday, which causes workforce surplus in some periods of the workday and shortages in others. Engineering managers of the distribution warehouse already use different full-time and part-time shifts, and schedule workers on different activities, but they still have significant workforce surpluses or shortages in some periods. This study proposes the scheduling of activities' execution together with workers to face that variability and decrease the cost of the workforce. This idea comes from the fact that some activities in a distribution warehouse can be done in a specific time period after the need for them occurs. In this way, the variability of demand for workers can be decreased, and a lower workforce cost may be ensured. Based on this idea, the entire problem is modeled as integer linear programming. The real example of the problem is solved, and the proposed model is tested on randomly generated instances of the problem in Python by means of the PuLP linear programming package. The results indicate different positive effects in the manner of sustainable warehouse management: lower workforce costs, time savings, better utilization of all types of resources and equipment, increased employee satisfaction, and so on. For even 61% of instances of the introduced problem, the obtained cost of the workforce is lower by more than 20% if activities' executions are scheduled together with employees.


As an education of local knowledge,local education is closely related to the local culture.It not only focus on imparting knowledge,but also pay attention to personality and world view of the mold,and has great significance to the individual development.However,under the dual impact of foreign culture and urbanization,local education is facing with some plight such as indifference of awareness,low status and lack of teachers.Therefore,in order to find a way for the local education,we need to establish local education status,wake-up local awareness,train local teachers and explore local materials.


The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT) was used as a screening instrument to predict Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) scores of 94 students referred for psychoeducational evaluations. Although the correlation coefficient between the K-BIT IQ Composite and the WISC-III Full Scale IQ was 0.771 for the entire sample, the correlation coefficients and effectiveness of the K-BIT as a screening instrument were found to differ depending on the population. For a potentially learning disabled sample, the K-BIT Composite IQ correlated with the WISC-III Full Scale IQ at 0.51. For a potentially intellectually gifted sample, the K-BIT correlated with the WISC-III at 0.34. The mean K-BIT Composite IQ for the entire referred population was found to be 6.926 points less than the average WISC-III IQ. These findings do not support the use of K-BIT as a screening instrument when the WISC-III is used as the criterion measure of intellectual ability. (Contains six tables.) (Author/SLD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** 00 00 N en O U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office Educational Research and Improvement EDU ATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Concurrent Validity of K-BIT Using the WISC-III as the Criterion Donna L. Seagle Chattanooga State Technical & Community College James 0. Rust Middle Tennessee,State University 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Concurrent Validity of K-BIT Using the WISC-III as the Criterion Abstract The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test was used as a screening instrument to predict Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition scores of 94 referred students. Although the correlation coefficient between the K-BIT IQ Composite and the WISC-III Full Scale IQ was .771 for the entire sample, the correlation coefficients and effectiveness of the K-BIT as a screening instrument were found to differ depending upon the population. For a potentially learning disabled sample, the K-BIT Composite IQ correlated with the WISC-III Full Scale IQ (.51). For a potentially intellectually gifted sample, the K-BIT correlated with the WISC-III (.34). The mean K-BIT Composite IQ for the entire referred population was found to be 6.926 points less than the average WISC-III IQ. The present findings do not support the use of K-BIT as a screening instrument when the WISC-III is used as the criterion measure of intellectual ability. Concurrent Validity of K-BIT Using the WISC-III as the Criterion Introduction Accofding to the 'authors of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT; Kaufman & Kaufman, 1990) the K-BIT was developed as screening. The authors of the K-BIT (Kaufman & Kaufman, 1990) reported correlation studies with normal children ages 6 years to 15 years and adults ages 16 years to 47 years, which support the test's concurrent validity with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R; Wechsler, 1974) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R; Wechsler, 1981). According to theK-BIT manual (Kaufman & Kaufman, 1990), the K-BIT IQ Composite standard score correlated (.80) with the WISC-R Full Scale IQ and (.75) with the WAIS-R Full Scale score. The K-BIT manual reported that the K-BIT IQ Composite standard score has been found to be on the average 6 points less than the WISC-R Full Scale IQ: The Kaufmans have explained that the difference in overall standard scores occurred because of the outdated norms of the WISC-R (Kaufman & Kaufman, 1990). In a recent study by P.N. Prewett (1995) with 50 students referred for academic difficulties, the K-BIT IQ Composite was found to correlate (.78) with the WISC-III Full Scale IQ. Prewett (1995) reported K -BIT IQ Composite scores to be 4.8 points higher than the WISC-III Full Scale


ABSTRACT: An automobile is defined as a vehicle designed for operation on roads and usually has four wheels and a diesel or gasoline internal combustion engine. The objective of this research is to design and fabricate a mechanism so that vehicle will not roll due to the slope of the hill and gravitational pull. While driving on a hill road most of the drivers face the problem of rolling of a vehicle, it may be rolling backward or rolling forward which is termed as roll back and roll front respectively. To overcome such situations driver uses a hand-brake due to which brakes get wear out. The aim of the research is to arrest the motion of axle by using pawl and ratchet mechanism which will be operated electronically without utilizing the brakes. Design and fabrication of mechanism are carried on a prototype.


In this article,select the compatible dyes by testing the compatibilities between every two form those given.Then select dyes those can formulate more color by analyzing the area of each tricolor match in CIE-xy sytem.By using the basic database established by the three dyes chosen,match and remedy the recipes from the samples.The results show that the basic database established is feasible in matching color.


Large scale distributed systems such as cloud computing applications are becoming very common. These applications come with increasing challenges on how to transfer and where to store and compute data. The most prevalent distributed file systems to deal with these challenges is the Hadoop File System (HDFS) which is a variant of the Google File System (GFS). However HDFS has two potential problems. The first one is that it depends on a single name node to manage almost all operations of every data block in the file system. As a result it can be a bottleneck resource and a single point of failure. The second potential problem with HDFS is that it depends on TCP to transfer data. As has been cited in many studies TCP takes many rounds before it can send at the full capacity of the links in the cloud. This results in low link utilization and longer download times. To overcome these problems of HDFS we present a new distributed file system. Our scheme uses a light weight front end server to connect all requests with many name nodes i.e Triple Security.


The paper chooses Jiuyuangou,Yanchuan and Yijun of hills and gully region of Loess Plateau in Shaanxi Province as test areas. We extract channel network and channel network nodes from three areas on the basis of the technique of automated extraction of channel network and channel network nodes from digital elevation model (DEM), then deeply analyse the water accumulation attribute of channel network nodes. With the method of mathematical statistics, we finally obtain two regulations: statistical regulation of average water accumulation with different grade and same resolution of a basin and statistical regulation of average water accumulation with different grade of a basin in each test area. The results can effectively interpret that the formation principle of channel network system and the spatial variance regulation, which can also explain that the mutual relation between development of channel network system and the degree of erosion and incision. At the same time, the research has been validated to be of ideal effect and can be treated as a good prototype to the whole hills and gully region of loess plateau.


Brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has the theoretical potential to protect neurones from axonal degeneration. The objective of this study was to discover whether brain‐derived neurotrophic factor is safe in Guillain–Barré syndrome, and to make preliminary observations of its efficacy. This was a parallel group randomized controlled trial of subcutaneous brain‐derived neurotrophic factor 25 µg/kg daily compared with placebo for up to 24 weeks or until patients could walk without aid.


Plastic surgery procedures provide a proficient and enduring way to enhance the facial appearance by correcting feature anomalies and treating facial skin to get a younger look. When an individual undergoes plastic surgery, the facial features are reconstructed either globally or locally. However, the variations introduced by plastic surgery remain difficult to be modelled by existing face recognition systems and degrade the performances of face recognition algorithm. Therefore Facial plastic surgery changes facial features to large extend and thus creating a major problem to face recognition system This paper proposes a new Multimodal Biometric approach using principle component analysis and local binary pattern feature extraction algorithm cascaded with periocular feature for plastic surgery invariant face recognition. This method capable of extracting shape as well as texture features and improve the recognition rate using periocular biometric. The experiments conducted using non-surgery face database and plastic surgery face database. On the plastic surgery face database and non-surgery face database, the proposed algorithm yields high identification accuracy as compared to existing face recognition system. Keywords— Face Recognition, Local Binary Pattern, Multimodal Biometric, Periocular Biometric, Plastic Surgery, Principal Component Analysis.


The environmentally benign synthesis of ultra-long copper nanowires with successful control of diameter and length for stretchable transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs) is reported. Ultra-long copper nanowires (CuNWs) with an average length of 92.5 μm (maximum length up to 260 μm) and an average diameter of 47 nm were synthesized using environmentally friendly water–alcohol mixtures and L-ascorbic acid as a reducing agent. A facile removal of insulating surface layers, such as organic capping molecules and copper oxide/hydroxide, by short-chain organic acid treatment allowed low contact resistance between the CuNWs without post-reductive treatment at elevated temperatures. The CuNWs were directly spray-coated on glass or polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) at a low processing temperature of 130 °C. The CuNW TCE on a glass substrate exhibited a low sheet resistance of 23.1 Ohm sq−1 and a high optical transmittance of 84.1% at 550 nm. Furthermore, the CuNWs were directly spray-coated on stretchable PDMS, which showed a low sheet resistance of 4.1 Ohm sq−1 and a high optical transmittance of 70% at 550 nm.


Reliability issues have been a major concern for the development of electronic devices, with the rapid evolution of constantly shrinking technologies and the growing demand and emergence of new applications. However, malevolent "controlled" attempts to operate those devices at the "physical limits" or under stringent physical conditions have posed serious security issues for critical applications. With the emergence of new generations of integrated circuits and democratization of critical IoT applications, new challenges have to be met to address those security issues. New approaches have to be sought to address both reliability and security.


The intensity of China's new energy vehicle (NEV) subsidies has gradually declined since 2017 and is expected to end in the next few years, thereby causing market fluctuations and affecting the investment strategies of both local governments and automotive enterprises. In order to examine the effects of a subsidy cancellation, this study introduced it as an external disturbance to establish a differential game model, in which a random arrival process is used to represent the occurrence of a cancellation. The model incorporated both decentralized and centralized modes at the pre- and post-subsidy cancellation stages. A numerical simulation showed that the investments of both parties, the market demand, and the system benefits in both modes would be lower when compared to the scenario in which the subsidy is not canceled, but continued. The performance of the centralized mode was superior to that of the decentralized one, implying that the centralized mode was capable of realizing Pareto optimality. A sensitivity analysis of the model's parameters showed that the timing of the subsidy cancellation would not affect the investment levels of either party in either stage, but losses of market demand and system benefits would occur shortly after the cancellation and continue until stabilizing.


The latest research progress in chitosan sustained release system is introduced, including chitosan derivatives sustained release system,application of chitosan sustained release system in medicine system and adsorption-controlled release compound system. The research on chitosan derivatives sustained release system is introduced in detail, chitosan derivatives sustained release system is divided into six parts, such as chitosan derivatives sustained release microspheres, chitosan nanoparticles, chitosan sustained release tablet, chitosan sustained release microcapsules, chitosan sustained release membrane and chitosan sustained release hydrogel. The chitosan sustained release system has a extensive application prospect in the medicine system as a new technology.


This paper investigated some deterministic models of multidimensional population growth using the Markovian assumption. These models are formulated as initial and boundary problems of simultaneous Von Foerster equations. In particular, if a boundary condition is given by a functional relation between boundary value and age-density functions, the model can be formulated as an initial value problem. The multiregional population model which was first proposed by Herve Le Bras and Andrei Rogers is an important example of models which can be constructed as initial value problems. The authors in this case expand the model into a case where the multiregional net maternity function depends on time. And they manage to prove the existence theorem of the continuous solution in this more general case. Then they show sufficient conditions which make the balanced growth solution possible for the case that the multiregional net maternity function is time-independent. The balanced growth solution (or balanced-growth population) is an exponentially growing population with a time-invariant age-by-region distribution. However, it is remarkable that a balanced-growth population can be defined regardless of whether its time-invariant distribution is stable or not. If a balanced-growth population has a stable time-invariant distribution, it follows that this population process has what we call strong ergodicity. In such a case, the concept of balanced-growth population coincides with the classical concept of stable population. Therefore, the strong ergodic property of population growth is grasped as the stability of the time-invariant distribution under the balanced growth. (author's modified)


The theoretical field pay extensive attention to fault detection and diagnosis(FDD) for navigation system.Methods of FDD for navigation system are summarized at home and abroad.They are based on hardware redundancy method,based on χ2 test method,based on parity space method,based on wavelet transform method,based on neural network method,based on federated filter method and some other methods.Future development trend in this field is discussed.


This thesis contains a detailed study of Syrian activist photography group, Lens Young Dimashqi. LYD's depiction of the Syrian conflict, from 2012 to present, is boosted by the increased connectivity fostered by social media. Using image-based social media site Flickr, LYD provide a rare and unique insight into the country's conflict, particularly in Damascus where the group are based.
The case study provides an opportunity to interrogate the practices of amateur photography in conflict zones, how these practices differ from that of professionals, and the access to potential audiences and networks enabled by Flickr. To further understand this media landscape, this research comparatively examines the professional global digital media company, Getty Images. The research therefore engages in debates about the role of 'citizen as witness', the blurring boundaries between professional and amateur, and the place of social media in news-making.


In this article the effects of unaccounted structural dynamics within the control scheme of a micro-Actuator (mu-A) are presented. The mu-A is composed of a micro-capacitor, whose one plate is clamped while its other flexible's plate motion is constrained by hinges acting as a combination of springs and dashpots. The dynamic model of the mu-A allows both linear and angular movements of the plate. Rather than designing a controller for the augmented system, a simplified robust PID control law for the reduced model is employed. The reduced non linear model (RnM) assumes only linear motion for the mu-capacitor's plate. The RnM is linearized at multiple operating points, and the designed PID-controller, tuned via LMI-theory, stabilizes all linear modes. The overall scheme comprises: a) a feedforward controller which stabilizes the micro-actuator around its nominal operating points, and b) a robust PID controller which handles deviations from the operating points. The resulting overall control scheme is applied to the non linear (bimodal structure) of a mu-A, where simulation results are used to investigate the efficacy of the suggested control architecture


In defining the direction for a new standard, NASA's Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) has started from first principles. This has meant extracting critical objectives that its programs need to undertake a reliable mission and then structuring these objectives to lead mission planning. This back-to-basics approach to examining cross cutting concerns has yielded an objectives hierarchy, which has emerged from NASA reliability expertise, to define critical approaches for achieving high reliability and maintainability (R&M). It embodies the knowledge attained over years of NASA experience; yet, the hierarchy extracts essentials without prescriptive processes that may encumber creativity and effective decision-making. It is meant to lead, not follow, and to enable not encumber. Creating a hierarchy as a basis for assurance implementation is a proven approach that has emerged from the safety case ideals. This approach holds the opportunity to enable new directions in an evolving design framework, in which models will govern optimization to achieve the best designs and prescribed documents will take a back seat. The hierarchy itself may look simple, but it is the drivetrain for achieving the reliability necessary for successful missions. The expectation is that it will be put to use, as the design environment evolves, to enable the right products in a new design environment and to cost effectively achieve key objectives.


In recent years, electric two-wheeled vehicles (E2Ws) including electric bicycles and electric motorcycles have been used widely in Vietnam. Currently, the total number of E2Ws used is 3 million and with an average growth rate of 13.33% an estimated 6 million E2Ws will be used in 2024. E2Ws have been used widely among Vietnam's youth. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) of Ajzen (2005, 2016) [1, 2], the main purpose of this research is to identify factors affecting the attitude to and intention of high school students in Hanoi city towards E2W usage and their affected level. The analytical results show that the attitude towards E2W usage is influenced respectively in descending order by (i) perceptions of economic benefit, (ii) usage convenience, (iii) friendly environmental awareness, (iv) stylish design. Usage intention towards E2Ws is determined respectively in descending order by (i) subjective norm, (ii) attitude toward E2W usage, (iii) the attraction of motorcycles. Based on the research results, some proposals for producers, authorities and policy-makers have been recommended.
Keywords
Electric two-wheeled vehicle, intention, attitude toward E2W usage, perception, emission, battery
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The use of computers is becoming more widespread in education and in the wider Australian community. This communication reports the results of surveys of two cohorts of first year undergraduate students at The University of Western Australia and Deakin University, conducted at the beginning of the 2001 academic year. The surveys confirm that general IT skills among students are increasing, but that the level of skill is variable. This is consistent with a similar survey at Deakin University which was conducted at the beginning of 2000.


Public participation is increasingly viewed as a means to initiate social learning among stakeholders, resource managers, and policy makers rather than to ensure democratic representation. This growing understanding of participatory activities as learning platforms can be seen as a direct response to shifts in how natural resources management is framed, namely as uncertain, non-linear, and interlinked with the human dimensions. Social learning as it is discussed within the natural resources management (NRM) context features a process of collective and communicative learning that is thought to enable stakeholders to arrive at a shared understanding of a specific environmental situation and to develop new solutions as well as ways of acting together in pursuit of a shared ambition. Yet, although case-study research on social-learning processes provides multiple accounts of positive experiences, there are also reports of mistaken learning, the intensification of tensions or conflict, and failure to reach agreement or verifiable consensus. Based on results of a postal survey of stakeholder experiences in two involvement initiatives, we can draw two main conclusions: First, social learning is a multidimensional and dynamic process and, as such, evolves in stages and to various degrees. Second, stakeholder processes are shaped and affected by a multitude of factors that constrain the occurrence of learning processes and eventually limit the extent to which these can contribute to sustainable NRM. Foremost, the fact that the intensity of stakeholder learning differed in the two investigated initiatives reinforces the role organizational arrangements play in encouraging the type of communicative process necessary for stakeholder learning.


The formation of the C–H bond insertion product methylmagnesium hydride (CH3MgH) and the simultaneous emission of atomic triplet magnesium are observed following photoexcitation of the first allowed singlet resonance transition of atomic magnesium isolated in solid methane matrices at 12 K. Isotopic variation of the solid methane hosts produces observable differences in the relative branching ratios into the photophysical (atomic triplet emission) and photochemical (insertion product formation) channels. In solid perdeuteromethane (CD4), the intensity of the atomic emission is approximately five times that in solid methane (CH4) while the rate of formation of the insertion product shows the opposite behavior in the two solids. No singlet atomic magnesium emission is observed in the solid Mg/methane systems and the rise time of the atomic triplet emission is deduced to occur on a time scale of less than 10 ns. A simple model derived from spin and orbital correlations between reactants and products is prese...


In traditional historiography, visual documentation, such as historic drawings and maps, has too often being used to illustrate, and thus to enhance, texts with the addition of photos or old engravings. The possibility of considering the historical value of such graphic documents had been usually ignored. Diagrammatic representations of public works projects (such as sewage or running water systems, pavements, etc.) usually contain not only a confined historical space, but also complement it with the inclusion of literal information, iconographic or architectural images, old and new waterways, contour lines, public facility locations, crop types, protoindustrial installations and literary references to social amenities of the featured spaces. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to show the possibilities open to historical research through the creative utilization, via historical cartography, of a traditional source. The method chosen to show the usefulness and historical potential of old maps and cartograms is to examine a 1754 survey, embedded in a dispute over the closure of a road passing through a mill in the Argentinean city of Mendoza in the middle of the 18th century, and begin weaving historical, social and cadastral information around it. Next, we analyze the map using graphic software (not geo-referencing) to show the different digitization stages involved before finally contextualizing the historical and political processes in which the "reworked" chart had been inserted. The findings of the digitization and computer graphics exploration make available a previously unknown historical plan to the existing cartographic maps of Mendoza. Paradoxically, the 1754 plan turned out to be the first of the real surveys of the city of Mendoza after its founding in 1561. One of the most important contributions of this digitization process is to provide an image of the urban parcels surrounding the historical area where the city had been originally erected. There are no previous images of this zone and the next available survey was completed in 1885. One of our early conclusions is that far from what is usually assumed the "Spanish checkerboard" approach to urban development did not automatically transfer to the territories of American cities founded during the Spanish colonization process.


We have measured the specific heat of poly- and single-crystalline LaPt3Si samples in various magnetic fields. In zero magnetic field, we observed distinct superconducting transitions at Tc ∼ 0.64 K and 0.61 K for the poly- and single crystals, respectively. Temperature T dependences of the specific heat C of both samples around Tc resembled each other and could be well described by an exponential equation for a conventional superconductor at low temperatures. In a magnetic field, a characteristic peak of C/T appeared while the Tc was considerably suppressed. These trends were pronounced for the single crystal. The transition of the polycrystal became broad above 40 Oe and a characteristic tail appeared at temperatures above the peak of C/T. We suggest that the tail is induced by domains that have crystallographic disorders of the non-centrosymmetry and a higher critical magnetic field than that of the bulk. These domains became superconducting at temperatures above the peak of C/T and then formed the tail. Both the poly- and single-crystalline LaPt3Si samples have been found to show characteristics that are in-between those of type-I and type-II superconductors.


The impact of a culturally tailored parenting support for Somali-born parents' and children's mental health : A randomized controlled trial


INDIAN FILMMAKERS AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL: REWRITING THE ENGLISH CANON THROUGH FILM by Angelique Melitta McHodgkins This paper examines Mira Nair's Vanity Fair (2004), Guriner Chadha's Bride and Prejudice (2005), and Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) in order to see how Indian filmmakers represent the nineteenth-century English novel, the West, India, and the Indian film industry to Indian and Western audiences. By taking into account the history of English education and the legacy of England's colonial presence in India, this paper attempts to uncover if, in adapting nineteenth-century English literature, these filmmakers are advocating England's imperialist ideology through their films. INDIAN FILMMAKERS AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL: REWRITING THE ENGLISH CANON THROUGH FILM


Qualitative interview data were used to explore parental separation and coping strategies among newcomer immigrant adolescents. Participants included 58 newcomer immigrant adolescents from 21 countries of origin. Authors used archival data from students enrolled in two public high schools in a large northeastern city in the United States that exclusively serve international students. The qualitative data were collected from an in-depth semi-structured interview. Interviews were analyzed using a directed content analysis approach with Lazarus and Folkman's model of coping as the initial framework to identify key themes. Qualitative analysis explored two themes of coping strategies, emotion-focused and problem-focused; subtheme analysis identified six distinct emotion-focused and four distinct problem-focused strategies. A chi-square test of independence showed no significant difference in use of coping strategies between participants who had been separated from their families compared with those who had not. Findings suggest that the types of coping strategies newcomer immigrant adolescents use may be highly influenced by a multitude of individual and environmental factors. Results support the need for interventions that bolster culturally congruent coping strategies such as social support and activity engagement.


Au/SrTiO{sub 3}/YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7{minus}x} heterostructures have been prepared in situ by pulsed laser deposition onto (100) SrTiO{sub 3} substrates. Electric field controlled devices were patterned by suitable metal masks applied successively during the deposition process. Electrical breakthrough, polarization and relative dielectric permittivity of the SrTiO{sub 3} layer have been studied as a function of the applied electric field. Resistivity, superconducting transition temperature and critical current density of the YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7{minus}x} layer with a thickness of a few unit cells were strongly affected by the electric field. The device parameters response time, transconductance and voltage gain were investigated. The response time was dominated by the RC time constant of the device in agreement with the mechanism of direct charge transfer by the electric field, but the devices did not reveal a real voltage gain over one.


This study assessed credit carbon emission and carbon balance from lumber processing of different size sawmills and its effect on the potential carbon offsetting capacity through wood product useful life. Data were obtained from a regional sawmill survey, public database and relevant publications. Credit carbon balance was statistically analyzed within the gate to gate life cycle inventory framework. Stochastic simulation of carbon emission and its impact on carbon balance and carbon flux from the lumber processing was carried out under different operational scenarios. The results showed that credit carbon balance from electricity consumption was significantly different among sawmills with different production levels and operation hours per week. Variation in carbon emission was also recognized due to different head saws, lighting types, and air compressors used at sawmills. Generated credit carbon balance in significant amount from energy consumption reduced carbon accountability of the lumber in useful life period at first order of decay of carbon. This credit carbon balance would also affect carbon disposition pattern in hardwood sawlogs. Substantial carbon flux occurred due to greater amount of energy consumption and exports of lumber would also reduce carbon accountability of lumber production. Carbon storage accountability of hardwood lumber and carbon flux during processing could be improved by using efficient equipment at sawmill and as well as appropriate mixture of electricity sources.


The invention discloses a video data detecting method based on cloud calculation. The method comprises the steps of: dividing video data into a plurality of sub-data sets, wherein the plurality of sub-data sets include different data; carrying out secondary division on each sub-data set, and dividing each sub-data set into a plurality of secondary sub-data sets; numbering the selected plurality of secondary sub-data sets representing the plurality of sub-data sets, and successively storing the selected plurality of secondary sub-data sets into continuous storage space of a memory according to the numbers; and employing a cloud calculation technology, taking the plurality of secondary sub-data sets from the storage space in sequence, successively detecting the secondary sub-data sets and giving feedback. The video data detecting method based on the cloud calculation is capable of overcoming the defects in the prior art that the reliability is low, the safety is poor, the information encryption difficulty is high, etc; in addition, the advantages of high reliability, good safety and low information encryption difficulty are realized.


Students in higher education institutions require digital literacy and 21st-century skills for their learning activities. Despite the reality of students born into digital technologies that have become increasingly integrated into learning activities, no studies have looked into the situation, particularly study in the context of postgraduate students. This study aims to determine the extent of Master of English Language Education (MELE) students' incorporation of digital literacy and 21st-century skills within their learning activities. This study was carried out using a survey research method. The sample consisted of 34 MELE students from Jakarta State University enrolled in various gap years (2019-2021) in the Master English Language Education department. The data were collected using 24 questionnaire items. The instruments were employed based on the International Society for  Technology in Education (ISTE) Student Standard and disseminated using Google Form. The findings revealed that most MELE students had a high level of digital literacy and 21st-century skills. However, some students marked themselves as having low levels on it. Thus, the researchers recommended that the students enhance their engagement with technology, incorporate 21st-century skills, and develop digital literacy according to today's requirements for completing their learning goals.


In a device for respiratory assistance, the invention provides that the device (10) has a spontaneous vapor permeable ventilator (20), a control device (30), a metering device (40) for pharmaceutically active substances and at least a first measuring device (50). In this case, pharmacodynamic and / or pharmacokinetic data of pharmaceutically active substances and / or compositions in the control device (30) are stored. In the control device (30) Comparative data for various respiratory parameters are stored. In addition, the measuring device (50) is designed such that with the aid of the measuring device (50) one or more respiratory parameters are detected, remains the measuring device (50) or a further measuring device is configured such that with the aid of the measuring instrument, the effective amount of active ingredient an or more is detected from the metering given for pharmaceutical substances. At least between the control device and the measuring device and / or the dosing means is arranged for bidirectional data exchange.


Visceral pain is qualitatively distinct from other pain types; it is poorly localized, difficult to quantify, and accompanied by marked autonomic changes. Acute visceral pain may be an indication of a medical emergency requiring urgent surgical or clinical intervention. However, chronic visceral pain, which contributes significantly to lifelong morbidity, occurs most frequently in the absence of any distinct pathology making it difficult to treat. This article reviews our current understanding of how visceral pain is detected in the periphery, and processed within the spinal cord and central nervous system. It focuses on recent work that has identified pro-nociceptive changes in the bowel of patients with chronic visceral pain and discuss how these findings could lead to the development of novel viscero-specific analgesics. Finally, the article considers how the microbiota can act locally to shape the detection of pain in the periphery and centrally to modulate our perception of visceral pain.


This article analyzes some contents of moral personality,including the research of the status,the research of reasons,and improvement and perfection.Moral personality is a psychological problem,but psychology is the reflection of objective reality.To Solve the moral development of personality crisis,it is essential to reflect on the traditional moral education.Four countermeasures are put forward to improve and perfect the moral personality of university students: adjusting the direction of moral education in schools,optimizing the environment of family education,creating the reasonable and orderly social environment,and strengthening their own moral accomplishment.


Relationships between phytoplankton production and biomass and upper ocean stability and mixing depth were analysed using data obtained on 3 cruises to the Prince Edward Islands. Bloom concentrations of chlorophyll a occurred over a wide range of mixed layer depths, from 20 to 130 m. A relatively low percentage of total biomass variance was accounted for by the degree of vertical stability. Conversely, the dominant source of var~ation responsible for observed differences in the meso-scale distribution of production variables (integrated production rate and photosynthet~c capacity) was strongly related to the vert~cal structure of the water-column. I t is suggested that the h ~ g h levels of freshwater run-off from the islands are retained in the ~nter-island region by an anticyclonic eddy field. This would result in a local increase in vertical stability with consequent enhanced primary production. The continuous upwelling at the Antarctic Divergence results in the Southern Ocean having the highest known nutrient levels for pelagic ecosystems (Sakshaug & Holm-Hansen 1984, Priddle et al. 1986). In spite of the high growth potential which characterizes the local primary producers (Holm-Hansen 1985), the phytoplankton production and biomass range far below the levels expected from the nutrient concentrations. The paradox of oligotrophic, or plankton-poor, nutrient-rich waters requires an examination of the processes limiting phytoplankton production to levels of only a few percent of growth potential. Considerable attention has recently been given to the distribution of water temperature, incident radiation and nutrients in the Southern Ocean (Holm-Hansen et al. 1977, Jacques 1983, LeJehan & Treguer 1983, Tilzer et al. 1985, Tilzer & Dubinsky 1987). However, the distribution of these features over large areas is too uniform for them to explain the spatial distribution of phytoplankton production and biomass at all scales (Fogg 1977, Holm-Hansen et al. 1977, Sakshaug & O Inter-Research/Printed in F R. Germany Holm-Hansen 1984). In particular, it has been suggested that the smalland meso-scale dynamics of phytoplankton productivity in the Southern Ocean may be regulated by the physical structure of the watercolumn and by the grazing pressure of herbivorous zooplankton (Hasle 1969, El Sayed 1984, Priddle et al. 1986). Using data collected on 3 occasions in the vicinity of the Prince Edward Islands (47"S, 38" E; Fig. l ) , we examine the relationship between phytoplankton production and biomass and upper ocean stability and mixing depth. Eighty-three stations were occupied in the area by SA 'Agulhas': 15 stations in April/May 1982, 26 in April/May 1983 and 42 in April/May 1987 (Fig. 2). At each station casts were made using a Neil Brown Mk I11 conductivity-temperature-depth probe (CTD) and discrete measurements of chlorophyll a concentration were obtained by the spectrophotometric method (SCOFUUNESCO 1966). At 42 stations integrated primary production rates, where P,,, = maximum potential photosynthetic rate and z o , ~ = 10 % light depth, were estimated by onboard incubation (Gargas et al. 1976, Allanson et al. 1981). Sixteen incubation flasks were inoculated with a solution of 4 pCi NaH14C03/100 ml. This series was incubated for 4 h under a light regime set up by a n array of neutral density filters with transmission values of 50, 25, 15, 10 and 5 % of the incident light. Two bottles were exposed to 100 % of the incident light flux from the bank of Phillips Daylight fluorescent tubes and a tin foil backing was used to increase the light to 150 % for another 2 bottles. The last 2 bottles were wrapped in tin 206 Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser 60: 205-209, 1990 8: S O U T H E R N ..f) . . A F R I C A : >: ' E D W A R D IS. C R O Z E T I S . ..-..A D B O U V E T IS.... Fig. 1. Position of the Prince Edward Islands and of the main frontal systems south of Afr~ca (redrawn after Lutleharms 1985 and ~ o i m a n n 1985). STC: ~ub t ro~ ica l ~onvehence ; APF: Antarctic Polar Front; AD: Antarctic Divergence foil to determine the amount of 14C taken up by passive diffusion and which had absorbed onto the surfaces of the phytoplankton. Phytoplankton photosynthetic capacity, pmB, was calculated by normalizing the maximum potential photosynthetic rate to chlorophyll a concentration (Platt et al. 1980). The depth of the surface mixed layer was assumed to be where a pycnocline of 0.03 kg m-3 occurred within 10 m (Priddle et al. 1986). Vertical stability was estimated for the upper 100 m of the water column using the stability para-


The theme of my work is Home blood pressure monitoring in elderly hypertonic patients. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part presents information about blood pressure and its measurement, hypertension and especially about home blood pressure monitoring. The practical part includes the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in the elderly hypertensive patients. The results are evaluated and processed using tables and graphs with comments.


Teachers usually have problems to find games properly designed to teach their subjects since the ones included in textbooks are not fun enough to catch the students' attention. They would like those games to be as fun as the ones which students play at home. The main problem is that designing an educational game is complex and people with different goals are involved. In order to allow teachers to participate in the educational video games design process more easily, we here present an approach with which teachers are able to describe the contents they want to include in the game. This educational contents organization eases the latter design of video games' challenges and allows relating both levels in order to obtain an approximate mark of the learning achieved.


Novel polybenzobisazoles containing benzothiazole pendent groups were prepared by the reaction of 2-benzothiazole or 2,5-dibenzothiazole terephthalic acids with the appropriate aminomercapto, aminohydroxy or tetraamino -nonomers in poly phosphoric acid at elevated temperatures. The polymerizations were carried out at concentrations (10-18%) which would promote anisotropic reaction mixtures. Intrinsic viscosities in the range of 4-19 dl/g were measured in methanesulfonic acid at 30°C. Thermogravimetric-mass spectral analysis in vacuo showed that the pendent benzothia zole group was the initial product of thermal degradation, maximizing at 590°C. Anisotropic polymerization mixtures could be wet-spun into fibres with modulus values between 25-30 Msi and tenacity values up to 350 Ksi.


In a judgment, the Court of First Instance in Rome establishes shared custody of the family pet in in the aftermath of an extra-marital cohabitation cessation and consequent partners' disagreement on the issue.  The Court indicates rules of conduct for pet custody and maintenance.  Court's decision grounds on the analogical application of the norms about custody of children and on the evaluation of the material, spiritual ad affective interest of the pet. The author highlights the remarkable court's attempt in overcoming the traditional concept of pets conceived as res and, starting from this decision, indicates which perspectives the law can follow in this respect.


In 2009, the Lancet/UCL Commission for Global Health, a collaboration between The Lancet medical journal and University College London, UK, reported that climate change's threat to human health is so great that it could overturn the last 50 years of development and public health gains worldwide.1 No one is immune from the health impacts of climate change. Rising temperatures and air pollution will contribute to heat stress and respiratory diseases. In coastal cities, extreme flooding and sea level rise will contribute to illness from waterborne bacteria. In the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast, extreme weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes will lead to loss of life and housing. When we look beyond our own borders, we see the health impacts of climate change are felt more acutely in lowand middle-income countries. Whether it is heat-related death, respiratory disease, the spread of malaria, dengue fever, cholera and diarrhea or the prospect of millions of people displaced by storms or flooding, climate change is no longer an ambiguous environmental problem in the distant future.2, 3 We now are recognizing that climate change is the meta-driver of global public health. But acknowledgement is not enough — the path forward requires commitment and action at all levels of society. The first step is to recognize the obligation to protect one another from climate change. We are in this together, linked as one human family. In Laudato Si', Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment and human ecology, he appeals to our moral obligation to protect the most vulnerable among us.4 The Pope calls on people of faith to act from a recognition that protecting the Earth is a central expression of our love of God and creation. His appeal, not only to Catholics but also to everyone, is that by addressing climate change, we can begin to address the underlying social and economic inequalities throughout society. Taking climate action also is being recognized as a health issue. When President Barack Obama announced his administration's Clean Power Plan in 2015, he framed it by highlighting the asthma cases and health care costs that will be avoided.5 During the international climate talks in Paris, more than 1,700 health organizations, 8,200 hospitals and health facilities and 13 million health professionals called on governments to reach a he 2015 Paris climate treaty marked a critical moment in which world governments agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, signaling the need to end reliance on fossil fuels in order to continue life on planet Earth. Climate change has come home, but not only as an environmental issue. It is recognized as affecting the health of billions of people. How Health Care Can Lead The Way on Renewable Energy


Based on the analysis of connotation and significance of evaluation for land ecosystem,this paper reviews researches on evaluation for land ecosystem and advances on evaluation criteria.Furthermore,it sums up ways of value accounting.In the last,it expounds shortcomings of study at present.


This paper describes a case study examining the implementation of new product development and introduction theory in a small company. The study is based on the adaptation of modern techniques to suit the company in question. Five major activities are identified and company performance is assessed. Attitudes and perceptions within the company are also examined and recommendations for further work made. The current work is supported by a Teaching Company Scheme and Sirius Analytical Instruments Ltd. with the collaboration of Kingston University.