DE BORTOLI, M. E. –Influence of the urban environment on wind loads on buildings. Dissertação de Doutorado – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 2005. In this research work a methodology to determine loads on tall structures located in urban centres is proposed. The proposal is based in wind tunnel tests and considers a random distribution of the surface environment. As this study deals with the determination of wind loads on structures located in urban centres, firstly the background wind velocity field, characterized by a suburban terrain, which is defined by the Brazilian code of practice NBR/6123 as a terrain of Category IV, had to be reproduced. Thereafter, the near environment of the model under study was added. In order to take into account the variations of loads caused by the random environment, the structures that shape it were dimensioned using the Monte Carlo technique. A procedure to reproduce the surface neighbouring in central areas of large cities considering the random nature of both size and distribution of buildings is presented. This procedure allows simulating either random fields or processes, in this case the neighbouring, which is defined as a three-dimensional random field, in terms of both its probability density and its spectral density. The structure of the lower part of the urban boundary layer was studied by means of measurements at different heights of both fluctuating and mean velocities, turbulence intensity, integral macroscale and time scale of turbulence, and spectra of the longitudinal fluctuating velocity component. It is widely accepted in the literature that verifying that the Reynold stresses increases with height is sufficient to prove the existence of the rough sublayer in a boundary layer over rough surface. As in this work Reynolds stresses were not measured, it was possible to distinguish the presence of a roughness surface through measurements and comparisons of mean velocities and statistical values of the longitudinal fluctuating component of the mean flow at different heights. It was verified that the velocity field in an urban centre is clearly three-dimensional and that the direction of the background wind has influence on the velocity field. Furthermore, a power spectrum for the dynamic analysis of tall buildings exposed to wind in urban environments is suggested as well as guidelines regarding the variation of both the velocity and turbulence intensity of the longitudinal component of the turbulence. Loads over two models were studied in order to analyse the reliability of the loads suggested by codes of Argentina e Brasilero. The models had different heights and loads were measured with the models isolated and in six situations of different rough urban environments. The loads that were measured were longitudinal-to-the-mean-flow and transversal-to-themean-flow bending and torsion moments. With these results it was possible to assess the differences with regard to loads suggested by the code NBR 6123 and CIRSOC 102 and the variations appearing when changing the surface roughness.


Objective: To know the composition and influential factors of aplastic anemia patients with urban basic medical insurance in Guangzhou.Methods: Collecting relevant data of aplastic anemia patients with urban basic medical insurance in Guangzhou from October 2008 to June 2010,by using the descriptive statistics,correlation analysis,rank sum test and multivariate linear regression.Results: The average hospitalization cost per person was 6 921 yuan,including 2 779 yuan that the individual pays and 4 021 yuan which the whole fund pays.The ratio of drugs cost was 34%,which was in great proportion of the whole hospitalization cost.The major influencing factors were the length of stay,the proportion of reimbursement,hospital rank,age,gender and the ratio of drug cost.Conclusion: The length of stay should be shortened,the proportion of reimbursement be adjusted,and the drugs of aplastic anemia be put into the medical insurance catalogue,so as to lighten the aplastic anemia patients' financial burden.


Sediment core samples have widely been used to reconstruct paleoenvironments by applying bulk isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen contained as well as molecular isotope analysis of lipid biomarkers preserved in sediments. On the other hand, applications of compoundspecific isotope analysis of amino acids (CSIA-AA) are still in the stage of development for sediment samples, and we expect that the CSIA-AA can provide information of nitrogen cycle in paleoenvironments. However, because amino acids are high bioavailable organic compounds in biosphere, the isotopic compositions (e.g., δN) of them could be easily and rapidly altered during diagenesis (i.e., degradation), recycle, and re-production in sediments. Therefore, knowing alteration of the isotopic compositions in sediments is essential to apply the CSIA-AA in geochemical studies. So far, although several parameters such as DI (using concentration of AAs, Dauwe et al., 1999) and ∑V (using the δN values of trophic AAs, McCarthy et al., 2007) were used to see the microbial degradation in sediments, the linkage between molar and isotopic compositions is still unclear. In this study, based on CSIA-AA, we suggest a new microbial degradation index to assess microbial alteration in marine sediments.


Put forward in the optimization design of car body welding jig,use genetic algorithm to optimize.And use the genetic tool box of the large-scaled engineering calculation software MATLAB to solve problem.It was show that the genetic algorithm has better application prospect in the optimization of car body welding jig.


Protocorm like bodies were used as planting materials. PLBs were cut into slices and placed on the medium for callus initiated. Callus was initiated on the medium MS + CW (30%) + 2.4D (0.5 mg/l). Callus proliferates on the medium MS + CW (10%) supplemented with NAA (0.5 mg/l) + 2.4D (0.1 mg/l). Callus was regenerated on the medium MS + (10%) supplemented with + NAA (0.1 mg/l) + BA (0.1 mg/l). Somatic cell suspension was initiated on MS + 2.4D (0.5 mg/l) and proliferated on the medium MS + CW (10%) supplemented was NAA (0.5 mg/l) + 2.4D (0.1 mg/l). Somatic cell suspension was differentiated to embryogenic cell suspension on the medium MS +  CW (10%) supplemented with NAA (0.1 mg/l) + BA (0.1 mg/l). Embryogenic cell suspension was plating and regeneration on the medium MS + CW (10%) + NAA (0.1 mg/l) + BA (0.1 mg/l).


Active support for self-management is ranked number one by the King's Fund in the top ten priorities for commissioners, and yet it is arguably the area where there is least guidance. Last month, the Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company (EPP CIC) hosted a seminar to explore how commissioners and health professionals can engage with self-management, presenting examples of innovative practice from around the country. Keynote speaker Sir John Oldham, National Clinical Lead for Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP), Long-term Conditions (LTC) and Urgent Care at the Department of Health, reiterated the three key drivers that QIPP teams are seeking to put in place; risk stratification, providing an integrated care team, and moving rom a biomedical model to a socio-medical model; and maximizing the number of patients who selfmanage. He acknowledged the challenge this presents and the behaviour change it requires, and advocated stepping up training the trainers, so that frontline clinicians engage with shared decision making. A worked example of how to make this a reality on the ground was presented by Rachel Martin, Assistant Director QIPP Delivery, LTC and Self Care, NHS Oxfordshire. Rachel shared some of the learning from a radical rethink of services in NHS Oxfordshire, where they have been working with EPP CIC and other partners to evolve a strategy for meeting local health needs in a cost-effective, sustainable way. Patient and clinician training courses have been commissioned from EPP CIC, with carers courses being provided by local groups, and In Touch with Health providing a self-care plan to work with, in a move towards integrated care. NHS Oxfordshire has also piloted a telehealth scheme, upgraded its risk profiling tools and worked with condition-specific teams to effect a major transformation in health services. Chief Executive Renata Drinkwater explained the development of EPP CIC's Self-Management for Life model, which Oxfordshire piloted and has now adopted. SelfManagement for Life is an integrated approach which trains both patients and clinicians in self-management techniques, along with service and care pathway redesign. The Choosing Self-Management for Life programme for patients builds on lessons learnt and feedback received from Stanford's Chronic Disease Self-Management Course and offers a less scripted, more facilitative seven-session programme designed to encourage participants to remain active self-managers for longer, with support from trained health professionals. Supporting Self-Management for Life is a CPD-accredited, three-session programme for health professionals, designed to build on existing skills to ensure self-management is actively supported. Delivered by trained facilitators with experience of living with a long-term condition, it explores the journey of a patient living with a LTC and how to identify a patient's motivational levers to change. It focuses on honing the skills which help to establish a collaborative partnership with the patient, motivating and encouraging change, and increasing the potential for improved clinical and quality of life outcomes. The seminar concluded with a lively panel debate on how to demonstrate the economic benefits of working with patients, in which Amanda Cheesley, LTC Advisor at the Royal College of Nursing, highlighted the significant part nurses can play in supporting the commissioning framework and showing value. She stressed the importance of the nursing community keeping robust data where interventions have made an impact on quality of patient care and outcomes. Other contributors at the event included Angela Coulter, Director of Global Initiatives at the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making; Dr Stephen Gaduzo, Respiratory Clinical Pathway Lead, North West Strategic Health Authority; and Diane Home, Consultant Nurse Rheumatology. Video excerpts from the conference along with speaker presentations are available online at www.expertpatients.co.uk. BJCN


The cladding modes are very important parameters to analyze and synthesize the optical fiber. The dispersion relation to obtain the cladding modes is more complicate than the one for the core mode with a two layer fiber problem because the dispersion relation for the cladding modes is a three layer fiber problem. In this paper, we derive the dispersion relation for the cladding mode proposed by Erdogan and show the simulation results.


The author discusses the vicissitudes of working analytically with patients who present with monolithic forms of thinking. He describes an approach that emphasizes the importance of the analyst as a real object that has at first to be explored to discover whether or not what is projected corresponds to the analyst's mind. This exploration of the other often confronts the analyst with their own issues surrounding sanity and madness, life and death; it is through this exploration of these real anxieties in the mind of the object that can lead to the beginnings of thinking in severely ill patients.


U.S. agriculture appears to be passing into a new era marked by both greater risk and potentially greater rewards. Pending legislation would lower the government safety net that for decades has supported farm incomes and reduced the risk of farming. If signed into law by the President, the new farm bill would phase down government payments to farmers over the next seven years, but in exchange would give farmers more flexibility to plant the crops that take best advantage of market opportunities. That switch in policy will occur just as the industry faces the brightest prospects in world commodity markets in decades. U.S. crop prices closed out 1995 at the highest levels in years, in part due to a surge in U.S. agricultural exports.> The year just past set the stage for the new period ahead. The farm legislation crafted by Congress in 1995 would mark a watershed in farm policy, leading farmers to rethink what they produce and creating potentially big shifts in farm production across the nation. Another major development in 1995 was a shortfall in U.S. crop production. With stocks already low when 1995 began, the year's crops were crucial in determining whether grain stocks would be restored to the ample levels that have prevailed through most of the 1990s. In the end, the shortfall in production appears to have created tight market conditions that now might hold for an extended period. U.S. farm income was unchanged in 1995, as rising grain prices were offset by another year of losses in the livestock industry.> Drabenstott examines the developments in agriculture in 1995 and the outlook for 1996. U.S. agriculture should have a better year in 1996, although poor livestock profits will restrain gains in income. In the longer run, agriculture's outlook will be driven by the major developments of 1995, a new course for agricultural policy and a bullish turn in world food markets.


Gene therapy - historical overview and public oversight. Vectorology: adenoviruses as vectors for human gene therapy adeno-associated virus cationic lipids for lung gene therapy. Use of gene therapy to study lung diseases: use of gene transfer tostudy lung cytokine biology use of gene therapy to study lung infection and immunity use of in vivo gene transfer to study pulmonary fibrosis. Use of Gene theraphy to treat lung diseases: gene therapy for lung cancer gene therapy for malignantmesothelioma strategies for gene therapy of cystic fibrosis.


This article examines Favorinus' Corinthian Oration, which functions as the orator's defense of an honorific statue that had been set up in Corinth and subsequently taken down by the Corinthians. Favorinus defends his statue as a stand-in for his authority and honor. Favorinus presents himself as a true model of Hellenic transformation mediated by Greek paideia, but the oration also performs a countermovement in which traditional forms of honor and patronage, embodied in the physical object of an honorific statue, are rendered transient and vulnerable and contrasted with the honor of speech and performance, which can never be desecrated.


Background:  Resistin, an adipose‐derived polypeptide hormone, has been proposed to be a candidate in insulin resistance, although its role in humans remains controversial. Liver cirrhosis (LC) is characterized by an elevated number of circulating proinflammatory cytokines, hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance. The aim of this study was to determine the plasma resistin levels in patients with LC.


Objective: The purpose of this research was to examine the moderating effect of children's negative emotionality on the relationship between maternal...


An interferometric performance analysis for repeat-pass geosynchronous circular SAR (GEOCSAR) is presented. The analysis mainly includes the errors caused by the following sources: radar thermal noise, spatial baseline decorrelation, images' misregistration and the atmospheric effects. For circular SAR (CSAR) imaging on the geosynchronous orbit, the altitude is very high, the atmospheric effect is severe and the high sidelobe is existed in the focused GEOCSAR signal, the characteristics of the various error sources of GEOCSAR interferometry will behave differently from the conventional interferometric SAR.


ai1,...,idX (1) i1 · · ·X (d) id generated by symmetric random variables X (1) i1 , ..., X (d) id with logarithmically concave tails. The estimates of the first kind are generalizations of bounds obtained by Arcones and Giné for Gaussian chaoses. They are exact up to constants depending only on the order d. Unfortunately, suprema of empirical processes are involved. The second kind estimates are based on comparison between moments of S and moments of some related Rademacher chaoses. The estimates for pth moment are exact up to a factor (max (1, ln p)) 2 .


The purpose of this study was to compare two teaching methods: Method One (control), a conventional lecture textbook method; and Method Two (experimental), one based on current event readings with lectures and class discussions. This study was also designed to show any discoverable improvement in students' understanding in junior college economics attributable to the teaching method and whether such learning is influenced by the personality dimensions of the teachers or students, students' age, sex, high school grade point average, previous economic education, interest or lack of interest in economics, the course being required or elected, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score in math, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score in verbal skills, combined math and verbal SAT scores, or major course of study.


The purpose of this study was to compare the results of 7 commonly used indirect VO2max tests to those of a direct VO2max test in a constant subject group. Thirty subjects (15 men, 15 women) that were 18 to 35 years old participated in the study. All subjects performed the following tests in ran- dom order: direct VO2max treadmill test; max Bruce and 85% Bruce treadmill tests; Astrand-Ryhming and heart rate ex- trapolation cycle ergometer (CE) tests; Leger shuttle run; 1.5- m run; and the Canadian Aerobic Fitness Test (CAFT) step test. Within subjects, there were no significant differences between the predicted VO2max values and the direct VO2max values obtained (p # 0.05). For the women studied, all pre- dictive tests except for the CAFT had a validity coefficient of 0.80 or greater to the direct VO2max test. For this reason, the present study found 6 of the 7 predictive tests to be valid for women 18 to 35 years old. Despite errors of ,10% in all predictive tests except for the CAFT, validity coefficients were low for the data from the men's group, rendering it inconclusive. Overall, for testing women, the maximal Bruce treadmill test and the Astrand-Ryhming CE test were found to produce the least amount of error with the highest validity coefficient.


In this paper, variance risk premium and its term structure are estimated. The riskneutral variance is extracted from option prices using model-free methodology, and the physical variance is estimated using different GARCH models. The term structure of variance and variance risk premium are specified and the monotonicity of variance term structure curves are analysed. To model daily varying variance term structure curves, I propose a time-varying GARCH model to capture the stylized non-monotonicity by incorporating important macroeconomic news into classical GARCH model. Additionally, I investigate the predictability of equity risk premium with different terms via panel data regression on both VIX term structure data and variance risk premium term structure data. I confirm the prediction power of variance risk premium term structure on excess return term structure. A strong term structure leverage effect of VIX on excess return is also observed. JEL classification: G12, G13.


FIELD: radio engineering, communication. SUBSTANCE: transmitter includes multiple transmitting antennae; a conversion unit configured to generate multiple signal sequences corresponding to a predefined frequency bandwidth from one or more transmission streams associated with any of the transmitting antennae; a precoding unit configured to set the weight the signal sequences using a precoding matrix selected from a code module including multiple predefined precoding matrices; and a transmitting unit configured to convert an output signal from the precoding unit into a number of signals corresponding to the number of transmitting antennae and transmit the converted signals from the transmitting antennae. The precoding unit applies different precoding matrices to different signal sequences, and the relationship between the different precoding matrices and the different signal sequences is determined through open-loop control which is independent of feedback from a receiver. EFFECT: high capacity. 24 cl, 18 dwg


This paper addresses the new method for output voltage regulation of DC–DC buck converter nonlinear systems by a sampled-data linear parameter varying (LPV) controller. For this purpose, an output-error state-space affine LPV model is presented for DC–DC buck converter nonlinear systems. The sampled-data structure of the controller is considered as a time delay in the input, and stabilization conditions are obtained for LPV systems with affine dependence on the parameter by using a parameter-dependent Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. Then, the design condition of the sampled-data LPV controller with an appropriate sampling period is derived to guarantee that the output voltage of the DC–DC buck converter can be adjusted to the desired voltage. Finally, simulation results are provided to show the validity of the presented approach in practical control applications where there are limitations on the value of the sampling period and the cost of the digital implementation.


A characteristic of the evolution of manufacturing processes in recent years is the expansion of technologies based on additive manufacturing, especially in the case of parts made of plastic materials. One of the accessible processes for making plastic parts is fused filament fabrication. In many situations, when using fused filament fabrication, it is necessary to obtain surfaces characterized by certain values of roughness parameters. Several factors can influence surface roughness. Some of these factors consider the materialization conditions of the 3D printing process. Starting from the hypothesis that the cooling conditions and the surface position can influence the roughness parameters values, experimental tests were carried out by modifying the values of the two factors. The experimental results were mathematically processed, and power function type mathematical models were determined for the roughness parameters Rz, Rt, Rp, Ra, Rq, Rc. These models provide information on the direction of action, the intensity of the influence exerted by the cooling conditions, and the angle of inclination of the test sample surface on the values of the mentioned roughness parameters.


In this paper, we consider the problem of test environment generation for functional register-transfer level (RTL) circuits using an assignment decision diagram (ADD). For the test environment generation method using ADDs, Ghosh et al. [10] and Zhang et al. [11] previously proposed symbolic processing based algorithms which utilize a set of nine-valued and ten-valued algebras, respectively, to perform symbolic justification and propagation of test environment objectives. However, it is known that there are many cases that their methods fail to generate a test environment even if it exists. This paper presents a new method for test environment generation with enhanced symbolic processing (justification and propagation) rules in order to generate more test environments than previous methods.


F ONE ISSUE VEXES ADVOCATES OF POSTMODERNIST THOUGHT MORE THAN any other today, it may be the increasingly apparent susceptibility of that thought to co-optation by the rationalized corporate forces it was largely intended to oppose. Deleuze and Guattari once championed a schizophrenic ''body without organs'' to unleash institutionally quashed, potentially revolutionary desires, but the type of subjectivity they imagined seems most readily available to us today when channel or Web surfing. Jean Baudrillard once celebrated simulacra for their ability to undermine the ''Real,'' on which all rational authority is founded, but our total immersion in simulations has clearly only abetted the eminently rational corporations that shovel them out to us. And Jean-Francois Lyotard once advocated a respect for ''differends,'' or irreconcilable clashes between various cultural/ personal/political perspectives, but the fact that ''agreeing to disagree'' is now de rigeur on countless talk shows and news panels has hardly impeded the concentration of the world's wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Those of us who felt, in recent decades, the allure of postmodernist thought as a progressive political tool—who sensed in it a successor for a deeply indicted Marxism—must ask ourselves how what we thought was so inviolably ours seems to be turning more and more each year into something of theirs. We must ask ourselves what happened that such recent commentators as David Hawkes can claim, without sounding particularly hysterical, that postmodernist thought is actually ''nothing more than the ideology of consumer capitalism'' (12).


Designing forged gears with constrained involute tooth profile is a time-consuming activity with high costs due to the complexity in the plastic deformation, machine limitations, and trial-error iterative methods used to design dies and develop process conditions. Recently, knowledge-based systems are proving to be a powerful tool and a great potential for developing intelligent design support systems to improve quality of products and reduce costs by eliminating or minimizing many of the trail-error iterations involved in process design. This paper describes research work in developing a knowledge-based gear design and manufacturing system that assists des igners to reduce the time needed to design precision forged solid gears and provide detailed process specification along with the required process model implemented in it. The system integrates knowledge about all aspects of gear design and manufacturing and provides powerful reasoning and decision-making capabilities for reducing the time between detailed design and final production. Once the user specifies the basic design requirements, the system automatically carries out geometric calculations and strength analysis according to American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) standards, power rating and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) based techniques. With a successful power rating achieved, the system automatically feeds input parameters into the GEARFORGING program and carries out process planning for the gear forging process. Estimation of the number of preforming stages required, generation of detail die drawings, geometric parameters, and estimation of forging load and energy requirements of the process are calculated based on available material design databases, knowledge-based rules and feature-level calculations. The system generates the whole forging process from the billet to the final gear product. The results have been compared with those available in the current literature and good agreement has been demonstrated.Copyright © 2002 by ASME


The importance of critical thinking in training preservice and postservice speech-language pathologists (SLPs) is increasingly acknowledged in the collected works of communication sciences and diso...


Forgery activity in legal handwritten documents is an identifiable problem. Falsification of document due to minute alteration of existings not only causes immense financial loss to a person or to any organization but also lessens the economic growth of a country. Here, we introduce and present a solution to detect forgery in handwritten documents by analyzing perceptually similar ink of different pens. The research is all about forensic investigation of handwritten word alteration which is performed by adding extra letter in a way such that the whole meaning of the word changes. The problem is formulated as binary classification problem. If words of the corresponding document are written by same pen, these are classified as positive class and words of a document accompanied with little inclusion of letters as a forgery attack, are classified as negative class. The article proposes Multilayer Perceptron classifier which has been adopted to classify data instances that have been computed by extracting Y CbCr color-based statistical features. This proposal has been tested on data set which has been generated by 10 blue and 10 black ball point pens. The respective obtained average accuracy is 83.71% and 78. 18% for blue pen data and black pen data.


..................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 4 Methods and materials ............................................................................................................... 7 Subjects ................................................................................................................................... 7 Experimental protocol ............................................................................................................ 7 Double poling ergometer ........................................................................................................ 8 Physiological measurements ................................................................................................... 9 NIRS-measurements ............................................................................................................... 9 Data analysis ......................................................................................................................... 10 Statistics ................................................................................................................................ 10 Results ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Physiological responses ........................................................................................................ 11 Group response ..................................................................................................................... 11 Discussion ................................................................................................................................ 15 References ................................................................................................................................ 20


Dihydro epiandrosterone and / or dehydroepiandrosterone - sulfate, or the first active substance selected from a salt thereof, comprising a second active agent comprising anticholinergic bronchodilators, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or other pharmaceutical or veterinary composition for the treatment of respiratory diseases. The composition is provided in the form of various formulations, and kits. Product according to the patent, is applied as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or other respiratory diseases.


The reason of feeling anxious for middle school students in the study of math lies mainly on knowledge,concept,skills and abilities;experience of recognition and family,teacher and learners;the experience of motion.The approaches to improve the students in the study of math are:to help students analyze the cause of feeling anxious and use technical hints and encourage cooperative study,etc.


Catalytic antibody variants with κ and λ light-chain constant domains show differences in their crystal structures which lead to subtle changes in catalytic efficiency and thermodynamic parameters as well as in their affinity for peptide substrates.


Anthropomorphism is the belief that brands can possess human characteristics, which raises a tendency to assign human traits to inanimate objects. It is on this premise that Brand Personality takes its roots.  Several studies in the measurement and influence of Brand Personality abound leading to increasing arguments on the most appropriate methods to be used to measure Brand Personality.  However, Aaker's methodology stands out prominently in the Brand Personality domain.  This study attempts to review the Brand Personality literature to identify the extent that this methodology has been used.  The objectives of this study are to identify the scope and limitation of Aaker's (1997) Brand Personality construct, identify the literature on Brand Personality and identify the use of Aaker's (1997) methodology in scale development. Using a qualitative design, consecutive sampling was used to analyze the identified literature on Brand Personality. The resulting data was analyzed using frequency and pictorial analysis and several tables presenting the review of the literature were developed.


The purpose of this study is to explained the process of implementing the " LiTTaQWa " method as a means of habituating reading and writing the Quran at SDIT Nur Hidayah Surakarta. The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with a case study research design. This research was conducted at SDIT Nur Hidayah Suarakarta, the object of research was all students at SDIT Nur Hidayah Surakarta. The technique used in this study was observation, interviews, and documentation. The technique of checking the validity of the data uses triangulation techniques and source triangulation. Data analysis techniques using interactive techniques (direct). The results of this study indicate that teachers responded positively to the application of the "Littaqwa" method at SD Hidayat Nur Hidayah; the implementation of the "Littaqwa" method is carried out with a group system, using classical methods with teachers, independent classics and one-on-one classics. The application of this method starts from the planning, implementation, and evaluation stages.


The first aim of our work consists in synthesizing Ultra High Temperature HfB2/SiC ceramics, used as structural materials in aeronautic and aerospace areas, by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS). This process is used to obtain fully dense materials (>99% relative density) with fine grains, at lower sintering temperature and shorter dwell time than conventional techniques. Sintered materials are then oxidized in a solar furnace and characterized in order to better understand the oxidation mechanisms.


Purpose
The purpose of this case study is to chronicle a remarkable business turnaround in the banking sector of Oman.

Design/methodology/approach
A narrative of the rapid transformation of a laggard bank into Oman's second largest bank is presented and analyzed.

Findings
The momentum for change was initiated and sustained through the leadership's willingness to take big risks and use massive challenges as opportunities to kindle team spirit and solidify a new, winning attitude among the staff.

Practical implications
The bank focused on offering frictionless, low-risk, incremental value at scale. That's the digital era performance requirement. For example, it introduced a highly successful no-frills credit card marketed as a fast-to-approve and easy-to-use alternative.

Originality/value
The case provides a rare glimpse into management practices in middle eastern banking sector.


We report a fiber-to-the-desk system using carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) and a remote repeater. The CSMA/CD is performed at the repeater to enable high channel efficiency and low-cost implementation of optical LAN.


We have developed an in-air particle-induced x-ray emission(PIXE) analysis system that provides elemental distribution images in a region of 3 X 3 cm 2 with a spatial resolution of ∼0.5 mm. We call this system an in-air submilli-PIXE camera. This system consists of a submilli-beam line, beam scanners and a data acquisition system for elemental mapping. We applied the in-air submilli-PIXE camera to phytoremediation research. Phytoremediation is a technology for cleaning metal-contaminated soils using plant physiology. Pteris vittata, which is known as a hyperaccumulator of arsenic, was analyzed by the PIXE camera. Elemental images of laminas were obtained in vivo without sample preparation. The elemental map of the laminas in several centimeters region showed that arsenic was accumulated in the edges of P. vittata fronds and redistributed in the laminas at different growth stages. The submilli-PIXE camera is an effective tool for undertaking phytoremediation research.


To date, challenges in the design of bivalent ligands for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have revealed difficulties stemming from lack of knowledge of the state of oligomerization of the GPCR. The synthetic bivalent ligands with rigid linkers that are presented here can predict the dimer form of CXCR4 and be applied to molecular probes in cancerous cells. This "molecular ruler" approach would be useful in elucidating the details of CXCR4 oligomer formation.


The invention provides a management method for terminal electric quantity, which includes a step 202 and a step 204, wherein in the step 202, obtaining power consumption intensity of application programs when the application programs are started; and in the step 204, graphically displaying the power consumption intensity on a terminal according to values of the power consumption intensity. Correspondingly, the invention further provides the terminal. By the aid of the technical scheme, power consumption conditions of all the operational application programs in the terminal are visually known in real time, and accordingly, power consumption of the terminal is effectively managed.


Provided is a control method for dynamic detection and modification of slippage of an astronomical telescope through friction drive. Load position is detected by RGH24 steel belt grating ruler of RENISHAW, and position of a driving wheel friction wheel is detected by a coaxially installed angle encoder RON905. The angle encoder RON905 outputs sine-wave current signals. Feedback signals further enter a PHASE brushless motor driver to serve as feedback of a speed ring. The position of the driving wheel friction wheel and rotating angle of load are monitored in real time by a PMAC moving controller. Whether relative slippage happens between a driving wheel and a driven wheel is judged according to change. The PAMC controls a positive pressure motor in real time to conduct pressure modification and modify system control parameter to provide enough friction drive force to reduce and remove slippage. When a telescope driving system has slippage, the control method can timely modify the slippage and improve tracking accuracy and reliability of the telescope. The control method can be used for single-point friction drive and multi-point friction drive.


A new method for dynamic modulation of electro-osmotic flow (EOF) in plastic microchannel networks has been developed. The method employs field-effect flow control (FEFC) to adjust the zeta potential at the microchannel wall simply by biasing a gate electrode separated from the flow channel by a dielectric Parylene C film. The utility of this method is demonstrated by generating induced pressure-driven flow created by a differential EOF pumping rate. By varying the voltages applied to the FEFC gate electrodes in two microchannels at a T-intersection, the induced pressure at the intersection generates pumping in the connected third, field-free microchannel. The FEFC gate electrodes are able to change the magnitude and direction of the pressure pumping by inducing either a negative or positive pressure at the intersection. The flow velocity is tracked by neutralized fluorescent microbeads in the microchannels. The method described here provides an elegant mechanism for flow control in complex plastic microchannel networks. Furthermore, the ability to induce pumping by differential EOF provides important benefits for applications where zero electric fields must be maintained in the main flow channel, for example for example in the presence of high ionic mobility solutions.


To the Editor.— Although metronidazole is mutagenic in rats 1 and mice, 2 and is reported to alter DNA synthesis, 3 two previous human studies 4,5 have found no positive association between metronidazole use and cancer rates. In view of the limited amount of available human data, we report here on a follow-up study of some 12,000 users of metronidazole in relation to the subsequent development of certain cancers. The investigation was carried out in cooperation with Group Health Cooperative (GHC) of Puget Sound, a comprehensive health organization in Seattle, which dispenses drugs prescribed to its members through conveniently located GHC pharmacies. The plan operates hospitals providing inpatient services to all members. From 1977 through 1979, the average GHC enrollment was about 265,000 members. All hospitalizations and drug prescriptions dispensed by the GHC since July 1976 are on computer files. 6 Thus, exposure to specific drugs and incident cases of diseases


The article considers album «E.L.I.Z.O.B.A.R.R.A T.O.R.R», a joint projects Vyacheslav Butusov and group «DEADУШКИ». In analyzing the texts revealed the main reasons for combining songs of the album in a whole, as well as motifs and themes linking this album with the previous work of V. Butusov in the group «Nautilus Pompilius» and followed his work in the group «U-Piter».


We present early-time photometric and spectroscopic observations of supernova (SN) 2009kr in NGC 1832. We find that its properties to date support its classification as Type II-linear (SN II-L), a relatively rare subclass of core-collapse supernovae (SNe). We have also identified a candidate for the SN progenitor star through comparison of pre-explosion, archival images taken with WFPC2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope with SN images obtained using adaptive optics plus NIRC2 on the 10 m Keck-II telescope. Although the host galaxy's substantial distance (∼26 Mpc) results in large uncertainties in the relative astrometry, we find that if this candidate is indeed the progenitor, it is a highly luminous (M0V = −7.8 mag) yellow supergiant with initial mass ∼18–24 M☉. This would be the first time that an SN II-L progenitor has been directly identified. Its mass may be a bridge between the upper initial mass limit for the more common Type II-plateau SNe and the inferred initial mass estimate for one Type II-narrow SN.


Gradual itemsets of the form "the more/less A, the more/less B" summarise data through the description of their internal tendencies, identified as correlation between attribute values. This paper proposes to characterise gradual itemsets, enriching them with an additional clause introduced by the linguistic expression "especially if": they are of the form "the more/less A, the more/less B, especially if J ∈ R", where J is a set of attributes occurring in A∪B and R is a set of intervals defined for each attribute in J . The method proposed to automatically extract characterised gradual itemsets is based on appropriate mathematical morphology tools. The paper illustrates the relevance of the proposed approach on a real data set.


SmartThings is one of the most widely used smart home platforms for the internet of things (IoT). SmartApps are IoT applications on the SmartThings platform that enables automation of home devices. SmartApps are event-driven; inputs are received from device events, and outputs are issued to control devices. Understanding the behaviour of IoT applications is a challenge because the inputs and outputs are rarely visible. To tackle the challenge, the proposed approach is to visualise IoT applications as a set of IoT services. The authors propose an event-flow-based visualisation method where a flow from an event to action is viewed as an IoT service. The authors implement a tool called SmartVisual that performs a static analysis on SmartApps to generate a diagram of event flows. The tool also provides a tree model of the static structure of SmartApps and software metrics relevant to the event-driven nature. The tool was applied to 64 SmartApp samples provided by SmartThings. Each SmartApp had four event flows on average, although the most complex SmartApp had 58 event flows, and two inputs and two outputs, and the average length of the event flows was 1.43 methods.


Traffic forecasting is increasingly taking on an important role in many intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications. However, prediction is typically performed for individual road segments and prediction horizons. In this study, we focus on the problem of collective prediction for multiple road segments and prediction-horizons. To this end, we develop various matrix and tensor based models by applying partial least squares (PLS), higher order partial least squares (HO-PLS) and N-way partial least squares (N-PLS). These models can simultaneously forecast traffic conditions for multiple road segments and prediction-horizons. Moreover, they can also perform the task of feature selection efficiently. We analyze the performance of these models by performing multi-horizon prediction for an urban subnetwork in Singapore.


The Bachelor thesis is in the first part focused on employee's benefits, their dividing, but also focusing the topic connected with providing employee's benefits. In the analitic part I considered the particular employee's benefits in the company called Siemens Elektromotory and with other aspects connected particurarly with benefits providing as well. Finally I suggested the company new options of savings and forms of rewards.


Worried about the declining competitive position of U.S. industry, many people are pointing to a crisis in engineering education. The majority see faculty shortages and outdated laboratories as the most critical factors. Therefore, they usually propose allocating more government funds to universities for both research and up-to-date equipment, on the assumption that more funds will attract more students to doctoral programs, which in turn will provide more engineering faculty.


The present study was conducted to determine the histological and Molecular changes in the spleen of adult male Japanese quail after being exposed to effect of thermal stress was recorded. This study included two groups, each group consisting twelve male birds, the control group (A) was exposed to normal temperature for 45days, while the group (B) exposed to temperature (42C) for 45 days. The histological and molecular changes were studied during (15, 30 and 45) days of the experiment, histological changes in spleen were represented by necrosis, degeneration hemorrhage and shrinkage fibrosis of lymphocytic nodules, cytoplasmic vaculation, infiltration of lymphocytes, metamorphosis of lymphocyte, nuclei pyknotic, dilation in the central vein of lymphatic nodules, edema, dilation of sinusoids and congested blood vessels. Molecular examination showed that the heat shock protein (hsp70) gen is present in temperature group that is also found in the control group. This confirms that the hsp70 gen is present in birds at normal and abnormal conditions.


The study on the strategy of bouncing a ball with a drum provides a reference for future artificial intelligence in this regard. Firstly, the model was hypothesized, and the minimum work was associated with the minimum energy required to bounce the ball. In the ideal state, the strategy was studied to obtain the relationship between tension and rope length and falling height, as well as the time point of generating force. In combination with the theory of hook stock quantification and oblique throwing, the strategic improvement of the ball and the drum was studied in reality, and the optimal falling height of the ball in order to fall on the drum surface and the displacement interval of the drum in order to catch the ball were obtained in the process of a bounce.


Chinese liquor,which is unique in the world,is a kind of distilled liquor and has the high alcohol content. After storage for a period of time,it has complex fragrant smell containing the ester mainly. It is very popular in China and the total sales amount has been exceeded 2000 trillion. Chinese liquor is not only a kind of alcoholic drinks products,but also a kind of wine cultural inheritance. However,the event of plasticizer in Chinese liquor clouded the liquor-making industry. This paper summarized that the problems of plasticizer in Chinese liquor,and summarized detection methods and emerging reasons. Besides,some ideas about how to control it effectively were raised.


This Research aimed to see whether there are differences in perception between senior and junior students of the accounting profession in the S-1 Regular program. The results showed that the S-1 Regular program, senior students perceptions of the "accountant as a profession" is lower than the junior student perceptions. The results showed that the more senior they (the longer they follow accounting education), the more they do not like accounting and increasingly do not want a career and worked as an accountant. Keywords: Professional responsibility. Integrity, objectivity, competence, confidentiality


For the low coverage of intelligent algorithm in wireless sensor network and the high algorithm complexity,a simple and efficient algorithm of chaotic fruit fly was proposed.The optimization of fruit fly algorithm was used to guide node layout for sensor network,a chaotic disturbance factor was randomly generated based on the ergodicity of chaotic search,and chaotic perturbations were used before every time fruit flies group evolved to make fruit flies group quickly jump out of local optimization to do global search.Results of analysis and simulation show that the complexity,the convergence rate,and the convergence precision of the chaotic fruit fly algorithm are far superior to leapfrog and virtual force algorithm.It has better network coverage and it is more close to the theory of extreme value.


Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a known cause of increased morbidity and mortality (Arepally & Ortel, 2006). It is typically characterized by a decrease in platelets to 50% of baseline or less than 150,000 per cubic millimeter after exposure to heparin or a low molecular weight heparin (LMWH; Arepally & Ortel, 2006). It is also an immune-mediated response in which antibodies form against complexes of heparin and platelet factor 4 (PF4). Heparin and PF4 form an immune complex that reattaches to the platelet. The platelet complex is either removed by splenic macrophages, which results in thrombocytopenia, or the platelet is activated and released into the blood stream, which causes a hypercoagulable state and thrombosis. PF4 antibodies then form against the heparin and PF4 complex (Ibsen, 2002; Levy, Tanaka, & Hursting, 2007). Antibody formation is the standard for laboratory diagnosis of HIT. Risk of thrombosis is quite elevated, approximately 30 times that of the general population, and risk of thrombosis remains elevated for days to weeks, even after heparin is removed and the platelet count has normalized (Arepally & Ortel, 2006). HIT causes a hypercoagulable state that can result in stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), pulmonary embolus (PE), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), amputation, multisystem organ failure, and death (Francis & Drexler, 2005). HIT occurs approximately 5 to 10 days after exposure to heparin; however, HIT can begin after just a few hours in patient with a recent exposure to heparin (in the past 100 days) who is reexposed to heparin (Arepally & Ortel, 2006). HIT in subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) can be particularly difficult to identify as vasospasm, and HIT can appear quite similar. The following case study demonstrates an atypical presentation of HIT. Case Study AP, a 62-year-old woman, is admitted to the neuroscience intensive care unit (ICU) with a Hunt and Hess 1, Fisher III SAH from a ruptured anterior communicating aneurysm.APhas an unremarkable pastmedical history, takes no routine medication, and has no known drug allergies. Figure 1 shows AP's admission computed tomography (CT) reflecting the SAH. AP's ruptured aneurysm was coiled in interventional radiology (IR), and she returned to the ICU postprocedure on a heparin drip overnight. On day 8, AP developed a subtle right-sided pronator drift. The ICU team ordered a stat CT angiography and initiated hypervolemicYhypertensiveY hemodilution therapy. CT angiography revealed vasospasm, and she went to IR for intra-arterial milrinone (Primacor) and/or nicardipine (Cardene) treatment. She returned to the ICU neurologically intact. On day 10, AP again had a right drift. The drift was pronounced, and she had developed word finding difficulty. Again she was treated in IR and returned intact. Late that evening, AP became aphasic, and a stat magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed small infarctions of the left posterior temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes related to left middle cerebral artery (MCA) vasospasm. AP returned to IR for an emergent third treatment and was found to be in severe vasospasm. AP's ICU course deteriorated rapidly as she required daily treatments in IR on days 12 to 16 for resistant, severe vasospasm. On day 16, while in IR receiving treatment, the team saw platelets entering her cervical arterial circulation. The IR team attempted a clot retrieval and started eptifibatide (Integrillin) to minimize the damage. AP was taken for an emergent MRI that revealed a large left MCA territory infarct with multiple embolic infarcts in the bilateral anterior cerebral artery territories and right MCA territory (Figure 2). In addition, a new intraparenchymal hemorrhage in the anterior left frontal lobe was seen. Eptifibatide was stopped, and AP returned to the ICU with a grave prognosis. Consequently, her neurologic examination had drastically changed. AP no longer opened her eyes nor followed commands. Greater than 90% of her left MCA was infarcted. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing 208


Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America is an attractive, welldesigned book that plops on your desk with a good thud. Its handsome typography and design recall design books from the 1960s; its pages are fi lled with wellprinted aerial photographs of the evolving urban and suburban condition—that is to say, those within the traditional city and those on what has historically been its periphery. The problems lie not in the book's photographs, design, and printing but in its text and argument. According to Alan Berger, as the city expands outwards across countless parcels of the American landscape, it leaves in its wake—especially in the historical centers—vacant land, derelict land, and building stock no longer used for their original purposes. This is hardly a revolutionary insight. We know, for example, that after the sack of Rome, the city's population declined to a mere fraction of its imperial high-water mark, and that the fi fteenthcentury Ônin Wars in Kyoto left so few people and so much land that farmers produced abundant crops within the boundaries of the historical city. This process of rising and falling, construction and decay, of use and abandonment, has always been a part of making and inhabiting cities, as the author himself notes early on. It has been both a vernacular and autocratic phenomenon, accepting renovation and rebuilding by periodic natural calamities as well as wholesale clearances effected by the likes of a Mr. Haussmann. So what is it that makes today's progression of dereliction and waste so unique? In Berger's view, "dross emerges out of two primary processes: fi rst, as a consequence of rapid horizontal urbanization . . . and second, as the leftovers of previous economic and production regimes, which are both catalyzed by the drastic decrease of transportation costs (for goods and people) over the last century" (12). Today, we might add the vastly enlarged scale and speed of the changes and their locus on the urban perimeter. As Berger notes, there is more wasteland today than ever before, and it is mounting far more quickly than in premodern times. While dereliction historically troubled the urban core, today most acres of wasteland accumulate on the periphery. Superannuated industrial sites in or around cities have recently given birth to parks such as André Citroën in Paris and the celebrated Landschaftspark DuisburgNord in Germany. But you can't make a park out of every abandoned piece of land, urban or suburban, so what are we to do? Berger calls for landscape architects, planners, and architects to pay attention—but he doesn't tell them what they might or should do. Whether one accepts or rejects the meager ideas in the text, one rankles at the writing with which those ideas are presented. The text is highly repetitive, restating essentially the same topics again and again without any added degree of specifi city. Like a student paper, it assembles masses of quotes, citations, and statistics but never quite develops the ideas rooted in them. More critically, the author himself makes no substantial contribution to expand on the ideas of the others he references. He loves terminology, such as Lars Lerup's descriptions of urban areas as nonproductive "dross" and productive "stims." Cute terms such as these illustrate a troubling trend in design writing that attempts to commodify or "brand" scholarship—as if authors are desperately trying to invent some catchy word or phrase to which they can attach that small TM (trademark) to make it their own. Recent arrivals include phrases such as "landscape urbanism," terrain vague, and "zoomscape"; Berger adds—besides "drosscape" itself— LOD (Waste Landscapes of Dwelling), LOT (Waste Landscapes of Transition), and "enclaves, off worlds, and ladders," among others. How these terms benefi t the study of the situation reBooks


Abstract This paper reports electrical properties of the lead zirconate titanate system including lead lanthanum zirconate titanate. Some compositions of the lead zirconate titanate system materials have photovoltaic effect, which is applicable to the micro electro-mechanical systems. Sample preparation was carried out in use of the conventional solid state reaction method. Density and dielectric constant were obtained as a suitable value. These samples have the perovskite structure that is confirmed by X-ray diffraction method. The dark conductivity and also photoconductivity are estimated in use of the high-resistance electrometer. Some proposal was shown for the development on the photovoltaic effect from the material view of points.


Experiments have been carried out at atmospheric conditions using a water atomiser spray. A phase Doppler anemometry was used to perform the measurements of the droplets size, their velocity and concentration, and photographs were taken.  The results showed that the small particles with low turbulence occupied the central core of the jet displaying a Gaussian profile for the axial velocity component.  The large particles were defected towards the outer edges of the jet, due to their higher initial momentum, and displayed relatively high levels of turbulence. The variables measured show that their spatial distributions were nearly symmetrical about the x-axis and although the number density of the droplets is very high in the centred region, most of the pulverised liquid was present in the edges of the spray.


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In point cloud completion task, most previous works fail to deal with diverse corrupted point clouds with large missing areas. Meanwhile, they are restricted by discrete point clouds lacking smooth surfaces to represent an object, and the resolution of generated point clouds is fixed once their networks are determined. In addition, the evaluation metrics are not specific for this task. Thus, we propose an innovative quasi-immune completion architecture of point cloud called QINet in this article, which is inspired by the artificial immunization process in biology. Specifically, to increase robustness and adaptation of the model, we conceive a mask algorithm named onion-peeling (OP) to generate diverse corrupted inputs. Meanwhile, two proposed modules are combined together to produce flexible resolution of point clouds, namely, the decision surface learning and adversarial enhancement for the latent representation recovery. The first module transforms point clouds to surfaces with a continuous decision boundary function, while the second module is applied to deduce complete surface from corrupted point cloud by the cooperation of reinforcement learning (RL) and latent generative adversarial network (GAN). Besides, we evaluate the shortcomings of the existing methods and present two novel metrics to support multifaceted comparisons. Experimental results verify that our approach can generate continuous 3-D shapes with optional resolutions compared with other approaches, and achieves competitive results both quantitatively and qualitatively.


Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) were described since ancient times, and until now continue representing an im portant etiological entity of intracranial bleeding and secondary epilepsy, both associated with high morbidity. This study presents an updated review of histopathological, epidemiological and pathophyisiological aspects of this disor der, showing the relevance of its knowledge for the best management of affected patients.


Existing approaches of the variable generations are extensively limited on special technologies of single domain. To our best knowledge there is no existing comprehensive approach presently to systematically put variability of machines and equipment or of durable consumer products into intelligible form. The draft introduced here evaluates existing approaches of software technology with requirements for the structure and presentation of variable products of other, hardware related domains.


Three techniques of direct measurement are presented from which velocities may be obtained: (1) Doppler frequency shift, (2) spaced antenna drift, (3) spatially modulated transverse beam measurements. Emphasis is placed on the Doppler frequency measurement approach. It will compare bistatic with monostatic configurations as regards received power (or sensitivity), spatial resolution, Doppler shift and avoidance of ground clutter.


Purulent Infection Myositis (PIM) which was formerly called as tropical myositis is an acute or sub-acute primary infection of striated muscles. It affects all age groups, both sexes and occurs in tropical as well as temperate climates. Most frequently encountered culprits are skin commensals like staphylococci aureus. It is predominantly reported in immunocompromised individuals and with pre-existing muscle abnormalities like strain, trauma, parasite or another inciting event. Gram-negative bacilli myositis in an immunocompetent individual is rare. We report a case of Escherichia coli PIM in an immunocompetent patient with no risk factors and muscle abnormality. This helps early consideration of proper antibiotic therapy in an immunocompetent patient with pyomyositis and helps avoid complications associated with pyomyositis.


Abstract The quantum chemical properties of hydantoin (imidazolidine-2,4-dione) have been studied by the DFT method (density functional theory) and experimentally by FT-IR, UV–Vis, 1H, and 13 C NMR. The B3LYP technique is used to determine HOMO-LUMO, vibrational frequency, and other parameters as well as to optimize the structure. Along with that vibrational mode assessment, the estimated vibrational frequencies were compared to experimental FT-IR spectra. MEP (molecular electrostatic potential) analysis and a Fukui function analysis were both done to look into the reactive regions of the molecule in order to look into the charge distribution of the molecule. Additionally, the electron localization function (ELF) value was examined to reveal details about the chemical composition, molecular bonding, and reactivity. The calculation of UV–visible spectra using the TD-DFT/PCM approach is done, and the results are contrasted with UV spectra that have been calculated experimentally. From HOMO to LUMO orbitals, electron excitation analysis was carried out. Hole and Electron density distribution (EDD and HDD) maps were created in an excited state using various solvents. The intermolecular interactions on the crystal surface were described and evaluated using fingerprint plots and Hirshfeld surface analyses. The Hirshfeld surface was used to identify different kinds of intermolecular interactions, including N–C, N–H, N–O, O–C, and O–H. The 1H-NMR and 13 C-NMR shifts were calculated using the GIAO method, and the results were compared to experimental spectra. In a biological investigation utilizing several receptors, molecular docking was employed to identify the most effective ligand-protein interactions. The stability of biomolecular systems was investigated using a molecular dynamics simulation.


A new mast cell degranulating peptide, mastoparan-114, was isolated from the venom of the Japanese hornet Vespa mandarinia. The peptide is a tetradecapeptide amide with the following sequence: Ile-Asn-Leu-Lys-Ala-Ile-Ala-Ala-Leu-Ala-Lys-Lys-LewLeu-NH, The hornet contained approximately 20 nmol of the peptide in one venom sac, and the peptide degranulated the rat peritoneal mast cells at the minimum concentration of 0.5 nmol/ml.


With the development of information technology, the setting of self-service technology has become popular. Personnel service has been gradually replaced by self-service technology, the hotel industry is gradually moving towards intelligence and self-service technology in Taiwan.This study aims to explore the impact of self-service technology of service quality on customer loyalty. From the perspective of customer satisfaction, the purpose of this study expects to help resort hotels enhance the service quality in using hotel self-service technology. There are five dimensions of service quality utilized by the "SERVQUAL" evaluation scale: tangibility, empathy, reliability, responsiveness and credibility. Amos22.0 is applied for data analysis with descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and mediating effect test analysis.Empirical implications: the service quality of self-service technology in resort hotels is positively related to customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction roles a perfectly mediator between service quality of hotel self-service technology and customer loyalty. In order to improve customer satisfaction and achieve customer loyalty, it provides recommendation for future development of resort hotel self-service technology.


The evaluation of learning seeks to follow the process of student learning. When it is used as an instrument of classification and exclusion, it distances itself from the purpose of the evaluation. In many situations evaluation is presented as a way of measuring, assessing, classifying and verifying students' knowledge, and it is these situations that make us reflect on the evaluation process that has been used in the classroom. This process refers to the teacher's conception of evaluation. The evaluation of learning has been signaled as an issue not very discussed in teacher training courses, with consequences for their reality in the school context. With the objective of reaching answers, the present work sought to understand how the professors of Chemistry in Integrated High School of the Federal Institute of Pernambuco - IFPE, develop their evaluation practices. The theoretical reference of the study is centered in the "Evaluation Generations" of Guba and Lincoln (2011), which characterizes the evaluative models and in learning appraisal students such as Lucksesi (2011), Hoffmann (2014), Perrenoud (1999) and Viana (2014). Data collection was done through the application of a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews that were conducted with 05 (five) professors of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pernambuco, Campus Vitoria de Santo Antao. Data analysis was performed using the content analysis technique. The research showed that discussing the conceptions of evaluation in the teaching of Chemistry, a process in which the evaluation of learning is impacted, becomes important for teaching practice. This research showed that there are quite different conceptions of what the evaluation action really means, as well as a more precise look at the need for improvements in the training of teachers who work in Technical High School.


The paper considers a problem of construction, control and design of converters designed as interfaces between supercapacitor energy storage battery with maximal voltage not higher than 100 V and DC link with voltages corresponding to standard grid voltage (over 600 V). The main feature of this type of converters is the presence of an intermediate AC medium frequency link with transformer permitting the direct voltage fitting. Two types of the converter are investigated showing advantages and disadvantages of both solutions. As more promising the solution with voltage type intermediate DC link on low voltage side has been analyzed and tested in details. The matching of DC capacitance with AC- stray inductance together with proper phase synchronization of DC power controlling converter with AC link voltage permit to obtain a better power factor of DC/AC/DC converters and lower capacitor current, which improved efficiency ensuring the good dynamic. The investigation of the converter circuit and its control is done with the use of exact simulation model and verified on laboratory bench with MOS and IGBT converters and ferrite core transformer.


The success of an unconventional hydrocarbon development depends on the effective stimulation of reservoir rocks. Industry practice is to conduct a large number of field trials requiring high capital investment and long cycle-time. The workflow and toolkits outlined in this paper offers a cheaper and faster alternative approach to optimizing the completion design for EUR (Estimated Ultimate Recovery) improvement. The approach incorporates subsurface impacts to well stimulation design by employing subsurface parameters, and utilizes well diagnostic and well performance data to calibrate and constrain the models. It integrates subsurface characteristics, well, completion, operation, diagnostic, and well performance analysis. Using asset specific data, it is able to develop an optimal completion design with a set of prioritized completion and operation parameters. This results in reducing the number of field trials for achieving the optimal completion design. In addition, it provides valuable insights for further data acquisition to evaluate and forecast well performance. Field trials based on the results from this approach have yielded encouraging production uplifts with quality forecasts. We believe it is technically feasible to derive an optimal completion design using a subsurface based forward modeling approach that will deliver significant value to the industry. Introduction Unconventional reservoirs produce substantial quantities of oil and gas. These reservoirs are usually characterized by ultra-low matrix permeability. Most unconventional reservoirs are hydraulically fractured in order to establish more effective flow from the reservoir and fracture networks to the wellbores. The success of hydraulic fracture stimulation in horizontal wells has the potential to dramatically change the oil and gas production landscape across the globe and the impacts will endure for decades to come. For a given field development project, the economics are highly dependent completion establishing effective and retained contact with the hydrocarbon bearing rocks. Well and completion design parameters that influence the economic success of the field development include well orientation and landing zone, stage spacing and perforation cluster spacing, fluid volume, viscosity and pumping rate, and proppant volume, size and ramping schedule. Optimization of these design parameters to maximize asset economic value is key to the success of every unconventional asset.


We consider the problem of routing in a delay tolerant network (DTN) in the presence of path failures. Previous work on DTN routing has focused on using precisely known network dynamics, which does not account for message losses due to link failures, buffer overruns, path selection errors, unscheduled delays, or other problems. We show how to split, replicate, and erasure code message fragments over multiple delivery paths to optimize the probability of successful message delivery. We provide a formulation of this problem and solve it for two cases: a 0/1 (Bernoulli) path delivery model where messages are either fully lost or delivered, and a Gaussian path delivery model where only a fraction of a message may be delivered. Ideas from the modern portfolio theory literature are borrowed to solve the underlying optimization problem. Our approach is directly relevant to solving similar problems that arise in replica placement in distributed file systems and virtual node placement in DHTs. In three different simulated DTN scenarios covering a wide range of applications, we show the effectiveness of our approach in handling failures.


The reliable operation of offshore wind farms requires suitable real-time, automated and remote structural-health monitoring of the wind farm using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for ensuring consistent power supply to the grid. This study presents a novel WSN packet-size reduction technique using flexible thresholds for real-time fault prediction in wind farms which is an extension to the authors work proposing application-specific network-lifetime enhancing tri-level clustering and routing protocol for increasing the network lifetime. The selection of flexible threshold utilises the degree of correlation between data samples collected at different times of the day. Using combination-summation and flow direction of received data, accurate fault prediction is achieved. The method is compared with the primitive mean method. The proposed method flexible threshold selection and fault prediction (FTSFP) provides a simple means for predicting real-time fault occurrences in the towers and helps in reducing the message size considerably, thereby increasing the network lifetime of the system nearly by ten times. The results confirm that FTSFP has better fault-prediction accuracy over the existing method.


This study was carried out in the Experimental Farm, Fac. Agric., Zagazig Univ., Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, during 2015 and 2016 seasons to find out the effect of irrigation intervals (10 and 16 days) under four bio and mineral fertilization treatments on physiological, anatomicalfeatures, growth and yield of yellow maize cultivar single cross 168. The combined analysis detected significant decrease in maize leaf photosynthetic pigments, photochemical activity, histological features, growth and most yield attributes of maize due to prolonging the irrigation interval to 16 days except each of plant height, ear leaf area, ear length and diameter, number of rows per ear and number of grains per ear which were not significantly affected by irrigation interval. The bio and mineral fertilization treatments caused significant effects on all previous traits. Combined application of biofertilizers with 60 or 80% of the recommended levels of NP gave significant increments in values of leaf photosynthetic pigments, photochemical activity, histological features, growth and yield attributes of maize except both plant height and number of rows per ear which were not significantly affected by fertilization treatments. The interactions between the studied factors had significant effects on some growth and yield attributes. These results are quite interesting as they refers to a complementary positive role between biofertization, mineral NP fertilization and soil moisture content and hence help in minimizing the use of mineral NP fertilizers beyond to 40%. Cerealin + Phosphorein + 60% NP under 16-days irrigation interval treatment can be suggested as a recommended treatment to obtain a promising maize grain yield, saving irrigation water and to minimize soil pollution.


PurposeThe Responsible Care programme was first introduced in Canada in 1985 and now is implemented worldwide as one of the chemical industries' commitments to improve the industries' public image as well as their performance in health, safety and environmental aspects. In Malaysia, the Responsible Care programme has been implemented since 1994 with a current total of 148 companies pledged to implement it in their company; however, the effectiveness of the programme remains unknown. Hence, this paper aims to assess the effectiveness of the Responsible Care programme in improving performance in the environment, health and safety in terms of documentation, training, selection processes and stakeholders' engagement for the sustainability of chemical industries.Design/methodology/approachA survey was administered to the Responsible Care signatory companies in Malaysia. Of these, a total of 132 member companies either produced or provided services related to chemical products.FindingsThe majority of signatory companies agreed that the Responsible Care programme did improve their performance in the environment, health and safety. Besides that, the signatory companies were also keeping up their commitment to ensuring documentation, training, selection process and stakeholders' engagement run smoothly in line with Responsible Care's mission.Originality/valueAfter more than two decades of implementation in Malaysia, it is important to assess the Responsible Care programme's effectiveness. As an increasing number of chemical firms, without good management, it will possibly pose a danger to the environment and human health and safety. Through assessment, advances in Responsible Care management practices will considerably increase programme effectiveness in terms of environmental health and safety.


New South Wales has recently added the capability of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to the neonatal and paediatric retrieval process and this paper describes the early experiences and protocol development for the fi rst eight cases transported. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a lifesaving strategy is now a standard of care in high-income countries. Three children ' s hospitals in New South Wales (NSW) care for a population of 8 million across 800 628 km 2 as well as the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), a 2366 km 2 enclave of 423 800 people. 1 From the place of birth, incident or injury, the distance to tertiary paediatric care is often great, and may present a major challenge in achieving timely care for patients needing acute cardiorespiratory support including ECMO. Previously, the only option for non-cardiac ECMO transport was provided by the Royal Children ' s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. 2 ECMO is cardiopulmonary life-support for patients with refractory cardiopulmonary failure. Blood is drained from the vascular system, outside the body by a mechanical and then reinfused. While outside the body, haemoglobin becomes fully saturated with oxygen and CO 2 is removed. Oxygenation is determined by fl ow rate and CO 2 is controlled by adjusting the rate of counter-current gas fl ow through the oxy-genator. 3 The NSW inclusion and exclusion criteria for neonatal and paediatric referral for


Abstract Efficient CC bond formation results during reactions of O-silylated enolates and allytrialkysilanes with a range of tricarbonylcyclohexadienyliron salts to give tricarbonylcyclohexadieneiron complexes in good to excellent yields. This represents a new and efficient type of conversion of aldehydes, ketones, esters and lactones, through enol TMS ethers, into synthetically useful products. An advantage of the allylsilane process is that CC formation occurs at the end of the double bond remote from the silane group. The cations employed can be defined as synthetic equivalents of the 5-cation of substituted cyclohexadienes, or of the 4-cation of cyclohex-2-enones, or alternatively of specifically substituted aryl cations, dependent on their structures and the subsequent treatment of the reaction product.


I: Sexuality and the Fall of Man.- II: Virginity and the Monastic Economy of Perfection.- III: Sponsa Christi: Virginity and Epithalamian Mystery.- IV: Virginity Sexualized.- V: Surviving Elements of Christian Gnosis.- Afterword.


Background Little is known about the prognostic implications of frailty, a state of susceptibility to stressors and poor recovery to homeostasis in older people, after myocardial infarction (MI). Methods and Results We studied 3944 MI patients aged ≥65 years treated at 41 Australian hospitals from 2009 to 2016 in the CONCORDANCE (Australian Cooperative National Registry of Acute Coronary Care, Guideline Adherence and Clinical Events) registry. Frailty index (FI) was determined using the health deficit accumulation method. All‐cause and cardiac‐specific mortality at 6 months were compared between frail (FI >0.25) and nonfrail (FI ≤0.25) patients. Among 1275 patients with ST‐segment–elevation MI (STEMI), 192 (15%) were frail, and among 2669 non‐STEMI (NSTEMI) patients, 902 (34%) were frail. Compared with nonfrail counterparts, frail STEMI patients received 30% less reperfusion therapy and 22% less revascularization during index hospitalization; frail NSTEMI patients received 30% less diagnostic angiography and 39% less revascularization. Unadjusted 6‐month all‐cause mortality (STEMI: 13% versus 3%; NSTEMI: 13% versus 4%) and cardiac‐specific mortality (STEMI: 6% versus 1.4%, NSTEMI: 3.2% versus 1.2%) were higher among frail patients. After adjustment for known prognosticators, FI was significantly associated with higher 6‐month all‐cause (STEMI: odds ratio: 1.74 per 0.1 FI [95% confidence interval, 1.37–2.22], P<0.001; NSTEMI: odds ratio: 1.62 per 0.1 FI [95% confidence interval, 1.40–1.87], P<0.001) but not cardiac‐specific mortality (STEMI: P=0.99; NSTEMI: P=0.93). Conclusions Frail patients receive lower rates of invasive cardiac care during MI hospitalization. Increased frailty was independently associated with increased postdischarge all‐cause mortality but not cardiac‐specific mortality. These findings inform identification of frailty during MI hospitalization as a potential opportunity to address competing risks for mortality in this high‐risk population.


System and method for the optical fiber is cooled coating to cool the optical fiber, is supplied to the heat exchanger, it comprises the ability to control the amount of cooling gas to be recycled therein. The ability to control the amount of cooling gas to be recirculated supplied, the thermal conductivity of the cooling gas, the viscosity of the cooling gas, the diameter of the primary coating on the optical fiber, and on the optical fiber coating for applying the primary coating It comprises measuring at least one parameter selected from the output utilization coater.


We present a collective description of density matrix for identical multi-level atoms, which are either excited initially or driven coherently or pumped incoherently. We consider density matrix as expectation value of projection or transition operators in a basis of atom's product states and then identify identical matrix elements with several integers, which specify uniquely the involved transition or projection operators. To remove the redundancy of these identical elements, we treat them as single quantity and derive the equation for this quantity by mapping the transition or projection operators to a single vector specified with the integers in Liouville space and work out the actions of the master equation constitutions (as superoperators) on these vectors. As a result, the number of necessary elements increases polynomially with the number of atoms rather than exponentially as expected if the redundancy is not removed. This numerical advantage is explored to study superradiance from hundreds of two-level atoms. Our simulation identifies the conditions of observing the superradiance with and without dipole involved.


Information dissemination is part of the communication component of successful family planning program operation. Communication informs people about family planning, motivates them to practice it, and teaches them how to correctly use safe and reliable methods. Family planning communication is receiving renewed attention in the late 1980s in nearly all parts of the world. 1 of the most effective ways to reach policymakers and service providers is through newsletters. At the 1986 Family Health Research Centers Directors Conference, 4 of the 6 directors said they regularly publish newsletters. Workshops, conferences, and seminars are other forums for information dissemination. These forums present ideal opportunities for media coverage, 1 of the best ways to spread information about contraceptive research findings and family planning. Advice columns are a way to publicize family planning in print media on a regular basis. It may be necessary for leaders of family planning groups to make the 1st efforts to contact editors and broadcast personnel. While family planning is no longer a new topic in most countries, it remains true that important information needs to circulate and that family planners can help this process by helping the media cover it.


The development of a Needs Analysis Tool by Melbourne Water builds on previous social research and other investigations into local government capacity for sustainable urban water management. The Tool provides a snapshot of internal commitment and resourcing for the management of stormwater quality and Water Sensitive Urban Design, and forms one component of Melbourne Water's Stormwater Program's assessment and development of structural and non-structural stormwater management initiatives with local government. This Tool offers a practical and rapid way to track changes in the capacity of local government to deliver sustainable improvements in stormwater quality, with the benefits of the Needs Analysis Tool being two fold. Firstly, it identifies individual needs of local government, and allows for projects to be designed that address these specific capacity building requirements and intra-organisational issues. Secondly, it provides for a facilitative, partnership approach between local government and Melbourne Water that maximises the strengthening of internal capacity through effective project design and delivery. This multi-layered innovative approach is a move away from more traditional water grants programs and provides for a more sustainable funding model and inter-governmental partnership approach.


By the finite element method,the N-S momentum,energy equations and turbulence κ-e double equations et.which describe the fluid flow and heat transfer in the pool of the level twin-roll strip casting are computed through utilizing ANSYS software.The influence of the temperature on the position of the final solidification point is analyzed primarily.And according to the result of the heat-flux density,the rule of heat transfer between the rollers and pool has been obtained.The simulative results can provide effective data to control the stability of operation in the rolling and casting process.


How can one teach what one does not know? Most film depictions of teaching follow a satisfying (and it would seem endlessly entertaining) Aristotelian dramatic structure. But what if the teacher does not know what she is summoned to teach? And what if there were a theory of pedagogy that celebrated a teacher's ignorance rather than her authority (power, position, privilege, pre-established role) or expertise (knowledge, experience, judgment)? How or why, in Jacques Ranciere's parlance, an 'ignorant schoolmaster' may have a talent for teaching – that is, an efficacy and influence on student learning that trumps antecedent knowledge – becomes a locus of inquiry in these pages. Several of Wes Anderson's films can be said to include an ignorant schoolmaster, or 'New Master'. Arguably, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) features the highest achievement of expression of the ignorant schoolmaster in Anderson's work: M. Gustave teaches without knowing, teaches inadvertently as he learns what needs to be taught. By way of contrast – that is, as a way of illuminating M. Gustave's representative qualities as an ignorant schoolmaster – I will also consider the character of the professional, authoritative, and knowledgeable preparatory school teacher, or 'Old Master', William Hundert in The Emperor's Club (2002).


The paper explores the rule of equal treatment (essentially the sharing of consideration) in take-over regulation. It identifies three situations within take-over regulation in which an equality rule can be imposed: - within the general offer, - as between those who accept the general offer and those who deal with the offeror outside the bid, - upon the acquisition or transfer of control of a company. The functions of equality rules in these situations are then analysed with reference to six European jurisdictions which have substantial experience with take-over and/or have recently reformed their take-over regulation. These countries are: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK. It is suggested the equality rules perform three functions: - aiding shareholders in the target company to make un-pressurised decisions on take-over offers, - providing equality of treatment of shareholders close to the market and those who are not, - strengthening the legal protection of non-controlling shareholders. However, these benefits come with some costs attached. The nature of the trade-offs made by rule makers in different jurisdictions in the light of these costs and benefits are examined.


This paper presents a decentralized method to the problem of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search of an unknown area. Firstly, based on search map model, the multiple UAVs cooperative search problem is posed as a receding horizon (RH) optimization decision problem, and a RH based UAV search decision process is proposed. Then, this centralized on-line optimization problem is partitioned into several UAV subsystems optimization problems and solved in a parallel manner using a Nash optimality based decentralized RH optimization method, and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used for subsystem optimization. Next, by introducing the heuristic information and improving the extension of node, a modified Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) based path planning algorithm is presented to the UAV search path planning. It is shown by simulation that the proposed method can reduce the size of multiple UAVs optimization decision problem, and lead to an efficient cooperative search for multiple UAVs.


To investigate factors involved in host adaptation and specificity of bipartite geminiviruses, the infectivity of bean dwarf mosaic (BDMV) and tomato mottle (ToMoV) geminiviruses and the BDMV/ToMoV pseudorecombinants [BDMV DNA-A + ToMoV DNA-B (BA+TB) and ToMoV DNA-A + BDMV DNA-B (TA+BB)] in Phaseolus vulgaris, Lycopersicon esculentum, Nicotiana benthamiana, and N. tabacum plants was determined. Additionally, replication of these viruses was examined in protoplasts prepared from N. tabacum BY2 and Xanthi-nc cells. In adapted hosts and the permissive experimental host, N. benthamiana, BDMV and ToMoV infected nearly 100% of inoculated plants, induced severe symptoms, and had high levels of both DNA components. In nonadapted hosts, BDMV and ToMoV infected approximately 40% of inoculated plants, induced no symptoms, and had reduced levels of both DNA components. For the pseudorecombinants, symptoms were observed only in TA+BB-infected N. benthamiana and P. vulgaris plants. In the other pseudorecombinant/host c...


Dipole moments and molar Kerr constants (×1012) at 25 °C are recorded for the following as solutes in carbon tetrachloride: benzaldehyde (2·98 D, +504), acetophenone (+330), and 1,4-diformylbenzene (2·25 D, +57·6). These results, together with published data for 1,4-diacetylbenzene, yield information on the preferred conformations of 1,4-diformyl- and 1,4-diacetyl-benzene.


On 26 December 2004 one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded by modern seismology (Mw>9.0) occurred in Sumatra-Andaman region. About 1300km of seafloor were ruptured extending from northern Sumatra to Andaman Island complex. As instrumental data are sparse and in most of the cases field observations difficult to undertake, the role of remote sensing may be beneficial in providing information about the pattern of deformation in space and time. In the present study ENVISAT ASAR data are acquired and processed to generate a single multitemporal SAR image in order to detect vertical motion along Andaman Island. According to our analysis it seems that the northern parts of the island are generally uplifted. Though its north-western coasts show significant marks of uplift, such indications become less evident along the western coasts of Middle Andaman. At some locations at the south-eastern margins of the island marks of downlift are recognized. Characteristic banding observed in the multi-temporal image could be attributed either to post-seismic relaxation, either to tidal phenomena. Although qualitative in nature, as just the sign of elevation change can be detected, results of such analysis could be used as constrains in deformation modelling research.


The research aims to analyze the integration of agricultural and food markets in the context of food security of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The research is based on the methodology of export and import of agri-food products by the EAEU countries of the World Trade Center. The analysis of food security of the EAEU was carried out by the methods of descriptive statistics and related disciplines (econometrics, multidimensional statistical methods, mathematical modeling) and the index approach. It was noted that increasing production volumes and joint international and Russian trade communications will help increase the macro-micro level of self-sufficiency in the key range of food products for both the EAEU states and the population in particular.


The authors propose a motor planning algorithm which reflects reliability of the internal model. The algorithm is to calculate the destination and its expected error for every motor command using the internal model, and to select the most effective command whose expected error would not exceed a given limit. Utilizing this algorithm, the system behaves moderately before adaptation, and its performance is improved as the internal model becomes more reliable through adaptation. It is also shown that the proposed algorithm simulates well the human behavior in a shape-tracing task.


The recent global financial crisis, sparked by developments in the American mortgage market, provides a timely opportunity for a thorough analysis of the standard model for financing home purchases. The United States residential mortgage market has two prominent aspects: first, a significant part of mortgages are de facto non-recourse loans that allow the borrower to limit his liability solely to the collateral securing the loan; second, residential mortgages confer the aforementioned advantage on borrowers while requiring merely a minimal down payment, or no down payment at all. This article examines the implications of each of these aspects, as well as the interplay between them. The findings of this examination lead to the novel insight that a non-recourse mortgage with no initial down payment resembles the case of corporate undercapitalization. Utilizing legal analysis and remedies applied in the case of corporate undercapitalization lends insight into creating mortgage arrangements that properly balance the competing interests of the various players in the home ownership credit market.


Relative permeability curves of water and supercritical CO2 (scCO2) were obtained for two porous sandstones under steady-state flow conditions. The present measurements provide accurate relative permeability values for water and scCO2, which is important to better understand the behavior of CO2 injected into the deep saline aquifer when carrying out carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). We have developed a new method for measuring the volume of scCO2 and water under the same pressure and temperature conditions as in the porous rock employing a high-pressure water-CO2 separator. Water saturation in the sandstone was determined with a mass balance analysis measuring changes of the surface boundary between water and scCO2. We measured Berea sandstone and Tako sandstone, which were cored and shaped into a cylinder form. The mixed fluid of water and scCO2 was injected into a rock sample that was previously saturated with CO2-saturated water. The flow volumes of the water and scCO2 were measured for different saturation conditions by changing the mixing ratio of the fluids at the sample inlet. All measurements were made at 40°C and 10 MPa, including those for the water-CO2 separator. The injection flow rate was 0.5 ml/min. By plotting the ratios of water and scCO2 of the inflow and outflow with respect to elapsed time, we can determine whether the flow is steady or unsteady. The relative permeability curve is obtained by plotting the relative permeability values with respect to the degree of water saturation. The results for Berea sandstone suggest that the relationship between relative permeability and the relative saturation of water and scCO2 correspond well to those of the previous study. However, the results for Tako sandstone deviate from the predicted curve of the previous study. This is likely to be due to the heterogeneity of Tako sandstone.


The invention relates to a micro fuel gas turbine technology, whose structure includes turbine burning controller and control method. The controller includes PUT, detecting unit, output unit, photo-electricity coupling unit, and driving unit. The control method is realized by computer program module that includes system initialization, self-testing, burner firing, power closed loop adjusting block, stop and turbine capability index real time monitoring module. It adopts neural network PID controller adjusting method. It improves control accuracy, decreases technology cost and increases the stability and safety of the system.