Contents: 1. A New Research Area: Disequilibrium Sports Economics Wladimir Andreff PART I ECONOMIC DISEQUILIBRIUM AND COMPETITIVE IMBALANCE 2. An Attempt at Disequilibrium Modelling a Team Sports League Wladimir Andreff 3. Management Reference Points for Sporting Leagues: Simulating League Expansion and the Effect of Alternative Player Drafting Regulations Geoff N. Tuck, Robert D. Macdonald and Athol R. Whitten 4. The Metrics of Competitive Imbalance Jean-Pascal Gayant and Nicolas Le Pape 5. Disequilibrium on the Sports Programmes Market: The Gender Imbalance in TV Coverage and TV Viewership of the 2012 Olympic Games Daam van Reeth PART II TEAMS AND LEAGUES WITH SOFT BUDGET CONSTRAINTS 6. Soft Budget Constraints in European and US leagues: Similarities and Differences Rasmus K. Storm and Klaus Nielsen 7. Governance of Professional Team Sports Clubs: Agency Problem and Soft Budget Constraint Wladimir Andreff 8. Regulation in Leagues with Clubs' Soft Budget Constraints: The Effect of the New UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations on Managerial Incentives and Suspense Egon Franck Index


The purpose of thisstudy was to determine heeded.agricultural skills and information of farmers in remote Saudi Arabian villages and to assess the farmer1s interest in enrolling in training courses. Data collected and analyzed were obtained by interviewing 130 farmers in 13 villages, in four different geographical areas» Important findings include needed agricultural subject matter, skills and information identified for each.of the four geographical . areas o ■..The highest'priority subject areas , important in all . four geo graphical areas in vegetables were: 1) identification and control of diseases and insects, 2) fertilizer (use), 3) .seed selection, and 4) irrigation requirements and techniqueso The highest priority subject areas, important in all four geographical areas in fruit production were: 1) identification and control of diseases and 2) insects and fertilizer (use). There were significant differences among the four. geographical areas in the needed agricultural ski11s and informationo For the entire four geographical areas 92.3 percent indicated an interest in participating in instructional courses offered in their villages. Analysis showed that the farmers in the four geographical, areas had opinions that were statistically different as to the best time of year to participate, in a training program.o


The direct-method circuit simulation technique solves the entire system at every iteration and thus avoids the problem of slow convergence or even nonconvergence, which could occur when relaxation-based techniques are applied. However, the parallelism of the direct method is not as obvious as that of the relaxation technique. The parallelism in the LU factorization without tearing has been found to be small and one level node tearing could have a large border size if it is forced to partition the circuit into a fixed number of subcircuits. In this thesis we increase the parallelism by using a multilevel node tearing method which maintains a minimum border size while trying to balance the subcircuit sizes. The problems of how to maximize the speedup by scheduling the subcircuits correctly and by choosing the optimal number of levels of partitioning are also studied. A parallel circuit simulator, iPRIDE, is implemented on an ALLIANT FX/8 computer using these techniques. A speedup of 7.3 using 8 processors has been achieved.


Palliative care, and more specifically end-of-life (EOL) care, serves to address the physical, practical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of dying patients and their families. The quality of this care is critical to reduce the burden of illness and moderate escalating health-care costs. Accordingly, assessing the quality of EOL care is a priority of many governments. This article is an overview of the three main types of data sources that can be used to indicate the quality of EOL care: population-based administrative data, clinical data, and patient-reported outcomes. Existing administrative data are relatively inexpensive to use and provide a whole picture of the health-care system. Clinical data are useful for benchmarking care provided against best practices. Patient-reported outcome measures capture quality as defined by the patient and directly represent impact of care. Understanding the capabilities of these data types is the basis for developing feasible quality assessments to inform program and policy development.


Currently, students' self-efficacy and discipline are very important, especially at the high school level to help students improve their learning abilities. This study aims to answer the research question, namely how the results of descriptive statistics on self-efficacy variables and the disciplinary character of high school students in physics subjects. Are there differences and relationships between self-efficacy and the disciplinary character of physics high school students? The method used in this study is a mixed method. The research results are based on the t test which states that the comparative data is smaller than 0.05 and the correlation test which states the data results are smaller than 0.05. The conclusion of this study is the difference and relationship between self-efficacy and character discipline of students at Senior high school 5 Jambi City and Alberta High School Diploma in physics subjects. The update of this research is that knowing the relationship between self-efficacy and disciplinary character can be used as a source of good research in the future and for teachers and schools at the high school level. This research is limited by high school level and physics subjects.


This study was carried out to provide the baseline data on the composition and distribution of the angiosperms and to assess their current status in Rajkandi Reserve Forest of Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. The study reports a total of 549 angiosperm species belonging to 123 families, 98 (79.67%) of which consisting of 418 species under 316 genera belong to Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons), and the remaining 25 (20.33%) comprising 132 species of 96 genera to Liliopsida (monocotyledons). Rubiaceae with 30 species is recognized as the largest family in Magnoliopsida followed by Euphorbiaceae with 24 and Fabaceae with 22 species; whereas, in Lilliopsida Poaceae with 32 species is found to be the largest family followed by Cyperaceae and Araceae with 17 and 15 species, respectively. Ficus is found to be the largest genus with 12 species followed by Ipomoea, Cyperus and Dioscorea with five species each. Rajkandi Reserve Forest is dominated by the herbs (284 species) followed by trees (130 species), shrubs (125species), and lianas (10 species). Woodlands are found to be the most common habitat of angiosperms. A total of 387 species growing in this area are found to be economically useful. 25 species listed in Red Data Book of Bangladesh under different threatened categories are found under Lower Risk (LR) category in this study area.


In fast changing word, if any organization wants to grow it has to satisfy their people. The employee engagement is the level of commitment an employee has towards their organization and its values. An engaged employee is aware of business context and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of the organization. The organization must work to develop and nurture engagement, which requires a two-way relationship between employer and employee.' Thus Employee Engagement is a barometer that determines the association of a person with the organization. Engagement of people in every activity is required for the continuous growth of the organization. The paper entitled "Employee Engagement: A Tool to Achieve Sustainable Growth" focuses on the degree of the engaged people in the organization and growth of the organization. Here, this study is based on the Primary data. It is the case study of Gujarat Narmada Velly Fertilizer Company Ltd., Bharuch. The objectives of the study are, (i) To measure age wise employee engagement level of GNFC, (2) To measure designation wise employee engagement level of GNFC, (3) To measure experience wise employee engagement level of GNFC, (4) To measure department wise employee engagement level of GNFC, (5) To Check whether Employee Engagement Activities affect Productivity of the Employee or not and (6) To check the turnover ratio and job satisfaction level of the employees of GNFC. To check the significance of the hypothesis Two – ANOVA has been used.


This paper develops a generalizable, machine-learning-based method for measuring established marketing constructs using passive analysis of consumer-generated textual data from service reviews. The method is demonstrated using topic and sentiment analysis along dimensions of an existing scale: lodging quality index (LQI).,The method induces numerical scale ratings from text-based data such as consumer reviews. This is accomplished by automatically developing a dictionary from words within a set of existing scale items, rather a more manual process. This dictionary is used to analyze textual consumer review data, inducing topic and sentiment along various dimensions. Data produced is equivalent with Likert scores.,Paired t-tests reveal that the text analysis technique the authors develop produces data that is equivalent to Likert data from the same individual. Results from the authors' second study apply the method to real-world consumer hotel reviews.,Results demonstrate a novel means of using natural language processing in a way to complement or replace traditional survey methods. The approach the authors outline unlocks the ability to rapidly and efficiently analyze text in terms of any existing scale without the need to first manually develop a dictionary.,The technique makes a methodological contribution by outlining a new means of generating scale-equivalent data from text alone. The method has the potential to both unlock entirely new sources of data and potentially change how service satisfaction is assessed and opens the door for analysis of text in terms of a wider range of constructs.


Abstract During July 1966, nearly 100 tetroon flights were made at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS), Idaho Falls, with the primary purpose of verifying the existence of longitudinal roll-vortices, or helices, in the planetary boundary layer. The transponder-equipped constant volume ballons (tetroons) were ballasted to float 300 m above the ground and were tracked by two M-33 radars. One radar tracked two tetroons released simultaneously from sites 500 m apart (in a direction normal to the mean flow) and the other radar tracked two tetroons released simultaneously from the same sites about one-half hour later. In the flat, desert-like region of NRTS, there is evidence that counter-rotating helices of about 2 km diameter frequently exist during the afternoon. Basically, the helical motion appears to be one of solid rotation, with an average absolute value for the vorticity in the transverse plane of 4 × 10−3 sec−1, a magnitude similar to that derived from the vertical shear of the longitudinal wi...


cles. The first five present differing empirical and conceptual attempts to improve and refine theory on international relations and foreign policy. The authors were asked to &dquo;identify the ways in which their theoretical approaches might be useful to the policy-making community.&dquo; The final three essays are devoted to evaluating the efforts of the previous articles and to judging the field's theoretical criteria. In this latter set, two authors have had past experience in governmental policy-making and were asked to lend some practical perspectives on the efforts of the first five


We present a semi-automatic approach to study expressions of evaluation in academic writing as well as targets evaluated. The aim is to uncover the linguistic properties of evaluative expressions used in this genre, i.e. investigate which lexico- grammatical patterns are used to attribute an evaluation towards a target. The approach encompasses pattern detection and the semi-automatic annotation of the patterns in the SciTex Corpus (Teich and Fankhauser, 2010; Degaetano-Ortlieb et al., 2013). We exemplify the procedures by investigating the notion of importance expressed in academic writing. By extracting distributional information provided by the annotation, we analyze how this notion might dier across academic disciplines and sections of research articles.


For a long time, human beings did not worry about the consequences of their actions on the environment. However, post the Industrial Revolution, rampant rise in production and consumerism have stressed the earth's natural resources to such an extent that humans are now making a conscious effort to "go green". Sustainability has become the new buzzword among academicians, practitioners, scientists, industrialists and students. This paper traces the evolution of the concept in the last forty years in the field of agriculture, following its emergence as a concept, its operationalization, its drivers and barriers and the frameworks that were developed to monitor and measure it. It attempts to provide a comprehensive definition of sustainable agriculture and identify points of divergence and commonalities in the measurement and monitoring frameworks. It highlights the interdisciplinary approach of the concept and the need for convergence of ideas for universal acceptance. Address for correspondence: D. Krishnaveni Research Scholar PSG Institute of Management, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 641 004, Tamil Nadu Phone: (+91) 99400 40246 E-mail: email@example.com INTRODUCTION Man has come a long way since the early days of agriculture where the reliance was on primitive tools, family/community labour, monsoons and conditions such as natural soil fertility and availability of water. Initially, gradual advances were made in production and storage techniques for centuries leading to small improvements which ultimately resulted in large scale commercial agriculture. The Industrial Revolution and developments in production techniques thereafter heralded an era of increased economic activity and consumerism. While it led to further production increases, the next big advance was the manipulation of genetics to create high yielding and pest resistant varieties of crops. These advances eventually translated into development of industrial agriculture and intensive farming techniques characterised by monoculture, use of large sized farms, genetic manipulation of seeds and livestock, reliance on chemical fertilisers and pesticides and breaking away from natural cycles and ecological interdependencies. As the emphasis moved towards "better, cheaper and faster" production techniques, traditional processes and practices were side-lined. With the passage of time however, observed adverse effects on soil, water, organic content, genetic diversity losses and related factors have compelled some farmers and scientists to question the long-term viability of such practices leading to focus on the concept of Sustainable Agriculture.


The CO2 concentration in cave air is an important factor not only controlling the deposition or corrosion of carbonate in caves but also affecting the stability of carbonate landscape and comfort of tourist in show cave.The CO2 concentration,temperature and relative humidity(RH) are monitored for near 4 hydrologic years in the Shihua Cave,Beijing.The results show that(1) cave temperature fluctuates around 15 ℃and is about 1 ℃higher in summer,which is related to tourism activities and the seasonal variation of temperature difference between inside and outside of the cave;(2) the CO2 concentration of cave air increases slowly with the air temperature until July,when it can increase quickly due to a large quantity of groundwater coming into the cave after the every strong rain.In August the highest CO2 concentration of cave air can reach 4 334 ppmv.After the rainy season,the CO2 concentration of cave air also attenuates slowly with the decreasing of the air temperature to reach minimum value(360~458 ppmv) in February.In addition,it has two small CO2 concentration peaks in May and October with the increasing in tourists.The analyzed results indicate that high concentration CO2 in soil environment dissolved in drip water makes a greater contribution to CO2 concentration in cave air during rainy period.Respiration of tourists is another contributor during the busy traveling season.Therefore,both natural and anthropogenic factors can be considered when planning and management is carried out for show cave.


title SUMMARY /title The piarist Odoardo Corsini (Fanano, 1702-1765) is better known as an historian, for his studies about both numismatics and chronology. Less known is his activity in the scientific field, which led him to exchange letters with many scientists of his time. Corsini's activity in hydraulics is witnessed by booklets, not recorded in bibliographies, and by his correspondence. The article ends with the transcription of two letters by Antonio Vallisneri to Corsini, where the problem of the origin of springs is mentioned.


This U.S. Bureau of Mines report assesses the resource potential of trace metals present in commercial Ti mineral concentrates. Metals of greatest interest are those defined as strategic and critical by the U.S. Congress in 1981. Metals of interest in Ti mineral concentrates are Cd, Cr, Ta, Th, U, V, and Zr. Commercially available Ti mineral concentrates were studied. Characterization and analysis of major and minor constituents were performed by X-ray diffraction, neutron activation, inductively coupled plasma emission, atomic absorption, and classical wet chemical techniques. Of the metals investigated, the Cd, Ta, and V content of some concentrates may be a significant potential resource, depending on their amenability to recovery.


In this paper, an approach to differentiate between various dielectric threat objects in security applications is investigated. The scattering information in form of the Sinclair matrix of relevant scenarios is gained from a fully polarimetric, monostatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR). A possible polarimetric calibration procedure is presented. The radar data are processed with the H - α decomposition algorithm. The H - α scattering characteristics of threat objects are analyzed in terms of a weighted averaging. It is shown that an object classification is possible even for threat objects conceiled under thick layers of clothing. Measurement results are presented to illustrate the topic.


Discussion and author's closure of paper 45–9 by H. C. Marcroft, presented at the AIEE winter technical meeting, New York, N. Y., January 22–26, 1945, and published in AIEE TRANSACTIONS, 1945, February section, pages 56–60.


We define a polynomial W on graphs with colours on the edges, by generalizing the spanning tree expansion of the Tutte polynomial as far as possible: we give necessary and sufficient conditions on ...


The work is devoted to solve distributed task allocation task problem in group of agents with multi-objective genetic algorithms. The paper introduce the approach to select the correct stopping criterion for multi-objective genetic algorithms and the way to apply a new genetic operator using the solution information of the other agents for save time in the search of the optimal space in a group of agents.


Social surveys collect information on socio-demographic characteristics of respondents eligible for the interview. Among others, the highest attained level of education is one of the variables explaining the respondent's social and political comportment, the interviewee's human values and orientations, the transition from school to work, the position in the labour force and its segments, the social and economic behaviour of the individual actor and structural inequalities in modern societies. Manifold strategies to operationalise the qualification and education variables during interviews can be observed in social surveys. They differ in the underlying latent concept captured, the ranking and classifying of levels into categories and clusters, the degree of classification and measurement details and finally the capabilities of comparison across time and across nations and cultures. The measurement of education for comparative research across countries is a complex task. The national systems of education and schooling are differently organized across the nations. Altogether four different types of school and training systems can be identified in Europe. In this paper we will sort the national certificates from general and vocational schools into one matrix, the newly developed Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik/Warnermatrix of education. This matrix allows us to compare the highest level of education a person has reached, as a combination of general and vocational education and useable for a person to obtain a starting position on the labour market. This article discusses those measurement instruments normally used in international comparative surveys and introduces the Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik/Warner-matrix of education, contrasting this matrix with the other established measurement instruments. To demonstrate the validity of our matrix, we show the advantages of our matrix exemplified in one case from nations out of the four types of different educational systems: Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark, and France. 1 This article is a reprint from "Metodološki zvezki" (2007), Volume 4, Number 2: pp. 117-148. http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pub/mz/mz4.1/hoff.pdf [accessed 15 October 2012]. The figures 1 to 4 are updated in 2012 and the links in the references are controlled and updated by June 30 in 2012.


Key Points Question Is payment associated with participant deception about research eligibility and, if so, is higher payment associated with more deception? Findings In this randomized survey experiment of a nationally representative sample of 2275 US adults, offers of payment to participate in an online survey were associated with substantial deception by participants about their eligibility compared with the control condition, with estimated proportions of ineligible individuals who engaged in deception ranging from 10.5% to 22.8%. Larger payments were not associated with increased rates of deception. Meaning Payment may be associated with deception about eligibility for study participation, but higher payment may not lead to higher rates of deception.


The effects of Fe substitution for Ni on microstructure, phase transformations, magnetocaloric effect, and exchange-bias behavior of the Ni46−xFexMn43Sn11 (x = 0–3) alloy ribbons have been investigated. The free surface of as-spun Fe-doped ribbons shows the granular microstructure containing multiple shapes (the tree leaf-like, small columnar grain, etc.), while the ordered columnar grains are observed in fracture cross-section. The martensitic structural transition temperature (TM) of as-annealed ribbons decreases from 240 K for x = 0 to 185 K for x = 3 due to the decrease in valence electron concentration, while the Curie temperature of the austenitic phase remains almost unchanged (TC = 275 K). The positive values of magnetic entropy changes (+ΔSM), around TM, are 21.0, 29.1, 24.1, and 14.8 J/kg K for x = 0–3, respectively, while the negative −ΔSM values vary in 3.0–3.5 J/kg K range around TC, under a field change of 0–5 T. The values of exchange-bias field (HE) at 10 K change in the range of 469 to 53...


The article considers the problems of formation of think tanks as theoretical concept and practical activity needed to develop foreign policy decisions. The features of the main stages of think tanks formation are analyzed in details. Considerable attention is given to functions and methods of think tanks activity. The problems of definition of classic and contemporary think tanks typology are considered. The problems of think tanks researches using in shaping foreign policy strategy of Ukraine on the international arena are analyzed.


Regular surveys were conducted in the 16 sugar mills located in nine districts of Punjab state from 2001 to 2004 to develop survey schedule for recommending control measures and to determine the spatial pattern and intensity of different sugarcane pests. Among the various pests, stalk borer, top borer, Pyrilla and black bug can be considered as key pests, while early shoot borer, root borer, while grub and whiteflx as localized pests. The third brood of top borer can be controlled on the basis of incidence of second brood. The surveillance can be conducted in the months of April for black bug, Pyrilla, thrips and mite, in June for top borer (II brood), shoot borer and termite in September for top borer (III brood), root borer, gurdaspur borer, whitefly, and Pyrilla and at the time of harvesting for stalk borer.


Author(s): Smolenski, Sarah Elizabeth | Advisor(s): Wudka, Jose | Abstract: I explore two possible extensions to the standard model. The first is a simple addition, including only one additional scalar particle with an exact $U(1)$ symmetry, which allows the dark boson to condense even when relativistic. The second model includes five new fields consisting of: two dark matter candidates; a mediator boson; heavy dark neutrinos; and a heavy scalar.


Concrete structure creep problem formulation involving linear viscoelasticity leads to integral equations that generally are not solvable in closed form. Developed to overcome this problem, analysis methods include methods that assume simplified creep models, methods based on linear viscoelasticity theorems, and the AAEM algebraic method. A computational approach based on systems of equations' numerical solution is required when there is a complex structural problem which involves different materials, high prestressing, complex geometry, static scheme changes, construction steps, and non homogeneities. The structure's stress history needs to be stored during calculation because of the form that viscoelastic law takes, in which the present strain is a whole stress history function. Also, to allow FEM solver use, needed numerical methods for solving integral equations not immediately compatible with non-linear and linear finite element analysis and integral equation substitution with rate-type approximate always seemed necessary. The authors describe a structural problem set from mathematical and computation formulation point of view, and show the general method based on integral equations coupled with the equilibrium method and then with finite element. A step-by-step analysis of any kind of viscoelastic structure is allowed through the proposed formulation, without regard to the structure's complexity, and in terms of memory requirements, the computational loads no longer appears prohibitive.


Objectives: In the computer vision task, motion based image segmentation is the foremost step which warrants for further research. Several progressive techniques are being created for motion base image segmentation. Machine learning methods are implemented and analyzed in this paper. Methods: Motion is one of the useful characteristics to segment object from the image as it provides a classification of pixel in motion or motionless type. Machine learning methods are giving promising result in classification type problems. Machine learning methods reduce the execution time. In this type of technique a training is required in beginning after that all processes are performed automatically. This paper presents two machine learning technique SVM and LS-SVM. The Segmentation of image can be done by selecting image feature. In proposed method intensity change basis of motion is used as texture feature. Findings: Both of techniques classify pixels of an image between two types, 1. Appropriate to a motion and 2. Not appropriate to motion. Results obtained using this approach shows that machine learning methods are very promising techniques for this type of area. Application/Improvement: LS-SVM method is very promising with enhancement in execution time and segmented object result quality as compared to SVM.


The MICEX index was declining in the first decade in November 2013 until the middle of the month when the stock market saw the beginning of insignificant uptrend in response to oil price recovery. The stock market capitalization reached Rb 24,68 trillion (38.05% of GDP) as of November 26, 2013. The domestic corporate bond market saw a downtrend determined by adverse trends in the Russian economy. Investment activity was deteriorating, although market trading indicators still remained at a high-priced level.


X-Radiography technique has been used effectively for decades to evaluate and identify differences in homogeneities in samples. It is a simple, fast and non-destructive technique that provides a view of internal structure helping investigating manufacturing details of archaeological ceramics. Characteristics of the paste used in the matrix composition can be derived using PIXE technique through the determination of the major elemental composition allowing the calculation of its expected density. Combining this information with x-ray images is possible to check for differences in the average density of material indicating the presence of homogeneously distributed porosity or temper. The present work evaluates the porosity in a set of native Brazilian pottery sherds that were collected in the Aldeia Lalima archaeological site, located at Mato Grosso do Sul State.


1. The acute oral, intraperitoneal and intravenous LD50's for Hyamine 1622 (di-isobutyl-phenoxy-ethoxy-ethyl-dimethylbenzyl ammonium chloride) and Hyamine 2389 (alkyl-(C-9 to C-15)-tolyl-methyltrimethyl ammonium chlorides) have been determined in rats.

2. When incorporated in the diet of rats for a two-year period both Hyamines affected survival at a level of 5000 p.p.m. but not at 2500 p.p.m. Hyamine 2389 inhibited growth at both of these levels whereas Hyamine 1622 reduced growth rate only at the 5000 p.p.m. level. Hematologic findings were within normal limits. No microscopic pathologic changes were seen other than testicular atrophy in a few of the animals fed 2500 and 5000 p.p.m. Hyamine 1622 for 23 months. Gross pathologic changes were limited to the cecum which was distended at levels of 1000 p.p.m. or above of either compound. Moisture content of the cecal material and feces was significantly increased at levels of 2500 p.p.m. and higher after four days of feeding. At the 2500 and 5000 p.p.m. levels a marked reduction in Gram-positive cecal and fecal flora occurred and was accompanied by a relative increase in Gram-negative flora. Blood culture studies on moribund animals were negative.

3. Neither Hyamine appeared to cause ill effects when fed to dogs for one year at levels up to 500 p.p.m. in the diet in that no effects were seen on growth, blood picture, incidence of pathologic changes or survival.

4. Both Hyamines inhibited the motility of isolated rabbit and rat ileum in concentrations as low as 0.002 per cent.

5. Both Hyamines produced nearly complete sympathetic ganglionic blockade, as judged by blood pressure studies in the dog, at an intravenous dose of 2 mgm./kgm.

6. Hyamine 1622 was not irritant to the conjunctiva of the rabbit eye in concentrations up to 0.01 per cent. With Hyamine 2389 the maximal non-irritant concentration was 0.03 per cent.

7. Rabbits to which 0.1 per cent Hyamine 1622 or 0.05 per cent Hyamine 2389 solutions had been applied to the skin daily for four weeks showed no gross or microscopic signs of local or systemic toxicity.

8. As shown by patch tests on man, Hyamine 2389 may be irritating to the skin at concentrations of 10 per cent or above; no sensitization developed.


The purpose of this study is to find effective composition with the service space arrangement through analysis on floor plan of high-rise residential buildings. To achieve this, a space division method, usually adopted to tall office buildings, was applied to residential floor plan analysis. Then the residential spatial arrangement for lease span was divided into interior and perimeter zone. A space division method was redefined according to angle formed with the core and unit plan because quadrate as well as non-quadrate floor plan is more common in these days. As a pilot study for a research on the effective planning of high-rise mixed-use buildings, this study is expected to be a helpful reference for further plan and research.


In September 2011, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan directed the Afghan Assessment Group to redesign the way in which ISAF was assessing the status of the war, and to be 'revolutionary' in so doing. The resulting assessment paradigm was novel, non-doctrinal, and effectively addressed the unique complexities of the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and the needs of the ISAF Commander. It had a two-tier structure consisting of both strategic and campaign assessments. The former focused on answering a set of strategic questions in narrative, analytic form to address the strategic environment, while the latter used a set of standards and accompanying narrative responses to gauge accomplishment of campaign tasks. Both tiers captured the current state of the war while maintaining an eye on future challenges and opportunities. The two assessments and their associated processes were designed to stimulate discussions leading directly to decisions by senior leaders on actions they could take, direct, or request. While any assessment paradigm will have advantages and disadvantages, an examination of the pros and cons of this assessment paradigm makes clear that it should be considered a 'best practice' in the field of counterinsurgency assessment.


This paper presents an all-capacitive sensing chip for temperature, absolute pressure, and relative humidity. The temperature sensors are based on a Si/Au bimorph structure contacting a fixed electrode and produce a sensitivity of 14fF//spl deg/C from 20 to 100/spl deg/C. The absolute pressure sensors have a sensitivity of 15fF/Torr and can be combined to span 500-1200Torr. The relative humidity sensor responds with 39fF/%RH from 20-95%RH. The three-transducer chip uses a bulk- and surface- micromachined silicon-on-glass process and combines anodic bonding with silicon/gold eutectic solder to realize vacuum-sealed cavities along with low-impedance (6/spl Omega/) electrical feedthroughs.


In order to overcome violence against women, the general pervasive culture of violence must be replaced by a culture of peace to ensure justice for all and to provide social spaces in which differences are resolved without violence. In Pakistan, for instance, courts have virtually condoned men for murdering their female relatives when the accused claimed they had acted violently because they suspected their womenfolk of having sexual relationships outside marriage. The essential components of patriarchy are the same in Muslim societies as elsewhere: womens subordination occurs in the immediate family and in kinship structures, in state-building projects and in international policy-making. A question that is quite often posed is whether the concept and desire for womens self-determination is merely a western construct. The question is especially noticeable in recent times in discussions around Islam and women. Keywords: domestic violence; Muslim societies; Muslim women; Pakistan


Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a relapsing inflammatory disease that derives its name from its prominent affliction of optic nerves and spinal cord.1 Once regarded as a demyelinating variant of multiple sclerosis (MS), NMO is now causally associated with disease-specific autoantibodies (NMO–immunoglobulin G [IgG]) that bind selectively to aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels, which in the CNS are located exclusively on astrocytes.2 The presence of such autoantibodies raises questions regarding their precise roles in generating NMO symptoms and lesions. To date, the focus in NMO has been on severe symptoms such as vision loss and paralysis1 that are associated with prominent lesions in which complement-mediated astrocyte lysis may underlie or contribute to pronounced inflammation and tissue destruction.3,4

In this issue of Neurology ®, Popescu et al.5 provide compelling evidence that circulating NMO-IgG (i.e., autoantibodies to AQP4) mediate symptoms of nausea and vomiting in NMO without causing astrocyte loss or tissue destruction. They report 3 main findings. First, about 40% of a cohort of neuropathologic specimens from patients with NMO exhibited anatomic changes in the area postrema, whereas such changes were not found in control specimens …


It is rare to find a hemostatic forceps, as supplied in the ordinary instrument shops, which will last through more than a dozen ordinary operations without extensive repair. The selection of the proper instrument is frequently impossible because most of the instrument dealers carry in stock only the poorest constructed instruments, made by large factories in Germany. The models selected by these manufacturers are frequently such as have many excellent points, but, owing to failure in some minor particular, the instrument soon deteriorates. I have had an artery forceps made which seems to combine a number of useful qualities. The forceps are made in two sizes. The dimensions of the smaller size are the following: total length, 5¼ inches; distance from lock to point, 1¾ inches; distance from lock to proximal end, 3½ inches. The dimensions of the larger forceps are:


Transformative Learning Theory and pedagogies leverage disruptive experiences as catalysts for learning and teaching. By facilitating processes of critical analysis and reflection that challenge assumptions, transformative learning reframes what counts as knowledge and the sources and processes for gaining and producing it. Students develop a broader range of perspectives on and entry points for learning and behavior change engaging cognition, embodiment, aesthetics, emotions, and ethics (see Mezirow 1991 and Figures 1 and 2). The open-inquiry, multi-modal nature of transformative learning defies most traditional assessment strategies. This article demonstrates that grounded theory offers the rigorous qualitative analysis needed to document and track transformative learning outcomes in practice. By applying a grounded theory approach to data from over eighty student portfolios across several iterations of a Religion and Ecology course at Emory University, this article demonstrates a successful and replicable assessment of transformative learning pedagogies.


Background: The process of rock excavation consists of breaking the rock and the extraction of cuttings from the hole. Failure to remove the cuttings results in their being pulverized into progressively finer particle sizes, making drilling very inefficient and in the extreme case halting the drilling process altogether. A unique feature when drilling exploration boreholes on Mars is that, unlike almost all terrestrial drilling, no fluid (gas or liquid) will ordinarily be available to clear the cuttings from the borehole. Until the present, therefore, it has been supposed that an auger system will be used. The behavior of auger systems in the size range that may be used on Mars should therefore be investigated and consideration should be given to other possible means for removing


This paper exploits a natural experiment to document adverse selection among prime consumer credit borrowers in the US. In our setting, some borrowers are offered only a short term loan while an observationally equivalent set of borrowers is offered the same short term loan as well as an additional long maturity option. We isolate adverse selection from the causal effect of maturity on repayment by comparing the ex post default behavior of borrowers who took the same short term loan in both settings. We show that when the long term option is available, borrowers who choose the short term loan default less and have higher future FICO scores. Thus, a longer loan maturity induces adverse selection by attracting unobservably less creditworthy borrowers. The difference in the default rate of borrowers who choose the pre-existing short maturity loan and those that self select to the new long maturity option is five percentage points, an economically large effect for prime borrowers whose average default rate is 8.6%. Our results highlight the potential for underprovision of long maturity consumer credit.


The development and characterization of experimental setups for angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) and spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (SARPES) is described. Subs ...


The merger between titanium dioxide producers Tronox and Cristal faces further regulatory hurdles - the European Commission has initiated a review of the deal following an investigation in the United States. " "The market is already concentrated and Tronox and Cristal are close competitors," the commission said, adding that the transaction could lead to higher prices, particularly in specialized markets such as building paints and pigments for plastics and paper.


Abstract The efficiency of belt-type continuously variable transmission (CVT) - apart from the power consumption of auxiliary systems such as hydraulics - predominantly depends on the energy dissipated during sliding at the belt-disc contacts. These sliding motions are a consequence of elastic deformations and misalignments because of clearances, resulting in a so-called spiral path of the belt elements on the discs and hence tangential and radial sliding motions. The performance of such systems can be predicted through an iterative computation by numerically solving a set of differential equations for the forces and motions coupled with a finite-element computation of the deformations. A comparison with elaborate measurements of deflections, belt motions, and losses shows that a relatively simple modified Coulomb type friction model with a steep gradient through the origin delivers sufficiently accurate results. The computations reveal the existence of 'locked' zones with extremely low 'creeping' motions. Thus, the mechanisms of power transmission in belt-type CVT are better understood and designers have a validated tool to optimize shaft and disc geometry concerning maximum efficiency.


However, few tools exist that quantitatively assess the level of stringency and enforcement of alcohol policies. Our development of the Toolkit for Evaluating Alcohol policy Stringency and Enforcement (TEASE-16) aimed to address this.We applied the toolkit to nine study areas in the western Pacific. While this involved extensive data collection (288 data points) to develop the policy scores, as we noted in our paper,


Aim In order to elucidate the role of oxidized low density lipoproteins (OLDL), we have examined the metabolism of OLDL in macrophages and the effect of OLDL on the total cholesterol content in macrophages.Methods The metabolism of low density lipoprotein (LDL) and OLDL in macrophages was assessed with the radio-receptor assays.Results Human macrophage metabolized LDL by a receptor pathway with 390. 6 μg/g cell protein of the Bun and 17. 5 mg/L of kd. The receptor Pathway exhibited satuative kinelies. The metabolism of OLDL was different from LDL. The binding internalization and degradation of OLDL by macrophages increased significantly as compared with the LDL. The total cholesterol content in macrophages incubated with OLDL was also higher than that of cells incubated with native LDL.Conclusion OLDL was metabolized by macrophages with different pathway from LDL and may lead to the formation of foams.


Several groups have identified an extended excess of gamma rays over the modeled foreground and background emissions towards the Galactic center (GC) based on observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. This excess emission is compatible in morphology and spectrum with a telltale sign from dark matter (DM) annihilation. Here, we present a critical reassessment of DM interpretations of the GC signal in light of the foreground and background uncertainties that some of us recently outlaid in Calore et al. (2014). We find that a much larger number of DM models fits the gamma-ray data than previously noted. In particular: (1) In the case of DM annihilation into (b) over barb, we find that even large DM masses up to m(chi) similar or equal to 74 GeV are allowed at p-value > 0.05. (2) Surprisingly, annihilation into nonrelativistic hh gives a good fit to the data. (3) The inverse Compton emission from mu(+)mu(-) with m(chi) similar to 60-70 GeV can also account for the excess at higher latitudes, vertical bar b vertical bar > 2 degrees, both in its spectrum and morphology. We also present novel constraints on a large number of mixed annihilation channels, including cascade annihilation involving hidden sector mediators. Finally, we show that the current limits from dwarf spheroidal observations are not in tension with a DM interpretation when uncertainties on the DM halo profile are accounted for.


With the development of new technologies, several conceptually new methodological developments have appeared in the modern dendrochronology, including the study of samples using the so-called "non-invasive methods." This article details the history of the use of high-resolution macrophotography and computed tomography for studying wooden samples, which, due to their high historical, cultural, and material value, cannot be studied using traditional methods. Moreover, based on the results of foreign and Russian experiments on the use of these technologies in dendrochronology, we have made an attempt to highlight main problems and limitations of the methods, as well as to analyze their prospects both for archeology and other disciplines. A conclusion was made that, since 2007, when the first attempts to use X-ray CTs to measure the width of tree growth rings were made, the success in the use of this technology has become evident. Despite several unsuccessful experiments, the large majority of the researchers note high efficiency of the method, as well as its high potential for further research. As for macrophotography, with the emergence of special software in the early 2010s, which could make it possible to study samples not only in the field, but also remotely, this method also proved to be highly effective. Its main advantage is in its relatively low cost, as well as the ability, when necessary, to re-examine the sample at any point. The emergence and active implementation of non-invasive methods in dendrochronology can significantly increase the source base available to the researchers, adding to it a large number of archaeological artifacts, works of art, as well as antiquities and much more.


Erik Bleich, Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960's, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 233 pp. Penny M. Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, 329 pp. Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres, After Race: Racism after Multiculturalism, New York University Press, 2004, xi þ189 pp. Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, Einstein on Race and Racism, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005, 206 pp.


Moringa oleifera (M. oleifera) is, native of the Indian subcontinent, plant of angiosperm utilized in food and medicine. It is cultivated in all tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. The therapeutic prophylactic and nutritional uses of this plant are extensively used. Moringa oleifera is an edible plant. A wide variety of nutritional and medicinal virtues have been attributed to its roots, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seed. Phytochemical analyses have shown that its leaves are particularly rich in potassium, calcium, phosphorous, iron, vitamins A and D, essential amino acids, as well as such known antioxidants such as βcarotene, vitamin C, and flavonoids . Various therapeutic methods used in treatment of atherosclerosis but fail to prevent complication of cardiovascular origin ,so we used medicinal plant in therapy for excluding complication.Moringa oleifera is used as hypocholesterolaemic effect in Sprague dawley rats as shown in recent studies.However ,we need more data about scientific uses of this natural product.The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of aqueous extract of moringa oleifera leaves on Lipid profile; triglycerides (TGs), cholesterol, high density lipoproteins (HDL) and low density lipoproteins (LDL) and very low density lipoprotein (VLDL),as well as on liver tissues for superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), malondialdehyde (MDA),Total antioxidant capacity (TAC),and gene expression for LDLgene.The extract was administered at two doses,200mg/kg bw and 300mg/kg bw respectively orally for a period of 30days.Tamoxifen with a dose of 0.5 mg/ kg b.wt.by S/C for 5consequtive days induced atherosclerotic rats showed hyperlipidemia ,hypercholesterolemia,loweing in TAC,SOD,and MDA,while increase the catalase ratio.Moringa groups showed cure most of the deviation near to the normal ratio.The present study reveals that moringa oleifera extract possesses antiatherosclerotic and antihyperlipedemic effect in atherosclerotic induced rats by tamoxifen .


In order to develop new style microecological preparation,the condition of improving the production level for Lactobacillus plantarum were screened and optimized.The single factor experiments and response surface analysis were carried out to determinate the optimal proportion of ingredient of fermentation medium.And then,the large-scale culture technology and the Lp-2 culture process was screened and optimized.The maximum yields of Lactobacillus plantarum can be obtained under conditions of sucrose,29 g/L,yeast extract,31g/L,peptone,25g/L,K2HPO4 20 g/L,NaAc,6 g/L,Di-Ammoniun Hydrogen Citrate,2 g/L,tween80,2 g/L,MgSO4,0.1 g/L,MnSO40.1g/L at speed 100 r/min,32℃ for 9.6 h in a 3-ton fermentor.The maximum yields of Lactobacillus plantarum was 1010 CFU/mL.The result showed that our culture optimization is obvious,and it is worth being populalized and applied.


increases, becoming maximum around X2~ 0.58. Both HE aDdGE become minimum around X. ~ 0.4 while TSE becomes minimum around X. ~ 0.21. These results have been explained in the light of the structure-breaking character of pyridine and formation of pyridine water complexes. The excess partial molal heat capacity at infinite dilution (6. C;2) bas been evaluated and found to be negative indicating structure-breaking propensity of pyridine.


In FY 1998, Pulsating Mixer Pump (PMP) technology, consisting of a jet mixer powered by a reciprocating air supply, was selected for deployment in one of the Gunite and Associated Tanks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to mobilize settled solids. The pulsating mixer pump technology was identified during FY 1996 and FY 1997 technical exchanges between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Tanks Focus Area Retrieval and Closure program, the DOE Environmental Management International Programs, and delegates from Russia as a promising technology that could be implemented in the DOE complex. During FY 1997, the pulsating mixer pump technology, provided by the Russian Integrated Mining Chemical Company, was tested at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to observe its ability to suspend settled solids. Based on the results of this demonstration, ORNL and DOE staff determined that a modified pulsating mixer pump would meet project needs for remote sludge mobilization of Gunite tank sludge and reduce the cost of operation and maintenance of more expensive mixing systems. The functions and requirements of the system were developed by combining the results and recommendations from the pulsating mixer pump demonstration at PNNL with the requirements identified by staff at ORNL involved withmore » the remediation of the Gunite and Associated Tanks. The PMP is comprised of a pump chamber, check valve, a working gas supply pipe, a discharge manifold, and four jet nozzles. The pump uses two distinct cycles, fill and discharge, to perform its mixing action. During the fill cycle, vacuum is applied to the pump chamber by an eductor, which draws liquid into the pump. When the liquid level inside the chamber reaches a certain level, the chamber is pressurized with compressed air to discharge the liquid through the jet nozzles and back into the tank to mobilize sludge and settled solids.« less


Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most frequently prescribed medication in the management of pain, inflammation, and fever. They exert their therapeutic activity by non-selectively inhibiting cyclooxygenase-derived prostaglandin synthesis1-2. This mechanism of action is inherently responsible for their gastrointestinal (GI) 3-7, renal 8-10 and hepatic 11-13 side effects observed in ABSTRACT


The approach to the construction of the automatic text summarization (ATS) system based on hierarchical fuzzy neural network (HFNN), which is oriented on structural and non-structural features for extraction at different levels of the text, taking into account connectivity initial text of the document, which allows consider not only statistical information, but also organizational and syntax-semantic structure of the text, is proposed. The mathematical apparatus HFNN and its learning algorithm for solving ATS task are considered. By means of Matlab the experiment for HFNN approbation and also verifying its effectiveness is done. It is shown that the quality of the summary, obtained using the proposed method is higher compared to the summary, obtained by conventional statistical methods.


Installing the arc suppression coil (ASC) at the neutral point in the medium-voltage power network is widely applied in the distribution network in China. For the sake of adapting the operation demand of distribution network of various types and areas, many kinds of ASC with different design principle have appeared in the market of China. It is mainly comprised of the winding turns adjustable un-damped type ASC, the automatic winding turns adjusting damping type ASC, the automatic capacity-adjusting type ASC and the phase control type ASC etc. In order to compared the technique performance of ASC with different design principle. it is shown that the length of grounding arc path that the ASC can extinguished is closely related to its ability of extinct arc. The shorter the arc path may cause more difficulty in the extinguishing of the arc. Therefore, the length of grounding arc path that is extinct by the ASC is selected as a main technique index to compare the performance of ASC. Based on this given experimental index, the simulated medium-voltage electric network and experiment equipment is built in the laboratory. The distance of the electrode is adjusted to get the arc with different arc length. The single phase grounding test is done simulated under different turn-out degree and different arc length. The arc length extinct by different ASC under different turn-out degree and the time needed to extinct the arc are analysed statistically. The performances of extinct arc of different types of ASC are compared. The guidance opinions provide for the utilities to select the appropriate ASC is recommended.


• In chis paper we modify thr many-particlf: point uansforms previously drvdoprd by N. M. 1'iuiol in such a way chat chf: transformacion varif:'s from che idf:'ntity Iransformacion -one isolatf:d body to chf: N.bodif:sintf:racling as chf: inlf:rparticlf: separacíon.!'! fall ",ithin an arbicrar}' chosf:n cutoff distanct:. Tht: mt:lhod is ust:d co providf: Hamihonians for strongly intt:r. actinK partic1f:s Ihac art: equivalt:nl to che usual Hamiltonians. 1. 1NTRODUCTION Thc method of poinllransformalion, as developed by F.M. Eger and E. P. Gross3-6, is basically a classical canonical transformarion of rhe vari. ables of me sysrem and ir rhen quanrizes lhese transformed variables. They began ro explore rhe use of chis method in many-particle meor}', with the main purpose oE obtaining tlamihonians free oí the difficlIlties encountered in dealing with slrongly inte[acting particles. Using rhis merhod, Eger and Gross have assumed rhar lor a sufficiently dilure sysrem rhe equivalenr many.


Agricultural extension as part of the national life (especially farmers) and promote welfare in general is one key to success in order to strengthen farmer groups. Many farmers' groups have been developed, but there are many who questioned its existence. the purpose of this study was (1) Determine the role of agricultural extension in the village Kemuning muda. (2) Determine the development of farmers 'groups in the village Kemuning Muda, and (3) To identify any problems encountered by farmers in agricultural extension role in the development of farmers' groups in rural districts KemuningMuda Bungaraya Siak district. the method used in this research is survey method with a sampling technique that with Purposive Samplingmethod. the number of samples in this study were 6 farmer groups, respectively 5 samples taken farmer groups so that the total is 30 samples. data analysis using a Likert scale. the results showed that, the role of agricultural extension in the development of farmers' groups in rural districts KemuningMuda Bungaraya Siak district is quite good. handling problems faced by farmers in agricultural extension role in the development of farmer groups are less helpful extension of market access for agricultural products and the insufficient number of members who abide by the regulations.


The Chalk River Tritium Extraction Plant has been built to remove tritium from AECL's heavy water to achieve a reduction in operator dose and emissions. A supplementary purpose of the plant is to demonstrate, in a full-scale environment, process technology developed by the laboratories. The tritium will be marketed, as will service detritiation for other owners of heavy water reactors. Previous papers have described the process and design of the plant. This paper updates these, in addition to information on construction, and some early commissioning activities.


: With the development of natural language processing, deep learning, and other technologies, text steganography is rapidly developing. However, adversarial attack methods have emerged that gives text steganography the ability to actively spoof steganalysis. If terrorists use the text steganography method to spread terrorist messages, it will greatly disturb social stability. Steganalysis methods, especially those for resisting adversarial attacks, need to be further improved. In this paper, we propose a two-stage highly robust model for text steganalysis. The proposed method analyzes and extracts anomalous features at both intra-sentential and inter-sentential levels. In the first phase, every sentence is first transformed into word vectors. To obtain a high dimensional sentence vector, we use Bi-LSTM to obtain feature information for all words in the sentence while retaining strong correlations. In the second phase, we input multiple sentences vectors into the GNN, from which we extract inter-sentential anomaly features and make a judgment as to whether the text contains secret messages. In addition, to improve the robustness of the model, we add adversarial examples to the training set to improve the robustness and generalization of the steganalysis model. Theoretically, our proposed method is more robust and more accurate in detection compared to existing methods.


SPME and GC-MS were analysied for wastewater samples.13 kinds of gas composition in wastewater and 49 in grapefruit were obtained.Different quality of peel was used to treat wastewater.Sensory analysis after water treatment found most of them did not have the odor but the peel aroma.Then take SPME and GC-MS analysis were used for treated wastewater.The gas composition changed more than before.Odor components reduced.Experiment of the heat of combustion found residue calorific value increased than citrus peel.The experimental results show that citrus peel can be used as a good deodorant.


italiano1. L'orizzonte giuridico della Chiesa, tra giustizia e misericordia. - 2. La misericordia quale limite e perfezione alia giustizia e al diritto. - 3. L'interpretazione "misericordiosa" del diritto quale "via migliore di tutte" EnglishMoving from the bull Misericordiae Vultus and the Apostolic Letter Misericordia et misera of Pope Francis, the Author demonstrates how mercy not only presupposes justice, but mercy is and becomes a mean to enforcing justice. The Christian notion of justice goes beyond the classical notion, understanding and elevating the suum on the basis of an ontologically superior order principle, to charity, understood, in the words of a Father of the Church, as principatus iustitiae, the guiding principle of the same justice.


Heat-induced structural changes of faba bean starch dispersions were examined at a concentration range of 810% as a function of heat treatment. Faba bean starch was isolated from raw (RF-starch) and steamed (SFstarch) faba bean seeds. Hydrothermal treatment resulted in an increase in the amount of non-starch components in the isolated starch. Microstructure of low-sheared 8% starch suspensions heated at 75 , 90 and 98•c (for 10 minutes) was studied by light microscopy. Heating induced huge swelling ofRF-starch. Even at 75•c, a considerable amount of amylose was found outside the granule. The amylopectin in starch paste heated to 98 •c was highly swollen. Steaming of faba bean seeds had a marked effect on the pasting behaviour of the isolated starch. At 75 •c the swelling of the granules and the release of amylose was limited. At 9o•c, some of the granules stained blue, some brown and a weak amylose phase could be seen outside the granules. At 98•c, the granules stained brown, were more swollen, and amylose surrounded the intact swollen granules. Rheological properties were studied during cooling of10% starch dispersions heated to 9o•c and 98•c. Storage modulus increased and phase angle decreased below 50•c as a result of amylose gelation. RF-starch dispersion heated at 9o•c formed a gel with high storage modulus and low phase angle; the SF-starch dispersion formed a less elastic gel (higher phase angle) . Light and scanning electron micrographs showed that, the RF-starch dispersion preheated at 90•c, cooled and stored in a refrigerator for one day consisted of an amylose network, whereas the amylose was deposited on the surface of the granules in the SF-starch dispersion.


policies and approach to multilateral and plurilateral initiatives including FTAs will need to factor in all these domestic needs and compulsions even as it is not being proposed that we shy away from them. We need to engage and create windows and phased commitments that enable us to be part of global market place even as our industry and S&T enterprises have sufficient time lines and financial resources to continually reinvent themselves to keep pace.


We discuss a model for the ow of an inviscid uid admitting liquid and vapor phases, as well as a mixture of them. The ow is modeled in one spatial dimension; the state variables are the specic volume, the velocity and the mass density fraction of vapor in the uid. The equation governing the time evolution of contains a source term, which enables metastable states and drives the uid towards stable pure phases. We rst discuss, for the homogeneous system, the BV stability of Riemann solutions generated by large initial data and check the validity of several sucient conditions that are known in the literature. Then, we review some recent results about the existence of solutions, which are globally dened in time, for close either to 0 or to 1 (corresponding to almost pure phases). These solutions possibly contain large shocks. Finally, in the relaxation limit, solutions are proved to satisfy a reduced system and the related entropy condition. R


The introduction of short-range wireless networking technologies and various new mobile computing devices into the business workplace is affecting how activities and meetings are performed and conducted. One problem that arises with the use of short-range wireless Personal Area Networks (PANS) is that the administrative overhead required to securely create an ad hoc network can impede or inconvenience the actual collaborative task. In co-located environments, where meetings and tasks are often unscheduled and spontaneous, users must evaluate whether security or convenience is paramount. In impromptu situations, the user will most likely decide to employ secure technology if it is convenient and helpful to the task at hand. In normal groupware environments, connectivity to the network is assumed to be present, and hence authentication, key management, and encryption services are simply provided by infrastructure servers. However, in a PAN environment where outside network connectivity is limited, usable and convenient security may affect the usability of the system. In a co-located environment, the collaborators are assumed to be relatively close in physical location. In this type of environment, off-channel communications have been used to exchange information between collaborators. However, traditional off-channel communications such as verbal messages or written notes can be easily intercepted and compromised in busy environments. This thesis presents our prototype system PAN-KEY (Personal Area Network Key), which introduces a new interaction technique to create a secure PAN. PAN-KEY adopts existing security technologies and leverages them in a colocated environment where off-channel communication is not always possible. PAN-KEY uses a physical key to exchange and securely bootstrap a PAN. The physical key is used to store security and network information and is physically exchanged between co-located users desiring to join the shared secure PAN. A description of the implementation details of PAN-KEY is given, along with findings from the exploratory user study conducted to investigate the acceptance and use of the PAN-KEY system. The experimental results showed that users were generally able to learn and use the new system, and in most cases, preferred PAN-KEY over the existing system.


BADE, KLAUS J et al., The Encyclopaedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe: From the 17th Century to the Present, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 860pp., ISBN 978-0-52189586-6(hb), £125.00(hb) BAUDERM, HARALD, Immigration Dialectic: Imagining,Community, Economy and Nation, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, 305pp., ISBN 978-1-4426-1076-7(pb), $35.00(pb) BENG-LAN, GOH ed, Decentring and Diversifying Southeast Asian Studies: Perspectives from the Region, Singapore: ISEAS, 2011, 304pp., ISBN 978-981-4311-56-4(pb), $34.90(pb) BERG, METTER LOUISE, Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics, and Nation Among Cubans in Spain, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011, 240pp., ISBN 978-0-85745-245-0(hb), $70.00/£40.00(hb) BORCK, LOTHAR et al., Fragile States, Oxford: Polity, 2012, 200pp., ISBN978-0-7456-4942-9(pb), £13.99(pb) BRANTLINGER, PATRICK, Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011, 288pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-5019-8(hb), $45.00(hb) BRETTELL, CAROLINE B. and REED-DANAHAY, DEBORAH, Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011, 296pp., ISBN 978-0-8047-7529-8(pb), $24.95(pb) CASPERSEN, NINA, Unrecognized States: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Modern International System, Oxford: Polity, 2011, 224pp., ISBN 978-0-6456-5343-3(pb), £16.99(pb) CHEAH, JOSEPH, Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011, 192pp., ISBN 978-0-19-975628-5(hb), $65.00(hb) COHEN, JEFFREY H. and SIRKECI, IBRAHIM, Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011, 179pp., ISBN 978-0-292-726857(pb), $24.95(pb) FELDMAN, GREGORY, The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011, 248pp., ISBN 978-0-8047-6107-9(pb), $22.95(pb) Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 35 No. 5 May 2012 pp. 955 959


A serious engineering problem that needs to be addressed in the scale-up of slurry-phase, Fischer-Tropsch reactors is attrition of the precipitated iron catalyst. Attrition, which can break down the catalyst into particles too small to filter, results from both mechanical and chemical forces. This study examines the chemical causes of attrition in iron catalysts. A bench-scale, slurry-phase CSTR is used to simulate operating conditions that lead to attrition of the catalyst. The average particle size and size distribution of the catalyst samples are used to determine the effect of slurry temperature, reducing gas, gas flow rate and time upon attrition of the catalyst. Carbon deposition, a possible contributing factor to attrition, has been examined using gravimetric analysis and TEM. Conditions affecting the rate of carbon deposition have been compared to those leading to attrition of the precipitated iron catalyst.


【Ohjective】 To compare the curative effect of flexirigid thoracoscope(FxT) and video assisted rigid thoracoscope(VATS) in the treatment of diseases of pleura.【Methods】 24 patients with diseases of pleura were dignosised through either FxT(FxT group,8 patients) or VATS(VATS group,16 patients),comparing the diagnostic rate,complication mortality,postoperative recurrent rate,expense of hospitalization and length of stay in hospital in two groups.【Results】 The diagnostic rate is higher in VATS group,but did not achieving statistics difference(75% VS 88%,P =0.4386).The length of stay in hospital is longer and the expense of hospitalization is higher in FxT group with statistical difference(P 0.05).Postoperative complication include Talc-related fever,infection,respiratory failure and death.Patients treated through FxT had minor complication and recovered smoothly,but three sever complications(2 patients died,1 patient developed respiratory failure) occurred in VATS group.Two recurrence of pleural effusion occurred in FxT group and none in VATS group.【Conclusion】 FxT and VATS each has advantage and disadvantage respectively,VATS is the best choice for patients with good heart and lung function,FxT suit for selected patients with poor heart and lung function,we should choose according patients′ condition.


Recently, for the first time since 1965, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed amendments to the regulations governing how subpart F income of a controlled foreign corporation is allocated among the shareholders of the corporation. The amendments focus on situations in which the CFC has multiple classes of stock including stock subject to special restrictions on distributions or stock subject to discretionary distribution rights. This article explores the proposed amendments and considers whether they will achieve Treasury and the IRS' stated goal of ensuring results that are more consistent with the economic interests of the shareholders than the current regulations. The article includes examples illustrating how the proposed rules are intended to operate and identifies a number of ambiguities and weaknesses in the proposed rules.


The individual and combined cytotoxicity of 5-fluorouracil and the three nanoparticles, silica, selenium, and gold nanoparticles against human osteosarcoma MG-63 cells were investigated by using cyclic voltammetry and microscopic observation, respectively. It is found that both the drug and the nanoparticles were able to inhibit cell proliferation in a dose-dependent way and the inhibition efficiency of Au NPs was most prominent. The combination of 5-FU with high-concentration SiO2 NPs and Se NPs presented a simple-addition and synergistic effect, respectively. The present work may be conducive for the exploration of the applications of nanoparticles in biomedicine and cancer treatment.


Elevated convection is difficult to forecast considering the fact that the convection usuall y occurs above a stable boundar y layer. In the Ohio Valley, convection that occurs during the cold season is generall y elevated in nature. Colman (1990a and 1990b) has laid the groundwork for studies on elevated convection by identifying the climatology, organization, and instabilit y mechanisms involved in the develo pment of thunderstorms above a stable boundar y layer.


In distributed antenna system (DAS), since the distances from the remote antenna units (RAUs) to the mobile are different, the transmitted power of pilot symbol in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) needs to be optimized to provide a reliable channel estimation for the purpose of coherent detection. In this paper, we present a novel pilot power allocation strategy for OFDM in DAS which is developed based on the criterion of minimizing the mean square error (MSE) of channel estimates at pilot subcarrier across the RAUs. The proposed method only needs the information of large-scale fading at transmitter to allocate power, which makes it feasible in practical OFDM DAS systems.


The role of agricultural expansion investment in improving the income redistribution conditions in society has been of considerable concern to planners. In this paper an approach based on distributing the newly developed land to a poorer sector (landless farmers) in society to gain agricultural revenues and improve their income is investigated. A mathematical optimization model is built to determine the distribution of land and a pricing policy established for the new areas in such a way that (1) a specified (by the government) income increase to the farmers can be achieved, (2) a predetermined level of recovery of the expansion cost can be insured, (3) high agricultural efficiency in the new land can be maintained, and (4) redistribution benefits can be maximized. In a case study application of the model, no conflict is found between the economic efficiency and income redistribution cirtieria in agricultural expansion investment within the planning framework presented in the companion paper (Allam and Marks, this issue). For a specified cost recovery condition it is found that the least cost planning alternatives give the opportunity to the largest number of landless farmers to own the new land and receive a specified income increase from the agricultural revenues, but a conflict between government return from the investment and redistribution objectives is found. This conflict is addressed and the trade-off between the two objectives is illustrated.


Effects of varying listening postures and different intensity levels on averaged cardiovascular responses to acoustic signals were studied, Twenty‐four normal‐hearing female volunteers were offered five 1000‐Hz tones (800‐msec duration, 19‐msec rise/decay), one signal each 45 seconds. EKG activity was recorded by a Medtronic Tachograph and then "averaged" through a Fabri‐Tek FT 1052. Half the subjects received a 30‐dB‐SL signal first, the other half a 70‐dB‐SL signal first. Within a month, the experiment was repeated with the other sensation level, i.e., 70 dB SL on 30 dB SL, respectively. Listening conditions included: counting, reading, repose, and a nonstimulus control. Listening order was balanced. For all listening and intensity conditions, a multiphasic response pattern of initial deceleration, followed by acceleration, a second deceleration, and a long return to base‐line was usually observed. At 70 dB SL, response patterns appeared uniform regardless of listening state. But at 30 dB, counting show...


In our study, we focus on spatio-temporal causal auto-logistic model and proposed a two-step-centered parametrization version of it. We study the existence of the joint law according to the conditional marginals. The simulation study show that the one-step model can not reflect the temporal data structure when both spatial and temporal dependance are strong, while for the two-step model, there is an adequate agreement between the data structure and the temporal large-scale structure. The results of estimation for simulated lattices over years were performed by expectation-maximization (EM) pseudo-likelihood in two stages. They show that under the two-step centered parametrization, the inference for parameters of both temporal and spatial regressions are accurate, while under one-step centered parametrization their inference are always conflicting.


115) This is accomplished by applying certain data analytic procedures and problem solving strategies (process behavior charts, cause and effect diagrams, Pareto charts, etc.) to differentiate between the patterns of variation present in key performance indicators of the process targeted for improvement. Interventions can then be developed, implemented, and continually adjusted based on an ongoing analysis of the resulting outcomes to continuously improve the system's level of functioning. Although there have been 15


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funds. The aim of this contribution is to answer the question
how to manage public finances in this domain and what's is
generally changing in their pooling and allocation in time of
economic crisis. Applicable ideas, comments and results from
surveys are available from Kutzin publications and OECD esp..
Methodologically, I used analyses dealing this topic collected
esp. from OECD, WHO and Oxford publications written by Joumard,
Kutzin and Kaplan. Also reviewing legal (health, demographic
and socioeconomic measures explained on WHO and OECD variables
(graphics) or presentations, working papers (Joumard) dealing
with related topics. Retrospective comparison.


The author believes that the financial innovation will brought us with both risks and benefit.So,to promote the development of the banking industry,we should adhere to the principle of conservation.To make innovation in the banking industry,we should adhere to the principle of "countable cost,controllable risk and fully disclosed information",take the scientific outlook on development as our guide,make innovation in finance according to the requirement of the health development of national economy,improve our capability for risk management,strengthen education for investors and improve the financial consumers' capability for the understanding of innovative product.


The invention discloses a thermal-insulation paint for building external walls, which is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: an epoxy resin, bismaleimide, di-tert alcohol propenyl borate, foam glass, an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, 3,3'-(p-phenyleneoxy)bis(2,4,5-triphenyl)cyclopentadiene ketone, nano alumina-silica fiber, a dispersing agent, a thickener, a defoaming agent and a wetting agent. The paint has the advantages of low raw material loss, simple technique, hard paint film, favorable glossiness, high impact resistance, low cracking tendency, soft tactile sensation, high decorating property, high weather resistance, high scrub resistance, high adhesive force, long service life, no special smell, no heavy metals (such as mercury, lead and the like), no volatile formaldehyde, synergistic actions among substance molecules, very high stability, high adhesiveness and high film formation efficiency, enhances the density of the coating film, and improves the film formation quality. Thus, the film has the advantages of high adhesive force, no bubble or crack, high compactness, high uniformity and the like.


: Borg (2009) states that there is a relationship between people's action and their belief and knowledge. It makes educational researchers take more concern with a similar phenomenon which occurs in teaching learning process. Borg claims that 'teachers' mental lives play a role in their instructional practices'. This qualitative research reports a case study of teacher's beliefs in grammar and her grammar teaching practice in SMA Negeri 5 Surakarta. The data were collected by in-depth interview with the teacher, in-depth interview with students, and passive classroom observation. The data were analyzed by qualitative data analysis proposed by Miles and Huberman (1994). The result of the research indicates that the teacher's beliefs of grammar and teaching grammar influence her grammar teaching practices.


Based on a review of documents home and abroad,based on the special system background of Chinese capital market,with state-owned listed companies as sample,this paper testifies the effect of management power on the sensitiveness of listed company compensation performance.On this basis,this paper separates the listed company performance with regression model.The results show that under the influence of management power,the relationship between executive compensation and abnormal performance of listed company is positive.Meanwhile,executive compensation and listed company's normal performance is obviously weakening.


The study included the study of the effect of both the water extract of Capsicum annuumers and the insecticide on some aspects of the life of the matrix T. absoluta, As a result of the destructive damage caused by this pest to the tomato crop in Iraq, three concentrations were used for both the pepper extract and the insecticide (1, 2 and 4), and studied the effect of these concentrations on egg hatching and the highest rate of hatching suppression 96.7% when using the pepper extract at a concentration of 4% and after 24 hours of laying eggs, Followed by the use of the insecticide, which gave the hatching of the hatchery by 73.7% at the same concentration and the age of the eggs. The rate of inhibition decreased significantly at the age of 72 hours and at the same concentration and treatments to 73.7 and 70.0% for the extracts and insecticide treatments respectively. The effect of the extract and the insecticide was significant, with the highest mortality rate of 67.6% at 4% concentration followed by the use of an insecticide, which gave 61.4% at the same concentration. The duration of larval role in the treatment of the pesticide was 31.0 days at the same concentration and decreased to 28.6 days in the treatment extract at the same concentration.


Background: Breast cancer-related arm morbidity affects the lives of many women across Canada. Lymphoedema therapists need to be aware of concurrent arm morbidity. Aims: To research the relationship between arm morbidity and disability in order to design adequate post-surgery care. Methods: Clinical assessments were conducted on 285 postoperative breast cancer survivors across four Canadian sites at two time points: 6–12 months and 18–24 months post-surgery. Participants were evaluated for lymphoedema, pain, and range of motion restrictions. Participants were also asked to complete the Disability of Arm, Hand and Shoulder questionnaire. This article describes the prevalance of arm morbidity, as well as the relationship between arm morbidity and disability at the two clinical assessments. Results: The prevalence of arm morbidity decreased from the first clinical assessment to the second. Lymphoedema was not correlated with disabilty at either time period, although pain and range of motion restrictions were correlated at both time points. Conclusions: Disability is correlated with pain and range of motion restictions related to breast cancer. Declaration of interest: None.


The proposed project development objective (PDO) is to help improve sustainable access and delivery of electricity and water services in urban areas by helping Regideso to restore its viability and the quality and continuity of services in the face of the increasing demand of people and economic agents. The project addresses a critical issue by meeting the Government's priority to fill the current gap between supply and demand, and at the same time launching long term planning activities, studies, and improving the operational capacity of the main institution in order to avoid or at least effectively reduce future gaps. This project will cause loss of land and property resulting in (a) the removal or loss of shelter for displaced persons;(b) loss of property or access to property; and (c) loss of revenue or means of subsistence for those affected. In addition, there will be involuntary restriction of access to parks and protected areas causing adverse impacts on the living conditions of internally displaced persons.


DNA methylation is as an epigenetic regulator of gene expression and has been implicated in cell differentiation, cancer progression, and gene regulation. Recently, methylation of CpG regions was shown to occur de novo in regions related to key developmental genes, implicating its role in the biological process of aging. However, current predictive models of DNA methylation state and aging index suffer from the profound shortage of cost-inefficient manually annotated genomic sequences and a priori defined features. Thus, we developed a proof-of-concept deep learning model to circumvent such bottlenecks, allowing for imputation of missing methylation state by DNA sequence and prediction of an epigenetic age index. Our models leveraged the use of a convolutional autoencoder to learn the latent representations of genomic sequences as well as a series of fully-connected stacked convolutional layers and a Bidirectional LSTM. Overall all supervised learning models achieved accuracy above 80% with future improvements possible by addressing class imbalance. We also trained a random forest regression model for age prediction that was able to learn a high correlation between complete methylation profile and chronological age and outperformed our deep learning model.


II As an alternative to electrical interconnections, optical interconnections are being investigated for digital systems that require high speed, density, and connectivity. In particular, diode-laser-based optical interconnections with high optoelectronic conversion efficiencies promise simple interconnections that can operate even at gigahertz. rates. Optical modules in which critical alignments have been performed during module assembly can reduce module placement requirements from micrometers to millimeters. Such modules can also eliminate the need for micropositioners in digital systems. This article describes the basic concepts of optical interconnections, the progress on experinlental diode-laser-based freespace optical interconnections, and the future prospects for this technology.


Zeolites are a special class of structured aluminosilicates with a developed inner surface and a large number of micropores, which allows them to be used as sorbents, membrane materials, and catalysts. Zeolite ZSM-5 is an aluminosilicate formed by parallel channels with a diameter of 5.3–5.6Å interconnected by sinusoidal channels with a diameter of 5.1–5.5Å. At the same time, the presence of aluminum atoms in the zeolite crystal lattice makes it possible to carry out dehydrogenation, esterification, isomerization, and aromatization reactions, and the presence of microchannels significantly increases the number of collisions of reacting compounds, which leads to a significant increase in the rate of chemical transformations in such systems. The synthesis of ZSM-5 zeolite using structure-directing agents has been known since the late 70s of the last centuries, while the high cost of structure-directing agents used and the long duration of hydrothermal synthesis and the need for subsequent post-synthetic procedures lead to a high cost of the resulting zeolite. One of the possible ways to reduce the cost of the synthesis of ZSM-5 zeolite is the direct use of ZSM-5 zeolite as a structure-forming agent, while the synthesis conditions play a decisive role in the structure of the resulting zeolite. The article presents the results of a study of the synthesis of ZSM-5 zeolite and a study of its acidic properties using locally produced reagents. Zeolite was prepared using pre-milled silica gel, sodium hydroxide, and sodium aluminate. The pre-weighed silica gel sample was filled with sodium hydroxide solution and stirred at 70 ℃ to form a colloidal solution, after which the pre-prepared sodium aluminate solution was added, and hydrothermal synthesis was carried out at 180 ℃ for 24 hours. During the synthesis, the Si/Al ratio was varied in the range from 7.5 to 2000, while the resulting acidity ranged from 0.002 to 0.265 mmol(NH3)/g(ZSM-5). It was found that the synthesis of ZSM-5 using pre-prepared reagent solutions is superior to the method using direct dissolution of solid reagents in an autoclave. An increase in the Si/Al ratio from 7.5 to 100 leads to a corresponding increase in surface acidity from 0.066 mmol(NH3)/g(ZSM-5) to 0.265 mmol(NH3)/g(ZSM-5). A further increase in the Si/Al ratio to 2000 leads to a decrease in surface acidity to 0.002–0.005 mmol(NH3)/g(ZSM-5). A reliable and simple method for the synthesis of ZSM-5 zeolite has been developed, providing a zeolite yield of up to 97%.


This paper adopts the method of nonparametric statistic analysis to conduct a research on the relationship between the overnight gap and intraday movement of stock indices.The daily trading data of 7 stock markets around the world were processed and analyzed through basic statistic analysis,scattering diagram and the function figure based on R software.The analysis result shows that there is a relationship between overnight gap and intraday movement,and the relation is different with the stock market.Taking Shanghai composite index analysis data as an example,it is found that the percentage gap area as the gap and change fits better by asymptotic and Bootstrap confidence band analysis.And a profitable trading strategy based on stocks overnight gap was proposed according to the relationship between gap and change in the percentage gap interval.This also demonstrates that technical analysis is efficient to guide the stocks investment.


New alkene liquid crystals 4-[oligo(ethylene oxide)o, monomethylether)carbonyl]phenyl 4-[4(allyloxy) phenyl]benzoate(MBPBEn, n = 1-3), 4′-[oligo(ethylene oxide)o, monomethylether)carbonyl]biphenyl-4-yl 4-[4-(al1yloxy)phenyl]benzoate(MBPBPEn, n = 1-3), (S)-4-[(2-methyl-I-butoxy)carbonyl]phenyl 4[4-(allyloxy)phenyl]benzoate(MBPBKA), and (S)-4′-[(2-methyl-l-butoxy)carbonyl]biphenyl-4-yl 4-[4(allyloxy)phenyl]benzoate(MBPBPKA) were synthesized and characterized using 1H-NMR and elemental analysis methods. The thermal transition temperatures, mesomorphic properties, and mesophase textures of these compounds have been determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), by polarizing optical microscopy, and by X-ray diffraction analysis. The effect of changes in chemical structure on the mesophase properties, mesophase and isotropic transition temperatures, and mesophase textures are discussed.


Colonial era American farmers diversified production for community subsistence. Output grew in step with the population with no developmental impetus. The colonial elite could not enforce levies or restrict access to uncultivated land. During the revolutionary era, in the 1770s-80s, households suddenly faced a state with the capacity to raise taxes, enforce debt payments, and regulate the frontier. Henceforth, in the nineteenth century, speculators monopolized western land, and farmers had to take out loans to purchase it. Debts compelled farmers to specialize and innovate in order to match the competitive market prices of peers facing the same obligations. The result was an agricultural revolution, which provided the impetus for the industrialization of the United States.


Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases usually present with arthralgias, sicca symptoms, Raynaud's phenomenon and leucopenia. This case presents the atypical presentation of an undifferentiated connective tissue disease with extensive cutaneous involvement of fingers and toes leading to gangrene with absence of typical rheumatological symptoms. The autoimmune profile showed positive ANA and anti-Ro/SS-A. Thromboembolism was ruled out on the basis of transthoracic and transesophageal echo. She was treated with I/V corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide that halted the disease progression.


In order to prolong continuous working time of one inspection robot for power transmission lines, a robotic power station based on wireless power transmission technology is introduced in this paper. Model equations of magnetic coupling transferring is founded, and the condition under which the system can transfer power at the maximum efficient is detailed by analizing the coupling relationship between parameters as working frequency, coupling efficient, and operating range. At last, experiments was introduced to verify the correctness of the analysis of the above theory.


Table of Contents - 6[-] Part One Introductions - 8[-] The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 - 10[-] The Last Good Time We Ever Had : Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema - 20[-] American Auteur Cinema: The Last - or First - Great Picture Show - 38[-] Part Two Histories - 72[-] The Decade When Movies Mattered - 74[-] A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) - 84[-] The Exploitation Generation. or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold - 108[-] New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot - 132[-] Part Three People and Places - 154[-] Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile - 156[-] The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name : The Films of Monte Hellman - 166[-] Nashville contra Jaws, or -The Imagination of Disaster Revisited - 196[-] For Wanda - 224[-] Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock - 250[-] Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick's War Movie - 268[-] Part Four Critical Debates - 278[-] The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] - 280[-] Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood's Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) - 294[-] Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback and 1970s American Cinema - 310[-] Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling - 334[-] Bibliography - 360[-] List of Contributors - 372[-] Pictures (with credits) - 376[-] Index of Film Titles - 378


A versatile route to a series of C-alkylcalix[4]resorcinarenes has been developed, using 2,4-dimethoxycinnamates as starting materials under carefully controlled reactior conditions employing BF 3 as a Lewis acid catalyst. Depending on the reaction conditions and the nature of the ester side chain in the cinnamates, the calixarenes can adopt 1,2-alter- nate, 1,3-alternate, or flattened-cone conformational states. An exten- sive study, relating to the influence of the Lewis acid, temperature, and reaction time, has provided information on the relative ratios of the different conformations and their interconversion. Structural assi- gnments are based on detailed spectroscopic analyses including X-ray analyses. The latter provide evidence of their molecular structure and shape in the solid state. A detailed molecular modeling study has been completed and is described. From the data obtained, good agreement With NMR data, X-ray analyses and experimental results is observed


As the suitable locations for large wind farms in the mainland are limited, wind energy generation in the urban environment is gaining interest. The Diffuser Augmented Wind Turbine (DAWT) is a promising concept where the turbine is embedded into an airfoil-shaped diffuser (also named shroud or duct), which has the function of increasing the mass flow across the rotor. Such device is designed to overcome the low wind speed present in urban locations. Noise regulations represent a limit to the installation of wind turbines in urban areas. To the author's knowledge, the far-field noise generated by DAWTs has been investigated only by Hashem et al. [31], who reported noise increase up to 20 dB compared to unaugmented turbines. However, the noise generation mechanisms are not clear yet. Furthermore, only partial data [15] on the fluid-dynamic behaviour of DAWT when operating in yawed inflow conditions are present, with no information on the noise pattern. The current study investigates both the fluid-dynamic and acoustic fields for a ducted wind turbine using a computational approach. The commercial DonQi turbine is taken as reference. The fluid-dynamic flow field is computed using the Lattice-Boltzmann Method solver Exa PowerFLOW. The Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings (FW-H) analogy is employed to compute the far-field noise. Three cases are investigated: the ducted turbine at 0 deg and 7.5 deg yaw angles and the unducted turbine at 0 deg yaw angle. The fluid-dynamic analysis reveals that the presence of the diffuser accelerates the flow in the tip region, resulting in a significant increase of the thrust and the power produced by the turbine. In correspondence, the tip vortices present a higher intensity. These vortices interact with the boundary layer of the diffuser and form long vortical structures convected beyond the diffuser trailing edge. The presence of a yaw angle creates a non-axisymmetrical velocity pattern at the rotor disk, resulting in a power drop of 10.8%. However, no stall on the blades is detected. Contrarily to the observations by Cresswell et al., a separation region is formed on the diffuser suction side. Regarding the far-field noise, the directivity pattern for the unducted turbine presents a zone of low noise above the rotor. The addition of a diffuser causes a noise increase by approximately 5 dB upwind and downwind and by up to 15 dB in the low noise region, resulting in a more uniform noise distribution. This effect is ascribed to the higher flow speed in the tip region and to the diffraction of acoustic waves by the diffuser. Increasing the yaw angle to 7.5± is found not to have a relevant impact on the far-field noise.