The invention discloses a digitized high-power microwave diode reversed dynamic waveform and loss power testing system. The system comprises a low-noise power circuit used for providing direct voltage and applying reverse bias voltage to a diode to be tested, a forward adjustable current source circuit used for providing multiple adjustable forward currents for the diode to be tested, an edge adjustable pulse generating circuit used for providing multiple adjustable pulse modulation signals for the diode to be tested, a reverse dynamic current and voltage waveform testing and peak detection circuit used for acquiring the reverse dynamic current and voltage waveforms and peak signals of the diode to be tested, a dynamic current waveform sampling circuit used for processing the peak signals into analog signals, a C parameter testing circuit used for measuring the ratio of reverse peak voltage to bias voltage, and a central processing unit used for data processing. According to the system, by detecting performance parameters, including the reverse dynamic current, reverse dynamic voltage and loss power, of the diode, the purposes of well selecting and using the diode and improving the reliability of the diode are realized.


Aqueous solutions of p-nitrobenzoic acid were hydrogenated in the presence of Pt/C and Pd/C catalysts in a slurry reactor. External as well as internal mass transport steps were studied using a membrane H2-electrode and a metal probe electrode. After the influence of the mass transport effects was corrected for, it was possible to obtain corrected values of the kinetic characteristics of the overall chemical reaction. The mechanism was studied using potential and polarization methods.


ABSTRACT Drawn from the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the British National Archives, and other sources, the present essay analyzes nuclear technical assistance in central Asia, focusing largely on Pakistan. It discusses collaborations with American and British institutions in the 1960s and later efforts to work under the auspices of the IAEA. The essay suggests that the IAEA's mission in the 1960s and early 1970s, namely its leaders' desire to demonstrate the relevance of the IAEA in economic development, aligned with Pakistan's stated goals of constructing a robust reactor program. Rather than see technical assistance solely as a donor/recipient binary relationship, the essay encourages us to consider the mutuality of interests between a major international organization and a budding nuclear program. Archival documents suggest that the IAEA provided the endorsement for a major nuclear program for electricity production that Pakistan was unable to find with other partners.


Objective To study prognostic factors of endometrial carcinoma.Methods To observe the 5 year survival of 247 cases with endometrial carcinoma treated surgically.Results The total 5 year survival is 74.9%.Its 88.5%,84.1%,45.9% and 36.4% for stage Ⅰ,Ⅱ?Ⅲ and Ⅳ endometrial carcinoma.The 5 year survival for low and high risk stage I A and I B endometrial carcinoma patients is 92.6% and 2/2,93.5% and 73.3% separately.Conclusion Staging and lymph node metastasis are important prognostic factors for endometrial carcinoma.Low risk stage Ⅰ patients treated surgically have good effect.Radiation can improve the prognosis of high risk stage Ⅰ endometrial carcinoma,but its still uncertain for stge Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ endometrial carcinoma.


This paper introduces to school personnel some important issues with regard to chronic illness in children and adolescents. Current approaches to understanding the adaptation of young people to chronic illness are introduced, and the present state of knowledge about its psychosocial impact is outlined. Specific effects on education are then discussed, followed by a consideration of the role of school personnel, particularly guidance officers and school counsellors, in ensuring that the needs of students with chronic illnesses are appropriately met.


This guide will show you the basics of how to find information in print and online at the Witwatersrand Health Sciences Library How to search online for medical journal titles and their abbreviations


Image-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a central tool in the evaluation of hemodynamic factors in cardiovascular disease development and treatment, to the point where major vendors are now seeking to deploy CFD solvers on their medical imaging platforms. Detailed hemodynamic data available from CFD generate large data sets due to complex flow, which are difficult to render clearly - and thus communicate to clinical stakeholders - using conventional engineering flow visualization techniques. This is especially challenging considering the four-dimensional nature of the flow patterns (i.e., Rapidly varying in space and time), as well as the clinical need for generating static reports rather than cumbersome digital animations. Taking a cue from the rich history of biomedical illustration, our goal is to use this opportunity for developing new data-driven paradigms for visualizing blood flow based on the principles of illustration, sequential art, and the visual vocabularies and conventions of radiology and vascular surgery.


To the editor: Treatment with thiazolidinedione (TZD), an agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ), has been associated with a significant increase in heart failure in type 2 diabetic patients.1 These ligand-activated nuclear transcription factors (rosiglitazone and pioglitazone) are implicated in adipogenesis and tissue lipid accumulation.2 Indeed, myocyte overexpression of PPARγ, leads to lipotoxic cardiomyopathy in both transgenic mice overexpressing PPARγ and TZD-treated diabetic mice.3 Thus, while PPARγ agonists appear to have beneficial effects on metabolic control,4 their direct actions on myocardium may impair heart function, inducing lipid accumulation. To examine these concerns, we analysed lipid accumulation and PPARγ expression in myocardial biopsy specimens obtained from type 2 diabetic patients with and without TZD treatment who underwent surgical valve replacement for mitral stenosis (MS), and related them to the heart function.

Nineteen non-TZD-treated and 13 TZD-treated (⩾24 weeks of monotherapy in the previous year) type 2 diabetic patients who underwent mitral valve replacement (area⩽1.2 cm2) participated in the study. Patients …


Recently, the demand of high-speed network in home is increasing. PLC (Power Line Communication) is expected as one method of realizing it. OFDM is one of the methods, which realizes high-speed PLC. But the minimum stopband attenuation of OFDM modulation is only -13dB. It indicates that OFDM subchannels are not spectrally isolated, therefore OFDM is sensitive to the locations of narrow band interferences. In order to hardly give interference to other systems, OFDM scheme needs skipping many subchannels or using a notch filter in the frequency bands used by the other systems. The former method degrades the efficiency of frequency use and the latter method increases circuit scale. The system we propose is not Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based OFDM but wavelet based OFDM. Wavelet OFDM (WOFDM) provides subchannel isolation that is superior to FFT based OFDM. In WOFDM, the stopband attenuation and the transition width from stopband to passband can be selected. Thus WOFDM can be designed for a given level of interference rejection by skipping a few subchannels in the frequency bands. And narrowband interference affects only a few subchannels which correspond to these interferences due to a limited spectral overlap between its subchannels. In this paper, we show the WOFDM system suitable for PLC and its Bit Error Rate (BER) characteristic in Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and its Carrier to Noise Ratio (CNR) property with an imitated transmission channel.


Despite the recent research, the Web remains mainly constituted of an ever-growing network of documents. As it becomes easier to publish documents, as the number of users and thus publishers, increases and as the number of documents grows, searching for information is turning into a cumbersome and time-consuming operation. Because of the loose interconnection between documents, people have difficulty remembering where they have been and returning to previously visited pages. Navigation through the web faces problems of locating oneself with respect to space and time. The idea of graphical assistance navigation is to help users to find their paths in hyperspace by adapting the style of link presentation to the goals, knowledge and other characteristics of an individual user. We first introduced the concepts related to web navigation; we then present an overview of different graphical navigation tools and techniques. We conclude by presenting a comparative table of these tools based on some pertinent criteria.


Introduction: Male circumcision is one of the oldest and most common surgical procedures worldwide, and is undertaken for many reasons: religious, cultural, social and medical. Circumcision in Nigeria is essentially a cultural practice which is practised by traditional circumcisers. This study examines the practices of traditional circumcisers. Methods: This study was carried out in Ogun State, Nigeria. A total of 77 consenting traditional circumcisers were interviewed. The data obtained was analyzed using descriptive statistics and presented with charts and tables. Results: The result obtained shows that majority of the traditional circumcisers are female (63.6%), between 41 and 50 years of age (37.66%), have 10-15 years of experience and most of them have secondary education (50.65%). The result of the analysis also shows that 98.7% of the respondents use new blade to remove the foreskin and 51.95% of the respondents use jik to sterilize their instruments. Most of the participants (63.64%) recommend engine oil post circumcision. Bleeding was reported as the most common complication (44.16%) encountered during the procedure. Conclusion: The practice of circumcision is still being carried out by untrained health care givers who have limited knowledge and poor practices. It is therefore important for the traditional circumcisers to be trained so as to build their capacity and improve their practices.


This paper discusses, analyses and evaluates the role of an economist on an interdisciplinary transportation planning and design team. It reviews the types of studies an economist might perform on such a team and discusses the relationships between the economist and persons in other disciplines and how differences arising between the economist and other discipline advocates might be resolved.


This article through the Southwest University of Science and Technology in a small office on 15 W LED lamp and 40 W fluorescent lamp measurement,and carries on the contrast analysis,in the lighting effects are very near situation,through theoretical calculation and analysis,LED lamp no matter in energy-saving aspects,or in the long-term economic benefits,showing obvious advantages,for LED lamp in the future,the popularization and application of the indoor lighting providing the reliable basis.


Marketing is one of the most dynamic fields which decides success or failure of the organization. The purpose of marketing is to create a competitive advantage. The marketing firms that keep prices as low as possible outperform those trying to sell more expensive products. Liberalization, Globalization and privatization (LPG) have led to major changes in the functioning of the companies at the national and international level. This LPG era will not be beneficial to all the organization. The growth and prosperity to the country and company is possible with the adoption of new management techniques, scanning of changing business environment and up gradation of technology. These factors are leading to fierce competition among all sized firms globally. Hence, due to increased competition there is need to opt for appropriate strategies in the marketing mix for the success of organization in area of marketing. The book focuses on the marketing strategies of Small Indian firms and impact of liberalization policies with various recommendations to boost the industry.


In a forward scatter radar system, the forward scatter shadow ratio to characterize a target is introduced as the ratio of the total received power density to the incident power density for a receiver at a certain location. Numerical simulations show that the forward scatter shadow ratio is related to the size of the target as well as the position of the receiver relative to the target. It is a more suitable parameter for studying target detectability than the radar cross-section.


This portrait was formerly attributed to Philip Hussey. An inscription in the lower right corner of the painting, below the heraldic shield, reads: 'STEVARTUS BLACKER / AETATIS SVAE X'. The second line translates to indicate that Master Blacker was ten years old at the time of this portrait.


The objectives of this article are to provide the pediatric oncology nurse with the following : (1) a comprehensive overview of the significant research data ascertained from previous clinical trials; (2) an outline of the current treatment strategies, and (3) an overview of the future options being proposed in upcoming research trials for children diagnosed with a malignant bone tumors. The information included will also equip the pediatric oncology nurse vaith additional knowledge that can be used in patient/family teaching sessions.


Preterm birth (PTB) accounts for two‐thirds of deaths of structurally normal babies and is associated with substantial lifetime healthcare costs. Prevention of PTB remains limited by the modest accuracy of prediction methods, namely transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) cervical length (CL) measurement and quantitative cervicovaginal fetal fibronectin (FFN) estimation. We report the first substantive study detailing the predictive performance of a cervical probe device based on electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for PTB – the EleCtriCaL Impedance Prediction of Preterm birth by spectroscopy of the cervix (ECCLIPPx) study. We aimed to compare the accuracy of cervical EIS‐based prediction of spontaneous PTB with that of prediction using TVS‐CL and FFN in asymptomatic women in the mid‐trimester.


A design study was made to identify a practical set of hardware configurations that would embody the requirements developed in the numerical study of a low-energetics core and blanket for a prototype large breeder reactor. Dimensioned drawings are presented for fuel, blanket, reflector/shield, and control rod subassemblies. A horizontal cross section drawing shows how these subassemblies are arranged in the total core/blanket assembly. A core support is illustrated showing a dual plenums arrangement.


ABSTRACT Effects of UV and X-ray treatments on oxidative stability of soybean oil were evaluated during accelerated storage. Furthermore, antioxidant activity of neroli oil incorporated into soybean oil was compared with those of BHT and β-carotene. UV and X-ray treated samples had significantly higher peroxide (105.00 and 191.99 meq O2/kg, respectively), anisidine (62.30 and 153.80 mg/kg, respectively), and Totox values (272.3 and 453.43, respectively) than non-irradiated samples (75.74 meq O2/kg, 26.50 mg/kg, and 177.98, respectively). The X-ray radiation accelerated the oxidation of soybean oil more significantly than UV radiation did. This could be due to the fact that X-ray radiation has a higher energy content. In addition, neroli oil proved its antioxidant activity in soybean oil. Nonetheless, neroli oil had a lower antioxidant activity than BHT – a chemical agent – while β-carotene was neither antioxidant nor pro-oxidant. In conclusion, neroli oil can improve the oxidative stability of irradiated and non-irradiated soybean oil.


The invention provides a medium transport device, a printing apparatus and a liquid ejecting apparatus. According to the invention, a printer includes a transport unit that transports continuous paper (P), a medium support unit (20) in which a support surface (20a) that is capable of supporting continuous paper (P) that is transported by a transport unit, and first concave sections (24A and 24B), which are indented from the support surface (20a), are formed, and an image capture unit, which is disposed on a lower side of the support surface (20a), and which captures an image of a lower surface of the continuous paper (P).


This chapter focuses on 4Q159 Ordinancesa , is the second in the series of texts published by Allegro in DJD V, and is the only one in that collection, other than 4Q158 that is related to the Pentateuch. This chapter presents the textual analysis of one passage in 4Q159 that, consisting of the two relatively readable laws in frag. 1 II. In order, however, to contextualize them in the document appropriately, the chapter discusses laws in frag. 2. The three relatively complete laws in frag. 2 differ radically from each other in their style and in their relationship to the Hebrew Bible. The relationship of the Qumran laws to the law in Deuteronomy appears to be primarily stylistic modeling, since they differ from the original in both language and content. Keywords: 4Q159; Pentateuch; Qumran laws


: The present paper planned to deal with behavioral problems among learning disabled children. For the present study selected Sample size age ranged from 6-15 Sample boys included 450 learning disable children who have learning disabilities (LD) and behavior problems. Children with LD are at risk of developing behavior problems. The Aberrant behavior checklist was administered for the present study and checklists filled by the respective parents are collected and the scoring procedure is done Statistical computations after the quantification of data, various statistical measures such as Mean, standard deviation. This study explored the behavioral problems among learning disabled children. This knowledge allows therapists and parents to develop knowledgeable empathy about the children's experiences and to enforce fantastic administration strategies. The approach emphasizes that the therapist conveys to the father and mother which fosters larger perception through the Parents of their children. National Health Interview Surveys (Boyle et al, 2011) Family incomes below federal poverty level associated with higher levels of Developmental disabilities, Learning disabilities, Intellectual disabilities. Visser, Lesesne & Perou, 2007: Higher prevalence of ADHD among children below the poverty level (Pediatrics, 123, 5099-5106) As we will see in this presentation, there are neurological and psychological factors associated with poverty that relate directly to the higher prevalence of these disorders. Children in poverty--show higher levels of Behavioral problems.[12] Michael L. Handwerk, M. Marshall ( 1998) This study investigates the Behavioral and emotional problems of children with learning disabilities (LD), serious emotional disturbance (SED), and LD/SED, using the Teacher Report Form (TRF) and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). The sample consisted of 217 students with LD, 72 with SED, and 68 with SED/LD, ages 6 to 18 (mean age = 11.5). The students with SED were rated more impaired than the students with LD on all TRF scales except Attention Problems and on three of the eight CBCL syndrome scales. The children with LD differed from those with SED mainly in terms of severity of problems, not concerning the type of problem. It is concluded that students with co-morbid LD and SED are under-identified and underserved in special education The findings are based on a prospective follow-up of these children at 8 years of age. Results: Compared to children without verbal LD (VLD), those with VLD were twice as likely to exhibit clinical levels of total behavior problems and 89% more likely to exhibit externalizing behavior problems These findings provide evidence that distinct differences Analysis of specific subscales of behavior revealed significant associations with anxious/depressed and withdrawn behaviors, as well as an increased likelihood of attention problems among children with VLD. No significant association was found between nonverbal LD (NVLD) and any type of behavior problem. Furthermore, there was a significant interaction between VLD and the intervention, in which the odds of internalizing behavior problems were greater among children with VLD. No interaction effect of the intervention occurred for any type of behavior problem among children with NVLD. [3]Hassan, Elhassan. (2015 study was to know the emotional and Behavioral problems of learning disabilities children. The researcher followed the descriptive statistic method in this study. The sample of the study consisted of 50childrenwith learning disabilities in Jazan-King of Saudi Arabia. An emotional and Behavioral problems scale was developed and used in Assessing problems for LD children. The reliability and validity of the scale were established. The researcher used the T-test and percentage to answer the research questions. The results indicated that the emotional and Behavioral problems among children with learning problems are: thinking problems, poor concentration, attention deficit, less of activity, lack of interaction, lack of a sense of self-confidence, reduce the value of self, sadness, emotion confusion, and emotional distractions, fidgety (unsettled), aggression, excess consumption of activity, Non-interaction, hyperactivity delinquency, phobia, sleep for short periods, continuing changes in sitting, and busy with concern topics, and the differences exist in emotional and Behavioral problems among learning disabilities children according to the type of learning The findings of the present study indicated that urban children with intellectually disabled facing more severe, moderately severe and moderate problems than other group children. Rural intellectually disabled Children with suffering from more moderately severe problems than semi-urban children. Moderate problems are high in semi-urban children than rural children. Nearly half of the rural and semi-rural children don't have any Behavioral problems.


A set of enhanced digital integrators (EDI) with improved accuracy using genetic algorithms are proposed in this paper. By specifying a desired power for the integrator to be sought and the interval for comparison, chromosomes consisting of parameters of the enhanced digital integrator are then searched by the genetic algorithm based on root mean squared (RMS) error between the original integrator and candidates of the enhanced digital integrator. Thus, all the best parameters of an optimal enhanced digital integrator can be evolutionarily obtained. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, the derived enhanced digital integrators are used to obtain the discrete approximation for continuous systems.


In this paper,the market prospect of local standard development for preserved fruit of Guangdong was analyzed,and the processing technologies,formula and product characteristics and current national standards and industry-standard of preserved fruit of Guangdong were introduced.The scheme of the development project was proposed,and the technological indexes of the local standard for preserved fruit of Guangdong province were determined.The key technology and innovation points were discussed.Besides,the problems in the implementation of local standard for Preserved Fruit of Guangdong were discussed and some improvements were suggested,to provide reference for improvement of product quality,protecting the interests of consumers,and maintaining the market economic order.


For the development of large-scale enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosics, the influence of various parameters has been studied. Steam explosion and delignification by NaOH have been adopted as a pretreatment process. Optimum pretreatment condition based on both cellulose yield and saccharification rate and yield were determined to be 6min for steam explosion at and 0.2% NaOH for delignification. With the addition of -glucosidase, the rate and extent of hydrolysis were increased significantly. Optimum enzyme loading was determined to be 15IU/g substrate with supplementation of -glucosidase. The addition of surfactant(0.1%) increased the hydrolysis yield by 10%.


This article employs a most-similar case study of two congregations in order to explore the organizational features of congregations that impact religious participation. The congregations were as similar as possible in terms of theology, organizational history, denominational affiliation, market location, and adherent demographics. However, they differed in one key aspect: one was thriving and the other declining. Two key organizational features emerged through field research and subsequent analysis: differential provision of selective incentives and variation in emotional energy through the use of rituals. These findings are considered both for what they add to the understanding of religious participation in Mainline Protestant congregations, as well as a possible way forward to integrating approaches to religious participation that have differing micro-foundations.


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In this study, the effects of ball-milling treatment on structural properties and functional properties of mussel protein were investigated. In vitro protein digestibility and free amino acid contents were also evaluated. Ball-milling treatment did not change the primary structure of mussel protein, but caused changes of secondary structure. The tertiary and quaternary structure also changed. After 20 min of ball-milling treatment, the whiteness and oil-binding capability of mussel protein significantly improved from 13.67 to 26.62 and 43.76% to 196.00%, while the protein solubility and water-holding capability of mussel protein significantly decreased from 74.89% to 53.10% and 215.67% to 90.91%. Ball-milling treatment increased the in vitro digestibility significantly. These results provide theoretical basis for the utilisation of mussel protein in food industry.


Purpose – Twelve years ago, the concept of social enterprise was rarely discussed in Europe, however it is now making significant breakthroughs in European Union (EU) countries. Within this context, the purpose of this paper is to synthesize major evolutions experienced by social enterprises across Europe and the key challenges they are facing; and specific members of the EMES European Research Network provide a more in‐depth update as to current trends and debates in their respective countriesDesign/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a comparative analysis of the different institutions (legal frameworks, public policies, supporting structures, public procurement policies …) which support the development of social enterprises in the different EU countries. To delimit the field, the paper relies on the "ideal‐type" social enterprise as defined by the EMES network: "Social enterprises are not‐for‐profit private organizations providing goods or services directly related to their explicit aim to be...


During play, players of video games intentionally change their avatars, altering how the avatar looks, behaves, or can be manipulated. This process is integral to gameplay, forming an important component both of successful and enjoyable play. We present an activity theoretic analysis of qualitative data from players to provide a grounded description of avatar transformation in four popular games. The resulting discussion aids understanding of this component of gameplay, and helps validate an under-used theoretical and practical approach to the study of video games.


In response to an increase in crime levels the Misuse of Drugs Act was enforced in Ireland in 1977. The Irish prison system began to encounter the problem of drug dependency for the first time in the 1980's. This study aimed to explore the drug-related knowledge and attitudes of prison officers in six high-risk prisons in Dublin. 285 self-administered questionnaires were sent to prison officers. The response rate was 82%. The questionnaire sought information on demographic profile, attitudes to drug users and drug usage, attitudes to drug policy and interventions, knowledge of infectious diseases and attitudes to officer training and development. Most of the respondents knew the names of all the drugs listed, with most seeing the drugs problem in their prison as out of control. Officers tended to be sympathetic to drug users and had little fear of drug users in comparison to the general public. They were in favour of drug prevention and drug treatment strategies, and supported methadone maintenance provision. Most of the respondents felt they did not have the knowledge and skills to deal with drug users and were not provided with educational opportunities to improve these skills, but would be willing to provide such services if they received appropriate training.


To solve the problems of full-state constraints in trajectory tracking of surface vessels, a backstepping technique combining a novel integral barrier Lyapunov function (iBLF) with neural network and sliding mode is proposed. Moreover, the control law is extended to the control problem with input saturation. First, the iBLF-based control approach is applied to the control design. The purpose of the iBLF-based approach is to deal with the constraints without transforming the constraints bound into the tracking errors bound. Second, the Neural Networks (NN) is used to handle with the system uncertainties, and a single parameter online adjustment is used instead of the weights online adjustment of the neural networks to realize the adaptive estimation of a single parameter. Third, defining an auxiliary analysis system to deal with the effect of input saturation on the system, an effective control approach under input saturation is realized. Furthermore, it is proved that the designed control law can guarantee the uniformly ultimately bounded stability of closed-loop system and system state can not violate the constraints. Finally, the simulation results of trajectory tracking control of the surface vessel show that the proposed control approach can effectively solve the control problem of nonlinear systems with full-state constraints, system uncertainties and input saturation.


Individual components in a package may be adopted at different rates when promotion agents actively disseminate a package of innovative practices to groups of adopters. Data on adoption rates of 26 practices in a Maize Business Innovation Package (MBIP) are analyzed to reveal how component dissemination rates vary with promotion agent effort years. For these samples of small holder maize farmers and innovations, "using maize inventory as collateral", "lean season inventory sales", and "storing maize in communal warehouse" spread fastest at 14.20%, 14.10% and 14.08% respectively per effort-year. Adoption of "weighing scales" is the slowest moving practice. Adoption rates however did not differ among statistically selected adopter categories in the same sample implying the range and average dissemination rates within the groups may be similar. Determination of critical components of an innovation package before its promotion to beneficiaries will ensure that key components of the package are aligned to critical needs of beneficiaries to enhance dissemination rates.


We consider the deformation 'I'a(X) ([10], [5]) of the algebra of pseudo-differential operators on the total space of a fibration of closed manifolds X -± M, defined by using the blow-up technique of Melrose. We compute the Hochschild homology of this algebra and of certain ideals and quotients. We prove a general criterion, from which we deduce that the ideals involved are H-unital. In particular, we study the long exact sequence induced by the inclusion of the ideal of "smoothing" adiabatic operators. The homology of this ideal is related to the cohomology of the base. We define (filtered) higher analogues of the Residue trace of Wodzicki and Guillemin, which are strongly related to the homology of the smoothing ideal. They are the explicit leading terms of certain Hochschild cochains on the algebra of adiabatic symbols. We use them to compute the boundary map in the homology long exact sequence. Thesis Supervisor: Richard B. Melrose Title: Professor Acknowledgments I am indebted to my thesis advisor, Richard Melrose, for suggesting that I look at the fascinating world of manifolds with corners. I would also like to thank him for his patience. I have benefited much from our interesting discussions. In Bucharest and Paris, I had the privilege of attending the lectures of Professors Kostake Teleman and Harold Rosenberg. To these outstanding teachers I owe a great deal of my understanding of mathematics. I am grateful to Phil Bradley, Anda Degeratu, Gustavo Granja, Colin Ingalls, Payman Kassaey, Robert Lauter, Paul Loya, Behrang Noohi, Andrei Radulescu-Banu, Ioanid Rosu, Sasha Soloviev, Boris Vaillant, Carmen Young for many useful discussions and for rendering the atmosphere in the department so stimulating. A special thanks to Gustavo for his patience in sharing his knowledge with me. My parents and my brother have been a wonderful example for me, and it is in great part due to them that I have decided to study mathematics. My wife, Clotilde, has been a constant source of support and encouragement during all these years. I wish to thank her for doing more than her fair share of household chores while I was studying the adiabatic algebra. Finally, while I was writing this thesis, Clara had the good will to listen to my practice talks with the most charming smile.


According to the sample of vibro-string transducers for dynamic weighting in a mine,a method of correcting nonlinear error of this kind of transducers,which can identify the contrary model characteristic of the transducers correctly,is given based on the least square support vector machine.The method does not need any priori knowledge in form of contrary model function and it is able to guarantee that the extremal solution is local optimal solution.The results from application reveal that the error of the sensor is less than 1.0%.


Abstract : The goal of this thesis was to obtain phase conjugation in multi-mode optical fiber via stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) with the aid of a barium titanate crystal which formed a phase conjugate cavity for the Stokes beam. SBS was demonstrated but the SBS threshold was unaffected by the presence of the barium titanate crystal and no evidence for the presence of phase conjugation in the optical fiber was obtained.


Abstract In this study, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based backcalculating program combined with a Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization algorithm was developed for backcalculation of flexible pavement layer moduli from Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) test. Axisymmetric finite element (FE) models were developed considering dynamic loading of FWD drops and viscoelastic and nonlinear material parameters of pavement layers. The FE models were used to generate the synthetic database that covers variations in material parameters, pavement structures, temperatures, and loading levels. The ANN-GA program was trained and verified using the synthetic database. The accuracy of backcalculation was evaluated with measured data from Long-Term Pavement Performance field testing sections. The ANN-GA program was found having acceptable accuracy through the verification and validation processes. The input variables of the ANN-GA program are available from FWD test including the deflections at different offsets, shape indicators of hysteresis loop (force-displacement curve), layer thicknesses, loading magnitudes, and air and surface temperatures. The ANN-GA possesses advantages over traditional iteration-based backcalculating program such as the elimination of seed moduli and consideration of complex material properties. More importantly, the backcalculated pavement layer parameters can be directly used for Mechanistic-Empirical design of pavement overlays.


[Objective]To evaluate the preemptive analgesic effect and safety with celecoxib in patients undergone the hip joint replacement.[Method]Fifty patients scheduled for elective hip joint replacement were randomly divided into two groups,celecoxib group and control group.Those of celecoxib group were given celecoxib 200 mg 24,12 h before incision.The operation was performed under extradural anesthesia by the same surgeons. All patients were given celecoxib 200 mg 8,24,36,48,60,72 h after the operation.Before celecoxib administration and after the operation,pain intensity was measured using visual analog scale(VAS),and analgesic requirements,side effects,hip joint ranges of motion,sleep states,hemorheology and phlebothrombosises messured with the ultrasonic wave were compared.[Result]There were no marked differences in the VAS pain scores before celecoxib administration between two groups.Compared with control group,the patients of celecoxib group had significantly lower VAS pain scores after the operation(P0.01).A significantly lower total consumption of other analgesics,as compared with control group,was observed in patients of celecoxib group(P0.05).It was also found that the side effects were significantly lower in celecoxib group than those in control group(P0.05).Compared with control group,the patients of celecoxib group had significantly larger hip joint ranges of motion,(P0.01).A signifcantly better sleep states,as compared with control group,was observed in patients of celecoxib group(P0.01).The plasma viscocity,fibrinogen and blood viscocity were significantly lower at the end of surgery than those before anesthesia(P0.01),which in control group were higher than those in celecoxib group 48 h after operation(P0.01),phlebothrombosises messured with the ultrasonic wave did not differ significantly between two groups.[Conclusion]Pre-operation celecoxib administration in patients undergoing the hip joint replacement can reduce postoperative other analgesics consumption and side effects,meantime,it can improve hip joint ranges of motion and sleep states and the hemorheology with less side effect ofthromboembolism.


Abstract This study was aimed to evaluate the quantity and bioavailability of five metals from five contaminated soils. A selective sequential fractionation procedure was used to separate the metals into six groups: water soluble, exchangeable, carbonate, Fe‐Mn oxide, organic, and residual. The residual fraction was the most abundant only for Pb in most soils, suggesting that Pb was probably more stable and less bioavailable in these soils. Lead, Cd, and Cu were not detected in the water‐soluble fraction of most soils. Although the greatest amounts of Zn and Cu in the non‐residual fraction were in general associated with the Fe‐Mn oxide fraction, and Ni with the organic fraction, an appreciable percentage of these metals were concentrated in the exchangeable or the carbonate bound fraction. As metal behavior in the environment is dependent upon its solubility and mobility in soils, the potential hazard of these metals in these contaminated soils was assessed in this study.


This study is interested in the effect of an axial magnetic field imposed on incompressible flow of electrically conductive fluid between two horizontal coaxial cylinders. The imposed magnetic field is assumed uniform and constant. The effect of heat generation due to viscous dissipation is also taken into account. The inner and outer cylinders are maintained at different uniform temperatures and concentrations. The movement of the fluid is due to rotation of the cylinder with a constant speed. An exact solution of the governing equations for momentum and energy are obtained in the form of Bessel functions. A finite difference implicit scheme was used in the numerical solution to solve the governing equations of convection flow and mass transfer. The velocity, concentration and temperature distributions were obtained with and without the magnetic field. The results show that for different values of the Hartmann number, the velocity and concentration between the two cylinders decreases as the Hartmann number increases. On the other hand, the Hartmann number does not affect the temperature. Also, it is found that by increasing the Hartmann number, the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers decreases.

 Key words: Rotating cylinders,  viscous dissipation, heat transfer, mass transfer,  magnetic field, Bessel function, finite difference.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of family resilience, gratitude, and child-rearing attitude and to identify predicting factors of family resilience among mothers of young children. A correlative research design was be used for this study with self-administered questionnaires. The subjects were 248 mothers of young children from kindergarten located in Jeonnam and Gwangju provinces in Korea. Data were collected between May to June, 2013. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regressions with PASW Statistics 18 (SPSS 18.0) program were used for data analysis. The major findings are summarized as follows: (1) Family resilience was closely related to gratitude and four types of child-rearing attitudes. Gratitude was closely related to four types of child-rearing attitudes. And rejective attitude had significantly negative relations family resilience and gratitude. (2) The significant factors affecting family resilience were mother"s education level, gratitude, affective attitude, rejective attitude, autonomous attitude and controlling attitude which explained 63% of the variance. The results indicate that gratitude and child-rearing attitude were significant factors associated with family resilience among mothers of young children. In order to increase the family resilience among mothers of young children, family programs that deal with both gratitude and child-rearing attitude should be designed.


Human intellectual creativity lies at the heart of the Internet and new media technologies. And it is this creativity rather than technical capability that can bridge the digital divide of the world. Engendering cybertechnology can play a major role in this. The problem of a digital divide is indeed far-reaching but it cannot be solved by shunning or denigrating the Internet. Instead we need to turn the medium into a contested territory where dominant ideologies of culture and development can be challenged by women and other disempowered groups. As others have argued women can and do actively participate in defining the meaning and purposes of technologies. Our vision for the future would be to see small- and large-scale ventures empowering disadvantaged groups. Among such ventures would be a Net society that would link Ganga and her fellow villagers from Manatalai to a network of informed "netizens" who could exchange information and ideas about water management crop sustenance reproductive health child immunization and drought management instead of concentrating on gigabytes of information about the lifestyles of glamorous drivers on information superhighways. We would like empowered women netizens to reshape the demography of the Net and align it more closely to the demographic profile of the world. Thus we would like to see women (and other minority groups) break the stranglehold of Western and West-trained men on cyberspace and in the process knit a community-oriented net of knowledge. (excerpt)


Tumours of the salivary glands are unusual in the dog, with an overall incidence reported as 0.2%. This chapter looks at clinical approach; management; prognosis.


and chemical functionality can alter a wide range of interactions at the interface with biological systems. Design parameters can affect circulation, immune system activation, speci fi c cell surface, and internalization pathways, mucosal transport, and biodistribution.


Abstract Magnetic buoyancy is believed to drive the transport of magnetic flux tubes from the convection zone to the surface of the Sun. The magnetic fields form twisted loop-like structures in the solar atmosphere. In this paper we use helical forcing to produce a large-scale dynamo-generated magnetic field, which rises even without magnetic buoyancy. A two layer system is used as computational domain where the upper part represents the solar atmosphere. Here, the evolution of the magnetic field is solved with the stress–and–relax method. Below this region a magnetic field is produced by a helical forcing function in the momentum equation, which leads to dynamo action. We find twisted magnetic fields emerging frequently to the outer layer, forming arch-like structures. In addition, recurrent plasmoid ejections can be found by looking at space–time diagrams of the magnetic field. Recent simulations in spherical coordinates show similar results.


There is a debate among the scholars that Islam is a complete code of life or it is just a spiritual experience. Mostly Muslims consider Islam to be a complete code of life. To them, it is a universal religion that pervades a person's entire life. In the other hand those who are not convinced of the universality of Islam, consider Islam to be an outdated and irrational system. According to them, Islam has no room for modernity and universality. The majority of Orientalist intellectuals are of the opinion that there is no other option for Islam except to accept Western thinking and Western modernism. However, there are several verses in Qur'an that call for reason and reflection of the universe. The Qur'an also commands reason to conquer the universe through intellect and contemplation. This version of Quran clearly shows that Islam is not against modernism nor opposes to use of reason (Aqal). This article discusses such misunderstandings and examines the arguments for modernity and rationalism in Islam.


A differential equation was derived for ionic migration in a system with two mobile ions. Stationary solutions were obtained for the case where the slower ion follows the faster, which reduce to those obtained when diffusion is ignored. When the faster ion is "behind" the slower no stationary solutions are possible, but the diffusion term is not important for this case and appropriate solutions are readily obtained. However, by taking account of diffusion at the boundaries, where it is important, infinite gradients are avoided and concentration equilibrium is permitted at the glass-salt interface. The concentration distributions predicted from this approach are compared with those measured on glass that has been ion exchanged with electric field assistance. Although the agreement is reasonable, there is some discrepancy, due in part to the assumption of concentration-independent species mobility.


For pedestrians struck by cars the following conclusions are made: children sustain less severe injuries than adults at high impact speeds and this is mainly due to their sustaining less severe head injuries; for both children and adults the head is the body area sustaining life-threatening or fatal injuries; life-threatening or fatal head injuries are often more caused by vehicle contact than road contact; and the windscreen frame is responsible for most of the life-threatening or fatal head injuries caused by vehicle contact. /Author/TRRL/


Specialized pediatric cancer centers (PCCs) are thought to be essential to obtain state‐of‐the‐art care for children and adolescents. We determined the proportion of childhood cancer patients not treated in a PCC, and described their characteristics and place of treatment.


This article researches the simulation algorithm of the Beidou B1C signal and discusses the key technology of the Beidou B1C signal simulation, including satellite position trajectory simulation and doppler frequency shift simulation. The Beidou B1C signal adopts a new spread spectrum code sequence, changes the structure of navigation message and improves the calculation method of the satellite position. Aiming at the problem of large amount of calculation in the satellite position trajectory simulation, a cubic spline interpolation method is proposed for optimization. The simulation results show that the simulation algorithm can generate the correct Beidou B1C signal.


It is often alleged that American society is racist, even though it is acknowledged that overt expressions of racism are extremely rare. How do people know that it is racist, then? This chapter raises the possibility that this claim of racism is often based on a projection. The value of the father's accomplishments, through which he attempted to gain mother's love, has been denied and assertions of their value are projected onto the father and experienced as white supremacy and racism. Among those who adopt this view, it provides the basis for their experience of the world, and of their proper place within it, but this view of the world is entirely in the mind and hence rests on faith. They need to keep this faith constantly renewed. I illustrate this through an analysis of the response, centering around an anti-racist convocation, to an efflorescence of racist material at Oberlin College in 2013. In fact, the material had been produced as part of a hoax. The administration knew that, but let the convocation proceed anyway. Why was that? I compare the convocation to a religious revival meeting, for which the provenance of the provocative material was not an important consideration. Within exclusively maternal psychology, by playing along with this, the administration was just doing what it thought was its job.


Both passive and active shock isolation systems haye been previously investigated. HoweveT, passivc systems are limited in that they cannot adapt to different load conditLons; aetlve systems are not practical in many appLicatlons. as the)' may reguire large power supplies. Another solution to the prob[em is te implement a "smart'damping system, which typica[ly requires little power. is controllable in real-time. and achieves nearly the sarne performance as an active system. This paper focuses on shock lsolatien using these "srnarf' darnping devices, Following the basic problem tbrmulation, the optimal design ef passlve and active shock isotators is given. These results are then extended to the "smart" (.semi-active') b'hock isolatien case. Theoretiea[ aiialysi$ sho"'s that ifthe iinear spring stlllhess is properly chosen and the contro"'orce is appropriatcly regulated. the shock isolator using "smart" damping ean achieve optimal perforrnance and has a better robustness than the passive shock isolator.


This letter provides a brief summary on early work and developments on both controlling and studying the optical properties of resonant metal nanoparticles and reports on all progress achieved since two years. Our approach is based on controlled nanoscale photopolymerization triggered by local enhanced electromagnetic fields of silver nanoparticles excited close to their dipolar plasmon resonance. By anisotropic polymerization, symmetry of the refractive index of the surrounding medium was broken: C1v symmetry turned to C2v symmetry. This approach has overcome all the difficulties faced by scanning probe methodologies to reproduce the form of the near field of the localized surface plasmons and provides a new way to quantify its magnitude. Furthermore, this approach leads to the production of polymer/metal hybrid nano-systems of new optical properties.


There is no agricultural organization in the agricultural sector of economy that has not experienced, to some extent, some crisis phenomena and economic or financial difficulties. For the last 10 years meat industry of the republic has been experiencing serious difficulties connected with the fall of volume of produce processed in the enterprises, moral and physical ageing of equipment, decreasing production profitability level due to many specific features of the market, absence of investments, bad sale market caused by a solvency decrease and other factors. Animal fattening is the most effectively developed branch where one can mechanise almost all production processes and unite all production stages in one large enterprise. But under the modern conditions it is not rational and profitable for every agricultural enterprise to build a processing workshop. It is easier to create permanent ties with already existing meat processing enterprises securing profitable conditions. Nowadays many suppliers sell their products in small volumes and very often they are situated in a distance from the location of the processing enterprise, so the deliveries have an unstable character that has a negative influence on the work of both agricultural and processing enterprises. One of the main problems of meat industry is a bad provision of enterprises with raw materials. For the period from 1997 to 2004 the total number of pigs has been reduced by 9%. Partially it is connected with the fact that many farms sometimes have to pay back the credits of goods in the period of sowing and harvesting campaigns in kind, selling the living animals, or they have to slaughter the animals before they reach the necessary weight and because of many other reasons. The efficiency of agricultural produce processing depends on the extent of using the industrial capacities, which in 2004 made only 38% in the meat processing industry.


Conidia of an isolate of Metarhizium flavoviride, F1985 suspended in oil were sprayed onto mainly adult Phaulacridium vittatum (Sjöstedt) in field cages at two dose rates: 2 × 109 and 2 × 108 conodia/mL. Both rates were effective in killing all P. vittatum in the cages in 3 weeks, under the prevailing cool conditions. Samples of grasshoppers taken from the treated cages at 4, 8 and 14 d post‐spraying died within 1–6 d when placed at constant 26°C in the laboratory. Samples of foliage fed to healthy grasshoppers showed that some infections conidia persisted for 14 d. the results indicate that it may be possible to control P. vittatum with an oil‐based spray of conidia of M. flavoviride.


By trapping photons in fabricated phase-shift defects magnetic photonic crystals can enhance the Faraday rotation in magneto-optic films. The integration of these structures into on-chip photonic circuits, while advantageous from the point of view of component connectivity in multi-functional systems, faces several challenges. Differences in effective refractive indices between transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes engender phase disparities, thus hindering the Faraday response of the material. Moreover, photonic waveguide structures in magnetic films may support more than one mode depending on the waveguide thickness and refractive index. The effects of birefringence and multimodality on the performance of waveguide magnetic photonic crystals in magnetic garnets are discussed in paper. Particular attention is paid to analyzing the effect of Faraday rotation enhancement in magnetophotonic crystals in the presence of waveguide birefringence and modal multiplicity. Multiple stopbands and significant polarization rotation are observed in multimode Bi-substituted iron garnet film waveguides with single-defect photonic crystal structures. A spectrally flat response is predicted for the polarization rotation in first order mode for birefringent waveguides. The photonic crystals for this study are patterned on ridge waveguide films by focused ion beam (FIB) milling.


This thesis comprises an empirical case study of scientific data production in oceanography and a philosophical analysis of the relations between newly created scientific data and the natural world. Based on qualitative interviews with researchers, I reconstruct research practices that lead to the ongoing production of digital data related to long-term developments of plankton biodiversity in the oceans. My analysis is centred on four themes: materiality, scientific representing with data, methodological continuity, and the contribution of non-scientists to epistemic processes. These are critically assessed against the background of today's data-intensive sciences and increased automation and remoteness in oceanographic practices. Sciences of the world's oceans have by and large been disregarded in philosophical scholarship thus far. My thesis opens this field for philosophical analysis and reveals various conditions and constraints of data practices that are largely uncontrollable by ocean scientists. I argue that the creation of useful scientific data depends on the implementation and preservation of material, methodological, and social continuities. These allow scientists to repeatedly transform visually perceived characteristics of research samples into meaningful scientific data stored in a digital database. In my case study, data are not collected but result from active intervention and subsequent manipulation and processing of newly created material objects. My discussion of scientific representing with data suggests that scientists do not extract or read any intrinsic representational relation between data and a target, but make data gradually more computable and compatible with already existing representations of natural systems. My arguments shed light on the epistemological significance of materiality, on limiting factors of scientific agency, and on an inevitable balance between changing conditions of concrete research settings and long-term consistency of data practices.


In this letter, we develop a distributed consensus-based online monitoring framework for a robot swarm with a fixed graph structure. Each agent can monitor whether the swarm satisfies specifications given in the form of Swarm Signal Temporal Logic (SwarmSTL) formulas. SwarmSTL formulas describe temporal properties of swarm-level features represented by generalized moments (GMs), e.g., centroid and variance. To deal with measurement noise, we propose a generalized moment consensus algorithm (GMCA) with Kalman filter (KF), allowing each agent to estimate the GMs. Besides, we prove the convergence properties of the GMCA and derive an upper bound for the error between an agent's estimate of the GMs and the actual GMs. This upper bound is derived to be dependent on the maximal allowed velocity but independent of the agents' exact motion. A set of distributed monitoring rules for SwarmSTL formulas are proposed based on the estimation error bound. As a result, the agents can monitor the satisfaction of SwarmSTL formulas over swarm features during execution. The distributed monitoring framework is applied to a supply transportation example, where the efficacy of KF in the GMCA is also shown.


Fast-tracking a project involves carrying out sequential activities in parallel, partially overriding their actual
construction process, to be using that method the overall project duration. In this paper, the regular work
schedule of residential post construction work details comparing with fast-tracking method is proposed.
These find out the project duration high. to be suggest the method of stochastic to be reduce the duration to
minimum 20% of original duration of that project. The relationship between cost and duration to overlap. That
project duration and cost would estimated manual calculation. Then compared to actual and estimated
value. Stochastic value taken to least value of comparison of fast-tracking stochastic model through a case
study.


By taking a certain type of rocket launcher structure as the research object, its loading analysis was carried out. By applying the ANSYS as a tool and by combining a typical working condition to carry out finite element analysis (FEA), the deformation and the stress values under the work condition were obtained, and the rocket launcher's strength and rigidity were analyzed. The results show that the research is based on the application of finite element software ANSYS calculation method on the launch pad is feasible, cost savings at the same time, the calculation result of finite element analysis can provide a theoretical basis for the subsequent upgrading of


With increasing prevalence of global virtual teams (GVTs), GVTs effectiveness draws much attention from both academia and industries. Communication is widely acknowledged as a significant element to improve GVTs effectiveness and the source of many problems in GVTs, but there is no systematic model about it. In this paper, a conceptual model is proposed to direct communication management in CVTs. In this model, team characteristics are considered as independent variables, including degree of virtuality and degree of diversity. In addition, many factors influencing GVTs communication from existing literatures can be classified into three types of crucial success factors (CSFs): Communication Technology, Team Learning and Team Leadership. In this study, communication is divided into two styles: task communication and social communication, which could be affected by team characteristics and CSFs simultaneously. In sum, this study aims at extending our understanding on GVTs communication management and provides practical advice to improve communication effectiveness though the study of influencial factors.


Objective To summarize the causes and prophylactic therapeutic methods of acute intraoperative encephalocele in severe head-injured patient.Methods Twenty severe head injured patients with acute intraopera-tive encephalocele were analyzed retrospectively and the preventive and treating mehods were implemented.Re-sults Delayed intracranial hematomas,acute diffuse brain swelling,cerebral anoxia,long-term brain herniaion and massive brain contussion and larceration were the main causes of intraoperative encephalocele.The methods of treatment should be keeping the respiratory tract unobstructed through tracheal intubation,removing hematomas completely,decreasing intracranial pressure gradually,intraoperative hyperventilation,large dose of mannitol and maintaining systolic blood pressure respectively.Conclusion According to different causes,the acute intraopera-tive encephalocele in head injured patients could be prevented and treated effectively to decrease the disability rate and mortality rate.


This research had as objective the study of risk factors associated with bovine mastitis caused by Prototheca zopfii. Thirteen dairy herds in Parana and Sao Paulo states were analyzed and selected according to the following criteria: previous confirmation of Prototheca spp. mastitis cases, screening of Prototheca spp. in bulk tanks and milk cans, and herds with somatic cells count over 5x105cel mL-1. The samples collected consisted of: milk, water, soil, manure and swabs of teat cup rubbers. Prototheca spp. was isolated from mammary quarters with clinical and subclinical mastitis of milk samples in one herd and from the environment and cows in four herds. Out of 383 cows examined, Prototheca spp. was isolated in 20 (5.2%) cows with mastitis, and 18 of them were characterized as P. zopfii. In four herds when Prototheca spp. was identified from mammary quarters and environment the agent was isolated from the following samples: water in the waterers, puddled water in the stalls and the milking parlour, supply, sewage, cow pen and pasture soil, teat cup rubbers and manure from calves and swines. The risk factors associated with P. zopfii mastitis consisted of: pasture system, pasture and silage feeding, use of milking machine in stalls, cow pen without fresh feed after milking, raising of swines near bovine housing, existence of dogs, cats and rodents, absence of teats hygienization with water, use of pre-immersion devices with return and without change of antiseptic, calves fed with milk of clinical mastitis cases and the Holstein breed.


A solution to the problem of real time collision detection during simulation and execution of telerobotic process is suggested in this paper. The solution allows to deal with dynamics and prediction of collisions between rigid and deformable polyhedral objects. The method finds its essence in combining graphics hardware capabilities and simplified geometric representation (Oriented Bounding Box) in order to precisely extrapolate the swept volume generated by the tool during its motion and to dynamically estimate the collisions between the tool and the environment. During virtual or real teleoperation, collision detection aims at providing the operator with real time sensorial information feedbacks that improve immersion in the virtual scene.


Asian Massage Parlors in Clark County By Angela Meiwen Lok Dr. M. Alexis Kennedy, Examination Committee Chair Associate Professor of Criminal Justice University o f Nevada, Las Vegas The U.S. Department of Justice has identified Las Vegas, Nevada as a hotspot for trafficking for sexual exploitation (Farley, 2007). The objective of this research is to determine whether Asian massage parlors are openly operating as unlicensed businesses in Las Vegas and consider the licensing issues faced in Las Vegas. Recent focus on the issues of human trafficking and high profile stings against Asian massage parlors has created a public debate about the licensing and enforcement against Asian massage parlors in Clark County. This research will consider a number of facets surrounding Asian massage parlors, from stereotypes associated with Asian massage, to the vast number of unlicensed massage parlors, and the connection between massage parlors and human trafficking.


Audit reports by the European Commission and inves ga ons by Tierschutzbund Zürich (TSB), the Animal Welfare Founda on (AWF) and Animals' Angels USA (Advocacy & Inves ga ons) have repeatedly recorded animal welfare concerns in horse meat produc on (during transport, at assembly centres and slaughterhouses), as well as grave shortcomings in rela on to iden fica on and traceability of the horses (and thus food safety). While animal welfare and traceability issues have already led to the suspension of imports from Brazil and Mexico; Australian, Argen nean, Uruguayan and Canadian horse meat con nues to be imported by the EU despite longstanding concerns.


In the present paper, an efficient walnut recognition system was developed by combining acoustic emissions analysis, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) classifier. The system was tested later and classified walnuts into two classes. In order to produce sound signals, a 60 degrees inclined polished steel plate was used. This intelligent system had three phases (stages). In pre-processing phase, the data acquisition and pre-processing for impact signals performed and 281 sample data were used to evaluate the performance of the system. In feature extraction stage, some statistical parameters of impact signals in the time domain were selected as a feature source for sorting, and then the feature reduction was carried out using PCA. In classification phase, selected statistical features were used as the input of the ANFIS classifier. The classification accuracy of proposed PCA-ANFIS intelligent system was 100%.


We compare viscoelastic properties of several polystyrene solutions and melts with the same number of entanglements. It is demonstrated that the modulus and time can be shifted such that the linear viscoelastic properties are identical provided the number of entanglements are identical. However the nonlinear properties in strong extensional flow are different with polymer solutions showing markedly stronger extensional hardening than the corresponding melts. While increased chain extensibility for solutions may provide part of the explanation, it is demonstrated that other mechanisms are needed for a full explanation for the differences between solutions and melts.


Risk analysis is mostly based on a comparison of one value for the exposure to a chemical (PEC) and one value for the sensitivity of biota (NEC). This method enables the determination of an effect to be expected, but it is not possible to quantify the magnitude of that effect. Moreover, it is impossible to estimate the effect of a combination of chemicals. Therefore, it is necessary to use a mathematical function to describe the relation between a concentration and the subsequent effect. These relations are typically based on a log normal or log logistic distribution of the sensitivity of individuals of a species. This distribution is characterized by the median sensitivity (EC{sub 50}) and the variation between the sensitivity of individuals (being a measure for the slope of the relation). Presently the attention is focused on the median, while the slope might be even more important. Relevant exposure concentrations are typically in the range which are found in the left tail of the sensitivity distribution. In this study the slope was determined for 250 chemical-species combinations. The data were derived from original experiments and from literature. The slope is highly dependent on the exposure time; the shorter the exposuremore » time the steeper the slope. If data for a standard exposure time [96 hours] are considered, the total variation in slope can partly be explained by the groups of organisms and chemicals. The slope for heavy metals tends to be less steep as compared to the slope of narcotic organic compounds. The slope for fish and molluscs is steeper than for crustaceans. The results of this study are presently applied in a number of risk analysis studies.« less


7-Ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38) is an active metabolite of CPT-11, which can inhibit DNA topoisomerase I, DNA synthesis and cause frequent DNA single-strand breaks. In our study, SN-38 was characterized as a potent and reversible BRD4 inhibitor [IC50 = 660.2 nM against BRD4 (BD1) and IC50 = 547.7 nM against BRD4 (BD2)] in biochemical assay using drug repurposing strategy. Additional cellular assay suggested that SN-38 can bind BRD4 in human leukemic cell K562 and inhibit cell growth with IC50 = 0.2798 μM in a BRD4 dependent manner partially. Additionally, mechanism study indicated that SN-38 can induce the accumulation of BRD4 substrate c-Myc and cleavage of caspase 3. In sum, our findings identified BRD4 as a new target of SN-38 and reveals SN-38 as a modifier of histone acetylation reader for the first time, which may provide a new insight for further optimization of dual target inhibitor.


[Objective ] To explain mortality fluctuating of chronic diseases in Fujian by quantitative analysis of demographic and non-demographic factors,and estimate the effect of mortality fluctuating cause by non-demographic factors.[Methods ] Using death cause data of National Death Surveillance System during 1993-1995 and 2003-2005 to calculate the proportion of contribution of demographic and non-demographic factors by the methods of decomposing the differences of death rates.[Results ] The composition of population in urban were stable,and the effect of the non-demographic factors were greater in power.And with the process of population aging was speed up in rural area.The fluctuating of mortality was influenced by demographic and non-demographic factors in common.During 1993-2005,the mortality of lung cancer,breast cancer and diabetes increased.The increasing of mortality of these diseases were contributed to the non-demographic factors,and the proportion was more than 80% in urban and 50% in rural.[Conclusion ] Chronic diseases are mainly caused by behavioral factors.In order to reduce the mortality,unhealthy behaviors should be changed for the disease control and prevention.


We study the effect of inclination angle on mixed convection in a "T" form cavity containing two openings and two heated blocks mounted on its lower wall. The blocks are maintained at a constant temperature TH . The lower wall is adiabatic and submitted to a vertical air jet while the upper wall is kept cold at a constant temperature TC<TH . The vertical walls are rigid and adiabatic. The governing equations are solved by a finite volume method. Special attention is devoted to the solution symmetry, the flow structure and the heat exchange through the cavity. The considered control parameters are: the inclination angle 0◦ ≤ φ ≤ 90◦, the Rayleigh number 105 ≤ Ra≤ 106, the Reynolds number 100≤ Re≤ 1000, the Prandtl number Pr=0.72, the height of the blocks B=0.5, the opening width C=0.15 and the distance between blocks D=0.5. The results are presented in terms of streamlines, isothermal lines and variations of Nusselt number with Re or φ .


The interaction between pathogenic microbes and host cells is crucial for studies on infections and tumor cell biology . The kinetic studies of cell cycle are of significance for understanding the mechanisms mediated by microbes versus host cells .In this paper ,a novel method for cell cycle analysis in mouse splenic cells by Ki67 and 4′,6‐diamidino‐2‐phenylindole (DAPI) or propidium iodide (PI) co‐staining is introduced .


Objective To summarize the effect of laparoscopic partial nephrectomy(LPN) on renal function after surgery.Methods Data of 37 partial nephrectomy patients for renal cancer were reviewed retrospectively,who were divided into two groups of LPN(16 cases) and OPN(underwent open partial nephrectomy,21 cases).The creatinine clearance(Ccr) was assessed before and at 1 and 6 months after surgery.Anesthesia time,arterial clamp time,intraoperative blood pressure and changes of hematocrit following surgery were recorded.The factors to predict the postoperative renal function were analyzed.Results The age,gender,co-morbidities,preoperative renal function and tumor size of two groups were similar.A decrease of postoperative hematocrit was associated to the decline in Ccr at 1 and 6 months after operation.The anesthesia time was slightly shorter,but the operative bleeding was significantly less,in group LPN than those in group OPN.Conclusion Nephron sparing surgery under laparoscopy could be the first choice for the patients with small renal cell carcinoma.


Some words, which are basic cues of determining actors of current time-like globalization and information age-, change, speed, competition, and diversity became nearly catchwords. All the world, have been grazing from the limited perception of history about place and time and have been facing the fact that the future is changing totally in different axis. This orbit has different coordinates,tools and methods and it is unavoidable. Likewise, basic dynamics of information age are not being able to explain with the paradigms of industrial age. In whole world, new coordinates of information age which guide a new era so ist paradigm- is becoming chaos theory, its captains are becoming different leaders of different geographies. "Butterfly Effect", another concept , which is related to "Chos Theory"of Edward N. Lorenz, can define as small changes in initial datas in a system can cause big and unknown results. Globalization and information age make butterfly effect common. In this study, from the point of " A butterfly's flapping in Amazon Forest can cause a storm in USA" view, possible effects of chaos theory and butterfly effect to social life and to organizations will be evaluated.,In the first part of this research will explained chaos theory ,in the the second part will mentioned from dominant metaphors in the past and future organizations ,in the third part will analyzed model of chaos management organization


The intense rainfall equations present a great technical interest for hydraulic works projects. In the State of Bahia, there are only 19 equations of intensity, duration and frequency modeling, requiring a greater number of equations for the State. The most recent ones are almost 15 years old, with only two in the Peruípe, Itanhém and Jucuruçu river basins. Thus, the objective of this work was to determine the parameters of the equations of intensity, duration and frequency (IDF) of the rainfall stations for different locations of the basins of the Peruípe, Itanhém and Jucuruçu rivers, located in the far southern Bahia State. Initially, 59 stations were selected, out of which only those with over 20 year-old data and records from 1980 onwards. Rainfall disaggregation was carried out using the method proposed by Cetesb (Environmental Company of the State of São Paulo, Brazil) and the parameters (K, a, b and c) were adjusted through nonlinear multiple regression using the nonlinear-generalized reduced gradient interaction method, where adjustment was evaluated by the coefficient of determination (R2). In the end, 29 equations were adjusted, with coefficient of determination greater than 0.99, therefore, improving the perspective of planning hydraulic works in the region. This correlation could also be observed by the regression equation of the observed data with the adjusted ones, where the slope coefficient of the line was close to 1.0 for all rainfall stations.


In this paper, we propose a method of schoolzone safety to the protection and management of accident and crime of school circumstance that it is increased recently. Hence, sensor network based intelligent monitoring module must be considered for schoolzone safety. It is not simple CCTV monitoring, but it means that the ability extension is proposed to monitor the dangerous situation for the risk management. Hence, this paper proposes the design of monitoring module considering various danger situations that can be occurred around the school.


[Objective]To introduce the operative methods and indications of congenital post hemivertebrectomy. [Methods]Thirty-five cases of congenital post hemivertebra deformity received operation.The surgical procedure was as following:bilateral lamina was exposed through the post approach,the lateral articular process and transverse process were separated and exposed from bilateral,and the transverse process was resected and separated from subperiosteal forward along the pedicle,surplus hemivertebra was finally exposed and a surplus vertebras was resected,then the bilateral internal fixation with pedicle screw compressive rod was finished through post approach.[Results]Good results were achieved in all cases,but the operative procedure was relatively difficulty,which is correspond to total spinal osteotomy.[Conclusion]The adaptive age for congenital post hemivertebrectomy is from 8 to 25 years. Total spinal osteotomy is needed if patient's age is more than it.


Science takes center stage in US president Joe Biden's 2022 funding request, with research and environment agencies all slated for increases—many in the double digits. "Federal research investment ...


Patellofemoral joint pain (PFP) is a condition affecting up to 30% of active individuals. Although the etiology of this condition is still not well understood, a number of contributing factors have been identified. The natural history of this condition appears to involve abnormal patellofemoral joint kinematics, condromalacia, and ultimately osteoarthritis. Early detection of cartilage wear is an important component of diagnosis and early treatment for this relatively young group of patients. However, standard morphological MR imaging is not sensitive to early changes in cartilage wear. More recently, MR pulse sequences have been developed to quantify physiological features of cartilage (e.g. water and proteogylcan contents). However, they too, lack sensitivity to early changes in cartilage health. To address this problem, we have proposed a novel method to capture these physiologic properties under known patellofemoral joint loads.


Because of high price of the houses,most of consumers have to quit the idea buying their own houses.Meanwhile,affected by international finance crisis,real estate industry has been slumping into abyss.In order to stimulate real estate industry,some local governments and researchers put forward the policy of purchasing houses for registered permanent residence.We think that the appearance of the policy indicates the contradiction between social fair and economic efficiency.In fact,this policy is a product resulting from unbalanced distribution of social resource and it is a benefit exchange of household register reform.Although in some aspects,it might stimulate potential demand,create new opportunities and speed up urbanization,the policy should be temporary as government intervention to support real estate market.


Causal networks have been successfully used to explain the process of narrative comprehension in humans (Trabasso et al., 1989). This motivated their use in the automatic creation of fairy tales (Swartjes and Theune, 2006; Theune et al., 2007). Some have suggested that causal relations also play an important role in improving narrative generation from real-life temporal data (Hunter et al., 2012; Gervás, 2014). Several narrative data-to-text systems already identify and make use of some causal relations (Hallett, 2008; Hunter et al., 2012; Bouayad-Agha et al., 2012; Wanner et al., 2010). Is it possible go one step further in the identification of causal relations and aim at extracting a causal network that could be used to improve the coherence of generated texts? Given that real-life temporal data could be analysed and interpreted automatically so as to produce an appropriate causal network, how could this information be best used to organize a coherent narrative adapted to the communicative needs of a wide range of data-to-text applications? We will here address the second question by proposing a bottom-up document planning method for building the rhetorical structure of coherent narratives from a causal network. The causal network represents the plot of the story to be told by the narrative text. The rhetorical structure represents one way, corresponding to a particular viewpoint, of organizing the text to tell that story. The goal is therefore to translate the semantic information contained in a causal network into a rhetorical structure using parameters that characterize this perspective. The proposed approach uses hierarchical clustering and parameterization by adjacency and ordering preferences. It is robust to partial causal networks and does not require the generated rhetorical structure to be a tree. The document planning stage would be preceded by signal analysis and data interpretation and followed by microplanning and surface realisation in a complete data-to-text pipeline (Reiter, 2007).


The article observes the problem of genesis of the concept of «nationalism» in culture. The following prerequisites of the genesis of the concept of nationalism are dentified: the formation of the concept «their», the concept «foreign», the emergence of the concept of the nation. It is concluded that the concept of multidimensionality of the nation and it is derived from the concept of nationalism, which accounts for the complexity of the definition of the concept in scientific discourse at the level of everyday consciousness.


The multiple-pulse driver line (MPD) provides on-shot co-propagation of two separately generated pulse shapes in all 60 OMEGA beams at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Smoothing by spectral dispersion (SSD), which increases the laser bandwidth, can be applied to either one of the two pulse shapes, thereby enabling dynamic bandwidth reduction. The design of the MPD required careful consideration of beam combination as well as the minimum pulse separation for two pulses generated by two separate seed sources. A new combined-pulse-shape diagnostic needed to be designed and installed after the last SSD grating. The capability of MPD to reduce dynamic bandwidth has been used on a series of campaigns on OMEGA and the performance data are presented.


A series of different novel nonclassical nucleosides have been synthesised and evaluated for their inhibitory activity against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication in MT-4 cells.


This article introduces the principles of the hard alloy shaped mildly cuter CAD/CAM system.through adopting contrast method,studies the comprehensive function of hard alloy shaping and high speed steel shaped mildly cutter,proves the cutting fimction of the hard alloy shaped mildly cutteris better than that of high speed steel.It also establishes a foundation for this technology used producing practice.


This paper presents some considerations concerning the application of axiomatic design in research. In such a case, the researcher sometimes needs to quickly find equipment that is adequate to certain experimental conditions; thus, the researcher is both customer and designer. On the other hand, because the researcher must give creative solutions to some stages of the research, he could be interested in using methods capable of stimulating technical and scientific creativity. This paper discusses some of the results obtained in a Romanian technical university concerning the possibility to stimulate the students' creativity. A case study of the application of axiomatic design in order to develop a device for electrical discharge machining of curvilinear axis holes is also presented; this device was needed in a study in the field of non-conventional machining technologies.


As advertisements for escaped slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries show, structurally VUInerable individuals experience status transformation which is governed by larger collective forces as well as by intentional states of the individuals involved. When the status transformation is, in addition, culturally unanticipated, construction of such accounts can be seen to be emergent from interaction across a variety of levels within the society of the times. Far from sustaining the moral careers of the vulnerable they establish destructive trajectories for them. Runaway advertisements allow us to examine the role of contradictory background expectancies in the production of the threatened identity associated with this status transformation. This paper elaborates the patterning of motives in the colonial Virginia community as it dealt with social change, individual rights and scions of appropriateness in handling runaway slaves.


The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization—the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms—became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalescing into what the authors call biomedicalization, a second "transformation " of American medicine. Biomedicalization describes the increasingly complex, multisited, multidirectional processes of medicalization, both extended and reconstituted through the new social forms of highly technoscientific biomedicine. The historical shift from medicalization to biomedicalization is one from control over biomedical phenomena to transformations of them. Five key interactive processes both engender biomedicalization and are produced through it: (1) the political economic reconstitution of the vast sector of biomedicine; (2) the focus on health itself and the elaboration of risk and surveillance biomedicines; (3) the increasingly technological and scientific nature of biomedicine; (4) transformations in how biomedical knowledges are produced, distributed, and consumed, and in medical information management; and (5) transformations of bodies to include new properties and the production of new individual and collective technoscientific identities.


Contents: Foreword, Howard Putnam Preface Part I Theoretical Frameworks: Ethical theories part I: dilemmas and decision-making, Mark H. Waymack Ethical theories part II: rights and character, Mark H. Waymack Capitalism and its critics, Nathan Ross. Part II The Business of Aviation: Who governs international aviation?, Dawna L. Rhoades Making prices right: challenges facing airline managers and consumers, Joseph Schwieterman Outsourcing under systems integration: the long run benefits for Boeing and other aircraft producers, Alan MacPherson Outsourcing maintenance: a union perspective, Ted Ludwig. Part III Issues in Responsibility: Whistleblowing in aviation, Bruce Hoover and Jiao Ma Ethics and FAA inspectors, Gerardo Martinez The danger of capture in the FAA, Elizabeth A. Hoppe Learning to compete wisely a primer in creating pilot unity, Robert J. Lavender Ethics in aviation from the perspective of a flight attendant, Gail L. Bigelow ValuJet 592 and corporate responsibility, Kenny Frank. Part IV Diversity in Aviation: Racial discrimination against pilots: an historical perspective, Flint Whitlock Gender and racial barriers in flight training, James E. Sulton III Diversity recruiting in aviation maintenance, Paul Foster Safety, economic favoritism, or age discrimination? The story behind the FAA's age 60 rule, Michael Oksner. Part V Airports, ATC, and Security: There goes the neighborhood: conflicts associated with the location and operation of airports, Brian W. Ohm Chicago O'Hare and the politics of airport expansion, Joseph Ryan The ethical dimensions of the 1981 PATCO strike, Michael S. Nolan Air traffic control: a critical system in transition, Bill Parrot The TSA and risk management: are we safer today?, Robert P. Mark. Part VI Health and the Environment: Ethical Issues in aviation medicine, Warren Jensen Environmental concerns in general aviation: Avgas and noise pollution, Bob Breidenthal Greenhouse gas emissions, persistent contrails, and commercial aviation, Steven A. Kolmes Ground-level pollution, invasive species, and emergent diseases, Steven A. Kolmes Appendices Index.


This paper presents a new concept for using an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for in-situ antenna characterization, radome inspection and radar calibration. A commercial multirotor platform integrated with a sensor suite composed of an HD camera and an RF probe were used to prove the concept. Preliminary results were obtained using two different flight modes that were used to characterize an Antenna Under Test (AUT) and calibrate a radar in X-band. This new technique enables a full characterization of the antenna patterns in a radar system, including the external degradation introduced by factors such as ground clutter, the radome, temperature and other artifacts that are difficult to characterize during the design and development process. Preliminary results show that this technique has the potential for improving the characterization and the calibration process of an operational radar. This paper also presents a new UAS platform architecture that will be used for the same missions from S- to Ka-band in conventional and active phased array radar systems.


The cathodic reduction of D-glucose was studied on Pb, Ni, Zn and Cd cathodes at three pH values in aqueous solution. The effect of cathode geometry and flow rate were also examined. Partial reduction current densities were obtained by g.l.c. analysis of the derivatised products. Current interruption and resumption, as well as runs using pretreated and untreated cathodes, all tend to suggest the presence of a surface film formed on the cathode during reductions. From these results and a re-interpretation of the data of other workers, a mechanism is proposed involving the near-electrode surface pH change, with the Tafel slope and reaction rate further altered by the solid formed at the cathode surface.


This paper describes the modifications to the Pinhole algorithm and applies it to the detection of highway congestion using an IP camera. This algorithm can detect the congestion on the highway with a fairly high degree of accuracy and the small possibility of false alarms, so that it helps reporting congestion and road users to take into account the best and quickest way. The methods used in this research are literature study, questionnaire analysis, and evaluation of application performance. The application made in this study can be further developed for combined detection with many cameras, and can support traffic regulation as well as SMS gateway service to check the condition of a road segment. At the end of this paper are presented techniques and methodology of determining the parameter values used in the calibration.


Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consisting of large numbers of lowpower and lowcost wireless nodes, have recently been employed in many applications: military surveillance, disaster response and medical care among others. The inherent nature of sensor networks such as unattended operation, battery-powered nodes, and harsh environments pose major challenges. One of the challenges is to ensure that the network is always connected. The connectivity of the sensor network can easily be disrupted due to unpredictable wireless channels, early depletion of node's energy, and physical tampering by hostile users. Network disconnection, typically referred as a network "cut", may cause a number of problems. For example, ill-informed decisions to route the data to a node located in a disconnected segment of the network might lead to data loss, wasted power consumption, and congestion around the network cut. This paper presents a distributed cut detection method for WSNs.


Axially (and reflection) symmetric space‐times (Bondi metric) are studied in terms of scalar functions that measure the deviation of the system from spherical symmetry. The case of small departures from sphericity is considered, and the corresponding solution is completely specified up to the first order. Finally in discussing some aspects of the initial (characteristic) value problem, a very concise proof of a theorem by Papapetrou [A. Papapetrou, J. Math. Phys. 6, 1405 (1965)] is given.


The comparison of extractive components and antibacterial activities was carried out in the ink of four species of squids and two species of octopuses. The results obtained were summarized as follows:


The invention discloses a Streptomyces-carpaticus-derived marine microbial polysaccharide and a preparation method thereof. According to the invention, the marine-derived Streptomyces carpaticus OUCMDZ-726 is fermented to prepare the marine microbial polysaccharide in novel chemical structure, which is a linear homopolymer formed by connecting 3-desoxy-D-glycerol-D-ganonulose with alpha-2,8. The marine microbial polysaccharide has unique structure, is derived from marine microbes, can be used for producing and researching precursors or intermediates of novel drugs, and thus, can be fully utilized; and the functions and activities of the marine microbial polysaccharide can be widely developed.


With the exception of Shakespeare, few English writers have a greater claim to canonical status than Jane Austen. Always in print, frequently adapted, taught, studied, and referenced she is widely understood as a 'national treasure' of Britain's literary heritage, and one of the most prominent features of our cultural landscape. Of her six published novels, Pride and Prejudice (1813) is undoubtedly the best known. Even for those who have not read the original, the essentials of its characters and story are often familiar through film and television adaptations as well as through other texts – Bridget Jones' Diary (1996, adapted 2001) for example – that use the novel as a foundation for their own narratives.
This chapter considers three recent novels that re-work Pride and Prejudice in very different ways. Jo Baker's Longbourn (2013) imagines events as seen from the perspective of the servants, constructing a parallel narrative for those figures who are only briefly glimpsed in Austen's account. Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) by P.D. James (itself adapted for television, 2013) takes the form of a murder mystery 'sequel' that uses more recent genre conventions to cast suspicion on a number of Austen's characters. Finally, Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) is a comic mash-up of text from the original with new material in which a plague of zombies afflicts Britain. Underpinning all three, very different, engagements with Pride and Prejudice is the extent to which a reader's working knowledge of the original is a virtual pre-condition for full enjoyment of the new works.


The French impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926) is best remembered for the iconic paintings of his garden and water lily pond in Giverny (Figures 1 & 2). In his 60s, Monet started to develop bilateral age-related cataracts (or nuclear sclerosis), which would eventually affect his work dramatically. In 1913, Monet travelled to London to consult the German ophthalmologist Richard Liebreich, who had been appointed chair of ophthalmology at St Thomas' Hospital. Interestingly, Liebreich himself had a keen interest in art and had published an article on the effect of eye disease on the painters Turner and Mulready.1–3

Figure 1.
Claude-Oscar Monet. The Water-Lily Pond 1899 © National Gallery, London.

Figure 2.
Author's Father on Monet's bridge in Giverny in 2004.

Liebreich prescribed new glasses and recommended cataract surgery for the right eye, but Monet refused. By 1914–1915, he began to struggle quite severely, complaining that 'colours no longer had the same intensity for me', that 'reds had begun to look muddy' and that 'my painting was getting more and more darkened.'4 To avoid choosing …


A finite impulse response (FIR) core based on the cascaded class AB SI technique is presented for low power wireless transceivers. Accomplished through both architectural and circuit developments, the filter's features include high speed, low power consumption, small silicon area and compatibility with standard CMOS process. For feasibility and performance assessments, an 8-tap 16 MS/s SI FIR filter with 5-bit coefficients and a 31-tap 80 MS/s SI matched filter (MF) for despreading task in future WCDMA receivers are demonstrated via simulations.


A new OCC simulate cell has been designed to simulated the autocatalytic process by the occluded corrosion cavity(OCC) on low alloy steel in 3.5% NaCl solution.The effects of geometrical factors of OCC simulated cell have also been discussed.There are two important parameters in OCC which play an important role in localized corrosion process for low alloy steel, the height and diameter of occluded corrosion cavity.The corrosion rate increases with these two parameters.The suitable size of OCC is 3,3 for height and diameter of OCC which can simulate the corrosion tendency of five low alloy steels used as specimen in this experiment.The pitting corrosion rates of low alloy steels have been rank with the cell.The results are in agreement with the corrosion data got by long time immersion test in the sea.