This article attempts to explain the process of Islamic consolidation in Kazakhstan, a young Muslim-majority state in Central Asia which became independent following the demise of the Soviet Union. Unlike its turbulent regional neighbors, Kazakhstan has virtually been not troubled by the threat of extremists, making its success an interesting case to discuss. There are some aspects which this essay is going to analyze . First, using the consolidation framework, I am going to examine how the rise of Islam is facilitated after the demise of the Soviet Union. Second, I also add another element namely securitization. This paper argues that securitisation is the additional strategy which creates a stable condition of Islamic consolidation in Kazakhstan. This paper concludes with giving some reflections on the future of Islam and the political stability in Kazakhstan.


This paper discusses the changes of the production model of manufacturing enterprises, and the man's status and function in different production models. Traditional production models of manufacturing enterprises are usually in conflict with man's emotion and spirit. The reason and the solution for the conflict are presented.


A simple approximate analysis for the gravity flow of a cohesionless bulk solid in a converging channel is presented. The analysis departs from the classical approach of plasticity in that the velocity and the stress fields are coupled. This coupling enforces a unique solution for the flow rate. The analytical expression for the flow rate is compared with the theory of Brown and with experimental data of Deming and Mehring. Although the present analysis overestimates the flow rate, the results indicate that further, more realistic, analyses following the present approach would prove to be fruitful.


We develop a consistent, arbitrage-free framework for valuing derivative trades with collateral, counterparty credit risk, and funding costs. Credit, debit, liquidity, and funding valuation adjustments (CVA, DVA, LVA, and FVA) are simply introduced as modifications to the payout cash-flows of the trade position. The framework is flexible enough to accommodate actual trading complexities such as asymmetric collateral and funding rates, replacement close-out, and rehypothecation of posted collateral – all aspects which are often neglected. The generalized valuation equation takes the form of a forward-backward SDE or semilinear PDE. Nevertheless, it may be recast as a set of iterative equations which can be efficiently solved by our proposed least-squares Monte Carlo algorithm. We implement numerically the case of an equity option and show how its valuation changes when including the above effects. In the paper we also discuss the financial impact of the proposed valuation framework and of nonlinearity more generally. This is fourfold: Firstly, the valuation equation is only based on observable market rates, leaving the value of a derivatives transaction invariant to any theoretical risk-free rate. Secondly, the presence of funding costs makes the valuation problem a highly recursive and nonlinear one. Thus, credit and funding risks are non-separable in general, and despite common Damiano Brigo Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, and Capco Institute, London, email: email@example.com Qing D. Liu Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, e-mail: email@example.com Andrea Pallavicini Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, and Banca IMI, Milan, e-mail: email@example.com David Sloth Rate Options & Inflation Trading, Danske Bank, Copenhagen, e-mail: email@example.com


In the paper, the martingales and super-martingales relative to a convex set of equivalent measures are systematically studied. The notion of local regular super-martingale relative to a convex set of equivalent measures is introduced and the necessary and sufficient conditions of the local regularity of it in the discrete case are founded. The description of all local regular super-martingales relative to a convex set of equivalent measures is presented. The notion of the complete set of equivalent measures is introduced. We prove that every bounded in some sense super-martingale relative to the complete set of equivalent measures is local regular. A new definition of the fair price of contingent claim in an incomplete market is given and the formula for the fair price of Standard Option of European type is found. The proved Theorems are the generalization of the famous Doob decomposition for super-martingale onto the case of super-martingales relative to a convex set of equivalent measures.


The article represents the experience of creating and applying in order to conduct physical experiments in the field of remote automated laboratory case study in a technical university.


by Xavier Márquez This dissertation examines the Platonic view of the nature of political knowledge, its relations to other forms of knowledge, and its alienation from the political community. It is structured as a commentary on two Platonic dialogues: parts of the Sophist and all of the Statesman. I first contextualize the question of political knowledge in relation to the questions of the nature of philosophy and sophistry with which it is intimately bound in the Sophist. There, philosophy is shown to be different from political knowledge; it is at best a striving for such knowledge. I then carefully dissect the way in which the nature of this knowledge is brought to light in the Statesman. There political knowledge is shown to be a form of human care with a troubled relationship to practice, which is the province of the technai or what we might now call "technology." Political order thus emerges in the Statesman from the proper regulation of all forms of human know-how.


Radar studies of the surface of Venus have identified regions with high radar reflectivity concentrated in the Venusian highlands: between 2.5 and 4.75 km above a planetary radius of 6051 km, though it varies with latitude. Previous research has proposed several theories on the source of these anomalies, including increased surface roughness, metallic materials with higher dielectric constants, or ferroelectric materials. Prior work suggests several processes that could be the origin of these anomalies, such as surface-atmospheric interactions or low lying clouds or fog. Alternatively, these anomalies could result from a semi-metallic compound trapped at the cooler conditions in the highlands, likely forming as a snow or frost. If this were the case, the compound would be expected to precipitate out of a low cloud layer. While theoretical studies have been beneficial towards determining the source of these anomalies, few experimental investigations have been done to validate these theories. In this dissertation, several minerals, chosen by their likely presence on Venus, were investigated to determine their stability under Venusian conditions, including temperature, pressure and atmospheric composition. Analysis of the empirical data enabled the identification of potential mineral source(s) of the radar-bright anomalies.


OBJECTIVE:To oberserve the injury and potential carcinogenic effects of deoxynivalenol(DON) and n-nitrosocompounds(NOC) on the liver tissues of Kunming mice.METHODS:A total of 128 Kunming mice were equally randomized to four groups(32 each group).The mice were given DON,NOC through mouths:in the DON group,DON 0.5 mg/kg;in the NOC group,NOC 0.25 mg/kg;in the DON +NOC group,DON 0.5 mg/kg and NOC 0.25 mg/kg;in the control group,equal volume NS,two days a time.Sixty days later,the mice were killed and their liver tissues were obtained,then HE pathological sections were made,and pathological changes were observed with biopsy.RESULTS:The differences in the large flap necrosis,the large flap fatty degeneration,the focal heterotype and the new born conjugate nuclear liver cells were statistically significant among the experimental groups and the control group(P values were 0.001 8,0.000 7,0.009 3,0.022 3).The difference in the large flap fatty degeneration was statistically significant among the DON+NOC group and the DON,NOC groups(P=0.005 8).CONCLUSIONS:DON,NOC obviously damage the liver tissues,and the two combined can increase injury.At the same time,they have the latent carcinogenic effects.


Confusion is the lynchpin of trade mark law. As a cause of action, it has something to offer everyone: trade mark owners are protected from those trying to reap the benefits of their investment in their mark and brand, the public interest is served because consumers are protected from making mistaken purchasing decisions, and consequently, a differentiated market for goods and services can operate. The prevention of confusion also has intuitive appeal. We have all been confused; policymakers, judges, academics, practitioners, and members of the public alike. Indeed, we have probably all made erroneous decisions in the marketplace. Yet, despite (or perhaps because of) the ease with which likely confusion provides the traditional rationale for trade mark protection, it is under-analysed and under-studied. In particular, it is our belief that the very intuitiveness of confusion has resulted in little systematic analysis considering the exact ingredients that make up a claim of confusion.


Background  Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disorder of skin characterized by hyperproliferation of keratinocytes. Intracellular signalling pathways inducing the hyperproliferation of keratinocytes remain to be elucidated. An inhibitor of Hedgehog (Hh) signalling, cyclopamine, was recently reported to clear psoriatic skin lesions, suggesting involvement of the Hh signalling pathway in the hyperproliferation of lesional keratinocytes. We have previously observed activation of the Hh signalling pathway in Schwann cells of plexiform neurofibroma in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), which results from functional loss of the NF1 encoding protein, neurofibromin. In psoriasis, deficiency of neurofibromin expression has been observed in lesional keratinocytes.


The second law of thermodynamics puts a limit on the thermal efficiency of heat engines. This limit value is the efficiency of the ideal reversible engine represented by the Carnot cycle. During the lectures on physics, the emphasis on this cycle is generally so strong that students could be induced to consider the Carnot cycle as the only cycle having the best thermal efficiency. In fact, an entire class of cycles exists possessing the same maximum efficiency: this class is that of the regenerative Reitlinger cycles. Here we propose to teach also these cycles to the engineering students of physics classes, to improve their knowledge and comprehension of thermodynamics. Introduction: Generally, the Carnot cycle is the only thermodynamic cycle that, during the lectures on physics, is discussed as having the maximum possible thermal efficiency. This happens because Carnot cycle is directly connected to the second law of thermodynamics, which puts a limit on the thermal efficiency of heat engines. This limit value is the efficiency of the ideal reversible engine cycle represented by the Carnot cycle. Sometimes, an approach considering only Carnot engines with emphasis on their efficiency, could yield the following result: it is unknown that an entire class of cycles exists, having a thermal efficiency which is the same of that of Carnot cycle. This is the class of the regenerative Reitlinger cycles. Of course, since a large part of engineering students will be required as engineers to deal with relatively simple thermodynamic problems, a discussion of Reitlinger cycles could appear as unnecessary. However, it is unquestionable that a proper knowledge of the fundamentals of thermodynamics is necessary for engineers as well as for scientists in general. For this reason, in the following discussion, we will propose some notes suitable for teaching these cycles to students of physics classes, to improve their knowledge and comprehension of thermodynamics.


The Faunalytics Animal Tracker is an annual survey of U.S. adults' attitudes and behaviors with respect to animals and animal advocates. The first survey was conducted in 2008 and included 15 core questions. A subset of five questions has been asked every year since, which means that we collect new data for each question every three years. The questions asked in 2019 were also asked in 2016, 2013, and 2010. For 2019, we presented the Animal Tracker results in a series of blogs. The first blog provided the background and methodology of the survey, a brief overview of the latest results, and a deeper dive into the responses to two of the questions. In subsequent blogs, we explored the remaining questions covered in the 2019 survey.


It is known that the contourlet coefficients of images have non-Gaussian property and heavy tails. In view of this, an appropriate distribution to model the statistics of the contourlet coefficients would be the one having large peaks, and tails heavier than that of a Gaussian PDF, i.e., a heavy-tailed PDF. This paper proposes a new image modeling in the contourlet domain, where the magnitudes of the coefficients are modeled by a symmetric alpha-stable distribution which is best suited for modeling transform coefficients with a high non-Gaussian property and heavy tails. It is shown that the alpha-stable family of distributions provides a more accurate model to the contourlet subband coefficients than the formerly used distributions, namely, the generalized Gaussian and Laplacian distributions, both in terms of the subjective measure of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance and the objective measure of comparing the log-scale histograms.


Over the course of the last 20 years, compression has evolved from a somewhat esoteric domain of mathematics and computer science into a ubiquitous consumer electronics technology. Combined with steadily decreasing complementary metal– oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) silicon costs and increasing broadband Internet availability, compression algorithms for audio and video signals, such as Joint Photographer's Expert Group (JPEG), Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG), MPEG audio layer III (MP3), advanced audio coding (AAC), and H.264, have enabled the development of new consumer product categories such as digital cameras, digital audio players, digital versatile disc (DVD) players, high-definition television, and Internet videoconferencing. Without the 4x–32x decrease in effective bit rates that compression (and Moore's law) unlocked, these popular products would not be cost-effective and thus would not have reached consumer electronics penetration levels. Given the prevalence and success of speech, audio, image, and video compression algorithms in consumer electronics, it is surprising that many high-speed digital signal processing (DSP) systems such as wireless infrastructure, radar processing, and medical imaging sensor subsystems have until recently not considered compression as an alternative for reducing data acquisition bandwidth and storage bottlenecks. In consumer electronics products, compression is typically used as a source coding solution to reduce the bit rate of a single media stream, before compressed audio and video packets enter the transport and storage infrastructure. In contrast, this article describes sensor compression for medical transducers that is an integral part of the high-speed DSP transport and storage infrastructure itself, and compressing and decompressing hundreds or thousands of sensor channels in real time. While we certainly acknowledge the benefits of compressing medical images that are output from image reconstruction, our goal is to describe the benefits of compressing medical sensor data before image reconstruction. When combined with low-cost, off-the-shelf computer and networking components, sensor compression reduces the costs of the medical imaging data acquisition, transport, and storage infrastructure. By reducing medical imaging equipment bill of material (BOM) costs, integrated medical sensor compression and decompression will ultimately reduce the cost of medical care.


The significance of the research on electrostatic in educating creative students has been concisely stated. The objectives, purposes, methods and effect of undergraduate electrostatic research in our Institute have been introduced. After the statement of the adviser's leading roll, some projects have been proposed for a few electrostatic research topics.


Investigations of the frequency of different psychoses and psychic abnormalities among the siblings and parents of alcoholics do not take on any significance until one has collected information concerning the frequency of such states in the general population or procured a suitable material for comparison. In older works the authors were content to observe that e.g. the frequency of alcoholism among the siblings and parents of alcoholics was higher than one had reason to suppose (Rybakow 1906, Kraepelin 1910, L. Binswanger 1928 and others). Also in more recent works the authors have frequently gone no farther than to note the high frequency-figures (Wall 1936, Fleming and Tillotson 1939). The majority of the researchers use only the data supplied by the alcoholics themselves, and the reliability of the frequency-figures is therefore open to debate. The same applies to earlier investigations of morbidity in respect of psychopathic personalities (F. Kant 1927, L. Binswanger 1928 and others). I t is not till we get to works of more recent date that we find more detailed analyses, a more satisfactory method, and comparative material. Boss (1929) examined the siblings and parents of 909 male and 166 female alcoholics. He divided the material into "komplizierte .4lkoholiker" and "einfache Alkoholiker", and compared the frequency of alcoholism among parents and siblings in both these groups. As "komplizierte Alkoholiker" were accounted all those in whom, besides alcoholism, psychoses, imbecility or debility, psychopathy, "moral defects" etc. had been diagnosed. It proved that the frequencies were about the same in the two groups. Among the males, alcoholism occurred in the fathers i n 53 and 54 % respectively, in the mothers in


n view of the widespread dissent within mainstream sociology towards the study of human–animal relations, Adrian Franklin's Animals and Modern Cultures is a much welcome contribution to the field. It is an ambitious attempt to critically examine the complexities of and transformations in the relationship between humans and other animals throughout the modern age. Franklin endeavors not only to provide an overview of the intellectual framework that underlies anthrozoological discussions, but also provides a survey of the conflictual nature of various different "contested sites" of human–animal relations. These include zoos, pet-keeping, blood-sports, livestock production, the consumption of animal protein and the animal rights movement; a detailed discussion of the use of animals in scientific and medical research is, however, noticeably absent. The strength of Franklin's book lies mainly in rising to the challenge of introducing the subject of human–animal relations to a largely sceptical sociological audience. He demonstrates that the discussion of our interactions with other creatures need not necessarily be politically motivated – as is too often assumed – but instead can be a legitimate topic of sociological investigation. Franklin points to the wealth of possibilities for future research, his chapters outlining the main areas that are ripe for inquiry. Yet rather than presenting any new research findings in this volume, Franklin instead assimilates the key intellectual ideas and findings with respect to human–animal relations, situating them within the frame of a theoretically based discussion of modernity and post-modernity. This also entails the use of highly specific theoretical terms such as misanthropy, risk-reflexivity and ontological security, which may well confuse or put off the reader less familiar with modern social theory. Although he does his best to define such complex and modish sociological terminology, Franklin declines to enter further into the theoretical fray, merely assuming the validity of the theoretical constructs that he is using. That is somewhat problematic given that his entire thesis rests upon the assumption of there having been a moral crisis in humanity during the century past and that modernity necessarily destroys tradition. This is an idea that is still contested within sociology as a discipline. For an ostensibly sociological text, I was also puzzled by Franklin's self-limitation to two certain theoretical approaches. Whilst Norbert Elias and Keith Tester's sociological contributions are most certainly relevant to the subject at hand, it was surprising that he did not attempt to draw more heavily on the approaches of other prominent theoreticians, such as Pierre Bourdieu. Doing so may have shed even more light on the transformations in our interactions with other animals during the modern age. Stranger still was the omission of important sociological contributions to the field of anthrozoology. For example, the work of Arnie Arluke and Clinton Sanders was extremely conspicuous by its absence. Leaving sociological issues aside, we may turn to the core content of Franklin's work. Animals and Modern Cultures is most certainly a thought-provoking work, which – bar certain conceptual constructs – will be fairly accessible to most readers as an introduction to how our relationship with other species has transformed throughout recent times. For those who are already intimately acquainted with the key social scientific and historical literature on human–animal relations, it will far less interesting since it covers an awful lot of old ground. There are, however, a few notable exceptions in this regard. For example, I greatly appreciated Franklin's attention to the topic of the zoological gaze and the complex issue of hunting and blood-sports. Franklin succinctly emphasizes the social, cultural and historical specificity of the way in which we look at animals and, of course, how we have incarcerated them to be able to do so. However, I am not sure whether I am entirely convinced by his claim that "there can be no deep, primordial relationship underlying the zoological gaze since it must always be mediated by culture" (p.62). Whilst culture indeed takes the upper hand and the zoological gaze is for the best part socially constructed, I cannot help but wonder whether we as humans possess IN THE LITERATURE


To develop an efficient mass rearing system for Cadra cautella(Walker) and Orius laevigatus(Fieber) were investigated under the conditions of photoperiod 16L : 8D, RH and . The highest efficiency rate(multiply 28.6) of C. cautella was achieved when using the rearing cage of than . The highest efficiency rate(multiply 16.3) of O. laevigatus was achieved when using the rearing cage of (adult 1,500, 10 pcs(10 cm) of plant of egg taking). The moth could be successfully reared with all food substrates tested, of which rice bran(43%) + chick feed(43%) + yeast(14%) assumed to be proper for mass-rearing in view of cost.


Just as editor Sam Moskowitz chronicled the accomplishments of John W. Campbell's new approach to science fiction in Doorway into Time, we're capturing the accomplishments of Vic Callaghan and his fellow practitioners in their crusade to explore and expand science fiction prototyping. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/SUMvfCeGI-w is an audio podcast in which author Brian David Johnson expands on his column, speaking with Vic Callaghan and Anasol Pena-Rios about their crusade to explore and expand science fiction prototyping at the New Creatives event, a pilot trial at Essex University to explore the potential of micro SFPs as a way to get students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math.


This paper reports on the development and testing of a novel barrier sensor for UHF Partial Discharge (PD) detection in gas-insulated equipment. The sensor features a unique dual-slot planar antenna backed by an air-filled cavity. The dual-slot arrangement allows different parts of the antenna to resonate at different frequency ranges in the UHF spectrum. As a result, the sensor exhibits broader bandwidth and higher sensitivity than other barrier sensors. Finite Element Analysis simulations have been used to optimize the sensor design. Furthermore, testing using a specially made PD test rig, GTEM cell testing and testing on a gas-insulated line section in the high voltage laboratory, have validated the simulation results and the capabilities of the sensor. The Dual-Slot Barrier (DSB) sensor exhibits a bandwidth of 0.3 – 2.0 GHz with a mean effective height of 13 mm, and an effective height above 2 mm for 90% of the frequency range. The sensor can be used with both wideband instruments, such as oscilloscopes, and narrow band instruments such as frequency downconverters. Additionally, its optimized dimensions and unique replaceable sealing attachment ensure maximum compatibility for retrofitting on a wide range of equipment.


Migraine is an episodic headache which affects almost more than 10% of population and three times more frequently in women than men. One of the main problems in the success of new therapeutic approaches is our limited knowledge of migraine neurobiology. However apart from this, there are also two main causes which are not understood. One of the primary causes of migraine leading towards the activation of trigeminovascular system and second one is the mechanism of pain generation after activation. The primary aim is to control the symptoms of migraine to prevent its affects on patient's lifestyle. Complete cure of patient is unrealistic; it is just controlled by following certain precautions and proper medication. Despite of many advances and progress in migraine, drug therapy for treating and preventing migraine still remains unsatisfactory for many patients. As migraine typically varies from patient to patient, different diagnosis and therapeutics should be reviewed properly. Tehseen et al. European Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Research www.ejpmr.com 114 types. Visual disturbances occur in almost 99% of migraine patients and sensory disturbances are associated with the 50% of individuals. [8] Visual disturbance includes change in vision field causing complexity in reading or driving. In sensory aura numbness occurred. Other symptoms include delusions, speech disturbance, weakness, motor problems etc. [9] Pain Phase Pain phase also known as headache phase. Usually this is half head pain throbbing and severe in nature. It starts gradually and aggravates slowly. It occurs in almost 40% of cases. Mostly top of the head and back are severely affected. Pain lasts for 4 hrs to 72 hrs in adults while in children it lasts for almost 1 hr. Symptoms accompanied includes nausea, vomiting, hallucination, smell and sound sensitivity, neurological symptoms , sensitivity to light, light headedness, confusion and neck stiffness. [10] Postdrome Phase The effects of migraine may lasts for a few days after the main headache this is called as postdrome stage. It includes hangover, head pain, GIT problems, mood elevation, cognitive difficulties and weakness,melase and depression are most common [11] Recommendations and Guidelines Migraine has been ranked at 19 th most common cause of disability through the world by WHO. [12] Level A This medication therapy is found most effective for the management of migraine. Antiepileptics for e.g sodium valproate, divalproex sodium. Beta blockers for e.g. metoprolol, timolol and propranolol and Triptans for e.g frovatriptan. [13] Level A Negative Lamotrigine medication is found ineffective and should not be used to cure migraine. [12] Level B This medication therapy is found most effective for migraine. Antidepressants for e.g amitriptyline and venlafaxine. Beta blockers for e.g nadolol and Triptans for e.g naratriptan, zolmitriptan. Level B Negative Clomipramine medication is found ineffective and should not be given in migraine. Level C These medications are found effective in migraine. ACE inhibitors for e.g lisinopril, angiotensin receptor blocker for e.g candesartan, alpha adrenoreceptor agonist for e.g clonidine and guanfacine, anti epileptic drugs for e.g carbamazepine and Beta blockers for e.g pindolol and nebivolol. [14] Level C Negative These medications are found ineffective and should not be considered for migraine. Acebutolol, clonazepam, nabumetone, oxcarbazepine and telmisartan (Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society). Level U Evidences for these drugs are in adequate to allow their use in migraine management. AEDs for e.g, gabapentin, Antidepressant, Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor for e.g fluvoxamine, fluoxetine. Tricyclics for e.g protriptyline, antithrombotic for e.g picotamide, acenocoumarol and Coumadin, Beta blockers for e.g bisoprolol, Calcium channel blocker for e.g verapamil, nimodipine, nicardipine and nifedipine. Acetazolamide, and Cyclandelate. [12] Causes of migraine Migraine has many different potential causes. Mostly caused by primary headache disorder includes tension type headache, cluster and migraine. Secondary headache with pathologic causes is less common. Migraine is a severe condition with relapsing attack which varies from patient to patient. Some people suffering from migraine can easily identified the cause of headache but many cannot. Some potential migraine trigger are as under; allergies or allergic reactions, certain odours and perfumes, loud noises, bright lights, emotional stress, physical stress, irregular sleep pattern ,smoking active or passive both, excessive fasting, alcoholism, hormonal imbalance during adolescence, tyramine containing food for e.g. red wine, smoke fish, chicken liver, chease, figs and hot dogs and other food such as chocolates, nuts, banana, onion, citrus foods, peanut butter, fermented or pickled foods. [15] Risk factors Women are three times more prone to migraine than men. Having other family members with migraine, taking contraceptives if your migraines are altered by change in estrogen level, being under 40 yrs of age and migraine goes better as you grow older. [15] Prevalence and incidence Migraine is common relapsing disorder effecting 11% of adults population in world wide. Prevalence is highest during productive years that is between 25 to 55 years of age. Females are at more risks than males. African and Asian populations are at low risk than Americans and Europeans. Among women Caucasians are more prone to migraine than Africans, Asians and Americans. A similar pattern was seen among males. Among children it is more frequent headache disorder characterized by episodic headache, vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain. Boys experience migraine attacks more earlier than girls. [16] Tehseen et al. European Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Research www.ejpmr.com 115 Diagnosis A detailed medical history is required by the physician so he/she may conclude that what type of headache is that. Physician also required genetic history to know about the genetic frequency of migraine among the families. It is important to have a diary explaining your headache schedule. Doctor may suggest following tests depending upon signs and symptoms. [17] I. Computerized tomography (CT) SCAN for looking the other problems that are causing headache II. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for checking brain abnormalities III. Lumbar puncture (spinal tap) in case doctor suspects that you are having meningitis Treatment approaches The treatment for migraine includes preventing the migraine and reducing pain once the attack starts. The migraine can be controlled by combination of medication, modification of life styles and other complementary therapies. Relaxation may reduce both intensity and frequency of attack. [16] Life style Keeping a migraine diary is very important as you can prevent the factors by which migraine occurred before. Note down the migraine schedule and the things you ate before 24 hrs, your sleep schedule, what you were doing just before headache started and any tension in your life and what you did to make headache stop. Other lifestyle modification include, cigarette cessation, avoiding alcohol and caffeine, regular exercise, good sleep schedule, minimizing stress, eating balanced meal, preventing dehydration especially when you vomited. [17] Medication Medication for migraine is divided into two major categories:


A strong lophodonty, an extreme heterodonty, some hypsodonty and regular overlayings of coronal cement are prominent features of the genus Leptolophus (Palaeotheriinae = Palaeotheriidae s.s.). The histological pattern of the teeth unusually joins type II enamel prisms, characteristic of advanced ungulates, together with archaic features, such as an almost complete lack of Hunter-Schreger zonation and a weak expanse of peritubular dentine. The skull is narrow and slender, with an elongated ante-orbital facial region, a moderately notched nasal aperture, a rather elongated post-canine diastem, parallel zygomatic arches and a fairly dorsally located squamoso-mandibularjoint. The functional analysis brings to light ectolophodont masticatory cycles with two phases, in which maximum power was applied, contrary to equids, on hindmost teeth; likewise, skull accomodations to increasing height of the teeth are quite different. This study leads to the assumption that Leptolophus may have been light mammals, living in rather open surroundings, browsing on herbaceous plants or leaves cropped close to the ground. Moreover, it appears that it could have been some inadequacy of dental structures to the dietary, which leaded to quick wear of the teeth and to many enamel notches, but had been somewhat balanced by the early increase of hypsodonty, not induced in such a case by a biotop deterioration (as it will happen at the end of the Eocene). This inadaptation might account for the short duration of the genus Leptolophus, whose the 3 species, L. stehlini, L. nouleti and L. magnus n. sp. are indeed confined in the level MP 16. Its geographical spreading (as far as known, South of western Europe) and the morphological pattern of its dentition suggest that this genus would have been related to early upper Eocene endemic spanish forms.


Extracting, structuring and exploiting information from freeform text is a difficult task. Learning embeddings with chosen properties and going beyond simple syntax encoding contributed to significant improvements in semantic analysis. Recently, the focus has shifted from word and document embeddings to reasoning in order to infer or predict new knowledge. In this paper, we focus on job & educational background embeddings that are learned from a large CV corpus. We aim at modeling users careers and forecasting their choices. Inspired by recent work in machine translation, we design a Recurrent Neural Network architecture to normalize job & qualification titles. Once this semantic step achieved, we build another RNN to predict position chaining in CV. MOTS-CLÉS : Apprentissage de représentations, Réseaux de neurones, Recommandation.


The present invention relates to a method for selecting an appropriate peer CL1-CL 5 for content download in a peer-to-peer network, the method comprises requesting the address of the peer having a specific content, is requested to the operator node MON4 comprising receiving a response including the address, and modifying the response, modifications and the operator node is based on operator preferences available, and transmitting the modified response to the requesting client, the . .FIELD 1


In many of the economically advanced countries of the world the right to free speech and a free press is considered fundamental. This right is proclaimed, implemented and safeguarded by numerous national constitutions and supplementary legislation. While there are significant exceptions, since 1945 most of the states of the industrialized West have scrupulously tried to achieve the ideal of a free flow of information. This ideal "implies the right to gather, transmit and publish news anywhere and everywhere without fetters. As such it is an essential factor in any serious effort to promote the peace and progress of the world


We study polynomials interpolating the (rational) constant terms of certain meromorphic modular forms for Hecke groups. We make observations about the divisibility properties of the constant terms and connect them to several sequences, for example, to O.E.I.S. sequence A005148 \cite{OEISNewmanShanks}, which was studied by Newman, Shanks and Zagier \cite{newman2004sequence}, \cite{newman2004sequenceAppendix} in an article on its use in series approximations to $\pi$.


In this study, the effects of cover concrete cracks on corrosion distribution along the rebar and on the bond behavior of corroded rebar were investigated using tension specimens with rebar corroded either by a chloride spray or electrolytic corrosion. The following were examined: the relationship between the corrosion length and bondless length, the effect of tension cracks on the localization of corrosion, and the effects of cracks and corrosion on the bond energy and the tensile rigidity.


Objectives Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Therefore, using diet to control blood lipid levels and modify cardiovascular disease risk could be a promising therapeutic strategy to control disease symptoms. The primary objective of this study was to learn about systemic lupus erythematosus patient experiences with diet, including their opinion on considering diet as a therapeutic option. The secondary objective was to obtain this information in a cost- and time-effective manner. Methods A lay summary and a 15-question diet-based online survey were publicly available for 3 weeks. Social media was used to promote the survey through relevant charities, hospitals and research groups. Results A total of 300 responses were received, 284 from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Patients reported that there was a lack of clinical counselling regarding diet, with only 24% stating their doctor had spoken to them about diet. Despite this, 100% of patients stated they would change their diet if they knew it would help their symptoms and 83% would take part in a future diet-based clinical trial. Text analysis of patient research suggestions identified a particular interest in using diet to treat fatigue and manage disease flares. Conclusions This project successfully gathered patient information regarding diet and systemic lupus erythematosus over a short timeframe using an anonymous social media platform. The survey provided evidence that patients support further research and potential diet intervention studies investigating the effect of diet on the symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus.


In this paper, we report on an extensible reasoning framework developed at Nuance Communications that allows a variety of specialized reasoners to be used simultaneously. We report on the key design features of our reasoning framework, and provide a real world use case in the automotive domain.


This research aimed at investigating the influence of ethical consideration and locus of control, constituting a personality variable, on the policies made by a manager to continue or
discontinue a project that is not profitable due to private information and incentive to shirk (adverse
selection) The agency theory views personal interest as the only basis to make economic decisions related to continuing or discontinuing a project that is not profitable based on incentives received by a manager. Whereas, the ethics based on the cognitive moral development views that a manager as a
decision maker will consider ethics as an economic behavior constraint for the decision maker. At the same time, the internal and external locus of control will influence the persona capability of a manager to be a self-confident or luck, fate or destiny factor dependent in relation to the quality of decision
being made. Data analysis using multiple regression and ANOVA showed that locus of control moderates
the relationship between ethics and manager policies in decision making to continue or discontinue a
project that is not profitable during the condition of adverse selection. The findings implied that ethics and locus of control explicitly influence the decision making by a manager during the condition of adverse selection.


Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is a global issue that needs international efforts to combat. The actual implementation of the global climate agreement and the nationally determined intended contributions will be a key focus in the post-Paris era. As China has gained strength in economic and political clout, it plays a vital role in achieving the targets set in the Paris Agreement. China is taking initiatives to foster a new paradigm of South-South Cooperation in the climate change sector. In 2015, the Chinese government announced that China will set up a South-South Cooperation Climate Fund of 3.1 billion USD as a financial support to help other developing countries tackle climate change and develop clean energy. In this instance, an assessment mechanism is needed to guarantee the effectiveness and sustainability of the aid. Thus, Global Environmental Institute (GEI) recently conducted some research to develop an assessment methodology and indicator for those in-kind aid projects from a third party perspective.


Contents: Preface Part I Rematerializing Food History: Introduction A material world Daniel Schrumpf: a trial by instruments. Part II In Search of Milk: Introduction Seeking the natural laboratories and the 'knowability' of milk Expertise Standards. Part III Disciplining Milk: Introduction Moralizing milk Policing the natural Legal ontologies and the performative realm of the law. Part IV Impurity and Danger: Introduction Dirty milk and the ontology of 'clean' The material politics of milk Conclusion References Index


Two light curve solutions for the close eclipsing binary II UMa, using Hipparcos data, are presented. The analysis was made using the PHOEBE program. The first solution was derived adopting the spectroscopic value q = 0.172 while the presence of third light was considered too. The second solution is based on the mass ratio value q = 0.13, derived by a q‐search. It was found that II UMa is an A sub‐class W UMa‐type binary, and belongs to a class of systems with very low mass ratio that is expected to evolve in a single rapidly rotating star.


Masculinity is a gender representation that is often used in advertising to persuade consumers. The purpose of this research is to reveal a new representation of masculinity in Keanu's version of Ms Glow advertisement on Youtube. This research focuses on the new masculinity depicted in Keanu's version of Ms Glow ad on Youtube. The data in this study are words, phrases, images, and colors that are in each scene of Keanu's version of Ms Glow's advertisement on Youtube. This study is included in qualitative research. The approach used in this research is John Fsike's semiotics which involves codes and signs. These signs and codes are a form of social practice. The new masculinity construction that appears is analyzed by paying attention to all aspects that exist in each advertising scene. The analysis carried out in this study was carried out in 3 stages, namely by paying attention to the level of reality, the level of representation, and the level of ideology. The results of this study indicate that the Keanu version of Ms Glow's advertisement on Youtube uses a new masculinity with the masculinity style found in this study, which is shown by showing a man who looks casual, has bright skin, and gestures that are graceful or waving. This shows the nature that leads to a new masculinity. The term new masculinity refers to a modern representation of masculinity. This modern masculine is not seen in the physical appearance that leads to social and culture.


This paper proposes a two-level metaheuristic consisting of lower- and upper-level algorithms for the job-shop scheduling problem with multipurpose machines. The lower-level algorithm is a local search algorithm used for finding an optimal solution. The upper-level algorithm is a population-based metaheuristic used to control the lower-level algorithm's input parameters. With the upper-level algorithm, the lower-level algorithm can reach its best performance on every problem instance. Most changes of the proposed two-level metaheuristic from its original variants are in the lower-level algorithm. A main purpose of these changes is to increase diversity into solution neighborhood structures. One of the changes is that the neighbor operators of the proposed lower-level algorithm are developed to be more adjustable. Another change is that the roulette-wheel technique is applied for selecting a neighbor operator and for generating a perturbation operator. In addition, the proposed lower-level algorithm uses an adjustable delay-time limit to select an optional machine for each operation. The performance of the proposed two-level metaheuristic was evaluated on well-known benchmark instances. The evaluation's results indicated that the proposed two-level metaheuristic performs well on most benchmark instances.


Advanced wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) requires both efficient multi-wavelength light sources to generate optical carriers and highly scalable photonic-electronic interfaces to encode data on these carriers. In this paper, we give an overview on our recent progress regarding silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) integration and comb-based WDM transmission.


In this work, we introduce GRChombo : ?> a new numerical relativity code which incorporates full adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) using block structured Berger–Rigoutsos grid generation. The code supports non-trivial 'many-boxes-in-many-boxes' mesh hierarchies and massive parallelism through the message passing interface. GRChombo ?> evolves the Einstein equation using the standard BSSN formalism, with an option to turn on CCZ4 constraint damping if required. The AMR capability permits the study of a range of new physics which has previously been computationally infeasible in a full 3 + 1 setting, while also significantly simplifying the process of setting up the mesh for these problems. We show that GRChombo ?> can stably and accurately evolve standard spacetimes such as binary black hole mergers and scalar collapses into black holes, demonstrate the performance characteristics of our code, and discuss various physics problems which stand to benefit from the AMR technique.


The invention relates to ink, in particular to water-based ink for breathable film printing and a preparation method thereof. The water-based ink is prepared from, by weight, 10-40 parts of water-based acrylic emulsion, 10-40 parts of SMA resin water solution, 8-45 parts of pigment, 0.01-0.3 part of defoamer, 1-5 parts of anti-scratching agent and 0-43 parts of deionized water. The preparation method includes the steps of preparation of color paste and preparation of the finished product. The water-based ink for breathable film printing is high in drying speed, good in adhesive force and high in glossiness, the adopted raw materials comprise poison-free and pollution-free ingredients, no harmful gas is released in the printing process, the health of the human body is not harmed, environmental pollution is low, the preparation method of the water-based ink is simple, operation is easy, production cost is low, and basic guarantees are provided for water-based practicality of the breathable film ink.


There are many types of microstrip patch antenna that can be used for applications of communication systems. This paper presents the design of a series-fed microstrip patch antenna array to operate at the frequency of 3.4 GHz. Two types of feeding techniques are used here. One is transformer feed and the other one is inset feed. This antenna array is based on FR-4 substrate material. The proposed array antenna is designed on HFSS simulation software. After simulation, the antenna performance characteristics such as return loss, VSWR and radiation Pattern are measured. Keywords— Microstrip patch antenna array, transformer feed, inset feed, FR-4.


Through analysis in chemical drug submission in recent years,the current situation is confirmed.The results show that primary submissions are generic drugs,and the submission involving investigational new drug (IND) is increasing.Based on the shortcoming in IND research and development of Chinese industries,some key factors need to improve,including establishing the systematical research and development strategy,organizing the whole team,improving the communication,and so on.


High population growth and providing the food for this population have increased the amount of energy consumption in agricultural production systems. One of the most important issues for high energy consumption in recent century is the global warming where greenhouse gas (GHG) emission plays an important role. This study evaluated the energy balance between the input and output and the amount of GHG emission per unit area of wheat production in Iran. The total energy input and output were calculated as 31.5 and 44.6 GJ ha−1, respectively, where the highest energy consumer was chemical fertilizer with share of 64% of total energy. Total GHG emission was 1118.94 kgCO2eq ha−1 in which chemical fertilizer and diesel fuel had the highest contributions. The results of regression analysis indicated that use of 10 MJ in forms of direct, indirect, renewable, and nonrenewable energy leads to 3.0, 0.4, 2.8, and 0.6 kg ha−1 growth in wheat yield, respectively. The results of farm size analysis indicated that very lar...


1 Introduction Sea anemone toxins are polypeptide neurotoxins. The symptoms of the toxic animals exhibits contracture and paralysis of their limbs. It is evident that the peripheral nerve and muscle are important targets of the toxin. Up to now, it is still a controversial topic about which part of the N-M preparation is affected. Shapiro considered that the venom from Condylactic gigantea was active on crayfish nerve but not on muscle membrane. Metezeau et al. used curarized and denervated frog sartofius muscles, and found that ATX-Ⅱ from Anemonia sulcata acted on motor nerve terminals but not directly on muscle fibres. Erxleben et al. proved that ATX-Ⅱ could act on frog skeletal muscle directly and


Quasi-static contact behavior of an inflated MAXXIS VICTRA MA-Z1 (235/45/R17) radial tire is reported in this work. Compressional response of the inflated tire with a prescribed weight loaded quasi-statically was examined. Both experimental and numerical results were obtained and compared. In addition, dynamic contact simulation of the tire rolling on a dry-flat roadway was also studied. A commercial finite element commercial Code (LS-DYNA) was used to construct the complex tire model and to perform both quasi-static contact and dynamic rolling simulations. The Mooney-Rivlin constitutive relationship was adopted to describe the non-linear elastic behavior of rubber material, and the classical laminated theory was used to model the stress-strain behavior of the fiber reinforced composite layers of tire. Quasi-static contact force and compression displacement of tire were measured and numerically simulated. Contact pressure distribution of the tire tread in touch with simulated rigid dry-flat road surface was also numerically and experimentally obtained. Good relationship between the test findings and simulated results were reported. In addition, the dynamic contact simulations of the inflated tire rolling on a dry-flat rigid roadway with a prescribed weight loaded are presented, and the deformation pattern and local contact stress distribution are also reported.


Western corn rootworm is an important corn pest in the U.S. Some farmers noted unexpected corn rootworm injury of transgenic hybrids as early as 2008; however, the full extent of product performance is still not fully understood. We conducted telephone focus groups with farmers in 2013 to gain their perspective of current and future issues for corn rootworm. Respondents were surprised how quickly corn rootworm injury escalated in their fields and were disappointed with incorrect diagnoses from consultants and seed companies. Most participating farmers saw university Extension as an unbiased source of information.


Thank you for reading portraits in print a collection of profiles and the stories behind them. As you may know, people have search numerous times for their favorite novels like this portraits in print a collection of profiles and the stories behind them, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some harmful bugs inside their computer.


Capsule House Sparrows preferred millet over seeds of prairie forbs and grasses native to the USA. By reducing the abundance and availability of some grains, changing agricultural practices may contribute to the population declines of House Sparrows seen in some parts of their range.


The present paper offers an analysis of heat transfer and fluid flow in two phase thermosyphon loop with minichannels. A one-dimensional model of two-phase flow and heat transfer in a closed thermosyphon loop with minichannels was examined. The created general model is based on mass, momentum, and energy balances in the evaporators, rising tube, condensers and the falling tube. The separate two-phase flow model is used in calculations. The numerical results obtained for the selected heater and cooler using the general model of thermosyphon loop indicate that the mass flux increases with increasing length of the heated section and decreases with increasing length of the cooled section of the loop. It was found that the heat transfer coefficient for flow boiling and flow condensation in the steady state increases with increasing heat flux in the heater and cooler with minichannels, respectively. The design and configuration of heaters and coolers has a considerable impact on the efficiency of thermosyphon loop. These factors make it possible to optimize the computer processor cooling.


Pursuing criminal activity is tied with understanding illegal or unlawful actions taken on opportunity within a geographic location. Mapping such activities can aid significantly in determining the health of a region, and the vicissitudes of civilian life. Methods to track crime and criminal activity after the fact by mapping news reports of it to geographic locations using the NewsStand system are discussed. NewsStand provides a map-query interface to monitor over 10,000 RSS news sources and making them available within minutes after publication. NewsStand was designed to collect event data given keywords centered on locations specified textually and mapping these locations to their spatial representation, a procedure called geotagging. The goal is to demonstrate how to detect and classify criminal activity by geotagging keywords pertaining to crime, and, in effect, to enhance the capabilities of NewsStand to explicitly show this category of news. The resulting system is named "CrimeStand".


Abstract Crop production under irrigation systems is under pronounced challenges resulted in low yield in Lasta district of Amhara region for many reasons among which no or inefficient application of the major nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) took considerable share. Hence, a field experiment was conducted to study the effect of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) on the growth and bulb yield of garlic at Lasta district Kechin Abeba irrigation scheme in 2013 and 2015. The treatments were arranged in a factorial combination of three rates of N (0, 46, 92, kg ha−1) and four rates of P (0, 23, 46, 69, kg P2O5 ha−1) in a randomized complete block design in three replications. All triple supper phosphate (phosphorus source) was applied at transplanting whereas urea (nitrogen source) was applied in two splits (half at transplanting and the other half at 45 days after planting). Irrigation water was applied uniformly to all plots in furrow every 6 days. Agronomic data were collected and analyzed using SAS software and significant treatment means were separated using least significant difference at 5% level of significance. The effect of nitrogen and phosphorus was significant on plant height and bulb yield. Application of 92 and 46 kg P2O5 ha−1 increased bulb yield by 48.3% compared to the control and the partial budget analysis shows applying nitrogen and phosphorus at rate of 92N and 46 P2O5 kg ha−1was economically dominant over the other treatments. Therefore, application of 92N and 46 P2O5 kg ha−1is an optimum rate for garlic production at Lasta District, Kechin Abeba irrigation scheme and similar agro-ecologies.


Although the URLs for internet access to the Carnegie Stages of Early Human Embryonic Development were changed a couple of years ago, one can still see a number of current articles being written that continue to use the old URLs which no longer work, or cite articles in which the old URLs were used without providing corrections.


Permian Choza shale crops out in southeastern Coke County, Texas, and is overlain unconformably by 550 feet of coarse cross-bedded gray sandstone, chert conglomerate, and redbeds, of which the lower 150 feet is San Angelo Formation and the upper 400 feet is San Andres. Evenly bedded fine-grained red sandstone and shale beds that are 675 feet thick and contain a 10-foot basal conglomerate lie on the San Andres and are divided in ascending order into the Grayburg, Queen, Seven Rivers, Yates, Tansill, Salado, Rustler, and Dewey Lake Formations. These formations are separated in the subsurface by thin anhydrite beds that have been dissolved by ground water at their outcrop in central and western Coke County. Dewey Lake Sandstone in western Coke County is overlain unconformabl by Cretaceous sandstone of the Paluxy Formation.


The aim of this study is to device a system based on fuzzy Petri nets for measuring employee performance. Fuzzy Petri net models are very helpful for specifying the expert systems with imprecise description of rules. Much research has been done for measuring human resource based on features like performance indicators generated in their work place. Such features are inherently challenging full to quantify as they are highly subjective and imprecise in nature. Concurrent and reliable systems can be realized or specified using Petri nets. Hence in this study, due to these limitations we focus on establishing the method for constructing fuzzy Petri net for the domain of human performance.


Analyzing the impacts of dependent model inputs on model output is an important but challenging task for traffic simulations. Unfortunately, a proper Sensitivity Analysis (SA) that addresses this issue is hardly found in common practice within the transportation community. Many practitioners simply assume that all inputs are independent when performing SA. However, such assumption is often unrealistic for traffic simulation models, in which many inputs are actually dependent, and thus wrong conclusions are produced. A global SA method for models with dependent inputs is therefore required. In this paper, a sampling-based method is proposed for this task. It uses Gaussian copula to link the marginal distributions of individual inputs with the global distribution and dependence structure of all inputs. The first order and total sensitivity indices are then estimated through Quasi-Monte Carlo simulation. The major advantage of this method is that it can deal with models containing both independent and dependent inputs with different arbitrary distributions. The application of the proposed sampling-based SA is illustrated with the Wiedemann-74 car-following model with both dependent and independent input variables. Results show that this method is able to accurately quantify the sensitivity of all model inputs. Thus, as a general global SA method, it can be transferred like a standard quantitative SA tool for any traffic simulation model or complex model in the wider scientific community, especially when dependent inputs exist.


In this paper, we consider dynamic visual SLAM based on the feature matching and regularization. Currently, most of the visual SLAM approach is based on the assumption of a static world. In an ideal environment, these methods can achieve good work results, but when dynamic objects appear in the camera field of view, system performance is degraded or even work fails. On the basis of ORB-SLAM2 [2], we design a static map point detection strategy to ensure that only static points are used for pose estimation. Subsequently, in order to further improve the adequacy and accuracy of static map point recognition, we adopted a map point regularization strategy to optimize the dynamic and static labels. Finally, experimental results on the TUM dataset show that our method achieves high accuracy while ensuring real-time performance under a CPU computer.


Genotyping-by-sequencing is becoming widespread in breeding research. Efficient data analysis pipelines require that bioinformatics tools are accurate and easy-touse, and can be optimized and automated. We describe methodological procedures for calling variants in parental libraries and Recombinant Inbred Lines (RILs) after NGS sequencing. The parental lines (Lactuca sativa and Lactuca serriola) were sequenced at 12x (deep) coverage, and the 99 distinct RILs at 1x (shallow) coverage (Fig. 1). The sequencing data used in this analysis is generated and owned by Richard Michelmore lab at UC Davis Genome Center: http://michelmorelab.ucdavis.edu/ The sequencing was done using HiSeq2000, and the data analysis was performed with CLC Genomics Server and CLC Genomics Workbench from CLC bio: http://www.clcbio.com/ INTRODUCTION DATA AND TOOLS


The invention discloses a cut/ground silicon wafer surface cleaning apparatus, which comprises a silicon wafer, a silicon wafer carrier and stations sequentially cleaning the silicon wafer and carrying out corresponding cleaning steps, the stations include a cleaning tank of a first station with water and bubble ultrasonic overflow rinsing, a cleaning tank of a second station with acid solution and bubble ultrasonic cleaning and the like. The cut/ground silicon wafer surface cleaning apparatus overcomes the problem of easy acid-alkali neutralization reaction, so that the PH value and concentration of the alkaline cleaner of a third station and a fourth station can be kept constant, and thereby the dirt-removing capability of the alkaline cleaner can be persistently effective. The cut/ground silicon wafers cleaned by the method have high surface cleanliness, good repeatability and a consistent color; the oxidation phenomena of mottling, bluing and blacking are prevented, and the acceptance rate of the cleaned silicon wafers is high; meanwhile, the cleaner does not need to be added in the effective period of cleaning capacity specified by the process, and the cut/ground silicon wafer surface cleaning method is easy to operate.


The effect of additions of Nb, A1 and Mo to Fe-C-Mn-Si TRIP steels on the final microstructure and mechanical properties after simulated thermomechanical processing (TMP) has been studied. Laboratory simulations of continuous cooling during TMP were performed using a quench deformation dilatometer, while laboratory simulations of discontinuous cooling during TMP were performed using a hot rolling mill. From this a comprehensive understanding of the structural and kinetic aspects of the bainite transformation in these types of TRIP steels has been developed. All samples were characterised using optical microscopy and XRD. The relationships between the morphology of bainitic structure, volume fraction, stability of RA and mechanical properties were investigated.


Objective To assess the pharynx and larynx appearance,the inaccurate reason and treatment of agranulocytic angina.Methods A retrospective study was performed at the first time and all cases were misdiagnosed with other deseases.Results All cases were diagnosed in ENT department with the reasons of fever,pharyngodynia,pharyngeal ulcer and dyspnea.At first diagnosis,6 cases were diagnosed as acute angina,5 cases as acute suppurative tonsillitis,4 cases as acute epiglottits,and 1 cases as malignant lymphoma.Fifteen case were cured by physic methods,1 cases died after tracheotomy.Conclusion It is vital to realize the serious harm of this disease,particularly to distinguish the agranulocytic angina from the acute angina resulted from other pathogeny.The cure could be increaseed via pertinent treatment which also decreases the high rate of serious complicating disease and death as well.


This investigation has shown that it is possible to prepare V complexes of amylose from dimethyl sulfoxide solutions. Methanol, n-propanol, acetone, and methyl ethyl ketone complexes have been prepared and their unit cell dimensions calculated from their x-ray powder patterns. The small unit cell, with a helix diameter of 13.0 A., observed with a wet methanol complex from aqueous system, is also observed here. However, the wet and thoroughly dired ketone complexes prepared from DMSO have the larger helix diameter of 13.7 A. The results indicate that factors other than the size or type of complexing agent are important in determining the helix diameter of the amylose V complex. They also indicate that these factors are complex and probably interdependent. The effect of temperature on the helix diameter was explored.


Emergency procedures are becoming increasingly popular in international arbitration. Their effectiveness is however disputed, there being uncertainty as to both the proper status of the subject granting emergency relief—so called emergency arbitrator—and the enforceability of his decisions. This contribution aims at shedding light on the above-mentioned issues. To this end, it first describes the general procedural framework in which emergency procedures are carried out. It then delves into the questions of what the proper status of an emergency arbitrator is and whether emergency decisions are capable of being enforced by state courts, suggesting that the emergency arbitrator is a full-fledged arbitrator rendering decisions that may enjoy (at least a certain degree of) enforceability. Finally, it puts forward a proposal for an international instrument on recognition and enforcement of arbitral interim measures, including emergency decisions, which may enhance their effectiveness.

(New York) Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (1958) Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance (2013) Singapore International Arbitration Act (2012) ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) Arbitration Rules (2012) LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration) Arbitration Rules (2014) ICDR (International Centre for Dispute Resolution) Arbitration Rules (2009) SCC (Stockholm Chamber of Commerce) Arbitration Rules (2010) SIAC (Singapore International Arbitration Centre) Arbitration Rules (2013) HKIAC (Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre) Arbitration Rules (2013) NAI (Netherlands Arbitration Institute) Arbitration Rules (2010) Yahoo! v Microsoft , US District Court (SDNY) (2013) Total Fina Elf E&P Congo c Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo et Republique du Congo , Cour d'appel de Paris (2003) Swiss Code of Private International Law (1987) English Arbitration Act (1996) Dutch Arbitration Act, Code of Civil Procedure, Book IV (1986) [ Wetboek van Burgerlijke Rechtsvordering ]


Abstract Pressure-area isotherms of ternary component monolayers of nucleobase amphiphiles, octadecylcytosine (C18-Cyt) and diacetylene-containing adenine and thymine amphiphiles (DA-Ade, DA-Thy), were changed by addition of oligonucleotides, d(GT)15 or d(GGT)10, in the water subphase. Photopolymerization of diacetylene in the monolayer was strongly suppressed on the oligonucleotide subphase. This suggests that the oligonucleotide can act as a template for the diacetylene monomer arrangement via complementary hydrogen bonding at the air-water interface.


Mental disorders account for a large proportion of the worlds population. The cause of mental illness is unkown. Almost all mental illnesses can be treated with either medication or some form of psychotherapy or counseling. International law has not paid sufficient attention to the mentally ill, so their positip is regulated within the framework of the protection of persons with disabilities. Often, mentally ill persons are deprived of legal capacity, which is why they are placed under guardianship. The importance of the caregiving institute is reflected in the protection of sick persons who are unable to protect their rights and interests. The mentally ill are often exsposed to frequent hospitalizations, resulting in an institutionalized form of care. Deinstitutional forms of care for sick persons contribute to improving the quality of their lives. Particular emphasis is placed on the source of support that the mentally ill receive and the role of the social worker in dealing with these persons. Mentally ill people with the disease are in disadvantageou situation, so their support from family , friends, relativies and other persons is very important to them. In addition to non-formal sources of support for mentally ill ersons formal sources of support for mentally ill persons formal sources of support are important. There are different ways of working withthe sick such as a sociotherapy, occupational therapy, individual therapy, group therapy, and consueling. These methods of working with the mentally disabled are aimed at preventing, eliminating the consequences of the disease, contributing to nealing and improving the quality of life of working with the diseased.. Mentally ill persons are a particulaarly vulnerable group, which is why it is important to promote and protect their rights. The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the mental illness and its consequences for the sick person and their family, and to highlight the importance of supporting the sick.


Objective To explore the changes and its clinical significance of serum myocardium enzymes in healthy children. Methods This study consisted of 117 cases of healthy children. All the cases were divided into two groups according to their ages: one group (group A) included 82 cases aged 0 to 6 years; the other group (group B) included 35 cases aged 6 to 13 years. The changes of myocardium enzymes in both groups were observed. Results ① The level of serum myocardium enzymes raised significantly in group A than that in group B (P< 0.01); ② In group A, α -HBDH andLDH-L raised significantly (74.39% and 47.56% respectively)and next was AST,CK-MB and CK(13.41%,6.10% and 3.66% respectively). AST raised significantly in infant. In group B, myocardium enzymes were normal in most cases. Only 2 cases with α -HBDH raised (5.71%) and 1 case with LDH-L raised (2.86%). Conclusion ①The level of serum myocardium enzymes raised significantly in group A than in group B; ②The most cases with increased α -HBDH, LDH-L were in group A. AST raised significantly in infant..

Key words:
Children;  Myocardial enzymes;  Statistical analysis


We present, for the first time, a preparation method of nanoporous silver by phase separation in nanocomposite Ag–Fe and Ag–Ni systems, which are metal pairs immiscible in both liquid and solid states. Conveniently using high-energy mechanical milling, we achieve uniform mixing of the metal grains at the nanoscale in the mixtures containing 50 vol.% Ag. When Fe and Ni grains dissolve in hydrochloric acid, they leave behind a nanoporous silver skeleton, in which the size of coherently scattering domains is larger than that in the starting nanocomposite before the phase separation, while the microstrain is reduced. We explain these effects by recrystallisation of silver through the dissolution–precipitation mechanism enabled by oxidation of silver by oxygen of ambient air and the concomitant formation of HAgCl2 in the solution followed by its reduction by metallic Fe or Ni in a galvanic displacement reaction. The originality of the proposed synthesis is in the dual functionality of the Fe and Ni sacrificial phases acting also as reducing agents and opening up a new mechanism of microstructure tailoring of nanoporous silver. Selective dissolution of Spark Plasma Sintered Ag–Fe and Ag–Ni compacts retaining silver nanograins can be used to produce nanoporous silver membranes.


With national certification of electronic health records (EHRs) a reality, the Academy hopes its new clinical report will help ensure that all EHR systems include certain clinical functions that are crucial to infant, child and adolescent health care.

The clinical report, Special Requirements of


Abstract The addition of 1,2-dibromotetrafluoroethane (1) to various terminal alkynes (2a – 2j) was performed in DMF with a redox system (NH 4 ) 2 S 2 O 8 /HCO 2 Na·2H 2 O at 40°C. The products (3) were 1:1 adducts reductively debrominated under the reaction conditions, with the E isomers in predominance, and were obtained in excellent yields (82 – 93%).


Mass mortality of abalone Haliotis diversicolor aquatilis, occurred at abalone farms of Dongshan Prefecture, Fujian Province during the spring of 1999 and Since then pathological study was performed. Electron micrography revealed mass enveloped, about 100nm in diameter, hexagonal particles in the cytoplasm of liver of diseased abalone. Artificial infected experement revealed that the virus is the lethal pathogen of mass mortality, and histopathological changes and necrosis of the liver cell were the reshan of death.A further study on specib clasifieation of virus will be needed.


A virus causing a severe disease of tomatoes in Argentina was identified as a strain of eggplant mosaic virus (EMV). It resembles the type, Abelia latent and various Andean potato latent strains of EMV in its host range and its transmissibility at allow rate by Epitrix sp. It differs from these strains, however, serologically and in some of its cytopathic effects. In serological agar gel double diffusion tests it proved to be closely related to the tomato white necrosis isolate of EMV studied by Barradas (1983) in Brazil.


This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of zakat institutions from the zakat recipients' perspective. Researchers opine that empowering is a matter of utmost importance in order to ensure recipients are self-sufficient, self-reliant and can withstand any hardship come it may. Therefore the zakat authorities need to safeguard a robust empowerment regime and for that reason the assessment of that performance may require a newer dimensional approach where 'the recipients' who are the main stakeholders do evaluate the contributory performative assessment through the main four perspectives as enshrined by the Balanced Scorecard technique which include financial effectiveness, customer effectiveness, internal effectiveness and learning & growth effectiveness. Hence, the goal is to investigate the effectiveness of zakat institutions of Kedah, Malaysia in particular. A total of 427 responses received, where Partial Least Squares approach was employed as the main data analysis of this study. The research identified that all the four components are interlinked and need a coherent addressing in terms of zakat recipients' upliftment. The recipients did put emphasis on the priority of the financial effectiveness, but in a non-profit environment where the customer effectiveness is vital, may require the service enhancement along with putting the emphasis on learning and making certain systematic rejuvenation of the processes, as well as the planned financial decision to make effects conducive to empowerment of the recipients.


It has been recognized that hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Cystathione β synthase( CBS) is one of the key enzymes of homocysteine( Hcy) metabolism,CBS activity may decrease or be loss when gene mutates,leading to homocysteine concentration increase,causing cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension,coronary atherosclerotic heart disease. However,results so far have been inconclusive. Lowering plasma Hcy level can reduce the risk of cardiovascular events.


In our laboratory, Soft Defect Localization (SDL) technique without a synchronization signal is realized by Optical Beam Induced Resistance Change (OBIRCH). But the accuracy of this SDL technique depends on power supply voltage, pixel dwell time and test program duration. In this paper, we will present experimental results to show how to affect the accuracy of SDL technique by these three factors.


An outline is given of the designs and procedures of statistical analysis followed in coffee experiments at the Instituto Agronomico de Campinas. Four groups of experiments are considered: 1) fertilizer tests; 2) varietal trials; 3) progeny tests; and 4) miscellaneous experiments. Under 1) the writers discuss old experiments with systematic layouts and more recent ones with randomized designs. A factorial experiment supplied conclusive results within a few years. The problem of changing some of the treatments arose in one of the experiments, and the solution proposed by the writers is discussed. Under 2) the treatment of data used by W. L. Stevens (1949) in the analysis of a systematic experiment comparing coffee varieties is commented in detail. The evolution in designs used for progeny comparisons is discussed under 3). In early tests progenies were compared on the basis of rows of 20 plants without replications; later the designs were changed to replicated plots of 4 plants per plot, and more recently to plots of a single plant with a higher number of replications. The results of spacing trials and of tests comparing several methods of planting-coffee are discussed under 4.) The plot size for coffee experiments is also discussed,, based on individual yield records from a planting of the Bourbon variety.


Primary Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome is a rare disease associated with thromboembolic events which may affect either the arterial or the venous vasculature.


Epilepsy in children is associated with a broad spectrum of cognitive deficits, which is associated with hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting. The underlying molecular mechanisms involved in mossy fiber sprouting in hippocampus following developmental seizures are not completely known. The timing of cognitive dysfunctionand the relation of this cognitive impairment to calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase Ⅱ (CaMK- Ⅱ ), plasticity related gene 3 (PRG-3), cholecystokinin (CCK), zinc transporter 1 and 3 (ZnT-1 and ZnT-3) in hippocampus were studied. A seizure was induced by penicillin quaque die alterna in Sprague-Dawley rats from postnatal day 29 (P29). Rats were assigned into the recurrent seizure group (RS, seizures were induced in eleven consecutive days, n=39) and the control group (NS, n=21). At 1.5 h, 3 h, 6 h and 12 h after the last seizure, apoptosis and autophagy were detected by transmission electronmicro-scopy (TEM) or in situ end labeling (TUNNEL). Electro-corticogram was observed after the last seizure. During P51 to P56, P81 to P84 and P92 to P95, the rats were tested for spatial learning and memory abilities with automatic Morris water maze task. On P95, mossy fiber sprouting and gene expressions in hippocampus were determined subsequently by Timm staining and real time RT-PCR methods. The results are as follows: a. TEM revealed the formation of autophagosomes and apoptosis in hippocampus after kindling. In the hippocampal neurons of the controls, chromatin and cytoplasmic organoids showed eumorphism with nuclear membrane integrity; 1.5 h after the last penicilin-induced recurrent seizures, "C"-morphous double membrane structure of dilated endocytoplasmic reticulum could be observed; 3 h after the last seizures, autophagosome appeared with manifest dilated endocytoplasmic reticulum; 6~12 h after the last seizures, the hippocampal neurons showed apoptotic feature such as nuclear chromatinic pyknosis and verge-aggregation. TUNNEL staining also showed elevated number of apoptosis neurons in hippocampus of RS group(P 0.05). b. Vertex sharp transient wave and sharp wave were soon detected just in a few minutes afer the last seizure in RS group by Electrocorticogram. c. Escape latency. The escape latencies from the water maze were significantly longer in rats of RS group than that of the control at d5 of the first test, at d1 of the second test, and at d2 of the third test. d. Strategy analysis. RIDIT analysis showed that the scores were much worse in rats of RS group than that of the control at d4 and d5 of the first test. Moreover, the scores were much worse in rats of RS group than that of the control at the whole three days of both the second and third maze tests. e. Memory test. As for the value of distance in origin platform quadrant to total distance, the RS group seemed worse than the NS group in three maze tests(P 0.05). f. Aberrant mossy fiber sprouting was seen in the inner molecular layer of the granule cells and the stratum pyramidale of CA3 subfield in RS group. g. Real time RT-PCR analysis showed decreased expression of CaMKⅡα and ZnT-1 in hippocampus of RS group than that in control group. Moreover, the four genes (CaMKⅡα, PRG-3, CCK and ZnT-3) in NS group and the two genes (CaMKⅡα and ZnT-1) in RS group showed copolymerization characteristic by cluster analysis. In addition, correlation and regression analysis demonstrated positive linear correlation among CaMKⅡα, CCK, PRG-3 and ZnT-3 in NS group and between CaMKⅡα and ZnT-1 in RS group. It was concluded that recurrent developmental kindling induced by penicillin could cause not only autophagy and apoptosis in the earlier stage of brain damage, but also have long- term effects on cognitive function and hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting which may be associated with the down-regulated expression of CaMKⅡα and ZnT-1 in hippocampus.


Thereispoorcorrelation between theMICsandzonesizes obtained forerythromycin against Haemophilus influenzae. Theeffect oftwomedia, Mueller-Hinton mediumsupplemented with3% lysed horsebloodand10 ,ugofNAD perml(MHA+LYHB)andMueller-Hinton agarsupplemented with1% bovine hemoglobin and 1% IsoVitaleX (MHA+HGB),on theMICsandzone sizes oferythromycin against H. influenzae was determined. Theeffect ofthreedifferent methodsforinoculum preparation on thesusceptibility ofH. influenzae was also determined. TheMICswere independent ofthemethodofinoculum preparation, butthe zonesizes were smaller iftheinoculum was carefully adjusted tocontain approximately 108CFU/ml.MICs were higher andzone sizes were smaller whenMHA+HGB was usedinstead ofMHA+LYHB. Good correlation was foundwhenMHA+LYHB was usedfordetermining theMIC andMHA+HGB was usedfor determining susceptibility bythediskmethod. Whentheinoculum was adjusted tomatcha McFarland 0.5 standard, theviable counts hadtobeapproximately 108CFU/mlforgoodcorrelation between MICsandzone sizes. A-56268, a new macrolide antibiotic, was tested against H.influenzae, anditsMICsandtentative breakpoints against thisorganism were determined. TheMICsobtained byvarious methods werecorrelated withinvivoefficacy byusing a mouse septicemia model. MICsobtained on MHA+HGB or MHA+LYHB incubated without a 5% CO2atmosphere showedthebestcorrelation withinvivoefficacy. Ina recentcollaborative study, 64.2%of3,356 strains of Haemophilus influenzae werefoundtoberesistant toerythromycin whentested bythediskdiffusion procedure (5). An editorial commentbyJones(11) on this study states that disk diffusion testsdonotaccurately assessthenear-total resistanceofH.influenzae toerythromycin intheUnited States, because theinterpretive criteria forthediskdiffusion test witherythromycin areinappropriate. Jonesetal.(12) have recently recommendedrevised interpretive criteria for erythromycin. Doern(G.V.Doern,Antimicrob. Newsl. 3:28-34, 1986)andKarthein etal.(14)havedescribed the lackofcorrelation observed betweentheresults ofdisk diffusion andthedilution methodforerythromycin susceptibility testsagainst H.influenzae. Thestandard formicrobrothdilution susceptibility testing bytheNational CommitteeforClinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS)(18) designatestheMICbreakpoints oferythromycin forallorganisms as <0.5pLg/ml forsusceptible, .8,ug/ml forresistant, and MICsbetweenthesevalues as intermediate. Thestandard fordisksusceptibility testing bytheNCCLS (17) describes zone sizes of.18mm tobesusceptible and.13mm tobe resistant forerythromycin. TheMIC correlates forthe susceptible andresistant zone sizes are c2and.8,ug/ml, respectively. Itisnecessarytoreestablish theinterpretive criteria toaccurately determine resistance orsusceptibility ofH.influenzae toerythromycin. Thisproblem isespecially important as new macrolide antibiotics suchas roxithromycin(4,13)andA-56268 (8) arebeing developed. Inthisstudy, we havedetermined theMICsanddisk diffusion zone sizesoferythromycin andA-56268(6-0methyl erythromycin; TE-031) forH.influenzae. MICsof erythromycin forH.influenzae were determined byusing


The Florida Bay ecosystem has changed substantially in the past decade, and alterations in the seagrass communities have been particularly conspicuous. In 1987 large areas ofThalassia testudinum (turtlegrass) began dying rapidly in western Florida Bay. Although the rate has slowed considerably, die-off continues in many parts of the bay. Since 1991, seagrasses in Florida Bay have been subjected to decreased light availability due to widespread, persistent microalgal blooms and resuspended sediments. In light of these recent impacts, we determined the current status of Florida Bay seagrass communities. During the summer of 1994, seagrass species composition, shoot density, shoot morphometrics, and standing crop were measured at 107 stations. Seagrasses had been quantified at these same stations 10 yr earlier by Zieman et al. (1989).T. testudinum was the most widespread and abundant seagrass species in Florida Bay in both 1984 and 1994, and turtlegrass distribution changed little over the decade. On a baywide basis,T. testudinum density and biomass declined significantly between surveys; mean short-shoot density ofT. testudinum dropped by 22% and standing crop by 28% over the decade.T. testudinum decline was not homogeneous throughout Florida Bay; largest reductions in shoot density and biomass were located principally in the central and western bay. Percent loss ofT. testudinum standing crop in western Florida Bay in 1994 was considerably greater at the stations with the highest levels of standing crop in 1984 (126–215 g dry wt m−2) than at the stations with lower levels of biomass. While turtlegrass distribution remained consistent over time, both the distribution and abundance of two other seagrasses,Halodule wrightii andSyringodium filiforme, declined substantially between 1984 and 1994. Baywide,H. wrightii shoot density and standing crop declined by 92%, andS. filiforme density and standing crop declined by 93% and 88%, respectively, between surveys. Patterns of seagrass loss in Florida Bay between 1984 and 1994 suggest die-off and chronic light reductions were the most likely causes for decline. If die-off and persistent water-column turbidity continue in Florida Bay, the long-term future of seagrasses in the bay is uncertain.


In the Puglia region (southern Italy) heavy storms trigger high suspended sediment transport in water courses, accelerate soil and nutrients loss, and adversely affect biodiversity. In addition, high siltation in reservoirs reduces the water-holding capacity and creates severe problems of water availability for agriculture, which still plays an important role in the local economy. In the study area, suspended load data derive from continuous monitoring in the Carapelle torrent (2007-2008) and from hand-sampling in the Salsola sub-catchment of the Candelaro torrent (1970-1984). Recorded data of total streamflow are also available for both torrents. The high temporal resolution data were used to analyze the sediment transport dynamics and to evaluate the predictive accuracy of the Annualized AGricultural Non-point Source (AnnAGNPS) pollution model at the event scale. The historical data were used to test the reliability of the model for long-term periods and to compare the performances of medium and small size watersheds.


Provide a system and method for calculating a power output (step 320), and for coordinating the voltage and wire feed speed is reduced (step 328); if the calculated power exceeds the power output capability (step 322).


Acoustic feedback instability is a fundamental limitation in public address systems and hands-free full duplex teleconferencing systems; it occurs at the resonant peaks of the acoustic signal path. These resonances can be reduced by modulating the directivity of the loudspeaker or microphone, as in a digital beamforming loudspeaker array with time-varying shading coefficients. Beam dithering can be accomplished by time-stepping through a sequence of discrete Chebyshev taps. For each time interval, the array is weighted with a distinct set of Chebyshev coefficients. As the taps change, the beam pattern changes, thus continually altering the modal excitation of the room and thereby smoothing the room response. The authors include a summary of linear beamformer theory, a mathematical development of the array weighting scheme, an analysis of the dithering method, a diagrammatic explanation of the beamformer implementation and some experimental data.<<ETX>>


This paper explores the hypothesis that tenants do not farm leased land with the same management integrity as their owned property. It assesses today's agricultural land leasing practices in the context of sustainable resource management, specifically addressing the influences of human attitudes and value sets.


Bongjin Kim is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kitakyushu. He received M.A. in Political Science from SeoulNational University in 1985 and Ph.D. the from University of Tokyo in 1991, majoring in Intellectual History of East Asia. He was a visiting professor at the College of Foreign Languages of Dalien, 1996-1997. Currently, he is a visiting scholar of the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University, 2002-2003. He is co-author of 10 books in Japanese as well as Korean. He has also written articles in Japanese, Korean, and English on topics related to East Asian Intellectual History, Political Thought, and International Relations in such journals as TayObunkakenkyuzyo Kiyo (The Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture) and Jontong gwa Hyundai (Tradition and Contemporary).


This bachelor thesis deals with the synthesis and properties
of (Ge0,25Ga0,05S0,70)100.x.yBixDyy chalcogenide glasses, where x = 0.0.5 at.% a y = 0.0.5
at.%. Synthesized glasses were studied from point of view of their structural, thermal and
spectroscopic properties. The main attention was paid to photoluminescence emission in nearand
mid-infrared spectral region at lambda = 1.3?mikro m, lambda = 1.7 mikro m a lambda = 2.9 mikro m.


The development status of forest resources monitoring system in China was reviewed,the existing problems were elaborated: single monitoring target,scattered management system,lower comprehensive evaluation,different technical standards and lack of security system. Finally,several countermeasures for forest resources monitoring in China were put forward.


We develop ice cloud bulk scattering models that are based on a comprehensive set of microphysical in situ measurements of ice clouds, and a set of modeled ice particles used for light scattering calculations.


In some outdoor applications, navigating a mobile robots needs to be geo-referenced and with hight precision. For its geo-localization, the mobile robot can use a global positioning system (GPS). This system has an accuracy of 6 to 12 meters for a typical civilian GPS receiver, depending on number of available satellites. This accuracy can be reduced to 1m by using a DGPS (Differential GPS) system which employs a second receiver at a fixed location to compute corrections to the GPS satellite measurements.


This brief presents a symmetrical relay-based identification scheme for a class of linear time-invariant systems with time delay. During off-line identification, the adverse effect of static load disturbance may lead to erroneous system model parameters. Therefore, on-line identification scheme is proposed where the system characteristics is extracted with respect to proportional-integral (PI) controller dynamics in terms of sustained oscillatory responses broadly known as limit cycle at the system output. Utilizing the relay settings (amplitude and hysteresis width), controller parameters and limit cycle information, an explicit set of mathematical expressions for on-line parameter estimation of system dynamics in terms of a stable first order plus time delay (FOPTD) model is deduced from frequency domain and state space analyses. As compared to recent relay-based identification methods, the proposed set of explicit expressions does not require any prior guess of initial values of the system model parameters for the simultaneous solution of a nonlinear set of mathematical equations. Simulation of a benchmark example from literature and experimental results from the coupled tanks system are included for validation of the proposed identification algorithms using the deduced set of mathematical expressions.


Objective To isolate and analyze the volatile components from seeds of Magnolia zenii..Methods The volatile components from seeds of Magnolia zenii.were extracted and then analyzed by GC-MS.The relative content of each component was calculated by peak area normalization.Results 25 peaks were detected,and 19 compounds were identified,which made up 99.60% of the total volatile components.Conclusion The main constituents in the volatile components is tomentosin(95.48%).


In the application of PCNN,the key problem is the determination of the model parameters.A Clonal selection algorithm is proposed for automatic searching of the target parameter.An application example in the image segmentation is also presented.


The utility model provides a support device used on a lamplighter. The support device comprises a first guide rail with a first guide slotted hole formed thereon, a first slide bar capable of being fixed at a plurality of positions on the first guide rail through a first screw capable of being screwed into a plurality of positions in the first guide slotted hole, and a first support bar used for supporting a liquid crystal panel and connected with the first slide bar. The support device used on the lamplighter can conveniently adjust the position of a supporting point, so as to support liquid crystal panels having various models.


I described the development of a country-level model to explore whether anxiety prevalence is positively associated with brand topic search interest (BTSI) through COVID-19 vaccination behavior. Secondary data for countrylevel anxiety prevalence and vaccination rate were collected for
 60 countries. To assess BTSI, I extracted brand keywords from Google Trends' national search interests to compose four categories of country-level BTSI. The results indicated that people living in areas with higher rates of both vaccination and anxiety prevalence were significantly interested
 in searching for entertainment and sports brands. COVID-19 vaccination rate positively mediated the relationship between country-level anxiety prevalence and BTSI in tourism, video games, and sports categories. This study enhances understanding of consumers' brand topic search behaviors during
 the COVID-19 pandemic and offers practical implications that will enable researchers and policymakers to explore cross-national BTSI through anxiety prevalence and vaccination rate.


The double closed-loop DC drive system works are analysed in paper,and relevant parameters are calculated.There builds double closed loop DC control system simulation model based on MATLAB / Simulink platform.Simulation results show that:established simulation model based on the transfer function is better in the rapidity and smooth of response; although the power system simulation model based on the MATLAB is poor in the rapidity and stability of response,it has better reflection on the true system response process,more practical value,thus it has important research significance.


To produce high heat-resistant air filter, filtration properties of poly (ether sulfone) (PES) made by various electrospinning conditions were evaluated. The PES webs of 0.4-1.1 um average diameter fiber were obtained from 35-40 wt% PES / N,N- Dimethylacetamide (DMAc) solution. The diameter profile of electrospun PES web was clearly affected by PES concentration of the spinning dope and feeding rate of the dope, while the take-up speed effects little. The needle-collector distance affects the diameter profile for higher feeding rate conditions. The pore size of these webs was 1.3 - 5.6 um, which was decided not only average fiber diameter but also fiber diameter variation. Both filtration efficiency and pressure loss were dropped steeply at about 3.0 um of pore size. For the web having a pore size of 3.2 um, the pressure loss decrease to 215 Pa, while the filtration efficiency for 0.3 μm particle kept 99.9998 %, which satisfied the HEPA requirement.


This paper describes the history, design and construction of the tay railway bridge. The design and construction of the present bridge are so inextricably bound up with the failure of its predecessor in the disaster of 1879 that any description of it must begin with the story of the earlier first effort to bridge the tay. Although everyone has heard of the disaster, perhaps few know the facts of an event which seems to have gripped public imagination as no other has done since. The paper begins with a description of the design and construction of the first tay bridge, which was a few feet shorter than two miles long, by far the longest bridge in the world at that time. The events leading to its fall in a gale on 28 December 1879 are outlined, together with the findings of the public inquiry, and the new conditions set out for the construction of the present bridge. The ingenious construction methods for the new bridge, employed by the contractor, William arrol of Glasgow, are described. The construction took five years from 1882-87, and the bridge celebrated the centenary of its opening on 20 June 1987.(a)