This paper presents human factor as a crucial element of flight safety. It is a generally known fact that human factors play an important role in incidents and accidents in aviation, especially regarding pilots and technical personnel, as well as air traffic controllers. The amount of air transport grows dramatically year by year as the saturation of air traffic service airspace similarly increases, filled with sporting (amateur) aviation, military, and other flights (aero-medical, sightseeing flights, etc.). The relationship between human performance and safety has been a long-standing issue with Air Traffic Control authorities, since human performance is considered to be a critical determinative for Air Traffic Management safety.


OBJECTIVE To understand the antibiotic resistance of Klebsiella pneumonial,its constituent ratio among departments and the source of samples from Jan 2008 to Jun 2009.METHODS A total of 454 strains of K.pneumoniae were isolated from clinic,then cultivated,identified and statistically with Excel2000.RESULTS From 454 strains,the highest rate of detection was in ICU of internal medicine(61 strains),next was neurosurgical ICU(41strains).Three hundred strains were from sputum,50 strains from urine and 29 strains were from pas.The rate of antibiotic resistance to ampicillin of Klebsiella was 99.1%,to piperacillin(41.0%),to cefazolin(38.8%),to cefuroxime(37.7%) and to aztreonam(35.5%).CONCLUSIONS As raising up of antibiotic resistance of Klebsiella,the clinic treatment is very difficult.Rational using antibacterials,stringently executing institution of disinfection and isolation,and emphasizing hand washing are very important.


In this paper, the creepdamage behaviors of composite laminated cylindrical panels with initial geometric imperfection under axial compression load are studied. Based on the Timoshenko-Midlin theory and Boltzmann superposition principle, the nonlinear creepdamage equilibrium equations of Orthogonality laminated cylindrical panels with initial imperfection are established and solved by the finite difference and iterative method. In the numerical results, the effects of geometric nonlinearity and transverse shear deformation on the creepdamage behaviors of composite laminated cylindrical panels are discussed.


We report on simultaneous monitoring of electrical resistance and acoustic emission (AE) during cyclic tensile loading of cross-ply carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP). The parallel detection of the AE serves as a reference method for the investigation of the microscopic damage mechanisms causing the electrical response. During loading and unloading the samples, the electrical measurements show a hysteresis in the resistance versus strain plot. Exceeding the previous load maximum in the consecutive load cycle, a characteristic increase in the measured resistance-strain slope appears combined with a sudden rise in the AE (Kaiser effect). Thus, the reported in situ observation of the electrical resistance allows to distinguish virgin and damaged CFRP samples as well as to predict a previous load maximum by the characteristic change in the resistance-strain slope.


Based on Mindlin's first-order equations of plated crystal plates, a set of six coupled equations is derived in which the effect of the mass of the electrodes, the extensional elastic stiffness of the electrodes, and the thermal expansions of the plate and electrodes are taken into account. The principle of virtual displacements corresponding to these equations is obtained. Strains and displacement gradients in an electroded crystal disk subject to a steady acceleration are obtained from the finite-element solutions of the derived equations. By inserting these strains and displacement gradients in the frequency equation of the fundamental thickness vibrations of the disk and solving the frequency equation by a perturbation method, acceleration sensitivities of crystal resonators with various electrode arrangements are obtained. It is found that for small plate backs, say R<or=0.5%, the percent increase of acceleration sensitivity of an electroded plate as compared with that of an unelectroded plate is essentially proportional to the ratio of the total mass of the attached electrodes to the total mass of the plate.<<ETX>>


11 The chemical looping combustion of solid fuels by in-situ gasification (iG-CLC) has great potential to 12 reduce the economical and energetic cost of CO2 capture for generating energy from coal. Previous 13 studies have highlighted that a high CO2 capture rate can be reached, but incomplete combustion is 14 predicted by theoretical models or obtained during experimental work. In this paper, a mathematical 15 model for the fuel reactor and carbon stripper, validated through experimental results, is adapted to 16 evaluate the relevance of several technological improvements in order to increase the combustion 17 efficiency of the iG-CLC process. The technological options evaluated include increasing the gas-solid 18 contact in the fuel reactor, incorporating a secondary fuel reactor, re-circulating exhaust gases to the fuel 19 reactor or the carbon stripper, or feeding coal into the carbon stripper instead in the fuel reactor. Model 20 simulations showed that the use of a secondary fuel reactor has the major impact by reducing the 21 unburnt compounds in the CO2 stream. The origin of the unburnt compounds is determined from a 22 thorough analysis of the results obtained during the evaluation of these technological options. Thus, a 23 new arrangement of the iG-CLC reactors is proposed, one which would minimise the presence of 24 Submitted, accepted and published by Chemical Engineering Journal 233 (2013) 56–69 2 unburnt compounds. In this concept, exhaust gases from the fuel reactor are sent to the carbon stripper. 1 The oxygen demand for this concept is predicted to be T = 0.9%. 2 3


This chapter is an extract from my LL.M. Dissertation on Church-State relations in the USA, France and Ireland.This chapter focuses mainly on religious influence on public education, including access to public schools and the religious education/religious instruction dichotomy, amongst other issues.


In this thesis two different aspects of Standard Model Higgs boson phenomenology at hadron colliders are addressed. A precise theoretical knowledge of production cross sections is needed in order to assist in the Higgs boson search efforts of the experimental community. Consequently, the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to Higgs boson production in association with a vector boson at hadron colliders have been calculated. Significant corrections were found, and theoretical uncertainties were analysed. In addition to production cross sections, a deep knowledge of background processes is also needed, especially at hadron colliders. The gluon-induced contributions to off-shell W-boson pair production have been calculated. The invariant amplitude has been used to calculate the contribution from gluon initiated processes to the non-resonant W-boson pair production background to the Higgs boson search channel gg -* H -4 WW+ j7 11+ v1 at the CERN LHC. These contributions are evaluated in the approximation of massless quarks circulating the loops. These results were used to study the effect of experimental cuts proposed to increase the signal to background ratio of the above mentioned search channel.


Rice is considered as self-pollinated crop but out-crossing is possible. At307 is a high yielding, 90d variety developed at the Rice Research Station, Ambalantota, Sri Lanka possessing good attributes to be recommended as a commercial variety in Sri Lanka. It contains both Indica and Japonica germplasms. At307 has failed to pass the seed certification several times due to lack of its genetic purity perhaps due to out -crossing nature, or mechanical mixing. Therefore the present study was conducted to investigate the characteristics associated with out -crossing of At307. Comparison was done with Bg300, Bg304, At303 and At306 improved 90d rice varieties at Ambalantota rice research station during the Yala season, 2010. Out crossing mainly depends on flowering behavior, floral characteristics of male and female parts and variation in environmental factors. Varietal differences were found to be significant at 5% probability level for spikelet open angle. But spikelet open duration, numbers of spikelet per panicle (NS/P), stigma exsertion percentage, flowering period of plant, culm length), panicle length. Flowering period of panicle, angle of flag leaf, length of flag leaf and width of flag leaf were not significantly different among five selected rice varieties. Out-crossing associated characters of At307 were normal except spikelet opening angle. Increased exposes the stigma more to alien pollens resulting emerges off-types in future generation of At307. Tropical Agricultural Research and Extension 16(2): 2013: page 60-64


Simple Summary We retrospectively analyzed the results of the five consecutive treatment protocols for pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) used in Poland from 1983 to 2019 (excluding promyelocytic, secondary, biphenotypic, and Down syndrome AML). The study included 899 children. The probability of three-year overall, event-free, and relapse-free survival increased from 0.34 ± 0.03 to 0.75 ± 0.05, 0.31 ± 0.03 to 0.67 ± 0.05, and 0.52 ± 0.03 to 0.78 ± 0.05, respectively. A systematic reduction of early deaths and deaths in remission was achieved, while the percentage of relapses decreased only in the last therapeutic period. Surprisingly good results were obtained in the group of patients with unfavorable genetic abnormalities like KMT2A-MLLT10/t(10;11)(p12;q23) and DEK-NUP214/t(6;9)(p23;q24) who were treated in the AML-BFM 2012 Registry, while an unsatisfactory outcome was found in patients with FLT3-ITD. The use of standardized therapeutic protocols with the successive consideration of genetic prognostic factors and advances in supportive care led to a significant improvement in AML treatment outcomes over the last 40 years. Abstract Background: From 1983, standardized therapeutic protocols for pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) based on the BFM group experience were introduced in Poland. We retrospectively analyzed the results of pediatric AML treatment in Poland from 1983 to 2019 (excluding promyelocytic, therapy-related, biphenotypic, and Down syndrome AML). Methods: The study included 899 children suffering from AML treated with the following: AML-PPPLBC 83 (1983–1993, n = 187), AML-PPGLBC 94 (1994–1997, n = 74), AML-PPGLBC 98 (1998–2004, n = 151), AML-BFM 2004 Interim (2004–2015, n = 356), and AML-BFM 2012 (2015–2019, n = 131). Results: The probability of three-year overall survival was 0.34 ± 0.03, 0.37 ± 0.05, 0.54 ± 0.04, 0.67 ± 0.03, and 0.75 ± 0.05; event-free survival was 0.31 ± 0.03, 0.34 ± 0.05, 0.44 ± 0.04, 0.53 ± 0.03, and 0.67 ± 0.05; and relapse-free survival was 0.52 ± 0.03, 0.65 ± 0.05, 0.58 ± 0.04, 0.66 ± 0.03, and 0.78 ± 0.05, respectively, in the subsequent periods. A systematic reduction of early deaths and deaths in remission was achieved, while the percentage of relapses decreased only in the last therapeutic period. Surprisingly good results were obtained in the group of patients treated with AML-BFM 2012 with unfavorable genetic abnormalities like KMT2A-MLLT10/t(10;11)(p12;q23) and DEK-NUP214/t(6;9)(p23;q24), while unsatisfactory outcomes were found in the patients with FLT3-ITD. Conclusions: The use of standardized, systematically modified therapeutic protocols, with the successive consideration of genetic prognostic factors, and advances in supportive care led to a significant improvement in AML treatment outcomes over the last 40 years.


The authors present the results of a study examining fear of AIDS and the level of AIDS knowledge and homophobia among student affairs administrators and faculty members. Student affairs administrators were found to have more knowledge and less fear of AIDS than faculty members. A discussion of these results and recommendations for practice are presented.


The Method of Partial Images has been successfully applied to electrostatic problems involving conductors on a dielectric substrate. This same method is investigated for its adaptation to dynamic problems'. A Green's Function is derived and applied to the problem of a wire dipole antenna on a dielectric substrate. The input admittance of the antenna is computed by the Method of Moments. Experimentally measured values of input admittance are compared with the theoretical values and the error is discussed.


Abstract : The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the game contents of outstanding female athletes and mediocre female athletes in...


BACKGROUND: Postoperative nausea and vomiting are unpleasant side effects of general anesthesia. Besides known risk factors (female gender, nonsmoker, history, and opioids), a genetic influence of the serotonin receptor system on the development of nausea and vomiting has repeatedly been proposed. In this pilot study, we therefore investigated the genes of the serotonin receptor subunits A and B (HTR3A and HTR3B) for genetic variants. METHODS: We included 95 patients who had suffered from postoperative vomiting (POV) after general anesthesia and 94 control patients. After DNA isolation, the entire HTR3A and HTR3B coding regions, the 5′ flanking regions, and exon/intron boundaries were screened for genetic variants. Correlation of identified genetic variants with POV was determined by logistic regression. RESULTS: We identified 16 different variants in the HTR3A gene and 19 in the HTR3B gene. By using a multivariate logistic regression model that also included classical risk factors, the HTR3A variant c1377A>G was associated with a significantly higher risk (odds ratio [OR] 2.972; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.466–6.021; P = 0.003) and the HTR3B variants c5+201_+202delCA (OR 0.421; 95% CI 0.257–0.69; P = 0.001) and c6-137C>T (OR 0.034; 95% CI 0.003–0.332; P = 0.004) were associated with a lower risk for POV. However, all significant genetic variants were located in noncoding regions of their gene. CONCLUSIONS: Genetic variations in the HTR3A and HTR3B gene seem to be associated with the individual risk of developing POV. How strong their influence is within the multifactorial genesis of POV needs to be investigated in additional studies with an appropriate sample size.


There are many restaurants within a stand, so that the increasing number of visitors or customers must be in accordance with quality and good service quality of services provided by the restaurant. With the title of Scienti c Writing Against the Analysis Services Consumer Satisfaction Restaurant Mas Mono In Depok, where as the object of research. Writing aims to determine customer satisfaction with services Restaurant Mas Mono In Depok. Because customer satisfaction is a very important aspect in maintaining business and winning the competition in the business world. In relation to the above, the authors are interested in analyzing the level of consumer satisfaction in terms of product, place, price and promotion. Having performed the analysis of data obtained from the results of the questionnaire conducted on Mas Restaurant Mono lead to the conclusion that the consumer or the customer satis ed with the services provided by Restaurant Mas Mono.


We have developed a new type of free-space 2/spl times/2 optical switching matrix composed of micro torsion mirrors operated electrostatically. To suppress the loss of the light-beam traveling in free-space, we use collimated-beam optical fibers for coupling. It is shown that micromachined torsion-mirrors are suitable to integrate monolithic optical-crossconnectors of large attenuation ratio and small crosstalk. The configuration of the switches presented here is expandable for n/spl times/n (n>2).


With the popularity of Android smart phones everyone finds it convenient to make transactions through these smart phones. And the users of these smart phones, in most cases unaware of different types of threats. The purpose for this survey paper is to conduct a survey on users to get the information about the security vulnerabilities they are creating unknowingly, bringing forward some security frameworks for these threats & giving a basic knowledge to the new comer to the android about android OS architecture and the threats to this architecture.


The purpose of this chapter is to explore the implications of COVID-19 to higher education and how universities and colleges can play a critical role in helping shape new ways for the world by adopting environmental sustainability as its academic mission. The effects of the pandemic have reached such proportions that the world may never be the same again. Even though educational institutions have been affected at different levels, there are some measures that can be undertaken to mitigate its impacts. The findings indicate the need for the integration of higher education for sustainable development. This study provides a unique and timely commentary about how coronavirus has altered in positive and negative ways higher education. It suggests that, due to its areas of influence, COVID-19 may also jeopardise the implementation of the sustainable development goals. It sends a cautious warning about the need to continue to put an emphasis on education for sustainable development, so that progress achieved to date is not endangered.


Background and Goal of Study: Stress and hypoxic conditions are connected with free radical processes activation. In anesthesiology hyperoxic gas mixtures may induce oxidative stress. The investigations show antistress ef fect of xenon (Xe) but its mechanisms are not studied [1].We evaluated the ef fects of repeated action of Xe/O2 mixture on behavior of the animals, activity of free radical processes and antioxidant protection enzymes. Materials and methods: Xe inhalations were performed in male Wistar rats by gas mixture with Xe:O2:N2=50%:40%:10% during 13 days one hour per day (13Xe/O2 group) in comparison with O2 without Xe (13O2 group). On the 14th day elevated cruciform labyrinth test (ECL) was performed. We assessed the rate of accumulation of free radical oxidation products by induction in vitro and antioxidant protection enzymes activity. Statistical analysis was performed by the Mann-Whitney U-test. Results and discussion: In the 13O2 group in comparison with control group the ECL test revealed increase of general run of the animals (from 800 to 1200 cm; P< 0.05), duration of the presence in the open sleeves (from 6 to 23 sec; P< 0.05) and in the center of the labyrinth (from 12 to 56 sec; P< 0.05) and quantity of approaches into the open sleeves (from 2 to 8; P< 0.05). Xe contributes to significant decrease of these variables (respectively to 580 cm, P< 0.05; to 1 sec, P< 0.05; to 18 sec, P< 0.05 and to 1 approach, P< 0.05). The results reflect activation of orient and exploratory reactions and increase of anxious component of behavior In the 13O2 group. Xe compensates these changes. O2 enhances free radical oxidation and activation of antioxidant protection enzymes in the tissue of liver. In the 13O2 group in comparison with control group catalase (Cat) increased from 0.232 to 0.27 nmol H2O2/min/ mg (P< 0.05); glutathione reductase (GR) from 0.048 to 0.11 nmol, NADPH/ min/mg (P< 0.05); superoxide dismutase (SOD) from 1.5 to 2.27 conditional units (c.u.) (P< 0.05). Xe prevents these processes and the activity of antioxidant protection enzymes do not dif fer from the control group (Cat 0.24 nmol H2O2/ min/mg, GR 0.048 nmol, NADPH/min/mg, SOD 1.27 c.u.). Conclusion(s): The obtained results allow to suggest that xenon possesses significant antistress and adaptive ef fects. References: 1. Adriani J.H., David H.N., Lemaire M. Ann. Potentially neuroprotective and theraupeutic properties of N2O and Xe .N.Y.Acad. Sci. 2005. Vol. 1053; 289 300.


Quantitatively evaluates indoor thermal environment in summer of traditional dwelling in South Anhui Province based on questionnaire and field study.It comprehensively analyzes the cause of COOLING SUMMER in terms of site selection,village layout,individual design and detail structure,and summarizes the ecological inspiration via the analysis method of measurement for the use of future researchers.


AbstractThe absence of an internationally agreed definition for marine scientific research (MSR), coupled with the high seas freedom status of 'scientific research', raise, inter alia, questions of marine environmental protection on the high seas. The international community finds it particularly difficult to deal with activities on the high seas generally and especially so when these involve high seas freedoms. This difficulty, usually described as one of high seas governance, is manifesting itself in a growing range of contexts, and constitutes one of the principal challenges now facing the LOSC. This article briefly describes the response by the parties to the London Convention 1972 and its 1996 Protocol to a MSR activity proposed to be conducted on the high seas, highlights certain implications of this response for MSR specifically and high seas freedoms generally, and suggests a consequent way forward in addressing the broader high seas governance issues under the LOSC.


Novel multipods-branched Cd-Se-S micro-/nanostructures (MNSs) were successfully prepared in a tube furnace by thermal evaporation under atmospheric pressure through using high-purity CdS and CdSe mixture powder with a molar ratio of 1:1 as evaporation source, high-purity Ar gas as carrier and protective gas, and mica wafer as substrate. Under the optimum condition, the evaporation temperature was 1100 °C, Ar gas flow rate was 200 sccm, and the distance between the evaporation source and substrate was 22 cm. The microstructure examination revealed that the length of the obtained branches was up to tens of microns and the diameter of the branches was of a few microns. The composition and crystal structure analyses indicated that, the chemical composition of the multipods-branched Cd-Se-S MNSs was CdSe0.86S0.14, which had a hexagonal structure and good crystallinity. The photoluminescence spectrum at room temperature displays an intrinsic emission peak around 620 nm. In addition, their growth might be controlled by a vapor-solid mechanism.


The dual-drive feed system (DDFS) is widely used in highspeed, high-precision and heavy-duty applications due to its good vibration resistance, high rigidity and rapid response. Positioning accuracy is an important performance index characteristic of CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine tools, which can directly determine the processing quality of the workpiece, but the existence of positioning errors always damages the performance and processing accuracy of CNC equipment. This paper firstly analyzes the source of the positioning error of the DDFS. Then, according to the structure of the DDFS, the multi-body system (MBS) theory and the modeling method of homogeneous transfer matrix (HTM) is used. The error modeling of the DDFS is carried out, and the positioning error model is obtained. According to the positioning error model, a reasonable positioning error detection program is designed. And the experimentally measured positioning error values are fitted. Finally, by using the virtual axis-electronic cam error compensation function in the TwinCAT software of the German BECKHOFF control system, the error compensation method of virtual axis-electronic cam is used on the built DDFS platform to carry out error compensation experiments. The experimental results show that the error compensation method of virtual axis-electronic cam can effectively reduce the positioning error.


We introduce Quiver, an informed storage cache for deep learning training (DLT) jobs in a cluster of GPUs. Quiver employs domain-specific intelligence within the caching layer, to achieve much higher efficiency compared to a generic storage cache. First, Quiver uses a secure hash-based addressing to transparently reuse cached data across multiple jobs and even multiple users operating on the same dataset. Second, by co-designing with the deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch), Quiver employs a technique of substitutable cache hits to get more value from the existing contents of the cache, thus avoiding cache thrashing when cache capacity is much smaller than the working set. Third, Quiver dynamically prioritizes cache allocation to jobs that benefit the most from the caching. With a prototype implementation in PyTorch, we show that Quiver can significantly improve throughput of deep learning workloads.


In this study, the effect of gaseous hydrogen on the fatigue crack growth behavior in a precipitation-hardened martensitic stainless steel is investigated. It is known that the degradation in fatigue crack growth behavior derives from a complex interaction between the fatigue damage and the amount of hydrogen enriching the crack tip, which is dependent on the hydrogen pressure, loading frequency, and stress intensity factor amplitude. Therefore, fatigue crack growth tests were performed in a range of 0.09 to 40 MPa under gaseous hydrogen at a frequency of 20 and 0.2 Hz. The fatigue data as well as fracture morphologies obtained so far indicate a sharp increase in crack growth rates in a narrow range of stress intensity factor amplitudes. Also, it is shown that by decreasing the loading frequency to 0.2 Hz at a given pressure of hydrogen the transition occurs at lower values of stress intensity factor amplitudes accompanied by a change in fracture mode. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations of the fracture surfaces are used to support the explanations proposed to account for the observed phenomena.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


A BIPV system may produce the same amount of electricity as consumed in the building on a yearly base, however the simultaneity of production and consumption needs to be evaluated. The present paper aims at quantifying the impact of domestic load profiles on the integration of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) electricity generation in a Belgian climate. In this work, a multi-zone TRNSYS model for a dwelling with compression heat pump for both space heating and domestic hot water (DHW), domestic consumers and on-site photovoltaic generation is set-up. As a consequence of the dynamics of the electricity demand and supply, it is necessary to use small time-steps. The model is used to assess the influence of the user behaviour, the influence of the dimensioning of the heating installation and gridinteractions on the auto-consumption of BIPV systems. Furthermore, bottle-necks for possible large-scale implementation of on-site photovoltaic generation are illustrated. The electricity consumption of a dwelling typically peaks when the habitants wake up and arrive back home, whereas the BIPV system shows a profile depending on the local weather and system characteristics. By putting the results of the requested and delivered power within the same model, it is shown that the domestic load profiles due to human behaviour do not coincide with the output of photovoltaic systems. A dwelling with a classic gas-fired heating system is compared by a dwelling equipped with a electricity-driven heat pump for space heating and DHW. Herefore, the cover factor is defined, i.e. the ratio of domestic demand that is covered by the BIPV, for a BIPV installation with a yearly electricity production that equals the yearly domestic demand. If no attempt is made to bring the electricity demand and supply into balance on instant basis, a cover factor of 0.42 is found if a classic heating system is installed, denoting that more than half of the produced electricity will be passed on to the grid and withdrawn on another moment. If a heat pump is used for space heating and DHW, the cover factor decreases to 0.29. If one aims to drastically decrease the domestic electricity demands from the main distribution grid, the installation of a BIPV might not be sufficient due to the imbalance of domestic electricity demand on the production by the BIPV system. An integrated approach including the current practice, the domestic installation, the mixture of loads and the grid is necessary.


Species in the colonial subfamily Polyzoinae demonstrate a range of colonial organisations. Colony form appears to be significant at species level but not to have a phylogenetic significance at genus level, species in both speciose genera Polyandrocarpa and Stolonica having colonies either of separate zooids joined by basal stolons or they have completely embedded zooids. Polyandrocarpa and Oculinaria have characters that indicate a close affinity with solitary styelinid genera Polycarpa and Cnemidocarpa, respectively, and suggest that the subfamily is polyphyletic. Stolonica and other genera in the Polyzoinae, in which zooids and body organs are small and simplified, also appear to be polyphyletic assemblages of taxa but their relationships are masked by parallel evolution and convergence associated with replication and colony development. Previously overlooked in the siphonal linings of Oculinaria australis are overlapping spines possibly analagous with the rounded scales (see Kott 1985) in siphons of Stolonica diptycha (Hartmeyer, 1919). Similar armature appears to be significant at species level in Pyuridae and occasionally Styelidae and it may be further evidence of polyphyly in Polyzoinae. One of the seven species reported (Stolonica vermiculata sp. nov. from Lord Howe I.) is new; one (Oculinaria australis from a range of locations around the southern half of the Australian continent) is recorded often; and five (Polyandrocarpa colemani known only from the Queensland–New South Wales border, P. colligata, Stolonica styeliformis and S. duploplicata all from the tropical western Pacific and Botryllocarpa elongata from Tasmania) are seldom recorded.


In metal sheet processing for automotive application, it is crucial to guarantee high robot dynamics for reduced cycle times and adequate components accuracy to be competitive in the market. Since the two aspects are closely and inversely related, the problem becomes challenging. After the first cutting tests, the Cartesian Robot prototype displayed insufficient dimensional accuracy when undergoing high accelerations. The solution hereby proposed is the design of a Tuned Mass Damper (TMD), working in shear mode, to reduce the robot vibration amplitude. To this end, an initial assessment of the robot frequency response and natural frequencies was performed both by using a Finite Element (FE) model of the machine and experimentally. Further, frequency response analyses were carried out to evaluate the TMD effectiveness and to highlight possible criticalities from the manufacturing point of view. On a numerical level, the proposed design can damp the machine resonant frequencies, also showing a certain grade of tunability before operation and in-plane orientation insensitiveness thanks to the use of cylindrically shaped springs.


We determined the effect of NextGen concepts of operation for separation assurance on pilot situation awareness and workload using an online probe technique. We also evaluated the probe technique for sensitivity, diagnosticity, and validity with respect to different NextGen separation assurance operating concepts. These concepts allocated responsibility for conflict detection and resolution to either pilots, air traffic controllers, or an automated, ground-based, conflict detection and resolution agent. Probe queries were developed to fit in 1 of 3 categories: traffic conflicts, aircraft or airspace status, or commands and communications. We determined that pilot situation awareness of conflict information was highest when the pilot was responsible for separation assurance; workload was minimally affected. Moreover, the changes in pilot awareness of task-specific information can be determined using this online probe technique. Evidence for the reliability and validity of our probe technique is also provided.


Novel luminescent boron quinolate block copolymers with pyridine functionalities were prepared via RAFT polymerization and employed as building blocks for assembled nanostructures. In selective solvents, the block copolymers self-assembled into vesicles, spherical and extended branched aggregates. Quaternization reactions were performed to modify the solubility of the block copolymers and to prepare a cross-linked polymeric gel. As polymeric Lewis bases, the pyridine-functionalized block copolymers are able to form supramolecular complexes with metal ions and Lewis acids. Coordination to ZnCl2 in chloroform led to spherical micelles or larger aggregates. The supramolecular coassembly of PS-b-PBQPy-1 and zinc meso-tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP) in cyclohexane as a selective solvent for PS resulted in extended branched structures with controllable emission properties. Energy transfer from the boron chromophores to the ZnTPP moieties was observed in these supramolecular complexes.


Social Impact Assessment of Draft Nelson City Council Gambling Policy: A Case Study. Produced by Barbara Graves (2006). Nelson City Council (NCC) adopted a Class 4 and TAB Gambling Policy in early 2004 and the three yearly review was due for completion in February 2007. NCC staff decided to undertake a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) to inform this process and to work with the Public Health Service (PHS) of Nelson Marlborough District Health Board (NMDHB) to carry this out. The PHS had been encouraging the use of HIA through submissions and workshops and this was seen as an opportunity to put the concept into practice. Other councils had successfully used the SIA process. It was decided to adapt the HIA methodology to fit with the requirement of the Gambling Act - to consider the social impact of gambling- and therefore SIA was used. This report provides an overview of the SIA process, main findings and recommendations and the process evaluation and key learning points following a meeting of all staff involved including those from the Council.


Following basic artifact sorting, and prior to intensive analyses, the first step in this study was separation of the category "modified stone" into the classes stone tool and flaking debris. This was done using definitions widely applied by the senior author in previous studies in North Dakota (see Ahler et al. 1994a:26). A stone tool is defined as any lithic item which exhibits evidence of having been intentionally used (bears use-wear or use-modification) or which exhibits evidence of having been intentionally shaped or modified (bears negative flake scars or other modification damage which originates on the margin or surface of that particular item). In some cases where flake removals are very diminutive in size, as in flakes exhibiting small but regular flake removals, it may be difficult to know if flake removals are due to intentional flaking (purposeful retouch) or are result from use alone (utilization damage). This level of distinction is not relevant here, as modification from either source is sufficient to classify the artifact as a stone tool. Chipped stone flaking debris, on the other hand, consists of stone pieces which exhibit evidence of intentional or forceful fracture (most often some form of conchoidal fracture) which separated the item in question from a larger mass of stone, but which do not exhibit any evidence of usemodification or further intentional shaping through flaking or other processes after separation from the parent piece of stone. Therefore, tools consist of the object which was either used or intentionally shaped by flaking or other processes (pecking, grinding, etc.), and flaking debris consists of wastage resulting from some type of force-related intentional modification process. The morphology of flaking debris can vary greatly, ranging from whole flakes with classic conchoidal fracture features (platform, bulb, dorsal and ventral surface, etc.) to pieces of shatter or chunks which lack orientable fracture propagation features. Fire-cracked rock is excluded from both of these classes because it lacks evidence of forcerelated alteration. If a thermally broken rock piece does exhibit evidence of use or shaping subsequent to thermal fracture, it would be classified as a stone tool.


uranium ore samples,collected from exploration sections No 31 and No 39,Shihongtan uranium deposit,were tested for uranium content and valence states.The wide range of U 4+ /U 6+ (0 82~1 8) indicates the variation of valence states and complexity of existing states of uranium at the ore deposit.The lixivial rates change regularly corresponding to different concentrations of lixiviant and lixiviating time.When the equilibrium is basically established,the lixivial rates of sample K01 and K02 are of stable values,which indicates the content of mobile uranium if no H 2O 2 is added,and the content of dissoluble uranium if H 2O 2 is added.Based on the geologic setting of the deposit and the characteristics of ores,the experiment results show that,the uranium in ores mainly exists in the form of dispersive adsorption,and can be leached during in situ leach mining.


This paper investigates and analyses the irony in Ang Lee's movie: Life of Pi (2012). Irony is one type of satire figure of speech, a language style that is used as a subtle insinuation and contains statements that are very contradictory or inversely proportional to the existing reality. Furthermore, there are three most commonly used irony in literature, which are verbal, situational, and dramatic. The research method applied is descriptive analytic to describe the meaning and context of irony found in Life of Pi. The conclusion is that Ang Lee's Life of Pi is full of situational irony, thus makes it fascinating to watch and to discuss. Besides, dramatic irony was also found, and it was applied in order to preserve the audience interest's, provoke curiosity, and make a contrast between the situation of the characters and the later scene that ultimately unfolded. This paper also shows that the cinematographic aspect related to the analysed narration could dramatically add insightful meanings to the irony.


INTRODUCTION: The National Curricular Guidelines propose that the nursing degree be linked to the demands of the community's needs, complying with the regional epidemiologic scenario. Considering that the teaching must be adequate to this context and the transformations that may occur in the student during the academic development are basically influenced by the curriculum, brings up the necessity of majoring institutions to rethink their Pedagogical Policy Projects, attempting to adopt a methodology of work that makes it possible to re-mean the role of all the agents committed to the teaching and learning process. OBJECTIVE. The work herein investigated the perception of the egresses of a nursing major course, about the contribution of the curriculum to the development process in contrast to the demands of the professional daily life, attempting to provide subsidies for the reformulation of the course's Pedagogical Policy Project. METHOD. The Case Study method was chosen, for being a way of qualitative research with great methodological flexibility, which allows a wide and detailed exploration of the object to be investigated. The incorporated units, represented by the students, were selected in an intentional sample, of spontaneous adherence, being included in the study 32 egresses, of both genders, graduated in the year of 2003 and inserted in the work market. The data collection was performed after the approval of the Ethics in Survey Committee of the Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo. The egresses accepted volunteering to participate assigning the clarified and free consent. It was used the technique of focused interview with semistructured path. The analysis and interpretation of the data were based on Bardin's analysis of content. RESULTS: The analysis of the meaning units abstracted from the egresses' speech permitted the composition of five categories: The development of technical-scientific competences; The development of socio-educative competences; The development of ethicpolitics competences; Constructive elements of the educative process and Constructive elements of the teaching process. The meaning units, related to the categories, point out the importance of the teaching that reinforces the development of ethic-politics competences, suggesting that this is contextualized with the Public Health Policies; by planning and applying through research and university extension projects and meeting the community's demands. It is also suggested that teaching methodologies be thought in order to validate the cross-curricular practices, highlighting the necessity of an optimized distribution of contents and time load of subjects that are meant to develop the professional nurse's specific competences, mainly those related to the administration and leadership in nursing. CONCLUSION: This study made it possible to deeply reflect the teaching concerning the conceptions, theories and practices related to the development process of professional nurses. Considering that the professional reality offers the egresses the ideal conditions to assess the development process, this study contributes with important subsidies for a more effective pedagogical proposal to the Nursing Course of the Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo. Regarding the theoretical aspects, this contribution may be extended to other majoring Courses in Nursing. Key-words: Education in Nursing. Assessment. Professional Development.


The crystal structure of the title compound, [Pd(C7H16N2)2]Cl2·3CH3OH, has been determined at 180 (2) K in the non-centrosymmetric space group P212121. The structure contains only one crystallographically unique Pd metal centre, showing a slightly distorted square-planar geometry, in which the two chiral (S)-(−)-2-aminomethyl-1-ethylpyrrolidine diamines are coordinated with a trans configuration in order to minimize the steric interaction between neighbouring substituent ethyl groups. [Pd(C7H16N2)2]2+ complex cations are strongly hydrogen-bonded to the Cl− anions and methanol molecules, forming supramolecular tapes running along the a axis.


Data is the new oil for innovation in many ways, as we know. But what does it take to exploit data for insights? Where can a company find the data scientists? Productbased business models are vulnerable to local and global price competition. So, how can a company differentiate? To meet this challenge, customer-centric service design is a promising approach for companies to create added value with customers and to differentiate from competitors. To illustrate this promise, consider Google, which is a splendid example of a successful company that integrates data analysis and service design in the nucleus of their strategy. But Google is exceptional. So, we must ask: How could any company combine data analysis and design thinking into new competencies and business?


Online education is touted as a means to teach the world, but as it is currently offered, successful online learning depends on self-control capacities that are lacking for many people. In this study, I employ design-based research to test three tools to support student self-control in an open-enrollment nine-week online statistics course with approximately 10,000 students. The tools included an intelligent reminder of distracting-website time usage, a "commitment device" that allowed students to set a limit on the following day's distracting-website time, and a "focus-time" tool that allowed students to temporarily block distracting websites when they logged onto the course. In a randomized controlled trial, I found that the focus-time and commitment device tools had significant positive effects on student assignment submission for the first half of the course, but that effects largely disappeared for the second half. Implications and next steps for research are discussed.


Nuclear techniques offer the unique possibility to investigate the hyperfine interaction at isolated impurities in matter. Electric field gradients at impurities in metals have now been determined in numerous systems. An overview of the various techniques - perturbed angular correlation/distribution. Mössbauer spectroscopy, nuclear orientation - is presented. For sp impurities in simple metals the results show a very clear pattern that can be understood in terms of the local density of states. Several recent applications of nuclear methods to more complicated systems like alloys, point defects, diffusion, and surfaces are discussed.


The procedure for finding technological parameters for the installation of pile foundations with small-sized drilling rigs, when developing design and technological documentation in compressed construction conditions, is considered. Methodological approaches to the choice of technologies for the construction of pile foundations are shown, depending on the dimensions of the small-sized drilling machines used, the required area for their placement, storage areas, and auxiliary equipment. in compressed conditions of construction. The existing normative documents do not set out separate requirements for the development of projects for the execution of works in compressed construction conditions, these norms do not provide for the definition of rational erection schemes for the selected set of mechanization in the dimensions of a specific construction site, which is characterized by various restrictions and obstacles. The proposed requirements for the use of mechanization methods in the conditions of compacted buildings during the installation of pile foundations based on a preliminary analysis of the parameters of the construction site: engineering and geological condition of the site; internal brevity of the designed structure; external brevity of the construction site; dimensions of the driving car; sites for the location of additional equipment, warehouses, unloading areas. Taking into account practical experience in the development of work projects and the analysis of current regulatory documents, made it possible to establish the main requirements for the use of small-sized drilling rigs in densely built-up conditions.


The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) uses fully depleted high-resistivity CCDs (charge coupled devices) with the aim of detecting the coherent elastic scattering of reactor antineutrinos off silicon nuclei and probing physics beyond the Standard Model. The analysis of the 2016‖2018 data allowed us to set an upper limit at 95% confidence level on the coherent scattering rate, which was used to place stringent constraints on simplified extensions of the Standard Model with light scalar and vector mediators. In 2019, the experiment operated with an improved readout and a lower energy threshold of 50 eV. We present the performance of the CONNIE experiment, new results of the analysis of 2019 data, and the recent update of the detector with skipper CCDs.


One of the complications of diabetes mellitus in the field of dentistry is oral diabetic including dry mouth (xerostomia), bleeding gums (gingivitis), tartar (calculus), alveolar bone resorption, and periodontitis. Periodontitis is a complication that often occurs in people with diabetes mellitus with high prevalence rates up to 75% (Nandya, et al, 2012 in Lestari, et al, 2016). The City of Probolinggo itself has a proportion of dental and oral health problems of approximately 65% 70% and those caring for teeth approximately 8.5% 10% of the population of 217,062 people. The problem with this research is the high prevalence of periodontitis in the Maron Public Health Center, Probolinggo Regency. This study aims to find out Motivation about the Maintenance of Dental and Oral Health (Periodontitis) in Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Maron Health Center, Probolinggo Regency. The method is by filling questionnaires and examinations, this type of research is descriptive targeting 30 people with Diabetes Mellitus. The results showed that motivation for encouragement included strong (75%), motivation for strong expectations (71%), motivation for strong reward (59%). It can be concluded that the motivation of Diabetes Mellitus patients about oral health is strong (69%). Keyword : motivation, health maintenance, diabetes mellitus, leaflets. Copyright © 2021 Jurnal Skala Kesehatan. Politeknik Kesehatan Banjarmasin All rights reserved


In 1852 Union County, North Carolina, cotton planters and merchants sought to develop their local economy by imposing through the county government a special tax that would finance roads, common schools, and cotton-weighing stations. The tax would fall on "common vehicles not worth more [than] 100 or 120 dollars [and] watches not worth more than 10 or 20 dollars." The county's subsistence farmers, however, viewed the new levy, not as the means to a new prosperity, but as evidence of a "sect of bissy boddys . . . taking the peoples Libertyes away by law power." In a petition to the General Assembly of North Carolina, they argued that "as there is no tax laid on waggons [and] clocks we think it rong to tax [less expensive] vehicles and watches." This conflict marked the beginning of an enduring struggle over the shape of capitalist development in the county. After the Civil War local developers would launch a second campaign no less inequitable than the first to transform Union County's economy. ' Throughout the postwar South, planters and merchants actively sought to develop the region's economy, substituting capitalist agriculture for the trade in surplus goods that had been produced earlier by slaves and subsistence farmers. To facilitate that change they built railroads, organized new networks of credit and exchange, and promoted scientific farming methods. Those constructive efforts were heralded by promoters at the time and have been chronicled by historians since. Recently, however, scholars of the New South have focused on a less attractive side of postwar economic development. The Conservatives' accession to power after 1870 ensured passage and enforcement of lien, mortgage, and vagrancy laws that channeled control of land and labor into landlords' and employers' hands. In addition, fence and game laws closed off many persons' access to natural resources that sustained life apart from ties


It is necessary to develop peak-load and semipeak-load plants in connection with the increasing weekly and daily differences in load demand in the United Power System of the European part of the USSR. For the conditions of the European part of the USSR it is advisable to use, as semipeak-load plants, special 500 MW steam turbine units. In this connection it is necessary to select the optimal design of the semipeak load unit, i.e., the main steam conditions, use of reheat and reheat steam conditions, feedwater temperature, the number of regenerative bleeds of steam, design condenser pressure, temperature of flue gases, and other design characteristics. The main features of the semipeak-load generating unit affecting the design are the decreased numbers of hours of use, the frequent starts, and shorter start up times. These features were taken into consideration in optimizing the parameters of the unit. For engineering and economic calculations, use was made of a system of mathematical models developed by the Siberian Power Institute. Calculation of the duration of loading was conducted according to a special procedure which is discussed.


The paper explains the meanings of the society by law and the harmonious society and arrives at the conclusion that government by law is the fundamental strategy of China,the construction of a harmonious society is the core task of the socialism with Chi-nese characteristics,with the fundamental strategy and the core task in one unity,the construction of a harmonious society is the natural continuation and inevitable result,and the goal of the national policy of China,government by law.The two are not constitutionally contra-dictory,but are in one unity,which is the historic process.


Corporatist theory assumes a close association between centralized structures of interest intermediation and policy concertation, but recent social pacts have occurred in countries without these structures. Recent literature has focused instead on the processes involved in negotiating pacts. We bring structures back into the debate, arguing that tripartite pacts on incomes policy are systematically associated with multi-employer bargaining which is not coordinated by exposed-sector pattern-setting. This thesis is tested on time-series data for 14 West European countries from 1980 to 2003. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for the future of pacts.


1. Obtain patient emergency information (if available) 2. If diagnosis known, obtain treatment info: http://newenglandconsortium.org/forprofessionals/acute-illness-protocols/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55 827/ 3. DO NOT give dextrose for known pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency or citrin deficiency Inborn Errors Order Set To Resus, Cardiac Monitoring, Obtain immediate IV access & blood glucose


In 1823 Jakob Steiner proved that conics of a projective plane can be obtained as the set of points of intersection of corresponding lines under a projectivity between two pencils of lines. In this paper we prove Steiner's theorem about projective generation of conic sections.


The U.S. Department of Energy named seven regional partnerships on 16 August to study the best methods for the non-biological sequestration of carbon in different parts of the country.

DOE will provide about $11.1 million to these partnerships over the next 2 years, with participating organizations expected to contribute an additional $7 million.


Biodiversity has many key roles in ecosystems, and many elements of biodiversity support fish species and therefore also fisheries. At the same time, cooperation fisheries also often affect seabed biodiversity. Furthermore, fisheries may also change the composition of fish communities, and we illustrate why changes in fish communities can matter to seabed biodiversity. These issues should matter to fisheries management. Biodiversity research by definition addresses heterogeneity and this should influence the nature of questions the science seeks to address and how empirical studies are designed. However, to date biodiversity research has not been fully incorporated into mainstream fisheries science. We aim to facilitate the transition to a more transdisciplinary framework, and move beyond the fisheries-focused management. Human pressure is increasing, and many ecosystems are affected by cumulative impacts from different sources of disturbance. We discuss insights from biodiversity and ecosystem function research, and we advocate for a focus on cumulative impacts from disturbance and resilience. We consider these to be critical elements of the transition into ecosystem-based management. The ecological systems and the services that they generate can be either degraded and support less biodiversity and a smaller range of human values, or they can be resorted. The choice is ours. We advocate for a development of participatory multi-sector management that integrates different institutions to contribute to cultural, social, economic, and biodiversity values for ocean governance.


The present invention provides a three Xiexintang Dispensing yellow grains and their preparation method and detection method, the three yellow Xiexintang Dispensing particles consist of a mass ratio of 2: 1: 1 rhubarb, baicalin and berberine boiling water, after filtration and the filtrate formed was concentrated to dryness; the method comprising detecting by thin layer chromatography to identify the three yellow Xiexintang Dispensing particles; determining the three yellow Xiexintang Dispensing particles by HPLC fingerprint; the content of three yellow Xiexintang Dispensing leached particles measured by hot dipping; measurement by HPLC of the content of three yellow Xiexintang Dispensing the particulate substances. San Huang Xie Xin Tang of the invention by conventional methods decoction, give full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine compatibility, it reflects the overall concept of Chinese medicine, to achieve the purpose of ensuring that the attenuated efficiency, to overcome the current single flavor particles taking various ingredients simple recipe adding the lack of established conditions caused by San Huang Xie Xin Tang recipe particles and improve quality standards.


Research on acculturation gaps has traditionally focused on parent–child dyads and the negative implications for youths' psycho-social adaptation. The current study explored the impact of acculturation gaps in Turkish immigrant couples (N = 121) on each spouse's acculturation stress. Wives and husbands reported their acculturation across two domains (language and identity) and dimensions (German and Turkish), and two facets of stress (homesickness and upholding traditions). Actor–partner interdependence models were used to estimate effects (Cook & Kenny, 2005). While homesickness was a burden for both partners, upholding traditions was not an immense stressor but was higher among husbands. Host culture adaptation was associated with lower levels of homesickness among wives and higher levels of stress with traditions among husbands. Heritage culture maintenance was associated with lower levels of stress with traditions among husbands. Overall, there were very few partner effects although better Turkish language abilities of wives were related to less homesickness among husbands. Acculturation gaps were either unrelated to spouses' acculturation stress or associated with lower levels of stress. Results are discussed with respect to an interpersonal perspective on immigrants' acculturation strategies. We promote the idea that biculturalism can be achieved within the couple.


Disectssion owl Injuries of the Carpus. The subject for discussion at the morning session was injuries of the carpus. Mr. MAX PAGE, wh1o open'ed, comimented on the fact that the knowledge of this complicated subject was of comparatively recent date. He quoted largely from Mouchet, Destot, and Kellogg Speed, and presented a simplified classification based on the findings of the French school. He dealt in some detail with the treatment and prognosis. Mr. S. T. IRWIN gave a careful analysis of the records of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, during a five-year period. He reported the incidence of each particular fracture; the period of disability, and the functional end-result. Mr. HARRY PLATT suggested a classification, similar to that of Mr. Page, and reported in detail the results of carpal injuries from his fracture clinic atAncoats Hospital, Manchester, over a period of five years. Mr. THLRSTAN HOLLAND, Mr. OLLERENSHAW, Mr. R. C. ELMSLIE, and Mr. ST. J. D. BUXTON carried on the discussion. Sir ROBERT JONES gave the results of his great experience, and described the treatment he was accustomed to employ. He said that, witlh a fractured scaphoid, if the wrist moved freely under anaesthesia, he immobilized for three weeks in dorsiflexion, and the end-result was good. He had found that if the wrist did not move easily under the anaesthetic progniosis was less good. He did not consider that removal of the whole or part of the scaphoid, although solm,etimes necessary, resulted in a perfect hand.


During the construction of hydraulic and underground structures, a grout solution is pumped into the ground to create waterproof partitions. The liquid grout is filtered in the porous rock and clogs the pores when hardened. The mathematical model of deep bed filtration describes the transfer of suspension particles and colloids by a fluid flow through the pores of a rock. For a one-dimensional filtration problem in a homogeneous porous medium with almost constant coefficients, an asymptotic solution is constructed. The asymptotics is compared with the numerical solution.


A beautiful blue volcanic sublimate is found around the high temperature fumaroles (400°C) of Satsuma-iwei-jima Volcano. The identification of the mineral by the usual methods is difficult because it is amorphous (Fig.1) and is deposited as very thin films on alteration products. It is readily soluble in water giving a colloidal solution and can be extracted with organic solvents such as 1-butanol, ethyl methyl ketone, and ethyl acetate etc. The maximum absorption of the aqueous solution was found around 700 ma (Fig.2). The chemical properties agree well with those of synthetic molybdenum blue. From these facts, it is concluded that the blue sublimate is molybdenum blue. The 0/Mo atomic ratio of specimens purified by means of solvent extraction are within a range between 2.77 and 2.84 (synthetic: 2.84, 2.89).Molybdenite is found inside the low temperature fumaroles (-200°C). It was identified by the X-ray diffractometry (Fig.3). The chemical analysis of a specimen shows Mo 52.7 %, S 35.3 %, and Si02 (impurity) 10.9 %.Further, molybdenum contents of some volcanic rocks and volcanic gases in Japan were determined. The condensed water of the high temperature (>550°C) fumarolic gases of Satsuma-iwo-jima contains 0.3-7 mg Mo// (Table 5). On the other hand, molybdenum can not be detected in the gases of lower temperature fumaroles (Table 5) and in those of the other volcanoes (Table 6). Molybdenum contents of the volcanic rocks (17 samples) fall within a range between 0.5 and 3.4 pgig (Table 7).From the above data and the results of the thermodynamic calculations (Table 9), the mechanisms for the formation of these minerals are presumed as follows: Molybdenum is transported by high temperature volcanic gas (>800°K) as its hydroxide or oxihalides to the oriffice of the fumaroles. Molybdeum blue is formed there by cooling and by increasing partial pressure of oxygen caused by mixing of air. Molybdenite is formed as a result of the reaction of hydrogen sulfide in the fumarolic gas with molybdenum blue which was dissolved and transported into the lower temperature fumaroles by rain water.


To the Editor:

In their letter, Wu and Liu commented on our paper, "Complex Traditional Chinese Medicine for Poststroke Motor Dysfunction: A Systematic Review."1 The main criticism is related to the quality of the studies included in the systematic review. However, a systematic review can be rigorously conducted even if it includes studies of very low quality.2 To point out the low quality of the studies retrieved can be considered one of the results of the review. In fact, the quality issue was underlined and discussed deeply from the authors in the review. Many flaws in the studies were identified. A large number of these trials actually claimed to be randomized, controlled trials, but most of the authors have apparently misunderstood the full concept of randomization. Allocation concealment was not reported …


The study was conducted at the Prince Audu Abubakar University Research and Demonstration Farm, Anyigba, during the 2020 farming season. The broad objective of this research was to determine the effect of humic acid (HA) on soil properties, growth and yield of maize in southern guinea savannah. The parameters measured includes, plant height (cm), number of leaves, stem girth (cm), fresh cob weight (g), dry cob weight (g), fresh biomass (g), dry biomass (g), cob length (cm) cob diameter(cm), 100 grains weight (g) and total yield (kg). The experiment had eight (8) treatments (T1 = Control, T2 = HA10, T3= HA20, T4= HA30, T5= RNPK, T6= 1/3RNPK+HA30, T7= 1/2RNPK+HA30 and 2/3RNPK+HA30) which were replicated three (3) times and the experimental design was randomized complete block design (RCBD). From the result obtained, the HA concentrate has high pH (10.07), high in carbon (36.48) and high HA percentage (92.00). Pre-cropping soil analyses confirm the soil to be acidic (4.85), low in nutrient and the textural class is sand. Post-cropping soil analyses showed HA10 helped reduce soil pH the most (5.22) and application of HA generally help increase the concentration of micronutrients. The application of HA on maize had no significant (p<0.05) influence on the plant height, number of leaves, stem girth and most of the yield parameters tested with the exception of 100grain weight and total yield. Treatment 2/3RNPK+HA30 had a seed weight (21.50) which is statistically same with treatment RNPK (21.67).The total yield of maize gotten in this study showed that treatment HA10 had the highest yield (2.93) after treatment RNPK (3.53).Therefore, long term studies are required in the study location to know if positive responses will be observed on soil properties and growth of crops with the application of HA.


Background and objective: The age at which cancers displayed different locations is different and follows a pattern that
can be used for the development of preventive measures. The aim is to describe in our population the age at diagnosis of
this disease in different locations in adult individuals.
Materials and methods: Inclusion criteria were patients first diagnosed with cancer between 2003 and 2009 at the Hospital
Clinico Universitario Lozano Blesa, de Zaragoza. As a method to describe the distribution of cancer site used the distribution
of frequencies and measures of central tendency mean, median, mode and range to describe age.
Results: Cancers that appear at a later age in men were: male breast (74.00 years), lip (73.40 years), skin (73.11 years),
stomach (72.57 years) and rectum (72, 00 years). The cancers that occur at a younger age are the testis (27.66 years),
Hogdkin (39.66 years), lymphoma (41.33 years) and thyroid (56). In women, cancers later in life were: stomach (77.50
years), vulva (76.50 years), bladder (73.85 years) and skin (72.84 years). Cancers at an early age were at the locations
of Non-Hodgkin lymphomas and Hogdking disease (37 and 45, respectively).
Conclusions: There are many factors that will influence the age of diagnosis is therefore important to know that age under
different conditions to minimize or avoid them.


In this paper a realization of two switch AC-DC converter is suggested to rise to a better power factor at AC mains supply. A step up regulator is used for PFC operation. Hybrid Fuzzy-PI control system is grounded in order enhance the efficiency and reliability of the system. Thus the losses are crucially decreased by recycling the energy from transformer leakage coil and by resonant smooth switching. The proposed methodology is validated using MATLAB2013a and results are discussed using a prototype.


Mast cells, which have been detected in every species studied from sponges to primates, are in man found in connective tissue (Riley, 1959). Of the many roles that have been attributed to mast cells, least equivocal are their proposed functions in the allergic response and in the reaction to infections (Sheldon and Bauer, 1960; Wells, 1962) and to noxious chemicals ( Higginbotham, 1959). Provocative suggestions have been made that these cells play a role in diseases such as periarteritis nodosa, rheumatoid arthritis ( Smyth and Gum, 1961), nephrosclerosis ( Pavone-Macaluso, 1960), and atherosclerosis ( Sundberg, 1955; Pomerance, 1958; Pollack, 1957; Watson, 1961). Most of the inferences about the function of mast cells relate to their content of three physiologically active substances: heparin, histamine (Riley, 1959; West, 1959), and in the mouse and rat, 5-hydroxytryptamine ( Benditt, Wong, Arase, and Roeper, 1955; Parratt and West, 1957).


Globally there is a growing environmental awareness among all segments of society, but research on the effect of environmental education in shaping the attitude of military students is lacking. Tertiary environmental education to officers of the South African Department of Defence is seated in the Department of Military Geography at the South African Military Academy. A structured questionnaire was used in 2002 and 2005 to determine whether a difference in attitude towards environmental issues between geography and non-geography students could be found at the South African Military Academy (Stellenbosch University). The military geography students outperformed their non-geography peers in both surveys.


Many students have difficulty in Math. Every semester always there got D or E of score. It makes low average score and the student drop out. The lecturer must have many methods to help them. The derive of program  is windows software that can help the student to increase motivation. The functions   like the calculator. The subjects depend on the needs of the department. In Civil Engineering of State Polytechnic of Malang, such as Matrix, Determinant, Equation, Derivative, and Integral. The results were average Math score more than 70 or equal B, the students enjoy, fun, interested, and have the spirit to solve problems in Math. Keywords: learning, motivation, derive


Sales promotions are generally seen as detrimental to brand equity, even though they produce positive impact on sales and revenue (Winer 1986, Mela, Gupta and Lehmann 1997). Contrary to research evidence that sales promotions erode brand equity, the ratio of advertisements to sales promotion in the IMC budgets of companies, which was heavily skewed towards ads earlier, has now shifted towards promotions (Spethman 1998, Joyce 2006). This widespread usage of sales promotions by the industry, despite the conflicting research findings forms the background for this paper.


Increasing numbers of students with disabilities participate in mainstream pre-college classes in preparation for higher education. Many educators and administrators have limited knowledge about specific accommodations that can facilitate learning for students with disabilities. Professional development has the potential to increase their knowledge and skills in this area. Simulations of disability experiences, such as completing tasks while covering eyes or sitting in a wheelchair, have sometimes been used to show learners what it is like to have a disability. This form of training has been criticized as inappropriate in the context of emerging paradigms of disability studies, which leads to the question: "Is the use of disability-related simulations ever appropriate?" In this article, we explore positive and negative aspects of disability-related simulations; paradigm shifts regarding approaches to disability studies; implications for training educators and administrators, and examples of disability awareness activities that maximize positive outcomes.


We give sharp bounds on the vanishing of the cohomology of a tensor product of vector bundles on the n-dimensional projective space in terms of the vanishing of the cohomology of the factors. For this purpose we introduce regularity indices generalizing the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity. As an application we give a sufficient condition for a vector bundle to have an unobstructed deformation theory that depends only on the cohomology table of the bundle. We construct complete families of bundles with such cohomology tables.


The book "冠子" enunciates some thoughts of Taoist . What is called "夜行" is "心行" which had been expressed in "管子·形势篇". Specifically speaking, "夜行" is to carry out Tao in one's heart, unnecessarily in concrete conduct. It could achieve the aims of attracting the people from far and being close to the people nearby and thus possessing the whole country.


ABSTRACTThis study discusses the evaluation of cyber security policies in the banking sector at Bank BTN Surabaya using qualitative methods and data collection techniques indepth interviews and focus group discussions. The focus of this study is policy evaluation and prevention of cybercrime in banking. The location of this study was conducted at Bank BTN Prioritas Surabaya Branch, the selection of the location of this study was due to bank BTN being one of the banks that implemented preventive measures in preventing cybercrime. The problem that will be described in this article is First, How is the impact of cyber security on Bank BTN Surabaya Branch? Second, What is the government's policy strategy on cyber security? Third, How to prevent cyber-crime at Bank BTN Surabaya Branch? The conclusion of this study is that Bank BTN Surabaya shows good preventive steps by forming a special organizational structure to deal with legality issues and the implementation of cybercrime prevention applications. Bank BTN conducts policy evaluations every two weeks as a form of evaluation of target achievement and monthly evaluations carried out by their superiors directly. Furthermore, every six months Bank BTN Surabaya brings in an external audit to be able to supervise and monitor.Keywords: Bank, Cyber Security, Evaluation


Despite notable progress in light‐emitting and charge transport devices based on GaN heterostructures containing In, there is still controversy as to the light emission characteristics at high injection levels in InGaN‐based light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) and hot‐carrier scattering in GaN‐based field effect transistors (FETs) with AlGaN or AlInN barriers. For LEDs to be inserted into conventional lighting systems, reasonably high efficiencies would have to be retained at high injection levels to meet intensity requirements which is not yet borne out by many experiments but might be mitigated by use of nonpolar m‐plane varieties according to the most recent data. The efficiency degradation at high injection levels, beyond that which is expected due to heating and current crowding, has been attributed by what is shaping up to be two camps to mainly Auger recombination and carrier spillover. The latter has been attributed to or helped by polarization‐induced fields which is contrary to again recent experiments on LEDs. In terms of the FETs the conventional wisdom of increased carrier concentrations leading to better devices does not seem to hold beyond a certain point. This is due to strong electron LO phonon coupling in this highly ionic material and the resultant hot phonon population. Hot phonon lifetime decreases with increasing carrier concentration up to a point owing to plasmon–phonon interaction. But beyond the concentration at which the plasma frequency and phonon frequency match, the phonon lifetime begins to increase again. Increased phonon lifetimes lead to reduced carrier velocity and inefficient heat transfer, and thus performance degradation ensues. Another intriguing feature is that the aforementioned phenomenon is electric field dependent at least because increased field in FETs means widening of the channel and thus for the same volume density the resonance occurs at higher sheet densities. In this paper the details of carrier recombination in the context of InGaN LEDs both on polar c‐plane and nonpolar m‐plane GaN at high injection levels, and hot‐carrier‐scattering‐related physics in the context of HFETs based on the GaN material family containing In will be elucidated.


have been interesting to explore. Meanwhile, there is the phenomenon of a new era of identity-based historical consumption in the form of family genealogy (combined and popularized in the United States with DNA breakthroughs for African-Americans)5 as well as ongoing debates about admission fees, interpretation and access at many of our historical monuments and museums. Indeed, there are even suggestions from some political quarters that we need a national museum of Britishness so that schoolchildren and immigrant communities consume our history in the correct manner. And all the while there remains the background academic gripe about a vulgarized heritage and history industry which encourages us 'to gaze and gawp' rather than understand the finer nuances of the profession's output.6 Shining such a light on the present might have revealed, rather like Dickens's youth with the pork pie, that the majority English public continue to consume their history in often unedifying, bite sized chunks much to the fury of academic and polite opinion alike.


The present invention relates to a method of producing hydrogen and methane, is intended to provide a method of utilizing biomass and solid organic waste fermentation generation of hydrogen and methane. The present invention provides a method, comprising the solid organic waste and biomass hydrolysis, acidification, pyruvate, small amounts of short chain fatty acids and H 2 , CO 2 ; pyruvate short chain fatty acids, and the resulting mixture under a hydrogen fermentative bacteria on large amounts of hydrogen, and organic acid to give a small molecule byproduct ethanol, acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid; small organic byproducts under action of methane-generating bacteria continue to produce methane fermentation . The method can control both environmental pollution and generating a new clean energy, hydrogen and methane generation to achieve the energy conversion efficiency of the matrix and the entire system are improved breakthrough, energy conversion efficiency can be theoretically pure hydrogen production the substantial increase 33.5% to 89.0%.


The present invention provides a technique for shifting pitch to target pitch without detecting the original pitch directly, and for extracting the pitch of the audio waveform exactly. A phase compensator (25) extracts 2 or more frequency channels each having frequency components of a harmonic overtone whose frequency is 1 or more times as higher than frequency of a fundamental tone of the original sound, from the frequency channels from which the frequency components are extracted by fast Fourier transform (24). The phase compensator calculates a scaling value to be used for converting the fundamental tone to another target fundamental tone, and performs phase compensation in accordance with the scaling value. A pitch shifter (27) performs pitch scaling in accordance with the scaling value onto the audio data resultant from inverse fast Fourier transform (26) onto the phase compensated frequency components. Thus, audio data representing the target fundamental tone are generated.


This paper provides new results for the range inter-events process of a birth–death random walk. Motivations for determining and using the inter-range event distribution have two sources. First, the analytical results we obtain are simpler than the range process and make it easier, therefore, to use statistics based on the inter-range event process. Further, most of the results for the range process are based on long-run statistical properties which limits their practical usefulness while inter-range events are by their nature 'short-term' statistics. Second, in many cases, data on amplitude change are easier to obtain and calculate than range and standard deviation processes. As a results, the predicted statistical properties of the inter-range event process can provide an analytical foundation for the development of statistical tests that may be used practically. Application to outlier detection, volatility and time-series analysis is discussed. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Many studies consider an immigrant population (defined by birth country) as a whole. This might neglect ethnic heterogeneity within an immigrant population and thus underestimate occupational segregation. We focus on Russian immigrants in the early 20th century U.S.—then a major immigrant population with a high degree of ethnic diversity (consisting of Russian, Jewish, German, and Polish ethnics)—and study occupational segregation by ethnicity. We develop a machine learning ethnicity classification approach in 1930 U.S. census data based on name and mother tongue. Using the constructed ethnicity variable, we show high degrees of occupational segregation by ethnicity within the Russian-born immigrant population in the U.S. For example, Jews, German ethnics, and Polish ethnics were concentrated in trade, agriculture, and manufacturing, respectively. We also find evidence that Russian-born immigrants' labor market outcomes were associated with networks measured by the spatial concentration of co-ethnics—more established ones in particular—but not other ethnic groups.


junctions; but convincing evidence came then in some two years and later, with the co-operation, at different stages, of J. H. Gaddum, Marthe Vogt, G. Lindor Brown, F. C. MacIntosh, and yet others after my own retirement. And I think that it would be generally admitted that, here again, the Institute programme had contributed to the opening of a new field for much wider cultivation, and with results having again important practical implications, in this case for clinical neurology, as well as for experimental physiology. And again we can trace a connexion with Harold King's chemistry, when he isolated D-tubocurarine, and identified its structure, and thus made, as it seems to me, an essential contribution to the recent spectacular improvement in anaesthesia, and, therewith, to the great advances now being made in surgery.


In this paper we study a joint transmission scheduling and power control problem that arises in wireless networks. The goal is to assign time slots (or channels) and transmitting powers to communication links such that all communication requests are processed correctly, specified Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements are met, and the number of required time slots is minimized. The first main result proves that the problem, also known as the wireless scheduling problem, is NP-hard. We then solve a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation of the problem with Branch & Bound (B&B) and Cutting Plane (CP) approaches. We enhance the computational performance of these schemes with heuristic procedures that provide tighter upper and lower bounds. We close with an extensive computational study, which shows that despite the complexity of the problem, the proposed methodology scales to problems of nontrivial size. Our algorithms can therefore serve as a benchmark for the performance evaluation of heuristic or distributed algorithms that aim to find near-optimal solutions without information about the whole network.


The multiaxial fatigue behaviour of components seems to depend mainly on the ductility of the material used. The ductility steers the damage mechanisms. While, in the case of low-ductility (brittle) materials, the normal stress (strain) is the decisive parameter, in the case of ductile materials, it is the shear stress (strain), and, for semi-ductile materials, a combination of normal and shear stresses (strains). Critical plane oriented hypotheses can consider these different parameters, but the difficulty lies in the definition of ductility and, based on this, the selection of the appropriate hypothesis. Therefore, especially for the evaluation of safety parts, experimental verifications are still necessary, because of the lack of a general multiaxial fatigue hypothesis. INTRODUCTION Durability design against complex multiaxial loading is a very old challenge. The design of multiaxial loaded components in almost all industrial sectors like automotive, wind power plants, steel manufacturing, chemical processing, storage and handling, aeronautical, and many others still require large efforts in the numerical assessment, i.e. valid hypotheses. However, to date all proposed fatigue strength hypotheses reveal limitations and possess no general validity. Thus, there is a continuing motivation for and process of development of so-called new hypotheses, always with observed limitations. These limitations seem mainly to arise from features steering the local deformations and from particular material characteristics, which are not properly taken into account; it is not sufficient to know only the fatigue behaviour under uniaxial loading, i.e. SN-curves, and to have data on crack propagation. Therefore, the present paper presents and contrasts examples to advise design engineers and scientists with regard to the influence of local deformations and of material ductility on the multiaxial fatigue behaviour. EXPERIMENTAL PREREQUISITES In developing multiaxial fatigue hypotheses, the experimental background is very decisive, because this delivers the verification basis. In this context, the conception of multiaxial tests requires the simulation of real local deformation conditions. In the past,


A permanent magnet DC brushless motor for driving an air compressor comprises three modules, namely, an electric part, a changeover part and a driving control part, wherein, a changeover housing of the changeover part is connected and fixed with both an inner side end cover and a front end housing of the electric part through connecting screws, so as to fixedly connect the changeover part and the electric part, the changeover housing of the changeover part is connected with a driving PCB (printed circuit board) of the driving control part through screws, so as to integrally connect the driving control part and the changeover part, a circular rear end cover of the driving control part is sleeved with a circular radiator through rear end cover set screws, VMOS (Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor) tubes welded on the driving PCB are connected with both arc-shaped radiating fins and the radiator through screws, and the driving PCB and the radiator are integrally connected. In the utility model, the electric part, the changeover part and the driving control part are connected tightly to form a three-section integrated structure which has the electric, driving and control and radiating functions, and the permanent magnet DC brushless motor is widely suitable for driving various undersized air compressors.


Thioredoxin (TRX) is a small molecule protein that participates in the redox process and plays a decisive role in various functions of plants. However, the role of TRX in Medicago sativa (alfalfa), a widely cultivated perennial herb of legume, is still poorly understood. Here, we isolated MsTRX from alfalfa and determined the characteristics in improving salt tolerance by assaying the phenotype and physiological changes and the expression of stress-response genes in transgenic tobacco. The expression of MsTRX was similar in alfalfa roots, leaves, and inflorescences, and was downregulated in response to cold, drought, and salt treatment. The overexpression of MsTRX in tobacco promoted the accumulation of soluble sugar (SS) and proline; enhanced the activity of peroxidase (POD); and induced the upregulation of beta-amylase 1 (BAM1), lipid-transfer protein 1 (LTP1), candidate signal molecules/sensor relay proteins (CBSX3), superoxide dismutase [Cu-Zn] (Cu/Zn-SOD), superoxide dismutase [Mn] (Mn-SOD), protein gamma response 1 (GR1), dehydrin DHN1-like (ERD10B), and serine/threonine-protein kinase (SnRK2), as well as the downregulation of phyB activation-tagged suppressor1 (BAS1) and serine/threonine-protein kinase that phosphorylates LHCII protein 7 (STN7) under salt stress. These results indicated that MsTRX improves salt tolerance via maintaining osmotic homeostasis, scavenging reactive oxygen species (ROS), and regulating the transcription of stress-response genes in plants. In our study, we provided a new understanding of how MsTRX improves salt stress in plants and how MsTRX can be included in future breeding programs to improve salt tolerance in alfalfa.


Kazy Clare has had enough. She, and her little sister Beth, are being tormented by their cruel Aunt, who has been sent to look after them following the death of their mother. Their father is so grief stricken by his loss that he is blind to the mistreatment going on around him. But Kazy knows that things have got to change. She has to save Beth from the beatings and abuse, so she decides to run away and take Beth with her. But it will take all her courage and strength to keep them safe. And, once you've run away, it's impossible to go back. Isn't it? BLMeticulously researched; the novel tackles themes which are still relevant today within a wholly believable historical setting. BLDeals with important issues of bullying adults and the loss of a parent. BLStory-telling at its best, with a strong narrative drive, feisty heroine, and vividly drawn settings.


Abstract : Andean States have maintained a constant struggle against international threats yet without proper world community recognition. Counter narcotrafficking constitutes a high value Andean States policy neither to coincide with United States foreign policy nor to look for international economical assistance. However there are few regional efforts to fight against these international threats. Different perceptions and radical positions of national sovereignty and non-intervention in state foreign policies do not consider the increasing risk of a balloon effect that can affect each state in the Andean region. This paper will analyze the possibility of adapting sovereignty concepts to a higher level of nation-state in order to establish a regional state that will provide more capacities to achieve a future of security and development.


Nowadays, methodological and technological innovations allow us to easily perform statistical tests on the significance of changes between inequality indices across places or time. The use of the bootstrapping techniques allows us to define sampling distributions for the inequality indices for which asymptotic distributions are difficult to derive due to their nonlinear nature. This technique presents a statistically sound way to test the significance of the differences in inequality indices. This paper contributes to the existing literature by combining three key elements that allow a comprehensive view of inequality changes overtime in Puerto Rico. First, It compares changes in household income with changes in household earnings between 1970 and 2000. Second, it uses different inequality measures selected according their sensitivity to changes in different parts of the income distribution. This analysis is important as a starting point to the study of why inequality changes overtime. Third, the statistical significance of changes in inequality overtime is tested using the bootstrapping technique to derive an empirical distribution for each of the inequality measures. This thirty years period between 1970 and 2000 has been selected given the availability of the data, since it corresponds to the period for which micro data from the Census Bureau is available for Puerto Rico. The degree of inequality is measured by the Gini Coefficient and by three alternative specifications of the Atkinson Index. Total household income and total household earnings are adjusted for family size. In the case of household income, it is clear that inequality decreased during the 70's and increased during the 90's. Nevertheless, during the 1980's the changes were much smaller and the direction of the changes depends on the index used. The degree of inequality in the distribution of household earnings demonstrates significant increases through the 1970's and 1990's. In the 1970's the increase in earnings inequality significantly affected the entire distribution, specially the lower part. To the contrary, in


Four different schemes for classifying exchange rate regimes are compared for developing countries. Disagreements are substantial, and alternative schemes disagree as much with each other as with the official scheme. Only the official scheme shows a trend towards floating


Security is one of major barriers for cloud computing popularity. For a secured system, along with protection of data storage it is also important to take rapid action to prevent evolving attacks and maintain a self-healing infrastructure. In this paper a security framework has been proposed, where cognitive and cooperative swarm intelligences are used in order to implement reputation system for establishing self-defensive secured multi-layered cloud systems. To implement the reputation system we have devised algorithms to provide better security solution. The uniqueness of our proposed security framework is its cognitive and self-healing nature with the scope of handling data leakage and data availability issue.


AbstractThis work was supported with a grant SP/SO/D-21/89 from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. A. J. thanks the Director, TBG&RI for collaboration and Prof. E. P. Goldberg of the University of Florida, USA for a generous gift of mitoxantrone.Glutaraldehyde cross-linked bovine casein microspheres loaded with the antineoplastic agent mitoxantrone were prepared and in vitro release of the drug into phosphate buffer was examined at 37°C. In the absence of any proteolytic enzymes, the release reached a steady state within a week, releasing only 17–40% of the incorporated drug, depending on the initial payload. In the presence of an enzyme such as protease, however, 100% release was seen in vitro in 2–3 days. The antitumor effect of mitoxantroneloaded microspheres was evaluated in Swiss albino mice bearing Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) by intraperitoneal injections. The mean survival time of mice receiving 1 mg of mitoxantrone as free drug was 4.6 ± 0.67 days as opposed 37.7 ± ...


The influence of subhydride species generated in a low‐pressure Ta‐based AsH3 cracker on the degree of H passivation of C acceptors in heavily doped (p⩾3×1019 cm−3) In0.53Ga0.47As grown by gas source and metalorganic molecular beam epitaxy has been studied. A strong correlation has been observed between the relative abundance of AsH3, AsH, and H in quadrupole mass spectra and the degree of passivation. Enhanced effects were observed at reduced growth temperatures. Design of experiments techniques have been used to study the influence of hydride cracker temperature, substrate temperature, H2 pumping speed, group III sources, AsH3 flow rate and the second order interactions on the H passivation of C acceptors. The substrate temperature, hydride cracking temperature, and H2 pumping speed, were determined to have the dominant effects, while second order interactions were dominated by substrate temperature, H2 pumping speed, and AsH3 flow rate interactions with the hydride cracking temperature. Optimized param...


The Norwegian Public Roads Administrations (NPRA) plans to build world's longest floating bridge with 5 km length to cross the 570 m deep fjord Bjørnafjorden. The bridge is planned with mooring systems connecting it to anchors on the seabed. The evaluation of soil condition on the seabed is crucial both for design of the anchoring systems and for the evaluation of possible slides that may affect the foundations. Detailed seabed mapping revealed variable seabed conditions and identified up to 45 historic submarine slides. Sub-bottom profiling data was used to interpret past slide events and their slip planes. The sub-bottom profiling revealed a soil layer that is distinctly visible from acoustic data. This soil layer coincides with the slip plane identified from a number of the historic slides. Identification of this layer is considered important to make more realistic slope stability evaluations. The question is whether it is possible to identify this layer with only geotechnical data, particularly CPTu data. Current approaches to establish soil layering as recommended by NS-EN ISO standard and different CPTU based soil behaviour classification charts are investigated. This work shows that these evaluation approaches do not correspond with the results from acoustic data in a consistent and reliable way. Approaches based on CPTu alone might overlook this important layer. However, by revisiting CPTu measurements in relation to the acoustic data, this work established trends in CPTU data and proposed approaches that could identify this slip plane. This approach is more consistent and ensures that the information from geotechnics and geology complement each other in identifying significant layers. This work illustrates that combining acoustic and CPTu data improves geotechnical interpretation and understanding of critical ground conditions. This approach is considered valuable also for other fjord sediments.


A 53‐year‐old man with aortic regurgitation was admitted to our hospital because of fever. A diagnosis of ruptured mitral valve aneurysm was made by Doppler echocardiography. Aortic regurgitant flow along the anterior mitral leaflet may have predisposed to mitral valve endocarditis, aneurysm formation, and its rupture.


ABSTRACT This research investigates the planning and design of child-friendly spaces in an African context by means of a placemaking approach. Previous research has focused on place-making and urban planning and design guidelines for public spaces, but with limited focus on child-friendly public spaces. Thus, this article investigates and recommends urban planning and design guidelines for child-friendly spaces in an African context. The research employs a qualitative research analysis to investigate child-friendly spaces in two African case studies, Dandora, Naibobi, Kenya, and Orlando East, Johannesburg, South Africa. The investigation illustrates the need for context-based planning and place-making principles adopted to fit the needs of child-friendly spaces. Whilst the research is intended as a pilot investigation, with the urban planning and design guidelines identified requiring further refinement, findings provide insights and contribute to the planning knowledge base, especially on how planning and design of public spaces can shape more child-friendly public spaces.


The present invention relates to an antenna (array) including at least one radiating element (1). The radiating element (1) includes at least one dipole (2, 124), comprising a foot (4) and arms (5), printed on one of the surfaces of a mounting (substrate, 8, 122) with a high dielectric constant. The dipole (2, 124) is powered by at least one conductive line (7), printed on the substrate (8, 122). At least one static element (director, 6, 125) is also printed on the substrate (8, 122) of the dipole (2, 124) and arranged parallel to the arms (5) of the dipole (2, 124). At least one other additional static element (120) is arranged in a horizontal plane (121) perpendicular to the plane of the substrate (8, 122) supporting the radiating element (1) and parallel to the arms (5) of the dipole (2, 124) of the radiating element. The additional static element (120) is inserted between the rows of radiating elements (1).