Article 336, Paragraph 1 of the Commercial Code provides that a transfer of a share should be done by the delivery of a share certificate. Nevertheless, the Commercial Code permits transfer of shares before issuance of share certificates on certain conditions. In case of the latter where a share is transferred without delivery of share certificate, there is a possibility of double-transfer. As to the effectiveness of share transfer, however, Article 337, Paragraph 1 of the Commercial Code merely provides that the transfer of shares will not be effective against the Company if the name and address of the transferee is not registered in the share registry. The majority of the scholars take the view that this article applies only in relation to a purported shareholder and the company, and the rights and obligations between the double transferee should be determined pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Code related to the transfer of claims.In a recent double-transfer case, both transferees did not comply with the requirements of the Civil Code related to the transfer of claims. While the second transferee completed registration in the share registry, the first transferees failed to do so, but the company was fully aware of the first transfer. The lower court held that since the company was aware of the first transfer, the company should treat the first transferee as a rightful shareholder, however, the Supreme Court overruled the lower court decision (Supreme Court Judgment 2013da99942 held on April 30, 2014). The Supreme Court held that as both transferees did not comply with the requirements of the Civil Code on claim transfer, neither party will prevail over the other party in connection with the transfer. It also held that company is obligated to treat the registered acquirer as a shareholder. Hence, in this case, it is proper for the company to treat the second transferee who completed registration process as a rightful shareholder. This article will review and analyze whether the reasoning given by the Supreme Court in this case is persuasive.


The quadtree-based inter-prediction in the latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) enables highly flexible structure and good coding efficiency, but also introduces significant computational complexity for hardware design. Conventional approach determines the best inter-prediction mode after computation of both integer-pel (IME) and fractional-pel motion estimation (FME). However, the best prediction unit (PU) after IME and FME are highly correlated according to our analysis. Thus, this paper proposes a fast PU selection method that computes possible FME PU size only in the same quadtree depth as that of the best IME PU instead of exhaustive search. The simulation results show that the proposed approach can save up to 79% computational complexity of FME, with only up to 1.34% BD-rate increases when compared with the reference software HM6.0.


The DBAE Handbook was written to help art specialists and supervisors, classroom teachers, teacher educators, museum educators, and school administrators better understand and implement discipline-based art education. This comprehensive approach to teaching and learning about art for elementary, middle, and secondary school students draws upon content in four disciplines (art history, criticism, aesthetics, and production) as a basis for creating, understanding, and appreciating works of art.


This technical note presents the development of an approximate analysis for moment fields and collapse loads of orthotropically reinforced slabs.


AIM: To explore the therapeutic mechanism of dexamethasone(Dex)for acute lung injury induced by endotoxin and observe the effect of it on the level of neuropeptides in the animal body.METHODS:Inducing acute lung injury by infusing endotoxin intravenously on sheep with chronic lung lymph fistula, proventing and treating the lung injury with high-dose Dex and assaying the changed contents of the neuropeptides in plasma and lung lymph, as well as corticosterone(CS)contents in plasma by radioimmunoassay. RESULTS: The contents of vasoactive intestinal peptide(VIP)and substance P(SP) in plasma and lymph , CS in plasma increased significantly after endotoxin injection , and a high-dose Dex can reverse it. CONCLUSION: The protective function of high-dose Dex for endotoxin-induced lung injury may be partly by regulating the content of neuorpeptides and CS in the animal body.


Funding from the Race to the Top federal initiative has spurred districts and schools to focus increasing attention on college readiness (U.S. Department of Education, 2009). The task of helping young people learn more about college and careers has historically fallen to high school counselors, butas pressure rises on schools to prepare more and more students for college, counselors are increasingly both overworked and underprepared for this challenge (Dollarhide & Lemberger, 2007; Johnson & Rochkind, 2010). Furthermore, counselors are increasingly asked to do this work alone, as teachers focus on academic achievement (Edmond & Price, 2009).Although Race to the Top is not a policy by definition, its enactment is played out in district and building-level changes that necessitate aligning policies to new goals (White House, 2014). In New York state, for example, a new goal has been set that changes cut scores on state level tests to at least 75 for English and 80 for Math in order to reflect college and career readiness standards (New York State Education Department, 201 3). To meet these goals, schools have responded with a tightening of the teacher evaluation system as well as a more rigid curriculum based heavily on the Common Core Learning Standards. These responses to policy goals focus almost exclusively on the academic elements of college and career readiness, with virtually no discussion about social or emotional support or whose role it is to provide such support (Pittman, 2010).Research has drawn attention to the need for all stakeholders to be involved in improving academic achievement (Clark & Amatea, 2004; Hargreaves & Fullan, 2012; Stone-johnson, 2014). It is evident that college and career readiness efforts require systemic involvement from people at ail levels (Lee & Mishook, 2012), so understanding the roles people might play is more important than ever. Although there is research about the traditional roles of counselors in college and career readiness (Pittman, 2010), they have historically been marginalized from the academic mission of the school (Adelman, 2002; House & Hayes, 2002). The result is a dearth of research on the roles school counselors play in the enactment of college and career readiness policy.The original intent of the research presented here was to examine perceptions of counselors' work with the goal of designing a new counseling curriculum. It became apparent, however, that a lack of understanding of the work of counselors would negatively impact not only curriculum implementation but also counselors' capacity to be significant actors in the implementation of college and career readiness policy. In this article, I explore how both teachers and counselors view the role of counselors in college and career readiness policy. In doing so, I demonstrate how the complex interaction of perception and policy serves to isolate counselors from the potential to be policy actors in the enactment of college and career readiness strategies in a public high school, posing a significant challenge to systemic involvement and ultimately to successful policy enactment.Literature ReviewThe current policy context for secondary schools focuses on preparing students for college and careers by improving their achievement. Students, however, must not only hone their academic skills but also navigate the college selection process, apply for jobs, ascertain future interests, and learn to persist. Many of these skills are not part of the traditional academic curriculum, and developing them is viewed as a supporting role for educators (Pittman, 2010). That task is, therefore, often passed over by teachers and left solely to counselors who may struggle to find time to incorporate these roles deeply because they have no release of other professional duties (Dollarhide & Lemberger, 2007; Johnson & Rochkind, 2010; Lambie & Williamson, 2004). In addition, counselors are also taking on duties left to them by teachers whose intensified academic roles have corresponded with decreased involvement in student support (Edmond & Price, 2009). …


SUMMARY The activities of the rlfamyclns, rlfabutln, FCE 22807, rlfapentlne, and rlfampln, were studied within unstimulated peritoneal macrophages infected with Mycobacterium mlcroti and In cultures of M. mlcroti and M. tuberculosis In 7H·9 medium without Tween 80. In macrophage cul tures, serial rifamycin concentrations were added after a 2.5 h phagocytosis period, and viable counts were doneafter Incubation for 5 to 6 days. Toensure comparability with the dally drug replacements in the macrophage experiments, the period of exposure to serial rifamycin concentrations In 7H·9 medium was kept to only 3 days. The MICs of M. mlcroti and M. tuberculosis were similar. The MICs of rifabutln and FCE 22807 were 2.5 times lower and that of rlfapentlne 1.7 times lower than the MIC of rlfampln. None of the rlfamyclns were concentrated In macrophages, the MICs being higher In the macrophagesthan In vitro by a factor of 2·fold for rlfabutin, 6.7·fold for rlfampin, 20·fold for FCE 22807, and 26·fold for rlfapentine.


The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework to assess students' general business competencies, acquired in core and capstone courses, as learning outcomes. First, the rationale for the use of students' general business competencies as outcomes assessment is provided. Second, the methodology for measuring these competencies is presented and explained. Third, the underlying concepts and influential factors relative to general business competencies of students are analyzed and discussed. Finally, the findings and practical implications of the proposed approach for faculty development are examined.


The article deals with the human factor involved in the process of world categorization and conceptualization, de-fined as prospects and approaches to cognitive mechanisms in the language study paradigm of modern linguistics.


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Abstract Since the Helsinki Summit of 1999 when Turkey's candidacy for membership was accepted, the EU has exercised considerable transformative power over the development of Turkey's civil society. This article examines Turkish civil society both as an agent of the 'internationalization' of domestic social agendas and as a reflection of more general Turkish perceptions of the EU and Turkey's prospective membership. The first part of the article offers an analytical account of Turkish civil society development in order to portray the domestic context in which the interaction between local and international actors takes place. The second part deals with the nature of the relationship between the EU and domestic civil society organizations, concentrating on the peculiarities of this relationship. The last section investigates the perceived impact of European actors, namely governmental and non‐governmental organizations, on the development and evolution of Turkish civil society. It also discusses the meanings and values attributed to the contribution of European players in domestic political and social transformation.


In 2012, the historical roof structure of the Spanish Riding School, built in the years from 1729 to 1735 as part of the ensemble of the Vienna Imperial Palace (called Hofburg), was documented by s ...


This article was devoted to the study of the specifics of national language thinking by representatives of different linguistic cultures in the nomination of complex nouns. The research was based on cognitive analysis, supported by the methods of semantic identification; descriptive-analytical and comparative. The quantitative method of material processing was used as required. A systematic approach to the study of compounds with the same denotative meaning in different languages needed the postulation of a meta-language, which could be a criterion for assessing a language in the light of its philological specificity. The peculiarities of cognitive comprehension of identical concepts and phenomena of the surrounding reality were revealed in the course of studying the relations of equivalence, continuity, inclusion, intersection, mixing, refinement, and contraindication, established between the CSOM components. The material of the work and the results of the study could also serve as a basis for further research in this area, in the practice of teaching English, German and Tatar languages among the English-language audience, and used in courses especially those in lexicology, comparative philology, cognitive semantics, as well as lexicographical practice.


Chronic periodontitis is an inflammatory disease of tissues supporting the teeth. Salivary compositions have been most intensely studied as a potential marker for periodontal disease. In this study, analysis of saliva provides a simple and non-invasive method of evaluating the role of salivary IgA (s-IgA) levels in periodontal disease by detecting the level of (s-IgA) in patients with chronic periodontitis smokers and non smokers patients and correlate the mean (s-IgA) levels with clinical periodontal parameters Plaque index (PLI) gingival index (GI), probing pocket depth (PPD) and clinical attachment level (CAL). Materials and Methods: The study samples consists of (15) patients with chronic periodontitis who were non smokers (Group I) and (15) patients with chronic periodontitis who were smokers (Group II) of both gender with an age ranged (35-45) years were the periodontal parameters used in this study (PLI, GI, PPD and CAL), unstimulated salivary sample were collected from all subjects and the levels of salivary IgA (s-IgA) in each sample were analyzed for each group by using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technique. A statistical analysis was done by using excel 2013. Results: There was a significant difference with high mean level in the clinical periodontal parameters in smokers group compared to non smokers with chronic periodontitis (PLI, PPD and CAL) except GI which showed no significant difference between the same groups. The biochemical finding showed significant difference with low mean level for (s-IgA) in smokers group compared to non smokers. Conclusion: The findings in this study showed that the concentrations of salivary IgA might be used as an indicator for periodontal disease progression in smokers with chronic periodontitis as a resultant to the effect of smoking which lowering the concentration of the salivary IgA and subsequent reducing of the host's defense lead to increase in the progression of periodontal disease. Keyword: Chronic periodontitis, smokers, (s-IgA), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), saliva. (J Bagh Coll Dentistry 2015; 27(3):116-119).


We report the 1−18 eV electron-stimulated desorption of the anions H-, S-, CH3-, and (SCH3)- from dimethyl disulfide (CH3SSCH3) condensed on amorphous D2O films physisorbed on Pt. Below 11 eV, the desorbed anions and their respective sulfur-radical counterparts (CH2SSCH3)•, (CH3SCH3), (SSCH3)•, and (SCH3)• are formed via dissociative electron attachment to CH3SSCH3 (i.e., from the formation and subsequent dissociation of temporary states of CH3SSCH3-). At 4.5, 6.0, and 9.0 eV incident electron energies, different dissociative attachment channels compete for the production of these reactive species. Above 11 eV, the same anions are produced via dipolar dissociation with corresponding cation fragments. A negative species observed at 35 amu is attributed to the formation of long-lived or stable (SHD)- anions, produced via secondary reactions on the ice film. Anion desorption is shown to be enhanced by the presence of the water substrate.


In this work we present the results of a measurement campaign carried out in the Mediterranean sea aimed at characterizing the underwater acoustic channel in a wideband at ultrasonic frequencies centered at 80 kHz with a width of 96 kHz, covering two octaves from 32 to 128 kHz. So far, these type of wideband measurements are not found in the literature. Periodic orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFMD) sounding signals using Zadoff-Chu sequences have been specially designed for this purpose. The collected data has been post-processed to estimate the time-variant impulse and frequency responses and relevant parameters for system design like the time coherence, bandwidth coherence, delay spread and Doppler bandwidth. The statistical behavior of the channel gain random fluctuation has also been analyzed. This information has been extracted for both the global channel and each path separately. The wide bandwidth of the measurements have allowed the characterization of the channel in a scarcely explored ultrasonic band with an accuracy that is far beyond what is reported in previous works.


Abstract:Using data from the first national study on high school preparation for college calculus, the Factors Including College Success in Mathematics (FICSMath) project, this paper connects males' (n = 3,648) and females' (n = 2,033) instructional experiences from their high school precalculus or calculus course to their college calculus performance. A hierarchical linear model identifies several significant instructional experiences that predict college calculus performance. Our findings show that high school instructional practices affect college calculus performance similarly for males and females.


Powder magnetic circuits find more and more application in modern electric machines. These magnetic circuits frequently comprise soft magnetic core and powder permanent magnets as a source of magnetic flux of excitation. It is connected with a lot of advantages of these kinds of materials. The main purpose of the work is to design a brushless DC motor with powder permanent magnet and powder soft magnetic core. It was assumed that the powder magnetic core will be prepared from iron powder bonded by resin and permanent magnet will be prepared from powder of Nd-Fe-B melt-spun ribbon. Investigation of technology of magnetic materials was done and presented. Measurements of properties of magnetic materials were considered in design and analysis of motor. During designing process the dimensions and operational parameters of designing motor were assumed. Permanent magnet DC brushless motor with nominal power 250 W and rotational speed 6000 rpm was designed.


Two-dimensional molecular-packing structure and monolayer preparation of adenine adsorbates on the graphite ~0001! surface have been studied using scanning tunneling microscopy, low-energy electron diffraction, and thermal-desorption spectroscopy. By combining real-space images and diffraction data a close-packed hydrogen-bonded network of adenine dimers is proposed, containing two dimers in a unit cell with the symmetry group p2gg . The energy-minimized molecular arrangement could be determined by force field calculations. Adenine adsorbate layers were prepared by sublimation in UHV. @S0163-1829~97!02403-X#


Our methods for achieving social dialogue are out of date. In business, dialogue is satisfactory but collective negotiation on an interprofessional level and in different areas produces 'a lot of action but not much of a result'. When unions and management are unable to find agreement, it becomes necessary to resort to external experts such as the Economic and Social Council in order to formulate recommendations and bring about change in the system. The means of representation and negotiation are extremely outdated resulting in inefficiency. Five workers' unions enjoy an 'incontestable presumption of representativeness' which confines certain rights of worker representation to the 'most representative' unions. This 'pluralistic' belief allows the five unions to sign agreements despite the fact that their influence among employees is very variable. The essentials for the improvement of social dialogue are that elections should take place in order to legitimise trade unions, and that managers must explain the reasons behind the decisions they take. These requirements are necessary in order to implement changes which are imposed on companies and their employees by the effects of globalisation.


In this chapter components and protective devices used for surge control and/or the realization of the EMC-oriented lightning protection zone concept will be introduced with particular regard to construction, mode of functioning and fields of application.


The Tokyo metropolitan area is known to have been struck by large earthquakes due to the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate and the Pacific Plate beneath the North American plate. Recent damaging earthquakes that occurred beneath Tokyo include the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake, the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake, and the 1923 Kanto earthquake. Whereas the Kanto earthquake is known to have occurred at the top of the subducting Philippine Sea Plate, the other events are considered to have occurred in Tokyo bay, but their source depths are unknown. Many researchers have attempted to determine the source mechanisms of these earthquakes through analyses of patterns of seismic intensity distribution in the Kanto area, but the intensity pattern at the center of Tokyo would be considerably affected by the site amplification effect of the shallow, localized structure rather than be related directly to the source itself. In the present paper, we summarize the characteristics of strong ground motions and damage caused by the earthquakes. We then compare the pattern of intensities on local and regional scales with those of recent earthquakes occurring in Tokyo and corresponding computer simulations using heterogeneous crust and upper-mantle structure models below Tokyo to find referable source models for the Ansei Edo and Meiji Tokyo earthquakes.


The world is now undergoing in COVID-19 pandemic. During this crisis, the increasing incidence of dengue become a further threat in multiple dengue-endemic countries of Southeast Asia. In this study, the cases of COVID-19 and dengue outbreaks, their co‐infection and co‐epidemics are reviewed. Countries like Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, and Sri Lanka have been infected highly from both of COVID-19 and dengue, simultaneously. Thus, double outbreaks of COVID-19 and dengue overwhelm the healthcare systems that have really been posed challenges to combat it. Further complications have been occurred due to co‐infection and co‐epidemics of COVID-19 and dengue. Physicians are in trouble to ensure accurate diagnosis and treatment for overlapping signs and symptoms. The healthcare system is being fragile and that need to revive by taking immediate measures. An accurate identification and proper clinical treatment are vital for COVID-19 management. Besides, an effective mosquito control program is recommended to combat dengue that also help to stop co-epidemics of COVID-19 and dengue as well.


We consider in this paper so called simple bracketed languages having special limita- tions. They are sometimes used for the definitions of some grammatical structures of programming languages. Generally speaking, these languages are context-free, but not deterministic context- free, i.e., they cannot be defined by deterministic push-down automata. For the simple bracketed languages having special limitations, the equivalence problem is decidable. We obtain the sufficient conditions for the representation some language by special sequences of simple bracketed languages. We also consider the examples of grammatical structures as the simple bracketed languages. Therefore, we can decide equivalence problem for some grammatical structures of programming languages, and such structures define neither regular, nor deterministic context-free languages.


OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors associated with Professional Identity, with the aim of proposing an educational strategy that fosters it among the nursing program's undergraduate students. METHODOLOGY: A mixed methodological design was followed, using the Nurse Professional Identity's score (IPE) as variable according to socio-demographic characteristics and professional aspects. Quantitative measures had core trend and dispersion measures calculated and numeric variables had proportion calculated; OR was used as association measure and 95% IC was used as precision measure. RESULTS: 95 surveys were conducted; the mean for the Nurse Professional Identity was 93; the highest scores (100) came from professionals that are studying or have fi nished doctorate studies. 93.7 % of the nurses perceived subordination within their practice scenarios; 87 % do not feel his/her task is appreciated by society and 27 % do not perceive his/her professional practice as stimulating. CONCLUSION: Possible factors related to Nurse Professional Identity were identified from vocational and educational spheres, also, gaps in basic technical-scientific and disciplinary training were identified in the undergraduate studies. A new validation process for the Nurse Professional Identity scale must be executed with the objective of validating possible predicting factors identified in this research.


This research exposes the results obtained in a classroom management process where an experience is applied in a b-learning learning environment, It was done with the students of the 10th grade of the IED LA AMISTAD, from Kennedy in Bogota. The Management of the b-learning learning environment combines English classes with on-line activities, where the use of you tube videos is incorporated to enhance the "Listening and Speaking" abilities to strengthen the learning of English, IT contribute to improve student performance; It starts with a diagnosis to detect the difficulties in the learning of English, then the environment was managed from the motivation, the enhancement of learning, the evaluation of progress and the proeyeccion of learning. First a "listening" exercise was applied based on the Listening of a song, after the students evaluated their Listening level through an on-line survey, this allowed it to establish what kind of videos and activities should be done on the EDMODO platform . Likewise, a "Speaking" activity was carried out, a survey was also applied to know how the students assessed their level of speaking in English; subsequently, the b-learning learning environment was applied. It was observed, session by session, to see how the students interacted with the environment, finally the same exercise of "listening" was applied to check if they had improved in this aspect. In relation to "speaking" the students made a TV-show to check the advances in this ability. Finally, the results of the investigation are presented to make conclusions snd recommendations. These indicate that the management processes of the b-learning environment contributed to strengthen the practices, from the leadership of the teacher, to enhance the learning of English.


Rising yields in particular increase the potential for equity volatility. Assuming stable expectations for the path of company earnings, upward shifts in the yield curve exert downward pressure on the prices of equities through the valuation channel. For equity prices to remain stable in a rising interest rate environment, therefore, investors must believe that the expected path of earnings continues to improve.


On the assumption that current state of earthquake activities in North China will go on,based on Benioff strain released series of different tectonic belts since 1970,many types of non-linear functions have been adopted to fit the strain cumulative release trend.By the proximal and optimal fitting model,the author gives the forecasts of Benioff strain release in the coming 1 to 3 years.According to the linear magnitude frequency law,the author also gives estimation of corresponding max magnitude for each tectonic belt.


Set in the background of Indo-pak relationship which historic events witnessed change of leadership in both the countries and two wars reshaped the geography of what is now is know as pakistan, before they carved it from the original Indian continent.


Experiments with focused intensity of laser light exceeding 1019 Wcm−2 have recently become possible through exploitation of new laser techniques and materials. The rate of advance is rapid and petawatt (1015 W) power with focused intensity upto 1021 Wcm−2 is only a year or two away. — In this review I will summarise the main features of state of the art lasers designed for high power and intensity using as illustrations chirped pulse amplification (CPA) operation of the infrared Nd glass laser (Vulcan) and both CPA and Raman laser operation of the ultraviolet KrF laser (Sprite) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. These laser systems delivering upto 1019 Wcm−2 in focused beams, are enabling research investigations at the highest intensities currently available. — I will present also highlights of current research using these lasers in the fields of XUV harmonic generation, X-ray laser development and studies underlying a new concept of fast ignition of thermonuclear fusion.


Estrogen receptor β (ERβ) is highly expressed in both type I and II pneumocytes as well as bronchiolar epithelial cells. ERα is not detectable in the adult lung. Lungs of adult female ERβ knockout (ERβ−/−) mice have already been reported to have fewer alveoli and reduced elastic recoil. In this article, we report that, by 5 months of age, there are large areas of unexpanded alveoli in lungs of both male and female ERβ−/− mice. There is increased staining for collagen and, by EM, abnormal clusters of collagen fibers are seen in the alveolar septa of ERβ−/− mice. Immunohistochemical analysis and Western blotting with lung membrane fractions of ERβ−/− mice revealed down-regulation of caveolin-1, increased expression of membrane type-1 metalloproteinase, matrix metalloproteinase 2 (active form), and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases 2. Hypoxia, measured by immunohistochemical analysis for hypoxia-inducible factor 1α and chemical adducts (with Hypoxyprobe), was evident in the heart, ventral prostate, periovarian sac, kidney, liver, and brain of ERβ−/− mice under resting conditions. Furthermore, both male and female adult ERβ−/− mice were reluctant to run on a treadmill and tissue hypoxia became very pronounced after exercise. We conclude that ERβ is necessary for the maintenance of the extracellular matrix composition in the lung and loss of ERβ leads to abnormal lung structure and systemic hypoxia. Systemic hypoxia may be responsible for the reported left and right heart ventricular hypertrophy and systemic hypertension in ERβ−/− mice.


This essay examines Julia Escalante's Graziella and the 1881 El Lechero (The Milkman) as a case study of the ways in which the art of a Mexican woman artist instantiates aspects of Porfirian modernity. In the context of the academic hierarchy that existed through much of the nineteenth century, these scenes of everyday life, that is, genre scenes, done by a woman artist, would have been seemingly unremarkable. Different from most works by a woman artist, these paintings were exhibited in two very different spaces in downtown Mexico City: the National Academy in 1879 and 1881, and later in the Hotel del Jardin in 1888. I will suggest that these exhibition spaces define an architecture of legibility for the paintings inflecting the critical reception of the painting, opening onto the process of Porfirian modernity.


In 2010, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) produced a mass-manufactured sweater as a part of the official merchandise for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The sweater turned into a national media controversy, with reporters and the public questioning whether the HBC committed an act of appropriation. In local and provincial newspapers, representatives of the Cowichan Nation stated that the HBC sweater shared many of the same characteristics as a Cowichan sweater. The Cowichan sweater is a traditional Indigenous hand-knitted item crafted by several Coast Salish bands throughout Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia; the main producers of the sweater are knitters from the Cowichan Nation, located in what is now known as Duncan, BC.

 In my paper, I will analyze how the HBC's imitations alter the Cowichan sweater's aesthetics, as well as affect those who create the original garments. I will argue that the creation of the HBC Olympic sweater constitutes as a form of cultural appropriation since the spinoff sweaters have appropriated designs, which derive from traditional forms of knowledge and traditional practices of blanket weaving. Secondly, I will demonstrate that the Cowichan people have an economic reliance on knitting, noting that this art is either a main or supplementary income for families who may already have a high need for economic assistance. Finally, I suggest that such acts of appropriation misrepresent Cowichan peoples and are a continuation of colonization. Without respecting Indigenous traditional practices and disregarding the economic impact of appropriation, there is a perpetuation of oppression for the Cowichan peoples, as well as any Indigenous nation facing appropriation. This is especially important as appropriation of Indigenous cultures The phrase 'knitting for our lives' is taken from The Story of Coast Salish Knitters, directed 1 by Christine Welsh (Ottawa, ON: National Film Board of Canada, 2000). continues to occur in Canada, even after the country acknowledged the importance of Indigenous rights and reconciliation. 2 In order to protect a nation's intangible matters, the United Nations adopted a Declaration of 2 the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. Many countries, including Canada, did not sign this declaration right away, even though it is not a legally binding law. While at first the Canadian Government could not support the declaration since it "contains provisions that are fundamentally incompatible with Canada's constitutional framework." BBC New, "Indigenous rights outlined by UN," Special Reports, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6993776.stm. In 2010, Canada finally signed the document, after seeing the "unprecedented involvement of the Four Host Nations and Aboriginal peoples across the nation" during the Vancouver Olympics; however, called the document "aspirational," which gives the connotation that the Canadian Government does not need to abide by the declaration. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, "Canada's Statement of Support," UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, http://www.aadncaandc.gc.ca/eng/1309374239861/1309374546142. More recently, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's 2015 Call to Action continue to call for Indigenous rights, but with many Indigenous peoples skeptical of the idea of reconciliation. Connie Walker, "Truth and Reconciliation: Aboriginal people conflicted as commission wraps up after 6 years," CBC News, http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/truth-and-reconciliation-aboriginal-people-conflicted-ascommission-wraps-up-after-6-years-1.3094753. ! 121 ARTiculate Vol. 2, Spring 2017, University of Victoria nside the crowded Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) store in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, the official Olympic merchandise had taken over a full two floors of the building. 3 Between October 2009 and February 2010, both levels were draped in the Canadian national flag's colours of red and white. Taxidermy, cedar canoes, and the HBC's own point blankets contributed to the Canadian symbolism (Fig. 1). Amongst all the merchandise was a popular item sold during the 4 Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: a Chinese-made, mass-produced Cowichan-style sweater (Fig. 2). The HBC sweater had a line of symmetry 5 down the front zipper and employed thick yarn for bands of geometric designs in dark grey, black, white, red, and pale grey. The bands that ran Indigenous educator Margaret Kovach states that anyone researching within an Indigenous 3 field must situate themselves within their research. Specifically, non-Indigenous researchers need to explain "...their life context and how they engage with [other] cultures." Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2009), 109. I am a non-Indigenous scholar who first became interested in Cowichan sweaters during the Olympic protest in downtown Victoria on October 30, 2009. My love for the sweaters increased when I interned at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum in La Conner, Washington. At this institution, I helped organize an exhibition on traditional and contemporary Coast Salish fibre arts with insight from the local Swinomish Nation. This exhibition included a Cowichan sweater from the 1920s. I bring to this paper my knowledge and love for knitted items, particularly Cowichan sweaters, as well as a desire to show the artistry of the creators to the public. However, I do lack a cultural understanding of what the sweater means to Cowichan knitters, and therefore I highlight their voices as much as I can in this article. In order to acknowledge my position as a non-Indigenous scholar while simultaneously respecting Indigenous ways of knowing, I have used both settler and Indigenous methodologies through combining traditional art historical visual analysis with consulting oral stories. Solen Roth, "Culturally Modified Capitalism: the Native Northwest Coast Artware 4 Industry" (PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2013), 148. Bruce Constantineau, "HBC defends Games sweater contract decision, design," The Citizen, 5 October 14, 2009. Though this newspaper column claims the sweater to be one of the most popular items sold by the HBC, it was written on October 14, 2009, nearly six months before the Olympic merchandise left the stores during the Vancouver Paralympic Games' closing ceremonies on March 21, 2010. Therefore, it cannot be assumed that the Olympic sweater was the most popular item sold by the end of the Vancouver Games, but it was a favoured product before the Olympics even began. ! 122 ARTiculate Vol. 2, Spring 2017, University of Victoria I around the waist and shoulders used a geometric diamond pattern in black and white. The same design was repeated at the corresponding level on the


In this paper, three-dimensional finite element approach is attempted to simulate a high-aspect ratio piercing process of the plate which is thick compared to the radius of the diameter of pierced hole. The same process is simulated using axisymmetric approach to be compared with the three-dimensional approach emphasizing that much more attention should be paid to come over some difficulties in generating extremely fine mesh system around the piercing region and numerical problems due to remeshing.


Soil sealing for urban and infrastructure development constitutes the most intense form of land degradation and affects all ecosystem services. Researchers and policy makers have become aware of this fact and call for limiting development and compensating for new soil sealing with unsealing measures. In a literature review, we found that the state of research about the impacts of soil sealing is far more advanced than about the potential and prerequisites of unsealing. In practice, soil restoration after mining and construction activities as well as redevelopment or renaturation of abandoned industrial sites are increasingly important issues, but systematic research on the success of soil unsealing and restoration is rare. In particular, the development of soils and vegetation after unsealing and restoration measures as well as their potential to provide ecosystem services need more detailed investigation.


By Cambrian-Ordovician sedimentary and seismic characteristics analysis in Ba-Mai aera of Tarim Basin.Though the use of seismic,drilling core data and sequence characteristics,The results show that those area experienced evolution of the ramp-type carbonate platform slope to the edge of platform-type.The main control factor is the tectonic activity and sea level changes.the evolution of ramp-type platform in Early-Middle Cambrian,due to frequent movements of sea level changes,platform margin has experienced three migration;Late Cambrian extensional area in the formation of passive continental margin environment,sea level began to rise,development platform edge slope type,Relative sea-level rise rate is less than the supply rate of sediment,Platform migration towards the basin edge;Early Ordovician sea-level rise rate is accelerated,sea level rise rate is greater than the deposition rate,platform type stacking patterns to make up the direction of migration to the platform.


USM is a hydraulic-simulation computer program developed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to analyze unsteady-flow conditions in canals. The program USM uses the method of characteristics to solve the complete Saint Venant equations for unsteady flow in open channels. This solution method yields accurate numerical results but sometimes requires more computer execution time than other methods. USM analyzes canal systems with a variety of structural boundary conditions, including check gates, weirs, siphons, and pumps. Check gates can have either manual or automatic gate control. Branching canals, supercritical flow, and channel dewatering cannot be analyzed. This paper describes the model and compares its strengths and weaknesses with those of other models. Several test data sets compiled by the ASCE Task Committee on Irrigation Canal System Hydraulic Modeling were used in the evaluation. USM simulation results are compared to field data collected from the Central Arizona Project canal system.


The older F16 jet fighters are currently being flight tested to evaluate the upgraded electronics for aircraft avionics, flight control and weapons systems. An instrumentation system capable of recording three different video signals, recording four MilitaryStandard-1553B (Mil-Std-1553B) data streams, recording one PCM stream, transmitting the PCM stream, and transmitting two video signals was needed. Using off the shelf equipment, the F16 instrumentation system was design to meet the electronic specifications, limited available space of a small jet fighter, and limited space in the SBand frequency range.


In the present work, a constitutive model for anisotropic clays is proposed and evaluated under monotonic and cyclic loading. To that end, the hypoplastic model for anisotropic clays by Masin is ex...


In order to solve the problem of low probability of traditional anti-stealing electricity system, one intelligent anti-theft system based on Internet technology is designed from the aspects of hardware and software technology. Based on traditional systems, the hardware systems includes iot sensor devices and master wave deployer, and the operating mode and internal structure of electric energy meters and data transmission devices are changed, besides, based on the data collected by hardware equipment, the identification index of electricity-steal-stealing behavior is set up. By calculating the judging index of electricity-steal-electricity, to know whether the users of the power system have the behavior of electricity stealing and, to calculate the amount of electricity stolen, to find the position of electricity-steal-electricity, so as to realize the anti-theft function of the software. Through the system test experiment, the intelligent anti-theft electricity system can prevent users from stealing power and reduce the economic loss of power supply enterprises.


This paper presents a method of designing the print hammer or the wire driving lever of an impact printer. A beam with a mass at the free end and a rigid body around the pivot point is considered to be the essential structure of a print hammer, and the relationship of this funda-mental structure to the impact force is studied. The driving point mechanical immittances are derived from this infinite degrees of freedom model taking account of the boundary conditions ; these equations are expanded to infinite series by use of Mittag-Leffler's theorem. One of the ordinary methods of designing an acoustic apparatus is to use the equivalent circuit. But in the case presented here, it is more convenient to use the equivalent mechanism which is expressed in terms of simple vibrating systems. To describe such mechanism, two types of simple massspring systems, those with resonant and anti-resonant vibrating elements, and additional mechanisms are considered. These expressions enable us to obtain the approximate impact force more easily than by other methods. Impact forces calculated by use of these expressions and while neglecting higher order vibrations show good correlation with those measured experimentally.


The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information for a terminal, which transmits downlink control information through a downlink control channel which is introduced into a data domain and receives the control information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for mapping an uplink control channel resource for feeding back uplink HARQ ACK/NACK of the terminal for a downlink data channel through downlink scheduling information, which is transmitted via the downlink control channel.


To identify the structure and predictors of empowerment among public health nurses, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 470 such nurses. There were 191 replies, from which the following (40.6% response rate) results were obtained. 1) Using factor analysis, these 4 factors were identified as an integral part of empowerment: the ability to encourage family self-help, the ability to develop autonomy in others, the positive influence on communities, and an affirmative attitude toward work. 2) A principal component analysis of each factor was made, and three sub scales, namely encouraging family self-help, autonomy and community influence, made up the empowerment scale. 3) For developing greater skills in encouraging family self-help, the most apparent factors were frequent consultations with workers in related occupations, and strong motivation for self-fulfilment. 4) For autonomy, the most apparent factors were lower populations under their jurisdiction, more experience as a public health nurse, frequent consultations with workers in related occupations, high levels of work-life satisfaction and strong motivation. 5) The factors enhancing community influence were older age and motivation for self-fulfilment. From the above results,the empowerment of public health nurses is promoted by age and years of experience. It is also increased by the individual personalities of public health nurses who are more satisfied with their work and are more strongly motivated to succeed. For greater empowerment of public health nurses, this study suggests that it is also necessary to improve the workplace so that public health nurses can easily relate to workers in similar occupations.


Using the general singular value decomposition of matrices,the necessary and sufficient conditions for the expressions for the centroskew symmetric solutions of the linear matrix equation A~TXA=B are established.In addition,in the solution set of corresponding equation,the expression of the optimal approximation solution to given matrix is derived.


Recent results on MSSM Higgs physics at the LHC are reviewed. The dependence of the LHC discovery reach in the b\bar b H/A, H/A \to \tau^+\tau^- channel on the underlying SUSY scenario is analysed. This is done by combining the latest results for the prospective CMS experimental sensitivities for an integrated luminosity of 30 or 60 fb^-1 with state-of-the-art theoretical predictions of MSSM Higgs-boson properties. The results are interpreted in terms of the parameters governing the MSSM Higgs sector at lowest order, M_A and tan_beta. While the higgsino mass parameter \mu has a significant impact on the prospective discovery reach (and correspondingly the ``LHC wedge'' region), it is found that the discovery reach is rather stable with respect to variations of other supersymmetric parameters. Within the discovery region a determination of the masses of the heavy neutral Higgs bosons with an accuracy of 1-4% seems feasible. It is furthermore shown that Higgs-boson production in central exclusive diffractive channels can provide important information on the properties of the neutral MSSM Higgs bosons.


Background: The incidence of endocrine diseases, eating and metabolic disorders has been increasing recently. The prevalence and structure of pediatric and adolescent endocrine disorders are significantly different from those in adults and have specific regional features.
Objective: To study the frequency, structure, and long-term changes in the rates of hospitalization of the child population for diseases of the endocrine system in the Orenburg Region and to assess local features of disease incidence and prevalence.
Materials and methods: We analyzed data on all pediatric cases (aged 0–18) of hospital care for endocrine disorders provided by the regional office of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund for 2016–2020. We also applied the Ward's hierarchical clustering method to establish local peculiarities and to group municipalities by the rates and dynamics of endocrine diseases in children.
Results: The average rate of hospitalization for endocrine disorders was 3.8 cases per 1,000 children and accounted for almost 3.9 % of all types of hospital care. The proportion of inpatients among children aged 0 to 14 years was higher than that among
adolescents. Metabolic disorders (34.0 %), insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (22.3 %), hypofunction and other pituitary disorders (12.6 %), obesity and other types of overnutrition (7.1 %), and undernutrition (5.7 %) prevailed in all hospitalized children. The patterns of pediatric and adolescent inpatients differed significantly. The analysis of the prevalence of endocrine disorders in children and its long-term changes enabled clustering of the territories of the Orenburg Region.Conclusions: Three distinct clusters of territories were established in the analysis of local rates of endocrine diseases in children. The first cluster was characterized by moderate disease rates, while the second and the third clusters demonstrated high and low incidence and prevalence rates of pediatric and adolescent endocrine disorders.


Abstract This paper presents a report on our psychoanalytic investigation of cultural folktales, myths, and fables, in which we study, primarily, the extent to which such narratives lurk behind contemporary representations of men and women. Our aim is to identify the multiple narrative structures that form the core plots and storylines of these tales. Following Roland Barthes' work on mythologies, we want to decode the tales' ideological components by deciphering the axiomatic assumptions these tales make about the nature of perceived social reality. This represents an attempt to study a mind that is derived from the text. More specifically, we study narratives whose storylines revolve around the struggle between men and women in order to identify the culture's core concerns about and preoccupations with the relationship between the sexes. We believe that cultural myths or folktales are a royal road to a nation's collective conscience, and include gendered patterns of defenses, obsessions, fears, and paranoia.


By using a massless scalar field we examine the effect of an extra dimension on black hole radiation. As the equations are coupled, we find that the structure of the fifth dimension (as for membrane and induced-matter theory) affects the nature of the radiation observed in four-dimensional spacetime. In the case of the Schwarzschild–de Sitter solution embedded in a Randall–Sundrum brane model, the extension of the black hole along the fifth dimension looks like a black string. Then it is shown that, on the brane, the potential barrier surrounding the black hole has a quantized as well as a continuous spectrum. In principle, Hawking radiation may thus provide a probe for higher dimensions.


The introduction of hypotaurocyamine unit to terpenic chain was examined using farnesyl bromide as a model compound and this was feasible by chemoselective oxidation of the derived sulfide by peracid. By the application of the method thus established, a total synthesis of agelasidine C has been accomplished.


What a better time to address nurses as heroes and political activists than on this, the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale and in the year of the nurse and midwife? Who better to serve as the model for what nurses must be - guardians and advocates of patients' welfare? Nurses' experiences during COVID-19, visibly documented during nightly news broadcasts, have raised the public's awareness of what nurses do on a daily basis. Such awareness has resulted in the public labelling nurses as heroes. In other words, the public recognizes nurses for their courage, bravery, commitment, knowledge, resilience, advocacy, and persistence in the face of incredible adversity. Consequently, the public now has a better idea of nurses' work. However, it is important to acknowledge nurses' work has not changed; rather it is public perception that has changed.


Conducting technical and economic evaluations is important for mining investment and mining operation decision-making. Traditional economic evaluation methods rarely address the issue of evaluation reliability and usually require complex calculations to obtain the optimal solution. In this study, the Rosenblueth point estimate method for reliability evaluation of engineering project schemes is introduced. Combined with the cash flow method for economic evaluation of mines, the Rosenblueth point estimate method for evaluating the reliability of mining economy is established. Based on the technical and economic index of the case mine, taking the ore grade as a sensitivity indicator, empirical research on established models and methods was carried out. The results of the economic reliability evaluation and the variation rules obtained using the Rosenblueth point estimate method model were basically consistent with the actual production and operation rules of mining enterprise. The similar results also proved that the proposed model has good applicability and reliability for mining economic evaluation. Using the proposed RPEM economic reliability model, the economic reliability of a certain iron mine in Liaoning Province was calculated to be 99.95, which was a huge improvement compared with the traditional evaluation method. Additionally, the calculation process of the proposed model for economic reliability evaluation is simple and the accuracy is controllable. The economic reliability of the project can be calculated based on changes in sensitivity indicators, and the value range of sensitivity indicators can also be calculated through the required reliability. The obtained results and the proposed evaluation model provide a decision-making basis for mining investment projects and operation management.


Summary The reduction of 0.57 μμmoles of 3H-folic acid to tetrahydrofolic acid by folate reductase in the cell lysates from two patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia was not apparent until the total substrate concentration of the reaction mixture was raised by the addition of stable folic acid. In addition, these leukemic cell lysates inhibited the reduction of tracer 3H-folic acid by a leukemic cell lysate containing "normal" folate reductase activity. Gel-filtration experiments demonstrated that this phenomenon was due to binding of the tracer folate to a large molecule because 3H-folic acid preincu-bated with these peculiar leukemic cell lysates and filtered through Sephadex G-75 appeared in the early or excluded volume indicating that the substrate was bound to a factor with a molecular weight of at least 50,000. This binding of 3H-folic acid could be competitively inhibited by stable folate. I thank Carol Schreiber for her technical assistance for part of these studies, and Drs. Robert Goldstein and Solomon Berson for their helpful criticism in the preparation of this manuscript.


ABSTRACT This experiment was conducted in a glasshouse at the Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Zarghan, Iran, in 2016. Sixteen wheat genotypes were compared under four salinity levels [control, 50, 100, and 150 mM sodium chloride (NaCl)] in terms of grain yield, chlorophyll (SPAD), flag leaf area, Na+/K+ ratio, catalase, and peroxidase activities in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Overall, results indicated that apparently no single parameter or a specific group of parameters could be suggested as factors of the most responsive element to different salinity stress levels. In other words, the tolerance mechanism of wheat genotypes is a complex response of multiple factors as a network path. Furthermore, different salinity levels led to different responses of wheat genotypes, which were detectable by the results of the mean comparison and analysis of variance. These results also proved the influential effects of the genetic background on salinity response and tolerance of wheat genotypes. In addition, antioxidants acting as defense barriers against reactive oxygen species are very important constituents against salinity, since higher antioxidant activity leads to alleviate the oxidative stress caused by salinity. Higher osmolyte concentration regulating the selective uptake of useful ions can prevent excess accumulation of toxic ions, which contribute to salinity stress damages. A high variation related to the measured traits in this study under both normal and salinity stress conditions was achieved, which could be applied in screening and breeding programs for salinity stress tolerance. Moreover, the responses of different genotypes varied regarding the different traits; SU-0129 as a novel genotype has proved to be the best choice for further breeding research based on the overall traits and, in particular, grain yield and tolerance stress index.


Procedure quality control panel protection bus coupler 150 KV substation project of Kupang PT. Siemens Indonesia. The stages of quality control are very important in the industrial world, especially in the electrical industry. The purpose of quality control is to ensure the quality of a product is feasible and in accordance with the standards that apply to a business entity or company. PT. Siemens Indonesia is one of the companies engaged in electricity in the production of electrical panels. As a company that manufactures electrical panels, the Quality Control stage must be carried out properly so that the product is in accordance with the customer and standard demand.The Quality Control stage at PT. Siemens Indonesia includes the Factory Routine Test where there are several stages such as visual handover and visual check, component check, function test, Insulation test, injection relay and Factory Acceptance Test where panel testing is accompanied by customers before the panel is sent to site. One of the panels produced is the panel bus coupler 150 kV Kupang substation project. The Bus coupler panel is a panel used to connect one bus line to another bus line without interruption of electricity supply and without creating a dangerous arc. There are various kinds of components in the bus coupler panel such as protection relays, contactors, bay control unit, tests block, CT and VT terminals and others. The components and equipment must be tested one by one to avoid mounting errors and the wiring panel bus coupler


Neuroscience
The brain constantly integrates enormous amounts of information. While dynamically synthesizing cognitive processes as a function of an everchanging environment, the brain must stay flexible enough to adapt to continuous challenges. Shine et al. used a sophisticated computational framework to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging data obtained during a wide range of cognitive tasks. They found a large integrative core of interconnected brain regions that processes information and optimizes cognitive performance and that also correlates with fluid intelligence. When the brain needs to work on more specific tasks, this integrative network segregates into more-specialized, regional brain activity. Altering neurotransmitter activity by pharmacological manipulation or disease could modulate these dynamics and affect cognitive performance.

Nat. Neurosci. 22 , 289 (2019).


The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accessory pathway in the Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. We measured magnetocardiograms (MCGs) for normal subjects and patients with the WPW syndrome using SQUID magnetometer. It is generally difficult to estimate the accessory pathway by visualization of the current-density distribution (VCDD) because the VCDD has a wide range. Independent component analysis (ICA) is a useful method for separating independent signals from overlapping signals. The source estimation of the accessory pathway was done by the VCDD using ICA. The effect of the accessory pathway was extracted by ICA, and the activity of the accessory pathway was accurately estimated. ICA was able to extract the effect of the accessory pathway. It is confirmed that ICA is a useful method to estimate the VCDD of MCG with WPW syndrome patients.


This article, describes the implementation of QPSK modulator and FPGA programming aspects for carrier frequency control for data transmission units in space applications. The module occupies lesser area for integration, operates on lower power and supports higher data rates than conventional modulator units of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The scope of a miniature and low power modulator primarily finds many applications in satellite communication as the proposed system is a frugal alternative to implement most communication applications that work at longer distances and for wider coverage areas.


Dynamic changes in farmland landscape in Jilin Province in the past 50 years were analyzed from the prospect of landscape ecology,e.g.crop habitat diversity index,crop pattern diversity index and crop species diversity index.By analyzing changes in acreage of farmland stricken by drought,flood,wind and hail,frost,crop diseases and pests,and dynamics of the ratio between the acreage of disaster-stricken farmlands and the acreage of disaster-affected farmland since 1978,it was discovered that the diminishing landscape diversity is one of the main causes of the frequent occurrence of agricultural disasters and the increase in loss.It is suggested that diversified arrangement of agricultural productions be the general orientation for future agriculture so as to minimize the loss caused by agricultural disasters.


The sensitivity of scintillation counters allows their utiliztion in following the source of a radioisotope in an animal or human organism, even in the case of a pure BETA emitter such as P/sup 32/ because of the detection of bremsstrahlumg. The distribution can thus be studied in man after the administration of 200 mu c of P/sup 32/. (tr-auth)


The suite of planning documents containing policies to guide and shape development in North Warwickshire, and details to their preparation


A short story in which a hockey player imagines herself the goddess of the hunt. In the dying moments of her game against a seemingly much stronger team, she surprises herself and her teammates and becomes her alter ego.


We introduce a statistical analysis of time series extracted from rock fracture experiments to earthquake catalogues in order to demonstrate common features underling in these processes. We demonstrate that in all considered cases a frequency-energy distribution similar with the well known in seismology Gutemberg-Richter law appears along with a waiting time distribution which can be described by a unique scaling function. The resulting scaling functions common in laboratory rock fracture effects, earthquakes and acoustic emmissions suggest a general validity for fracture processes.


Only 23 cases of extensive cutaneous necrosis linked to APS have been reported in the literature. Most of the patients have been young women and the underlying diseases included SLE (9 cases), lupus-like disease (1 case), urinary tract infection (2 cases), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (1 case), rheumatoid arthritis (1 case), mycosis fungoides (1 case), and mixed connective tissue disease (7 cases). Seven patients had no underlying disease. All of the patients developed thrombotic complications limited to skin, and, as in our patient, the lower limbs were the most commonly affected site. Skin biopsy revealed the presence of thrombi in dermal venules and capillaries, with no evidence of vasculitis. The mechanisms of thrombosis associated with antiphospholipid antibodies remain unknown. The main entities to take into consideration in the differential diagnosis are catastrophic antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Our patient achieved complete healing with prednisolone at a dose of 1 mg/kg/d and heparin, which was replaced by oral anticoagulants at discharge. At the time of writing, after 1 year of follow-up, there have been no further thrombotic episodes. We conclude that widespread cutaneous necrosis is a rare initial manifestation of APS and should be considered a major thrombotic event. It is important to recognize these lesions because early diagnosis enables early treatment, and, possibly, better prognosis.


It is proved that the volume of the root excudate was decreased and the flow capacity of ions(P,Ca,Mg,B,Mn,Fe,Al,Ba,Cr,Cu,Mo,Ni,K,Na) in the root excudate was also reduced when the cotton infected by the [WT5BX]Verticillium dahliae [WT5BZ]Kleb. The contents of P,Ca,Mg,B,Mn,Fe,Al,Ba,Cr,Cu,Mo,Ni in excudate were reduced,but the contentes of K、Na were raised. The volume of the root excudate and the flow capacity of ions in the root excudate were increased with DPC treatment in verticillium. infected cotton. The cotton resistance to the infection has been developed by the DPC treatment .The infected rate of DPC-H were decreased with 76.21% and 52.83% than CK-H in 2 years. The infected rate was significantly decreased by the DPC treatment.


A laboratory-scale solid-phase denitrification process for nitrogen removal was constructed by acclimating sewage activated sludge with poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL) as the sole substrate under denitrifying conditions. The sludge thus acclimated exhibited a nitrogen removal rate of 6-7 mg NO3-N g-1 h-1 with PCL as the sole source of reducing power. The microbial community and the distribution of denitrifying bacteria in this process were studied by rRNA-targeted fluorescence in situ hybridization, quinone profiling and standard cultivation methods. The culture-independent molecular and biomarker approaches demonstrated that members of the class Alphaproteobacteria predominated and those of Betaproteobacteria were the second most abundant group of bacteria in the process. The plate counts of denitrifying bacteria with a non-selective agar medium accounted for 6% of the total count and 10% of the direct viable count on average. The most probable number (MPN) obtained with PCL-containing medium under denitrifying conditions was one order of magnitude lower than the plate count. Most of the denitrifying isolates from the MPN enrichment tubes and 10% of the predominant denitrifying bacteria isolated by the plate-counting method were capable of degrading PCL. 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons showed that the greater majority of the predominant denitrifiers were members of the genera Comamonas, Diaphorobacter and Paracoccus. All of the PCL-degrading denitrifying strains isolated were assigned to a previously unknown species of the genus Comamonas. The results of this study suggest that, apart from their PCL-degrading capacity, members of Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria are mainly responsible for nitrogen removal in the PCL-acclimated denitrification process.


For the sake of researching and certificating the function of designed numeral control more expediently on theories, and according to the actual control system model,a computer imitating method is designed based on the imitating of numeral controller which is designed by Dalin,and then,emulation starts on the correspond computer simulating model.In addition, aiming at the same controlled object a function imitating model is built which is based on transfer function of pure theory.By comparison of the two models,this method has advantage in evidence,it is applicable to teaching experiment,to resolve the problem of unideal results when the electric circuit parameters are not fixed,it is simple and easy to be understood,and has certain of reference value.


Asphalt and Concrete Pavement Condition Analysis for the WVDOH Frank Peter Taverna III The objective of this research was to compare the condition of the asphalt and concrete sections of pavement on a section of US 35 for the West Virginia Division of Highways. In the process of completing this objective, existing procedures for pavement assessment were evaluated and an improved methodology for pavement condition evaluation, in terms of Pavement Surface Rating, PSR, was established. PSR uses observable surface distresses to quantify the condition of a pavement on a 0 to 100 scale. The PSR methodology includes surface distress data collection, a distress identification manual, and a PSR calculation procedure and spreadsheet. This process has been adopted by the WVDOH and is included in the special provision specification for pavements constructed using a warranted agreement. Data from the WVDOH Pavement Management System, PMS, were used to evaluate pavement condition but ultimately deemed ineffective in a relatively small scale analysis. The methodology used to collect and analyze the PMS data was not compatible with the PSR methodology. Deflection data gathered with a falling weight deflectometer were used to evaluate and compare the structural condition of the US 35 asphalt and concrete pavement sections. A screening of the deflection data on the concrete sections found the number of observations was an insufficient for meaningful analysis. The deflection data on the asphalt pavement sections were suitable for analysis. Since the WVDOH does not have an analysis methodology for deflection data, the research effort on this project focused on applying existing methodologies used for the analysis of deflection data. Due to the data problems, the analysis of the concrete sections was limited. The analysis of the asphalt sections was able to determine effective structural number for the asphalt sections. The analysis process is complex and several issues should be resolved to improve the ability of the WVDOH to use deflection analysis in a routine manner.


As on many other occasions Hakim was right when she wrote these lines. However, over thirty years much has changed. The once Cinderella is now a regular guest at the research ball. But still many of us do not know what to make of her. Is she the dancing queen of the ball, "having the time of (her) life",1 or is she more of "a lonely wallflower waiting by the wall without the willpower to face the music at all"?2 If one picture emerges from the previous chapters in this book it is a picture of diversity. Among various authors the conclusion prevails that the majority of the self-employed do rather well and that most of them follow the career path they set out for themselves. Some authors come to the conclusion that the self-employed constitute a group of workers at risk from the perspective of precariousness, although the scale and nature seems to differ between countries and demographic groups. The picture is further complicated by the different voices sounding from the community of self-employed. The group of the 'new' self-employed – especially young people from the laptop generation – know how to make themselves heard on social media and do not hesitate to do so frequently. In such discussion groups, many of the traditional self-employed as depicted in Chapter 2 are hardly ever heard. While in many research areas statistics can help to provide a rather complete image of a specific group in the labour market, different chapters in this volume show that our information on the self-employed is still far from complete. On the one hand, this may reflect a bias in labour market researchers' and policy makers' focus of attention, as the self-employed


An 80-year-old woman was admitted to the Hospital three years ago due to recurrent urinary tract infections. Physical and analytical examination showed abnormal results only in a urea of 72 mg/dL, a serum protein level of 68 g/L; Hb 76 g/L, Plt 233109/L, and increased IgM levels (0.96 g/L) with a monoclonal IgM-k band. The bone marrow aspirate disclosed 88% mature vacuolated lymphoid cells. WM was diagnosed and prednimustine (20 mg/day) was started and maintained for 9 months, after which it was discontinued due to the developement of psychotic symptoms. At this moment, the blood counts and the serum immunoglobulin levels were normal with a persisting monoclonal IgM-k band. Chlorambucil (5 mg/day) was then started and maintained for 16 months, at which time, due to her optimal clinical status, treatment was discontinued. Ten months later, anemia and thrombocytopenia were observed: Hb 72 g/L; WBC 73109/L (42% neutrophils; 9% lymphocytes; 13% monocytes; 2% eosinophils; 2% basophils; 32% blasts), Plt 83109/L. The blast cells fell into two groups: 60% were monoblasts while 40% presented no differentiation. Immunophenotype of blast cells was CD34+, HLA-DR+, CD38+, CD13+, CD14+. The bone marrow aspirate showed moderate dysplastic changes with an increased number of promyelocytes, myelocytes, monocytes and promonocytes (25%), 30% blasts with the same characteristics as those observed in peripheral blood and 15% of lymphoplasmocytic cells. Acute myelomonocytic leukemia (FAB subtype M4) was diagnosed. Treatment with low doses of Ara-C (10 mg/m2/12h) was administered for 21 days without response. Further therapy was refused by the patient's family and she died one month later from progressive disease. A review of the literature (Medline©, January 1966-December 1996) disclosed only 22 cases of WM terminating in AML (Table 1).2-10 Including our case, five of the 23 cases compiled had not been previously treated for their WM, while the remaining had received alkylating agents for varying periods of time (median 21 months; range 2125). Prednimustine, a combination of the alkylating agent chlorambucil and prednisolone, has never been reported in previous papers describing WM terminating in AML, and it has rarely been reported as producing secondary malignancies.11 Although in those patients who received treatment for their WM, AML secondary to this therapy seems to be the most widely accepted etiological theory; the possible etiology of the non-treated cases remains controversial.1 The first theory postulates that leukemia may have arisen from a differ-


Holographic (3-D) printer (holoprinter) is under development as a peripheral device for 3-D image processing systems. For the automatic printing of distortion-free image, `multidot' recording method is developed. In this paper, the technique for the synthesis of high-quality and gray-level images is presented, and the experimental results are demonstrated. Also the method to record full-color image is introduced.


Ruins serve as a poignant reminder of loss and destruction. Yet, ruins are not always physical, and they are not always best understood through visual language—the sense memory of loss extends for displaced people far beyond crumbling monuments. Exploring the sonic element of loss and displacement is key to understanding the way people relate to the spaces they have to leave. This article explores the particular disjuncture of staging and commemorating Arabness in Tel Aviv, the "Hebrew City." The disjuncture of being Arab in Tel Aviv is apparent to any visitor who walks down the beach promenade, and this article examines the main sites of Arab contestation on the border with Jaffa. Most apparent to a visitor is the Hassan Bek Mosque, the most visible Islamic symbol in Tel Aviv; I describe the process of gaining admission as a non-Muslim, and of discussing the painful and indelible memory of 1948 with worshipers. Delving deeper into the affective staging of ruin, I trace Umm Kulthum's famous concert in Jaffa (officially Palestine at the time), and examine the way her imprint has moved across the troubled urban border of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. A ruins-based analysis of the urban sites of disjuncture in Tel Aviv, therefore, offers a glimpse into underground sonic subcultures that hide in plain sight.


A novel optical correlator that is able to cognize two identical diffuse objects is described. The experiment arrangement is achieved to reverse incoherence to coherence of the diffuse object image by LCTV spatial light modulator. A diffuse object image is input to a joint transform optical correlator with BSO crystal.


Abstract : Hydrodynamic calculations using the HULL code are performed to predict peak airblast overpressure loading on structures. The code uses an Eulerian rectangular mesh. Geometric shapes within the grid are approximated by rectangular islands, where an island is a zone within the mesh for which all four boundaries are reflective. Thus, a ramp would be modeled as a stairway of islands. To demonstrate the validity of this approximation, a calculation was made which compares favorably with experiments. Two other calculations were run to examine the use of nonsquare zoning as a valid approach to structure modeling.


A new analytical method, referred to as "Derivatization-Electron Probe X-ray Microanalysis (Derivatization-XMA)", has been developed to determine the distribution of 0.1 % order functional groups in polymers with μm level lateral resolution. Also, the optimal reaction conditions that make it possible to selectively derivatize the vinyl groups, carboxyl groups, carbonyl groups, hydroxyl groups and epoxy groups have been found. This method first derivatizes the functional groups in a polymer using a reagent with an indicator element highly sensitive to XMA, and moreover, with high selectivity to the functional group, and then measures the distribution of the indicator elemens by XMA, thus obtaining the distribution of the original functional groups. The fundamental performance of XMA in analyzing derivatized polymers has been investigated. The results showed that the detection limit was 0.05 % and the lateral resolution was 3 μm. In addition, the depth profile of the vinyl groups in an aminedegraded polyvinylchloride sheet was analyzed using this method. Since the depth profiles agreed well with those obtained by micro-IR spectroscopy, the reliability of measuring the distribution of functional groups by this method was confirmed. By this method, the sensitivity was 30 times higher, and the lateral resolution was 4 times higher than those obtained by microIR spectroscopy. Actual application to the depth analysis of degraded polymers has proved that this method is useful for the characterization of polymers and the study of polymer degradation.


The ecological footprints of the recent five years(from 1998 to 2002) in Zhengzhou City was calculated and analyzed in this paper. The results show that the general average value of per ecological footprints from 1998 to 2002 of Zhengzhou City is 1.138 0 hm~2 and the actual carrying capacity of ecosystem is 0.422 9 hm~2, so the per ecological deficit is 0.715 1 hm~2.On this basis, we put forward the measures to advance the sustainable development of Zhengzhou city.


We show that the WZW model on the Heisenberg Lie group H4 has Poisson-Lie symmetry only when the dual Lie group is A2 ⊕ 2A1. In this way, we construct the mutual T-dual sigma models on Drinfel'd double generated by the Heisenberg Lie groupH4 and its dual pair, A2⊕2A1, as the target space in such a way that the original model is the same as the H4 WZW model. Furthermore, we show that the dual model is conformal up to two-loop order. Finally, we discuss D-branes and the worldsheet boundary conditions defined by a gluing matrix on the H4 WZW model. Using the duality map obtained from the canonical transformation description of the Poisson-Lie T-duality transformations for the gluing matrix which locally defines the properties of the D-brane, we find two different cases of the gluing matrices for the WZW model based on the Heisenberg Lie group H4 and its dual model. firstname.lastname@example.com Corresponding author: email@example.com


The challenge of adapting to climate change is a daunting one, particularly for developing countries. Climate-driven impacts will likely be substantial while investments in adaptation will be limited by resource constraints and competing demands from other development priorities. In this analysis, we explore whether a real option paradigm that explicitly recognizes uncertainty and maintains future flexibility can provide an investment strategy that developing countries would find beneficial. We use a Monte Carlo model to test the strategy for two coastal cities in developing countries and find that, under certain circumstances, a real option strategy has the potential to reduce the costs of adapting to climate change.


Social amoebae are eukaryotic organisms that inhabit soil of almost every climate zone. They are remarkable for their switch from unicellularity to multicellularity as an adaptation to starvation. When starved, millions of single cells aggregate and form a multicellular fruiting body, which contains reproductive spore cells and dead stalk cells, which help in spore dispersion. This costly behavior made social amoebae a model system for addressing major questions of the evolution of cooperation and multicellularity. In this study we look at three different aspects of social amoebae behavior; aggregation, non-aggregation and competition, and ask how they contribute to our understanding of cooperation in social amoebae and microbial systems in general.We explored the known but neglected observation that, upon starvation, not all cells aggregate and engage in multicellular development. We describe phenotypically and genetically non-aggregating cell proportion in D. discoideum species. Both aggregating and non-aggregating strategy are costly or beneficial depending on duration of starvation. With our computational model we propose that partitioning the population into unicellular and multicellular states is adaptive in fluctuating environments with unpredicted duration of starvation periods. Social amoebae may therefore lie at the intersection of cooperation and bet-hedging. In the second part, we provide a new framework for addressing the contrasting observations of high genetic diversity in natural populations of social amoebae and experimentally suggested low diversity-high relatedness required for cooperation. We propose that complex life cycle of social amoebae provides multiple competition points that can possibly play an important role in maintaining diversity and cooperation. We explore this experimentally and computationally by looking at competition over the whole life cycle between 6 natural isolates of D. discoideum. Our simulation model indicates that competition at different stages of the life cycle can lead to exclusion of "social winners". Though we failed to explain strain coexistence. Although preliminary, our results emphasize the importance of integrating species ecology in cooperative studies.Finally, we focus on a new aggregation dynamics in P. pallidum species observed in our lab. Aggregation is a population level process during which population gets divided into numerous subpopulations/aggregates that face selection independently. Such population partitioning can have strong evolutionary consequences on cooperation that have not yet been explored experimentally. We describe the population dynamics qualitatively and propose several quantitative measurements of population partitioning into aggregates. Our preliminary results suggest that there is a preference for aggregates of certain size, but there is no spatial organization of aggregates.


Subject. This article discusses the importance of leadership attributes at a new stage of economic development.
Objectives. The article aims to investigate the factors influencing gender inequality in governance, and the attributes of transformational leadership of a new type necessary for the development of an innovation-driven economy.
Methods. For the study, I used a comparative analysis and generalization.
Results. The article describes the factors that prevent women from progressing up the career ladder, and finds that Russian society is largely exposed to gender stereotypes with the exception of the younger generation.
Conclusions. The new challenges emphasize the importance of equal access to leadership positions for men and women, when the criteria of professionalism and the availability of competencies necessary to solve urgent problems play a crucial role.


The main years of the life and scientific creativity of I.P. Pavlova. Illuminated little-known facts from the life of a scientist. It is noted that IP Pavlov is one of the most prominent representatives of modern natural science, the creator of the materialistic theory of higher nervous activity of humans and animals, the founder of the largest physiological school of modernity and new approaches and methods of research in physiology. Pavlov I.P, studied many topical problems of physiology and medicine, but his most systematic and thorough research relates to the physiology of the circulatory and digestive systems, as well as the higher parts of the central nervous system: they are rightfully considered classic, which opened new pages in the relevant sections of physiology and medicine. New and valuable were the results of his research also on individual issues of the physiology of the endocrine system, comparative physiology, physiology of labor and pharmacology. Being deeply convinced that "for a natural scientist, everything is in a method," IP Pavlov elaborated and introduced the practice of physiological research into the method of a chronic experiment, based on the need for a multilateral and detailed study of the body's functions in natural conditions, in inseparable communication and interaction with the environment. This method brought the physiology out of the impasse created by a one-sided, analytical method of acute vivisection experiment that prevailed for a long time. Used in the early works of Pavlov on the physiology of blood circulation, the method of chronic experiment was elevated to the rank of a new scientific experimental principle in basic research on the physiology of digestion and then perfected when studying the functions of the higher parts of the central nervous system. Pavlov I.P comprehensively researched and studied the dynamics of the secretory process of the gastric and salivary glands, pancreatic glands, the work of the liver in the use of food of different quality, proved their ability to adapt to the nature of the causative agents of secretion. Created by Pavlov's theory of higher nervous activity is one of the greatest achievements of natural science in the 20th century. It is a system of the most reliable, complete, accurate and deep knowledge of brain functions and is of great practical importance for medicine, psychology, pedagogy, and scientific organization of complex labor processes.


In our previous study, we showed that the peculiar globular cluster (GC) M22 contains two distinct stellar populations, namely the Ca-w and Ca-s groups, which have different physical properties, chemical compositions, spatial distributions, and kinematics. We proposed that M22 was most likely formed via a merger of two GCs with heterogeneous metallicities in a dwarf galaxy environment and then later accreted to our Galaxy. In their recent study, Mucciarelli et al. claimed that M22 is a normal monometallic globular cluster without any perceptible metallicity spread among the two groups of stars, which challenges our results and those of others. We devise new strategies for the local thermodynamic equilibrium abundance analysis of red giant branch stars in GCs and show that there exists a spread in the iron abundance distribution in M22.


And the porosity of the cross-sectional area of the noodles than 15% greater than 0.1%, units porosity of the cross-sectional area of the noodles was 1% or less than 0.01%, 30% -75% gelatinization degree and porosity Noodles having a quality structure is provided.


In order to optimize and standardize the process of breakthrough product design, we find a new design method under the background of focusing on user-centered and innovative product design. In the research process, taking INPD as the main line of research, we study product innovation design under TRIZ theory. In this study, the improved design of fetal heart rate monitor is taken as an example to verify the application of the new design theory. At the Identifying stages of opportunity, we analyze existing product problems based on SET factors, and discover and understand the product design opportunities through the analysis of the needs, preferences and consumption power of the user group. In the conceptual design stage, TRIZ theory is used to deduce and concretize the corresponding invention principles, so as to obtain effective solutions. The application of the new design theory has improved the design of the fetal heartbeat instrument, thus achieving the desired effect. Therefore, it can be demonstrated that the application of TRIZ theory to the conceptualization phase of INPD design research is an innovative approach to product design.


The following dissertation project is a research that integrates regulations, statistics and marketing studies, which aims to determine the feasibility and benefits that exist to export and market Colombian coffee in Australia, taking into account the high perception that consumers have, and the massive and positive influence that Colombian coffee has been demonstrating in recent years to the point of being considered by Australians as a product that due to its high quality, diversity of preparation and mass consumption has become a gourmet drink.
Through statistics, regulatory investigations, marketing studies conducted and the conditions of coffee farmers to export and market coffee, information is obtained and analyzed, thus determining the feasibility of carrying out the import and export process from Colombia to Australia, respectively. the marketing of Coffee in Sydney.


the economy, the ways of restructuring of the corresponding economies are determined. The world practices and tools for solving problems of monoprofilty of cities are studied. The international experience (USA, Japan, Germany, Great Britain and Canada) has been analyzed. It is shown that progress in solving problems of industrial cities depends on strategic partnerships between state, regional and local governments, as well as on their cooperation with business. Foreign experience shows that competently developed and implemented program of diversification of economy of monoprophytic cities gives tangible results, first of all, in improving the quality of life of the population, the development of their incomes, the formation of new spheres of employment. The necessity of introducing the best foreign experience for solving problems of diversification of the economy of Ukrainian cities is proved. The directions of development of diversification of economy on the basis of interaction with city-forming enterprises and on the basis of development of new forms of business are determined. The tools of diversification of the economy of industrial single-city cities are systematized by distributing them to those that influence the development of a particular object and those that stimulate the improvement of the state of the territory as a whole. As one of the possible ways of restructuring, it is proposed to use a cluster approach, through which alternative directions will be more actively developed: construction, tourism, transport, socio-cultural and agro-food.


Modified rice protein has enhanced value of application in food-processing industry.The rice protein was modified by neutral protease to improve the heat coagulability in this paper.The effects of reaction temperature,solid-liquid ratio,reaction time,enzyme amount and pH on hydrolysis of rice protein were considered.Then through the orthogonal experiment,the optimum technological conditions were as follow: temperature 45 ℃,solid-liquid ratio 1∶6,pH 6.0,enzyme amount 20 U/100 g rice protein and reaction time 0.5 h.In this condition,the heat coagulability of rice protein was 51.70% at pH 6.0,49.20% at pH 7.0.


Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that provide a mathematical framework for modelling, studying and predicting the behaviour and response of systems across many different disciplines and domains, ranging from physical and biological to computational and social models. Cell-DEVS is a formalism that provides a discrete event approach to define cellular models with timing delay constructions and using simple definition of complex timing. It has been shown that the application of the Cell-DEVS paradigm produces a significant reduction in the development times of cell-shaped models and a wide variety of complex models has been developed using this approach. In this work we present the definition of complex cellular automata models using the Cell-DEVS paradigm, we use the CD++ tool to obtain executable models and study their behaviour through computer simulation.


It is unknown if there is a disparity in health resource utilization (HRU) among children with epilepsy in a universal health insurance system. The aims of this study were to evaluate whether socioeconomic status (SES) influenced the pattern of HRU among children with epilepsy, and to determine if neurology visits were associated with emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations.


A common tactic to alleviate current gaps is to donate medical equipment to low-resource areas, however, there is a dearth of recorded experience and evaluation. Providing accessible equipment to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a crucial component of the attempts to improve access to neurosurgery in African nations; yet, the necessity of promoting neurosurgical equipment in Africa and the effects of these programs have not yet been assessed. Therefore, our goal was to evaluate the extent, advantages and sustainability of the gift of neurosurgical equipment in Africa. A scoping review covering both scholarly and gray literature was used. Selected databases from the time of inception to September 2022 were searched using a search strategy customized for the study title. All studies that addressed the donation of neurosurgical equipment to Africa were given special attention, along with any factors that increased the likelihood of donations and included, but not limited to, agreements signed during the donation. Finally, participating authors also reviewed articles randomly selected to ensure homogeneity. Donating equipment positively impacts neurosurgical units in LMICs, growing their practices while also enhancing safety, quality and affordability. Collaborations between LMICs and HICs (High Income Countries) also make it more likely that the donated neurosurgical equipment will be used to satisfy recipients' needs. Lastly, to guarantee the most advantage, proper follow-up, consideration of equipment durability, maintenance requirements and increased assistance for repairs should be prioritized.


This study seeks to improve the process control of an ammonia/steam heat exchanger by optimising the existing PID controllers. The exit ammonia temperature of the heat exchanger is maintained by the combination of three PID controllers, an ammonia temperature controller, a pressure controller and a steam pressure controller. Originally, the pressure and temperature controllers were de-tuned to prevent interaction, which results in below optimal control. Due to the hazardous materials and operating conditions, we first develop the mathematical models for the heat exchanger and steam. Then simulations are carried out to develop control schemes. Finally a suitable optimisation schemes that could be applied to the existing control hardware, a 'feed forward' with 'dynamic decoupling' strategy was proposed. The control scheme was then programmed into the DCS and plant trials performed to fine tune the control schemes. The system now does not require any operator intervention after starting as it quickly reaches and maintains setpoint without any nuisance alarms.


Weaning is one of the most widely recognized stressors in animal production. This study aimed to determine the effect of weaning as a stressor on some acute – phase proteins (Haptoglobin, Fibrinogen and ceruloplasmin) response in newly weaned buffaloe calves. Ten newly weaned buffaloe calves of two moths of age, were used in this study. The animals belonged to a private farm in Sharkia Governorate. Blood samples were collected before weaning and 3 & 5 days postweaning for haematological examination and determination of the levels of plasma ceruloplasmin, fibrinogen & cortisol and serum total proteins, albumin and haptoglobin. The obtained results revealed an alteration in the neutrophill : lymphocyte ratio, significant increase in Hp, Fb, CRP and cortisol levels, in postweaning blood samples. Moreover a decrease in serum total protein & albumin, postweaning, was observed. From this study, it can be concluded that, stressors associated with weaning affect the acute phase- protein response in newly weaned calves.