that, a section headed 'Connections between classifications'. As well as looking messy, this means that trying to find the next step in the proccss is somewhat disruptive of the reading process, and hence, possibly, to retention of the information. However, other activities are useful, well-designed and clearly related to the textual information, and there is a recurring insistence that learners try to evaluate the processes they are using as well as setting them in action as a means to an end. For example, Activity 47 (p. 101). 'Working with Scalar Paradigms', provides a place for considering the role of value-judgements and obliges the reader to relate them to specific textual features. Throughout the work, linguistic and literary terminology is kept to a minimum and introduced progressively, at a stage where there is a need for specific terms, which are explained as they arise. In a comparatively short time the student is equipped with systems and a meralanguage suitable for carrying out the required tasks in a clear and specific manner. No one who has worked through this book should come out writing typically vague literary essays where 'language flows' or the text is 'effective'. The whole process is pedagogically very well motivated. Nevertheless, there is one decision which I found puzzling. In the section on sound symbolism (whose activity box appears on p. 120). I disliked the conflation of 'letters' and 'sounds'. English spelling being what i t is, dependence on graphological patterns is untrustworthy in relation to phonetic patterns. In fact, I cannot see that sound symbolism can be discussed in any safe and effective manner without a basic knowledge of the articulatory or acoustic features of sounds. In the main text explanation, the distinction between sounds and spelling is mentioncd and so it seems a pity that the obvious proccdure, of explaining phonetics in a little more detail, was not followed. In my experience, there is a 'felt need' on the part of the students for such information and without it they tend to slip into seeing sound symbolism everywhere! A final criticism relates to that very simplicity of style which I have praised above. I did feel that, by the end of the work, the language had remained a little over-simplistic, perhaps patronisingly so, to anyone who had worked through all the processes involved in this weighty work. I would have liked to see a slightly higher register developed, moving more towards a normative academic usage and away from the predominantly plain-language lexis which characterises the work. But then I am not an undergraduate student trying to cope with all the new concepts and processes needed for modem literary studies.


This project was carried out in the avocado-growing region of the state of Nayarit. The research has its theoretical roots in the concepts of rural regional development, local and territorial development, as well as in the competitiveness of the agricultural food chains. Strategic planning concepts are also applied in this work. Nayarit has the agroecological conditions needed to produce avocados; there are deficiencies in the technical productive aspects, and these can be resolved with the programs suggested here. As far as the producer organization is concerned, they need more information and commitment, as well as a network of evaluation, in order to enable each producer to contribute what they are most efficient at doing. The market exists, it is growing and competitive, and needs to be segmented in order to give direction to marketing strategies. With these actions,


PT. XYZ is a company engaged in oil palm plantations and processing into semi-finished products in the form of Crude Palm Oil (CPO), palm oil processing process that accompanied the development of palm oil production in between can have a negative impact on employee safety. It can be seen from some of the data such accidents such as minor injuries, injuries of moderate to with severe injuries. It is therefore necessary identifying the causes of accidents and analyze the problems to improve and maintain the safety, employee safety and minimize the extent of occupational accidents that may occur during the production by using Job Safety Analysis (JSA). The conclusion that can be drawn based on the calculation of Statistics Accidents at accident data with a look at the numbers work accident frequency (F) and the number of work accidents severity (S) note that Sterilizer station that has the highest accident rate by 7 occupational accidents for four years with a severity of 343 days, while the JSA indicate that the station needed some proposed improvements Sterilizer form of repair machinery or equipment, personal protective equipment and alternative replacement of machinery or equipment that is more secure.


The chemical structures of dienomycins A, B and C were established mainly by the studies of their NMR spectra as follows : A, 4-isobutyroyloxy-3-methyl-2-(4-phenylbutadienyl) piperidine ; B, 4-acetoxy-3-methyl-2-(4-phenylbutadienyl)piperidine ; C, 4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-(4-phenylbutadienyl)piperidine.


Thirty-two soil and root samples from different cultivated plants were collected from two locations in Sao Francisco Valley, Pernambuco, Brazil. Meloidogvne incognita, Tylenchorhynchus phaseoli, Helicotylenchus spp. and Xiphinema sp. were the most frequently encountered of the 12 genera of plant parasites identified. This is considered to be the first report of its kind from this area.


In performing redundancy analyses beyond the first order, the first and last several elements in the data sequence being analyzed are used less frequently than other elements. For example, in a third order analysis of the binary sequence (01100010) the following " trigrams are typically generated: 011, 110, 100, 000, 001, and 010. In these trigrams the eight elements of the original data sequence appear 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 , and 1 times respectively. The information bias engendered by such unequal utilization of data elements is sufficient to yield negative increments in the redundancy estimates from one order to another This has been observed by the author in sequences as large as 300 binary digits in length with less obvious bias effects in longer sequences. This bias due to unequal util1~3t10n of the data elements may be eliminated by the expedient of treating each data sequence as a closed loop or repeating sequence, thus in effect artificially generating several data elements. In the general case, if one is dealing with an original data sequence of length N , and the highest order of analysis is d , the first ( d 1 ) elements of the sequence are duplicated at the end of the sequence. Only, however, the original N elements may serve as the initial digits in generating digrams, trigrams, etc. o r as the single digits for the first order analysis. Thus, for the preceding original eight-digit ( N ) sequence, with the highest order of analysis being the third ( d ) , the sequence is expanded to (AT + d 1 ) = 10 digits. The first element of the sequence is duplicated as the ( N + 1) element, the second element as the ( N + 2 ) element, continuing in kind for higher orders of analysis. The generated trigrams for this example become: 011, 110, 100, 000, 001, 010, 100, and 001, with the last two trigrams (100 and 001) being artificially generated. Similarly, by conventional techniques the following digrams would be generated: 01, 11, 10, 00, 00, 01, and 10, a total of seven digrams. Using the fore-described compensation technique, an eighth digram is added: 00. There are m o results of interest with the use of this procedure. First, for any data sequence of length N, there are exactly N units for the first-order analysis, N digrams for the second analysis, N trigrams for the third-order analysis, etc. Second, within any given order of analysis, each element of the original data sequence is used the same number of times. These effects are particularly important when the analysis involves high orders of analysis and/or relatively short data sequences. In most specific applications the procedure does not appear to constitute a significant confounding in and of itself.


The key technologies of moving targets imaging which is both correcting range migration and detecting moving parameters are researched.Two order of general keystone transform are proposed to correct the effects of range migration.We bring forward to a novel algorithm of detecting parameters of vehicles,which are based on wavelets filters with different vanishing moment.The new algorithm is fit to realize by hardware.In high signal to clutter rate,the result has better resolution than that based on wigner-ville distribution.Two orders of general key-stone transform and Radon transform are used to cut apart data of multiple moving targets.Supper resolution processing can further enhance the imagery resolution of multiple moving targets so that the distance is less than SAR resolution.The method successes in processing the real multiple moving targets' data of single channel SAR in X waveband.


Support Vector Machines (SVM) has been a naval research field in scientific research for forecasting. This study deals with the application of SVM in financial time series predicting. This paper suggests a model of stock market prediction based on SVMs with appropriate parameter values. A data set of daily closing prices of five selected companies such as Alhaj Textiles Limited, Apex Tannery Limited, Jamuna Bank Limited, Padma Oil Company, and Square Pharmaceuticals Limited of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) from 01 January 2017 to 13 August 2019 was selected and uses these data to train the model and checks the predictive power of the model. The obtained results show that all the companies closing stock prices are non-stationary. Also the number of support vectors and mean square error is decreasing pattern with the increase of kernel parameter. It is also found that original data and predicted data are very much identical. The result shows that in all the cases SVM model has some predictive power it can be used to forecast financial time series. Several methods, such as SVM, ARIMA, single exponential smoothing, and double exponential smoothing, were performed to predict Bangladesh's stock market. Amazingly, the outcome shows the most efficient method to be Support Vector Machine because of its lowest forecasting errors.


This article presents a process to calibrate a condensation particle counter (CPC) over the concentration range from 1 particle·cm−3 to 104 particles·cm−3 with traceability to SI units as realized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The process combines two independent steps: a proportionality assessment over the range of the CPC using a consistent diluter and an absolute calibration of the CPC with an aerosol electrometer (AE) at high concentrations. The proportionality assessment, which is the focus of the article, is analogous to the attenuation method for testing the proportionality of high-power laser detectors. This procedure tests the proportionality of one CPC by itself and does not require the use of a calibrated reference CPC. The primary calibration of the CPC with the AE at high concentrations allows for an absolute calibration with NIST traceability, resulting in a simple one-parameter correction to the measured CPC data. The proportionality test enables uncertainties to be assigned to the CPC over an extended range of concentration beyond the lower detection limit of the AE, thereby establishing measurement traceability for low concentrations. The relative expanded uncertainty of the CPC with a coverage factor of k = 2 is 2.8% over the range of about 1 particle·cm−3 to 104 particles·cm−3.


Background: Background: Haplo-cord transplantation means that umbilical cord blood grafts from unrelated donors are infused together with CD34 + -selected cells selected from Haploidentical relatives, which avoids the delayed implantation and long initial hospital stay caused by umbilical cord blood transplantation, and provides an effective alternative for patients without suitable donors. Some studies showed that haplo-cord transplantation could lead to faster neutrophil recovery and lower incidence of chronic GVHD compared with haplo transplantation. In order to make full use of the advantages of easy access to grafts and possibly reducing the incidence of chronic GVHD, we have adopted haplo-cord program to some children lacking suitable donors, and reported the outcome of haplo-cord transplantation, comparing Virus reactivation ,the incidence rate of acute and chronic GVHD, and 3-year overall survival rate with haplo-SCT. Aims: Aims: To compare the outcome of haplo-cord transplantation program with haplo transplantation. Methods: Methods: 35 children with Haplo-cord transplantation and 14 children with Haplo-SCT in our hospital were followed up between May 2017 and May 2021, the engraftment, immune reconstitution,Virus reactivation, incidence of GVHD and 3-year overall survival rate were observed. Results: Results: The median time of neutrophil recovery in both groups was 13 days, and the cumulative recovery rate of neutrophils on the 30th day was 100%. By day 15,85.7% of the haplo-cord recipients had recovered neutrophil counts vs 92.7% of haplo recipients (P= 0.8). The median time of platelet recovery in both groups was 17 days, and no primary graft failure was observed in all patients. Secondary graft failure documented in 5 haplo-cord recipients and 2 haplo recipients. 17 patients developed CMV-DNAemia in haplo-cord transplant and 9 in haplo patients. 31 cases had EB-DNAemia in haplo-cord vs 10 in haplo patients.By day 100, the cumulative incidence of acute GVHD in Haplo-cord patients was 25.7% vs 28.5% in haplo patients (P=1), and the cumulative incidence of grade 3-4 acute GVHD by day 100 was 11.4% vs 21.4% respectively (P = 0.65). There were no acute GVHD related deaths. Chronic GVHD was significantly reduced in haplo-cord with a cumulative incidence of 5.7% vs 28.6% in haplo patients by 1 year (P =0.04), but no extensive chronic GVHD was observed. The 3-year overall survival rate was 84.5% in haplo-cord transplant vs 74.3% in haplo transplant(P=0.98). GVHD Human leukocyte


This essay explores the evolution of a specific American family farm in rural Iowa, from 1853 through present. It describes macrolevel economic, structural, and political events during this period and their microlevel effects on the Kardel family farm. Historical sources and interviews with family farm members are used to trace how this working, multigenerational family farm navigated and adapted to national and international events affecting Midwestern U.S. family farming. In so doing, it sheds light on wider trends in agricultural evolution and on factors influencing the prospects for continued survival of U.S. family farming.


The main challenges for PMOS ultra shallow junction formation remain the transient enhanced diffusion (TED) and the solid solubility limit of boron in silicon. It has been demonstrated that low energy boron implantation and spike annealing are key in meeting the 90 nm technology node ITRS requirements. To meet the 65 nm technology requirements many studies have used Fluorine co-implantation with boron and Si + or Ge + pre-amorphization (PAI) and spike annealing. The Fluorine has been shown to reduce TED but its energy needs to be well optimized with respect to the Boron implant energy. In this work we demonstrate that the fluorine dose need also to be carefully optimized otherwise a reverse effect can be observed. We will also show that the fluorine energy needs to be optimized with respect to boron energy and the final junction depends less on the Ge + preamorprhization energies between 2keV and 20 keV. Finally we will show that if an HF etch is implemented after Ge + PAI, improvements in both the junction depth


Introduction: The safety and effectiveness of gliclazide modified release (MR) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who fasted during Ramadan were previously published. Here, we carried out a regional analysis among patients living in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Patients and Methods: DIA-RAMADAN was a real-world, observational, international, noncomparative study conducted in nine countries that included >1200 T2DM adults receiving gliclazide MR for at least 90 days before inclusion. The study comprised 2 visits: at inclusion, 6–8 weeks before the start of Ramadan (V0) and 4–6 weeks after the end of Ramadan (V1). The primary endpoint was the proportion of patients reporting ≥1 symptomatic hypoglycemic event as collected using a patient diary. Changes in HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), and weight were also analyzed. This manuscript represents data collected in GCC countries (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates). Results: Data from 161 patients were analyzed: mean (SD) age 56.8 (10.6) years, 30.4% women, body mass index 29.1 (3.7) kg/m2, T2DM disease duration 6.7 (3.3) years, baseline HbA1c 7.9% (0.8). The proportions of patients reporting ≥1 symptomatic hypoglycemic event or confirmed hypoglycemia during Ramadan were 4.3% and 0.6%, respectively. No cases of severe hypoglycemia were reported. Significant reductions in main variables were observed before the start of Ramadan (V0) and 4–6 weeks after the end of Ramadan (V1): HbA1c (from 7.9 [0.8] to 7.6 [0.7]%; p value <0.001), FPG (from 143.5 [24.3] to 137.9 [25.2] mg/dL; p value = 0.031), and weight (from 79.0 [73.0–86.0] to 78.0 [72.0–85.0] kg; p value = 0.018). Conclusions: These real-world data indicate that patients with T2DM treated with gliclazide MR during Ramadan in the selected GCC countries have a low risk of hypoglycemia and maintain glycemic control and weight while fasting.


hyangwan(incense burner) Horyu-ji for a long time, it was donated to the Tokyo National Museum and now it is on display at the gallery of Horyu-ji only the lower part of hyangwan was left, however the remaining inscriptions allow you to find out what was made in 1178. The silver inlaid pattern and the size are evaluated as the highest quality works comparable to the Pyochungsa hyangwan. According to inscriptions, this hyangwan was made of bronze and was enshrined in great hall of Geumsansa( 金山寺 大殿 ) for Maitreya. Gojeong who was maker is believed to have been a very talented inlaid craftsman. In addition, what the incumbent bureaucrats of the Gaegyeong and the former subordinate bureaucrats as a patrons participated in the buddhist activity shows an aspect of local buddhist activity. It Kibisa the mere-ideation order which is closely related to Geumsansa temple. litch design stylistic Goryeo the the of inscriptions.


Optimal control methods present an efficient approach to construct controls of robotic manipulators. Much recent research has been devoted to different problems of optimal control for industrial robots. In this paper we give a brief survey of work done in this field and present some new results on optimization of robotic motions. Manipulation robots governed by electromechanical drives are considered. We obtain open-loop and feedback time-optimal controls for robotic motions using both analytical and numerical methods. The results show that optimal controls can lead to a considerable improvement in the time taken for transport operations performed by robots.


This paper addresses the traditional Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny (LSV) herding measure and points out its lack of internal consistency. Frey, Herbst and Walter (2007) have shown by empirical simulations that LSV is biased, so the LSV herding measure should be corrected or modified to some extent. A more appropriate measure of herding using corrected adjustment factor has been proposed here. As corrected measure requires a prior knowledge of some parameters of the distribution, it is concluded that testing the corrected LSV herding measure is a much more difficult task than considered so far.


S oil field is a typical of water injection development of heavy oil reservoir in
Bohai, and the formation of crude oil viscosity is 42 - 284 mPa⋅s. Due to the
formation of crude oil viscosity, the oil field development gradually faces a
series of problems as rapid rise of water cut, rapid decline of output, high water
cut of oil wells and others. In order to improve the effect of oilfield development,
it is necessary to increase the output of the oilfield by adjusting wells
for the potential in the oilfield. However, due to the high cost of drilling, operation
and testing of offshore oilfields, offshore oilfields require more elaborate
description of residual oil and adjustment wells. With the continuous
downturn in international oil prices and the lack of new testing data in old
oilfields, it is urgent to re-use the existing data in oilfields through innovative
methods to achieve a detailed description of the remaining oil in the oilfields
and improve the precision research of indexing wells and ensure the reliable
implementation of adjustment wells. Based on the existing dynamic data of S
oilfield, this paper proposes a new method to quantitatively evaluate water
flooding coefficient by using tracer theory to establish tracer data, and quantitatively
evaluates the vicinity of the fault by means of image reflection and
potential superposition and find the residual oil in the imperfect area of the
well network, combined with the numerical simulation method to realize the
fine description of remaining oil and improve the research precision of the
adjustment well. Through the research in this paper, S oilfield has proposed
to location of six adjustment wells which has implemented two. The production
confirmed that the method of this paper has some reliability, while the
method of heavy oil in the high water cut stage of residual oil fine description.
The research of enhanced oil recovery in the stage has certain guiding significance
for heavy oil reservoirs.


Named Entity Recognition is an important subject of Natural Language Processing and is used to classify proper nouns into different types such as person, location and organization names in addition to formula, date and money definitions. Rule Based Named Entity Recognition means defining rules to classify named entities in a text through using lexical resources and creating patterns. This study focuses on classification of proper nouns into three types including person, location and organization names regardless of the subject of text.


What is religious freedom and how does the government guarantee it? These are the questions with which the United States Supreme Court has struggled throughout its history of attempting to interpret the two religion clauses of the First Amendment. No one seems happy with the results.' To be fair to the Court, the words of the religion clauses are "at best opaque." 2 The two clauses alternately prohibit the government from making a "law respecting an establishment of religion" and require that it not "prohibit[ ] the free exercise thereof."3 These two guarantees create an inevitable tension.4 Often, what one clause appears to require, the other prohibits.5 Without a clear and justifiable definition of religious freedom to guide interpretation, the Court's efforts to ensure the "preeminent goal of the First Amendment,"6 government neutrality toward religion, will remain muddled.7 Feminist legal theory does not speak directly to the issue of religious freedom. It is, however, deeply concerned with defining and achieving gender freedom. The feminist experience of striving toward gender freedom informs efforts to define other types of freedom as well. Increasingly, the use of


ABSTRACT There are numerous archaeological sites in Iran in various conditions and sizes that so far have no clear plan for their conservation and management. One of those sites is Tepe Hissar (Fortification Hill). This article aims to describe the notion and process of formulating a conservation and management plan for this site and also the implementation of a few results of the plan in recent years. In the first stage, the location and landscape of the site and its archaeological background will be explained. The second stage establishes the significance and analyses the site by applying a SWOT matrix. In the third stage or response, the study describes the approach to achieving an appropriate plan of conservation and management for the site.


Objective:To study the effects of five sesquiterpenes including dehydrocostus lactone(1),santamarine (2),β-cyclocostunolide(3),4α-hydroxy-4β-methyldihydrocostol(4),and 10α-hydroxyl-artemisinic acid(5)from Common Aucklandia Root on inhibited proliferation of five cultured cancer cells in vitro.Methods:MTT was used to observe the effects of inhibiting proliferation of human stomach cancer cells MGC-803,human pharyngeal cancer cells KB,human liver cancer cells HepG-2,human lung cancer cells NCI-H460,and human colon cancer cells HT-29 cultured in vitro for72 h.Results:It was found that compounds 1-3 showed obvious effects on inhibited proliferation of human stomach cancer cells MGC-803,human pharyngeal cancer cells KB,human lung cancer cells NCI-H460,and human colon cancer cells HT-29 cultured for 72 h(IC5010.0 mg/ml),and had weak effects on inhibiting proliferation of human liver cancer cells HepG-2 cultured for 72 h(IC50=16.3,48.7,and 16.1 mg/ml,respectively).However,compounds 4 and 5 showed no effects on inhibiting proliferation of the five kinds of cancer cell lines cultured for 72 h(IC50100.0 mg/ml).Conclusion:Five-membered lactone ring may be one of the essential parts of sesquiterpenes from A.lappa for inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells.


This study was carried out to investigate the packaging status of the Agaricus bisporus mushrooms and the benefits of storing them after precooling to improve their distribution system using small packages. The packaging status of the Agaricus bisporus mushrooms was surveyed at a farm, a department store, a wholesale market, and a supermarket from May to September 2011. The packaging materials that were used were PS, carton, PP, LDPE, PLA, and PVC. The harvested Agaricus bisporus mushrooms were precooled at 4℃ for three hours and were then stored at 20℃ for three days. The weight loss rate of the precooled sample was slightly lower than that of the unprecooled sample; conversely, the L value of the precooled sample was higher than that of the unprecooled sample. The △E value was lowest in the precooled sample after packaging. The precooling process effectively prolonged the shelf life and enhanced the quality of the Agaricus bisporus mushrooms.


Using first-principles density-functional theory calculations, we obtain the non-coplanar nodal loop for a single-component molecular conductor [Pd(dddt)2] consisting of HOMO and LUMO with differen...


This thesis is an investigation into live stand-up comedy performance, producing a phenomenological methodology for its examination. The introduction starts with a justification for the project, detailing the development of stand-up comedy, in recent years, both as a research area and as a taught undergraduate subject, mainly in the Performing Arts, comparing this with the limitations of extant literature. Specifically, it is argued, that current literature often identifies performance as being important to stand-up comedy yet has serious limitations, and omission, these being critical, theoretical and methodological. The research goal of this thesis is to address these problems, and provide a coherent methodology for analysing live stand-up comedy. It is argued that phenomenology provides a key to such a methodology, with its focus on inter-subjectivity, the body, and other areas, that are crucial to understanding the performance of live stand-up comedy.
The phenomenological method values human experience, and the subjective personal narrative. Accordingly Chapter One examines over 200 interviews, and questionnaire responses from stand-up comedians and stand-up comedy audience members. It is shown that the experiences that are described overwhelmingly focus on issues relating to performance. Chapter Two develops a basic model of live stand-up comedy based in performance theory. Chapter Three analyses humour and laughter theory, placing the analysis of humour and laughter in phenomenological and performance paradigms. Chapter Four, drawing from the previous three chapters, identifies key concepts that inform, and define, a phenomenology of stand-up comedy performance, offering a methodology for analysing live stand-up comedy, based in post-performance writing and a performance questionnaire. This is then practically employed, and critically reflected upon, with reference to a number of visits to comedy clubs and live stand-up comedy performance. The conclusion assesses the strengths, and weaknesses, of the project, the possibilities for future research, and argues for a need for a multi-disciplinary Humour research centre.


Using a UV acrylate monomer and a method, which allows the modified porous polymeric material, without the use of a free radical initiator, and the method was modified to give the material described. The modified polymeric material has a filtering characteristic such as a new advantageous wettability and flow characteristics.


The invention discloses a cotton fabric ferric chloride cooling front medium and mulberry cold dyeing process, which comprises the following steps: (1) firstly, performing ferric chloride front medium cooling treatment on a degummed and bleached cotton fabric by a ferric chloride solution under room temperature; (2) then, directly performing mulberry dyeing on the degummed and bleached cotton fabric treated in step (1) by a mulberry dye liquor under room temperature; (3) finally, performing a posttreatment process of drying, water washing and then drying on the degummed and bleached cotton fabric treated in step (2), thus ending the whole process. One drying process is added in front of a water washing process in the specific posttreatment process, namely the cotton fabric ferric chloride front medium and mulberry dyeing, so that the dyeing and wet dyeing color fastness of the cotton fabric is improved, more energy is saved and operation is easy.


This equipment can be used to investigate the structure of shallow layers, ten to several hundred meters below surface. By stacking the wave signals in processing the data, it has been possible to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.Bight-bit monolithic large scale integrated circuit A/D coverter is employed. Speeds of sampling are 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 per second respectively. The storage capacity of this equipment is 1024×8 bits. By means of delay circuits it is possible to increase the efficacy of storage.Analog and digital codes are used in recording wave signals. This seismic outfit has high portability, low power consumption, wide dynamic range and high time accuracy etc. Satisfactory results have been obtained in the field.


In 1942, popular band leader Glenn Miller convinced the Army to accept him and put him in charge of a band that could entertain the troops. After D-Day, Miller's American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in London and played concerts for troops across Europe until Miller's disappearance over the English Channel in December 1944. One U.S. general said that "next to a letter from home, that organization [the AEF band] was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations."


is well known to sociologists and public health professionals that infant mortality rates among people of colour in some parts of the US are similar to those in developing countries. Based on the author's involvement over many years with the Syracuse Healthy Start program, the book provides a thorough examination of factors that contribute to high rates of infant mortality and negative birth outcomes among young women of colour. Using the conceptual framework of structural violence theory, Lane provides overwhelming evidence of the role of socio-economic risk factors as predictors of infant mortality. In examining the role of factors associated with negative birth outcomes and infant mortality among women of colour, as opposed to that of personal responsibility, the author leans heavily on social and environmental factors to explain disparities in these public health indicators. This detailed case study of the Syracuse inner-city population underscores the role of socio-economic risk factors as generalizable determinants of infant mortality throughout the country and, in some respects, globally as well. The book also provides an example of the unintended and often undesirable effects of social and environmental restructuring programs such as urban renewal. Lane uses the ecosystem approach to illustrate the impact of a host of social and environmental conditions on the health and well-being of affected communities at large and on specific healthBook Review Why Are Our Babies Dying? Pregnancy, Birth and Death in America


College brand-building refers to the sum total including the name and symbol of a college, the service it tries to provide for the education consumers, and all factors for educating these consumesrs (such as teaching staff, school culture and teaching facility). Currently,colleges in China do not have strong consciousness of brand building, and this directly affects their upgrading and development. It is the inner appeal of brand-building strategy among colleges and a certain choice for thier development to provide education product and service of good quality, to cultivate various factors for education consumers, and to strive for more schooling resources available.


Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease of the connective tissue, which presents diverse clinical and serological manifestations. Although its cause is unknown, is know that SLE is a multifactorial disease, in which patients have a deficiency in the repair of double strand breaks in DNA (DSBs), caused by both endogenous and exogenous agents. The gene STK17A (Serine / Threonine kinase 17A) may be involved in the onset of the disease since it encodes a protein which participates in the repair of DSBs and apoptosis. Deficiency in this process can induce the production of anti-ds DNA and consequent deposition of immune complexes, leading to inflammation in tissues. This study was investigated the association of five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in gene STK17A with the susceptibility to SLE and the clinical manifestations of the disease. The study group consisted of 143 SLE patients and 177 healthy individuals as control group. Genotyping was performed by the methodology of real-time PCR ABI7500HT (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) using Taqman SNP Genotyping Assay Probe. The allelic and genotypic frequencies were calculated using the program Genotyper Transposer and evaluated for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Statistical analyzes were performed by Fisher's exact test, along with the program R, version 2.1.1 to assess the association between the tested SNPs and disease susceptibility. The haplotype distribution was analyzed using the program SNPstat. The evaluation of the association of alleles and genotypes of the SNPs with the clinical and serological manifestations of the disease was performed using EpiInfo (version 3.5.2) and Fisher's exact test. To adjust the p-values for multiple testing, was applied a Bonferroni correction. Significant difference was observed when comparing patients and controls after stratification for sex: genotype A/A SNP rs10259269 was more frequent in controls (7.6%) than in patients (0.7%) providing protection against the development of SLE in females (OR = 0.09, p = 0.01). When we analyzed the distribution of haplotypes, significant association was found in SLE patients between two haplotypes: TGGTT and TAGTC (OR = 0.54, p = 0.01 and OR = 0.25, p = 9.04e-08, respectively) with protective effect against disease development. Interestingly, after stratification by ethnicity (European descent) and sex (female) the haplotype TAGTC conferred protection again to SLE (OR = 0.25, p = 2.30e-06 and OR = 0.41, p = 0.01, respectively). A significant association was observed between the genotype A/G SNP rs7802995 with cutaneous manifestation in SLE patients (OR = 3.44, p = 0.004). Finally, after stratification of patients for ethnicity, was found a significant association with serological manifestation anti-ds DNA in the protection of African descent (OR = 0.11, p = 0.009). There was no association between sex and clinical / laboratory manifestation. In conclusion, the STK17A gene polymorphisms may be involved with the development of SLE, however, other studies of replicates evaluating functional effect of these SNPs in the expression and/or activity of protein are needed to confirm its role in susceptibility / protection disease.


The assessment of importance of determination of some regulatory autoantibodies in the genesis of gestosis rise has been carried out of women with severe gestosis in anamnesis, of pregnant women with first developed gestosis before gestosis clinical manifestation. The changes in serum content of regulatory autoantibodies which have been diagnosed of women at 16-19 weeks of pregnancy must be the preclinical signs of gestosis development and they testify to participation of immunologic mechanisms in pathogenesis of gestosis.


(1961). Husband-Wife Interaction in Decision Making and Decision Choices. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 255-262.


ABSTRACT While drug dealing organized as drop-off delivery services is not a new phenomenon, research indicates that it is on the rise. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction recently described how the European cocaine market is undergoing a process of '[u]bernisation', where more sellers promote additional services beyond the product itself, such as 'fast delivery anywhere at any time'. Based on the assumption that developments in retail-level drug distribution are fuelled by supply-side as well as demand-side processes, this paper reports key findings from a qualitative study in Denmark exploring user motivations for purchasing drugs from drop-off delivery dealers.


Abstract Brittle-lacquer and strain-gauge methods and a finite-element analysis are used to determine stress distributions in a simplified model and an actual centrifugal fan impeller.


A display with the adjustable posture comprises sliding rails, a display body, telescopic arms, supporting arms, first motors, second motors and third motors. The first end of the display body is controlled by the first motors to be arranged on the sliding rails in a sliding manner. The telescopic arms and the supporting arms are located on the back face of the display body. The first ends of the telescopic arms are rotationally hinged to the second motors. The second motors are used for controlling stretching and contracting of the telescopic arms. The third motors are arranged on the back face of the second end of the display body and are rotationally connected with the first ends of the supporting arms. The second ends of the telescopic arms are rotationally connected with the second ends of the supporting arms. The third motors are used for controlling rotation of the supporting arms so as to change the included angle between the supporting arms and the display body. According to the display with the adjustable posture, the posture of the display body can be adjusted according to the situation of a user, and the watching comfort degree of the user is improved.


A multi path optical isolated voltage transmitter is reported. Using common optical coupler, input and output terminals are isolated and linearly coupled in a relative wide range, and it is also compensated in temperature.


Control of thermoregulation of the human body is one of the most important and informative diagnostic indicators. Therefore, measuring body temperature is a way to obtain objective health data. The body temperature of an adult is maintained at a constant level and this is a distinctive feature of homeothermic (warm-blooded) organisms. A newborn baby, even a healthy full-term baby, in the first week of life, is poikilothermic, i.e. its temperature depends on the ambient temperature. The normal level of axillary temperature in a newborn is 36.5-37.5 °C (WHO, 1997). In order to maintain this thermal range, it is necessary to create a thermo-neutral environment when oxygen consumption and energy expenditure are minimal to maintain vital activity while maintaining normal body temperature. The temperature balance in the human body is regulated by the processes of heat production and heat transfer, the balance of which is controlled by the hypothalamus. In newborns, the hypothalamic system is immature. Thus, maintaining a normal body temperature for newborns is vital. In addition, the impossibility of ensuring thermal comfort and thermal protection can eliminate the effectiveness of any high-tech treatment methods. Therefore, thermometers that are reliable in design and accurate in measurement are needed. This article describes a thermal imager for the neonatal intensive care unit based on a pyrometer. This work is part of the work devoted to the modernization and development of medical equipment for newborns based on Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant named after E.S. Yalamov production.


Individuals often interact with each other through observation — they observe the choices of other people who possess private information. In empirical models of social interactions, it is typically assumed that decision makers are Bayesian rational, therefore their beliefs are identified by the empirical distribution of other agents' decisions. In this study, I assess the validity of the rational expectations assumption in a social interaction experiment. I use a simple and transparent experimental setting to show that decision makers often fail to exhibit rational expectations in social interactions and this behavior is independent of commonly documented errors in statistical reasoning: subjects exhibit a higher level of irrationality in the presence than in the absence of social interaction, even when they receive informationally equivalent signals across the two conditions. A series of treatments aimed at identifying mechanisms suggests that a decision maker is often uncertain about the behavior of other people. So, she might have difficulty in inferring the information contained in others' choices. A general decision-making process is then non-parametrically estimated and sheds light on the identification of three types of error in subjects' behavior. Keywords— Rational expectation, Social interaction, Decision-making error JEL Codes: C91, C92, D01, D81, D83 Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, ON, Canada, email@example.com. This research has been approved by the University of Toronto Research Ethics Board under Human Participant Ethics Protocol #36847. Financial Support from the BEAR center (Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman) is gratefully acknowledged. I am grateful to Ryan Webb for supervising this project. I would like to thank Yoram Halevy, Tanjim Hossain, David Soberman, Sandro Ambuehl, Guillaume Fréchette, Ben Greiner, Deborah Small, and participants of the Marketing Brown Bag at Rotman and BEAR Summer Research Retreat for helpful feedback. Johannes Hoelzemann and Pavandeep Singh kindly helped with the logistics of the experiment. 1 ar X iv :2 10 5. 01 04 3v 2 [ ec on .G N ] 1 3 Ju n 20 21


A low-complexity 2-D FIR trapezoidal filter is proposed for enhancing broadband plane waves. Motivated by the design technique of 1-D interpolated FIR filters, the proposed filter is realized by cascading a low-complexity spatiallyupsampled 2-D FIR filter having a trapezoidal passband and a low-complexity 2-D FIR masking filter having a parallelogram passband. Experimental results confirm that the proposed filter provides 74% reduction of the computational-complexity compared to conventional 2-D FIR fan and conventional 2-D FIR trapezoidal filters without deteriorating the performance in enhancing 2-D broadband plane waves distorted by strong interference and noise signals.


This paper examines an instinctive tendency in many Baptist communities to resist non-verbal forms of communication, both in their approach to public worship and in their practice of mission. It suggests that, without compromise to their roots, Baptists today could greatly benefit from embracing 'the arts' in general, and the 'non-verbal arts' in particular, as authentic tools for theological reflection and effective proclamation of the Christian gospel. Greater use of creative imagination and non-verbal communication, thereby engaging the entire range of human senses, could also enable Baptist communities better to fulfil their historic emphasis on discerning and responding to the mind of Christ. The paper develops its argument in conversation with a variety of voices from the wider church.


Our own research, however, has revealed some startling facts about the practical effects of Operation Intercept. Small-time operators were replaced by the more professional and organized smugglers. Improved technology (the use of boats and planes) rapidly took over, thereby circumventing the border patrol with these more sophisticated practices. The quantity of marijuana entering the country was hardly affected in the short run by this government practice, while in the long run the supply was made more secure.


Objective To explore the effect of testosterone on male rats with glucocorticoid-induceed osteoporosis. Methods Thirty three-month-old Sprague Dawley male rats were randomly divided into three groups: normal group (group A), prednisone group (group B) and testosterone group (groud C). Group A were given with normal saline (4 mg·kg-1·d-1), group B were given with prednisone(4 mg·kg-1·d-1), group C were given with testosterone (0.2 mg·kg-1·d-1) +prednisone (4 mg·kg-1·d-1). After 90 days, all rats were killed; proximal tibia and abdominal vertebra were processed undecalcified sections and measured by automatic image-analysis system for bone histomorphometry. Results In the proximal tibia, compared with the rats in prednisone group, the %Tb. Ar of testosterone group increased 108%(P0.05), Tb. N increased 96%(P0.05), Tb. Sp decreased 60%, BFR / TV increased 172%(P0.05), Oc. N decreased 40.7%(P0.05); In the abdominal vertebra, compared with the rats in prednisone group, % Tb. Ar of testosterone group increased 52.4%(P0.05), Tb. Th increased 42%(P0.05),Tb.Sp decreased 20%(P0.05). Conclusion testosterone could prevent the trabecular bone loss, and maintain the cortical bone's normal structure.


Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor‐1 alpha (HNF‐1 alpha) and HNF‐1 beta are homeodomain‐containing transcription factors which interact with the GTTAATNATTAAC motif essential to the function of more than 15 promoters selectively expressed in the liver. These homeoproteins can form homo‐ and heterodimers in solution and share identical DNA‐binding domains but have different transcriptional activation properties. During retinoic acid (RA) induced differentiation of F9 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells, which stimulates aspects of pre‐implantation embryogenesis, both HNF‐1 beta mRNA and immunoreactive DNA‐binding activity are strongly induced approximately 24 h post RA‐treatment. In contrast, HNF‐1 alpha mRNA increases approximately 4‐fold after 5 days, concomitant with elevation of HNF‐1 alpha DNA‐binding activity and expression of the HNF‐1 target gene alpha‐fetoprotein. These results indicate that HNF‐1 alpha and −1 beta expression can be controlled by regulatory hierarchies downstream of primary RA‐response genes, and suggest that independent regulatory mechanisms for these factors can confer distinct and interactive developmental functions.


The development of a control solution almost always involves the initial synthesis of a simplified control law based on consideration of an idealised linear formulation. The control law is then augmented in order to address practical implementation issues neglected during the previous stage. The performance achieved by a controller often depends extremely strongly on the extent to which the implementation issues are resolved. Moreover, owing to the continuing pressure for the development of high performance control systems coupled with the trend towards operating closer to the physical constraints on the system, these implementation issues are likely to become of even greater importance. In this paper, strategies for adequately resolving some common implementation issues are considered. Since the implementation issues encountered in wind turbine regulation have many features in common with those encountered in a broad range of applications, including the aerospace field, in order to be specific the strategies are discussed with reference to wind turbine regulation. The implementation issues considered include the compensation of the highly nonlinear aerodynamics, minimising transients during changes in the mode of controller operation and accommodation of the hard limits on actuator accelerations (or torques) and velocities.


In this study, the anti-corrosion performance of phosphated and zirconium treated mild steel (ZTMS) with and without organic coating was evaluated using AC and DC electrochemical techniques. The topography and morphology of the zirconium treated samples were studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) respectively. The results revealed that the anti-corrosion performance of the phosphate layer was superior to the zirconium conversion layer without an organic coating due to very low thickness and porous nature of the ZTMS. Additionally, the corrosion behavior of the organic coated substrates was substantially different. It was found that the corrosion protection performance of the phosphate steel and ZTMS with an organic coating is in the same order.


The main purpose of this paper is to improve the result of Cazenave and Lions in [CL] by proving the same a priori bound for p 3 then we are able to prove our result also by another method which does not use the property of maximal regularity. Consequently, the second method can be generalized also to problems where the maximal regularity is not known (or does not hold). The a priori bounds that we study seem to play a crucial role in several applications. Let us mention two of them. The first one is concerned with the study of blow-up rates of solutions of some classes of parabolic problems; in this context, the exponent pCL appears in [GK], [FM], [M], for example. The second application consists in the dynamical proof of existence of sign changing stationary solutions (see [Q2]).


Recently, IoT, 5G mobile, big data, and artificial intelligence are increasingly used in the real world. These technologies are based on convergenced in Cyber Physical System(Cps). Cps technology requires core technologies to ensure reliability, real-time, safety, autonomy, and security. CPS is the system that can connect between cyberspace and physical space. Cyberspace attacks are confused in the real world and have a lot of damage. The personal information that dealing in CPS has high confidentiality, so the policies and technique will needed to protect the attack in advance. If there is an attack on the CPS, not only personal information but also national confidential data can be leaked. In order to prevent this, the risk is measured using the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) Model, which can measure risk by element for situational awareness in CPS environment. To reduce risk by preventing attacks in CPS, this paper measures risk after using the concept of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design(CPTED).


New or so far poorly known neoselachians from the Cenomanian and Turonian of SW France are described. The material studied herein comes from nine localities in the Charentes region, comprising palaeoenvironments ranging from coastal to open marine environments, and consists of two orectolobiforms, six lamniforms, and four rajiforms. The new taxa are Squalicorax coquandi sp. nov. and Roulletia bureaui gen. et sp. nov. within lamniforms, and Hamrabatis bernardezi sp. nov., Archingeayia sistaci gen. et sp. nov., and Engolismaia couillardi gen. et sp. nov. within rajiforms. New specimens of Odontaspis rochebrunei Sauvage, 1880 from the type area allow redescription of this taxon, assigned herein to the ge− nus Cenocarcharias. Occurrences of Squalicorax baharijensis, S. cf. intermedius, and Archaeolamna sp., previously un− recorded from this region, and Almascyllium, a genus generally described from younger strata, are also noted, and im− prove knowledge of mid−Cretaceous selachian faunas from Western Europe.


ICU - acquired weakness ( ICU - AW ) has drawn greater attention due to its increased incidence as a re-sult of the recent increase in survival of critically ill patients. Early mobilization and nutrition have been suggested to prevent ICU - AW. We introduced a multi - disciplinary team to promote early mobilization and nutrition. Mobilization is started early according to the maximum tolerable physical load for each pa-tient. Nutrition is administered to fulfill a predefined target for both energy and protein in the early phase for each patient. According to our retrospective investigation, patients with early sufficient provision of protein are more likely to preserve muscle mass. Future studies to elucidate the optimal timing and meth-ods to implement mobilization and nutrition for ICU - AW prophylaxis are needed . ICU‐AW, Early therapy, Protein nutrition, Early physiotherapy, Multi-disciplinary approach


We measured isofield magnetization curves as a function of temperature in two single crystal of deoxygenated YBaCuO with T_c = 52 and 41.5 K. Isofield MvsT were obtained for fields running from 0.05 to 4 kOe. The reversible region of the magnetization curves was analyzed in terms of a scaling proposed by Prange, but searching for the best exponent $\upsilon$. The scaling analysis carried out for each data sample set with $\upsilon$=0.669, which corresponds to the 3D-xy exponent, did not produced a collapsing of curves when applied to MvsT curves data obtained for the lowest fields. The resulting analysis for the Y123 crystal with T_c = 41.5 K, shows that lower field curves collapse over the entire reversible region following the Prange's scaling with $\upsilon$=1, suggesting a two-dimensional behavior. It is shown that the same data obeying the Prange's scaling with $\upsilon$=1 for crystal with T_c = 41.5 K, as well low field data for crystal with $T_c$ = 52 K, obey the known two-dimensional scaling law obtained in the lowest-Landau-level approximation.


FATTY tumours of the pharynx, larynx and the upper air and food passages in general are .very uncommon, and are probably one of the rarest forms of benign tumour found in this region. The discovery of two such cases in practice therefore seemed to warrant a review of the condition and of previous reports on the subject. In the two cases to be described below the tumours involved the tonsil and the post-cricoid region respectively.


Two different solutions for vector phase control for AC motors have been implemented, tested, and compared. One of these uses a 16 b microprocessor (80286), with a coprocessor, working at a 33 MHz clock rate. The number of floating point operations to be performed in the computation of the equations involved in vector phase control required the use of a coprocessor in order to unload the task of the CPU and to speed up the process. The second implementation uses two transputers (INMOS T800) working at a 25 MHz clock rate and a serial transmission rate of 20 Mb/s. Due to the processing speed of both implementations, the digital control blocks match the speed conditions imposed by the fast response of the internal current control loops of the physical system. The implementation based on transputers can execute the control algorithm in only 500 ms.<<ETX>>


The present study aimed to determine predictors of medication adherence among patients diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder (BP-I). Another aim was to estimate differences with different marital status  in perceived social support, internalized stigmatization and medication adherence. Correlational research design was used and a sample of 103 participants was gathered using purposive sampling method. Data was collected by administering Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI), and General Medication Adherence Scale (GMAS). Results illustrated perceived social support (R2 = .46, F (3, 99) = 28.52, p<0.001) and internalized stigmatization R2 = .49, F (8, 94) = 11.40, p<0.001) to be significant predictors of medication adherence. Furthermore, it was found that married individuals with bipolar I disorder received more support [F (1, 101) = 4.08, p = .04] and were more adherent to medication [F (1, 101) = 6.35, p = .01] as compared to single individuals with bipolar I disorder. However, no significant difference was found between married and single patients in their experience of internalized stigmatization.  Present study highlights the need for awareness campaign where individuals are informed regarding the importance of their support and also the need for educational workshops for skill building in patients with Bipolar I disorder.


The economic crisis (2009-2014) and the austerity policies (2010- …) have notably affected Spanish society, its public services and the public health system. Unemployment and labor regulation has deteriorated the labor market, creating poverty and inequality, and consolidating low salaries, part-time work and contractual precariousness. No short-term impact on health (morbi-mortality and perceived health) was observed (except perhaps in mental health), but problems are expected in the medium-long term.
The austerity has significantly affected the National Health System (NHS), imposing budget cuts close to 10%, through linear reductions in salaries, hiring and spending; but the NHS has been resilient, although it has accumulated structural tensions, has exhausted its reserves, and has accumulated waiting lists and criticism from patients. The need for reforms is clear, but distrust among all agents prevails.
The political change of 2015 (end of bipartisanship), the Catalan conflict since 2017, the change of government in 2018 (PSOE), and the elections of 2019, will influence the next future agenda, oscillating between a liberal-conservative model (public health stagnant with increasing flight from the middle classes to private health care), and a social reformist one (reinvestment in health care, although with controversies in management models).


Swedish vocational education and training (VET) is relatively decentralised and market driven with public and private providers competing for students. Chapter 2 shows that in this context, schools and school owners have weak incentives to collaborate in planning the provision of VET. In international comparison, Swedish upper-secondary schools offering VET programmes cater to few VET students. The chapter argues that to better match VET provision to labour market needs and to make the system more effective, Sweden may introduce measures that foster collaboration across schools and encourage concentration of provision in fewer institutions. The proposed measures should span the youth and adult sector and apply to all schools with VET provision, including public and independent schools.


In today's world, learning new APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) is fundamental to being a programmer. Prior research suggests that programmers learn on-the-fly while they work on other project-related tasks. Yet, this process is often inefficient. This inefficiency has inspired research seeking to understand and improve API learnability. While the existing research has provided insight into API learning, we still have a fractured understanding of the process of learning a new API. In this paper, we take the first steps towards developing a theoretical model of API learning by combining predictions from Information Foraging Theory (IFT) to describe information search behavior, Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) to describe learning, and External Memory (EM) to describe how API learners augment their short term memories. Our proposed model is consistent with existing research on barriers to learning APIs and helps to provide explanations for these barriers as well as suggest new research directions.


In objects like the Galactic center and star clusters, including Globular Clusters, the aim is to achieve the highest possible Strehl in order to separate objects with large luminosity differences. Although crowded star fields can be considered as prime targets for adaptive optics assisted NIR imaging, a number of challenges exist at both the observing and data reduction stages. While preparing for an observation, it may be useful to consider the effect of close guide star neighbors on centroiding and a sensible total integration time to achieve the desired S/N in the point spread function (PSF) halo. The centroiding issue is important because jittering of guide star neighbors in and out of the ALFA Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, as a result of a high stellar number density, can reduce the achievable Strehl. Total exposure time considerations may allow an empirical PSF determination with the desired PSF halo signal. In this contribution, we present our observational experiences, with ALFA, of a complicated region of stars in a Globular Cluster in both natural and a laser guide star observing mode as well as some relevant future plans. In particular, we concentrate on natural guide stars and consider the following: the use of a constrained centroiding algorithm, the change in the mean PSF halo pixel flux versus Strehl; and the use of 'a priori' astrometry and photometry in a deconvolution assisted profile fitting approach to crowded field photometry. This method reduced photometry errors and the systematic magnitude offset produced by a competing technique.


We describe situations in which appreciable radiation-induced excitation is predicted to occur in a two-state quantum system even though the radiation has no frequency component at the Bohr transition frequency. These are illustrated with numerical simulations and analytical results of first- and third-order time-dependent perturbation theory for an example, in which frequencies are limited to a finite range and the carrier frequency may or may not fall within this interval. For appropriate pulse areas and detunings complete excitation is possible, even when the pulse has no resonant frequencies.


As the number of Internet users grows exponentially all over the world, Java has become one of the most favored computer languages for Web programming. Java application and Web developers are in high demand. Java courses are offered by almost every university, college, and it even has a presence in high schools. To help students learn Java efficiently, educators have created all kinds of tutorials, short and long courses, white papers, Web help pages, menus, and books. Although there are numerous resources to help students learn Java, we find that there is still at least one important part missing: a set of well organized practical examples that correspond to the kernel elements of Java language. This insufficiency slows down the learning speed and brings frustration to students. In this paper, we present a different Java tutorial which is example oriented instead of explanation oriented. We believe that our tutorial can significantly reduce the above insufficiency.


This "democratic manifesto" aims to transform the United States into a truly participatory democracy using higher education as an agent of change. The starting point is Dewey's vision of a Great Community, achieved through the medium of university-assisted community schools. Part I explains Dewey's several attempts to realize the dream at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, discussing why he eventually abandoned the cause. Part II is an account of the current movement to reinvent community schools, with examples of university-community partnerships and participatory action research at the University of Pennsylvania. The authors assert that university civic responsibility is a growing national and international movement that has the potential, through collaboration and creativity, to solve the "Dewey Problem" and bring about great communities.


In the game of volleyball, a setter directs the offense much like a Quarterback on a football team. The skill most used by setters to position the ball for attackers is the overhead pass. A beginning setter, as well as all players on a team, should become consistent at executing accurate high front passes.


Information processing is fast developing in various sectors along with the spread of computer technology. The same goes for the commodity production and distribution industries where the bar-code system is increasingly utilized as one of the most useful tools for recognizing unique information related to each commodity. While handy type bar-code readers are normally used by retail shops where small amounts of diverse products are handled, a system to quickly and automatically read out bar-code data pasted on a continuous flow of products is required for use in production sites or distribution centers where large volumes of products are handled. Demands at site for the functionality and performance level of such systems are quite challenging. For instance, it is impossible to specify the location to paste a bar-code on a round container like a hat box. Cardboard cartons also come in variable sizes in very large quantities. In order to cope with such situations, the bar-code recognition devices have been developed using the most advanced image processing technology in both soft- and hardware. The notable features are as follows: 1) small bar-codes are read from a large sectional area using a multi-camera; 2) individual recognition is achieved without disturbing product flow by high speed parallel processing; 3) the camera is capable of reading objects (bar-codes) from a distance between one to two meters (to allow the facility more flexibility in design); 4) the mainstream bar-codes in the distribution industry such as Code 39 and ITF are supported; and 5) the high level of recognition efficiency and safety.


The banking crisis of homeland happened in 2007 creates economic turmoil in Indonesia   becomes unstable. In the such situations and circumstances, it needs the risk of financing which becomes an important factor in achieving a good banking system . However , the rules that especially concern to the risk of bank financing in fact is not enough to guarantee the banking system free from all the problems , especially in istishna financing . Keyword: Risk Financing, Istishna, Syariah Banks


Study of the high molecular components of oil is of great interest for answering questions as to genesis and migration of the oil as well as re-working of its deposits. Vanadium is present in oil largely in the quadrivalent form as vanadyl complexes, among which the vanadylethioporpbyrenes confirm their biogenic origin. The paramagnetic vanadium complexes are concentrated in the asphaltene fractions of the oil. A systematic relationship is present between these two components.


With the aggravation of environmental pollution, how to solve the problem of waste recycling is particularly important. Product disassembly is a vital part of waste recycling. Reasonable and efficient recycling can create economic benefits while protecting the environment. Therefore, disassembly lines have been established and widely used. In this paper, a human-machine collaborative disassembly line balancing problem considering maximizing economic benefits is studied. A linear mathematical model is established, and the correctness of the model is verified. An improved cuckoo search algorithm is proposed in this paper. Experimental results show that the algorithm has higher efficiency in large-scale disassembly problems while ensuring optimal solutions.


Wireless sensor networks are a current area of interest for many researchers, however surprisingly few have actually been deployed. In this paper we present preliminary results from a series of experiments designed to assess the viability of using existing mobile phone networks in developing countries to create flood warning systems. Creation of a flood warning network involves placing wirelessly connected nodes on all significant tributaries of a river system often over several hundreds of square kilometres. Rain is one of the principal causes of signal change in mobile networks. To assess the effect of the above on associated Internet of Things (IoT) flood alert systems, measurements were conducted in the UK and Mexico to determine the attenuation of line of sight (LOS) and ground multipath propagation due to either rain or excess surface water. Both components are analysed using ray tracing simulation software in addition to the real-time field measurements with the mobile hand set 'app' G-NetTrack Pro. Measurement experience gleaned from the UK campaign has been used to formulate a more comprehensive hand set based strategy in the Colima flood zone in Mexico, the results of which are also summarized in this paper. It is believed that both the above measurement and ray trace modelling exercises may be used to further optimize protocols required to address the propagation needs of future 4G/5G networks.


Horrific war crimes, the sort portrayed in the film The Kill Team and the book Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, and major transgressions by senior leaders that make for embarrassing headlines typically dominate the Army's discourse on moral education.1 While no one argues that those responsible were somehow unaware of their actions being wrong, such events commonly elicit immediate demands for further instruction and improvements in the ethical reasoning of all soldiers. In its haste to respond, the Army repeatedly deploys its intellectual capacity toward solving the wrong problem.Failure to identify the root of a complex problem can sabotage even the best intentions. Imagine for a moment a purpose-driven soldier motivated to improve his fitness level. Each morning, he inspires his fellow soldiers by giving 100 percent during physical training. Yet, he shows little improvement. Only after an honest counseling session with his squad leader does the soldier confess that he rewards himself with eight hundred calories worth of coffees, free donuts, and breakfast assortments after each session on the way to conduct hygiene. Immediately, the squad leader recognizes the problem: the soldier is attending to a multifaceted end (general health) along only one relevant line of effort. Similarly, the Army is unaware of its own blind spot in character development.Recent military initiatives-such as the addition of an ethics block for professional military education and the Army's Ready and Resilient Campaign-have led to a more comprehensive curriculum in ethical theory that seeks to improve soldiers' moral reasoning skills. However, the Army must simultaneously improve its soldiers' moral will-that is, their moral motivations. The proper ends of the Army ethics program include moral action rather than merely moral knowledge.2 These are two deliberate, but not necessarily discrete, ends. One might gain moral knowledge without interest in pursuing moral action. In contrast, one cannot act morally without the prerequisite knowledge (ethical reasoning) that allows him or her to discern right action. The Army must characterize its ethical training as moral education and implement systematic methods of reinforcement so that the profession interprets its ethic as a standard that each member aspires to be rather than simply do.The contemporary environment is complicated and growing ever more complex. While the Cold War-era military prioritized efficiency and effectiveness, the modern military emphasizes flexibility and adaptability. Training attends to the former; training prepares soldiers and leaders to succeed in the next known mission. Education attends to the latter; education prepares soldiers and leaders to succeed in the next unknown mission. While training prioritizes highly specialized, repeatable expertise (battle drills, for example), education prioritizes "big-picture" thought that understands the interoperability of efforts-their necessary causes and likely effects on mission accomplishment. Moral knowledge requires education initiatives rather than further training initiatives.Similarly, the Army might seek to train soldiers toward the second end suggested above: moral motivations. Training may habituate good activities by virtue of an organized system of rewards and reprimands. That model might achieve more immediate compliance, but it is unlikely to gain enduring commitment. Formerly, in a more centralized formation, that course of action would prove acceptable, feasible, and suitable. However, contemporary low-intensity environments impose upon the military a need for far greater autonomy throughout the force-from the combatant commander to the fire-team leader. Junior leaders find themselves responsible for large swaths of battle space, armed with incredible assets, and able to make major strategic impacts. Rewards and reprimands often require immediacy and deliberate oversight to be effective; operational conditions are not conducive for such a method of reinforcement. …


Oncogenic activation of ERK occurs in as many as 50% of human tumors and in the majority of melanomas. Activated BRAF V600E hyperactivates ERK signaling and causes ERK dependent dysregulation of proliferation. However, BRAF V600E alone is insufficient to drive melanoma formation in genetically engineered mice models. Moreover, 82% of benign nevi harbor BRAF V600E mutations. In contrast, in BRAF V600E/PTEN-/- GEMM models, rapid onset of aggressive and disseminated melanomas occurs. We show here that cell migration and invasion of melanocytes expressing BRAFV600E is depressed in vitro and in vivo and significantly accelerated by pharmacologic inhibition of ERK signaling or by deletion of PTEN. Upon ERK inhibition, cells lose their cell-cell junctions and become single cells with actin rich protrusions and a mesenchymal morphology. ERK pathway activation affects each step of the migration cycle, impeding cell spreading, assembly of stress fibers, and focal contact formation, all of which are associated with decreased mobility and invasion. Hyperactivation of ERK signaling by BRAF V600E has been shown to cause potent feedback inhibition of RTK signaling and wild type RAS. We now show that this is associated with feedback inhibition of RAC1, a RAS-like small GTPase required for cell migration. Moreover, ERK pathway inhibition reactivates RAC in an RTK-dependent manner. Consistent with these findings, expression of RAC1 P29S, an activating mutant, and overexpression of PREX2, an activator of RAC1, both rescue migration in BRAF V600E cells, as does loss of PTEN expression, which converges with RAC1 activation downstream. Taken together, these data suggest that whereas hyperactivation of ERK signaling by BRAFV600E dysregulates proliferation, ERK dependent feedback inhibition of RAC1 inhibits cell mobility and invasiveness and prevents full transformation. Selection of secondary genetic events that overcome or bypass RAC1 feedback is thus required for full transformation. In support of this view, RAC1 mutation, PTEN loss, or PREX2 amplification occurs in 38% of human melanomas. Thus, oncogene induced feedback may be deleterious and directs tumor evolution by causing selection of mutations that restore functions necessary for transformation
 Citation Format: Sunyana Gadal, Jacob A. Boyer, Hongyan Li, Ning Fan, Eric Chan, Yevgeniy Romin, Elisa De Stanchina, Rona Yeager, Marcus Bosenberg, Katia M. Todorova, Neal Rosen. Migration of V600E-expressing cells is suppressed by ERK-dependent feedback inhibition of RAC1 and rescued in melanoma by secondary mutations [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 2422.


An assay method of antimicrobial peptide activity through pH-controlled FRET(fluorescence resonance energy transfer) is provided to improve assay convenience by controlling energy transfer efficiency between two different fluorescence proteins through the simple pH change, reduce the assay time and amount of sample to be used, and increase the number of antimicrobial peptides to be assayed. The assay method of antimicrobial peptide activity through pH-controlled FRET(fluorescence resonance energy transfer) comprises the steps of: treating a host cell wherein a fusion protein of donor fluorescent protein-receptor fluorescent protein is expressed with an antimicrobial material so as to control the FRET efficiency according to pH; controlling the extracellular pH; and measuring the fluorescence difference between the intra- and extra-cellular fusion proteins, wherein the fusion protein is an enhanced cyan fluorescent protein(ECFP) with the increased donor fluorescent protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4 or enhanced yellow fluorescent protein(EYFP) with the increased receptor fluorescent protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:8.


This article considers the use of reclaim (devulcanised rubber) and fine powder recycled rubber in new rubber compounds. The study looked at one type of reclaim and two fine powders, M45 and M60, produced from truck tread peelings, incorporated into three different formulations: a truck tread based on natural rubber, a precured tread compound based on styrene-butadiene/butadiene rubber, and a silica-containing passenger car tread based on the same. Results showed that addition of reclaim does not cause an increase in Mooney viscosity whereas addition of fine powder does. Addition of reclaim or powder results in a decrease in scorch time and in tensile strength. However, the smaller the powder particle size, the higher the compound's tensile strength. In truck tread and precured tread formulations there is a decrease of the elongation at break; the passenger car tread is not altered except by M60 powder. The additions had no effect on the hardness of the compound. Truck and precured tread formations show no effect on abrasion resistance but higher abrasion resulted in the passenger car formulation.


Navigation and positioning services are related to national security, economic development and social livelihood, they're playing a decisive and indispensable role in both military and civilian fields. Urbanization is accelerating and indoor sites are increasing. People spend more than 80% of their time living and working in the indoor environments (including large buildings, underground sites, mines, tunnels, etc.), How to achieve high-precision navigation and positioning in such a complex navigation environment? This is not only an urgent social problem but also a technical problem. Based on the introduction of indoor navigation background, an inertial measurement information/UWB combined indoor positioning method is proposed in this paper, to solve the problem of long-term positioning in a complex indoor environment, and the experimental researches have been performed. Firstly, based on the research of human motion model, the method extracts motion parameters related to navigation and establishes the mapping model between human motion parameters and navigation parameters in order to implement autonomous pedestrian navigation which is based on inertial measurement information/human motion model. Then, using the position information provided by UWB as the measurement, the Kalman filter based on inertial measurement information/ human motion model/UWB combined system is designed to integrate positioning information from the combined system of inertial measurement information/human motion model and UWB, so that it can provide long-term and high-precision relative navigation for indoor pedestrians. The paper develops a prototype of the inertial measurement information/human motion model/UWB combined system, which provides a physical platform for the experimental verification of the proposed method. What's more, it also optimizes and verifies the proposed method referring to experiments under the environment of NOKOV high-precision indoor 3D-motion capture system by Beijing measurement technology co., LTD. There are bright application prospects that the method can be extended in single-soldier system, urban anti-terrorism operations and pedestrian positioning in the field of emergency rescue.


Excitation current of a synchronous motor has a key role in reactive power compensation. For this purpose, the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifier designed in this paper predicts the excitation current parameter using n-tupled inputs. Load current, power factor, power factor error and the change of excitation current parameters were utilized in n-tupled inputs. Moreover, Euclidean, Manhattan and Minkowski distance metrics were employed for measuring the closeness among the observations and the nearest neighbor number k was assigned as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. The forecasting results have shown that the k-NN classifier which uses power factor and the change of excitation current parameters achieved the best forecasting accuracy for k=1 in Minkowski distance metric. However, the k-NN classifier which uses load current, power factor and power factor error parameters gave the worst forecasting accuracy for k=5 in Minkowski distance metric.


Abstract : At present the only systems available for transferring electrical power from source to user are wire and cable type systems. Rapid deployment and re-deployment capabilities, ease of handling and flexibility are essential characteristics of these systems for use in today's highly mobile tactical environment. The weight of presently available cable materials is a barrier to achieving these characteristics, especially for high power systems. Recent investigations have revealed a class of compounds, known as intercalated graphite, which appear promising as new conductor materials. Intercalation compounds are compounds of lamellar host materials which have atoms or molecules of a foreign chemical species inserted between layers. Graphite intercalation compounds are presently of interest in two major areas: in selective catalysis and as synthetic metals, especially for high infrared reflectance and high electrical conductivity. In particular, it has been shown that some of these materials exhibit higher electrical conductivity and have lower density than copper.


The neurological and hepatoprotective activity of mineral waters of Firgas (La Ideal II) as well as its physico- chemical properties and chemical composition were studied. Mineral water "La ideal II" was classified as water of weak mineralization, bicarbonated-calcium-magnesic and charged with carbonic natural acid gas. Mineral water of Firgas (Grand Canary) was analysed and compared with distillate and tap waters. The activity profile and toxic reactions in mice and protective-hepatic effect in rats were examined. The water of Firgas produced a reduction of locomotor activity. Also an increased score of positional passivity was observed respect to control. The water of Firgas produced a decrease in the muscle tone evaluated 60 and 120 min post-administration. Non-observed CNS excitation evaluated by phenomena such as tremors, twitches or convulsions. With respect to autonomic system, palpebral closure, piloerection, hypothermia or alteration of respiratory rate no were observed. The water of Firgas decreased pentobarbital-induced sle eping time compared with control. Therefore, water of Firgas present a light sedative action manifested by a decrease of locomotor activity, increase of passivity and decrease of muscle tone and protective hepatic effect manifested by a decrease pentobarbital-induced sleeping time.


Palladium's role in the catalysis of various chemical reactions has resulted in a strong interest towards the development of straightforward synthetic methods for its preparation on the nanoscale. In this chapter we review some of the most significant advances that have been made in the synthesis of palladium particles with nanoscale dimensions. Approaches to control the morphology are described, with an emphasis on reactions that have produced uniform particles with well-defined sizes and shapes in high yields. In addition, several characterization techniques that have been employed to elucidate the morphology of the particles are illustrated. Finally, we briefly outline the applications of palladium nanoparticles as they relate to the life sciences.

Keywords:

palladium;
nanoparticles;
synthesis;
size-control;
shape-control;
isotropic nanoparticles;
anisotropic nanoparticles;
stabilizers


In order to develop more realistic risk assessments, an experimental program was conducted to characterize indoor, residential environments and the relationship between the indoor environment and contaminants that originated from the outdoor environment. Parameters measured included concentration of uranium in soils, mass loading of dust on indoor surfaces, and concentrations of uranium in indoor dust. Samples of indoor dust were collected using a personal air sampler modified to act as a low flow rate vacuum cleaner. The concentrations of uranium in indoor dust were measured using kinetic phosphorescence analysis, while the concentrations of uranium in outdoor soil were measured by analyzing the thorium‐234 activity using gamma‐ray spectrometry. This pilot study derived an estimate of 20 to 30% of indoor contamination resulting from sources in soil.


Microwave technology, used in main points of mobile backhaul, has now evolved to take advantage of the introduction of Internet Protocol (IP) into the backhaul network to drive higher capacities, increased frequency efficiency, increased flexibility, and optimal cost by combining a number of features to enable true gigabit transport speeds. One of those evolutions regards to the frequency reuse schemas like Co-Channel Dual Polarization (CCDP), which uses two parallel communication channels over the same link with orthogonal polarizations. Due to the nature of these systems, it is inevitable that cross-polar interference occur (e.g. rainfall, multipath, equipments imperfections...), where Cross-Polarization Interference Cancellation (XPIC) technology is adopt as a countermeasure against that interference. However, this cancelation block, normally located at baseband level, process signals that can be affected by non-linear impairments. This paper shows the performance achieved by two XPIC configurations, based on newly introduce XPIC model, in the presence of Saleh model non-linear element, placed at transmitter, for a 256-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal. CCDP system, which includes XPIC, is simulated using Simulink tool from Mathworks.


Cybernetics in the United States has evolved through three identifiable periods. In the first period of the 1950s and 1960s there was a primary concern with designing control systems and with building machines to emulate human reasoning. In the second period of the 1970s and 1980s the focus of attention was on the biologyof cognition and constructivist philosophy. In recent years increasing attention has been given to social systems. Whereas the work on the biology of cognition required that attention be shifted from what was observed to the observer, the recent interest in social systems requires an emphasis on multiple observers and their beliefs. The third period of social cybernetics or the cybernetics of conceptual systems is illustrated by considering constructivist cybernetics as a conceptual system created to promote the evolution of certain social systems in a preferred direction.


This article seeks to provide answers to questions: why did India and the United States have a trade dispute under Trump and Modi administrations, and why were the two countries unable to resolve the trade dispute under Trump and Modi administrations? The article asserts that the primary reason for the trade dispute/disagreements between the two countries is the domestic economic and political environment and ideological considerations in the Trump and Modi administrations. This has manifested itself in a clash between Trump's 'America first' stance with the aim of 'Making America great again' and Modi's 'Make in India' initiative which envisions creating India as a manufacturing powerhouse and increasing the economic prosperity of Indian citizens. The article highlights each country's concerns and grievances regarding the other side's trade policies and what kind of trade access India wants from the United States and vice-versa.


The invention discloses a business protection method including signal quality monitoring to low rate signals with the spending of high rate signals and business protection. The invention also discloses a business protector including at least one tributary unit, a cross unit and at least one circuitry unit. With signal quality monitoring in the invention, the quality of the low rate signal can be gained when it is not the end of the low-rate signals. Therefore, ODU of various capacities can be supported and business protection of lower level customers then ODU1 in the OTN system.


In spite of the vast literature devoted to some aspects of Byzantine relations with Eastern Europe, no comprehensive treatment of the influence of Byzantium on medieval Slavic civilization has been available to Western readers. Most recent historians have addressed themselves to aspects of Byzantine relations with individual East European nations rather than to universal themes. The publication of a general study by a scholar with Professor Obolensky's qualifications is therefore an event of significance for Byzantine and Slavic historians as well as for the general reader for whom the History of Civilization series is intended. As the title of his work indicates, Obolensky is not interested solely in tracing relations between the Byzantine Empire and the emerging Slavic nations. I t is the thesis of his study that the political ideas, religion, literature, language, and art transmitted from Byzantium to Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages created a universal civilization which may best be described as a "commonwealth." The "bonds" of the commonwealth were a belief in the supremacy of the universal emperor, the Orthodox religion, and a Slavic literary culture based largely on translations of Greek religious works. Although none of these features have been unrecognized by scholars, this work succeeds brilliantly in the dual function of describing the course of Byzantine relations with the diverse nations of Eastern Europe and assessing the diffusion of Byzantine culture from the viewpoint of both Byzantium and the recipient Slavic civilizations.


In this paper, the design and implementing of an examination system is given, the composition, function of the system are also provided and the system have basically implemented.


We evaluate baryon wave functions in both the Coulomb and Landau gauges in lattice QCD. These are constructed from quark propagators calculated with the overlap Dirac operator on quenched gauge configurations at $\ensuremath{\beta}=6$. By comparing baryon states that differ in their diquark content, we find evidence for enhanced correlation in the scalar diquark channel, as favored by quark models. We also summarize earlier results for diquark masses in the Landau gauge, casting them in a form more easily compared with subsequent studies.


In the wireless power transmission system for remotely implanted MEMS,the coupling coefficient is one of the most crucial factors affecting transmission efficiency.A coupling model was built up for two coils in arbitrary spacing.A formula for calculating coupling coefficient was induced.The relationship between coupling coefficient and axial,lateral and pitch misalignments was numerically analyzed.The results met with experiments quite well.By this method,finally,two ways of laying transmitting coil modes were compared.


This paper deals with the verification of thermoplastic flowing when manufacturing plastic products by injection moulding used in the consumer industry. An analysis was performed by Plastic Insight, which is used for the determination of flow properties of thermoplastic materials. A good knowledge of flow properties of these materials enables a very good starting position for the design of thermoplastic products made by the injection moulding technology [1,2]. The task of this simulation was the comparison of injection parameters of a mould, with and without cooling of channels. Simulated thermoplastic material is used for the manufacture of ribs in washing machine drums. The tested material was polypropylene.


Users of the simulation software not only need to model the capability of each unit, but also need to create a decision maker for the units in the simulation software, to control ships, aircrafts and ground units to cooperates to achieve one goal. In this paper a new approach is constructed to create the decision maker. We use reinforcement learning based on global critic and local actor. The invention constructs an air isomorphic formation command method based on multiagent PPO algorithm. The evaluation network uses global information, so that the algorithm has the ability to evaluate global information and guide the agent to select actions that are beneficial to the global environment state. The input of the action network is local information, so that the agent can focus on local information.


The article examines the use of the graph theory method, in particular, the Petri net graph, for the development of microprocessor devices for remote continuous monitoring of the state of railway automation control equipment using Internet of Things technologies. Based on it, the model of the behavior of a set of modules that determines the state of automatic blocking signal point devices was studied.


Relatively few studies have been made on amniotic fluid volumes, including the work of Draper ( '20) and Isben ( '28) on the guinea pig, Lell ( '31) on the rabbit, and Wislocki ( '35) on the sow and cat. This study on the golden hamster was made in order to expand available information on this subject and to lay a foundation for any experimental investigations on the source and mechanism of amniotic fluid production and reduction.


Creativity has become the major driving force of the emerging digital and information economy. This article attempts to examine the concept of creativity through an in-depth case study of a Japanese contest for digital content. Based on participant observation and other ethnographic data, the case study aims at discerning the roles and functions of the organizer of the contest in relation to the promotion of creativity in the industry. Through tracing the establishment and development of the contest, examining the eligibility of applicants and requirements of the digital work and analyzing the actual judging process, this article aims at demonstrating the intricate interaction among the organizer of the contest, the creators and other actors of the digital content industry. This complex dynamics, as revealed in the article, gives shape to the definition and evaluation of the concept of creativity. Through the case study of the contest for digital content, the article shows that the notion of creativity is in reality a contested construction conditioned by various forces in the industry.


We report the synthesis, and optical characterization of the planar binuclcar phthalocyanines metal free (-1)( H 2 Pc) 2 (t-bu) 6 and (-l)(VOPc) 2 (t-bu) 6 . Several of their optical properties, including linear absorption, concentration dependence, electroabsorption, and transient optical response were measured.


Aging inevitably gives rise to many late-life challenges and transitions that impose threats for one's physical and mental health, which can greatly impact our well-being and quality of life. Hence, the key to successful aging may not be the absence of these challenges and transitions, but the ability to demonstrate resilience to them. We recently started a large-scale study (N > 10.000) among older adults (55 years or older) in the Netherlands, with the aim to understand resilience as an emergent property that arises through the interplay between various (risk and protective) factors from different domains. Participants are asked to complete online questionnaires and tests that cover a multitude of relevant factors from multiple domains (e.g., physical, psychological, cognitive, social, environmental). Relationships between those factors will be analysed through network analysis, in which conditional dependencies between factors are depicted in a network of nodes. In this way, critical resilience (protective) and risk factors can be identified. This study offers a unique possibility to obtain insights into the factors that characterize and contribute to resilience in old age and thereby assist in generating hypotheses for follow up work. The contribution of this study in the growing field of resilience research, as well as the limitations, are discussed accordingly.