This paper presents an effective framework design of humanrobot interaction. The framework outlines a general structure of future home service robots that are expected to assist humans in their home-based daily activities. We describe three interaction modules – multimodal, cognitive, and emotional interaction modules. Each module takes a different role in the process of human robot interaction. The multi-modal interaction is to make the interaction convenient for human, the cognitive interaction is effective sharing of tasks, and the emotional interaction is to maintain an intimate relationship with human. The general concept for the systematical software integration and the relationships among three modules is described.


Apolipoprotein A-IV, or a biologically active analogs having at least 90% identity with apolipoprotein A-IV, for use in treating diabetes mellitus of type II in a subject.


A theory of the quadrupolar relaxation rate, RQ, in liquids is developed. In the process, the time dependence of the electric field gradient correlation function is investigated, and a formally exact result is obtained for the leading term in an expansion about t=0. An earlier theory, which has serious defects in this limit, is corrected, and the authors derive an expression for the correlation function which displays the correct physical behaviour. By means of this result, it is shown that when the field gradient is short-ranged, the quadrupolar relaxation rate is determined by rapid adjustments in the positions of the nearest neighbours of a relaxing nucleus. Calculations of RQ in liquid neon are in good agreement with experiment. When applied to liquid rubidium near the melting point, the relaxation rate obtained lies within the (wide) range of experimental uncertainty.


The aim of this paper is to present an overview of previous findings, exploring muscular patterns and muscle activation levels in selected muscles by classical singers. In addition, the relationship of these muscles' to thorax movement was investigated. Loading levels and respiratory phasing of upper trapezius (TR), sternocleidomastoideus (STM), the scalenes (SC), pectoralis major (PC), muscles in the posterior neck (PN), the intercostals (INT) and the lateral (OBL)/ anterior (RC) abdominal muscles were examined. A phasing of TR activity to INT and OBL activity was discovered. During phonation TR, contributes in the compression of the upper thorax (UTX), thus serving as an accessory muscle of expiration. Professional opera singers activate the expiratory phased TR, INT, OBL and RC muscles to higher levels than student singers do. STM and SC show correlated activity patterns during inhalation and phonation by classical singers. During demanding singing, expiratory phased STM and SC activity peaks produce a counterforce to the compression of UTX at high pitches. Substantial muscle activity is observed in PC and PN during inhalation and phonation. Electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback (BF), performed on TR and STM, have a secondary effect of lowering EMG activity in SC, PC and PN. INTRODUCTION While the importance of posture for well-being only became widely appreciated in the second half of the 20 century, through the works of Alexander (1) and others, singing teachers have recognized its importance for voice production for centuries (2). Voice teachers instruct posture to classical singers in order to improve vocal performance. Both breathing behaviour and correct posture in general are considered important in order to perform well (3-8). The precise pattern of activity in the individual singer depends on many factors, including the basic shape of the singers' rib cage and the manner it is held when singing (4). Considerable research is needed to fully understand the complex relations between posture, muscle usage and breathing. During the last 10 years, a research project has been carried out to investigate muscular patterns and muscular loading levels in classical singers. This paper is aimed at presenting an overview of the results of ten studies (9-18) exploring electromyographic (EMG) activity in the neck (sternocleidomastoideus (STM), scalenes (SC) and posterior neck (PN)), shoulder (upper trapezius (TR)) and trunk (pectoralis major (PC), intercostals (INT), rectus abdominis (RC) abdominal region (OBL)) and thorax movement (upper thorax (UTX) and lower thorax (LTX)) by classical singers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Subjects Professional opera singers and student classical singers volunteered to participate in the studies. The professional singers were all young singers in an early stage of their careers. The student classical singers were trained in both concertand stage performances (lieder, oratorio, opera) on a European Conservatory level. Procedure Three singing tasks were performed; 1) an aria, 2) sustained tones maintained for as long as possible and 3) extreme tones maintained for as long as possible. To trace possible variances due to changes in vocal loudness, the aria was performed three times in three different vocal loudness (normal, forte, piano). To trace possible variances due to pitch changes, the sustained tones were sung in three different pitches suited for the voice (normal, third up, third down). The three extreme tones were used for the same purpose as the sustained tones: The comfort tone


Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is an inflammatory cytokine involved in many acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. However, its role in acute lung injury associated with acute pancreatitis in pregnancy (APIP) has not yet been elucidated. The present study was undertaken to clarify the effect and potential mechanism of MIF antagonist (S,R)3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-5-isoxazole acetic acid methyl ester (ISO-1) in the development of acute lung injury in rats with APIP. Eighteen late-gestation SD rats were randomly assigned to three groups: Sham operation (SO) group, APIP group, and ISO-1 group. All the rats were sacrificed 6 h after modeling. The severity of pancreatitis was evaluated by serum amylase (AMY), lipase (LIPA), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-6 and assessing the histopathological score. Lung injury was determined by performing histology and inflammatory cell infiltration investigations. Western blot analysis was used to detect the protein expression of MIF, phosphorylated and total P38 and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) protein in lungs. The results showed that MIF was upregulated in the lung of APIP rats. Compared with APIP group, the intervention of ISO-1 alleviated the pathological injury of the pancreas and lungs, decreased serum AMY and LIPA, attenuated serum concentrations of TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6, reduced the number of MPO-positive cells in the lung and inhibited the activation of P38MAPK and NF-κB. These results suggest that MIF is activated in lung injury induced by APIP. Furhtermore, the present findings indicate that the MIF antagonist ISO-1 has a protective effect on lung injury and inflammation, which may be associated with deactivating the P38MAPK and NF-κB signaling pathway.


A printed wide slot antenna fed by a microstrip line with a square patch within the arc-shaped slot is proposed for wideband application. The impedance bandwidth and radiation characteristics of this antenna are studied and improved by optimizing the slot shape and dimensions, resulting in an antenna with a 120% bandwidth for S/sub 11/ /spl les/ -10 dB and stable radiation patterns across the whole band.


Activity - Family Imbalance Adolescent - Parent Conflicts Adoption Issues Alcohol Abuse Anger Management Anxiety Blame Blended-Family Problems Child - Parent Conflicts Communication Compulsive Behaviors Death of a Child Death of a Parent Dependency Issues Depression in Family Members Disengagement - Loss of Family Cohesion Divorce - Separation Eating Disorder Extrafamilial Sexual Abuse Family Activity Disputes Family Business Conflicts Family of Origin Interference Family Member Separation Financial Changes Geographic Relocation Incest Survivor Infidelity Inheritance Disputes Between Siblings Interracial Family Problems Intolerance - Defensiveness Jealousy - Insecurity Life Threatening - Chronic Illness Multiple Birth Dilemmas Physical - Verbal - Psychological Abuse Religious - Spiritual Conflicts Sexual Orientation Conflicts Traumatic Life Events Unwanted - Unplanned Pregnancy Appendices About the Disk


Eighty-four patients with 85 eyelid basal cell carcinomas were treated with surgery or cryotherapy and all were followed for five years. There was a recurrence in three patients in all of whom the histology had been reported as clear. The value of histological clearance is discussed.


Selective plating media are used for the enumeration and isolation of bacterial pathogens from food and water samples. This study compared the quantitative recovery of Salmonella spp. and Vibrio cholerae grown in nutrient-limited, filter-sterilized, reconditioned wastewater over the temperature range of 4 to 45 degrees C using nonselective and pathogen-specific selective media. Viable Salmonella were enumerated on tryptic soy agar (TSA) and XLT-4, and viable V. cholerae were enumerated on TSA and thiosulfate-citrate-bile-sucrose agar. There was a statistically significant (P < 0.05) higher recovery of both pathogens over the growth temperature range on TSA compared to the selective media. Trehalose, a stress-induced metabolite of Salmonella, was isolated from the cells grown in the reconditioned wastewater, whereas, the V. cholerae exhibited a change in cellular morphology from rod to coccoid shape. These results suggest that growth in nutrient-limited water injured or stressed the individual pathogens. Care should be used in choosing the procedure and plating medium for quantitative recovery of pathogens from such a nutrient-limiting environment.


FHWA's current emphasis on bridge replacement conbined with the potential of spur dikes (elliptically shaped dikes projecting into the stream or river upstream from bridge abutments) to reduce pier and abutment scour and to improve the hydraulic performance of the opening, prompted a model study to clarify some of the conflicting ideas about the effects of spur dikes. The study evaluated the effect spur dikes have on bridge backwater and other hydraulic parameters. Experimental results were compared with the analytical procedures for predicting the backwater effects of spur dikes, found in HY-7/WSPRO (FHWA/RD-86/108 Bridge Waterways Analysis Model - Research Report). Model results for low gradient stream confirm that procedures in HY-7/WSPRO properly predict the backwater effects. In addition, it was found that spur dikes reduce backwater by up to 5 percent. More importantly, it was noted that spur dike length has a significant impact on the magnitude of the stream's energy gradient as it passes through the bridge constriction. This has implications with respect to channel stability in the vicinity of abutments and piers.


The sections in this article are:

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Purpose this study focuses on the policy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in the 1980s and known as "Responsible Care". The debate surrounding this issue prompts us to question the ever-changing nature of this policy and the way to measure the performance achieved. Methodology Our findings are drawn from analysis of a double set of data including a longitudinal survey and a current case study. Blending these two data sets allows a better understanding of the ongoing building process of "Responsible Care" and, more broadly, of corporate social responsibility. Findings this paper asserts that, contrary to the common wisdom developed in research, companies do not simply react to stakeholder pressure. Companies autonomously develop ways to protect their environment and so contribute to changing Society's expectations. Thus, performance cannot be read without a dynamic perspective in mind. Research limitations/implications Our findings lead us to reconsider the assessment of companies' sustainable performances by taking into account the fabricating process of sustainable activities. The main limitation of this research stems from the single unit of analysis considered. Broader studies will be necessary to enrich our understanding of corporate policies. Originality/value of the paper Our paper stands apart from the traditional view of organizations as cynical actors and attempts to provide a more complex picture of the behaviours observed.


Bei Song Dynasty- Ouyang Xiu-Qin Guan-Huang Tingjian and so on come to Hunan in successin- they and natives of Hunan join in the chorus- have produced the positive impetus to the development of Yuan-Xiang literature.


A study was conducted of the perceived training needs and the importance of these needs for job effectiveness of urban extension agents working with disadvantaged audiences. The questionnaire was based largely on nine general areas of competency. Most of the respondents were younger than 35 and had less than 5 .years, experience. Among the training needs they perceived were technical knowledge; effective use of radio, photographs, telephone, personal letters, television and newsletters; understanding why people join organizations and the purposes of various agencies serving the disadvantaged; understanding the relationship of daydreaming to creative thinking; understanding the implications of the rapidly changing population trends; how to develop a long-range extension program plan; how to develop an approach sensitive to the . : disadvantaged; programs on career exploration and development; how to interpret results of research in the physical sciences; and understanding of how the extension service is organized. ON U:S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & vat FARE OFFICE OF EDUciaTION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO 'DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIzATION ORIG INATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR °PIN IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY IFIE'RESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF WU CATION POSITION OR POLICY PERCEIVED TRAINING NEEDS OF URBAN 4-H AGENTS WORKING WITH DISADVANTAGED AUDIENCES * Joel R. Soobitsky Graduate Student and Dr. Clarence J, Cunningham, Advisor Program and Staff Development USDA-Extension Service * Material taken from unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation "Perceived Training Needs of Urban Cooperative Extension Agents Working with Disadvantaged Audiences" THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Summer, 1971 USDA-ES Study


Red tail catfish, Phractocephalus hemioliopterus , in one of the popular ornamental fish. The present study is aimed to describe and visualizes the cardiovascular system of this species with corrosion cast study method. For this purpose, 10 red tail catfish with 580 gr average weight were obtained and were filled their blood vessels and heart with fluid artificial resin made on the basis of methylmetacrylate after anaesthetizing and euthanizing. For complete polymerization and hardening of the methylmetacrylate, the fish were further submersed for 12-24 hrs in water bath following by 24-48 hrs submersion in a 25% solution of KOH to full maceration. Based on the results we describe the cardiovascular system i.e. the afferent and efferent vessels of gill, different parts of the heart, ventral aorta, dorsal aorta, intestinal and gastric vessels, liver, anterior and posterior parts of the kidneys, spleen, portal and hepatic vein.


By analysing the energy consunmption of traction system on Guangzhou Metro Line 1 trains during the normal operation,it is indicated that the energy-saving effect of feedback brake is prominence and the power-wasting by brake resistance is limited.


Abstract Background Community-onset Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection (CACDI) has been increasing in recent years. To explore the transmission route of CACDI, we performed the whole-genome sequencing of C. difficile isolated from CACDI patients and compared it to the isolates from livestock, companion animals, and soil. Methods From October 2020 until April 2021, fecal specimens of cattle, poultry, swine, felines, canines, CACDI patients, their families, and soil from the CACDI patients' living environment were applied for isolation of C.difficile. Whole-genome sequencing of C. difficile was performed on the MiSeq system (Illumina). Using the draft genome obtained from these analyses, the house-keeping gene (tpi), MLST, toxin genes (tcdA, tcdB, cdtA, cdtB), and resistance genes (gyrA, gyrB, rpoA, rpoB, rpoC) were comprehensively analyzed. Results As of March 31, 2021, 275 specimens were collected. Forty-five fecal specimens of companion animal origin (23 feline and 22 canines) were collected and the positive rate of C.difficile was 28.9% (2 felines, 11 canines). In MLST analysis, ST 15 (4 strains), ST 26 (2 strains), ST 42, ST 3, ST 28, ST 100, and ST 185 were detected in canines, and ST 203 and ST 297 strains were detected in felines. Samples of livestock origin were collected from 135 cattle, 41 poultries, and 20 swine. The detection rate in cattle was 11%, toxin-gene positivity was 60%. MLST analysis of 9 strains revealed ST 11 (5 strains), ST 2, ST 15, ST 58, and ST 101. No isolates were found from poultry or swine. Patient-derived strains of CACDI were collected from 14 patients at 2 sites. MLST analysis revealed ST42, ST37, ST100, and ST203(two isolates, respectively), ST 224, ST 81, ST 28, and ST 47. 2 isolates were unclassifiable. One case was a healthy 1-year-old girl, whose family revealed no isolation of C.difficile. Impressively, the soil in the parks (A and B) related to the child detected C.difficile from 4/4 samples (toxin-gene positivity; 75%) in Park A and 1/4 samples (toxin-gene positive) in Park B. MLST analysis demonstrated ST 42, the same as that in the affected child and core-genome single-nucleotide polymorphisms(SNPs) analysis suggested closely related strain. Conclusion Our results suggest one health approach is fundamental to prevent the transmission of C.difficile. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures


Objective: To investigate the fatty acids compositions of Orostachys spinosa (L.) C. A. Mey. Methods: The fatty acid in Orostachys spinosa (L.) C. A. Mey. was extracted by soxhlet extraction, after methyl esterifying treatment, the compo sition of fatty acid was analyzed by GC-MS. Results: There were six kinds of fatty acids in Orostachys spinosa (L.) C. A. Mey.. Conclusion: The method is simple, rapid, and used for the determination of Orostachys spinosa (L.).C. A. Mey..


The objective of the present work is the investigating of the capabilities of piezo- electric actuators as active vibration control devices for wing structures. Herein, the enhanc- ing of the wing dynamic behavior is then based on the sliding mode control synthesis, having in view its opportunities in the performing of robust systems. Numerical simulations are presented, showing the efficacy of the piezo actuators in the developing of smart structures.


Introduction: Multidrug resistant bacteria is causing a very serious problem in the proper treatment and management of sick patients in ICU's. Study aimed to find out antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of bacterial isolates from tracheal culture. Material and methods: This study was carried over a period of 6 months from July to December 2017 in the department of microbiology. Total of 470 tracheal aspirates were studied. Each specimen was streaked on 5% sheep blood agar and MacConkey agar. After isolation and identification, sensitivity of selected organisms against different antibiotics was studied Results: Out of 470 tracheal aspirates, 328 samples showed single bacterial growth, 76 were sterile; contaminants were grown in 58 samples and in remaining 8 samples yeast were grown. The incidence of positivity in our study was 83.8%, with gram negative bacteria outnumbering the gram positive ones. Of the 328 samples which showed bacterial growth, Acinetobacter spp 159(40.3) was the most common organism followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae 72(18.2), Pseudomonas spp 46(11.6), Escherichia coli 27(6.8), Staphylococcus aureus 13(3.2), Klebsiella oxytoca 5(1.26), Enterococcus spp 3(0.76), Proteus spp, Citrobacter spp, Providencia stuartii 1(0.25) each. Also XDR (extensively drug resistant) bacteria were isolated at a high frequency (67%) with Acinetobacter spp. being the most common 128(56.6)) followed by Klebsiella spp. 39(17.2) Pseudomonas spp. 38(16.8), and E.coli 12(5.3). Conclusion: Gram negative were main organisms responsible for lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized patients and the majority of the isolates belong to XDR and MDR category.


Reverse dosimetry is a well-known practice in the development of toxicokinetic models for marine mammals and can be used for two different applications: 1) for estimating values of input parameters in case there is a lack of such information, and 2) for predicting the dose that would elicit a certain toxic effect in the animal. The first is often beneficial when developing toxicokinetic models for wildlife. Due to their protected and even endangered status, the acquisition of suitable tissue samples for marine mammals is often logistically not feasible and the availability of biological information on these animals is usually scarce. In toxicokinetic modelling, a correct model input or dose is key to getting robust model predictions. However, such input requires data on what the daily consumption, on what prey species the animals eat as well as the degree of contamination in the prey, which is difficult to find for species with large home ranges and unknown population structures. Such information is only available for some (populations of) marine mammal species. For the remaining populations, reverse dosimetry can provide a better estimation of a potentially realistic dose. This first application is independent of any toxic threshold levels and is basically only meant to better fit the model predictions to the available datasets of contaminant levels in marine mammal tissues. The second application, however, depends on toxicity thresholds and predicts the levels that would be needed to cause a certain toxic effect within a given time frame. It is this application that can predict into the future, thereby making modelling efforts worthwhile for risk assessment purposes. From this perspective, for example, 2051 was found to be the year at which the level of PCB 153 in male harbour porpoises would be below toxicity thresholds based on current levels collated from the literature. It is with reverse dosimetry that toxicokinetic models can go further than the more traditional biomonitoring studies in marine mammals, and combine exposure with effects in these animals thereby increasing the usefulness of these models in environmental legislation and species conservation. Seminar Invitation


An architecture firm envisions how to merge space and terrestrial construction by using an orbiting asteroid as the "foundation" for a megatall tower.


The increase in the number of therapeutic and counselling approaches available to counsellors or practitioners today has provided them with more effective ways to work with clients than ever before. But the variety of treatment techniques has also created confusion and uncertainty. Practitioners are sometimes unsure about which approach will be the most successful for their clients, how well different approaches will work together, or when to switch from one approach to another over the course of treatment (Howard, Nance & Myers, 1987). This article presents a practical, easy‐to‐understand multimodal model that provides practitioners with a framework they can use within a person‐centered philosophy to meet the needs of children with anger and to assess the diverse environment in which they function. The flexible and adaptive therapy model offers counsellors a practical way to identify special treatment issues and problems (e.g. the session outline provided is but one possible plan out of many), specifical...


Cloud service brokering is a new service paradigm that provides interoperability and portability of application across multiple Cloud providers. In this paper, we designed Cloud service brokerage system, anyBroker, supporting integrated service provisioning and SLA based service lifecycle management. For the system design, we introduce the system concept and whole architecture, details of main components and use cases of primary operations in the system. These features ease the Cloud service provider and customer's concern and support new Cloud service open market to increase Cloud service profit and prompt Cloud service echo system in Cloud computing related area. Keywords—Cloud service brokerage, multiple Clouds, Integrated service provisioning, SLA, network service.


In this paper, a deterministic prey–predator model is proposed and analyzed. The interaction between three predators and a single prey was investigated. The impact of harvesting on the three predators was studied, and we concluded that the dynamics of the population can be controlled by harvesting. Some sufficient conditions were obtained to ensure the local and global stability of equilibrium points. The transcritical bifurcation was investigated using Sotomayor's theorem. We performed a stochastic extension of the deterministic model to study the fluctuation environmental factors. The existence of a unique global positive solution for the stochastic model was investigated. The exponential–mean–squared stability of the resulting stochastic differential equation model was examined, and it was found to be dependent on the harvesting effort. Theoretical results are illustrated using numerical simulations.


Organisational politics is an aspect of firm culture that consistently undermines initiatives like integration, write LaDonna M. Thornton, Terry L. Esper and Chad W. Autry


The present invention provides a useful litter box assembly in the management of animal waste. In general aspect, the present litter box assembly includes an animal litter box, the litter size reduction machine which is attached to the litter box, and a hopper optional attached to the litter size reduction machine. Hopper can store animal litter to increase absorbency and is subdivided is the litter size reduction machine. The present invention is also to make a litter box assembly, and provides a kit useful in the use of such a litter box assembly to manage animal waste. .FIELD 1


The invention relates to a process for producing nano zinc oxide by using crude zinc oxide. The process comprises the procedures of leaching, purifying, precipitating and calcining; the leaching procedure comprises the steps of adopting the crude zinc oxide as a material, reacting with hydrochloric acid and producing a coarse zinc chloride solution; the purifying procedure comprises the steps of controlling the pH value properly of the coarse zinc chloride solution obtained in the leaching procedure, adding sodium hypochlorite to carry out primary oxidation for removing impurities, adding zinc powder to carry out secondary replacement for removing impurities and obtaining a refined zinc chlorine solution; and the precipitating procedure comprises the step of reacting the refined zinc chlorine solution obtained in the purifying procedure and a sodium hydroxide solution, producing zinc hydroxide slurry, and then filtering, washing and drying the slurry to obtain zinc hydroxide; calcining the zinc hydroxide obtained in the precipitating procedure to obtain active zinc oxide. The process had the advantages that comprehensive utilization and sustainable development of resources are realized and the economic, environmental and social benefits are good.


*** * * ** Summary. In the article methodical positions of the parametrical analysis of dynamics of the all-wheel drive machine tractor unit (MTU) including hinged soil processing equipment with active working bodies (AWB) are performed.


We show that if a locally compact group G acts properly on a locally compact σ‐compact space X, then there is a family of G‐invariant proper continuous finite‐valued pseudometrics which induces the topology of X. If X is, furthermore, metrizable, then G acts properly on X if and only if there exists a G‐invariant proper compatible metric on X.


The goal of this present work gives an overview of present generation solar cells – dye sensitized high band gap ZnO
semiconductor electrodes have been synthesized by wet chemical (sol-gel) methods by mixing zinc nitrate hexahydrate
[ Zn (NO3)2.6H2O] solution with glycerol with continuous stirring at the temperature ⁓900C. The synthesized ZnO have
been characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) method. The obtained ZnO powder has been converted in the
form of pellets of thickness 1.46 mm, 1.76 mm and 1.25 mm. Then electrodes have been prepared by developing
electrical contact on the surface of the pellet. The synthesized electrodes have been studies for photoelectrochemical
(PEC) measurements under darkness and illumination. The dye sensitized electrodes are chemically stable and do not
photodegrade easily. The performance of dye-impregnated ZnO electrodes were found up to 6-8 cycles. This research
work to serve futuristic application as a solar energy for humankind


The plaintiff sought to annul the sale of the family home by her husband who intended to leave the Central African Republic and return to his country of origin. The court reversed a lower court ruling that a husband had no right to sell the family home without the consent of his wife. It held that under the law a husband was given the sole administration of community property and could dispose of that property without the consent of his wife in any manner that he wished.


MCI-due-to-AD) in the M2OVE-AD study at Emory University. We identified individual voxels differential by MCI status using partial-least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA); those voxels were mapped to a brain neuroimaging atlas. We then connected the voxel-wise data to the CSF metabolomics using integrative network analysis and multilevel community detection (xMWAS), identifying communities of tightly correlated voxels and metabolic features, creating our metabolo-imaging network. The me-tabolites in each metabolo-imagining community were then annotated (Mummichog) to identify enriched metabolic pathways corresponding to specific regions of the brain. Results: The CSF metabolomics produced 9,804 unique mass-to-charge metabolic features; MRI imaging produced 247,941 individual voxels. From the imaging data, PLS-DA identified 2,375 voxels at VIP (cid:1) 2 in which a lower probability of gray matter indicated MCI status; the identified voxels clustered tightly in the hippo-campus, parahippocampal gyrus, thalamus, and orbitofrontal cortex (Figure1). The integrative network analysis identified 448 metabolic features associated with the 2,375 voxels at j r j > 0.27 and p < 0.001, creating 12 unique communities of which 7 mapped to specific brain regions Metabolic pathway analysis linked those 7 brain communities to altered amino acid (arginine, histidine, lysine, glycine, tryptophan) and urea cycle metabolism Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first metab-olomic mapping of an MCI brain using data-driven untargeted ap-proaches. Our use of powerful new omics integration tools shows central links between clinically relevant brain regions and amino acid pathways critical for brain function. Detailed mapping in larger populations may elucidate relevant mechanisms important to diagnostic strategies and interventional targets for MCI. Background: Considerable cognitive heterogeneity exists within the spectrum of 'typical' AD. We examine hypometabolic trajectories in cognitively-defined subgroups of AD to assess whether they initiate in, or progress to, subgroup-specific anatomical regions. Methods: We selected 189 probable AD-dementia subjects (age 75.4 6 7.6, 61% male, MMSE 23.2 6 3.6) from ADNI. To achieve subgroup classification, we gathered neuropsychological data at time of diagnosis and determined individual averages across memory, visuospatial, language and executive-functioning domains. We categorised subjects according to which domain showed substantial impairment relative to that average (109 AD-Memory, 8 AD-Executive, 22 AD-Language and 50 AD-Vi-suospatial; Table 1; Crane et al., 2017). Trajectories of hypometabolism were characterised using pons-normalized FDG-PET images obtained prior to and after AD-dementia diagnosis. The FDG-PET scan closest to time of diagnosis served as the baseline scan (T ¼ 0; n ¼ 189) and we obtained 180 pre-dementia and 179 post-diagnosis scans from the same subjects. Baseline (T ¼ 0) spatial patterns for each subgroup were assessed using voxelwise contrasts against controls (n ¼ 100; age 76.5 6 6.6, 51% male) and voxelwise annual change maps were computed to highlight the temporal patterns of each subgroup. Additionally, we performed linear mixed-effects analyses in 6 composite regions-of-interest (ROI). Results: Voxelwise contrasts between controls and subgroups at time of diagnosis revealed a temporoparietal cortex (TPC) pattern across all subgroups, with pronounced medial-tem-poral lobe (MTL) hypometabolism in AD-Memory and marked asymmetry (left > right) in AD-Language (Figure 1). The annual change maps Background: Discordance between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers and amyloid PET imaging in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an area of active research. Disorders in CSF dynamics, however, are often not discussed in these studies. Features of abnormal CSF


In this paper, the vibration performance and damage types of carbon fiber composite materials were investigated based on FBG sensing technology. The free end of a carbon fiber composite cantilever beam was hit by a falling ball to generate a resonance in the cantilever. The resonance frequency was measured and the damping loss factor was calculated based on which the vibration characteristic of the carbon fiber composite was analyzed. After that, a man-made damage (a small hole) was introduced into the cantilever and the resonance frequency was measured again. The result was compared with the frequency without damage, so that the damage type could be judged. The result provides a reference to the study of the vibration performance and damage monitoring of carbon fiber composite materials.


Angus Fraser unravels a very complex history of European Gypsy migrations and settlement since the early middle ages. He describes a people who have been a part of long-distance migration streams, who have in part remained nomadic, who have often become sedentary, and who have sometimes adopted the outward trappings of the larger society. Yet, at the same time, they have retained a strong sense of their


The public school experiences difficult times, in a context that aims to disqualify it, giving preference to private investments in education. It is now seen as inferior and incompetent in the face of contemporary challenges. In the perspective of the concept testing of Larrosa, we sought to contribute with the subject, analyzing the Convulsivo Sinodico Project of the E. E. "Prof. Carlos Augusto de Camargo" from Piedade, SP, created and developed by the school in the period of 1993-2017, following Walter Benjamin, for whom the past can be resumed and revealed in new forms in the present, and Roger Chartier (1988, p. 17), in the dimension of cultural history, how a reality is made to read. The methodology used is the qualitative research with the Management and School Plans of the school. The results signal paths to be explored in the dimension of Gabriel Perisse, around aesthetic literacy, a way to break with the crystallizations in the ways of seeing and living education; and Emmanuel Levinas, about the responsibility to the other.


The exchange bias (EB) phenomenon in La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/La1/3Ca2/3MnO3 bilayers was studied using Monte Carlo simulations combined with the Heisenberg model and the Metropolis algorithm. These simulations were carried out using the model proposed by Kiwi for an uncompensated interface. The Hamiltonian considered several terms corresponding to the nearest neighbor interaction, magnetocrystalline anisotropy and Zeeman effect. Several interactions in the ferromagnetic (FM), antiferromagnetic (AFM) and FM/AFM interface were considered, depending on the type of interacting ion (Mn3+eg, Mn3+eg′ or Mn4+d3). The influence of field cooling and cooling temperature on the EB was analyzed and discussed. Regarding the field cooling, it caused an increase in the EB until a certain critical value was reached. After that, its effect was almost negligible. On the other hand, at low values of cooling temperature, not only the EB but also the coercive field were enhanced.


The article unveils the meaning and significance of the concepts of spirituality and morality, and shows their relationship and influence on the perfection of the individual.


The dictionary learning problem, representing data as a combination of a few atoms, has long stood as a popular method for learning representations in statistics and signal processing. The most popular dictionary learning algorithm alternates between sparse coding and dictionary update steps, and rich literature has studied its theoretical convergence. The growing popularity of neurally plausible unfolded sparse coding networks has led to the empirical finding that backpropagation through such networks performs dictionary learning. This paper offers the theoretical proof for these empirical results through PUDLE, a Provable Unfolded Dictionary LEarning method. We provide sufficient conditions on the network initialization and data distribution for model recovery. We highlight the impact of loss, unfolding, and backpropagation on convergence. We discuss proper initializations and strategies to resolve the instability issue concerning backpropagated gradient. This is achieved through tuning network parameters and modification of loss function. We complement our findings through synthetic and image denoising experiments. Finally, we highlight the interpretability of PULDE by deriving a mathematical relation between network weights, its output, and the training data.


Objective To explore the application value of serum procalcitonin(PCT) in the treatment of patients with acute exacerbation of chronic pulmonary heart disease( AECPHD). Methods 424 patients with AECPHD were randomly divided into the PCT group( n = 210) and the control group( n = 214). The main observation indexes included the days of antibiotics use,duration of hospital stay,clinical efficacy,aggravated cases and mortality. Results The time of antibiotic use,duration of hospital stay and double infection cases were less in the PCT group than in the control group. There was no significant difference on total clinical effective rate,mortality and aggravated cases between the two groups. Conclusion The antibiotics use based on PCT level is effective in the treatment of patents with AECPHD,which can shorten the duration of antibiotics use and reduce the unnecessary antibiotic exposure.


Today's news is tomorrow's history and, of course, journalists are the recorders of history. Therefore, journalists can use the experience of Sima Qian in their recording of history. They should seek the reality, respect the objective fact and defy the political power.


Abstract. Rotating 3D objects on desktop computers with a mouse or a trackpad is a notoriously difficult task, especially for novice users. Techniques relying on a "virtual trackball" have been proposed in the literature and these continue to be used in most 3D software. While several studies were conducted to compare the performance of these techniques, none was focused on the intrinsic parameter of the radius of the virtual control sphere of the trackball. We present the results of a controlled study to investigate the influence of the radius of the control sphere on the performance and behavior of users in a 3D docking task. Surprisingly, the results do not suggest a significant effect of the size of the virtual control sphere on user performance. However, an analysis of user behavior suggests that it influences the user's strategy for how they interact with the virtual trackball.


Spin correlation coefficients in elastic scattering of leptons on the deuteron are studied in the one-photon-exchange Born approximation within the limit of zero lepton mass. Numerical estimations for the spin correlation coefficients caused by a polarized beam and a vector polarized target are presented and analyzed at various beam energies and scattering angles in two coordinate systems which are relevant for experiment. The influence of the obtained results on the nucleon structure is investigated, and a considerable dependence at incident beam energies greater than 1[Formula: see text]fm[Formula: see text] and backward scattering angles is found. The estimated results are of particular interest for encouragement of experimental measurements of lepton-deuteron scattering which aim for accurate calculation of the charge radius of the proton to a high degree of precision. These results may also stimulate new generation of measurements of different physical observables very sensitive to the spin structure of the nucleon and light nuclei.


Carcinoma breast is the commonest malignancy among the females in developed countries. These patients require Radiation Therapy as an integral part of multimodality treatment Surgery commonly involves breast conservation, with or without breast reconstruction. One of our patients underwent modified radical mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction using a temporary tissue expander. Postoperative irradiation was delivered to the breast mound encompassing the tissue expander. The effect of post-operative radiotherapy (port) in a patient who was treated with radiotherapy with the tissue expander in situ was assessed and reported here. The purpose of this study was to quantify the radiation dose distribution due to the presence of tissue expander and determine its potential contribution towards complication rate.


Reliability run through the entire development process of product and system,forming the new subject of reliability engineering.Reliability engineering involves in statistics and processing of component abate dates,quantitative evaluation of system reliability operation and maintenance,coordination between reliability and economic aspects and so on,it is an edge science,it has three characteristics of practicality,scientif ic performance and timeliness,reliability assessment method has been exploring direction in reliability fi eld research.


With the help of Nord's model for translationoriented text analysis, the author finds out how the Chinese and English product introductions of alcoholic drinks differ after conducting the analysis of the intratextual and extratextual factors in the Chinese product introductions and the parallel English product introductions. On the one hand, the Skopostheorie guides the assessment, from an overall point of view, of the English versions of the Chinese product introductions; the findings in the text analysis of both Chinese and English product introductions of alcoholic drinks, on the other, stands as the framework of reference against which a large part of the assessment is done. Improvements of the poor translation are accordingly suggested in light of the functionalist approaches. Keywords—assessment; product introductions of alcoholic drinks; functionalist approaches; Skopostheorie


The deep reasons for the reduction of readers in hospital libraries under network environment were analyzed with certain measures proposed for their solution.


Growth rate of Archachatina marginata based on parent body weight (Group 1
(l00-249g), Group 2 (250-399g) and Group 3 (400-549g) ) was investigated from
day old to twelve weeks of age under the same housing and dietary conditions in a
complete ramdomised design with 3 treatments, 2 replicates and 10 Snailets per
treatment to determine the effect of parent body weight on growth rate.
The study revealed that, at day old, Group 3 had the highest mean hatching weight
of 3.15g while Groups 1 and 2 had 2.75g and 2.56g respectively. At twelve
weeks of age, Group 1 had the highest mean weekly weight gain (2.80g) followed by Group 2 (2.46g) and lastly by Group 3 (2.08g). Only Groups I and 3 differed
significantly (P <0.05).
The result of this study shows that Snailets from lighter weight parents grow
faster than those of heavier parents. Growth of Achatina achatina could not be
monitored because their parent stock did not lay throughout the experimental
period. Hence, the need for further study to establish the appropriate environment in which the species can be well adapted for growth and reproduction.


Although the sphere decoder (SD) is a powerful detector for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, it has become computationally prohibitive in massive MIMO systems, where a large number of antennas are employed. To overcome this challenge, we propose fast deep learning (DL)-aided SD (FDL-SD) and fast DL-aided <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-best SD (KSD, FDL-KSD) algorithms. Therein, the major application of DL is to generate a highly reliable initial candidate to accelerate the search in SD and KSD in conjunction with candidate/layer ordering and early rejection. Compared to existing DL-aided SD schemes, our proposed schemes are more advantageous in both offline training and online application phases. Specifically, unlike existing DL-aided SD schemes, they do not require performing the conventional SD in the training phase. For a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$24 \times 24$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MIMO system with QPSK, the proposed FDL-SD achieves a complexity reduction of more than 90% without any performance loss compared to conventional SD schemes. For a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$32 \times 32$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MIMO system with QPSK, the proposed FDL-KSD only requires <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K = 32$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to attain the performance of the conventional KSD with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K=256$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is the number of survival paths in KSD. This implies a dramatic improvement in the performance–complexity tradeoff of the proposed FDL-KSD scheme.


The invention discloses a metallurgical process for a tungsten mineral raw material. A weakly basic leaching agent which is conductive to forming a local process cycle is adopted; a leaching solution of the weakly basic leaching agent generates two or more gases in the evaporating and crystallizing process; various gases can participate in the synthesis of the leaching agent again; the crystallized separating washing solution can be also used as the leaching agent for recycling; the tungsten mineral raw material and a certain amount of calcium-containing substances and mineralizer are ground and uniformly mixed to obtain raw materials; when the raw materials are prepared, the addition of the calcium-containing substance is at least 1.0 time of the theoretical amount of Ca3WO6, Ca2FeWO6 and/or Ca2MnWO6 which are generated by tungsten in the tungsten mineral raw material, preferably 1.1-1.5 times and more preferably 1.1-1.2 times; a transformation ingredient is adopted to be subjected to a chemical reaction with the tungsten mineral raw material, so that tungsten elements are changed to be contained in an intermediate substance which is easily dissolved by the leaching agent; leaching slag also contains ingredient elements, so that at least part of leaching slag can be used as the ingredient for recycling. Therefore, the process contains multiple closed loops; waste water is not discharged in the whole process.


The infection factors on the mechanical property of the backfilling body are investigated by use of the regression method to coordinated test data. The results indicate that the cement is main infection factors to strength of backfilling body. The strength is greatly increased with the increase of the cement content in dry mix material from 7.69% to 20%. Conserve time and solid content are also main infection factors to strength of backfilling body. For the same solid content,the effect of the conserve time on strength of backfilling body is seriously,the strength is increased with conserve time in logarithmic scale. For the same conserve time,the strength of the sample is increased slowly with increase of the solid content,especially for the conserve time between 3d and 7d. Simulation formulas could express the relation between compression and cement consume,solid content,conserve time,cement content in dry mix material preferably,and simulation values could inosculate the factual values.


Fran9ois Mitterand incurred much criticism in the recent French presidential election campaign for being short on specific policies, though one promise which he did reiterate frequently was to increase significantly expenditure on universities and on scientific research, as a means of stimulating the national economy. As a preliminary gesture in this direction, M. Lionel Jospin, the minister responsible for education in the new Socialist government, has been given top ranking in the Cabinet, second only to the Prime Minister (and with the somewhat Gilbertian title: Ministre d'Etat, ministre de l'ducation nationale, de la jeunesse et du sport); his budget for next year has been increased to 5-5%, allowing for some 13,000 new jobs. This is all in stark contrast with the current status accorded to the DES and with its policies of retrenchment: the mere fact that such widely divergent philosophies about the role of universities and their usefulness to the state can coexist in two neighbouring, and not so dissimilar, countries, is extraordinary, and seems to go beyond any simple Left/ Right divide. Perhaps it is not surprising then that in recent years there has been an upsurge of interest among historians in the nature and function of 'higher education' in earlier ages, a trend epitomised by the creation in 1981 of a journal, History of Universities. The Anglo-Saxons have been prominent in writing the history of French universities, and following upon George Weisz's The Emergence of Modern Universities in France, 1863-1914 (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1983), L. W. B. Brockliss has now given us a definitive and immensely suggestive account of 'higher education' under the ancien regime. The first part of the book describes the different types of institution which existed in this period and looks at the day-to-day lives of the teachers and students who worked in them; the major part of the work is then devoted to a detailed consideration of the structure and content of the curriculum. Previous attempts to describe the teaching given in universities in the early-modern period have suffered from severe limitations, firstly because they were often limited to one institution only and so were rather narrow in scope, and secondly, and more importantly, because they based their descriptions of the curriculum on the provisions laid down in the various faculty statutes, theoretical statements of policy which were sometimes incomplete and often not implemented in practice. The great originality of this study is that it is founded on different and unmined source material-printed textbooks, manuscript transcriptions 371


Volume 2 • Issue 2 Gastric cancer ranks as the second most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Even in patients who undergo potentially curative resection, estimated at 30%–50% of all cases, the 5-year survival rate is 20%–30%. In the 1990s, random assignment phase III studies and metaanalyses failed to show a benefit with adjuvant chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy following curative-intent resection for advanced gastric cancer with the agents available at that time. In addition, the vast majority of studies were underpowered to detect small but clinically significant differences. In 2001, Macdonald and colleagues were the first to demonstrate a survival advantage with the addition of any treatment plus surgery to surgery alone for localized gastric cancer. The US Intergroup study (INT-0116) compared adjuvant 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)/ leucovorin and radiation with surgery alone in 556 patients and showed a significantly improved disease-free and overall survival for the chemoradiotherapy group. Median overall survival was 35months vs. 26 months in the surgery plus chemoradiotherapy and surgery alone arms respectively (P < .001). Even though a significant survival advantage was maintained with long term follow-up, this study has been criticized for excessive toxicity and suboptimal surgery. Nevertheless, the results of INT-0116 established a standard of care option after curativeintent surgery for gastric cancer in North America. In this issue of Gastrointestinal Cancer Research, Wang and colleagues have provided us with the first attempt at a costeffectiveness analysis of postoperative chemoradiotherapy for gastric cancer. The primary health economic outcome in such analyses is the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER). This is calculated by dividing the incremental cost of an intervention (in this case adjuvant chemoradiotherapy) by the quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) attributed to that intervention. An acceptable threshold for ICER is $60,000, though there is variance in cancer therapy. For example, a recent cost-effectiveness analysis of TAC (docetaxel/doxorubicin [Adriamycin]/cyclophosphamide) with growth factor support compared with FAC (5-FU/doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide) as adjuvant chemotherapy for early nodepositive breast cancer calculated an ICER of $40,300 ($1=£0.50595). Starling and colleagues report an ICER of $113,800 in their analysis of cetuximab/irinotecan vs. active/best supportive care for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who have failed previous chemotherapy. Wang and colleagues found an ICER for adjuvant chemoradiotherapy for gastric cancer of $38,400 which is well within an accepted ICER range. In fact, based on this analysis, adjuvant chemoradiotherapy comes at a discount! However, what is the quality of this quality-of-life and cost-effectiveness analysis?


We developed a so-called "reel-to-reel method" COF technology using a long carrier tape for the LCD driver package. This method enables mass production of COF. We used the ILB (inner lead bonding) technique that connects inner leads on a 2-layered tape (glue-less) to Au bumps on an IC chip. COP tape material should be carefully selected with respect to both thermal expansion and heat resistance, because the IC chips are connected to the tape at a temperature over 400 C. In cooperation with a resin maker, we developed the underfill material, which enables filling the narrow spaces between the IC chip and the 2-layered chip without bubbles. The 2-layered tape also features easy installation onto CR parts and is flexible enough to bend freely. These features offer a promising advantage when this method is applied to compact appliances such as cellular phones and PDAs. Introduction At present, TCP (tape carrier package) is widely being used as a package for LCD driver ICs. Sharp first began using TCP assembly processes for LCDs in 1985, and we have developed a number of TCP technologies, becoming a leader in the TCP industry. COF (chip-on-film) was first introduced in 1998 as a replacement for TCP. Since the summer of 2000, its use has advanced extremely rapidly with the evolution of larger color displays for mobile phones, and demand for COF has grown even stronger. Figs. 1and 2 show, respectively, photographs, and top views and cross-sectional views of TCP and COF packages. COF uses tape, and so its external appearance differs little from TCP. Table 1 lists the strong points and shortcomings of TCP and COF, but the advantages and disadvantages of COF stem from the fact that it uses a 2-layered tape. Note that slits must be opened in the TCP to allow flexing (one reason for high tape costs is because of the large external size of the TCP in the area of the slits). But COF offers many new strong points that TCP doesn't have, including the fact that it can be flexed even without the need to open up slits; the fact that there are no flying leads at the device holes as with COF (Chip-On-Film) Technology for LCD Driver ICs Using Reel-to-Reel System Kenji Toyosawa Nakae Nakamura * Kazuhiko Fukuta Yasunori Chikawa * * Module Assembly application engineering Dept., LCD LSI Division, Integrated Circuits Group


In the present work, barium phosphate glasses codoped with Dy3+–Eu3+ ions are prepared and their photoluminescence properties are studied by the excitation and emission spectra. The dependence of emission spectra on the concentrations of Eu3+ and Dy3+ is discussed with respect to the energy transfer (ET) process from Dy3+ to Eu3+ ions and relevant ET mechanism was proposed.


The year 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the Muthanga Struggle led by Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha (AGMS) in Kerala. Crystallization of the landrights movement under AGMS puts forth a fundamental critique, not only of the known equations of the national modernization in the post-colonial context, but also challenges the wisdom of modernity in South Asia. This paper focuses on the organisational form and ideological contents of AGMS. It argues that the land-rights movement represented a process of collective identity assertion along with a systematised effort for democratic bargaining. At the same time, it was a physical enactment of their autonomy by the citizens under a liberal democratic set-up. By invoking memories of a collective past, and welding them with a concrete social action, AGMS laid out crucial knots— though ephemeral—of an indigenous modernity.


The graphical representation of biologic sequence is an important subject in the area of genome studies.Based on the graphical representation of RNA proposed by B.Liao which is widely used,a new 3-D graphical representation of RNA secondary structure include information of pseudoknots is presented.The free bases are divided into two kinds:in the pseudoknots and out of the pseudoknots.The examination of similarities among 5 RNA secondary structures illustrates the utility of the representation.


.................................................................................................................. xix Chapter One Introduction & overview of thesis ................................................... 1 1.1Introduction ................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Personal statement .................................................................................... 1 1.3 Background ................................................................................................. 3 1.4 Cardiac Rehabilitation as a complex intervention ................................. 6 1.5 Acute Coronary Syndrome Low Troponin .............................................. 9 1.6 Theoretical framework for Cardiac Rehabilitation ...............................10 1.7 A framework for research ........................................................................10 1.8 Aim of the thesis .......................................................................................12 1.9 Research questions .................................................................................13


Roy Shuttleworth is Senior Clinical Psychologist at Longrove Adolescent Unit, Epsom; he has used dramatherapy techniques for many years in his work and with training groups. He has published several papers, including a chapter in the book CREATIVE THERAPY.


There are a number of factors that influence both the physical and the economical performance of a photovoltaic solar energy (PV) installation. The aim of this project was to develop a simulation a ...


position of abomasum is positioned below the rumen in the right of the ventral midline. Left displacement of abomasum (LDA) is a condition in which abomasum is trapped between the rumen and left abdominal wall. LDA occurs most commonly in large, high-producing adult dairy cows after parturition (1). Many papers have been described risk factors, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and outcome of LDA up to date . There is increasing recognition that abnormalities in blood clotting and fibrinolysis occur in both subclinical and clinical forms in many diseases . Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) is a pathological process characterized by excessive fibrin deposition in microcirculatory system with ischemia, functional disorders, and a tendency for bleeding . This extreme of the clotting disorder is may vary in severity from occurrence of petechial haemorrhages in mucous membranes to life Kafkas Univ Vet Fak Derg 15 (2): 293-296, 2009 DOI:10.9775/kvfd.2009.012-A SHORT COMMUNICATION


Since the Penetration of the Solar Photovoltaic has been increased rapidly over the decade, the issue of maintaining the power quality within the allowable range has been a topic of major concern. This paper presents the basic designing, analysis and implementation of the LCL filter for attenuating the grid current harmonics and improving the power quality. The comparative analysis related to stability, complexity, cost and application of LCL filter with L and LC filter has been presented and a step by step approach to design a LCL filter has also been explained in the paper. The approach has been tested on a 100KW grid connected photovoltaic system and the efficacy of the approach has been proved by the reduced THD level up to 2.93%.


The invention relates to a method of controlling a closing and opening device comprising a movable member, said movable member moving between two extreme positions represented by a limit switch or devices, the device comprising means for actuation of the movable member constituted by an electric motor, wire means control of the movable member comprising at least one inverter switch, means for detecting the period of displacement of the movable member, as well as logical processing means constituted by an electronic circuit for actuating the movable member and the management of limit switches, said method comprising, firstly, at least one programming mode of the limit switches, and secondly, a mode normal actuation of the movable member in which said logic processing means causes the stopping of the movable member when the stored limit switches are approximate, see e met, said device having further means for triggering said at least one programming mode for course.Selon the invention, first, the method comprises feeding continuously the electronic circuit logic means treatment and said means for detecting the period of displacement of the movable member, said trigger means of said at least one programming mode of the limit switches being constituted by the electronic card, and more particularly by the change detecting means state of the inverter switch and in which method, on the other hand, triggers the or each programming mode desired limit switches by fugitive support close to the reversing switch of the type pulses, a number determined greater than one, and where appropriate, distinct in the case of a plurality of modes programmation.L'invention also concern a device e closing and opening as such and an engine management electronic limit switches.


The distribution system operation in Beijing, China, is investigating on an AC/DC topology for expanding a local distribution system. The feature is to install multi-terminal DC interconnections (MTDI) among three substations, in order to achieve un-interrupted load transfer as well as better loading sharing during primary transformer N-1 outages. This paper presents a reliability assessment of hybrid AC/DC distribution network with the multi-terminal DC interconnection (MTDI). This paper consists of two major parts, which are a reliability model of the MTDI and a power supply restoration scheme. Case studies are performed through a real-life distribution network. The results suggest that reliability of the distribution network can be improved and the capacity of the transformer can be reduced with the joint of MDCI.


—Input validation is a fairly universal programming practice that helps reduce the chances of producing protection-related vulnerabilities in software. In this paper, an experiment is conducted to specifically determine the input validation issues found in programs and the problematic functions that lead to such issues. The experiment evaluated 12 arbitrarily selected open source C projects written by different programmers. The top two most common input validation problems are buffer overflow/XSS and potential memory mismanagement. In addition, the functions that caused the first problem are: (a) strings/text functions (e.g., strcpy and strcmp), and (b) functions that read from standard input, STDIN (e.g., scanf and gets). In contrast, the functions that caused the second problem are (a) memory allocation/deallocation functions (e.g., memmove and malloc), and (b) file manipulation functions (e.g., fopen and fseek). Furthermore, the goto construct—to a small extent—plays a role. The recommendations are that (a) developers are encouraged to use memory-safe programming languages, otherwise, they should perform different types of checks for the validity of inputs as soon as they are entered, and (b) they should have the required knowledge of secure source code and use tools/suites to manage malformed strings.


There is nowadays a lot of interest in the field of Instructional Design. The focus is still on theories and methodology of Instructional System Design (ISD), which are the fundamentals of the field and are absolutely important for its application. However, most professionals are involved in the daily practice of instructional design (ID). The practice of instructional design has a slightly different approach, which tend not to follow strictly the linearity of many ID Models that have been created over the past thirty years. Success in applying the ID methodology lies on a systemic validation and revision of all phases performed along the process of developing instruction. Another element to be considered in the practice of ID, aiming effectiveness and high quality results, is the synergy of all components and the team, which will be acquired by fully knowledge of the process by all.


Babaeian, M., M. Heidari and A. Ghanbari. 2010. Effect of water stress and foliar micronutrient application on physiological caharctersitics and nutrient uptake in sunflower (Helianthus annus L.). Iranian Journal of Crop Sciences. 12 (4) 377-391. (In Persian) To study the effect of foliar micronutrient application under water stress conditions at two stages of growth on chlorophyll fluorescence, chlorophyll, proline and carbohydrates content, nutrient uptake and relation between them with grain yield of sunflower (cv. Alster), a field experimental in split plot design with three replications was conducted at the University of Zabol, in 2007 growing season.. Wter stress at three levels (control, flowering and grain filling stages) were assigned as main plots and seven micronutrient treatments; Fe, Zn, Mn, Fe+Zn, Fe+Mn, Zn+Mn and Fe+Zn+Mn, were randomized in sub-plots. Results showed that water stress at two stages of growth significantly reduced grain yield. The impact of water stress was more pronounced when applied at grain filling and grain yield decreased by about %24.3. Foliar micronutrient application increased grain yield in water stress and application of Mn had the highest positive effect on grain yield. Chlorophyll fluorescence, free proline and total soluble carbohydrates content increased in water stress condition at both stages of growth. The highest concentration of these components were found in the flowering stage. Foliar application of micronutrients increased accumulation of these components, the highest chlorophyll fluorescence was found in Fe, chlorophyll in Fe+Mn, proline in Zn and carbohydrate in Fe+Zn+Mn treatments. In this study, the highest content of Fe and Mn elements were found in non-water stress (control) and the lowest of these elemnets were observed in water stress at the grain filling stage. It can be concluded that water stress at the grain filling stage had the most effect on reducing grain yield of sunflower. Although the highest chlorophyll fluorescence and concentrations of the osmotic regulators (carbohydrates and proline) were found in water stress at the flowering stage. Since water stress at the grain filling stage reduced the uptake of micronutrients, particularly Mn, therefore its effect on sunflower was more pronounced than water stress at the flowering stage.


Small Island Developing States (SIDS) claim special circumstances that complicate their adoption of formal marine administrative systems. The special circumstances include their size, their vulnerability to natural hazards, their dependence on marine resources and their technical and administrative resource limitations. In the context of the Eastern Caribbean Islands, these factors seem to manifest in present marine administrative weakness. This paper presents a brief discussion on these issues.


Psychological assessment is an important area of clinical work with maltreated children. The current study investigated the role of attachment organization as a predictor of patterns of similarities and discrepancies between three types of assessments of maladjustment. Results indicate that participants classified as Disorganized/Unresolved tend to show more impairment on the Ego Impairment Index of the Rorschach when compared with their peers, especially when discrepancies with self-giver and caregiver report of behavior problems are considered. Secure/Autonomous participants tended to show little or moderate levels of problems across measures. The findings point to the importance of using multiple measures when assessing juveniles showing a history of maltreatment, as well as of considering assessment findings in a relational framework.


BACKGROUND
Large volume autologous fat transfer (AFT) to the breast with external expansion has emerged as an alternative to alloplastic augmentation or reconstruction in appropriate patients.

OBJECTIVES
Report the authors' technique for this procedure and experience with 49 consecutive patients from a single surgeon's practice from 2013 to 2021.

METHODS
The authors performed a retrospective analysis of consecutive patients undergoing fat grafting to the breast with the use of pre-expansion. Patients were included if they had a clinical problem amenable to correction with large volume fat injection, adequate donor sites, and were willing to undergo pre-expansion. Data was collected through chart review and de-identified. Demographics, diagnosis, radiation status, volume grafted, complications, and adjunct procedures were recorded.

RESULTS
Forty-nine patients underwent external expansion with AFT by a single surgeon. Twenty-three patients (47%) had hypoplastic indications including tuberous breast deformity (n = 9) and Poland syndrome (n = 1). Seventeen patients (35%) had indications for secondary breast revision of previously placed implants. Nine patients (18%) utilized the procedure for primary oncologic breast reconstruction. A total of 71 procedures were performed, with an average of 1.45 procedures per patient. The average volume of fat grafted per breast was 372 cc for hypoplasia, 240 cc for secondary breast revision, and 429 cc for oncologic reconstruction. Concurrent procedures included implant exchange, implant removal, mastopexy, and breast reduction. Follow-up ranged from 1 to 84 (average = 20) months.

CONCLUSIONS
The authors' experience shows promising results with external expansion and large volume fat grafting to the breast.


Background: Progressive stress levels, aging and less care on mental health among adults lead to a decline in neurophysiological functioning and diminish the performance of working memory. Regular practice of meditation through Heartfulness will enhance mental health and thereby considerably reduce the risks of Alzheimer's disease. Methods: This review article was carried out from the literature available on databases such as PubMed, MED-LINE, Web of Science and Research Gate until May 2020. A qualitative analysis of the impact of Heartfulness meditation on people with chronic insomnia, students of different age groups, Heartfulness meditation practitioners and caregivers were summarized. Results: From the survey results of selected 10 articles, it has been observed that the people who were practicing meditation through Heartfulness gain emotional wellness, joy, sound sleep pattern and reduction of stress, tension and anger. Moreover, the level of brain waves of the practitioners, especially alpha and delta activities in the brain were increased and there was a tremendous change in neuroplasticity among the practitioners. Conclusion: Regular practice of meditation through Heartfulness improves the cognitive ability of the practitioners, with improved neurophysiological functions and suppresses the risks of Alzheimer's diseases.


For more than a quarter of a century, The University of Arizona has had a cooperative research project with the San Carlos Apache Tribe's registered Hereford herd at Arsenic Tubs. The heifers used in this study were from this project. The general range area is at an altitude of 5,000 feet with forage consisting primarily of desert grassland vegetation. Annual rainfall averages about 14 or 15 inches with most of it occurring during the summer months of July and August. Temperature extremes may range from -10 F in January to 95 F in July.


Environmental context Various UV-filtering chemicals are added to sunscreens in order to protect humans from the harmful effects of the sun. As a consequence of disinfection processes in swimming pools, sunscreen components may be chlorinated and change their structure and properties, leading to derivatives with higher toxicity. The safety of sunscreen components as well as that of their transformation products during their use requires further study. Abstract In this work is presented a synthesis pathway for the UV filter hexyl 2-(4-diethylamino-2-hydroxybenzoyl)benzoate (DHHB) and its chlorinated by-products in order to investigate the transformation behaviour and toxicity changes of DHHB during chlorination disinfection treatment. Acute toxicity was measured using standardised tests with aquatic model organisms. The potency of DHHB was compared with other benzophenone-like UV filters tested in the same experimental set-up. The toxicity of chlorinated compounds tested with photobacteria was found to be in a similar range to that of the starting compound. Microalgae were more sensitive to DHHB than to its chlorinated by-products, whereas daphnids were affected more by DHHB's chlorinated products. The comparative toxicity data showed DHHB and even more its chlorinated by-products as more highly biologically potent to daphnids than other tested UV filters. The toxic potential of benzophenone-like UV filters should be interpreted together with data on their chemical properties, chlorination effects and affected organisms.


This paper investigates the stability of a hybrid AC/DC microgrid considering a range of reactance ($X$) to resistance ($R$) ratios for microgrid cables. The study has specifically investigated the influence of $X/R$ ratio on induction machine (IM) rotor speed oscillations, voltage & frequency oscillations using both theoretical analysis and non-linear dynamic simulations under various disturbances in the hybrid AC/DC microgrid. Majority of the distributed energy resources (DERs) and the energy storage system (ESS) controllers are designed by assuming that the microgrid cables are either inductive or resistive, and then investigated the dynamic performance of the hybrid AC/DC microgrid by varying the $X/R$ ratio of cables while maintaining the cable impedance constant. The theoretical analysis indicates that the frequency can be controlled by the reactive power in a microgrid with resistive cables, while the frequency can be controlled via the active power in a microgrid with inductive cables. Any disturbance in the AC sub-grid create power imbalance, which causes IM rotor speed, voltage & frequency oscillations, and these issues are even more severe when the microgrid cables are becoming resistive as all the controllers are designed assuming inductive cables and vice-versa. Furthermore, the disturbances in the AC sub-grid propagate through the inter-linking converter (ILC) into the DC sub-grid and can cause DC bus voltage oscillations. Therefore, the DC sub-grid also affected by the $X/R$ ratio of the cables in the AC sub-grid.


The influence of 4‐amino‐5‐mercapto‐3 n‐propyl‐1‐2‐4‐triazole (AMPT) on corrosion and hydrogen permeation through mild steel in 0.5M H2SO4 and 1M HCl has been studied using weight loss measurements and various electrochemical techniques. AMPT is found to be more inhibitive in H2SO4 than in HCl. Potentiodynamic polarisation studies clearly prove the fact that this compound behaves as a mixed inhibitor; but predominantly as a cathodic inhibitor. Hydrogen permeation studies and AC impedance measurements also indicate an improved performance of the compound in H2SO4. The adsorption of this compound on the mild steel surface obeys Temkin's adsorption isotherm.


The heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) requires providing everyday activities and interventions adapted according to the characteristics of each individual. Digital Solutions (software, apps, websites, etc.) can support this adaptation to favor the development and expand the abilities of these specific users. However, it is necessary to ensure the quality of these resources. From this perspective, accessibility recommendations for users with autism are available to guide developers and evaluation teams on the development of suitable digital solutions. This paper describes the results of an online exploratory survey about the relevance, suitability, and understandability of accessibility guidelines for ASD. The survey targeted different profiles, including individuals with ASD; parents or legal guardians; practitioners who work with this population; ergonomists and software developers; and researchers who are interested in this subject. The paper presents and discusses the result of 440 valid answers from more than five countries.


Using method of the investigation,an analysis on the traditional sports of Yugu nationality was made.The study finds that the Yugu nationality's traditional sports have some important culture characteristics such as nationality and living feature,entertainment and interest,view and performance,competitiveness and antagonism,and mass and economy.Our goal is to let people understand and pay more attention to it,and to protect and develop the minority traditional sports,to inherit and pass the national civilization.


AbstractThe 25th anniversary of R. Edward Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach provides an opportunity to consider where stakeholder theory has been, where it is going, and how it might influence the behavior of academics conducting stakeholder-oriented research. We propose that Freeman's early work on the stakeholder concept supports the normative claim that a stakeholder's contribution to value creation implies a right to stakeholder voice with regard to how a corporation makes decisions. Failure to account for stakeholder voice (especially for non-shareholder stakeholders) works to the detriment of stakeholders. We further propose that business ethicists and stakeholder scholars have a role to play with regard to supporting the interests — including a right to voice — of non-shareholder stakeholders through advocacy, teaching, and scholarship. We use the example of industrial relations teaching and scholarship as a model for future business ethics teaching and scholarship.


This study investigated the relationship between foreign language listening anxiety and listening proficiency, focusing on the effects of different language learning settings on anxiety and listening proficiency. This study suggests that foreign language learners experience anxiety in listening comprehension process. The study also indicates online learning has positive effects on easing the learners' listening anxiety and developing listening proficiency. Correlation analysis revealed that listening anxiety is significantly related to listening proficiency, suggesting that listening anxiety interferes with foreign language listening. According to the regression analysis, anxiety served as a predictor of listening proficiency. This paper also suggests some implications.


We talk a great deal about art and artists. Works of art are experienced within a complex network of beliefs articulated in common-sense sayings, literary genres, and scholarly disciplines. The culture of the Western classical tradition is, indeed, characterized by an unusual density of discourses and behaviors concerning art. Alsop (1982) has pointed out that this art-workT — collectors, museums, the art market, and art history — is a rather unusual phenomenon in the workTs cultures. The need to enshrine and explain works of art reflects some basic tenets of Western attitudes toward knowledge. The pattern Alsop documents is most strongly expressed in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. It is thus coincident with the development of a modernist' view of the relationships between the knowing seifand an objective world out there'. Beliefs about images crystallize and justify a 'modernist' perspective on the nature of mind, world, and knowledge. The ways in which we construe and explain art coordinate conflicting "subtexts" in our culture, and so sustain the coherence of the System. Works of art are believed to give physical form to ideas — to render meaning present and accessible to direct perceptual experience. The arbitrary signs of language distance ideas in the very process of referring to them: signifier and signified are different entities linked by convention. The Interpreter must access a conventional code in order to think the signified. The message is patently constructed from a human perspective— not reality\ but "reality framed in terms of culture'. Art objects are held to escape the distancing inherent in saying; they *say' something with compelling power, yet in another sense they do not say' anything at all. This tenet of populär belief about art shares much with semiotic notions


Experimental investigations and special software for the e-beam exposure system gives the possibility of decreasing the influence of proximity effects and field distortion. The results of creating a focusing element for the soft x-ray range are described: amplitude and phase- contrast Fresnel zone plates as well as reflected Bragg-Fresnel lenses on the base of multilayer x-ray mirrors.


The usual methods to determine organohalogenic compounds such as extractable organohalogens (EOX), adsorbable organohalogens (AOX) and purgeable organohalogens (POX) do not measure all polar compounds. A procedure is developed for the coulometric measurement of polar compounds in water. Samples with polar compounds are acidified to pH 1,5 and adsorbed on the resin XAD-4. The inorganic halogens are removed by washing with nitrate solution. The XAD-4 columns are eluted with acetone. After combustion of the organohalogens in a furnace, the halogen content is measured coulometrically. The procedure is tested with trichloroacetic iced (TCA). The recovery by the AOX determination was about 25%, whereas the recovery by the new procedure was about 100%.


Nigel Biggar's latest book on human rights is really two sets of essays, in some tension with each other—and one of them far more credible, with some modifications that undermine the project on whi...


The combination of topology optimization (TOP) and Selective laser melting (SLM) provides the possibility to fabricate the complex, lightweight and of high performances of geometries. This paper evaluates the properties of porous structure with different porosity (40%~80%) and unite cell size (2~8mm), which are designed by topology optimization and explores their manufacturing limits for SLM. The compression properties, correlation between structural parameters (unit cell size and porosity) and dynamic elastic modulus of porous structure were investigated in properties evaluation. For manufacturing limits, three typical internal microstructures are abstracted and investigated including spiral structure, arched structure and structure with thin wall and small holes. During the compression experiment, these porous structures undergo catastrophic failure after forming crush band with an angle of 45°and their elastic modulus and compressive strength decrease with increase of both porosity and unite cell size. Gibson-Ashby model is used to evaluate the performance of porous structures, the value of structural parameter λ increases with the decrease of unite cell size indicating better stability of structure. Finally, the model for correlation between porous structural parameters and elastic modulus is established, which provides a mathematical reference for matching bone elastic modulus of different age, gender and skeletal site of human race.


In 1956, Bateson, Jackson, Haley, and Weakland published 'Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia'. This paper was an early milestone in family therapy's development, signifying the importance that communications theory and cybernetics would hold for the evolution of the field over the ensuing three decades. Many are familiar with the notion of the double bind; however, the idea's theoretical underpinnings, and the broader contributions of the paper that launched it, are often misunderstood or overlooked. The 50th anniversary of the publication of 'Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia' offers an opportunity to revisit the importance of the contribution made by Bateson and his then colleagues, and to return to the fore the notions of logical typing, context, relationship and circularity that are at its heart. (author abstract)


The "3414" fertilizer efficiency test in the grey eel-mud field of Wanzai county in Jiangxi province was carried out,the results showed that the main factor of limiting rice yield was nitrogen,followed by phosphorus and potassium.The optimum application rates of nitrogen,phosphorus and potassium fertilizer were 12.02,8.47 and 3.92 kg/667 m2 respectively.


The modern era is characterized by a rapid change in social relations, the emergence of new institutions, which has become a consequence of rapid development of technologies, their penetration into everyday life. Nowadays, measures are being taken to develop the digital economy. At the same time, the society is experiencing crisis phenomena, environmental problems, which, consequently, leads to changes in the culture of consumption of available limited resources: in the economy there is a tendency to shift from a society of consumption (consumerism) to the sharing economy. Indeed, the idea of the economy of joint use of goods and services (sharing economy, peering economy) is not a new one in itself, but it has gained new impetus in the context of the development of modern technologies, digitalization of the economy, when the creation of uniform technological platforms and marketplaces facilitates the unification and connection of an unlimited number of strangers. All this determines the relevance of the study of the features of civil law regulation of relations associated with the implementation of settlements in connection with the performance of obligations under the contracts concluded in the context of the sharing economy, determination of the possibility of using blockchain technology in this field and peculiarities of the legal regulation of relations in connection with its application. The article highlights that, at the present stage, different models of contractual relations are formed to mediate relations existing in the sharing economy, within each of these models there are peculiarities of performance of obligations, while the model of the sharing economy gives the possibility of using the blockchain technology, but its use is complicated by the lack of proper legal regulation of the relations under consideration.


(cid:3) Abstract — This paper presents investigation effects of a sharp edged gust on aeroelastic behavior and time-domain response of a typical section model using Jones approximate aerodynamics for pure plunging motion. Flutter analysis has been done by using p and p-k methods developed for presented finite-state aerodynamic model for a typical section model (airfoil). Introduction of gust analysis as a linear set of ordinary differential equations in a simplified procedure has been carried out by using transformation into an eigenvalue problem.


To deal with the product data exchanging and the sharing of CAPP/PDM integration under the network environment,it's possible to translate the standard for the exchange of product model data files into corresponding extensible markup language neutral files by using STEP/XML translator.CAPP system can get design data from PDM under the network environment and store data through the STEP/XML neutral document in the PDM platform,thus realize effective integration of CAPP/PDM under the network environment.


Is contemporary partisanship "identity all the way down"? If there is a single buzzword that sums up American politics in the present era, it is "polarization." But why has polarization become such a prominent feature of American political life? In Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason provides a novel and compelling answer.


ForEsT cErTIFIcaTIon assures green consumers that the wood products that they wish to purchase are produced from a well-managed forest (Leslie et al. 2002). Forest certification also gives producers an eco-friendly label so that they obtain better market access and (in some cases) greater income to compensate for the higher cost of management incurred during the certification process (often including the application of reduced-impact logging—ril). By linking green consumers and certified timber producers, forest certification is expected to ultimately drive unsustainably produced timber from the markets. Forest certification is expected to give economic incentives to timber producers and economic/ecological value for green consumers.


Choosing the optimum tender scheme is a goal that every investor runs after,but the optimum scheme can not be measured by using the coming bid value only.If a prominent indicator of a worse bid unit is so outstanding as to conceal the other worse indices,then the tendering procedure is not objective.This paper adopts the method of entropy right that combines the objective and subjective factors to determine the proportion of entropy in decision-making and compare with the other methods.Results show that this new method improves the fairness and objectivity of tendering evaluation through accounting the information implied by the diversity of evaluation indices.


The major objective of this study was to identify certain needs which limit the effectiveness of early childhood teachers in the classroom. This was done by the use of an assessment tool. Results indicated a high priority and dire need for help in five factor need areas: children guidance and achievement of the basic skills; functional and qualitative learning and a mastery of the basic skills; motivating children to learn; identifying and sustaining readiness factors that affect learning and establishing and maintaining discipline. Consequently, a test for relation ship between the identified factor needs of early childhood teachers and selected teachers variables yielded no statistical significance (p>0.05).


This paper studies R&D incentives of a non-producing firm in an upstream-downstream structure for three types of technologies, viz., upstream technology, downstream technology and common technology (which is usable in both streams). We consider both the cases of exogenous and endogenous innovation. In case of common technology innovation, we have also studied the effect of spillovers. In particular, we show that transfer to only upstream firm can be optimal. We have contrasted the results with those when an insider (i.e., upstream or downstream) firm is engaged in research. The size of the innovation can be larger compared to third firm R&D case. While there can be a conflict between private and socially optimal choice of technology, we show that socially optimal choice is implementable.


This paper proposes a Malay Part-of-Speech (POS) tagger using a new set of POS tags and a deep learning classifier. A new set of POS tags was proposed, and the POS classifier was built using a deep learning model, a bidirectional long short-term memory network with a conditional random field (BiLSTM-CRF). We expanded the POS tagset by considering the informal Malay terms frequently used in Malay tweet text. Additionally, for the Bi-LTSM-CRF model, we used a combined embedding of Malay Wiki Word2Vec and a Malay Twitter corpus annotated with POS Word2Vec. The BiLSTM-CRF Malay POS tagger was then compared to traditional classifier models. Based on evaluation results, the BiLSTM-CRF model performed the best. Thus, we concluded that deep learning techniques combined with appropriate embeddings are capable of performing fine-grained POS tagging on Malay tweet text. Additionally, using a customized POS tagset for specific types of text results in increased POS label coverage.


Presents a miniaturized bioreactor (bioreactor-on-a-chip) applied to baker's yeast fermentation. The bioreactor-on-a-chip is fabricated using silicon and glass wafers applying micromachining technology (wet-etching techniques) in order to create microchannels, mixerchannels, and microvalves. The miniaturization and integration allows smaller volumes to be used, which can be often rather challenging from the analytical point of view. Also, optical detection by absorption, electrochemical detection using microelectrodes and membranes are used. Moreover, electroanalytical techniques used in bioelectrochemistry (e.g. microdialysis, capillary electrophoresis and HPLC) are employed. Experimental results obtained from a macro laboratory set-up with a five-liter fermenter and on-line measurement of temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and ethanol, and exhausted gases analyses are available. Biomass and glucose concentrations are estimated on-line by observation algorithms and confirmed by off-line measurements. An ethanol set-point control is implemented.


We report the fabrication of a new designed all- solid bandgap fiber. The low loss transmission (as low as 2 dB/km at 1310 nm) has been realized with a bandwidth of over 700 nm.


UTP promotes the unification of programming theories and has been used successfully
for giving denotational semantics to Imperative Programming, CSP process algebra,
and the Circus family of programming languages, amongst others.
In this thesis, we present an extension of UTP-CSP (the UTP semantics for CSP)
with the concept of mobility. Mobility is concerned with the movement of an entity
from one location (the source) to another (the target). We deal with two forms of
mobility:
• Channel mobility, concerned with the movement of links between processes,
models networks with a dynamic topology; and
• Strong process mobility, which requires to suspend a running process first, and
then move both its code and its state upon suspension, and finally resume the
process on the target upon reception.
Concerning channel mobility:
• We model channels as concrete entities in CSP, and show that it does not affect
the underlying CSP semantics.
• A requirement is that a process may not own a channel prior to receiving it. In
CSP, the set of channels owned by a process (called its interface) is static by
definition. We argue that making the interface variable introduces a paradox.
We resolve this by introducing a new concept: the capability of a process, and
show how it relates to the interface.
We then define channel mobility as the operation that changes the interface of a process,
but not its capability. We also provide a functional link between static CSP and its
mobile version.
Concerning strong mobility, we provide:
• The first extension of CSP with jump features, using the concept of continuations.
• A novel semantics for the generic interrupt (a parallel-based interrupt operator),
using the concept of Bulk Synchronous Parallelism.
We then define strong mobility as a specific interrupt operator in which the interrupt
routine migrates the suspended program.


The following article aims to analyze the legal position of the student movement of the time which dynamism the process of the pre- constituent who gave birth to the 1991 politic constitution, this towards the initiative seeking of a second presidential reelection in the Colombian constitutional system; the Constitution of 1991 was a tough race in constitutional control model and this participative exercise safeguard the Political Constitutional letter; the analysis focuses on the close execution plans to the High Court ruling roaches; the article seeks to generate a sense of reflection in regards to the constituent derivative and primary on this Colombian Constitution history.


The cloud computation is a hot spot in current information field.Its redundant reliability,extendibility and flexibility advance the development of IT industry.Particularly,cloud computing is also affecting the health informationization service.This article discusses cloud computing platform,main types of service and basic concept of cloud computing technology,technical characteristics,and applications in the health care industry.Then specific innovative services of cloud computing technology in medical and health information services are proposed to meet the requirements of the development of the cloud environment.