The effect of operating a vacuum ion gauge on carbonaceous (C) contamination of a hydrogen (H)‐passivated Si surface before epitaxial growth was investigated. The dependence of C contamination on the residence time in the loading chamber, tlc, was determined with or without operating a vacuum ion gauge. The results showed that C contamination of a H‐passivated surface was greatly increased by use of the ion gauge. With ion gauge operation in a vacuum of 1×10−6–1×10−7 Torr in the loading chamber, the configuration of the ion gauge and upside down‐stacked wafers is shown to be a dominant factor of C contamination of the Si surface. The presence of C contaminants could be determined by observing SiC diffraction patterns using in situ reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), since the C contaminants reacted with Si to produce single crystalline SiC at a temperature as high as 850 °C. The RHEED patterns demonstrated that the single crystalline SiC had a zinc‐blende structure. Single crystalline SiC...


To study the effect of plant density and planting pattern on Iranian ox-tongue, an experiment carried out with two factors: planting pattern (square and rectangular pattern) and plant density (2, 4, 6, 8 plant m) in a factorial test performed based on RCBD in 3 replications during 2009-2010 in Latmahalleh Eshkevarat village in Guilan province, Iran. Characteristics that measured included: dry flowers yield, plant dry-weight, number of inflorescence per plant, number of flower per inflorescence, plant height and flower length. The results indicated that effect of plant density on dry flowers yield, plant dry weight, number of inflorescence per plant, number of flower per inflorescence and flower length (P<0.01) and on plant height (P<0.05) was significant. Planting pattern and interaction of plant density and planting pattern were not significant on the measured characteristics. The highest dry flower yield per unit area obtained in density of 6 plants m (791.2 kg ha), while planting pattern did not significance affect on dry flower yield. Also, the highest dry flower weight of single plant, plant dry weight, number of inflorescence per plant, number of flower per inflorescence, flower length and plant height obtained in density of 2 plants m.


e18654 Background: An Anemia Clinic program was started Sept. 2016 as part of system wide implementation of Patient Blood Management (PBM) initiated in 2015. Methods: The Anemia Clinic accepted referrals for non-cancer anemia, predominantly preoperative cardiovascular surgery (CVS) Pts. Hgb thresholds were <13 g/dL in men and <12 g/dL in women. Non-anemia cytopenias triggered Hematology referral. All Pts were screened for iron, B12, folate, and reticulocyte. Nutrient deficiencies were supplemented. Pts with CKD or chronic disease were considered for erythropoiesis stimulating agents. Results: PBM implementation resulted in a drop in packed red blood cell (PRBC) usage (Table). Of CVS Pts pre-operatively anemic in 2020, 181 were referred to the Anemia Clinic and 259 were not. The percentage of Pts who received PRBCs after Anemia Clinic referral was not statistically different from those who were not referred (52.5% vs. 43.6% Chi-Square p=0.07). Of preoperatively anemic Pts who were transfused in 2020, an average of 1.49 PRBCs were used in the referred group vs. an average of 2.12 PRBCs in those in the not referred group (Poisson Means p=0.0009). Length of stay (LOS) which was a median 9d ( P25=6d, P75=16d) in the referred group vs a median 10d ( P25=6d, P75=16d) in the non-referred group was not statistically different between groups (Smirnov p=0.99). LOS analyses of observed-to-expected (O/E) ratios used the Premier Healthcare Providers Alliance Database (PHD) which contains data on approximately 45% of US hospital discharges. For 2020 through Nov. the referred group had an O/E = 0.89 (observed LOS μgeo = 9.97 days, expected LOS μgeo = 11.17 days, N=159). The not referred group had an O/E = 0.94 (observed LOS μgeo = 10.14 days, expected LOS μgeo = 10.83 days, N=232). Conclusions: PBM decreased PRBC use through systematization of best practices during the initial year. Subsequent addition of Anemia Clinic services did not decrease PRBC use further at first but appears to have contributed to this past year's decrease. There is a trend toward shorter LOS for patients referred to Anemia Clinic but it is not statistically significant. Our methods improved nutrient deficiency identification which may improve both later health outcomes not detected here and access to treatment for hematologic malignancies.[Table: see text]


We present new observations of the rapid oscillations in the dwarf nova VW Hyi, made
late in outburst. These dwarf nova oscillations (DNOs) increase in period until they
reach 33 s, when a transition to a strong 1st harmonic and weak fundamental takes
place. After further period increase the 2nd harmonic appears; often all three com-
ponents are present simultaneously. This 1:2:3 frequency suite is similar to what has
been seen in some neutron star and black hole X-Ray binaries, but has not previously
been seen in a cataclysmic variable. When studied in detail the fundamental and 2nd
harmonic vary similarly in phase, but the 1st harmonic behaves independently, though
keeping close to twice the frequency of the fundamental. The fundamental period of
the DNOs, as directly observed or inferred from the harmonics, increases to ~ 100 s
before the oscillation disappears as the star reaches quiescence. Its maximum period
is close to that of the 'longer period' DNOs observed in VW Hyi. The quasi-periodic
oscillations (QPOs), which have fundamental periods 400 – 1000 s, behave in the same
way, showing 1st and 2nd harmonics at approximately the same times as the DNOs.
We explore some possible models. One in which the existence of the 1st harmonic is
due to transition from viewing a single accretion region to viewing two regions, and the
rate of accretion onto the primary is modulated at the frequency of the 1st harmonic,
as in the 'beat frequency model', can generate the suite of DNO frequencies observed.
But the behaviour of the QPOs is not yet understood.


The several major classes of bac teria have characteristic shapes: spherical, rod like or spiral. From these shapes the bacterial classes get their names: cocci, bacilli and spirilla. Although non bacterial cells have recog nizab e shapes, most of them are soft and pliable. The individual bacterial cell usually holds its shape with considerable rigidity. This feature of bacterial anato my long ago attracted the curiosity of microbiologists. They soon discovered the reason for it: In bacteria the soft outer cell-membrane is enclosed in a tough, thick wall, which is often en closed in turn in an even thicker gummy or slimy capsule. Together the wall and capsule may constitute as much as 45 per cent of the total mass of the cell. Plainly such an important structure must serve a purpose more significant than the con ferring of rigid shapes for ready recogni tion by microbiologists. The cell wall, in fact, insulates bacteria from the vagaries of the environment, especially during their passage from host to host. In dis tilled water, for example, the osmotic pressure exerted by the bacterial cell would cause it to draw in water, swell up and burst; it has been estimated that the cell wall must in some species withstand an internal pressure of 20 atmospheres (300 pounds per square inch) . Bacterial anatomists are indebted to the late Sir Alexander Fleming for a sen sitive chemical tool with which they have been studying bacteria, dissolving away the cell wall and exposing the cell body, or cytoplasm, within. In 1922 at St. Mary's Hospital in London, six years before his epochal discovery of penicil lin, Fleming found "a substance present in the tissues and secretions of the body, which is capable of rapidly dissolving certain bacteria." Because of its re semblance to enzymes and its capacity to


alternate and adjacent orientations. The translocations were characterized by different frequencies of the multivalents at the MI of meiosis. Translocations with the large translocated chromosome segments greatest for tagging cotton chromosomes and developing new homozygous translocation lines. Electron microscopy of synaptonemal complexes at the pachytene stage revealed more cells with heterozygous chromosomal rearrangements than light microscopy at meiotic MI by a factor of 1.8 Those results indicate that the different frequencies of multivalents in heterozygotes for translocations at MI result from partial desynapsis and segregation of translocation multivalents into two "heteromorph " bivalents, which cannot be distinguished from normal bivalents at meiotic MI by light microscopy. The analyses of tetrads were carried out in 201 translocations. Most of the translocations exhibited a high meiotic index when compared with the control However, 20.51% were characterized by a reduction in meiotic index and an increase in the percentage tetrads with micronuclei when compared with the control Six translocations were characterized with a low meiotic index 52.15±1.99 79.37±1.32%) and number of abnormal tetrads containing micronuclei 16.53±1.48 detected. The results suggested an irregular univalent chromosome centromere misdivision in the parental monosomics that led to a single chromosome arm missing and formed either telocentric or isochromosome in the case of an arm doubling. Our results demonstrated the rather rare occurrence of telo-and isochromosomes in the monosomic progenies studied, which showed univalent misdivision to be rare.


Sir, Sauermann et al. recently investigated the influence of human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on the antimicrobial activity of fosfomycin in vitro. Bacterial time–kill curves were performed in different media using fosfomycin concentrations below and above the MIC for two Staphylococcus aureus isolates with high and low susceptibility according to BSAC and CLSI definitions. In addition, they exposed the test strains to the fosfomycin pharmacokinetic profile measured at steady-state in the CSF of a selected patient with external ventricular drain-associated infection from a study published previously by our group in CSF obtained from pooled samples. Despite initial killing, the in vitro simulation of the selected pharmacokinetic profile showed terminal regrowth of the S. aureus isolates. The authors deduce from their experiments that the antibacterial activity of fosfomycin is notably reduced in human CSF and may not be sufficient to achieve bactericidal effects in the CNS. This is in contrast to the results of a previous in vivo pharmacokinetic study by our group, indicating that intravenous fosfomycin should provide sufficient antimicrobial concentrations in the CSF and, therefore, might qualify for the treatment of nosocomial intracranial infections. Though we cannot definitely rule out that in our study the combination of fosfomycin with other antibiotics as recommended by experimental and clinical data contributed to enhanced bacterial killing by fosfomycin with complete resolution of intracranial infection in all our patients, concerns arise when extrapolating the presented in vitro data to real-life clinical conditions. Unfortunately, Sauermann et al. do not give further information on the biochemical and cellular composition of the used CSF samples or the clinical condition of the respective patients from whom the CSF was obtained. This would have been of paramount interest for the correct interpretation of their in vitro results. It has to be emphasized that critical illness not only grossly alters the pharmacokinetics, but also influences the pharmacodynamics of anti-infective agents by a significant amount. In the case of nosocomial intracranial infections or intraventricular haemorrhage, the composition of CSF is significantly altered. CSF biochemistry and cytology reflect the nature and severity of the infection with elevated white cell count and reduced CSF glucose. Anaerobic metabolism of glucose results in lactate production, which interferes with CSF acidity. Lysis of cells releases proteins and other intracellular constituents, such as phosphorylated carbohydrates. As stated by Sauermann et al., glucose-6phosphate (G-6-P) is not detectable in human CSF under physiological conditions. Both aspects, namely CSF acidity and the release of phosphorylated carbohydrates, are of importance regarding the antimicrobial activity of fosfomycin: (i) fosfomycin activity is dependent on pH and its microbial killing is impaired at higher pH; and (ii) further, this substance utilizes the hexose phosphate transport system, which is inducible by G-6-P, as a way of entry into microorganisms. In our opinion, the ready availability of G-6-P can be regarded as an important biological determinant for the efficacy of fosfomycin in vivo. However, this assumption requires empirical proof. In our in vivo pharmacokinetic study, all patients suffered from haemorrhagic contamination of ventricular CSF due to primary disease and presented with ventriculitis. In view of the in vitro results presented by Sauermann et al. and our in vivo observations, we have reason to assume that the altered biochemical characteristics of the haemorrhagic and inflamed CSF seen in our patients indeed enhanced the antimicrobial activity exerted by fosfomycin under pathological conditions in human CSF. Based on these data, we are still convinced that co-administration of fosfomycin could represent an appropriate treatment option for nosocomial device-related intracranial infections with susceptible S. aureus isolates, especially in patients with allergy or intolerance to first-line therapy. Importantly, however, with the continuing emergence of multidrug-resistant staphylococci as frequent causes of nosocomial ventriculomeningitis in the neurocritical care patient population, treatment with novel antistaphylococcal agents with adequate CSF penetration, such as the oxazolidinone linezolid, should be considered.


We show that developing a Theory of Everything (TOE) to unify all physical interactions requires a spacetime model having: (i) a discrete-continuous dual structure in which physical properties that could hypothetically vary continuously in some abstract sense are discretized upon measurement and (ii) a variable connectivity dimensionality field. Because this type of space transcends variable-based mathematics, we prove a TOE cannot be developed using only differential geometry and other variable-based mathematics. This completely rules out all forms of hidden variable theories. We disprove the holographic principle that posits all information contained in a volume of physical space is encoded on its boundary. Finally, we show how the variable connectivity dimensionality field gives rise to cross-dimensional projections between microstates that leads to the Second Law of Thermodynamics governing Nature's irreversibility. We further show cross-dimensional projections are one mechanism for gauge invariance breaking. Finally, we postulate that electromagnetic fields arise from spacetime gradients in the average connectivity dimensionality deviation.


In this article, the author reflects upon various aspects of Middle Eastern art in the early 21st century. Particular focus is given to what he describes as the growing politicization of Middle Eastern art, which has been lucrative for art dealers and auctioneers. Several Middle Eastern artists are noted throughout the article including the Syrian-Canadian artist Buthayna Ali, the Egyptian artist Mahmoud Mukhtar and the Egyptian artist Hassan Khan.


Obesity is now recognized as a global health problem and has reached epidemic proportions, affecting both developed and developing countries. This condition is associated with an increased incidence in central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The intake of foods or supplements with anti-inflammatory activity could potentially lead to a lower impact of obesity on the functionality of CNS. Therefore, in this work we tested the effect of a dietary supplement, DEKOSILHUE® (DSK), containing polyphenols enriched herbal extracts and successfully used for improving the control of body weight, in an in vitro inflammatory model. LPS-stimulated immortalized microglia BV2 cells have been used as a model of neuroinflammation. The stimulation with LPS increased the release and activation of several neuroinflammatory mediators, such as IKB⍺, HDAC-1, and IL-1ß. DSK reduced the levels and the activation of all these pro-inflammatory markers. In addition, DSK increased the expression of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10, promoting an anti-inflammatory response. Finally, we showed that the anti-inflammatory effect of DSK can prevent the neurotoxicity related to microglia hyperactivation. In conclusion, DSK could potentially help in controlling neuroinflammation CNS, reducing microglia pro-inflammatory activation.


The icons of the so called "proto-cuneiform" texts from Uruk IV/III are strong polysemic; so were also the icons of the archaic Chinese writing. But the development of purely (morpho-) phonemic values peculiar to the earliest Mesopotamian scripts has no parallels in Early China. The comparison of the writing technology in both Old Mesopotamian and Archaic China shows the existence of two different cultural competences mainly with regard to the conscience of linguistic diversity and of social plurality.


Traditional form of settlement living is the external representation of natural environment,it's the representative of folk culture,with the essence of traditional culture characteristics.To better inherit and practice traditional ancient village's environment design,taking the famous historical and cultural village Shijiagou in Shanxi province for object of study,from the characteristics of natural environment and social culture background,the main way of human settlement environment construction analyzed,and concept of blending the natural environment with social cultural environment is studied.To provide reference for modern rural settlement construction and promote the construction of the new countryside.


In accordance with the reform item of the heating furnace with regenerative burner in No.1 small section steel rolling plant of Jinan Iron and Steel Group Co.,Ltd.,it is introduced that the instance of the heating furnace with regenerative burner and the structure characteristic of combustion system.The evident vantage of the bands decentralized control system is made not only on enhancing output and decreasing cost but also in high efficiency energy saving. At first and absolute decentralized control system is using in the furnace.There are some problem for example the quality of exchanging direction valve,the high temperature of smoke and high pressure of hearth. This paper introduces the reason and brings forward the resovent.


The paper studies the testing model of the Flash course in polytechnic college,advances a kind of testing model based on testing procedure,content and method according to the principal of oriented-hunting job and practicing skill.This testing model could be promoted other similar computer series courses.


Part I. About Strategic Rivalries: 1. An introduction to strategic rivalries 2. Defining and identifying strategic rivalries in world politics 3. Describing strategic rivalries Part II. The Dangers of Strategic Rivalries: Crisis Behavior and Escalation: 4. Protracted conflict and crisis escalation 5. Serial crisis behavior and escalating risks Part III. Playing to Type: Spatial and Positional Issues in Strategic Rivalries: 6. Contiguity, space and position in the major power subsystem 7. Initiating and escalating positional and spatial rivalries Part IV. Filling in Some Steps to War: 8. Arms buildups and alliances in the steps-to-war theory 9. Contested territory and conflict escalation Part V. Strategic Rivalries and Conflict: 10. Inducements, facilitators, and suppressors.


Development of single cell sequencing allows detailing the transcriptome of individual oocytes. Here, we compare different RNA-seq datasets from single and pooled mouse oocytes and show higher reproducibility using single oocyte RNA-seq. We further demonstrate that UMI (unique molecular identifiers) based and other deduplication methods are limited in their ability to improve the precision of these datasets. Finally, for normalization of sample differences in cross-stage comparisons, we propose that external spike-in molecules are comparable to using the endogenous genes stably expressed during oocyte maturation. The ability to normalize data among single cells provides insight into the heterogeneity of mouse oocytes.


The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 signaled a revolution that was more apparent than real. Studies of the operation of the Act have shown that enforcement was neither complete nor uniform; local authorities failed to build the workhouses required by the Act and were therefore unable to make the invidious but (according to the Act) essential distinction between paupers (people destitute enough to qualify to enter these institutions), and the merely poor, who were supposed to fend for themselves. Instead, Guardians continued to give allowances from the poor rates without requiring that the recipients become paupers and enter the workhouse.' While the English Poor Law between 1834 and 1860 was characterized by a situation of administrative variety and confusion as unions failed to comply with the 1834 Act, the economic crises of the 1860s produced important reforms: the Union Chargeability Act (1865) improved financing; many unions built modem workhouses; at the same time, collateral care for the needy such as the aged began to emerge within the Poor Law.2 Then in 1870 the central Poor Law authority announced a policy of strict enforcement, recommending the suspension of outdoor relief to the able-bodied, a farreaching change in Poor Law practice. Although historians have long recognized the existence of the period of strict Poor Law enforcement which followed, they have not agreed about whether it


Nanofluid/ultrasonic atomization minimal quantity lubrication (MQL) was used in an SKD11 steel micromilling process with ultrasonic dispersion. The nanofluid atomizer substantially improved nanofluid reunification and delivery to the cutting zone. The micromilling cutting force and temperature were used to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). Normalization of the S/N in the gray relational analysis obtained a gray correlation coefficient, which is used in a fuzzy analysis to obtain a multiple performance characteristic indexes (MPCI). The MPCI is maximized by optimizing the process parameters for multiple quality characteristics and then comparing the optimized parameters with those in the MQL system. Experimental results indicate that the nanofluid parameters containing the density of nanofluid, feed rate, and distance of nozzle are the most influential control factors, while 3.617 N and 117.1 °C, respectively, are the best combination of parameters. Different lubricating methods are also compared in terms of effects on micromilling cutting force, micromilling temperature, micromilling tool wear, and surface burr. Experiments show that nanofluid multiwall carbon nanotube/ultrasonic atomization MQL obtained the best results.


The invention relates to a convex-concave disc lever-type air distribution mechanism and an assorted internal combustion engine. The air distribution mechanism comprises a cylinder cover, wherein a convex-concave disc and a lever are arranged on the cylinder cover through a vertical shaft, an air valve and a push rod are arranged on the lever, the top end of the air valve and the top end of the push rod are in contact with the bottom surface of the convex-concave disc, a convex part and a concave part are arranged on the convex-concave disc, the top surface of the convex-concave disc is provided with conical teeth, a conical gear is meshed with the conical teeth, and the tooth number rate of the conical gear to the conical teeth is 1: 2. The internal combustion engine comprises a cylinderbox, wherein a plurality of cylinders are arranged in the cylinder side by side, each air cylinder is provided with a convex-concave lever-type air distribution mechanism, a horizontal shaft is arranged on the cylinder box and provided with a conical gear, and the horizontal shaft is connected with a crankshaft through a chain wheel. Because the air valve spring is arranged on the air valve, loadof the crankshaft is greatly lightened, and efficiency of the internal combustion engine is increased; and because a convex part is longer, a larger position can be reserved for enabling the air valve to be opened to the maximum degree, therefore air inlet amount and air discharge amount are greatly increased, and efficiency of the internal combustion engine is greatly increased.


The invention discloses a method for immediately propagating a bletilla striata test-tube plantlet. The method comprises the following steps: performing germination culture on a seed of bletilla striata, performing differentiation culture on a protocorm, and performing induction culture and domestication on a bulb to obtain the bletilla striata test-tube plantlet. Compared with the prior art, the method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of high germination rate, short culture time, good regularity, and small aberration rate, and has a good market prospect.


Synopsis Absolutely square integrable solutions are determined for the equation = λ y where the ζn−r(x) are holomorphic in a sector of the complex plane and have asymptotic expansions as x approaches infinity. It is shown that the number of such solutions depends upon the roots of the characteristic equation and their multiplicity, and upon the sign of the derivative of the characteristic polynomial. Application is made to formally symmetric ordinary differential operators.


The current study highlights the preparation of iron modified natural sericite composite beads and its application for arsenic and lead treatment from petroleum industry wastewater effluent. The natural sericite material was altered by iron-oxide and then the modified sericite with the whole iron-oxide particles was encapsulated for the preparation of spherical shaped beads using natural biopolymer sodium alginate. The developed Fe-sericite composite beads were characterized by different characterization techniques. The arsenic and lead adsorption data were collected by optimizing the various adsorption affecting conditions in batch operations such as solution pH, arsenic and lead concentration, removal time and other important parameters. According to the observed results, the composite beads exhibited an in superior sorption capacity for the removal of arsenic and lead inside a varied choice of pH. Moreover, a variation in different concentration study demonstrated high percentage removal at various concentrations of arsenic and lead. The concentration dependent adsorption data obtained studied by Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm. Models. A kinetic data reasonably follows the pseudo-first and pseudo-second-order kinetic models additionally, the kinetic intra-particle diffusion models proved a noteworthy role in the sorption process. The detailed investigation confirms that the developed Fe-sericite composite beads must be an effective sustainable material for the treatment of petroleum industry wastewater contaminated with arsenic and lead.


This paper uses QFD method to find the needs of the important customer and uses the matrix to find the critical factors which can affect the quality of financial products and applies to the various functional departments.By extensive research,expert' s advice and induction,the paper puts forward five elements of service quality in financial industry,analyses product development,suggestions on the product improvements to design a series of CDM product.


With the purpose of identifying the coccidia species in poultry farms of Chile, 51 fecal samples (of 50 chickens each)were collected. Through flotation coprological examination of 10% of samples, oocysts of Eimeria maxima were identified. The remaining portion of the samples, was suspended in a 2.5% potassium bichromate solution, to allow the sporulation of oocysts which were then suspended in tap water and administered to 6 chickens 21 days old free of coccidia infection through a gastroesophagic tube. The identification of Eimeria species was done through measurement of the prepatent period, size of squizonts and type and locations of the intestinal lesions produced. Seven Eimeria species were found with the next frequency: E. maxima 48 %, E. praecox 62%, E. mitis 68%, E. tenella 14%, E. necatrix 14%, E. mivati 8% and E. acervulina 48%. E. brunetti and E. hagani were not detected. Mixed infections were the most frequent finding, being very common to detect the presence of 4 species simultaneously.


Mitochondria are dynamic organelles in cells. The control of mitochondrial motility by signaling mechanisms and the significance of rapid changes in motility remains elusive. Simultaneous confocal imaging of mitochondrial movement and intracellular calcium was performed on cortical neurons loaded with both Mitotracker and fluo‐4. We observed extensive movement of mitochondria in both directions along neuronal processes. Mitochondrial movement occurred in a saltatory pattern, with rapid movement between fixed points interrupted by delays.


A 47-year-old non-atopic man presented with a chronic erythematodesquamative dermatitis involving the dorsum of the thumb of both hands, which began 3 years ago. The man worked in a drug warehouse and his duties compelled him to use rubber bands to tie up drug packages, all day long, in the repetitive assembly (Fig. 1). The stop–restart test was positive; in fact the patient showed improvement after weekends or during holidays. Patch tests with the Italian standard SIDAPA series showed positive reactions to colophony (þD3) and thiuram mix 1% pet (þD3). Patch tests with fragments of rubber bands showed an allergic reaction after 72 hr (þD3). Further patch tests performed with rubber, glues, and plastic series only gave a positivity to tetramethylthiuram monosulfide 0.25% pet (þD3) in the rubber series. Interestingly, the eczematous reaction to thiuram mix in the SIDAPA series was still persistent after 1 month and flared up when the tetramethylthiuram monosulfide in the rubber series became positive.


Porous silicon carbide with or without alumina additive was prepared by sintering at 1500 °C, and their corrosion behavior under water vapor below 1000°C was investigated by weight change, microstructural analyses and spectroscopic characterizations. The porous SiC without additive showed the lower weight changes after vapor corrosion test, while the larger weight changes in the porous SiC with additive were found. In the morphological observations after corrosion test, though crack and wrinkle could not be observed for both specimens, the microstructural changes such as the increase of neck area among particles were significantly found in the porous SiC with additive. This is considered to be due to the decreasing of viscosity of silica layer on the SiC particle surface and the gathering of silica layer toward neck part, because water vapor can solve silica and easily form Si-OH group to decrease the viscosity of silica under high temperature vapor. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) spectra revealed the formation of Si-OH after vapor corrosion test.


Baili azalea scenery site is an important part along the west tourist route of Guizhou. Local governments and tourism bureaus have arranged tourism plan for it. The paper analyses the problems in this planning, and studies the site's resource condition, market location, competitive advantage and weakness, development trend.


The purpose and technology of the surface modification to inorganic nano particles were summarized within this review.The mechanism,significance and application of this work were discussed.


(57) Abstract: The present invention, lipophilic, hydrophobic and an elastic at high temperatures, cost-effective, to provide an absorbent fibrous matrix for use in food preparation containing water and oil . The absorbent fibrous matrix is composed of a composite fiber having a core material with sufficient heat resistance to maintain the lipophilic and hydrophobic sheath material having the features of, and the fiber binding property to 200 ° C.. The composite fibers are bonded to form a nonwoven adhesion matrix by confounding.


Studies carried out on the Thermally Stimulated Discharge (TSD) and Thermally Stimulated Polarization (TSP) currents in aromatic polyamides are presented. TSD currents are measured at various poling fields, duration of poling. Annealing time and rate of heating during release of charges. The currents show a peak at 135/spl deg/C for a rate of heating of 1 k/min and the peak shifts to a higher value with increase of rate of heating. Thermally stimulated polarization currents are also measured and the influence of various parameters are investigated. The results show that a dipolar process is applicable which is replaced by interfacial polarization as the temperature is increased. The latter is the predominant mechanism at 200/spl deg/C, which is in agreement with the charging current measurements in the same material.


Cosmetic was defined in "Cosmetic Law" (24.03.2005 / No. 5324) published by The Ministry of Health of Turkey as "Cosmetics are all the preparations that were prepared to be used for epidermis, nails, hair, lips, genital organs and teeth and mouth mucosa and their only aim is to clean, give odors, change the morphological appearance and/or to regulate the body odors and keep them in good positions" 1.


Solar-driven selective oxygen reduction reaction on polymeric carbon nitride framework is one of the most promising approaches toward sustainable H 2 O 2 production. Potassium poly(heptazine imide) (PHI), with regular metal sites in the framework and favorable crystalline structure, is highly active for photocatalytic selective 2e oxygen reduction to produce H 2- O 2 . By introducing NH 4 Cl into the eutectic KCl-LiCl salt mixture, the PHI framework exhibits a remarkable performance for photocatalytic production of H 2 O 2 , e.g., a record high H 2 O 2 photo-production rate of 29.5 μmol h -1 mg -1 . The efficient photocatalytic performance is attributed to the favorable properties of the new PHI framework, such as improved porosity, negatively shifted LUMO position, enhanced exciton dissociation and charges migration properties . A mechanistic investigation by quenching and electron spin resonance technique reveals the critical role of superoxide radicals for the formation singlet oxygen, and the singlet oxygen is one of the critical intermediates towards the formation of the H 2 O 2 by proton extraction from the ethanol.


ABSTRACT For Brentano, an act of consciousness features a presentation of an object joined with an inner presentation – an 'inner consciousness' or inner awareness – of that object-presentation. On Mark Textor's articulation of Brentano's model, the act has the structure of a single experience directed upon a plurality, viz.: the object and the experience itself. I consider an alternative development of this Brentanian model. Drawing on Husserl's part-whole ontology, I submit, the act itself has the structure of a whole formed from two co-dependent parts, viz., the object-presentation and inner awareness of that presentation. Looking to Husserl's analysis of inner time-consciousness, Textor proposes an enhancement of Brentano's model of inner consciousness. On Textor's model, inner awareness is such that one may be aware of one's experience, in the stream of one's consciousness, 'without grasping any adumbrations [of the experience], but temporal ones'. I dig into Husserl's doctrine of 'abumbration' (as where a tree is given visually with adumbrations of its shape on the back side, of its color in gradations, etc.). On my reconstruction, inner awareness of an experience presents the experience within a manifold of 'adumbrated' temporal retentions and protentions that place the experience in its stream of consciousness.


The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the motivation to participate in sports for elderly, the factors for fun, leisure satisfaction, and exercise persistence. In order to analyze the data, a total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to senior citizens participating in sports programs at the Senior Citizen Welfare Center in Seoul, and a total of 183 copies (91.5%) of data were used as valid samples excluding 17 unfaithful responses. For data processing, frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's α, concentration validity, discriminant validity, concept reliability, correlation analysis, and structural equation model verification were performed using IBM AMOS 21.First, the motivation to participate in sports for the elderly influenced the fun factor. Second, the motivation to participate in sports for the elderly influenced leisure satisfaction. Third, the motivation to participate in sports for the elderly influenced the exercise continuation. Fourth, the fun factor of sports for the elderly influenced leisure satisfaction. Fifth, the fun factor of elderly sports influenced the exercise continuation. Sixth, the satisfaction of sports for the elderly affected the exercise continuation.


The depletion of land-based resources for gravel has made it economically possible to obtain large quantities of gravel from the potential resources on the continental shelf. The sand/gravel mixture obtained by seagoing stationary or trailing-suction hopper dredgers contains a considerable amount of sand and it is necessary to screen the mixture before loading the hopper with gravel. The Mineral Technological Institute, the dredging laboratories of IHC Holland, has developed a very simple static screen. In this paper the tests carried out by MTI are presented and the effects of parameters such as screen width, screen slope, screen length and different types of screen deck are discussed. The application of such a screen aboard trailing suction hopper dredgers is discussed and recommendations for optimum parameters of the screen are made.


Develops an ethico‐economic general equilibrium system that is founded on a well defined ethically oriented choice of goods that imparts an ethical motivation to the activities of consumption, production and distribution. Shows that the choice of such a numeraire market basket and its related prices is instrumental on the polity‐market interaction, brought out as the heart of the problem, that is treating ethics as endogenous phenomena of the social order. The resulting ethico‐economic general equilibrium system is thereby found to be only locally stable, not globally stable in its equilibria, which are all policy induced and market driven, perturbed and unsettling as polity evolves.


Digital holography is a growing field that owes its success to the provided three-dimensional imaging representation. This is achieved by encoding the wave field transmitted or scattered by an object in the form of an interference pattern with a reference beam. While in conventional imaging systems it is usually impossible to recover the correct focused image from a defocused one, with digital holography the image can be numerically retrieved at any distance from the hologram. Digital holography also allows the reconstruction of multiple objects at different depths. The complex object field at the hologram plane can be separated on real and imaginary, or amplitude and phase components for further compression. It could be inferred that more inter-component redundancies exist in real and imaginary information than in the amplitude and phase information. Also, several compression schemes, like lossless compression, lossy compression, based on subsampling, quantization, and transformation, mainly using wavelets were considered. The benchmark of the main available image coding standard solutions like JPEG, JPEG 2000, and the intra coding modes available on MPEG-2, H264/AVC and HEVC video codecs were also analyzed for digital holographic data compression on the hologram plane. In the current work, the benchmark of the main available image coding standard solutions JPEG, JPEG-XT, JPEG 2000 and the intra mode of HEVC, are performed for digital holographic data represented on the object plane, instead of the hologram plane. This study considers Real-Imaginary and Amplitude-Phase representations. As expected Real, Imaginary and Amplitude information present very similar compression performance and are coded very efficiently with the different standards. However, the phase information requires much higher bitrates (3/4 bpp more) to reach similar quality levels. Moreover, the Amplitude information results in slightly larger bitrates for the same quality level than real or imaginary information. Comparing the different standards, the HEVC intra main coding profile is a very efficient model and outperforms the other standards. Furthermore, JPEG 2000 results in very similar compression performance. A comparison with studies where coding was performed on the hologram plane will reveal the advantages of coding on the object plane. Hence, becomes evident that future representation standards should consider the representation of digital holograms on the object plane instead of the hologram plane.


The biological effect taking place in the medium as the result of irradiation is determined by the absorbed irradiated energy and its micro and macro distribution in the tissue under irradiation. The quantitative evaluation of irradiation is effected by the measured dose contained in the air and expressed in roentgen units. The necessity to quantitatively evaluate absorbed irradiated energy made it imperative to introduce the so called absorbed dose with ''rad'' as the unit of measurement. The latter was introduced into the new standards in addition to the roentgen units and units of new radio standards. To compare the effects of different types of ionizing radiation the absorbed irradiation activity doses are to be taken as units of evaluation. Determination of the absorbed doses is carried out by taking the dose measured in the air, and with the aid of tables for conversion roentgens into rads. Apart from absorbed doses the local effect is also greatly influenced by integral doses received by the body as a whole. (auth)


LETTER OF COMMENT NO. Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association Financial Reporting Policy Committee File Reference No. 1550-100 Response to the FASB's Preliminary Views on Financial Instruments with the Characteristics of Equity Patrick E. Hopkins, Chair (principal co-author); Christine Botosan; Mark Bradshaw (principal co-author); Carolyn Callahan; Jack Ciesielski; David Farber; Mark Kohlbeck; Leslie Hodder (principal co-author); Robert Laux; Thomas Stober; Phillip Stocken; and Teri Lombardi Yohn.


By means of state-of-the-art computational approaches, a new fundamental chemical reaction, involving formaldehyde and methane, has been observed when an electric field is applied to liquid methanol.


Mastering the chemical and physical properties of nano-objects in nanomaterials such as nanoparticles is a crucial issue in materials science. These properties are strongly correlated with three dimensional (3D) morphology and composition of nano-objects, which can be accessed by electron tomography. However, although the modern microscopes with aberration correctors allow a spatial resolution below 1 Å, atomic resolution for electron tomography is not obvious. To perform electron tomography and 3D characterization at nanometer scale, high angle annular dark field scanning electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) is widely used [1–3]. Sandra Van Aert et al.[4,5] proposed a statistical approach to determine the number of atom in each column on HAADF-STEM micrographies in zone axis. Coupling atom counting along different orientations of a same nano-object, these authors demonstrated the possibility to achieve a 3D reconstruction at atomic scale of nano-particles [6,7]. Based on this statistical method, we developed an original algorithm to reconstruct in 3D at atomic scale one nano-object with only three different orientations. Our 3D reconstruction algorithm was tested with three images from simulations of one nanoparticle under different orientations.


It is the initial task of geopolitics to design national security with geographical relations.The traditional geopolitics dominated by expansion,confrontment and hegemony have logical defects.As a result,it fails to reasonably explain the reality of contemporary international politics and effectively deal with new challenges faced by national security.It is thus necessary to innovate and overpass the traditional geopolitics and on the other hand,to re-design national security with new geopolitics.China has made a valuable exploration and practice in it and has brought about some theories such as New Security Concept and the Theory of Harmonious World.It can be said that the concept of new geopolitics has much more room of development and value of real application.


Laboratories everywhere are being asked to do more with less. To enable the laboratory to offer increased services over an expanded period of time, many technologists with little experience in microbiology are now asked to perform and read Gram stains. Interpretation of Gram stains is notoriously difficult for nonmicrobiologists because such interpretation requires multiple observations and the judgment that comes with years of experience. This article offers objective criteria for interpreting the most commonly encountered Gram-stained specimens. An adequate examination of a Gram-stained smear includes observing numerous representative fields. The fields containing neutrophils yield the most useful information. A minimum of 1 minute should be spent examining a smear; after that, judgment is needed. Obviously, a smear from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with neutrophils deserves more time than an acellular smear. Similarly, more time should be spent on a specimen that was obtained by an invasive technique than on one that was easy to obtain. Generally, only 1 morphotype (bacteria with a certain Gram stain and shape, eg, gram-negative bacilli) is seen in a sterile site. For instance, only gram-negative diplococci are expected in a patient's CSF, not gram-negative diplococci as well as gram-positive cocci. If both of these morphotypes are seen, most likely the problem is overor underdecolorization. The problem with decolorization must also be considered when the shape of the organism does not "fit" the Gram stain. Please refer to Images 1a through 1j for Gram stains of characteristic morphotypes (all images ×100 oil except G and J). For instance, gram-positive cocci seen in tetrads and clusters or in long chains are highly characteristic of staphylococci and streptococci, respectively [T1] [I1a] [I1b], but may appear gram-negative because of overdecoloration. Similarly, classic gram-positive diplococci are lancet-shaped or pointed at the outside ends [T1] [I1c]. If grampositive diplococci flattened at the outGuidelines for the interpretation of Gram stains Normal flora in respiratory secretions Normal flora in the female genital tract Presumptive identification of microorganisms from Gram stain Correlation of findings


Mg2Si1−xSnx (x = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8) thermoelectric materials have been prepared by vacuum melting and melting/hot-pressing methods. The phase structures and electrical transport properties were measured. The relationships between electronic structures and electronic properties are discussed. X-ray diffraction (XRD) showed that the hot-pressed compounds were better formed. The electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient measurements showed that the properties of the compounds were dramatically affected by solid solubility. When x= 0.2, the highest electrical conductivity resulted in the highest power factor of 1.32×10−3 W m−1 K−2 at about 500 K, while the highest value of Seebeck coefficient of −459 μV K−1 was obtained at about 450 K for x= 0.6.


Adsorption studies are important to determine the retention and release of applied plant nutrients and the efficiency of fertilization. The present study was conducted to delineate the zinc (Zn) adsorption behavior of soils with varying characteristics. In this study, adsorption behavior of Zn was studied at varying Zn concentrations and temperatures in three different soils collected from the Research Farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi (Inceptisols, Typic Haplustepts), soil (Inceptisols, Typic Ustocrept) from a farmer's field in Shamgarh, Karnal, Harayana, and the Hayathnagar Research Farm of Central Research Institute For Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad, (Haplustalf). The results of this study revealed that the adsorption of Zn as well as differential buffering capacity (DBC) was greater in Typic Haplustepts of IARI and Typic Ustocrept of Karnal than Haplustalf of CRIDA, Hyderabad. However, the supply power as well as percentage saturation (% sat.) was greater in Haplustalf of CRIDA, Hyderabad, than Typic Haplustepts of IARI and Typic Ustocrept of Karnal The results also revealed that irrespective of the soil types, Zn adsorption increased with an increase in Zn concentration and increase in temperature from 20 °C to 35 °C. When the adsorption data were fitted to isotherms, Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm fits were excellent, as evidenced by high r2 (0.71 to 0.99) values. Thermodynamic parameters such as standard free energy (ΔG) were negative in both Typic Haplustepts and Typic Ustocrept soils, indicating spontaneous Zn adsorption reaction, but nonspontaneous reaction was observed in the case of Haplustalf soils.. Interestingly, both standard enthalpy (ΔH) and standard entropy (ΔS) were negative in all the three types of soils studies. The analogy and results of the present study would be useful in deciding the Zn fertilizer needs for a given soil type.


The dual resonance model with Regge cut is applied to nN scattering. It is shown that the factorization condition relates the relative magnitude of the p pole and its associated Regge cut contribution of the spin flip amplitude to the relative magnitude of the non-flip amplitude. The model can give a non-zero polarization of· n-:p~n°n at aP (t) =0. §I. Introduction In a previous paper 1 ) we proposed a dual resonance model with Regge cuts. The scattering amplitude in the model consists of two parts: one is· given by the usual Veneziano amplitude and the other is the one having the Regge cut dual to resonances in asymptotic energy regions. The interesting feature of the model is that both Regge poles and Regge cuts interplay each other on the same footing. 1 )


Using frequency comb mediated phase-coherent and synchronous clock comparisons we demonstrate close to a factor of 10 improvement in short-term measurement instability, σ<inf>y</inf>(τ) < 2 x 10-16 @ 1s averaging, between 171Yb and 27Al+ optical clocks.


The system comprises: a CPLD logic control circuit, a DSP processing circuit, a CMOS sensor circuit, a memory expanded circuit, a USB communication and serial-port communication circuit, and an interface circuit. The CPLD is taken as the core logic control unit; the DSP is taken as the image collector and signal processor. The apparatus uses 300,000 pixels CMOS image sensor to get highly-detailed,high-definition and high-precision images.


This study investigafed fhe effects of exercise training on basal metabol ic rate (BMR). The subjects uere l2 lthaca Col lege female students and faculty members, aged l9-50 years. Each subject had her BMR measured twice prior to trainlng by indlrect calorimetry. Subjects p€rformed a pretraining graded exercise test (GXT) on a bicycle ergometer to determ i ne Vo2max. An 8-week 6xerc i se tra I n i ng program u,as designed for each subject from the determined V0rmax. Fol lowing training, measurements identical to those made prior to training were taken. Data obfained from the pretest and posttest were examined for significant differences uslng a repeated measures t test. lt h,as determined that BMR decreased significantly (g..0:) following 8 weeks of exerclse training. The difference in means between preand posttraining BMR was 5.2g cal/n2/nr. VOrmax increased tn 6 of the l2 subjects and decreased in 4 of the 12, however these changes did not indicate a signlf lcant tralning effect. The remaining 2 subjects were used as a control group. Factors other than training, such as hormonal or environmental influences, fioY help explain the observed decrease in BMR. Schoo I of ` |十 haca Heal十 h, Physica 卜十haca, "College I Educat i on, anU Recreat i on New York This is ertify that the Pame I a submittbd in partial fulfil .for the degree of Masfer of Hea I th, Phis ica-l Educa-t ion, Co I lege has tieen appiroved'.CERTIF!CATE OF APPROVAL MASTER OF SClENCE THESIS Master of Sc i ence Thes i s of Sue Evans I ment of the requ i rements Science in the School of and Recreation at lthaca


This paper is a preliminary attempt to bring to the fore some questions and issues regarding the role of habits in aesthetics. Indeed, much attention has recently been given to habits across a wide range of fields of inquiry: philosophers turn to the concept to investigate its significance to the historical development of Western thought; neuroscientists look into the role that habits play in the functioning of the human mind and identify the neural and psychological underpinnings of habitual behavior; anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists tap into habits as a key notion to explain social dynamics and collective behavior. For all of these waves that the notion has made in other parts of the humanities and social sciences, there have been so far, however, only a few sustained discussions of habits in conjunction with aesthetics. What is the role of habits in aesthetic experience? How do habits influence and regulate artistic creative processes?


Aim To analysis the infertility,antisperm antibody during adulthood in cryptorchid patients who operated on during childhood,and to assess these variables according to the age at surgery.Methods A letter was sent to all 1024 patients who underwent surgery for cryptorchidism less than 16 years old;422 responded but 17 cases were ruled out because these patients have been recognized additional infertility factors.They are divided into four groups with different operational time,and antisperm antibody was detected.The results were analyzed with the statistical method.Results The time of Surgical treatment with bilateral cryptorchidism has significantly impact on infertility ratio.the earlier age of surgery has the result of the lower the rate of infertility.With delayed of surgical treatment,patients with anti-sperm antibodies increased.Conclusions This study indicated early diagnosis and orchidopexy are needed to preserve fertility and avoid immune infertility.


A new method is proposed for modelling the electrokinetic‐induced mechanical motion of particles in a fluid domain under an applied electric field. In this method, independent solid meshes move in a fixed background field mesh that models the fluid and the electric field. This simple strategy removes the need for expensive mesh updates. Furthermore, the reproducing kernel particle functions enable efficient coupling of various immersed deformable solids with the surrounding viscous fluid in the presence of an applied electric field. The electric force on a particle is calculated by the Maxwell stress tensor method. For the first time, three‐dimensional assembly of nano/biomaterials of various geometries and electrical properties have been comprehensively studied using the new method. Simulation of the dynamic process of electro‐manipulation of individual and multiple cells agrees well with experimental data. Preliminary results for selective deposition of viruses and stretching of a DNA molecule are also presented. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Music provides a useful domain in which to study how the different attributes of complex multidimensional stimuli are processed both separately and in combination. Much research has been devoted to addressing how the dimension of pitch and time are co-processed in music listening tasks. Neuropsychological studies have provided evidence for a certain degree of independence between pitch and temporal processing, although there are also many experimental reports favouring interactive models of pitch and temporal processing. Here we extended these investigations by examining the processing of pitch and temporal structures when music is presented in the visual modality (i.e. in the form of music notation). In two experiments, musician subjects were presented with visual musical stimuli containing both pitch and temporal information for a brief amount of time, and they were subsequently required to recall both the pitch and temporal information. In Experiment 1, we documented that concurrent, unattended, pitch ...


It is inevitable to improve the management of medical libraries, as it is an important part of hospital. Not only is knowledge management a high-level management mode and idea, but also it is the core of knowledge-based economy. It offers an overall and realistc framework for management modernization. The transformation from information management to knowledge management is both the inevitable requirement of hospital modernization, and the only way for realizing the sustainable development of medical libraries.


Network selection mechanisms play a vital role in ensuring quality of service (QoS)in the cognitive networks environment. In this paper we develop a network selection scheme for an integrated UMTS/WLAN system to guarantee mobile users being always best connected. We focus on the optimization of resource utilization, while ensuring acceptable QoS provision to the end users. The proposed scheme comprises three parts. First one is to detect the availa bility of access networks by following cognitive network architecture under the cross-layer design paradigm. While the second is to apply fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to decide the relative weights of evaluative criteria set according to network condition and serv ice applications. Thirdly, a novel approach using quantum genetic algorithm to adjust the weights of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is adopted. Extensive computer based simulation experiments were carried out. Simulation results show that this method gives better perf ormance in throughput, delay and average packet loss, hence proves that this method is superior to the traditional methods of link capacity a nd network capacity.


A novel light source, emitted from 10-µm-core Ce3+:YAG double-clad crystal fiber, was applied on optical coherence tomography with 1.5-µm axial resolution in air. The 3-dimensional stroma of fish cornea was mapped as an in-vivo demonstration.


Lymphography of the cervical lymphatic system was performed experimentally and clinically for the diagnostic purposes in the head and neck surgery.The results were as follows:1) Observations of the cervical lymphograms at different.Stages after injection of a contrast medium in dogs. The visualization of the cervical lymphatic vessels was of the most clear at 2 hours after injection and gradual disappearance was up to 24 hours thereafter. The lymph nodes were demonstrated most finely at 24 hours showing the typical homogeneous reticular patterns.2) The histopathological investigation of the cervical nodes in dogs.Upto 6 months after injection, mild nonspecific inflammatory changes occurred in the nodes due to the foreign body reaction of the contrast medium and lymphocytes were hoted to be decreasing grodually in the nodes.But after 6 months, the fatty droplets phagocytized by giant cells were eliminated, lymphocytes increased in number. At 9-12 months stage after injection, the tissues of the nodes showed normal histology.3) The fat embolism following the cervical lymphography in dogs.Although the fat embolism following the cervical lymphography in dogs may not be prevented completely, there is no risk of mentioned above following the cervical lymphography if the injection is performed with the greatest care of the volume and the speed.4) Clinical investigation of cervical lymphography.Cervical lymphography was performed in 24 patients exclusively via the single retroauricular approach.The visualizations of the normal cervical lymphatic system were made by the lymphography.In the cases sofar experienced, abnormal changes were the following:A) The passage disorder or blockage of lymphatic vesselsa) Increase of Lynphatic capillaries in number and reticular changes of lymphatic vesselsb) The changes of lymphatic vessels (rupture, dilatation, blockage, tortuosity and collateral formation)B) Abnormal changes of lymph nodesa) Moth-eaten appearanceb) Gohst-like appearancec) Homogeneous filling or non-structureC) Normal but apparently abnormal lymph nodesa) Pseudo-moth-eaten appearanceb) Central filling defectCervical lymphography is a valuable procedure for the diagnosis of malignant tumors in regions of head and neck, although it has a limited value for detecting an early small lesion of the lymphatic system.


The second part of the article discusses the method improving the stability of bath systems of potassium borohydride and DMAB, and introduces new electroless gold plating systems, including bath systems of NaAuCl4 with amine borane as reducer, sulfite and thiosulfate. The deposition speed of gold was discussed in systems of sulfite and thiosulfate by comparing the stability constant of gold complex ions, and cathodic/anodic polarization curves.


The title compound, octacaesium pentadecairon decafluoride dodecaphosphate, was prepared by hydrothermal methods. The structure contains three types of Fe polyhedra (octahedra, tetrahedra and five-vertex polyhedra) which share vertices to form two-dimensional `branched' layers approximately parallel to the (120) plane. These layers are linked into a framework by PO4 tetrahedra. The Cs atoms occupy holes in the mixed Fe/P framework.


FeNi thin films in the L10 phase were successfully grown by magnetron sputtering on HF-etched Si(0 0 1) substrates on Cu/Cu100−xNix buffers. The strain of the FeNi layer, (c/a)FeNi, was varied in a controlled manner by changing the Ni content of the Cu100−xNix buffer layer from x=0 at.% to x=90 at.%, which influenced the common in-plane lattice parameter of the CuNi and FeNi layers. The presence of the L10 phase was confirmed by resonant x-ray diffraction measurements at various positions in reciprocal space. The uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy KU is observed to be smaller (around 0.35 MJ m−3) than predicted for a perfect FeNi L10 sample, but it is larger than for previously studied films. No notable variation in KU with strain state (c/a)FeNi is observed in the range achieved (0.99≲(c/a)FeNi≲1.02), which is in agreement with theoretical predictions.


The invention relates to enhanced halogen-free flame-retardant PP/PPO alloy and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of high molecular material. The enhanced halogen-free flame-retardant PP/PPO alloy comprises, by weight, 70-90 parts of PP, 50-80 parts of PPO, 10-18 parts of magnesium borate crystal whiskers, 8-12 parts of ammonium polyphosphate, 6-10 parts of melamine phosphate, 5-8 parts of magnesium hydrate crystal whiskers, 5-20 parts of compatilizer, 1-2 parts of antioxidants and 0.5-1.4 parts of lubricating agents. The enhanced halogen-free flame-retardant PP/PPO alloy has good mechanical properties and dimensional stability and is easily processed to be formed. Meanwhile, combined flame retarding of an inorganic flame retardant and an organic phosphorus-nitrogen flame retardant is adopted, so that the enhanced halogen-free flame-retardant PP/PPO alloy has good flame retardant performance and is widely applied to the fields of electronic and electric products, automobiles, aviation, petroleum, the chemical industry, precision-machinery components and the like.


We propose a standard for generating and storing metadata describing numerical problems, in particular properties of matrices and linear systems. The standard comprises a storage and a generation component. The storage consists of an XML file format and an internal data format with various access routines; the generation standard describes a format for software that produces metadata. We give the abstract description of the XML storage format, APIs (Application Programmer Interfaces) for generating and storing metadata,and a core set of categories of data to be stored, and software to generate them. The standard defines an open-ended format, allowing for other parties to define additional metadata categories to be generated and stored within this framework. 1 General discussion Matrix storage formats, both file formats and data structures, traditionally limit themselves to specifying only the minimally necessary description of the data: the matrix size, and the matrix elements themselves with a fairly explicit description of the nonzero structure for sparse matrices. However, we can associate with matrix data any number of derived properties, such as norms, spectral properties, or graph properties in the sparse case. There is no standard way of generating and storing such data, making interoperability hard between software modules written by different authors. Such interoperability would be valuable in a number of contexts. For instance, linear algebra algorithms often need, or at least have a use for, difficult to compute matrix statistics, such as condition number estimates. Thus, the full algorithm consists of two disparate modules: one analyser that estimates the numerical quantity, and the algorithm proper which uses this quantity to fine-tune its workings. While any ad hoc fit can be made between such analysis-producing and analysis-consuming software, a more general solution would make componentization of such software possible. We note that analysis modules need not limit themselves, as in the example just given, to calculation or estimation of numerical quantities from the problem data. We can also envision that an application annotate its data before passing it to the numerical routine. Thus, information like the nature of a differential equation or its discretisation can be preserved, and translated to useful numerical information by a different kind of analysis module. There is also use for a more permanent storage format of numerical metadata. We will argue both points, the programmatic and the storage aspects of metadata, in detail below. The existence of a metadata standard for numerical data – we limit ourselves here to matrix data, though extension of these ideas to other fields is natural (see for instance [4, ch. 7]) – makes the following software functionalities possible. ∗ This work was funded in part by the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute through the subcontract # R71700J-29200099 from Rice University, and by the National Science Foundation under grant # 0203984. † Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin ‡ Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee


Some British academics have argued that the social sciences would suffer if the UK left the Union, on the grounds that the EU brings funding and enhances collaboration. But the EU's contribution to this area is not that simple, argues David Walker. Nor is it correct to claim, as the Leave lobby has, that money currently handed to Europe could instead be spent on UK research. European opacity, an intellectual orientation towards the United States and a lack of hard data on EU research performance make it impossible to be sure how much of Britain's stellar performance in the social sciences can be attributed to EU membership.


Arrangement (2) for reading out a sensor element (4) in a vehicle, comprising a sensor element (4) with at least one analog signal output (8a); a first control unit (6a) with at least a first signal input (10a); and at least a second control unit (6b) having at least a second signal input (12a); wherein the output signal (8a) to the first signal input (10a) is connected; characterized in that the output signal (8a) is connected to the second signal input (12a); and wherein the second output signal (12a) using a voltage divider (22) with the output signal (8a) is connected.


This study aims to investigate the effects of exposure to workplace bullying on the victim's organisation-based self-esteem, negative affectivity, and intentions to leave the organisation.


Purpose – This paper is crafted to provide practical, cost‐effective advice to those who are vying for competitive funds for training initiatives. The paper aims to cover ten strategies that have proven effective in securing funds.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the author's 23 years experience as a successful writer of training proposals. Trade secrets are shared that have proven effective.Findings – The findings are organized into ten categories of strategies the can easily be replicated to increase chances of securing competitive funds for training initiatives.Originality/value – This paper is a valuable resource to anyone writing training proposals for competitive funds. The strategies are practical, cost effective, and easily implemented.


In this paper, we consider the magnification behavior of neural maps using several (parametrized) divergences as dissimilarity measure instead of the Euclidean distance. We show experimentally that optimal magnification, i.e. information optimum data coding by the prototypes, can be achieved for properly chosen divergence parameters. Thereby, the divergences considered here represent all main classes of divergences. Hence, we can conclude that information optimal vector quantization can be processed independently from the divergence class by appropriate parameter setting.


The present paper reviewed the studies on insecticide resistance mainly from the molecular mechanism of metabolic resistance(including P450,CYP6A1,CYP6A2,CYP6D,Esterase,Aldehyde oxidase,Glutathione s-transferases) and target-site resistance(including Acetylcholinesterase,Sodium Channel,GABA receptor channel),and discussed the main factors about insecticide resistance as well as the structure and function of the factors related resistance,in order to help the monitoring and management of insecticide resistance at present.


Unit relative distortion is one of the important optical properties of medical rigid endoscope and the determination of it is of great significance on effectiveness and safety of medical rigid endoscope usage.This work sort out and annotate the test process of unit relative distortion in YY 0068.1-2008,which will make it easy to learn and master for manufactures and relevant testing personnel.


Compiled and published by the Bureau of the Census, the Congressional District Atlas describes the boundaries of the nation's 435 congressional districts. Since its inception in 1960, the atlas has grown in length from 103 to 1,272 pages. The most noteworthy increase, between the 1987 and 1993 editions, reflects judicial pressure to equalize district population within a state as well as Department of Justice efforts to maximize the number of minority-majority districts. Single-district states like Delaware and Wyoming still consume a single printed page, and because county boundaries are documented elsewhere, a singlepage map is usually adequate for states in which district boundaries do not split counties. By contrast, non-traditional borders winding through multiple counties require numerous large-scale maps efficiently formatted as telescopically nested insets. In the most recent edition, published in two volumes in 1993, Florida and Texas individually account for more pages than the entire first edition, and North Carolina's 12th district, which the Supreme Court ridiculed in Shaw v. Reno, stretches across 30 separate pages. Because of this parsimonious portrayal of boundaries, the atlas affords a convenient state-level descriptor of geographic complexity: the ratio of map pages to seats in the House of Representatives. Cartographic and statistical analysis of this index reveals a concentration of complex boundaries in the Southeast and other areas in which the Voting Rights Act mandates preclearance by the Justice Department. Not surprisingly, the index is a near-perfect predictor of judicial challenges to race-based redistricting


One of the efforts of Al-Qur'an teachers attempted to find is the best method for teaching the Quran. They, the teachers wish that the Quran can be delivered and read easily for anyone. So, the Iqra method is an effort to make the Quran easier to learn and read it accurately. This method is important for teachers, groups of ta'lim who teach the Qur'an because it directly teaches the tajwid in some stages. However, it is also important to deliver these community activities for Muslim members, especially NU (Nahdatul Ulama) where most of its members are majlis ta'lim and teachers of the (TPA). The purpose of this community service was to give an understanding of teaching this method. This activity successfully achieved two goals. 1. Internal targets: NU Muslims can deliver better teaching method than their previous teaching. 2. External targets: They experienced in teaching the Iqra method. The strategy or the method used during this community service was questioning, and answers to the participants.


The central issuein developmentis the formationof spatial patterns of cells in the early embryo. The mechanismswhichgenerate these patterns are unknown. Here we describethe new Oster—Murray mechanochemicalapproachto the problem, the elements of whichare experimentallywell documented.By wayof illustration we derive one of the basic modelsfrom firstprinciplesand apply it to a variety of problems of current interest and research. Wespecificallydiscussthe formationof skinorgan patterns, such as feather andscale germs,cartilage condensationsin the developing vertebrate limb and finallywound healing.


Abstract : This report summarizes work performed under this contract. The main topics are : Hadwiger's conjecture, rooted subdivisions of K4, results of PI's student D.P. Sanders, representativity of surface unbeddings, the Four Color Theorem, Younger's conjecture.


The numerical simulation in shaped charge jet involves large deformation, high strain rate, and material damage. And traditional computational methods, Lagrangian and Eulerian, are limited in dealing with these problems. Therefore new numerical methods such as re-mesh, ALE, SPH, technology of interface disposal and so on are well developed. In practical shaped charge jet engineering analysis, the right different wall liner constitutive law is the key. The high effective parallel computing and scientific visualization are the only way for numerical simulation. And tendency with respect to numerical simulation of shaped charge jet is also comprehensively surveyed.


We observed periodic optical pulses from an Er:YSO crystal during irradiating with an continuous-wave excitation laser. We refer to this new phenomenon as"periodic super-radiance". This periodicity can be understood qualitatively by a simple model, in which a cyclic process of a continuous supply of population inversion and a sudden burst of super-radiance is repeated. The excitation power dependences of peak interval and the pulse area can be interpreted with our simple model. In addition, the linewidth of super-radiance is much narrower than an inhomogeneous broadening in a crystal. This result suggests that only Er3+ ions in a specific environment are involved in super-radiance.


This paper investigates acoustic effect of the vocal-tract open end to examine whether the open-end correction coefficient known to date is adequate for modeling the vocal tracts with a wide-open mouth. To do so, MRI data were examined for two females (LH and SC). 3D vocal tract shapes were extracted, and solid vocal-tract models were built from volumetric MRI data during production of Chinese vowel /a/. The measured formants from the solid models and calculated formants from the area functions were compared to estimate the wide open end boundary effect. It was found that the calculated formants with the excess lengths of 0.44 and 0.28 open end diameter for subjects LH and SC are closer to the measured formants than the calculated formants with the common open-end correction coefficients (in the range of 0.3 to 0.4 diameters of the open end). The results suggest that the coefficient for correction needs to be adjusted in models to reflect the geometry of the lip end of the vocal tract.


Popular LSM-tree based key-value stores suffer from suboptimal and unpredictable performance due to write amplification and write stalls that cause application performance to periodically drop to nearly zero. Our preliminary experimental studies reveal that (1) write stalls mainly stem from the significantly large amount of data involved in each compaction between L0-L1 (i.e., the first two levels of LSM-tree), and (2) write amplification increases with the depth of LSM-trees. Existing works mainly focus on reducing write amplification, while only a couple of them target mitigating write stalls. In this paper, we exploit non-volatile memory (NVM) to address these two limitations and propose MatrixKV, a new LSM-tree based KV store for systems with multi-tier DRAMNVM-SSD storage. MatrixKV's design principles include performing smaller and cheaper L0-L1 compaction to reduce write stalls while reducing the depth of LSM-trees to mitigate write amplification. To this end, four novel techniques are proposed. First, we relocate and manage the L0 level in NVM with our proposed matrix container. Second, the new column compaction is devised to compact L0 to L1 at fine-grained key ranges, thus substantially reducing the amount of compaction data. Third, MatrixKV increases the width of each level to decrease the depth of LSM-trees thus mitigating write amplification. Finally, the cross-row hint search is introduced for the matrix container to keep adequate read performance. We implement MatrixKV based on RocksDB and evaluate it on a hybrid DRAM/NVM/SSD system using Intel's latest 3D Xpoint NVM device Optane DC PMM. Evaluation results show that, with the same amount of NVM, MatrixKV achieves 5× and 1.9× lower 99th percentile latencies, and 3.6× and 2.6× higher random write throughput than RocksDB and the state-of-art LSM-based KVS NoveLSM respectively. *Corresponding author. Email: email@example.com


Human AFP purified from fetal serum and amniotic fluid was separated into three different variants by chromatography on concanavalin A insolubilized on Sepharose (Con A—Sepharose). The three variants were indistinguishable in immunodiffusion and radioimmunoassay. Sera from patients with yolk‐sac tumor and amniotic fluid from early pregnancy were found to contain a high proportion (15–45%) of AFP which does not bind to Con A, while AFP in fetal and newborn sera, and in amniotic fluid from late pregnancy, contained less (2–6%) of this variant. The use of a large excess of Con A—Sepharose and the fact that the non‐bound AFP consistently eluted as non‐bound in rechromatography showed that this AFP is non‐reactive with Con A. Fractionation of radiolabelled AFP from cord serum in a mixture with amniotic fluid verified the difference in the amount of the Con‐A non‐reactive variant in AFP from these two sources. These results suggest that AFP synthesized by the yolk‐sac tissue and by the liver are glycosylated differently. The variant may prove to be diagnostically useful.


Illness and hospitalization created a stressful) experience for the children. For school age children who cared in hospitals, generally respond will be shown are depression, frustation and hostily. It can caused they had limited number of coping mechanism to resolved the stressfull event. So the psicology adaptation level on school age children still are mal adaptive. One of the effective method to minimizing this situation was play therapy. For school age children, play therapy which can be given are play therapy : games.

The purpose of this study was to analized the effect of play therapy : games to psicology adaptation level on school age children in Child Anggrek Room General Hospital Kabupaten Gresik.

This study method was Quasy Eksperiment Research (Non randomized Control Group Pretest – Postest Design) with non-probability sampling (Purposive Sampling). The population was child on school age children who had cared in Child Anggrek Room General Hospital Kabupaten Gresik with accounted 24 patients who having all studies criteria. Data will be selected by observation list and will be analized with Friedman Test with post hoc analize Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test and Mann Whitney Test with significant P < 0.005.

The data which got from observation list showed there were effect of play therapy : games to psicology adaptation level on school age children in Child Anggrek room General Hospitals Kabupaten Gresik with significant level p = 0.002 after intervention.

It can be concluded that play therapy : games could increase the psicology adaptation level on school age children to adaptive level. And for suggestion play therapy : games could be one of the alternatif method to reduce mal adaptive respond hospitalization on school age children especially in Child Anggrek Room General Hospitals Kabupaten Gresik.


Nowadays, companies face a new paradigm due to the globalization, this phenomenon has created trade blocks that have transformed the world into a more heterogeneous economic market and at the same time with a new paradigm such as the speed, which has created the cycles of the business products life been shorter.


: This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the timeliness of financial reporting as a form of accountability for the management of School Operational Assistance (BOS) funds in high schools in the City of Tebing Tinggi, North Sumatra Province. Factors tested in this study are human resource capacity, utilization of information technology, internal control, compiler motivation, leadership commitment, supporting infrastructure, complexity of company operations, professionalism, experience, and compensation of report compilers, to the timeliness of financial reporting. The data used in this study is primary data with the selection of samples using purposive sampling method. The sample of this study consisted of the managers of BOS funds in high schools in the City of Tebing Tinggi. The data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis. The results of hypothesis testing show that the capacity of human resources, utilization of information technology, commitment of leaders, supporting infrastructure and experience have significant and partial effect on the timeliness of financial reporting. As for internal control, compiler motivation, operational complexity, professionalism and compensation have no significant effect on the timeliness of financial reporting in high schools in the City of Tebing Tinggi, North Sumatra Province.


Many prior studies have shown that teachers' child-centered beliefs are positively associated with children's literacy development, but the mechanism driving this association is not well understood. The aim of the study was to examine whether teachers' responsive teaching, a general factor of teacher–child interactions, served as a mediator between teachers' beliefs about children and children's literacy outcomes. A sample of 656 4-year old preschool children and their 59 head teachers was recruited. Children's literacy assessments were conducted at baseline and six months later. The quality of responsive teaching was measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) near the baseline time point. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that the effects of teachers' child-centered beliefs on children's literacy development were fully mediated by responsive teaching. The finding offers insights into classroom practices and teacher training.


Meanwhile, this issue contains widely contrasting articles pertaining to regional analysis, management and development. Diana Day considers the management of NSW water resources. She emphasises the importance of informing local people (or local government) about, and of involving them in, policy formulation. Adams and Dixon forecast the prospects for Australian industries and states over the middle parts of this decade. Such information might assist regional communities in targeting appropriate industries to propel local development.


This paper deals with the grouted pipe‐roofing reinforcement method that is used in the construction of tunnels through weak grounds. This system consists on installing, prior to the excavation of a length of tunnel, an array of pipes forming a kind of 'umbrella' above the area to be excavated. In some cases, these pipes are later used to inject grout to strengthen the ground and 'connect' the pipes.


We describe a case of perineal schwannoma (neurilemmoma) that resembled a skin tag. The structure was composed of a 1.5 cm × 1.4 cm × 1 cm sized mass and a movable stalk. After excision of the mass from the stalky root with scissors, H & E staining of the specimen revealed an encapsulated intradermal mass composed of Antoni‐A type and Antoni‐B type tissue.


The present invention, conductive carbon, in particular, relates to a proton conductive carbon. It includes compositions comprising the present invention sulfonated particulate carbonaceous material. The present invention provides a surface modified carbonaceous material comprising a plurality of general formula -SO 3 M sulfonate substituent of the surface bond wherein M is hydrogen or a cationic species. Surface modified carbonaceous material has a surface atomic concentration of sulfur present in about 0.25% of the surface bound SO 3 M with respect to the total surface atomic concentration of the surface treatment carbon material (as measured by XPS). The present invention also provides a number of additional compositions containing a surface modification of carbon material of the present invention.


Polarization evolution of a single and coupled pulses in twisted fiber was studied experimentally and numerically. For coupled-pulse input, the output ellipticity evolves toward the circular polarization with abrupt shift at a linearly polarized input.


The invention relates to a kiln saggar feeding system based on material sintering. The kiln saggar feeding system based on material sintering comprises a buffer material bin; the discharging end of the buffer material bin is connected with a spiral feeding device through a hose; an air cylinder block board is arranged at the end of the spiral feeding device; a discharging outlet of the spiral feeding device is connected with a quantitative material cylinder through a connection pipe; a pneumatic piston valve is arranged inside the quantitative material cylinder; a weight sensor is connected to the outer wall of the quantitative material cylinder and connected with a servo motor through a lifting rod; a discharging outlet of the quantitative material cylinder is matched with a saggar through a hose I; the saggar is arranged inside a conveying roller bed; a photoelectric sensor is arranged below the quantitative material cylinder and located on the conveying roller bed; the conveying roller bed is provided with a pressure grating matched with the saggar; a rotary shaft is arranged at the discharging end of the buffer material bin; the lateral wall of the hose is provided with a vibration module I controlled by a controller and a bypass pipe; the movable end of the bypass pipe is communicated with the spiral feeding device. The problems that an existing feeding device easily causes inaccurate control over the feeding weight and material blockage are solved.


If in a two color interferometer for plasma density measurements, the two wavelengths are chosen to have a ratio that is a rational number, and if the signals from each of the wavelengths are multiplied in frequency by the appropriate integer of the rational number and then heterodyned together, the resultant signal will have all effects of component motion nulled out. A phase measurement of this signal will have only plasma density information in it. With CO{sub 2} lasers, it is possible to find suitable wavelength pairs which are close enough to rational numbers to produce an improvement of about 100 in density resolution, compared to standard two color interferometers.


We have shown that DNA assembled fluorescent resonant energy transfer systems oscillate in response to electrophoretic actuation in an acrylamide model of in situ hybridization. Integration of fluorescence over time produced clear peaks in Fourier space with signal to noise ratios far above static levels. Frequency responses were demonstrated between 5 Hz to 10 Hz. Actuation speed was likely limited by the ionic flux under low field strength of the relatively macroscale system. The ability to pull signals out of a high background of autofluorescence has important implications for improving the resolution of FISH, and in particular using oligonucleotide probes for the analysis of early stage genetic transitions from hyperplasia to carcinoma.


The article provides data on the calculation of the economic efficiency of cultivation of hybrids corn of domestic and foreign selection - Mashuk 171, Monsanto DKS 3939, AS-201 against the background of two methods of basic tillage, methods of basic tillage - disking PM 5 ? 4 by 10 ... 12 cm and plowing unit EuroDiamant from Lemken for 25 ... 27 cm. The work was carried out in 2016–2018. in the soil and climatic conditions of the Prikubansky region of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. The soil of the experimental site is a typical carbonate heavy loamy chernozem on loess-like carbonate clays and loams with a humus content of 5%, mobile phosphorus and potassium - 30 mg / kg and 389 mg / kg soil, respectively. The predecessor was corn for grain. The advantage of using plowing as the main method of soil cultivation was revealed, the level of profitability for the studied hybrids was from 111.7 to 53.6%, which is higher than in the variant with disking from 40.2 to 27.1%. As for the hybrids, the greatest economic effect was obtained from the cultivation of foreign breeding hybrids – Monsanto DKS 3939 and AS-201.


In accordance with the flow behavior of viscoelastic fluid in reservoir pores,up-Maxwell constitutional equation is selected to describe the rheological property of polymer solution with the first normal stress contrast as its main feature,and finite element analysis software Polyflow is used to perform isothermal numerical simulation for the flow behavior of viscoelastic polymer solution in shrinkage flowpath.The influence of polymer solution viscoelasticity on velocity and stress fields is studied theoretically under different Reynolds number(Re)and Weissenberg(We).It is defined that when Re and We are larger and fluid is flowing in shrinkage flowpath,flow velocity and stress will increase with the increasing of We;the first normal stress increases with the increasing of We,being maximum in the narrow flowpath at outlet but minimum in the wide flowpath at inlet;the closer to wall surface,the bigger the influence of We on the first normal stress is;the viscoelasticity exerts bigger influence on flow velocity near central line,and less influence near wall surface.


ON THE FIRST PAGE of this book, Robert Kugler and Patrick Hartin describe their dissatisfaction with current introductions to the Bible. They argue that most introductions focus on theories about the Bible or on the origins of biblical material, and thus fail to do what an introduction should do: introduce students to the content and theology of the Bible. To avoid these deficiencies, the authors structure each chapter with sections on the contents ("A Walk Through . . ."), the theology, and the critical issues of each biblical book. The result is remarkably thorough and balanced. With introductory chapters to the OT, NT, and the various subdivisions of the canon, and with a section in each chapter on critical issues, Kugler and Hartin provide readers with adequate information on the historical and cultural background of the text and on scholarly issues, while maintaining a focus on the content and theology of the various books. This introduction would be quite useful for an undergraduate course. Because of its balance and thoroughness, pastors, teachers, and other church leaders might use it as a companion to a Bible dictionary. Many would find it more practical for quick reference than a one-volume Bible commentary. Despite its considerable merits, the book has two drawbacks. First, its brevity means that some issues are ignored or passed over quickly. As one example, the chapter on Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah does not mention the persistent questions about the dating of their missions. Second, the text contains very little about contemporary approaches to interpretation. It presents conventional views on most issues and books, avoiding any novel or controversial readings. Teachers are accustomed to supplementing an introductory text with additional material. Pastors and teachers in the church will want to have other resources at hand that provide more depth, and in particular, alternative ways of reading and interpreting the Bible. The strengths of this text far outweigh its weaknesses, and it should find a spot in many classrooms and on many bookshelves.


@ ) In 1992 and 1993, archaeological excavations directed by A.M.Dias Diogo in the gardens of PALÁCIO DOS CONDES DE PENAFIEL, in Lisbon, revealed a rich and complex stratigraphical sequence, from the Early Roman Empire to Modern Age. The area of the city is a key one to understand urban evolution in Late Antique and Early Medieval periods because it is located between the great roman baths, named , and the Medieval town walls known as « », a defensive structure wich excluded the baths from urban perimetre, mentioned by medieval arab texts from XI th century on. Thermae Cassiorum Cerca Moura


Density functional theory (DFT) is briefly reviewed, especially concepts such as the electronic chemical potential and the hardness of the electron density function. There is much evidence, and a mathematical proof, that this chemical hardness is a maximum for an equilibrium system.


The aim of this paper is the presenting way how can be the TIPS methodology (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) effectively used for solving an example task of enhancement of the rocket nozzle lifetime. The main technical problem is investigated through the application of the various approaches including formulation of the contradictions.


The aim of this study was to establish the activity profile of elite level female field hockey players during competition. In addition, the nature of sprint activity concerning pre- and post-sprint activity was investigated. Twelve elite female outfield players (age 22 ± 3 years) from the women's English National League were videoed for the entire duration of a game. Definitions of each movement classification (stand, walk, jog, cruise, sprint) were established for analysis. A lunge defined as a sudden elongated step, but with a bent front knee, was included in analysis due to its frequent use in field hockey. The majority of the game was spent in low intensity activity (90%). A mean significant decrease (P<0.05) in the amount of high intensity activity performed in the second half, coupled with a significant decrease in average heart rate in the second half (174 ± 12 beats·min−1 vs. 169 ± 11 beats·min−1; p<0.01), suggests a manifestation of fatigue resulting in a decrease in physical performance. To conclude, field hockey is predominantly low intensity in nature, interspersed with short periods of high intensity effort. Despite the continuous substitutions rule, there is a decline in work rate in the second half.


Multicore platforms offer great potential for task-level redundancy to achieve a degree of fault-tolerance/reliability in embedded systems by exploiting the idle cores. However, due to the Thermal Design Power (TDP) constraint, it may not be possible to simultaneously power-on all cores in a multicore chip at the full-throttle (e.g., in ARM's big.LITTLE architecture). Since TDP is the maximum sustainable power that a chip can dissipate safely (as per the specifications given by a chip vendor), violating TDP triggers a performance throttling mechanism (e.g., by lowering the operating voltage and frequency, or by power-gating with task migration) to avoid possible overheating problems. This can significantly affect the timeliness of the system, and hence, represents a serious challenge in using (off-the-shelf) multicore platforms in real-time embedded systems when exploiting it for full-scale reliability. That means only a few tasks can be afforded to run in a fully reliable mode under a given TDP constraint. In this article, at first, we study the power consumption of task-level redundancy running on multicore platforms. Then, to tackle the peak power problem, we propose a novel primary-backup scheme for power-aware scheduling of real-time tasks on core pairs in multicore systems. The proposed scheme aims at removing overlaps of peak power of concurrently executing tasks to keep the power consumption below the chip-level TDP constraint. This would facilitate higher reliability levels within a given power budget. To do this, considering the tasks' power profiles, we propose a task partitioning method along with maximum-peak-power-first (MPPF) and maximum-peak-power-last (MPPL) policies to schedule original and redundant copies of tasks, respectively. Our experiments show that our technique provides up to 50% (on average by 29.5%) peak power reduction compared to state-of-the-art schemes, while providing the same reliability level.