It is proposed at least one sensor (4) which is arranged on a component (3) of the bearing (1) means for detecting operating data of a rolling bearing (1) receiving in the installed position relative to a said rolling bearing (1) bearing housing (15) is stationary. Here, a sensor side transmitter (9) sends operational data representing radio signals (10) to a bearing housing-side data receiver (12). In order to ensure the capture of operational data of the rolling bearing reliable, regardless of the current operating situation of the roller bearing, it is provided that the energy supply device (29) comprises a bearing housing side transmission unit (25) comprising a transmitter-side receiving unit (6) wirelessly with operating power (30) applied which serves as a transmit power for the sensor-side transmitter (9).


This paper presents stability analysis for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems and a method for designing robust fuzzy controllers to stabilize the uncertain nonlinear systems, First, a stability condition for Takagi and Sugeno's fuzzy model is given in terms of Lyapunov stability theory. Next, new stability conditions for a generalized class of uncertain systems are derived from robust control techniques such as quadratic stabilization, H/sup /spl infin// control theory, and linear matrix inequalities. The derived stability conditions are used to analyze the stability of Takagi and Sugeno's fuzzy control systems with uncertainty which can be regarded as a generalized class of uncertain nonlinear systems, The design method employs the so-called parallel distributed compensation, important issues for the stability analysis and design are remarked. Finally, three design examples of fuzzy controllers for stabilizing nonlinear systems and uncertain nonlinear systems are presented.


The GaAs FET power amplifier in a Class AB operation used for digital cellular portable telephones must be studied for reduction of the transfer phase variation to attain high performance. However, the load impedance dependence of the phase characteristics, which is of significance, has not been analyzed in detail.

In this paper, for the analysis of phase characteristics, a new π-type FET equivalent circuit is proposed in which a negative conductance is introduced in place of the current source. By means of this equivalent circuit, an analysis and a simulation are carried out for the load impedance dependence of the phase charac- teristics. an increase of the drain-gate conductance and a decrease in the drain conductance accounts for the inverted V-shape phase-shift performance. the dependence on the load impedance also is illustrated. Further, the experimental results confirmed the correctness of the analysis since the phase variation is found to be a function of the drain-gate current.


Multi-band antennas are becoming vital for wireless systems. This paper proposes a tri-band microstrip patch antenna using slots with h-shaped. The operating frequencies cover the GSM900, DCS1800 and the 2.4 GHz bands. The optimization of the antenna dimensions was obtained by using available tools in the CST microwave studio software. A prototype antenna was fabricated and tested. From the simulated and measured results, the antenna operational frequencies were achieved. It is also found that the gain and the return losses of the antenna were better than other letter-shaped antennas reported in the literature.


This study aims to analyze the village fund policy, especially on the implementation process of village funds project from planning, disbursement, utilization to accountability. The research was conducted on seven villages receiving the village fund in Pineleng Sub-district, Minahasa District, North Sulawesi Province. This research was conducted for 3 (three) months from January to March 2017. This research uses primary and secondary data. Primary data comes from observations and interviews. The samples in this study were members of the village community in Pineleng Sub-district of Minahasa District in seven villages namely Sea, Sea One, Warembungan, Pineleng Dua Indah, Kali, Kali Selatan and Winangun Atas. Each village takes 10 (ten) respondents for each village so the total number of community members who become sample is 70 (seventy) respondents. The results show that the village fund program in Pineleng Sub-district is running well, but for the future it is necessary to increase the capacity and skill of the village government apparatus in order to support the implementation of this program to improve the economy and better society welfare.


The article describes measurement method of ball reflection coordinates points from the shield. The method is implemented with using a training-research stand for studying of ball flight trajectory parameters in shots with reflection from the shield using a new technologies: mobile throwing module, special basketball shield for collection of information about the coordinates points of the impact points of the ball. Developed method scheme of coordinates points finding method of the reflection reveals the equipment and the procedure for interaction of the components of training-research stand. There is performed the record shots results (hitting or missing) of target in the plane of the ring, which is divided into three parts: the forward-and backarcs field and the area of "pure" hitting without touching the ball to the rim for each coordinate of the ball reflection from the shield by visual observation. The results of the throws are reduced in a specially designed table for statistical analysis of experimental data. Field dissipation of each shots series must be submitted in printed form with a color display of reflection coordinates on the background of the basketball shield. The proposed method of measurement of the ball reflection coordinates points from the shield allows to reliably determine the systematic error of the players in the execution technique and in creating of required parameters of the basketball shots and complements the theory and methods of teaching basketball in the section "ball possession technique".


Protein Wnt-7a (349 aa, ~39 kDa) is encoded by the human WNT7A gene. This protein plays a role in intercellular communication and the regulation of cell fate and patterning during embryogenesis.


Abstract: Constrained Geometric Program is a type of mathematical optimization problem characterized by objective and constraint functions that have a special form.  In this article, an unconstrained Geometric Programming problem is defined in usual form with exponents  and are assumed to be a random variable. An attempt is made to obtain an optimum solution of this model using derivative and matrix inversion method. An example is considered to illustrate the procedure. Key Words: Unconstrained Geometric Programming problem, Random exponents, Random variable, Probability distribution, Expectation, Orthogonality and normality conditions,


The paper dwells on the possibility of modelling an accounting system in terms of its clusterization. The author reveals the essence of an accounting cluster and a cluster-module structure, in particular in terms of forming elements of an accounting system, thus justifying the formalization of accounting.In the course of the study, the author analyzed available researches on this issue and found a split in opinions over its solution. Further, the main content, limits and possibilities of designing an accounting system were determined.The study focused on the morphological relationship between the facts of economic activities and accounting generalization in terms of cluster-module elements that indirectly correspond to the concept of "responsibility centres" in management accounting and controlling. But in this case, an accounting cluster is purely a component of bookkeeping with the corresponding operating conditions and method of implementation.The use of the cluster approach in accounting allows one to group accounting processes and procedures. In particular, following the above principle, one can single out a cluster of fixed assets accounting, a cluster of trade operations accounting or a cluster of total operations, and others. As a result of modelling, this method of accounting clusterization not only makes the modelled system (in this case, an accounting system) more efficient, but also increases the quality of accountants' work.The study was aimed to find structural solutions for modelling an accounting system and possible ways tooptimize accounting tasks as well as meet the needs of the users of accounting information.


We present a model for the steady-state penetration phase of yawed long rods. The projectile-target interaction is comprised of axial deceleration and erosion due to frontal pressure, and lateral deceleration due to cavity expansion pressure. By solving the resulting ODEs through time-stepping, the evolution of the projectile/crater shape is obtained.


Traumatic haemobilia was diagnosed and treated successfully by selective arterial catheterization and embolization with Gelfoam particles, thus avoiding the hazards of surgical intervention, in a 16‐year‐old boy with tuberculous peritonitis. No ill effects to the liver parenchyma were noticed as evidenced by liver function tests and liver scan.


Wendell Gilliam has been studying the problem of nonpoint source water pollution in North Carolina for 26 years, recently focusing his research on the effectiveness of grass and riparian buffers in removing pollutants from agricultural runoff. While Gilliam knows buffers can be useful in protecting water quality, he sounds a note of caution about relying on current data to design buffers to protect streams near fields where animal waste is applied. Gilliam says that while it has been shown that buffers can be effective, most previous research on buffer effectiveness has been on fields where inorganic fertilizers have been applied, and nutrients associated with organics in animal waste behave differently than inorganic nutrients. Phosphorous from animal waste moves through soils more easily than inorganic phosphorous, and nitrogen in animal waste must be mineralized to inorganic fonns before it can be taken up by plants. It is possible, then, that nutrients in animal wastes may move off site more easily than inorganic nutrients. Furthennore, he says, a major concern associated with land application of animal wastes is bacterial contamination of waters, and virtually nothing is known about the ability of planted or natural buffers to remove bacteria from runoff. Because he believes that land application of waste from concentrated animal operations poses the largest nonpoint source threat to water quality in the state, Gilliam says it is crucial to base recommendations for animal waste best management practices on better infonnation than is now available. His current WRRI project is aimed at providing that infonnation. Using sites equipped and instrumented for previous research on buffer effectiveness, Gilliam and co-investigators Robert Mikkelsen and John Parsons will evaluate the effectiveness of grass and riparian buffers in removing nutrients and fecal colifonn bacteria from runoff from a field where poultry litter has been applied. They have already begun incorporating poultry litter at two six-plot sites previously used for research on runoff from fields not receiving animal waste. They will _,..."n-o ..... "'..." the effectiveness of buffers in cleaning up runoff from waste-treated fields with their performance m previous research. Building on hydrologic and chemical data produced by previous research and new data gathered in the current project, the investigators will also evaluate the latest version of the GLEAMS runoff model and will develop and test routines for simulating flow of water and chemicals through grass and riparian buffers. The investigators intend to provide infonnation to predict the effectiveness of buffers under a range of site conditions and to design requirements for buffers between streams and areas receiving animal waste.


Soundscape analysis started to be a research field in the late sixties and received significant attention by researchers in the last twenty years. Experts in community noise and environmental acoustics and, more recently, policy makers and practitioners show interest for soundscapes, due to its multidisciplinary approach focusing on how people actually experience their acoustic environments in different indoor and outdoor environments. In 2014 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) officially defined Soundscape as "acoustic environment as perceived or experienced and/or understood by people, in context". The peculiarity of the Soundscape approach is that it firstly relies upon human perception and then turns to physical assessment. The study of the soundscape related to cultural heritage is a subject not yet very widespread and deeply investigated by researchers and designers. In this paper, after an introduction about the general soundscape concept and approach, its connection with quiet areas is addressed. Moreover, existing methodologies to deal with the soundscape of cultural heritage are reported, together with the recent trend of archiving sounds considered to be disappeared or lost in memory, to enhance them as the cultural heritage of our society.


The invention provides a medical image management apparatus. An image file reception unit receives order information data files concerning studies. An order information reception unit receives records concerning the studies, the records including medical images and supplementary information data files associated with the medical images. A discrimination unit compares items of a specific order information data file of the received order information data files and the supplementary information data files. And the discrimination unit discriminates a specific record from the received records. The specific record is in which medical images concerning not less than two studies of the studies and supplementary information data files are mixed.


First, you can highlight some text in the Results window, copy it using the mouse (or keyboard), and then paste it into the Command window, the Do-file Editor, or anywhere else appropriate. This is a convenient way to transfer, for example, single values, lists, or sets of variable names from the screen for use in the next command. To copy text, place your mouse at the beginning of the desired text, drag to the end, thus highlighting the selected text, and press Ctrl-C. To paste text, click your mouse at the appropriate place and press Ctrl-V.


Mathematical modeling of the operation processes of automotive engine oils allows to optimize the time of their use during operation. A certain significance for changing the qualitative properties of motor oils is introduced by such an operational indicator as "waste" oil consumption. The article describes the causes and parameters of engine oil consumption, as well as the mathematical model of changes in the physico-chemical properties of engine oil during operation. The one that will allow us to optimize the periodicity of replacing the engine oil, as a result this fact will allow us to increase the distance between the interventions of the corrective maintenance works of the means of transport.


In machine lip-reading, which is identification of speech from visual-only information, there is evidence to show that visual speech is highly dependent upon the speaker [1]. Here, we use a phoneme-clustering method to form new phoneme-to-viseme maps for both individual and multiple speakers. We use these maps to examine how similarly speakers talk visually. We conclude that broadly speaking, speakers have the same repertoire of mouth gestures, where they differ is in the use of the gestures.


Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Sweden, the leading cause of immobilization in the world and the most expensive condition treated by the Swedish healthcare. An initial assessment of stroke is often completed by paramedics in the ambulance care, also called the prehospital care. Few quantitative signs of stroke are known and many stroke mimicking conditions are present. Based on this, the aim has been to examine the possibilities of decreasing the interrater variability and over-triage by implementing digital video analysis supporting the prehospital stroke assessment. By including video analysis in prehospital stroke assessment eight additional parameters for stroke detection can be partly or fully identified. The current prehospital stroke assessment tests three parameters, to use more parameters has previously been determined as too time-consuming. Including more parameters while not affecting the time will increase quality and precision of stroke assessment.


Video based Human Action Recognition (HAR) is an active research field of Machine Learning (ML) and human detection in videos is the most important step in action recognition. Recently, several techniques and algorithms have been proposed to increase the accuracy of HAR process, but margin of improvement still exists. Detection and classification of human actions is a challenging task due to random changes in human appearance, clothes, illumination, and background. In this article, an efficient technique to classify human actions by utilizing steps like removing redundant frames from videos, extracting Segments of Interest (SoIs), feature descriptor mining through Geodesic Distance (GD), 3D Cartesian-plane Features (3D-CF), Joints MOCAP (JMOCAP) and n-way Point Trajectory Generation (nPTG). A Neuro Fuzzy Classifier (NFC) is used at the end for the classification purpose. The proposed technique is tested on two publicly available datasets including HMDB-51 and Hollywood2, and achieved an accuracy of 82.55% and 91.99% respectively. These efficient results prove the validity of proposed model.


A DISCUSSION IS PRESENTED ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR USE IN GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF HIGHWAYS, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON INTERCHANGE DESIGN. THE TECHNIQUES PRESENTED PROVIDE THE MEANS OF STEPPING UP ENGINEERING PRODUCTIVITY BY: (1) REDUCING MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS, (2) UTILIZING EFFECTIVELY YOUNG AND INEXPERIENCED ENGINEERS, AND (3) PRODUCING DESIGNS OF HIGHER QUALITY. NEARLY ALL COMPUTATIONS FOR INTERCHANGE DESIGN ARE ELIMINATED BY USE OF THREE-CENTERED CURVE TEMPLATES COUPLED WITH DESIGN TABLES AND GRAPHICS, INCLUDING SLIDE RULE DETERMINATION BY PARABOLIC DISTRIBUTION OF FLARE AND TAPER OFFSETS. GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF INTERCHANGES ALSO IS GREATLY FACILITATED BY THE USE OF ALIGNMENT TEMPLATES. THESE PRECLUDE TEDIOUS GRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTION AS A PREREQUISITE TO CALCULATIONS. DATA TAKEN FROM TEMPLATES ARE FED INTO AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER TO PRODUCE A COMPLETE SOLUTION. AN ALIGNMENT FOR MOST RAMPS CAN BE SELECTED IN 15 OR 20 MINUTES AND SOLVED ON THE COMPUTER IN ANOTHER 25 MINUTES. BY THIS METHOD, THE ALIGNMENT OF A CLOVERLEAF INTERCHANGE CAN BE COMPLETELY WORKED OUT IN ONE DAY, COMPARED TO A WEEK OR LONGER BY THE PREVIOUS METHOD WITHOUT TEMPLATE AND ELECTRONIC COMPUTER.


Seven new oleanane-type triterpenoid saponins, hydrocotylosides I-VII (1-7), and one known saponin, udosaponin B (8), were isolated from the methanol extract of the whole plants of Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides.The structures of the new compounds were elucidated on the basis of chemical and spectroscopic evidence.


Al2O3 + 30 vol% ZrO2 matrix composites with 20 and 30 vol% cBN have been prepared with the optimized processing route, using spark plasma sintering (SPS) at temperatures of 1400 °C and 1250 °C. The influence of cBN addition on the microstructure characteristics, micro/nanohardness, elastic modulus, and crack-extension resistance of the composites and their constitutions have been investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), statistical analyses of the individual grain size and micro/nanoindentation methods. The matrix consists of alumina and zirconia grains with grain sizes/diameter of approximately 220 and 160 nm with approximately 1.9 μm cBN grains in the Al2O3 + ZrO2 + cBN composites. The microhardness is slightly increasing with cBN addition from 16.2 to 17.1 GPa and the crack-extension resistance from 3.72 to 4.29 MPa.m1/2. The toughening mechanisms are in the form of crack deflection, crack branching, and crack bridging. The nanohardness and indentation modulus of the matrix are approximately 30 and 420 GPa, and the cBN grains 70 and 777 GPa, respectively.


Floating wind turbine technologies have worldwide applications. Regarding the wind turbine floater stability, there are three principal design philosophies: ballast-, buoyancy- and mooring-stabilized. Although linear hydrostatic stiffness coefficient has been applied in most hydro-aero-elastic codes, accurate calculation of the nonlinear hydrostatic restoring forces is important for the floating stability evaluation and load. This study selects a 5-megawatt spar floating wind turbine as a representative floater. The nonlinear hydrostatic stiffness coefficient for different heeling angles is analytically calculated and compared against those obtained by a hydrodynamic software, and an excellent match is shown. A sensitivity study is carried out to consider the uncertainties in the hydrostatic stiffness due to varying geometry and weight distribution. The present results can be applied in the time-domain simulations for floating wind turbines.


The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the sonographic findings of ruptured epidermal inclusion cysts in superficial soft tissue, with an emphasis on shapes, pericystic changes, and pericystic vascularity.


This study aims to investigate the occurrence of errors committed by EFL learners in their composition in terms of interlingual and intralingual errors. The setting of the study was a state Islamic university in Banjarmasin South Kalimantan, Indonesia. The research participants were undergraduate students majoring in English Education. Data were collected through documentation of students' composition and analyzed based on Corder's Error Analysis (EA) theory. From the samples of 38 compositions submitted, it was identified that interlingual errors occurred more frequently than intralingual errors. Interlingual errors comprised morphological selection, lexical selection, syntactical selection, and misordering. Meanwhile, intralingual errors were evident in both omission and addition in the areas of word formation and syntax. The findings of this study revealed that first language interference caused more errors in writing than learners' incomplete process of acquiring second language rules. To prevent the errors from being fossilized, it is suggested that in the teaching and learning process, language instructors provide continuous corrective feedback, and learners be more active in finding exposure to the correct form of the target language.


typical, non-moment joints are simple bolted shear connections (single-plate) containing from five to eight, 7/8" diameter, ASTM A325 high strength bolts. Fluted steel decking spanning 12.5' supports reinforced lightweight concrete slabs. Shear studs connect the slabs to the steel frame for composite action. Approximately five months after the building frame was completed in April 1998, the noise occurrences began. The noises have been reported in every month except October 1998 and February 1999. Initially, attention was focused on the welded moment connections and the attendant lateral bracing of the lower flanges. Sample inspections of these connections showed no abnormalities. The HVAC systems were cycled to criteria beyond their normal operating ranges in an attempt to replicate the banging noises possibly being caused by contacting piping or water hammer effects. The noises could not be reproduced. An adjacent twin building constructed in 1987 has never experienced the problem. It is also a steel moment frame structure. Its steel frame has shorter spans than the subject building does. Even the granite and glass cladding systems are similar. So why is one building experiencing such problems while the other structure remains dormant? A literature search was conducted to determine if this phenomenon had been studied in the past. Three articles briefly menBy Robert L. Schwein


The minimum-dispersion spectrum of a single-mode silica fibre has been measured with 0.1 ps resolution by a crosscorrelation method using a CW halogen lamp source and a Mach-Zehnder fibre interferometer configuration.


A 28‐year‐old Taiwanese woman who had received ovulation induction by clomiphene citrate (CC), follicular‐stimulating hormone (FSH), and human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) treatment was diagnosed with a quadruplet pregnancy containing a hydatidiform mole and three fetuses at nine weeks' gestation. Expectant management failed to achieve any viable neonate due to massive antepartum haemorrhage and preterm delivery at 25 weeks' gestation. Five other cases previously reported involving quadruplets or triplets with a complete hydatidiform mole and two or three fetuses are reviewed. All cases ended as premature non‐viable fetuses. Analysis of the clinical features, management, and outcome both in our patient and these reports suggest that more efficacious treatment planning, such as selective feticide, should be considered in order to improve the likelihood of attaining an advanced gestational age for a single fetus. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In recent years (2000-2021), human-space activities have been increasing faster than ever. More than 36000 Earth' orbiting objects, all larger than 10 cm, in orbit around the Earth, are currently tracked by the European Space Agency (ESA). Around 70\% of all cataloged objects are in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Aerodynamic drag provides one of the main sources of perturbations in this population, gradually decreasing the semi-major axis and period of the LEO satellites. Usually, an empirical atmosphere model as a function of solar radio flux and geomagnetic data is used to calculate the orbital decay and lifetimes of LEO satellites. In this respect, a good forecast for the space weather data could be a key tool to improve the model of drag. In this work, we propose using Time Series Forecasting Model to predict the future behavior of the solar flux and to calculate the atmospheric density, to improve the analytical models and reduce the drag uncertainty.


Aiming at realizing the abnormal detection for spacecraft components based on the monitoring during environmental testing, this paper proposes a novel strategy containing principal component analysis (PCA), one class support vector machine (OCSVM), and integrated learning. Firstly, product features are extracted from the raw data. Then, PCA is utilized to reduce the feature dimension and standardize the data. After that, sub-datasets are generated through resampling and utilized to train the individual OCSVM models. Finally, the decision results of these models are averaged to obtain the final classification results. A case study based on a thruster simulation dataset shows that the proposed strategy can obtain accurate detection results.


A change of the component separation in the profiles of the binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 has been observed for the first time (Kramer 1998) as expected by geodetic precession. In this work we extend the previous work by accounting for recent data from the Effelsberg 100-m telescope and Arecibo Observatory and testing model predictions. We demonstrate how the new information will provide additional information on the solutions of the system geometry.


ABSTRACTIn this paper, we present an automatic method to extract quad patch layout with monotone boundaries in a quadrilateral mesh. Our approach simplifies the separatrices and connectivity graph topologically compared with the previous work. The key idea of our method is firstly to find all the candidates of the short separatrices based on the safety turning areas, and secondly, the problem of finding proper separatrices to extract quad patch layout is formulated as a binary integer programming problem. In the process of solving this problem, each solution is detected whether to extract quad patch layout, and finally the one with the minimum energy is determined as the global optimal solution. The produced quad patch layout is well-shaped and the corresponding base complex is coarse, which can be further used for many mesh processing applications, such as texturing, NURBS fitting and so on.


Recent years have seen a precipitous fall in the demand and market for India's traditional handicrafts, arts, and textiles. Genericide in the arts and crafts industry is harmful to indigenous and traditional handicraft enterprises because to the rising popularity of machine-made items via internet shopping and a lack of oversight for product quality. Indian artists and craftspeople face decreasing income and customer demand as a result of the country's poor performance in competitiveness criteria such basic infrastructure, intellectual property rights, education, and broadband adoption. This report analyzes problems encountered by indigenous art and craft vendors and suggests solutions to help the industry thrive. In addition to having a negative effect on the sector's economy, the report concludes that Genericide is also damaging the reputation of Indian Indigenous Arts and Crafts as a whole. As a means of combating "Genericide" and stemming the tide of escalating hyper-competition, the use of Geographical Indications has been recommended.


This paper describes a method for the separation and determination of selected coumarins and furanocoumarins in the crude extracts from plant tissue cultures of Ammi majus hairy roots and Ruta graveolens cell suspensions, cultured in vitro, separately or together as co-cultures. The usefulness of the three main components of the eluent used in reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatographic analysis, namely: methanol (MeOH), acetonitrile (ACN), and tetrahydrofuran (THF), and different elution programs, was assessed. In the optimal analytical method a Lichrospher® RP-18e 5-μm column, a THF-MeOH elution gradient, and a UV/VIS DAD detector were used. Due to the presence of many different compounds in the investigated plant extracts, the use of a UV/VIS DAD detector was essential. Coumarins were identified by comparison of their UV spectra with those of the analytical standards, and characterization of peak purity.


25 Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily coincide with any official views of Unesco. The designations used and the presentation of the material herein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of Unesco concerning the legal status of any country, or of its authorities or concerning the delimita-tions of the frontiers or any country or territory. Harold R. Hungerford for serving as one of the working documents in a series of regional and subregional training workshops organised in the


The historical novel Zhang Ju-zheng portrays an image of Zhang Ju-zheng, an eminent chancellor, to demonstrate the political reform and cultural significance in the reign of Ming emperor Zhu Yi-jun. The author of this paper aims to render a true picture of Zhang Ju-zheng, striving to reveal both his feat as a chancellor and his tragedy as a human being, for the combination of these two contrastive elements in Zhang Ju-zheng has resulted in his tragic personal life despite his great achievement in his political career because of his unique temperament and destiny. It is hoped that readers can attain some self-awareness in the historical aesthetic process through the revelation of eternal typicalness for social civilization.


389  Abstract—In present study, X-ray peak profile analysis (XPPA) by modified Williamson-Hall (W-H) models, namely W-H-isotropic strain model (W-H-ISM), W-H-anisotropic strain model (W-H-ASM) and W-H-energy density model (W-H-EDM), was employed to estimate the microstructural parameters such as, crystallite size, lattice strain, lattice deformation stress and deformation energy density from the powder diffraction data obtained for the microwave synthesized hydroxyapatite (HA) and fluorapatite (FA) nanoparticles prepared under identical processing conditions of mixing and aging. The as-prepared powder particles were also characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) method. The average crystallite size values estimated for HA and FA by XPPA were correlated to their respective transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis results. In addition, the estimated values of HA and FA were correlated to their in-vitro dissolution characteristics studied by ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) titrimetric method. It is found that the average crystallite size estimated by W-H models is in good agreement with TEM results. The controlled in-vitro dissolution behavior of FA was found to be resulted out of its higher crystallite size, lower lattice strain and lower dislocation density compared to that of HA.


A H/sub 2/S removal process has been tested at The Geysers, California to remove H/sub 2/S from stacking geothermal steam. The process utilizes a catalytic oxidation reaction to convert H/sub 2/S in geothermal steam to elemental sulfur and water vapor. The field test has successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of the process in removing H/sub 2/S from stacking geothermal steam.


The applicability of the Boltzmann-Matano method for evaluation of a diffusion coefficient and its concentration dependency by line profile analysis is tested on three different (model) systems. All systems involve interstitial diffusion. It is shown that the occurrence of trapping corrupts the applicability of the Boltzmann-Matano method.


The Alps have always been of global interest and significance due to their natural and cultural diversity and are presently the number one tourist destination worldwide. Therefore, raising awareness of issues of global change and sustainability is most relevant in this region. Due to its integrative nature, geography can contribute substantially to disseminating knowledge about the Alps. This paper reports on the development of an environmental education concept for the community of Galtür. The concept is based on a thorough analysis of the Alpine environment, the recording of educational interest in the Alps, and the development of implementation strategies for environmental education programmes. The main goal of the concept is to contribute to a sustainable future for the Alps. The paper highlights the role of geographical research and education in promoting public awareness and understanding of sustainability issues.


An important issue in speech perception is to determine how the components of a syllable interact to enhance perception of both consonant and vowel. To date the mechanism underlying that integration has not yet been discovered. Different approaches to the temporal integration between fricative and vowel in a set of natural syllables were explored. Two hypotheses were considered. (a) The two segments are evaluated separately and then combined into a single percept; (b) both cues are evaluated jointly. To test those hypotheses several computational models were considered. If the F and V segments are evaluated separately, two statistical functions are available: An ''OR'' function corresponding to the perceptual hypothesis predicting that only one of the segments determines the identity of the fricative; an ''AND'' function corresponding to the perceptual hypothesis predicting the use of both cues. The hypothesis of the joint evaluation of both cues was tested using the whole FV segment. Their performances were compared with the perceptual performance of a group of listeners in a fricative identification task. Although the joint evaluation model was superior to the other models, it was unable to extract the same benefits as listeners from the fricative–vowel interaction. [Work supported by Xunta de Galicia.]


HYPB is a human histone H3 lysine 36 (H3K36)–specific methyltransferase and acts as the ortholog of yeast Set2. This study explored the physiological function of mammalian HYPB using knockout mice. Homozygous disruption of Hypb impaired H3K36 trimethylation but not mono- or dimethylation, and resulted in embryonic lethality at E10.5-E11.5. Severe vascular defects were observed in the Hypb −/− embryo, yolk sac, and placenta. The abnormally dilated capillaries in mutant embryos and yolk sacs could not be remodeled into large blood vessels or intricate networks, and the aberrantly rounded mesodermal cells exhibited weakened interaction with endothelial cells. The embryonic vessels failed to invade the labyrinthine layer of placenta, which impaired the embryonic–maternal vascular connection. These defects could not be rescued by wild-type tetraploid blastocysts, excluding the possibility that they were caused by the extraembryonic tissues. Consistent with these phenotypes, gene expression profiling in wild-type and Hypb −/− yolk sacs revealed that the Hypb disruption altered the expression of some genes involved in vascular remodeling. At the cellular level, Hypb −/− embryonic stem cell–derived embryonic bodies, as well as in vitro–cultured human endothelial cells with siRNA-mediated suppression of HYPB, showed obvious defects in cell migration and invasion during vessel formation, suggesting an intrinsic role of Hypb in vascular development. Taken together, these results indicate that Hypb is required for embryonic vascular remodeling and provide a tool to study the function of H3K36 methylation in vasculogenesis/angiogenesis.


As the structure of Coal mine reduction box is very complex,a model for the reduction box is established with Solidworks to meet its requirements of intensity. After modeling,The finite element analysis of the mode by Ansys Workbench has been made through modeling the reduction box of Coal mine and simulating the working state of the reduction box. The optimized design of reducer box has been completed and the method of analysis has been proved to the actual usage.


Objective:To explore pathological features of gastric xanthoma(lipid island) and the relationship between gastric xanthoma and gastric mucosal lesion.Method:The date of gastric mucosal biopsy from 2007 to 2012 was collected and 30 cases of gastric xanthoma were analyzed pathologically.Result:All 30 cases were detected with gastric xanthoma from 3 293 patients,the detection rate of gastric xanthoma was 0.9% in gastriscope biopsy.Among 30 cases,there were 20 cases of lesions located at gastric antrium(66.7%);two cases complicated with superficial gastritis(6.7%),28 cases of atrophic gastritis(93.3%),seven cases complicated with intestinal metaplasia(23.3%),four cases with negative helicobacter pylori(Hp)(13.3%),and five cases of atypical hyperplasia(16.7%).Conclusion:Gastric xanthoma usually happens in the elderly and it might be the result of age,chronic inflammation irritation,atrophy,primary and secondary hyperlipoidemia,Hp infection working together,the inflammation of gastric mucosa plays the key role among them.


In practical engineering applications, while the open-cell aluminum foam as crash absorber is filled to the hollow structures, its deformation occurs under constrained stress boundaries. The experimental work was conducted to examine the effect of radial constraints on the mechanical behavior of the open-cell aluminum foam under quasi-static and dynamic compression. Results show that the radial constraints induce significant strain hardening of the open-cell aluminum foam. The open-cell aluminum foams tested with and without radial constraints show a clear strain rate sensitivity. The densification of the foam occurs earlier (showing lower densification strain) under radial constraints. The radial constraints enhance the energy absorbed per unit volume of the open-cell aluminum foam.


Abstract Wavelets are a new class of basis functions that are finding wide use for analyzing and interpreting time series data. This paper describes a new use for wavelets—identifying trends in time series. The general signal considered has a quadratic trend. The inverted Haar wavelet and the elephant wavelet, respectively, provide estimates of the first-order and second-order coefficients in the trend polynomial. Unlike usual wavelet applications, however, this analysis requires only one wavelet dilation scale L, where L is the total length of the time series. Error analysis shows that wavelet trend detection is roughly half as accurate as least squares trend detection when accuracy is evaluated in terms of the mean-square error in estimates of the first-order and second-order trend coefficients. But wavelet detection is more than twice as efficient as least squares detection in the sense that it requires fewer than half the number of floating-point operations of least squares regression to yield the thr...


Using image processing technology, a k-means algorithm based selective neural network ensemble method and Hadoop processing technology, combine cloud platform with BP neural network algorithm, K-means algorithm and AdaBoost algorithm, to study cloud shape recognition technology based on cloud computing platform. The research results show that the recognition precision of image recognition technology of cloud computing platform is higher than that of cloud shape recognition technology based on traditional BP AdaBoost ensemble algorithm and single operation image recognition technology based on a k-means algorithm based selective neural network ensemble method.


The aim of this paper is to analyze the debates and conceptions of the critical theory about the sociological knowledge, especially based on the thoughts and formulations of Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Walter Benjamin. The intension is to investigate elements that discuss the role of the sociologist and the possibilities of your experience nowadays. To do so, the article focuses on the conceptions of dialectics and experience, and its implications for a reflection about the meaning of sociology in contemporary society.


With gratitude for nature and a perceptual angle that is near nature,Xu Lu draws for us a picture of human beings' poetic living.His thought of regarding the earth as a organic entity is different in quality from but isomorphic with Gaya's hypothesis.


We consider a ring of FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) systems where each oscillator is connected to $R$ nearest neighbors, centered at a distance $m$ from $j$. The shift $m$ has been introduced to delocalize the oscillators connected to $j$. We add a linear diffusive coupling between nodes $j$ and $j + 1$ which, in some cases strengthen the connections between those oscillators. The results show the generation of a traveling chimera for which the frequency or the regularity could be controlled. In particular, a two-amplitudes traveling chimera, characterized by a cluster of two coherent regions with different amplitudes and an incoherent domain, is found. Numerical simulations are given to sustain our analysis


Intranuclear inclusions were observed under light microscopy in the bronchial epithelial cells of a recently purchased female rose-ringed parakeet that died of chlamydiosis. Transmission electron microscopy revealed the presence of numerous particles of adenovirus morphology. A latent adenovirus infection may have become more severe following chlamydiosis and the stress of handling.


A new piperazine derivative, SJ-8029, is a synthetic anti-cancer agent which exhibits both microtubule and topoisomerase II inhibiting activities. In this study, we investigated the ability of SJ-8029 for anti-angiogenesis and apoptosis. SJ-8029 decreased the bFGF-induced angiogenesis in the CAM and the mouse Matrigel implants, in vivo. SJ-8029 inhibited the proliferation, migration, invasion, tube formation, and expression of MMP-2 in BAECs. In addition, SJ-8029 reduced the cell viability in HepG2 cells, caused the production of fragmented DNA and the morphological changes corresponding to apoptosis. SJ-8029 also elicited the release of cytochrome c and the activation of caspase-3. Taken together, these results suggest SJ-8029 may be a candidate for anti-cancer agent with the ability to inhibit the angiogenesis of endothelial cells and to induce the apoptosis of tumor cells.


In recent years, multibunch feedback systems which can handle bunches with 10-ns spacing (or shorter) are working at several accelerators around the world. The number of bunches stored in some of these accelerators is very large, on the order of 1000. Due to the large scale and fast processing requirements, the designs of the feedback systems are quite different from those of 10 years ago. In this report, we review the features of these feedback systems and give several examples. In addition, we give some examples of powerful beam-diagnostics system based on these feedback systems. Some ten years ago, bunch feedback systems were designed and implemented when instabilities were observed, and feedback damping was considered to be indispensable for the operation of a ring. In recent years, however, in some rings called "factories," design and implementation of the feedback systems are done in parallel with those of the ring itself. This suggests that the bunch feedback systems are playing more important roles in such rings. In this report, we review the characteristics of the bunch feedback systems which have been recently commissioned in the factory machines. In addition, we will give a brief introduction to time-domain beam-diagnostic systems which are based on modern digital feedback technology.


While talking about Entrepreneurship, people mainly focus on various aspects of business but forget about tendency towards entrepreneurial traits or characteristics. Enterprising Tendency is one of the most important parts of an Entrepreneurship. The aim of the paper is to study tendency towards entrepreneurial characteristics of entrepreneurs. This paper gives the comparative study of an Enterprising Tendency with the help of General Enterprising Tendency Test (GETT) and four cases in Gujarat, India. The GETT was conducted on four lead entrepreneurs of the select cases. The result of the same are listed in the paper. The tendency towards characteristics of the entrepreneurs is also judged subjectively through analysis of the cases. Hence, both objective and subjective analysis are matched in the paper. The results show that there is considerable matching between both. This paper would be useful to understand importance and behavior of tendency towards entrepreneurial characteristics which are required to be a successful entrepreneur. KeywordsEnterprising Tendency, Entrepreneurship, Characteristics of an entrepreneur, GETT


Method of cleaning and coating, the metal member which comprises contacting the metal substrate acid and subsequently contacting the washed substrate and electrodepositable coating composition comprising a film forming polymer and a corrosion inhibitor, and the coated substrate formed by the method It discloses.


Chronic kidney disease is defined as a persistent renal alteration during more than 3 months. It´s characterized by irreversible of functional and structural loss of one or both kidneys, decreasing the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). It is progressive and leads to slow destruction of nephrons. Faced with the fact that CKD is considered the most important renal disease in dogs and humans, this project aimed to assess dogs and cats owners' knowledge in Franca city by applying specific form to recognize renal disorders that could be found in animals (Protocol 099028/2015). We evaluated 200 owners of dogs and cats at "Sabado na Praca" program. It was observed that 86.2% had heard about kidney disease and hemodialysis was considered the treatment of choice (82.3%). However, most interviewees (59.3%) do not know that animals may have kidney disease and even urinary pressure could be evaluated (41.9%). They believe that kidney diseases are observed only in certain breeds (83.8%). Most interviewees have seen urine color of their animals (86.2%), and although most have answered that urine was dark yellow (50.3%), also altered colors as transparent (8, 4%) and light yellow (27.5%) was reported. We conclude that the population has lack of knowledge in nephrology area. They are unable to recognize urinary abnormalities and do not know the diagnostic tools for kidney disease in animals.


FIELD: information technology. SUBSTANCE: geophysical survey data are prepared by encoding a group of seismograms of a source, which uses for each seismogram a different encoding signature selected from the non-equivalent encoding signature step. Then, the encoded seismograms are summed by summing all traces corresponding to the same receiver from each seismogram, resulting in a synchronously encoded seismogram. The simulation steps needed for inversion are then calculated using a particular assumed model of velocity or other physical property and synchronously activated encoded sources using the same encoding scheme used on the measured data. The result is an updated physical properties model which may be further updated by conventional iterations. EFFECT: faster calculations, needed for iterative inversion of geophysical data, owing to use of simulation of synchronously encoded sources at steps for simulating the inversion process. 23 cl, 10 dwg


strength is investigated in this paper. The behavior of the system is described by the modified rheological Bingham-Shvedov equation. It is shown that fixation of initial tension or its periodical variation causes problem of anchor creep and stability, and fixation of initial displacement causes initial stress relaxation of the system "surrounding soil body — anchor — tendon". The relaxation time significantly depends on elastic-viscoplastic properties of surrounding soil, diameter and length of anchor and tendon, and its elasticity. Account for viscoplastic properties of soil with the structural shear strength leads to residual stresses in the system. The solutions of these problems can be used for quantitative estimation for stress-strain state of the system. This estimation makes it possible to calculate long-term deformation and bearing capacity of anchors, stress relaxation and residual stresses. The problem of interaction between anchor and the surrounding soil is solved in this paper. It is shown that displacement of anchor and stresses in the soil depends on different parameters, such as soil properties, geometrical properties of the anchor, selection of design model and account for ultimate stiffness of the anchor. Also this solution is basic for problems of creep and stress relaxation in the system. The process of formation of the stress-strain state around the anchor could demonstrate decaying, constant or progressive velocity highly depending on rheological processes in the soil body that may at the same time be accompanied by hardening and softening processes.


In this paper, we propose optimal trajectories of biped robots to move a staircase up and down using genetic algorithms and computed-torque controller to be dynamically stable. Firstly, in order to minimize the total energy efficiency, the real-coded genetic algorithm (RCGA) which of operators are composed of the reproduction, crossover and mutation is used. Constraints are divided into equalities and inequalities: equality constraints consist of position conditions at the start and end of stride period and repeatability conditions related to each joint angle and angular velocity. Next, inequality constraints include the collision avoidance conditions of swing leg at the face and edge of a stair, the knee joint conditions with respect to the singular avoidance, and the zero moment point condition with respect to the stability into the going direction. Finally, in order to approximate the walking gait, each joint angle trajectory is defined as a 4th order polynomial of which coefficients are chromosomes. In the computer simulation used 6 degree of freedom biped robot model that consists of seven links, we analyze the energy efficiency of proposed optimal trajectories about the following cases: walking on ground, ascending stairs, and descending stairs.


This thesis provides a way forward for a green construction in Malaysia in exploring the potential of green-oriented procurement of building projects in the Malaysian construction industry. The research outcomes contribute to knowledge and practice by not only developing a green-oriented procurement model for use as a planning tool, but also triggering an increased awareness of project teams and practitioners of the need for greener construction.


Abstract—Industrial factories usually adopt application specific software to enhance the effectiveness of administration and management and reduce workload of executives and other personnel. However, there are some software applications which are completely developed but are not practically utilized resulting in an economic loss both in time and in financial investment. Therefore, this research proposes a risk assessment model for helping a manager to make decision at an early phase whether to go ahead or cancel the software development project based on empirical data. The method includes a prediction model which integrates risk factors including Hardware (HW), Software (SW), Organization (OG), and Human (HM). The risk assessment model is developed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA).


Self efficacy is a concept that indexes the extent of self-confidence in individual ability,and the extent of self-confidence in some ways affects individual occupational exertion.The occupational self-efficacy also affects the teacher's design of career development,and influences teacher's ability of emotion control against accidental case.To improve self-efficacy,the desire to choose a career needs to be researched,and the target system,from which professional success can be achieved,should be established.


Adoption of this policy has led to 16 doctors being referred to the General Medical Council for clinical research fraud since 1989, all 16 being found guilty of serious professional misconduct and dealt with accordingly. This policy continues and a number of further cases from both hospital and general practice are currently being investigated. There is no such policy operating anywhere else in Europe. In this regard, therefore, we do have an effective UK track record. However, I am as concerned as anyone that the policy which is demonstrably working adequately for the pharmaceutical industry in Britain, has not been taken up elsewhere, or outside the industry. I therefore strongly share the view that an independent body should be set up in the UK to which all


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to method and apparatus for determining number of different substances in liquid sample. Since device is extremely stable, it can be repeatedly used with such samples of very hard water, as water from petroleum refinery settler. Device uses at least one optical analysis method, not depending on volume and/or concentration, in order to determine one of following properties: hydrogen ion exponent pH, amount of chloride and/or amount of iron in sample. Optical property may be colorimetric, fluorescent, or both, wherein it can be result of adding into sample dyes, complexing agents, compounds, causing turbidity, and other reagents, causing optical effects. Since measurements do not depend on concentration and volume, they can be carried out continuously and quickly. EFFECT: method involves use of BDD electrode for oxidation of substances (such as sulfoxide compounds), which otherwise would hinder for optical analysis. 13 cl, 11 dwg


These two attractively printed and bound volumes contain ten essays selected from the impressive Italian language twelve-volume series Storia dell'Arte italiana, published between 1979 and 1982 by Einaudi. That series was itself part of a trilogy composed of a History of Italy of six volumes (1972-76), followed by eighteen supplementary volumes; and a History of Italian Literature in twelve volumes (1982-91). All three projects emphasize social factors (the academic editors include leading Marxists like Ruggiero Romano and Alberto Asor Rosa). The Annales School has also been influential, since the idea that a total history reveals connections between activities such as painting, politics, philosophy, informs the series. The metamorphosis of the twelve volumes on art in Italian (each with about 400 illustrations) into two volumes in English (with 83 and 129 illustrations respectively) is a story of compression and reduction. Unfortunately for the reader, we are not informed who made the selection and on what grounds. Nevertheless, there are some very useful essays here, and all of them could be readily set for undergraduate and graduate reading. There has rightly been no attempt to create an exhaustive survey text. Interest focuses on concepts and methods, a characteristic of the Einaudi undertakings in general. Essays cover substantial ground, ranging from historical surveys, such as Peter Burke's wide-ranging but succinct 'The Italian Artist and his Roles', and Francis Haskell's fascinating essay on the dispersal and conservation of art-historical property in Italy, to attempts to redraw the terms of discussion of Italian art, which include Anna Mura's 'The Public Reception of Art' a discussion of art and its public in terms of semiotics and reception theory to Salvatore Settis's essay on the iconography of Italian art between 1100 and 1500.


In this work, we investigate the robust energy-efficient transmission for the cognitive uplink wireless system. Precisely, we propose an optimization framework for maximizing the sum energy efficiency while taking into account the uncertainty of the channel between the primary and secondary users. Here, we assume that the base station has multiple antennas and employs a zero-forcing receive filter to eliminate the inter-user interference. We handle the intractability of the probabilistic interference constraints by approximating them with convex and linear surrogate constraints. Despite the non-convexity of the utility function, we propose a parametric convex programming approach to derive an optimal algorithm based on Newton method. Through numerical simulations, we show the convergence and effectiveness of the proposed method and analyze the effect of channel uncertainty on the energy efficiency of the cognitive uplink system.


Background. The risk of negative influence of unsuccessful selection of dental materials reveals the urgent need to use modern approaches in professional activity in order to provide the necessary quality of structures and their clinical and functional properties. The purpose of the study is to improve the quality of orthopedic treatment of patients with removable structures with an obturating part with two-layer bases due to the scientific substantiation of the selection of both soft substrates and acrylic plastics.
Materials and methods. A comparative assessment of the connection strength was carried out jointly with the employees of the central factory laboratory of JSC "Stoma" (Kharkiv, Ukraine) in accordance with the requirements of the international standard ISO-10139.
Research results. A comparative analysis of the study of the adhesion of A-silicon substrate materials to removable denture constructs made of acrylic plastics by various laboratory technologies included the results of a laboratory study of one of the most important physico-mechanical properties - bond strength. Investigation of bond strength (U, kgf / cm2) of material for soft substrates "PM-S" and acrylic polymer "Stomalite" found that its index is (5.3 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2 (Table. 1) and conforms to the regulatory requirements of ISO-10139. However, it was found that the index of the bond strength of the "PM-S" with the plastic "Pallopress" is equal to (5.5 ± 0.3) kgf / cm2, which is significantly (p <0,05) higher than the contact the material is "Villacryl H Plus" - (5.1 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2. The strength of the connection between the "PM-S extra" and the acrylic basis made from "Stomalite" is (6.9 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2, which exceeds the indicative index by 72.5% and is significantly (p <0 , 05) greater than in the combination of "PM-S" extra with "Pallopress" (6.8 ± 0.1) kgf / cm2 and "Villacryl H Plus" (6.7 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2. Polyvinyl siloxane material "PM-SN" is connected with acrylic plastic "Stomalite" with a strength of (9.3 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2. This indicator significantly (2.3 times) exceeds the indicative value (≥4.0 kgf / cm2) according to ISO-10139, which meets the quality requirements, and reliably (p <0.01) exceeds the results of research on the connection strength between "PM-CH" and "Pallopress" and "PM-SN" and "Villacryl H Plus", which are (9.0 ± 0.1) kgf / cm2 and (8.9 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2, respectively, and also meet the ISO requirements for this indicator. The study of the bond strength between the "Ufi Gel P" substrate and the "Stomalit" acrylic base plastics showed one of the best results throughout the study (9.1 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2, yet it is still inferior to the leading position of the "PM-CH"-"Stomalit" by 2.2%. However, in the "Ufi Gel P" bonding comparison group with other plastics, the result of the "Ufi Gel P" - "Stomalit" system was significantly (p <0,05) better than the "Ufi Gel P" - "Pallopress system" - (8.9 ± 0.3) kgf / cm2, which in turn inferior to the complex "Ufi Gel P" - "Villacryl H Plus" (8.8 ± 0.1) kgf / cm2. All of these systems comply with ISO-10139. The strength of the connection between materials "Silagum" and "Stomalite" is (5.9 ± 0.2) kgf / cm2, which corresponds to the normative requirements of ISO-10139 according to this indicator, but reliably (p <0.05) is slightly inferior to the system "Silagum" - "Pallopress" with a value of (6.0 ± 0.3) kgf / cm2, but 2.5% ahead of the connection "Silagum" and "Villacryl H Plus"- (5.8 ± 0.3) kgf / cm2 (p <0.05).
Conclusions. A generalized analysis of the results showed that all the studied systems meet the regulatory requirements of ISO-10139. However, the highest step in determining the compliance with the connection strength is the system of domestic materials "PM-SN" - "Stomalite". Prospects for further research are obvious and work in this aspect can be considered not only necessary, but necessary, as conducting studies of compliance of materials will undoubtedly significantly help the dentist's orthopedist to determine the choice of structural material in the manufacture of two-layer dentures.


The study was conducted to evaluate the hygienic practices of street food vendors in Allahabad City and to assess the bacteriological safety of water and food items sold by street vendors with regard to Coliform and Salmonella between March and May, 2010. A total of 30 street food vendors were chosen for interview to collect data on personal hygiene and food handling practices. A total of 52 food items classified as cooked and raw foods, unpasteurized fruit juices and raw salad along with 20 water samples were analyzed. The highest Salmonella contamination was found in Sugarcane juice (83.3%) followed by Sweet lime juice (66.6%). The contamination is mainly due to unhygienic conditions, poor maintenance of premises, poor personal hygiene and slime layer on poorly cleaned utensils. The highest frequency of occurrence of Salmonella was observed in cucumber (100%) followed by kakadi (66.6%) and arhar dal (50%) samples. Eighty five per cent of the water samples were presumed to be coliform positive. To ensure safe street food production critical control points were identified and control measures were suggested. Health hazards may be significantly minimized by following GMPs and by operating under sanitary environmental conditions.


Seismic and electromagnetic imaging methods both provide the geophysicist with different types of medium parameters. Seismic methods are sensitive to the elastic properties of the medium, while electromagnetic methods are sensitive to the electric properties. In porous-saturated media, these two wave fields occur as a coupled system, which is known as 'seismoelectrics'. This coupling is caused by physical interactions at the grain surface boundary and is a function of several medium parameters, such as dynamic permeability. This medium parameter is valuable to the oil and gas industry, as well to the field of hydrology. By conducting a seismoelectric survey it would theoretically be possible to provide an extra control on this medium parameter. However, both practice and theory have shown that this coupling mechanism also results in a low signal-to-noise ratio. A possible solution to this problem would be to apply interferometric Green's retrieval, which is a technique based on stacking of cross-correlated data. This approach has been proved successful for the SH-TE mode in 1D. The SH-TE mode forms together with the P-SV-TM mode, the total seismoelectric system. In this thesis the first steps are taken towards the proof that this technique could also work for the P-SV-TM mode of the system. This is supported by a modelling experiment of 2D homogeneous space solutions of the seismoelectric P-SV-TM mode for different configurations. This analysis turned out that the unwanted artefacts observed in the interferometric retrieval are generated by cross-correlations between P-waves and SV-waves.


The survey was undertaken to determine the consumers' tendency to dry aged beef meats in Campus of Selcuk University at Konya between October-November 2014 with a total number of 155 consumers. As a result of the research, the followings were found out: 53,5% of participants had information on dry aging applications, 46,5% had no information on this. 20% of participants were consuming dry aged meat products, 80% had never consume these products. 54.8% of participant did not know the product, 30,8% did not find them attractive for consumption, 14,4% did not prefer these foods because of their expensive price. When the participants were taken into consideration with income levels changing from 4001 to 5000 TL (Turkish lira), the group was observed with the highest (63,6%), while 1000-2000 TL group was observed the lowest recognition rate (44,4%). When the way of getting information about the dry aged meat products were taken into consideration, postgraduate education was playing an important role on recognation of the products (p<0.05). Thus, social-mass media and educatio level, may have a significant impact on spread of this product and may become easily accessible.


Abstract The condition of housing cooperatives in the villages Semanan Tempe, Cengkareng, West Jakarta, is currently experiencing a decrease in quality. Housing with an area of 12 hectares comprises 679 families, with an area of 21 M ² in the site of 90 M ² . 90% of the entire house is used for industrial. With the existence of a cottage industry, resulted in almost all homes is expanding. Then the air comfort problems arise because there is only a wall openings upfront house, left-right side of the house with a house attached to each other. This paper is the result of research using descriptive analysis method with quantitative approach. Variables used: a) aspects of ventilation (air flow, type of windows / jalousie); b) aspects of comfort (air temperature, humidity, wind speed). The object used was room in the house, and then grouped according to building orientation to wind. The results will be obtained thermal comfort level and thermal comfort in the house which is influenced by the aperture; the relationship of thermal comfort with the thermal comfort is influenced by the aperture, and the factors that trigger thermal comfort or discomfort due to changes in building function. Keywords: wall openings, thermal comfort, thermal comfort sensation , the home industry Abstraksi Kondisi perumahan Koperasi Tahu Tempe di kelurahan Semanan, Cengkareng, Jakarta Barat pada saat ini mengalami penurunan kualitas. Perumahan dengan luas 12 Ha terdiri dari 679 KK, dengan luas bangunan 21 M² dan luas tapak 90 M². Dari seluruh rumah 90% digunakan untuk industri tahu tempe. Dengan adanya industri rumahan , mengakibatkan hampir seluruh rumah mengalami pengembangan . Maka timbul masalah kenyaman udara karena  bukaan dinding hanya terdapat dimuka rumah, sisi kiri-kanan rumah saling dempet  dengan rumah berikutnya. Tulisan ini adalah hasil penelitian yang menggunakan metoda analisis deskriptif, dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Variabel yang digunakan: a) aspek ventilasi (aliran udara, jenis jendela/jalusi); b) aspek kenyamanan (temperatur udara, kelembaban, kecepatan angin). Objek yang digunakan adalah ruang dalam rumah, kemudian  dikelompokkan berdasarkan orientasi bangunan terhadap mata angin.   Hasil yang akan didapat tingkat kenyamanan termal dan rasa nyaman termal di dalam rumah yang dipengaruhi oleh bukaan; adanya hubungan kenyamanan termal dengan rasa nyaman termal yang dipengaruhi oleh bukaan; dan faktor yang menjadi pemicu kenyamanan atau ketidak nyamanan termal akibat perubahan fungsi bangunan Kata kunci: bukaan dinding , kenyamanan termal, rasa nyaman termal, rumah industri


The authors address an important problem of timely evaluation of tsunami danger after offshore underwater earthquake. In case of Japan it takes nearly 20 minutes for the wave to approach the nearest coast after the seismic event. In this paper we continue to study the influence of tsunami source parameters on the distribution of the wave heights along the coast. As a rule, tsunami wave heights have sharp maximums at selected points of the coast. So, after seismic event the wave may be dangerous only at a few locations. Numerical tests show dependence of the distribution of such maximal wave heights from the orientation of the initial sea bed (sea surface) displacement, which has a form close to reconstruction of historic event at South-East of Japan.


This essay analyses the information on and the assessments of home politics in Spain during the Primo de Rivera regime (1923-1930). Those reports provide interesting first-hand accounts on the regime and have the additional value of offering a comparison with the simultaneous experience of the Italian fascist regime. They confirm that Primo de Rivera had a persistent tendency to seek inspiration in the fascist model. This eventually led to the unsuccessful attempt to institutionalize the regime in 1929, although according to the Italian diplomats Primo de Rivera's dictatorship reached no further than a pale reflection of fascism.


This paper aims to bring clarity to the term topology as it has been deployed in human geography. We summarize the insights that geographers have garnered from thinking topologically about space and power. We find that many deployments of topology both overstretch topology's conceptual merit and limit its insights for spatial thinking. We show how topology, with its structuralist and modernist baggage, requires some theoretical reworking to be put to work by poststructuralist geographers. Our purpose is not to consolidate a specific topological approach for geographers, but to call for an ongoing consideration of what topology offers poststructuralist spatial theories.


The need for a permanent and unobtrusive axle sensor for vehicle detection and classification has long been recognised. Both triboelectric and piezoelectric cables are candidates for in ground operation. Field tests of the triboelectric cable sensor have already indicated that, if properly interfaced, it is suitable for above ground use. The operating characteristics of the piezoelectric cable sensor are relatively unknown and depend on how it is installed. This paper describes several mounting configurations for both cable sensors. Models of these configurations were tested in the laboratory to identify the most appropriate configuration for field tests. A simple installation method for axle sensors was developed. Field tests were conducted to measure the response of the sensors to a number of vehicle types. The piezoelectric cable was found to be 50 times more sensitive than the triboelectric cable and is recommended for use as an in ground axle sensor. The current generated by the sensors was found to be proportional to vehicle speed. The charge generated by the sensors was found to be independent of speed and approximately constant for each combination of sensor and vehicle. The requirements of a suitable electronic axle detection circuit are identified and a design is presented (a).


In this paper, Firstly, we discuss the security auditing is important to the security problems of the computer. Then we analyze the system log, utilize the method of the system API function substitute and the method of the state transition analysis and present the technology of audit based on the user behavior and another technology of audit based on the state transition approaches. Finally, we implement a simple security auditing system based on the theory of state transition approaches.


Know Your Enemy was all the talk of the 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention. In scenes worthy of Vanity Fair, groups of graduate students and junior scholars huddled around single copies of the book, scanning indexes for names and reading aloud passages about their favorite and less-than-favorite senior colleagues. At the same time, a few more seasoned scholars could be glimpsed sitting quietly in dark corners imbibing the book, alternating facial expressions between the academic smirk and carefully concealed looks of injured vanity. I only received a copy of the book some time after the convention, but if I had purchased the book there, surely I would have carried it into the privacy of my hotel room. Few academic books create the kind of visible stir that Know Your Enemy did at the annual meeting of the AAASS. Although the motivations behind the buzz varied wildly, as one may expect, this is a book worthy of the attention of the field. David C. Engerman should be applauded for stepping voluntarily into the minefield that was Soviet studies. A historian of the United States well known to Russianists, Engerman has produced a fascinating narrative history of the creation and development of Soviet (interchangeably used in his account with Russian) studies. My first paragraph aside, this is not a gossipy or even a chatty book but a balanced and scholarly study of the evolution of our field against the backdrop of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.


To reach the target of cross-cultural communication in College English Teaching,spreading Chinese culture with the medium English is as important as taking in foreign cultures.The survey focusing on the non-English majors' ability in expressing Chinese culture in English reveals the deficiency of their ability in such area and gains new discoveries concerning the root causes,including the deficiency of Chinese cultural input in College English teaching and learning.


The outcome of paradox splitting of the second heart sound (S2) after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has not been well defined. We present a case of right ventricular pacing induced heart failure with prominent paradox splitting of S2 which markedly improved after upgrading to CRT.


The Philadelphia Electric Company uses a chemical treatment called the ''NaPEG'' process to decontaminate mineral insulating oil. Developed by the Franklin Institute Research of Philadelphia, NaPEG is a sodium compound of polyethylene glycol. Properly mixed with the oil containing PCB's, it ''strips'' the chlorine atoms from the PCB molecules. Byproducts are common salt plus dark-colored, harmless residues, which settle out of solution leaving ''clean'' oil for reuse. The residue is easily disposed of.


Objective
To analyze the differential expression of microRNA (miRNA) and its significance in patients with neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).

Methods
Twenty-five patients diagnosed with NEC with Bell stage ≥Ⅱ, and 25 non-NEC patients as control group admitted to Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center between October 2014 and November 2015 were collected. White blood cells were extracted from the peripheral blood. Five samples were selected randomly each from NEC group and control group, and sequenced by second-generation Illumina high-throughput sequencing, screened for differentially expressed miRNA and analyzed for target genes prediction and biological function. The rest samples of the two groups were detected by real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction technology (RT-qPCR), the results were used to validate the results of high-throughput sequencing. Differentially expressed miRNA in the two groups of data was analyzed using DEGseq software. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. P<0.01, q<0.001 and丨Log2 Ratio丨≥1 were taken as criteria for screening the differential expression. The differential expressions of miRNA in NEC group and control group were analyzed by cluster analysis using MeV4.6 software.

Results
A total of 482 miRNAs were differentially expressed in the two groups, with significant difference (P<0.05). Among them, 126 were known miRNAs with significantly differential expression in the two groups, with 58 being up-regulated and 68 being down-regulated. The results of up-regulated miRNAs (hsa-miR-223-5p, -183-3p, -222-5p) and down-regulated miRNAs (hsa-miR-23b-5p, -150-5p, -146a-3p, -1298-5p) were confirmed to be consistent with the results of sequencing. Bioinformatics analysis showed that the target genes with differential miRNA expression mainly involved Toll-like receptor signal transduction pathway, mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway, JAK-STAT and other signal transduction pathways.

Conclusions
There are significantly differential expressions of miRNAs in peripheral white blood cells of NEC neonates. These miRNs may be involved in the occurrence and development of NEC via adjusting different target genes to regulate the signal pathway.

Key words:
Enterocolitis, necrotizing; MicroRNAs; High-throughput nucleotide sequencing; Infant, newborn


Pedestrian counting using computer vision has many useful applications in the Smart City. For instance, in managing public transportation systems upon detected user demand, to increase user satisfaction, and to lower operating and environmental costs. In this work, we implemented a detection-based pedestrian counter for use in a scenario of Mexico City's Subway, where factors such as people aggregation, frequent occlusions, low scale and poor illumination make pedestrian detection a challenging task. The system provides the count of people moving through regions in the image and consists of three layers: detection, tracking and counting. In our experiments, we evaluated several state-of-the-art detectors combined with a Nearest Neighbor tracker and discussed their strengths and weaknesses. The best configuration had a final error of 11.95%±3.44, which is much dependent on the crowdedness of the scene, and runs in real time at resolutions of 250× 213 pixels.


An investigation of the efficiency of tree felling at forest areas using the Indonesian selective cutting and planting system (TPTI) was carried out at 5 logging companies in Central Kalimantan and 3 other companies in South Kalimantan in 1990. The objective is to find the way increasing the efficiency of tree felling at the natural production forests. For that purpose, data on felled tree volume, actually utilized logs and part of good logs left in the forest were collected. The investigation results are as follows : 1. Considering log diameter of 10 cm and up, the efficiency of improved felling technique can be increased by 6. 23 %. 2. By using the improved felling technique, the volume of good quality clear bole logs is increased by 4. 90 %. 3. The averages of stump heights between improved and existing felling techniques were 51.07 cm and 114.86 cm, respectively. 4. the improved felling technique could increase the quality and volume of log for veneer (from 61.34% to 65. 83%) and for sawn timber (from 10.19 % to 10.45 %). 5. It is necessary that the existing felling technical guidance and log administration be improved.


One of the important features of this paper is that it brings attention to the presence of areas of shallow mineralization lying above structures and oil fields of small amounts of uplift and outlines methods of examination to detect such areas.


The adsorption process of monovalent cationic dye molecules safranine T in a wide range of concentration(10~(-6)—10~(-2)?mol/L)on poly(acrylic acid/acrylamide)[P(AAc/AAm)]and the properties of desorbed P(AAc/AAm)hydrogels were studied.The experimental results showed that the increase in crosslinkage and charge density of P(AAc/AAm)hydrogels was favorable for adsorption and enhanced effectively the initiation process but strongly suppressed the cooperative process.After desorption of hydrogels,adsorption capacity was increased and the degree of binding(β)exceeded 1,almost reached 1.5.It had been found that adsorbed on desorbed hydrogels were more than that adsorbed on new hydrogels.At this time the cooperative and hydrophobic interaction between cationic dye molecules played a dominant role in adsorption process.


The introduction of high-speed laryngeal photography by the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1940 produced a new and valuable research tool for investigation of laryngeal vibration and function.' The use of such film techniques allowed for projection and visualization of laryngeal vibrations in "slow motion" form. Such visualization has been utilized by several authors to investigate many aspects of laryngeal function.':" The purpose of this article is to describe a methodology and equipment which makes high-speed photography of the larynx practical for clinical purposes.


Quantum computing has gained attention in recent years due to the significant progress in quantum computing technology. Today many companies like IBM, Google and Microsoft have developed quantum computers and simulators for research and commercial use. The development of quantum techniques and algorithms is essential to exploit the full power of quantum computers. In this paper we propose a simple visual technique (we call Q-Map) for quantum realisation of classical Boolean logic circuits. The proposed method utilises concepts from Boolean algebra to produce a quantum circuit with minimal number of quantum gates.


VHC whistles would be activated if the patient goes beyond a flow rate of 60 L/min (the top end of the ideal inspiratory flow rate). However, our research with three whistle-containing VHCs suggests that this appears to be an erroneous assumption and, unwittingly, we may be misleading patients and therefore contributing to reduced patient care. We measured the whistle-activation flow rates for three different makes of VHCs: Able Spacer (Clement Clarke), AeroChamber Plus (GSK), and Optichamber Diamond (Philips Respironics). A calibrated waveform generator (Pulmonary Waveform Generator System, MH Custom Design & Mfg L.C., Utah, USA) was used to create a standardised vacuum force similar to a human inhalation. The performance of three samples of each device was assessed when used with a range of popular drug pMDIs (see Table). The vacuum force was repeated at 1 L/min incremental amounts until the VHCwhistle sounded. Two operatives agreed the whistle sounding. Three recordings of each VHC-drug pMDI combination were carried out (n=54 tests) and the flow rates recorded. The data show that there is a wide variation in the performance of a VHC-whistle as a function of the inhaler to which it is attached. In many instances the whistle first activates at a flow rate well beyond what would be considered acceptable in order to promote effective drug deposition. This phenomenon can be explained. When the patient inhales from the VHC, air will be drawn in through a combination of two routes – the whistle, and the channels surrounding the canister of Dear Sirs, The UK Drug Tariff lists a number of spacer and valved holding chamber (VHC) products for use with pressurised metered dose inhalers (pMDIs). These add-on devices have the double objective of improving the delivery of drug, and making the inhalation procedure easier for the patient. VHCs, in particular, help the user by eliminating the requirement that the slow deep inspiration coincides with the actuation of the pMDI – a manoeuvre which can be particularly tricky for children and the elderly, although poor coordination is worryingly common in pMDI users irrespective of age. VHC users should inhale gently, using either tidal breathing or an approximate 30 L/min inspiratory flow, which facilitates lung deposition of the drug particles. Some VHC products include an alert whistle designed to sound "when the patient is breathing in too quickly", as this type of forceful inspiratory manoeuvre increases the likelihood of oral/pharyngeal drug deposition. It is known that healthcare trainers use the whistle-alert as a tool to titrate the Prim Care Respir J 2013; 22(4): 466-467


Just as the history of European exploration has been placed in perspective and assimilated into the new historiography of Africa, so the history of the expansion of coastal trade with interior peoples must be reassessed and grounded in the African context. To investigate the social and economic implications of the Swahili- speaking communities which became established in northern Zambia and Malawi, it is necessary first to examine them in terms of individuals and developing political relationships. The following essay is a preliminary to further research, and attempts to draw out aspects of political history and commercial geography as stepping stones to a fuller consideration of social history in the later nineteenth century. The use of the umbrella term "Swahili" to cover the entire commercial community represents an obvious compromise. It has a certain ethnic basis when applied to the coastmen, often called Zanzibari, for whom Swahili was a mother tongue. The coastmen proper, however, could not be readily distinguished in Central Africa from the amorphous category of Wangwana, or Alungwana, as they were known and called themselves in Zambia.1 The Wangwana were of heterogeneous origin, often becoming attached to the community as slaves, but also including all those who traveled with caravans and adapted to the coastal culture.2 More distinct, but closely associated and frequently intermixed with the Swahili were the Nyamwezi or Yeke, who composed a significant element of autonomous traders as well as commercial and military auxiliaries of the communities under discussion. Arabs and Baluchis also belonged to the Swahili-speaking community and figured prominently among the "big men." Their roles in affecting local history can not be satisfactorily understood in terms of status in Zanzibar or even of economic relations based upon credit or other affiliation. Merchant princes who would have been recognized throughout the Swahili world were transients in our region in the nineteenth century and it was never certain that they would return


The tunnel construction has made considerable progress in our country for years, resulting in tunnel problems. A survey revealed that the common tunnel problems in our country mainly include lining erosion, water damage, basement sink, and mud-pumping etc. These problems seriously affects the tunnel's normal passage and transport safety. To deeply analysis the types and causes of these common problems, and targeted formulate countermeasures to treat these problems, will have a positive guidance for the tunnel construction. Keywords-tunnel; problems; causes; countermeasures


In this paper, we show that equality in Courant's nodal domain theorem can only be reached for a finite number of eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian, in the case of an open, bounded and connected set in R n with a C 1,1 boundary. This result is analogous to Pleijel's nodal domain theorem for the Dirichlet Laplacian (1956). It confirms, in all dimensions, a conjecture formulated by Pleijel, which had already been solved by I. Polterovich for a two-dimensional domain with a piecewise-analytic boundary (2009). We also show that the argument and the result extend to a class of Robin boundary conditions.


Oil-impregnated pressboard (OIP) is preferable insulating medium in power transformers because of its excellent electrical and physical performances. However, under non-uniform fields the degradation of such binary material can be accelerated by partial discharge (PD). In this study Al2O3 oil-based nanofluid is used as a replacement to base oil aiming at improving its PD resistivity. The PD characteristics for both nanofluid impregnated paper (NIP) and OIP were investigated. First, the investigated samples were prepared using a commercially obtained pressboard with a thickness of 1mm. The nanofluid sample was prepared using both stirring and ultrasonic processing. Then, the dried pressboard pieces were impregnated into the nanofluid and base oil inside the vacuum oven. Second, the PD measuring system was manufactured using a needle-plane electrode with a gap spacing of 1 mm. The PD inception voltages (PDIVs) were measured for each sample and were analyzed using Weibull distribution. Then, the PD propagation was estimated at different levels of applied voltage higher than the calculated average inception. The estimation was based on calculating the number of PD pulses for both negative and positive polarity of applied AC voltage. In addition, the time transition of PD pluses for 10 min time domain was depicted for both NIP and OIP. Moreover, the current magnitude of PD pulses and their phase appearance were analyzed. It was found that PD pulses appear around the peaks of the applied AC voltage for both NIP and OIP with a corresponding higher number of pulses for OIP. Based on the obtained results, the role of nanoparticles in PD activity is discussed.


Researchers from Petrobras and LAMCSO/COPPE/UFRJ are currently involved in the development and implementation of a computational tool, based in Evolutionary Algorithms, for the synthesis and optimization of submarine pipeline routes. In this tool, randomly generated candidate routes are evaluated in terms of several criteria, incorporated in an objective (or fitness) function to take into account the relevant aspects that should be considered in the design of a route. A previous work [1] described the initial steps taken towards the development of such tool. In that work, attention was dedicated to the geometrical representation of a route, and to some of the terms of the objective function associated with a preliminary, global step of the optimization process (such as total pipeline length, and geographical-topographical issues associated with the route geometry and to the seabottom bathymetry and obstacles). Now, this work focuses in other aspects related to the structural behavior of the pipe, under hydrostatic and environmental loadings; more specifically, special attention is dedicated to the implementation of On-Bottom Stability (OBS) criteria such as the proposed in the RP-F109 code [2]. Case studies are presented to illustrate the use of the optimization tool and to assess the influence of the OBS criteria.Copyright © 2011 by ASME


We study an exact separation procedure---SEP- MK ---for the knapsack set with a single continuous variable X MK . Then, we address the question of whether SEP- MK can be of practical use in tightening mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations when using standard (floating-point) MIP solvers. To this purpose, we present a separation procedure for MIP problems---SEP- MIP MK ---where we derive knapsack sets of the form X MK by aggregating the continuous variables in the mixed knapsack inequalities of the formulation. Then, we use SEP- MK to generate cutting planes. Before the continuous variables are aggregated, the mixed knapsack inequalities are modified through the use of a bound substitution procedure to take into account fixed and variable bounds on the continuous variables. Bound substitution is made according to some heuristic rules, so even if its basic component SEP- MK is "exact," the overall separation procedure for MIP problems, SEP- MIP MK , is heuristic. We perform a computational study on a wide set of mixed-integer programming instances from the MIPLIB 2003 [Achterberg, T., T. Koch, A. Martin. 2006. Mixed Integer Problem Library (MIPLIB) 2003. Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fur Informationstechnik Berlin, Berlin. http://miplib.zib.de] and Mittelmann [Mittelmann, H. 2010. MILP testcases. http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/milp] benchmark sets. Computational experiments confirm that lifted cover and mixed-integer rounding (MIR) inequalities are effective from a computational viewpoint. Nevertheless, there are several instances where SEP- MIP MK is able to significantly raise the lower bounds given by lifted cover and MIR inequalities.


In 2007, over 11 000 readers of the British Medical Journal chose the sanitary revolution or, defined more broadly, the introduction of clean piped water and sewerage disposal as the most important medical breakthrough since 1840.[1][1] Earlier on, the World Health Organization had called for a


Most treatment programmes for sexual offenders include some form of victim empathy training. Although the concept of empathy has acquired diverse meanings, those interested in sexual offenders' empathy deficits are primarily concerned about the offenders' lack of compassion or sympathy for their victims. A model of empathy is presented in which uncompassionate responses are the product of three initial conditions: a) an adversarial or indifferent relationship; b) perspective-taking deficits; and c) inappropriate methods for coping with the perceived distress of others. The model suggests that empathy training should target specific deficits, and that misdirected interventions would be expected to have no effects, or even detrimental effects, on the offenders' ability to generate sympathetic, compassionate responses to victims.


Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and the nervous system involvement (e.g. meningitis, cranial neuropathies, radiculoneuritis, encephalitis) designates the Lyme disease (LNB) that may occur after infection as part of early disseminated Lyme disease (early LNB) or in untreated patients after at least 6 months (late LNB) after the infection. Herein we report a peculiar case of LNB as the patient, a 61-year-old man, developed meningoradiculoneuritis that relapsed after 9 months and to our knowledge very few cases of LNB relapse have been reported. Diagnosis of LNB was made, in both the episodes, according to EFNS criteria [1] on clinical and cerebrospinal and serum findings. We discussed whether the second episode of meningoradiculoneuritis was a relapse or a late LNB as well whether the second episode of meningoradiculoneuritis was due to a new infected tick bite occurred between the two episodes. Based on clinical and laboratory findings we believe that our patient developed a true relapse of LNB


A simplification method of earthquake ground motion using sinusoidal waves is proposed. The method has the advantages of wavelet analysis, suitable for non-stationary states, and Fourier analysis, suitable for stationary states, through extracting the best-matched waveforms using multiple wavelets. The proposed method was formulated and applied to an acceleration waveform observed in the 1995 Kobe earthquake in addition to a frequency-swept sinusoidal waveform. The results showed the method appropriately extracted both non-stationary and stationary waveforms. This method could be utilized to resolve a waveform into various waveform components caused by different propagation paths.


Extreme heat events pose a threat to human health. Forecasting and warning strategies have been developed to mitigate heat-health hazards. Yet, studies have found that the public lacks knowledge about their heat-health risks and preventive actions to take to reduce risks. Local governmental websites are an important means to communicate preparedness to the public. The purpose of this study is to examine information provided to the public on municipal government webpages of the 10 most populous U.S. cities. A two-level document and content analyses were conducted. A direct content analysis was conducted using federal government websites and documents to create the Extreme Heat Event Public Response Rubric. The Rubric contains two broad categories of populations and actions that are further specified. The Rubric was then used to examine local government extreme heat event websites for the 10 most populous cities in the U.S. The examination of the local government sites found that information included on the websites failed to identify the breadth of populations at greater risk for adverse heat-health outcomes and omitted some recommended actions designed to prevent adverse heat-health events. Local governments often communicated concrete and simple content to the public but more complex information was not included on their websites.


Gears are one of the most important machine elements in the industry. They are using many areas such as; automotive, energy, aviation, etc. Gears are exposed to higher loads day by day due to the increase in power and speed on the machines. Therefore, the stress values which are occur on the gear root is also increase. These stresses cause to damage on the teeth root. Thus the stress values have to be decrease to design optimum gear body. In this study, the effects of root radius on the gear bending stress are evaluated by using finite element method. At first, gears with standard root radius is investigated both DIN 3990 and finite element method. After the validation of finite element model, the root radius of the gear is taken as parameter. Gears with different root radiuses are analyzed by using finite element method. It is seen that with the increasement of gear tooth radiuses, the root stress is considerably decreased. With increasement of root radiuses the maximum principal stress reduced nearly 20%.