A physics-based model of temperature-exposure-dependent interfacial fracture toughness of thermal barrier coatings was developed using Arrhenius-type formulae and experimentally measured interfacial toughness at ambient temperature. The crack delamination occurring at the thermally grown oxide (TGO)/bond coat (BC) interface was assumed in the interfacial fracture toughness evaluation. To evaluate the interfacial toughness at elevated temperatures, the interfacial plastic zone, the interface crack tip opening displacement (ICTOD) and the interface crack density at the thermally grown oxide (TGO)/bond coat interface were specified. The temperature-exposure-dependent Young's modulus of the topcoat was formulated using the experimentally measured data, and its effect on the interfacial toughness at elevated temperature was investigated. As an application, the proposed interfacial toughness model was then used to study toughness variation versus exposure temperature and time. The trend of interfacial toughness versus temperature and exposure was explained in terms of microstructural changes of topcoat and TGO.


This paper investigates the employment growth of small and medium-sized firms that survived the transformation process of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We find that firms founded in the later period of the GDR's existence have especially low growth prospects, even 10 years after German reunification. The later phase of the GDR was marked by tightening measures intended to enhance political influence on the planned economy, accompanied by a sharp economic decline. Thus, organizations were more deeply embedded in planning structures that were more rigorous than those present in the first years of the GDR's existence. We argue that these organizations therefore developed less appropriate practices for coping with a market economy than organizations founded in other periods.


We fabricate Co/Pt and Co/Pd multilayers and measure magnetoresistance. Our data show clear anisotropic interface magnetoresistance (AIMR) effect, in which the resistance variation shows a different sign from Co films when external magnetic saturation fields are rotated from in-plane transverse to perpendicular direction of the film plane. The AIMR percentages increase with decreasing Co thickness for both multilayers when the Co thickness is larger than 2.5 nm. However, the AIMR decreases in Co/Pt for thinner Co but still increases in Co/Pd, thus, showing inverse dependence to Co thickness.


In this study, the effects of cloud inhomogeneity on microwave rain rate retrievals are investigated. A single-channel (85 GHz) empirically based algorithm using a neural network approach is presented. The objective is to correct the beam-filling error (BFE), that might occur because of the inherent variability within coarse microwave pixels, with subpixel information. To this aim, we used the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission passive microwave, thermal infrared and radar data. The integration of spatial information into the retrieval algorithm enables us to partially overcome the BFE. We use two parameters which characterize the horizontal cloud inhomogeneity within the microwave radiometer field of view, and we add them to simulated brightness temperatures as inputs of the neural network algorithm. The first one is the cloud fraction derived from infrared measurement, and the second corresponds to the fraction of the rainy area derived from radar measurements. The output rain rates were validated using the Precipitation Radar data. It was found that adding cloud fraction of microwave pixels, can lead to more accurate retrievals. Instantaneous precipitation estimates demonstrated correlations of /spl sim/0.6-0.7 and /spl sim/0.7-0.8 with radar-derived rain rates, for ocean and land retrievals respectively. In spite of the problem inherent in deriving the cloud (or rain) fraction, the initial validation results presented in this study are reasonably encouraging and show the advantage of utilizing the information from different sensors in order to optimize the retrieval of rainfall.


The rapid development of renewable energy grid-connected generation technology put forwards higher requests for power converter's reliability. According to relevant industry survey, the fault of power converters possesses most of the system faults in renewable energy generation and the failure of power device is the first cause. The research on power device's reliability is the foundation of improving the reliability of power electronic equipments, which has the benefits of prolonging service life. Aiming at the reliability of power converters, the main cause that leads to low reliability is analyzed in terms of converter's working features. The failure mechanism of power device is first described. In order to avoid non-planned fault occurs, the health condition of power device should be monitored in time and the operation reliability should also be predicted. Next, the method for condition monitoring and lifetime predicting are introduced. To improve the operating reliability, the concept of power device state control is proposed. Then different types of reliability improving methods are investigated. The advantages and disadvantages for various condition monitoring, lifetime prediction models and state control strategies are also presented. At last, the outlook for reliability research of power converter is given.


With Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor astrometry and published and previously unpublished radial velocity measures, we explore the exoplanetary system μ Arae. Our modeling of the radial velocities results in improved orbital elements for the four previously known components. Our astrometry contains no evidence for any known companion but provides upper limits for three companion masses. A final summary of all past Fine Guidance Sensor exoplanet astrometry results uncovers a bias toward small inclinations (more face-on than edge-on). This bias remains unexplained by small number statistics, modeling technique, Fine Guidance Sensor mechanical issues, or orbit modeling of noise-dominated data. A numerical analysis using our refined orbital elements suggests that planet d renders the μ Arae system dynamically unstable on a timescale of 105 yr, in broad agreement with previous work.


The Pulicat Lake was surveyed from the barmouth to Ougarajapatnam for molluscan fauna Extensive
oyster beds occur in the southernmost region of the Pulicat Lake. Dense population of oyster beds
wes'eco'ded at Kulathumedu and scattered distribution near the mouth, Moosimani lock. Kottaikuppam.
Sriha'liiota and Ougarajapatnam on the northern side of the lake. Beds of the clams, Meretrix casfa and
Katelysia opima was found arcund the small Islets lying between Gunakuppam and Kottaikuppam. Regular
fishery for clams exists in this area.


Asphalt mixture is composed of asphalt binder with aggregates of different sizes and compacted under static or dynamic forces. In practical engineering, compaction is a critical step in asphalt pavement construction to determine the quality and service life of pavement. Since the dynamic response characteristics of asphalt pavement can reflect the compaction state of asphalt mixture in the process of compaction, the establishment of the relationship between dynamic response characteristics and compaction degree is definitely significant. In this paper, a series of vibration sensors were adopted to capture the dynamic response signal of the vibration drum and asphalt mixture in the process of vibrating compaction for different surface courses of pavement. Then, the change regulations of vibration acceleration of vibrating drum and asphalt mixture were analyzed, and the quantitative linear relationship was established between accelerations of vibrating drum and asphalt pavement compactness. Further, the concept of evaluation unit (i.e., within 2 meters along the driving direction of the roller) and prediction method of compaction degree were proposed as well. The results showed that under the same vibration compaction condition, the compaction degree values of the top, middle and bottom layers have obvious differences, which should be taken seriously into consideration in the compaction process. Meanwhile, there is little difference which respectively are 2.8, 1.3 and 0.82% for the top, middle and bottom layers between the compaction degrees obtained by the proposed method and measured test. Therefore, the average value of the acceleration peak value of vibration drum within the evaluation unit can be adopted as the characterization index of the compaction degree of asphalt pavement. The investigation of this study can provide the technical reference for compaction control of asphalt pavement to a large extent.


Distributed radio transmission schemes, as Single Frequency Networks (SFN), can improve signal coverage for digital television (DTV) broadcasting. In this paper, field measurement carried out in a suburban SFN with two synchronized transmitters is reported. It is found that the radio signal coverage of the distributed transmission scheme is distinctly improved when compared to a single transmitter system. Preliminary results


Given the growing scenario of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health, this article aims to discuss the legal possibility of civil liability of the physician for the error practiced by intelligent equipment, used by professionals during health investigation or patient history., in view of relevant technological evolution to the point that the intelligent system makes choices by its own autonomous search. Increasing development on a large scale over the last ten years has made learning these machines ever more effective, enabling these systems to find information in a growing database. Thus, using the equipment equipped with AI, due to its autonomy and data access capacity, would not answer the doctor in case of a possible misdiagnosis. In order to achieve the objective of verifying that Brazilian legislation is prepared for the growing scenario of the physician's use of artificial intelligence equipment, the origin of artificial intelligence, the process of incorporation of it into the world society and the assumptions of civil liability go through. . Thus, it shows that the lack of law on the subject in Brazil generates a scenario of legal insecurity that can not abandon the offended case, it is urgent to discuss whether the civil liability for the fact is the doctor or machine.


Software effort and cost estimation are crucial parts of software project development. It determines the budget, time, and resources needed to develop a software project. The success of a software project development depends mainly on the accuracy of software effort and cost estimation. A poor estimation will impact the result, which worsens the project management. Various software effort estimation model has been introduced to resolve this problem. COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO) is a well-established software project estimation model; however, it lacks accuracy in effort and cost estimation, especially for current projects. Inaccuracy and complexity in the estimated effort have made it difficult to efficiently and effectively develop software, affecting the schedule, cost, and uncertain estimation directly. In this paper, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is proposed as a metaheuristics optimization method to hybrid with three traditional state-of-art techniques such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Regression (LR), and Random Forest (RF) for optimizing the parameters of COCOMO models. The proposed approach is applied to the NASA software project dataset downloaded from the promise repository. Comparing the proposed approach has been made with the three traditional algorithms; however, the obtained results confirm low accuracy before hybrid with PSO. Overall, the results showed that PSOSVM on the NASA software project dataset could improve effort estimation accuracy and outperform other models.


Comparative Assessment on the Economic Performance of Photovoltaic Systems Peng ZHANG, Hong-bo REN, Qiong WU, Xiu YANG and Chang-shi LAO State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, SMEPC, Shanghai 200122, China College of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China College of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China Clean Energy Technology Center, Innova Institute of New Energy, 518038 Shenzhen, China


In this paper, an improved deflection routing method for loopless deflection in photonic packet switched networks and its performance is analyzed. This algorithm guarantees that no closed loops are formed and thereby assures that no packets are lost. This algorithm was tested on different networks and the important performance measures like average throughput, average blocking probability, average delay and average cost of the network have been obtained. Based on the results, it can be concluded that under heavy traffic conditions, contention can be greatly reduced by using the loopless deflection algorithm particularly for larger networks. This analysis is verified through simulation.


To understand the examination condition of basic medicine,examination papers from 13 cooperation universities of Noah China Center for Medical Education Development were carried on a research.The factors that influence quality of examination papers includes the proportion of subject knowledge oveday,syllabus consistency,and the whole anticipate difficulty,examination difficulty agreeing with teaching goals,appropriate quantity of papers.The result shows the examination papers of basic medicine are better in a whole level,but still problems and shortage exist.

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Basic medicine; Medical evaluation; Examination; Analysis of examination papers#03-793)


Underwater turbulence occurs due to random fluctuations of temperature and salinity in the water. These fluctuations are responsible for variations in water density, refractive index and attenuation. These impose random geometric distortions, spatio-temporal varying blur, limited range visibility and limited contrast on the acquired images. There are some restoration techniques developed to address this problem, such as image registration based, lucky region based and centroid-based image restoration algorithms. Although these methods demonstrate better results in terms of removing turbulence, they require computationally intensive image registration, higher CPU load and memory allocations. Thus, in this paper, a simple patch based dictionary learning algorithm is proposed to restore the image by alleviating the costly image registration step. Dictionary learning is a machine learning technique which builds a dictionary of non-zero atoms derived from the sparse representation of an image or signal. The image is divided into several patches and the sharp patches are detected from them. Next, dictionary learning is performed on these patches to estimate the restored image. Finally, an image deconvolution algorithm is employed on the estimated restored image to remove noise that still exists.


In this paper, I intend to investigate ways to maintain product quality while providing the goods to the customer as quickly as feasible. We will inspect how the six standards of constant design can help us in guaranteeing to accomplish the most elevated conceivable nature of the completed item in the briefest timeframe conceivable during the improvement interaction It is similarly critical to give great things rapidly for what it's worth to do as such effectively. There are a lot of tactics that we may use to do this, such as availability approaches, which allow us to maintain the best degree of quality that is achievable as a software development team. He describes such tactics, as well as a few methods for delivering the product quickly and integrating a superior driver software architecture in the driver software. India's food-based economy is a significant component of the country's economy. Agricultural production is the principal source of income for the vast majority of the people in this region, and it provides advantages to the whole community as a whole. Farmers are in charge of the production of food, which is a fundamental requirement for human survival. The salesmen are having difficulty finding the appropriate selling price for the shares that they are delivering. This company's losses outweigh its profits. Farmers may sell their goods at the highest offer price according to the stock market notion described above. Farmers that join in this manner will have access to a range of other services, such as assessments, communication with wholesalers, market notifications, and other similar features and benefits. Presumably, There are several applications for predictive analytics, including expert device manufacturing (including speech recognition and artificial vision), legal review, and a variety of other fields. (including legal precedent analysis), automated weapons systems (including drones), and precision agriculture, among others. The world's food demand is growing, and the use of artificial intelligence farming practices will assist to relieve this problem. It would be straightforward to recognize and target weeds using artificial intelligence, and judgments concerning herbicides and the proper buffer zone could be made in a short period of time. It has been decided to incorporate elements of artificial intelligence (AI) in this article.


Submitted for the DPP14 Meeting of The American Physical Society An Alternative Optical Concept for Electron Cyclotron Emission Imaging (ECEI)1 JASON LIU, UC Berkeley, JUNE-EOK LEEM, Postech University, MANFRED BITTER, PPPL, BURKHARD PLAUM, Stuttgart University, WOOCHANG LEE, HYEON PARK, Unist University, GUNSU YUN, Postech University, WALTER KASPAREK, Stuttgart University, UC BERKELEY TEAM, PPPL TEAM, POSTECH UNIV., UNIST UNIV. COLLABORATION, STUTTGART UNIVERSITY TEAM — The implementation of advanced ECEI systems on tokamak experiments has revolutionized the diagnosis of MHD activities and improved our understanding of instabilities, which lead to disruptions. It is therefore desirable to have an ECEI system on ITER. However, present ECEI systems require large access ports and employ cumbersome optical components that have, up to now, precluded the implementation of such an ECEI system on ITER. This poster describes an alternative optical ECEI concept that utilizes a single spherical mirror as the primary optical component and exploits the astigmatism of such a mirror to produce an image of the radiating plasma with one-dimensional spatial resolution on the detector. Since this alternative approach would only require a thin slit as the viewing port to the plasma, it would make the implementation of an ECEI system on ITER feasible. Experimental results from laboratory characterization of this optical system are presented and compared to numerically simulated results. Possible approaches to implementing this ECEI system on ITER are also discussed. 1We gratefully acknowledge the support of this work by the US Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-09CH11466 and Korean NRF Contract No. 20120005920. Jason Liu UC Berkeley Date submitted: 10 Jul 2014 Electronic form version 1.4


20 October 1827, a j°mt British, French, and Russian fleet, I responding to fire from an Ottoman vessel, destroyed the entire Turkish and Egyptian fleet in Navarino Bay. Under the treaty of London, signed on 6 July 1827, tne tnree European allies had agreed to interpose themselves between the Greek rebels and the Turks in the conflict that had raged since 1821, 'without however', in the language of the treaty, 'taking part in the hostilities between the two contending parties'. The British and French admirals in command had been uneasy about their vague instructions based on this provision of the treaty; the Russians were the least troubled by the prospect of a war against Turkey a war that finally broke out in April 1828.1 The chief architect of both alliance and treaty, the British prime minister and erstwhile foreign secretary, George Canning, had died on 8 August 1827, leaving to his successors an Eastern entanglement for which they were wholly unprepared. The new prime minister (182830), Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington, faced a particularly awkward dilemma. On 4 April 1826, he had signed a Protocol in St. Petersburg intended to keep Russia at peace, but which instead served as a basis for the alliance which was headed for war the following year. The indecisiveness of the post-Canning cabinets was humiliating to many in Great Britain who thought the nation had been placed by Canning at the head of the European diplomatic constellation. Few British statesmen have enjoyed as charmed an afterlife among both their contemporaries and their scholarly admirers as has George Canning. Although historians still differ as to the real aims and calcula-


We proposed a dual-chirp microwave photonic radar based on compressive sensing for distance and velocity measurement. This radar can generate different chirp linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals using a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DPMZM). In the receiving part, a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DDMZM) and a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) are cascaded for the optical mixing and de-chirp processing with a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS). Then the mixed signal can be gathered by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at a sampling rate that is well below the Nyquist sampling rate. Using fewer sampling points, the reconstruction algorithm can recover the de-chirped signal accurately with a compression ratio of 8. A proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates that when the target is stationary, the distance measurement error is about 1.560 cm. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the recovery signal is enhanced to 30.725 dB. When the target is moving, the simulation results present that the maximum distance error is 1.2 cm, and the velocity error is below 0.140 m/s. This compressive sensing radar reduces the pressure of a massive amount of data storage or processing and guarantees the accuracy of signal recovery. At the same time, it breaks the limitation of operation bandwidth and increases the speed of operation.


Bearing estimates input to a tracking algorithm require a concomitant measurement error to convey confidence. When Capon algorithm based bearing estimates are derived from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, the method of interval errors (MIE) provides a representation of measurement error improved over high SNR metrics like the Cramér-Rao bound or Taylor series. A corresponding improvement in overall tracker performance is had. These results have been demonstrated [4] assuming MIE has perfect knowledge of the true data covariance. Herein this assumption is weakened to explore the potential performance of a practical implementation that must address the challenges of non-stationarity and finite sample effects. Comparisons with known non-linear smoothing techniques designed to reject outlier measurements is also explored.


This paper presents an overview of the Courts Catalyzing Change: Achieving Equity and Fairness in Foster Care Preliminary Protective Hearing Benchcard Study. In the fall of 2009, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) began a study to examine the effects associated with judges' use of the Preliminary Protective Hearing Benchcard. For this study, data were gathered from case file information (both court and agency files) and from courtroom observations of more than 500 children in Los Angeles, California; Omaha, Nebraska; and Portland, Oregon. Data from a baseline sample were collected at each of the three sites, and judicial officers at each site were randomly assigned to either a Benchcard group or a control group. Benchcard implementation appears to be associated with more discussion and higher quality discussion of key dependency topics during preliminary protective hearings. Benchcard implementation also corresponds to increased judicial inquiry and parental engagement. Benchcard use also was associated with more family placements—placement with a charged parent, a non-charged parent, or a relative—at the initial hearing and even more family placement at adjudication when comparing the same judges before and after Benchcard implementation. Similarly, the percentage of children who were reunified with the charged parent at the initial hearing and the adjudication hearing increased after Benchcard implementation. This paper presents an overview of the Courts Catalyzing Change: Achieving Equity and Fairness in Foster Care Preliminary Protective Hearing (PPH) Benchcard Study. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) conducted this study to assess judicial decision making within the Courts Catalyzing Change (CCC) National Agenda for Reducing Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Dependency Court System. Included in this paper are a description of the study, research Jesse Russell, Ph.D., is Director of Research-Midwest with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Alicia Summers, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Correspondence: email@example.com bs_bs_banner Juvenile and Family Court Journal 64, no. 2 (Spring) 1 © 2013 National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges informing the development of the PPH Benchcard, and highlighted findings concerning improved court practices and related outcomes. The CCC agenda, supported by Casey Family Programs and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, was created and launched through the NCJFCJ Model Courts project. The goal of the agenda is to reduce disproportionality and disparate treatment, ultimately improving outcomes for all children in care. The CCC agenda includes efforts to: (1) engage national, state, local, and tribal stakeholders, community partners, and children and families; (2) transform judicial practice from the bench; (3) participate in policy and law advocacy; (4) examine and employ research, data, and promising practices; and (5) impact service array and delivery. The PPH Benchcard is one tool developed as part of this agenda, focusing on a reexamination of the Resource Guidelines: Improving Court Practice in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases (NCJFCJ, 1995) through a racial equity lens and on the development of a specific set of judicial decision-making tools. Intended for use during the initial dependency hearing, the Benchcard asks judges to reflect on the decision-making process to identify and attempt to minimize institutional bias and to consider some key inquiries, analyses, and decisions relating to removal, placement, and services. The Benchcard is built around two types of inquiry: internal and external. The internal inquiry is set forth in a self-reflection section containing questions designed to help judges examine potential biases that may affect their decisions. The external inquiry is laid out in the due process related questions and considerations as well as the actual judicial inquiry of the hearing participants related to specific salient issues that should be determined at the preliminary protective hearing. CHILD WELFARE BACKGROUND More than 2 million families are investigated for child abuse and neglect each year in the United States (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2012a). For the fiscal year 2011, in the United States, about 681,000 children were confirmed unduplicated victims of child maltreatment (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2012a). Over the past decade, there have consistently been more than 500,000 children in foster care in the United States at any given time (Child Trends, 2011). Only recently has the number of children in foster care dropped to 400,540 at the end of the 2011 federal fiscal year, with 47% of these children living in non-relative foster care homes (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012b). Recent research has highlighted a number of troubling issues facing children in foster care. These issues include, as compared to the general population, greater incidence of drug and alcohol use (Thompson & Auslander, 2007); significantly higher levels of unemployment (Macomber et al., 2008); higher likelihoods of homelessness (Yen, Hammond, & Kushel, 2009; Zlotnick, 2009); higher incidences of teen pregnancy 1 The CCC agenda is available on NCJFCJ's Web site at http://www.ncjfcj.org/sites/default/files/ CCC%20National%20Agenda.pdf. 2 | JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL / Spring 2013


This paper is concerned with the question of the Irish in Britain, who constitute a major immigrant and ethnic minority group. It is argued that race-relations theorists have constructed speci® c racialised accounts of ethnic minorities in Britain. These representations serve both to deny that the Irish are an `authentic' ethnic minority and to negate their claim that they experience anti-Irish racism. There has been a remarkable collusion between British sociological theorists, race-relations organisations, and the media in this denial. Academics have developed empirical and conceptual frameworks in which they concentrate on particular sections of selected `non-white' social groups, namely those of African-Caribbeans and Asians. This approach ± the colour paradigm ± continues the long academic tradition of `over-racialising' the representation of `nonwhite' social collectivities, while denying the possibility of white groups being racialised minorities. Elsewhere, I have explored these inter-connecting processes more fully (see Mac an Ghaill 1999). Here, I want to focus upon the `deracialisation' of the Irish in Britain. I shall explore a number of inter-related aspects to illustrate this claim, namely: a socio-historical perspective, theoretical accounts, and Irish political mobilisation, involving the establishment of their status as an ethnic minority and their challenging of anti-Irish racism.


Weather derivatives play a major role in risk management of non-catastrophic weather market. The healthy development of the derivatives market is inseparable from the reasonable pricing of the product itself. As non-traditional financial derivatives, weather derivatives can provide a good risk hedging. Meanwhile, in the weather derivatives market, brokers play an even more important part than in the traditional financial derivatives market. Therefore, when pricing weather derivatives, we must take two factors into consideration, namely, brokers as market makers as well as the impact of their hedging cost on weather derivatives pricing. Based on the expected claims and risk payment of basic derivatives contracts, this paper is going to discuss weather derivatives pricing on the basis of hedging costs, while taking into account the impact of market makers' hedging costs, risk aversion and existing positions.


This article analyzes the form of carbon discharge within the building life cycle, and indicates the relationship between energy saving and carbon reduction. It puts forward that when selecting the cooling and heating source, we should define the strength standard and assessment index of carbon discharge. While we weigh the energy rationality, low carbon charge should be taken into consideration, in order to reduce the CO2 discharge in buildings.


The invention relates to a myopia physiotherapy instrument which comprises a shell, an instrument rack, a circuit board, jacks, an eye hot compressor, an eye acupoint massager, an acupoint massage pen, an aerosol inhaler and a focal length adjuster, wherein the instrument rack is arranged at the upper part of the physiotherapy instrument and used for placing the eye hot compressor, the eye acupoint massager, the acupoint massage pen, the focal length adjuster, leads, a hose, an inhalation cover and the aerosol inhaler; the circuit board with a high-pressure bioelectricity function, a radiator, a buzzer and a transformer are arranged at the lower part; a button, a display lamp and a display screen are arranged at the front part of the shell; and the circuit board is connected with the corresponding jacks at the rear part by the leads to be connected with all the devices. The myopia physiotherapy instrument has the beneficial effects of being capable of fast and effectively relieving the pseudomyopia through comprehensive treatment of eye hot compression, eye acupoint massage and oscillation, acupoint massage of other parts, aerosol medicine inhalation, high-pressure bioelectricity and focal length adjustment training, and being capable of relieving true myopia through long-term treatment.


A basic building block in Classical Potential Theory is the fundamental solution of the Laplace equation in ${\mathbb R}^d$ (Newtonian kernel). The main goal of this article is to study the rates of nonlinear $n$-term approximation of harmonic functions on the unit ball $B^d$ from shifts of the Newtonian kernel with poles outside $\overline{B^d}$ in the harmonic Hardy spaces. Optimal rates of approximation are obtained in terms of harmonic Besov spaces. The main vehicle in establishing these results is the construction of highly localized frames for Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces on the sphere whose elements are linear combinations of a fixed number of shifts of the Newtonian kernel.


One of the main drawbacks of the fixation-based gaze interfaces is that they are unable to distinguish top-down attention (or selection, a gaze with a purpose) from stimulus driven bottom-up attention (or navigation, a stare without any intentions) without time durations or unnatural eye movements. We found that using the bistable image called the Necker's cube as a button user interface (UI) helps to remedy the limitation. When users switch two rivaling percepts of the Necker's cube at will, unique eye movements are triggered and these characteristics can be used to indicate a button press or a selecting action. In this paper, we introduce (1) the cognitive phenomenon called "percept switch" for gaze interaction, and (2) propose "perceptual switch" or the Necker's cube user interface (UI) which uses "percept switch" as the indication of a selection. Our preliminary experiment confirms that perceptual switch can be used to distinguish voluntary gaze selection from random navigation, and discusses that the visual elements of the Necker's cube such as size and biased visual cues could be adjusted for the optimal use of individual users.


The effects of electrical polarity on contact voltage drop of CNTs-Ag-G composite fabricated by means of powder metallurgy method were studied.The results show that with fixed current density,the contact voltage drop of the negative brush is always higher than that of the positive brush,but the contact voltage drop of the two brushes has the same tendency: first increasing and then tending to be stable.Furthermore,with increase of current intensity,the whole contact voltage drop only exhibits a slight increase.


Aspects of text processing important for the scientific community are discussed, and an overview of currently available software is presented. Progress on standardization efforts in the area of document exchange (SGML), document formatting (DSSSL), document presentation (SPDL), fonts (ISO 9541) and character codes (Unicode and ISO 10646) is described. An elementary particle naming scheme for use with LATEX and SGML is proposed. LATEX, PostScript, SGML and desk-top publishing allow electronic submission of articles to publishers, and printing on demand. Advantages of standardization are illustrated by the description of a system which can exchange documents between different word processors and automatically extract bibliographic data for a library database.


This paper presents a monopole type antenna for smart watch application. The antenna consists of a coupling-fed monopoles and an L-shaped ground plane. All elements are printed on an FR substrate. The measured results show that 10-dB operating bandwidth meets the requirement of Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz. Moreover, two MIMO antennas based on the monopole are fabricated and discussed. The isolation strategies of orthogonal polarization and neutralization are applied. The isolations between antenna elements are more than 15 dB for both prototypes.


Researches conducted in the Institu te of M arketing of the Łódź University encompass also a wide range of problem s concerning textile industries of Poland, Czechoslovakia, the GRD, and H ungary as well as the international trade exchange betw een these countries in the field of textile and clothing products. The researches are focussed on m utual co-operation betw een the above m entioned countries. They are based on the following assum ptions: 1. The four countries e ither border upon one another or are situated very near to one another. 2. Each of these countries possesses rich traditions in the duscussed fields of activ ity and all these countries are exporters of tex tile and clothing products. 3. A lthough Czechoslovakia and the GDR represen t a higher level of economic developm ent than the rem aining two countries. (Poland and Hungary), these differences do not constitute a b arrier in promotion of labour division in the area in question. 4. Trade exchange in tex tile products betw een these countries is ra th e r insignificant. 5. The s tructu re of supply of textile and clothing products in their home m arkets is poorly diversified in relation to developed countries. In all the four countries there can be observed a phenom enon of the producer's monopoly, which leads to a situation in which the supply of consum er goods is largely determ ined by the producer's preferences and


Objective To investigate the relationship between the acute phase blood glucose and the severity and prognosis of stroke in patients with stroke. Methods One hundred seventy-three consecutive patients with acute stroke were randomly allocated into either a hyperglycemia group (n = 72) or a normal group (n = 101 ) according to whether their random blood glucose levels were 〉 7.8 mmol/L or not. The average time from stroke onset to admission was 6. 5 ± 5.1 hours, The patients were evaluated by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and Glasgow Coma Stroke (GCS) scores within 20 minutes after clinical reception, The plasma blood glucose detection and head CT scan were completed in 40 minutes. The patients with cerebral infarction were classified according to the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project (OCSP) criteria, and the survivors were evaluated by the modified Rankin scale (mRS) after 3 months. Results There were no significant differences between the two groups in age, gender, vascular risk factors, stroke property and treatment principle. There were significant differences between the NIHSS and GCS at the first admission and the mRS scores at 3 months (P 〈 0.01). The proportion of the patients with the history of diabetic mellitus in the random hyperglycemia group was significantly higher than that in the normal group (P 〈 O. 01 ). The random blood glucose levels were not correlated with the severity of stroke between the 2 groups of patients with the history of diabetes mellitus; the increased random blood glucose levels were significantly correlated with the severity and prognosis of stroke between the 2 groups of patients without the history of diabetes mellitus (P 〈 0.01 ). Conelusions The increased blood glucose in patients with stroke without the history of diabetes mellims in acute phase is an independent risk factor for the severity and prognosis. The increased random blood glucose in patients with stroke in acute phase may also suggest having the history of diabetes mellitus.

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stroke;  blood glucose;  diabetes mellitus;  prognosis


Abstract This paper estimates probable collective doses owing to transport of radioactive material by road mode in India and the USA for an identical hypothetical case under respective transport conditions for the two countries, using the INTERTRAN2 computer code. The differences observed in the transport conditions in the two countries are reflected in the DNORM input parameters for the incident free transport conditions of transport and the accident rates. Owing to differences in the parameter values, it is found that the estimated probable collective dose values owing to transport of radioactive material by road mode for India are much higher than those for USA. Sensitive parameters are identified which contribute maximum to the estimated probable collective dose.


One of the most neglected sources of energy loss is streetlights which generate too much light in areas where it is not required. Energy waste has enormous economic and environmental effects. In addition, due to the conventional manual nature of the operation, streetlights are frequently seen being turned ON during the day and OFF in the evening, which is regrettable even in the twenty-first century. These issues require automated streetlight control in order to be resolved. This study aims to develop a novel streetlight controlling method by combining a smart transport monitoring system powered by computer vision technology with a closed circuit television (CCTV) camera that allows the light-emitting diode (LED) streetlight to automatically light up with the appropriate brightness by detecting the presence of pedestrians or vehicles and dimming the streetlight in their absence using semantic image segmentation from the CCTV video streaming. Consequently, our model distinguishes daylight and nighttime, which made it feasible to automate the process of turning the streetlight 'ON' and 'OFF' to save energy consumption costs. According to the aforementioned approach, geolocation sensor data could be utilized to make more informed streetlight management decisions. To complete the tasks, we consider training the U-net model with ResNet-34 as its backbone. The validity of the models is guaranteed with the use of assessment matrices. The suggested concept is straightforward, economical, energy-efficient, long-lasting, and more resilient than conventional alternatives.


The cartridge case extraction of automatic weapon is a transient dynamic process,where there are many complicated factors,and it is hard to gain an accurate result of extraction force with theoretical analysis alone,which makes the traditional design of cartridge case extraction mechanisms rely on estimation and experience.To gain the extraction force more accurately and simply,a computer simulation is made on cartridge case extraction process of an automatic weapon with FEA method in the paper.The time-curve of extraction force is presented,which can be used to conduct the design process.The influences of initial clearance and bore shell thickness on extraction force are ana- lyzed with both theory and simulation data,and the influence of friction coefficient is analyzed with simulation data. The analyses show that the initial clearance has an negative linear relation with extraction force,the bore shell thick- ness has an inverse proportion relation with extraction force and the friction coefficient has a positive linear relation with extraction force.


In order to become competitive, organizations use consolidated management models that are based on internationally recognized standards from diverse areas of knowledge. In this paper, the standards ISO 55001:2014 (asset management) and ISO 31000:2018 (risk management guidelines) are analyzed aiming to identify requirements for implementing the asset management process that comply with the regulation of the Energy Transmission System. The methodology involves the use of PROMETHEE II with application in a large company in the Brazilian electricity sector. The resulting ranking of requirements, considering data based on experts' knowledge and on the aggregation of their preferences, offers a prioritization of such requirements. The results are satisfactory in guiding the organization as to where to start the implementation of the asset management process.


'Can a girl be happy in Japan?' is the hook that Ayako Kano uses to introduce this highly informative and interesting text on 'Japanese Feminist Debates', in which she traces the complexities and c...


The methods which based on the fuzzy least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) theory and dynamic inverse control theory, are applied to design the nonlinear missile control system. The nonlinear systems are transformed into linear system on dynamic inversion law. The nonlinear system inverse error caused by modeling error and uncertain factors is regulated with fuzzy LS-SVM. Fuzzy LS-SVM parameter adjustment is derived by Lyapunov function, proving the stability of the nonlinear system. With the help of simulations, the design of missile control system can not only realize nonlinear control, but also possess excellent robustness and meet the designing requirement.


Purpose. Acute mesenteric ischaemia (AMI) is a lifethreatening vascular emergency with a high mortality rate. Early diagnosis is the key to reducing its mortality rate and improving the quality of life. Although computed tomography (CT) is still the gold standard for acute intestinal disorders, over the last few years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a useful alternative tool. An animal model of AMI was developed in order to study the effectiveness of MRI in early detection of this condition and to observe lesion evolution. Methods. Thirty Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided into two groups (n=15): in the fi rst group, after laparotomy, the animals underwent ligation of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA), followed by macroscopic monitoring and histological evaluation; in the second, ischaemia was induced by squeezing a loop around the SMA 3 days before evaluation with 7-T micro-MRI. Results. Macroscopically, a refl ex spastic ileus followed by refl ex hypotonic ileus and colour changes in some of the loops were detected. MRI evidenced luminal dilatation with air‐fl uid levels, free intraperitoneal fl uid and bowelwall oedema. Histological analysis confi rmed ischaemia and earlier damage involving the central portion of the


Objective: To discuss the therapeutic effect of ligation of the internal jugular vein and how to deal with pulsatile tinnitus of venous origin. Method: A retrospective study was conducted on 12 patients who were diagnosed with venous hum and treated with ligation of the jugular vein. They all had normal otoscopy findings. Results: These 12 patients were all women, ranging in age from 27 to 61 years. Seven patients got relief of tinnitus right after the surgery, among which 5 patient's symptoms recurred within 2 years. The rest got no relief and 1 of them aggravated into intolerable roaring. Conclusion: Diagnosis of venous hum should be made only after careful elimination of other disorders, such as BIH, ACAD, HJB, and other rare vascular anomalies. Ligation of IJV should be avoided even for the treatment of venous hum because of the poor effect and unpredictable complications.


Factory-noise prediction models are invaluable in allowing worker noise-exposure levels in a factory to be evaluated prior to construction and, if necessary, for modifications to be made or noise-control measures to be evaluated. Ray-tracing techniques have proven to have the necessary accuracy and flexibility. In order to evaluate the accuracy of a ray-tracing model, comparisons were made between predicted and measured sound pressure levels for a machine shop with nine noise sources in operation. The shop was modeled using the known geometry, source and receiver positions, air absorption coefficients, and the measured source sound power levels. Surface absorption coefficients were chosen on the basis of reverberation time measurements in similar factories when empty. The machine shop fitting density and absorption coefficients were chosen on the basis of previous research and by comparing the predicted and measured sound propagation curves for the shop, varying the fitting density to obtain a best-fit agreement. The ray-tracing model proved to give excellent prediction accuracy. By comparison, predictions by the Eyring theory are shown to be less accurate. Finally, the usefulness and flexibility of the ray-tracing approach are demonstrated by predicting the effectiveness of possible noise control measures comprising acoustic screens and suspended absorption. Accurate methods for modeling and predicting noise levels in factories are invaluable in the planning of factory buildings, equipment layouts, and potential noise control measures. They permit worker noise-exposure levels to be estimated before the factory is built and its equipment purchased. If predictions indicate that noise levels will exceed admissible limits, the factory building and/or equipment and worker lo-cations can be modified. Furthermore, potential noise-re-duction measures-acoustic enclosures and screens, absorbent surface treatments, etc.+an be evaluated for their cost effectiveness. --Many theoretical and empirical models for predicting factory noise levels.' These are


An inclined-type carrier transfer apparatus is provided to minimize swing of a substrate by installing a roller on a lower end of a carrier and a non-contact magnetic guide on an upper end of the carrier. A carrier transfer apparatus includes a roller(430) connected to a lower end of a carrier(410) to transfer the carrier at an inclined angle, and a non-contact magnetic guide(440) provided on an upper end of the carrier. The guide has a first magnetic end(444) and a second magnetic end(446) in both ends of the guide, and a third magnetic end(442) provided on the upper end of the carrier in a center empty space of the guide.


The network evidence is the information carrier acquired from different network terminals, and it is a unique type of electronic evidence. Different from other types of electronic evidence, the network evidence can be acquired from network at different places. The network evidence is concerned with the location of obtaining evidence, information acquisition, storage method and the technique of investigating and verifying. It is so special that its evidence rule including collection, investigation and affirmation should be different from others.In the network age, it is of great important meaning to deeply analyzing network evidence, accurately apprehending network evidence and scientifically using network evidence. By doing this, we can investigate evidence better, find new methods better, and discover the fact of cases better in judicial practice. It benefits our job in modifying and perfecting Chinese laws about litigation evidence and its using. We can apprehend the problem about evidence and its relational basic theory from a new point of view.


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In 1902 there was published a part of the results of a study of the spermatogenesis in Desmognathus fusca in which the occurrence of degenerations' in the secondary spermatogonia was mentioned. fire had destroyed thc larger portion of the preparations and photographs covering this portion of the spermatogenetic cycle, and no effort was then made to complete the investigation by a detailed study of the spermatogonia. Of the degenerations that occurred two were particularly attractive-the regressive changes in the spent lobule and the degenerations in the last generation of spermatogonia, after the cessation of the season's trhsformation into spermatocytes. These degenerations are described as occurring in spermatogonia of the last generation, although they might quite as well, perhaps, as will appear subsequently, be given as involving spermatocytes at the very beginning of their growth period. The occurrence of degenerations in the amphibian spermatogenesis has been known since the pioneer work of Flemining ('87) on the spermatogenesis of Salamandra. He described (p. 447) the vacuolation and fragmentation of the nucleus and the dissolution of the cell, constituting 3 form of degeneration already dewribed by him ('85).


Objective To study CT manifestations of diaphragmatic rupture(DR).Materials and Methods CT features of 18 patients with DR were analyzed retrospectively.The CT findings were compared with surgery.Results CT features of DR included diaphragmatic discontinuity,diaphragmatic thickening and intrathoracic herniation of abdominal viscera.The display rate of CT was affected by various factors such as machanism and position of DR.Conclusion Higher display rate was occurred in left DR with the size of 2 to 10 cm,accompanied with diaphragmatic hernia.


The utility model relates to a device which is designed to realize an intelligent corridor street lamp. The device includes an incandescent lamp, a lamp holder, a driving module, a sensor module, a power supply system, and a microcontroller. The incandescent lamp emits light when being powered on. The lamp holder is used for installing the incandescent lamp. The driving module is used for driving the incandescent lamp to emit light. The sensor module is used for detecting the illumination condition and the appearance of a human body. The power supply system is used for giving power to the driving module and the microcontroller. The microcontroller is used for controlling the cooperative operation of the functional modules in the entire system. The intelligent corridor street lamp device is simple and intelligent, and is strong in practicability and is low in cost.


An attempt to reduce the size of printed patch antenna and arrays severely degrades antenna performance, and it results in increased side lobe level. Electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure is used to suppress side lobe levels and is utilized to enhance such antenna performance, but it significantly enlarges overall antenna size. This paper proposes a modified EBG structure with wider band gap and compact size. The conventional mushroom EBG geometry is complex due to presence of many vias. The proposed structure is simple to fabricate due to less EBG patches and vias. Also substrate size is significantly reduced by 89.24% with even much better band-gap. Proposed EBG structure is scaled and tested for X-band applications. It has been observed that the new structure has 31.75% wider band gap as compared to the reference structure. The integration of proposed EBG with microstrip antenna array has shown significant improvement in antenna parameters like gain, directivity, side lobe level, and radiation efficiency.


The usage of tax e-filing in Malaysia has continuously shown a positive and increasing trend from year to year after a decade of its introduction. However, the acceptance rate for salaried taxpayers in Sarawak is only about 50%, making the study of this situation necessary. The aims of this study are twofold: (1) to examine the level of tax e-filing acceptance in Sarawak, and (2) to investigate the relationships between performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition, and the intention to accept tax e-filing system in Sarawak, Malaysia. This study uses the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as the underpinning theory. A total of 630 questionnaires was distributed to salaried taxpayers in Sarawak. The descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis using IBM SPSS version 26 were utilised to achieve the objectives. It was found that taxpayers in Sarawak have a high level of intention to use tax e-filing. The findings also show that performance expectancy and facilitating conditions have a significant positive relationship, social influence has a significant negative relationship. In contrast, effort expectancy was found to be insignificant. Since the IRBM is currently taking steps to enhance services delivery using the e-filing system, the results may assist them to plan a more effective strategy to provide a better tax e-filing system to Sarawak salaried taxpayers, specifically other states that have a similar background to Sarawak.


In India, the plant Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. is commonly known as "Jackfruit" and has been generally used as food and in many traditional medicines.

The present manuscript aimed to collect description information on phytochemistry, ethnomedical uses, pharmacological activities, and patent of A. heterophyllus Lam. that may help in making a bridge between the research gaps as well as the upcoming future findings.

The literature survey was based on a PRISMA systematic study that gathered information from various sources, including journals, e-books, and digital databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, Pubmed, and Science Direct from 1991 to 2021.

Several bioactive constituents are characterized, including flavonoids, chalcones, flavanols, terpenoids, stilbenoids, and xanthones in the fruit. It also contains tannins, quercetin, gallic acid, saponins, artocarpanone and artocarpin. Many pharmacological studies stated the therapeutic potential of Jackfruit, such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, anticancer, and antidiabetic properties.

The present manuscript summarizes the phytochemistry and pharmacological properties of A.heterophyllus Lam. And it is also providing information in-vitro and in-vivo concerning experimental studies with patent data which, in turn, makes the herbal drug a promising source in the nutrition and therapeutic aspects.


Poster (2 sheets of A3) showing four key graphs about smoking prevalence by PCT, deaths by LA, and inequalities by PCT in the East of England.


In this paper,various technologies for preparation of solar grade polysilicon are introduced,the status of supply and demand for solar grade polysilicon in domestic and abroad are analyzed.At the same time,the future research direction of the production technology of solar grade polysilicon and the problems which should be paid attention to for solar grade polysilicon industry henceforth are pointed out.


The research on logistics cost control of enterprises is mostly limited to the local research of logistics subsystem, and some of them study the problem of cost control from the perspective of system, but most of the research is still at the level of qualitative theoretical analysis. The enterprise logistics cost system is complex and dynamic. The cost driving factors of different subsystems are interrelated and influence each other, and there is benefit reversal phenomenon between different variables. Enterprises must study the logistics cost control from the perspective of system in order to realize the overall efficiency improvement of enterprises.


The aim of the research was to contribute to better understanding of the correlation between postural disorders and muscle power in primary school children. The sample of respondents consisted of 1,120 children, aged 7 to 12 years (549 boys and 571 girls) from the territory of the municipality of Knjaževac. In the assessment of the spinal column status, the device "Spinal Mouse" (Switzerland) was used, while in the analysis of the status of the feet, the podoscope "Pedic" (Hungary) was used. A handheld dynamometer "Lafayette" (USA) and tensiometric force platform "Vernier Force Plate" (USA) were used in the analysis of muscle power. Spinal column and feet status were measured in the static condition, with children being in the upright standing position. Muscle power status was measured in both static (a clinician was applying muscle force to the dominant upper extremity of a child trying to overcome or "break" the child's muscle resistance) and dynamic conditions (Counter Movement Jump). Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis were used in data processing by the means of the SPSS software version 24. Results revealed poor postural and muscle power status, and correlations suggesting to possible kinetic chain reaction causing the disruption of the normal postural status in primary school children. Determined postural disorders are characterized by the early functional stage that can be reduced by appropriate corrective exercise programme application and augmented level of proper physical activity. Those programmes and activities are being guided and implemented by physicians and PE teachers in the municipality of Knjaževac.


A phosphor composition contains a lanthanide activator element within a host matrix having a transition element as a major component. The host matrix is composed of certain rare earth phosphates or vanadates such as YPO/sub 4/ with a portion of the rare earth replaced with one or more of the transition elements. On x-ray or other electromagnetic excitation, trace lanthanide impurities or additives within the phosphor are spectrometrically determined from their characteristic luminescence. 7 figures.


The system of acquisition in good faith is a very important legal system of civil law and law of jus ad res in the world, whose aim is to enforce a restriction on the protection of absolute ownership. The thesis is to ponder over and criticize the traditional system of acquisition in good faith from constitutive requirements with an analysis of the divergence and defects of current theories, and, more importantly, seeks to elaborate the theoretical basis of the acquisition of real properties in good faith from the theory of unbalanced benefits, the theory of priority on the utilization of res and the theory of protection of legal interests.


Background. Since humanity is attempting to challenge the COVID-19 pandemic by accelerating the production of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, there could be opposite health side-effects on the participants and researchers. Materials and Methods: Institutions, governments, companies, and organizations around the world work relentlessly to produce drugs and/or vaccines for this disease; yet none were approved. In this work, we are presenting the technologies platforms, developed vaccines, development challenges, and the under-process vaccines. Results: The recent developments in the diagnosis and types of vaccines were also discussed. Conclusion: Many vaccines were invented to stop COVID-19's spreading using different techniques.


Introduction Biomarkers additionally known as biological markers are biological measures of a biological state. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health Biomarkers Definitions Working Group defined a biomarker as "a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention"[1-4].


Spelling correction is one of the most needed steps in many natural language processing tasks. It is the operation of correcting orthographical mistakes. For languages such as English, spelling correction is usually performed by dictionary lookup for words with minimum edit distance to the given word which is not feasible for agglutinative languages such as Azerbaijani (ISO 639-3:aze). Thanks to their rich morphological structure, languages such as Azerbaijani can have quite complex words with several derivational and inflectional affixes. Indeed, agglutination of the affixes in the new word and meaning formation while adhering to the certain linguistic rules such as vowel harmony is what makes the neural models suitable for the correction of the certain classes of the errors in such languages, helping understand the patterns that the agglutination brings with it. In this paper, the possibility of building such a model for the mentioned purpose is explored and the results are reported.


This article introduces a new type of steel plate damper with transverse slits. The damper mainly consists of a few parallel core plates, a top plate and a bottom plate. The core plates are made of mild steel with a series of transverse slits in the centre. The damper mainly utilizes plastic bending deformation of the core plates to dissipate energy for vibration control of civil structures. Main performance parameters of the damper are studied through theoretical analysis. Mechanical properties of the damper are analyzed through finite element method (FEM). Finally, an experiment of the damper is conducted to verify the hysteresis performance of the damper. Results of the investigation indicate a better use of the core plates due to the transverse slits. The damper exhibits good energy dissipation capacity and ductility through the experiment.


This study explored the perceived human resources factors influencing the performance of accounting   learners in North West secondary schools in South Africa. Despite the significant role that secondary school accounting education is perceived to play in shaping the development of accounting   professionals, few studies have focused on investigating the effect of human resources on accounting learners' performance in secondary school. The study sought to understand the human resource factors influencing the performance of accounting   learners in North West secondary schools in South Africa. The study's findings may assist the school management to improve human resource utilisation towards the achievement of a better accounting learners' performance. To address the gap in the literature, a mixed method sequential explanatory study was conducted in North West districts with 183 School Management Teams and 61 educators. The sequential explanatory study aimed to explore the perceived human resources factors influencing the performance of Grade 12 Accounting   learners in secondary schools in the North West Province, South Africa. The findings from the quantitative phase showed that human resource factors such as pedagogical subject content knowledge and skills held by the educator are perceived to influence learner performance. In the second phase, the qualitative approach validated and explained the various human resource factors that influence accounting learners' performance in North West secondary schools in South Africa. School management should ensure that they employ adequate accounting   learners to teach accounting   in schools. This is so because accounting   requires a pedagogical content knowledge and skills in teaching and learning. In conclusion, it is recommended that schools interested in improving learner performance should identify and address context-specific perceived human resources factors that influence learner performance within their schools.This study explored the perceived human resources factors influencing the performance of accounting   learners in North West secondary schools in South Africa. Despite the significant role that secondary school accounting education is perceived to play in shaping the development of accounting   professionals, few studies have focused on investigating the effect of human resources on accounting learners' performance in secondary school. The study sought to understand the human resource factors influencing the performance of accounting   learners in North West secondary schools in South Africa. The study's findings may assist the school management to improve human resource utilisation towards the achievement of a better accounting learners' performance. To address the gap in the literature, a mixed method sequential explanatory study was conducted in North West districts with 183 School Management Teams and 61 educators. The sequential explanatory study aimed to explore the perceived human resources factors influencing the performance of Grade 12 Accounting   learners in secondary schools in the North West Province, South Africa. The findings from the quantitative phase showed that human resource factors such as pedagogical subject content knowledge and skills held by the educator are perceived to influence learner performance. In the second phase, the qualitative approach validated and explained the various human resource factors that influence accounting learners' performance in North West secondary schools in South Africa. School management should ensure that they employ adequate accounting   learners to teach accounting   in schools. This is so because accounting   requires a pedagogical content knowledge and skills in teaching and learning. In conclusion, it is recommended that schools interested in improving learner performance should identify and address context-specific perceived human resources factors that influence learner performance within their schools.


The authors describe the real-time energy management of a multigenerator micro-power station which is intended to supply an isolated village in Senegal using wind and solar power. Laboratory studies have led to a complete understanding of the windmill potential in Dakar, of the functioning and optimization of each generator, and of the transfer of available energy to the receptors. The preliminary studies showed that the structure is feasible and reliable. The architecture developed is modular and extensible, with efficiency and maintenance taken into consideration.<<ETX>>


There are 2 TV dramas, 〈Windy garden〉 and 〈Beethoven Virus〉, that are aired at the same time on Wednesdays. Both are imaginative fabrication based on facts and competing for audience rating. Several tens of hours of images are made up and expanded from a single line in the historical recordings of the Annals of the Choson Dynasty and a single page of essay on the experience of a member of orchestra. Era of faction has been opened. This study looks into the movie 〈Miindo〉 and 〈chuihwaseon〉, 〈Klimt〉 which are based on facts particularly on culture among history, by comparing them with the original works, and the reasons for the differences in the contents of text and the movie & drama. That is, inquiries are being made on the ultimate resaons for creation of image contents by capturing the cultural aspect of the history. This illustrates that an entertainer is at the center of all of this. Their life style of living a unique and peculiar life different from ordinary people has become the subject of interest of many people, and there had been numerous episodes surrounding them as they have lived life that is not ordinary and in the midst of attentions of others. In particualr, the fact that the creators (director and playwright) wanted to deal with historical fact as material that will induce apprehension or interest according to their point of view is one of the reasons. As they fumble with the material, they tend to disassemble or modify it as if it were a plaything. Such temptation gradually becomes heated as time passes, with the format or technique of reproduction also evolving. Trend in 2008 displayed the phenomenon of 'chivalous robber' and 'regression from Goguryeo to Choson.' In particuolar, the TV drama 'Iljimae' was handled by 2 broadcasters simultaneously, reviving the competition between broadcasters of 〈Taewangsasingi〉, 〈Yeongaesomoon〉 〈Jumong〉, and 〈Daejoyoung〉 a year ago. Faction has no option but to cling onto entertainment competition between the media and production companies as well as verified entertainer of historical material. Reasons include amplification of HD camera and possibility of reproduction of sharpness, conveyance of vivid sound, ustilizaiton of computer graphics for aspects that cannot actually photographed, and development of delivery system for message and dynamic scenes as we have entered the era of digitalization. In particular, the influence of success in conversion of the literary style and classical language used in daily life into the contemporary colloquial style since the production of 〈Damo〉 is quite enormous. Such advancement in technology draws out entertainers of the Choson era into spotlight or relighting of stories of past heros. Accordingly, creators and producers will consider reproduction of characters that actually existed, which is the storybox within the cultural history as permanent "treasure chest" in order to reproduce imaginative reality for the TV and radio audiences. 'Resonance' of history and contemporary is ardently necessary as long as time continues to pass and as long as the amusement of life cannot transcend that of imagination. As Kim, Hong Do and Shin, Yoon Bok, and Klimt who pursue their own unique aesthetic values by eulogizing freedome, from the imaginative viewpoint of authors, were masters who, with similar cognition, were able to see new world, they have become the leading characters of 'One-Source Multi-Use(OSMU).' Simulation was the terminal that in fact provided time machine to both authors and audiences.


With the continuous progress and development of society, text classification has become an important task in the field of text data mining and text value exploration. Compared with existing text classification technology, deep learning technology has many advantages, such as high accuracy and effective feature extraction. This paper is mainly based on the character convolutional neural network to study the classification performance of different texts, hoping to provide experience for related research work. Through research, it is found that character-level convolutional neural network deep learning technology can achieve Chinese text classification more effectively.


The visiting team is one of several PLANFAMI efforts to reach people he says. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and receiving technical assistance from Pathfinder International PLANFAMI operates four clinics within 90 kilometers of its base clinic in Puno. Typically an obstetric nurse and nurse aide from each clinic make home visits riding into the countryside on a motorcycle or in a well-equipped van that offers injectables and intrauterine devices in addition to other methods. PLANFAMI also holds reproductive health discussions and makes video presentations in the countryside traveling by van with electric generators to supply power. (excerpt)


I read with interest news of the possible delay in this year's pay award (news March 1). Although assimilated on to my new pay band under Agenda for Change, I am still to receive the 12 months' back pay that was due in October 2005. I have been told, yet again, that I am unlikely to receive it this month. I would be interested to know if we will receive interest on this sum when it finally arrives.


To investigate objective changes of snoring after surgery in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and correlate these with changes in the apnoea–hypopnoea index (AHI).


With the power spectral density,the vibration mechanism and the vibration transfer process of viaduct caused by the traffic load were introduced.Considering the characteristics of vibration transmission in soil,the pier was assumed tobe a spring-damping system solidly fixed on the ground and a simple harmonic load was applied on the same place of ground by pier.Its power spectral density function is derived and for the vibration impact on the surrounding environment is obtained by the wave theory.Finally,a new method for evaluating the traffic load,on the viaduct and its impact in the surrounding environment was presented.


A series of new RuII Schiff base complexes built on the salphen moiety has been prepared. This includes four flexibile monometallic RuII compounds and six rigid bimetallic analogues that contain NiII, PdII or PtII cations into the salphen complexation site. Steady state luminescence titrations illustrated the capacity of the compounds to photoprobe G-quadruplex DNA. Moreover, the vast array of the Schiff base structural changes allowed to extensively assess the influence of the ligand surface, flexibility and charge on the interaction of the compounds with G-quadruplex DNA. This was achieved thanks to circular dichroism melting assays and bio-layer interferometry studies that pointed up high affinities along with good selectivities of RuII Schiff base complexes for G4 DNA. In cellulo studies were carried out with the most promising compounds. Cellular uptake with location of the compounds in the nucleus as well as in the nucleolus was observed. Cell viability experiments were performed with U2OS osteosarcoma cells in the dark and under light irradiation which allowed the measurements of IC50's and photoindexes. They showed the substantial role played by light irradiation in the activity of the drugs in addition to the low cytotoxicity of the molecules in the dark. Altogether, the reported results emphasize the promising properties of RuII Schiff base complexes as a new class of candidates for developing potential G4 DNA targeting diagnostic or therapeutic compounds.


Monthly rainfall data in 16meteorological stations in Poyang lake basin through 1960to 2008 were used to analyze spatial distribution of rainfall based on geostatistic and GIS technology.The results show that:(1)the spatial distribution of the average annual rainfall shows an increasing tendency from the southwest to the northeast and from the northwest to northeast;(2)the high value center of inter-generational rainfall have generally arisen in Lushan Mountain and Yushan,and the low value center of that occurs in Ganzhou,Suichuan of the southern of Jiangxi;(3)spatial analysis of the seasonal rainfall change shows that the seasonal average annual rainfalls belong to a weak or moderate variability level.In addition,it is good to make use of Gaussian model to simulate spatial distribution of seasonal rainfall,so Gaussian model should be used for seasonal rainfall spatial interpolation.


So far, the discussion about the meaning and relevance of the results of the latest wave of (high quality, advanced) internationally comparative empirical competence surveys in the IEA-tradition (TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS) has been heavily biased in favor of the small group of rich, industrialized OECD-countries. ... However, the surveys also include a number of non-European, non-OECD, poorer countries and their number is scheduled to increase in future survey rounds. This article draws attention to the fact that most of the poor and middle-income countries exhibit rather poor to extremely poor average competence levels, with large minorities (if not majorities) of their pupils performing (often much) below the analytically accepted minimum 'competence level I'. It is argued that... these poor to very poor results are typical for the pupils in most poorer countries of the world. The article discusses some major theoretical, conceptual, analytical and political problems of accommodating this discomforting finding against the background of some important paradigms of the educational and social sciences orienting educational and development policies (especially so: 'pro-poor-strategies'). In particular, it is argued that 1) with regard to learning outcomes/school-based competence achievements the crucial link between 'language of instruction' and 'language of origin' of the pupils has not been sufficiently taken into account, both in research and in politics and practice; 2) while international educational cooperation and development aid has been important in influencing the emergence of the modern world-system (in education as much as in any other realm), its structural organization remains poor and its level of intensity is disturbingly uneven (much too low on average), especially so with regard to 'Education-for-all' / pro-poor-strategies. (DIPF/Orig.)


Background: Reorientation of the binding sites of the glutamate transporter requires K (cid:1) translocation. Results: Single turnover K (cid:1) translocation is associated with negative transmembrane charge movement. Conclusion: The empty glutamate transporter carries an apparent charge of (cid:2) 1.23, overcompensating for the positive charge of the translocated K (cid:1) ion. Significance: ChargecompensationmaybeageneralstrategyofNa (cid:1) -dependenttransporterstoovercomeelectrostaticbarriers of charge transport.


Based on the practice of iron-making in Bayi Iron Steel Group Co.Ltd,the influences of top charging system on blast furnace iron-making were studied.The top charging system of BF iron making process is one of key technologies at present and an important parameter of influencing technical and economical index.Under certain conditions of raw material and equipment,the reasonable operation system plays an important role in increasing technical and economical index of BF.


Abstract Objectives To examine: (1) correlates of use-to-nonuse (use 13-24 months ago, but no past-year use), initiation/reinitiation (no use 13–24 months ago, but past-year use), and continued use over a 24-month period; and (2) associations of past-year marijuana use disorder with use/nonuse among older adults. Method The 2015–2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health provided data (N = 26,322 aged 50+). We used multinomial and binary logistic regression analyses to compare users-to-nonusers and initiators/reinitiators to continued users (N = 2304). Results In the 50–64 age group, 2.1% were users-to-nonusers, 2.2% initiators/reinitiators, and 7.2% continued users. In the 65+ age group, the corresponding percentages were 0.7%, 0.7%, and 2.4%. Residence in states with medical marijuana laws, nicotine dependence, and other illicit drug use were associated with a lower likelihood of use-to-nonuse than continued use. Alcohol use disorder was associated with a higher likelihood of initiation/reinitiation. Parole/probation status was associated with higher likelihood of use-to-nonuse. Moderate/great marijuana risk perceptions were associated with a higher likelihood of both use-to-nonuse and initiation/reinitiation. The odds of marijuana use disorder did not differ between continued users and initiators/reinitiators or between medical and recreational users. Conclusion Most older users continued using over 24 months. Substantial numbers had marijuana and other substance use problems that require treatment.


Background and objectives: As conventional knee replacement training requires bone model, computer-assisted simulation seems to be an attractive alternative. Therefore, we compared the transfer of conventional training for the knee replacement and computer-assisted simulation to surgery in this trial. Design: A prospective randomized trial. Methods: The study was performed in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. After completing an intensive course in basic theory of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), three groups of 10 participants proceeded with no additional training (control group), 5 hours of conventional training on bone model (model training group) or simulation TKA training on the computer-assisted orthopedic training system (CAOS training group). Participants were evaluated during a TKA based on a bone model at baseline, 1 week and 4 months after training. Results: The CAOS training group performed the procedure significantly better than the other two groups at posttesting (P Conclusion: These results indicated that this computer-assisted training system was able to produce the effect of learning TKA skill, and it could provide a training alternative for novices. Meanwhile, it could enhance student learning through increased motivation.


1. Phonemes 2. Morphophonemics 2.1. External Morphophonemics 2.2. Internal Morphophonemics 2.21. Formulae and Symbols 2.22. From Formulae to Phonemics 2.23. Weak-Vowel Loss 2.24. Treatment of Clusters 2.3. Discussion 3. Morphological Survey 3.1. Participation of Morphemes in Bound Forms 3.11. Primary Derivation 3.12. Secondary Derivation 3.13. Possessed Themes 3.2. Participation of Bound Forms in Free Forms 3.21. Noun Inflection 3.22. Nouns Underlying Particles 3.23. Preterital Nouns 3.24. Independent Order of Verbs 3.25. Imperative Order of Verbs 3.26. Conjunct Order of Verbs 3.3. Close-Knit Phrases 3.4. Summary: Classes of Morphemes


Hydrothermically processed Prosopis juliflora (PJ) seed meal as a supplementary diet for Labeo rohita is found to be rich in protein (330 g kg−1) having antinutritional factors in permissible limits and containing essential amino acids adequately except lysine, methionine and cysteine. Ten iso-nitrogenous and iso-energetic diets with crude, soaked and autoclaved seed meal at 20%, 35% and 50% replacement of fish meal were tested (D1–D9, respectively). The growth of fish (weight gain, specific growth rate, feed conversion ratio and protein efficiency ratio) fed diet D4 (soaked seed meal at 20% replacement) was higher among the test diets, but lower than reference diet (RD). Diets with 50% seed meal resulted in lowering of growth, carcass composition, digestive enzyme activity and digestibility compared to test diets at 20% and 35% inclusion levels in the respective groups. Hydrothermically processed seed meal improved the growth compared to unprocessed one, though not up to RD level. This could be because of amino acid imbalance and presence of non-starch polysaccharides in seed meal. Looking to the easy availability and its nutritional quality, processed PJ seed meal can be incorporated in carp diet at lower inclusion level.


In this paper cellular machines are being proposed as replacements for the highly centralised systems that are currently in use. A cellular machine is a mechanical system comprised of distributed autonomous intelligent units called cells. The cellular assembling system, cellular manufacturing system and cellular remanufacturing system were designed. Applications of movable cells were dealt with in this paper. They enable real-time scheduling, self assembly and enhanced robustness in a cellular manufacturing system.


The results of spectroscopic investigations of reversible and irreversible enzyme binding to paper are reported, as well as the results of surface spectroscopic investigations of the extent to which such residues can be removed by rinsing. As much as 10% of the alpha-amylase present during a treatment under typical, non-stringent conditions may remain bound to a paper artifact after ethanol denaturation. Less than 30% of such denaturation residues were removed by subsequent washes with water, ethanol, or a water/ethanol 50% (v/v) mix. Alternative methods of inhibiting enzymes without affecting enzyme solubility are proposed, as are alternative methods of removing enzymes. Another common problem with enzyme usage is that overly strong concentrations and elevated temperatures are used to compensate for reduced effectiveness of the enzymes under indifferently chosen treatment conditions; criteria for selection of enzymes and adoption of treatment conditions are suggested. Animal, cereal, fungal and bacterial alpha-amylases are reviewed and fungal and bacterial alpha-amylases are recommended for various applications. Formulas and sample calculations for bath immersion, topical, and viscous media applications are presented. Use of acetate buffers rather than phosphate buffers is proposed.


A hitch for a truck and trailer with the locking member of the hitch adapted for opening and closing of the hitch by travel along a horizontal, rectilinear path. The locking member is moved to a closed position by an air pressurized booster unit. Movement is imparted to the locking member via a booster actuated assembly which additionally functions to move a pressure block of the hitch into engagement with the eye member carried by the trailer. The eye is thereby restrained against undesired movement while in engagement with the post of the hitch. Adjustable means enable the pressure block-eye engagement to be set to achieve the aforementioned result while avoiding restricting rotational movement of the eye. A mechanical lock automatically locks the locking member in a closed position.


A Rapid and specific reversed phase high pressure liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for the quantitative analysis of flavonoid quercetin in the different extract of Moringa oleifera and various dietary sources. The flavonoid is analyzed on a kromasil RP C18 column. Using a mobile phase consisted of Methanol-Acetonitrile (50:50 v/v) under the following conditions. Detecting the wavelength at 257 nm and flow rate at 1.0 ml /min. volume of injecting sample is 20µL. The HPLC system was operated at ambient temperature. The stop time was set at 10 mins. The standard Quercetin was diluted using the methanol at a known concentration of 5-25 µg/mL, the sample was filtered through sample filter contain 0.45 µm porous nylon membrane filter paper. The filterate was introduced on to a Reverse phase analytical column. The content of Quercetin which is present in different extract of Moringa oleifera was determined. The method was applied to the quantitative analysis of flavonoid in Moringa oleifera. The HPLC method showed on excellent performance in separating the flavonoid quercetin in medicinal plants.


Dyeing in supercritical CO2is a new type of green dyeing technology, due to the characteristics of supercritical CO2itself nonpolar inhibits the development of dyeing in supercritical CO2, adding the cosolvent can effectively solve this problem. This article summarizes the cosolvent effects on the dye solubility in supercritical CO2and the influence of dyeing effect, the research expcets the effects of cosolvent dyeing in supercritical CO2.


Algorithms increasingly have an impact on our everyday lives; it will therefore become more and more important for us to understand what they actually do and to think about governance approaches.


Abstract We assembled complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Prunus verecunda based on Illumina sequencing. The cp genome of P. verecunda is 157,917 bp in length with 129 genes comprising 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA ribosomal genes. The overall GC content of cp genome is 36.7%. A maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis revealed that P. verecunda is sister to P. serrulata var. spontanea and P. maximowiczii.


In high-accuracy swept-frequency insertion-loss testing, antenna-pattern measurement, and many other applications, significant measurement-system output variations are caused by the system itself. These variations can be recorded and subtracted from the measurement results to provide the required accuracy generally by recording system calibration lines with attenuation standards in the test position and reading the measurement results against these calibration lines. However, the procedure is tedious, costly, and does not lend itself to automation. The linearizer is a device for storing the system calibration and correcting for it before displaying the results. With no loss in accuracy, it provides an output curve that can be read on an ordinary rectilinear graph, used to actuate GO-NO GO switches, or automaticaly compare a test piece against a standard. Details of operation and some performance data are given for a particular analog-type linearizer and associated swept-frequency measurement system for insertion-loss or scattering coefficients. The linearizer can readily display a scale of 0.02 dB/inch with adequate stability and reproducibility. Two such linearizers can be used together to display two components of a vector or phase and amplitude, etc. Other applications are discussed and several possible approaches to an ideal system shown.


The prediction of phase equilibria for hydrocarbon/water blends in separators, is a subject of considerable importance for chemical processes. Despite its relevance, there are still pending questions. Among them, is the prediction of the correct number of phases. While a stability analysis using the Gibbs Free Energy of mixing and the NRTL model, provide a good understanding with calculation issues, when using HYSYS V9 and Aspen Plus V9 software, this shows that significant phase equilibrium uncertainties still exist. To clarify these matters, n-octane and water blends, are good surrogates of naphtha/water mixtures. Runs were developed in a CREC vapor–liquid (VL_Cell operated with octane–water mixtures under dynamic conditions and used to establish the two-phase (liquid–vapor) and three phase (liquid–liquid–vapor) domains. Results obtained demonstrate that the two phase region (full solubility in the liquid phase) of n-octane in water at 100 °C is in the 10−4 mol fraction range, and it is larger than the 10−5 mol fraction predicted by Aspen Plus and the 10−7 mol fraction reported in the technical literature. Furthermore, and to provide an effective and accurate method for predicting the number of phases, a machine learning (ML) technique was implemented and successfully demonstrated, in the present study.


Blockholders' incentives to intervene in corporate governance are weakened by free-rider problems and high costs of activism. Theory suggests activists may recoup expenses through informed trading of target firms' stock when stocks are liquid. We show that stock liquidity increases the probability of activism but does less so for potentially overvalued firms for which privately informed blockholders may have greater incentives to sell their stake than to intervene. We also document that activists accumulate more stocks in targets when stock is more liquid. We conclude that liquidity helps overcome the free-rider problem and induces activism via preactivism accumulation of target firms' shares.


In recent days a lot of activities in Deep Learning demonstrated ability to produce much better than other Machine Learning techniques. Much of the challenge in the Deep Learning is about optimizing the weights and several hyper parameters as it takes lot of computation and time to do. Gradient descent has been most popular technique currently in its weights optimization for back propagation. Most of the existing implementation of Convolution Neural Networks/Deep Learning Networks plays pivotal role in image processing. Though being scientifically regressive, BP and GD is slowly converging and getting easily trapped in local minima these are inherent disadvantages. For this reason, we explored another optimization with Meta Heuristic Algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm in the Deep Learning algorithm.


Increasing evidence indicates that inflammation plays a vital role in tumorigenesis and progression. However, the prognostic value of inflammatory biomarkers in colorectal cancer (CRC) has not been established. In this study, a retrospective analysis was conducted in patients with CRC in Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (FUSCC) between April 1, 2007 and April 30, 2014, and 5,336 patients were identified eligible. Neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (PLR), lymphocyte‐to‐monocyte ratio (LMR), and albumin/globulin ratio (AGR) were analyzed. Kaplan‐Meier analysis was used to calculate the 5‐year overall survival (OS) and disease‐free survival (DFS). Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the prognostic factors. Nomograms were established to predict OS and DFS, and Harrell's concordance index (c‐index) was adopted to evaluate prediction accuracy. As results, the 5‐year OS was 79.2% and the 5‐year DFS was 56.0% in the cohort. Patients were stratified into 2 groups by NLR (≤2.72 and >2.72), PLR (≤219.00 and >219.00), LMR (≤2.83 and >2.83) and AGR (<1.50 and ≥1.50). Patients with NLR > 2.72, PLR > 219.00, LMR ≤ 2.83 and AGR < 1.50 were significantly associated with decreased OS and DFS (p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis indicated that NLR, LMR and AGR were independent factors of OS (p = 0.047, p = 0.008 and p < 0.001, respectively) and DFS (p = 0.009, p < 0.001 and p = 0.008, respectively). In addition, nomograms on OS and DFS were established according to all significant factors, and c‐indexes were 0.765 (95% CI: 0.744–0.785) and 0.735 (95% CI: 0.721–0.749), respectively. Nomograms based on OS and DFS can be recommended as practical models to evaluate prognosis for CRC patients.


Thispaper presents a Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) Optimization based design methodology for maximizing the starting torque of Induction Motor (IM). The GSA based design methodology is tailored to optimize the chosen primary variables with a view to obtain the global best design. The developed methodology is applied in solving two IM design problems and the results are presented with a view of exhibiting the superiority of the developed algorithm. The optimal design obtained by the proposed methodology fortwo IMs are presented with a view of illustrating the superiority.


We quantify the accuracy of various well-known models of the literature: the seven first type of models calculate diffuse horizontal irradiations from global ones and the fifteen second type models compute global irradiation on inclined planes from diffuse and global components on a horizontal surface. Then, the two classes of models are combined and the adequacy of each association is calculated for experimental hourly data collected on a French Mediterranean site. We compared these combinations with the Olmo model transforming directly global irradiations on tilted planes from horizontal ones.


There are increasing numbers of patients admitted to hospital as a result of ingesting amphetamine‐like drugs. The most severe cases exhibit hyperthermia, rhabdomyolysis, coagulopathy and renal failure. We describe six such patients with varying severity of intoxication, and have reviewed the recent literature with particular reference to the use of dantrolene. One of our patients died but the others all survived. There is little evidence that dantrolene influenced the outcome in patients reported to date. We believe that a controlled trial should be carried out in amphetamine‐related hyperthermia before the use of dantrolene becomes widespread.