EMS J'rice MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Academic Achievement, Caucasian Students, *Performance Factors, Primary Grades, Psychological Studies, *Sei Concept, Student Behavior, *Student Teacher. Relationship, Success Factors, *Teacher Attitudes The Children's Perceived Powerfulness Scale (CPPS) was administered to 1200 suburban elementary grade schocl children. At each of tour grade levels, three classes were designated as High Powerful (HP) and three as Low Powerful (LP). Results indicate that children in HP classes were viewed more favorably by their teachers, obtained higher scores on standardized tests, and were judged to have fewer befavioral problems than children in LP classes. The results are discussed in terms of the characteristics of classroom structure and teacher roles which may f'cilitate or inhibit feelings of powerfulness and, consequently, school performance of elementary school children. (Author/DM) II 6. DEPARTMUT OF NEALTN. EDUCATION A WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS SEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT ',PINTS OF VIEW GR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT SIEGES SARILY REPRESENT O:FICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLI:Y TEACHER EXPECTATIONS, CHILDREN'S PERCEIVED POWERFULNESS AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE Sylvain Nagler, Ph.D. and Robert Hoffnung, Ph.D. Yale-University School of Medicine Department of 1sychiatry New Haven, Conn. 06519 Prepared for presentation at the 48th Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatric Association, March, 1971. Washington, D.C.


Abstract : A software package entitled SEISMO has been developed to perform seismic refraction data reduction, interpretation, and presentation. The software package will do both forward and inverse modeling of refraction data, calculation of results, display of results, and final report figure presentation of results. The basic concepts of seismic refraction surveying and the procedures for forward and inverse modeling of refraction data are presented. In addition, several case histories of data processed with the soft package are presented. Keywords: Engineering geophysics, Army Corps of Engineering, User manuals, Menu.


Hazard dam monitoring system, implies measuring its horizontal displacements with two independent systems: physical and surveying. This paperwork presents the Fourier correlation results between the 3D spatially distribution of horizontal displacements measured with these two systems, for upstream-downstream direction. Because the number of measuring points in the studied systems is different, it is necessary to interpolate the 3D information. The interpolation method used is the RBF (radial basis function) one. The final correlation results are analyzed over 2000-2005 time period.


Risk management of geo hazards is a cognition and model of effective disaster mitigation in order to make recommendations for prevention,preparedness and response.The research on geological disaster risk management in foreign countries is mainly represented with the combination of modern high technology and risk management of geological disaster.In China,many national scholars have carried on deep research on the type,features,influence factor,distribution and regional development pattern in respect to geological disasters and put forward a lot of new theory and new ideas.This paper analyses the problems to be resolved: disaster degree evaluation needs scientific theory and feasible method;establishing the mathematical model of geological disaster risk assessment and risk management needs use modern information technology and numerical simulation technology so as to further expand the research systems of risk management of geological disaster.


The properties and uses of polycarbonatediol polymers are introduced.The relationship between raw materials,raw material ratio,reaction temperature,feeding modes,feeding temperature,catalysts and the relative molecular mass of polycarbonatediol polymers was investigated,and the reaction conditions were confirmed.The specifications of the obtained products reach the standards of the foreign similar products.


The paper analyzes the necessity and problems of teaching papers in vocational education and gives some suggestions,hoping to improve the teaching quality.


The International Permafrost Association (IPA) has a long history of data management. Notable achievements include the establishment of a Global Geocryological Data (GGD) system and the publication of the Circumpolar Active-layer Permafrost System (CAPS) compilations. At the same time, the IPA has struggled to maintain continual stewardship of permafrost and related data with sustained support. Activities as part of the International Polar Year will significantly increase data holdings and will required renewed emphasis on data description, preservation, and integration with other disciplines.


Grain beverages are indigenous food product in most developing countries. In Nigeria, the production method is still at the basic level of using separate equipment for each operation. The research work was conducted to develop a batched grain beverages processing machine capable of integrating blending of soaked grains, mixing the slurry and extracting the aqueous liquid together. Some physical and mechanical properties of soya beans, sorghum and maize essential to the design of the machine were determined. Fundamental design analysis and calculations were carried out in order to determine and select materials of appropriate strength and sizes for the machine component parts. The major machine parts include water tank, outer casing, connecting pipes, temporary milled starch/milk tank, machine frame, detachable cover, cover screw handle, perforated basket, blending blade, perforated drum cover, muslin cloth inner casing (blending casing), inner casing cover, detachable cover, electric motor of 7.5Hp, pulleys, central shaft, V- belt and perforated drum teeth Assembly. The results of testing of the machine using soya beans revealed that highest blending efficiency of 81.11% from combination of blade with contact area of 1.32x10-3m2, speed of blending of 1100rpm and blending time 540sec while the lower value of blending efficiency of 52.85% was obtained from combination of blade with contact area of area of contact of 6.8x10-4m2, speed of blending of 1000rpm and blending time 420sec. The results of analysis of variance ANOVA also revealed that all the experiment factors have positive significant effects (p≤0.05) on the blending efficiency. The results of optimization of the machine functional parameters; blade area of contact, blending time and speed of blending carried out with goal of maximizing the blending efficiency produced values of 1.16x10-3m2 for blade contact area, blending time of 660seconds and speed 1200rpm with corresponding blending efficiency of 80.34% and desirability of 97.30%. The machine capacity and cost of production are 150 liters per hour and $396.93 respectively.


Anterior cervical fixation is a common surgical procedure for cervical instability, and complications are very rare. However, one major complication is implant loosening, which may cause dysphagia or even esophageal perforation. We report a patient with abnormal sensation of the larynx and esophageal perforation that occurred 18 years after reconstruction of the cervical spine using paramethoxymethamphetamine. A 72-year-old male had previously undergone reconstruction of the cervical spine using paramethoxymethamphetamine in 1990. He visited a hospital complaining of abnormal sensation of the larynx 18 years after the surgery. Gastric fiberscopy revealed a foreign body in the esophagus, and he was referred to our clinic. Although the patient had no local or general symptoms, CT scan showed paramethoxymethamphetamine coming out of the lumen of the cervical esophagus from its posterior wall. Video-fluorography revealed no esophageal stenosis. Based on these findings, the patient was diagnosed with late-onset esophageal perforation after the anterior cervical operation. The need to perform emergent surgery was explained to him, but he refused to undergo the surgery. He is now under careful follow-up at the out-patient clinic. So far, he has not complained of any pharyngeal or laryngeal symptoms.


A seed in the collection of the Rijksherbarium from the Dutch coast (1971) appears to belong to Pangium edule. Although able to drift for a long time, it is improbable that this Malaysian seed reached the Dutch coast all the way by sea currents. Transport by man to NW. Europe is the most probable explanation for its occurrence on the Dutch coast. Import of tropical seeds and fruits particularly for decoration has increased. As a result it becomes more difficult to prove longdistance transport by sea for tropical drift-seeds found on the Dutch coast.


Insurance industry at a glance. IFRS 17. IFRS 17 and Solvency II. Impact analysis: the Italian case. Open points: EFRAG case study.


We propose an extension of the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test to compare two groups when the outcome variable is latent. We empirically demonstrate that the test can have superior power properties relative to tests based on Structural Equation Modeling for a variety of settings. In addition, several other advantages of the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test are retained such as robustness to outliers and good small sample performance. We demonstrate the proposed methodology on a case study.


Objective: To optimize recipes incorporating Indian black berry (Syzygium cumini) seed flour in biscuits for its organo-leptic feel and assess its impact on the anthropometric status of Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Methods: The study was designed to include 20 Type 2 and 20 normoglycaemic control. Biscuits were prepared using four blends (10 g, 15 g, 20 g and 25 g) of Syzygium cumini seed flour (SCSF) with a control. The diabetic subjects were supplemented with Indian blackberry (Syzygium cumini) seed flour (20 g) biscuits. Nutritional status were assessed like body mass index (BMI) and waist hip ratio (WHR). Results were analysed statistically by two -way anova and paired 't' test.
Results: Statistically there was significant difference (P<0.001) in flavor and taste perception between diabetics and Normoglycemic. The mean fasting and Post prandial glucose level decreased much (P<0.001). There was significant(P<0.001) decrease in the body mass index and waist hip ratio.


The article presents the creation of application programs developed at Department of Measurement and Automation, at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Žilina. Developed programs are used for support of branch subjects education for more study branches at Faculty. Support of education is direction to area of hand programming and automation programming. Exploitation of information technology is in form of programs for machining simulation and education multimedia programs. The education is running on the specialized laboratory of automation and CNC machines.


Three kinds of methods that give nonwovens flame retardant performances are introduced,all kinds of flame retardants and the principle of flame retardant finish and the present productive situation of some fire retardant fibers such as Polyester fiber,Polypropylene fiber,and polyacrylic fiber are disucssed,and some views on the development trend in fire retardant nonwovens are put forward.


Ray enlisted in the Militia in 1938 at Victoria Barracks with 1 Survey Battery RAA. In 1940 he enlisted in the 2 AIF in 2/1 Survey Regiment. He was promoted to Lieutenant in September and served in the Middle East, returning to Australia in 1942. The Regiment was disbanded and he was allotted Arty Survey Officer RAA 3 Division in Western Australia. He then moved to 8 Survey Battery RAA in Queensland prior to serving in Morotai, Borneo and Labuan. Rays worst memory was the loss of his tent mate Capt W Cridland by a Japanese sniper then being promoted in the field to take his place. Following the war he returned to the Commonwealth Bank, but continued his Army service during national service, during which time he was promoted to Major in 1947. Ray joined the RAA Association in 1948 becoming a Life Member in 1965. His other great task was initially Secretary then later President of 2/1 Survey Regiment Association. He noted that it was interesting that the Secretary of the association is now Frank Cridland, son of his old friend killed in Borneo. He retired from the bank in 1979.


In a conventional binary floating-point number arithmetic system, two's complement number representation is often used to perform addition/subtraction in a floating-point adder. Since the significand of an addition operand is usually expressed as a sign-magnitude number representation, the swapping operation of two operands and the carry propagation in the addition will limit the arithmetic speed. In this paper, we introduce a radix-two signed-digit(SD) number arithmetic to the floating-point number arithmetic. Then the swapping operation is not required and the carry propagation becomes free for the inner addition. We present an addition circuit architecture using the SD arithmetic with a normal binary floating-point number representation in both input and output. Efficient SD-binary conversion and normalization circuits are also proposed.


Recently a large number of photovoltaic (PV) generations have been installed in power systems. However, the power output from the PV is random and intermittent in nature. Therefore, the PV generation poses many challenges to power system operation. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is considered to cope with them but its high cost is preventing BESS from being installed to the system. However, the present cost argument only considers the initial cost and the economic benefit to the society of BESS installation is not considered. Therefore in this paper, the daily optimal operation of BESS is scheduled by using the Tabu search algorithm, and the reduced amount of fuel and CO2 emission by the BESS installation is considered in economical evaluation by the net present value method. As a result, the proposed method has made it possible to evaluate the optimum amount of installed BESS in the power system.


The invention discloses a distributed type array antenna system which comprises a plurality of antenna units, wherein the plurality of antenna units are used for realizing the distribution and continuing of the antenna radiation energy; the plurality of antenna units are connected through radio cables in an end-to-end mode sequentially; the first antenna unit is connected with a wireless transceiver; and the antenna units further comprise antennas and antenna controllers. In the antenna system, the antenna controller of each antenna unit can be connected with an antenna and can be used for recovering or increasing or decreasing wireless signals, thereby realizing the continuing of the wireless signal; the antenna units are connected through radio cables; the stretching and the withdrawing of the distributed type array antennas are realized; when the working environment is changed, the number, the lengths and the sizes of the antennas are changed along with the environment correspondingly; and moreover, the wireless signal can cover effectively according to the system requirements.


This paper reports an image-processing algorithm for robust inspection of LSI wafer patterns using SEM. In order to detect defects in a regular LSI pattern, a pair of long patterns is compared, blocked images are aligned, and defects are judged using the aligned images. The LSI wafer pattern is defined to consist of blank space, fine repetitive patterns, and unique patterns. Distortion of the SEM image is larger than the repetitive pattern pitch, requiring the system to keep track of the alignment in areas without pattern and to mitigate the indeterminacy of repetitive patterns. To satisfy these requirements, we suggest algorithm focused on consistency among local registration. Registration candidates in each block are calculated and a chain of the correct registration sequence, using candidate information in all the related blocks. To increase robustness, combination of two evaluation functions is proposed. Two-dimensional correlation and low pass filtered one-dimensional correlation are used. The latter is complement of the former from the perspective of finding fine repetitive pattern edge to ease finding correct route. Experimental evaluations confirm that most pattern cases can be inspected correctly using the proposed SEM inspection system.


Some companies nowadays that are not focused on informative technology (IT) development have not yet implemented a knowledge management (KM) process which can be seen from the lack of KM system from the application that they have. This will then lead to the IT division in the company having to deal with struggle in extracting, reading, as well as reviewing many kinds of documents. PT XYZ, or also known as Port Cities Indonesia, is one of the company examples which mainly focused their business on developing open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) for the other companies. It is expected that implementing one of the perfect knowledge management processes that fit with the company can support the use of maintaining their knowledge due to some integration to its data. The contingency factor theory was used in this study to obtain the KM process needs. Based on the results of interviews with employees from each division involved, this study finds that Socialization for Knowledge Sharing is the most prioritized contingency process with chatting and sharing media to manifest that process.


In this study, a new two stage Mechanical Vapor Compression (MVC) system which is used to recycle ammonium sulfate is investigated. In evaporation process, there are many efficient ways such as multiple-effect evaporation, multi-stage flash, thermal vapor compression, and mechanical vapor compression and so on. In these ways MVC is considered to be more effective. Now, almost all of the MVC systems in the literatures are about one stage structure. However, in the other process such as continuous crystallizer, if one stage MVC system is adopted, a lot of energy will be wasted. Therefore, in order to further save energy, a new system should be proposed. In this study, a new two stage MVC system is proposed and analyzed using the software of ASPEN PLUS. The first stage is a forcible recycle evaporator with MVC and the second one is a forcible recycle crystallizer with MVC. The energy consumption is discussed as a function of the middle concentration and the operating temperature. The results show that the compressor power decreases with the increase in the operating temperature and the optimal compressor power is obtained when the mass concentration is about 32%. Compared with one stage MVC system the running cost of the new system can be saved 29.2% and more than 25.8% of the energy can be saved. Additionally, it can save running cost over 42.2% and save energy more than 59.6% compared with the conventional multi-effect system.


For the needs of students' learning development and the lack of mobile learning resource platform, this paper focuses on the detailed analysis of design and implementation of mobile classroom under cloud platform from four aspects: background significance, platform design, cloud architecture and main technology applications, implementation management description. The platform takes advantage of the characteristics of Hadoop cluster distributed storage as the data storage center, and provides application support by using key technologies such as JOOQ, Mongo and Mysql. Then, according to the requirements of service object, service content and basic architecture, we plan the hardware support infrastructure, application system structure, data business logic and system deployment scheme. The actual teaching application test shows that the platform meets the students' personalized learning needs, enhances the interaction between teachers and students, and realizes the mobile, shared and fragmented management of music teaching resources.


It is possible to interpolate in two dimensions from scattered data points using a stochastic process model, giving an interpolating function which is continuous in all derivatives, passes exactly through the points given and does not generate spurious features in regions of no data. Using this interpolating method, contours are produced directly from the data without an intermediate grid. Extensions of the basic model include a two-stage model which allows for a long- range trend. Thus the values y may be calculated once for all. This step involves inverting the n x n correlation matrix for the known points, and if n is large it may be more efficient to partition the points into groups, and calculate the y- values separately for each group, taking into account neighbouring points. The values of y may be considered to be 'uncorrelated' data values, wherein the fact that the data values are spatially correlated has been removed from the data. Thus each interpolating function evaluation requires the calculation of n correlation values, and a multiplica- tion with a constant vector. With little additional work, it is possible to calculate the first and second derivatives of the interpolating function, and these are used in the contour tracing. Details of the theory of this interpolating method are to be found in the other paper. 1 The two parameters, fi and p, may be estimated from the known data points, as described in the earlier paper, or can be chosen to suit the user of the system. The 'correlation distance' p may be considered to be the distance over which spatial correlation between two points is appreciable. The 'grand mean' n is the limiting value to which the interpolating function tends far away from any known data points.


In this paper, I discuss the idea of human enhancement (HE). My goal is to refute three frustrating trends in the HE criticism, namely the ideas that: (1) human nature will become artificial, suggesting that we will be facing something new and uniquely dangerous, and that it is still possible to preserve a radical separation between nature and technique; (2) it is possible to address and criticize HE from a semantic uniqueness, which is directly related to the previous item; and (3) there is an univocity among the HE's defenders on how individuals should handle the available bio-technoscientific tools made available, namely, as a naive and uncritical obligation to become enhanced.


This study aimed at investigating Cantonese-speaking children's use of evaluative devices in telling fictional narratives and personal narratives. The evaluative devices included frames of mind, hedges, negative qualifiers, character speech and causal connectors. A total of 60 subjects (20 in each group) were recruited: 5-, 7-year-old children and adults. Fictional narratives were elicited using a wordless pictured storybook while personal narratives were elicited by using conversational prompt techniques. Results revealed that: (i) there was a significant increase in the overall use of evaluative devices in fictional narratives only, (ii) there was also significant increase in the use of frames of mind, hedges, negative qualifiers, and casual connectors, (iii) adults used significantly greater diversity of frames of mind than children. These findings are discussed with reference to children's development in language and cognition. The findings also implied the superiority of fictional narratives in revealing age changes.


Alzheimer's disease (AD) a progressive, age-related neurodegenerative disorder that affects memory, cognition, and speech, is present in more than 4 million persons. The number of cases of AD will significantly elevate, because the mean population in the United States is increasing [1]. AD is characterized pathologically by the presence of extracellular senile plaques, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, and synapse loss. Senile plaques are composed of an amyloid beta-peptide (Aβ) core surrounded by dystrophic neurites. Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a transmem-brane glycoprotein of unknown function that is present in many cells. The protease α-secretase cleaves APP between residues 16 and 17 of Aβ(1-42) to release soluble APP and form a C-terminal fragment of APP. β-secretase proteolytically cleaves APP at the N-terminal side of Aβ(1-42), while γ-secretase cleaves APP on the carboxy-terminus of this sequence. γ-Secretase cleavage takes place at different residues near the carboxy terminus of Aβ resulting principally in the 40-mer and 42-mer, Aβ(1-40) and Aβ(1-42), respectively. These two peptides comprise most of the brain-resident peptide. The more toxic of the two peptides, Aβ(1-42), aggregates more quickly than Aβ(1-40). Aβ(1-42) plays a central role in the pathogenesis of AD, mostly evi-denced by the observation of mutations in the genes for APP or presenilin-1 and presenilin-2, all of which result in familial AD and increased production of Aβ(1-42) [2]. We and others have also demonstrated that the AD brain is under extensive oxidative stress as indexed by protein oxidation and lipid peroxidation [3–7]. Moreover, Aβ(1-42) induces protein oxidation and lipid peroxidation both in vitro and in vivo [3–6, 8–11]. Thus, Aβ(1-42), central to the pathogenesis of AD, is likely also to be central to the oxidative stress under which the AD brain exists. We developed a unifying model for the pathogen-esis of AD based on the central role of Aβ(1-42) as a mediator of free radical–induced oxidative stress in AD brain [4, 12–14]. In this model, Aβ(1-42) inserts into the lipid bilayer as a small aggregate resulting in lipid peroxidation and oxidative modification of proteins [3, 15], both of which are inhibited by vitamin E [16]. In addition, the AD-related peptide Aβ(1-42) causes an influx of Ca 2+ into the neuron, resulting in loss of intracellular Ca 2+ home-ostasis, mitochondrial dysfunction, and ultimately cell death [17, 18]. In this review, the role of Aβ(1-42)-induced lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation in the patho-genesis of AD is discussed. Additionally, we point out the …


come of attempts to foam a particular plastic. This report will summarized our conclusions over the past 13 years concerning these other factors. As in the previous one, this paper will be confined to the central process in the foaming of plastics, the expansion proper. The uncontrollable aspect of the expansion makes it desirable to begin any discussion of the manufacture of foams with an examination of its rigorous requirements. The emphasis in this report is almost completely on thermoplastic foams of relatively low density, although all of the process mechanisms apply as well to the manufacture of polyurethane, phenolic, epoxy, and other thermoset foams. A number of references deal broadly with many aspects of this subject [2, 3, 4, 5].


Objective
To comprehend postoperative psychological state and influencing factors of young and middle-aged male patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), so as to provide basis for psychological intervention on patients treated by clinical interventional operations.

Methods
A total of 110 young and middle-aged male patients with CHD, who had been operated by PCI surgery from April and June 2015, were selected and surveyed by a mental status scale in non psychiatric settings (MSSNS).

Results
Scores of depression factor in the MSSNS scale of young and middle-aged male patients with CHD were (13.00±2.83) points, lower than the norm in China, while scores of anger factor were (10.38±2.73) points, higher than the norm in China (t=-2.593, 4.586; P<0.05). Psychological state of patients were relevant to age, occupation, proportion of medical costs in family income, vascular diseases, and many other factors (F=0.013, 5.491, 4.938, 4.620; P<0.05).

Conclusions
High occurrence rate of anger and anxiety on young and middle-aged male patients with CHD after PCI operation suggests nurses to attach importance to the patients′ psychological reaction and to conduct targeted and individualized psychological counseling, so as to get better treatment effect and improve patients′ quality of life.

Key words:
PCI; Psychological state; Influencing factors


I implemented the algorithm which I proposed at the beginning of the semester and got some preliminary results. But there are some issues with the model. First, the performance fall behind some other works in the Cora and Citeseer benchmark, see Table 1. Second, which seems to be more serious, the behavior of training is a bit weird, see Fig. 1 and 2. The training loss periodically edges up and goes down, but the overall loss stays at certain point with no further improvement. The training accuracy, starting from 60.5%, saturates at 100% within 20 epochs with the periodic behavior as loss. Consequently, the validation accuracy just oscillates around 80%.


Dysplasia has been the primary predictor for esophageal adenocarcinoma in patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE). Additionally, the degree of dysplasia


The C-banding pattern is described for the chromosomes of the grasshopper Dissosteira Carolina (2n♂ = 24, ♀ = 23; XX-XO). Each of the 24 acrocentric chromosomes has a prominent C-band at the centro...


This report is Part II of the Footplate Transplant experiments. It details the third year of a laboratory project on the burial of foreign objects in the middle ears of cats, including the footplate area, during which time a total of 41 cat ears were operated on. It has been shown previously 7 that skin buried in the middle ear is not well tolerated and produces cholesteatoma. Oral mucosa or conjunctival mucosa, while undergoing slight change, remains viable when buried in the middle ear. However, the oral mucosa is not suitable for oval window graft inasmuch as fibrosis and inflammatory reaction resulted in the subjacent labyrinth. 8 Absorbable gelatin sponge (Gelfoam) is completely absorbed, except at the oval window area, where, as a transplant, it leaves fibrosis without mucosal covering. Polyethylene tubing is well tolerated and becomes covered by a sheath of middle ear mucosa. This is true even if


More importance is being attached to the harm caused by electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems. Plenty of research in this field has used carbon foam materials to solve EMI, and some excellent results are obtained, whereas the mechanical properties of carbon foam are poor, which limit applications in particular fields. The physical mechanism of electromagnetic shielding is unanswered and further study is needed. Herein, a kind of carbon foam material is obtained by the templating method; the effect of foam structure on the electromagnetic shielding properties of the carbon foam material is investigated through experiment and simulation. The electromagnetic shielding performance, mechanical properties, and thermal stability of carbon foam are also studied. The electromagnetic shielding performance of carbon foam material is 20 dB in the X‐band range with the thickness and density as 2 mm and 0.121 g cm−3 , respectively. In addition, the compressive strength of the carbon foam is 0.55 MPa.


Results: Three articles with 287 patients were included. A trend towards benefit in using ACE inhibitors to prevent heart failure was demonstrated. There were fewer heart failure events in the ACE inhibitor group (n=4) than in the controls (n=20). This difference was not statistically significant with an estimated RR of 0.34, (95% CI of 0.05–2.10, p=0.24). The studies were found to have moderate heterogeneity (I2=59%). A post hoc subgroup analysis excluded the study in- volving patients with elevated troponin I ( > 0.07 ng/mL). This analysis likewise revealed no statistically significant benefit in heart failure prevention (p=0.57) with I2=0. There was higher incidence of adverse drug events (hypotension, dry cough, pulmonary edema) among those on ACE inhibitors, which was statistically significant with a RR of 6.33 (95% CI 1.13–35.45, p=0.04). Conclusion: Among patients on anthracycline-based chemotherapy, ACE in- hibitor use was not associated with a significant reduction in heart failure and had a higher incidence of adverse drug events. Its role may be limited to those who are at high risk (elevated troponin levels) for cardiomyopathy and subsequent heart failure. cm/s, p=0.008), lower e' lateral (7.45±2.29 cm/s vs. 9.11±2.92 cm/s, p=0.011) and a trend of a higher E/e' average (11.67±4.16 cm/s vs. 10.08±3.53 cm/s, p=0.069). How-ever, E/A and deceleration time were not significantly correlated to reduced GLS (p=0.605, 0.405). Conclusions: ReducedGLSisfrequentamongcancerpatientsandprecedesthe LVEF reduction. It has significant correlation with diastolic dysfunction. Currently the exact mechanism is unclear, and whether it is treatment toxicity induced only, or rather a part of the systemic disease, is unknown. Early identification of cardiac dysfunction is essential for the prevention of symptomatic heart failure and may indicate cardio-protective treatment according to GLS evaluation. Standard CHOP chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristin, pred- nisone) in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has risk of cardiotoxicity, with increased morbidity and mortality. Aim. To define new parameters of 3D LV deformation, ar- terial stiffness and biomarkers, for early detection and prediction of cardiotoxicity. Methods: 75 NHL patients (33 men, 58±15 years), with LVEF > 50%, scheduled to receive CHOP, were assessed at baseline, after 3rd cycle, and after treatment completion (doxorubicin cumulative dose of 384±66 mg). 3D echocardiography (3DE) icity, and to predict further decline of LVEF in patients with non-Hodgkin lym- phoma. Background: are deformation in and 2016 ESC We strated in a large group of normal subjects, that a transmural gradient (LV/RV), values in the subendo- cardial irrespective of age and LV dyssynchrony increases with speckle echocardiogra- phy: (n=20),and20normal,age-matched,subjects.WemeasuredLVEF,TAPSE,FAC,sPAP,andE/E'ratiosforeachventricle.Weusedanewmulti-layerapproachbyspeckletrackingtocharacterizelongitudinalandcircumferentialventricularde-formation,aswellasLVglobalsynchrony.LVandRVlongitudinaldeformationwasassessedbylongitudinalendo(LV/RVendo),mid(LV/RVmid),andepicardialstrain(LV/RVepi).LVcircumferentialdeformationwasassessedsimilarlybyendo(CSendo),mid(CSmid),andepicardialstrain(CSepi).LVdyssynchronyindexwasdefinedasstandarddeviationofallLVmyocardialtimestopeakstrainfromeachsegment(SDTTPS). Background: Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction is known to be associated with microvascular disease in diabetic patients. Coronary flow reserve (CFR) has been used as a parameter of coronary circulation reflecting the function of epi- cardial coronary arteries and microcirculation. Earlier studies have demonstrated that in diabetic patients, CFR is reduced without significant obstructive coronary artery disease. Purpose: We examined association of change in CFR, as a marker of coronary microvascular function with subsequent improvement in LV diastolic function at follow-up. Methods: We examined 22 patients without any structural heart disease and pre- served LV systolic function (EF ≥ 50%) with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). All patients were evaluated status of glucose tolerance by 75g-oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). A double Master's two-step test was performed to screen patients for significant coronary artery disease. Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography was performed for measurement of CFR of the left anterior descending artery induced by adenosine at baseline and after 6 months


External optical feedback to the laser is interest, because of the deleterious effects in many applicalions caused by reflections from various optical components into the laser cavity, e.g. from fiber ends or in a major application from the surfaces in compact discs, which can increase intensity noise and modify the coherence properties of laser diodes. A dramatic of this nature was described by Lenstra et al. Yet, that self-mixing interference technique apply to carry information form the data of external feedback measure amplitude and frequency.


Casein (CN) Micelles are nano-capsules created by nature to deliver nutrients, such as Calcium, phosphate and protein, to the neonate. Variation in pH, presence of solvents, and level of different salts affects the stability & physicochemical properties of CN micelles. CN Micelles so harvested by microfiltration (MF) are known as Micellar Casein Concentrate (MCC). The average particle size of Goat Skim Milk (200 ± 3.61 nm) and that of Goat MCC (198.2 ± 4.2 nm) which indicates that the diameter of CN micelles remains unaltered during process of MF. The magnitude of Zeta Potential decreased towards the negative side from -19.2 mV in goat skim milk to -16.6 mV in goat MCC. The magnitude of zeta potential increased towards negative side during increase of pH. Sodium Hexa Meta Phosphate, Tri sodium citrate, Di sodium Hydrogen Phosphate and Sodium Di Hydrogen Phosphate had dissociating effect on CN micelles which followed the order SHMP>TSC>Na2HPO4>NaH2PO4. The effect of Alcohol (strength varying from 10 to 80 caused disintegration as well as aggregation. These studies would be helpful in using MCC as protein source and as a functional ingredient in different food systems.


The problems involved in adding new capacity to electric utilities are discussed. How much capacity and how soon will it be needed are the questions most often raised. These questions are discussed in terms of the gross national product, the impact of conservation efforts, rising prices for electric power, loads versus resources, reserve margins, and delaying retirement of older powerplants.


The Department for Business Innovation and Skills introduced a consultation process in April 2012 on ways to facilitate private actions in competition law in the UK. This article makes a timely contribution to this debate by considering the legislative and case-law developments over the past decade in relation to private enforcement of competition law in the UK. In particular, the article focuses on the follow-on action mechanism introduced by the Enterprise Act 2002 whereby damages may be sought by injured parties, relying on prior infringement decisions by the UK competition authorities or the European Commission, before the specialist Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The article notes that there has been relatively little litigation under this mechanism and examines the rationale for continued resort to the traditional High Court litigation route. In addition, the minimal take-up of the consumer representative follow-on action before the CAT is addressed. The article then draws on research undertaken by the author in relation to competition infringement decisions by the UK Office of Fair Trading (soon to be replaced by the Competition and Markets Authority) between 2005 and 2009 and outlines the results of a questionnaire study seeking to understand why aggrieved parties did not seek redress in a follow-on action before the courts or CAT.


In this paper, a new adaptive step-size discrete power control scheme is proposed, based on the review of practical power control schemes implemented in the IS-95, CDMA2000 and WCDMA wireless systems, and the power control algorithms proposed in literature. The transmit power is controlled in discrete power domain while using the idea of the most popular power control algorithm (e.g. DCPC) in practical system. Simulation results show its effectiveness.


Schlagwörter: A BSTRACT : Types of successful migrants in vocational education This paper presents a typology of successful migrants at the end of their vocational training. The study is conducted using data from a Swiss longitudinal study that also compares immigrants with Swiss natives. A cluster analysis reveals four types of successful migrants, labeled as "Considerate Success Oriented" "Adjusted Biculturals" "Self-Con fi dent Distants" as well as "Intrinsdically Motivated Climbers". These categories refer to very different backgrounds, experiences, and attitudes that underlie educational success. Thus, this paper not only underscores the necessity of paying more attention to successful migrants, but also spotlights differences in their pro fi les. The study concludes with several conclusions for educational policy.


The paper presents the results of research into the development of a method for teaching students the processes of computer modeling of the laws of physical phenomena during laboratory work. The principles of students' actions in introducing initial data and carrying out experiments in order to observe laws of physics: solid bodies collision, absolutely elastic impact are described.


Rural industrialization and agricultural modernization,which interact with each other,are essential to rural urbanization.But the actual situations in China bring about the conflicts between them,which set back the rural urbanizaton.The paper analyses the problems and presents some measures to them.


Artificially synthesized Janus particles have tremendous prospective as in-vivo drug-delivery agents due to the possibility of self-propulsion by external stimuli. Here we report the first ever computational study of translational and rotational motion of self-propelled Janus tracers in a het- erogeneous polymeric environment. The presence of polymers makes the translational mean square displacement (MSD) of the Janus tracer to grow very slowly as compared to that of a free Janus tracer, but surprisingly the mean square angular displacement (MSAD) is significantly increased as observed in a recent experiment. Moreover, with the increasing propulsion velocity, MSAD grows even faster. However, when the repulsive polymers are replaced with polymers with sticky zones, MSD and MSAD both show sharp decline.


Despite concerted international cooperation and action, including the deployment of various national and international naval forces in the region, piracy, in particular off the coast of Somalia, continues to pose a serious threat to the peace and security of one of the most-traveled waterways in the world, the neighboring states, and to the global economy. Naval deterrence depends on effective patrolling, which again is closely tied to the concept of jurisdiction and law enforcement. As a point of departure, piracy is considered to be the original universal jurisdiction crime and, as such, states apprehending pirates would be able to base their jurisdiction on that concept. However, in practice, states patrolling the Gulf of Aden have shied away from prosecuting, sometimes even from arresting, suspected pirates due to anticipated legal difficulties of prosecution, high expenses connected with transporting suspects to the national courts of the apprehending forces, and concerns of potential asylum claims being made by pirates. Some of those claims may be rejected based on the Exclusion Clause in Article 1F of the 1951 Refugee Convention, stipulating that refugee status may be denied to persons who have committed certain serious crimes. The majority of arrests, however, by necessity pertains to unsuccessful pirates and hence involves inchoate acts on the grounds of which a potential asylum claim, nevertheless, may not as readily be denied. While failure to adequately address the problem of piracy on the high seas may reinforce the threat to security in the region and beyond, insufficiently prepared prosecutions in the various cooperating states' national courts may add to the fear of not only harboring a pirate, and lending incentives to future ones, but potentially in this fashion inviting criminal gangs, or sleeper cells, with even more serious agendas into the country. Assessing the legal basis of those fears and evaluating ways to counter the level of threat posed by piracy will be at the core of this article.


This article considers the key stages of Lithuanian energy evolution since 1990 and the factors that affected the strategy of Lithuanian energy sector development in the period of preparation and accession to the European Union. The author offers the estimations and general strategic recommendations regarding national energy policy, which were developed by the specialists of the Lithuanian Energy Institute.


The integration of technology in the learning process is needed in this era where technology as the part of media can enhance the understanding and attention of students. This study aims to develop interactive multimedia Lectora Inspire based on Problem Based Learning model in the material of optical equipment. Research and development are following a step development of Borg & Gall. Based on the results validation of the product, the feasibility of the product from the material experts is 86%, from media experts is 93%, and from teachers is 87%. The products were then tested on a small scale and attractiveness of the percentage obtained by 83%. Furthermore, in field trials, the percentage of attractiveness obtained is 80%. Based on these results, interactive multimedia Lectora Inspire based on Problem Based Learning model in the material of optical equipment for eleventh class can be used as a learning media.


Objective:To examine the effect of intranasal administration of PcDNA3.1-GBD-chitosan nanoparticles on the systemic and mucosal immune response. Method: Preparation two formulations of PcDNA3.1-GBD-chitosan nanoparticles,then administrate them to immunize mice through nasal,periodically collect serum and Salivary samples,GBD-specific IgG and IgA antibodies were measured by an adapted method enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).Result:The system and local immune response were significantly higher than that observed for the negative controls .Conclusion:The chitosan nanoparticles formulated in this study were suitable for intranasal anti-carious plasmid DNA vaccine delivery.


With the purpose of an establishment of possible mechanisms magneto-plastic effect at ageing binary cooper-beryllium alloys in a constant magnetic field the experimental research of processes of aggregation nanoscale phase precipitation in beryllium bronze BrB-2 is executed by methods of microhardness and residual magnetization. It is established, that the constant magnetic field significantly influences on kinetics phase formation in an alloy at ageing, namely, it is found out essential "negative" magneto-plastic effect. Possible qualitative mechanisms are offered.


This paper presents a number of concepts of a mapping between logical systems modelled as institutions, discusses their mutual merits and demerits, and sketches their role in the process of system speciication and development. Some simple properties of the resulting categories of institutions are given.


The present study investigated the effect of e-mail exchange on Omani grade 7 Basic Education students' English language writing skills and attitudes. It adopted a quasi-experimental 2x2 factorial design in which the factors were the treatment (authentic e-mail method/ imaginary e-mail method) and gender (male/female) supplemented with a qualitative part that dealt with the content of the participants' e-mails and the researcher's observation during the implementation period. The statistical analysis of the data indicated that high level students wrote more e-mails than low level students. It also revealed that exchanging e-mails whether to real or imaginary e-pals, improved students' writing test scores.


Functional endoscopic sinus surgery has revolutionized the treatment of sinus disorders. Orbital complications can be encountered despite the use of endoscopes, which offer brilliant illumination and precise surgery because of the close relationship of the orbit to the ethmoids. Commonly encountered orbital complications and the reasons for their development are discussed.


The work covers the topic of private equity funds performance and attempt to identify the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the entire industry. The recent central banks' actions put a question about the impact of changes in interest rates on the private equity funds performance. With the sample of 100 observations provided by Cambridge Associates, we identified the significant negative effect of prevailing low interest rates on the growth of private equity funds performance. We further attempt to answer the question, whether private equity funds operating in post-crisis years has on average higher growth rate, however, we could not provide the answer as we failed to reject the null, neutral effect hypothesis. Additionally, with a sample of 3092 observations provided by Bloomberg, we found that the effect of cheap debt has increased on average in the postcrisis period, predicting that the private equity performance can suffer once the interest rates rises enough. JEL Classification E44, E58, G21, G23, G24, G34


The invention relates to a wiper arm (10) of plastics material for a rear windscreen wiper of a motor vehicle, which is constructed from a fastening part (12) and an articulated part (14) with a wiper blade holder (16), wherein said joint part (14) via a joint ( 38, 40) is pivotally connected to the fastening part (12) and (by a tension spring 28), which is supported on the articulated part (14) having a spring end (32) on the fastening part (12) and with its other spring end (30), can be tensioned in the direction of the rear window. It is proposed that the wiper blade holder (16) is detachably connected to said joint part (14), wherein the line in the vicinity of a spring support (34) of the articulated part (14).


Although moderate in size, the Booster construction project requires a comprehensive control system. There are three operational modes: as a high intensity proton injector for the AGS, as a heavy ion accelerator and injector supporting a wide range of ions and as a polarized proton storage injector. These requirements are met using a workstation based extension of the existing AGS control system. Since the Booster is joining a complex of existing accelerators, the new system will be capable of supporting multiuser operational scenarios. A short discussion of this system is discussed in this paper.


This paper presents an E-shaped flat dipole on an U-shaped cross-sectional ground plane. Dipole contributes from copper on the surface of FR4 to form the E-shaped. It is fed by a 50 Ohms coaxial cable. The frequency ranges is 1.5 - 2.8 GHz with return loss <;-15 dB. The antenna provides an average gain of 7.0 dBi and HPBW of 96 degree in the horizon plan and 62 degree in the vertical plan. The front-to-back ratio is greater than 18 dB on the U-shaped ground plane width of 160 mm, length of 110 mm and height of 40 mm. This antenna is suitable to use as a base station antenna with a linear polarization for DCS, PCS, UMTS and ISM bands. It is also the low-cost antenna.


ABSTRACT With social survey data from a random sample of 1252 black and white adults who participated in the Nashville Stress and Health Study, we cross-classified biological markers of dysregulation with self-report health measures. Our aim was to quantify the degree of concordance between them. The study collected blood and urine samples to derive a 10 component estimate of allostatic load. In addition, the computer-assisted interview included an array of self-report measures such as self-perceived health, doctor-diagnosed diseases, bed days, and activity limitations. Allostatic load and the self-report measures were dichotomised. Modest concordance was observed between allostatic load and self-perceived health (OR = 1.742), doctor-diagnosed diseases (OR = 2.309), bed days (OR = 1.103), activity limitations (OR = 1.778), and ill on any self-report health measure (OR = 1.700). The self-report measures were significantly predictive of allostatic load, with the exception of bed days. Further, there was little evidence to suggest that race, sex, education, or past year depression moderated the level of concordance. Our findings support the hypothesis that biological markers and self-report measures could be used in tandem when specifying an individual's health status, and the distribution of population health.


We developed a laboratory method to determine the potential efficacy of baits formulated for control of the Argentine ant, Iridomyrmex humilis (Mayr). Possible effects as insect growth regulators were not examined. Of the 10 formulated baits tested, only mirex applied to granulated silkworm pupae had delayed toxicity. Hydramethylnon applied to granulated silkworm pupae also provided excellent kill of workers but did not exhibit delayed toxicity. In field tests, this bait provided faster control than did a chemical barrier of granular diazinon.


The latest development in the civil law system of the Continental law countries is the amending of the family law since the Second World War.Besides the traditional legislation idea like marriage harmony,the ideas of gender equality and transaction security has also been established.The multi-values are one of the characteristics of matrimonial regimes in the modern civil law system and the coexistence of unity and nationality is another one due to similar principles.Above all,"harmony while reserving differences" is the trend of today's matrimonial property regimes of the civil law system.


This paper presents a comparison between a LLC converter and a phase shifted converter in an electrical vehicle (EV) charger application. The aspects considered for this comparison include efficiency, size and cost. The application will target the Level 1 on-board charger class with an aimed maximum output power of 1 kW A short presentation of the EV market trends and the emerging standards in this industry will help outlining the battery charger classification and demands. A step by step design procedure is further described for the two topologies. The mathematical models used are validated by simulations (carried out in PSIM), and provide a mean of computing the power components ratings and constructing a preliminary bill of materials for each of the proposed topologies.


Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding the overall pattern of world trade, as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. While initial interest concentrated on the extensive margin of firm entry and exit, subsequent theoretical research highlights the number of goods firms export, the number of countries to which they export, and even the frequency with which transactions are scheduled. A key insight of this literature is that the extensive margins of trade can account for a large share of the variation in imports and exports


The goal for fifth generation computers is the ability to sense, reason and interact with people and the physical world. The author suggests that major step forward comes from current parallel-processing techniques which offer significantly increased performance and reduced costs


The infiltration by atomic layer deposition of three‐dimensional opal structures has been investigated as a means of fabricating photonic crystal phosphors. ZnS:Mn infiltrated and inverse opals have been demonstrated with filling fractions >95%. Characterization of these structures by scanning electron microscopy, specular reflectance, and photoluminescence is reported. Specular reflectance measurements confirm successful infiltration, and demonstrate modification of the electromagnetic density of states consistent with calculated photonic (111) pseudo band gaps. Photoluminescence measurements reveal modification of emission by the photonic crystal consistent with angular dependent specular reflectance measurements. These results reveal a flexible and convenient route for fabricating high performance photonic crystal structures and optical microcavities. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Objective: To establish a fingerprint analysis method of Radix Astragali from various habitats. Methods: The fingerp rint was performed by HPLC-ELSD. The conditions of chromatography: ZORBAX Eclipse XDB-C18( 250mm × 4. 6 mm,5 μm ) was used with a mobile phase of CH3CN-H2O,flow rate:1mL·min-1,column temperature: 35℃,neb: 66% ,tube: 55℃,air pressure: 25psi,gain:200. Results: HPLC fingerprint of Radix Astragali was obtained. The 14 samples were classified as 5 clusters by PCA and clusteranalysis. Conclusion:A reliable method was provided for controlling the quality of Radix Astragali.


Mobile and ubiquitous technologies allow new learning opportunities anytime and anywhere. In these types of learning with mobility, there are mechanisms that combine digital and real scenarios using mobile and ubiquitous technologies. However, few of them analyze the effectiveness of actual learning experiences. To address this problem, this study proposes an evaluative approach to learning in ubiquitous learning situations in an urban context. To evaluate the importance of learning, a two-month experiment was carried out in a professional course of a public school in Brazil. During this time, teachers and students participated in a ubiquitous learning situation, consisted of a platform called Youubi on their mobile devices. The results showed that the introduction of the integrated u-learning environment in everyday situations generated an involvement in the process of discoveries and associations with evidences of the real world of the apprentices, favoring the significant construction of knowledge.


This paper summarizes an ethnographic study of three kindergarten and three first grade bilingual classrooms which investigated the impact on the school community of two conditions: (1) when teachers and staff were trained in cooperative methods for teaching and learning a second language; and (2) when the school initiated and implemented a parent advisory committee for the bilingual education program. Informants were parents, students, teachers, and all staff coming into contact with the children in the six classrooms. Formal staff development and parent training sessions occurred m3nthly. The report describes the methodology and organization of the original dissertation and outlines its findings and recommendations. It is concluded that in this case and in the course of the study, the school's approach shifted from assimilation to acculturation, ethnocentrism to pluralism, bicultural ambivalence to cultuial pride, and melting pot model to cultural mosaic. However, these changes did not occur linearly but through unexpected shifts in direction due to staff/researcher interaction. Two ancillary findings were: that several monolingual staff were found to be particularly effective in the bilingual setting; and that team teaching evolved in this situation. A 28-item bibliography is included. A previously-proposed schematic framework for bilingual intervention and an adaptation suggested by this research are appended. (MSE) *********************************************************************** hepruaucLions supplied by WKS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** THE EMERGENCE OF THE FRAMEWORK FOR INTERVENTION IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION AERA American Educational Research Association San Francisco, CA April 22, 1992 -PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC).Joan Wink, Ph. D. CSU, Stanislaus Teacher Education 801 W. Monte Vista Turlock, CA 95380 209-776-3471 U.G. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) his document has been reproduced as received from the person or orgenization Originating O Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of mewor opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy Herman S. Garcia, Ph. D. NMSU College of Education Box 30001, Dept. 3CUR Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001 N 505-646-2939 ;) 4 U. BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2


Introduction: Extracellular vesicles (EV) seem to mediate the benefits of cell therapy for ischemic heart failure (IHF) but the best cellular source of EV and their mechanism of action remain unresolved. Methods: EV secreted by human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac progenitors (CPg) were isolated by ultracentrifugation. Myocardial infarction was induced in nude mice (permanent LAD occlusion). Three weeks later, mice with LVEF ≤ 45% received transcutaneous echo-guided injections in the peri-infarct myocardium of CPg (1.4x10 6 , n=17), EV secreted by CPg (same batch) over 48 hr (n=19) or PBS (control, n=17). Six weeks later, hearts were blindly evaluated by echocardiography, histology and gene expression profiling. In parallel, in vitro bio-activity assays were developed to determine if fluorescently labelled EV were internalized in cultured rat cardiomyocytes (CM) and could affect their biology following serum deprivation. CPg and EV miRNA content was also assessed by miR arrays. Results: In contrast to CPg or PBS, EV significantly improved cardiac function, as evidenced by decreased LV volumes (LVESV: -11%, p In vitro, EV were internalized by CM, induced a dose-dependent increase in CM viability and proliferation and partially restored the stress-induced impairment of CM conduction velocity in multielectrode array experiments. Among the 101 most abundant EV-miR, 12 were highly conserved across species, of which 8 targeted pathways similarly endowed with a tissue-repair potential (cell differentiation, survival, proliferation). Conclusions: hiPS-CPg-derived EV are effective in IHF treatment, possibly, in part, through EV-mediated miR transfer fostering endogenous cardiac repair. Their benefits in terms of scale-up and regulation could make them effective substitutes for cell transplantation.


The hippocampus is a key brain structure involved in learning and memory. Hippocampal acute slices are widely used in ex vivo electrophysiological experiments to study cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity. Many approaches have been used to optimize slice viability and to maintain accurate in vivo physiological conditions during experimental procedures. Several different variables such as the age of the animal, the composition of the artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF), the maintenance conditions in recording chambers, temperature and slice cutting methodology, among others, can affect hippocampal slices features. Specifically, by using electron microscopy and two‐photon microscopy it has been previously reported that dendritic spines, crucial neuronal structures that receive most of the excitatory synaptic inputs in the brain, show increased numbers in acute hippocampal slices compared to perfusion‐fixed sections. These alterations in dendritic spines could be one of the underlying mechanism explaining differences in ex vivo and in vivo electrophysiological experiments, as for instance success rates in long‐term depression (LTD) induction protocols. In our experiments, we have compared dendritic spine density in the cornu ammonis 1 (CA1) and dentate gyrus (DG) between hippocampal acute slices and aldehyde perfusion‐fixed hippocampi of Sprague‐Dawley (both males and females) using the lipophilic carbocyanine dye 1,1′‐Dioctadecyl‐3,3,3′,3′‐Tetramethylindocarbocyanine Perchlorate (DiI). We observed an increase in a range of 37–68% in dendritic spine density in the acute hippocampal slices when compared to aldehyde perfusion‐fixed sections independent of sex. These data suggest that spine plasticity in ex vivo electrophysiological experiments may not be reflective of the in vivo situation and interpretation of data should take this into account.


The digital MCA-527 [1] was developed by GBS Electronik as follower instrument of the MiniMCA-166, which cannot be produced any more due to missing electronic chips. The instrument was successfully tested for use by IAEA and EURATOM safeguards inspectors [2]. In the course of the tests it was understood that this same piece of hardware can be used for correlated and multiplicity counting as well. A dedicated firmware version and a user software, WinTimeStamps, were developed by the instrument provider. Test results for this application show that the instrument, operated in its basic mode ("EDGE" mode) fulfils the requirements for correlated neutron counting. Due to the fact that the MCA-527 is not a dedicated neutron counter but a multichannel analyzer, it is slower than established neutron counting devices; however this is of no real relevance for most of the safeguards inspection applications. Further study of the signal flow resulted in the development of a new signal evaluation method which integrates rather than counts TTL signals. The method is implemented as "Advanced High Count Rate" mode ("AHCR" mode). In this mode, the MCA-527 is faster than the other established neutron counters. The paper presents some relevant measurement results both for gamma spectrometry and neutron counting device. URI: Authors: BERNDT Reinhard BRUTSCHER Joerg MORTREAU Patricia Publication Year: 2014 Type: Contributions to Conferences Science Areas: Nuclear safety and security [1]


A group of CSU engineering professors has received a $917,000 grant to help make a product ready for market that would keep firefighters cool inside their heavy fire proof gear, an issue nationally regarded as one of the biggest concerns facing firefighters. professor leading the effort, said he and other professors and students will be using the money, which was awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to improve an air pack already developed by Longmont based Niwot Technologies. Niwot's prototype product is called the SuperCritical Air Mobility Pack, which was developed for NASA, and uses cryogenic, or extremely cold air, to provide breathing air in a thin, compact case. "The idea is that this pack that Niwot Technologies has developed can be improved to provide both breathing air and cooling from a single pack," Bradley said. "It makes sure firefighters can be fully functional the entire time they're fighting a fire or whatever it is they're doing." Bradley said the National Fire Protection Association pointed to heat stress as one of the most serious issues facing firefighters and that the group estimates about 43 percent of line of duty deaths are the result of cardiovascular failure, which can stem from repeated heat stress. Heat stress is compounded by the heavy, fire proof ensemble firefighters have to wear for protection, which can make the heat feel like having 10, 60 watt light bulbs under your coat, Bradley said. "It's tiring. It's painful. It's bad for your heart and it's bad for your health. It's stress," he said. Another problem caused by heat stress is inefficient productivity because firefighters are forced to, on average, take a half hour cool down period for ever two hours spent fighting fires. "In many parts of the country, for many parts of the year it's hot outside and these guys overheat in their coats," Bradley said. "Obviously the way to deal with that is to… try and make it so firefighters don't get heat stress in the first place." Poudre Fire Authority firefighters will help Bradley, as well as Professors Wade Troxell and John Wil liams, in the design review and field testing of the airpack. Patrick Love, spokesman for PFA, said the thin and compact design of the airpack can make a huge difference for firefighters. "In order to make a fire fighter's ensemble more user friendly, it requires less weight, less cumbersome …


Method of coating a polyolefin molded part, which method comprises coating onto the polyolefin molded part without any pretreatment or with a pretreatment by washing with an aqueous medium an undercoating containing, as a major component, a composition consisting of 100 parts by weight of (A) an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-modified chlorinated polypropylene having an acid value of 3 to 80, a degree if chlorination in the range of 18 to 28% by weight as a chlorine content and a weight-average molecular weight of 30,000 to 170,000, 1 to 50 parts by weight of (B) an epoxy resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 250 to 2,000 and an epoxy equivalent of 90 to 1,200, and preferably 2 parts by weight or less of (C) a catalyst, followed by coating a topcoating.


Using Active Server Pages(ASP) technology, a web-based integrated management system of manufacture information is developed. Based on the Browser/Server (B/S) three tiers network architecture, the system is mainly composed of seven sub-systems, which includes the management system of project, process file, process resource, document, tooling, task and man-hour. The structure, functions, characteristics and key implementing technologies of the system are introduced in detail. It proves in the practical application that manufacture information is integrated and shared between different departments in an enterprise.


We investigated the use of MRI with a gadolinium-based contrast agent (Magnevist, Schering-Plough) for the noninvasive evaluation of temporal arteritis. In contrast-enhanced MRI, arteritis is revealed by increased signal intensity of the inflamed vessel wall. Thickening of an inflamed vessel wall as well as perivascular edema also can be demonstrated and potential aneurysms of the inflamed vessel can be excluded. A dedicated 8-channel phase-array head coil was used on a 1.5-T scanner (Sonata, Siemens Medical …


This paper introduces a microproceaser - based automatic system for rinsing, cleaningand measuring the performance of a reprocessed hollow fiber dialyser. The system clean dialyser in dou-ble direction and by reverse ultrafiltration, and measures total blood volurne and pressure leak.


To predict the durability of a concrete structure under the coupling degradation consisting of the frosting and chloride attack, microstructural analysis of the concrete pore structure should be accompanied. In this study, the correlation between the pore structure and chloride migration for OPC concrete was evaluated at the different cement content in the concrete mix accounting for 300, 350, and 400 kg/m3 at 0.45 of a free water cement ratio. The influence of frosting damage on the rate of chloride transport was assessed by testing with concrete specimens subjected to a rapid freezing and thawing cyclic environment. As a result, it was found that chloride transport was accelerated by frost damage, which was more influential at the lower cement content. The microscopic examination of the pore structure showed that the freezing environment increased the volume of the large capillary pore in the concrete matrix.


Presented are the results of working out an extensive hydromonitoring system for water bodies based on the use of the optoelectronic phase level gage (as a water level meter) and cellular network (to transmit the digital data signal to the data acquisition and processing center). The "Riven' " telecommunication device converting information using the SMS-protocol is worked out for the con- nection of the phase level gage with the acquisition and processing center using the GSM system. Developed are the structure and algorithm of the hydromonitoring system. Produced is the level gage prototype for the hydrometric station. The hydromonitoring system is intended for the advanced flood warning of population and for providing environmental safety. DOI: 10.3103/S1068373914050082 The pres ent-day state of the hy dro sphere of the land sur face is char ac ter ized by the in crease in the num - ber of cat a strophic events such as floods (including seasonal ones), show ers, etc. (3, 8). The vari a tions of wa ter body re gime dur ing the event are char ac ter ized by high dynamics, and traditional hydrometric in stru - ments at the gaging sta tions of Ukraine (for ex am ple, sta tion ary de vices of GR-38 and Valdai type, semi au - to matic level me ters-re cord ers KSM-4, GR-116, USR, etc. (5, 16)) can not pro vide the op er a tional change in the mea sure ment re gime and reduce the pe riod of ac qui si tion and pro cess ing of the data on the wa ter body state un der such con di tions. To pre vent the consequences of hazardous phenomena, the per ma nent op er a tional mon i tor ing of the water level is needed which makes it pos si ble to pre dict a pos si bil ity of the flood for ma tion. Thus, the ex ist ing gen eral cli ma tic trends to wards the in crease in the num ber of ex treme con di tions of wa ter ob jects set an urgent problem of mod ern iza tion of metrological sup port of hydrometric mea sure - ments in Ukraine. This prob lem is of com plex na ture and needs a so lu tion of some in ter re lated prob lems. The range of vari a tions of hy dro log i cal char ac ter is tics and the scale of wa ter body ar eas sub jected to ex treme events de - fine a need in cre at ing a sys tem of the per ma nent mon i tor ing of the state with the large cov er age area. The sys tem of per ma nent mon i tor ing re quires us ing au to matic hydrometric sen sors be ing able to form the mea - sur ing sig nal suit able for trans mis sion to sig nif i cant dis tances and for the processing with the mod ern in for - ma tion meth ods. The or ga ni za tion is needed of the most op er a tional and re li able tele com mu ni ca tion be - tween hydrometric sta tions and the cen ter of ac qui si tion and pro cess ing of mea sure ment data as well as the work ing out of the meth ods of test ing the mon i tor ing systems in order to make it pos si ble to carry out the com par a tive anal y sis of ex ist ing and un der-development mea sur ing com plexes. The pres ent pa per de scribes the au to mated sys tem of wa ter body mon i tor ing in tended for the op er a - tional de ter mi na tion of the water level and for the ad vanced flood warn ing of pop u la tion that en ables fore - cast ing a strat egy of the pre ven tion of hazardous environmental and anthropogenic situations and pro vid ing environmental safety. The sys tem is based on hydrometric in stru ments adapted to the mea sure ments un der con di tions of high dy nam ics of the wa ter ob ject. A key el e ment of the pro posed sys tem is the wa ter level me ter de fin ing the ac cu racy and op er at ing speed of mea sure ments which de fine the cur rent as sess ment of wa ter body state, the con trol of wa ter level cor re spon dence to the stan dard, and the fore cast of po ten tial changes.


Effects of water transfer engineering on the ecology of the Tarim River were analyzed,exposing principles and characteristics of the feedback mechanism of the ecosystem,particularly negative feedback of the ecosystem,i.e.while an ecosystem is subjected to external impact or disturbance,it will initiate a series of autoregulation functions to alleviate intensity of the impact or disturbance in an attempt to restore its balance or stability.Moreover,effects and significance of the feedback mechanism of an ecosystem has been explored.


The purpose of this study was to investigate whether dimorphism of permanent mandibular and maxillary canine teeth as well as intercanine dist ance play a role in establishing sex identity. Five hundred three school students from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia comprising of 251 males and 252 females, with age ranging from 15 to 18 years were selected. The greatest mesiodistal width of the canine teeth and the distance between the tips of canines of both arches were measured using vernier caliper with 0.1mm resolution. The procedure of multivariate discriminant analysis was used for establishing the sex identity. The width of the mandibular and maxillary right and left canine teeth were almost bilaterally symmetrical in females and males. The mean values for left and right mandibular and maxillary canine widths were less for females than for males and the differences were not statistically significant. The mean value for mandibular and maxillary intercanine distances for females were less than for males and the differences were statistically significant, (P<0.05 and P<0.0001, respectively). The multivariant discriminant analysis using the canine width and intercanine distance of the mandible and maxilla showed that the rate of correct classification of sex was 55.07% and 65.48%, respectively.


Chiral selection is one of the deep mysteries of biology. Amino-acids are left-handed and DNA and RNA double strands form a right-handed screw. One can assign handedness with individual DNA nucleotides and DNA double strand. The challenge is to understand the origin of chiral selection. The recently reported replication and transcription of mirror DNA using mirro variant of DNA polymerase provides some hints in this respect. In TGD framework, chiral selection would be induced from that in dark matter sector identified in terms of phases of ordinary matter with non-standard value of Planck constant  h eff / h = n . In living systems, dark matter would reside at magnetic flux tubes and control ordinary matter. TGD predicts standard model couplings, in particular weak, parity breaking. For  h eff / h = n  the scale below which weak bosons behave as massless particles implying large parity breaking is scaled up by  n . Large parity breaking for dark matter becomes possible in even biological length scales for large enough  h eff . The crucial finding is that the states of dark proton regarded as part of dark nuclear string can be mapped naturally to DNA, RNA, tRNA, and amino-acid molecules and vertebrate genetic code can be reproduced naturally. This suggests that genetic code is realized at the level of dark nuclear physics and induces its chemical variant. More generally, biochemistry would be kind of shadow of dark matter physics. A model for dark proton sequences and their helical pairing is proposed and estimates for the parity conserving and breaking parts of Z 0  interaction potential are deduced.


Abstract: Heidrun Allert's paper is, at least for this reader, a very interesting contribution to the debate over the future of the semantic web from an educational perspective. The main contribution is a proposal for a new form of metadata relating to the notion of a
"Learning Role" which is used to provide a way of avoiding the static nature of many schemes for describing ontological structures. This is a constructive approach to a somewhat difficult situation in the world of educational metadata. At the very least, the proposal deserves to be
fleshed out into a more substantial proposal and discussed by various interested parties. Paper: Allert, H. (2004) Coherent Social Systems for Learning: An Approach for Contextualized and Community-Centred Metadata .
 Editors: Terry Anderson and Denise Whitelock.


Internet of Things (IoT) has become a promising technology for addressing societal challenges by connecting smart devices and enabling big data analytics creating smart cities worldwide. As the IoT scales up, it is important to provide interoperability of different devices. We highlight that simply standard protocols are not sufficient for openness and interoperability. IoT for smart cities needs to guarantee the accessibility of open data and cloud services to stimulate innovation and maximize the benefits of the society. The GreenIoT platform in Uppsala, Sweden, is developed according to these goals.


During the last years, much attention has been paid to the astrometric implications of the galactic aberration in proper motions (GA). This effect causes systematic errors in astrometric measurements at a microarcsecond level. Some authors consider it so serious that it requires redefinition of the celestial reference system (CRF). We argue that such attention to the GA is too much exaggerated. It is just a small astrometric correction that must be taken into account during highly accurate astrometric and geodetic data processing. The accuracy of this correction depends on accuracy of the Galactic rotation parameters and, for most application, on the accuracy of the rotation matrix between Galactic and equatorial systems. Our analysis has shown that our today knowledge of these two factors is sufficient to compute the GA correction with accuracy of better than 10%. The remaining effect at a level of few tenths microarcsecond/yr is negligible nowadays. Another consequence of introducing the GA correction is necessity to return to classical astrometric modeling of the VLBI-derived extragalactic radio source position by the linear trend model. Changing the current paradigm of VLBI-derived CRF based on assumption of zero motion of radio sources to classical one leads to bias in the radio source positions up to several tens microarcseconds for catalog at epoch J2000.0.


The thickness of the Moho transition zone (MTZ) at the boundary between the Earth's crust and the subjacent mantle has a significant effect on seismic responses from the Moho. We examined the seismic characteristics of Moho reflections (hereafter PmP) using Multi-Channel Seismic (MCS) records obtained from high-quality seismic experiments in the western Pacific by Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC). The MCS records show clear reflections at ~6⊖10 km in depth from the ocean bottom in the north and south of Ogasawara Plateau; however, considering horizontal variations in PmP intensity, the nature of the MTZ varies by location. In seismic profile D00-D, across Ogasawara Plateau in the N-S direction, the PmP abruptly disappears far from the nearby seamount where the overlain sedimentary section shows less change. In another case, shown in D00-C located 130 km west of D00-D, the PmP clearly shows a high-amplitude continuous reflection near the seamount's flank. Data acquisition is relatively constant for the Ogasawara MCS reflection lines ; therefore, the difference in PmP intensity between D00-D and D00-C might relate to the nature of the Moho. We calculated synthetic seismograms to evaluate the effects of MTZ thickness on seismic reflection records. The results suggest that if the thickness of the Moho transition zone is less than 1 km for the dominant frequency of 4 Hz, then PmP can be observed with the current MCS survey equipment. If the dominant frequency of the MCS reflection survey is~15 Hz, penetrating down to the Moho depth, then the thickness of the Moho required to identify the PmP should be less than a few hundred meters. Moreover, anisotropy assuming a strong olivine preferred orientation in peridotite might affect the change of PmP intensity. The MCS reflection records in the western Pacific and the western Philippine Sea Basin suggest that the thickness of MTZ varies from ~ 100 m to more than a few kilometers. This is consistent with petrological observations in * 日本大陸棚調査(株) ** 地球科学総合研究所 *** 独立行政法人 石油天然ガス・金属鉱物資源機構 **** 静岡大学理学部地球科学教室 * Japan Continental Shelf Survey Co. Ltd. ** JGI, Inc. *** Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) **** Institute of Geosciences, Shizuoka University


A method executed by a computer system as part of a program implemented by computer to optimize the history of pressure-time to a process for forming a part (38a) from a preform initial hollow metal (18, 38) to an article hollow metal into a die (10, 40, 210, 419) subjecting the workpiece to pressure net internal fluid such that the part expands to contact a wall shape defining article die (10, 40 , 210, 419), while avoiding the failure of the part, including the steps of (a) selecting a set of process parameters including temperature and the material properties of the preform and dimensions; (B) determining from said set of parameters, at least one failure criterion that limits the pressure-time conditions to which the piece can be submitted without failure; and (c) perform iteratively finite element analysis in the piece, based on the set of selected parameters and criteria given fault in each of a plurality of different values of conditions presiontiempo (P, t), to determine conditions pressure limit-time (Pb, tb) for the process, where each value of the pressure conditions-time includes a pressure value net internal fluid (P) and a time interval (t) during which the value of net internal fluid pressure last-mentioned is applied to the workpiece.


Objective this study aims at relating uric acid(UA),triglyceride(TG)and total cholesterol(TC)of healthy people who take their physical examinations in the fifth affiliated hospital,Sun Yat-sen University to gender and age.Methods First,collect 2000 cases of physical examinations.Then the people who took physical examinations are grouped by gender and age.Their UA,TG and TC are tested by enzymolysis and analyzed.Results The levels of UA,TG and TC gradually increase with age(P0.05)while all these indexes of the 50-age group are significantly higher than other age groups(P0.01).The average values of male's and female's UA are 381.5±86.3μmol/L and 308.3±67.5μmol/L respectively.These indexes of the male in all age groups are apparently higher than those of the female with significant difference(P0.01).It is the same with TG and TC(P0.01).Conclusion The blood lipid level of UA is associated with age factor and increases with age.All these indexes of the people aged over 30 are significantly higher than those less than 30.Therefore,it is important to prevent gout and arteriosclerosis since 30 years old.


Ethyl cellulose (EC) and deproteinized natural rubber latex (DNRL) were used to prepare a pseudolatex-base as a matrix membrane for ketoprofen patches. The pseudolatex-base was prepared using a homogenization and solvent removal method. Either polyvinyl alcohol or polysorbate 80 was used as surfactant and emulsifier. Polyvinyl pyrrolidone, glycerine, isopropyl palmitate, and dibutyl phthalate were used as a channeling agent, skin humectant, enhancer, and plasticizer, respectively. Ketoprofen was incorporated into the pseudolatex-base. All pseudolatex formulations were homogeneous and smooth in texture and elegant in appearance. The pH of pseudolatex formulations was 5–7, and the particle size was 487–787 nm. The viscosity and spreadability test showed the good characteristics of membrane. Stable colloidal dispersion was formed with a zeta potential of −35.18 to −51.55 mV. All pseudolatex formulations were formed into in situ membranes by solvent evaporation in a hot air oven at 70 ± 2 °C. The mechanical t...


The purpose of this article is to show how the pressure load profile along a penstock of an hydroplant and the corresponding flow rate is obtained from the pressure signal using a code called ACHYL CF. In particular the paper will present how it is possible to reconstruct the history of the incident after a strong transient state, in the case of two plants with Pelton turbines and one DSPCF device on a branch of the circuit. For plant_1 the DSPCF device observes an overrun of the maximal allowed pressure after the filling of the injector branch and for plant_2, a strong transient leads to the rupture of the penstock.


MicroRNAs (miRNA), small sequences of non-coding RNA which interact with complementary sequences on the 3'untranslated region of target messenger RNAs to modulate translation, have a pivotal role in the development of the heart and its response to injury. Myocardial infarction (MI) triggers a dynamic miRNA response with the potential of yielding therapeutic targets. Following miRNA array profiling in rat hearts 2, 7 and 14 days after MI induced by coronary ligation, we identified a progressive time-dependent up-regulation of miR-31 compared to sham rats. Increase of miR-31 in heart tissue in the acute and subacute phases after MI (up to 90-fold) was also detected by Real-Time PCR (P=0.02 at day 2; P<0.0001 at days 7 and 14, vs. sham). We found that miR-31 has a repressive effect on tissue mRNA expression of cardiac troponin-T (TNNT2), E2F transcription factor 6 (E2F6) and mineralocorticoid receptor (NR3C2). Reporter gene assays showed that miR-31 targets the 3′UTR of these genes, with a marked repressive ...


Summarizes previous logistics research into the benefits of, and barriers to, electronic data interchange (EDI). Argues that information management in general, and EDI in particular, is vitally important for today's international freight forwarder. Presents the findings from empirical studies of international freight forwarders and customers of international freight forwarders with respect to EDI benefits and barriers. Suggests that numerous opportunities exist for further research into EDI benefits and barriers across various logistics constituencies.


While there is ample research on the barriers and enablers for implementing circular economy (CE) in large companies and developed economies, scant research exists concerning the factors impacting CE implementation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies. To address this gap, our research seeks to determine the internal and external barriers SMEs face when implementing CE initiatives in emerging economies and identify how they can leverage CE implementation through bottom-up approaches. We present a multiple-case study of five SMEs in Mexico. Our findings suggest that the lack of regional enabling conditions and unsuitability between the CE business strategy and the context can further exacerbate implementation barriers. In this sense, we found that in our study's unsuccessful case, the company failed to align its business to the particularities of the markets where it operated. Contrary, successful initiatives adopted strategies that incorporated contextual attributes in their business models, such as available infrastructure, current regulations, or consumer characteristics. Our results provide lessons from both failing and successful CE initiatives implemented by SMEs in an emerging economy. This work intends to help practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to create the required enabling conditions to accelerate the transition toward a CE in these regions.


We consider a nonlinear profit maximization problem in the Lotka–McKendrick model of age-structured harvested population describing farmed populations in agriculture and aquaculture. The control functions are time- and age-dependent harvesting rate and time dependent supply of newborns. We establish the existence of optimal controls with measure-valued harvesting rate by using distributional partial derivatives of functions of bounded variation through the equivalent integrated form to the original problem.


This study examined the effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction on Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) and Learning Together Model (LTM) cooperative learning strategies on Nigerian secondary students' achievement and motivation in physics. The efficacy of Authors developed computer assisted instructional package (CAI) for teaching physics concepts in cooperative settings was determined using Pretest-Posttest Experimental group design. The reliability coefficient of the research instruments were 0.71 and 0.82 using Kuder-Richardson KR-20 and KR-21 respectively. 90 (45 male and 45 female) students from three secondary schools in Minna, Nigeria made-up the sample. The schools were randomly assigned to experimental group I (STAD), experimental group II (LTM) and control group (Individualized Computer Instruction, ICI). Results revealed that the students taught with STAD and LTM performed significantly better than their counterparts taught using individualized computer instruction (ICI). The cooperative learning strategies were found also to be gender friendly. Based on the findings, recommendations were made.


This study is for the Kyungduk-Dan(as a altar of Milsung-Daegun) and The Manun-Jae the characteristics(lay out and planning, window patterns, structure, materials) of the the Korean traditional house during the modern era. Before Manun-Jae was used for the house. The Kyungduck-Dan was constructed in August according to the Lunar Calender in 1927. The Manun-Jae(house for Ki-hun Kang, millionaire ) was completed in 1924. Modern Architectures brought to Korea with the bricks, the tiles, the flash doors, the plate grasses, the brass hardwares. These architectural material was used in positive. During the construction of Manun-Jae in 1924, it happened the architectural exchage among a korean, a chinese and a japanese constructor. Though using the air exhaust valve at the kitchen of Ukyung-Kak( old Anchae), it could be assume that the modern convenience and the improvement of residential environments was considered at that period during the construction of Manun-Jae. That construction was elected with the brick(), the chinese colored tile and plate glass such a modem materials. The new shape of the korean lattice window and the wooden flash-door with glass was used. In Ukyung-Kak, the Chan-Maru(service space) and the kitchen such as a service space or concise utility zone was organically connected. Especially, considered the domesitic activity and circulation, the western kitchen sink and the Chan-Maru(service space) was rationally placed. At the Manun-Jae and the Kyungduck-Dan, the architectural characteristic is that the new shape of windows was used. The lattice window at the Ondol room of Ukyung-Kak, was rgadually added the plate glass and the wood plate. The lattice window with the grid shape at kitchen of that building was adapted japanese grid lattice window in korea at that period. It is the sample that korean traditional house was typically influenced from the japanese resident culture. The Manun-Jae and the Kyungduck-Dan as the modern house kept the form of korean traditional architecture, and was partially adapted a modern characteristic space and modern architectural materials. During the japanese occupancy, these residence can be showed the transition in formally.


This is the 1.4 version and ready. Do not panic at the length of this Exercise Sheet, it is so partly because it contains some lecture notes for people not present in some of the recent lectures and it also contains a fairly long optional Exercise. Hopefully it takes less time to read/work through them than I typed them up. The lecture this Friday will cover the Weinstein neighborhood theorem for Lagrangians and the index theorem for the virtual dimension of the moduli space Mk+1(β), so that a large subgroup of the audience who are going to the Aachen for a 2-day conference can safely miss it. The exercise session this Friday will cover (some of) the following:


Three experiments were conducted to investigate: 1) the relationship between visual duration threshold (VDT) and the size and brightness of stimulus; 2) VDT of words, phrases and disconnected word-groups; 3) VDT of familiar and unfamiliar words under different procedures.The results indicated: 1) under brief exposures (below 20 ms.), size×brightness×VDTk; 2) the VDT difference is significant between single word and disconnected word group (2—4 words) but not significant between single word and phrase (2—4 words); 3) VDT for familiar words are all about 10 ms. under different procedures (recognition or reproduction); 4) VDT difference between familiar and unfamiliar words is highly significant.


We prove a support theorem for the Dunkl spherical mean operator. The proof relies on the decay of the total energy of the solutions to Euler-Poisson-Darboux type equations.


This paper proposes a novel directional asymmetric sampling search (DASS) algorithm for video compression. Making full use of the error information (block distortions) of the search patterns, eight different direction search patterns are designed for various situations. The strategy of local sampling search is employed for the search of big-motion vector. In order to further speed up the search, early termination strategy is adopted in procedure of DASS. Compared to conventional fast algorithms, the proposed method has the most satisfactory PSNR values for all test sequences.


Nowadays, cluster computing has become a cost-effective and powerful solution for enterprise-level applications. Nevertheless, the usage of this architecture model also increases the complexity of the applications, complicating all activities related to performance optimisation. Thus, many research works have pursued to develop advancements for improving the performance of clusters. Comprehensively evaluating such advancements is key to understand the conditions under which they can be more useful. However, the creation of an appropriate test environment, that is, one which offers different application behaviours (so that the obtained conclusions can be better generalised) is typically an effort-intensive task. To help tackle this problem, this paper presents a tool that helps to decrease the effort and expertise needed to build useful test environments to perform more robust cluster testing. This is achieved by enabling the effective usage of Java Benchmarks to easily create clustered test environments; hence, diversifying the application behaviours that can be evaluated. We also present the results of a practical validation of the proposed tool, where it has been successfully applied to the evaluation of two cluster-related advancements. Such results demonstrate the benefits that our tool can bring to the evaluation of cluster-related advancements.


Quality of Service (QoS) is an important factor during service composition and replacement. Since static QoS data cannot reflect the real-time performance of Web Service (WS), a mechanism is needed to collect the dynamic QoS data. Also, QoS query result is determined by the QoS data stored by service registry. Consequently, it is also necessary to enable a mechanism to feedback those dynamic QoS data to the service registry from both consumer-side and provider-side.In this paper, we propose three methods to collect the real-time QoS data, namely AOP-based, Proxy-based, and Port-based. The application of the three methods will be discussed by comparing their advantages and disadvantages. Since the feedback conforms to the OWL-Q language, which is a rich and extensible modular ontology language, programs can understand the semantic feedback automatically by parsing the feedback messages.


A novel type of water-resisting photopolymer holographic recording material sensitive to green light is presented.The photopolymer material consists of compound monomers,compound initiators,chain transfer agents, and sensitizers,etc o The material has properties of simple later-development,high sensitivity and have good physical and chemical stability.Especially,it is really waterproof.Hologram is stored in the medium and the reconstruction image is no crosstalk,so it proves that the photopolymer is suitable for high density data storage.It can be used to produce wavelength division multiplexer and other optic elements.