The mental health care user (MHCU) with psychosis has restrictions in occupational performance components and occupational performance areas, causing impaired activity participation, compromising the achievement of Occupational Therapy (OT) goals with this population. The effect of slow versus fast tempo music during OT treatment of the MHCU with psychosis was investigated by means of a quantitative, experimental study. One hundred and sixty MHCUs with either inhibited or agitated symptoms of psychosis were included. The activity participation of the MHCUs, in terms of attention, following of instructions, directedness towards activity and willingness to participate were evaluated by three assessors through a pre- and post-test. The study indicated that music tempo, together with activity, has the ability to improve attention, following of instructions and directedness towards activity in the inhibited MHCU and attention and following of instructions in the agitated MHCU. Occupational therapy with music elements might be useful when working with the MHCU with psychosis.


The Shipboard Power System (SPS) supplies power to navigation, communication, operation and critical systems. The capability of facing single or multiple faults is a mandatory issue for any vessel. This paper reports a systematic comparison on SPS reconfiguration methods, where most recent contributions to the field have been classified according to taxonomy of criteria, such as: reconfiguration techniques, reconfiguration sub-problems, and characteristics of the electrical layer. The reconfiguration procedure should be timely in restoring power in faulted areas of the ship, also to avoid subsequent cascade failures; the reconfiguration sub-problems involve priority definition among loads and operations, strongly depending from the electrical layers and the fault diagnosis methodology; moreover, reconfiguration techniques include several different control architectures and load priority schemas. Literature results encompass several case studies, and employed methods have been deeply analysed. Finally, some limits of the current state of the art have been identified.


The defects and the adopting measures were introduced in tube bending. Using clamp block to add the rigid confines could eliminate the wrinkling defects,and using the fixed numerical method could solve elastic spring defects of tube bending. How to select parameters of front-rear guide wheel was introduced. The curve of tube could be defined according to bending radius and tube diameter. Based on above-mentioned methods, some theories could be provide for the tube bending and mould design.


Summary form only given. The advent of Er/sup 3+/-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and subsequent improvement in their characteristics have made them key contributors to the growth of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems in the 1.5-/spl mu/m band. Some Terabit/s WDM transmission experiments have been reported, which used the full bandwidth of conventional EDFAs.


The aim was to analyse how the relations between commodities, within the society where the capitalist mode of production prevails, manifest the social wealth and constitute themselves as parameters for the determination of value. In this sense, taking as reference the four forms of value presented by Karl Marx in Capital (elementary or accidental form of value; total or expanded form of value; the general form of value; and the money form), was examined the transition from the relative quality of value to its position of economic sovereignty. It was also intended to distinguish historical and logical peculiarities from this dynamic, as well to indicate impacts that metamorphose labour, and to raise its abstract quality to social validity.


The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted UK-based Oxitec an experimental use permit to test whether releasing genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can reduce the population...


Background Iron deficiency in the etiology of hair loss has been studied for more than 45 years. However, contradictory reports have been published and almost all the studies conducted so far are based on observational methodology. Objective To find out if any real association exists between the iron deficiency and alopecia. Patients and methods One hundred consecutive, clinically typical female patients (14-54 years) with nonscarring alopecia i.e. alopecia areata, androgenetic alopecia and telogen effluvium and an equal number of age- and sex-matched controls were included in the study. Both groups were evaluated for serum ferritin and other important parameters of iron status. Results Mean serum ferritin value of cases was significantly lower than that of the controls ( p = 0.005). Patients with alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia had significantly lower values of serum ferritin ( p =0.011 and 0.015, respectively), but there was no significant difference in telogen effluvium cases and controls ( p =0.348). The values of hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV, MCH and transferring-saturation were significantly lower in cases but had significantly higher TIBC values than controls. Conclusion There is a definite association of decreased serum ferritin levels and nonscarring alopecia in women. The iron stores of female patients with nonscarring alopecias should be built for the optimum response to treatment as the proposed triggering factor can be abolished.


Integrated in recent years on medical treatment of herpes zoster in the literature and found that the use of Chinese medicine orally,topical,intravenous,and Chinese acupuncture,cupping,and other external treatment Pricking of herpes zoster have better efficacy,can effectively prevent the occurrence of postherpetic neuralgia,affirmed medical treatment of herpes zoster in the exact efficacy and safety.


The present invention provides a gumming unit includes a glue tank (2), the spine of the book block (P) (r) of the coating agent to the glue application roller (3), so that rotation of the glue application roller the motor (4), the amount of adhering glue to the glue application roller is adjusted wiper (6), with respect to the wiper close to the glue application roller and the separation of the wiper drive mechanism, and a control wipers the control unit (10) of the drive mechanism. A second distance at a second predetermined timing of the wiper sequentially acquires the glue application roller outer peripheral surface a first distance separating the first open position, separated from the outer peripheral surface of the glue application roller is shorter than the first distance open position, and the outer peripheral surface of the glue application roller abuts the closed position of the three positions, so that by the time the glue application roller, the front end portion of the book block spine with a first thickness of the book block adhered the top surface is engaged with the top face of the glue of the glue application roller, the book block spine and a rear end portion of the intermediate portion and a second thickness less than the first thickness of the sizing agent attached glue application roller regional engagement.


SECURITY SYSTEM MICROPROCESSOR, particularly applicable to the field of rail transport, control and operate actuators (ACT) Based on data provided by DETECTORS (P), wherein comprising at least two microprocessors (P1, P2) PARALLEL TREATING THE MIMA APPLICATION, whose inputs receive the data (DE) DETECTORS (CP) precoded AND WHOSE DATA CONSULTANTS ARE reread FOR SAFETY TO BE COMPARED TO DATA ENTRY AND A THIRD MICROPROCESSOR COMPARISON (P3) CALLING VOTADOR, COMPARISON FOR PROGRAM AND SAFETY RESULTS CHARACTERISTIC CODED (R1, R2) of the two CHIPS application (P1, P2) and press ACCORDINGLY CONTROLLER DYNAMIC (CD) ALLOWING THE ISSUANCE OF OUTPUT DATA (DS ) TOWARDS actuators (ACT).


As the title suggests, the book examines the intersection of modern Japanese architecture movement, Metabolism and science fiction in the post-war. For Gardner, both architecture and science fiction are 'forms of artistic simulation.' He explains that the architectural design is planned to propose a change in existing natural/constructed environment for the future. Science fictions are also seen as imaginative speculations which often illustrates shifts, changes and transformations of future society and consider its consequences for human lives. Gardner examines the series of mutual interchanges between avant-garde architectural concepts and science fictions narratives. so, he to consider the relationship between advanced science and technology, the evolving physical and social and 'the very capacity of the human species to survive our own


A keyboard operated electronic musical instrument is disclosed which has a number of tone generators each of which is assigned to an actuated keyswitch. Musical waveshapes are generated by a computation using a set of harmonic coefficients. Apparatus is described for generating the set of harmonic coefficients in response to a preselected set of increment number values wherein this set is less in number than the number of harmonic coefficients in a set. The generation of harmonic coefficients is accomplished by computing linear slope variations of groups of coefficients.


The development of photo‐stimuli‐responsive luminescent materials is essential to address emerging demands in encryption security. Here, a novel photo‐stimuli‐responsive dual‐emitting luminescent material ZJU‐128⊃SP (SP = spiropyran) is reported, which is obtained by encapsulating spiropyran molecules into a cadmium‐based metal–organic framework (MOF), [Cd3(TCPP)2]·4DMF·4H2O (ZJU‐128, H4TCPP = 2,3,5,6‐tetrakis (4‐carboxyphenyl)pyrazine). This MOF/dye composite ZJU‐128⊃SP exhibits a blue emission from the ligand of ZJU‐128 at 447 nm and a red emission around 650 nm from spiropyran. Utilizing the photoisomerization of spiropyran from ring‐closed to ring‐open form under UV‐light irradiation, significant fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) process between ZJU‐128 and spiropyran is achieved. As a result, the blue emission of ZJU‐128 is gradually decreased while the red emission of spiropyran increases. This dynamic fluorescent behavior can fully recover to the original state following exposure to visible light (>405 nm). By taking advantage of the time‐dependent fluorescence, dynamical anti‐counterfeiting patterns and multiplexed coding are successfully developed based on ZJU‐128⊃SP film. This work provides an inspiring point for the design of information encryption materials with higher security requirements.


At present, considerable attention is paid to the problems of understanding the most important trends in the formation and development of a digital economy, as well as the development of adaptive models of the modern education system, which reflects the relevance of the subject matter under study. The purpose of the article is to investigate the features of the transformation of economic science and education in the conditions of digitalization of the economy, to identify the main problems of the modern scientific and educational system and to identify the main ways to solve them. The research is based on an interdisciplinary approach using methods of logical-structural, situational and comparative analysis. Prospective directions of development of an economic science in conditions of digitalization are considered in the article, the problems which face the system of economic education at a stage of formation of a digital society are revealed. The significant influence on the transformation in the sphere of employment of the speed of the formation of educational networks for the training of personnel possessing the skills of teamwork for the effective resolution of technological, demographic and socio-economic problems is proved.


Contrast enhancement is considered as one of the interesting as well as the visually appealing technique used for enhancement of contrast of an image. It is involved in the area of image processing where several operations such as enhancing contrast, reduction of noise for improved quality of the images are measured. There is a number of contrast enhancement techniques are available and proposed by several researchers. Considering, this paper provided a survey of different contrast enhancement such as HE, BBHE, DSIHE, MMBEBHE, RMSHE, MHE, BPDHE and LCS and Low pass and High pass filtering techniques.


Gerald of Wales is primarily responsible for the generally accepted view of Henry II as a founder of monasteries. In his De Principis Instructione Liber he gives an account of the penance imposed on the king at Avranches in 1172 for his part in Becket's murder, and its commutation. Gerald reveals that instead of leading a Crusade to the Holy Land in person, and, we learn from other sources, maintaining two hundred knights there for a year at his own expense, Henry delayed for three years. He thus eventually gained from the pope a commutation to encompass the founding of three monasteries. These were, says Gerald, Waltham, where a group of holy secular canons were replaced with canons regular, Amesbury, where he violenter intrusit nuns from Fontevrault, and the third was probably Witham where a group of patient and holy men humbly bore hardship and the lack of a roof over their heads. 'Sed quid attinet humana versutia contra divina consilia?' asks Gerald. In a long passage he elaborates his theme that the Almighty will not be deceived by such a shamming, paltry, effort.


Myanmar is currently facing the burden of non-communicable diseases due to changes in lifestyle and dietary patterns linked to socio-economic development. However, evidence is scarce about changes in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) over time. We aimed to investigate changes in the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of DM from 2004 to 2014, among adults aged 25–74 years, in the Yangon region. Two cross-sectional household-based studies, according to World Health Organization STEPwise approach to surveillance (WHO STEPS) methodology, were conducted in 2004 (n = 4448) and 2014 (n = 1372). The overall age-standardized prevalence of DM was 8.3% (95% CI 6.5–10.6) in 2004 and 10.2% (7.6–13.6) in 2014 (p = 0.296). The DM prevalence increased between the study years among elderly participants only, from 14.6% (11.7–18.1) to 31.9% (21.1–45.0) (p = 0.009). Awareness of having DM increased from 44.3% (39.2, 49.6) to 69.4% (62.9–75.2) (p < 0.001). Among participants who were aware of having DM, the proportion under treatment increased from 55.1% (46.8–63.1) to 68.6% (61.5–74.8) (p = 0.015). There was no change in proportion with controlled DM. Adjusted for age, sex and education, mean fasting plasma glucose levels in 2014 were 0.56 mmol/L (0.26–0.84) higher than in 2004. Preventive measures to halt future increases in DM prevalence and to increase the detection of undiagnosed DM cases are needed.


Some thi rty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexand ria , Vi rginia in January 1 864, one of her fi rst students was her fifty-th ree year-old uncle, Fred . The seventeen -year-old Harriet appreciated her uncle 's "most earnest desi re to learn to read " and promised to teach h im . 1 As slaves , both teacher and student risked the punishment of "thi rty n ine lashes on [the] bare back" as wel l as imprisonment for violating North Carolina 's anti literacy laws targeting African Americans . 2 Nevertheless they agreed to meet three times a week in a "quiet nook" where she instructed h im in secret . 3 Whi le the primary goa l for h im was to read the Bible, this moment in Jacobs ' slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl revealed her early commitment to African American literacy and education as wel l as her rejection of the laws of American slavery. I n that moment, the vocations of education and abolition took root for Harriet Jacobs .


A number of industrial zones in South Korea were reported contaminated by heavy metals. Such contamination could cause severe damage to the subsurface environment including soil and groundwater. The treatment of zeolite mixing with soil at the bottom of such industrial zones might prevent, or at least reduce the damage of contamination by adsorption of the heavy metals from the leakage. However, such mixtures should maintain the proper bearing capacity as a foundation fill material from the geotechnical point of view at the same time. To investigate the effect of mixtures of zeolite with local soils for the adsorption of heavy metals (Zn, Pb) and sustainability of bearing capacity, adsorption isotherm tests and direct shear test with compaction tests were performed. Results showed that the mixing zeolite with local soils effectively reduces the spreading of the heavy metal contamination when maintaining its proper geotechnical properties as a fill material of industrial zones.


A globally convergent and efficient algorithm for min–max dynamic response optimization using the ALM method is presented. This algorithm employs an approximate augmented Lagrangian for line searches, and an exact augmented Lagrangian for finding search directions. This approximate augmented Lagrangian is composed of the linearized cost and constraint functions projected on the search direction. It is noted that an approximate penalty term has the same approximate Hessian as that of the Gauss–Newton method. This makes the approximate augmented Lagrangian to have almost second-order accuracy near the optimum. In the unconstrained optimization process of the proposed method, some modifications are also suggested to remove the possible distortion of optimization trajectory when the side constraints on design variables are separately handled. Also, the efficiencies of two treatments for handling a max-value cost function are discussed in the context of the proposed method. The numerical performance of the proposed method is investigated by solving three min–max dynamic response optimization problems and comparing the results with those in the literature. This comparison shows that the suggested algorithm is more efficient than those in the literature. Especially, it is found that the direct treatment for a max-value cost function is more efficient than the transformation treatment for all the design cases. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The research is reported in this paper about its evaluation of raw drug, chemical composition, pharmacological study and tissue culture.


Objectives
To detect the level of soluble programmed death 1 (sPD-1) and soluble programmed death ligand 1 (sPD-L1) in serum and urine of children with primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS), and explore its clinical significance.

Methods
From July 2017 to November 2017, children with PNS admitted to the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University were divided into onset group (36 cases) and remission group (33 cases). Thirty healthy children who underwent medical examination for enrollment, undersize or overweight in the outpatient department of pediatric health care and inpatient department of Endocrinology were selected as healthy control group. Serum and urine samples were collected, in which the levels of sPD-1 and sPD-L1 were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The correlation between serum and urine sPD-1, sPD-L1 levels and lymphocyte subsets, urinary protein were analyzed by Pearson and Spearman correlation analysis.

Results
The level of sPD-1 in serum was lower in remission group than those in healthy control group [1.60(0.48, 8.15) ng/ml vs 7.38(2.15, 19.02) ng/ml, P<0.01]. The level of urinary sPD-1 in onset group was higher than that in remission group [1.21(0.61, 2.56) pg/μg vs 0.51(0.31, 0.97) pg/μg, P<0.001] and healthy control group [1.21(0.61, 2.56) pg/μg vs 0.82(0.34, 1.15) pg/μg, P<0.01]. The levels of sPD-L1 in serum and urine were higher in onset and remission group than those in healthy control group (P<0.001). The level of sPD-1 in the serum was positive correlated with the numbers of CD3+, CD3+CD4+, CD3+ CD8+ T lymphocytes and CD3-CD19+, CD19+CD23+ B lymphocytes (r=0.537, 0.478, 0.454, 0.429 and 0.374; P=0.002, 0.008, 0.012, 0.018 and 0.042). The level of sPD-1 in the urine had positive relation with the ratio of 24 hours urinary albumin and weight (24 h UmAlb/Wt), N-acetylglucosaminidase and urinary creatinine (UNAG/Cr) and β2 microglobulin and urinary creatinine (Uβ2MG/Cr) (r=0.409, 0.588 and 0.276; P=0.016, 0.000 and 0.032).

Conclusions
The dynamic changes of sPD-1 and sPD-L1 in serum and urine suggested that PD-1/PD-L1 signaling pathway is involved in the development process of childhood primary nephrotic syndrome.

Key words:
Nephrotic syndrome, Primary; Children; Lymphocyte subsets; Soluble programmed death 1; Soluble programmed death ligand 1


The thesis holds that C.P.C secretary general Hu Jingtao advocates promoting exchange,communication and fusion,indicating a correct path for progress in socialist policy on nationalities.National exchange embodies national relation;national communication concretizes national relation and national fusion is an essential demand on national exchange at socialist initial stage.


This paper presents the verification of the mathematical model utilized to calculate the damping capacity of a dry friction damper. The mathematical model is based on determining natural frequencies and mode shapes, as well as relative characteristics of the friction energy losses. To estimate the applicability of the mathematical model to full-scale assemblies of a gas-turbine engine, the model was verified by the results of the experiment. The experiment was carried out in a laboratory where the damping capacity of the gas-turbine engine blade with a model under-platform damper was examined at constrained and damped oscillations. During the experiment multiple materials of contact pair were examined to determine how microslip affects the damping capacity. Based on the results of comparing calculations with the experiment, by selecting the dry friction coefficient, a good convergence on the oscillation decrement and natural frequency was achieved. The conducted research has shown that the mathematical model provides reliable results with Coulomb friction and can consider microslip effects on the damper capacity.


Groups of individuals, 'Abrahamic minorities', wedded to the concept of nonviolence, form the critical element in Helder Camara's program for attaining the ideal society. For Camara, 'Abrahamic minorities' are a means of activating and combining his education, ethical transformation and nonviolent action programs for changing the 'structures' and 'psycho-social' phenomena that lead to, or permit, 'sub-human conditions' in society. The efforts of 'Abrahamic minorities' to understand the structures inherent at the national and international levels led to the implementation of an educative program to this end. Similarly, their efforts to discover the rights and obligations of themselves and of other individuals, groups and nations mean that Camara's ethical program will be implemented. Finally, their advocacy of nonviolence suggests that they will initiate the necessary activity for addressing iniquitous national and international structures.


Notes are recorded on the habitat and some ecological aspects of a small population of the rare Australian plant, Lomandra brevis A.T. Lee (Lomandraceae) in the Annangrove area, western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.


As part of a drug discovery program, 4-pyrazin-2-yl-1H-pyrrole-2-carboxamides were accessed along with a number of bicyclic analogues. Routes to these compounds were largely absent from the scientific literature. The synthesis of a 4-(pyrazin-2-yl)-1H-pyrrole-2-carboxamide and several fused bicyclic analogues all using standard procedures (SNAr, borylation, C–C cross couplings, hydrolysis, amide bond formation, cyclisation, halogenation, and alkylation) from readily available starting materials is reported. The synthetic sequences range from 4–12 steps per final compound, with yields of isolated intermediates ranging from 20 to ∼100%.


This article presents an experience of applied social justice advocacy to maintain and advance women's reproductive rights and is a call to action for the entire social work profession. The reader is offered a strategy that can be used to effect broad policy change in all political climates. Drawing upon some fundamentals of the social work profession such as coalition building, advocacy engagement, and stakeholder outreach, this article shows how social workers can become engaged in the political arena to pass legislation. It is the author's hope that this article will be used by social workers and social workers in training to deepen their commitment to women's issues and social justice advocacy and facilitate their engagement in making policy change.


The emergence of ionic conductive elastomers (ICEs) is significant for various electric applications. However, existing ICEs have mainly originated from tedious preparations, nonrenewable starting materials, and suffer from limited functions, especially non-recyclability. Here, a facile solvent-free synthesis was developed to directly convert small biomass molecules, α-lipoic acid (LA) and itaconic acid (TA), into processable ICEs by just integrating three dynamic chemical bonds into polymer networks. High-density molecular interactions endow the resultant ICE with a combination of properties including high transparency, good ionic conductivity, desirable mechanical performance, fast self-healing abilities, surface adhesion, and strain sensitivity. Impressively, the ICE can be fully recycled and reused by simple heating without the obvious sacrifice of the original functions. Before and after recycling, ICEs can be assembled as wearable strain sensors and flexible touch keyboards to precisely detect and distinguish the motions of joints in basketball training and English words, respectively. This work provides an efficient means for solving the long-standing contradiction between multiple performances and the simple fabrication of ionic conductive materials, proposing a promising candidate for the next-generation green wearable electronics.


Several methods of preparing potassium permanganate were introduced and the processes of industrial production was also introduced at home and abroad.Main development direction was pointed out.


Flange operations on automotive panels often result in subtle distortion on the show panel that affects the appearance and function of the part. These defects can be considered as a type of long wavelength buckling caused by an uneven stress distribution in the sheet blank. Figure 1 shows a typical setup in a flanging operation and a shrink-flanged part. As can be seen from Fig. 1(b), surface distortion is most likely initiated during the unloading stage provided that the applied pad pressure is sufficient during the loading stage. Our approach for predicting the subtle surface distortion will be based on the instability of an absolutely ideal surface, whose material behavior follows a combined kinematic/isotropic hardening law, subjected to an uneven stress load. The surface under examination could be a curved one. Surface distortion occurs when the trivial solution is no longer the lowest energy mode. Both experimental work and simulation work will be presented here. Experiments will be conducted using the die shown in Fig. 2. High strength steels will be used as the testing material. The experiments will be conducted for both shrink flanging and stretch flanging and for sheets with and without in-plane pre-stretching.


The principle of reaching balance drilling and under balanced drilling using foam mud in water well drilling in Karst formation was presented. The causes of inefficient pressure drop in foam drilling water well also mentioned. The pressure and flow rate of fluid in well head were calculated using iteration.


We reply to the comment made by Dubbeldam et al (2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 098001) on our paper 'Anomalous dynamics of unbiased polymer translocation through a narrow pore' and our other recent papers.


A class of discrete second-order random processes, described by linear time-invariant state-space models, is investigated. Equivalent realizations with reduced number of noise inputs are presented. In contrast to the innovations approach these realizations have time-invariant parameters.


We give an explicit description of the jointly invariant measures for the KPZ equation. These are couplings of Brownian motions with drift, and can be extended to a process defined for all drift parameters simultaneously. We term this process the KPZ horizon (KPZH). As a corollary of this description, we resolve a recent conjecture of Janjigian, and the second and third authors by showing the existence of a random, countably infinite dense set of directions at which the Busemann process of the KPZ equation is discontinuous. This signals instability and shows the failure of the one force--one solution principle and the existence of at least two extremal semi-infinite polymer measures in the exceptional directions. As the inverse temperature parameter $\beta$ for the KPZ equation goes to $\infty$, the KPZH converges to the stationary horizon (SH) first introduced by Busani, and studied further by Busani and the third and fourth authors. As $\beta \searrow 0$, the KPZH converges to a coupling of Brownian motions that differ by linear shifts, which is a jointly invariant measure for the Edwards-Wilkinson fixed point.


Objective To evaluate the results of electrolyteassay by using two automatic biochemistry analyzer systems:Johnson Vitros-350and Hitachi 7170.Methods According to the protocol described by the NCCLS document EP9-A,8 clinical samples were taken each day and theserum contents of K~+,Na~+ and Cl~-were measured by using the two analysissystems according to the sample sequence l to 8 and 8 to 1.In five days the results of 40 case samples were recorded and the deflective data were eliminated,thedeflection was also estimate.Results There was a bettercorrelation between the two methods of electrolyte assay and the correlation modules(r) was 0.996~0.999.In the different points of medical decision standard,the expectant deflection did not exceed the half of allowable error of CLIA'88.Conclusion The assay results of serum electrolytes(K~+、Na~+、Cl~-)by using Johnson Vitros-350 system are basically consistent with those by using Hitachi 7170 system.


to clinical practice. More than 20 years ago, in the early days of the old Committee, it became evident that it would be useful to clarify the processes, usually left unanalysed, by which clinicians make diagnoses and advise treatment. The computer is not very good at pattern recognition and incapable of the sort of intuition, ideally checked by honest attempts to test provisional hypotheses, which, explicitly or implicitly,


Small angle scattering is a common technique for investigating fluctuations in materials, for sizes ranging from about ten to a few hundred Angstroms. The technique could be more widely used if data analysis were more convenient; however, expressions relating the small angle scattered intensity to materials parameters of interest tend to be complicated. Non-linear regression fitting of experimental small angle scattering data from metallurgical systems is discussed, and the analysis procedure is demonstrated for two models on data from a Ni-Si alloy undergoing phase separation. It is concluded that if sufficient information is available to permit the proper model to be identified, quantitative values for the relevant materials parameters can be extracted in a rather routine manner, provided the parameters are not too closely coupled.


Recent results on searches for new physics at Run II of the Tevatron are reported. The searches cover many different final states and previous hints of signals, but all analyses have at this point led to negative results.


Abstract The first articulated total wrist prosthesis in the United States was designed and implanted at the Arizona Health Sciences Center in 1974. Based on the original concepts of Charnley's total hip implant, the prosthesis was intended for cement fixation. However, early concern over the long-term durability of cement in the small bones of the wrist led to a natural reluctance of surgeons to use such an approach to treatment. Instead, most surgeons preferred to use a Silastic wrist spacer. Unfortunately, time has proven that use of such a device has led to two serious problems, ie, implant breakage and the production of erosive changes in adjacent bone caused by Silastic detritus and its resultant synovitis. Concerned that similar changes would arise from the use of cement, the author of this report has elected to press-fit the metacarpal component since 1978, continuing to cement only the radial component. His experience has been that gross lossening of the radial component with erosive changes to bone has been observed infrequently. Migration of the press-fitted metacarpal component has been observed especially in poorly balanced wrists and in patients with poor quality bone. More recently a newer modular design of a total wrist prosthesis, which is secured to both radial and metacarpal bone beds by a precision press-fit, has shown promise of pain-free function without the concerns of loosening or bone lysis. However, efforts in designing a more durable long-lasting wrist implant need to be continued because the preservation of a certain pain-free arc of motion is critical for many patients, especially in patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis of the hand and wrist and in certain individuals whose occupation or vocation demands the preservation of wrist motion.


In order to optimize the structural design of a mortar base plate,this paper applies the finite element method to transient dynamic analysis for three-dimensional model of the mortar base plate.The stress and deformation distribution and the dynamic stress curves of the base plate are obtained,which provides a reference to the further optimizition of mortar base plate structure.


The topic of this paper immediately raises a serious methodological question: In what sense can we isolate the contribution of any individual or institution in the development of economic analysis? This is but one example of a fundamental logical problem that applies to the study of all history, that is, the difficulty of the counterfactual. For when you ask, "What is the influence of A (an event, an individual, an idea) on subsequent history?," you mean to ask what would have happened had A not been there. There is no immediately apparent way to proceed to answer that question. Every now and then historians debate the meaning of interpretation; in recent years the so-called new economic history has been filled with controversy over just such issues.


Despite the availability of effective evidence‐based treatments for depression and anxiety, many 'harder‐to‐reach' social and patient groups experience difficulties accessing treatment. We developed a complex intervention, the AMP (Improving Access to Mental Health in Primary Care) programme, which combined community engagement (CE), tailored (individual and group) psychosocial interventions and primary care involvement.


The article considers the urgency of automated troubleshooting of electric switch mechanism. The authors have developed an automated failure de tection algorithm of two-wire control circuit of an electric switch mechanism based on measuring the current of switch operation, voltage in line wires as well as extreme position and sounds of splitting. The algorithm provides diagnostic checks of the starting relay actuating in a control circuit and the opera tion of working and monitoring circuits of an electric switch mechanism.


The effects of tap gain correlation on the capacity of broadband multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) systems is investigated for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signalling. A unified broadband MIMO fading channel model is proposed for capacity analysis using correlated tapped delay line fading channels for each antenna pair. It is shown that the amount of tap gain correlation strongly influences the capacity of the broadband MIMO system. When the tap gain correlation is greater than a certain threshold, the capacity advantage of the broadband system vanishes.


The study aim to study the rainfall erosivity from (1980-20100 in Iraq and Polish soils in relationships withIraqi and Polish soil textures and show the highest rainfall erosivity is in forest area and mountain in Iraqi forest area and mountain(Zakho and Kirkuk (510.2232.95 MJ mm ha-1 year-1)respectively, and the less in Najaf and Karbala(28.4630.21 MJ mm ha-1 year-1) ,While in Polish soils , In forest area and mountain in (Zakupany and more than urban area Bielsko-Biala (692.2 ;557.5 MJ mm ha-1 year-1 ) respectively ,while the less in Poznan and Warsaw (168.39-170.8 MJ mm ha-1 year-1) respectively .The high sand and silty content and low clay content increased the likelihood of erosion.


A valveless driver suitable for microfluidic system is presented.The cavity,diffuser and nozzle of the driver are fabricated in the PCB.The poly-dimethylsiloxane(PDMS)is used as the diaphragm,and a piezoelectric bimorph is used as the actuator.This driver is easy to be fabricated and has a long lifetime.It can actuate in liquid stably.For a driver which has a 15 mm long piezoelectric bimorph as the actuator,a maximum flow rate of 150 μL/min can be realized with 100 V,60 Hz square wave signal which has duty ratio of 1:1.


The Ising model in two dimensions with the special boundary conditions of Brascamp and Kunz (BK) is analyzed. We derive exact finite-size corrections for the free energy F of the critical ferromagnetic Ising model on the M × N square lattice with Brascamp–Kunz boundary conditions [H.J. Brascamp, H. Kunz, J. Math. Phys. 15 (1974) 66]. We show that finite-size corrections strongly depend not only on the boundary conditions but also on the shape and pattern of the lattice. In the limit N →∞ we obtain the expansion of the free energy and the inverse correlation lengths for infinitely long strip with BK boundary conditions. Our results are consistent with the conformal field theory prediction for the mixed boundary conditions. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


"I have now written four biographies … All have been theologians, though they have represented differing theological outlooks and ways of doing theology … I have also found that many people are prepared to consider theological issues when presented in biographical form who would hesitate to tackle a more systematic or philosophical treatise."


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According to data from the National Council of Justice for the year 2015, Brazil totals approximately 192 thousand young people and adolescents fulfilling socio-educational measures, in which 26 thousand are subjected to some type of privation or restriction of freedom. In response to the treatment of young offenders, the ECA and SINASE are regulators of the sanction of socio-educational measures, admitting pedagogical character and interdisciplinary work of technical professionals, which also includes the practice of the psychologist. The present work aimed to identify and describe the way of acting in psychologists work in contexts of male hospitalization of adolescents in conflict with the law, in the municipalities of the Island of Sao Luiz. From the respondents' speeches, topics such as training in the academy, attributions received, activities developed in the institution of hospitalization, factors that limit the practice, the view that psychologists have about the effectiveness of their practice in the context of hospitalization and strategies used to enhance this performance, were included. The research brought reports of advances regarding treatment for adolescents in conflict with the law, but it is still necessary to overcome the existing challenges, having strategies such as creativity, perseverance and belief, on the part of the psychologist in his / her performance. This is configured as a transformative role, as the adolescents re-signify their stories and acquire a sense of self-responsibility before the infraction committed.


Abstract Pluteus fenzlii is a rare Eurasian lignicolous fungus, an iconic bright yellow species that attracts attention. Its habitat in the Białowieża Virgin Forest, Poland, is dominated by Carpinus betulus with admixture of Quercus robur, Tilia cordata and Picea abies, with an herb layer typical for the Carpinion betuli alliance. In Slovakia, the country hosting the highest number of localities worldwide, P. fenzlii prefers closed canopy of thermophilous forest with dominance of Quercus cerris and adjacent Quercus robur agg., Q. petraea agg., Carpinus betulus and Tilia cordata. In the Natura 2000 classification this vegetation belongs to habitat 91M0, Pannonian-Balkanic Turkey Oak-Sessile Oak forests, and priority habitat 91G0, Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus. The Slovak localities can be assigned to the mycosociological community Boleto (aerei)–Russuletum luteotactae, typical for thermophilous oak forests of Southern Europe and extrazonal areas in Central Europe. The presence of P. fenzlii at the isolated Białowieża locality could represent either a remote site of its present occurrence or a remnant of its former distribution, connected with the relict occurrence of thermophilous vegetation in Białowieża where continental oak forests have already disappeared.


Metallization of polycrystalline‐silicon/silicon oxide (poly‐Si/SiOx) passivating contacts with a fire‐through silver (Ag) paste is a crucial process for implementation of passivating contacts in industrial manufacturing of solar cells. For a microscopic understanding of the metallization process, the contact forming interface between the Ag crystallites and the poly‐Si layer is investigated with high‐resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). For this purpose, multilayer atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (APCVD) poly‐Si samples with a SiOx layer between the individual poly‐Si layers were fabricated, screen‐printed with a lead‐free Ag paste and contact fired. Electron micrographs show that in this process the etching of the paste and the subsequent Ag crystallite formation is stopped by this interface with the SiOx layer. Additionally, energy‐dispersive x‐ray mapping reveals the presence of an oxide layer around the Ag crystallites. This finding differs significantly from well‐investigated classical cell concepts with contact formation on diffused crystalline‐silicon. Moreover, an analysis of the Ag crystallite orientation in correlation to the neighbouring Si crystallite orientation indicates no direct relationship. Finally, it was shown that the use of this multilayer approach is favorable for integration into a solar cell concept leading to a higher passivation quality at the metallized area and lower contact resistivity.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


The author is not a Palestinian refugee but rather an Israeli Jew. His name is Sami Shalom Chetrit, a Mizrahi professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem who, along with Mizrahi academics like Ella Shohat, Eli Avraham, Oren Yiftachel, Yehouda Shenhav, Pnina Motzafi-Haller and others has developed a radical critique of ethnic relations in Israel. True to post-Zionism, an intellectual movement that believes that Zionism lacks moral validity, post-Zionist Mizrahi writers believe that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state. According to Mizrahi post-Zionism, the Mizrahim, about half of Israel's Jewish population, are "Arab-Jews," who like the Palestinians are victims of Zionism. While this new school of intellectual radicalism remains so far contained within the halls of academia and without broad support among the broader Mizrahi population, it, nevertheless, represents a new and worrisome twist on the post-Zionist phenomenon that continues to dominate Israel's academia and media.


The aim of this paper is to explore the dichotomous role of knowledge through an examination of tacit and explicit knowledge in organizational change contexts.,The study's aim is achieved by an analytical review of the seminal and contemporary knowledge management literature.,The paper contributes to the current body of knowledge management literature by analyzing a wide range of key literature and presenting a contemporary overview that compares the role of tacit and explicit knowledge within organizational change contexts.,The findings contribute toward theoretical development in the knowledge management field by providing researchers with future research directions to build upon previous theoretical understandings and advance our collective knowledge of the research domain.,The paper offers practical and pragmatic insights that will help firm managers to use tacit and/or explicit knowledge to manage organizational change.,This article presents an original comparative table that summarizes and compares the key understandings and insights from across the literature sources on a range of important aspects, and then presents implications for the two knowledge typologies. The paper also presents an original research framework containing a structured database of related calls for research by the latest academic publications. Furthermore, it provides specific and informed managerial recommendations for best practice in the integration of these knowledge typologies into organizational change management.


A method for control of fuel level in float chamber of carburetor consists in the measuring and storing preliminarily, for all the known, possible according to design, values of fuel level in float chamber of carburetor of engine of given mark chosen as the standard, of respective values of the crankshaft rate of idle rotation till the engine stops after termination of fuel supply to the float chamber of carburetor. After that one measures the values of the same parameters for the fusel level being controlled in the float chamber of carburetor of the engine of the same mark. After that through comparison of the values of parameters obtained for the fuel level being controlled to the measured preliminarily and stored for the known fuel levels in float chamber of the engine chosen as the standard one as the level to be found of the fuel being controlled in the float chamber of carburetor one takes the values of the known level for which those parameters have been found the same.


Electrical time-domain measurements and transmission response measurements were made using a 31-cm-long YBaCuO superconducting thin-film microstrip line and a YBaCuO ground plane, each on separate 1-cm LaGaO/sub 3/ substrates, with a 125- mu m sapphire substrate serving as the dielectric insulator. Degradation of the performance of the line for currents up to the critical current density and for magnetic fields moderately above the lower critical magnetic field H/sub c1/ was evaluated in a variety of simple measurements. The results suggest that current near or exceeding the critical current density, and not magnetic field exceeding H/sub c1/, is the major factor degrading the performance of the superconducting microstrip line.<<ETX>>


A flapping control system for a proprotor assembly of a tiltrotor aircraft includes one or more sensors operable to detect one or more flight parameters of the tiltrotor aircraft to form sensor data. The sensors include a proprotor flapping sensor to detect a proprotor flapping measurement. The flapping control system includes a flapping control module in data communication with the sensors. The flapping control module includes a maneuver detection module to detect whether the tiltrotor aircraft is in a maneuver mode using the sensor data. The flapping control module identifies a maneuver flapping threshold associated with the maneuver mode. The flapping control module generates a swashplate command using the proprotor flapping measurement and the maneuver flapping threshold, and sends the swashplate command to the proprotor assembly to reduce flapping of the proprotor assembly.


The objective of this research was to evaluate the use of vermiculite as a substrate for the germination test of 'barbatimao' seeds and to establish what would be the best granulometry and the best moisture intensity to germinate 'barbatimao' seeds. Four replications of 50 seeds were previously scarified with H 2 SO 4 for 60 minutes. Afterwards, the following germination substrates were evaluated: paper rolls moistened with water equivalent to 2.5 times the weight of the dry paper (control); micron, super thin, thin and average sized vermiculite moistened with 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 times the weight of the dry paper. The germination temperature was 30°C. The percentage of normal seedlings was obtained seven days after sowing (first count) and, then, weekly (up to 28 days). Average time and relative distribution of germination were calculated. It was concluded that the germination of 'barbatimao' seeds can be carried out with either fine vermiculite moistened with water equivalent to 2.0 times the weight of the dry paper or average sized substrate moistened with water equivalent to 0.5 to 2.0 times the weight of dry paper. These treatments resulted in higher and faster germination (21 days), similarly to the paper roll method.


Background: Patellar instability may manifest as acute patellar dislocation, recurrent patellar dislocation or subluxation, habitual patellar dislocation or chronic patellar dislocation. Habitual patellar dislocation is a condition where the patella dislocates whenever the knee is flexed and spontaneously relocates with extension of the knee. The purpose of this study is to know the functional and radiological outcome following proximal realignment procedure (Campbell technique) for habitual patellar dislocation. Methods: The study was conducted from June 2017 to January 2019 with a minimum follow up of 6 months and a maximum follow up of 2 years. Inclusion Criteria: All patients with habitual patellar dislocation, age between 5 to 40 years. Exclusion Criteria: Patient age less than 5 years and aged above > 40 years, past history of knee surgery, acute patellar dislocation and knee effusions. Radiological assessment was done by measuring sulcus angle and congruence angle. Functional outcome was assessed by Kujala score. Conclusion: Campbell technique (lateral release of tight structures and medial plication of patellar retinaculum) is a safe and effective procedure for treating habitual patellar dislocation. Functional outcome evaluated by Kujala score was good for most of our patient's. Radiological parameters (sulcus angle and congruence angle) were brought back to normal. There were no significant changes in sulcus angle. Congruence angle was brought back to normal, which was statistically significant (p


to power many different devices, from mobile phones to laptop or notebook computers. The quality of these batteries has improved over the years, giving rise to many new applications. Although we all rely on batteries in our daily lives, the market size remains under a billion USD. This is expected to change in the near future, with recent improvements that allow Li ion batteries to be used in the new Hybrid Vehicles (HV), Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHV), and Electric Vehicles (EV). The market for these batteries is expected to double in size in five years.


A model has been developed for cost of quality. This model classifies activities for cost of quality into prevention activity, appraisal activity, internal failure activity, external failure activity. Aggregate cost rate are developed for each activity. The concepts and model developed are general in nature and can be applied to most of the fabrication industry. Keywords— Cost of quality, Activity, coat estimation.


This paper investigates the frequency and functions of code-switching in the bilingual MalayEnglish community in Singapore. In this paper, recorded conversations between Malay-English bilinguals were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Code-switching has been thought of as a messy misappropriation of the language, especially in the Singaporean context where accuracy of language use is held in high regard. However, the recorded conversations show that code-switching is utilized strategically by Singaporean Malay bilingual speakers. It is observed that code-switching patterns differ inter-generationally and the linguistic choices made during code-switching by the younger speakers contrast distinctively with those of the older speakers. Since the Malays constitute the second-largest ethnic group in Singapore, insights on their codeswitching patterns are relevant and timely in understanding an inherent language practice that reflects the community's relationship with their language while simultaneously navigating through an English-dominant country. Finally, this paper argues that code-switching is a communication tool undertaken by bilingual speakers during conversations with specific functions and regular frequency, and not a sign of linguistic incompetence.


We propose an improved dual reference subcarrier (DRS) carrier phase estimation (CPE) method, which suppresses the noise amplification in conventional DRS-CPE. The noise suppression is achieved by a zoom coefficient, which can be pre-set in various scenarios using the developed closed-form expression without time-consuming optimization. Simulations of 30-Gbaud 64QAM and entropy-loaded probabilistically-shaped (PS) 64QAM show that the proposed approach achieves better performance than conventional DRS-CPE, especially when the equalization enhanced phase noise (EEPN) effect is not severe. The results also show that the proposed algorithm relaxes the sensitivity to the DRS interval and can be applied to bandwidth-limited systems with add/drop filtering without the complexity for optimization of reference subcarrier positions.


A spacing factor only for small voids is derived from the proportion of small voids to total voids. The formula can be used with any method of air determination in hardened concrete that includes denominating some voids as large and some as small. The formula is not dependent on the size criterion used. A graphic method of estimating the spacing factors is given: ¯L for total voids and ¯Ls for the proportion of small voids.


6.0. Introduction to auxiliaries 6.1. Auxiliary stems 6.2. Suffixes included in auxiliaries 6.3. Syntactic position of auxiliaries 7.0. Introduction to nouns 7.1. Noun stem types 7.2. Prefixes included in noun stems 7.3. Suffixes included in noun stems 7.4. Compound noun stems 7.5. Morphemes included in nouns 6.0. Morphological sequences which characterize auxiliary stems are summarized in 4.2 and shown in detail in 6.2. Analysis of auxiliary stems is given in 6.1. Auxiliary stems (designated Au) constitute a minor stem class related to, but different from, verb stems (V); auxiliaries (designated Aux) constitute a minor word class related to, but different from verbs (Vb). 6.1. Auxiliary stems may consist of one morpheme (Au') or two morphemes (Au2). 6.1.1. Auxiliary stems consisting of one morpheme (Au') are five in number. They are: nA continuative; ma future; ha?n (habefore enclitic 1st person singular pronoun ?As -?s) negative incompletive; wavy subordinative; ?uy negative subordinative and negative imperative. Examples of sequences containing Au': nA 6Ahku he is doing it; ma CAhku he is going to do it; ha?n CAki he does not do it; wa?y cAhku in order to do it; ?uy CAhku in order not to do it; ?uy CAki do not do it! 6.1.2. Auxiliary stems consisting of two morphemes (Au2) consist of certain one-morpheme verb stems (V') plus a suffix of class 560. In formula: V1 + 560 = Au2. The V1 stems which thus occur are: manto go, minto come, tihto arrive, sunto want, muhsto know or be able. Note that these Au2 stems, while morphemically identical with verbforming sequences V + 560 = Vb (5.6.1) based on these same V1 stems, are nevertheless different from them in their distribution and are therefore treated as a separate type of sequence. The V1 + 560 = Au2 sequences (based on these five V1 stems) are distributionally equivalent to the one-morpheme auxiliary stems (Au') and so are themselves treated as Au stems; but V + 560 sequences based on other V1 stems are not distributionally equivalent to any single morpheme, and no V + 560 sequence is ever equivalent to a V' stem in its distribution. The following examples show sequences containing Au2 based on maDto go: ma0ba cAhku he is going to do it (mae= V1; -pa = 562); macu iAhku he went to do it (man= V1; -u = 561); ha?n mawe CAhku he is not going to do it (mag= V; -e = 564 [ha?n is a separate auxiliary preceding the auxiliary mawe]). The following examples show sequences containing Au2 based on minto come: minba 6Ahku he comes to do it (min= V; -pa = 562); minu kyenu he came to look (min= V; -u = 561); ha?n mini kyenu he does not come to look (min= V1; -i = 564). The following examples show sequences containing Au2 based on tihto arrive: tihu 6Ahku he arrived to do it (tih= V1; -u = 561); tihpa kyenu he arrives to see it (tih= V1; -pa = 562). The following examples show sequences containing Au2 based on sunto want: sunba myaiu he wants to go (sun= V1; -pa = 562); sunu 6Ahku he wanted to do it (sun= V1; -u = 561); ha?n suni minu he does not want to come (sun= V1; -i = 564). The following examples show sequences containing Au2 based on muhsto know or be able: muspa camu he can speak (muhsV1; -pa = 562); muhsu camu he could speak


By conjugation mating,the transposon Tn5 from Escherichia coli S17-1 containing pSUP2021∷Tn5 was introduced into the DNA of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain P-91 suppressive to sheath blight of rice.The conjugation frequency was 2.0×10~(-7)per recipient CFU.2400 Tn5-in- duced mutants were randomly screened and tested for comparing with the natural strain P-91.The results showed that two mutants entirely lost their antagonistic ability against Rhizoctonia solani and were ineffective in controlling sheath blight.Four mutants got enhanced antagonistic ability 25%—87% higher than P-91,and were more effective in inhibition of sclerotial germination;the control effects of three of the four mutants against sheath blight at the seedling stage of rice were increased by 11.7%—35.0% over that of P-91.


Abstract. Over the past decades, developments in remote sensing have resulted in an ever growing availability of topographic information on a global scale. A recent development is TanDEM-X, an interferometric SAR mission of the Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt providing near-global coverage and high resolution DEMs. Moreover, ongoing developments in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has enabled acquisitions of topographic information at a sub-meter resolution. Although UAV products are generally preferred for volume assessments of geomorphic features, their acquisition remains time-consuming and is spatially constrained. However, some applications in geomorphology such as the estimation of regional or national erosion quantities of specific landforms, require data over large areas. TanDEM-X data can be applied at such scales, but this raises the question of how much accuracy is lost because of the lower spatial resolution. Here, we evaluated the performance of the 12 m TanDEM-X DEM to i) estimate gully volumes, ii) establish an area-volume (A-V) relationship, and iii) determine mobilization rates, through comparison with a high resolution (0.2 m) UAV-SfM DEM and lower resolution (30 m) SRTM DEM. We did this for six study areas in the Lake Alaotra region (central Madagascar) where lavaka (gullies) are omnipresent and lavaka surface area changes over the period 1949–2010s are available for 699 lavaka. SRTM derived lavaka volume estimates were systematically too low, indicating that the SRTM DEM is too coarse to accurately estimate volumes of geomorphic features at the lavaka-scale (100–100 000 m2). Lavaka volumes obtained from TanDEM-X were similar to UAV-SfM volumes for the largest features, whereas the volumes of smaller features were generally underestimated. To deal with this bias we introduce a breakpoint analysis to eliminate volume reconstructions that suffer from processing errors as evidenced by significant fractions of negative volumes. This elimination allowed the establishment of an area-volume relationship for the TanDEM-X data that is within the 95 % confidence interval of the UAV-SfM A-V relationship. Our calibrated area-volume relationship enabled us to obtain large-scale lavaka mobilization rates ranging between 18 ± 6 and 289 ± 125 ton ha−1 yr−1 with an average of 102 ± 41 ton ha−1 yr−1. These results indicate that current lavaka mobilization rates are two orders of magnitude higher than long-term erosion rates. With this study we demonstrate that the global TanDEM-X 12 m DEM can be used to accurately estimate volumes of gully-shaped features at the lavaka-scale (100–100 000 m2), where the proposed breakpoint-method can be applied without requiring the availability of a higher resolution DEM. Furthermore, we use this information to make a first assessment of regional lavaka erosion rates in the central highlands of Madagascar.


A model was proposed on the elastic deformation of silicon wafer contact in bonding. The change of wafer surface morphology depends on the periodic stress field on contact surface. Airy stress function gives a solution that satisfies the mechanical equilibrium condition at the bonded interface. The extent of the elastic deformation of silicon contact surfaces was calculated according to the periodic strain field.


Work participation among people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) remains reduced when compared to the general population. A EULAR taskforce was established to agree on Points to Consider (PtC) to support people with RMD in healthy and sustainable work participation. Non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) could have an important role in improving work participation in RMDs. However, a comprehensive evidence synthesis of the effectiveness of NPIs in people with RMDs is lacking.To summarise the literature on effectiveness of NPIs on work participation in people with RMDs.A search in four databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL and CINAHL) was performed. Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) and Longitudinal Observational Studies (LOS) assessing non-pharmacological/non-surgical interventions until August 2020 were screened. Studies including people with any RMD (except low back pain or work-related RMDs) and assessing a work participation outcome domain (sick leave, work status, presenteeism) were considered eligible. For qualitative evidence synthesis, RCTs and LOS were considered. For quantitative evidence synthesis, only RCTs were considered. For each randomized comparison, standardised mean differences (SMDs) were calculated for the three outcome domains and used as effect size in the meta-analyses; i.e. a negative SMD favouring the NPI over control. Next, Mixed Effects Meta-Regression Analyses were performed, with random effects for randomised comparisons, and a fixed effect factor for the stratified subgroups of clinical interest. Subgroups within diseases (musculoskeletal pain disorders vs. other types of RMDs), risk status for sick leave at baseline (on sick leave or at risk for sick leave; not at risk for sick leave; a combination; or not specified) and single vs. multiple component NPIs were pre-defined. Risk of Bias (RoB) of RCTs was assessed using the Cochrain tool.Out of 8,864 records, 64 studies (71 treatment comparisons) were included. Studies usually included a mixed population of several RMDs (42%). Most NPIs were conducted in a clinical setting (n=44, 62%) and NPIs usually had multiple components (n=57, 80%), such as vocational support combined with physical training (n=18, 25%). Sick leave was the most frequently reported outcome domain (n=56, 88%). In the qualitative syntheses, 30%/50%/29% of interventions were considered plausible in improving sick leave, work status and presenteeism, respectively.In the quantitative synthesis, NPIs (37 RCTs, 42 comparisons with mostly moderate to high RoB) showed small to moderate effect sizes, favouring NPIs over comparators for sick leave (SMD=-0.23, 95%CI -0.33 to -0.13), work status (SMD=-0.38, 95%CI -0.63 to -0.12) and presenteeism (SMD=-0.25, 95%CI -0.39 to -0.12). The forest plot for sick leave is shown (Figure 1).Subgroup analyses for sick leave revealed that, compared to control, NPIs were not effective in musculoskeletal pain disorders, in contrast to the other types of RMDs. For both other subgroup analyses (baseline risk for sick leave; single vs. multicomponent NPI), NPIs improved sick leave similarly in subgroups compared to the control. Subgroup analyses for work status and presenteeism had generally similar effects in subgroups, but the interpretation requires caution in view of the small number of comparisons. Of note, clinical and methodological heterogeneity between studies was substantial, with some concerns about methodological quality related blinding and completeness of follow up.Overall, NPIs seem to have significant, but on the average population level only small to moderate effects on sick leave, work status and presenteeism in RMDs. However, effects on sick leave varied substantially between subgroups. This synthesis suggests that tailoring NPIs to individuals' needs and context could be clinically valuable.None declared.


In reality,the non-exclusiveness of most public goods are limited,while research on the voluntary contribution of public goods are rare.Based on the classic model of voluntary contribution of public goods,this paper takes into account the social network in which the public goods are non-excludable along social links,with the method of experimental economics to study the impact of social network on individual behavior.The results confirmed that the differences of social network structures can significantly affect the investment behavior in the individual' s voluntary supply.Furthermore,in symmetric regular networks,the individual' s contribution level decreases with the network density but is unrelated to clustering coefficient,and the regularity of the network structure significant influences the extreme behavior of individual.These conclusions support the impact of social networks on the voluntary provision of public goods.


The rapidly increasing computing power, available storage and communication capabilities of mobile devices makes it possible to start processing and storing data locally, rather than offloading it to remote servers; allowing scenarios of mobile clouds without infrastructure dependency. We can now aim at connecting neighboring mobile devices, creating a local mobile cloud that provides storage and computing services on local generated data.

In this paper, we describe an early overview of a distributed mobile system that allows accessing and processing of data distributed across mobile devices without an external communication infrastructure.


Author(s): Slack, Clancy | Advisor(s): Pines, Alex | Abstract: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is an extrememly powerful technique for determin- ing chemical structure, which can look in opaque samples. Using 129Xe as our detected nucleus we can synthesize molecualar cages that interact with their chemical environment or molecular target, which is observed through the chemical shift of the xenon in the molecular cage. The use of spin exchange optical pumping (SEOP) the pool of xenon can be hy- perpolarized to give signal enhancement that makes it on par with proton NMR techniques. Further using chemical exchnge saturation transfer (CEST) we can use the exchange of xenon in and out of the molecualr cage to detect concentrations in the nanomolar range. In chapter 3 we will look at a cryptophane-A based sensor and how the chemical shift changes when the cage is chelated to different metal ions. In chapter 4 we looked at using a relaxation based detection method for cryptophane sensors showing a decrease in relaxation time when bound to the protein Avidin. In chapter 5 we look at cucurbituril based xenon detection with a base activated sensor using a rotaxane backbone. In chapter 6 we further develop the rotaxane to include a peptide sequence recognizable by the enzyme MMP2. In chapter 7 we explore a new device that allows for xenon to dissolve directly into ordered media without disturbing the local structure, and in chapter 8 we show preliminary results and discuss the future of xenon based sensors.


Swedish students' morpheme acquisition order in English, including the acquisition of -s morphemes, is a relatively unstudied topic. Given the morphological differences between the English and Swed ...


Treatment of rats with reserpine, an inhibitor of the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT), depletes norepinephrine (NE) and regulates NE transporter (NET) expression. The present study examined the molecular mechanisms involved in regulation of the NET by reserpine using cultured cells. Exposure of rat PC12 cells to reserpine for a period as short as 5 min decreased [ 3 H]NE uptake capacity, an effect characterized by a robust decrease in the V max of the transport of [ 3 H]NE. As expected, reserpine did not displace the binding of [ 3 H]nisoxetine from the NET in membrane homogenates. The potency of reserpine for reducing [ 3 H]NE uptake was dramatically lower in SK-N-SH cells that have reduced storage capacity for catecholamines. Reserpine had no effect on [ 3 H]NE uptake in HEK-293 cells transfected with the rat NET (293-hNET), cells that lack catecholamine storage vesicles. NET regulation by reserpine was independent of trafficking of the NET from the cell surface. Pre-exposure of cells to inhibitors of several intracellular signaling cascades known to regulate the NET, including Ca 2+ /Ca 2+ -calmodulin dependent kinase and protein kinases A, C and G, did not affect the ability of reserpine to reduce [ 3 H]NE uptake. Treatment of PC12 cells with the catecholamine depleting agent, α -methyl- p -tyrosine, increased [ 3 H]NE uptake and eliminated the inhibitory effects of reserpine on [ 3 H]NE uptake. Reserpine non-competitively inhibits NET activity through a Ca 2+ -independent process that requires catecholamine storage vesicles, revealing a novel pharmacological method to modify NET function. Further characterization of the molecular nature of reserpine's action could lead to the development of alternative therapeutic strategies for treating disorders known to be benefitted by treatment with traditional competitive NET inhibitors.


Scaffolding molecules bind simultaneously and link together various components of signal‐transduction pathways. Grb2‐associated binder 2 (Gab2) is a scaffolding protein required for FcγR‐initiated allergic responses in mast cells and FcγR‐mediated phagocytosis in macrophages, where it links IgE and IgG receptors to the phosphatidylinositol‐3 kinase (PI‐3K) pathway. The FcγR expressed by natural killer (NK) cells triggers antibody‐dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). We show here that mouse NK cells express Gab2 and that although PI‐3K was required for ADCC, this FcγR‐mediated function was normal in Gab2−/− NK cells. Moreover, NK cell development, spontaneous cytotoxicity, and responses to and production of cytokines were not perturbed in Gab2−/− mice. Considering the striking differences between the signaling requirements of FcγR in macrophages and NK cells, our findings suggest that the organization of signal transduction downstream of the same FcR can be cell type‐specific. Conversely, Gab family members Gab1, Gab2, and Gab3 may play specific roles in different leukocytes. As pharmacological targeting of Gab2 in mast cells is a potential strategy to treat allergy, our results suggest prudence, as NK cells may participate in IgE‐mediated anaphylaxis in a Gab2‐independent manner.


One hundred crossbred growing rabbits (New Zealand White x California White) ages 28-32 days, mean weight of 700 ± 100 grams were used. Rabbits w ere housed in wire cages (76 x 50 x 40cm) for 56 days and were randomly allocated to one of five stocking rates originally; 7.9, 10.5, 13.16, 15.79 and 18.42 rabbits /m . Environmental measurements were collected. Temper aturehumidity index (THI) was calculated using the equation modified by Maria et al. (2001). Feed intake and feed conversion ratio was calculated. Five animals per t r atment were randomly selected and the rectal temperature, respiration rate, and ear skin tempera tur were taken daily for the duration of the study . Deaths were recorded and post mortems were performe d. Parameters were statistically analysed using One way Analysis of Variance procedure (Minitab 19 for Windows). The environmental conditions were adverse and exceeded the recommended range (TH I >28) between 7:30 AM and 7:30 PM. Under these conditions cage density significantly affecte d total weight gain (P=0.012) and average daily gai n (P=0.012) but had no significant effect (P>0.05) on feed intake, FCR, respiratory rate, rectal temperature and skin temperature. Despite no signif ica t differences, all welfare parameters exceeded normal reference ranges at all treatment levels. As stocking rates increased, mortality rate also increased with higher incidence of deaths occurring subsequent to feeding time between 3-7 weeks of experiment. Findings suggest that despite varying s tocking rates animals at all treatments were experiencing environmental stress and were using al l mechanism possible for thermoregulation. These were consistent with necropsy reports which indicat ed that all dead animals had a rupture of either sides of the ventricular wall of the heart, blood–t inged serosanguinous in the lumen of the trachea an d their stomach was engorged with pelleted rabbit fee d which is all consistent signs of heat stress. It is concluded that farmers should not exceed a stockin g rate of 13 rabbits/ m 2 when producing rabbits under the adverse tropical environmental conditions f the Caribbean, and it is strongly recommended that farmers pay special attention to feeding times thu avoiding feeding at high THI periods.


ABSTRACT An analytical method is presented for one-dimensional transient heat conduction and associated thermal stress problems of a layered infinite plate whose heat transfer coefficient (HTC) on one external boundary is an arbitrary function of time. A shifting function method and an orthogonal expansion technique are used to obtain analytical solutions to the problems. Using the solutions, the structural response to sinusoidal HTC oscillation is investigated in single and bilayered plates, the other boundary of which is kept at constant temperature. Numerical results demonstrate the effects of average HTC (measured by the Biot number) and mechanical boundary conditions on the frequency responses of temperature and thermal stress. It is found that the range of stress oscillation decreases with an increase in the frequency of HTC oscillation except for single-layered plates without surface tractions.


It is pointed out that scaling (multifractal) properties of chaotic repellers underlying irregular scattering in two-degree-of-freedom systems can be deduced by measuring simple length scales generated hierarchically along a straight line taken far away from the interaction region, or on the Poincare plane, and analyzing them in the spirit of the thermodynamic formalism. The method is easier to apply than a periodic-orbit analysis.


Conversion efficiencies of 44% and 56% are demonstrated in single and double-pass pump geometries respectively for a degenerate 1 micron pumped PPLN OPO. Pump feedback in the double-pass geometry acts as a pulse shortening mechanism.


This invention relates to a method for assessment and selection of products or objects according to their qualities and a device (I) for the implementation of such a process.A Such a method is characterized in comprising the steps of: - performing a series of oscillatory measurements so as to obtain a series of oscillatory signatures processed to supply a first series of parameters of said products or objects (5) to be analyzed, - performing a series of measurements optics in order to obtain a series of optical signatures processed to supply a second series of parameters of said products or objects (5) to be analyzed, - correlating said first and second series of parameters so as to determine a quality factor for each product or object (5) analyzed, and -. differentiate products or objects (5) analyzed according to the quality factors obtained


US breastfeeding rates fall short of federal goals. Choices to initiate and continue breastfeeding are made in the context of demographic, biological, social, and psychological variables. The objective of this study was to explore determinants of breastfeeding initiation and duration among participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in a small city in central Texas. Following IRB protocols, caregivers of children ages 4‐24 months were recruited before and after federally mandated changes to the WIC package, and completed telephone interviews (n=204). Chi‐squared analysis revealed no significant differences in outcome variables before and after the package change. Logistic regression revealed caregiver BMI (OR 0.928, 95% CI [0.874, 0.985], p<0.05) and caregiver insurance (OR 0.379, 95% CI [0.164, 0.874], p<0.05) had a significant negative effect on breastfeeding initiation; Spanish spoken at home (OR 3.42, 95% CI [1.44, 8.10], p<0.01), caregiver having a live‐in partner (OR 2.27, 95% CI [1.16, 4.46], p<0.05), and caregiver age (OR 1.06, 95% CI [1.00, 1.12], p<0.05) had a significant positive effect on breastfeeding duration; and caregiver BMI (OR 0.921, 95% CI [0.868, 0.977], p<0.01) had a significant negative effect on breastfeeding duration.


Purpose: The influence of hot-working conditions on microstructure evolution of new-developed 26Mn-3Si3Al-Nb-Ti high-manganese steel was investigated. Design/methodology/approach: The force-energetic parameters of hot-working were determined in continuous and multi-stage compression test performed in temperature range of 850 to 1100°C using the Gleeble 3800 thermomechanical simulator. Evaluation of processes controlling work-hardening were identified by microstructure observations of the specimens compresses to the various amount of deformation (4x0.29,


The NRE for even a conceptually simple system (the car parking system) can easily be US $1 million or more. Development can take a year or more to complete the design and prepare for manufacturing, distribution, and installation. The NRE for a medical device or safety-critical system can easily cost more than US $12 million and take five or more years to complete. That cost represents only development up to the point at which one would be ready to manufacture, distribute, and install (or implant) products. Obviously, these numbers vary according to the project, but they do indicate that a lot of engineering and effort go into taking a proof-of-concept and realizing a commercial product that is ready for sale. If your proof-of-concept cost is US $50,000 to develop, then you have only realized 5% or less of the cost and effort required to render it a commercial product.


The aim of this note is to express a module which is localized as well as colocalized in terms of an object of an intersecting subcategory related to static modules.


This study investigated the effect of urbanization on runoff from the On-Cheon Stream watershed in Pusan, Korea. This watershed has been experiencing considerable urbanization since the 1960s. There are two gauging stations in the watershed. For one of the stations there are recent flow data and for the other flow data were observed in the past. A linear reservoir model was chosen and runoff was analysed for several flood events. The linear reservoir model has been found to generate flood hydrographs accurately for both gauging stations, and its applicability to the study area has also been established. Using two methods of computing effective rainfall or rainfall excess (ϕ-index and constant percentage method), the results of runoff analyses were investigated. The ϕ-index method yielded better results than the constant percentage method. A comparison of hydrographs observed in the past with the simulation results at the Ie-Sup bridge site revealed that the peak discharge increased and the mean lag time of the study area decreased owing to urbanization over the past two decades. It is also possible to evaluate the effect of urbanization quantitatively. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Three U–Pb zircon dates were obtained from two igneous suites associated with cycle 2 sedimentation in the central New Quebec Orogen (Labrador Trough). In the Dyke Lake area of the western part of the orogen (Schefferville zone), the Nimish Formation includes a polymictic conglomerate containing quartz syenite cobbles that crystallized at 1877.8 ± 1.3 Ma. These cobbles are petrographically and geochemically linked to the Nimish volcanics, which are intercalated with the Sokoman iron formation. Consequently, the syenite date gives an approximate age for both Nimish magmatism and ironstone deposition in the Schefferville zone. A date of ca. 2.65 Ga obtained from a Nimish trachyte in the same area indicates that zircons in the sample are xenocrysts. Farther east, at Howse Lake (Howse zone), a Montagnais plagioclase-glomeroporphyritic gabbro sill crystallized at 1884.0 ± 1.6 Ma. The Howse Lake sill, which intrudes turbidites of the Menihek Formation, is considered comagmatic with the basalts that cap the form...


Unpolarized single-crystal Raman spectra in the temperature interval of 298–1235 K and powder X-ray diffractometry data from room temperature up to 1295 K have been obtained from a natural triclinic wollastonite of almost-ideal composition. Room-temperature spectra, along with the temperature dependencies of nine major Raman modes, are presented. The temperature shifts of the Raman modes indicate a discontinuity in the temperature range of 950–980 K. No corresponding changes are observed in the temperature dependencies of the lattice parameters. Thermal expansion coefficients for the lattice parameters in the temperature range of 298–1295 K are given.


Objective To study the correlation between mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, the levels of peripheral blood IL-5and pediatric asthma. Methods 82 cases pediatric asthma in Liaohe Oil Field General Hospital from February 2011 to February 2013 were selected as the observation group and 78 physical examination children in the corresponding period were set as the control group. The mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody IgM(MP-IgM) was deteted between the two groups.The patients of the observation group were divided into MP-IgM positive group and MP-IgM negative group, the total levels of serum IgE,peripheral blood eosinophil count(EOS) and levels of IL-5 were tested. Results The positive rate of MP-IgM in observation group was significantly higher than that in control group(43.90% vs 16.67%), and the difference was highly statistically significant(χ2= 13.96, P 0.01); the total levels of serum IgE in MP-IgM positive group was significant higher than that in MPIgM negative group [(457.47 ± 73.51) IU/mL vs(314.20 ± 48.27) IU/mL], and the difference was highly statistically significant(P 0.01); the EOS in MP-IgM positive group was significant higher than that in MP-IgM negative group [(417.32 ± 43.78) ×106/L vs(248.36 ± 35.26) × 106/L], and the difference was highly statistically significant(P 0.01); the levels of IL-5 in the MP-IgM positive group was significantly higher than that in MP-IgM negative group [( 308.34 ± 58.69) ng/L vs(87.96 ±13.42) ng/L], and the difference was highly statistically significant(P 0.01). Conclusion There is close correlation between mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, the levels of peripheral blood IL-5 and pediatric asthma.


Background : Hypertension is a disease that gets attention from all walks of life, considering that its impact requires comprehensive and integrated long-term treatment. Hypertension causes high morbidity (illness) and mortality (death). Objectives : This case study aims to carry out nursing care for clients who experience hypertension with the main problem being acute pain in the working area of the Sukodadi Health Center. Designe: This study design uses a case study method with a nursing process approach. The research subjects were 1 hypertensive client with the main problem being acute pain. The data collection technique was through interviews, observation, physical examination and documentation studies. Hypertensive patients were observed for 3 days of treatment. The data obtained were analyzed by comparing theories and cases. The data were analyzed using narrative analysis. Result : The results of the case study show that in the assessment there is a match between theory and literature review. Nursing diagnoses that arise in addition to acute pain, there is also a knowledge deficit. Nursing implementation is carried out based on interventions that have been made, both non-pharmacological (distraction and relaxation techniques) and pharmacological (collaboration in administering analgesics). In the evaluation there was a decrease in pain from a scale of 6 to a scale of 2. Conclusion : Implementation of non-pharmacological nursing (distraction and relaxation techniques), and pharmacology (collaboration in providing analgesics) and health education (reducing salt consumption, regulating diet, stress management, not smoking, not consuming alcohol, exercising, getting enough rest) can reduce pain and prevent recurrence. Keywords : Nursing care , acute pain, hypertension


This paper has two main sections. First, I argue that Hobbes was capable of providing a convincing model of political authority that strengthened the absolutist monarchy, due to two main factors: on the one hand, Hobbes' conceptualization of freedom, which allowed him to offer a new light upon the relationship between obedience, obligation, freedom and servitude; on the other hand, Hobbes' redefinition of sovereignty via the concept of representation. I show how Hobbes was aware of the intrinsic tension derived from the attempted convergence of these two distinct logics and I question the kinds of political rupture that are possible under Hobbes' design, in such a way that would keep a democratic instinct and impulse in political life. After I revisit the relationship between freedom, power and civil disobedience, by looking at the relationship between the sovereign's and the subjects' capacity of judgment and by reflecting upon contemporary democratic challenges.


The computation of flow over complex geometries, such as realistic aircraft configurations, poses difficult grid generation problems for computational aerodynamicists. The creation of a traditional, single-module grid of acceptable quality about an entire configuration may be impossible even with the most sophisticated of grid generation techniques. A zonal approach, wherein the flow field is partitioned into several regions within which grids are independently generated, is a practical alternative for treating complicated geometries. This technique not only alleviates the problems of discretizing a complex region, but also facilitates a block processing approach to computation thereby circumventing computer memory limitations. The use of such a zonal scheme, however, requires the development of an interfacing procedure that ensures a stable, accurate, and conservative calculation for the transfer of information across the zonal borders.


Purpose: The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance has been subject to extensive empirical enquiry. Yet the body of evidence that has accumulated about the nature of the relationship is equivocal. Purpose of this research is to explore the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on Firm Performance while controlling the impact of Firm Specific variables for Pakistani Manufacturing Sector. Methodology: We measure CSR by taking three sub variables, whereas CP measurement approaches include accounting-based measures, market-based measures and combined measures. We used panel least square method by using fixed effect model, we took 56 cross sections (Companies listed on KSE) with six years of time series, and thus we gathered or estimated on 336 firm year observational data. Results: we performed Housman and test statistics favored for fixed effect model for equations. Multiple regression results reveals that Donations has strong negative effects on accounting based market returns, while coefficient is not statistically significant from zero for Earning per share, while workers profit participation fund and Workers welfare funds has strong significant impact on financial performance in term of accounting, equity and market base. However Earning before earning and tax and firm growth (our control variables) coefficients has shown strong positive impact on financial performance, while firm cash availability has negative impact on financial performance for sample under study. After control long firm specific variables we found a strong significant impact of CSR on FP for Pakistani manufacturing sector. Practical Implications: The results of said research would help corporate executives and financial managers for execution of owners' wealth goal (Financial Profitability) by implementing proper CSR practices in manufacturing sector companies.


Sulka masks from New Britain (Papua New Guinea) are astonishing objects, as much by their forms as by their fabrication process. They are the evocation of spirits who come to dance periodically in the villages. Their appearance is always accompanied by a certain excitement among the women, due to both the beauty of the forms and colours of the masks and the dance steps executed by their wearers. The materials and decorative techniques encountered on a mask from the Sulka ethnic group led the restorers to envisage the use of restoration techniques inspired by those used to restore textiles: refixing with stitches, structural support provided by cotton ribbons, the filling of lacunae by a sandwich of silk crepeline and Japanese paper glued by heat reactivation of the adhesive.


This article describes the state of informatics education in the Italian secondary schools, highlighting how the learning objectives set up by the Ministry of Education are difficult to meet, due to the fact that the subject is often taught by teachers not holding an informatics degree, the lack of suitable teaching material and the expectations of pupils and families, who tend to identify informatics with the use of computer applications.


Effects of electrolytes on the oxidation of carbon fibreswere investigated by ion chromatography and cyclic vol-tammogram measurement.The results indicate that theconcentration of nitrate ion decreases with increase oftreatment time,and the concentration of phosphate ionkeeps a constant in the process of electrochemical oxida-tion.Nitrate ions have more effective electrochemical ox-idation ability than other anions.The mechanism of elec-trochemical oxidation of carbon fibres was suggested.


The invention provides a technique for producing cool-type low-alcohol rice wine. The production technique comprises: taking dual grain (glutinous rice and rice) as main raw materials; taking lotus seeds as auxiliary materials; adopting a conventional Fujian rice-wine brewing process; taking Fujian Gutian red kojic rice as saccharification agents; applying a low-temperature freezing technique and a membrane filtration technique to pressed rice wine; and developing a novel product, namely the cool-type low-alcohol rice wine which is rich in nutrients, meets the demand of modern consumers and is suitable to be drunk in summer through scientific degustation, combination and flavoring. By applying PES (polyether sulfone) membrane to rice-wine clarification as a membrane material of tubular ultrafiltration equipment, the production technique is low in time consumption of classifying filtration, low in energy consumption and simple in operation compared with the conventional rice-wine production technique, is applicable to the large-scale production of the cool-type low-alcohol rice wine, retains the maximum nutrition and flavors of the rice wine after membrane filtration, improves the clarity and stability of the rice wine, has good economic benefit, and provides a novel way for the development of the rice wine industry.


Noninvasive access to coronary anatomy has long been anticipated and eventually became available with the emergence of multislice computed tomography angiography (MSCTA). MSCTA offers the possibility to identify coronary artery disease already in its preclinical phase. This unprecedented information proves to be useful in clinical practice as it allows the appropriate allocation of preventive therapies such as statin and aspirin.

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Flat panel displays have recently received much attention in research and development as alternatives to the cathode ray tube (CRT). The plasma display panel (PDP) is considered a promising candidate for commercial development. The performance of an ac PDP is influenced strongly by the surface plasma characteristics on the protective layer. The objective of this study was to examine the potential use of a polymerized thin film to replace MgO conventionally use for this protective layer. This thin film was formed using an interelectrode capacitively coupled plasma polymerization apparatus using methyl methacrylate (MMA) to create a polymerized PPMMA plasma polymerized methyl methacrylate (PPMMA). Both the functional groups of PMMA and PPMMA were found in the analysis using Fourier transform infrared. The polymerization rate of plasma polymer increased as a function of the plasma power and decreased as a function of the system pressure using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The plasma polymerized thin fi...


Embodiments of the invention provide a wireless local area network WLAN measurement and reporting method, and relative device. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring, WLAN group information by the user terminal and WLAN information group is used to indicate the at least one WLAN group; If at least one of the WLAN in the WLAN group satisfies the WLAN measurement configuration information, determining by the user terminal; And if the at least one WLAN in the WLAN group satisfies the WLAN measurement configuration information, and a step of reporting to the base station by the at least one WLAN measurement in the WLAN user terminal in the group. Accordingly, the signaling resource can be saved, thereby reducing the signaling load caused by the concurrent report of a large amount of WLAN measurement result thereby.


Outbound logistic initiatives for business-to-consumer attended home deliveries have conventionally been fraught with uncertainties due to random customer demand and the exorbitant operational costs of servicing individual residences. Exacerbating this uncertainty is the inability to adequately visualize order capture, vehicle dispatch, deliveries, and vehicle return with interactive simulation applications that permit intuitive and interactive sensitivity analyses by incorporating variables such as profitability, friction of transportation distance, and varying customer populations per regions. This research introduces and displays a visual simulation application that incorporates the above factors into an animated user interface while generating various data-intensive reports in real time. The fully functional application is planned to be implemented as a web service for enterprises either considering home-delivery initiatives, or as an in-house enterprise supply-chain optimization engine for firms looking to streamline their existing outbound "last-mile" logistic strategies.


ELID for SiC which enables the improvement of surface quality is put forward. ELID grinding technology is new technology of ultra-precision grinding, and the oxide film is formed on grinding wheel by electrolytic in-process technology, thus the wheel is in-process dressed. SiC material removal mechanism and ELID grinding mechanism is analyzed, the character and condition of brittle to ductile transition of SiC and surface formation mechanism of ductile mode grinding of SiC are studied, the results show that ELID grinding can realize ductile grinding ,this will lower the surface damage and improve the machining efficiency.


The human hand is Nature's most versatile and dexterous end-effector and it has been a source of inspiration for roboticists for over 50 years. Recently, significant industrial and research effort has been put into the development of dexterous robot hands and grippers. Such end-effectors offer robust grasping and dexterous, in-hand manipulation capabilities that increase the efficiency, precision, and adaptability of the overall robotic platform. This work focuses on the development of modular, sensorized objects that can facilitate benchmarking of the dexterity and performance of hands and grippers. The proposed objects aim to offer; a minimal, sufficiently diverse solution, efficient pose tracking, and accessibility. The object manufacturing instructions, 3D models, and assembly information are made publicly available through the creation of a corresponding repository.


With the consumption increase for traditional energy,and the worsening of the environment,all the countries in the world are actively developing the clean and renewable energy.The global PV production trends were summarized including the production levels,growth over the past decade,and top producers,the global PV market was analyzed,and the future development of PV market was proposed.


The integrated project of research "Environmental Quality of the South Region of Santa Catarinaâ€? linked to the Departament of Geoscience/UFSC has as objective to elaborate recommendations and relative propositions to the management of the area quality life. The third phase of this project was centralized in the Timbé do Sul and Jacinto Machado counties, both located in Araranguá (SC) region. Thus, as an integral part of the environmental diagnosis of the Jacinto Machado, this study focused on contemplating the land use and occupation of the urban area. Three main aspects were considered: colonization model, the formation agents and environmental problems issues. l