Minimum routing cost spanning tree - MRCT is one of spanning tree optimization problems having many applications in network design. In general cases, the problem is proved as NP-hard. This paper is going to propose 2 heuristic-based algorithms used for MRCT. The general idea of those algorithms is to start at a spanning tree and step by step improve edges to obtain better spanning tree. We conducted experiment implemetations for these proposals and obtained better result than the result of current approximate algorithms.


Symmetric searchable encryption (SSE) schemes allow a data owner to encrypt its data in such a way that it could be searched in encrypted form. When searching over encrypted data the retrieved data, search query, and search query outcome everything must be protected. A series of SSE schemes have been proposed in the past decade. In this paper, we are going to propose our an efficient multi-keyword symmetric searchable encryption scheme for secure data outsourcing and evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme on a real data set.


An experiment on stimulation of rooting of six Bougainvillea species using three different rooting hormones was conducted at the horticultural nursery, department of crop soil and pest management of the Federal University of Technology Akure, between the months of March to June, 2013. The experiment was laid out in Completely Block Design (CRD) with three replicates. Data were collected on number of days to sprouting, plant height, stem girth, stem length, wet root weight, dry root weight, the number of leaves per cutting and length of longest roots and subjected to Analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine the level of significance and Tukey Test was use to separate the means. The results showed that the Indole -3-butric acid and the coconut water had significant effect on the root emergence and root growth of Bougainvillea Species compare to the other hormone use and the hard wood cutting also has more influence on the rooting of the Boungainvillea flower than the semi –hard wood cutting had no roots. Therefore root initiation in cuttings of Boungainvillea could be enhanced when it is soaked with the indole -3-butric acid or coconut water for 5-10 minute and growth is also enhanced by propagation with the hard wood cutting.


This chapter is divided into six main sections. The first section looks at the global financial and economic crisis and the impacts on the food sector and emerging nations. The second section focuses attention on the problem of increasing food demand and, as a consequence, rising food prices. The third section is a proposal on how society should work together to try to solve the growing food problem. Then, in the fourth section, we present a background and overview of Brazil's agricultural production. The fifth section highlights the importance of agribusiness for the Brazilian economy. We finish in the sixth section with a scenario for TNC investments, along with some trends and global issues.


Electrodes of the molten salt battery includes a current collector 11 connected to the electrode terminals of the molten salt battery, an active material 12. Current collector 11 has an internal space 13 which is connected to the small space 14 from each other. The internal space 13 of the current collector 11, active material 12 is filled.


In the last two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has hit many countries, including Indonesia. The impact of this is that many parties are harmed so many businesses change their way of selling, namely by utilizing the use of the internet. In contrast to this phenomenon, one of the entrepreneurs in the Cibaduyut Shoe Center area, namely D'Wan Shoes, still sells conventionally by implementing the Business to Business system. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to develop and map a new business strategy for D'Wan Shoes using a Smart Business Map. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative analysis by analyzing the Playing Field and Market Landscape sections of D'Wan Shoes. Based on the results of the research that has been done, it can be seen that there are still shortcomings that need to be evaluated to be clearer and structured. The conclusion of this research is that D'Wan Shoes needs to do market research before launching the product, expand the target market to all over Indonesia, and make product innovations such as shoe models and sales methods, namely providing custom services. If things happen that are beyond D'Wan Shoes' control, such as government policies, changes in technology, and consumer behavior, D'Wan Shoes needs to prepare alternative ideas or adapt to these changes. Then they can take advantage of the production process to become the company's value proposition to compete with competitors. Planned campaigns and promotions will be carried out through social media by conducting paid promotions from features that already exist in several applications (Facebook Ads, Instagam Ads, Tiktok Ads), then using endorsement services from influencers. To make it easier for consumers to get D'Wan Shoes products, they must have an online store in the marketplace or company social media accounts.


© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Medical Journals Sweden, on behalf of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes, provided proper attribution to the original work. DOI 10.2340/17453674.2022.2030 Sir,—The Swedish surveillance program for children with CP (CPUP, Cerebral Palsy Follow-up Program) was initiated in 1994 and consists of multidisciplinary, long-term follow-up of joint motion and musculoskeletal function in order to enable early intervention to prevent permanent disability. Recently, Acta Orthopaedica published a longitudinal register study based on hip surveillance in CPUP (Wagner and Hägglund 2022). The study analysed the postoperative development of MP (migration percentage) after surgery to prevent hip dislocation. This is a clinically important question since the outcome of such surgery has been the subject of controversy for many years. 252 children at GMFCS levels III-V were studied. The surgical methods included adductor-psoas lengthening (APL) or varus derotation femoral osteotomy (VDRO). After a follow-up of ≥ 3 years, 54 of the 158 patients (34%) with APL needed reoperation, whereas 15 of 94 patients with VDRO were reoperated (16%). Some methodological weaknesses reduced the value of the study. First, MP and reoperation were the only outcome measures. The study would be more clinically interesting and easier to compare with previous studies if the failure rate, defined as the sum of reoperations and cases with MP ≥ 50% in accordance with previous studies (Shore et al. 2015, Terjesen 2019), had been used instead of reoperations only. Secondly, the follow-up period was rather short, since there is a deterioration of outcome with time. Shore et al. (2015) reported failure rates of 24% after 5 years and 42% after 10 years, and Terjesen (2019) found a mean time to failure of 3.6 years after femoral and pelvic osteotomies. Thus, the rate of reoperations was probably underestimated in the present study and there was no Kaplan-Meier survival analysis with time to reoperation as endpoint. In a similar study, which was also based on CPUP data (Kiapekos et al. 2019), the study design was satisfactory and included follow-up of ≥ 5 years, failure rates according to Shore et al. (2015), and survival analysis. The present study did not compare the results with those of Kiapekos et al. (2019). Thus, there was no discussion of the marked difference in the reoperation rates after VDRO (16% in the present study and 39% in the previous one). Possible reasons for this discrepancy should be discussed, especially since both studies were based on CPUP data and many patients probably were participants in both studies. In spite of these objections, further studies based on the CPUP and similar registers should be encouraged. The advantages are obvious: large numbers of patients can be included that make it possible to analyse subgroups like GMFCS levels and age groups, and systematic surveillance programs are suitable for longitudinal studies. Certain requirements for future studies should be defined. The years of birth and the years of treatment should be specified, as should gender, age and GMFCS levels. Preand postoperative pain and quality of life should be analysed, using standardized classifications. Postoperative follow-up should be satisfactory, i.e. ≥ 5 years. Classification of outcome should be in accordance with internationally accepted gradings in order to compare the results with those of previous studies. Last, but not least, results of previous studies based on the same surveillance register should be accounted for and discussed to detect possible changes over time.


A seismic airgun source should be designed under several conditions which depend on geological targets. For the shallowtargeted survey as in standard oil and gas exploration, we should take into consideration that the source has a wide frequency band and a high primary-to-bubble ratio (P/B). The deeper the target or longer the offset, the more crucial the amplitude in the lower frequency range becomes. As expected, the primary-peak amplitude should be raised. The P/B is still important in deep-penetration surveys for accurate seismic imaging. However, it is usually difficult to obtain such features along with a conventional or bubble-tuned airgun array. Thus we propose a new short airgun array that can meet these demands by using a closely spaced linear cluster technique.


Chondroradionecrosis (CRN) is an infrequent phenomenon after definitive RT. The clinical manifestation is usually difficult to distinguish from that of tumor recurrence; however, clinicians should be aware of the possibility of CRN.


This study aims to examine the effect of earnings volatility, smoothing earnings and earningspersistence. The independent variables used in this study are earnings volatility, income smoothingand earnings persistence. The dependent variable used in this study is earnings quality. Themethod uses secondary data in annual reports or financial reports that have been published byIslamic banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2016-2019. Thesampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling, while the analysis used in this studywas multiple regression. The results of hypothesis testing showed that earnings volatility has apositive effect on earnings quality. Income smoothing has a positive effect on earnings quality.Earnings persistence does not affect earnings quality


Broomrape and weeds are determining factors for faba bean cultivation in Egypt. In split split plot design for this reason two field experiments in clouded fifty treatments were conducted in naturally infested fields with weeds and broomrape (Orobanche crenata Forsk.) at Shandaweel Research Station, Sohag governorate during 2012/13 and 2013/14 winter seasons to study the effect of two water stress treatments (The irrigations regimes was 60% and 100% FC), five faba bean varieties namely (Giza843, Misr3, Nubaria1, Nubaria3 and Sakha4) and five weed control treatments Select-super at 500 cc/fed+ Basagran at 500 cc/fed+ Roundup twice at 75 cc/fed, Topik at 140 g/fed + Basagran at 500 cc/fed + Roundup twice at 75 cc/fed, Hand hoeing twice at 18, 30 DAS+ Hand pulling twice, Hand hoeing twice + Roundup twice at 75 cc/fed and untreated check on weeds, broomrape, faba bean seed yield and its components and water use efficiency. Results revealed that irrigation depletion at 60% FC decreased the dry weight of total weeds by 35.85 and 28.22% in first and sacond seasons as respectively compared with irrigation depletion at 100% FC. Irrigation at 100% FC decreased both number and dry weight of broomrape spikes/m by 31.90 and 30.44% in 2012/13 season and by 23.13 and 24.35% in 2013/14 season, respectively, delayed broomrape emergence above soil surface and increase faba bean seed yield /fed and its components compared with depletion at 60% FC in both seasons. Water consumptive use (CU) values were (992.5 and 737.1 m/fed.) for 100 and 60% FC treatment, respectively, in both seasons. The highest value of water use efficiency (WUE) recorded 1046.6 and 758.0 kg/m by using of irrigation at 60% FC in both seasons. The highest CU (882.5 and 935.6 m/fed.) and WUE (1.008 and 0.980 kg/m) were recorded 1.008 and by sown Sakka4 cultivar in both seasons, respectively. Excelled varieties of Nubaria1, Nubaria3 and Giza843 than other varieties and increase yield and its components by reducing the grassy and broad-leaved and total weeds in the both seasons. This due to the increased height of the plants, as well as increase the number of branches/plant compared other varieties. Varieties of Giza843 and Misr3 were brief and partially resistant to infection and Sakha4 was tolerant injured broomrape contrast while, Nubaria1 and 3, which were highly susceptible in both seasons. Weed control treatments decreased significantly the dry weight of grassy, broad-leaved and total weeds, numbers and weight of broomrape spikes and delayed broomrape emergence above soil surface of broomrape and gave the highest values of yield and yield components in both seasons. The best treatments were (Select-super +Basagran+ Roundup twice) and hand hoeing twice at 18, 30 DAS+ Hand pulling twice in both seasons. The interactions between irrigation regimes X varieties, irrigation regimes X weed control treatments, varieties X weed control treatments and irrigation regimes X varieties X weed control treatments decreased significantly the dry weight of weeds, number and dry weight of broomrape spikes in both seasons than unweeded check. So, the best seed yield was obtained from the interaction between growing faba bean variety (Giza843 and Misr3) combined with hand hoeing twice+ Roundup twice) or (Select-super +Basagran+ Roundup twice) under irrigation at 100% FC in both seasons. From this study it can be recommended for the cultivation of Giza 843 and Misr3 because it relatively resistant to infection broomrape or agriculture product was Sakha4 because it broomrape tolerant of injury. Irrigation can also be at 60% FC to minimize water consumption and getting to making seed yield of faba bean relatively reasonable. You can also use herbicide (Select-super at 500 cc/fed + Basagran at 500 cc/fed + Roundup twice at 75 cc/fed) to get the highest percentage control of weeds and broomrape and the highest seed yield of faba bean.


Human resource management is the strategic approach to management of an organization's most valuable asset—its people. It covers the recruitment, management, and direction of people who work for the organization and deals with employee compensation and benefits, hiring and training, performance management, organization development, safety and wellness, and organizational communication. HR managers are facing many challenges in present business scenariolike globalization workforce diversity,technological advances and changes in political and legal environment change in information technology. All these challenges increase the pressure on HR managers to attract,retain and nurture talented employee. HR professional can't ignore these challenges rather they ought tobe line to design and execute innovative mechanisms of developing skills and competencies of human resources to prepare them to accept the emerging challenges. Developments of the past three decades have changed the face and practice of business and these changes have confronted managers with many opportunities and challenges. Nowhere are these challenges more pronounced than in the area of HRM. Contributing as a Strategic Business Partner although there is emphasis today on getting HR out of record keeping and making HR more strategic, a lot of HR people are not equipped for this. Often a company wants an HR representative to think like a businessperson but does not give them the respect, time, tools and other provisions to do so. HR's role as a strategic business partner comes from both the company and HR's own initiatives. HR can allow for variances that fit special circumstances. Guidelines, rules, and benchmarks are important, but flexibility is even more critical, particularly where people are concerned


Double Skin Façades (DSFs) have become widespread solutions commonly employed in new and existing buildings in the last decades. Since its introduction, the multi-layered façade has improved profoundly, assuming more articulate and complex shapes for better energy performances and combining advanced technologies as innovative materials or systems. However, the effectiveness and the thermal behaviour of DSFs should be carefully evaluated since the design phase by selecting proper methodologies, thus avoiding inaccurate results. In fact, the correct estimation of the airflows inside DSF channels is heavily influenced by the simulation settings. Furthermore, the lack of measurements or empirical validations in the field is the primary source of concern for researchers. Considering the available numerical methods for investigating DSFs, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations have proven to be the most appropriate option. The present work compares multiple Double Skin Façade configurations by performing CFD analyses and adopting different turbulence models in bi- and three-dimensional domains. The results underline the capability of 2D models in predicting the fluxes inside the DSF channel and in the domain. Furthermore, comparisons among the velocity profiles estimated by adopting different turbulence formulations highlight only slight variations, especially in proximity to the perturbated areas of the cavity.


This paper discusses the political dimension of Odon de Buen's (1863–1945) expository practices—teaching and popularizing—as a university professor of natural history in Barcelona and later in Madrid at the turn of the nineteenth century. De Buen appropriated Ernst Haeckel's ideas on evolution in order to promote an ambitious political agenda, based on republican, freethinking, anticlerical values. To that end, he moved beyond the confines of academic science within the university and sought to bring modern concepts of natural history into elementary schools, athenaeums, political clubs and associations, scientific trips, popular books, periodicals, and the daily press. In such places, de Buen's natural history acted as an intellectual weapon with which to confront the conservative monarchic attitudes of the Spanish Restoration, but it also provided a moral backing to a society, which felt backward in terms of science and technology and was desperately seeking new sources of inspiration and national pride.


In higher education, the field of student affairs, as demonstrated in previous research, suffers from high turnover, and often, the choice to leave the student affairs field seems to coincide with starting a family and simultaneously taking care of elder family members. Previous research has demonstrated that care-giving commitments hinder women in the advancement of their career and given the changing culture of shared care-giving responsibilities, the previous findings may now be true for men as well. This study focused on Caucasian male middle managers' perceptions of the student affairs work environment in relation to their families and workplace supportiveness and advancement. I interviewed eight Caucasian, male student affairs middle managers about their perceptions about workplace supportiveness of family obligations in the student affairs field. The participants placed high importance on family and were no longer willing to risk family life for career success. All eight men talked fondly of their family obligations and were willing to change career paths to demonstrate how much they valued their families. In addition, these men frequently commented on the desire to represent cultural change. Therefore, student affairs divisions should implement supportive informal benefits across the board to all professional full time employees for increasing long term stability in the field of student affairs.


A Boeing 707 fuselage section was drop tested to measure structural, seat, and anthropomorphic dummy response to vertical crash loads. The specimen had nominally zero pitch, roll and yaw at impact with a sink speed of 20 ft/sec. Results from this drop test and other drop tests of different transport sections will be used to prepare for a full-scale crash test of a B-720.


Applying Schwartz's values theory and Allport's contact theory, this study examines the role of personal values and personal acquaintance with non-traditional families as mediators of the association between socio-demographic variables (SES) and family concept. In the first known study of its kind on the Jewish-Israeli family, a sample of 1518 adult respondents took part in a panel survey. The main findings underline the strong contribution of personal acquaintance with non-traditional families and the values of Conservation, and Self-Transcendence as mediators of the association between SES and family definition. In addition, women, the better-educated, and secular respondents are more inclusive in the types of relationships sanctioned as family. These findings shed light on the complex mechanisms by which personal variables, SES and individual values, and the environmental variable of personal contact with non-traditional families underpin the definition of family, and further support the utility of Allport and Schwartz's theories.


Extracellular deposition of the amyloid- peptide (A) in the brain parenchyma is a hallmark lesion of Alzheimer's disease (AD) andapredictivemarkerfortheprogressionofpreclinicaltosymptomaticAD.Here,weusedmultiphotoninvivoimagingtostudy A plaque formation in the brains of 3- to 4-month-old APPPS1 transgenic mice over a period of 6 months. A novel head fixation systemprovidedrobustandefficientlong-termtrackingofsingleplaquesovertime.Resultsrevealedanestimatedrateof35newly formedplaquespercubicmillimeterofneocorticalvolumeperweekat4‐5monthsofage.Atlatertimepoints(i.e.,inthepresence ofincreasingcerebral-amyloidosis),thenumberofnewlyformedplaquesdecreased.Onaverage,bothnewlyformedandexisting plaquesgrewatasimilargrowthrateof0.3m(radius)perweek.Asolidknowledgeofthedynamicsofcerebral-amyloidosisin mouse models provides a powerful tool to monitor preclinical A targeting therapeutic strategies and eases the interpretation of diagnostic amyloid imaging in humans.


Government programmes as an element of strategic planning are meant to logically link budget expenditures with attaining long-term priorities of socioeconomic development. In the Russian Federation, the vast majority of regional budget expenditures are programme expenditures. At the same time, a plenty of practical examples evidence the imperfection of the established methodological approaches to financing government programmes, which impairs their outcomes. The paper aims to produce practical recommendations on improving the assessment of government programmes' financing efficiency in the subjects of the Russian Federation. Methodologically, the research relies on the approaches of programme-based budgeting. The methods are logical structural analysis and synthesis. According to the qualitative analysis of the government programmes' financing at the regional level in the Russian Federation, the major problem of assessing the efficiency of this financing is the insufficient coherence between its structure and expected outcomes. As a consequence, the target programme method is applied formally. The analysis of the case of the Sverdlovsk oblast demonstrated that the existing method for assessing the efficiency of the government programmes' financ ing in the subjects of the Russian Federation actually evaluates performance rather than efficiency of the financing. In line with this, the paper formulates practical recommendations concerning the improvement of the method for assessing the efficiency of the government programmes' financing and the development of the system for their financing in the constituting entities of the Russian Federation: to decompose target indicators more accurately, to avoid including financing of maintenance activities, to impose stricter requirements to the composition of the funding and the quality of goal-setting.


Lytechinus variegatus (31.29 ± 0.12 SE) were collected in October 2004 from Saint Joseph Bay, Florida (30°N, 85.5°W), and transported to the Texas AgriLife Research Mariculture Laboratory in Port Aransas, Texas. Sea urchins were held individually in 25 × 10 cm diameter cylindrical cages and fed semipurified formulated feeds containing 0.6, 1.1, or 2.4 mg selenium/kg feed (as sodium selenite) for 12 wk (n = 16 individuals per feed treatment, 15.59 ± 0.18 SE g initial wet weight, 31.29 ± 0.12 SE mm diameter; 32 ± 2 ppt salinity and 22 ± 1 C). Sea urchins were weighed every 4 wk and dissected at the end of the 12-wk study. High levels of dietary selenium (2.4 mg Se/kg feed) significantly decreased weight gain, test diameter, test wet weight, and dry ovary production compared to sea urchins fed the 0.6 and/or the 1.1 mg selenium/kg feed, suggesting that high levels of dietary selenium negatively affect sea urchin physiology. Observable pathologies in sea urchins fed high levels of dietary selenium included red coelomic fluid and pigmented organs, consistent with an inflammatory response. Additionally, selenium accumulated in the gut, gonad, and test at levels generally proportional to selenium in the feed. A selenium requirement is suggested but not established in this 12-wk study. These data suggest toxicity for high levels of dietary selenium in L. variegatus, resulting in a variety of growth inhibitions and pathologies.


Persons with schizophrenia possess enduring deficits that limit their capacity for interpersonal relatedness. Yet meaningful bonds form and are sustained during the process of psychotherapy. To better understand this phenomenon we analyzed the threats to relatedness and therapist actions in one case of long-term integrative psychotherapy. In these analyses we found relatedness was facilitated by the therapist's attitude of sympathy followed by their assistance filtering, recalling and considering in a flexibly abstract manner relevant material.


Objective: The main purpose of the present study was to analyze the antidiabetic activity of methanolic extract of the leaf of Kalanchoe pinnata in alloxan-induced diabetic rats.
Methods: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic and endocrine disease regarded as a serious global public health problem. Albino Wistar rats were divided into four groups. Group I (normal) received drinking water throughout the course till 20 days. Groups II-IV received alloxan (120 mg/kg b.w) i.p on the 1st day of the study period. Group III animals received glibenclamide (10 mg/kg p.o) and Group IV received K. pinnata (200 mg/kg b.w p.o) for 20 days. The body weight, blood glucose level, serum urea, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, cholesterol, total protein (TP), uric acid, and tissue (liver) antioxidant parameters: Malondialdehyde (MDA) and glutathione (GSH) were measured.
Results: K. pinnata treated rats showed the percentage increase in the body weight, decrease in the blood sugar level, creatinine, TP level, urea, uric acid, and BUN, MDA, and GSH when compared to alloxan-induced diabetic mellitus control rats. Thus, K. pinnata could be possibly employed to treat DM.
Conclusion: This preliminary analysis tested the most promising profile. It seems that methanolic extract of the leaf of K. pinnata improved general, blood serum, and liver antidiabetic agent. However, further studies confirming its potential is certainly warranted.


THE QUEEN'S GIFT TO A DUBLIN HOSPITAL. The Children's Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin, was specially favoured by Royalty on tlie day of the Queen's departure. Miss Minnie Cochrane drove up to the hospital in the morning, conveying a gift from the Queen as a memento of the joining of the " Moy-Mell" Children's Guild by the little Battenberg Princess and Princes. The present consisted of a very handsome, large, framed engraving, named " The Queen with her Grandchildren and Favourites at Osborne," and representing the Queen driving in her pony-chair across a grassy lawn, surrounded by the children of Princess Henry of Battenberg. Seven pet dogs also appear in the picture. The Guild, which has been joined by the young Princess and Princes, has for its object the interesting of happy and well-nurtured children in the less fortunate little ones of the poor. The good Sisters of Charity, who form the governing body of the hospital, are often hampered in their work by a lack of


The Internet has revolutionized the way we communicate and created new paradigms for innovation in education. This paper discusses the pedagogical issues conforming to constructivism that educators may consider in the delivery of instruction in post-secondary vocational education. The roles of both the students and teachers must be redefined in the new paradigm. An intellectually exciting learning experience can happen in a classroom, a laboratory or the cyberspace. The art of combining the strengths of classroom face-to-face teaching and Web-based self-directed instruction will be a challenge to educators. In addition to management support and a fair reward system as drivers for improvement, success in the integration of information technology in teaching will rely on teams of teachers who are committed to learning, experimenting, collaborating and sharing their knowledge.


The Federal Aviation Administration introduced the concept of urban air mobility (UAM), a new three-dimensional transport system that operates with a fusion of manned/unmanned aerial vehicles on an urban or intercity scale. The rapid development of UAM has brought innovation and dynamism to many industries, especially in the field of logistics. Various types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for use in transport logistics are being designed and produced. UAV logistics refers to the use of UAVs, usually carrying goods and parcels, to achieve route planning, identify risk perception, facilitate parcel delivery, and carry out other functions. This research provides a method for assessing the operational capacity of a UAV logistics route network. The concept of "logistics UAV route network operation capacity" is defined, and a bi-objective optimization model for assessing the route network's operating capacity is developed. The first objective is to maximize the number of UAV logistics delivery plans that can be executed in a fixed operation time. The second objective is to minimize the total operational impedance value in a fixed operation time. To solve the bi-objective optimization model, the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) is utilized. A UAV logistics route network with 62 nodes is developed to assess the rationale and validity of the proposed concept. The experiments show that with an increase in operation time, the route network's optimal operational capacity gradually increases, the convergence speed of the algorithm slows down, and the optimization magnitude gradually reduces. Two key parameters—operational safety interval and flight speed—are further analyzed in the experiments. According to the experiments, as the safety interval increases, the route network's average operational capacity steadily diminishes, as does its sensitivity to the safety interval. The average operational capacity steadily rose with the rise in flight speed, especially when the UAV logistics flight speed was between 10 m/s and 10.5 m/s. In that range, the operational capacity of the route network was substantially impacted by the flight speed.


Abstract : There are currently three databases supported by three different commands that collect and output basically the same type of information: PACER, SHAREM, and AIREM. These systems contain initial detection data, tracking data, environmental data, system performance data, and weapon performance data. This thesis investigates the commonalities and differences in structure and content of the three databases, and examines the feasibility of integrating PACER, SHAREM, and AIREM into a single database. The benefits of this database integration are a more comprehensive utilization of data, reduced data collection for fleet users, and a standardization of how the data is analyzed. PACER, AIREM, SHAREM.


New Brunswick LNG, Western Canada gas swap has been urged by D. D. Lougheed (Imperial Oil Ltd.) as a possible alternative to a proposal by Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd. and Petro-Canada Ltd. to extend the existing gas-pipeline network that supplies Montreal to Quebec City and perhaps the Maritime Provinces. According to Lougheed, the proposed pipeline is not practical owing to the dispersed population and industry in the Maritimes (gas could supply only 10-20% of the total energy demand in that area and unit costs would be high) and to the possibility that the Maritimes will become energy self-sufficient if offshore exploration is successful. Lougheed has thus proposed that New Brunswick industries buy LNG (which would be regasified at Tenneco LNG Inc.'s proposed $650 million LNG terminal and regasification center at Lorneville, N.B.) at the same price as that of pipelined Western Canada gas in Toronto, and in turn buy equal amounts of Western Canada gas for delivery to Tenneco in Western Canada.


This paper is an advance of "The teaching of Recent History and the adolescents-students", Project N° 1366, CIUNSA. Our objectives are: a) Explain how adolescents-students interact with History. b) Analyze the images and opinions that adolescent students construct daily. For this article's development we used interviews and questionnaires to understand how images constructed by adolescents-students are conditioned by the historical knowledge teaching.


Abstract This paper presents three traffic network simulation models implemented on massively parallel computer, the Connection Machine CM-2. The proposed simulation models have been parallelized to take advantage of the parallel computers since they can offer the required computational power at an economical cost/performance ratio. The paper presents detailed discussion of parallel data structure and parallel logic for each simulation model. Several simulation experiments have been carried out to compare the execution speed of each methodology. The preliminary research results indicate that parallel computing architecture offers a very promising alternative for the implementation of real-time traffic simulation.


In one form, the non-volatile nanotube diode device comprises a first and a second terminal; A cathode and an anode, and a semiconductor element capable of providing a conductive path between the cathode and the anode in response to an electrical stimulus applied to the first conductive terminal; And a nanotube switching element including a nanotube fabric articles through the semiconductor elements and electrically nanotube fabric articles are disposed between the semiconductor element and the second contact is to form a conductive path between the semiconductor element and the second contact number, and the first and the electrical stimulation applied to the second terminal will result in a plurality of logic states.


Although sprawl in an economy is considered a positive sign of development, but it brings in allied problems also. The process of urbanization has created a enormous gap between demand and supply of urban services and infrastructure. With the increasing urbanization trends; the cities and towns are not only becoming more densely populated but are also growing geographically. We begin the argument with a brief view of the water balance at the ultimate scale of the global water supply/demand inequity is increasing. This is due to population growth, particularly in arid, water-short regions, contamination of water sources, and ineffective consumption of available supplies. Progressively, futurists are predicting a world where water shortages, exacerbated by global warming, could cause increased food imports, population shifts, domestic political unrest, and geopolitical conflict. As the possible for future crisis rises each year, calls to address water supply issues are becoming more urgent, though political action to change these trends has so far been hushed. In the existing urban areas the basic infrastructure facilities has not been able to match with this rapid urban growth and hence is overstrained. Main aim of the study is future demand by using appropriate tools, methods and proposes an efficient water infrastructure facility.


Von Willebrand's disease (vWD) is a hereditary (autosomal) hemorrhagic disorder characterized by reduced and/or abnormal von Willebrand factor (vWF or VIIIrelated antigen, V1II:RAg) in plasma, and reduced plasma levels of factor VlII (VI1I:C or antihemophilic factor). The primary deficiency is that of vWF.' The prolonged bleeding time in patients with vWD is characteristic of a platelet disorder. Microscopic examination of bleeding time puncture wounds reveals masses of platelets that do not adhere to the cut blood vessels, and thus are ineffective for hemostasis.2 In vitro tests in which blood is perfused past de-endothelialized everted arterial rings have established the importance of vWF in platelet adhesion to the vascular s u b e n d ~ t h e l i u m . ~ ~ ~ Standard in vitro tests of platelet aggregation and secretion are normal. Platelet agglutination with ristocetin is reduced in severe vWD and can be corrected by addition of vWF. This agglutination does not require platelet activation. It does require the presence of glycoprotein Ib (GPIb) on the platelet membrane and is absent in patients with the Bernard-Soulier syndrome, whose platelets lack this glycoprotein.' The platelet retention test is the only measurement of in vitro platelet function that is abnormal in blood from patients with vWD and that does not require vascular tissue or ristocetin. Although the test was first described in 1960 by Hellem,5 shown to be abnormal in vWD in 1963,67 and discussed in two earlier New York Academy of Sciences conference^:^ it is still poorly understood. To perform the test, 5 ml of native or heparinized blood is pumped rapidly through a column of glass beads. Each milliliter emerging from the column is collected separately with EDTA and platelet counts performed. For each milliliter, the retention is the difference between the postcolumn count and the precolumn count expressed as a percentage of the precolumn count. In normal blood, the number of platelets retained in the column is low for the first milliliter but increases progressively in subsequent milliliters. FIGURE 1A illustrates a typical test in a normal subject and the reduced retention in a patient whose plasma contained no measurable vWF. The shear rate is very important; if blood is pumped through the bead column slowly, retention is normal even in severe vWD." Similarly, the requirement for vWF in platelet adhesion to the subendothelium is demonstrable only when the shear rate is high." We developed a two-stage test (FIGURE IB) in an attempt to clarify the


Introduction and Background Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) is the method of choice for functional MR Imaging (fMRI) studies and especially functional neuroimaging where rapid scanning is required to follow brain activations induced by various stimuli. While multi-slice EPI is commonly used to acquire 3D datasets, 3D EPI offers the advantages of creating thinner and contiguous slices, as well as generating a higher signal to noise ratio. 3D EPI however is more sensitive to subject motion since the determination of spatial location within the volume involves every acquired line of k-space. The evaluation in real-time of rigid body motion by means of navigators can help to overcome this disadvantage. We have developed a 3D EPI sequence with embedded cloverleaf navigators, which enables the detection and the correction of motion in all 6 degrees of freedom during the acquisition of each partition (3D slice) of each volume. Compared to orbital [1] or spherical navigators [2], the original k-space trajectory of the cloverleaf navigators [3] [4] enables a rapid estimate of both translations and rotations involved in the motion of the subject. The phases measured on the straightline segments of the navigator's trajectory are used to evaluate the translations. The rotation angles can be deduced from the comparison of the navigator with a preregistered map of navigators acquired for various artificial rotations.


A non-destructive technique to inspect a scratch on all magnetic disks in the beginning process of hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturing by using CD and DVD pick-up heads as the detector is proposed. It requires a 100% disk inspection of micrometer-sized scratches in a quick measurement with low cost inventing. Most of the previous studies were in static state but this is the first time to be done in dynamic study using the microcontroller in order to promptly serve for industrial utilization. The size, position, and shape characteristic of scratches are examined using light reflection technique. The results show that, when the laser beam is targeted on a magnetic disk in a position, either scratch or non-scratch, the reflected light intensity differs. The DVD pick-up head can detect the width and the surface characteristic of the scratches, which is similar to the results from scanning electron microscope (SEM) for all scratches sizes less than 100 µm. It is also found that using a DVD pick-up head provides a better resolution of shape characteristic and roughness of scratches surface than a CD pick-up head. Hence, the scratch size of 10s µm scale on the magnetic disk can be accurately characterized by this proposed technique, which can be further utilized for magnetic disk inspection in the hard disk drive manufacturing process.


In this paper we construct a one-parameter family of interpolating multigenerators which generalize the scalar generators constructed in Ref. 4 in a natural way. Furthermore we extend this approach to design a family of interpolating orthonormal multigenerators. The construction is based on the factorization techniques introduced in Ref. 27.


Overview Magma chambers are continuous bodies of magma in the crust where magma accumulates and differentiates. Both geophysical and geochemical techniques have illuminated many aspects of magma chambers since they were first proposed. In this chapter, we review these observations in the context of heat and mass transfer theory. This chapter reviews heat transfer calculations from magma chamber to the surrounding crust, and also considers the coupled stress fields that are generated and modified by the presence of magmatic systems. The fluid dynamics of magma chambers has received considerable attention over the last several decades and here we review the ramifications of convection in magma chambers. Multiphase flow (melt + crystals + bubbles) plays a particularly important role in the evolution of magma chambers. The large density differences between melt and discrete phases such as bubbles and crystals, and the resulting flow fields generated by buoyancy are shown to be an efficient mechanism to generate mixing in chamber systems. Finally we discuss integrative approaches between geophysics and geochemistry and future directions of research. Introduction The compositional diversity of melts that reach the surface of the Earth, and diversity in eruptive style, are largely determined through processing of these melts as they ascend and sometimes stall in the crust. Most eruptive products and intrusive suites have been modified substantially from their progenitor mantle magmas, either through preferential removal of crystal phases during fractionation, assimilation of crustal melts, or a combination of these processes (Daly, 1914; Anderson, 1976; Wyllie, 1977; Hildreth and Moorbath, 1988; DePaolo et al. , 1992; Feeley et al. , 2002). Much of the evolution of these magmas likely occurs where they spend the most time: where magma has either permanently or temporarily stalled in magma chambers. This accumulation is fundamental to the genesis of large eruptions, as the background flux from the mantle cannot explain the voluminous outbursts of magma at the surface of the Earth. Magma chamber dynamics largely control the compositional evolution of these magmas, and ultimately a better understanding of magma chambers may provide clues to the triggering of eruptions.


The beam position monitor system (BPM) of NSRL electron storage ring have a resolution of 10 microns with an accuracy of 50 microns, which is adequate fix beam position measurement and the closed orbit correction. The paper describes both of the BPM system and the closed orbit measurement.


Abstract The thermal and dynamical structure of the tropical atmosphere which emerged from the numerical integration of our general circulation model with a simple hydrologic cycle is analyzed in detail. According to the results of our analysis, the lapse rate of zonal mean temperature in the model Tropics is super-moist-adiabatic in the lower troposphere, and is sub-moist-adiabatic above the 400-mb. level in qualitative agreement with the observed features in the actual Tropics. The flow field in the model Tropics also displays interesting features. For example, a zone of strong convergence and a belt of heavy rain develops around the equator. Synoptic-scale disturbances such as weak tropical cyclones and shear lines with strong convergence develop and are reminiscent of disturbances in the actual tropical atmosphere. The humid towers, which result from moist convective adjustment and condensation, develop in the central core of the regions of strong upward motion, sometimes reaching the level of the tro...


Purpose. This study investigated two opposing orientations toward exercise and wellness behavior as related to selected personal characteristics. A "self-trusting" orientation focuses on process measures, and exercise and wellness behavior is internally directed. A "self-controlling" orientation focuses on outcome measures, and exercise and wellness behavior is externally directed. Design. Relationships among variables were assessed using Pearson correlation and step-wise multiple regression. Setting. One questionnaire was administered to all subjects under quiet classroom conditions. Subjects. Subjects were enrolled in university physical education activity classes (N = 154), a health promotion and fitness undergraduate class (N = 52), and a commercial aerobic dance program (N = 68). Measures. The questionnaire, containing 157 items, assessed exercise orientation, wellness orientation, general self-esteem, physical self-esteem, self-reinforcement, expectancy values for exercise, and level of physical activity. Results. Individuals who reported exercising to improve physical appearance and/or physical performance had higher control scores on the exercise scale; exercising for pleasure or social reasons served as suppressor variables. High control scores on wellness and exercise orientation were indicative of individuals less likely to positively self-reinforce their behavior. A high control score on the wellness scale was significantly related to lower general and physical self-esteem scores. Finally, higher physical self-esteem was significantly related to exercising for pleasure and athletic reasons; exercising to improve physical appearance served as a suppressor variable. Conclusions. These data strengthen the recommendation that health promotion professionals consider alternative approaches to promoting exercise and enhancing wellness. Programming strategies that foster internally directed exercise and wellness behaviors may be more centrally related to an individual's well-being than programs that support externally directed behavior.


1. TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a bi-directional multi-drop bus system, a memory system and a memory module using the same. 2. The technical problem to be solved by the invention The present invention provides a bi-directional multi-drop bus system, a memory system using the same, and a memory module, in which there is no reflected wave causing mutual signal interference. 3. Summary of Solution to Invention The invention provides [K + 1] stubs; A connector to which a memory module is mounted at one end of each stub; A series load coupled to the connector; And a series load coupled to the characteristic impedance of the bus line of the stub. 4. Important uses of the invention The present invention is used in a memory system. Bus, memory system, impedance matching, echo


ABSTRACT The temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and external electric field effects on the confined exciton in cylindrical quantum dots by considering a parabolic confining potential are investigated. The effects of these external perturbations on the binding energy and interband emission energy are calculated numerically by adopting the variational method within the effective mass approximation. Our findings indicate that the exciton binding energy and interband emission energy depend significantly on decreasing electric field, diminishing temperature, and enhancing the hydrostatic pressure. The contribution of the electric field on the binding energy becomes more important for wide axial parabolic quantum well. We have also shown that the Stark effect of exciton diminishes almost linearly with increasing hydrostatic pressure. Furthermore, the electric field and the quantum dot height lead to enhancing the Stark shift. The behaviour of the excitonic Stark shift as a function of the applied electric field proves the existence of a dipole moment. This physical parameter becomes important for the weak confinement regime.


Since the outbreak of corporate accounting scandals such as Enron case, claims for standards based in principles instead of in rules became more frequent and enthusiastic. Then, standard setters introduced a transition to a more principles-based approach and the immediate consequence of such a transition is the increasing need of professional judgment in accounting. However, principles-based standards tend to be more intensively characterized by vagueness (Penno, 2008). The literature has addressed the rules- versus principal-based accounting standards debate, but questions about how accounting decisions are made under vague conditions were hardly explored in practical terms: this is our focus. To address such an issue, we formulated two propositions: (1) accountants' decisions made under vague conditions are significantly different from those made under non-vague conditions; and as an alternative explanation, (2) accountants' decisions can be influenced by their individual cognitive reflection ability. To test the hypotheses connected to those proposition, we collected data via a questionnaire containing accounting tasks related to the classification of assets and cash flows, and the three questions from the Cognitive Reflection Test developed by Frederick (2005). Based on a sample of 859 accountants, we developed univatiate analyses and found that the dispersion on classification is significantly higher under vague conditions, than under non-vague conditions. Moreover, the results suggest that the cognitive reflection ability does not help accountants to deal with vague circumstances. Thus, no matter how much they reflect about a transaction, such dispersion persists. It mitigates the consistent application of IFRSs and the quality of accounting information – indeed, its comparability.


Play and fun were the important elements in children's growth procedures. From the old age researches have been done and many scholars paid attention to playing. Each stage of human life span has got special importance from birth to death, but most scholars and researches believe that childhood is the most important one that called as "becoming stage". That is human personality which is shaped in childhood and developed in the next stage. These affairs show playing role in human life. On the other hand, psychic maturity is an important pant among his physical, mental, affective and social maturity which conclude all dimensions of human maturity .Authors have written this article to show the relation of play and psychic maturity and its effecting factors and interrelationship of playing and psychic maturity which have been drawn as a framework.


The paper traces the genealogy of social and legal inequalities in citizenship and in the racialization of immigrants in the U.S. that are constitutive of contemporary immigrant detention practices. Presenting a challenge to the exceptionalism which frames policy responses to 9/11 and the "war on terror," the paper argues that contemporary detention policies emerge from an episodic history of immigrant detention, precipitated by a series of broadly defined national security crises over the last century—from fear of contagion, to the demonization of "foreign" ideologies, to international military conflicts and domestic "wars" on crime, drugs and terrorism. These "crises" have been invoked to reduce the rights and civil liberties of racialized immigrants and citizens in the detention process. Even before the "war on terror" began, the coordinates of race, noncitizenship and national crisis were mobilized by the government through the vehicle of detention to deny due procedural rights to racialized immigrants. Such policies, often practiced legally and extralegally, serve to highlight the broad formation of a near permanent lesser class of persons vulnerable to institutionalized inequalities in the United States.


We present an analytical framework for determining metallic electron-phonon interaction parameters from time-domain terahertz spectroscopy measurements. We apply this analysis to the case of lead, where we obtain values that are consistent with existing estimates. We discuss the statistical and systematic errors that limit the uncertainty in the parameter estimates.


The present invention discloses a Global Navigation Satellite System crosstalk mitigation. The method of the present invention comprises a first GNSS satellite signal receiver associated with the first, the first GNSS signal which has a first code on a first modulated direct sequence spreading code associated and a second chip sequences direct sequence spreading code associated with a second chip sequence; and a second GNSS satellite signal receiver associated with the second; according to the first code sequence relative to the third sheet characteristics chip sequence to select the start time for the first integration GNSS signals; integrating the selected start time of the first GNSS signal based; and based on the first the integrated GNSS signal codes realize the first GNSS signal phase synchronization. Aspect of the present invention can greatly improve the reception sensitivity of a satellite navigation receiver.


R.K. Narayan's art occupies a central place in the development of modern Indian fiction. His works have a distinctive Indian sensibility and the setting and character in his work gives it its Indian flavor. The vividness of Narayan's characterization, and moral reservation, his social observation of the themes based on Hindu doctrines and his comedy depicts the deeply-ingrained patterns of Indian thought.


Trees and shrubs are valuable additions to most property, providing beauty, wind protection, shade, wildlife habitat, visual screening, and other benefi ts. Unfortunately, many landscape trees are not properly planted or cared-for. Here we describe up-to-date, research-proven techniques for planting landscape trees and for post-planting care. We assume you know what species and cultivar you want to plant. Visit our website extension.usu.edu/forestry for more information on selecting the right tree for your site.


Objective: Previous studies have compared depressive episodes between bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) using quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG); however, there are no distinct discriminating feature between them. Here, we used QEEG to directly compare the alpha asymmetry and absolute power of each band between patients with BD and MDD.Methods: Fifty in-patients with major depressive episodes between 2019 and 2021 were retrospectively enrolled. Self-reported questionnaires including the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Korean version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Self Report Scale (ASRS) were used to evaluate the symptoms. The absolute power of QEEG delta, theta, alpha, beta, high beta waves, and the Z-scores of frontal alpha asymmetry were collected. A t-test and Pearson's correlation test were conducted using these data and based on these results, an analysis of covariance was conducted.Results: There were no significant differences between MDD and BD in QEEG power or alpha asymmetry. Patients with severe depression (BDI ≥29) had higher alpha power at FP1 (p=0.037), FP2 (p=0.028), F3 (p=0.047), F4 (p=0.016), and higher right frontal alpha asymmetry at F3–F4 (p=0.039). Adult patients with features consistent with ADHD (ASRS ≥4) had higher right frontal alpha asymmetry at F3–F4 (p=0.046). Patients with insomnia had higher left frontal alpha asymmetry at F3–F4 (p=0.003).Conclusion: QEEG limited the differential diagnosis of MDD and BD. However, frontal alpha asymmetry did exist in depression and affected cognitive impairment, insomnia, and depression severity in particular. Future studies with improved methodologies are needed for a better comparison.


ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of foreign diasporas on host country firms. It contributes to diaspora research by focusing on the context of emerging market host countries and the specific case of Chinese diaspora in Russia. Drawing on the concepts of organizational capabilities and organizational legitimacy, we explain how the Chinese diaspora can be beneficial for the competitiveness of Russian firms, and how Russian firms can uniquely leverage these potential benefits through engagement with individual Chinese diasporans and diaspora institutions. Our article adds to the diaspora literature in several ways. First, unlike the majority of past research, which tends to focus on the benefits for the diaspora's home country, we highlight the potential impact on host country firms, specifically their capabilities and legitimacy at home and abroad. Second, our model can be viewed as a direct response to the many calls in the literature to study the microfoundations of firms' capabilities. Third, we add to the legitimacy literature by proposing that engagement with a foreign diaspora can help host country firms establish and maintain their legitimacy both at home and on a global scale. Although our framework is informed by the Chinese diaspora in Russia, we discuss its generalizability to other contexts. 摘要 本文探讨了外国侨民对东道国公司的影响。文章通过引入组织能力和组织合法性的概念,解释了在俄华侨如何提高东道国俄罗斯公司的竞争力,以及俄罗斯公司如何通过与华侨个人以及华侨相关机构的紧密互动,对其技术能力、组织能力、全球化能力产生积极影响,以实现潜在收益最大化。本文对侨民及移民研究作出了几点贡献。第一,过去大多数研究强调侨民群体为母国带来的益处,而本文聚焦侨民群体对东道国公司的潜在影响,特别是对这些公司在国内外的能力和合法性方面的影响。第二,本文直接回应了学者们对更多关注公司能力微观基础的呼吁。第三,本文提出与外国侨民的紧密互动可以提高和保持东道国企业在本土和国际市场上的合法性。鉴于本文的理论框架反映的是在俄华侨的特定情境,文章进一步探讨了该框架在其他情境下的普遍性。


This paper deals with multi-depot bus scheduling (MDBS) problem. Depot workload balancing constraints are introduced. In this case, the problem can be stated as a two-objective multi-commodity flow problem with soft constraints. Two state-of-the-art heuristics are developed including schedule-based and cluster-based heuristics, both of them extend auction algorithm. Also three different approaches are proposed to satisfy depot workload balancing constraints. The convergence of each algorithm is investigated and its complexity obtained. To illustrate the main concepts and results, a small example is solved. Also, to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithms, some benchmark examples are considered and CPU-time and optimality gap are compared. The results show a great improvement in the CPU time and quality of the solution of the proposed algorithms. Also the extension of the proposed algorithms under ε-scaling approach is analysed.


A novel highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) based on an octagonal structures with isosceles triangular-latticed cladding is proposed. Using a full-vector finite element method (FEM) simulator (COMSOL Multiphysics), we study the modal birefringence of the fundamental modes with different parameters in such PCFs. In addition, the proposed octagonal PCF is compared with hexagonal PCF with the same air-filling fraction (f=0.41811), and found that the property such as birefringence and confinement loss of octagonal PCF is relatively better than that of hexagonal PCF.


The present invention relates to a method for producing a sheet Recycle Recycle sheet Beckman light waste and hence the waste produced by Beckman light. Beck method of manufacturing a sheet recycling the light waste milling step of Beckman light waste pulverized to prepare a Beckman light waste by crushing the waste Beckman light at a constant particle size (S100) according to the present invention; The pulverized Beckman light is mixed with the waste powder manufacturing step of the light Beckman waste powder and a resin composition for producing a resin composition for imparting adhesion to the substrate (S200); The step for preparing a mixture Beck Beck light waste powder and resin compositions to impart adhesion to the light waste powder mixture of a powder and a resin composition formed by grinding the Beckman light waste, and stirred to prepare a mixed solution (S300); The Seebeck light waste powder and the impregnated substrate in a mixed solution of the resin composition according immersion step of coating the mixture on the surface of said substrate (S400); UV irradiation and drying steps, which is irradiated with ultraviolet rays to a substrate a liquid mixture wherein the coating and drying the mixed solution (S500); A step for preparing a coating composition for coating the surface of the substrate with the coating composition (S600); Applying the coating composition onto the substrate and dried to cure the mixture by applying the coating composition to form a prepreg (prepreg) and the prepreg-forming step (S700); And a Beckman light sheet production step (S800) that the cured after stacking the prepreg sheets prepared by recycling the waste Beckman light. Present invention by the above-described configuration can recycle waste Beckman light more efficiently without the use of materials harmful to cause environmental pollution by producing the sheet by recycling the waste Beckman light or body used as an insulating reinforcement.


Some of the important characteristics required for field-oriented AC drives are a fast run-stop capability and good speed regulation regardless of sudden load change. The properties of a PDF (pseudo derivative feedback) controller are analyzed, and some key features are described compared with the PI (proportional plus integral) controller. In order to get robust speed control performance against variation of load inertia, a load disturbance observer is also applied to the PDF controller, and experimental results are presented. Nominal load inertia is measured by using a digital-signal-processor-based inverter self-tuning function, and parameters needed for the controller can be calculated to get good speed control performance.<<ETX>>


A strain of Micrococcus luteus was reported, which can produce enzyme to synthesize trehalose using starch dextrin as substrate Identifying the enzyme reaction from the following aspects: the content variety of reduction sugar; paper chromatography and high performance anion exchange pulsed amperometric detection (HPAE PAD)


Aiming at the safety mining problem under loose surface aquifer water body in Barapukuria Coal Mine of Bangladesh,injection water leakage in upward slant hole method was put forward to monitor height of water conducted zone in first stope which adopted fully mechanized coal mining technology.Monitoring results indicated that the maximum value of the height was 61.46 m in research area.Meanwhile,a numerical simulation about height of water conducted zone was got by software FLAC3D;the values were 65 m and 88 m separately in the first and the second level.After compared with the results from experience formula,the paper finally determined that the real maximum value of height and crack and mining ratio was 65 m and 21.67,besides the paper got a new formula to calculate the height of fractured zone of mid-hard roof with analysis of data regression.


Objective/Method: The Sexual Abuse of Males Perceptions Scale (SAMPS) is a measure designed to assess an individual's personal and projected social perceptions of myths about the sexual abuse of boys and men. Myths are rigid, stereotypical beliefs that invalidate the experiences and minimize the profound effects of sexual abuse on boys and men. This study establishes the initial psychometric properties for the SAMPS, based on a sample of 333 students enrolled in diverse courses (i.e., business, psychology, social work, urban and regional planning, and education) at a large, southern university. Results/Conclusions: The SAMPS was developed as a three-factor instrument. Preliminary findings confirm this structure and indicate the SAMPS shows promise for future uses relating to training, research, and clinical practice.


Students are difficult to get an effective way to master essential knowledge of J2EE course because they are lack programming experiments and teaching content is too much. In this paper, a layered, loosely coupled and lightweight J2EE application architecture is proposed and introduced based on the layered architecture theory and open source framework of Spring, Struts and Hibernate. On the basis of the architecture, the course construction and teaching innovation is put forward, and the application design and implementation is also given by example at the lesson. The practice shows that the architecture provides high reusability, expansibility and efficiency. Thus it helps students to understand J2EE knowledge, to obtain effective learning methods, and fleetly to guide themselves to carry on practical programming.


Objective To research the curative effects of hysteromyomectomy by laparotomy and laparoscopy,and to compare and analysis the postoperative recurrence and pregnancy rate. Methods From Jan 2009 to Feb 2011,forty patients with hysteromyoma for operation in our hospital were randomly into two groups. Twenty of them received laparoscopy and the other half received laparotomy. In the 3-year follow-up period,we compared the recurrence,pregnancy rate,operation time,transoperative bleeding and hospital stay. Results The amount of transoperative bleeding( 102. 4 ± 12. 5) mL and operation time( 107 ± 18. 0) min of the group by laparotomy are more than that by laparoscopy. But the hospital stay( 4. 0 ± 0. 5) days is less,with statistical significance( P 0. 05). There were no significant difference of postoperative recurrence between the two groups( P 0. 05). Seven infertile female patients were pregnant after laparoscope( the pregnancy rate is 71. 4%). And after laparotomy,eight infertile patients were pregnant( the pregnancy rate is 25%). The difference of pregnancy rate between two groups has statistical significance( P 0. 05). Conclusion The recurrence rate of uterine myosma is closely related to the number and size of fibroids. Hysteromyomectomy under the laparoscope is the first choice of patients with single fibroid who want to preserve their reproductive capacity.


Two crosses(9514 and 9518) with excellent heterosis and their parents were used in the experiment.The area of cotyledon and seedling leaf,the fresh and dry weight of seedling,the first pistillate node and the days between seedling and flowering of cucumber,the stem width and plumular axis length,plant height of the cucumber seedling,the yield of early stage and production of cucumber and leaf area index in the maximum fruit-setting stage were measured and analyzed.The results showed cucumber heterosis could be predicted in the early stage with the traits of cucumber such as the area of cotyledon and seedling leaf,the fresh weight of seedling,the first pistillate node and leaf area index.


Introduction An important goal for scientific theories of consciousness is to enable us to make more informed judgements about which beings are conscious. In the case of fellow humans, such ascriptions are typically unproblematic. Things become harder, however, when dealing with patients in vegetative states; harder still when we consider non-human animals; and hardest of all when speculating about consciousness in non-biological systems. In this short paper, I wish to explore an important worry relating to the ascription of consciousness. In short, I claim that many of the current leading theories are vulnerable to trivial realisations; that is, they are prima facie committed to consciousness in the kind of simple artificial system that a computer scientist could build or design with relatively little difficulty. This is what I will term the trivial realisation argument (TRA). I begin in Section 1 by briefly summarising the current state of the theories of consciousness debate, and single out a set of theories that I term cognitive theories of consciousness that I take to be particularly vulnerable to the TRA. In Section 2, I lay out the trivial realisation argument in more detail. In Section 3, I consider possible responses that cognitive theories of consciousness can make to the TRA. Finally, in Section 4, I suggest an alternative 'whole system' approach for the ascription of consciousness that sidesteps the TRA altogether.


Jane Collins explores a phenomenon of growing importance in developing nations--the labor scarcity that emerges as farmers in Latin America and elsewhere are forced by economic necessity to seek seasonal work away from their home communities. Such labor scarcity often results in "unseasonal" ecological damage and the deterioration of social relations. Professor Collins focuses on a particular instance in which migration has created labor scarcity: the seasonal journeys of Aymara-speaking highland peasants to east Andean valleys, where they grow coffee. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that labor is an abundant resource in developing countries, the Aymara's situation illustrates a problem common throughout the Third World.Although it was presumed in the 1940s and 1950s that the Aymara would permanently colonize the valley region, they have not done so. This book demonstrates that the unfavorable price for which they must sell their coffee forces them to maintain highland food crop production. Their poor position in the coffee market thus blocks their permanent migration and their ability to make more intensive capital or labor investments in coffee growing. The author argues convincingly that the rural labor scarcity produced by their migrations generates ecological decline in the lowlands and intracommunity conflicts and declining networks of production in the highlands. In discussing the Aymara, she confronts a Third World problem of broad theoretical significance.


A road system with man-bicycle ?Cmotor vehicle separation is prepared as setting slow-traffic lane to be two layers structure being completely separated to motor vehicle road, making two layers slow-traffic lane be all weather road and using one layer as walkway and another layer as bicycle lane.


In the article, the gender socialization is considered not only as a process of influence on children of the adult community through various mechanisms, it is proposed to include in the analysis the childhood events related to the independence, self-socialization of the younger generation. On the basis of a sociological study of the youth recollections of the childhood events (2018), the paper describes specifics in the behavior of boys and girls and draws conclusions about the manifestation of diversity, different intensities of the passage of the childhood events in the spheres of education and culture, the development of the information space, deviation, consumer practices. The contradictions in the reproduction of parental attitudes towards children of different sex, the destruction of deviation as a "male" sphere of adolescents' life, and the infantilization of young men are revealed.


Background and purpose: Mortality rate due to intentional and unintentional poisoning is higher in vulnerable older adults than the general population. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of acute poisoning and factors associated with the incidence and severity of this condition in aged people. Materials and methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using the medical records of all older adults (> 60 years old) admitted to Qaemshahr Razi Hospital, Mazandaran province due to acute intentional or unintentional poisoning during 2013-2020. Demographic characteristics, poisoning motive, occurrence and type of substance leading to poisoning, clinical signs, and treatment outcome were studied. Data were analyzed using STATA14. Results: There were 200 cases (mean age: 69.84±8.40 years) with poisoning, including 64.5% men. Unintentional poisonings were seen in 77.5% of the cases. Opium and its derivatives were the most common causes of poisoning. The most common toxins were opium and alcohol. Gastrointestinal poisoning was reported in majority of patients (76.5%). Only 0.5% were discharged after outpatient treatment. The mean duration of hospitalization was 2.2 days and this period was longer in patients poisoned due to concomitant use of several drugs or drug abuse. Intubation, ICU hospitalization, and emergency dialysis were required in 1.5%, 4.5%, and 1.5%, respectively. Death occurred in 0.5% of the patients during hospital stay. Conclusion: Unintentional poisoning accounts for a significant proportion of older age poisoning. Further studies are recommended to investigate indirect mortality rates, such as death due to complications after discharge, and socioeconomic burden of poisoning in aged people.


Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is an introduced crop into India for its valuable edible and industrial oil. The crop is strictly tropical in nature for its growth and development. The performance of oil palm is considered satisfactory in areas endowed with hot and humid tropical climate with optimal temperatures ranging between 80-90 o F and average annual rainfall ranging between 20003000 mm with well distribution for a larger part of the year. Zhu et al., (2008) reported that plants receiving direct sunlight for minimum of 5-7 hours per day have been found very much beneficial for optimal growth and development. So, availability of adequate moisture coupled with optimum temperature has been identified as the important factors in determining the yield of oil palm. Oil palm is traditionally grown in areas where the annual rainfall exceeds 2000 mm with well distribution over larger part of International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 02 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


Pseudorandom code phasemodulation fuze is applied widely in aeronautical missile and SAM,so how to jam this fuze is very necessary to study.Firstly,the block diagram of spot and deception jammer was given in the paper.The key hardware circuit implementation was presented.It included demodulation of pseudorandom code phasemodulation fuze signal,recognition of pseudorandom code,modulation and transmission of interfered waveform.The influence on jamming effect of jammer caused by error bit,bit width error and delay error was studied emphatically when they work respectively.The maximum value allowed is got in the case of successful jamming.Finally,the reasons causing above influencing factors are analyzed and corresponding reducing solutions are given.


Around 4 o'clock this morning a large storm cell blew through Houston, knocking down trees and disrupting power service. The thunder was deafening; it was impossible to go back to sleep. As I sat in the dark, without electricity to run my PC, I wondered how to pa~ss the time until daylight. Then the "aha!" feeling hit me; I took out my new Palm Pilot m130 [1] PDA (personal digital assistant), attached its full-sized keyboard [2], and began writing this column solely by the glow of its backlit LCD color display.


In this first comprehensive study of what I call funerary "relocating-to-the-Underworld documents" (abbr. relocation documents), I analyze the ten known cases that have been excavated between 1973 and 2016 in southern China. Through the analytical lens of the making of the dead, I argue that this particular type of textual object found exclusively in Western Han tombs in the second and first centuries b.c.e. can be viewed as a material manifestation of the strategic negotiation between an omnipresent imperial state and its agentive imperial subjects at the intersection of bureaucratic authority and the creation of a desirable afterlife for the dead of the empire. There are three main objectives of the present study. First, I propose to designate these entombed objects as "relocation documents" (yi dixia shu 移地下書), highlighting their primary ritual function as to present and/or produce a desirable afterlife status for the deceased when they relocate to the Underworld. I argue that a typical funerary relocation document has two essential components: a "notification letter" (yiwen 移文) and "itemized details" (ximu 細目). In the current scholarship, the former has been called gaodice 告地策 (informing-the-Underworld document), and the latter qiance 遣策 (tomb inventory). They are conventionally considered to be two distinct and separate genres of text. Although qiance have been found alone in tombs, in the case of funerary relocation documents, I argue that they are integral to the complete package to fulfill its ritual function and that these two components should be considered together as a single document. Second, instead of characterizing these relocation documents collectively as a homogenous genre of text and identifying them as imperfect imitations of Han official documents, I emphasize their material nature as funerary objects and contextualize them as part of the funerary assemblage for burial. I analyze their structural composition—both physical and textual—and situate them in the context of their production and entombment in relation to the deceased as well as the broader social-historical conditions shared by the local community of which the dead was a part. The detailed case studies of the relocation documents, on the one hand, expectedly confirm a wide and deep penetration of the state power into the fabric of the Han society, in life and in death, through the institutions of household registration and the 20-rank system; on the other hand, they also reveal the much less understood side of imperial control, that the lesser elite and the ordinary subjects of the empire were not passive receivers. Rather, they were informed about and understood the authority embedded in state institutions and bureaucratic procedures to the extent that they knew how to "work the system" to their own advantage with regard to the afterlife. Third, although each relocation document exhibits notable individual, even idiosyncratic, characteristics, the fact that nine of the ten known specimens were found in close geographical and temporal proximity to one another in the greater Han Jiangling 江陵 region in present-day Hubei strongly indicates that Jiangling was the center for the practice of interring funerary relocation document in burials. Evidence also suggests that there was likely a regional funerary tradition and economy enabling and supporting their production and circulation among other funerary objects such as tomb figurines. A fully annotated translation of the eight published cases of funerary relocation documents is included in the Appendix.


In order to improve the hydrogen removal effect of 120 t VD,based on hydrogen removal thermodynamics and dynamics of VD,some factors that affecting hydrogen removal effect of 120 t VD were analyzed,the factors are the flow rate of argon,vacuum degree,vacuum keeping time,basicity of refining slag,initial hydrogen content of liquid steel,and process parameters such as the flow rate of argon,vacuum degree and vacuum keeping time etc were optimized.The results indicate that the remarkable effects have been obtained.The hydrogen removal ratio of VD has been stabilized at least 60% basically,the average hydrogen removal ratio is increased from 56.2% to 71.2%,the maximum hydrogen removal ratio get to 90.6%.


Based on the indoor selection of pesticides,different concentrations of pesticides to control Ceroplastes rubens Maskell were experimented to find out the best solution.


In this work we employ a reduced‐order basis of conservative chemical components to model reactive transport using a Lagrangian (particle tracking) method. While this practice is well‐understood in the Eulerian (grid‐based) context, its adaptation to a Lagrangian context requires a novel reformulation of particle transport properties. Because the number of conservative‐species particles need not change during simulation, spatial resolution stays constant in time, and there is no increase in computational expense due to increasing numbers of product particles. Additionally, this treatment simplifies the interaction between equilibrium and kinetic reactions and allows the use of species‐dependent transport operators at the same time. We apply this method to model a suite of simple test problems that include equilibrium and kinetic reactions, and results exhibit excellent match with base‐case Eulerian results. Finally, we apply the new method to model a 2D problem concerning the mobilization of cadmium by a CO2 leak, showing the potential applicability of the proposed methodology.


It describes important significances of project cost control in construction project,discusses project cost control measures in construction project decision stage,design stage and implementation stage,so as to control project cost in maximum,realize more idea investment benefit.


The present state of research in the field of the holographic cinematography in the USSR is reviewed. Theoretical foundations of the holographic cine-process are discussed. Research work carried out in the USSR is described. It proves that the use of the holographic cinematography is promising.


GENETICSThis week, researchers report the first genetic variant linked to slightly higher risk for severe "dry" age-related macular degeneration, one of the two advanced forms of the disease that robs tens of millions of elderly people of their vision.


A process for producing partially reinforced hollow profiles made of a metal, in particular steel or a steel alloy, in which a board transformed together with a plurality on the board arranged reinforcing elements made of metal by the use of the rolling-in technique or by a UO-forming into a hollow profile wherein arranged on the circuit board reinforcement members are connected after forming at least a form-fit with the formed blank.


The molecular markers technology is one of the most important methods in plant resistant gene research. This article briefly introduced several kinds of DNA molecular markers technology in common use. Elaborated the origin of resistence gene and performance on NCLB which controlled by the dominant quality resistance gene were Ht1, Ht2, Ht3 and HtN. The quantity resistant gene of NCLB involves 12 chromosomes were all effective to the physiologic races. Elaborated respectively to the quality and quantity resistant gene localization of NCLB and carried on the prospects applications of the molecular markers technology in the future.


Dyspareunia is a common, but little-known, chronic problem, described as persistent or recurring pain that occurs during sexual intercourse.1 It is a multifactorial pathology that involves psychological, biological and social factors. The incidence of dyspareunia is difficult to determine because women do not usually resort to consultation. The prevalence is around 10% of women of childbearing age and 45% of postmenopausal women.2 Estrogen deficiency can lead to vaginal atrophy, the symptoms of which include vaginal dryness as well as dyspareunia.


Bromoderma is a rare hypersensitivity reaction caused by bromide intake. It was relatively frequent in the early years of the previous century because of the common use of bromide‐containing solutions in pediatrics due to their antispasmodic, expectorant, sedative, and anticonvulsant effects. Although recently prohibited in many countries, bromides are still used as an adjuvant anticonvulsant drug and still present in some over the counter antispasmodics and analgesics. Bromoderma usually present with pustular and vegetating lesions that may represent a diagnostic challenge for dermatologists. We describe a severe case of vegetating bromoderma that showed an excellent response to the withdrawal of the bromide‐containing medication associated with systemic steroid administration.


The White-streaked Honeyeater Trichodere cockerelli occurs only on Cape York Peninsula, and belongs in the monotypic genus Trichodere, the only genus of birds indigenous to the region. Apart from an apparently isolated resident population in the Cooktown region (Blakers et al. 1984, McLean 1995), all other records have been north of 14 degreesS (Blakers et al. 1984). This note reports further sightings between the two populations.


Recent performance testing of the two-dimensional convergent-divergent (2D-CD) nozzle has established the concept as a viable alternative to the axisymmetric nozzle for advanced technology aircraft. This type of exhaust system also offers potential integration and performance advantages in the areas of thrust reversing and vectoring over axi-symmetric nozzles. These advantages include the practical integration of thrust reversers which operate not only to reduce landing roll but also operate in-flight for enhanced maneuvering and thrust spoiling. To date there is a very limited data base available from which criteria can be developed for the design and evaluation of this type of thrust reverser system. For this reason, a static scale model test was conducted in which five different thrust reverser designs were evaluated. Each of the five models had varying performance/integration requirements which dictated the five different designs. Some of the parameters investigated in this test included; variable angle external cascade vanes, fixed angle internal cascade vanes, variable position inner doors, external slider doors and internal slider valves. In addition, normal force and yawing moment generation was investigated using the thrust reverser system. Selected results from this test will be presented and discussed in this paper.


We present a comprehensive overview of the electron density and six different wave types in the range similar to1 Hz to similar to1 MHz, and we investigate their occurrence, average wave frequency ...


The purpose of this paper is to discuss the current condition of the Australian Transit Signal Priority (TSP) while identifying issues and priorities for future system development based on this analysis. The TSP will be analyzed in comparison with the worlds best systems through the description of the main features and processes involved in TSP. A series of best practices approaches is identified through a review of world experience including transport research literature. TSP systems operating in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and South East Queensland are then described and assessed to identify which of these approaches are being used.


The structure of the symmetrical Schiff base, N,N'-(bis(pyridin-2-yl)formylidene)ethane-1,2- diamine (bpfd) has been characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The non-covalent supramolecular chemistry involved in the crystal structure of this ligand has been carefully investigated. The structure adopted different motifs of nitrogen-hydrogen interactions that led to the formation of centrosymmetric dimers. In addition, edge-edge and face-face nitrogen-nitrogen interactions were ob- served and reported. The Schiff base (bpfd) ligand crystallizes in a monoclinic space group C12/c1 with a


The toxicity of PxGV were determined by fixed time, concentration and insect quantities indicate that LD 50 of PxGV was 384×10 -4 ,3.384×10 -4 on larval of diamondback moth (DBM) which fed on semi synthetic diet and fed on seedlings of rape, respectively. The effluence of PxGV and other control agents on average eggs laid by adult of DBM, Plutella xylostella (L.)was studied. It showed that the average eggs laid by adult of DBM everyday was influenced by PxGV and PxGV mixed with other biological control agents Trichogramma confusum and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) significantly, but it wasn't influenced by Bt and insecticides which used at Shunhe vegetable farm to control vegeable insects. The average eggs laid by adult of DBM everyday were 127 in treatment of integrated pest management, 149 in PxGV, 208 in chemical control, 275 in Bt, 218 in CK, respectively.


The Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor (AHR) is a non-power nuclear reactor for
producing medical isotope. AHR is operated at power level of 2 MW and fueled with
UO2SO4·3H2O. The fraction of fuel and water consist of 95% water and 5% UO2SO4. The
enrichment of reactor fuel is 20%. AHR is operated at the temperature of 80°C. The
geometry of AHR is cylindrical which has diameter of 100 cm and 100 cm height. The
reactor core has a dimension of 60 cm diameter and 60 cm in height. The fuel cell geometry
of AHR is hexagonal, the tube is placed inside the fuel cell that contains water as moderator
and coolant. The tube is made of stainless steel-347 and UO2SO4·3H2O is placed outside the
tube.
Citation is used to calculate multiplication factor of the reactor core. Citation is a
computer program contained in the SRAC code. After modeling the reactor core using
citation and run the program, the result could be extracted from the output file. The effective
multiplication of the reactor from each height level of fuel could be calculated. AHR achieves
the first critical condition at 50 cm height and has a reactivity value of 0.0074.


The effect of a parity-dependent central potential and a spin-orbit potential on the angular distributions of analyzing powers and cross sections in heavy ion scattering is investigated. The cross section data of /sup 13/C+/sup 12/C, /sup 15/N+/sup 16/O, and /sup 19/F+/sup 18/O scattering are analyzed and it is predicted that a characteristic feature with an oscillation appears in the angular distributions of analyzing powers, especially at back-angles, for heavy ion scattering with identical cores.


By interpreting three binary oppositions: escape and holding,hope and despair,conflict and harmony in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant,this paper intends to reveal the deep meaning contained in the novel,that is,the relationship between the family and family members achieves harmony through clashes and conflicts.


Li1-xNb1+x/5O3 (where x= 0, 0.025, 0.045, 0.075), ferroelectric oxide was prepared by using a high-temperature solid state reaction method (calcinations temperatures,400°C, 600°C, 800°C and sintering temperature, 1000 ◦C). Room temperature preliminary structural analysis shows formation of a single-phase compound. Studies of no-stoichiometry dependence of structural properties of LN show the existence of strong dependence on the material between the no-stoichiometry and the point defects in Li1-xNb1+x/5O3 ceramic. The induced structural modifications are studied by means of Raman microscopy. Used the Raman spectra we carried out: Enlargement of all the peaks when the no-stoichiometry increases, a significant increase in the intensity of some peaks is due to the growth of the disorder in the Li - O network, the comparison of the peak positions of all samples reveals a slight shift of Raman peak positions to lower frequencies when the [Li]/[Nb] ratio decreased, this concerns the modes involving a major contribution of the movements of the lithium, and this can be linked essentially to the growth rate of vacancies in the material. The Full-Width Half-Maximum (FWHM), of the Raman peak was found at 876 cm-1 decreased linearly as the amount of the Li content increased. The Raman scattering results confirmed that the structure of the LN ceramic became more rigid when the amount of the Li content increased.


Numerous researchers have discovered multiple types of ransomware that has been rampaging in cybersecurity which is the main concern for business companies where most of their data has been digitalized. However, the main problem in detecting this type of malware, where it is known as sophisticated behavior is quite challenging since it capable to do encryption in file activity system and hide its malicious activity in computer host. Nevertheless, previous researcher also has done major contribution in discovering its pattern and behavior of ransomware and provide numerous solutions in detecting this malware. This paper will be focusing on ransomware behavior during normal file activity system by using host-based approach experiment. The design of the experiment and dataset collection are one of the main important in this experiment for analyzing the ransomware behavior using available tools and software. Then, the behavior of the ransomware will be saved as log file for in-depth analysis. Finally, the results from the experiment will be tabulated and discussed further before the conclusion of the experiment.


The Internet has spawned many different information exchange systems ranging from file sharing to online social networking. Online social networks (OSNs) have gained significant popularity and are considered to be some the most visited sites. OSN users can interact with friends through various features such as connecting with friends, establishing new friendships, sharing photos and videos, and commenting on each others posts. As digital interactions supersede over physical interactions, it is important to understand how users interact over such digital platforms. Moreover, understanding OSN traffic patterns is valuable when designing new OSN platforms and managing content distribution networks. In this study, we provide analysis of online activities that happen around a user, i.e. circles. To better understand activities in a user's friend circle, we developed a Facebook application that monitored the walls of several Facebook users. In particular, we obtained statistics of every post shared with the user by their friends, circles, for 16 volunteers that provided continuous measurements for 15 days.


The present invention provides a plastic and a method of manufacturing with high toughness. Stiffness and toughness balance stability and having good processability, the plastic has a high toughness is also blended with the flammable plastic to rubber particles having an average particle size of 20 to 200 ㎚ (weight ratio of the rubber particles to the plastic here is 0.5 It is obtained by a 99.5 to 70: 30): The present invention also provides a plastic and a method of manufacturing that has both high strength and high toughness. Also improve the heat resistance and good processing suitability for also having high strength and plastic having both a high toughness of the crystalline plastics and blending the rubber particles having an average particle size of 20 to 500 ㎚ (rubber particles are added to the plastic substrate in this in the amount of 0.3 to 5 parts by weight) is prepared by. A reinforced plastic, rubber powder, combustible plastic, crystalline plastics


FIELD: physics. SUBSTANCE: polymer structure includes an upper layer and a lower layer of transparent polymer material and a substrate made of opaque polymer material. The substrate has a front and a back side on which information features and identification features are deposited, as well as optically variable printed images, and a photograph of the owner of the document is placed on the front side of the substrate. Security elements are placed on the front and/or back sides of the substrate in the form of bands and/or labels of different shapes made of a transparent film with a protective image. At least one layer of the disclosed structure is made of polycarbonate-based composite material which includes components which cannot be visually detected in the article, such as magnetic microparticles, microfibers, pigments and quantum dots. A method of making a multilayer polymer structure includes making polymer layers containing information and/or security elements, assembling a lamination stack, pressing and laminating. The method includes additionally forming at least one layer of composite material, which contains a polymer matrix in which particles of at least one component, which cannot be visually detected in the article, are uniformly distributed. EFFECT: invention enables to produce a multifunctional identification document having reliable anti-falsification protection. 6 cl, 1 dwg, 1 ex


The National Audit Office (NAO) (2008a) has warned that 'reforms to the end of year funding process may no longer incentivise departments to manage their budgets in a way that represents optimum value for money. In 1999–2000, under the End Year Flexibility initiative (EYF), departments were given the fl exibility to carry forward unspent funds from one year to another … In light of the tighter fi scal environment, HM Treasury has exercised greater control over the amount departments can use … there is a risk that the system now offers departments insuffi cient incentives to avoid wasteful spending of excess funds'. We don't know what will happen, and Nick Timmins (pages 96–7) reports'assurances' from the Department of Health (DH) that any surpluses will not be lost.