The GGAO 12-m and Westford 18-m antennas are instrumented with the four-band broadband signal chain to provide VGOS capability. These antennas have been making VGOS geodetic observations for more than a year. Preliminary analysis of the thirteen sessions, which range in duration from one to 15 hours, gives a weighted RMS deviation of 2 mm from the mean baseline length (601 km). The 12-m VGOS antenna at Kokee Park Geophysical Observatory on Kauai, HI, was completed in early 2016, and the broadband signal chain, built by MIT Haystack Observatory, was installed. Observations with the GGAO12M and Westford antennas began in February. These will increase in duration from one to 24 hours with completion of the Commissioning Phase for KOKEE12M expected in May 2016.


The Instructions to Bidders is a document used by public or private owners in soliciting bids for construction work to guide prospective bidders in preparing their bids and to prescribe policies and procedures for processing bids and awarding contracts. It supplements the Form of Contract for Engineering Construction Projects, 1966 edition (AGC Standard Form 3, ASCE Form JCC-1). The model form is intended for use in obtaining competitive bids for heavy construction projects. It contains subject matter which is required by prospective bidders in preparing their bids, and it becomes part of a contract document.


The Congress finds it necessary to insure that animals intended for use in research facilities or exhibition purposes or use as pets are provided humane care and treatment; to assure the humane treatment of animals during transportation in commerce; and to protect owners of animals from theft of their animals by preventing the sale or use of animals which have been stolen. Amendments are made to certain definitions including "intermediate handler." The term "intermediate handler" means any person including a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States or of any State or local government (other than a dealer, research facility, exhibitor, any person excluded from the definition of a dealer, research facility, or exhibitor, an operator of an auction sale, or a carrier) who is engaged in any business in which he receives custody of animals in connection with their transportation in commerce. The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate standards to govern the transportation in commerce, and the handling, care, and treatment in connection therewith, by intermediate handlers, air carriers, or other carriers, of animals consigned by any dealer, research facility, exhibitor, operator of an auction sale, or other person, or any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States or of any State or local government, for transportation in commerce. Violations of standards promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture may result in license suspension and revocation, and civil penalties. Animal fighting ventures are unlawful and are prohibited. Costs incurred by the United States for care of animals seized and forfeited shall be recoverable from the owner of the animals. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture for enforcement by the Department of Agriculture of the provisions of this Act an amount not to exceed $100,000 for the transition quarter ending September 30, 1976, and not to exceed $400,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.


A copper oxide ultrafine particle soft agglomerate having an average primary particle diameter of not more than 100 nm and an average secondary particle diameter of not less than 0.2 mum is disclosed. A method for producing such a copper oxide ultrafine particle soft agglomerate is also disclosed.


This paper is about acceptance building, i.e. devising a mechanism for the gradual preparation of the citizenship and the economy in order to implement a carbon tax. It draws from the experiences made in Switzerland, where voluntary approaches were combined with a CO2 tax. More generally, this paper is about the dynamics of climate policy in a democracy, where law making is always participatory. It analyses the genesis of the Swiss CO2 Law, in particular the history of an earlier aborted proposal, to show the setting up of a peculiar strategic approach that spawned an array of voluntary approaches. The approach seemed about to succeed in creating sufficient support for the carbon tax. However, a last minute proposal of a private levy on fuel prices upset everything and seems about to fully undermine the CO2 Law. We interpret what went wrong and attempt to draw general lessons for climate policy.


A kind of examination and repair for high-pressure circuit ladder, its bearing is fixed with ear mount, rotational pin connects ear mount and rotation seat, the angle of lock bolt locking bearing and rotation seat, the male cone (strobilus masculinus) of supporter coordinates with the inner conical surface of the taper hole of rotation seat or the taper hole of a following supporter and fixes, and taper hole is coordinated with the locking end directly turned by the annular lock groove on inner conical surface after coordinating with male cone (strobilus masculinus) and fixing and the inner conical surface and male cone (strobilus masculinus) that post of being automatically locked.It is fixed with the foot-operated of the folding that can draw in one end of the union joint of supporter in the both sides of the damaged surface of supporter, is stained with skid-proof rubber in the bottom of bearing.The simple in construction of examination and repair for high-pressure circuit ladder, assemble and use very convenient, it is easy to carry, assembly and disassembly process during use does not need instrument, the difficult problem uprightly climbed and stand when solving high-tension line maintainer maintenance high-tension line, during climbing, the speed of assembling ladder is fast, safe and reliable, climbing is convenient;After using, dismounting, packaging and convenient transportation.


Dodonaea viscosa is widely cultivated in the karst graben basin and is crucial for recovering land after rocky desertification. However, the effect of long–time D. viscosa afforestation on changes in the quality of soil remains unclear. Soil nutrients and aggregate composition can be used to evaluate the beneficial effects of afforestation of D. viscosa in improving soil functional stability. In this study, soil nutrients and aggregate stability were investigated using cropland, 10–year, 20–year, and 40–year D. viscosa afforestation and secondary succession shrub. Compared to the cropland, D. viscosa afforestation significantly increased the soil water content (WC), soil organic carbon (SOC), and total nitrogen (TN) contents, with an enhanced effect observed with prolonged afforestation. Soil nutrient contents under D. viscosa afforestation rapidly reached the level of the shrub. Dodonaea viscosa afforestation promoted the formation of >2 mm aggregates and decreased the ratio of 0.053–0.25 mm aggregates, which varied with afforestation years. Compared to the cropland, the content of >0.25 mm water–stable aggregates (R>0.25), mean weight diameter (MWD), and geometric mean weight diameter (GMD) of soil increased exponentially. However, soil erodibility factor (K) and unstable aggregates index (EIt) decreased exponentially with prolonged D. viscosa afforestation, and the latter two indicators did not reach the level of the shrub. These results indicated that soil nutrients, aggregate stability, and erosion resistance increased with prolonged D. viscosa afforestation. However, the aggregate stability and erosion resistance exhibited by D. viscosa could not reach the level of secondary shrub for a long time.


The fifteen story Alto Rio building built between 2007 and 2009 in the city of Concepción, Chile, was the only modern building to experience catastrophic collapse during the 27 February 2010, Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake. This building was representative of those medium-rise buildings designed and built in Chile during the period 1996-2009 in which seismic resistance is provided by a dense array of thin wall bearing walls oriented in two orthogonal directions. A detailed nonlinear model of this building was developed in the computer program ABAQUS/Standard FE. This program was used in conjunction with the ANACAP-U concrete and reinforcing bar constitutive models developed by ANATECH Corporation. A parametric pushover analysis of the building was conducted considering several possible scenarios: with and without lap splice failure, and with and without the removal of some small gravity columns. This paper describes the development of the finite element model and discusses the results obtained from a parametric nonlinear static pushover analysis of the Alto Rio Building.


Measurements of x-ray profiles and diffuse scattering from (111), (100) single crystal Niobium films implanted with Nitrogen to average levels of 5 and 0.5 atomic percent are discussed. Theoretical analysis of the asymmetric profiles are used to determine the strain profile in the implanted films. The measured strain profile results from two factors: (1) depth distribution of implants and knock-on damage and (2) elastic constraints. Residual elastic strains develop due to the constraints imposed by a sapphire substrate. Comparison of the diffraction results with theoretical predictions of TRIM indicates the presence of measurable knock-on damage in the films. Huang and Stokes-Wilson scattering measurements made using synchrotron radiation at the ORNL beamline, Brookhaven National Laboratory, were used to reveal the identity of defects formed during the knock-on process.


In connection with the transfer of technologies between countries of the formerly divided world, the word {open_quotes}validation{close_quotes} frequently used. Let us try to analyze what it really denotes the clerical, physical, and mathematical points of view. For our special case, it denotes a transfer of calculations between various geometries and sets of measurements. The standard way is a more or less automatic comparison in tables. The purpose of such a procedure is to have an optimal description of experiments. Mathematically, validation denotes a minimum of the least-squares functional for measurement and theory. Limitations are equations, which should be fulfilled; doubts are imprecisely defined situations or coefficients in the equations. It was shown that such a variational problem could be solved either directly (through derivative of measurement over the searched parameters) or by introducing a generalized Lagrange multiplier method in which equations are included in functionals.


The LSPIV measurements involve four steps: (i) recording of images, (ii) geometric transformation and image reconstruction, (iii) processing of the images by the way of statistical correlation to obtain a surface velocity field, and (iv) post-processing and quality check of the obtained velocity field. By adding a fifth step, the free surface velocity associated with river bathymetry and hydraulic hypothesis leads to the discharge estimation.


1 . Mice were injected with (14C)‐l‐histidine, killed at various intervals, and tissues assayed for (14C)‐histamine. In some cases free (14C)‐l‐histidine and total (14C) were also determined. 2 . Removal of stomach, the most active histamine‐forming tissue, failed to reduce the (14C)‐histamine content of any tested tissue; (14C)‐histamine concentrations in lung and muscle of gastrectomized mice were higher than in sham‐operated controls. 3 . In mice pretreated with endotoxin and subsequently injected with (14C)‐l‐histidine, the (14C)‐histamine content of liver, lung and muscle was markedly higher than in controls. The increased concentrations of (14C)‐histamine in endotoxin‐pretreated mice seemed to reflect a greater rate of formation; they could be attributed neither to changes in tissue concentration of (14C)‐l‐histidine, to increased uptake from other tissues, nor to impaired ability to inactivate histamine. 4 . Results of studies on in vivo effectiveness of several histidine decarboxylase inhibitors are reported. 5 . The following conclusions are supported by the evidence presented: (a) in stressed mice, those tissues which show activation of histidine decarboxylase also show increased ability to form histamine in vivo; (b) tissue histamine is largely formed locally; (c) histidine decarboxylase inhibitors are highly effective in blocking histamine formation in mast cells and in stomach, but do not normally reach the locus of an inducible form of histidine decarboxylase; (d) the inducible form of histidine decarboxylase in liver may be located in phagocytic microvascular endothelial cells; (e) in conditions favouring near‐maximal activation of histidine decarboxylase, the histamine‐methylating enzyme of liver and diamine oxidase of intestine showed no inducible characteristics; (f) blood histamine concentrations do not accurately reflect changes in tissue histamine formation.


The elk (Certus canadensis) population was mainly self-regulated by density-;nfluenced mor- tality from intraspecific competition for food and compensating natality and surlrival. Mortality higher than usual was mainly due to weather that also increased the vulnerability of elk to predation by grizzly bears (Ursus arctos). Grizzly predation with competitive scavenging was a nonessential but assisffng adjunct to other natural processes that regulated the elk population. As an interacting unit, bears of different social rank and an associated scavenger fauna probably helped to dampen elk population fluctua- tions by culling animals with low-energy reserves. The presence of a grizzly population in Yellowstone Park appears essential to have representative natural equilibriums among interacting secondary con- sumers, to maintain natural relationships between secondary and primary consumers, and to retain the scientific values of ecological systems with an intact native biota. Abstract: The elk (Certus canadensis) population was mainly self-regulated by density-;nfluenced mor- tality from intraspecific competition for food and compensating natality and surlrival. Mortality higher than usual was mainly due to weather that also increased the vulnerability of elk to predation by grizzly bears (Ursus arctos). Grizzly predation with competitive scavenging was a nonessential but assisffng adjunct to other natural processes that regulated the elk population. As an interacting unit, bears of different social rank and an associated scavenger fauna probably helped to dampen elk population fluctua- tions by culling animals with low-energy reserves. The presence of a grizzly population in Yellowstone Park appears essential to have representative natural equilibriums among interacting secondary con- sumers, to maintain natural relationships between secondary and primary consumers, and to retain the scientific values of ecological systems with an intact native biota.


This study investigated the effect of technology-enhanced flipped classroom model applications on high school students' classroom engagement and classroom life perceptions in teaching English. In the study, pretest and posttest experiment-control group quasiexperimental design was used. The experimental group was taught using the flipped method and the control group was taught using the current conventional method. The study was conducted with 45 students attending 9th grade for 8 weeks. The data were collected from classroom engagement inventory and classroom life perception scale quantitatively. According to the findings, there was a significant difference in terms of classroom engagement levels. When the classroom engagement inventory sub-dimensions were examined, significant differences were found in the experimental group in terms of cognitive engagement and affective engagement sub-dimensions. However, there was not a significant difference between the two groups in terms of behavioral engagement–compliance, behavioral engagementeffortful classroom participation and disengagement sub-dimensions. On the other hand, there was a significant difference in terms of classroom life perception levels. When the classroom life perception scale sub-dimensions were examined, significant differences were found in the experimental group in terms of student feelings related to the classroom environment and student feelings related to the teacher sub-dimensions. However, there was not a significant difference between the two groups in terms of student feelings related to other students subdimension.


The Origins Space Telescope (OST) will transform our understanding of the Universe, from formation of the earliest galaxies to the creation of habitable worlds. OST's Mission Concept 1, the subject of this report, features a cold (4 K) large-aperture telescope (9.1 m) and five powerful instruments, providing imaging and spectroscopy over a wavelength range from 5 to 660 microns. OST's dramatic increase in sensitivity over previous missions ensures breakthrough discoveries in a broad range of astrophysics disciplines.


Reinforced composites are prepared from a Copper as a matrix with SiC powder in different percentage ( i.e 5-25 vol.%) .For each prepared reinforced composite with respect to SiC addition , they divided into two parts , one undergo to addition of Ni in fixed percentage (2 wt%) and the other part leave without addition. After drying , mixing and milling process, disc samples were prepared . these samples were heat treated at (900 °C) using furnace at argon atmosphere. Density, porosity, Vicker microhardness , compressive strength were performed. Dry sliding wear tests of Cu–SiCp composites were carried out using pin on disc apparatus with a typical experimental plan of simultaneous variation of loads (5,10)N . The results show that the density was decreased while porosity increased with SiC content , and this was less remarkable with nickel presence. Vicker microhardness, compress strength were improved by the nickel wettability on the reinforcement. Moreover decreasing in wear rate comparing with the absence one. The nickel presence modifies the interface structural model and is effective in passing load between the matrix and the reinforcement, by lessening the extent of interfacial debonding.


Ectopic pregnancy is the implantation and development of the ovum outside the uterine cavity; it needs a quick diagnosis and an urgent treatment. The presence of the corpus luteum in the ovary that is contralateral to the ectopic pregnancy is presumptive evidence for ovum transmigration, which may be the cause of ectopic pregnancy. In 1994, a multinational clinical trial proved the superiority of levonorgestrel over the existing emergency contraceptive products. In the present study, we describe the case of a 27-year-old woman with ectopic pregnancy and a contralateral corpus luteum after use of hormonal emergency contraception (levonorgestrel), because of failure of the used contraception method (condom). The patient was treated with laparoscopic surgery that was successful.


Dynamic properties of GaAs and InP anodic MOS interfaces are studied, using photocapacitance transient spectroscopy (PCTS) and deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) techniques. Measured PCTS spectra possess a gate bias dependent portion corresponding to U‐shaped continuous distribution of interface states and a bias‐independent portion with a large photoionization rate. The photoionization cross section of a state continuum increases monotonically with photon energy, similarly to Si MOS, but very differently from bulk deep traps. Anomalously reduced DLTS activation energies of interface states are observed for electron emission in GaAs and for hole emission in InP, and they are correlated to a bias‐independent portion of PCTS spectra. Measured results are explained by coexistence of an energetically and spatially distributed localized state continuum region and a partially delocalized state region. Surface disorder is proposed to be the origin of such composite interface state structure rather than the...


Objectives: (1) Understand difficulties associated with free flap monitoring and duty hour restrictions. (2) Describe techniques used to train intensive care unit (ICU) nurses to conduct free flap monitoring. The implementation of resident duty hour restrictions has resulted in a variety of modifications to residency training programs in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery. In those programs using a home call system, monitoring of free flaps in the postoperative period can be associated with difficulties in resident duty hour compliance. We sought to use a carefully constructed training program to transition a portion of free flap monitoring to a skilled group of ICU nurses. Methods: A written reference manual describing the basic concepts behind free tissue transfer and normal free flap physiology was distributed. Nurses received a PowerPoint presentation and completed an online module designed to consolidate the didactic training. Finally, the responsibility of on-the-job training of the nurses was given to the otolaryngology house staff such that each nurse logged and documented 10 flap checks in the presence of a resident. Results: Thirty patients receiving free flaps were monitored by the ICU nursing team resulting in 100% flap survival. Conclusions: Transitioning the monitoring of free flaps in the perioperative period to ICU nurses can be accomplished through the following principles: (1) Leadership and participation by the microvascular surgeons at a given institution. (2) Faculty-led didactic and web-based training modules prior to actual training. (3) Significant involvement of the otolaryngology house staff, allowing the ICU nurses to gain proficiency.


【Objective】This study investigated the contamination levels of fumonisins in major food products in China and estimated the dietary risk to help the government and other related agencies to make fumonisins standards and related risk management policies.【Method】A total of 485samples in 5food groups including rice,wheat products,other cereals products,dry beans and nuts were collected from 18cities throughout China,and the samples were analyzed using the competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.Based on the measured fumonisins contamination levels and the food consumption data from the Chinese national nutrition and health survey in 2002,the dietary intake of fumonisins and corresponding health risk in different sex-age population groups were estimated.【Result】Fumonisins were detected in 35samples with a mean level of 0.04 mg/kg.Mean fumonisins intakes in various sex-age groups ranged from 0.162to 0.369μg/(kg·d),far lower than the provisional maximum tolerable daily intake of 2 μg/(kg·d),which was established by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives.【Conclusion】The public health risk caused by fumonisins in food was low in China.


American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) anatomic stage group is considered relatively nondiscriminatory for predicting differences in survival after pancreatectomy for ductal adenocarcinoma, a perception confirmed in the authors' patients and by other reports. The authors' aim was to investigate the potential for improving the predictive value of AJCC staging by incorporating individually predictive histologic features into AJCC tumor‐node‐metastasis classification of anatomic extent, and determine the simplest combination of tumor characteristics predicting survival.


The U.S. garage sale incorporates elements of both gift and commodity exchange in a dynamic tension, one that complicates traditional characterizations of gift and commodity as oppositional and mutually exclusive. Despite its apparently marketlike mechanisms, much of garage sale exchange also partakes of the character of gift giving. The elasticity in pricing in this home-based exchange allows sellers to take social relations into account, so that objects that change hands become hybrid varieties of "inalienable commodities."


Objective
To investigate the expressions and clinical significance of anti-β1- adrenoceptor antibody(β1AA) and connective tissue growth factor(CTGF) in peripheral blood of children with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).

Methods
Twenty-seven patients diagnosed as DCM hospitalized in Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University from October 2015 to April 2016 were selected to be the DCM group.And 20 healthy subjects were chosen as the healthy control group.The patients in the DCM group were scored according to modified Ross score as the referential criteria.The left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD) and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of all the children were measured by using cardiac ultrasound.Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to determine the levels of β1AA, CTGF, high-sensitivity troponin T(hs-TnT)and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in the serum of all the children.

Results
(1)There was no statistically significant difference between the 2 groups in gender and age (all P>0.05). (2)Compared with the healthy control group, the β1AA level, CTGF level and LVEDD in the DCM group significantly increased[(260.23±34.03) ng/L, (1 223.44±190.85) ng/L, (53.02±11.01) mm vs.(224.80±34.90) ng/L, (937.16±114.50) ng/L, (32.51±5.95) mm], while the LVEF value significantly decreased[(28.15±7.34)% vs.(64.15±0.88)%], and the differences were statistically significant(t=-3.49, -5.95, -7.54, 21.74, all P 0.05). (5)In the DCM group, the level of β1AA was positively correlated with the level of NT-proBNP and modified Ross score(r=0.745, 0.813, all P 0.05). In the DCM group, the level of CTGF was positively correlated with the level of NT-proBNP and modified Ross score(r=0.798, 0.823, all P 0.05).

Conclusions
The β1AA and CTGF significantly increased in DCM children, and were related to hs-TnT level, NT-proBNP level, modified Ross score and LVEF value.They represent the severity of the disease and can be used as new reference indicators to assess the condition of children with DCM.

Key words:
Child; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Anti-β1- adrenoceptor antibody; Connective tissue growth factor


a great height. In Saint Urbain's Horseman Richler seems to recognize their common humanity. Malice gives way to wry self-criticism. If his next novel is what it promises to be, Richler will have given overwhelming testimony once again to the vitality and depth of his artistic vision. And Cocksure will be seen for what it probably is: a je« d'esprit in which he tried out some ideas and techniques that bore fruit in the later book.


Background: Tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) are difficult to treat, and the survival time for patients with high-grade tumours is short. This study aims to conduct a clinicopathological investigation of gliomas to understand their characteristics, prevalence, and clinical manifestations. Materials and Methods: This retrospective descriptive clinicopathological study was conducted at the Department of Neuropathology, Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai, from 2008 to 2013. Seven hundred fourteen cases of glioma specimens were received during this study period. Result: Gliomas were highest in the age group of 51 to 60 years, and Glioblastoma multiforme was the most common form of glioma, with 213 cases (29.8%). Grade IV tumours were common among males, while grade II tumours were more common in women. The cerebrum was the most common location for glioma involving the frontal lobe (22.41%). HPE evaluation revealed glioblastoma multiforme as the most common, followed by diffuse astrocytoma in 176 cases (24.6%). Pilocytic astrocytoma was found to commonly affect the age group of 0 to 20 years with a relative percentage of 44.5%. Diffuse astrocytoma was most common in the age group 21 to 40 years. GBM was seen most commonly in the age group of 41 to 60. Conclusion: The data in this study represents the clinical manifestations and prevalence of gliomas in Chennai, including all age groups. The evidence generated from this study can be beneficial in making informed decisions for funding further research needed for this tumour.


Aloe vera is a succulent plant that has traditionally been used for natural wound healing. The leaves contain a gel substance that is harvested, then stabilised and sterilised with heat, before application to a wound (generally a burn) (Level 5.b evidence). Despite its wide spread use as a cost effective agent for wound management, there is minimal evidence on the efficacy of aloe vera in wound healing. The evidence identified for this summary included efficacy of aloe vera for healing partial thickness burns, diabetic ulcers, leg ulcers, surgical wounds, biopsy sites7 and stage >=2 pressure injuries (Level 1.b to 4.c evidence). The findings were contradictory; however, aloe vera was not inferior to contemporary wound care products, particularly for burn management. The different aloe vera products used, or the high risk of bias observed in most trials, may account for inconsistent findings. Safety reviews indicate that risks of using aloe vera products in wound management are low (Level 5.b evidence).


We demonstrate the on-chip photon routing on a site-controlled quantum dots embedded W1 photonic crystal waveguides side coupled to a L3 cavity. Observed photon propagation through the device indicates the connectivity of all photonic elements.


Aquatic environments face a variety of threats in the Hondo River basin, Southeastern Yucatan Peninsula. Some of these impacts, like pollution by pesticides, may depend on land use and cover. Our objective was to assess the effect of land use/cover using a previously published index of biotic integrity (IBI), based on fishes and designed for shallow streams in the Hondo River basin. Our hypothesis was that land uses that cause deforestation and pollution, such as urbanization, cattle breeding, or sugar cane fields, would be reflected in low IBI values, at least at some spatial scales. The 23 sites originally used in 2008-2009 to estimate by electrofishing the relative abundance and other characteristics of selected fish species and guilds to construct the IBI, were revisited in February 2010, to validate by direct inspection the type of land use/cover suggested by landscape information in digital databases. We analyzed the effect of seven types of land use/cover (agriculture, pasture, human settlements, water bodies, wetlands, forest, and secondary vegetation) on the IBI values, at four spatial scales, i.e., the percent of every land use/cover at progressively larger circles (125, 250, 500, and 1 000 m diameter) centered on the water body where the IBI value was measured. Correlations were established among the percent land/use cover by scale around 23 sites, and with their corresponding IBI values. Then, Student's t tests were calculated to examine significant differences in land use/cover between groups of localities above and below the median IBI value, and Mann-Whitney's U tests were applied to compare IBI values between localities with and without a given landscape cover. Agriculture, human settlements, and secondary vegetation correlated negatively with the IBI; forests positively.  Differences were significant (p < 0.05) for forest (higher in sites with higher IBI values) and human settlements (lower in sites with higher IBI). Of all the landscape categories located in the Hondo River basin, with the exception of pasture, those of anthropogenic origin tended to be detrimental to aquatic biotic integrity.


For certain families of functions $\{f_q\}$ mapping $K^{nv_q} \to K^m$, where $K$ is a complete, nonarchimedean local field, we find a set $E$ of large Hausdorff dimension with the property that $f_q(x_1, \ldots, x_{v_q})$ is nonzero for any distinct points $x_1, \ldots, x_{v_q} \in E$. In particular, this result can be applied to show that the ring of integers of any local field contains a subset of Hausdorff dimension $1$ not containing any nondegenerate 3-term arithmetic progressions.


Effect sizes may be seen as an alternative - or supplement - to the use of statistical significance tests. A number of arguments for their use in this way are put forward. These include the potential of effect sizes to emphasise amounts, not just directions, to avoid inappropriate dichotomies, to reduce confusion over the meaning of 'significance', to draw attention to issues of statistical power, to lessen the 'file drawer' problem, to promote synthesis rather than disagreement and to allow the accumulation of knowledge through the combination and comparison of the results of different studies. However, the use and interpretation of effect sizes are not without problems, including questions of which type of measure to use, sensitivity to violations of assumptions and interpretations in cases of restricted range or variance, non-normality or unreliable measures.


Methods: Forty-two subjects completed the program of chiropractic intervention. Age range at entry was 6-12 years and patients were included if their entry-level x-rays revealed curves of 6-20 degrees. Participants were adjusted for one year prior to follow-up. Full-spine osseous adjustments were the central and major form of intervention, but heel-lifts and postural/lifestyle counseling were also employed.


ABSTRACT: Although a few recent taxonomic studies focusing on infraspecific taxa in each species of Isodon havebeen reported, a detailed taxonomic revision of the Korean Isodon taxa has yet to be performed. We investigated themorphological characters of Korean Isodon based on approximately 600 herbarium sheets from major herbaria inKorea and Japan. We identified characters which distinguish seven Korean Isodon taxa and created a key to KoreanIsodon based on the results from this study and on recent studies of the Korean Isodon taxa. The following uniquecharacters for several taxa were recognized: 1) dense non-glandular hairs in stems for I. inflexus var. canescens (over 70ea/mm on one side of the stem), 2) dense glandular hairs on the abaxial surface of the leaf for I. serra (over 40 ea/mm 2 ),3) protruding pistils and stamens from the corolla with the length of the protruding part longer than that of the lowerlobe of corolla for I. japonicus, and 4) the presence of non-glandular hairs on the entire surface of the fruit of I.inflexus var. microphyllus. Based on this study, we recognized that there are four species, two varieties, and one formaof Isodon taxa in Korea.


One fifth of the mammalian brain is comprised of extracellular space (ECS). The extracellular space is not empty, but instead comprises a complex network of proteins and a variety of molecular species. One extracellular species, calcium, holds a prominent position as one of the most important messengers known in the brain. However, calcium exists in low concentrations in the ECS, and its diffusion is slowed by the restricted volumes of the extracellular space – therefore, normal neural activity may cause calcium to flow out of the ECS faster than diffusion can fill it in. As opposed to the traditional view that extracellular calcium exists at a stable concentration, I explore the hypothesis that calcium concentrations may change. Such changes would be expected to carry significant functional impact, due to the many roles calcium plays. The hypothesis is explored both at the biophysical and theoretical levels. At the biophysical level, I explore the dynamics of external calcium changes under a wide range of reasonable parameter settings. At the theoretical level, I attempt to interpret how such fluctuations may serve as information-bearing signals in the nervous system. Specifically, I have employed Monte Carlo simulations, finite differencing schemes, and numerical analyses to develop a computational method capable of describing populations of neural elements, and the fluids that communicate through the spaces between them. Such a method has allowed me to address several issues, the broadest interpretations of which can be cast as a set of questions: • Is neural tissue engineered to allow – or prevent – fluctuations in extracellular ionic concentrations? • If fluctuations can occur, do they carry information? • What are the computations carried out by that flow of information? 3 Beginning with a model of pre-synaptic terminals, I show that reasonable assumptions about the kinetics of consumption and diffusion will lead to rapid, local changes in external calcium. The exact size of the calcium signal depends on several parameters. For example, the cleft width might be used by the tissue as a control parameter: changing the gap between elements can amplify or squelch the calcium signal. The distribution of calcium channels will also critically influence the calcium fluctuations: by clustering the channels, the local signal amplitude is greatly increased. In some circumstances, the density of the calcium channels can become high enough that the total calcium influx becomes limited by the speed of extracellular diffusion. I calculate that the …


: The main conclusion of this review of 8 nutritional intervention studies during pregnancy is that, in mothers with protein-energy malnutrition–either acute or chronic-food supplementation during pregnancy can improve birthweight and decrease the incidence of low birthweight babies. It is stressed that programs to reduce the incidence of low birthweight babies must be aimed at the major causes of low birthweight, which differ among populations. For example, in Harlem the major probable cause of low birthweight is not dietary protein-energy deficiency but short birth intervals, very young primiparas, highparity, and smoking.


Vp/Vs ratio is known as lithological and fluid prediction method as well as key part of AVO analysis. This diploma thesis is based on the based on the theoretical and mainly experimental studies t ...


Let G be a finite group acting smoothly on a homotopy sphere Ym. We wish to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the given G-action on I to be topologically equivalent to a linear action. That is, we want to be able to decide whether or not there exists a G-homeomorphism y: I Sm(p), where Sm(p) C R? 'i(p) denotes the unit sphere in an orthogonal representation space R"' ? '(p) for G. In order for a G-action on I to be topologically equivalent to a linear action it is clearly necessary that: (i) For each subgroup H of G the fixed-point set H is homeomorphic to a sphere, or empty. (ii) For any subgroups H and H C H,, I s i s k, of G the pair ( =H U I1lH) is homeomorphic to a standard pair (S', Uk IS,,), where each Sr, I S i S k, is a standard n,-subsphere of Sn. In this paper we consider the case where the fixed-point set EG is nonempty and all other fixed-point sets have dimension at least 5. In giving efficient sufficient conditions we do not need the full strength of condition (ii). We only need: (ii)* For any subgroups H and H C H,, I s i s p, of G such that dim IH= dim H 2, the pair ( IH Uft1-H) is homeomorphic to a standard pair (S n, UP Sin-2), where each S0-2, 1 S i s p, is a standard (n 2)-subsphere of n. Our main results are then that, in the case when G is abelian, conditions (i) and (ii)* are riecessary and sufficient for a given G-action on I to be topologically equivalent to a linear action, and in the case of an action of an arbitrary finite group the same holds under the additional assumption that any simultaneous codimension I and 2 fixed-point situation is simple. Our results generalize, for actions of finite groups, a well-known theorem of Connell, Montgomery and Yang, and are the first to also cover the case where codimension 2 fixed-point situations occur. Let G be a finite group acting smoothly on a homotopy sphere 2m. (A homotopy sphere 2m is a smooth manifold which is homeomorphic to Sm.) We wish to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the given G-action on L to be topologically equivalent to a linear action. That is, we want to be able to decide whether or not there exists a G-homeomorphism y: L --> Sm(p), where Sm(p) C Rn ' l(p) denotes the unit sphere in an orthogonal representation space Rn ' l(p) for G. In order for a given G-action on L to be topologically equivalent to a linear action it is clearly necessary that the following two conditions hold: (i) For each subgroup H of G the fixed-point set 2H is homeomorphic to a sphere, or empty. Received by the editors January 7, 1981. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 57S17, 57S25; Secondary 57Q30.


The authors report on tuning the near-infrared holographic recording speed in a poly(N-vinylcarbazole) based photorefractive composite by illuminating it at a wavelength of very strong absorption. Due to the small penetration depth of the light under these conditions this approach allows to flood the material with charge carriers from the side of the sample. Even at light levels much stronger than the write beams, this additional illumination does allow for grating recording. However, under these conditions competition between positive and negative charges leads to sign inversion of the two-beam coupling gain coefficient during recording. An improvement of the recording speed is demonstrated.


#14–2020 The protests and upheavals that erupted in the Arab world since 2010 were the starting point in 2019 to look at issues of gender in political and social crises. At the moment, since the beginning of 2020, we are facing the global coronavirus pandemic and witnessing gender imbalances in this crisis, imbalances that turn against wo*men and their role in contemporary societies. This goes for Europe as well as the Middle East and North and South America. Wo*men bear and will bear a disproportionate burden of the measures taken against the coronavirus. Mostly wo*men have been working in the nursing sector in general and with Covid-19 patients in particular. Wo*men did more unpaid work before Corona, and do so even more during the Corona epidemic. Mostly wo*men have seen their working hours reduced, stay at home, and take care of the children due to the closed childcare facilities and schools. In addition, more jobs in which predominantly wo*men work are being cut, explains the ESCWA (Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) study on the impact of Covid-19 on gender equality in the Arab region. What does the lockdown mean for gender relations? What is being locked down and to what places? A conservative understanding of the family seems to be the EDITORIAL 05


To explore various ideas and algorithms for improving relevance of a search engine, we found it necessary to build an infrastructure to provide large-scale data management and data processing capabilities. WebStudio is an infrastructure we have constructed to provide an integrated development environment (IDE) for researchers and developers to use in quickly building prototypes and conducting experiments at Web-scale. It is also a Web data management system to allow users to easily store, access, and manipulate Web data.


The economic viability of a milk production system with crossbred (F1) cattle, through analysis of costs and income of the activity and assessment of benefit/total income index was evaluated. Data were from the Research Experimental Unit of EPAMIG, located at Felixlandia City, Minas Gerais State, and refer to two equal periods of 1 year each. The following parameters were analyzed: benefit/total income, raising cost of calves and its importance upon income. The viability of the system was demonstrated by the benefit/total income index of 20.2% and 37.6% for year 1 and 2, respectively. The calf sale accounted for 25% of the total income.


Information has become an essential resource in contemporary society. Organizations are increasingly investing in technology and equipment to strengthen their security and are forgetting people, the human factor is falling behind. With the growth of computer networks and the Emergence of information technology, Social Engineering attacks have been a current threat to information systems in organizational environments. In order to create containment actions against this threat, it is necessary to understand the behavior of the attackers, i.e. what are the main actions taken to achieve the desired objectives.There is no correction that you can acquire and apply to people to be free from these forms of attack. The solution to combat this problem is knowledge. People should understand how to deal with the forms of attack and what to do to minimize this question in organizations. The present study evaluated, through the application of a survey, the knowledge of the interviewees about Social Engineering, as they perceive its influence in the organizations and how they address the issue of Information Security. The aim of this study is to present how the Social Engineering techniques are applied in responding organizations and how much they are prepared to face this threat suggesting a more human vision of Information Security.


The article provides a brief analysis of the current state and prospects of development of the domestic market for personal finance. Particular attention is paid to the authors of financial literacy in Russia. Analyzes the positive foreign experience in this area to assess the possibility of its effective use in domestic practice. In conclusion, proposes concrete measures to further expand and improve the Russian market for personal finance.


The present invention relates to a battery pack having a battery residual amount display device, the remaining battery capacity display device is formed to be electrically connected to the battery cell to the circuit board and the circuit board on (on), depending on the voltage of the battery cell or by the yirueojim comprises a partition wall for guiding the off (off) a plurality of light emitting device, a display, and the display section corresponding to the light of the light-emitting elements formed in the pack case of the position corresponding to the light emitting element, a large number by a partition wall of the display light-emitting device on / off (on / off) operation is a display exactly the light emitting device does not affect the display portion of the light-emitting element a light the neighborhood off (off) of the light emitting element when arranged in the predetermined shape of the user is able to determine the exact level of the battery.


After describing some key features of life in an underground railroad and the nature of gray agency, Concepción illustrates how survivors of relationship slavery can stop levying misplaced blame on themselves without giving up the valuable practice of blaming. Concepción concludes that by choosing a relatively non-oppressive account of self-blame, some amount of internalized oppression can be overcome and the double bind of agency-denial and self-loathing associated with being an oppressively grafted agent can be reduced.


Near‐controllability is defined for those systems that are uncontrollable but have a large controllable region. It is a property of nonlinear control systems introduced recently, and it has been demonstrated on two classes of discrete‐time bilinear systems. This paper studies near‐controllability of discrete‐time upper‐triangular bilinear systems, which are uncontrollable and are more general than the two classes mentioned. A necessary and sufficient condition for the systems in dimension two to be nearly controllable is presented, which covers the existing results. For the systems with high dimensions, necessary conditions and sufficient conditions of near‐controllability are provided, which generalize the existing results. In particular, the obtained near‐controllability results are applied to controllability of discrete‐time bilinear systems. An example also is given to demonstrate the effectiveness, which shows that the controllability problems of discrete‐time bilinear systems can be solved by near‐controllability.


This paper presents KNbO_3: Fe self-pumped phase conjugation in a ring cavity withtwo additional reflected mirrors. The self- pumped phase conjugation reflectivity η_c as thefunctions of the incident angle a, the light beam interaction angle for ring cavity 2θand incident light intensity I_4 have been experimentally measured. The time evolutionsof different light beams with energy transfer have also demonstrated.


In this paper we present observations of η Carinae in the 1.3 mm and 7 mm radio continuum, during the 2003.5 low excitation phase. The expected minimum in the light curves was confirmed at both wavelengths and was probably due to a decrease in the number of UV photons available to ionize the gas surrounding the binary system. At 7 mm a very well defined peak was superimposed on the declining flux density. It presented maximum amplitude in 29 June 2003 and lasted for about 10 days. We show that its origin can be free-free emission from the gas at the shock formed by wind-wind collision, which is also responsible for the observed X-ray emission. Even though the shock strength is strongly enhanced as the two stars in the binary system approach each other, during periastron passage the X-ray emission is strongly absorbed and the 7 mm observations represent the only direct evidence of this event.


There is an ideological content in the economic field.Economic ideology refers to the economic thought,economics manifested in the form of ideology,which is an expression of a particular class or social group's conceptual system of their vital interests and to provide direct defense for their economic interests.Economics is not a pure science;it could not evade the ideological attributes.The most typical of contemporary economic ideologies is related to theories of Western economics.The mainstream of economic concepts such as "economic globalization","new liberalism","low-carbon economy" etc.includes ideological content and there are traps in them.We should be on the alert when we face these concepts.


1. A New Marketing Vision 2. The Economics of Community 3. Determining External Service Values 4. Communicating with Your Customer 5. The Database as a Marketing Tool 6. Creating the Customer Community Center 7. Retaining and Cultivating Existing Customers 8. Acquiring New Customers 9. Leadership and The New Customer Community


Wireless power transfer devices are becoming more relevant and widespread. Therefore, an article is devoted to a review, analysis and comparison of compensation topologies for an inductive power transfer. A new classification of topologies is developed. A lot of attention is paid to the problems of the physical fundamentals of compensation work, standards, safety, and five main topology requirements. It is determined, that topologies with the series primary compensating are the most effective in the IPT for charging devices among the four classical schemes. The series-parallel solution is recommended in case of the low output voltage, minimum size of a secondary side coil is achievable. The series-series solution does not depend on the magnetic coupling coefficient and the load on the resonance frequency. For the convenience of displaying and understanding the information, the comparison results are listed in the tables, graphs and dependencies. The main suitable topologies for a certain application are defined. The given conclusions provide a "one-stop" information source and a selection guide on the application of compensation topologies both in terms of devices and in terms of power level that is the main value of this paper. During literature analysis and recent trends in the market for wireless power transmission devices, the main possible further ways of developing topologies are underlined. First of all, it concerns increasing the frequency of resonance of compensation topologies, the use of multilevel / multi-pulse / multicoils structures, the study of existing high-frequency semiconductors and the development of the semiconductor and magnetic materials.


Crosstalk between adjacent inkjet channels is well kn in thermal inkjet printheads. Its effect is often unde able because of resulting changes in drop volume jet velocity which in turn affect print quality. The cha acteristics of crosstalk can differ from one print he design to another since it is related to fluid proper and the dynamics of the ink in the interconnected ch nels. This paper describes an inkjet crosstalk study f realtime drop size and velocity measurements. The terpretation of the measurements was aided with ve ity measurements of the ink meniscus obtained wi vibrometer. The results showed that variations in d volume due to crosstalk were closely related to the cillations of the meniscus, which were caused by exc tions of the other inkjet channels. These variations co be predicted from the crosstalk-induced displacemen the meniscus.


Designing crash avoidance warning systems seems a promising starting point for active driver assistance in enhancing driver safety. The aim of this study is to design semantically enriched warnings which not only alert the driver but provide additional information about the critical situation and thereby assist the driver in dealing with the imminent collision. This is implemented by displaying spatial auditory icons (SAIs), which convey information on the identity and the location of the collision object. In a driving simulator study, several auditory icons were tested in collision scenarios to assess realistic driving behaviour. The main focus of the study was to compare SAIs with spatial tonal warnings and conventional non-spatial tonal warnings. To provide a stable measure for the effects of the different warning systems, a nowarning condition was also implemented. Dependent variables included number of collisions, distance to collision object, reaction time and reaction patterns for braking behaviour. Results revealed that all warnings prevented a considerable proportion of collisions compared to the no-warning condition. Also, simple, non-spatial tonal warnings evoked strong reactions and prevented collisions more often than SAIs. However, simple tonal warnings led to more reactions before the collision object was even seen, compared to the SAIs. These reactions consisted of stereotypical strong brakereactions which were initiated before participants knew about the criticality of the situation after having experienced the first scenario. Such premature behaviour could provoke overreactions and be inappropriate in some situations. Overall, the present study suggests that SAIs should be further investigated in comparable realistic situations before concluding whether they can really prevent inappropriate, overhasty reactions and are therefore more useful for collision warnings compared to simple tonal warnings. Human factor aspects in driver warnings Increasing safety is one important aspect in human factors research, especially in the driving domain, where many accidents endanger health and life of those involved.


This summer, recent graduate Kevin Lugo will bike over 4,000 miles across the country to benefit the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults. His choice to bike for seventy days from Baltimore to Seattle makes him fearless! His goal is to raise $7,476 for the organization, and he reached that goal last night (although more donations are always welcome in support of fighting cancer)! Kevin explains that when he studied abroad in Denmark in the fall of 2011, he "fell in love with sustainable transportation, especially cycling." Not only does his fearless endeavor raise money to fight cancer, but he is also supporting healthy environmental practices. [excerpt]


In the first part of this series, we discussed that the building structure, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and moisture management all need to be considered simultaneously to ensure durability of materials and control cost of near-zero energy buildings. These factors must be addressed through contributions of the whole design team. It is also evident that building physics must take an active role in development of near-zero energy buildings. The need to ensure good indoor environment and durability of materials and limit the cost of buildings led to integrated design process that now is typical in Canada for design of low-energy buildings. Furthermore, interactions between energy efficiency, quality of indoor environment and moisture management led us to introduce a concept of "environmental control." In the meantime, we made an unexpected observation—Vancouver dwellings in 2002 use the same amount of energy as 1920 uninsulated masonry buildings erected in the same location. We concluded that despite having advanced technology, our lack of vision prevents us from an effective use of this technology. With the quest for sustainable buildings, we should learn more from termites, who appear to master the art of hygrothermal control better than humans as they are capable of maintaining highly stable interior comfort zone without heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning equipment. Nevertheless, whatever progress is achieved in new low-energy buildings, it is lost when rehabilitating existing buildings because there an owner will typically do one step at a time. If the financial constraints do not allow for more, this first step should be an integrated action that includes a combination of insulation and heating systems.


A characteristic of lamina propria lymphocytes (LPL) is their low proliferative response to stimuli of the CD3 pathway. β1 integrins were expressed on LPL; however, their functionis unknown. Therefore, we determined whether β1 integrins contribute to T cell responses by providing costimulatory signals. Integrins on CD4+ LPL of controls and patients with inflammatory bowel disease were characterized by flow cytometry. Cells were stimulated by anti‐CD3 or anti‐CD2 antibodies either alone or in combination with a stimulatory β1 integrinantibody (12G10). Proliferation and apoptosis were measured by [3H]thymidine pulsing or flow cytometry. Cytokine mRNA and apoptosis‐related transcripts were quantified by reverse transcriptase‐PCR. We demonstrated that β1 integrin costimulation restored CD3‐induced proliferation of CD4+ LPL and reduced activation‐induced apoptosis. Activation of β1 integrins by addition of 12G10 antibody to CD3‐stimulated cells restored their capacity to express proinflammatory cytokine transcripts. Further, expression of the activated form of β1 integrins was significantly elevated on LPL from inflamed mucosa. These studies demonstrate that β1 integrin costimulation modulates the response of LPL after TCR stimulation. An increased expression of activated β1 integrins on LPL in intestinal inflammation may abolish their unresponsiveness to antigens and perpetuate the inflammatory process.


A one-dimensional quantum formulation of the two-dimensional q-state Potts model is studied using a weak-coupling perturbation expansion for the ground state energy. The series for the spontaneous magnetization, the susceptibility and the specific heat are analysed using the method of Pade approximants. The critical exponents, interpolated to the exact value of the critical coupling, are in good agreement with the conjectures of den Nijs, Alexander and Enting for q = 3 and q = 4.


In Mali, climate change is a major threat to the productivity of food security crops such as sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, 1794). The objective of this study was to analyse farmers' perceptions of climate change effects, on sorghum productivity and the adaptation related strategies. A total of 352 sorghum farmers in the Sudanian and Sahelian zones of Mali were interviewed, using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data collected were related mainly to the farmers' socio-economic profiles, indicators used to characterise climate change and strategies developed to cope with it. Irregular rainfall, marked rise in temperatures and early cessation of the rainy seasons were the main manifestations of climate change effects according to the respondents. These effects reportedly resulted in a drastic drop in sorghum yields. Use of meteorological information (19.89% of the respondents), use of early and drought-resistant varieties (13.35% of the respondents), and intercropping of sorghum with other crops (25.85% of the respondents) were the strategy options adapted by farmers. The choice of an adaptation strategies was largely dependent on the number of years of experience in sorghum production, and the number of labour providers available in the household. It is imperative to assess refine the agronomic effectiveness of these to improve sorghum productivity in the


13517 Background: P and D are active in patients (pts) with advanced malignancies. This trial sought to assess the maximum tolerated dose, dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs), tumor response, and the recommended Phase II dose of a P+D combination planned for pts with advanced cancer. Methods: Pts were enrolled with noncurable cancers, ≤1 prior regimen of chemotherapy for metastatic disease, no prior RT to ≥25% of bone marrow 7 days or febrile neutropenia, G4 or G3 (with bleeding) thrombocytopenia, and ≥G3 nonhematologic toxicities, except nausea, vomiting or elevated G3 ALT/AST. Response for measurable disease was assessed by RECIST...


of the phenomenon through the underpinned theory available in information systems theories such as technology-organisationenvironment (TOE), technology acceptance model (TAM), diffusion of innovation (DOI), and task-technology fit (TTF). The method chosen in this research was ABSTRACT This paper introduces a framework using ICT to transform smallholder farmers' traditional business towards agribusiness in Malaysia by extending the existing theoretical framework. The introduction of agribusiness to the farmers is not well understood and difficult to implement due to their limitations as smallholder farmers. The framework outlining ICT usage which was improved through identifying major factors affecting agribusiness transformation by using ICT such as environment (ENV), technology (TECH), farm work design (FWD), and information system elements (ISE). This paper focuses on testing relationships between ENV and TECH which acting as independent variables (IVs) towards agribusiness transformation using ICT as dependent variable (DV). The moderation effect of ISE and FWD acting as moderation variables (ModVs) which interacted with TECH towards agribusiness transformation using ICT were also being investigated in this paper by using slope analysis. This research used a quantitative approach to explore the nature


Haemophilia A is a bleeding disorder that usually seen in males and is inherited as a sex-linked recessive trait. The disorder has been reported in females in several families with male haemophiliacs. However about 20% of female haemophiliacs are described as sporadic type.On the other hand, resently a synthetic vasopressin DDAVP (1-deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin) was used for haemostatic control of haemophiliacs. The haemostatic mechanism of DDAVP in haemophilia A and von Willebrand's disease is understandable because of the increment of factor VII activity.Scaling was performed in a female haemophilia A (VII: C 7%) and then DDAVP (0.4 μg/kg) was administered for haemostatic treatment. DDAVP infusion (iv) induced the increment of factor VII activity. This procedure resulted in effective haemostasis without factor VII replacement therapy.


This article exposes a new form of alternative and clean power generation. Being its objective to characterize, the models and use of the existing materials that comes to be more useful to generate energy. Bibliographic research was used as a method for data collection, through the study of existing articles that open the piezoelectric system. From the evaluation of the existing data, it was observed that to quantify the energy generation of these materials, besides simulating in software the amount generated is made the prototype for accurate measurement of the generated energy values. However, this is a task that requires a lot of study, so that, finally, it can reach usable values to supply the desired electrical systems. The results show that the amount of energy generated is different for each method used, which depends on the type of material and the harvesting procedures performed, among the most used materials is the "cantilever" being the best in relation to the generation of Therefore, it is evident that the present article seeks to demonstrate the existing modes of generation through the use of this piezoelectric effect. Thus, it is expected to draw attention to this type of electricity production.


Since 2017, hypertension was the top first disease in the Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY). It cannot be ignored because hypertension is an entrance for other degenerative diseases. Along with the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020 raising our curiosity whether there has been a change in the incidence of hypertension in DIY during this year, then what are its characteristics. This study explores the characteristics of people with hypertension by age group and gender in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Yogyakarta Special Region. A descriptive study was employed in this study, with the main source was the secondary data from the Yogyakarta Special Region health office, the year 2020. Analysis was conducted by univariate tabulation. Data from the Yogyakarta provincial health office shows that in 2020 there will be an increase of more than eight thousand cases of hypertension. In general, this increase was lower than the increase in the previous two years. In 2020, the highest incidence of hypertension was found in women in the age range of 60-69. Meanwhile, in the (15–19) age group, the majority of cases happened in men. This study shows that during 2020, which was the COVID-19 pandemic, the incidence of hypertension increased but not as high as the previous two years. The majority of hypertension occurred in the 60-69 age group, with the majority in men.


Objective To compare the clinical result of Cercon system veneers and Ips-Empress veneers on upper anterior teeth.Methods 117 patients were randomly divided into two groups.240 upper incisors were restored with Cercon scanning and IPS Empress veneers.Restorations were evaluated after luting in 1monyh and 12 months.The integrity of restoration,marginal adaptation,color match,veneer shape,and secondary caries were assessed.Results Cercon system veneers had greater Success rate in marginal adaptation than Ips-Empress veneers after 1 month.After 12 months,Cercon system veneers had greater Success rate in marginal adaptation,integrity of restoration and secondary caries than Ips-Empress veneers.Conclusion Cercon system veneers had better results in long term clinical observation.


The recent resurgence of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented reality (AR) research and development has been palpable, with new performance projects emerging that in turn explore the latest technologies, headsets, glasses and software to make intimate interactive storytelling and games. This paper is will be a reworked section from my upcoming book on New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance due in 2018, and will shed light on the recent exponential resurgence of virtual reality (VR), the evolution of AR/MR (mixed reality) and its use within performance work, which use the latest technologies, headsets, glasses and software to make intimate performance events and theatre games using wearable headset or mobile devices worn on the face.


Oxaliplatin, a platinum derivative cancer drug, has been used for treating human colorectal cancers. Survivin has been proposed as a cancer target, which highly expressed in most cancer cells but not normal adult cells. In this study, we investigated the regulation of survivin expression by exposure to oxaliplatin in human colon cancer cells. Oxaliplatin (3–9 M for 24 h) markedly induced cytotoxicity, proliferation inhibition and apoptosis in the human RKO colon cancer cells. The survivin protein expression of RKO cells is dramatically reduced by oxaliplatin; however, the survivin gene expression is slightly altered. The survivin blockage of oxaliplatin elevated caspase-3 activation and apoptosis in RKO cells. Over-expression of survivin proteins by transfection with a survivin-expressed vector resisted the oxaliplatin-induced cancer cell death. Meantime, oxaliplatin elicited the phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase. SB202190, a specific p38 MAP kinase inhibitor, restored the survivin protein level and attenuated oxaliplatin-induced cancer cell death. In addition, oxaliplatin increased the levels of phosphop53 (Ser-15) and total p53 proteins. Inhibition of p53 expression by a specific p53 inhibitor pifithrinreduced the phosphorylated p38 MAP kinase and active caspase-3 proteins in the oxaliplatin-exposed RKO cells. In contrast, SB202190 did not alter the oxaliplatin-induced p53 protein level. Furthermore, treatment with a specific proteasome inhibitor MG132 restored survivin protein level in the oxaliplatintreated colon cancer cells. Taken together, our results demonstrate for the first time that survivin is downnase ells. regulated by p38 MAP ki the human colon cancer c


The great advantage of a small museum, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, lies in its informality and cordial relationship with its public. This is true not only with children and their parents who soon learn to know the museum staff, but likewise in the case of teachers and supervisors—an amicable and essential connection that often takes years to build.


Modern processors support a large numbers of instructions and a multitude of features; as a result, detailed formal models of real instruction set architectures (ISAs) are long and hard to understand. Established approaches for proving functional properties on top of these models tie proofs to a specific model and require expert knowledge of the underlying model and substantial manual effort of those performing the proofs. In this talk, I will explain a novel approach to verification of machine code which addresses these issues. My approach is based on translation: machine-code programs are translated into functionally equivalent tail-recursive functions via fully-automatic deduction. In doing so, the problem of proving properties of machine-code programs reduces to a problem of proving properties of recursive functions. My approach has several advantages over established approaches of verification condition generation. In particular, the new approach does not require annotating the program with assertions; and, more importantly, this approach separates the verification proof from the underlying ISA models so that specific resource names, some instruction orderings and certain control-flow structures become irrelevant. As a result, proof reuse is enabled to a greater extent than in established methods. Towards the end of the talk, I will summarise some lessons that were learnt when implementing this tool for the HOL4 theorem prover. I will also explain some applications of this decompiler in automatic synthesis of correct code from functional specifications and explain how verification combined with synthesis has been used in case studies such as the construction of formally verified implementations of Lisp in ARM, x86 and PowerPC machine code. The automation described above has been implemented as ML programs which steer HOL4 to a translation proof for each input machine-code program.


In this paper, we study the existence, uniqueness and Holder regularity of the solution to a class of nonlinear stochastic pseudo-differential equation of the following form ∂ ∂t + q(x,D) u(t,x) = − ∂ ∂xf(t,x,u(t,x)) + ẆH(t,x), (t,x) ∈ [0,T] × ℝ, where q(x,D) is a pseudo-differential operator with negative definite symbol of variable order which generates a stable-like process with transition density, the coefficient f : [0,T] × ℝ × ℝ → ℝ is a measurable function, and ẆH(t,x) is a double-parameter fractional noise. In addition, the existence and Gaussian type estimates for the density of the mild solution are proved via Malliavin calculus.


For example, consider a structure with domain (A, B, C), for a language including just the equality predicate = and constants {a, b, c}, which interprets a, b, c as A, B, C respectively and = as the relation {(A, B), (B, A), (A, A), (B, B), (C, C)}. i.e. = (A, B), = (B, A) etc. are all true and other atoms involving =, such as = (B, C), are false. This is a model of the equality axioms (show it !) and it also satisfies the formula a = b (for example). However, a and b do not denote the same element in the domain, so equality is not being treated as identity here.


Change is a reality in today's workforce. With every new invention and growth in technology, businesses are forced to change. One of the changes businesses are making is the adoption of Web-based technology. This has greatly impacted the business of training. One of the biggest challenges the training industry is facing today is making the transition to Web-based and on-line learning. With this change in direction for training and education, the roles of the instructor and the student are also changing. Roles and responsibilities are becoming more ambiguous. This can lead to resistance. It is well documented that individuals and organizations resist change. In search of stability, it is natural for people to attempt to establish and maintain control over their environment. In this paper, the impact of role ambiguity, specifically that of instructor and student, on the change from instructor-led classroom training to on-line learning is explored. Contains 12 references. (Author) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ******************************************************************************** "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY


The marine environment is continuously subjected to chemical pollution, which may exert a detrimental effect on aquatic organisms. Biodiversity of marine invertebrates has been proven to be difficult to assess accurately using traditional morphological methods. Major problems include dearth of characters in many taxa. Hence, it is necessary to assess the eco-health of this marine invertebrate using reliable measurements of environmental quality as required in the present study. With the backdrop of information, the Pudhumadam coastal area was surveyed for the diversity of ruined/washed out gastropods species. As a competitor for space with gastropods, these barnacles settle on the conus for its food and habitat. In our study, the occurrence of acorn barnacles was observed on gastropod shells. The pink adult and many white small barnacles were noted on the shells. If these barnacles increase their habitat this may lead to destruction of diversity of gastropods.


The Alma-Ata declaration during the International Conference on Primary Health Care in 1978 reaffirms that health is a fundamental human right and the attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important worldwide social goal.(1) The Alma Ata declaration has outlined the eight essential components of primary health care and provision of essential medicines is one of them.(1) Medicines are integral parts of the health care and the modern health care is unthinkable without the availability of necessary medicines. They not only save lives and promote health, but prevent epidemics and diseases too. The medicines are undoubtedly one of the weapons of mankind to fight disease and illness. Accessibility to medicines is too the fundamental right of every person.


The gasification of sewage sludge (SS) was studied in a semi-industrial pilot plant consisting of a rotary kiln reactor. The gasification process was preceded by drying the SS in an integrated tubular rotating structure with built-in worm conveyors, to increase the dry matter (DM) content in the SS (> 90 wt.%). The released hydrogen-rich syngas from the gasification process of SS had low heating value (LHV) of approximately 8.83 MJ N –1 m –3 (equal to 2.45 kWh N –1 m –3 ) due to the high content of combustible gases H 2 (41.5 vol.%) and CH 4 (3.2 vol.%). Also investigated was the incorporation of sewage sludge ash (SSA) generated in the process of gasification as a partial substitute for clay in the production of clay bricks. Amounts of 5 wt.%, 10 wt.%, 20 wt.% of clay were replaced by SSA. By incorporating SSA at 5 wt.%, the new brick product achieved 4.5 % higher compressive strength compared to the control brick.


This work presents a project of telemedicine applied to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The implemented communications scheme can be adapted to patients interned in an ICU as well as to remote patients connected to the principal hospital through the communication lines. The developed system also provides maximal flexibility on the physical level, allowing ISDN, ADSL, ATM and dedicated lines. This project focuses on the acquisition of medical data, the management of the communications and the visualization and posterior analysis of the data. It also includes a series of multimedia options that facilitate the collaboration during the diagnosis: use of videoconferences following video compression protocols (H.323), collaborative whiteboard (norm T.120), visualization of graphic files related to the patient, transmission of files by means of sockets, etc. The global system follows the IEEE MIB P-1073 standard, which it improves by including the acquisition of analog signals and to which it adds a component of intelligent monitoring using a knowledge based system (alarm check, tendencies analysis, communications control, etc.). The system disposes of an intelligent module (rules based system developed in OPS/R2) charged with management of the communication between the different processes, with the data transmission priorities, the bandwidth management, the management of the charge between various resources, etc.


In this paper, the routing and wavelength assignment problem in all optical networks is considered. A solution to the RWA problem is proposed through a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based approach to search for the most suitable set of paths from many possible ones. We use GAs to solve this problem by introducing a new fitness function based on the mean value of occurrence of the common edges between the different genes of a single chromosome. In addition, we further improve performance and particularly execution times by considering the maximum quantity of edge disjoint paths (EDPs) to initialize the population with some indigo chromosomes. These EDPs are pre-computed and inserted in the GA-RWA problem. The proposed approach has been evaluated on the NSF network topology and compared with other similar schemes.


With the application of the computer averaging technique evoked responsesto frequency modulation(FM)of sustained pure tones were recorded from theauditory cortex of guinea pigs and response thresholds in terms of modulationdepth(⊿Fm)were determined in a wide range of carrier frequencies(F).The mo-dulating wave was a rectangular pulse 50 msec in duration and 1 per sec in presen-tation rate.Through a sound feedback compressor system a constant level ofthe given tone was maintained and,as a result,what changed during modulationwas only the frequency parameter.The general characteristics of the cortical FM-evoked responses were quitesimilar to those of the click-or tone-burst-evoked ones.80-100 dB SPL was foundto be the optimum intensity for evoked FM responses.They could be either ofthe"on-"(to the beginning of modulation),"off-"(to the end of modulation),or"on-off-"type,depending,although not exclusively,upon the direction of fre-quency change.In high F range(1000 Hz)⊿Fm increased slowly with F,⊿Fm/Famounting to something below 1%,While for lower F,⊿Fm was more or less inde-pendent of F,fluctuating around 12 Hz.This differential sensitivity was of the sameorder as the difference limen measured in human subjects in psychophysical ex-periments with short signal duration.The last condition must be taken into con-sideration in making the above comparison,since FM-evoked responses,both on-and off-,are quick responses,having latency only as short as 10 msec or so.Taking FM-evoked response as an index,⊿Fm can be measured relativelyeasily.This kind of measurement as a new complementary research method instudying auditory analytic functions in animal sounds promising.


The power density as well as the absolute power consumption in telecommunication equipment keep on increasing continuously. In new generation platforms like ATCA (Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture) up to 16 boards with up to 300W heat dissipation each can be used in a 19□rack. A typical cooling for such an equipment uses fan trays with the fans forcing the air flow through the gaps between the boards. Unfortunately the fans do not provide a uniform How pattern, so the cooling effect and also the temperatures will also be non-uniform. This paper shows how CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) can be used for the prediction of flow and temperature distribution and how the cooling can be optimized.


To reduce the number of administrations of propylthiouracil required to treat hyperthyroidism, the bioavailability and sustained‐release characteristics of 300 mg propylthiouracil formulated in hydrophilic matrix tablets were evaluated after single oral administration in healthy male volunteers. A conventional tablet was chosen as the reference formulation.


Thus far, most researchers have focused on the cognition of fire use, but few have explored the cognition of firemaking. With this contribution we analyse aspects of the two main hunter-gatherer firemaking techniques—the strike-a-light and the manual fire-drill—in terms of causal, social and prospective reasoning. Based on geographic distribution, archaeological and ethnographic information, as well as our cognitive interpretation of strike-a-light firemaking, we suggest that this technique may well have been invented by Neanderthal populations in Eurasia. Fire-drills, on the other hand, represent a rudimentary form of a symbiotic technology, which requires more elaborate prospective and causal reasoning skills. This firemaking technology may have been invented by different Homo sapiens groups roaming the African savanna before populating the rest of the globe, where fire-drills remain the most-used hunter-gatherer firemaking technique.


A field monitoring study of an interlocking block permeable pavement system was initiated in Auckland, New Zealand to assess performance in achieving LID goals. Automatic sampling and continuous hydrologic monitoring occurred for one year on an active carriageway and bus lane. Concurrent testing of a conventional asphalt surface and the permeable pavement system indicate that on average, the permeable system delays the onset of runoff by 2.4 hrs (40 events), and decreases peak flow by 83% (18 events). Peak flow during a 10-yr event was reduced by 70%. Clay subsoils prevent volume control. While flows exceed modelled predevelopment conditions, the permeable system contributes significantly to overall hydrologic control. Water quality sampling (6 storms) indicates that the permeable system discharges lower pollutant mass by 58 ±15% for TSS, 58% ±10% and 71±10% for total and dissolved Cu, respectively, and 86 ±8% and 96 ±2% for total and dissolved Zn, respectively. Differences between asphalt surface and permeable system EMCs are statistically evident. Permeable system pollutant discharge is less than or comparable to effluent from most BMPs reported by the International Stormwater BMP Database. Incorporating hydrologic routing in the design process would likely further increase hydrologic and water quality control. Surface infiltration testing for four permeable pavement sites is used to assess maintenance needs. The primary study site shows no loss in permeability and all tests achieve at least the 1200 mm/hr design objective. Other sites showed that fines and leaf litter can reduce permeability by an order of magnitude or more.


Background A crucial limitation of DNA vaccines is its weak immunogenicity, especially in terms of eliciting antibody responses in non-human primates or humans; therefore, it is essential to enhance immune responses to vaccination for the development of successful DNA vaccines for humans. Methods Here, we approached this issue by evaluating interleukin-7 (IL-7) as a genetic adjuvant in cynomolgus monkeys immunized with multigenic HCV DNA vaccine. Results Codelivery of human IL-7 (hIL-7)-encoding DNA appeared to increase DNA vaccine-induced antibody responses specific for HCV E2 protein, which plays a critical role in protecting from HCV infection. HCV-specific T cell responses were also significantly enhanced by codelivery of hIL-7 DNA. Interestingly, the augmentation of T cell responses by codelivery of hIL-7 DNA was shown to be due to the enhancement of both the breadth and magnitude of immune responses against dominant and subdominant epitopes. Conclusion Taken together, these findings suggest that the hIL-7-expressing plasmid serves as a promising vaccine adjuvant capable of eliciting enhanced vaccine-induced antibody and broad T cell responses.


The early Buddhist exegetical text, the Nettippakara?a, apparently uniquely, describes the stages of the path as 'transcendental dependent arising' (lokuttara pa?icca-samupp?da), in contrast with the twelve nid?nas, called 'worldly dependent arising' (lokiya pa?icca-samupp?da). A close reading of the Nettippakara?ain relation to another, related, exegetical text, the Pe?akopadesa, reveals that the latter interprets the same stages of the path in a different way. More broadly, while the Pe?akopadesa takes pa?icca-samupp?dato refer only to the twelve nid?nas, the Nettippakara?a's exegetical strategy takes pa?icca-samupp?dato refer to an over-arching principle of conditionality, both 'worldly' and 'transcendental'. This exegesis has proved popular with modern western Buddhist exegetes.


ABSTRACT
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF POLYCRYSTAL GRAPHITE
USING AN ELECTRON DIFFRACTION METHOD BY EMPLOYING
THE ELECTRON DIFFRACTION TUBE TELTRON 2555
Yuli Marhendra Kristianing
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The measurement of ring diameter as a result of electron diffraction with
carbon as atom target on an electron diffraction tube teltron 2555 at the laboratory
of physics, main laboratory of FMIPA Sebelas Maret University Surakarta has
been done. The electron diffraction methode is one of the methode used to find
out the structure of crystal. On this research electron diffraction on graphite
executed to find out the structure, type, and the miller index. Measurement ring
diameter as a result of diffraction execute on voltage between 3-5 KV. Electron
diffraction tube of shape of ball at radius at 6,6 cm is used and the distance
between material and screen is 13 cm.
The plane distance of the carbon atom of graphite at the same layer is
) 03 , 0 974 , 1 ( ± Ǻ corresponds to the plane with miller index [102] and plane
distance of the carbon atom of graphite at the different layer is ) 017 , 0 144 , 1 ( ± Ǻ
corresponds to the plane with miller index [112]. The shape of graphite crystal
structure is hexagonal.


The challenge of settling into a new role prompts our anonymous blogger to ponder how best to get newcomers up to speed


The Chang'e‐5 (CE‐5) mission has successfully returned samples from a site that is much younger than the sites of all previous lunar sampling missions. Sample analysis results reported so far have revealed a more complex sampling area than previously thought, casting uncertainties over the interpretation of remote sensing spectral data and the U and Th abundance derived from the orbital data. Laboratory spectral measurement of the returned samples can serve as validation of remote sensing observations and thus help refine our understanding of the geological evolution of the landing region. In this study we report detailed micro mid‐infrared (MIR) spectral characteristics of individual soil grains of CE‐5 samples. The spectral analysis results show that the CE‐5 olivine grains have low Fo (molar Mg/[Mg + Fe] × 100) consistent with previous studies, indicating a Fe‐rich source region of the mantle or a highly evolved magma. These olivine grains show high level of crystallinity, implying low degree of space weathering. Most of the CE‐5 glasses analyzed are spectrally consistent with mare impact glasses, despite that a few of them may have a volcanic origin. These laboratory spectral analysis of CE‐5 samples in the MIR wavelengths at a micro scale, together with the derived MIR optical constants of the olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase, and glass grains, provide important input for the modeling and interpretation of thermal remote sensing data of the Moon.


Computerization of hospital information enables us to visualize and analyze temporal characteristics of hospital services, which can be viewed as a first step to improve and innovate clinical services. This paper proposes a temporal data mining process which consists of decision tree, clustering, MDS and three-dimensional trajectories mining and applied the method to datasets extracted from hospital information systems. The results show that the reuse of stored data will give a powerful tool to characterize medical services in the following ways: (1) Statistics and temporal characteristics of clinincal orders were visualized. (2) Divisions were classified in terms of temporal patterns of orders. (3) The temporal interval important to characterize the behavior of the divisions were evaluated. (4) Characterization of nursing orders showed the classification of nursing orders into disease-specific ones and patient- specific ones.


This paper proposes a novel method for deriving dual converters, namely deriving current‐source converters from voltage‐source counterparts, and vice versa. The conventional derivation method is based on the transformation of circuit topology, in which series connections are converted into parallel connections, and vice versa. However, this method cannot be directly applied to nonplanar circuits because they do not allow perfect topological transformation, although many of them are known to have duals. Lagrangian dynamics does not depend on the topological relation to transform a system into another equivalent system; therefore, it possibly avoids problems related to topological transformation and may provide a universal and systematic method that can be consistently applied to nonplanar circuits. This paper discusses the derivation of duals using Lagrangian dynamics. Along with the theory, this paper presents two examples of Lagrangian derivation of duals. One derives a dual of a planar circuit, to which the topological transformation is applicable. The other derives two duals of a nonplanar circuit. Consequently, these examples suggest that the proposed method is a prospective candidate for universal and systematic derivation of duals. © 2016 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


In order to realize defect identification for guided waves inspection in a pipe, a time reversal method based on baseline subtraction method was introduced. In this method, baseline signals were prepared at an earlier stage of a testing pipe's life. After that residual signals were obtained by executing subtraction between detection signals and baseline signals. So, without using the rectangular window for signal interception, time reversals signals are produced by time reversing the whole residual signals. At last, defects can be recognized by the motion of the time reversal wave propagating along a pipe model. Numerical simulation results show that this method simplifies the existing time reversal defect identification method for guided wave health monitoring in pipes. Especially, more than one defect exist on the same axial location of the pipe can be recognized easily by this method.


This paper aims to provide deeper insight into women's fertility and employment decisions through the exploration of women's values and beliefs. For our research, we selected Poland, where quantitative studies continuously point to a strong determination among mothers to participate in employment, despite marked institutional obstacles to combining work with childrearing. We demonstrated that motherhood is one of the major goals in women's lives. Nevertheless, women seek to combine it with employment, and their ability to do so depends on the meaning attached to paid work. Using qualitative data, we identified three such meanings. "Work as an income source" and "work as an attractive activity" are considered desirable and compatible with motherhood, whereas "work as a professional career" precludes childrearing, and is rejected. In addition, our study illustrates how considering values and beliefs can contribute to our understanding of human behaviours, and demonstrates the usefulness of the qualitative approach for this purpose.


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The computer information system combines the features of a data base management system (DBMS), some artificial intelligent (A.I.) techniques and the computer language C into one integrated system capable of handling a variety of data and knowledge types available in the area of laser materials processing (LMP). Experimental data and general guideline data and knowledge are stored in data bases using the DBMS. Models for parameter prediction and process simulation are implemented in the computer language C. Some heuristic reasoning rules are implemented to handle the searching of general knowledge and experimental data from the data bases. A so-called "control center", which is implemented in Prolog, functions as a shell, providing an interactive user environment and guiding the user in accessing different parts of the system.


In the context of the many movements with a strong female presence promoting peace in the Middle East, the movement Women Wage Peace (WWP) currently represents the largest and most impactful organization in the country. Founded in the aftermath of the 50-day Gaza War/Operation Protective Edge of 2014, Women Wage Peace has grown to 45,000 Israeli members, the most significant grassroots peace movement in Israel today. WWP's theory of change refracts the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and its resolution, through a gendered lens. The movement is non-partisan and does not support any specific solution to the conflict. Instead, it empowers women from diverse communities to build trust across divides, leading to a unified demand for diplomatic negotiation, with full representation of women, to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. WWP enables very diverse women to unite with the aim of taking their own and their children's futures into their own hands: women from the left, center, and right, young and old, from the center and periphery of the country, religious and secular, Jewish, Arab, Druze, and Bedouin. The movement continues to refine its non-hierarchical structure, distributing its work among thousands of volunteers who serve on regional and/or mission-specific teams, including Government Engagement, Foreign Affairs, Digital Communication, Special Projects, and Strategy.


This article examines the influence of the years of service on non-permanent teachers' perception on the precarious side of their work. A survey has been conducted to 50 nonpermanent teachers from10 state own junior high schools in the Ciracas District, East Jakarta, Indonesia. Each respondent has identical employment status that is called the Individual Employment Contract (IEC).The respondent perception is measured through seven dimensions of job uncertainty, which are job uncertainty, work uncertainty, career uncertainty, working environment uncertainty, skill uncertainty, income uncertainty, and representation uncertainty. The survey finding concludes that most of the respondents perceived that their employment status has high uncertainties in all of the dimensions. The years of service symmetrically influences teachers perception on the precarious side of their employment status. The regression model is Y = 1866 + 0.045X.


In order to study structure stability of stainless steel spot weld carbody,a complex finite element model of the carbody is established and analyzed under compression load according to EN12663-2010 standard.Then buckling parts of the carbody are determined and improved,and optimizations of spot weld layout of these parts are performed by variable density method and substructure analysis method.Based on to the optimization results and requirements of weld technology,the weld spot arrangement of the carbody is updated,and linear buckling analysis of the carbody is carried out again.The results show that buckling factors of those buckling parts are all greater than 1.5.


Part of the transfer of resources from the higher (central) to the lower (state) level of government takes place in India through the Finance Commission, on the basis of a formula for devolution of resources. This paper seeks to highlight the alternative formulae available to the Commission, and to suggest a basis for choosing an appropriate formula from the available set. The first section outlines the alternative principles on the basis of which the transfer of resources could occur. The field of choice open is indicated, and implications spelt out. In the second section, we examine the formulae chosen by some past Finance Commissions, and evaluate the efficiency of the choices made.