In order to examine the correlation between the stability of both Vitamin A and β-carotene in margarine and moisture together with oils used as raw material, margarine were prepared with various amounts of water, coconut oil and cotton seed oil both of which were raw material oils, and then their preservability was examined at 5°C and 25°C for 12 months.As a result, it was found that the more the moisture content, the worse became the preservability of vitamin A and β-carotene, and especially this tendency was remarkable in the case of storage at 25°C and in the samples containing liquid oil. And those containillg coconut oil showed an increased stability, but, on the contrary, the survival rate of vitamin A and β-carotene markedly decreased with the increase in the amount of cotton seed oil.


A rigorous and efficient scheme based on coupled integral equations is proposed to circumvent the limitation of the Born and Rytov approximations. In this scheme, one forward and one inverse problem will be solved at each iteration. During the forward-phase, one updates the unknown electric field within the object, while during the inverse-phase the estimate of the conductivity of the object will be updated. The inversion algorithm for this scheme is based on conjugate gradients and the fast Fourier transform. This method is suitable for least-squares, overdetermined problems with many unknowns (i.e. several thousand).<<ETX>>


The invention discloses a method and a device for detecting a frequency correction channel, and relates to the technical field of mobile communication. In consideration that the detection of the frequency correction channel is easy to be influenced by noise and multi-path interference, power spectrum characteristics which are not easy to be influenced by noise and multi-path interference are used for analytical detection so that the false dismissal and false alarm properties of the detection of the frequency correction channel are improved. The method disclosed by the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps of: converting a received signal into a frequency domain signal and calculating the power spectrum of the frequency domain signal; judging single-peak characteristic according to the power spectrum and determining an initial detection frequency correction channel result; and optimally analyzing the initial detection frequency correction channel result by use of the power spectrum characteristics of normal burst and noise to determine a target detection frequency correction channel result. The scheme provided by the invention is suitable for detecting the frequency correction channels.


All organic alkaline prescription for circulating cooling water is chosen to be used for changing the Huaihe river in different seasons. The date from fieldwork reaches the national standards and some set quota of Chinese petro chemical general group. The water treatment that saves water and raises economical benefits in industrial application can be spread in circulating cooling water system.


Industrial efficiency and low-cost energy resources are key components to increasing U.S. energy productivity and makes the U.S. manufacturing sector more competitive. Companies find a competitive advantage in implementing efficiency technologies and practices, and technologies developed and manufactured in the U.S. enable greater competitiveness economy-wide.


Yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG): Pr 3+ is synthesized by codeposition me thod. Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) excitation and emission spectra of YAG: Pr 3+ at different temperatures are measured using synchrotron radiation as an excitation source. We analyze the transition process after excitation to 4f5d en ergy band and estimate the Huang-Rhys factor S and phonon energy ηω of YAG: Pr 3+ by multi-phonon relaxation. Emission of self-trapped exciton (STE) and 3 P 0 → 3 H 4,5,6 emission transferr ed from the STE energy appear when YAG: Pr 3+ is excited by 170nm, whic h is a different transition process from those excited by 240nm and 289nm.


Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are defined as cancer cells with self-renewal capacity. These cells represent a small subpopulation endowed with the ability to form new tumors when injected in mice. Membrane markers and cancer stem cell assays have been used to identify and characterize these cells. The selfrenewal ability of cancer stem cells has suggested that this population could be responsible for new tumor formation and cancer relapse. The identification of the cells responsible for the initiation and maintenance of a tumor is a main goal of research as such identification would present opportunities to design more specific therapies. In this article we will critically review these points with emphasis on the assays that the scientific community has in its arsenal to characterize and identify breast cancer stem cells, exposing the divergent literature.


Spatio-temporal prediction is very important in the application of traffic management and traffic planning. Urban traffic network is a complex network system, which is affected by various uncertain factors, such as major traffic events, weather and so on. Traffic flow prediction is a typical spatiotemporal prediction task. The traffic flow data in the road network has strong nonlinear dynamic characteristics; In addition to the two typical characteristics of temporal correlation and spatial correlation, such as the characteristics of road structure is also an important factor to be considered in traffic flow prediction, which still faces great challenges. This paper proposes a multi fusion graph network dynamic spatiotemporal traffic flow prediction model (DGAT) based on graph attention. The traffic graph network is constructed by comprehensively considering a variety of road structure information, and combined with graph attention to capture the dynamic transformation of traffic flow data, so as to complete the task of traffic flow prediction. The results show that the prediction accuracy of the DGAT proposed in this paper is significantly improved compared with the existing benchmark model.


PyKale is a Python library for Knowledge-aware machine learning from multiple sources of data to enable/accelerate interdisciplinary research. It embodies green machine learning principles to reduce repetitions/redundancy, reuse existing resources, and recycle learning models across areas. We propose a pipeline-based application programming interface (API) so all machine learning workflows follow a standardized six-step pipeline. PyKale focuses on leveraging knowledge from multiple sources for accurate and interpretable prediction, particularly multimodal learning and transfer learning. To be more accessible, it separates code and configurations to enable non-programmers to configure systems without coding. PyKale is officially part of the PyTorch ecosystem and includes interdisciplinary examples in bioinformatics, knowledge graph, image/video recognition, and medical imaging: https://pykale.github.io/.


The capacity of binary frequency shift keying (BFSK) frequency-hopped multiple access (FHMA) systems with side information is derived. The use of erasure decision with ratio-threshold test (RTT) for generating side information in fading and non-fading channels is investigated. The authors demonstrate the benefits of using erasure decision, achievable maximum capacity, optimum threshold setting and the optimal number of users in order to maximise the capacity.


The article describes requirements to real paying capacity of insurers from the point of view of Ukrainian legislation. It analyses provision of obligations of an insurer by means of its resources. It specifies forms of provision of obligations of an insurance company, which facilitate development of a basis for compensation of losses and satisfaction of creditors' requirements. It draws a conclusion of a contradiction relevant to paying capacity, which lies in worsening paying capacity in the event of increase of insurance payments and reserves of unearned premiums.


The purpose of the study was to define the anatomy of the distal biceps tendon and it's attachment to the proximal radius (bicipital tuberosity). Distal ruptures of the biceps tendon are not uncommon. Surgical treatment needs an understanding of the precise anatomy of the distal biceps tendon and it's insertion; of which there are no reports in the literature. Eighty cadaver elbows were dissected. Six were damaged, hence they were excluded from the study. The skin over the cadaver elbows was removed. The distal biceps tendon was dissected and followed to it's insertion on to the bicipital tuberosity. Measurements of tendon dimensions were taken at the elbow joint and at it's insertion. The whole distal biceps tendon twists in a predictable manner. The tendon fibres too change orientation. The tendon inserts on the posterior margin of the bicipital tuberosity in a thin C-shaped manner. All the biceps insertions had a significantly large bursa associated with it. Both the biceps tendon and it's intra-tendinous fibres twist. This has biomechanical implications. The dimensions of the biceps tendon at the elbow and at it's insertion affect the biomechanics. The insertion into bone in a thin C shaped fashion has connotations on methods of repair.


A b s t r a c t. Four different methods were used to evaluate grain hardness of wheat cultivars and advanced breeding lines bred in Poland. In addition, for genotypes that were highly differentiated in grain hardness the level of starch damage and puroindoline content were analysed. Some differences in results of grain hardness testing indicate that the methods are based on various principles and evaluate different features of grain. It was found that wheat genotypes bred in Poland do not vary considerably in grain hardness and puroindoline content. Regardless of grain hardness, grain of studied wheat genotypes milled under standard conditions yield flour with very similar starch damage levels. It was found that it is easier to change the starch damage degree by changing milling conditions instead of selecting a specific wheat variety. K e y w o r d s: winter wheat, puroindolines, grain hardness indices, starch damage


Binational water management along the US—Mexican border is changing as a result of new institutions and approaches growing out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In this study we examine the two leading border water-management agencies today, the venerable International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) and the new Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC), to understand better the post-NAFTA prospects for policy innovation in this issue area. The two agencies, IBWC and BECC, are analyzed from the perspective of two prominent theoretical explanations for agency behavior, structural choice politics and interorganizational implementation, to identify their political and institutional limitations as binational water-management agencies. We then chart the prospects for further innovation in binational water management along the US—Mexico border.


>A survey was made during 1957 and 1958 of the radiation dose to the population of Hamburg due to diagnostic radiology and radiotherapy of non- malignant conditions. Data are tabulated. The genetic significance of the doses is


What makes a song a song? why use popular songs? what songs should I use? how can I get the lyrics to songs? how can I use this book? song types the activities - vocabulary extension, listening development, singing development, writing development, discussion. Appendices: sample lesson plans and selected songs songs mentioned in activities.


Highly stretchable strain sensors, with embedded microchannels filled with conductive liquid, have been widely used in various applications in soft robotics for detecting different types of deformation modes, when attached to human or robot bodies. One of recent applications that draws an attention is direct integration of soft sensors with soft actuators for proprioceptive feedback. However, it is not easy to obtain a high resolution in curvature sensing when combined with bending actuators in which curvature is indirectly measured from strain sensing, since the placement of soft sensors are limited to the location where the strain sensitivity is relatively small. Therefore, we propose a new design of high gauge factor strain sensors using a multi-material structure. By alternately arranging low and high stiffness elastomers, the structure experiences amplified strain changes on each of the low-stiffness regions. The gauge factor was significantly increased as high as over three times of a conventional single material sensor. In this paper, the design and fabrication of the proposed sensor are described with an analytical model. The sensor was tested while integrated with a PneuNet bending actuator for curvature detection as an application.


. This article analyses how dominant discourse reinforces neoliberal capitalism. While most critical studies focus on manufacturing consent, we show how dominant discourse both harnesses and disarms criticism to establish change as a mode of complex domination. We investigate how the 'guruesque' discourse of social business puts capitalism to the test. Our discourse analysis highlights how three Muhammad Yunus' books align subject positions, problems, objectives, and solutions to make neoliberal programmes the solutions to societal issues. Taking the theoretical turn in pragmatic sociology, we build on late Boltanski's work to show how this justification work connects world and reality differently in truth, reality, and existential tests. We make three contributions. First, we revisit how justification work disarms criticism, showing that it is less about reaching moral agreement than about depriving criticism of its voices, targets, imagination, and alternatives. Second, we reconsider the notion of tests, showing that truth, reality, and existential tests combine within a single discourse to equally legitimate the neoliberal reality. Third, we advance knowledge on complex domination,


The artificial island physical and mechanical property of fill index has a great influence on the island stability and the development of displacement. The fill is generally composed of a lot of construction rubbish, industrial waste or the living garbage .We discuss the relationship between shear strength and coarse particle,density relations under different compactness through the experimental study in this paper. The results show that cohesion increases with the content of coarse particles,and compression modulus increases along with the increase of the density. When the content of coarse changed from small to large, compression modulus increases with the increase of coarse grain content at the beginning. When the content of coarse reached 20%, compression modulus with compaction degree increases fastest.


Light path Cornea, aqueous humour, lens, vitreous humour, retina (nervous coat), pigment epithelium (which absorbs any light not captured by the retina preventing back-reflection, and assists the photoreceptors metabolically). At the foveola, the centre of the fovea, the neural elements are shifted to one side so the light has a direct path to the photoreceptors. The retina is part of the CNS, unlike all other sensory structures. Photoreceptors Photoreceptors are divided into rods and cones. Cones perform better than rods in all visual tasks except the detection of dim stimuli. Rods are achromatic, having only one pigment, but are more sensitive than cones. They amplify light signals more (one photon can evoke a response), but are saturated in daylight. Cones mediate colour vision (there are three subtypes with different pigments for red, green and blue). Although there are 20 rods for each cone the cones provide better spatial resolution for two reasons. Firstly, they are concentrated in the fovea where the image is least distorted. Secondly, rods are convergent in that many rods synapse on one target interneuron (a bipolar cell) where the signals reinforce, improving the ability of the brain to detect dim lights but degrading the ability to transmit spatial variations in the image. Only a few cones converge on each bipolar cell; cones in the foveola do not converge at all. Photoreceptors do not fire action potentials; they respond to light with a graded change in membrane potential. Rods respond slowly, allowing the effects of photons 100ms apart to summate. This enables better detection of light but means they cannot detect flicker above 12Hz. Cones respond faster and can detect flicker up to 55 Hz. Therefore cones provide greater temporal resolution. Photoreceptors contain (1) a region for phototransduction, the outer segment, closest to the outer, distal surface of the retina and on the side furthest from the lens; (2) the inner segment, containing the nucleus and biosynthetic machinery ; (3) a synaptic terminal connected to the inner segment by a thin stalk or cilium. The outer segments are packed with membranous discs (free-floating in rods, invaginations of the cell surface in cones) which, in rods, develop at the base of the outer segment and migrate outwards to the tip (3 discs made per hour in rods) where the discarded tips are phagocytosed by pigment epithelial cells. Cones also undergo renewal and phagocytosis of the membranes, but renewal …


Nanocrystalline CaCu3Ti4-xVxO12 (x = 0, 0.025, and 0.05) powders with particle sizes of 100–200 nm were successfully synthesized using a poly(ethylene glycol) solution. All the ceramic samples exhibited the pure CaCu3Ti4O12 phase. The grain size of CaCu3Ti4-xVxO12 ceramics increased slightly as V doping ion concentration increased; whereas, the dielectric permittivity of the ceramics decreased slightly. The nonlinear current–voltage properties of CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramics were improved significantly by substitution of V ions. Impedance spectroscopy analysis and investigation of non-ohmic electrical properties revealed that the electrical resistance of the grain boundary and breakdown electric field strength were markedly increased by substitution of V ions; whereas, electrostatic potential barrier height at grain boundaries decreased slightly.


In Mexico, the creation of public institutions for training teachers at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by a new rhetoric of opportunity for women. When it established the first of such institutions in 1890, the Mexican government placed great symbolic value on the training of female teachers. The director of the normal school said at the opening ceremony, "I am certain that just as the eighteenth century granted liberty to men through education, so the nineteenth century will give women equality through the same means."' Women responded to the call of educational opportunity and quickly became a majority of the students in the normal schools; by 1907 they were 78 percent of normal school students.2 In contrast, the participation of women in universities remained quite small during those years. Nearly a century after the inception of the first teacher-training institution, teaching continues to be an occupation open to women in Mexico, but the reins of power in the educational system are still held by men. As in the past, women form a majority of educational employees, yet they are a small minority in leadership and decision-making positions within the national ministry of education, Secretaria de Educaci6n Puiblica (SEP), and the national teachers' union, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci6n (SNTE). The Mexican experience reflects a larger continuity in the professionalization of education throughout the world. The expansion of public systems of education has indeed opened avenues for the professional employment of women. Women today constitute the majority of employees in the field of education both in industrialized and Third World nations. In most countries, however, gender differences have been institutionalized in teacher education and employment.3 As a result, women exercise little influence on policy-making and the daily management of the schools in


Using a convenience sample of children ranging in age from 10 to 19 years, a retrospective chart audit was conducted on those who received patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) following surgery. PCA was found to be safe, effective, and appropriate for most subjects.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the association of the Neuregulin 1(NRG1) gene polymorphism with schizophrenia by analyzing allele transmission in schizophrenic parent-proband trios.

METHODS
Quantitative real-time PCR was used to check the genotypes of four SNPs-rs221533(C/T), rs7820838(C/T), 433E1006(A/G) and rs3924999(C/T), located at the 5o terminus of the Nrg1 gene, in 258 Chinese Han schizophrenic parent-proband trios. The transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) program (Genehunter software 2.0) was used to evaluate the association of the NRG1 gene with schizophrenia.

RESULTS
For all the subjects, the genotypes of the 4 SNPs were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. In all the 258 parent-proband trios, there were significant transmission disequilibrium in allelic transmission of C, A, T from rs221533, 433E1006, rs3924999 loci respectively (rs221533: chi-square was 27.45, P was 0.000; 433E1006: chi-square was 56.08, P was 0.000; rs3924999: chi-square was 10.53, P was 0.001). Haplotype was analyzed at frequency exceeding 1%. In three-marker-haplotype, C/C/G and C/C/A (marker order: rs221533, rs7820838, 433E1006) transmitted predominantly(C/C/G: chi-square was 5.26, P was 45.08; C/C/A: chi-square was 0.026, P was 0.000). In four-marker-haplotype (marker order: rs221533, rs7820838, 433E1006, rs3924999), C/C/G/T, C/C/A/C and C/C/A/T showed transmission disequilibrium (C/C/G/T: chi-square was 10.71, P was 0.001; C/C/A/C: chi-square was 8.83, P was 0.006, C/C/A/T: chi-square was 27.00, P was 0.000). In the positive subtype of parent-proband trios, C/T/G/C hapoltype transmission was not observed.

CONCLUSION
The NRG1 gene polymorphism is significantly associated with schizophrenia in Chinese Han, especially in the positive subtype of schizophrenia.


A study for the derivation of loading protocols for quasi-static cyclic testing of beam-to-column sub-assemblies of steel buildings designed to modern seismic guidelines is presented in this paper. The adopted methodology follows the general guidelines developed in the US in the early 2000's for experimental investigations into the cyclic behaviour of steel beamcolumn moment-resisting connections and later incorporated into national standards (e.g. AISC 341-10) and relevant guideline documents (e.g. FEMA 461). In previously published research, loading protocols to be used in cyclic testing have been strongly dependent on the substructure or component to be tested as well as the seismic hazard scenario considered as a basis of experimental programmes. Accordingly, this study focuses on steel building typologies (namely, moment-resisting frames) designed to European codes for medium and high seismicity scenarios, considered representative of the greater European and Middle Eastern region. A large set of non-linear response history analyses was performed on the numerical models of the designed buildings, using an ensemble of ground motions, scaled to match European design spectra. The numerical models used to investigate the seismic performance were developed taking into account the cyclic response of the selected joints, including the stiffness and strength characteristics of the column web panel zones and the connections. Cumulative and maximum rotation demands obtained from the analyses, in terms of inter-storey drift response histories, provided the basis for the derivation of the protocols in order to represent more accurately design earthquake demands and to compare with standardised loading procedures. The results indicate a dependence of the derived load protocol characteristics on the seismic hazard level assumed for the analyses and the quantitative characteristics (e.g. number of significant cycles) of the ground motion records employed. The developed loading protocols are compared with existing and widely-used testing protocols, and recommendations for their use in the assessment of steel framed structures designed to European procedures are put forward.


The structure of 1-chloroacetylindole-2,3(2H,3H)dione, C 10 H 6 ClNO 3 , has been determined. The heterocyclic ring is essentially planar making a dihedral angle of 8.3 (1)° with the chloroacetyl moiety. The C(2)−C(3) distance is 1.542 (6) A. The molecules are linked through Cl...H−C interactions


Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent pathologies, affecting up to 2014 to 9% of the world population and in Peru, 4,3% of the adult population is already diabetic. These patients are more susceptible to infectious diseases, urinary tract infection are the most complicated frequently involve, these patients receive hospital treatment, decreasing their life quality. Objective: To determine if diabetic nephropathy is a risk factor for the prevalence of urinary tract infection in hospitalized patients at the Uldarico Rocca Fernandez Hospital. Methods: It is an observational, analytical study of longitudinal cut, case and control type; the information was collected through a data sheet using the medical records of patients hospitalized in the medical service of the Hospital Uldarico Rocca Fernandez in the period 2011-2015. The sample was obtained by probabilistic sampling, sample size of 360, with a proportion of cases and controls 1:1. Results: Diabetic nephropathy had an OR = 8.62 (95% CI 4.78 15.57), macroalbuminuria obtained an OR = 5.75 (95% CI 2.99-11.06), the alkaline pH had an OR = 5.42 (95% CI 3.22-9.13) and the Glycemic control obtained an OR = 5.44 (95% CI 3.44 8.88). Conclusion: Diabetic nephropathy is associated with a higher prevalence of UTI in patients hospitalized in the medical service of the Hospital Uldarico Rocca Fernandez.


Despite the legislation to teach diversity (ethnic, gender, ect) for health undergraduate education in Brazil, there is a lack of cohesion in the development and delivery of anti-discrimination learning experiences in health schools. This article highlights concepts for developing anti-discrimination and diversity discipline in undergraduate health programmes by integrating it in institutional health policies. This propposal can be used to help ensure that students gain needed knowledge, skills and attitudes consistent with a view of patients as persons, a view without any bias.


We consider the problem of deciding whether the output of a boolean circuit is determined by a partial assignment to its inputs. This problem is easily shown to be hard, i.e., co-NP-complete. However, many of the consequences of a partial input assignment may be determined in linear time, by iterating the following step: if we know the values of some inputs to a gate, we can deduce the values of some outputs of that gate. This process of iteratively deducing some of the consequences of a partial assignment is called propagation. This paper explores the parallel complexity of propagation, i.e., the complexity of determining whether the output of a given boolean circuit is determined by propagating a given partial input assignment. We give a complete classification of the problem into those cases that are P-complete and those that are unlikely to be P-complete.


The complex dielectric spectroscopy has been measured as a function of frequency range: 50Hz to 1MHz. at room temperature for a technologically important ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture in the different phases. The significant contribution of conductance effect at lower frequency side in measured data has observed. Contribution of conductance in dielectric permittivity and dielectric loss due to impurity influence the materials. The dielectric parameter as a function of temperature and result showed Debye- type dispersion.


The Resupply Scheduling Model (RSM) is a PC based, fully menu-driven computer program. It uses integer programming techniques to determine an optimum schedule to replace components on or before a fixed replacement period, subject to user defined constraints such as transportation mass and volume limits or available repair crew time. Principal input for RSJ includes properties such as mass and volume and an assembly sequence. Resource constraints are entered for each period corresponding to the component properties. Though written to analyze the electrical power system on the Space Station Freedom, RSM is quite general and can be used to model the resupply of almost any system subject to user defined resource constraints. Presented here is a step by step procedure for preparing the input, performing the analysis, and interpreting the results. Instructions for installing the program and information on the algorithms are given.


Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is a soil-borne pathogen capable of infecting more than 400 host plants worldwide. Antagonistic rhizobacteria, more specifically certain species of Bacillus, are known to control of fungal root diseases of agronomic crops (Ashwini and Srividya, 2013) . In this study, 182 bacteria were isolated of cucumber rhizosphere and screened as potential biological control agents against S. sclerotiorum in vitro condition. Morphology, physiological and biochemical tests and 16S rDNA analysis demonstrated that Bacillus amyloliquefaciens significantly reduce the mycelial growth of S. sclerotiorum by 72.04% . Non-volatile compounds of 3 isolates showed noticeable inhibition zone (>36%) against S.sclerotiorum, whereas volatile compounds of 7 isolates could prevent more than 30% of the mycelial growth of the fungus. All strains except of FE1 promoted significantly plant growth in comparision to non-treated control. The population density on roots of plants treated with PE and AE reached to 8.40 and 7.81 log 10 CFU g −1 root respectively. The use of bacteria as a soil treatment (PE 69.6%) was more effective to suppress the disease than those as a seed treatment (PE 62.3%). These results indicate that bacterial species used in this study could be used in the control of S. sclerotiorum.


The measurement of normalized magnetic circular polarization (MCP) spectra of broad emission bands is discussed and details of a sensitive MCP spectrometer are reported. The normalizing technique is illustrated by measurements on the broad edge emission of ZnSe single crystals where small changes in band shape and position are observed.


The theses presented in the following paper describe the concept and
implementation of interactive and intelligent components for computer-based
learning environment at the electrical engineering department GET. The achieved
results carry forward the work of GET research group on computer-based learning
environments.
The main goals are the conceptual design and implementation of interactive
components within the GETsoft learning environment, application of engineering
tools (MathCAD) for computer-based education, and concept and prototype
implementation of knowledge-based problem solving environment.
Learning in the virtual learning environment involves the cognitive
confrontation with the subject matter to be learned (learning object). Thus, the
interactivity of the learning objects becomes the crucial criteria of the
quality of learning within the computer-based learning environment.
The web-based GETsoft offers many multimedia components that can be used by
teachers to organize their own learning units. Students get access to typical
subject topics and questions. The interactive components and tasks with self-
control opportunities make possible the active treatment of the subject matter.
Intelligent Problem Solving Environments (IPSEs), a special type of intelligent
tutoring systems, are being developed by the research group of Prof. C. Mobus
(OFFIS, Oldenburg). The ideas of IPSE have been adapted for the new (for the
approach) domain of the basics of electrical engineering and for new kinds of
tasks (symbolic analysis, circuit analysis, solution draft control).
The concept of the knowledge-based problem solving environment mileET from the
EE-education point of view and implementation of a part of its knowledge base
are presented in these theses.
MileET represents an innovative kind of learning support within the GET area. It
is intended to be used by students for active, independent learning while
solving tasks with and in the program. Students have the possibility to
formulate different solution proposals and ask the program to check them. The
implemented knowledge-based component, a special kind of expert system, contains
necessary knowledge for tasks and methods of the network analysis and possesses
the ability of symbolic task solving. Due to a flexible and dynamic solution
production with consideration of the user's inputs, an adaptive feedback on the
solution draft as well as an adaptive completion of an incomplete user's
solution can take place. To the teachers, the program offers the possibility to
provide different (new) tasks and to leave the routine correction work to the
program.
The key results, as well as some ideas concerning the future work on the
intelligent learning environment GETsoft complete this paper.


Can P-ICSI improve the clinical outcomes of ICSI, such as degeneration, fertilization and development to blastocyst, compared to conventional ICSI (C-ICSI)?

 P-ICSI can improve the clinical outcomes of ICSI by increasing the number of fertilized oocytes and decreasing the number of degenerated oocytes after ICSI.

 In human IVF-ET, some of oocytes are damaged after ICSI when retrieved oocytes are inseminated by ICSI. The application of P-ICSI has been limited although it was developed over 30 years ago. Recently, it has been reported that P-ICSI can decrease damage after ICSI and improve fertilization and embryonic development compared to C-ICSI.

 This study included 50 subjects undergoing IVF and was performed between April and October 2022. Sibling oocytes were randomly assigned to C-ICSI and P-ICSI.

 A total of 1,207 oocytes were retrieved from 50 patients. Among them, 852 oocytes with visible spindle were inseminated by C-ICSI or P-ICSI in sibling oocytes. Four hundred twenty-five oocytes were inseminated by C-ICSI and 427 oocytes were by P-ICSI. Fertilization, degeneration after ICSI and blastocyst development on day 5 or day 6 were compared between the P-ICSI and C-ICSI. The differences between C-ICSI and P-ICSI were statistically analyzed using Mann-Whitney U test.

 Normal fertilization rate of P-ICSI (78.2 ± 16.5%) were higher than that of C-ICSI (71.2 ± 18.9%). The difference was statistically significant (P = 0.0447). The oocyte degeneration rates after ICSI were 9.3 ± 11.8% (C-ICSI) and 4.8 ± 9.4% (P-ICSI). The degeneration rate of C-ICSI was significantly higher than that of P-ICSI (P = 0.04338). Blastocyst formation rate of C-ICSI was 58.6 ± 25.0% and that of P-ICSI was 64.3 ± 26.3%. The blastocyst formation rate of P-ICSI was higher than that of C-ICSI but the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.2113). The rates of blastocysts that were available for embryo replacement or cryopreservation were higher in P-ICSI (56.0 ± 25.4%) than in C-ICSI (50.4 ± 24.7%) although the difference was not significant (P = 0.26272).

 Pregnancy outcomes data were not available. The data of this study were obtained from single fertility center. More large-scale multicenter studies will be needed to confirm the effectiveness of P-ICSI.

 Consistent with other studies, these results show that P-ICSI reduces the damage rate of oocytes after ICSI. The implementation of P-ICSI has the potential to improve clinical outcomes of human IVF although it is more complicated and takes longer than that of C-ICSI.

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Museum institutions historically operate according to three seemingly contradictory dialectics – a framing founded in an elite high culture, a mission promoting democratic education (Bennett, 1995, pp. 89; Prior, 2005, pp. 17) and a rationale that seeks to operate above society in terms of the production and dissemination of knowledge. These constructs developed alongside the state, and developments in science disciplines in the nineteenth century, along with these three aims reflect various trajectories of power between various actors – the museum, the state and public culture. Reconciling these historical frames and sets of activities with digital initiatives has produced a particular set of conclusions around current and future museum digitisation and online collection activities. For the museum as a sacred space in which notion of truth and facts based on a science ABSTRACT


Generally, each country has its own recommended loading protocols for beam tests. In most countries, the recommended loading protocols for beam tests have increasing deformation amplitudes. After Northridge earthquake and Kobe earthquake, loading protocols with at least one cycle of large deformation amplitude were adopted in the experiments of beams. In recent years, researchers began to pay attention to long duration earthquakes. Loading protocols with a large number of small amplitudes cycles were introduced in the beam tests. However, it is still doubtful whether the current loading protocols are enough to represent real beam behavior in frames during earthquakes. To evaluate the seismic performance and post-earthquake remaining capacity of beams through experiments accurately, researchers should re-consider whether the current loading protocols are enough to represent real beam behavior during earthquakes. This paper evaluates the currently employed loading protocols and proposes suggestions on the selection of the loading protocols in beam testing. Response analyses of 4-story steel moment frames were conducted. Eleven recorded strong ground motions were input in the analyses. The deformation history of beams from each analysis and commonly used loading protocols were input to an in-plane beam analysis. By studying the mechanism of damage accumulation of the beam, the beams' behavior under present loading protocols was compared with that under beam responses. Finally, this paper proposes the appropriate combinations of the loading protocols employed in beam tests for the purpose of evaluating the seismic performance of steel beams. 1 Associate professor, Faculty of Engineering Division, Tokyo City University, Tokyo 158-8557, Japan, (email: firstname.lastname@example.com) 2 Professor, Laboratory of Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan. Jiao Yu, Yamada Satoshi. Loading Protocols for Steel Beam Tests in Seismic Performance Evaluation. Proceedings of the 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA. 2018. Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Integrating Science, Engineering & Policy June 25-29, 2018 Los Angeles, California Loading Protocols for Steel Beam Tests in Seismic Performance Evaluation Yu Jiao12and Satoshi Yamada2


Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) studies show that cryptomelane and Cu-rich cryptomelane crystals from weathering profiles in Brazilrangefrom l0to200nmindiameterandhaveaspectratiosof l: l0to l: l00between the short and long dimensions. Acicular crystals identified in hand specimen and in the scanning electron microscope are often composed of bundles of fibers elongated along the c axis (tetragonal) or the b axis (monoclinic). In-situ heating with a high-voltage transmission electron microscope (HVEM) and an analytical electron microscope (AEM) indicates that upon heating in vacuum cryptomelane crystals begin to transform into a mixed hausmannite and manganosite phase at 648 'C. Mineral transformations are followed by the loss of K from the cryptomelane tunnel sites. Cu-rich cryptomelane transforms into hausmannite between 330 and 515 'C, and manganosite begins to form at 620 "C. Cu-rich cryptomelane also loses K and exsolves native copper upon heating, suggesting that Cu occupies the same site (the A site) as K. Similar mineral transformations are observed when the same samples are heated in air, although the transformations occur at higher temperatures than those observed in vacuum. The variation in the thermal stability of hollandite-group minerals suggests that the size ofA-site occupants may control the mobility of cations along the tunnel direction. Relative grain sizes and the degree of crystallinity of supergene cryptomelane may also influence the thermal stability of hollandite-group minerals. The applicability of cryptomelane and other hollandite-group minerals to K-Ar and 40Ar/3eAr dating is discussed in light of the electron microscope investigation results. Ar release from the cryptomelane samples during lo{r/3eAr vacuum laser heating is also discussed in terms of the phase transformations observed by electron microscopy.


THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM OF THE SELF There are a large number of different problems concerning the self in psychology, neurobiology, philosophy, and other disciplines. I have the impression that many of the problems of the self studied in neurobiology concern various forms of pathology – defects in the integrity, coherence, or functioning of the self. I will have nothing to say about these pathologies because I know next to nothing about them. I will only mention those pathologies, such as the split-brain patients, that are directly relevant to the philosophical problems of the self. In philosophy, the traditional problem of the self is the problem of personal identity. Indeed, in the standard Encyclopedia of Philosophy , (Edwards, 1967) the entry "self" just says "see personal identity." The problem of personal identity is the problem of stating the criteria by which we identify someone as the same person through changes. Thus, for example, the problem of personal identity arises in such a question as, What fact about me, here and now, makes me the same person as the person who bore my name and lived in my house twenty years ago? There are a number of criteria of personal identity and they do not always yield the same result. I will get to these shortly.


Two issues relevant to the nonlinear optical properties of nipi-type superlattices are discussed. First, an experimental comparison of photoinduced changes in the absorption coefficients of nipi, hetero-nipi, and heterostructure superlattices is presented. This shows the characteristic differences between those structures that make use of the modulation of internal electric fields and those that operate solely on the basis of free carrier effects. It is shown that the modulation of internal electric fields gives rise to large optical nonlinearities at low optical power levels. Second, a model that describes the lateral distribution of photoinjected charge carriers in an inhomogeneously excited nipi-type superlattice is discussed. It is shown that lateral drift dominates over diffusion, and that the characteristic drift length is large.


In the path planning task for autonomous mobile robots, robots should be able to plan their trajectory to leave the start position and reach the goal, safely. There are several path planning approaches for mobile robots in the literature. Ant Colony Optimization algorithms have been investigated for this problem, giving promising results. In this paper, we propose the Max-Min Ant System for Dynamic Path Planning algorithm for the exploratory path planning task for autonomous mobile robots based on topological maps. A topological map is an environment representation whose focus is the main reference points of the environment and their connections. Based on this representation, the path can be composed by a sequence of state/actions pairs, which facilitates the navigability of the path, with no need to have the information of the complete map. The proposed algorithm was evaluated in static and dynamic environments, showing promising results in both of them. Experiments in dynamic environments show the adaptability of our proposal.


There is no doubt at all that the issue of determinism versus indeterminism was a central, dominating theme of Popper's thought. By his own account he saw his criticism of the thesis of determinism as crucial to his defence not only of the reality of human freedom, moral responsibility and creativity but also as equally fundamental to his account of human rationality and to his theory of the content and growth of science as an objective, rational and most importantly demonstrably rational enterprise. Consequently a great deal of his writings discussing both the content and methodology of the natural and the social sciences alternately bear upon and presuppose his defence of indeterminism.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine associations between career commitment, job stress, and work-related dimensions of work routinization. Design/methodology/approach – 55 employees in Dinas Sosial Kabupaten Pasaman Barat and 43 employees responded to the survey. For the data analysis, structural equation modelling with maximum likelihood estimation was performed. Findings – Job stress fully mediates the relationship between role clarity and career commitment while partially mediates the relationships between work routinization, and career commitment. Originality/value – An investigation into relationships between work-related dimensions and career commitment holds a number of implications in the current government environment where employee commitment may be shifting from the organization to one's career. Keywords : Careers, Stress, Job stress, Career commitment, Work routinization


Factor XIII (FXIII) is composed of two catalytic A subunits and two carrier B subunits. Following activation by thrombin FXIII becomes plasma transglutaminase, which cross-links the γ-glutamyl-e-lysine residues of fibrin chains stabilizing fibrin clot. Congenital deficiency of factor XIII results in a severe life-long hemorrhagic disorder, abnormal wound healing in about 30% of patients and recurrent abortions. Most of the FXIII deficiency patients have mutations in the F13A gene. Only few mutations in F13B gene have been published. Plasma-derived concentrate of factor XIII used to be the treatment of choice. Recently, recombinant FXIII concentrate has been developed and tested in multinational clinical studies. This new product appears to be safe and appropriate for life-long prophylactic treatment of patients with FXIII A deficiency.


The synchrotron radiation community has a need for high heat load compatible x-ray monochromators and De Beers Diamond Research Laboratory has made available diamonds that meet these exacting standards. These materials, all Type Ib single crystal diamonds, have been tested at the ESRF on the Optics Beamline BM5 and the Topography Beamline ID19 by x-ray rocking curve and topography techniques for mosaicity, homogeneity, reflectivity and defect types and contents in general. The samples were of orientation (111), (110) and (100) with areal dimensions up to and greater than 10 mm×10 mm and a choice of thicknesses. In addition, the performance of a diamond double crystal arrangement has been evaluated for x-ray energies between 12.4 and 24 keV. Although the quality of the newly grown diamond crystals is high, it is still desirable to further reduce the defect density.


......................................................................................................................ii DEDICATION .................................................................................................................. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... v TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................. vi LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................ viii LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................ ix 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 1 2 COMPLEX SPATIAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEEN MESOPREDATORS RESULT IN A REDUCED THREAT TO THE SURVIVAL OF WILD TURKEY NESTS IN EAST TEXAS .................................................................................................. 9 Summary ........................................................................................................................ 9 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 10 Study area ..................................................................................................................... 16 Methods ........................................................................................................................ 19 Results .......................................................................................................................... 31 Discussion .................................................................................................................... 63 Management Recommendations .................................................................................. 77 3 PREY SELECTION BY THREE MESOPREDATORS THAT ARE THOUGHT TO PREY ON EASTERN WILD TURKEYS (MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO SYLVESTRIS) IN THE PINEYWOODS OF EAST TEXAS ........................................... 78 Summary ...................................................................................................................... 78 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 80 Study area ..................................................................................................................... 84 Methods ........................................................................................................................ 87 Results ........................................................................................................................ 101 Discussion .................................................................................................................. 138 Management Implications .......................................................................................... 150


Studies related to water quality in catfish ponds were conducted on commercial catfish production ponds and compared with its receiving streams' water quality in central and west-central Alabama. The ponds were stocked with 10,000 fish/ha. The ponds were aerated nightly (0000-0600 hrs). Fish were fed to satiation at about the same time, six-days a week. In order to assess the pollutional strength of effluents from commercial channel catfish ponds, water samples were collected during each calender season from fall 1990 through summer 1991, and selected water quality variables were monitored. Mean values for water temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, settleable solids, total suspended soilds, volatile solids, total phosphorus, soluble reactive phosphate, biochemical oxygen demand, total ammonia nitrogen, nitrite, nitrate, and total Kjeldahl nitrogen were basically the same (P> 0.05) between samples taken from the surface and near the bottom. Concentrations of most water quality variables of catfish ponds were higher than those of receiving streams, and especially it had much higher average concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus than streams.


Solution combustion synthesized hole transport layer of co-doped spinel nickel cobaltite were fabricated using doctor-blading technique for planar inverted perovskite solar cells. Perovskite solar cells incorporating Co-doped spinel nickel cobaltite shown an increase in device performance parameters compared to un-doped spinel nickel cobaltite, leading to PCE of 16.5%. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements revealed the tendency of Cu cations to replace preferably the surface Ni atoms changing the surface stoichiometry of spinel nickel cobaltite inducing a cathodic polarization. Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy measurements unveiled the increase of the ionization potential by 0.1 eV for co-doped spinel nickel cobaltite film compare to undoped spinel nickel cobaltite-based hole transporting layer. We attribute the enhanced PCE of inverted perovskite solar cells presented due to improved hole extraction properties of co-doped spinel nickel cobaltite hole transporting layer.


Background: With the continuing growth of warehouses globally, there is an increasing need for sustainable logistics solutions in warehousing, but research linking warehouse management systems (WMS) and sustainability is lacking. Methods: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis were conducted in Scopus and Web of Science databases from 2006 to 2022 to investigate academic knowledge of WMS contributing to warehouses' social and environmental sustainability. Results: Findings revealed only 12 topic-relevant articles from 2013 to 2022, primarily published recently. More recent articles have received more citations than earlier published works. The articles were from multiple research fields, such as business economics, engineering, computer science, and social sciences, with only one article on environmentally sustainable technologies. The top keywords were "warehouse management system", "internet of things", "industry 4.0" and "supply chain". Only six articles had environmental sustainability terms in the keywords. Findings show more discussions about social rather than environmental sustainability. Most studies suggest integrating WMS with other systems to support sustainability efforts in warehousing. Conclusions: The study addressed a gap in academic literature regarding WMS and sustainability. Research findings added knowledge of practical activities to achieve warehouse operations and performance sustainability and proactively reduce warehouse operations' environmental and social impacts.


Nuclear reactor of the CANDU nuclear power plant is composed of hundreds pressure tubes, which are pressure boundary of primary reactor coolant and connected to endfittings at each ends by rolled joint. The pressure tube material, Zr-2.5Nb alloy is known as susceptible material for Delayed Hydride Cracking(DRC), which is affected by hydrogen (and deutrium) concentration on the material and stress concentration by nominal stress and any kind of flaw that can be made during manufacturing or operating process. According to the Canadian experience for CANDU operation, the rolled joint region is one of most susceptible region for DRC because of higher hydrogen concentration and higher residual stress compared with the main body region of pressure tube. In this study, surface residual stress distributions in pressure tube rolled joint region are analyzed for several rolling variables using Finite Element (FE) method. Additionally, effects of residual stress on DRC initiation are evaluated.


Ant nests are also inhabited by other invertebrates, ant associates. The oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) fauna of nests is poorly known, both in terms of abundance and diversity. We compared the oribatid assemblages within and outside red wood ant Formica polyctena nests in a Finnish oak forest. Altogether ten mounds were investigated and comparable samples were collected from adjacent soil 4 m from each mound. A total of 10 529 specimens were recovered, 4959 of them in mounds and 5633 in soil. The specimens represented 74 species (and two higher taxa) belonging to 60 genera and 39 families. Significant differences in abundance or diversity were not observed between nests and soil habitats. For nest samples the abundance of specimens significantly correlated with diversity indicating that mounds form rich habitat patches with a diverse set of niches. Mound size had no effect on community composition. The nest and soil habitats were predominantly occupied by different species resulting in dissimilarities in community composition; 34% of the species showed a preference for nest habitat and 50% for soil habitats, whereas16% were indifferent with equal abundances in both habitats. Nonetheless, most of the species with a preference for nests are frequently found in various habitats in nature, and may be classified as facultative myrmecophiles that maintain populations also in ant nests. Ant nests host abundant and diverse oribatid assemblages, which differ from the fauna in adjacent soil, and wood ants are therefore important factors in maintaining biodiversity.


This paper puts forward a survey on the existing 3D medical image visualization methods. These methods are classified into two groups and typical algorithms in each group are described and analyzed. At last future research directions are discussed.


The range of neutralino-proton cross sections for R-parity preserving supergravity models with GUT scale unification of the gauge coupling constants is examined. The models considered here are mSUGRA, models with non universal soft breaking and D-brane models. It is found that the current dark matter detectors are sampling significant parts of the SUSY parameter space and future detectors could sample almost the entire space. The special regions of parameter space that may be inaccessible to future detectors are seen to have a squark/gluino spectra beyond 1 TeV, but observable at the LHC.


The drastic decrease of thatched roofs means fundamental changes in the traditional rural landscape and serious reduction of its visual amenities. This paper intends to provide the necessary information for protecting and maintaining thatched roofs. The combined field and questionaire survey was carried out in Miyama cho (Kyoto pref.) in 1986, where we can still find many thatched roofs. Ten settlements (463 households) were chosen from 57 settlements (about 1800 households) as samplings.Though thatched roofs accounted for 74 percent of the total samplings in the 1945's, the figure has declined by 24 percent in 1986, that is, many of them have changed into galvanized iron or tiled roofs. This is partly because of the difficulty of maintaining the traditional custom to prepare and store a prodigious amount of eularia (Miscanthus sinensis) for rethatching.On the other hand, however, many people living under thatched roof say that they are reluctant to change the present roof form in the future in spite of high maintenance cost on the ground of many merits which thatched roof offers in the living. Skillful thatchers are also reducing. Now in this district there are only four thatchers and besides they have no successor.Consequently, what are now most necessary for conservation of thatched roofs as a vital feature of the traditional village landscape are as follows:1) Transmission of thaching techniqes.2) Supply of material and manpower, in receiving a new overcoat of thatch.3) Financial assistance for materializing these policies.4) Management of eularia grassland.


The present study was designed to evaluate the radio protective potency of the ethanolic extract of Aquilaria malaccensis (Agar wood) leaves by assessing the endogenous oxidant level, haematological parameters and the histopathology of liver. Extract was given orally at a dose of 200 mg/kg, and 400 mg/kg orally for 15 days prior to exposure of Gamma radiation (2.5 Gy). The irradiated mice were kept under observation for 15 days for any sign of radiation sickness, morbidity and mortality which showed no changes. The haematological parameters showed a significant decrease in the irradiated mice and increase in the drug treated mice when compared with the control group. Radiation induced mice showed increases in the level of endogenous enzymes, when compared to normal animals. Treatment with extract caused reversal of these changes towards the normal. Histopathological changes in the liver section of treated animals showed improved cellular architecture when compared to the normal group. The present study indicates that supplementation with Aquilaria malaccensis has significant antioxidant activity and act as probable radio protector against gamma radiation induced oxidative damage. The finding of the present study provides the evidence that, alcoholic extract of Aquilaria malaccensis may be beneficial as a potential supplement in the radiotherapy to protect normal cells from the destructive effects of radiation.


Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ( PPARγ) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor,which can regulate cell differentiation,lipid metabolism,glucose metabolism and inflammation and other biological functions. It is known that PPARγ has a variety of post-translational modifications,and phosphorylation is the first identified post-translational modification of PPARγ. The current studies on Ser112 site of the MAPK pathway and Ser273 site of the Cdk5 pathway are popular. The heterologous dimerization of PPARγ can bind to the target gene promoter region specific response element PPRE( peroxisome proliferator response elements) to regulate the transcription of the target genes. In addition,PPARγ is also involved in the inflammatory response,and is closely linked to diabetes,cancer and other diseases.


The paper presents a virtual prototype of a new design of parallel manipulator of Stewart Platform type destined for the measuring applications. The concept of the 6 DOF manipulator is described. The model of mechanical part of the robot is built in UNIGRAPHICS system and ADAMS/spl trade/ environment. Preliminary results of simulations and initial investigations concerned with measuring applications, and conclusions are presented. Main advantages of this solution are simplicity, compactness and lightness of the construction. The POLMAN design provides a systematic approach to the development of modular parallel robotic systems which can be configured into a wide variety of different forms for different applications.


The spirit of harmonious is the essence of Confucius's thought,which permeate the cosmology,epistemology and ethnics of Confucius,and embodied in the value view of"harmonious is noble",the thought style of"harmonious not identity",the kindheartedness,and the principle of middle of the road and so on.


This paper proposes different methods for estimation of the harmonic currents of the six-pulse diode rectifier, which is a very commonly used topology in industry. Both simple and advanced models are compared and the models are put into a context of practical use for calculating the harmonic distortion in a typical industrial application. Finally, the different models are compared to measurements of a real application and convincing results are achieved concluding that the proposed methods can be used.


Abstract This study examines trade show attendees' show choice behavior from a learning perspective. The purpose is to create a model that can be useful in attracting attendees, either to a show or even to a specific booth. Reasons for attending were found to be three-dimensional: shopping, career development, and general industry awareness. These dimensions were then used to develop clusters, or segments of attendees. Five segments were identified and profiled, with implications developed for each.


Most current strategies for bone regeneration have relatively satisfactory results. However, there are drawbacks and limitations associated with their use and availability, and even controversial reports about their efficacy and cost-effectiveness. The induction of new bone formation through distraction osteogenesis (DO) is widespread clinical application in the treatment of bone defects, limb deformities, and fracture nonunions. However, a lengthy period of external fixation is usually needed to allow the new bone to consolidate, and complications such as refracture at the distraction gap often occur. Although various biomaterials have been used as injectable delivery systems in DO models, little has been reported on the use of nanobiomaterials as carrier materials for the sustained release of growth factors in bone regeneration. One area of focus in nanotechnology is the delivery of osteogenic factors in an attempt to modulate the formation of bone. This review article seeks to demonstrate the potential of nanobiomaterials to improve biological applications pertinent to osteodistraction.


This paper is to discuss the problem of Marine auxiliary boiler control system,to solve the traditional relay-contactor control system' s difficulties such as electrical wiring complexity,poor reliability and stability,difficulties for fault diagnosis and trouble-shooting.Compared with relay-contactor electric control system,the electrical control system based on PLC has a series of advantages such as the simple structure,easy programming,short debugging cycle,high reliability and strong anti-interference ability,low failure rate,and low environmental requirements.Therefore,PLC control technology is applied to the rehabilitation programs for the marine auxiliary boiler control system,to increase the work performance of the marine auxiliary boiler control system.Besides coming up with the control flow chart,this paper also analyzes the control theory of the marine auxiliary boiler control system and developes a design plan for the auxiliary boiler PLC control system,thus completing the system's hardware and software design,including the choice for PLC model,the assignment of I/O port,the design of PLC external wiring diagram and PLC ladder chart.Then the auxiliary boiler PLC control process is expounded in details.


IEEE 802.16 adopts TDMA(Time-Division Multiple Access) in uplink layer,introducing DAMA(Demand Assignment Multiple Access) at the same time to contention-based reservation of resource.Thus,there are contentions and collisions between SSs(Subscriber Station) and the performance is inevitably deteriorated.In the paper,according to the collision resolution algorithm that IEEE 802.16 recommended to resolve collision,we utilize the description of binary exponential backoff algorithm with the method of planar Markov and analyze the throughput and delay.Also,cost function is defined by transforming throughput and delay.The relationship of optimal initial backoff window and the number of users is obtained by simulation.


This chapter looks at the order building in the settlement of 1815. The peace settlement that ended the Napoleonic wars in 1815 gave Europe the most elaborately organized political order yet. Led by Great Britain, the European states mounted a sustained effort to find a mutually agreeable, comprehensive, and stable order; this effort culminated in the celebrated Congress of Vienna. The Vienna settlement departed from earlier postwar settlements in the way the leading state attempted to use institutions to manage relations among the great powers. There were, however, sharp limits to the binding character of these institutions. The British proposal for general security guarantee failed primarily because of the inability of the states involved to make binding commitments. There are some traces of constitutional order, but the 1815 case reveals the limits to which nondemocratic states can create binding institutions.


We report on the search for top quark production in pp collisions at ..jS = 1.8 TeV using the CDF detector at the Fermilab TeVatron. We assume Standard Model couplings a.nd search for an excess of events consistent with the decay tt -+ w+bw-"b. We utilize the excellent resolution of the SVX silicon vertex detector to identify the presence of b quarks via their secondary displaced vertex. We observe 32 candidate events in which 40 jets are identified as b-quark jets. The background is estimated to be 10.0 ± 2.8 tagged jets. The probability that a background fluctuation can account for the observed excess is 2.8 x 10-6 , which corresponds to 4.5u on a Gaussian distribution. These data. firmly establish the existence of the top quark. We use a kinematic fitting procedure to directly determine the top quark ma.ss. We measure Mt = 175 ± 11 Ge V / c2 . Assuming the measured ma.ss we ca.lcula.te the tt production cross section to be att = 6.2 ± 1.9 pb. Both the measured mass a.nd the cross section are consistent with Standard Model expectations.


There are a number of sets of source rocks,a number of hydrocarbon source area,multi-stage hydrocarbon generation and multi-stage hydrocarbon accumulation in the middle part of the West Sichuan Depression and it also experienced a number of tectonic stages adjustment and havoc.On it's vertical,multiple sets of source-reservoir-cap assemblages gave birth to multi-layer gas-bearing series.According to the results of gas carbon isotopic analyses,part of upper Triassicseries Xujiahe Formation's gas ethane carbon isotopic have obvious negative skewness characteristics in this area.Relative photos' discrimination show that the gas has the feature of oil cracking gas.Meanwhile,a large amount of reservoir asphalt fillings have been discovered in upper Triassicseries Xujiahe formation in this area.Through the analysis of core observation,micrograph,elements,pyrolysis and so on,we can see reservoir asphalt fillings have many characteristics such as multitude types,several shapes of distribution,a more clear boundary and so on.Reservoir asphalt fillings also have a characteristic that these reservoir asphalt fillings have a higher reflecting especially in the second member of Xujiahe Formation's reservoir bitumen.This characteristic shows residue's characteristic which is similar to the coal tar pitch's basic characteristic after oil reservoir cracking.The discovery of oil cracking gas and the coal tar pitch confirms the existence of paleo-oil pools of Xujiahe Formation in middle part of the West Sichuan Depression.On this basis,through the generalized analysis of genetic oil and cracking condition and so on,we carried out the preliminary discussion on the forming pattern of paleo-oil pools cracking gas of the Xujiahe Formation.We can divide this process into three consecutive phases: Late Indosinian paleo-oil pools's formation,Middle Yanshan paleo-oil pools's cracking and Late Yanshan-Himalayan period's gas reservoir adjustment.It is of certain significance to deepening recognition on the formation mechanism and distribution of gas of the middle part of the West Sichuan Depression.


The nonlinear compensation algorithm based on Volterra series has been proved effective in low order modulation OFDM system, such as QPSK/16QAM. In this paper, we demonstrate a 64QAM/ 128QAM DFT-S-OFDM signal generation with DML with some advanced algorithms such as DD-LMS, ISFA, DFT-S and nonlinear compensation to improve the signal performance. For the first time we demonstrate that the nonlinear compensation algorithm based on Volterra series can improve the performance of the high-order modulation DFT-S-OFDM signal such as 64QAM and 128QAM. In this experiment we have realized 19.1/11.2Gb/s 64/128QAM signal transmission over 15km fiber at 1307nm. For 64QAM case, the receiver sensitivity can be improved about 1dB when all the algorithms mentioned in this paper are adopted. And the BER can be improved from 4.7x10-3 to 2.8x10-3 at 7.0dBm for 128QAM signal, which reaches the HD-FEC threshold of 3.8x10-3.


Composite patch repairs are being increasingly used throughout bridge structures in the UK. These patches offer a convenient and strong repair providing that the bond used to adhere the patch to the structure retains its integrity. Acoustic emission (AE), a passive approach and Acousto-Ultrasonic (AU), an active approach offer two methodologies for monitoring the structural bond and ensuring the patch repair remains effective. An experimental program was developed to assess the suitability of using AE and AU for monitoring the bond. Two concrete beams were manufactured and pre-cracked in three point bending prior to being repaired using a bonded composite patch. Two static tests were then completed to assess the performance of the two techniques for monitoring the bond. Results were compared with strain gauges adhered to the bonded patch and visual observation. For active monitoring a baseline of signals were captured at a known load and post damage a further series was captured at the same load. The signals sets were then compared using a cross correlation function technique. A simple accumulative acoustic energy analysis was then completed for the passive data. Results demonstrated that both techniques can be utilised to monitor the bonded structure. By comparing the results with those recorded by the strain gauges and visual inspection it was possible to demonstrate the successful effectiveness of the techniques for detecting global damage but specific debonding events would require further investigations.


The development of design optimization technology for turbomachinery has been initiated using the multiobjective evolutionary algorithm under NASA's Intelligent Synthesis Environment and Revolutionary Aeropropulsion Concepts programs. As an alternative to the traditional gradient-based methods, evolutionary algorithms (EA's) are emergent design-optimization algorithms modeled after the mechanisms found in natural evolution. EA's search from multiple points, instead of moving from a single point. In addition, they require no derivatives or gradients of the objective function, leading to robustness and simplicity in coupling any evaluation codes. Parallel efficiency also becomes very high by using a simple master-slave concept for function evaluations, since such evaluations often consume the most CPU time, such as computational fluid dynamics. Application of EA's to multiobjective design problems is also straightforward because EA's maintain a population of design candidates in parallel. Because of these advantages, EA's are a unique and attractive approach to real-world design optimization problems.


【Objectives】 To investigate the clinical effect of cholecystostomy in endoscopic invasive cholecystolithotomy with gallbladder preserved.【Methods】 29 patients who underwent cholecystostomy in endoscopic invasive cholecystolithotomy with gallbladder preserved from 2005 to 2009 were reviewed.【Results】 In the 29 patients,27 of which gallbladder drainage tubes were removed without a hitch and gallbladders were preserved successfully.But the other 2 patients couldn't preserve gallbladders at last and had to undergo cholecystectomy.【Conclusions】 Once cholecystostomy is applied in endoscopic invasive cholecystolithotomy with gallbladder preserved according to different condition,it will increase the success rate of preserving gallbladder,and some patients who should undergo cholecystectomy as usual can preserve functional gallbladder.


A new criterion of high-speed protection for high voltage transmission line based on the wavelet transform of two-end data is presented. By comparing the Lipschitz exponent and time of the wavelet modulus maxima of voltages of both ends, in-zone faults and out-zone faults and switching operations can be distinguished. Simulations are carried out for testing the criterion, and the influences of fault locations and noises are discussed.


The primary purpose of this study was to provide preliminary validity evidence for a 140-item form of the Vocabulary Size Test, which is designed to measure written receptive knowledge of the first 14,000 words of English. Nineteen native speakers of English and 178 native speakers of Japanese participated in the study. Analyses based on the Rasch model were focused on several aspects of Messick's validation framework. The findings indicated that (1) the items and examinees generally performed as predicted by a priori hypotheses, (2) the overwhelming majority of the items displayed good fit to the Rasch model, (3) the items displayed a high degree of unidimensionality with the Rasch model accounting for 85.6% of the variance, (4) the items showed a strong degree of measurement invariance with disattenuated Pearson correlations for person measures estimated with different sets of items of 0.91 and 0.96, and (5) various combinations of items provided precise measurement for this sample of examinees as indicated by Rasch reliability indices >0.96. The Vocabulary Size Test provides teachers and researchers with a new instrument that greatly extends the range of measurement provided by other measures of written receptive vocabulary size.


Coho takes the third place in the stock abundance of salmon in the water basins of the continental sea-shore of the Sea of Okhotsk. Analysis of age structure of coho populations is conducted and geographical peculiarities of this index are revealed in the article. Size, weight structure and indexes of fertility ofOkhotomorsk coho are studied. It is determined that all these indexes yield to Sakhalin coho. Okhotomorsk coho has a bigger value of fertility though average indexes of the character do not exceed the indexes of a number of Asian stocks.


In this work an approach for wide-area indoor people detection with a network of depth sensors is presented. We propose an end-to-end multi-view deep learning architecture which takes three foreground segmented overlapping depth images as input and predicts the marginal probability distribution of people present in the scene. In contrast to classical data-driven approaches our method does not make use of any real image data for training but uses a randomized generative scene model to generate synthetic depth images which are used to train our proposed deep learning architecture. The evaluation shows promising results on a publicly available data set.


The second-type nonlocal derivative nonlinear Schrödinger (NDNLSII) equation is studied in this paper. By constructing its [Formula: see text]-order Darboux transformations (DT) from the first-order DT, Vandermonde-type determinant solutions of the NDNLSII equation are obtained from zero seed solutions, which would be singular unless the square of eigenvalues are purely imaginary.


"Drawing from childhood experiences in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, Brian Flynn explores a specific event in the conflict between the IRA and the English army: the assassination of a British undercover agent, Robert Nairac. Using the artist's own Super 8 film footage, and key scenes depicted in carpet underlay, a material typically hidden from view except at the beginning and end of its purpose, Brian Flynn explores the meaning of these deeply significant political and personal events." -- Publisher's website.


Australia is one of a handful of countries offering permanent settlement to refugees. It also has some of the harshest border-controlling measures. Drawing on Derrida's writing on hospitality, and related work on hospitality's affective and spatial dimensions, we examine the micropolitics of hospitality towards forced migrants in an Australian city (Brisbane). Our interest is in the affordances of affective hospitality to interrupt practices of differential inclusion in the city. The first part of the paper examines practices of embedded activism in health and education encounters, while the second part explores affect's influence on the protest sensibility in urban movements against mandatory detention. The paper furthers understandings of the embodied and affective dimensions of hospitality in social justice work performed in urban spaces.


A double-adaptive adjustment algorithm (DAAA) is proposed to reconstruct three-dimensional ionospheric electron density (IED) distribution. In the DAAA method, the relaxation factor of the multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique (MART) is first adaptively adjusted by introducing adaptive MART (AMART). To avoid the voxels without any rays traversing them becoming dependent on the initial IED values, smoothing constraints are generally imposed on the adaptive multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique (AMART). In general, the elements of the smoothing matrices are invariant in the iterative process. They affect the accuracy and efficiency of the IED inversion. To overcome the above limitation, the adaptive adjustments of the constrained matrix elements are subsequently carried out. Both numerical simulation and actual global navigation satellite system (GNSS) experimental results validate that the accuracy and efficiency of ionospheric tomography have been improved by the DAAA method. Finally, the new algorithm is applied to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the ionosphere during different geomagnetic activities. The comparisons show that the vertical profiles of the DAAA method are in agreement with those recorded from the ionosonde, and the inverted vertical total electron content (VTEC) of the DAAA method also agrees with the ionospheric products of center for orbit determination in Europe (CODE) during geomagnetic quiet and geomagnetic storms. The comparisons confirm the reliability and superiority of the DAAA method.


Viral neutralization tests are usually performed without paying attention to the effect of complement upon viral neutralization. An exceptional case was the use of unheated normal human serum for the potentiation of human anti-dengue antibody. Several workers indicated that the use of unheated sera may enhance virus-neutralizing action of antibody to some extent, but the degree of enhancement was in general too small to necessitate the change of the neutralization test procedure. We found in 1964 that early immune sera of rabbits infected or immunized with herpes simplex virus contained a neutralizing antibody (CRN antibody) that could be detected only in the presence of complement. The same phenomenon was also found in cases of human infections with herpes virus. Other workers found a similar effect in the case of rabbits immunized with vaccina virus. We also found that neutralization of virus by CRN antibody required C′1, C′2, C′3 complex, and C′4.


An automated method that detects early cancerous specimens based on image analysis is described. After acquisition and noise reduction, the microscope images are segmented into individual cell nucleus, from which the feature vectors of nucleus are calculated. The dimensionality of the feature vectors is then reduced using a method combing F-Score and random forest algorithms. The types of the cell nucleus are identified by a classifier based on a non-linear kernel method, and the diagnosis is made on the basis of the statistics. The method was experimented on a data set of 25,000 cell nucleus instances extracted from 5,000 images of 50 specimens. When tested with 5-fold cross-validation algorithm, this early cancer detecting method resulted in the correct classification of over 97% of the cell nucleus. All cancerous positive specimens were successfully detected in the experiment.


Matics is a free and open-source software suite for exploring annotated data and evaluation results. It proposes a dataframe data model allowing the intuitive exploration of data characteristics and evaluation results and provides support for graphing the values and running appropriate statistical tests. The tools already run on several Natural Language Processing tasks and standard annotation formats, and are under on-going development.


The automobile chassis grease,which is a kind of special grease,is developed by taking the high viscosity mineral oil as base oil and the stearic acid and 12-hydroxy stearic acid as thickener,with one-stage saponification process,and simultaneously adding the antirust additive,antioxidant and so on.It is a mixed lithium-calcium grease with both merits of the lithium base grease and calcium base grease,with good water resistance,rust-preventive property and oxidation resistance.The developed products can meet the requirements of the enterprise standard of Yumen Petroleum Processing and Chemical Complex.


The question of cloud security has become more significant with growing popularity of cloud computing. This article is dedicated to fully homomorphic encryption which is one of the most promising methods to reach the necessary level of privacy. In this article we consider the basic ideas on homomorphic encryption proposed by C. Gentry, make generalization of them and propose three new fully homomorphic encryption schemes based on polynomial rings.


rofessor Fred Hicks stands as a giant in the world of legal education in general, and law libraries in particular. To overstate his importance in both is really not possible. Frederick Charles Hicks was born in the small community of Auburn, New York, in 1875. He must have heard the siren's call of librarianship early, as he started work in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress after graduating from Colgate University in 1898. As an early example of a lifelong vigor for work, he also attended Georgetown University Law School while working fulltime, graduating in 1901. Hicks practiced law for a year back in his hometown but then returned to librarianship and never looked back, working first at the Naval College and then at the Brooklyn Public Library, until finally arriving at Columbia University. Although he worked at Columbia's main library, records indicate that he may have had dealings with the law school's library as early as 1913. He was officially moved to the Columbia School of Law and appointed Law Librarian (director of the library, in today's parlance) in 1915. For the next thirty-one years Hicks was to play a hugely influential role in the law libraries of two of the country's most important law schools, first at Columbia and then Yale, where he worked from 1928 until his retirement as an Emeritus Professor of Law in 1945. Hicks proved to be an especially able player in the fine art of library administration, systematically overhauling the libraries and


Recently there has been a rapid expansion of the development of bioinorganic hybrid systems for safe drug delivery. Layered double hydroxides (LDH), a variety of available inorganic matrix, possess great promise for this purpose. In this study, an oxidative stress biomarker system, including measurement of reactive oxygen species, glutathione content, endogenous nitric oxide, carbonyl content in proteins, DNA strand breaks and DNA–protein crosslinks, was designed to evaluate the biocompatibility of different concentrations of nano-Zn/Al-LDH with a Hela cell line. The drug delivery activity of the LDH–folic-acid complex was also assessed. The resulting data clearly demonstrated that nano-LDH could be applied as a relatively safe drug vehicle with good delivery activity, but with the caveat that the effects of high dosages observed here should not be ignored when attempting to maximize therapeutic activity by increasing LDH concentration.


This paper proposed the principle and method of el lipsoid-based DEM, which is essentially different from DEM based on projected p lan because it is built based on a new form of geodetic coordinate system on reg ional ellipsoid.The regional ellipsoidal surface is more coincidental with the surface of mean height in the region.As for implementation,in contrast to some applications for GIS in which Grid net on the surface of ellipsoid is replaced by Grid net on the surface of projected plan.DEMis built by the method of Grid net on the surface of regional ellipsoid.


Incentivizing Pro-social Behavior in Governance: The Effects of Revealing Peer Rankings on Voluntary Service 1 Sofia B. Villas-Boas, Rebecca L. Taylor, and Elizabeth Deakin January 28, 2016 Abstract We implement a field experiment at a U.S. university to identify the effect of revealing peers' rank, in terms of previous voluntary service, on future voluntary service of individual faculty members. We find that revealing a service ranking in the lowest quartile leads to significantly higher response rates than disclosing a median quartile ranking. Beyond informing the department head, sending a direct email to individuals does not have an incremental effect on average voluntary service responses, though it causes significantly higher new response. Finally, we find the above effects are driven by male responses. Villas-Boas is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE), Taylor is a PhD student of ARE, and Deakin is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning and Urban Design at the University of California Berkeley. Corresponding author: email@example.com. We thank Ilyana Kuziemko, Stefano DellaVigna and seminar participants at U.C. Berkeley for helpful comments. We thank the public U.S university in this study for sharing data and allowing us to conduct a field experiment.


Three palladium(Ⅱ) ion imprinted polymers(ⅡPs)were synthesized using PdCl42-as template molecule and methacrylic acid(MAA),acrylamide(AM),4-vinylpridine(4-VP) as functional monomer,respectively.The recognition mechanism and binding activity of these ⅡPs were studied,and the influence of functional monomer on the characteristics of palladium(Ⅱ) ion imprinted polymer was investigated based on the binding activity of these ⅡPs and the interaction of Pd(Ⅱ) with MAA、4-VP and AM.The results indicated that 4-VP,which can form a stable complex with Pd(Ⅱ) in the molar ratio of 4∶1,is the most suitable functional monomer for the preparation of palladium(Ⅱ) ion imprinted polymer compared with MAA and AM.


Objective:To investigate the clinically relevant factors of type 2 diabetic patients with macrovascular disease.Methods:The clinical data of 100 patients with type 2 diabetes were retrospectively analyzed.They were divided into two groups,each 50 cases,in which the great vessel disease as the observation group(with MA group),without macrovascular disease as a control group(no MA group),two groups of patients on the basis of information as well as blood glucose,blood lipids,blood pressure and other related factors were analyzed,and Logistic regression analysis of related factors.Results:In 100 patients with type 2 diabetes,macrovascular disease in patients with a total of 41 cases(41.0%),single factor test 13 variables(body weight,underlying diseases,blood lipids,blood pressure and blood sugar and other related indicators) in patients with type 2 diabetes occurred macrovascular factors(P0.05),but unrelated with age,sex,BMI,history(P0.05).In univariate analysis,statistically significant would be the basis of 13 variables using Logistic regression analysis,independent factors were selected according to the value of the order OR:FBG,HbA1C,lipids and other underlying diseases combined.Conclusion:In type 2 diabetes with macrovascular disease is the result of multiple factors,each factor should be actively controlled to reduce the incidence of diabetes and mortality.


The invention discloses a light-section mud shield powder fine sand layer receiving method, which comprises the following steps of: preparing technology; embedding an injection pipe at an opening; mounting a cord fabric rubber plate and a pressing plate; constructing a temporary tunnel portal; installing a receiving facility; refilling sand and recharging water; shielding to reach a front measuring state; reinforcing duct pieces; and pushing the shield, assembling the duct pieces and recharging mortar in the tunnel. The method has the advantages of high operability and good social and economic benefits.


Negative impact of S. aureus, seems to be a sufficient condition for the spread of the infectious process in the bone in acute osteomyelitis (AOM) due to its altered elimination caused by dysfunction of the immune system (IS), in particular, of neutrophilic granulocytes (NG). Correction of NG dysfunction in AOM under the influence of immunotropic substances and cytokines via modulation of the NG phenotypic subsets is of sufficient interest. Our aim was to evaluate the in vitro effects of recombinant IFN2b on the number and phenotype of CD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR-, CD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR+ subsets and on phagocytic function of neutrophilic granulocytes in acute osteomyelitis in children.
The study of peripheral blood (PB) samples from children aged 8-15 years was carried out as follows: patients with АOM (n = 24) comprised study group 1 (SG1), healthy children (n = 13) were included into comparison group (CG). PB samples of children with AOM were incubated with recIFN2b (50 IU/L, 60 min, 37 C.) in the study group 1a (SG1a). Before and after incubation with recIFN2b, the number of NG subsets CD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR-, CD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR+ and the density values of receptor expression by fluorescence intensity (MFI) were also determined (FC 500, Beckman Coulter, США). Phagocytic activity of NCs was evaluated as the contents of actively phagocytic NCs (%PhAN), volume of the engulfed S. aureus (strain 209) by assessing their phagocytic number (PhN), phagocytic index (PhI). Bacterial killing was determined as the percentages of microbe digestion (%D), digestion index (DI).
The cells from AOM patients revealed a subset expressing the HLA-DR receptor СD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR+NG, which is absent in the PB of CG children. The cells with primed phenotype exhibited an increased expression density of activation receptors CD16 and CD66b. Incubation of PB in AOM with recIFN2b led to an increased proportion of CD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR+ NG subset which showed active phagocytosis and improved digestion processes. The present study shows the emergence of activated subset of long-lived CD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR+ NCs in children with AOM. This subpopulation has APC features, by presenting AG to T lymphocytes, with preserved effector properties. In an in vitro experimental system, a positive effect of recIFN2b was demonstrated, leading to an increased number of NGs of the CD66b+CD16+CD33+HLA-DR+ subset and recovery of S. aureus phagocytosis by NGs, thus being promising in the future for development of new approaches to optimization of complex therapy in the postoperative period of AOM treatment, prevention of complications and the opportunity to alleviate the disorders in the immune system.


The world is facing a crisis of global warming due to the release of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses by human activities. Many scholars and stakeholders argue that information and communication technology (ICT) development will mitigate CO2 emissions. Advocacy of technological solutions to CO2 mitigation is consistent with ecological modernization theory's assertion that reflexive societies will modernize sustainably. In contrast, we define the "treadmill of information" as the unique contribution of ICT development to environmental degradation. We examine the impact of ICT development on total CO2 emissions and source-sector emissions from electricity, buildings, manufacturing, and transportation using a multilevel growth model for panel data from 113 countries split into the world, developed country, and less-developed-country samples. We find that the level of fixed telephone development is a strong predictor of higher CO2 emissions in less-developed countries, while internet use predicts higher CO2 emissions in developed countries. The effect of mobile telephone development is not significant. Thus, it appears that ICTs are not having an ameliorative effect on global warming as expected by ecological modernization theorists, and instead reinforce the treadmill of production's negative effect.


The Atomic and Molecular Interactions Gordon Conferences is justifiably recognized for its broad scope, touching on areas ranging from fundamental gas phase and gas-condensed matter collision dynamics, to laser-molecule interactions, photophysics, and unimolecular decay processes. The meeting has traditionally involved scientists engaged in fundamental research in gas and condensed phases and those who apply these concepts to systems of practical chemical and physical interest. A key tradition in this meeting is the strong mixing of theory and experiment throughout. The program for 2010 conference continues these traditions. At the 2010 AMI GRC, there will be talks in 5 broadly defined and partially overlapping areas of intermolecular interactions and chemical dynamics: (1) Photoionization and Photoelectron Dynamics; (2) Quantum Control and Molecules in Strong Fields; (3) Photochemical Dynamics; (4) Complex Molecules and Condensed Phases; and (5) Clusters and Reaction Dynamics. These areas encompass many of the most productive and exciting areas of chemical physics, including both reactive and nonreactive processes, intermolecular and intramolecular energy transfer, and photodissociation and unimolecular processes. Gas phase dynamics, van der Waals and cluster studies, laser-matter interactions and multiple potential energy surface phenomena will all be discussed.


(57) Abstract: For example, the bulb (16), decoration or elements having such curved surface of the light pipe, at least a portion of the inner or outer surface, for example covered with a diffraction grating such as a holographic diffraction grating or a mechanical diffraction grating are we. Thus, the diffraction grating diffracts light to emit color to the observer. Gratings may take the form of a holographic optical element attached to a curved surface (HOE) or a diffraction holographic optical pattern provided by embossing a curved surface (HOP).


This paper presents the modified Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm technique for multi objective design optimization of 2-bar truss design and simple gear train. The modified algorithm reduces computational time and effort as compared to original algorithm. Keywords—Design; Optimization; Genetic Algorithm; NSGA; 2-bar truss; Simple Gear train


Since edible mushrooms are adapted to grow on several lignocellulosic wastes, it is possible to use a wide variety of unconventional materials to cultivate Pleurotus spp., which production has greatly increased in the last years. This study was performed to evaluate yield, biological efficiency and quality of Pleurotus eryngii fruit bodies, produced on a sterilized substrate of wheat straw and Cynara cardunculus mixtures. Substrates composed by 75% of wheat straw and 25% of C. cardunculus improved the highest yield and biological efficiency; however mushrooms with bigger dimensions were obtained with a mixture of 25% of wheat straw and 75% of C. cardunculus.