Linear logic has been used as a foundation (and inspiration) for the development of programming languages, logical frameworks and models for concurrency. Linear logic's cut-elimination and the completeness of focusing are two of its fundamental properties that have been exploited in such applications. Cut-elimination guarantees that linear logic is consistent and has the so-called sub-formula property. Focusing is a discipline for proof search that was introduced to reduce the search space, but has proved to have more value, as it allows one to specify the shapes of proofs available. This paper formalizes linear logic in Coq and mechanizes the proof of cut-elimination and the completeness of focusing. Moreover, the implemented logic is used to encode an object logic, such as in a linear logical framework, and prove adequacy.


There is no doubt that the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0), also known as digital or disruption era, influenced the way people live in the 21 century in many aspects including in education (education 4.0). It requires todays' learners, especially English learners (since English is the medium of the digital world) to have additional skill such as digital literacy. In order to have this skill, today's educators should make the learners familiar with digital book to be used inside and outside of the teaching and learning classroom. Yet, the digital book that will be used needs to be evaluated. This research is a part of research and development done by Grammar teachers at English Department to see the lecturers' perception on Advanced Grammar interactive e-book. This descriptive research was conducted to four aspects of lecturers' perception on the interactive e-book: interface, interactivity, practicality and teaching materials. The sample was grammar lecturers who are teaching grammar class. These samples were asked to experience the interactive grammar e-book use and then they were given questionnaire adapting 63 statements on the perception aspects on the interactive e-book. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistical calculation. It was found that the lecturers have positive perception on the interactive e-book designed to be used in teaching Advanced Grammar viewed from those four aspects. Thus, the e-book need to be improved to accommodate pedagogical English grammar.


Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a common disorder for female with fertile age. Along with other clinical and biochemical manifestations, thyroid function and prolactin level may be altered in patients with PCOS. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical and biochemical status, as well as alteration of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), prolactin (PRL) level in patients with PCOS. Present study comprised of 100 diagnosed PCOS patients according to revised Rotterdem Consensus criteria. All patients were studied for serum testosterone, LH (lutenizing hormone), FSH (follicle stimulating hormone), blood glucose, lipid profile as well as TSH, FT4 (free thyroxin) and prolactin level. Out of 100 PCOS patients 97 had hirsutism, 64 had acanthosis nigricans, where menstrual irregularities were in 94 patients. Diastolic blood pressure (74±1.1 vs. 77±0.9, mmHg; p=0.017), total cholesterol (163±5.3 vs. 193±6.2 mg/dl; p 25 Kg/m 2 than those of have ≤ 25 Kg/m 2 . Among the fertile women (n=53), 47% had primary and 41.5% had secondary infertility; whereas of the total patients, 21% had altered thyroid function and 6.1% had raised prolactin (PRL, ng/ml) level. Differences of TSH (4.1±3.6 vs. 3.5±6.8, mIU/L; p=0.725) was not significant; whereas level of PRL (13.87±6.9vs. 9.4±5.2 ng/ml; p=0.018) was significantly higher in the group of primary infertility. Hirsutism, menstrual disturbance and acanthosis were very common in PCOS. Both primary and secondary sterility were also commonly observed and PRL was higher in primary infertility. About one fifth of PCOS had altered thyroid function. Bangladesh Med J. 2016 Jan; 45 (1): 1-5


Temperature fluctuations at critical growth stages of rice may cause crop yield loss, shifts in crop growth periods as well as in sowing and harvesting times. Direct seeded rice has been proved as a the best alternative to transplanted rice and has been adopted successfully in many regions over the globe. This study was carried out to evaluate the productivity of rice sown under different environments with precision hill-direct-seeding method. Four rice varieties viz. Peizataifeng, Yuxiangyouzhan, Huahang 31 and Huayou 213 were sown in 6 different environments (E1-E6) by following split-plot design with four replications. Results showed that environments (E), varieties (V) and their interactions (E × V) significantly (p≤0.01) affected seedling survival rate, grain yield and yield related traits like panicles m -2 , spikelets panicle -1 (p≤0.05), fully filled grain % , 1000-grain weight, harvest index as well as daily dry matter and grain productivity. Differential varietal response under different environments depicted that all environments remained productive regarding rice growth and yield except environment 3 (E3) that caused grain yield reduction up to 45.86%. The overall performance and yield response of rice varieties under different environments was recorded as: Huahang 31 ˃ Yuxiangyouzhan ˃ Peizataifeng ˃ Huayou 213. Further, correlation analysis showed significant and positive relationships of rice grain yield with yield contributing factors (r > 0.47) except panicles m -2 and grains panicle -1 . Hence, fluctuations in regional/local climatic conditions may cause shifts in sowing/planting times, poor stand establishment and seedlings survival rates that may lead to yield penalty in rice.


Comparing algorithms are crucial for enhancing the accuracy of remote sensing estimations of forest biomass in regions with high heterogeneity. Herein, Sentinel 2A, Sentinel 1A, Landsat 8 OLI, and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) were selected as data sources. A total of 12 algorithms, including 7 types of learners, were utilized for estimating the aboveground biomass (AGB) of Pinus yunnanensis forest. The results showed that: (1) The optimal algorithm (Extreme Gradient Boosting, XGBoost) was selected as the meta-model (referred to as XGBoost-stacking) of the stacking ensemble algorithm, which integrated 11 other algorithms. The R2 value was improved by 0.12 up to 0.61, and RMSE was decreased by 4.53 Mg/ha down to 39.34 Mg/ha compared to the XGBoost. All algorithms consistently showed severe underestimation of AGB in the Pinus yunnanensis forest of Yunnan Province when AGB exceeded 100 Mg/ha. (2) XGBoost-Stacking, XGBoost, BRNN (Bayesian Regularized Neural Network), RF (Random Forest), and QRF (Quantile Random Forest) have good sensitivity to forest AGB. QRNN (Quantile Regression Neural Network), GP (Gaussian Process), and EN (Elastic Network) have more outlier data and their robustness was poor. SVM-RBF (Radial Basis Function Kernel Support Vector Machine), k-NN (K Nearest Neighbors), and SGB (Stochastic Gradient Boosting) algorithms have good robustness, but their sensitivity was poor, and QRF algorithms and BRNN algorithm can estimate low values with higher accuracy. In conclusion, the XGBoost-stacking, XGBoost, and BRNN algorithms have shown promising application prospects in remote sensing estimation of forest biomass. This study could provide a reference for selecting the suitable algorithm for forest AGB estimation.


Thank you for reading city of the right urban applications of american conservative thought. As you may know, people have look hundreds times for their chosen novels like this city of the right urban applications of american conservative thought, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some harmful bugs inside their desktop computer.


Background: Type 2 diabetes, coronary atherosclerosis, and physical fitness all correlate with insulin resistance, but the relative importance of each component is unknown.


Jet pump has different basic characteristics when it is used in different working condition. According to the model of jet pump unloading system used in the oilfield, the lab experiment use high pressure pump to provide high power liquid and suction liquid, and also making use of throttle valve providing back pressure condition, to simulate the condition of oil well unloading system much better. The experiment tests pressure and flow of power liquid, suction liquid and mixture liquid , and achieve the basic characteristic curve of jet pump. The result show that according to the different application conditions, can change the jet pump efficient working area range when needed, by adjusting the distance between nozzle and throat, and the optimal distance is the diameter of nozzle 2~3 times.


High-resolution stable isotope analyses were carried out on a sample of oak (Quercus petraea) from Cultra, Co Down, UK. A sampling strategy of unparallelled resolution was adopted in an attempt to reconstruct short-term climatic changes during the growing season. The results display a surprising clarity of signal and suggest a significant relationship between δ 13C and relative humidity and, to a lesser extent, temperature. This preliminary study proposes possible reasons for the isotopic profile observed and highlights the perceived future value of intra-ring isotope studies ('microdendroclimatology').


Many previously studied natural convection enclosure problems in the literature have the bounding walls of the enclosure responsible for driving the flow. A number of relevant applications contains sources within the enclosure which drive the fluid flow and heat transfer. The motivation for this work is found in solar thermal storage tanks with immersed coil heat exchangers. The heat exchangers provide a means to charge and discharge the thermal energy in the tank. The enclosure is cylindrical and well insulated. Initially the interior fluid is isothermal and quiescent. At time zero, a step change in the source temperature begins to influence the flow. The final condition is a quiescent isothermal fluid field at the source temperature. The governing time-dependent Navier-Stokes and energy equations for this configuration are solved by a finite element method. Solutions are obtained for 10[sup 3] [le] Ra[sub D] [le] 10[sup 6]. Scale analysis is used to obtain time duration estimates of three distinct heat transfer regimes. The transient heat transfer during these regimes are compared with limiting cases. In this paper correlations are presented for the three regimes.


EDITOR,--Iona Heath rightly points out general practice's problems in coping with changing social circumstances.1 Recently I talked to a daughter of a former general practitioner in the north east; our talk added to my reservations …


Digital holography was used to study the formation of a breakdown track in ZnGeP2 single crystal. It was shown that dislocations play the role of "embryos" initiating the crystal destruction under the influence of laser radiation.


The uniform CNTs film was prepared on dry and clean quartz substrate with spray and spin coating technology.The morphology of multiwall CNTs was observed by High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy(HRTEM).The transmittance and resistance of films were tested with UV-Vis Spectrophotometer(UV-2550) and Four Probe Resistance Tester respectively.We then study the effects of preparation method,heating temperature,concentration of CNTs and film thickness on the transmittance and resistance of films.Results show that transparent and conductive CNTs films can be prepared by choosing optimum parameters with good optical and electronic properties;the light transmittance and resistance can reach 83 % and 800 Ω respectively.


During the period of perestroika in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev, there was a burst of optimism concerning the prospects for the emergence of a vigorous civil society in Russia and the other republics of the USSR when a large number of independent social groups suddenly appeared. By the late 1990s, however, Russian scholars who studied nongovernmental organizations had reached a consensus that the hopes for the flourishing of civil society in their country had been largely disappointed, (1) In this article I attempt to delineate the problems that are faced by organizations in the "third sector" of Russian society and to trace the causes of those problems. In doing so, I rely primarily on Russian scholarly works on social organizations in contemporary Russia, supplemented by the research findings of several Western scholars. In the concluding section of the article I seek to identify the flaws in the reasoning of earlier writings whose optimism concerning the prospects for the flourishing of social organizations in Russia proved unjustified. I argue that a significant lesson that may be learned from the experience of nongovernmental organizations in Russia since the early 1990s is that the state and the political elite can exert a powerful influence on the dynamics of social transformation in the course of a post-communist transition. The Optimism of the Period of Perestroika In the late 1980s changes in the Soviet Union stimulated the rise of optimism concerning the prospects for the emergence of independent social organizations where conditions had previously been unfavorable. Some Western commentators saw reason to hope for the rapid emergence of a robust civil society in Russia and some other republics of the USSR. In this article, I define the term "civil society" as the sphere of self-activating, self-governing social organizations that are largely independent of control by the state. (2) The organizations in civil society constitute the "third sector" comprising nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations, but interacts closely with, and is often influenced strongly by, the other two. In the Soviet Union, the control of society by the Communist Party and state had precluded the development of civil society for several decades. Soon after Gorbachev came to power, however, he launched a program of reforms that represented a sharp change in the state's relationship with social organizations and thus stimulated the beginning of the growth of civil society. (3) After the unveiling of perestroika in 1986, "informal groups" that were independent of control by the party and state proliferated with astonishing rapidity. (4) The Soviet press reported that about thirty thousand informal groups had come into existence by 1988, and Geoffrey Hosking estimated that about sixty thousand such groups were present in the Soviet Union by 1990. (5) Those observers who predicted that the trends that were evident in the Soviet Union during the late 1980s would continue throughout the 1990s expected that an extensive network of nongovernmental organizations would be flourishing in Russia by the turn of the century. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a number of Western scholars published works that expressed optimism concerning the prospects for the further growth of independent social organizations in the Soviet Union and Russia. Such assessments emphasized that Soviet society had been transformed between the 1930s and the 1980s. Gall Lapidus described the way in which the Soviet Union had changed from a predominantly peasant society to an industrialized, urbanized society with a more differentiated social structure and "an increasingly articulate and assertive middle class." (6) Moshe Lewin argued that the urbanization of the Soviet Union had created a more complex society in which clusters of educated citizens coalesced to seek representation of their interests. (7) S. Frederick Starr reported that the urbanization of the USSR had produced citizens who were more independent, critical, and bold in defending their rights, and that rising levels of education had heightened the sense of personal autonomy and the capacity for individual initiative. …


Temporal variability of leaf senescence (autumn phenology) was observed in 2020 in 11 European beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees in Tivoli, Rožnik and Šišenski hrib Landscape Park in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and also observed for spring phenology in the same year. General leaf colouring, BBCH94, occurred between 19 and 24 October 2020, with lower inter-individual variability than that of leaf unfolding, BBCH11. The trees had active leaves (time between leaf unfolding and leaf colouring) between 177 and 199 days. In only three trees total leaf fall, BBCH97, occurred before 19 November 2020. Leaf colouring of the tree included in the long-term monitoring program of the Slovenian Environment Agency ARSO occurred on 24 October 2020. This is 7 days later than the 65-year average of the same tree/location and is ascribed to weather conditions. Investigation of tree tissues showed that the width of the last formed tree-ring in the wood varied between 0.39 and 9.61 mm and in the phloem between 0.09 and 0.26 mm, and that the tissues reflect the health condition of the trees.


The major objectives of the project on Aedes aegypti, which is one of the most important disease vectors of man, were to study the cytogenetic effects of radiation and certain chemical mutagens, the genetics of radiation-induced chromosomal rearrangements with particular attention to reciprocal translocations, and the possibility of using translocations for genetic control of natural populations. Results reported on work done during the years 1967 and 1977 show these objectives have been mostly accomplished.


By analysis the information of all the agricultural models, concluding the factors that influence the agriculture and studying the features of agriculture in Ankang, we are intended to propose the construction of the chief model eco-agriculture that is sustainable to become industrial agriculture, with the help of ecology.


A total of 179 patients with jaw cysts who had been treated at our department during the past five years were classified according to the WHO criteria (1992) and their clinicopathological characteristics were studied. The results are summarized below:1) The study group consisted of 74 cases of radicular cysts (including 7 cases of residual cysts), 71 cases of dentigenious cysts (including 8 cases of keratocysts and 63 cases of nonkeratocysts), 33 cases of primordial cysts (including 12 cases of keratocysts and 21 cases of non-keratocysts) and 1 case of paradental cyst.2) The incidence of mandibular cysts (121 cases) was approximately twice that of maxillary cysts (58 cases).3) Twelve karatocysts in the primordial cyst group showed parakeratosis. The dentigenous cyst group included three cases of orthokeratosis and five cases of parakeratosis. These findings suggest a relation between keratocyst patterns and the origin of these jaw cysts.


Paper highlights the limitations of marketing approach to library and information services; Reviews literature on correlation of information requirements of scientists and engineers with their characteristics; Analyses the data collected for a larger study of information-behaviour of the Indian space technologists, and correlates nature and type of information required by the space technologists with their hierarchical status, educational qualifications, nature of work, subject of specialisation, length of work experience and professional activities and achievements; Compares the results with the findings of earlier studies. Finally, paper concludes that the market segmentation of the Indian space technologists as users of their `primary library' is possible based on their characteristics like status, qualifications, specialisations, nature of work, professional activities and achievements and the library should be cognizant of this possible segmentation of target market for providing information services.


2 retrospective studies that concluded there is an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) among oral contraceptive (OC) users are criti cized. In the first study OC users showed a significantly higher incidence of MI than controls (p less than .001). However 57.6% of the MI patients and only 12.2% of the "matched" control group had 1 or more predisposing factors for the development of MI. The estimates and assumptions upon which it was concluded that hospital admissions for MI are 2.1 per 100000 married women aged 30-39 years who do not use OCs and 5.6 per 100000 women who do use OCs are demonstrated to have strongly biased the results. Similar descrepancies and bias were found in a case-controlled matched study of women who had died with diagnosed MI. The studies also failed to demonstrate that the increased risk of MI with OCs is not the result of an increased risk from pregnancy. It is concluded that the Food and Drug Administration in accepting these results as the basis for their issuance of a warning of the risk of MI with OC use should have at least issued a qualifying disclaimer that the warning was based on retrospective studies.


We provide evidence of the negative effect of the minimum wage on labor market flows, such as job creation, job destruction, hiring, and separations in Colombia. Depicting firms' minimum wage (MW) compliance cost, we find evidence of an adverse effect of increases on MW compliance cost on employment. This negative effect is explained mainly by a reduction in job creation and hiring rate and the rise in job destruction and separations. In contrast to the evidence for developed economies, our results are in line with the predictions of the standard search model. We also explore this differential effect by firm size and age. We found that an increase in the MW compliance cost has relatively critical negative impacts on small and medium-sized firms (with less than 250 employees); and new and young firms (lower than six years old).


(57) [summary] offer of A modular wheelchair structure. A respectively comprise a frame and a rear frame before the module by plastic injection molding or extrusion molding, integrally with the two frames, the frame and the foot board frame and the front wheel is inserted in a wheelchair of a plurality of horizontal or vertical form, are holes or corresponding structure of the rear wheel set is formed, are subjected to mutual coupling, the rear wheel set is mounted and a plurality of adjustment perforations is provided behind the frame, the rear wheel set with a position of the location, the two wheels expanding or reducing the wheel distance as a structural form of high and whether or centroid and convenient behind stability behavior of gravity as the front between sets, not only to simplify the structure of the wheelchair frame, used reliably adapted to the length of the person of the extension and feet, are the assembly on a more convenient and fast.


In recent years, all inorganic bismuth lead-halide perovskite nanocrystals [CsPbX3 (X=Cl, Br, I)] have received extensive attention due to their high performance in fluorescence quantum yield, narr...


A Gleebe-1500 hot simulator was used to study the flow deformation of 50CrV4 steel at high temperature.The results show that the dynamic recrystallization occurs at higher deformation temperature and lower deformation rate.The deformation activation energy for 50CrV4 steel is 379.29kJ/mol at 850-1000℃ by regression analysis.Furthermore,a flow stress model for austenite at high temperature was established.


The users of libraries of object-oriented software components face both a terminological and a cognitive gap in knowledge. Usually, library users do not understand the vocabulary used in library documentation, and they do not know some of the concepts involved in the solutions implemented by components. In order to close both gaps, a language for constructing functional descriptions of the components is defined allowing users to specify their needs. From this language, mappings among functional descriptions and components as a case base collecting 'interesting experiences' in the usage of the library are implemented. A knowledge representation system, based on description logics, is used to construct the description language and to implement the case-based reasoning processes. This approach has been applied to support the reuse of classes implementing data structures in the VisualWorks class library, a Smalltalk programming environment.


Detection of supernovae (SNe) and, more generally, of transient events in large surveys can provide numerous false detections. In the case of a deferred processing of survey images, this implies reconstructing complete light curves for all detections, requiring sizable processing time and resources. Optimizing the detection of transient events is thus an important issue for both present and future surveys. We present here the optimization done in the SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS) for the 5-year data deferred photometric analysis. In this analysis, detections are derived from stacks of subtracted images with one stack per lunation. The 3-year analysis provided 300,000 detections dominated by signals of bright objects that were not perfectly subtracted. Allowing these artifacts to be detected leads not only to a waste of resources but also to possible signal coordinate contamination. We developed a subtracted image stack treatment to reduce the number of non SN-like events using morphological component analysis. This technique exploits the morphological diversity of objects to be detected to extract the signal of interest. At the level of our subtraction stacks, SN-like events are rather circular objects while most spurious detections exhibit different shapes. A two-step procedure was necessary to have a proper evaluation of the noise in the subtracted image stacks and thus a reliable signal extraction. We also set up a new detection strategy to obtain coordinates with good resolution for the extracted signal. SNIa Monte-Carlo (MC) generated images were used to study detection efficiency and coordinate resolution. When tested on SNLS 3-year data this procedure decreases the number of detections by a factor of two, while losing only 10% of SN-like events, almost all faint ones. MC results show that SNIa detection efficiency is equivalent to that of the original method for bright events, while the coordinate resolution is improved.


This study concerns a modelling for a finned crossflow heat exchanger, consisting in a Waste Heat Recovery Unit (WHRU), which operates with fluids with significant variations of specific heat, and variation of global heat transfer coefficient. For the modelled system, combustion flue gases at 490 °C enter the finned side of the heat exchanger, while another fluid with high variations of thermophysical properties flows inside the tubes with inlet temperature ranging from 75 to 150 °C. The log mean temperature difference LMTD and effectiveness methods are used to model the heat exchange. The system is optimized by a genetic algorithm to improve the fins profiles, comprising fin thickness, length and number of fins per meter, aiming to obtain the maximum heat transfer rate. Subsequently, other geometrical parameters of the heat exchanger are optimized by a heuristic method to obtain the desired heat transfer rate. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the simplified approach based on LMDT results in bigger required areas then the discretized, being 16% the smallest increase in numbers of rows for a 135°C entering temperature of cool fluid, and mass flow of inside fluid equals 60% of outside fluid, which indicates that variations of fluids properties and global heat transfer coefficient result in non-linearities of the problem. Additionally, an exergy analysis is performed for the heat exchanger, that indicates that the rate of exergy destruction increases with mass flow rate of the internal flow, and with reduction of the inlet temperature of the inlet flow, both related with the increment of heat transfer rate.


The variation of sampling errors was characterized using the Waymire-Gupta-Rodriguez-Iturbe multi-dimensional rainfall model(WGR model). The parameters used for this study are those derived by Jung et al. (2000) for the Han River Basin using a genetic algorithm technique. The sampling error problems considered are those for using raingauge network, satellite observation and also for both combined. The characterization of sampling errors was done for each month and also for the downstream plain area and the upstream mountain area, separately. As results of the study we conclude: (1) The pattern of sampling errors estimated are obviously different from the seasonal pattern of monthly rainfall amounts. This result may be understood from the fact that the sampling error is estimated not simply by considering the rainfall amounts, but by considering all the mechanisms controlling the rainfall propagation along with its generation and decay. As the major mechanism of moisture source to the Korean Peninsula is obviously different each month, it seems rather normal to provide different pattern of sampling errors from that of monthly rainfall amounts. (2) The sampling errors estimated for the upstream mountain area is about twice higher than those for the down stream plain area. It is believed to be because of the higher variability of rainfall in the upstream mountain arean than in the down stream plain area.


In a previous paper [Jian-Huang She, J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2006) 002.] using a matrix model, we showed that closed string tachyons can resolve spacelike singularity in one particular class of Misner space (with antiperiodic boundary conditions for fermions around the spatial circle). In this note, we show that for Misner space without closed string tachyons, there also exists a mechanism to resolve the singularity in the context of the matrix model, namely, cosmological winding string production. We show that here space and time also become noncommutative due to these winding strings. Employing the optical theorem, we study the bulk boundary coupling by calculating the four-open-string cylinder amplitudes.


There is an unmet need for antithrombotic treatments for venous thromboembolic disease that do not increase bleeding risk. Selectins are cell adhesion molecules that augment thrombosis by activating immune cells to initiate the coagulation cascade. GMI‐1271, a potent small‐molecule E‐selectin antagonist, has been shown in mouse models to decrease thrombus burden with a low risk of bleeding.


Introduction, Liz Wells, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Nicos Philippou The Political Gaze: Memory, Politics & the Construction of National 2. Pride And Prejudice: Photography and Memory in Cyprus, Yiannis Toumazis 3. "Imagining Cyprus": Exhibitions of Cypriot Photography and their Reception in Greece, 1950-1980, Iro Katsaridou 4. Developing identities: the history of the Turkish Cypriot photographic subject, Alev Adil 5. Beyond Nostalgia, Stephanos Stephanides The Colonial Gaze: Colonial Views, Postcolonial 6. John Thomson: Through Cyprus with a Camera, Between Beautifying and Bountiful Nature, Hercules Papaioannou 7. The National Geographic and Half Oriental Cyprus, Nicos Philippou The Gendered Gaze: Framing Gender & Other 8. En-gendering Cypriots: from Colonial Images to Postcolonial Identities, Stavros Stavrou Karayanni 9. Tourists' Photographic Conventions and the Rock of Aphrodite, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert 10. The Photographic Pieta: A Model of Gender, Protest and Spatial - Temporal Dislocation in Modern Cyprus, Elizabeth Hoak-Doering The Art Gaze: Contemporary Art 11. Defying "Cypriotness" in the work of Haris Epaminonda and Christodoulos Panayiotou, Elena Stylianou 12. Tracey Emin's Photographs and Videos of Cyprus and Turkey, Jennifer Way 13. Walking Narratives, Haris Pellapaisiotis Index


The sustainable vision of the Dynamic Landfill Management (DLM) deals not only with present but also with long-term waste management. In this context, DLM enhances the environmental assessment of landfills after closure as well as the recovery of materials and energy resources, for which, a proper characterization is required. To this end, geophysical methods have demonstrated their suitability for landfill exploration, characterization and monitoring. Due to the complexity of these sites and challenges in data acquisition and/or processing, the use of multiple methods is the best approach for landfill investigations. In this work, we used multiple geophysical methods, co-located with several trial pits and boreholes, to estimate the structure of a waste disposal site located in a quarry, and to better delineate the underlying geology composed of limestone. We applied electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), time-domain induced polarization (IP), H/V spectral ratio from microtremor records and magnetometry. We made a structural joint interpretation using the different datasets and the ground truth data. First, the ERT and IP data were individually inverted, and a first structural model was derived. Afterwards, we followed a parametric analysis of the H/V data to corroborate the thickness of some layers at the position of the seismic stations. Then, this model was used to compute synthetic magnetic data and by comparing them with the observed total field magnetic anomalies, a refined model was produced. We evaluated the improvement of including magnetic modelling by using a probabilistic approach previously reported. This approach is based on the computation of conditional probabilities by comparing the inverted models with the co-located data from trial pits and boreholes. Overall, we delineated the lateral and vertical extension of the waste body, the distribution of ash and lime deposits and estimated the upper limit structure of the bedrock.


The Sacramento Basin, a north-trending forearc basin, contains Late Jurassic to Holocene sedimentary rocks that thicken to the south. The basin fill is about 300 km long, 80 km wide, and as much as 16 km thick. Because the 157 gas fields with original reserves of 9.14 tcf (1012 ft3) cover a large area, a change in chemical composition due to migration from wet gas to pure methane is recorded. On the basis of the carbon-isotopic composition of methane and stratigraphic occurrence, two petroleum systems have been identified in the Sacramento Basin. The Dobbins-Forbes(?) gas system, which contained about 2.25 tcf of recoverable gas, underlies the Winters-Domengine(?) gas system, which contained about 6.89 tcf of recoverable gas. Gas migrated laterally to the north as far as 200 km in the Dobbins-Forbes(?) system, whereas in the Winters-Domengine(?) system, gas first migrated vertically and then crossed the Midland Fault to the east for as far as 40 km. In both systems, depth of gas production is less than 3 km. By applying the petroleum-system concept and available information about the geology and geochemistry of this province, our study provides a new testable hypothesis for the origin, migration, and accumulation of gas inmore » the Sacramento Basin. By reinterpreting some of the natural-gas information, along with data on gas wetness, gas-oil ratio, vectors of migration, hydrocarbon volume, and thermal history, two gas systems have been identified.« less


M ΛΙΜΛΙΟ ΓΙ κ· papcr dculs vviih ihe prohlcm l u \ i » i i s i i i k ( i i \ M cMonded hrain sourccs Irom cleclric or ιΐΜ ' ΊκΜκ hrld uvordmgs. Dclailcd analylical sludies .iu· |>iYM;nKd lor a current dipolc laycr sourcc in a i i M h l i u i m L » sphoiv uscd lo modcl thc hcad. The location . n u l ihc spadal cxieni l the sourcc arc determined by M K M I I S ι »l imilnpolc cxpansion. Signillcant differences Ivixuvn hiockviiK" and hiomagnctic reconstruction arc * » l > i . unal lor a location l thc sourcc modcl at thc center ^ ' 1 i lu · t /o ik iuc t ing sphcrc.


Thispaperdiscusses the detailed phenomenon ofadownward cloud toground lightning discharge. TheVHF broadband interferometry system hasbeenemployed toobtain atwo-dimensional image of thiscloudto groundlightning discharge progressions. Fromtheobservation results, thecloud to ground lightning showsaseries ofstrokes anditis typical foracloud toground flash. Several discharge events areobserved during this lightning. These include initial andsubsequent leaders, dartleader, andJ-or K-processes. Period ofthislightning flash isinthe range ofhundred milliseconds. Thestrokes ofthis flash areofnormal polarity, i.e. they lower negative charge to ground.


It was Galileo Galilei's celestial observations published in "the Starry Messenger" of 1610 that made the telescope famous, but the device was more commonly used in the seventeenth century for terrestrial viewing. For this reason and thanks to a shared capacity to bring far away things clese, the telescope and the ggenre of landscape are intimately related in ways that have not been fully worked out. Beginning with Jan Brueghel the Elder's "Landscape with a View of Mariemont Castle" (c. 1609), which contains one of the first depictions of a telescope, this essay describes how the genre was shaped, already in the sixteenth century -before the invection of the telescope proper- by fantasies of telescopy and, then, in turn, during the seventeenth century, by the reality of telescopic vision. THe roundel format, I argue, was the clearest marker of this shaping.


Traditionally, the process of trouble shooting is time-consuming done by expert's personal experiences. Pre-automatic diagnosis seems a good solution to increase the service quality of trouble shooting for information technology outsourcing. Developing an expert system for pre-automatic diagnosis should be the better approach to speed up the service. The main purpose of this study is to explore how IT outsourcing service providers build a case-based reasoning expert system for trouble shooting. To solve problems, a case-based reasoning system retrieves information from one or more previous cases for reference. Then this developed system modifies the cases to adapt to the new situation. By this way, cases can be reused, and previous experiences can be retained. Finally, current cases will be combined into existing knowledge base After searching solutions for references, the study chooses the method of K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) to classify clients' problems. This will increase the efficiency and accuracy in searching for the best solution. A pilot case study is implemented and the conclusion shows that the developed system really assists the customers effectively.


Fluid status is crucial for dialysis patients. Volume overload is a major cardiovascular risk factor. Nevertheless, volume depletion is associated with myocardial stunning and cerebral ischaemia. For decades, many diagnostic tools have been proposed for increased accuracy in evaluation of volemia, considering that clinical assessment is unreliable. Lung ultrasound and bioimpedance analysis emerged as the most useful tools, although randomized clinical studies are lacking to implement their universal use. Early management of hydration may improve clinical outcomes, as it allows personalized dialysis prescriptions and nutritional support.


AIM To investigate the molecular mechanism of skin lesion in sulfur mustard-poisoned mice by differential proteomic analysis. METHODS Mouse ears were isolated from normal mice and mice treated topically with sulfur mustard(5 μL,160 g·L -1 ). The total protein samples used in 2-D electrophoresis were prepared by discarding cartilage and ultracentrifugation. The protein maps were compared with ImageMaster 5.01 analysis software and analyzed with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization -time of flight mass spectrometry(MALDI-TOF-MS). RESULTS The number of protein spots in normal, 6-h post-poisoned and 24-h post-poisoned groups were 1442,1451 and 1158, respectively. The matching percentage of protein spots between different groups were 64.5%-82.0%. Fifteen different proteins identified by peptide mass fingerprinting were involved in cellular events, such as oxidative stress responses, apoptosis and energy metabolism. Among them, the expression of apolipoprotein A-Ⅰ and prealbumin was upregulated in post-poisoned group, and the expression of peroxiredoxin 6, superoxide dismutase[Cu-Zn], carbonyl reductase 3, actin, glutathione S-transferase Mu2, Δ 3,5 and Δ 2,4 -dienoyl-CoA isomerase was decreased in post-poisoned group. Compared with the normal group, triose-phosphate isomerase, profilin-1, actin-depolymerizing factor (Destrin) , splice isoform 4 of synaptotagmin-like protein 3 and cystatin B (stefin B) were increased in 6-h post-poisoned group and decreased in 24-h post-poisoned group. Fatty acid-binding protein was decreased in 6-h post-poisoned group and increased in 24-h post-poisoned group. Calgranulin B was found in 6-h post-poisoned group, but not in normal group and 24-h post-poisoned group. CONCLUSION Sulfur mustard can alter the protein expression patterns of mouse skin.


Three-year-old potted samples of Taxus cuspidate were treated with different concentrations of sulfur dioxide in a closed fumigation equipepment,the changes in activities of SOD,POD and CAT,membrance permeability and contents of MDA,proline,soluble proteins and chlorophyll were measured.The results showed that membrance permeability,the contents of MDA and proline increased,while soluble protein content increased and then decreased and increased again and the contents of chlorophyll-a,chlorophyll-b and total chlorophyll decreased with the increment of sulfur dioxide concentration compared with the control level and the ratio chlorophyll-a/b first increased and then decreased.The SOD,POD and CAT activity of the samples all showed an upward trend,but the activity of POD hardly increased at the concentration of 21 mg/m3.Oxidative stress on Taxus cuspidata was caused by different sulfur dioxide concentrations after being treated.However,through its regulation of Taxus cuspidata,it could increase the resistance to sulfur dioxide and it was one of tree species of the strongest resistance to sulfur dioxide.


This paper presents the methods developed to enhance the transportation lifelines module in HAZ-Taiwan for highway bridges. The objective of this paper is to define the bridge classification and provide the fragility functions of the North-South Freeway in Taiwan that by utilize the available investigation data. The organization of this paper is as follows. First, the available bridge classes of the North-South freeway in Taiwan are reviewed and a new classification based on the available data to be implemented in Haz-Taiwan is proposed. Second, the description of failure mechanisms and criteria in different damage states adopted in this research are summarized. Third, the theoretical methodology of the fragility analysis for the new bridge classes and examples for freeway bridges are presented. Parameters for describing the fragility functions for each class are also generated and shown in the paper.Copyright © 2003 by ASME


Although it has been known for a number of years that the massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus c. catenatus Raf.) inhabits the Des Plaines River valley in the northern part of Cook County and the southern part of Lake County in Illinois, no studies have been published concerning the habits or habitat of this aggregation. In fact, no attention was directed towards the colony outside of that of a few collectors who were familiar with the area until the summer of 1933 when several rattlesnakes appeared in a picnic ground of the Forest Preserve of Cook County.


This study aims to determine the effect of products, prices, locations and promotions on the interest in buying Yamaha motorbikes in Surakarta. The population in this study were respondents / consumers who bought Yamaha Motorbikes while the sample used was 100 respondents. Based on the results of the study it is known that product variables with a value of tcount of 3.808 and ttable of 2,000 while the significance of 0.000 is smaller than  () = 0.05, which means that the product has a significant influence on purchase interest. Price variable with a value of tcount of 6.934 and ttable of 2,000 while the significance of 0,000 is smaller than  () = 0.05, which means that prices have a significant influence on interest in buying. Location variables with a tcount of 3.165 and ttable of 2,000 while the significance of 0.002 is smaller than  () = 0.05, which means that the location has a significant influence on interest in buying. Promotional variables with a tcount of 2.226 and t table of 2,000 while the significance of 0.028 is smaller than  () = 0.05, which means that the promotion has a significant influence on interest in purchasing.


Objective To explore the self-care agency of the urban elderly and its influencing factors in 4 communities of Yinchuan.Methods The self-care agency of the elderly and its influencing factors were investigated by Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale(ESCAS) in aged people in four communities of Yinchuan.Results The mean score of the self-care agency of the aged people in Yinchuan was(109.69±15.97).38.30% subjects perceived a high rating level and 61.30% subjects perceived a medium rating level.Seven factors including sex,educational background,occupational history,income,healthy status,self-health care status and obtaining health education had statistically significant relation with the self-care agency of the elderly.Conclusion The self-care condition of urban aged people in Yinchuan was well.The major influencing factors were educational background healthy status and self-health care status which influenced on the self-care agency of aged people in Yinchuan.


The rising popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) requires simple and user-friendly methods for designing and deploying intelligent IoT services. End-to-End IoT platforms should support the straightforward integration of various sensors and devices, provide user-friendly methods to define the complex processing that should be performed on the captured IoT data and allow easy deployment on Big Data frameworks to ensure scalability. In this paper we present a generic and scalable platform that allows the automatic detection and integration of various sensors, provides intelligent processing of the captured data through semantic reasoning technologies and scalable and reliable deployment on a BigData infrastructure. The configuration of the platform and the definition of its intelligent processes can be performed through a visual interface. The focus of the platform is to provide user-friendly support for defining complex IoT applications with limited to no need for coding.


285 prayer: the practices of recollection (being present), beholding the Lord (gazing), and inward attentiveness (listening). The experiential case study is a pilgrimage to the Northumbria Community in northeast England. In Part Three, the author addresses practical difficulties and challenges in prayer, for example, distractions, discernment of spirits, and posture. The experiential case study is a testimony of lessons learned from a disappointing personal retreat day. Throughout the book, the reader is given practical helps for praying, primarily through references to the wisdom gained from Christians of previous centuries. I would recommend it to anyone as a basic primer on prayer, even though I have a quibble with the author regarding terminology. The subtitle and most the book's text use the term "meditative prayer," although "contemplative prayer" appears on a few occasions and the thrust of the book is clearly an advocating of the contemplative prayer tradition. In his previous work Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, Foster distinguishes between meditative and contemplative prayer; now he combines them, although preferring the former term. Why? The author doesn't provide an answer, but one wonders whether he is intentionally distancing himself from the negative associations some Christians have with the term "contemplative."


A portable microwave air plasma has been developed for safe and effective wound healing. The device is operated by a fixed microwave power and two different air gas flows (main and cooling air flow). It was found that the speeds of the two air flows determine the stability of the plasma jet and gas temperature and thereby regulate the concentrations of the individual reactive species. Two different regimes, i.e. the NO abundant (0.1 slm main air flow) and ozone abundant regimes (4 slm main air flow), were identified as suitable for wound healing without thermal damage and toxicity. These regimes show similar plasma characteristics (e.g. less than 40 °C at the treatment point, less than 4 ppm of NO2) except for different NO and ozone amounts. Both regimes show more than twice as fast wound healing speed compared with the untreated case without any histological damages. Faster healing speed with intrinsic ozone safety make the NO abundant regime the best operation regime for wound healing. Finally, the stability of the developed device was demonstrated by a one-hour continuous operation test with a 24 V battery.


Background The IL4, IL13, and IL4 receptor α chain (IL4RA) genes are candidate genes for atopic diseases. We hypothesized that the polymorphisms in these genes are associated with persistent allergic rhinitis (PER). Objective To investigate the association of the potential functional polymorphisms in IL4, IL13, and IL4RA with PER induced by house dust mites in a Chinese population. Methods Using the TaqMan method, we genotyped six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) including C-590T in IL4, C-1055T and Arg130Gln in IL13, and Ile50Val, Ser478Pro and Gln551Arg in IL4RA, in a case-control study of 265 patients with PER and 275 healthy controls. Results We found that the CT/CC genotypes in IL4 C-590T were associated with a significantly decreased risk of mite-sensitized PER [adjusted odds ratio (OR)  = 0.64, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.45–0.92], compared to the TT genotype. Furthermore, PER patients with CT/CC genotypes had significantly lower serum levels of total IgE than those with TT genotype (P = 0.001). However, there was no significant association of the IL13 and IL4RA polymorphisms with mite-sensitized PER (P>0.05). Conclusions Our results suggest that the C-590T polymorphism in IL4 may contribute to the susceptibility to mite-sensitized PER in a Chinese population.


For the purpose of revealing the influence of Eurotium Cristatum on content of free-state fluorine in tea,Eurotium Cristatum original strains and a mutant strain were used as pure strains during the fungus growing process of maojian tea(green tea) and raw dark green tea.Then the content of free-state fluorine in tea before and after the fungus growing process and in "Golden Flower" pellets were determined respectively.Also,the concentration of free-state fluorine in tea infusion before and after liquid fermentation with Eurotium Cristatum strain was determined.The results showed that both Eurotium Cristatum original strains and the mutant strain could increase the content of free-state fluorine in raw dark green tea by 7.94% and 10.47% respectively as compared with the tea that not inoculated the Fungi.But there was no influence on the content of free-state fluorine in maojian tea."Golden Flower" pellets contained some free-state fluorine.Eurotium Cristatum strain could absorb a small amounts of free-state fluorine in tea infusion,but there was no dependency between absorptive amount and original concentration of free-state fluorine.Influence of Eurotium Cristatum strains on the content of free-state fluorine in tea was differed with the original level of fluorine in different tea,also,Eurotium Cristatum strains couldn't concentrate the fluorine from environment.


The Miami Nation of Indians remains on their homelands in what is now considered the state of Indiana in the USA. Settler colonial histories obfuscate their continued presence. The absence of indigenous histories in public history institutions, such as archives, complete the erasure of indigenous peoples not carried out through the physical violence of settling. I propose marking archival absence as a tactical response to the epistemic violence of settler archives.


At present, program vulnerabilities occur frequently, which seriously threatens the security of cyberspace. Automated vulnerability discovery technology has attracted more and more attention because of its efficiency and universality. In the current field of vulnerability discovery, it is common to combine fuzzing with symbolic execution technology. Symbolic execution technology is often used to solve the input of complex paths and help fuzzing improve the program coverage, so as to detect vulnerabilities better. However, the symbolic execution has no goals in the process of hybrid execution exploration path, it is easy to cause the execution path to deviate from the expected target points. And generating the test case of the corresponding path requires frequently calling the solver for solution, while the current solver has low efficiency and poor solvability for nonlinear operation. In order to solve the above problems, we propose an automated vulnerability discovery system based on hybrid execution. In the system, we propose the symbolic execution guidance algorithm based on dynamic and static combination to guide the symbolic execution to solve the input reaching the target points, so as to avoid exploring in useless paths and avoid consuming a lot of time and computing resources. In addition we hook some nonlinear functions to optimize the nonlinear function constraint solving, so as to improve the hybrid execution efficiency. We have conducted extensive experiments on the RHG 2019 challenge dataset and the RHG 2021 challenge dataset. The experimental results show the effectiveness and scalability of the system.


The focus of this issue of SCN News is on the nutritional challenges facing adolescents today and how they are being addressed. Adolescence the second decade of life (10-19 years) is a period in which an individual undergoes major physical and psychological changes. Alongside this there are enormous changes in the persons social interactions and relationships. Adolescence is more of a phase rather than a fixed time period; a phase in which an individual is no longer a child but is not yet an adult. Over half a century ago WHO defined health as a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Good nutrition is an essential precondition for health and well-being and for the realization of a persons full potential. This applies to adolescents just as it does for infants and children. (excerpt)


Extraction of video object plane (VOP) is the central challenge for content-based video processing. It enables separate and flexible manipulation, blending and arrangement of content at MPEG-4 based decoder. We present a fast and efficient extraction algorithm depending on edge detection. Our algorithm begins with finding edge candidates detected by Canny edge detector. After selecting edge pixels which belong to the moving object in current frame, the VOP is extracted by using morphological operations. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on MPEG-4 test sequence and generates desirable VOPs at a lower computation cost.


BACKGROUND
Chronic diseases continue to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality despite modifiable risk factors. This suggests that current primary healthcare provision needs to delve beyond patient education, to understand the motivators that drive patients to undertake chronic disease self-management. Understanding these motivations within the context of a multi-cultural community can facilitate tailored support for chronic disease self-management.

OBJECTIVES
To explore the motivations behind effective chronic disease self-management in community dwelling adults in Singapore.

METHODS
A qualitative descriptive study was carried out in five clinics in a large medical centre. Twelve participants who were assessed to be optimally managing their chronic diseases were recruited using purposive sampling. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted until data saturation, with data thematically analysed.

RESULTS
Three salient themes emerged from the data. Firstly, 'Regaining self-control, avoiding complications' describes the participants' journey towards personal mastery in self-management, as well as a fear of debilitating complications resulting in their desire for good health. Secondly, 'Preserving social identities and roles' illustrates how participants yearn to maintain their pre-existing roles and functions through maintenance of their health. Finally, 'Accessing proximal support systems' highlights resources and supports surrounding the participants that encourage continued chronic disease self-management. Within each theme, specific motivators and challenges encountered by participants in their self-management journey were discussed.

CONCLUSIONS
Findings can prompt primary healthcare providers to leverage on the patients' life goals and social roles in chronic disease self-management support. This may empower patients to engage in self-management and strengthen primary care provision.


Cohort Profile: Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent mental Health (REACH) Gemma Knowles, Charlotte Gayer-Anderson , Rachel Blakey, Samantha Davis, Katie Lowis, Daniel Stanyon, Aisha Ofori, Alice Turner, Lynsey Dorn, Schools Working Group, Young Persons Advisory Group, Stephanie Beards, Vanessa Pinfold, Ulrich Reininghaus, Seeromanie Harding, Craig Morgan* Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK, ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, King's College London, London, UK, National Children's Bureau, London, UK, McPin Foundation, London, UK, Department of Public Mental Health, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany and Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, UK


This is a method and a device for producing a packaging box from two blanks, wherein simultaneously pops from two adjacent stores and cutouts is applied to two parallel paths, the cutouts are flat transfer, until it comes into longitudinal stop to an assembly station, the first blank is glued during its transfer to the longitudinal stop position, wedge lateral stop respectively the first and second cut-outs to give a position exactly lateral reference, is gripped, is transferred laterally and placing the second blank on the first blank and indexed, by escaping the tabs of the first channel during docking of the second blank on the first, while the now blocking vertical pressure. the second blank is then applied on the first blank, to paste moon on the other, in their respective longitudinal positions determined and then transfer the set of blanks thus formed to a forming station where the blanks are formed by winding box around a mandrel.


Biogas from biowaste can be an important source of renewable energy, but the fermentation process of low-structure waste is often unstable. The present study uses a full-scale biogas reactor to test the hypothesis that straw as an additional biofilm carrier will increase methane yield; and this effect is mirrored in a specific microbial community attached to the straw. Better reactor performance after addition of straw, at simultaneously higher organic loading rate and specific methane yield confirmed the hypothesis. The microbial communities on straw as a biofilm carrier and of the liquid reactor content were investigated using 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing by means of 454 pyrosequencing technology. The results revealed high diversity of the bacterial communities in the liquid reactor content as well as the biofilms on the straw. The most abundant archaea in all samples belonged to the genera Methanoculleus and Methanosarcina. Addition of straw resulted in a significantly different microbial community attached to the biofilm carrier. The bacterium Candidatus Cloacamonas acidaminovorans and methanogenic archaea of the genus Methanoculleus dominated the biofilm on straw. Syntrophic interactions between the hydrogenotrophic Methanoculleus sp. and members of the hydrogen-producing bacterial community within biofilms may explain the improved methane yield. Thus, straw addition can be used to improve and to stabilize the anaerobic process in substrates lacking biofilm-supporting structures.


To investigate the effect of collagen hydrolysates from swine femur head on the blood pressure of spontaneous hypertension rats(SHRs),64 SHRs were randomly divided into 8 groups with 8 rats in each group.Six of these groups were administrated with 20,30,40,50,60 mg/kg and 70 mg/kg body weight of the hydrolysates.Negative control was orally administrated with the same volume of vehicle(distilled water) and positive control was administrated with 10 mg/kg body weight of captopril.After administration,the systolic pressure of rats was measured every two hours to determine the antihypertension effectiveness of collagen hydrolysates.The results obtained showed that oral administration of the hydrolysates at doses of 30,50 mg/kg and 70 mg/kg body weight significantly lowered the systolic pressure of SHRs,which were then used as low,medium and high doses of hydrolysates for further study.In the next study,8 rats in each group were then administrated with 30,50 mg/(kg d) and 70 mg/(kg d) of the collagen hydrolysates or equal volume of distilled water(negative control) or 10 mg/(kg d) of captopril(positive control) for 30 days.The systolic pressure and diastolic pressure of rats were measured every 5 days.The results showed that,compared to negative control,all three doses of hydrolysates significantly decreased both systolic and diastolic pressure of rats(P 0.01),showing its anti-hypertension property which might be used for human health care.


Internet is a mine of global information,and almost includes all of the current chemistry resources.It is very difficult to select exactly information that you need from so large amount of chemistry resources.This paper lists the websites covering the chemistry resources which was often searched and used online for chemical teaching,such as naming compound,searching properties of elements and compounds,synthesis of compounds and spectra data,and expounds the methods of saving and managing these websites.It is a significant guidance to teaching and scientific research.


The Sunan Ampel religious area is one of the places labeled as halal tourism in Indonesia, especially in Surabaya. Halal tourism is a vehicle or entertainment for the community in which there are religious elements from tombs to entertainment venues with an Islamic atmosphere. Of course halal tourism must guarantee the halalness of the entire halal tourism area, from location to consumption products. Halal in Indonesia has been regulated by the government through laws to government regulations and clerical fatwas. Law No. 33 of 2014 is one of the regulations that contains matters relating to halal certification and regulates the obligation of halal certification for macro and micro businesses throughout Indonesia. Street vendors are included in micro businesses that should be mandatory for halal certification, but according to observation data and observations made at street vendors in the Sunan Ampel religious area, there are still many street vendors who do not understand or do not understand halal certification. As evidenced by the ingredients that are still vague because they do not know the clarity of the ingredients used, starting from the unclear slaughter process, naming products that still contain kufr and falsehood, the hygiene of some traders that has not been guaranteed in accordance with the rules of the existing regulations in Law. No. 33 of 2014 and regulations relating to halal certification.
Keywords  Halal Product Guarantee, Street Food, Ampel Sunan Religious Area, Law No. 33 of 2014, halal certification.


The removal of natural organic matter (NOM) with PAC (Poly Aluminium Chloride) was studied. The coagulation experiment was performed only with PAC or PAC in the combination of natural zeolite (cclinoptilolite). The absorption rate at UV , turbidity - and DOC removal rate were compared. And the influences of pH-changes were also analyzed. In the combination with zeolite the maximal removal DOC rate was shown to 20%. The turbidity was decreased to 66% under the concentration of PAC 3 mg/L Dosage. The pH value influenced on the coagulation process, in the combination without zeolite the optimal pH was 6.0 and with zeolite pH 5.5. During changes of pH values the absorption rate at UV , removal of DOC and turbidity were also changed.


This paper investigates the scheduling problem of minimizing makespan on parallel batch processing machines encountered in different manufacturing environments, such as the burn-in operation in the manufacture of semiconductors and the aging test operation in the manufacture of thin film transistor-liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs). Each job is characterized by a processing time, a release time and a job size. Each machine can process multiple jobs simultaneously in a batch, as long as the total size of all jobs in the batch does not exceed machine capacity. The processing time of a batch is represented by the longest time among the jobs in the batch. An approximation algorithm with worst-case ratio 2+\epsilon is presented, where  \epsilon > 0 can be made arbitrarily small.


Cathodoluminescent properties of several alkali and alkaline earth terbium metaphosphate glasses were investigated at an applied voltage of 100 V to 2500 V in a vacuum diode structure. Light outputs were compared with that from a Zn2SiO4:Mn (Pl) phosphor.


A description is given of a system, operated by one man, which has been used at-Oak Ridge for 18 months to obtain daily temperature soundings at intervals of 1 to 6 hours to altitudes of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, with an accuracy of 0.15°F over a range of 10° to 110°F. The system consists of a coated thermistor, 18 foot blimp, 3-conductor plastic cable, nylon safety cord, universal pulley, power-driven winch and a direct reading open-scale temperature recorder. Very little maintenance has been required. A second recorder in use at Idaho Falls, incorporating further refinements of design, has an accuracy of 0.06°F over the range — 40°F to 110°F and effects of abnormal atmospheric potential gradients have been eliminated. Typical observations are presented to illustrate the averaging of ascent and descent data to eliminate lag errors, correction for cable sag, and resulting consistency of diurnal changes shown in the lowest 1,000 feet.


Two measures of connectedness for individual bulls and one measure of connectedness for countries are presented in this paper. For individual bulls the spread of a bull's daughters in different countries is compared with a hypothetical, yet realistic and common situation in which all daughters have their records in only one country. Standard deviation of number of daughters or sum of the absolute differences from the mean number of daughter have been used to measures the spread. Both of these two methods could provide an "effective number of proofs". For countries the measure is based on the proportion of cows sired by common bulls between the two countries. These measures would facilitate the choice of country combinations and / or bulls in estimation of genetic correlations between countries.


Modern weather forecasts are initialized with a 10 billion variable estimate of the Earth's atmospheric state. This initial condition is typically the result of 'data assimilation,' the process by which satellite observations are combined with prior forecasts to produce a best guess. Predictions of the future state are then made by integrating a collection of perturbations of this best guess, and the resulting variance represents the forecast uncertainty. This talk will discuss the state-of-the-art in weather prediction in the context of our group's efforts to improve forecast methodology. We leverage results from low-dimensional nonlin-ear dynamical systems to suggest algorithms for reducing forecast error, and demonstrate success using an experimental apparatus analogous to Lorenz's 1963 model of convection. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website:


In order to perform cooling without boiling cooling liquid and to improve maintainability such as replacement of a lamp, the invention provides a liquid crystal projector including a lamp 2, a liquid crystal panel, a power source, a fan for removing heat generated by the power source and the lamp 2, a water-cooling jacket 9 provided on an inner surface of an external wall portion 16 opposed to the lamp 2, a metal pipe arrangement 13 for radiation which is placed in the external wall portion 16, and a pump 14 for driving cooling liquid to flow in the water-cooling jacket 9 so that the cooling liquid receiving the heat from the lamp 2 circulates through the water-cooling jacket 9, the metal pipe arrangement 13, and the pump 14 to emit the heat to the outside through the metal pipe arrangement 13.


Group activities are becoming increasingly common in education. However, groups of students can sit together and even produce a group product without cooperating at a high level. Cooperation can be enhanced when students share their thinking with each other by telling and showing each other what is going on in their minds as they go about a task. Cooperative learning principles and techniques can help teachers encourage such enhanced cooperation among students.


The ingredient composition and antioxidant activity of Maillard reaction products of Pinctada martensii protein were studied in order to provide theoretical basis for the application of P.martensii in food additives and antioxidants,and provide a new approach for the comprehensive utilization of P.martensii.The P.martensii protein was extracted by salt formulation;and the effects of extraction conditions including material to liquid ratio,concentration of NaCl solution,extraction temperature,and extraction time on extraction yield were investigated.The optimum extraction conditions were ensured ad NaCl solution concentration at 0.75 mol / L,extraction temperature at 35 ℃,extraction time for 80 min and material to liquid ratio at 1∶20(m / V,g∶mL).The favor compounds of Maillard reaction products were analyzed by GC-MS.The results showed that the main flavor substances included alcohols,esters,ketones,aldehydes,carboxylic acids and heterocyclic etc..And the oxidation resistance ability of Maillard reaction product of salt-extracted P.martensii protein was strong,thus could be used as safe natural antioxidants.


An interesting and lively discussion on the role of aquaporins and rhesus channels in the permeation of gases such as carbon dioxide across biological membranes unfolded during the Epithelial Transport Workshop, held in Strobl, Austria, from June 25–27, 2010, organized by the German Biophysical Society and the Johannes Kepler University of Linz. The classical view that such hydrophobic molecules can diffuse freely across phospholipid bilayer membranes (known as Overton's rule) is supported by measurements of Pohl and coworkers. On the other hand, experiments reported by Gros, Boron and coworkers suggest reproducible and significant channel-facilitated gas permeation. The difficulty to resolve this long-standing issue (the literature discussion already goes back more than a decade) is a technical one. First of all, in aqueous solution, CO2 is in equilibrium with bicarbonate, rendering it difficult to unambiguously measure absolute CO2 concentrations. In fact, this phenomenon is exploited experimentally by the Boron group to deduce CO2 concentration changes via a change in pH. However, this indirect assessment of CO2 concentration is not without challenges, as the reaction between CO2 and the bicarbonate HCO 3 is catalyzed by the enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA), the concentration of which therefore changes the kinetics of the reaction. Likewise, the red blood cell (RBC) CO2 permeability estimates from the build-up of extracellular isotope labeled CO2 after administering labeled HCO 3 in the absence and presence of RBCs, as carried out in the Gros lab, depends not only on the CO2 permeability of the RBC membrane, but also on the CA activity, the membrane's permeability to protons, and unstirred layer effects. In addition, the bicarbonate itself may also permeate the membrane, via anion exchanger proteins. Nevertheless, the observed results are intriguing. Both the experiments carried out in the Gros and Boron labs observe a clear difference with and without aquaporin and rhesus channels present. Backed up by mutant and inhibitor studies, these results suggest a clear role of these channels in CO2 permeation. Not presented during the workshop, but noteworthy to mention, are the experiments of Kaldenhoff and coworkers, who have proposed a role of aquaporins in CO2 permeation in plant membranes, thereby supporting photosynthesis. Another set of experiments, however, carried out in the Pohl group on planar membranes, suggest that rather than the membrane itself, unstirred layer effects, i.e. slow diffusion across membrane-adjacent solvent layers that are not efficiently stirred, form the main barriers to gas permeation. In this view, the membrane itself, as predicted from Overton's rule, does not pose a substantial barrier to hydrophobic molecules such as CO2. A substantial part of the Strobl discussion focused on the validity of artificial membranes to model the biological cellular counterparts. Roughly 50% of the RBC membrane, for instance, are occupied by proteins, and additional proteins on the intracellular side may further modulate the membrane permeability. In contrast, the membranes used in the Pohl experiments are typically composed of E. coli lipids enriched with sphingomyelin and cholesterol. The water permeability of these membranes closely resemble the water permeability of the oocyte membranes also studied in the Boron lab, suggesting that artificial membranes provide a valid model for biological membranes. However, it is not clear yet whether the permeation of polar water molecules requires different physicochemical mechanisms and thus may not allow one to conclude on the permeation the apolar CO2. Molecular dynamics simulations show that both Rhesus channels and aquaporins may be permeated by CO2, but that the pathway across model phospholipid bilayer membranes such as POPE, POPC, or mixtures of PE, PC and PG is much more energetically favourable. High concentrations of cholesterol of 40mol% or more increase the membrane barrier, but not to the extent that channels such as rhesus channels or aquaporins, even at high expression levels, are expected to play a major role in gas permeation. Noteworthy, whereas single-channel water permeabilities derived from aquaporin simulations are in good agreement with experimental values, the simulations predict single-channel CO2 permeabilities for rhesus and aquaporin channels that are two orders or magnitude lower than implied by the experiments carried out in the Gros lab, which suggest large permeabilities of ~10 12 cms . Given the persistence of the discrepancy, rather than experimental artifacts being responsible, it appears more likely that the different experiments are probing different phenomena. In live cells, due to the complex equilibria including many components and factors, it seems difficult to rule out the possibility [a] Prof. B. L. de Groot Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Gcttingen (Germany) Fax: (+49)551-2012302 E-mail : email@example.com [b] Dr. J. S. Hub Department for Cell and Molecular Biology Uppsala University, Uppsala (Sweden) Fax: (+46)18-511755 E-mail : firstname.lastname@example.com


Peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis are diseases that affect the tissues surrounding a functional implant. Poor oral hygiene, smoking and previous history of periodontitis are known risk factors for the disease. The probing depth, the presence of bleeding on probing, suppuration and radiographs should be assessed regularly for the diagnosis else it can lead to implant loss and impaired function. In addition, the extent of the disease and pattern of bone loss are poorly described. There is limited information regarding the management of peri-implantitis. Various treatment modalities have been tried and tested, but there is yet to be a predictable outcome for peri-implantitis.


Microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) has the potential to be an environmentally friendly technique alternative to traditional methods for sustainable coastal stabilization. This study used a non-pathogenic strain that exists in nature to experimentally investigate the application of the MICP technique on mitigating sandy beach erosion. First, the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) test was adopted to explore the consolidation performance of beach sand after the MICP treatment, and then model tests in a wave flume were conducted to investigate the MICP ability to mitigate beach erosion by plunger waves. This study also employed field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) to observe the crystal forms of MICP-treated sand after wave action. The results reveal that the natural beach sand could be consolidated by the MICP treatment, and the compressive strength increased with the increase in the cementation media concentration. In this study, the maximum compressive strength could be achieved was 517.3 kPa. The one-phase and two-phase MICP treatment strategies were compared of sandy beach erosion tests with various spray and injection methods on the beach surface. The research results indicate that the proper MICP treatment could mitigate beach erosion under various wave conditions; the use of MICP reduced beach erosion up to 33.9% of the maximum scour depth.


SUMMARY Field emergence of 11 seed lots from six cultivars of long bean, all having laboratory germination of > 80%, ranged from 0 to 83%, indicating differences in seed vigour. Vigour differences occurred within and between cultivars, seed lots from cultivars with white or partly white testas having particularly poor emergence (0–21%) compared with those with brown or black testas (41–83% field emergence). The significant ranked correlations between field emergence and (i) solute leakage, measured by the electrical conductivity of seed soak water (r = –0·864), (ii) the percentage of cotyledons made up of completely living tissue, revealed by vital staining (r = 0·895), and (iii) the proportion of hard seeds (r = 0·916) indicated that lots with low vigour and potentially poor field emergence could be identified before sowing. Seed lots having low vigour imbibed water rapidly; the improved vital staining when seeds imbibed slowly indicated that damage occurred during imbibition and was a cause of low seed vigour. Rapid water uptake by low-vigour seed lots was partly explained by the incidence of seeds with cracked testas, but other factors could not be eliminated. The significance of differences in water uptake between cultivars differing in testa colour is discussed in relation to breeding for improved emergence.


In this article, the results of the numerical simulation are shown, as well as the results of the structural tests using extensometry, for a low capacity double root wind turbine blade based on the IEC 61400-2 standard. A methodology was developed to carry out the experimental plan. The results obtained by means of numerical simulation were compared with those obtained by extensometry, concluding that the blade will work safely already in operation because the values obtained from microdeformations are far from the blade failure limit


In sap flow studies, there is no method complying with high efficiency and versatility of sap flow measurements. To improve that, we propose combining two methods: (1) thermal dissipation probe (TDP) known to be efficient and cost effective and (2) heat field deformation (HFD) known to be versatile. For that purpose, we used a step‐wise TDP sap flux density (Jp) optimization method consisting of (1) natural temperature gradient (NTG) correction applying the cyclic heat dissipation (CHD) method, (2) night flow ΔTmax correction using HFD data as reference and (3) radial‐azimuthal correction using HFD as reference. We applied this optimization method on Quercus ilex (Q.i.) and Quercus pyrenaica (Q.p.) trees in a Spanish semi‐arid open woodland during dry season. The NTG correction resulted in substantial reduction of Jp as compared with standard TDP. The subsequent ΔTmax night flow correction resulted in the increase of NTG‐corrected Jp and good agreement with the outermost 2 cm of HFD measurements for both species. The final radial‐azimuthal adjustment of TDP Jp resulted not only, in a good agreement with HFD Jp, but also provided novel ecohydrological insights such as: (1) evidence of continuous night flow in all Q.p. trees and some Q.i. trees, (2) exponential reduction of Jp with sapwood depth for both species, (3) significantly larger Jp in the outermost 1 cm of sapwood for Q.p. than for Q.i. and (4) high azimuthal Jp variability for both species. The presented study offers efficient and versatile method of tree sap flow measurements that contributed to a better understanding of water‐related dynamics of Q.i. and Q.p. under water‐stress conditions. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Objective To investigate the importance of psychological nursing in perioperative young women with breast fibroadenoma of breast.Methods Collected 64 cases of young women with fibroadenoma of breast treated in department of breast surgery of the first affiliated hospital of Xinjiang medical university from November 2011- April 2012.All the patients were divided into two groups:(1)Experimental group:included 33 cases and would be given general nursing and special psychological nursing in perioperative.(2)Control group:included 31 cases and only be given general nursing.Compare two groups of patients with preoperative psychological change and postoperative adverse reactions.Results The patients of experimental group with preoperative psychological change and postoperative adverse reactions with constituent ratio lower than the control group.(1)Preoperative psychological change:there were 5cases(15.15%)with insomnia,8cases(24.24%)with agitation and no one with escape in 33 cases of experimental group;and there were 21cases(67.74%)with insomnia,22cases(70.97%)with agitation and 2cases(6.45%)with escape.(2)Postoperative adverse reactions:none of experimental group with syncope,chills and muscle tension adverse reactions postoperatively.There were 2cases(6.45%)with syncope,3cases(9.68%)with chills and 4cases(12.9%)with muscle tension adverse reactions postoperatively in control group.Conclusion It is necessary to give perioperative psychological nursing for young female with fibroadenoma of breast,and it could effectively reduce the psychological change and postoperative adverse reactions.


In this study, we demonstrate the effect of experiences on EEG activation pattern during vehicle driving especially focused on the driving maneuvers and scene perception. The EEG was recorded from visual related brain area when the subject performs driving maneuvers and perception during vehicle driving using driving simulators, and the power spectrum for alpha (8~13Hz), beta (13~30Hz), and gamma (30~50Hz) frequency band are evaluated w/o driving maneuvers. Alpha-band activity was decreased by driving maneuvers in both beginner and experienced drivers, while beta- and gamma-band activity are varied vice versa. Furthermore, those changes in the beginner driver become larger than one in the experienced drivers. These results imply that the driving maneuver might cause crucial effects on visual signal processing in the case of beginner drivers during driving.


In much recent cultural theory there has been a noticeable turn to testimonial discourse, perhaps especially in the context of finding ways of bearing witness to human suffering, tragedy and trauma.While this shift toward allowing others to speak 'in the first person' provides an important and powerful methodological tool, appealing to first-person testimony is also a hazardous enterprise. (It is, after all, especially difficult to raise questions about the authenticity of visibly pained testimonies.) Drawing on a number of disparate philosophers and writers, in this article I explore some of the central epistemological and ethical problems surrounding testimony. More specifically, I argue that the distinction between truth and sincerity is of fundamental importance here, and as such any unreflective methodological reliance on testimonial discourse is at best misconceived, at worst irresponsible.


Calmodulin activates the skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channel RYR1 at nmCa2+ concentrations and inhibits the channel at μm Ca2+ concentrations. Using a deletion mutant of calmodulin, we demonstrate that amino acids 2–8 are required for high affinity binding of calmodulin to RYR1 at both nmand μm Ca2+ concentrations and are required for maximum inhibition of the channel at μmCa2+ concentrations. In contrast, the addition of three amino acids to the N terminus of calmodulin increased the affinity for RYR1 at both nm and μm Ca2+concentrations, but destroyed its functional effects on RYR1 at nm Ca2+. Using both full-length RYR1 and synthetic peptides, we demonstrate that the calmodulin-binding site on RYR1 is likely to be noncontiguous, with the C-terminal lobe of both apocalmodulin and Ca2+-calmodulin binding to amino acids between positions 3614 and 3643 and the N-terminal lobe binding at sites that are not proximal in the primary sequence. Ca2+binding to the C-terminal lobe of calmodulin converted it from an activator to an inhibitor, but an interaction with the N-terminal lobe was required for a maximum effect on RYR1. This interaction apparently depends on the native sequence or structure of the first few amino acids at the N terminus of calmodulin.


Orphan Black, season two, episode six, 'To Hound Nature in Her Wanderings' (24 May 2014): out of the glare of a hot afternoon, Sarah Manning enters the cooling gloom of a small-town church. She and Helena have come here in search of answers to questions about their origins, about Project Leda. The ensuing scene taps into the rich vein of history of the American eugenics movement of the Progressive era – meanwhile demonstrating Orphan Black's facility with the history of science. Solid historical grounding enables the show to address, with a dexterity rare for television, complex moral and ethical issues surrounding contemporary uses of the genome and reproductive technology. As the series demonstrates, good history may indeed be the best guide to the big issues. In the scene, photographs are visible hanging along the back wall. A deacon asks pointedly if she can help Sarah. 'What is this place?', Sarah asks, pointing at stills of a compound of imposing brick buildings. 'That's the Cold River Institute', the woman answers. Her aggression ticks up a notch: 'What's your interest in it?' Sarah melts her interlocutor's defences and talks her way downstairs, into the Institute archives. The dark secrets she learns there about the origins of Project Leda – her origins – are clever fictionalisations of the real history of American eugenics. Looking at the history behind the fictional scene provides an opportunity to look at continuity and change from the factual history of genetics to a fictional clonal future. It enables us to look at the consequences of human biological engineering at once prospectively, retrospectively and synthetically.


With the constant improvement of Wireless Sensor Network, its application scenarios become more diverse. Due to the limited resources of sensor nodes, there are many researches devoted to the optimization of network structure and the prolongation of network life. The proposed extended protocol is based on the chain-based routing technique of PEGASIS. In a newly deployed network, intra-group trust is formed through the Group Authentication based on Merkle Tree, which can protect the node information and resist the deception of false message. In the steady phase, the whole network re-chain is replaced by re-chain within the group when any node dies. Simulation results show that the scheme proposed in this paper has obvious improvement in terms of residual energy and network life compared with PEGASIS.


This paper attempts to reveal anthropological structures in the following categories: text and writing; the categories that nowadays require cultural, historical and institutional relativization The paradigm being maintained is that writing is a mental, individualistic creation and a freely chosen way of life which is a result of late modernity Moreover, even today it is not the only paradigm and nor is it universally acceptable This is emphasized and developed upon in the text by using examples from current school exercise books School – as the main institution of literate initiation, where one experiences one'sfirst mass contact with literature – is an institution in which the practice of writing is regulated by school breaks and is specifically managed for capitalist society's dual division of time. Writing is specifically a tool which is a well-defined, perceptual and social discipline. However, this discipline does not exclude creativity, as long as we go by its late-modern definition.


With a view to national economy and social realization after 16th National Congress of CPC and taking the construction of harmonious society as the opportunity,this paper points out that we should promote the realization of goals of mass sports during the well-off society in an all round way in Hubei province.Good geographic and humanistic environment and regional developing strategy of rising at central part of China puts the mass sports development in Hubei province at highly advantage position.Based on research,the general basis and restrain condition of mass sport objective is established and evaluation index system and implementing suggestions are put forwarded.


The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 19941 is the most radical piece of social security legislation since the Social Security Act 1986. The Act abolishes sickness and invalidity beneElts and replaces them with a new and less generous beneElt, incapacity beneElt. This article starts by outlining the pre-April 1995 position before considering the background to the new beneElt and examining its structure and scope. The conclusion seeks to put these changes in the context of other recent and impending developments in social security provision.


We introduce a new nature-inspired optimization algorithm namely Mushroom Reproduction Optimization (MRO) inspired and motivated by the reproduction and growth mechanisms of mushrooms in nature. MRO follows the process of discovering rich areas (containing goabod living conditions) by spores to grow and develop their own colonies. We thoroughly assess MRO performance based on numerous unimodal and multimodal benchmark functions as well as engineering problem instances. Moreover, to further investigate on the performance of the proposed MRO algorithm, we conduct a useful statistical evaluation and comparison with well known meta-heuristic algorithms. The experimental results confirm the high performance of MRO in dealing with complex optimization problems by discovering solutions with better quality.


The present invention belongs to the technical field of pharmaceutical formulation. The present invention provides a lansoprazole enteric-coated tablets, enteric-coated tablet wherein the composition consists of the following components: a) a core lansoprazole and a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant composition; b) a castor oil, polyacrylic acid, resin II, and enteric coating layer consisting of a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant. Medicament of the present invention comprises an enteric coating layer castor oil, castor oil is a non-water soluble plasticizer, the enteric coating material II, polyacrylic resins having good compatibility, the material is effectively prevented Langshaw omeprazole is polyacrylic acid resins II, destruction enteric coating material, so that the present invention is enteric coated tablet between the core and the enteric layer packet need not release layer, thereby simplifying the manufacturing process, reducing production costs, and the dissolution rate and bioavailability of enteric-coated tablets were prepared using good, very good stability.


As the main method to prevent the moral risks of the management level, the supervision is implemented by many aspects. Grounded on the basic theory of corporate finance, this paper used grey relational method to analysis the data of 1276 list companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market. It explored that supervision from different executors effected the behavior selection of the management under the certain economic environment in China. Meanwhile, it also provided basis for business owners and economic administers in terms of rationalizing the arrangement of supervision mode and strengthening the prevention of moral risks.


The invention discloses a wireless electronic endoscope combined device. The wireless electronic endoscope combined device is characterized by comprising an endoscope provided with a wireless signal transmitting device, an image receiving processor transmitting information with the endoscope through wireless signals, and a display device connected with the image receiving processor through a data line, wherein a mini-type camera is arranged in the endoscope. Information transmission is carried out through the wireless signals, and the wireless electronic endoscope combined device has the advantages of being convenient to operate, safe and stable.


Magnetorheological finishing (MRF) is a novel precision optical machining technology. Owing to its flexible finishing process, MRF can eliminate subsurface damage, smooth rms micro roughness and correct surface figure errors. The finishing process can be easily controlled by a computer. Through proper designing of numerical control, sphere and asphere optics can be machined by magnetorheological finishing with high quality. Optical sphere is machined using dwell time algorithm and surface shape 2 pt. PV has been improved from 0.17um to 0.07um.


The stock market is an exceptionally powerful market where nothing is basically as steady as a stone however as the innovation is overhauling there are numerous ways and strategies one can attempt to realize this powerful change and be arranged appropriately. This paper centers around such various strategies for progressively learning the market and its patterns. We have involved two distinct models for this paper and have additionally performed sentiment analysis on the tweets in regards to the organization or the stock, the model with the least mistake is the ideal and the most favored technique for prediction. The aftereffects of this arrangement have given an unmistakable and shrewd thought regarding the random ups and downs of the market and furthermore another methodology for investors with the goal that they know where they can wager their cash. The ARIMA model is giving the best accuracy for each stock. Key Words: ARIMA, Time Series, Forecasting, Sentiment Analysis, Stock Market Prediction, Tweets


not as a special privilege granted to one section of society on the basis of age criteria'. He develops from the notion of 'generational equity', a concept of reciprocal relationships and mutual responsibilities between generations, and the fact that social life entails mutual collective responsibility through time to include the unborn as well as the elder and the aged, a recognition that everyone is or once was a child and everyone who survives will one day be old. He concludes that the position of older people in society is not simply a demographic or economic one, but 'essentially a political and a moral question', and integrates the concept of a 'moral economy' (Minkler and Estes, 1991) with a life course perspective, so that 'a fair day's pay for a fair day's work' translates into 'a fair return for a fair life'. Vincent's exercise in epistomology is really quite a remarkable and certainly an engaging synthesis of different domains and orders of knowledge and meaning, what he describes as a combination of structural-type arguments and phenomenological-type arguments. I particularly liked the transparency of his theorising and the fact that he includes in his analysis the personal and professional experience of his own life course, and three generations of his own family.


MANY observers1have reported cases of chronic, recurrent, vesicular eruptions of the hands due to various food allergens. Other authors,2who have written on the problem of eczematous dermatitis of the hands, designated by various terms such as "chronic eczematoid dermatitis of the hands" and "recurrent vesicular eruptions of the hands," have listed food allergy as one of the infrequent and relatively unimportant etiologic factors. Stokes,3in particular, emphasized the concept that such eruptions of the hands, as well as chronic eczematous dermatitis at other sites, are often due to multiple etiologic factors. He stressed the importance of a "factorial analysis" in the study of such patients and included food allergy among the various etiologic considerations. In 1946, Rowe4reported a series of 80 patients (42 per cent of 182 patients with eruptions of the hands) with "atopic dermatitis of the hands" due