: Due to their lightness and simple connectivity, steel racking systems are 8 typically considered as "low - dissipative" structures, which is reflected in the modern seismic 9 codes by the absence of capacity design and the adoption of low behaviour factors. This 10 limited capability of stress redistribution significantly increases the vulnerability of racks 11 under beyond-design seismic hazards and raises the demand for more resilient designs. 12 Along these lines, the proposed Plastic Ovalization Strategy (POS) attempts to increase the 13 ductility of the individual upright frames comprising the cross-aisle direction of racks, and 14 at the same time to preserve their low-cost and easy-to-assemble nature. This is achieved by 15 tasking the bearing failure mechanism of the diagonal bolt hole to absorb seismic 16 deformations, while capacity design is employed to keep the rest of the structure in the elastic 17 zone. Following a detailed discussion on the motives and basic principles of the strategy, 18 two high-rise racking systems are designed twice by professional engineers, once using 19 standard approaches and then by additionally employing the proposed POS rules. Finally, 20 the two design solutions are compared by conducting a comprehensive seismic assessment, 21 which employs a phenomenological macro-model comprising elastic elements and nonlinear 22 springs to simulate the bearing failure mechanism.


Respiratory disease in adult and young cattle caused by pasteurellosis/mannheimiosis Outbreak of respiratory disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus in dairy cows Abortion caused by Campylobacter fetus fetus in sheep Increased incidents of metabolic disease in ewes Outbreaks of porcine respiratory disease with multiple aetiologies Salmonellosis in guinea pigs bred for the pet trade— These are among matters discussed in the Veterinary Laboratories Agency's (vla's) disease surveillance report for England and Wales for February


Nuclear power plants such as Ringhals 4 have undertaken major investments in technical improvements during the last decade to ensure secure operating and to increase efficiency. All activity concer ...


This paper presents a novel high-fidelity and low-latency universal neural vocoder framework based on multiband WaveRNN with data-driven linear prediction for discrete waveform modeling (MWDLP). MWDLP employs a coarse-fine bit WaveRNN architecture for 10-bit mu-law waveform modeling. A sparse gated recurrent unit with a relatively large size of hidden units is utilized, while the multiband modeling is deployed to achieve real-time low-latency usage. A novel technique for data-driven linear prediction (LP) with discrete waveform modeling is proposed, where the LP coefficients are estimated in a data-driven manner. Moreover, a novel loss function using short-time Fourier transform (STFT) for discrete waveform modeling with Gumbel approximation is also proposed. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed MWDLP framework generates high-fidelity synthetic speech for seen and unseen speakers and/or language on 300 speakers training data including clean and noisy/reverberant conditions, where the number of training utterances is limited to 60 per speaker, while allowing for real-time low-latency processing using a single core of $\sim\!$ 2.1--2.7 GHz CPU with $\sim\!$ 0.57--0.64 real-time factor including input/output and feature extraction.


Countries in the world are currently facing shocks and challenges that are not easily faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, including Indonesia. Under these conditions, the performance of the governance system in dealing with a pandemic is tested transparently in public. The implementation of good governance by the government itself is carried out by steps and decisions that will be taken and implemented by the government to the community in order to suppress the positive number of COVID-19. The application of good governance also needs support other crucial elements, one of which is public communication.


The invention provides a method for calling a plurality of control terminals through one centralized control server in a cloud network and relates to the technical field of computer software. The method specifically includes: efficiently operating calculated and operated large video conference data information such as a large number of high-definition videos, audios, pictures and texts through the internet, and providing an optimum using mode according to preference of customers so as to enable the relation of the terminals to be intelligentized, enable terminal products of various companies to be compatible and reduce the problem of compatibility. By means of the method, high-performance service can be supplied to enterprises, and new service can be development by combing with the method. The method can effectively achieve information infusion of a local conference room and teleconference through software.


The optical activity of crystalline NiSO4· 6H2O is exclusively a property of the solid state, arising from a dissymmetric crystal environment. The rotatory strengths and dipole strengths associated with electronic transitions within the Ni2+ 3d manifold of states are calculated to second order in perturbation theory. It is assumed that optical activity is induced in the ligand‐field bands of the octahedral NiO6 clusters by the perturbing influence of the neighboring crystal environment which has C2 symmetry. A crystal‐field representation is adopted so that the crystal perturber sites (the H atoms of the water ligands, and O and S atoms of the SO42− anions) are treated as point charges ``seen'' by the NiO6 chromophoric sites. The signs and relative magnitudes of the rotatory strengths calculated for the 3A2g→3T2g, 3A2g→3T1g(F), and 3A2g→3T1g(P) cubic transitions of Ni2+ are in substantial agreement with experiment. It is concluded that the CD spectrum of crystalline NiSO4· 6H2O in the near infrared, visib...


This article describes a drama educator training programme offered by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in the Master of Fine Art (MFA) in Drama programme (Drama and Theatre Education major) since 2008. The curricular objectives and rationale are stated, and three fundamental approaches are identified which contribute to the realization of the objectives at a high quality. The approaches are (1) Clear identification of the learners' needs and provide relevant support. The matching of students' previous education background and the provision of supplementary courses is explained (2) Persistency in high quality praxis by enhancement of the learners' artistry: Specialization and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities, professional practice opportunities, learning with world masters opportunities are considered vital to the advancement of artistic practice (3) Diversity in experimentation of educational drama/ theatre forms. Practice-based project examples including a museum theatre project, a community theatre project, and a children's theatre project are described, to illustrate how the students explored the relationship between purpose, content, form and target audience in each project. * This article has not undergone the normal external review process.


DR. John Freeman was a pioneer. When Sir Almoth Wright,1 in 1897, found antibodies in the blood of people inoculated with killed typhoid bacilli, the idea that immunity to other organic material might be produced was a logical sequence. Two young men working in his laboratory, Leonard Noon and John Freeman, became interested in hay fever. They had read the remarkable book, Experimental Researches on the Causes and Nature of Catarrhus Aestivus (Hay-Fever or Hay-Asthma), written in 1873 by Charles H. Blackley.2 It was back in 1819, and fifty-four years before Blackley, that John Bostock3 had described his own . . .


A comparison of the dosimetry for accelerator photon beams was carried out between the Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais–Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE–LNHB) and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) in March 2012. The comparison was based on the determination of absorbed dose to water for three radiation qualities at the LNE–LNHB. The comparison result, reported as a ratio of the LNE–LNHB and the BIPM evaluations, is 0.995 at 6 MV and 12 MV; 0.994 at 20 MV, with a combined standard uncertainty of 5 parts in 103 at all three energies. This result is the fourth in the on-going BIPM.RI(I)-K6 series of comparisons. Main text. To reach the main text of this paper, click on Final Report. Note that this text is that which appears in Appendix B of the BIPM key comparison database kcdb.bipm.org/. The final report has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication by the CCRI, according to the provisions of the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement (CIPM MRA).


The invention discloses method for controlling the coverage of a directional sensor network, which is a coverage enhancement solution for a wireless sensor network. The method is mainly used for solving the problem of eliminating a perception overlay area and a perception blind area of a node to realize efficient coverage of the network, and belongs to the field of infrastructures of the wireless sensor network. The method is characterized by realizing a particle swarm optimization-based coverage enhancement algorithm of the directional sensor network on the basis of analyzing an adjustable model in the main perception direction. The coverage enhancement algorithm, aiming at the adjustment of the node in the main perception direction, is used for designing a particle adaptive value function and a population evolution strategy, and using the regional coverage rate as an optimization objective on the basis to effectively adjust the main perception direction of a sensor node through particle swarm searching so as to realize the coverage enhancement of the directional sensor network. The method can be used for eliminating the perception overlay area and the perception blind area of the node to realize efficient coverage of a monitored area.


l'olitzer and Bersohn comment on the use of diet and appetite-reducing drugs in the treatment of obe• sity - good results have followed this regime but on resumption of normal diet patients soon return to their original weight and may even exceed it. The present paper is concerned with 20 grossly obese pa• tients who achieved a drastic weight loss in a short period of time. The following biochemical studies were carried out prior to treatment: serum protein bound iodine, blood urea, serum lipids, serum creatinine, serum uric acid, glucose tolerance, serum lipids, BMR, urinary I i-ketosteroids, hydroxycorticosteroids and uri• nary total 17-hydroxycorticosteroids. Then the patients were given 10mg. long-acting d-amphetamine together with a barbiturate; also 60mg. potassium chloride for 30 days; 500 and 250mg. chlorothiazide was given to females and males respectively for 5 days at a time, with an interval of 2 days. Later the dose of d-amphe• tamine was increased to 15mg. daily. The patients were instructed to drink 4 pints of water a day, but had no dietary restrictions. After 2 months, chorionic gonado• trophin was administered and the patients had a diet of :,00 calories daily, and intramuscular multi-vitamins were gi\·en during the last 4 months of treatment. A second course of chorionic gonadotrophin was given to those patients who did not lose sufficient weight. When the desired weight was achieved, diet was gradually in· creased and d-amphetamine, chlorothiazide and potas• sium chloride were gradually reduced, until after 3 months they were completely withdrawn. At the end of treatment the biochemical investigations were re• peated. There was little significant difference in the keto• and hydroxysteroids; a slight decrease in total lipids; significant decrease in mean blood sugar levels.


The condition of tundra ecosystems in a zone of waste damp influence created as a result of coal mining in Vorkuta industrial region of Komi Republic is investigated. It is established that waste dump isn't a source of the considerable pollution of soils by aerogenic way. Transformations in microbial complex of soils are connected with change of habitation conditions, caused by functioning of waste dump.


Roland Barthes argues that the photograph retains a mystique artifice, that it is a "certificate of presence" of past existence, although the meaning of the existence remains undisclosed. John Berger, like Barthes, believes in the opacity of meaning in the photograph and the vital role of both memory and the spectator in granting meaning to the image. But, as Susan Sontag argues, photographs are open to manipulation as their presence is combined with silence. For Janette Turner Hospital, the relationship between memory and the image allows the viewer of a photograph to rewrite the narrative inherited from the past with meanings appropriate to the present. Hospital's fundamental concerns are how to read meaning in appearances and the necessity of the transfiguration of memory. In Borderline , a photograph becomes the bearer of the past into the present. Although photographs offer magical and apparently transparent reference to the unattainable past, they hover on the borders between worlds, offering possible sites for fictions of transfiguration.


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Mission-critical distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems are becoming quality of service (QoS) enabled, providing predictable, adaptable, and managed behaviors. Due to the dynamic and distributed nature of DRE systems, unplanned events can occur that could significantly impact the behavior and performance of these systems. In order to effectively manage unplanned events in DRE systems, we first clearly define what unplanned events are and how they differ from planned events. A planned event often has known signatures that we can probe for or monitor and is expected to happen during the operation of the system, even if it is "abnormal" behavior. Our discussion on QoS management of unplanned events primarily focuses on unpredictable events rather than unexpected events. The QuO middleware framework provides a template implementation base for designing and instantiating adaptation strategies for both planned and unplanned events independent of functional code, and the resulting QoS management code can be intelligently weaved into the functional code for the system and its applications.


Plenoptic cameras use arrays of micro-lenses to capture multiple views of the same scene in a single compound image. They enable refocusing on different planes and depth estimation. However, until now, all types of plenoptic computational imaging have been limited to visible light. We demonstrate an x-ray plenoptic microscope that uses a concentrating micro-capillary array instead of a micro-lens array and can simultaneously acquire from one hundred to one thousand x-ray projections of imaged volumes that are located in the focal spot region of the micro-capillary array. Hence, tomographic slices at various depths near the focal plane can be reconstructed in a way similar to tomosynthesis, but from a single x-ray exposure. The microscope enables depth-resolved imaging of small subvolumes in large samples and can be used for imaging of weakly absorbing artificial and biological objects by means of propagation phase-contrast.


Can we really "read the mind in the eyes"? Moreover, can AI assist us in this task? This paper answers these two questions by introducing a machine learning system that predicts personality characteristics of individuals on the basis of their face. It does so by tracking the emotional response of the individual's face through facial emotion recognition (FER) while watching a series of 15 short videos of different genres. To calibrate the system, we invited 85 people to watch the videos, while their emotional responses were analyzed through their facial expression. At the same time, these individuals also took four well-validated surveys of personality characteristics and moral values: the revised NEO FFI personality inventory, the Haidt moral foundations test, the Schwartz personal value system, and the domain-specific risk-taking scale (DOSPERT). We found that personality characteristics and moral values of an individual can be predicted through their emotional response to the videos as shown in their face, with an accuracy of up to 86% using gradient-boosted trees. We also found that different personality characteristics are better predicted by different videos, in other words, there is no single video that will provide accurate predictions for all personality characteristics, but it is the response to the mix of different videos that allows for accurate prediction.


The hydrodynamic of marine data buoy and its mooring system has an important impact on its reliability, viability and adaptability at sea. In this paper, the physical model test verification, is adopted for studying hydrodynamic of data buoy, by using the measured data in the northern sea area of Chu Island, Weihai, Shandong Province, China.   The hydrodynamic performance of three different mooring systems, i.e. slack type, inverted S type and tension type, under the action of wind and waves coupling is studied.     The model test of the buoy was carried out at the Environmental Laboratory in the National Ocean Technology Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China, and the scale of the model is determined to be 1:5, according to the laboratory test capacity and buoy prototype size. The results show that the inverted S type mooring system has higher reliability, while the tension type mooring system can obtain more accurate observation data, and the performance of the slack mooring system is between the two, among the three types of mooring systems.     The research results can provide a reference for the design of other marine buoys and their mooring systems, and the validated numerical simulation method can be applied to the study of the survival performance of the buoy in long-term and extreme sea condition.


Nephis, Craven's Nested Phrase Indexing System, transfers one more indexing procedure, the creation of individual index entries, to computer algorithm, permitting the human indexer to concentrate on the intellectual task of analyzing text and naming its important features. Experience at Rutgers University has shown that novice indexers can learn nephis quite quickly and can use it to produce acceptable indexes.


Through assessing the amount of dietary fiber,WBC,FBC,and EC of the fiber,the results showed that the amount of dietary fiber in defatted rice bran was 61.7% among which the SDF accounts for 15.4%,the IDF occupies 46.3%. The proportion of dietary fiber and IDF reached 1∶3. Compared with the wheat bran,the WBC and FBC in the rice bran were relatively high,and retention ability value of the WBC and the FBC were 5.30mL/g and 3.75mL/g,respectively.


Waqf has the potential to function as a mechanism towards improving the welfare of the ummah . Even though waqf has been long practised in all Muslim countries, each country has different methods of implementing it. Issues pertaining to waqf have become the most talked about agenda among Muslim scholars, administrators, and academics, particularly, the deficiencies of the conventional model and the lack of knowledge among practitioners, which has led to the mismanagement of waqf assets. The need to expand the conventional Waqf concept into business practices in achieving Islamic transformation agenda and wealth creation is, therefore, crucial. The aim of this study is to explore a holistic corporate waqf model to be used by organisations to address social issues and to create wealth for the ummah . A Tawhidic concept premised on the Quran and Sunnah was used to underpin the development of the proposed corporate waqf model. Content analyses of existing academic literature on Waqf , followed by preliminary semi-structured interviews, were conducted to provide a framework for the development of the corporate waqf model. The findings from this study would be of interest to academics, regulators, and practitioners in our quest to improve the existing waqf model of income distribution to maximize wealth for the ummah through a more efficient and effective wealth management system of governance and accountability.


By discarding the defects and absorbing the merits of both ancient and modern novels, Dan Brown forms his own unique style of fiction, which embodies mainly in his development of narrative techniques such as dynamic suspense, blank statement, non-linear structure, well-organized plot, being omnipotent and viewpoint shifting.


The present invention provides a sulfide solid electrolyte material, comprising a containing Li, A, X and S of the glass ceramic and in an X- ray diffraction measurement using CuKα line at 2θ = 20.2 ° and a peak at 23.6 °. A is at least one of P, Si, Ge, Al and B, X is a halogen. The present invention further provides a method of preparing a sulfide solid electrolyte material for which the raw material composition comprising an amorphous sulfide comprising LiX and Li2S, A and to synthesize sulfide glass at or above its crystalline LiX ratio at the heat treatment temperature of the heating sulfide glass to synthesize = 20.2 ° and 23.6 ° of the glass ceramic having peaks at 2θ in an X- ray diffraction measurement using CuKα lines, wherein the control of the raw material composition comprising and the heat treatment temperature to obtain glass ceramic.


This paper proposes a segment-powered control system of a linear motor. It is based on long-mover segmented mode and hybrid switching for the segment-powered control requirements of a high-thrust permanent magnet linear synchronous motor. Firstly, the segment-powered principle of the long-mover segmented mode is analyzed. Then the design of the hybrid switching control system is completed. Finally, the experimental verification proves that the control system has good control stability and control accuracy, which can meet the segment-powered control requirements of a high-thrust linear motor.


The establishment of local governments in Nigeria was motivated by the need for administrative convenience and development. The peculiarities of the grassroots government, according to efficiency service theorists, would engender national development. The purposes of the study, using mixed methods, were to investigate the challenge of state interference and the implications on service delivery in Ado Local Government Area, Ekiti State, Nigeria between 2011 – 2021. Primary data involved the use of online questionnaire and observation. The total of 103 respondents responded to the online questionnaires used for the analysis. Sources of secondary data include textbooks, reputable journals, and the internet. Primary data was analyzed statistically using frequencies, percentages and pie chart while content analysis was used for secondary data. The study discovers that state governments have been shortchanging local governments in Nigeria through their interference. The paper recommends political and financial autonomy for the local government to enhance sustainable development.


An analytical method for determination of Basic Brilliant Orange G in Brown Sugar by RP-HPLC was developed.The samples were extracted with ethanol.Basic Brilliant Orange G was determined by a reversed phase HPLC with C18 column using UV detection at 443 nm.The results showed the linearity range of this method was 0.05~4.00 mg /L for Basic Brilliant Orange G.The recovery rate of Basic Brilliant Orange G was in the range of 84.0% to 107.0% with less than 5.3% of coefficient of variation.


Manycasting is an emerging communication paradigm which allows a single source to reach multiple destinations while providing flexibility in the selection of which destinations to connect with. Traditional wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) networks do not support the all-optical splitting of signals to multiple output ports as required by point-to-multipoint communication schemes. Previous work has proposed an overlay approach known as Manycasting with Drop at Member Node (MA-DMN) to provide manycast support as a logical overlay to basic point-to-point lightpath connections. This approach has been studied extensively and compared to alternative overlay models, and has emerged the obvious candidate for supporting manycast overlays. Throughout its evaluation though, MA-DMN has never been scrutinized in terms of its costs for energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this work, we subject MA-DMN to these evaluations, while also proposing a new more energy-conservative emission-aware variant known as MA-DMN using Least Impact Trees (MA-DMN-LIT). We compare these two approaches by simulating realistic quantities of dynamic traffic, and uniformly distributing renewable energy sources to power nodes throughout the network. We find that MA-DMN-LIT reduces energy consumption over MA-DMN by 6-10% across the network, while also reducing CO2 emissions by as much as 27%. We further conclude that MA-DMN-LIT also provides lower connection blocking by not over-subscribing shorter paths in the network as its emission-blind counterpart does.


Abstract : A calibration plan for the scanning photometers, 5200/5228 photometers, UV and visible spectrometers, x-ray detectors, ESA, and RPA is developed. Descriptions of the experimental apparatus and procedures are discussed. (JHD)


In this context, the financial accounts and balance sheets from the different sectors of the economy are published, where the transactions and the stocks of assets and liabilities are shown with detail of financial instruments and by institutional sector. These statistics are useful to improve macroeconomic analysis of the different institutional sectors, integrating the point of view of financial and real effects.


In communication satellite systems, the payload utilization can be improved by means of the reconfigurability of the RF power among different beams and channels as an alternative to the well-known multiple antenna beams. The performance of a reconfigurable payload strictly depends on the architecture of its high-power section. In particular, the use of Multiport Amplifiers (MPAs) is generally considered the most effective means of achieving a high level of on-board RF power flexibility. This paper trades-off two multi-amplifier architectures based on both standard traveling-wave Tubes (TWTAs) and MPAs, with the objective of assessing the provided on-board power flexibility and overall DC-RF power efficiency. In addition, the two solutions will be evaluated according to their capability of achieving the required quality in end-to-end satellite link with a minimum DC power consumption, still guaranteeing some realistic margins on the link budget. The comparisons are performed by means of an in-house ESA developed software simulator able to analyze the impact of any payload non-ideality on the end-to-end link performance; in particular, the reference signal impairments are estimated by the carrier-to-interference ratio, evaluated with the correlation method.


CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION Patients contact a myriad of different health care personnel in their trek through the American health care system. In the 1950s on the numerous TV shows about medicine, it was easy to discern "who was who" in the health care cast of characters in these portrayals. The physicians, like Dr. Kildare, were always male, clean cut and serious looking. Nurses wore starched white dresses with nursing caps and distinctive pins; they instantly obeyed the doctor's orders (including the one to make the doctor a cup of coffee).


MPPT and furthermore CPG that utilizations fluffy rationale controller calculation. The Fuzzy rationale controller, By managing by method for nonlinear positions, suggest a predominant controller for these sort of associations. The method additionally profits by the explain and way to deal with the difficulty that conquers the multifaceted nature in demonstrating nonlinear frameworks. You can arrive at this objective, a MPPT and CPG model having A SOLAR module, The DC-DC converter (CHOPER), another fluffy rationale controller was created. Contemplating a buck converter and lift converter and furthermore buck-support converter highlights was done so as to recognize the most reasonable topology. An unsegregated sort of the sun oriented PV module distinguished converter was recreated and the outcomes used to fathom the master thoughts require to create and strain a fluffy rationale controller. wooly controller was coded as a continuous run program and the MPPT and CPG executed utilizing a dc-dc converter (CHOPER) constrained by a microcomputer. This outcomes can diminishing quality for the move of a photovoltaic power framework batteries can be completely energized and utilized during times of little astrophysical radiation.50KVA model was executed at 1KVA. Testing indicated efficiencies above 95.5% complete dead from power transformation, fluffy rationale MPPT and CPG, and estimation and control hardware.


Pressure sores are a preventable, but common, secondary complication of a spinal cord injury (SCI). Research is limited concerning the influence of psychological factors in the development of pressure sores. The purpose of our ex post facto study was to examine the role that emotional responses and coping strategies play in moderating the relationships between demographic and SCI-related medical variables and the frequency and severity of pressure sores. Ninety-five individuals, who sustained a sudden-onset SCI, completed a self-report questionnaire sent to the population of patients that received post-injury rehabilitation services at a rehabilitation center in the southern U.S. Multiple regression analyses indicated that depression significantly predicted pressure sore severity, whereas disengagement-coping significantly predicted pressure sore occurrence (although in the opposite direction than expected). An interaction of time since injury and depression influenced both pressure sore occurrence and severity. These results have important implications for rehabilitation professionals in the clinical evaluation and treatment of persons with SCI.


Five positions on the nature and purpose of basic studies in the college curriculum are considered. The five positions are summarized as follows: (1) to develop essential skills; (2) to introduce students to disciplines of knowledge; (3) to introduce students to the .isic modes of thinking or ways of knowing; (4) to develop understanding and appreciation of seminal ideas, events, and products of human culture; and (5) to engage students in the processing of meaningful learning. These positions are also analyzed in terms of their focus on content, teaching, learning, governance, and utilization. Philosophical and educational a3sumptions about the five positions are also discussed with attention to mission and goals, views of knowledge, views of teaching and learning, and value differences. Compatibil'ty of the five positions are also addressed. Seven suggestions concerning the issues of organizational support for basic studies programs are offered, including: formal adoption of curriculum design and rationale for the basic studies program; and an on-going program review process. Finally, five suggestions concerning provision of support for instructional processes within basic studies programs are presented that include adequate time and resources and consultation services. (SW) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************


The present study deals in detail with the formation of oil and gas pools on the western side of the middle part of the West Sichuan depression, i.e. in front of the Longmenshan overthrust zone on the basis of sedimentary facies, hydrocarbon reservoirs, preservation regimes, structural patterns and trap types. Three exploration fields may be discriminated for the study area: partially exposed zone, monoclinal zone and concealed zone. The concept "imely uplift" has been presented in this paper. The Penglaizhen Formation gas pools and Cretaceous gas pools are controlled dominantly by late Yanshanian and Himalayan movement. This has been demonstrated by the thinning of the successions in the Tianmashan Formation (K 1 t ) or Guankou Formation (K 3 g ). Such understanding is important for evaluating the potential of the oil and gas accumulation.


People require to shoes more highly than before with the enhancing of consuming conscience. A research on woman - shoe market was made to learn consumer s behavior and characteristics by questionnaires. That provides the first - hand information to the enterprises for learning consumer s demand and desire.


The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie (DGE) cordially welcomes all participants at the M icroscopy Conference2003in Dresden, Germany, held from September 7 th to 12, 2003. The MC2003 is the 31 st Conference of the DGE, whose predecessors were organized as national conferences, or, together with some microscopy societies of our neighbouring countries, as "Dreiländertagungen" ("three-countries conferences"). In face of the increasing internationality of our scientific work with a great number of international cooperations, the board of the DGE has decided to establish in 2003 a conference with a truly international character. Therefore, an International Scientific Advisory Board composed of distinct microscopists from 8 national Microscopy Societies, namely of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Switzerland, was actively involved in the preparation of the scientific programme. A further step of qualitative improvement was taken by the board of the DGE. Instead of the former conference booklets containing very short abstracts, now proceedings with more informative two-page abstracts are edited in this special issue of MICROSCOPY and MICROANALYSIS . The programme of MC2003 is not restricted to Electron Microscopy, but it also includes other modern microscopical and microanalytical methods, such as Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, Fluorescence Light Microscopy, Scanning Probe Microscopy as well as X-ray Microanalysis. The conference covers various aspects of most advanced instrumentation and methods, as well as applications in materials and life science. Approximately 280 scientific contributions are presented by participants from more than 30 countries all over the world. 8 Plenary Talkspresented by distinct scientists from different countries cover subjects of interest for the whole interdisciplinary community on a common level of understanding.21 Sessionsin the fields of instrumentation and methods as well as applications in materials and life science focus on highly specialized and dedicated topics. Furthermore, in 8 Workshopsproblems and possible solutions are discussed in detail between experienced scientists, also meant to teach newcomers in the respective fields. 40 Industrial Partnershave agreed to contribute to the exhibition hence give us an excellent overview about their newest developments. We thank all authors and chairmen for their contributions making the Microscopy Conference MC2003 a successful and pleasant event for all participants. Furthermore, we are grateful to the International Scientific Advisory Board and to the Organizing Committee for their exemplary efforts for a most interesting MC2003. Special thanks go to our host, the Technical University of Dresden, for offering the newly built Lecture Hall Centre as a wonderful conference venue, and to the Local Organizing Committee for managing all local affairs. To offer an affordable conference at highest quality and convenience, generous financial support has been donated by the MC2003-sponsors, subsequently listed as Sustaining Members. Last but not least, we are greatly indebted to LEO company for substantial financial support of this special issue of MICROSCOPY and MICROANALYSIS . We wish you an exciting MC2003. After days of hard work, don't forget to enjoy the marvellous city of Dresden.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate the health promoting group format intervention program we created and implemented. The program was named ACT BEFORE, and is based on Acceptance Commitment ...


Diaphragm is the key component of diaphragm pump.Diaphragm travel control has great influence on the service life of diaphragms.This paper makes analysis on the diaphragm travel by finite element method,also compares with experimental results.The conclusion of finite element analysis inosculates with the experimental results basically.It provides a finite element method for design and production of diaphragm travel,which has a certain engineering application value.


Binding force in the form of spring force binds two adjacent spherical grains and based on this interaction various structures of composite particles can be constructed. In this work only composite particles up to N = 4 are discussed, where N is number of spherical grains in a composite particle, and the forms are limited to the two-dimensional cases only. There is only one structure of composite particle for each value of N for 1 < N ≤ 2. For N = 3 there are five structures and for N = 4 there are fifteen structures. Between spherical grains from different composite particles only two types of force are considered. The first is a long-range attractive force in the form of gravitation force and the last is a short-range repulsion force in the form of normal force. The first type of force will help the aggregation process, while the second will prevent two spherical grains to collapse into a single grain due to the first. It is observed that the time required to produce the compact aggregate or T is dependent on N, where larger N makes larger T.


Introduction: VO2max is one of method to measured cardiorespiratory fitness. Low cardiorespiratory fitness becomes one of the factors that cause heart disease. There are factors related to fitness, including nutritional status and physical activity. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between nutritional status and physical activity with VO2max at employess of Aisyah University of Pringsewu in 2021. Method: The design of this study used Cross Sectional. The number of samples was 78 consist of 30 men and 48 women with an average age of 30.81 ± 6.58 years. Cardiorespiratory fitness was measured by using 20-Meters Shuttle Run Test. Result: The results of statistical analysis showed that there was a significant correlation between nutritional status and VO2max (p<0.05) and other test results showed that there was a significant correlation between physical activity and VOmax (p<0.05 ). Conclusion: In conclusion, both nutritional status and physical activity have a significant correlation with the vo2max in employees. Employees with lower Body Mass Index (Nutritional Status) and higher physical activity have better VO2max.


Three populations of beans were screened for resistance to white mold using a mycelium/juvenile stem inoculation (JSI) method on 3-week-old plants and an ascospore/blossom test on plants in bloom was used to test resistance of survivors of the JSI test. There were few survivors in the JSI test: 0.8% in the 4-way cross of susceptible × susceptible, 2% in the intermediate × intermediate crosses and 3.8% in 10 P. coccineus lines with intermediate resistance. JSI tests of the progeny produced more survivors, 17% from the first 2 populations. There was good agreement between the JSI test on juvenile plants and the ascospore/blossom tests on blossoming plants respectively. The JSI test appears to he an efficient method with which to identify individual plants with moderate resistance.


Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) are the most effective method of birth control for long-term period of time. The IUD, Implant, MOW and MOP are some of the LARCs example. Thi study aims to investigate the correlation of knowledge levels of the female acceptors of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) and their participation in becoming LARCs' acceptors with analytical survey using a cross sectional approach study design. The population of this study was 147 people and further through simple random sampling, 62 respondents were selected as the sample. The research was held from February to July 2018 at Kelurahan Ngal of Karimun. As the data collection instrument, questions were utilized, then the data was analyzed using Chi-Square statistical test. The result of the study concerning the age, education, number of children and type of contraception of the respondents, 38 people (61.3%) have poor knowledge about the LARCs, The active acceptors of LARCs family planning in Kelurahan Ngal is noted to be the lowest participation since only 13 respondents (0.01%), On the other hand, Chi-Square test at significant level of α = 0.05 obtains p value = 0.026 meaning that there is a significant correlation between female acceptors' knowledge about LARCs and their involvement in becoming active acceptors of LARCs. The Communication, Information, and Education on family planning, whereas, the availability of costs and services and means of transportation were addressed as the problems. Finally, it is hoped for the health workers to be able to improve family planning counseling as well as qualify and trustworthy service to all people, particularly female contraceptive acceptors about the LARCs.


Taking specific project as an example,according to pile foundation caps cracks distribution and cracks form,combining with the main influence factors of concrete cracks,this paper analyzed the pile foundation caps cracks causes of the project,and put forward suggestions for improvement.


Article history: Received November 4 2015 Received in Revised Format February 21 2016 Accepted March 21 2016 Available online March 22 2016 This paper presents a mathematical model for scheduling of a single machine when there are preemptions in jobs. The primary objective of the study is to minimize different objectives such as earliness, tardiness and work in process. The proposed mathematical problem is considered as NP-Hard and the optimal solution is available for small scale problems. Therefore, a genetic algorithm (GA) is developed to solve the problem for large-scale problems. The implementation of the proposed model is compared with GA for problems with up to 50 jobs using three methods of roulette wheel sampling, random sampling and competition sampling. The results have indicated that competition sampling has reached optimal solutions for small scale problems and it could obtain better near-optimal solutions in relatively lower running time compared with other sampling methods. © 2016 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved


We derive an expression for the current in a quantum-dot turnstile device in the lowest order of tunnel processes. The electrochemical potential µ in the quantum dot is determined from the current continuity across both barriers. By the use of the adiabatic approximation, the quantized current plateaus in the I - V curve are obtained for the device with symmetric barriers oscillating with a phase difference π. We find that both the height and the position of the steps change as the gate voltage is varied. We also show how the current and the electron number in a quantum dot vary as a function of time.


<Book Reviews>Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia MELY CABALLERO-ANTHONY, YOUNGHO CHANG, and NUR AZHA PUTRA, eds. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, ix+121p. / Human Security: Securing East Asia's Future BENNY TEH CHENG GUAN, ed. Dordrecht and New York: Springer, 2012, xiii+255p. Author(s) Chen, Kai Citation Southeast Asian Studies (2014), 3(1): 207-211 Issue Date 2014-04 URL http://hdl.handle.net/2433/187138 Right Type Departmental Bulletin Paper Textversion publisher


This study analyzes the application of non-tariff measures (NTM) in Indonesian horticultural exports to the ASEAN +3 countries. This study is based on the use of NTM that are increasingly used by every country in the world. Sanitary and Phitosanitary (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) are the most common barriers in trade. This study used descriptive analysis to describe the performance of Indonesian horticultural exports to the ASEAN +3 countries. Indonesian horticultural exports are compared with a number of NTM in the application of export destinations. The result obtained from this study is that almost all horticultural export destinations in the ASEAN +3 impose NTM in horticultural products. Singapore is a country that does implement the NTM Horticulture products, and that's why Indonesia does export a lot to Singapore.


: Ecohydrological modelling is a powerful tool to assess wetland evolution under changes in management or climatic conditions resulting from global warming. The physically-based models show promise in predicting evolution under situations that have not been experienced in the past, as they don't exclusively rely on observations. Modelling and optimisation of management measures in wetland systems require a focus on the scales of ecohydrological relevance (patch scale) dictated by the dynamics of vegetation. Vegetation dynamics at the patch scale can be incorporated into traditional hydrological and hydraulic models using vegetation response models. The development of vegetation response models can be achieved by a combination of remote sensing observations and hydrological/hydraulic models that provide the watering conditions. Vegetation dynamics is sometimes characterised by deterioration and other times by transition to a different vegetation type. We present applications of our approach to a dryland wetlands using numerical models and remote sensing data. Our focus is on the long-term evolution of these systems under climate change and climate variability conditions, so our models have to be able to capture short-term (intra annual variability) and long-term (climate change) processes. They also have to be able to assess uncertainty in our predictions. Our application site is the Macquarie Marshes, a dryland wetland in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. Environmental water is indispensable for promoting and maintaining environmental assets in the Macquarie Valley, with releases from Burrendong Dam supplying water to the Ramsar listed Macquarie Marshes. Management decisions tools are necessary to analyze impacts of environmental water at a catchment scale and are critical to preserve ecosystems services under future uncertainties of climate variability and change. Models of wetland inundation and vegetation response are developed and tested using observations from a 30-year period that included drought and flood conditions and then applied to assess the evolution of the wetland under different scenarios of management and climate variability and change.


Global demand for electricity is growing during a time of significant structural change in electric markets. Many countries are creating more competitive markets for power production and sales through regulation and ownership structure. Governments are reducing monopolies, enhancing competition and unbundling electricity services. Equipment suppliers, developers, and service providers are expanding into the global market. Meeting future electric energy needs has forced the power community to examine alternatives to Greenfield Development. Repowering existing facilities to gain a competitive advantage is a promising option. Repowering has the potential to offer increased capacity, heat rate reductions, and improved environmental profiles in a manner consistent with an asset and capital deployment rationalization strategy that appears to characterize the future of the power industry. It is also a defensive strategy for extending the life of existing assets. The breadth of repowering options continues to expand as technologies are introduced to increase plant capacities, efficiencies or both. Some options such as feedwater heater repowering appear to offer advantages to repowering with biomass fuels as an alternative to natural gas projects. By repowering solid fueled facilities, developed and developing countries can receive multiple benefits. Most developing countries are largely agrarian with traditional policies that have reliedmore » on trickle-down rural development. By turning agricultural and forestry by-products into commodities, farmers and foresters can benefit from a sustainable source of income. As power demand and biomass requirements are expanded to a regional scale, the government can reduce some agricultural subsidies and shift that money to other economically and socially beneficial programs. Furthermore, rural development can minimize rural-to-urban flight and thus lessen the strain on already overburdened urban infrastructure.« less


During the last decade p ower system have been equipped with complex components such as Distribution Static Var Compensators (D-SVCs). These components have introduced new possibilities to control power systems, D-SVCs can almost continuously change the amount of reactive power from capacitor banks. The behavior of these new components is different from 'old' technologies since they contain power electronics and detailed representations of them are non-linear. Due to their complexity they are difficult also to simulate. When studying power systems including such components, the analyzer must decide whether it is necessary to include a detailed model of them or not, i.e. to represent each event that takes place, or ignore them. In this paper, the load flow models for the static Var compensator distribution (D-SVC) are presented. These models are incorporated into existing load flow harmonic (LFH). The models of the D-SVC are based instead on the variable shunt susceptance concept. The D- SVC state variables are combined with the bus voltage magnitudes and angles of the network. Two examples are examined in the principal content of this paper; both of them contain nonlinear loads. Conclusion is made concerning the application of harmonic power flow studies.


—This paper proposes an intelligent fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy to tackle the trajectory tracking problem of an underwater vehicle (UV) under thruster damage (power loss) cases and meanwhile resolve the actuator saturation brought by the vehicle's physical constraints. In the proposed control strategy, the trajectory tracking component is formed by a refined backstepping algorithm that controls the velocity variation and a sliding mode control deducts the torque/force outputs; the fault-tolerant component is established based on a Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA), which provides fast convergence speed as well as satisfactory accuracy of deducting optimized reallocation of the thruster forces to compensate for the power loss in different fault cases. Simulations with or without environmental perturbations under different fault cases and comparisons to other traditional FTCs are presented, thus verifying the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed GOA-based fault-tolerant trajectory tracking design. Note to Practitioners: This paper is motivated by the actuator saturation problem that exists in the trajectory tracking of an underwater vehicle (UV) when encountering power loss of the thruster system. The fault-tolerance trajectory tracking performance is affected by physical constraints of the vehicle when using the traditional methods as they may deduct excessive kinematic/dynamic requirements during the control process, thus inducing the deviation of the tracking trajectory. Therefore, the refined backstepping as well as the grasshopper optimization (GOA) are combined to eliminate the excess, where the refined backstepping is used to alleviate the speed jumps (kinematic outputs) and the GOA is to control the propulsion forces (dynamic outputs) when facing thruster fault cases. This innovates the industrial practitioners that the control design of the vehicle can be improved to avoid the tracking deviation brought by unsatisfied driving commands under fault cases through embedding optimization algorithms. Moreover, for the specific type of UV studied in this paper used for dam detection, simulations regarding practical dam detection such as the 3D polygonal line trajectory tracking and the frequently occurring UV single-fault cases are chosen, which can serve as references for practitioners working in the related field. In the future, underwater experiments of the UV will be investigated, with more effects of the practical environment involved.


We use the kinetic theory of nucleation to explore the properties of dust nucleation in sub-saturated vapors. Due to radiation losses, the sub-critical clusters have a smaller temperature compared to their vapor. This alters the dynamical balance between attachment and detachment of monomers, allowing for stable nucleation of grains in vapors that are sub-saturated for their temperature. We find this effect particularly important at low densities and in the absence of a strong background radiation field. We find new conditions for stable nucleation in the n-T phase diagram. The nucleation in the non-LTE regions is likely to be at much slower rate than in the super-saturated vapors. We evaluate the nucleation rate, warning the reader that it does depend on poorly substantiated properties of the macro-molecules assumed in the computation. On the other hand, the conditions for nucleation depend only on the properties of the large stable grains and are more robust. We finally point out that this mechanism may be relevant in the early universe as an initial dust pollution mechanism, since once the interstellar medium is polluted with dust, mantle growth is likely to be dominant over non-LTE nucleation in the diffuse medium.


This paper focuses on the 'Northern Quarter', a part of central Manchester which has experienced mixed fortunes over the last thirty years. Historically a thriving commercial district, it suffered a period of economic, cultural and environmental decline in the 1970s and early 1980s. However, since the mid-1980s small businesses connected with pop and youth culture have been established. Explanations for this pattern of development are explored. In particular, attention is paid to sectoral clustering, the importance of place, grass roots regeneration and the threat of gentrification.


This paper analyzes the demographic evolution in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
in the last decades and tries to establish the relationship between this dynamic
and the growth of the economically active population (PEA), emphasizing the
behavior of rural population and labor in agriculture. From the analysis of
demographic dynamics, we discuss the localization of expulsion origins,
pointing out that these origins are located in areas where private establishments
are predominant. We conclude that the reduction of rural population is caused
by the expulsion of people employed in agricultural activities and that this
process occurs in the non-metropolitan region, in rural areas where crops
such as maize, soybeans and tobacco predominate.


ABSTRACT Atherosclerosis is a complex condition that begins during the breastfeeding period and is influenced by lifestyle and genetic factors. The lipid profile must be carefully monitored in children belonging to risk groups, since its modifications are a factor that predicts the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). This study aimed to make a comparative analysis of data from serial measurements of total serum cholesterol (TC) and its fractions (high density lipoprotein (HDL), low density lipoprotein (LDL), very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and non-HDL cholesterol) and triglycerides (TG) in patients from the cardiology unit to the data of a control group and to assess the correlations with body weight, body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure. The study cohort included 80 hospitalized patients with CVD and a control group of 84 subjects belonging to groups considered healthy. Patients with dyslipidemia were mainly from urban areas and had a family history of CVD. Significant differences (P < 0.05) were observed between the two groups in terms of body weight, BMI, TC with its fractions, TG and systolic blood pressure values. In the study group, the mean values of the lipid profile parameters were normal to high for non-HDL and TC, normal to low for HDL and high for TG. This study suggests that the lipid parameters must be carefully monitored beginning from the age of 2 years to facilitate early diagnosis of any imbalances that cause atherosclerosis and take appropriate preventive measures against related diseases that may arise from an early age.


Introduction: To this day, COVID-19 still cause high mortality and morbidity in most cases. The severity of COVID-19 can be detected by simple tests such as complete blood counts which available in most health facilities. Through early detection of the estimated severity of COVID-19, we may determine which patients need hospitalization or patients sufficient with self-isolation.

Methods: We conduct an analytical, cross-sectional, retrospective study that analyzed the hematological parameters of 97 patients with positive rRT-PCR swabs in the period of March to August 2020. Hematologic parameters of COVID 19 patients with mild and moderate-severe symptoms were compared. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, area under the curve (AUC), and Youden's index were created to determine the optimal cut-off value in predicting the degree of severity of COVID-19 patients.
Results: Statistically significant differences (p <0.05) were found in the hematological parameters of neutrophils, NLR, PLR, MLR, ALC, lymphocyte, eosinophil, SGOT, SGPT, CRP, and calcium. SGPT parameter had the highest sensitivity value (94.4%), MLR had the highest specificity value (84.5%), and Hs-CRP had the highest AUC value (AUC 0.789).
Conclusion: Certain hematological parameters may assist in early detection of the severity of a COVID-19 patient. Our findings may be useful to determine whether the patient requires hospitalization or self-isolation.


Two forest species "Acacia arabica and Acacia raddiana" originating Ahaggar (W. Tamanrasset) is a bioresource containing several active compounds such as oils and tocopherols which require special incentive for their development and preservation. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the phytochemical potential by GC and HPLC oils seeds of both species , as well as highlighting their antioxidant power test DPPH ° (1,1- diphenyl- 2- pycryhydrazyl). The results obtained show that the yields of the extracted seeds by petroleum ether oils range from 12 % and 9 % for A. arabica and A. raddiana. The physicochemical parameters corresponding to standard vegetable oils. GPC revealed that these oils are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids Omega 6 and Omega 9 (74,58, 79,58 %) with a predominance of linoleic acid (C18: 2). In addition, HPLC showed the oils elevate levels of tocopherols (vitamin E) varying respectively from 71.47 ± 1.32 and 86.49 ± 0.34 mg/100g oil for A. arabica and A. raddiana. The chemical composition of oils exerted a strong antioxidant activity at low concentrations (EC50: 0.13 and 0.06 mg AO / ml DPPH), which have reduced 50% free radical DPPH ° on DPPHH with a time of Average reaction (24 and 27 min). From these results it appears that the phytochemicals and their antioxidant properties of these oils can be interesting to research opportunities for rational exploitation.


Felix et al. Anesthesiology 2019; 130:767–77 777 maneuvers modulate epithelial and endothelial cell response according to acute lung injury etiology. Crit Care Med 2013; 41:e256–65 45. Gattinoni L, Tonetti T, Cressoni M, Cadringher P, Herrmann P, Moerer O, Protti A, Gotti M, Chiurazzi C, Carlesso E, Chiumello D, Quintel M: Ventilatorrelated causes of lung injury: The mechanical power. Intensive Care Med 2016; 42:1567–75 46. Vlahakis NE, Schroeder MA, Pagano RE, Hubmayr RD: Deformation-induced lipid trafficking in alveolar epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2001; 280:L938–46 47. Cong X, Hubmayr RD, Li C, Zhao X: Plasma membrane wounding and repair in pulmonary diseases. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2017; 312:L371–91


It is well known that the effects of some drugs in old animals quite differ from those in young animals. For example, Farner and Verzar (1) observed that the action of amphetamine to increase moter activity was more marked in young rats than in old rats and the action of hexobarbital to antagonized against the amphetamine action was more effective in old rats than in young rats. Moreover, the duration of hexobarbital anesthesia was longer in old rats than in young rats (2). Similarly, Petty and Karler (3) observed that anticonvulsive activity of acetazolamide and phenobarbital was more marked in old rats than in young rats. However, there is no study on the mechanism of such altered drug response in relation to the rate of drug metabolism. In a previous paper it was reported from our laboratory that the activities in the oxidation and reduction of drugs and NADPH-linked electron transport system in liver microsomes of male and female rats were progressively decreased with aging (4). It is, therefore, of interest to investigate whether or not the metabolism in vivo of various drugs is decreased in old rats in accordance with the decrease in the metabolic activities of liver microsomes observed in the in vitro experiments. Moreover, the relationship between the effects of drugs and the rate of in vivo metabolism of drugs in the old rats was studied.


Introduction Discussions on geographical indications (GIs) in Africa have increased due to a belief that Africa has unique and diverse natural resources and cultures that facilitate production of food products with GI qualities (Addor et. al., 2003;Nyaga. 2004). To cement this dialogue, the African Regional Intellectual Property Office (ARIPO) and the European Commission's DG AGRIculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) has agreed to improve the protection of traditional agricultural products in Africa (EU press release, 2012). A GI is defined in Article 22 of TRIPS (TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). as, indications which identify a good as originating in the territory of a Member, or a region or locality in that territory, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the good is essentially attributable to its geographical origin,". Appiah, (2011) mentions that GIs increase producers ́ premium and enhance valorization. Over 54 billion Euros was contributed to the EU in 2010 through the sale of GI products (EC, 2014). In the case of the only GI registered honey in Africa, the price of Oku White Honey of Cameroon, jumped approx. from 3.0 USD to 7.0 USD per liter after registration in 2013, and is estimated to contribute between FCFA 30-40 million (52,000-70000,USD) to the local economy p.a. (Bainkong, 2014). Honey production, is largely practiced by crop farmers in Ghana as an alternative income generating activity and is contributing to improved livelihoods (Akangaamkum et al., 2010). An estimated 26,500 people are involved in the beekeeping in Ghana, of which 4,400 are employed workers and 22,100 are producers with an average of 5 beehives each (Akangaamkum et al., 2010). These honey producers (mainly smallholder farmers) own the beehives and represents the stewards of pollination within their crop landscapes, native habitats and flora (Akangaamkum et al., 2010). Though the extent of pollinator decline is not documented yet in Ghana, Kwapong (2014) mentions that the agro-ecological environment is challenged by illegal logging, improper mining, negative agricultural activities, deforestation, overuse of pesticides and wild fires. According to Ritter and Kleinschmit (2014) pollinator decline is a global challenge with hundreds of species on the verge of extinction, and reported to be caused by many interrelated factors including pesticide exposure, habitat loss and disease. Pollination is essential for food production and estimated to value US$ 190 billion/year globally (Gallai et al., 2009). Bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) including managed honeybees (Apis mellifera) are the primary pollinators for most of the crops requiring animal pollination (Delaplane and Mayer, 2000; Klein et al., 2007; Winfree et al., 2011). In developing countries where harvesting and commercialization of biological resources remains largely nondifferentiated by brand names or other consumer-oriented indications, GIs may serve as a tool for legally regulating harvesting practices and promote rational land use strategies that relate directly to in situ conservation of biological diversity (Larson Guerra, 2004). Ghana developed a GI ACT, in 2003 (ACT 659) but it is currently under a review and not yet enacted. This study aims (1) identify geographical regions in Ghana with quality honey production with potential for GI protection and (2) assess the possibility of conserving local pollinators and improve land use management using GI honeys.


An assortment offered by a marketing system can be defined as a set of separable or distinguishable products, services, experiences and ideas, or aggregates thereof, assembled in response to or anticipation of customer demand. As marketing systems form and grow, assortment diversity often increases, raising concerns about excessive or inadequate customer choice. Changing assortment diversity may also point to deeper issues of emerging dominance and inequality, to concerns about marketing system resilience in the face of environmental turbulence, and to issues of access to vulnerable segments. After highlighting the contribution of Alderson in emphasising diversity in buyer and seller heterogeneity, we note the differences between offered, accessible, desired, acquired and accumulated assortments, and the difficulties in establishing categories or types in the measurement of assortment. Variety, disparity, balance, and association are identified as providing measures of assortment diversity. We then considers the ways in which such measures may be pointers to underlying marketing system characteristics, including the offer of too much or too little choice, problems of stability in the face of external or internal change, system resilience or capacity to adapt to change, and issues around assortment and quality of life. We conclude with suggestions as to further research into assortment diversity and marketing system characteristics.


This research attempts to demonstrate that there are deficiencies in Ecuador regarding the protection of political rights, since access to the jurisdictional guarantees established in the Constitution is limited, as regards the protection action and the extraordinary protection action, when Electoral acts of the National Electoral Council or judgments of the Electoral Contentious Court are contested at the time of elections, so this reveals that there isn´t a real electoral protection with constitutional criteria which effectively protects political rights. In order to fulfill this objective, this investigation work will be supported by the study of the constitutional norm and the pertinent organic laws; the specialized literature, and, in the analysis of law about electoral justice in the legislations of Costa Rica, Spain and Mexico; to finally reveal the deficiencies of the Ecuadorian electoral justice in terms of the protection of political rights. It is established that, in Ecuador, there is not an effective, fast and adequate judicial protection resource regarding electoral matters, as established in the American Human Rights Convention, specifically in its 25 article.


The free anthraquinone of cassia seed tea were extracted with water or different ethanol water solution by ultrasonic or reflux. The free anthraquinone contents were detected with absorption spectrophotometer in511 nm by using MgAc2-MeOH method. The antioxidant activity of the extracts was measured by using FRAP method.We found the free anthraquinone were detected in all of the extracts. The free anthraquinone content in water extract by reflux was 0.080 1 %, which was the lowest content. And that in 55 % ethanol water solution extract by ultrasonic was 0.67%, which was the highest content. The ferric reduction antioxidant power of the 55%ethanol water solution extracts was 2.14 mmol/g, which was the highest value. That of the water extract by ultrasonic was 1.08 mmol/g, which was the lowest value.


As for the water motion in the upper layer of the ocean, there are two kinds of the water ∞ows. These two ∞ows are known as \geostrophic current" as a part of ocean circulation and \currents" found around an ocean front which Could be an evolution of a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the fleld of physical ocean science. In this work, an outline Of these two ∞ows is introduced in relation to the existing satellite monitoring of the earth surface. A brief review note is given for helping a dynamical understanding of these historical backgrounds with the striking pattern found alter the observation during the oceanographic expeditions in the early age of the ocean science. After a review of the two ∞ows in the ocean, it might be found a key to introduce the existing satellite monitoring in order to promote research works on the motions of the ocean ∞ows as inertia motion in a global scale with a polar orbital path.


We present a system for fast chirp-transform spectrum analysis for spectrum monitoring of frequency hopped spread spectrum signals or for spectrometry in chemistry etc. An elastic SAW convolver is used for fast realtime signal processing with high time-bandwidth product (TB). Using a convolver with TB=2650 we achieve a resolution of 125 kHz over 80 MHz bandwidth. The implementation of the presented system required some new concepts for the generation of the RF signals and weighting. The system showed satisfactory performance over a wide range of realtime signal analysis applications.


L et R be a Noetherian, integral domain which is also an algebra overQ (Q is the field of rational numbers). Letbe an automorphism of R anda �-derivation of R. A ring R is called a (�,�)-ring if a(�(a)+�(a))∈ P(R) implies that a∈ P(R) for a∈ R, where P(R) is the prime radical of R. We prove that R is 2-primal if �(P(R))⊆ P(R). We also study the property of minimal prime ideals of R and prove the following in this direction: Let R be a Noetherian, integral domain which is also an algebra overQ. Letbe an automorphism of R anda �-derivation of R such that R is a(�,�)-ring. If P∈ Min.Spec(R) is such that �(P) = P, then �(P)⊆ P. Further if �(P(R))⊆ P(R), then P(x;�,�) is a completely prime ideal of R(x;�,�). 2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 16-XX, 16W20, 16P40, 16S50


Diffusion rate of biologically important electrolytes through parchment-supported silver chloride membrane have been determined by the use of Nernst-Planck equation at various temperatures taking into account membrane resistance Rm, membrane potential Em, etc. The diffusion rates were found to be primarily dependent upon the difference in the hydration energies of the counterion in the external solution. On the basis of Eisenman-Sherry theory the diffusion rate sequence of alkali metal cations point towards the weak field strengths of the fixed charge groups. The various thermodynamic parameters, namely, ΔH‡, ΔF‡, and ΔS‡ were evaluated. The values of ΔS‡ found to be negative, indicating that the diffusion is taking place with partial immobilization in the membrane phase. A formal relation between ΔHhydration, ΔFhydration, and ΔShydration of cations with the corresponding values of ΔH‡, ΔF‡, and ΔS‡ for diffusion was also found to exist for the investigated system.


Abstract Urban planning and development have long been at the forefront of official efforts in Belfast to project an image of the possibility and incipient reality of a more normal city and society. This article revisits the continuing difficulties associated with government supported attempts to reimage and represent through development what has now been called the 'post-conflict' city. The argument is made that competing symbolic cultural endowments of space, which construct 'Belfast' in spatial imagination, still leave scant non-controversial representational resources for official place promotion. The use of the legacy of the Belfast built Titanic to fill this vacuum by branding 'post-conflict' space is explored and the conclusion reached that this is too heavy a cargo for a ship already doomed-once. Meanwhile, on what is arguably the major representational battlefield of cultures in Northern Ireland—the Maze Prison on Belfast's doorstep—the true face of the post-conflict city is on public view. This gorilla as yet awaits an extreme make-over.


Introduction: Presently there are several options available to patients with acoustic tumors. Information concerning recurrences following treatment of acoustic tumors is important to the decision-making process and informed consent. A consecutive series of 540 patients with acoustic tumors who underwent resection as primary treatment were followed for a mean of 7.5 years. Results with regard to residual and recurrent tumors are reported and analyzed. Methods: In addition to maintaining a database (Microsoft Access) concerning this group of patients, additional follow-up visits, telephone questionnaires, correspondence from referring physicians, and 1-, 3-, and 6-year MRI scans were used to obtain results. Results: Of 540 patients analyzed, we were able to document 8 recurrent or residual tumors, 3 of which were re-resected. Conclusions: There continues to be a paucity of literature documenting the frequency of residual or recurrent tumors requiring treatment following attempted complete microsurgical resection. A low incidence of tumor recurrence was noted after successful microresection of acoustic tumors in this series. Enhancing lesions in the distal internal auditory canal (IAC) on MRI at 1 year postop are predictive of growing recurrent acoustic neuromas at 3 years. A negative MRI at 1 year postop is highly predictive of no recurrence at 3 and 6 years.


Abstract Server Clusters have become integral components to operate Internet Services and Scientific computation. With the growing use of cluster systems in web servers, file distribution and database transactions, power conservation and efficiency have been identified as critical issues in the design of server cluster systems. The server cluster electricity costs are of the order of $Billion annually. To reduce power consumption, a master in a server cluster should hibernate the idle servers following the pattern observed from the historical data. This technique saves energy that would have been consumed by the idle servers if not hibernated. This project focuses on finding patterns from historical data, decision logic to send a server to hibernation. The project source can be found at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/energy-awaremod/ © 2010 This material is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ for details


A technic is described whereby vertical dimension can be determined by the use of phonetics. The technic is simple, quick and accurate. The wax rims are reduced until the patient has sufficient room at the closest speaking level to satisfy the functional requirements of speech. The amount of clearance at the closest speaking level is determined by the requirements of the patient and the judgment of the operator. Once an acceptable vertical dimension has been established, it should be maintained throughout the balance of the procedures.


Biphenyl (H4BPTS) and bimesityl (H4BMTS) 3,3',5,5'-tetrasulfonic acids were prepared b y Ullmann type coupling reactions of respective cupra tes. The four sulfo groups were installed by nucleophilic displacement at respective tetrabromo biaryl derivatives with sodium isopropyl thiolate. The resulting thioether moieties were cle aved and subsequently oxidized to furnish the title compounds. The new acids H 4BPTS and H4BMTS were used for the preparation of their respective copper salts which allowed for the detai led structural inspection of the tetrasulfonate anions by X-ray methods.


Ing. Miroslav Kněžek, CSc., who worked at the TGM Water Research Institute, p.r.i., for almost four decades and who has contributed significantly to that the TGM WRI is respected authority in the field of hydrology and hydrogeology.


In this paper we make use of a case study comprising of an interaction between a service provider and a service requestor to determine the quality of service (QoS) provided by the service provider. The trustworthiness measurement methodology is made use of to carry out the QoS assessment. The steps involved in the trustworthiness measurement methodology are discussed and illustrated by demonstrating the working of trustworthiness measurement methodology software that we have engineered.


Abstract Throughout the American West, private open lands are being converted to a human-dominated residential landscape. This conversion is the foremost threat to wildlife habitat. Pitkin County, Colorado, home to the City of Aspen, is an internationally known example of this land use change. In this article, we describe patterns of development in Pitkin County from the late 1800s through the 1990s. Using field data, we estimate the overall loss of songbird habitat due to two types of residential development, clustered and dispersed, and then examine the types of vegetation most affected. From these data we demonstrate that clustered development, in contrast to dispersed development, can reduce the impact of exurban residential development on wildlife habitat.


Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–60: Volume III, Microfiche Supplement, National Security Policy; Arms Control and Disarmament, Washington, DC: Department of State, 1998.


The article deals with the meanings of «strategic management accounting», «institution» and «institu-tional environment». According to the author, strategic management accounting should be understand as an independent institution.


Hypertensive Cerebrovascular Disease: Considered in Relation to Treatment with Hypotensive Drugs, by R. M. Douglas 525 Gonadal Dysgenesis: 13 Cases from a Single Prediatric Practice, by Elizabeth K. Turner .. 533 Some Thoughts on the Vulnerability of the Developing Brain, by D. W. H. Arnott .. 539 Indomethacin, Remarkable Antirheumatic Drug, by Michael Kelly 541 Psychiatric Hospital Unit for the Treatment of Schizophrenics, by Fabian Bryant 544


Experimental measurements of the dynamics of the collisions between N2 van der Waals clusters and metallic surfaces are discussed. Large N2 van der Waals clusters are formed by high pressure nozzle expansions of pure N2 and N2 seeded in helium. Angular distributions and rotational energy distributions of the fragments of these clusters resulting from impact with well characterized silver and iron surfaces were obtained using electron beam induced fluorescence. Angular distributions were characterized by tangent shifted scattering lobes, and rotational energies which are largest at the surface normal. The dependence of the angular distributions on N2 fraction in the seeded beam, expansion backing pressure, and surface structure, composition, and temperatures were investigated.


Prior leaving Indonesia for the 5th International Mission in Art and Culture in Switzerland and Ireland, the Student Choir (PSM) of IPB "AgriaSwara" (PSM AgriaSwara-IPB) held a precompetitionconcert"La Gloriosa Aventura", on Friday, 12 April 2014, on DRAMAGA Campus, Bogor. Supervisor of PSM-IPBAgriaSwara, Dr. DVM. H. AgusLelana, M.Si, in his remarks stated, "In this pre-departure concert, we appeal that all the university community will support and pray that God will bless the team special mission. Hopefully PSM-IPBAgriaSwarawill compete successfully and promote the IPB alma mater".


Background: Extremely low birth weight infants (ELBWI) have a high risk for cognitive dysfunction.Objective: To characterize neuropsychological disabilities at preschool age.Methods: In a national cohort of all ELBWI survivors, n= 203 (mean;SD: 27.3;2.1 gestational weeks, GW, birth weight 806g;136 g) born in Finland in 1996–1997, 156 children were assessed at age five with neuropsychological test, the NEPSY. Mean scores were calculated from the following domains: attention and executive function (Auditory Attention, Statue), language (Phonological Processing, Comprehension of Instructions, Speeded Naming), sensorimotor function (Imitating Hand Positions, Visuomotor Precision, Manual Motor Sequences), visuospatial perception (Design Copying, Block Construction), and memory and learning (Memory for Names, Narrative Memory, Sentence Repetition). The normal population mean test score is 10+/−3 SD.Results: In the visuospatial main domain 84 children (54%) had a mean test score below the normal average (equal or less than 7=-1SD); in sensorimotor domain 78 children (50%); and in attention domain 72 children (47%); in language domain 45 children (29%); and in memory and learning domain 48 (31%). In the cohort, the means of subtests poorly performed were: design copying (mean score 6.4), auditory attention (mean 6,6), imitating hand positions (mean 6.8) and visuomotor precision (mean 6.9). Males performed significantly (P<.05) worse than females in attention and sensorimotor tasks. The means of attention and language tasks were lower (P<.05) in children born <27 GW compared to children born after 27 GW. In 20 children (13%) with cerebral palsy, the attention domain (P=.001), the sensorimotor scores (P=.002) and the visuospatial perception (P<.001) were lower than in non-CP cases.Conclusions: Impairments of visuospatial, sensorimotor and attention functions were common in ELBW children. Visual perception and motor dysfunction were associated, which may reflect the vulnerability of the visual and motor nerve pathways located close to each other.


Simple animated presentations, both interactive and
non-interactive, that cover various fields of propositional,
predicate and modal logic. The animations are implemented in
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"The Effects of Climate Change on Poultry Production in California" Sarai Acosta, Junior Specialist with Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis and Maurice Pitesky With the changing climate, significant efforts have been dedicated toward understanding and planning for the effects of climate change on California's crop production. However, far less attention has been focused on adaptation to climate change for California's livestock and poultry industries. Due to the interdependencies between livestock, poultry and crops with respect to animal feed, bedding material and nitrogenous soil amendments, a better understanding of the effects of climate change on California's livestock and poultry industry is vital. For instance, changes in crop production can also affect food safety. As an example, with respect to California poultry production, the non-edible hull of rice is a common litter material used in cage free layer and broiler houses in California. Recent droughts in California have affected the states rice production and hence forced poultry farmers to recycle the rice hulls they use for each flock more often than desired. We identified a 11.08x (p < 0.05) increased risk of Salmonella in the poultry processing plant versus birds raised on fresh litter material when rice hulls were recycled three times versus using fresh rice hulls.


The key comparison CCQM-K68.2019 was aimed at evaluating the level of comparability of laboratories' capabilities for preparing nitrous oxide in air primary reference mixtures at ambient amount fractions, in the range 320 nmol mol−1 to 350 nmol mol−1. The comparison was coordinated by the BIPM and the KRISS. It consisted in the simultaneous comparison of a suite of 2n primary gas standards, two standards to be prepared by each of the n participating laboratories. Two independent analytical methods were used by the BIPM to analyse the amount fraction of N2O in air, namely Gas Chromatography with an Electron Capture Detector (GC−ECD) and Quantum Cascade Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (QCLAS). Since the circulation of the Draft A report in April 2021, four meetings took place with participants to discuss the mathematical treatment of the comparisons results, and several models were proposed. The model chosen by participants is the Bayesian Errors−In−Variables regression with shades of dark uncertainty. In this final report, the Key Comparison Reference Values were obtained with this model, with calculations performed by B Toman and A Possolo. The key comparison CCQM-K68.2019 is considered to present an analytical challenge and therefore classified as Track C comparison in the CCQM nomenclature. To reach the main text of this paper, click on Final Report. Note that this text is that which appears in Appendix B of the BIPM key comparison database https://www.bipm.org/kcdb/. The final report has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication by the CCQM, according to the provisions of the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement (CIPM MRA).


''Novel Findings Regarding Photoinduced Commitments of G1-, Sand G2-phase Cells to Cell-cycle Transitions in Darkness and Dark-induced G1-, Sand G2-phase Arrests in Euglena'' Shin-ya Hagiwara1, Masayuki Takahashi1, Akihiko Yamagishi1, Yulan Zhang2 and Ken Goto2 1Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and 2Laboratory of Biological Rhythms, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan


Let X be a transient right (Markov) process on a compact metric space including a death point. Let ji and vn be finite measures whose potentials satisfy A U 2 ... vnU 2 v1U. We prove that there exists a rightcontinuous stochastic process Y = (QX, Yt, Y, Q) that is a version of X with initial measure v.() = Q(Yo E ) and in which there are (Gi)-stopping times in I 0 with Q(Y(Gn) E ', En < o) = vn(s). Furthermore, a canonical representation of Y and (in) is given in which one has a better understanding of the tail behavior of the sequence in. Based on this representation an open question is posed whose answer in the positive would permit defining in X, assuming it admits a continuous real random variable independent of the path, decreasing stopping times Tn such that P"(X(Tn) E , Tn < ??) = vn(). These Tn would satisfy the Markov prop. erty Tn = Tn + 1 + Sn ? O(Tn + 1), Sn a stopping time linking vn and Vn + 1* Fitzsimmons has now proved the existence of a desired decreasing sequence Tn in X for any given ji and vn as above, using a very different approach. His Tn, however, do not satisfy the Markov property.


INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: A novel Super-Pulse Thulium Fiber laser has recently been developed and used for urolithiasis. The initial results show a better efficacy than conventional Holmium laser lithotripsy. The goal of our in-vitro study was to compare the temperature changes between activated High Power Holmium and Super-Pulse Thulium Fiber lasers. METHODS: A Super-Pulse Thulium fiber (SPTF) laser prototype with 200µm fibre and a High-Power Holmium (HPH) laser (Lumenis Pulse 120H) with 230µm fibre were used. An isothermal box was created and filled with saline (Fig. 1). The temperature of the saline was maintained constantly at 36.5°C using an automated pump which was able to control the pressure and temperature. A urinary tract silicone model was placed in the box with two temperature sensors, one placed within the saline inside the box and the other in the silicone model itself. A LithoVue single-use flexible ureteroscope was introduced through the silicone model without an UAS. Laser fibre tip was placed into a mid calix at 5 mm from the sensor. Laser was activated using different settings until the temperature reached 45°C or for maximum 10 minutes. Experiments were performed without irrigation, with saline irrigation at 40 cm H2O pressure at 20°C and 37°C temperature respectively. All tests were repeated five times. RESULTS: Our results showed the use of SPTF and HPH laser both caused the temperature to reach 45°C with power greater than 16W, especially when used without irrigation. The time taken (in minutes) to reach this temperature was higher for cooler irrigant fluids. With similar energy and frequency settings using both SPTF and HPH laser, no significant differences on temperature was noted for dusting, pop-dusting, fragmenting or pop-corning when using irrigation fluid at 20°C and 37°C (Table 1). On comparison to HPH laser, when similar power but a lower energy SPTF laser was used the later took longer time to reach 45°C although this was not statistically significant (Table 2) CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that both SPTF and HPH laser have similar temperature changes for all stone treatment settings. Figure. No caption available. Table. No title available. Table. No title available. Source of Funding: none


Purpose: Previously proposed approaches to mitigate the effect of internal motion in IMRT include motion‐correlated delivery (gating, tracking), and adaptive treatment plan optimization employing a probabilistic description of motion (pdf). We test "tumor trailing" strategy, utilizing the synergy of motion‐adaptive treatment planning and delivery methods. Methods: The target motion is a superposition of a "fast" cyclic component (respiratory) and "slow" aperiodic trends (exhale baseline drift). The trailing strategy employs real‐time motion monitoring to identify "slow" shifts, and corrects for these by applying set‐up (e.g., couch position) adjustments. Delivery does not track the target position exactly, but trails the slow systematic trend due to the delay between the time a shift occurs, is reliably detected and, subsequently, corrected. The "fast" cyclic motion is accounted for with robust motion‐adaptive treatment planning, which allows for variability in motion parameters [Chan et al. Phys. Med. Biol. 51:2567–83 (2006)]. Motion‐surrogate data from gated IMRT treatments were used to test algorithms that identified systematic shifts (based on observation of "running mean" position), and to provide pdf data for motion‐adaptive planning. Test IMRT fields were delivered on linac to a programmable moving phantom. Dose measurements were performed with a commercial two‐dimensional ion‐chamber array. Results: Detection of systematic shifts was possible with a delay of 12–15 seconds. Correcting for slow systematic shifts during delivery of motion‐adaptive plans led to improvement in dose uniformity, conformity to target (vs. standard). Conclusion: By reducing intrafractional pdf variability, trailing strategy enhances relevance and applicability of motion‐adaptive planning methods, improves conformity of delivered dose to the target in the presence of irregular motion. In combination with respiratory gating, trailing can increase the duty cycle, account for residual motion within the gating window. It requires relatively minor modifications to software, equipment already in place for respiratory‐gated treatments. Supported by NIH (5P01‐CA21239‐25), MIT, DKFZ grants.


The Christian experience called "dying to self" and involvement in secular psychotherapy have been described in some religious circles as mutually exclusive if not antagonistic. The present article suggests that this is not necessarily the case. Careful analysis of one historically significant description of the process of sanctification. Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio, reveals several procedures frequently found in contemporary therapeutic practice.


This research is part of Creative Economy Sub-Sector's Mapping and Cluste ring in Kendal Regency. The research aims to describe stakeholder understanding (refers to Kendal Regency Government) towards the creative economy concept using diffusion of innovation theory. The diffusion of innovation is used because Kendal Regency Government is still not familiar with the concept of the creative economy. This qualitative descriptive research used interviews, observation, FGD, and literature study as the method to gather data. Results showed that from 229 SME labeled with the creative economy by Youth, Sports, and Tourism Department, Kendal Regency only 66 of them that met Creative Economy Agency (Badan Ekonomi Kreatif- BEKRAF) criteria. This means that the officials' understanding of the concept of the creative economy is not yet comprehensive. The creative economy is essential to shape the image of the regency (city branding). On the other hand, Kendal Regency had a program to improve the image of the city as a form of smart branding. Smart Branding was a derivation of the Smart City Kendal master plan in 2018-202 8 . The lack of relevant data in the Kendal District Government showed that the desire to improve the image of the city had not been worked out effectively.


A method for assembling the wind turbine rotor (11) comprising the following steps: lifting and mounting the rotor hub (15) in the nacelle (21); lifting and mounting the rotor blades (25, 27, 29) on the hub (15) using a lifting device (17) cooperating with a capstan (19) on the ground, making the assembly of each blade after rotating the hub ( 15) to have its connecting part (25 ', 27', 29 ') with each blade (25, 27, 29) in front of it when it is high, being installed said lifting device (17) in a fixed position on the hub ( 15) and comprising in a preferred embodiment a bracket (31) mounted on the front section (16) of the hub and a hook block (33) mounted on said bracket (31) with a cable (35) connected to said winch (19 ). The invention also relates to a method of removing a rotor blade.


Low H2O concentrations preserved in the erupted products from the 2011-2012 eruption at Cordon Caulle, Chile, have limited its use as a recorder of the shallow degassing processes responsible for the observed hybrid activity. However, volatile trace element heterogeneity (e.g. Li, Pb, Tl) is observed in different textural domains (e.g. breccias, tuffisites), which each represent the competing processes of fracturing, gas fluxing and melt relaxation occurring at different locations within the upper conduit. Elemental depletions in tuffisite veins record scavenging of metals by the fluxing gas phase. Preserved concentration gradients indicate deep-conduit degassing events are short-lived (~minutes), whilst late-stage activity involves hours of gas venting from a single location. Later-erupted material is more degassed than earlier-erupted bombs indicating a progressive loss of volatiles with eruption duration. Combining in situ textural and volatile trace element analyses can constrain evolving degassing processes in systems that are depleted in H2O and CO2.


According to its working principle, the fore-end circuit in gravity gradiometer of rotating accelerometer can be divided into for four parts which are current amplifiers, adders, substracters and band-pass filters. In this paper, the method of evaluating the RTI(refer to input) noise of the gradiometer circuit is reduced. As the main noise source of the circuit system, the ultimate goal of the fore-end circuit design is lower noise. Then the relationship between the circuit gain and the op-amp noise specifications are studied to compare the minimum requirements with the accelerometer precision varying from 10-8g to 10-11g. The measure results of the developed circuit prove the rationality of the analysis.