The planning of reactive power compensation devices as part of the grid planning process is becoming increasingly important due to the decreasing reactive power reserves from conventional power plants. Planning such devices requires the consideration of the reactive power demand both during steady-state operation and disturbances as well as power flow shifts. To control the voltage in these scenarios, the location, rated power and technology of reactive power compensation devices must be identified. In this paper, a reactive power planning approach with a coupled determination of steady-state and dynamic reactive power demand is applied to a generic transmission system. The identification of the steady-state reactive power demand involves different characteristic grid use cases. The dynamic reactive power demand is determined via the analysis of critical power flow shifts within an hourly generation dispatch corresponding to the selected grid use cases. Power flow shifts leading to insufficient voltage stability reserves and high voltage gradients are considered in the reactive power planning. Results emphasize that the coupled determination of steady-state and dynamic reactive power demand identifies a suitable portfolio


This article considers some of the most relevant literature in business organisational studies and sports performance studies to see how we might apply work in these areas when training directors. While the protocols and practices are very different, business leaders and sports performance coaches are (like theatre directors) looking to manage creativity and teamwork, hoping to find inspired creative solutions to complex problems, and attempting to nurture the best possible performance from every team member. And while the success or failure of any performance will be judged against distinct criteria, the journey toward that success or failure will be determined largely by the ways in which a creative collaboration is led. Looking very specifically at the ways in which the communication between director and actor is determined by a specific leadership style, this article considers implied leadership styles that may be intuited in some contemporary books in theatre directing. Finally, a consideration of the theory of 'motivational interviewing' from a sports performance point of view suggests some possible ways forward.


The organizational climate or work environment is the perception that an employee holds over the set of characteristics of his work environment and the structures and processes of the organization where he works, and that influence his work behavior. The aim of this study was to improve the organizational climate in the "Escuela Fiscal Mixta Carlos Aguilar" located in Cumbaya; the sample was conformed by 27 people, 7 men and 20 women, who work in this educational institution.
The study began with the diagnosis of the organizational climate of the school. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews and a survey of work environment were conducted with the staff of the institution. It was determined that the factors to be improved were: interpersonal relationships and communication. Subsequently, the intervention was planned and it consisted in the implementation of group dynamics focused on strengthening interpersonal relationships and improving communication processes. Finally, the survey was re-applied to evaluate the efficacy of the intervention. The results clearly show the effectiveness of the intervention, as it managed to improve the organizational climate of the institution.


Objective To understand the relevant factors that affect the implementation of vasectomy in our county,in order to better promote men to participate in family planning. Methods Through self-making questionngaire interview, we interviewed 165 couples who had came to our station and had accepted male ligation,female ligation or get ready for ligation. Results There were only 8 men who agreed to accept ligation in women ligation group and preparation for surgery group, There were another 21 people may reluctantly agreed to accept the ligation surgery when his or her spouse can not be performed the operation. The total people was 29 , accounting for 26.36%. There were 35 women who could accept male ligation, accounting for 31.82%, It was more acceptable than men. The main relevant factors that affected the male ligation development were divided into objective and subjective factors. Conclusion In order to develop male ligation,we should enhance the propaganda, raise man awareness to participate in family planning, create a social environment and atmosphere that men positive involvement in family planning.Strengthen standardized training for family planning cadres and technical personnel, Improve the technical level,reduce the incidence of complications, Also suggested the government to formulate the preferential policies for the person who have experienced male ligation.


The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mixture of garlic, ginger and Chaya leaf (hereafter termed "Phytomix") at graded levels on the growth performance, haematological indices and serum biochemistry of pullet chicks fed corn-soybean-based diets. Six hundred, 1-day-old females of ISA Brown pullet chicks were assigned to five treatment groups, each group was replicated six times (20 birds in each). Birds were fed basal diet supplemented with Phytomix at different levels: 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0 g.kg-1 throughout the experimental period, which lasted for 56 days. Phytochemical screening revealed the presence of tannins, polyphenols, terpenes, saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids and cardiac glycosides in garlic, ginger and Chaya leaf, while the cyanides were found only in Chaya leaf. Highest quantities of bioactive substances were found in Chaya leaf followed by ginger and garlic. Pullet chicks, fed the diets supplemented with phytomix, had higher (P < 0.05) weight gain, reduced feed intake, better FCR and improved liveability when compared to the control diet. In addition, phytomix supplementation showed a linear improvement in growth performance of pullet chicks. Dietary phytomix inclusion significantly (P < 0.05) influenced the RBC and WBC of pullet chicks with highest values obtained in birds fed the diets containing 5.0 and 10.0 g.kg-1, respectively. Inclusion of phytomix in the diets of pullet chicks produced significant (P < 0.05) effect on all serum chemistry parameters measured, except creatinine and AST (P > 0.05). It was concluded that dietary phytomix supplementation up to 10.0 g.kg-1 had positive effect on growth performance and health status of pullet chicks.


IN NOVEMBER 2008, DURING THE FIRST ARMISTICE COMMEMORATIONS TO be held after the death of its last surviving veteran of the First World War, a commission headed by the historian André Kaspi delivered a report to the French government concerning "the modernization of public commemorations." After several months of meetings, the commission concluded that there were too many commemorations and suggested that they should concentrate, rather, on three key dates: "November 11th, to commemorate the dead of both the past and present; May 8th, to recall the victory over Nazism and barbarism; and July 14th, to extol the values of the French revolution" (Kaspi 2008, 9). To restore a measure of meaning to commemorations and to combat forgetfulness, the commission called—in very general terms—for the development of heritage tourism, a focus on local (and no longer national) initiatives, as well as the encouragement of innovative pedagogical projects. Two different types of arguments fundamentally motivated these conclusions. The first emphasized the lack of understanding, oversaturation, and


Causal attributions help us explain behavior but vary according to cultural context. As Japan's remuneration systems move away from seniority-based- towards individual performance-based-pay we wanted to test whether such changes would influence attributing contribution and reward in the workplace (remuneration psychology and behavior). After reading a workplace vignette, Japanese (Study 1 n = 197; Study 2 n = 235) and European American (Study 1 n = 201; Study 2 n = 186) participants attributed contribution and rewards (financial and status) to an individual employee, the team, management, owners and shareholders or luck. Japanese participants attributed greater contribution to luck than European American participants (Study 1), which was moderated by age such that older Japanese attributed greater contribution to luck than younger (Study 2). Testing workplace emotional beliefs (Study 2) suggests concern for workplace social harmony may explain these cross-cultural and within-culture generation effects.


Objective We assessed whether maternal mental health problems increased rates for child injury during the preschool years and mid-childhood, and the extent to which associations could be accounted for by a range of potential explanatory factors. Design We analysed the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative sample with data collected throughout childhood. Multinomial regression was used to investigate whether two measures of maternal mental health (diagnosed depression/anxiety and psychological distress) were associated with subsequent childhood injury. Models adjusted for sociodemographics, parenting and child externalising behaviours. Main outcome measure Maternal report of unintentional injuries (none, 1, 2+) recorded at three data collection periods (3–5 years; 5–7 years; 7–11 years). Results The analytic sample comprised n=9240 families who participated 3–11 years with complete data on exposures and outcomes (multiply imputing missing covariates). Exposure to maternal mental health problems was associated with increased rates of subsequent childhood injuries. Associations attenuated after adjustment for potential explanatory factors, although they remained elevated. For example, high maternal distress was associated with injuries 3–5 years (adjusted relative risk ratio (aRRR): 1 injury=1.18, 95% CI 0.86 to 1.61; 2+ injuries=2.22, 95% CI 1.22 to 4.02); injuries 5–7 years (aRRR: 1 injury=1.31, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.76; 2+ injuries=1.84, 95% CI 1.09 to 3.09); and injuries 7–11 years (aRRR: 1 injury=1.03, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.31; 2+ injuries=1.33, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.81). Conclusions Children exposed to mothers with mental health problems had higher rates of childhood injury than those not exposed. If further investigation of this association suggests causality then it will be important to test measures that address mothers' mental health issues with a view to reducing injuries among their children.


The high number of annual safety accidents and casualties reflects the problems of slow detection of safety accidents and untimely early warnings in current construction safety management, and China urgently needs new methods and technologies to improve the safety management efficiency of the construction industry. However, there are fewer achievements in the use of new technologies for intelligent construction safety management, and most of the research focuses on intrusion detection and specific event alarms, which cannot be well implemented for systematic early warning functions. Based on the existing research and the characteristics of early warning scenarios, this study introduces the convolutional neural network (CNN) to build a video image recognition and classification model to give early safety warnings for intrusion behavior in hazard areas of construction and demonstrates the warning effect and accuracy with practical cases. First, it clarifies the early warning demand information, such as the attributes of construction personnel and hazard areas. Then, the construction model is realized by multi-scale hierarchical feature extraction mapping, the Softmax classification function, and the argmax function. Finally, from the empirical analysis, it can be seen that an early safety warning based on the CNN model has an accurate ability to identify the intrusion behavior of construction site personnel, which can reduce the probability of construction safety accidents to a certain extent, and provide enlightenment for further realization of intelligent construction sites.


There has been a trend of utilizing mobile tools in the university. This study is proposed to construct mobile learning media based on Android for Madrasah Ibtidaiyah or Primary School in Learning Strategy courses. The study participants were university students of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Teacher Education in Malang. The study design was R and D with both quantitative and qualitative data. The study result have been in the form of mobile learning media based on Android. Six expert judgments have validated this product to ascertain the feasibility of the designed prototype. The validation by material experts' validation results were 91% and 89% valid, while validation rates by design experts were 93% and 92%. The validation result by learning experts showed 88% and 89% valid. The design was tested to three students with individual trials, then to a small group trial with ten students, and finally, a field trial on an experimental class of 43 students using a questionnaire. The trials' result on small groups showed 88% valid, and the field trials showed 86% valid. The findings indicated that Android-based mobile learning on learning strategy course material had a better effect than conventional learning on student learning outcomes.


Using the representation Tf(y) = if'dvy, where (vy) is a random mea- sure, we characterize some interesting bands in the lattice of all order-continuous operators on a space of measurable functions. For example, an operator T is (lattice-)orthogonal to all integral operators (i.e. all cv are singular) or belongs to the band generated by all Riesz homomorphisms (i.e. all r, are atomic) if and only if T satisfies certain properties which are modeled after the Riesz homomorphism property (31) and continuity with respect to convergence in measure. On the other hand, for operators orthogonal to all Riesz homomorphisms (i.e. all vy are diffuse) we give characterizations analogous to the characterizations of Dunford and Pettis, and Buhvalov for integral operators. The latter results are related to Enflo operators, to a result of J. Bourgain on Dunford-Pettis operators and martingale representa- tions of operators.


The fluorescent monomer TM was prepared by triphenylamine through the reaction of acylation,oxidative dimerizations,nucleophilic substitution and quaternization. The fluorescence monomers( FM) were polymerized with acrylic acid( AA),2- acrylamide- 2- methyl propane sulfonic acid( AMPS) in water solution which triggered by ammonium persulfate. The polymer FM- AA- AMPS( LF- 1) could recognize the latent fingerprints well under the excited excitation wavelength of 350~500 nm.


We provide the normal forms, the bifurcation diagrams and the global phase portraits on the Poincaré disk of all planar Kukles systems of degree [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text]-symmetries.


The basic objective of the paper is to study the Human Resources Accounting practices, to identify the issues and challenges, to examine these issues and challenge.


The author of this Concept wishes to insert an additional citation, which was published by him in Chemical Communications shortly before this publication. The author apologizes for this oversight. It has been brought to the author's attention that the tone of the Concept may mislead the readers in understanding the development of ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS). The author stresses that a number of groups, such as Siegbahn, Roberts, and Ogletree, Bluhm, Salmeron, and Schlçgl contributed to the development of this technique. An important part of the author's instrument is an ambient pressure reaction cell. The author has now been made aware that an in vacuo ambient pressure reaction cell for APXPS had already been developed for MAX-lab (Lund, Sweden) in collaboration with SPECS GmbH. SPECS GmbH designed the reaction cell for MAX-lab and, subsequently, also developed a very similar cell for the author's instrument. The author was not notified by SPECS GmbH regarding the development of the MAX-Lab cell and its subsequent adaption for when it was fitted to the author's instrument built at SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH. The author also developed the idea of using ambient pressure cells through collaboration with SPECS GmbH during the development of the author's instrument. The differences between the reaction cell in the author's instrument and the one in MAX-lab are that the cell in the author's instrument was integrated with an AlKa monochromator and has the functions for photocatalysis, sample cooling to liquid nitrogen temperature, gas flow through an additional exit tube, and integrated a specially designed gas introduction system to gas chromatography for quantitative determination of the catalytic activity and selectivity during XPS data acquisition. Through this collaboration between SPECS GmbH and the author, a lab-based ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectrometer with an AlKa monochromator was developed for flow-reactor-like catalysis studies and photo-excitation surface ACHTUNGTRENNUNGchemistry. Prof. Franklin Tao, Prof. Joachim Schnadt, and Dr. Andreas Thissen have collaborated to compose this corrigendum.


This paper provides a comparative analysis of the Spinoza's notion of "affect" and "mental state" of John Searle. It is concluded that Spinoza's affect is a prototype of the notion of mental state, which is highly admitted as an essential element of the subject's mental life in the contemporary philosophy of mind. The analysis of contemporary philosophy of mind allows to assert that philosophical ideas about mental states are a continuation of the Modern's Philosophy theorizing. But it is inacceptable to identify a mental state as an affect or vice versa for the next reasons: • Affect is presented as a phenomenon, connected with body, but without determination by brain. • Affect is an idealistic concept, though it is not related with the classical Cartesian dualism • The concept of the mental state, originated from the materialistic ideas about mind, consciousness and their functioning, is still developing now. In particular, a conceptual model of John Searle shows a causal connection between physical and mental. His premise leads to the obvious conclusion that psychical activity ends with the death of a subject, primarily the brain's death. Similarities between the notions of the affect and the mental state: 1. Both phenomena are able to predetermine the set of possible cognitive functions. 2. A way of affect's existing, as a stage, is similar to the mental state. Their stages could be formalized as a genesis-development-result scheme.


Objective
To explore and analyze the application effect of scenario simulation combined with PBL in the clinical teaching of intracranial aneurysm disease.

Methods
Totally 60 student nurses in Xijing Hospital were selected and divided into the observation group and the control group according to random number table method, with 30 student nurses in each group. Student nurses in the observation group were given scenario simulation combined with PBL method, while student nurses in the control group given traditional nursing teaching method. At the end of their intership, the scores of theory and practice of student nurses in two groups were compared, and their evaluations of teaching effect were collected.

Results
After teaching, the theoretical score of student nurses in the observation group was (89.2±4.39), and the practical score was (85.9±2.50), they were all higher than the scores in the control group (t=4.114, 5.092; P<0.05). The score of evaluation in the observation group was also higher than that in the control group (P<0.05).

Conclusions
The use of scenario simulation and PBL is helpful in improving the learning effect student nurses in the clinical teaching of intracranial aneurysm disease and enhancing the clinical practice ability, and it is worth of popularization.

Key words:
Clinical practice; Neurosurgery; Scenario simulation; Problem-based learning; Clinical teaching


This is a paper relative to political development dynamics, introduces the political development dynamics from two aspects of capitalism and socialism, and briefly introduces the political development of China. Put forward three Dynamic Models of Political Development, respectively analyze the motive powers of developing capitalist countries, developed capitalist countries and socialist countries, and induce and summarize the Socialist Core Thought.


Introduction: The objectives of the study were to show the percentile values of different motor tests in Spanish children skiers and compare them with their performance levels between the different age and sex groups. Methodology: 135 Spanish skiers (53 girls and 82 boys) of 11-14 years of age and children, performed 11 motor tests: 1) Flexion of the trunk forward; 2) Flamenco; 3) Hexagon; 4) Harre obstacles circuit; 5) 5 x 10 m; 6) Long jump; 7) Squat Jump; 8) Counter Movement Jump; 9) Drop Jump; 10) Continuous vertical jumps for 15 seconds, and 11) 45 seconds. Results: The two-factor ANOVA results showed numerous statistically significant differences between the age and sex categories. Conclusions: The choice of tests used for the prediction of athletic performance in children in this study can be useful to assess physical abilities and control training in alpine skiing at the age of 11-14 years.


We have calculated the binding energies of the heavy-hole and the light-hole excitons in the GaAs-AlAs type-II quantum-well structures, taking into account the coupling of the confined electron subband states to the hole subband states, both confined and unconfined. Realistic finite potential barriers are used in the calculations. The inherent lack of reflection symmetry in the type-II quantum wells is shown to lead to a strong mixing of the electron and hole subband wave functions, and to an \ensuremath{\sim}0.5\char21{}2 meV increase in the binding energy of the heavy-hole exciton, and an \ensuremath{\sim}1\char21{}4 meV increase in that of the light-hole exciton. Such increases in the binding energies are attributed to the smaller average electron-hole distance caused by the modified electron and hole charge distributions in the vicinity of the GaAs-AlAs interface, which in turn is the result of mixing of the first electron and hole subbands with the spatially less confined wave functions of higher subbands.


The effect of the vapor temperature on the nucleation of zinc from the vapor phase onto substrates of mica, lithium fluoride, and Pyrex glass was investigated with a double‐Knudsen‐cell technique. There was some effect of beam temperature on the critical supersaturation for nucleation on all three substrates. For the glass substrate the critical supersaturation was determined as a function of beam temperature and was found to agree well with earlier measurements by Hudson if the model of disk‐shaped nuclei is assumed. The results indicated that the thermal accommodation coefficient for zinc on Pyrex is aT=0.78 in the range 600°—800°K.


The cover picture shows the Pd-assisted assembly of a furo[2,3-b]pyridone through the sequential one-pot coupling of three readily available starting materials: a 4-alkoxy-3-iodo-2-pyridone, a terminal alkyne, and an aryl iodide. In this process a single palladium catalyst intervenes in three different transformations acting alternatively as an organometallic reagent or as a Lewis acid. Other remarkable examples illustrating the outstanding potential of Pd-catalysed processes for the development of multicomponent syntheses of heterocyclic compounds are discussed in the Microreview by G. Balme, E. Bossharth and N. Monteiro on p. 4101 ff.


Cold-adapted (ca) live attenuated influenza vaccines (LAIVs) have been introduced as alternatives to existing inactivated influenza vaccines. The influenza A components of the FDA-approved ca LAIVs (Flumist®; Medimmune) have common internal genes derived


The Meeting Center (called the "Egg", this is the only curvilinear building in the complex; it contains two auditoriums); The complex consists of ten buildings set up on a 6-story platform, which forms the plaza. The long passageway with three reflecting pools along the length is bordered on the west by the four Agency buildings and on the east by the tall Corning Tower and the so-called Egg. "The Cultural Education Center, raised on its own platform, is at the south end while the 19th century State Capitol closes off the north end. Originally called the Empire State Plaza but later renamed for the governor who initiated the project, this complex is one of the most ambitious urban renewal projects in modern U. S. history. It was initially controversial for a number of reasons: the displacement of thousands of residents and small businesses, the cost (including the use of luxury materials like the omnipresent marble sheathing), and the inefficient use of space. While these practical criticisms have largely dissipated, particularly since the plaza is a huge tourist attraction as well as important for local use, still the complex is often criticized on aesthetic grounds. The architecture is described as outmoded and the buildings as pompous. And worse, some critics see symbolic links to Fascist architecture and centralized powerful governments. Robert Hughes, for example, in The Shock of the New, calls its style the "International Power Style of the Fifties." Others, however, praise the complex of buildings for not being trendy and predict this architecture will stand the test of time." Source: Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ (accessed 1/1/2008)


The Army Logistics Innovation Agency and Department of the Army G–4 chartered the Maj. Gen. James Wright Program of the College of William and Mary's Mason School of Business to research supply chain optimization for remote locations. The intent was to garner insights from civilian organizations with the objective of improving Army sustainment for remote locations. The study focused on sustainment in areas with minimal or no local infrastructure or supply sources in environments similar to inland central Africa and isolated Pacific islands. Comprehensively studying current commercial supply chain innovations revealed many best practices that should be adopted by the Army. The Army can better support combat operations in the most remote areas on earth by accomplishing these six improvements:


Abstract It is a well-known fact that the best medium for teaching a child is his/her mother tongue. Implementing mother-tongue education is not, however, a trouble-free task for a country that is multilingual, multi-ethnic and culturally pluralistic. Mother-tongue education has been practised in Ethiopia since 1992. Before then Amharic, the federal working language, served as the only language of education in a nation where more than 85 languages are spoken. At present, about twenty languages are involved in the school system across Ethiopia. However, multidimensional challenges face the endeavour. These include the scarcity of financial and human resources, multiplicity of languages and dialects, inconsistent strategies employed to handle the situation, sceptical attitudes of the society towards mother-tongue education, and pedagogic problems. The problem is especially complex in regions that comprise an assortment of ethnolinguistic groups. The situation in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional States (SNNPS), particularly the area formerly known as 'North Omo zone', which is the main focus in this paper, is an instance of this complexity. This paper discusses the problems and challenges facing mother-tongue education in the sub-region and concludes with some suggested ways to ameliorate or even to avert them


upon the destructive tendencies in human conduct-upon antisocial action, hostility, distorted perceptions, irrational fears, authoritarian personality structure, and a wide variety of psychopathological disorders. Concern with positive forces has not reached the point of stimulating systematic investigation, perhaps because of the antinormative position of present-day scientists, most of whom feel inclined to leave such matters


Abstract Trade agreement negotiations are the forum in which a state tries to synchronise its trade policies with other countries. This article examines the effects of endogenous and exogenous variables in trade agreement decision-making. The study concentrates on Finland's most important trade agreement negotiations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Great Britain, and EFT A from the 1930s to the 1960s. Finland was a small, open economy that was dependent on foreign trade. In the 1930s Finland had to adapt to international protectionism, which came to dominate international trade until the late 1950s. During the Second World War Finland had to regulate her foreign trade as a part of rationing systems. After the war protectionist ideas continued to dominate international trade policy decision-making. Accordingly, many regulative policies survived into the post-war period too. Finally, deregulation in Finnish foreign trade policy started in the late 1950s, the FINN-EFTA-negotiations being the final turning point to a more liberal era in foreign trade. The essential question in the article is, what kind of influence did the endogenous interests have on Finnish trade policy decision-making considering the various situations in international politics, for example, protectionist and deregulative tendencies.


Comparing the requirement of ISO9001:2000 Quality Management System with its application into the library of Guangdong Ocean University,this paper analyzes the necessity of the application of the system into university libraries.It discusses the main duties of library manager,such as setting up the system,providing resources,setting goals and policies,defining responsibilities,establishing the platform for communication and implementing management review.


This article aims to uncover the errors committed in the interpretation of Zubiri ́s metaphysics; they mainly appear in reflections on the ontologic status of the embryo. The work discusses, with sixpoints, the aspects responsible for the gulf between the reproduction of essence/substantivity ́s theory and the genuine proposal spelled out by Zubiri. Herein, I aim to highlight the need for a thorough critical review of the thought on the constitutional sufficiency of the embryo and the nature of genetic material from a Zubirian perspective.


Through observations,sampling and laboratory analyses of 15 black shale outcrops in the Sichuan Basin and its periphery,we studied shale-gas accumulation conditions of the Lower Cambrian black shale,such as depositional facies,types and contents of organic matter and its maturity,distribution,porosity and gas contents of the black shale etc..Compared with major U.S.gas-producing shales,the Lower Cambrian shale in the Sichuan Basin and its periphery was characterized by great thickness,abundance of organic carbon,high maturity and elevated gas content,being capable of good geological conditions for shale-gas reservoir development.Some applied indices,such as thickness of the shale,content of organic matter,maturity and gas content,with a superimposition method of integrated information indicated that the most favorable areas for shale-gas accumulations in the Lower Cambrian shale are the southern Sichuan-northern Guizhou-central Guizhou,western Hubei-eastern Chongqing and northeast Sichuan.Based on the measured gas content,the amount of shale-gas resources in the Lower Cambrian was calculated with the volumetric method to be 3.3×1012m3~11.4×1012m3,with a median value of 7.4×1012m3.


The invention relates to a geographic information in-time interaction system and a method. The system comprises a user management module, a geographic information interaction module, a multimedia interaction module and an information subscription module, wherein the user management module is used for authentification of users of the system, on line and off line management of the users, and user authorization management; the geographic information interaction module is used for interaction of geographic information of terminals, receiving the geographic information sent by the terminals, and transmitting the geographic information to other terminals in a real-time manner; the multimedia interaction module is used for transmitting the multimedia data including location information in a real-time manner to achieve the information interaction of the terminals; and the information subscription module is used for receiving information sent by the other terminals and showing the information to the electronic maps of the terminals after the information is analyzed. The system and the method achieves the interaction of users to a geographic information system, meanwhile, achieves the real-time transmission of image and video resources acquired by the terminals and including location information, overcomes the defect that the traditional geographic information system does not acquire the real-time geographic information data, and achieves the stability and the accessibility of interaction.


This project investigates the effect on mechanical properties when pineapple leaf fibres (PALF) are reinforced with bio-based polymer, polylactic acid (PLA). At the same time, production of this biocomposite is aiming to replace the nonbiodegradable plastic. Alkaline treatment was employed to modify the strength of PALF and to improve fiber to matrix adhesion. PALF reinforced PLA biocomposites
are made by using compression moulding process. PLA thin films were stacked together with unidirectional aligned PALF fibre prior to compression moulding via hot press machine to form a biocomposite plate. Mechanical properties of PALF reinforced PLA biocomposite shows a superior improvement with alkaline treatment. Three types of test were considered for this project which is tensile test (ASTM
D3039), flexural test (ASTM D790) and impact test (ASTM D6110). Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used to scrutinize the morphology of the PALF reinforced PLA biocomposite as well as to investigate dispersion on the
biocomposite. It was demonstrated that a superior enhancement on mechanical properties of PALF reinforced PLA biocomposite can be achieved via the efficient of stress transfer at well uniform fibre-matrix dispersion.


Copolymer of acrylamide with N-benzyl-4-vinylpyridinium chloride (PAAM-co-BVP) produced coagulation and sedimentation of Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus. Addition of more than 50 mg L−1 of PAAM-co-BVP produced bacterial flocks that precipitated at a rate of around 200 cm h−1. Supernatant population reduced in the range 1/30,000–1/25,000,000. Reduction of supernatant population was most effective when about 200 mg L−1 of PAAM-co-BVP was added. PAAM-co-BVP was highly biodegradable and the half-life estimated was 2.4 days when treated with activated sludge. The ratio of biochemical oxygen demand for 5 days (BOD5) to total organic carbon (TOC) was 0.607. Coagulation and sedimentation of bacteria using PAAM-co-BVP is expected to improve the water disinfection processes by saving chlorine and other hazardous chemical fungicides and by reducing the formation of trihalomethanes and other toxic chemical materials. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 100: 1618–1623, 2006


I n a crowded room, people with normal hearing are able to pick out and follow one voice among many—a remarkable phenomenon commonly known as the "cocktail party effect."1,2 In contrast, people with hearing loss often find this extremely difficult. Our recent research suggests that part of this difficulty in understanding speech against a background of competing speech could be related to how sounds arriving at the two ears are combined.3 Many individuals with impaired hearing have abnormally broad binaural pitch fusion.4 With broad fusion, tones that differ in pitch between ears by as much as three to four octaves are fused into a single percept—even if the listener is able to discriminate the tones monaurally. This differs from normal-hearing listeners, who fuse sounds only if they differ in pitch by a small amount, less than 0.1-0.2 octaves or about a half or full note on the piano.3-6 This single percept has a perceived pitch that is often an intermediate blend of the two original pitches.7,8 The question asked in this study was whether similar fusion and blending across the ears also occur with speech sounds, even sounds from different talkers. If so, speech fusion and blending could negatively affect the ability to separate and understand a speaker in a background of competing speech. Because speech is a complex, multidimensional signal, the way that it is integrated binaurally will also be complex. In this study, we used synthetic vowels to capture some of the complexity of speech while maintaining some experimental control. Vowels are made up of harmonically spaced components at multiples of the voice fundamental frequency (F0) that give them their perceived pitches. The shape of the vocal tract determines the location of local peaks in the spectrum, called formants, that determine the vowel's perceived identity. The vowel identity is based mainly on the first and second formants, F1 and F2.9 Further, we used a simplified case of listening to speech with competing speech: vowels were presented dichotically over headphones, i.e., a different vowel was presented to each ear, to simulate the simplest case of separating a target in one ear from a masker in the other ear. Fundamental frequency was varied across the ears to simulate same or different voice pitches (e.g., male versus male voice, or male versus female voice). The effects of voice pitch difference on vowel fusion and identification were compared in listeners with normal hearing and with hearing loss.


OBJECTIVE
To test previously established radiographic predictors of compartment syndrome in tibial plateau fractures and determine if novel measurements may further improve a surgeons ability to identity patients at high risk for developing this outcome.

DESIGN
Retrospective review.

SETTING
Academic level I trauma center.

PATIENTS
513 patients with tibial plateau fractures treated operatively over a 10-year period (OTA/AO 41B1-3 & 41C1-3; Schatzker I-VI).

INTERVENTION
Previously established plain film radiographic measurements and novel computed tomography (CT) soft tissue measurements.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE
Acute compartment syndrome (ACS).

RESULTS
Schatzker VI fractures (odds ratio 5.72, confidence interval 2.55-12.83, p<0.001), high energy mechanism (3.10, 1.26-7.58, p=0.0096), fibular fracture (8.14, 3.33-19.96, p<0.0001), fracture length (9.70, 2.45-37.69, p=0.0014), and plateau-shaft combined injury (2.97, 1.15-7.70, p=0.019) were all associated with the development of compartment syndrome. The depth of the posterior compartment was also predictive of CS (1.06, 1.02-1.09, p=0.0025). Patients with 3 and 4 predictive markers demonstrated a 20% and 27% chance of developing ACS respectively.

CONCLUSION
This study confirms that several factors are associated with the development of ACS. The presence of each independent predictor had a cumulative effect such that when more than one variable is present the chance of ACS increases. This information may be used to alert providers regarding injuries that require vigilant evaluation.


A 54-year-old woman presented with sudden diminution of vision in her left eye 4 months before. Medical history revealed that she underwent a phacoemulsification 1 year before in the left eye and 4 years before in the right eye. Snellen visual acuity in the right eye was 20/20 while she was just able to count fingers at 1 m in the left eye. She had a divergent squint of 30 prism dioptres in the left eye. The right eye had a well-centred foldable posterior chamber intraocular lens (PCIOL) in the capsular bag, while the left eye had a rigid polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) PCIOL in the sulcus with a large posterior capsular defect (figure 1A). On fundus examination of the left eye, we found a total rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with a large punched-out toxoplasma scar at the …


Defines injury under the labor code. Outlines how to identify such a qualifying injury and the steps which must be followed. Discusses the choices of the injured worker and explains the medical critical point. Covers the "permanent and stationary" report and the case review and work reassignment stages. Looks at the work of the State Disability Rating Office and the compensatory award. Concludes that many workers find this system inadequate for their needs and employers consider it bureaucratic but it is uniform and consistent.


1 Introduction 2 Part I: Emotions and Mediation Chapter 1:The Phenomenon of Mediation Chapter 2: Emotions and Mediation 3 Part II: Emotions and Conciliation Chapter 3: Anger and Conciliation Chapter 4: Resentment and Conciliation Chapter 5: Revenge and Conciliation Chapter 6: Apathy and Conciliation Chapter 7: Guilt and Conciliation Chapter 8: Egotism and Conciliation 4 Appendices 5 Bibliography 6 Index


Self-assembled GaSb quantum dots (QDs) have been grown on GaAs(001) surface by metal-organic molecular beam epitaxy in the Stranski-Krastanow growth mode. The density of GaSb QDs in a wide range from 5times108 cm-2 to 4times1010 cm-2 can be controlled by changing the growth temperature between 400degC and 510degC. Etching of GaSb QDs was observed by the supply of trisdimethylaminoarcenic and trisdimethylaminoantimony at the temperature above 450degC. Luminescence from the GaSb/GaAs QDs showed a blue shift by the replacement of Sb with As atoms during GaAs cap growth. To realize long-wavelength emission, 2-step growth of GaAs cap layer was proposed. After GaAs QD structure was grown on the terrace surface between neighboring GaSb QDs at 400degC, the GaAs layer was grown to bury the GaSb and GaAs QDs at 450degC. The red shift of the luminescence peak up to 1.22 mum and the improvement of luminescent efficiency of GaSb/GaAs QDs were observed.


In order to easily detect endolymphatic hydrops and to avoid the side effects, we applied a furosemide VOR test in 24 patients with unilateral Meniere's disease, 6 patients with delayed endolymphatic hydrops, and 2 patients with labyrinthine syphilis. Immediately preceding an i.v. injection of 20 mg furosemide, and then 30, 60, 90 min after the administration, the VOR test was repeatedly performed. The slow-phase velocity in the VOR test was measured during harmonic sinusoidal rotation with eyes closed. Increased or decreased VOR-DP% beyond the normal range (10%) was referred to as positive. In 13 out of 24 cases (54%) with Menieres's disease, positive results were observed. Moreover, 4 out of 6 (67%) with delayed endolymphatic hydrops, one case out of 2 with labyrinthine syphilis were also positive in the furosemide VOR test. From these clinical investigations, we have concluded that the furosemide VOR test appeared to be another type of clinical test for the detection of vestibular endolymphatic hydrops.


Improper use of land resources may result in severe soil salinization. Timely monitoring and early warning of soil salinity is in urgent need for sustainable development. This paper addresses the possibility and potential of Advanced Land Imager (ALI) for mapping soil salinity. In situ field spectra and soil salinity data were collected in the Yellow River Delta, China. Statistical analysis demonstrated the importance of ALI blue and near infrared (NIR) bands for soil salinity. A partial least square regression (PLSR) model was established between soil salinity and ALI-convolved field spectra. The model estimated soil salinity with a R2 (coefficient of determination), RPD (ratio of prediction to deviation), bias, standard deviation (SD) and root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.749, 3.584, 0.036 g∙kg−1, 0.778 g∙kg−1 and 0.779 g∙kg−1. The model was then applied to atmospherically corrected ALI data. Soil salinity was underestimated for moderately (soil salinity within 2–4 g∙kg−1) and highly saline (soil salinity >4 g∙kg−1) soils. The underestimates increased with the degree of soil salinization, with a maximum value of ~4 g∙kg−1. The major contribution for the underestimation (>80%) may result from data inaccuracy other than model ineffectiveness. Uncertainty analysis confirmed that improper atmospheric correction contributed to a very conservative uncertainty of 1.3 g∙kg−1. Field sampling within remote sensing pixels was probably the major source responsible for the underestimation. Our study demonstrates the effectiveness of PLSR model in retrieving soil salinity from new-generation multi-spectral sensors. This is very valuable for achieving worldwide soil salinity mapping with low cost and considerable accuracy.


The mechanisms by which most receptor protein‐tyrosine kinases (RTKs) transmit signals are now well established. Binding of ligand results in the dimerization of receptor monomers followed by transphosphorylation of tyrosine residues within the cytoplasmic domains of the receptors. This tidy picture has, however, some strange characters lurking around the edges. Cases have now been identified in which RTKs lack kinase activity, but, despite being "dead" appear to have roles in signal transduction. Even stranger are the cases in which genes encoding RTKs produce protein products consisting of only a portion of the kinase domain. At least one such "fractured" RTK appears to be involved in signal transduction. Here we describe how these strange molecules might function and discuss the questions associated with their evolution. BioEssays 23:69–76, 2001. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


【Objective】 To investigate the role of aquaporin 1 in neuropathic pain induced by sciatic nerve chronic constriction injury(CCI) in rat.【Methods】 Twenty-five healthy male SD rats were randomly divided into five groups,each of five.Mechanical and thermal pain threshold were measured during the first day,the third day,the sixth day,the ninth day,the sixteenth days,respectively,when the study began.CCI model was established in fifteen rats(groups A,B,C).Five rats were selected as control group(group D).Five rats were selected as sham-operation group(group E).Lumbar spinal cords in all groups were dissected out on the sixth day(group A),the ninth(group B) and the sixteenth(groups C,D,E).The localization of AQP1 was demonstrated by immunohistochemicalassay and the levels of mRNA expression of AQP1 in L 4~5 segmental spinal cord were detected by relative real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR assay.【Results】 AQP1 positive particles were presented in neuronal cytoplasm widespreadly,especially concentrated in the left spinal cord dorsal in lumbar segment of spinal cords in rats in each group.The expression level of AQP1 in CCI groups was more intensive than the others.The mean AQP1 mRNA content in CCI groups was higher than that in control group and sham group(P 0.05).The expression content of AQP1 mRNA in Group A,B,C were 1.688,4.876,5.806 times than that in control group respectively.【Conclusion】 The mRNA and the protein expression of AQP1 were increased in CCI rats.AQP1 signal pathway may play a role in the pathogenesis of neuropathic pain in rats induced by chronic constriction injury to the sciatic nerve.


Abstract : Room-temperature measurements of the thermoelectric power alpha and Hall coefficient R have been made as a function of the magnetic field B on polycrystalline n-type samples of InAsxSb1-x alloys of carrier concentration approx. 10 to the 17th power/cc. Hence saturation values alpha sub infinity symbol and R sub infinity symbol and zero-field values alpha sub 0 and R sub 0 have been determined. Using these values of alpha sub infinity symbol and alpha sub 0 and assuming a Kane model for the conduction band, values have been determined for the Fermi energy E sub f and the scattering parameter s over the whole alloy range. In all cases, the value of s is close to 0.5, indicating that the dominant scattering mechanism in the alloys is piezoelectric scattering. From the E sub f and R sub infinity symbol data, values of the bottom of the band effective mass have been calculated and these are compared with similar values obtained from Faraday rotation results. (Author)


Little attention has been focused on the use of cobalt(II)-amine chelates for absorption of nitric oxide (NO) in flue gas, and the research on regeneration of those cobalt denitration solutions is relatively rare. In order to supplement this research gap, several promising ethylenediamine derivatives were screened out. They are N-(2-Hydroxyethyl)ethylenediamine, 1,2-propanediamine, and 1,2-cyclohexanediamine. These cobalt(II)-amine solutions are effective for denitration and has not been reported yet. However, they are also easily oxidized to corresponding cobalt(III) species. In presence of a nano-carbon material, cobalt(III) are reduced to cobalt(II) components and release oxygen by reacting with acids. Effect of solution pH, temperature, and graphene dosage on regeneration process were investigated. A proper addition of graphene as a catalyst contributes to the progress of regeneration. Catalytic mechanisms and regeneration performance have been discussed as much as possible. These mechanisms are related to the oxidation reactions and oxygenated species of cobalt complexes. The carbon material here acts as a catalyst for adsorbing cobalt chelates and accelerating charge transfer in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER).


Context. Aromatic =CH and C=C vibrational bands have been observed within shocked interstellar regions, indicating the presence of aromatic emission carriers such as PAHs, which may have been created from adjacent molecular cloud material by interaction with a shock front. Aims. We investigate the evolution of the aromatic =CH and C=C vibrational modes at 3.3 and 6.2 μm wavelength in heated HAC materials, PAHs and mixed PAHs and HACs, respectively, aiming at an explanation of the evolution of carbonaceous dust grains in the shocked regions. Methods. Materials used in these analogs (HAC and PAH materials) were prepared by the laser ablation and the laser pyrolysis methods, respectively. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in high-resolution mode was used as an analytical technique to characterize the aromatic layers in HACs. Spectroscopic analysis was prformed in the mid-IR range. Results. A remarkable destruction of aliphatic structures in HACs has been observed with the thermal processing, while aromatic structures become dominating by increasing the diameters of the graphene layers. The aromatic bands at 3.3 and 6.2 μm, observed in the laboratory spectra of PAHs and of the combination of the PAHs and HAC materials, are also clearly observed in the spectrum of the heated HACs. These bands agree with those of aromatic bands observed in astronomical observations. Conclusions. Aromatization of HACs could be a pre-stage in the decomposition process of hydrocarbons that form PAH-clusters in such hot interstellar medium.


Psoriatic arthropathy is a progressive and debilitating disease involving reduction of functional activity of the articulations with consequent deterioration of the patient's quality of life. The entheses represent the initial site of articular inflammation and the enthesis of the Achilles tendon is the first to be affected. In some patients with psoriasis, enthesitis may not be diagnosed because it is still asymptomatic.


2024 aluminum alloy was implanted with nitrogen then titanium at different titanium target sputtering currents by plasma-based ion implantation(PBII).The appearances were observed by atomic force microscope,andthe surface hardness was measured with Knoop hardness tester and the mechanical property microprobe.Ball-on-discdry wear experiments were performed under ambient air conditions,to study the tribological properties of the modified layers against GCr15 steel ball,employing various loads and a constant sliding speed.After dual modifications,surface hardness at 100 nm depth could reach to 9 GPa,increasing by about 5 times; tribological properties at lowerload(e.g.1 N)were obviously improved,with the friction coefficient(below 0.2)decreasing by over 60%,and the wear life(800 times)increasing by about 5 times.Meanwhile,with the increase of the sputtering current,the appearance is smooth,the surface hardness tends to a slow and even variation,the wear life presents a parabola-like change,and the friction coefficient and the adhesive wear degree decrease.However,tribological properties are reduced with the increase of the load due to the modified layer rapidly getting thin.


A new design theory for geotextile reinforced earth structures is presented combining horizontal reinforcement and the effect of earth filled bags as gravity retaining wall. Beside the principle and a design example resulting in a much smaller required tensile strength of the reinforcing geotextile, two important topics are dealt with: the improvement of shear strength of the fill material by compaction and drainage in the geotextile plane, and the long-term in-soil stress-strain characteristic of nonwoven needlepunched geotextiles. Finally, some practical examples of constructed walls using a nonwoven needlepunched pp-endlessfibre geotextile are reported.(a) for the covering abstract of the symposium see IRRD 818063.


This study used an online questionnaire to explore the relations among different dimensions of religious and cultural Jewish identity in young Canadian adults (N = 258). We investigated the extent to which three aspects of Jewish identity—religious identity, cultural identity, and identity salience— predicted openness to interfaith relationships and sociopolitical attitudes related to Israel. Results showed that compared to participants who self-identified as cultural Jews, those who self-identified as religious Jews or as both religious and cultural Jews scored higher on measures of cultural and religious identification. Moreover, relative to culturally identified Jews, religious and religious/cultural Jews were less open to interfaith relationships, endorsed more right-wing political attitudes with respect to Israel's foreign policy, and reported that their Jewish identity was more salient than their Canadian identity in identity-relevant situations. Similarly, relative to Jews of other denominations, Orthodox Jews reported higher levels of Jewish identification, greater salience of their Jewish identity, and advocated more right-wing political views.


Designed as a fund performance measure, the ordered mean difference is extended to characterize zero-surplus situations, such as a capital market equilibrium generated by arbitrary risk preferences. This enables nonparametric testing for whether CAPM applies and the detection of pricing inefficiencies or anomalies from historical data, including international capital market segmentation. Any risk-averse utility function can be decomposed into a weighted average of elementary put option profiles ("gnomic" utility functions), which collectively generate the OMD areas. The investor's risk profile can be summarized as a representative gnome, so can the market risk premium. Pricing efficiency turns on whether such a representative gnome exists.


Malaria continues to become a major global health problem, particularly in Sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The widespread emergence of resistance to first‐line drugs has further bolstered an urgent need for a new and cost‐effective antimalarial(s). Thus, the present study enumerates the synthesis of novel hybrid dimethoxy pyrazole 1,3,5‐triazine derivatives 7(a–j) and their in silico results short‐listed three compounds with good binding energies and dock scores. Docking analysis shows that hydrogen‐bonding predominates and typically involves key residues, such as Asp54, Tyr170, Ile164, and Arg122. The in vitro antimalarial evaluation of three top‐ranked compounds (7e, 7g, and 7h) showed half‐maximal inhibitory concentration values range from 53.85 to 100 μg/ml against chloroquine‐sensitive strain 3D7 of Plasmodium falciparum. Compound 7e may be utilized as a lead for further optimization work in drug discovery due to good antimalarial activity.


A review of the measurement methods of the basic electromagnetic parameters of gyromagnetic materials at microwave frequencies is presented. Measurement methods of the complex permittivity, the complex initial permeability, the intrinsic permeability tensor components and the ferromagnetic linewidth are considered. A large part of the paper is devoted to the description and analysis of the rigorous electrodynamic methods for extraction of the measured parameters from the raw measurement data. Four groups of gyromagnetic materials are considered: microwave magnetic absorbers, polycrystalline ferrites, low loss monocrystalline garnets and thin metallic ferromagnetic films. Measurement fixtures include resonant and non-resonant fixtures, employing resonance cavities, dielectric resonators and sections of transmission lines. A rigorous electrodynamic approach to data analysis allows us to improve the accuracy of the measurements to compare them to the commonly used perturbation methods.


Thiazole and its derivatives have received a lot of attention from researchers due to its wide biological, pharmacological, and anticancer properties. A novel series of 2-[2-[4-Hydroxy-3-substituted benzylidene hydrazinyl]-thiazole-4[5H]-ones (4a–c) and acetoxy derivative (5) were synthesized via using thiosemicarbazones (2a–c). The structure of the thiazole derivatives (4a–c) and 5 in these compounds was confirmed by spectroscopic techniques (IR and NMR), as well as elemental investigations. The synthesized derivatives biological activity was assessed based on their capacity to suppress the growth of the cancer cell lines MCF-7 and HepG2, as well as to halt the cell cycle and trigger apoptosis. Among the synthesized thiazole derivatives, compound 4c was found the most active derivative, with inhibitory concentrations IC50 = 2.57 ± 0.16 and 7.26 ± 0.44 µM in MCF-7 and HepG2, respectively, compared to Staurosporine as the standard drug with IC50 6.77 ± 0.41 and 8.4 ± 0.51 µM, respectively. Additionally, compound 4c blocked vesicular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2), according to our results (IC50 = 0.15 µM), compared to Sorafenib (IC50 = 0.059 µM) as the standard drug. Moreover, compound 4c induced cell cycle arrest at the G1/S phase, increasing the percentage and accumulation of cancer cells (DNA content) in the pre-G1 phase by 37.36% in MCF-7 cancer cells compared to untreated MCF-7 cells at 2.02%. Also, compound 4c increased the percentage of early and late apoptosis from 0.51% and 0.29%, respectively, in the case of the MCF-7 untreated control sample to 22.39% and 9.51%, respectively, in the MCF-7 treated sample. Furthermore, molecular docking studies of compounds 4a–c and 5 were conducted with four key proteins (aromatase, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), and B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2)) that stimulate the growth, proliferation, and development of cancer cells. Compound 4c exhibited good docking scores with a promising and potential binding affinity toward the active site of selected docked proteins. According to these results, compound 4c showed efficient cytotoxic activity against the tested cancer cells.


Conjunctive ″Suiran″(虽然) in the ancient Chinese was a phrase,which grammatically functioned as a concessive clause.Located head of the subordinate clause,it grammaticalised into a compound conjunctive in the Middle Ages China,expressing the Rongrenxing(容认性) of concessive relations.


The view of values of contemporary college students in China tends to be varied,whereas the old value evaluation criteria show their limitations.Dialectically,social value and self-value are a dialectical unity,the emphasis on one doesn't mean the neglect of the other,and what must be considered is the reasonable advocating of self-value under the new social condition.This paper thus presents a 2-dimensional evaluation criteria,which assesses the social value as the bottom line to ensure that the value activities of every human being has the positive social value,and the dimension of self-value as the source drive and final goal of human value activities under the guide of social value.


Disclosed is a washing machine utilizing uniform washing force and a washing method thereof. The washing machine includes an outer tub, an inner tub (1) for containing clothes mounted in the outer tub, a rotatable impeller (2) and a drive device for controlling rotation of the inner tub(1) and the impeller(2). The inner tub (1) and the impeller (2)satisfies the following condition: water added into the washing machine during washing can soak the clothes and enable the clothes to float and to keep in touch with the upper surface of the impeller; as every 1kg load is increased the height difference h1 of the mixture of the clothes and water satisfies below formula in order to ensure the clothes contact with the impeller (2) without floating incompletely. The formula is h1=( πD 2 h -4 V 1 )/( k πD 2 ), wherein D is the diameter of the inner tub, h is the height of the impeller, V1 is the volume of the impeller, K is the optimal clothes load between the impeller (2) and the inner tub (1) in the scope of the impeller height. The washing method is that the clothes are rotated along with the impeller (2), at the same time the clothes overturn periodically. Namely, the clothes move towards the center of the impeller (2) along the impeller (2), and rise to the climax of the impeller (2),then the clothes overturn outwards in an uniform wobble way and fall to the bottom of the inner tub (1) along the inner tub wall, and move towards the center of the impeller (2) again. The washing machine economizes the volume of water and detergent, and reduces the discharge of sewerage.


A major challenge in computational solid-state physics is the capability of first-principles theories to treat relativistic effects nonperturbatively when modeling material properties driven by atomic-core regions or the spin-orbit interaction. Such a relativistic approach is mandatory for heavy-element containing materials that often exhibit nontrivial topological properties. Here, the first formulation and implementation of a relativistic full-potential theory for solids solving the four-component Dirac-Kohn-Sham equation within local Gaussian-type bases is presented. Time-reversal symmetry is exploited in a quaternion algebra-based formalism to significantly reduce the methodological and computational complexity of the approach. The results are demonstrated to be well converged with basis sets developed for molecules.


Hypoxic cancer cells have been shown to be more resistant to radiation therapy than normoxic cells. Hence, this study investigated whether ultrasound (US)‐induced rupture of oxygen‐carrying microbubbles (MBs) would enhance the response of breast cancer metastases to radiation.


With the broadening of "rewriting the history of Chinese literature", the historiographical approach of Chinese literature attracts more and more academic interest. At the same time, the inter-relationship between ethnic literature and the Chinese literature as a whole is turning into a key point. The paper seeks to explore the multi-ethnic literature history under the context of Yi-xia (sinocentric) China, as well as the multi-ethnic nature of Chinese literature.


Thirty prekindergarten children, randomly assigned, were videotaped while viewing the same pre-taped Sesame Street program either as single viewers (N=6) or as group viewers (6 groups of 4 Ss each). Video-tapes were systematically coded for visual attention, modeling behaviors, and other meta-communication. Both groups and single viewers averaged eye contact with over 80% of the program despite exhibiting more than one nonviewing behavior per minute and high mobility while viewing. Group viewers exhibited a large number and variety of verbal and nonverbal, targeted and (probably) nontargeted modeling behaviors; single viewers much fewer. Overt program-elicited amusement was more frequent for groups than for singles. Children exhibited vicarious participation as evidenced by one direct reaction to the program about every four minutes. Other behaviors included (a) labeling (b) program appeal behaviors, (c) associating, (d) fear references, (e) evaluating, (f) reading, (g) predicting, and (h) nonprogram related verbalization.


The processes of deterioration of marble monuments in churches are described together with methods for protecting the monuments from the ambient environment. Methods of cleaning, either in situ or in a laboratory are explained. The use of dowels and resins in repair and reconstruction are dealt with and amplified in a report of work on one monument.


The invention relates to thermochromic pigments selected from one or more of the pigments of the general formula (1) to (6) and a thermochromic coating comprising at least one layer comprising or consisting of one or more of the thermochromic pigment of the formulas (1) (2), (3), (4), (5) and / or (6), and optionally containing a temperature-resistant matrix based on one or more binders or a glass frit. The thermochromic pigments and the thermochromic coatings produced therefrom are characterized by particularly advantageous combinations of properties, whereby they are also suitable for use in household appliances, in particular as temperature indicators.


The utility model discloses an automatic energy-saving control system for a vacuum low temperature cooling tank circulating water cooling system for a fryer group. The automatic energy-saving control system comprises a touch screen. The automatic energy-saving control system is characterized in that: the touch screen is connected with a PLC controller; the PLC controller is connected with a cooling tank temperature sensor, an outdoor temperature sensor, a circulating water temperature sensor, a circulating water pressure sensor, a circulating water flow velocity sensor, a fryer switching device and a group of cooling tank water inlet switch position detecting device. The PLC is also connected with a relay module and a control cabinet. The relay module is connected with a group of fryer cooling tank water inlet switch. The control cabinet is connected with a group of cooling water circulating pump and a cooling tower cooling fan.


Detecting the vibration and impacting of neutron detectors in boiling water reactor cores is usually attempted from the detector signals. Two such indicators used or suggested earlier are the widening of the vibration peak in the detector noise auto-power spectral density and the deviation from Gaussian (= distortion) of the signal amplitude probability distribution (APD). Quantification of both methods is hindered by the presence of a strong, Gaussian background; thus, it was thought that band-pass filtering around the vibration peak would improve the performance of the methods. This suggestion has been investigated. It turns out that filtering reduces the background, but it also distorts the vibration component of the signal. For good performance, this latter effect must be compensated for. Such methods are elaborated and applied to both peak widening and APD distortion techniques. It was found that application of such techniques makes the kurtosis and the decay ratio associated with the signal suitable to be used as quantitative indicators ofimpacting. The methods elaborated were also checked by numerical simulations and real measurements with positive results.


A double-windowed vacuum-tight experimental chamber was developed, and calibrated on the spectroscopic ellipsometer over the energy range from .7 to 4.5 eV using a silicon wafer with approximately 25 nm oxide thickness to remove the multiple-window effects from measurements. The ellipsometric measurements were done such that incident and exit beam were at 65 degree from surface normal. The plutonium sample (3 mm diameter, .1 mm thick) was electro-polished and mounted into the sample chamber in a glove box having a nitrogen atmosphere with less than 100ppm moisture and oxygen content. The index of refraction n and the extinction coefficient k decrease from 3.7 to 1 and 5.5 to 1.1 respectively as the photon energy increases from .7 to 4.3 eV.


Hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (ATTRv) is a dominantly inherited, adult‐onset, progressive, and fatal disease caused by mutations in the transthyretin gene. Therapeutic agents approved for this disease include the TTR stabilizer tafamidis and the gene‐silencing drugs patisiran and inotersen. Inotersen is an antisense oligonucleotide that suppresses the hepatic production of transthyretin. After European Medical Agency approval in 2018, an early‐access program was opened in Italy, and in this article, we present the long‐term outcome of a cohort of Italian ATTRv patients who received inotersen within this program.


Many foods contain structural features (such as air spaces, cells, inclusions) that are manifested over a large range of dimensions, including the nanometer range. To make significant advances in delivering foods with excellent quality, the role of microstructure, and its interactions with composition and external conditions must be understood and controlled. This can only be achieved by first developing accurate techniques that detect changes in the internal structure of foods. X-ray CT is a powerful tool for obtaining highly detailed 3D information on internal food structures. Moreover, because of the penetrating capabilities of X-rays, samples can be investigated in a non-destructive manner, thus not majorly altering internal structures by invasive sample preparation. Another advantage of this technology is that it can be used in a range of relevant resolutions to obtain images in the range of millimeter to micron (X-ray micro-CT) and even nanometer (Xray nano-CT) pixel resolution. A selection of moist (sugar foam, apple) and dry foods (cereal products) were scanned using X-ray microand nano-CT. Images, morphometric characteristics and geometric 3D models provided a detailed insight in the various foods in terms of porosity, connectivity and anisotropy of microstructural features. X-ray nano-CT proved to be a valuable yet challenging technique considering sample representability. Nevertheless, X-ray nano-CT enabled the investigation of the 3D microstructure of samples in a near-native state at unprecedented resolutions.


The present invention relates to a pressure side impact sensor for a vehicle, and more particularly, to a sensor that receives impact pressure on the left and right sides of a vehicle with one pressure side collision sensor by forming two vent holes in the pressure side collision sensor. It is about. The pressure side collision sensor for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a vent hole that serves as an inlet for impact pressure during side impact of the vehicle door, a pressure sensor for converting pressure into a voltage, and a microcomputer for processing an electrical signal. In the pressure side impact sensor for a vehicle provided; The barrier ribs are installed in the left and right centers of the main body up and down to maintain airtightness between the separated left and right spaces, and vent holes communicating with the left and right spaces are formed on both side surfaces of the main body, respectively. P-SIS, Ventilator, Cost Reduction, Side Member


Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants. By Christl Kessler and Stefan Rother. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016. Hardcover: 181pp. This book presents a convincing narrative on the political socialization of Filipino migrant workers in both democratic and authoritarian host countries, and the extent and ways by which such socialization affects the workers' attitudes towards politics in their home country. It is convincing because it nuances what is obviously a complex nexus: migration and politics. The main strength of the book lies in the mixed quantitative-qualitative research methodology employed by the authors. The book draws largely from surveys among first time and returned migrants, but it also allows the migrants' voices to speak for themselves. It is this combination of data and voice that makes the reader pay close attention to every page. Throughout the book there are tables and figures, as well as vignettes of real-life stories and first-person accounts. The "respondents" thus come to life and the reader is provided with a fascinating, broad picture of transnationalism, not just of migrant work but also of political ideas and values. The research design is thorough from start to finish. The theoretical assumptions of the authors are carefully laid out in the first chapter and are backed by a comprehensive literature review on a range of pertinent topics such as social remittances, migration and development, the history of Filipino outmigration, issues and problems of Filipino migrants, and politics in the Philippines and the host countries. In addition, the development of the research design--from the selection of respondents to the choice of survey questions, to the choice of research implementers (i.e. Social Weather Station for the surveys and the Department of Political Science of the University of the Philippines-Diliman for the in-depth interviews)--is convincingly explained which further strengthens the book's credibility. The outcomes of the research are clearly useful. The surveys on the profiles of the respondents present baseline data that point to empirical evidence for narratives that hitherto relied on anecdotal evidence. The book, for example, has an entire chapter (Chapter 5) on the "migration experience" in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong where survey results on working conditions and salaries, discrimination, freedom of movement and integration are presented (pp. 49-96). The chapter is capped with an "overall assessment" as well as "country differences" relating to the migration experience of the respondents. The "overall assessment" of the respondents deserves particular attention. The survey results show that there was a "generally positive" assessment and that "only 21 percent reported any problems in the host country" (p. 87). It also shows that "more men often reported problems (26 percent) than women (19 percent)" (p. 87). Moreover, even in Saudi Arabia where the respondents had "the highest number of negative answers with 45 percent on the sad side ... the happy OFWs [Overseas Filipino Workers] were still in the majority (55 percent)" (p. 93). These findings are noteworthy because they go against conventional, stereotypical notions that migration is a negative rather than a positive experience, and that women are more emotional and less resilient than men. …


Background: Māori, Indigenous peoples of New Zealand (NZ) are twice as likely to die after a diagnosis of cancer compared to non-Māori. Cancer pathways are not designed for Māori health gain and are not pandemic resilient. Māori receive delayed poorer quality treatment and those with comorbidities are undertreated [1]. Existing inequities from time of referral to cancer services through to treatment were exacerbated by the COVID-19 response in Aotearoa NZ. Coordination of care is crucial for Māori patients and whānau (family), but poorly developed along this early part of the cancer pathway. In addition, care quality is not well monitored, and the current pathway is vulnerable to changes created by pandemic conditions.
 Aims: This study seeks to co-design, implement and evaluate a holistic cultural and clinical cancer service that is patient and whānau centred; the Whānau Hauora Integrated Response Initiative (WHIRI) programme. This comprehensive, pandemic resilient, racism-free, hauora (wellbeing) enhancing and responsive model of care will be designed for the early part of the secondary care cancer pathway.
 Design and Method: The WHIRI programme includes navigation, a holistic whānau/family hauora assessment tool, proactive management by a team of clinicians and a team responsible for making systems changes. WHIRI was launched mid-pandemic (early 2020) for kaumātua (elderly Māori) with long-term conditions and ran for 3 months. During COVID we found that WHIRI had the potential to change hospital systems and improve experiences for patients and whānau. WHIRI ensures the provision of best-practice timely treatment for Māori patients and could make large gains in closing the survival gap between Māori and non-Māori in the short- to medium-term, leading to reductions in Māori cancer deaths. We plan to redesign WHIRI into a cancer programme that functions effectively in all COVID levels using qualitative Kaupapa Māori methodology. Key to this methodology is partnerships with patients, whānau, cancer clinicians, Māori navigators and The Cancer Control Agency New Zealand. We will present our methods and co-design model of cancer care. We will outline the potential to expand the model nationally with reach from primary care all the way through to palliative care. It will also provide a platform for future research to measure the impact of WHIRI on cancer and whānau care. 1. Hill S, Sarfati D, Blakely T, Robson B, Purdie G, Chen J, et al. Survival disparities in Indigenous and non-Indigenous New Zealanders with colon cancer: the role of patient comorbidity, treatment and health service
 Citation Format: Nina Scott, Myra Ruka, Amy R. Jones. Cancer WHIRI research: Improving the early cancer pathway for indigenous NZ peoples [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 5278.


Introduction After parturition, bacteria from the animal's environment contaminate the uterine lumen of most cattle. Infection persists in the uterus of many animals for more than three weeks, with about 15% of dairy cattle having signs of clinical endometritis. These animals have lower conception rates, take longer to conceive and are more likely to be culled for infertility than unaffected animals. So, endometritis is an expensive condition for vets and farmers to manage, rivalling the cost of other endemic diseases such as mastitis. The aim of this article is to summarise how uterine disease develops, and how to approach the diagnosis and treatment of endometritis.


A technique was developed to protect lactic acid bacteria against high temperature during spray drying by encapsulation of bacteria cells within film-forming protein-carbohydrate- coconut oil emulsion. For these studies, the viability of the Lactobacillus bulgaricus was the highest in the feed formulation GANAMDO1 (containing 50% gum Arabic, 40% maltodextrin, 10% sodium caseinate w/w in oil/wall ratio=1) with 12.3 x 10-1 % viability after spray drying, surviving up to 2 times better than control cells (containing 100% gum Arabic in oil) at outlet air temperature 80-85°C. Increasing the proportion of the wall material (oil/wall ratio = 0.5) do not improved the viability of Lactobacillus bulgaricus after spray drying. The viable counts of spray dried Lactobacillus bulgaricus entrapped in GANAMDO1 were more than 3 log cycles than those obtained with others feed formulation after sequential exposure to simulated gastric and intestinal juices.


LETTERS Invasive or non-invasive methods for the diagnosis of subclinical coeliac disease? I read with great interest the letters published in Gut on the role of small bowel biopsies and antiendomysial antibodies (EMA) as methods for diagnosing coeliac disease in patients with iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) (Gut 2001;49:595). In particular, Pearce et al seem to prefer EMA instead of histological evaluation because of the considerable resource implications for histology departments, and Scott seems to agree with Pearce's affirmation even if he takes into consideration the important role of histological evaluation. However, I do not completely agree with the conclusions of these authors. Firstly, I would debate the role of non-invasive methods in diagnosing subclinical/ silent coeliac disease. In my experience, IDA is the main indication of subclinical forms of coeliac disease 1 and thus it should be taken into consideration in clinical practice. Although EMA are a well known hallmark of coeliac disease and the prevalence is more than 90% in classical forms of coeliac disease, our study and other recent studies clearly showed that the prevalence of EMA (as well as AGA) is lower than expected in clinical practice, 2–4 probably due to the high prevalence of slight histological lesions in these patients (Marsh I-IIIa lesions according to the Marsh classification 5). In contrast, the sorbitol H2-breath test (H2-BT) seems to be more effective than EMA in diagnosing this form of coeliac disease, probably because of a better correlation with slight histological lesions. 6 In the light of these experiences, sorbitol H2-BT may be a good alternative to small bowel biopsy in identifying coeliac disease in patients with IDA but unfortunately this is not always true. In fact, in clinical practice, it is easy to observe patients with IDA EMA− and a negative sorbitol H2-BT test who show slight histological lesions (Marsh I-II type lesions) with disappearance of IDA and improvement in histology after a gluten free diet (GFD). In these cases the use of non-invasive methods (such as EMA) may be a serious mistake as we may run the risk of not identifying hidden coeliac disease. These experiences are very important and should be considered in the cost/benefit ratio of diagnosing coeliac disease. Other important points are the patchiness of the disease, difficulties for pathologists in obtaining biopsies orientated sufficiently, and the cost of small bowel biopsy. Pearce et al are not in favour of biopsy. Firstly, many …


A replacement method of treatment mechanism in a treatment apparatus and a computer readable memory medium for storing a replacement program are provided to replace stably the treatment mechanism such as a treatment cup without stopping the treatment apparatus itself. Whether a predetermined treatment is ended or not is checked, wherein the predetermined treatment is performed on a treatment object body in a treatment unit(S104). The intention of being capable of replacing a treatment mechanism of the treatment unit is displayed(S105). Whether a shutter of the treatment unit is closed or not is checked(S106). When the shutter of the treatment unit is closed, an operation stopped state of a corresponding transfer unit is dissolved(S107). At this time, other treatment units are capable of operating normally.


Since the release of the bestselling title Joel on Software in 2004, requests for a sequel have been relentless. So, we went back to the famed JoelonSoftware.com archives and pulled out a new batch of favorites, many of which have been downloaded over one million times. With Joels newest book, More Joel on Software, youll get an even better (not to mention updated) feast of Joels opinions and impressions on software development, software design, running a software business, and so much more. This is a new selection of essays from the authors web site, http://www.joelonsoftware.com. Joel Spolsky started his web log in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to improve the world of programming. This web log has become infamous among the programming world, and is linked to more than 600 other web sites and translated into 30+ languages! Spolskys extraordinary writing skills, technical knowledge, and caustic wit have made him a programming guru. With the success of Joel on Software, there has been a strong demand for additional gems and advice, and this book is the answer to those requests. Containing a collection of allnew articles from the original, More Joel on Software has even more of an edge than the original, and the tips for running a business or managing people have far broader application than the software industry. We feel it is safe to say that this is the most useful book you will buy this year. What youll learn The best approaches to managing and hiring extraordinary people Advice for those interested in the software industry as a career and for managers who want to get them Joels unique impressions of how to create products and designgood and bad An in the trenches look at how to start and run an effective software business (or any business for that matter) A true sense of what it takes to create a differentiated, unique, motivated organization Who is this book for? Anyone interested in the software business will truly enjoy this book, but in particular this should be required reading for managers of technical businesses. Related Titles Joel on Software The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky Eric Sink on the Business of Software Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail


Acoustic emission signal processing has always been a key problem in damage assessment of components and materials, and parameter analysis and waveform analysis are two important means of acoustic emission signal processing. In this paper, the parameter analysis method in signal processing and the meaning and characteristics of each parameter are introduced. Then, the waveform analysis method is introduced and the basic theory of wavelet transform and its spectrum analysis in waveform analysis method are mainly analyzed. The comparison between wavelet transform and Fourier transform is made: traditional Fourier transform signal processing methods can only be used to process transient stationary signals, and the transient non-stationary signals cannot be analyzed locally. The wavelet transform can take into account the characteristics of both the time and frequency domains, and it can also reflect the local signal well. Through the analysis of the signals in the process of concrete damage, it is found that the two signal processing methods mentioned above can well characterize the damage evolution of materials and damage precursors.


Vocabulary is a set of words by which a person make use for communication. It is also an important aspect of language because it has a big influence in English language learning. Listening to a song can introduce a new English word to the students to improve their vocabulary. Therefore, the objective of this research is to investigate whether there is significant correlation between students' frequency of listening to English songs and their vocabulary achievement. The research was conducted at SMPN 3 Bandar Lampung. This is quantitative research using ex post pasto design.
The data were taken from the questionnaire and the test that were given to the VIII D class. The sample was chosen randomly through lottery. There are two kinds of the tests i.e., the questionnaire of students' listening frequency that consists of thirty questions and vocabulary test consists of thirty questions of multiple choice. The data were analyzed by using the statistical formula of Pearson Product Moment.
The result of the this research, rvalue (0.738) was higher than rtable (0.463). It means that there is correlation and H1 is accepted. It can be concluded that there is significant correlation between the students' frequency of listening English song and their vocabulary achievement. Most of the students who have good frequency of listening to English song tended to have good score in vocabulary test too. It can be concluded that students' frequency of listening to English song influence their vocabulary achivement.


To the Editor. —Dr. Tenzel's observation concerning the findings of markedly elevated protein-bound iodine values (PBI) in patients with superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis (SLK) is most interesting. I have not performed this test routinely on patients with this condition but intend to from now on. One patient with SLK who had clinical findings suggesting hyperthyroidism did have a PBI of 11 μμg/100 cc, but results of her triiodothyronine (T 3 ) suppression test were within normal limits. She was receiving estrogens which can raise the PBI findings as also, for example, do pregnancy and contraceptive pills. Another recent patient with SLK is under treatment for hyperthyroidism which she had for three years prior to onset of SLK. Other patients with SLK had low PBI findings suggesting hypothyroidism. Some of these are taking thyroid extract, like Dr. Tenzel's patient, but only in small amounts. I am deeply grateful to Dr. Tenzel for pointing


Surveys of brassica seed crops in Essex and Suffolk showed that Alternaria spp. occurred in many crops of Brassica oleracea in the years 1977–1980 affecting up to 100% of pods in each year. A. brassicicola was the only species present in 1976 and was the domioant pathogen in succeeding years but A. brassicae increased in frequency from 1977, causing 24% of the pod infections on B. oleracea in 1980. The latter fungus was the dominant species in crops of oilseed rape (B. napus), the mean incidence of infected pods increasing from 0.5% in 1977 to 2.9% in 1980. Leptosphaeria maculans was not found in horticultural brassica seed crops in 1976 but occurred abundantly in these crops and in oilseed rape crops in each of the following years.


It is well known that for an ample line bundle $L$ on an Abelian variety $A$, the linear system |2L| is base point free, and 3L is very ample, moreover the map defined by the linear system |2L| is well understood. In this paper we generalized this classical result and give a new proof using the theory CGG developed by Pareschi and Popa.


Being able to speak English includes a number of skills, involving vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics, and so on. It can be argued that by far, the most important of these skills is pronunciation. Despite having a good grasp of vocabulary and the grammatical rules of the English language, speakers would be unintelligible if they had poor pronunciation. Though pronunciation is an aspect of language that is difficult to acquire, the reality is that in many English language classrooms, teaching pronunciation is granted the least attention. When ESL teachers defend the poor pronunciation skills of their students, their arguments could either be described as a cop-out with respect to their inability to teach their students proper pronunciation or they could be regarded as taking a stand against linguistic imperialism. This paper begins by discussing these views and will then outline the current status of pronunciation teaching from the viewpoint of several experienced English language teachers. Some information regarding the nature of second language pronunciation and the needs of the ESL teacher for teaching pronunciation, with particular focus on material selection and teaching methodology will be provided. Finally, this paper makes a number of recommendations as to how the teaching of pronunciation can be made more effective in the ESL classroom.


The procedure used to obtain the expression of the dielectric tensor of cold plasma in a rotating electromagnetic field has been presented in our previous paper. We used this procedure to derivate the dielectric tensor for hot plasma in a rotating electromagnetic field. By means of the expression of dielectric tensor which expresses the linear response of plasma , we derived, discussed and compared the dispersion relation for waves in hot plasma with the one obtained for cold plasma located in a rotating electromagnetic field. This dispersion relation, which is , depends on three variables: wave's vector , angular frequency Ω and temperature parameter Ta of particles kind ''a''. T he super fix "c" means "hot" in this relation. We observed that more the temperature is higher, more is the electrical conductivity of plasma (weak is the resistivity of hot plasma). The study revealed that the dispersion relation has a temperature parameter in its exponential part. We observe also that: 1) when the temperature parameter Ta tends to zero, the exponential factor tends to unity.  is the dispersion relation of cold plasma, where the super fix "f" means "cold". 2) the temperature parameter Ta tends to infinity when exponential factor tends to zero.  is the limit case of dispersion relation of hot plasma.


A 4 × 4 factorial experiment with four non-phytate phosphorus levels (0.17%,0.25%,0.33% and 0.41%) and four calcium levels (0.30%,0.48%,0.66% and 0.84%) was conducted to study the calcium and phosphorus requirements of Pekin ducks from 3 to 6 week of age.Six hundred and forty 15-day-old male Pekin ducklings were divided into 16 experimental treatments which contained 4 replicates and each replicate contained 10 ducklings,and these ducklings were raised with experimental diets from 15 to 42 days of age.The results showed that the daily weight gain and feed intake decreased significantly (P0.05) as dietary calcium increased at 0.17% non-phytate phosphorus level,but the daily weight gain and feed intake exhibited up-down quadratic trend at 0.25%,0.33% and 0.41% non-phytate phosphorus levels;the tibia ash and tibia phosphorus decreased significantly (P0.05) as dietary calcium increased at 0.17% non-phytate phosphorus level, but tibia ash increased significantly as dietary calcium increased (P0.05) and tibia phosphorus was not influenced by dietary calcium level (P0.05) at 0.33% and 0.41% nonphytate phosphorus levels.It is concluded that,according to the quadratic responding surface regression analysis,the requirements of calcium and non-phytate phosphorus for optimal daily weight gain and tibia phosphorus are 0.72% and 0.37%,0.66% and 0.37%,respectively.


This part of the report presents information and data from recent reports on Water Column Monitoring conducted on Norway's Continental Shelf and from reports on Seabed Monitoring Programs conducted around offshore oil & gas installations on Norway's, United Kingdom's and Denmark's continental shelfs. It presents extracts from the different monitoring reports. Only editorial changes have been made, e.g. to, where relevant, avoid repetition of similar text in the different reports or to clarify the language. Our vision is a clean, healthy and biologically diverse North-East Atlantic Ocean, which is productive, used sustainably and resilient to climate change and ocean acidification.


The method for producing a functional or flakes or platelets decorative economically and high production rate, rotating chilled to a multilayer sandwiched alternately vapor-deposited metal layer and the release coat layer, contained in the deposition chamber comprising applying to the drum or a suitable carrier medium. The metallization layer alternating applied by vapor deposition, also peeling layer interposed is preferably a thermoplastic or lightly crosslinked polymeric material soluble in a solvent which is applied by vapor deposition source contained in the deposition chamber. The multilayer sandwich constructed in a vacuum chamber, to remove from the drum or carrier, and to dissolve the release coating in the release treatment step is treated with a suitable organic solvent, leaving a metal flake which is substantially free of release coat . The solvent and dissolved release material is removed by centrifugation to obtain a cake of concentrated flakes, which was reduced over the air milling in a suitable vehicle, ink end uses to process further sizing and homogenizing, paint or coating to. In one aspect, the finished flakes include flakes of flakes or inorganic material thin metal or alloy having a single layer or in another embodiment, the flakes were applied from a suitable vacuum deposition source or the like contained in the deposition chamber protective coating is coated on both sides. Release coat material may be radiation-curable low crosslink density is a crosslinkable deposition polymer material. The release material by exposure to high energy radiation source, is sufficiently crosslinked as solvent-soluble release coat layer that does not substantially adhesive is obtained. In one aspect, constructing a multi-layer deposit on the endless belt leading to separate peeling chamber adjacent via vacuum lock from the deposition chamber. Both chambers are maintained at a low vacuum pressure than the atmospheric pressure, thereby depositing a flake material on an endless belt therebetween. Lower the belt speed, is idle vacuum deposition source within the deposition chamber, and by sealing the lower endless belt of the peeling chamber via a vacuum lock deposit collection device against peeling chamber, periodically a deposit removed. Vacuum lock, during the process of removing the multilayer deposition material from the endless belt to maintain the peeling chamber below atmospheric vacuum pressure.


work-place for men and of the home for women and the quality of neighbourhood relations. The method also has its limitations, limitations which are perhaps inseparable from this kind of textual analysis. Since all its histories have equal validity, the book has no single narrative thread holding it together. The author would probably argue that there can be no such thing, or at any rate that this book is not intended to provide it. But the epidemic had a course, and it would help the reader's understanding of the stories told by its victims if we were given more information about it: when it began, how the number of deaths rose, when it disappeared. The speeches of the actors in the drama (theatrical metaphors abound in this book) would also be more intelligible if we were told early on what precisely the public health regulations were that they were reacting against. The background of government regulation has to be pieced together by the reader from stray references. This book therefore raises important questions about the methodology of microhistory, as well as presenting material of exceptional interest for historians of seventeenth-century urban society, its patterns of behaviour and frames of mind. It deserves the kind of close reading that the author has given to her various narratives. One final complaint is hence appropriate: it is extraordinary that a book so concerned with decoding texts should have no index as a guide to the richness of its own.