The invention relates to a bearing play measuring device. The bearing play measuring device comprises a hanging ring screw, a bearing seat, a shaft and a force exertion rod. The bearing play measuring device is characterized in that the hanging ring screw is in threaded connection with a measured bearing; a force exertion base with a force exertion device and a supporting base with a supporting block are arranged on the bearing seat, a dial indicator is arranged on the supporting block, locating blocks are arranged between the bearing seat and the force exertion base and between the bearing seat and the supporting base, the locating blocks are pressed by a locating pressing plate and fastened onto the bearing seat through screws so as to prevent the locating blocks from moving upwards and downwards; a dial indicator head of the dial indicator is in contact connection with the end face of a bearing hanging ring; the force exertion rod penetrates through a hanging ring hole of the hanging ring screw, one end of the force exertion rod is connected with the supporting block through a hinge and the other end of the force exertion rod is in contact connection with an ejector rod of the force exertion device. The bearing play measuring device is simple in structure, easy to operate, accurate in force exertion, high in bearing play measuring precision, good in measuring repeatability and stable in bearing quality; during measuring, parts are convenient and fast to assemble and disassemble, the measuring and production efficiency is increased, and the production cost is lowered.


Background: Preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) provides an objective assessment of aerobic fitness in patients undergoing surgery. Whilst peak oxygen uptake during exercise ( V̇ O2peak) and anaerobic threshold (AT) have demonstrated a moderate correlation with the development of complications following oesophagectomy, no clinically useful threshold values have been defined. By pooling patient level data from existing studies, we aimed to define optimal thresholds for preoperative CPET parameters to predict patients at high-risk of postoperative complications. Methods: Studies reporting on the relationship between preoperative CPET variables and post-oesophagectomy complications were determined from a comprehensive literature search. Patient-level data were obtained from six contributing centres for pooled-analyses. Outcomes of interest included cardiopulmonary and non-cardiopulmonary complications, unplanned ICU readmission, 90-day and 12-month all-cause mortality. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and logistic regression models estimated the predictive value of CPET parameters for each individual outcome of interest. Results: This analysis comprised of 621 patients who underwent CPET prior to oesophagectomy during the period from January 2004 to March 2017. For both AT and V̇ O 2 peak, none of the ROC curves achieved an area under the curve value higher than 0.66 for the outcomes of interest. Conclusion: The discriminatory ability of CPET for determining high-risk patients was found to be poor in patients undergoing an oesophagectomy. CPET may only carry an adjunct role to clinical decision making.


THIS volume of Professor Jebb's magnificent edition of Sophocles has been in the hands of scholars too long to require any formal expression of praise from the present reviewer. Its merits are those of the entire series. One marks throughout the same delicacy of touch, the same erudition, the same insight into the poet's thought, the same elegance and purity of language, that have won for this edition of Sophocles the first place in the esteem of scholars of both continents. I would not by criticism of details disparage in the slightest degree the fine workmanship of the whole. Professor Jebb has encouraged critics by his generous treatment of their suggestions in his revision of the Oedipus Tyrannus. I trust therefore that I shall not be misunderstood if in the following review I give an undue prominence to certain omissions, or blemishes, as they seem to me, in a work that as a whole commands nothing but praise.


The various cleaning steps required for preparation of foraminiferal samples for Mg/Ca (and Sr/Ca) analysis are evaluated for their relative importance and effects on measured elemental ratios. It is shown that the removal of silicate contamination is the most important step for the measurement of Mg/Ca ratios. In an example, bulk sample Mg/Ca decreases from 10.5 to 2.5 mmol mol−1 during clay removal. Oxidation of organic material causes a lowering of sample Mg/Ca in the order of 10% or approximately 1°C when converted to temperature. Use of dilute acid leaching to remove adsorbed contaminants causes partial dissolution of the sample carbonate and a corresponding decrease in Mg/Ca. Reductive treatment also causes dissolution of the sample and a decrease in the Mg/Ca ratio of up to 10–15%. Sample preparation for Sr/Ca analysis does not require the same degree of rigor as is necessary for Mg/Ca work. The "within‐run" reproducibility of the method described here for G. ruber in a core‐top sample from the Arabian Sea was ±1.8% (mean sample ratio was 4.72 mmol mol−1). When converted to temperature, this becomes 28 ± 0.2°C. The equivalent result for Sr/Ca was ±0.5% (mean ratio = 1.44 mmol mol−1).


This study is the first of three reports on the detailed morphology of horseradish peroxidase injected neurons in the medial accessory olive of the cat.


Incompletely condensed, fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane with the highly reactive group of trisodium silanolate was used for the synthesis of an initiator for atom transfer radical polymerization. The initiator was applied to solution polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) in the presence of a copper complex. The polymerization proceeded in a living fashion, providing tadpole-shaped polymers with an "inorganic head" of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) and an "organic tail" of well-defined PMMA. A blend film composed of the tadpole-shaped polymer and a matrix PMMA was annealed at 180 °C for 5 days and then analyzed by neutron reflectometry, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and contact angle measurement. These analyses revealed that the tadpole-shaped polymer was preferentially populated at the air/polymer interface, and the outermost layer of the film was almost completely covered by the POSS heads. This was mainly due to the low surface free energy of the fluorinated POSS ...


A novel homogeneous immunoassay method is developed for sensitive monitoring of small molecular biotoxin by using a portable personal glucose meter (PGM) based on the target-responsive release of cargo (glucose) from a polystyrene microsphere-gated magnetic mesoporous nanocontainer.


We present a characterisation of all quartic polynomials with exactly three distinct roots and the property that it and all its derivatives have rational roots. It turns out that there are an infinite number of distinct such quartics, each of which corresponds to a point on a related elliptic curve. Furthermore the collection of these points forms a proper subgroup of the group of rational points on the curve.


Violation handling is a crucial problem in many applications. therefore its paradoxes have been studied in, amongst others, artificial intelligence, agent theory and computer science. The standard way to study these paradoxes is to model them using a formal language, and use formal logic to consider whether the set of sentences is inconsistent, the sentences logically follow from others, or some other anomaly occurs. During the past decades, developments in temporal, action and non-monotonic logics have contributed to a better understanding of the paradoxes and thus of violation handling. In this paper we propose an alternative way to analyze Chisholm's notorious contrary-to-duty paradox in deontic logic. We model the paradox using semantic models, using insights from conceptual modelling. We aim to gain insight in the open question whether the paradoxes are in some sense logical contradictions, or only apparent contradictions. If a paradox is only an apparent contradiction, then there has to be a model interpreting all sentences.


We investigate the feasibility of using hard-decision bit error rates or, alternatively, mutual information, both measured before a soft input forward error correction decoder, as a means to estimate performance after soft-decision decoding. Both methods are compared based on a large set of measurement data. We conclude that mutual information seems to be the more reliable measure to estimate soft-decision FEC performance.


Focusing on the contradictory context of contemporary architecture and the construction background of Dongguan Institute of Technology, this paper sets off interpretations on three departments' buildings designed by Atelier Deshaus from multiple points of view, and attempts to create a compact mosaic of them.


Simulations from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCAPP) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) AM2.1 timeslice experiment, for current climate (1971-2000) and future climate (2041-2070), were compared and contrasted to assess how May through October accumulated rainfall is responding to climate change along the southern United States coast and in the Caribbean under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A2 emissions scenario (a scenario of relatively high emissions increase). The simulations were done on a global domain at a horizontal resolution of roughly 50 km. There is an overall decrease of about 200 mm (30 percent) in the May through October rainfall in the region of the southern United States coast and the Caribbean. The absolute decrease is larger in the regions that receive the most rain. However, proportionally, the decrease is larger in the regions that receive the least rain. For the subregion of Florida, rainfall time series indicate a delay of the region"s late wet period in the future climate. This shift needs to be further examined to determine its significance and underlying physical processes. Florida also received less rainfall in future climate, but the standard deviation of the early and late wet periods was found to be larger. This is in accord with the findings of the IPCC of an increase in global extremes as a result of climate change. In a future study, the time series for four other subregions will be analyzed.


Abstract: Invasive ants can influence abundance and diversity of insect pollinators, and this effect may be expected to be especially strong on oceanic islands. We examined abundance of native Hylaeus bees and patterns of flower visitation to three native Hawaiian plant species (Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Santalum haleakalae, and Geranium cuneatum) in presence and absence of invasive Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) in the subalpine shrubland of Haleakalā volcano. Native bees, nonnative honeybees, and microlepidoptera were responsible for the majority of visits to flowers of the three plant species. Ants visited flowers of S. haleakalae and G. cuneatum relatively commonly in ant-invaded zones but were less common or absent on flowers of L. tameiameiae in the same zones. Zones with ants had fewer Hylaeus bees in yellow pan traps than the zone without ants, and overall flower visitation rates to one plant species, G. cuneatum, were six times lower in sites containing ants. In one of two observation years, flower visitation to L. tameiameiae was also reduced in sites containing ants. Results suggest that Argentine ants may cause a reduction of native Hylaeus bee abundances; however, other factors correlated with elevation cannot be ruled out as the cause of differences in Hylaeus abundances across our sites.


This paper presents an integrated Ka-band up-converter module which is made up from several components,such as a LO-doubler chain (including active multipler,band-pass filter,gain amplifier),an up-converter and a RF gain amplifier etc. Based on the concept design,and with the help of detailed simulation of these components,we realized the integrated design. The simulation results of the up-converter module satisfied the design specification well,such as Conversion gain was more than 10 dB,Gain Smoothness was better than ±1 dB,the minimum P-1dB was more than 5 dBm. Third-order intermodulation was 30 dBc and VSWR was less than 2. All the circuits were manufactured on substrate R/T5880 the module size was 52 mm×47 mm.


LaF 3 pure host, LaF 3 :Ce, LaF 3 :Tb as well as LaF 3 :Ce,Tb phosphors were synthesized by the hydrothermal method. X-ray diffraction measurements are in good agreement with the standard data of LaF 3 from JCPDS card 32-0483 and indicate that the material is nanocrystalline with a particle size of about 36 nm. Photoluminescence spectra of co-doped samples revealed that the Ce 3+ emission is quenched, while an enhancement of Tb 3+ emission occurred, implying an energy transfer from Ce 3+ (the donor) to Tb 3+ (the acceptor) in this system. MATLAB was used to fit the luminescence intensities and lifetimes of the donor for different concentrations of acceptor to theoretical models in order to investigate the energy transfer mechanism. The experimental data fitted the theoretical curves corresponding to the quadrupole-quadrupole and exchange interactions well. The effective average Bohr radius from the fit to the exchange model is around 1 A. Since this is close to the ionic radius of the Ce 3+ and Tb 3+ ions, it suggests that the exchange interaction may contribute to the energy transfer mechanism.


In the last communication which I had the honour of presenting to the Royal Society, I stated a number of facts, which inclined me to believe, that the body improperly called in the modern nomenclature of chemistry, oxymuriatic acid gas, has not as yet been decompounded.; but that it is a peculiar substance, elementary as far as our knowledge extends, and analogous in many of its properties to oxygene gas. My objects in the present Lecture, are to detail a number of experiments which I have made for the purpose of illustrating more fully the nature, properties, and combinations of this substance, and its attractions for inflammable bodies, as compared with those of oxygene; and likewise to present some general views and conclusions concerning the chemical powers of different species of matter, and the proportions in which they enter into union.


The paper is devoted to the constant renewal of professional skills of adults. The author researches into the essence of the phenomenon "lifelong learning". Special attention is paid to the transformation of continuing professional-pedagogical education into a new self-developing system of secondary professional socialization. Considering the increase of innovations in Russian education at present, continuing education programs such as "Management in Education" and "Higher School Lecturer" are specifically described.The main purpose of the program "Management in Education" is continuing professional development of an administrator by means of developing his cultural and professional competencies. The article deals with a problem of teaching staff reproduction in the Russian system of higher education. An andragogical model of learning is suggested for being used in professional pedagogical training of a higher school lecturer.


The article discusses structure design features of main bearing used in spherical old mill,points out main structure defects.And it puts forward a structure design method of a new rocker style main bearing which meets large-scale cylinder mill operation.


(57) Abstract: Temperature sensor (20) disposed in the center of the food Shimyuranto construct (24), telemetry, is connected instructed, and / or regulating device (28). Temperature of the food Shimyuranto is changed similarly to the food product to be preserved in the vicinity of the food Shimyuranto was not affected by the temperature of the movements of surrounding varying dramatically. Thus, the actual temperature and the reading and recording of food to be stored, it is possible to regulate the temperature in the refrigerated space by a thermostat (16). The present invention is frozen and refrigerated food, and, for example, is used for the temperature reading of the food that has been heated in a microwave oven.


The bond between architecture and place should not be limited to a description of the situation (where and when), but it can also imply the taking of a decision about the way (how) and the reason (why) for this relationship which is sometimes, by itself, able to make the projectual act have sense. This paper reflects, through case studies, on several ways of addressing this topic from the point of view of the contemporary architectural design, and on the emergence of new mechanisms for representing, communicating and making it comprehensible. The paper also aims to overcome the idea of site plan as a mere technical tool, claiming for its new role as main ideological instrument for the development of the architectural projects.


A mathematical model is developed to determine the subthreshold swing of thin-film fully depleted silicon-on-insulator four-gate transistors (G4-FETs). The model is developed using a 2-D model of potential distribution that was derived from 2-D Poisson's equation. Study reveals that the subthreshold swing is a strong function of back-surface charge condition and depends on structural parameters of the device. Excellent agreement with 3-D device simulations is observed.


In Zhang Jiluan's journalism,the ultimate goal of running newspapers is to promote nationalism and the specific way of national salvation is liberalism.In practice,this idea was exactly the strategy of "condemning on minor issues but supporting on major ones".Even today,this strategy is still of great theoretical and practical values.


AbstractThe authors revised the recent literature mainly concerning the diagnostic criteria of Sjogren's syndrome (SS). There is no agreement between different authors on this matter: this makes an exact diagnosis of primary and secondary SS difficult. This difficulty is related to the epidemiological studies and other researches, as readers do not clearly understand if, following different criteria, the authors are examining the same disease or different diseases. For instance, it is difficult to make the distinction between rheumatoid arthritis with SS and primary SS with an overt arthropathy. The same thing happens for associated connective tissue diseases or fibromyalgia. It is also not jet clear if 'sicca syndrome' is either the beginning of a true SS or a separate clinical entity with etiopathogenetic, clinical and prognostic characteristics differing from those of SS. The authors, also on the basis of their studies, try to clarify the matter. These difficulties are less in the clinical setting wher...


Every member of a historical organised community became a taxpayer as soon as the community's leader or its elites were able to impose and levy charges. Although all ancient societies practiced some form of taxation, researchers often encounter problems when attempting to study ancient fiscal policies, types/rates of taxes and administrative structures responsible for revenue collection. The sources on ancient Greece, Rome and other ancient states often describe taxation systems but only rarely supply much details. Furthermore, the fragmentariness and incompleteness of surviving documents hamper attempts at constructing the full picture of any system. The tax system of ancient Israel stands out among other states due to the greater amount of surviving data: the voluminous Jewish literature, from the Bible to the Talmud, frequently refers to taxes and tithes. The majority of scholars studying taxes in ancient Israel focus on a single historical period or form of taxation. M. Girardin, a young scholar associated with Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, adopted a more comprehensive approach, researching the entirety of taxation systems in various periods of history of ancient Israel and their changes in time.1 Girardin's most recent monograph describes and analyses fiscal systems in Hellenistic and Roman Judea. A thoroughly reedited and abbreviated version of Girard's 2017 doctoral dissertation, the monograph focuses on an interval from 200 BCE to 135 CE. The investigated period begins with Judea's incorporation into the Seleukid Empire, whereas it ends with the fall of the Bar Kokhba's revolt and transformation of province Iudaea into Syria-Palaestina.2 The said period saw many a political upheaval, with Judea and neighbouring lands inhabited by the Jews governed by a number of actors: the Seleukids, the Hasmoneans, the Herodians and Rome. Every new governing polity brought new administrative policies and taxation systems. Accordingly, M. Girardin's chief aim is to construct the comprehensive picture of Judea's fiscal systems across its history. The monograph consists of three sections (I. L'Héritage, pp. 37–117; II. La Fracture (200 a.C. – 6 p.C.), pp. 123–289; III. La Crise (6–135 p.C.), pp. 295–470), dividing into ten chapters, an 'Introduction générale' (pp. 6–32), and concluding remarks (pp. 473–480).


Disaster is the real threat for national security. Flash flood in Garut 2016 was the biggest disaster in West Java during 2016 as well as the worst flash floods in history in Garut regency. Health service efforts during the emergency response period should be undertaken to protect human security. Lack of coordination becomes one of obstacles in the health service efforts during the emergency response period of flash flood in Garut 2016. Therefore, this study aims to see the structure and the key actor of inter-agency coordination of health cluster in emergency response of flash flood Garut 2016. Research design of this study is mix method that used social network analysis as a method of analysis in quantitative approach and Miles & Huberman analysis as a method of analysis in qualitative approach. The study involved 32 respondents who represented 29 health cluster institutions consisting of government, NGO, professional and private organization. The results showed the type of structure of inter-agency coordination of health cluster during the emergency response of flash flood Garut 2016 is lead agency with network density 3%. The problem is the coordination chain is quite long because it requires 3-6 liaison agencies, but Garut regency does not have contingency plans that can arrange it. The results also showed that the key actor of inter-agency coordination of health cluster during emergency response in flash flood Garut 2016 was Health Office of Garut regency. Therefore, Health Office of Garut Regency needs to make an MoU with NGOs to help the government as a liaison agency in the coordination network. Local governments, communities and private sector should also work together in making contingency plans for floods in Garut for future convenience.


We extend the constructive differential game logic (CdGL) of hybrid games with a refinement connective that relates two hybrid games. We use this connective to prove a folk theorem relating hybrid games to hybrid systems.


This communication demonstrates the relevance of membrane sealing in a test cell to its performance. Membranes need to be sealed, and therefore a more or less significant (depending on the test cell design) peripheral part of the membrane is supported directly by the cell body (instead of a permeate spacer). Although it may seem that there should be no filtration through the membrane when it is supported by an impermeable surface, this communication demonstrates that this is not generally true due to filtration along the membrane porous support. To confirm this, experiments were performed with a cross-flow test cell (GE SEPA™ CF II), blocking the membrane hydraulically from beneath in order to simulate the effect of having the membrane supported by an impermeable surface. The results show that the trans-membrane volume flux obtained in all cases is only slightly affected by the membrane blocking. In view of this, in the cell design, care should be taken to reduce such peripheral parts of the membrane to a minimum because it may be technically very difficult to have there the same conditions of concentration polarization as over the membrane part supported by the permeate spacer


A synchrotron radiation source emits coherent infrared (IR) radiation when the electron bunch length is comparable to the wavelength of the emitted radiation (see for example [1, 2]). To generate coherent radiation in the far IR (THz) region, a 'low alpha mode' has been devised at the ANKA storage ring operating at 1.3 GeV. The corresponding lattice has a significantly reduced momentum compaction factor. The spectral dependence of the emitted radiation is recorded at the ANKA-IR beam line, where the synchrotron light is produced in the fringe field of a bending magnet [3]. This edge radiation has the advantage of being more collimated than constant field radiation. This allows the observation of frequencies down to 1 cm-1through a modest vertical aperture, which would not be possible with classical constant field emission due to the increasing beam divergence with decreasing frequency. The onset of coherent emission is found at a synchrotron frequency of about 10 kHz. At 5 kHz, an intensity enhancement of up to 5 orders of magnitude, with respect to the incoherent emission, is observed in the spectral range between 1 and 65 cm-1.


Hui writer ZhangChengZhi has been committed to the Chinese literary,His novel contains diversified culture.This paper will deeply analysis this question.


Both the rise of hostile takeovers and the phenomenal success of LBOs in the 1980s can be explained in part as capital market responses to the shortcomings of the top-down, EPS-based model of financial management that has long dominated corporate America. the EVA financial management system, which presents the 1990s most serious challenge to the dominance of the EPS model, borrows important aspects from the LBO movement, particularly its focus on capital efficiency and ownership incentives. Unlike the LBO movement, however, the EVA system accomplishes such goals without the high leverage and concentration of risk that limit LBOs to the mature sector of the US economy. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1996.


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 Introduction
 The enforcement of the food and drug laws during the past decade has had a marked
 influence on the methods used for the preservation of fruit juices and syrups. Chemical
 preservatives, at one time very generally used, have been to a large extent replaced
 by pasteurization. The only chemical preservatives permitted by law are. sodium-benzoate
 and sulfur-dioxide. Used in moderate concentrations these preservatives are considered
 not injurious. to health; but the consuming public has reacted unfavorably toward
 them in recent years, largely because they affect the flavor of the product adversely.
 Since pasteurization is the method best suited to the preservation of these beverages,
 it is very desirable that accurate information regarding the factors affecting this
 operation should be available.
 Pasteurization is that process of food preservation in which the food is heated to
 a temperature sufficient to destroy or inhibit the growth of any microorganisms that
 would affect the food injuriously, but not necessarily to destroy all the living microorganisms
 with which the food may be infected.
 In the pasteurization of fruit juices, beverages, and syrups, the time and temperature
 of heating must be such as to destroy the yeasts and molds the activity of which would
 cause deterioration of the product.


We successfully demonstrated real-time 400G (64GBaud DP-16QAM) single-carrier ultra-efficient 1.2Tb/s superchannel (6.25bit/s/Hz) over new ultra-low loss large Aeff terrestrial fiber with long term error-free performance over 150km single-span and 250km (2 spans) using only EDFAs.


The chemical structures of two soybean adhesives("120"and"140") were analyzed using infrared spectroscopy,dynamic mechanical analysis and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy(1H-NMR). The results showed that the contents of hydroxyl group,amino group and carbonyl group were higher in "140"adhesive than in "120"adhesive,while the content of carboxyl group was higher in"120"adhesive. The storage modulus and curing temperature of "120"adhesive were 3 500 MPa and 120 ℃,respectively. With respect to"140"adhesive,these two values were 2 600 MPa and 150 ℃,respectively. The "120 " adhesive exhibited good bonding performance because it contained —NH2,—CH2—COOH,—CH2—COO—CH2—,—R—CH2—OH and Ph—OH groups,which could form high energy ether bonds with bamboo surface.


Abstract A partial substitution of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) by magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2) as the alkali source was studied in peroxide bleaching of an aspen chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP). The effects on pulp properties, including pulp strength, optical property and carboxylic groups content, and process characteristics, such as oxalate and anionic trash formation, were studied. The X–ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) technique was used to determine the lignin and extractives concentrations on the fiber surface. With the increased Mg(OH)2 substitution ratio, the peroxide bleaching process gave a higher pulp yield and peroxide bleaching efficiency, produced pulps with higher light scattering coefficient and bulk, while the total oxalate, anionic trash, and chemical oxygen demand load (COD) were less. The total carboxylic groups content and the surface charge of pulp fibers were decreased. The underlying mechanism responsible for the decreased strength properties, when the Mg(OH)2 substitution ratio was increased, is discussed.


The paper describes new methods for designing pole-zero filters that utilize a particular filter structure called Kautz filters and an efficient procedure for the optimization of filter parameters. In the design phase, complex warping is used to emphasize a chosen frequency region in the modeling. The motivation, from an audio signal processing perspective, is as follows. Many audio related target responses can be well-modelled by a combination of distributed decaying exponential components, which is by definition what a Kautz filter does, but in an orthonormalized form, providing many favorable properties. The most essential part is then how to choose the Kautz filter poles, for which we propose a new effective and well-behaving iterative method. Utilizing an intermediate warping procedure, the desired frequency resolution allocation is incorporated into the choosing of poles $the target signal is warped prior to the pole optimization and then the produced poles are mapped back to the original frequency domain using inverse warping.


Sarcopenia is a geriatric syndrome that is often seen in elderly and senile patients. It reduces their physical abilities, affects the quality of life, increases the frequency of falls and consequently the risk of osteoporotic fractures.Lean mass index and such studies as CT, MRT and DXA are used for sarcopenia diagnostic (loss of muscle mass with age).Sarcopenia prevention and treatment are include exercise therapy, correction of nutrition and pharmacotherapy.


Wavefunctions for the homogeneous electron gas, a germanium pseudo-solid, and a germanium pseudo-atom are optimized using the method of variance minimization. New forms for the Jastrow factor which are convenient to optimize and may be evaluated rapidly are devised and tested and we stress the advantages of using expressions which are linear in the variable parameters. For each system studied we have performed variational and diiusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations to test the accuracy of the optimized wavefunctions. The results of our study are very promising for future applications of quantum Monte Carlo methods to real materials.


A DSM--PDF tworphase turbulence model (a combination of the gas Reynolds stressequation model with the PDF transport equation model of particle phase ) is proposed andtogether with the k-e-Kp. model is used to simulate swirling gas--particle flows with a swirlnumber of 0.47. Comparison with PDPA measurements shows that both two models can wellpredict the time-averaged velocity fields of weakly swirling flows. However, the DSM--PDFmodel can properly predict the anisotropic behavior of tworphase turbulence, hence has thepotential superiority for predicting strongly swirling flows, while the k-e-Kp model fails todo so.


This paper examines the extent to which challenges in the workplace may cause women project managers to be in a significantly small minority. A survey of members of the Australian Institute of Project Management in Queensland is described. This compares the experiences and observations of both males and females on various issues related to technical and gender aspects in the project management workplace. The results show that, while female project managers experience many problems, male project managers also experience most of the same problems. Likewise, there are also few differences between the more experienced and less experienced, level of management and types of industries. The differences that do occur include discrimination against women in general, differences in project management styles and the support from other project managers.


OBJECTIVE To detect the genotype in 37 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium(VREFm) strains to guide the clinical treatment.Results of homology provide the proof for molecular epidemiology.METHODS According to the guideline of Clinical Laboratory Standardization Institute of the USA(CLSI),antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed with disk diffusion and agar dilution method;to detect vancomycin resistant gene by PCR.To analyze the homology by repetitive extragenic palindromic element-PCR(REP-PCR) method.RESULTS Resistance rates to vancomycin and teicoplanin were 100.0% and 100.0% in 37 VREFm,respectively.It had minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC)512 μg/ml for vancomycin.Thirty seven VanA genes were detected in 37 VREFm.The drug resistance rates to erythromycin,ampicillin,levofloxacin,gentamicin,ciprofloxacin,nitrofurantoin(Euradantin) and chloramphenicol were 100.0%,100.0%,89.2%,86.5%,91.9%,59.5%,and 5.4%,respectively.The REP-PCR generated 3-14 bands between 100 and 2000bp.They were divided into six types.CONCLUSIONS There is 100.0% agreement between phenotypes and genotypes in VREFm.VREFm are multiresistant.REP-PCR method is simple,rapid,and with lower cost to detect the homology in enterococci.


Medicaid began as a poverty program for the poorest of the "worthy poor." In the next five decades, it extended its reach to cover a broad population for some of its services, including, for example, about half of all childbirths in the United States,' and almost half of all long-term care services. 2 The Affordable Care Act (ACA) 3 pushed Medicaid's breadth further, although that extension was at least delayed in many states by the Supreme Court.4 Some scholars embrace Medicaid's role as advancing toward universal coverage by filling the gap between Medicaid's traditional poverty population and the population able to access employment-based coverage. Others, however, are concerned that asking Medicaid to cover broader population groups runs the risk of diminishing its essential mission of providing coverage for the poorest, who face unique health needs. This disagreement suggests a need to choose between a Medicaid targeted to particular needs of the poor and one increasingly universal in scope. Yet, under the ACA, Medicaid can achieve both a universal and targeted mission by following Theda Skocpol's "targeting within universalism" model. "Targeted" social policies address poverty issues through "highly concentrated.. . services devised especially for the poor," while "universal" policies address poverty through broader programs that link the plight of the poor with those of the middle class. 6


The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the efficiency of healthcare systems among 28 countries around the world by applying the data...


Coronavirus infection is an outbreak of a mysterious pneumonia. It was first known to all in December 2019. Covid 19 is a newly discovered coronavirus which affects people in different ways, their symptoms vary from mild to moderate, symptoms include fever, dry cough, tiredness. It could be managed or prevented by isolating themselves for 14 days and undergoing symptomatic treatment.The virus is able to invade the immune system and cause inflammatory response in the lungs,it is seen that diet and ACE( angiotensin-converting enzyme-2) to play a vital role in corona virus disease progression in people.People affected with coronavirus may have symptoms ranging from asymptomatic infection to acute respiratory distress syndrome. information about pathophysiology of covid 19 was searched in relevant search engines like Google scholar, pubmed, research gate and the knowledge at current point of time analysed and consensus established. The pathophysiology of covid 19 is explored to arrive at a baseline data to make people aware of the current situation and the rate of spread and complications.


Th1 and Th2 cell fates are traditionally viewed as mutually exclusive, but recent work suggests that these lineages may be more plastic than previously thought. When isolating splenic CD4+ T cells from mice infected with the parasitic helminth Schistosoma mansoni, we observed a defined population of IFN‐γ/IL‐4 double‐positive cells. These IFN‐γ+IL‐4+ cells showed differences in DNA methylation at the Ifng and Il4 loci when compared with IFN‐γ+IL‐4− (Th1) and IFN‐γ−IL‐4+ (Th2) cells, demonstrating that they represent a distinct effector cell population. IFN‐γ+IL‐4+ cells also displayed a discrete DNA methylation pattern at a CpG island within the body of the Gata3 gene, which encodes the master regulator of Th2 identity. DNA methylation at this region correlated with decreased Gata3 levels, suggesting a possible role in controlling Gata3 expression. These data provide important insight into the molecular mechanisms behind the co‐existence of Th1 and Th2 characteristics.


This study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the role-play as the teaching and formative assessment strategy for the undergraduate English major students from the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia. To find the effectiveness and the impact of role-play as a teaching strategy, a quasi-experimental method was employed by using a pretest-posttest design wherein the pre and posttest results of 70 EFL students from experimental and the control groups were compared. The experimental group was taught some new areas of grammar, functions and vocabulary using role-play; simultaneously, the control group was taught the same items using the traditional method of teaching. The pretest revealed no significant difference in the knowledge level of the students between the two groups. On the other hand, the posttest results showed that there was a significant difference in the knowledge level of the students in favour of the experimental group. Further, a structured questionnaire was used to understand the perspective of the teachers on the efficacy of role-play in the assessment of students in the English language classes. A sample size of 20 teachers was used where it was found that role-play had a significant impact on the formative assessment. The findings of the study suggested role-play as an effective technique for the undergraduate English-major students in Saudi Arabia to solve the classroom interpersonal troubles, and it would help the students to imbibe the human-relation along with increasing their proficiency in the English language.


Fish belonging to three species of cyprinids, that is, barbel (Barbus plebejus), chub (Leuciscus cephalus), and Italian nase (Chondrostoma söetta), were collected from two sites of the River Po, located upstream and downstream from the confluence of one of its middle‐reach polluted tributaries, the River Lambro. The two groups of individuals caught for each species were analyzed and compared for several microsomal and cytosolic biochemical markers. The enzymatic activities assayed in fish liver included ethoxyresorufin O‐deethylase (EROD), aminopyrine‐N‐demethylase (APDM), uridine diphosphate glucuronyltransferase (UDPGT), glutathione S‐transferase (GST), glutathione reductase, and glutathione peroxidase. In addition, the contents of reduced glutathione and nonprotein thiols were measured. Despite some differences among species, all microsomal activities (EROD, APDM, UDPGT) were found to be significantly induced in fish living downstream the River Lambro. With the exception of a higher GST enzyme activity of barbel from the downstream reach, no significant modification was evident in any of the tested cytosolic biomarkers. Results showed that barbel and nase better discriminated the two reaches of the River Po. In general, the alterations observed in feral fish are consistent with the results found in previous studies conducted with rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) under both laboratory and field conditions in the same middle reach of the River Po. All of the data indicate that the downstream tract of the main river is exposed to the load of pollutants transported by the River Lambro, including known inducers such as polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The latter were analyzed in sediments sampled at the two sites of fish collection, and the downstream sediment showed the highest concentrations of PAHs, although their levels are comparable to those present in moderately polluted locations. Regardless of the site of exposure, barbel seem to be characterized by more efficient antioxidant defenses. This observation could partly explain the lower prevalence of pathological lesions and parasites observed in this cyprinid in a previous study.


In the duration of China's 12th Five Year Plan,clean energy and renewable energy resource will be striven to develop and large-scale grid-connection of wind farms will be implemented in China.In allusion to the problem of disorderly development of domestic wind farms,it is proposed that the capacity investment portfolio should be optimized: not only the demands of load and secure operation of power grid should be met,but also the waste due to over-investment should be avioded,so there is a new challenge to traditional generation capacity optimization.Using portfolio theory,a systemic and numerical analysis on installed capacity of wind turbine generators are performed,and considering grid-connection of wind farms a new optimal investment portfolio model for installed capacity is built.From numerical calculation example,optimal installed capacity and investment scale of wind farms in China are obtained.


The purpose of this paper is to identify how increasingly sophisticated modeling of pollution problems might be used in making a judicious selection between policy tools. In general, the choice of an appropriate policy instrument is found to depend on the level of technical understanding of the problem and the functional relationship between emissions and pollution. Additional political and economic considerations are brought into focus by way of an example-the control of sulfur oxides emissions in Los Angeles through the use of marketable permits.


I. Dependency, Autonomy, and the Role of the Family.- 1. Dependency, Decisions, and a Family of Care Jeffrey P. Bishop.- 2. Individually Directed Informed Consent and the Decline of the Family in the West.- Mark J. Cherry 3. Family and Autonomy: Towards Shared Medical Decision-Making in Light of Confucianism Jue Wang.- II. Informed Consent: Individual-oriented vs. Family-oriented.- 4. The Ideal of Autonomy and Its Misuse Kyungsuk Choi.- 5. The Confucian Alternative to the Individual-Oriented Model of Informed Consent: Family and Beyond Kam-por Yu.- 6. The East Asian Family-Oriented Principle and the Concept of Autonomy Lawrence Yung.- III. Family Consent in End-of-life Decision Making.- 7. Family Consent in Medical Decision-Making in Taiwan: The Implications of the New Revisions of the Hospice Palliative Care Act Shui Chuen Lee.- 8. Filial Duty as the Moral Foundation of Caring for the Elderly: Its Possibility and Limitations Ilhak Lee.- 9. End-of-life Decision Making in Hong Kong: The Appeal of the Shared Decision Making Model Ho Mun Chan, Doris M.W. Tse, Kam Hung Wong, Julian Chuk-Ling Lai, Chun Kit Chui.- IV. Risk Assuming, Organ Donation, Medical Research and the Family.- 10. Families and Medical Decisions to Assume Risks for the Benefit of Others Ana Iltis.- 11. On Family Informed Consent in the Legislation of Organ Donation in China Yu Cai.- 12. The Informed Consent of Human Medical Research in Mainland China: A Family-Based Binary Decision Model Rui Deng.- V. Family Shared Decision Making, Truth Telling, and Advance Directives.- 13. Toward a Shared Decision: Against the Fiction of the Autonomous Individual Ryan Nash.- 14. A Confucian Worldview and Family-Based Informed Consent: A Case of Concealing Illness from the Patient in China Wenqing Zhao.- 15. Towards a Good Practice of Family-Oriented Consent: Reflections on Medical Practice in Taiwan Hon Chung Wong.- 16. A Family-Oriented Confucian Approach to Advance Directives in End-of-Life Decision Making for Incompetent Elderly Patients Yaning Yang.- VI. Epilogue.- 17. Families and Individuals in Medical Decision Making Lisa M. Rasmussen.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.


Significant growth in the sales is expected in the coming years for the product family that is the focus of this research. In order to meet the takt time for the future demand, improvement on the current processes and expansion are needed. In this work, Value Stream Mapping was implemented to identify the bottleneck processes: fit up (oval), full welding, and pressure testing. Assembly cell concept, workload balancing and FIFO lanes were proposed countermeasures or improvements to address the capacity shortfall. A decrease of 27% in manufacturing lead time was projected if these improvements were made. In addition, the capacity analysis suggests that an expansion is required in full welding and heat treatment furnace.


The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) was established in 1975. It succeeded the Kingdom of Laos, following decades of civil war and heavy involvement in the larger Indochina War in the Eastern and Northeastern provinces. After the war, many Unexplored Ordnances (UXOs) were left from American bombing. The Lao PDR was one of the most heavily bombed countries in the world, and UXOs continue to have a major impact on rural lives. Thirty years after the war, lives are still being lost due to UXOs. Further, livelihoods are restricted as agricultural expansion in many areas is impossible until the land is cleared of UXOs.


ZnO/Zn0.85Mg0.15O heterostructure thin films were prepared by sol-gel spin-coating method on sapphire (0001) substrate with different thickness of ZnO layer. X-ray diffraction patterns showed that all the samples were preferentially oriented in [0001] direction with no phase separation. Optical transmission spectra showed the clear band-edge absorption of ZnO and Zn0.85Mg0.15O layer, and the thickness of each layer was roughly estimated. Also, two UV emission peaks originated from each layer at 3.2 eV and 3.55 eV were observed in photoluminescence measurement. And, the emission peak at 3.2 eV of ZnO layer shifted to higher energy side with decrease in the thickness of ZnO layer. This result indicates that Mg ions slightly diffused to the ZnO layer in several nanometers of ZnO/Zn0.85Mg0.15O interface by thermal treatment in growth process (© 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


In early June 2015, superintendents at Heritage Park Golf Course (HPGC) (Johnson County, Kansas) and Dub's Dread Golf Club (DDGC) (Wyandotte County, Kansas) reported unfamiliar beetles burrowing into greens and attracting vertebrate predators that caused additional damage. Specimens were brought to Dr. Brett Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska, who identified them as carrot beetles, Tomarus gibbosus (De Geer), a widely distributed North American scarab. This is the first report of direct or indirect damage from T. gibbosus in any turfgrass setting. Adult T. gibbosus were discovered at night/early morning either crawling across greens and collars or partially inserted into the soil (Fig. 1). Adult burrowing left behind circular or D-shaped holes about 8 mm (5/16 inches) in diameter, tufts, and small piles of soil (Fig. 2). Further dissection of burrows yielded beetles just under the surface or, in some cases, 5 to 10 cm (2–4 inches) deep. Beetle activity was initially on and just inside collars but became distributed throughout greens. Burrows and adults were found on all greens of both courses, with more heavily infested ones showing 15 to 20 burrows and beetles per green. The HPGC greens are 70% 'Pennlinks' creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) and 30% annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) on a high-sand root zone mix conforming to United States Golf Association specifications. The DDGC has pushup greens with native soil and a 50:50 mix of 'Penncross' creeping bentgrass/annual bluegrass. Predators, probably skunks (Mephitis mephitis) and raccoons (Procyon lotor), caused additional damage to the greens at HPGC (Fig. 3). Digging coincided with initial beetle activity and continued until late June. Damage ranged from small scooped-out depressions to larger patches (20–35 cm [8–12 inches]). Once vertebrate damage became apparent, lambda-cyhalothrin (Scimitar GC, Syngenta) at 77 g a.i./ ha (0.069 lb a.i./acre) was applied 10 June 2015. Adult beetle activity was suppressed, but vertebrate damage was noted again 9 days after application, so carbaryl (Sevin SL, Bayer) was applied at 4.5 kg a.i./ha (4 lb a.i./acre). The DDGC also Published in Crop Forage Turfgrass Manage. Volume 2. DOI: 10.2134/cftm2015.0188 © 2016 American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison, WI 53711


Founded in 1916, The Conference Board is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit, member-driven think tank that delivers trusted insights into what lies ahead In the following interview with Chiqui Cartagena, the organisation's Chief Marketing Officer and Leader of its Center for Marketing and Communications, Ms Cartagena discusses the most recent consumer confidence measures and offers key insights on how corporations have responded to the economic volatility created by the COVID-19 pandemic Ms Cartagena also shares what The Conference Board is doing to prepare for a multicultural majority in the USA, and what it means on a personal level to be the first Latina Chief Marketing Officer of this powerful think tank © Henry Stewart Publications 2056-8002 (2020)


Abstract : Spatial disorientation or the loss of situational awareness has been identified as the primary or secondary cause of 15-25% of all fatal military aircraft accidents. One of the promising recent attempts to combat disorientation has focused on the peripheral vision horizon device (PVHD). The current set of experiments indicate that when two fixed-length PVHD horizon line segments (straight line with missing central segment) are progressively moved outward, away from central vision, the ability to track the horizon does not improve but diminishes. Tracking performance was not optimal when the horizon line segments were presented to retinal areas having the highest visual rod density as speculated in our initial report. Improvements in compensatory tracking with PVHD presentations appear to be related to absolute size of the horizon.


Abstract In life, there are so many problems. Problems also happen in novel. We find various kinds of problems in novel which reflect the main characters' daily life. The problems are sometimes in the form of psychological conflict. this kind of conflict is harder to solve especially for minority people such as lesbian. It is interesting to study about psychological conflict in novel, especially in Nancy Garden novel entitled Annie On My Mind. The novel is about Liza Winthrop as the main character faces her problem as a lesbian. This novel also was banned and burnt because Nancy garden was the first author for young adults to create a lesbian love story. Therefore, the researcher has been interested in studying this problem by formulating three research problems such as: (1) How is psychological background of Liza Winthrop as the main character in Annie On My Mind novel by Nancy Garden? (2) What are psychological conflicts that Liza Winthrop got when she realized that she fall in love with Annie Kenyon in Annie On My Mind novel by Nancy Garden? (3) How Liza Winthrop character in the Annie On My Mind novel by Nancy Garden overcomes her psychological conflict ? The research design which used in this research is descriptive qualitative research since the researcher intends to describe psychological backgorund, psychological conflict, and the way overcome the conflict. The data in this research analyzed into six steps, i.e data collection, data analysis, data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing, and data reportation. The researcher found there are five of Liza's Winthrop character or psychological background that is formed based on her life environment. Those are introvert, masculin, responsible, idealis, and kind-heart person. Those Liza Winthrop's psychological background influence Liza in overcome her psychological conflict which there are two of the most of psychological conflict faced by her, they are approach-approach conflict and double approach-avoidance conflict. Finally, the researcher really hopes for the student to learn fiction deeply and enjoyed analyzing literary works. And for the lecturer in English Literature Department, lecturer can give explanation about analyzing another aspect in the literary works in order students will not bored in learning or studying fiction. Last, but not least, for the further researcher, they could take different way in analyzing the literary works. Keywords: Psychological conflict, psychological, character


'Threshold' was a 3-month art project made possible by a Community Cultural Development Grant from the City of Melbourne, to run art workshops at Ozanam House and Ozanam Community Centre (St. Vincent de Paul Aged Care and Community Services) with the goal of staging a public exhibition.


Buccal epithelial cells are occasionally used as a source of supposedly non-neoplastic DNA in patients suffering from haematological malignancies. Formerly, Kralovics et al found the JAK2 V617F mutation in DNA derived from buccal swabs in only 2.2% of patients with Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative disorders (Ph− CMPD).1

We compared the JAK2 V617F mutational status in DNA derived from buccal swabs to that in DNA extracted from either bone marrow or peripheral blood in 35 Ph− CMPD patients, including five cases of polycythaemia vera (PV), five cases of chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis (CIMF) and 25 cases of essential thrombocythaemia (ET). Genomic DNA was isolated from buccal swabs immediately on collection and …


The objective of this research was to model the leaf area of velvet bean determined by digital photos with the dimensions of the central leaflet limb of the leaf. A experiment of 256m 2 was conducted with the culture of velvet bean in the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. In six periods of culture development (29, 43, 57, 73, 87 and 101 days after emergence) were collected, randomly, 790 leaves. Each leaf is composed of the left, center and right leaflets. In these 790 leaves were measured the length (CFC) and width (LFC) and calculated the product length width (CFC×LFC) of the central leaflet. It was determined the leaf area (the leaf area sum of the left, center and right leaflets) by the method of digital photos (Y). Later, 650 leaves were randomly separated, to build the quadratic model, potency and linear of Y in function of the CFC, LFC and/or CFC×LFC. It was used 140 leaves for validation. The potency model of leaf area obtained by method of digital photos (Y=3.6450 x 1.9479


The Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly impacted various industries, particularly the automotive sector, due to the growing integration of IoT technologies in vehicles. As a result, the volume of data generated by vehicular sensors has increased, leading to a surge in studies focusing on driver behavior to enhance road safety and optimize transportation networks. However, traditional approaches to analyzing driver behavior have relied on supervised offline learning models, which are unsuitable for handling data streams in online learning environments. This study introduces an unsupervised online k-fix AutoCloud algorithm for detecting driver behavior patterns, leveraging the concepts of typicity and eccentricity while considering the historical-temporal relationships between samples. Furthermore, the algorithm autonomously and adaptively evolves without requiring a supervised training phase, making it compatible with the TinyML concept, encompassing Artificial Intelligence algorithms designed for low-power IoT devices. To validate the proposed method, a real case study was conducted over four days using a vehicle to compare the quantity and quality of clusters generated by the algorithm. The findings demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach for optimizing data processing with minimal computational power.


Epilepsy is a chronic nontransmissible brain disease that affects all ages people. Worldwide epilepsy burden is about 50 million making it a common neurological disease (WHO). Generally, Epilepsy is detected using history and EEG analysis. But this method is time and data-consuming as EEG signals appear to be normal after some time in the conversions. This paper proposed a methodology for the detection of Epilepsy by integrating the fMRI and EEG analysis. Features (mean, standard deviation, and power spectral density) are extracted and provided to the SVM classifier. SVM classifies the data with 94.44% of accuracy. The proposed method is found to have more accuracy than SCA, DCM, and DeepID existing methodologies. Further, accuracy can be improved by increasing the number of subjects and features.


Received: July 21, 2019 Accepted: November 10, 2019 1 University of Health Sciences, Sancaktepe Training and Research Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. 2 University of Health Sciences, Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Corresponding Author: Selma Atay Islam, MD Address: University of Health Sciences, Sancaktepe Training and Research Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Phone: +90 50574646381e-mail: email@example.com A /C ed a : Islam SA, Eroglu SE, Isat G, Aksel G, Islam MM. The Effect Of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio To The Prognosis And The Duration Of Hospitalization In Adult Patients Diagnosed With Ileus In The Emergency Room. Anatolian J Emerg Med 2019;2(4); 1-5. ORIGINAL ARTICLE / ÖZGÜN ARAŞTIRMA MAKALESİ


An application-independent visualization interactionsystem is proposed. with potential forapplicationbinding at any stage of the modeling process. Advantages of this approach include ease of use. f1exibilily, code reuse, and modularity. Our design ideas are manifest in the DISplay system, a graphical user interaction and display library which can be used wilh any pamllel software. We outline its use in the the dynamic display of results from compUlalions in queueing and dislribllted particle-physics simulations, exemplifying synchronization of multiple remote display requests, and the potential for enhanced paraUel simulaLions. We also describe how it may be used 10 define customized user in· teraeLion dialogs for input from an application, and bi-directional internction between a user and an application. • Researchsupponed in part by NATO-CRG900108, NSFCCR-9102331, ONR-9310233. andARO-93G0045.


It has been previously demonstrated that glutamate (GLU), a neuroexcitatory amino acid which destroys neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (AH) when administered in high subcutaneous (s.c.) doses to rodents, induces an acute elevation of serum luteinizing hormone (LH) when administered in non-toxic doses, i.e., doses lower than those required to damage AH neurons. It is postulated that a neuroexcitatory mechanism (excitation of AH neurons) underlies the acute rise in serum LH induced by GLU. To explore this hypothesis, we administered several potent excitatory analogs of GLU – kainic acid (KA), N-methyl-aspartic acid (NMA) and homocysteic acid (HCA) -in low doses to 25-day-old male rats and found that each analog mimics GLU in producing acute elevations of serum LH. The lowest doses effective (LED) in inducing significant elevations in LH were: 0.03 μM/g KA, 0.1 μM/g NMA and 0.3 μM/gHCA. Thus, the order of potencies (KA > NMA > HCA) for inducing LH elevations was the same as has been shown for either the neuroexcitatory or neurotoxic activities of these compounds. With the possible exception of KA, each compound induced LH elevations at 1/3–1/4 the lowest effective toxic doses (LETD). It is tentatively concluded that these potent neuroexcitatory analogs of GLU readily penetrate AH from blood and stimulate firing of AH neurons which triggers discharge of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) into portal blood to give rise to pituitary output of LH. This interpretation, if corroborated, suggests that these compounds may be useful tools for studying mechanisms of neuro-endocrine regulation.


This paper discusses the integration of instruction set simulators (ISS) for processor cores into highlevel system models. The approaches to providing data communication between high level modules and ISS are addressed as well as the synchronization between these parts.


The period from the sixth to the third century B. C. was, in the history of Chinese civilization, the Age of Philosophy. During those four centuries, there flourished in the city-states of North China what the Father of Chinese History' later called "The Hundred Schools.'" The Hundred Schools posed those problems of life and the world the solutions of which became the matrix in which the distinctive ways and thoughts of the Chinese people have been cast. The Masters of the Schools formulated their philosophical systems, their pupils recorded them, and the literature they left has provided the models not only for thought, but for language itself. for their writings later became classical in the strict sense. The period was China's Periclean Age. The great names of the period are as familiar throughout East Asia as those of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in the West. They serve to remind us that the civilizations of the East have been engendered and conditioned by a philosophical tradition as ancient as, though very different from, our own. Confucius, Mencius, and Hsun-tzu of the Traditionalist School and Chuang-tzu and Lao-tzu among the Mystics, are names that are becoming familiar in the West. The names of Yang Chu the Epicurean, of Kungsun Lung the Sophist, of Shang Yang the Legalist, and of Han Fei-tzu the Realist are less familiar. But one philosopher neglected and almost forgotten, even in his own country, has after an eclipse of nearly two thousand years recently enjoyed a vogue and influence in China. He has been brought to the fore again, though belatedly, as one of the foremost thinkers of his age. The philosopher is Micius. His name is a latinized form of the Chinese Mo-IzlI, hence the terms Mohist and Mohism, used respectively of his school and teachings. Micius flourished some time between 479 and 38r B.C. and was thus a contemporary of Socrates. His life falls between the death of Confucius and the birth of Mencius. Soon after his death his influence was acknowledged by his contemporaries.


A method for determining the relative importance of alternative input-to-output paths in an interconnection network can be used to diagnose crosstalk. It is applicable to both AC steady-state behavior and transient behavior and can identify which stray coupling is most responsible for the interference and false signaling produced by unintended transmission paths. Networks containing both lumped and distributed elements are amenable to this technique. >


3011 strains from three algae species Phaeodactylum tricornutum,Platymonas subcordiformis and Isochrysis galbana were cultured under autotrophic and amphitrophic conditions and their growth and contents of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA),and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) were determined. The results showed that Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Isochrysis galbana grew rapidly and had high levels of EPA and DHA. On the constrary, the growth of Platymonas subcordiformis in the heterotrophic culture was comparatively lower with the composition of EPA and DHA decreasing. According to the results, it might come to the conclusions that the amounts of EPA and DHA were very high in Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Isochrysis galbana and profitable for marine culture.


The difference between 'dualities' and 'conflicts' of interests is an importantoneandwas, I think, clearlyexplained in my article. The principle is simple, even if perhaps a little unfamiliar. Take the example of Professor Smith himself: he is (no doubt, among other things) a private consultant, a member of staff in a public hospital, a professor at a university and a clinical researcher. Each of these roles has certain obligations associated with it. In general, these obligations do not conflict and it is possible to maintain all of them harmoniously. However, on occasions a conflict may arise: for instance, a decisionmayneed to bemade aboutwhether a patient is treated in the public or in the private system or whether to recruit a patient under his personal care for one of his clinical trials. There is nothing exceptional or ignominious about such conflicts but when they occur, action needs to be taken to disengage the two roles: for example, a third person may be asked to decide on the best interests of the patient or to handle the consent process. It is certainly possible that conflicts could arise for members of therapeutic committees of special societies who also sit on pharmaceutical company advisory boards. For example, the committee could be asked to review evidence about a drug produced by the company and supported by the advisory board. In cases like this, it would clearly be important for the member holding both positions to absent ('recuse') himself or herself from the discussion in the committee. The trick, of course, is how to identify such conflicts and to establish a systematic process for responding to them. The draft Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) guidelines recommend that each society should ensure that it has a policy that provides guidance about what to do in such settings. The process recommended is that individuals should declare their dual interests (in this case, membership of the committee and the advisory board) and for the committee to decide whether a conflict does in fact exist and if so, what action needs to be taken to separate the conflicting roles. Although in this particular case it might seem obvious that the 'duality' does constitute a 'conflict', maintaining the distinction between the two concepts is still helpful. This is because whereas the existence of a duality might only be known to themember the decision about whether there is a conflict is not up to him or her but to the committee itself. Emphasizing this may help overcome the common but erroneous impression that having a conflict of interest is a state of mind that can be avoided if only one adopts the right attitude. Rather, the conflict is in the facts and can be identified according to objective criteria by a well-informed group of peers that considers all the interests at stake, including the interest of the professional society itself in maintaining its reputation and preserving public credibility. The draft of RACP policies is on the college website and comments will be welcomed from Fellows and interested members of the public.


The anaerobic reduction of perchlorate is an electron donor/carbon rate driven, microbially mediated, oxidation-reduction reaction capable of degrading per- chlorate to the final end products, chloride, oxygen and water. Several studies have indicated that perchlorate may be the perfect tracer and there is little published informa- tion related to adsorption values for perchlorate in soils. Therefore, a perchlorate release in soil must be addressed almost immediately to prevent the perchlorate ion from leaching through the soil and eventually contaminating groundwater. Few conventional treatments exist to treat perchlorate- impacted soils. Those that are available, such as dig and haul, only serve to transfer the problem from one source to another, potentially impacting landfills receiving any excavated/impacted soils. Once in groundwater, per- chlorate, having a solubility in water of approximately 18.5% at 15 o C, becomes very difficult to treat. Therefore, the ability to rapidly respond to the presence of impacted soil is critical in minimizing groundwater impacts and thus significantly lowering the overall cost to remediate the release of perchlorate to the environment. The anaerobic reduction of perchlorate in soils utilizing the biocell technology was successfully implemented for pilot testing and full-scale operation at an industrial facility with perchlorate- impacted soils in excess of 100 mg/kg.


Objective To investigate the effect of propofol on spatial cognitive dysfunction in aged rats.Methods Fifty-six 18 months old male SD rats weighing (549.2±16.4) g were randomly equally divided into 7 groups according to propofol infusion dose [small dose group (S) 30 mg·kg~(-1) ·h~(-1),large dose group (L) 50 mg·kg~(-1)·h~(-1)),infusion time and raised date after propofol infusion [small dose propofol 2 h/d-1d group (S12 group),small dose propofol 4 h/d-1d group (S14 group), large close propofol 2 h/d-1d group (L12 group),small dose propofol 2 h/d-7d group (S72 group), small dose propofol 4 h/d-7d group (S74 group),large close propofol 2 h/d-7d group (L72 group) and control group (C group).Excluded control group,rats in the other six groups were anesthetized with propofol intravenously through the tail vein.The induction dose of propofol for six groups was 10 mg/kg and anesthesia maintenance dose was 30 mg·kg~(-1)·h~(-1) for small dose group and 50 mg· kg~(-1)·h~(-1) for large close group.The infusion time of propofol was 2 h or 4 h according to group division.The rats were kept sleeping during propofol infusion.When the propofol infusion was stopped and rats were expected to wake and keep alive for 1 d or 7 d.All of the rats underwent Morris water-maze (MWM) test four times a day for 5 consecutive days from the 1~(st) or 7~(th) day after propofol intravenous anesthesia.The latency period,swimming speed and normal strategy of MWM test were recorded.Results In 1 d groups,on the 3~(rd) and 5~(th) day of MWM test,the latency period of S12 group and L12 group was significantly longer than that of the control group (P0.05),and the normal strategy of S12 group and L12 group was significantly lower than that of the control group (P 0.05).Conclusion Propofol continuous intravenous infusion may cause transient spatial cognitive dysfunction in aged rats,but does not have long term effect.


Author(s): Iannotta, Antonio | Abstract: The artcile is about three Sorrentino's movies starting from some specific images and scenes: L'UOMO IN PIU, IL DIVO and LA GRANDE BELLEZZA. These movies, using the grotesque "register", tell us a lot, through a glass darkly, our identity as a so called nation.


Forests are a source of various types of medicinal plants. Plants that live wildly in forest areas are also included in the Forest Park area, Wan Abdul Rachman. Type identification is the first step for the use and preservation of these medicinal plants. Therefore a study was conducted which aims to determine the types, density of each population and the degree of dominance of each population of medicinal plants. This research was carried out in the farmer's group cultivated area of Kelompok Pengelola dan Pelestari Hutan (KPPH) Talang Mulya Tahura Wan Abdul Rachman. This research was conducted using a double plot method. The number of sample plots is 87 plots, each measuring 2m x 2m. The variables observed included plant species, the density of each population and the degree of dominance of each population of medicinal plants. The results of this study were identified 29 types of medicinal plants belonging to 18 plant families. The majority of medicinal plants are dominated by awar-awar, while the lowest is the curcuma and pepper. There are quite a lot of medicinal plants in the area cultivated by KPPH Talang Mulya farmers, but there are medicinal plants which are threatened by populations such as temulawak, allegedly because they are used by the community without cultivation.Keyword: forest, forest park, medical plants.


ABSTRACT A novel series of dichroic anthraquinone dyes have been successfully synthesised with conventional Sonogashira reaction. These synthesised anthraquinone dyes were found to have high dichroic ratios, good solubilities, excellent hues and to be potential candidates for guest–host liquid crystal displays. The dichroic ratio is as high as 13.26, which is in the top level of the anthraquinone dyes reported so far. In addition, this paper provides an effective method to modulate the optic properties of anthraquinone dyes from the molecular level via the introduction of different radicals on the anthraquinone cores. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


This paper presents a melody spotting system based on Variable Duration Hidden Markov Models (VDHMM's), capable of locating monophonic melodies in a database of raw audio recordings. The audio recordings may either contain a single instrument performing in solo mode, or an ensemble of instruments where one of the instruments has a leading role. The melody to be spotted is presented to the system as a sequence of note durations and music intervals. In the sequel, this sequence is treated as a pattern prototype and based on it, a VDHMM is constructed. The probabilities of the associated VDHMM are determined according to a set of rules that account (a) for the allowable note duration flexibility and (b) with possible structural deviations from the prototype pattern. In addition, for each raw audio recording in the database, a sequence of note durations and music intervals is extracted by means of a multi pitch tracking algorithm. These sequences are subsequently fed as input to the constructed VDHMM that models the pattern to be located. The VDHMM employs an enhanced Viterbi algorithm, previously introduced by the authors, in order to account for pitch tracking errors and performance improvisations of the instrument players. For each audio recording in the database, the best-state sequence generated by the enhanced Viterbi algorithm is further post-processed in order to locate occurrences of the melody which is searched. Our method has been successfully tested with a variety of cello recordings in the context of Western Classical music, as well as with Greek traditional multi-instrument recordings, in which clarinet has a leading role.


Because of the characteristics of the job,the police in the basic units have a severe occupational burnout.The personal intervention on them can raise their adaptability.The personal intervention adopted the means of collecting information,pursuit of interview and testing of scale to know about the personality factors,occupational burnout and the relationship of the policeman.Based on this,using the theory and the technology of the Cognitive-Behavior Therapy(CBT) to implement corresponding mental intervention measures to strengthen his ability of adjusting his emotion,improving attribution beliefs and increasing self-efficacy in order to advance their core self-assessment ability and reduce the level of occupational burnout.


To the Editor: A lthough the estimated incidence of acute pancreatitis in children (approximately 1 in 10,000 per year) is almost as high as that in adults, evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations are scarce for this age group. Acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP), defined as at least 2 separate episodes of acute pancreatitis with normalization of the pancreas during the interval period, is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in pediatric practice. Common causes of ARP in children differ significantly from those in adults: genetic factors (including cystic fibrosis [CFTR], PRSS1, SPINK1, CTRC, CPA1, and other genes) comprise majority of the risk, followed by congenital obstructive lesions, toxic causes and metabolic disorders. Here, we report the atypical presentation of a rare disease in a child with ARP and discuss its possible implications on routine testing for etiology of ARP.


To evaluate the chewing activity of ruminant feeds, four Holstein steers (average body weight 742±15 kg) were employed. Experimental feeds were four roughages (NH3-treated rice straw, alfalfa hay, corn silage, orchard grass hay) and four concentrate ingredients (cotton seed hull, beet pulp pellet, barley grain, oat grain). Regarding palatability for each experimental feeds which was overviewed during the adjustment period, animals were fed roughages alone, but with 50% NH3-treated rice straw (NH3-RS) for concentrate ingredients. Therefore, all the data for concentrate ingredients was derived by extracting the result per unit obtained from steers fed NH3-RS alone. The experiment was conducted using a 4×4 Latin square designs for roughages and concentrate ingredients. Experimental feeds were fed during a 10 d adaptation and 2 d chewing data collection during each experimental period. Animals were gradually adjusted to the experimental diet. Dry matter intake (DMI) was restricted at a 1.4% of mean body weight (10.4 kg DM/d). Time spent eating and eating chews per kilogram of DMI were greatest for beet pulp pellet, and lowest for barley grain (p<0.05). Time spent rumination per kilogram of DMI was greatest for NH3-RS, cotton seed hull and orchard grass, but rumination chews were greatest for cotton seed hull and orchard grass except NH3-RS (p<0.05). Roughage index value (chewing time, minute/kg DMI) was 58.0 for cotton seed hull, 56.1 for beet pulp pellet, 55.5 for NH3-RS, 53.1 for orchard grass hay, 45.9 for corn silage, 43.0 for alfalfa hay, 30.0 for oat grain, and 10.9 for barley grain. The ratio of rumination time to total chewing time (eating plus ruminating) was about 72% for the roughages except corn silage (66.9%), and followed by cotton seed hull (69.5%), and ranged from 49.5% to 52.9% for other feeds. Higher percentages of rumination in total chewing time may be evidently indicate the characteristics of roughage. Therefore, this indicate that the chewing activity of concentrate ingredients can be more fully reflects by the ruminating time than total chewing time (RVI), although it is reasonable to define the RVI for roughages. (Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 2002. Vol 15, No. 7 : 968-973)


ABSTRACT Immunization of cattle with native MSP1 induces protection againstAnaplasma marginale. The native immunogen is composed of a single MSP1a protein and multiple, undefined MSP1b polypeptides. In addition to the originally sequenced gene, designatedmsp1β(F1), we identified three completemsp1β genes in the Florida strain:msp1β(F2), msp1β(F3), andmsp1β(F4). Each of these polymorphic genes encodes a structurally unique MSP1b protein, and unique transcripts can be identified during acute A. marginale rickettsemia. The structural polymorphism is clustered in discrete variable regions, and each MSP1b protein results from a unique mosaic of five variable regions. Although each of the MSP1b proteins in the Florida strain contains epitopes recognized by serum antibody induced by protective immunization with the native MSP1 complex, the variable regions also include epitopes expressed by some but not all of the MSP1b proteins. These data support testing recombinant vaccines composed of the multiple antigenically and structurally unique MSP1b proteins combined with MSP1a in order to mimic the efficacy of native MSP1 immunization.


There are many areas of study which are notoriously difficult to present by traditional distance learning methods. Typically these are areas which demand a great deal of interaction between the student and tutor and are best taught through practical experience and considered reflection upon experience. For example, within the discipline of computing, one such area is the teaching of information systems analysis and design. The emergence of multimedia computing has provided educationlists with a learning tool more able to replicate some of the desired interaction required to teach difficult areas of learning at a distance. In particular, it offers the opportunity to provide a richer learning experience coupled with interactivity in an integrated learning environment. This desired interactivity is evident in multimedia games as is motivation. These characteristics make the gaming paradigm an attractive catalyst for learning. In this paper we describe the motivation for developing a multimedia adventure game for teaching information systems. 1 Multimedia computing and learning Although the potential of the computer as a learning tool was recognised as early as 1960, its application generally has a poor record. In a desire to be current, many institutions rushed into this technology without a determined emphasis on the achievement of academic goals [1]. A repeated theme in computerised learning is the utilisation of technology for technology's sake. Tried and tested learning principles are often ignored, resulting in poor quality materials. While the use of computers in teaching offers advantages over other media, such as static and inflexible text based materials, it presence alone is insufficient. It needs to be guided and directed in order to achieve 'education'. Learning theories have something to offer in guiding the underlying learning structure. For example Bloom's Taxonomy [2] of objectives are still applicable as they identify steps in the learning process which assist in the knowledge development process. Gagn6's [3] hierarchy of capabilities is useful to help establish a clearer definition of aims: what strategies should be employed to achieve set objectives. Pwmisaion to make digitalmard copy of part or all Of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage, the copyright notice, the title of the publication and its date appear, and notica is given that copying is by permission of ACM, Inc. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission andlor a fee. Integrating Tech. into C.S.E. 6/96 Barcelona, Spain @ 1996 ACM 0-89791 -844-4196/0009 ...$3.50 The utilisation of task analysis in defining sequencing of learning determines the complexity of the learning required and can identify smaller achievable objectives or competencies which can be mapped to objectives in a multimedia environment. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning [1] can be readily adopted in that desirable actions can be 'rewarded', such as in a gaming environment: pedagogic aims, objectives and instruction are disguised by the aims and motivation of the game. Without a clear specification of learning aims and objectives the materials may fail to achieve the required pedagogic objectives. Historically, different modes have been used in courseware development, many of which have their roots in recognised learning models. For example, drill and practice has its foundations in behaviorism and focuses on operant conditioning where the subject is reinforced by positive or negative feedback. Tutoring differs from drill and practice in that it serves as a complete learning situation, ranging from the introduction of new material to assessing and recording the learning success. It incorporates a wider range of material and the learners are encouraged to construct their understanding at a self directed pace. Simulations are powerful techniques that teach by imitation and replication [4]. They exploit theories of constructivism based on research by Brtmer and Papert in the 70's that suggest 'learning by doing'. Many of these approaches have been implemented on computers but fail to realise the potential capabilities of the computer as a learning tool. How best to use this tool is still unclear but the emergence of multimedia opens up greater potential for exploitation by providing a learning approach which is interactive, engaging and stimulating. By increasing interactivity and integration a much more engaging and qualitatively richer learning experience is possible. It is this combination of media text, video/TV, graphics, animation, voice/sound/music and computer-based activities and interactivity which is encompassed by the term 'multimedia'. 2 Multimedia genres The dimensions that characterise multimedia may be used to distinguish different multimedia activities or genres. The dimensions of this space are interactivity and integration of media; described and illustrated in Figure 1. The interactivity dimension distinguish the extent to which the user is able to influence the order in which objects are displayed. The integration of media dimension seeks to describe both the ' Although other media and other modes of interaction are becoming available e.g. gesture [5] they are still much less prevalent than the four principal media of text, video, graphics and sound which dominate multi-media.


Parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) was developed to promote optimal social–emotional development in the first 3 years of life in response to clear scientific evidence regarding the importance of early experiences. It is well established as an effective treatment for aggressive behavior disorders in young children. PCIT originated as a behaviorally oriented parent training program intended to treat oppositional and defiant behaviors in preschoolers (Eyberg & Boggs, 1989). Although the functional goal of the intervention was to reduce oppositional behavior, parent–child relationship enhancement was, and continues to be, the primary goal of treatment. PCIT derived from Baumrind's (1966, 1991) developmental theory of parenting styles and corresponding research demonstrating that an authoritative parenting style, consisting of nurturance, clear communication, and firm control, leads to healthy emotional development (Franz, McClelland, & Weinberger, 1991; Querido, Warner, & Eyberg, 2002). Although PCIT did not originate from within the field of infant mental health, the goals of treatment align with infant mental health priorities. Facilitating young children's mental health requires a consistent and predictable caregiving environment in which the caregiver provides warmth, encourages exploration, and offers protection and limits. PCIT is a method for translating more abstract concepts into concrete, practical parenting techniques that promote a healthy caregiving environment. Decades of PCIT research have demonstrated that the model can be used effectively to treat a wide array of presenting problems and is useful in teaching basic parenting principles. The techniques taught in PCIT change relationship patterns in a dyad. At the most basic level, PCIT provides instruction on building positive caregiver–child interactions through play by providing a framework for rewarding adaptive behavior with positive attention and shaping maladaptive behavior by selectively attending to the child. Furthermore, PCIT gives specific directions for how to respond to disruptive behavior in a way that significantly reduces incidents of noncompliance and negative attention-seeking behaviors (Hembree-Kigin & McNeil, 1995). Over time, coercive cycles between parent and child decrease, and an authoritative parenting style is established. On a deeper level, PCIT corrects unhealthy dynamics by teaching the parent to be the kind leader and the child to trust that his or her parent will be a consistent protector and nurturer. In addition, PCIT therapists have an opportunity to reframe maladaptive behaviors as attachment-related behaviors. Therapists have an opportunity to teach parents to notice when the child may be miscommunicating or "miscueing" a need, a technique of focus in the C H A P T E R 3 3


Bacillus subtilis cells carry out extensive intracellular proteolysis (k = 0.15-0.23/h) during sporulation. Protein degradation was measured in cells growing in chemically defined sporulation medium, by following the release of ( UC)-leucine from the cells during spore formation. Sodium arsenate, carbonyl cyanide 3-chlorophenyl hydrazone, and sodium azide strongly inhibited proteolysis without altering cell viability greatly, which suggested that bulk proteolysis in B. subtilis is energy dependent. The authors have tested the hypothesis that the energy requirement may be for pumping in CaS . When (CaS ) was < 1 x 10 W, rates of proteolysis in sporulating cells were reduced 4-8 times that in cells in calcium ion- sufficient medium. Further, omission of CaS from the medium prevented the increase in the activity of the major intracellular serine protease. However, the presence of energy poisons in the media at levels which inhibited proteolysis, had no detectable effect on the uptake of by cells (UVCa). The authors concluded that B. subtilis cells required both metabolic energy and calcium ions for normal proteolysis.


Abstract This study evaluates the impact of certain finishing formulations, posttreatment with copper acetate as well as type of cotton fabric on the easy-care properties and UV protection of treated fabrics. The results detailed in this article indicate that (1) increasing the finishing agent concentration results in a significant increase in both the nitrogen content and the fabric resiliency along with a marginal improvement in UV protection factor (UPF) values, regardless of the used cross-linking agent; (2) incorporation of choline chloride (20 g/L) or chitosan (5 g/L) in the finishing formulation brings about an increase in the nitrogen content, a decrease in fabric resiliency along with an improvement in UPF values; (3) inclusion of PEG-600 or β-cyclodextrin as a polyol additive (20 g/L) has a negative impact on the % N and fabric resiliency along with a positive impact on UPF values; (4) posttreatment of the aforementioned treated fabric samples with copper acetate solution (5 g/L) causes a dramatic improvement in the UPF, regardless of the used additive; (5) addition of citric acid or butantetracarboxylic acid (BTCA), 20 g/L, to the finishing formulation enhances both the % N and fabric resiliency along with an increase in UPF values; (6) post-treatment of cross-linked cotton fabric containing carboxyl groups with copper acetate solution (5 g/L) is accompanied by a sharp increase in UPF values, regardless of the added polycarboxylic acid; (7) the improvement in easy care properties is governed by the nature of the substrate (i.e., mill-scoured, bleached, and mercerized cotton > mill-scoured and bleached cotton > gray cotton), regardless of the used finishing formulation and type of additive; and (8) the opposite holds true for the UPF values especially before posttreatment with copper acetate.


Seen's paper presents what it calls a simple analysis for the dynamics of the World Trade Center (WTC, implicitly just the South and North Towers) collapses. He claims the "factors responsible for the onset of collapse are now well established", that: (1) intense res created by the aircraft compromised the remaining intact columns near the impact [those undamaged by the plane collision] to sustain the weight of the building above them. (2) The subsequent "near free fall" of these upper parts over just 1 story resulted in dynamical overloading of the undamaged columns below by a "factor of over 30". Seen then goes on to develop a propagating instability model for how the re brought the Towers down. But these claimed factors are factually inaccurate. Furthermore, in analyzing the model built on these factors, ideal assumptions are made that are in disagreement with physical principles inherent in the collapses of the Towers, and yield solutions that cannot provide answers or much insight into how the Towers fell.


Baigell's work is especially stimulating. Women have long been underestimated in the art worlds and understudied in the study of art. Feminism seems contradictory to the conservative power that religion usually aligns with. It is intriguing to see how these Jewish feminist artists negotiate their identities as Jewish and feminists. Baigell's work demonstrates that 'Jewish feminist artists since the 1970s have been leading figures in exploring religious subject matter', and at the same time, they participated in feminist movement to call for 'religious reform' and 'dismantling patriarchic traditions' (33). Namely, they apply feminist approach to 'challenge the very idea that there could be one static essence that defines the Jewish people' (33) and redefine Judaism from a feminist perspective by their artworks. These feminist Jewish artists unprecedentedly provide reflection on Judaism from a female point of view which has long been overlooked. For instance, Pat Berger's painting of Tamar (Figure 6. 34) focuses on her pain and shock after being raped by her halfbrother. In contrast, male artists tend to demonstrate either the attacker or the revenger as Tamner's full brother to envision the tragedy (34). It is of great importance that Baigell records the milestone that the Jewish feminist artists make in Jewish history by contributing women's perspectives and narratives.


In multiple object tracking(MOT), data association is a crucial part. By constructing similarity loss matrix for trajectories and detections, they can be matched correspondingly by using Hungarian matching algorithm. However, the similarity loss is often obtained by calculating the Euclidean distance or other handcraft distance metrics of features extracted between objects, which may not be robust enough, resulting in matching inaccuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel MOT method with applying deep learning to feature extraction and data association. We firstly design the appearance feature extraction network(AFN) to learn effective features by training it on a large-scale person re-identification dataset(reid). Then, we propose the similarity matrix estimation network (SMN) to obtain reliable similarity by training it on the public MOT Challenge dataset, MOT17. Additionally, the similarity matrix output of SMN includes the dummy objects, which are used to deal with the association problems of object missing and object appearance between frames. In the end, our proposed MOT method is evaluated on MOT15, MOT17 and ablation study is carried out.


This paper aims to analyze the status of Tokyo in Japan , through analysis of the city's manage ment function, particularly its high-order urban function in the realms of economic man agement.A singular characteristic of Tokyo is the concentration of corporate headquarters , which is greater th an in any other city and in any other region . Since the function of corporate headquarters is one of the easiest means of grasping urban characteristics , this study analyzes the headquarters locations of large private enterprises to describe the status of Tokyo . In Japan, the concentration of corporate headquarters in Tokyo was greatest in 1985 at 45.3% of the total. This concentration has always existed from the earliest times and continue s strongly to the present day. It also necessarily leads to the relatively low concentration in second ranked Osak a, and the trend is likely to continue . The concentration is all the more pronounced in the case of foreign affiliated companies , and results i n a significant difference in quality between Tokyo and other cities .


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Broadband data (0·02 to 20 Hz) from the University of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory four-station seismic array, deployed at close range (less than 500km) azimuthally about Nevada Test Site (NTS), allow investigation of the body wave-surface wave discriminant between underground nuclear explosions and earthquakes for small events confined to NTS, extending previous results to magnitudes (ML) around 3·5. It is found that natural earthquakes, explosion collapses, and explosion aftershocks all are distinct from explosions, and that the populations do not seem to converge at the low magnitudes. Also, for explosions, there is no change in the slope of the Pn versus Rayleigh wave amplitude relation over more than three orders of magnitude. Since the non-explosion events are shallow, of low magnitude, and of different source types, differences in source dimension, focal depth, and focal mechanism appear inadequate to explain the discriminant at small magnitudes.


Multilevel inverters can synthesize a high voltage staircase waveform with low and medium voltage components. A new multilevel inverter topology called Asymmetric Dual Source Multilevel Inverter (ADS-MLI) is proposed. When compared to the topologies found in literature, it can produce multiple levels in the output voltage with less number of power switches. Most of the topologies found in the literature require cascading feature to achieve asymmetric operation; but the ADS-MLI can operate without the need for cascading. Further it requires only two independent DC sources to produce multiple levels in the voltage waveform. The independent sources can be two independent Solar Photo Voltaic (PV) strings. A simulation prototype capable of synthesizing 13 levels fed by Solar PV strings is developed in MATLAB Simulink environment. Its performance is observed in the aspects of number of switching components, efficiency, THD and its efficiency is compared with other topologies. The performance of simulated ADS-MLI is validated with a 1 kW prototype fabricated using FGA25N120-ANTD fed by an Ecosense Solar PV emulator and controlled by FPGA-SPARTAN 6 processor.