This paper describes a new learning paradigm,known as ubiquitous learning or u-learning, which is supported by the ubiquitous computing technologies.In addition, the paper also aims at providing specific information related to u-learning for researchers who are interested in venturing the new area of ubiquitous computing.The u-learning definition and characteristics are also compared and discussed. As a
result, a conclusive definition of u-learning together with its characterization is proposed. Finally, some of the u-learning applications are explained to further enhance the understanding of u-learning concept.


When testing Android Apps, testing tools such as Robotium and UiAutomator are frequently used. However, these tools require the tester to develop test scripts in Java code, which can be costly. Therefore, instead of using Java code, Calabash - Android allows the tester to develop test scripts in a spoken language, making the test scripts both easier to read and learn. However, a spoken-language test script still exhibits maintenance and reuse problems. Thus, this thesis proposes a Robot-Framework test library, which supports Calabash - Android events and enables KDT (Keyword-Driven Testing) for Android Devices. The test library helps testers to write test scripts with keywords, and can also execute the test scripts automatically on Android devices. In addition, this thesis conducts an experiment, which tests a real Android App and compares the test script of Calabash - Android with the test script of the proposed tool. The results indicate that, when using the proposed tool to develop test scripts, the resulting test scripts are not only easier to reuse and maintain but also require less time to develop.


In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate 100% enhancement in drive current (ION) over In0.53Ga0.47As n-channel homojunction tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) by replacing In0.53Ga0.47As source with a moderately staggered and lattice-matched GaAs0.5Sb0.5. The enhancement is also compared with In0.53Ga0.47As N+ pocket (δ)-doped channel homojunction TFET. Utilizing calibrated numerical simulations, we extract the effective scaling length (λeff) for the double gate, thin-body configuration of the staggered heterojunction and δ-doped channel TFETs. The extracted λeff is shown to be lower than the geometrical scaling length, particularly in the highly staggered-source heterojunction TFET due to the reduced channel side component of the tunnel junction width, resulting in improved device scalability.


The paper analyzes the present collection development procedures under the impact of electronic information environment. The emergence of new media supercedes the wellestablished social network of print and publication. The digital electronic materials offer reduced production costs and more sophisticated method of use. The interest of the university libraries in India is to strike a balance between print and electronic resources. The article reviews various solutions that have been proposed to solve the issues of collection management in India and abroad. Suggests policies to be considered for effective planning of collection management in the digital environment.


In the title compound, [Sn(C6H5)3Cl(H2O)]·C14H12N4, Ph3SnCl(H2O) and 2-[1-(4-pyridylmethyl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl]pyridine molecules cocrystallize in the same structure. Each Sn atom displays a distorted trigonal–bipyramidal geometry composed of three phenyl groups, one Cl− ion and one coordinated water molecule, which links, via hydrogen bonding, the Ph3SnCl(H2O) molecule to the cocrystallized 2-[1-(4-pyridylmethyl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl]pyridine molecule to generate an infinite chain structure.


Gender-based language is a product of a male–female dynamic that enhances the significance of a gender salience prototype—which usually includes a dimension of assertiveness and/or affiliation—that delineates what communicative behavior is expected for men and women. Early research focused on differences between men and women with less attention on the contextual nuances of gender-based language. This focus resulted in a muddled understanding of when and why men and women use language differently and similarly. Contemporary research has prioritized understanding the diverse range of possible outcomes for male/female language use patterns (e.g., no differences, traditional differences, counter-stereotypical differences) given contextual variations with a focus on gender salience and its prototype. This move has resulted in more success in predicting whether men and women will communicate differently and why the differences occur. Contemporary theorizing posits that a language difference between men and women is only a gender-based difference if a psychological component draws on gender during language production; otherwise, it is a sex difference that has little to do with gender.

Keywords:

conversation;
gender;
language and social interaction


Latent semantic analysis (LSA) approximates human understanding of relations between word and passage meanings in a wide variety of ways.

Keywords:

LSA;
machine learning;
semantics;
induction;
meaning


Examples of stratification from nine tropical upland lakes, two in Uganda and seven in Ethiopia, arc describccl. Strong thermal gradients were often developed from diurnal warming in the 0-5-m layer. In some productive lakes, these gradients frequently trapped photosynthetic oxygen to folm well-defined maxima. They somctimcs also delimit deeper, oxygenpoor layers in some highly productive lakes. One lake showed nocturnal mixing with complete deoxygcnation, followed by a superficial restratification and pho,tosynthctic rcoxygenation by day. Dccpcr thermal gradients often determined the course of oxygen depletion at lower lcvcls, and in some lakes also dctcrmincd other aspects of chemical stratification, including the deep accumulation of Ca++ and HCO,ions. Considerable variation of the stratification was fou~~cl in the Ethiopian Lake Awassa, both in time and horizontally over the lake basin, with some evidence that the dccpcr layer was formed by down-streaming from locally cooled margins. Comparison is made with other lakes at similar altitudes in equatorial Africa. Although seasonal changes arc inadequately known, the incidence of complete mixing probably varies from very frequent (polymictic lakes) to very infrcqucnt (oligomictic or meromictic lakes), and is dctcrmincd by both depth and shape of the lake basin.


The anthracnose is important disease in the pre and postharvest phases. Several species of Colletotrichum (C. gloeosporioides, C. acutatum, C. musae e C. magna) are responsible for inciting this disease. The pathogen infects many fruit trees in tropical and temperate regions, causing considerable damage and loss in all phases of cultures. Characteristic symptoms are dark necrotic lesions depressed, subcircular or angular shaped, and there may be coalescing. Infections have a special feature: the phenomenon of quiescence. This process has important implications, particularly in post-harvest, because the damage from infections reflect only this phase. The intensity of the disease have been striking at temperatures from 24 to 28 °C and in the presence of high relative humidity. The understanding of some aspects of the biology of the pathogen (the process of quiescence) and the epidemiology of the disease is crucial, since much has not yet been fully clarified, especially when the aim is to achieve sustainable management.


In this article, the lithological and mineralogical characteristics of the reservoirs of the Chunkinskaya square well are considered. The lithological and mineralogical description of the carbonate rocks of the well,as well as the principles of their formation, are considered. Petrophysical characteristics of the deposits of the Vendian and Riphean wells are given.


Eugene Garfield's article, " Citation indexes for science " [Science 122, 108 (1955)], is interesting beyond doubt. If we had in our library a citation index such as he proposes, I should use it to advantage. Amid today's overwhelming difficulties in scientific communication, however, this index would solve too few problems to justify its surely great cost at this time. Even though all the cited references in a given article were indexed, those ideas and key words not covered by the cited references (would remain excluded, according to Garfield's system. The most a \' 61 3 (S56 valuable parts of a research paper, the author's own contributions, would fare no better than they do today. thus In our present indexing journals, many key words are not mdexed at all; a paper's title-and even its summary-often can display only a few of the author's ideas. Excellent thoughts, particularly concem-#ing technique, may lie buried deep within an article, lost to the index-reading " public. " It is precisely the inventive, busy author who will neglect to publish a significant idea in the form of a separate Pa per. A citation index, much as it may be worthwhile, would fail to catch and broadcast such an idea. My suggestion in regard to literature indexing would be to continue and Lqeatly expand the sort of skilled, discriminating indexing that is. found in the Armed Forces Medical Library's Current List of Medical Literature and in Chemical Ah-stracts, publications that are excellent despite their limited budgets. The status of the Armed Forces Medical Library should be changed to that of an independent Federal Medical Information Bureau. Chemical Abstracts and similar publications should be supported in part by the government. Congress should appropriate a truly adequate sum of money to provide these organizations-with highly trained indexing personnel (minimal education: M.S. degree). An impractical dream? All right; but this sort of action, which would conform to the Hoover Commission's recommendation for greater support of,basic medical re.search (Phikdelphiu Inquirer, 1 July 1955) is just what is needed to begin the attack on our massive problem of scientific communication. Other subsequent efforts in this direction would include the formation of an International Scientific Journal Union (to supervise prompt publication) and the development of departmentalized scientific newspapers as reported by J. A. If the cost of preparing a cita tion index were comparable to the cost of conventional indexes, this cost …


This article proves, in the case of split groups over arbitrary fields, that all fibers of convolution morphisms attached to parahoric affine flag varieties are paved by products of affine lines and affine lines minus a point. This applies in particular to the affine Grassmannian and to the convolution morphisms in the context of the geometric Satake correspondence. The second part of the article extends these results over $\mathbb Z$. Those in turn relate to the recent work of Cass-van den Hove-Scholbach on the geometric Satake equivalence for integral motives, and provide some alternative proofs for some of their results.


The dehesa is an ancient agrosilvopastoral system created by farmers to raise livestock, mainly on private lands. This system is highly appreciated by society and enjoys legal protection of the authorities because it is rich in biodiversity, a home to critically endangered species (Iberian lynx, imperial eagle and black vulture); a significant carbon sink; ethnologically and anthropologically valuable (culture and traditions); and is known for its scenic value. The dehesa also underpins rural development and is valuable for, inter alia, ecotourism and rural tourism; hunting and shooting; fire prevention; wood and charcoal; and for fodder (grass and acorns). However, most of these values do not produce any benefit to farmers and they do not receive any kind of support from these contributions.


Thank you for reading science faith and ethics. As you may know, people have look hundreds times for their chosen readings like this science faith and ethics, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some infectious virus inside their desktop computer. science faith and ethics is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly. Our digital library spans in multiple locations, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Merely said, the science faith and ethics is universally compatible with any devices to read.


Indonesia has a marine area of 2/3 of the whole of Indonesia, while sea waves are a renewable energy source. However, the use of Indonesian marine is still not optimum at the Wave Power Power plant. The village of Pasir is located in the District of Ayah, Kebumen Regency, Central Java. It is a village located in the South Coast of Java Island far from the PLN electricity source. This Final Project discusses the study of the potential of ocean wave energy converted into electrical energy using the Oscillating Water Column (OWC) system on the South Coast of Kebumen Regency. This system was chosen because many studies stated that the Oscillating Water Column (OWC) system is a sea wave conversion technique that has many advantages compared to the others.
Component design of the Oscillating Water Column (OWC), which uses a size of 6x6 meters, 8 Sudu Turbine Turbines, and a 2.5MW PMG type generator. From the results of the power calculation using the Oscillating Water Column (OWC) component when the low sea wave Kebumen South Coast rotates the generator on average not more than 100rpm the generator power drop, while the high sea wave could rotate the generator with a rotation of more than 600rpm, i.e., power expended 2, 4MW / unit. Sea Wave Power Plant uses the Oscillating Water Column (OWC) if it is implemented on the South Coast of Kebumen, it can only be used as a supplying power plant.

Keywords: Sea Wave Energy, Oscillating Water Column (OWC), Wells Turbine, 2.5MW PMG Generator


All-electrical generation and detection of pure spin currents is a promising way towards controlling the diffusive magnon transport in magnetically ordered insulators. We quantitatively compare two measurement schemes, which allow to measure the magnon spin transport in a three-terminal device based on a yttrium iron garnet thin film. We demonstrate that the dc charge current method based on the current reversal technique and the ac charge current method utilizing first and second harmonic lock-in detection can both efficiently distinguish between electrically and thermally injected magnons. In addition, both measurement schemes allow to investigate the modulation of magnon transport induced by an additional dc charge current applied to the center modulator strip. However, while at low modulator charge current both schemes yield identical results, we find clear differences above a certain threshold current. This difference originates from nonlinear effects of the modulator current on the magnon conductance.


Introduction: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are routinely managed by hemodialysis. The catheter-related blood stream infections (CRBSIs) are important complications with high risk of mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Objectives: To determine the incidence of CRBSIs in patients undergoing hemodialysis in a single center in Iran. Patients and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated the incidence of CRBSIs in 50 hemodialysis patients hospitalized at the Shahid-Modarres hospital of Tehran from March 2017 until March 2018. The data was collected from patients' medical archives. The CRBSI was established by blood culture. Results: Of 50 hemodialysis patients enrolled in the study, 27 were males (54%). The mean age was 49.7 ±11. 8 years old. Positive blood culture was observed in 64% of patients. The most common causative organism was coagulase-negative staphylococci (24%). The most common comorbidity and systemic clinical symptom included hypertension (84%) and fever (92%) respectively. In most patients (74%), the length of catheter indwelling was less than one year. Echocardiography showed that 24% of the patients had vegetation. Conclusion: The coagulase-negative staphylococci were the most frequent organisms responsible for CRBSIs among hemodialysis patients. These findings might be helpful in early diagnosis and choose the best antibiotics for treatment.


We have previously reported (K,Na)NbO3 (KNN) films, whose piezoelectric properties are the highest reported thus far. In this study, we investigate the detailed crystalline structures of these KNN films after deposition on Pt/MgO and Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates by RF magnetron sputtering. The KNN film on Pt/MgO was epitaxially grown on the Pt lower electrode with a perfect <001> orientation in the perovskite structure. The KNN film on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si was polycrystalline with a preferential <001> orientation in the perovskite structure having dense columnar grains. X-ray diffraction measurements revealed that the KNN films grown on Pt/MgO and Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si were tetragonal; the lattice parameters c and a were related as c/a > 1. The KNN film on Pt/MgO had a higher c/a value than the KNN film on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si, indicating that the former had more compressed strain. We conclude that this difference in compressed strain may contribute to the difference in piezoelectric properties of the KNN films on Pt/MgO and Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si.


Background: Self-medication is a common practice worldwide and the irrational use of drugs is a cause of concern. Self-medication involves the use of medicinal products by the individuals to treat self-recognized disorders or symptoms, or the intermittent or continuous use of a medication prescribed by a physician for chronic or recurring diseases or symptoms. The objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of self-medication practices in the community; to describe the common conditions where self-medication is practiced. Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted in a rural population at Kuthambakkam village, Tamil Nadu from February 2015 to July 2015. This village falls under the rural field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, Saveetha Medical College and hospital, Thandalam. There were 1175 households in this village of which 165 households were identified for the study purpose using simple random sampling technique. Statistical analysis: Data entry and analysis was done using SPSS version 16 software. Descriptive statistics were calculated for background variables, attitude and practices of self-medication. Results: The study was conducted in 165 households in Kuthambakkam village, the rural field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, Saveetha Medical College. The median age of the study participants was 38 years. The minimum age was 17 and maximum was 77 years. 73 (44.2%) of study subjects reported having health problems currently. Of them, 76.7% replied they consulted a doctor for their problem, 17.8% resorted to self-medication and rest 5.5% took native treatment at home. Conclusions: It is imperative to address the practice of self-medication among the people in the age of growing drug resistance being reported. Periodic studies on the knowledge, attitude and practice of self-medication may give an insight into the pattern of drug use among the people.


Purpose: Breast surgeons usually insert tissue expander or implant beneath the subpectoral-subhypodermal dual plane in breast reconstruction. But sometimes it happens unsatisfactory lower pole fullness, asymmetric inframammary fold and breast shape. To solve all the problem like these, we introduce implant breast reconstruction using AlloDerm sling. Methods: The AlloDerm sling was used in 13 patients and 18 breasts for implant breast reconstruction. After mastectomy, costal and lower sternal insertion of pectoralis major muscle was detached. Rehydrated AlloDerm was sutured to the chest wall and serratus anterior fascia at the level of inframammary fold downward and to lower border of the pectoralis major muscle upward like crescent shape with tension free technique after implant insertion into the subpectoral-subAlloDerm dual pocket. And we evaluate subpectoral capsule and subAlloDerm capsule histologically for the capsular thickness, amount of myofibroblast and TGF-beta expression. Results: We make satisfactory lower pole fullness, symmetric inframammary fold and breast shape using AlloDerm sling. SubAlloDerm capsule was thin than subpectoral capsule. SubAlloDerm capsule have fewer myofibroblast and lower TGF-beta expression than subpectoral capsule. Conclusion: Implant breast reconstruction using AlloDerm sling makes easy to get natural breast shape through satisfactory lower pole fullness, symmetric inframammary fold and implant positioning.


Decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences. Overfitting is one of the problems in decision tree cause by over-complex trees that do not generalize the data well which downgrade the performance of decision tree machine learning classification. Any fluctuation in real data might cause inaccuracy and poor predictive performance .Mobile classification application has emerged as the result of the advancement in mobile technology. It has been used as the tool for mobile healthcare, emergency management, mobile policing, mobile commerce and mobile banking. These mobile application prove to save time and increase productivity for those who need to make rapid decisions in real time. Overfitting problem might become one of the obstacles in developing high performance mobile classification/predictive application since accurate classification is the key of mobile classification application. Therefore, this research proposes to overcome the overfitting problem in decision tree by simplify the decision tree process using clustering method. Currently, clustering method has been used to improve the decision tree accuracy and robustness, and the results were significant. The research aims to identify the main factors that contribute to the simplification of a decision tree induction and how clustering technique can optimize the decision making of a decision tree. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, a game will be developed on mobile device that incorporate the decision tree, then uses to detect dyslexic children. As the result of this novel idea a system that utilize the self-learning concept and exclude the phonological barrier of a language can be develop to screen dyslexic children through mobile game.


A reduced‐size bandstop filter is proposed using two meandered or bended λg/4 open‐circuited shunt stubs. A double‐length transmission‐line element (TLE) is used as a connecting line between these stubs in order to obtain a wider stopband than that of the conventional filter with a single‐length TLE. The meandered or bended double‐length connecting line has a length of λg/2 and the same characteristic impedance as the open‐circuited shunt stubs. A simple transmission‐line model is used to calculate the frequencies of the attenuation poles and zeros. Finally, three wideband microstrip bandstop filters are designed and realized with the same stopband characteristics. It is shown that the smallest of the proposed filters occupies a smaller surface area than (λg/5)2. The wideband bandstop filters are also evaluated via experiment and simulation with very good agreement. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2005.


Background: exercise treadmill test remains a good test in identification of coronary artery disease(CAD). The Duke Treadmill Score (DTS), shown to predict CAD better than ST segment deviation alone. Aim of the work: To determine the potential of DTS in setting priority of patients for coronary angiography. Patients and methods: This was a prospective study that was done from July 2017 to October 2018 and included 150 patients referred to Damannhour Teaching Hospital for evaluation of chest pain. Patients underwent: history, clinical examination, ECGs, Echocardiography, Treadmill exercise ECG with calculation of DTS then coronary angiography that was correlated with DTS and other variables. Results: There were 59 patients(39.3%)with high DTS and 91patients (60.7%) with intermediate DTS. For the intermediate Duke's risk group the result of coronary angiography distributed on normal (26.4%), single vessel disease (33%), two vessel disease (22%), and three vessels disease or left main disease (18.7%). For high Duke's risk group the result of coronary angiography showed mainly three vessels disease or left main disease (54.2%), two vessels disease (27.1%), single vessel disease (6.8%) and normal vessel (11.9%), The P value was<0.001.Adding patient's risk factors to intermediate DTS group were statistically significant in the diagnosis of CAD ,the P value was<0.001. Conclusion: The DTS is a good predictor for CAD. Intermediate risk DTS group exercise test results should be managed individually according to clinical data.


With economy greatly developed,speed of urbanized,industrialized course in ZJK has been quickened up in recent years.However,pressure on resources and environment enhances at the same time.The pattern that consuming more energy,making more pollution,and emitting more greenhouse gas,not according with sustainable development,has been the biggest limit to ZJK's development.This article analyzes the necessity to develop circular and low-carbon economy of ZJK,and proposes related countermeasures for it.


In this paper we study the Schur algebra of the induced representation of the Weil representation of a certain subgroup of GL 2 (C) and prove that it is commutative. It thus implies that the representation is multiplicity free.


Much literary theory is based on tautological reasoning, and circular definitions are often the springboard to theorizing about causal connections. Five chapters of this book pursue this argument by studying dominant theoretical models. The culminating point of theorizing through tautologies is reached finally in the poststructuralist theories of Lacan and Derrida, antitheoretical theorists who define literature as the play of linguistic difference.


Objective:To analyze the applicative effect of femoral venous indwelling trocar in newborn infants;and to compare the clinical effect of femoral venous indwelling trocar and peripherally inserted central catheter(PICC).Methods:69newborn infants selected as the subjects were divided into the observation group and the control group according to the random number table method. The observation group adopted the femoral venous indwelling trocar,while the control group adopted PICC.Then the indwelling time of trocar,catheter complications and medical cost were compared of both groups.Results:The indwelling time of the observation group was shorter than that of the control group(P0.05),and catheter complications and medical cost of the observation group were lower than those of the control group(P0.05).Conclusion:Alternate bilateral femoral venous catheter indwelling trocar instead of PICC is safe and feasible,and the medical cost is low.


Background: A 74 year old male with a history of postero-lateral myocardial infarction in 1993 and coronary bypass surgery in 1994 was referred to the outpatient clinic in a frail general condition with signs of dyspnoea at rest. Investigations: Physical examination, electrocardiography, laboratory tests, coronary angiography, abdominal angiography, Echo-doppler, transesophageal echo. Diagnosis: Aortic stenosis. Management: Valve replacement.


This study focuses on the effect of mobile phone radiation emissions on the human electroencephalograph (EEG) and electromyogram activity (EMG). EEG and EMG recordings from 50 (male and female) awake subjects were taken during exposure to radiation emissions from a mobile phone. Our results demonstrated that stimulation effects became apparent on EEG at first, and changes varied strongly at the end of the experiment to depression. EEG and EMG showed interesting changes.The results suggested that cellular phones may reversibly influence the human brain, as their use induced abnormal slow waves in EEG of awake persons.


The present invention relates to a photosensitive coating composition used in the photosensitive coating composition of the conductive coating and a method of forming a conductive coating. Object of the present invention is exposed by a simple method, without directly etching the conductive film, the conductive film produced by the local region of poor conductivity, so that the flow of electricity in a specific pattern form. The present invention provides a photosensitive coating composition for forming a conductive coating film, the combination of photosensitive material and a conductive nanomaterial comprises. Further, the present invention provides a conductive coating is formed on a substrate, a conductive coating is formed using a liquid photosensitive coating. Herein, in the photosensitive coating liquid is coated on the substrate after, and cleaning is formed by exposure and non-exposure regions exposed region, wherein said at least the non-exposed regions of conductivity is the conductivity of the exposed region twice.


In order to experiment study of CO2 laser machining polymer-based microfluidic chip, a laser micro-processing precision experimental table was built. A servo feed system directly driven by linear motor was designed to achieve high speed and high position accuracy. Dual-CPU open CNC system used Industrial Personal Computer(IPC) as master computer and PMAC controller as slave computer was constructed to ensure system real-time control. In order to increase position accuracy of precision table, a forecast model of the linear motor position error was put forward based on LSSVM and error compensation was processed. Research results indicated that the use of radial basis function of the LSSVM could improve linear motor position accuracy.


Case 4 A woman aged 59 with a 7-year history of severe flushing and diarrhoea. A liver scan showed multiple metastases, mostly in the left lobe. In this case a very bulky primary carcinoid was removed from the ileum as well as the left hepatic lobe and several small nodules from the right lobe. It was felt that too much normal liver tissue had been sacrificed in this case. However, the 5-HIAA excretion was reduced from 75 mg/24 h to 40 mg, and her flushing and diarrhoea are greatly reduced. The improvement is maintained after 11 years.


We present a theory of spin, electronic, and transport properties of a few-electron lateral triangular triple quantum dot molecule in a magnetic field. Our theory is based on a generalization of a Hubbard model and the linear combination of harmonic orbitals combined with configuration interaction method for arbitrary magnetic fields. The few-particle spectra obtained as a function of the magnetic field exhibit Aharonov-Bohm oscillations. As a result, by changing the magnetic field, it is possible to engineer the degeneracies of single-particle levels, and thus, control the total spin of the many-electron system. For the triple dot with two and four electrons, we find oscillations of total spin due to the singlet-triplet transitions occurring periodically in the magnetic field. In the three-electron system, we find a transition from a magnetically frustrated to a spin-polarized state. We discuss the impact of these phase transitions on the addition spectrum and the spin blockade of the lateral triple quantum dot molecule.


This paper presents features of the enhanced legacy 68000 instruction set architecture and the development environment that supports it. They enable use of the architecture in system on chip design


Paper describes results of investigation of laser scanning system for real-time monitoring of ocean and biophysical properties of environment. Creating of real-time monitoring system had been divided on the following stages: creating of model for scanning system; development of laser monitoring system; simulation and experimental researches of laser scanning system; investigation of requirements for airborne and spaceborne laser monitoring system and development the program for real-time monitoring of ocean and biophysical properties of environment.


Methods for detecting and summarizing emergent keywords have been extensively studied since social media and microblogging activities have started to play an important role in data analysis and decision making. We present a fast system for monitoring emergent keywords and summarizing a document stream based on the dynamic semantic graphs of streaming documents. We introduce the notion of dynamic eigenvector centrality for ranking emergent keywords, and present an algorithm for summarizing emergent events that is based on the minimum weight set cover. Our system is demonstrated on the streaming Twitter data related to public security.


This paper addresses localized plastic flow during equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) of an AA6060 aluminum alloy. We observe an alternating formation of shear bands and matrix bands during ECAP that leads to pronounced strain partitioning without cracking. Local deformation is analyzed by considering the distortion of indents along flow lines in the center of a split billet. We estimate equivalent strains of about 3.6 inside the shear bands, whereas plastic deformation in the adjacent matrix bands is almost negligible. Microstructural analysis by SEM and STEM confirms that the shear bands exhibit typical features of severely plastically deformed microstructures at the onset of forming an ultrafine-grained microstructure. We further present statistics of band widths, and we discuss the roles material hardening as well as ECAP die geometry (in terms of the inner die radius) in facilitating the recurrent localized deformation that, in the absence of crack nucleation, leads to the production of an interesting and novel type of bulk-laminated materials by ECAP.


A simple model based on the Smoluchovski equation is developed to describe the adsorption kinetics of globular proteins and their complexes with ionic surfactants at the gas–liquid interface. The results of calculations are compared with the data of ellipsometric measurements for solutions of the complexes between bovine serum albumin and sodium dodecyl sulfate. The charge of the complex is the only fitting parameter. The obtained values are much less than those calculated from the ionization constant of amino and carboxylic groups but agree with the data obtained from the electrophoretic mobility (B. Jachimska et al., Langmuir, 2008, 24, 6866).


Vitellogenic carboxypeptidase is a 53 kDa yolk protein produced by the fat body of the female mosquito, Aedes aegypti, in response to a blood meal. Its expression is sex‐, stage‐ and tissue‐specific and is identical to that of the major yoik protein, vitellogenin. The gene is intronless and two alleles have been cloned and sequenced, including more than 1.5 kb on both sides of the coding region. A capsite consensus recently identified as an arthropod initiator is present at the start site of transcription. Upstream of this capsite is a 16 bp imperfect palindrome repeated four times showing strong homology to defined hormone‐response elements. In addition, a region that closely resembles the fat body enhancer and double sex binding site from the Drosophila yolk protein genes and several potential fat body‐specific regulatory protein binding sites were found.


The Mo(CO) 6 -induced reaction of 3-methyl-5-(2-oxoalkyl)isoxazoles, which are derived through proton-abstraction of 3,5-dimethylisoxazole followed by treatment with esters, gave pyridin-4(1H)-ones in good to modest yields in a single step


This paper presents the design of an Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) filter for improved navigation performance of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). The paper considers a navigation system that incorporates rotor drag dynamics and proposes a strategy to overcome the sensitivity of the system to external wind disturbances. Two error state Kalman filters are incorporated in an IMM filtering framework. The first filter has a model that uses conventional Inertial Navigation System (INS) mechanization equations, while the second filter considers a dynamic model with rotor drag forces of the MAV. In order to support the two error state Kalman filters, the generic IMM algorithm [1] is modified for error state implementation, handle dissimilar state definitions, and adaptive switching during operation. Numerical simulations and experimental validation using the EuRoC dataset are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed IMM filter design for changing flight conditions and external wind disturbance scenarios.


Books reviewed: Richard O. Zerbe Jr, Economic Efficiency in Law and Economics Steve Keen, Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol, Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests D. Cutler and E. Berndt, Medical Care Output and Productivity Tracy C. Davis, The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes. Fighting for Britain Wendy Smits and Thorsten Stromback, The Economics of the Apprenticeship System Manuel Tarrazo, Practical Applications of Approximate Equations in Finance and Economics D. Gruen and J. Simon (eds), Future Directions for Monetary Policies in East Asia John B. Taylor, Monetary Policy Rules


The college officially celebrated the opening of the Inge P. Stafford Greenhouse for Teaching and Research at Kaufman Hall during a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday, Sept. 21. The occasion served as an opportunity to highlight the facility's transformational impact and acknowledge the generosity of Jack Stafford '59 and his late wife, Inge, whose gift made the facility possible.


A slowing economy has an impact on public consumption. Where, the middle and upper economic community reduces their consumption policy, such as the community reducing expenditure on all necessities except household needs, so that the sales level decreases and economic growth slows down which can lead to inflation, making people careful in their daily expenses. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cash flow, financial leverage and current ratio on company value in the Food and Beverages industry sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2019. This study uses a quantitative research approach. Data collection techniques using documentation. The population used in this study are 26 companies in the Food and Beverages industry sector which are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2019. The sample of this research is 10 companies and the model used in this research is multiple linear regression. The results of cash flow have no effect on firm value in the Food and Beverages consumer industry sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2019. Meanwhile, financial leverage and current ratio have an effect on company value in the Food and Beverages consumer industry sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2019


Organic chemistry is one of the important basic courses for pharmaceutical specialty.This article explores the teaching reform of organic chemistry from six aspects: teachers' professional competence,content,methods and means of teaching,experiment teaching,cultivation of learning strategies,as well as examination and evaluation methods.


malocclusion and decide on orthodontic treatment in the growing and developing stage. The subjects consisted of 68 paticnts, 29 males and 39 females, with nine year series from six to fifteen years old because growth and development is very active in children in the stage of this age range, which is frequently subject to clinical orthodontic treatment. In this study. the longitudinal data, which were measured from the lateral and postero-anterior


Auscultation is a treatment method frequently used by physicians in terms of giving general information about the body. By listening to the sounds of breathing, the physician can have a general knowledge of the patient's body. In addition, respiratory distress occurs in many diseases such as COPD and asthma. The development of biomedical device technology makes it faster and easier to diagnose and treat. In this study, an electronic equipment has been prepared for the auscultation process. It has 4 channels in the hardware, and two of the channels listen to the heart. Of the remaining 2 channels, one performs listening to the left and the other the right lung. A filter is designed for the heart, which decays between 20-500 Hz. Since breathing sounds can be heard at a wider frequency, a filter has been prepared that passes between 100-1000 Hz.


Many ABX3 perovskite compounds adopt at temperatures of interest a low-symmetry structure, rather than the ideal (cubic) structure. The prototypical case is the mineral perovskite (CaTiO3), which exhibits orthorhombic symmetry...


Education in today's modern Anatomy environment is a permanent and ever evolving challenge. Even with current integrative curricula, students find it difficult to understand certain dynamic aspects of functional anatomy and three‐dimensionality (3DM). This is even more challenging in Embryology given the high‐speed three‐dimensional changes happening simultaneously.


Glioblastoma (GBM) is inherently immunosuppressed (cold). Short term localized controlled immune activation has been shown to increase cytotoxic T cell infiltrate, resulting in reduced tumor growth and prolonged survival (Barrett et al. 2018). We have developed an encapsulated-mouse IL-12 formulation (mPCX12), using a sustained IL-12 release platform (Egilmez et al. 2000) to facilitate short term localized immune activation in the tumor without systemic toxicity. mPCX12 elicited a sustained dose-related IL-12 release concomitant with downstream IFNγ in mouse splenocytes, demonstrating mPCX12's biologic activity. Similar results were observed with hPCX12 in human PBMCs. In an orthotopic murine glioma model, C57B6/L mice were inoculated with 3 × 105 GL-261 glioma cells in the frontal lobe via intracranial injection with drug treatment on Day 5. Mice were randomly assigned (n=22/group) to receive a single intratumoral dose of mPCX12 at 0.5, 0.75 and 1 mg, or mrIL-12 1µg (equivalent to mPCX12 1mg), or empty shells or vehicle. In addition, lomustine (6 mg/kg, QD×5 i.p.) was also assessed. The results showed that mPCX12 treatment increased tumor IL-12 and downstream IFNγ levels in a dose dependent manner. At 1mg mPCX12, tumor IL-12 and IFNγ levels were 2069±631 and 646±8 pg/mg, respectively, on Day 3. Low levels of IL-12 and IFNγ were observed in the systemic circulation of mPCX12 and mrIL-12 groups. mPCX12 tumor IL-12 level persisted, while mrIL-12 returned to baseline by Day 7. Flowcytometric immunophenotyping of tumors showed increased cytotoxic T cells in mPCX12 treated gliomas. These increases in local cytokine levels translated into a dose-related prolongation of survival compared to the median survival in the groups treated with vehicle and empty shells (~19 days), lomustine (20 days), and mrIL-12 (37 days). mPCX12 elicited a dose-related increase in survival. For mPCX12 at 1mg, the median survival was >90 days. At Day 90, 41%, 45% and 55% of the animals that received doses of 0.5, 0.75 or 1mg mPCX12, respectively, were alive with median survival >90 days (last day of study). At the end of the study, a portion of the surviving mice subgroups were euthanized, and those animals treated with mPCX12 were tumor free. The remaining surviving mPCX12-treated animals from the 0.75 mg and 1 mg mPCX12 groups were reinoculated with 3 × 105 GL261 cells in the ipsilateral side of the brain and compared with age-matched control vehicle or empty shells. The median survival in control groups was 27 days, and all rechallenged mPCX12-treated groups survived at Day 90, demonstrating memory T cell activation.
 In summary, short-term controlled release of locally administered IL-12 via PCX12 resulted in turning cold tumors hot, resulting in enhanced overall survival in an orthotopic GBM model. Thus, short term controlled locally administered PCX12 warrants further investigation in GBM patients.
 Citation Format: Sribalaji Lakshmikanthan, Damaris Diaz, Prasad Kolli, Arunthi Thiagalingam, Paul M. Gonzales, Mario Sepulveda, Jessica Dalsing-Hernandez, Francois Lebel, John A. Barrett. Intratumorally administrated encapsulated IL-12 (PCX12) promotes anti-tumor immune response in GL-261 murine orthotopic glioma model [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 2086.


Objective: The purpose of this study is to create and assess edible film formulations from betel (Piper betle L.) leaf extract that may be used to treat Streptococcus mutans bacteria-caused halitosis.
Methods: Using ethanol as a solvent, the extraction process was employed to produce a concentrated extract of betel leaf. To find the minimum dose that could suppress bacteria development, the antibacterial activity of the ethanol extract of betel leaf was studied on streptococcus bacteria. The dosage of the betel leaf ethanol extract formula and the creation of edible film formulations are then based on the results of the antibacterial activity and evaluation of edible films.
Results: The ethanol extract of betel leaf and edible film formulations can both prevent the growth of S. mutans bacteria, according to the results of the antibacterial activity test. The evaluation's findings demonstrate that the three edible film formulations of betel leaf ethanol extract satisfy the Indonesian National Standard's requirements (SNI). When compared to the other formula. Formula 3 demonstrated the strongest antibacterial activity.
Conclusion: According to the study's findings, it is possible to apply the ethanol extract of betel leaf in the form of an edible film. S. mutans bacteria can have their growth inhibited by betel leaf ethanol extract. The betel leaf ethanol extract edible film formula has satisfied the criteria, and formula 3 was the best edible film formula.


The aim of this study was to improve patients' understanding of clinic procedures and to reduce queries, which in turn would save time. In addition it would also improve patients' understanding of generic medicines and medication identification. Patient education was delivered by means of a video, which aimed to create interest and an eagerness to learn. Among those who may not benefit from educational interventions such as pamphlets, posters or talks are the illiterate, blind and deaf, respectfully. The educational video thus allowed for visualisation and hearing, which ensured that all patients had an equal opportunity to expand their knowledge. Patient responses to the video were measured in a beforeand-after questionnaire survey. A sample of patients attending the facility was asked to complete a questionnaire one month prior to the viewing of the video. A second questionnaire was administered to the same group of patients after they had viewed the video.


Enzyme replacement therapy is a therapeutic approach in which the specific enzyme that is absent or inactive in affected individuals is replaced with a functional enzyme molecule derived from biological sources or produced by biotechnology. A large number and variety of enzyme defects have been identified in humans. Over 40 hereditary deficiency diseases were reported. The common feature is that enzyme deficiency leads to the accumulation of undegraded molecules and lysosomal storage, resulting in organ dysfunction. Crude enzyme preparations are often unsuitable for therapeutic uses because of their potential contamination and antigenicity. Advances in gene identification and cloning led to the subsequent production and demonstration of equal efficacy of recombinant human enzyme. The adverse events recorded range from boxed warnings for severe allergic reactions. This chapter summarizes therapeutic enzymes used in clinical practice, with particular reference to those obtained from biological sources and biotechnology processes.


This invention relates to a novel chemical synthesis and to novel intermediates useful therein. More particularly, the invention relates to a novel method for preparing compounds identified by the generic nomenclature 2-oxo 3-hydrocarbyl-9,10-di(lower alkoxy)-1,2,3,4,6,7-hexahy dro-11b-benzoaquinolizine, wherein hydrocarbyl is a hy drocarbon radical having less than eight carbon atoms. This nomenclature is based upon the preferred system established under System No. 1957 in "The Ring Index' by Patterson and Capell, New York (1940). The invention can be illustrated graphically by the foll lowing flow sheet, wherein R represents a lower alkyl radical, R represents a lower alkoxy radical and R repre sents a hydrocarbon radical having less than eight carbon atons:


Considering the increased complexity of energy projects as companies are entering a new technological era marking the end of "easy oil", there is a growing concern about the real preparedness of companies to deal with the new risks they are facing. The potential severity of those risks due to the important damages caused to the environment and their possible impact on populations of India. Furthermore, the motoring of risk management is important for our country so as to do more research for future development.


Mechanical neck pain is a most common disorder in general population, especially in the working age group. Due to the economic expense caused by mechanical neck pain is extremely high. Recent studies have shown that either performing thoracic spine manipulation or mobilization on mechanical neck pain patients resulted in immediate improvements in symptoms, however no any study has exactly compared effectiveness between thoracic spine manipulation and mobilization on mechanical neck pain yet. The main purpose of this study was to compare immediate effects of single manipulation and single mobilization directed at the thoracic spine in patients with chronic mechanical neck pain. Twenty four subjects with chronic mechanical neck pain participated in this study. Subjects were randomly allocated into two groups; single thoracic manipulation and single thoracic mobilization. Each subject was measured cervical range of motion by a Cervical Range of Motion (CROM) device and assessed pain level by a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) immediately before and after treatment intervention. The results demonstrated that within-group, there was a significant increase range of motion in all directions after performing single thoracic manipulation (P


Background: Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) improves chronic heart failure (CHF) in animals and in human. Although the stimulus intensity was up-titrated to the symptomatic threshold such as twitching and cough, whether such symptom-limited threshold exerts maximum benefits for CHF remains unknown. In this study we investigated the dose response of VNS for CHF after large myocardial infarction (MI) in rats. Methods: In 8 weeks Sprague-Dawley rats, we created large MI. We implanted a device for VNS and started stimulation from 2 weeks after MI (Sham: n=21, C-VNS: n=15, H-VNS: n=16). In the conventional stimulation group (C-VNS), we up-titrated VNS until it reached the symptom limits. In the second group, we halved VNS intensity (H-VNS). To evaluate the early impact of VNS on inflammatory responses, we compared the macrophage invasion and plasma inflammatory cytokines at 3 days after VNS. 4 weeks after VNS, we evaluated its chronic effects on hemodynamics and CHF parameters. Results: At 3 days after VNS, both...


Cyclooxygenase (COX) contributes to cutaneous vasodilation and sweating responses, however the mechanisms underpinning these responses remain unknown. We hypothesized that prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and E2 (PGE2), which are COX‐derived products, directly mediate cutaneous vasodilation and sweating through nitric oxide synthase (NOS)‐dependent mechanisms in young adults. Furthermore, we hypothesized that this response is diminished in older adults, since ageing attenuates COX‐dependent cutaneous vasodilation and sweating. In 9 young (4 males and 5 females, 22 ± 5 years) and 10 older (3 males and 7 females, 61 ± 4 years) adults, cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC, laser‐Doppler perfusion units/mean arterial pressure) and sweat rate (ventilated capsule) were measured at four intradermal forearm skin sites receiving incremental doses (0.05, 0.5, 5, 50, 500 μM each for 25 min) of PGE1 or PGE2 with and without co‐administration of 10 mM L‐NNA, a non‐specific NOS inhibitor. L‐NNA attenuated PGE1‐mediated increases in CVC in young adults, while it attenuated PGE2‐mediated increases in CVC in older adults (all P < 0.05). However, the magnitude of the PGE1‐ and PGE2‐mediated increases in CVC did not differ between groups (all P > 0.05). Neither PGE1 nor PGE2 increased sweat rate at any of the administered concentrations for either the young or older adults (all P > 0.05). We show that the cutaneous vasodilator response is mediated through NOS‐dependent mechanisms albeit via PGE1 in young adults and PGE2 in older adults, respectively. We also show that cutaneous vascular responsiveness to PGE1 and PGE2 is similar between young and older adults. Lastly, in both young and older adults, we show that both PGE1 and PGE2 do not directly increase sweat rate.


Abstract Blood films and imprints of orbital lymphomyeloid tissue, spleen, and thymus of six species of holocephalan (Callorhynchus milii, Chi‐maera phantasma, Hydrolagus novaezelandiae, Hydrolagus sp., Harriotta raleighana, Rhinochi‐maera pacifica) were examined for peroxidase, alkaline and acid phosphatases, β‐glucuronidase, non‐specific and chloroacetate esterases, and periodic acid‐Schiff (PAS)‐positive substance. Peroxidase was only observed in splenic coarse granulocytes of Hydrolagus sp. and then it was very weak. Fine granulocytes of all species except H. raleighana and R. pacifica stained strongly for alkaline phosphatase, and lymphoid cells in Hydrolagus sp. were alkaline phosphatase‐positive. Acid phosphatase was variable but often weak in all leucocytes. Granulocytes also stained moderately for esterases although coarse granulocytes of some species stained strongly for α‐naphthyl acetate ester‐ase, but were usually negative or occasionally stained weakly for α‐naphthyl butyrate esterase and ch...


The observation that we are among the first 10^{11} or so humans reduces the prior probability that we find ourselves in a species whose total lifetime number of individuals is much higher, according to arguments of Carter, Leslie, Nielsen, and Gott. However, if we instead start with a prior probability that a history has a total lifetime number which is very large, without assuming that we are in such a history, this more basic probability is not reduced by the observation of how early in history we exist.


The Oxy-firing tests were performed in a simulated process heater as part of a range of activities sponsored by the 3rd phase of the CO2 Capture Project (CCP3), followed by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses of the test furnace under those test conditions. The objective of the tests was to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing commercial process heater burners for oxy-firing, and to compare burner performance with conventional air-firing. The CFD analyses were meant to provide greater insight into the operational changes as the conventional burner is switched from air-firing to oxy-firing mode. A low-NOX (PSFG) burner and an ultra-low NOX (COOLstar TM ) burner were used in the tests, along with two fuel types. A test matrix similar to that recommended in API RP-535 (Burners for Fired Heaters in General Refinery Services) was used. CFD simulations utilized a commercial code, ANSYS FLUENT 13.0, along with a user-defined methodology to calculate the absorption coefficients and emissivities under oxyfiring conditions.


The rules of claim and issue preclusion bar litigants from relitigating claims and issues, except under narrowly defined circumstances. The parties' alignment of interest in application of the rules of preclusion is generally simple and direct, brutal. The winner in the former litigation does permit the claim or issue to be relitigated. The loser wants the matters in question to be considered anew. But there are exceptions to this alignment. One notable example is where a judgment winner has won less than he sought and wants what has been inelegantly but expressively called "two bites at the cherry."' In general, however, the prior winner wants the door closed and the loser wants it open.


N-Sulfonylalkylamines 2a, b react with ynamines 3 to give primarily 2H-1,2-thiazete 1,1-dioxides 4. But, except for the 4-triphenylsilyl species 4a, b, these products are unstable and undergo electrocyclic ring opening to very reactive amidinosulfenes 5, which are transformed into different products, depending on the ynamine substituents R2. The 1,3-dithietane 1,1,3,3-tetraoxide 8 is formed from N-sulfonylisopropylamine (2a) and the trimethylsilyl-substituted ynamine 3b via amidinosulfene 5c and probably thioketene S,S-dioxide 7. On the other hand, (isopropylamidino)sulfene 5d dimerizes to the 2H-1,5,2-dithiazine 9 and also gives the [2 + 4] cycloadducts 10a, 11a by reaction with 2a and ynamine 3c, respectively. In contrast, it was possible to trap phenyl-substituted amidinosulfenes 5e-h by addition of water or methanol.


. This study is a bibliometric analysis study of financial distress symptoms. The study aims to examine the development of research on financial distress to determine the following research. The phenomenon that occurs is the existence of global economic conditions that are not good from time to time, especially those that occur today with the covid19 pandemic. The research method was conducted using bibliometric analysis of 500 papers from indexed journals (Google Scholar) published from 2016 to 2021. The findings of this study were obtained by 5 cluster area studies on the symptoms of Financial Distress, so there is still a need for research to consider company managers or investors and other parties in making decisions.


Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) treatment with anaerobic landfill bioreactor utilizes landfill as a place of biodegradation and produces methane gas which can be used as renewable alternative energy source. Anaerobic landfill bioreactor technology is a landfill development method that can increase waste degradation and increase biogas production. The increase of biogas and the removal of pollutants from leachate needs to pay attention to the factors that influence the success of anaerobic landfill bioreactor, including pH value, temperature, water content, and COD concentration after recirculation, and methane production. The relationship between these factors was discussed in depth in this paper. The method used is a narrative review where metadata is obtained from Google Scholar and Web of Science. This study explains the development of an anaerobic landfill bioreactor and conducts a synthesis for future research development plans by leachate recirculation.


Nonlinear optics (NLO) including Raman and optical parametric processes allow generation of new frequencies. Our recent effort in generation of new fiber laser sources in near IR and mid IR will be summarized. Article not available.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of different demonstrations on the motor skill learning.Twenty female students were randomly divided into two groups: self-controlled group(n=10) and yoked group(n=10).They were instructed to perform the throws from the free-throw line,with the goal of hitting the basket.The results showed that during the acquisition period,both groups showed an increase in form and accuracy scores across practices and the main effect of group were not significant.In the maintenance phase,the self-controlled group had higher form and accuracy scores than the yoked group,the main effect of group was significant.


The Kaleidoscope Career Model (Mainiero & Sullivan, 2005) has been proposed as a useful metaphor from which to view women's careers. The model was introduced in an attempt to explain how women atte...


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to previous research on intraorganizational power in multinational corporations (MNCs). It shows that a subsidiary manager may use language and acts of translation to resist control from headquarters and to (re)define his and his unit's power position in a headquarters-subsidiary relationship. It also uncovers the interplay between natural languages and "company speak" as a specialized language. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a single case study of a European MNC undergoing strategic change. The data were drawn from company documents, personal interviews and focus group discussions. Findings – The findings show that actors at both headquarters and in the focal subsidiary employed language and translation to exercise power over meanings; headquarters exerted control over "mindsets" and practices, while subsidiaries responded by resisting these meaning systems. The authors argue that the crossing of language boundaries offers a window...


Google WiFi represents an extension of the wireless community-based network phenomenon to the commercial world, where noncarriers are offering wireless alternatives to the dominant telephone and cable TV broadband providers. The evolution of connectivity in the European Union is focusing more on fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks that offer last-mile subscribers symmetric bandwidth that far exceeds what's available in the US.


Selective oxidations of (i) phenols and condensed aromatics to quinones and (ii) alkynes to α,β-acetylenic ketones mediated by supported iron phthalocyanine complexes exhibit very different mechanistic features as evidenced by 18O labelling and kinetic isotope effect studies.


Economic pressure means utilities are holding back on investment in new equipment and reducing manpower expenses. Transformers are simply not being replaced as often as they were in the past. Transformers are being loaded more heavily, without adding new transformers. The key method to offset reduced maintenance personnel is to change from a calendar-based "scheduled" maintenance to a "predictive" maintenance philosophy, which focuses maintenance resources when and where the equipment "requires". On-line diagnostic systems, which continuously monitor critical parameters for symptoms indicating impending problems, provide the tools to do this. The QualiTROL SENTRY system provides an economical method to monitor transformers more closely, allowing utilities to analyze transformer behavior without costly travel to the site, predict potential problems, diagnose problems remotely, and plan resources to deal with problem situations. Utilities can concentrate their limited manpower on the equipment that is in need of attention. The system is easily retrofitted to existing transformers using existing sensor access points. The SENTRY provides a base platform with the features to do all the necessary monitoring to meet today and tomorrow's requirements. It provides: on-line continuous monitoring, automatic alarm notification, remote access to present and historical data, local displays, controls and alarms, outputs for SCADA and future higher level systems, and the ability to have the information at any PC, wherever and by whomever it is needed.


This article outlines the development and validation of two instruments evaluating common stressors and coping skills as perceived by graduate counseling students. The review of the literature illustrated a need for the development of measures to provide empirical support in regard to the stressors and coping skills of graduate students in counseling programs. Exploratory factor analyses were applied to the two respective scales to evaluate the constructs. Recommendations and limitations are offered to further the development of psychometric properties within the scales.


The secure interaction between two or more administrative domains is a major concern. We examine the issues of secure interoperability between two security domains operating under the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Model. We propose a model that quickly establishes a flexible policy for dynamic role translation. The role hierarchies of the local and foreign domains can be manipulated through our Role Editor which is used to set up associations between these hierarchies. These associations result in a combined partial ordering of the role hierarchies, which can be used to make meaningful access control decisions for secure interoperability.


This article reports on an extensive restoration project by Applied Ecological Services Inc. (AES) of a ravine near the Lake Michigan coastline under a plan that incorporated recycled materials from an old military base nearby. The project was located in the Fort Sheridan neighborhood in Highland Park, Illinois, which borders Lake Michigan. Rather than simply disposing of all the materials from the demolition, AES also recycled approximately 700 tons of rock from the foundations of demolished buildings by breaking it down and using it to armor the channel being restored. AES also recycled approximately 2,000 ft of telephone poles by using them to stabilize the ravine walls. AES was chosen for the restoration project because of the extreme degradation of the ravines that separate property lines and drain water into Lake Michigan. Severe down‐cutting (extreme erosion from increased water volume) of the channel floor had caused major bank destabilization along the walls of the ravine. The article describes the process by which AES corrected and restored the ravine, and its five‐year maintenance program to ensure the success of the project.


The study of the effect of antimicrobial coatings on catheters of structure the internal organs investigated animals, it was revealed that on the 3rd day of implantation of control (sterile catheters) in animals observed inflammatory manifestations in the kidney, ureter, bladder, When setting catheters antiseptic composition (decamethoxin-0.5 gidroperit-3,0, 4,0-polyvinylbutyral, ethanol 100 ml) inflammatory changes in these organs were not observed.


Jinghe River is an important river connected with the water system of Dongxihu district and important channel of drainage system.It is an important node of northwest water network ecology of Hankou.The survey finds that Jinghe River is content in characteristics of water country,advantages of water tourism development outweigh the disadvantages.It has good conditions for tourism development.


Introduction: Migration of Iranians Since Iranian Revolution of 1979, large group of Iranians migrated to the United States. It estimated that two million Iranians left Iran during the years of 1978-79 (Mohammadi & Mohammadi). According to Bozorgmehr and Sabagh, this number was outrageous (1988:16). Bozorgmehr and Sabagh estimated the Iranian population in the United States was about 1,800,000, one-third of which lived in Southern California (Bozorgmehr, 1991:11). And the second largest communities of Iranians were in Washington DC and New York (1991:3). In 2003, according to Iran Census Report: National Iranian American Council, the states with the highest population of Iranians were, California with the population of 33.871,648, Maryland, 5,296, 486, Virginia, 7, 078, 515,Washington DC, 572, 059, Texas, 20, 851, 820. As far as cities, the largest populations of Iranians were in Los Angles with population of 536,000, Washington DC 160,000, New York, 115,000, San Diego, 40,000, Huston, 32, 000, and Dallas 28, 000. In 2004, an independent academic organization, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology indicated that Iranian Americans are far more numerous in the United States than census data indicated. This group estimated that the number of Iranian Americans may have topped 691,000 in 2004. In 2009, U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2009, detailed table, there are about 437,799 Iranians in the United States and in the state of Minnesota it was 3, 313 Iranians. And in 2010, according to other independent surveys done by Iranian-Americans themselves, there are 1-1.5 million Iranian-Americans living in the U.S. with the largest concentration--about 720,000 people--living around Los Angeles. Other large communities include New York; New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; Seattle, Washington; and Houston, Texas. (Wikipedia, 2011) Regardless of conflicting data as far as how many Iranians migrated to the United States, one can see clearly that there have been large numbers of Iranians who migrated to the United States since 1979. Koehn in his book, Refugees from Revolution, (1991), stated that political and economic conflict between nations is the responsible "push factor" for people of many nations move out of their own lands, and "pull factor" to places where they can seek jobs. In case of Iranians, Halliday stated this flow of migration may be as a result of the Iranian Revolution as "one of the epic events of postwar history, involving levels of political mobilization, and international crisis ..." (1982:187). As far as gender and migration, as Val Moghadam stated " according to Bauer, women in Middle Eastern Muslim societies are rarely described as a lone migrant but, many Iranian women do go into exile alone"(1993, 28). The main research question here is in threefold: 1) what have been the experiences of Iranians in the United States where large groups of them migrated such as California? 2) How about their experiences in the states with less number of them like Minnesota? And 3) how has been the life experiences of Iranian women in Minnesota? Sociologically it is significant to address these questions, for: 1) Iranians are not immigrant by nature. They have been from a very established society for centuries. And tradition has been important element of their culture, 2) they have strong ties with family members and friends, and 3) women have played an important role in carrying tradition from one generation to the next. Also setting up social gathering, cooking, entertaining and socialization were always in the hand of women. In other words, women have been major players in establishing the community. As they say, "if women are not happy, no one else is" In what follows the theory of Ethnic community formation of Max Weber and later Don Martindale and its application of Iranian community formation in the United States and Minnesota and later the life experiences of Iranian immigrant women will be examined. …


This paper sets out to describe some of the experimental work performed at QinetiQ, exploring the potential of electrothermal-chemical (ETC) gun technology. Work performed primarily by the Fraunhofer-Institut fur Chemische Technologie (ICT) and supported by Technologiezentrum Nord (TZN), both in Germany, has been repeated and extended. Their work, which used aluminium plasma initiation wires, showed internal damage was being done to the structure of propellant grains with translucent (but not opaque) propellant formulations, both in exploding wire-in-air and in exploding wire closed vessel tests. This damage was shown to increase the gas generation rate in closed vessel tests. That work demonstrated the potential to use ETC plasma to alter the gas generation rate during combustion. If this could be achieved, then the piezometric efficiency of a gun system could be increased.


"Speransky chez lui is very kind. I spoke to him about the fine beginning of Alexander's reign."— A. S. Pushkin "Sire, vos années sont comptées, vous n'avez plus rien à remettre, et vous avez encore tant de choses à faire pour que la fin de votre règne soit digne de son beau commencement."— M. N. Karamzin In the nearly one hundred days between the murder of Alexander Pavlovich's father, Paul I, on the night of March 11-12, 1801, and the fall of Count Peter von der Pahlen, the leader of the conspiracy, on June 17, Alexander recovered from his initial demoralization and formed the paternalist political conceptions that would guide the next twenty-five years of his reign.


Most ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors assemble into functional hetero-oligomers with precise stoichiometry and composition. Ionotropic glutamate receptors (GluRs), for example, the main mediators of excitatory neurotransmission, are either obligatory NMDA (GluN1-3) or preferential AMPA (


NGO Portal is a platform where various NGOs can register themselves and post their day to day activities and events organized by the NGO. Users can also follow other NGOs and keep updated about NGOs they follow. NGOs can post photos, videos, text related to an event or future event. Users can like, comment, and share those posts. Users can also watch the history of the NGO they are interested in. We used tools like ReactJs, ReduxJs, Javascript, HTML, CSS, NodeJs, Express Js to make a web application which can provide all the features to make an NGO portal. We used MongoDB and Mongoose to handle database requirements.


have been found between the IMFs of disk and halo stars over the range 0.3 < m < 0.8 Ma. However, we shall note that these investigations consider heterogeneous samples of stars and regions of a vast stellar system which may have experienced a different evolution. For all these reasons we have started a long-range project aimed at investigating the luminosity functions in different stellar populations. In the present phase we are studying GCs with different structure parameters, with a particular attention for the clusters with low concentration or long relaxation times (such as NGC 1261, M55 and M4), where the amount of mass segregation is expected to be small, and a few irregular galaxies resolved in stars.


The program overviews: (1) American Airline (AA)/Turbulence Prediction Systems (TPS), which have installed forward looking infrared predictive windshear system on 3 MD-80 aircraft; (2) AA/TPS AWAS III evaluation, which is a joint effort and is installed in the noise landing gear (NLG) area and a data recorder installed in the E/E compartment.


Although drug dispensing may be automated to improve accuracy, it is still done manually in many clinics, hospitals, and drug stores. The manual process is prone to human errors that may cause disastrous consequences. In this work, we propose an image-based approach for drug verification to improve accuracy in drug dispensing. The initial experience found in this research is very encouraging.


In order to overcome the Boltzmann's tyranny, where subthreshold slope (SS) of a MOSFET is limited at a minimum of 60 mV/dec at room temperature, various device schemes utilizing different current transport mechanisms and novel materials were studied extensively [1], [2]. Among these candidates, incorporation of ferroelectric (FE) oxides along with capacitance-matched gate stacks helped realize the hysteresis-free negative capacitance (NC) FETs with bi-directional sub-60mV/dec SS [3], [4]. It has been discussed that these NCFETs not only give reduced SS but also show negative DIBL due to its nature of NC [5]. This could possibly lead to higher tolerance towards the conventional short channel effects (SCEs) such as steep increase in SS, DIBL and VT roll-off with scaling of channel length. However, such robustness to SCEs has not been carefully studied in the state-of-the-art Germanium NCFETs. In this paper, more than hundreds of devices were carefully measured with respect to channel length and device parameters were extracted so that such properties could be seen more explicitly. The NCFETs' parameters (SS, DIBL, VT) were compared directly with our reported Ge pFinFETs with conventional high-k dielectric [6] to graphically show the advantage of NC Ge FinFETs over the conventional Ge FinFETs.


Organic nitrates are broadly applied as pharmaceuticals (acting as efficient nitric oxide donor), energetic materials, building blocks in organic synthesis, etc. However, practical and direct methods to access organic nitrates efficiently is still rare mainly due to the lack of powerful nitrooxylating reagents. Herein, we report a kind of bench-stable and highly reactive noncyclic hypervalent iodine nitrooxylating reagents, oxybis(aryl-λ3-iodanediyl) dinitrates (OAIDNs, 2), which are prepared just by using aryliodine diacetate and HNO3. The reagents are used to achieve a mild and operationally simple protocol to access diverse organic nitrates. By employing of 2, zinc-catalyzed regioselective nitrooxylation of cyclopropyl silyl ethers is realized efficiently to offer the corresponding β-nitrooxy ketones with high functional group tolerance. Moreover, a series of direct and catalyst-free nitrooxylations of enolizable C-H bonds are carried out smoothly to afford the desired organic nitrates by just mixing the substrates with 2 in dichloromethane in minutes.


The efficiency of a tangential flow filtration device to concentrate pico- and nanoplankton particles in sea water uniformly over a range of concentrations was evaluated. To calculate the experi- mental recovery rates for each concentration factor, we measured the increase in chlorophyll concen- tration, number of total particles (Coulter counter) and number of autotrophic cells (flow cytometry). The experimental recovery rates for each stage of volume reduction in the concentration process were expressed as percentages of the expected theoretical values. Significant losses of cellular material (low recovery rates) occurred between the retentate seawater tank and the seawater filtrate tank. Similar losses occurred in repetitive closed-circuit recirculation experiments when the circulating volume of sea water was kept constant. The cause of the apparent losses of material appeared to be mechanical fragmentation of organisms during the pumping and filtering stages; however, experiments with latex beads showed that most of the missing beads were retained within the filtration elements. The low efficiencies and extremely varied recovery rates of tangential flow filtrations measured under the experimental conditions and for the different types of particles used in this work preclude its use for quantitative concentrations of natural assemblages of paniculate material in sea water.


Objective:To explore angiogenesis and ischemic neurological deficit repair through transplanting with EPCs and NSCs into ischemia model in rat.Methods: 240 SD rats were randomly divided into sham-operated group,ischemic control group,ischemia and Neural stem cells(NSCs) group,ischemia and endothelial progenitor cell transplantation(EPCs) group,ischemic and NSCs+EPCs group.Cerebral microvessel density,motor evoked potentials(MEP) and behavior were observed in the 1d,3d,7d,14d,30d,60d.Results:Microvessel density of Ischemia and NSCs group was no difference with MCAO group at all time points;Microvessel density of ischemia and EPCs group,ischemia and EPCs + NSCs group were higher than MCAO group at different time points besides ld.After 7d MEP of ischemia and NSCs group,ischemia and EPCs group,ischemia and EPCs + NSCs group were differences with ischemic control group,ischemia + EPCs was the greatest difference.After 3d they were differences with ischemic control group.Conclusion: EPCs and NSCs were transplanted to MCAO rat increased angiogenesis of ischemic penumbra,promoting recovery of neurological function.


The direct relationship between turnover intention and turnover has received much attention in organizational research, yet the potential mechanisms and boundary conditions between the two have rec...


An ultrahigh energy storage performance is achieved in the BNST-20% (Sc0.5Ta0.5)4+ ceramic via chemical modification, which could induce the evolution of oxygen vacancies and local polar phases to achieve a high saturation polarization.


Long-term Tai jiquan exercise can increase the content of nitric oxide and the activity of total nitric oxide in serum for the middle-aged and the aged.This research has further studied the effect of Tai jiquan on serum cNOS and iNOS based on previous studies in order to find out the causes of the increase of the activity of total nitric oxide due to Tai jiquan exercise.Methods:36 healthy community dwelling subjects aged from 55 to 65 years were divided into Tai jiquan group (n=19) and the controlling group (n=17).The Tai jiquan group participated in a 12-week simplified Tai jiquan training program led by a Tai jiquan instructor,with an exercise frequency of 5 days per week and 60 minutes per day.At the same time,the controlling group kept their life style as before.With an overnight fast,all the subjects' venous blood samples were drawn by 4ml prior and after the experimental period.The blood samples were centrifuged immediately and as serums were separated,active serum total nitric oxide,constitutive nitric oxide,inducible nitric oxide were measured.Results:TNOS and cNOS activity of the Tai jiquan group is much higher than either the controlling group(P0.05) or 12-week before (P0.01),while the change in iNOS is not remarkable.Conclusions:(1) Long-term Tai jiquan exercise can enhance the activity of TNOS,which can promote the synthesis of NO.(2) Long-term Tai jiquan exercise can increase the content of serum nitric oxide within the physiological scope,which is innocuous to the human body.


Too many experiments in elementary physics are performed from the standpoint of the "science," too few concern directly the topics in which the boys and girls are interested because they are immediately practical or related to common experience. Great progress already has been made in the elimination of meaningless, quantitative, experiments. The reorganization of the experimental work so as to emphasize the practical and the applied aspects of physics must follow if this subject is to occupy its rightful place in secondary education. This paper describes one example of such applied work which proved stimulating and instructive to a class. The great increase in the number of students has resulted in the erection of great high-school buildings which offer unequaled opportunities for the practical study of the problems of heating and ventilation. Almost all high-school buildings have systems of forced ventilation, differing widely in principle and still more in efficiency. The thorough testing of such systems by a physics class not only provides interesting, practical work for the class, but may also prove of direct service to the school community. Definite knowledge of the shortcomings and inefficiency of a system may not mean the installation of a new and adequate one, but very often much improvement may result in practice through the suggestions which a physics class is able to make after a comprehensive survey. The pupils were first asked to make a study of the heating-plants in their own homes and at the next recitation to report to the class the results of their investigation. The common methods of hot-air, hot-water, steam, and vapor heating were studied in this way by first-hand methods. Pupils of former years had prepared large colored diagrams illustrating these fundamental systems, and these were used in the class discussion. They served in some cases to correct wrong impressions, and in others to bring out interesting modifications of heating plants which investigation at home had revealed. The discussion of the advantages and disadvantages, the cost of installation, the conditions under which each system is most efficient, was spirited and showed the interest which this personal contact aroused. A diagram


We propose a tableaux calculus requiring simple exponential time for satisfiability of an .A£C concept C wrt a TBox T containing general axioms of the form C C D. LFrom correspondences with Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) it is known that this problem is in EXPTIME [Pratt, 1978; Vardi and Wolper, 1986]. However, an algorithm directly derived from the methods used to prove such a result would always require exponential time and space even in simple cases, e.g. when a simple model satisfying both T and C can be easily found. On the other hand, proposed tableaux methods [Buchheit et al., 1993], which explore a space of candidate models for T and C starting from simple ones, can take advantage of such cases. However, there can be an exponential number of possibly exponential-size candidate models. Hence, an algorithm based on tableaux methods requires doubly exponential time in the worst case. We devise a refined tableaux calculus that integrates the techniques used in PDL with tableaux, thus achieving a tableaux-based procedure working in simple exponential time. In a nutshell, traditional tableaux methods close a branch only by "first principles" (atomic clashes), whereas our enhanced tableau exploits previously proved inconsistencies as additional lemmata to decide that a branch can be closed without having to find the same atomic clashes again. For sake of brevity, we assume, wlog, that all concepts are expressed in negation normal form, i.e. we form concepts in .ArC by means of the following syntax (A denotes a concept name, C and D arbitrary concepts, and R a role name): C,D ::= T[.£[A[~A[C~D[CUD[ va.c l 3a.c We express a concept inclusion C E D in the TBox T as "~C tJ D = T where -~C U D has also been expressed in negation normal form.


I NDIA'S present administrative scenario is crisscrossed by several problems of immense magnitude. In fact, the people today do not appear to be very hopeful about the capacity cf administration to deliver goods. Of course, the current year has been particularly a very difficult period in the postindependent lndia. At present, the Indian economy is under severe strain with the political horizon too getting murkier as the crisis deepens. However, to be fair one must concede that in the past the demands on the administrative system have far exceeded its capacity to meet them. It has not .been properly equipped for the kind of role it was required to play, each time the government, either in pursuance of its political ideology or just to meet some political expediency, brought into its fold a new kind of activity-be it the nationalisation of banks or of coal mines or takeover of wholesale trade in foodgrains. lt would be, therefore, not very generous to lay at the door of the administrators whatever ills one encounters today.


A fundamental study regarding the relation between a magnetized ball and Hall voltage was carried out to prepare basic data for the Hall element method used for detecting three-dimensional ball motion in ball bearings. It was found that the accuracy of Hall element method largely depended on the uniformity of the magnetization of a ball. Therefore, the magnetizing method is very important to make a uniformly magnetized ball. As far as the magnetizing method is concerned, the uniformity was improved considerably by employing the non-contact method in compared with the contact method. The effects of contact angle on Hall voltage were also examined. It was found that contact angle naturally affects Hall voltage. It decreased with each increment of contact angle. A mathematical model was proposed to account for the experimental results, which led a simple expression.


On a global scale, tourism is an actively developing industry, which is of great importance for the development of the economy of many regions of the world. Satisfaction of the local population with the development of tourism is closely related to the opportunities for active participation in the decision-making process on tourism development. The level of satisfaction with tourism can show the feelings and attitude of the residents toward tourism, and in particular, to tourists. Satisfied local people are more hospitable and willing to provide tourists with the necessary products and services.
This paper aims to study the attitude of urban residents towards tourism and its development on the basis of a survey conducted among residents of Bishkek by random sampling. Bishkek is the capital of the country and the largest number of registered economic entities in the tourism sector is focused in Bishkek.
Respondents (N=190) attitude toward tourism varied according to their age, education, gender, marital status. The study showed that urban residents have a mostly benevolent and supportive attitude to tourism. Among the negative consequences expected from tourism development is related with the risk of rising prices in accommodation facilities. The results can be useful for policy makers, business representatives, local government and researchers.


In order to evaluate a methodology applied to the ridge analysis in mixing experiments with linear constraints, this article proposes through the construction of a ridge path to obtain the maximum or minimum value of the predicted response under a prediction variance conditioned to a restriction. For this purpose, we considered two experiments mixtures with variables with a lower or upper bound limit. The results were compared with the ones obtained by other methods available in the literature in industrial application. According to the degree of multicollinearity of the variables in each experiment, it was observed that the proposed methodology was efficient to provide predicted response with the value higher than the maximum obtained by existing methods and variance reduced prediction


The monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) based on the direct method can leverage all available pixels in the image to simultaneously estimate the camera motion and reconstruct the denser map of the scene in real-time. However, the direct method is sensitive to photometric changes, which can be compensated by introducing geometric information in the environment. In this article, we propose a monocular direct sparse VIO, which exploits the planar regularities (PVI-DSO). Our system detects the planar regularities from the 3-D mesh built on the estimated map points. To improve the pose estimation accuracy with the geometric information, a tightly coupled coplanar constraint expression is used to express photometric error in the direct method. In addition, to improve the optimization efficiency, we elaborately derive the analytical Jacobian of the linearization form for the coplanar constraint. Finally, the inertial measurement error, coplanar point photometric error, noncoplanar photometric error, and prior error are added into the optimizer, which simultaneously improves the pose estimation accuracy and mesh itself. We verified the performance of the whole system on the simulation and real-world datasets. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that our system outperforms the state-of-the-art counterparts.


The effects of increased global temperatures are being measured in many biological systems. Given the complexity of biological systems, their responses to a changing climate are difficult to predict. Physiologic processes are particularly susceptible to temperature, leading to a species specific optimal range of habitable temperatures. As global temperatures increase, species will be exposed to a changing range of potentially stressful temperatures, especially in species currently living at their thermal limits (e.g., alpine mammals). Warming temperatures may force alpine species to move to higher elevations to maintain thermoneutrality. Ultimately, if temperatures increase as predicted, alpine mammals may be unable to move higher and may face localized extinctions.


GSM based AMR has low infrastructure cost and it reduces man power. The system is fully automatic, hence the probability of error is reduced. The data is highly secured and it not only solve the problem of traditional meter reading system but also provides additional features such as power disconnection, reconnection and the concept of power management. The database stores the current month and also all the previous month data for the future use. Hence the system saves a lot amount of time and energy. Due to the power fluctuations, there might be a damage in the home appliances. Hence to avoid such damages and to protect the appliances, the voltage controlling method can be implemented.


Generating follow-up questions on the fly could significantly improve conversational survey quality and user experiences by enabling a more dynamic and personalized survey structure. In this paper, we proposed a novel task for knowledge-driven follow-up question generation in conversational surveys. We constructed a new human-annotated dataset of human-written follow-up questions with dialogue history and labeled knowledge in the context of conversational surveys. Along with the dataset, we designed and validated a set of reference-free Gricean-inspired evaluation metrics to systematically evaluate the quality of generated follow-up questions. We then propose a two-staged knowledge-driven model for the task, which generates informative and coherent follow-up questions by using knowledge to steer the generation process. The experiments demonstrate that compared to GPT-based baseline models, our two-staged model generates more informative, coherent, and clear follow-up questions.