Copyright information: Taken from "The extracellular matrix, p53 and estrogen compete to regulate cell-surface Fas/Apo-1 suicide receptor expression in proliferating embryonic cerebral cortical precursors, and reciprocally, Fas-ligand modifies estrogen control of cell-cycle proteins"BMC Neuroscience 2004;5():11-11.Published online 23 Mar 2004PMCID:PMC395829.Copyright © 2004 Cheema et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. (A,C) Sample frequency histograms of PI incorporation (DNA content) in adherent (A) and non-adherent (C) precursors indicates that adherent precursors are mainly in G0, while non-adherent precursors are mainly apoptotic. (B, D) Scatter-plots of combined analysis of PI (x-axis) and cell-surface Fas immunofluorescence (y-axis) indicates that adherent precursors largely express moderate levels of cell-surface Fas (Fas, B), while non-adherent precursors also express high levels of Fas (Fas, D). (E) Graph (Mean + SEM) showing that collagenase-A treatment significantly increased the number of cells expressing cell-surface Fas, relative to controls. Asterisk indicates p < 0.05.


A nonreciprocal phase shift in a magnetooptic waveguide with a Si guiding layer is discussed. The magnetooptic waveguide was installed in an optical isolator employing the nonreciprocal phase shift. The magnetooptic waveguide had a magnetic garnet/Si/SiO2 structure, which was realized by wafer bonding technique. The nonreciprocal phase shift in the magnetooptic waveguide with the Si guiding layer was calculated at a wavelength of 1.55 µm. A required thickness of the magnetic garnet cladding layer was obtained by calculating the nonreciprocal phase shift. An optical isolator employing the nonreciprocal phase shift, which could be operated under unidirectional magnetic field, was proposed by contriving the layer structures in the interferometer.


The organizational reform of the health care system in Bulgaria was started in 2000. As a result, the primary health care in the country was organized in a new way -based on individual and group practices of general medicine. The new conditions and organization of work, the new requirements and the new organization of training have become a challenge for general practitioners working in these practices. The work in difficult conditions can become a factor that seriously reduces job satisfaction as well as motivation for work. In Bulgaria for recent years there is an unfavorable tendency to reduce the number of GPs working in the country, which is probably related to their satisfaction with the working conditions (Figure 1). The job satisfaction of the primary care physician is an important factor for quality of health, because the primary care level is responsible for providing medical care to a greater proportion of the population than any other care level. Abstract


The pressure gradient of nearly 1,000 mm of water that can develop between the perilymph and the middle ear makes the choice of material used to seal the oval window after the stapes is removed of great importance.


The utility model discloses a looping base structure for preventing deviation of a steel strip, which comprises a looping roll, wherein the looping roll is installed between two finishing mills, the side surface of a crossbeam base which is arranged between the two finishing mills is provided with a T-shaped guide groove, a T-shaped crossbeam is matched with the T-shaped guide groove of the crossbeam base, the left end of the crossbeam base is fixedly connected with an oil cylinder, a piston rod of the oil cylinder is connected with the left end of the crossbeam, the T-shaped crossbeams on two ends of the T-shaped guide groove are hinged with a left side looping arm and a right side looping arm, which are symmetric to each other, the left and the right looping arms are respectively fixedly connected with a left bearing seat and a right bearing seat, the looping roll is installed on the left and the right bearing s eats, two ends of the bottom part of the crossbeam are respectively hinged with two symmetric elevation oil cylinders through two oil cylinder bases, and two elevation oil cylinder piston rods are respectively hinged onto the corresponding looping arm. The looping base structure has a simple and reasonable structure, is reliable to work and run, can realize the transverse movement function of the looping roll along the axis direction, has a dynamic continuous centering effect, can prevent the deviation problem of a steel strip inside the finishing mill after passing through the finishing mill, can improve the product quality, and can reduce the waste steel accident.


Abstract : We report on the use of a rotating prism high speed camera for determining the characteristics of a munition undergoing rapid deflagration in field experiments. The technique has been applied to study the controlled deflagration of Composition B filled 105 mm shell and 81 mm mortar bombs as representative thick and thin cased munitions respectively; however the report is mostly illustrated with results from the study on 105 mm shell. The deflagration event has been characterized in terms of case expansion rate, initial fragment velocity, time to case burst, time to reaction from the nose end and the deflagration rate of the filling. Products escaping from the fracturing case eventually obscured the image which limited the extent of the measurements.


The nano-TiO2film coated self-cleaning ceramics were prepared on ceramic by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis technology with butyl titanate as the titanium source. The crystal structure,component and surface morphology of the resulting samples were characterized by XRD,EDS and SEM,respectively. The self-cleaning ceramic 's antibacterial capability was tested by killing Escherichia coli under UV irradiation and its bactericidal mechanism was investigated. The results show that the antibacterial rate of 98. 42% to Escherichia coli in 120 min presents at the anatase TiO2film annealed at 500 ℃. When the heat treatment temperature higher than 550 ℃,the Si4 +permeates from substrate to TiO2film and the crystal phase of nano TiO2film is the mixture of anatase and amorphous. The antibacterial rate to Escherichia coli will begin to slow.


Germanium‐doped silica glasses are important materials used in the fabrication of preforms from which optical waveguides are drawn. The preforms consist of an outer cladding of silica and an inner core of germanium‐doped silica. These separate portions have been subjected to varying types of ionizing radiation and the centers generated have been studied by electron‐spin resonance spectroscopy. Core samples show the generation of a single type of germanium E' center in the silica matrix which is surrounded by three next‐nearest‐neighbor germanium atoms and is specified as Ge(3) after xenon lamp irradiation at room temperature. If γ irradiation is used, several germanium E' centers with varying numbers of next‐nearest‐neighbor germanium atoms ranging from 0 to 3 are generated and are designated as Ge (n) centers, where n=0, 1, 2, and 3. The Ge(1) and Ge(2) centers disappear after heat treatment at a temperature of ∼500 K leaving only the Ge(3) center as the most stable of these species. The intensity of the...


The authors explore the relationship between mid-latitude and synchronous orbit magnetic signatures and the location of the auroral surge at the onset of three isolated magnetospheric substorms. Mid-latitude data come from the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory Magnetometer Network, synchronous orbit data form the satellites GOES 2 and 3, and auroral data from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program auroral images and auroral magnetograms. They find that the surge forms with its western edge {approximately} 1 hour west of the longitude where the major axis of the mid-latitude Pi 2 polarization ellipse is along magnetic north and where the D component perturbation of the magnetic bay is near zero. These observations are in qualitative agreement with a current wedge consisting of a localized upward current in the west and a longitudinally distributed current in the east. At synchronous orbit the longitude of the surge head appears to separate a region to the west where the magnetic field becomes more taillike from one to the east where the magnetic field becomes more dipolar.


Given the growing environmental awareness, educators – especially in science and environmental education – need to avoid embracing a 'critical pedagogy of place'. Why conflating critical pedagogy with place‐based education is an oxymoron, and why it perpetuates the thinking and silences that undermine both the diversity of the world's cultures and ecosystems are the main foci of this essay. The main theorists of a critical pedagogy of place – Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, and David Gruenewald – draw on a tradition of thinking that emphasizes decolonization and reinhabitation. While these words create the illusion of a culturally and ecologically sound approach to place‐based education, these theorists are unable to recognize the nature and ecological importance of the cultural commons that exist in every community – and that represent alternatives to a consumer‐dependent existence. In effect, their commitment to universalizing the process of decolonization without a deep knowledge of the diverse cultural practices that have a smaller ecological impact meets the definition of an oxymoron where two contradictory positions are assumed to be compatible. A culturally informed knowledge of place takes account of different approaches to dwelling on the land, as well as the ability to listen to the keepers of community memory of past environmentally destructive practices and of sustainable traditions of community self‐sufficiency. It is not driven by a Western ideology that takes for granted the progressive nature of change, or assumes that Western theorists possess the answers that the other cultures should live by.


The aim of this study was to compare medium-term growth dynamics of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in areas after forest fire and clearcut in different forest types to improve the understanding of post-fire growth of trees in hemiboreal forest zone. The data were collected at four Scots pine dominated forest stands located in northern and central parts of Latvia (56°45 ́ 57°40 ́N; 22°32 ́24°98 ́E) burned or clearcut in 1992, 2004 and 2006; forest types Vacciniosa, Vacciniosa mel and Myrtillosa mel. In each study site 100m and 25 m circular plots were placed systematically and height increment of Scots pine were measured. The average height of Scots pine at the age of 8 years was 167±54.2 cm Vacciniosa and 230±90.3 cm Myrtillosa mel. At the age of 10 years 184+71.1 cm Vacciniosa mel, and at the age of 22 years 360±214.1 cm Vacciniosa. Our results demonstrated that 8 years after the forest fire mean height of Scots pine was significantly lower in burned areas in comparison to clearcut, but there were no significant differences in mean height of trees 10 and 19 years after forest fire. It indicates, that impact of forest fire on tree growth diminishes over time and in forest types on more fertile soil its effect is more limited than on poor soil. Tree height was notably more variable in all the burned areas in comparison to the control areas.


Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of micafungin (MCFG) in the cases of deep-seated mycosis. Subjects: The subjects were nine patients admitted to this advanced emergency medical center. They had a fever that was resistant to broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents and were suspected of deep-seated mycosis because of inflammatory findings and abnormally increased β-D-glucan levels. Results: The dose of MCFG was either 100 mg · day-1 or 150 mg · day-1 and the duration of its administration ranged from 2 to 19 days. The overall clinical efficacy was evaluated by comparing the data obtained before and after MCFG treatment in terms of improvement in the following aspects: clinical symptoms and findings, results of serological tests of fungi, cultivation of fungi, and results of imaging test. Consequently, clinical efficacy was judged in seven patients, while it was judged impossible to evaluate the other two patients. In this result, β-D-glucan levels decreased in all cases, especially 3/7 cases (42.9%) indicated negative point after MCFG treatment. Both of cultivation of fungi and the canditec test were disappeared. Moreover, in all seven patients, body temperature, WBC, CRP, and interleukin-6 (100%) decreased. In addition, chest X-ray resulted in complete response (CR) 2/7 (28.6%), partial response (PR) 5/7 (71.4%). Seven patients were discharged with survivor. No MCFG associated adverse reactions were recognized. Conclusion: Pre-emptive administration of MCFG, which was effective in treating the both albicans and non-albicans Candida infection, to patients diagnosed as β-D-glucan positive led to satisfactory treatment results. MCFG seems to be a first-choice drug for empiric or pre-emptive therapy in the field of emergency or intensive care.


Although gout is a common disease, patients with tophi are infrequently clinically examined. In this case report, a 40-year-old man presented with multiple nodules in both soles. The nodules, gouty tophus, were diagnosed following pathological examination, and multiple gouty tophi in both soles is a rare condition. The take-home message is that subcutaneous nodular lesions in soles need to be considered during evaluation.


A fastening system comprising a plurality of fasteners (10) threaded of different sizes, each fastener having a head (12) having a recess (14) for receiving a tool (20) to screw rotatably fixing, and wherein at least some of the fasteners have a recess comprising a plurality of steps (16a, b, c, d) screwing superimposed decreasing size each other, each step having sides which are substantially parallel along the axis fixing and defining a polygonal section; characterized in that said system comprises at least two intervals (10, 10 ''; 10 '', 10 '' '') of said fasteners in which the fasteners (10, 10 '') of an interval larger sizes of said plurality of ranges are larger than fasteners (10 '', 10 '' '') of a smaller size range of said plurality intervals; because between such intervals smaller sizes and larger sizes a common step (16d; 16b ''; 16b '') of at least some of the fasteners in each range, the the recess of some largest tier being fixations in the range of smaller sizes, and the smallest tier of the recess of some fasteners of larger-size range, which common tier is the same section in each range; and because the depth from the base of said shoulder of the recess largest base of said shoulder of the smallest size of the recess in the fasteners size range size smaller is less than the depth of the smallest tier of the recess in the fixations interval larger sizes.


The study of digital marketing communications on the Web is inseparable from the study of the ways metadata with which the web content of these communications is or should be described. This article presents the aspects of digital marketing communication and understanding in the interactive, interconnected on the levels of text and metadata, hypermedia environment of the Web. The article argues that the texts of digital marketing communications on the Web should be perceived (and created) both as a collective action and together and from the point of view of their function as digital objects


The present essay includes six thematically connected papers on negation in the areas of the philosophy of logic, philosophical logic and metaphysics. Each of the chapters besides Chapter 1, which puts each the chapters to follow into context, highlights a central problem negation poses to a certain area of philosophy. Chapter 2 discusses the problem of logical revisionism and whether there is any room for genuine disagreement, and hence shared meaning, between the classicist and deviant's respective uses of 'not'. If there is not, revision is impossible. I argue that revision is indeed possible and provide an account of negation as contradictoriness according to which a number of alleged negations are declared genuine. Among them are the negations of FDE (First-Degree Entailment) and a wide family of other relevant logics, LP (Priest's dialetheic "Logic of Paradox"), Kleene weak and strong 3-valued logics with either "exclusion" or "choice" negation, and intuitionistic logic. Chapter 3 discusses the problem of furnishing intuitionistic logic with an empirical negation for adequately expressing claims of the form 'A is undecided at present' or 'A may never be decided' the latter of which has been argued to be intuitionistically inconsistent. Chapter 4 highlights the importance of various notions of consequence-as-s-preservation where s may be falsity (versus untruth), indeterminacy or some other semantic (or "algebraic") value, in formulating rationality constraints on speech acts and propositional attitudes such as rejection, denial and dubitability. Chapter 5 provides an account of the nature of truth values regarded as objects. It is argued that only truth


Abst ract . This paper present s t he result s of mult ifract al t est ing of two set s of financial dat a: daily dat a of t he Dow Jones Indust rial Average (DJ IA) index and minut ely dat a of the Euro Stoxx 50 index. Where mult ifract al scaling is found, t he spect rum of scaling exponent s is calculat ed via Mult ifract al Det rended F luctuat ion Analysis. In both cases, furt her invest igat ions reveal t hat t he t emporal correlat ions in the dat a are a more significant source of the mult ifract al scaling than are the dist ribut ions of the returns. It is also shown that t he ext reme event s which make up the heavy t ails of t he dist ribut ion of the Euro Stoxx 50 log returns dist ort t he scaling in the dat a set . The most ext reme event s are inimical t o the scaling regime. This result is in cont rast t o previous findings that ext reme event s cont ribut e to mult ifract ality.


Epithelial gastric polyps can be categorized as hyperplastic or adenomatous polyps. Hyperplastic polyps are predominant, comprising 75 to 90% of gastric polyps. It has been generally accepted that adenomatous gastric polyps exhibit malignant change. However, potential of malignant transformation of hyperplastic gastric polyps was originally denied and have been rarely reported, the incidence varying from 1.5 to 2.1%. The size and the associated dysplasia of polyps seem to be important in transformation to gastric carcinoma. Most of the reported cases of hyperplastic gastric polyps with transformation to adenocarcinoma were histopathologically well differentiated. We report a rare case of moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma arising in a hyperplastic polyp on the greater curvature of the midbody in the stomach with a brief review of the literatures.


Abstract Li-ion secondary battery is highly recommended as a power source to highly advanced battery electric vehicles. Among various types, the lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA) battery is considered suitable for high energy and power application. In this study, the NCA cathode material LiNi0.89Co0.08Al0.03O2 was produced via the oxalate co-precipitation technique to reduce the overall production cost and process complexity. Oxalic acid and a small amount of sodium hydroxide were used as the precipitant and pH regulator, respectively. Homogenous and loose metal oxalate precipitate formation was confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy analysis. XRD patterns of the as-obtained micron-sized NCA showed a well-layered hexagonal structure. The electrochemical properties of the cathode in the full cell were thoroughly examined. The specific discharge capacity of the as-obtained NCA in NCA/LiPF6/graphite at a current rate of 20 mA/g was 142 mAh/g. The as-prepared NCA sample had capacity retention of 80% after being charged and discharged at 0.1 A/g for 101 cycles. Scaling up of NCA production process to 2 kg per batch was conducted and evaluation of NCA product quality was performed by material characterization. Based on the overall results and considering the overall process, such an approach is expected to be developed and improved for future large-scale production purposes.


Abstract Structures, extinction and ignition limits of strained diffusion flames are examined. The influence of the oxidizer stream temperature is specifically considered. Calculations are performed for diffusion flames formed by a counterflow of diluted hydrogen and air. The air temperature differs from the hydrogen temperature. The reactive flow equations are solved numerically by employing Newton iterations and adaptive continuation techniques. The model includes detailed transport and complex kinetics. Flame structures, extinction and ignition limits and characteristic flame response curves are determined for different values of the fuel-air ratio and for a set of air stream temperatures. It is shown that this last parameter strongly affects the conditions producing extinction. For an air stream temperature of 100OK, the critical extinction strain rate is ten times that found for an air stream at room temperature It is also found that a temperature exists beyond which combustion always takes place wha...


This article discusses the scale effects on a planing boat, utilizing the computational fluid dynamics method. The simulation is compared with a tank test for verification and validation. The planing boat sails use both aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Studying the performances and wave patterns of different dimensions of the models is the best way to investigate the scale effect without using experimental data. The resistance is discussed in two parts, namely residuary resistance and friction resistance, and is compared to the calculated data using the international towing tank conference (ITTC) formula. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations of the model are increased by 4.77% on average, and the boat computations are also increased by 3.57%. The computation shows the scale effect in detail. The residuary resistance coefficients at different scales are approximately equal, and the friction resistance coefficients show the scale effect. The scale effect for longitudinal steadiness is also captured for the period of the porpoising behavior. The rational for the full-scaled boat oscillation period and the model is the root of the scales.


This article represents initial research towards a comparative analysis between the corpora of the most relevant works issued from the experience of Nazi camps and some of the existing Catalan literary works that take the experience of the French camps as their point of departure. While acknowledging the historical differences under which these two corpora were produced, the shared factors of exile and internment make it pertinent to carry out a comparative analysis to explore the similarities and differences in representing fear, death, body perception and exclusion. The article also offers some preliminary questions that give some clues to how we might further explore how testimonial literature produced from the experience of Nazi camps has permeated the reception of Catalan texts to the point of compromising their visibility.


The focal point of this study is the legal rules which govern international labour migration. It attempts to explore and critically analyse the relationships between international labour migration as an economic phenomenon and the legal norms which affect and influence this process. Firstly, it underlines the importance of the legal thinking in providing adequate protection to migrant workers and members of their families. Secondly, it argues for establishing an international legal framework to regulate and harmonize the national immigration policies of States.

Chapter Two examines the economics of international labour migration, the economic function and the social status of migrant labour in the receiving States. The focus is on the post Second World War migratory flow to France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.

Chapter Three analyses the national laws of the receiving States. It concentrates on the issues of residence, work permit systems, family reunification and the social security systems of the receiving States.

Chapter Four is concerned with the international recruitment agreements which have been concluded after the Second World War period and registered with the UN Secretariat. The provisions of these treaties are compared with the provisions of investment treaties which have also been concluded between the same parties, and with the ILO model agreement on temporary migration for employment.

Chapter Five explores the relations between the existing international human rights instruments and the immigration laws of the selected States and the adequacy and the capacity of these instruments in protecting migrant workers.


This study analyzed the influence of income on household mortality and life expectancy in Dodoma. Mortality and life expectancy were used as proxies for health status. The effect of income was assessed along with the social determinants of health. The study employed cross sectional design involving 150 households. Twomodels based on mortality and life expectancy were applied. Based on mortality, the relationship with income had a negative sign as expected and was significant (B= -0.035; p=0.01). As for life expectancy and income level, the relationship was positive as it was hypothesized and was significant (B= 1.167 and p= 0.015). The fact that two models had significant outcome on income, there is an obvious association between income and health status in the sense that health status is determined by an individual's income level, holding other factors constant. The following social determinants also seemed to significantly affect health status along with income: meals intake, educational level, and distance to health facility. From this study the researcher suggests that as income being the dominant factor that influence better health status therefore improving household income level would lead to better welfare as it enables household to afford and access health services easily. However lifestyle like alcohol drinking habits, smoking and bad eating habits impact negatively to household's health. The government should create awareness to households on eating balanced diet, doing physical exercises and how their lifestyles can negatively affect their health.


A patient receiving carefully monitored lithium carbonate therapy in late pregnancy developed a toxic condition during the delivery process, apparently due to hemodynamic or metabolic alterations or both, as no additional lithium carbonate was given. Massive diuresis was effective treatment. The infant also had elevated serum lithium ion levels with the clinical signs of cyanosis and flaccid muscle tone. Both mother and infant have recovered without obvious permanent damage. Extreme caution should be used with lithium carbonate therapy in late pregnancy until further data can be obtained on the maternal-fetal relationship. The promise of effective therapy must be weighed with therapeutic benefit.


Abstract Tylopus currently comprises 55 species, including three new from Thailand: T. corrugatus sp. n., T. trigonum sp. n. and T. parahilaroides sp. n. A new distribution map and an updated key to all 29 species of Tylopus presently known to occur in Thailand are given. Illustrated redescriptions of all four Indochinese Tylopus species described by Carl Attems are also provided, based on type material.


Disruption provides a myriad of benefits to people's lives. However, on the other hand it cannot be denied that the era of disruption has brought quite dangerous obstacles. Due to the lack of a person's moral standing in responding to the era of disruption, resulting in various problems arise. One of the big problems born in the era of disruption is the phenomenon of hoaxes. Hoax is triggered by a lack of attention to ethics in communicating with high social media user numbers. The use of this research writing method takes the form of a conceptual framework and is qualitative in nature. Some literature and observations taken from several media issues related to hoax news as data retrieval, and using a phenomenological analysis approach. This paper produces a digital piety concept that can be implemented through tabayyun attitude Qs review. al-H{ujura>t verses 6-8, politeness in language review Qs. T{aha> verse 44, and local wisdom in the language review Qs. al-Hujurat verse 12 obtained from the study of the contents of the Qur'an.


Contents: Introduction: emergent urbanism and beyond, Krister Olsson and Tigran Haas. Part I The New Urban Context: Alphaville and Masdar: the future of urban space and form?, Alexander R. Cuthbert Imagining biophilic cities, Timothy Beatley A long view at high speed, Andrew Ballantyne Creativity, diversity and interaction: urban space and place-making, Ali Madanipour Incremental urbanism: the emergence of informal settlements, Kim Dovey The city seen: strategies of coherence, evocation and simulation in urban representation, William Uricchio. Part II Processes of Planning and Urban Change: Social capital in the age of megacities and the knowledge economy, Hans Westlund Cities of culture and culture in cities: the emerging uses of culture in city branding, Gregory Ashworth and Mihalis Kavaratzis The field of urban composition, Mark C. Childs The subject of place: staying with the trouble, Jonathan Metzger What is good urbanism?, Nan Ellin The challenge of social sustainability: revisiting the unfinished job of defining and measuring social sustainability in an urban context, Andrea Colantonio. Part III The Urban Product: Emergent urbanism as the transformative force in saving the planet, Peter Newman Does the city have speech?, Saskia Sassen Planning the emergent and dealing with uncertainty: regulations and urban form, Emily Talen The responsive city: the city of the future re-imagined from the bottom up, Sarah Williams The environmental paradox of the city, landscape urbanism and new urbanism, Douglas Kelbaugh. Index.


Washington State &dquo;manifest injustice&dquo; exception to statutory sentence rigidity should be adopted, and whether there should be such mechanisms as institutional good time or the right to petition the committing court for a juvenile's early release when an institution is not discharging its responsibilities all go unmentioned and unevaluated. Wheeler properly faults the treatment premise of juvenile justice and opts for a noncoercive treatment and humanitarian approach to rehabilitation within determinate sentencing. He opposes the right-to-treatment precept as requiring the imposition of coercive treatment by an institutionally employed professional elite and because lengthier institutional stays might be in the


By using a graph diagram named a magnetic graph diagram, we construct a polynomial invariant for knots and links. We show that it is a generalization of both the HOMFLY and the Kauffman polynomials.


Drawing from Tuskegee University's participation in ACE's Creating Global Citizens Project, this analysis focuses on factors that strengthen and impede internationalization at Tuskegee University. Grounded in the historical trajectory of an institution, this analysis revolves around three methodological pillars: an audit of all international activities on Campus, a cross-sectional survey design, and a focus group. The findings suggest that although Tuskegee University is a significantly internationalized campus, efforts to sustain the internationalization process remain faced with challenges that revolve mainly around three critical areas: resource constraints, institutional structures, and awareness deficiency.


Rationale Major depression and spatial memory impairment are the most common comorbidities in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). For these patients, treatment options are limited highlighting the need for innovative treatments such as Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs). Studies investigating the effect of DREADDs on these comorbidities are lacking. In the present study, we evaluated whether activation of hM4Di DREADDs with clozapine affects anhedonia (i.e. the inability to experience pleasure) and spatial memory in the intraperitoneal kainic acid (IPKA) rat model for TLE.


The scaling of the intrinsic rotation in ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) has recently been the subject of several studies aimed at clarifying the underlying mechanisms that potentially explain the rich phenomenology in terms of a number of key plasma parameters [1, 2]. In a database of intrinsic rotation measurements that was obtained via charge exchange spectroscopy during neutral beam blips in AUG L-mode plasmas, a multiple regression analysis revealed a number of physically relevant dependencies of the intrinsic normalized rotation gradient u′ at mid-radius. Whereas the electron density gradient showed the strongest correlation with u′, the dependence on other quantities could not be ruled out. However, a quantitative assessment of the relative importance of various predictor variables for explaining the observed rotation gradients and rotation reversal, is complicated by the considerable scatter in the database. Among other factors, this is caused by the challenging requirements for the rotation measurements and the wide range of plasma conditions represented in the database. Indeed, significant measurement uncertainty on response and predictor variables has been a source of concern in previous studies of fusion scaling laws [3]. In this work, we deploy the recently developed method of geodesic least squares regression (GLS) [4, 5] to estimate the dependencies of the intrinsic toroidal rotation in AUG L-mode plasmas. Based on regression in spaces of probability distributions, GLS provides the robustness and flexibility that is required in cases of substantial uncertainties with arbitrary distributions. We present results of the GLS rotation scaling that indicate the necessity of a dedicated methodology in estimating fusion scaling laws under challenging measurement conditions.


The paper focuses on the management of project portfolios as a novel and complex area in the practice of project-oriented organizations. The paper's main goal is to review the role of project management office /PMO/ for enhancing the performance of organizational project portfolio. It considers several core issues and functions related to the process of implementation of PMO in a particular organization. A case study has been conducted in order to provide evidence about the benefits from the introduction of PMO in a company operating in the media sector. Results from the case study analysis shows that this approach to project management in a multi-project environment is to a large extent universal and can be successfully applied in similar organizational context.


Capacitation and acrosome reaction is an important process in sperm maturation and in fertilization. Although capacitation and acrosome reaction are now considered to be mediated by intracellular signaling events, including protein phosphorglation, the regulation of the transduction mechamisms is poorly understood. This paper illustrite the importance of Ca2+ and its effect in capacitation and acrosome reaction.


The objectives of this project are to design and develop agricultural areas in accordance with the concept of participatory agriculture ecology to solve poverty and protect the environment by using the study of Landscape ecology and agriculture ecology concepts. In-depth interviews were used to explore the problems and impacts of agriculture affecting the economy Society and Environment of Wapi Pathum District Maha Sarakham Province. The key findings showed that the former agricultural area was all forest areas. The forest area was transformed into the agriculture area. This community has been doing agriculture for more than 50 years and the farmers have been using fertilizer and chemicals for a long time. This results in reduced agricultural production and environmental deterioration. Therefore, these solutions not only must add the concept of "New Theory Agriculture" to introduce to the farmers by focusing on growing a variety of plants for various uses, "Khok Nong Na Model" concept should be implemented to help enhance land and water management for agriculture activities throughout the year also. Moreover "Agroforestry" together with "Organic agriculture" will help rehabilitate the completely degraded forest area and the treatment of soil, water, and air with the ecological plants could potentially help reduce toxins in the environment also. Finally, the Principles of landscape agricultural guidelines will help to create beautiful agricultural areas, sustainable, suitable for learning resources and tourist attractions. Combining these concepts together contributes to a new type of agriculture to help and create a better quality environment.


Precipitation over the Southern Africa exhibits a pronounced annual cycle and strong interannual variability: It can be substantially influenced by remote processes such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Subtropical Indian Ocean Dipole as well as regional variability of the Angola Low a low-pressure cyclonic circulation centred east of the Angolan highland which can modulate convergence of low-level moisture over southern Africa. Since October 2018 precipitation during austral rainy seasons over parts of southern Africa (primarily encompassing areas of Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia) reached very low levels and this led to severe socio-economic impacts in a region very vulnerable to drought: Poetntially more than 45 million people across the 16-nation Southern African Development Community could be food insecure. This study explores dynamics, including teleconnection aspects, and whether and to what extent anthropogenic climate change has modified the probability and magnitude of such large-scale meteorological drought by applying a multi-dataset (combining observations and models) event attribution. We utilise a set of satellite-era and long-term observations as well as long-term reanalysis products (e.g., 20CRv3) and CMIP5/6 simulations (particularly large ensembles) to show amplifying influence of climate change and explore conditional perspective by taking into account atmospheric circulation and teleconnection elements.


BACKGROUND: Since the very first outbreak, scientists have been trying to determine the most critical pathogenetic mechanisms for the development of COVID-19 and related complications, analyze individual subpopulations of patients with chronic diseases and develop optimal tactics to combat not only the infection itself but also its acute and chronic complications.AIM: to assess the COVID-19 course among patients with Type 1 and Type 2 DM.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective cohort study of Tashkent inhabitants, who had COVID-19 from April to D ecember 2020, was performed. The data were obtained from the single electronic database of registered cases of COVID-19. All data were analyzed using a logistic regression in STATA 17.0 software. Further, the matched case-control study was performed for patients with type 2 DM and no DM based on age, gender, and BMI.RESULTS: Of the 5023 analyzed subjects, 72.63% had no diabetes mellitus (DM), 4.24% had type 1 DM, 15.19% had type 2 DM, and 7.94% was diagnosed with DM during the COVID-19 infection. DM, overweight, and obesity were associated with severe COVID-19; the most significant risk of a severe course was found in persons with type 2 DM. The risk of a lethal outcome and the need for prescription of glucocorticoids did not show a significant association with diabetes in Tashkent. The clinical features of COVID-19 were more common in patients with type 2 DM, especially for shortness of breath, chest pain, and arrhythmia. The persons receiving SU have complained of dyspnea significantly more often than matched patients without DM. Metformin and DPP4i were the groups of drugs that were not associated with significantly increased risk of hospitalization of patients because of COVID-19. The matched case-control study did not reveal statistically significant differences in the disease course severity, need for hospitalization and glucocorticoids, and death depending on the glucose-lowering therapy preceding the onset of COVID-19.CONCLUSION: Diabetes, age and overweight/obesity were associated with severe course of COVID-19 in Tashkent. There was no statistical difference in COVID-19 severity depending on initial glucose-lowering therapy.


This paper, using left action of Liegroup G on manifold M, constructs single-parameter differential transformation group and proves that there exits homomorphism map betwecn induced vector field and Lie algebra and that this induced vector field is a lie algebra.


The invention discloses a WPS (Wi Fi Protected Setup) implementation method of Wi-Fi relay equipment and the Wi-Fi relay equipment. The method comprises the following steps of setting a WPS button on the relay equipment, and judging a received packet after the WPS button is pressed; when the received packet is a Probe Response packet, using the Probe Response packet as an Enrollee to respond to a Registrar to finish WPS; when the received packet is an EAPOL-START packet, using the EAPOL-START packet as the Registrar and the Enrollee transmitting the EAPOL-START packet to finish WPS. The Wi-Fi relay equipment comprises the WPS button, a WPS module and a judgment module. Due to the design that one button can trigger multiple WPS, users can use WPS very conveniently.


Majority of undergraduate students in biology prospect themselves toward a career in medical professions. However, biology is a vibrant discipline and a degree in biology prepares for careers in many other professions with opportunities in a wide range of fields. Therefore, it is imperative that undergraduate biology students are prepared to recognize the potential of biology background. A key factor in this preparation is an extensive curriculum that integrates contemporary, multidisciplinary concepts so that graduates become aware of issues in a number of fields and feel empowered with their knowledge. This also is critical to building student confidence and eliminating postgraduation uncertainty. Another key factor is the engagement of students in laboratory activities. Hands‐on technical exercises cultivate students' capacity to work cooperatively, multitask, manage time and resources, and think about how concepts and applications are related. Finally, students feel stimulated when collaborations and interactions between students are nurtured since such an educational setting generates positive experience with greater sense of belonging. In conclusion, it is important that undergraduate biology students acknowledge the broad prospects of the bachelor's degrees in biology and the importance of multidisciplinary training in realizing the potential of biology in the 21st century.


Introduction: The ex utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) involves the partial removal of the fetus from the uterine cavity during a cesarean section while maintaining placental circulation and oxygenation. This procedure is indicated when we expect a difficult access to the respiratory airway. Clinical Case: A 33-year-old female patient, with 35.4 weeks of pregnancy and a diagnosis of placenta accreta and a fetus with Bochdaleck's diaphragmatic hernia diagnosed by prenatal ultrasound, was scheduled for elective cesarean with the EXIT procedure. The chosen anesthetic technique for the patient was neuraxial anesthesia. Conclusion: The EXIT procedure is a challenge for the anesthesiologist, and they should be aware and prepared for the physiological changes of pregnancy and uteroplacental physiology. This case demonstrates that even though the preferred technique in the EXIT procedure is general anesthesia, it can also be performed effectively and safely under a neuraxial technique with invasive monitoring.


Lattice images of high-temperature-phase vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) were calculated within the Bloch-wave approach. At an accelerating voltage of 1000 kV the structure image can be produced while at 100 kV it cannot be obtained because of the small number of reflections available in the image formation, which demonstrates clearly an advantage of high voltages which are produced by improvement in the transfer condition of the objective lens. On the other hand, if an ideal phase-contrast lens is assumed in order to obtain the structure image at 100 kV, lattice-image calculations can be carried out with modified unit-cell size. The results show that the maximum allowable thickness to obtain the structure image varies more rapidly than in a linear manner with the required resolution. The maximum allowable thickness increases either with higher voltages (from about 20 A at 100 kV to about 35 A at 1000 kV) or with larger unit cells (e.g. a dilatation of 25% in unit-cell size increases the maximum thickness from about 20 to about 35 A). However, the evolution of the image details as a function of crystal thickness is different for these two factors, due to the different dynamical interactions of electron waves.


This paper discusses the eutectic point of sea buckthorn fruit in vacuum freeze-drying.Experimental studies are conducted for electric resistivity method to determine the eutectic point of sea buckthorn fruit at different mature degree precisely.Carries on the curves fitting to the data and determined eutectic area.According to the physical significance of function curvature,the eutectic points of mature degree "fruit peel yellow" and of "fruit peel red "can be get which are-22℃ and-23 ℃ separately.


to the discrimination against U.S. products in her imports that she had agreed to forgo in order to obtain the U.S. loan of $3.75 billion. The volume under review takes the long and complex story of the postwar financial settlement from the Mutual Aid Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom signed in February 1942 to the Canadian loan of $1.25 billion to Britain negotiated in February and March 1946. It covers, first, the formulation of the "consideration" for lend-lease embodied in the notorious Article VII of the Mutual Aid Agreement, moves on to Lord Keynes's "clearing union" proposals and James Meade's complementary "commercial union," and to the Washington conversations on them in September and October 1943. Monetary and commercial policy planning then began to diverge, with progress in the one and deadlock in the other; while the former blossomed into the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in June-July 1944, Anglo-American collaboration on commercial policy was stalled by disputes between protectionists and free-traders in the British wartime coalition government under Prime Minister Winston Churchill. After taking account of the U.K. authorities' proposals and procrastination over the postwar treatment of the "sterling balances" accumulated by Britain's creditors in wartime, the related planning for Stage III (the early years of the peace that would follow the end of the war against Japan), Pressnell provides a long and definitive account of the postwar loan negotiations in Washington and Ottawa. The final chapter briefly outlines the immediate consequences of the loan agreements, whetting the reader's appetite for Volume 2 (to be published in 1990). Last but not least, there are 24 appendices, reproducing important documents and including an invaluable account of wartime forecasting of the U.K. postwar balance of payments (on current account). In discussing the nature and quality of the statistics used for forecasting from 1941 to 1945, as well as the (unreliable and frequently revised) figures produced, Pressnell emphasizes the "clear contrast between the increasingly full and illuminating balance of payments accounts in the post-war period, and the very raw, unfashioned material with which wartime forecasters had to struggle" (p. 439). Pressnell's treatment throughout is authoritative and detailed, securely based on the most painstaking and comprehensive scrutiny of British government records, especially those of the Treasury and the Cabinet Offices. Occasionally the detail threatens to overwhelm the narrative, at least on a first reading, but always the author soon steps back and provides analysis or recapitulation of the complicated issues—between the Allied governments, within the British government, or between the Treasury and the Bank of England—in the period from 1942 to 1946. Furthermore, the detail adds considerably to the value of the book as an essential work of reference for any economist, historian, or political scientist interested in the evolution of Britain's financial and economic policy in and after 1945.


The renewable energy is becoming prevalent in environmental problems. In order to transform energy steadily, the Dual-Active-Bridge (DAB) DC-DC converters are commonly installed in the renewable energy co-generation systems. Moreover, these converters often need to have fast dynamics, robustness against disturbance, voltage transformation abilities and so on. In order to address these issues, a novel control strategy combined Differential Flatness Theory (DFT) and Model Predictive Control (MPC) is proposed in the paper and applied on a DAB DC-DC converter. The proposed strategy can transform the voltage to reference value accurately with fast dynamics as well as the excellent robustness. The contradiction between heavy computational burden and fast dynamics is managed by the applied discretized control set and the adaptive step. Besides, adaptive step contributes to smaller overshoot. Assessments on the performance of the proposed novel control strategy are conducted comparing with PI control and ordinary MPC. Simulation under MATLAB/Simulink are carried out to prove the theoretical allegations.


Background: Proplast is a material designed for tissue implantation commercially available through the Dow-corning Corporation. It is a gray black laminated felt of vitreous or glassy carbon and Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene). The vitreous carbon also called hyperpure or elemental carbon or pyrolytic graphite, a pure molecular form of carbon that is pyrolytically derived from hydrocarbon such as rayon. Proplast was 1 prepared by Homsy in 1970, invented in 1968 especially for surgical implantation. It's manufactured as a tin felt sheet which is then layered and rolled under high heat and pressure to form the laminated block in common clinical use. Objective: To evaluate the Proplast implant material in restoration of facial bony contour. Methods: There were a total of 18 cases with proplast implant insertion. The mean age of the patients was 27.9 years. The range was 18-35 years. Data was obtained by prospective study and follow-up records of patients with the proplast implant at the department of maxillofacial surgery at Al-kadhymia Teaching Hospital for 6 years follow-up duration from 2000-2006. Result: Proplast is a useful implant material for the restoration of facial bony contour (success rate was 88.9%). Sixteen implants were judges to be stable (88.8%), and 2 implants (11.2%) were judged to be unstable (removed) due to infection. In the two infected cases the fixation was done by wire fixation instead if suture fixation or spontaneous fixation with an intraoral approach. Of these 16 stable implants 3 were mobile (18.75%) and 13 implants were immobile (81.25%), and this is appeared to depend on the technique of proplast insertion. Conclusion: Proplast is a useful implant material for the restoration of facial contour, There are some technical difficulties, when it is inserted over areas that are convex such as the malar prominence and orbital margins, in that it is difficult to eliminate the edge effect, but this can be overcome by proper feathering of the edges of the implant with a sharp scalpel.


The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of understanding the government accounting standards the local financial administration, and the internal control system on the quality financial reporting of Regency Service Unit (SKPK) in South Aceh Regency. This quantitative research that employs census causal relationship study has Unit of Analysis of 56 SKPK of with consist of PPKSKPK (Financial Administration Officer of the SKPK), expenditure treasurers, the officials and staffs of the BPKD's accounting department and the Inspectorate's auditors as the respondents. The data collection was carried out by distributing a set of questionnaires to 104 respondents where there are 32 items of questions for all variables studied. The results of research indicated that understanding the government accounting standard, the local financial administration, and the internal control system have a positive effect, simultaneously and partially, on the quality financial reporting of SKPK in the Regency. Keyword: The Government Accounting Standard, The Local Financial Administration, The Internal Control System, Financial Reporting Quality.


Till date four coronaviruses are found to exist i.e. human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E), HCoV-0C43, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), fourth human coronavirus, HCoV-NL63 has been reported from a seven-month-old child with bronchiolitis and conjunctival inflammation. Coronaviruses, a genus of the coronaviridae family, are enveloped viruses with large plua- strand RNA genome. The genomic RNA is 27-32 kb in size, capped and polyadenylated. After detailed and extensive research coronaviruses have been found in rats, mice, chickens, swine cattle, horses, dog, cats, rabbits, humans and can cause a wide variety of diseases including gastroenteritis and respiratory tract diseases. The most recent found SARS-CoV can lead to life threating pneumonia and is the most pathogenic human coronavirus identified so far. This fatal and highly contagious virus is likely to decide in an animal reservoir and resulted in recent epidemic in humans through zoonotic transmission.


Objective Puji hemorrhoid suppository hemorrhoid hemorrhage on the hemostatic effect.Methods 108 patients with bleeding hemorrhoids were randomly divided into treatment group and control group 54 cases,treatment group,Puji hemorrhoids suppositories,hemorrhoids suppositories control group,2 w as a course of treatment.Comparison of the clinical effect after application.Results In the treatment group,the total effective rate was 87.4%,significantly better than the control group(64.8%).Conclusion Puji hemorrhoid suppository hemorrhoid bleeding on the role of patients have significant effects.


This paper is a reflection on the invocation of commercial uses in international arbitration, its application and usefulness criteria, as well as their difficulties. To do this, we try to distinguish the uses of other figures, different in nature and legal consequences (e.g., custom), identify the main difficulties, which focus primarily on the burden of proof for whom invokes a particular usage - and advantages of their application.


BACKGROUND
Calcium signaling is important in muscular cells and abnormal Ca(2+) handling results in muscle damage. Caldecrin is a serum calcium-decreasing factor purified from pancreas. It is a chymotrypsin-type secretory protease, whereas the serum calcium-decreasing activity does not depend on its protease activity. Here, we evaluated the effect of caldecrin on dystrophia muscularis (dy/dy) mice.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Caldecrin gene in hemagglutinating virus of Japan envelop vector (10 μg/head) was single injected in the femoral muscle or daily intraperitoneal administration of caldecrin (100 μg/kg body weight) was given for 4 days in dy/dy mice. Progression of muscular dystrophy was assessed by blood urea nitrogen and Evans blue dye penetration assay.

RESULTS
Ectopic expression of the caldecrin gene in the muscle of dy/dy mice reduced the level of blood urea nitrogen and improved the dystrophic progression similarly to that of caldecrin-injected mice.

CONCLUSION
Caldecrin treatment is effective for preventing muscular dystrophy.


This chapter addresses several central meta-theoretical issues of AI and AGI. After analyzing the nature of the field, three criteria for desired theories are proposed: correctness, concreteness, and compactness. The criteria are clarified in the AI context, and using them, the current situation in the field is evaluated.


The motion vector detector using a segmentation pattern comprises a memory in which a current image signal and a previous image signal are segmented into a plurality of sub-segments and then a plurality of macro-segments comprised of the sub-segments to perform motion estimation between the two image signals, the sub-segments are divided into several classes, and a code word pattern for assigning the same motion vectors in each class is stored; and a code word selector for comparing the current image signal and the previous image signal in accordance with the code word pattern stored in the memory to thereby generate motion vector and a selected code word pattern.


Shape analysis of light-micrographs of cell populations is important for cytotoxicity evolution. This paper presents a morphological method for quantitative analysis of shape deformations of cells in contact to a biomaterial. After illumination normalization, a morphological multiscale segmentation yields separated cells. Shape deformation, and hence, toxicity of the substance under scrutiny, is quantified by means of compactness distribution and pattern spectrum of the population. Since the logarithmic image model is applicable to transmitted light, illumination normalization is achieved by removing the illumination component from the log- image by a tophat transform utilizing a large reconstruction filter. Subsequent thresholding and noise filtering yields connected binary cells, which are segmented by a marker-based, multiscale approach. For this, size-specific marker scales are generated removing noise and false markers. Each cell is now represented by an isolated marker. Converse integration of marker scales is performed by successive reconstruction of the original cell shapes, preventing merging of markers. Our method yields reasonable cell segmentations that go along with cell morphology even for differently sized and very distinct shapes. The obtained quantitative data is significantly correlated to the toxicity of the substance to be evaluated. Currently, the method is used for extensive biocompatibility tests.


This chapter sketches a global picture of the interrelationships and interaction between various forms of baptisms, rituals involving a purification of the body by means of water, in Judaism and Christianity between the end of the Second Temple period and the end of Antiquity. It clearly emerges from this that the origins and emergence of early Christian baptism itself was the result of a complicated interaction between various Jewish ritual traditions and a new religion in the making. The author shows that this process did not simply come to an end everywhere when the nucleus of the specifically Christian ritual of baptism had taken shape. Finally, the author follows the further development of this nucleus during the third and fourth centuries CE and thereafter, when it attracted a number of additional acts, gestures, and symbols making the original simple baptismal act into a complicated cluster of initiatory rites. Keywords: Christianity; Jewish ritual traditions; Judaism; religious interaction; Second Temple period; water baptism


The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicinal composition for tonifying kidney Qi, warming lower jiao and uterus, nourishing, and regulating thoroughfare and conception vessels, which is prepared from raw materials including red ginseng, tuber onion seed, south dodder seed, common fenugreek seed, amethyst, aspongopus, cinnamon, medicinal indianmulberry root, dogwood, common cnidium rruit, herba epimedii, actinolite, desertliving cistanche, wild pepper, motherwort herb and the like. The traditional Chinese medicinal composition is used for treating gynaecopathia such as abnormal menstruation and dysmenorrheal, which are caused by deficiency of the kidney and cold. The invention also provides a preparation method and a preparation of the traditional Chinese medicinal composition.


In silicon testing, a Shmoo plot is commonly used to give us an insight into the silicon manufacturing development health. Shmoo plots and other silicon characterization data has high value, however, analysis of them is a time-consuming work. This paper establishes a machine learning based model to improve and automate the procedure in silicon data analysis for HVM test content development. Our experiment shows that the supervised learning model has good accuracy on VMIN estimation across various kinds of Shmoo issues (crack/sprinkle/ceiling). The accuracy attained is greatly improved over previous tools. The framework can be easily integrated into any automated tester software and would save time to market during first silicon characterization. Additionally, the methodology discussed in this work can be extended to the HVM test flow for silicon behavior.


Abstract 1. The paper reviewed the history of the power of selection, the response of breeders to clear objectives, and the evolution and application of focused technology in the breeding of meat‐type chicken. 2. It was declared that the breeding industry has been shaped by four major driving forces, namely: cost reduction, quality, versatility and ethical considerations. 3. The impact of these forces on the breeding industry over the last four decades are reviewed and the challenge of future developments considered.


Riess et al (2018c) have claimed there exist seven problems in the analyses presented by Shanks et al (2018) where we argue that there is enough uncertainty in Cepheid distances and local peculiar velocity fields to explain the current tension in $H_0$. Here, we take each of the Riess et al (2018c) points in turn and suggest that either they do not apply or that the necessary caveats are already made by Shanks et al (2018). We conclude that the main point to be inferred from our analyses still stands which is that previous claims by Riess et al (2018b) that Gaia parallaxes confirm their Cepheid scale are, at best, premature in advance of further improvements in the Gaia astrometric solution.


The WQ960 steel is high strength steel, which is widely used. The WQ960 high strength steel was welded by gas metal arc welding under longitudinal magnetic field. The tensile strength, impact properties and microstructure were tested by tensile test, impact test and metallograghy test, which were under different processing parameters. The influence and acting mechanism of magnetic field on the microstructure, impact toughness and tensile strength of the welded joints were researched. The results show that magnetic field can improve the tensile strength, impact energy and microstructure of welded joints. Under the effect of magnetic field, the dimples in the fiber area of impact fracture of welded joints were deeper and more uniform. When the excitation current is 2.5A, the magnetic field frequency is 20Hz, the tensile strength of welded joints and low impact energy reach the maximum, respectively 839MPa and 71J increased 17.01% and 22.41%.The longitudinal magnetic field is applied to improve the weld crystalline form, reduce the number of PF and FSP, and form more AF.


What about a second "conversion" in s. Paul's life ? It seens that from 1 Thessalonicians to Romans, his feelings toward jews changed. Is it not the mystery of election of israel which is the key of explanation on this second "conversion".


ABSTRACT The Material Properties Open Database (MPOD, http://mpod.cimav.edu.mx) is a functional element of the web-based open databases system linked with crystallography. MPOD delivers single-crystal tensor properties in several representations, ranging from numerical matrices to 3D printing. Longitudinal moduli surfaces can be displayed in computers as well as in smart cell phones. Properties are stored as '.mpod' files. IUCr formatting standards (CIF) are followed. The original published paper containing the data is cited. Structural and experimental information is also registered and linked. 'Coupling properties', say piezo-effects and magnetoelectricity, represent interactions linking different subsystems in a material. Currently, piezoelectricity occupies a significant fraction of cases in MPOD. The implications of crystal symmetry in piezoelectricity are systematically taken into account. Matrices' elements and longitudinal moduli surfaces are checked for consistency with the Neumann principle. The inclusion of magnetoelectric axial tensors introduces exciting features into MPOD.


This article presents new stylized facts on the incidence of low pay and mobility out of low pay for 13 European countries and the USA. Women, the young, the less skilled, and part-timers are generally most at risk, as are those who work in retail, hotels, catering, and personal services. However, the relative importance of these characteristics can vary from country to country. The incidence of low pay varies considerably across countries, as does its trend. No direct link is found to aggregate employment or to the employment rate of the less skilled. Nor does the industrial structure of employment have much effect. However, differences between the low-wage production of goods and of services are important. 'Inclusive' labour relations are central in containing the incidence of low-pay. By inclusiveness is meant the existence of mechanisms, formal or informal, to extend terms and conditions negotiated by workers with strong bargaining power to workers with less bargaining power. In some countries a national minimum wage is an essential accompaniment. The article considers the extent to which countries can maintain the more benign institutions that limit low pay. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.


Background: Lifestyle modification can delay or prevent prediabetes progression to diabetes. Purpose: The purpose of this intervention study was to evaluate the effects of a self‐regulation lifestyle modification intervention on physiological measures, dietary behavior, and physical activity in adults with prediabetes. Methods: Design ‐ A quasi‐experimental, pre‐post test design. Subjects ‐ Thirty adults with prediabetes in southern Taiwan were assigned to either the intervention group (n = 15) or control group (n = 15) according to BMI and gender. Interventional protocol ‐ The intervention group enrolled in a 4‐week lifestyle modification program, including a face‐to‐face counseling session and twice‐a‐week telephone calls. The control group did not participate in this program. All study participants received a self‐regulation handbook and pedometer. Outcome measures ‐ Baseline characteristics and dietary behavior were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Physiological measures were obtained from hospital records. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire was used to assess physical activity. Results: Three months after intervention, the intervention group showed a 3.80 mg% decrease in mean fasting glucose (p = .008) and 0.43 kg/m^2 decrease in mean BMI (p = .035). There was also significant improvement in physical activity and dietary behavior in the intervention group, with a mean increase of 1213.10METs (p = .005) and +2.73 (p = .002). The control group recorded no significant difference in any tracked measures. Comparing the two groups, dietary behavior in the intervention group was significantly better than in the control group (mean = 2.67, CI = 0.61 - 4.72, p = .013) and insignificant differences were found for physiological measures and physical activity. Conclusion: This study indicated that the lifestyle modification program achieved clinically significant improvements in physiological measures, dietary behavior, and physical activity. The improvement in the dietary behavior in the intervention group was significantly better than the control group. Empirical evidence from this study indicates that the self‐regulation lifestyle modification program can be applied to adults with prediabetes to promote health.


vomiting for some time, and not to have benefitted by the remedies he had employed. On arriving, about 9 p.m., I found that, about 7 p.m., they had both, about the same time, been seized with vomiting ; that supposing it to be merely indigestion, he had at first given an effervescing draught; that alarmed at the continuance of this symptom, he had applied a mustard poultice; but finding the children drowsy and not benefitted, he sent for me. I found both


Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a current global prevalence rate of approximately 2–3%, representing approximately 130–180 million infected individuals (1, 2). Persons chronically infected with HCV are at risk of chronic hepatitis and of developing serious hepatic complications such as cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver failure. Several data suggest that the prevalence of HCV is higher in countries located in Asia (2.1%, 83 millions) and Africa (3.2%, 28 millions), while a lower prevalence is found in North America, Europe and Australia (1, 2). (Fig. 1). The highest prevalence of HCV, 15%, is found in Egypt, while the lowest reported prevalences are <1.0% in both the UK and Scandinavia. However, only limited country-specific estimates of HCV prevalence are available to guide decision making. In the USA and Europe, HCV is the leading cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and the major cause of end-stage liver disease leading to liver transplantation. Data from death certificates show that HCV-related deaths now outpace deaths because of HIV in the USA and many European countries (3, 4). Despite progress in antiviral treatment with directacting antivirals (5), screening and access to treatment has been low. A recent report commissioned by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies estimates that up to 75% of HCV-infected persons have not been diagnosed (6). Several HCV management guidelines have been provided (7–9) (Table 1). Prior risk-factor based HCV screening guidelines have demonstrated limited effectiveness, identifying only approximately 25% of chronically infected individuals in the USA. In an effort to identify more cases of HCV-infected persons, the CDC recently updated their screening guidelines to include one-time testing for all adults born during the period of 1945–1965 (9). Several studies suggest that HCV screening and treating among the 1945–1965 birth cohort at a prevalence of approximately 3% would be cost-effective (10, 11). Despite the differences in geographical distribution of HCV prevalence worldwide, there are currently no recommendations in the USA or Europe to screen persons who originate from countries with high HCV


This paper analyses the effect of building the teaching practice base between the university and the enterprise based on their core competence sharing .It concludes that building the teaching practice base together will benefit both of them,and their core competence can be shared .However, to realize the effect, both the university and the enterprise must solve some problems such as trust, benefit and so on. This article puts forward some methods to solve the problems further.


E-commerce implementation is not talking about Technical ability only, but talking about technology aspect, human resource aspect, social aspect and outside company opportunity aspect too. In this journal, it will be explained about how to frame market opportunity and it's implemented in to right e-commerce technology. Kata Kunci: E -Commerce, market opportunity


Potential mechanisms producing high or low seasonal rainfall in tropical West Africa are investigated for the period 1963–74 using monthly data of precipitation, surface pressure in the South Atlantic and rawinsondes, mainly in Africa. Contrary to widespread opinion, the South Atlantic pressures yielded no correlation; the best connection was between rainfall and upper-level African observations. DOI: 10.1111/j.2153-3490.1976.tb00700.x


In this paper exact order estimations of errors in uniform metric approximation of smooth function and its derivatives over several classes are obtained in cases when the function is defined precisely or using its δ-approximation fδ(x) in L2[a,b] metric. Integral operators with polynomial finite kernels are considered as approximate one.


Distributed file systems allow users to access and share files from any computer connected to the distributed system. Distributed file systems typically do not achieve the same level of performance that local file systems provide due to the demands of resource sharing. For workloads with large storage capacity requirements, poor performance of distributed file systems often overshadows the benefits of transparent file sharing.
Traditional network and channel interfaces differ in performance, connectivity, and connection distance. By merging network and channel interfaces, resulting interfaces allow multiple computers to physically share storage devices. Computers service local file requests directly from network attached storage devices. Direct device access eliminates server machines as bottlenecks to performance and availability. Communication is unnecessary between computers, since each machine views storage as locally attached.
This dissertation presents a distributed file system design based on a shared network storage architecture. The architecture distributes user workloads and file system resources across the entire system. Functions once performed by server computers are redistributed to clients and storage devices. The design brings responsibilities, such as caching and consistency management, closer to hardware, so that these functions execute faster and more reliably.
The Global File System (GFS) is a distributed file system prototype built upon Fibre Channel networks. GFS is implemented in the Silicon Graphics IRIX operating system and is accessed using standard UNIX commands and utilities. GFS uses a consistency mechanism that is prototyped on Seagate disk drives and Ciprico disk arrays. This dissertation describes the architecture and implementation of the file system design. Performance analysis is given for the file system prototype in large data demand environments.


A small acrocentric chromosome with satellites on both the long and short arms was found as an extra chromosome in a mentally retarded female. No chromosome abnormalities were observed in either father, mother or elder sister. The possible origin of the aberrant small acrocentric chromosome is discussed.


The basic theory questions,such as conception,creation and development of science of legality theory,have not come into being final conclusion.Legality theory is a science of explaining ancient law of China,its practical orign ascends to the Spring and Antumn Period,academic origin includes development and maturity of Wei-Jin Dynasty,development of aristocratic society,and demand of science branch.Development of legality theory during Wei-Jin Dynasty largely promotes advancement of traditional law of China.


On the basis of a structural analysis of radial gate (i.e. Tainter gate), the current paper focuses on weight minimization according to the location of the arms on a radial gate. In spite of its economical significance, there are hardly any previous studies on the optimum design of radial gate. Accordingly, the present study identifies the optimum position of the support point for a radial gate that guarantees the minimum weight satisfying the strength constraint conditions. This study also identifies the optimum position for 2 or 3 radial arms with a convex cylindrical skin plate relative to a given radius of the skin plate curvature, pivot point, water depth, ice pressure, etc. These optimum designs are then compared with previously constructed radial gates. Local genetic and hybrid-type genetic algorithms are used as the optimum tools to reduce the computing time and enhance the accuracy. The results indicate that the weights of the optimized radial gates are appreciably lower than those of previously constructed gates.


Cummins Power Generation (CPG) as the prime contractor and SOFCo-EFS Holdings LLC (SOFCo), as their subcontractor, teamed under the Solid-state Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) program to develop 3-10kW solid oxide fuel cell systems for use in recreational vehicles, commercial work trucks and stand-by telecommunications applications. The program goal is demonstration of power systems that meet commercial performance requirements and can be produced in volume at a cost of $400/kW. This report summarizes the team's activities during the seventh six-month period (July-December 2005) of the four-year Phase I effort. While there has been significant progress in the development of the SOFC subsystems that can support meeting the program Phase 1 goals, the SOFCo ceramic stack technology has progressed significantly slower than plan and CPG consider it unlikely that the systemic problems encountered will be overcome in the near term. SOFCo has struggled with a series of problems associated with inconsistent manufacturing, inadequate cell performance, and the achievement of consistent, durable, low resistance inter-cell connections with reduced or no precious materials. A myriad of factors have contributed to these problems, but the fact remains that progress has not kept pace with the SECA program. A contributing factor in SOFCo's technical difficulties is attributed to their significantly below plan industry cost share spending over the last four years. This has resulted in a much smaller SOFC stack development program, has contributed to SOFCo not being able to aggressively resolve core issues, and clouds their ability to continue into a commercialization phase. In view of this situation, CPG has conducted an independent assessment of the state-of-the-art in planar SOFC's stacks and have concluded that alternative technology exists offering the specific performance, durability, and low cost needed to meet the SECA objectives. We have further concluded that there is insufficient evidence to reliably predict that SOFCo will be able to achieve the SECA performance and cost goals on a schedule consistent with SECA or CPG commercialization goals. CPG believes SOFCo have made a good faith effort consistent with the available resources, but have repeatedly fallen short of achieving the programs scheduled targets. CPG has therefore initiated a process of application for extension of Phase 1 of our SECA program with the intent of transitioning to an alternative stack supplier with more mature SOFC technology, and demonstrating a system meeting the SECA Phase 1 goals by the end of calendar 2006. We have identified an alternative supplier and will be reporting the progress on transition and program planning in monthly technical reports, reviews, and in the next semiannual report.


Faith (CDF) on the works of Father Jon Sobrino by several theologians from diverse places in the Americas. The Notifi cation and its Explanatory Note , included in the appendix of the text, drew attention to six aspects of Sobrino's theology that it deemed potentially misleading for understanding "authentic Christian faith." The essays in this volume are organized around addressing these areas of concern which involve both methodological and doctrinal issues. The contributing authors have made a signifi cant contribution toward cultivating a greater understanding of Sobrino's work as well as liberation theology in general. Divided in four parts, the fi rst section on theology largely attends to methodological concerns. Sobrino has been critiqued for not suffi ciently centering his theology in the apostolic faith of the Church passed down through the centuries. Instead he has given privilege to a contemporary understanding of the Christian faith developed in solidarity with the poor. The fi ve essays in this section sympathetically explore Sobrino's theological approach that issues forth from the "church of the poor." The second section turns more specifi cally to Christology. The Notifi cation was in fact most attentive to Sobrino's Christology which it faults for not paying suffi cient attention to the theory of the hypostatic union and other classical doctrinal expressions. The differences between Sobrino and the CDF on this matter are akin to those between Christologies from below and above. The six essays in Part II consider his portrait of the historical Jesus and key aspects of Sobrino's Christology that were scrutinized by the Notifi cation , namely, Jesus' divinity, his self-consciousness and his relationship to the Kingdom of God. The two essays in Part III fall under the category of ecclesiology. James Bretzke's essay is especially helpful in explaining what the Notifi cation on Sobrino's work does and does not mean. The remaining essays in the concluding section address moral theology and the Christian life. Sobrino's conception of mercy and the option for the poor surface as its main themes. Several of the authors do a particularly good job situating his thought in the larger context of Catholic Social Teaching. Overall, Hope and Solidarity serves as a fi ne apologetic for Sobrino's work. A majority of the essays wonderfully combine accessibility with in-depth analysis making this book suitable for both students needing an introduction to Sobrino's thought and the expert seeking something more. The essays collected in this volume would also be a useful resource for courses on liberation theology insofar as Sobrino is one of its earliest and most profound advocates. In addition, several essays also offer an insightful and balanced analysis of the confl ict that has existed between Church authorities and liberation theology.


In the public debate, poor employment performance has often been associated with the existence of extensive labour market regulations and a lack of commitment to far- sighted public policies. This paper investigates the relation between policy myopia and labour market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which policy myopia leads an incumbent government to choose institutions that allow the creation of rents in the labour market and reduce resources available to public goods provision and social expenditure. We test these predictions empirically using panel data for 21 OECD countries for the period 1985{2006. We show that policy myopia is associated with more regulated labour markets, lower unemployment bene t replacement rates, and smaller tax wedges on labour.


The sensitivity of the peroxidase reaction in dot-blot ELISA significantly depends on the substrate. The highest sensitivity is observed using benzidine and diamine-phenol combinations as the substrates due to the reaction of the coupled oxidation (NADI).


Soil surface roughness(SSR) is used to describe irregularities in the soil surface at a small scale.It is affected by tillage systems,soil properties,runoff,micro topography,and climate.The objective of this paper was to study the mutual influence of SSR and characteristic of runoff as well as its hydraulic parameter under four different tillage systems.Artificial shallow plowing(ASP),artificial deep plowing(ADP),contour plowing(CP),and no treatment tillage(CK) were simulated in the laboratory to form four different soil surface roughness.Soil sample was filled into a 2.0 m × 1.0 m × 0.5 m iron slope-adjustable box.The soil in the box were exposed to 60 mm/h and 120 mm/h simulated rainfall for 90 min at slope 36%.Soil surface roughness was measured before and after each rainfall event.Runoff was measured in every two min since runoff occurred.The shape of runoff and runoff pattern were observed during the rainfall events.Reynolds number,Froude number,Resistance coefficient and Flow shear stress were calculated.Results showed that SSR was in an order of CP ADP ASP CK before and after the rainfall simulation.In the same condition of rainfall intensity and duration,soil surfaces with different SSR showed significant difference in runoff.The higher the initial SSR was,the easier the runoff was in stable state and the flow was a laminar flow.On the contrary,the smaller initial SSR was,the easier the runoff was in turbulent flow state.Tillage with bigger initial SSR showed smaller quantity of flow,runoff,and sediment yield.Under 60 mm/h rainfall,the initial SSR of CP was 6.51 mm,which had the smallest runoff volume of 75.79 L.The initial SSR of ADP and ASP were 4.90 mm and 4.17 mm,respectively.The runoff volume of ADP and ASP were respectively 85.93 L and 87.13 L.The initial SSR of CK was the smallest one(0.36 mm).Its runoff volume was 97.83 L.The initial SSR was negatively correlated to the runoff volume significantly as well as Reynolds number,Froude number,and flow shear stress,but it showed a positive correlation with the resistance coefficient of runoff.The 120 mm/h rainfall had the same variation trend as 60 mm/h intensity.The SSR change rate was also calculated from the SSR before and after the rainfall events.This parameter can reflect the effect of runoff on SSR change.The pattern of runoff and flow shear stress affected SSR during runoff process.On the one hand,runoff can cut the surface peak area and fill the depression area to decrease SSR at inter-rill area.On the other hand,runoff scoured rills,shear rills bed off,corroded soil particles of rills to increase SSR.Both the decrease and the increase coexisted in the process of the runoff.However,after rill erosion occurred,inter-rill area was domination while rill erosion was subordinate.Hence,runoff showed decreasing effect on SSR apparently after a complete rainfall.The Reynolds number and flow shear stress of runoff presented a negative correlation with the decreasing effect on SSR.The Reynolds number and flow shear stress of CK were the largest,it were 239 and 8.62 Pa for 60 mm/h rainfall,1893 and 27.23 Pa for 120 mm/h rainfall.The SSR of CK decreased 27.61% for 60 mm/h rainfall and 70.48% for 120 mm/h rainfall,which were the lowest among the four tillage systems.Reynolds number and flow shear stress of CP were the smallest,it were 82 and 6.67 Pa for 60 mm/h rainfall,738 and 20.05 Pa for 120 mm/h rainfall.But the SSR of CP decreased by 34.49% for 60 mm/h rainfall and by 84.25% for 120 mm/h rainfall,respectively.The research results provide reference for further understanding of the interaction between surface roughness and its hydrological characteristics.


It has been the Israeli government's explicit goal to position Israel at the core of the knowledge economy. This case study of Israel information and communications technology (ICT) sector highlights the important role of the government in the emergence of Israel as a power house of high-tech in ICT, by laying the foundations for private industry to support innovation, and through heavy investment in building the much-needed human capital resource. The quality of human capital is essential to innovation and economic growth. The role of the government in advancing the economy of the state of Israel provides an excellent showcase for how a well thought-out and efficient government intervention contributed to the establishment of Israel's capability in ICT. As this report is a case study of Israel's ICT sector, emerging markets and developing countries can learn a great deal from the lessons that Israeli companies and entrepreneurs have gained. The key to innovation is the capability to establish and cultivate a culture in which young people are not afraid to dare and establish their own startup, given that there is a good and highly capable human capital as well as supporting business environment.


Protel software is one of the most popular electronic design automation(EDA) tools.Altium Designer Winter 09 is the latest version following-up to Protel.It has a strong electronic design capabilities,which can be put to circuit simulation applied to teaching electro technology electronics technique.In this paper,practical examples are given to contrast the traditional circuit with the virtual circuit simulation.


To understand the petrogenesis of peraluminous granites syntectonic INTRODUCTION to the Dorsal de Cangucu Transcurrent Shear Zone in the Sul-rioThe last two decades have seen an increasing interest in grandense Shield, Brazil, melting experiments were performed on processes of melt production from mantle or crustal one of the potential protoliths, a cordierite-bearing semi-pelitic sources, extraction, transport, accumulation and storage metasedimentary gneiss (PE-1). Experiments were conducted at in the crust (Clemens & Vielzeuf, 1987; Brown et al., pressures of 5, 10 and 15 kbar, at temperatures of 700–900°C, 1995b). As well as the interest in magmatic processes, and under fluid-absent and 5% H2O-present conditions. The the role played by structures, such as shear zones, in experiments show that fluid-absent melting begins at near-solidus collecting and transporting melts from their original conditions, around 700°C, promoted by participation of retrogressive sources to midand upper-crustal environments, has phengitic muscovite in the reaction Mus + Kf ± Qz = melt ± been an important field of study (Clemens & Mawer, Fe–Ti oxide ± Als, producing a very small amount of melt ( 800°C) produced S-type granitic melts promoted by participation rains are important issues in the study of migmatites of biotite or cordierite in the reactions Bio + Pl + Crd + Qz = (Brown et al., 1995a; Thompson & Connolly, 1995), as Px + Fe–Ti oxide + melt at 5 kbar, and Bio + Pl + Crd is the possibility of segregation of this melt to produce ± Qz = Grt + Als ± Kf + melt at 10 and 15 kbar, both plutonic bodies (Van der Molen & Paterson, 1979; Brown, producing a high amount of melt (10–63% by volume). The melt 1994; Vigneresse et al., 1996). compositions obtained at 900°C and 15 kbar under fluid-absent The experimental petrological study of reactions to conditions, promoted by biotite or cordierite breakdown, are similar elucidate the processes that generate melts has conto the syntectonic granites. However, it is unlikely that the granites tributed to the understanding of the petrogenesis of were formed at this pressure (corresponding to a depth of melting of granitoids, and volcanic and metamorphic rocks, and >54 km). has allowed the testing of different geological models, and the delineation of physical and chemical constraints. Tuttle & Bowen (1958) were among the first to perform experiments to understand the evolution of natural


In her 2004 documentary novel wir schlafen nicht, Kathrin Roggla ventures into the destructive universe of the so-called New Economy. Cracks are beginning to show in the New Economy boom, and the reader is drawn into a world where pressure to perform has been driven to the point of absurdity amidst the mantras of competition, flexibility, efficiency, and downsizing. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of polyphony, this chapter considers how, through the medium of orchestrated polyphonic dialogues, Roggla imparts a trenchant criticism of man's dysfunctional and self-destructive condition under the totalising effects of a technology-based, neo-liberal economy that has spiralled out of control. The result is a disconcerting insight into the reification of the individual within a totalising economic system which, in its striving for efficiency, commodifies human beings, transforming them into zombie-like automatons.The Austrian-born writer Kathrin Roggla made her literary debut in 1995 with the novel niemand lacht ruckwarts. Among her numerous subsequent works are the novels Abrauschen (1997), Irres Wetter (2000), really ground Zero. 11. September und folgendes (2001), and wir schlafen nicht (2004). Her most recent works include the plays worst case (2009), Die beteiligten (2009) die unvermeidlichen (2011) and the prose collection die alarmbereiten (2010). Roggla's concerns are contemporary, and they are varied. Born in 1971, she belongs to what can be considered a new generation of Austrian writers who, primarily for generational reasons, are no longer chiefly concerned with coming to terms with Austria's complicitous National Socialist past. Roggla is concerned instead with the world of work, the consequences of identity loss in an increasingly globalised world, the shattering effects of a totalising neo-liberal form of social organisation for the individual, and the instrumentalisation of language in the age of digital media. Roggla's style is experimental and often ironic. Like Austrian predecessors such as Ernst Jandl, H. C. Artmann, Oswald Wiener and Gerhard Ruhm, or her contemporary Elfriede Jelinek, the author makes extensive use of lower case letters in her work in an attempt to present the ?Materialcharakter' of language, which she defines as ?ein anderes Bild von Sprache [...], das dem hergebrachten instrumentellen entgegensteht'.1 In this respect, Roggla's perspective on language is in the tradition of the Wiener Gruppe;2 she views language as a raw material with an optical as well as acoustic quality. She attempts to reconstruct language in uncustomary contexts, to arrange her medium in such a way as to facilitate new insights, to draw her readers' attention to how they are reading and to the manner of her characters' speech. She employs linguistic criticism, in other words, as a form of social criticism, and her writing can thus be definitively placed in the tradition of ?Sprachskepsis' often associated with Wiener Gruppe writers.3 Roggla is equally experimental in terms of genre; many of her works - including the novel under consideration here - have also been produced for the stage.4 She is interested in what she calls ?Schreibformen, die sich zwischen alle Stuhle stellen'.5 Moreover, much of her work belongs in the category of documentary realism. Her plays, prose texts and novels are saturated with interview and journalistic material and with quotations from the mass media. In this respect, Roggla has been hailed as ?die Reporterin unter den deutschsprachigen Dramatikern'.6 She displays a particular interest in what she calls ?[die] in den Massenmedien geschurte neoliberale Hysterie' and specifically in the mass media's representation and instrumentalisation of social, ecological and economic catastrophes.7 These concerns are particularly manifest in her two 2009 plays worst case, which deals with media scaremongering, and her critically acclaimed Die beteiligten, which presents the media storm surrounding the case of the kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch. …


Stiffened panels are basic parts of ship hulls and decks. Effect of buoyancy and cargo loading on the stiffened panels leads to application of axial loading and pressure loading in out-of-plane direction. Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) stiffened panels with high corrosion resistance, high strength, high stiffness and light weight is the best alternative for conventional steel stiffened panels. Because conventional steel stiffened panels experience sever corrosion when used for marine structures. For maintenance purpose, rectangular openings are provided in ship decks. The presence of opening leads to reduction in strength, reduction in stiffness, and critical failure patterns for stiffened panels subjected to axial and pressure loading. In this study, behaviour of Glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) stiffened panels with rectangular opening subjected to axial and pressure loading are studied experimentally by conducting tests. GFRP stiffened panels are fabricated in such a way that the plate and stiffeners are monolithic in construction. The effect of type of loading and the rectangular opening on the strength, stiffness and span/deflection ratio of GFRP stiffened panels are discussed. Failure pattern and maximum failure strain of GFRP stiffened panels subjected to axial and pressure loading are presented.


The present invention provides an electron-emitting device and its manufacturing method, and it was used an electron emission display device capable of forming a resist layer which is connected to the signal line by using a part of the hole, while uniformly forming a plurality of holes within the defined region. The electron-emitting device according to the invention comprises a substrate and a substrate for a first electrode, and a plurality of first holes formed in a predetermined shape, and the surface of the first insulation layer, a plurality of which is formed on the first electrode 1, the resistance layer at least one and the forming the first hole and electrically connected to the first electrode of the hole and is electrically connected to the resistive layer, the signal line through the resistive layer passes the negative or positive voltage to the first electrode and, of the plurality of first holes formed in the rest of the first hole includes a plurality of gate holes corresponding to the electric electron emitting portion, and the rest of the first hole is connected to the first electrode, and formed on the first insulating layer a second electrode. Electron emission device, the cathode substrate, an electron emission display device, thick film, thin film, an insulating layer, the resistance layer


ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the problem of estimation for the mean of the selected population from two normal populations with unknown means and common known variance in a Bayesian framework. The empirical Bayes estimator, when there are available additional observations, is derived and its bias and risk function are computed. The expected bias and risk of the empirical Bayes estimator and the intuitive estimator are compared. It is shown that the empirical Bayes estimator is asymptotically optimal and especially dominates the intuitive estimator in terms of Bayes risk, with respect to any normal prior. Also, the Bayesian correlation between the mean of the selected population (random parameter) and some interested estimators are obtained and compared.