-The synthesis and characterization of novel indium(III) complexes with pyridine-thiosemicarbazone ligands are reported as well as ligand exchange reactions on the products. 2,6-Diacetylpyridine-bis(thiosemicarbazone), CsH3N(C3N3SH6)2 (H2DAPTSC), and 2-acetylpyridine-thiosemicarbazone, CsH4N(C3N3SH6) (HAPTSC), were reacted with indium(III) halides and indium(III) nitrate, respectively, to give [InX2(HDAPTSC)], {O[In(HDAPTSC)(OH)]2}, [InX2(APTSC)(MeOH)] and [In(APTSC)2]PF6. ,© 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd


Myoepithelial carcinoma, also known as malignant myoepithelioma, is a rare locally aggressive primary salivary gland neoplasm. It is composed almost exclusively of neoplastic cells with myoepithelial differentiation and characterised by infiltrative growth and potential for distant metastasis. There is limited data on the natural history of this tumour including its metastatic potential due to the lack of large case series. We report a case of myoepithelial carcinoma of minor salivary gland with multiple skeletal metastasis.


Background : Dengue fever in its clinical expression varies from mild to severe, whose prevalence can vary in each epidemic. Aim: To characterize the clinical behavior of pediatric dengue cases hospitalized during the outbreaks of 2007, 2009 and 2010 in a reference hospital in Paraguay. Materials and Methods: A retrospective descriptive study based on data from medical records of pts admitted to the IMT in the period January 2007 to July 2010 with a discharge diagnosis of dengue. We analyzed demographic, clinical, laboratory, and complications. Results: During the study period 147 children were hospitalized with a diagnosis of Dengue, corresponding to 98 pts (67%) to 2007, 28 pts (19%) by 2009 and 21 (14%) by 2010. The predominant serotype in 2007 was DENV3 and in 2010 the DENV1. The mean age of pts was 13.2 ± 3.8 years, corresponding to 2% to the age group <5 years, 37% to 61% 5-12 years and 13-17 years group (p <0.05). 36 pts (24%) met criteria for severe form of the classification DENCO, confirming shock in 21 pts (14%). When comparing the clinical performance in different years, the incidence of visceral complications (encephalitis, myocarditis, hepatitis) was higher in the epidemic 2007 (24/98, 24%) vs 5 / 49 (10%) in 2009-2010 (p <0.05) and the frequency of thrombocytopenia <50.000 (29% vs 12%, p=0.01). Series mortality was low (1.4%). Conclusions: This study reveals the characteristics of the epidemic in terms of severity, and the high incidence of visceral complications in


The Belgium federal government has adopted a national programme for the reduction of CO 2 emissions based mainly on energy efficiency measures and the promotion of cogeneration. With this in mind two projects have been implemented by large industrial companies; one of which sees the first installation of the uprated LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbine.


The purpose of the study is to find out whether the hoplitodromos, or hoplite race, was more of a military or sporting event, whether the nature of this agon was associated with its late introduction into the program of the Panhellenic games, and whether the rules for its organization differed in Panhellenic and local competitions. On the basis of written sources and data from Attic vase painting, the author shows that there were different types of weapons of the participants in the run - heavy and light, and also that over time the "full" weapons of the hoplite - helmet, greaves, shield - change, retaining only the shield. Despite the widespread opinion in the scientific literature that the hoplitоdromos belonged to "military" competitions, the author comes to the conclusion that the nature of the run was determined by the type of games. And if at local games this agon was often associated with the aition of the festival, for example, with the military exploits of Athena on Panathenaia or the anniversary of the Battle of Plataea on Eleutheria, then at Panhellenic competitions, such as the Olympic Games, the military nature of the run was transformed into a reconstruction, thereby acquiring the nature of an entertaining spectacle.


Densely aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by surface decomposition of SiC (0001¯) C-face in vacuum were observed by plan-view transmission electron microscopy. It was found that the wall number of CNTs was directly proportional to the diameter of CNTs. Comparing with the theoretical calculation, it was revealed that all of the carbon atoms remained on the surface after the selective evaporation of Si atoms by decomposition of each monolayer of SiC (0001¯), and then constructed the CNT walls with the minimum diffusion distance at the interface.


Long lasting asphalt pavements are particularly desirable to ensure the efficiency of road transport. To find out key factors that determine the lifetime of an asphalt pavement, an extensive study was carried out on a number of long lasting road sections with known construction data and performance track records. Asphalt cores were drilled from the selected road sections and investigated by means of mechanical tests and non-destructive X-ray computed tomography. The field samples were further examined with respect to mixture composition, and binder chemistry and rheology. The study showed that long lasting pavements consist of thick asphalt layers with higher binder contents and low air voids. In general, the lower asphalt layer was stiffer than the upper layer. Although small local cracks were seen inside some cores, there was no propagated cracking. In all the studied road sections, bitumen ageing was found to be slow, as assessed either by a stiffening effect or by chemical compositional changes. The slow rate of bitumen ageing had kept asphalt layers flexible enough to resist cracking, which has been confirmed by the analyses using HMA fracture mechanics, as well as field performance observation. It was also shown that a tight or dense upper layer may prevent bitumen ageing in the underlying pavement. The present study highlights the importance of binder durability (resistance to ageing) in achieving a long lifetime asphalt road.


This paper presents a self-oscillating electronic ballast employing a modified valley-fill filter in order to meet IEC 61000-3-2 Class C requirements. In order to overcome the drawback of high fluorescent lamp current crest factor, which is inherent to the valley fill filter, it is employed a frequency modulation system that keeps the crest factor lower than 1.7 limit using a simple and low cost circuit. This system uses the resonant filter features added to the possibility to control self-oscillating frequency using electronic ballast bus voltage feature. Simulation and experimental results are presented to demonstrate the system performance.


In this experiential paper, we present observations from our collaborative efforts with multiple entities operating in highly regulated environments that enabled or disrupted the construction, use, and sustainment of secure CI/CD pipelines as part of a larger DevSecOps strategy. From these observations, we provide insights and recommendations to support enablers and avoid or minimize disruptions. Our insights reveal that along with noted established progress in the area of secure pipelines, there still exists a need to amend multiple cultural and technical barriers to fully realize secure pipelines in a highly regulated environment. Areas of improvement include streamlining security approvals, revising and updating polices to relevance with current technology, increasing automation in multiple pipeline relevant tasking, improving inquiries to better understand pipeline requirements at commencement, and ensuring appropriate sustained training of technical staff. Recommendations presented here address observed gap areas with the purpose of assisting further advancement of achieving formal and refined pipeline incorporation in a highly regulated environment.


The Idiap system for search and hyperlinking uses topic-based segmentation, content-based recommendation algorithms, and multimodal re-ranking. For both sub-tasks, our system performs better with automatic speech recognition output than with manual subtitles. For linking, the results benefit from the fusion of text and visual concepts detected in the anchors.


Glutinous corn with sweet,flavor and viscosity characteristics has excellent flavor,rich nutrition and complete amino acids.In addition to be as fresh food by humans,glutinous corn also can be used as animal feed to improve feed efficiency.This paper described the characteristics of glutinous corn and standardization of cultivation techniques,and its market prospects were analyzed.This paper briefly discusrsed Dongnuo 001 waxy corn characteristics and standardized cultiva-tion techniques and briefly analyzed the production prospect.


Abstract- Image recording digital cameras often there are some problems that may occur, such as the lens out of focus, appear spots caused by the capture process is imperfect, uneven lighting resulting intensity is not uniform, image contrast is too low so that objects are difficult to separate background, or disruption caused by dirt attached to the image and so forth. Arithmetic Mean Filter Algorithm Method to Reduce Noise Salt and Pepper in image filtering is one that serves to soften and remove noise in an image that works by replacing the pixel intensity values with the average of the pixel value with the value of neighbor pixels. With this application the algorithm used to produce a program to reduce salt and pepper noise contained in the image, so that the resulting image quality is better and finer than before. Keywords : Filter, Image, Noise, Mean, salt, pepper


Sam, Monica. M.S.C.E, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2015. Toward Improving Learning on a Simulated Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle . Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have come to be widely used in the past few decades to solve complex problems involving high dimensionality and / or non-differentiability. They usually target optimized solutions that are quality rated based on problem-dependent criteria. Work done previously has demonstrated that augmenting flight controllers of FlappingWing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs) with in-situ evolutionary algorithms to adjust wing motion trajectories could restore correct flight behavior after wing damage. Further, it has been demonstrated that such recovery could be accomplished in reasonable time with very modest on-board computational resources. An EA is said to perform better for this problem when the amount of vehicle flight time required to restore correct flight behavior is minimized. This thesis explores ideas to improve learning times on this problem by proposing ways to reduce the search space and by surveying the performance of some of the most widely used, relevant EAs on this problem and attempting to learn lessons from them to improve the learning process.


Secret sharing (also called secret splitting) refers to method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants, each of whom is allocated a share of the secret. The secret can be reconstructed only when a sufficient number, of possibly different types, of shares are combined together; individual shares are of no use on their own. In an Effective Implementation of Image Secret Sharing Scheme, image secret sharing method which incorporates two k- out-of-n secret sharing schemes: Shamir's secret sharing scheme . The technique allows a colored secret to be divided as n image shares so that: i) any k image shares (k ≤ n) are sufficient to reconstruct the secret image in the lossless manner and ii) any (k − 1) or fewer image shares cannot get enough information to reveal the secret image. It is an effective, and secure method to prevent the secret image from being lost, stolen or corrupted. In comparison with other image secret sharing methods, this approach's advantages are its large compression rate of the image shares, its strong protection of the secret image and its ability for the real time processing.


An inclusive approach to teaching LGBTQ+ students in university is vital. LGBTQ+ people are more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers (Friedman et al., 2011; Miranda-Mendizábal et al., 2017; Craig et al., 2020). They suffer minority stress (Meyer, 2003) and are more likely to have experienced early trauma (Craig et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2021). Particular attention is needed for the most vulnerable LGBTQ+ students such as bisexual and transgender individuals (Gnan et al., 2019). Whilst literature exists on LGBTQ+ inclusive teaching (Moore, 2014; Mikulec, 2016), there is a considerable research gap specifically addressing the pedagogical potential of learning development as a vehicle for this.
Building on the foundation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and decolonisation, Trauma-Informed Pedagogy (TIP) acknowledges the barriers to learning faced by trauma-experienced students and promotes inclusive approaches (Baker, 2022). Using the TIP framework, the session invited delegates to consider how the trauma-informed educator can create and maintain a safe, inclusive and empowering learning space. We invited delegates to reflect on their own inclusive practices in relation to LGBTQ+ students and how to best support the needs of a group who can remain largely invisible. Using case studies, we explored how TIP approaches can be applied in a learning development context to benefit not only LGBTQ+ students, but the student body as a whole.


Let $F$ be a local non-Archimedean field and $E$ a finite Galois extension of $F$, with Galois group $G$. If $\rho$ is a representation of $G$ on a complex vector space $V$, we may compose it with any tensor operation $R$ on $V$, and get another representation $R\circ\rho$. We study the relation between the Swan exponents $\mathrm{Sw}(\rho)$ and $\mathrm{Sw}(R\circ\rho)$, with a particular attention to the cases where $R$ is symmetric square or exterior square. Indeed those cases intervene in the local Langlands correspondence for split classical groups over $F$, via the formal degree conjecture, and we present some applications of our work to the explicit description of the Langlands parameter of simple cuspidal representations. For irreducible $\rho$ our main results determine $\mathrm{Sw}(\mathrm{Sym}^{2}\rho)$ and $\mathrm{Sw}(\wedge^{2}\rho)$ from $\mathrm{Sw}(\rho)$ when the residue characteristic $p$ of $F$ is odd, and bound them in terms of $\mathrm{Sw}(\rho)$ when $p$ is $2$. In that case where $p$ is $2$ we conjecture stronger bounds, for which we provide evidence.


Based on our collection of life stories (n = 25), our qualitative study seeks to better understand, after the fact, how young, immigrant-background adults in Quebec negotiate ethnocultural boundaries through their post-secondary and professional orientation experiences, particularly in terms of linguistic choices. The analyses highlight the strengthening of boundaries within Quebec's educational institutions and workplaces. The results expose different examples of racism experienced by young adults in their relations with the Quebec francophone majority that led them to integrate into English-language post-secondary education and workplaces. In addition, young adults from "black" and "Arabic" minorities more frequently report racist attitudes from francophone Quebecers.


ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore relationships between demographic factors and leadership styles adopted by small-business owner/managers in Singapore. A second purpose is to determine if there is a characteristic Singaporean leadership style in this business sector. A questionnaire was developed and administered to the members of three business associations, representing the major racial groups in Singapore. Questions included some about demographic data, such as race, age, sex and educational levels, and others concerning the nature of the business, such as type of business, industry, start-up-date and number of employees. Respondents were also asked to complete an adapted version of the Altman, Valenzi and Hodgetts leadership-style questionnaire, designed to ascertain which types of styles they habitually adopted. The results were analyzed, using analysis of variance, to ascertain whether any statistically significant differences could be identified based on demographic factors. A major...


This publication gives the results of bottom trawlings made during the cruises Chalci 83.01 and Chalci 83.02 by the oceanographic research vessel "Andre Nizery", on the ivorian continental shelf. The publication content is: - an introduction explaining the form of results; the trawl recording cards with the characteristics of trawl and the detail of catches by species; the length frequency distributions of the measured samples.


Regio- and stereoselective reductions of α-substituted 1,3-diketones to the corresponding β-keto alcohols or 1,3-diols by using commercially available ketoreductases (KREDs) are described. A number of α-monoalkyl- or dialkyl-substituted symmetrical as well as non-symmetrical diketones were reduced in high optical purities and chemical yields, in one or two enzymatic reduction steps. In most cases, two or even three out of the four possible diastereomers of a-alkyl-β-keto alcohols were synthesized by using different enzymes, and in two examples both ketones were reduced to the 1,3-diol. By replacing the α-alkyl substituent with the OAc group, 1-keto-2,3-diols, as well as 1,2,3-triols were synthesized in high optical purities. These enzymatic reactions provide a simple, highly stereoselective and quantitative method for the synthesis of different diastereomers of valuable chiral synthons from non-chiral, easily accessible 1,3-diketones.


The article substantiates the current problems of raising independent children of senior preschool age in game activities. It has been established that upbringing of preschoolers consists in self-control of their activities, shortcomings and defects. Behind this short definition stands a huge number of abilities and skills: organizational, general-speech, cognitive, control-evaluative, that a child should acquire. It has been proved that in order to work independently, a child of senior preschool age must be able to organize his work, carry it out rationally, check the quality of the work done.Indicators of a child's independence are outlined, which are reflected in three components: cognitive (knowledge, rules, norms, ideas about one's traits and skills); emotional-value (a system of feelings related to one's own states, needs, self-esteem, personal meaning); behavioral (willingness to act in a certain way, the ability to regulate one's own behavior, analyze the situation and personal values). It has been established that each of these components is particularly important for the formation of the "self" of an individual. The leading importance of game activities in the structure of cognitive tasks is analyzed, attention to the wide use of the game environment enables children to show all forms of social and cognitive activity.One of the peculiarities of building children's independence is the ability to make free choices, which is associated with self-development and self-creation. The basis of the choice of a child of senior preschool age is always game activity. Children are characterized by the desire to take on the role of an "adult" – this is where their desire for independence is manifested. While playing, they try to bring into the game what they observe in the surrounding life.It has been established that the ability to act quickly in new social conditions depends on the communication abilities and skills of senior preschool children, the sufficient level of which allows the child to be confident in himself. Throughout preschool childhood, children develop a need for communication with an adult, inclusion in various types of game activities, which contributes to the formation of an emotional and value attitude to reality and to oneself, self-knowledge, self-affirmation, assimilation of humanistic values, development of creative abilities and imagination.
Keywords: independence; upbringing; children of senior preschool age; game activity; cognitive independence; communication abilities and skills; self-development; self-knowledge; self-affirmation; assimilation of humanistic values; development of creative abilities and imagination.


This paper examines the thought of Jean-François Lyotard in relation to the problems of justice and the constitution of a post-modern politics. It argues that Lyotard is highly influenced by Kant's aesthetics and specifically by the idea of indeterminate judgement in the formulation of a conception of justice that, in an age of social variegation and fragmentation, underlies a politics which strives to promote different ways of looking at, and living in, the world. The text concludes that Lyotard's conception of justice and its resultant politics are founded upon a skewed reading of Kant's work such that claims of truth and morality are separated from those of judgement. The result is a politics marked by radical individualism which poses the threat of social atomization.


The presence of plentiful microglial elements in the retina of the normal monkey and rabbit is demonstrated by using Hortega's silver carbonate technic. Microglial elements permeate all the retinal layers. Their form and location in the various retinal layers and their relationship to the local density of capillaries are described and compared to the few, incomplete descriptions in the previous literature.


Screenwriter Howard Rodman offers a poignant appreciation of Walter Bernstein, the blacklisted screenwriter and director who died in January 2021 at the age of 101. Bernstein had been a fixture in Rodman's life since the 1950s, when Rodman's father served as a "front" for Bernstein's television work. Bernstein would later use that experience as inspiration for The Front (dir. Martin Ritt, 1977), his trenchant and mordantly funny account of life on the blacklist. Rodman surveys Bernstein's long career, from his years as a journalist for the US Army publication Yank and The New Yorker, to his post-blacklist work of the 1960s and 1970s, to his work at the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, where he and Rodman both served as advisors, closing the circle.


Oral angiokeratoma is a rare vascular lesion that has various clinical presentations. It usually occurs as part of generalized angiokeratoma and rarely appears as a solitary lesion with no underlying systemic diseases. Only 33 cases were reported so far worldwide. In this case report, we present a rare case of isolated solitary oral angiokeratoma in a 22-year-old female patient, which is the first case to be reported in the labial mucosa that has been treated successfully by surgical excision.


With the advent of the third scientific and technological revolution in the 20th century, electronic computers have been widely used. The arrival of the Internet information technology platform has brought us into the "Internet +" model and the era of big data. Fast-moving consumer goods companies must also conform to the development trend of the times. However, there are many problems in sales staff and low level of ability. The paper uses the literature data method and the survey analysis method to discuss the problems existing in the background of the Internet era, and puts forward the development direction of network marketing innovation.


The present article gives the results of stratigraphical-palynological investigations carried out during recent years by the Department of Paleobotany of the Servicio Geologico Nacional (Bogota, Colombia, South America).
The formations are described after a discussion of the methods of palynological correlation, and the problems of age determination of each important area within the respective "geological unit" of the country. The author of the name of each formation, the type locality, and a short description of the lithology are given. The age and the more important correlations are also discussed (see Plates I, II, III, IV).
Following this, a summary of the stratigraphical results is given according to age.
Finally, conclusions are drawn on the Andean orogenism and paleogeography, stressing the importance of the constant basal sandstones. These sandstones or conglomerates which were formed at the beginning of each 6 million-year period, are to be found all over the country both in the East and in the West Andean region, and were formed during and immediately after tectonic-orogenetic movements. If moreover we follow the history of the Colombian Andes, the conclusion may be drawn that the tertiary sedimentation was more or less synorogenetic. The most important orogenetic movements took place during the Miocene and the Pliocene (Eu-Andean phase), but other important movements took place in the begiming of the Upper Oligocene (Proto-Andean phase), and during the Lower and Middle Eocene (Pre-Andean phase).
The movements at the beginning of the Paleocene are evident, but less important. Also clear but less important were the movements at the beginning of the Upper Eocene, the Lower Oligocene and the Middle Oligocene (see Plates V, VI, VII).
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Introduction : Pulmonary rehabilitation has demonstrated significant improvements among COPD patients. The effect on non COPD patients is less well established. Aims and Objective: We wanted to find out whether pulmonary rehabilitation is also beneficial in non COPD patients. Methods: We collected the data about one hundred and three non COPD patients that participated in pulmonary rehabilitation program in our hospital . The program took place in hospital environment and was run according to the ERS/ATS guidelines on pulmonary rehabilitation. Six minute walk (6MW) test was performed at the beginning of the program and at the end. Saint George Respiratory Questioner (SGRQ) was also performed at the beginning and at the end. Result: We included One hundred and three non COPD patients participated in the program between 2009 to 2013. Seventy three patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD), 23 with Asthma and seven with pulmonary hypertension. All the patients demonstrated significant impressive improvement in 6MW test and in SGRQ. The patients suffering from ILD demonstrated fifty four meters (18.2%) improvement in the 6MW test (P Conclusions: We conclude that pulmonary rehabilitation is effective in interstitial lung disease, asthma and pulmonary hypertension. We believe that pulmonary rehabilitation should be offered to the majority of patients suffering from chronic respiratory disease.


Sri Lanka is rich with marine cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and mainly whale watching industry has immensely developed in Mirissa, Southern coast of Sri Lanka. But up to date surveys on cetacean populations in Southern marine water is in unsatisfactory level. Hence, a shipboard survey to identify their diversity and abundance was conducted in Southern marine water off Mirissa for 48 days during August December 2018. 5 baleen whales (suborder Mysticeti) and 8 toothed whales (suborder Odontoceti) were recorded during the survey period (13 total species). Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) was the most common type of baleen whale with 443 sightings in 8010 ́8046ˊ E ,0555ˊ0517ˊN and 1 3 range was their pod size. In addition to that, 60,4 and 3 sightings of Bryde's Whales (Balaenoptera edeni), Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) and Ormura Whales (Balaenoptera omurai) were recorded respectively. Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) was the highest abundant toothed whale type with 2765 sightings. In addition to that, 571 of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), 125 of Stripped Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba), 75 of False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens), 54 of Rissos Dolphin, (Grampus griseus), 30 of Pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhyncus), 7 of Killer Whale (Orcinus orca), 6 of Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and 3 of Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) were sighted. As per whale watcher's data, Humpback Whales were recorded in Southern coast after 2015. Since the whale watching industry in Southern coast is mainly rely on Blue whale population, they are highly vulnerable group from whale watching, shipping and fishing activities. Results provide important information on the conservation status of cetaceans. Therefore, a powerful management measure is highly needed for the conservation of cetacean populations and the sustainability of whale watching industry.


Delta-neutral trading strategies for trading volatility allow you to make a profit regardless of the direction of change in the price of the underlying asset. Despite their popularity and high efficiency, they are usually made manually, which makes them less systematic and vulnerable to the negative influence of the human factor (emotions, late actions, erroneous submission of applications, etc.). The article proposes a unified delta- neutral strategy, taking into account several parameters for long-term volatility trading through transactions with underlying assets (futures or stocks) and options on these underlying assets, which creates prerequisites for its automation. The use of the strategy helps to increase the liquidity of investment assets traded on the exchange, increases the receipt of taxes, exchange fees and commissions, which brings great socio-economic benefits. Automation of the strategy significantly simplifies calculations, increases the speed of decision-making and can significantly increase the number of transactions made in the financial markets. In addition, the automatic calculation of the optimal values of the method parameters can make a significant contribution to the theoretical research of the modifications of the volatility trading methods.


The chalcones and dihydrochalcones of the flavanone glycosides naringin, neohesperidin and hesperidin were separated and identified by thin-layer chromatography; a similar procedure was utilized to perform preparative TLC for purification of these compounds. A new spectrophotometric method for the quantitative determination of dihydrochalcones in the concentration range from 0.005 to 0.100% in aqueous or alcoholic solution is described as well as a detection method of these compounds in agar media for microbiological studies.


Effective team formation and the influence of team structure on the results students accomplish on team assignments are discussed in this paper. Also some strategies for team formation and a particular software tool have been developed to help automate that process.


Beamformer is an important content of array signal processing.With the increment of the array number,the traditional electrical technology faces the challenges such as bandwidth,speed and power.The optical processing technology is one of ideal solution methods in the future because of its high parallel feature and huge bandwidth.Four optical processing methods used for the beamformer are introduced in this paper,i.e.,fiber optics,spatial spectral technology, optical refractive technology and coherent optics.The respective theory and technology characteristic of them are analyzed.


The development of retail business in Indonesia has increased in the past few years. This is indicated by the rapid growth of various retail format such as: hypermarket, supermarket and also minimarket which will lead to tight competition between the retailers to win and maintain customers. The customers loyalty towards retailers tend to easily change.
 The goals of this study are: to analyze the customers segmentation of Super Indo Supermarket, to analyze the customers perception, to evaluate attribute performance and customers preference towards Super Indo, Depok. These goals will hopefully be advantageous for the Super Indo management in formulating a marketing strategy. The analysis tools used in the research are: Cochran analysis, Conjoint analysis, Cluster analysis, and Importantance-Performance analysis.
 Based on the perception analysis with 20 attributes tested with Cochran analysis, there were three attributes which were not yet considered as a perception. These three attributes are: toilet, front display and the color of walls and the store model. The respondents' preference towards Super Indo are: complete availability of product, availability of toilet, cool room temperature and promotional prizes. The attribute which is the main priority to increase is the space attribute. The segments were divided into three categories: teenagers, old age, and adults. The adult segment was the largest segment with a proportion of 48,5 percent.


This study aims to analyze the effect of profitability represented by the ratio of return on investment, leverage represented by the ratio of Debt to Equity Ratio and Growth to Dividend Policy (Dividend Payout Ratio) on Manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The sample used in this study amounted to 5 companies and used data from 2013 to 2018. Data analysis used multiple regression and classic assumption tests which included normality tests of multicollinearity tests and autocorrelation tests
The results of the partial analysis with the t test and F test concluded that the variable Profitability (ROI) did not have a significant effect on the Dividend Leverage Policy (DER). It did not have a significant effect on the variable dividend policy. Return on investment the low dividend policy of the remaining 84.1! Determined by other variables not covered in this study.
The implication of the results of this study is that Return on investment debt to equity ratio and Growth variable returns cannot be used as an indicator in determining a company's dividend policy


The microstructure and properties of liquid-phase sintered 93W-4.9Ni-2.1Fe tungsten heavy alloys using ultra-fine tungsten powders (medium particle size of 700 nm) and original tungsten powders (medium particle size of 3 μm) were investigated respectively. Commercial tungsten powders (original tungsten powders) were mechanically milled in a high-energy attritor mill for 35 h. Ultra-fine tungsten powders and commercial Ni, Fe powders were consolidated into green compacts by using CIP method and liquid-phase sintering at 1 465 ℃ for 30 min in the dissociated ammonia atmosphere. Liquid-phase sintered tungsten heavy alloys using ultra-fine tungsten powders exhibit full densification (above 99% in relative density) and higher strength and elongation compared with conventional liquidphase sintered alloys using original tungsten powders due to lower sintering temperature at 1 465 ℃ and short sintering time. The mechanical properties of sintered tungsten heavy alloy are found to be mainly dependent on the particles size of raw tungsten powders and liquid-phase sintering temperature.


INSTRUCTIONS Retroreflectors (both corner cube retroreflectors and hollow retroreflectors) have an intrinsic property of retroreflection, which will enable building more compact optical systems and make retroreflection insensitive to tip/tilt. They are used in heterodyne interferometers [1], folded Fabry-Perot (F-P) interferometers, folded laser cavities and so on. In many of these applications, polarization is an important issue that should be considered. For example, based on the laser theories, only laser light with specific polarization would stay resonant with folded F-P cavities. Since the incidence upon each reflecting surface of a retroreflector is oblique, different input polarizations and misalignments would result in different phase shifts and thus different output polarizations [2]. In order to get the best multi interference signals, polarization properties of the retroreflectors must be analyzed to make sure the laser polarization would remain the same after reflection at the retroreflector. In Ref. [2-6], eigen polarization states and depolarization effects in retroreflector have been studied using electric field vectors with the Jones matrix. But all of these are based on normal incidence, which is the ideal situation. In displacement interferomtry, the alignment of the retroreflector and input polarization is driven by physical alignment rather than the ideal polarization alignment of the retroreflector. The polarization properties will change under different tip/tilt angles. Thus it is essential to build a polarization model for retroreflectors under different angular error conditions.


Abstract : The goal of this project was to develop a family of inexpensive hydrophone and/or projector designs utilizing Macro Fiber Composite (MFC) patches. The MFC is a low profile (0.0 12) actuator and sensor invented by NASA in 1996 and manufactured by Smart Material Corporation. The MFC utilizes a layer of rectangular piezo ceramic rods that are encapsulated between layers of adhesive, polyimide film and interdigitated electrodes. The MFC is assembled in a sealed package, which makes them durable, highly flexible, inexpensive and easily applied. The patch has high actuation authority and can be stacked to provide improved force characteristics. The MFC has been used to bend and twist structures for NASA and Air Force applications.


The actual occurrence of Squalus megalops in the Mediterranean Sea has recently been questioned. Several research works which sought to assess available morphological and meristic features that dif...


Behind the appellation "modal methods", for diffraction gratings, one can find a variety of methods sharing in common the development of the fields in terms of basis functions that can be either Fourier exponentials hence the name Fourier Modal Method (FMM), or polynomials leading to the family of Polynomial Modal Methods (Legendre, Tchebychev, and Gegenbauer). These approaches may not behave in the same way when dealing with gratings with extreme features such as a very low or very high filling ratios. In the present work, we address such a problem and compare the performances of the different Modal Methods.


Many cases of structural damage have been reported, which was caused by liquefaction under the structures such as river embankment. Under the structures, such as river embankment, the ground receives shear stress, besides vertical and/or horizontal anisotropic stress and initial shear stress. In this study, we conducted cyclic torsional shear tests in order to estimate the effect of the liquefaction strength and the deformation characteristic by the initial shear stress. The results showed that there were remarkable differences between the liquefaction strength and the deformation characteristic under different initial stress states. This results also led to the suggestion that it is important to evaluate appropriately the effect of initial shear stress when we estimate the liquefaction-related damages of the structures affected by initial shear stress.


Our purpose in this research is to develop a methodology to automatically and efficiently classify web images as UML static diagrams, and to produce a computer tool that implements this function. The tool receives as input a bitmap file (in different formats) and tells whether the image corresponds to a diagram. The tool does not require that the images are explicitly or implicitly tagged as UML diagrams. The tool extracts graphical characteristics from each image (such as grayscale histogram, color histogram and elementary geometric forms) and uses a combination of rules to classify it. The rules are obtained with machine learning techniques (rule induction) from a sample of 19000 web images manually classified by experts. In this work we do not consider the textual contents of the images.


The paper presents an analysis of the deformation of a dynamically loaded rectangular
reinforced-concrete deep beam, including the physical nonlinearity of construction materials: concrete
and reinforcing steel. The solution was acquired with the use of the method presented in [15]. The
displacement of three plate types under various loads, up to dynamic load capacity depletion, was
analysed. The results of numerical solutions are presented, with particular emphasis on the impact
of the very high strength of concrete and steel on the reinforced concrete plate displacement. The
work confirmed the correctness of the assumptions and deformation models of concrete and steel
as well as the effectiveness of the methods of analysis proposed in the paper [1, 15] for the problems
of numerical simulation of the behaviour of reinforced concrete deep beams under dynamic loads.
Keywords: mechanics of structures, reinforced concrete structures, deep beams, dynamic load,
physical nonlinearity.


Access networks, in particular, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) equipment, are a significant source of energy consumption for wireline operators. Replacing large monolithic DSLAMs with smaller remote DSLAM units closer to customers can reduce the energy consumption as well as increase the reach of the access network. This paper attempts to formalize the design and optimization of the "last mile" wireline access network with energy as one of the costs to be minimized. In particular, the placement of remote DSLAM units needs to be optimized. We propose solutions for two scenarios. For the scenario where an existing all-copper network from the central office to the customers is to be transformed into a fiber-copper network with remote DSLAM units, we present efficient polynomial-time solutions. For the green-field scenario, where both the access network layout and the placement of remote DSLAM units must be determined, we show that this problem is NP-complete. We present an optimal ILP formulation and also design an efficient heuristic-based approach to build a power and cost optimized access network. Our heuristic-based approach yields results that are very close to optimal. We show how the power consumption of the access network can be reduced by carefully planning the access network and introducing remote DSLAM units.


While still short of being entirely mainstream there does appear to be a growing recognition in both policy circles and academia that economic development is not brought about by autonomous profit-maximising agents interacting anonymously through equilibrium markets. 1 Rather, economic development is an inherently disequilibric process involving interactive and institutionally embedded processes in broader systems of firms, governments, research centres, universities, consultants, and other entities. These systems can tap into stocks of global knowledge and technologies, assimilate and adapt it to local circumstances, and create new knowledge or technologies. Such broader production systems are conceptualised in several different ways in the literature, e.g. Lundvall et al.'s 'national innovation systems', Richard Whitley's 'business systems', and Sanjaya Lall's concept of 'industrial technology development'. This paper identifies and outlines four different systemic approaches to economic development. All four approaches have primarily been developed to address nationally based institutional systems in advanced economies. Both the ontological premises and the policy implications of these systemic approaches depart distinctly from the conventional orthodoxy on economic development as articulated in the 'Washington Consensus' and its later derivatives. The article goes on to explore which policy implications the adoption of such a systemic view might have for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).


In this publication the system of changes in nature and in climate of the Caucasus from the north-west to south-east direction are researched as a basis for the analysis of the condition of the animals and plants.


to or lose from the different policies or development scenarios it pursue. to Earth's climate. Carbon and Sequestration model uses spatial land use and integrates four different carbon pools (above-ground biomass, below-ground biomass, soil, and dead organic matter) to estimate the total amount of carbon stored in a landscape or sequestered over time. Additional data on the market or social value of sequestered carbon, its annual rate of change, and a discount rate can be used to estimate the monetary value of this ecosystem service to society. This model can be used anywhere along the urban-to-rural gradient, from the most densely populated urban core to undeveloped hinterlands.


The paper provides a detailed review of swarm algorithms, inspired by abiocen and bacterias, to be used in the population of bionics ontology.


Experiments were conducted in an established Concord grape vineyard infested with Erythroneura comes (Say). Plots consisted of 3 vines in a row replicated 4 times in a randomized block design. Sprayes were applied on Aug 13 using a 6-gal True-Test plant sprayer operated off a high pressure hose of a Myers 61256ET? hydraulic vineyard sprayer. Operating pressure was 100 psi. Sprays were applied to runoff resulting in approximately 200 gal of spray per acre. Spray water pH was 7.15. Triton AG-98 (2 oz/100 gal) was used as a spreader-sticker in all treatments. Treatments were evaluated by counting the number of leafhopper nymphs on each of 10 injured leaves selected at random per plot. Pre-treatment counts were made on Aug 11. Data were transformed to X + 0.5 and treated by analysis of variance and Duncan's modified (Bayesian) least significant difference test.


Noise parameters are a set of four measurable quantities which determine the noise performance of a radio frequency device under test (DUT). The noise parameters of a two-port device can be extracted by connecting a set of four or more source impedances at the device's input, measuring the noise power of the device with each source connected, and then solving a matrix equation. However, sources with high reflection coefficients ( $|\Gamma |\approx 1$ ) cannot be used due to a singularity that arises in entries of the matrix. Here, we detail a new method of noise parameter extraction using a singularity-free matrix that is compatible with high-reflection sources. We show that open, short, load, and an open cable (OSLC) can be used to extract noise parameters and detail a practical measurement approach. The OSLC approach is particularly well-suited for low-noise amplifiers at frequencies below 1 GHz, where alternative methods require physically large apparatus.


29In his Natural Theolog) Paley uses the word "Providence" spar ingly, preferring to speak of the wisdom and benevolence of the De ity and arguing for their workings from the minute evidences of design and the existence of pleasure throughout the Creation. Of Providence, admitting "the ambiguity under which its exertions pres ent themselves" he maintains that the doctrine assists the consolation of men's minds. See his chapter on "The Goodness of the Deity," Natural Theolog); or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the Appearances of Nature ( 14 th ed 1813) pp. 454-535, esp. 5245.


Background  Multiple nodules of the scrotum are uncommonly reported. Their origin is controversial. Treatment is always surgical but the best procedure is still to be determined.


Abstract The consumption of seeds of the Fabaceae family is distributed worldwide mainly due to their high content of proteins, carbohydrates, dietary fiber and polyunsaturated fatty acids, jointly with vitamins and minerals. However, they contain several non-nutritive compounds (NNCs) that can exert adverse or beneficial actions upon ingestion depending on their chemical structure, concentration, time of exposure and their interaction with other dietary components. In this review, we present the representative legume NNCs, their chemical nature and their adverse and beneficial biological actions. Moreover, we summarized updated findings on the effect of different traditional processing, bearing in mind that legumes are mainly consumed in the household milieu, on the concentration of legume NNCs. The results of the in-vivo studies prove that the reduction/elimination of legume NNCs improves nutritional quality and the fate of improvements depends on many parameters such as botanical source, chemical composition, content, type of processing and operational conditions used, among others. Together, this review can provide a comprehensive perspective for further elucidating the roles of plant lectins that may target programmed cell death pathways. This review may, in turn, ultimately help to consumers for whom legumes are part of a vegetarian diet or are consumed as staple food which must take into consideration the improvement of legume nutritive quality by traditional processing.


Introduction - reading political texts origins and nature of political order political authority and obligation forms of government the nature of rights concepts of liberty justics and equality property the state and sovereignty the right of resistance and ideas of revolution democracy and popular representation state and economy the nation-state and the international order.


The results of studying the influence of interference on the calculation of the extremes of multimodal objective functions by the optimization algorithm of a swarm of fireflies are presented. Experimental dependences of the execution time of this algorithm on the transparency and illumination of the medium are given. The research was carried out on the Rastrigin, Rosenbrock, Ackley and Spherical test functions.


Advanced IR sounding benefits partly from cloud-top parameter and surface emissivity estimates, using coincident imaging spectroradiometry. While a separate imager on the same spacecraft on which the sounder is located can provide closely coincident surface and cloud parameter estimates, an "imaging sounder" that can deliver image and sounding data may reduce cost. Key technology trends enabling low-risk "imaging sounders" include better and lower cost optics, improved spectral-separation, low-noise wide bandwidth large area focal plane arrays, reliable active cooling, and low-power, higher density electronics for high-rate analog-to-digital conversion and on-board data processing. Trends over the last decade and efforts underway are identified with improvements anticipated in the next decade. Applications are described with reference to instrumentation either in-orbit or under development.


In this column, we propose six literature circle roles for students to discuss comics and graphic novels (graphica)in ELA classrooms.


We would like to see live programming applied to language development, to get live language development. With live language development, a language developer gets fast feedback when they change their language, enabling experimentation with language design and development. In this paper, we describe what live language development is and why it is useful, and we analyze what is needed to achieve live language development. Moreover, we describe our work in progress in supporting live language development in the Spoofax language workbench.


Phase average techniques based on wavelet multiresolution analysis and continuous wavelet transform are developed to reveal the phase-averaged features of square cylinder wake measured by high-speed PIV. The multi-scale turbulent structures are phase-sorted to give phase-averaged representations of flow field. The phase-averaged measured flow fields suggest that the wake flow rolls up and down and is conveyed downstream together with the corresponding vortices, forming a vortex pair with opposite sense of rotation. The phase-averaged vorticity contours of large-scale flow structures show good correspondence to the topology of phase-averaged measured flow field, suggesting the alternative nature of the vortex street with strong periodicity. The phase averaged intermediate-scale structures tend to be conveyed downstream along streamwise direction, with the rotation sense vary from the first half period to the last half period, implying the nature of Kelvin-Helmholtz vortex.


The Council on Nutrition of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recently published a statement that contains five recommendations concerning the nutritional management of diabetes mellitus.' Three of these recommendations are general statements outlining the Council's belief that i) we should strive to achieve control of blood glucose and lipid levels in patients with diabetes without compromising overall nutrition or health, 2) current evidence does not permit a precise appraisal of the clinical utility of the glycemic index of different carbohydrate-rich foods in reaching this primary goal, and 3) further research in nutrition and diabetes is necessary to develop optimal nutrition management. It seems unlikely that anybody will disagree with these principles. On the other hand, the Council on Nutrition also stated that diet planning could now include the incorporation of sucrose without the expectation of adverse effects. In addition, the Council supported the use of the "glycemic index" in the selection of carbohydrate-containing foods, implying that this would result in lower glycemic responses to meals. We were both surprised and somewhat concerned about the last two items for several reasons. At the simplest, we were not even sure what was meant. For example, what is a "moderate" amount of sucrose? Does the statement refer to foods that naturally contain sucrose, like fruit, or does it apply to foods containing refined sugar, like Danish pastry? How should we place "more emphasis on those carbohydrate-containing foods that produce the smallest rise in blood glucose" or "less emphasis on those (foods) that are associated with higher glycemic responses?" More important, we could not fathom what scientific evidence led to the promulgation of these two principles by the Council on Nutrition. Indeed, our research group has been actively involved in studying both the relevance of the glycemic index to the treatment of patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) as well as the effects of increased sucrose consumption on various facets of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in several patient populations. In the case of the glycemic index, we have published data that raise questions concerning its clinical utility in the treatment of NIDDM and are unaware of evidence that has shown it to be clinically effective when incorporated into the planning of meals for diabetic patients. As far as sucrose is concerned, we believe that there is substantial published information that suggests the "consumption of a moderate amount of sucrose" can lead to deleterious effects on both carbohydrate and lipid metabolism." Obviously, a considerable difference of opinion exists between our group and the Council on Nutrition, and we are very concerned that attempts by the health profession to follow these recent recommendations will, at best, complicate the lives of patients with diabetes and, at the worst, increase their likelihood of developing the vascular complications of diabetes. Consequently, we feel compelled to offer a different perspective on the glycemic effects of carbohydrates.


This paper aims to analyze a mismatched PV array using a simplified model of PV module and to compare its electrical characteristics including I-V, P-V, maximum power and loss, for series-and-parallel (SP) and total-cross-tied (TCT) configurations of PV module connection. The influences of bypass diodes that are in parallel with each PV module, are also considered. Two methods have been used in this study: the analytical method and the PLPB (piecewise linear parallel branches) model. The former lies in writing the KCL and KVL equations of the PV array electric network and solving them using the Newton-Raphson method. The later involves a piecewise linear model that allows the PV array network to be simulated using the EMTP circuit simulation program.


Internet banking is changing as a result which can have benefits to business operations,the emergence of internet banking has a huge impact to traditional banking in financial media,payment function,etc.On the base of the analysis relationship of internet banking and traditional banking,with studying the characteristics and comparative advantage of Internet banking,as a result,this article provides reference and decision-making for the expansion and upgrade of internet banking


[Objective] To explore the low temperature adaptability of eight perennials,so as to provide theoretical basis for their introduction to landscaping.[Method] Lotus corniculatus and other seven perennial materials were collected as samples to study their cold resistance by natural low temperature treatment and morphological observation.[Result] After the two-year observation of wintering of the tested plants,Lotus corniculatus,ground cover Chrysanthemum,Thymus mongolicus and Viola philippica had broad application prospects in the garden with better ornamental characters and overwinter performance,their wintering survival rates were all above 90%.[Conclusion] Lotus corniculatus,ground cover Chrysanthemum,Thymus mongolicus and Viola philippica were suitable to be popularized in large areas,among which Viola philippica can fill the blank of flowering plants in early spring with the characteristics of earlier germination,earlier flowering,bright color and strong cold stress tolerance.


Biotechnology, information, and medical industries have high growth potential. A key technology for those industries is the replication of micro- and nanostructures. Precise micro-and nanostructured parts with functional surfaces can be produced economically by injection molding. The whole process chain (thermal mold condition, molding, demolding, measurement, and analysis) must be analyzed carefully to ensure the highest accuracy and reliability. To enable the precise production of such structures, a new technique for variothermal injection molding was developed at the IKV. An innovative laser heating unit was developed, designed, and built. In experiments the laser unit was analyzed and implemented into an injection mold to heat the cavity surface efficiently. Using this technique selective parts of the cavity could be heated with high temperature gradients of up to 300°C∕s. Preliminary measurements were done to correlate the laser power and the temperature change on the mold surface. A pyrometer and a ...


In the division of labor between Post Keynesian and Sraffian theory, inflation has been the province of the former and long-period price theory that of the latter. Pierangelo Garegnani (1983) has contended that natural prices are the center of gravity towards which the economy tends. Yet H. Nikaido (1983) has shown that when the machine-goods sector is more capital-intensive than the economy as a whole, the system will tend to move away from, not towards, its long-run position (see also Roemer, 1980). Interestingly, Nikaido assumes away inflation under simple reproduction, by setting the aggregate change in moneycapital in the system equal to zero. This paper explores the consistency between Marx's hypothesized mechanism whereby the profit rate is equalized, and Sraffian long-run positions. To anticipate, it is found that the Marxian adjustment process implies that chronic, pure inflation is likely to characterize the long period. First a standard of price for the long-run model that allows for the recognition of purely nominal changes in prices will be defined. Then the likelihood of long-period inflation will be derived. It is shown that for Marx's dynamic adjustment mechanism to be rendered consistent with postulated constant prices, it would be necessary to posit irrational


We estimate the impact of the unanticipated change in the national education policy in Indonesia that shifted the beginning of an academic year from January to July in 1979. This policy delayed grade progression for all children who were in the school system in 1978 and led to an increase in their absolute age-for-grade by six months. Using a regression discontinuity design, we use this policy variation to estimate the policy on long-term cognition. We find that a one-year delay leads to between 0.24–0.32 standard deviation (SD) increase in cognitive abilities 30 years later. We interpret this finding as the impact of absolute maturity on long-term cognitive functions. We find a stronger effect for males that is noisily estimated. We also a find a stronger effect for individuals who did not experience early life nutrition deficits as proxied by their adult heights. We discuss pathways from the policy to long-term cognitive functioning.


In the application described here, an autonomous marine vehicle (AMV) is equipped with a 3D seismic sensor array (3DSA). The 3DSA consists of 15 hydrophones mounted on cubic frame of about 1 m in size. Various field tests and commercial projects have been conducted using autonomous vehicles as platforms, each towing a 3DSA. Often, these have been deployed during ongoing traditional seismic surveys, thus allowing the possibility of making direct comparisons of operations flexibility and data. The objectives of this project were to • Assess the feasibility of seismic acquisition using AVs and 3DSA, including safe deployment and retrieval • Evaluate the performance of the 3DSA based on holding station capability, maintenance of desired depth, and accuracy of measurements of pitch and orientation • Compare the quality of the acquired seismic data with the pressure data recorded in the traditional surveys Marine seismic data are normally acquired using towed-streamer arrays, ocean-bottom cables (OBC), or ocean-bottom nodes (OBN) where the receivers are in fixed positions on the seafloor. Towed streamer-acquisition is the predominant method of marine acquisition because it is highly efficient and easy to implement. Narrow-azimuth (NAZ) streamer acquisition geometries typically acquire good-quality seismic data in noncomplex geologic environments and have a very well-established processing methodology. However, water depth, seafloor topography, or operational constraints due to in-situ infrastructure and obstructions can make acquiring data using these methods difficult and could result in a decrease in operational efficiency, which would increase acquisition cost or result in poor or zero data coverage. For seismic applications, the 3DSA consists of 15 hydrophones (3 in each of the five arms) mounted on a frame approximately 1.5 m in size. A buoyancy engine just below the top arm ensures that this arm remains on the high side and that the entire array is oriented and does not rotate on its axis while moving through the water. The 3D sensor array continuously records seismic data as well as array orientation and depth data. Autonomous marine vehicles provide several unique capabilities for acquiring data in marine environments. Their low cost compared to conventional vessels allows deploying them in tandem over defined areas to yield comparable results and complete coverage. In the last few years, the oil and gas industry has seen the use of AMVs grow from a level of infancy to full maturity and become an essential part of the offshore exploration and production toolbox. The vehicles are rapidly evolving in response to the needs of the industry, particularly in challenging environments, frontier areas, extremely shallow waters and prospecting close to obstructions. Projects in Abu Dhabi and the US Gulf of Mexico demonstrated the successful and safe deployment, seismic data acquisition, and retrieval of the AVs and 3DSA. The evaluation criteria indicated the consistent performance of the 3DSA and that the AMV-acquired data are comparable to conventionally acquired data in signal-to-noise ratio and frequency bandwidth.


Graph Machine Based-QSAR Approach for Modeling Thermodynamic Properties of Amines: Application to CO2 Capture in Postcombustion — Amine scrubbing is usually considered as the most efficient technology for CO2 mitigation through postcombustion Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). However, optimization of the amine structure to improve the solvent properties requires to sample a large number of possible candidates and hence to gather a large amount of experimental data. In this context, the use of QSAR (Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship) statistical modeling is a powerful tool as it performs a mapping of a set of input vectors (i.e. the characteristics or the properties of the molecules under consideration) to a set of output vectors (i.e. their targeted properties). In this work, we used a high throughput screening experimental device to measure CO2 solubility data on a set of 46 amine aqueous solutions. Absorption isotherms are represented using a thermodynamic model based on two thermodynamic constants, pKa* and pKc*, accounting for the main chemical reactions occurring in the liquid phase between amine and CO2. Then, we used a statistical approach named Graph Machines at the Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Rev. IFP Energies nouvelles, Vol. 68 (2013), No. 3, pp. 469-486 Copyright © 2013, IFP Energies nouvelles DOI: 10.2516/ogst/2012025 Discovery and Optimization of Catalysts and Adsorbents Using High Throughput Experimentation Decouverte et optimisation de catalyseurs et d'adsorbants par experimentations haut debit Do s s i e r ogst110152_PORCHERON 23/07/13 10:23 Page 469


In this study, multi-compartment transport boxes were used to determine the mobility of ions in the execised roots. For measuring Na uptake, the concentrations of 1, 50 and 150 mM NaCI were used in the external medium, whilst Ca were 0 and 2. 0 mM. The uptake of K was measured from 1.0 mM KCI in the presence of Na (0.50 and 150 mM) and Ca (0.50 and 2.0 mM). In the present study, 22 Na and 86 Rb were used to label Na and K in the external medium, respectively. Addition of Ca inhibited Na uptake in the roots exposed to 1.0 mM and 50 mM NaCI, thought Ca was relatively less effective in 150 mM. High concentrations of NaCI brought about the reduction of K uptake. Calcium, however, did not show any importance in recovering the uptake of K from the adverse effect of Na when the roots were exposed 10 50 mM NaCI, thought stimulating effect of Ca was observed at 150 mM NaCI. The results revealed that the pattern of ionic interactions in Puccinellia distans differs much with that generally found in most of halophyte plants.


This study focuses on the tendency to develop software excessively, above and beyond need or available development resources. The literature pays little attention to this issue, overlooking its crucial impact and penalties. Terms used in reference to excessive software development practices include over-requirement, over-specification, over-design, gold-plating, bells-and-whistles, feature creep, scope creep, requirements creep, featuritis, scope overload and over-scoping. Some of these terms share the same meaning, some overlap, some refer to the development phase, and some to the final system. Via a systematic literature search, we first demonstrate the poor state of research about excessive software development practices in the information systems and project management areas. Then, we suggest a framework consolidating the problems associated with excessive software development in three 'beyond' categories (beyond needs, beyond resources, beyond plans), describe and analyze their causes, consequences, boundaries and overlapping zones. Finally, we discuss the findings and present directions for future research. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.


Transforming teaching methodology is the important way to improve teaching quality. In view of the soccer skills grasping of the students in sports training major of departments and colleges of physical education, and the soccer skills teaching characteristics, the author does the research into the application of discovery teaching methodology in soccer skills teaching through methods of documents references, experiment comparison and mathematical statistics. The findings of the research shows that the experimental group is a great deal superior to the group in comparison, and the application of discovery teaching methodology in soccer skills teaching in sports training major is much more effective than that of traditional teaching methodology.


The scattering of graphene surface plasmons normally incident on a line discontinuity in graphene surface conductivity is investigated. The effect of the length of the transition region on the reflection and transmission coefficients is studied. It is shown that the reflection coefficient is reduced by widening the transition region. Based on the results obtained, a transmission line model is derived for the graphene sheet in which the discontinuity is represented by a simple circuit. This model is next used to design graphene-based bandpass and bandstop filters with arbitrary bandwidth in the terahertz regime.


The earliest accessible historical data indicate that of the great Aryan hordes which overran Europe there were laggards who, in small groups, separated from the great conquering body and in time became united into large tribes north of the Balkans. In course of time there were migrations which scattered them from the Black Sea to the Baltic. That their dispersion began in the neighborhood of the Carpathian Mountains is well established by Greek and Arabian manuscripts, and that they departed in sections is attested by the contents of many earthen" tumuli,"or princely tombs, which have for the past fifty years occupied the attention of celebrated archaeologists. They became masters of the great unknown countries stretching northward and westward just beyond the outposts of Greek civilization, which, so early as the fourth century B.c., had become established in an irregular line along the northern shore of the Black


Abstract Various industries such as textile, paper, polymer and leather are using the operation of calendering. An important purpose of calendering is to increase the smoothness of substrate surface and also to enhance gloss in some special quality of substrate (coated paper for example). The nip mechanics models are useful to evaluate the nip width, maximum nip pressure, and pressure distribution in nip. But modeling of the nonlinear relationship between uniform load and nip width in machine calendering is difficult with these models. Artificial neural network helps to capture the nonlinear relationship between uniform load and nip width in machine calendering and does not place any restrictions on relationship of uniform load and nip width. In this paper, artificial neural network is used for modeling the uniform load on nip width and results obtained from artificial neural network are compared with nip width obtained from Hertz nip mechanics model for machine calendering in paper industry.


The ONTARGET trial programme tested the effects of the angiotensin AT1 receptor blocker (ARB), telmisartan, alone or in combination with the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, ramipril, in more than 25.000 patients at high cardiovascular risk including diabetes on a combined endpoint consisting of cardiovascular death, non-fatal stroke or myocardial infarction and hospitalisation for congestive heart failure. Patient selection and study procedures followed the previous HOPE trial. In the parallel TRANSCEND study, nearly 6.000 patients, all intolerant to ACE inhibition, were subjected to telmisartan or placebo. In ONTARGET, telmisartan proved to be non-inferior to ramipril with respect to the combined primary endpoint and all secondary endpoints, and was better tolerated than ramipril. Combination treatment (dual RAS blockade) was not superior to ramipril (and telmisartan-) treatment but associated with more side effects. In TRANSCEND, telmisartan was not superior to placebo when applying the above combined primary endpoint but was significantly better with respect to the predefined main secondary endpoint corresponding to HOPE, i.e. excluding hospitalization for congestive heart failure. Telmisartan thus proved to be the first and so far the only representative of the ARB class that can be used as an alternative to the "gold standard" ACE-inhibitor, ramipril, in patients at high cardiovascular risk with or without hypertension.


Background:Use of acellular dermal matrix for implant-based breast reconstruction appears to be associated with a lower incidence of capsular contracture compared with standard reconstruction. The majority of acellular dermal matrix studies were, however, of short duration; thus, long-term incidence


Parenteral opioids are used in more than 50% of emergency department (ED) visits for migraine. Use of opioids for migraine has been associated with subsequent ED visits, perhaps because of opioid‐induced euphoria. In this study, we quantify the extent to which nontherapeutic effects of opioids influence migraine outcomes. We hypothesized that "feeling good" and medication likeability would in fact be associated with receipt of opioids (rather than relief of migraine pain) and that receipt of opioids (rather than relief of migraine pain) would be associated with return visits to the ED.


For several years, field quality control metrics have been derived by partial processing of the 3D seismic data concurrent to acquisition in the KOSP (Kai Kos Dehseh Oil Sands Partnership) lands in northern Alberta. Upon examination of the data quality maps, it is clear that there exists some correlation with satellite imagery. Here we present a systematic method for predicting the seismic data quality in areas not yet acquired, based on correlations between the quality metric on existing data and multispectral satellite imagery.


Aiming at the low efficiency and high energy consumption of unmanned ships traversing the entire area, a complete coverage path planning algorithm based on the improved A-star algorithm is proposed. The positioning and vision systems of unmanned ships are used to digitize the actual water information, and the grid method is used to convert the information into an environmental map that can be planned. Compared to the trapezoidal partition of unity method and the short-side reciprocating traversal algorithm in the traversal process, experiments show that path planning is more efficient with the boustrophedon partition of unity method and the long-side reciprocating traversal algorithm. Aiming at the "dead zone", an improved A-star algorithm is proposed on the basis of the traditional A-star algorithm, that it can shorten about 1/4 path using the proposed algorithm. Simulation shows that the improved A-star algorithm can shorten the traversal path to 40 steps but the traditional A-star algorithm needs 54 steps. Navigation test shows that the proposed algorithm can shorten the traversal path and improve traversal efficiency while ensuring the coverage of unmanned ships.


Today's computer applications often require on-line input and output and sometimes requires change of computation methods while processing complex tasks. In future, they will probably be required to change even the objectives of computation. Such a new style of information processing is called real-world computing in the present paper. Real-world computing requires computation languages to work without fixed sequence of control nor fixed data flow, to work without a whole plan of computation, to be always open to environment at any time, to have possibility of distributed and parallel processing, to have possibility to respond to nondeterministic actions, and so on. Because today's programming languages are considered not to satisfy these requirements, a new computation model called CCM (chemical casting model) and a language called SOOC-94, which partially satisfies the requirements, are developed as the first step. Computation is regarded as biased random walk in CCM. The random walk is realized by a randomly acting forward-chaining production system, and the bias is realized by locally computed evaluation functions * Part of this work was done at Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.


The Islamic religious education is the first education given to the children by their parents, especially mother because mother is the first religious institute (madrasah) for children. There are many numbers of mother who has dual role nowaday, as mother and as worker. Which this dual role, mother have to divide the duty between working and taking care of the household, including doing the Islamic religious education to the children at home. Based on the phenomenon, the problem of this research is formulated as follows: (1)How does the work patterns of working mothers in PT Metro Garmin?(2)How do the religious education by working mothers in the PT Metro Garmin? (3) What are the obstacles in the implementation of Islamic religious education? (4)How to overcome the obstacles in the implementation of Islamic religious education?.The researcher uses the descriptive analytics with qualitative approach. The selected population is PT Metro Garmin Dayeuhkolot employee and the taken sample are 50 employees of PT Metro Garmin who have had children of school age. The data collected techniques used in this study are questionnaire, observation, and literature. The result of the research are: (1) the employee has 8 hours of work hours on the day with the four times shift in one month, the morning, afternoon and eveningshift(2) in the conduct of Islamic religious education to children, there is a few of employee who provide to do the Islamic religious education directly (3) the obstacles experienced by the employee is the lack of the employee's ability to use their spare time at home to do Islamic religious education for their children(4)  in overcoming these obstacles, an employee brought teachers to teach BTAQ and provide the children with a gift to motivate them to learn.


Hurst exponent is widely used in the time-series analysis as a measure of predictability. In this paper we evaluate the Hurst exponent for linear processes described by linear regression models assuming different distributions of the errors. The method uses a combination of an analytical approach and computer simulations. We also found a link between the exponent and the kurtosis of the distributions.


Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of oral Smecta in the treatment of neonatal jaundice.Methods We divided 120 cases of neonatal jaundice in our hospital from Jan 2005 to Dec 2008 randomly into two groups;treatment group and control group with 60 cases for each group. The treatment group was given oral Smecta(3g×1/3 package(1g) ,diluted with 20mL warm water,3 times a day) on the basis of the enzyme inducer treatment. The control group was given Blu-ray irradiation(a daily irradiation from 8 to 12h) on the basis of the enzyme inducer treatment.Jaundice was measured with transcutaneous jaundice meter and after jaundice was normal(12mg/L) ,the blood bilirubin was examined. Results The two groups showed no significant difference in the serum bilirubin before treatment(P0.05) ,each group showed a significant difference in the serum bilirubin before and after treatment(P0.01) ,and there was a significant difference in the serum bilirubin in the two groups after treatment(P0.05) . Jaundice peak day age of the treatment group appeared earlier than that of the control group(P0.05) . Conclusion Smecta for the treatment of neonatal jaundice can shorten the duration of jaundice and rapidly reduce serum bilirubin,and it is safe and effective,with less side effects.


Monographs on aspects of the wider field of theology and education by British theologians are rather rare compared to the much larger amount of such literature available in North America. Hence, Higton's contribution to the field from the perspective of systematic theology is to be welcomed if only to remind us that there is much to be said and many ways of doing so. My first comment then is to point out that the title of the book would benefit from qualification of the kind of theology of higher education Higton develops here, namely an explicitly Anglican one. The questions at the heart of the book are what an English Anglican theologian 'can recognize and celebrate as actually and potentially good about [secular] universities', what Anglicans can contribute to the attainment of their proper good, and whether they should be allowed to do so (p. 1). The book is divided into two main parts, the first one providing a survey of the historical contributions to the discussion of 'the nature and purpose of universities' as they have arisen from the contexts of Paris, Berlin, Oxford and Dublin. Higton's purpose of the extensive backcasting is 'to make the thematic foci of Part II more plausible by demonstrating that those themes are already clearly audible in university history' (p. 4). Part I ends with a chapter on contemporary contributors to the debate such as Nicholas Wolterstorff, Steve Holmes, Stanley Hauerwas, Dan Hardy, David Ford, Rowan Williams and Timothy Jenkins. His main aim here is to examine how ordinary practices of secular academic reason, which is already shaped towards God's purposes, can be opened more deeply to those purposes (p. 6). Part II contains Higton's constructive proposal of his theology of higher education which aptly opens with chapter 5 entitled 'An Anglical Theology of Learning'. Whether the reader subscribes to this particular confessional tradition or not, Higton's rooting of the educational process in worship 'as the proper context for learning' (p. 149) offers a careful demonstration of how he understands 'learning as discipleship' (p. 145) and the university as a place for induction into a spiritual discipline (p. 4). I found his writing at its most compelling in his presentation of his theology of learning based on his theological anthropology. Fundamentally, Higton understands 'human learning [to be] incomplete because human beings are sinful, and so see in distorted, deluded ways—hence the need for crucifixion on the way to truth' (p. 158). Community has a dual significance for Higton as the learner participates in the corporate life. 'The end point imagined [of Christian learning] is not uniformity, but precisely an ongoing corporate life, in which these different lives of perception are able to function harmoniously together' (p. 160). Consequently, the content of Christian learning should convey how to live and build up the Body of Christ through prophecy and discernment. Such learning becomes an important ingredient of redeemed life (p. 161). In chapters 6–9 Higton further develops the themes of the virtuous, sociable, good and negotiable university which he gleaned from his historical survey in Part I of the book. He proposes from an Anglican perspective that learning should take the form of apprenticeship (ch. 6) as an induction into a moral community (ch. 7) which contributes to arguments about the common good (ch. 8). Universities themselves need to critically reflect on their own policies and practices from all vantage points (ch. 9). The brief conclusion brings to the surface


We propose a novel font called Beautifying Font to assist learning techniques in writing Chinese calligraphy. Chinese calligraphy has various expressions but they are hard to acquire for beginners. Beautifying Font visualizes the speed and pressure of brush-strokes so that users can intuitively understand how to write.


The performance of lithium metal batteries is severely hampered by uncontrollable dendrite growth and volume expansion on the metal anodes. Inspired by the "blockchain" concept in data mining, here we utilize a conductive polymer-filled metal organic framework (MOF) as the lithium host, in which polypyrrole (PPy) serves as the "chain" to interlink Li "blocks" stored in the MOF pores. While the N-rich PPy guides fast Li + infiltration/extrusion and serves as the nucleation sites for isotropic Li growth, the MOF pores compartmentalize bulk Li deposition for 3D matrix Li storage, lending low-barrier and dendrite-free Li plating/stripping with superb Coulombic efficiency. The as-fabricated lithium metal anodes operate over 700 cycles at 5 mA cm -2 in symmetric cells, and 800 cycles at 1 C in full cells with a per-cycle capacity loss of only 0.017%. This work might open a new chapter for Li metal anode construction by introducing the concept of "blockchain" management of Li plating/stripping.


1. Shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) describes a persistent downgrading of perceived 'normal' environmental conditions with every sequential generation, leading to under-estimation of the true magnitude of long-term environmental change on a global scale. The presence of SBS should be considered when local ecologi cal knowledge and participatory techniques are involved in conservation target-setting. However, despite increasing recognition of the phenomenon, there is little empirical evidence for SBS. Here we provide evidence of SBS, and the first empirical investigation of the impacts of SBS on public perceptions of conservation need. 2. Large-scale online questionnaires were used to collect public perceptions of long-term biological change regarding 10 UK bird species, as well as demographic in formation and measures of knowledge and experience of the local environment ( n = 330). A paired data approach compared social perceptions to a large-scale longitudinal biological dataset. Using information theoretic and model selection techniques, we estimate the relative importance of multiple demographic, social and psychological predictors of SBS.


This article elaborates on how agrarian social structures and relations have changed after redistributive land reform under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on coconut plantations in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. Three major arguments can be derived from this question. First, despite the objective of this land reform to transfer control over land and labour to poor agricultural workers, a majority of the coconut farmers are trapped in new forms of debt-bondage and, as a result, are forced to transfer the rights over their resources and/or land. Second, a regional business elite has managed to obtain control over these lands and resources through all sorts of informal arrangements. Lastly, medium-sized landed elites in coconut plantations have been disadvantaged because of CARP implementation since they became dispossessed from their sole form of economic power, land.


In this paper we would like to introduce a microbial consortium RXS we have worked out in our previous studies with high degradation capability of cassava residue,with the peptonecellulose( PCS) medium used to cultivate the cellulolytic microbial consortium. However,we have also found that it is the high cost of nitrogen( peptone and yeast extract) that has restricted the plant application of the said consortium. To solve the above-said problem,we have compared eight cost-effective nitrogen sources,while studying the peptone and yeast extracts in terms of their effects on the growth,the enzyme production and substrate degradation of the said microbial consortium( RXS). The results of ourexperiments with the suggested consortium show that the fishermeal and the corn steep liquor can be used as the proper nitrogen source with higher degradation performance for the lignocellulosic substrates as compared with the peptone and yeast. And,next,we have investigated the effects of different mixing ratios of the two nitrogen sources on the RXS with a cost-effective medium obtained. In addition,we have attempted to adjust the pH value when we began to know that the thermophillic anaerobic digestion effluent may have high pH buffer capacity as the ingredients of the water medium and act as the enzyme producing enhancers instead of chemical reagents which are likely to cause the toxicity to the methanogens. Therefore,a comparison has been made to study the pretreating performance for cassava residues in the new medium with PCS medium,which consists of: cassava residues 10 g /L,the filter paper 5 g / L,the fisher-meal 4 g / L,and the corn steep liquor 3. 5 g / L. The cost-oriented assessment that we have done proves that the price of the new medium only accounts for 1 /6 of the PCS medium. What is more,the cassava residue degradation ratio on the PCS medium and the new medium account for only 16% and 22%,respectively,whereas the cassava residue degradation ratio on the new medium stands approximately for37% higher than with the PCS medium. Thus,it can be seen that the new medium under study has been displaying the superior effect on the degradation of lignocellulosic materials,which help to reduce the cost and water consumption. And therefore it is highly promising for the industrial application.


Proflavine is a very powerful accelerator of saponin hemolysis of rabbit, human, and dog erythrocytes. Lysolecithin hemolysis, on the other hand, is inhibited. Dog erythrocytes in the presence of proflavine undergo marked changes in shape, finally becoming rods of about 13 µ in length. Rabbit and human erythrocytes are not altered in form under these conditions.


Difficult intubation presents challenge to the anesthesiologist. Many techniques have become available and adopted for managing the airway of patients with risk of difficult intubation. We report a case of anticipated difficult intubation due to cervical spondylosis with limited neck movement and Mallampati grade III. The patient underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy under general anesthesia. Endotracheal intubation was successfully performed using combined WuScope-EndoFlex tube technique which we adopted. The glottic exposure was satisfactory and tracheal intubation was easy. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report on the use of WuScope-EndoFlex tube technique for difficult intubation.


In this research, we propose a model of the effect of new product team members' professional diversity on product performance. In this relationship, we take into account the mediating effect of the instrumental use of available information about customers, competitors and technology. In addition we test the moderating effect of team members' familiarity in the relationship between professional diversity and information use. The model is tested on a sample of 145 product managers or sales directors from the 58 French industrial sectors. The results underline an impact of professional diversity on the instrumental use of available information about customers, competitors and technology. The instrumental use of available information about customers and technology determine new product performance, and a total mediating effect is shown. Familiarity has the hypothesized moderating effect.


channel pores where no very long jumps are possible. For pores with an elevation that varies like a random walk (red) and alternating pores (blue) the scaled mean square displacement <x 2 (t)>/t is asymp-totically constant. 1. Introduction In general, diffusion of gas particles depends on the collisions between the gas molecules as well as on the collisions of the gas with the pore walls. Of particular interest for many real gases is the so-called Knudsen regime, where the interaction of the molecules with the pore walls plays the crucial role and the intramolecular collisions can be neglected. We implement pores with different roughness, by considering the first four iterations of a generalized fractal Koch curve. For these model pores we have performed detailed investigations of diffusion coefficients using a cube-based algorithm. We know, the diffusion properties can be mapped onto Levy walks [1] to predict the diffusion properties. In 2D linear channel pores we observe anomalous diffusion [2, 3], which can also be induced by using different reflection laws in smooth or rough 3D pores. Normal diffusion is found in convoluted 2D pores and in all 3D pores when applying diffuse reflection.


Abstract. This paper is a review of renewing and guarding the nous in the Philokalia teaching. The Philokalia is a collection of spiritual texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by the monks of the Orthodox Christian tradition. Christian spirituality is very concrete and practical not mysterious or abstract. Its various aspects are described well in the Philokalia but the Philokalia remains relatively unknown while people seek to satisfy their thirst by consuming from the heresies teaching that ever existed from the beginning of time. One of the most important spiritual aspects that needs to be re-discovered today is renewing the intellect or nous. The fathers of Philokalia concern much on the renewing and guarding the nous. The way to renew the nous is only guarding the nous with all nepsis (prosoche) and praying (proseuche). They emphasized nepsis or watchfulness because the arch - enemy of the soul is a certain kind of thought which they described with the word logismoi. Nepsis and praying are the way to contend against the logismoi and the passions.


: This study attempts to give the user the machine's operational condition while simultaneously detecting flaws or damage in big industrial machinery in real-time. However, due to the complexity of real-world systems and the clear presence of nonlinear elements, it is highly challenging to diagnose a machine malfunction using standard approaches based on mathematical models. A computer-aided diagnostic system with artificial intelligence (CADS-AI), which aids in early fault diagnosis, can resolve this issue. To assure that the CADS solution can be trusted, a machine failure detection system based on sound patterns is created in this study. The YAMNet Model classified the sounds as normal or abnormal with an accuracy of 78.31%. By using window inference on the audio file with a mean score, the predicted output was decoded. By using real-time audio input or uploading machine sounds to the system, the proposed solution can be inferred.


Supercharger system for an internal combustion engine has a plurality of exhaust-gas turbocharger, which is connected in parallel with each other. One of these exhaust-gas turbocharger has adjustable guide geometry turbine, and is and connected to the motor and / or generator. Occurs two control target, the first control object controls the electric motor and / or generator, the second control object controls the adjustable guide geometry. By one of the two control object, reference operating point of the one exhaust gas turbocharger is adjusted, by the second control object, the operating point of the exhaust gas turbocharger, the other plurality of exhaust gas - it is closer to or adapted to the operating point of the turbocharger. .FIELD 1


The development of "3S" technology provides powerful technical foundation and material guarantee for the digital construction of mining areas.Construction of the digital mine will be an important opportunity and great challenge for our countries′coal mining enterprise to realize leaping development in the new century.How to introduce and use the "3S" technologies in the process of mining digitization will also be a hotspot research in the future.This paper introduced the conceptions of the "3S" technologies and digital mine,according to the different characteristics and advantages of "3S" technologies,our paper focused on discussing its applications,and giving suggestions about some problems.


Escherichia coli bacteria is considered as one of the common responsible for the frequency and severity of infections that it hospitalized patients. E. coli simultaneously carries a harmful side in which only a slight genetic recombination can bring about a highly pathogenic strain that most frequently causes the scourge of bacterial infections worldwide including sepsis, neonatal meningitis, pneumonia, bacteremia and traveler's diarrhea. This study was carried out to assess Escherichia coli infection induced pathologically and immunologically. Following Escherichia coli isolation, identification and counting, the lethal dose (LD-50) was determined before infection. Twenty-two mice were used in this study for 21 days infection, the animals were sacrificed at 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21 days, and tissues of different tissue were collected, examined for bacterial infection. Bacteria and mice immunization and ELISA were used to detect immunoglobulin G level in serum as well. For histological study, different infected organs were used. The results indicated that the LH50 was 1×109 cell; and all organs were infected after 3 days followed by decreased in infection level shown in brain at day 12, lung, kidney and intestine at day 15 and in liver, spleen and heart at day 21. Moreover, ELISA results revealed that concentration 1:200 of serum in positive and negative state and optimum concentration of Ag 1:40 dilution and compact dilution is 1:1000. In addition, diversity of histopathological alteration occurs in tissue on time-depended manner. This study concluded that the ability of activated E.coli to stimulate the intestinal secretory immune system of germ might result from a retardation of immunological maturity.


By shield metal arc welding method, and the equal matching strength and low matching strength electrodes were used respectively to weld the high-rise building steel Q460 E plates with 40 mm in thickness. The microstructure of weld joints were observed by metallographic microscope, and the mechanical properties of weld joints were tested by universal material testing machine and pendulum impact testing machine. Results show that the welded joint of uniform microstructures and good comprehensive mechanical properties can be get with both equal matching and under matching electrodes to match the Q460 E steel welding, the equal matching weld joint has a higher tensile strength and better impact performance at-40 ℃.


Objective:To develop a method for determination of forsythin in Fanggan Spray. Methods:High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was used. The separation was performed on an Agilent Cl8 (250 mm×4.6 mm,5 μm) column. The mobile phase was acetonitrile-water (24∶76). The detection wavelength was 277 nm. The flow rate was 1.0 mL/min and the injection volume was 10 μL and the column temperature was 30 ℃. Results:The forsythin had a good linear relation within the range of 0.208~0.728 mg/mL (r=0.9999,n=6). The average recovery was 100.18% and RSD was 1.53%. Conclusions:This method is simple,rapid,sensitive and accurate,and can be used as a method of quality control for forsythin in Fanggan Spray.