Generalized transducing phage similar to phage P1 in Escherichia coli was isolated from E. coli W39, an antigenic test strain of the O121 group. This phage, designated φ5w39, was reciprocally heteroimmune to phages P1 and P7, but non‐reciprocally heteroimmune to phage D6. Transduction experiments using various R plasmids with different molecular weights suggested that phage φw39 could transduce at least 65 megadaltons DNA. As in the case of P1 prophage, φ5w39 prophage existed as a plasmid belonging to incompatibility group Y and carried a dnaB‐like function. The molecular weight of φ5w39 plasmid was nearly the same as that of plasmid, i.e., 58.6 megadaltons. Despite the pronounced structural and functional similarity of phages φw39 and P1, restriction cleavage patterns of their genomes differed considerably.


The types and the relative contents of trace elements in achyranthes stocked in five different areas are measured with X-ray fluorescence analysis method based on synchrotron radiation at Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility.The type of trace elements is same in achyranthes in different producing areas,but there are distinctive differences for their relative contents.The relative contents of potassium(K) are highest in all samples,the relative contents of calcium(Ca),iron(Fe),copper(Cu) and zinc(Zn) are obvious higher than that of other elements besides K.The relative content of titanium(Ti),vanadium(V),chromium(Cr),manganese(Mn),nickel(Ni) and selenium(Se) in these samples are lower than that of other elements.In addition,the relative contents and the change rules in central region of achyranthes are different from ones in marginal region for different areas samples.For each element,the proportion in total contents of trace elements is different,too.As a result,there are definite medicinal effects for the achyranthes from various areas,but their qualities are different.


This exhibition will take place from January 10 to February 2, 2020. Its status is confirmed. I will present eight small scale paintings in an attempt to bridge the gap between the physicality of the world of objects and the simulated, virtual world of signs that are represented on the digital computer screen. Painting in this context I will argue, becomes an imagined physicality of the corporeal. I will present this imagined physicality as a phenomenology of aesthetics which is intended to complement the digital rather than work against it - to recognize the impact that reproducible (non Descartian) digital space has on our understanding of our bodies as sole authors of unique objects.

Secondly, and at the same time, the presentation will seek to offer multiple readings connected to painting: a cross-over and merging of recognized historical genres and methodologies of Art History such as Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; a relation between the bodily and the augmented virtual as an accumulation of temporality, action, colour and form, through the build-up of fragmented signs.

Simultaneously, a third element will be combined and which underpins all of my practice. I will explore the philosophical act and methodologies of making itself. I will convert Greenberg's physical determinism using Andrew Benjamin's notion that contemporary abstract painters, through making, accept and transform the historical/modernist premise of the yet-to-be-resolved object/painting by staging a repetition of historical abstraction as an event of becoming.

The outcome will adopt and present the following methods: Decorating processes and utilitarian materials (household paint and transparent coloured floor varnishes) will be repeatedly poured and painted in combination with commercially produced stencils. The signs become buried within poured, flat layering which are both transparent and opaque. By encompassing embodied gesture, form, colour, line, chance, depth and opticality, the disembodied digital is referenced by the absence of hand-gestured expression and combined with digitally sourced stencils and clip art. Optical and physical depths as surface effect will become visible which mimics the palimpsests of virtual layering. Equally, and at the same time, a reflective, auto-figurative style will be sought with the use of colour, choice of imagery and formal/non-formal arrangement.


4-hydroxy-2-quinolone being endowed with both nucleophilic and electrophilic properties furnishes the dimeric quinoline in a base catalyzed selfcondensation process. A one step synthesis, starting from 4-hydroxy-2-quinolone with ethyl acetoacetate and pyridine proceeded through the Michael addition, which was followed by cyclization, gave an angular isomer 4-methylpyrano[3,2-c]quinolin-2,5[6#]dione. The reaction was then extended to synthesize further derivatives of angular pyrano quinolones. Structures of all the products have been established by spectral and elemental analysis data.


: BACKGROUND: Renal masses have different histologic types and subtypes, aggressiveness and metastatic potential, depending on the changes in angiogenesis. OBJECTIVE: To differentiate between benign and malignant renal masses and predicate renal tumors histopathological subtypes by using non invasive methods (Doppler ultrasound and resistive index). Sixty-eight patients with a renal mass prepared for surgical intervention were involved in this prospective study. Every patient was underwent Doppler ultrasonography by single operator. By gray and color Doppler ultrasound the site, location, dimensions, echogenicity and the vascularity of the renal mass were assessed. Then by spectral Doppler ultrasound specific vascular wave parameters from intra tumor vessels which include a Peak systolic velocity, end diastolic velocity and Resistive index was checked. All those patients underwent partial or radical nephrectomy and the histopathological result, were collected. US parameter (Resistive index) is considered as an excellent predictor to differentiate between benign and malignant renal masses, but failed to differentiate and predicate the malignant renal tumors subtypes.


Linear-response methods, based on the time-dependent variational coupled-cluster or the unitary coupled-cluster model, and truncated at the second order according to the M\o{}ller-Plesset partitioning, i.e., the TD-VCC[2] and TD-UCC[2] linear-response methods, are presented and compared. For both of these methods a Hermitian eigenvalue problem has to be solved to obtain excitation energies and state eigenvectors. The excitation energies thus are guaranteed always to be real valued, and the eigenvectors are mutually orthogonal, in contrast to response theories based on ``traditional'' coupled-cluster models. It turned out that the TD-UCC[2] working equations for excitation energies and polarizabilities are equivalent to those of the second-order algebraic diagrammatic construction scheme ADC(2). Numerical tests are carried out by calculating TD-VCC[2] and TD-UCC[2] excitation energies and frequency-dependent dipole polarizabilities for several test systems and by comparing them to the corresponding values obtained from other second- and higher-order methods. It turns out that the TD-VCC[2] polarizabilities in the frequency regions away from the poles are of a similar accuracy as for other second-order methods, as expected from the perturbative analysis of the TD-VCC[2] polarizability expression. On the other hand, the TD-VCC[2] excitation energies are systematically too low relative to other second-order methods (including TD-UCC[2]). On the basis of these results and an analysis presented in this work, we conjecture that the perturbative expansion of the Jacobian converges more slowly for the TD-VCC formalism than for TD-UCC or for response theories based on traditional coupled-cluster models.


I consider a great lipid vesicle filled with an aqueous solution of a solute, for which its membrane is impermeable. Because of the mechanical tension induced by the osmotic flow, the vesicle swells up to a critical size, triggering a transient lipidic pore when it is introduced into a hypotonic aqueous medium. In this paper, we will obtain the differential equations of the vesicle dynamics, which is in fact a periodic process due to osmotic gradient and transbilayer pore appearance. We will also analyse the characteristic parameters of this process: swelling time, pore lifetime, number of cycles, the length time of vesicle activity, material quantity leaked out during a cycle. In the end, we present the condition to design a n-cycles working vesicle and propose some biotechnological applications.


John Alexander Smith adds some further thoughts to his previous paper 'Notes on Melrose Abbey: Especially in reference to inscriptions on the wall of the South Transept'.


Purpose – To explore subsidiary development in emerging markets and highlight the role of local factors on driving foreign firm business strategy.Design/methodology/approach – This study builds upon the diamond of competitive advantage framework with regard to determinants in the local environment. Chinese motorcycle penetration into Vietnamese market has made considerable changes from which Honda has upgraded manufacturing capability, moved to higher value activities. It shows a confident process of subsidiary development. The analysis is supported by interview data in three field trips.Findings – The penetration of Chinese motorcycle into Vietnam has brought more opportunities. Honda can utilize for long‐term investments than challenges the firm had to temporarily deal with. The effect of changes in the local market was quite specific to Honda business. Consequentially, local factors have driven the firm emergent strategy into low‐price model which is considered as Honda's local specific product in Viet...


Sustainable agriculture has two important aspects,one is sustanavle agricultural technique system,and the other is sustainable agricultural institution system(SAIS).SAIS is critical.This paper states the target and connotations of SAIS,and explores the key limiting institute factors of agricultural sustainable development in China.On this basis,the countermeasures are putforward.


Abstract Objectives Characterization of the pharmacokinetic properties of the enantiomers of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine following administration of racemic primaquine given alone and in combination with commonly used antimalarial drugs. Methods Enantiomeric pharmacokinetics were evaluated in 49 healthy adult volunteers enrolled in three randomized cross-over studies in which a single dose of primaquine was given alone and then, after a suitable washout period, in combination with chloroquine, dihydroartemisinin/piperaquine or pyronaridine/artesunate. Non-linear mixed-effects modelling was used to characterize pharmacokinetics and assess the impact of drug–drug interactions. Results The volume of distribution of racemic primaquine was decreased by a median (95% CI) of 22.0% (2.24%–39.9%), 24.0% (15.0%–31.5%) and 25.7% (20.3%–31.1%) when co-administered with chloroquine, dihydroartemisinin/piperaquine and pyronaridine/artesunate, respectively. The oral clearance of primaquine was decreased by a median of 19.1% (14.5%–22.8%) when co-administered with pyronaridine/artesunate. These interactions were enantiospecific with a relatively higher effect on (+)-S-primaquine than on (−)-R-primaquine. No drug–drug interaction effects were seen on the pharmacokinetics of either carboxyprimaquine enantiomer. Conclusions Population pharmacokinetic models characterizing the enantiospecific properties of primaquine were developed successfully. Exposure to primaquine, particularly to the (+)-S-primaquine but not the carboxy metabolites, increased by up to 30% when co-administered with commonly used antimalarial drugs. A better mechanistic understanding of primaquine metabolism is required for assessment of its efficacy and haematological toxicity in humans.


As to the inconvenience for some complex networks to use cut surface with the Gaussian situation,a topology map according to the basic cut-set group directly to find an easy way is proposed.Compared with the painting Gaussian surface,this method is direct,fast and practical to form the basic cut-set group.


Vitamin D exerts anti‐cancer effects in recent clinical trials and preclinical models. The actions of vitamin D are primarily mediated through its hormonal form, 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D). Previous literature describing in vitro studies has predominantly focused on the anti‐tumourigenic effects of the hormone, such as proliferation and apoptosis. However, recent evidence has identified 1,25(OH)2D as a regulator of energy metabolism in cancer cells, where requirements for specific energy sources at different stages of progression are dramatically altered. The literature suggests that 1,25(OH)2D regulates energy metabolism, including glucose, glutamine and lipid metabolism during cancer progression, as well as oxidative stress protection, as it is closely associated with energy metabolism. Mechanisms involved in energy metabolism regulation are an emerging area in which vitamin D may inhibit multiple stages of cancer progression.


A need exists for a better understanding of friendship and its role in the lives of old people. This article gives a selected overview of some of the research findings on aging and friendship, suggests some directions for future research, and discusses implications of the findings for practice.


Questions In resistant hypertension, does adding spironolactone to standard 3-drug treatment reduce blood pressure (BP)? Is add-on spironolactone more effective than add-on nondiuretic drugs? Methods Design Randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial (Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension With Algorithm-based therapy [PATHWAY-2] trial). ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02369081; EudraCT 2008-007149-30. Allocation Concealed.* Blinding Blinded* (patients and investigators). Follow-up period 12 months (12 wk for each treatment). Setting 12 secondary care and 2 primary care centers in the UK. Patients 348 patients 18 to 79 years of age (mean age 61 y, 69% men) who had seated clinic systolic BP (SBP) 140 mm Hg (135 mm Hg in patients with diabetes) and home SBP 130 mm Hg after 3 months of treatment with maximal tolerated doses of 3 drug classes (angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin IIreceptor blockers, calcium-channel blockers, and diuretics). Exclusion criteria included <70% adherence to placebo during the 4-week run-in. Intervention Spironolactone, 25 or 50 mg/d; doxazosin modified-release, 4 or 8 mg/d; bisoprolol, 5 or 10 mg/d; or placebo. Patients received each drug for 12 weeks (lower dose for 6 wk then higher dose for 6 wk) in random order without washout periods. 285 patients received spironolactone, 282 doxazosin, 285 bisoprolol, and 274 placebo. Outcomes Primary outcome was mean home-based SBP (measured 3 times each morning and evening for 4 consecutive days before study visits at 6 and 12 wk). Other outcomes included patients with target BP (home-based SBP <135 mm Hg) and adverse events. Patient follow-up 90% with any follow-up (intention-to-treat analysis). Main results Main results are in the Table. Groups did not differ for serious adverse events (range 2% to 3%, P =0.82). Conclusion In resistant hypertension, add-on spironolactone reduced systolic blood pressure over 12 weeks more than placebo, doxazosin, or bisoprolol. Spironolactone vs comparison treatment (placebo, doxazosin, or bisoprolol) added to standard 3-drug treatment in patients with resistant hypertension Outcomes Comparisons Mean values At 12 weeks Mean difference (95% CI) Home-based SBP, mm Hg Placebo 135 vs 144 8.7 (9.7 to 7.7) Doxazosin 135 vs 139 4.0 (5.0 to 3.0) Bisoprolol 135 vs 139 4.5 (5.5 to 3.5) Event rates RBI (CI) NNT (CI) Patients at target SBP Placebo 58% vs 24% 136% (88 to 199) 3 (3 to 4) Doxazosin 58% vs 42% 39% (17 to 65) 7 (5 to 13) Bisoprolol 58% vs 44% 33% (12 to 57) 8 (5 to 17) SBP = systolic blood pressure; other abbreviations defined in Glossary. RBI, NNT, and CI calculated from event rates in article. Spironolactone vs comparison. Based on data from both 6-wk and 12-wk visits. Home-based SBP <135 mm Hg. Commentary Resistant hypertension (inability to achieve a target BP with 3 medications of different classes, one of which is a diuretic) affects 10% to 15% of patients with hypertension (1). With longer life expectancy and increasing prevalence of obesity and sleep apnea, the frequency of resistant hypertension will probably increase; therefore, primary care providers need management strategies. Williams and colleagues addressed this issue in PATHWAY-2, theorizing that resistant hypertension is probably secondary to sodium retention and might be preferentially affected by use of spironolactone as a fourth-line agent. They found that adding spironolactone lowered SBP more than placebo, doxazosin, or bisoprolol. However, the effect on BP was more modest than that reported in previous trialsa review of 15 studies (n =1204 patients) found a 24/7.8 mm Hg reduction in BP with aldosterone antagonists (including eplerenone) (2). The doses of spironolactone used in PATHWAY-2 were associated with low risk for hyperkalemia. The trial did not address the effect of renal insufficiency on dosing or prevalence of hyperkalemia as patients with an estimated glomerular filtration rate <45 mL/min were excluded. Therefore, attention to baseline potassium and renal function would be prudent. Williams and colleagues also suggest that responses to spironolactone may differ based on plasma renin levels. Although response was greater at lower renin levels, benefit was seen at all levels; thus, the clinical utility of measuring renin is limited. If no contraindication exists, just use spironolactone. Notwithstanding the lack of data on the cardiovascular effects of add-on spironolactone, PATHWAY-2 reinforces the important role of the drug in patients with resistant hypertension.


Disclosed is an active energy ray-curable resin composition which is characterized by containing (A) a urethane acrylate resin or acrylic resin having two radical reactive groups and (B) a urethane acrylate resin or acrylic resin having six or more radical reactive groups. The active energy ray-curable resin composition is also characterized in that the amount of the component (A) is 30-70 parts by weight when the total amount of the component (A) and the component (B) is taken as 100 parts by weight.


Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, was experiencing growing pains. The good news was that OU had experienced 23 years of continuous enrollment growth, with student enrollment exceeding 20,000 in 2015 for the first time ever. The downside was that various administrative processes throughout the university were straining to keep up. One of the administrative processes experiencing problems was the graduation certification process. Record numbers of students were applying to graduate, and the process was really bogging down.Students planning to walk at the following year's April commencement began applying for graduation in July. They believed all was well until deficiency notices began to go out later in the year. With help from their advisors and the registrar's office, most students were able to clear their deficiencies. But too many students were not able to do so and were notified of their graduation deficiencies too late to register for the courses they needed in order to graduate on time. The results were extreme student dissatisfaction, harried and frustrated staff, and decreased OU graduation rates.Lean JourneyThe registrar, whose office bore the brunt of the fallout from the graduation certification process, took the first step in fixing the process. He contacted me, an OU faculty member with whom he had worked previously. For the past several years, I had taught an undergraduate "Lean" course as a part of which student teams would conduct "Lean Workouts" of dysfunctional processes at local businesses, non-profit organizations, and sometimes even OU itself. The registrar had sponsored a student team that had conducted a Lean Workout of the OU grade change process. The team of six undergraduate students had produced a "leaned-out" online process that effectively prevented any grade change errors from reaching the registrar's office. (See Doman 2011.)Inspired by the success of the previous Lean Workout, the registrar decided to sponsor a student team to conduct an initial Lean Workout of the OU graduation certification process. The student team mapped out the process, identified the waste in the process, and proposed several insightful countermeasures that would significantly shorten the cycle time and decrease the number of last-minute deficiencies (many of which derailed students' graduations). After reviewing the results of that student team's work, the senior associate provost and registrar decided to take the next step in their Lean journey.Together, they sponsored a cross-functional Lean Workout team of subject-matter experts from across the campus. The team included key members of the registrar's office, including the senior associate registrar, the associate registrar, the assistant registrar for technology, the graduation auditor, the transfer coordinator, and the registrar coordinator. The team also included the associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the director of advising for CAS, the director of advising for the School of Engineering and Computer Science, the director of the Pawley Lean Institute, and two undergraduate students who had taken OU Lean courses and earned Lean Green Belt Certificates.I facilitated the team which called itself the "Grad Path" team. We met every Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. during the winter semester and used the Lean A3 Report methodology to thoroughly investigate the process problems, current condition, and root causes before identifying consensus countermeasures, a target condition, and an implementation plan.Process ProblemsInformation from all across the university helped clarify that the process problems were that the undergraduate certification process took too long and had too many defects to correct at the last minute; also, too many students learned about the deficiencies too late to be able to graduate in the semester they had expected to.* Too long: The undergraduate graduation certification process was taking almost a year to complete, including more than four months to audit and 43 days from commencement to diploma ordered. …


As wireless cellular infrastructure experiences a need for wider bandwidths and higher datarates, power am-plifiers (PAs) are an area of intense interest. PAs when supplied with high power signals can generate spectral regrowth which can interfere with adjacent channels. These unwanted emissions can be eliminated with the help of Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD), however the challenge of using a single DPD function to remove the unwanted emissions across a number of PAs is still being investigated. In this paper we present a novel method to linearize the combined response of a set of array amplifiers using a single DPD block. In the DPD block, a combination of least squares (LS) and genetic algorithm (GA) are used to find a common set of DPD coefficients for multiple paths. Traditionally the initial population for a genetic algorithm takes random values but in this work a more computationally efficient approach to selection is taken for the initial population and a unique coefficient adaptation strategy is successfully employed. This approach is validated experimentally and results from this work demonstrate a 14 dB of adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) improvement.


Stem Cells
After injury and during homeostasis, tissues rely on the balance of cell loss and renewal. Rompolas et al. visualized individual stem cells over their lifetime in the epidermis of live mice. Tracking stem cells over multiple generations revealed that tissue homeostasis in the mouse epidermis is not maintained by asymmetric cell division as previously thought, but through the coordination of sibling cell fate and lifetimes. Furthermore, differentiating stem cells reused the existing spatial organization of the epidermis.

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We developed a simple off-axis digital holographic microscope using a Michelson interferometer. A red laser diode has been used as a coherence source and a CMOS digital camera has been employed to capture the hologram. In the experiments, we take digital hologram of silica gel particles of around 10 µm diameters. Although minimum optical component used in the Michelson interferometer affected the quality of the hologram, our experiments shows that by a suitable image processing, the image of the objects can be reconstructed numerically.


The sociotechnical transitions framework describes how novel practice emerges from marginal "niche" contexts to the mainstream. Scholars of various fields have used sociotechnical transitions to explain processes of structural change for sustainability, yet little research examines the role of local plans or planners in transition processes. The author offers an in-depth case study following the evolution of an eco-cohousing model from its grassroots origins to its current application in the housing market of Ithaca, New York. Planners used existing planning documents to translate innovative practices to the public, defying assumptions of the rational-linear model still common in planning scholarship.


Gearbox casing vibration acceleration and gear shaft bearing relative displacement measurements were carried out on a gear test rig where the gear elements were subjected to unsteady loads. The signals obtained from these transducers were processed using several different methods, many of which had been previously employed in a study on monitoring gearboxes subjected to steady loads. The results obtained showed that frequency domain trending parameters were more sensitive than time domain parameters in detecting failure. In addition, the most effective frequency domain trending parameter was compared with defect frequency parameters such as the tooth mesh components and associated harmonics. Startling results were obtained. The defect frequency amplitudes followed trends, which closely correlated with the load variations. On the contrary, the amplitude of the frequency domain parameter recorded trends that correlated with failure occurring and was found to be relatively insensitive to load variations.


To determine the effect of exercise intensity on regional blood flow in exercising and resting leg muscles and organs, we assessed relative changes in the regional distribution of 201TI during one-leg ergometer exercise and at rest by whole-body scintigraphy as an estimate of regional blood flow changes in 10 healthy males. The regional 201TI activity was expressed as a percentage of the whole-body activity, and relative changes in each region were compared to those at the anaerobic threshold (AT) and at peak exercise. In the legs, the distribution of 201TI in the exercising thigh and calf increased significantly at the AT to 390.7 and 219.2% respectively of resting levels (both P<0.01), but remained unchanged in the resting thigh from rest to peak exercise. Conversely, its distribution in the resting calf decreased significantly at the AT to 60.0% of the resting level (P<0.01). However, there were no significant differences between AT and peak exercise. In the organs, the distribution of 201TI in the lung, liver, spleen and kidneys decreased significantly at the AT to 88.4 ± 10.4%, 67.0 ± 11.5%, 62.4 ± 11.8% and 67.0 ± 8.6% respectively of resting levels (all P>0.01). Redistribution of blood flow to the exercising leg occurs predominantly during mild to moderate exercise. Therefore, blood flow in the leg during strenuous exercise depends primarily upon an increase in cardiac output. The splanchnic organs are the major sources of redistribution.


In order to avoid the misuse of metal material in nuclear projects, typical cases happened in advanced passive pressurized water reactor (AP1000) nuclear power projects in China are analyzed. The analysis finding indicates that some cases were caused by defective procedures or undemanding processes performance, and all cases are found to be relevant to human error. It is considered that procedural management cannot completely avoid the misuse of metal material when it is caused by human error, and spectrometry analysis is suggested to reexamine the material of key components.


The constant relation between the capacity of the outflow channels from the anterior chamber and the volume of the anterior chamber has attracted considerable attention and has aroused some speculation. In order to analyze this relation it seems advisable to consider factors responsible for the volume of the anterior chamber and their influence on this relation. The volume of the anterior chamber depends on the size of the eye, especially on the size of the anterior segment of the eye; on the position of the diaphragm of the eye, and on the form and the size of the structures which form the diaphragm. The relation of the capacity of the outflow channels and the volume of the anterior chamber has been found to be reasonably constant in the eyes of different species of various sizes, and this constancy has been suggested as a possible reason for the constancy of composition


A study was conducted to investigate the effect of the brick industry on the environmental system of these project soils of the brick factories in Alnahrawan district. Remote sensing techniques was used to study the relationship between the spectral reflectivity and the vegetative index on the one hand and some surface soil characters of the project and to determine the variation in vegetation cover for the same area and for two different periods.Ten sites were selected to study spectral reflectivity under similar geomorphological conditions near the brickworks project in the Anahrawan district with an area of 10,000 hectares. Soil samples were taken from the surface and at a depth of 0-30 cm. Some chemical and physical characters of research soil were analyzed in the soil department laboratories, college of Agriculture, Baghdad University.Several satellite images taken from the satellite Land sat (ETM) 2013 and another from same satellite in 1990 T.M to determining the change between the two periods. After obtaining remote sensing data (reflectivity and vegetation index).the correlation analysis was carried out between these data. It was observed that the soil salinity values were decreased due to the drainage that the area was confined between the Tigris River and the Diyala tributary which leads to good natural drainage.The attached tables indicate that thedigital numbers of the soil sampling sites in 2013 are highly significant correlated, While some of the characters did not show the use of this region industrially. After calculating the difference between the two images to determine the change. A 100% change was observed and the vegetation cover was sharply reduced between the two images. as well as the extension of the land of empty land, although these lands are still suitable for agriculture.


The present invention relates to a remote control target device remote control system and an image processing apparatus. Sound signal / remote control pulse conversion unit (30) to infrared (RV) speech recognition of the sound signal input from the remote transmitter. The control information indicated by the identified word (W) is converted into the same format as the remote control code represented by the signal (the RK) control code (C). Each control code (P1) and the second remote control pulses (P2) as the first remote control pulse input common format to the remote control pulse selector (23). Remote control pulse selector (23) The remote control pulse switching signal (N) the first remote control pulse (P1) and a second remote control pulse is input to an exclusive remote control pulse decoder (24) (P2) of.


In the service market the professional commonly uses scheduled services. These
professionals daily need to control the agenda and the service charging. Usually,
these activities are performed by another person like assistants during business
hours. This work aims to provide a simple and direct communication interface
between professionals and customers, facilitating scheduling and simplifying the
billing process.


The Ivorian Association in Defense of Women's Rights (AIDF) was established in 1992 out of the efforts of women of all ages and diverse backgrounds and outlooks who decided to join forces to determine how to increase community awareness upon women's rights. AIDF has since promoted gender equity in Cote d'Ivoire. Among its efforts the association works to enforce the texts of existing laws favoring women and to sensitize populations about the conditions and challenges of young urban and rural girls. Constance Yai AIDF president describes her organization's current challenges as well as her views upon women's rights. Since Cote d'Ivoire inherited French legislation predating the country's independence contradictions often exist between Cote d'Ivoire's national laws and international accords favoring women. AIDF is currently waging a battle to revisit all existing legislation upon real estate women's rights within the family and controlling adultery. The association denounces customs adversely affecting the health of women and young girls. Specifically AIDF successfully created the National Committee against Harmful Traditional Practices (CNLP). Mrs. Yai describes AIDF's current efforts to improve women's situation in Cote d'Ivoire. She believes awareness in the country has affected populations' behavior while she also remains optimistic about the involvement of men and religious leaders.


TileCal, the barrel hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment, gathers almost about 10,000 electronic channels. The supervision of the detector behavior is very important in order to ensure proper operation. Collaborators perform analysis over reconstructed data of calibration runs for giving detailed considerations about the equipment status. During the commissioning period, our group has developed seven web systems to support the data quality (DQ) assessment task. Each system covers a part of the process by providing information on the latest runs, displaying the DQ status from the monitoring framework, giving details about power supplies operation, presenting the generated plots and storing the validation outcomes, assisting to write logbook entries, creating and submitting the bad channels list to the conditions database and publishing the equipment performance history. The ATLAS operation increases amount of data that are retrieved, processed and stored by the web systems. In order to accomplish the new requirements, an optimized data model was designed to reduce the number of needed queries. The web systems were reassembled in a unique system in order to provide an integrated view of the validating process. The server load was minimized by using asynchronous requests from the browser.


A gas turbine engine including a fan, a core including at least one rotatable shaft, and a gearbox mechanically coupling at least one rotatable shaft of the core to the fan is provided. The gas turbine engine also includes a coupling system for mounting the gearbox within the gas turbine engine. The coupling system includes a flexible coupling connected to at least one of a fan frame or a core frame, as well as a torque frame connected to the flexible coupling and the gearbox. Moreover, a deflection limiter is provided, loosely attaching the flexible coupling to the gearbox to provide a predetermined axial range of motion, radial range of motion, and circumferential range of motion between the gearbox and the frame to which the flexible coupling is attached.


The invention relates to an oscillation circuit (S), in particular for an ultrasonic receiver circuit. The resonant circuit (S) comprises a first capacitor (C1) which is connected between a node (K) and a reference point (B). The resonant circuit (S) further includes an adjustable DC voltage source (VB), wherein a capacitance of the first capacitor (C1) applied by a by the controllable DC voltage source (VB) bias voltage (V) depends. By controlling the controllable DC voltage source, an oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit (S) is tunable. The invention further relates to a circuit arrangement for an ultrasonic receiver having such a resonant circuit (S), and a use of such a circuit arrangement.


Pardis Alipour is an artist currently pursuing her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She received a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of Tehran. Through incorporating the tools and skills collected from architecture school, she activates spaces, objects, and materials to analyze, criticize, and physicalize the stratified experience of living under an Islamic theocracy.


A blind method for joint estimation of the frequency offset and the channel in an OFDM system is presented in this paper. Estimation is achieved in three successive steps. First, the channel containing the frequency-offset component is estimated by means of subspace techniques. The result is then used in the second step, which is cyclostationarity-based, to obtain the frequency offset. Third, the channel can be achieved by removing the frequency-offset component from the result of the first step. Finally, based on the above three steps, an iterative method is used to get more accurate estimation of the channel and the frequency offset. Mathematical deduction and simulation results are both shown that the proposed method is effective, and is superior to methods introduced in two earlier papers.


The paper is dedicated to the socketed two-bladed arrowheads of the Scythian type from the eastern part of the North and South Caucasus. Archaeological complexes (and their rituals) from which the two-bladed arrowheads originate are described. In Mingechaur and Apsheron the ceramic vessels were located near the feet of the deceased. This ritual has parallels in Uigarak. The most archaic rhomboid two-bladed arrowheads originate from the burials, without iron objects, in Yonjaly necropolis in Sheki. Craniometric data from the neighboring Tepebashy necropolis in Sheki, shows similarity with the sculls of parallel groups of Sakas from the Aral Sea vicinity. In the same necropolis there were found collective burials with the traces of fire ritual, which have parallels in the Sacar-Chaga 6 burial ground.


The BORG algorithm is an inference engine that derives the initial conditions given a cosmological model and galaxy survey data, and produces physical reconstructions of the underlying large-scale structure by assimilating the data into the model. We present the application of BORG to real galaxy catalogs and describe the primordial and late-time large-scale structure in the considered volumes. We then show how these results can be used for building various probabilistic maps of the large-scale structure, with rigorous propagation of uncertainties. In particular, we study dynamic cosmic web elements and secondary effects in the cosmic microwave background.


Objective To explore the imaging features of ovarian fibroma to improve the preoperative diagnostic rate. Methods Clinical data of 16 patients with ovarian fibroma confirmed by pathology was retrospectively analyzed. Results Nine patients complained of abdominal pain or hypogastrium mass,one patient had abnormal vaginal bleeding and hypogastralgia,and six patients were found with cavitas pelvis mass in a physical examination. All patients underwent CT examinations,and 6 patients underwent MRI examination. All tumours were single,round,oval or lobulated masses,and the average maximum diameter of tumours was 7. 6 cm; 11 patients had homogeneous density of tumours,and 5 patients had inhomogeneous density of tumours. Enhancement scanning showed there were not or mild delayed enhancement. Benign and malignant ovarian neoplasms were confirmed in 14 patients and 2 patients respectively by iconography diagnosis. Conclusion The imaging features of typical ovarian fibroma are pseudocapsule,degenerative changes,changes in peripheral subcapsular cystic areas,asymmetrical T2 signal and enhancement,which are very useful in diagnosis.


The polarographic behaviour of 3-mercapto-1, 2-propanediol (TSH) at the d.m.e. has been investigated in presence of 0.1 M NaClO4 and 0.001% Triton X-100 with respect to the effects of changes in pH. concentration of TSH, drop time and temperature on the wave characteristics. A single well defined irreversible anodic wave was obtained over the entire pH range (1.84 — 12.3) which was found to shift towards the more negative potential with the increase in pH. The E½ values obtained at different pH were used to evaluate the dissociation constant of sulphydryl group; the pK value has been found to be 9.25. The linearity of id with TSH concentration provides a rapid and precise method for the determination of TSH to 0.1 mmole. The values of Kinetic parameters-formal rate constant (K°b,h) and transfer coefficient (a) have been evaluated by applying Koutecky's theoretical treatment as extended by Meites and Israel and were found to be 1.738 × 10-4 cm/sec and 0.277 respectively.


A preparative high speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC) method for isolation and purification of flavonoid compounds from Scutellariae Radix, the roots of Chinese medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, was successfully established by using ionic liquids as the modifier of the two-phase solvent system. Baicalin and wogonoside were purified from the crude extract of Scutellariae Radix by using ethyl acetate-water-[C4mim][PF6] (5:5:0.2, v/v) as two-phase solvent system. From 120 mg of the crude sample, 50.1 mg of baicalin and 45.6 mg of wogonoside were obtained in a one step separation. The purities of baicalin and wogonoside were 99.3% and 99.1%, respectively, as determined by HPLC area normalization method. The chemical structures of the isolated compounds were identified by1H-NMR and 13C-NMR.


Scabies is very common among children. It is often a harmless infectious disease, responding well to antiparasitic medication. Nevertheless, severe forms can occur in immunocompromised populations like newborns and infants. We report a unique case of scabies in a three-months-old infant, complicated by generalized cutaneous lymphocytic vasculitis and unilateral acral necroses.


AcKnowledGements This report is the result of research conducted by a working group on the Postgraduate Student Experience, set up by the UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE). The work was partially funded through a small grant by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Ben Massey, UKCGE's University Liaison and Development Officer, provided the authors with substantial support in setting up the online survey on which this report is based, and in distributing it as widely as possible amongst UKCGE member institutions and networks within the postgraduate community. His technical assistance throughout the process of data collection and analysis was invaluable. The authors would like to thank the HEIs who contributed to the survey on which this report is based, and in particular, to those individual respondents who took the time to provide such rich, qualitative data. the UKcGe worKinG GroUp on the postGrAdUAte experience The UKCGE Working Group on the Postgraduate Student Experience is one of four themed Working Groups launched by UKCGE in 2014, bringing together volunteers from UKCGE member institutions and representatives from HEA and AGCAS under the chairmanship of Dr Rob Daley, Heriot-Watt University. The Group identified three major themes related to the postgraduate student experience, where a significant contribution could be made by combining the resources of UKCGE and the institutions and organisations represented. Two of the themes related to PGR (the final stage in the PGR lifecycle and PDP and career planning) whilst the third focused on PGT identity and expectations. A sub-group of Working Group members was formed around each theme. This report and the national survey on which it is based, was the work of the PGT Identity and Expectations sub-group: Prof. Sharon Huttly (Lead), Lancaster University, Dr. Tina Barnes, University of Warwick and UKCGE Executive Committee member, and Dr Gale Macleod, University of Edinburgh. UK postgraduate taught (PGT) education has experienced considerable growth since the mid-1990s, but this may prove unsustainable if HEIs fail to address the needs of this diverse population. Although the complexity and challenges are clear, there has been little attention paid to the voice of the PGT Programme Directors and Administrators who deal with the day-to-day realities. The purpose of this national level study was to understand how much of the support needed for PGT students is generally located at programme level, versus school/faculty/college/institution level. However, in capturing the experience of Programme Directors and staff, this report was able to address the key concern for PGT – how to ensure that students, regardless of their background and mode of study, are properly supported. This study further highlights the need to focus support in key areas, and to question the traditional assumption of student readiness for Master's level study. Indeed, we identify some common problems that inhibit independent learning. Whilst these common problems do not necessarily have common solutions, institutional inflexibilities and limited resources constrain efforts to enhance learning and the overall student experience. Furthermore, universities need to empower and equip staff to engage in enhancement initiatives, and recognise and value the important role that they play in the postgraduate student experience.


I. On the nature of production functions, 86. — II. An example of a discontinuity, 89. — III. Origins of the discontinuity, 92. — IV. The proposition in terms of plant average cost curves, 96. — V. Conclusions, 97.


Simulation of a plasmon single graphene reflectarray module operating at a frequency
of 1.35 THz is presented. The dependences of the characteristics of a plasmon single graphene reflectarray module on changes in various parameters of graphene (temperature, chemical potential and relaxation time) are considered.


Safe work time limits for persons wearing US Army's Self Contained Toxic Environment Protective Outfit (STEPO) were developed from human tests and human simulation. STEPO, a Level A HAZMAT protective garment, has C02 scrubber, 02 supply and upper body liquid cooling. Rest/treadmill-exercise (10/20 min) cycle test results for a limited range of conditions were extended by simulating human responses to more environments. A rational 5 compartment lumped parameter thermo-physiological model was adapted to simulate responses with STEPO. The model's output showed close conformity with measured core temperatures and heart rates. The safe working time criterion was for the core temperature and heart rate not to exceed 38.3°C and 150bpm. For example, at 27 and 38°C the resulting recommended work limits are 240 and 70 min, respectively.


Popular Association is the premise and base of the development of the interest group.Nowadays,although the popular associations are fast-developed in China,they are still in the initial stage of being interest groups.Popular associations and interest groups will affect the political development actively and passively.Fostering and developing popular associations and interest groups,regulating and supervising the special interest groups,are the certain ways of constructing the harmonious society.


The feedforward linear power amplifier is an important part during design and research of modern power amplifier. Based on the characteristics of feedforward linear power amplifier and adaptive technique,a fully new adaptive algorithm is proposed In this paper. The theoretical analysis and computer simulation results show that the adaptive algorithm has the characteristics of quick convergence speed,and stable,dependable iteration. The experiment result indicates that the performance indexes of the feedforward linear amplifier using the new adaptive algorithm are better than those of the available amplifiers.


Background To identify the population-level impact of a national pulse oximetry remote monitoring programme for COVID-19 (COVID Oximetry @home (CO@h)) in England on mortality and health service use. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using a stepped wedge pre-implementation and post-implementation design, including all 106 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England implementing a local CO@h programme. All symptomatic people with a positive COVID-19 PCR test result from 1 October 2020 to 3 May 2021, and who were aged ≥65 years or identified as clinically extremely vulnerable were included. Care home residents were excluded. A pre-intervention period before implementation of the CO@h programme in each CCG was compared with a post-intervention period after implementation. Five outcome measures within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test: (i) death from any cause; (ii) any ED attendance; (iii) any emergency hospital admission; (iv) critical care admission and (v) total length of hospital stay. Results 217 650 people were eligible and included in the analysis. Total enrolment onto the programme was low, with enrolment data received for only 5527 (2.5%) of the eligible population. The period of implementation of the programme was not associated with mortality or length of hospital stay. The period of implementation was associated with increased health service utilisation with a 12% increase in the odds of ED attendance (95% CI: 6% to 18%) and emergency hospital admission (95% CI: 5% to 20%) and a 24% increase in the odds of critical care admission in those admitted (95% CI: 5% to 47%). In a secondary analysis of CO@h sites with at least 10% or 20% of eligible people enrolled, there was no significant association with any outcome measure. Conclusion At a population level, there was no association with mortality before and after the implementation period of the CO@h programme, and small increases in health service utilisation were observed. However, lower than expected enrolment is likely to have diluted the effects of the programme at a population level.


The invention relates to a far infrared heating jade bed. The far infrared heating jade bed comprises a bed frame and a jade bed surface, wherein the jade bed surface is arranged on the bed frame, one side of the bed frame is provided with a temperature controller, the temperature controller is connected with a temperature sensor, the temperature sensor is connected with the jade bed surface, a far infrared layer is arranged below the jade bed surface, and the far infrared heating jade bed is characterized in that the bed frame is provided with an overcurrent protector, and the overcurrent protector is connected with the far infrared layer through a wire. The far infrared layer is provided with the overcurrent protector, and when current of the far infrared layer is excessively large, the overcurrent protector can automatically cut off a power supply so as to stop heating, so that the far infrared layer is protected, and the service life of the far infrared heating jade bed is prolonged.


1. The Study of Voting 2. Spending and Votes: A Review 3. Towards a Model 4. The Pattern of Spending 5. Electoral Context, Spending and Electoral Outcome 6. Nationalist Parties, Minor Parties, Sheffield City Council and European Elections 7. Evaluation.


Court of Appeal to hold either that Ashmores contractually accepted a varied method of performance or that they aided and abetted Dawsons to commit an offence under section 64 (2) is a question not calling for an answer here. Students should further be reminded that the locus classicus on the effect of statutory illegality in the performance of contracts remains the judgment of Devlin J., as he then was, in St. John's Shipping Corporation v. Joseph Rank Ltd. [1957] 1 Q.B. 267: they are less likely to go wrong if they give due attention to that exposition of the law. As a pendant to that case, and to our instant case, an additional query may be raised, in the form of a possible Tripos question: on the facts as found by the trial judge, if Dawsons had successfully completed the transport of the tube-banks to Hull, could Dawsons sue Ashmores for the agreed price of the transport?


The foreign trade in the present is an important activity for the state of Guanajuato; consent of the UTSOE through the CAEF Business Studies conducted a market research with the aim of identifying the number of companies that carry out exports and identify those that use the programs to promote exports. Its scope were the city of Irapuato, Salamanca, Cortazar and Celaya, with a sample of 209 companies. The methodology was descriptive using the quantitative method, the means of contact used was via the internet using surveymonkey. Of the total respondents reply was received from 38 businesses. Proving that only a third party make use of the programs in order to receive a fiscal support, in order to avoid fines and charges generated by the filling of the documentation of misleadingly. Even when the export programs offered by the federal government serve as support to the companies to be able to cope with the international market, it is also a good medium for carrying out the formalities of customs duties in the right way; however based on the results a great number of companies do not make use of the programs with the aim of making profits customs. For its part the companies they reiterate that it is easy to carry out the management of programs with the help of agencies such as COFOCE and that their main problem is the dissemination of relevant information on the procedures that need to be done.


Antipersonnel force of four types of high penetrating insecticides controlling against the larvae of cotton bollworm was tested in laboratory. The results showed that Gaoshentong had an excellent synergistic action on the tested insecticides, and can reduce over 50% of dosage of active ingredient at the same control level. The rate of knockdown to larvae of cotton bollworm was obviously raised. The experiments further showed that Gaoshentong was better than Dantong in the respect of insecticidal synergism.


This article presents the influence of the reluctance of a novel hybrid superconducting coupling with axial flux. The coupling is made of the permanent magnets (PMs) in the primary and the copper and split superconductor with variable reluctance in the secondary. The study is made when the superconducting is in the vortex zone. The distribution of torque and magnetic field properties is examined and computed using a magnetic equivalent circuit model. Since the permeability and the conductivity vary according to the temperature and the magnetic field around the superconductor, the graph of the evolution of the eddy-current density is derived. By employing the curve fitting technique, we obtained the polynomial equation of the eddy-current density, then this equation allowed us to figure out the formula of the eddy-current density. By knowing the density of the eddy current, we were able to deduce the expressions of the bulk conductivity, then the London penetration depth, and the relative permeability of the superconductor. These expressions allowed us to determine how the superconductor's reluctance varies depending on the temperature. The force and output torque are calculated using a combination of Kirchhoff's law and Ampere's loop law, respectively, and also by considering the variation of the reluctance according to the temperature. In order to expand the coupling's operating margin, the performance is examined by utilizing a high-temperature superconductor with a temperature range of 77–130 K. The strong agreement between the torque simulation results and the outcomes of the proposed model's calculations demonstrates the accuracy of both results.


A study of the transport of material in the condensed d-c. spark discharge has been made, with the object of placing quantitative spectroscopic methods of analysis on a less empirical basis and thus permitting, (a) the recognition of certain conditions of source operation which lead to unreliable determinations, and (b) the determination of some of the criteria to be fulfilled for maximum precision in analytic measurements.Variations in the transport phenomena, as indicated by variations in the relative distributions of emitting atoms of various elements along the discharge axis on the addition of certain substances to a sample, appear to be closely connected with the ionization potentials and masses of the elements, and with the ionization potentials of other particles present in the discharge. The data indicate the necessity for the use of a spectroscopic buffer, and provide certain criteria for the choice of the buffer and of the internal standard element.The exact nature of the mechanism of transport ...


This thesis presents the design and implementation of a Clnss-E power amplifier implemented in 0.35 pm CMOS. The rationale behind the selection of the final topology is discussed in detail. Cornparisons are also drawn to other potential architectures used in practice. Design details of both gain and output stages are also presented. Theoretical work has been refined for use in a design setting. Many practical high-power RF design issues have also been addressed and discussed in detail. A customized test fixture was also devised to extract optimal performance from the amplifier. The final amplifier implemented was a fully differential device operating at 1.88 GHz. In general. the amplifier achieved its intended design specifications producing 185 m W with a power added eficiency of 38%. Class-E Power Amplifier University of Toronto Acknowledgements Page I I


Over the past three decades, red tape has been a significant issue in public administration. Several prior studies have discovered the external origins of red tape, noting the roles of external control on increased red tape. Despite the empirical studies, it remains unclear how the particular tools of external controls, such as external audits and evaluations, are associated with employees' perception of red tape. To answer this question, we measured different external control mechanisms in quasi-governmental organizations in Korea and investigated their effects on red-tape perception. The results show that external audits increase employees' red-tape perception, whereas external evaluations decrease their perception. However, the positive function of evaluation disappears under a high level of government control because both external audits and evaluations increase red-tape perception when more government control is perceived. Points for practitioners This study sheds theoretical light on the negative impacts of external control in rule management. The impacts of audit and evaluation on red tape are empirically identified in public organizations. Practitioners need to realize that the use of audit and evaluation may produce unintended effects that increase ineffective rules even though such control mechanisms are designed to check mismanagement in quasi-government organizations.


The paper deals with reliability allocation regarding military vehicles. The reliability allocation is the process where the reliability requirements for subsystems and system components are specified the way so that the resulting reliability level of the system as whole could meet the requirements. The first part of the paper describes a proposal of reliability model of a military vehicle, which is used for the demonstration of proposed allocation process. The second part of the paper is devoted to methods and procedures of system reliability allocation. Two methods (Equal and ARINC) of reliability allocation are described here. The equal approach allocates requirements equally to the next lower level of the system design. The ARINC method allocates requirements to the next lower level of the system design taking into account an importance of individual subsystems and components. A practical example of reliability allocation in the case of a military vehicle is presented at the end of the paper.


'Sensitive and selective detection of dense non-aqueous liquids (DNAPL), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and other organics, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), is an area of importance. Current analytical methods for the detection of these compounds rely on their propensity to form negative ions. However, for compounds with smaller electron capture cross sections, including PCBs with few chlorine atoms and non-chlorinated VOCs, these methods are considerably less sensitive. The objective of the research program is to develop novel analytical techniques that can be expected to be applicable for a wide variety of molecules with high sensitivity. These are based on the recently discovered enhanced negative ion formation process involving electron attachment to highly-excited states of molecules. The authors are using two approaches to produce the precursor highly-excited states; one is laser excitation, and the other is discharge based.'


I concur in Professor Reek's judgment that Professor Lewis' paper is both profound and provocative. Without any sense of inconsistency, I also concur in Reek's judgment that Lewis' paper is seriously deficient in certain respects. In my comments I shall try not to duplicate Professor Reek's criticisms, although I do wish to amplify one or two points which he makes. Because of the severe time limitation, I have set down my comments in a form which may give the impression-falsely, I hopeof desultoriness and even of dogmatism. In my remarks I shall try to show ( i ) that Lewis' phenomenologicalpsychological descriptions are, in important respects, inaccurate; (2) that his position tacitly rests on a substantialist view of the self; (3) that he effectively ignores what we know about the sociality of selfawareness; and (4) that his view has serious shortcomings of a logicalepistemological nature. As Professor Reck notes, Lewis appears to confuse (or equate) consciousness with consciousness of consciousness as well as with


We have previously purified and cloned rat brain Ca/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase (CaM-KK), and the 68-kDa recombinant CaM-KK activates in vitro both CaM-kinase IV (CaM-K IV) and CaM-K I (Tokumitsu, H., Enslen, H., and Soderling, T. R.(1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 19320-19324). In the present study we have determined that activation of CaM-K IV through phosphorylation of Thr by CaM-KK is triggered by elevated intracellular Ca in intact cells and requires binding of Ca/CaM to both enzymes. An expressed fragment of CaM-K IV (CaM-K IV), which contains the activating phosphorylation site (Thr) but not the autoinhibitory domain or the CaM-binding domain, still required Ca/CaM for phosphorylation by wild-type CaM-KK. A truncated mutant of CaM-KK (CaM-KK) phosphorylated CaM-K IV in a Ca/CaM-independent manner, but this constitutively active CaM-KK required Ca/CaM for phosphorylation and activation of wild-type CaM-K IV. These results demonstrate that binding of Ca/CaM to both CaM-K IV and CaM-KK is required for the CaM-kinase cascade. Both CaM-KK and CaM-K IV appear to have similar Ca/CaM requirements with EC values of approximately 100 nM. Studies using co-expression of CaM-K IV with CaM-KK in COS-7 cells demonstrated that CaM-KK rapidly activated both total and Ca/CaM-independent activities of wild-type CaM-K IV, but not the Thr Ala mutant, upon ionomycin stimulation.


General comments In this paper the authors examine the relation between reactive nitrogen and secondary species and ozone-NOx-VOC sensitivity in Mexico City (MC) based on CIT modeling for the year of 1997, and compare with those in other cities they studied previously. Their results show that while some indicator relations established previously still hold for Mexico City, such as the ratios of H2O2/HNO3 and O3/NOy, many indicators behave differently, such as higher PAN/O3 and O3/HNO3, due to high organic nitrate production and low HNO3 formation. They also found a mixed sensitivity of O3-NOxVOC chemistry in MC domain-wise, different from recent modeland measurementbased studies, which they attribute to changes in emissions over time. The paper


In recent decades, research has provided new insights on the phenomenon of language change, use and appreciation, revealing the degree of complexity that characterizes the social context in which the phenomenon evolves. This study intends to complement and relativize these investigations to demonstrate that the Quechua-Spanish language shift requires a cultural and ideological perspective, where the preference for Spanish by Quechua native speakers is also manifested as a resistance factor. For this purpose, we have focused on two key issues: first, the importance of addressing the linguistic variation known as castellano andino, or Andean Spanish. Then, through a text from the sixteenth century by Guaman Poma de Ayala and a series of short stories from the twentieth century by Jose Maria Arguedas, we demonstrate how Spanish has been used ideologically and instrumentally to preserve the Quechua language and to not allow its extinction.


Results At 3 days in dogs, atrial surfaces were covered by fibrin, which sealed gaps between the LA wall and the device and filled the LA appendage cavity. At 45 days, endothelial cells covered the endocardial surface with underlying smooth muscle cells that sealed the device-LA interface. Regions with prior thrombus were replaced by endocardium surrounding the device membrane. Disorganized thrombus remained in the LAA body and at the periphery near the appendage walls. Mild inflammation was observed as thrombus resorbed. By 90 days, a complete endocardial lining covered the former LAA ostium. Organizing thrombus had become connective tissue, with no residual inflammation. The human necropsy hearts had similar findings. In these 4 hearts (139, 200, 480, and 852 days after implant), the ostial fabric membrane was covered with endocardium. The appendage surface contained organizing thrombus with minimal inflammation. Organizing fibrous tissue was inside the LAA cavity, prominent near the atrial wall. The LAA interior contained organizing thrombus. Conclusions This intracardiac device integration study delineated healing stages of early thrombus deposition, thrombus organization, inflammation and granulation tissue, final healing by connective tissue, and endocardialization without inflammation. These observations may yield insight into cellular healing processes in other cardiac devices. (J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 2010;3:870 –7) © 2010 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation


Are there any differences between the effect of each member of the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) on sperm parameters and plasma amino acids profile?

 Valine supplementation had destructive effects on sperm parameters and viability. However, blood amino acids profile were similar among treatments.

 BCAAs, a group of three essential amino acids, have a crucial role on protein synthesis, besides being strongly associated with impaired glucose and fat metabolism. Although BCAAs supplements are one of the most demanding products for the fitness industry to increase the lean body mass and boost exercise performance, little information exists on the advantages and disadvantages of dietary BCAAs on male fertility.

 Fifty NMRI mature male mice were divided into five groups and were fed diets as follow: Control (CTR): 2.4% Beta-alanine, Leucine (Leu): 1.18% Leu + 1.2% Beta-alanine, Isoleucine (Ile): 0.58% Ile + 1.8% Beta-alanine, Valine (Val): 0.65% + 1.7% Beta-alanine, and BCAAs (Leu:Ile:Val ratio of 2:1:1): 2.4% BCAA: 1.18% Leu + 0.58% Ile + 0.65% Val. After 5 weeks, testes and epididymides were dissected, and sperm parameters and plasma amino acids profile were assessed.

 Semen parameters were evaluated by a Computer-Aided Semen Analysis (CASA) system. Plasma amino acids concentrations were determined by HPLC. Data were analyzed using SPSS and statistical differences among various groups were determined by ANOVA and Tukey's post-hoc test.

 Higher BCAAs intake, particularly Val, increased the destructive mechanisms on sperm viability. The results showed no significant difference on body weight after 40 days. Sperm concentration (8.4 vs. 4.5 ×106), progressive motility (51.5 vs. 27.2 %), and viability (67 vs. 56 % for CTR and Val group, respectively) decreased dominantly in the Val group compared to CTR (p≤0.05). The immotile parameter was significantly higher in the Val group compared to the CTR (p≤0.05). In addition, there were no significant differences on plasma amino acids profile.

 The current study's limitation is that only one level of BCAAs was used. Given the potential role of Val on sperm cell death, further data on different levels of all BCAAs, especially Val administration and evaluation of the related mechanisms are needed.

 The findings of our study show, for the first time, that individual levels of Ile and Leu have different effects on sperm parameters compared with all BCAAs or Val. More attention should be given to BCAAs supplementation and semen quality that was previously ignored.

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The construction of harmonious society is the root request of Chinese special socialism.While the construction of harmonious society need the healthy development of civil society.A sound civil society is the foundation of harmonious society.Since the reform and opens,the civil society of minority frontier regions attained booming development in our country and obtained well achievement.But because of special history,geography,social environment in minority frontier regions,economy development get behind and society develops shortage,seriously restricted the development of civil society.The slowness and predicament development of civil society made the construction of civil society in minority frontier regions became very difficulty.So,recognizing the present condition and existence problem of current development of civil society in minority frontier regions,and finding out the main restricted factor is the key factors that guide the region's civil society healthily development,and also the righteousness to construct a harmonious society in minority frontier regions.


Abstract : An interdisciplinary research program was conducted to understand the mechanisms of deformation and fracture in nanostructured materials. Experiments on thin film nanostructured metals found that deformation occurred by grain boundary sliding and grain rotation in nanostructured gold deformed at room temperature, with grain sizes less than 25 nm. Bulk iron-copper nanostructures with grain sizes in the 100 nm size range exhibited perfectly plastic behavior and intense shear banding as the primary deformation mechanism. A variety of modeling techniques were conducted to determine the effects of grain size on strength, and to determine the constitutive behavior of nanostructured metals. Models of gradient plasticity and elasticity were also developed for traditional materials and thin films. (MM)


The classical theory of the rate of unimolecular isomerization developed by Gray and Rice as extended by Zhao and Rice is applied to the calculation of the rate of isomerization in model systems which have linear asymmetric double well potentials. We are interested in this system for two reasons. First, we are interested in the detailed dynamical processes for the mentioned system because it is widely related to practical chemical reactions. Second, the present model system has an asymmetric double well potential, which provides a different test of the accuracy of the approximations used in the Gray-Zhao-Rice theory than posed by previous applications. We have calculated relaxation rates and relaxation times for the model systems on different time scales. We find that for the systems under studies the Gray-Zhao-Rice version of the classical theory of isomerization rate yields values in good agreement with those generated from trajectory calculations and from the Reactive Island theory of De Leon et al.


Aims. Both the black hole mass and the X-ray luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been found to be anti-correlated with the normalized excess variance (σ 2) of the X-ray light curves. We investigate which correlation with σ 2 is the intrinsic one. Methods. We divided a full sample of 33 AGNs (O' Neill et al. 2005, MNRAS, 358, 1405) into two subsamples. The black hole masses of 17 objects in subsample 1 were determined by reverberation mapping or stellar velocity dispersion. The black hole masses of the remaining 16 objects were estimated from the relationship between broad-line region radius and optical luminosity (subsample 2). We then performed partial correlation analysis, ordinary least-squares regression, and K–S tests on the full sample and the subsamples, respectively. Results. We found that σ 2 seems to be intrinsically correlated with the black hole mass in the full sample. However, this seems to be caused by including subsample 2 in the analysis, which introduces an extra correlation between the black hole mass and the luminosity and strengthens any correlation with the black hole mass artificially. Therefore, the results from the full sample may be misleading. The results from the subsample 1 show that the correlation between σ 2 and the X-ray luminosity may be the intrinsic one and, therefore, the anti-correlation between σ 2 and the black hole mass is doubtful.


Qualitative research in dementia improves understanding of the experience of people affected by dementia. Searching databases for qualitative studies is problematic. Qualitative‐specific search strategies might help with locating studies.


The history of libraries in the ancient English universities, with their collegiate nature, is far more than the story of their central libraries. Oxford disposed of the humanist library of Duke Humphrey and Sir Thomas Bodley had to start again from scratch, yet the great college librariesMerton, New College, Magdalen, All Souls-continued to grow. At Cambridge the slow development of the University Library in its early years was due in part to the fact that most members of the university felt their first loyalty to be to the college, rather than to a central facility; and Emmanuel does not feature in Mr Oates's book until 1644-when it


To determine the evolution of the ischemic lesion volumes in a population treated with tissue plasminogen activator (t‐PA), MRIs were performed before treatment and 24 hours later; final infarct size was evaluated 60 days later.


Additional spin-0 particles appear in many extensions of the standard model. We search for long-lived spin-0 particles $S$ in $B$-meson decays mediated by a $b\to s$ quark transition in $e^+e^-$ collisions at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance at the Belle II experiment. Based on a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $189 \mathrm{\,fb}^{-1}$, we observe no evidence for signal. We set model-independent upper limits on the product of branching fractions $\mathrm{Br}(B^0\to K^*(892)^0(\to K^+\pi^-)S)\times \mathrm{Br}(S\to x^+x^-)$ and $\mathrm{Br}(B^+\to K^+S)\times \mathrm{Br}(S\to x^+x^-)$, where $x^+x^-$ indicates $e^+e^-, \mu^+\mu^-, \pi^+\pi^-$, or $K^+K^-$, as functions of $S$ mass and lifetime at the level of $10^{-7}$.


This paper is concerned with the economic generation dispatch problem. It is a well-known fact that practical aspects of power plant equipment, as well as the objectives to be met, may result in a nonconvex, nondifferentiable model that poses difficulties to conventional mathematical programming methods. This paper proposes the use of metaheuristic Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization to overcome such difficulties. This metaheuristic is well known for requiring a few parameters and, most importantly, it does not require the tuning of problem-dependent parameters. The algorithm proposed in this work is parameter-free; that is, the few parameters required by the Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization method are set automatically based on the power system's data. In addition, the handling of constraints, such as generators' prohibited zones and the generator-load-loss power balance, is performed in a very efficient way. Simulation results are shown for power systems containing 3 to 40 generation units, and the results provided by the proposed method are shown and discussed based on comparisons with other metaheuristics and a mathematical programming technique.


avoid collisions by the introduction of impartial outside bodies. The example of the International Commission of Jurists' valuable report on the imbalance in the public services in British Guiana is a case in point. It is only a pity that the three neutral judges did not go far enough in providing future machinery to control the balance of entry between Indians and Africans into the public services, for the role of the lawyer is not just in fact-finding that is for journalists and policemen it is in collision-avoidance. But what the International Commission of Jurists is doing in bringing together lawyers from so many countries in circumstances where they can exchange ideas and spark off new ones is infinitely valuable. For lawyers like artists depend on their very being on the company of ideas. A good lawyer is not one who tries to judge between two parties 'judge not that ye be not judged' but he who like any great artist has his eyes lifted towards the ineffable beauty of ultimate harmony.


The objectives of this study were to investigate food consumption behavior and nutritional status of secondary school students of Kudpladuk Sub-district, Chuenchom District, Mahasarakham Province. The participants in this descriptive cross-sectional study were 204 year 1, 2, and 3 secondary school students in the first semester of the 2015 academic year at Kudpladuk Community School and Nongnaraidieu School. Data were collected by the use of questionnaires and analyzed by descriptive วารสารวทิยาศาสตรแ์ละเทคโนโลย ีมหาวทิยาลยัอุบลราชธานี ปีที ่19 ฉบบัที ่1 มกราคม – เมษายน 2560 179 statistics. Results showed that 63.2% of the participants were 13-14 years old and 55.4% were male. One-third were in year 1 and 39.2% of the students had low food consumption knowledge with mean scores of 14.19 (SD = 4.02). In relation to their attitudes toward food consumption, 65.2% were at the middle level with mean scores of 3.47 (SD = 0.49). Regarding health behaviors, the majority exercised 13 times per week for 30 minutes each time and 71.6% slept 6-8 hours. The majority had 3 meals per day and food choice was based on nutritive values. Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks were consumed by 79.4%, 95.6%, 95.1%, and 77.5% of the students respectively. They ate more food during weekends than weekdays. Based on weight for height, 81.9% were normal whereas 5% were overweight. According to weight for age, 80.9% were normal. Based on height for age, 88.2% were normal and 5.4% were short. The study believed that knowledge, attitudes, food consumption, and exercise should be promoted to achieve proper health behavior and better nutritional status.


This paper presents a novel adjustable-voltage-ratio (AVR) transformer made using magneto-electric materials. Given a fixed-amplitude alternating current voltage input, the AVR transformer can output an ac voltage whose amplitude can be adjusted continuously from zero volts to the maximum value determined by the design. The core(s) of the AVR transformer are laminated and made of bonded layers of Metglas® foils and lead zirconate titanate (PZT) sheets. By adjusting the voltage applied on the PZT sheets of the core, the magnetic reluctance of the core can be altered to control the magnetic flux in the core by utilizing the converse magneto-electric (CME) effect. Thus, the voltages inducted by the time-changing magnetic fluxes can be controlled. This novel concept provides a new solution to electric power control and conversion.


Background The histone methyltransferase DOT1L catalyzes methylation of H3K79 and it is highly conserved in mammals. DOT1L plays a functional role in several biological processes including cell cycle regulation, DNA repair, RNA splicing and gene expression, suggesting a complex role in chromatin organization and regulation. Such a remarkable range of functions performed by DOT1L can be the result, at least partially, of its interaction with a plethora of proteins and presence in different complexes. Results Here, we characterized the cooperation of DOT1L with the nucleolar protein NPM1 and the impact of both proteins on peri-nucleolar heterochromatin activity. We show that i) DOT1L interacts preferentially with monomeric NPM1 in the nucleus; ii) DOT1L acts in concert with NPM1 to maintain each other's protein homeostasis; iii) NPM1 depletion results in H3K79me2 upregulation at chromatin remodeling genes but does not affect their expression; iv) DOT1L and NPM1 preserved DNA satellite expression at peri-nucleolar heterochromatin via epigenetic mechanisms dependent on H3K27me3.


Fine particles seem to affect the heart in two ways: by changing the heart9s rhythm and by causing systemic inflammation.


Author(s): Everson, Michael; Cleminson, Ralph | Abstract: This is a proposal to encode the Glagolitic script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 4.1 in March 2005. Glagolitic is thought to have been created by St. Cyril around 862 CE for his translation of the Scriptures and liturgical books into Slavonic. Glagolitic was eventually eclipsed by the Cyrillic script.


Sound families comprised of either musical sounds (abstract musical signals), communications sounds (based on traditional electronic signals), or real world sounds (based on naturally occurring, nonmusical events) were designed to provide auditory feedback in a graphical user interface. Typical business users mapped the sounds to functions and rated their confidence in the functional mapping. The sounds which mapped well to functions were then tested within the context of a graphical user interface business communications simulation. Users rated the pleasantness and appropriateness of each sound and selected the best sound for each function. In general, real world sounds mapped most reliably to the functions. However, users consistently preferred musical sounds to the real world sounds. Of the eleven feedback signals selected for specific functions four were communications based and seven were musical. None of the real world auditory signals were acceptable.


This is a preliminary study about Japanese conception of the world's language and culture. Prof. Someya Yoshimichi, emeritus professor from Shizuoka Unversity Japan, in an international conferene on Japanese studies held at Universitas Nasional Jakarta on February 2012, has pointed out that the present world's language and culture can be divided into two categories. One is God's Language and Culture, and the other is Insect's Language a Culture. According to him, the God's Language and Culture is mainly from European and American (Europe), and the Insect's Laguage and Culture is mainly from Asian especially from Japan and South-east Asia. The writer does not understand why the Japanese takes God and Insect as a pair of contrastive culture. Therefore, the writer collected data from Indonesian indigenous culture, mainly from public beliefs and religions to argue about the Japanese pair of contrastive culture.  This writing uses qualitative interpretation method (hermeneutics) and a method of descriptive analysis to understand Indonesian data, and to present the results of interpretation. For previous studies, the writer took the Japanese and Chinese In-yooron to check the realities of Japanese conception, and also took hipernym and hyponym theory from semantics to check the contrastive meaning of the word God and Insect. In short, the writer sees that God and Insect are not an antonym, and also have no contrastive meaning in any sense of semantics and logics.


Fabrication, electrical characterization and analytical modeling of an AlInP-passivated GaAs NW ensemble is presented. Novel processing steps were used to fabricate NW ensemble devices which were subsequently characterized electrically and fit with an analytical model, showing a 48% reduction in interface state density and an impressive four order of magnitude increase in effective carrier concentration of the NWs, rivaling the performance of other passivation schemes reported in the literature. This is the first known report of surface passivation of a NW ensemble device with a III-V shell and demonstrated by electrical characterization of a whole ensemble of NWs.


The implementation of natural forest protection project provides a good chance for Yanbian forestry to expedite the construction, the forest resources have been protected effectively and forest industrial structure has been adjusted successfully in Yanbian forest areas. In order to estimate the effects of natural forest protection program, it is necessary to evaluate it. According to the criterion of scientific, comparable, maneuverability and uniform with policy, this paper selects ten evaluation criteria, including the variation of forest overlay rate, the variational rate of forest cumulation, the variational rate of forest acreage, the variational rate of natural forest acreage, the variation of water conservation, the variation of soil and water holding acreage, the variation of everglade acreage, the variation of greenhouse gas fixation, the variation of oxygen release, and established a forest eco-efficiency evaluation system, hiberarchy analytical method is adopted in evaluation.


Increasing income levels, More free time, depending on the spread of the five-day workweek. Enjoying leisure time, such as one rather than change the values of the people. To a market of over 30 trillion foodservice industry is showing strong growth in tourism, and leisure industry, continued growth is. Hotel cooking a variety of engaging tasks increases, the increase in per capita working volume, and the prolongation of the working hours, etc. The purpose of this study the first half, due to the labor intensity increased stress and fatigue, affecting any physical strength, physical labor exerted in the field of hotel cook workers` labor intensity and perceived job stress propose implications were raised about the impact of fatigue on The subjects of this study, conducted by the Seoul and Incheon area Five Star Hotel Culinary Workers, data was collected from June 1 ~ July 1, 2011 was conducted to investigate how the mail or directly visit by the self - statistical processing of the survey and the data collected were analyzed using the SPSS17.0 statistical package program. Each strategy depending on the type of job stress factors are significant differences in the presence of fatigue will affect the model set by statistical analysis of job stress were measured. Appears to be. In other words, job stress, fatigue, depending on the selection phase is unknown. Absolutely labor, labor intensity and relatively significant influence on strength, flexibility, fatigue of configuration variables, the absolute intensity of labor and the relative intensity of the labor intensity variable was Fatigue competency variables showed that the impact strength of the labor absolutely greater than the impact on the relative labor intensity. Therefore, attention to relieve stress and fatigue strength resulting from the Culinary Workers labor will have proper exercise and an active mind.


Suburban and Environmental Weeds - Version 2 will be an invaluable resource to advisors, researchers, students, landcare and bushcare volunteers, weed control officers and anyone interested in learning more about the weeds of south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. This comprehensive product includes: A Lucid3 key to over 600 garden and environmental weeds found in south-eastern Queensland, fact sheets with detailed descriptions and notes on impacts, web-links to information on the management of these weeds, a detailed glossary, a comprehensive search engine and over 10,000 colour photos.


The Hengduan Mountains region of southwestern China,a world hotspot of biodiversity,is very rich in fungal species.Although over 4 000 species of fungi were identified in this region,representing about 40% China's known fungal taxa,the known number of species is merely a very small percentage of the total.We have made mycological expeditions in the region in the last ten years annually,and about 7000 collections were made.Having studied some fungal collections,2 genera and over 50 species new to science were described in the last ten years.However,a large number of remaining new taxa are still undocumented.To promote the study of the fungal diversity there is of both scientific and practical importance.


This year, 1950, marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of Russell Daniel Carman—his diamond anniversary. Previous biographers have given us little about the fifteen formative years of Carman's professional life spent in St. Louis; yet it was there that the shining facets of his character were cut. It was there that the qualities which gave him outstanding brilliance in the radiological world took shape—a searching mind that was never satisfied until the diagnosis was verified, a keen power to observe what he studied, a smooth functioning capacity and application for work, and a natural "knack" for the mechanics of radiography—all encompassed by the charm of a warm friendliness which those who knew him well called "lovable." The story of how Carman came to St. Louis is told in a letter from Dr. Thomas C. Witherspoon (1), his friend, associate, and brother-in-law, in answer to my inquiry. Dr. Witherspoon was a well known St. Louis surgeon who later retired to Los Angeles, and from there, at the age of eig...


Basic trends of rising the technological level of agro-industrial complex enterprises and increasing the agricultural machinery exploitation efficiency on the base of its concentration and specialization of enterprises are examined.


Although the development of computerized, multizone kiln controls occurred in the south, Western mills have been quick to recognize its value. The majority of new computerized kilns as well as the conversion of older kilns is happening here, west of the Great Plains. Perhaps the west recognizes that multizone technology addresses the basic problems which affect how well kilns perform. It provides complete control over the factors which affect drying with the added benefit that we see what is happening. It is not a band-aid approach. Terry Brown of Oregon State tells an amusing story about the dry kilns at a mill he visited. There was a large steam leak in one kiln which the operator had covered with a bucket to keep steam from spraying into the kiln atmosphere. Each time Terry returned to the mill he peeked in to see if the leak had been fixed. He was always disappointed until one day, to his amazement, the bucket was gone, replaced by a new bucket. Everyone recalls solving a problem by repairing its symptoms rather than its cause. If we were honest with ourselves, we soon realized that the final solution got to the root of the problem. While not always the easiest approach, it is solved for all time. Kiln controls are similar in that adding new controls alone do not solve our drying problems. The same variations in heat, humidity, and airflow remain. Unless we change the way our kilns control the conditions which affect drying, we have made no real change. Only then do we realize the full benefit of our investment. The following discussion examines the experiences of several Western mills drying a range of different species. They have all converted or built new kilns which have computerized, multizone controls. We will look at the situations which prompted them to adopt this technology and discuss the benefits they received. Finally, each mentioned several points which they felt were important to the success of the project and wanted to share with those considering similar conversions.


Introduction 1. Semiotics in the World of Goods 2. Marketing Semiotics 3. Mining the Consumer Brandscape 4. Brand Discourse 5. Mining the Multicultural Brandscape 6. The Semiotics of Consumer Space


John Ford's 'Calvary Trilogy' – Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950) – remains after more than half a century among Ford's most popular films. Despite their continuing appeal, the films have had to weather severe criticism from critics who have accused the director of everything from wallowing in dishonest sentimentality to being an apologist for militarism and imperialism. A closer look at the trilogy, however, reveals a more complex, a more ambiguous view of the role of the 'frontier Regulars' in American expansion. The three films, designed to show, in Ford's words, 'what it was like at a Calvary post…' reflect an honest portrayal of military life based on historical documents and authentic visual representations of frontier life. Adapted from the short stories of James Warner Bellah, the films are about hard‐pressed soldiers on the American southwest frontier in the 1870s and 1880s that Ford connects through theme and imagery to his earlier movies about Britain's imperial army. Devoid of imperial boosterism, they are stories of bitter defeats and hard‐won, often indecisive victories over Indian insurgents


Ferroelectric SrBi2(Ta, Nb)2O9(SBTN) thin films were prepared by RF magnetron sputtering utilizing a multichamber production tool (ULVAC CERAUS ZX1000). Accurate and dynamic compositional control provided by this method results in excellent ferroelectric performances such as large Pr up to 15 µC/cm2, at least 109 cycles fatigue free and good 6-inch wafer uniformity. Good process reproducibility was also confirmed in terms of deposition rate, composition, and electrical properties through a 30-wafer nonstop sputtering test. These results indicate that the SBTN sputtering process is promising for ferroelectric memory production.


Chapter 2 analyzes the economic, demographic, and geographical factors that influenced slavery, slave-trading and efforts to achieve abolition in the nineteenth century Indian Ocean World. It examines the forms of unfree and indentured labor in the region, offering reasons for their emergence. In the nineteenth century, the region became an economic macro-region, functioning as a part of the burgeoning world economy. Yet, indigenous markets flourished, affecting labor demand and existing systems of servitude. The chapter argues that these slave systems are better analyzed as hierarchies of dependence. Exploring the history of the maritime slave trade, it argues that the number of slaves traded may have exceeded the 10 to 12 million landed in the Americas. It closes by pointing out that the story in the Indian Ocean World is not just about East Africa, emphasizing the importance of indentured labor and debt bondage in that story.


This work presents the design of a cost effective, open-source, 3D printed prosthetic hand with the implementation of object recognition in order to reduce the cognitive burden of amputees through automated grasping. Due to the high cost of modern, active, prostheses, an open-source 3D printable anthropomorphic artificial hand is selected for the purpose of designing a prosthesis. Through the use of image processing, some current prosthetic hands are capable of selecting automated grasps via object recognition. However, many of these methods are computationally heavy, and require large amount of training data for daily usage. Such computationally heavy methods also utilize myoelectric control, which requires training for an extended period of time. In this work, by utilizing intrinsic information of an object, such as color and edge information, the computational time is reduced while still providing the user with automated grasping, without the need for myoelectric control. In future works, illumination invariant techniques may be used to increase the efficiency of color constancy. In addition to this work, modifications and functional enhancements are made to the opensource artificial hand design, called InMoov, to enable more robust grasping techniques. The flexion and extension of the InMoov hand digits are consistent without any form of control feedback, however, the digits displayed massive overshoot in trajectory. An open-loop control method is developed to smoothen artificial hand digit trajectory while reducing trajectory overshoot and transient vibrations. By using this method, the prosthesis digit trajectory is tested against the trajectory of the human finger, and found to be more consistent. Future works may focus on closedloop control which rely upon more sensors to control the grasping of an object.


The microstructure, texture and mechanical properties of AA7003 extrusion sheets processed with different parameters were investigated. Furthermore, the effects of the microstructure and texture on the mechanical properties were discussed. The grain morphology and the texture were analyzed by using a combination of scanning electron microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction. Moreover, the mechanical properties were measured by tensile tests and the tensile fracture morphology was also analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. The results showed that the maximum recrystallization extent occurred at the extrusion process conditions of T = 450 °C and v = 1 mm/s, and the increase in recrystallization extent had a negative effect on the tensile strength. Moreover, a relatively strong recrystallization cube orientation <100> existed when the extrusion temperature was 470 °C, showing a high tensile strength and elongation. Thus, it can be concluded that the cube texture is beneficial to the tensile strength and elongation in extruded AA7003 alloy.


Abstract Oral history is a useful research and teaching tool for integrating black content in social work education. It facilitates knowledge-building, enhances integration of professional values, provides a forum for testing professional skills, and expands teaching and research methodology. Examples of objectives and learning activities for the major curriculum areas are provided.