In a user-centric approach, the end-user wants the best Quality of Experience (QoE) and the highest context-awareness. Throughout end-user's spatial mobility, service providers must continuously adapt the end-user's service session according to his or her new ambient context, without neglecting functional preferences and demanded Quality of Service (QoS). Many spatial mobility management solutions have been conceived to help operators managing the network part of their end-users' sessions. However, this problem is not yet investigated on the service layer. For this purpose, the authors propose in this paper the concept of semantic handover. This concept acts on the service layer by analogy to the network's handover mechanisms. It is based on three complementary roles: the initiator, that detects a spatial mobility and initiates the semantic handover; the decider, that decides which services should be replaced in the end-user's service session and what are their ubiquitous ambient counterparts; and the executor, that executes the decision and adapts the end-user's service session to the new ambient context. This solution is based on highly scalable distributed coverage zones. Service providers must deploy their ubiquitous services, having the same functionality and an equivalent QoS, in different geographic areas, and they must associate each service to a specific coverage zone. Therefore, when the end-user moves among coverage zones, a semantic handover is launched to guarantee seamless service continuity throughout end-user's ambient contexts.


This paper is part of the study of writing design (i.e. the graphic sign of writing) and of the concept of movement. It is placed within the context of historical references on the design of writing (as an archaic sign, pictogram, ideogram) and representation technologies (from calligraphy to typography). The relationship between graphic design (writing) and movement (animation) has been addressed in the digital environment through the design of video-graphic products analyzed on the basis of: visual theories of typographic composition; the figurative-generative languages of graphic signs, relational contexts (chromatic, dimensional, formal) along with the integration between image and photo-cinematography (where present); the duration of the audiovisual spot; of the sound component as a key to emotional reading functional to the visual narrative; of communication strategies. Kinetic typography, which integrates movement and writing, is therefore the object of study of this paper. In the field of graphic design and specifically of drawing discipline, two aspects will be evaluated: technological innovation, which made possible the video-graphic representation of the movement while physical time passes; audiovisual languages and compositional criteria for the figurative management of writing and multimedia communication. The realized projects are configured as short-term video-graphic ads and are developed in the context of audiovisual narrative in relation to the creative relationship between writing and: acting; sound; title design; heritage.


Two types of carbon fibers (M40J, T300J) were incorporated into magnesium alloy matrices by a new gas pressure infiltration technique using infiltration pressures of about 10--50 MPa. Mechanical testing of the unidirectionally reinforced magnesium alloys shows excellent in-axis properties. Tensile strength of consistently more than 1000 MPa for 1.8 g/cm{sup 3} density has been obtained. However, the off-axis properties of these composites are rather poor. A promising approach to improve the fiber/matrix interface strength is by using magnesium alloys with carbide forming alloying elements such as aluminum or zirconium (AM20, AZ91, MSR-B) . The interface microstructure is observed to depend on the processing parameters, matrix content and the characteristics of the employed carbon fibers. Bending tests with varying beam length over thickness ratio are used to study the microstructure/interfacial strength relation, following an approach which is common for polymer composites. With optimized processing conditions and fiber/matrix selection interlaminar shear strength values nearly equal to polymer composites can be reached.


Crizotinib is one of the molecularly-targeted agents targeted against anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Although its effects appear to be promising, crizotinib may cause adverse effects in patients with ALK-rearranged NSCLC. Hepatic laboratory abnormalities are frequently observed with crizotinib and treatment discontinuation is occasionally required. We herein report the case of a 51-year-old woman diagnosed with relapsed ALK-rearranged NSCLC, who received crizotinib as second-line systemic chemotherapy. After 17 days of crizotinib therapy, the patient developed grade >3 hepatotoxicity. Treatment discontinuation improved the laboratory abnormalities and fifth-line oral desensitization with crizotinib achieved successful response without hepatotoxicity. Therefore, oral desensitization with crizotinib may be a viable option following crizotinib-induced hepatitis.


MalariaGEN is a data-sharing network that enables groups around the world to work together on the genomic epidemiology of malaria. Here we describe a new release of curated genome variation data on 7,000 Plasmodium falciparum samples from MalariaGEN partner studies in 28 malaria-endemic countries. High-quality genotype calls on 3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and short indels were produced using a standardised analysis pipeline. Copy number variants associated with drug resistance and structural variants that cause failure of rapid diagnostic tests were also analysed. Almost all samples showed genetic evidence of resistance to at least one antimalarial drug, and some samples from Southeast Asia carried markers of resistance to six commonly-used drugs. Genes expressed during the mosquito stage of the parasite life-cycle are prominent among loci that show strong geographic differentiation. By continuing to enlarge this open data resource we aim to facilitate research into the evolutionary processes affecting malaria control and to accelerate development of the surveillance toolkit required for malaria elimination. This manuscript from the MalariaGEN consortium, a data-sharing community of teams working on Plasmodium falciparum genomic epidemiology, presents the new release of curated P. falciparum genomes from isolates collected in 73 locations in Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania. Based on robust and perfectly detailed methods (ranging from the treatment of the blood samples, the DNA extraction, the Illumina and computational platforms developed to produce genome sequencing for variant discovery and genotype calling), they analyzed 7000 P. falciparum genome sequences and provided numerous exciting data. For instance, they found that variations (SNPs and indels) in P. falciparum genome affected about a quarter of the 23 Mb genome (and mostly coding regions), or that duplication genotypes are frequent around mdr1, plasmepsin2/3 and gch1, which are known to be associated with antimalarial drug resistance (including mefloquine, piperaquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine). Moreover, population genetic analyses conducted on this largest available data resource, depict a comprehensive picture of P. falciparum parasite populations globally and sub populations at continental level. In the results, a large section is devoted to the description of the geographic patterns of validated molecular markers (SNPs and CNVs) associated with antimalarial drug resistance. By compiling data on all samples collected from 2002–2015, they present clear profiles of drug resistance by regional sub-populations for the most used antimalarial drugs. Finally, they reveal a global landscape regarding a major challenge for malaria elimination, that are deletions in hrp2 and 3 genes linked The analysis of whole-genome sequences obtained from Plasmodium falciparum is particularly challenging due to the presence of hypervariable regions, highly repetitive sequences, and frequent mixture of parasites due to multiple infections of the host. The authors of this study describe a curated list of over three million high-confidence polymorphisms obtained from the genome sequence analysis of more than 7000 samples of P. falciparum collected by several studies in 73 locations in Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania. This work, reporting a laudable effort to substantially enrich publicly available genome data of P. falciparum worldwide, is of paramount importance for the field. The contribution goes in line with authors' previous consortia publications, extending largely the number of available data that can be analysed via web with powerful data analysis pipelines. By providing open access to a curated list of polymorphisms based on reproducible and high-quality protocols for the sequencing and analysis of P. falciparum genomes this study is likely to decrease the difficulties that have delayed the research on genomic epidemiology and population genomics of P. falciparum . Among other advances, studies in this area are likely to have important implications for a better understanding of the evolution towards drug resistance of the different global parasite populations ultimately contributing for a better control of this devastating disease. The manuscript is very well written and clear. It presents eight genetically distinct populations of parasites each endemic to different word regions, including South America, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, South Asia, West Southeast Asia, East Southeast Asia and Oceania. An interesting genetic and geographic characterization of the eight parasite populations is also shown. Of note, the finding of higher within-host diversity in the parasite populations endemic to Africa, the identification of single nucleotide polymorphism with high levels of geographic differentiation, and further characterization of geographic patterns of drug resistance and polymorphisms with potential


Soiling losses can be mitigated by cleaning the PV modules. However, the profitability of PV cleaning varies with time, influenced by the electricity price, the module efficiency and the cleaning costs. The present work analyzes the trends in soiling losses and soiling mitigation profitability for the continental U.S. The initial results show that, because of the lowering electricity price, the portion of PV capacity economically worth cleaning is decreasing. This means that, even if the economic impact of soiling is lowering, the fraction of energy yield lost due to soiling is actually increasing, because of the reducing mitigation activities.


This paper presents an application of the manufacturing constraint modeling (MCM) method we previously developed, to composite molding processes. A statistical model to predict resin filling time for given part geometry and inlet location is constructed through massive process simulations and data mining. A bitmap representation is adopted to generate massive samples of part geometries within a bounding box. The model is trained by the statistical regression based on the abstract features inspired by the underlying physics of the filling process, which dramatically enhances the model generalizability compared to the conventional surrogate models. The model is tested by in-the-bag samples and out-of-bag samples with a different inlet gate location and a different bounding box. The result shows the manufacturing constraint model trained by the knowledge-inspired feature representation achieves comparable in-the-bag training errors as the surrogate models, and remarkably better out-of-bag testing results. The proposed manufacturing constraint model will be useful to enhance the manufacturability of composite structures during manual design iterations as well as computer-based optimization.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


The structure and evolvement of continuous spectrum wave packet is studied for two-dimensional vortex wave and inertial-gravitational wave in the rotationalstratification ocean.The results show that the two kinds of wave are different in their structure and evolvement.The evolvement of continuous spectrum wave packet depends not only on the distribution of basic field but also on the structure of initial disturbance field.The disturbance may decrease,or increase at first and then decrease,sometime the increase is large,but it is finally absorbed by the basic flow.The structure of the continuous spectrum wave packet goes with time,nevertheless the structure of the continuous spectrum which composes the wave packet does not go with time,which is the largest difference between the continuous spectrum and its wave packet.In sum,all the facts show that the evolvement of continuous spectrum wave packet can not be neglected in limited time.Both the continuous spectrum and the discrete spectrum all needs to be considered and studied.


In this paper,influence of the stainless steel cylinder on the magnetic field is studied by using numerical methods.Simulations show that due to the SS cylinder,the equivalent resistance of the discharge circuit increases and the equivalent inductance reduces,hence a 4.9% reduction of the magnetic peak field and 6.7 reduction of the rise time for a cylinder of 20-mm wall.Experiments were carried out and the results agreed well with the theoretical analysis.


Objective: The aim of the present study was design, develop and to evaluate a model of floating sustained release pellets formulations for Omeprazole by extrusion and spheronization technique.
Methods: Omeprazole at different drug to polymer ratios were prepared by extrusion and spheronization technique and the release rate of the drug from the pellets was studied. Further, the in-vitro release studies of pellets were carried out in 0.1N HCL for 12 hours. Prepared pellets were subjected to characterization by different techniques such as loose bulk density, tapped bulk density, compressibility index and angle of repose. To optimize the formulation on the basis of acceptable pellet properties friability, drug content, moisture content, and loss on drying and in-vitro drug release tests were done. In addition, the compatibility studies were performed by using FTIR and DSC.
Results: These above studies indicated that the drug release can be modulated by varying the concentration of the polymer. The resulting formulation produced robust pellets with acceptable drug content and low friability. Further, release data was fitted to various mathematical models such as, Higuchi, Korsmeyer-Peppas, First-order, and Zero-order to evaluate the kinetics and mechanism of the drug release. Kinetic modeling of in-vitro dissolution profiles revealed the release mechanism ranges from Quasi-Fickian transport to Anomalous (non-Fickian transport), which was only dependent on the type and amount of polymer used. The drug release of the optimized formulation (F5) follows Zero order kinetics and the mechanism was found to be diffusion controlled. The FTIR and DSC studies reveal that there is no interaction between the drug and the polymer/excipients mixture.
Keywords:  Floating, Ethyl cellulose, HPMC, Pellets, Omeprazole.


A series of experiments was conducted in which trimethylbismuthine (TMB) was used to introduce atomic bismuth into a supersonic flow of electronically excited nitrogen fluoride, NF(a 1 Δ), at an elevated density of 3 x 10 15 mol cm -3 . Excited-state densities of Bi( 2 D) approximately equal to 1 x 10 13 atom cm -3 and BiF(AO + ) approximately equal to 4 x 1O 11 mol cm -3 were achieved. After correction for mixing, these density values agreed reasonably well with values predicted by a quadratic scaling law. Simulation of the blue BiF(AO + )-BiF(XO + ) emission spectrum suggests that the BiF(AO + ) was in vibrational as well as rotational equilibrium at 300°C. The significance of these results for developing a supersonic BiF(AO + ) laser utilizing TMB is discussed.


Considerable evidence now exists that a diet rich in certain fruits and vegetables acts to reduce the effects of age related illness. In particular recent focus has been on darkly pigmented berries high in phytochemicals such as anthocyanins and phenolics.Boysenberry is one such fruit with the potential to be an innovative functional ingredient. Though not as well known in Japan as blueberry and raspberry it is highly regarded in parts of the US and Europe. Boysenberry (Rubus loganobaccus cv boysenberry) is a trailing craneberry or bramble, a hybrid cross between a loganberry and a blackberry.One of the chemopreventitive characteristics of boysenberries is by way of its antioxidant effect attributed to the anthocyanins. The main anthocyanins have been determined by HPLC analysis to be three cyanidin-3-0-sophoroside, cyanidin-3-0-glucosylrutinoside, cyanidin-3-0-glucosid. These act to prevent cellular damage by scavenging highly reactive free radicals. Other potential functional uses of boysenberry as both an ingredient and/or extract are because of its ellagic acid and folate content.


This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of the Assessment Workgroup at the University of North Texas Libraries.


It was agreed, at the suggestion of the Organization Committee, that anything which was a reaffirmation of policy might be formally moved by the Chairman. Dr. H. H. D. SUrHERLAND (Kensington and Hammersmith) asked the reason for the exclusion from the agenda of certain motions passed by his Division, and whether they could be discussed under the second supplementary report of Council. Dr. D. P. STEVENSON, Secretary, said that he had received two composite motions four days after the time required to enable them to be published in the Journal six weeks before the A.R.M. The Association's solicitor had advised that the motions involved a change of policy and should receive six weeks' prior notice. Dr. BEAUCHAMP said that anything which was relevant in the Kensington and Hammersmith motion could be debated under the second supplementary report of Council.


The study was carried out to investigate the empirical effect of a strategic management system on sustainable development by using a balanced scorecard (BSC), as a theoretical lens, and organizational performance, as an intervening variable. The study incorporated a positivism research paradigm in order to address the objective nature of research. As the current study has an empirical and impartial nature, a quantitative method was considered the best method for achieving the research objectives of the study. The study used questionnaires as a data collection instrument. In total, three hundred questionnaires were disturbed among Chinese power companies based in Pakistan. A stratified-random sampling approach was adopted to reach relevant respondents. Partial least squares-structural equation modeling was used for statistical analysis. BSC indicated a positive influence on sustainable development. Additionally, organizational performance depicted partial mediation between the strategic management system and sustainable development. The study underpins the theoretical foundation of a resource-based view (RBV) and a balanced scorecard view of the strategic management system. The findings suggest that non-financial measures have better consequences for employees' performance, making them ecologically responsive, unlike the financial performance measures used previously. The study suggests taking measures related to wastage and usage of inimitable resources that focus on in-addition rather traditional measures, which can allow sustainable development.


Abstract : Abstract: Provides tabular climatological data for 183 locations worldwide; prepared in response to request by an Air Force corrosion prevention and control contractor. Tables give mean number of days with: temperature less than or equal to 40F at noon LST, precipitation greater than a trace, temperature greater than 85F for 5 hours or more, thunderstorms, relative humidity greater than 60% at noon LST, wind greater than 15 knots between 06 & 18 LST, and wind greater than 15 knots--all hours. Keywords: Corrosion Control; Corrosion prevention; Climatology; Temperature; Precipitation, Thunderstorms, Relative humidity; Winds.


(Abstract)Traditional pattern matching algorithms can not process packet at line-speed under the high speed environment. This paper presents a fast multi-pattern matching algorithm based on Ternary Content Addressable Memory(TCAM) which cuts long pattern to short sub-string stored in the first TCAM by pattern shifting, and stores number in the second TCAM. In the search pattern process, the first TCAM returns the number of matching entry, the second TCAM matches the serial numbers and gives long pattern matching information. This paper proposes a space dividing method to compress the number of TCAM entries and improves the utilized rate of resources. Experimental results show that this algorithm can achieve high-speed packet processing and has lower space consumption compared with the pattern-shifted storing algorithm based on hash mark.


The invention belongs to the field of computer vision measuring and relates to an image light stripe noise suppression method based on confidence evaluation in vision measuring. The method is characterized in that the pixel central point of the surface light stripe of a to-be-measured forged piece is extracted by a gray centroid method, a feature light stripe model is built through the imaging features of a left camera and a right camera, the relation between the laser incidence angle and the camera shooting angle and the surface geometry features of the to-be-measured forged piece, the confidence evaluation model of a light stripe center is built according to the extraction precision of the light stripe center and the reliability of an ideal feature light stripe model, and the light stripe model and the confidence evaluation model are used to perform confidence evaluation and gross error point removing on the extracted light stripe center. The image light stripe noise suppression method has the advantages that the gross errors in a feature light stripe image are removed through confidence evaluation, the noise interference of the feature information in the image is suppressed effectively, the matched and rebuilt light stripe information is allowed to conform to the three-dimensional shape of the to-be-measured forged piece, and size restoration precision is increased.


Overseas interest refers to the overseas state interest,and is the component part of the state interest.The WTO rules,esp.the TRIMs agreement are part of the international law rules.Diplomatic protection refers to the diplomatic action and other means of peaceful settlement taken in the name of the state in order to protect its nationals when they are injured by the internationally wrongful act of another state.This is a basic principle of international law.Diplomatic protection is a right of a state.Diplomatic protection of overseas investment is the final and yet the most effective way to protect overseas investment,which accordingly can further safeguard and expand the overseas interest of China.


This paper presents a real-time digital signal processing system to detect the presence of pedestrians waiting to cross an intersection. A pedestrian detection algorithm is developed and implemented on a Texas Instruments TMS320C40 digital signal processor (DSP) chip such that videosignals captured and transmitted from an actual intersection are processed in real-time. The detection algorithm consists of a background update and background subtraction components applied to image blocks. The background update is done in order to cope with brightness changes that occur in actual outdoor scenes. In addition, waiting and moving pedestrians are distinguished by using the temporal changes of image block intensities. The results obtained indicate that this DSP implementation provides an acceptable detection rate for this traffic management problem.


The power generation sector is facing an incessantly growing demand to reduce its emissions of CO2. Oxy fuel combustion combined with CO2 storage is suggested as one of the possible, promising technologies which will enable the continuous use of the burning coal or other fuels. This study presents a numerical investigation on performance of the combustion of Russian coal in a 0.5MWth small scale furnace. This finite volume based study is carried out using a commercial CFD code called AVL Fire version 2009.2. Devolatilisation and Char Combustion modelling are incorporated through user defined subroutines. For designing a new or retrofit an existing boiler for oxy fuel combustion capability, detailed study of heat transfer performance is important. This work is an attempt to model these issues and to address the effects of oxy-fuel firing on heat transfer performance. The main focus of this work is to determine the effect of recycled ratio (RR) on the flame heat transfer performance. The present numerical results are validated against the existing experimentally measured peak radiative heat flux and results showed reasonable agreement. In this study, four combustion environments were considered including an air-fired case (mainly N2-based) as reference and three RR cases (mainly CO2-based). Results were presented by temperature distributions and species distribution such as CO2, H2O, O2 and H2. From the results, it is found that the flames differed both in flame structure and scale for different cases. In air firing and RR75% cases, the flame is non-luminous, but at RR65% case, intense flame is observed. Also, the peak flame temperature profile moves upstream with the decrease of RR. A significant increase in the CO2 concentrations were noted under all oxy-fuel combustion conditions compared to air-firing case.


Obesity is associated with an increased risk of osteoarthritis, and the incidence of obese patients requiring a total knee replacement (TKR) has increased in recent years. A high body mass index (BMI) may influence post‐TKR rehabilitation outcomes. We investigated the effects of obesity on functional mobility outcomes following post‐TKR rehabilitation in Asian patients whose BMIs were not as high as those reported in similar studies performed in non‐Asian countries.


A biisotropic medium is an optically active medium that may be applied to develop devices with new physical properties. In this paper, resulting from the solution of a complicated boundary problem, the high frequency properties of 2-D and 3-D biisotropic objects are investigated, and the physical properties of these objects are revealed and analyzed.


Recently, a new concept of electric variable transmission has been introduced to the power split of hybrid electric vehicles to improve the fuel economy and reduce the emissions. This paper presented an electric variable transmission system which integrated a new two-rotor doubly salient permanent magnet motor. The motor topology, operation principles and electromagnetic performances are investigated. Both theoretical analysis and finite element results show that the proposed motor not only maintains the advantages of doubly salient permanent magnet motors, but also offers flexible operation modes, which makes the motor a promising candidate for speed drive systems especially for hybrid electric vehicles.


Background. Reduction of cortical thickness and Hippocampal volume (HV) in Methamphetamine abusers (MA) has been reported. However, change of white matter volume (WMV) in MA group is inconclusive. We aim to compare cortical thickness, Hippocampal volume (HV), and WMV per intra-cranial volume (ICV) among MA in Thai adolescents.

Methods. 3D T1-wighted high resolution MR images from 11 MAs and 10 HCs with gender and age match with mean age 25.48 ±4.9 were acquired on a 1.5T Philips MR scanner. Automated Talairach transform and images group analysis with general linear model (GLM) were performed using FreeSurfer software. HV, FWMV/ICV, and WMV/ICV between MA and HC groups were compared.

Results. Significant thinner regions (p < 0.05) of cortical thickness in MA group were found at the right temporal and parietal lobes. Trends of smaller Hippocampal volume on left and right by 5.1% and 4.3% and increasing of Left FWMV/ICV, right FWMV/ICV, and tWMV/ICV by 3.1%, 4.5% and 3.8% respectively in MA group compared to HC group.

Conclusions. The results demonstrated significant thinner of cortical thickness at the right temporal and parietal lobes and the trend of WM hypertrophy and smaller Hippocampus in MA group.


Public service broadcasters facing multiple threats to their existence are simultaneously grappling with their transition to an era of digital broadcasting and networked information services. At stake is the continued need for a 'public sphere' in an increasingly diversified, commodified mediascape. This article draws on interviews with key ABC personnel between 1997 and 1998, press reports and relevant academic literature to examine the development of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online publishing activities in the context of a recent proposal to part-privatise ABC Online. It considers the role of ABC Online as an 'information broker' in the public domain, and as a catalyst for changing modes of cultural production within the corporation. It then challenges the 1997 Mansfield Review's assessment of ABC Online as a 'non-core' activity of the corporation. Finally, it outlines options for future resourcing of the service, dependent on further research outcomes.


In a paper "On the corrections of the elements of Delambre's Solar Tables," published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1828, I stated that the comparison of the corrections in the epochs of the sun and the sun's perigee given by late observations, with the corrections given by the observations of the last century, appeared to indicate the existence of some inequality not included in the arguments of those Tables. As soon as I had convinced myself of the necessity of seeking for some inequality of long period, I commenced an examination of the mean motions of the planets, with the view of finding one whose ratio to the mean motion of the earth could be expressed very nearly by a proportion whose terms were small: and I did not long seek in vain. It is well known that the appearances of Venus recur in very nearly the same order every eight years: and therefore some multiple of the periodic time of Venus is nearly equal to eight years. It is easily seen that this multiple is thirteen: and consequently eight times the mean motion of Venus is nearly equal to thirteen times the mean motion of the Earth. According to Laplace,(Méc. Cél. liv. vi. chap. 6.) the mean annual motion of Venus is 650g.198; that of the Earth 399g.993.


After Unit 2 is put into operation, the oil leakage in the middle of the steam and excitation ends of the generator is relatively large, which affects the safety of production. The causes of oil leakage are analyzed, and temporary measures are taken to prevent major equipment damage during operation. Taking advantage of the opportunity of unit maintenance, the upper end cap of generator steam end and excitation end is disintegrated. It is found that the middle side sealant strip is not filled, which causes insufficient deformation of the sealant strip. The gap between oil seal, oil holder and sealing bush is repaired and adjusted. In the process of overhaul, the organization, safety and technical measures are strictly implemented, and the "four-stage" acceptance is carried out to completely eliminate the oil leakage of turbogenerator.


A new federal model of in-patient medical care funding provides payment for treatment basing on the average costs estimated when evaluating "completed cases" of certain diseases grouped together due to their similarity and types of the provided medical care (CSG system). The lack of differentiation does not allow full reimbursement of expenses of in-patient units occurring during treatment of the severely ill in the intensive care wards. Goal: to estimate risks of financial losses of units providing medical care to the patients with high chances of a complicated course of the disease when medical care is reimbursed within the system described above (CSG system) and to propose improvement of this system. Results. The article presents the results of joint work of the experts from Organizational Economic Committee of the Association of Anesthesiologists and Intensive Care Physicians and workers of St. Petersburg Regional Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance aimed at the improvement of the medical care funding system based on the so-called clinical statistic groups (CSG). It was suggested splitting up certain clinical statistic groups into subgroups considering the need of patients in the intensive care and its content. The coefficients reflecting the content of costs were calculated for the identified subgroups. The offered approach was piloted during the project in St. Petersburg through estimating costs for a completed case in parallel with estimation as per the existing method of reimbursement related to medical economic standards. The obtained results proved that the offered approach allowed achieving better differentiation due to re-distribution of funds from less severely ill patients who required no treatment in the intensive care departments to the more severely ill. The data were submitted to Center of Expertise and Monitoring of Medical Care Quality in order to prepare suggestions to amend guidelines on medical care reimbursement by the Russian Ministry of Health. Conclusion. The article describes specific practical outcomes – the model was developed to be introduced for reimbursement of the in-patient care as per CSG system within mandatory medical insurance.


This thesis studies the theoretical and experimental determination of the fractal dimension of different sets. It contains both pure and applied topics. After establishing the ground rules, we look at ways to calculate the fractal dimension of fractal interpolation functions and we end the study with an experiment consisting in the estimation of the fractal dimension of two graphs representing the activities of two companies at the Toronto Stock Exchange. In fact, we will see that there is a certain cohesion between the fractal dimension of a cloud of points and the absolute value of the slope of the regression line approximating the same cloud of points.


Australia's economic and industrial systems were intensively regulated through extensive labour laws more or less since the early 1900s. These systems, based on the conciliation and arbitration of industrial disputes (or similar concepts), regulated terms and conditions of employment, secured the rights of trade unions and limited industrial action among other things. However, notwithstanding this wide-ranging industrial and labour regulation, the emergence of an 'idea' of a labour law subject which would draw together the relevant subject matter of a field of policy, and which could be offered as a subject taught in institutions of higher learning was very slow in evolving. This paper examines that evolution, and the state of the subject as it stands today.


An efficiency comparison of 2- and 3-level inverter based Power Conditioning Systems (PCSs) is presented for a grid-connected Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) application. The power conditioning systems examined are: an intermediate boost converter integrated with a 2- and 3-level inverter. The aim is to determine which power conditioning system yields the highest efficiency in terms of power losses of the semiconductor devices with a predetermined operating condition. In view of this, a relation between the fuel cell operating condition and power loss is established to evaluate the efficiency of the system. The power loss model presented in this paper has taken into account the conduction and switching losses of the semiconductor devices within each power conditioning system. Simulation results are presented showing the power loss characteristics with the operating condition. Finally, with regard to the global efficiency for the power conditioning systems, an intermediate boost converter integrated with a 3-level inverter is found to be the most favourable choice considering the typical operating condition encountered by a fuel cell at the kWatt level.


The contents of this paper reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the data presented herein, and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Federal Highway Administration and the Indiana Department of Transportation, nor do the contents constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. Many of the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) sites are contaminated with aromatic hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents; these contaminants often occur in the form of light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs) or dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs). Considerable effort has recently been focused on developing in-situ technologies for removing or destroying NAPL source zones, and several potentially viable methods have emerged, including in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO). ISCO has become an attractive remediation option to managers at many contaminated sites. The three oxidants that are most often applied in-situ are hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) with iron catalysts, potassium permanganate (KMnO 4), and ozone (O 3). While each oxidant system has been field demonstrated to be effective in some instances, a clear understanding of these processes is important to the successful implementation of the technology. The primary goal of the laboratory experiments is to evaluate strategies for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the oxidants as applied to aggressive remediation of source zones containing residual saturations of NAPLs, particularly as applied at INDOT sites. Several novel approaches have been taken to reach the goals of the study. The first approach enhances the application of Fenton's reagent in soil slurry systems, resulting in a better understanding of the magnitude of non-specific oxidant losses relative to consumption by the target compounds. The second approach explores minimizing non-specific losses of the oxidant by introducing the oxidant (KMnO 4) in an encapsulated form. Finally, solubility enhancers are examined to enhance the aqueous NAPL concentrations. Significant enhancements in NAPL aqueous concentration will result in corresponding enhancements of the observed oxidation rate. Based on input from INDOT staff, selected sites will be assessed for amenability to remediation via in-situ oxidation. Efforts will be made to choose sites that are representative of a broad range of INDOT needs. Assessment required travel by senior personnel to specific sites to evaluate the nature and extent of contamination. Site visits were also be made by research assistants to collect soil samples for laboratory experiments. Introduction Many of the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) sites are …


To echo the United Nations formulated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SDG 4 is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Furthermore, high-quality education is the base on which human lives can be improved and sustainable development can be accomplished. Therefore, the affective emotional tutoring system established in this study enables learning via mobile devices, which are indispensable in daily life. The real-time interactive agent in the system guides learners to turn negative emotions into positive ones. We explored the usability of and user satisfaction with the affective emotional tutoring system. Sixty-two students participated in the study which used a quantitative research design to explore a learning situation. The overall usability of the system was evaluated with the System Usability Scale (SUS), and the Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) was used to evaluate user satisfaction with the different elements of the system. The results showed that both the usability of and satisfaction with the affective emotional tutoring system were high. The emotional feedback mechanism of the system can help learners turn negative emotions into positive ones.


In this paper I summarize two versions of a new form of ethical theory in which all basic moral terms are defined by direct reference to exemplars of goodness. I call the Christian form Divine Motivation Theory in a book by the same name (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and the more general form I call Exemplarist Virtue Theory (Gifford Lectures 2015) or Exemplarist Moral Theory (forthcoming 2017, Oxford University Press). In the Christian form the supreme exemplar is God. In exemplarist virtue theory exemplars are superbly admirable persons or fictional characters, whose goodness is identified through the emotion of admiration rather than through the satisfaction of descriptive properties. In both versions of the theory the terms 'good person', 'virtue', 'good life', 'admirable act', and 'right act' are defined by the acts, motives, judgments, and attitudes of exemplary persons.


5 pairs of primers were designed to identify SNPs in 3′-regulatory region of Myostatin gene in 3 geese breeds,and the relativity of SNPs and slaughter characters was also analyzed.And the results showed that two SNPs were detected,which were A88G and G353T.Population genetic analysis indicated that there were EE and EF genotypes in 88 bp site,and E allele was a superior one.The frequency of EF genotype was especially high in Yangzhou geese(0.550),but very low in Wanxi White geese(0.033).In 353 bp site,three genotypes,GG,GH and HH were detected.The frequency of GG was the highest and that of HH was the lowest in 3 geese groups.The relativity analysis showed that individuals with EF had higher slaughter performances than those with EE.For leg muscle weight(LMW) and leg muscle percent(LMP),individuals with GG were significantly higher than those with HH in Yangzhou geese and Wanxi White geese(P0.05).


The present invention relates to an application of the terminal device and the data receiving method. The present invention is to reduce the network side or from the lower communication speed according to the amount of data received higher communication costs accumulated network traffic, increasing the amount of data is large side data content output for the opportunity. Terminal apparatus connectable to a communication speed higher or lower according to the communication traffic charges accumulated in the first network, and the communication speed is lower than the first network or communication cost in accordance with the accumulated traffic higher second network. A first terminal device via a network, the amount of data received and stored first data. Moreover, the terminal apparatus via the second network, received data amount smaller than the first data and the second data storage. Storage terminal device determines the state of the connection status of the network and data, and based on the judgment result output control data contents for the reception.


The invention discloses a mobile terminal profile switching method and a terminal, wherein the terminal profile switching method comprises the steps as follows: contacts with the same attributes are mapped to a profile; in addition, the attributes of the contacts of the other side are obtained and the corresponding profile is judged, so as to lead a mobile terminal to operate under the profile when communication is established. The terminal profile switching method and the terminal can autonomously switch the mobile terminal used by a user into the profile required by the user according to the user requirements, can achieve the intelligentized operation of the mobile terminal, and is convenient for the user to switch between leisure and working immediately so as to deal with affairs in time.


Magnetic properties of epitaxial thin films of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 have been studied in the superconducting state in fields perpendicular to the sample, along the c crystallographic axis. In the low-temperature state, susceptibility, hysteresis loop, and remanent magnetization (trapped flux) studies show that a critical state is established in very low applied fields. The flux penetration process and the related thickness properties are well accounted for by simple electromagnetic models for the critical current. It is shown that the evaluation of the critical current J, by the classical Bean formula is roughly valid, in spite of the curvature of the vortices. A decrease in the low-temperature value of J c with increasing thickness is found above 100 nm


Safety and non-safety related vehicular ad hoc network messages have localised spatial scope and limited time relevance. A medium access control protocol must ensure timely delivery of such messages with high reliability over a shared wireless medium to one hop neighbours. In this paper, a Road Side Unit (RSU) supported channel allocation protocol has been proposed to minimise channel allocation time and management overhead. For protocol operation, an RSU divides the limited bandwidth allocated to a region into prefixed overlapping spatial clusters and the channel in each cluster is divided into time slots. A time slot is allotted to a vehicle in accordance to the priority of the request and availability of the channel in its cluster. Simulation results indicate that for channel allocation based on three overlapping clusters, the allocation scheme is able to deliver packets within the stipulated time with high reliability for different vehicle speeds and densities. Moreover, the centralised RSU-based technique does not suffer from the hidden and exposed node problem.


A study of event-by-event pseudo-rapidity fluctuations of the produced shower particles in terms of the Φ values has been carried out for 22Ne-emulsion interactions at and 28Si-emulsion interactions at at different centrality of collision. In order to extract true dynamical fluctuations experimental results have been compared with the results obtained from the analysis of Monte Carlo simulated (MC-RAND) events. The study reflects that Φ despite being strongly intensive shows centrality dependence.


At least 13 species of intestinal nematodes and 4 species of blood and tissue nematodes have been reported infecting man in Indonesia. Five species of intestinal nematodes are very common and highly prevalent, especially in the rural areas and slums of the big cities. Those species are Ascaris lumbricoides, Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale, Trichuris trichiura and Oxyuris vermicularis, while Strongyloides stercoralis is disappearing. The prevalence of the soil transmitted helminths differs from place to place, depending on many factors such as the type of soil, human behaviour etc. Three species of lymph dwelling filarial worms are known to be endemic. the urban Wuchereria bancrofti is low endemic in Jakarta and a few other cities along the north coast of Java, with Culex incriminated as vector, high endemicity is found in Irian Jaya, where Anopheline mosquitoes act as vectors. Brugia malayi is widely distributed and is still highly endemic in many areas. The zoonotic type is mainly endemic in swampy areas, and has many species of Mansonia mosquitoes as vectors. B.timori so far has been found only in the south eastern part of the archipelago and has Anopheles barbirostris as vector. Human infections with animal parasites have been diagnosed properly only when adult stages were found either in autopsies or removed tissues. Cases of infections with A. caninum, A.braziliense, A.ceylanicwn, Trichostrongylus colubrifotmis, T.axei and Oesophagostomwn apiostomum have been desribed from autopsies, while infections with Gnathostoma spiningerum have been reported from removed tissues. Infections with the larval stages such as VLM, eosinophylic meningitis, occult filariasis and other could only be suspected, since the diagnosis was extremely difficult and based on the finding and identification of the parasite. Many cases of creeping eruption which might be caused by the larval stages ofA.caninwn andA.braziliense and Strongyloides stercoralis were diagnosed only clinically. Also diagnosed clinically were occult filariasis which was caused by animal filarial worms, and eosinophylic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. While Toxocara canis and T.cati are prevalent in dogs and cats, Anisakis in marine fish, no cases of Visceral larva migrains and anisakiasis have been reported in man in Indonesia. INTRODUCTION man in Indonesia, but only 8 species are prevalent, widely distributed and cause public In Indonesia, parasitic infections in health problems. Other Nematodes, espegeneral are decreasing. However, parasitic cially the non human parasites, may infect infections are still important, especially in man, and cause clinical symptoms, which are rural areas and slums of the big cities. At least sometimes difficult to diagnose, and there18 Nematodes have been reported infecting fore not easy to determine the treatment. Be* Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia Bul. Penelit. Kesehat. 17 (2) 1989 parasites may give different symptoms than in the natural host. Moreover, the parasites themselves, as erratic parasites are hidden in unusual tissues and difficult to be found with the usual technics. Soil transmitted helminths The most prevalent are the soil transmitted helminths, consisting of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Nector americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale. These parasites are widely distributed and may be found in all stool surveys. Before the implementation of the control programme, very high prevalences are common. In many areas, one species may be predominant, but in other areas high prevalences of all soil transmitted helminths may be found, while in areas with good sanitary conditions, mostly involving the higher socio economic group, low prevalences are common. Ascaris lumbricoides may be found in almost 100% of the inhabitants of certain areas. Especially high prevalences have been reported in children. In a slum area in Jakarta, follow up studies of babies born in that area, showed that 100% of the children have been infected with A.lumbricoides, when they have reached their second year of life lv2. In Kresek, West Java, Clarke et a1 (1973) reported A. lumbricoides in 90%, T. nichiura in 91% and hook worm infection in 67% of the stools examined. In KalirnantaqMasbar and Purnomo reported an infection of A. lumbricoides in 80%, hookworm infection in 82% and Trichuris nichiura in 78% in a stool surveys, Margono made a summary on the results of stool surveys, showed high prevalences in all provinces surveyed except East Nusa Tenggara with only 10% A. lumbricoides, 35% T. trichiura and 1 % hookworm infection. High prevalences of all the 3 species of soil transmitted helminths were found in the provinces of West Java, Yogyakarta, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and South Sulawesi. In 1985, the CDC of the Department of Health reported overall lower figures, which may be due to the control programmes. Another possibility is that the data from the Department of health include the whole population, while Margono's data were results from certain groups. The clinical symptoms of these infections are usually not severe, but very often disturbing, and when calculated in terms of loss of working hours because of weakness, fever, abdominal pain and diarrhoea. The economic loss caused by these infections may be considerable. Moreover the clinical symptoms are usually not typical and not easy to diagnose. More severe are the unusual symptoms of complications of soil transmitted helminthic infections. Halimun et a15 reported 40 cases of complications of Ascaris infection as intestinal obstruction and acute appendicities, which had occurred in the years 1973-1975. Hookworm infections may cause severe anemia with heart failure as result, while Trichuris infection may cause severe anemia and malnutrition due to dysentery syndrome. Clinical symptoms caused by the larval stages are even more difficult to diagnose. Loeffler's syndrome caused by the larvae of Ascaris has only been suspected and never confirmed in Indonesia. The same happens with ground itch caused by the larvae of hookworms. Infections with the non human soil transmitted helminths are difficult to confirm, because of the unusual situation. Toxocara canis and T. cati are revalent in dogs and cats in In? donesia6' , but visceral larva migrans caused by the larvae have never been diagnosed. Some of the soil transmitted helminths have been decreasing very much. StronBul. Penelit. Kesehat. 17 (2) 1989 8 gyloides stercoralis, which Sri Oemijati in 1956 found 9.4% positives among hospital patients and 16.3% in autopsies, is now rarely found in surveys, and also in autopsies. Lie Kian Joe in 1947~ found in autopsies in Jakarta, 47 % positive with Trichostrongylus colubroformis and T.axei. These worms are now also very rarely found. Moreover these 3 species are very small worms, and need special technics to diagnose. Many species of animal nematodes have been discovered and identified because of the findings of these worms in autopsies and clinical cases. Ancylostoma caninum, A. braziliense, A. ceylanicum and Acanthocephala have been discovered in autosies1° while Gnathostom spinigerum have been 11,12 discovered in clinical cases .


In early 2008, the Federal Highway Administration issued a task order under the Advanced Quality Systems Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract for a contractor to quantify the effectiveness of State quality assurance (QA) programs. The objective of the study was to develop, apply, and make recommendations for the use of a procedure that transportation departments could use to quantify and improve the effectiveness of existing quality assurance programs. Based on the knowledge and experience of the research team, four State highway agencies (SHAs) were chosen to participate. An introductory project meeting was held in December 2008, but due to personnel problems, only three agencies participated. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the objectives and scope of the project with State representatives and request their input. The three SHAs agreed to provide QA data from construction projects in their State for the team to analyze. Because sufficient data were not available to accomplish the original task, the scope was modified to use an analysis of acceptance procedures included in the agencies' specifications instead of using actual QA data. In summary, four SHA construction specifications were selected for analysis from three SHAs, two for hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavements and two for portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements. The study shows that either the computer program SPECRISK or computer simulation can be used to analyze the statistical risks of most, if not all, specifications. Both HMA pavement specifications and one of the PCC pavement specifications were amenable to analysis by SPECRISK because they are based on percent within limits as the statistical quality measure. The remaining PCC pavement specification was based on averages and had to be analyzed by computer simulation. Probabilistic Optimization for Profit (Prob.O.Prof) was one of the software programs anticipated to be useful in the analysis. However, it required data that were not available and thus could not be used in the analyses. The report includes analysis of the specifications, particularly the risks involved and recommendations for improving areas that are considered unclear or statistically invalid.


Glass transition temperature and thermal expansion of glasses in the system BaO-Al 2 O 3 -B 2 O 3 were investigated, around the glass transition region, for aluminium barium borate glasses in wide ranges of concentration: BaO up to 60 mol% and Al 2 O 3 up to 35 mol%. Dependencies of these properties on the Al 2 O 3 concentration, at the constant ratio BaO/B 2 O 3 from 0.2 to 1.0 and on change of B 2 O 3 for BaO at constant Al 2 O 3 content (up to 30 mol%) were obtained. An interpretation of the properties is given on the basis of present knowledge concerning the structure of aluminium barium borate glasses.


This article aims to find out the procedures for the development of technology-based Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to face the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. The research method used is the study of literature. Data collection is carried out by conducting a study of the review of books, literature, notes, and reports that have to do with the problem being solved. The sources of literature in this study were obtained from books, journals, and research results (papers, theses, and theses) so in this article include general processes which include: systematically identifying theories, finding literature, and analyzing documents that contains information related to the research topic. The results of this study are expected to find ways to develop production results in technology-based Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to be able to compete in the international class to support Indonesia towards the industrial revolution era 4.0.


The economic consequences of Brexit are dire. But an even more serious problem for the left thrown up by the vote to Leave is what it shows about working-class consciousness regarding 'immigrants', and how the anti-immigration Leave campaign has shifted working-class opinion to the right. It is this aspect of Brexit that I focus on in this article. In England and Wales, the majority of the working class (in the everyday rather than Marxist sense) voted for Brexit. Many Remain voters, of both right and left, have seen this as a sign of a deep, inherent xenophobia and racism among British-born working-class people, or as evidence of their inability to understand economic questions. I wish to argue, on the contrary, that the working-class Brexit vote was a logical coping strategy in the circumstances, that is, given the political economy of Britain over the last 40 years and its present configuration. Correspondingly, the vote was not based in xenophobia and racism as such, but rather an opposition to further net immigration because of its perceived impacts on access to jobs, public services and housing. This view, however, blames another section of the world working class and thus removes culpability from capital and capitalism. The left can change this economic view and challenge xenophobia only by leading a struggle based on a different economic strategy, one which opposes capitalist austerity, proposes measures which benefit the majority of the population materially, and which breaks through in practice the mystifications of capitalist value relations. Explaining popular consciousness requires going beyond a description of dominant ideologies; analysis of discourses in themselves cannot explain their hold on people's imagination. Rather, we need to see them as part of praxis, the unity of material practice and consciousness (Oilman 1993). Widespread ideas--ideologies--do not arise simply from discursive interventions; they develop over long periods through lived experience. Thus, my focus is on everyday life and its structuring by political economy and class relations. I use a pragmatist approach to how people choose their behaviour, including its moral aspects: that these are not an unmediated result of their intrinsic personal interests, but are rather framed within materially feasible strategies whether personal or collective. The view that immigration is the problem rather than neoliberal capitalism is, in Marxist terms, based on appearance' rather than 'essence'. However, in the Marxist approach, 'appearance' is not mere illusion or mystification, but is rather rooted in real materially based social relations (Geras 1972). This is a further reason for my emphasis on working-class coping strategies. The vote to leave and its motivations The majority of the working class in the everyday sense, standard classes C2, D and E, in England and Wales voted for Brexit. The majority of classes Cl, B and A voted to remain. (I will use the term Working Class (capitalised) in the Marxist sense, which means all those directly or indirectly dependent on wages over their life time. This includes the majority of standard classes E to B and some of A.) The majority of the working class appears to have voted to leave mainly on two bases. First, scepticism that the state, governments and elites' are capable of ameliorating people's material lives. The EU was here a stand-in for the state in general. The Leave campaigns slogan, 'Take back control', and its attacks on 'the establishment' and 'experts', appealed to this anti-state sentiment. The roots of the latter lie both in the ideology of neoliberalism, which has preached for 40 years that the state cannot solve economic problems, and in the experience of those decades in which the state has manifestly failed to meet working-class economic and social needs. The second main reason for the leave vote, on which I focus in the rest of this article, was that 'immigrants' are to blame for lack of jobs, poor wages and conditions, inadequate public services and shortage of decent affordable housing. …


Producing oil by bailing is more suitable for new wells with low oil production, sporadically distributed wells and the pumpi ng wells with low productivity and low profit. The scale of producing oil by bai ling of the peripheral oil fields in Daqing is gradually expanded. In order to i ncrease the employment percentage of the OOIP in fields with low-permeability a nd low production, a simple and applicable formula, which is suitable for determ ining economic limit production from wells by bailing, is derived from profit an d loss balance principle, based on oil reservoir engineering theory and the prac tices from on-the-spot producing oil by bailing. It can be considered as an ec onomic evaluation tool for economically and effectively producing oil by bailing in the peripheral oil fields of Daqing in the coming years.


The process of the generation of metaphorical concepts in naked family lexicon goes in the way that its original denotative meaning "of one's body without any clothes on" has first metaphorically developed into its connotative meaning "of articles or things without packaging" and finally into its connotative meaning "of one's behavior or manner which is performed publicly,transparently,completely or thoroughly" through conceptualization.The meaning of naked family lexicon is progressively extended and popularized and as a result they have become catchphrases nowadays.As a basic cognitive way for humans,the metaphor is the important working mechanism and the motivating source for the popularization and generalization of Chinese words.


The proliferation of new brands, increased use of sales promotions, the explosion of alternative forms of distribution and a reduction in advertising impact, make maintaining brand commitment, increasingly difficult. This study empirically examines the roles of personality traits on brand commitment. More specifically, this study investigates the effects of personality traits of preference for consistency (PFC), resistance to change, agreeableness, introversion, openness to experience, and conscientiousness on consumers' brand commitment. Based on our study, the elemental trait of conscientiousness was found to be positively related to preference for consistency but no significant relationship was found between preference for consistency and resistance to change, however a significant relationship was found between resistance to change and brand commitment. Hence, it is suggested that in order to maximize returns, it is necessary to have brand-committed customers.


The invention discloses a turnover fixture, a power battery assembling method and equipment which can be applied in the field of power battery soft packaging. The turnover fixture is composed of a base plate, an upper cap and a buffering mechanism. The fixture is coupled with a battery core, and is used for positioning the battery core. During a transportation process, the turnover fixture can beused for protecting the battery core, and for improving the battery core positioning precision. With the turnover fixture provided by the invention, positioning deviation during battery core transportation is reduced, and the battery core is prevented from being directly contacted. The invention also provides the equipment comprising a conveyor, a cap fixing machine, a cap opening machine, and a conveyer manipulator. The invention establishes a production line with the turnover fixtures as battery core carriers. With the production line, automatic transportation can be carried out by using the fixtures, such that the battery cores are prevented from being repeatedly transported by using human hands or manipulators, such that the consistency of the battery cores can be endured.


HEMORRHAGE from gastric or esophageal varices often necessitates the use of a Sengstaken-Blakemore tube for variceal tamponade. Although complications may occur with its use, safety and effectiveness following proper placement and monitoring have been demonstrated in 91% of patients.1,2We report a case of overinflation of the Sengstaken-Blakemore gastric balloon while following optimal recommended inflation and pressure monitoring techniques. Report of a Case A 51-year-old woman was admitted to Fitzsimons Army Medical Center with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage from esophageal varices confirmed by emergency esophagogastroduodenoscopy. A new Sengstaken-Blakemore tube with Boyce1modification was inflated and inspected under water to ensure competency of both esophageal and gastric balloons and was then inserted through the mouth without difficulty. The gastric balloon was filled with 100 ml of air, and firm traction was applied on the tube at the mouth to position the gastric balloon against the diaphragm at the gastric cardia. An


Based on the engineering of major bridge with continuous beam across Li Han Road of FJ-12B section of Xiangtang to Putian railway,this paper introduces technology and method of stress test in construction monitoring.By analyzing and processing diverse influencing factors and errors developed in stress test,it also provides the real stress calculation method as the technical basis for maintaining construction quality and safety of PC continuous beam bridge.


The article is aimed at defining the peculiarities of the digitalization process in the business environment of the national economy and formalizing the conceptual-methodical approach to assessing the impact of this process on business development. The article studies the actual scientific and practical issue of the impact of digital transformations on the results of economic activity of the business sector as the main driving force of the national economy. The importance of digitalization and the need to understand its multi-aspectuality and peculiarities of the course in socioeconomic systems of different levels are emphasized. Since the process of digital transformation goes beyond the boundaries of individual economic entities and sectors of the national economy, it is concluded that a full and in-depth analysis of the impact of factors of digital transformations on the development of the business sector should be carried out covering the changes that occur at the micro, meso and macro levels. A conceptual-methodical approach to analyzing the results of digital transformation in the economy with an emphasis on the entrepreneurial sector has been proposed. The approach includes the use of a system of indicators to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the progress of digital transformation at each of the above levels. At the micro level, the state of digitalization of the internal environment of economic entities is studied. At the meso level, digital transformations within industry and cross-sectoral interaction are monitored. At the macro level, national processes in the business sector are studied under the influence of the implementation of the State digital strategy and policy. The important role of the State in promoting digital innovations and stimulating the development of new technologies in favor of the national economy is underlined. It is noted that the implementation of the proposed approach requires the creation of a certain information, analytical, and organizational support.


An accurate depth location of pelvic land mark could be affected by the acoustic properties of the penetrated tissues and improper depth estimation could lead to a miscalculation of the acetabular cup implant. In the case of obese patient it is very difficult to locate the place of damage. Errors in land mark location leads to the improper treatment by orthopedic surgeons. The aim of this system is to determine pelvic orientation from CT scan images based on patch statistical shape model multilevel measurement utility tools by image calibration system; by applying a hierarchical registration scheme. Here a plastic bones and cadaveric specimen are used. Many approaches have been proposed in the literature to replace the percutanesous digitization, Involvement of the experts in the system to give the solution or conclusion.


We propose a novel multi-task learning method termed Feature Decomposition Network (FDN). The key idea of the proposed FDN is to reduce the phenomenon of feature redundancy by explicitly decomposing features into task-specific features and task-shared features with carefully designed constraints. Experimental results show that our proposed FDN can outperform the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods by a noticeable margin on Ali-CCP.


ence a gradual increase in nocturnal pain. He consulted our hospital on June 26, 1985. Physical examination revealed diffuse swelling of the outside area of the left foot and tenderness on fifth metatarsal distal portion (Fig. 1). Roentgenogram demonstrated a small oval lucent nidus surrounded by sclerotic reactive bone at the distal portion of fifth metatarsal (Fig. 2). 99mTc-bone scintigram demonstrated abnormal uptake at the area of nidus (Fig. 3). Laboratory data showed no inflammatory signs. Surgical excision of the lesion was performed on August 9, 1985, on suspicion of osteoid osteoma. A longitudinal incision was made on the distal portion of fifth metatarsal and the lesion was disclosed under radiographic control. The lesion presented a reddish appearance and minimal bulging. A en bloc excision of the lesion and bone graft were performed. Pathologic examination revealed travecular bone formation with partial calcification and proliferation of osteoblast within lacunae (Fig. 4). From these findings, osteoid osteoma was confirmed. Figure 1. Diffuse swelling is seen at the outside of the left foot.


The Department of Disease Prevention and Control, the Ministry of Public Health, has made a national integrated plan of AIDS prevention and solving 2007 2011. Also the government has promulgated an act of a plan to distribute authority to local organizations 1999, emphasizing the roles of the local organizations to operate tasks by themselves including AIDS prevention. Therefore the Disease Prevention and Control region 5 Nakhon Ratchasima has studied the ideas, policies and roles of the local administrators in the operations and in a policy to support the AIDS prevention and solving. This study is descriptive and uses qualitative data obtained by in-depth interviewing 9 local administrators in Nakhon Ratchasima and 7 in Burirum which are 16 in total. All of the administrators were selected specifically. The result of the study indicates that minority of the local administrators realized the vitality of the AIDS problem. They viewed youths as a source of problems. They didn't see the root of the problems. For them, an operation to prevent and solve AIDS problems is to support those who were affected by the problems with money. They thought that information and knowledge were too rare to deal with AIDS problems seriously. These are the reasons why most of the administrators have never set a determining policy toward AIDS problems. Their authorities didn't cover every aspect of the problems. They didn't look forward to every problem. There was the limited number of esponsible persons. And the administrators lacked knowledge and experience in dealing with AIDS problems. In order to improve the local areas in AIDS solving operations, the most important thing is to have the responsible persons trained so that they would have good understanding about the problems. First of all, the administrators should change their point of view toward the operations. Personnel should be prepared readily. The work should be viewed as integrated. The importance of associate member network should be realized. The problems should be solved from the root. Sexual education is an important issue. Youths should be view as problem confronters rather than the problems themselves. The administrators should understand that AIDS people have a right to live with other people in society. Finally there should be a lesson follow-up in order to develop the operations continuously and effectively.


In this work, we evaluate the role of the ternary compound, Cd1–x Zn x S, as an electron-transport layer (ETL) in the n-i-p structure of antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) solar cells. The incorporation of Zn reduces the amount of Cd and contributes to improving the power-conversion efficiency of the solar cell. On the other hand, the n-i-p structure makes it possible to overcome two issues that impair the efficiency of Sb2Se3 solar cells: the potential barrier due to the rear contact and the low hole concentration in the Sb2Se3 absorber material. In this paper, we present a theoretical work on Sb2Se3 solar cells using the SCAPS 1-D software. The theoretical analysis allows us to understand the impact of the semiconductor parameters on efficiency and also to find the optimal values for an optimized device. The optimal molar composition of the ternary compound is investigated in the superstrate and inverted configurations. Parameters such as the thickness, defect density, and the acceptor concentration of the Cd1–x Zn x S and Sb2Se3 layers are optimized. Also, we analyze the impact of interface-defect density at the hole-transport layer (HTL) (Sb2Se3) and the ETL (Sb2Se3). Following optimization, a power-conversion efficiency (η) of 14.29% is obtained using Cd0.4Zn0.6S as the ETL and Cu2O as the HTL in the superstrate configuration. This simulation process is expected to guide other experimentalists in the design and manufacture of solar cells.


Graphite-epoxy composites are playing an increasing role as viable alternative materials in structural applications necessitating thorough investigation into the predictability and reproducibility of their material strength properties. This investigation was concerned with tension, compression, and short beam shear coupon testing of large samples from three different material suppliers to determine their statistical strength behavior. Statistical results indicate that a two Parameter Weibull distribution model provides better overall characterization of material behavior for the graphite-epoxy systems tested than does the standard Normal distribution model that is employed for most design work. While either a Weibull or Normal distribution model provides adequate predictions for average strength values, the Weibull model provides better characterization in the lower tail region where the predictions are of maximum design interest. The two sets of the same material were found to have essentially the same material properties, and indicate that repeatability can be achieved.


The emerging social enterprises in rural communities face a number of problems impeding their growth and survival. The constraints are those of management. This paper describes the main problems of five ecotourism social enterprises. Based on a qualitative methodology a SWOT diagnosis was developed, which allowed to find common problems: weak profitability, empirical and improvised performance, no marketing strategies, no competitive strategies, lack of marketing strategies and competitiveness, lack of trained and efficient human capital, poor tourism culture among others.


Based on the principle of gun fire extinguish mechanism, using PXI bus testing technology, signals processing technology, and virtual instrument technology, signals acquisition and process circuit and bus adaptor are designed to on-line test of faults of gun fire extinguish mechanism. This article illustrates the hardware and software of the test system. The result shows that the test system is feasible.


The 4th Biennial Conference on High Resolution X-ray Diffraction and Topography (XTOP) was held at the University of Durham, UK from 9-11 September 1998. Durham University is the third oldest English university and, in keeping with this tradition, delegates were housed in the original college: University College. As the college buildings include the 11th century castle overlooking Palace Green and the Cathedral, this World Heritage Site provided a spectacular backdrop for what was a stimulating and memorable conference. Scientific sessions were held in the Physics Department of the University and the scale of the meeting was such that it was possible to hold a small specialist commercial exhibition in the same room in which refreshments were served. The poster sessions were in adjacent rooms, with the lecture theatre nearby, making for a compact and closely-knit atmosphere. The format of the sessions reverted to that of the first two meetings (Marseille and Berlin) with primary emphasis on poster presentations, allowing ample time for informal discussion. There were 135 delegates, with 176 papers accepted by the Programme Committee. Sadly many of these papers were from colleagues in Russia and the former Soviet Republics who were not able to travel due to the financial crisis which arose just before the meeting. Twenty-eight papers were selected for oral presentation, principally on grounds of programme coherence and balance. We ran three `Poster Highlights' sessions, in which authors of poster papers were given two minutes in which to show the key results and convince other delegates to visit the poster. The self-discipline of delegates in these 90-minute sessions was outstanding and the majority of delegates found them extremely informative and helpful. Each of the XTOP conferences has had its own emphasis. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was emphasis on phase contrast imaging, and results from the ESRF, where the phase coherence is extremely high, were a high point of the meeting. The great majority of papers on diffraction imaging (topography) concerned work performed at synchrotron radiation sources. Grazing incidence diffraction and scattering techniques, again using synchrotron radiation, featured strongly. In both grazing incidence and high resolution there was emphasis on the study of diffuse scatter. The tone and standard of the meeting was set by the first invited paper, given by Deslattes et al and featured also as the first paper in this issue. It was, and is, a masterly review of the status of the project to measure Avogadro's number involving some of the most elegant and careful high resolution diffraction measurements yet made. Cloetens et al's authoritative talk on phase contrast imaging and tomography gave a fine overview of the current status of this highly topical field, while Gastaldi et al's paper on the combination of phase and diffraction contrast imaging of defects in quasi-crystals provided evidence in support of a currently unfashionable mechanism of growth of these fascinating materials. In high resolution diffraction, the power of combining different grazing incidence scattering techniques was demonstrated by Metzger et al, setting the scene for novel work by Baumbach et al. Two other papers in this section, on the analysis of quantum dots, by Schmidbauer et al and Holý et al, are worthy of note, as is the invited paper by Lucas on the application of surface diffraction to solve electrochemical problems in situ. By common consent, the most polished presentation was by a graduate student, Ioanna Matsouli (see Matsouli et al). It is unfortunate that the journal record here does not do full justice to the beauty of her PC-based animated graphics of magneto-acoustic vibrations in FeBO3, although one of the animations is featured in the online journal; see http://www.iop.org. One original aim of the XTOP conferences was to stimulate activity at the x-ray imaging beamline at the ESRF in Grenoble. Another was to bring together the diffraction imaging and high resolution scattering communities to enhance the science in both areas. The quality and range of scientific contributions suggest that both aims have been achieved. It was pleasing to find that the sense of comradeship, spiced with genuine but largely friendly rivalry, has not been lost. The social atmosphere of the conference was excellent, helped to some extent by the competition, engineered by Peter Hatton, in which Bede Scientific, Brukker and Phillips vied with each other to provide the most wine for dinner each night. A concert of English choral music with a distinct North Country flavour, given by the Durham Singers, was the cultural highlight. The superb ambience of the conference was a credit to the skill and efforts of the Conference Secretary, Nikki Bingham. We look forward to the next XTOP in Jasowiec, Poland in September 2000. In the tradition of the XTOP conferences, the present special issue of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics is not the `conference proceedings' but a collection of original journal papers which were also presented at XTOP98. While there is of course considerable overlap, the papers in this volume have been grouped into three main areas: high angle high resolution diffracton and scattering, imaging and grazing incidence scattering. Phase imaging has now grown to merit a section of its own, although phase images can also be found for example in my own paper on InGaAs on GaAs. Thus there were a number of important contributions to the conference which, for a variety of reasons, are not included in this volume. Refereeing standards have been stringent and to the same standard as for regular contributions to this journal. There has been no relaxation of standards to reflect the balance of papers in the conference programme itself. The grouping and order of papers is therefore unrelated to the sequence in which papers were presented and is an attempt to make a coherent volume within the journal series. I am personally grateful to all referees for their cooperation and to Rebecca Siddle for her efficient and effective administration of the refereeing process.


Two specimens of the Blind Snake Ramphotyphlops nigrescens (Reptilia: Typhlopidae) are reported from a cow paddock at Annangrove, north-western Sydney, New South Wales during January 2006.


Goal of the study is the preparation of ghostcells for blood viscosity research. Ghostcells are haemoglobin free erytrocytes. A technique has already been developed for measuring viscosities of suspensions containing solid spheres in a Couette viscosity meter. In the apparatus fluorescent microspheres in a suspension, illuminated by a laserbeam, were tracked using a camera. The next step in the study is tracking ghostcells in a plasma like fluid. In order to obtain such a fluid it is nessesary to remove the haemoglobine from the erytrocytes yielding a translucent suspension. Much attention is paid to the 'large scale' production of ghostcells (up to 25 mi). In order to visualize a flow-profile, a few ghostcells have to be labelled using a fluorescent marker. There are two ways for making the ghostcells fluorescent: Enclosing a fluorescent dye in the cell or using a fluorescent probe in the membrane. Both methods are evaluated. 0.1 list of Abbreviations EDTA EGTA Fw g/mol FITC imOsm M mol/l MCH fmol MCHC mM MCV fl NBD Tris x nm Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic acid Ethylene Glycol-bis (p aminoethyl ether) N,N,N' ,N' -Tetra-Acetic acid Molar Weight Fluoresceine IsoThioCyanate ideal milli Osmolarity total of ali concentrations in a solution in mM, assuming ideal behavior of salts. Molar concentration Mean Cell Haemoglobin Mean Cell Haemoglobin Concentration Mean Cell Volume 7-NitroBenz-2oxa-l,3 Diazol-6yl Tris-(hydroxymeth y1)aminoethane Wavelength


Purpose – The purpose of this article is to evaluate the role of mineralisers on the formation of perovskite structure, optimise the amounts of chromium content, soaking time and finally the ratio of fuel (citric acid) to oxidiser (metal nitrate) and investigation of the physical properties of resulted pigments. Design/methodology/approach – A red pigment based on perovskite structure (YAl1-yCryO3, y = (0.01-0.1) was synthesised by solution combustion method with various mineralisers, like NaF, MgF2 and Li2CO3. Thermal decomposition of the resulting nitrate-citrate gels and the phase evolution of calcined powders were investigated and the microstructure and colorimetry of the emerging products were characterised. Findings – The most effective mineraliser system for the formation of YAlO3 perovskite was NaF:MgF2:Li2CO3 (3:2:1 by weight). Furthermore, desirable pigments were obtained by firing the samples at 1,400°C for 4 hours. The highest redness parameter (a*) and reflectance value were obtained when y w...


Tourism industry as well as other industries has a period of rapid development,influenced by both national economical policies(subjective factors) and outside natural factors(objective factors).Postwar Japan chose the path of peacefully reconstructing homes,and the peaceful environment provided tourism with development space.Besides,the opportunities from outside further quickened the development of tourism industry.Tourism coexists with peace and its development is promoted by peace,with global pageants being one of the impetuses.Japan held two global pageants: Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 and World Exposition in Osaka in 1970.They became the main impetus for Japan's economic growth,mostly benefited tourism industry and laid the foundation of Japan becoming a tourism country later.The forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and World Exposition in Shanghai in 2010 will bring a golden opportunity for developing tourism industry in China.It will inevitably exert impact on rapid development of tourism industry,spur the exploitation and comprehensive development of the whole industry and develop the content and form of tourism at a higher level.


Abstract Co-produced waters and gaseous H2S were sampled at four wells at Wytch Farm oil field, UK, over a one year period. The chemical and stable isotopic (H, O) compositions of the waters were determined, plus the sulphur isotopic composition of dissolved sulphate and gaseous sulphide. Formation waters contain about 70 000 mg 1−1 total dissolved solids (TDS) and are evolved meteoric waters; there is a 10% fieldwide variation in TDS. H2S was formed by (bacterial?) reduction of formation-water sulphate. A high but variable fraction of the sulphide has been subsequently lost, perhaps by reaction with abundant Fe-bearing minerals. At least some, and possibly a significant fraction, of the sulphide in the reservoir is dissolved in formation water. Simple mass-balance models show that when reservoir sulphide is pre-dominantly within formation water, the concentration of H2S in produced gas will increase dramatically with increasing water cuts. In this case, increasing concentrations of H2S in produced gas do not necessarily imply that souring has been caused by production practices. Seawater breakthrough is recognized and quantified in one well using chemical and stable isotopic data. K, Mg and SO4 are all lost from injected seawater during its passage through the reservoir. Geochemical modelling and isotopic data fail to identify the fate of the missing sulphate, although the isotopic data tentatively suggest that some may have been converted to sulphide. However, the levels of sulphide produced from the breakthrough well are no higher than in other wells, suggesting that reduction of seawater sulphate contributes a small percentage of fieldwide H2S production.


In order to guide the strategy of distributing movies on the CDN system, this paper proposes a method which uses data mining techniques to predict the popularity of movies. The popularity of movies which is predicted is more suitable to the current CDN system. We compare the performance of the Bayesian Network and Decision Tree, and find that the Bayesian Network model is more suitable to CDN.


This paper presents status of an EPRI program to en hance and improve the reliability of ID pit sizing for balance-of plant heat exchangers, such a s condensers and component cooling water heat exchangers found in a nuclear power plant. Mo re traditional approaches to ID pit sizing involve the use of frequency-specific amplitude or phase angle analysis techniques. The multivariate regression algorithm for ID pit depth sizing incorporates simultaneous input parameters of frequency, amplitude, and phase angle . Summarized results of nondestructive evaluation (ND E) involving enhanced pit sizing from inside diameter (ID) of condenser tubing made of Ty pe 304 stainless steel are presented. The latest analysis approach relied on both phase angle and amplitude information from multiple operating frequencies to better depth size ID-initi ating pits. A total of 11 pits were selected for destructive analyses and a comparison made of the m ultivariate regression analysis results with the traditional univariate phase angle analysis res ults. The comparative results showed that the multivariate regression analysis produced better ov erall pit depth sizing results than the univariate phase angle-based sizing results. The s elected pit samples for destructive sectioning showed a wide range of "ground truth" pit depth inf ormation, thus representing a good range of data set for validation. The statistically compare d ground truth versus NDE estimates showed smaller overall mean regression error for depth siz ing based on the multivariate regression analysis in comparison to the univariate phase angl e analysis. Background The NDE method of multi-channel eddy current (EC) t esting is an array of signals of up to 4 separate frequencies. An area of concern in Balanc e-of-Plant (BOP) heat exchanger tube NDE is ID pitting caused, for example, by microbiological organisms. The detection problem is to locate and discriminate the raw ID pit signal that is in the noisy EC tube signal trace. The sizing problem includes the measurement of the ID pit dept h from the signal. The eddy current signal used in NDE is a complex im pedance signal based on the applied induction bobbin coils. The signal is multi-channe l in that it can be acquired at up to four separate frequencies. Each frequency has a differe nt 'skin' depth penetration, as predicted by Maxwell's Equations, and can provide different mate ri l property changes, including flaw conditions.


With the overall implementation of the new curriculum,there has been appearing with vigor and vitality in the rural bsasic education.And meanwhile,opportunities and challenges have come to the rural schools.However,there remain to be the facts of the rural schools.However,there remain to bo the facts of the shortage of education funds,of students,and that teachers are of low quality,all of which are the direct restricting factors of the reform of the rural basic education.Therefore,the government should continue to increase the input of eudcation funds to improve school conditions to promote the implementation of the new curricula in the rural schools.


Introduction Electronic cigarettes have already become a popular alternative to traditional smoking. Aim To observe if there were any changes in oral bacteria of electronic cigarette users. Material and methods The study population included 125 patients (40 – e-cigarette users, 43 – cigarette smokers, 42 – non-smokers). The conducted microbiological tests were aimed at identification of microorganisms with potential pathological influence on the oral cavity. Distributions of the study variables were compared between groups with χ2 test. All calculations were carried out with Statistical 10 software (Stat Soft Inc.; Tulsa, USA) and intergroup differences were considered significant at p ≤ 0.05. Results The differences were statistically significant in relation to Gram-negative bacteria in e-cigarette users (27.5%) compared to smokers of traditional cigarettes (4.6%) (p < 0.05). In relation to Gram-positive bacteria, no statistically significant differences were found between these groups. Co-occurrence of commensal bacteria and potentially pathogenic bacteria from the oral cavity among e-cigarette users was higher than in smokers of traditional cigarettes (32.1% vs. 9.2%; p < 0.05). Conclusions The use of e-cigarettes caused changes in oral bacteria compared to smokers of traditional cigarettes and non-smokers especially with respect to colonization of potentially pathogenic bacteria. Changes in the oral cavity environment to the disadvantage of commensal flora can affect the course of some pathological processes in the oral cavity.


In this paper, our goal is to map the psychophysiological signal features obtained from Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) and Skin Conductance (SC) sensors to each subjects emotional state and cognitive load. The psychophysiological signals are collected under tests (Stroop test, math test, and event recall test) targeting different levels of emotional state and cognitive load. We use the SC and BVP features as skin conductance response (SCR), heart rate (HR), and the spectral power in the low frequency (LF) band of the heart rate variability (HRV) spectrum for emotional state and cognitive load analysis. Our results show that HR and SCR are indicative features for determining the emotional state, and LF and SCR are indicative features for determining the cognitive load.


This handbook describes why and how to implement a partnership like Project STEP, which achieved extraordinary success in raising the academic aspirations and achievements of students in a school district composed currently of 56% language minority students. Project STEP has received both state and national recognition for its achievements as a partnership. The National Commission on Excellence in Education cited STEP in A Nation Responds, the sequel to the Nation at Risk report. The project has been included by The College Board as a national program model for university/school partnerships in the Educational Equality Project Models Program. The California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP) selected Project STEP as a showcase project to demonstrate the power of this collaborative model to effect necessary educational reform. Co-published with Project STEP, University of California, Irvine.


controllability problem: reminder dψ dt = A(ψ) + uB(ψ), u ∈ U, with H complex Hilbert space; U ⊂ R; A,B skew-adjoint operators on H possibly unbounded; (φn)n∈N orthonormal basis of H made of eigenvectors of A; φn ∈ D(B) for every n ∈ N. With a piecewise constant u : [0,T ]→ U we associate the flow t 7→ Υt = e(t−tk )(A+ukB) ◦ e(tk−tk−1)(A+uk−1B) ◦ · · · ◦ e11 which is a unitary transformation of H. We are interested to approximate controllability in the unit sphere of H.


The gasification of carbon-containing materials to produce combustible gas is an established technology. Coal gasification has been the primary focus due to its higher energy density and ease of transportation in comparison to renewable biomass resources. Currently, environmental issues and the need to augment or replace existing power generation facilities have shifted the focus of gasification development from non-renewable fossil fuel sources to renewable fuel sources, mainly biomass.


Research on Multi-View Clustering (MVC) has become more and more attractive thanks to the richness of its application in several fields. In this paper, we present a novel framework for MVC, inspired by the Optimal Transport (OT) theory to learn the clusters in each view and compute an ensemble clustering of all the views in order to form a consensus cluster. We propose two algorithms for this purpose: a Consensus Projection Approach (CPA) and a Consensus with New Representation (CNR), both based on the entropy regularized Wasserstein distance and the Wasserstein barycenters between the data distributions in each view. To validate the approaches, extensive experiments were conducted on multiple data-sets.


Abstract:This article is about the camera operators who worked alongside the key film-directors of the Soviet avant-garde. This was a period when, on a theoretical level, cinema was increasingly defined in terms of photography and as a visual means of representation. Within the collaborative nature of the avant-garde units which emerged during the 1920s, the camera operator was regarded as a creative artist in his own right whose importance in terms of the development of a new film-language was critical. The article examines the intense and long-lasting nature of the collaborations between individual directors and their respective camera operators, and seeks to analyse the ways in which, working in harmony, they overturned pre-revolutionary visual conventions and forged a new expressive aesthetic. It also discusses the developments in technology which made this new aesthetic possible.


We report an experimental study of phase-synchronization in a pair of interacting nuclear spins subjected to an external drive in nuclear magnetic resonance architecture. A weak transition-selective radio-frequency field applied on one of the spins is observed to cause phase-localization, which is experimentally established by measuring the Husimi distribution function under various drive conditions. To this end, we have developed a general interferometric technique to directly extract values of the Husimi function via the transverse magnetization of the undriven nuclear spin. We further verify the robustness of synchronization to detuning in the system by studying the Arnold tongue behaviour.