The synthesis of a unique heterogeneous catalyst that combines the functionality of a homogeneous catalyst and the advantages of a heterogeneous catalytic process is a continuing goal in various industrially applicable reactions. Here, we report heterogenization of homogeneous catalyst for lactone production from epoxide carbonylation through a facile polymerization using Friedel-Crafts reaction. A correlation between reactivity and degree of heterogeneity has been deduced by synthesizing different sized polymeric catalysts. The partially polymerized catalyst showed a remarkable initial turnover frequency of 400 h-1, and the fully polymerized catalyst displayed excellent selectivity during recycling with a total turnover number of 4100.


In this paper, we give infinitely many diffeomorphic families of different Weinstein manifolds. The diffeomorphic families consist of well-known Weinstein manifolds which are the Milnor fibers of ADE -type, and Weinstein manifolds constructed by taking the end connected sums of Milnor fibers of A -type. In order to distinguish them as Weinstein manifolds, we study how to measure the number of connected components of wrapped Fukaya categories.


Abstract : DISCRIMINATE ANALYSIS, DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONSThe central problem dealt with in the report concerns pattern recognition tasks which involve discrete measurement variables. In the first chapter, the particular difficulties associated with discrete variables in the pattern recognition discipline are illuminated. The next chapter presents historical evidence of the variety of techniques applied to the task of dealing with discrete variables in the context of a classification problem. The third chapter provides a derivation of the aposteriori probability distribution for the error rate in a discrete variable classification problem. In Chapter 4, the theoretical foundation for the proposed procedure of dealing with discrete variable classifier design tasks is presented. Chapter 5 contains an analysis of the proposed method of applying the theory of prime events and an example application of the method to a discrete variable design task. (Author Modified Abstract)


Objective: To evaluate the effect of different occlusal preparation designs and CAD/CAM materials on the fracture resistance of maxillary premolars endcrowns. Materials and Methods: sixty-four endodontically treated upper first premolars were randomly divided into four groups according to ceramic materials (Vita Enamic and IPS emax CAD) and occlusal preparation designs (Anatomical and horizontal butt joint). After teeth preparation, the restorations were all made by CAD/CAM system (Cerec MCXL). Half of each group had undergone cyclic fatigue testing of 105 cycles with 50N loading force at a frequency of 0.5Hz in a mechatronic chewing simulator machine, and then all samples were loaded to fracture using a universal testing machine with a cross head speed of 0.5mm/min recording the fracture resistance values in N . The specimens were measured and statistically analyzed using using three-way analyses of variance (ANOVA), followed by serial two-way and one-way ANOVAs at each level of the study. P-values were adjusted for multiple comparisons using BENFORRONI correction and the significance level was set at P ? 0.05 for all tests. Results: Vita Enamic endocrowns showed higher fracture resistance values than IPS e max specimens. Conclusions: Vita Enamic endocrowns with anatomical preparations were found to be more favourable restoring endodontically treated maxillary premolars. KEYWORDSEndocrowns; All-Ceramic; Fracture; Cyclic loading; CAD/CAM


In situ one pot synthesis of coumarin based dithiocarbamates have been studied under conventional and microwave methods. Syntheses of coumarin based dithiocarbamates have been optimized using NaOH, K3PO4 as a base in conventional method whereas K3PO4 has given good yields in less time. The syntheses of dithiocarbamates have been carried out under microwave conditions using K3PO4 as base. The generality of microwave method has been demonstrated by synthesizing a variety of substituents in excellent yields, having short reaction time with good purity compared to those under classical conditions. All the products have been characterized by their IR, GC-MS, H and C NMR spectral data. Except 2h, 2k, 2l, all these compounds have complete DNA cleavage activity.


The question of the effect of sheath blight on the accumulation of virus particles and included in the recommendations for the protection of potato virus diseases as compulsory acceptance protection against Rhizoctonia.


The present invention relates to a curing apparatus for a 3D printer using an ultraviolet light emitting diode (UV-LED) and, more specifically, to a curing apparatus using an ultraviolet light emitting diode which is arranged and designed to accord with various 3D printing processes. The present invention is able to minimize heat generation in a curing process by arranging and designing the curing apparatus for a 3D printer using an ultraviolet light emitting diode to accord with various 3D printing processes, is able to improve productivity of products, is able to manufacture a high quality three dimensional image, is able to achieve the low power consumption, weight lightening, and miniaturization of a 3D printer, and is able to contribute to the popularization of a 3D printer through the expansion of application fields.


In this work mathematical models of Steam Rankine Cycle (SRC) and Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power systems have been developed to explore the feasibility that combines the fluid-flow temperature, waste heat steam and low-boiling-point organic working fluids for power generation. The effects of the thermodynamic parameters on the SRC and ORC performance are examined. Among the commonly available working fluids, a selection based on environmental and technical criteria was carried out resulting in a list of 8 working fluids: R143a, R245fa, R600a, R124, R134a, RC318, R236fa, and Ammonia. Using the numerical models, we calculate and compare thermal efficiency, generating capacity, etc. of two power systems, namely SRC and ORC under the same heat source conditions. The results show that under the same condition of heat source, ORC has the highest thermal efficiency and power generation.


The South North Water Transfer Project has come to the substantial preparatory stage.Through investigation of water demand,discharge and treatment of wastewater,and the use of agricultural chemicals and chemical fertilizers,the water environment quality of groundwater,surface water and Shijin canal water is evaluated by use of the present national standard.It is pointed out that the consciousness of water resources protection should be raised;the control of pollution source of Shijin canal should be enhanced and the monitoring of water quality should be strengthened to improve the water environment.


The incidence of chronic pains with depression is extremely high.Various anxieties and depression and unceasing decline of life-quality aggravates the effects of pains on patients.Although drug treatments are performed in strict accordance with the three-step programmes,pains can not be well relieved in 10% patients.And some minimally invasive interventions are impossible to be performed because of patients' concerns.Antidepressants,a secondary-line choice for medication,have now been proved effective in clinical controlled experiments in other-type pains with depression.This paper makes a review of the relationship between chronic pains and antidepressants on the basis of pharmacological researches in recent years,to explain the feasibility and necessity of antidepressants in therapy of chronic pains.Combine use of antidepressants may be well effective against intractable pains when traditional analgesic drugs do not work,especially for patients with negative emotional experience.


According to the Davies–Roberts hypothesis, plants primarily respond to oxygen limitation by a burst of lactate production and the resulting pH drop in the cytoplasm activates ethanolic fermentation. To evaluate this system in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), seedlings were subjected to anoxia and in vitro activities of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH, EC 184.108.40.206), pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC, EC 184.108.40.206) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, EC 126.96.36.199) and concentrations of ethanol, acetaldehyde and lactate were determined in roots of the seedlings. The in vitro activities of ADH and PDC in the roots increase in anoxia, whereas no significant increase was measured in LDH activity. At 6 h, the ADH and PDC activities in the roots kept in anoxia were 2.8- and 2.9-fold greater than those in air, respectively. Ethanol and acetaldehyde in the roots accumulated rapidly in anoxia and increased 8- and 4-fold compared with those in air by 6 h, respectively. However, lactate concentration did not increase and an initial burst of lactate production was not found. Thus, ethanol and acetaldehyde production occurred without an increase in lactate synthesis. Treatments with antimycin A and salicylhydroxamic acid, which are respiratory inhibitors, to the lettuce seedlings in the presence of oxygen increased the concentrations of ethanol and acetaldehyde but not of lactate. These results suggest that ethanolic fermentation may be activated without preceding activation of lactate fermentation and may be not regulated by oxygen concentration directly.


Primer on MR Imaging of the Abdomen and Pelvis, by Diego R. Martin, Michèle A. Brown, and Richard C. Semelka, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; ISBN 0‐471‐37340‐0; list price $59.95 (paperback)


Fatigue in Parkinson's disease (PD) remains under-recognised and under-treated by health-care professionals (HCPs). A PD patient suffering from fatigue can have an antagonistic outcome despite the best drug management given with the greatest quality of care. Untreated fatigue can cause unnecessary anxiety, concerns with employment, financial hardship, difficulties with relationships, increased need for care provision and poor quality of life. It is imperative that fatigue in PD is recognised, diagnosed, treated and managed effectively so that PD patients with fatigue can manage their time more resourcefully. Poor understanding among HCPs on this matter may result in a bad reputation and cause frustration among service users, mistrust and needless costs to the health-care system. This article highlights the importance of early recognition of fatigue in PD. It provides evidence-based clinical information and facts gained from clinical studies and research to help enhance HCPs' knowledge and understanding th...


The remediation of the East German uranium mining sites operated and used until 1990 started in 1991 and was funded by the German Federal Government. However, most of the numerous abandoned uranium mining sites of third party property that were distributed all over Saxony were not included. In 2003 the Federal Government and the Free State of Saxony agreed to jointly fund the remediation of those abandoned mining sites of high priority. Wismut´s department for Project Management of Wismut´s Abandoned Saxonian Mining Sites was given the responsibility for the project management. The Dankritz 2 uranium mill tailings pond is one of those abandoned sites (area: ca. 11 ha; vol. ca. 0.9 Mill. m³). Mill tailings were discharged during the 1950s surrounded by a max. 12 m high autostable ring dam, which was already reshaped during the 1960s to improve geotechnical stability. Dynamic stability calculations, applying the finite element program PLAXIS, were carried out by CDM Smith as part of the remediation design. They resulted in insufficient dynamic stability with respect to the maximum credible earthquake. In addition, soft fine-grained tailings needed to be stabilised to place a multi-layer type surface cover. Wismut designed the tailings remediation project. The paper will particularly focus on the advanced constitutive models used for the slope stability analyses of the embankment under dynamic loads and of the stability of the fine-grained tailings during interim cover placement.


Abstract Background Two global phase 3 trials (301 trial of first- or second-line eribulin, EMBRACE of third- or later-line eribulin) were carried out during development of eribulin for breast cancer treatment. In this post marketing observation study in Japan, efficacy and safety of eribulin in metastatic breast cancer patients were examined. Additionally, the results were compared with that of phase 3 trials. Method We conducted a prospective study in patients with inoperable or recurrent HER2-negative breast cancer. We enrolled a similar number of patients receiving eribulin as first- or second-line therapy (early line) and those receiving eribulin as third- or later line therapy (later line), and followed the patients for two years (ClinicalTrials.gov Number: NCT02371174). For the overall survival and time to treatment failure, the estimated value of them were calculated by the Kaplan Meier method. The severity of adverse drug events was determined by CTCAE v 4.0. Results During September 2014 to February 2016, 651cases were registered at 182 facilities. In analysis set, 637 patients (319 patients of early line/317 patients of late line/1 patient of unknown) was median age of 62.7 (30 - 85) years. Performance status 0/1/2/3/4 was seen in 360/234/38/5/0 patients, respectively. Dose reduction were required in 33% of patients. The median overall survival (early line/late line) was 18.8 months/12.6 months, respectively, and median time to treatment failure was 4.4 months/3.8 months, respectively. Major side effects (early line/late line) were neutropenia (51%/56%), leucopenia (55%/57%), peripheral neuropathy (32%/22%). Grade 3≤ peripheral neuropathy was 2%. Conclusion The results of overall survival (18.8 months in early line, 12.6 months in later line) in this study is comparable to those of large phase 3 study (15.9 months in 301 trial, 13.1 months in EMBRACE). The incidence of Grade 3≤ peripheral neuropathy was lower than that of phase 3 trials.


can be set equal to 0.55 (pi + ^0.95) (^0.95— Ai). (If pressure had varied linearly with area, the coefficient would have been 0.50.) Equation (1) is used to locate ^0.95. However, as the interaction region approaches the nozzle-exit plane with finite Ae, the value (e0.95 — et-) cannot exceed (ee — et-) and must therefore tend to zero. This condition will be referred to as case B. In effect, as e» -+• ee, the assumption that the length of the interaction region equals 10 5 is no longer valid. Some data showing this phenomenon have been plotted in Fig. 3 with the family of linear equations which has been fitted to the data


When the Foreign Investment Law of China was adopted on 15 March 2019, security review was emphasized as an essential layer governing inward foreign investments, which had evolved from national security concerns embedded at market access review for foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) and projects, security review for mergers and acquisitions. This article studies the evolution of China's security review in foreign investment and finds that both changing focuses on identifying national security in China's socialist market economy and the institutional struggle in certain central ministries addressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have in fact affected the evolution of security review in the Foreign Investment Law (FIL) with Chinese characteristics.
Security review, Foreign Investment Law, institutional struggle, Chinese Communist Party, institutional reform, market access review, mergers and acquisitions, M&A security review, leadership


The paper aims to design and develop an innovative solution in the Smart Building context that increases guests' hospitality level during the COVID-19 and future pandemics in locations like hotels, conference locations, campuses, and hospitals. The solution supports features intending to control the number of occupants by online appointments, smart navigation, and queue management in the building through mobile phones and navigation to the desired location by highlighting interests and facilities. Moreover, checking the space occupancy, and automatic adjustment of the environmental features are the abilities that can be added to the proposed design in the future development. The proposed solution can address all mentioned issues regarding the smart building by integrating and utilizing various data sources collected by the internet of things (IoT) sensors. Then, storing and processing collected data in servers and finally sending the desired information to the end-users. Consequently, through the integration of multiple IoT technologies, a unique platform with minimal hardware usage and maximum adaptability for smart management of general and healthcare services in hospital buildings will be created.


A sinus tract is a condition in which a particular area of infection spreads along the epithelial surface leading to the skin surface or body cavity. The most common reason of a cutaneous sinus tract in the head and neck regions is chronic dental infections.[1] These lesions may occur away from the odontogenic source or anywhere on the skin. Therefore, they are often misdiagnosed with localized skin infections, ingrown hair, osteomyelitis, tuberculosis, neoplasms, and actinomycosis.[2,3] Common areas where these occurrences are most frequently seen are the mandibular angle, submental area, chin, and cheeks. Approximately 80%–87% of the cases originate from the mandibular teeth. Usually, there is no symptom in the related tooth.[4] Odontogenic extraoral sinus tracts are often misdiagnosed. Most of these patients are examined by other doctors until they are referred to a dentist. The condition is often tried to be treated with surgical operations, long-term antibiotic treatment, and radiotherapy. However a large portion of these occurrences can be treated with endodontic treatment only, without a need for a surgical intervention.[4] The following case presents the management of a cutaneous sinus tract originating from a mandibular central incisor by conventional endodontic treatment.


Water channels play important role in colon, and might be involved in constipation disease. To understand the mRNA expression changes of aquaporin protein 1 and 7 (AQP1, AQP7) in a rat model of slow transit constipation (STC), a rat model of slow transit constipation was designed, and the correlated changes of aquaporin protein 1 and 7 at the mRNA level were examined. The rat model of slow transit constipation was produced with diphenoxylate administration. The mRNA expression of AQP1 and 7 from STC rats and control rats were examined with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). AQP1 was expressed in ascending and descending colon of both control and STC rats. For the ascending colon, the AQP1 grayscale ratio in control and STC rats were 0.602 ± 0.239 and 0.344 ± 0.212 (P 0.05), respectively in descending colon. AQP7 was also expressed in ascending and descending colon of both control and STC rats, with 0.776 ± 0.642 and 0.764 ± 0.147 in ascending colon (P > 0.05), and 0.736 ± 0.42 and 0.759 ± 0.629 in descending colon (P > 0.05), respectively. We did not examine the changes of the AQPs at the protein level. The downregulation of AQP1 rather than AQP7 might be involved in the development and progression of STC.


Data are presented on liquid‐phase epitaxial (LPE) GaxIn1−xPyAs1−y in the composition range (0.5<y<0.9) grown on InP substrates which indicate the nature of the compositional dependence of As and Ga distribution coefficients. The distribution coefficient functions when extrapolated to lattice‐matched compositional limits (y=0,1) are consistent with published data on those limits.


Objective:To explore the optimal expression conditions for the eryG gene encoding 3"-O-methyltransferase(EryG) during erythromycin biosynthesis from Saccharopolyspora erythraea.Methods:The eryG gene fragment was amplified by PCR with Sac.erythraea A226 genomic DNA as the template,and inserted into the expression vector pET-22b(+)to construct pETG plasmid,and then the plasmid was transformed into Escherichia coli BL21(DE3).The expression conditions for eryG were optimized in terms of the inducer IPTG concentration and induction duration.Results: The eryG gene could be induced to express in E.coli BL21(DE3) and its protein product EryG was about 33×103 with SDS-PAGE analysis.The recombinant protein EryG accounted for at least 55% of the total bacterial proteins under optimized conditions.Conclusion:The eryG gene could be efficiently expressed in E.coli BL21(DE3),and will help further exploration of EryG enzymatic properties and erythromycin production improvement in Sac.erythraea.


The threshold-voltage (Vth) shift of 4H-SiC MOSFETs with Ar or N2O post-oxidation annealing (POA) was measured by conventional sweep and non-relaxation methods. Although the Vth shift values of both samples were almost identical when measured by the sweep method, those for the Ar POA samples were larger than those for the N2O POA samples when measured by the non-relaxation method. Thus, we can say that investigating the exact Vth shifts using only the conventional sweep method is difficult. The temperature-dependent analysis of the Vth shifts measured by both methods revealed that the N2O POA decreases charge trapping in the near-interface region of the SiO2.


Contractors in the oil and gas industry are experiencing an increased pressure to deliver projects at a lower cost and at a shorter schedule. Extensive requirements combined with strict governing documents restrict project designs. Therefore, contractors need efficient governing processes that capture customers' needs and ensure that system requirements relates to these customer needs.


This article provides a recap and summaries of the EDFAS Virtual User Group Workshop held in January 2021. The summaries cover key participants, presentation topics, and discussion highlights from the Focused Ion Beam, Sample Preparation, Contactless Probing and Nanoprobing, and System on Package virtual group meetings.


Apollo Telescope Mount experiment designed to study energy of sun from wavelength of 200 to 2000 ph /2 to 20 A/ using X ray source


The microstructure of a unidirectional glass-fiber composite material is described seeking especially for the influence of the stitching perpendicular to the reinforcement. Serial cuts are performed through the composite and the microstructure is quantified using global parameters and linear morphological analysis. A key result is that the stitching induces variations in fibers spacing within the yarns and in the matrix volume between the yarns. This can affect noticeably the flow of the resin during the manufacturing process and also the mechanical properties of the composite.


The issues - why they are important making mistakes - how doctors think about this friendly efforts - the informal mechanisms frustration mounts - requiring "the skill of a politician and the tact of a diplomat" behind closed doors - how effective are the informal mechanisms? empirical research on medical mishaps and mistakes - challenges to professional norms coming changes - will they make a difference?.


Vignette is a good survey method in social science research to measure and compare population's view,attitude and behavior;nonetheless.However,there were only a few studies using the vignette method in China.The paper described the characteristic and use of vignettes in health related research.Taking the authors' current survey of patients' attitude and behavior towards medical malpractice as an example,the paper also discussed the technical aspect of vignette design.


The construction of elite school culture is not only one of the hot issues in school construction,but also is a very complex culture system.In this system,the culture of school management,the culture of teaching,the culture of course and the culture of student are all the key factors.A firm grasp of these key factors equals to the hold of lynchpin in the construction of elite school culture.


The utility model discloses a miniature waterway structure, include waterway spare and a plurality of water route switch, waterway spare is equipped with into water end, play water end (W. E. ), switch mounting portion and water channel, and water channel's both ends link to each other with the play water end (W. E. ) with the end of intaking respectively, the integrated into one piece of switch mounting portion, it is connected along the water route direction with water channel, the water route switch sets up according to the water route direction in switch mounting portion in proper order, and in order switch inside water route establishing ties in proper order, and go out to divide its operating condition and the series connection is divided including straight, and water channel's inner chamber and the cooperation of water route switch are in directly when going out to divide the state when the water route switch, and the water of this water route switch of flowing through is led to water channel by the water channel inner chamber and is gone out the water end (W. E. ), and when the water route switch was in the series connection and divides the state, the water of this water route switch of flowing through was led to next water route part of series connection. The utility model discloses reduced the occupation space of water route switching parts, can realize more water route switching numbers on the less domestic water route device of volume.


From the details of diet discussed in Xian Qing Ou Ji , we can find: Li Yu's basic ideas of diet nutrition and hygiene contain a more overall and more systemetic knowledge that goes with the modern diet nutrition and hygiene principle in one way, but in the other contain something opposite.


Dynamic resource allocation with scalable reservation mechanisms is an important challenge for the current Differentiated Services (Diffserv) architecture. In this paper, we present scalable and dynamic resource allocation architecture for Diffserv, which manages the domains network resources. We present agent based network-centric middleware component Bandwidth Management Point (BMP), which will manage the network domain resources efficiently using the SIBBS protocol. We manage the domain resources to: (1) improve the utilization of the bandwidth in the differentiated services domain and (2) reduce the random early packet drops in the Diffserv domain while maintaining scalability characteristics. In this paper, our simulation compares the performance of the Diffserv domain without BMP and with BMP. We find that the BMP will enhance the performance of the Diffserv architecture using the dynamic resource request and resource allocation mechanisms.


Over the past half-century, the study of human decision making has evolved from dry philosophy into a diverse set of experimentally-tested, behavior-centered theories. However, the sheer volume of disciplines and sub-disciplines-and the often-esoteric debates that divide them-threaten to obscure the very real advances that have been made in modeling human decision making. This paper, giving preliminary analysis from a longer study,[1] begins to address the "so-what" factor in decision making theory, specifically as related to Air Force modeling, simulation, and decision-support needs. While a general consensus is forming on how humans make decisions (descriptive), there are still major conflicts on how humans should make decisions (normative), and by extension, how human decision making can be improved (prescriptive). The first half of this paper surveys modern decision science, focusing on two of the most influential sub-disciplines: the heuristics & biases paradigm (HBP) and the naturalistic paradigm (NP). The second half of this paper will attempt to sketch out a normative/prescriptive synthesis between the two schools, and chart implications for design of decision support.


In this article, we reconstruct one of the main representation strategies and sources of power for Nestor Kichner's leadership in Santa Cruz, Argentina between 1991 and 1996: his consolidation as a "warrantor of order and stability". In second stance, we will analyze the social conditions that explain the success of this strategy of representation. Mainly, its affinity with a set of social attributes of the province defined as part of the "culture of suffering" and the ability of the Frente para la Victoria as an organization to embody analog values. We use for the making of this article mostly semi-structured interviews and analysis of journalistic archives. This work is a valuable study on the forms of power construction of the Frente para la Victoria since its origins, in the early 1990, a previous experience to its access of the national government in 2003.


In 1996, I inventoried over 90 aspen stands in 12 timber sales that had been clearcut >3 years previously. Units that regenerated adequately were larger, had higher slope angles, and had soils with a thick Mollic surface layer. Units that regenerated inadequately often had plant species that indicated high water tables. The factors associated with inadequate regeneration were high water tables, heavy browsing, soils with a thin Mollic surface layer, and logging practices that compact large portions of the unit. One of these factors alone often does not lead to inadequate aspen sprouting. Most often, inadequately regenerated aspen stands have two or more negative factors, so the factors act as cumulative stressors on aspen. It is important for managers to know soils, landforms, history, and behavior of animal populations in the area.


Autophagy is a cellular quality control mechanism that degrades and recycles cellular components in the lysosome to maintain cellular homeostasis and to regulates protein levels in response to stimuli. Chaperone mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective form of autophagy that targets soluble cytoplasmic proteins for degradation. In CMA, the chaperone Hsc70 recognizes and binds a CMA-targeting motif in the substrate and brings it to the LAMP-2A receptor on the lysosomal membrane. The receptor multimerizes and the substrate translocates into the lysosome to be degraded. We have previously reported that CMA is upregulated in activated CD4+ T cells, where it is required to support proliferation and cytokine production. However, the signaling pathways that regulate CMA activity during the immune response and cell type-specific functions of CMA are not fully characterized.
 We have found that retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα) signaling inhibits CMA, and that modulation of RARα signaling with chemically modified retinoic acid derivatives leads to CMA activation. We have used these novel CMA activators to identify target genes involved in the regulation of CMA in T cells. Furthermore, our data supports that LAMP-2A expression and CMA activity are down-regulated in aged T cells, which correlates with the age-associated decreases in T cell function. Interestingly, genetic restoration of LAMP-2A expression in aged cells enhances T cell responses. Therefore, we have explored how CMA activating compounds may restore CMA activity in aged T cells boosting T cell function.


We have derived a non-exponential stimulated photon echo decay function exp (- c T τ D /3 ) by assuming that the TLSs of the amorphous host are spatially distributed like a fractal with a fractal dimension D , where c is a constant, T is the temperature and τ is the delay time between the first and second excitation pulses. From this function and the measured photon echo decay curves and hole shapes, we obtained D =2.1∼2.3 for 1,3,3,1',3',3'-hexamethyl-2,2'-indotricarbocyanine iodide in polyvinyl alcohol (HITC/PVA), and D =2.7 for HITC in ethanol (HITC/EtOH). These values of D are consistent with the possible structures of the long chained polymeric glass and the monomeric glass, respectively. The photon echo decay function also gives a power law temperature dependence of the hole width Γ hole as Γ hole ∝ T 3/ D . The deviation of the hole width in HITC/PVA from the power law temperature dependence at high temperatures is explained by a fracton mode of the amorphous host.


This text discusses the program analysingmethod of siunsoidal steadystate circuit,and provides necessary studyingreference for most of learners wanting to use computer program analysingmethod to solve circuit equations.


Bloater Coregonus hoyi are one of the Great Lakes ciscoes, an incipient species flock of seven recognized fishes (Todd and Smith, 1992). The vertical migration of adult bloater has been documented in day-night catch-per-unit-effort comparisons on the lake bottom (Brandt et al., 1991; Argyle, 1992) and in hydroacoustic observations (Fleischer et al., 1997). Bloater stay on or near the bottom during the day, whereas at night, a portion of the population ascend in the water column (Brandt et al., 1991; Argyle, 1992). Vertical migrators with swimbladders cope with frequent buoyancy changes due to pressure-induced volume changes of the swimbladder. Maintaining neutral buoyancy by gas secretion and resorption is time consuming and not practical for daily vertical migrations (Jones and Scholes, 1985; Alexander, 1993). Frequent adjustments of swimbladder volume are also energetically expensive, especially in environments with low temperatures and high pressure gradients (Alexander, 1972, 1993; Jones and Scholes, 1985). Alexander (1972) suggested that vertical migrators with gas-filled swimbladders may cope with the problem of swimbladder adjustment by using their swimbladder for neutral buoyancy only at the shallowest depths of their migration, whereas at the deepest depths of their migration, Alexander (1972) hypothesized these fish would be negatively buoyant and either rest on the bottom or use another buoyancy mechanism such as hydrodynamic lift to remain above the bottom. Observations of Merluccius bilinearis


Abstract Tabish Khair's irreverent How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position underlines the personal travails of three South Asian immigrants in Denmark. Specifically, it highlights the social and political situation in Denmark in the aftermath of the infamous cartoon controversy. Khair's novel critiques the neoliberal prejudice of the publicly visible Muslim, often suspected of manufacturing terror, and highlights the role of tabloids in fomenting Islamophobia and engendering neo-nationalism in Denmark. This study combines Benedict Anderson's ideas on the role of print capitalism in engendering neo-nationalism in Denmark and Juergen Habermas's concept of "communicative action" and "universalizability" to understand Khair's novel as a call to eschew limited nationalist underpinnings, thereby stressing the post-national aspect of current times.


The momentum and kinetic energy integral equations are derived for a compressible twodimensional turbulent boundary layer with time-dependent mean velocity and density fields. The integral equations are used in conjunction with an assumed velocity profile family to predict the effect of small time-varying disturbances in the inviscid flow upon the behavior of a flat plate turbulent boundary layer. The prediction procedure is also used to investigate the possibility of dynamic coupling between small time-dependent disturbances in the inviscid flowfield and the resulting induced fluctuations arising from boundary-layer displacement effects. When applied to the flowfield resulting from a shock wave-boundary-layer interaction, the analysis predicts that certain disturbances couple with the boundary layer in an unstable manner and, thus, the analysis offers an explanation for an instability observed to occur in certain shock wave-boundary-layer interaction flowfields.


Literature explores socio-political and moral concerns; it also discusses how people live and relate with other organisms in a given environment. Therefore, it is not surprising to observe that there are health risks associated with chemicals in the air, water and soil. Hence environmental discourse becomes a major and growing concern among literary scholars. This paper examines the use of words and images in poetry to register the effects of a changing climate and habitat. From the ecocritical point of view, there is an evaluation of the poetry of Tanure Ojaide which establishes his ability to articulate the relationship between the biotic and abiotic features in an ecosystem. One of the exciting aspects of this study is the analysis of the earlier and recent collections of poetry by the poet which shows that he is committed to environmental issues and the interdependent nature of the earth. The paper confirms that the environment has been subjected to excesses and depredations most of which are man-made therefore, there is the need for literature to be more involved in the drama of environmental realities.


Canine atopic dermatitis commonly presents during the summer months. While symptomatic therapy is useful, particularly if the disease is seasonal, a working knowledge of the potential allergens that can be responsible for disease and how they can be avoided by clients and their pets can help as part of a more complete management strategy.


Background Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines for hemorrhage recommend resuscitation to systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 85±5 mm Hg during prehospital care. Success depends on transport to definitive care within the 'golden hour'. As future conflicts may demand longer prehospital/transport times, we sought to determine safety of prolonged permissive hypotension (PH). Methods Adult male swine were randomized into three experimental groups. Non-shock (NS)/normotensive underwent anesthesia only. NS/PH was bled to SBP of 85±5 mm Hg for 6 hours of prolonged field care (PFC) with SBP maintained via crystalloid, then recovered. Experimental group underwent controlled hemorrhage to mean arterial pressure 30 mm Hg until decompensation (Decomp/PH), followed by 6 hours of PFC. Hemorrhaged animals were then resuscitated with whole blood and observed for 24 hours. Physiologic variables, blood, tissue samples, and neurologic scores were collected. Results Survival of all groups was 100%. Fluid volumes to maintain targeted SBP in PFC were significantly higher in the hemorrhage group than sham groups. After 24 hours' recovery, no significant differences were observed in neurologic scores or cerebrospinal fluid markers of brain injury. No significant changes in organ function related to treatment were observed during PFC through recovery, as assessed by serum chemistry and histological analysis. Conclusions After 6 hours, a prolonged PH strategy showed no detrimental effect on survival or neurologic outcome despite the increased ischemic burden of hemorrhage. Significant fluid volume was required to maintain SBP—a potential logistic burden for prehospital care. Further work to define maximum allowable time of PH is needed. Study type Translational animal model. Level of evidence N/A.


The article proposes a technological scheme of energy consumption for enterprises of the textile industry using technical means. On the basis of experimental studies in the field of energy saving in industrial enterprises, in particular in the tequistine industry, the main criteria for optimizing the whole variety of tasks for energy saving and assessing the corresponding energy indicators of units and enterprises in general are being developed. In addition, methodological foundations of experimental research on energy saving at operating industrial enterprises are being developed, taking into account technological and operational factors affecting energy consumption levels.


This paper presents some important information on the installation of electrical control valves,some common troubles and their troubleshooting so as to keep them in proper service and maintenance.


How to expand the economic distribution is the important approach to resolve the regional future economic sustainable development. Through the research of the Panjin's fisheries economic development, it is considered that the scientific distribution of Panjin's fisheries development, the "increasing-pole" effect of the fisheries development, and the tractive function of big fisheries industry group perfect the regional fisheries economy rather to make Panjin's fisheries economic development becoming the "gold industry belt" of shore.


BACKGROUND In December 2003, the National Patient Safety Agency in England published a report entitled "Realizing the Potential of GP Computer Systems to Improve Patient Safety." The project team that generated the report was led by Professor Anthony Avery, Head of the Division of Primary Care, School of Community Health Sciences, at the University of Nottingham. The project team also included researchers from the University of Manchester and the University of Edinburgh. The four-part study had the following objectives:


Objective To investigate the protective effects of compound E-Jiao oral liquid on peripheral blood of patients treated with chemotherapy.Methods 163 patients of malignant tumors were selected.All patients were randomly recruited into a treatment group and a control group.The control group was administered with chemotherapy alone,while the treatment group was additionally treated with compound E-jiao oral liquid twice a day and 40 ml each time.Peripheral hemogram,KPS score and questionnaire of life quality were observed at the day before chemotherapy,and the first day,seventh days after chemotherapy and the day before the second cycle of chemotherapy.Results At the first and the seventh day after chemotherapy,the white blood cell count [the value was (5.315±1.401) × 109/L,(5.011±1.541) × 109/L in the treatment group respectively; and (4.621 ± 1.012) × 109/L,(4.127± 1.061) × 109/L in the control group respectively],KPS score [the value was (70.513±8.217),(85.000±7.168) in the treatment group respectively; and (65.147±7.102),(70.198±9.511) in the control group respectively]and quality of life [the value was (69.781 ±8.217),(80.000±7.521) in the treatment group respectively and (64.911±7.412),(68.011±8.542) in the control group respectively] showed significant differences (P<0.05).At the day before the second cycle of chemotherapy,two groups showed significant differences in the white blood cell count,hemoglobin,platelet count,KPS score and quality of life [the values were (5.584±1.591)× 109/L,(118.891±14.213)g/L,(212.097± 114.769) × 109/L,(88.641±3.019),and (79.541 ±3.121) in the treatment group respectively; the values were (3.937± 1.013) × 109/L,(99.143± 11.351) g/L,(180.219±61.643) × 109/L,(75.463±9.871),and (72.219±7.462) in the control group respectively] (P<0.05).Conclusion Compound E-Jiao oral liquid has a protective effect on peripheral hemogram of patients treated with chemotherapy,besides its significantly improving the life quality of these patients.

Key words:
Compound E-Jiao oral liquid; Chemotherapy; Peripheral hemogram; Quality of life


Objective To analyze the curative results of 59 cases of intertrochanteric fracture of the femur in old people with dynamic hip screw(DHS) and improved proximal femoral nailanti-rotation(PFNA).Methods Among 59 cases of intertrochanteric fracture of the femur,31 cases were fixed with DHS(group A),while 28 cases with PFNA(group B).The multi-index of operation and post-operation between two groups were compared.Results There were remarkable statistic differences between two groups including the operation time,the intraoperative blood loss,postoperative drainage volume,and weight loading-time,the group A was much better than the group B.There was no obvious difference in Hip Functional Evaluation of post-operation.Conclusion Both DHS and PFNA can treat intertrochanteric fracture of the femur in old people effectively,but PFNA is minimal invasive,which is suitable for the elder patients with osteoporosis especially.


In this article the main steps of a hymeneal rite of Gidatlins (which are the subethnnic group of Avars) are described. Among them are rites of before bridal cycle (which are the bride choosing, the matchmaking, the betrothal), as well as wedding ceremony itself and after bridal rites.It is denoted, that in contemporary wedding in comparison with the traditional one defi nite changes have taken place: some of the rites have been shortened, time period from the betrothal till the wedding as well as duration of a wedding itself have changed. The data state that the whole Gidatlin hymeneal cycle during the time of investigation preserved many interesting forms tracing back to the most ancient layers of hymeneal and family history. The author points out that one can't forget the fact that every nation in the course of thousands of years has formed,checked,clarifi ed and perfected such a scenario of marriage that would correspond to its spiritand refl ect its peculiarities of everyday life.


With increasing use of phasor measurement units in power system, an enormous amount of data is being stored in phasor data concentrators (PDCs). PDCs have the capability to store disturbance files separately. Over a period of time, the number of such disturbance files keeps increasing. However, these files are not really mined for data and mapped to actual events that may have caused the disturbance. This paper uses actual disturbance files from a PDC in the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) system that collects data from four PMUs, and shows how the data needs to be preprocessed before it can be used. It also evaluates the performance of a feature extraction and classifier tool on some limited data files that store data for known disturbances logged by PNM. Based on these initial results, effectiveness of the classifier tool is evaluated, and future work is proposed that may ultimately lead to real time identification of disturbance events immediately after the disturbance files are created.


Price stickiness has a central role in macroeconomics and, besides a vast theoretical literature, it has generated numerous empirical studies trying to explain its origins and gauge its importance. A consensual finding of this work is that prices at the micro level may remain unchanged for periods that can last up to several months. Studies documenting this stylised fact include, among many others, Bils and Klenow (2004), Klenow and Kryvtsov (2008), and Nakamura and Steinson (2008), who study consumer prices in the United States (US), and Dhyne et al. (2006) and Vermeulen et al. (2007), who give a synthesis of studies carried out for the Euro Area (EA). For example, using comparable micro data on consumer prices, Dhyne et al. (2006) find that the estimated monthly frequency of price changes is around 15 percent in the EA and 25 percent in the US, and that the implied average duration of a price spell is 13 months in the EA and 6.7 months in the US. These results are consistent with evidence from survey data: according to Fabiani et al. (2006), the median frequency of price changes is one per year in the EA, lower than the estimated 1.4 price changes per year in the US reported in Blinder et al. (1998).


The present disclosure relates to a device for determining properties of a structure as well as an associated method. The structure comprises two components and is arranged between the two components shim layer. An embodiment of the device comprises a measuring device and an arithmetic unit. The measuring device comprises an ultrasonic unit. The measuring device is so insertable in an opening introduced into the structure that it is possible the ultrasound unit in the inserted state, to perform an ultrasound measurement of the structure. The processing unit is configured to determine, based on the performed ultrasonic measuring a property of the structure.


Two typifying pedons belonging to Chromic Haplustert and Typic Haplustert were evaluated for their primary mineral reserves i.e. stage of weathering. Quartz was the dominant mineral followed by feldspar in coarse, medium, fine fraction of sand and silt. Feldspars and mica were dominant in the coarse clay fraction in both the soils. Quartz showed decreasing trend from coarse sand to coarse clay. The quartz! total feldspar ratio indicate that the surface soils were comparatively more weathered than their corresponding subsurface horizons. The relative stability index values showed richness of potassium, Ca-feldspars in both the soils and indicated higher weathering in Karanpur soils.


Novy mir hardly reflects the philosophy of all literary intellectuals. The USSR, to state the obvious, has its Buckleys and its Mailers. More serious is Spechler's assumption that the journal packs a powerful political punch in the Soviet Union. We have to ask how much, if at all, the intelligentsia influences the Soviet masses. The Harvard Project studies revealed a wide social distance between intellectuals and workers-peasants. The very fact that Russian intellectuals have a sense of guilt vis-a-vis the masses may be significant. Writing for the "desk drawer" may only be one indication. Further, one-half of the Soviet population is non-Russian, and Novy mir is probably marginal, at best, to their political culture. Thus phrases like the "popularity of destalinization with the general public" (p. 213) and Novy mir's "contribution to the pluralization of Soviet politics" (p. 248) need more evidence, if not serious qualification. Even if the journal's circulation reached 100,000 in the 1960s (p. 247), the figure still represents only a drop in the Soviet demographic sea. Likewise the assertion that Novy mir gave the regime "a vitally important . . . picture of the state of mind of the intelligentsia, youth, peasantry, and even working class" (p. 252) is open to question. One doubts whether the regime permitted dissent to gain "information about public opinion" (p. 252). Only with difficulty can one visualize the modal apparatchik rushing to his mailbox to scour Novy mir in order to find out what the masses are thinking. The KGB would be a much more voluminous (and probably more accurate) source. The author is on safer ground in claiming that the liberal intelligentsia was used for the political purposes (destalinization) of certain powerful officials. And when that purpose faded, so did permitted dissent. With this major caveat in mind, the reader can go on to enjoy the politically sophisticated analysis of a major slice of Soviet intellectual history between the death of Stalin and the resignation of Novy mir's chief editor, Alexander Tvardovsky, in 1970. I will avoid stealing Spechler's thunder and simply mention the clearly delineated stages in the evolution of Novy mir's dissent, the important domestic and foreign variables influencing the degree of regime permissiveness, major institutional sources of intolerance, the connections between permitted and unpermitted (samizdat) dissent, and the mechanisms used by the regime to control political expression—all of which deserve our further consideration. Commendable as well is Spechler's sensitivity to the already vast amount of publication on the Solzhenitsyn affair, the description of which Spechler limits to a concise yet relevant few pages. One leaves the volume with a sound respect not only for the courage of the literary dissidents, but for the analytical skill and scholarship of the author as well.


The alkylation of phenol with methanol was performed in a microcatalytic reactor using the H- and Na-forms of a ZSM5 zeolite. Conditions were found in which the selectivity of the O-alkylation yielding anisole was as high as 80%. Some results are also reported for the alkylation of 2,4-dimethylphenol.

On a effectue l'alkylation du phenol par le methanol dans un reacteur microcatalytique a lit fixe, en employant les formes H- et Na- d'une zeolithe ZSM5. On a etabli les conditions dans lesquelles la selectivite de l'alkylation sur le groupe OH conduisant a l'anisole est de l'ordre de 80%. Quelques resultats sont egalement presentes sur l'alkylation du 2,4-dimethylphenol.


ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (URC) conducted a pilot testing program to systematically assess the effect of reeling on the fatigue performance of welded risers. Given the criticality of deepwater risers, a robust reeling simulation method was developed. The method properly addresses the fundamental weld sampling issue arising from the randomness of the plane in which risers are reeled. To address that issue the nominal reeling strain is accumulated around the entire circumference of girth weld, thereby capturing the weak fatigue bending plane. The reeling simulation is implemented by using multi-plane bending. The number and orientation of bending planes needed to simulate a total cumulative reeling strain are based on (1) the strain experienced during the process being simulated (2) weld fabrication and inspection records and (3) residual stresses left after reeling calculated via finite element analyses. Thirty production-quality welds were made on 323mm OD × 20.5-mm WT (12.75-in OD × 0.81-in WT) seamless X60 pipe, yielding a total of 14 full-scale specimens. Two different welding procedures and two different cumulative nominal strain levels were used. The effect of reeling on fatigue was assessed by comparing the fatigue lives obtained with companion reeled and non-reeled full-scale specimens. Results indicate that, although there was a distinct deleterious effect of reeling on fatigue life, the performance may still be adequate for most riser applications when high quality welds are used and qualified.© 2010 ASME


The latest generation of online library catalogues are also referred as OPAC 2.0 since it incorporates Web 2.0 technologies. Web 2.0 can be seen as the second generation of internet which offers many tools and techniques for
creating user centred applications aimed at collaboration on web. OPAC 2.0 solutions are designed keeping in mind the user expectations in the social networking landscape. Faceted navigation is a well known technique for
knowledge discovery by way of exploring and refining information base. A next-generation online library catalogue is different from traditional catalogues in terms of their usage of faceted navigation and web 2.0
technologies such as tagging, reviewing, rating and relevance ranking. Integration of these features into the library catalogue could transform the user experience and thus enhances the library services. This paper presents an
overview of practical experiences of designing a new user interface for the CFTRI library OPAC utilizing the potential features of web 2.0 technologies and faceted navigation. It briefly explains the limitations of current system and evaluates the benefits of integrating these technologies. Emerging OPAC technologies are also highlighted.


Recent linepipe steel is required to have enough deformation capacity through longitudinal direction at severe environments such as permafrost or seismic region, even though after anti-corrosion coating treatment in pipe. Under this background, X60 and X100 linepipe steels with high strain aging resistance have been developed. With thermodynamic calculation and pilot plant rolling, optimal chemical compositions were determined, and it was studied that the effects of hot rolling conditions such as finish cooling temperatures on strengths and uniform elongations after coating simulation. Mo, Ni, and V alloying elements were employed to obtain enough strength and improve uniform elongation by producing microstructures consisting of ferrite, bainite and MA constituent. Such microstructures were characterized by EBSD (electron back scattered diffraction) technique. Pipes with 1m length were manufactured with an UOE simulator which can do U-ing, O-ing and expansion at the same machine. After pipe forming, coating simulation to evaluate strain aging characteristics of pipes was performed.


Automatic heart sound diagnosis plays an important role in the early detection of cardiovascular diseases. Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals are often used in this field f or its low cost and non-invasive advantages. In this paper, we design a new time and time-frequency features integrated CNN (TTFI-CNN) model for heart sound signals detection. In the model, a 1D CNN and a BiLSTM are combined into 1D CRNN module to extract temporal features from the original PCG signal, and a 2D CNN module is applied to capture high-level features from time-frequency domain MFCCs inputs. The outputs of the two modules are recalibrated by attention mechanism to selectively emphasize informative features and suppress less useful ones. To verify the proposed TTFI-CNN model, it is applied to two public datasets with different classification t asks (binary and multiclassification). The TTFI-CNN model has achieved 97.15% accuracy, 97.13% sensitivity, and 97.17% specificity on physionet/cinc database, and obtained 3.31 and 2.61 precision scores on the PASCAL database A and B, respectively. Compared with the previous state-of-the-art methods, the TTFI-CNN performs best on all the above metrics. https://github.com/XxxNnnSssWww/TTFI-CNN.


2011 We demonstrate an effective method to prepare a new condensed form of single-walled carbon nanotubes (crystal of SWNTs) using a series of diamond wire drawing dies. X-ray diffraction indicates that the SWNTs form a two-dimensional triangular lattice with a lattice constant of 19.62 Å. An intertube spacing of 3.39 Å of between adjacent SWNTs results in a sharp (002) reflection in the X-ray diffraction pattern. Meanwhile, we developed an approach based on the Coulomb explosion to separate SWNTs from their bundle. The separated SWNTs have a typical length of several microns and form a nanotree at one end of the original bundle. The separation is convenient and involves no surfactant. In studying devices comprising SWNTs, we find that a four-probe technique can be employed to study the filling of and flow within the inner channel of an individual SWNT. Current/voltage can drive water molecules to have directional flow along an SWNT, and the flowing of water inside an SWNT can induce a voltage gradient force (an induced electromotive force) along the SWNT. This energy conversion is realized by the mutual coupling of water dipoles and charge carriers present in SWNTs. The results suggest that SWNTs can be exploited as molecular channels for water and may find potential application in nanoscale energy conversion. Moreover, a surface-energy generator comprising SWNTs was demonstrated to harvest the surface energy of ethanol. The performance (the induction rate for V oc , the value of V oc and the output power) can be significantly enhanced by the Marangoni


ABSTRACT This article addresses the connection between the activism of AIDS advocacy group ACT UP and the house music scene of 1990s Paris as presented in 2017 AIDS drama 120 BPM. The article mobilizes Jacques Rancière's political and aesthetic philosophy alongside a phenomenological reading of dance and music to reveal how 120 BPM's cinematic dancefloors construct cinematic politics. My reading suggests that the club scenes' mobile camerawork and soundscape of remixed queer club anthems engages viewers in an affective, queer 'club time' that ruptures the straightforward, linear timeline of the film's fictional narrative. Although Campillo has questioned his film's capacity to 'mobilise people today', this article suggests that a phenomenological approach to the 'queer time' effected by the music and movement in the film's club scenes reveals 120 BPM's dancefloors as sites of embodied politics that transcend the specificity of the film's cultural and historical context.


On the 17th and 18th of February 2010 Oxford Archaeology East undertook the excavation of a small trench in advance of the laying of a sewer pipe through the churchyard of St. Botolph's Church, Cambridge on behalf of Corpus Christi College. The trench was located between the southern range of Corpus Christi College (New Court) and an existing drain immediately to the north of St. Botolph's Church, adjacent to the 1924 extension.
The only deposit encountered was a dark and silty topsoil which contained several modern plastic artefacts which were not retained. No archaeological features nor evidence for any graves were observed.


During circumcision, a newborn is noted to have continuous dribbling of urine from his meatus and stool from his anus. After several minutes of observation, the urinary stream appears weak and remains a constant trickle. The baby boy was born at term via an uncomplicated spontaneous vaginal delivery.


Techniques are now available for isolating plant protoplasts in any quantity from leaves or from cultured cells by enzymatic removal of the cell walls. The culture conditions for regenerating dividing cells and complete plants has been established for a few species. Intact viruses enter plant protoplasts and multiply. Spontaneous fusion occurs in protoplasts of the same species. Mitosis frequently takes place synchronously in the nuclei of the multinucleated protoplasts. Induced fusion of widely different species such as wheat and soybean has been demonstrated. Hybrid plants of two tobacco species have been produced by cell fusion. Transformation has been achieved by feeding isolated DNA to plants. Isolated DNA supplied to protoplasts is absorbed. The progress in plant cell and protoplast research demonstrates the feasibility of transferring genetic information and makes hybrid plant production by somatic cell hybridization a realistic objective.


One of the greatest obstacles to biodiversity conservation is the lack of information to prioritize efforts on practical actions. This lack of information comes mainly from absence of inventories in many areas where few groups have reasonably complete databases. The distribution of the dragonfly fauna of Brazil is little known - only 29% of the Brazilian territory presents data about the richness of Odonata. In this contribution, a database of Odonata species of Santa Teresa Municipality was built, Espírito Santo State, Brazil. The database has 627 specimens registered, 77 species distributed in eight families and thirty-eight genera, forty of these species are common, one endemic of the State of Espírito Santo, and nineteen endemic of Brazil. In relation to the measure of conservation, four species are present in the category Insufficient Data (DD), one present in the Nearly Endangered (NT) category, three species in the Vulnerable category (VU) and one in the category In Danger (EN). Twenty-five species are considered new occurrences for the city. These results suggest that the fauna of the studied region deserves attention and points to the interest in implanting future conservation units in the region of Santa Teresa municipality.


In this paper, three alternative implementations of the POWDER W3C Recommendation are presented, compared, and discussed. The main issue with implementing POWDER is that POWDER inference accesses resources' URIs in order to mass-annotate regular expressiondelineated groupings of URIs.


The knowledge level hypothesis formulated by Newell states the existence of knowledge independent of its representation. After a careful study of its implications, it turns out that the knowledge modelling theory, the knowledge representation techniques, and the knowledge acquisition process, involved in the overall knowledge engineering process, are nevertheless strongly interrelated. Thus, the claim is that the construction of knowledge based systems (KBS) at the knowledge level requires a coherent framework, which takes into account these interactions. In this article, such a framework including a knowledge modelling paradigm, the task oriented modelling , an architecture based on a high level representation language, the task model formalism, and a knowledge acquisition method, the task oriented acquisition method, is proposed. The two most significant knowledge engineering approaches, KADS and Components of Expertise, are first surveyed and compared according to these three dimensions: modelling, representation, acquisition. Then, the Task Model perspective of knowledge engineering and its implications for Architecture and Knowledge Acquisition are presented.


To evaluate the validity of a decrease in the radiation dose for patients who were good responders to chemotherapy for localized diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), 91 patients with localized DLBCL who underwent radiotherapy after multi-agent chemotherapy from 1988–2008 were reviewed. Exclusion criteria were as follows: central nervous system or nasal cavity primary site, or Stage II with bulky tumor (≥10 cm). Of these patients, 62 were identified as good responders to chemotherapy. They were divided into two groups receiving either a higher or a lower radiation dose (32–50.4 Gy or 15–30.6 Gy, respectively). There were no statistically significant differences between the lower and higher dose groups in progression-free survival, locoregional progression-free survival or overall survival. Adaptation of decreased radiation dose may be valid for localized DLBCL patients who show a good response to chemotherapy.


Viscometers capable of measuring a wide range of viscosity covering 1-1012Pa·s were developped and tested for some alkali silicate glasses. For the range of 103-108Pa·s, a conventional viscometer was used with a 5mm wide and 10mm long penetration tip of alumina tube, which lowered the measurable viscosity range maintaining the precision. For the range of 108-1012Pa·s, the beam-bending principle was utilized. By applying load to a sheet glass specimen with an alumina tube, and by heating at 3°C/min, viscosities in the range of 108-1012Pa·s were measured in a single run. It was shown that these viscometers can be applied to Li2O-Na2O-2SiO2 glasses. It was demonstrated that glass transition temperature Tg agrees well with the temperature at which a viscosity of 1012Pa·s was attained. It was also found that the viscosity vs. temperature relationship can be described by the Fulcher's type equation over the wide range temperature with good accuracy.


Recent progress in human genomics and proteomics has significantly increased the number of macromolecular targets potentially involved in drug discovery campaigns. Today technologies like combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening (HTS) authorize biological assays of a large number of small molecules against the therapeutically relevant targets. However the escalating costs highlight the need of developing novel approaches while still allowing one to explore larger chemical diversity. In this respect, virtual ligand screening (VLS) is established as an attractive approach to handle large sets of compounds and to improve the "hit-rate" of drug discovery programs. Here, we review the main VLS techniques applied for structure-based drug design and we focus on key concepts in the molecular docking-scoring methodology.


Giant clams can grow to large sizes despite living in oligotrophic waters of the tropical Indo-Pacific as they maintain a mutualistic relationship with symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae) and receive photosynthate from them. The phototrophic dinoflagellates live extracellularly inside a tubular system located mainly in the colorful outer mantle and have no access to the ambient seawater. Hence, the clam host needs to absorb exogenous inorganic carbon (Ci), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), and supply them to the symbionts. As photosynthesizing symbionts need more nutrients in light than in the dark, the uptake rates of these exogenous nutrients by the host must increase during illumination, implying that the host's transporters involved need to be regulated by some kind of light-responsive mechanisms. Furthermore, the growth and development of the host can also be augmented by light, because of the photosynthate donated by the photosynthesizing symbionts. Consequently, giant clams display many light-dependent phenomena related to phototrophy, antioxidative defense, biomineralization, as well as absorption of exogenous Ci, N, and P. These phenomena may involve collaborations among enzymes and transporters in several organs of the host, whereby the gene and protein expression levels of these biocatalysts are up- or down-regulated during illumination. This review aims to examine the molecular mechanisms of light-dependent physiological phenomena that occur in intact giant clam-dinoflagellate associations, and to highlight the differences between giant clams and scleractinian corals in those regards. As the population of giant clams in nature are dwindling due to climate change and anthropogenic activities, a good understanding of their light-dependent processes may generate new ideas to improve their growth and survival under rapidly changing environmental conditions.


We present our modern pipeline, Conduit, developed for Blue Sky's upcoming feature film, Nimona. Conduit refers to a set of tools and web services that allow artists to find, track, version and quality control their work. In addition to describing the system and implementation, we will discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing and deploying a pipeline with the intention of open sourcing the resulting toolset. We found that communicating concepts and progress updates both internally and externally throughout the development process ultimately resulted in a more robust solution.


The news is a necessity; it is necessary for a person to be a news consumer so that he can learn social, economic, cultural, political information, developments related to the near and far environment. News consumption habits are covered by radio, television, and newspapers from traditional media tools, and as of 2010, social media have emerged as a news consumption habit with an increasing momentum. Especially in the days when the future of the newspaper is discussed; the decrease of newspaper circulation, the termination of the printed versions of some magazines, the questioning of the future of the printed media. The most important effect of social media diffusion has been the development of mobile technology, its widespread use, cheapness and widespread use of internet connection. Now people can access the internet almost anywhere without being restricted to certain places, and they can access media via social media or direct news sites. The number of mobile users in Turkey 71 million people, while the number of mobile users who connect from 42 million social media. In this issue of Turkey's population of 2 / 3rds it represents. 95% of mobile phone users in Turkey with the device and 75% use a smartphone. In social media usage, especially in Facebook and Instagram, it is among the top 5 countries in the world rankings. As such, news consumption habits have changed a lot and new habits have emerged in the last ten years. In this study, the history of news consumption habits in the Turkish society will be discussed and the current trend of mobile news consumption will be evaluated in the perspective of researches.


Recent research on annual growth measured using curriculum-based measurement (CBM) indicates that growth may not be linear across the year and instead varies across semesters. Numerous studies in reading have confirmed this phenomenon with only one study of math computation yielding a similar finding. This study further investigated the presence of differences in growth across triannual benchmarks using math computation and concepts and applications CBMs. Results indicated that there are differences in growth across semesters at certain grade levels with only first-grade computation and fourth-grade concepts and applications yielding linear growth. The practical implications for understanding student growth and for setting progress goals are addressed and future directions for research are suggested.


A movement capacity building sports drinks is described. A previous exercise, during, and after the useful beverages, reduce lactic acid production, reduce the fatigue that is perceived, reduce muscle pain (in fact both of muscle pain is muscle damage and perception) It is allowed, and is specifically developed to reduce the net fluid loss observed with the movement. .BACKGROUND


To combine the advantages of a conducting graphene nanosheet (GNS) and insulating layered inorganic, we used a simple one-pot hydrothermal method to prepare two-dimensional dielectric nanoplates composed of a GNS/Mg–Al layered double-hydroxide (GNS/LDH) composite for use as a novel anisotropic electro-responsive electrorheological (ER) material. The structures of the samples were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The conductivity and dielectric properties were measured by an impedance analyzer, and the electro-responsive ER characteristic of the GNS/LDH composite dispersed in insulating oil was characterized by a rheometer. The results demonstrate that the LDH can provide an electrically insulating effect for GNS, while the incorporation of the conducting GNS can enhance the dielectric polarization of LDH. The GNS/LDH composite shows a significantly stronger ER effect compared to the pure LDH, especially under AC electric fields due to the enhanced polarization response.


Samples of poultry feed were collected from several poultry shops around Jakarta, Bogor, and Bandung, which represented different location altitudes. Samples were inoculated onto Sahouraud's glucose agar then incubated at 25 and 37°C to determine kinds and populations of moulds which potentially contaminate the feed. The experimental analysis for different altitudes and inA¨ubation temperatures was carried out using factorial completely design 3 x 2 with three replicates. Results Indicated that there were 14 dIfferent kinds of moulds recovered from all samples. Location altitudes and incubation temperatures did not significantly influenced p>O.O5 the kinds of moulds, how ever, significantly influenced p.cO.O5 the population number of moulds. Interaction occurred between different incubation temperatures and location altitudes and the highest population number of moulds was obtained feed from low altitude area Jakarta at incubation temperature of 25°C.


We study the statistical mechanics of classical two-dimensional "Coulomb gases" with general potential and arbitrary β, the inverse of the temperature. Such ensembles also correspond to random matrix models in some particular cases. The formal limit case β =∞ corresponds to "weighted Fekete sets" and also falls within our analysis. It is known that in such a system points should be asymptotically distributed according to a macroscopic "equilibrium measure," and that a large deviations principle holds for this, as proven by Ben Arous and Zeitouni [BZ]. By a suitable splitting of the Hamiltonian, we connect the problem to the "renormalized energy" W , a Coulombian interaction for points in the plane introduced in [SS1], which is expected to be a good way of measuring the disorder of an infinite configuration of points in the plane. By so doing, we are able to examine the situation at the microscopic scale, and obtain several new results: a next order asymptotic expansion of the partition function, estimates on the probability of fluctuation from the equilibrium measure at microscale, and a large deviations type result, which states that configurations above a certain threshhold of W have exponentially small probability. When β →∞, the estimate becomes sharp, showing that the system has to "crystallize" to a minimizer of W . In the case of weighted Fekete sets, this corresponds to saying that these sets should microscopically look almost everywhere like minimizers of W , which are conjectured to be "Abrikosov" triangular lattices. keywords: Coulomb gas, one-component plasma, random matrices, Ginibre ensemble, Fekete sets, Abrikosov lattice, triangular lattice, renormalized energy, large deviations, crystallization. MSC classification: 82B05, 82D10, 82D99, 15B52


The Overend family from Holmfirth were circus entertainers and toured South Africa in 1939. During their tour they were offered two newly born tiger cubs to rear, and although one of them soon died, they successfully reared the remaining one, Fenella, and, at the outbreak of World War II, brought her back with them to live in Holmfirth.


The present invention provides a time-resolved single photon or ultra-weak light spectrum system and method for multi-dimensional imaging, on the one hand in order to achieve coarse time resolution of the present invention provides a single photon counting time-resolved two-dimensional imaging system for color or gray imaged image; in addition, in order to achieve high-precision multi-dimensional time-resolved imaging system of the present invention provides the primary control unit by the light source, the imaging spectrum measurement unit, an electrical detection means, systems, algorithms units, wherein the object information carrying light imaging in the spatial light modulator, according to the theory of its random modulation compressed sensing, and using point and single-photon detector array to collect light emitted grating, while recording the time of arrival of photons and the number of photons, the use of compressed sensing algorithms and imaging spectra correlation algorithm reconstruction, with single-photon detection sensitivity, high time resolution, wide spectral range, can be widely used single-cell organisms many new physics, material defects detected high-tech industries.


This article proposes a method based on hybrid fuzzy neural network (HFNN) comprised of a filter module and ranking module for online voltage contingency screening and ranking, incorporating load uncertainty and flexibility in ranking. A four-stage multi-output Parallel Self-organizing Hierarchical Neural Network (PSHNN) is developed to serve as the ranking module; it is found to be superior to conventional back-propagation (BP) neural network. The filter module reduces the burden on the ranking module by filtering out the noncritical contingencies. Compared to the deterministic crisp ranking, this method offers a more practical and flexible ranking, and is capable of handling contingencies lying on the boundary between two severity classes. Angular-distance-based clustering is used to reduce the dimension of the HFNN. It is difficult and time consuming to deduce the membership rules from complex input-output data. Therefore, in this work a trained artificial neural network is used as a fuzzy inference engine for if-then mapping. The proposed method is tested on IEEE 30-bus test system and a practical 75-bus Indian system and is found to produce accurate results for previously unseen load patterns almost instantaneously.


One-loop contributions to the Higgs potential at finite temperatures are discussed in the supersymmetric standard model with four Higgs doublet chiral superfields as well as a pair of charged singlet chiral superfields. The mass of the lightest Higgs boson $h$ is determined only by the D-term at the tree-level in this model, while the triple Higgs boson coupling for $hhh$ can receive a significant radiative correction. The same nondecoupling effect can also contribute to realize the sufficient first order electroweak phase transition, which is required for a successful scenario of electroweak baryogenesis. This model can be a new candidate for a model in which the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is explained at the electroweak scale. We also discuss the implication for the measurement of the triple Higgs boson coupling at the ILC.


The aim in an industrial bioprocess is commonly to maximize microbial growth and / or production of some compound produced by microorganisms. To achieve this in an efficient manner, it is necessary to maintain a suitable environment for the microorganisms at all times. The main objective of this research is to implement PI (Proportional Integral) and PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) control algorithm to the bioprocess system. The Bode criterion were then applied to check its stability followed by determining controller parameters using TLC method (Tyreus-Luyben). Closed loop simulation results were presented and it is found that TLC performance give acceptable results.


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The invention discloses a multifunctional geotechnical model test chamber device adopting photogrammetric technology. The multifunctional geotechnical model test chamber device comprises a model test chamber body, a loading and testing part, a movable pile baffle, a downward-moving control part, a displacement testing system and the like. The whole-filed displacement is measured by using the photogrammetric technology. The soil arch effect demonstration of 20 different pile spacing ratios, the pile-supported embankment filler particle soil arch effect and a compound foundation cushion layer effect simulation test under the rigid foundation can be realized. Meanwhile, the geotechnical model test chamber device can also carry out simulation such as stress and deformation simulation of buried pipes, slope deformation, excavation of foundation pits, stress and deformation of an enclosing structure and the like by using the test chamber.


The increasing consumption of diesel oil results in depletion of petroleum supply so that biodiesel is made out of crude palm oil. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the production of biodiesel by using NaOH catalysts. First, crude palm oil is analyzed for its free fatty acid content. If the free fatty acid is less than 5%, the transesterification process can be carried out immediately, if it's more than 5%, the esterification process is carried out first. The esterification process lasts for 60 minutes temperature of 60°C with an acid catalyst H 2 SO 4  then separated and washed. After the washing process, the transesterification process is continued with NaOH catalyst for 30 minutes at 60°C and then the washing process proceeds in order to purify the results. From the research that has been done, the result of biodiesel has a yield of 87. 2866%, kinematic viscosity 4. 655 mm 2 /s, flash point 110 o C, pour point 12 o C, and density at 15 o C of 0. 875 g/ml .


| Motivated by the principle of maximum entropy, the Laplace prior has been introduced in the Bayesian inference approach to training feedforward neural networks as the prior distribution for network weights. In this paper, we examine in detail the arguments supporting the Laplace prior and argue that network weights, being continuous quantities with no obvious upper bound, complicate the application of the maximum entropy principle. On the other hand, we motivate the use of the Gaussian prior as reference prior in neural networks, basing on the assumptions of exchangeability and spherical symmetry.


An X-ray preionised, discharge excited ArF excimer laser, /spl lambda/=193 nm, has been studied in the long pulse regime. The laser performance is found to be primarily dependent on the discharge stability, and therefore, on the gas composition, preionization timing and the pumping power. Using X-ray preionization and prepulse-mainpulse excitation, laser pulselengths of up to 120-ns full-width at half-maximum at 4 mJ/l are obtained by decreasing the partial pressures of the active ingredients, F/sub 2/ and Ar, and using Ne as a buffer gas. This is almost six times as long as usual for discharge excited ArF lasers.


After different natural disasters occurred in France these last years, French Ministry of Environment wanted to build new scales about of natural phenomena intensity such as volcanic eruption, flooding, forest's fires, atmospheric phenomena (wind, hail storm, ... ) and avalanches. The goal is to better qualify each event after it's coming. The main criteria are : a few physical parameters on the phenomenon itself, the effective or possible damages on people, buildings, substructures, natural area, others criteria. Each scale has from 4 to 6 levels with a coordinate description. They are independent from the site vulnerability. Non specialists of the phenomenon can understand or use them very often. For one event, usually all the describe parameters are not on the same line level: the choice can be made with the strongest. The avalanche scale has got 5 degrees, from 1, very low, to 5, exceptional. The physical parameters are surface area, depth of the starting snow, volume of the snow deposit, impact pressure. Human beings are distinguished between observant and carrying along. The effects on the different building parts (openings, wall, roof) are mentioned. The many possibilities for road (vehicle, damages, burying) and for tree and forest are detailed. This new scale uses also the possible noise or unexpected path., and the effects on engineering works for avalanche protection.


The geometrical and flow parameters are governing the performance of the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC). The flow channels are used for distributing the reactants uniformly throughout the active area of fuel cell. Among different flow field designs, the serpentine flow field can give better performance to the PEM fuel cell. This paper numerically investigates the effects of the serpentine flow field with different number of passes. The 2 pass, 3 pass and 4 pass serpentine flow field designs of same rib size and channel size were modelled and analyzed using commercially available software package. From the polarization curves and performance curves drawn using the numerical results, the performance of three flow channel designs were compared and the maximum power densities of each design were found


Group projects are common in undergraduate engineering course. Wikis are a new medium for group projects because they are webpages that are edited using the same software used to view the webpage. Advantages include the ability to record changes made by each individual (helpful for grading), ability to continuously monitor progress, and a reduced need for face-to-face meetings for the group members. Projects based on Wikis also introduce new challenges such as the need for the students to learn another new technology.


Intent Based Networks (IBN) is a prominent feature in the design of the AI-enabled B5G networks. Intents are primarily used to transform the intention of a human operator into network configuration, operation, and maintenance strategies. Although IBN provides future network automation technologies, it also raises the risk of contradiction(s) in an intent which arises during the runtime and cannot be predicted or resolved beforehand. In this paper we propose a new design which helps to detect and remove contradiction(s) in the optimal way during the runtime and evaluate it. We evaluate our proposed solution in a simulation environment and also provide a brief overview of standardization impact of our work to show that it conforms with the worldwide mobile network standardization efforts.


This paper presents an eight-wing chaotic attractor by replacing a constant parameter with a switch function in Qi four-wing 3-D chaotic system. The eight-wing chaotic attractor has more complicated topological structures and dynamics than the original one. Some basic dynamical behaviors and the compound structure of the proposed 3-D system are investigated. Poincare-map analysis shows that the system has an extremely rich dynamics. The physical existence of the eight-wing chaotic attractor is verified by an electronic circuit FPGA.


The present invention provides a method and apparatus for measuring the yield value of flowable material, the measuring element is describes a method and apparatus that is regularly wetted by the flowable material to be measured. Furthermore, use of the device is described. .FIELD 1