Many applications involving moving objects is the task of processing k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) queries. Most of the existing approaches to this problem are designed for the centralized setting where query processing takes place on a single server; it is difficult, if not impossible, for them to scale to a distributed setting to handle the vast volume of data and concurrent queries that are increasingly common in those applications. To address this problem, we propose a suite of solutions that can support scalable distributed processing of k-NN queries. We first present a new index structure called Dynamic Strip Index (DSI), which can better adapt to different data distributions than exiting grid indexes. Moreover, it can be naturally distributed across the cluster, therefore lending itself well to distribute processing. We further propose a distributed k-NN search (DKNN) algorithm based on DSI. The advances of GPS technology and wide-ranging usage of wireless communication devices have facilitated the collection of large amount of spatiotemporal data. Of special interest are data related to moving objects. By modelling and analysing moving objects data, we learn about the moving objects behaviour and even predict their future locations. Discovery of patterns and prediction of future movement can greatly influence different fields. Devising the correct inference is a scientific and computational challenge. Fundamentals of moving objects' representation and space partitioning are presented. Markov models are described in general along with their application to spatiotemporal prediction. Process of prediction and possible enhancements are shown.


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his paper investigates the asymmetric behavior of inflation. We use logistic smooth transition autoregressive (LSTAR) model to characterize the regime-switching behavior of Iran's monthly inflation during the period May 1990 to December 2013. We find that there is a triple relationship between the inflation level, its fluctuations and persistence. The findings imply that the behavior of inflationary process is asymmetric. There are two inflationary regimes in Iran's economy, one is stable with little fluctuations, and the other is unstable that lead to higher inflation, more fluctuations and higher persistence. The results also show that the persistence of inflation is significantly and positively related to inflation level. Therefore, the inflation tends to converge towards the long-run value slowly in the high-inflation regime compare to the low-inflation regime. For this reason, inflation rates tend to be self-generating and self-perpetuating inflationary process in the higher-inflation regime (for example after 2011), while in the lower-inflation regime (for example during 2000 to 2005) is not.


3Azidomethyl3nitratomethyloxetane(AMNMO) was obtained by the cyclization, substitutation and nitration of 2,2dibromomethyl1,3propanediol. Through the cationic polymerization of the monomer AMNMO, a liquid high energetic binder(PAMNMO) was synthesized. The possibility of PAMNMO used as a plasticizer or binder in solid propellants was studied.


The paper of Schafer et al. (2) on the manifestation of atopy in relation to the patient's month of birth reports the absenee of such a relationship. The authors used a chi-square method to test the significance ofthe differences in the month-of-birth (MB) distributions between the positiveand negativereacting children. They detected no significant difference at all. However, this can mean two things: either that there really is no dilferenee between the fractions or that there is a difference, but the sample size is not large enough to detect it. In an earlier paper, Aalberse etal. (1) found a small but significant eflect of MB of about 2-6%,. Their study sample size was 150000 subjects, resulting in about 12000-23 000 subjects per month per allergen. Schafer etal. used a sample size of 781-1081 negative and 48-285 positive patients (estimated from the figures in the paper). This means that about 20-140 negative and 3-86 positive patients per month were present. In this case, the power of the test (the probability of achieving stadstical significance when there is a real differenee) was too low. When one has about 10% positive patients, and one wants to detect a differenee of 6%, (with a power of 90% and oc-0.05), a total number of 655 patients is needed per group. When the difference one wants to deteet is smaller, far more subjects are needed. A difference of 2%, under the same conditions, requires 5000 patients per group. The conclusion is that when based on the study of Schafer et al., the effect of MB on the allergic sensitization may not be refuted. A far greater number of subjects is neeessary to detect the presumable effect, and a thorough analysis of the power of the statistical test is desirable.


Microbial consortia taken from an extreme environment were grown at different temperature and enrichment media. The consortia response to environmental changes was evaluated in order to investigate their metabolic flexibility. The molecular technique, DGGE (denaturing gel gradient electrophoresis) was carried out to evaluate the biodiversity. The results show that each consortium was able to grow according to the available resources, demonstrating their flexibility. A selective development was detected when growing conditions were similar to those found in the natural environment even though some species were able to grown even in conditions far away from those present in the sampling sites.


The problem of pulsed antennas has two complementary parts: i) analysis of the radiation field when the driving voltage is given and i i) synthesis of the driven voltage when the radiation field is given. In this paper a number of heuristic procedures are presented, relating to the computation of transient radiation from elementary sources, coaxial apertures, infinitely long cylindrical antennas, ~ t e cylindrical antennas, and loop antennas. Comparison with available rigorous solutions and experiments is also provided. In early 1969, Prof, T. T. Wu stated: " It is worth emphasizing t.hat, our knowledge about. the transient, response of antennas is very mea.ger indeed. Any progress in this rat,her neglected field is certainly going to be of tremendous value " [l]. Although a few new papers have appeared on t,his subject since then, the above st,at,ement is probably still valid. Most, of the papers concerned with transient, currents on and transient, radiation from ant,ennas use solut,ions of frequency-domain integral equa.t,ions which are then transformed into the t,ime-doma.in by Fourier techniques. These papers cover the t,ransient, beha.vior of t.he infinite cylindrical antenna [2-)[7], t,he finit,e cylindrical antenna driven by a coaxial line [SI, or by a gap t.ype excit,at,ion [SI, [lo], the conical antenna [ll], the aperture antenna. [l2>[14], t.he loop ant,enna [E], [lS], and the loaded ant.enna [17]. In a few pa,pers, an experimental verification of the theory is provided, wit,h reference to t.he radiated and received fields [lS], [19] or t.o t,he input response of t,he antennas [20], [21]. Also, the effects of thin-wire approximations and of source-excitation modeling ca.n be found in t.he literature Dl], [32]. Other approaches that have been used are t.he singularity expa.nsion method [Z], [ZS], the solution of the t,ransient current, integral equa-t,ion directly in time-domain [24>[29], and an almost rigorous application of the Wiener-Hopf t,echnique [30]. A general charact.eristic of most. of the referenced material is the emphasis on eit.her t,he extensive use of numerica.1 met.hods or the presentation of the solution in a.n integra.1 form tha.t must be eva.luated numerically or at least, asymptotically [7]. A somewhat different ap-proa.ch has been suggest,ed [33] which aims at the general properties (if any) of transient radiat,ion. In this paper, this approach is formalized and further developed. In Section 11, the transient radiat,ion from elementary electric or magnetic sources wit .h prescribed current distributions is analyzed by using a formal Fourier inversion of known …


A method for processing a resolver error in a motor-generator unit (MGU), in that a position signal is received from a resolver, which describes a measured angular position of a rotor of the MGU, the presence of the resolver error is determined using the position signal and calculates an estimated rotor position or extrapolates , when the resolver is determined. A predetermined Resolverfehlerstatus can be determined using a measured duration of the resolver error, and the MGU can be controlled using the estimated rotor position for at least part of the duration of the resolver error. A motor control circuit is used to process the resolver using the above method and may include a torque output or pulse width modulation automatically (PWM) of the MGU depending on the duration of the resolver error vary.


In Coma and two other clusters of galaxies the primary morphological segregation is the one with respect to a privileged direction. Only when this segregation is not considered it appears that the morphological types are segregated in density or in clustercentric distance.


It is consensus that Class III treatment is clinically challenging considering, mainly, bone growth. Its diagnosis requires correct assessment of maxillary and mandible involvement since treatment must be directed to the bone base responsible for the malocclusion in order to correct it and provide improvement in the facial pattern. One of the main academic gaps in this subject is the approach to its treatment. In this context, this study aimed to group randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on cephalometric changes observed after maxillary expansion in these dental-skeletal disharmonies. RCTs published in English whose subjects were children and adolescents with Angle class III malocclusion and maxillary atresia were collected. In addition, at least one of the randomized groups should have maxillary (palatal) expansion and the measurement of cephalometric changes observed after palatal expansion as intervention. After inserting the PICO strategy and performing the systematic search, a total of 708 results were retrieved, of which 416 came from Scopus, PubMed, Cochrane, and Web of Science databases. When analyzing cephalometric results, mainly associated with the use of face mask, and considering the limiting factors of this review, it is clear that this type of intervention has become a viable option in clinical practice; however, new qualitative and meta-analytical reviews should be carried out in view of the publication of new randomized clinical trials in order to infer more accurate results and with greater power of evidence.


Nora P (1989) Between memory and history: Les lieux de mémoire. Representations 26: 7–24. Olick JK and Robbins J (1998) Social memory studies: From 'collective memory' to the historical sociology of mnemonic practices. Annual Review of Sociology 24: 105–140. Sarkar M (2006) Difference in memory. Comparative Studies in History and Society 48(1): 139–168. White GM (1999) Emotional remembering: The pragmatics of national memory. Ethos 27(4): 505–529. Wimmer A and Glick Schiller N (2002) Methodological nationalism and beyond: Nation-state building, migration and the social sciences. Global Networks 2(4): 301–334.


The transitional Butterworth-Thiran recursive digital filters (TBTh) whose characteristics change gradually from the characteristic Butterworth filter to the characteristic Thiran filter which have maximally flat group delay characteristic is present in this paper. The poles of the transition filter are obtained by interpolation between the poles of the Butterworth filter and poles of the Thiran filter.


Purpose: This study was done to identify
Community Health Practitioner's (CHP's) perception
of barriers to research utilization Method:
Participants were 153 CHPs working in Chungbuk
Province. Modified Barriers Scale was utilized in
the research, and 4 sub-scales were nurse factor,
organization factor, research factor and
communication factor. Data was analyzed by
using SPSS/WIN12.0. Results: Research factor
showed the highest barrier score among four
sub-scales, and nurse factor was the lowest.
CHPs with membership in any nursing academic
society showed lower scores on the four
sub-scales. Those who had taken a course
related to research were less likely to see the
research factor or communication as barriers.
Barriers to research utilization were not associated
with work experience years or to demographics.
Conclusion: It is highly recommended that CHPs
be trained in research methods and evidencebased
practice and that research articles be
written more clearly.


The adaption of air regenerative burner or air-fuel regenerative burner is analyzed for different fuels.Two kinds of special regenerative burner have been developed for the two kinds of combustion which is used in large magnesium reduction furnace.It is shown that this design is helpful to achieve high-temperature low-oxidation burning,enhance the effective of energy sources,improve the uniform temperature field in the furnace chamber,shorten pollution and elongate the lifetime of the reduction jars.


This paper contributes to existing literature on open market share repurchases in Italy by studying authorisations that the board of directors needs to obtain from the shareholders' general meeting in order to acquire company's own shares. In such a context, I investigate whether the buyback purpose that managers disclose in their report affects number of shares to be repurchased. Particularly, since managers could potentially benefit from share repurchase programmes carried out in the presence of stock option plans, I explore whether this motivation influences the number of shares they require to include in the buyback programme. In pursuit of my objectives, I analyse reports managers provide shareholders' meeting to obtain the authorisation to acquire company's own shares over a 6-year period (2004-2009) in Italian listed companies. Main results suggest that the buyback motivation affects number of shares managers intend repurchasing, highlighting the role of the quality of the board of directors in this issue.


Measure precision of a gyroscope was analyzed,by converting the optical signal of gyroscope to electric signal.by a DSP processor.The precision of gyroscope is improved from 30" to 5".


This article stands in view of Wuhan subway NO2 lines issue of project Guang Butun for the example,carries on the structural design and the computation analysis research,through the simulation analysis computation to get the station main body structure,obtains the reasonable structure stress system.Guarantees the subway station the security stability.


demonstrated a 1.7-cm stone in the neck of the gallbladder, and an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy was scheduled. Physical examination and laboratory tests, including those for liver function, gave normal results. At laparoscopic exploration, the cystic duct was identified and a transcystic duct cholangiogram confirmed filling of the common bile duct with retrograde filling of the left and right hepatic systems (Fig. 1, left). The cystic duct was clipped and divided. Further dissection of the infundibulum revealed a separate, additional tubular structure emanating from the neck of the gallbladder. Repeat cholangiography through this structure (Fig. 1, right) showed immediate filling of the right hepatic system with antegrade filling of the left hepatic and common bile ducts. The accessory cystic duct was ligated and transected, and the remainder of the laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed routinely. The patient was discharged on the day of surgery and had an uncomplicated postoperative course. Gross pathological examination confirmed 2 separate cystic ducts exiting the gallbladder (Fig. 2). Discussion Variation in cystic duct anatomy is quite common. The standard relationship of


According to the growth characteristics of pepper type peppermint,and together with climatic factors,the soil texture,fertilizer applying and the irrigation,factors which were favor to the growth of pepper type peppermint were analyzed.Cultural technique of pepper type peppermint suited to Baicheng area was proposed.


Pedestrian inertial navigation technology plays an important role in indoor positioning technology. However, low-cost inertial sensors in smart devices are affected by bias and noise, resulting in rapidly increasing and accumulating errors when integrating double acceleration to obtain displacement. The data-driven class of pedestrian inertial navigation algorithms can reduce sensor bias and noise in IMU data by learning motion-related features through deep neural networks. Inspired by the RoNIN algorithm, this paper proposes a data-driven class algorithm, RBCN-Net. Firstly, the algorithm adds NAM and CBAM attention modules to the residual network ResNet18 to enhance the learning ability of the network for channel and spatial features. Adding the BiLSTM module can enhance the network's ability to learn over long distances. Secondly, we construct a dataset VOIMU containing IMU data and ground truth trajectories based on visual inertial odometry (total distance of 18.53 km and total time of 5.65 h). Finally, the present algorithm is compared with CNN, LSTM, ResNet18 and ResNet50 networks in VOIMU dataset for experiments. The experimental results show that the RMSE values of RBCN-Net are reduced by 6.906, 2.726, 1.495 and 0.677, respectively, compared with the above networks, proving that the algorithm effectively improves the accuracy of pedestrian navigation.


Phased arrays play an increasingly important role in communications and radar systems. These systems require wideband signals to achieve the desired high-performance goals. A phased array's bandwidth depends on much more than the bandwidth of its components. When designing phased arrays, the traditional time-harmonic analysis methods do not capture all of the frequency performance constraints imposed by the array architecture. Grating lobes limit the maximum element spacing, while pulse/symbol dispersion and beam squint limit maximum array size and bandwidth. Hardware frequency limits bound the operating bandwidth of the array. This article discusses time-dependent performance concerns of phased arrays that limit bandwidth, such as the constraints imposed on scan angle, frequency bandwidth, beam squint, dispersion, and hardware.


Objective: Recently, a new stapedotomy piston prosthesis, which is a composite metal alloy of nickel and titanium known as nitinol, has been introduced into medical use. This biocompatible alloy has the unique property of shape-memory, which permits tight self-crimping when heat is applied to the wire. To substantiate the favorable initial observations with the SMART piston, this study was undertaken to compare these results (n = 26) with those obtained using conventional stainless steel or platinum ribbon prostheses (n = 28). Study Design: Prospective consecutive case review: consecutive cases performed by the same surgeon were analyzed. Setting: Tertiary referral center. Patients: Fifty-four healthy patients with otosclerosis. Intervention: Stapedotomy using either SMART prosthesis or conventional prosthesis. Main Outcome Measures: Hearing outcomes by audiological assessment. Results: The postoperative hearing mean pure-tone average was 24.81 ± 16.20 dBHL for Group 1 (SMART prosthesis) and 27.46 ± 15.57 dBHL for Group 2 (conventional prosthesis). Postoperative mean air-bone gap was 7.07 ± 8.14 dBHL for Group 1 and 6.38 ± 7.54 dBHL for Group 2 using 0.5-, 1-, 2-, and 4-kHz frequencies. When analyzed according to the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery reporting criteria using an estimate of 3 kHz as a mean of the 2-and 4-kHz values, the postoperative mean air-bone gap was 5.42 ± 5.4 dBHL for Group 1 SMART and 5.98 ± 5.47 dBHL for Group 2 conventional prostheses. Postoperative speech discrimination scores were 96% ± 8.64% and 97% ± 5.9%, respectively. These differences were not shown to be statistically different. Conclusion: Results demonstrate that experienced surgeons may achieve comparable results with both prostheses; however, the ease of self-crimping and the tightness of the crimp may provide advantages that may have long-term benefits. The potential issue of nickel allergy is important when considering patients for this prosthesis.


Extremes of wet‐bulb temperature (WBT)—jointly reflecting temperature and specific humidity—have seen relatively little study in terms of climatology, despite their demonstrated relevance for health and economic impacts. In this study, we uncover and characterize distinct spatiotemporal patterns of WBT extremes in the contiguous United States for the 1981–2015 period, focusing on identifying and making a first pass at understanding regional differences. We find that anomalies of specific humidity are of greater importance than those of temperature in controlling extreme WBT in most of the contiguous U.S., particularly for southern and arid regions. Composites of extreme‐WBT days for each region reveal coherent sea‐surface temperature anomalies and midlevel and upper ‐level geopotential‐height anomalies that differ considerably between regions, particularly in terms of the resulting low‐level temperature and moisture fields. These findings suggest that the primary factors controlling the timing and intensity of WBT extremes, while ultimately forced by synoptic‐scale weather patterns, vary spatially according to both local geography and baseline climate. We demonstrate this conclusion by showing how regional features such as late‐summer WBT extremes in the Southwest and southern Great Plains derive primarily from spatial and temporal variations in moist low‐level flows.


The present study was aimed at evaluating the role of egg yolk in maintaining the spermatological parameters of cryopreserved milt of the Indian major carp, Cirrhinus mrigala . Egg yolk was supplemented in the cryopreservation medium at three different concentrations viz., 5% (T1), 10% (T2) and 15% (T3). During the 42 days of cryopreservation, observations were made once in 7 days on motility parameters based on which the spermatological parameters in terms of motility duration, score, pattern and percentage were determined. The results were statistically analysed using paired 't' test. Samples of milt cryopreserved with egg yolk at 10% (T2) concentration had significantly higher (p>0.025) motility duration (145±4.0 sec) than that of control (83.33±4.5 sec).


Syphilis is a sex-propagted disease with high infectiousness.Gestation with Syphilis is a extremely harm to pregnant womenand foetus.It is a severe public hygiene and social question in our country.Now there isn′t the uniform therapy project.Study result showed that Syphilis screaning of gestation and early treat may decrease mother-infant propagtation and the incidence of the congential Syphilis.But the reports about the time of mother-infant prevention are infrequent.The article summarize the study of epidemiology of gestational Syphilis and congential Syphilis,method of mother-infant propagtation,gestational Syphilis sceening and mother-infant prevention.


Introduction - The Problem of Contemporary Parenting - Parental Power and the Human Condition - Producing the High Achiever: Hobbes and Power - Methods and Parenting: Bourgeois Power - P.E.T. and the Ethics of Parenting - Competence, Wisdom and Effective Parenting - Appendices - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index


This paper surveys the literature on Decision Support Systems (DSS). Approaches to implementing DSS are compiled and classified. The paper presents the results of an extensive literature review on the topic of DSS. Throughout the literature review, we summarize the significant trends in research on decision support fields, and we identify areas that need to be addressed in the future.


In the presence of chiral catalytic complexes prepared from In(OTf)3 and chiral PYBOX ligands, allytributylstannane reacted with aldehydes in ionic liquids to afford the corresponding homoallylic alcohols in high enantioselectivities (86-94% ee) and good yields (68-89%); the chiral catalysts immobilized in ionic liquids could be reused with comparable enantioselectivities and yields.


Accumulating evidences demonstrate that patients with diabetes have higher perioperative risk of complications and longer hospital stays than patients without diabetes. Intensive insulin therapy (IIT) may improve outcomes in hyperglycemic neurosurgical patients. However, currently there is no adequate data/evidence regarding optimal insulin delivery protocols and targeted blood glucose concentration during IIT. IIT continues to be explored as a therapeutic method to reduce morbidity associated with derangements in glucose metabolism. Hypoglycemia is a common side effect of IIT with the potential to result in significant morbidity, especially in patients undergoing neurosurgical surgery. Surgical stimulus is a potent cause which may affect patients stress response and influences the metabolic and endocrine system, which can lead to electrolyte imbalance and decrease of blood insulin level and subsequently result in impairment of immune response and increase of blood glucose level. The stress response can be prevented by sufficient Depth of anesthesia. So the Anesthesiologists play a very important role in manipulating the blood glucose of the diabetes patients during the neurosurgical operations. Narcotics affect systemic and cerebral metabolism, and studies indicate that most of anesthetics have restraining effects on brain oxygen and glucose consumption. In order to better regulate the blood glucose, the anesthesiologists should master the actions of every anesthetics. IIT is a double-edged sword; more investigations should be focused on optimising blood glucose level for euglycemia maintenance in the intraoperative management of diabetes neurosurgical patients.


Columnist Charles Day describes a new dating app called Blur and how it stacks up to the human brain in matching potential mates.


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Introduction Young Alice deftly flies down Yarra valley tagging key sites and information nodes for her field trip report. She pauses for a moment as a TV picture window pops up, triggered by in-picture keywords and watches her favorite soap idol in a crucial relationship scene. With the onset of 3D technology, dreams of a Virtual Earth (VE) with rich media experience have fired imaginations already primed by science fiction writers. Not long after Web3D developed, people excited by the idea of 3D models online, created virtual cities, models of their house or local area and even the whole Earth. In 1998, Vice President Al Gore described a vision of a Digital Earth (DE) where the virtual world would be online for the good of mankind.


Christopher P. Hanscom is associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea (2013), a study of theories of language and modernist fiction in 1930s colonial Korea; coeditor of The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire (2016), a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia; and coeditor of Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (2013), a collection of translations of major literary critical and historical essays from the Korean colonial period. Dafna Zur is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction, the Korean War in North and South Korean children's literature, childhood in cinema, and Korean popular culture. Her book Figuring Korean Futures: Children's Literature in Modern Korea (2017) traces the affective investments and aspirations made possible by children's literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She has published translations in wordswithoutborders.org, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories, and the Asia Literary Review.


Solutions are typically developed in networks, which combine resources from multiple actors. Extant literature has shown that solution development is dependent on the relationships between the network actors. However, the processes and activities which are needed for orchestrating solution development network have remained unclear because solution development has been analyzed mostly from a single actor's perspective. Relying on literature on solutions and innovation networks, the present study develops a theoretical framework for orchestrating solution development network. Furthermore, the framework is empirically adjusted by conducting a single case study of a solution development network which consists of a supplier, a customer, a university and a financier. Data is acquired through seven in-depth interviews with all the network actors except the financier who was not actively involved in the solution development. The developed framework consists of six orchestration processes and altogether 28 orchestration activities. The results reveal that in orchestrating solution development network, also the on-going development process needs to be orchestrated. In addition, in solution development network the commitment of the members of the network is an important orchestration activity.


Measurements of volume backscattering strength have recently been made to a depth of 1500 m in the Northeast Atlantic. Scattering layers with strengths of −80 dB and −70 dB have been found at depths of approximately 500 and 1000 m, respectively. The layer at 1000 m has been shown to comprise fish shoals distributed with a density of 3.2 in 108 m3, each shoal having a target strength of about −6 dB and comprising about 50 fish. Each fish is thought to have a swimbladder resonant at 2 kHz at 1000 m and hence to have a radius of 1.6 cm. The shoals have been shown to vary with geographical location but not with the time of day, 1000 m being about the maximum depth of daylight penetration. The layer at 500 m does not vary much with geographical location but does exhibit diurnal variations due to the well‐known vertical migration of fish in a diurnal cycle.Subject Classification: [43]30.40.


In recent years, laser diodes of high performance have been widely applied in long haul optical transmission of high speed signals. Electroabsorption modulated lasers (EML) are considered to be a promising component due to their low chirp property. We developed 2.5 Gbps EML modules using a specially designed microstrip line.


Present status of impurity transport study in tokamaks is reviewed. Ohmically-heated and neutral-beam heated L-mode discharges exhibit anomalous impurity transport. The values of particle diffusivity range from 0.5 to 2m2/s. With improved energy confinement such as in H-mode, impurity transport is suppressed, which results in a radiation collapse of H-mode state in the absence of edge-localized mode (ELM). With high power neutral beam heating, frequent ELMs expel particles and heat out of the separatrix surface, which results in long (-5seconds), quasi-stationary H-mode.


This thesis discusses the possibility of two different places occupying the same geographical space. It tells about the construction process of The Other Place in the community of Chiteje del Garabato, Amealco, Queretaro by the Familia Rural Sustentable (FRS, from its initials in Spanish). The FRS project is a woman?s organization in which the use of green technology has created new alternatives for the sustainable use, operation and management of their natural resources. By using these green technologies, they are changing their daily life habits, reinventing their environmental knowledge and practices and giving a new meaning to territorial processes in the community. To relate this experience, from a qualitative research perspective, a meticulous ethnographic method was developed within the FRS organization and the community. A semi-structured collective interview was conducted with twelve women, members of the FRS. Also a perception and territorial appropriation workshop was accompanied by individual questionnaires and the creation of spatial residence charts. In general, the results obtained show the process of appropriation and territorial signification that make it possible to speak of the existence of The Other Place in the community of Garabato, a place defined by qualities, dynamics and a variety of meanings that contrast with the traditional and historical representation of Chiteje. The importance of this work is to become familiar with a specific experience where the diversity of knowledge and environmental practices are given new meaning by differentiating, braking up and rebuilding social reality.


Based on many linguists' studies, this paper divides ambiguity into two governing categories : semantic ambiguity and pragmatic ambiguity. This paper also explains the reasons, definitions, conditions and functions for this two-part division.


This research is done to acquire microstructure combinations that resist fatigue loading more than typical conventional microstructure (tempered martensite) and to study the effects of microstructure on fatigue properties of multiphase steels. A multiphase (polygonal ferrite and martensite) microstructure is developed. 2D and 3D square models with variation of ferrite fraction are used as local models and placed in front of the CT specimen in a global model. The ferrite shapes are from actual microstructure of multiphase material. It is found that the plastic zone size changes, as the ferrite fraction varies, and saturated at approximately 65% and 60% for 2D and 3D modelling, respectively. The influence of a ferrite areal fraction within a martensite matrix on fatigue crack propagation is studied. The variation of the areal fraction is achieved by means of intercritical thermal treatment, which specifically aims at optimizing the resistance to fatigue loading. The steels are annealed at different temperatures followed by water quenching and tempering process. Within the intercritical annealing temperature range, the areal fraction of ferrite increases with decreasing soaking temperature. Fatigue crack propagation tests are conducted according to ASTM E647-00 to obtain fatigue crack growth, FCG behaviour. It is found that the highest fatigue strength is achieved when the ferrite areal fraction is approximately 65%, which in this particular test, corresponds to 748 0C annealing temperature. It is concluded and is verified by computational modelling that appropriate thermal treatment can contribute to a significant improvement of fatigue properties and strength. The optimum ferrite fraction found from both computation and experiment is approximately 60% –65%.


This paper examines the influence of individual differences among internet users regarding intentions to use strong passwords. Several hypotheses are developed and applied to address this question based upon data collected from 182 participants (college students from three universities in the southern United States). Gender, consideration of future consequences, and number of internet passwords are established as statistically significant indicators of password protection intentions.


With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) 6 years ago, the opportunity arose for psychologists to participate fully in primary care in two major ways. As mental health providers, the parity regulations now dictate that payments for psychologists would be the same as any medical specialist, and that coverage for DSM-V diagnoses would be the same as coverage for any health disorder. The number of children covered with comprehensive health insurance including mental health coverage increased dramatically as a result. However, real-world implementation shows that the specialist copayment is a barrier to care for many families. The second area of opportunity, which is less explored by psychology, is preventive care benefits mandated in the law. There are 27 preventive services for children that must be provided without charging a copayment or coinsurance according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and there is potential for this list to grow in the future. All items on the list required a Cochrane review "A" or "B" rating of effectiveness. Presently, the list has seven screening, assessment, and counseling mandates relevant to psychology, which are as follows:


The development of modern Russian energy collides with the need for major investments in the modernization and renewal of generation and transmission capacity. In terms of attracting sufficient financial resources and find ways to increase, energy sector profitability and investment attractiveness of particular importance is the problem of investment financing optimizing aimed at minimizing the cost of financing while maintaining financial stability of the power companies and the goals and objectives of Russian energy system long-term development. The article discusses the problem of investment projects financing in power generation from the point of view of the need to achieve optimal investment budget. Presents the author's approach to the investment financing optimization of power generation company that will achieve the minimum cost of resources involved, taking into account the impact of the funding structure for the power generating company financial sustainability. The developed model is applied to the problem of investment budget optimiz ing, for example, regional power generating company. The results can improve the efficiency of investment in energy, sustainable and competitive development of regional energy systems.


explicit formula is given for -y(IL) in terms of v and ,i. Motivated by applications in queueing theory, we next consider the case where G is a convex polyhedral domain and v is constant on each face of the boundary. Postponing for now the treatment of certain foundational questions, we work directly with a basic adjoint relation (BAR) that appears- to characterize stationary distributions for a wide class of RBM's in polyhedral domains. This analytic relation is motivated by formal analogy with the smooth case and will be rigorously justified in later work. As in the smooth case, it is found that (BAR) has a solution of exponential form for each eL E Rd if and only if v satisfies a certain skew symmetry condition. Moreover, under a mild nondegeneracy condition, it is shown that an exponential


The research data were obtained from the information of ER antagonists provided by the D problem of Huawei Cup. We screened the molecular descriptor variables to construct quantitative prediction models for the biological activity of the compounds against ER, and the classification prediction models for Caco-2, CYP3A4, hERG, HOB, and MN of the compounds, respectively. We also determined the optimal range of molecular descriptors that could lead to compounds with better bioactivity for ER inhibition and better ADMET properties. In turn, we provide data analysis and predictive models for breast cancer research. In the first step, we used the feature es election method to remove redundant variables, and applied random forest to rank the variable sinterms of relevance to lterout7 molecular descriptor variables: MDEC-23, max HsOH, minHBa, min HsOH, minHBint4, C1SP2 and nHBAcc. In the second step, the pIC50 values in the training set were used as dependent variables and the seven molecular descriptor variables were used as independent variables, and extremely randomized trees were applied to construct the non-linear regression quantitative prediction model between compounds and ER bioactivity. In the third step, we used different integration methods to construct classification prediction models for Caco-2, CYP3A4, hERG, HOB, and MN, respectively. In the fourth step, after eliminating the 1974 compounds with the sum of ADMET indicators less than 3, we inverse solve the prediction model using the particle swarm optimization algorithm to obtain the maximum value of pIC50 and the optimal solution for each molecular descriptor variable. pIC50 has a maximum value of 8.9055, and the molecular descriptors C1SP, minHBa, min HBint4, minHsOH, maxHsOH, nHBAcc, MDEC, nHBAcc, and MDEC-23 are 0, - 7.75978169, -3.42842314, 9.46164889, 0.51061438, 2.63674280, and 80, respectively.


The authors (RL and SRB) wish to thank Professor I. Olovsson for the experimental facilities. They are indebted to Drs K. Nassau and S. C. Abrahams, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, for the donation of the crystals, and to Dr S. C. Abrahams for valuable comments on the manuscript. This work has been supported by grants from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation (USA).


IceBridge timed flights to coincide exactly with ICESat-2 orbiting over moving Arctic sea ice - a tricky feat that paid off in demonstrating the precision of the new satellite.


Objective To study the effect of treating systemic inflammatory response syndrome(SIRS) with continuous blood purification (CBP),and to discuss the applied occasion.Methods 27 SIRS patients were chosen and treated with CBP.Blood biochemical index,routine,gas analysis and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF α) were tested pre-,intra- and post-treatment of CBP.Meanwhile,APACHEⅡ,SAPSⅡ and MODS scores were graded.Results Compared with pre-treatment,APACHEⅡ,SAPSⅡ and MODS scores decreased on the second morning of intra-treatment and the next morning of post-treatment.Oxygenation index (PO 2/FiO 2) was improved during treatment.During and after treatment of CBP,pressure-adjusted heart rate (PAHR) decreased obviously.TNF α didn't decrease significantly after treatment.Conclusions It was sure the effect of treating SIRS with CBP.The prognosis of patients had a connection with severity of illness,and the disease could be controlled or not.Removing TNF α didn't play a role in treating SIRS with CBP.


The design and use of a solid-phase injector for open tubular column supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) are reported. For sample introduction, a liquid sample was loaded on a platinum wire. After the solvent had evaporated, the wire was inserted into, and sealed in, the injector. The chromatographic run was started by introducing the supercritical mobile phase into tie injector. Absolute and relative peak area reproducibilities, as well as retention time reproducibility, of the injection method were evaluated. The relative standard deviations (% RSDs) of absolute and relative peak areas were 2.0-4.5 and 0.4-1.8%, respectively, for both 1- and 2-μL injections


Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda (SEDT; MIM # 313400) is a rare X-linked recessive skeletal disease characterized by disproportionate short stature with vertebral malformation and degenerative changes involving the spine and major joints (1). During infancy and early childhood, affected males show normal development and unremarkable findings on radiographs (1). Clinical expression of SEDT begins with a flattening of the growth curve before puberty. At this time, radiographs show characteristic deformities of the vertebrae, including platyspondyly with a posterior hump. Degenerative joint disease is a common problem in male patients making hip joint replacement often necessary in the fourth or fifth decade of life (2).

The causative gene of SEDT is TRAPPC2, which encodes trafficking protein particle complex subunit 2, a 140 amino acid protein, also known as Sedlin. TRAPPC2 may play a role in vesicular transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi (3, 4). To date, 50 TRAPPC2 mutations have been reported in families with SEDT of different ethnic origin (Human Gene Mutation Database; http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac). The underlying mutations are spread over the entire coding region of the TRAPPC2 gene comprising exons 3-6, without clear genotype-phenotype correlation. Here, we report a Japanese SEDT patient with a novel intragenic deletion mutation in TRAPPC2.


This paper gives an introduction to the use of Hidden Markov Models and Information Theory principles for speech recognition. The use of these techniques has led to powerful large vocabulary speech recognition systems developed in the recent years. The use of Hidden Markov Models for stochastic modeling of speech and the basic modules of a Hidden Markov Model based speech recognition system are explained. It is shown how the speech waveform can be transformed into acoustic features and into prototypes which characterize the acoustic state space of the given speaker. The phonemes of the language can be represented by Hidden Markov Models. The statistical parameters of these Markov models can be obtained during a training session. During recognition the input to the linguistic decoder is the acoustic label string resulting from the speech signal of a spoken sentence. The decoder picks the sentence which maximizes the probability of the word sequence of this sentence if the given label stream is seen. The paper concludes with a more detailed explanation of the acoustic processor of the speech recognition system and some proposed algorithms for its improvement which can lead to a better system performance.


The article considers the verbalization of image-bearing and evaluative constituents of the concept Word in the text of Bible. Being one of the universal concepts peculiar to all existing cultures, concept Word is also considered to be one of the central and key concepts for the religious mentality. It is conditioned by the fact that the Word has always had a sacral status in all cultures. The image-bearing component of the concept Word is represented by metaphors Word — Jesus, Word — Faith, Word — Commandment, Word — Scripture, Word — Christianity. The evaluative component includes positive and negative axiological conceptual features that form opposite in nature conceptual models: the Word of God and the word of human.


Improvement in the crystallization probability of biological macromolecules by plasma irradiation is demonstrated with lysozymes from hen egg whites. This novel technique of "plasma-assisted biological macromolecular crystallization" is readily carried out with a relatively simple apparatus, and is likely to become a powerful tool in discerning the three-dimensional structure of such macromolecules.


Infusion is a common used treatment method in hospitals. Traditional infusion methods have various shortcomings, the infusion speed cannot be controlled, and people need to keep an eye on droplets. Thus, an automatic infusion control device is designed to replace the traditional infusion mode. The purpose of this paper is to control infusion speed through detecting liquid levels in drip tubes through infrared light, and demonstrate the infusion process clearly. The infusion rate can be detected and controlled automatically or manually through the buttons. The integrated communication, namely the control and data transmission between the master station and slave stations is also realized. When abnormal conditions occur, warning light in LED of lower computer will illuminate; electronic communicator will ring. Afterwards, RS232 will response and send the signals to upper computer. When the upper computer receives the signal, the electronic communicator will alarm. The functions of this product must be accurate and stable. The design in this paper theoretically implements expected ideas and points out future research directions and priorities.


if the symptoms are acute. Deatli frequently results from hjemorrhage. Diagnosis and removal are both comparatively easy in the female. In the male, diagnosis is not so easy, there being onlythree symptoms to guide the surgeon?pain, irritation of the bladder, and hematuria. Removal should always be attempted, and as early as possible; for, on the one hand, examination after death has shown that many of the tumours could have been removed, and, on the


The bacalary contents an analysis of water use schedule and convention about it. A theoretical research of the main subject and sorts of drinks were done. Marketing research from water use schedul was done too. The object of employment was to discovert a really condition in a consumation of a various drinks in a comparison with the rational nutritive recommendations. The research data were worked up in a statictical sampling and presentated by a tables and diagrams. The inguiry was at 300 persons, whose were sectioned to three groups: collegers, undergraduates and working people.


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This chapter contains sections titled:

Questions Answered by Break–Even and Contribution Margin Analysis

Applications of the CVP Model

Contribution Margin Income Statement

Impact of Income Taxes

Some Applications of Contribution Margin Analysis and What–If Analysis

Sales Mix Analysis

CVP Analysis with Step–Function Costs

Importance of Identifying Variable and Fixed Costs–CVP–Based Strategies

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There are several systems designed especially for intelligent buildings in order to evaluate and develop it .Each country according to its concept of these buildings developed a way to evaluate it, and with the evolution of time, evaluation systems have evolved and became having many versions of these systems. The fourth version of (IBI) (Intelligent Building Index) which was published by (AIIB) (Asian Institute of Intelligent Buildings, Hong Kong, China) is one of the best systems that have been recommended in order to simulate it.
The research aims to show the most important valuation techniques which have emerged so far and draw a better system can emulate it as a model integrated an evaluation of intelligent buildings Trying to reach the intelligent building system, which consists of several key parameters contained elements to evaluate each criterion separately .By this way we can compare the content of  local green building assessment, or common internationally used, with a content of the better system to evaluate intelligent buildings and clarify their relationship . We can also clarify the aspects covered by the evaluation of intelligent building systems and which other are not covered by the green evaluation systems, so that we can conclude which one best to work with intelligent assessment or green assessment.
ظهرت عدة نظم صممت خصیصا للمبانی الذکیه من أجل تقییمها وتطویرها ،کل دولة حسب مفهومها لهذه المبانی وضعت طریقة لتقییمها، ومع تطور الزمن تطورت نظم التقییم وأصبح یوجد العدید من الإصدارات لهذه النظم ،ومن أفضل هذه الأمثله للإقتداء بها فی تقییم المبانی الذکیه هونظام تقییم (IBI) (Intelligent Building Index) الخاص ب(AIIB) (Asian Institute of Intelligent Buildings, Hong Kong, China) وبالأخص الإصدار الرابع .
ویهدف البحث  إلى عرض أهم طرق التقییم التی ظهرت حتی الآن وإستخلاص أفضل نظام یمکن الإقتداء به کنموذج  متکامل یمثل تقییم المبانی الذکیه فکرا ومضمونا محاولین الوصول إلی منظومة المبانی الذکیه والتی تتکون من عدة معاییر رئیسیه یتضمنها عناصر لتقییم کل معیار علی حده وبذلک یمکننا المقارنه بین نظام تقییم المبانی الخضراء المحلی أو الشائع إستخدامه دولیا وأفضل نظام لتقییم المبانی الذکیه وتوضیح العلاقه بینهما مع محاوله لتوضیح الجوانب التی تغطیها نظم تقییم المبانی الذکیه ولا تغطیها نظم التقییم الأخضر والعکس ،وبذلک یمکننا إستنتاج أیهم أفضل للعمل به التقییم الذکی أم التقییم الأخضر.


Brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) increases in failing hearts, but BDNF roles in cardiac remodeling following myocardial infarction (MI) are unclear. Male BDNF+/+ (wild type, WT) and BDNF+/− heterozygous (HET) mice at 6–9 months of age were subjected to MI and evaluated at day (d) 1, 3, 5, 7, or 28 post‐ MI. At d28 post‐MI, 76% of HET vs. 40% of WT mice survived, while fractional shortening was improved and neovascularization levels were reduced in the HET (all p<0.05). At d1 post‐MI, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)‐9 and myeloperoxidase (MPO) increased in WT, but not in HET. Concomitantly, monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)‐1 and ‐5 levels increased and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)‐A decreased in HET. Neutrophil infiltration peaked at d1–3 in WT mice, and this increase was blunted in HET. To determine if MPO administration could rescue the HET phenotype, MPO was injected at 3h post‐MI. MPO restored VEGF‐A levels without altering MMP‐9 or neutrophil content. In conclusion, reduced BDNF levels modulated the early inflammatory and neovascularization responses, leading to improved survival and reduced cardiac remodeling at d28 post‐MI. Thus, reduced BDNF attenuates early inflammation following MI by modulating MPO and angiogenic response through VEGF‐A.


The forest tourism resources in Jilin Province are richly endowed by nature,which provides an advantageous position for developing forest tourism.It will be significant to deepen the understanding of the forest tourism resources,to analyze the present situation of the forest tourism development and to carry on research on the developing strategy in our province in order to develop forest tourism in Jilin Province,revitalize economy of forest regions and impel the development of forest tourism industry in Jilin Province.


In this paper some interval valued programming problems are discussed. The solution concepts are adopted from Wu [33] and Chalco-Cano et al. [12]. By considering generalized Hukuhara differentiability and generalised convexity (viz. preinvexity, invextiy etc.) of interval valued functions, the KKT optimality conditions for obtaining (  and ) optimal solutions are elicited by introducing Lagrangian multipliers. Our results generalise the results of Wu [33], Zhang et al. [35] and Chalco-Cano et al. [12].To illustrate our theorems suitable examples are also provided.


Flap lift is performed by identification of the flap edge at the slit lamp and scoring of the marginal epithelium by a 25-gauge needle. The flap rim, viewed through the laser microscope, can then readily be separated from the bed by a spatula through 180° of arc. This enables raising of the flap, toward the hinge, with two pairs of blunt curved-toothed forceps. After ablation of the stromal bed, the flap is returned to its initial site with minimal epithelial or flap disturbance.


In order to reduce the loss of life and property by the highway pileup accidents,We put forward a kind of wireless alarm system for vehicle which is based on wireless sensor network.The system uses the three-dimensional acceleration sensor and the gyroscope to real-time monitor vehicle's driving status and detect accidents;In the event of an accident,two sets of communication scheme: short-range wireless communications and GPRS communications will be used for early warning,on the one hand,to make vehicles driving close to accident car timely receive a warning signal,so they will take measures alertly to avoid the occurrence of pileup accidents;on the other hand,to inform the Highways Management Centre to deal with the accident in time and relieve traffic.


In 1958 two physicists, Townes and Schawlow, conceived the idea of laser, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Since then, physicians have used it to control hemorrhage from retinal lesions in diabetics, to correct detached retinas, to obliterate tattoos and port-wine angiomas, and to treat a few selected tumors such as melanomas, Kaposi's sarcoma, and lymphomas. Although it may have promise in ophthalmologic conditions, laser has had inconclusive results in the treatment of tumors.


Cloud service providers are typically faced with three significant problems when running their cloud data centers, i.e., rising electricity bills, growing carbon footprints, and unexpected power outages. To mitigate these issues, running cloud data centers in smart microgrids (SMGs) is a good choice, since SMGs can enhance the energy efficiency, sustainability, and reliability of electrical services. Thus, in this paper, we investigate the problem of energy management for cloud data centers in SMGs. To be specific, we would minimize the time average expected energy cost (including electricity bill, battery depreciation cost, the total generation cost of conventional generators, and revenue loss due to the unfinished workloads) with the consideration of three practical factors, i.e., the ramping constraints of backup generators, the charging and discharging efficiency parameters of batteries, and two kinds of data center workloads. A stochastic programming is formulated by integrating the constraints associated with workload allocation, electricity buying/selling, battery management, backup generators, and power balancing. To solve the stochastic programming problem, an online algorithm is designed, and the algorithmic performance is analyzed. Simulation results show the advantages of the designed algorithm over other baselines.


In order to validate a collisional-radiative model elaborated in the purpose of describing the behavior of the plasma produced during a LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) experiment, the measurement of the electron temperature and density is performed during the rst tens of nanoseconds by using optical emission spectroscopy. Synthetic spectra are calculated involving lines, Bremsstrahlung and radiative recombination and then compared with experiments. In the case the energy ux density reaches the maximum value 10 14 W m 2 , the electron temperature and density reach 16000 K and 3 10 25 m 3 respectively.


Nowadays, passive devices offer good but limited anti-counterfeiting protection. We demonstrate design and fabrication of new color shifting security devices based on implementing an active electrochromic material, thus offering new optical features and enhanced protection.


The article deals with the problematic issues of circulation and expert research of products, which are classified by the manufacturer as alarming and signaling weapons, as well as starting pistols and revolvers. The history of origin, evolution and distribution of these objects of ballistic origin in Ukraine and in the world is reviewed. The experience of expert practice of forensic investigation of these devices in the units of the Expert Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is analyzed and its comparison with the experience of expert evaluation of these products by employees of expert institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. A detailed study of the design features of the most common samples of firearms made by processing products classified by the manufacturer as alarms and alarms, as well as starting pistols and revolvers. Ways to make changes in their design of inverse and irreversible changes in order to bring into a state suitable for firing kinetic projectiles. The methods used by forensic experts in forensic investigation and testing of objects with firearms not classified by the manufacturer for household, sports and special purpose products are described in detail. Examples of illicit trafficking, distribution and use of these products as firearms during the commission of crimes are given. The normative documents that regulate the order of circulation in Ukraine of products with the characteristics of firearms, which the manufacturer classifies as devices of household, sports and special purpose, are analyzed. The basic requirements for alarming and signaling weapons, as well as starting pistols and revolvers by national standards and methods of ballistic examination are considered. The problematic aspects of the Ukrainian national legislation in the sphere of circulation of firearms objects and their consequences for the state are investigated. On the basis of the analysis of the European experience in regulating the circulation of alarm and signal weapons, ways of improving the national legal acts regulating the circulation of similar products in Ukraine have been proposed.


Changeable electric field and magnetic field are connected and inseparable,which consist of imegrant electromagnetic field..Induced EMF and Motional EMF are two parts of induced EMF produced in the recireulating loop of conductor.In the two dif- ferem coordinate systems which are moving relatively,the electric field and the magnetic field are relative.So are the induced EMF and motional EMF.And at the certain conditions,the electric field and the magnetic field are equivalent and so are the induced EMF and the motional EMF.


Findings from a recent study illustrate why you should be talking with your pregnant patients about their consumption of fatty acids.


A novel method and apparatus is disclosed for performing seamless handoff of a mobile station (MS) between Radio Access Networks (RANs) that use different types of wireless interfaces. The described embodiments enable an MS to handoff between different RANs without causing routing ambiguity, and without substantial loss of network data. Upon moving from the coverage area of a first RAN using a first wireless interface to the coverage area of a second RAN using a second wireless interface, an MS determines whether routing ambiguity may result from the change of RAN and, based on the determination, triggers a re-registration of its network address. A foreign agent (FA) within a packet data serving node (PDSN) monitors network address re-registrations are being created for the same MS. Based on this determination, the PDSN terminates redundant R-P network connections resulting from movement of the MS between different RANs.


Publisher Summary This chapter describes that tissue engineering is a strategy for the repair or replacement of damaged tissues or organs, involving the culture of living cells in vitro on a synthetic structure and the subsequent implantation of the construct into patients. It is termed, "morphogenesis." The aim is to harvest a relatively small piece of tissue, to remove the cells, and then to expand the cell population. The cells can subsequently be re-implanted using a carrier material to assist in the generation of a substantial amount of tissue. Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary area, which requires considerable biological input to gain insight into the behaviour of cells during in vitro culture and in vivo implantation. It also requires extensive engineering knowledge to fabricate and process materials that are suitable for guiding tissue development. Tissue-engineered constructs (TECs) are typically composed of two components: a group of cells and a material scaffold on which they can grow. Owing to the stringent requirements of tissue engineering, a number of key characteristics need to be met by the polymer. The chosen polymer must provide a biocompatible and biodegradable matrix with interconnected pores to ensure that the body tolerates the conduit and also promotes nutrient and cellular diffusion. The scaffold initially needs to provide mechanical stability and to act as a template to guide three-dimensional tissue growth.


e16101 Background: Prostate cancer exhibits distinct pattern of metastasis with bone being the most common site of involvement. Liver is an uncommon site of metastasis and is associated with poor p...


by defining pastoral in terms of its narrative characteristics: its essentially pictorial method of using the narrator in order to establish a pastoral point of view.' Yet what I have written remains to a certain extent gobbledygook, mainly because I had no way then of explaining why a writer should take up pastoral, choose to cast his work in that obviously most artificial of modes. What follows is


The implementation of institute system management is naturally a kind of management pattern for multitudinous universities which has implemented surmounts development in our country.To define the connotation of the institute system management and the principle for establishing institute system management,as well as the several relationships which should be settled well in the implementation process,is helpful for the universities to continue to develop fast.


Part of this work was published previously in abstract form. 1973. J. Clin. Invest. 52: 65 a. Received for publication 9 August 1973 and in revised form 22 October 1973. by attaching other proteins to agarose or other polymer beads.


Oestrogens are steroid hormones that influence the growth, differentiation, and functioning of many target organs, including the male and female  eproductive organs. Menopause, an important sign of aging in women is characterized by oestrogen depletion, which is associated with many  menopausal problems. Oestrogen supplements that are mostly used are not readily safe and have been reported to cause serious health hazards  Phytoestrogens are plant compounds that are essentially correspondent to oestradiol (17-β oestradiol) and can relate with oestrogen receptors to  elevate and/or prohibit oestrogenic responses. This study therefore aimed at evaluating the possible therapeutic efficacy of Allium sativum and  Allium cepa on oestrogenic activities of adult ovariectomised wistar rats. Adult Wistar rats were ovariectomized, then administered various doses of  the extracts for 28days, then sacrificed and tissues harvested for analysis. Results shows Allium cepa and quercetin to increase endometrial  thickness, increase neural cells in synaptophysin stained cells of hippocampus and dentate gyrus. A conclusion of Allium cepa possessing similar  strogenic properties as estradiol group in these ovariectomized  rats was drawn, which can offer some ameliorative effects of estrogen deficiency.


Early detection of the warning symptoms of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) may be an effective way to achieve a significant reduction of morbidity and mortality. The present study is part of a survey o


We are investigating techniques for fabricating lateral CNT-based field emission devices for the purpose of creating diodes, triodes, and ultimately integrated circuits. Our goal is to create CNT-based field emission devices that offer both integration and production advantages over the more typical vertical emission sources, such as those used in display technologies. Since field-emitted current is a very strong function of the applied electric field, these devices will undoubtedly find potential use in applications requiring large gain.


The article deals with activities of Basque (Spain) and Chechen (Russia) terrorist organizations on 21st century borderline, and marks that forms and methods they use in many cases are the same or similar. The attention is paid to exposition of new features, which contributed to raise terrorism to a qualitatively new level the level of international terrorism. On the concrete cases, the author shows the way these features reveal themselves in the activities of Basque and Chechen terrorists who actually act as national vanguards of international terrorism. Detailed consideration is paid to well known in the world practice methods of fighting against terrorism. The article contains concrete examples showing the place these methods occupy in political practice and in the activities of law enforcement agencies of both countries.


The aim of the study was to analyze the unmarking of the cataloged pattern of brain image of unlearning from a philosophical conceptualization. From July 2020 to June 2021 the study was carried out at the National University ̈ San Luis Gonzaga ̈, Ica, Peru. After giving 15 training workshops and 5 postgraduate courses for research training, four university teachers were randomly selected in which two levels of st nd intellectual function were considered (1 : memory and 2 : learning), but only the intellectual learning function was measured using five practical criteria of conceptual evaluation (conceptual framework of apprehension, conceptual operationalization, recognition of conceptual image, conceptual application and conceptual imprecision). Through an example that consisted of the quantitative technique of measurement by psycho-labor test of pencil and paper, the evaluation of the level of intellectual learning function was carried out. Through the philosophical conceptualizations: transformation, change and movement, the analysis of the cataloged pattern of brain image was made to unlearn where it was limited, since the conceptual operationalization was low and implied a deficient conceptual image recognition, incorrect conceptual application and conceptual imprecision. Subsequently, repetitive tests were applied with questions and answers from the philosophical conceptualizations and that were shown to be illustrative where it was contributed to the demarcation of the cataloged pattern of brain image for unlearning. ABSTRACT


The material properties of spring and screw of an elevator brake failed during use was analyzed. The macroscopic morphology and metallographic microstructure of the spring and screw of an elevator brake were investigated based on the optical microscope and scanning electron microscope analysis. The chemical composition was analyzed by X-ray energy spectrum analysis. The results showed that the material of spring and screw are 65Mn spring steel and 40 steel, respectively. The material of spring has porous holes inside.


Bayil Yard is located to the south of Baku—Azerbaijan and is allocated as a fabrication yard for top portion of oil platforms in the Caspian Sea. The owner is AIOC who is a consortium founded for Azerbaijan Oil Contracts led by BP (British Petroleum). For the heavy cranes working on this site a soil improvement project was realized to increase the bearing capacity. Two different loads were considered. One area would be exposed to cranes which apply a maximum load of 600 kPa through their crawlers. A second area was for cranes which apply at the maximum a load of 200 kPa through their crawlers. For the 600 kPa area a stone column and a geogrid reinforced top layer was implemented. For the 200 kPa area only a geogrid reinforced layer was used. The stone columns also helped eliminate the liquefaction risk at this area.


Developing computer software involves the construction of a highly precise, richly detailed, accurate and complete conceptual model of the system. This process involves substantial interaction with people. Effective communication is vital for software project success.
To address the need for effective interpersonal communication, the Software Engineer Effectiveness Techniques course was developed. This 15-week graduate computer science course integrates dyadic information with experiential techniques.
The course was evaluated as an intervention by comparing responses of the intervention and comparison (control) group respondents.
In order to participate, all respondents had to have a minimum of 1 year of industry software development experience; to be currently employed on an industry software project; and to be eligible and willing to register for a graduate course in computer science. A total of 31 students completed the intervention process; 17 were in a comparison group. The groups were comparable on socio-demographic variables; 80% were male; the mean age was 29 (range 22-49); and the mean years of industry software project experience was 7 years (range 2-23).
Standard assessments selected to assess pre- and post-intervention listening skills, assertiveness, and perception of work environment proved to be insufficiently reliable and valid. Productive data analysis utilized self report questionnaires from the intervention group participants. Qualitative analyses revealed several positive outcomes of the course: an overall increase in productivity, improved rapport with co-workers and management, increased self confidence, reduced stress, and more productive use of time.
While the intervention group made substantial progress, the 15-week intervention spanned too short of a calendar period for complete behavior change.
Future research should focus on developing standardized tests for assessing critical communication skills; redesigning curricula to include communication skills training; and integrating clear interpersonal communication patterns in the work environment of the software project arena.


THE GOLD MOUNTAIN THEATER RIOTS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF CHINESE THEATER RIOTS IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE 1870s AND 1880s by Morgan Gerard Boyd During the 1870s and 1880s, San Francisco's Chinese theaters were scenes of tumultuous riots, which this thesis has designated as The Gold Mountain Theater Riots. City petitions and ordinances restricting the performances of Chinese theaters, police raids on Chinese theaters when they did not comply with these ordinances, stampedes caused by panics, and tong and Chinese theater rivalries were all catalysts for violence in America's first Chinese theaters. The Gold Mountain Theater Riots attempts to gain further knowledge of why these extra-theatrical events occurred, through the examination of Chinese audiences and the police involved in these theater riots as reported in San Francisco Newspapers during this era.


The Schrodinger cat experiment (SCE) is presented. An alteration follows where the LACK of radioactive decay leads to the demise of the cat instead of the ACT of radioactive decay. The lack of radioactive decay is a negative (null) measurement (nm) (where there is NO physical interaction between the radioactive material (rm) and the Geiger counter). The negative measurement is non-trivial because all knowledge about the radioactive material (rm) is derived from its associated wave function which itself has no physical existence. The wave function is how we make probabilistic predictions regarding systems in quantum mechanics. Before the box in the SCE is opened, the wave function for the rm is: psi_rm = 1/√2 [psi_rm does not decay + psi_rm does decay] which leads to the possibility of interference before the cat is observed. As Schrodinger wrote: "The psi_function of the entire system [including radioactive material and cat] would express this by having in it the living and the dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts." The wave function is the foundation for knowledge since the probabilities are derived from the wave function and the wave function contains all the information concerning a system. This alteration of the SCE underscores that the LACK of radioactive decay in the original SCE is also a negative measurement that leads to the continued life of the cat.


We witnessed great advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) powered technologies over the past few decades. Wide use of AI technologies has led to the creation of an ecosystem where human and AI systems are partners, complementing each other with their strengths. To build a successful human-AI team, there are several considerations, including context awareness, effective communication, pro-activeness, etc. In this paper, we present a taxonomy of human-AI teaming concepts. We extend a multi-agent framework, Java Agent Development Framework (JADE), to support the proposed taxonomy. Our solution framework, Human-AI Collaboration (HACO), enables a model-driven development of human-AI teaming systems through graphical user interface. In this paper, we present the solution architecture for extending JADE with human-AI teaming taxonomy. A user study performed to assess the usefulness of HACO, shows that HACO is a promising framework. We evaluated the proposed framework by developing a set of use cases for a contact center and observed a signification reduction in the overall development effort. The framework video can be viewed at https://youtu.be/lNyrrk8dMqU.


SUBTITLE: PRATT & WHITNEY RADIALS, HAMILTON STANDARD PROPS, ANALOG GAUGES, HYDRAULIC GEAR, FLAPS AND BRAKES, FABRIC-COVERED CONTROL SURFACES AND DC POWER.


The opening of state frontiers after 1989 brought a considerable widening of horizons to the Czech historiography. Among the research trends which experienced the fastest upswing were also gender studies, although they were particularly oriented on women's history. Monographs dedicated to the 19th century women, which were published at the turn of the millennia, were targeted at a wider spectrum of readers and they won a strong response from outside the narrow community of experts.1 The interest in cultural history of women and the development of women's movement were supported by the first published Czech translations.2 The demand for these topics was reflected in the offer of public lectures,3 publishing of new professional and popularising books, and in the amount of student theses dedicated to various aspects of women's history in the past. The period of feverish research into women's history culminated at the end of the first decade of the 21st century with publication of a representative collective monograph about women in the Czech lands from the Middle Ages until the 20th century.4 The French concept of the cultural history of women,5 which was introduced into the Czech milieu by Milena Lenderová in the 1990s, already partly cleared the way for a more modern concept of gender history, and the chronological interpretation was replaced by thematic complexes. The incoming


AJAX, a core technology of Web 2.0, is aroused attention by both industry and academia. Google Maps is a classical Web application service based on AJAX. This paper presents a WebGIS framework of web application with AJAX and XML data. Based on Google Maps service, the framework uses XMLHttpRequest objects which call the XML data and load the geographic information dynamically. The framework is consisted of different information sources and has the following characteristics: it can be accessed quickly, can be customized and extended, and can make asynchronous requests between the browser and the server. On the whole, the framework improves the efficiency of WebGIS application.


This is the first description of Thailand's 51 nondaily newspapers, 64 radio stations and five television stations. The country's 22 dailies are also reported on and media use is analyzed.


Article history: Received September 2, 2020 Received in revised format October 18, 2020 Accepted November 14 2020 Available online November 14 2020 The organizational performance at public hospitals differs from the corporate sector and faces maladministration. Further, performance at public hospitals is crucial as it directly affects human lives and endeavors for accessibility to medicines and equipment. This research is designed to determine the mediating role of inventory control practices in proficiency and organizational performance at public hospitals. This paper uses a quantitative research with a survey method using multistage cluster sampling which was performed on a sample size of 200. Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis validated the model for Structural Equation Modeling. The findings of this research indicate a significant positive effect and full mediation of inventory control practices between the study variables. Further, the significance indicated that competent and well-trained staff manages inventory efficiently for improved organizational performance through better service quality and reduced cost. An integrated second-order model of this research will benefit the public hospitals, healthcare industry at large, organizations managing mega structured inventory, and to the body of knowledge. . by the authors; license Growing Science, Canada 1 202 ©


Objective To evaluate how filter devices influence the cerebral embolism and blood flow as to detecting the changes of microembolism and cerebral blood flow before, after and during carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) by using transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD). Methods CAS were performed 6 times in 5 patients with severe carotid artery stenosis (70%). TCD monitored the microembolic signals (MES) and cerebral blood flow of middle cerebral artery (MCA) using M-Mode before, after and during CAS. TCD and color ultrasound duplex were examined and new vascular events recorded during the following-up. Results Except a large numbers of MES arising from the recent contrast injection, the most MES were detected during the phase of predilation (MES number=116) and stent placement (MES number=135, 91, 113, 90, 106, 125). The MES count during the phase of postdilation was relatively reduced (MES number=8, 14, 37, 16). The most MES were characterized by high intensity and over-loading in TCD spectrum. MCA blood flow velocity varied predominantly in phases of predilation (Vsys/Vmean=46/31 to 76/54) and postdilation (Vsys/Vmean=40/26 to 74/49, 0/0 to 114/69, 35/24 to 116/71, 50/36 to 137/86). MES recorded in 2 patients prior to CAS disappeared in post-procedure. MCA blood flow velocity was enhanced or MCA pulsative index increased after CAS. No complications occurred. Tissue debris was collected in one filter device. During 3 to 19 months following-up, only one patient had a new vascular event of cerebral infarction located in the contralateral side of the CAS. Conclusions TCD monitoring might evaluate the microemboli and cerebral blood flow before, after and during CAS with filter devices. Filter devices might reduce embolization by preventing the bigger particulate microembolism into the distal part of the cerebral vessel without influencing cerebral blood flow. The gaseous and the smaller particulate microembolism unfiltrated should not result in clinical symptoms in most cases.


A lossy-mode resonance optical fiber sensor operating as an electro-optical transducer for analysis of ionized gas media, such as plasma, is introduced. Comparison of the sensor performance with an electrical Langmuir probe is discussed.


In this paper, the microstructure of Ag nano paste joint was investigated in pressure-less sintering conditions, and the influence of the microstructure on the joint's reliability was studied. Firstly, silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were synthesized using the redox reaction method. To tightly stack the Ag NPs in nano paste, Ag NPs with sizes of 30~50 nm and submicron-sized Ag particles were mixed. It was found that increasing the sintering temperature or sintering time can reduce the porosity of the bonding layer and the interfacial crack simultaneously, resulting in higher shear strength. When sintering at a temperature of 250 °C, a complete bonding interface was formed, with a 0.68 μm interdiffusion layer. At a higher temperature (300 °C), the bonding interface reached 1.5 μm, providing 35.9 ± 1.7 MPa of shear strength. The reliability of the die attachment was analyzed under thermal shocking from −65 °C to 150 °C for 50 cycles. As the crack could quickly grow through the interfacial defects, the separation ratio was 85% and 67% when sintered at 150 °C and 200 °C, respectively. Because of the reliable bonding interface between the die and the substrate, the Ag nano paste joint formed a slight crack on the edge of the die when sintering at 250 °C. When the joint was sintered at 300 °C, the small voids became large voids, which featured lower resistance to crack growth. Thus, instead of further improved reliability, the separation ratio increased to 37%.


This study tests Wagner's law for a panel of 10 former Soviet Union member countries over the period of 1995-2009. Wagner's law indicates that government activities expand together with economic development. Empirical results from panel co-integration test suggest that there is long-run equilibrium relationship between government expenditure and income level. Results of panel causality test that based on two stages lest square model and traditional Granger causality test that based on error correction model show that there is unidirectional causality running from economic growth to government expenditure expansion. Finally, fixed and random effect estimations of five Wagner's law regressions give some evidences that increase in income level expands government activities. These results suggest that Wagner's law holds in former Soviet Union countries.


At the local level, global climate change is exacerbating current environmental conditions while creating entirely new environmental and human hazards. The thesis of this article is that these new threats merge with preexisting vulnerabilities, creating a hybridized force that ripples through every aspect of society and threatens human security. The vulnerabilities intensify as these communities lack the adaptive and developmental capacity to address the multifarious effects, further undermining their human security. This article examines the case of the Funafuti, Tuvalu, and the effect of a warming Southern Pacific Ocean on Tuvaluan societal structural flows and processes. As the case demonstrates, climate change becomes more than an environmental issue; rather, it is a global social problem bound by multiple human security issues. For extremely vulnerable countries like Tuvalu, the case suggests that a human security approach best captures the dynamics of climate impacts in vulnerable communities, and, as such, requires adjustments in the global climate regime's current approach. This conclusion also represents a challenge to current scholarship which suggests that the small islands will be uninhabitable simply from sea level rise.


In this study, receptor-dependent (RD) 3D-QSAR models were built for a set of thirtyseven isoniazid derivatives bound to the enoyl-acp reductase from M. tuberculosis, called InhA (PDB entry code 1zid). Ligand-receptor (L-R) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations [500 000 steps; the step size was 0.001 ps (1 fs)] were carried out at 310 K (biological assay temperature). The hypothesized active conformations resulting from a previously reported receptor-independent (IR) 4D-QSAR analysis were used as the molecular geometries of each ligand in this structure-based L-R binding research. The dependent variable is the reported MIC values against M. tuberculosis var. bovis .T he independent variables (descriptors) are energy terms of a modified first-generation AMBER force field combined with a hydration shell aqueous solvation model. Genetic function approximation (GFA) formalism and partial least squares (PLS) regression were employed as the fitting functions to develop 3D-QSAR models. The bound ligand solvation energy, the sum of electrostatic and hydrogen bonding energies of the unbound ligand, the bending energy of the unbound ligand, the electrostatic intermolecular L-R energy, and the change in hydrogen bonding energy upon binding were found as important energy contributions to the binding process. The 3D-QSAR model at 310 K has good internal and external predictability and may be regarded as representative of the binding process of ligands to InhA.


Detecting relationship state and quality in romantic couples is an important endeavor for relationship research, couple therapy, and of course couples themselves. Yet current methods to achieve this are intrusive, asynchronous, plagued by ceiling effects, and only assess subjective responses to questionnaires while trying to capture the objective state of a relationship. According to social appraisal theory, human beings rely on emotional responses to assess interpersonal situations, a key element for relationship functioning in couples. Using couples is particularly advantageous as strong emotional reactions are triggered in romantic relationships. Prior research has repeatedly demonstrated that emotion expression in couple interactions is related to relationship satisfaction. Here, we employ deep learning methods to assess the relationship state of romantic couples from images via facial and bodily emotion expression and other features. Our model, DeepConnection, comprises pretrained residual neural networks, spatial pyramid pooling layers, and power mean transformations to extract relevant features from images for binary classification. With this, we achieved an average accuracy of nearly 97% on a separate validation dataset. We also engaged in model interpretation using Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) to identify which features allow DeepConnection to detect relationship state. To demonstrate generalizability and robustness, we used DeepConnection to analyze videos of couples exhibiting a range of different postures and facial expressions. The work presented here could inform couples, advance relationship research, and find application in couple therapy to assist the therapist.


We describe a recipe for generating normal ideals on successors of singular cardinals. We show that these ideals are related to many weakenings of that have appeared in the literature. Our main purpose, however, is to provide an organized list of open questions related to these ideals. Throughout this note, we will let λ denote the successor of a singular cardinal μ. We will also let χ denote some regular cardinal much larger than λ; we will be concerned with elementary submodels of various expansions of 〈H(χ),∈, <χ〉, where <χ is some well–ordering of H(χ) (the sets hereditarily of cardinality < χ). Suppose M ≺ 〈H(χ),∈, <χ〉 satisfies • |M | = μ, and • M ∩ λ is an initial segment of λ. The ordinal δ := M ∩λ lies in the interval (μ, λ), so in particular δ is singular with cofinality < μ. The ideals of concern to us have to do with asking about the extent to which the singularity of δ can be witnessed by a set "covered" by M ∩ [λ]. For example, is there a set A ⊆ δ of order–type cf(δ) with every initial segment in M? Can we find such an A that is also closed and unbounded? What about if we demand only that every countable subset of A is covered by a set in M ∩ [λ]? What follows is one way to systematically generate ideals associated to such questions. Our goal in this note is merely to demonstrate that many weakenings of considered in the literature are instances of such a scheme, and to point out some fairly general questions that ought to be investigated further. Definition 1. Let λ be a regular cardinal. A λ–approximating sequence is a sequence M = 〈Mα : α < λ〉 such that (1) M is a continuous ∈–chain of elementary submodels of 〈H(χ),∈, <χ〉, (2) 〈Mj : j ≤ i〉 ∈ Mi+1, (3) λ ∈ M0, and for each α < λ, (4) |Mα| < λ, and (5) Mα ∩ λ is an initial segment of λ. A λ–approximating sequence is said to be over x if x ∈ ⋃ α<λ Mα. Our recipe for generating normal ideals will use λ–approximating sequences. Each instance of the recipe depends on two things – how we want our ordinals Date: February 2, 2005. These remarks are an organized version of questions asked during a Problem Session at the Singular Cardinal Combinatorics Workshop held at BIRS during May 2004. The author thanks the organizers inviting him to the conference, and the staff at BIRS for the wonderful job they did hosting the workshop.


Satellite Images contain very important information about geographical features such as roads, rivers, bridges, buildings, etc of earth. Such features are required for military as well as civilian applications. Automatic detection of these features are required for terrain mapping and Geographic Information System (GIS). However, satellite images are often corrupted by different types of noise and detection of details is a nontrivial problem. Hence suitable denoising algorithms have to be incorporated for the images before detection of features is done. Otherwise the process may end in erroneous results and loss of wanted information. Although different algorithms are existing for denoising images, due to the requirement of detection of long edges in the case of bridge extraction, the Curvelet Transform (CT)based method is found to be superior. This choice provides the benefit of multiresolution image processing such as compatibility of human visual system and line and edge detection. Once this pre processing is done, appropriate types of segmentation algorithms can be applied for detection process. Initially, Fuzzy based algorithm is used for segmenting water and background details and then bridge extraction is done using difference in pixel intensity between bridge edge and water.


A presentation given on fRI's Business Strategy for 2012-2017 that includes process, goals, partnerships, geographic scope and resources and investment.


Heritage structures are under the effect of chemical, physical and biological weathering, and out of these common effects, chemical weathering has a significant impact (as it results in nifty formation and causes fractures in heritage structures). Chemical weathering may include carbonation, oxidation, hydration, hydrolysis, and acidification. Most heritage structures are made up of limestone, which is more susceptible to carbonation. According to the reported literature, commercial practices for the maintenance and repair of these heritage structures use epoxy-based solutions, which may not be best suited as per the various regulations imposed by different government/public authorities. But so far little has been reported on the use of innovative, programmable thermoplastic composites for the maintenance and repair of such structures. This study highlights the effect of chemical treatment (as a stimulus) using a one-way programming of three-dimensional-printed thermoplastic composite-based (polyvinylidene fluoride–6% limestone) functional prototype as a solution for the maintenance and repair of heritage structures (grade III). For one-way programming, three-dimensional-printed substrate is exposed to dimethylformamide, and the changes in morphological and surface properties are noticed. After this, carbonation cycle (with carbonic acid) is performed and the changes in morphological and surface properties are compared to ascertain the stimulus effect for one-way programming (of polyvinylidene fluoride–6% limestone composite). The results of the study outline that the prepared composite may be programmed by controlling the exposure of dimethylformamide and carbonic acid (as a stimulus). Further best settings for preparing feedstock filament (for three-dimensional printing of functional prototypes in case of a selected heritage structure) are 200 °C screw temperature, 0.35 N m torque and an applied load of 8 kg in terms of better mechanical properties and shore D hardness.


Automated caretaking systems provide constant monitoring of people without human involvement. Intelligent frameworks automatically recognize and evaluate numerous sorts of data by making use of modern technologies. Human activities are complex practices that include continual together with interleaved activities. Complex activities can be quickly processed using fully connected quantum devices that work like the human brain. Human postures have the capability to reveal various movements of the body in diverse circumstances. An optimized approach is needed to integrate different environments and to recognize and explore various aspects of activities that improve acceptance rates. The proposed system can handle a wide range of body movements, various viewpoints, environmental changes, and obscuresituations. This research aims to design a real-time activityrecognitionsystem which tracks the movements of elderly people suffering from Parkinson's Disease(PD).


According to the results of the investigation, the author puts forward that post graduates suffer less anxiety than beginners of foreign language learners in oral classes and are highly motivated. On the other hand, classroom activities such as pair work, group work, role plays, class presentation and debate are good ways to improve the students' oral English. Therefore, as for teachers, the task is to create a low anxiety classroom environment and provide students with interesting topics.


freshwater fish fauna of the region is characterized above all by the predominance of the Cyprinidae (carps and minnows) and their allies. The fauna is rather uniform in its com position throughout the region except for the Song Koi (=Song Hong) drainage, where the fish fauna closely resembles that of southern China including Hainan (Chevey and Lemasson, 1937), and there is a sharp distributional boundary along the Song Koi-Mekong watershed (Banarescu, 1972). The fauna of Southeast Asia shares many genera with the fauna of India, and the fact led Hora (1937, 1944, 1949) and Menon (1953, 1955) to conclude that the Indian freshwater fish fauna in the main originated in and migrated from southeastern part of Asia.


The position control of a load at the far end of a long, non-rigid arm by an actuator at the near end is considered. The actuator must integrate two tasks: position control of the load and active absorption of vibration to steady it in position. A control strategy based on the launching and absorbing of mechanical waves by the actuator is presented. It is shown to work remarkably well for longitudinal waves in lumped massspring systems, being robust, close to optimal and inherently adaptive. Only the first two masses and springs need to be characterised and observed to determine the required actuator movement The approach also applies to related continuous systems. The case of flexural, transverse waves is under study and looks equally promising.


Cloud observations are of significant importance in the study of long-term climatic trends. These observations require high-resolution radars at 94GHz. We have developed a compact multichip module (MCM) 94GHz radar receiver and the state of the art InP MMICs to construct it. The LNA MMIC determined the noise figure of the receiver, 3dB, and conversion gain of 17dB. This LNA MMIC was complemented by a second harmonic mixer MMIC that had very low conversion loss of 9.5dB despite the operation at second harmonic frequency. The MCM receiver provided the system requirement of 2dB noise figure when cooled to 170K.


We present an algorithm, the FISH-NET algorithm, for deriving classiica-tion/forecasting rules from large data bases of low quality data. The attributes are assumed to be continuous, numeric variables. The algorithm works on the eld of the attributes, rather than on individual point values and is linear in both the number of attributes and the number of instances. The algorithm has been tested on 3 large meteorological data bases. Experimental results show that the algorithm outperforms C4.5, feed forward neural networks, k-nearest neighbour classiiers and human experts on these data sets.