The pore structure of a concrete material is made up pores of various sizes. This study is aimed at assessing the freezing and melting point of concrete within the cover zone by monitoring the formation of ice and melting at different temperatures using electrical measurement technique. A multi-electrode array system was used to obtain the temperature of ice formation and melting at discrete depths within the cover zone of the concrete. A total number of four concrete specimen (250mm x 250mm x 150mm) made of ordinary Portland cement concrete and ordinary Portland cement replaced by 65% ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) with water/binder ratios of 0.35 and 0.65 were produced and ponded with water to ensure full saturation and then subjected to freezing and melting process in a refrigerator within a temperature range of -30 0 C and 20 0 C over a period of time 24 hours each. The data was collected and analysed. Results obtained shows that the freezing and melting behavior of all specimens differs. It was also observed that at a much lower depth of 75mm which is close to the rebar, the pores freezes at a much lower temperature of about -29 0 C but melts at different temperatures irrespective of w/b ratio and GGBS additive. Keywords—GGBS, Concrete, durability, Freezing, Melting


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n order to scientifically appraise some of the folkloric uses of Eugenia jambolana Lam. (Myrtaceae), the present study was undertaken to examine the anthelmintic and antimicrobial properties of stem bark extracts. The anthelmintic activity of ethyl acetate and methanol
extracts was tested on tape worm (Moniezia expansa) and hook worm (Gaigeria pachyscelis) at two concentrations, 100 and 200 mg/ml. Time taken for the inhibition of motility and the death were noted and compared with the standard drug, Piperazine citrate at 15 mg/ml. The plant extracts significantly paralysed the worms followed by death, which was comparable with that of standard. Further, these
extracts along with petroleum ether extract were tested for their activity against 24 clinically isolated microbial strains, including identified strains, using agar well diffusion method. The methanol extracts showed highest activity followed by ethyl acetate, while the petroleum ether extract showed the lowest activity at 100 mg/ml. The inhibitory effect of extracts was compared with standard antibiotic Ciprofloxacin and antifungal miconazole. This study supports the folk claim.
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The film directly influences the lives of individuals by what the visible and the invisible of its moving images show in their aesthetic appreciation. The relationship between body, perception and movement in cinematography point new horizons of meaning for us to broaden our gaze on understanding the physicality and movement culture, which allows us to create other ties to enlarge the sensitive knowledge of the body and movement to the area of Physical Education. The starting point was the opportunity to identify and describe the expressions of body and movement enabled by kinesthetic perception we have of filmic images, relating them to the understanding of movement culture, as well as pointing horizons for aesthetic knowledge of physical education, given the close relationship between body, perception and expression. The research method of the phenomenological thinking of the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty, basing on three aspects which are interlinked: the lived experience, intentionality of consciousness and the phenomenological reduction. As a research technique used in this study imaginative variation as phenomenological strategy, recognizing that bodily and mental processes are present in the imaginative act. Thus, we conducted an aesthetic appreciation of some works of filmmaker Carlos Saura (Marriage of blood, Iberia, Tango, Fados), through a sheet of films I describe some technical aspects of cinema, relating them to the understanding of body and motion culture. We recognize the films in question truly significant aspects so we can think about the sensitive knowledge of physical education in the face of bodily experience, the scheme body, the faces, the attitudes of the body present in time and space, whose moving images extend the way we view and see the body moving beyond the ordinary life. In this, the various themes of life and own speeches of Physical Education is the cinematic experience an extension of our vision given by real connivance with the imaginary, enabling other ways of seeing and thinking on the subject of corporeality and human movement, by through the perceptual experience that in the cinema, awakens the poetic dimension of the body to make this a work of art.


An app called Cheers, which lets one tip any musician in the world using bitcoins is featured. It uses one's smartphone to recognize the audio signature of the music one is listening to--its this that gets one's tip to the artist. The app also let's one manually tip any artist one like. Tips can be between 20 cents and $2 worth of bitcoins


Objective:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous punctue the renal pelvis for graft ureteral stenosisMethods:5 patients with graft ureteral stenosis underwent treatment of balloon dilatation and double "J" tube were implanted.Balloon fully expanded in 4 cases,umbilical concave was found in the remaining 1 case.Results:The success rate for the surgical was 100%.No complications occurred.Renal function improved after the treatment.Serum creatinine decreased.Conclusion:Percutaneous treatment for graft ureteral stenosis is totally effective.


In contrast to deep-water environments, shallow water environment typical of the Arabian Gulf presents unique challenges to 4C ocean bottom cable (OBC) seismics, including strong surface waves and multiples. Acquisition of 4C OBC seismic data should consi


C. Lester,1 Jiun-Haw Chu,2,3 J. G. Analytis,2,3 S. C. Capelli,4 A. S. Erickson,2,3 C. L. Condron,5 M. F. Toney,5 I. R. Fisher,2,3 and S. M. Hayden1 1H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom 2Department of Applied Physics and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA 3Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA 4Institut Laue-Langevin, 38042 Grenoble, France 5Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA Received 22 March 2009; revised manuscript received 1 April 2009; published 23 April 2009


Abstract Spring burning of sedge‐grass meadows in the Slave River Lowlands (SRL), Northwest Territories, Canada was applied between 1992 and 1998 to reduce shrub encroachment and enhance Bison bison (bison) habitat, although the impact of fire on preferred bison forage was unknown before management. In the summer of 1998 we conducted a study in the Hook Lake area of the SRL to test the effect of burn frequency (unburned, burned once, or burned three times since 1992) on herbaceous plant community composition and Salix spp. L. (willow) shrub vigor. Plant species abundance, litter biomass, soil pH, and depth of the organic soil horizon were measured in 300 1‐m2 quadrats nested within 30 1,000‐m2 plots in both burned and unburned dry meadows. To test the relationship between frequency and willow vigor, all willow shrubs within the plots were assigned a vigor score from I (dead) to IV (flourishing). The spring burns appear to have reduced willow vigor; however, shrub survival remained high (76%) on the most frequently burned meadows. Ordination plots resulting from canonical correspondence analysis suggest that multiple spring burns influenced plant community composition in dry meadow areas and that less palatable bison forage species (e.g., Carex aenea Fern. and Juncus balticus L.) were correlated with a regime of three spring burns. Our results suggest that frequent spring fires in the Hook Lake area have only a small negative effect on willow cover but may reduce the abundance of primary bison forage plants compared with less frequently burned meadows.


things: first, that Leonardo made a painting representing a young, smiling woman as Spring; and secondly, that this was a portrait of Gioconda or Mona Lisa. Gukovski also notes that a Leonardo painting of'Joconde' holding flowers, appeared in the Gaignat sale at Paris in 1769. The description of this painting reads like a description of the Hermitage Columbine. In the chapter entitled 'Whom does Columbine represent and when was it created?' Gukovski examines the contradiction between the documents which, on the one hand, speak of Leonardo's portrait of Gioconda or Mona Lisa as Spring and, on the other, the actual appearance of the Louvre painting which hardly has any springlike attributes. This discrepancy had already been noted in the literature. Doubts about the proper name of the Louvre Mona Lisa have been raised by Pedretti, Andre Charles Coppier, Giovanni Poggi, and Andre Dezarrois. After a detailed examination of other material and speculations about Vasari's accuracy in describing the circumstance under which the Mona Lisa was painted, Gukovski, although unable to resolve this problem conclusively, suggests the following hypothesis: The Hermitage Columbine was painted by Leonardo in Florence between 1500 and 1507 and was left unfinished. It was later finished by Francesco Melzi in France after 1517. The Hermitage painting is an idealized portrait of a wealthy Florentine lady, Mona Lisa Gioconda, while the portrait in the Louvre painted about ten years later represents another woman. If Gukovski's hypothesis is correct, the most famous portrait in the history of Western painting must acquire a new name and art lovers who want to see the real Mona Lisa will find her in Leningrad, not in Paris. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Z o y a SHve


Advances are being made in understanding the pathology and biomedical basis of Alzheimer disease and other forms of dementia but those aren't being translated to the bedside because the Canadian government hasn't developed a mechanism to fund clinical trials of promising new therapeutics, a


Abstract The study region covers a farming district with coastal dunes, alluvium and peat, terraces of older sediments and low hills at the foot of the Tararua Range. Small communities of native plant species remain in a diversity of habitats. Four hundred and seventy-eight native and 503 alien taxa are recorded with information on their abundance, distribution and habitat, together with historical notes on the vegetation. It is considered that about 418 of the aliens are fully naturalised.


In this paper, we present a complete Data Acquisition System (DAQ) together with the readout mechanisms for the J-PET tomography scanner. In general detector readout chain is constructed out of Front-End Electronics (FEE), measurement devices like Time-to-Digital or Analog-to-Digital Converters (TDCs or ADCs), data collectors and storage. We have developed a system capable for maintaining continuous readout of digitized data without preliminary selection. Such operation mode results in up to 8 Gbps data stream, therefore it is required to introduce a dedicated module for online event building and feature extraction. The Central Controller Module, equipped with Xilinx Zynq SoC and 16 optical transceivers serves as such true real time computing facility. Our solution for the continuous data recording (trigger-less) is a novel approach in such detector systems and assures that most of the information is preserved on the storage for further, high-level processing. Signal discrimination applies an unique method of using LVDS buffers located in the FPGA fabric.


Complex oxide WO3-SnO2was prepared and employed as the catalyst for the synthesis of adipic acid from cyclohexanone with 30% hydrogen peroxide as oxidant.The appropriate preparing conditions were n(WO3)∶n(SnO2)=1∶2and calcinating at 500℃for 3h.The catalyst was characterized by IR technique.The effects of various factors such as catalyst dosage,hydrogen peroxide dosage,reaction time and reusability of the catalyst were investigated.The results indicated that the optimal reaction conditions were as follows:100mmol cyclohexanone,50mL 30% H2O2and 1.25g WO3-SnO2catalyst.The yield of adipic acid could reach 82.5%.Catalytic activity of WO3-SnO2complex oxide was superior to WO3.The catalytic activity of WO3-SnO2/La was less than WO3-SnO2,but its reusability was better than WO3-SnO2.


In order to improve the accuracy of sentiment analysis,verbs and adjectives in micro-blog texts are selected as features and a hierarchical structure-based approach to the decline of feature dimension is put forward.The method based on the emoticon is designed to calculate the feature polarity.On this basis,the position weight calculation method based on the feature polarity is proposed.Then the micro-blog texts are classified into three categories including positive,negative and neutral one by SVM.By combining Lexicon-based and SVM Machine Learning method,better accuracy of classification can be achieved.Experimental results show that the approach proposedto the sentiment classification of Chinese micro-blog is effective.


Aim: The economic basis of the imbalance of the regional distribution of physicians is the imbalance of per capita income among residential areas. As per capita income raises the demand for health services increases. On the other hand, doctors prefer high-income cities in order to generate more revenue. Turkey has a wide range of differences in inter-provincial income levels. In this study, the relationship between the distribution of doctors and per capita income in 70 cities between 1991 and 2000 in Turkey has been examined. Thus, it is aimed to point out the importance of the economic basis of the imbalance in the distribution of physicians. Method: The survey data of the Income Distribution by Provinces between 1991-2000 provided by Turkish Statistical Institute and the total number of specialists, GPs and total physicians in these provinces, gross domestic product per capita, and population data have been used. Multilevel regression analysis has been used in order to find out whether doctors prefer high-income cities, and how this preference changes as the income level changes, and whether this trend is higher among the specialists compared to the GPs. Results and Conclusion: There is a statistically significant positive relationship between domestic product per capita and the total number of specialists, GPs and total psychians per 10000 people. It is determined that doctors prefer the provinces where per capita income levels are high. A statistically significant difference is determined in the changes of the medium of the total number of specialists, GPs and total psychians per 10000 people and domestic product per capita in time. It is seen that as the provincial income levels per capita increase the number of physicians in the provinces also increase. This relationship is stronger among specialists compared to GPs. The importance of economic development in providing equality of the accessibility to health services is an obvious reality


The unprecedented demand for portable, flexible and even wearable electronic devices have stimulated the development of green and powerful energy sources with excellent electrochemical performance. Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) have attractive attention due to their high-energy density, high-rate capacity and relatively low self-discharge. The integration of two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials and their composites into LIBs offers opportunities to timely tackle the challenges of the ever-growing clean and sustainable energy demands. Therefore, it is crucial to design 2D nanomaterial electrodes for high performance flexible LIBs. This chapter covers the recent literature on flexible LIBs with 2D nanomaterials as the electrodes. The research demonstrates advancements in flexible electronics by incorporating various 2D nanomaterials into bendable batteries to achieve high electrochemical performance, excellent mechanical flexibility as well as electrical stability under stretching/bending conditions.


We calculated some Wilson loop functionals in a static sphere-symmetrical diagonal metric field, the Robertson–Walker (RW) metric field and a gravitational metric field established by cosmic string, respectively, and calculated the leading term W(2) and the term W(4) of a Wilson loop in Kerr metric field. Using the direction change of vector when it is parallel transported in the metric field of cosmic string, the cone symmetry of the metric field is demonstrated.


It is a timeless theme to probe into humanities.As a result of the probe,the thinking of human nature is no doubt a vital component of world outlook.Yet our research circle remains silent on whether Deng Xiaoping ever pondered over the issue of humanity.We advocate a confirmative attitude towards this issue and we believe that Deng Xiaoping did probe into such a field.He holds that we shall favour progmatic persons,not absolute ones;and that no person is entirely impeccable.


9% nickel alloy steels used for LNG, cryogenic liquid, storage tank are welded with dissimilar Inconel or Hastelloy welding rod and the weldment shows similar characteristic with the dissimilar metal weld of low carbon steel and austenitic stainless steel. Band type indications are sometimes shown on the film during radiography test of the weldments. Thus this study identified whether the indications are non-relevant indications through material, radiographic test, ultrasonic test, liquid penetrant test and microstructure analysis and also proposed radiography film interpretation and cause of band type indications.


Simone Pisano Houston Methodist Research Institute https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5412-1241 Xiong Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University Yanzhen Hu Xi'an Jiaotong University Le He Xi'an Jiaotong University Deyarina Gonzalez Swansea University Medical School Lewis Francis Swansea University Medical School Robert Steven Conlan Swansea University Medical School Chao Li (  firstname.lastname@example.com ) Xi'an Jiaotong University


Monopole configurations are created by a relaxation method, for Abelian and non-Abelian lattice gauge theories. The difference between the density of quenched monopoles from the high- and low-energy phases, at the phase transition of the O(3) and O(2) gauge theories, is discussed.


Label noise is an important issue in machine learning, which might lead to negative influences on various tasks. Given that real benchmarks for evaluation of noise reduction methods are limited, plenty of studies construct pseudo noisy data to verify their proposed methods. However, very few works have realized the rationality of the noise generation strategies. If the generated pseudo datasets are biased, their final conclusions might also be problematic. In this work, we focus on text classification of natural language processing (NLP) to investigate various pseudo noise generation methods, which is the first work of this line for NLP. In particular, we compare the noise generated with crowdsourcing noise, a kind of real noise as gold-standard, to evaluate these noise generation methods. After then, we measure and compare the performance of representative noise reduction methods respectively based on the data of crowdsourcing and our top-ranked pseudo noisy generation strategies. We conduct experiments on five text classification datasets, offering detailed comparison results as well as discussions.


The article considers the main stages of the RussianArab economic cooperation since the beginning of the 1990s up to the present time and changing the «Middle Eastern vector» of Russian foreign policy. Analyzes the problems faced by Russia in the development of foreign policy doctrine in the region of the Arab East, becoming the successor of the Soviet Union; difficulty in building bilateral relations with Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Russia''s role as a co-sponsor of the Middle East settlement. Next is considered the foreign policy in 2000 and the return of Russia to the «Greater Middle East», analyzes the problems impeding effective RussianArab cooperation. Special attention is paid to the strengthening of bilateral relations with the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, the implementation of joint projects in various fields and to establish a constructive dialogue with the new government of Iraq and the establishment of a sound legal framework of mutual relations. Another important direction of Russian foreign policy in the 2000s, becoming the establishment of relations with the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Simultaneously being established permanent contacts with groups «Hamas» and «Hezbollah». In the last part of the article explores the specificity of modern political, trade and economic cooperation after the events of the «Arab Spring» of 2011. Particular attention is paid to the position of Russia in relation to processes taking place in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria. The crisis in Syria has demonstrated a fundamentally different approaches to its solution by Russia and the West. Ultimately, the firm position of Russia on the Syrian issue secured her role as an important political player in the Middle East. In general, regional transformation in 2011, despite their negative consequences for the Russian-Arab economic cooperation and opened new opportunities to promote the Russian Federation for Arab markets.


Urbanization in India is growing exponentially as an upshot of Globalization and economic development. It has, of course, long been recognized that certain diseases become more readily acclimatized and thrive better in some parts of the world than others. The type of skin problems varies in different geographical areas, climate, economic and other factors including personal characteristics such as age and sex. Despite offering many opportunities, including potential access to better health care, today's urban environment has posed potential health risks and introduced new hazards. Among various health risks allergic skin disorders is a major problem encountered by the urban people. The current study aims at widening the scope of understanding factors potentiating the spread of skin diseases from the perspectives of medical geography through studying the geographic distribution of skin diseases.


This paper shows that if M is a complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvatures all nonnegative than M has the Brownian coupling property. From this one may immediately draw deductions concerning the nonexistence of certain harmonic maps


This article analyzes the main factors constraining the development of sports in developing countries through documentation and logic analysis,to explore ways and means to solve the problems.The purpose is to promote sport development in developing countries and improve its position in international sport.


Firstly this paper presents the structure and operation principle of GTO phase module on VVVF traction inverter in the AC drive vehicle introduced into Shanghai metro.Then based on the analysis of electrical performance and drive voltage wave of the GTO module,the substitution IGBT module for GTO phase module is developed.The comparative analysis of electrical performance and the function of the driver circuits of GTO inverter and IGBT inverter is made,and the results show that they are exactly the same.The developed IGBT traction inverters have been put into operation and work well so far.


Crystalline high‐entropy ceramics (CHC), a new class of solids that contain five or more elemental species, have attracted increasing interest because of their unique structure and potential applications. Up to now, only a couple of CHCs (e.g., high‐entropy metal oxides and diborides) have been successfully synthesized. Here, a new strategy for preparing high‐entropy metal nitride (HEMN‐1) is proposed via a soft urea method assisted by mechanochemical synthesis. The as‐prepared HEMN‐1 possesses five highly dispersed metal components, including V, Cr, Nb, Mo, Zr, and simultaneously exhibits an interesting cubic crystal structure of metal nitrides. By taking advantage of these unique features, HEMN‐1 can function as a promising candidate for supercapacitor applications. A specific capacitance of 78 F g−1 is achieved at a scan rate of 100 mV s−1 in 1 m KOH. In addition, such a facile synthetic strategy can be further extended to the fabrication of other types of HEMNs, paving the way for the synthesis of HEMNs with attractive properties for task‐specific applications.


During the last years, the cost of sequencing technology decreased a lot, and consequently, data produced by "OMICS" projects on tropical crops increased exponentially. That's why novel methods have been developed at CIRAD for the analysis and storage of data related to these huge projects. We present here bioinformatics resources and analyses conducted at CIRAD on Hevea brasiliensis transcriptome and genome. The Expressed Sequenced Tag Treatment and Investigation Kit (ESTtik) is a tool dedicated to analyse and store results from data processing of cDNA. TropGeneDB is a database that manages genetic and genomic information about tropical crops studied by Cirad. The database is organised into crop specific modules and Rubber tree data contained into the database will be described. At last, GnpAnnot is a project on green genomics which intends to develop a platform of structural and functional annotation supported by comparative genomics and dedicated to plant and bio-aggressor genomes allowing both automatic predictions and manual curation of genes and transposable elements. This plateform will be used for the manual genome annotation of many tropical crops (cocoa, coffee, banana) and could supported the analysis of the Ruber tree genome.


According to the field expeditions, in the conditions of stationary and cameral laboratory investigations the genofund of apricot cultivated in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is defined. The biological features and pomological parameters are specified and the comparative analysis is carried out. As a result of the analysis, it became clear that among the apricot cultivars grown on the territory of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, 42.9% are of local origin, 11.9% are introduced cultivars and 45.2% are forms. The distribution area of cultivars are determined and it is noted that Abutalibi, Haqverdi, Girmiziyanag, Aghchanabhat, Agh novreste, Khosropshahi, Teberze, Balyarim, Shalakh cultivars have much productivity importance and they widely cultivated in the region. During the conducted expeditions, it was revealed that apricot is mainly grown in the Ordubad district of the Autonomous Republic. It was defined that 30.5% of cultivars are early ripening, 47.8% of them are midseason ripening, 21.7% of them are late ripening; but 31.6% of forms are early, 42.1% of them are middle, 26.3% of them are late ripening. The research revealed that Nakhchivan novresti cultivar and Kotam-2, Dasta-4 forms are the most early ripening in comparison with other cultivars and forms. During the learning of the phase it was proved that the blossom period is depend on climate factors and ripening period is depending on genotype features. Weight the cultivars and forms is about 32.0-58.4 g and the pulp is between 90.0-95.8%. As a result of biological and zoological studies, 41.9% of cultivars and forms were distinguished by high values of these indicators. During the dequstation Nakhchivan novresti, Shalakh, Abutalibi, Balyarim, Agh erik, Goyjenabad, Girmizi partizan sorts and Jugha-5, Dasta-4, Dasta-9, Ordubad-12, Sharur-5 forms are rated with the highest scores.


Magnetic field sensors exist in many different designs, meant for many different applications. For example, they are used in cars to measure the rotational speed of wheels or simply read data from magnetic strips of e.g. credit cards. In order to be able to read data, it is necessary to distinguish between two binary states. In structures made of multiple, several nm thin ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers, the main effect responsible for a change of resistance is called giant magnetoresistance (GMR). The aim of the thesis at hand is to develop a new sensor concept based upon spin-transfer-torque, that not only distinguishes between two field directions, but also is sensitive to the strength of one single field component, the z-component. Beside the giant magnetoresistance, the spin-torque, which is exerted by spin polarized electrons acting on the magnetic configuration of the sensor, and an intrinsic property of the used materials, the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), are crucial to make the sensor design viable. Following, the underlying concepts of the proposed sensor design and its principle of operation will be discussed. This is concluded with an introduction to the theoretical concepts required to properly describe the sensor. Finally, initial simulations of the proposed sensor design will be conducted in order to demonstrate its viability and determine the parameters sensitivity S and detectivty D.


for the imperialism of the US are well presented in essays by Alan McPherson and Steven Sabol, which respectively cover the reach of the US within the Americas and the US treatment of Native Americans and their involvement in the war. The contributions on Japanese involvement and empire are particularly enriching, highlighting a subject that often ends up reduced to a footnote. Wm. Matthew Kennedy's essay, 'A Pacific Scramble? Imperial Readjustment in the Asia-Pacific, 1911–22', stands out. It brings new attention to the Pacific and brings diplomatic history solidly into the conversation. That essay also gives careful attention to the outcome of the war alongside the experience of it. This book also considers the war as part of the narrative of empires. The editors argue that the war was 'both the high point and the beginning of the end of the worldwide imperial system' (p. 8). Many chapters are relevant to this conclusion, and part 4 most explicitly attempts to consider the legacy of the war. Here and elsewhere there is compelling evidence that the war was both revealing and transformative of the nature of participating empires. The mobilization of men and material from across the globe shaped the war and demonstrated an imperial capability and power no longer extant, partially as a result of the war. Not all historians of empire must also be historians of the First World War, but the war was more than a minor incident in the overall trajectory of empires and its legacy reaches beyond family narratives and treasured sepia photographs. All edited volumes suffer from omissions and this work is no different. While certain empires are brought into relief, the Ottoman and Russian empires are notably absent, an absence which seems to reflect the broader lack of collaboration between scholars who research those places and the other historians of the war. While war historians of Germany and Britain sit happily beside each other at conferences, the Russian and Ottoman fronts are often under-represented. But no thematic book on the Great War can be comprehensive. The benefit of a volume with many contributors is that every chapter is written by an expert, sensitive to the subject's nuance and deeply familiar with the relevant primary sources. These essays engage a very wide range of sources and many interesting narratives. Measured against its aim to 'combine the global and imperial scope of more general works, while adding detailed examinations of the particular, and sometimes unexpected, aspects of the story' (p. 8), this book succeeds. It would be a good addition to the shelf of any historian interested in the Great War or interested in empire.


The main theorem of this paper states that if R is a ring and is a totally transcendental R-module, then has a unique decomposition as a direct sum of indecomposable R-modules. Natural examples of totally transcendental modules are injective modules over noetherian rings, artinian modules over commutative rings, projective modules over left-perfect, right-coherent rings, and arbitrary modules over Σ – α-gens rings. Therefore, our decomposition theorem yields as special cases the purely algebraic unique decomposition theorems for these four classes of modules due to Matlis; Warfield; Mueller, Eklof, and Sabbagh; and Shelah and Fisher. These results and a number of other corollaries about totally transcendental modules are covered in §1. In §2, I show how the results of § 1 can be used to give an improvement of Baur's classification of ω-categorical modules over countable rings. In §3, the decomposition theorem is used to study modules with quantifier elimination over noetherian rings. The goals of this section are to prove the decomposition theorem and to derive some of its immediate corollaries. I will begin with some notational conventions. R will denote a ring with an identity element. LR is the language of left R-modules described in [4, p. 251] and TR is the theory of left R-modules. "R-module" will mean "unital left R-module". A formula will mean an LR-formula.


AUTHOR Krotseng, Marsha V. TITLE A Meeting of the Minds: Implementation of an Effective Enrollment Management Strategy at One Private Comprehensive University. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper. PUB DATE Nov 89 NOTE 23p.; Paper presented at the Annua' Meting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (Atlanta, GA, November 2-5, 1989). PUB TYPE Speeches/Conference Papers (150) -Reports Research /Technical (143)


Despite the major burden of seasonal influenza, only the threat of pandemics is of universal concern globally. Past pandemics are reviewed, identifying measures that will be of value going forward. These will also help in controlling seasonal influenza.


Although the limit cycle have been studied for more than 100 years, the existence of its Lyapunov function is still poorly understood. By considering a common limit cycle system, a puzzle related to the existence of Lyapunov functions for Limit cycle system is proposed and studied in this paper: The divergence is not equal to zero, while the trajectory can be infinite loop on limit cycle. It will be discussed from three aspects. Firstly, the definition of Lyapunov function is concerned, and a new version of definition is given which is equivalent to the usual one and better adapts to the properties of Lyapunov function. Secondly, two criteria(divergence and dissipation power) are discussed from the perspective of dissipation, and it reaches that they are not consistent in representing the dissipation. Thirdly, by studying the motion of charged massless particle in electromagnetic field, it obtains that the limit cycle is an isopotential line on which the charged particles can move infinitely. Such discussions above may provide an understanding on the puzzle about the existence of Lyapunov functions for limit cycle system.


Purpose: This study was done to identify the mediating effect of resilience on the relationship between nurse's character and happiness for nurses in general hospitals. Methods: Participants were 139 nurses working in general hospitals. A survey was used and data were collected in April 2019. Data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS/WIN 22.0 program. Results: The significant predictors for the happiness of nurses were nurse's character (β=.56) and resilience (β=.80). These variables explained 67% of the variance in happiness of nurses. Also, resilience had a total mediating effect on the relationship between nurse's character and happiness. Conclusion: Findings indicate that nurse's character and resilience are important factors for the happiness of nurses in general hospitals.


The Adult Attachment Revised Scale is a measure of relationship attachment that contains three dimensions: closeness, dependence and anxiety. In Study 1, the scale was translated and applied to a sample of 420 university students in order to assess reliability. In addition, the scale criterion validity was estimated through measures of self-perception and affectivity. The results of Study 1 supported the internal consistency of two dimensions of attachment, but dependence was lower than expected (α = .62). A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted and failed to reach a convergent fit, thus demonstrating that two of the items in dependence were considered problematic. In Study 2, difficult items in Study 1 were reworded and the new version of the scale was applied to 81 participants. The results of two subsequent CFAs showed adequate fit of the scale and increased internal consistency with this new wording (α > .73), which replaced the expression "depend on others" by "getting help from others", which is a better construct representation of the meaning of dependence in the context of attachment closeness. Therefore, not only did we adapt the three dimensions of the attachment scale, but also provided evidence of its validity related to locally adapted instruments.


Abstract We present a 14-year-old female patient with a 2 yr history of positional headache secondary to spontaneous diffuse cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks. We treated the leak with an epidural blood patch which was radioactively labeled by a well-established nuclear medicine technique. Because spontaneous CSF leaks were frequently multifocal or diffuse throughout the spine, the extent of coverage or distribution of an epidural patch was generally determined by best estimate. Traditional radiographic contrast media mixed with the blood cells had been used to monitor the patch coverage and it is questionable whether the contrast can be representative of the cell distribution. We applied a nuclear medicine technique to label the autologous red blood cells to monitor the range of spinal cord coverage of each epidural patch. After two visible epidural patches covered both the lumbar and thoracic spine, computed tomography myelogram demonstrated significantly decreased leakage when compared to the pre-patch images. However, the patient's symptoms remained essentially unchanged in the long term, which is consistent with refractory spontaneous CSF leaks. We believe that this sophisticated nuclear medicine blood labeling technique is a simple and accurate way to monitor the true cell coverage of the spine and the pattern of distribution.


Background To investigate individuals at high risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), but, without previous events and with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C)<1.8 mmol/L should be treated with statin. Methods: We studied 1330 patients with LDL-C <1.8 mmol/L at the initial diagnosis of obstructive coronary atherosclerotic disease (OCAD) by angiography. Of 1330, 782 had not received prior statin therapy and 548 were treated with statin. Incidence of subsequent major adverse cardiac and cerebral event (MACCE) during a median of 25-month follow-up were identified and compared between patients with LDL-C <1.8 mmol/L without any prior statin [prior statin(-)] and those with LDL-C <1.8mmol/L achieved by prior statin therapy [prior statin(+)].Results ACS occurred in 93.4% of individuals with LDL-C <1.8 mmol/L as an initial diagnosis of OCAD. Prior statin(+), comparing to prior statin(-) who displayed similar ASCVD risk burden including 71.6% with hypertension, 39.1% with diabetes and 76.1% with ≥3 risk factors, had significantly lower incidence of acute myocardial infarction(AMI) (10.4% vs. 28.8%, P<0.001), higher left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF)(0.67±0.07 vs. 0.64±0.09, P <0.001), lower incidences of subsequent MACCE (4.7% vs. 10.4%, P =0.001), total mortality (2.4% vs. 6.8%, P =0.001) and cardiovascular(CV) death (1.5% vs. 4.3%, P =0.006) during follow-up. After multivariable adjustment, no prior statin therapy was significantly and independently associated with subsequent CV death, particularly in the subgroups of age≥65 years and hypertension. Conclusions Prior statin therapy to achieve LDL-C <1.8 mmol/L comparing to LDL-C <1.8 mmol/L without statin independently predicted lower risk of subsequent CV death and better prognosis.


Comparison of experimental and calculated 23Na NMR spectra of complexes containing lanthanide cations indicates that paramagnetic effects in MAS NMR can yield quantitative structural information.


The use of a magnetic adjustable speed drive is a popular choice in industrial settings due to its efficient operation, vibration isolation, low maintenance, and overload protection. Most conventional magnetic adjustable speed drives use various forms of the permanent magnets (PMs). Due to the PMs, this type of machine has continuous free-wheeling losses in the form of hysteresis and induced eddy currents. In recent years, the homopolar-type rotor has been widely used in high-speed machines, superconducting machines, and in the application of flywheel energy storage. This study proposes a new application of the homopolar-type rotor. A novel adjustable speed drive with a homopolar-type rotor (HTR-ASD), which has obvious advantages (no brush, no permanent magnet, and no mechanical flux regulation device), is designed and analyzed in this study. Its speed and torque can be adjusted only by adjusting the excitation current. Firstly, in this study, the structure, operation principles, and flux-modulated mechanism of the HTR-ASD are studied. The homopolar-type rotor has a special three-dimensional magnetic circuit structure with the same pole. The 3D-FEM is usually used to calculate its parameters, which is time consuming. In this study, an analytical method is developed to solve this issue. To analytically calculate the torque characteristics, the air gap magnetic flux density, and the winding inductance parameter, the equivalent circuit and the air gap permeance are researched to simplify the analysis. Then, the key parameters of the HTR-ASD are calculated. Finally, the performance of the HTR-ASD is comparatively studied using the analytical method and finite element method, and a comparison of the results is carried out. The comparison indicates that the analytical method is in good agreement with simulation results, and that it is very helpful for designing homopolar-type rotor machines. According to the analysis, the proposed adjustable speed drive displays a great performance in relation to the operating characteristics of a flexible mechanical speed drive.


We discuss the equivalence of bi-H/sup /spl infin// control problems to certain problems of approximation and interpolation by analytic functions in several complex variables. In bi-H/sup /spl infin// control, the goal is to perform H/sup /spl infin// control design for a plant where part of it is known and a stable subsystem /spl delta/ is not known, i.e. the response at "frequency" s is P(s, /spl delta/(s)). We assume that once our system is running, we can identify /spl delta/ online. Thus the problem is to design a function K off-line that uses this information to produce a H/sup /spl infin// controller via the formula K(s, /spl delta/(s)). The controller should yield a closed loop system with H/sup /spl infin// gain at most /spl gamma/ no matter which /spl delta/ occurs. This is a frequency domain problem. The article shows how several bi-H/sup /spl infin// control problems convert to two complex variable interpolation problems. These precisely generalize the classical (one complex variable) interpolation (AAK-commutant lifting) problems which lay at the core of H/sup /spl infin// control. These problems are hard, but the last decade has seen substantial success on them in the operator theory community. In the most ideal of bi-H/sup /spl infin// cases these lead to a necessary and sufficient treatment of the control problem.


Four coupling experiments of water and phosphorus were carried out in Yuxi district in order to study coupling effect of water and phosphorus on detached leaf, plant height, growth rate, blade, dry matter, content and absorption of N, P and K in seedling stage of summer maize. The results showed that the coupling experiment with high soil water content and high P content (HH) could made the physiological indexes of summer maize have the best growing state among them. And the LH had the second best one and much better than ones in the HL and the LL. Conversely, the growth state in the LL was the worst among them. Eventually, the HH was suggested to be done so as to make summer maize have better growth state in seedling stage and other growing stages of summer maize in Yuxi district in the future.


The term synergy refers to the interaction between many agents acting in concert to create an effect greater than the sum of the separate parts; in other words the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This definition helps one understand the biologic basis of periodontal orthodontic relationships in either therapy or disease. Synergistic collaborative treatment between the specialists also helps develop the harmony that results in less damage to both components of the periodontium, the soft tissue "gingival unit" around the crown, and the "attachment apparatus" that connects the root to bone. Orthodontists should recognize possible periodontal risks to patients undergoing orthodontic treatment and any "damage" to the periodontium or enlargement of the gingiva is often an inevitable and reversible side effect. The goal is to minimize any harmful effects as any good surgeon seeks to minimize an inevitable scar. This is best done by interdisciplinary collaboration in controlling infection with chemicals, erupting teeth through keratinized gingiva, empowering patients with modern regenerative surgery, and using orthodontic therapy to minimize the amount of bone that is removed during periodontal osseous surgery. Thus, with synergistic collaboration, orthodontic therapy can enhance periodontal health and periodontal therapy can enhance the orthodontic outcome. (Semin Orthod 2008;14: 229-245.) © 2008 Published by Elsevier Inc.


We present 48 further examples, in addition to the 10 identified in [1], of ghost-and-tachyon-free critical cases of parity-conserving Poincare gauge theories of gravity (PGT$^+$) that are also power-counting renormalizable (PCR). This is achieved by extending the range of critical cases considered. Of the new PCR theories, seven have 2 massless degrees of freedom (d.o.f.) in propagating modes and a massive $0^-$ or $2^-$ mode, eight have only 2 massless d.o.f., and 33 have only massive mode(s). We also clarify the treatment of nonpropagating modes in determining whether a theory is PCR.


Abstract : Studies of delayed gamma rays from fission at early times were conducted using the pulsed beams of neutrons and bremsstrahlung x rays from an electron linear accelerator to produce fissions. Measurements of the energy spectrum of isomeric gamma rays from the neutron fission of Pu239 and U235 were performed. The intensities of delayed gamma rays from the neutron fission of U235 and Pu239 were measured as a function of time between 60 microsec and 30 msec. Results of the spectrum and intensity measurements gave a complete description of delayed gamma rays from U235 (n, F) and Pu239 (n, F) for the time interval from 50 microsec to 30 msec. The intensities of delayed gamma rays from photofission of U235, Pu239, and U238 were measured at early times, starting at 2 microsec after fission. An intense short-lived component with an apparent half-life of a few usec was observed for all three cases of photofission. For both U235 and Pu239, the intensity of delayed gamma rays in the isomeric time region from photofission is almost the same as that from neutron fission but is appreciably lower in the plateau region. (Author)


Mannitol is used in freeze-dried products as a bulking agent, consistency enhancer, or stabilizer, having the lowest hygroscopicity among the excipients commonly used as consistency agents, therefore it can be used in the formulation of unstable preparations. Lyophilization is a complex method of drying a solution at low temperature and low-pressure that addresses especially thermolabile substances, such as proteins. The end-product is a lyophilized powder, which can be administered parenterally after reconstitution with suitable solvents. The objective of this study was to evaluate freeze-dried products obtained from mannitol solutions of different concentrations. Mannitol solutions of increasing concentrations of 2.5%, 5%, 7.5%, and 10% were prepared by dissolving mannitol in distilled water. The prepared solutions were freeze-dried after a preliminary DSC analysis, in which the thermal phenomena that occurred during lyophilization were identified. Freeze-dried preparations were analyzed by different methods: macroscopic analysis by visual assessment and comparison with data from the literature, texture analysis by which several properties of these preparations were studied (hardness, deformation, mechanical work, adhesive strength, fracture resistance, and the number of fractures), evaluation of reconstitution time and porosity. The mannitol used in the lyophilization process, being partially amorphous, required differential calorimetric analysis to establish its glass transition and to avoid the collapse of the preparations during lyophilization. Finally, NIR spectroscopy was used to predict the characteristics of the freeze-dried powders in a non-invasive manner, without prior sample preparation.


Summary In the course of 1901, V. Cremieu published the results of some experiments carried out to test the magnetic effects of electric convection currents. According to Cremieu, his experiments had proved that convection currents had no magnetic effects and consequently they were not equivalent to conduction currents, that is they were not 'real' electric currents. These negative results conflicted with those of well-known experiments carried out by other researchers, in particular with Rowland's experiments, and with Maxwell's, Hertz's and Lorentz's theories, which was more shocking. The publication of Cremieu's experiments raised a controversy which involved directly or indirectly some leading French and British physicists, and led Rowland together with his student Pender to re-perform his experiments. Pender's results confirmed those preiously obtained by Rowland, in striking conflict with those of Cremieu. The importance of Cremieu's experiments was stressed by Poincare in some of his publications, ...


We have continued our work in the field of AI-driven music synthesis and have improved upon our previous 3-layer gated recurrent unit neural network, with results confirming higher accuracy and much smaller validation loss. In order to achieve this, we have designed a recurrent neural architecture that is more suited to learning the musical style of J. S. Bach from an enhanced database of partitas and sonatas. This architecture is based on four independent channels, each having two gated-recurrent units, with a bi-directional long short-term memory unit in between. However, the main incentive of this paper is finding a metric which is able to measure on a normalized scale the similarity between an artificial musical composition and the style of the famous composer. This measure is heavily based on a signal processing technique known as symbolic aggregate approximation. As a final note, we perform a statistical analysis of the recurring motifs in the works of J. S. Bach, and hint on the possibility of exploiting them to further increase the quality of the output.


Background: To study the feasibility and efficacy of ultrasound guided saline enema hydroreduction as a primary therapeutic modality in cases of childhood intussusceptions in a tertiary care center. Material and Methods: A retrospective review of cases of intussusceptions over a period of sixty months in a tertiary care center. Out of total fifty six patients with intussusception, seven were excluded from the study in view of poor selection criteria. Ultrasonography was the sole criteria for diagnosis and therapeutic purpose. Rest of the patients were subjected to saline enema hydroreduction. Successful reduction was considered achieved when saline refluxed to the distal ileum visualized by sonography. Results: Forty nine patients were subjected to saline enema hydroreduction. Twenty two (44.89%) of them had presented within twenty four hours and got completely reduced by hydro-reduction whereas out of rest twenty seven (55.10 %) late presenters only thirteen were successfully reduced and rest of the patients had to be subjected to surgery. Conclusion: Diagnosing intussusception in the first 24 hours will increase the rate of successful hydrostatic reduction and thus decrease the need for surgical intervention and prolonged hospitalization. Hence, we recommend saline enema reduction to be tried as the first choice in all cases of intussusception unless contraindicated.


The medicine vaccine can control happening and prevelert of disease by isolating virus.The isolated virus were inoculated on chicken's embryo,Bronchitis virus of chicken were determined by pathology change of chicken's embryo and electron microscope oberzavation.


Thick titania films were prepared by the modified electrophoretic sol-gel deposition method. The titania particles prepared by the sol-gel method were hydrothermally treated at 250°C under 5MPa and then calcined at 600°C in air. The particles crystallized by the hydrothermal treatment showed no aggregation during the calcination and were easily re-dispersed in a mixture of ethanol and water to form stable titania sol. Thick titania films of ca. 20μm in thickness were obtained on stainless steel sheets by electrophoretic deposition of the sol.


Three-dimensional ZnO multipods are successfully synthesized on functional substrates using the vapor transport method in a quartz tube. The functional surfaces, which include two different distributions of Ag nanoparticles and a layer of commercial Ag nanowires, are coated onto silicon substrates before the growth of ZnO nanostructures. The structures and morphologies of the ZnO/Ag heterostructures are investigated using X-ray diffraction and field emission scanning electron microscopy. The sizes and shapes of the Ag particles affect the growth rates and initial nucleations of the ZnO structures, resulting in different numbers and shapes of multipods. They also influence the orientation and growth quality of the rods. The optical properties are studied by photoluminescence, UV-vis, and Raman spectroscopy. The results indicate that the surface plasmon resonance strongly depends on the sizes and shapes of the Ag particles.


In this paper we study self-trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates in a symmetric double-well potential with uniform noise or Gaussian noise existing respectively. We find that both uniform noise and Gaussian noise destroy the critical behavior of self-trapping with the interaction increasing and create a transition zone between Josephson oscillation and self-trapping, between which exists a critical point originally. Furthermore, the stronger the noise becomes, the wider the transition zone is. Meanwhile, we find that the phase space falls into complete confusion when we increase noise intensity to a certain extent with interaction fixed, and the trajectories reappear after we increase the interaction without increasing the noise intensity. In the full-quantum situation, when noise exists there is a transition zone instead of a critical value, and stronger noise creates wider transition zone, which is the same as in mean field treatment. What is different is that in full-quantum situation noise creates self-trapping, and the stronger the noise, the more obvious the self-trapping becomes.


The Gardner equation with a variable-coefficient from fluid dynamics and plasma physics is investigated. Different kinds of solutions including breather-type soliton and two soliton solutions are obtained using bilinear method and extended homoclinic test approach. The proposed method can also be applied to solve other types of higher dimensional integrable and non-integrable systems.


Review of: Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property, Minh-Ha T. Pham (2022)
 Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 176 pp.,
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In this thesis, the exclusive semileptonic rare B-mesons decays which are induced by the flavor changing neutral current transition (FCNC) have been studied within and beyond the Standard Model (SM).To probe physics beyond the SM, B ! K`+`.., B ! K1`+`.., B ! K 2`+`.. and Bc ! D s `+`.. decays are considered. At quark level, these FCNC transitions arises as b ! s`+`.. and, in the SM, are forbidden at tree level but are allowed at loop level through GlashowbIliopoulos Maiani (GIM) mechanism.Moreover, FCNC transitions are further suppressed due to the fact that they are directly proportional to the o diagonal elements of the Cabibo Kobayashi Maskawa (CKM) matrix.Because of these two conditions FCNC transitions are relatively rare and become important to investigate the physics beyond the SM, usually known as new physics (NP).The important points of the thesis are in order We study the exclusive channel of flavor changing neutral current transition (FCNC) i.e. B ! K`+`.. in the frame work of a family of non universal Z0 model. In this model, the Z0 boson couplings to the fermions could lead to FCNC transition at tree level. In addition, the o -diagonal elements of these e ective chiral Z0 couplings can contain new weak phases that provide a new source of CP violation and, therefore, could explain the CP asymmetries in the current high energy colliders. In this context, we have studied the polarized and unpolarized CP violation asymmetries for the said decay.These asymmetries are highly suppressed in the standard model but significantly enhanced in the Z0 model.In addition to the CP violation asymmetries, the single lepton polarization asymmetries are also studied and found them sensitive to the couplings of the Z0 boson.Finally, it is analyzed that all these asymmetries which will hopefully be tested at LHC can serve to probe the non-universal Z0 model, particularly, the accurate measurements of these asymmetries may play a crucial role to extract the precise values of the coupling parameters of Z0 boson. The sensitivity of the zero position of the forward backward asymmetry AFB for the exclusive B ! K1(1270)+.. decay is examined by using most general non-standard 4-fermion interactions. Our analysis shows that the zero position of the forward backward asymmetry is very sensitive to the sign and size of the Wilson coecients corresponding to the new vector type interactions, which are the counter partners of the usual Standard Model operators but have opposite chirality. In addition to these, the other significant e ect comes from the interference of Scalar-Psudoscalar and Tensor type operators. These results will not only enhance our theoretical understanding about the axial vector mesons but will also serve as a good tool to look for physics beyond the SM. A detailed study of the impact of New Physics (NP) operators with di erent Lorentz structures, which are absent in the Standard Model Hamiltonian, on the B ! K 2(1430)+.. decay is performed. In this context, the various observables such as branching ratio, forward-backward asymmetry of leptons, lepton polarization asymmetries and the helicity fractions of the final state K 2(1430) meson have been studied. We have examined the e ects of new vector-axial vector, scalar-pseudoscalar and tensor type interactions for this decay B ! K 2(1430)+.. by using the constraints on di erent NP couplings which come from the Bs ! +.., B ! Xs+.. and ¯B ! ¯K +.. decays. It is found that the e ects of VA, S P and T operators are significant on the zero position of AFB(q2) as well as on its magnitude. In addition to this these NP operators also give significant e ects on the di erential decay rate, lepton polarization asymmetries and helicities fractions of final state K 2(1430) meson. The semileptonic Bc ! D s `+`.. (` = ; ) decays have been studied in the Standard Model (SM) and in the Universal Extra Dimension (UED) model. In addition to the contribution from the Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) transitions the weak annihilation (WA) contribution is also important for this decay because of enhanced CKM matrix elements V cbVcs. It is found that theWA gives 6.7 times larger branching ratio than the penguin contribution for the decay Bc ! D s+.. The contribution from the WA and FCNC transitions are parameterized in terms of the form factors. In this work we first relate the form factors through Ward identities and then express them in terms of g+(0) which is extracted from the decay Bc ! D through QCDsum rules approach. These form factors are then used to analyze the physical observables like branching ratio and helicity fractions of the final state D s meson in the SM.This analysis is then extended to the UED model where the dependency of above mentioned physical observables depend on the compactificationradius R. It is shown that the helicity fractions of D s are sensitive to the UED model especially when we have muons as the final state lepton.This sensitivity is marked up at low q2 region, irrespective of the choice of the form factors. It is hoped that in the next couple of years LHC will provide enough data on the Bc ! D s`+`.. channel, and then , these helicity fractions would serve as a useful tool to establish new physics predicted by the UED model


In North Carolina many humnn cases of blastomycosis have be encountered Reports on them have dealt primarily with the general and mmunologic features of the disease,1 or with particular features such as laboratory. diagnostic,2 gecogic,3 cardiac,4 cutaneous5 and mycologionsiderations. From nimal e mtaoninconection with these human cases it has become apparent that the mouse is preeminently suited to the experimental production of blastomycosis.T The comparatively abundant histologic material available has permitted a restudy of the reaction of the tissues of man to this large fungous or Since it has been stated that blastomycosis and tuberculosis are practically identical histopathologically,&9 this aspect of the reaction has been approached with espeial interest. In a comprehensive analysis of blastomycosis, Stober,IL who based his condusions on a large group of especially well studied cases, stated: "The changes most characteristic of blastomycosis are the cutaneous ulcerations, the deep and superficial absc , and the often tuberclelike nodules in the viscera." The emphasis i ths quotation is on ulceration and abscess formation, although it is indicated that tuberdlelike nodules occur. Others have adopted about the same view. In more recent years the emphasis in papers on blastomycosis appears to have shifted somewhat. One might be led to believe that the tissue response in blastomycosis is identical with that in tuberculosis. Medlar 8 suggested this vew in a report of two cases of pulmonary blastomycosis. D'Aunoy and Beven,' in a report of 26 cases, I6 of which were cutaneous, went so far as to state that "only the presence of the speific organisms either active or dead, allowed making an histological differentiation from tuberculosis in any of the cases." I supported this opinion in a case report,8 but have now altered my view. The observations to be reported reemphasize the importance of abscess formation in blastomycosis, while they do not deny the occurrence, in some cases, of lesions like those commonly seen in tuberculosis. In most instances in which a differentiation was to be made by biopsy,


Abstract Three closely related species of phyline plant bugs are unique in the diverse family Miridae because of their remarkable antennae; the third (or second and third) flagellomere is enlarged and bears erect, dark, scalelike setae. Host plants for two of the species—Hambletoniola antennata Carvalho and Larinocerus balius Froeschner—have been known, but no host information has been available for L. personatus (Knight). Escobilla butterflybush, Buddleja scordioides Kunth (Scrophulariaceae), is newly recorded as the host of L. personatus in western (Trans-Pecos) Texas, and new Texas records are given for this seldom-collected mirid. New distribution records also are given for H. antennata in western Texas, in addition to its occurrence on ceniza, Leucophyllum frutescens (Berl.) I.M. Johnston (Scrophulariaceae). Scanning electron micrographs of the antennal setae of L. personatus are provided; included for both mirid species are color photographs of their host plants and an adult on host foliage.


Simulation results for several novel shapes of dielectric inserts that can serve as effective process seals for a standard WR-90 waveguide-to-coax adapter are presented. The objective of the design is to modify a standard adapter as a convenient wave launching structure for the measurement of fields in the interior regions of a complex machine. Modifying the geometry of the process seal insert has the benefits of not disturbing the waveguide cutoff characteristics, and increasing efficiency as compared to a total dielectric fill.


Textile reinforcements have established themselves as a convincing alternative to conventional steel reinforcements in the building industry. Due to their high load-bearing capacities in addition to a smaller concrete cross section required, the bond between textile and concrete is extremely important. In contrast to ribbed steel bars ensuring a stable mechanical interlock with concrete (form fit), the bond force of carbon rovings has so far been transmitted primarily via the coating of the textile, i.e. by an adhesive bond with the concrete matrix (material fit). However, this material fit must be activated over relatively large yarn areas, which does not allow material-efficient utilization of the mechanical load capacity of the textile reinforcement. Solutions involving profiled rovings promise significant improvements in the bonding behavior by creating an additional mechanical interlock with the concrete matrix. In order to achieve a form-fit effect between roving and concrete, a roving geometry inspired by ribbed steel bars has to be created. For this purpose, an innovative profiling process was developed and implemented.


Abstract : A merged HITRAN2008/HITEMP2010 spectral database and the distribution of spectral database parameters uncertainty was compiled for the two most prevalent combustion by-product gases, H2O and CO2. A Monte Carlo based uncertainty analysis methodology for application to tunable diode lasers or other high spectral resolution measurements was developed. This technique was applied in a sensitivity analysis of absorption measurements. Seven different representative data reduction methods were applied to four different hypothetical measurement scenarios typical of high-speed flow diagnostics. Through the use of the Monte Carlo analysis, the key input parameters that affect the uncertainty in retrieved gas temperatures, absorbing specie number density, velocity, and total number density were identified. Rough estimates of uncertainties in gas properties based on uncertainties of spectral parameters in the merged HITRAN2008/HITEMP2010 database were provided. Recommendations for further investigations, improvements, as well as guidance in the use of a Monte Carlo based analysis are presented.


Doctors are not corn. And no matter how the media paints a federal experiment to help New York hospitals reduce the number of residents trained there, comparing such financial incentives to federal farm subsidies is simply not accurate, according to Louis Cooper, M.D., FAAP, AAP District II chairperson. "New York should be applauded for recognizing the major forces battering the American medical system," said Dr. Cooper, pediatrics director at St. Luke9s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and pediatrics professor at Columbia University, both in New York City. He called the New York project "a very creative effort."


Summary Automated cleaning has been accepted in the dairy and food industry. The bacteriologist, the chemist, the engineer, and the technologist working together have solved many of the practical and some of the technical problems, and have made it possible to clean equipment efficiently and economically. Much fundamental work remains to be done to put the performance of CIP systems in the realm of mathematical interpretations, whereby time, temperature, turbulence, detergent characteristics, composition of adsorbed solids, and their surface properties, and water composition can all be designated in quantitative terms.


The emission spectrum of a single atom in the nonlinear coupling J-C (Jaynes-Cummings) model including any forms of nonlinearities of loth the field and the intensity-dependent atom-field coupling is studied. The effects of nonlinearities on the spectrum are demonstrated. It is shown that features of the emission spectrum are influenced significantly by the kinds of the field nonlinearity term R(a(+)a) and the intensity-dependent atom-field nonlinear coupling factor f(a(+)a). The structure of the spectrum is quite different from that of the standard J-C model. It is found that when f(a(+)a) = 1/roota(+)a, the emission spectra always show the definite three-peak structure for any initial state of the field,which implies that the effects on the emission spectrum of both the specific intensity-dependent nonlinear medium with f(a(+)a) = 1/roota(+)a and the initial field photon statistics can be counterbalanced. This feature is analyzed with an analytic method.


INFIR (Interactive Fingerprint Recognition) is an interactive fingerprint recognition and visualization tool. The tool is designed to cope with the problems related to automated and manual methods of matching. Interactive techniques involving automated fingerprint recognition can be used along with human intervention. The users of the system can visually monitor the process of recognition. Additionally, they can specify the parameters involved in the process. Feedback is provided to the user at every stage of the process. INFIR is currently under development. Progress and extensions to the tool are discussed.


Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health challenge. However, indicators of delays in assessing effective TB prevention and control and its influencing factors have not been investigated in the eastern coastal county of China. Methods All notified pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases in the Fenghua District, China were collected between 2010 and 2021 from the available TB information management system. Comparison of delays involving patient, health system, and total delays among local and migrant cases. Additionally, in correlation with available Basic Public Health Service Project system, we performed univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses identified the influencing factors associated with patient and total delays in patients aged >60 years. Results In total, 3,442 PTB cases were notified, including 1,725 local and 1,717 migrant patients, with a male-to-female ratio of 2.13:1. Median patient and total delays of local TB patients were longer than those for migrant patients; the median health system delay did not show any significant difference. For patient delay among the older adult, female (cOR: 1.93, 95% CI: 1.07–3.48), educational level of elementary school and middle school (cOR: 0.23, 95% CI: 0.06–0.84) had a statistical difference from univariable analysis; however, patients without diabetes showed a higher delay for multiple-factor analysis (aOR: 2.12, 95% CI: 1.02–4.41). Furthermore, only the education level of elementary school and middle school presented a low total delay for both univariate (cOR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.06–0.82) and multivariate analysis (aOR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05–0.83) in the older patients. Conclusion The delay of TB cases among migrants was lower than the local population in the Fenghua District, which may be related to the "healthy migrant effect". It highlights that women, illiterate people, and people without diabetes are key groups for reducing delays among older adults. Health awareness should focus on these target populations, providing accessible health services, and reducing the time from symptom onset to diagnosis.


The process and dynamics parameters of non-isothermal oxidation of AlN powder(d50=5μm) were studied by TG-DTA and XRD in atmosphere of 4/5N2 and 1/5O2 mixture with flow rate of 55mL/min and heating rate of 10℃/min.The results showed that the AlN powder obviously began to be oxidated and its mass increased over 900℃.The process of dynamics of oxidation reaction between AlN and O2 was controlled alternately by reaction and diffusion.Non-isothermal oxidation dynamics parameters(activation energy E,reaction orders n and pre-exponential factor A) of the AlN powder were obtained by the experimental data.E equals about 417.4kJ/mol,n about 2.9 and A about 3.47×1012h-1.Due to smaller activation energy E and larger pre-exponential factor A in dynamics parameters of AlN powder non-isothermal oxidation,AlN powder is easily oxidated with larger oxidation reaction rate at high temperature and air.Actual measurement thermogravimetric curve is in agreement with theoretical calculation.It shows that the dynamics equation based on these dynamics parameters data of non-isothermal oxidation of d50=5μm AlN powder is reasonable.


By analyzing and studying the first-hand materials and data collected throuch questionaires, interviews and on-the -spot survey, the writers find out the features of English learning of rural secondary school students, analyze the reasons of the problems, and suggest some advice on how to improve their English learning.


Background and Purpose—Although a genetic contribution to ischemic stroke is well recognized, only a handful of stroke loci have been identified by large-scale genetic association studies to date. Hypothesizing that genetic effects might be stronger for early-versus late-onset stroke, we conducted a 2-stage meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies, focusing on stroke cases with an age of onset <60 years. Methods—The discovery stage of our genome-wide association studies included 4505 cases and 21 968 controls of European, South-Asian, and African ancestry, drawn from 6 studies. In Stage 2, we selected the lead genetic variants at loci with association P<5×10


A Franson-type test of Bell inequalities by photons 10.9 km apart is presented. Energy-time entangled photon pairs are measured using two-channel analyzers, leading to a violation of the inequalities by 16 standard deviations without subtracting accidental coincidences. Subtracting them, a two-photon interference visibility of 95.5% is observed, demonstrating that distances up to 10 km have no significant effect on entanglement. This sets quantum cryptography with photon pairs as a practical competitor to the schemes based on weak pulses.


Canadians seeking successful, progressive public health action on nutrition should look south. The New York City Board of Health has unanimously approved, effective March 2013, a limit of 16 ounces on the maximum size of sugar-sweetened beverages that can be sold at restaurants and concessions in


While for more than a decade in Europe extremist Right-wing ideas have been mainstreamed and the far-Right has experienced a significant growth both in electoral success and extra-parliamentary activism, two timely plays recently performed in the UK have attempted to engage critically and analytically with aspects of racism and extremism motivated by reactionary politics. David Grieg's The Events (2013) re-imagined a mass shooting with strong echoes of the atrocity perpetuated by Anders Breivik on the Norwegian island of Utoya; and Chris Thorpe's quasi-verbatim Confirmation (2014) attempted to use the theoretical frame of confirmation bias to explore the ideological beliefs of the British webmaster of a white supremacist website. These notions have particular salience for the contemporary political climate of reactionary populism directed against refugees, minorities and immigrants in Europe.
This paper reads both plays as being representative of a particular form of Leftist political theatre inhabited by progressive politics that attempt to interrogate the reactionary mind, exploring how fascist and extremist racist ideologies are conceived and cultivated. Featuring protagonists with quintessentially liberal attitudes that are confronted by types of nativist racism, each play interrogates the boundaries of liberal tolerance when faced with its implacable, intolerant other. I suggest that in staging this encounter, both plays explore the implicit liabilities of the attitude of uncritical acceptance, with both protagonists' moderate liberal certitudes destabilised and undermined until they are finally forced to affirm their intolerance against extremism as a way of preserving their prior, unexamined, axiomatic attitude of tolerance.


In BitTorrent network, the bitmap is used to indicate the state of data blocks of file owned by a peer. Before the downloading of the file starts, the file provider first sends its corresponding bitmap to the requester to show which data blocks it owns. This provides the possibility for hiding the identity information in the bitmap and exchanging the identity information secretly. In this paper, we propose a bitmap‐based steganographic handshake approach and implement a prototype system based on the BitTorrent network. In our prototype system, the network can operate normally. More importantly, hidden peers successfully exchange their identity information and accurately identify the other hidden peers without being detected by the regular peers. © 2017 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Analysis of serial lateral cephalometric films for 85 subjects at 5, 10 and 15 years revealed that the behaviour of nine mean angular dimensions was variable, indicating a change in facial shape. However, the range of individual variation was considerable.


Volcanic activity is characteristic of seismic zones. Consequently, volcanic material form part of the landscape in places where earthquakes are common natural phenomena. As volcanic wastes (VW) show pozzolanic activity, the substitution of manufactured Portland cement (PC) with VW is clearly a desirable option not only from an economical point of view but also to reduce the CO2 fingerprint. Therefore, designing concretes with volcanic Portland cements (VPC) clearly contributes to cleaner cement production. Construction and building activities in seismic zones need to use a specific kind of concrete—self-compacting concrete (SCC). The challenge we focused on was the design of SCC using VPC. The flow behavior of SCC is characterized by low yield stress, high plastic viscosity, and shear-thickening behavior at high shear. However, obtaining these striking properties of the concrete is not easy with traditional concrete flow tests (Abrams cone, etc.). Moreover, these methods are very costly in terms of time and material. An alternative that allows us to use absolute rheometry and which has been little explored consists in the substitution of concrete by an equivalent mortar. The so-named concrete equivalent mortar (CEM) approach was used in this study to obtain SCC formulations with VPC. Mini cone tests confirmed the absence of blend in some selected CEM formulations based upon the accomplishment of the criteria for SCC. Three concrete proposals were inferred from the respective CEM formulations. They adapted to the SCC European standard according to the Abrams cone spread test.


The transient flow behavior of viscoelastic fluids is studied. In the present paper, the start-up flow through a slit is numerically solved by using FEM. The simulation is carried out for the three channels with a slit of different length. The Leonov model is applied to describe the rheological properties of the viscoelastic fluid. The simulation shows transient viscoelastic flow has complex behavior and the following results are obtained:(1)The difference between the flow patterns on the upstream and downstream sides of the slit becomes apparent with time.(2)The Barus effect is observed and it is stronger in the channel with the shorter length slit.(3)When the slit length is long, the velocity field develops in the slit region and then the velocity gradient in the flow direction comes to be nearly equal to zero. In this region the stress relaxation is indicated to occur.


The reaming process with rigid single blade reamers boring is one kind of deep processing methods which develop rapidly in recent years,which has a series of advantages such as high-speed cutting, auto-oriented, low surface roughness and so on.Appear as one kind of precision hole processing technology in the deep hole processing currently,and shows the superiority of processing.The self-excited vibration is a common phenomenon in deep processing,and seriously affect the stability of hole machining and processing quality.It performance very obvious in rigid single blade reamers boring processing,and has a certain degree of particularity. Established as a mathematical model of the rigid boring reamerThe analysis of mechanism of Self-excited vibration in reaming processing of single blade rigid boring reamer, and the study the impact of the friction characteristics of the guide block and the hole in self-excited vibrations,provide the basis for the inhibition of self-excited vibration.


STUDY OBJECTIVES
Identify reasons for early polysomnography termination in pediatric patients.

METHODS
We retrospectively reviewed all studies conducted at the Pediatric Sleep Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center from January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2019, that were terminated before study completion. We investigated reasons for early termination and gathered characteristics such as age, gender, presence of neurocognitive impairment, payor status, seasonal variability, and testing site location.

RESULTS
There were 137 patients who terminated their studies before completion, comprising 1.05% of all patients who arrived for their scheduled polysomnographies (PSGs) during that time frame. The three main categories of reasons were equipment intolerance (47%), acute illness (33%), and parent refusal (20%). Parent refusal reasons included patient becoming combative, a lack of specialized equipment, patient unable to fall asleep, forgetting patient's nighttime medications, and the parent unable to stay the night. Males represented a greater proportion of those who terminated due to intolerance to equipment (75%). Patients who terminated early due to equipment intolerance consisted of more neurologically impaired patients compared to those who terminated due to acute illness (56% vs. 24%). Termination due to acute illness occurred more during the wintertime (44%) than in the summer (7%). In those who terminated due to parent refusal, there was a greater proportion of children under 6 years of age (75%).

CONCLUSIONS
Determining factors that are associated with early PSG termination is an important step to help identify at-risk groups and implement strategies to improve study completion.


The authors of the research focus on Antonio Pasculli, a famous Italian virtuoso oboe player and composer of the late 19th - the early 20th century, whose name had long and undeservingly been in the wilderness. In the last two-three decades, his legacy has been getting a new lease on life. Pasculli's compositions are on the concert list of oboe players all over the world. Despite the performance popularity, the personality and creative work of the outstanding Italian musician are still on the periphery of the research focus of Russian musicologists. All valuable information is contained in rare foreign researches. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to reconstruct the artistic portrait of Antonio Pasculli in the context of time. This research is the first in Russian musicology to introduce into Russian scientific discourse the data from foreign sources revealing the peculiarities of Pasculli's creative life. Based on the analysis of the collected data, the authors conclude about the necessity to revise the role of Pasculli's work and legacy in the context of European music culture of the 19th century. It is believed that familiarization with the information about the Italian musician, unknown to the Russian audience, will help to not only dive deeper into the specificity of Pasculli's compositions, but also to reinterpret his place and role in the evolution of playing woodwind instruments.


Social and political processes taking place in the modern Ukrainian society are reflected, among other things, in the language of our mass media. The study of the language question is important not only due to the constant discourse regarding the status of the official language and the supposed number of official languages, but also as the subject matter of reflecting the national identity of the citizens of our state.

As of 2001, the population of Ukraine was estimated at 48, 2 million people, being representatives of 107 nationalities. Support and preservation of ethnic and cultural as well as linguistic consciousness of ethnic groups is an important goal of every multiethnic and multilingual country. Ukraine signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages on May 2, 1996 (hereafter — the Charter), ratified it in 2003, though it came into effect only since 2006. The introduction of the above mentioned document into the national legislation testifies respect and willingness to protect regional languages or minority languages. The provisions of the Charter are applicable not to all the minority languages of the national minorities living on the territory of Ukraine, but only to the following ones: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Greek, Jewish, Crimean Tatar, Moldavian, German, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Hungarian.

According to quantitative linguistic analysis of printed periodical publications that are published in the languages of national minorities and come under protection, only the ethnic Poles (1,07 of publications per one ethnic group representative that considers the language of his/her nationality to be his/her mother tongue) and the Hungarians (5,94) may be regarded as well provided for; the Romanians (0,08) and the Russians (0,03) are partially provided.

Keywords: periodicals, journalism, mass media, media space, propaganda, agitation, party press.


This paper challenges the thesis that mountain areas are regions of refuge. The refuge concept attributes irrelevant exchange and limited communication to isolated mountain habitats which mainly depend on production for home consumption. In contrast, it is shown that exchange relations in all walks of life have been affected not only recently but for nearly two centuries in Central Asia, although the continued importance of subsistence strategies in the agricultural sector can be observed. The Pamirian Knot provides the mountainous interface between South and Central Asia for case studies of two ethnic communities – Wakhi mountain farmers and Kirghiz pastoralists – in order to exemplify socio-political developments in similar mountain environments. Examples are presented from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China. The territories have been separated since the late nineteenth century by international boundaries conceived as the result of the imperial 'Great Game'. Emphasis is placed on developments in the livestock sector and it is shown that adaptation to changing socio-political frameworks has affected the livelihood strategies of nomads and mountain farmers alike.


The city's international airport, which hosts Airline business's 2012 Network USA route-planning event in March, is working with the local community to kick-start the region's economy with increased air services.


The present invention discloses a distributed power distribution of active and reactive power grid multistage power decoupling scheduling method, comprising the steps of: 1) In the rolling stage day scheduling, the scheduling of the distribution network before the correction to obtain distributed power days the active output; 2) a distributed power supply active and reactive power coupling relationship, obtained by the distributed power scheduling days rolling stage active output range determining reactive power of the distributed power supply, to achieve active and reactive power decoupling; 3) the distributed active power and reactive power are output in real time into the schedule distribution network optimization. The present invention provides technical solutions to achieve optimal operation in the distributed power sources in the power distribution network active and reactive power decoupling and distribution network are considered the optimal operation of the reactive power output of the distributed power supply, power distribution can be effectively reduced the company operating costs, reduce the adverse effects of load forecast uncertainty distribution network and improve the security and stability of operation of the distribution network.


Soils are often contaminated with heavy metals such as lead, zinc, iron, arsenic, cobalt, nickel etc due. to industrial waste disposal and many pre-industrial operations. Removal of heavy metals by conventional methods is an extremely difficult task. Electro-kinetic method is being used to decontaminate soil from these metals. The efficiency of the method for different soils as well as the conditions as well as the conditions under which the efficiency is maximum needs to be checked by laboratory electro-kinetic experiments. For this task it is necessary to prepare model. In this paper a model is prepared after studying literature of different researchers model, the model which is prepared for remediation of contaminated soil is given below. Because in Electro-kinetic experiments model preparation is very much important for its removal efficiency.


Abstract Industrie 4.0 aims at improving value chains and value-added networks in industry. Technologically the approach is based on the introduction of cyber-physical systems. Their capabilities form the basis for smart systems. This paper presents technological approaches for Industrie 4.0 and introduces use cases as a specification technique for application scenarios. A demonstrator for additive manufacturing is presented. Lessons learnd from this demonstrator have led to the definition of capabilities for vertical and horizontal integration within Industrie 4.0.


This chapter sets out an original conceptual framework for analysing the shift of 'security' from discursive and institutional arenas of 'exceptional politics' to 'normal politics'. It argues that this shift is a conceptual impossibility in securitisation theory, in which by definition an issue cannot be 'security' and part of 'normal politics' simultaneously. Introducing an alternative approach, the chapter engages the recent debate on politicisation and depoliticisation to unpick contradictions in security theory and develop a conceptual framework to distinguish forms of politicisation from securitisation. The argument is that these literatures conflate the political quality of issues with their institutional location, and that these should be disaggregated analytically. The chapter thus proposes a framework that reserves the terms securitisation, politicisation, and depoliticisation for qualitative changes in the intensity or salience of issues, and adopts the term 'arena migration' (rather than deliberate 'arena shifting') for the movement of issues, policies, or activities between different institutional locations. Migrations between arenas such as central government and legislatures matter politically because of the historical exclusions of security politics: it matters if 'security' is no longer confined to the 'black box' of sovereign decision and is increasingly present in the activities of 'normal politics'.


This paper documents lessons learned from conducting uncertainty analysis for 3D static modeling. Example cases, evaluation techniques and a proposed guideline are presented to resolve misconceptions in probabilistic studies. The technological advancements nowadays have allowed thorough probabilistic studies to be conducted. In most 3D static modeling software, a recorded 3D modeling workflow can be incorporated with various variables and run as an experimental design with several runs. However, the lack of transferred knowledge and publications regarding probabilistic guidelines has led to many inconsistencies, misconceptions, and confusion about the fundamentals, during designing, running, or post-run analysis. For example, during running analysis, the result is inconsistent between the field-level median model (P50) with zone-level median models. Later, this could raise a history matching issue since it obscures unreliable zone-level recovery factors due to overlapping in-place among tanks. An example from the post-run analysis is a missing P50 from the list due to an even number of experiments. Every tool has different methods of processing and visualizing statistics output. Assuming a similar definition and approach can lead to confusion. A strategy to assign a facies model that represents a geo-body at a specific time or zone is described by considering dependency and hierarchy among variables. The result is calculated, visualized, and ranked at the zone level to avoid percentile misconceptions. Then, the corresponding percentile from each tank is combined to build a consistent field-level model. It is essential to understand which statistical approach a tool uses, and whether it uses a function to determine the percentile inclusive/exclusive of the first and last values in the array. Integration work could identify problem earlier and then resolve them before further effort. This paper aims to guide in building a consistent uncertainty analysis modeling and avoid unnecessary rework due to misconception.


The aim of this study was to undertake a rapid assessment of the value and role of forests in the Zambian economy based on available information in order to inform policy de- cisions on forest management and the implementation of REDD+ activities in Zambia. The study is part of the coun- try's National UN-REDD Programme. REDD+1 is a financial mechanism designed to reward developing countries for their verified reductions or removals of forest carbon emis- sions compared to a forest reference (emission) level that complies with the relevant safeguards.


Defining Research First, however, what is meant by research? There are many forms of planning research (Forsyth, 2012). However, within this variety are some common features. Research answers questions of interest to other researchers, builds on prior work, and fills a gap in knowledge or perhaps looks at an issue in a new way. Research uses methods that are clearly described, systematic, and capable of answering the question. Findings are well documented. Reporting on the research engages different ways of looking at the phenomena and acknowledges alternative interpretations. Research is made public after peer review, a process with dual functions of assessing quality and coaching authors to do their best (Forsyth, 2016; Forsyth & Crewe, 2006). Many practitioners wonder how this is different from the various investigations they do in undertaking their work, for example compiling site histories, doing market analyses, developing precedent studies, and evaluating projects and programs. However, as I note in a blog, such "knowledge is new to them but not necessarily new to others, and the contribution is to solving a particular problem rather than adding to knowledge in general" (Forsyth, 2019, para. 5; see also Forsyth, 2016).


– The photoirradiation of 5-(2-benzo[ b ]thienyl)-5-ethoxy-5 H- dibenzo-[ a ,d ]cycloheptene ( 2 ) in acetonitrile afforded a cagelike tetracyclic compound ( 1) via intramolecular [2  +2  ]-photocycloaddition. The molecular and crystal structures of 1 and 2 were characterized by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. The formation of the cycloadduct is discussed in relation to the preferable conformation of the central C-C bond in 2 , which was revealed to be in restricted rotation on the basis of the temperature-dependent 1 H NMR spectra. Thiophene derivatives


As was discovered with other wide field, precise imagers, the stable photometry necessary for the microlensing surveys is well-suited to general stellar astrophysics, including stellar flares, which are important for understanding stellar magnetic activity and even the space weather environments of exoplanets. Large stellar flare surveys have never been performed before in the Roman spectral range, and Roman may reveal new information about flare emission mechanisms (blackbody, recombination continuum, chromospheric emission lines) and how flare rates change with stellar age and metallicity. For instance, the Galactic Bulge stars will be much older than the typical studied flare stars, and Roman's wide field and exquisite imaging may provide sufficient statistics to probe the flare behavior and properties of such an old stellar population. However, the information yield will likely depend on sky location, cadence, read-out strategy, and filter choices. Stellar flare timescales range from seconds to hours, so Roman may only be able to resolve the longest, most energetic events. However, because a single exposure in the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey will consist of several non-destructive reads, short duration events can be modeled from the flux variations within a single exposure. Here we provide a proof of concept, showing that flare morphologies can be significantly better constrained if sub-exposure data are analyzed. As a result, we advocate that such data be made publicly available for Roman flare studies, with minimal on-board processing.