PurposeExisting conceptual, empirical and case studies evidence suggests that manufacturing industries find the joint implementation of Kaizen philosophy initiatives. However, the existing practices rarely demonstrated in a single framework and implementation procedure in a structure nature. This paper, therefore, aims to develop, validate and practically test a framework and implementation procedure for the implementation of integrated Kaizen in manufacturing industries to attain long-term improvement of operational, innovation, business (financial and marketing) processes, performance and competitiveness.Design/methodology/approachThe study primarily described the problem, extensively reviewed the current state-of-the-art literature and then identified a gap. Based on it, generic and comprehensive integrated framework and implementation procedure is developed. Besides, the study used managers, consultants and academics from various fields to validate a framework and implementation procedure for addressing business concerns. In this case, the primary data was collected through self-administered questionnaire, and 244 valid questionnaires were received and were analyzed. Furthermore, the research verified the practicability of the framework by empirically exploring the current scenario of selected manufacturing companies.FindingsThe research discovered innovative framework and six-phase implementation procedure to fill the existing conceptual gap. Furthermore, the survey-based and exploratory empirical analysis of the research demonstrated that the practice of the proposed framework based on structured procedure is valued and companies attain the middling improvements of productivity, delivery time, quality, 5S practice, waste and accident rate by 61.03, 44, 52.53, 95.19, 80.12, and 70.55% respectively. Additionally, the companies saved a total of 14933446 ETH Birr and 5,658 M2 free spaces. Even though, the practices and improvements vary from company to company, and even companies unable to practice some of the unique techniques of the identified CI initiatives considered in the proposed framework.Research limitations/implicationsAll data collected in the survey came from professionals working for Ethiopian manufacturing companies, universities and government. It is important to highlight that n = 244 is high sample size, which is adequate for a preliminary survey but reinforcing still needs further survey in terms of generalization of the results since there are hundreds of manufacturing companies, consultants and academicians implementing and consulting Kaizen. Therefore, a further study on a wider Ethiopian manufacturing companies, consultants and academic scale would be informative.Practical implicationsThis work is very important for Kaizen professionals in the manufacturing industry, academic and government but in particular for senior management and leadership teams. Aside from the main findings on framework development, there is some strong evidence that practice of Kaizen resulted in achieving quantitative (monetary and non-monetary) and qualitative results. Thus, senior management teams should use this research out to practice and analyze the effect of Kaizen on their own organizations. Within the academic community, this study is one of the first focusing on development, validating and practically testing and should aid further study, research and understanding of Kaizen in manufacturing industries.Originality/valueSo far, it is rare to find preceding studies proposed, validated and practically test an integrated Kaizen framework with the context of manufacturing industries. Thus, authors understand that this is the very first research focused on the development of the framework for manufacturing industries continuously to be competitive and could help managers, institutions, practitioners and academicians in Kaizen practice.


Machine learning has become a core field in computer science. Over
the last decade the statistical machine learning approach has been successfully applied in many areas such as bioinformatics, computer vision, robotics and information retrieval. The main reasons for the success of machine learning are its strong theoretical foundations and its
multidisciplinary approach integrating aspects of computer science, applied mathematics, and statistics among others. The goal of the seminar was to bring together again experts from computer science, mathematics and statistics to discuss the state of the art in machine learning and identify and formulate the key challenges in learning which have to be addressed in the future.
The main topics of this seminar were:
- Interplay between Optimization and Learning,
- Learning Data Representations.


Acoustic impedance maps can be used to gain an insight into the microstructure and physiological state of cancer cells. In this we correlated acoustic impedance maps with cells structures detected by fluorescence microscopy. Fluorescence microscope was used to image MCF-7 cells marked with Celltracker Orange and Hoechst for staining the cytoplasm and nucleus, respectively. A single element 375MHz center frequency transducer (SASAM) was used to generate acoustic impedance maps of inverted MCF-7 cells on a plastic substrate. The acoustic impedance of 20 single-live, 10 clustered-live and 7 clustered-fixed MCF7 cells were measured and compared. Fluorescent images and acoustic impedance maps suggest that there is an acoustic impedance mismatch between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The average acoustic impedance values for single-live, clustered-live and clustered-fixed cancer cells were measured to be 1.600±0.006 MRayl, 1.609±0.009 MRayl and 1.572±0.011 MRayl.


To be a utility tool of fractal theory correlation dimension is wi de ly used in status recognition. Virtual instrument is the main technology in engi neering test. The paper introduces a programming technique to calculate correlat ion dimension in LabVIEW environment. A simple method which can reduced the redu ndancy work in calculating correlation dimension has been put forward. There als o give the way to select its parameters in calculating the correlation dimension . The technique has been validated by an example.


Abstract.
 Herbicide-tolerant wheats are preferred for effective weed management. Rapid phenotyping and effective differential dose are vital for the identification of tolerant genotypes among large quantities of genetic resources. A sand-tray system has been developed to enable rapid assessment of metribuzin damage in wheat seedlings. In total, 946 wheat genotypes were evaluated for metribuzin tolerance by using this system under control and metribuzin-treated conditions. SPAD chlorophyll content index (CCI) offered a non-destructive and rapid analysis of leaf chlorophyll content in wheat seedlings. The application rate for 50% reduction in SPAD CCI (I 50) was 3.2-fold higher in the current tolerant genotype (Eagle Rock) than the susceptible genotype Spear. A confirmed dose of 800 g a.i. ha–1 could differentiate between metribuzin-tolerant and -susceptible lines. The experimental design with two-directional blocking followed by statistical analysis to model the spatial variation was instrumental in selecting potential tolerant or susceptible genotypes. Metribuzin reduced chlorophyll by 51.4% in treated seedlings. The overall adjusted mean SPAD CCI ranged from 13.5 to 42.7 for control (untreated) plants and from 0.1 to 29.9 for treated plants. Through repeated validation, nine genotypes had higher chlorophyll content after metribuzin treatment and significantly (P < 0.05) outperformed the tolerant Eagle Rock, whereas 18 genotypes had significantly (P < 0.05) higher chlorophyll reduction than the susceptible Spear. The top five tolerant and susceptible genotypes were selected for a genetic study of metribuzin tolerance. Domesticated forms of tetraploid and hexaploid wheats had higher tolerance to metribuzin, which suggests that the level of domestication and higher ploidy level contributes to metribuzin tolerance. The new sources of tolerance will accelerate breeding for metribuzin tolerance.


Wound Healing Consequences of Psychological Stress JoAnne D. Whitneyo, Stacy Heiner) The relationship of psychological stress to human health is of interest to health care providers and researchers in the field of psychoneuroinununology. The effect of stress on wound healing is a sub-component of study within the larger context, with relevance to both wounds that are acute and chronic in nature. Data from several studies that explore the influence of stress on events early in the trajectory of wound healing suggest that activation of both the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalarnic-pituitary-adrenal axis are involved. There is consistent evidence that psychological stress is associated with dysregulation of immune and other responses to tissue injury that are required for healing and also to the fmal wound healing result. Current data pertinent to psychological stress and its wound healing consequences is reviewed and a biopsychosocial framework for future studies in this area is suggested and described. I) PhD, RN, Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, Box 357266, University of Washington, School of Nursing, Seattle, WA 98195, 206-685-2264 (Office); 206-543-4771 (FAX) 2) Consultant, Ashland, OR 97520


Since the wake of corporate failures precipitated by accounting scandals at the beginning of this millennium, several research works have been carried out to assess the relevance and effectiveness of corporate governance codes promulgated on both sides of the Atlantic to mitigate such scandals. Some of these research efforts have focused on the assessment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 (SOX) on companies' performance. However, this flurry of research efforts appears to be abating without actually looking at the real impact of the Act on UK companies listed on US stock markets, a research vacuum this study aims to fill. In this paper, we examine the impact of SOX on 229 UK companies listed on the US stock exchanges by assessing their listing and delisting activities between 2004 and 2009 using content analysis. The study"s findings indicate that whereas 163 more new UK companies listed on the US markets, only 63 of the UK companies delisted from the US markets between the same periods. While there were no adverse comments in the companies" financial reports concerning the Act, it is evident that there has been increased disclosure of SOX obligations by these companies from year to year. The study also found that although there is cost associated with compliance with the provisions of the Act, such cost is not as high as the public were made to believe by previous studies and there is evidence to suggest that such compliance cost has been falling year-on-year.


This research examined the amount of time rural and urban children spent in household production activities, and several demographic factors related to that time use. Data were obtained from a multi-state family time-use survey, NE-113 'Use of Time in Rural and Urban Families'. Home interviews were conducted with 2,100 families in II states. The sample consisted of 1,045 rural children and 1,026 urban children, aged 6–17. The hypothesis, that the differentials in time spent in household production by rural and urban children will be due to assignment of tasks by sex, was confirmed. Boys spent similar amounts of time in housework regardless of place of residence, while rural girls spent more time than urban girls.


We combine the siamese network and the recurrent regression network, proposing a two-stage tracking framework termed as SiamReg. Our method solves the problem that the classic siamese network can not judge the target size precisely and simplifies the procedures of regression in the training and testing process. We perform experiments on three challenging tracking datasets: VOT2016, OTB100, and VOT2018. The results indicate that, after offline trained, SiamReg can obtain a higher expected average overlap measure. key words: regression network, siamese network, two-stage, visual tracking


Oil flooded twin-screw compressors with HCFC-22 have mainly been used for industrial refrigeration. Due to the planned CFC restrictions and the high overall efficiency, the screw compressor with HCFC-22 is taking market shares from: CFC-11 centrifugals, water cooled chillers, HCFC-22 reciprocating compressors, air cooled chillers, R502 reciprocating compressors, commercial refrigeration. The new applications call for new demands of suitable screw compressor lubricants, mainly due to: requirements for small oil separators, short dwell time in oil sump, good oil return characteristics, no or limited external oil cooling, high discharge temperature. The use of mineral lubricants is limited because of high viscosity requirements. The use of polyalphaolefins (PAOs), is limited because of potential phase separation (liquid refrigerant and lubricant) in the refrigeration system. The complex ester lubricant family is discussed. Screw compressor performance, based on gas rig tests, is compared for R22/PAO ana R22/complex ester. INTRODUCTION The twin-screw compressor consists of two mating, helically grooved rotors "male and female" in a stationary housing with inlet and outlet ports. There are three different types of twin-screw compressors: oil flooded, oil reduced and oil free (reference 1). This paper deals with the oil flooded twin-screw compressor. When the screw compressor first was introduced as a refrigeration compressor, lubricants were limited to those available which were already in use for reciprocating refrigeration compressors. The main difference between the screw compressor ana the reciprocating compressor with respect to the oil system are: The screw compressor has an oil separator and an oil sump situated on the high pressure side. The compression chamber is flooded with oil to seal the threads that are under compression. This means that the lubricant has more effect on performance than it does with the reciprocating compressor. In order to reach high performance, the screw compressor needs a lubricant with a very limited solubility of the refrigerant at discharge conditions (at the oil separator). (See figure 1 for typical solubility of HCFC-22 in different lubricants). Limited solubility will reduce or eliminate by-passing of refrigerant from discharge to suction or to a lower situated thread or external by-pass (over the oil systeml: Low . solubility of refrigerant gas in oil leads to both h~gh volumetr~c


This paper describes the epigrams of Juan Latino, a black poet and formen slave, who lived in Granada during the Renaissance under the patronage of the House of Cordoba, Dukes of Sessa an descendands of Gran Capitan. The characteristics and content of the different extracts are briefly analized and this poetry is then related to the ltalian and Spanish poetry, of the same genre and period.


Issues of identification are everywhere in the contemporary world. The identification of individuals is of crucial importance to states engaged in the 'War on Terror', and is seen as key to the prevention of identity and benefit fraud. Hence, or so the argument goes, the need for such innovations as new biometrics on passports, the fingerprinting of transatlantic migrants, the introduction of identity cards in Britain, and so on. Although such developments are the subject of fierce public debate, there has been little attempt in the popular discourse to place identification in an historical context. This is despite the publication in recent years of a number of important historical works in the field. On the whole these publications concentrate on the period after 1800, and some, although not all, imply that modern state forms of identification for the purposes of surveillance had their origins in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This is put down variously to industrialization creating a 'society of strangers', or to state formation during and after the French Revolution, or to the rise of what Michel Foucault famously termed 'governmentality'. In this timely volume Valentin Groebner shows that much of this theorizing, and certainly its periodization, are very wide of the mark. With a wealth of detail he reveals how state and clerical authorities were developing nominal registers, forms of description and identity documents from the late medieval period onwards. The range of tokens of identification he refers to is breathtaking, and his scholarship is wide, profound and endearingly eclectic. In the pages of his book we learn about officers of the Inquisition pursuing heretics whose portraits were painted on small linen cloths, of soldiers, city officials and beggars wearing badges of identification, of travellers with official letters of safe conduct, of pilgrims issued with health certificates, and of the attempts of Phillip II to restrict the passage of heretics, moriscos and Jews to the Spanish New World. Groebner also digresses into issues such as the problems of resemblance in official portraits, the cultural construction of complexion, and the similarities between medieval and twenty-first century forms of identification. He also highlights what he sees as the illusion of positive identification in both periods. Groebner's book opens up numerous avenues for future research in the history of state formation, of artistic production, of medicine, as well as in the history of identification. The excellent translation of his original German text also gives English-speaking scholars a convenient introduction to much relevant continental scholarship in that language but also in French and Italian. Groebner's text could perhaps have been more rounded if more attention had been paid to the differing types of personality being identified, and to the motivations underlying the introduction of forms of official identification. He recognizes the differences between identifying people by the characteristics that make them unique B O O K R EV IE W S


The article contains analysis of parental potential in foster families and the resources of its strengthening with the support of the professional community. The research is based on focus group of 36 parents and 29 experts. We analyzed typological features of parents in foster families based on the evaluation of parental potential and successful parenting distinguishing following four groups of foster parents: "Competent", "Adaptive", "Rigid", and "Tired". As a result of the study, we have revealed the images of an adopted child as perceived by the parents – "Broken child", "I don't want to, I can't, I won't!", " Mowgli ", "Typical hooligan". Based on numerous cases of repeated rejection on the part of foster parents we suggest analysing the parental potential and successful parenting in foster families. We have developed the key principles for specialists to work with parents in foster families – development of motivation for parenthood, concentration of efforts on individual's strengths, focusing attention on resources at all levels of social support, differentiated care with due regard to the typological characteristics of children and parents, children's age, stage of adoptive parenthood, familycentered approach in providing assistance, preparing and guidance of fathers in their role of a foster parent, testing the parental potential of candidates for foster parents, and public recognition.


The nature of pre-replicative DNA synthesis within the first 5 minutes of infection of Escherichia coli cells with bacteriophage T4 was investigated by following the incorporation of radioactive DNA precursors into acid-insoluble material. The labeled DNA products have been characterized by means of sucrose gradients, DNA-DNA hybridization studies, kinetic isotope uptake experiments, and equilibrium density gradients. Through these techniques it was shown that early DNA, DNA synthesized within the first 5 minutes of infec tion, is host-specific. Early DNA was observed cosedimenting with parental viral DNA in neutral and alkaline 5 milliliter sucrose gradients. However, this was not a consequence of covalent bonding of early DNA since cosedimentation was not observed in large, 33 milliliter sucrose gradients, where the labeled DNA was subjected to different sedimen tation forces. Moreover, isopycnic centrifugation studies showed that early DNA assumed the density of bacterial and not viral DNA. Other studies demonstrated that newly synthesized DNA was not detectable within the first 5 minutes of infection when host DNA synthesis but not viral DNA replication was selectively inhibited.


The main purpose of this paper is to have a look and discover the type of motivations that provoked rural peoples of India to accept and use electronic banking services. E-banking or electronic performs a vital role in the present situation of banking functionality. It will also let us know how the Government of India considers it as a main vision from the past few decades to achieve such sustainable development as well as an inclusive growth. We will also realize how increase in number of smart phone users and its utilization among every corner of rural India made it possible and an awesome ability towards adoption of electronic financial services to the un-banked and under-banked in rural areas. This paper basically covers a systematic literature overview on its evolution and their motivating factors on its adoption throughout rural India. Major conclusions drawn from various research works stated that cellular banking has a huge potential to alternate the manner of people in such areas transact and store cash. With the help of electronic banking, the banking sector all across the world is gaining a huge customer base with satisfaction and loyalty. The research has considered people from rural areas. This study was conducted to know the Motivation for adoption of electronic banking in rural areas in India, and it is found in the study that respondent says that through electronic banking customers would enjoy many benefits such as mini statement, cheque related functions, balance enquiry, etc., Through electronic banking paying and receiving amount can be done from anywhere and at any time, Electronic banking removes geographical barriers


Abstract This paper proposed an improved generalized class of estimator for estimating population variance using auxiliary variables based on simple random sampling without replacement. The expression of mean square error of the proposed estimator is obtained up to the first order of approximation. We have derived the conditions for the parameters under which the proposed estimator performs better compared to the usual estimator and other existing estimators. An empirical study and simulation study are also carried out with the support of theoretical results.


Improved roof control in high deformation tailgate environments has been achieved over the last decade through development of stiffer and increased capacity standing support products. 'The Can' is one such development, being a steel cylinder containing a weak cementitious fill, designed to essentially fold in upon itself whilst maintaining strength. A laboratory study to better define the relative load contributions of the steel cylinder and fill, the confining interaction between these components and most importantly, the potential impact of varying the steel and/or fill properties is described. This would enable the support engineer to 'dial-up' the desired strength and stiffness properties and optimise the standing support design with respect to load capacity, stiffness, weight (handling) and cost. Design curves to optimise strength based on steel casing thickness, fill strength (confined and unconfined) and 'Can' geometry were established. Scaled-down (one-third) samples were used in the test program and found to adequately reflect the loading behaviour of full-scale versions, thereby providing significantly greater scope for further product development at less expense compared with testing full-scale products.


We measure a low effective back‐surface recombination velocity S≊1000 cm/s on boron‐implanted back‐surface field (BSF) silicon solar cells with a p‐base resistivity of 0.3 Ω cm. For cells of this low resistivity, this velocity is much lower than values obtained with the conventional Al‐alloying technique. Our data indicate that the low surface recombination velocity results from a low value of minority electron diffusivity D≊0.45 cm2/s peculiar to these highly doped implanted regions at the back of the solar cells. The effect of a thermal anneal at 950 °C, prior to emitter fabrication, on the solar cell parameters was also investigated. The short‐circuit current density, minority‐carrier diffusion length, and back‐surface recombination velocity, improved with a 1‐ and 2‐h anneal of the BSF cells, and either degraded or remained unchanged on ohmic back contact cells. The decrease in S is due to widening of the BSF region during anneal, deduced from spreading resistance measurements.


This presentation provides an overview of the major strategic trends and policies shaping the development of government securities markets in the OECD area. Attention is focused on best (or leading) practices in primary and secondary markets covering strategic issues such as the structure of debt portfolios and the role of benchmarks, the growing importance of electronic trading systems, importance of the more wide-spread use of more sophisticated risk management systems, and the role of derivatives in public debt management.


Objective It is to observe the clinical curative eff ect of Huangbaipingji decoction on coronary heart disease combined with arrhythmia. Methods Chose 86 patients with coronary heart disease combined wit h arrhythmia a nd divided into 2 groups. Control group were treated with normal method and the treatment group were added with Huangbaipingji decoction. Observed the changes o f angina pectoris, arrhythmia,dynamic electrocardiogram and hemorheology after 4 treatment weeks.Results The improving symptom and controlling arrhythmia rates wer e obviously h igher, and the improvement of dynamic electrocardiogram and hemorheology were be tter in treatment group than that in control group (P0.05).Conclusion Huangbaipingji decoction has a significant curative eff ect on coronary heart disease combined with arrhythmia.


Poverty and unemployment are rife in our country. Added to this are the legacy of racial and gender inequality and the scourge of HIV /AIDS that is changing the demographic, social and economic outlook of South Africa. Adequate social security as a response to these problems has increasingly come under the spotlight. Various civil society organisations have called for a 'basic income grant' to address poverty, based on the argument that unemployment is a structural problem and millions of people may never have a job. The government-appointed Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa (the 'Taylor Committee') released its report earlier this year calling for major improvements to the current system of social security. The Taylor Committee identified the following main gaps in South Africa's system: • Insufficient coverage of the Unemployment Insurance Fund; • Problems with the private old-age pension system; • Lack of comprehensive disability provisions; • Financial vulnerability with regard to health care; • The lack of child support benefits for children of 7 years and over; • The lack of support for huge numbers of destitute South Africans. The government, while committed to poverty alleviation, has pointed to the need to develop the economy and generate economic opportunities for the poor, without creating a culture of dependency on handouts. This crucial debate and the state's response to it will have far-reaching implications for the whole society. Social security is a highly regulated area and is also a constitutional right (see s 27(l)(c) of the 1996 Constitution). It is thus the necessary focus of lawyers working in the fields of labour, constitutional and administrative law. Essential Social Security Law is a welcome contribution to this emerging field. The book offers a useful explanation of the general area as well as detailed information on the various aspects of social security law. It is not the first book on the subject (see MP Olivier et al (eds) Social Security Law: General Principles (1999)), but in this rapidly changing area, it provides up-to-date information on many issues. In particular, it provides detailed explanation of the new Unemployment Insurance Act 63 of 2001. The book covers the various contingencies causing people to rely on social security for support. These include old age and death, employment injuries, unemployment, sickness, invalidity, maternity, the need to maintain children, crises, hardships caused by the previous regime, and


A design of database is introduced in this paper to apply to charge system using magnetic card at export of coal and coke.And the applications of SQL server database and ODBC are introduced in the design.


The present disclosure relates to a torque index sensor configured to enhance productivity with excellent economic feasibility by simplifying a magnet structure of an index sensor unit, the torque index sensor connected to an input axis and an output axis, the torque index sensor comprising: a housing; an index magnet housed in the housing, connected to the output axis to rotate with the output axis and formed in the shape of a rectangle at a cross-sectional view; and a magnetic device secured to an interior of the housing to output a magnetization signal in response to rotation of the index magnet, such that the shape of the index magnet is simplified to a rectangle to enhance productivity and economic feasibility.


Implementation of exploratory learning in chemistry teaching requires teachers to create vivid inquiry situation to improve students' ability to analyze and solve problems.According to different learning contents and teaching progress,teachers should use different methods to make students actively be in the situation of positive thinking and practicing.By creating democratic and harmonious teaching atmosphere,teachers should make students participate in learning activities of their own free will.Teachers should help students establish confidence,further raise their learning initiative,teach students how to learn and think,help students to take strict practical scientific attitude and have progressive spirit.Meanwhile, teachers should show enthusiastic concern for students in learning process and make efforts to establish scientific evaluation methods.


[Objective] The study was to determine the extraction technology for lycopene.[Method] The orthogonal test was taken to study the effects of liquid-to-solid ratio,extraction temperature,extraction time and extraction times on the extraction rate of lycopene.[Result] The extraction effect with ethyl acetate was the best,so ethyl acetate was selected as the extraction solvent.With the increasing of liquid-to-solid ratio,the extraction rate of lycopene was increased and when liquid-to-solid ratio was above 4∶1(ml/g),the extraction rate of lycopene was increased slowly.When pH was lower than 6,the extraction rate of pigment was increased along with the increment of pH value.When pH was higher than 6,the extraction rate of pigment was decreased along with the increment of pH value,The effects of each factor on extraction rate of lycopene in order was liquid-to-solid ratioextraction timesextraction timeextraction temperature.[Conclusion] The optimum extraction technology for lycopene was that liquid-to-solid ratio of 4∶1(ml/g),extraction time of 50 min,extraction temperature of 45 ℃ and extraction times of 3.Under this condition,the extraction rate of lycopene was above 85%.


Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in laboratory mice was successfully eradicated by oral treatment of gentamicin, 1.0 g per liter of drinking water for 3 days.


Among solid malignancies, thyroid cancer is the one showing the greatest increase in incidence in the last 10-15 years. The most likely explanation for this increase is better detection as a consequence of more diffuse screening of thyroid disorders in the general population, although an intervention from environmental carcigogens may be considered. Fortunately, most of these cancers are detected in early phase and have an excellent long term prognosis when treated appropriately. However, about 10-15% of the cases have aggressive features at presentation, tend to progress rapidly and eventually will kill the patient. Thus, the effort of the scientific community in recent yeas has been devoted to better understanding of the natural biology of the disease and to develop new therapeutic strategies for difficult cases. This research is culminated in better definition of the oncogenes responsible of thyroid cancer, in the use of molecular diagnosis to direct different therapies and in experimental trials with new drugs of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor family. All together these new achievements are offering new benefits in the management of thyroid ancer.


This study investigates under what conditions foreign MNEs operating in downstream sectors influence technological upgrading in local firms. Based on Korean Innovation Survey data in combination wi...


In clustered VOD(Video-on-Demand)server system,request scheduling is one of the most important techniques to improve performance of server cluster.In this paper a request concentricity degree(CD)based scheduling algorithm improved from algorithm LoadCache-rep is proposed for the shared storage based server cluster.The strategy aims to schedule similar requests to the same server to make full use of caching capacity on the media server and also balance the load between servers.Request migration strategy is also used to rebalance the potential load imbalance caused by some VCR operations.Experiment showed the algorithm improved performance effectively.


In a survey the most important aspects of formation for billet continuous casting are presented. The main focus is on selection parameters of motion liquid steel in the mold. On the physical model the influence of position steel jet in liquid bass had been determine


This paper used tongue images as study object,as the shortcomings of single feature couldn't describe efficiently the information of the tongue images,proposed a traditional Chinese medical tongue images retrieval method based on multi-feature fusion to improve the recognition rate of tongue images.Since the results ranking was an important issue in the field of information retrieval,focused on learning a set of reasonable parameters of the multi-feature fusion to improve retrieval performance on the training set,thus to improve the recognition rate of traditional Chinese medicine tongue images.The optimization target of this algorithm minimized the number of the anti-order between prediction rank and true rank.Finally,worked out an effective rank learning algorithm.The experimental results on the tongue image set verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.


An integrated electricity information security monitoring platform is presented, electrical information security integrated real-time monitoring of the state power applied information security systems, security equipment, network equipment, network boundaries, desktop computers, to improve information security monitoring, early warning, emergency response and defense capabilities to protect IT hardware, software and network security, which can guarantee continuous, reliable and efficient operation.


A set of 27- to 39-membered pyridine macrocycles 2 and 3 has been synthesized by Williamson ether synthesis or ring-closing metathesis. The pyridines are 2,6-disubstituted to allow endo interactions. In addition to the length, also the nature of the aliphatic chain was varied: saturated (2) and unsaturated (3).


Dear Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major increase in acute kidney injury (AKI) [1] amid a major constraint in the healthcare resources, including renal replacement treatment, and placed the healthcare providers' safety at a greater risk [2]. New protocols were developed for the treatment of positive COVID-19 patients with AKI in the pandemic era to limit the potential of staff exposure while treating patients effectively, safely, and timely [3]. Herein, we share our experience during the pandemic. In our institution, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, as an inner-city tertiary center, we faced an overwhelming volume of reported cases of COVID-19 associated with AKI requiring renal replacement therapy. During the peak of the surge in Detroit in April 2020, the demand for renal replacement therapy in our intensive care units doubled. Among the currently available renal replacement modalities, no data support the use of a specific one over the others. A common bedside observation noticed was an overwhelming hypercatabolic state, a major oxygenation deficit, and hypercoagulability. Our inpatient intermittent hemodialysis (iHD) service typically performs 3 h of dialysis per day, three times weekly. However, due to the increased volume of iHD during the pandemic time, and shortage of well-trained dialysis nurses (in some cases due to quarantine), we were obligated to reduce the treatment session to 2 h instead of the standard 3 h . This lead to suboptimal volume control, dialysis inadequacy especially in hypercatabolic state, and solute clearance. Simultaneously, patients who were critically ill with multisystem organ failure were admitted to the critical care unit. The majority of these patients were not candidates for iHD due to hemodynamic instability. Based on this, patients who were hemodynamically stable and less hypercatabolic were put on iHD. Critically ill patients with the severe hypercatabolic state were deemed candidates for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). This was selected by the nephrology team who was running the service at that time. As the surge of cases continued, it became apparent that our infrastructure was overwhelmed due to the limited number of CRRT machines and the expert intensive care nurses who could perform CRRT (Figure 1). Following this scenario, a multidisciplinary meeting including nephrology, intensive care unit, and pharmacy departments in addition to nursing administration was held. A consensus plan was reached regarding a protocol to handle this situation. It was decided that a new modality be introduced to meet the overwhelming demand named high volume hemofiltration (HVHF) [4,5]. We started patients on 8 h of daily dialysis with blood flow 300 mL/min, with 6 L replacement solution per hour, and ultrafiltration tailored per patient requirement. The fluid removal rate was ranging between running patients even to remove 50 mL/h net removal. This permitted a temporary solution to dialyze at least two patients per day utilizing one CRRT machine. Moreover, HVHF allowed nurses to supervise patients on CRRT with more flexibility, less exposure (8 h instead of 24 h), and more time to exchange the replacement solution (6 L per bag). As we started the new protocol, some challenges were encountered. For instance, adjusting medications was a major problem in patients with HVHF in which medications need to be adjusted more frequently as normal glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in contrast to estimated


According to a recent influential proposal, several phenotypic features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be accounted for by differences in predictive skills between individuals with ASD and neurotypical individuals. In this systematic review, we describe results from 47 studies that have empirically tested this hypothesis. We assess the results based on two observable aspects of prediction: learning a pairing between an antecedent and a consequence and responding to an antecedent in a predictive manner. Taken together, these studies suggest distinct differences in both predictive learning and predictive response. Studies documenting differences in learning predictive pairings indicate challenges in detecting such relationships especially when predictive features of an antecedent have low salience or consistency, and studies showing differences in habituation and perceptual adaptation suggest low‐level predictive processing differences in ASD. These challenges may account for the observed differences in the influence of predictive priors, in spontaneous predictive movement or gaze, and in social prediction. An important goal for future research will be to better define and constrain the broad domain‐general hypothesis by testing multiple types of prediction within the same individuals. Additional promising avenues include studying prediction within naturalistic contexts and assessing the effect of prediction‐based intervention on supporting functional outcomes for individuals with ASD.


The development of major social projects such as hydroelectric dams, roads and mining often result in the loss of properties and sometimes relocation of the affected people or communities. This paper examined the impact of the Bui Dam Hydroelectric project on the livelihood of the people affected, especially farmers in the Bono Region of Ghana. The paper also reviewed the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report of the project in line with the Environmental Protection Agency requirement, examined the compensation and the living conditions of the farmers in the affected communities. Interviews and focus group discussions of farmers in four communities were conducted which was later followed by the administration of questionnaires to seventy-five (75) farmers. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages and Excel software for the development of charts. The review of the ESIA report of the Bui dam showed that an extensive ESIA was conducted with only few lapses outlined in the text. The interviews and the questionnaires revealed that the farmers who were relocated have problems with land Original Research Article Emmanuel et al.; JGEESI, 24(1): 34-44, 2020; Article no.JGEESI.53949 35 acquisition, soil fertility and irrigation facilities when they were moved to their new location. There were also concerns about inadequate payment of compensations and unfulfilled promises. However, about 97.3% of the respondents were comfortable at their new location because of the proximity to health services, access to good roads, nice buildings and provision of some basic social amenities such as light and water, as well as possible business and employment opportunities. The paper makes suggestions for improving compensations and resettlement schemes in Ghana.


This paper offers a preliminary review of the present diagnostics and data analysis techniques in the domain of Soft X‐ray (SXR) emissions of fusion magnetic plasmas, including a short description of the theoretical background as well. Particular attention is devoted to the wide use of SXR tomography and impurity transport simulation. In their actual form, these techniques are not adequate to future real time applications. For this goal a step forward in the diagnosing and analysis of SXR emissions is required. The following part of the paper is therefore dedicated to the discussion of these improvements. The first one is the SXR tomography optimized for real time applications, like that one developed at Tore Supra (Cadarache, France). Fast 2‐D tomographic inversions using different techniques (regularisation of Minimum Fisher, Maximum entropy, Zernicke polynomial expansions), will be optimized to be performed in a few millisecond time scale, crucial for MHD analysis, mode detection and localisation. The ...


Obest or obesity is the term used to show the accumulation of body fat that exceeds the normal limit. Excessive accumulation of body fat can often seem reluctant easily. People who are overweight are more receptive than normal weight people to external hunger cues, such as food taste and smell, or time to eat. Fat people tend to eat if they feel like eating, not eating when they are hungry. The type of research used was analytic observational research with cross sectional design. The population in this study were all students at Tomohon Christian High School 1 which was 1063 students. The sample was calculated in Slovak with a total of 43 students. Primary data is data about diet and the level of nutritional knowledge collected directly during the research. In this study most have a moderate level of knowledge with a total of 20 people (46.5%), a good level of knowledge of 20 people (32.6%), and less knowledge level of 9 people (20.9%).The results of the analysis using statistical test fisherexacttest with a value of p <0.05, which means there is a significant relationship between intake of levels of nutritional knowledge with obesity.


While the increasing visibility of LGBTQ+ identities in recent young adult fiction has received much critical attention, such novels that contain the added complex distinction of adolescent male mental illness and recovery represent an underexamined area. This article produces readings of two recent young adult texts that feature gay male protagonists who experience mental illness: Adam Silvera's More Happy Than Not (2015) and John Corey Whaley's Highly Illogical Behaviour (2016). It investigates how the texts' embedded heteronormative scripts, relationships between the symptoms and the self, and frameworks of health-related shame are fraught with anxieties, producing a complex double movement that simultaneously establishes and undermines gay males' control over their mental illnesses and recovery trajectories to move the characters between spaces of empowerment and marginalization.


Recent advances in open‐cycle gas‐turbine technology have resulted in station thermal efficiencies which are comparable with the large fossil‐fired stations built in the 1970s. The combination of a steam cycle to the gas turbine culminating in the 'combined cycle gas turbine' station has led to even greater generating efficiencies. These advances in power‐station design have led to reductions in water demand per megawatt of electricity generated. However, water usage still contributes significantly to increasing fuel efficiency in (a) the electrical generating process, (b) reducing atmospheric emissions from stations burning fossil fuels, and (c) utilizing gas turbines. Considerations arising from the competitive electricity market and wider issues of sustainability and environmental improvements, in general, suggest that water will continue to be required for power generation in the foreseeable future.


Automation in the 1950's sparked predictions of massive unemployment, and similar gloomy forecasts have been voiced many times since then. Although "Detroit automation" (transfer lines) did increase productivity and contribute to a decline in manufacturing employment, expansion of job opportunities in the service and information sectors more than compensated for that loss. Moreover, the rapid diffusion of computer applications has been accompanied by the creation of new kinds of jobs.
 With the advent of microelectronics and, more recently, intelligent systems in the marketplace, the specter of unemployment looms large once again. However, many observers are reluctant to predict widespread unemployment for fear of emulating the little boy who cried wolf.


Learning management systems (LMS) enable educational institutions to manage their educational resources, support their distance education, and supplement their traditional way of teaching. Although LMS survive via instructors' and students' use, the adoption of LMS is initiated by instructors' acceptance and use. Consequently, this study examined the impacts of instructors' individual characteristics, LMS' characteristics, and organization's characteristics on instructors' acceptance and use of LMS as a supplementary tool and, consequently, on their continuous use intention and their pure use intention for distance education. The findings indicated that, first, instructors' supplementary use of LMS is determined by perceived usefulness, training, management support, perceived ease of use, information quality, and computer anxiety. Second, instructors' perceived usefulness of LMS is determined by system quality, perceived ease of use, and incentives policy. Third, instructors' perceived ease of use is determined by computer anxiety, technology experience, training, system quality, and service quality. Furthermore, instructors' continuous supplementary use intention is determined by their current supplementary use, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use, while instructors' pure use intention is determined only by their perceived usefulness of LMS. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-884-2.ch006


A first order systems analysis was conducted on the components of a 1 MW conventional ground-based radar power system in order to determine system benefits gained as a result of cryocooling the generator, power conditioning and antenna equipment. The analysis revealed that by using current state-of-the-art cryogenic technology for the three key components mentioned above, it was distinctly possible to develop a near-term demonstration of a cryogenic radar power system that offered significant savings in mass, volume and fuel consumed, in comparison to the conventional power system. For a fixed antenna output of 50 kW-RF, the best option offers 50% reduction in system mass, 43% reduction in system volume and 70% reduction in fuel consumption. For fixed mass, volume or fuel consumption, the 30% T/R option with cryocooled generator/power conditioning offered a four-fold increase in RF output. Cryocooling all three major components of the power system did not necessarily yield the best results because of the refrigeration penalties associated with a large cryocooler.


Abstract : The following studies were made: (1) Scattering of ultrashort laser pulses by microscopic particles both experimentally and theoretically. (2) Plane wave scattering by small clusters of spheres in various configurations. (3) Symmetries of Mueller matrices for forward (0 deg) and backward (180 deg) scattering by dielectric particles of various shapes. (4) Optical scattering at zero degrees, and measurements of adsorption in the presence of high densities of scatters. Keywords: Light scattering; Laser pulses; Plane wave scattering; Mueller matrices; Optical scattering; Dielectric Particles.


Eric Galm is Associate Professor of music at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he founded the Trinity Samba Ensemble, developed the annual Samba Fest, and produced the debut United States tour for Berimbrown. His publications include Th e Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music (2010 Mississippi), "Baianas, Malandros and Samba: Listening to Brazil Th rough Donald Duck's Ears," in Global Soundtracks (2008 Wesleyan), and "Percussion Instruments of Brazil" in Th e Encyclopedia of Percussion (2007 Routledge). He holds degrees and certifi cates from Wesleyan, Tuft s, the University of Michigan, the Escola Brasileira de Música and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He was an invited participant at the Música em Debate conference (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). He is currently researching the 1950s Brazilian Folklore Movement.


This study examines the online buying intentions based on the study of shoppers. Thus, we selected three characteristics of the quality of commercial website: accessibility, reliability and speed. Through this paper, we propose a theoretical framework also managerial and theoretical contributions in order to improve e-service activities through happiness consumer online.


Artificial intelligence (AI) offers the potential for the development of e-textiles that give wearers a smart and intuitive experience. An emerging challenge in intelligent materials design is hand gesture recognition textiles. Most current research focuses on number gesture recognition via smart gloves, so there is a gap in research that studies contact-less number gesture recognition textiles via computer vision. Meanwhile, there is lack of exploration on the integration of illuminating function and number gesture recognition textiles to improve interactivity by real-time visualizing detection results. In this research, a novel interactive illuminating textile with a touch-less number gesture recognition function has been designed and fabricated by using an open-source AI model. It is used in sync with a polymeric optical fiber textile with illuminative features. The textile is color-changing, controlled by the system's mid-air interactive number gesture recognition capability and has a woven stripe pattern and a double-layer weave structure with open pockets to facilitate integration of the system's components. Also described here is a novel design process that permits textile design and intelligent technology to integrate seamlessly and in synchronization, so that design in effect mediates continuously between the physical textile and the intangible technology. Moreover, this design method serves as a reference for the integration of open-source intelligent hardware and software into e-textiles for enhancement of the intuitive function and value via economy of labor.


Abstract: This article traces the industrial development of sexploitation production-distribution company Cambist Films, revealing its vital importance to a historiographical understanding of American independent film. Exploring Cambist's navigation across divergent marketplaces in the 1960s and 1970s uncovers a rare intersection between conflicting cultural institutions, including arthouse cinema, adult media, and so-called "quality" independent film. This investigation includes close scrutiny of the company's collaborations with filmmaker George A. Romero, particularly the romantic drama There's Always Vanilla (1971), a film long considered lost and thus overlooked in analysis of the independent sector.


This study presents the optimization of the process conditions for filled-skutterudites (with a higher melting temperature and a higher aging temperature than the original skutterudites), while many studies have focused only on introducing new filler-atom compositions. For the In-filled In0.3Co4Sb12 system, the maximum value of the thermoelectric figure-of-merit, ZT, 1.14 was obtained owing to the low thermal conductivity and high power factors. Moreover, this high ZT value is considered to result from the optimized process variables (i.e., a higher melting temperature and a higher aging temperature than the original CoSb3). For the double-filled In0.2Yb0.1Co4Sb12 system, the maximum ZT value of 1.26 was obtained owing to the low thermal conductivity and the high electrical conductivity. This high ZT value was also thought to result from the optimized process variables.


The key sentence of the book is ``In short, we have found that individuals' interactions with computers, television, and new media are fundamentally social and natural, just like interactions in real life.'' (p. 5). This sentence is the ``media equation'' that gave the book its title. Indeed, such a ¢nding must appear new to someone who starts out with a clear-cut separation between ``media'' and ``real life'', as the authors seem to do. Other disciplines have long since lost this enviable certainty to put reality in one box andöwhat is arguably unrealömedia in another. ``Real life''öor, in short, RLöis a term used by MUD users to designate everything outside the MUD. But it comprises, for example, the computer application that the MUDer works with in a second window on the screen at the same time as chatting online, or television, or telephoneöall those media that we spend the greater part of our days with. For them, as for the rest of us, media became ``real life'' long ago, and we may wonder how else but ``naturally'' we could interact with them. Part of the problem is that the authors put into their concept of ``media'' almost everything from computer hardware to TV commercials and movies. While the authors are right in af¢rming what the media equation holds for them all, applying it, e.g., to persons appearing on Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, 31 : 897± 899, 2000 Copyright # 2000 Taylor & Francis 0196-9722/00 $12.00 + .00


Modelling granular pavement materials has a significant role in the pavement design procedure. Modelling can be through an experimental or numerical approach to predict the granular behaviour during cyclic loading. The current design process in Australia is based on linear elastic analysis of layers. The analysis is performed through a well-known program CIRCLY which is applied to model bound pavement material behaviour. The KENLAYER is one of the common pavement software models used for pavement design in the United States which performs non-linear analysis for granular materials. Alternatively, a general Finite Element program such as ABAQUS can be used to model the complicated behaviour of multilayer granular materials. This study is to compare results of numerical modelling with these three programs on two sample pavement models.


The possibility of using redundant basis expansion to securely hide a message within a cover color image is explored by improving previous attempts in this sense in terms of security and payload. The stability and computational complexity problems of previous works are solved by introducing new selection and update rules working entirely in the integer domain, and by fully exploiting the availability of three color bands in such a way that all the available atoms in the three color bands are used to convey the stego-message. Image decomposition is randomized in several ways thus improving the stego-message undetectability, and making the hidden message undetectable by targeted steganalyzers explicitly developed to exploit the weaknesses of the MPSteg algorithm. The security of the new scheme is also evaluated by testing it against blind steganalyzers and compared to that of plusmn1 embedding algorithm applied in the pixel domain.


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Genome projects reveal myriads of genes and their corresponding proteins. Each gene is annotated based on the amino acid sequence homology with the functionally characterized proteins [Siew and Fischer, 2003]. This classification method provides an initial starting point for the functional characterization of a particular gene or protein. However, because in vitro characterization of an individual gene is labor-consuming, a more simple method has been developed. One of them is the molecular modeling, which aids in the narrowing of the substrate range. UGTs are found ubiquitously from microorganisms to plants and mammals [Mackenzie et al., 1997; Vogt and Jones, 2000; Liang and Qiao, 2007], with more than 1,800 available in the carbohydrate-active enzyme database (http://www.cazy.org/). UGTs transfer a sugar group from the nucleotide sugar to small compounds including antibiotics, phenolics, and alkaloids. Attachment of the transferred sugar to these molecules enhances the water solubility and sometimes alters the biological activities [Vogt and Jones, 2000]. For example, in humans the absorption rate of glucose differs depending on the location of sugar in quercetin [Erlund, 2004]. In addition, the biological activity of small molecules is altered by the attachment position and the kind of sugar [Day et al., 2003]. Chemical attachment of the sugar to a certain form of compound is hindered by complex reactions, resulting in a low yield of the final compound. Although biological glycosylation using enzymes or cells became more attractive [Lim, et al., 2004; Ko, et al., 2006a], a series of cloning, expression, and substrate determination process is time-consuming. On the other hand, prediction of the substrate through the amino acid sequence could accelerate the whole process of UGT characterization. We used UGT (BsGT-3) from Bacillus subtilis and carried out molecular modeling, followed by molecular docking to predict the substrates of UGTs. The molecular structure of BsGT-3 was built using the homology-based molecular modeling method. The template protein used was a glycosyltransferase, deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB code: 1pn3.pdb). The structure of BsGT-3 was constructed using Modeller 8.2 (Accelrys, San Diego, CA). To refine the 3D structure of BsGT-3, energy minimization and molecular dynamics were performed. The protein was embedded in a 5-A shell of 1271 water molecules. In energy minimization, the force field was cvff provided by Accelys, and steepest descents were performed until maximum derivative of 0.001 kcal/molA was achieved. Subsequently, molecular dynamics was performed using a computational Grid system (http://www.mgrid.or.kr) at 300 K, 1 atm for 1 ns with 1 fs in each step. The output conformers were collected at every 400 fs. The energy profiles of 2,500 conformers were then analyzed by Analysis/InsightII, choosing 20 conformers at every 50 ps. Their superimposed structures showed the root mean square derivation of 0.8 A. Of the twenty conformers, the conformer showing the lowest total energy was evaluated by PROCHECK. The substrate for the docking study was built up using Sybyl 7.2 (Tripos, St. Louis, MO) on Pentium IV 3.2 Ghz Linux PC. Gasteiger-Huckel charge was given to the substrate, which was subjected to energy minimization by the conjugate gradient algorithm using Tripos force field. The minimization process was forced to stop either when the iteration number reached 1,000 or when the convergence criteria were met (maximum root mean square gradient 0.05 kcal/mol). The overall substrate-binding site of BsGT-3 is larger than the other UGTs from plants, and contains a conserved histidine residue (His16), which serves as a base to take a proton from a substrate as found in other UGTs [Shao et al., 2005; Offen et al., 2006]. His16 made array with *Corresponding author Phone: +82-2-450-3764; Fax: +82-2-3437-6106 E-mail: email@example.com


IT is characteristic of inaugural speeches to point to the challenges which lie ahead or to mention the threshold at which we stand. I wish that I could depart from this time-honored tradition. Certainly nothing would give me more pleasure than to tell you that I view the future without misgivings and that I see nothing ahead but clear sailing and fair winds. The truth is that I do not. I believe that the next ten years will comprise medicine's decisive decade. I believe that medicine will encounter line squalls, veering winds, and rough waters. I believe that we do stand at the threshold. Arnold Toynbee, the great British historian, has observed that the course of nations throughout history has been determined by their response to the challenges of their time. I believe the same observation applies to the medical profession. We are challenged to prove, once again, that medicine


SECTION 1: Basics of Minimally Invasive Surgery. Energy Sources. Anesthesia and Patient Positioning. Abdominal Access. Examination of the Abdomen. Intracorpeal Suturing. Biopsy Technique and Hemostasis. Port Closure and Complications. Ultrasound: The Basics for Laparoscopy. Resolving Technical Issues. SECTION 2: Neurosurgery. Telemedicine. What to Watch for and Why. SECTION 3: Thorax. Cervical Sympathectomy. Decortication. Thoracic Resection. SECTION 4: Esophagus. Radiofrequency Energy as Therapy for GERD. Achalsia. Laparoscopic Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux. Staging for Esophageal Cancer. SECTION 5: Stomach. Gastrostomy Tube. Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding. SECTION 6: Liver. Laparoscopic Approach to Hepatic Cysts. Laparoscopic Liver Resection. SECTION 7: Biliary Tree. Safe Practice of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. Intra-operative Cholangiogram. Common Bile Dust Exploration. SECTION 8: Pancreas. Treatment of Peri-Pancreatic Necrosis. Pancreatic Resection. Pancreatic Cyst Gastrostomy / Jejunostomy. SECTION 9: Small Bowel. Laparoscopic Adhesiolysis. Crohns Disease. SECTION 10: Colon. Appendectomy. Sigmoid Diverticulitis. Resection. Ulcerative Colitis. Rectopexy. SECTION 11: Solid Organ. Splenectomy. Nephrectomy for Malignant Disease. Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy. Adrenalectomy. SECTION 12: Hernia. Incisional Hernia. Groin Hernia. Thyroid Surgery. SECTION 13: Vascular. Aortic Aneurysms. SECTION 14: Orphan. Breast Ductoscopy. Laparoscopic Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma.


A thermosetting epoxy polymer was modified by incorporating 9 wt.% of a carboxyl-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile (CTBN) rubber, essentially in the form of well-dispersed micro-particles. The stress-controlled constant amplitude (CA) tensile fatigue behaviour at a stress ratio, R = 0.1, for both the neat (i.e. unmodified) and the rubber-modified epoxy polymer was investigated. The addition of the rubber particles increased the fatigue life of the bulk epoxy polymer by a factor of about three to four times. Cavitation of the rubber particles, which then enabled further plastic deformation of the epoxy matrix to occur, was the mechanism which was observed to account for the enhanced fatigue life of the bulk rubber-modified epoxy polymer. The neat and the rubber-modified epoxy resins were then infused into a quasiisotropic lay-up of E-glass fibre non-crimp fabric. A resin infusion under flexible tooling (RIFT) production method was employed to fabricate the glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) composite panels. Stress-controlled CA tensile fatigue tests, at a stress ratio, R = 0.1, were performed using these GFRP composites, and the extent of matrix cracking and stiffness degradation were continuously monitored during the cyclic fatigue tests. As for the fatigue behaviour of the bulk epoxy polymers, the fatigue life of the GFRP composite was increased by a factor of about three times due to the presence of the rubber particulate phase in the epoxy matrix. Suppressed matrix cracking and


Methods for studying droplets in models with quenched disorder are critically examined. Low energy excitations in two dimensional models are investigated by finding minimal energy interior excitations and by computing the effect of bulk perturbations. The numerical data support the assumptions of compact droplets and a single exponent for droplet energy scaling. Analytic calculations show how strong corrections to power laws can result when samples and droplets are averaged over. Such corrections can explain apparent discrepancies in several previous numerical results for spin glasses.


I've had to learn that I can't usually meet the social needs of my patients, even when I was working as a GP registrar near a charitable neighbourhood scheme that uses a network of volunteers to offer friendship, guidance, advice, and practical support to anyone in the local community.1 So when one patient told me that she needed swabs because she had started working in a brothel, to earn money to pay back her debtors, my heart broke because my ability to help was so limited. No-one told me how to cope with that brutal situation at medical school and I'm sure it isn't covered by the RCGP curriculum. In fact, I'm not sure if anything could have prepared me for someone disclosing what she did. …


The increasing numbers of product containing nanosilver have raised a great concern about their possible impact in the environment especially in the ionic form which leads to the toxicity problem when the association occurs with the organism cells. Therefore, the main focus of this study was to investigate several parameters influencing the recovery of ionized nanosilver from wash water using emulsion liquid membrane (ELM) process. This process involves three phases dispersion system including external, membrane and internal phase. The membrane phase was prepared by dissolving bis [2, 4, 4-trimethylpentyl] monothiophosphinic acid (Cyanex 302) as a carrier and Sorbitan Monooleate (Span 80) as a surfactant in kerosene as a diluent. Thiourea in Sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ) was used as a stripping agent in the internal phase. The important parameters such as extraction time, carrier and stripping agent concentrations were investigated. All experiments were conducted in batch system. The concentration of the ionized nanosilver was measured using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS). The result demonstrated that almost 100% of silver ion was extracted with 91% have been recovered within 5 minute of extraction time using 0.005 M Cyanex 302 and 1.0 M Thiourea in 1.5 M H 2 SO 4 . Hence, ELM was proven to be a very promising technique for the simultaneous extraction and recovery of ionized nanosilver from wash water.


The invention discloses an integrated intelligent diagnosis system and a method of above-220KV transformers. The system comprises an intelligent combined cabinet and an integrated intelligent diagnosis platform, wherein the intelligent combined cabinet comprises an oil gas analysis module, an iron core grounding current monitoring module, a capacitive sleeve pipe monitoring module, a partial discharging monitoring module, a temperature monitoring module and a fan monitoring module, and the intelligent combined cabinet provides relevant monitoring and analysis data of the transformers; the integrated intelligent diagnosis platform comprises a remote background, a station-end platform and a database, and the integrated intelligent diagnosis platform receives the monitoring and analysis data of the intelligent combined cabinet for diagnosis. By means of the system and the method, transformer state monitoring is achieved, a layered distribution type integrated system overcomes defects of an original independent system, and based on a uniform hardware platform, a uniform communication protocol and a uniform background analysis and diagnosis software system, the purpose that operation states and failures of the above-220KV transformers are analyzed and diagnosed through the uniform system platform is truly realized.


Image segmentation is an important step in most medical image analysis tasks. An effective image segmentation method helps clinicians and patients in image-guided surgery, radiotherapy, early disease detection, volumetric measurement, and three-dimensional visualization. The fuzzy c-means
 (FCM) clustering algorithm is one of the most popular methods used for medical image segmentation. However, it does not produce satisfactory results for images with noise and intensity inhomogeneities. Hence, a wavelet-based FCM clustering algorithm is proposed in this work. An advanced wavelet
 transform, such as the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT), is proposed to sharpen the edges and to avoid segmentation error caused by noise. An appropriate level of decomposition is selected on the basis of the images. The FCM clustering technique is applied on the wavelet transformed
 image by selecting an optimal number of clusters. The combination of DT-CWT and FCM clustering technique produces an effective segmentation result. The conventional discrete wavelet transform (DWT) was also tested, but it was unable to give an efficient segmentation result when combined with
 FCM. Experiments were conducted on real T1-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images to validate the proposed algorithm. Moreover, a comparison was performed with different state-of-the-art algorithms to show the superiority of our proposed method.


Image identification has become a prominent feature in many complex systems such as medical imaging, robots, and cameras. Many imaging systems provide a wealth of information, which could be used as diagnostic tools for mechanical systems. These tools could be used in the prediction of failure in machines before irreversible damage occurs. In this work, we use image processing as a health monitoring tool for a common household device: the power disk meter. A complete diagnostic and correction system is designed and built in our laboratory to sense the disk meter defect (wobbling) and correct it. The vertical oscillation of the edge of the disk is determined using images captured through a CCD camera and the Canny Edge Detector Algorithm (CEDA). A jaw-like pneumatic clamp is subsequently used to straighten out the disk. The results of our design were compared to those obtained using an existing similar laser-based diagnostic system and it was shown that the CCD camera based system performed as well as the laser based system for a fraction of the cost. Two videos of the experimental setup can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/a8804103#p/u/0/EMDe38zu9kE and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vacSTEJclyM


Yanling county in Zhuzhou city,Hunan Province,is one of the typical poverty county in the central area of Luoxiao mountain destitute areas. The Poverty Alleviation Planning of Yanling county is guided by the idea of inclusive growth to adjust and optimize industrial structure,and transform the mode of economic growth; to change the ideas and methods of poverty alleviation and development,improve the infrastructure construction,and take the advantage of the policy for integrating public resources,so as to speed up the realization of inclusive growth of county economy and promote the crucial process of poverty alleviation of Luo Xiao Mountain.


Two potential applications of Glass-Fiber-Reinforced-Plastics (GFRP) in civil engineering type structures are investigated: (1) GFRP rebars in concrete beams; (2) strengthening of concrete girders with epoxy-bonded GFRP plates. Six concrete beams reinforced with GFRP bars were tested for flexure and shear. The load-deflection behavior to failure and cracking behavior of these beams are discussed. It is concluded that GFRP rebars may successfully be used as reinforcing elements for concrete members. In the second part of the study, four reduced-scale girders were tested to establish the feasibility of strengthening of existing concrete girders with epoxy-banded GFRP plates, and to select an appropriate epoxy for this application. Significant increase in the ultimate capacity of the upgraded girders was observed.


In this study, Turkey's Statistical Institute's (TUIK) 2011 data showing the number of households with central heating in Tunceli, Bingol, Erzincan and Elazig was utilized. In a binary comparison of the values showing the ratios of households with central heating in Tunceli province by the close provinces and determining statistically the relative differences, binomial test analysis which is a non-parametric test method was utilized. The ratio of households with central heating in the Tunceli province (20.8%) showed statistically similar ratios (p> 0.05) with the Bingol (28%) and Erzincan (23.6%) provinces, but compared to Elazig provinces(%35,5), it is construed as having relatively lower values (p <0.05). In light of this information, assuming the proportion of households with central heating as a development indicator, it is noteworthy that based on this parameter Tunceli is at a similar level with Bingol and Erzincan provinces, but is behind the Elazig province.


We have observed three clusters at z ∼ 0.7, of richness comparable to the low-redshift sample of Butcher & Oemler (BO), and have determined their fraction of blue galaxies. When adopting the standard error definition, two clusters have a low blue fraction for their redshifts, whereas the fraction of the third one is compatible with the expected value. A detailed analysis of previous BO-like studies that adopted different definitions of the blue fraction shows that the modified definitions are affected by contaminating signals: colour segregation in clusters affects blue fractions derived in fixed metric apertures, differential evolution of early and late type spirals potentially affects blue fractions derived with a non-standard choice of the colour cut, and the younger age of the universe at high redshift affects blue fractions computed with a colour cut taken relatively to a fixed non-evolving colour. Adopting these definitions, we find largely varying blue fractions. This thorough analysis of the drawbacks of the different possible definitions of the blue fraction should allow future studies to perform measures in the same scale. Finally, if one adopts a more refined error analysis to deal with BO and our data, a constant blue fraction with redshift cannot be excluded, showing that the BO effect is still far from being detected beyond doubt.


Using an expansion technique for cluster identities of spin-1 localized spin systems, we study the magnetic properties of a quantum transverse spin-1 Blume-Emery-Griffiths model, The longitudinal and transverse magnetizations and the quadrupolar moments are calculated. General formula applicable to structures with arbitrary coordination number are given. MIRAMARETRIESTE September 1993 'Permanent address: Departement de Physique, Faculte des Sciences, Laboratoire de Magnetisme et Physique des Hautes Energies, B.P. 1014, Rabat, Morocco.


Based on the measured data of five main kinds of the high and cold grasslands in Bayanbulak Xinjiang,the characteristics of soil factors with environmental variations and the relationship between soil factors and above-ground biomass of the grasslands were studied in this paper.The results showed that among five kinds of grasslands,the soil moisture of the swampy meadow is the highest and its organic matter and available N,P,K also are the highest;However,in the high and cold prairie,the soil moisture is the lowest,and the organic matter and the available nutrients are the lowest.The soil moisture and available N have the remarkable positive correlation;the correlations between available N,P,K and organic matter are all remarkable positive.The soil moisture and available N are the main factors that influence grassland above-ground biomass,the regression equation are Y=379.954X+28.238(F=12.562,P0.05) and Y=0.864X-122.874(F=21.352,P0.05).


Candra Gumilang. K5113010. THE EFFECT OF TOKEN ECONOMY TECHNIQUE TO INCREASE ACHIEVEMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE LEARNING FOR SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AT SLB NEGERI SURAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017. Skripsi. Surakarta: Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sebelas Maret University, May 2017. The aim of this research was to examine the effect of token economy technique to increase achievement of learning social science for sixth grade students with intellectual disability at SLB Negeri Surakarta in the academic year 2016/2017. This research is pre-experimental with one group pretest-posttest design. The subject of this research was 7 students with intellectual disability in sixth grade of SLB Negeri Surakarta. The data collection technique used multiple choice and matching item test. The data analysis technique used nonparametric with wilcoxon sign rank test by SPSS 23. The result of this research obtained the average scores of subject in pretest was 45 and posttest 76,43. Non prametric analysis result obtained Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) 0,018, at the level significance α 0,05. So Thus, it can be concluded that token economy technique effected to increase achievement of learning social science for intellectual disability student sixth grade at SLB Negeri Surakarta in the academic year 2016/2017. Key word : Influencing, token economy technique, learning achievement, social science, mentally retarded


The Eurozone is confronted within the current crisis with unprecedented challenges. The measures adopted and implemented by the policymakers over the past quarters were not perceived credible by the financial markets, given the dimension of macroeconomic disequilibria in the region, the persistence of asymmetric shocks and the indecision among political leaders.


Chinese keyboard typing is fundamental training at school in Taiwan. For the sake of a sharp learning curve, many CAI systems have been used to help teaching and learning. However, these CAI systems focus on learning results (say speed, accurate rate, etc.) rather than learning process. In this paper, we use adaptive learning strategy and agent-based technology to propose an adaptive Chinese-typing learning system and its relative course organization. We hope to help typing skill refinement according to one's personal learning condition.


In a reflexive and strictly convex Banach space which has uniformly Gateaux differentiable norm, we consider the problem of the convergence of the Cesaro mean iterations for non-expansive mappings. Under suitable conditions, it was proved that the iterative sequence converges strongly to a fixed point. The results presented in this paper also extend and improve some recent results.


Both static and dynamic Huffman coding techniques are applied to test data consisting of 530 source programs in four different languages. The results indicate that, for small files, a savings of 22-91 percent in compression can be achieved by using the static instead of dynamic techniques.


The paper describes various options which enhance the durability of reinforced concrete by reducing the risk of reinforcement corrosion. These include different cementing systems, chemical admixtures and fibres, and surface treatments and coatings. Models for predicting the time to corrosion are described and the ways in which the different measures influence the critical input parameters are discussed. Durability design is also discussed, the limitations of the current deemed‐to‐satisfy approach are highlighted, and a new performance based method is proposed. Finally, a methodology is proposed for selecting the most cost‐effective options in relation to the required design life of the structure.


List of illustrations Preface A note on spelling and transliteration 1. Saratov childhood 2. The Moscow College 3. The Church of the Virgin of Kazan 4. The scarlet rose 5. A symphony of birth and maternal love 6. The paris with Diaghilev 7. The blue rose 8. Kuchuk-Koi 9. Kirghizia discovered 10. Bukhara 11. Les fauves 12. In sober earnest 13. Sakuntala 14. Acting in the living present 15. Finding the way: 1919-23 16. Paris and Venice: 1923-4 17. The Four Arts Society 18. Armenia and Baku: the search for relevance 19. Ground in the mill of socialist realism 20. The dark years: 1941-56 21. Rehabilitation: the beginning and the end 22. Rehabilitation: the legacy Bibliography Index.


Purpose – One current trend in burner technology is to obtain high efficiency while keeping low levels of NOx emissions. A swirling flow in combustion ensures a fixed position of a compact flame. Therefore, it is necessary to design efficient swirlers. Flow patterns are simulated for the different swirl devices proposed in this work. Two axial-swirlers are studied: one based on curve-vanes consisting of a straight line with an arc of a circle as the trailing edge and the other is the common flat-vanes. The purpose of this paper is to assess the accuracy of different swirl generators using a well-known benchmark test case. Design/methodology/approach – This work deals with modelling the swirler using two approaches: the general purpose Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver Ansys-Fluent® and the suite of libraries OpenFOAM® to solve the Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes equations, showing there is a slight deviation between both approaches. Their performance involves analyzing not only the Swirl number bu...


Experiments were conducted during the two seasons of 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 in 'Qalubia Governorate, Egypt, to evaluate the susceptibility of three cultivars of strawberry (Fertona,Felorida and Festival) to the infestation of red spider mite, white fly, aphid and thrips. Also the relation of anatomic characters of three strawberry cultivars leaves in relation to the infestation of Tetranychus urticae and Bimicia tabaci was also studied . . The obtained results showed that the highest mean number of T. urticae (egg &movable stages) was recorded on Fertona var, being 187.2 and 123.36 individuals/10 leaves and 75.7 & 53.89 eggs/10 leaves during the two studied seasons, respectively. On the other hand, the lowest infestation was recorded on Florida, it was 14.4 and 53.8 individuals /10 leaves, and 35.6, 56.6 eggs during the two tested successive seasons, respectively. A significant difference were detected between the anatomical characteristics and the mean numbers of pests where the cultivars have higher thickness attract low number of pests.


In this paper, the application of left-handed metamaterials for the
 realization of microwave antennas has been considered. Special emphasis is
 placed on lens antennas based on gradient-index metamaterials, and their
 advantages and enhanced features in comparison with conventional microwave
 antennas are highlighted.


Objective To research the mechanism and explore the therapeutic method of Auto Move AM800 for treatment of foot drop of cerebral infarction patients.Methods Forty cerebral infarction patients were randomly divided into treatment group and control group.The control group were only given rehabilitation treatment,and the treatment group were given rehabilitation treatment combined with Auto Move AM800.At the time of pre-treatment and after four weeks,we assessed the range of initiative motion of ankle dorsiflexion,the strength of the anterior tibial muscle,the spasm degree of the calf muscles 3,the sEMGMax of the anterior tibial muscle and the calf muscles 3 H wave and M wave by electromyography.Results The range of initiative motion of ankle dorsiflexion and the sEMGMax of the anterior tibial muscle of two groups patients increased significantly after four weeks treatment(P0.01).The CSS assessment and HMax/MMax of the calf muscles 3 increased significantly only in the control group after treatment(P0.01),but not in the treatment group.After treatment,compared to the control group,the range of initiative motion of ankle dorsiflexion and the sEMGMax of the anterior tibial muscle in the treatment group increased significantly(P0.01).After treatment,compared to the treatment group,the CSS assessment and HMax/MMax of the calf muscles 3 in the control group increased significantly(P0.01).Conclusion Auto Move AM800 combined low-frequency electrical stimulation with the biofeedback skill can cure foot drop of cerebral infarction patients by improving the strength and spasm of muscle,and it also has a rebuild role to the damaged brain.


The aim of the bachelor's thesis is literary research in the field of special protection of documents, valuables, etc. The student will get acquainted with the problems of Port-Royal logic, its aims and principles of utilization, verification of acquired values and functions of the program. The theoretical part of the thesis will include the inclusion of special protection components in the field of other primary types of protection, as well as the theoretical part of FCA with the use of supremia and infima for application of selected components in special protection. Practical part of the thesis will be focused on graphical display of software contextual calculation, scaling of attribute implications and text expression of graphical representation. The values obtained will be verified and displayed in a 3D environment.


We determined the shock equation of state of CaF2 at pressures of ∼0.4–1.5 TPa using high-power laser shock techniques. The shock velocity-particle velocity was approximated by the universal Hugoniot relationship known to metallic fluids. Our results do not support the incompressible behavior above ∼100 GPa claimed previously. Warm dense CaF2 is a bonded liquid above the melting point and approaches an ideal fluid above ∼1 TPa. The measured reflectivity change of CaF2 at the shock front, similar to the other semiconducting liquids in the warm dense region, suggests a gradual metallization process due to the presence of delocalized electrons at high shock-front temperatures.


ABSTRACT Using a longitudinal design, the present study examined whether two teaching concepts that varied in their capacity to foster students' self-determination affected students' sense of social relatedness and their perceived moderation competence, as well as the interplay between these two components and the students' performance during a moderation exam. We conducted a quasi-experimental field study with university students (N = 160), who were evenly distributed between an experimental (EG) and a control group (CG). The results of multi-group path analysis suggest that simultaneously fostering autonomy, competence, and relatedness (EG), in comparison to providing autonomy and competence support only (CG), leads to a stronger link between perceived competence and social relatedness. If students experience moderation competence, they in turn feel socially related to their teacher, which leads to an even higher competence perception thereafter. The crucial role of teachers' behaviour, in particular relatedness support, in learning development is discussed.


The distributions of the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters of the so called first order lognormal density are obtained at first. Then the distributions of the sample median and the sample geometric mean are also obtained.


The time in which we currently live and will continue to live is a time of changes, which are comprehensive, deep and quick. They occur in almost all spheres and areas of human activity and life. Regardless of their causes, they are all structural changes whose consequences are primarily economic in their nature. The last three decades have been characterized by a rather significant increase in entrepreneurial activities, which is why they are often referred to as "the age of entrepreneurship", "entrepreneurial revolution" and "entrepreneurial renaissance". Enthusiasm towards the role of entrepreneurship in the economic development has had an impact on the development of social entrepreneurship in the last few decades. Thus, the new entrepreneurial culture has also spread to the social sector. Increasingly higher expectations are being set on social entrepreneurship in terms of addressing the needs in the social sector and achieving socio-economic security. Social entrepreneurship implies innovative and financially sustainable activities targeted at social problems. However, its commercial activities do not necessarily need to coincide with the social mission; rather, their purpose is to create financial resources to implement social objectives. Thus, social entrepreneurship can encompass a rather broad range of organizations and businesses – ranging from those which generate their own profit to those which obtain resources for ENTREPRENEURSHIP 157 other organizations that fulfill the social mission. This paper will explain the importance of the social entrepreneurship concept, entrepreneurship with moral and ethical integrity, criteria for its classification, as well as criticism of this concept. In the end, an overview of development of social entrepreneurship in the Republic of Croatia and in the world.


The article is devoted to research of question in relation to opening of essence and matter of the regimes of circulation of official information. Determination of concept of official information is in-process resulted, legal scopes of action of the regimes of circulation of official information and description of its basic constituents.


Highly parallel computers with tens of thousands of processors will be of rapidly growing importance for highspeed computation. Parallel programs for these machines should be machine-independent, i.e., independent of properties that are likely to differ from one parallel computer to the next. In particular, parallel programs should be independent of: 1. memory organization and communication network, 2. number of physical processors available, 3. control mode of the parallel computer (SIMD, MIMD, or MSIMD). This paper describes extensions of Modula-2 for writing highly parallel, portable programs meeting these requirements. The extensions


Distance measuring equipment (DME)/Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) has been serving aviation for approximately 60 years. It has been a primary navigation aid in the national airspace (NAS) for much of that time with its basic operations little changed since its inception. However, future airspace will demand greater navigation performance to support higher traffic levels and more efficient operations. While Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) will be the primary source of this capability, DME can have a vital role in the future navigation infrastructure. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Alternative Position Navigation and Timing (APNT) program is examining the use of DME to provide accurate two-way and passive ranging. APNT is examining whether DME has the capability to allow for continued operations of the NAS with minimal economic impact. For DME to support this capability, it must have better performance in several areas: accuracy, integrity, capacity and coverage.


An /-group will be denoted by the pair (G, P), where G is the group and P is the positive cone. The cone Q is an essential extension of P if every convex /-subgroup of (G, Q) is a convex /-subgroup of (G, P). Q is very essential over P if it is essential over P and for each O^x e G and each ß-value D of x, there is a unique .P-value C of x containing D. We seek conditions which are preserved by essential extensions; normal valuedness and the existence of a finite basis are so preserved. We then investigate /-groups which have the property that their positive cone has no proper very essential extensions. Q is a c-essential extension of P if Q is essential over P and every closed convex /-subgroup of (G, Q) is closed in (G, P). We show that a wreath product of totally ordered groups has no proper very c-essential extensions. We derive a sufficient condition for the nonexistence of such extensions in case the /-group has property (F) : no positive element exceeds an infinite set of pairwise disjoint elements. Introduction. The theory presented here grew out of an attempt to answer some of the questions raised in [7]. In that paper we defined the notions of essential and very essential extensions of lattice cones (henceforth: /-cones). In this work we investigate the following : we wish to know which properties of /-groups are preserved by essential extensions (§2); then we look for conditions which imply that an /-cone has no proper very essential extensions (§3). It is shown in [7] that representability and finite valuedness of /-groups are both preserved by essential extensions. We prove in this paper that normal valuedness is preserved. With certain restrictions on the type of essential extensions, we can show that lateral completeness and local representability (defined in §2) are preserved also. We give an example to show property (F) and the existence of a basis are not preserved. An essential extension Q of P is c-essential if every g-closed convex /-subgroup of (G, Q) is T'-closed. In §3 we consider /-groups which have the following property: for each pair of disjoint special elements a and b there is an x e G such that ax = — x + a + x and b are comparable ; for any such x and «=l,2,...,a = anx or else a A an* Received by the editors October 27, 1970. AMS 1970 subject classifications. Primary 06A55.


A double-blind, controlled multi-centre trial with 238 patients was employed to study the relative merits of three treatment schedules in acne vulgaris. Schedule A consisted of oral oxytetracycline an


The ever increasing demand of communication equipment and the emergence of new technologies require an efficient design of antenna that is of smaller size for wider range of frequency such as Wi-MAX. Because of the various advantages like low profile, ease of integration, low cost etc. microstrip antenna found vast application in communication system. Here we report the investigation on multiband microstrip patch antenna for Wi-MAX and other wireless application using probe feed technique. Analysis is done on the two different substrate that is the FR-4 and RT Duroid 5880 with dielectric constant 4.3and 2.2 respectively. The antenna is simulated using CST (Computer Simulation Technology) microwave studio v2011 and the antenna parameter like return loss, VSWR, Gain, Bandwidth would be analyzed. The design procedure for multiband microstrip patch antenna for Wi-Max and other wireless application is illustrated.


We sketch a systematic approach to multiloop calculations. We focus on the Z-factors of a renormalizable theory and show that they can be obtained by purely algebraic methods based on power-counting and the forest structure of the divergent graphs. (submitted contributions to the conference proceedings "Confronting the Infinite", Adelaide February 1994)


A six metre high bronze sculpture, estimated to be worth around a million dollars is lovingly cared for in its somewhat unusual home of a tiny country village.


Reverse engineering in development product is the process to re-measure existing peoduct to gain information on it, then redesign the CAD model. It represents geometric shapes and other information of the original one's and used for analyzing, recovery, production, and testing. The model that is created using reverse engineering are for various reasons including to design tool for the production of a copy of an object, to study the concept of an existing design, or to analyze the design for improvement. In this research, it will be re-modeling the automatic flour gauge machine after reviewing the working principle of the machine. The components that will be analyzed and redesigned are: 1) Hooper design for repairing and cleaning operations, 2) Auger design to overcome the fall of flour droplets from the output hole, 3) The design of the Steering Agitator to overcome the nature of the flour adhering to the wall and maintain the flowrate of the flour. The method used were: 1) Determination of Reverse Engineering Components, 2) Identification of Components, 3) Three (3) Dimensional-Component Design. The result showed after the modification of flour in the tube was denser so that it would increase the precision in the filling process, this was because the flowrate became more stable.