According to theoretical consideration of metallurgists' protective clothes reliability increase problem all the major questions, connected with obtaining of new kinds of composite materials and their properties regulated by special requirements, were experimentally studied. There is suggested a formation of new fireproofed fabrics, which have high protective properties to the melted drops of metal, injuring the special cloth of the metallurgist.


The thesis designs the connection between Neuron chip and power line transceiver PLT-22 which constitute the Neuron node based on power line interface.It takes the MAX186 chip as the central ware to complete the data collection,and designs the D/A conversion circuit.At last,it completes the software design of data collection node and software control flow.Test results in existing equipment show that the system not only runs steadily,data communication are reliable,but also constructs network easily,extends effortlessly in current low voltage cable.


The ``crowding types'' model of a local public goods economy makes a distinction between crowding effects and tastes of agents. Decentralization of the core is possible both with anonymous admission prices that depend only on publicly observable information and, when technology is linear, with Lindahl (per unit) prices. Lindahl price systems are superior to admission prices since they can be specified with only a finite number of prices. Here, we show that the core is equivalent to the set of nonanonymous Lindahl equilibria, even with nonlinear technology. The core is generally larger, however, than the set of anonymous Lindahl equilibria.


There are more than 400 lines with "水"(water) in LI Bai's thousands of poems.Water is already the embodiment of his frank emotion and the media of his endless feeling.This image involves a variety of emotional tendency combining with intellectuality and reflects the poet's individual aesthetic tastes and unique personality.


Haw teachings is one of the Confucianism. This study examines the nature of devotion (haw) in young male offspring of the haberdasher crossbreed Chinese nuclear families in Pondok Cina, Depok, Indonesia. Results indicate a shift of cultural values embraced China. The reason is the status categorized as crossbreed Chinese, who generally have a pattern of behavior and a different life with full-blooded Chinese. Key Words: Haw, Chinese family, Indonesia


The authors studied the Hall Coefficient R, the electrical conductivity omega, and the thermal-emf of alpha-Ag/sub 2/Te in the interval 2-300 K with n = (1-2) .10/sup 18/ cm/sup -3/ and p = (5.9-7).10/sup 16/ cm/sup -3/. The authors interpreted the experimental results taking into account the inelastic nature of the scattering as well as the effect of the nonparabolicity on the scattering probability. The results of the calculations shows the temperature dependences of the electron mobillity in n-Ag/sub 2/Te. The mobility micro for these samples at low temperatures is independent of the temperature, which indicates that the samples are degenerate and the current carriers are scattered by ionized impurities.


This paper first analyzes the environment for sci-tech business management system based on system engineering theory,which provides the precondition for brand new business process reengineering.Secondly,it makes the selection for business reengineering process with Delphi method and gives out primary selection scheme.Then it analyzes comprehensive benefit evaluation index system and comprehensive cost evaluation index system which have been established in sci-tech business management process with AHP(analytic hierarchy process),from which we obtain optimum scheme for business process reengineering.At last,this article puts forward that sci-tech information resources integration and sci-tech system information construction are effective means for solving process reengineering,improving management.Moreover,science and technology resources plan(STRP)system is developed.Based on WEB,system framework and process are designed and put into practice.


Background:  A new low‐vision service linking a public hospital and a non‐governmental organization was trialled in Melbourne, Australia. The factors associated with service use were investigated.


Summary 1. The enzyme system, choline oxidase, is present in the liver and kidneys of the guinea pig. Activity is low but measurable, as shown using standard manometric technics. 2. Optimum substrate concentration, pH, and assay conditions are presented. 3. The enzyme response versus enzyme concentration was found to be linear over the range tested. 4. The enzyme system in both liver and kidney of the guinea pig is insoluble as shown by centrifugal separation of the soluble and insoluble components of the homogenates in isotonic sucrose. 5. In kidney betaine was found to be an oxidation product by the action of the enzyme on choline.


Background: Improved treatment for pediatric cancers has ensured an evergrowing population of patients surviving into adulthood. The current study evaluated the impact of previous engagement in survivor care on patient knowledge and awareness of health risks as young adults. Procedure: Young adult survivors of childhood cancers (N=93, M age=23.63 y) were recruited during their annual survivor clinic visit. Participants completed self-reported measures of demographics, treatment knowledge, perception of future health risks, participation in previous survivor care, and neurocognitive functioning. Results: In total, 82% of patients (N=76/93) reported previously participating in survivorship care. These patients were more likely to have knowledge of their radiation treatment (P=0.034) and more likely to recognize risk for future health effects from their treatment (P=0.019). Income between $10,000 and $24,999 (odds ratio=0.168; 95% confidence interval, 0.046-0.616; P=0.031) was associated with decreased patient knowledge regarding diagnosis. Male sex (odds ratio=0.324; 95% confidence interval, 0.135-0.777; P=0.012) was associated with less knowledge of future health risks. Patients with self-reported difficulties on the CCSS-NCQ were more likely to regard their cancer treatment as a future health risk. Conclusion: Participation in survivor care plays an important role in imparting information to young adult survivors of pediatric cancer regarding their disease history and risk for future health problems.


T and a half billion people, three quarters of all humanity, live in the developing countries, or the South. These countries vary greatly in size, in levels of development, in economic, social, and political structures. Yet they share a fundamental trait: they exist on the periphery of the developed countries of the North. Most of their people are poor; their economies are mostly weak and defenceless; they are generally powerless in the world arena.


The present study was carried on the Research and Didactical Station Jucu located close to SomeAŸ River. The aim of the study is to determine the fuel consumption and productivity of aggregates (machineries) used in the conditions of the two levels of hay production technology. The experimental plot uses Festuca Arundinacea , while control, spontaneous vegetation ( Dactilys glomerata 70%, Alopecurus pratensis 10% Festuca sp .6%, Trifolium repens 5%, other plants 9%). Grassland soil taken in study type is molded with a high coefficient of withering (16-19%) and a small capacity water output (8%). Chemical characteristics of soil samples shows us a good content in humus and good to very good in mobile potassium, being deficient in phosphorus mobile. The differences noted between the fuel consumptions for the two parcels is due to higher vegetable production of control plot which has also a running speed of different aggregates also influencing effective productivity.


Along with the exhaust of natural resources and the breakout of environmental crisis,environmental issues have become a global problem affecting the thriving of human being,and the importance of environmental protection is gradually realized by people.International environmental law and human rights law are developing rapidly in the field of international public law and becoming important legal departments concerned by the world,and the relationship of environmental rights and human rights becomes important topic of environmental law research.Through analysis and research,it is believed that the substantive environmental rights in the field of international law has not clearly established,and there are still some restrictions to environmental protection issues in existing human rights.To create environmental rights contained in human rights and linked to environmental interests specially and directly is not only the enrichment and development of human rights,but also the demand of implementing Scientific Outlook on Development w hich both aimed at human rights protection and environmental protection.


: Pre-stressed Concrete bridges nowadays have become the most widely used amongst all other bridges. Analysis and Design of such bridges are done as per various standard codes which gives satisfactory solutions to most of the design engineers. But along with that, a designer would like to optimize the structure which is obtained to make it more economical and feasible to construct. The design obtained should be safe for construction taking into consideration its cost and structural strength. Many kinds of research have been done for the optimization of bridges to obtain an economical structure. Owing to that, this review has been done regarding various methods of optimization for the girder bridges. Also, various aspects of Pre-stressed concrete bridges have been discussed to compute the overall behaviour of the structure which includes various losses, stresses, cable profile, strands, codal provisions, etc. has been discussed in details.


A novel laser diode, in which the pumping area is increased by a multi-mode interference (MMI) coupler, is proposed to maintain single-lobe outputs up to high powers. Utilising active 1/spl times/1 MMI couplers between singlemode waveguides, up to 90% higher single-lobe and fibre-coupled output powers were obtained at 1.3 /spl mu/m.


Recently, a new way of forming electromagnetic band gaps with correlated disordered media has attracted a great attention to replace the ones based on photonic crystals. Indeed, due to the cristallinity, applications based on periodic structures have suffered from many fabrication issues. So far, the different protocols proposed to design disordered crystals consist on constrained optimization methods complex to scale to large systems. In this paper, we propose a new method inspired by the morphogenesis for designing correlated disordered materials displaying large electromagnetic band gaps, in the desired frequency range, using a technique that is simple to implement, easily adaptable to large-scale problems and requiring no gradient descent, unlike the optimization techniques usually used in inverse design. This exploratory work may find applications in the synthesis of electromagnetic waveguides and components from the microwave to photonic bands. As an illustration, a freeform waveguide synthesis is presented in this work.


Fibonacci sequence has many applications in chemistry, botany, arts, statistics, mathematics, music and among others as it occurs naturally in our surroundings. Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic sequences are commonly tackled in college and high school mathematics but not the Fibonacci sequence. Sequences are generally taught by solving them through their "means."

An equation was already obtained for integer sequences given two initial values to satisfy a Fibonacci or Fibonacci-like sequence. Recently, Natividad [4] derived explicit formulas in solving Fibonacci means based on the number of missing terms. This paper will discuss the usefulness of this formula in computing Fibonacci sequence as well as explaining the possibility of integrating this on different branches of science, preferably in mathematical sequences, by giving examples and discussing its applications.


This chapter presents the book's topic, i.e. law's interaction with practical reasons, demarcates the scope of the book, and clarifies some key notions relevant to the inquiry. Specific issues commented on include, inter alia, the book's working assumptions on the criteria of legal validity (Section 1.1.1); the relevance of arguments about authority (Section 1.1.2); and the type of reasons central to the inquiry (Section 1.2). Finally, the chapter sets out the two principal positions examined in Parts I and II: first, Raz's position that when the law satisfies certain conditions that invest it with legitimate authority, it acquires pre-emptive force, namely it constitutes reasons for action that exclude and take the place of some other reasons; and, second, an antithetical position, the weighing model, which explains the relevant phenomenon in terms of reasons for action that compete with other reasons by means of their weight (Section 1.3).


The athlete's psychological state will exert a direct influence on his performance. Based on a thorough study of the psychological changes of sprinters at different stages, this paper employs various approaches to bring forth a systematic method of psychological training for sprinters. This effort attempts to help the sprinters in our country to keep a high athletic level, upgrade their performance in sports events and shorten the distance in sprint between our country and those in other parts of the world.


The article analyzes the problem of assessment competence of future teachers in foreign countries and in Ukraine. The article proves that assessment competence is a structural element of professional competence of future teachers in general and physical education teachers in particular.
The purpose of the article is to theoretically analyze the problem of assessment competence of future teachers in foreign countries and in Ukraine.
In the result of the analysis of scientific elaborations of foreign and domestic scientists, we can state that the comparison of European and domestic models of assessment competence showed a number of differences. They exist due to socio-economic factors (in Ukraine today we cannot name a large number of educational programs with foreign language teaching, high mobility scientific and pedagogical staff and applicants for higher education in various specialties who participate in exchange programs) and teaching traditions (giving preference to basic education over vocational and economic-oriented).
In European educational programs, there are no separate courses on mastering higher education students' assessment competence, but there are three types of master's programs in assessment (assessment "in general"; assessment with a focus on statistical and sociological methods; assessment in specific areas of governmental policy); additional education programs (advanced training courses) and assessment courses in undergraduate programs.
Regarding the Ukrainian system of bachelor's degree training for teachers in general and physical education teachers in particular, its research showed that in the absence of separate courses on mastery of assessment knowledge and skills, some programs contain elements of control and assessment activities and concise information blocks of assessment. In the Ukrainian educational system, evaluative information is insufficiently systematized and considered in the context of various educational disciplines.


This paper explores the specialized nature of research-oriented web applications that enable interactions with and the visual analysis of ``Big Data,'' i.e., large, heterogeneous scientific datasets. We introduce a pragmatic methodology for the design and evaluation of scientific workflows in research-oriented web applications. Through an in-depth usability study of the CoGe web application, a system that provides a rich set of tools for exploring genomic datasets, we demonstrate: how to identify bottlenecks in multi-step tasks; how to analyze these bottlenecks in order to provide effective solutions for improving user experience; and how these solutions may more generally apply to similar research-oriented websites in other scientific domains that also enable scientific workflows. Specifically, we provide details regarding: our user interviews, the visualization system we created to analyze complex tasks associated with scientific workflows, and how this analysis directly leads to suggestions for improvements in the current implementation of the CoGe web application. A follow-up study was carried out which indicates that our suggestions improved the ability of CoGe users to navigate and complete custom workflows, leading us to believe that our approach could also be applied to other research-oriented web applications that utilize scientific datasets.


A method is proposed for automatically choosing independent components (ICs) of interest from neonatal EEG data, with the aim of using them in further analysis to detect seizures. This procedure greatly reduces the amount of information which needs to be processed in the seizure detection system, and reduces the effect of noise and artefacts on its performance. The fast ICA algorithm is used to generate the ICs, and the complexity of each IC is examined to determine those of interest. The singular value fraction (SVF) measure is used to reduce the number of sources containing artefacts chosen. In the best case, the 12 channel EEG used in these tests is reduced to 2 or 3 sources of interest. In every case, at least 3 sources were removed that consisted of noise.


The present invention relates to a distance measuring method and a stereo matching system using a video codec, the distance measuring method of the aspect of the invention, the first and the second comprising the steps of camera calibration by setting the reference motion vector, the first camera and encoding a second camera image with reference to the image, and the second when the predetermined block of the camera image is inter-prediction encoding and the step of comparing the motion vector and the reference motion vector of the specific block, a result of the comparison the motion vector is the reference motion vector and the same effective when the motion with the size value for display step of determining a parity value and the disparity value of the vector to first calculate the distance between the subject and displayed by the image of the predetermined block instead of characterized in that it comprises the steps: Stereo matching, disparity (disparity)


Background
The antithyroid effect of ketoconazole has been reported. The secretion and action of melatonin in the thyroid gland are also known. However, the possible effect of melatonin on ketoconazole-induced antithyroid effect is unknown.
Objective
We sought to investigate the modulatory effect of ketoconazole and/or melatonin on thyroid function in female rats.
Methods
Groups 1-4 of female rats respectively underwent 14-day treatment with normal saline, 25 mg/kg ketoconazole, 4 mg/kg melatonin and 10 mg/kg melatonin. Groups 5 and 6 both received 14-day treatment with ketoconazole and were respectively treated with 4 mg/kg melatonin and 10 mg/kg melatonin simultaneously. Groups 7 and 8 respectively underwent 14-day pretreatment with 4 mg/kg melatonin and 10 mg/kg melatonin, followed by 14-day administration of ketoconazole to both groups. Groups 9 and 10 were both treated with ketoconazole for 14 days, followed by respective 14-day administration of 4 mg/kg melatonin and 10 mg/kg melatonin.
Results
TSH, T3, T4, and iodine concentrations were increased by separate administration of ketoconazole and either dose of melatonin when compared to control. However, pre-treatment or post-treatment of ketoconazole-treated rats with melatonin abolished the ketoconazole-induced increase in TSH, T3, T4, and iodine while co-administration of ketoconazole with melatonin caused no improvement in the ketoconazole-induced increase in TSH, T3, and T4 except iodine concentration.
Conclusion
Ketoconazole increased thyroid function, which was ameliorated by pre- or post-treatment with melatonin, possibly via modulation of the iodination process.
Keywords: Iodine; Ketoconazole; Melatonin; Thyroid function; Toxicity


The TanDEM-X mission acquired a global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) between 2011 and 2014 and generated the final DEM product until 2016. Based on the success and high quality of the first DEM a second complete coverage of the Earth was acquired between 2017 and 2021. This DEM is called "TanDEM-X DEM 2020". Its processing is based on an edited version of the first global TanDEM-X DEM at 30 m resolution. This edited DEM is required to enable the phase unwrapping and significantly accelerates the DEM processing. The paper in hand describes the automatic global editing process for the edited DEM. It explains the detection and discrimination of DEM gaps and the different methods applied to fill these void areas with external information or derived values. Furthermore, for the editing of water bodies different techniques are described which are used to flatten oceans, lakes and rivers respectively. At last, an overview on the status of the global editing process and further improvements are presented.


Preliminary experiment design and research goals are presented to measure the applicability of restricted computational complexity environments in general purpose development efforts. The Linux kernel is examined through the lens of LangSec in order to gain insight into the make-up of the kernel code vis-à-vis the complexity class of recognizer for input to each component on the Chomsky Hierarchy. Manual analysis is assisted with LLVM Passes and comparison with the real-time Linux fork. This paper describes an on-going effort with the goals of justifying further research in the field of restricted computational environments.


We survey results in lattice quantum chromodynamics from groups in the USQCD Collaboration. The main focus is on physics, but many aspects of the discussion are aimed at an audience of computational physicists.


Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) applications with strict Quality of Service (QoS) are getting increasingly popular among mobile cellular users. These delay-sensitive applications demand for a large bandwidth for transmission over the mobile cellular systems. Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) that supports a wider transmission bandwidth is expected to meet this crucial demand. Packet scheduling is one of the key features as the LTE-A delivers these applications using packet-switching technology. To optimize packet scheduling performance for supporting the GBR applications, this paper adapts a well-known single-carrier Maximum-Largest Weighted Delay First (M-LWDF) algorithm into the multi-carrier downlink LTE-A. Simulation results have demonstrated that the adapted M-LWDF algorithm that performs packet scheduling on each radio resource, takes packet delay and the aggregated average throughput across all component carriers into consideration is more efficient for supporting the delay-sensitive GBR applications in the downlink LTE-A.


In this paper we propose a transmission scheme for Coherent Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM) systems with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) processing. Our proposal consists of the concatenation of two techniques, Non-Uniform Constellations (NUC) in the mapper, and Spatial Multiplexing (SM) in the implementation of Polarization-Division Multiplexed (PDM) systems. The main target of the proposed scheme is to reduce the overall performance loss introduced by PolarizationModeDispersion (PMD) and Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) in PDM-CO-OFDM systems. This approach will be compared to techniques traditionally used in CO-OFDM links as Golden codes and Silver codes as well as traditional SM. The full transmission chain has been modelled using Matlab. Simulations have been run to check the performance improvement achievable by our proposal showing a gain of up to 0.82 dB in the carrier to noise compared to traditional schemes, with no additional hardware complexity at the receiver side.


This study reports on two sets of findings related to interviewer effects, derived from a national RDD sample of the adult population. The first of these concerns the effect of interviewer characteristics and expectations on overall cooperation rates; the second, the effect of interviewer characteristics and expectations on item nonresponse and response quality. We found that interviewers' age, the size of the interviewing assignment, and interviewers' expectations all had a strong effect on overall cooperation rates; the relation of experience to response rate was curvilinear in this sample. Age and education have consistent but statistically insignificant effects on item nonresponse. The effect of interviewers' expectations on responses within the interview resembles that in earlier studies, but is less pronounced and less consistent. Eleanor Singer is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Social Sciences. Martin R. Frankel is Professor of Statistics at Baruch College, CUNY. Marc B. Glassman is an independent statistical consultant in New York City. The authors wish to thank Ed Blair, Charles F. Cannell, Howard Schuman, and Seymour Sudman for reading and commenting on an earlier draft of the paper. The research was made possible by grant SES-78-19797 to the senior author. Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 47:68-83 ? 1983 by the Trustees of Columbia University Published by Elsevier Science Publishing Co, Inc. 0033-362X/83/0047-68/$2.50 This content downloaded from 184.108.40.206 on Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:33:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms EFECT OF INTERVIEWER CHARACTERISTICS 69 interviews, where typically fewer interviewers take a much larger number of interviews. Consequently, the effect of each interviewer's performance on response rate and response quality is magnified many times. At the same time, the fact that each interviewer on a telephone survey can be assigned to a random sample of respondents makes such effects easier to investigate and avoids the methodological weaknesses plaguing the studies by Singer and Kohnke-Aguirre and by Sudman et al., namely, the confounding of area and interviewer


Both surface molecules concentration Ns and polarizability Am can be determined from the surface plasmon experiment instead of effective layer thickness, which is usually determined. The new method of quantitative comparison of experimental and calculated surface plasmon resonance (SPR) curves is proposed. Mathematical minimization of curves difference is used in this case. It is shown, that it is possible to determine both Am and Nm from one measurement for accurate experiment and high quality optical system.


Sampling and sample processing methods for different type of gold ores are studied through the experiments. The results show that before sampling and sample processing in any new gold mine some basic information, such as type and main components of the ores, existing appearance and grain size distribution of natural gold should be investigated. And in order to get accurate and reliable analytical results more attention should be paid to careful design of sampling and sample processing methods and selection of right analytical methods through experiments.


Communication technology has been developing rapidly, and has provided various choices for instruction media. Two experiments were carried out in this research. The participants were 176 freshmen and 45 seniors in a vocational senor high school in Taoyuan. The independent variable was instruction media and the dependent variables were motivation, test grades, and pressure. There were three levels in instruction media in experiment one: short message service, E-mail, and message board. There were three levels in instruction media in experiment two: short message and E-mail, short message and message board, and paper-based instruction. The results are summarized in the following: 1. No significant difference was found in motivation, test grade, and pressure for short message instructions. Also, no significant difference was found in test grade between short message group and control group. 2. No significant difference was found in motivation, test grade, and pressure for E-mail instructions. Also, no significant difference was found in test grade between E-mail group and control group. 3. No significant difference was found in motivation, test grade, and pressure for message board instructions. Also, no significant difference was found in test grade between message board group and control group. 4. No significant difference was found in motivation, test grade, and pressure for short message and E-mail instructions. Also, no significant difference was found in test grade between short message and E-mail group and control group. 5. Significant difference was found in motivation, test grade, and pressure for short message and E-mail instructions. Also, no significant difference was found in test grade between short message and message board group and control group.


Collagen is considered to be the principal contributor of postyield properties. Any modification of bone collagen including accumulation of non-enzymatic cross-links should, therefore, be expected to modify the fracture behavior of bone. Previous studies under monotonic loading to fracture have shown that non-enzymatic glycation (NEG) of bone reduces its post-yield properties [1,2], but no information is available on the extent to which NEG may alter the damage behavior of bone. For example, it is unknown if NEG modified bone, containing some amount of damage, undergoes progressive or instantaneous fracture under load. Such information may be critical to the understanding and treatment of age-related fragility fractures because, with aging, bone accumulates NEG products [1] and microdamage [3].


ABSTRACT This paper addresses the estimation fusion problem in distributed multi-sensor systems with uncertain cross-covariance among local estimation errors. A robust linear estimation fusion method is proposed in the sense of minimising the worst mean square error of the fused estimator over the uncertain normalised cross-covariances (NCC). The weighted coefficient matrices of the fused estimator can be obtained by solving a semi-definite programming problem. This estimation fusion method is suitable for the situations with completely unknown NCC or partly known NCC. Two fusion estimators for the uncertain NCC with partly known prior information are presented. Some numerical simulations are provided to show the good performance of the proposed estimators.


Mr. John Smith, of Kilwinning, has been fortunate enough to obtain from the Lower Limestone series of Auchenmade, Ayrshire, a specimen of the left valve of Aviculopecten semicostatus, Portlock, sp., which shows the hinge plate and interior most perfectly preserved. Hitherto a study of the hinge plate of Aviculopecten has been made from specimens which were merely casts of the interior, and consequently it has been impossible to observe that portion of the hinge plate immediately interior to the umbo. The Auchenmade specimen advances our knowledge of the anatomy of the genus, and establishes a character denied for it by its author, M'Coy.


The East German poet-clowns Hans-Eckardt Wenzel and Steffen Mensching rose to prominence during the GDR's (German Democratic Republic; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR) Peaceful Revolution of autumn 1989 with their cabaret production Letztes aus der Da Da eR. A film adaptation of the production was made by Jörg Foth in 1990, which was finally released on DVD with English subtitles in the United Kingdom and North America in 2009 (Latest from the Da-Da-R). In light of this long-overdue interest in Wenzel & Mensching, this article will attempt to put the work of the duo in historical and aesthetic context. Their use of character, masks, music, and philosophy combined to create the distinctly grotesque world that constituted their Liedertheater performances.


Abstract Field Work of Land Classification. The preliminary investigation for future possible schemes of land settlement should, if possible, he made well ahead of actual land settlement requirements. Hurriedly planned schemes have generally meant costly attempts at rectification of originally unnoticed mistakes or omissions. Quite often for unfortunate settlers it has meant permanent inconveniences and handicaps which could have been avoided by a better knowledge of local conditions, or by better designing, when the first subdivisions in that area were being considered.


Since the establishment of the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90), much progress has been made in the development of radiometers and blackbody sources. Cryogenic electrical-substitution radiometry is widely used in detector and radiometer calibrations, and stable, high-temperature metal–carbon eutectic blackbodies are under development. Radiation thermometers can be calibrated for absolute radiance responsivity, and blackbody temperatures determined from the amount of optical power without the use of any fixed points to directly measure thermodynamic temperatures. These thermodynamic temperatures can be measured with lower final uncertainties than the ITS-90 derived temperatures, and these developments will directly impact future international temperature scales.


Title Factors Affecting The Drop out of Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon Students in 2014 Academic Year Researcher Nawarat Karaked Varoonkanya Kunakornviroon Institution Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon Policy and Planning Division .................................... Purpose of this study 1) factors affecting the drop out of Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon students in 2014 academic year. 2) correlation with personal information and 3) solutions to prevent the drop out. A study population are 1,179 students who have dropped out in 2014 academic year and 584 lecturers of the Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The analysis on the students population will be carried out by computing frequency, percentage and Chi-square test to observe independency between the two variables. Also conducting an interview on the 360 students and 70 lecturers of the Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. From data collecting found that majority of student population status can be put by order as terminated, deprived and resigned. Gender, hometown, occupation of parents/guardians and income of parents/guardians show significant relation to the drop out of the students in 2014 academic year, while parents marriage status show no relation with statistically significant of 0.05. From the interview it can be extracted and put in order of contribution that personal issue, family issue, university environment and lecturer effect the student decision to drop out.


One of the important goals collaborative tasks achieve is to improve the entire efficiency of business processes. The influence should be discovered between resource services according to the order the activities use in business processes. However, it is especially difficult in collaborative task as each participant organizations use resource services independently. In a workflow, resource services are used in some sequence. An approach for selecting key feature sequence based on mutual information (KFSS-MI) is proposed. Firstly, by analyzing features of resource services, feature sequence and key feature sequence are defined. Then, based on mutual information, an algorithm is proposed to find key feature sequences from business data. The determined thresholds is required, that are the minimal support and the minimal influence degree. Finally, a simulated experiment is used to test our approach. The experimental results confirm the validity and efficiency of the approach.


Ultrastructural analysis of in vitro direct and indirect organogenesis). This is a comparative study of the ultrastructural characteristics of the cells involved in the organogenesis in vitro of Bauhinia forficata Link (indirect system) and Glycine max (L.) Merrill (direct system). B. forficata calli after 30 days culture and G. max meristemoids after 10 days culture were prepared for ultrastructural analysis using conventional methods. Concentrically arranged rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and plastids containing starch grains were seen during G. max and B. forficata organogenesis. The amitotic process, the presence of plastids around the nucleus and nuclear envelope with conspicuous pores were found in B. forficata.


Date: April 11-15, 2011, Place: San Antonio, TX, US Details: The meeting is dedicated to advancing the careers of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical professionals by focusing program content on science and technology innovation as well as optimized performance, offering extensive formal and informal networking opportunities and providing a forum to contribute to and influence the advancement of science and regulation in the industry. Useful link: http://pdaannualmeeting.org/


The river Gacka springs catchment area is located in the Dinaric karst, which is globally known as the locus typicus, or classical Karst. It is composed of four major and several minor karst springs of different discharge rates. The river Gacka springs are characterised by great discharge and exceptional quality, so the catchment area of the river is indicated in the Water Management Strategy (OFFICIAL GAZETTE NO. 91/08) as an area with strategically important eserves of drinking water for the Republic of Croatia. To determine the hydrogeological characteristics of he subcatchments of this large and complex aquifer system, hydrological and hydrochemical parameters were measured on the main springs. Data collected on the springs were analysed using the recession analysis by the "matching strip" method, the statistical analysis of a time series of measured data both by autocorrelation (analysis of individual series) and by cross-correlation methods (analysis of interrelationships between time series), multivarilate statistical analysis (Factor Analysis) of hydrochemical parameters using the software package STATISTICA 6.0 (1998), and geochemical modelling of hydrochemical parameters using the NETPATH computer program. Interpretation of lithological, structural and tectonic characteristics of the rocks, together with tracing data and the applied analytical methods, allowed the springs catchment of the river Gacka to be divided into three subcatchments. The results of this study imply the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to research.


Rape is a weapon that distorts a woman's sexuality, restricts her freedom of movement and violates her human rights. A rapist not only violates the victim's privacy and personal integrity, but also causes serious physical and psychological damage. Total 93 rape cases admitted to district hospital, Adilabad were studied retrospectively over the period of five years from October 2004 to September 2009. 78.5% of the victims were found to be in 11–20 years age group. Majority of the victims (88.17%) were unmarried. Most of them (92.5%) were Hindu by religion. 70% of perpetrators were known to the victims. 14% of the victims were kidnapped and 4.3% cases were raped under threat of great bodily harm or death. Twenty (21.5%) victims became pregnant after the act.


The invention relates to a method for optimizing a duplicated data deletion system. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring blocks of current data; performing Hash calculation on the blocks to obtain Hash fingerprints of the blocks; judging whether the Hash fingerprints of the blocks are in a Hash fingerprint database or not; judging whether reference number of the blocks in the Hash fingerprint database is larger than a threshold valve and copy number is smaller than the threshold value or not if the Hash fingerprints of the blocks are in the Hash fingerprint database; judging whether information of the blocks exist in an index table or not if the reference number of the blocks in the Hash fingerprint database is larger than the threshold value and the copy number is smaller than the threshold value; calling a node distribution process to select a light-load node if the information of the blocks exist in the index table; storing the blocks in the light-load node; updating the information of the blocks in the index table; and adding 1 into the reference number of the blocks in the Hash fingerprint database. According to the method, storage space can be dynamically distributed according to the current load of all storage nodes and the energy consumption state of the duplicated data deletion system, the working load of all storage nodes is balanced, and the system performance is improved.


It is known that micro-gravity has a strong influence on the human musculoskeletal system. A number of studies have shown that significant changes in skeletal muscles occur in both space flight and bedrest simulation. In our 5 week bedrest study, the cross-sectional area of soleus-gastrocnemius decreased about 12% while the cross-sectional area of anterior calf muscles decreased about 4%. Using volume measurements, these losses increased after 17 weeks to approximately 30% and 21% respectively. Significant muscle atrophy was also found on the SL-J crew members after only 8 days in space. It is important that these effects are fully understood so that countermeasures can be developed. The same knowledge might also be useful in preventing muscle atrophy related to other medical problems. A major problem with anatomical measurements of muscle during bed rest and microgravity is the influence of fluid shifts and water balance on the measurement of muscle volume, especially when the exposure duration is short and the atrophy is relatively small. Fluid shifts were documented in Skylab by visual observations of blood vessel distention, rapid changes in limb volume, center of mass measurements and subjective descriptions such as puffy faces and head fullness. It has been reported that the muscle water content of biopsied soleus muscles decreased following 8 hours of head down tilt bed rest. Three aspects of fluid shifts that can affect volume measurements are: first, the shift of fluid that occurs whenever there is a change from upright to a recumbent position and vice versa; second, the potential for fluid accumulation in the lower limbs resulting from muscle damage caused by overextending atrophied muscle or swelling caused by deconditioned precapillary sphincter muscles during reambulation; third, the net change of hydration level during and after bed rest or spaceflight. Because of these transitory fluid shifts, muscle protein is expected to represent muscle capacity better than does muscle volume. The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of using MRI to quantify of muscle protein and water content changes in muscle.


Intestinal gas is the most common cause of technically unsatisfactory abdominal ultrasound scans. In the attempt to increase the visualization of abdominal organs, many investigators use antifoaming agents or laxatives. In the present, randomized, placebo‐controlled, double‐blind trial, a liquid dimethicone preparation and an extract of senna, alone and in combination, were tested as a means to improve scan quality. Response variables were defined on the basis of pancreas, aorta, and kidney visibility. There was no difference in the response variables of the three groups compared to placebo (P>0.3–0.55). The results suggest that neither dimethicone nor senna improves the visibility of abdominal organs in ultrasound examination.


Impurity levels in plated Cu have been much studied, in particular their role in the room temperature recrystallization (or "self-annealing") of plated Cu films. 3 The recrystallization of electroplated Cu is important since large-grained metal (having a "bamboo" structure) is desirable for good interconnect electromigration performance. Past impurity studies have often involved blanket Cu films; ones where plated Cu damascene features are studied are fewer in number. Zhang et.al. found higher Cl signals using TOF-SIMS for 90nm wide Cu interconnect lines as compared to wide square pads (600nm on a side), suggesting more impurities are incorporated into the narrow patterned lines than in wide structures (and also that impurity studies on blanket films may have limited applicability to damascene structures). In this study, we characterize the impurity levels of Cu plated into 40nm CD structures for two types of Cu plating chemistries. One chemistry yields relatively pure Cu ("pure" Cu), while another gives a higher level of incorporated impurities ("doped" Cu), both as observed for blanket films. The impurity levels for each type are shown in Table 1. Room temperature recrystallization behavior is shown in Figure 1 by relative changes in deposited film sheet resistance (Rs). The Rs values changes more slowly for the "doped" Cu film. The behavior of the narrow 40nm CD lines is contrasted with that of larger CD structures. The impact of this featuresize dependent impurity incorporation on interconnect reliability will also be discussed.


It is shown that every (2p+1)log"2(|V(G)|)-edge-connected graph G has a mod (2p+1)-orientation, and that a (4p+1)-regular graph G has a mod (2p+1)-orientation if and only if V(G) has a partition (V...


Computer-aided network teaching is to establish a dulcimer teaching forum on the campus network, upload dulcimer teaching-related graphic materials, and combine inside and outside classes, teaching, and self-study. This paper makes comprehensive use of the computer-aided instruction method to study dulcimer teaching in colleges of music and probes into its role in improving teaching quality, interest, self-learning ability, and the teaching effect. The results show that the computer network teaching method is an effective supplement to the teaching modes of students' autonomous learning and cooperative learning. It is an effective way to fully mobilize students' subjective initiative and improve the teaching effect of the dulcimer. At the same time, the key to popularizing and developing this teaching method is to improve the computer proficiency of dulcimer teachers.


This article uses a unique database on 542 villages in southwestern Darfur to analyze patterns of land reallocation and population change that have emerged as a consequence of the recent conflict. The analysis demonstrates that a displacement from this region alone of more than 300,000 people from three targeted African groups has occurred and that villages have been repopulated by Arab and other African groups. Almost a fourth of all villages have been squatted by newly settled populations. The probability of squatting is shown to be largest in peripheral areas with good access to surface water, where soils are of good quality, and where many households from targeted tribes previously lived. A key challenge for post-conflict reconstruction will therefore be the restoration of rights to land.


The threat of ring is widely used as a discipline device in workplace. Despite its prevalence, theoretical foundations on the credibility of ring threats are not well studied. When ring is costly to the employer, it is not credible to carry out a ring threat unless a decrease in expected future return is associated with the employee's misbehavior. In this paper, we explore the role of learning in ensuring the credibility of ring threats and how a certain level of uncertainty is necessary to e ectively induce compliance. Peter Principal arises as an outcome of the model, as workers who are known be competent with almost certainty can no longer be disciplined and need to be promoted to more di cult tasks, even though they may be less productive at those tasks.


implemented in a computer system for digitally producing encoded frames in order to incorporate secondary information as a security feature anticounterfeiting into a visible primary image for use in a document, the method comprising the steps of method: a) obtaining a basic frame selected by the user; b) fusion of the secondary information and the basic frame selected by the user based on a principle of coding selected by the user to create a coded frame; c) compensation encoded frame to i) compensate for any distortions in the encoded frame created in the merging step (b) and ii) generate a compensated screen containing the hidden secondary information into the offset frame, d) I Hatched main image with the compensated frame to produce a combined output image according to corresponding playback technology encoding principle Porel selected user, and e) reproducing the document using the reproduction technology, the document incorporating the combined output image.


Objective To Investigate the clinical features of children with Erythoma Exudativum Multiforme. Methods A retrospective analysis were performed in 41 cases of Erythoma Exudativum Multiforme from January 2007 to June 2010 in our hospital to reveal clinical characteristics of incentives,rash, fever, mucous membrane and organ damage, laboratory tests, therapeutic intervention time. Results All patients had rash, 78% involved the oral mucosa, 44% had organ dysfunction. 18 patients relative count check of flow cytometry. Among them, disease duration is 14 days or less in 5cases, whose B lymphocytes relative count is 23% to 32% (median 26%); disease duration is greater than 14 days in 13 cases, whose B lymphoid cell count is 25% to 52% (median 34%), P= 0.026. 29cases used conventional amount of hormones, of which 9 cases were performed hormone intervention in the start time within 7 days after onset of illness, whose duration is 7~26 days (median 17 days), 20 cases of hormone intervention after the start time 7 days after onset, whose duration is 9 to 35 days (median 22days), P= 0.019. Conchusion Early diagnosis and enough hormone intervention are the key to treatment,particularly for some cases of immune disorders and the apparent high sensitivity of injury. Early intervention can significantly improve the prognosis.

Key words:
E rythoma Exudativum Multiforme;  Immune disorder;  Early intervention;  High sensitivity;  Hormone;  Disease duration;  Flow cytometry


We present this special issue of the journal with a great deal of excitement and expectation, as we see the fruits of a new generation of research discovery begin to fulfil the vision expounded by Karmiloff-Smith over a decade ago. Within the past few years alone, pioneering longitudinal studies have demonstrated that developmental changes are observable early in life and are disorder specific, such that different disorders have their own ''signature'' profile, and that changes continue across infancy, childhood, and even into adulthood. In essence, development is not static and rarely reaches an age plateau. These unique trajectories have now been identified across a range of different developmental disorders. In this special issue of the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, we highlight some of these core new findings and their implications for the development of better targeted resources that will help reduce the clinical burden of disability for many families and increase academic potential of all affected individuals. By their very nature, longitudinal approaches to understanding developmental disorders are time consuming and costly, but the rich information accrued across different timelines and the translational impact of these data are substantial. Traditionally, researchers in this field have tended to focus on using cross-sectional methodology to explore age-related changes across developmental time. This approach does, of course, provide important insights into how different age groups function across different snapshots of time. However, these data can never fully capture the subtle changing profiles that are driven by individual differences as they occur across time in the same individuals. The new information presented in this special edition will contribute toward the essential next step in promoting progress toward developing interventions that recognize developmental change. One of the many complexities inherent in our field is how one measures change. There are several methods available, ranging from standardized measures that include rating scales to cognitive or behavioral measures that tap different aspects of behavior and cognition. These measures are sensitive to different and, in some cases, complementary aspects of change. For example, IQ indexes differences compared with chronological age–matched peers, and these can remain stable (e.g., Williams syndrome; see Mervis, Kistler, & John, this issue) or increase over time (as in the case of fragile X syndrome; see Cornish, Cole, Longhi, Karmiloff-Smith, & Scerif, this issue). At the same time, a measure like growth score, which indexes improvements in the ability to tackle progressively more difficult tasks–items (similar to, although more refined than, raw score) can reveal small but significant progressive improvements over time in children with developmental disorders, such as those shown by children with fragile X syndrome, despite their decreasing absolute IQ scores (Cornish et al., this issue). Other measures do not seem to be as sensitive to change in certain groups, as in the case of the Social Communication Questionnaire (Rutter, Bailey, & Lord, 2003) for children with fragile X syndrome (Cornish et al.), but they are for others (children with high-functioning idiopathic autism; see Pellicano, this issue). A second complexity is how, as researchers, we tease out the precise nature of any developmental changes that may be disorder specific. One of the most popular approaches is to compare the group being studied with a typically developing population of children matched on chronological age and/or developmental level. The latter AMERICAN JOURNAL ON INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES


We prove that for any twist rigid compact $p$-adic analytic group $G$, its twist representation zeta function is a finite sum of terms $n_{i}^{-s}f_{i}(p^{-s})$, where $n_{i}$ are natural numbers and $f_{i}(t)\in\mathbb{Q}(t)$ are rational functions. Meromorphic continuation and rationality of the abscissa of the zeta function follow as corollaries. If $G$ is moreover a pro-$p$ group, we prove that its twist representation zeta function is rational in $p^{-s}$. To establish these results we develop a Clifford theory for twist isoclasses of representations, including a new cohomological invariant of a twist isoclass. Second part of arXiv:2007.10694.


—Carotid body chemoreceptors sense hypoxemia, hypercapnia, and acidosis and play an important role in cardiorespiratory regulation. The molecular mechanism of pH sensing by chemoreceptors is not clear, although it has been proposed to be mediated by a drop in intracellular pH of carotid body glomus cells, which inhibits a K (cid:1) current. Recently, pH-sensitive ion channels have been described in glomus cells that respond directly to extracellular acidosis. In this study, we investigated the possible molecular mechanisms of carotid body pH sensing by recording the responses of glomus cells isolated from rat carotid body to rapid changes in extracellular pH using the whole-cell patch-clamping technique. Extracellular acidosis evoked transient inward current in glomus cells that was inhibited by the acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC) blocker amiloride, absent in Na (cid:1) -free bathing solution, and enhanced by either Ca 2 (cid:1) -free buffer or addition of lactate. In addition, ASIC1 and ASIC3 were shown to be expressed in rat carotid body by quantitative PCR and immunohistochemistry. In the current-clamp mode, extracellular acidosis evoked both a transient and sustained depolarizations. The initial transient component of depolarization was blocked by amiloride, whereas the sustained component was eliminated by removal of K (cid:1) from the pipette solution and partially blocked by the TASK (tandem-p-domain, acid-sensitive K (cid:1) channel) blockers anandamide and quinidine. The results provide the first evidence that ASICs may contribute to chemotransduction of low pH by carotid body chemoreceptors and that extracellular acidosis directly activates carotid body chemoreceptors through both ASIC and TASK channels. ( Circ Res . 2007;101:1009-1019.) antibody, with fluorescence evident in only frame 12, where transfection took place. The aggregate results suggest the presence of ASIC1, -2, and -3 immunoreactivity, with lesser ASIC2 intensity and colocalization of the ASICs 1 and 3 in glomus cells.


With the entry into force of the Australian Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) in 2012, the Unitary Model of secured transactions law on personal property became part of the legal system of another major economy of the world. Australia joined the United States of America (the source-jurisdiction), Canada and New Zealand. Given the success of the Unitary Model, it is natural to question whether a similar breakthrough is to be expected in Europe as well. From a legal perspective, the key dilemma is whether the Continental European civil law systems — the majority of Europe's jurisdictions — are compatible with the Unitary Model at all. This depends to a great extent on the inherited yet differing legal platforms — the concepts, principles and rules characteristic of common law or civil law systems. This article aims to exemplify the discrepancies that might prove to be obstacles to transplanting the Unitary Model and which still have not yet been properly analysed in comparative scholarship.


The purpose of this study was to suggest a division of the State of Santa Catarina in macro-environments for experimentation and bean production. Data of the traits grain yield and plant cycle were evaluated in 10 common bean genotypes grown in nine environments. The data were submitted to the Student-Newman Keuls test, to detect differences between environments, and the Best Linear Unbiased Prediction, to predict the environmental values. The results showed: (a) differences between the regions of Santa Catarina for the traits grain yield and plant cycle, which had a significant positive correlation of 0.26 (b) Based on the genotypes and environments studied the state can be divided in two macro-environments (MA1 and MA2) and four micro-environments (MI1, MI2, MI3 and MI4). The state of Santa Catarina may be roughly divided in at least two macro-environments for the recommendation of new cultivars.


"The Art and Science of Renaissance Natural History: Thomas of Cantimpre, Pier Candido Decembrio, Conrad Gessner, and Teodoro Ghisi in Vatican Library MS Urb. lat. 276." Art is essential to the accurate description of organisms in natural history. The empiricism inherent in natural history is analogous to that in Renaissance humanism's approach to the text, particularly through its critical philological method. Vatican MS Urb. lat. 276 (1460) embodies a humanistic approach to the world, in that its author, Pier Candido Decembrio, while basing himself on Thomas of Cantimpre, rewrites the text, occasionally inserting critical comments of his own about phenomena he has witnessed. Decembrio's text can be better understood in the context of the natural history tradition from antiquity to the Renaissance. Teodoro Ghisi illustrates the manuscript 130 years later, basing himself on the latest and most accurate natural history information available, Conrad Gessner's Historia animalium. The tempera illustrations of...


Batteries help advance technologies ranging from portable electronics to renewable power systems and environmentally friendly vehicles. One such technology is the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), which uses a battery and an electric motor in conjunction with a combustion engine to increase fuel effi ciency. For HEV applications, nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH) battery chemistry is presently the norm. But lithium-ion (Li-ion) chemistry, with roughly twice the power and energy density of Ni-MH, is expected to facilitate new vehicle designs. These designs include plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with a 10‐40-mi all-electric range for normal commuting as well as pure battery-powered electric vehicles with up to a 300-mi range and the possibility of fast recharge. Batteries are often heavy and almost always expensive. Therefore, advances that can overcome these limitations are actively sought from both traditional and nontraditional research disciplines. For control theoreticians and engineers, onboard assessment of battery state of health (SOH), state of power (SOP), and state of charge (SOC) remain open areas of research. Compared to traditional empirical methods, electrochemical model-based methods may improve the accuracy of onboard state estimates, albeit at the cost of additional complexity. But this added complexity may be acceptable if a new algorithm can improve the available power and energy, enabling the battery to be smaller, lighter, and less expensive. For these reasons, Li-ion battery estimation and control is a critical research topic for advancing low-cost, low-carbon technologies. In practice, batteries must be monitored and controlled based on quantities that can be measured onboard. These measurements are presently limited to current, voltage, and temperature, and thus onboard controllers must estimate internal battery states, such as SOC and SOP, using only these three measurements. This estimation can be based on a battery reference model, which describes current, voltage, and temperature dynamics as a function of the battery's internal states. To avoid dealing with complex electrochemistry, battery-estimation algorithms typically use a grey-box, em pirical reference model to mimic voltage/current dynamics and their dependence on internal states [1], [2]. This battery reference model is in the form of an equivalent circuit, which is easy to identify and tends to agree well with test data under near-equilibrium conditions. SOC, which is related to the lumped chemical resources of the battery at equilibrium, is reasonably predicted by empirical-based estimation algorithms for Li-ion chemistry. But sustained power events, particularly high-power ones, pull the battery far from equilibrium, in which case equivalent circuit models have difficulty matching the battery's behavior. Traditionally, battery control constraints are defined


Salinity is one of the major environmental factors affecting the crop production of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) worldwide. Screening of varieties with tolerance to salt stress is important for future breeding problems. Current study was focused on two aspects; damage during cell division due to stress and on peroxidase activity to determine the coping capability of the varieties. Mitotic index of most varieties under study was decreased because of the cell damage but two varieties Abadgar-93 (treatment 2.46%, control 4.21%) and Kiran-95 (treatment 2.20%, control 3.05%) showed less decrease and similarly these varieties showed less peroxidases activity indicating more tolerance to the saline condition. Wheat varieties from Sindh, Pakistan showed potential for breeding programs and needed to be screened more thoroughly for their quality, yield potential and tolerance towards abiotic stresses.


Abstract : This study analyzes the U.S. Army's emerging doctrine for command and control as expressed in the coordinating draft of FM 101-5 dated July 1992. This thesis examines the suitability, feasibility, and completeness of the doctrine. Suitability is expressed in terms of FM 100-5, Operations, requirements for command and control. Feasibility is analyzed based on the battlefield environment and its effect on the command and control system. Completeness was based on a modeling of the system and process. This study concludes that the doctrine must provide specific measures for supporting commanders visualization of the situation in time and space to be suitable. The thesis concludes that the doctrine must address the effects of the environment on the human part of the system to be feasible. The analysis shows that the doctrine must address all types of major decision types and all elements of the command and control system to be complete. Based on these conclusions, the draft of FM 101-5 dated July 1992 is not sound enough for effective use. Command and control, Rapid planning, Tactical planning, Tactical control, Command and control with time constraints.


Concurrent trawl surveys and tag-recapture studies carried out in the north-western Gulf of Carpentaria between August 1983 and March 1985 provided a detailed description of the growth, movement and age structure of the population of grooved tiger prawns, Penaeus semisulcatus. Growth curves based on the tag-recapture data were used to interpret the length-frequency data collected from the trawl surveys and to determine the number of year classes present. The length-frequency data pertaining to the 1984 year class provided the basis for an estimate of the longevity of the species and a description of the offshore movement patterns. The effect of infestation by the bopyrid parasite Epipenaeon ingens on growth and movement was also examined. Individuals of P. semisulcatus may live for about 2 years, but in the north-western Gulf of Carpentaria very few survive beyond 18 months. Subadults recruit to the offshore fishing grounds during summer and autumn (November-March) at sizes between 20 and 25 mm carapace length (CL) (between 4 and 6 months). By 18 months of age, males reach a size of about 39 mm CL and females about 50 mm CL. The growth rates of both sexes are affected by the presence of E. ingens: males grow faster and larger, the females slower and smaller, with both sexes attaining a size of around 43 mm CL by 18 months of age. The recruiting year class continues to disperse offshore during autumn (from March to May) in such a way that by winter (June and July), although highest abundance is in depths of 35-40 m, the population extends well beyond the commercial fishery into depths greater than 50 m. Although prawns infested with E. ingens show a similar offshore movement, they do not venture beyond depths greater than about 30 m. The sex ratio within the year class remains at around 1 : 1 from the time of recruitment to about 1 year of age. Thereafter, the percentage of females declines steadily; by about 18 months of age very few prawns remain in the population, and of these only about 25% are female. In contrast, the sex ratio for prawns infested with E. ingens remains at about 1 : 1 throughout.


Background: The Inventory of Parental-Peer Attachment (IPPA) is an internationally recognized measure to assess the attachment of adolescents to their parents and peers. The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the IPPA in a sample of Spanish adolescents with behavioural problems. Method: The sample was composed of 294 Spanish adolescents (53% girls) with behavioural problems. The IPPA mother, father, and peer versions, along with other related measures, were administered. Results: The 25-item scale, distributed into three factors, was confirmed for both the mother and father versions but not for the peer version. The IPPA showed adequate values of reliability ranging from .79 to .86. Validity was demonstrated through correlations with emotional intelligence, antisocial behaviour, and aggressiveness. Conclusion: The three-factor version of the IPPA is a useful, reliable, and valid scale to assess the attachment of adolescents with problematic behaviours and their parents.


This dissertation was designed to evaluate antimicrobial, quality, and shelf life effects of controlled phase carbon dioxide (CPCO2) on beef trimmings destined for ground beef. Critical parameters included pressure, temperature, exposure times, modified atmosphere conditions, and days of simulated retail display. 1500 psi CPCO2 for 15 min achieved 0.83, 0.96, 1.00, and 1.06 log reductions for Total Plate Count (TPC), Generic E. coli (GEC), E. coli O157:H7 (O157), and Salmonella spp. (SS), respectively. Bacterial reductions in ground beef and beef trimmings were similar (P≥0.05). CIE L, a*, and b* values in raw patties showed no differences (P≥0.05) immediately after CPCO2 application on beef trimmings. Nevertheless, significant (P<0.05) interactions were found in pressure by packaging for L, in pressure by packaging by days of simulated retail display for a, and in packaging by days of simulated retail display for b scores. Nevertheless, after 5 days of simulated retail display, L, a, and reflectance (630/580nm) ratios were similar for all treatments (P≥0.05), and b scores were most acceptable with 1500 CPCO2 (P≥0.05), regardless of the packaging conditions. After 5 days of display, cooked patties showed similar (P≥0.05) values for crude protein (%CP) and crude fat (%CF), the extent of lipid oxidation (TBARS), was higher (P< 0.05) in aerobic trays than flushed packages with 100% CO2. Ground beef patties manufactured from beef trimmings treated with CPCO2scored higher values for tenderness (P< 0.05) than other treatments. In addition, no differences (P<0.05) for juiciness, beef flavor intensity, or off flavor intensity were found between non-treated and the 1500 psi CPCO2 treated patties. Microbial control of spoilage organisms and foodborne pathogens in ground beef patties with CPCO2 application in beef trimmings was effective (0.6 to 1.2 logs). Lethality levels are comparable to other intervention strategies. Discoloration of beef trimmings after CPCO2 application may not be a concern for grinding purposes. Further packaging with 100% CO2 is viable for controlling spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms after packaging and during refrigerated storage, although discoloration of raw ground beef patties packaged with 100% CO2 may be a concern for product marketing. CONTROL OF ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7, GENERIC ESCHERICHIA COLI, AND SALMONELLA SPP. ON BEEF TRIMMINGS PRIOR TO GRINDING USING A CONTROLLED PHASE CARBON DIOXIDE (CPCO2) SYSTEM By CARLOS ARTURO TANÚS MEUREHG B.S. (Hons), Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México, 1984 M.S., Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México, 2001


The possibility of use of iodometric and chelatometry titration for quantification of ions Cu2+ in ascorbic acid reaction is estimated. It is stated that the change of ions Cu2+ concentration can be realized with the method of complexometric titration. However, this process must be carried out with the presence of hydrogen peroxide for H2Asc oxidation to DАsc.


Considering Chile an immigration country is a new thing; in fact its net migration is still negative. The last twenty years, however, have seen a change in the migration flows to the country. This has been result of the democratization process after the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, a continuous economic progress and a perception of a country in social tranquility when compared with its neighbors. Between 1992 and 2012, immigration has increased from about 114,000 people to 352,000, primarily from Peru, Argentina and other South American and Latin American countries. The democratic governments have had since 1990 an erratic approach to this increase in migration. While in the discourse the state argues that migrants must be received with respect to migration international treaties signed by the country; in practice the same migration policies and laws developed during the dictatorship are still in use. Consequently, policy implementation has been equally inconsistent; some departments create programs to encourage social integration, while others attempt to restrict immigrant adaptation and have mismanaged judicatory claims. Within this bureaucratic context, this paper examines Chile's current attempts to construct migration policies and its implementation, and the possible effects that these policies might have in the social, political and economic development of the country.


Abstract. The Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE), which was part of the Polar Mesospheric Cloud Turbulence (PMC Turbo) Balloon Mission has captured vertical profiles of PMCs during a 6 d flight along the Arctic circle in July 2018. The high-resolution soundings (20 m vertical and 10 s temporal resolution) reveal highly structured layers with large gradients in the volume backscatter coefficient. We systematically screen the BOLIDE dataset for small-scale variability by assessing these gradients at high resolution. We find longer tails of the probability density distributions of these gradients compared to a normal distribution, indicating intermittent behaviour. The high occurrence rate of large gradients is assessed in relation to the 15 min averaged layer brightness and the spectral power of short-period (5–62 min) gravity waves based on PMC layer altitude variations. We find that variability on small scales occurs during weak, moderate, and strong gravity wave activity. Layers with below-average brightness are less likely to show small-scale variability in conditions of strong gravity wave activity. We present and discuss the signatures of this small-scale variability, and possibly related dynamical processes, and identify potential cases for future case studies and modelling efforts.


Shocked nurses at a Lanarkshire Trust hospital have received counselling after an incident where the wrong patient was injected with a massive dose of morphine.


The application of voiceprint technology on criminal detection is the conjunct of conventional detection methods and current information technology. It is material fact and approach of science improving the detection work and information cracking a criminal case. If we adequately exert the function of voiceprint technology, it would increase the ratio of cracking criminal cases and find out new resource to facilitate the process of information detection. Nowadays, the application of voiceprint technology on criminal detection is not ubiquitous and comprehensive.


Gallup [1982] in a review article drawing on his studies of primates' responses to their mirror images concludes that only human beings, chimpanzees


Sketch is an important elementary course for designing majors. However, the elementary sketch course doesn't have an independent teaching system in China. For a long time, sketch teaching follows the teaching model of art majors. This paper analyses these problems and puts forward some ideas and suggestions to improve the current situation.


Abstract We offer a historically grounded analysis of major works in the study of Japanese politics with a focus on the period since the Second World War. The article traces an evolution from early assessments of Japanese democracy and modernization through the focus on the political economy of high growth to the current disciplinary-based emphasis on narrower but more empirically defensible research. We close with a call for future research to take greater risks at synthetic analyses of Japanese politics broadly considered.


DOI:€10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.927756 Circulation 2010;122;614-622; originally published online Jul 26, 2010; P. Rusconi and Richard C. Becker Tonkens, Steven Zelenkofske, John H. Alexander, Robert A. Harrington, ChristopherMyles, Laura H. Aberle, Adam B. Greenbaum, Edward Fry, Mark Y. Chan, Ross M. Mauricio G. Cohen, Drew A. Purdy, Joseph S. Rossi, Liliana R. Grinfeld, Shelley K.Intervention as an Anticoagulation Strategy in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary First Clinical Application of an Actively Reversible Direct Factor IXa Inhibitorhttp://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/122/6/614 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, ishttp://www.lww.com/reprints


Abstract The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the resistance provided by variable-cam resistance training machines match joint torque capability. Eight variable-cam knee extension machines from six different manufacturers were assessed. Resistive torque for a constant weight/load was measured at five knee joint angles. Knee extensor muscle torque capability – the angle – torque relationship – of 10 healthy young men was determined isometrically and dynamically at the same five angles. After normalization, the two relationships were compared. The angle – torque relationship of the knee extensors displayed an inverted "U" shape as expected, with dynamic torque changing by +40% on the ascending limb (1.75 – 1.40 rad) and −60% on the descending limb (1.05 – 0.35 rad) of the angle – torque relationship. The angle – torque relationship of the different training machines was highly variable, but consistently less curvilinear and significantly different from knee extensor capabilities, with changes in torque of +2.5 to +22.2% (ascending limb) and +37.6 to −20.5% (descending limb). It is recommended that variable-cam resistance training machines be designed with the angle – torque relationship of the relevant joint and the inertial profile of the lifting exercise in mind.


The challenges that come with an abundant supply of resource wealth present difficult fiscal decisions for the Alberta government. One highly publicized concern is the need for the province to devise a long-run plan for resource revenue savings.


Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the significance of serum tenascin-C levels in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of small round blue cell tumors. Materials and methods: Forty patients and 30 healthy children (control group) were included in this prospective study. Serum tenascin-C levels were measured from blood drawn at the time of diagnosis, at the 3rd and 6th months of treatment, and at 3 months following the completion of treatment. While serum tenascin-C levels were measured a total of 4 times in the patient group, they were measured just once in the control group. Results: Each of the four measured serum tenascin-C levels in the patient group was significantly higher than that of the control group (p=0,013, p=0,009, p=0,011 and p=0,015, respectively). However, when the patient group was categorized into subgroups, only those with Wilms tumor had a significantly higher serum tenascin-C level at the time of diagnosis than did the control group (p=0,026). Conclusion: While larger, more thorough studies are needed, our data suggest that tenascin-C may be useful in the differential diagnosis of certain specific tumors, such as the Wilms tumor.


This paper is mainly based upon mobility. In this paper three topologies are used i.e. mesh, tree and hybrid topology. The hybrid topology is implemented by using the combination of mesh and tree topology. The data-based setup is done by changingmobile percentageof nodes. The performance of these topologies is measured using parameters throughput, MAC delay, MTR and MTS.The result show better performances of hybrid topology, which provides low MAC delay and effective throughput in the mobile network. The simulation is done by OPNET modeler 14.5.


Abstract A fixed survey design with a randomized depth component and a large rope trawl that fished surface waters at a speed of approximately 5 knots was used to estimate the abundance of juvenile coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch in the Strait of Georgia. The estimates of 4.2 million juveniles in September 1996, 3.0 million in September 1997, and 3.0 million in September 1998 were minimal because the catchability of the net was probably lower than that used in the analysis. In 1997, by using hatchery-marking percentages, we estimated that 3.4 million wild coho salmon smolts entered the Strait of Georgia from Canadian rivers. The estimates of juvenile abundance made in September 1997 were considerably larger than the estimated total returns in 1998, indicating that the marine mortality in fall and winter is an important component of the total marine mortality determining the final strength of the brood year. The use of surveys for estimating juvenile coho salmon abundance is a contribution to the understa...


* Part of this paper was read at the March, 1969 meeting of the Ameriean Oriental Society. 1. We are indebted to Professor Thorkild Jacobsen and to Professor William L. Moran for having read drafts of this paper and offering valuable comments and cautions; specifie contributions by them are duly acknowledged. We are further grateful to Professor Jacobsen for having allowed us to peruse his collection of texts relating to the geography of the Diyala region. Sole responsibility for the views here expressed is borne, of course, by the author. Dr. B. Lawrence of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Dr. G. Bloomer of the Department of Geology, both of Harvard University, patiently diseussed problems related to the paper with us. F. A. Gibson of the Mobil Oil Corporation kindly communicated further geological information to us. We would like to thank Martin Altschul, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for permission to publish the tablet which is in his possession, and the conservatrix of the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire of Geneva for the photograph of the text quoted below in note 22. We are further beholden to Professor W. W. Hallo for permission to quote from the Yale tablets listed below in note 60 as well as the BIN III texts, which were brought o our attention by S. Kang, and to ProfessorA. Sjoberg for collations (notes 39, 41) and communication f the lexical material in note 42. Professor E. R. Lacheman of Wellesley College gave generously of his time and unique skills in helping us to prepare the copy. After the tablet was copied and much of the study completed, we discovered that the text had already been copied by D. Owen and G. Young when it was in the possession of Origins", an antiquities dealer in Boston, who kept track of the text between the time we first saw it and when we were able to copy it. They had planned to publish it as part of a corpus of Ur III texts in the Boston area (outside of the Harvard Semitic Museum), but kindly ceded its publication to us when they learned that we had worked on the text. The abbreviations are those currently in use, with the addition of Buecellati = G. Buccellati, The Amorxtes of the Ur III Perwd (= Ricerche I of the Pubblicazioni del Seminario di Semitis tic a of the Isti tuto O rien tale di Napoli; Naples, 1966). In designating years of the Ur III rulers, we have used the list given by Ungnad, RLA II 136-147 although the dates thus obtained for SULgir's reign are too high. The tablet is light brownv 43 x 35.5 x 17 mm. 1 6 d [ u ] s u n i t a 1 Six male onagers, 21 d [ u ] Ssu 2one female onager m u n u s (out of the) 3 nam-ra-a[ka] 3 booty from the land k u r C\4 a r [ d ] u of ;A4ardu 4k i Lu d i g i r 4from LunannaN a n n a t a 5 G l R E t u u m 5 the conveyor (was) l u k a s 4 the courier Etum; 61 m [ a ] s U u 6 one goat (from) Uunurl-/hal-bihalbida; [ d ] a 7 2 [ z ] eh x (= 7 two fattened young SAL .AS . GAR) nanny goats n i g a x ( = S E )


In this paper, the author describes how suitable power electronic converters are vital to the smooth integration of solar arrays into a PV grid system.


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Essays in Later Medieval History. By E. F. Jacob. Pp. viii+224. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1968. 37s. 6d. This is the second volume of'essays' by Professor Jacob to be published. The first, Essays in the Conciliar Epoch, has run to three editions and has for long been established as a work of considerable value. The volume under review, while lacking an almost indefinable quality possessed by its predecessor, should nonetheless find its way on to the shelves of libraries and individual scholars. For them all it is a 'must'. As in his earlier collection, the author's great interest in the late medieval Church is amply demonstrated; over half the essays (all of which, with the exception of a consideration of Huizinga's thesis of the 'waning of the middle ages', have previously been published in books or journals) have to do with church history. The first four view some of the ecclesiastical problems of the period (just as we were treated to a consideration of the problem of clerical maintenance in the earlier collection) as they affected the lives and personalities of three men: the tragic inability of bishop Reynold Pecock to win sympathy in an age which still relied upon the formulae of mysticism and the devotional tradition; the role of archbishop John Stafford in the relations between England and Rome in the mid-fifteenth century (what about an essay on archbishop John Kemp, too ?); and another aspect of those relations as seen through the activities of the English proctor in Rome, William Swan, whose letter book should surely now be published. Two typical essays on the conciliar period demonstrate Professor Jacob's wide knowledge of an extensive modern literature on the subject, which he ably distils and interprets for others. In an essay on the council of Pisa, the influence of eastern Europe is well brought out, while the role of John of Segovia, an important figure at the council of Basel, is emphasised in 'Theory and Fact in the General Councils of the fifteenth century'. The approach through an individual once again proves its usefulness. As could be expected, Professor Jacob stands firm as the champion of the many positive aspects of late medieval civilisation. Its community life is emphasised in the essay on 'Founders and Foundations', while in his critique of Huizinga's thesis the author questions whether the middle ages did, in fact, burn themselves out. There are definite signs of the opposite, we are not surprisingly told, and evidence is adduced to show this in a convincing and agreeable way. The book is pleasantly produced, although one may carp at the number of small misprints and errors which have crept in, one or two from originally incorrect texts which should not have got by this time. These, however, do not detract from the value of having ten essays from a number of different sources under one cover.


A design methodology of broadband LNA (low noise amplifier) for convenient cascade application is proposed. This method solved two main problems in cascade LNA, i.e. the impedance match between two same modules and the stability after cascade. The single stage LNA has a good performance with over 10 dB of S21, the typical 2.5-2.7 dB of the NF (noise figure) in 1-4 GHz band, and it is unconditionally stable in the whole band. Especially, S11 is approximately equal to S22 at any frequency point. This characteristic can make a good match between two same modules. The simulation results show that the LNA with directly cascade of two same single modules can also achieve good performance in 1-4 GHz, the NF keeps nearly unchanged, S22 is two times larger than the single one, and the whole LNA is unconditionally stable, S11 and S22 decrease, and Sn is also almost equal to S22 at any frequency point.


Covering with plastic film in fall and planting through the film in spring is an effective drought-resistance, potato-cultivation method. To achieve proper under-plastic-film, hill-drop potato seeding, the geometry of an existing five-link planter mechanism that is driven synchronously by two cranks rotating in the same direction has been refined through bivariate plots and numerical optimization. For this purpose, novel quantitative measures of the geometry of the crunode portion of the dibber-tip path have been introduced. The prototype planter mechanism described in detail elsewhere has then been configured according to the three optimum kinematic solutions obtained, and field tests have been carried out. All three configurations satisfied the imposed agronomic requirements of potato planting through the plastic film, with one setup performing better than the other two, and then a previously reported solution obtained through manually conducted optimization.


Objective To study the rule of D3 lymph node micrometastasis through detecting cytokeratin 20(CK20) and caudal type homeobox transcription factor 2(CDX2) in rectal cancer,and to provide an objective evidence for the application of D3 radical correction for rectal cancer.Methods HE staining and immunohistochemical staining were used to analyze CK20 and CDX2 expressions in all lymph node specimens got from 68 patients,whom had been diagnosed with rectal cancer in stage B or C,and received D3 radical correction for rectal cancer during December 2006 to June 2008 in Department of,General Surgical Southwest Hospital(Chongqing).Results Totally 1 571 lymph nodes were got from 68 patients,23.1 in average per patient.The latero-micrometastasis rate was 10.3%,upside was 8.8%,and the total metastasis rate of D3 lymph nodes was 19.1%.Conclusion Through detecting CK20 and CDX2,we found that the risk of relapse and metastasis is very high in the patients whose mid-low rectal cancer is in the stage Dukes B or Dukes C,so D3 radical correction for rectal cancer is quite worthy being generally applied.


This paper splits into two main ideas. First, provide a broad overview of the history of management thought in the UK, from its early manifestation in the 19th century to the establishment of the first business schools in London and Manchester in 1965. The second part of the paper deals with developments in the 1980s. Anecdotal evidence suggests that during the governments of Margaret Thatcher there was a radical shift in British management practice and thinking. Some of these changes ran in parallel to global trends in capitalism (and specifically the advent of neo-liberalism). Others were idiosyncratic to the UK. But there is no systematic evidence to clarify whether these changes resulted from deliberate action by the Thatcher government and its supporters in British industry or whether Mrs Thatcher became a rallying point for an episode of globalization. In short, was the era of the OWashington ConsensusO (Williamson, 1989) in Britain an episode of exceptionalism? Rather than offering empirical evidence to solve this question, the second and last part of the chapter puts forward a research agenda to explore changes in British management at the end of the 20th century.


This project compares the computational efficiency, stability/accuracy, and precision of various numerical integration schemes to determine which is most appropriate for use in conjunction analysis of satellite orbits. Specifically, this project examines a few of the top Runge-Kutta, extrapolation, and multistep algorithms, combining both previous research in this field with new analysis to form the final conclusion. In addition, a method is proposed for using dense output to expedite orbit calculations.


A formulation of the Cauchy theory for balance laws of scalar valued quantities is considered from a general geometric point of view. It is assumed only that the ambient space is an orientable m-dimensional manifold. The analog of the usual flux vector field is an(m − 1)-differential form. Both the Cauchy theorem and differential version of the balance laws are formulated in this context.


[From the Editor's Introduction:] Paul Lafond's chapter on prints in his Hieronymus Bosch: Son art, son influence, ses disciples (1914) is based on a list of prints compiled by Maurice Gossart for Jerome Bosch: Le "faizeur de dyables" de Bois-le-Duc (1907), which in turn was based on earlier lists. It is somewhat more inclusive than F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings Engravings and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (1949-), and for that reason is more interesting as a survey of the Bosch prints. We have included Hollstein's numbering in this volume, and have also followed Hollstein's decisions as to which Lafond number to assign to which print since Hollstein has become the standard reference. There has been very little commentary on the prints after Bosch, aside from some notes by E. Taverne on a few prints in the catalogue for the 1967 Jheronimus Bosch exhibition in 's-Hertogenbosch. This is partly because surveys of prints tend to be organized according to authors, and Hieronymus Bosch clearly could not be held responsible for all or probably any of the prints included here, with the possible exception of a tiny print of St. Christopher here as no. A-3. This does not detract from their interest, since the Hieronymus Bosch who lived in 's-Hertogenbosch and died in 1516 was not always the only person to be called a Hieronymus Bosch. The most famous example is Bruegel who was a "novus hic Hieronymus Orbi Boschius" in Lampsonius' portrait series. The claims that Bosch's style of painting was invented in ancient Greece are not so much rhetoric as they are explanations of so many artists inventing pictures in the same style. The notion that the prints reproduce original drawings or paintings by Bosch goes back to at least to Hieronymus Cock, who added the claim that "Bosch invented" (Bos. inv.) to prints based on drawings by Bruegel and others, and the list of prints thought to be after originals by Bosch grew in the nineteenth century when connoisseurs with good eyesight, a good memory, and no photocopy machines thought they recognized Bosch's style in various old and not-so-old prints, including some seventeenth century pastiches of Bosch's style. I have tried to organize the notes on individual prints in such a way as to make it easy for the reader to distinguish Lafond's commentary from my own notes on a few of the prints (marked Translator), to refer back to Hollstein, The Illustrated Bartsch, and other recent sources relating to the prints, and also to trace titles and attributions in older catalogues. The older lists of Bosch prints give a sense of what was considered to be a "Bosch" style in the nineteenth century, which was something quite different from the "Bosch" of the drawings attributed to the same artist. Lafond's chapter is translated "as is," and I have followed Hollstein's identifications of individual prints to avoid confusion. A few prints have been added at the end, numbered A-1 through A-12...but there has been no attempt to include all copies or prints that might relate to Bosch, or to sort through Bruegel prints and decide which ones have more to do with Bosch. The bibliography includes sources mentioned in the text and various sources apt to be consulted in the context of Bosch prints.


A knowledge management system is required to ultimately enable an organization to realize its knowledge management objectives. The organization has several issues with this system, including deciding whether to adopt it or not, and, in the latter case, whether users would accept working with it. This study aims to determine the impact of human behavioural factors (HBFs), such as emotion, on group processes, as well as the impact of these processes on individuals' attitudes and emotions, character, values and beliefs, perspective and motivation, and knowledge management system–cycles (KMS-Cs). In addition, knowledge management systems are adopted at both the organizational and individual levels. Many factors influence an organization's decision to adopt knowledge management systems, including corporate culture and top management support. Various circumstances also influence users' acceptance, and naturally, the amount of acceptance affects the knowledge management system's effectiveness. Although an effective knowledge management system (KMS) is a critical strategy for organizations to obtain sustained competitive advantages, little research has been undertaken to determine what factors contribute to the success of KMS.


This collection contains a quilt brought from Russia in 1913 and a copy of the Samuel and Mary Hansch Family Tree book.


Objective To evaluate the application of handmade metal urethral probe with guiding hole at top end in guiding vesico-urethral anastomosis in radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.Methods 19 cases with prostate cancer had been undergone retropubic radical prostatectomy during August of 2001 to September of 2009,in which neurovascular bundles were reserved in 15 cases,all cases were undergone vesico-urethral mucosa extrovert intermittent anastomosis at 12,2,4,6,8,10 points by guiding 5/8 round needle 2-0 Vicryl wire with handmade guiding probe.Results The anastomosis for all cases were successful,the operatng time for anastomosis was 5min-10min.The anastomosis area stricture was absent and micturition was fluent after urethral catheters were removed in 2~4 weeks,Functional recovery of urinary continence occurred within 3 months after surgery in 6 cases and 12 months in 11 cases,continuous mild-moderate incontinece occurred in 2 cases.The ratio of functional recovery of urinary continence within 1 year was 89.4%,neurovascular bundles were reserved in 15 cases,in which the recovery of erectile function occurred within 3 months after surgery in 2 cases and 12 months in 8 cases,erectile function was impaired in 2 cases,erectile dysfunction occurred in 3 cases,the ratio for recovery of erectile function within 1 year was 66.7%.Conclusion Vesico-urethral anastomosis through application of handmade guiding probe is convenient and accurate and can effectively ensure fluent anastomosis area,reduce anastomosis area stricture and urine leaking,and is beneficial for protection of pelvic bottom urinary continence structure and neurovascular bundles.


This study focuses on the colonial intertexts in Assia Djebar's novel L'Amour, la fantasia and on the manner in which they are inserted in the text. It shows that Djebar's novel tends to privilege direct discourse and narrated discourse in order to comment on the representation of the conquest of Algeria in the military press of the 19th century. In drawing attention to the state of the press during the colonisation of Algeria, this study draws a parallel between the narrative strategies at work in L'Amour, la fantasia and those exploited by literary journalism. Polyphony and intertextuality prove to be valuable not only in the fight against censorship but also in the struggle for freedom, whether this freedom be freedom of speech or political and social emancipation.