The project management literature has typically focused on project efficiency measures, such as time, cost, and quality, but rarely examined broader measures of project success, such as customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. In this article, we apply a resource-based theory framework and examine both ordinary and dynamic capabilities of the firm and their influence on customer satisfaction and repurchase intentions. We also include the firm's corporate reputation and explore its moderating influences on variables in the model. Data from 491 project managers indicate that one dynamic capability (relational) is three times stronger at predicting customer satisfaction than one of the ordinary capabilities (project). Another dynamic capability (product) is not a significant predictor of customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is the strongest determinant of repurchase intentions and fully mediate the impact of the firm's dynamic and ordinary capabilities on repurchase intentions. When the sample is split according to corporate reputation, for the group who saw the focal firm reputation ranked first in industry, the project (ordinary) capabilities and relational (dynamic) capabilities have similar influences on satisfaction. However, for the group who saw other firms' reputation ranked first, relational capabilities are stronger than project capabilities at predicting satisfaction.


The invention at the same time to form over the circular polarization antenna, and relates to a composite antenna including this antenna, according to the configuration of the film antenna for receiving a circular polarized wave, transparent to at least one loop antenna resin film, the vicinity of the loop antenna, and in placing the non-powered element constituted by a separate linear conductor with respect to the antenna conductor configuring the loop. The one non-powered power plant disposed on the side of the loop antenna, and is constituted by a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is thus closer to the substantially parallel state with a portion of the loop antenna. When using a monopole antenna in place of the loop antenna, the reception of the circular polarization is possible, by combining this with the linear conductor is perpendicular to, install and power transfer between the two configurations. Above the transparent resin film is mounted to the other antenna may be a composite antenna. The antenna may be used as the antenna of the navigation device. Circular polarization antenna, car


Neutrophils are appreciated to perform a wide range of pro‐ and anti‐inflammatory effector functions in diverse settings. These go far beyond the response to acute infection, encompassing sterile injury, autoimmunity, allergy and tumours. There is growing appreciation of the nuances of their modes of action, especially elucidation of the nature and consequences of NETosis. New work suggests that it is time to give greater consideration to the anti‐inflammatory role of neutrophils, such as in the control of cytokine release during sepsis.


In the majority of mechatronic devices, thermal fatigue of solder joints is a mechanism causing failure of the solder joints. This type of failure is the main cause that the lifetime of embedded mechatronics systems is often related. This paper presents a finite element simulation of themechanical behavior of solder joints in an electronic board as well as the application of the CMAES optimization method to increase the reliability of joints. This method is the best evolutionary method for continuous parametric optimization. In particular, she was the winner of the stochastic methods (other ES, but also PSO, Differential Evolution, and other EDAs)[8]. A model of finite element simulation is developed, this model intends to analyze the sequence of failure events in mechatronic devices. In this article, this numerical model is used to estimate the number of fatigue life cycles by modeling the most stressed solder joints, and then the proposed CMAES optimization method is performed to overcome the disadvantage of geometric complexity (difficulty application of gradient methods) of mechatronic components. Numerical results show the increasing of the fatigue life cycle of mechatronic devices.


1. Atomic Structure 2. Moles and equations 3. Acides 4. Redox 5. Electron Structure 6. Bonding and structure 7. Periodicity 8. Group 2 9. Group 7 10. Basic concepts in organic chemistry 11. Alkanes 12. Alkenes 13. Alcohols 14. Halogenoalkanes 15. Modern analytical techniques 16. Enthalpy changes 17. Rates and equilibrium 18. Chemistry of the air and Green chemistry


As an injector to the future FAIR facility, the UNILAC accelerator is required to deliver ion beams with high intensities as well as good beam quality. The electrodes of the current HSI RFQ are exhausted and the current RFQ itself is assigned to be one bottle-neck for improving the brilliance performance of the whole linac. Based on the so-called NFSP (New Four-Section Procedure) method, a new RFQ electrode design has been developed and optimized for 20 emA, U beams at the RFQ entrance. Since only the electrodes will be replaced, the RFQ length has been kept unchanged. Even with a lowered inter-vane voltage, the new RFQ design has achieved better beam performance compared to the previous design. This paper will focus on the performed study with respect to beam dynamics.


This paper describes an active noise control technique (ANC) which can be applied to the noise reduction of a capacitor motor. This paper shows the system diagram and experiments of the ANC for capacitor motors.


The chapter examines the connection between some recent robust mandates and jus post bellum, based on missions operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and South Sudan. In the framework of robust mandates, peacekeepers' main responsibilities are to protect civilians and support the local central government in regaining full control over its territory. The author discusses the pros and cons of robust mandates to reach a just and stable post-conflict arrangement. He argues that some recent robust mandates can have some immediate positive effects, but also may make respect for post bellum principles more problematic in the long term. Their contribution to just peace is questionable and requires further study.


A method for analyzing nonsway beam-and-column subassemblages, which are parts of a braced multistory frame, is presented. The type of subassemblage studied consists essentially of a column framed at its ends to beams of known properties. When subjected to load, the beams will deform with the column and thus provide restraint at the ends of the column. The method can be used to study both the elastic and inelastic behavior of subassemblages provided the material properties are known. Application of the method to the analysis of beam-columns continuous over several supports is also illustrated.


Specialized Sports Event Teaching has entered into university for 20 years, There still exist problems about it because of the difference of idea from teachers, which is resulted in ineffectiveness of the teaching. However, it should be based on students' interest centered selection that students can choose freely the taken course they like best so as to make the teaching perfect.


Renal replacement therapy is an effective treatment for end-stage diabetic nephropathy.This review summarized recent literatures on hemodialysis,peritoneal dialysis and renal transplantation for end-stage diabetic nephropathy.The purpose is to guide doctors for treating end-stage diabetic nephropathy more reasonably.


A BSTRACT : The entire tracking system of the ATLAS experiment will be replaced during the LHC Phase-II shutdown. A new silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) will contain five pixel layers equipped with new sensors and readout electronics capable to improve the tracking performance, cope with the high particle multiplicity and work in a high-luminosity environment. In order to standardize modules of the Inner Tracker, the idea of a common hybrid pixel module was introduced to be used in all regions of the detector. The common hybrid module assembly and testing techniques will be presented. The module construction, metrology and electrical testing results will be discussed. The work was done with the RD53A pixel modules – prototype modules towards the final ITk pixel detector.


Mechanical stretch activates Rho-kinase in adipocytes, promoting obesity and obesity-related complications. Stopping the Obesity Cycle Obesity is associated with an increase in lipid storage in adipocytes and a consequent increase in adipocyte size. Changes in cell size affect the cytoskeleton, which is regulated by molecules such as the guanosine triphosphatase Rho and its effector Rho-kinase. Noting that mechanical stretch can lead to activation of the Rho to Rho-kinase (Rho–Rho-kinase) signaling pathway, Hara et al. investigated the role of Rho–Rho-kinase signaling in obesity and its complications. They found that adipocyte Rho-kinase signaling was increased in obese mice fed a high-fat diet. Rho-kinase activity in adipocytes increased with increasing cell size and was also activated by mechanical stretch. Inhibition of Rho-kinase signaling—either systemically or specifically in adipocytes—inhibited the development of an inflammatory obesity-related phenotype in adipose tissue. Moreover, it decreased weight gain in mice fed a high-fat diet and attenuated such pathophysiological complications of obesity as insulin resistance and glucose intolerance. The authors thus propose that adipocyte stretch may contribute to obesity and its complications through activation of Rho–Rho-kinase signaling and that inhibition of this signaling pathway may provide a mechanism for disrupting this cycle. The development of obesity involves multiple mechanisms. Here, we identify adipocyte signaling through the guanosine triphosphatase Rho and its effector Rho-kinase as one such mechanism. Mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD) showed increased Rho-kinase activity in adipose tissue compared to mice fed a low-fat diet. Treatment with the Rho-kinase inhibitor fasudil attenuated weight gain and insulin resistance in mice on a HFD. Transgenic mice overexpressing an adipocyte-specific, dominant-negative form of RhoA (DN-RhoA TG mice) showed decreased Rho-kinase activity in adipocytes, decreased HFD-induced weight gain, and improved glucose metabolism compared to wild-type littermates. Furthermore, compared to HFD-fed wild-type littermates, DN-RhoA TG mice on a HFD showed decreased adipocyte hypertrophy, reduced macrophage recruitment to adipose tissue, and lower expression of mRNAs encoding various adipocytokines. Lipid accumulation in cultured adipocytes was associated with increased Rho-kinase activity and increased abundance of adipocytokine transcripts, which was reversed by a Rho-kinase inhibitor. Direct application of mechanical stretch to mature adipocytes increased Rho-kinase activity and stress fiber formation. Stress fiber formation, which was also observed in adipocytes from HFD-fed mice, was prevented by Rho-kinase inhibition and in DN-RhoA TG mice. Our findings indicate that lipid accumulation in adipocytes activates Rho to Rho-kinase (Rho–Rho-kinase) signaling at least in part through mechanical stretch and implicate Rho–Rho-kinase signaling in inflammatory changes in adipose tissue in obesity. Thus, inhibition of Rho–Rho-kinase signaling may provide a therapeutic strategy for disrupting a vicious cycle of adipocyte stretch, Rho–Rho-kinase signaling, and inflammation of adipose tissue that contributes to and aggravates obesity.


Pulmonary Tuberculosis is most common diseases in India with significant mortality and morbidity. Tuberculosis can cause diverse thoracic presentations ranging from nodules, consolidations & cavitation, mediastinal adenopathy, pleural effusion to diffuse endobronchial disease presenting like bronchial asthma. In this case report, 29- year male, presented with constitutional symptoms for 4 months duration with partial response to medical treatment received according to their knowledge and experience towards bronchial asthma, enteric fever and jaundice. Radiological investigations documented only prominent hilum left side of thorax which was underestimated due to presence of wheeze. Recurrent, progressive and partially responding constitutional symptoms was the reason for referral to our center. We have also noted prominent hilum with inhomogeneous infiltrates left lung field and localized wheeze and crepitations on left side of thoracic cavity in mammary and interscapular region. We have further evaluated with HRCT thorax and observed thick-walled cavities in left upper lobe posterior segment. 'Stepladder Lung Cavities' in HRCT is defined as multiple cavities adjacent with each other partially communicating to noncommunicating of variable size and shape unilaterally or bilaterally in stepladder fashion. 'Starry sky pattern' in HRCT Thorax is defined as randomly placed nodular opacities presenting as discrete or conglomerated, interstitial and acinonodular opacities unilateral or bilateral adjacent to pulmonary cavities usually reported as satellite nodules. Satellite nodules are defined as nodular opacities adjacent to pulmonary primary caviatary lung disease and indicator lymphatic local spread and active pulmonary tuberculosis. We have done sputum examination and documented acid-fast bacilli in sputum smear and MTB genome with rifampicin sensitivity in cartridge based nucleic acid amplification test. Treatment initiated with anti-tuberculosis (ATT) and recorded near complete radiological resolution, bacteriological cure after six months with good compliance. High index of suspicion is must while managing these cases with constitutional symptoms with typical 'Stepladder Lung Cavities' with 'starry sky pattern' in HRCT Thorax to have successful treatment outcome.


High-risk drinking among college students is believed to be the most serious health issue facing college and universities throughout the United States. In 1999, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) established a task force to address the issue and released a report with recommendations for intervention and prevention. Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) emerged as an evidence-based practice to address high-risk drinking. Quantitative researchers produced results that indicate BASICS and interventions similar to BASICS are an effective means to reduce high-risk drinking and the negative outcomes associated with high-risk drinking. Despite strong evidence for the effectiveness of BASICS, little is known about its fidelity when BASICS is implemented in a practical setting. The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives and experiences of practitioners in the mental health profession who use the BASICS intervention via semistructured interviews. Themes emerged related to the application of the intervention, the strongest and weakest aspects of intervention, and barriers to implementation. The themes linked to the application of BASICS on campuses included: (1) a comprehensive/progressive approach to address high-risk drinking; (2) modifications; and (3) the mandated student. The themes relating to the strongest aspects of the intervention were: (1) harm reduction; (2) education; (3) personal awareness; and (4) self-empowerment while the weakest aspects were: (1) the dilemma of one size fits all and (2) the personalized feedback report (PFR). The themes connected to barriers were: (1) the referral process; (2) training; and (3) onus on the facilitator. These twelve


well as to the teeth; this is a very important factor when great pressure is necessary to move the fragmnents into their proper place. The remaining teeth, especially those near the fracture, are generally loosened, and will easily yield to pressure. In fact, many of the teeth situated as above mentioned exfoliate in within a month or two, or sometimes they remain painful, produce irritation of the gums, and finally have to be removed. Then we discover that the roots have been fractured in their alveoli. In many cases we have to use pressure from withoutover the chin or the cheeks. For this purpose we may employ linen bandages, or manufacture special chin cups of rubber or metal with hooks fastened to them for the attachment of elastic bands, that will allow of a pull in the direction indicated by the case. I need not go into further detail respecting this question, so I will touch quite briefly upon another very important itemnamely, the hygiene of the wounds of the oral cavity. We have all observed that when the wounded come from the Front their mouths are in a terribly septic condition. The pernicious odour emanating from the oral cavity is simply unbearable, and must be got rid of rapidly. I believe a good method of effecting this is to suspend a recipient fitted with a rubber tube and a glass cannula above the head of the patient; to fill it with a light tepid solution of iodine (from 5 to 10 per cent.) or chloride of sodium, and to wash out the oral cavity thoroughly from three to six times a day according to the septic condition present. The improvement that results is simply wonderful if the nurse folloWs the directions correctly: in two days the fever abates and the fcetid odour disappears entirely. We may then approach the patient for a thorough examination and begin the correction of the fractures.


A field experiment was conducted during the rainy (kharif) and winter (rabi) seasons of 2015–16 and 2016–17 at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, to evaluate the effects of conservation agriculture (CA) and carryover weed management on weed interference and crop productivity of wheat [Triticum aestivum (L.) emend Fiori & Poal] in an onion (Allium cepa L.)–wheat system. Three conventional and conservation tillage and 7 weed-management treatments were laid out in a split-plot design, with 3 replications. The CA-based zero-till raised-bed system with residue retention (ZTRB + R) resulted in significant reduction in total weed density and biomass compared to conventional till flat bed (CTFB), which led to higher weed control efficiency (11%), grain (4.02 t/ha) and straw yield (4.24 t/ha), and net returns 46000 `/ha in the year 2016–17. The zero-till flat bed with residue (ZTFB + R) and ZTRB + R led to an increase in wheat grain yield by 5.1 and 3.6%, and net returns by 28 and 18% than CTFB respectively. Among the herbicidal treatments, the pendimethalin followed by (fb) ethoxysulfuron resulted in the highest reduction in weed density (29 and 34%) and weed dry weight (55 and 56%) in both years, and the pendimethalin fb quizalofop was comparable with it in these regards. The pendimethalin fb quizalofop- or ethoxysulfuron- treated plots provided higher wheat grain yield (4.24 t/ha), net returns 49000 `/ha and net benefit: cost (B: C) in the year 2016–17. The pendimethalin fb ethoxysulfuron had higher residual effect on weeds in wheat but inflicted severe phytotoxicity to onion in previous season that reduced onion yield significantly. Therefore, the pendimethalin fb quizalofop application to onion is most preferred considering onion and wheat crops safety and may be adopted under zero-till raised-bed for higher productivity and profitability in onion–wheat cropping system.


Background: Globally, there is an emerging increase in the population of elder citizens. Despite the process of natural aging, elderly population in addition suffers acute and chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which are often neglected. Aim: This study was aimed at describing the burden (prevalence and pattern) of non-communicable diseases among geriatric Nigerians in a rural hospital in resource-constrained setting of Eastern Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This study was a descriptive hospital-based study of 286 geriatric patients with NCDs out of a total of 872 geriatric patients' population in a rural Hospital in Imo state, South-Eastern Nigeria. The data collected included age, sex and diagnoses. Diagnoses of NCDs were based on clinical method of subjective complaints, objective findings and appropriate laboratory and radio-diagnostic confirmations. Results: Eight hundred and seventy two patients out of a total patients population of 9885 were 65 years and above. The geriatric population constituted 8.8% of total patients' population. Five hundred and thirty (60.8%) of geriatric health problems were due to communicable diseases; two hundred and eighty-six (32.8%) were due to NCDs and fifty-six (6.4%) resulted from accidents, trauma and injuries. Of the 286 who had non-communicable diseases 176 (61.5%) were males while 110(38.5%) were females with a male to female ratio of 1.6: 1. The top five non-communicable diseases were hypertension 192 (67.1%), musculoskeletal disorders 126 (44.1%), dyspepsia 99 (34.6%), non-communicable visual impairment 96 (33.6%), and diabetes mellitus 25(8.7%) Conclusion: This study has shown that geriatric patients in the study area suffer NCDs with three most common being hypertension, musculoskeletal disorders and dyspepsia. There is therefore the need for preventive action against the scourge of geriatric non-communicable diseases.


Germany's 1999/2000 citizenship law marked a shift in the country's self-definition from a non-immigration country to an immigration country. The general opening up of the German nation-state was soon followed by new closures, however. Discussions began on who should, and who should not be accepted as members of the re-invented nation-state. The debate centred on Muslim immigrants. How can Muslim immigrants become part of Germany when they adhere to a religion (and culture) with a long historical position as the quintessential other to European culture and society? What place, in particular, should be assigned to Muslim organisations that provide for doctrine and ritual? As the new Islamic presence in Germany was considered a key challenge for maintaining public security and order, the Ministry of the Interior took the lead in policy development. Within the ministry, security agencies, particularly the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) played a decisive role in generating knowledge about the newcomers and the structure and formation of Islamic politics. In this paper, I analyse the ways in which security knowledge is produced in the Ämter für Verfassungsschutz, the "Offices for the Protection of the Constitution".1 I apply an emic approach, asking how bureaucrats in this institution perceive and categorise Islam, to show how this knowledge constitutes the foundation for various security strategies. I begin by sketching the mission and the vision of the Verfassungsschutz and exploring how ideas


The method involves obtaining a set of points (E14) from obstacle detected by a sensor e.g. radar, and creating another set of points by sum of the former set of points. Detection mode of potential collisions is obtained (E20) by using aircraft speed, and an aircraft guiding mode is obtained. A set of transformed points is obtained by applying a transformation to the former set of points. Shrouds are calculated, where calculation mode is chosen based on the detection mode, and the collisions corresponding to obstacles associated to the transformed points are included in one of the shrouds. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a detection device of potential collisions embarked in an aircraft, comprising an obtaining unit (2) a computer program comprising a set of instructions to perform a method for detection of potential collisions (3) a computer-readable recording medium for recording a computer program comprising a set of instructions to perform a method for detection of potential collisions.


The electronic and geometric structures of dichloroformaldoxime, Cl
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CNOH, dibromoformaldoxime, Br
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CNOH and bromochloroformaldoxime, BrClCNOH, are investigated for the first time in the gas phase by He I photoelectron, He I andH L
 α,s,γ
 photoionisation mass, and mid-IR spectroscopies, and in the solid state by Raman spectroscopy. Ab initio calculations atthe MP2(fc)/6-31G** level provide an assessment of the geometric structures and, together with the IR and Raman data, permit an almost complete vibrational analysis for each molecule, which appear, in each case, to exist in one isomeric form. The calculations indicate that anti structures for the hydrogen atom position are the most stable in all cases. For BrClCNOH, the calculations just prefer the Z-anti-structure as the thermodynamically more stable, whereas the vibrational spectroscopy, although not unambiguous, suggests the E-anti-isomer as the stereoselectively synthesised conformer. This conclusion is strengthened further by the observation that BrClCNOH (with an exclusive E-structure), favours HCl elimination upon thermolysis, thus making it a good source of the transient BrCNO molecule. Photoelectron spectroscopy, supported by ab initio calculations and trends in the dihalo series, provides an analysis of the effect of halogen substitution on the orbitals of the parent oxime species, H
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CNOH.


Combining with specific engineering case,the essay analyzes various seepage phenomena existing in construction and completion of underground garage in residential district,and respectively seepage causes and puts forward corresponding preventive measures,so as to guide practice and to guarantee the utilization effect and structural safety of the underground garage.


Sleep deficiency and undiagnosed or untreated sleep disorders are pervasive among employed adults, yet are often ignored in the context of workplace health promotion. Smartphone applications (apps) are a promising, scalable approach to improving sleep among employees. We evaluated an online sleep education program followed by access to a mobile sleep training program, the dayzz app, that promotes healthy sleep, sleep disorders awareness and intervention.

 In a sample of daytime employees affiliated with a large healthcare organization, we evaluated the intervention (sleep education at baseline plus access to the personalized app for up to 9 months) in a parallel group, randomized controlled trial. Participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental condition that received the intervention in months 1 through 9 or the control group that was assigned to receive the intervention in month 10. In a prespecified data analysis plan, the experimental and control groups were compared in months 1 through 9; no outcome data was collected thereafter. We collected data on employee sleep, workplace outcomes, and healthcare utilization, monthly throughout the study.

 The final cohort was comprised of 794 participants assigned to the experimental and 561 to the control condition. Those assigned to the experimental condition were more likely to maintain consistent sleep schedules (OR:1.40;95%CI:1.12-1.75) and less likely to experience fatigue and sleepiness (OR:1.30;95%CI:1.08-1.57). At the 9-month follow-up assessment, the experimental group reported significantly longer sleep duration than the control group on work (experimental: 7.20hrs; control: 6.99hrs, p=0.01) and free (experimental: 8.26hrs; control: 8.04hrs, p=0.03) nights. The odds of poor sleep quality at follow-up were lower in the experimental condition (OR:0.79,95%CI:0.63-0.98) as compared to control. Mean total dollars lost due to presenteeism was less among experimental compared to control participants (p=0.0001), corresponding to an average of $274 saved per person per month. Finally, participants in the experimental group were less likely to report mental health visits (p=0.01) and had a lower rate of overall healthcare utilization (p=0.03), compared to the control group.

 Results from this randomized clinical trial demonstrate that a digital workplace sleep wellness program can be beneficial to both employees and employers, by improving employee sleep and fatigue, increasing work productivity, and reducing direct healthcare costs.

 This study was funded by dayzz Live Well Ltd.


Supercritical CO_2 flow in porous media under CO_2 saline aquifer storage conditions against the background of CO_2 capture and storage(CCS) was investigated.The pore-scale modeling method was used to investigate the relationship between breakup pressure gradient and flow time, as well the relationship between breakup pressure gradient and CO_2 saturation.The influences of pressure,temperature,grain diameter,contact angle and surface tension on the breakup pressure gradient were analyzed.The results show the breakup pressure gradient increases with elevated temperature,surface tension as well as the decrease of pressure,grain diameter and contact angle under the same injection flow rate into the aquifer with the same porosity and grain distribution.


Water hyacinth( Eichhornia crassipes )is an invasive alien weed, whose invasions not only threaten native biodiversity and ecosystems but also cause considerable economic loss. It is addressed several issues concerning management of E.crassipes with special reference to the case of Huangpujiang watershed, Shanghai. The principal options for control of E.crassipes are mechanical, chemical and biological control, but chemical control seems to be problematic in the Huangpujiang watershed because the river is the most important freshwater resource for 16 millions of Shanghai's residents. Mechanical removal is similarly questionable because after its removal to the shore, the weed must be disposed of effectively and safely so as to prevent plants and seeds returning to the water. Here an integrated management model is proposed,which includes at least the following components: Mechanical removal, biological control, quarantine regulations, control of water eutrophication, development of a surveillance system, coordination of governmental departments, watershed management, and resource utilization through the transfer payment by the government.


Concept addition, an ontology evolution's edit operation, includes adding taxonomic (hierarchical structure) and non-taxonomic (concept properties) relations. Generating concept properties requires information extraction from various sources, such as WordNet. Other than semantic similarities generated by WordNet, self-information generated from existing non-taxonomic relations has aided non-taxonomic relation addition to ontologies. Evaluation is based on using an ontology as gold standard and detaching and reattaching the nodes. Non-taxonomic relation generation without accessing an enormous amount of information has proven to be quite difficult; the results displayed in this work are an indication of this difficulty.


This paper presents the sliding mode control of vehicle occupant-seat frame on front- and rear-end collisions. A three degrees of freedom occupant model is derived and used to develop a sliding mode control algorithm which works along with other safety restraint systems in order to reduce the injury level of the occupants' head and chest as well as safety belt force and neck torque. Simulation results for various crash conditions are compared to conventional restraint systems with and without safety belt force limiter for the nonlinear three degrees of freedom occupant model. The study shows that the chest and neck injury criteria in front collisions are significantly reduced by controlling the occupant's seat frame via sliding surface control.


A light source module, a light emitting device according to an embodiment of the invention; And disposed over the light-emitting element and the first surface having a groove center through the optical axis, recessed in the light exit direction and, arranged on the first surface opposite to the light is refracted incident through the above groove is discharged to the outside Article comprising an optical element having a second surface, the optical element is characterized in that it is disposed on the second surface with the optical axis at the first surface a plurality of periodic unevenness arranged in a rim direction are connected to the parts.


Fluorescent cell micrographs contain inhomogeneous contrast levels due to fluorescence intensity variations and the existence of out-of-focus objects. A novel image enhancement method based on adaptive local region sizes is proposed, which can correctly highlight salient objects from changing background intensity. The local region size for each pixel is determined adaptively, then locally normalized intensity values based on the regions are obtained, automatically taking inhomogeneous contrast and background intensity into account. Object background binarization can be done by applying simple thresholding to the enhanced image. The method is validated by comparison with ground truth segmentations of cell micrographs, which shows that after applying the proposed signal enhancement, binarization using common global thresholding methods produces segmentations much closer to the ground truth. Segmentations produced by the proposed method and simple global thresholding are also compared to some recent adaptive segmentation methods, showing that the proposed method is more efficient and appropriate for cell micrograph analysis.


The development of modern economy and market demands has led to the necessity of legislative basis and introduction of new control mechanisms. Audit and State Audit Service have been established as one of the most important mechanisms of control in developed countries. This successful practice resulted Georgia's development of audit. The Law on Audit has been adopted, which has differentiated mandatory and voluntary types of audits conduction. The article "Analysis of Accounting and Control in Georgia" discusses the legislative and normative acts of regulation of accounting and control, key issues of control in organizations activity, issues of improvement for accounting and control regulation. Also discusses the issues of improvement of the united system of financial control. The 2015-2017 survey report presented by us is an analysis of the condition and challenges of the internal financial control system and the hindering factors of its development. At the initial stage of the survey, a detailed scheme of selection has been made up, which included the organization selected for characterization of internal financial control. We have emphasized problems on one hand and best practices, on the other. We discussed issues that are equally problematic for organizations. The relevance of the topic of the article is caused by problematic issues related to the control in the institutions. Successful business is impossible without finance control and management skills. Although the Audit Service has been set up, which replaced the Chamber of Control, a united system of control and monitoring of budget funds has not been established yet. Control, which is mainly undertaken by state structures, are characterized by the necessity of detecting and eliminating of violations. Whereas while the conclusion of the results of audit account of the financial accountancy, the issuance of recommendations and of negative feedback in case of certain circumstances is done.


This publication follows analysis of possible collision situation of car driver and pedestrian at crossing. For better understanding of collision situation is projected and subsequently performed experimental measurement. Recorded data are analysed and on their bases are projected procurations for safe vehicle stoppining in front of pedestrian crossinng.


Periodically nanometer dimensional features (e.g., holes) the and the magnetic method of forming the assembled film (self-assembled film) on the substrate having the film comprising the step of providing the precursor on the substrate, wherein the film precursor is amorphous It is maintained in the state. The film precursor is provided, if the block copolymer, the heating member. Then, the substrate and the heating member is raised to a relative movement of the film to a temperature of some of the precursor on the substrate exceeds its glass transition temperature with respect to each other. Relative movement between the substrate and the heating element is continued until the film is self-assembled crystalline be formed on the surface of the substrate. In an alternative embodiment, the pH discharge (dispensing) member is provided thereby discharging the pH control agent to facilitate the self-assembled crystalline film on the substrate. The self-assembled film, the nucleation, the features, the heating element


Doctors' interpersonal communication skill is an integral part of health services and become one of the main indicators of patients' satisfaction towards healthcare provider. This study aims at examining the influence of doctors' interpersonal communication on the satisfaction levels of class III (low income) inpatients at Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia. The method applied in this study is quantitative method utilizing survey as study instrument and tool of analysis. There were 261 patients as the study population, and 72 randomly selected respondents were taken as the study sample. The authors used simple random sampling method in carrying out selection of patients in this study. The data were analyzed using the continuum line and multiple linear regression analysis, either simultaneously or partially. In the hypothesis test, F-test was conducted, and H1 was accepted. The results of the study indicated that there was an influence between the two variables. The respondents' responses indicated that the doctors' interpersonal communication was in the category of a very high interpersonal skill. Moreover, the respondents also had a very high level of satisfaction with the health service. Thus, based on the findings, the doctors' interpersonal communication skills had a significant effect on low-income patients' satisfaction levels simultaneously. Keywords: Health communication, interpersonal communication, Indonesia, low-income patients, satisfaction.


The attempt which WV. V. D. Hodge made in Chapter III of his beautiful book' to establish the existence of harmonic integrals with preassigned periods has not been entirely successful because the proof is partly based on a false statement (p. 136) concerning the behavior of the solution of a non-homogeneous integral equation when the spectrum parameter approaches an eigen value. In a Princeton seminar on the subject, H. F. Bohneriblust pointed out that counter examples are readily available even for linear equations with a finite number of unknowns. For instance the equation Xx + Ax = c with


IN OUR TIME of violence, racism and anti-intellectualism, the teacher seeks relevance and meaning in the material he uses. How can he show to the student that his subject is important today? How can he find that it has meaning in our own world? He tries to find a fresh approach, one pertinent to situations and problems in our own experience. What can he do to attract his students that they may more readily assimilate the material? How can he alert his students to their need for the knowledge with which he is dealing? The modern language teacher, particularly the teacher of French, hears that the language he teaches is no longer the diplomatic language of a major power, the talisman to culture. In the United States, the need for foreign language teaching is being questioned; language requirements are under attack; one asks, "Is conversational French for tourist bargaining all that anyone wants? " There is no one answer, of course. I teach a survey course in French literature in a state university and I urge my students also to contribute material of interest. In 1964 one student brought in a few pages from Atlas' magazine containing poems and translations of some Black African writers, then unknown to me. Eric Sellin's few notes emphasizing the racial connotations of color words, for example, the fact that some African poets had deliberately used the color black to signify warm and beautiful instead of forboding and evil, seemed a curiosity to me then. A few months later a former student of mine, now a professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, suggested that I contact a former colleague of his now in the United States-Dr. Edris Makward at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Makward was most generous and encouraging, and his bibliography, syllabus and article, "Negritude and the New African Novel in French" (Modern African Literature, June 1966, pp. 37-45), gave me some idea of the immensity of the field. As I was able I read all material as it became available to me and I ordered more. I started to incorporate mention of some of the


The enormous progress of modern information technology provides not only an unprecedented opportunity for development,but also poses real challenge. Agricultural library should keep pace with times to transit the traditional model of information service into digitalized and internet web pattern by creating conditions based on full utilization of existing information resources. The introduction and utilization of electronic information resources and innovation of information service should be also strengthened. It is essential to strengthen new knowledge study and improve the comprehensive quality of librarians and information staff in Internet network age. This paper elaborates on the present situation,problems and development ponderation of agricultural libraries in China combined with author's practice.


Objective:To study the clinic significance of Runx3 gene hypermethylation in gastric cancer by examining the promoter methylation status and expression of Runx3 gene in cell lines. Methods:The methylation status of Runx3 was examined by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP). Meanwhile,RT-PCR was used to detect expression of Runx3 gene in the gastric carcinoma。 Cell line SNU16 was treated with 5-Aza-CdR (1,3μmol/L),a specific demethylating agent. The change in expression of the Runx3 mRNA in SNU16 cell was observed by RT-PCR before and after 5-Aza-CdR treatment. Results:4 of 5 gastric cancer cell lines showed hypermethylation in the promoter region of Runx3 gene. Demethylating agent 5-Aza-CdR induced reactivation and more potent expression of Runx3 gene in SNU16 cell. Conclusion:High frequent hypermethylation may result in Runx3 gene inactivation in human gastric carcinoma,hypermethylation of Runx3 promoter may be correlated to cogenesis of gastric carcinoma.Runx3 gene can be utilized as a molecular diagnostic marker and a therapy target of gastric cancer.


U.S. companies are under intense pressure to abolish CEO duality (the Chief Executive Officer holds the position of the Chairman of the Board). In early 1990s, more than 70% of U.S. firms have a dual leadership structure. Now the ratio is just over 50%. The trend towards separate leadership is unsettling, given the lack of convincing evidence on whether dual leadership is detrimental to firm performance. Using an exogenous shock that increased competition, we find that duality firms outperform non-duality firms by 3% when competition intensifies. The positive effect of having a dual leadership structure is larger when firms face higher information costs. The findings are robust to controlling for the impact of competition on managerial slack and a battery of other tests. Our results have important policy implications as the pressure on firms to have independent COB continues to mount and globalization and technology advancement bring about fiercer competition. JEL classification: G34; G38; K22


It is the summer of 1991; the time: 9:45 A.M.; the place: Broadway Avenue, Seattle, Washington. An African American high school student, formerly a dropout, is rapidly walking toward Seattle Central Community College. He has a college-level class that begins at 10 A.M. In response to greetings from his friends, he smiles broadly, waves, and, never missing a step, proceeds on his way to class. What brought him to this moment? By his own admission, he was once an active gang member who did not study and attended school only sporadically. Yet, he is now considered bright, articulate, well-mannered, jovial with fellow students, and presently holds his teachers and counselor in high esteem. What happened to this student? He attends the Seattle Public Schools' Middle College High School (MCHS), a cooperative venture between the school system, Seattle Central Community College, the Seattle Housing Authority, and Citicorp. An average of 3,000 students per day become dropouts in schools in the United States (Henry, 1991). This translates into 800,000 to 1 million dropouts per year. We are losing far too many students. Kearns and Doyle (1988) reported that for every 700,000 functionally illiterate students who graduate every year, another 700,000 drop out. From 1984 to 1988, the average dropout rate for regular high schools in Seattle was 23.7%. Although this was less than the national average of 26% and that of other large urban districts such as New York City (reportedly more than 45%), it certainly did not give Seattle cause to celebrate. During 1987, 2,210 of Seattle's 43,765 public high school students dropped out. By 1990 over 1,766 dropouts were listed out of the 42,015 students enrolled in the city's public schools (District Office of Student Information Services, 1991).


In this paper, the logistics of dangerous goods likely to cause accidents phenomenon, a brief introduction of RFID technology and its application in dangerous goods logistics advantages and disadvantages of the application of the three methods proposed technical improvements direction and look forward to its application prospects.


Measures of cortisol metabolites are generally used as a method to assess stress in wild or captive animals. However, little is known about the natural basal levels of cortisol where animals are not chronically stressed nor depressed, or about the effects of environment features on those levels. Aiming to examine these matters, we collected fecal samples from three different populations of capuchin monkeys (Cebus nigritus, C. libdinosus and Cebus sp) from three sites with different ecology (Atlantic Rainforest at Carlos Botelho State Park; Caatinga/Cerrado ecotone at Boa Vista and at Tietê Ecological Park, reforested area in São Paulo Brazil), during the rainy season, between January and March. The sites differ in temperature, rainfall, vegetation and specially availability of food. These ecological variables lead to different social organization on the three areas. Fecal cortisol metabolites (FCM) were measured by ELISA and compared between the sites. Results show no significant difference in FCM between sites, time of the day, or months, at least for this small period of three months. However, mean levels of FCM are significantly higher among males when compared to juveniles and females. Theses results point to the possibility of establishing a standard cortisol level for capuchin monkeys, controlling for differences between age and gender.


A battery-free wireless monitoring system of vibration waveform for rotary motion is proposed. The sensor node is composed of a replicated-mass type piezoelectric generator, a 10 bit resolution ADC, a controller for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) data transmission and a cavity-backed slot antennas for the modulated back scattering communications. Consumption power of the sensor node is 60 microwatt by using the piezoelectric generator, where 30 m wireless reading range is achieved at 2.45 GHz band with a continuous 50 sps vibration waveform in the rotation range of 100 rpm to 600 rpm.


124 Background: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a debilitating and progressive chronic disease that occurs when the kidneys are unable to remove metabolic waste products from the body. Despite years of study, clinical researchers have found no cure for this disease. However, life can be prolonged by hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis treatments, or kidney transplantation. According to the (2000) annual census data report from the United States Renal Data System, 40,132 women were diagnosed with this disease in 1998 and 25,725 of them started HD treatment. In spite of modern technology, 30,205 women died of this disease in 1998. Nephritis and related conditions were 9th in leading causes of death in the United States in 2000.


Supervised machine learning has been successfully used in the past to infer a system's security boundary by training classifiers (also referred to as security rules) on a large number of simulated operating conditions. Although significant research has been carried out on using classifiers for the detection of critical operating points, using classifiers for the subsequent identification of suitable preventive/corrective control actions remains underdeveloped. This paper focuses on addressing the challenges that arise when utilizing security rules for control purposes. Illustrative examples and case studies are used to show how even very accurate security rules can lead to prohibitively high risk exposure when used to identify optimal control actions. Subsequently, the inherent tradeoff between operating cost and security risk is explored in detail. To optimally navigate this tradeoff, a novel approach is proposed that uses an ensemble learning method (AdaBoost) to infer a probabilistic description of a system's security boundary. Bias in predictions is compensated by the Platt Calibration method. Subsequently, a general-purpose framework for building probabilistic and disjunctive security rules of a system's secure operating domain is developed that can be embedded within classic operation formulations. Through case studies on the IEEE 39-bus system, it is showcased how security rules derived from supervised learning can be efficiently utilized to optimally operate the system under multiple uncertainties while respecting a user-defined balance between cost and risk. This is a fundamental step toward embedding data-driven models within classic optimisation approaches.


Reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls are widely used in mediumto high-rise buildings to provide the lateral strength, stiffness and energy dissipation capacity required to resist lateral loads arising from wind or earthquakes. In the past few decades, there has been considerable advancement in the design of RC walls for new construction. The newly adopted performance evaluation methodology and capacity design principles are examples of these important advancements in seismic engineering. Therefore, there is an essential need to upgrade the seismic performance of existing RC shear walls so that they can meet the requirements of the new performance-based seismic design techniques. Several retrofit techniques using different materials are reported in the literature. These ranged from using steel, concrete, fiber-reinforced polymers, and shape memory alloys as retrofitting materials used in different methods of application. This paper presents different retrofit techniques that were used to increase the seismic resistance of existing RC shear walls. The paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each retrofit technique and the corresponding characteristic enhancements. The objective of this paper is to provide a state-of-the-art on the recent advancements and challenges in the area of retrofit of RC shear walls.


The present paper aims to analyze the factors which foster and constitute the millieu innovateur in the territory the Sorocaba city. To do so, it will require investigating the linkages promoted by the sectors: public, private, universities, research centers and relevant social actors, regarding the promotion of an innovative production system, orchestrated in order to enhance local social capital and cooperation and learning relations. The methodology of the research was grounded in interpretive vision. The research was structured in two steps: first we carried out a study on secondary data sources, and subsequently held the empirical research through semi-structured interviews with key actors that promote the formation and development poles and innovation habitat in the territory of Sorocaba. The hypothesis that guides the research is focused on the argument of Sorocaba being a center of innovation towards the region, from structural policies and initiatives which articulate with the public and private investment, in the midst of a dynamic development marked by territorial cohesion and conflicts.


Researchers from Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Parana, from Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, and from Embrapa Semiarido, Pernambuco, Brazil, elaborated and validated a diagrammatic scale for assessing the severity of downy mildew in grapevine. The study was published in Ciencia Rural journal, v.44, n.8, of August 2014. The researchers developed a diagrammatic scale with seven levels of severity: 1, 3, 6, 12, 25, 50 and 75% in black-and-white and color versions. The scales were evaluated and validated by other evaluators with and without previous experience with downy mildew in grapevine. They estimated the severity of 30 vine leaves with different levels of severity, with and without experience of using the diagrammatic scale. The researchers obtained minimum, average and maximum of severity by the visual stimulus law. They analyzed the accuracy and precision by means of linear regression, comparing the real with the estimated values of severity. The results allowed the formulation and validation of diagrammatic scale for assessing intensity of downy mildew in grapevine. The ranges produced good levels of accuracy (88%) and excellent accuracy levels (95%). The color scale provided the best estimate of precision and accuracy when compared to black-and-white scale. According to researcher Amauri Bogo, the product generated by the survey can be used as a global standard for the evaluation of cultivars and studies of the epidemiology of downy mildew. "Before the development and validation of this scale, the researchers used scales of empirical notes without the certainty if they were or not evaluating the intensity of the disease accurately. With the development of diagrammatic scale, these problems can be minimized", he says.


Background and Aim: Long-term hypertension proceed to development of atherothrombotic disease and it's a major healthcare problem worldwide. Platelets and neutrophils play an important role in Cardiovascular (CV) events and development of atherothrombotic disease. Recently, Neutrophil/lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) and Platelet/lymphocyte Ratio (PLR), which can be easily calculated from the differential blood count, have been proposed as novel systemic inflammation-based markers predictive of thrombotic events. The aim of the present study was to explore the association between NLR and PLR with hypertension and as an indicator of cardiovascular risk. Methods: It's a cross sectional study. 50 Hypertensive patients aged 40 – 60 years, males and females with the history of Previously diagnosed hypertension >1 year duration or taking anti-hypertensive medications with blood pressure Systolic BP > 140 mm Hg, Diastolic BP > 90 mmHg were taken as study group. 50 normotensives aged 40 – 60, males and females with Systolic BP 0.05). Conclusion: Hypertensives with higher NLR have greater risk for athero-thrombotic and atherosclerotic events.


The research of biocomposite product with kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) short fiber as a filler and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) as the matrix had been done to understand the mechanical properties of this material. Kenaf short fiber was obtained from mechanical sieving after doing the mechanical milling. TAPPI method has been done to determine the chemical properties. In order to form a granular biocomposite a single screw extruder was performed with a variation of particle loading 10 and 15%. The original of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) has been used as matrix. The fabrication of speciment had been done by molding injection process. Mechanical properties test was done by ASTM standarization. The results showed the density of the fibers of 1.008 g/cm3 with a fiber length of 897.07 µm and a diameter of 66.38 µm. Tensile strength of kenaf short fiber loading 10 and 15% was 23.522 ± 8.36 MPa and 20.739 ± 6.79 MPa, respectively. The tensile properties showed a decreasing trend as the fiber loading was increased. The values of impact strength were 68.657 ± 4.89 kJ m-2 and 82.090 ± 5.56 kJ m-2, respectively and the hardness values were 96.60 ± 6.03 HR and 105.20 ± 13.17 HR, respectively. Kenaf fiber can be a good reinforcement candidate for high performance polymer bio-composites.


Abstract In order to improve the gas barrier characteristics of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) we have carried out two experiments; a preliminary experiment using film samples and an applied experiment to modifying inner surfaces of bottles. The measurements of film samples by both ATR FT-IR (Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy and Laser Raman spectroscopy show that most PET molecules in the near surface volume are destroyed and amorphized by ion implantation. Gas permeability of the sample is also measured. For applying PBII (Plasma Based Ion Implantation) to bottles we develop a new technique to implant ions onto the inner surfaces while plasma is generated inside the bottle. An electrode that is supplied with positive high-voltage pulses differently from negative ones as in the preliminary experiment is inserted into the bottle. The inner surface of the PET bottle is investigated by both ATR FT-IR spectroscopy and Laser Raman spectroscopy, too.


Fossil fuel depletion, global warming issues, and environmental pollution issues, had been encouraging the development of biodiesel industry. Biodiesel is an alternative fuel that is renewable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. However, several biodiesel plants still utilize fossil fuel as a boiler fuel that can give the negative impact on the environment. The purpose of this study was to analyze the distribution of air pollutants (SO2, NO2, and CO) concentration emitted from the biodiesel plant stack using Gaussian Dispersion Equation. To obtain the concentration of air pollutantsdistribution the meteorological condition data from the impact receiving area, such aswind speed, wind direction, and atmospheric stability was required. Dispersion models use mathematical formulations to characterize the atmospheric processes that disperse a pollutant emitted by a source. The result of this study showed that the SO2 and NO2 pollutants emission from the production of biodiesel was below the threshold, which means it did not endanger the surrounding population. Whereas, the concentration ofCO pollutant emission in the radius below 450 m from the emission source, give the negative impacts on the environment. It indicated that the safe distance of biodiesel plant site to the settlements area is out of 450 m radius from the emission source.


Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become a powerful approach for single image super-resolution (SISR). Recently, attention mechanisms are incorporated to enhance the network performance further. However, most methods use them locally to gather and model information at a single layer, which is not sufficient to capture the hierarchical relationship among various channels and restore high-frequency features. Here, we propose an efficient dual attention mechanism, with a global cross-layer attention (GCA) mechanism to emphasize high-frequency information learning by modeling cross-layer feature dependencies, and a local enhanced attention (LEA) mechanism, complementing GCA by offering attention-aware features for accurate feature fusion and also facilitating structure preservation. Experiments demonstrate that our method adapts well to multiple image degradation models and performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods.


describes a process for the preparation of layered silicate intercalation compounds with increased expansion rate and / or modified onset temperature by incorporating intercalate in native, expandable layered silicates, in particular native vermiculite, which is characterized in that as intercalation at least one representative of the alcoholates of lithium and potassium and salts of lithium, sodium and potassium with organic acids group comprising intercalates by cation exchange in the native layer silicate, the layer silicate intercalate compounds thus obtained and their use as intumescent material, which as intumescing fire-protection additive and / or in expanded form as additive for the preparation of can be used by flame-retardant materials as well as for the production of high-temperature-resistant insulation panels or seals.


General comments: This paper conducted a 3D model inversion of global MCF emissions and OH concentrations for 1998-2018. The inversion results show that the interannual variations of OH are small and there is no significant long-term trend in OH. If the main conclusion is correct, it can be an important contribution to our understanding of the global CH4 budget. Overall, the paper is addressing important questions and within the scope of ACP. However, some questions need to be clarified. I would like to recommend the publication of the manuscript if the following questions are addressed.


Abstract The ballistic missile age dawned in September 1944, when Nazi Germany began its V-2 campaign against Britain and Western Europe. One year later, in October 1945, the British launched a V-2 rocket themselves, as the culmination of Operation Backfire. This article will chart Britain's development of a guided missile capacity in the years immediately following the Second World War, and the importance of German expertise therein. It will also explore how this transnational process occurred within a broader international context, especially the reconfiguration of the Anglo-American relationship and the growing threat of the Soviet Union. As such it will show how swiftly the Cold War arms race emerged from the ashes of the previous conflict, how technology and international relations are intimately entwined, and how Britain was an active and enthusiastic participant in the very earliest days of the missile age.


Lakes are important guarantees of regional economic development and ecological security. Previous studies focused on trends of surface area and water level of lakes in Xinjiang, but paid less attention to nonlinear change and driving mechanisms of lake areas at annual and monthly scales. To address this issue, this study used a remote-sensing Big Data cloud platform and mathematical statistical methods to investigate the change in typical lakes and its attribution in Xinjiang during 1986–2020. The results showed that: 1) there was a significant linear trend in Xinjiang lakes: except for Jili Lake, the plains lakes showed an insignificant (p > 0.1) expansion trend, while the mountain lakes showed an significant expansion trend (p < 0.01). 2) There was a significant nonlinear trend in Xinjiang lakes: most of the plains lakes showed periodicity at 14 and 21 years, however most of the mountain lakes showed periodicity at 17 and 21 years. Most of the mutation trends of plains lakes were not significant, yet the mutation trends of mountain lakes showed significant expansion. 3) Human activities were the dominant factor leading to changes in the plains lakes: among the anthropogenic factors, farmland area, GDP, and population had significant effects on lake area (p < 0.1), and lake expansion was closely related to population and farmland area. Among climatic elements, precipitation mainly affected the changes in plains lakes. 4) Climate change was the dominant factor leading to changes in mountain lakes. The effects of temperature change on mountain lakes were all significantly positive (p < 0.05). In the future, it will be necessary to build lake protection schemes that adapt to climate change and human disturbances. This study can provide an important scientific basis for the rational development and utilization of lakes in Xinjiang.


6061 aluminum alloy matrix composites were fabricated by a squeeze-exhaust casting method and their mechanical properties were investigated. The present composites were reinforced with 20vol.% duplex materials consisting of various ratio of SiC whisker and Al2O3 particles. In the extruded composites containing small amount of whisker, most whiskers were arranged in one direction and few of the whiskers were broken. The composites containing 2 portion of whisker and 8 of particles showed maximum tensile strength of 51.7kgf/mm2 at room temparature and 15.8kgf/mm2 at 300°C. The work hardening exponent of the duplex reinforced composites was higher than that of composites simply reinforced with whisker or particles.


EnglishAn application to Finance and Development During the last few years a lot of papers have been written about "social capital". These papers are of two types. One sort of papers are looking for the definition of "social capital" and their main subject is the theoretical relevance of the concept ; another approach looks for empirical proofs concerning the relation between social capital and other variables measuring economic performance, or results in education or health, among others. The present contribution wants to reflect most of these debates, without avoiding the difficulties in the definition of the concept, but insisting in the interest of a pragmatic approach. Our point of view being that, if we succeed in gathering enough empirical proofs about a relation between social links and economic performance or development process, this would mean that something exists behind the concept, possibly not yet sufficiently precise, of "social capital". francaisAu cours des dernieres annees, un grand nombre de travaux a porte sur le capital social. Les uns traitent essentiellement de la definition et de la pertinence du concept ; les autres s'interessent aux variables representant le capital social et a leur relation avec la performance economique ou aux resultats en matiere d'education, entre autres. Afin de refleter l'essentiel de ces debats, sans cacher les difficultes autour de la definition du concept, l'approche choisie est teintee de pragmatisme. En parvenant a rassembler suffisamment d'elements empiriques sur la relation entre la nature des liens sociaux et les performances economiques ou le processus de developpement, alors le concept – certes encore insuffisamment precis – de « capital social » trouve une certaine justification.


Driver related evaluation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) needs to address controllability, effectiveness and user acceptance, which are to some extend interfering with each other. The state of the art in the controllability assessment is currently defined by the Code of Practice of the RESPONSE 3 project which focuses on the driver-system-interaction with single assistance functions like ACC or LKA. However, the controllability evaluation of new assistance functionalities such as ADAS of automation level 2 or automated driving on level 3 (according to SAE definitions) requires a review of the existing methods and tools with regard to necessary adaptations and new developments. For controllability evaluation of future ADAS and systems of higher automation levels the existing methodology needs to be adapted. Aspects to be considered in this context are the increasing amount of information with regards to the automation level. This information needs to be perceived and processed by the driver when interacting with multiple parallel operating assistance functions and complex information and communication systems. The controllability of urban assistance functions and their failures is subject of discussion especially focusing on tools and methods for an urban controllability assessment. To that end, driving simulator experiments, vehicle-in-the-loop and real vehicle studies are conducted analyzing existing controllability methods on their suitability for urban assistance functions. The results show the specific advantages of each applied testing tools and suggest that an overall system evaluation addressing controllability, effectiveness and acceptance combines the advantages of the different testing environments. Next to acceptance and effectiveness the controllability analysis is embedded in the overall evaluation process with focus on the driver and the interaction with the vehicle. The controllability analysis process for higher levels of automation is described. An overview of state of the art controllability evaluation is provided. The problem for future systems is analyzed and possible methods and tools are proposed. The necessary methods and tools are described focusing on next generation ADAS and higher levels of automated driving. The results are limited to the driver interaction with assisted driving. For the assessment of the driver reaction to higher automation levels the use of a high-fidelity driving simulator seems reasonable to achieve a high reproducibility of the driving scenario and a good representation of the driving dynamics.


The ultrasonic wave velocity and the thermal expansion of the rare earth glasses have been measured as functions of temperature and pressure to test predictions of the soft potential model for the acoustic and thermal properties. The longitudinal ultrasonic wave velocities increase under pressure. The hydrostatic pressure derivative of the bulk modulus is positive: these glasses show a normal elastic response as compressed. However, the pressure derivative of the shear modulus is negative and small, indicating weak softening of shear modes under pressure. The results found are used to determine the Gruneisen parameters. This is to obtain the acoustic mode contribution to thermal expansion. After subtraction of the relaxation and anharmonic contributions, the temperature dependence of the shear wave ultrasound velocity follows a linear law as predicted by the Soft Potential Model.


An analytical model for Rayleigh scattering in fibers is presented based on a full-vector finite element method(FEM) with edge/nodal hybrid element.By using this model,the Rayleigh scattering property of F-doped and GeO_2-doped high-index-core bragg fibers(HICBF) is investigated.Numerical results show that the effects of fiber structure on Rayleigh scattering in F-doped HICBF are quite opposite to that in GeO_2-doped HICBF.By adjusting the cladding structure,minimized Rayleigh scattering loss(RSL) can be obtained in GeO_2-doped HICBF with a certain high-index core radius.Conclusion in this paper is also suitable for other doped HICBF.


A quasi-static test for hysteretic behavior of rectangular cross-section steel column-beam members under constant axial compression and cyclic bending loads was performed. Their failure behavior,hysteretic curves,skeleton curves,energy-dissipation performances and ductility capacity were analyzed comprehensively. Based on the true rules of test results,parametric studies with the finite element software ANSYS were conducted to investigate their hysteretic capacity. Analysis results showed that axial compression weakens their load-carrying capacity,rigidity and ductility performances at plastic post-buckling stage; there exists the optimal cross-section height-width ratio brining the best ductility capacity; the ductility capacity tends to be worse when the height-width ratio exceeds the optimal value; with increase in slenderness ratio,their ultimate load-carrying capacity,deforming capacity and energy-dissipation capacity become worse.


Abstract The article collects and analyses philosophical terms formed in Latin by fourth-century rhetorician and philosopher Marius Victorinus (c. 285–360s C.E.) as a result of his translation from Greek sources. The study examines primarily his theological treatises: the Ad Candidum Arianum (De Generatione Divini Verbi) and the Adversus Arium. It undertakes a quantitative and qualitative examination of these terms by studying two linguistic mechanisms which constitute 'term-formation' in Latin: lexical innovation and lexical augmentation. Both functioned as important linguistic and conceptual devices in Victorinus' translations. The article also examines the theological contexts of certain metaphysical terms to understand further their similarities and differences, not only in Victorinus' translations, but also in earlier uses of central Latin philosophical terms, e.g., essentia and substantia. The article concludes that Victorinus was more didactic than his philosophical predecessors such as M. Tullius Cicero, Seneca the Younger or Apuleius of Madaura, preferring literal translation (particularly morphological calquing) rather than semantic extensions or metaphorical usages (lexical augmentation). By using neologisms formed using derivational word-formation processes and, on rare occasions, loan-words from Greek, Victorinus adopted an approach of adapting Greek terminology with a high degree of precision in Latin, from a range of sources including Christian, Neo-Platonist, and Gnostic authors. He thereby introduced a new Christological vocabulary in the Latin tradition, making him a significant intellectual figure of the fourth and fifth centuries. Although by no means as dominant as others, such as Augustine or Boethius, Victorinus would nonetheless come to exert influence over later Christian philosophers in the Latin West, particularly during the Scholastic period of the Middle Ages.


Temperature depression in a cavitating orifice flow was experimentally investigated with liquid nitrogen in order to clarify the influence of turbulent flow around a bubble on thermodynamic effects on cavitation. The temperature began to decrease at the outlet of the orifice when the cavitation number decreased below 0.84. Moreover, the temperature depression became larger as the cavitation number became smaller. In addition, the temperature depression also became greater as the flow velocity became lower when the cavitation numbers were equal. Based on theoretical considerations and experimental results, the difference of temperature depression can be considered to be caused by the enhancement of thermal transport around bubbles due to the turbulent flow. In addition, if thermal transport is enhanced as mentioned above, the temperature in the area where the cavitation collapses can become higher than that upstream of the orifice due to the temporary breakdown of the heat balance between the inception and collapse of cavity bubbles.


COVID-19 is not only a global health disaster but a full-fledged social, economic, and political crisis that could disrupt the gains made in women's education and empowerment. In The Gambia, issues of unequal access to educational resources determined by gender, geographical location, and social class; a disproportionate burden of household chores imposed on women and girls; and economic pressures have the potential to expose girls to more violence, exclusion, and abuse. In this article, we use a human rights framework, as conceptualized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), and discuss increases in educational inequality that young women in a poor, conservative, and patriarchal society will face during the COVID-19 pandemic. We propose solutions to mitigate these issues through social protection policies and practices that can ensure the right to education for the most vulnerable and marginalized.


The selection of arsenic as a dopant has been an integral part of achieving high performing, 20.8%, polycrystalline CdTe solar cells. Although arsenic has significantly improved the long-term performance of the cells and the p-type doping levels reached inside the absorber, the activation ratio of dopant remains quite low, ~1%. Understanding the origins of this activation would aid in further bettering device performance. Herein, devices of two different activation levels but identical arsenic concentration are studied using nanoscale correlative X-ray microscopy in cross-section. Charge collection in cross-section shows a distinctive change between activation levels and the local environment around the As atom, as measured by X-ray absorption, shows the signature of several defects and phases that could be the culprit.


AbstractBackground: The rising number of severely diffused diseased left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery (which is the most important target) met during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgeries represents a chal-lenging test to the cardiac surgeon and requires a more complex maneuvers rather than simple distal segment arteriotomy anastmosis in order to secure complete myocardial revascu-larization which is the main goal of the surgery. Touch the plaque open technique of LAD endarterectomy combined with left internal thoracic (mammary) artery (LIMA) patch plasty is one of the available solutions.Aim of Study: Impact of application of touch the plaque open technique of LAD endarterectomy combined with LIMA patch plasty on the postoperative outcome, left ventricular (LV) function and clinical status of the patients is evaluated.Patients and Methods: This retrospective observational non-randomized study included 21 patients who presented with ischemic heart disease (IHD) requiring primary surgical myocardial revascularization (primary CABG surgery). In-cluded patients are those with multi-vessel coronary artery disease, left main or left main-equivalent coronary artery disease and one or two coronary artery disease. They had anginal pain grade III according to Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) grading of angina pectoris. Intraoperatively they had long segment-diffusely diseased LAD that was dealt with touch the plaque open technique of LAD endarterectomy combined with LIMA patch plasty. Postoperative mortality, morbidity outcomes, LV function, overall hospital complica-tions, haemodynamic and functional clinical status, and overall one-year survival were evaluated.Results: Mean age was 58.23±7.54 years. Female patients represented 42.85%. The overall hospital complication rate was 28.57%. No mortality happened during the follow-up period (overall one-year survival rate was 100%). Preoperative mean LVEF% was 46.3±3.7% (range 37-59%). Evident im-provement in both clinical status and LVEF% was observed. Prior-to-hospital discharge LVEF% showed mild improvement with a mean 50.1±1.3% (p>0.05) and at one-year follow-up showed significant improvement with a mean 57.5±3.4% (p<0.05). 85.71% were in CCS grade I at one-year follow-up (p<0.01).Conclusion: Touch the plaque open technique of LAD endarterectomy combined with LIMA patch plasty provides satisfactory operative and postoperative results without adding more burden to the surgery. It secures complete revasculari-zation of the LAD myocardial territory and improvement of the LV function and resultant improvement of the clinical and haemodynamic status of the patients. Utilization of LIMA patch plasty and strict anticoagulation management postoper-atively is highly recommended.


The study aims to substantiate the design scheme of a linear plow with a disk angle. The authors have developed a linear plow with a disk plow for smooth, furrowless plowing. The proposed plow has disc lugs, screw housings, and guide plates. The technological scheme turnover of polygonal layers formed by disk pre-plates, the scheme mutual arrangement housings and guide plates, and the general view laboratory-field installation for conducting experiments are given. During the experiments, the degree of sealing plant residues, height irregularities on the surface arable land, and the traction resistance device were used to evaluate the performance plow. To ensure the required quality work with minimal traction resistance, a linear plow must be equipped with disc pre-lugs installed in front housings along their field cut line. When installing a disk prep lug with a working surface facing towards the turn formation, the degree sealing plant residues and the height of irregularities is 92-95% and 4.3-5 cm, respectively, which fully complies with agro technical requirements.


Copper (Cu++) is an essential trace element which is required in small amounts (5-20  g/g) by humans, other mammals, and fish for carbohydrate metabolism and the proper functioning of more than 30 enzymes. It is also needed for the formation of haemoglobin and haemocyanin.However,Cu++ concentrations that exceed 20 (  g/g) can be toxic1-2. Major sources of Cu++ in aquatic environment are sewage, industries manufacturing organic chemicals, fertilizers, iron and steel works, electrical works, antifouling paints, pulp and paper industries, pesticides, fungicides and automobile accessories3. Cu++ possesses the ability to enter and concentrate in various tissues many times higher than the ambient levels and alters oxygen consumption rates of fish4-5. Cu++ inhibits the excretion of ammonia through the gills; increases cortisol levels, stimulates the protein catabolism and increases levels of blood ammonia6. Free Cu++ may catalyze the formation of highly reactive hydroxyl radicals, which can result in oxidative damage to cells7. Copper sulphate is widely used as an algaecide for controlling phytoplankton growth in fish ponds and lakes as well as herbicide used in aquatic weed control programme8. Large concentrations of copper sulphate damage the gill epithelium, hematopoietic EFFICACY OF LAWSONIA INERMIS LEAVES EXTRACT AGAINST COPPER (CU++) TOXICITY INDUCED IN FISH CHANNA PUNCTATUS (BLOCH.): A STUDY BASED ON CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS Vivek Kumar and Sunil P. Trivedi* Environmental Toxicology & Bioremediation Laboratory (ETBL), *Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow226007 [email : firstname.lastname@example.com; Corresponding aurhor* email : firstname.lastname@example.com]


Abstract The constraint annealing method is presented and demonstrated for the solution of large-scale, multiconstrained problems in light water reactor fuel cycle optimization. Constraint annealing is a penalty-free method that eliminates the need for traditional constraint weighting factors by treating each objective function and constraint as separate and concurrently solved minimization problems within a global optimization search framework. The current application seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of constraint annealing for a complex core loading pattern design problem containing multiple objective functions and constraints without the need for additional ad hoc control parameters. Two problems of varying degrees of complexity are analyzed. The first problem is defined by a single objective function based on maximizing cycle energy with two constraints based on power peaking and peak rod exposure. The second problem expands upon the first by adding an additional objective function for vessel fluence and four additional constraints based on controlled power peaking, steaming rate, moderator temperature coefficient, and alternate source term. Results demonstrate that constraint annealing inherently addresses issues of scaling associated with different objective function and constraint formulations as well as the impact on cycle energy.


This article proposes an approach designed and adopted to identify and qualify effective positive experiences in the cooperation between rural small and medium enterprises, and research institutions (and the resulting knowledge flows). It outlines a managerial prototype, based on identified processes, which could be cloned and applied in other contexts in order to make knowledge more productive for rural areas. On the bases of the experiences from a case study in Central Italy, an analytical framework linked to three interrelated levels emerges: (a) agents' nature and characteristics; (b) relations between agents; and (c) dynamics of an agent–based binary system. At present, the first two levels have been implemented to evaluate the dynamics of this partnership, to create general indicators to identify divergence/convergence balances between the agents involved and to create a knowledge system for the management of the conflicting strategies that emerge from their intrinsically different natures.


of hard tissues of teeth and periodontal tissues on the background of somatic pathology and effect of risk factors indicate a significant dysbiosis of oral cavity, which is characterized by decreased activity of compensatory reactions and lack of possibility to resist microbial aggression because of the violation of colonization resistance, which can affect the course and treatment of basic dental diseases.


A brief describing specifics of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) implementation in the classroom, with references to further resources. CSR is a method of teaching reading comprehension that is effective with struggling readers, including secondary-age students with learning disabilities and those who are English Language Learners.


Relief milling cutter is a kind of special tool widely used in the milling processing of the shaped surface or the shaped groove in the mechanical industry. The operation of relief grinding is the key to manufacturing relief milling cutter with high accuracy. At present, approximate algorithms are applied to the acquirement of section of grinding wheel to manufacture its rolling ball. Then wheel's rolling ball to roll and finish forming grinding wheel and the wheel to grind the relief milling cutter in most relief grinding operations, manufacturing cost is high, the quality can't be guaranteed and the application of this kind of cutter is limited in the complicated process. Another factor of influencing the tool's performance is the shape of the teeth back curve. According to the theoretical analysis and research, the best shape for the teeth back curve of the relief milling cutter is Logarithm Spiral Curve. This paper discusses the relationship among the profile of work-piece, profile of cutter and section of grinding wheel. On the basis of researches into the input method of work-piece's profile, the design method of milling cutter profile and the calculating method of section of the grinding wheel, the CAD system of forming grinding wheel section for relief grinding is developed to accomplish the design of shaped wheel's profile automatically, which improves the quality and efficiency of design and lays down a foundation for the CAD/CAM repairing system of forming grinding wheel and the CAD/CAM unity of the relief milling cutter. Introduction Relief milling cutter is a kind of special tool widely used in the milling processing of the shaped surface or the shaped groove in the mechanical industry. As it is only needed to resharpen the rake when the shaped relieving milling cutter is blunt, and it is convenient to resharpen the edge, this kind of structure is generally used in the production. But there are still some deficiencies in the application of this kind of structure as follows: (1) Because of the limitation of traditional manufacture, the relief milling cutter's teeth back curve is still Archimedes Spiral Curve. As the edge with this kind of teeth back curve can't be compensated due to grinding losses, the diameter of the milling cutter is gradually reduced, causing the distance between the cutter center and the work-piece center to decrease and producing the section error of the machined work-piece profile [1]; (2) At present, approximate algorithms are applied to the acquirement of wheel section to manufacture its rolling ball, then wheel's rolling ball is used to roll and finish forming grinding wheel and the wheel to grind the relief milling cutter in most relief grinding operations. When the machined milling cutter's profile is initially inspected, better finishing is performed on the rolling wheel's section according to experiences [2]. This kind of processing method is complicated, manufacture cost is high, the quality can't be guaranteed and the application of the relief milling cutter with high accuracy is limited. On the basis of the above deficiencies, this paper, first of all, theoretically presents the best curve for the tool teeth back Logarithm Spiral Curve, then discusses the relationship among wheel section, work-piece profile and milling cutter profile, and develops CAD system of forming grinding wheel for relief and grinding, which improves the quality and efficiency of design and lays down a foundation for the CAD/CAM repairing system of shaped wheel and the CAD/CAM unity of the relief milling cutter. Key Engineering Materials Online: 2004-03-15 ISSN: 1662-9795, Vols. 259-260, pp 378-382 doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.259-260.378 © 2004 Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland All rights reserved. No part of contents of this paper may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of Trans Tech Publications Ltd, www.scientific.net. (Semanticscholar.org-13/03/20,19:03:42) Journal Title and Volume Number (to be inserted by the publisher) 379 The Best Linear Equations and Parameters for Teeth Back Curve of the Relief Milling Cutter In the documents [3-4], characteristics of Archimedes Spiral Curve for the teeth back have been compared with those of Logarithm Spiral Curve. And it is offered that, in the new manufacture conditions, the best shape for teeth back curve of the relief milling cutter is Logarithm Spiral Curve. As is shown in Fig.1, the polar coordinate equation [4-5] for teeth back curve of the tool is:


Zinc‐ion batteries (ZIBs) are considered a candidate for lithium‐ion batteries owing to their low cost, eco‐friendly nature, and high safety level. In particular, their energy density is high because of a two‐electron transfer mechanism involving Zn ions. However, ZIBs have the demerits of low‐rate capability and poor cycling life because of the dissolution of Mn in the electrolyte during charging and discharging, which prevents the high potential of ZIBs from being effectively utilized. In this study, a manganese sulfate (MnSO4) additive was introduced in the electrolyte to overcome these drawbacks. A ZIB with such an electrolyte exhibited stable capacity behavior and high cycling stability. Furthermore, the fabricated ZIBs showed a specific capacity of 289 mAh g−1 at a current density of 0.3 A g−1, improved rate‐performance of 116 mAh g−1 at a current density of 2.0 A g−1, and excellent long‐term stability of 72% for 200 cycles at a current density of 1.0 A g−1. These findings indicate that the use of the aforementioned additive is a promising for enhancing the electrochemical performance of manganese‐based cathodes in electrolyte‐optimized next‐generation ZIBs.


Liang Qi chao has been considered as a thinker,statsman and historic philosopher from the angle of politics,thoughts,and culture, this paper is a survey to his news thoughts when he ran the newspaper and propaganda in the process of the activities in the patriatic and saving our natior monement.


Purpose – The primary purpose of this article is to propose a conceptual base from which an appropriate management and leadership development framework for supporting capability building of professionals and practitioners across the UK incubation community can be built. Furthermore, it provides insights into how such a framework could be applied through an initiative developed in the East Midlands region of the UK.Design/methodology/approach – A review of the research in this field is summarised as an empirical background to proposing a conceptual framework. The author explores the evolution of incubation and identifies specific models and processes of incubation, as reported elsewhere in the specialist literature. This framework is further explored within the context of its applicability as a tool for building management and leadership development capability.Findings – The author recognises the lack of published research in this field, despite its importance for enhancing incubation performance outcomes....


The problem of integration in psychology hasn't been solved for a very long time. The renaissance of theoretical psychology implies a possiblility as follows: at the beginning, the concrete research areas or even the concrete problems may be integrated, and these integrations will be acted as the preparation for the integration of psychology as a whole. There are two directions about integration, systematizing the knowledge of psychology and synthesizing the research areas. Because of the strong need of teaching, it should be first to systematize the knowledge. The meta-theoretical attitude of eclecticism attained from the study on integration of consultation methods may be feasible to systematize the course. On creativity, it can be accomplished at the same time to integrate the research areas, to systematize the knowledge system of teaching, and even to develop the applied psychology.


The identification mark for pre-Jurassic reference plane cycle of Tu-ha basin is developed with coring,drilling,well logging and seismic data in light of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy,dividing the Middle Permian-Triassic into four reference plane cyclic sequences,by which the distribution of sedimentary system within isochronal formation skeleton is studied.The result shows that tectonic action is the principal factor for controlling shape of the reference plane cycles in this area,and in the Mid-dle Permian-Triassic,there exist three sedimentary segs such as simple foreland,double foreland and gibbous foreland,two sedi -mentary models of gentle slope and steep slope as well as source-reservoir-cap rocks developed extensively.The source rocks are mainly formed in early period of the reference plane descending,the assemblages of normal reservoir-cap rocks shaped in the pe-riod of the reference plane ascending are of great potentials for petroleum prospecting.


Information Security is an emerging subject growing with social requirements for information technology. To enhance the education of information security major and make the training objective of information security major consistent with social demand, this paper investigates the information security curriculum programs in several well-known universities and proposes some advice on information security curriculum program. Using the little to get the big is our main objective, and hopefully it can strengthen the communication among domestic experts and meet the national need for information security major.


Based on the supply-demand theory, this paper constructed the evaluation indices of supply-demand system of urban road traffic, proposed a concept of coordination development level of supply-demand system and a quantitative evaluation method of determining the coordination development level. An example show that this method can reflect the real circumstance, which shows the method is feasible. 4 tabs, 2 figs, 6 refs.


Aiming at the problems of high latency and poor accuracy of retrieval response in current health data integration related research, this paper presents a health data resource integration method based on Hybrid Cloud and Fog Computing. Based on the general model of health data resource service platform, the framework of large health data resource integration is constructed. Sample reduction and dimension reduction are used to reduce big health data. The field matching method based on participle and weight is used to clean data resources and calculate the field matching degree. When the matching degree is larger than a threshold value, the fields to be matched are similar duplicate records, and the redundant data is removed. The weight of resource data is calculated by Hybrid Cloud and Fog Computing, and the big health data is arranged according to the weight value, so as to realize the classification and integration of health data.The experimental results show that the proposed method has good performance, low data redundancy, low retrieval response delay and high classification integration accuracy.


Strahan, Robert. More on JCP publication: Single versus multiple authorship.

Atkinson, Donald; Furlong, Michael; and Wampold, Bruce. Statistical significance, reviewer evaluations, and the scientific process: Is there a (statistically) significant relationship?


Abstract:  We report the first probable identification of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) in a bonobo (Pan paniscus) that had been part of a forest re‐introduction programme. Clinical presentation was of episodic acute on chronic heart failure and cerebral infarction with end‐stage renal failure rather than sudden death which is more commonly associated with EMCV infection. A postmortem diagnosis of probable EMCV was made using gross pathological and histopathological examination. Findings included acute on chronic heart failure combined with the unusual but characteristic histopathological features of non‐suppurative necrotizing myocarditis with mononuclear, inflammatory infiltration of the brain.


The de-noising effects of wavelet transform, soft threshold, hard threshold and the new threshold wavelet packet were compared by simulation experiments in the paper. It is concluded that the wavelet packet has a good time and frequency domain localization properties and multi-resolution analysis, and the new threshold method can de-noise noisy spectrum effectively, overcome the constant bias and discontinuity defects of soft and hard threshold function.


Report and poster completed by students enrolled in PA 8081: Planning and Public Affairs Capstone Workshop, taught by Dan Milz in spring 2018.


Chapter 1: Fundamental Techniques Chapter 2: Photographic Effects Chapter 3: Web Design Chapter 4: Advertising and Special Effects Chapter 5: Type Effects Chapter 6: User Interface Design