The problem of the centrifugal distortion constants (CDC), Dν, Hν, … for a diatomic molecule is considered. It is shown that a new formulation of the standard Rayleigh–Schrodinger perturbation theory can give simple and compact analytical expressions of the CDC (up to any order). Thus, the constants e1 = Bν, e2 = −Dν, e3 = Hν,…, en,… are all of the form en = lim σn(r)/σ0(r) as r → ∞. σ0 is the particular solution of the nonhomogeneous equation y″ + k(Eν – U)y = s, with s = ψν, where (Eν, ψν) is the eigenvector corresponding to the rotationless potential U(r) and to the vibrational level ν; and where σ0(0) = σ′0(0) = 0. σn is the particular solution of the above equation, where s is known for each order of n. The numerical application to the standard Lennard–Jones model potential shows that good results are obtained for Dν, Hν, Lν,…,Oν, Pν, for ν = 0 to 22, which is only at 2 × 10−4 of the well depth. The program uses one routine (the integration of the equation y″ + fy = s) repeated for different s; it is...


First-order programming (FOP) is a new representation language that combines the strengths of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and rst-order logic (FOL). In this paper we describe a novel feasibility proving system for FOP formulas that combines MILP solving with instance-based methods from theorem proving. This prover allows us to perform lifted inference by repeatedly rening a propositional MILP. We prove that this procedure is sound and refutationally complete: if a formula is infeasible our solver will demonstrate this fact in nite time. We conclude by demonstrating an implementation of our decision procedure on a simple rst-order planning problem.


By analyzing FDI distribution in Jiangsu Province's industries during three times,the paper works out the contribution of FDI to the local industrial structure adjustment.It aims to find the proper strategies to attract future FDI.


Using P1 P2, F1 F2, B1 and B2 generations of a cross between two inbred lines, gene effects were calculated for 15 grain- and fodder-yield contributing characters of pearl millet (Pennisetum typhoides S. and H.). The observed heterosis was interpreted in terms of these gene effects.


630412 11/1961 Canada ................................ 560/164 691753 8/1964 Canada ................................ 560/164 800619 8/1958 United Kingdom ................ 560/164 Primary Examiner-Bruce Gray Attorney, Agent, or Firm--Kevin B. Clarke 57 ABSTRACT A novel method for preparing 2-phenyl-1, 3 propanediol and its dicarbamate is disclosed which readily lends itself to commercial production.


Most previous epidemiological studies support a significant association between marijuana smoking and chronic respiratory symptoms [1], but the effects on lung function remain unclear. Previous longitudinal cohort studies have focused largely on young adults [1]. The results from these studies have shown that marijuana smoking produced marginal or no effects on lung function, which is expected given that with even heavy cigarette exposure, meaningful changes in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) or forced vital capacity (FVC) are hard to discern in young adults. Lung function changes, however, accelerate in older age groups and the impact of respiratory irritants and toxins on lung function becomes much more evident [2]. To our knowledge, our study is the first longitudinal study of marijuana smoking in older individuals in a general population whose median age was 65 years [3]. The results of the present study addressed a major gap in marijuana research by demonstrating that marijuana smoking amplifies the harmful effects of tobacco smoking on the risk of COPD and FEV1 decline over time. Marijuana smoke exposure amplifies the harmful effects of cigarette smoke http://bit.ly/2rS6mtt


A report is given on the organization and practice of an outpatients departments for psychosomatics in gynecology. The data of 284 patients concerning social status, possible trigger mechanisms (life events), diagnosis and treatment are presented. The applied therapeutic technique can be described as client centered counselling basing on psychoanalytic theory. the importance of cooperation between psychotherapist and gynecologist to the woman's benefit is emphasized.


Serially concatenated continuous phase modulation (SCCPM) combines serially concatenated convolutional coding (SCCC) with continuous phase modulation (CPM). Continuous phase encoder which is decomposed from CPM is used as a convolutional coder, and iterative decoding based on log-MAP (maximum a posteriori probability) algorithm is used in decoding, which bring the system good power efficiency and frequency efficiency, 3.0 dB gain at least. In [1] the effects of different parameters on SCCPM system are presented. In [2] we present a joint parameters query. When a channel quality value is given, optimal joint parameters related will be used in the system to get minimum bit error rate (BER), which can bring system an extra 0.5-1.0 dB gain. The encoder and decoder of SCCPM system is implemented on DSP-TMS320C6416 for its high-speed processing despite the complexity of iterative decoding.


We have to amend the past wrongs, promote an understanding between all Australians for a better relationship and accept that we are one nation. (The Hon. Helen Sham-Ho, Liberal Party MLC, NSW.) Reconciliation is the building of a united Australia through the understanding of our history, which leads to a growing respect for the dignity of our indigenous culture and the contribution it has and will make to the future strength of the nation. (Mr. Ian Spicer, Chief Executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.) To me reconciliation means understanding our past, righting the wrongs, and together forging a new and vibrant national identity. (Ms Jennie George, ACTU.)(1) Introduction In this paper I argue that the official reconciliation process, which began with the passing of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991, is a nation-building exercise in response to a changed domestic and international climate that had questioned the legitimacy of the Australian nation-state in terms of its present and past dealings with its indigenous peoples. A new form of settler nationalism, itself responding to a perception of national illegitimacy, is one of the forces that stimulated the movement for reconciliation. Ideas and feelings about the nation, national belonging, and reconciliation vary, but what `Aboriginal Reconciliation' means for many of its non-indigenous supporters is the opportunity to free the nation of the guilt or shame associated with its foundation. The brutality of that foundation has been thoroughly brought home since the rise of revisionist histories in the 1960s. Official Reconciliation is, at least in part, a process aimed at shoring up what has become for some non-indigenous people a tarnished national identity. For those in the settler community who maintain that the notion of tarnished national identity is a fiction of the `guilt-ridden' left-liberal imagination, reconciliation is either dismissed, is conceived simply as a process aimed at bringing the indigenous into line with all other Australians in terms of health, education, jobs, and housing, or is seen as a way of making the indigenous forget the past and get on with being responsible, autonomous Australians.(2) Reconciliation is fundamentally about the status of the Australian nation; within and around the discourse rage battles over definitions of Australian nationhood, the national past, and relations between peoples. The nationalist agenda of Official Reconciliation is an expression of its governmental origins. This is not to say that the setting up of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation did not have indigenous and non-indigenous community support. Clearly it could not have been conceived or begun without that support. Nevertheless, the Reconciliation Process was developed as a compromise between the major non-indigenous parliamentary parties, and not through widespread negotiation with indigenous people.(3) This is reflective of the relatively weak political position of the indigenous, who must negotiate with a much more powerful nation-state that encloses them.(4) The Reconciliation agenda, like all discourses and practices, is a product of power relations. This does not mean that once established those invested with the responsibility of carrying the process through cannot push at its boundaries, but it does raise the question of whether the limits placed around it steer it too forcefully down a single nationalist path. Curiously, given its historical pedigree and its contemporary appropriation by Pauline Hanson's political party, "one nation" has been a catchcry of Reconciliation, in official documents from the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and in public and media commentaries. The nationalist agenda underlying the use of this image represents, in my view, one of the chief flaws of Official Reconciliation as a political process, even if as a political movement reconciliation relies on nationalist commitment for its moral strength. …


Abstract In this paper, the panel data of 19 out of 21 APEC members from 1993 to 2018 is selected as a research sample. Firstly, based on the extended Cobb-Douglas production function, the relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth is explored via the panel data methods, which fully consider the endogeneity between variables and the unobserved individual heterogeneity. Secondly, to examine the driving effect of CO2 emissions on economic growth, the Empirical Likelihood for Generalized method of moments with nonparametric estimation characteristics is utilized to calculate the returns on economic scale and the corresponding confidence interval. The results show that CO2 emissions have a significant positive impact on economic growth. Moreover, the confidence interval of returns to economic scale is very small, indicating current levels of CO2 emissions have reached the limit to drive economic growth when the technical level, labor employment, capital, urbanization, trade, and other factors tend to stabilize. Finally, some recommendations were presented to achieve sustainable development goals. Highlights In combination with the extended Cobb-Douglas production function theory, employs 2SLS and GMM method that takes unobserved the heterogeneity between regions and endogeneity between variables in consideration to explore the relationship between CO2 emissions for economic growth. The extended model of the GMM-Empirical Likelihood for Generalized Moment Method (GMEL) is used to investigate whether the Driving effect of CO2 emissions on Economic Growth reaching its limit or not? Selected the panel data of APEC countries or regions as the research samples, which has never been studied by scholars. The GMEL is a non-parametric statistical inference method that has higher estimation accuracy than the traditional parametric estimation method. The confidence interval constructed by the GMEL method has the advantages of domain retention, transformation invariance.


We study the multiple factorial analysis of a random vector $X$ in $\Bbb R^p$ as a principal component analysis of $X$ with a particular choice of the inner product in $\Bbb R^p$. We use a stochastic approximation process to estimate recursively the principal components of this analysis by means of a sequence of i.i.d. observation of $X$. Stochastic approximations of the symmetrical positive definite matrix $M$ defining the inner product in $\Bbb R^p$ and of the principal components are made simultaneously


In the research, we used object oriented methodology and Unified Modelling Language (UML) to describe the concept and data process. The application was design and implemented with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Rapid Web Application Development (RWAD) tools for oracle database design and Structure Query Language to create and manage the relational database.


Idiosyncratic drug‐induced liver injury (IDILI) occurs in a small fraction of patients and often results in removal of otherwise efficacious drugs from the market. The mechanisms of IDILI are unknown; however, in studies using animal models the inflammatory mediators tumor necrosis factor‐alpha (TNFα) and interferon‐gamma (IFNγ) are essential to the pathogenesis of liver injury. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that a drug's ability to synergize with inflammatory cytokines to kill hepatocytes in vitro can classify dugs according to their potential to cause idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity in humans. Human hepatoma (HepG2) cells were treated with drugs associated with IDILI or with drugs lacking IDILI liability and cotreated with TNFα and/or IFNγ.Of 13 drugs associated with IDILI, 12 synergized with TNFα to kill HepG2 cells.IFNγ enhanced the toxicity mediated by 8 IDILI‐positive drugs in the presence of TNFα. Of 10 drugs with little/no IDILI potential, none synergized with inflammatory cytokines to kill HepG2 cells. These findings indicate that drugs associated with IDILI in humans synergize with TNFα and IFNγ in vitro to cause cell death and raise the possibility that drug‐cytokine synergy underlies hepatocellular killing in some IDILI reactions. These results suggest an in vitro approach that could be used during preclinical safety evaluation to identify drug candidates with the potential to cause IDILI.


Rather than a grass-roots effort by state residents seeking greater access opportunities to higher education, community booster groups made up of economic and civic elites organized a systematic approach to support the creation of five branch campuses of Washington state's two research universities. A coalition-building strategy on local, regional, and state levels fueled by the active engagement of these economic and business interests in the policy-making process shaped policy outcomes both within and across stages of policy making.


In two cascaded pieces of photonic crystal fiber(PCF),the Four Wave Mixing(FWM) including wavelength conversion and parametric amplification was demonstrated.The conversion efficiency and conversion bandwidth are-25 dB and 32 nm,respectively,and a 5 dB parametric gain was also obtained.


OBJECTIVES: We sought to identify the primary causes of death of adult patients admitted to the medical ICU with symptomatic COVID-19 who ultimately suffered in-hospital mortality over the span of three major waves of COVID-19: Wild-type, alpha/epsilon, and delta. DESIGN: Retrospective single-center cohort study from March 2020 to December 2021. SETTING: One medical ICU in a 600-bed Tertiary Care Hospital in Los Angeles, CA. PATIENTS: Adult (n = 306) ICU patients admitted with symptomatic COVID-19 who suffered in-hospital mortality. INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN RESULTS: Of the 306 patients with COVID-19 who died in the hospital, 86.3% were Hispanic/Latino. The leading cause of death was respiratory failure, occurring in 57.8% of patients. There was no significant change in the rate of pulmonary deaths across the three waves of COVID-19 in our study period. The mean time from symptom onset to admission was 6.5 days, with an average hospital length of stay of 18 days. This did not differ between pulmonary and other causes of death. Sepsis was the second most common cause of death at 23.9% with a significant decrease from the wild-type wave to the delta wave. Among patients with sepsis as the cause of death, 22% (n = 16) were associated with fungemia. There was no significant association between steroid administration and cause of death. Lastly, the alpha/epsilon wave from December 2020 to May 2021 had the highest mortality rate when compared with wild-type or delta waves. CONCLUSIONS: We found the primary cause of death in ICU patients with COVID-19 was acute respiratory failure, without significant changes over the span of three waves of COVID-19. This finding contrasts with reported causes of death for patients with non-COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome, in which respiratory failure is an uncommon cause of death. In addition, we identified a subset of patients (5%) who died primarily due to fungemia, providing an area for further investigation.


Effects of vanadium on light olefins selectivity of FCC catalysts were investigated with vanadium having different oxidation numbers(hereinafter abbreviated as Oxnum).Molecular modeling studies showed that vanadium with low Oxnum could affect the chemical conversion of large-size hydrocarbon molecules.However,the vanadium deposited on equilibrium catalyst had high Oxnum because of the oxidation reaction taking place in the regenerator,so an activation method to reduce vanadium Oxnum named "selective activation" was introduced.It was proved by means of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance(EPR) and Temperature-Programmed Reduction(TPR) methods that the vanadium Oxnum was decreased,when the catalyst was activated.The molecular modeling studies are consistent well with the lab evaluation results.The light olefins selectivity of activated equilibrium catalysts was better than that achieved by the inactivated catalysts.Similar results were observed with the lab vanadium-contaminated catalyst.The light olefins selectivity of the catalyst was optimized when the vanadium Oxnum was close to 2(VO).


Data Mining can be seen as the process of extracting hidden patterns from large databases. In many situations, the extracted patterns can reveal private information that should not be disclosed. There is a need to develop techniques that can extract hidden information without disclosing private data. Need of such techniques give rise to the new research direction in data mining that is privacy preserving data mining (PPDM). Many techniques for preserving privacy in data mining have been developed over the last decade such as cryptographic, randomization methods, k-anonymity, l-diversity etc. But these techniques can affect the accuracy of results and may result in the loss of information. Transformation based techniques were proposed in literature that can preserve the privacy by maintaining the information and accuracy. Transformation techniques were proposed for transforming numerical and categorical sensitive attributes. Many algorithms exist in the literature to transform sensitive attributes of numeric data type. But there is no technique for dealing with sensitive attributes of Boolean data type so that Boolean attributes do not disclose any private information without compromising data mining results. Our aim is to develop a technique for transforming sensitive Boolean attributes.


Earlier this year, I attended a talk given by Sister Jean Okroi, IBVM, on the evil of human trafficking. Quite an eye-opener, I must say. Sister has graciously provided me with some written information on the subject.


Professional African American women are vastly understudied in sociology. We address that omission by examining how the intersection of race with the structure of elite, male-dominated occupations shapes family and work trajectories for a sample of 203 African American female attorneys. Like the general population of African American women, respondents with partners and with children do not seem to suffer a wage penalty. But like White women in male-dominated, prestigious professions, respondents tend to delay or avoid childbearing, particularly if they have uninterrupted careers. Their integration of work and family is supported by family resources found particularly in the Black community yet is also constrained by the demands of elite, male-dominated careers. We also find evidence of an impact of the historical period on respondents' work and family trajectories.


In this contribution the well established approach to fatigue failure by means of load controlled is compared with a fracture mechanical approach, which considers the softening behaviour o observed in deformation controlled tensile tests. Therefore, a series of load as well as deformatio uniaxial tensile tests on notched and on unnotched concrete prisms was carried out, respective parameters in the experiments were the number of cycles to failure, the curing conditions, the co and the frequency and the deformation rate, respectively. The load controlled tests provided which were nearly parallel to each other for all investigated parameters, except for the tests on h concrete showing a line more inclined. The experimental results from the deformation con showed in particular that for an increasing number of load cycles the corresponding envelope cu significantly from the monotonic curve. This clearly showed that the previous conventional assu unique envelope curve for the fatigue behavio conclusion that both approaches are useful for different applications and they can not b reciprocally by just a simple transformation formula.


Objective To investigate the sex hormone test in the diagnosis of female infertility,and women in the reproductive endocrine hormones in the sense discussed.Methods 254 cases of primary infertility patients of reproductive hormones 6 detection. Divided into 3 groups:116 cases of follicular phase,ovulation period of 56 cases,82 cases of luteal phase. The use of solid-liquid phase labeled immunoassay detected light.At the same time collected in the normal physical examination in the follicular phase, ovulation and luteal phase of the reproductive health of 100 persons,but also FSH,LH,E2,P,PRL,T reproductive hormones six tests as normal controls.Results Women with primary infertility patients six hormones measured results and serum reproductive hormones compared with normal reference values at different times,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusion In female infertility, reproductive endocrine factors that account for an important position.


We discuss the addition theorem for spherical functions and its application to a proof of the classical Grothendieck inequality where the best constant is still unknown. 1. The addition theorem for spherical functions For k ∈ N0, n ∈ N let Pn,k denote the real vector space of polynomials of degree ≤ k in n real variables, restricted to the unit sphere Sn−1 ⊆ R. Let Homn,k and Hn,k denote the subspaces of k-homogeneous polynomials, p (r x) = r p (x), r > 0, x ∈ R, and harmonic k-homogeneous polynomials, respectively, restricted to Sn−1. Thus for Hn,k additionally ∆p = 0 holds, ∆ = n ∑ j=1 ∂2 ∂xj 2 . Denoting the normalized surface measure on Sn−1 by σ, we consider the scalar product on L2(S n−1, σ) given by 〈f, g〉 = ∫ Sn−1 f(x) g(x) d σ(x); f, g ∈ L2(Sn−1, σ). With respect to 〈·, ·〉, we have orthogonal decompositions Pn,k ' Homn,k ⊕ Homn,k−1 (1.1) Homn,k ' Hn,k ⊕ Homn,k−2 (1.2) Indeed, for x ∈ Sn−1 one has (x, x) = 1, hence Homn,k−2i may be viewed as (x, x) Homn,k−2i ⊆ Homn,k, similarly for 2i replaced by 2i−1. Orthogonality in (1.1) holds since the integral of an odd function over Sn−1 vanishes. In (1.2), Hn,k is the kernel of ∆|Homn,k and Homn,k−2 the image of ∆|Homn,k . Together (1.1) and (1.2) yield Pn,l ' l ⊕ k=0 Hn,k (1.3)


There are an estimated 234 millions surgeries performed each year worldwide [1]. In the United States, annual inpatient surgical volume has increased from approximately 23.8 million surgeries in 1998 to over 30 million in 2010 [2,3]. Ambulatory surgical center visits have also increased by an estimated 300 percent between the years 1996 and 2006 [4]. Concomitant with this increased surgical volume is the increasingly aging population in the United States. While those age 65 and older represented about 13% of the population in 2010, this number is expected to climb to 19% (an additional 31.9 million people) by 2030 [5]. Given both the growth in surgical volume as well as the aging population in the United States, significant perioperative surgical risks should continue to be studied, managed, and prevented when possible. In particular, focus on perioperative cognition may become even more relevant with both an aging population and an increase in patients with cognitive disorders. For example, the incidence of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is expected to grow over the coming decades. At present, 11% of those age 65 and older (5.3 million people) are estimated to have AD, though by 2050, those with AD age 65 and older is projected to reach 13.8 million-an almost tripled incidence since 2010 [6]. Ultimately, many patients within this demographic will require surgical services. Based on the above estimates, it is imperative that elements affecting cognition in the perioperative setting be analyzed. Further, those elements which may be deleterious to cognition should be addressed and either temporized or avoided. In this review, we will (1) examine components of the perioperative setting (i.e. patient comorbidities, anesthesia, surgery and inflammation, pain, and sleep disturbance) which may contribute to post-operative delirium (POD) and post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) and (2) review strategies to avoid damaging cognitive reserve. Abstract


The effect of different nitrogen sources proportion on micropropagation of Schisandra chinensis was investigated. It was stated, the nitrate form of nitrogen was more preferably than ammonium one for this culture. The optimum ratio of both nitrogen sources was educed on Schisandra chinensis' proliferation stage.


The invention discloses a pneumatic blocking system for a discharging port of a melting kiln. The pneumatic blocking system comprises a cross beam support, a pneumatic push rod, a pneumatic push rod installation seat, a connecting rod structure, a push rod and a blocking rod device. The pneumatic push rod installation seat is arranged on the cross beam support, and the pneumatic push rod is arranged on the pneumatic push rod installation seat. The connecting rod structure comprises a connecting frame rod A, a connecting frame rod B and a connecting rod C. One end of the connecting frame rod A and one end of the connecting frame rod B are hinged to the cross beam support, and a plane four-connecting-rod structure is formed by the connecting frame rod A, the connecting frame rod B, the connecting rod C and the cross beam support. A blocking rod is arranged on the connecting rod C. The push rod comprises a connecting rod D and a connecting rod E. One end of the connecting rod D is hinged to the cross beam support. The other end of the connecting rod D is hinged to one end of the connecting rod E. The other end of the connecting rod E is hinged to the middle of the connecting frame rod B. A telescopic arm of the pneumatic push rod is hinged to the middle of the connecting rod E. The pneumatic push rod is connected with a starting switch through an air inlet pipe and an air outlet pipe.


The frequency modulation (FM) and amplitude moduh- tion (AM) responses of a 1.S-Fm distributed feedback (DFB) laser are measured to 15 GHz. At 9" ontput power, the magnitude of the FM response is flat out to 12 GHz, and there is a lS-25 ps delay between the FM and AM responses. Compnter simulation techniques indicate that the measured FM response is adequate to produce good eye pat- terns for frequency-shift-keyhg modulation at data rates up to 20 Gbit/r. The high-speed frequency-sbift-keying modulation capability of this 1.5-pm DFB laser is experimentally con6rmed at 11 Gbit/s. I. INTRODUCTION


Sang Yeub Lee, M.D.Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, KoreaAddress for correspondence: Sang Yeub Lee, M.D.Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, 126-1, Anam-dong 5-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136- 705, KoreaPhone: 82-2-920-5111, Fax: 82-2-929-2045E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com: May. 29, 2009Accepted: May. 30, 2009


A variety of medical devices are utilized to repair or help injured body functions after accidental injury(such as a traffic accident), population...


We report a novel method of growth for single-crystalline TiO2/TiN nanowires through oxidation of epitaxial TiN nanowires on Si/SiO2 (amorphous) and sapphire (crystalline) as practical substrates. We propose that the laser ablated Ti and N diffuse into molten Au to form TiN nano-dots where the growth rate of nanowires is directly proportional to the laser ablation flux due to high diffusion in molten Au. The TiN nanowires were grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition method using Au as a catalyst. The TiN nanowires were then oxidized to create TiO2/TiN core-shell nanowires. The growth of TiO2 (rutile) occurs by domain matching epitaxy paradigm in such a way that (002) planes of the TiO2 match with (200) plane of TiN, where the TiO2 thickness can be tuned by adjustment of oxidation time and temperature. This design provides a core-shell structure of TiO2/TiN integrated with silicon and sapphire substrates. The Rutile TiO2 nanowires show ferromagnetic behavior, while the as-grown TiN exhibits diamagnetic behavior. The SEM, TEM, and EBSD are used to characterize the microstructure and atomic alignments of TiO2 nanowires. The simple method of oxidation along with tunable magnetic properties provides benefits to many smart applications where the magnetic field can be used as an external stimulation.


of the speech: Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) are becoming one the largest families of 2D materials. Since the discovery of the first MXene (Ti3C2) in 2011, about 30 different compositions have been synthesized, and structures and properties of about 60 MXenes have been theoretically predicted. For example, 2D Ti2C, V2C, Nb2C, Mo2C, Ta4C3, Cr2TiC2, Mo2TiC2 have been fabricated. MXenes have shown promising properties in different applications, including energy storage, wireless communications, wearable electronics, water membranes, sensors, composite reinforcements, and biomedical applications such as brain electrodes. In all these applications, mechanical stability of the materials plays a critical role. This presentation will provide an overview of computational and experimental studies of mechanical properties of


Malleus ankylosis known as House syndrome is very rare. It represents 38.1% of congenital malformation of the middle ear [1] if stapes ankylosis is associated.


Abstract Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) was applied to analyse extracts of roots and cell suspension cultures from Rauwolfia serpentina. Most of the alkaloids known to be present in the respective plant material have been resolved via CE and assigned according to their electrospray mass spectra.


A new facility has . been created for accurately measuring the thermal expansion properties of materials over, a temperature range of 6°K to 5"50°Ko The facility is automated through the use of a microcomputer and the results are absolute due to the use of FabryPerot interferometry. Fifteen samples of Heraeus-AmersiI fused quartz were measured to determine the thermal expansion uniformity between different samples, both within a single melt and between different melts,. The results indicated a uniformity of 56 X . 10~8cm/cm in AL/L between room temperature and 1 0 0 % with an average measurement accuracy of 6 X 10~8cm/cm» No significant correlation was detected relating the thermal expansion and the location within a boule or between boules. Two factors limit the accuracy in measuring AL/L: temperature measurement and frequency stability of the laser. Both, factors contributed equa M y to the measurement errors in the Heraeus-Amersi I ' study. Our ability to measure temperature is limited to 10m°K by the temperature controI Ier used, forming the ultimate Iimit in our measurement; accuracy. Present Iy, the stabiI ity of the Iaser is aproximate I y 20MHz and limits, us to an accuracy of 4 X 10*'"8cm/cm in • . measurements of AL/L, Improvements are under. way which wi I I increase the stab? I ity to 0«5MHz, limiting us to an accuracy of 0,1 X 10~8cm/cm in : AL/L, . L 'r' /; ' ' '


The Unified Model (UM) data assimilation system incorporates a 1D-Var analysis of cloud variables for assimilating hyperspectral infrared radiances. For the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) radiance assimilation, a first guess of cloud top pressure (CTP) and cloud fraction (CF) is estimated using the minimum residual (MR) method, which simultaneously obtains CTP and CF by minimizing radiance difference between observation and model simulation. In this study, we examined how those MR-based cloud retrievals behave, using "optimum" CTP and CF that yield the best 1D-Var analysis results. It is noted that the MR method tends to overestimate cloud top height while underestimating cloud fraction, compared to the optimum results, necessitating an improved cloud retrieval. An artificial neural network (ANN) approach was taken to estimate CTP as close as possible to the optimum value, based on the hypothesis that CTP and CF closer to the optimum values will bring in better 1D-Var results. The ANN-based cloud retrievals indicated that CTP and CF biases shown in the MR method are much reduced, giving better 1D-Var analysis results. Furthermore, the computational time can be substantially reduced by the ANN method, compared to the MR method. The evaluation of the ANN method in a global weather forecasting system demonstrated that it helps to use more temperature channels in the assimilation, although its impact on UM forecasts was found to be near neutral. It is suggested that the neutral impact may be improved when error covariances for the cloudy sky are employed in the UM assimilation system.


Summary In recent times, a greater emphasis has been placed on the environmental aspects of urban stormwater management. An experiment has been designed to investigate the potential of using street tree and tree soil systems to treat st ormwater. The proposed treatment system fits within the concept of Water Sensitive Urban Design, with the aim of achieving water quality improvement, flow attenuation and integration of st ormwater into the landscape. This paper describes the experimental design and methodology developed to assess the feasibility of using street tree and designed soil systems as a st ormwater best management practice.


Leadership as a topic holds an important place in literature in the area of organization and management. Despite the research on managerial approaches and practices based on the cultural characteristics of western societies is abundant, the research reflecting cultural characteristics of eastern societies in the same field is scarce. On the other hand, recent research has frequently demonstrated that the leadership model based on paternalism phenomenon which reflects the dominant cultural characteristics of eastern societies is highly effective in those societies (Pellegrini et al., 2010). As substantial amount of studies show paternalistic leadership phenomenon is also a positive cultural value in our country. It is important to investigate the effects of this phenomenon on different affective and cognitive mechanisms that lead to positive employee behaviours. Regarding this, the purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of trust in the leader on the effect of paternalistic leadership on organizational identification. The data is collected from 148 employees who work in three different industries in Izmir. The path analysis findings indicated that trust in leader mediates the relationship of benevolent leadership and identification. These findings compatible with hypothetical model. Keywords: Paternalism, paternalistic leadership, trust in leader, organizational identification, SEM. JEL Classification: M10, D23, M50


This article describes the copolymerization of styrene-butylmethacrylate (St-BMA) and the homopolymerization of styrene (St) in a counterrotating twin screw extruder. The effect of prepolymerization on both the product properties and process was studied. It turned out that the process of reactive extrusion was strongly influenced by prepolymerization. Also, the product properties were altered by prepolymerization. When the polymerization of St is compared with the copolymerization of St-BMA, the process of St was more stable, although the polymerization rate was lower. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Adv in Polym Techn 16: 85-95, 1997


A highly porous Zn‐based metal–organic framework (MOF) IRMOF‐3 was covalently decorated with pyridine‐2‐aldehyde. The free amine group of IRMOF‐3 upon condensation with pyridine‐2‐aldehyde affords a bidentate Schiff‐base moiety in the porous matrix. The Schiff base moieties are availed to anchor copper(II) ions to display the catalyst's utility towards catalytic reactions. The catalyst was characterized by UV/Vis and IR spectroscopy, powder XRD spectrometry, SEM energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectrometry, and nitrogen sorption measurements. The catalyst exhibits excellent activity in catalyzing the N‐arylation reaction of nitrogen‐containing heterocycles with aryl bromides in DMSO medium, under mild condition (90 °C) in the presence of Cs2CO3. The porous catalyst demonstrates size selectivity towards substrate as a result of the presence of active sites inside the pores of the MOF. The anchored complex seems to be not leached or decomposed during the catalytic reactions up to five successive catalytic cycles, demonstrating practical advantages over homogeneous catalysis.


The side chamber flow has a fundamental influence on the performance and reliability of centrifugal pumps. However, the radial wall shear stress in the flow modeling of pump side chambers is arbitrarily neglected. The current work proposes a model for the radial wall shear stress, which is an extension of the previous paper (DOI: 10.1115/1.4047532). By using the power-law for the velocity boundary layer and the Blasius law for the wall shear stress, introducing the Ekman layer thickness expression, and deducing the Bödewadt layer thickness expression, the radial wall shear stress on the rotating and stationary disks is formulated and then integrated into the side chamber flow model. Besides, the entire flow field of the centrifugal pump is solved using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS CFX. The radial wall shear stress calculated by the new side chamber flow model (NSCFM) is in the identical magnitude as CFD. Compared with pressure measurements, NSCFM makes better pressure predictions than CFD from the rear seal to the hub; however, in other areas, CFD results are closer to experimental data than NSCFM results. The flow prediction tools show that the volumetric efficiency and the shroud thrust increase with the increase in flow rate. NSCFM achieves a good compromise between calculation speed and desired accuracy.


Trace intensity is defined as mean total trace length of discontinuities per unit area, which is an important geometric parameter to describe fracture networks. The probability of each trace appearing in the sampling surface is different since discontinuity orientation has a scatter and is probabilistically distributed, so this factor should be taken into account in trace intensity estimation. This paper presents an approach to estimate the two-dimensional trace intensity by considering unequal appearing probability for discontinuities sampled by rectangular windows. The estimation method requires the number of discontinuities intersecting the window, the appearing probability of discontinuities with both ends observed, one end observed, and both ends censored, and the mean trace length of discontinuities intersecting the window. The new estimator is validated by using discontinuity data from an outcrop in Wenchuan area in China. Similarly, circular windows are used along with Mauldon's equation to calculate trace intensity using discontinuity trace data of the same outcrop as a contrast. Results indicate that the proposed new method based on rectangular windows shows close accuracy and less variability than that of the method based on circular windows due to the influence of finite sample size and the variability of location of the window and has advantage in application to sampling surfaces longer in one direction than in the other such as tunnel cross sections and curved sampling surfaces such as outcrops that show some curvature.


This paper tries to develop the innovative ideas on the life-long learning programs, especially in the field of the Agriculture. Firstly, it describes the Japan's current situation of agriculture and the transition of the national agricultural policies after World War II, as well as the local ones. Secondly, it examines the meanings and roles of the agricultural life-long learning programs in the frame of the agricultural policies. Thirdly, it also examines the contents, circumstances and outcomes of the 3 cases of agricultural programs; the Tokushima Agri-Techno School provided by the Tokushima Agricultural School, the Tokushima Career Development Courses by the Center for University Extension and the Citizen Farmer Program by Tokushima City. All of the cases are inter-connected historically and personally, and provided through the social collaboration activities. Fourthly, it proposes the ideal contents of agricultural life-long learning programs and refers to what the relationship of social collaboration is to be. And Finally, as a trial, it refers the relationship between the agricultural programs and the national and/or local policies. I'd like to make the second version in the near future, focusing on the unique programs from a wide-spread activities across Japan.


Scattering amplitudes in QCD exhibit a definite RG flow with energy towards the unitarity limit. In this paper we put forward an evolution equation which allows one to modify continuously the pre-asymptotic RG flow towards "saturation" of Wilson line correlators. It preserves the linearly unstable zero field fixed point and the unitarity limit attractor. We present the evolution equations in a form suitable for efficient numerical solution. Hence, the proposed evolution equation in principle permits phenomenological comparisons of our incorrect pre-asymptotic RG flows to the BK/JIMWLK flow of QCD. Ultimately, it may lead to observational constraints on the approach to unitarity, constraining it to be specifically the one of QCD. However, it appears that single-inclusive particle spectra in the forward region of p+A collisions at RHIC alone do not provide stringent constraints on the evolution.


In most models of collective motion in animal groups each individual updates its heading based on the current positions and headings of its neighbors. Several authors have investigated the effects of including anticipation into models of this type. Key findings include that anticipation inhibits polarized collective motion in alignment based models and promotes milling and swarming in the one attraction-repulsion model studied. However, it was recently reported that polarized collective motion do emerge in an alignment based asynchronous lattice model with mutual anticipation. To our knowledge this is the only reported case where polarized collective motion has been observed in a model with anticipation. Here we show that including anticipation promotes polarized collective motion in a synchronous, off lattice, attraction based model. Establishing that anticipation can be a promoter of polarized collective motion in certain models and that asynchrony, mutual anticipation, or motion restricted to a lattice are not necessary requirements for polarized collective motion to emerge in models with anticipation. In addition, unlike alignment based models the attraction based model used here does not produce any type of polarized collective motion in the absence of anticipation. So here anticipation is a direct polarization inducing mechanism and we believe that utilizing anticipation instead of frequently used alternatives such as explicit alignment terms, asynchronous updates and asymmetric interactions to generate polarized collective motion may be advantageous in some cases.


The present paper reports 17 plant species belonging to 13 families, mostly used for various disease and disorders by the local people and herbal healer of Chandaka areas of Bhubaneswar. The local population of the region primarily depends upon these plants for curing of various aliments and their disorders. They are enumerated with binomial, family, vernacular name and floristic study and medicinal uses of the plants and their parts . Further studies on chemical and pharmacological actions are suggested to validate the claims.


With the advances being made in technology, our nation is in dire need of a work force degreed with mathematics and science. In the past few decades, the United States has seen a decline in the proportion of college graduates who majored in mathematicsintensive subjects. If our demand is high, why is our supply decreasing? Research suggests that traditional teaching methods using skills-based curricula make it difficult for students to take an interest in a confusing topic like mathematics in which they see no immediate relevance. I have spent a semester engaged in action research taking steps to increase student engagement in the mathematics classroom by helping them find the relevance to their daily lives. Activities were selected with special attention on including real world problems that address common interests of the students. Analysis of qualitative and quantitative data indicate that that students do prefer activities relevant to their everyday lives to traditional skills-based practice. Through the use of these activities, the students gained academic knowledge and improved their attitudes toward learning and using mathematics.


Land Mobile Satellite System (LMSS) is a communication system which provides radio communication to a large group of users within a vast geographical area (e.g. communications to and from mobile vehicles anywhere within the U.S.). Such radio communication may be in the form of radio telephone, paging, dispatch, or data transmission. The intended applications of LMSS range from emergency medical to disaster relief, from law enforcement to truck dispatch. By providing service to vast rural areas, LMSS compliments the current terrestrial service in the metropolitan areas and hence provides for a nationally ubiquitous coverage.


Laboratory Assistant has a big function in sharing knowledge from lecturers as source knowledge to university student especially during laboratory work in Computer Sciences Faculty Kuningan University. Laboratory Assistant must have higher knowledge than another university students in order to give direction for university students in laboratory work. Its recruitment is through testing covering document test (document requirement and standard minim grades of practice lesson and also cumulative practice index), interview test, micro teaching and writing test (competence test). There hasn't been optimum formula to formulate test result. So it needs an application that can give best alternative choice for a qualified Laboratory Assistant and it can make group of Laboratory Assistant as a base from their competence. Algorithm that used for data manage is TOPSIS Algorithm. This algorithm calculates matrix weight from all result test based on weight that decides and calculates normalize decision matrix, positive and negative ideal matrix, Euclidean distance, preference value from alternative and grade of value (the biggest value is the best choice). The system Development Method uses Prototype Model and system design uses Data Flow Diagram (DFD), Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). Its implementation is in PHP programming language and


Aloe buettneri was evaluated to confirm its hypoglycemic activity. The presence of quinone which seem to leave the hypoglycemic activity. Lyophilisate of A. buettneri leaf (LA) causes hypoglycemia only 2 h after its administration and is linked to the presence of quinone. Glycemia reduction with LA was significantly higher than that of Glibenclamide, the control. Glibenclamide and LA negatively affects blood glucose in the mice by decreasing it continuously over time. However, LA exhibited significant hypoglycemic activity in normal and alloxan-induced diabetic mice. LA has a greater hypoglycemic potential than Glibenclamide, a pharmaceutical drug used in the treatment of diabetes. A. buettneri is then a potential good hypoglycemic drug because it may provide clues for the development of new and better oral drugs for treatment of diabetes mellitus in the context of improved traditional medicines.


Based on the principle of blind source separation and highly non-linear on geochemical data,a new method for processing geochemical data about the algorithm of JADE was proposed,which can effectively acquire an inversion of geochemical element association.Compared with the traditional methods,the new method can better adapt to the non-linear of geochemical data and extract the geochemical anomaly and its density concentration.It is found that the new method extract weak anomaly that the traditional methods can't extract and the mineralized distribution of the extraction anomaly are coincident with actual state through processing the soil geochemical survey data from an area of Tibet 1:20 million.


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Background. Percutaneous catheter-based mitral annuloplasty (PTMA) is a newly-developed technique that exploits the anatomic proximity of the coronary sinus (CS) to the mitral valve apparatus. Dura...


The use of local, natural and unprocessed materials offers promising low impact building solutions. The wide spatial variability of these materials is, however, an obstacle to a large-scale use. The construction strategies developed by past builders were dictated by the local climate and the quality and the amount of locally available construction materials. These construction strategies can be regarded as an optimized management of local, natural and variable resources and are a source of inspiration for modern sustainable building. Unfortunately, this knowledge was lost in Western countries during the 20th century. Vernacular earth construction know-how rediscovering requires the development of rational built heritage investigation means. Another issue regarding the use of natural and variable building material is their compliance with modern building regulation. The development of performance based testing procedures is proposed as a solution to facilitate the use of earth as a building material. A multidisciplinary approach is proposed, combining micromorphology, pedology, geotechnics and heritage disciplines to study vernacular earth heritage. It provides complementary tools to assess pedological sources of construction material and geotechnical characteristics of earth employed in vernacular earth heritage. It also provides a detailed description of the construction process of vernacular earth heritage. Using these results, it was possible to draw resource maps and provide a scale of magnitude of resource availability at regional scale. Two performance based testing procedures were proposed in order to take into account the natural variability of earth in a modern building context. Earth construction will play an important role in the modern sustainable building of the 21st century if the actors of the sector adopt earth construction processes able to meet social demand, with low environmental impact and at an affordable cost. The study of earth heritage demonstrated the ability of historical earth builders to innovate in order to comply with social demand variations and technical developments. Earth construction benefits of an old and rich past and it would be a non-sense to leave this past behind. The analysis of earth heritage and the rediscovering of vernacular construction techniques is a valuable source of inspiration for modern earth construction. The valorisation of vernacular knowledge will save time, energy and avoid repeating past mistakes. The future of earth construction should be a continuation of past vernacular earth construction.


Background:
 Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a fatal lung disease of multifactorial etiology, with no curative treatment. Several studies have previously suggested that the loss of BMPR2 expression is associated with a severe hemodynamic profile and poor outcomes in PAH patients. Furthermore, preclinical studies showed that the loss of BMPR2 function is sufficient to induce a PAH-like phenotype. Recently, our group showed that SIN3a (Switch-Independent 3) plays a critical role in the epigenetic regulation of BMPR2 expression in human pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (hPASMC). However, our preliminary data suggested that SIN3a regulates BMPR2 expression through a different pathway independently of DNA-methylation in human pulmonary arterial endothelial cells (hPAEC).

 Methods/Results:
 We found a significant downregulation of SIN3a expression in the PAEC isolated from PAH patients. In hPAEC, our results showed that SIN3a inhibits cell proliferation, migration and upregulates BMPR2 independently of the methylation status by upregulating the FOXK2 transcription factor. Using a loss-of-function approach using a specific shRNA against FOXK2, we found that the loss of FOXK2 expression using a specific shRNA decreased the expression of BMPR2 in hPAECs. Interestingly, we found that SIN3a overexpression in FOXK2-depleted hPAEC restored the expression of BMPR2. Our results also showed that SIN3a regulates hPAEC proliferation in a FOXK2-dependant manner. Mechanistically, we found that SIN3a interacts physically with FOXK2 to promote its nuclear localization. As a result, we also found enrichment in FOXK2 abundance within the BMPR2 promoter by ChIP-qPCR in PAEC.
 In vivo
 , our results showed that restoring SIN3a expression by lentivirus-mediated gene transfer significantly decreased SuHx-induced PAH in mice, as illustrated by decreased vascular remodeling, RV hypertrophy (Fulton index, hypertrophic markers, cardiomyocyte size), and RV systolic pressure.

 Conclusions:
 Altogether, our study revealed that SIN3a plays a critical role in the regulation of BMPR2 expression through FOXK2. Additionally, our study identifies lung-targeted SIN3a gene therapy as a new promising therapeutic strategy for treating PAH patients.


Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is designed to remove chemical, biological waste from water used in agriculture, industry and every day human life. Along with waste products removal, the task is to control various water characteristics. One of such parameters to control in WWTP is the dissolved oxygen (DO) level. The air supplied to the process is proportional to the energy consumption which accounts for 30-50% of the plants total energy use. In order to maintain an effective process and restrict the use of energy, correct DO-measurements are an essential part to analyse and to study in monitoring any plant.


According to the connotation of sustainable development, this paper sets up the target system of sustainable development from the domain of economics, society and population, and environment. Then constructs the comprehensive evaluation model by using the factor analysis of multivariate statistical analysis, and applies with the data from Fujian Statistical Yearbook -2002 to comprehensively evaluate the districts and cities' sustainable development of Fujian.


Sugar mills conventionally use either chain-slat conveyors or belt-plough installations to feed their boilers. Chain-slat conveyors predominate, but are expensive and their mechanical components are constantly subjected to the abrasive action of bagasse and sand and are therefore costly to maintain. Slat conveyors also have a tendency to choke. Trapped foreign materials often cause the slats to break and the chains to stretch non-uniformly, resulting in conveyor breakdown. Consequently, chain-slat conveyor systems often contribute to poor plant availability. Previous belt and plough installations, on the other hand, have experienced operational problems, which has limited their use as an alternative to slat-chain systems. The performance and merits of the 'Smart-feedTM' system, installed at the Hippo Valley Estate Sugar Mill (HVE) in Zimbabwe are evaluated. This installation has successfully demonstrated that the problems experienced with previous designs are eliminated by the "Smart-feedTM" system, which uniquely integrates 'Renton Ploughs', innovative conveyor and chute designs and state-ofthe-art automation and control. Now entering its third season of operation, the HVE 'Smart-feedTM' installation, which includes a 2.1m wide and 80m long slider bed conveyor feeding six adjacent boilers via 23 ploughs, has achieved the anticipated savings in capital and operating costs and has resulted in improved availability and reliability. Improved boiler control has also resulted from the ability to control the fuel flow to individual feeders.


The boring survey is the most fundamental technology of the ground survey, such as drilling the ground, directly investigating the in-situ physical properties of the ground and collecting samples for soil test. Especially, the technique of collecting samples with undisturbed condition is important, so if the disturbance becomes larger at the time of sampling, the strength of the ground will be underestimated. Sampling of sand and gravel is often used with a rotary triple-tube sampler, but there are many discussions about its quality. In this report, we first consider the applicability of the sampling method standardized by the Japanese Geotechnical Society for sand and gravel. After that, we take up a new sampling technique for sand and gravel which is difficult to collect by standardized sampling method and summarize the structure and characteristics of the sampler. In addition, we evaluate the sample quality and show the effectiveness of this sampling technique.


Since modern educational evaluation originated in America in 1930's, the US has always been its center. It can be seen from its development in America that the scope of evaluation has been gradually enlarged, that ideas in this field have been pluralized, and that evaluation theories have been improved. Born in "Eight-year Study" and developed in the changes of its structure and ideas about it, modern educational evaluation has evolved from competency tests into process improvement assessment. However, problems concerning the value, the aims and the targets of education still puzzle people.


Taking the campus refuse of certain key university in Chengdu City of Sichuan Province as the representation of urban refuse,IPCC guideline and component calculation in ecological footprint theory were combined together to estimate the ecological footprint quantity of the domestic waste in this university.Measures for reducing the ecological footprint of campus refuse were put forward.Finally,the disadvantages of applying component approach of ecological footprint in calculation were pointed out.


The aim of this article is to introduce the new notion on a given graph. The notions of valued set, valued function, valued graph and valued quotient are introduced. The attributes of these new notions are studied. Valued set is about the set of vertices which have the maximum number of neighbors. The kind of partition of the vertex set to the vertices of the valued set is introduced and its attributes are studied. The behaviors of classes of graphs under these new notions are studied and the algebraic operations on these sets in the different situations get new result to understand the classes of graphs, these notions and the general graphs better and more.


Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Definitions and Concepts Major Players in Technology Transfer Barriers and Solutions Ethical Dimensions A Model of Technology Transfer Assimilation Application of the Model: India Conclusion Appendix A: Technology Transfer to Developing Countries Appendix B: Potential Costs of Technology Transfer Appendix C: The Reciprocal Distribution Paradigm References Index


There is close relation between information and culture,especially they are integrated as "information culture" in today's information age.Information culture is the product of modern transformation of culture,and we often face the feasibility of cultural informationalism when we go to the information culture.There are rationality for informationalism but also limitations,for example,the information culture may be constructed as a one-sided science and technology culture,and so we need consciously build it as the combination of science and humanities.


Economic selection method of choosing medium and low coltage power cable cross-section according to economic current is described.Through case studies,the authors explain how to take advantage of economic currents and economic cross-section.Approach of choosing the power cable cross-section is put forward,according to the economic currents,which can save energy and protect the environment.


The invention provides a high-efficiency waterproof moisture-permeable shell fabric and a preparation method of the high-efficiency waterproof moisture-permeable shell fabric. The high-efficiency waterproof moisture-permeable shell fabric is characterized by comprising an electrospun nano-fiber film, wherein the upper side and the lower side of the electrospun nano-fiber film are respectively provided with a fiber fabric layer, and an adhesive point-like glue layer is arranged between the electrospun nano-fiber film and the fiber fabric layer. The preparation method of the high-efficiency waterproof moisture-permeable shell fabric comprises the following steps of: under room temperature, adding polyurethane into solvent, and sequentially adding hydrophobic nano-particles, so that spinning solution with homogeneous property can be obtained; carrying out ultrasonic treatment on the spinning solution, and carrying out electrospinning on the ultrasonically-treated spinning solution, so that the electrospun nano-fiber film can be obtained on a receiver; and transferring the adhesive onto the electrospun nano-fiber film in the form of point by a transferring roller, so that the adhesive point-like glue layer can be formed, gluing a fiber fabric, so that a fiber fabric layer can be formed, and carrying out hot rolling, so that the high-efficiency waterproof moisture-permeable shell fabric can be prepared. The high-efficiency waterproof moisture-permeable shell fabric provided by the invention is good in waterproof property and moisture permeability.


The existence of one positive solution at least to a second-order three-point boundary value problem is studied.Several sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solution are obtained if the nonlinear terms are all superlinear or sublinear or that among them one is superlinear and the another is sublinear, based on the Krasnosel'skii fixed point theorem.The conclusion that the positive solution to a second-order three-point boundary value problem exists only if the nonlinear terms are superlinear or sublinear is thus improved and generalized.


This work is based on the idea to use different levels of hierarchical shortest path computations to approximate decision making and potentially missing information. E.g., a set of shortest paths determined in a full network would represent a person with perfect information and decision making capability such as a taxi driver or local resident. Systematic reduction of the original graph would model less and less perfect information, and consequently the decision making. Such an approach allows for reasoning to be simpler at levels with fewer details, challenging the selection of relevant data for an analytical task. Consideration of the main principles for the design of hierarchies useful as such a selection mechanism, raises a number of theoretical and practical research questions related to spatial information.


Experience suggests that strategy entails some interplay of choice, chance, and determinism as causal elements. Specifically, strategy is predicated on causality, or the principle that strategic choices have causes as well as consequences. Yet our discipline lacks a fundamental theory of causation, one that integrates strategic choice and deterministic perspectives and leaves room for chance. In reply, we venture beyond strategy and the organization sciences into intellectual history and complexity theory. Not only does each tradition have a long and respected track record in confronting causation, but when combined they allow us to address epistemological and ontological issues alike. We conclude with three propositions on the nature of causation in strategy, and examine their epistemological and methodological consequences.


The effects of wax and cuticle of peanut seed coat on reducing the infection and aflatoxin production by Aspergillus flavus w ere studied. Experiments showed that when the wax on seed coat was removed wit h chloroform or/and cuticle removed with KOH (or cutinase), fungal infection ra te and aflatoxin content in the seeds were significantly increased. Aflatoxin c onte nt in seeds with wounded seed coat was higher than that in intact seeds aft er be ing inoculated with A. flavus. Scanning electron microscopic obser vation on seed coat revealed that most of resistant seeds were rough in appeara nce and had adundant wax deposits on seed surfaces. It is indicated that the wa x and cu ticle play an important role in preventing fungal penetration.


The aviation is a complex system,composed of human,aircraft and environment. Based on statistical analysis on many flight accidents,a conclusion is got that human factor is the main cause of flight accidents,and pilot factor is the most. Causes of flight accidents are analyzed,factors that affect pilot reliability are studied,and three types of pilot reliability model are introduced,which can provide some references on quantitative study of pilot reliability.


The usual understanding of exceptions in Software Engineering pertains to the many handling systems in high-level languages such as Java or LISP. On execution of a program, an invoker calls an operation that returns an exception signal on occurrence of abnormal conditions for this run [2]. The program flow is reversed along the procedure call in search for an exception handler (the code block following the catch in the try/catch construct of Java). Programming exceptions are then at the level of the code, most often in both the syntax and the semantics. Architecture and component-based software design add another understanding of exceptions in Software Engineering [1, 4, 6]. Architectures need to be robust to the premature termination of some elements and to be flexible when the deployment environment of the system changes. Component-based software design need similarly to be robust to unexpected situations when integrating components-on-the-shelf to produce a target application. The common sense of exception introduced by architecture and components is at the level of the system structure, in addition to programming exceptions. In agent systems, a number of article deal with a third understanding of exceptions that would occur at the knowledge-level of agents [3, 5, 7]. In other words, exceptions pertain to improper knowledge that is learned from the environment or inferred on execution. The handling of these exceptions is critical for agents to succeed in completing their plans or any other activity they are pursuing. Although current work in exception handling for MAS has successfully showed the need for such techniques, it failed to address the question of autonomy in a satisfactory way. In terms of engineering, a MAS is indeed an open and distributed architecture populated with so-called agents—autonomous and interactive entities of the system. Current work has proposed solutions that all rely on the 'inspectability' of the agent code, which violates the autonomy assumption.


The use of transabdominal intestinal ultrasound (IUS) as an objective biomarker of inflammation in ulcerative colitis (UC) is gaining acceptance [1]. IUS ability to correctly identify inflammation and extent of inflammation has been explained in several studies [2]. The advantages over endoscopy or other cross-sectional modalities are many; IUS is a non-invasive, preparation – and radiation-free, easily repeated and patient friendly modality [1]. When visualizing disease bur-den in real-time, clinicians can better explain and motivate treatment decisions, helping patients to understand their disease [3]


In recent decades, scholars of religion have devoted much attention to the gender-specific nature of women's spirituality. While much of this research has focused on the Middle Ages, there has been considerably less theological attention to date on Catholic women's spirituality in the nineteenth century. This oversight might stem from the perceived lack of depth and originality of nineteenth-century Catholic spirituality, which has often been described as kitschy or, as Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar even more harshly characterizes it, "the great lie." Nineteenth-century Catholicism indeed pales when compared to the towering achievements of medieval piety or even of the Catholic Reformation; nevertheless, the later era offers promising ground for the theological study of women's spirituality, especially since this period saw great social transitions for women in church and society that still affect the church today. Recently, Richard D. E. Burton has begun to remedy this neglect by offering a sustained analysis of the spirituality of eleven nineteenthand twentieth-century Catholic women in France—the self-declared fille ainee de l'eglise (oldest daughter of the church). His study focuses on the effects of the secularization or "dechristianization" of French soci-


In this age of information technology, information access in a convenient manner has gained importance. Since speech is a primary mode of communication among human beings, it is natural for people to expect to be able to carry out spoken dialogue with computers. This involves the integration of speech input/output technologies and language technologies. The role of natural language processing in this context is highlighted here.


ownloade pose: This study aimed to identify novel hypoxia-inducible and prognostic markers in vivo from ic tumor cells. erimental Design: Using carbonic anhydrase 9 and CD34 as a guide for hypoxic tumor cells, laser e microdissection was used to isolate colorectal cancer (CRC) liver metastases. The samples were ed by microarray analysis, in parallel with five CRC cell lines cultured under hypoxic conditions. To te the prognostic impact of the expression of certain genes, samples from a total of 356 CRC pawere analyzed by microarray or quantitative reverse transcription-PCR. In vitro mechanistic studies vivo therapeutic experiments were also done about a histone H3 Lys demethylase, Jumonji docontaining 1A (JMJD1A). ults: Several candidate genes were identified by microarray analysis of liver metastases and culturCRC cells under hypoxic conditions. Among them, we found that JMJD1A was a novel independent ostic factor for CRC (P = 0.013). In vitro assays revealed that loss of JMJD1A by small interfering reatment was associated with a reduction of proliferative activity and decrease in invasion of CRC nes. Furthermore, treatment with an adenovirus system for antisense JMJD1A construct displayed inent therapeutic effects when injected into established tumor xenografts of the CRC cell lines 16 and DLD1. HCT1 Conclusions: JMJD1A is a useful biomarker for hypoxic tumor cells and a prognostic marker that could be a promising therapeutic target against CRC. Clin Cancer Res; 16(18); 4636–46. ©2010 AACR.


X-Ray photoelectron spectra were measured when the excited X-rays were impinged on a Ag surface with a grazing angle. The spectral backgrounds owing to the electron inelastic scattering in solids were lower when the incident X-rays were totally reflected than when the X-rays were not totally reflected. We developed a new method to estimate the electron inelastic mean free path (IMFP). The IMFP was estimated to be 1.00 nm, which was one half of the usually accepted length, for 1630 eV kinetic energy electrons in Ag from the reduction factor of the backgrounds of the total reflection X-ray photoelectron spectra.


Detecting motor bearing faults by stator currents is of great importance as it improves the adaptability of measurement means to different environments and reduces the number of sensors. Therefore, many studies have been conducted to investigate bearing faults by constructing motor models, most of which have used signal models to simulate the dynamics of the bearings. However, the signal model may be exposed to the issue that the nonlinearities in the bearing operation are neglected, thus oversimplifying the coupling effects between the electromagnetic and dynamics models. Hence, a coupled electromagnetic–dynamic modeling method for induction motors based on multiple coupled circuit theory and the rotor-bearing dynamics model is proposed in this study to implement the coupled simulation of electromagnetic and dynamic models. The air gap length and rotor velocity are used as coupled parameters for the calculation of stator–rotor mutual inductance and ball contact deformation, respectively. The simulation results show that the proposed model can effectively implement the electromagnetic–dynamic coupled and reflect the bearing fault characteristics in the current signal. Experiments were conducted on induction motors with typical winding configurations under laboratory conditions. The comparison results verify the effectiveness of the proposed modeling method.


Speeded reaction time tasks in which the compatibility between brief manual response sequences and their auditory effects is manipulated have demonstrated that musicians may use auditory imagery to anticipate upcoming sounds during action planning. Specifically, action planning (indexed by reaction times to 'go' signals), but not action execution (indexed by movement duration), is typically faster when responses and their effects are compatible than when they are incompatible (e.g., in terms of spatial height and pitch height). We tested whether response-effect compatibility affects the execution of music-like sequential actions that require temporal regularity rather than rapidity. Musicians responded to metronomic visual stimuli by producing sequences of three taps at a specific tempo on three vertically-aligned keys. Each tap triggered a tone. Key-totone mapping was either compatible or incompatible in terms of spatial height and pitch height. The results indicate that tap timing was more accurate with compatible than with incompatible mappings both for taps produced before (tap 1) and after (taps 2 and 3) the onset of auditory feedback. Thus, the observed influence of response-effect compatibility on action execution was not due exclusively to actual auditory feedback. This provides evidence that


Self‐consistent equilibrium and nonequilibrium charge‐state models are formulated for the spherical expansion of low‐Z pellet vapor as an inviscid perfect gas of constant ratio of specific heats being heated volumetrically by the incident electrons of a thermonuclear plasma. The two models are found to be in agreement in the region where the ratio of the ionization length ζj to pellet radius rp is less than unity, but a single parameter, such as the magnitude of this ratio on the sonic surface, is insufficient to determine whether an equilibrium model will be valid for all regions of the ablatant for carbon pellets. Thus a nonequilibrium model is necessary to model the outer regions of the ablatant cloud even for thermonuclear plasma conditions when the cloud is very dense. Also, the effect of the ionization of the ablatant by the incident plasma electrons is found to be 10% or less for even the C+3 region in the thermonuclear regime. Finally, although the model used for the healing of the ablatant by the...


OBJECTIVE The ob gene product, leptin, is considered to be a marker of adipose tissue mass and a possible homeostatic regulator of body mass. Our objective was to examine the effect of GH replacement on adipose tissue stores and leptin in adult hypopituitarism.


Introduction:
 Heart failure contributes to 1 in 9 deaths in the United States. Contractile deficits at the myofilament level may contribute to the heart inadequately pumping blood throughout the body. Few studies have investigated force production and myosin cross-bridge kinetics at physiological temperature in human myocardium from non-failing and failing hearts.

 Hypothesis:
 Myosin cross-bridge kinetics speed up with temperature, thereby altering contractility in non-failing and failing human myocardium.

 Methods:
 Skinned myocardial strips from the left ventricle free wall were Ca
 2+
 -activated at 2.3 μm sarcomere length. Isometric force production and cross-bridge attachment and detachment rates were measured at 17 and 37°C (4 non-failing hearts, 8 failing hearts; 4-6 strips tested at each condition).

 Results:
 Maximal Ca
 2+
 -activated, force was ~35% greater in non-failing vs. failing tissue at both 17 and 37°C (p<0.001 for condition effect). Moreover, increasing temperature from 17 to 37°C increased maximal force by roughly 30% and 40% in non-failing and failing myocardial strips, respectively (p<0.001 for temperature effect). Ca
 2+
 -sensitivity of the force-pCa relationship was reduced for non-failing vs. failing myocardial strips (p=0.03 for condition effect), with differences in pCa
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 being greatest at 17°C between non-failing and failing samples. These contractile differences between non-failing and failing myocardium, were not driven via differences in myosin cross-bridge kinetics, which were similar among non-failing and failing samples at each temperature. However, faster cross-bridge cycling rates accompanied greater force production at physiological temperature in both non-failing and failing samples.

 Conclusions:
 These findings suggest that heart failure compromises force production without significantly altering cross-bridge kinetics, both at sub-physiological and physiological temperatures in human myocardium.


Objective:To evaluate the significance of Midkine,Survivin and MMP2 expression on breast cancer prognosis.Methods:The clinical data of 62 breast cancer patients who had operation during 1999 to 2001 were obtained,their paraffin wax specimen were detected for Midkine,Survivin and MMP2 expression by immunohistochemistry.The relationship of Midkine,Survivin and MMP2 expression and those clinical data were analyses.Results:There were 37.1% patients triple positive or double positive,29.0% and 33.9% were single positive or total negative.The positive number was related with the further metastasis diease(P0.001) and 5 years survival (P0.01).Conclusions:Midkine,Survivin and MMP2 combined detection in breast cancer help to predict prognosis.


Supply chain practices (SCPs) have been identified as the most important strategies for medium and large organisations and have become a prerequisite for success in the global market. SCPs act as important tools to achieve competitive advantage together with strengthening organisational competitiveness. The objective of this paper is to obtain different SCPs from literature and develop conceptual framework for future development. An extensive overview of published research papers were carried out to obtain different SCPs and development of framework. Through literature, 15 SCPs along with construct were obtained which are implemented in small, medium and large organisations. As no framework is available considering the combine SCPs, the conceptual framework is developed for future research. The result of this paper will help in providing greater understanding of SCPs, and the framework developed can lead to successful implementation SCPs to improve customer satisfaction, organisational and financial performance.


This study features an analysis of the socio-economic factors of ten cities on the Honam-line that affect the number of train passengers. The 3 main factors based on the principal component analysis were the population, the distance between two regions, and the area size of each region while the number of automobiles has been conventionally used instead of the area size of each region. A formula to predict the train passengers by the regression analysis was developed and showed a good agreement to the number of real passengers. When Honam highspeed railway is opened, the traveling time between two regions as well as the area size of each regions should be more precisely considered.


The Pyramid system associates importance ratings with individual sentences in evaluated summaries. Given that many summarization systems compose their output from source document sentences with limited or no editing, it is often possible to propagate Pyramid ratings back to the source document and tag source sentences with one measure of their suitability to a generic summary. In the case of Pyramid evaluations of summaries of twenty topics in DUC 2005, this could be done in sufficiently many instances to make the effort worthwhile: 14% of nineteen thousand source document sentences were annotated with importance ratings.


The single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have been widely investigated for making SWCNTs a promising saturable absorber for mode-locking a laser. The SWCNT-SAs have been used for mode-locking lasers operated near 1.0 and 1.5 µm. Until recently, the SWCNT-SAs have been widely used to passively mode-lock the diode-pumped solid-state lasers [1,2]. However, the output power of these lasers is still very low (less than 500 mW) due to the low heat resistance of the polymer material in the SWCNT/polymer composite film. In this paper, the SWCNT-SA film is fabricated without the polymer material by using a vertical evaporation technique [3], and then used in the passive mode-locking of Nd:GdVO4 laser at 1-µm. We obtain the highest output power to our knowledge with the new prepared SWCNT-SA film.


The article provides an overview of the evolving economic incentive designs in decentralized systems. After introducing the decentralized economic policy tools that influence token design, the author examines the leading token models in a hand-selected dataset comprising the top one hundred cryptocurrencies by market capitalization (N=100). The dataset enables a time series trend analysis of token models, consensus algorithms, and governance mechanisms, among other data points.


The authors reported the formation and dynamic and thermodynamic properties of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) based on binary Ce and La elements, in which the compositions of Ce and La can be gradually changed in the range from 0 to 100at.% without deteriorating the glass-forming ability. The properties of the binary base glasses can be tuned by modification of the Ce and La compositions. The BMGs with unique features and tunable properties might provide a model system to investigate some long-standing issues in BMG-forming alloys. The approach has implication for designing BMGs with tunable properties.


This paper discusses the religio-philosophical views of Shumei Okawa, focusing firstly on his definition and understanding of the concept of religion and Supreme Being (至高の生命, Shikou No Seimei), and then on his views about Indian Philosophy, in particular on the concept of Brahman as understood by him. It then talks about his understanding of the Bhagvad Gita, the most sacred of all the Hindu texts, as a text dealing with morality and ethics but also talking about action and practical philosophy. It further introduces Okawa's views about Aurobindo Ghosh; an Indian philosopher for whom Okawa has very high regard, and explains the philosophy of Ghosh as seen through the eyes of Okawa. After discussing the monotheistic characteristics of the Gita, it examines the views of Ghosh based on the God of the Gita and the philosophy and the message behind the Gita. Finally, it compares Okawa's views with those of Ghosh and examines Okawa's understanding and interpretation of the latter.


To the gray scale distortion of LED display screen resulted from the difference between optical and electrical property of CRT and that of LED,the relation between visual sensitivity and luminance variation was analyzed based on human visual characteristics.It was proposed that γ correction of LED display screen should be divided into two-step,namely the gray scale correction formula which is suitable for photo-electrical characteristics of LED and for visual brightness characteristics.One design method of γ correction was presented based on look-up table.The composition of γ correction system and the γ correction process was described,and the realization method of γ correction inside FPGA is designed.The internal ROM within FPGA can replace the external integrated chip for simplifying the circuit.Simulation was made under Quartus II.The result showed that this correction method can get better image display effect for LED.


Although numerous empirical studies have scrutinized the impact of technological innovation, renewable energy, and natural resources on carbon emissions (CCO2), there is a lack of empirical knowledge of consumption‐based CCO2 emissions. This study examines the impacts of technological innovation, renewable energy, and natural resources factors on CCO2 emissions in China. In addition, the present work considers the role of the banking sector in environmental neutrality in China from 1990 to 2019. For this purpose, the sophisticated approach of "bootstrap autoregressive distributed lag (BARDL)" is applied to explore the association of the selected indicators on CCO2. The outcomes indicate that (i) economic growth and natural resources negatively impact environmental neutrality; (ii) environment‐related technologies and renewable energy are crucial to promoting environmental neutrality; and (iii) banking sector in China has a positive association with CCO2 emissions. The findings of this work recommend using effective measures to mitigate ecological pollution by using green energy sources and strengthening the banking sector by offering environment‐friendly investment loans. Likewise, strategies should be designed that reinforce sustainable development.


LSP ABC is an oil and gas certification service company located in the Duren Tiga, Pancoran, South Jakarta. At the beginning of 2020, economic, social and cultural activities began to be disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This has an impact on the company, so that the certification application data in 2020 tends to decrease compared to the previous year, 2019. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the company's financial ratios to find out the impact of this pandemic on the company's financial performance. This study aims to determine the company's financial condition using the ratio analysis method and managing business strategies using the SWOT analysis method to determine alternative strategies in determining decisions for the company so that company goals can be achieved. Data collection is done by interview the LSP ABC which is then processed and analyzed, the results obtained in the form of an average liquidity value of 2.874% which was above the company standard of 150%, the average solvency value of 92.6% according to the standard which is under 200%, and a profit of 24%. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the company's profits in 2020 decreased when compared to 2019 but the financial condition was in a good condition. Meanwhile, for business strategy analysis using SWOT, LSP ABC is in quadrant II position so it must diversify its business.


The growing belief is that marijuana is harmless, but the truth is that marijuana use has adverse effects on the body and can increase heart rate and can affect blood pressure, causing additional risk for those with cardiovascular disease.1 The short-term effects of marijuana use include anxiety, memory loss, trouble concentrating, and sleep disruptions.2 At high doses, marijuana can even cause psychosis (the loss of contact with reality), which can include delusions (false beliefs about what is taking place or who you are) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren't really there).3 Those who start using marijuana at a young age are more likely to experience schizophrenia and other mental illnesses later in life.4


High static voltages can be generated as a result of the flow of a low conductivity fluid over a solid surface. While past work has concentrated mainly on the properties and conditions of the fluid component, the fundamental charge generation process was studied in this research emphasizing the role of solid insulating materials. Streaming potential was measured by means of a streaming potential apparatus, under well controlled moisture and temperature conditions as well as oil charging properties. Characterization of solid insulating materials was performed using image analysis, dc conductivity measurement, and time-domain dielectric spectroscopy (TDDS). The results showed a linear relationship between streaming potential and pressure drop as predicted by theory. Statistical analysis indicated that the surface roughness significantly affects the streaming potential in the laminar flow regime, but the dielectric constant has no effect.<<ETX>>


ABSTRACT In considering the persistent ways that haunting, as a metaphoric operation, informs our attentions to history and human experience, this article introduces this special issue by asking what qualities of knowing, reading, and understanding, and what particular histories, might be rolled into "ghostliness." Infrastructural hauntings at once jog the fixity of certain metaphors and help us world our analytics. With the aid of a recent feature film (Session 9) that draws fear from the infrastructural ruins of a haunted hospital, I propose contrasting modes of attending to ghosts in the world and the world in ghosts--finding and conjuring, in which finding sees ghosts as something, while conjuring sees ghosts as always, inevitably, something else. With ghosts and ghostliness at hand, how might we, as anthropologists, consider the unspoken imperatives of our metaphors? How might we invite a localizing turn into our own efforts, being attentive to the ways our analytics propel ways of knowing into the world?


As a member of the health team the community health nurse is in a key position to play an important role in the prevention of mental retardation and in the rehabilitation and support which is necessary. The work is of such a nature that she meets the mother and the child both in the formal setting of the clinic and in the more informal atmosphere of the home visit. She does therefore have an invaluable opportunity for observation and discussion at a personal level, which is not always possible for other members of the multidisciplinary team.


The temperature of riser reactor plays an important role in the operation and control of fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU). However, the FCCU riser only has limit temperature sensors. In this paper, a distributed state observer strategy is proposed to estimate temperature distribution of the whole riser. Based on moving horizon estimation (MHE), this paper presents a simplified MHE scheme for differential-algebraic systems that is applied to each observer that are combined together to form a large distributed state observer. The simulation results show that the distributed state observer works well and is able to estimation the temperature distribution.


Korea classified into a development country when UNFCCC was concluded in 1995. So Korea doesn't have a GHG reduction duty until 2012. As the UNFCCC is strengthened, recently there is a growing interest in renewable energy and energy usage efficiency improvement for reducing GHG emission. It is associated with CES and renewable energy. CES is a total energy (heat, cooling and power)supplier in aggregated demand zone like a hotel, building, hospital and redevelopment district using CHP and it improves energy usage efficiency. At present, renewable energy is needed for GHG reduction duty but renewable energy doesn't have economic feasibility. So renewable energy is needed various support system to popularize which is a FIT and RPS. Especially RPS is carrying out instead of FIT in many advanced country and it will be inroduced in Korea. RPS is a duty which electricity service provider must guarantee renewable energy as much as specific ratio of total capacity. Therefore this study conducts an economic feasibility estimation of CES considering renewable energy when RPS will introduced in the future.


The article is devoted to the analysis of the draft Law of Ukraine on Copyright and Related Rights registration number 5552-4 dated 09.06.2021 (hereinafter the Draft) for the use of evaluation concepts as a language tool of rule-drafting technique. The definition of evaluation concept is given. It is stated that the use of evaluation concepts is not only a property of domestic law, but also legislation of other countries. Attention is drawn to the fact that their introduction into the texts of legislative acts is objectively inevitable, provides individualization of legal regulation and the fullest protection of the rights and interests of the subject of law, but creates conditions for possible subjective law enforcement discretion. Therefore, the quality of the Draft is determined by the proper use of evaluation concepts.
The list of evaluation concepts used in the text of the Draft is defined. The latter are compared with the corresponding concepts used in the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other hand (Chapter 9 «Intellectual Property») and Section 1 «Copyright and Related Rights» of Part 2 of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. The conclusion is made that there is a certain correspondence and obvious regularity of the use of evaluation concepts both in the Draft and the mentioned legal acts. Many of these concepts are completely or partially duplicated, such as the «fair reward» and «normal use».
In order to promote the proper use of evaluation concepts in the text of the Draft by its designers a list of prerequisites for their introduction into the developed regulations is proposed.
It is noted that the presence of evaluation concepts in the text of normative legal acts necessitates the observance of certain rules of interpretation and application of evaluation norms. A systematic list of such rules, which in the long run will contribute to the effective use of future law to ensure the rights of intellectual property holders, is proposed.


Monte Carlo simulations of closed random walks on a body-centered cubic lattice are used to investigate the influence of the average knot structure on the root mean square radius of gyration Rg and scattering function P(q) of flexible ring polymers obtained by cyclization under Θ-conditions. Calculations are carried out for walks of 10 to 160 steps. Considered as an equivalent chain model for ring polystyrene, this corresponds to molecular weights Mn ≤ 120000. Up to 37% of the ring molecules are shown to be knotted. The influence of the number and kind of knots on Rg is presented in some detail. Removing part or all of the unknotted rings produces a more pronounced maximum in the Kratky plot of the scattering function. Comparisons are made with experimental small-angle neutron scattering data for cyclic polystyrene in deuteriated cyclohexane.


We present a search engine that can be either used with a database or closed website. The main feature of the search engine is that it keeps track of record, keyword, and query frequency usage and uses this information to modify and improve its performance over time.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility and desirability of artificial intelligence (AI) by considering western literature on AI and Buddhist doctrine.Design/methodology/approach – The paper argues that these issues can best be considered examined from a variety of philosophical and religious viewpoints and that resolution of those issues depends on which point of view the questions are addressed from. There are a number of philosophical questions involving AI usually considered by philosophers: what is the definition of AI, what is a status of an AI as compared with human intelligence, is there a legitimate purpose for creating AI; if so, what is that purpose? Buddhism is a religion that is deeply philosophical and, perhaps to the surprise of western readers, has a lot to say about the nature of human mind and human intelligence. Although Buddhism does not talk explicitly about AI, the richness of its philosophical views concerning human nature and the nature of the physical wor...


In this paper, we propose a personalized exercise intervention framework based on heart rate variability (HRV) to improve emotion regulation. Firstly, we deeply study the mechanism of exercise improving emotion regulation and introduce an "Emotion Regulation-ANS-Exercise" framework. From this connection, we use heart rate variability as the parameter of biofeedback. Secondly, we quantify a kind of movement state (represented by HRV) which is more beneficial to emotion regulation for each subject through the emotion regulation experiment, and then we design an exercise feedback system by combining biofeedback and PID controller. In this process, we calculate the target speed by the deviation between the target HRV and the current HRV. According to the target speed and real-time speed, the subject will adjust the exercise intensity to make their current HRV close to the target HRV. Finally, through the long-term comparison with the control group, we conclude that the personalized exercise intervention framework designed in this paper is more conducive to emotion regulation.