Oryctes rhinoceros (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae) is one of the most serious pests in young oil palm and coconut plantings. Adults mine galleries in young fronds. Such attacks retard the development of young palms and sometimes kill them. The insect develops in rotting wood and old stems left on the ground during land preparation. Replantings to replace old oil palm plantings are propitious to pest development. Young palms are protected by repeated applications of insecticide granules, which are costly and not without risks for the environment (pollution of the water table). Manual collection calls for frequent rounds and is therefore labour-intensive. The discovery and the use of the aggregation pheromone ethyl 4-methyloctanoate (E4MO) as an attractant to capture the pest offer new prospects for its control by mass trapping and the reduction of populations. The results of a study testing increasing doses of E4MO using different dispensers are given. The trial was conducted in North Sumatra (Indonesia) in an oil palm replanting. (Resume d'auteur)


Protein kinase C (PKC) consists of a family of serine/ threonine protein kinases which are presumed to play a major role in signal transduction in response to the production of diacylglycerol (reviewed by Nishizuka, 1988; Parker et al. 1989). Originally denned as a kinase dependent on phospholipid and calcium for activity, PKC was found to be the major cellular receptor for the tumourpromoting phorbol esters, and the addition of either phorbol esters or diacylglycerol to the enzyme in vitro increases the affinity for phospholipid and calcium such that the kinase is fully active at physiological concentrations of these effectors. Subsequent isolation of cDNA clones encoding at least nine different PKC proteins from a minimum of seven genes (Parker et al. 1986; Coussens et al. 1986; Ono et al. 1987; Coussens et al. 1987; Ono et al. 1989a; Osada etal. 1990) has revealed the existence of two subclasses of PKC: PKC-cv, -/S and -y, that contain four regions of high sequence homology (Ci_4), and PKC-5, -e, -£ and -t], that are lacking the second of these conserved domains (Fig. 1). Expression in mammalian cells of the cDNA clones for this latter class has indicated that these enzymes are independent of calcium for activation in vitro


In the article, the data of the experimental study of brain blood supply state in boys at the age 11-17 y.o. are presented. The age dynamics of the correlation between systemic and cerebral blood circulation has been detected. By comparing of central and cerebral hemodynamics indices, the correlation dependence of parameters of cerebral fraction blood circulation on arterial blood pressure and cardiac ejaculation quantity has been revealed. It has been found out that with age, dependence of cerebral fraction blood circulation on heart ejaculation indices increases.


The prognosis of left bundle branch block is determined by associated cardiovascular disease. Exercise electrocardiography is not helpful in detecting ischemia in these patients. Exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy has been widely accepted for that purpose. The authors made an overview of several studies suggesting that exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy has low specificity regarding left anterior descending coronary artery disease. They also review the mechanisms of perfusion defects in patients with left bundle branch block without coronary artery disease. One important question to be clarified is weather small defects are unrelated to coronary artery disease. Finally the authors analyse a few methods to increase diagnostic accuracy of perfusion scintigraphy in left bundle branch block. First the employment of a new criterium that requires the apex to be abnormal to indicate left anterior descendent artery disease. Second Pharmacological Stress with Dipyridamole or Adenosine. Third imaging with Tc-99m-MIBI.


1M Tech. Scholar, EEE Department, REC Bhopal. 2Assistant Professor, EEE Department, REC Bhopal. -------------------------------------------------------------------***----------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: This document presents an implementation of the Dc-Dc converter with an MPPT design (Power Point Tracking) for a photovoltaic (PV) system with a new optimization technique. The new optimization method that overcomes the limitations, such as the lower tracking efficiency, the steady-state oscillations and the transients found in the perturbation and observation (P&O) and PSO techniques. The problem of tracking the global peak (GP) of a photovoltaic array in partial shadowing conditions is intended to be used to improve the MPPT technique. The proposed scheme is called gray wolf optimization, which has used the study studied for a multi-peak PSC array and the tracking performance is compared to that of two MPPT algorithms, P&O-MPPT and PSO MPPT. The GWO MPPT algorithm implemented in a photovoltaic system using MATLAB. In addition, an experimental configuration has been developed to verify the efficiency of the proposed system. The simulation obtained and the experimental results show that the proposed converter with the MPPT algorithm exceeds the MPPT of P&O and PSO.


Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of stress, perception of occurrence risk of cancer and cancer preventive health behavior in three-shift nurses. Methods: The participants of this study were 252 three shifts nurses working at three medium and small sized hospitals with 100 to 300 beds. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire from September to October 2014. Results: The mean score for stress was 24.35±7.93. The mean score of perception for occurrence risk of cancer was 12.63±4.12 and cancer preventive health behavior was 58.07±8.87. Stress had a positive relationship with the perception of occurrence risk of cancer (r=.40, p<.001); the perception of occurrence risk of cancer had a positive relationship with the preventive health behavior against it (r=.31, p<.001); and stress had a positive relationship with preventive health behavior against it (r=.33, p<.001). Conclusion: The findings show that participants stress levels were high and degrees of perceptions of occurrence risk and cancer preventive health behaviors were low. Significant correlations were found among these variables. On the basis of these findings, development of intervention is required to reduce stress and enhance the perception of occurrence risk of cancer and cancer preventive health behavior among three shifts nurses.


tion and excessive detail, often in the form of lists; (2) inconsistencies, e.g., urban population totals at times do not include warriors and their families; and (3) facile explanations, e.g., that the decline in Osaka's population, which continued for nearly a century, was caused by one severe famine in the 1780's and that the overall decline in population growth from the eighteenth century can be attributed to undocumented changes in the rates of infanticide or abortion. Even more disquieting is the author's underestimation of the achievements of Tokugawa society. Emphasis is placed on revolts against feudal conditions rather than on unparalleled city growth and its consequences for subsequent modernization. The final two chapters sketch changes which are already familiar to Western readers. Depicting the sequences of reform, industrialization and urban development after 1868 in terms of expanding integrative activities centered in large cities, Yazaki focuses on Tokyo (Edo) as a microcosm of the whole society. Unfortunately, a suggestive approach is once again submerged in unnecessary detail. Moreover, data is not always treated with sufficient skepticism; improbable birth and death rates, questioned by Taeuber in The Population of Japan, (p. 50), are presented without comment. It is curious that the proclaimed strengths of this book are indeed its weaknesses. Yazaki misleads the reader in suggesting that the input of sociology has enabled him to take a broad theoretical perspective. In general, his work appears as a disjointed series of descriptions. Despite these drawbacks, Yazaki has made two essential contributions. Shifting from one city to another, from one century to another, he has pointed the way to the study of stages of urban development. This effort to examine cities in transition within the context of a society in transition deserves to be widely read for the questions it raises, which is more than can be said for most less ambitious undertakings. For most readers the real strength of Yazaki's book lies in the skillful historical research upon which he has drawn. Indeed, prolific studies of Japanese cities during the 1960's have already provided material for substantial additions to this book.


The paper attempts to describe the relation of apposition in
Malay. Whilst other relations such as coordination, modification and relative clauses have been widely discussed in the grammatical description of Malay, apposition has been largely left out. The isolation, as a guess, may be due to the fact that some appositional constructions may lie on boundary with other well-established relations, thus lessening the need for its explicit mention. We show in this paper the boundaries of apposition with these relations. Then, using data extracted from a 450,000 word corpus, we put forward the realizations of apposition in the Malay language from syntactic,
semantic and pragmatic perspectives in order to close the structural gap currently existing in Malay grammatical relations. We end the paper by briefly mentioning some possible implications of this 'discovery'.


In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), because of moveable nodes, congregation mobility and changing of infrastructure, given that protected communications is a huge challenge. Frequently cryptography methods have been proposed to solve this problem in MANET. In cryptographic techniques, asymmetric cryptography is extensively second-hand because of its factors like verification, reliability, and privacy and straightforwardness designed for key distribution. At the same time multicasting routing in MANET during forward and backward secrecy communication results high packet drop ratio and less security. Since simultaneously changing key values in the MANET causes high message loss, high communication overhead, high energy consumption and high end-to-end delay. Therefore efficient multicast key management method is required to solve the problem of existing cryptographic methods in the key management technique. In this paper presents a Ring-Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption (RBFHE) based key management technique for dynamic multicast group management with mobility managements to solve the problems verification, reliability, and privacy with the purpose of multihop communication. The most important idea is to comprise group members dynamically contribute to the safety of the multicast group, consequently reducing the message loss, communication overhead, energy consumption and end-to-end delay. During this process key value is generated between the nodes in the MANET for multicast communication and satisfies less message loss, less communication overhead, less energy consumption and less end-to-end delay. The allocation of keys in a legitimate manner is a hard task in MANET which is overcome in this work. Through simulation experimentation results shows that the proposed RBFHE approach attains less packet drop rate and improves the data privacy throughout multicasting process. Keywords— Reliability, Security, Multicasting, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), Ring-Based Fully Homomorphic


Objective To optimize the extraction process of yinyangsuo chewable tablets. Methods Orthogonal test was employed for selecting the optimum of extraction process by the indexes of the contents of icariin and total solid matters. Results 6 volumn of water, extracting 3 times with one hour for each time was considered the optimum extraction process of yinyangsuo chewable tablets. Conclusion The selected technology was considered to be reasonable and feasible, and the simple method is fit for production.


The research on sweet potato stem leaf treatment and harvesting machines and its promotion will play an important role in improving the mechanization level of sweet potato plantation and boosting the growth of sweet potato industry.This article examines the present state of research on sweet potato stem leaf treatment and harvesting machines at home and abroad and makes analysis on the development trend in China.


Based on documents that have been declassified in recent years in the central archives of the Russian Federation, the article analyzes the policy of the Soviet state during the Great Patriotic War regarding its citizens who professed Islam. Based on declassified documents, the contribution of the Muslims of the USSRto the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies is shown. The author argued his own view on the reasons for the change in the policy of the Soviet state during the war years in relation to Muslims of the USSR, which could be considered from the point of view of circumstances of an internal and external nature. The knowledge of the historical truth is an effective tool to struggle against falsifications aiming to separate ideologically the peoples of the post-Soviet states.


This report as part of an ITER Task Agreement, documents the verification of the MELCOR Input Computer Decks used in performing the required safety analyses to be presented in the Preliminary Safety Report (Rapport Preliminaire de Serete, RPrS).


Community assessment is the process of identifying the strengths, assets, needs and challenges of a specified community. Assets refer to the skills, talents and abilities of individuals as well as the resources that local institutions contribute to the community. Local institutions may include political, religious, educational, recreational and youth organizations; community, civic and service groups; local businesses; nonprofit organizations and volunteer groups. A community assessment involves (1) an evaluation of the current situation in a community, (2) a judgment of what the preferred or desired situation in that community would be, and (3) a comparison of the actual and desired situation for the purpose of prioritizing concerns. A community assessment is usually performed early in the development of a coalition to better understand the community and decide how the coalition might best address its concerns (Butterfoss, 2007). Community assessment is sometimes referred to as needs assessment, but there is an important distinction between the two. In a needs assessment, the focus is limited to discrepancies between what is and what should be in a given community. This type of assessment forces a community to focus on its deficiencies and ignore what it is doing well (Kretzmann and McKnight, 1993). In contrast, a community assessment seeks to empower community members by allowing them to take ownership in affecting the health of their community instead of providing them with a prescription of what their community needs.


Extractive Transformer-based models for question answering (QA) are trained to predict the start and end position of the answer in a candidate paragraph. However, the true answer position can bias these models when its distribution in the training data is highly skewed. That is, models trained only with the answer at the beginning of the paragraph will perform poorly on test instances with the answer at the end. Many studies have focused on countering answer position bias but have yet to deepen our understanding of how such bias manifests in the main components of the Transformer. In this paper, we analyze the self-attention and embedding generation components of five Transformer-based models with different architectures and position embedding strategies. Our analysis shows that models tend to map position bias in their attention matrices, generating embeddings that correlate the answer and its biased position, ultimately compromising model generalization.


The in vitro response of two citrus rootstocks (sour orange, Citrus aurantium L. and Volkamer lemon, Citrus volkameriana Ten. & Pasq.) to two types of salts (NaCl and CaCl2) of different concentrations (0, 50, 100, 150, 200, or 300 mM) was investigated. Results showed that increasing NaCl level in the growth medium led to increased Na and Cl accumulation and decreased Ca concentrations in plant tissue. Increasing CaCl2 levels in the growth medium led to increased Ca accumulation and decreased Na concentrations in plant tissue. Plant K concentrations decreased with increased salinity level in the media. In general, increased salinity level in growth medium, using NaCl, CaCl2, or a combination of the two, led to reduced plant growth (leaf number, plant length, fresh weight, dry weight, and increased plant leaf damage) in Volkamer lemon and sour orange after two months in culture.


Abstract : Metals such as Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, In, Ge, Sn, and Pb were evaporated under vacuum and the vapors (atoms) co-condensed at 77 K with excess organic solvents. In this way solvated metal atoms were produced. Upon warmup to room temperature metal atom agglomeration occurred in certain solvents to yield stable colloidal particles in solution. In many cases these were the first examples of non-aqueous colloids of these metals, and they are very novel in that they are free of contaminating reducing agents, halide ions, etc., and they are living colloids--by removal of solvent metallic films can be grown on various substrates under very mild conditions. Characterizing these colloidal particles and the films therefrom was an important part of this project. Metal- metal bonds; Alloys.


Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)-determined appendicular lean soft tissue mass (aLM) has been used, together with functional assessments, to define sarcopenia in older adults. In a recent consensus, low muscle mass was defined as an aLM index less than two standard deviations (SD) below the mean aLM index for young adults. However, DXA measurements are costly and the device has limited availability. For practical application, an evidence-based screening tool might be useful for identifying individuals likely to have low muscle mass for initial screening. Based on this idea, we have developed a new chart for practical screening of low muscle mass in older adults (aged 50–79 years). Body mass index (BMI), expressed in kilograms per meter squared, is commonly used to categorize adults as overweight or obese. The aLM index, in terms of dividing aLM by the height squared, is the same concept as BMI. The difference between BMI and aLM index is that BMI contains both fat-free mass (FFM) and fat mass components, whereas aLM is a part of FFM (excluding body fat from body mass). Therefore, we hypothesized that the aLM can be predicted from FFM in middle-aged and older adults regardless of body fatness if: (i) there is a constant aLM : FFM ratio; and (ii) if there is an estimate of percent body fat. To confirm our hypothesis, we analyzed samples from 413 healthy older adults (102 Caucasians aged 50–76 years and 311 Asians aged 60–79 years). In those studies, the mean age, height, body mass and BMI were 60 years (SD 7 years), 1.77 m (SD 0.06 m), 81.6 kg (SD 12.5 kg) and 25.9 (SD 3.1) kg/m, respectively, for Caucasian men (n = 59); 71 years (SD 5 years), 1.62 m (SD 0.06 m), 62.7 kg (SD 8.2 kg) and 23.8 kg/m (SD 2.8 kg/m), respectively, for Asian men (n = 133); 58 years (SD 6 years), 1.62 m (SD 0.06 m), 64.6 kg (SD 13.2 kg) and 24.5 kg/m (SD 4.8 kg/m), respectively, for Caucasian women (n = 43); and 70 years (SD 5 years), 1.50 m (SD 0.05 m), 52.5 kg (SD 7.3 kg) and 23.3 kg/m (3.0 kg/m), respectively, for Asian women (n = 178). All participants were free of chronic health conditions (e.g. myocardial infarction, cancer, stroke, myositis, lung disease, neuromuscular disorders), as assessed by self-report. The rate of structured regular physical/ sports activity (at least twice a week) was approximately 67% of the Caucasian adults and approximately 70% of the Asian adults. In addition, our participants were well-functioning middle-aged and older adults evaluated by using usual walking speed (>0.8 m/s). A whole-body scan was carried out using a DXA scanner (Discovery-A; Hologic, Bedford, MA, USA) to determine body composition including the percent body fat and aLM. The aLM calculations were based on the sum of lean mass in all four limbs. FFM was defined as the difference between total body mass and fat mass. One-way ANOVA showed that there were almost identical values of the aLM : FFM ratio (same as aLM index : FFM index ratio) between the Caucasian men (0.428 0.013) and Asian men (0.426 0.017), and between the Caucasian women (0.397 0.021) and Asian women (0.402 0.016). The aLM : FFM ratio was relatively constant regardless of the degree of BMI (Fig. S1). Age was not related to the aLM : FFM ratio in men (r = 0.087, P = 0.076) and women (r = 0.001, P = 0.918). The mean values of this ratio using Asian samples were 0.425 0.017 in older men aged 65–79 (n = 119) and 0.401 0.016 in older women aged 65–79 (n = 152). Although previous studies did not report the value of the aLM : FFM ratio directly, values calculated using body composition data from those studies are similar to our values for both men (range 0.411–0.429) and women (range 0.389–0.402). We used BMI and percent body fat as independent variables, and developed a new chart for estimating the aLM index in older adults aged 65–79 years (Table S1). The Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia proposed a definition for age-related low muscle mass using a DXA-derived aLM index in men (7.0 kg/m) and women (5.4 kg/m). From our developed chart, a BMI of 25 kg/m in men and a BMI of 20 kg/m in women are classified as having low muscle mass when they have a body fat percentage of 35% or higher. Goodman et al. proposed a practical screening tool to predict the probability of low muscle mass from BMI and age in older adults (aged >65 years). The advantage of our chart is to directly estimate aLM index for each individual. In Japan and other countries, the measurements of the percentage of body fat are very popular in many places, such as hospitals, sports facilities and one's own house. We would like to suggest that the newly developed chart might be useful for practical screening of low muscle mass in older adults.


Our SunShot Initiative's new solar storage projects will supply solar energy at any time of day while helping to modernize the electrical grid.


The utility model discloses a frame hinge type connecting device which has the advantages of reliable connection, low requirement on the ground and long service life. The frame hinge type connecting device comprises a front part and a rear part provided with hinge shafts; a hinge assembly is arranged between the hinge shaft at the upper part of the front part and the hinge shaft of the rear part to connect the front part with the rear part movably; the rear part is provided with a hinge hole; the hinge shaft at the lower part of the front part extends into the hinge hole of the rear part to connect the lower hinge shaft of the front part with the rear part movably; the upper part and the lower part of the hinge shaft of the front part and the hinge shaft of the rear part are subsequently provided with a bearing, an elastic retaining ring for a hole and an elastic retaining ring for a shaft. The frame hinge type connecting device is applicable in the connection of the front part and the rear part.


BACKGROUND
For a few years, the French health system has implemented a lot of reforms which have consequences on patients' management, particularly in oncology.

METHODS
The main legislative texts are described. There were published after 2002-2007 hospital plan. These texts are analyzed according to several perspectives.

RESULTS
The implementation of the new fee scale (T2A: Tarification à l'Activité) is done according to the point of view of the payer with its economic basis. The T2A associates financing bound in relation to activity and other financed in supplement. The physicians'perspective can be in the opposite of the point of view of the payer, because they have to modify some management strategies. The patient's point of view can be dramatically opposite. A description of the ideal patient within the T2A pathway is secondary performed.

CONCLUSION
Each economical logic (the patients, the payer and the physicians) can be in opposition. Ethic has to be predominant and indicators, like practice guidelines and evaluation, have to balance economical considerations.


In this paper, a new proportion entropy function is proposed as an objective function to obtain a well-diversified portfolio. Secondly, a new fuzzy multi-objective portfolio selection model based on the proposed entropy function is presented. By using the model, we can find tradeoffs between risk, return and the diversification degree of portfolio. Thirdly, a new multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is designed to solve the proposed model. Finally, some numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the corresponding algorithm.


Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is the breakthrough path to implement the Indonesian smart grid system. The topology of small batch AMI utilization in the Java Region consists of a smart meter, communication media, data concentrator unit, head-end system, and meter data management system. By applying this technology, it can allow a government state-owned electricity company (PLN) to enable a two-way real-time energy monitoring system for supporting smart grid applications. It also has other benefits, such as simplifying the billing collection process and providing realtime event notification to monitor energy meter activities. On Java Regional Business, PLN has implemented AMI in three different locations (Bandung, Jakarta, and Surabaya). The goal of this small batch AMI implementation in Java Regional Business is to provide pre-commercial references and several evaluations for a future large-scale rollout implementation. The evaluation of small batch AMI implementation in Java regional businesses will be discussed, along with a deep dive into the preproduction process, customer installation, and performance evaluation. The end results of this evaluation will allow PLN to have a better view of a forthcoming large-scale project of advanced metering infrastructure to support smart grid system development in Indonesia.


Solar energy has been one of the most explored source of renewable due to its economical source of energy. However, the main barrier for solar energy generation is the present of dust particles on the panel surface that decreases its performance. Hence, persistent monitoring on dust accumulation is of importance to guarantee the optimum power is achieved. Thus, this research aims to develop the real-time dust monitoring system of the solar panel. A dust sensor with IoT will be developed for this purpose. The reading of dust accumulation will be recorded and is accessible online through smartphones or desktop.


The BBN TC2000 is a multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) machine that combines a physically distributed memory with a logically shared memory programming environment using the unique Butterfly switch. Particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations model the interaction of charged particles with electric and magnetic fields. This paper describes the implementation of both a 1-D electrostatic and a 2 1/2-D electromagnetic PIC (particle-in-cell) plasma simulation code on a BBN TC2000. Performance is compared to implementation of the same code on the shared memory Sequent Balance 21000.


The present work had as main objective to investigate the different HR practices of the organizations on the challenge of the inclusion and incentive to the diversity currently. To achieve this aim, we performed a bibliographical review about the performance of HR in organizations and on the diversity factor in companies. Lastly, we did a qualitative research with five employees of a multinational industrial gas sector, which has an area in the company focused on diversity management. From the results of the interviews, we observed that although the company considers itself inclusive, it still faces resistance from some employees. In spite of this, there programs end up providing positive and include image for their employees, as seen in some answers in the research.


This paper discusses how designing the high-frequency distribution system to allow HP's new 32-bit VLSI processor to operate at 18 mhz proved to be a significant design challenge. The chips required 6 v, two-phase, nonoverlapping clocks with rise times less than 6 ns and overshoot/undershoot less than 1 v. It was decided early in the project that, because of area constraints, the processor chips would not buffer their clocks. However the RAM chips do provide some buffering. Hence the capacitive loading components vary from approximately 300 pf per phase for a CPU chip to approximately 30 pf per phase for a ram chip. In addition, the capacitive loading presented is highly variable because of the dynamic circuits used and depends on which circuits are active. Worst-case tolerances produce capacitive specifications that can vary +or- 30percent and cause unbalanced loads on each phase.


Goal: To understand endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) surgical result in the hydrocephalus. Setting: Benha University Hospitals Department of Neurosurgery. Between January 2016 to February 2020. Materials and processes: A total of 58 hydrocephalus patients were included in this research, regardless of gender prejudice. CSF loculation or tumour hydrocephalus was excluded. Hydrocephalus CT scan brain and MRI were diagnosed. Information on patient specifics, causes of hydrocephalus and operation problems were recorded in Performa patient. The data were examined in version 26 of SPSS. Frequency and percentage for categorical variables were computed. Mean ± SD for age has been computed. Results were presented as tables. Results: The research comprised a total of 58 individuals with hydrocephalus. Of the 58 patients, 32 were male (55.2 per cent) and 26 were female (44.8 percent ). The average age was 22.86 months. The most frequent cause of hydrocephalus was congenital aqueductal stenosis. CSF leaking was observed in 20 individuals after surgery (34.5 percent ). 6 individuals have postoperative infection (10.3 percent ). Conclusions: third ventriculostomy endoscopic is safe and effective. Patients who fulfil the requirements are offered the option of freeing themselves from shunt dependence via endoscopic third ventriculostomy.


Side channel attack is the primary way to leak information between tenants in current cloud computing environment. However, existing Service Function Chain (SFC) deployment methods do not fully consider the side channel attack problem faced by the Virtual Network Function (VNF) in the multi-tenant environment. A SFC deployment method is proposed against side channel attack. A tenant classification strategy based on average time and a deployment strategy considering historical information are introduced. Under the resource constraints of the SFC, the optimization model is established with the goal of minimizing the number of servers that the tenant can cover. And a deployment algorithm is designed based on the greedy choice. The experimental results show that, compared with other deployment methods, this method can significantly improve the difficulty and cost of malicious tenant to realize co-residence, and reduces the risk of side channel attack faced by tenants.


Aiming at the problem that the whole scene's model data can't be downloaded to local storage when users roaming in the large-scale virtual scene on the network,the VSPLA(Viewpoint Spatial Position Level of detail and Area of interest) model data selection algorithm based on the current spatial viewpoint is demonstrated.This algorithm levels model data due to the precision,then index and transmit model data of different regions and different precisions,according to spatial viewpoint.By usage of reducing the volume of model data need to be downloaded,it could cut down the waiting time for loading when user roaming web virtual scene.Experiments illustrate that,the algorithm can effectively improve the model loading efficiency of the user during the roaming process.


A one-step synthesis procedure for starch-based acrylate superabsorbent polymers was proposed. The reaction conditions that may affect the water absorption capacity were discussed. A transparent gel-like polymer containing urea (USAP) was successfully obtained by dissolving starch in a NaOH solution without further gelatinizing processing and using acrylic acid directly without prior neutralization. Urea was used as the nitrogen source and pore-forming agent to improve the performance of the USAP. The optimum reaction conditions of the swelling ratio were also studied. A corn starch USAP was synthesized under the optimum conditions, and the water absorbency was 2704 ± 22, 561 ± 39, 100 ± 5, and 96 ± 4 g/g, respectively, in distilled water, running water, physiological saline, and artificial urine. Five kinds of starch-based USAPs were also successfully prepared under the same conditions with excellent water absorption capacities, revealing that the one-step method was a more convenient method for a potential industrial application pathway. The polymers were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and thermogravimetric analysis. The results indicated that the PAA chains were successfully grafted onto the starch backbone. However, the starch molecular structure was not completely destroyed during the graft polymerization. The thermal analysis and nitrogen content results proved that urea was also involved in the graft copolymerization. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 2017


ABSTRACT Experimental acidification of a tropical stream was conducted to measure the effects of declining pH on aquatic macroinvertebrates. The mechanisms by which anthropogenic acidification occur in a freshwater stream system are relatively well understood, while little is known about the natural phenomena of acidification or the corresponding effects on macroinvertebrate assemblages. Previous studies have attempted to model stream acidification using strong acids; however, this is one of the first studies which models stream acidification using the addition of gaseous CO2. This method is a more natural means of modeling stream acidification conditions arising from increased levels of dissolved CO2. We hypothesized that if experimental acidification was expressed most strongly at the injection site and produced a pH gradient downstream, macroinvertebrates should respond to the gradient and employ an escape mechanism to avoid the adverse conditions. Three macroinvertebrate sampling strategies were used: drift nets, leaf pack samples and benthic Surber samples. Samples were evaluated in the lab for macroinvertebrate abundance and taxonomic richness per m3 for drift net samples and benthic samples, and per g leaf material in the leaf pack samples. A maximum decline of 2 units in pH along a gradient was observed associated with the injection of CO2. Results obtained from drift net and benthic sample analysis were inconclusive, possibly because of low stream flow, although analysis of the leaf pack samples indicates lower macroinvertebrate composition at areas of lower pH. The leaf pack samples also show significant macroinvertebrate sensitivity to the most severe pH decline at the injection site.


The contents of this book focuses on the cultural commodities of a peripheral area of an advanced nation state, examines the aim of illuminating the role these commodities can play in the revitalization of that area. The research site is the Tsugaru District of Aomori Prefecture and the cultural commodities were Tsugaru nuri lacquerware and Tsugaru shamisen music. This chapter first takes up the applied question of Tsugaru District revitalization and cultural commodities, in the form of a culture economy, in Tsugaru District revitalization and the specific future of the two cultural commodities. It then highlights a linking of cultural commodities and local revitalization - first through an examination of the importance of historical trajectory for the cultural commodities and second through identification of the potential of these cultural commodities in their conceptual and operational spaces.Keywords: cultural commodities; local revitalization; Tsugaru nuri lacquerware; Tsugaru shamisen music


The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in particular. A particular emphasis is put on annuitization and risk-taking in the economy. Our discussion signals some inadequacy of the proposed measures with respect to the goals of viability of the system and individual financial security during retirement.


Reputation systems as well as seller depictions (photos; avatars) have been shown to reduce buyer uncertainty and to foster trust in online trading. With the emergence of globalized e-markets, it remains an urgent question whether these mechanisms, found to be effective for Western cultures, also apply to other cultures. Hypothesizing that members of collectivistic cultures in contrast to those of individualistic cultures would rely more on visual social cues (seller faces) than on factual information (reputation scores), we compared buying decisions of Arab and German participants in an experimental trust game. Photo-realistic avatars were used instead of photos to control facial features and expressions. The results revealed significant main effects for both reputation scores and avatar faces. Moreover, both variables significantly affected the purchase behavior of Arab as well as German buyers, suggesting cross-cultural universals in the processing of trust cues. The results have implications for future cross-cultural studies in e-commerce as well as the design of online markets and shared virtual environments. Copyright: ß 2014 Bente et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This study was supported by a project grant of the VW Foundation to Gary Bente. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


. The honey used for the study was honeydew honey obtained in 2010 from the region of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. Dielectric properties of strained honey were determined: relative electric permittivity ε r (–) and dielectric loss coefficient tg δ (–). The effect of water content in the honey on its electric properties was studied by analysing samples of honey with water content in the range of 17.6-24.4% (9 measurement points). Also tested was the effect of overheating of honey sample, to temperatures of 70 and 90 o C, on the electric and dielectric properties under analysis (the sample was placed in a controlled climate chamber for a period of 24 hours). In addition, the values of the electric properties obtained for the honeydew honey were compared with those for a product obtained through bee-feeding with inverted sugar syrup (Apiinvert). Based on analysis of the results obtained it was concluded that assays of electric permittivity and dielectric loss coefficient of honey permit the estimation of its quality. In particular, the values of the two parameters, and especially the dielectric loss coefficient, change notably as a result of honey overheating in the process of its de-crystallisation. Increase in water content causes an increase in the values of both the dielectric loss coefficient and the electric permittivity. Particularly notable differences can be observed at water content above 21%. The electric properties studied differentiate honeydew honey from a product produced by bees as a result of their feeding with inverted sugar syrup.


With the radiosonde data obtained over the ocean in AMTEX, the parameters C and D of the Rossby similarity law in the planetary boundary layer are evaluated. The height of the planetary boundary layer, h, is assumed to be 0.3 u*/1 f I and concerning the profiles of temperature and humidity the laminar sub-layer above the sea surface is taken into account. The parameter C evaluated takes a large value in plus and minus signs for the unstable and the stable conditions, respectively, near the neutral conditions. This result seems to disagree with the previous results in which the value of C changes gradually in the near-neutral conditions. However, if examined in detail it is understood that our result is quite reasonable and does not contradict them. The values of sensible heat and vapor fluxes calculated by the Rossby similarity law with the empirical equations obtained in the present work are very well consistent with those by the bulk method.


This paper studies the transmit beamforming in a downlink integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a base station (BS) equipped with a uniform linear array (ULA) sends combined information-bearing and dedicated radar signals to simultaneously perform downlink multiuser communication and radar target sensing. Under this setup, we minimize the radar sensing beampattern matching errors, subject to the communication users' minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) requirements and the BS's transmit power constraints. In particular, we consider two types of communication receivers, namely Type-I and Type-II receivers, which do not have and do have the capability of cancelling the interference from the a-priori known dedicated radar signals, respectively. Under both Type-I and Type-II receivers, the nonconvex beampattern matching problems are globally optimally solved via applying the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) technique. It is shown that at the optimality, dedicated radar signals are not required with Type-I receivers under some specific conditions, while dedicated radar signals are always needed to enhance the performance with Type-II receivers. Numerical results show that by exploiting the capability of canceling the interference caused by the radar signals, the case with Type-II receivers results in better sensing performance in terms of beampattern matching error than that with Type-I receivers and other conventional designs.


This paper is portrayed to gauge vitality utilization in the house and produce its bill consequently utilizing IOT correspondence. This can help in decreasing vitality utilization in house as the proprietor is consistently being informed about the quantity of units that are devoured. It objective is to create bill naturally by checking the power unit's utilization in a house and in an approach to decrease the difficult work. The figuring's are performed consequently and the bill is refreshed on the web by utilizing a system of Internet of Things. The bill sum can be checked by the proprietor anyplace all inclusive. Structure and execution of task is for the most part dependent on Node MCU controller utilizing IOT idea. In power transmission human association isn't required. Purchaser pays the power bill for the expended power. On the off chance that on the off chance that buyer neglects to pay the bill on time, power transmission can consequently killed. Likewise control burglary can be identified if any altering happens it will send the data to the server just as it will cut the power naturally. WIFI plays out the IOT task where and through which the data is sent to the Web server.


Bachelor thesis deals risk analysis in the transport of dangerous substances by road. Transport is carried out under an international agreement ADR from French Accord Dangereuses Route, which defines the responsibilities of individual entities involved in the transport. In the thesis defines the basic concepts related to risk analysis, dangerous substance and transport. It is also included in the control authorities, which are used data from monitoring activities.


The steering theory and steering system structure were introduced.The causes of cold rolled strip running-off were analyzed,and the corresponding measures were put forward.


A Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is a plant used to reduce the pollutants contained in the wastewater. The optimal operation of the WWTP can be achieved when the performance of WWTP is monitored regularly. This paper presents an actual implementation of the wastewater monitoring system on the communal WWTP using the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The proposed method employs the sensors and electronic modules available in the market and the popular ThingSpeak IoT platform. Four sensors, namely pH, temperature, turbidity, and Dissolved Oxygen (DO), monitor the wastewater's parameters. The IoT hardware on the field communicates with the ThingSpeak cloud server using a GSM modem. The proposed monitoring system has been implemented on the Tirtarona WWTP, a communal WWTP located in Malang, Indonesia. The preliminary evaluation results show that the proposed method works properly and achieves the goal of the real-time wastewater monitoring system. Further, the solar panel is installed at the top of the sensor module for providing a self-powered and green energy monitoring system.


The present paper describes geometric properties of liftabilities of immersed orientable closed 3–manifolds in 4–space into 5–space. We also discuss about tracks between generic surfaces in 3–space, and we construct non– liftable immersed 3–manifolds in 4–space without quadruple points using these tracks.


The laser beam weldability of AZ31B magnesium alloy was examined with high power CW CO{sub 2} and pulsed Nd:YAG lasers. The low viscosity and surface tension of the melt pool make magnesium more difficult to weld than steel. Welding parameters necessary to obtain good welds were determined for both CW CO{sub 2} and pulsed Nd:YAG lasers. The weldability of the magnesium alloy was significantly better with the Nd:YAG laser. The cause of this improvement was attributed to the higher absorption of the Nd:YAG beam. A lower threshold beam irradiance was required for welding, and a more stable weldpool was obtained.


An extension of the Smith predictor principle to the nonlinear case is proposed. This nonlinear predictor can be constructed using neural networks. This is very useful for the time delay compensation of nonlinear processes. The neural network based predictor has been applied to the prediction of nonlinear dynamic process. A comparison of the proposed strategy with the iterative and non iterative \%d\% step ahead neural predictors for the prediction of the manifold pressure process in an automotive engine is illustrated. The predictive result of the corresponding first principles model based nonlinear predictor is also illustrated for the comparison.


Numerous works have shown that the mineral composition of plants is influenced by the element levels in the ground, by fertilization methods, by the physiological aspects typical of the species from which they are produced, as well as by the technological conditions of production when it deals of transformation alimentary products. Therefore the multielement content method represents a valid tool for the determination of the origin of vegetable products. The current review contains the information present in literature concerning the influence of trace element concentration, or of minerals in general, and the stable isotope analysis in the geographical determination of wine origin. The most frequently used analytical techniques for mineral and isotope determination in wines are spettrophotometry by atomic absorption and the techniques evolved from it and the isotope ratio mass spectroscopy. The statistical techniques used are multivariate analysis, as PCA (principal component analysis), DA (discriminant analysis), CA (canonical analysis) and CLA (cluster analysis). These techniques have proven useful in the differentiation of wines and in their classification according to the place of origin.


Along with the post genome era,DNA micmarray is to be one of the most effective technologies of researching the functional genomics.Gene chip technology,featured by large information capacity,easy performance,and rapid response,has became a research hot spot in recent years.Along with the further research in molecular biology and genomics,a large number of gene chip technologies have been developed and applied.We have a simple summarization of DNA micmarray about its basic theory,future trends and applications widely in life sciences.


In a fibre-optic communication network, the wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technique enables an expansion of the data-carrying capacity of optical fibres. This can be achieved by transmitting different channels on a single optical fibre, with each channel modulating a different wavelength. In order to access and manipulate these channels at a node of the network, a compact holographic optical switch is designed, modelled, and constructed. The structure of such a switch consists of a series of optical components which are used to collimate the beam from the input, de-multiplex each individual wavelength into separated channels, manipulate the separated channels, and reshape the beam to the output. A spatial light modulator (SLM) is crucial in this system, offering control and flexibility at the channel manipulation stage, and providing the ability to redirect light into the desired output fibre. This is achieved by the use of a 2-D analogue phase computer generated hologram (CGH) based on liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) technology.


The availability of reasons for decisions is an important part of recent developments in Commonwealth administration. As Mrs Burnett's scholarly analysis shows, these developments have not been without their uncertainties. I would like to pursue a few of the issues raised in her paper and mention some issues associated with providing reasons for decisions in the Repatriation area. There is much to be said for a person affected by a decision having a right to obtain full written reasons for the decision. This enables the person affected to find out why the particular decision has been made. It may also provide a possible basis for challenge to the decision. As Mrs Burnett notes, the need to give reasons has also been described as encouraging consistency and better quality in decision-making. In the field with which I am most recently familiar, Veterans' Affairs, we have not had much experience of the obligation to provide reasons under the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth) or the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 ( Cth). However, statutory obligations roughly similar to those arising under those Acts apply at each of the three levels of the Repatriation determining system in respect of claims for entitlement to pension or assessment of the rate of pension payable. Thus, in the 1981-82 financial year, reasons for decisions were provided in respect of 19,690 entitlement decisions and 9,396 assessment decisions. The figures in the current financial year will be even higher. This is no mean task. We are indebted to Mrs Burnett for her analysis of the way in which the courts are examining reasons for decisions in the course of the judicial review process. In respect of at least some of the decisions she has listed, judicial activism rather than judicial restraint seems to be to the fore. Judicial review under the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act seems to me as a nonlawyer to be drawing close to review on the merits. This is not surprising since I recall that Professor Whitmore said at the 1981 administrative law seminar at this University that, "it would be a very unimaginative judge who could not review an administrative decision on the merits" 1 under the Act. The comments of Lockhart J in Toy Centre Agencies Pty Ltd v Spencer, 2 which are referred to by Mrs Burnett, seem to strike a sensible compromise between the need to ensure that decisions are taken properly, fairly and otherwise in accordance with law and the demands of practical administration. As Lockhart J pointed out:


This research note reports the results of a study into differences in the definition and measurement of the innovation phenomenon. Such an undertaking addresses the conten tion that the lack of agreement on what an innovation is contributes to variability in identifying the determinants of innovation. Using Florida cities, innovativeness is mea sured by three different methods. It is found that these operationalizations produce highly correlated innovation scores for the cities.


In this study, mainly the effects of being in the World Heritage List were questionized, especially by examining tourism development of Pergamon which is one of the most important districts for its development at cultural tourism in Izmir, became the 999th property added to UNESCO world cultural heritage in 2014 from the perspectives of sustainability. This article aims to discuss stakeholders' experiences regarding the contribution of UNESCO World Heritage List on sustainable tourism development. The study is based on a combination of qualitative interviews and observations. A case study approach used semi-structured interviews to collect data from purposively sampled local stakeholders. The interview questions spanned heritage awareness, local identity, cultural tourism and the contribution of UNESCO World Heritage List on sustainable tourism development.


ABSTRACT This study was carried out to identify the determinants of the behaviour of public and private banks in determining their risk and capital over 2001–2016 period by considering the banks' risk and capital simultaneously. The model was estimated using 2SLS-RE and GMM methods. According to the results, the endogeneity of two variables of risk and capital in equations cannot be rejected. It should be noted that this study does not reject a significant relationship between the risk and thecapital to risk (weighted) assets ratio (CRAR) over the study period.


For assessment of existing bridges, load rating is usually performed to assess the capacity against vehicular loading. Codified load rating can be conservative if the rating is not coupled with the field data or if simplifications are incorporated into assessment. Recent changes made to the Australian Bridge assessment code (AS 5100.7) distinguish the difference between design and assessment requirements, and include addition of structural health monitoring for bridge assessment. However, very limited guidelines are provided regarding higher order assessment levels, where more refined approaches are required to optimize the accuracy of the assessment procedure. This article proposes a multi-tier assessment procedure for capacity estimation of existing bridges using a combination of structural health monitoring techniques, advanced nonlinear analysis, and probabilistic approaches to effectively address the safety issues on aging bridges. Assessment of a Box Girder bridge was carried out according to the proposed multi-tier assessment, using data obtained from modal and destructive testing. Results of analysis at different assessment tiers showed that both load-carrying capacity and safety index of the bridge vary significantly if current bridge information is used instead of as-designed bridge information. Findings emerged from this study demonstrated that accuracy of bridge assessment is significantly improved when structural health monitoring techniques along with reliability approaches and nonlinear finite element analysis are incorporated, which will have important implications that are relevant to both practitioners and asset managers.


OBJECTIVE
To probe the implant-bone-interface stress distribution of zygomatic implant denture concerning different implant sites.

METHODS
Three-dimensional finite element model for severe atrophy maxillary posterior-tooth area was established biomechanically in this study by computer technique and zygomatic implant was simulated into the model in the first-maxillary-premolar region, the second-maxillary-premolar region, the first-maxillary-molar region and the second-maxillary-molar region respectively. Vertical loading, buccal (30 degrees) loading and lingual (30 degrees) loading were preformed, 100 N. Then these load cases were calculated and analyzed.

RESULTS
1) When the implant site was placed in the first-maxillary-premolar region, the buccal side of zygomatic implant exposed out of the bone and didn't meet the clinical request. 2) As far as the tensile stress peak value in the maxillary posterior-tooth area was concerned, the highest value was recorded when the implant was placed in the second-maxillary-molar region, and then the medium value was recorded when the implant was placed in the second-maxillary-premolar region, and the smallest was recorded when the implant in the first-maxillary-molar region. As far as the compressive stress peak value in the maxillary posterior-tooth area was concerned, the highest value was recorded when the implant was placed in the second-maxillary-molar region, and then the medium was recorded when the implant was in the first-maxillary-molar region, and the smallest value was presented when the implant was in the second-maxillary-premolar region. As far as the tensile and compressive stress peak values in the zygomatic area were concerned, the highest value was recorded when the implant was in the second-maxillary-premolar region, and then the medium value when the implant was in the first-maxillary-molar region, and the smallest when the implant was in the second-maxillary-molar region.

CONCLUSION
The first-maxillary-molar region is the best implant site of zygomatic implant denture.


The partner selection is the key for an alliance to get succeeding. In this paper, on the basis of analyzing the principles and index system of partner selection in technical standard strategic alliance, we apply AHP to solve the problem of how to select alliance partner.


Graduation Project at studio Border Conditions. A research on the human perception towards the awareness to its surrounding. In direct combination with the informal (post-Soviet) commercial developments and Western influences of commerce. This results to a complex shopping center in Odessa, Ukraine. Creating unique spaces for informal, commercial adoptions and more 'Western' shopping principles.


In the wake of rises in our national educational fund and popularization of higher education,the increase of students has posed many problems for the college student management.A mass of student management affairs and student data often needs dealing with.Informatization construction of college student management must be enforced,which needs the combination of network technology and database construction.The working database contains basic student information and can be easily operated,in order to realize the interaction between management staff and students,improve the deficiencies in students' management work,and increase the work efficiency of students' management.


Jagjeet Lally's India and the Silk Roads examines the world of caravan trade networks in the most intriguing but least understood commercial corridor, namely from Sindh and Punjab of Pakistan, to Kabul in Afghanistan, and to Bukhara in Uzbekistan during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Because this caravan trade arena entangled with economic and power rivalries of inner Eurasia, that is, the Great Game, and faced competition with the high tide of global maritime trade, the history of caravan trade is much more than caravan trade per se, but also displays how the people—traders, kings, peasants, bandits, mercenaries—coped with the changing world around them and took opportunities to develop their networks and reap profits. Nevertheless, they eventually abandoned the caravan trade as their main livelihood and submerged in the new order created by the British and Russian imperial expansions. The Introduction set up the landscape of the caravan trade in the context of the Silk Roads connecting Indian subcontinent to Central Asia including south Russia. The author rebuts the general assumption that maritime trade arose since 1500 suffocated the ancient inland trade of the Silk Roads. The British Empire was a sea power and maritime trade was the tool of exerting its power to India. Meanwhile, the Russian Empire conquered Kazakh hordes and Tajik khans on the


AbstractApproximately 86% of GBM tumors exhibit mutation at -124 or -146 bases upstream of the ATG start site in the transcription activating promoter region of Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT). Mutation in the promoter region of hTERT impairs repression, leading to overexpression of hTERT; inappropriate hTERT is associated with oncogenesis, tumor maintenance, and resistance to apoptosis. We surveyed long-term glioma cell lines and glioma PDX models for mt-hTERT; mRNA and protein expression of hTERT were assessed by qPCR and western blot. The -124 and -146 mutations are located in the major 5–12 G-quadruplex and result in misfolding of the silencer element and consequent over-expression of hTERT. Using a diverse small molecule library, we identified a small drug-like pharmacological chaperone (pharmacoperone) molecule, TG-4260, which binds to the 26 mer base-pair heteroduplex loop, which is the nucleation site for cooperative folding of the major 5–12 G-quadruplex. The chaperone effect of TG-4260 corrects DNA hTERT G-quadruplex misfolding resulting from the somatic mutations and restores the silencer function of the G-quadruplex thereby reducing hTERT activity. TG-4260 directly decreases the transcription activity of the WT and the −124, −124/125, −138/139, and −146 mutants to a similar extent and suppresses the downstream gene BCL2, which activates caspase-3 and produces cell-cycle arrest, leading to cell death. Finally, TG-4260 significantly inhibits telomerase and shortens telomere length after five days of treatment and induces a senescence-like phenotype. This is the first example of the use of a pharmacoperone molecule to correct the misfolding of a DNA G-quadruplex element resulting from mutations in an early folding intermediate. Finally, we screened GBM cell models against a novel small molecule inhibitor that interferes with mutated hTERT promoter and demonstrated that TG-4260 selectively suppresses glioma cell viability without affecting non-transformed normal human astrocytes.


By the use of two proportional counters in coincidence and with vacuum- evaporated sources of less than 0.5 mu g/cm/sup 2/, the photon and conversion electron spectrum of the 8.4-kev level of Tm/sup 169/, produced by the decay of Er/sup 169/ was studied. The branching ratio io the excited level of Tm/sup 169/ was determined as (42 plus or minus 1)%. The internal conversion coefficient was found to be alpha /sub M/ + alpha /sub N/ = 106 plus or minus 6. (tr-auth)


The D-bar method is a direct (noniterative) reconstruction method for 2-D electrical impedance tomography that solves the full nonlinear inverse conductivity problem. However, the idealized model underlying the method is an obstacle to the computation of absolute images by the D-bar method. In this work, a method of correcting the data based on Bayesian techniques to better fit the idealized assumptions is proposed. Preliminary results are shown on experimental tank data.


This research work determines the delinquent readership problems on libraries of Colleges of Education in Enugu and Ebonyi State. The main purpose was to determine delinquent readership problems in three colleges of Education libraries in the two states. Five research questions were adopted for the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and the population of the study were the staff, students and the college librarians. The instruments used for generating data for the study were questionnaire titled, Delinquent Readership Problems in Libraries of Colleges of Education Questionnaire (DRPLCEQ) and oral interview. The questionnaire was administered to 53 library staff of these three institutions in which 50 copies were correctly completed and returned. Two interview schedules were constructed for students and college librarians occupying key areas like circulation, reference and serials sections of the libraries of these institutions. The data collected was presented in tables and analyzed using mean. It was discovered from the study that the three institution libraries experience delinquent readership behaviour in the form of hiding of library material, mutilation, rip-off, theft, vandalism and answering of phone calls. The factors responsible for these delinquent acts are poor security in the library, lack of photocopying facilities, lack of conscience among library users and high cost of library materials. These delinquent acts lead to inadequacy of library materials, frustration among the users and lack of interest in making use of the library materials among the users. Strategies for reducing the menace included: securing windows with burglar proofing and screens, orientation for new students, provision of photocopying facilities at reduced rates together with a stand by generator and provision of adequate library materials. INTRODUCTION Education has been identified as the instrument par excellence for national development in Nigeria. Consequently, teacher education has to occupy a position of pre-eminence in the planning and organization of our modern society. This in turn demands that the Nigerian people and government make both teaching and teacher education a very attractive professional pursuit. It is based on this that the Nigeria Certificate in Education programme is generally aimed at producing teachers with high personal and professional discipline and integrity, teachers who are dedicated with appropriate skills and intellectual depth that would facilitate easy achievement of the national goals on education as stated in the National Policy on Education. The library is the intellectual power house of an institution of learning. It is the pivot on which all academic activities revolve. Batley, Carbo and Koenig (2007), define library as an organized collection of books and other materials. Such materials may include magazines, newspapers, maps, films, compact discs, computer system, and other print, electronic and multimedia resources. Libraries play a vital role in the world's systems of communication and education. The numerous resources and services that libraries provide help people carry out their work, studies and leisure-time activities. The libraries of the institutions of higher learning such as colleges of education, polytechnics and universities, otherwise referred to as academic libraries, are committed to supporting and promotion the academic and research programmes of the parent institutions. For every college to achieve the above stated goals set by the National Commission for Colleges of Education among which include to select and effective use of appropriate teaching strategies and methods for maximum learner-achievement and select and make effective use of appropriate instructional resources of maximum learner-achievement, it must have a college library that will provide resources and services to the institution. College libraries, like other academic libraries, have the basic function of aiding the parent institutions in carrying out their objectives. The objectives of the libraries include provision of information materials in support of the learning process, provision of materials to meet the requirements of faculty specialists and postgraduate students who are doing research and provision of materials to assist the library user in his own personal selfdevelopment (Ozioko, 1996). The library contributes to the realization of these objectives and supports the total programme by acquiring and making available the books, materials and services, which are needed. The NCCE (1994) objectives of libraries in Colleges of Education as stated by Adamu (2001) include to: • Ensure that its collection and services are designed to meet the objectives and information requirements of colleges of education. • Ensure that the resources and facilities provided are maximally used through proper organization and dissemination. • Give qualitative reference and information services for study, teaching and research needs in the college community. • Evaluate from time to time the success of the library in meeting the library and information needs of users. In the light of the importance of books and other information materials to our academic environment, book abuse in the form of theft, mutilation, hiding of books and vandalism has been a matter of concern to all libraries. The menace of these delinquent acts in the libraries hindered the growth of the library collections and imposed substantial financial drain on limited budgets of the library. The tem "delinquent reader" according to Souter in Ozioko (1996) refers to a "user of the library who over-borrows to a high degree, retains books after they have been recalled or illegally borrows, steals or mutilates books". User delinquencies according to Ebunuwele (2011) are actions that are illegal or immoral that users carry out during the process of consulting library books and other materials. Such actions include unruly behaviours, receiving phone calls in the li-


Liquid line sub cooler by condensate which is produced from chest type mini cooler wall is one of the methods to increase subcool so that the refrigeration capacity will increase and thus will save energy. Condensate which is produced by chest type mini cooler have lower temperature than the ambient temperature so it will decrease the liquid line temperature, where the condensate is flowed through the tube in tube of 30 cm long with 1inch diameter to cool the liquid line. Radiant cooling is installed by planted evaporator coils in the cement wall where TXV is used as an expansion device with R22 as the refrigerant and 1 hp compressor capacity. Cabin having dimension of 50cm x 50cm x 50cm is cooled upto 5 C to chilled 1 kg tomatos. The conclusion is that the chilling time with condensate HX is 35 minutes but without condensate HX is 38 minutes. The mean subcool temperature with condensate HX is 3.32 C but without condensate HX is 0,03 C. COPactual with condensate HX is 4.49 but without condensate HX is 4.55. System efficiency with condensate HX is 82.26% but without condensate HX is 80.66%. Energy consumption with condensate HX is 0.635 kWh but without condensate HX is 0.701 kWh.


An annual programme of testing and surveillance is undertaken by The Scottish Government in order to safeguard potato production in Scotland from quarantine and non-indigenous pests. This includes potato quarantine testing and pathogen testing of nuclear stock, specific surveillance for viroid, bacterial, nematode and insect pests, inspection of seed potatoes and varietal susceptibility testing for potato wart disease (Synchytrium endobioticum) and potato cyst nematodes (Globodera spp.).


The novel is dead was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the creative process, a narrative that is not "about "something but "is "something.Klinkowitz first characterizes the modern fiction of the earlier 20th century wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the word is self-effacing. Postmodern fiction, on the other hand, features the word. Words in postmodern fiction are opaque, not transparent. Of necessity we notice the word and must look closely at it; thus the word becomes self-apparent. "


TThis paper investigates the persistence of profit in Turkish banking system for the period of 2004:1 – 2009:4 by focusing net income after tax to total equity (ROE) as profit measures by utilizing panel unit root tests. We found that competition among surviving banks is high in the Turkish Banking System for the period 2004:1 – 2009:4 which means that competitive environment hypothesis is valid in Turkish banking system.


Both literature and our own data addressed to transplanting fetal-derived cells for neurologic disorders are reviewed in this paper. According these data, the transplantation of the cells derived from nervous and hemopoietic tissues may be an effective treatment for consequences of craniocerebral trauma, cerebral stroke, spinal cord injury, neuroinfection and of cerebral palsy. The predominant role in the formation of therapeutic effects is assumed to belong to neurotrophic factors being released by grafted cells in the brain injury lessions.


Hybrid methods, combining e.g. FEM and BEM, can be very effective when applied to eddy current problems because the air region mesh is not required [1]. The Cell Method (CM) and the Finite Integration Technique (FIT) are alternative to FEM because the field problem is formulated in a circuit-like manner in terms of degrees of freedom (DoF). This feature is suitable for modelling multiphysics problems, where different type of couplings occur [2][4]. An integral CM for analyzing eddy currents in thin multiply connected shells was presented in [5]. A novel hybrid 3-D CM for magnetostatics, with a fast MINRES iterative solution, was proposed in [6]. This approach has been recently extended to induction heating problems with electrothermal coupling [7]. A novel hybrid approach for solving three-dimensional eddy current problems in the frequency domain is presented. The interior problem in the bounded domain is discretized by the Cell Method, whereas the exterior domain, which is unbounded, is discretized by the Boundary Element Method to avoid the air region meshing. The interface coupling is obtained by introducing a new topological framework, i.e. the augmented dual grid [8]. The electromagnetic hybrid formulation results in a partly dense indefinite complex linear system, which can be solved by a fast TFQMR iterative method. Test cases show the accuracy of the hybrid CM in comparison to FEM and software computing requirements.


Recently isotactic poly(4methyl1pentene) (P4MP1) has been found to selectively absorb long-chain alkanes from alkane mixed systems. In this article, we introduce the idea of this study from the pressure-temperature phase diagram. We also show that such selective absorption characteristics can be explained from a simple model, namely Asakura-Oosawa theory, and the relationship with molecular recognition is explained. [host-guest structures, selective absorption, Asakura-Oosawa theory, molecular recognition, melting curve maximum, P4MP1, PMP, SPS]


Bride price is an amount of money or property, which is paid by groom or his parents to a bride's parents at marriage. It has symbolical meaning and practiced by Sidama people in Ethiopia. Before thirty years ago its amount was very small, however, since 2000 the amount of bride price dramatically increased and was affecting spouses, families and women empowering capacity. It requires investigation on root causes of bride price inflation and its effects on women life in Sidama. Thus this study aimed to examine over all causes of bride price inflation and its effects on women life. Qualitative research approach was used to collect and analyze data. It was understood that bride price is means to value for bride and approval for marriage. Its amount was increased dramatically because of misinterpretation meaning of bride price by this generation. Inflated bride price had more negative effects on women empowerment capacity than positive contribution. Local elders attempted to minimize exaggerated bride-price payment but they were unsuccessful, because it seems elders were not in power to enforce the traditional law as they were in previous generation. It was recommended that females, particularly girls are at right position to minimize exaggerated bride price in the society. Key terms: bride-price, implication, inflation, Sidama, women empowerment


The design of innovative products requires structured product planning, which combines aspects from various lifecycle phases of the future product. In order to increase transparency of the singular lifecycle phases in respect to systematic product planning, an integrated understanding of the product lifecycle is essential. Thus, a major focus in this paper is to provide a reference model of the lifecycle based on existing literature. Further, interrelations within and in-between the singular phases of the lifecycle are presented. These interrelations should already be considered in the early stage of product planning in order to make the product manageable for the different stakeholders throughout the lifecycle. To disclose the interrelations in-between various lifecycle phases, different 'Design for X' guidelines are analysed in detail concerning the production, utilisation and disposal of products.


Refractive index changes caused by electrically induced domain reversal are investigated by light diffraction from domains in periodically poled LiNbO3. Light diffraction from this type of refractive index modulation is calculated theoretically thus providing an effective and damage-free technique to characterize periodically poled materials. Examplarily, the refractive index modulation and the duty cycle are determined. The refractive index modulation obtained by electrically induced domain reversal is in the magnitude of 10−5.


ust off the southern California coast, the archipelago of the Santa Barbara Channel is comprised of four east-west trending islands, located between approximately 19 and 42 kilometers from the mainland today. When people first arrived during the last Ice Age, the islands of Anacapa (Anyapakh in Chumash), Santa Cruz (Limuw), Santa Rosa (Wi'ma), and San Miguel (Tuqan) were connected as a single landmass commonly referred to by geologists and archaeologists as Santarosae (~10-12 km from the mainland). The Island Chumash and their ancestors thrived on these islands, adapting to sea level rise, climate change, and population growth for at least 13,000 years, until Europeans drastically impacted their traditional way of life through disease, enslavement, and forced assimilation. The Island Chumash are famous for their seafaring capabilities and strong maritime orientation, with a J Edible geophytes like blue dicks are phenomenally abundant on California's Channel Islands, as evidenced by the springtime bloom on Santa Cruz Island's West End. Blue dicks occur in various plant communities, but are especially prevalent in grassland/forb field communities, occurring throughout western North America and on all the islands off the California coast. Photograph by Eamon O'Byrne, TNC, Santa Cruz Island, spring 2014.


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Living at high altitude pushes the physiology of the mammals that choose to live there to its limits, yet many species rise to the challenge. Some populations of deer mice can be found at 4300 m, where the extreme habitat requires them to cope with low levels of oxygen in the


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Glanzmann's thrombasthenia is an autosomal recessive bleeding disorder characterized by severely reduced or absent platelet aggregation in response to physiologic agonists because of quantitative or qualitative abnormalities of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GpIIb/IIIa). Acquired Glanzmann-like thrombasthenia may develop as a result of autoantibodies specific to platelets GpIIb/IIIa and has been described in association with autoimmune disorders. Patients with the acquired form experience variable degrees of mucocutaneous bleeding, and their platelets fail to aggregate with agonists such as ADP, thrombin, collagen, or epinephrine, whereas ristocetin-induced aggregation is normal. Treatment consists of a combination of one or more of the following: corticosteroids, chemotherapy, plasma exchange and high dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). We present a 75-year old woman with SLE who developed ITP at the age of 60 and underwent splenectomy with subsequent normalization of platelet counts. However, since that operation, the patient has been admitted several times due to variable degrees of mucocutaneous bleeding, including one episode of massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Platelet counts were 184 to 284 X 10 3/ μL. Laboratory evaluation revealed a bleeding time of 15 minutes (normal 0.5 to 8 minutes) and no aggregation of platelets in response to ADP, epinephrin, collagen, and thrombinbut normal ristocetin-induced aggregation. Addition of 25% of patient's platelet poor plasma to normal whole blood revealed reduced platelet deposition by 61% using cone and plate analyzer, thus, confirming the diagnosis of acquired Glanzmann's thrombasthenia due to autoantibodies. Because of treatment failure with corticosteroids, immunosuppession and IVIG, anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (Rituximab) 375 mg/kg/week for 4 weeks was administered resulting in normalization of platelets aggregation and complete clinical remission. Anti-CD20 therapy might be a therapeutic option for intractable antibody-mediated acquired thrombasthenia.


Transfer case for a four-wheel drive motor vehicle, which is (En) and a transmission (Tm) equipped with a transversely mounted engine, which is connected to the engine (En) by an engine output shaft (2) and a differential (9) by a gear driven gear (8) is connected, the four-wheel drive motor vehicle, a first Radantriebsachsenanordnung comprising a first Radantriebsachsenwelle (24, 25) includes, parallel to said motor output shaft (2) is arranged and with a transmission output shaft (6) by a first spiral or helical gear (11) is connected, which meshes with the transmission output gear (8), and having a second Radantriebsachsenanordnung which a second Radantriebsachsenwelle (45, 46) which is parallel to the motor output shaft (2) is arranged and a transfer case (Tr) (by a distributor shaft is connected 30) (parallel to the engine output shaft 2) is arranged and with a is equipped splitter input gear (32), which meshes with a second spiral or helical gear (15), wherein the differential (9) has a differential case (10) ... in two


ferences in a metric of extreme temperatures between the two scenarios, but would benefit from additional explanations, particularly of the methods. We feel that a stationary GEV treatment has become rather standard in this class of analysis. We have added the following text to the paper: "Originally introduced by Zwiers and Kharin (1998) and Kharin and Zwiers (2000) to provide statistically rigorous projections of future extreme temperature and precipitation, such GEV analyses, both stationary and non-stationary, are now widespread throughout the literature including recent assessment reports of the International Panel on Climate Change (Seneviratne et al., 2012; Collins et al. 2013). The particulars of the details of the GEV analysis used in this study are described in the Supplementary material of Tebaldi and Wehner (2017)."


A novel approach to mass spectrometry involving fragmentation of intact proteins in the gas phase promises to greatly improve our ability to determine protein modifications.


For reducing labor cost,a leaf maturity classifying algorithm based on sparse auto-encoder was proposed,wherein leaf maturity was automatically identified by computer vision.The digital image of tobacco leaf was pretreated via background removing and normalizing at first;next,a feature learning network was established by means of a sparse auto-encoder on the basis of unsupervised learning algorithm;then,the features were expanded via a partially connected network as a solution to tobacco leaf image processing;finally,Softemax regression was used to classify the learned features.The proposed algorithm extracted the required features from pixel level directly without purposely selecting design features.The results of simulation showed that when the sparse auto-encoder was applied to tobacco leaf maturity classification,its accuracy of data classification reached 98.63%,which was higher than that of other classifiers.


Background: In recent years, acupuncture has attracted much attention as a complementary therapy in the management of chronic neck pain, but the definite effect of this method has not yet been proven in reducing pain and improving function. Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of acupuncture plus dry needling in relieving chronic neck pain and its lasting effects for up to 3 months after treatment. Patients and Methods: Thirty-eight patients with chronic neck pain were included in this study. Each patient received 10 minutes of acupuncture in two forms (acupoints and trigger point needling), twice a week for 6 weeks. The acupoints were GB20, GB21, BL10, BL12, BL 18, DU14, SI11, and SI13. Simultaneously, trigger points in trapezius muscles also took needle. The neck disability index (NDI) and neck pain and disability scale (NPDS) questionnaires were completed by the patients before performing intervention and again at 6 weeks and 3 months after the intervention, and the obtained data were statistically analyzed. Results: Mean NPDS score upon admission was 56.3 ± 16.1, which dropped to 20.9 ± 19.4 at the end of 6 weeks of treatment (P < 0.001). At the end of 3 months, the score reached 20.3 ± 26.6; although recovery was significant compared to the start of treatment, it was not significant compared to the end of 6 weeks (P = 0.84). Mean NDI score at pre-intervention was 20.3 ± 7.5, which reduced to 7.3 ± 6.7 after 6 weeks of treatment (P < 0.001). After 3 months, it decreased to 5.9 ± 8.4; and although recovery was significant (P < 0.001) compared to the time of admission, it was not statistically significant compared to the end of 6 weeks of treatment (P = 0.27). Conclusions: Acupuncture plus dry needling is an effective shortas well as mid-term treatment method for chronic neck pain. The result of this study seems to be the cornerstone of further researches, which evaluate the new effective treatments for chronic neck pain.


The rapid development of China's information network construction is bringing huge market demands for optical fiber communication products. It is estimated that China's total annual production value of optical communication industry (OCI) will rise to 90-100 billion Yuan in 2005. Due to the fundamental recovery as well as the technical rebounds, China's capital market turns to be rallying in 2003. At the same time, with the rising acceptance of value investment philosophy and newly established mechanisms for capital exits, it is obvious that many opportunities, especially in China's OCI, are lying there waiting for investors. Knowing such a rapidly growing and prospective market of China's OCI, all those foreign capital strength and China domestic enterprises are seeking to take better competitive positions so that they could not miss the ever emerging investment chances along with China fast growing economy. The strategic combination of international capital with strong China OCI enterprises is an very important approach for further development, although such a marriage will undergo quite a sophisticated process.


In hyarochloride medium,barium ion reacts chemically with sulfate radical ion to produce barium sulfate which is defficuulty to solve and do turbidity to solution.Taking on alcohol as stabilizer,using spectrophotometer to do colorimetric analysis the sulfate radical in iron oxide can be determined.This method has the characters of convenient operation and high accuracy.


Current status of power supply system for the Lijiayao coal mine was analysed in this paper.Based on the optimizing design principles of the mine power supply system transformation,the power supply system of Lijiayao mine is optimized transformation,which improved the reliability and stability of power supply in coal mine,and thus better ensure the safe and economic production of the mine


Law enforcement agencies are currently concerned with the increasing availability of virtual child pornography. Virtual child pornography refers to computer-generated images where no real child is involved, but which nevertheless raise important ethical and legal issues. There is an ongoing debate whether the possession of virtual child pornography should be criminalised. As this paper will show the criminalisation of such images is a controversial issue with arguments for and against making it a criminal offence. This paper aims to contribute to the debate by offering a definition of virtual child pornography and considering the legal and policy arguments that are put forward as justifications for the regulation of such material. This paper contributes to the theoretical field of critical information systems research by highlighting how the main interest of critical research, namely emancipation can be furthered or hindered by legal developments. We will explore how the idea of emancipation can be applied in the area of virtual child pornography. Furthermore the paper aims to contribute to the debate of this topical issue and thereby support policy developments on a national and international level.


The utility model provides a flexible transportation unwheeling for airplane components, which mainly comprises an omnidirectional moving mechanism, and further comprises a flexible supporting system and a control device, wherein the omnidirectional moving mechanism and the flexible supporting system are mounted on the unwheeling body; the omnidirectional moving mechanism comprises four self-driving omnidirectional wheels; the flexible supporting system is distributed on a platform of the unwheeling body in the form of a polygonal; the control device is mounted among the four omnidirectional wheels, and used for receiving external operating instructions, converting the external operating instructions into control signals, outputting the control signals to an actuating mechanism, and adjusting the self-driving omnidirectional moving mechanism and the flexible supporting system; and the flexible supporting device of the flexible supporting system comprises a cross moving platform and a lifting mechanism which is provided with a flexible process joint. The flexible transportation unwheeling has the advantages that the structure is simple; the moving is flexible and smooth; the kinematic accuracy is high; and the load-bearing capacity is strong. Therefore, the flexible transportation unwheeling solves the defects that the conventional flexible transportation unwheeling for the airplane components has a large operation space and poor supporting tooling universality, and only can be used for the airplane components.


The rapid identification of viral infectious agents has always been a challenge to clinical microbiologists. The long standing gold standard for diagnosing viruses is the cell culture,1 however most cultures take up to 7 days for an accurate identification.2 This turnaround time is unacceptable in healthcare where a rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment is essential for positive patient outcomes and reduced hospital stays. With emerging technology and the variety of molecular platforms available, identifying viruses can be achieved in a matter of hours.3,4 Although nucleic-acid amplification tests are highly sensitive and specific, "the performance of molecular assays can vary significantly due to nucleic acid extraction methods, primer and probe design, amplification and detection technologies, instrumentation, and technical expertise."4 In recent years some of the self-contained molecular systems such as the GeneXpert System and SmartCycler System by Cepheid have eliminated these issues.5 Although many laboratories have taken on molecular assays for identifying viruses, immunoassays are still widely used in the identification process due to the rapid, sensitive, and accurate results they produce, not to mention their cost effectiveness and ease of use. Rapid direct antigen testing and immunofluorescent assays are widely used in the clinical laboratory; however, controversy exists regarding the sensitivity and specificity of some of the methodologies used for viral detection. In a recent review published in CAP Today, several invited speakers at the Association for Molecular Pathology's 2011 conference commented on the use of molecular platforms in identifying viruses and compared the sensitivity and specificity with rapid direct… ABBREVIATIONS: Ag/Ab = antigen/antibody; CAP - College of American Pathologists; CLIA - chemiluminescent immunoassay; CMIA - chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay; CMV - cytomegalovirus; EBV - Epstein-Barr virus; EIA - enzyme immunoassay; ELFA - enzyme-linked fluorescent assay; ELISA - enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; FDA - Food and Drug Administration; GS - Genetic Systems; HBV - hepatitis B virus; HCV - hepatitis C virus; HIV - human immunodeficiency virus; HSV - Herpes simplex virus; IFA - immunofluorescent assay; MEIA - microparticle enzyme immunoassay; RSV - respiratory syncytial virus; VZV - Varicella zoster virus.


The strategic importance of customer service hasresulted in companies striving to enhance customer experience and satisfaction in attempts to deliver quality in a competitive marketplace. This quality is being achieved through organisations using interactions at customer service points to communicate their understanding of, and ability to meet, individual customer needs - in other words, to provide customised contact service. At the core of customised customer contact service is information that may be collected, maintained and retrieved through a marketing database. The combination of customer service strategy with information technology culminates in the concept of customer contact management (CCM) and is a new strategic device for business that requires further research. Thus, this research addresses the research problem of: How and why can customer contact services use information from database marketing to provide customised customer service.; Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, 2003.


A multimodal part face recognition method based on principal component analysis (MMP-PCA) is presented. Five kinds of parts are dealt with by PCA to obtain eigenface, eigeneyebrow, eigeneye, eigennose and eigenmouth. Thirty-one kinds of different face recognition models are created by using combinations of different parts. The recognition rates of 17 models among them are given.


ported the notion of monarchy as a partnership that is the theme of this volume. Theresa Earenfight has brought together a series of essays that ably support her call for a reevaluation not just of medieval and early modern queenship, but of the institution and practice of monarchy as a whole. Iberianists will find much that is useful in the book, and it will be especially illuminating to specialists in Northern European history. BARBARA F. WEISSBERGER University of Minnesota, Twin Cities


Large scale data processing is increasingly common in cloud computing systems in recent years. In these systems, files are split into many small blocks and all blocks are replicated over several servers. To process files efficiently, each job is divided into many tasks and each task is allocated to a server to deals with a file block. If the current server is busy, then it migrates the small block of task to another free server. Task Scheduling and task migration are the techniques for increasing flexibility and scalability in cloud computing. These techniques are used to perform different goals like balancing and load sharing, reducing response time and improvement of Quality of Service. In this paper we expect the idealised system for task scheduling and migration in cloud environment in which an initial task will be just a chunk of programming code that will be converted into executable program.