The NASA Lewis Research Center has converted a 10 hp single-cylinder rhombic-drive Stirling engine to a research configuration to obtain data for validation of Stirling computer simulations. The engine was originally built by General Motors Research Laboratories for the U.S. Army in 1965 as part of a 3 kW engine-generator set, designated the GPU 3 (Ground Power Unit). Test results for a range of heater gas temperatures, mean compression-space pressures, and engine speeds with both helium and hydrogen as the working fluids are presented. Also shown are initial data comparisons with the NASA-Lewis computer simulation predictions.


In this paper,based on target of training qualified personnel in new century,problems of teaching of civil engineering specialized subjects are analyzed and improvement measures are proposed.Combined with the author's teaching experiences,improvement measures for teaching methods about specialized subjects and measures for better teaching effect are presented.


OBJECTIVES To determine the hypothetical and actual willingness of households to pay (WTP) for insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs), and compare these in areas with and without previous exposure to free ITNs.


In the course of the development of human society,teleology and the theory of morality and justice are two different moral principles guiding people's behavior alternately or one after another.In this paper,these two principles are defined,the differences between the two are discussed and a new theory of "considering both principle and profit" is proposed with a view to transcending the watershed of teleology and the theory of morality and justice.


The conception of superiority of taste of the highly-preferred foodfish Tenualosa ilisha which are caught from rivers in comparison to those caught from marine waters has been reviewed in this communication. High fat content in flesh of T. ilisha, relaxation of its musculatory system during its anadromous migratory route in riverine waters and conversion of saturated fatty acids in muscle to monoand further to poly-unsaturated fatty acids have been attributed to improvement in taste of T. ilisha, which has established itself as one of the most important commercial fishes of the Indo-West Pacific region. Towards the end of this communication, the beneficial effect of T. ilisha to human health and nutrition has been discussed. ARTICLE


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Abstract : The objective of this research was to know the effect of the learning models on the learning achievement of quadrangle viewed from the spatial ability of the students. The learning models compared were the cooperative learning model of the TGT type with concept mapping strategy, the cooperative learning model of the TGT type, and the direct learning model. This research used the quasi experimental method. Its population was all of the students in grade VII of State Junior Secondary Schools of Pati regency in Academic Year 2013/2014. The samples of the research were taken by using the stratified cluster random sampling technique. The samples of the research consisted of 325 students. They were grouped into three groups, namely: 109 in experimental group 1, 110 in experimental group 2, and 106 in control group. The instruments to gather the data were test of achievement on the learning topic of quadrangle, and test of spatial ability. The proposed hypotheses of the research were analyzed by using the two way analysis of variance with unbalanced cells. The results of the research were as follows. (1) The cooperative learning model of the TGT type with concept mapping strategy results in a better learning achievement than the cooperative learning model of the TGT type and the direct learning model, but the cooperative learning model of the TGT type results in the same learning achievement as the direct learning model. (2) The students with the high spatial ability had the same learning achievement as those with the moderate spatial ability, but the students with the high spatial ability and those with the moderate spatial ability had a better learning achievement than those with the low spatial ability. (3) In each category of the spatial abilities, the cooperative learning model of the TGT type with concept mapping strategy results in a better learning achievement than the cooperative learning model of the TGT type and the direct learning model, but the cooperative learning model of the TGT type results in the same learning achievement as the direct learning model. (4) In each of the learning models, the students with the high spatial ability had the same learning achievement as those with the moderate spatial ability, but the students with the high spatial ability and those with the moderate spatial ability had a better learning achievement than those with the low spatial ability. Keywords : TGT, concept mapping, and spatial ability.


A first vibrating inertial quartz gyrometer with gold nanoparticles electrodes is presented in this paper. Electrical measurements have shown enhancement of the quality factor compared to standard gyrometers with 200 nm evaporated gold electrodes.


Reliable and accurate methods for objective quantitative assessment of parenchymal alterations in the lung are necessary for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of pulmonary diseases. Two major types of alterations are pulmonary emphysema and fibrosis, emphysema being characterized by abnormal enlargement of the air spaces distal to the terminal, nonrespiratory bronchiole, accompanied by destructive changes of the alveolar walls. The main characteristic of fibrosis is coursening of the interstitial fibers and compaction of the pulmonary tissue. With the ability to display anatomy free from superimposing structures and greater visual clarity, Multi-Detector-CT has shown to be more sensitive than the chest radiograph in identifying alterations of lung parenchyma. In automated evaluation of pulmonary CT-scans, quantitative image processing techniques are applied for objective evaluation of the data. A number of methods have been proposed in the past, most of which utilize simple densitometric tissue features based on the mean X-ray attenuation coefficients expressed in terms of Hounsfield Units [HU]. Due to partial volume effects, most of the density-based methodologies tend to fail, namely in cases, where emphysema and fibrosis occur within narrow spatial limits. In this study, we propose a methodology based upon the topological assessment of graylevel distribution in the 3D image data of lung tissue which provides a way of improving quantitative CT evaluation. Results are compared to the more established density-based methods.


Introduction: Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a devastating complication following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). In acute haematogenous and early post-operative PJI, debridement and implant retention (DAIR) is often the initial treatment and reported success rates vary. The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting the success of DAIR and in particular whether involvement of a lower limb arthroplasty surgeon (LLA) can affect outcome. Method: In a multicentre review over a 15 year period we identified 137 patients undergoing DAIR for first episode PJI following primary TKA at one of three tertiary hospitals. Patients receiving arthroscopic washouts, culture negative PJI, and previous PJIs were excluded. Data on patient, hospital, and surgical factors were identified including age of implant, time to theatre, presence of gross purulence, bacterial subtype, inflammatory markers, relevant comorbidities, whether modular component exchange was performed, and whether a lower limb arthroplasty surgeon performed the procedure. Treatment success was defined as infection eradication characterized by no clinical failure (healed wound and painless joint) or infection recurrence, and no mortality or further surgery due to PJI within minimum two-year follow up post DAIR. Multivariate analysis was performed using a logistic regression model to identify factors associated with successful DAIR. Results: Overall failure rate of DAIR in TKA was 42%. A specialist arthroplasty surgeon was present in 49% of cases. Arthroplasty surgeons performed modular exchange in 92% of cases compared to 57% for other surgeons (RR1.6, P <0.01). On multivariate analysis, involvement of a specialist arthroplasty surgeon was the only factor associated with a significant increase in success of DAIR (OR 2.94, P=0.01). Age of prosthesis less than 90 days and the lack of macroscopic purulence (OR 2.44, p=0.04) increased DAIR success on univariate analysis only. Conclusions: Involvement of a specialist arthroplasty surgeon was associated with a 2.9 times higher success rate for DAIR in TKA. Specialist arthroplasty surgeons were more likely to perform modular exchange. This study suggests surgical technique and thorough debridement is likely to be important to the success of DAIR in TKA.


The impact of the polarization dismatch between control light and signal light on the nonlin- ear optical loop mirror(NOLM)with two couplers was analysed by using split-step Fourier method (SSFM)that can solve the coupled nonlinear Schr6dinger equation(CNLSE)considering the polariza- tion effect.The simulations show that the waveform distortion,the time jitter and the intensity fluc- tuation of the output signal are induced by the polarization dismatch.And the time jitter and the inten- sity fluctuation are aggravated with the increase of the working speed.


Cluster managers play a crucial role in data centers by distribut-ing workloads among infrastructure resources. Declarative Cluster Managers (DCM) is a new cluster management architecture that allows users to express placement policies declaratively using SQL-like queries. In this paper, we share our experiences scaling up this architecture from moderate-sized enterprise clusters (hundreds or thousands of nodes) to hyperscale clusters (tens of thousands of nodes) through the lens of query optimization. To do so, we first formally specify DCM's declarative language, C-SQL, which introduces new semantics such as variable columns on top of standard SQL to express constraint optimization problems. Given cluster management logic specified as C-SQL programs, we explore and adapt techniques from classic query optimization, namely incremental view maintenance and predicate pushdown, to improve the execution efficiency of the relation and constraint components of C-SQL programs. We evaluate the effectiveness of our optimizations through a case study of building Kubernetes schedulers using C-SQL. Our optimizations demonstrated an almost 3000 × speed up in database latency and reduced the size of optimization problems by as much as 1/300 of the original without affecting feasibility


Torsade de pointes (Tdp) associated with first generation antihistamines is well-known but due to non-sedating antihistamines is rare. Terfenadine and astemizole are the main culprits but ventricular tachycardia (VT) due to cetirizine hydrochloride to our knowledge is not described due to its cardiac action not leading to QTc prolongation or induce Tdp. We describe a patient who presented with ventricular tachycardia (VT) while he was on cetirizine and itraconazole for his skin disease.


Whiplash vertigo syndrome is often seen in victims of rear-end vehicle collisions. These patients commonly complain of headache, vertigo, tinnitus, poor concentration, irritability, and sensitivity to noise and light. Sixteen patients (medium age, 39,5 years) that they refered in orthopaedic examination because of long-lasting subjective complaints after cervical spine injury underwent clinical, laboratorial and psychometric examinations. The mean posttraumatic interval was 43 months. Ten patients were injured in road accidents, 5 during sports and one at work, all with mechanism trial of whip. Each patient was evaluated with otorhinolaryngologic examination, audiometry tests, CT: petrus – internal auditory meatus and cerebellopontine corner. Also each patient was evaluated with neurologic examination, psychological well-being scale (sf-36), and personality profile scale. None of the patients had neurologic symptoms, and no lesions of the cervical spine were identified. All the patients had negative clinical, radiological and standard laboratorial control, but may be is a critical point that the eleven of these patients had pathologic OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test). Also did not exist differentiations from the mean values in psychological well-being scale (SF-36), and personality profile scale of healthy population. Test results were unrelated to the length of the post-traumatic interval. However, 2 distinct syndromes were identified. Ten patients had cervicoencephalic whiplash type syndrome (CES), characterized by headache, vertigo, tinnitus poor concentration, and disturbed adaptation to light intensity. Six patients had the lower cervical spine whiplash type syndrome (LCSS), characterized by vertigo, tinnitus cervical and cervicobrachial pain. The verification of Whiplash Vertigo syndrome require more objective clinical means. This article proposes that exists an organic base for the syndrome, but does not promote that whiplash injury certainly cause it


After discovering a discrepancy in the transfer standard currently being disseminated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), we have performed a new primary standardization of the alpha-emitter 223Ra using Live-timed Anticoincidence Counting (LTAC) and the Triple-to-Double Coincidence Ratio Method (TDCR). Additional confirmatory measurements were made with the CIEMAT-NIST efficiency tracing method (CNET) of liquid scintillation counting, integral γ-ray counting using a NaI(Tl) well counter, and several High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors in an attempt to understand the origin of the discrepancy and to provide a correction. The results indicate that a −9.5 % difference exists between activity values obtained using the former transfer standard relative to the new primary standardization. During one of the experiments, a 2 % difference in activity was observed between dilutions of the 223Ra master solution prepared using the composition used in the original standardization and those prepared using 1 mol·L−1 HCl. This effect appeared to be dependent on the number of dilutions or the total dilution factor to the master solution, but the magnitude was not reproducible. A new calibration factor ("K-value") has been determined for the NIST Secondary Standard Ionization Chamber (IC "A"), thereby correcting the discrepancy between the primary and secondary standards.


A long-term fertilization experiment with monoculture corn (Zea mays L.) was established in 1980 on a clay-loam soil (Black Soil in Chinese Soil Classification and Typic Halpudoll in USDA Soil Taxonomy) at Gongzhuling, Jilin Province, China. The experiment aimed to study the sustainability of grain-corn production on this soil type with eight different nitrogen (N)-, phosphorus (P)-, and potassium (K)-mineral fertilizer combinations and three levels (0, 30, and 60 Mg ha -1 y -1 ) of farmyard manure (FYM). On average, FYM additions produced higher grain yields (7.78 and 8.03 Mg ha-1) compared to the FYMO (no farmyard application) treatments (5.67 Mg ha-1). The application of N fertilizer (solely or in various combinations with P and K) in the FYMO treatment resulted in substantial grain-yield increases compared to the FYM0 control treatment (3.56 Mg ha -1 ), However, the use of NP or NK did not yield in any significant additional effect on the corn yield compared to the use of N alone. The treatments involving P, K, and PK fertilizers resulted in an average 24% increase in yield over the FYM0 control. Over all FYM treatments, the effect of fertilization on corn yield was NPK >NP = NK =N > PK = P > K = control. Farmyard-manure additions for 25 y increased soil organic-matter (SOM) content by 3.8 gkg -1 (13.6%) in the FYM1 treatments and by 7.8 g kg-1 (27.8%) in the FYM2 treatments, compared to a 3.2 g kg -1 decrease (11.4%) in the FYM0 treatments. Overall, the results suggest that mineral fertilizers can maintain high yields, but a combination of mineral fertilizers plus farmyard manure are needed to enhance soil organic-matter levels in this soil type.


A novel photovoltaic (PV) module for roof top systems, solar roofing, is proposed. Solar roofing is a flexible amorphous silicon (a-Si) PV sheet having the function of roofing. Tempered glass is used as a roof covering material. Technical items for roof top systems using solar roofing are discussed. Preliminary studies on module component materials show the feasibility of solar roofing. The authors design a construction technology for tempered glass covered roofs and the effects of shadows on PV modules upon its performance are also analyzed.


SUCCESSFUL RESTORATION of circulation in embolic occlusions of 24 to 96 hours' duration of arteries of the lower extremities is reported. Factors affecting results in these patients operated on showed that extended time of occlusion is not a deterrent to salvage of limb and function. Diagnosis Differentiation between embolic and thrombotic occlusion is essential. Embolectomy is recommended except when another disease is life-threatening, whereas operation for acute thrombotic occlusion is to be avoided except under specific conditions. Arteriography is the most specific diagnostic procedure and can be done with little loss of time or additional hazard. Emboli lodge where vessels narrow, usually at major bifurcations. A concavity in the distal end of the radiopaque dye column, "the inverted meniscus sign," is pathognomonic of embolic occlusion (Fig 1). An exception occurs in the distal superficial femoral artery where emboli may seat at the adductor magnus hiatus, some distance from a proximal


An important problem to be studied and solved in higher education is what are the personnel and management concepts and management mode in education with which to recognize and cultivate talents and create an environment for their all-round development.The concept of "people first" in education aims at making people into true men through education.It is a concept that must be adhered to in the moral education in colleges.


Nutrition, exercise, diet, and health risk factors of 422 Black and White college females were studied. Both groups showed marked deficiencies in key nutrients, and Black females had higher fat and calorie intake than White females. In selecting foods, White females relied more on nutrition knowledge and Black females were more influenced by cultural traditions. Body image dissatisfaction was higher in White females, complemented by increased use of compensatory dieting techniques. Self-identified risk factors were significantly different between groups, and for both groups, health behavior contradicted known risk factors.


Three groups of Copenhagen municipality male employees-77 sewer workers, 81 gardeners, and 79 clerks-matched for age and duration of employment, were studied for clinical and serological evidence of infection with viral hepatitis types A and B and pathogenic leptospires. "Antibody against hepatitis A virus" (anti-HAV) was found significantly more often among sewer workers (80.5%), than among gardeners (60.5%) or clerks (48.1%). The anti-HAV prevalence rates correlated with age rather than duration of employment. Of all the 11 cases of jaundice reported, only 3 cases (sewer workers) occurred while employed for the city. One case of the 11 resulted from leptospirosis. Anti-HAV was detected in the other 10 subjects and was assumed to be of etiological importance. Hepatitis B serological markers were similar in each group. It is concluded that exposure to metropolitan sewage provides a limited risk of enteric infections, such as hepatitis A, while the hepatitis B virus apparently is not successfully transmitted by this route.


Based on internal reconstruction, this paper resolves a long-standing problem observed in Khroskyabs, a West Gyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan), that seems to sporadically have lenited voiceless stops, resulting in irregular correspondences with East Gyalrongic. Two major sound changes are involved: intervocalic lenition and post-stress intersyllabic compression. It turns out that the processes proposed here are one probable solution to monosyllabicization in languages of Southeast Asia, explaining a pathway from polysyllables or sesquisyllables toward monosyllables. Through examining potential problems of previous reconstructions in various languages, this paper shows that the Khroskyabs case provides a plausible direction in the solution of relevant unresolved problems from a panchronic perspective.


Human-computer interaction for development (HCI4D) operates at the intersection of Human-computer interaction (HCI) and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). The interdi...


. The exhibition TV as… focuses on the ways in which TV appears in the visual arts with numerous examples from the Stedelijk collection.


Despite importance of interrelationship between environmental components to form the sense of place, previous studies on the Sense of Place has been focused only upon qualitative and predicative analyses. For that reason, it has been difficult to apply directly to plan and design. So, this study examined the form of Sense of Place quantitatively by using the Structural Equation Modeling(SEM). The outline of this study results as follows. At first, sense of place is compositive concept containing five detailed attributes which are Characteristic, Lyricism, Attractiveness, Historicity, and Familiarity. The second, Structural Equation Modeling of the sense of place on Insa-dong was determined that Physical, Behaviour and Social environmental factor's satisfaction of Insa-dong have an effect on forming the Sense of Place and the Sense of Place was affected Willingness to Visit. The results of this study is expected to use as a basic data when environment planning and design considering the Sense of Place and there are meaning of defining practical application of the SEM for quantitative fundamental research method of city and environmental design related research field.


POSSIBILITIES OF EXPLOITATION OF ALUVIAL ACCUMULATIONS OF MINERAL RAW MATERIALS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SOUTHERN BALTIC

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The paper discusses possibilities of exploitation of alluvial ores of mineral aggregate from the bottom of the southern Baltic. A complete knowledge of geological structure of the southern Baltic, and particularly of the regions of occurrence of mineral row materials is now a great economic demand. The studies on the shelf of the southern Baltic, carried out in recent years by the Geological Institute, showed sandy-gravel deposits covering the sea bottom. The first stage of the submarine and cruise works connected with geological studies and possible experimental exploitation (aimed at obtaining semitechnical samples) is planned for the summer of 1973.


Samples of Chinese Sargassum spp. were collected bo the coast areas ol Guangdong, Guangxi and Qingdao from Mar. to Aug. 1996. The samples were analysed using silver salt spectroscopy, a simple, accurate method in arsenic analysis. The results show that Sargassum spp. from the Guandong and Guanxi coast areas have high total and inorganic arsenic levels. Commonly, they contain more than 10.0×10-6 in fresh weight of total arsenic and above 20% of the percentage of inorganic arsenic in the total. Total arsenic contents of Sargassum hemiPhyllum are the highest, reaching 57.6×10-6 in fresh weighL For Xirgassum fusiforme, the percentage of inorganic arsenic in total arsenic reaches 56.73%. These observations suggest that the members of the Sargassaseae family can enrich the inorganic species of arsenic. Arsenic contents of Sargassum spp. from the Qingdao coast areas show cleary seasonal variations, with the lowest values at the young stage and the highest at maturity. The percentages of inorganic in total arsenic show similar curves of variations.Hence, areenic contents in Sargassum sPP. are closely relared to their growth cycle. In this paper, the contents, distribution pattems, seasonal variation and chemical species of arsenic, which is a representative toxic element, in Chinese Sargassum sPP. are studied. Accowrding to researches undertakn elsewhere, most of arsenic in seaweeds exists in the form of organic arsenic species, except for Sargassum sPP.This species contains more inorganic arsenic than the other seaweeds. The results of this paper show that the contents of areenic in canese Xirgasum sPP. Are similar to the results of the previous inveshgations. ms researeh on seaweed toxic elements chemistry is undertaken for the first time in China it will Play an important role in using the resources of Chinese Sargassum and developing the seaweed industry.


We survey the recent work in AI on multi-agent reinforcement learning (that is, learning in stochastic games). We then argue that, while exciting, this work is flawed. The fundamental flaw is unclarity about the problem or problems being addressed. After tracing a representative sample of the recent literature, we identify four well-defined problems in multi-agent reinforcement learning, single out the problem that in our view is most suitable for AI, and make some remarks about how we believe progress is to be made on this problem.


It is difficult to assess these three volumes, a courageous and well-intentioned attempt to integrate the technical and functional aspects of harmful acts and injurious agents, the gathering of evidence with the legal, medical, and economic concerns of forensic science. The prime reason has been the sad fact that the late and noted pathologist Dr C. G. Tedeschi, the originator and senior editor of this work, was in failing health during a good part of its production. Perhaps the other editors were otherwise preoccupied or did not fully comprehend the intended plan. How else can one explain the confusing lack of correlation between the arrangement of the various chapters and the particular titles of these volumes, Mechanical Trauma, Physical Injuries , and Environmental Hazards? These divisions in themselves are arbitrary, ambiguous, and overlapping. Then there is no clear plan of the relationship and sequential arrangement of the various subjects with each


Gold nanoparticles display unique properties which allow them to influence a number of different biochemical processes. Interestingly, these effects are dependent on the particle surface chemistry which varies considerably based on the particle size. In addition, unlike most of other nanomaterials, gold nanoparticles do not trigger the formation of pro-inflammatory multiprotein complexes, known as inflammasomes. Furthermore, they display clear anti-inflammatory activity. Here we discuss the biological effects of intact and functionalised gold nanoparticles and analyse their possible biochemical mechanisms.


The invention discloses an automobile electronic mechanical brake which comprises a brake disc. Friction plates are arranged on the two sides of the brake disc and movably arranged on a brake caliper body. The brake caliper body is fixedly arranged on the outer side of a piston. The piston is fixedly connected with a ball screw nut. The ball screw nut is movably arranged on a ball screw. The ball screw is fixedly connected with a connecting board. The connecting board is fixedly connected to the output end of a speed reducer. The input end of the speed reducer is fixedly connected with a motor. The motor drives the ball screw to rotate through the speed reducer, so that the ball screw nut moves linearly to drive the piston to move linearly. The piston acts on the friction plates through the brake caliper body, so that the brake disc is clamped or loosened through the friction plate, and the braking function of the brake is achieved. A traditional hydraulic or air pressure brake execution element is changed into an electric brake element, the linear control braking function is convenient to achieved, and the brand-new braking technology is acquired. The invention further discloses a braking method of the automobile electronic mechanical brake.


The main aim of this essay is to present a set of reflections on Gilberto Freyre, highlighting his ideas on national identity and Latin Americanness. What connections may we establish between his work Casa-Grande & Senzala [The Masters and the Slaves] (1933) and various issues which remain relevant to the current Latin American political debate? First, we locate Freyre's thoughts within the Latin American debate on issues around national identity. We then move on to proposing several theoretical reflections and methodologies that we consider key to the debate on the theme of our work, namely: Gilberto Freyre's political thought and his strategies for Brazil; the author's studies abroad (in the US and in Europe) and the epistemological repercussions in Casa-Grande & Senzala; Freyre's own brand of romantic conservatism and Brazilian politics; and the relations between ethos and pathos in the implicit political pact in Freyre's work. Finally, we provide a summary of Freyre's debate on Americanness (at the onset of the 1940s) and his political agenda for Latin America.


To solve the separation problem of traditional artificial zeolite materials in a tiny powder size, zeolite particles (ZP) with a complex porous structure were synthesized from construction and demolition (C&D) waste. The synthesis method consists of two key processes: (1) converting C&D waste into porous ceramic particles through sintering; (2) transforming porous ceramic structure into zeolite structure through hydrothermal treatment. The obtained ZP contained porous structures on three dimension levels: millimetre, micrometre and nanometre respectively. XRD result showed that the ZP obtained, with a specific surface area of 45.6 m2 g–1, mainly consist of analcime. Afterwards, ZP were tested as granular adsorbents for heavy metal ion removal from aqueous system. Adsorption experiment results shown ZP was effective for the removal of lead(II), with a maximum adsorption capacity of 189.4 mg g–1. We show (1) an original method for converting C&D waste into environmentally functional materials, and (2) a novel, complex porous material for heavy metal removal from aqueous solutions.


This paper examines the British Government's appreciation and response to the Kanghwa Treaty of 1876 between Korea and Japan, and asks if Britain was a third party to treaty. Britain considered that the conflict between Korea and Japan could directly influence its commercial interests because the conflict would arouse Russian aggression to Korea. Because of this view, Britain adopted a policy of Intervention– the occupation of Geomundo(Port Hamilton) and an "Opening of the Door" policy toward Korea. Although Britain took a wait-and-see attitude on the process of the Kanghwa Treaty, she was prepared to implement a policy of Intervention on the relations between the two Asian countries.


Joao Pinto, firstname.lastname@example.com Xin Xiang, firstname.lastname@example.com Shuai Shao, email@example.com Xin Zhang, email@example.com Yu Chen, email@example.com Giovani De Carne, email@example.com João Peças Lopes, firstname.lastname@example.com Zhiang Zou, firstname.lastname@example.com Structured microgrids (SμGs) and Flexible electronic large power transformers (FeLPTs) are emerging as two essential technologies for renewable energy integration and flexible power transmission. (FeLPT is general term used to describe electronic power transformers at megawatts levels for typical grid and traction applications. Other terms used today include Smart Transformers, Power Electronic Transformer, Solid-State Transformers, etc.) A FeLPT's flexibility for processing, control, and re-configurability offers the capability for flexible transmission for effective flow control and enable SμGs connectivity while still keeping multi-scale system level control. SμGs provides the integration of renewable energy and storage to balance the energy demand and supply as needed for a given design. Challenges in FeLPTs include efficiency, reliability, size and cost parity. Challenges in SμGs include an accurate forecast for renewable availability, cost-effective integration, and efficient control. As the technologies progress, successful integration of solar and battery energy systems has proven to be technically effective and economically beneficial. Australia Hardsdale Solar Farm has reduced the operator cost by tens of millions, and solar and storage based peakers can cost less than diesel based ones.


Objective To excogitate Alisma orientate(Sam.) Juzep. flower bolt Cultivating and standardization cultivating technology of field planting management. Method Using field contrast examination and coordinating, abstracting, optimizing local medicine peasant traditional Alisma orientate(Sam. )Juzep. management experience. Result Summarizing a set of Alisma orientale(Sam. )Juzep. flower bolt standardization Cultivating technology and field planting management technology accord with modern Chinese traditional medicine planting management.Conclusion By field demonstration checking up, Alisma ori-entale(Sam.)Juzep. flower bolt unit production increasing from 50-75 kg /667m2 to 200-260 kg/667m2, plant diseases and insect pests may safety and availably control,economy benefit notability, its have a good market development foreground. It's also proved that Alisma orientate (Sam. )Juzep. flower bolt standardization Cultivating technology and field planting management technology is scientific and feasible,and have practice guidance. Adopting this technology can help to accelerate Alisma orientate (Sam. )Juzep. integration using and sustainable production.


(57) Abstract: The present invention relates to novel antibiotics, relates to screening methods for identifying compounds and compositions useful as antimicrobial agents. In particular, the present invention is a two-component regulatory switch, for example a prokaryotic enzyme, for example, relates to a method of using an activated histidine protein kinases that autophosphorylation by signal transduction mechanisms. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a particular method of identifying an enzyme activity inhibitor in the bacterial cell. In particular, high-throughput assay system useful for large-scale screening of protein kinase inhibitors are disclosed. Related kits, compositions and ingredients are also disclosed. The drawings show the phosphorylation by KinA of SpoOF (His-SpoOF) containing histidine linker or tag.


This article considered the portrait photograph of Daikichi Taki and the background of his transfer to Kansai, and it's following points to become clear. His published portrait photograph can identify six pieces, and the portrait placed in "Journal of Architecture and building science" is regarded as the figure about 34 years old of Daikichi Taki. Other his photographs show the figure of 30s latter half, too. The transfer to his Kansai is regarded as November, 1888. He proceeded to Osaka on business for the Naniwa Spinning Company and the Kobe Branch establishment preparations in December, 1887.


During the process of accident analysis of the gas cylinder explosion the burst pressure was often needed to predict. HP295 steel for the gas cylinders was studied. The dynamic mechanical properties were tested and the strain rate effect was found through the tests. Finite element model was established with the dynamic experimental results. The dynamic burst process was simulated with the result that the rupture occurred on the barrel rather than on the head. With the increase of loading rate,the burst pressure simulated by the finite element analysis is more and more close to that calculated by the adjusted Barlow formula. As a result under rapid dynamic loading conditions the formula can be used to predict the burst pressure.


The aim of this paper is to propose a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of how social media conversations influence corporate reputation, beyond the current practices based on social media monitoring. The approach proposes to build a multi-level model of the relationship between online communication and corporate reputation, in line with the research tradition on media effects developed within the agenda-setting theoretical perspective when applied to the study of complex social and cultural phenomena (McCombs et al., 1997; Weaver et al., 2004). This approach is also consistent with research practices in the field of reputation management and public relations (Carroll and McCombs, 2003; Fombrun and Van Riel, 2003; Downing, 2001; Safon, 2009; Einwiller et al., 2010).


Since its inception, sociology has focused on the analysis of cultural patterns, patterns of functioning and development of society, and the search for optimal solutions to various socio–cultural problems. The article deals with the interpretation of culture based on its value understanding. Today, the axiological approach continues to play an important role in the sociology of culture. This allows us to study the structure of social values, as well as the dominant value orientations of diverse social groups, not only in the sphere of culture, but also in other areas of society. Based on these studies, practical recommendations can be developed on a wide range of cultural issues — from the moral education of young people, to the optimization of the activities of certain socio–cultural institutions.


Recently, motorized equipment is required in order to support ADL (Activities of Daily Life) of the elderly. Authors are developing mobile type walking support systems. In this development, we understood the requirement for the assistance in standing-up and sitting-down motion is very important. We started to study about the elemental technologies of standing-up and sitting down motion assisted by upper body support arm (which is used for mobile type walking support systems). This paper describes the study on the support arm trajectory during this assisted motion. We developed a program to analyze the load acting lower limb joints in the motion. Using experimental data of supporting force, joint positions, and ground reaction force, joint torque was calculated in some trajectory patterns. Means to evaluate performance of the arm trajectory were obtained.


Timely identification of defective modules improves both software quality and testing efficiency. A software metrics-based ensemble k-NN algorithm is proposed for software defect prediction. Firstly, a set of base k-NN predictors is constructed iteratively from different bootstrap sampling datasets. Next, the base k-NN predictors estimate the software module independently and their individual outputs are combined as the composite result. Then, an adaptive threshold training approach is designed for the ensemble to classify new software modules. If the composite result is greater than the threshold value, the software module is recognized as defective, otherwise as normal. Finally, the experiments are conducted on NASA MDP and PROMISE AR datasets. Compared with a widely referenced defect prediction approach, the results show the considerable improvements of the ensemble k-NN and prove the effectiveness of software metrics in defect prediction.


Objective. Investigate the innervation of cat language. Materials and methods. The study was conducted by methods layered and subtle preparation for V.P. Vorobiev on fresh material and fixed in 3.5% formalin solution. Were also used descriptive and histological methods. Results. The study highlighted features of the course and branching of nerves involved in the innervation of the language of cats. Conclusion. Cat's tongue is innervated by lingual, sublingual, glossopharyngeal and intermediate nerves.


We report on the temperature dependence of electrical resistivity, Seebeck coefficient and Hall coefficient of the Fe2VAl1-ySiy alloys with Si compositions y=00.20. While the Heuslertype Fe2VAl ( y=0) exhibits a semiconductorlike resistivity behavior, a slight substitution of Si for Al causes a sharp decrease in the low temperature resistivity and a large enhancement in the Seebeck coefficient. Substantial enhancements for the Seebeck coefficient are in reasonable accord with changes in the Hall coefficient and can be explained on the basis of the electronic structure, where the Fermi level shifts slightly from the center of the pseudogap due to the substitution of Si. In particular, the Si substitution of y=0.10 leads to a large power factor of 5.4×10-3 W/m K2 at room temperature, which is comparable to that of conventional thermoelectric materials.


Accurate measurements of regional to global scale vegetation dynamics (phenology) are required to improve models and understanding of inter-annual variability in terrestrial ecosystem carbon exchange and climate–biosphere interactions. Since the mid-1980s, satellite data have been used to study these processes. In this paper, a new methodology to monitor global vegetation phenology from time series of satellite data is presented. The method uses series of piecewise logistic functions, which are fit to remotely sensed vegetation index (VI) data, to represent intra-annual vegetation dynamics. Using this approach, transition dates for vegetation activity within annual time series of VI data can be determined from satellite data. The method allows vegetation dynamics to be monitored at large scales in a fashion that it is ecologically meaningful and does not require pre-smoothing of data or the use of user-defined thresholds. Preliminary results based on an annual time series of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data for the northeastern United States demonstrate that the method is able to monitor vegetation phenology with good success. D 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.


Editors' Note Map: National Frontiers and Capital Cities in Southeast Asia History and Context Entrepot of Trade: Southeast Asia until the 1870s Stephen Dobbs Imperial Frameworks: Southeast Asia from 1870 to 1957 Adrian Vickers World Economics: Southeast Asia since the 1950s John Minns Nation States Thailand Michael Kelly Connors Malaysia Fiona Yap Singapore Michael Haas Brunei Geoffrey C. Gunn The Philippines Raul Pertierra Indonesia William Case East Timor Damien Kingsbury Vietnam Athar Hussain Cambodia Sue Downie Laos Gerald W Fry and ManynoochVitnoi Faming Burma Clark D. Neher Facing the New Century Nation-building, Ethnicity, and Politics David Martin Jones and Kirsten E. Schulze Environment, Resources, and Hazards Greg Bankoff Agriculture John Minns Financial Services and the Asian Crisis Yoichiro Sato Relations with the Wider World Relations with Northeast Asia Stephen Hoadley Worlds in Collision: Southeast Asia and the West Mark Beeson Appendices Chronology Glossary Personalities Political and Economic Institutions Ethnic Groups Bibliography Index


Additive Manufacturing (AM) is considered one of the most important emerging technologies in the last years and it is developing more and more in the industrial field, considered an important pivot of the industrial revolution 4.0. The substantial difference from traditional technologies, considered subtractive, is that the part is built one layer at the time. Each successive layer is bonded to the preceding layer of melted or partially melted material. This allows lighter, more complex and more performing components, but at the same time the potential offered freedom is limited when complex geometries are printed. Additional support structures are often required in order to sustain overhanging parts but also to reduce the thermal warping, to minimize the residual stresses and to dissipate the heat generated during the melt. These structures are built with the part and at the end of the process they are removed, resulting an increase in manufacturing time and costs. The aim of this thesis is to develop a methodology which allows to apply the concept of Topology Optimization in the design of the support structures for metal AM, defining a better distribution of the material, improving their structural and thermal behaviour, trying to minimize the amount of material dedicated to the support structures. The methodology is applied to a pressure Rake, used for diagnostic wind tunnel testing in order to determine the thermo-fluid dynamics conditions along the wall of a model or within the tunnel itself. In order to validate the goodness of the methodology, it has been considered a comparison made in terms of performance between optimized support structures and traditional support structures.


This paper explores the theological justification of approaching the reality of primacy from within the context of koinonia ecclesiology. After surveying twentieth century contributions to the theological vision of primacy from an Orthodox perspective and seeing that its proper exercise in no way undermines the communal mode of the church's existence, the paper necessarily attempts to delineate an Orthodox theological vision of primacy from within the context of the Trinitarian communal relations and in so doing further draws out in a more concrete way how this ministry might be exercised on a universal level. It hardly needs to be stated that the issue of primacy continues to be most divisive today amongst Christians in general but specifically amongst those in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Right from the outset, it has to be said that it is not primacy per se that has been questioned by the Eastern Orthodox tradition but its modern juridical mode of application. And so, beyond a proper understanding of the notion of primacy, which would surely assist in overcoming this major hindrance towards unity between these two major Christian churches, a consideration of the unique theological insight of the Eastern Orthodox tradition will be undertaken in order to examine the extent to which such a ministry supports the communal vision of authority which is constitutive of Orthodox theology. 2 This paper will therefore focus on the formidable task of presenting the extent to which primacy can indeed belong to the very esse [being] of the Church and accordingly be considered a ministry PHRONEMA, VOL. 26(1), 2011, 27-47


The quality of potatoes largely depends on ingredients and their contents in tubers,including starch,protein,sugar,vitamin and so on.The content of each ingredient is controlled by ecological growing conditions and cultivation factors as well as genetic basis and physiological characteristics.In this paper,natural ecological environment factors influencing the quality traits of potato tubers such as light,temperature,moisture and soil,the human culture factors of planting density and fertilizer,and pest and disease factors were discussed.To study the influence of different natural ecological conditions and cultivation factors on quality traits of potato tubers would not only help find out the relationship between tuber qualities and environmental factors and the mechanisms,but also guide the introduction of potatoes.


Language retention strategies that help Indigenous youth decide to speak and communicate with their languages will come to be realized through this research. Students, parents, grandparents and knowledge keepers alike will be given opportunities to provide their views on language programs. Their wisdom will help us discern tangible solutions for empowering present language retention programming so they may produce more fluent, Indigenous children speakers in today's society. The study will delve the use of innovative tools and assessments strategies to help maintain and sustain Indigenous languages so they may exist for future generations. Implications of this research will surface efforts already tried by parents, schools, policy makers and leaders and assessments already being utilized within language retention programs.


The claim that 'learning how to learn' is the central ability required for young people to be effective 'lifelong learners' is examined for various plausible interpretations. It is vacuous if taken to mean that we need to acquire a capacity to learn, since we necessarily have this if we are to learn anything. The claim that it is a specific ability is then looked at. Once again, if we acquire an ability to learn we do not need the ability to learn how to learn. After noting the implausibility of any such general ability, the paper goes on to examine the claim that certain specific but transferable abilities might satisfy the description 'learning how to learn'. Various candidates are considered: forming and testing hypotheses and abduction are two promising ones, but each has significant weaknesses. Numeracy and literacy are thought to be more promising, but achievements at the national level leave a lot to be desired, despite the clear advantages for learning of being able to read, write and count. If we needed to learn how to learn before we learned how to read, write and count, it is unlikely that we would get anywhere. Finally, certain non-cognitive dispositions and character traits rather than cognitive attributes are considered and, drawing on the work of Robert Dearden and others, it is suggested that the development of these aretaic (virtue-based) and personal qualities rather than cognitive ones may be most decisive for developing independent learning in a range of subject matters.


Deficiencies in available soil sulfur for legume growth were predicted with 86% accuracy by measuring extractable sulfate in the 0–30-cm layer of soils. To attain this accuracy, soils should be sampled before active plant growth commences and air-dried before analyzing.


This study examines how Christian informants understand and practice external (charitable) giving outside of their church, both in terms of money and volunteering time and effort. While existing quantitative researches have informed us primarily about the determinants of giving in the West, we carry out a small case study in a church in an Asian city of Hong Kong to explore how local Christians understand and practice external giving. It is found that external giving is not just an obligatory religious code of conduct that the Christians are obliged to follow. More essentially, drawing reference from the concept of technology of the self, we argue that giving is an integral part of the making of the Christian self. Through giving, individual Christians redefine, transform, and enact their sacred selves in relation to God and others in the community of the faithful. At a collective level, external giving contributes to the construction of a sacred moral economy, which places Christian givers and the needy recipients in a transcendent social relationship. In this state of transcendent social relationship, the givers and recipients are all children of God, hence of equal status. As such, the secular social distinction and material hierarchy distinction between these two groups pales into insignificance. Furthermore, we argue that while secular considerations of economic rationality colour how Christians select the recipients of their giving, these practical concerns are also spiritualized and incorporated into their logic of Christian morality.


Considerable responsibility rests with the roentgenologist who is called upon to supply a diagnosis in a suspected case of intra-uterine hydrocephalic fetus. This hazard is enhanced by its very rarity, which curtails the acquisition of experience in dealing with such cases. Any formulated method of roentgen study, if not too complicated, should be of great aid. The method to be described here presupposes the more or less routine use of the lateral soft-tissue technic in the study of pregnancy. To this is added a study of the obstructed labor by the grid method, in which the roentgen pelvimeter devised at the University Hospital is employed. This gives an 8 X 10 inch film showing the fetal head framed in the inlet. These two methods complement each other, and in our opinion are all that is necessary for an adequate study of the fetal-maternalpelvic relationship in labor. In a case of suspected hydrocephalus the lateral film showed the skeleton of a fairly large fetus without spina bifida but a very large h...


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In the present invention, there is provided a cooking spray-dried particulate composition comprising a solid non-lipid carrier and an oil phase, (i) the oil phase is released from the carrier to form an oil-in-water emulsion upon contact with aqueous media it is possible; and (ii) the oil droplets of the oil-in-water emulsion having a D [4,3] of about 100nm~ about 1000 nm; at least about 75% of the oil droplets in the oil-in-water emulsion or having a size of less than about 10 [mu] m; or volume d90 of the oil droplets of the oil-in-water emulsion, by less than about 30% than that of the oil-in-water emulsion for use in the preparation of the compositions great, edible spray-dried particulate composition It describes things. The present invention also provides a process for preparing the composition, food and dietary supplements containing the composition, and the use of the composition.


The Wendelstein 7-X modular advanced stellarator is in the commissioning phase at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany. The focus of the numerical analysis has been shifted from support of the machine design and assembly toward preparation of the commissioning steps, assessment of possible field disturbances under operational loads, and exploration of operational limits. This paper emphasizes on the development, evolution, and realization of new analysis strategies, as well as on implemented numerical approaches for electromagnetic, thermal, and structural analyses. Remarkable results of the first comparisons with measurements from the extended mechanical instrumentation system are presented in detail and cover evacuation/flooding of the cryostat and plasma vessel, the first cooldown of the magnet system (MS), and both the superconducting coil groups and integral MS commissioning. Finally, some lessons learned during the transition phase are highlighted, which might be relevant for other large fusion machines.


The emergence of private radio stations has considerably changed the mediascape in Tunisia, a country which has had public radio for some considerable time. Mosaic FM was the first, and despite the arrival of a plethora of new private stations, it still has the largest audience. Within media studies it is possible to adopt various types of observation. I am particularly interested in looking at media production using anthropology of language. In this article, I set out my fieldwork observations and show how one editorial line, which favors a relaxed styled in terms of language use, comes into conflict with another editorial line, implicit and non-consensual, which criticizes such relaxation by limiting and « correcting » the use of regional varieties other than that of Tunis. I conclude by showing how these positions bring sociolinguistic invisibility to certain actors, as well as making the use of certain varieties normal, and others abnormal.


As we continue to find applications where the currently available noisy devices exhibit an advantage over their classical counterparts, the efficient use of quantum resources is highly desirable. The notion of quantum autoencoders was proposed as a way for the compression of quantum information to reduce resource requirements. Here, we present a strategy to design quantum autoencoders using evolutionary algorithms for transforming quantum information into lower-dimensional representations. We successfully demonstrate the initial applications of the algorithm for compressing different families of quantum states. In particular, we point out that using a restricted gate set in the algorithm allows for efficient simulation of the generated circuits. This approach opens the possibility of using classical logic to find low representations of quantum data, using fewer computational resources.


Simple Summary Male ghost crabs (Ocypode spp.) are known to build sand structures near the entrance to their burrows. It has always been assumed that the structure played a role in sexual selection and mate attraction. We hypothesized that the larger males would make relatively larger pyramids in order to enhance fitness. We studied Red Sea ghost crabs at Eilat, Israel, and found that the larger crabs actually did not put much effort into building pyramids, and it was the medium-sized crabs that invested the most in building the pyramids. Abstract Display, wherein males attempt to maximize fitness by attracting sexually mature females to mate, is known to drive speciation by Sexual Selection. We researched the Red Sea Ghost Crab (Ocypode saratan; RSGC), in which males build display pyramids to attract females. The study was conducted at the beach in Eilat, Israel. At each session, we measured the height (in cm) of all pyramids and the dimensions (height, breadth; in cm) of the burrow entrance. We assumed that the size of the entrance represented the relative size of the carapace width of the occupant. The mean (± SE) entrance volume was 230.8 ± 11.7 cm, and the height of the pyramid was 11.8 ± 0.49 cm (n = 54). The results of our study did not support our hypothesis because we had expected to find a linear correlation between body size and pyramid height, i.e., the larger the male, the larger the pyramid. However, our results show that the largest males in the population either built small pyramids or not at all, and the cut-off of the larger crab's body size appears to be around 350 cm3. We discovered a step-wise function in the data in that crabs with the smallest body size of ca. 250 cm3 constructed the highest pyramids, with a declining tendency between 250–350 cm3 and extremely low pyramids beyond 350 cm3. However, our findings need to be further studied with a stress on the ambiance and elucidate whether the habitats differ in temperature, humidity, prey-base, etc., before concluding as to why the larger males desist from building pyramids. This study underwrites the importance of studying the mating systems of the macro-fauna of the beaches that are fast disappearing owing to anthropogenic development.


Precise fluid force measurement by water tunnel test was conducted to investigate the mechanism of flow-induced vibration of a circular cylinder in in-line direction. Added fluid forces acting on a circular cylinder were measured by forced oscillation tests. As a result, it was confirmed that negative damping force acts on a cylinder in a certain range of reduced flow velocity corresponding to the first in-line oscillation region. The measured added damping force was then reduced to exciting parameter, which denotes nondimensional exciting fluid force. The characteristics of exciting parameter and the effect of mass ratio to the stability criteria were discussed in detail.


: Border disease virus (BDV) is a serious pathogen of sheep and goats worldwide. The virus causes considerable economic losses in animal husbandry. Therefore, developing effective and genetic-based therapies to control viral infections, such as BDV, has been remarkable over recent years. A common way to evaluate such therapeutic strategies is by cloning the desired fragment into appropriate vectors to develop cell lines expressing it. Due to the required duties of the NS3 gene for BDV proliferation, this gene's HELICc and nucleotide binding site domain was synthesized and cloned in a lentiviral vector upstream of the GFP gene. The cloning accuracy was verified by digestion with restriction enzymes and sequencing. Thus, the BDV-NS3 HELICc and nucleotide binding site carrying plasmid was prepared successfully and will be applied in a second or third lentiviral packaging system for stable expression of the desired gene.


The parameters of agar diffusion method for determining natamycin was investigated and controlled in quantification. The results showed that there is a good linear relationship between content of natamycin and diameter square of inhibition zone, and the regression equation is y = 0.0013x-1.3369 (R2 = 0.9965). The detection range of this method is 0.1 g/L to1.5 g/L.


We propose a novel deep neural network, coined DeepFPC -ℓ2, for solving the 1-bit compressed sensing problem. The network is designed by unfolding the iterations of the fixed-point continuation (FPC) algorithm with one-sided ℓ2-norm (FPC-ℓ2). The DeepFPC-ℓ2 method shows higher signal reconstruction accuracy and convergence speed than the traditional FPC-ℓ2 algorithm. Furthermore, we compare its robustness to noise with the previously proposed DeepFPC network—which stemmed from unfolding the FPC-ℓ1 algorithm—for different signal to noise ratio (SNR) and sign-flipped ratio (flip ratio) scenarios. We show that the proposed network has better noise immunity than the previous DeepFPC method. This result indicates that the robustness of a deep-unfolded neural network is related with that of the algorithm it stems from.


We aimed to determine the feasibility and efficacy of online strategies to recruit parents of children with pediatric rheumatic diseases (PRDs) for research and to evaluate the degree to which known features of various rheumatic disease groups were present in the online cohort.


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According to current observational data, planets of many exoplanetary systems have resonant motion. The formation of resonance configurations is studied within a unified model of planetary migration. Planets in the observed systems 24 Sex, HD 37124, HD 73526, HD 82943, HD 128311, HD 160691, Kepler 9, NN Ser, which are moving in the 2 : 1 resonance, could have been captured into this resonance due to both the Type I and II migration with a wide range of parameters. The migration conditions are defined for the formation of HD 45364 and HD 200964 that are in the 3 : 2 and 4 : 3 firstorder resonances, correspondingly. The results obtained for HD 200964 show that planets can be captured in the firstorder resonances, when the outertoinner orbital period ratios for the planets ar e less than 3 : 2, only if Type I migration rates are large, and the mass of at least one planet is substantially less than the modern masses of the observed giant planets. The formation of the HD 102272, HD 108874, HD 181433 and HD 202206 systems with planets in highorder resonances is considered. The capture into these resonances can be realized with very slow Type II migration. Possible bounds for migration parameters are considered. In particular, it has been found that the capture of HD 108874 into the 4 : 1 resonance is possible only if the angle between the plane of planetary orbits and the plane of sky is appreciably less than 90 °, i.e., the planetary masses are a few times larger than the minimum values. The capture of HD 202206 into the 5 : 1 resonance is possible at low migration rates; however, another mechanism is required to explain the high observed eccentricity of the inner planet (for example, strong gravitational interaction between the planets). Resonant configurations can be disrupted due to the interaction between planets and remaining fragments of the planetesimal disk as, for example, may occur in the threeplanet system 47 UMa. The specific orbital features observed for this system are explained.


Forest Products Laboratory quantifies the amounts of recoverable wood available by source and type of material using various generation estimates.


When adiabatically varied in time, certain one-dimensional band insulators allow for the quantized noiseless pumping of spin even in the presence of strong spin orbit scattering. These spin pumps are closely related to the quantum spin Hall system, and their properties are protected by a time-reversal restriction on the pumping cycle. In this paper we study pumps formed of one-dimensional insulators with a time-reversal restriction on the pumping cycle and a bulk energy gap which arises due to interactions. We find that the correlated gapped phase can lead to novel pumping properties. In particular, systems with $d$ different ground states can give rise to $d+1$ different classes of spin pumps, including a trivial class which does not pump quantized spin and $d$ non-trivial classes allowing for the pumping of quantized spin $\hbar/n $ on average per cycle, where $1\leq n\leq d$. We discuss an example of a spin pump that transfers on average spin $ \hbar/2$ without transferring charge.


According to Rousseau in The Government of Poland, the "love of liberty," when properly cultivated, engenders the patriotism and virtue of citizens. The citizen's love of liberty, however, is not his enjoyment of liberty; it is his fiery longing or passion for national liberty, which has endured in the hearts of Poles owing to the constant threat posed by Russian imperialism. Unless the Poles continue to believe their liberty is threatened, they will begin to believe they can enjoy the luxury of possessing liberty; and then Poland will start down the familiar path of bourgeois corruption, culminating in despotism. Therefore, Rousseau's proposed "reform" of Polish institutions in fact aims to refine "the advantageous evils" of Poland's weakness and anarchy. His intention is to intensify and to orchestrate the defensiveness of all Polish citizens—against internal as well as external threats to liberty—for Rousseau understands that state of soul to be "the leaven" of the magnificent virtues of the ancients.


Scientists at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC), in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin (UW), have developed a sylvatic plague vaccine that shows great promise in protecting prairie dogs against plague (Mencher and others, 2004; Rocke and others, 2010). Four species of prairie dogs reside in the United States and Canada, and all are highly susceptible to plague and regularly experience outbreaks with devastating losses. Along with habitat loss and poisoning, plague has contributed to a significant historical decline in prairie dog populations. By some estimates, prairie dogs now occupy only 1 to 2 percent of their former range (Proctor and others, 2006), with prairie dog colonies being now much smaller and fragmented than they were historically, making individual colonies more vulnerable to elimination by plague (Antolin and others, 2002). At least one species, the Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) is listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) as " threatened ". Controlling plague is a vital concern for ongoing management and conservation efforts for prairie dogs. Sylvatic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, is a bacterial disease transmitted by fleas that afflicts many mammalian species, including humans. For many species of wildlife, plague mortality is a serious conservation issue. In fact, more than half of North American rodent species considered of conservation concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature reside within the range of plague outbreaks in the western United States. The bacterium that causes plague was inadvertently introduced into North America in the early 1900s. Because it is foreign to the evolutionary history of North American mammals, most species have little or no immunity and succumb quickly to the disease. Prairie dogs are particularly susceptible to plague and suffer high mortality rates (90 percent or more) during outbreaks, often resulting in local or even regional extinctions. Plague is now considered widespread throughout the western states and may exist in an enzootic, or low level, state in some prairie dog colonies, contributing to decreased survival of prairie dogs even in the absence of plague epizootics (outbreaks). Current efforts to halt the spread of plague in prairie dog colonies typically rely on dusting individual prairie dog burrows with pesticides to kill plague-infected fleas. Although flea-control insecticides, such as deltamethrin, are useful in stopping plague outbreaks in these prairie dog colonies, dusting of burrows is labor intensive and time consuming and may affect other …


This report describes and discusses the design, construction, calibration and operations of the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) 6-kg retort. Use of this retort will help determine the distribution and speciation of Hg, As, Se, and Cd compounds as a function of retorting parameters in shale oil, retort water, and offgas. The first test consisted of heating the oil shale to 500/sup 0/C with a 100% nitrogen (N/sub 2/) sweep gas. Results of this test demonstrated that the system operates as designed; only two minor modifications were necessary to achieve satisfactory operation of the retort. 2 references, 3 figures, 1 table.


Abstract The article reflects the role of theater in the Italian school, starting from the research carried out with an experience in social theater in a high school in Pavia during the Covid-19 pandemic. The difficulties due to distancing have made evident the importance of the socializing role of theater in person for the training of students, forced to undergo complex transformations due to the pandemic situation like the whole world of live entertainment. The centrality of the body seemed irreplaceable, but its absence prompted us to explore new forms of expression, integrating performance and mediatization, bringing together theater-school and professional theater in the rethinking of liveness. The article is divided into two parts: the first describes the social theater in the development of the school-theater in Italy; the second deals with the ethnographic research carried out in the Pavia high school between March 2020 and May 2021.


A sophomore computer aided design course is investigated with respect to its ability to prepare students for an authentic team-based design experience surrounding solid modeling of a set of legacy drawings by a master draftsman from an earlier age. Work products include an electronic archive stored on a shared drive, part and subassembly renderings, a shop-ready drawing package, accurate animation of part assembly as well as normal operation, and reflective writing about the project. Preparation for the final project includes justin-time use of locally authored videos supplied via the course website, deployment of peer mentors within the computer lab, and scaffolding provided by four different mini-projects. Intermediate milestones given on the course website, impromptu instructor/team/mentor meetings next to computer monitors as well as an overhead projector screen, and exemplary portfolios of student work are considered essential for guiding team-based work on the final project. Significant personal growth in engineering graphics skills leading up to the final project and throughout the final project has been observed in an end-of-course surveys that explore many attributes of pre-cad sketching, part modeling, assembly modeling, and creation of engineering drawing packages. Some refinements to the survey are needed to capture more of the wisdom embedded in many legacy drawings and the wisdom typically gained through the final project.


Space exploration has shown that the Cartesian human in association with techné lacks the capacity to enliven abiotic environments outside of Earth. Ecological thought understands that only oikos, the interconnection between numerous living agencies and the environment, can meet the challenges of pioneering into extreme habitable worlds. Thus, an exploration of hybrid ecological, technoscientific and anthropological epistemes applied to extraterrestrial environments is necessary to assist functional but earth-bound categories of knowledge in their becoming out-of-the-cradle systems of thought. With Becoming an Oikos, we research different epistemic modes of being human in non-terrestrial conditions.


Cortical thinning and metabolic reduction can be possible imaging biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and monitoring. Many techniques have been developed for the cortical measurement and widely used for the clinical statistical studies. However, the measurement consistency of individuals, an essential requirement for a clinically useful technique, requires proper further investigation. Here we leverage our previously developed BSIM technique 1 to measure cortical thickness and thinning and use it with longitudinal MRI from ADNI to investigate measurement consistency and spatial resolution. 10 normal, 10 MCI, and 10 AD subjects in their 70s were selected for the study. Consistent cortical thinning patterns were observed in all baseline and follow up images. Rapid cortical thinning was shown in some MCI and AD cases. To evaluate the correctness of the cortical measurement, we compared longitudinal cortical thinning with clinical diagnosis and longitudinal PET metabolic reduction measured using 3D-SSP technique2 for the same person. Longitudinal MR cortical thinning and corresponding PET metabolic reduction showed high level pattern similarity revealing certain correlations worthy of further studies. Severe cortical thinning that might link to disease conversion from MCI to AD was observed in two cases. In summary, our results suggest that consistent cortical measurements using our technique may provide means for clinical diagnosis and monitoring at individual patient's level and MR cortical thinning measurement can complement PET metabolic reduction measurement.


Summary: In order to purity the α-adrenergic receptor labeled with [3H]POB, antibodies against the irreversible α-adrenergic antagonist, phenoxyben/amine (POB), have been raised in rabbits immunized with POB conjugated to immunoglobulin. The antigen was prepared by first reacting POB with the sulfhydryl group of cysteine, after which the POB complex was coupled to thyroglobulin in the presence of a water soluble carbodiimide. POB-specific antibodies were first detected 10 days after the first booster injection. These antibodies display a high degree of specificity. Slight cross-reactivity occurred only with compounds structurally related to POB, such as dibenamine and nitrogen mustards, while catecholamines and α-adrenergic compounds not structurally related to POB did not cross-react, even when present in 100,000-fold excess. Moreover, the antibodies are still capable of recognizing POB once bound to α-adrenergic receptor. When membranes, prelabeled with [3H]POB, are solubilized with digitonin and incubated with anti-POB antiserum, the radioactivity can be specifically precipitated upon addition of goat anti-rabbit γ-globulin serum. Thus these antibodies may be a useful tool in the purification of the α-adrenergic receptor of rat liver covalently linked to POB.


Encyclopaedias are not the books WISE students choose for SELF-culture, Literature (poetry above all) has greater educational value than SCIE0CE. Grea. thoughts arc so rare, that O~E is enongh to make its author F.-\:\10DS. The original SI~XER more readily finds pardon than the original THl~KER. If material ends are what we yearn for, we are no better than barbarians. The end of reading (as of eyerything else we do) should be self-imprO\·ement. Judge schools, not by those it helps, but by those it fails to improve. Though yon think all the world's a stage, learn to act well your part. Education which does not promote conduct bears within it a moral taint. It takes time and pains to learn to do what it is most profitable to do. The spirit and love of dogmatism characterize s the imperfectly educated. Live thy religion; then, shalt thou not need to argue or dispute about it. We begin with studying how to learn, and end with learning how to studv. Principle is more than knowledge ; a loving heart is better than much gold. I f to be just like others is your aim, you are predestined to be inferior. To do our work WELL, we must believe in the worth of the work we are to do. Our self-respect is largely due to the love we get in childhood and youth. In the best poetry is found the richest expression of the DEEPEST thought. ..... ..


A new echographic evaluation method employing a B scanner and a dedicated software (Dermavision 2D, Cortex Technology, Hadsund, Denmark) was used in assessing the potency of three different corticosteroids. Experimental lesions were induced by patch tests with nickel sulfate 5% in petrolatum in 10 sensitized subjects and treated with two medications of different steroids (clobetasol propionate, fluocinolone acetonide or clobetasone butyrate) performed 16 and 40 h after the application of the nickel patch tests. Clinical and echographic evaluations were carried out at the beginning of the experiment and 64 h after the induction of the reactions. After obtaining echographic images, these were processed by software, enabling the selection of amplitudes of interest, the highlighting of parts of images and their assessment by a value corresponding to the number of pixels (picture elements). For evaluations a low reflecting band was chosen, marking edema and inflammatory infiltration. At positive patch test sites we observed a progressive increase in the number of low reflecting pixels, in accordance with the intensity of the reaction. Therapeutic response was assessed as the difference between values of treated and untreated test sites. The rank order of the efficacy of test substances as determined echographically was identical to the rank order generally accepted for these steroids. This evaluation method of topical corticosteroid activity could be usefully employed besides traditional evaluation methods.


Signals and systems lab courses that are currently offered at many universities are mostly based on text-based programming languages and environments, in particular MATLAB. This paper presents an alternative programming approach in these courses by combining textual with graphical programming. This hybrid programming approach offers code interactivity in a time-efficient manner. Example labs are presented to demonstrate how this approach allows students to interact and experiment with their codes to gain a better understanding of the signal processing concepts.


A kind of space optical remote sensor (SORS) with 7m focal length and a relative aperture 1∶6 was designed. A 4-layer multi- truss was used in the main support structure of the SORS, thus resolving the difficulty of long focal length SORS having high stiffness and thermal dimensional stability. The results of engineering analysis indicated that the surface profile accuracy of the mirrors reach to λ /10 P-V, λ / 50 RMS with the working circumstances ± 4 °C uniform temperature change and space micro-gravity, the base frequency of the structure was 81 Hz. It shows that the designed main support structure has sufficiently high dynamic and static stiffness and thermal dimensional stability. Utilization of the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) technique was a key factor in meeting all of the challenging requirements.


1 Numic and Western Numic 1.1 Two models of diversification 1 Arboreal descent: Dialects first become linguistically distinct; then internal innovations within each dialect lead to further diversification. 2 Undine descent: Isoglosses cross pre-existing dialect and language boundaries.


Hyperbolic Meta-Materials (HMMs) are anisotropic materials with permittivity tensor that has both positive and negative eigenvalues. Here we report that by using a type II HMM as cladding material, a waveguide which only supports higher order modes can be achieved, while the lower order modes become leaky and are absorbed in the HMM cladding. This counter-intuitive property can lead to novel application in optical communication and photonic integrated circuit. The loss in our HMM-Insulator-HMM (HIH) waveguide is smaller than that of similar guided mode in a Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) waveguide.


The problem of probe of kinematics and kinetostatics of mechanisms with mobile drive gears on the example of powered roof supports is described. The example of the solution of the specified problem with use new, earlier not applied, probe methods is given.


Major metropolitan cities worldwide have extensively invested to secure utilities and build state-of-the-art infrastructure related to underground fluid transportation. Sewer and water pipelines make our lives extremely convenient when they function appropriately. However, leakages in underground pipe mains causes sinkholes and drinking-water scarcity. Sinkholes are the complex problems stemming from the interaction of leaked water and ground. The aim of this work is to review the existing methods for monitoring leakage in underground pipelines, the sinkholes caused by these leakages, and the viability of wireless sensor networking (WSN) for monitoring leakages and sinkholes. Herein, the authors have discussed the methods based on different objectives and their applicability via various approaches—(1) patent analysis; (2) web-of-science analysis; (3) WSN-based pipeline leakage and sinkhole monitoring. The study shows that the research on sinkholes due to leakages in sewer and water pipelines by using WSN is still in a premature stage and needs extensive investigation and research contributions. Additionally, the authors have suggested prospects for future research by comparing, analyzing, and classifying the reviewed methods. This study advocates collocating WSN, Internet of things, and artificial intelligence with pipeline monitoring methods to resolve the issues of the sinkhole occurrence.


Abstract Taxes, particularly income tax, may affect how long investors decide to hold on to an investment property. There exists a research gap regarding the implications of a distributed profit-based taxation system for the holding period of an investment asset. As a distributed profit-based taxation system allows investors to postpone income tax liability, it creates an advantage for investors operating under such a system compared to investors operating under other systems of income taxation. In this paper we model optimal holding periods under different systems of income taxation using a specific type of discounted cash flow model. We show that, theoretically, under the distributed profit taxation system, an optimal holding period for an investment property for an individual investor is the longest (ceteris paribus). This is in concordance with the circumstance that the after-tax value of the property for the investor is highest under the distributed profit taxation system. The results suggest that investment and property development projects under distributed profit taxation are not to be treated in the same way as projects under other tax systems with respect to time. Limitations of the study are related to the deterministic setting of the model as well as some restrictive assumptions.


D supplementation while continuing statin therapy. All patients had been referred for outpatient treatment of hyperlipidemia and were currently taking a statin. Patients were excluded if they were taking corticosteroids or vitamin D supplementation at entry or had a comorbidity likely to cause musculoskeletal pain. The most commonly used statins were rosuvastatin, atorvastatin, and pravastatin. At the start of the study, the level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D was found to be significantly lower in the 128 patients with myalgia than in the 493 asymptomatic patients (28.6 vs 34.2, P,.0001). Eighty two of these patients (41% men, mean age 60 years) had myalgia and vitamin D deficiency (25-hydroxyvitamin D ,32 ng/mL). These patients were treated with vitamin D2 50,000 IU/wk while continuing to take statins. At 3 months, 92% of these patients had resolution of myalgia. Forty-four patients were excluded because they were lost to follow-up or incorrectly took vitamin D. No side effects were reported. Limitations include lack of a control group, small sample size, and follow-up of only 3 months.


The paper analyzes the profitability for a wind farm of 50 MW, which marketed its energy on the Spot market, taking into account the current conditions of evolution of demand and the Uruguayan energy system. For a system with a high component of installed capacity of hydropower origin, the marginal cost is strongly affected by water availability conditions, which is a considerable risk for the wind energy investor. In addition the income may be affected by the entry into service of a second wind farm with similar characteristics, which will result in a decrease in the marginal cost of the system, adversely affecting revenues of the already installed parks which they market their power on the Spot market. Simulations with the software SimSEE, for a term of 20 years, allow one to estimate the generation of a wind farm of these features, as well as the evolution of the marginal cost of the system.


Optimization of a hybrid double-side jet impingement cooling system for high-power light emitting diodes (LEDs) was performed using a hybrid multi-objective evolutionary approach and three-dimensional numerical analysis for steady incompressible laminar flow and conjugate heat transfer using Navier‐Stokes equations. For optimization, two design variables, i.e., ratios of the diameter of jet holes and the distance from the exit of upper impinging hole to chips to thickness of substrate were chosen out of the various geometric parameters affecting the performance of the cooling system. To evaluate cooling performance and pressure loss of the system, two objective functions, viz., the ratio of the maximum temperature to average temperature on the chips and pressure coefficient, were selected. Surrogate modeling of the objective functions was performed using response surface approximation. The Pareto-optimal solutions were obtained using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, and performances of three representative Paretooptimal designs were discussed compared to a reference design. In the optimal designs, higher level of uniform cooling was generally achieved with higher pressure coefficient. The Pareto-sensitivity analysis between the objective function and design variable was also performed. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4026536]


A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria. By Norman J. G. Pounds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxvi + 593 pp. $95.00 (cloth). To attempt to write a history of the English parish is to attempt to write a history of the English church, of English society, and of English local government. So central to local life was the parish as an institution for nearly a thousand years, that its historian must master a formidable range of sources-in Latin as well as English, legal and administrative as well as ecclesiastical documents-in order to achieve anything like comprehensiveness. Norman Pounds's massive book-the summit of a lifetimes study of English history and geography-succeeds beyond any reasonable expectation in providing a competent survey of this immensely complicated subject. Evidently a labor of love, it is surely his last book, and doubtless will remain a standard work of reference for many years to come. It is a measure of the scale of the task, however, that, even acknowledging this success, there remain serious lacunae and weaknesses in the account he offers. The basic approach of the book is a narrative one, with three main parts within which separate chapters pursue distinct themes through parallel chronologies-an approach that has the merit of clarity, but sometimes is repetitious. The first part is devoted to the origins of the parish system, and in some ways this is by far the strongest part of the book. Particularly through an array of useful maps, Pounds demonstrates the evolution of the parish system by the eleventh century from the decay of minster churches with their satellites, and through the close involvement of local landholders. The second part concentrates on the administration of the parish, and the various functions it performed in history. Chapters cover the history of parish officers and the economics of the parish, legal history, and the parish's place in local life and religion. Here, and indeed throughout the book as a whole, a vast range of local examples is deployed to great effect, supported by telling illustrations. The third and final part concentrates on the church building itself, and again contains a wealth of local detail, though it has to be said that the basic history presented here tells us little that is not already known about the evolution of the English parish church. The strengths of this book lie in its wealth of example and illustration, in its clarity, and in its sure-footedness in dealing with the complexity of the medieval history of the parish. Its weaknesses seem to me to be fourfold. First, and perhaps least seriously, is a weakness of organization. The method of parallel chronologies, stretched over such a long timescale, makes it hard to pursue consistent threads through the immense amount of material presented, without constant recourse to an index that is far from comprehensive. …


Photocatalytic activity of NaTaO(3) was significantly improved by using a molecular co-catalyst [Mo(3)S(4)](4+). Its hydrogen production rate is 28 times higher than pure NaTaO(3). This study presents the potential of bioinspired molecular metal clusters as efficient co-catalysts.


This paper attempted to prepare hybrid particles in which the inorganic and organic components were chemically bonded in simplification. The polymethacryloxypropylsilsesquioxanes-polyacrylate (PMPS-PA) latex particles were prepared through seeded emulsion polymerization using polymethacryloxypropylsilsesquioxanes (PMPS) as seed. As a reference, silica-polyacrylate (S-PA) latex particles were obtained with similar method. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscopy were used to characterize the chemical composition and morphology of the resultant hybrid particles. The results showed that PMPS-PA particles were uniformly spherical with core-shell morphology and possessed narrow size distribution, whereas S-PA hybrid particles were not uniform as PMPS-PA particles and had bimodal size distribution. The surface properties, optical properties and thermal stability of the corresponding films were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, UV–Vis spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis. Comparatively, PMPS-PA film exhibited smoother surface, larger optical transmittance and better thermal stability than S-PA film. These could be attributed to PMPS that were chemically bonded with PA phases, whereas weak interactions between silica and PA phases in S-PA, where silica surface modification was usually required to increase the surface interactions. Thus, PMPS particles containing reactive carbon-carbon double bond could be prospective and be directly used as seeds in the following emulsion polymerization to prepare chemically bonded hybrid particles.


We present a theoretical study of solitons of the Chen-Lee-Liu equation (CLLE) in a realistic quadratic crystal. These solitons balance dispersion and self-steepening.


Since the 70's, ONERA has been involved in the understanding and characterization of the physical processes occurring during a lightning strike to the aircraft which has led to the development of on board sensors for atmospheric characterization. In the 80's, a first electric field mill network had been designed to measure the electrostatic field inside thundercloud. The system was installed on a CONVAIR (CV580) and a TRANSALL (C160). A new version of this electric field mill network, called AMPERA (Atmospheric Measurement of Potential and ElectRic field on Aircraft), has been developed since 2010. From September to October 2018, an in-flight campaign was performed over Corsica (France) in the framework of EXAEDRE (EXploiting new Atmospheric Electricity Data for Research and the Environment) project to investigate the electrical activity in thunderstorm.
During this campaign, 8 scientific flights were done with a FALCON 20 (F20) of SAFIRE inside or in the vicinity of thunderstorm. During the flight of the 8 of October 2018, the aircraft was struck by lightning at an altitude of 8500m. The electrostatic field time variations show that a vertical electric polarization of the aircraft occurred just before the lightning strike. The inverse method to compute the components of the atmospheric electric field from the data of the electric field network is presented. The atmospheric electric field time evolution is shown. The value of the atmospheric electric field just before the lightning strike is about 90kV/m. This electric field value has been processed to be compared with the ones measured during TRANSALL campaigns. The altitude effect is taken into account by computing the reduced electric field (Electric field divided by air density). The comparison is presented taking into account the size of the aircraft and the electric field direction. To conclude a discussion is done on the electric field threshold for a lightning strike to aircraft.


The rapid growth of data traffic to mobile devices is now challenging the design of future wireless networks, especially at busy hours. Endowed with content-aware and learning technics, the peak traffic demands in busy hours can be reduced through estimating users' preferences and caching popular files at small cell base stations (SBSs) in idle time. This leads users' downloading served by SBSs directly, avoiding crowded and low-speed backhaul connectivity to the content providers. Because of the heterogeneity among users' preferences and types of contents, how to effectively pre-allocate the contents to SBSs is a kernel issue to be discussed.


The solubilization of hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) and hexachloroethane (HCA) in water as a function of temperature and in the presence of surfactants was investigated in order to predict their fate in groundwater and to increase their recovery. HCBD and HCA solubility data were experimentally determined at five temperatures in the range from (285.15 to 318.15) K. Thermodynamic parameters for dissolution (ΔsolG°, ΔsolH°, and ΔsolS°) have been calculated in order to propose a physical explanation of the minimum solubility observed between 293.15 and 298.15 K for both compounds. The solubilization process appeared to be influenced by the network of water molecules rather than by physical and chemical properties of HCBD or HCA, due to an opposite effect of temperature onto Brownian motion, which increases with temperature, and hydrogen-bond network, which collapses with temperature. Concerning the influence of surfactants, determination of the micelle–water partition coefficients (Kmw) and the molar solubiliza...


In this paper, we present the architecture and results of the SwissQuantum quantum key distribution (QKD) network. This three nodes triangular quantum network was running from March 2009 to January 2011 in the Geneva metropolitan area. The three trusted nodes were located at the University of Geneva (Unige), the CERN and the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Geneva (hepia Geneva). This quantum network was deployed to prove reliability of QKD in telecommunication network over a long period. To facilitate integration of QKD in telecommunication network, this quantum network was composed of three layers: a quantum layer, a key management layer, and an application layer. The keys are distributed in the first layer; they are handled in the second layer; and they are used in the third layer.


In this paper, we describe the current 2D (two dimensional) sensor used for industrial vehicles and ideal sensor configurations for mounting 3D imagers on manufacturing vehicles in an attempt to make them safer. In a search for the ideal sensor configuration, three experiments were performed using an advanced 3D imager and a color camera. The experiments are intended to be useful to the standards community and manned and unmanned forklift and automated guided vehicle industries. The imager that was used was a 3D Flash LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) camera with 7.5 m range and rapid detection. It was selected because it shows promise for use on forklifts and other industrial vehicles. Experiments included: 1) detection of standard sized obstacles, 2) detection of obstacles with highly reflective surfaces within detection range, and 3) detection of forklift tines above the floor. We briefly describe these experiments and reference their detailed reports.