Back ground :- The present study introduced the age changes in the parameters of the submandibular salivary glands (SMSGs) of twenty-four volunteers subjects. Aims: ultrasonographical and structural age changes study of sub mandibular salivary glands in living human and cadavers. Materials and methods: the study considered ; twenty four volunteers and sixteen male cadavers. The cadaver's weighed and grouped according to ages; G (A) 20-25 years, (B) 3035 years, (C); 45-50 years, and group (D) 60-70 years. The same grouping manner applied to the ultrasonographic study. Cadavers with diseased history of the (SMSGs), or maxillofacial trauma were excluded. Results; The histological findings revealed that there was; a decrease in the number of serous demilunes, but an increase in the diameter of both serous and mucous acini with, proportional increases of the serous acini, and an increase in the diameter of striated ducts during the increase of age. The thickness of the interlobular connective tissue were increased with advancing age, as well as the number of adipose cells. Conclusion; The sonographic, and gross anatomical parameters showed little but no significant changes during the ages considered in this experimentation, so for the weight and dimensions of the glands.


Thunder defence and grounding system is indispensable part to mobile radars or fixed radars. Because the power voltage that the digital circuit and analogue circuit use is lower and lower, the anti-jamming and protection grade of the system is higher and higher, the design of the grounding and thunder defence system is becoming a more and more important part in modern radar design and the important basis to ensure the safe and reliable operation of radars. This paper gives an overall analysis on the design of the grounding and thunder defence system and analyzes in engineering the methods of the system design.


Objective:To investigate the influence of pH on dissolution and oil-water partition coefficient of dabigatran etexilate for providing a basis for clarifying its low bioavailability and designing of new preparations.Methods:A high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)method was established and used to detect the concentration of dabigatran etexilate in water,some organic solvents and buffered salt solution.The partition coefficients for the n-octanol-water/buffer solution systems and dissociation constants were determined by a shake flask method.Also the solubility of dabigatran etexilate in certain surfactants under different pH was determined.Results:Dabigatran etexilate had great solubility in organic solvents.The apparent solubility of dabigatran etexilate in water was 0.83 μg·mL-1 ,that would decrease with the increasing pH of the solution.The lgD of dabigatran etexilate had a significant dependence on the pH value,and its lgP = 4.17 and pKa = 6.99.The 5 surfactants showed quite different effects at different pHs in buffer solutions that simulated gastrointestinal environment.Tween-80 and HP-β-CD showed good results in the buffer with pH 3.Conclusion:As the increasing of pH,dabigatran etexilate shows an increasing oil-water partition coefficient accompanied by a decreasing solubility.It is suggested that the opposite effect of solubility and permeability induced by pH change is the key reason for its low bioavailability.Some surfactant such as Tween-80 and HP-β-CD may have a feasibility to increase its bioavailability.


Evaluated effects of differences in assessment formats on the abilities of aggressive and nonaggressive boys to generate alternative solutions to social problems. Twenty-one aggressive and 15 nonaggressive boys were randomly assigned to open-middle (spontaneous) or multiple-choice testing conditions. The aggressive boys who took the multiple-choice test produced significantly more verbal assertion, more help-seeking solutions, and fewer direct-action choices. The two groups still had significantly different patterns of verbal assertion and help-seeking solutions but no longer differed in rates of direct action. It appears that aggressive and nonaggressive boys' response patterns are differentially affected by the social-cognitive process of salience.


In the modern educational thoughts,higher education is not only professional educa tion,but al-so quality-oriented education.It centers on improving students' qualities of ideological and moral stan-dards to ful ly improve students' syn thetical qualities.It not only makes students master nessisary knowl -edge of science,technology,humanities and abilities of applying the knowl edge,but also know how to behave and how to think.


(1 1 1), (1 1 0) Cd0.96Zn0.04Te and (1 1 1) Cd0.9Zn0.1Te semiconductor wafers grown by the modified vertical Bridgman method with dimensions of 10 mm × 10 mm × 2.5 mm were lapped with a 2–5 µm polygonal Al2O3 powder solution, and then chemically mechanically polished by an acid solution having nanoparticles with a diameter of around 5 nm, corresponding to the surface roughnesses Ra of 2.135 nm, 1.968 nm and 1.856 nm. The hardness and elastic modulus of (1 1 1), (1 1 0) Cd0.96Zn0.04Te and (1 1 1) Cd0.9Zn0.1Te single crystals are 1.21 GPa, 42.5 GPa; 1.02 GPa, 44.0 GPa; and 1.19 GPa, 43.4 GPa, respectively. After nanocutting is performed by the Berkovich nanoindenter, the surface roughness Ra of the (1 1 1) Cd0.9Zn0.1Te single crystal attains a 0.215 nm ultra-smooth surface. The hardness and elastic modulus of three kinds of CdZnTe single crystals decrease with the increase of indentation load. When the nanoindenter departs the surface of the crystals, the adherence effects are obvious for the three kinds of single crystals. This is attributed to the plastic sticking behavior of CdZnTe material at a nanoscale level. When the indentation load of the three kinds of CdZnTe single crystals is in the range of 4000–12 000 µN, the adhered CdZnTe material on the nanoindenter falls onto the surface and accumulates around the nanoindentation.


Over the past two decades, the Middle East has witnessed a "transition" away from—and then back toward—authoritarianism. This dynamic began with tactical political openings whose goal was to sustain rather than transform autocracies. Enticed by the prospect of change, an amalgam of political forces—Islamists, leftists, secular liberals, NGO activists, women's organizations, and others—sought to imbue the political process with new meanings and opportunities, hoping that the "inherently unstable" equilibrium of dictablandas would give way to a new equilibrium of competitive democracy. It is now clear, both within and far beyond the Middle East, that liberalized autocracy has proven far more durable than once imagined. The trademark mixture of guided pluralism, controlled elections, and selective repression in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, and Kuwait is not just a "survival strategy" adopted by authoritarian regimes, but rather a type of political system whose institutions, rules, and logic defy any linear model of democratization. And while several of the authors who write about the Middle East in this issue of the Journal of Democracy argue that political liberalization is moving forward, Jillian Schwedler's essay on Yemen and Jason Brownlee's article on Egypt—as well as the recent experience of Jordan—suggest that in fact deliberalization may be underway. Perhaps these states will join the ranks of Bashar Assad's Syria, where the door was opened a crack and then quickly closed, and countries such as Iraq, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, where the rulers have never Daniel Brumberg is associate professor of government at Georgetown University and a visiting scholar during the 2002–2003 academic year at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. His most recent contribution to the Journal of Democracy was "Islamists and the Politics of Consensus," which appeared in the July 2002 issue.


According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study, small overlap and oblique frontal crashes account for 25% of fatal accidents in the United States. This is a large proportion, and comprises the accident mode with the highest fatality rate. The fact that occupants collide with the cabin is a factor in this. The purpose of the present research is to recreate the injuries that occur to occupants in actual accidents involving small overlap and oblique frontal crashes, and to formulate a method for evaluating them. By enhancing vehicle body performance and occupant restraint performance, the goal is to reduce fatalities and injuries. In order to verify the circumstances of injury during small overlap and oblique frontal crashes, crash simulations were performed by numerical computation. A human body model was also placed in the driver's seat to verify the occupant movement and extent of injury. The oblique mode that the NHTSA is slated to adopt was first verified using numerical simulation, but collision on the occupant's chest could not be confirmed. For the present research, therefore, verification of the angle and speed parameters was carried out so that occupant movement could be recreated in a way that conformed to actual accident circumstances. The result of simulation was that occupant movement with respect to the vehicle together with vehicle body deformation showed the occurrence of collision with the occupant's chest when the evaluation vehicle (a passenger car) was impacted by an OMDB with an overlap (LAP) of 25%, at an angle of 30°, and at a speed of 110 km/h. The collision occurred in the same place, with injury to the same areas, and with the same degree of injury as shown under actual accident circumstances in a small overlap and oblique frontal crash. In light of these results, it was confirmed that injuries would be reduced by increasing the body strength of the evaluation vehicle to reduce deformation and by installing air bags on doors where oblique loading affected occupant movement. Numerical simulation of the above modes was performed using a passenger car that received the highest evaluation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). While vehicle body deformation was evaluated at the GOOD level even in oblique mode (in-house data), vehicle body deformation increased and occupant chest collision occurred that resulted in AIS4+ level injuries. This method of evaluation was confirmed to offer possibilities for evaluation of small overlap and oblique frontal crashes that conforms to actual accidents, and for evaluation that may further reduce fatalities and injuries. The effectiveness with respect to these injuries of measures taken through restraint devices and the vehicle body by means of numerical simulation using a human body model was verified. The results confirmed that combining vehicle body and restraint device measures had the effect of reducing injuries.


Today in age, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations are the main tool companies use to design new producis and optimize existing products. Since fewer calculations are needed in the latter stages of the design cycle, CFD calculations in these stages are allowed to be more complex and expensive (time-wise as well as computational-wise). High fidelity methods are often used for these calculations. On the other hand, the conceptual design phase requires a far greater amount of calculations, which means that they cannot be slow or very demanding. In this phase, low fidelity methods are often used. One of the objectives of this thesis is to reduce the CFD calculation times for conceptual design while retaining the same precision as in the higher fi-delity methods. To achieve this goal, a Reduced Order Model (ROM) based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) has been created. The test problem to which the ROM has been applied is the 2D backward-facing step. Various studies have been previously conducted to create ROMs for this problem, and their authors have made the first steps towards fast solutions with good accuracy. The ROMs created in the previous studies were able to reduce the calculation time for solutions to about 1% of the CFD calculation time. These ROMs generally treated two parameters such as the Reynolds number of the flow and the wall temperahire just downstream of the step. Unfortunately, they were not able to take into account a geometry parameter. A geometry parameter introduces an additional dificulty when creating the ROM. This stems from the fact that the POD used to create the ROM requires identical geometries for all of the system states within the param¬eter range. In this thesis, this obstacle is overeome by means of a virtual mesh. The resulting ROM is able to successfully recreate the solutions to any test point in the parameter range while reducing the calculation time to about 2% of the CFD calculation time. While the reduction in calculation times for this system was quite satisfactory (3 minutes instead of 6 hours), an even smaller calculation time would be preferable. Since the conceptual designer would be constantly varying parameters and performing calculations, it would be most fitting to have calculation times on the order of seconds. With this in mind, a ROM is created for the previous system (this time without the (variable geometry) based on a different method for minimizing the residual on the equations. In the previous (variable geometry) ROM, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) was used to minimize the residual on the governing equations of the ROM, which were chosen to coincide as nearly as possible with the CFD equations. In the new formulacion, the residual on the equations is minimized by means of a gradient-like method coupled with a continuation method. The resulting calculations are precise as well as rapid (about 2 seconds are required for each calculation, which is 0.0001 times the original CFD calculation time of 6 hours). The governing equations used in CFD calculations are often modified to include extra terms (numerical devices) to help convergence. These terms deviate from the original equations by a small amount although in some localized zones of the flow, the differences can be large. While the ROM that uses a gradient-like method requires specific knowledge of the additional terms to obtain solutions ciose to the CFD solutions, a better residual point selection would allow the ROM to reach the same solution as for CFD. Without explicit knowledge of these terms, the ROM would possibly find a solution to the defined equations and boundary conditions. On the other hand, it could also possibly find a spurious solution. With the point selec¬tion developed in this thesis, the ROM is consistently able to find the CFD solution with a calculation time of about 2 seconds as before.


An energy‐filtering microscope working at 80 keV is used for the investigation of the effect of inelastic scattering on Bragg contrast. Inelastic scattering results in a preservation of Bragg contrast but edge and bend contours are blurred by a spectrum of excitation errors due to the angular distribution of inelastic scattering. This blurring and the chromatic aberration results in a decrease of contrast and resolution for thick specimens. Therefore, contrast and resolution can be increased by zero‐loss filtering as shown by evaporated films of increasing thickness below 150 μg/cm2. Up to ∼300 μg/cm2 an energy‐filtered image at the most probable energy shows the best results. The results obtained are extrapolated to energy‐filtered high‐voltage electron microscopy.


Every university promotes new prospective students, one of the effects of promotionalactivities to run effectively and efficiently is the selection of the right media promotion. This study aims to conduct decision-making analysis using the AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method and TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Symbolity to Ideal Solution) to determine the priority of promotional media. The AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method is used to determine the criteria weight, while the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is used to rank alternative promotional media. The criteria used in prioritizing college promotion media are Reach, Durability and Cost. The weight of the criteria produced from the AHP method is the input value in the TOPSIS method to sort the alternative promotional media chosen.The results of testing the system acceptance with 4 (four) aspects of the test, obtained the Perception of Ease results of 91.43%, Usability Perception of 86.86%, Attitude Towards Use 87.90%, and the Value of Using the System of 81.90%. So overall the average value of testing with the TAM method is 86.66% and overall the quality of the system is running well.


Finkelstein1 invited physicians and researchers interested in mesothelioma to investigate on past usage of talcum powders by affected people. In Italy, asbestos contamination in talc for industrial use has been documented,2 and, as he underlines tremolite contamination at low levels of cosmetic and pharmaceutical talc has been reported in USA by Blount3 and Gordon and colleagues.4

In the Italian National Mesothelioma Register (ReNaM), the analysis of intensive exposure to talc has been evaluated …


The tectonic evolution of Qaidam basin,especial on the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic period,is still in debated. In order to determine the stress field of the northern Qaidam basin and to discuss the tectonic evolution of this area in the Mesozoic-Cenozoic,we carried out joints data measurements from sections of Lenghu No.0,No.4,Eboliang and Jielusu. We then deduced the stress direction applying the strata recovery technique to the different formations. The results suggest that the northern Qaidam basin mainly experienced E-W compression after the Middle-Late Jurassic,which is in accordance with previous results. Following the track on Jurassic strata we can conclude on NW-SE compression since the Early Cretaceous and on S-N compression after the Late Creta-ceous which made the strata uplift and denudation. From the Eocene Xiaganchaigou epoch to Pliocene Shizigou epoch,northern Qaidam basin stays in a weak condition and accepts stable deposition. After the deposition of the Shizigou Formation,the NW-SE direction stress which caused by the uplift of Altyn Tagh Mountains,strongly affected the Shangganchaigou,Xiayoushashan and Shangy-oushashan formations. Obviously,the strongest stress of N-S direction plays an important role to the Shizigou,Shangyoushashan and Xiayoushashan strata,even to the outcrop of Xiaganchaigou,Lulehe formations and Jurassic layer. This event not only destroys the previous petroleum system of northern Qaidam basin,but also is important to the motion and accumulation of petroleum again. Thus,more work related to joint data analysis of other profiles in northern Qaidam basin need to carry out,and it is signification to guide the exploration of the oil and gas resources in the Qaidam basin.


Objective
To summarize the echocardiographic features of fetal absent pulmonary valve syndrome (APVS).

Methods
Clinical data and echocardiograms of 12 cases of fetal APVS prenatally diagnosed in the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute from July 2015 to April 2017 were reviewed retrospectively and the echocardiographic features of APVS were summarized.

Results
Aneurysmal dilation of the main pulmonary artery and branches arteries were found in all cases, causing tracheal and esophageal compression in one case and lung compression in two cases. Color Doppler revealed systolic and diastolic turbulent blood flow with "to-and-fro" blood flow in pulmonary arteries and pulmonary regurgitation. All fetuses were situs solitus and atrioventricular concordance. Eleven cases were also identified with malposition of the great arteries accompanied with ventricular septal defect, while the other one with normally related great arteries and intact ventricular septum was diagnosed with dysplasia of distal left pulmonary artery and pericardial effusion. Absent ductus arteriosus, increased cardiothoracic ratio and myocardial hypertrophy were found in four, two and five cases, respectively. Fetal umbilical arterial systolic/diastolic ratio and resistance index of all cases were normal.

Conclusions
Typical APVS is characterized by absent or rudimentary pulmonary valve accompanied with prominant dilated pulmonary arteries, pulmonary valve stenosis and severe pulmonary regurgitation. It is usually accompanied by conotruncal defects, but attention should also be paid to other atypical cardiac abnormalities during screening.

Key words:
Pulmonary valve; Congenital abnormalities; Pulmonary valve insufficiency; Echocardiography; Ultrasonography, prenatal


The most frequent mutations in familial pulmonary fibrosis (FPF) involve genes of the telomerase complex such as TERT, TERC, RTEL1, PARN or DKC1 [1]. Mutations within TERT and TERC are found in 15–20% of FPF and are associated with blood, liver and skin disorders. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most frequent multidisciplinary diagnosis in TERT and TERC mutation carriers [1, 2]. Treatment of IPF in patients who carry a TERT or TERC mutation has not been previously defined. Recently, danazol, a synthetic androgen, was shown to increase telomere length, and seemed to stabilise forced vital capacity (FVC) and diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) in telomerase complex mutation carriers [3]. Pirfenidone has been shown to reduce FVC decline and to improve progression-free survival in IPF [4, 5]; however, pirfenidone has not been specifically evaluated in telomerase complex mutation carriers. The aim of this multicentre retrospective study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of pirfenidone in patient carriers of TERT/TERC mutations. In this retrospective study, a beneficial effect of pirfenidone on lung function decline could not be demonstrated in patients carrying TERT/TERC mutation http://ow.ly/VYpJ30i5wSr


The potential fluctuations in III-nitride quantum wells lead to many effects like emission broadening and S-shape energy vs. temperature dependence. The best description of the energy dependence comes from calculations based on Gaussian density of states. However, in most of the published reports, changes of carrier lifetime with energy and temperature are not taken into account. Since experimental evidence shows that lifetime significantly depends on energy and temperature, here we propose a model that describes two basic parameters of luminescence: lifetime of carries and emission energy as a function of temperature in the case of quantum wells and layers that are characterized by potential fluctuations. Comparison of the measured energy and lifetime dependences on temperature in specially grown InGaN/GaN quantum wells and InAlGaN layer shows very good agreement with the proposed theoretical approach.


This article uses as a point of departure for its analysis a recent educational policy initiative to promote peaceful coexistence in the context of ongoing ethnic division in Cyprus. It is argued that, although it seems as if the teaching of peaceful coexistence is a laudable initiative that can contribute toward unity and democratic state-building for all Cypriots, the insistence on assuming that there are two conflicting and immutable ethnic identities could slow down and be potentially counter-productive to the country's effort for reconciliation and democratic state-building. The author argues that a framework of agonistic democracy provides the needed critical perspective in education from which to launch an understanding of the community as a contingent achievement of political action. As such, an agonistic framework of democracy in citizenship education suggests the disentanglement of goals for peace and reconciliation from state-sanctioned efforts that appeal to essentialist ethnic identities.


Introduction: COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS CoV-2). Therefore, there is paucity of data on risk factors of COVID-19 in India which will help in designing preventive measures. Objective: To determine the risk factors of COVID-19 patients attending a tertiary care institution. Methods: The study was conducted at tertiary care hosipital in South Delhi, India among the patients admitted in Covid-19 wards or visiting the hospital for testing of SARS CoV-2 infection. Contact data of test results was collected from the medical record and detailed information was collected through telephone calls. 103 cases were selected who were found test positive by RT PCR and 103 negatives were selected as controls. Data was collected using pre-tested Questionnaire. The data were first captured in paper-based case record form and then entered in a Microsoft Excel and analyzed in SPSS Software version 21.0. Result: The mean age of all the participants was 37.63±15.32 years. On comparing cases and controls, it was found that symptoms like fever, general weakness, cough, sore throat, breathlessness and headache were significantly associated with cases, having an odds ratio of greater than 1 and p value< 0.05. On analysing various underlying medical conditions amongst controls and cases, it was found that there was a significant difference among cases and controls who had Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and Hypertension (p-value: 0.001) with a high odds ratio of 6.130 and 5.964 respectively. Around half of the cases (54.4%) and 23.3% of controls reported to have faced discrimination or changed attitude of their neighbours after revealing their RT-PCR report and this difference was statistically significant (p-value 0.001). Conclusion: Study revealed that majority of symptoms were not predictors of COVID-19 and only occupations and history of contact remained significant risk factors of COVID-19 in multivariate analysis. A multicenter research study is required to learn more about risk factors.


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1 Towards an inventory of the impacts of human-induced climate change 1 2 Friederike E.L. Otto1*, Luke J. Harrington1, David Frame2, Emily Boyd3, Kristian Cedervall 3 Lauta4, Michael Wehner6, Ben Clarke1, Emmanuel Raju5, Chad Boda3, Mathias Hauser7, 4 Rachel A. James1, Richard G. Jones1,8 5 6 1Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK. 7 2Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 8 3LUCSUS, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 9 4Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 10 5Global Health Section, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 11 6Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, US. 12 7Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 13 8Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK. 14 15 *corresponding author: email@example.com 16 17 Capsule: Currently no systematic assessment of loss and damage due to climate change 18


Today zoom optical system is more used in many fields. It can be satisfied with many special imaging instances with its superiority on ability of supplying different visual field and resolution. But the conventional zoom system must have more than two moving elements to realize focus turning and imaging shift compensation at the same time. This makes the system have large volume and weight, and complicated structure. Liquid lens is a kind of novel optical device based on biological vision system. By utilizing this device, zoom camera can be designed in a new simple way. In this paper, a liquid lens operated by a stepper motor had been demonstrated. A new way of designing a micro zoom system without any moving lens had also been introduced. And a kind of hybrid diffractive-refractive liquid lens had been presented to improve the imaging quality. A micro bifocal zoom endoscope system including two pieces of liquid lens was contrived. Finally, it is thought that although many technologies, especially the package method should be solved better, the liquid lens micro zoom system has very wide potential application in the fields that the system's volume and weight are strictly limited, such as endoscope, mobile, PDA and so on.


AbstractSince November 2014, the Meteorological Services of Canada (MSC) has been running a real-time numerical weather prediction system that provides deterministic forecasts on a regional domain with a 2.5-km horizontal grid spacing covering a large portion of Canada using the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) forecast model. This system, referred to as the High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System (HRDPS), is currently downscaled from MSC's operational 10-km GEM-based regional system but uses initial surface fields from a high-resolution (2.5 km) land data assimilation system coupled to the HRDPS and initial hydrometeor fields from the forecast of a 2.5-km cycle, which reduces the spinup time for clouds and precipitation. Forecast runs of 48 h are provided four times daily. The HRDPS was tested and compared to the operational 10-km system. Model runs from the two systems were evaluated against surface observations for common weather elements (temperature, humidity, winds, and precipitation), ...


In this study we used remote sensing techniques to estimate and evaluate the spatial and temporal variability of surface temperature (Ts) in the semiarid pernambucano. Four images of the sensor Thematic Mapper (TM), Landsat 5, dated 12/12/1991, 09/12/1996, 13/12/2003 and 27/11/2009, constituted the experimental unit, which were estimated using the algorithm Surface Energy Balance Algorithms for Land (SEBAL). The main results indicated that the maximum surface temperature varied between 32.5 and 46.1 º C, found in areas with exposed soil or areas used for crops irrigated by the river São Francisco. In general, it can be seen that where there is a natural vegetation Ts was always lower in relation to the modified areas, which are present systematically higher temperatures studied on all days. It is concluded that remote sensing techniques proved efficient to quantify the spatio-temporal variability of surface temperature for semiarid conditions pernambucano.


The elderly offender remains under-researched, with few or no published data on elderly referrals to the medium secure forensic service in the UK. Our aim was to generate data describing the characteristics of elderly offenders, to review whether the complex needs of such patients were being suitably assessed from an holistic perspective and to produce assessment guidelines for elderly forensic referrals. We identified elderly referrals retrospectively and scrutinized their medical notes. We found that 66% of referrals came from solicitors, with sexual offending being the most common offence in 56% of cases. There was no diagnosis of mental disorder in 56%, dementia being the most common diagnosis in 19%. There was poor use of diagnostic tools and investigations in the assessment process. An integrated approach to assessment and management between the forensic and old age psychiatric services is advocated. We have no declaration of interest to make.


Urban facades regularly contain interesting variations due to allowed deformations of repeated elements (e.g., windows in different open or close positions) posing challenges to state‐of‐the‐art facade analysis algorithms. We propose a semi‐automatic framework to recover both repetition patterns of the elements and their individual deformation parameters to produce a factored facade representation. Such a representation enables a range of applications including interactive facade images, improved multi‐view stereo reconstruction, facade‐level change detection, and novel image editing possibilities.


To investigate how job demands and resources interact with each other to predict intention to leave among assistant nurses and Registered Nurses.


Ocean acidification has been affecting the world's oceans since the introduction of anthropogenic CO2 into the atmosphere during the Industrial Revolution. An increase in CO2 uptake from the atmosphere to the ocean has had a profound impact on not only the water chemistry, but marine organisms as well. Ocean acidification is known to have significant impacts on marine invertebrates in terms of calcification and reproduction; however, effects of increased CO2 on marine invertebrate behavior are vastly unknown. Marine conch gastropods have a modified muscularized foot that allows them to escape quite rapidly when faced with a predator cone shell. Utilizing the concentration of seawater CO2 (950 ppm) predicted at the end of the century (2100), both the prey gastropod (Strombus luhuanus) and its cone shell predator (Conus marmoreus) were examined to determine behavior changes in their predator-prey interaction. General boldness of S. luhuanus was heightened by elevation in CO2 by shortening the duration of time the S. luhuanus took to self-right itself by almost half. Prey behavior during predator-prey interaction was not significantly changed through ocean acidification scenarios; however, there were trends to suggest that the control prey would escape faster with use of a running behavior versus a jumping behavior, which was exhibited more often by the elevatedCO2 group. With the C. marmoreus predator, CO2 highly affected the activity level of the predator, where activity was five times that of the control. However, this increased activity did not affect the predatory success of the cone shell, but could increase the possibility of the predator happening upon the prey in the wild. Alteration of behavior of predator and prey interactions of marine invertebrates could have wide-ranging implications to the whole marine food web and entire marine ecosystem.


Detecting the action items that were agreed upon during a meeting has important practical applications. But, extremely sparse positive labels, noisy annotations, and small datasets limited the improvement in this task via hand-crafted features techniques. Given the breakthrough performance demonstrated by pretrained transformer-based models in a wide variety of NLP tasks, such as BERT [1] and ETC [2], we revisit this task using these modern techniques. We empirically show how these modelling techniques advance the state-of-the-art on action item detection for the ICSI simulated meeting corpus [3] by 75% and establish a baseline for the action item detection from the AMI [4] meeting corpus. We show that these models are competitive on the related ICSI MRDA classification problem. In order to push the performance even further, we re-evaluate the task definition for action item detection, drawing upon the similarities with the span boundary detection realm. We propose the use of Generalized Hamming Distance ghd as an alternative evaluation. We hope to motivate further interest into the action item detection task by the community.


It is predicted that the flow and hydrological phenomena of the river basin will be changed due to climate change and analysis of this flow change is one of the important factors in the water ecosystem and water resource management. Therefore, in this study, we investigated indicators of hydrological alteration (IHA) according to climate change by simulating the future flow of the Geumho River basin using SWAT based on the AR5 RCP scenarios. As a result of the IHA analysis, it is expected that the stress due to the space constraint of aquatic ecosystem will decrease due to the increased availability of the ecosystem habitat in summer and winter. However, changes in the timing and duration of extreme events, frequency and duration of high and low flow rates, and fluctuations in daily river flow are much different from those of the present. Therefore, it can be seen that the stress of the aquatic ecosystem will increase more than the present.


The metals and industrial minerals contained in the tailings of mining and quarrying activities, can degrade natural environments as well as human health. The objective of this experimental work is the application of innovative and sustainable technologies for the treatment and exploitation of mining tailings from Romania. Within this approach, the recovery of high grade raw materials to be placed on the market is achieved and reduction of these wastes volume are achieved. The current study is focused on hydrometallurgical process for the recovery of gold. The innovative treatment chosen is the thiosulphate process that, compared with the conventional cyanide, has several advantages (e.g., it is more ecologically friendly and is not toxic to humans). The conventional cyanidation process shows operating limits in the case of auriferous refractory minerals, such as Romanian wastes, the object of the study. An important characteristic of thiosulphate leaching process it has the best selectivity towards gold; it does not attack the majority of the gangue mineral constituents. Gold extraction of 75% was obtained under ambient conditions of temperature. Moreover, the overall process achieved about 65–67% Au recovery, this being in line with the conventional cyanidation process. As these results are obtained by application of the thiosulfate process on a low gold content ore, they may be considered encouraging. The optimization of process parameters and operating conditions, should permit the best results in terms of process yields to be achieved.


T HERE have been many reports concerning the surgical treatment of an intracranial foreign body. Since the usual method of craniotomy cannot avoid some cerebral damage, deeply lodged, minimal, or asymptomatic foreign bodies have frequently been left untouched2 ,6 Recently we successfully removed an intracranial air-gun bullet using a stereotaxic method through a small burr hole, without any complication.


ObjectiveTo observe the effects of XinShu parenteral solution (XSPS) on the activation of platelet, the activity of fibrinolysis system after intima denudation of rabbits.Methods20 male Japanese white rabbits (2.5±0.5)kg were randomly divided into the control group and XSPS group .The celiac arterial endothelium of all rabbits were denuded with balloon. Before the operation and 3 d, 7 d, after balloon denudation, vein blood samples were obtained from each group rabbits for measurement of α granule membrane protein of platelets(GMP-140), tissue-type plasminogen activator(t-PA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-type Ⅰ(PAI-1).ResultsPlasma GMP-140 and PAI-1 activity obviously elevated after balloon injury, and there was a little elevation in plasma t-PA activity in control group. Activity of plasma GMP-140 in XSPS group remained bottom level after balloon injury, and there was a significant increase in plasma t-PA activity and a marked reduce in PAI-1 activity in XSPS group. There was a notable difference between group B and group C ( P 0.05). ConclusionXSPS obviously inhibits platelet activation, and improves fibrinolysis activity after balloon injury.


The high complexity of modern society produces interdependencies that cannot be controlled by its original operations Many of these interdependencies contribute to the maintenance of limits and generalized social coordination;others, however, produce unexpected complex effects whose consequences can destroy the very units that produce them Those operations that contribute to social coordination are recognizable as immune operations;the others can be called auto-immunity operations Through a review of key authors in sociology and political philosophy, and through the application of their concepts of immunity and autoimmunity to the current crisis scenario, this article argues that the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates the conditions of autoimmunity in modern society and warns of a dissolution of social order as a result of these autoimmune processes The article concludes that increasing complexity deepens the autoimmunity of modern society, so that this century can expect more autoimmune crises


A temperature monitoring and controlling system of marine engine room was developed,applying Cyclone series 'FPGA chip of Altera company and Dallas DS1820 chip of a digital temperature sensor to implement functions of monitoring and controlling temperature.The design of the system was introduced including in main architecture of systems,hardware design and software flow.


Moxifloxacin is a new fluoroquinolone. In vitro studies have suggested that it could prolong ventricular repolarization. The main objective of this study was to measure the actual effect of single oral doses of moxifloxacin on QT interval duration in healthy volunteers.


Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction Part 4 Part One: Steinbeck and Eastern Europe Chapter 5 Chapter 1: A Political Reading of Steinbeck's Works in Eastern Europe Chapter 6 Chapter 2: Steinbeck in the Slovene Cultural Arena: An Overview of Steinbeck Criticism Chapter 7 Chapter 3: Steinbeck's Influence on Slovene Social Realism Chapter 8 Chapter 4: About the Slovene Translations Chapter 9 Chapter 5: The Language of Of Mice and Men as a Challenge for a Translator Part 10 Part Two: On Specific Works Chapter 11 Chapter 6: The Grapes of Wrath as Communist Propaganda Chapter 12 Chapter 7: In Dubious Battle as a lesson of Blind Commitment Chapter 13 Chapter 8: The Status of East of Eden in Slovenia and the Former Yugoslavia Part 14 Part Three: A Comparative Reading of John Steinbeck and Frank Hardy Chapter 15 Chapter 9: Between Admiration and Rejection: On the Parallels between Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Hardy's Power without Glory Chapter 16 Chapter 10: The Portrayal of Otherness in Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat and Hardy's 'Borker Stories' Part 17 Conclusion Part 18 Works Cited Part 19 A Bibliography of Works by John Steinbeck Part 20 Index


Flood events in Leningrad occur almost every year and are caused by the propagation of long waves forming as a result of serious depressions in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland. The flood-defence works extend along the boundary between Neva Bay and the Gulf of Finland. One of the main requirements is to maximize the existing natural hydraulic conditions when there is no danger of flooding.

During the course of hydraulic studies, the currents and water levels in the enclosed water area were investigated during and after construction of a flood barrier. Model studies were carried out at the design stage and throughout the entire construction period.


Application of finite element software ANSYS coupled with the train-ground dynamic model is developed to predict the torsion effect of asymmetric structure. Respectively analyze on eccentricity ratio is 0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, and 1.0. Results show that the ground vibrations by the train are slight. Eccentricity of the structure has certain effect on horizontal displacement, horizontal angle displacement, and floor horizontal acceleration.


Heath forest is one unique ecosystem in tropical regions. Many biodiversities and their ecological characteristic in this ecosystem are still unknown by science, including butterflies. Therefore, the study was conducted to determine butterfly richness and diversity indices in every site on natural secondary and degraded heath forests. A field study was conducted in two localities in East Kalimantan, i.e. Muara Badak and Sebulu areas. In every locality was located three sites for data gathering. The butterfly data were collected by capturing specimens using aerial insect nets and baited traps in August–September 2017. In general, the species richness in all sites lacked compared to the lowland forest habitat. During the study, only 200 individuals in 34 species were recorded in total. Calculation of Fisher's alpha showed the diversity of butterflies in study sites in the range 2.28–16.35. Twenty-four main species spread in the study sites. Eight species showed strong fidelity for degraded heath forest habitats, moreover, Neptis hylas prefer fewer trees, and Mycalesis fuscum prefers denser trees. Meanwhile, there was no apparent taxonomical composition pattern, except family Nymphalidae with subfamilies Satyrinae and Limenitidinae, which showed superior in all sites. Other finding showed that the density of trees was affected to the geographic distribution of butterfly species; the denser trees appeared narrow distribution species, more prefer to Sundaland, and the sites with fewer trees appeared more comprehensive distribution species, more prefer to Oriental Region.


This letter proves the availability of the so-called high-level canonical representation, which is a generalization of the useful canonical representation, in the set of all continuous piecewise-linear (PWL) functions. The result is of interest in connection with research and applications where PWL functions are involved, e.g., about neural networks. >


Metastable operation is a fundamental phenomenon of sequential networks that process asynchronous inputs. Nevertheless, because of its subtle nature and the relatively low probability of its occurrence in conventional systems, this phenomenon is neither well understood nor widely appreciated. With continuing advances in digital technology, however, there is a growing interest in large-scale highly parallel systems. Such systems are likely to involve numerous high-frequency asynchronous interactions, which may result in frequent measures to prevent such failures. In recent years, a number of researchers have been working with some success to develop techniques for dealing with this failure mode. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive theory of metastable operation that may lead to a better understanding of this phenomenon and provide theoretical support for further work in this area.


This paper involves an interdisciplinary project in computer science and physics. Students in introductory physics courses need to be able to deal with dimensioned quantities (often called "dimensional analysis"), and to solve problems using the correct units for various physical quantities. Computer science students need to understand concepts of object-oriented programming, including the notion of inheritance. In this paper we present a project in which physical quantities such as distance, time, mass, speed, force, power, etc. are represented as objects. The student designing the classes can ensure that the client always combines quantities in an appropriate fashion (e.g. a force must be computed as a mass multiplied by an acceleration). The student designing the classes can also allow the client to compute physical quantities using different units (e.g., the addition of three distances: 1 inch + 2 meters + 3 feet). This is done by defining subclasses Meters, Miles, and Feet, all of which inherit from the class Distance, thus providing the student with a nice example of the proper use of inheritance.The relevant classes, with test driver software, have been implemented and are available at the URL: http://www.rowan.edu/~bergmann The software has been implemented in both C++ and Java, though this paper will use the C++ version in its exposition.


These three research demonstration were restricted by the triple positioning of Marxist theory with ideology, theoretical system, social practice, it is reflecting a mutual independent and decisively separating status in the research, which will affect the development deepening of academic research and subject building. In the future, Marxist theory should further organize its current research demonstration, complement each other's advantages to promote the connection of ought-to-be, probable and the level of real-ran, combining with the normative analysis, text interpretation and experiential narrative, highlighting the empirical research of Marxist theory, enhancing the theoretical structure of Marxist theory, forming the methodology system of Marxist theory, therefore promoting the transformation over and development of research demonstration over Marxist theory, helping Marxist theory to continuously get intervened in the Chinese and global subject classification system, moving from disciplinary awareness to disciplinary confidence. 1.The Normative Analysis of the Ought-to-be Level The research of contemporary Chinese Marxist theory has been affected by the guiding thought, ideology, the system property and the political system. It was under the effectiveness of the guiding thought of Marxist theory, the ideology of socialism, the socialist system with Chinese characters and the leadership system of the Chinese communist party, the Marxist theory had stood out from the previous second disciplines that subordinated to political science, and went up to the first-level discipline. From the day the first-level-discipline was set, the Marxist theory discipline has possessed with distinct and clear function positioning: being responsible for spreading, promoting the production ideology[1]. This research demonstration stays in an abstract Spekulation level, unable to concentrate on the specific issues of empirical facts level, or unable to focus on the empirical facts comprehensively on account of selecting topic ideologically. As for the normative analysis of the ought-to-be level, Although it is possible to instantaneously concentrate on demonstration over ideology, it still appears to be hollow and thin due to lack of strong problem concern. In the research of Marxist theory, the specification over realistic ideological level often needs historical, vertical and classical writers theory tracing, to grab a certain normative judgement from the realistic level with historical review, teasing out the classical discourse of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Zedong Mao etc., and analyzing the internal logic between different historical periods, different time backgrounds and different discussing subjects.The normative analysis regarding the ought-to-be level will certainly be helpful to proceed with historical review and conclusion for the realistic ideology from the knowledge structure level of the whole Marxist theory system, and will also be contribute to the proceed theoretical promotion over the ideology from the integrated dimension of the Marxist theory, therefore will help to guarantee the coherence and theoretical property of ideological discourse from the level of consistency between history and logic. The biggest shortcoming of such a normative analysis is that it often provides theoretical supports for "reality" by "tracing back history", which means to "attach" the ideology of realistic level to discourse expressions of classical Marxist writers to realize the "discipline awareness" of Marxist theory[2]. The normative analysis of the ought-to-be level is not a barrier and stumbling block to the 19 Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 237 3rd International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2018)


A distributed file system should appear to the user as a traditional file system. The user can create files, delete them, open and read files, write data etc. . . all without need to concern herself with the underlining implementation. Under the hood, the distributed file system usually resides on several servers, which provide load balancing and fault tolerance. There two extremes of distributed file systems schemes:


Six compounds were isolated from the ethanol extract of Cleidion brevipetiolatum for the first time.The compounds were identified as benzyl-1-O-β-D-glucopyranoside(1),chavicol-1-O-β-D-glucopyranoside(2),3,4,5-trimethoxyphenol(3),3,4,5-trimethoxyphenol-1-O-β-D-glucopyranoside(4),β-sitosterol(5),daucosterol(6).


Based on previous studies deriving the chiral Lagrangian for pseudoscalar mesons from the first principle of QCD, we derive an electroweak chiral Lagrangian and build up a formulation for computing its coefficients from a one-doublet technicolor model and a schematic topcolor-assisted technicolor model. We find that coefficients of the electroweak chiral Lagrangian for the topcolor-assisted technicolor model are divided into three parts: direct TC2 interaction part, TC1 and TC2 induced effective Z{sup '} particle contribution part, and ordinary quarks contribution part. The first two parts are computed in this paper. We show that the direct TC2 interaction part is the same as that in the one-doublet technicolor model, while effective Z{sup '} contributions are at least proportional to the p{sup 2} order parameter {beta}{sub 1} in the electroweak chiral Lagrangian. Typical features of the topcolor-assisted technicolor model are that it only allows positive T and U parameters, the T parameter varies in the range 0{approx}1/(25{alpha}), and the upper bound of T parameter will decrease as long as Z{sup '} mass become large. The S parameter can be either positive or negative depending on whether the Z{sup '} mass is large or small. The Z{sup '} mass is bounded above andmore » the upper bound depends on the value of the T parameter. We obtain the values for all coefficients of the electroweak chiral Lagrangian up to the order of p{sup 4}.« less


BACKGROUND
Cytokines communicate between the cells of the immune system and its targets to maintain homeostasis after injury or pathogenic events. They are involved in almost any pathological situation imaginable.

OBJECTIVE
To verify the importance of cytokines as biomarkers in current preclinical (aetiopathogenic, development of new therapies) and clinical studies (diagnosis, disease severity, prognosis and response to therapy).

METHOD/RESULTS
A Medline search with the query 'cytokine' AND 'biomarker' AND a variable for a variety of biomedical fields, followed by deeper-level searches, demonstrated the immense popularity of cytokines as biomarkers in almost any biomedical field.

CONCLUSION
As cytokines are not disease-specific they do not serve as single diagnostic biomarkers. The strength of the cytokines resides in monitoring disease severity, prognosis and response to treatment.


In this paper, we consider the problem of cooperative sensing via a system of multi-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where each UAV is equipped with a directional antenna to cooperatively perform detection tasks for several targets of interest. To measure the perception ability of the system, we choose the detection probability as the metric, aiming to maximize the sum detection probability of targets by jointly optimizing UAVs' deployment and directional antenna orientations. To tackle the inherent nonconvexity of the formulated problem, we first decompose it into two sub-problems, i.e., a slave problem for optimizing the antenna orientations with a given UAVs' deployment, and a master problem for optimizing the UAVs' deployment. By virtue of the slave problem structure, an efficient block coordinate descent (BCD) algorithm is developed. Meanwhile, to deal with the lack of the closed expression of the sum detection probability with respect to the UAVs' deployment, we further develop an iterative algorithm to acquire an efficient solution with the aid of Gibbs Sampling (GS) approach. Extensive simulations demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed algorithm.


Summary.

It is demonstrated experimentally that quadratic metrics apply in the component structures with intensity and surface area dimensions of the haptic type of perception.


Virtual Enterprise (VE) is an enterprise schema of collaboration over enterprises, so the application integration between enterprises is one of the key problems in building VE. Due to the deficiency such as complexity, strong coupling and maintaining difficultly in traditional VE integrated solution, the advantage of building VE based on Web Services and UDDI tech suite is analyzed. For the purpose of environment irrespectively,integrating initiatively and maintaining easily,a corresponding VE solution model is put forward.


We consider a multiphoton Bell-type inequality to study nonlocality in four-mode continuous variable systems, which goes beyond two-photon states and can be applied to mixed as well as states with fluctuating photon number. We apply the inequality to a wide variety of states such as pure and mixed Gaussian states (including squeezed thermal states) and non-Gaussian states. We consider beam splitters as a model for leakage and show that the inequality is able to detect nonclassicality of noisy Gaussian states as well. Finally, we investigate nonlocality in pair-coherent states and entangled coherent states, which are prominent examples of nonclassical, non-Gaussian states.


7,8‐Dimethoxy‐3‐methylalloxazine was immobilized on mesoporous silica (MCM‐41) to provide a heterogenized flavin photocatalyst. Thus, the prepared heterogeneous catalyst 2 was found to sensitize the visible light [2+2] cycloaddition of various types of dienes to produce corresponding cyclobutanes in high yields and diastereoselectivities. Use of 2 enables procedures which are advantageous owing to simple operation and workup, no additives required, and minimum waste generation.


In an indoor environment, such outdoor positioning technology as GPS may have the phenomena of weak signal strength and poor availability due to construction blocking. As a result, the application of Zigbee wireless sensor network becomes a hotspot of the indoor position research at present. Specifically, the received signal strength of the nodes in Zigbee network can be used for providing location-based service, and then the fingerprint database position algorithm can be used for estimating user location on the basis of the experimental environment analysis. In order to improve position accuracy, the particle filter technology is combined with the fingerprint database position algorithm for improving the performance of the position system. The experiment shows that the optimized position algorithm can not only control the mean position error within 1.61m to improve the position accuracy, but also has simple operation and great feasibility.


407 Background: Activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ALK1) is a novel target in angiogenesis involved in blood vessel maturation and stabilization. Concurrent targeting of ALK1 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling results in dual angiogenic blockade and augmented inhibition of tumor growth in RCC xenograft models. Dalantercept (Dal) is an ALK1 receptor-fusion protein that acts as a ligand trap and has demonstrated monotherapy activity with an acceptable safety profile in a completed phase I study. Methods: Part 1 of this study evaluated the safety, tolerability, and preliminary activity of escalating dose levels of Dal plus fixed dose axitinib in pts with advanced RCC. 3-6 pts each received Dal (0.6, 0.9, or 1.2 mg/kg) SC Q3W and axitinib 5 mg PO BID. Key eligibility: predominantly clear cell RCC, 1 prior VEGFR TKI, ≤3 prior tx. Results: As of September 12, 2014, 29 pts were enrolled in three cohorts (n=6, 9, 14) at dose levels of 0.6, 0.9 and 1.2 mg/kg, respectively. At the 1.2 mg/kg dose l...


The present study deals with a slot fluid jet impinging onto an electrically heated circular cylinder in water. The continuous and synthetic jets were tested. The slot nozzle width was 0.36 mm, the cylinder diameter was 1.2 mm, and the cylinder-to-nozzle spacing, related to the slot width, was 5–21. The Reynolds numbers based on the nozzle width ranged 35– 170. The Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) visualization revealed a dominant flow separation occurring on the windward cylinder side for both continuous and synthetic jets. The flow around the leeward cylinder side is completely absent. It is attributed to the effects of the mini scale and low Reynolds numbers. An increase of the Reynolds numbers changes flow pattern from a steady jet-flow separation to a vortex shedding wake-flow regime. Heat transfer experiments were validated in a natural convection regime. An enhancement of average Nusselt numbers by 4.2–6.2 times by means of the synthetic jets was quantified by comparison with the natural convection regime. A correlation for the average Nusselt number was proposed for both continuous and synthetic jets. INTRODUCTION Submerged impinging jets (IJs) and impingement heat transfer on exposed walls have been widely studied in the past. The most important early results were collected by Dyban and Mazur [1] and Martin [2]. Since then, several comprehensive reviews have appeared, e.g. [3, 4]. A majority of the IJ studies focused on jets impinging onto flat surfaces. A markedly smaller amount of the studies deals with slot jets impinging onto a cylinder. If a small cylinder is submerged into the potential core of a jet, the task can resemble a circular cylinder in a uniform cross flow – e.g. [5, 6]. If the cylinder diameter ( D) is comparable with the slot width ( B), a complex task occurs. A majority of available experimental studies are focused on Reynolds numbers of ReD >10 3 (where ReD is defined as ReD = UD/ν, where U is the nozzle-exit mean velocity, and ν is the kinematic viscosity of the working fluid). Only very few studies investigated slot jets impinging on circular cylinders at low Reynolds numbers ( ReD < 10 ), [7–9]. McDaniel and Webb [7] measured an average heat transfer in air at following parameters: D = 12.7 mm, B/D = 0.5–1.52, H/B = 1–11 (where H is the cylinder-to-nozzle spacing), and ReD = 600–8 000. Three cases were distinguished, depending on positions of cylinders in jets: (A) Cylinder fully submerged into the jet potential core with relatively low heat transfer. (B) Cylinder located near the tip of the potential core. Heat transfer is enhanced because the shear layers generate high turbulence. The maximum heat transfer was found at the optimum value of H/B = 2–4. The average heat transfer coefficient is higher when compared to an infinite uniform cross-flow. (C) Cylinder positioned downstream of the potential core. A decay of the streamwise velocity there causes a gradual decrease of the heat transfer coefficient. Note that these three flow field types (A, B, C) with the optimum at H/B = 2–4 are linked with relatively large orifices at B/D = 0.5–1.52 [7]. If the orifices are relatively smaller, McDaniel and Webb [7] speculated about another scenario: the average heat transfer coefficient is likely to be reduced. Two reasons of that reduction were suggested: the side portions of the cylinder can be outside the turbulent jet shear layers and the jet flow cannot reach a leeward side of a large cylinder.


An intelligence Indirect Vector Control (IVC) of a Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) by using a five-level inverter with space vector modulation (5L-SVM) strategy is proposed in this article. The novelty of the proposed intelligence strategy is an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), which is utilised for the IVC command of the DFIG. In this research, ANN has been replaced with the hysteresis comparators of the 5L-SVM technique. The backpropagation process is used for the training process of the ANN. By using the ANN outputs, the SVM-ANN strategy develops command pulses for the five-level inverter. Subsequently, the proposed intelligence strategy is implemented in the MATLAB/Simulink platform and the effectiveness is analysed by comparing different tests. The simulation and comparison results have demonstrated the superiority of the proposed approach and confirmed the potential of the proposed system for solving the problem.


This paper questions the effectiveness of Article 17 of the Commercial Agent (Council Directive) Regulation 1993 (hereafter referred to as Article 17), which aims to benefit the commercial agent by forcing the principal to make a mandatory end payment to the agent on termination of the contract. It is argued that Article 17 is useless and should be abolished for two reasons. Firstly, Article 17 cannot make the agent better off, because the principal can pass on the compliance cost of Article 17 to the agent by lowering the commission. Secondly, Article 17 prohibits the parties from using contractual arrangements to overcome the information problem. Consequently, both the principal and the agent are made worse off. The paper proceeds as follows. Section 2 briefly reviews the provisions in Article 17. Sections 3 and 4 show respectively why Article 17 cannot benefit the agent, and how it harms both the principal and the agent. Finally, Section 5 concludes the discussion.


This study examines if geographical variation in the dominant religion of a firm's location is associated with its ownership structures. We contrast two Christian faiths, Protestantism and Catholicism, which—despite theological similarities—have been associated with contrasting preferences for autonomy and reliance on trust. We address identification challenges by combining evidence from panel regressions, geographical regression discontinuity design, and instrumental variable estimation. We find that the local strength of Protestantism reduces ownership concentration. A subsequent analysis suggests that the local strength of Protestantism directly affects blockholder ownership, whereas the effect on shareholding size and insider ownership is indirect through trust.


There is, in Sarajevo, a man who comes out into the streets each day and plays his cello on the sidewalk. He does this at the same time each day, no matter how much shooting or shelling is going on, no matter how great the danger to himself. He describes himself as having decided to take a stand for beauty in the face of horror. Can the rational choice paradigm, as currently practiced in the various disciplines of economics, philosophy, political science, and law, offer an account of this man's decision and his behavior? This admirable man seems to be a rebuke to the philosophies of calculated self-interest. Can we offer some account of his behavior, without descending into the tautological claim that he did what he did because he wanted to? Can we offer some insight into his wants that will make him intelligible? And not only intelligible, but can we account for him in a way that highlights his admirability, rather than suggesting that he is in some way an aberration, or perhaps even a fool? There is a deep disorder within the human condition. All of the essays in the present volume point to this fact in one way or another. Some characterize the disorder as a conflict between virtue and self-interest. Others point to the dichotomy between the individual and other persons as being the source of the tension between morality and self-interest. Some of the essays attempt to resolve the tension by collapsing the two categories into each other.


This study examined the associations between work stressors and mental health in organizationally employed and self-employed workers, and with the numbers of general practitioner (GP) services used by these two employment groups. The participants were selected from those already taking part in the PATH Through Life Project, in Australia. A total of 2275 men and women aged from 40 to 44 years participated in a community survey and were in the labour force at the time of the interview. Those who participated entered responses into a hand-held computer under the supervision of an interviewer. A total of 14.2% of the group identified themselves as self-employed. Respondents also provided details of their occupation and the extent to which they experienced work stressors. Some 72.6% of these participants gave consent for information on their use of GP services over a 12-month period to be obtained from national insurance records. We found that self-employed men and women reported more decision authority than the organizationally employed, while self-employed women also had more manageable job demands. Self-employment offered men no health benefit. However, women who were self-employed reported worse physical health than their organizationally employed counterparts. While work stress factors were most likely to be associated with the use of GP services by self-employed men, the use of those services by women was more strongly associated with their experiences of stress in organizational employment. Overall, self-employment was found to be associated with relatively few mental health benefits.


Radio bromine Don C. De Vault and W. F. Libby1 and E. Segre, R. S. Halford and G. T. Seaborg• have shown that the 4·5-hr. radiobromine transforms into the 18-min. isotope which is [3-active, by the emission of softy-rays. Le Roux, Lu and Sugden3 find that this is the method of disintegration of at least 90 per cent of 4 ·5-hr. radiobromine. Segre, Halford and Seaborg2 predicted that the y-rays would be soft, and a large proportion would be internally converted. These considerations are in agreement with observations made in a Wilson chamber of the disintegration of 4·5-hr. radiobromine. Measurement of tracks starting from thin foils which had been activated with radiobromine, and from active ethyl bromide introduced as a vapour into the chamber, show homogeneous energy groups of electrons due to the K and L conversion of this y-ray, superimposed on a background of the continuous [3-ray spectrum of the [3-active isotope. In those experiments in which tracks start in the gas of the chamber, half the electrons produced by the internal conversion of the y-rays in the K level are accompanied by short tracks starting from the same atom and due to the Auger conversion of the K X-rays of bromine. The existence of these X-rays was reported by Philip Abelson at the December meeting of the American Physical Society at Los Angeles. The Auger electrons accompanying L conversion would not be observed. These experiments show that the y-rays have an energy of 43,000 electron volts. The coefficient of internal conversion in the K shell is of the order of 0 · 30, and that in the L shell much smaller. Since Le Roux, Lu and Sugden effected a 90 per cent separation of the isotopes, the loosening of the bond discussed by Segre, Halford and Seaborg must be due to this low-energy y-ray alone. In even so brief a summary as this, I would like to make twofold acknowledgments. For advice and discussion on the physical side I must thank Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, Prof. J. D. Bernal and Dr. L. Simons ; I wish also to thank Prof. S. Sugden for help and advice, especially on chemical matters.


Abstract : This report presents the results of the IAS Architecture definition process for the mid-term (1984-88). The mid-term definition process was directed toward the definition of an overall top-down system architecture and the definition of new system elements required to support this architecture.


When I was a middle schooler in Virginia, I was (in my mind) a serious comic book collector. I had the protective sleeves, the comic-shaped storage boxes, and the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. I was also lucky enough to have a father who could be persuaded to take me to comic book shops and conventions and patiently wait while I ferreted out yellowing copies of Tales from the Crypt, or Archie. Occasionally, if I came up with something war-related, like the superlative Charley's War, he would read it too. My dad had his own obsessions – when he was a boy he loved the Teddy Lester series of Edwardian school stories by John Finnemore. These disappeared when he left home, and he subsequently spent fifteen years on a global quest to replace them. He was so delighted when the internet arrived and I found the last one – Teddy Lester, Captain of Cricket – lurking in a bookshop on South Island, New Zealand. My dad's lifelong passions for history and warfare fueled his legendary work ethic through good times, as when we took trips and he was able to hit the double jackpot of a battlefield with a good bookshop nearby, and bad times, when he suffered a great deal of pain and difficulty through the twenty years that he was ill. There are no words to express my admiration for his strength of character; for his courage and perseverance, and for his unfailing efforts to keep his sense of humor, keep working, and remain creative. All he wanted was to produce the best work that he could, and for it to continue to be of use. One of his most frequently uttered phrases was 'I'm just finishing this sentence', usually as we were waiting to leave the house to go somewhere. This Symposium, and the tributes and kind messages that my mother and I have received this year, are wonderful proof that his unstinting efforts were appreciated, and will go on.


Log concentration-response (LCR) data on glucose release from rabbit liver slices by l -isoproterenol (ISO), l -epinephrine (EPI) and l -norepinephrine (NE) produced an order of potency of ISO > EPI > NE (42:8:1) and ED50 values of 5.9 x 10 -8 M (ISO), 3.2 x 10 -7 M (EPI), and 2.5 x 10 -6 M (NE). Phentolamine, an alpha adrenergic blocking agent, at 1 x 10 -4 M did not alter the EPI LCR curve. Propranolol (P) at 1 x 10 -7 and 1 x 10 -6 M caused parallel shifts to the right of the LCR curves of both ISO and NE, an indication of competitive antagonism. Since the shifts to the right of the LCR curves of ISO and NE with a 10-fold increase in P were 0.5 to 0.6 log unit, rather than 1.0 log unit, the interactions of P and the catecholamines with the receptor sites do not appear to be simple competitive interactions of one molecule of P and one molecule of a catecholamine with one receptor site. Although data for the hyperglycemic potencies of catecholamines in intact rabbits suggest that the adrenergic receptors of the rabbit liver were quite unusual, this study of rabbit liver slices indicates that these receptors are indeed a type of beta adrenergic receptor, but the interaction of this receptor with a catecholamine and P appears complex.


Hypertension is one of the most prevalent risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. The first line of treatment for hypertension is dietary changes including a reduction of salt and calorie intake, doing more physical exercise, and obtaining weight loss. Crosssectional and longitudinal epidemiological studies have shown that blood pressure and hypertension are increased significantly with greater body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in normal-weight, overweight and obese men and women, and baseline overweight as well as obesity are reported to be an important risk factor for hypertension. Several longitudinal studies relate hypertension to changes in BMI or adiposity over time. Given the association between long-term weight gain and hypertension risk, cohort studies on the association between baseline obesity and incident hypertension have a statistical problem because fixed baseline BMI cannot account for any change in BMI during the observation period . Obese individuals with metabolic risk factors may make an effort to reduce their body weight because obesity is well known to be unhealthy, as is the concept of metabolic syndrome . Few studies demonstrated that a higher baseline BMI is still associated with a higher risk of hypertension, even if the baseline BMI remained stable during the follow-up period . A study reported that the odds for hypertension were significantly related to BMI at followup when adjusted for baseline BMI, but generally not to baseline BMI when adjusted for follow-up BMI. Another very long time follow-up study reported that men of normal weight at age 25 years who became overweight or obese at age 45 years were at increased risk compared with men of normal weight at both times, but not men who were overweight or obese at age 25 years who returned to normal weight at age 45 years. The aims of the present 5-year follow-up study are to investigate the associations between baseline BMI, WC and percent body fat (PBI) as well as changes in them during follow-up and incident hypertension in a health screening population.


Frequency noise in single-frequency high-gain phosphate fiber lasers is investigated theoretically and experimentally. An analytical expression relating the pump fluctuations to the laser frequency noise is established and verified by a homemade single-frequency phosphate fiber laser. The theoretical and experimental results indicate that the frequency noise of the output laser can be reduced by lowering the intensity noise of pump source. This will help improving the laser performance and progress the wide application of this type of fiber laser.


In response to an area of need expressed by ConnDOT's Commissioner, this project has endeavored to identify decision support tools that would have a high probability of being useful within ConnDOT. The project began with a broad-based review of decision support systems, and then focused on one category of these systems -- that dealing with alternative evaluation and decision analysis. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and decision and risk analysis (D&RA) are the two techniques within that category that appear to be most appropriate for ConnDOT. In addition to summarizing the findings regarding the various decision support techniques, this report includes a description of five stages of interactions between the principal investigators and ConnDOT personnel. These interactions have had a strong effect on the direction the project has taken. As of the writing of this report, work continues on a follow-on project involving the application of MCDM to the problem of choosing amongst pavement marking alternatives. The follow-on project also calls for identification of other potential applications of MCDM and D&RA within ConnDOT.


A new method is proposed in this paper to recognize and code river network of watershed.This method,based on water tank theory,can deal with billabong grids existed in the DEM as follows.Firstly,billabong grids are defined,billabong area is searched,billabong volume is calculated,the export grid of the billabong area is searched and billabong grid flow direction is certified based on water tank.Then,we unite the neighbor billabong grid to search the export grid again.Lastly,the volume of grids is calculated and river network is recognized and coded.This method is applied to Jiangjia Ravine for extracting the completed river network.The delineated river network from DEM matches the measured one well,which shows that it is feasible to extract river network with this method,and it can give help to the future study on the distributed model of hydrology,debris flow or environment modeling.


Optimum loading paths for successful tube hydroforming processes have been studied by several researchers. In this paper, an adaptive, heuristic, nonlinear mathematical model (AHNM) was proposed to optimize the loading path of a hydroforming process through adaptive minimization of the internal pressure and axial load of the process. Firstly, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was used to analyse the hydroforming process where several features of the process were extracted from the FEA for further analyses of the relations among them. To capture these relations and include them in the AHNM, the paper examined several Machine Learning algorithms including Multiple Linear Regression, Multiple Ridge Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest. The Multiple Ridge Regression was found to give the highest accuracy to efficiently linear modelling the inputs and outputs of the FEA of the hydroforming process. The AHNM model was implemented, solved, and optimized using several steps of tee protrusion height that create several loading paths. It was found that increasing the number of steps and starting with small increment leads to minimizing the system requirements.


This paper presents the main features of the ROV Minesniper MkII system developed by Kongsberg ASA. The mission task is to reach and destroy a mine. An overview of the vehicle design is provided along with a description of the major hardware components and sensor system. Also included is the vehicle model and the control system which at present time consists of a passive nonlinear observer and PID controllers. Experimental results show robustness in the control system in the presence of disturbance. The main focus has been on robustness in the navigation system. Therefore, a modified line-of-sight navigation system is utilized which has shown to provide satisfactory results. The key feature of this method is that by shortening the LOS vector more accurate navigation is possible. This method is used for both heading and pitch control. Results from full scale tests and simulation are presented.


Procedural content generation is a technique used to produce a wide range of computer-generated content in many industries today, the video game industry in particular. This study focuses on how pr ...


Because of the drawback of traditional automatic control systems,the system of intelligent monitor and control for drip irrigation field was designed and applied.This system consists of the networks among these subsystems such as data collection subsystem,decision support subsystem and automatic control subsystem.Its intellectualized decision system was based on the soil moisture content suitable for the growing crop and crop water stress index(CWSI) and the models of crop growth and the reference evapotranspirations(ET0) calculated by the Penman-Monteith.Therefore,through the global system for mobile communication(GSM) and frequency shifting keying(FSK),the functions of data collection and intellectualized decision and control have been realized.Nowadays the system has been applied to the 70 hm2 cotton field at Farm 111 and run very well in Xinjiang.


Lessons Learned: Parental Experience of Empathy and Power Rhonda Ann Crawford Masters Thesis 2010 School of Social Work McMaster University The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of parents receiving child protection intervention. Taking a service user approach to the research, the purpose of the study was to consider the perspectives of service users to learn what could be included in child protection training programs to better prepare new child protection workers for their work with children and families. As a secondary analysis of a qualitative study five interview transcripts were included in the analysis of the research. Findings of this study afftrm previous research that highlight the significance of a worker communicating empathy to a parent receiving child protection intervention. Furthermore, the link between empathy and power and the impact of such on the relationship between a worker and client is a central theme of analysis. Finally, the value of service user theory as an approach to conducting research is validated as a finding of the study. Implications of this study are considered for child protection workers, the development of child protection training curriculum and its facilitation, child protection agencies, and researchers.


The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of a low-density two-dimensional electron gas exhibits multiple peaks originating from neutral and charged excitons (trions). Without magnetic field only the singlet state of the trion (one hole bound to two electrons with opposite spin) is bound, whereas in finite fields also triplet states (parallel electron spins) appear [1]. Theory predicts that in the limit of high magnetic fields the triplet state becomes the ground state of the trion [2]. We have investigated the magnetic field induced cross-over from the singlet to triplet ground state in a GaAs quantum well (QW).


The invention discloses a time synchronization method and device which are applied to a PTP (precision time protocol) time synchronization network so as to shorten the time spent in switching the communication port states of each device and guarantee the stability of the PTP time synchronization network. The method comprises the following steps: receiving announce messages with GM (game master) identification information by a BC (boundary clock) device; when the GM identification information in announce messages of the elder generation at the present moment is determined to be different from the GM identification information in announce messages of the elder generation at the previous moment, controlling communication ports in a non-Master state at the present moment to switch to a Master state directly; and when the GM identification information carried by the announce messages of the elder generation at the present moment is determined to be same as the GM identification information carried by the announce messages of the elder generation at the previous moment, controlling the ports in the non-Master state to enter into a Pre-master state.


The working principle and the development of key components of a breathing apparatus for forest fire fighting are introduced.The experiment shows that the breathing apparatus can meet the requirements for rescuing lives in forest fires and extinguishing forest fires.


The evolution of the Industrial revolution from 3.0 to 4.0 has transformed the Healthcare environment. Patient Electronic Health Records (EHR) are shared with medical research institutes for clinical research and to manage national disease outbreaks. Healthcare systems implementing centralized machine learning models risk cyberattacks exposing private patient data. Blockchain-based data storage systems enable data security of EHR. However, the low transactions/minute of decentralized systems limit the performance of Healthcare systems and increase network bottleneck concerns. In this paper, we propose a Machine Learning based Blockchain architecture for secure Healthcare systems to preserve patient data privacy using Federated Learning and address Blockchain bottleneck issues by adding sidechains for processing growing transaction requests. A local model using machine learning trains data locally in hospitals and uploads it via Smart Contracts to the Public Healthcare System for global model training. Sidechains enable increased processing speed of Smart Contracts reducing congestions in the network and increasing the transactions per second in the mainchain.


*Correspondence to: Dr P. Marchetti, University of L'Aquila, Department of Experimental Medicine, Via Vetoio, Coppito II, L'Aquila 67100, Italy. Tel: +39-0862-368523; Fax: +39-0862-433523; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Department of Experimental Medicine, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila; Divisions of Oncologic Surgery and Pathology and Cytology, S. Salvatore Hospital, L'Aquila; Department of Oncology and Neurosciences, University 'G. D. Annunzio', Chieti, Italy


The invention discloses a process for preparing ammonia by utilizing calcium oxide. The process is simple, has low investment, is energy-saving and is very suitable for enterprises which need to be supplied with a small amount of ammonia. The ammonia can be prepared by respectively adopting a feeding and cutting process and a continuous process.


The application of CRSN (Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks) can alleviate the shortage of spectrum resources. As one of the core technologies of WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks), routing algorithm is important to the overall performance of the network. Therefore, a cognitive clustering routing algorithm for Heterogeneous WSNs is proposed. The algorithm is suitable for cooperative communication networks between cognitive sensor nodes and common sensor nodes. Selecting a cluster head according to the number of idle channels and the residual energy of the node. Protect low-energy nodes and make full use of high-energy nodes by setting double energy thresholds. The concept of node edge degree is applied to improve the probability of cluster selection. A new clustering mechanism is introduced according to the node location. Compared to the original algorithm, the improved algorithm of the original algorithm, and the existing routing algorithm for CRSN, the simulation results show that the network life cycle and the data transmission amount is significantly increased.


Two different kinds of one-dimentional nanoscale Y2O3:Eu3 +were prepared via electrospinning followed by calcinations.Water and N,N-dimethylformamide(DMF) were respectively selected to dissolve poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) and rare earth nitrates.The structure and morphology of the obtained samples were characterized by thermogravimetric analysis,field emission scanning electron microscopy,fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,and X-ray diffraction.The photoluminescence(PL)spectroscopy was employed to study their luminescent properties.The results indicated that Y2O3:Eu3 +nanobelts were obtained with deionized H2 O as the solvent,and a possible formation mechanism for the nanofibers was proposed.When DMF was used as solvent,the obtained Y2O3:Eu3 +before and after calcination was nanofiber-like.After 800 ℃ calcinations,both samples were well crystallized and had cubic Y2O3 phase.Furthermore,the PL emission intensity of Y2O3:Eu3 +nanofibers were about twice higher than those of nanobelts.


Abstract A new way to explore the conformation and dynamics of medium-sized molecules in solution has been recently proposed. This powerful quantitative approach is based on the use of a strong off-resonance spin-lock pulse for the mixing period of the classical ROESY scheme. Here several improvements of the method are presented, resulting in an increase of sensitivity and the elimination of undesirable peak distortions. In the last section, several techniques for improving the suppression of water signal are discussed.


The aim of this paper is simulation of multiple-channel adaptive vibration control of a clamped elastic plate with PZT sensors/actuators using hybrid algorithm. Finite element method is used for plate modelling. In the presented model, mass and stiffness of the PZT patches are considered. Transfer functions between exciting input and reference sensor, error sensors and reference sensor, actuators and reference sensor and also between actuators and error sensors have been determined by harmonic analysis via FE model. These transfer functions have been determined as IIR filters in z-domain. Off-line identification of secondary paths (from actuators to error sensors) and feedback paths (from actuators to reference sensor) have been carried out by using adaptive FXLMS identification method. Finally, for SingleInput-Multi-Output (SIMO) smart plate, the hybrid active vibration control is simulated and performance of the controller for globally vibration suppression is studied. The performance of the hybrid and feedforward controllers is compared. Obtained results indicate that the efficiency of the controller is dependent to the places of error sensors and actuators and frequency content of the exciting force.


Android is a mobile device on the operating system for mobile phones based on Linux, android provides an open platform for developers to create applications. Android-based application developers make applications so that they can be useful for the community ranging from game genre applications, education, entertainment and simulation applications that are very likely to be created and run on this android operating system. Simulation is the process of designing a matemastis or logical model of a real system, conducting experiments on models using computers to describe, explain and predict system behavior. For a simulation application company can be used as a medium of product promotion, while for smartphone users can help to channel the existing imagination into a real picture. The application of simulation applications many functions, one example of its application to two-wheeled motor vehicles. By utilizing android application and the growth of vehicle users that lead to the hobby of modification, it can be utilized by creating an android-based coloring simulation application to help modifiers and modification lovers in order to channel their imagination and make it easier to design colors as desired. Without having to bother using design software that requires special skills


The main goal of this paper concern the central economies urban spaces issues on the capitalism contemporaneity. First of all, we related the historic potentiality of this social phenomenon in terms of the human existence and contrasting subsequently with the growing capital's appropriation in the last 250 years. The article also reviews this social phenomenon, the capitalist city, under the three main scientific and technological revolutions in the capitalism history. In the third part we face the main reflections by some of the great bourgeoisie's intellectuals with the capital city and his urban barbarity process. Lastly, this paper ends by showing our conclusions and indicates a need for reflections that can articulate public policies, different analyze scales and insurgent planning on his urban citizenship interaction.


The latest tendencies of modern linguistics have been discussed. In particular, the German dialectology development has been considered. The results of the discussion may contribute to studies of the oral forms of language, as well as to new linguistic approaches and methods.


Organomodified bentonites were obtained by modification of bentonite clay
 from local mine Bogovina with four different alkylammonium ions in the
 amounts that correspond to cation exchange capacity. Carbonized bentonites,
 obtained by pyrolyzing the organomodified bentonites in the flow of
 nitrogen, were characterized using the XRD, low-temperature N2
 physisorption, and Raman spectroscopy. Structural and textural properties of
 carbonized bentonites depended on the arrangement of alkylammonium cations
 in the paternal organomodified bentonite, while the Raman spectroscopy
 confirmed the presence of amorphous carbon. The obtained carbonized
 bentonites were used for modification of the carbon paste electrode. The
 modified electrodes were investigated using cyclic voltammetry and
 electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The electrosorption of chloride and
 sulfate anions on carbonized bentonites was studied by chronocoulometry. The
 results were interpreted in the terms of surface groups and textural
 properties of the carbonized bentonites.


The local structure around the Ni atom has been studied by EXAFS and XANES spectroscopy in NiO-Moo3 Zeolite supported catalyst. Coordination, geometry and degree of dispersion of the NiO component has been determined for different concentrations of the active component.


This article reviews the notion of accountability as an intrinsic experience in daily organizational life and contrasts it with the more traditional construct of accountability as an external control or monitoring device. The concept of "felt responsibility" can provide an opportunity to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. Both research and the author's field experiences in nonprofit settings suggest how nonprofit leaders and managers can use felt responsibility to help individuals act with accountability to themselves and to others. The concept of "conversation for accountability" poses a pragmatic opportunity for nonprofits in particular to turn the current environment of finger pointing and aggressive monitoring into an enabling organizational practice that benefits both nonprofit members and their clients or constituencies.


The study of the deposits accumulated over time in the first stage of the Montgaudier site, at the level of the two sectors, confirmed that these sediments were non-native and were put in place by runoff. Concretion processes have transformed the sandy sediments from the western part of this filling into a sandy bank. The detailed granulometric analyzes of these deposits have made it possible to establish the palaeoclimatic factors, rather temperate and humid, which presided over them. These factors were defined by the shiny bluntness of the quartz grains of these sediments. Finally, the sediment stratigraphy of the two sectors and their correlation with the deposits of the Gaudry shelter allowed the establishment of a relative chronology of this filling.


4640 Background: The prognosis of gastric cancer is dismal once R0 resection is impossible due to local invasion or distant metastasis. Previous studies have suggested the possible efficacy of neoa...


The flowerlike ZnO nanostructures, which consisted of swordlike ZnO nanorods, have been prepared by a cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)-assisted hydrothermal process at low temperature (120 °C). The XRD pattern indicated that the flowerlike ZnO nanostructures were hexagonal. Furthermore, the SAED and HRTEM revealed that the swordlike ZnO nanorods were single crystal in nature and preferentially grew up along [001]. Finally, the mechanism for the CTAB-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of flowerlike ZnO nanostructures has been preliminarily explained by polar crystal growth theory and surfactant action theory.


Microsimulation of travel flows aims to assess the effect of decisions taken by travelers based on personal preferences, time-ofday, properties of the infrastructure and expected or perceived travel flows. Route choice represents a particular class of such decisions. Route choice prediction is an essential component of microsimulators. Specification of choice models and estimation of the corresponding parameters based on observations are required in the preparatory stage. Route choice sets need to be established for sampling in the simulation stage. This paper is part of a research project aiming to investigate how route complexity can be integrated in the choice process modeling. In particular routes for bikers collected by GPS tracking in the Dutch FietsTelWeek project in 2016 are analyzed. The data exploration stage and the research project outline are covered. Properties of the publicly available fietstelweek2016 dataset used for model training are investigated in order to assess their effect on prediction results. In order to achieve the project goal, the research project structure is briefly discussed. It is based on the observation that the number of routes recorded for each OD-pair is too small to observe a frequency distribution for complexity. Hence, complexity data are collected for sub-networks that are similar with respect to particular graph properties. c © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the Conference Program Chairs.