In this paper, we address the issue of extracting contour of the object with a specific shape. A hierarchical graphical model is proposed to represent shape variations. A complex shape is decomposed into several components which are described as principal component analysis (PCA) based models in various levels. The hierarchical representation allows for chain-like conditional dependency within a single level and bidirectional communication between different levels. Additionally, a sequential Monte-Carlo (SMC) based inference algorithm that can explore the graphical structure is proposed to estimate the contour. The experiments performed on real-world hand and face images show that the proposed method is effective in combating occlusion and cluttered background. Moreover, it is possible to isolate the localization error to an individual component of a shape attributed to the hierarchical representation.


A microbe-resistant powder coating composition including an antimicrobial agent is described. The antimicrobial agent is an inorganic bismuth-containing compound, and may be used in conjunction with other bismuth-containing compounds or other biocidal agents or methods.


An ethological description of mother-infant interaction suggests that it was adaptive during human evolution. From their early weeks, infants universally respond to certain affect-laden elements of maternal communication that can be called "proto-aesthetic." I hypothesize that these capacities and receptivities, which evolved from about 1.7 million years ago to enable mother-infant bonding, became a reservoir of affective mechanisms that could be used subsequently by ancestral humans when they first began to "artify"—that is, when they invented the "arts" as vehicles of ceremonial religious experience. The ethological, evolutionary, and cross-cultural foundations of the Artification Hypothesis challenge current influential ideas in cognitive science, evolutionary aesthetics, and neuroaesthetics about human aesthetic capacities and behavior. The hypothesis offers a broader and deeper view to these fields by emphasizing preverbal, presymbolic, pancultural, cross-modal, supra-modal, participative, temporally organized, affective, and affinitive aspects of aesthetic cognition and behavior. It additionally proposes that artifying is an unrecognized but vital evolved component of human nature.


This article discusses the improvement of the human capacity building mechanism in poverty reduction. While economic development on the one hand reduces poverty, on the other hand, an increase in poverty reduces economic development. When people have limited access to health care and education, they become increasingly impoverished, and demand in the economy declines. In turn, the economy cannot meet the need for its highly skilled workers. As a result, growth slows. Opportunities to participate in various sectors of society are also limited. Worst of all, it is many times harder to get out of it than to fall into poverty.


This article is a study in contrasts: it addresses the remarkable disparities in the employment and unemployment experience of two countries that in general show considerable para11elism in political, economic and social features and developments: over much of two decades Portugal has been among the best, Spain the worst, employment performers in Western Europe (1). Employment: During the "decelerated growth" period, which affected the whole of Europe from the mid-1970s, the Spanish economy lost a fifth of a11jobs in the first ten years and then during the cyclical upswing regained them, ending up with a practica11y unchanged number of peopIe in employment; by contrast, in the European Community (EC) as a whole, employment grew margina11y during the same period; in even sharper contrast, Portugal increased its employment by about a quarter.


Robinson, D. E., McNaughton, K. E. and Bilyea, D. 2013. Comparison of sequential preemergence-postemergence and postemergence-alone weed management strategies during critical period of red beet ( Beta vulgaris L.). Can. J. Plant Sci. 93: 863-870. Weed management during the first 4 wk after red beet emergence is critical to prevent yield loss. The purpose of this research was to compare weed control and red beet tolerance of postemergence (POST) treatments alone (full, split- and micro-rates of pyrazon plus triflusulfuron) with sequential preemergence (PRE) applications of s-metolachlor followed by these POST herbicide treatments. The experiment was carried out for 4 yr as a randomized complete block with four replications. Of the POST alone treatments examined, control of velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti Medik.), redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus L.), common lambsquarters (Chenopodium album L.) and green foxtail [Setaria viridis L. (Beauv.)] was 98, 86, 97 and 62%, respectively. Much more consistent control of all species (i.e., greater than 96%) was measured where the sequential treatment of s-metolachlor was applied PRE followed by POST split- or micro-rates in all study years. Red beet density and soluble solid levels were not different than the weed-free check in any of the POST or sequential treatments. However, red beet yield in the POST single and split-rate treatments alone ranged from 9500 to 12100 kg ha-1, and was significantly less than in the weed-free check (19400 kg ha-1). Yields in the sequential treatments were comparable to the weed-free check. The results of this study confirm that a sequential treatment of PRE s-metolachlor followed by POST split- and micro-rate applications of pyrazon plus triflusulfuron can be safely applied to red beet and control annual weed species.


This study aimed to promote the physical fitness of the wrestlers. Ten-five wrestlers training in. high school of Daejeon were measured and analyzed for their physical abilities, training capacity, and the maximum power at each part of their muscles. On the basis of this data, the 12-week individual exercise prescription was designed and adapted to the wrestling. In regards to the physical appearance, while the total amount and rate of fat after the adaptation of the prescription showed an increase of 1.2% which was not significant, tile size of muscle, the amount of body fluids and the weight showed a meaningful increase of each 9%, 2%, 11%. Training capacity also increased significantly in that VO 2max increased 13% and the exercise-duration increased 7% and the intensive exercise-duration(AT) increased 3%. However, there was a difference in the intensive-duration between high school students because while the high school students showed the increas in the maximum power of each part of the muscles, a balanced development was shown in the whole parts of the body. Especially, the upper body gained the most significant power of an 18 % increase(p<.05) and the power of the lower body increased 13%(p<.05). Plus, as compared to the increasing rate of the whole body power of high school students.


A dynamic 3D structural model is used to simulate the structural growth stages of a Scots pine canopy from age 5 to 50 years. The 3D structural output of the model agrees with observed measures of Scots pine canopy structure. Needles are added to the structural model according to measured density and phyllotaxy (distribution). The 3D structural models are used to drive both optical and microwave models of canopy radiometric response. Simulated canopy radiometric response is compared with airborne hyperspectral reflectance data (HyMAP) and airborne synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) backscatter data, recorded during the SAR and Hyperspectral Airborne Campaign (SHAC) conducted over the UK during 2000. Simulations are shown to agree well in general with observations. This method is shown to be suitable for exploring the impact of canopy structure on the measured remotely sensed signal.


We present a novel algorithm for dynamic adaptive triangulation of spline surfaces. The algorithm is dynamic because it adjusts the level of detail of the triangulation at each frame. It is adaptive because it samples each surface patch more densely in regions of high curvature and less densely in regions of low curvature. The two have not been combined before. Our algorithm pre-computes a prioritized list of important samples on the surface. At rendering time, it adds these points in the specified order to the triangulation. Once the pre-computed points are exhausted and even more detail is required on some region of the patch, additional samples, now uniformly spaced, are added to the triangulation. The algorithm works well in practice and has a low memory footprint. CR


The connecting rod is extremely important for an engine.For operating in special conditions,it has to be in high rigidity and strength.This paper is to have a static and mode analysis by I-DEAS based on the 490QBZL diesel so as to find the defects of structural strength in connecting rod.It provides theoretical evidences for design of optimization in connecting rod.


Sistem Pinjaman Anggota Koperasi Pegawai-pegawai Kerajaan Negeri Perlis Secara Atas Talian (SPKOOP) is a web based computerized information management system. This system is developed to assist users, which are the members of Koperasi Pegawai-pegawai Kerajaan Negeri Perlis(KPKNPs) to apply loans. This system also allows users to be acquainted with their loan application status. Moreover, the administrator can easily verify the loan applications because this system assist in determining the loan application status. The methodology used to develop the SPKOOP is the evolutionary prototype. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is utilized in the development of the system's graphical user interface and MySQL is the software used to develop the database.


Buying America From the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights. By Blake A. Watson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 494, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95).The case of Johnson v. McIntosh, decided by the Supreme Court in 1823, is central to an understanding of the tortured history of native property rights. The events which led to the law suit began in 1775 when eleven Piankeshaw chiefs sold two large tracts of land in present-day Illinois to a consortium of private individuals. In 1805 the Piankeshaws ceded much of the same land to the United States in a treaty negotiated by William Henry Harrison. In the subsequent case argued before John Marshall's Supreme Court, attorneys representing the United States claimed that the 1775 private sale was invalid because Indians could not sell lands to private individuals. The justices unanimously agreed; Marshall wrote that Indians did not have the "power to dispose of the soil at their own will, to whomever they pleased" (p.xiii). Into the present day, the case is "the root of title for most real property of the United States" (p.xvi). Blake A. Watson, a former attorney general and now a law professor, strongly criticizes the ruling and the "doctrine of discovery" which informed the decision. To prove his point, the author exhaustively details all aspects of the events leading up to, during, and after the court decision. While other authors have written about this seminal property rights case, Watson argues that his book contributes to the scholarship in two new ways; first, he provides additional historical context, and second, he discusses the role played by the Illinois and Piankeshaw tribes, which is usually ignored.Watson succeeds admirably with his first goal. He thoroughly details not only the events of this specific case, but also issues of land transfer from colonial times to the present. While the end of this book focused on the present day, the majority of this work covers the colonial, revolutionary, and antebellum periods. In each era, he provides extensive biographical information about each person even remotely associated with the case. Outside of the case itself, historians and other scholars will benefit from clearly written history of native relations with Americans during these formative years. Readers will also learn about the doctrine of discovery and how European powers conceptualized native land rights, or, more accurately, lack thereof. Watson details Spanish, French, Dutch, English, and finally American appropriation of native lands. …


During its lifetime a component or a structure is exposed to service loadings, i.e. a cyclic loading with variable amplitudes and in particular with mode I as well as mixed mode overloads. Prediction of fatigue life in case of mixed-mode overloads is more complex than that of mode-I overloads. The objective of this study is to explore the use of an artificial neural network (ANN) model for the prediction of fatigue crack growth rate under interspersed mixed mode (I and II) overload. The crack growth rates as predicted by the ANN method on 7075 T351 aluminum alloy have been compared with the experimental data. It is observed that the predicted results are in good agreement and facilitate determination of residual fatigue life


The explosive development phase of an extratropical cyclone (ETC) is examined using output generated by the fifth-generation PSU‐NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5). A full-physics run of MM5 with 60-km grid spacing was used to simulate the intensive observation period (IOP)-4 storm of 4‐5 January 1989 from the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA). A diagnosis of the simulated ETC is performed using the Zwack‐Okossi (Z‐O) equation to examine the forcing mechanisms influencing development. A secondorder Shapiro filter is used to partition the terms in the Z‐O equation into synoptic-scale and subsynoptic-scale contributions to the near-surface synoptic-scale geostrophic vorticity tendency. Results confirm that previous work using the Z‐O equation at coarser resolutions correctly identified synopticscale processes as the most important cyclone development mechanisms. However, the results also show that both adiabatic and diabatic subsynoptic thermal processes can make important contributions to synoptic-scale ETC development.


Occasional reports have described contralateral displacement of the kidney, gall bladder, or liver by masses, but no ultrasonographic description of this phenomenon has been published. To our knowledge, this is the first report of contralateral displacement of all three structures by an encapsulated, well‐differentiated, low‐grade liposarcoma. The significance to the ultrasonographer lies in the fact that he may be the firt physician, as we were in this case, to have the opportunity to recognize the true anatomical relationships of all three organs and to suggest that this tumor is more likely to be benign or slowly growing rather than a highly infiltrative process.


The usage of UV-LEDs is growing for a variety of applications such as the disinfection of water, the sterilization of medical equipment and the industrial UV curing. It is important that the wavelength and the intensity of radiation needed for the specific application is reliably provided and covers the whole target area evenly distributed.
The individual high precision power supply and control of UV-LEDs is the main application of the eyIC4UV-01 chip. The eyIC4UV-01 is an integrated circuit that can measure the light intensity, temperature, current and forward voltage of a connected UV-LED.


The visualization of cloud data is very important to simulating real scenarios.Due to the limited performances of PC hardware platforms and the continuously increasing requirements of accurate visualizations of cloud data,the visualization research has always been a research hotspot.This paper brings up a new method to present cloud effects via the particle system based on evaluating pos-and-con of previous achievements.It explains the idea of utilizing LOD(Levels of Detail,or LOD)to reduce the computation workloads on CPU and the precision of drawing cloud.This solution cannot only maintain the overall effects,but improve the real-time performance and applicability of the scene.


Background It is not clear which Under the Care Programme Approach, case model ofcase management is most likely to management is advocated as One the cornerstones of community treatment of improve quality of life in people with severe mental illness in the UK. Research severe mental illness. into the benefits and active ingredients of case management has placed great emphaAims To use baseline data derived from sis on the cost-effectiveness of different the UK700 Case Management Trial to models (Holloway, 1991; Burns et al, assess the relative importance of clinical, social and unmet needs variables as predictors ofsubjective quality of life in patients with severe mental illness.


Tuberculosis of the greater trochanteric bursa is a rare condition and is usually secondary to tuberculous osteomyelitis of the greater trochanter. A perusal of the literature substantiates these observations. The early writings on trochanteric bursitis are, for the most part, case reports of inflammatory lesions, without mention of the etiologic agent. It was not until 1904 that the concomitant involvement of the greater trochanter was recognized by Wieting (1), who believed, as did several later writers, that the primary infection is in the trochanter, whence it spreads to the bursa. Clopton (2), Keith (3), and others supported this view and pointed out that, since the greater trochanter develops as an epiphysis, it is as such susceptible to tuberculous infection, which would further establish the probability of primary involvement of the bone and secondary invasion of the bursa. Cone (4) in 1911 and Swindt (5) in 1921 stressed the significance of trauma as an etiologic factor and noted the rarity of tu...


This paper builds upon the discourse on management accountants as 'change agents' and argues that few efforts have been made so far to analyse this new role model in terms of a proper conceptualization of agency. In this paper, we offer such a conceptualization of agency by drawing upon the seminal work of Emirbayer and Mische (1998) who distinguish between three dimensions of agency. On the basis of a field study in an Austrian consumer-goods company, we discuss how these three dimensions are enacted by management accountants in their efforts to identity opportunities for change.


Methods of manufacturing precision progressive die with low accuracy line-cutting machine and no coordinate grinder was introduced.With the method applied in the die struc- ture design and manufacturing process,difficulties were overcome and good result was achieved.


The present invention includes (1) a step of changing a trait of a contaminating cell in a cell population including the target cell and the contaminating cell, and (2) removing the contaminating cell based on the changed trait and / or the purpose. A method of producing a cell population having a high purity of a target cell, the step of collecting cells, a cell population having a high purity of the target cell produced by the method, and a step of culturing the cell population in a sheet form , A method for producing a sheet cell culture, a sheet cell culture containing the cell population, a pharmaceutical composition comprising an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of the cell population and the sheet cell culture, and the cell population And a method of treating a disease in the subject, comprising the step of administering an effective amount of a sheet-shaped cell culture or pharmaceutical composition to the subject in need thereof.


It is shown that the convection reversal boundary is a fundamental parameter of the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, which determines a strong analogy between the electrostatic potential of the ionosphere and the equivalent current function in the dipole geomagnetic field approximation and the uniform ionospheric conductance. We have developed a new ground-based method for automatically diagnosing boundaries of the auroral oval using output data obtained with the magnetogram inversion technique (MIT). Using maps of the current function and field-aligned currents, calculated at the first stage of MIT with uniform ionospheric conductance, we determine the convection reversal boundary, polar cap boundary, equatorial boundary of the auroral oval, and line of maximum density of auroral electrojets. These parameters have previously been determined by a visual-manual method: analyzing maps of field-aligned and equivalent currents on the monitor screen and carrying out predetermined boundaries with the mouse — this took a very long time (weeks and months). The comparison between manually and automatically obtained boundaries has shown that the correlation coefficient between the two boundaries is, on average, 0.85, and the root-mean-square deviation does not exceed 2° in latitude. By providing an adequate accuracy for the boundary determination, the automatic method reduces the time for map processing by a factor of 2–3 (to minutes and hours), releasing a researcher from laborious visual work. The new method is implemented as one of the important modules in the updated MIT software.


The author reflects on psychoanalysis' vocation to contain paradoxes since its origin as a transitional area of knowledge between science and art, and the consequences and repercussions of it on analytic training. The "impossible function" proposed by the Institutes is to support an education able to transit between a knowledge referring to the field of science, meaning that it can be objectively evaluated and presents well-defined and communicable methods and theories; and another knowledge referring to the field of arts, which involves creativity, psychoanalytic insight, a personal transformation that transcends theory and technique, an aesthetic experience. Considering the complexity of this task, some questions that inevitably pervade our Institutes, year after year, regardless of the rules and guidelines contained in our three models, are raised.


Objective: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of health education in diabetes.
Methods: This study investigated 40 diabetic patients treated in a tertiary A hospital from February 2022 to May 2022 through convenient nearby sampling. Eligible patients were evaluated by the general basic information questionnaire, diabetes self-behavior management scale through the number of lectures.
Results: Through the questionnaire survey, it was found that the average self-behavior management score of patients who have been in diabetes care group was 63.3, which was much higher than the 41.3 points for patients without group education. And patients participating in diabetes group education scored higher than those who did not participate in group education in terms of diet, exercise, and foot care.
Conclusion: Group education can improve the self-behavior management ability of diabetic patients.


This computerized web experiment immerses students in an environment where they are in the role of bank managers, complementing existing experiments in which they act as depositors. The experiment is programmed to run on a variety of devices, including student's phones and is suitable for use in intermediate macroeconomics or money and banking courses. Students learn the basic elements of bank balance sheets, the tradeoffs a bank makes when it hedges against liquidity risk, and the macroeconomic implications of the network aspects of the banking system. Key parameters are chosen by the instructor, and all results are saved as a spreadsheet data file. Early trials show that a team's performance is positively correlated with its success in managing interbank deposits.


In 1741, Ferrein" made a significant cont r ibut ion to vocal physi ology by performing careful experimental studies on freshly killed dogs, oxen, and swine. Almost two centuries later, N e g u s ' ' presented to the scientific world his monumen ta l work on the comparat ive ana t  omy of the larynx. H e , too, used primari ly pos tmor tem tissue for s tudy. Later critical physiological studies were made " in v ivo" on the animal la rynx. I refer, for example, to the works of Fessard and Vallancien,^ Floyd Negus and Neil,* Cerquiglini et al.,^ D u n k e r and Schlosshauer," and others. These studies, and m a n y others, have been under taken to obtain a bet ter unders tanding of changes in pi tch and intensity as a funct ion of air flow, subglott ic air pressure, and neural s t imulat ion. I t is essential t ha t workers in this area have more k n o w l  edge of the basic physiological properties of laryngeal muscle and nerve tissue. For example, Rubin , '^ in a recent s tudy of vocal p i tch and intensity, arrived at conclusions based on data derived by using extreme levels of neural s t imulat ion, air flow, and subglott ic air pres sure in the dog larynx.


The aim of this study was the freezing effects at 20°C after hydration and subsequent dehydration on the hatching efficiency, survival percentage and growth of Artemia urmiana larvae. Experiment contained four treatments. At first treatment, hatching was obtained after one hy dration and dehydration cycle with the standard method. In the second treatment, hatching was done after hydration and dehydration cycle and kept freezed in -20°C for a week. In third treatment, the freezing period was extended up to o ne month. The control was carried out along standard hatching procedure (four th t eatment). Results indicated the cyst hatching percentage increased by increasing freezing time (one-month freezing), even though hatching percenta ge was higher in control group. The most survival percentage was observed in the 11 day of third treatment. The highest growth was observed from la rvae hatched in 15 to the 25 day of third treatment (P<0.05). In conclusion, th e freezing was not necessary to improve the hatching rate and larval g rowth.


Two precursor species have been identified as responsible for the catalyzing effect of the trichloroethanoate (TCE) anion on the formation of tris(2,4-pentanedionato)chromium(III), Cr(acac)3. The first one is the green intermediate species (GIS) identified as tetrahydroxodecakis-μs-trichloroethanoato-trichloroethanoato-tetraaquopentachro-mium(III), Cr5(OH)4(CCl3COO)11(H2)4. This appears to be the first pentanuclear species reported among the polynuclear alkanoato metal complexes. It reacts at a rapid rate with the 2,4-penaanedtonate, acac, anion to produce a second precursor, the violet-green intermediate species (VGIS) identified as bis(2,4-pentanedionato)-trichloroethanoato-aquochromium(III), Cr(C5H7O2)2(CCl3COO)(H2O). This is attacked by the remainigg acac anion to ultimaelly produce the Cr(acac)3. Thus the effect of the TCE anion in facilitating the formation of Cr(acac)3 is through the ligand coordination catalytic mechanisms.


The National Health Insurance Plan, (NHI), due for legislation in June next year, will be phased in one facility at a time over the next five years, costing higher income earners more (via a payroll tax) but in no way limiting their choice of provider.
That was the assurance given by the chair of the NHI Ministerial Advisory Committee, Dr Olive Shisana, who said the incremental accreditation of healthcare facilities was to ensure the delivery of quality health care based on agreed standards.
"If this quality improvement plan was done by district or province, I'd be worried, but we're building capacity, facility by facility. When each facility (public or private) is ready and meets standards of accreditation, it gets declared NHI-ready and changes its modus operandi,' she explained.
The Ministerial Advisory Committee of 24 experts drawn from the entire healthcare spectrum, is required to deliver draft proposals on NHI legislation to Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi by March next year. Public input will happen as soon as cabinet approves the policy proposals, probably this November so that the ensuing and legally required three month consultation process can be completed in time for Motsoaledi's review. That would leave just enough time for legal crafting for presentation to parliament by June.
Shisana was responding to claims that the ANC government was 'overcompensating for apartheid health inequities in the form of a grand gesture,' that was doomed to failure because of the woeful current state of public healthcare.


The Boyang Lake area is mainly famous for its rice production,grain production in this area is important for China.With the increase of population and the decrease of arable land,the four contradictions are sharping,such as resources,population,grain and environment.It is proved that land improvement is an effective way to improve agriculture and raise grain production.


The morphology and distribution of precipitates in high strength hot-rolled strip (0.16%C-1.22%Mn-0.022%Ti) pilot produced by CSP(compact strip production) technology were investigated by TEM and HRTEM. The relationship of volume fraction and size of precipitates on mechanical properties were analyzed by Ashby-Orowan model of precipitation strengthening. It showed that there are fine and dispersive TiC particles in ferrite grains, on grain boundaries and dislocations. Precipitation strengthening for steel produced by CSP technology is significant, amounting to about 40 MPa. CSP technology is very effective for strengthening by microalloying.


Summary The presence of a soluble specific antigen serologically dientical with an antigen found in HeLa cells has been shown in 31 per cent of human malignancies. Similar material has not been isolable from nonmalignant adult or fetal human tissues. According to the accumulated statistical data, there seems to be no correlation between the degree of malignancy of the diseased tissue and the presence or absence of the antigen.


Various strains belonging to Hydra magnipapillata are examined for their developmental‐morphological characters and relative abundance of the six basic types of cells, and the results are statistically analysed.


The aim of this study was to detect and evaluate the extracellular keratinase enzyme production by Arthroderma multifidum TKKASa (KU560574), a keratin-degrading fungus isolated from the keratin contaminated soil of Rajasthan, India. This study focused on the evaluation of the effect of keratin substrates, pH, incubation days, temperature and metal ions for keratinase enzyme production. The highest enzyme production by A. multifidum was observed on chicken feathers (56.25±0.69 U/mL) followed by human hair, animal hair and human nail clippings. The maximum keratinase production by A. multifidum was achieved at 40˚C with 58.80±0.98 U/mL enzyme activity and pH 8.0 (56.65±0.85 U/mL) after 12 days of fermentation. The addition of metal ions in basal salt media resulted in the decrease in enzyme production. This study reports keratinase production by A. multifidum and the high efficiency on the chicken feather degradation in comparison to human nail clipping, animal hair and human hair degradation. Its potential use is in biotechnological processes such as biodegradation of keratin wastes, eco-friendly dehairing and poultry feed production.


This article deals with a lexicostatistical analysis of the nine Aari varieties: Gayl, Sido, Woba, Layda, Biyo, Shengama, Baaka, Kure and Kaysa. The right names and numbers of Aari dialects or language varieties have been describing in different ways in many past literatures and again there were no thorough studies on the mutual intelligibility level of all the language varieties of Aari. In order to show an overall intelligibility level between language varieties, lexical, phonological and grammatical (morphological and syntactical) comparisons are needed. Therefore, to fill the gap, in this article a lexical comparisons among the nine Aari language varieties are discussed. The lexical comparisons were done in three different categories (completely similar, partially similar and completely different vocabularies) based on 324 lexical items from each language variety. As a result, depending on percentages of completely similar shared lexicons the varieties are ranked from the highest to the least as Layda, Shengama, Biyo, Kure, Woba, Baaka, Sido, Kaysa and Gayl. In the second partially similar category the varieties are ranked from the highest shared percentage to the least as follows: Gayl, Sido, Woba, Baaka, Biyo, Kure, Kaysa, Shengama and Layda. In the third and final category of unshared vocabularies percentages, the language varieties are ranked from the highest unshared or dissimilar variety to the least unshared one based on their dissimilarity level as follows: Gayl, Kaysa, Sido & Baaka, Woba, Kure, Biyo, Shengama and Layda. Finally, in the total RPV (a rank position value) result of completely similar vocabularies, based on their similarities language varieties are clustered in four groups from highest to the least one. Here, the clustering shows that lexically Layda language variety is considered as the center for the rest of all varieties. In contrast, the varieties Kaysa and Gayl have the least shared lexicons than the rest seven varieties or lexically they are too different than all the rest Aari varieties.


Business processes are part of every company and become more complex. Based on that, the need of workflow-based applications has never been more evident. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) provides a simple and consistent way to model and implement complex problems that arise in workflow enabled applications. Because of the increase use of such applications we also need supporting tools and frameworks to enable quality assurance of workflows that present the core of workflow-enabled applications. In this paper we present approaches on how to enable testing of workflows built using WF inside .NET applications.


As time goes by, the art pieces inside Dunhuang Grottoes have suffered from tremendous damage such as mural deterioration, and they are usually difficult to be repaired. Although we can achieve digital preservation by modeling the caves and preserving mural as textures in virtual environment, we still cannot have a glimpse of how the grottoes look like without damage. In this work, we propose a systematic restoration framework, which is based on Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) technique, for these high-resolution but deteriorated mural textures. The main idea is to make the machine learn the transformation between deteriorated mural textures and restored mural textures. However, the resolution of training texture images (i.e. 8192×8192) is too high to be applied with GAN technology directly due to GPU RAM limitation. Instead, our method restores a set of high-resolution yet color-inconsistent textures patch-by-patch and a set of low-resolution but color-consistent full textures, and then combines them to get the final high-resolution and color-consistent result.


This research suggests employing electrode segmentation in order to avoid charge cancellation in the piezoelectric layers of harvester, which occurs, if strain nodes of vibrating harvester are covered by continuous electrodes. For the experimental investigations two types of piezoelectric energy harvester prototypes were produced from piezoelectric T107 H4E 602 plate, epoxy bonded to stainless steel substrate. The first (reference) harvester prototype posses no electrode segmentation, while electrodes covering piezoelectric material of second harvester were segmented. Segmentation of the second harvester was configured for its operation at the second resonant frequency – i. e., performed so, that the electrodes of piezoelectric material are not covering strain node of the second vibration mode. Experimental results revealed that segmented harvester prototype posses efficiency advantage as compared to the non-segmented counterpart – adding voltages, generated at each segment would result from 8% to 52% increase of maximum generated voltage.


Users are often interested in a specific type of data (preferences) available from a large volume of data collected on the system. An efficient and effective system that can only store the user preferred data from the large raw data set helps the users to search for relevant information on time. The motivation behind this paper is to devise such a technique. The technique uses machine learning as well as parallel processing to efficiently filter out the user preferred data from a large raw data set. Firstly, the technique stores the filtered data and discards the remaining data which saves storage space for the user. Secondly, it leads to an enhanced searching experience for the user by reducing the search latency. Running the filtering operation can be CPU intensive which often leads to high latency for extracting user preferred data from the raw data set. To solve this problem, the technique employs parallel processing and machine learning, thus reducing the data filtering latency while making the data searching process faster for the user. A proof-of-concept prototype for this technique has been built on the Apache Spark parallel processing engine. The prototype is subjected to several performance experiments using synthetic datasets. The analysis of experimental results shows the viability of the proposed technique and provides insights into system behavior and performance.


The study demonstrated the feasibility of treatment of high-strength organic effluents at low DO level of 0~0.2mg/L using a chosen yeast species,Candida tropicalis,by both batch mode and a 54 day laboratory scale continuous running in open treatment system.Results showed that average COD,NH4+-N and TP removals of 67%~88%,18%~68%,23%~68% occurred at influent COD,NH4+-N and TP levels of 11,000~30,000,1000 and 230mg/L respectively.Influent COD,TN,TP levels played an important role in TN/TP removals.Microscopic observations showed no bacterial or mold contaminants in reaction column were observed over the experimental period and the microscopic morphology of dominant yeast varied.Batch experiments showed oxygen supply had an important effect on yeast growth and COD removal.Microorganism grew well while COD removals were 91% at DO level of 0.1~0.4mg/L,and COD removal was only 12% following with the decrease of MLSS level without oxygen supply.


This paper introduces the application of Energy Saving Capacity Increasing Total Recycle Urea Process,which is developed and licensed by HQCEC,revamping for energy saving,capacity increasing,debottleneck,ammonia consumption decreasing and pollutant elimination on domestic medium/small sized urea plants.It shows urea plants will gain a prominent economic benefit and social benefit after the above revamping.


In this report we describe the essential problems and recent development of the solar energy conversion techniques. Photoenergy-conversion efficiency of silicon solar cell has been increased very much in recent years. In the laboratory scale, the efficiencies are, so far, more than 20% and 15% for single crystal and microcrystal silicon solar cells, respectively. Even with amorphous silicon solar cell, it exceeds more than 12%. Moreover the cost of silicon solar cell has been also lowered very much. When the expense of the generation of electricity becomes about 1$/W, the solar battery can compete with the present electricity system. It is expected to be achieved in 10 years with amorphous silicon.The other solar cell system is a so-called photoelectrochemical cell composed of a semiconductor in electrolyte solution. Compared to the drastic progress in the silicon dry solar cell, the study of the wet cell system has been stagnant. Recently, however, noticeable results with photoelectrochemical cell were reported.One is the dye-sensitization system with ruthenium complex derivatives chemically attached on TiO2 surface. The solar energy conversion efficiency with that system against the AM (I) light exceeds about 8%. The other system is composed of d-band semiconductors such as pyrite (FeS2). The photocurrent is about 45mA/cm2, and it is very stable for more than six months. Drastic improvement of photoelectrochemical cell will be expected.


Marine archaeology, also known as maritime, nautical or underwater archaeology deals with the 'scientific study of the material remains of man and his past activities on the sea'. Marine archaeology has made tremendous progress in India. Over the years, the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, in collaboration with other Government agencies has undertaken the exploration and excavation of submerged ports and shipwrecks at Dwarka, Bet Dwarka, Somnath, Vijaydurg, Goa and Lakshadweep on the west coast; and Poompuhar and Mahabalipuram on the east coast of India. Further, onshore explorations have also been carried out at various places along both coasts of India to locate ports, trading centres and structures related to maritime activities. These findings from various sites in India, confirm her rich submerged cultural heritage, conservation of which is a prime necessity. A modest beginning has been made in this direction and more thrust is required before this submerged heritage is destroyed owing to intense activity along the coast, resulting from globalisation and rapid industrialisation. This article provides an overview of developments in Indian marine archaeology, and describes a few important sites and their archaeological significance.


The invention discloses a digital control processing lathe of multi-strand springs. The lathe adopts a twisting device in a hollow main shaft structure, arranges a tension controller on each wire, collects tension signals by a sensing device to automatically control tension and rotating speeds, automates a multi-strand spring processing process to accurately match the rotating speeds of various devices and accurately control the wire pitch and the spring pitch, can monitor the tension of each strand of wires in the multi-strand spring processing process in real time by the wire tension controllers and a data acquisition and control system to realize the constant tension of each strand of wires and the uniform and constant tension among various strands of wires, can monitor the tension in real time by an application program of an upper computer to fully achieve a self-tuning system of the tension and ensure the resilience value of a processed multi-strand spring so as to ensure the quality and prolong the service life of a finished product of a multi-strand spiral spring. The design of a hollow main shaft ensures that the whole lathe has compact structure and reasonable arrangement.


J. FONTECHA, T. REQUENA AND H.E. SWAISGOOD. 1996. This study describes an affinity chromatography procedure for proteinase purification using bioselective binding to immobilized bacitracin. By coupling bacitracin to controlled‐pore glass (CPG) beads, an affinity matrix was obtained that permitted rapid purification of proteinases under conditions that minimize autolysis. Bacitracin‐CPG was used to bioselectively adsorb the extracellular proteinase secreted by Enterococcus faecalis var. liquefaciens IFPL 383. The overall purification obtained with this procedure was 5149‐fold. The ability of bacitracin‐CPG to bind other proteinases was examined using various commercial proteinases. The specific activities of subtilin BPN' and proteinase K were increased by bioselective adsorption and excellent recoveries of all proteinases applied were obtained.


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Aims:  To investigate the effects of nisin on lactobacilli contamination of yeast during ethanol fermentation and to determine the appropriate concentration required to control the growth of selected lactobacilli in a YP/glucose media fermentation model.


Turkish Recognition ENgine (TREN) is a modular, Hid- den Markov Model based (HMM-based), speaker inde- pendent and Distributed Component Object Model based (DCOM-based) speech recognition system. TREN is a two-layered system containing specialized modules that allow a fully interoperable platform including a Turkish speech recognizer, a feature extractor, an end-point de- tector and a performance monitoring module. In order to increase the recognition performance, a Turkish telephony speech database with a very large word corpus is collected and statistically the widest span of triphones representing Turkish is examined. TREN has been used to assist speech technologies which require a modular and a multithreaded speech recognizer with dynamic load sharing facilities. For the complex speech processing systems, a layered ar- chitecture which is a natural outgrowth of the client-server model, could be an effective solution concerning the prob- lems such as lack of scalability and portability. Compared with the traditional client-server model, layered architec- ture of TREN offers a natural way to separate user inter- face from the background of the hard work performed by the recognizer. TREN is composed of two layers: Cen- tral server (CS) constitutes the first layer of the system which is subjected to apply some speech processing rou- tines (feature extraction and end-point detection) to the audio files collected as an input from third party appli- cations. CS is also responsible for the authorization of a remote server (RS) with the least CPU load of the recogni- tion process (LP CP U ) as compared to the other RSs all of which constitute the second layer of TREN. Once this au- thorization is accomplished the selected RS will become ready to serve as a recognizer. This two-layered architec- ture allows RSs work in a parallel and distributed manner. Note that this architecture also gives a flexibility to in- stall or uninstall any number of machines according to the application requirements. TREN supports up to 64 simul- taneous recognitions resembling a 64-channel system.


Temporal knowledge graph completion (TKGC) is a challenging task to infer the missing component for quadruples. The key challenge lies at how to integrate time information into the embeddings of entities and relations. Recent TKGC methods tend to capture temporal patterns via linear or multilinear models, which are fast but not expressive enough. In this study, we propose a novel time-aware convolutional embedding model (TaCE) to represent the time-dependent facts in the task of TKGC. It highlights its novelty to feasibly convert timestamps as temporal convolutional filters to fully interact with entities and relations and learn temporal patterns in knowledge graphs (KGs). An extensive comparison proves that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on three public benchmark datasets of ICEWS14, ICEWS05-15 and GDELT. Results also demonstrate good temporal expressiveness and computation efficiency performed by our TaCE.


The paper studies the relationship between factors affect fresh graduate bankruptcy at young age and with credit card, bank policies, poor financial planning and attitude towards money. This study has also employed the multiple regression method to examine the studies to test the relationship and to test the hypothesis. Furthermore, the data was analyzed with the software known as Statistical package for Social Science, for short SPSS using 130 questionnaire. The results show indication that there is positive relationship between fresh graduate bankruptcy with credit card, bank policies, poor financial planning and attitude towards money.


The first step in developing an effective precision cleaning process for the product is to determine where cleaning can be avoided. Keeping the product clean, particularly during transfer and storage, is an important part of your contamination control program. Much effort is expended in keeping the cleanroom clean, in monitoring the cleanroom. Much effort is expended in developing, validating, and monitoring cleaning processes for both so-called "high-end" products and for industrial applications. It is critical to manage three major sources of contamination for products fabricated within the cleanroom. These contamination sources are: • People • Equipment • Transfer


The present invention relates to a battery electrode comprising an electrically conductive substrate, to which the electrochemically active electrode composition is supported on a surface. The composition wherein the active substance, comprising an active material capable of forming an alloy with lithium and reversibly shows a change in volume when forming such a reversible alloy. The composition comprises a buffering agent to minimize the mechanical strain in the composition to accommodate the volume change of the active material. The active material may further include a material such as carbon. The active material may comprise silicon, aluminum, antimony, antimony oxide, bismuth and bismuth oxide, tin, tin oxide, chromium, chromium oxides, tungsten, tungsten oxide or lithium alloy of these materials. The invention may also involve cell to such an electrode, and discloses a method for manufacturing a method for manufacturing the cell and of the electrode and the work. Lithium batteries, electrochemical activity of the electrode composition, a buffer, a reversible alloy


1. A computer method for processing voice request submitted by the user of an electronic device, comprising a processor for executing the application, the method may be implemented by execution of each application of the at least two applications, and includes the steps of: determining that the user's voice request concerns function to be performed by another application of the at least two applications; and Ensuring perform other application functions from at least two prilozheniy.2. The method of claim. 1, characterized in that the step of determining that the user's voice request concerns a specified function includes determining that the text representation of the speech of said user request concerns funktsii.3. A method according to claim. 2, characterized in that said step of providing the function of another application of at least two applications comprises transmitting at least a portion of the text representation of the user voice request to another application of the at least two prilozheniy.4. A method according to claim. 2, characterized in that it further comprises the step of providing processing an audio representation of speech user request to obtain the textual representation of the speech to the user request definition of what the textual representation of the speech of said user request concerns funktsii.5. A method according to claim. 4, characterized in that said step of providing presentation processing an audio voice request a user to obtain a textual representation of the speech user request includes providing vypo


The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for heating a semiconductor processing chamber. One embodiment of the present invention provides a furnace for heating a semiconductor processing chamber. The furnace is equipped with a plurality of heating elements connected in at least two zones are controlled independently, a heater surrounding the side wall of the semiconductor processing chamber, and a shell surrounding the heater, the. .Field


A simple method for solving the matrix Lyapunov equation for linear continuous systems with the system matrix in companion form is proposed. If the system is asymptotically stable, the solution of the Lyapunov equation can be obtained directly from the entries of a Routh table. The proposed method does not involve solution of a linear system of equations or matrix inversion and hence is computationally efficient compared to other techniques. It is illustrated by a numerical example.


The aim of the research was to examine how the nest selection preference of laying hens with different genotypes differed, the proportion of eggs laid in the litter, eggs laid in the upper and bottom nests, and the number and duration of nest visits. The experiment was conducted with laying hen genotypes provided by Bábolna TETRA Ltd. (Babolna, Hungary) (Commercial hybrid (C); pure-line maternal (Maternal); pure-line paternal offspring group (Paternal)). N = 318; n = 106 hen/genotype; and 53 hens/pen. We placed 53 19-week-old, non-beak-trimmed hens in each of the six 5.52 m2 alternative pens. We provided 14 nests for the hens at two levels per pen (3.8 hens/nest). We recorded the number of eggs laid in the nests on the bottom and upper levels, as well as within the litter. Infrared cameras were installed above the pens, and we conducted recordings on a test day at the beginning of the third production month. In our results, we found a significant difference in the proportion of litter eggs overall during the 12 months of production (C. hybrid: 30.7%; Paternal: 41.1%; Maternal: 10.2%). A significant difference was found between all genotypes in the proportions of eggs laid at the bottom (B) and upper (U) level during the 12 months of production (C. hybrid: B: 72.2%, U: 27.8%; Paternal: B: 88.0%, U: 12.0%; Maternal: B: 71.4%, U: 28.6%). The evaluation of the video recordings revealed that the C. hybrid and Paternal genotypes visited the bottom nests in 97.2% and 96.0% of the cases, respectively, and the Maternal genotype individuals in a significantly lower proportion, 72.5% of the cases; the Paternal genotype spent significantly more time (13.4 min) on average in the bottom nests compared with the C. hybrid (7.9 min) and the Maternal genotypes (8.6 min). Our conclusion is that it is not enough to ensure the desired ratio of egg nests in egg production, as laying hens may not use nests in certain positions at all. This generates a relative shortage of egg nests and can increase the ratio of eggs laid in the litter, which in turn involves human health risks.


Currently, falling prices in technologies associated with surveillance applications has led to a huge increase in their use in all types of environments, although the most common applications are monitoring of traffic and people. In surveillance applications, the majority of the algorithms and applications are based on robustness in the detection and monitoring of people, vehicles, etc., in all kind of conditions, in which power consumption is not a parameter of the system. In this work, we present the use of this technology to develop energy aware light control systems for large installations and to reduce energy consumption. Depending on the architectures and algorithms used significant power reduction is achieved.


Hobbes's eschatology in Leviathan is one of the most striking aspects of this classic work and has received considerable scholarly attention. Nevertheless, its scriptural interpretation has rarely been examined. This article closely analyses Hobbes's scriptural case for two aspects of eschatology: the doctrine of mortalism and the terrestrial kingdom of God. It shows that, to a large extent, Hobbes's biblical exegesis for these two eschatological issues was preceded by that of his contemporaries, including Richard Overton and John Archer. It is likely, in particular, that the scriptural interpretation for Hobbes's mortalism was directly indebted to Overton's Mans mortalitie.


. In the current person Re-identification (ReID) methods, most domain generalization works focus on dealing with style differences between domains while largely ignoring unpredictable camera view change, which we identify as another major factor leading to a poor generalization of ReID methods. To tackle the viewpoint change, this work proposes to use a 3D dense pose estimation model and a texture mapping module to map the pedestrian images to canonical view images. Due to the imperfection of the texture mapping module, the canonical view images may lose the discriminative detail clues from the original images, and thus directly using them for ReID will inevitably result in poor performance. To handle this issue, we propose to fuse the original image and canonical view image via a transformer-based module. The key insight of this design is that the cross-attention mechanism in the transformer could be an ideal solution to align the discriminative texture clues from the original image with the canonical view image, which could compensate for the low-quality texture information of the canonical view image. Through extensive experiments, we show that our method can lead to superior performance over the existing approaches in various evaluation settings.


A prototype of LTE communication terminal adopting to commercial use drones to be controlled by a central operational center is developed. Efficient heat path to reduce temperature rise of card type LTE module and FPGA (wafer level package, InFO) is installed in a small formfactor housing. The Main heat path shared by LTE module and FPGA also plays a role of a metallic shielding with EMC gasket to avoid communication performance degradation due to electro-magnetic interference observed in LTE band. Interference free LTE terminal is implemented by using unique shielding structure with some additional grounding technique in light weight plastic housing.


Developing novel bifunctional electrocatalysts with advanced oxygen electrocatalytic activity is pivotal for next-generation energy-storage devices. Herein, we present an ultrathin oxygen doped FePSe3 (FePSe3-O) nanosheets by the Ar/O2 plasma treatment with remarkable surface atom reorganization. Such surface atom reorganization generates multiple crystalline-amorphous interfaces that benefit the kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction, achieving a low overpotential of only 261 mV at 10 mA cm2 with a small Tafel slope of 41.13 mV dec1. Density functional theory calculation indicates that the oxygen doping can also modulate the electrical states at the Fermi level with a decreased band gap responsible for the enhanced electrocatalytic performance. Such unique FePSe3-O nanosheets can be further fabricated as the air cathode in rechargeable liquid zinc-air batteries (ZABs), which deliver a high open circuit potential of 1.47 V, a small charge-discharge voltage gap of 0.80 V, and good cycling stability for more than 800 circles. As a proof of concept, the flexible solid-state ZABs assembled with FePSe3-O nanosheets cathode also display a favorable charge-discharge performance, durable stability, and good bendability. This work sheds new insight into the rational design of defect-rich ternary thiophosphate nanosheets by plasma treatment towards enhanced oxygen electrocatalysts in metal-air batteries.


THE major clue to what has been occurring in theology during the last fifty years may be found in the trend known as historicism. Of course, a list of major influences upon the intellectual development of the Christian faith in this epoch would have to include three distinct phenomena: first, the widespread sense of dearth experienced in world culture; second, the translation of the writings of Spren Kierkegaard into accessible languages; and third, the discovery of "the strange new world within the Bible." These influences, however, have acted in concert, and the key to their unitary impact is in "historicism" with its slow but pervasive penetration into the heart of all the major theological con-


Program performance optimization could be a very complex process, even with current software development facilities/ tools. An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) usually does not include many aids for optimization and/or performance evaluation. We propose to include performance evaluation through hardware monitoring counters into IDE software. Currently, it is possible to reach hardware monitoring counters via many libraries, and we have also seen that many of those libraries are approximately at the same abstraction level (including the way at which they allow access to the hardware counters). Thus, it is not only possible to include some performance evaluation library into the development process but, also, including specific aids to use some library via configurable/adjustable code snippets. We show, as a proof of concept, an Eclipse plug-in to help High Performance Computing (HPC) programmers to access hardware monitoring event counters using PAPI (Performance API). The plug-in is able to automatically include source code to count specific events available via PAPI in sections of source code defined by the programmer. Also, given that the code is automatically included, it would be also possible to remove that code from the release version (for the production environment).


Specific gage records were developed for 25 stations on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, MO, and Donaldsonville, LA. Generation and initial inspection of these records for the Mississippi River establish that complex morphologic adjustments have occurred throughout the river system for at least a century and indicate that these adjustments continue to the present day. Further, although no attempt was made in this study to conduct a detailed analysis of the effects of the numerous natural and anthropogenic factors on the morphologic trends in the river in the initial assessment reported herein, preliminary evaluation of the specific gage records demonstrates that they provide a powerful framework that, when combined with other geomorphic assessment tools, will aid in understanding and explaining the complex morphological processes that drive the Mississippi River. These and other comprehensive analyses are planned for future Mississippi River Geomorphology & Potamology Program efforts. DISCLAIMER: The contents of this report are not to be used for advertising, publication, or promotional purposes. Citation of trade names does not constitute an official endorsement or approval of the use of such commercial products. All product names and trademarks cited are the property of their respective owners. The findings of this report are not to be construed as an official Department of the Army position unless so designated by other authorized documents. DESTROY THIS REPORT WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED. DO NOT RETURN IT TO THE ORIGINATOR. MRG&P Report No. 10 iii


ABSTRACT A redescription of Ornithobilharzia canaliculata is made on the basis of new material collected from gulls in the region of the southern Red Sea. The need for re-evaluation of the classification of Schistosomatidae is discussed and new keys to species of the genus Ornithobilharzia and to genera of the subfamily Schistosomatinae are proposed.


This article presents findings from a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature pertaining to music therapist teacher support. Descriptions of music therapists providing support to teachers were identified in 40 publications and subject to a process of critical interrogation. Through this process, three tensions were identified that had the potential to impact negatively on teachers' sustainment of outcomes from the music therapist teacher support experience. These included the challenge of a prevailing focus on students rather than teachers, an underlying tension between descriptions of education and therapy, and a lack of teacher-driven learning intentions. Within the following paper we argue for a shift from a focus on the needs of students to the agency of teachers to maximise possibilities for achieving sustained outcomes from future music therapist teacher support programs. We further propose widening the scope of music therapist support in schools to better align with the professional role of teachers.


The Gulf Coast Regional Aquifer-System Analysis is a study of regional aquifers in sediments of mostly Cenozoic age in an area of about 230,000 square miles in the Coastal Plain of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas, and an additional 60,000 square miles offshore. Three aquifer systems have been identified: two in sediments of mostly Eocene age, the Mississippi embayment aquifer system and the Texas coastal uplands aquifer system, and one in sediments of Miocene and younger age, the coastal lowlands aquifer system. These aquifer systems thicken from less than 100 feet near their updip limit to thousands of feet gulfward toward their downdip limits. Two of these aquifer systems occur in Mississippi. The Mississippi embayment aquifer system is present in about 90 percent of the State and the coastal lowlands aquifer system is present in the southern one-third of the State. The Mississippi embayment aquifer system exceeds 5,000 feet in thickness in central Louisiana and in southwestern Mississippi. The thickest area in southwestern Mississippi underlies most of six Mississippi counties, centered around Jefferson County. The coastal lowlands aquifer system is more than 10,000 feet thick in southern Texas and southern Louisiana. The greatest thickness of the coastal lowlands aquifer system in Mississippi occurs in southern Hancock County where the system is slightly more than 5,000 feet thick. Each of the three aquifer systems is composed of several individual aquifers and confining units. There are seven aquifers and three confining units in the Mississippi embayment aquifer system, five aquifers and two confining units in the Texas coastal uplands aquifer system, and five aquifers and two confining units in the coastal lowlands aquifer system. Most of the thicker parts of each aquifer system contain moderately saline to very saline water. Water in the Mississippi embayment aquifer system is moderately saline to very saline in most of a seven county area in southwestern Mississippi. Water in the coastal lowlands aquifer system is moderately saline to very saline in parts of three counties in south western Mississippi and in parts of the three counties along the Gulf Coast. About 9,600 million gallons per day of ground water was pumped from the aquifers in the study area during 1980. About 15 percent of that pumpage (or about 1,400 million gallons per day) was in Mississippi, mostly from the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer of the Mississippi embayment aquifer system. About 10 percent of the Mississippi pumpage, or 140 million gallons per day, was from the coastal lowlands aquifer system. Preliminary results from simulation of ground-water flow indicates that parts of Mississippi are major regional recharge areas for both the Mississippi embayment aquifer system and the coastal lowlands aquifer system. The Mississippi River alluvial plain or fDelta' area of Mississippi is part of a much larger regional discharge area that extends westward into parts of eastern Arkansas and northeastern Louisiana.


Major structural differences in the bowers of different bowerbird species have long been recognised, but the evolutionary significance of these differences has never been determined. I compared the bowers and displays of two congeneric species, the Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata and the Great Bowerbird C. nuchalis, and used the Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus as an outgroup to define ancestral characters. Spotted Bowerbird bowers and display courts differ from the more typical bower of avenue-building species in having a wide bower avenue, see-through walls, dispersed decorations, an E-W (rather than N-S) orientation, walls that are nearly vertical, and straw instead of sticks in the bower walls. These differences are coordinated with changes in male courtship patterns and female orientation in the bower. In addition, male displays are extremely vigorous, with aggressive elements not observed in other species. I evaluate three hypotheses that could account for the unique aspects of Spotted Bowerbird bower structure and display. Of these, the threat reduction hypothesis best explains changes in both patterns of male display and in the bower. It proposes that increased separation between bowers has caused selection for vigorous male display as part of mate assessment. An effect of this change is that female visitors to bowers are threatened by the increased vigour in male display. Male Spotted Bowerbirds utilise structural changes in their bowers to allow females to view male display with reduced threat. A threat reduction hypothesis is consistent with a general hypothesis that bowers function to enhance female willingness to attend male display courts and observe male courtship.


When Robert W. "Woody" Johnson9s child was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, he checked out the state of lupus research--and found it wanting. So Johnson plunked down $12 million and started the Alliance for Lupus Research. ALR is the splashiest of several new arrivals.


Optical pH measurement commonly uses a strip of paper with embedded indicator. A pH test strip which has four (4) test pads changes its color when it is dipped in a sample solution. The color change is compared to the color chart to identify the pH value of the sample solution. The purpose of this study is to extract the parameter of an optoelectronic pH sensor based on the hue absorbance of the pH test strip and be implemented on Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE). Through experiments using a devised sensor module, highest linearity is obtained when the ILED is 20 mA. The sensitivity of the device at pad 1 is 0.4217 mV/pH with a correlation coefficient of 0.8177, pad 2 is 0.3667 V/pH with a correlation coefficient of 0.9597, pad 3 is 0.2659 V/pH with a correlation coefficient of 0.0.9923, and pad 4 is 0.0347 V/pH with a correlation coefficient of 0.9948. It outputs the RGB Hue levels (in voltage) of the pH test strip. Optoelectric characteristics of the pH sensor are described by the result acquired in the experiments on parameter extraction. The transconductance of the device is derived based on the phototransistor current and pH-dependent voltage. The extracted parameters used on the equivalent circuit of the optoelectronic pH sensor is simulated on SPICE. The percent error between the responses on experimental and simulation of the test pads 1, 2, 3 and 4 are 10.28%, 0.01%, 0.34% and 0.86% respectively. Based on these results, an optoelectronic pH sensor model is developed.


When deploying acoustic echo cancellation systems in large rooms, using short filters may result in significant amount of residual echo caused by room reverberation. In this paper, we model the late residual echo as exponentially decaying and use a parametric IIR filter to estimate its power in the subband domain for application in residual echo suppression. Working in an offline system identification setup, the problem of finding the optimal parameters of the IIR filter is addressed, with an analysis conducted on the performance of two parameter estimation methods: output error and equation error. The late residual echo power estimates obtained using the two methods are furthermore judged using the mean squared error and the mean squared log error cost functions. Results indicate that minimizing the mean squared log error for the output error method provides accurate estimates for the late residual echo power and the reverberation decay parameter.


The utility model relates to a biliary tract T venturi tube radiography and vein urinary tract radiography medicine injection boost motor, its characterized in that: this injection boost motor is equipped with a casing (1), is equipped with syringe (6) in casing (1), and push away handle (5) of syringe (6) are fixed on boosting fly leaf (3), are equipped with lower extreme extension spring fixed column (4) on boosting fly leaf (3), and casing (1) upper end is equipped with upper end extension spring fixed column (7), sets up between lower extreme extension spring fixed column (4) and the upper end extension spring fixed column (7) extension spring (8), the bottom of boosting fly leaf (3) be equipped with the boosting fly leaf and hang nose (9), the boosting fly leaf is hung nose (9) and can be rotated around the round pin axle, the boosting fly leaf is hung nose (9) and is used for fixing on casing (1) boosting fly leaf (3). The utility model relates to a rationally, simple structure, convenient to use, application effect is good. The injection boosting articles for use of an ideal. And has favorable value for popularization and application.


The acute administration of 1RaS,cis cypermethrin, deltamethrin, fenvalerate and permethrin produced a dose-dependent lowering of the concentration of pentylenetetrazol required to elicit a seizure in rats. The proconvulsant action of cypermethrin displayed stereospecificity in that the 1RaS,cis isomer was the most potent compound tested, while the non-insecticidal isomer, 1SaR,cis cypermethrin, was devoid of proconvulsant activity. Pretreatment of rats with PK 11195, an antagonist of the peripheral-type benzodiazepine binding site, elicited a complete reversal of the proconvulsant actions of both deltamethrin and permethrin. In contrast, pretreatment with phenytoin did not alter the pyrethroid-induced proconvulsant activity. These results suggest that the effects of pyrethroids on pentylenetetrazol seizure threshold are mediated via an interaction with peripheraltype benzodiazepine binding sites.


losses (Bundervoet, Davalos, and Garcia 2022). This finding suggests that future income of the poor and near-poor should be more than proportionally affected, pointing toward larger future impacts on poverty. Second, some alternative projections of the economic consequences of school closures typically yield larger losses in part because of the inclusion of losses in work experience, which are not addressed here (Samaniego et al. 2022).


From July 1996 to June 1997, 123 sightings of bottlenose dolphins and 17 sightings of spotted dolphins were made in Golfo Dulce. south Pacific of Costa Rica. Behavioral patterns of both bottlenose and spotted dolphins were analyzed. classifying behavior in five categories such as travelling. feeding. passive socializing. active socializing and milling. Instantaneous data recording was used, and only sightings equal or longer than 15 minutes were considered. Correspondence Analysis revealed differences in diurnal patterns between the two species while seasonal patterns showed important similarities. Diurnal differences were explained in terms of external aspects (i.e. prey) instead of internal requirements due to time proportions for each activity were similar. Coincidence of time proportion spent on feeding activities during dry season (January-April) as well as coincidence of time proportion invested on active social activities during late wet season (September-December) in the two species were explained on a survival basis.


Spartina alterniflora as an alien species,has spread on coastal beach in China in recent years because of lacking resource utilization way,and has been a serious threat to the survival of indigenous living creatures,leading to the decline of biodiversity.In order to explore a possible way of utilizing Spartina alterniflora straw,the feasibility of using Spartina alterniflora as straw resource to ameliorate coastal saline soil was studied in this work.Firstly,the seasonal dynamic of different parts of Spartina alterniflora was studied,and then the Spartina alterniflora with proper seasonal and part was selected to compost for humitying and desalinizing before its returning land.The result showed that Spartina alterniflora straw harvested in autumn was much more suitable for aerobic composting and returning in the view of plant biomass and ratio of C/N.During the composting process,the E4/E6 value of the extract of Spartina alterniflora/goat feces compost increased from initial 3.35 to 9.21 of after 54 days under the interaction by salt-tolerant and VT bacteria,indicating the compost had preliminary humitied.The desalination rate of the straw after composting by washing for 10 minutes was 81.83%;it was much higher than raw straw.The pot test(50 kg scale)showed that after returning composted Spartina alterniflora to saline soil for 8 months,soil bulk density and salinity reduced,while soil organic carbon、TN、TP and invertase significantly increased(P0.05).And plant biomass increased by 274% comparing to the control.These results preliminary indicated that composting and returning Spartina alterniflora straw/goat feces could improve the chemical and physical properties of saline soil,increase soil fertility and plant biomass yield,and was a possible utilization way.Pilot scale experiment has been in process in Chongming Dongtan,China.


With over 85% market share, Android remains the most popular mobile device platform and incurs endless attacks to steal application developers' intellectual property. Code obfuscation techniques have been conventionally used to prevent application reverse engineering or tampering, and to protect intellectual property. However, existing control-flow obfuscation techniques are not sufficiently efficient and complex to resist the growing reverse engineering techniques. This paper presents a new control-flow obfuscation scheme for Android apps at the Dalvik bytecode level. Our proposed scheme goes beyond the common control-flow obfuscation schemes and make it nearly impossible for static analysis to determine the actual program control flows. Firstly, our scheme transforms the original Dalvik bytecode to redirect its control flow transfers. The redirection is implemented by replacing the invoked method of an invocation instruction to another method. Then our scheme dynamically recovers the control transfers in the transformed code to the original control transfer targets. Hence the transformed code produces the same execution results with the original code. The recovery is implemented by dynamically modifying the entry points of the Dalvik methods during app running. Those entry points are maintained by Android Runtime system. Our analysis and evaluation show that the scheme can implement effective obfuscation to hinder reverse engineering and code analysis with reasonable size, execution time, and execution memory overheads.


The frame of mine explosion-proof rubber-tyred vehicle was weak but with heavy weight,through static and dynamic size optimization an alysis by HyperWorks,and the ideal thickness of the regional steel plate of the frame was determined;then,the steel plate thickness of the frame model was th inned according to the dynamic and static safety factor.By analysing the modifi ed model,the result shows that the front area of the front frame appears stress concentration,and the deformation is beyond the design requirements.Frame mod el analysis results show that the reason of large deformation is the weak latera l stiffness of the front of the front frame.By adding two beams in the regional front of the frame,the reanalysis results were satisfactory and could achieve the design requirements of the frame.Based on the size optimization and structu re improvement,the frame weight is reduced by 18.27%,and the constrained mode frequency of the frame has greatly increased comparing to the original model.


Modern Chinese,under the influence of western financial markets,began to develop from the traditional exchange industry to modern banking.After the foundation of national government,the financial system centered by "four banks assisted by two offices",and circulation currency cored with the legal money,were formed.They gradually improved the modern Chinese financial market.The northwest financial market,at first from Shanghai,the foundation place,extending to the southeast coastal cities,finally reaching to northwest area,especially when the war broke out and the coastal industries moved inwards,saw a new spring and a further development and construction.And the progress of it highlighted the special quality of the northwestern area,which played an essential role in the northwestern economy.


Abstract Signcryption is a public key cryptographic primitive that performs digital signature and public key encryption simultaneously, at lower computational costs and communication overheads than the signature-then-encryption approach. In this paper, an efficient certificate-based signcryption scheme based on bilinear pairings is proposed. As compared to traditional and identity-based signcryption schemes, the proposed scheme has the following advantages: it provides implicit certification; it does not have the private key escrow feature of identity-based signcryption schemes. we also analyze the proposed scheme from security and performance points of view.


Oxygen‐enriched atmospheres applied as periodic pulses increased conidia production from entomopathogenic fungi in agar surface cultures. However, this advantage has not been obtained in solid‐state cultures (SSC), probably as a result of different biomass production between both culture systems. In this work, the biomass formation from two Isaria strains was limited in SSC using 5, 2·5 and 1 initial grams of substrate (gds). In the system with 5 gds, conidia production decreased in 26% oxygen‐enriched pulses compared to the normal atmosphere. Conversely, 26% oxygen pulses increased conidiation up to one order magnitude in systems with 2·5 and 1 gds, respective to the normal atmosphere. These results were explained by oxygen depletion and high CO2 accumulation in the 5 gds system. Whereas in systems with 2·5 or 1 gds, oxygen levels remained high enough to stimulate conidiation. These results were attributed to the headspace volume:gds ratio, which is suggested to be ≥48 ml per gds. This ratio is proposed as a scaling‐up criterion for bioreactor design when oxygen‐enriched pulses are used in SSC for improvement of conidia production.


A study was conducted from 15th December 2019 to 25th January 2020 at Birendranagar Municipality- 12, Surkhet to determine the effect of phytase on the feed intake, growth performance and economics in cobb 500 broilers. Combined brooding was done for 10 days and then the chicks were separated into different treatments. A total of 288 broiler chicks were allocated to six different treatment groups. The experimental design was Completely Randomized Design (CRD), each treatment with four replications. And each replication had 12 birds in it. The birds in six treatments were fed with isoproteinous and isocaloric diet containing different level of phytase and wheat. T0 was the control diet containing basal diet, T1 consisted of basal diet and phytase (0.75gm/100 kg feed), T2 consisted of basal diet containing wheat (13%), T3 consisted of basal diet containing wheat (13%) and phytase (0.75gm/100 kg feed), T4 consisted of basal diet containing wheat (26%), T5 consisted of basal diet containing wheat (26%) and phytase (0.75gm/100 kg feed). Weekly average body weight, weight gain, feed consumption and feed efficiency were recorded for four weeks after the birds were allocated to different treatments. All the data recorded was statistically analyzed for Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The result showed that the overall weekly feed consumption was recorded higher (1.30 ± 0.0423 Kg) in the birds of treatment group T5. On the other significantly (P<0.01) higher (2688.46 ± 7.99 gm) cumulative live weight was recorded for the birds of treatment group T3. Likewise mean weekly weight gain was significantly (P<0.01) higher (293.53 ± 21.85 gm/week/bird) in treatment group T3 in the 1st week, significantly (P<0.05) higher (548.57 ± 4.06 gm/week/bird) in T1 in 2nd week, significantly (P<0.01) higher (649.23 ± 21.32 gm/week/bird) in T3 in 3rd week and significantly (P<0.01) higher (1122.65 ± 30.90 gm/week/bird) in T0 in 4th week. The overall FCR was significantly (P<0.01) better (1.94 ± 0.075) in the birds of treatment group T3. The benefit cost ratio was found to be highest (1.3916) from the birds in the treatment group T3. From the results of the experimental trial, it can be concluded that feed used in treatment group T3 helped in better performance and higher benefit cost ratio. Thus, 75 gm phytase in 100 kg of feed (with 13% wheat) can be safely used in the feed of broiler.


Direct photons are produced throughout the entire evolution of relativistic heavy ion collisions and, because they interact only electromagnetically, could be a sensitive probe of the different stages of the collision. It may be possible to identify and characterize these stages through measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of photons from the collision. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has measured the second Fourier component v2 of the azimuthal anisotropy with respect to the reaction plane for direct photons at mid-rapidity and pt of 1-15 GeV/c in Au + Au collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 200 GeV. These results will be presented and be compared with measurements of hadron v2; in addition, model calculations for the v2 for photons will be compared to these data.


This article argues that the ideological and emotional meanings of the terms 'Holocaust' and 'antisemitism' have obstructed their use as analytical concepts in Holocaust scholarship. It claims, specifically, that they frame the persecution and annihilation of Jews during World War II as unique, placing these events and processes apart from essential historical and political contexts. The destruction of Jews in wartime Hungary underscores how histories of state and nation building—in this case the drive to realize 'Greater Hungary' with a marked Magyar majority—generated multi-layered mass violence against non-Jews as well as Jews. Focusing on the multi-ethnic borderland of Subcarpathian Rus' before the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944 illuminates the links in the state's multi-layered attack against the region's society and sheds new light on the particular victimization of Jews, also after March 1944. Almost all the scholarship on the Holocaust in Hungary has addressed the period after the German invasion, dealing with ghettoization and deportation to Auschwitz. This perspective has provided important insight, but it has also overshadowed significant dimensions in the history of wartime Hungary. The histories of the state's borderlands, which have received limited attention, challenge this account of 'the Holocaust' in Hungary. This article uncovers how anxieties about disloyalty and foreignness played crucial roles in the exclusionary campaign against Jews, Roma and Carpatho-Ruthenians in Subcarpathian Rus'. The Hungarian authorities planned and carried out discriminatory and violent measures against them and, whenever national and international opportunities permitted, mass deportations. The examination of these related processes of mass violence lays bare the meaning of 'antisemitism' in a specific political context, highlighting connections between anti-Jewish policies and the persecution of other groups. Viewing this violence as it unfolded, rather than backward from the 'final solution' and Auschwitz, opens new paths to rethink 'the Holocaust' in Hungary.


Objective This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of gadoxetic acid disodium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the microvascular invasion (MVI) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods 87 HCC patients (2019-01–2022-01) admitted to the hospital were selected for retrospective analysis, gadoxetic acid disodium MRI scan was performed before surgery, and the patients were divided into two groups according to whether the MVI occurred, including the invasion group (n = 47) and the non-invasion group (n = 40). The influencing factors of MVI in HCC patients were explored, independent risk factors were determined, and the correlation between independent risk factors and MVI in HCC patients was analyzed. Results There were significant differences in tumor margin, peritumoral low signal (hepatobiliary phase), peritumoral enhancement (arterial phase), and peritumoral hyperintensity ring (arterial phase) between the two groups (P < 0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that unsmooth tumor margin, peritumoral low signal (hepatobiliary phase), peritumoral enhancement (arterial phase), and peritumoral hyperintensity ring (arterial phase) were independent risk factors for MVI in HCC patients (P < 0.05). The results of Spearman correlation analysis showed that unsmooth tumor margin was negatively correlated with MVI in HCC patients (r = −0.66, P=0.037). Moreover, peritumoral low signal (hepatobiliary phase), peritumoral enhancement (arterial phase), and peritumoral hyperintensity ring (arterial phase) were positively correlated with MVI in HCC patients (r1 = 0.63, r2 = 0.68, r3 = 0.72, P1= 0.030, P2 = 0.023, P3 = 0.017). Conclusion Unsmooth tumor margin, peritumoral low signal (hepatobiliary phase), peritumoral enhancement (arterial phase), and peritumoral hyperintensity ring (arterial phase) are significantly correlated with MVI in patients with HCC, which can provide a reference for the formulation and implementation of clinical interventions.


In 1914-1915, the second Russian Eastern Turkestan Survey Expedition led by Indologist S. F. Oldenburg reached to Dunhuang. A large number photographs were taken from the interior and exterior of the Mogao Caves. Today, the appearance and the mural paintings and multicolor sculptures of the caves have changed, and someone have disappeared or been destroyed. Therefore, the photographs taken by Oldenburg Expedition have important academic value for research in the following disciples: Dunhuang archaeology, conservation, ancient architecture, and art. The materials are especially important for helping us identify some sculptures and murals that are missing or in poor condition.


This work aimed at exploring a new kind of purification catalysts for fuel ethanol engine exhaust. Platinum loaded on Ce0.5Zr0.5O2 was prepared by impregnation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, Brunner–Emmet–Teller measurements (BET), temperature-programmed reduction of hydrogen, scanning electron microscope, and X-ray photoelectron spectra. The three-way catalyst platinum/ceria–zirconia/fw is prepared with the paste ball mill coating technique. And the catalytic performance is evaluated under simulated fuel ethanol engine exhaust gas condition. The catalysts not only show excellent low-temperature performances and several-way catalytic activities for carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and acetaldehyde but also have better high-temperature resistance. The addition of sulfur dioxide to feedstream degrades the performances of the catalysts.


Studies relating to the nature of the antigen-specific T-cell receptor are reviewed in the light of present knowledge of phylogenetic and ontogenetic development. It is suggested that this evidence supports the concept that immunoglobulin (Ig) is the T-cell receptor, and that the following conclusions may be tentatively drawn.


The following article examines Haiti's past, present and future sustainability based on a thorough cause and effect analysis of the country's current situation, research on relevant social and economic factors, years of field experience, as well as training and consulting for businesses, political parties and non-profit organisations. In addition to identifying the current major core conflicts of Haiti, the article also suggests solutions to various social, economical and environmental issues.


The effects of Y content on damping behavior and mechanical properties of Mg-0.6Zr alloy were investigated by dynamic mechanical analyzer and universal testing machine,and the damping mechanism depended on strain amplitude and temperature was also analyzed.The results show that the tensile strength,yield strength and elongation are improved by fine-grain intensification and solid solution intensification with the addition of Y.At the same time,the addition of Y and further impediment of the dislocation movement due to more grain boundary reduces the strain amplitude effect of the alloy,which reduces its damping capacity.It is also found that distinct damping peak(P1) of Mg-0.6Zr alloy appears at 65 ℃and damping peak(P2) of Mg-0.6Zr-0.5%Y alloy appears at 75 ℃,and when the temperature reaches 200℃and 250 ℃,respectively,the damping capacity of the alloy increases dramatically with the increase of temperature.


To improve the prediction of the values of coherence bands in the transionospheric communication channel, a technique was developed that uses data mining methods and the values of reference stations. For this, machine learning (ML) models based on the AdaBoost, Gradient boosting and XGBoost algorithms were used. Based on the test results, it was revealed that the Gradient Boosting model turned out to be the most accurate with an average error of 13.4 MHz and an accuracy of about 90% on a 60-day dataset within the confidence interval.


The relations between vertical movements and sediment filling of a basin are best appreciated if considered at a regional scale. This is realized by considering the evolution cartographically. The SUBTEC software allows to realize such analysis. It performs geometrical restoration of the past geometries in 3D from present day isodepth maps.


Strong near-field scattering enhancement (NFSE) of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) nanoparticles (NPs) aggregates is found through physical simulation. An aggregation of N,N'-di-[3-(isobutyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes) propyl] perylene diimide (DPP) which possesses POSS as scatteres experimentally performs strong NFSE, which confirms the physical simulation results. Moreover, coherent random laser is triggered from the DPP aggregates in carbon disulfide. It is the NFSE of POSS NPs connected to both ends of DPP through covalent bonds and the NFSE of their aggregation thanks to DPP's aggregation that is responsible for the coherent random laser. So, this work develops a method to improve weak scattering of system through construction of molecules, and opens a road to a variety of novel interdisciplinary investigations, involving molecular designing for disordered photonics.Strong near-field scattering enhancement (NFSE) of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) nanoparticles (NPs) aggregates is found through physical simulation. An aggregation of N,N'-di-[3-(isobutyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes) propyl] perylene diimide (DPP) which possesses POSS as scatteres experimentally performs strong NFSE, which confirms the physical simulation results. Moreover, coherent random laser is triggered from the DPP aggregates in carbon disulfide. It is the NFSE of POSS NPs connected to both ends of DPP through covalent bonds and the NFSE of their aggregation thanks to DPP's aggregation that is responsible for the coherent random laser. So, this work develops a method to improve weak scattering of system through construction of molecules, and opens a road to a variety of novel interdisciplinary investigations, involving molecular designing for disordered photonics.


From 1990 to 2003 have been admitted 105 patients with pelvic recurrence from rectal cancer. Fifty-nine patients have been selected and 25 patients underwent surgery. We evaluate the prognostic factors and the 3 years disease-free survival. The 60% of the patients after R0 resection and the 20% of the patients who underwent R1-R2 resection are alive. The evaluation of the prognostic factors allows early diagnosis of recurrence with a better long time survival.


We construct a supersymmetric model where the left-handed top and bottom quarks are mainly the gauginos of a vector supermultiplet and hence their superpartners are spin-1. The right-handed top quark is unified with the Higgs, the top Yukawa arises from the gaugino coupling, and the Higgs quartic coupling can be larger than in the MSSM.


An abstract model of a local area network (LAN) and its specification are presented. The formal model for LAN communication is presented in terms of interlayer transmission and an abstract specification template. Using this specification template, LAN objects are defined. The LAN abstract specification is illustrated using the OSI Reference Model and IEEE 802 standard protocols as examples.<<ETX>>


The use of digital databases by web-based digital newspapers is seen as a key-point in setting up the third generation web newspapers (this is a stage in which the resources provided by digital means are largely exploited in the development of journalistic products). The use of databases off ers the possibility to keep online, for public access, all information already published by a web newspaper, even that present in other media such as printed newspapers, radio and video. The characteristic of memory in the web environment is potentialized to the point of provoking a breakage in the functions represented by this characteristic and in doing so making possible new uses for the journalistic discourse.


One of the primary roles of cardiac MR imaging has been the assessment of congenital heart disease. Initially used to define cardiac anatomy as an adjunct to echocardiography, cardiac MR now plays a pivotal role in both anatomical and functional assessment of shunts, admixture lesions, transpositions, and the surgical correction of these lesions. Unlike X-ray angiography, cardiac MR is noninvasive, does not use iodinated contrast agents or ionizing radiation, and is, therefore, suitable for both children and adults. This unit presents the basic techniques for the evaluation of congenital heart disease. While sequence parameters described are meant to be as generic as possible, parameters are most appropriate for the Siemens 1.5 T Vision or Symphony and may need to be altered for magnets of different field strengths and manufacturers. Basic Protocol 1 (imaging congenital heart disease) will take 30 to 45 min to complete, depending upon the complexity of the heart disease. Alternate Protocol 1 (intracardiac shunt assessment) and Alternate Protocol 2 (valve assessment), each take an additional ∼15 min to perform when run with Basic Protocol 1. Basic Protocol 2 (great vessel assessment) will take 30 to 40 min, but can be performed following Basic Protocol 1, for a total examination time of 1 to 1.5 hr.