Dakwah through information technology is taking place in Malaysia. Various efforts are taken by various agencies and individuals to spread the teachings of Islam to society. Dakwah can be implemented using various approaches including the use of information technology. The efficacy of dakwah using information technology has been proven by looking at the development of many Islamic websites in the Internet. Based on this rapid development, the development of information and communication technology has had a slight impact on the process of accepting knowledge and information retrieval. Incorrect and untrustworthy information dissemination as well as contributes to issues such as massive defamation issues should be emphasized in the community to evaluate the knowledge gained from the Internet. In the context of Islamic websites, there are various forms of websites that lead to the spread of Islamic teachings. But how do people receive information based on the knowledge uploaded to the site in terms of the credibility of the author's credibility and Analisis terhadap Model-model Penilaian Laman Sesawang Islam Berbentuk Dakwah di Malaysia Mohamad Adib Mohamad Salih, Halimi Mohd Khalid, Rosmila Abdul Kahar & Wan Ainaa Mardhiah Wan Zahari 264 E-ISSN: 2289-1528 https://doi.org/10.17576/JKMJC-2019-3503-16 information? And how the judgments are made before taking or disseminating to others? Therefore, this study focuses on the analysis of Islamic website evaluation models to identify the features and criteria in evaluating an Islamic website. Hopefully this study will benefit Internet users to evaluate website or other Internet hardware.


BACKGROUND
Liver cancer is a major medical problem because of its high morbidity and mortality. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer. At present, the mechanism of HCC is not clear, and the prognosis is poor with limited treatment.

OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study is to identify hub genes and potential therapeutic drugs for HCC.

METHODS
We used the GEO2R algorithm to analyze the differential expression of each gene in 4 gene expression profiles (GSE101685, GSE62232, GSE46408, and GSE45627) between HCC and normal hepatic tissues. Next, we screened out the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) by corresponding calculation data according to adjusted P-value < 0.05 and | log fold change (FC) | > 1.0. Subsequently, we used the DAVID software to analyze the DEGs by GO and KEGG enrichment analysis. Then, we carried out the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis of DEGs using the STRING tool, and the PPI network was constructed by Cytoscape software. MCODE plugin was used for module analysis, and the hub genes was screened out by CytoHubba plugin. Meanwhile, we used The Kaplan-Meier plotter, GEPIA2 and HPA databases to exert survival analysis and verify the expression alternation of hub genes. Furthermore, we used ENCORI, TargetScan, miRDB and miRWalk database to predict the upstream regulated miRNA of hub genes and construct miRNA-hub genes network by Cytoscape software. Finally, we selected potential therapeutic drugs for HCC through DGIdb databases.

RESULTS
A total of 415 DEGs were screened in HCC, including 196 up-regulated DEGs and 219 down-regulated DEGs. The results of KEGG pathway analysis suggested that the up-regulated DEGs can regulate cell cycle, DNA replication signal pathway, while the down-regulated DEGs were associated with metabolic pathways. In this study, we identified 11 hub genes (AURKA, BUB1B, TOP2A, MAD2L1, CCNA2, CCNB1, BUB1, KIF11, CDK1, CCNB2 and TPX2), which were independent risk factors of HCCand all up-regulated DEGs. We verified the expression difference of hub genes through GEPIA2 and HPA database, which was consistent with the results of GEO data. We found that those hub genes were mutations in HCC according to the cBioPortal database. Finally, we used the DGIdb database to select 32 potential therapeutic targeting drugs for hub genes.

CONCLUSIONS
In summary, our study provided a new perspective for researching the molecular mechanism of HCC. Hub genes, miRNAs, and candidate drugs provide a new direction for early diagnosis and treatment of HCC.


Objective:To investigate the effect of different action times of recombinant human interleukin-12(rhIL-12)on cytoactive in vitro choriocarcinoma cell.Method:The human choriocarcinoma cell line JEG-3 cultured in vitro was given different action times of 5 ng/mL IL-12.The cytoactive of JEG-3 cells was measured by MTT assay.Result:JEG-3 cells showed the excellent time effect responded to the external IL-12.The JEG-3 cell growth fractional inhibition effect was significantly increased after 24h 5 ng/mL IL-12 induction(P0.01),and showed time dependence.Conclusion:The external IL-12 can inhibit the cytoactive of JEG-3 cells and show good time effect.


Accounts receivable management is an important department of enterprises finance management,it will influence the finance recycle and economic efficiency directly.Managing the relevant problems of accounts receivable has been a primary item inevitably.We analyze the relevant problems,and give some countermeasures to setting up the credit policy,controlling the bad debts,constructing the payment institutions,and strengthening the interior management.


The concept of quantized manifolds has much interest from a geometrical point of view. In fact, quantum groups [6] and non-commutative tori [4] [12] are typical examples in this spirit. One approach to constructing quantized manifolds is based on the deformation quantization introduced by Bayen et al [1]. This is the deformation of the Poisson algebra of functions on a symplectic manifold via a star product.


The DJADOM-ETA area is in south-eastern of Cameroon, within the Congo Craton (CC) formations and composed of gneiss and amphibolite, migmatites and intrusive rocks. Few geophysical studies have been carried out over surrounding areas, but no investigation on the study area. The existence of aeromagnetic data covering the study area has motivated the application of a multiscale approach for tectonic features identification. The aim of this work is to interpret Aeromagnetic Data for Geological and Structural Mappings in the southeastern Cameroon. The GIS and GEOSOFT v8.4 softwares are used to treat data of Compagnie Miniere du Cameroun getting in February 2012. The Tilt Angle method is used to delineate geological structures and to estimate the depth. The Euler's Deconvolution method is used to estimate the specific depth of structural contacts. The presence of bifurcations, accompanied by virgations, leading to the occurrence of several faults. Principal lineaments are determined with the main direction being ESE-WNW and E-W for the minor lineaments. The study highlights two major faults: ESE-WNW and ENE-WSW, where the former dominates, what could be called the geological accident of ETA. The Euler's Correlation and Tilt derivative contact map shows that most of the faults are vertical contacts. The geometrical description of this structure suggests an open synclinal transposed on vertical foliations: the major fault at the DJADOM axis is quasi-parallel to the Northern limit of the CC and parallel to the Sanaga Fault (SF) and the Central Cameroon Shear Zone (CCSZ). The features show a base strongly affected by tectonic which characterizes the transition between the zone from the CC and the belt from folds of the Pan-African. Also, the presence of the network characterizes the subsurface undulation in this study area: the intrusion of sandstone ochre quartz and schist of the Bek complex, the dolerite of the doleritic complex, and the silver micaschiste and ore quartzite in the base complex. On the TMI anomalies map, several places show high susceptibility contrasts, which is an indication of strong magnetization. Geological indicators point to inferred magnetite, dolerite and ochre schist quartzite which have a strong magnetization in this zone. The presence of weakly magnetized anomalies would be due to the migmatites of the base complex series. This study improved the knowledge of the subsurface structure of this area. It highlighted two major and minor faults. TMI anomalies map, in several places shows high susceptibility contrasts, which is an indication of strong magnetization.


that cry, despite the valiant attempts of a number of United States Senators, did not resonate with sufficient force. Thus, the Courts were left to deal with the mass or mess that has become the longest running mass tort thus far. Interestingly, the number of asbestos claims filed against any individual company is not the largest in the mass tort claim area. In the Diet Drug cases alone, at least 100,000 claims were filed against a single company, Wyeth. 2 In the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy Court, there were well over 350,000 claimants against A.H. Robins, under the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court. 3 While those cases, and others involving heavily


The present study was undertaken to evaluate the antihyperglycemic ,antihyperlipidemic and hepatoprotective effect of a traditional unani formulation "Qurs Tabasheer" in streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic wistar rats. Up till now no study was undertaken to appraise the efficacy of "Qurs Tabasheer" in the diabetic rats. Qurs Tabasheer is a unani formulation restraining preparations from six various herbs namely Tukhme Khurfa (Portulaca oleracea seed), Gule Surkh (Rosa damascena flower), Gile armani (Arminium bole), Gulnar (Punica granatum flower), Tabasheer (Bambusa arundinasia dried exudate on node), Tukhme Kahu (Lactuca sativa Linn seed). Effect of Qurs Tabasheer was assessed in STZ (60 mg/kg, i.p single shot) induced diabetic wistar rats. STZ produced a marked increase in the serum glucose, Total Cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, VLDL Cholesterol, Triglycerides and trim down the HDL level. We have weighed up the effect of Qurs Tabasheer on hepatic activity through estimating levels of various liver enzymes viz. Hexokinase, Glucose-6-Phosphatase and Fructose-1-6biphosphatase in STZ diabetic wistar rats. In STZ-induced diabetic wistar rats level of Hexokinase, and Glucose-6-Phosphatase was decreased to a significant level while the level of fructose-1-6-biphophatase was augmented. Therapy with Qurs Tabasheer for 30 days to STZinduced diabetic rats significantly reduces the level of serum glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose-6-phosphatase and fructose-1-6-biphosphatase, while magnitude of HDL cholesterol and hexokinase was amplified. Antihyperglycemic, antihyperlipidemic activity of Qurs Tabasheer suspension in STZinduced wistar rats was found to be more effective than oral hypoglycemic drug Glimepiride.


ABSTRACT Seventy percent of the African continent is categorized into arid and semi-arid zones with a harsh climate. As a result of difficulties in securing a reliable food supply, it is thus quite rare to see the accumulation of food in rural villages in Africa. On the other hand, the Dirashe people living in southern Ethiopia own traditional storage pits called "polota" that can store sorghum for several years. This study investigates how the people utilize polota in their daily lives in order to secure a sufficient supply of food at both the individual and community levels. Participant observation and interviews were conducted to ascertain the roles of polota, the management of crops, and the historical background of polota. Moreover, climate data were analyzed to understand the climate over a span from several years to several decades, as this has a great influence on food production. Ultimately, the polota enables the villagers to prepare for a year of harvest failure by strategically storing crops harvested in a year of large yield. Additionally, those who own a number of polotas voluntarily open them and share the stored sorghum with villagers during the time of food security.


The barrier to entry for the development of independent, browser-based multiplayer games is high for two reasons: complexity and cost. In this work, we introduce and evaluate a method and library that aims to make this barrier as small as possible, by utilising appropriate development abstractions and peer-to-peer communication between players. Our preliminary evaluation shows that we can lower both the technical development overhead, as well as minimise server costs, at no loss to performance.


Artesunate is one of the derivatives of qing-haosu (Artemisin), an antimalarial compound prepared from medicinal herb qinghao (Artc-misia annua L.). We present the results of studies on the mechanism of immunological action of Artesunate and discuss its clinical significances.


Abstract : We investigate an embedded FPGA fabric thatmay be able to improve ASIC reuse across multipleapplications. This fabric is automatically generated from ahigh-level architecture specification, synthesized to existingstandard-cell libraries, and laid out using commercialtools. The area and performance of the fabric is evaluatedacross several silicon technology nodes.


Abstract This paper describes an investigation that compared Context-based Reasoning (CxBR) and Contextual Graphs (CxG), two well-known context-driven approaches used to represent human intelligence and decision-making. The specific objective of this investigation was to compare and contrast both approaches to increase the readers' understanding of each approach. We also identify which, if any, excels in a particular area, and to look for potential synergism between them. This comparison is presented according to 10 different criteria, with some indication of which one excels at each particular facet of performance. We focus the comparison on how each would represent human tactical behavior, either in a simulation or in the real world. Conceptually, these two context-driven approaches are not at the same representational level. This could provide an opportunity in the future to combine them synergistically.


The present invention provides an isolated comprising a mixture of at least a first material and at least one second material in the at least one method from the first material. Said method comprising contacting said mixture with at least one magnetic particle in the presence of at least one dispersion medium to form the step of contacting at least one first material and agglomerates of magnetic powder.


Two experiments demonstrate that thinking about a given politician may result in assimilation as well as contrast effects in evolutions of the politician's party. In two experiments, assimilation effects were observed when an experimental categorization task elicited the inclusion of a highly respected politician in the representation formed of his party, whereas contrast effects were observed when the categorization task elicited his exclusion from the representation, with the control group falling in between. Hence, the same information may elicit assimilation as well as contrast effects, depending on its use in mental construal. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Fully stabilized nanometric zirconia samples with varying degrees of porosity and grain sizes were analyzed using the coincidence Doppler broadening mode of the positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS). A decrease in the low-momentum fraction was observed and coincided with a decrease in porosity. In addition to pores, it is proposed that defects in the negatively charged grain-boundary space region act as positron trapping centers; their effectiveness decreases with an increase in grain size. It is shown that PAS is sensitive to small grain-size differences within the nanometric regime in these oxide materials.


This paper analyzes whether the two major labor market reforms implemented in Spain in the 1990s to reduce the share of temporary employment succeed in promoting flows into permanent employment. The 1994 reform severely restricted temporary contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new permanent contract figure with lower payroll taxes and dismissal costs than the ordinary. To evaluate these non-targeted treatments I present an estimation procedure that uses pre-treatment out-comes to predict the one that would have been otherwise observed in the post-treatment period in the absence of the treatment and I derive its large sample properties. Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey I find that both reforms failed at reducing the share of temporary employment because they had no impact on contract conversions, which account for most new permanent contracts. The 1997 reform succeed in increasing permanent hirings for some groups of workers. My findings suggest that Spanish employers took advantage of wage and dismissal cost reductions to substitute permanent contracts for otherwise temporary ones.


Part 1 Packaging is not a universal panacea: the manufacturer - brand strategy or company strategy? media - the package - an ongoing and repetitive medium, advertising - medium of the imagination, sales promotion - medium of the moment, point of sale (POS) - medium of visibility the market - distribution, the competition, the consumer. Part 2 The functions of the package: the physical functions - manufacturing/economics, protection/preservation, transport/storage, content/format the commercial functions - ease of use, aesthetics, information, price, ecology. Part 3 Good packaging starts with a good briefing: "Mr and Mrs Everybody" packaging and its strategy the brand and its attributes talking images in two or four colours. Part 4 The brand and its power: the brand is worth its weight in gold the creating of a brand - content, the world of the brand, the brand, personality, the concept, visual strategy, the brand identity manual. Part 5 Rational creativity: defining the problem discovering the personality finding ideas fee in three dimensions be understood refine the execution. Part 6 The package - "A commercial work of art": the elements of visual language - form, the material, colour, the symbol, typography, images, texture, visual syntax. Part 7 New tools: the main functions of the graphic computer - a prodigious dictionary, light images, dissecting the image, the memory of an elephant, turning light into reality the new designers - to each profession its computer, computers are expensive, change the way you react, mastering the technique, the manufacturer/designer relationship. Part 8 The designer - crowned or crucified?: separate the possible from the impossible the idea made concrete taste and colour easy reading present at the birth technology on the move. Part 9 Packaging without frontiers: a real brand is international a coherent idea - the brand equity, co-ordination is money.


to sociology and psychology. That is the subject of lots of nonsense which has been written lately. The authors limited the use of supporting references and adopted a rather telegraphic style of writing. Together with some formal notation this makes the book heavy to read, apparently too simple for convincing, too complicated for practical use. The great strength of this work is its sound methodological basis. Its occasional failures may be rather regarded as evidence for the need to further develop the suggested ideas which fall outside the scope of some science that declares itself &dquo;beyond freedom and dignity&dquo;. The book is to b~ stuclte~l preferably with the support of Churchman's early theoretical work, Theory oj Expenmental Inference, and PredlctlUn (Jlld Optwzal DecIsIOn. The student-reader, who feels victim of fashionable pseudo-research based on &dquo;data-analysis&dquo; will get encouragement from the authors' implications on the differences between persons and &dquo;objects&dquo;, identification versus individuation (relevant to the issue of privacy), action versus reaction and outcome, etc. In any case, besides of this and Churchman's latest book The Design of Inqutring Systems I do not know of any alternative approach that permits to challenge the new information-technocrats on their own grounds about the ethical implications of computerized research. Rejection of outliers, sources of refusals to answer surveys, statistical imputations, interview techniques based on randomized response for preventing evasive-


Abstract. Separable anti‐T and anti‐Tk lectins can be extracted from the seeds of Vicia hyrcanica. The anti‐T lectin is similar to that of the peanut, Arachis hypogaea; the anti‐Tk lectin compares favourably with that of Griffonia simplicifolia II.


Women's consciousness of sexual love reflects their subjective awareness in the May 4th period.Women ask their right of sex from their parents,exam men's world and comment on the criterion of sex.Women abandon the asceticism love and cultivate a spiritual and physical love.The feminine literature of the May 4th Movement reveals the development of women's sex consciousness.


paper evaluates the reliability of photovoltaic (PV) DC-DC converters operating in residential 350 V DC microgrids under the application mission profile from Tallinn, Estonia. The studied DC-DC converter is based on an isolated buck-boost series resonant DC-DC converter (IBBC-SRC). The mission profile comprises solar irradiation and ambient temperature with a one-second resolution for eight months in 2022, from April to November. The reliability of the IBBC-SRC is evaluated using the FIDES Guide, which takes into account the application mission profile and the physics of failure when calculating the random failure rate of the components. A comparison was made with the IBBC-SRC reliability prediction under the annual mission profiles of Aalborg, Denmark, which is commonly used to measure converter reliability. According to the analytical results, the Tallinn mission profile results in virtually the same converter failure rate as the Aalborg mission profile and, consequently, has the same thermal stress of components. The reliability prediction based on the FIDES Guide works best when the mission profile has a high resolution, but when the mission profile is recorded with a low resolution, the reliability prediction is overestimated.


This article reports the integrated opto-mechanical analysis approach to design and analysis of the performance for remote sensing instrument subjected to environmental influences including static and dynamic loading. Emphases on the application of the finite element technique to develop practical model for remote sensing instrument and Zernike polynomials fitting from structural response quantities into optical design are mainly used to fulfill the analyses of wave-front error and modulation transfer function (MTF). The numerical result shows that remote sensing instrument designed and analyzed by this approach the deformation meets the optical performance requirements. An integrated opto-mechanical analysis using FEA combined with Zernike polynomials fitting were successfully to optimum design of remote sensing instrument.


Biceps long head tendon rupture is relatively common and requires approximately four weeks of splintage as a general treatment. Musculocutaneous nerve entrapment is commonly caused by excessive exercise or direct external force. Musculocutaneous nerve syndrome has barely been reported; however, association of biceps long head tendon rupture and musculocutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome has never been reported. The authors experienced a 70-year-old male patient, who suffered a traffic accident and was hospitalized due to shoulder joint pain caused by direct external force, delayed forearm lateral aspect hypoesthesia and elbow flexion weakness. For identification of the cause, magnetic resonance imaging, electromyography, and surgical opinion were synthesized, resulting in diagnosis of delayed musculocutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome occurring after biceps long head tendon rupture. With surgical treatment, pain, sense, and elbow flexion weakness were recovered, a showing successful treatment result.


The study was aimed at understanding the EFL Iraqi students' perspective on speaking anxiety. Specifically, the study investigated the causes of speaking anxiety based on data collected for a pilot study involving two Iraqi EFL postgraduate students in Universiti Utara Malaysia. Pseudonyms were used to refer to the participants as Omer and Sarah. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with the participants. The interview sessions took approximately 15-20 minutes for each participant and were videotaped and audiotaped. Semi-structured interview with 15 questions and probes were used. The results showed that the speaking anxiety experienced by the two Iraqi students were due to the class atmosphere, the teacher's attitudes, lack of vocabulary, rate of speech, different accent and long conversation, fear of being embarrassed and fear of failing to performance. The causes identified are rooted in Iraqi status of English as a foreign language and method of teaching English as well as the teacher's attitude towards their students.


The College of Engineering at NC State has consistently admitted 200-300 transfer students each academic year over the past decade. These students ultimately make up about one quarter of the graduating class in the College of Engineering each year. During this time, annual reports from the College of Engineering regularly reported that approximately 50% of engineering transfer students transferred from one of the 58 institutions in the North Carolina Community College (NC CC) system. This data was extracted from the Office of Admissions database, which reports only the last institution attended, as listed by the transfer applicant. Over the summer/fall 2013 (n=259) and summer/fall 2014 (n=293) transfer cohorts, we collected data on all institutions attended by admitted transfers students and learned that 70% of transfer students each year have previously enrolled at a NC CC. Yet, very few resources were devoted specifically to educating and recruiting prospective transfer students from NC CC's. Instead, students and advisors have historically relied almost entirely on information provided on the NC State website. On these websites, transfer requirements and engineering curricula are provided along with a NC CC equivalency worksheet to assist with course selection prior to transfer. The College of Engineering has been the beneficiary of strong 3+2 dual degree and 2+2 partnerships (TPT's) with institutions like Elon University, Meredith College and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Students transferring from these institutions are provided high-quality advising and enjoy a high acceptance rate due to the strong communication pathways between the College of Engineering and the pre-engineering advisors at these partner institutions. The students at the local North Carolina Community College, Wake Technical Community College, also benefit from accurate, high-quality advising due in large part to the diligence of their pre-engineering advisor who is able to attend advising meetings and stay in regular contact with Engineering Academic Affairs. Inspired by the success of these strong relationships with our TPT partners and motivated by NC State's strategic plan to expand the proportion of transfer students, the College of Engineering teamed with the College of Education at NC State. We established initiatives aimed directly at NC CC's and their communities: 1) to disseminate accurate information regarding engineering at NC State and 2) to develop a valuable network of higher education institutions in North Carolina. In addition to promoting the transfer of high quality students into engineering at NC State, our goal was to improve their retention and performance. In this paper, we detail the strategies we employed to achieve these goals, including programming and publications created by the College of Engineering, targeted solely to NC CC students and advisors. We describe key components of the efforts, share feedback from our NC CC colleagues and transfer students, and discuss best practices for other institutions seeking to create or strengthen their ties with community colleges. Background and motivation Page 26296.2 American students are more and more utilizing the community college system as a stepping stone to access four-year institutions. While students seeking a variety of bachelor's degrees begin at community college, the pathway has become a particularly viable means for students pursuing STEM degrees. In fact, a 2005 study estimated that 20% of engineering degree holders began their academic careers with at least 10 credit hours from community college. Mattis and Sislin delved deeper into this statistic, estimating that 40% of graduates of bachelor's and master's engineering programs across 1999 and 2000 had attended a community college at some point in their careers. Moreover, the NSF reports that more than half of all awardees of bachelor's degrees in science, engineering, and health from 2001-2007 had enrolled at a community college along the way. Over the past decade, annual reports from the College of Engineering at NC State have been consistent with these national data, regularly reporting that approximately 50% of engineering transfer students transferred from one of the 58 institutions in the North Carolina Community College (NC CC) system. This data was extracted from the NC State Office of Admissions database. Limitations existed, however, as the access offered to the College of Engineering (COE) restricted queries to reporting only the last institution a student attended, as listed by the applicant. In an effort to more fully understand the composition of College of Engineering transfer students, we conducted an investigation of the summer/fall 2013 (n=259) and summer/fall 2014 (n=293) transfer cohorts. Upon matriculation, we recorded all institutions attended by transfers students, on an individual admissions file basis, and learned that 71% of transfer students in 2013 and 64% of transfer students in 2014 had previously enrolled at a NC CC. We found that transfer students would often enroll at NC State as a non-degree studies (NDS) student during the semester immediately prior to transferring. As such, students would list their most recent institution as NC State. Therefore, in admissions database queries, these students would be designated as transfers from a four-year institution. Given that transfer students typically make up approximately one quarter of the graduating class in COE each year, a significant portion of NC CC transfers were being overlooked in annual report data, and consequently, in services and programming. Students choose the community college pathway for a number of reasons. For students unsure of their academic goals, starting at community college offers the opportunity to explore various fields without incurring significant debt. Those who are quite sure that they plan to seek an engineering degree may fear the "cost bubble" due to reports on nightly news or online media. While engineering degrees are not often associated with not justifying their cost in lifelong earning analyses, community college tuition still offers significant savings. Table 1 shows tuition rates for NC State and NC CC's for the 2014-2015 academic year. Several engineering programs charge engineering student fees as high as $5,000. While still considered a reasonable rate, NC State has recently requested an increase in the engineering student fee from $90 in 2014 to $500 in 2015 and ultimately to $1,000 in 2016. Depending on engineering major, freshman and sophomore classes may be taken at a community college at a reduced cost with no engineering student fee and little to no effect on overall time toward degree.


ABSTRACT The aim is to contribute knowledge about the ways in which Swedish pupils with a migrant background speak about school performances and their first experiences of being graded. The results describe pupils and parents as positioned as being lower down in a top-down relationship vis-à-vis school. The separation between home and school is best described as robust. Some pupils want and ask for a better school-home relationship because they think it would harmonise the relationship with their parents and facilitate their school work. The main conclusion is that pupils find themselves in a vulnerable position between schools'/teachers' demands and parents' aspirations for them.


The system of labor placement has evolved at great speed since it appeared in our nation,which ever led to a corresponding vacuity of legal theories and legislation.As the promulgations of Labor Contract Law and Law of Tort Liabilities,legal basis have been thereby provide to the regulation of labor placement in our country although there are still many defeats of law remaining need to be consummated because the development duration of the system is considerably short.The relevant responsibilities should be accordingly clear even at a glance as long as the relations between the employing units,labor accepting units and laborer could be ascertained with clarity in the labor placement.


The application of a noncontact air coupled acoustic heating technique is investigated for the inspection of advanced honeycomb composite structures. A weakness in the out of plane stiffness of the structure, caused by a delamination or core damage, allows for the coupling of acoustic energy and thus this area will have a higher temperature than the surrounding area. Air coupled acoustic thermography (ACAT) measurements were made on composite sandwich structures with damage and were compared to conventional flash thermography. A vibrating plate model is presented to predict the optimal acoustic source frequency. Improvements to the measurement technique are also discussed.


Phononic crystals are artificial materials formed by a periodic arrangement of inclusions embedded into a host medium, where each of them can be solid or fluid. By controlling the geometry and the impedance contrast of its constituent materials, one can control the dispersive properties of waves, giving rise to a huge variety of interesting and fundamental phenomena in the context of wave propagation. When a propagating wave encounters a medium with different physical properties it can be transmitted and reflected in lossless media, but also absorbed if dissipation is taken into account. These fundamental phenomena have been classically explained in the context of homogeneous media, but it has been a subject of increasing interest in the context of periodic structures in recent years as well. This thesis is devoted to the study of different effects found in sonic and phononic crystals associated with transmission, reflection and absorption of waves, as well as the development of a technique for the characterization of its dispersive properties, described by the band structure. We start discussing the control of wave propagation in transmission in conservative systems. Specifically, our interest is to show how sonic crystals can modify the spatial dispersion of propagating waves leading to control the diffractive broadening of sound beams. Making use of the spatial dispersion curves extracted from the analysis of the band structure, we first predict zero and negative diffraction of waves at frequencies close to the band-edge, resulting in collimation and focusing of sound beams in and behind a 3D sonic crystal, and later demonstrate it through experimental measurements. The focusing efficiency of a 3D sonic crystal is limited due to the strong scattering inside the crystal, characteristic of the diffraction regime. To overcome this limitation we consider axisymmetric structures working in the long wavelength regime, as a gradient index lens. In this regime, the scattering is strongly reduced and, in an axisymmetric configuration, the symmetry matching with acoustic sources radiating sound beams increase its efficiency dramatically. Moreover, the homogenization theory can be used to model the structure as an effective medium with effective physical properties, allowing the study of the wave front profile in terms of refraction. We will show the model, design and characterization of an efficient focusing device based on these concepts. Consider now a periodic structure in which one of the parameters of the lattice, such as the lattice constant or the filling fraction, gradually changes along the propagation direction. Chirped crystals represent this concept and are used here to demonstrate a novel mechanism of sound wave enhancement based on a phenomenon known as ?soft? reflection. The enhancement is related to a progressive slowing down of the wave as it propagates along the material, which is associated with the group velocity of the local dispersion relation at the planes of the crystal. A model based on the coupled mode theory is proposed to predict and interpret this effect. Two different phenomena are observed here when dealing with dissipation in periodic structures. On one hand, when considering the propagation of in-plane sound waves in a periodic array of absorbing layers, an anomalous decrease in the absorption, combined with a simultaneous increase of reflection and transmission at Bragg frequencies is observed, in contrast to the usual decrease of transmission, characteristic in conservative periodic systems at these frequencies. For a similar layered media, backed now by a rigid reflector, out-of-plane waves impinging the structure from a homogeneous medium will increase dramatically the interaction strength. In other words, the time delay of sound waves inside the periodic system will be considerably increased resulting in an enhanced absorption, for a broadband spectral range. Finally, a new methodology for elastic band structure calculation is presented. Based on the finite-element in time-domain method, we consider a single unit cell applying Bloch boundary conditions depending on space and time, and compute the band structure by implementing a time-marching algorithm. A wide-band frequency signal excites the Bloch modes allowed to vibrate in the periodic structure and, by analyzing the time-history data, and spanning the Bloch wave vector along the Brillouin zone, we are able to detect these Bloch modes needed to build the dispersion relation of the system. The computational method is characterized in terms of accuracy, convergence and computation times.


PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing a capacitor with a high aspect ratio is provided to improve an etching rate by preventing not-open and a sloped profile. CONSTITUTION: A first silicon layer (25) is formed on a semiconductor substrate (21). A second silicon layer (26) is formed on the first silicon layer. An open part is formed by etching the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer. A storage node is formed on the open part. The first silicon layer and the second silicon layer are removed.


The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between TQM practices and teacher's job satisfaction. The TQM practices such as customer focus, board of school
management commitment, continuous improvement and teacher involvement. The objectives of this study are to investigate (a) the differences between job satisfaction and gender, (b) the differences between job satisfaction and academic qualification, (c) the differences between job satisfaction and the position in school, (d) the differences between job satisfaction and teaching experience, (e) the relationship between customer focus and job satisfaction, (f) the relationship between board of school commitment and job satisfaction, (g) the relationship between continuous improvement and job satisfaction and (h) the relationship between teacher involvement and job satisfaction. 285 teachers from twelve secondary schools have been chosen randomly as respondent. The study instrument used to measure TQM practices were taken from the questionaires by Das, Paul and Swierczek (2008). Eventhough these questionaires contain ten dimensions, but there are only four used as construct which are consistently used to explain the TQM practices. This instrument used five-point Likert-type scale. To measure teacher job satisfaction, Teaching Satisfaction Scale (TSS) questionaires by Chung-Lim Ho and Wing-Tung Au were used in this study. T-Test and One Way ANOVA were used to test the differences, whereas Pearson Correlation were used to test the relationship between TQM practices variables and job satisfaction. The findings revealed that the job satisfaction mean score for female teacher is more than male
teacher. The findings shows that the differences between job satisfaction and the gender and the differences between job satisfaction and the position in school. For academic qualification and teaching experience, the findings shows that there was no differences
for job satisfaction. Lastly, the findings shows that there were positive and significant
relationship among job satisfaction and customer focus, board of school management
commitment, continuous improvement and teacher involvement


This article studies a continuous-time mean-variance (MV) portfolio selection problem with reinforcement learning (RL). The MV problem is described by an exploratory, relaxed stochastic control problem, which is first proposed and developed by Wang et al. (2020) and Wang and Zhou (2020). Different from Wang and Zhou (2020), we minimize the variance and maximize the expected terminal return at the same time in the context of reinforcement learning, which is a generalization of Wang and Zhou (2020). By constructing an auxiliary problem, the optimal feedback control (or "policy" or "law") for our problem is obtained, which is Gaussian with time-decaying variance.


Portugal and Spain are still relying heavily in fossil fuels. In the year 2007 around 64% of Portugal's and 61% of Spain's total electricity generation was provided by conventional, fossil-fuel based power plants. Due to the high dependency of Portugal's and Spain's power sector on fossil fuels, the related CO2 emissions of this sector are very high. To limit climate change to an acceptable level, where its consequences are limited to a minimum, it is necessary to define the cap in temperature increase with 2-degree Celsius, compared to pre-industrial level. To reach this ambitious target, carbon dioxide emissions of industrialized countries, including Portugal and Spain, have to be reduced by at least 80% by 2050. These changes will include a sharp increase in electricity generation out of renewable energy sources, strict energy efficiency measures and the induction of CCS technologies for coaland gasfired power plants. The objective of the following study was to analyze the necessity and technical and economical viability of CCS systems for Portugal's and Spain's power sector, in order to decarbonize the Iberian power sector by 2050. For that purpose the carbon dioxide LPS (large point sources) of the power sectors and possible storage sides for CO2 were identified and a source-sink matching analysis was performed by mapping the LPS sources and potential geological sinks to analyze the proximity of sources and sinks. Furthermore the future economic potential of RES for electricity production was identified. For that two different scenarios were developed. In a first scenario 60% of electricity generation will be covered by RES and the remaining 40% in even shares by CCS based coaland gasfired power plants. The second scenario assumes 80% RES and 20% CCS. For Spain in both scenarios nuclear power generation is considered with a share of 10%. In the last part of the thesis the economical parameters for different power generation technologies were analyzed and the Levelized Cost of Electricity Generation (LCOE) by 2050 calculated. As the results show, the break-even price for CO2 certificates will be around 25 €/t in order to make coal based CCS power plants economical viable. For gas-fired power plants the break-even price is around 83 €/t.


Herein, a simple structure, nonchlorinated solvent processable high mobility donor–acceptor conjugated polymer, poly(2,5‐bis(4‐hexyldodecyl)‐2,5‐dihydro‐3,6‐di‐2‐thienyl‐pyrrolo[3,4‐c]pyrrole‐1,4‐dione‐alt‐thiophene) (PDPPT3‐HDO), is reported. The enhanced solubility in nonchlorinated solvent is realized based on a denser alkyl side chains strategy by incorporating small size comonomer thiophene. An associated benefit of thiophene comonomer is the remarkable structural simplicity of the resulting polymer, which is advantageous for industrial scaling up. The alkyl side chain density and structure of PDPPT3‐HDO can efficiently control the self‐assembly properties in solution and film. By bar coating from o‐xylene solution, PDPPT3‐HDO forms aligned films and exhibits high hole mobility of up to 9.24 cm2 V−1 s−1 in organic thin film transistors (OTFTs). Notably, the bar‐coated OTFT based on PDPPT3‐HDO shows a close to ideal transistor model and a high mobility reliability factor of 87%. The multiple benefits of increased side chain density strategy may encourage the design of high mobility polymers that meet the requirements of mass production of OTFT materials and devices.


The authors thank the Portuguese FCT (Grants PTDC/CTM/73030/2006, PTDC/CTM/69316/2006 and NANO/NMed-SD/0156/2007 and SFRH/BPD/63148/2009 (V.S.)) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Innovation (Project No. MAT2007-66759-C03-01).


This paper builds a basic model of studying diversified corporation discounts from information asymmetry in internal capital market. Divisional managers exaggerate the project information to corporate headquarter, which lead to misallocation investment resources and harm corporate value. By using Chinese listed firms as study sample, this paper testifies the proposition of the model.


determination of essence, which reveals itself to be in truth the concept, we should say that the logical is only the ground for the real in g r o u n d against c o n c e p t ? 105 that this ground is in itself the concept. But precisely, this temptation to explain the concrete (rational) category of the concept by the abstract category (stemming from the understanding) of ground [. . .] perhaps expresses the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of grasping as concept the relation of the logical and the real, of thought and being. We are reaching here [. . .] a major problem – perhaps the problem – posed by Hegelianism.19 Now of course, according to Hegel it is strictly speaking not possible to oppose the perspective of ground to that of the concept. For it is already a misinterpretation to understand ground from a perspective of separation between ground and the grounded. Ground is nothing outside that which it grounds, and what it grounds is nothing independently of ground: such is the unity of ground and conditions, which leads to Hegel's definition of the absolutely unconditioned, to which I now turn.20 Ground, conditions, absolutely unconditioned "Complete ground" presented us with a reflection that was at once positing and presupposing. Ground posits being as a unity of determinations. This means that ground constitutes this real unity at the same time as the latter is "superseded," since it exists only through the ground that posits it. This is the side of "positing" reflection. But on the other hand, reflection is "positing" only insofar as it is "presupposing." What is "posited" must have already been there, presupposed, in order to be reflected. "Complete ground" presupposes real determinations, and reflects the relation between these determinations as posited by itself. Thus "ground" is the side of unity (in thought). "Condition" is the side of real determinations, of empirical multiplicity. Each of these two sides is, with respect to the other, relatively independent, i.e. relatively unconditioned. First, the condition is relatively independent with respect to the ground for which it is the condition. Posited as condition, determinate being [das Dasein] has the determination [. . .] of losing its indifferent immediacy and becoming the moment of something else. Through its immediacy it is indifferent to this relation; but, in so far as it enters into this relation, it constitutes the in itself of the ground, and is for the latter the unconditioned. (GW 11, 315; S. 6, 114;


Monthly treatment with two neutralizing antibodies maintained HIV suppression in almost half of children who received early antiretroviral treatment (Shapiro et al.). Description Monthly treatment with two neutralizing antibodies maintained HIV suppression in almost half of children who received early antiretroviral therapy (Shapiro et al.).


Background: Perinatal asphyxia (PNA) remains a significant cause of death and disability despite the important advances in perinatal care in the past decades. Early neonatal mortality within the first 24 hours contributes substantially to overall neonatal mortality rates. Estimates of the incidence of perinatal asphyxia vary, in resource-rich countries is about 1/1000 live births and in resource-poor countries is probably much more common, an incidence of 5–10/1000 live births and represents the second most common cause of neonatal death (24%) after preterm birth related complications (35%). About one quarter of all neonatal deaths globally are caused by PNA & an equal number of serious neurological consequences ranging from cerebral palsy & mental retardation to epilepsy.
Objective: To determine how well neonatal arterial blood pH and base deficit predict immediate outcome (survival to discharge) following perinatal asphyxia.
Methods: This was a prospective study conducted in the delivery room and adjacent neonatal area (NICU) of Ad-din Medical College Hospital (AMCH), over 6 months from 1st June and 30th November, 2017. Research assistants were trained to observe and record events related to labor and neonatal resuscitation. Patient information was obtained which included patient characteristics (gender, birth weight & gestational age) and APGAR scores at and beyond 5 minutes. Within one hour of delivery all admitted neonates were subjected to an arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis by GEM Premier 3000 blood gas analyzer and pH and base deficit were noted. All the neonates were classified according to GA, BW and Gender. After proper cleaning the collected data were analyzed thoroughly. Descriptive analyses were performed; differences in outcome by GA, BW, Gender, APGAR scores and ABG (pH and base deficit) status were determined using analysis of variance. Analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version (Chi-Square test).
Results: A total 50 neonates were studied in this period of which 72% survived & 28 % expired. Death was mostly observed in neonate who had very high level of base deficit (> 20mmol/L) & very low pH (pH <7.0) in 1st hour postnatal ABG. Survival rate was higher, 94.7% in >35 - <37 weeks GA group in comparison of >37 weeks (58%) of GA (p = 0.0050). The neonates with birth weight (BW ) >2000 - <2500 gm were observed 77.78% survival and 68.75% in neonates with BW >2500gm (p = 0.494). In this study most of the neonates were male (70%) & recovery rate was relatively better among baby boys (74.3%) than baby girls (66.67%) (p = 0.582). High APGAR score neonates had better rate of recovery than poor APGAR score neonates. The neonates with APGAR score 4-6 beyond 5 minutes were observed 88.33% survival & the neonates with APGAR score 0-3 beyond 5minutes were 55% survival (p= 0.028). High pH value neonates in 1st hour ABG were found higher rate of survival in comparison to low pH value neonates. It was 83.33% in pH 7.10- <7.20 neonates, 72.73% in pH 7.0- <7.10 neonates and 33.33% in pH <7.0 neonates respectively (p=0.0136). The neonates with high level of base deficit in 1st hour ABG showed lower rate of survival than low level of base deficit neonates. It was 12.5% in base deficit > 20mmol/L neonates, 33.33% in base deficit > 15 - 20mmol/L neonates & 87.18% in base deficit > 12 -15mmol/L neonates respectively (p=0.00003).
Conclusion: From this study it is concluded that initial pH and base deficit of 1st hour ABG of neonates along with APGAR score at or beyond 5 minutes is a good predictor of risk & immediate outcome following perinatal asphyxia. A good percentage of neonates recover due to early diagnosis, meticulous nursing care and timely intervention.
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.18(2) 2019 p.238-243


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Objective:To preschool children early detection,urinary iodine level monitor idd.Methods:Using random sampling method,the extraction 8,9,10 years old three age groups preschool children,then the various 450 cases of arsenic cerium catalytic spectrophotometry urine iodine level.Results:The total survey school-age children 1350 patients,urine iodine 309.1+mean (32.7) mg/L.The iodine intervention measures that the already can satisfy the school-age children DianYan physiological needs,popularize the school-age children born after already no longer lack iodine nutrition,ensuring that the phased eliminating IDD results.Three age groups between the sexes and every age group mean between school-age children urine iodine there were no significant difference (P﹥0.05),indicating that the above three age groups of children,strong consistency is higher,representative iodine nutrition and discharge level does not exist population differences.Conclusion:Sampling shows three age groups children urine normal levels iodine.


Hydrogen storage tanks, food processing machinery, medical equipment, general machinery, other stainless steel machine has been used and CFRP integrated products, and more rational design products, it is an object to weight. Stainless steel 22 in which the ultra-fine irregularities of the special and constant surface have been found to produce strong adhesion in combination with an epoxy resin adhesive. Using this technique, the cover material stainless steel thickness plate pieces 22, can be created stainless steel composite 20 integrated with the CFRP 21, it can be assembled by bolting and another metal member . Moreover, by utilizing the intense adhesion, the main structure is the end portion can be easily created structural member is a metal with CFRP 21. It can easily be exploded by other components and bolts and nuts or screws.


.................................................................................................................. v CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background of the Study ....................... ........................................................... 1 1.1.1 Environment Dependence................... .. .. .................................................. 2 1.1.2 Competitive Environment..................................................................... 4 1.1.3 The Kenyan Insurance Industry ........................................................... 5 1.1.4 Jubilee Insurance Company of Kenya Limited .. ..... ..................................... 7 1.2 Research Problem ...................................................................................... 8 1.3 Research Objectives ................................................................................ 10 1.4 Value of the Study .................................................................................... 10 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW .............................................................................. 12 2.


Via the federal Technology Reinvestment Program, an existing military integrated position-location and communication system based on networked spread-spectrum radios is being adapted to satisfy safety-critical operational requirements for train location and control in railroad and transit applications. Radios installed on trains, at wayside locations, and at control stations, participate in a synchronous time-slotted network, enabling location determination in conjunction with reliable transfer of control information.


Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae is one of the most controversial ecclesial documents issued in the last century, still dividing on account of the document's teaching concerning the licitness of contraception. Related to its position as a flash point in the contraception debate within the Catholic Church, Humanae vitae also served as a major influence on moral theology in general, questioning not just the application of principles, but the principles themselves. While Humanae vitae does not provide a full account of natural law, the account used is a decidedly Thomistic one, where the acts of natural law are those corresponding to virtue.


The authors examine the concepts "Acceleration" and "Time" in the context of other constants of the utopian type of consciousness based on the material of the works Zangezi (1922), the poem Boards of Destiny (1922), as well as other poetic, dramatic works, treatises and articles by Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), a futurist poet, a consistent "budetlyanin", a unique, not fully understood and underestimated utopian thinker. The line-by-line analysis of metaphors and intertextual connections of Zangezi allows the authors to show Khlebnikov's innovation in solving the main issue of utopia – achieving happiness and likening a person to God. According to the authors of this article, the poet's innovation consists in a special interpretation of the analyzed concepts that fit into the general conceptual framework of utopia and that are objectified by techniques familiar to the utopian thought of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and developed in the context of the futuristic ideas of their time. The artistic integrity of Zangezi is achieved by the widest hypertext that Khlebnikov provides by using the literary method "zaum". Meanings, ideas, symbols, images from the seemingly disordered text transform into a harmonious embodiment of the main idea of conquering time. Zaum is a code for hypertext, a symbolic canvas Khlebnikov draws through the cultural contexts of different eras and peoples. Zaum is needed to read the new utopian idea that previous generations uncovered to the prophetic poet – "shaman". The cultural code Khlebnikov deciphered and presented in his final supersaga Zangezi does not "throw off the ship of modernity" the achievements of other cultures and generations, but unites them, forming a new universal timeless continuum, where time (past, present, future) remain, but the transience of life is not essential since a person can "walk" in time. He controls it completely and he has the ability to go to the past or the future, connect with the following or previous generations. Khlebnikov offers his own solution to the problem of the "siege of time, words and multiplicities", his own breakthrough into the Future, more precisely, into all times – into a timeless continuum.


Several recent reports have emphasized the potential usefulness of determinations of plasma B2 microglobulin (B2m) and femtin in the evaluation and prognosis of some patients with lymphoproliferative disorders (LD) (1, 2, 3). Recently the level of B2m in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been considered a useful marker of infiltration in the CNS during myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative processes (4). To establish whether CSF B2m and ferritin concentrations reflect differences between patients with lymphoid neoplastic involvement in CNS and patients with bacterial meningitis, we have correlated their levels in both processes. Material and methods. CNS fluid was collected from 26 patients who had LD, with or without clinical evidence of CNS involvement. In 9 patients the diagnosis of CNS infiltration was based on the presence of tumor cells in CSF, along with compatible neurologic symptoms and signs. Specimens from 6 patients with bacterial meningitis (5 with Neisseria meningitis, 1 with Hemophilus influenza) were evaluated as well. Because CSF from normal donors was not available, our reference values of B2m and ferritin were determined on 10 patients with various diseases (6 cerebral trombosis, 2 headache and 2 head injury) with CSF normal. A sample of the fluid was centrifuged and stored at -20°C. B2m and ferritin levels in CSF were measured by radioimmunoassay using the "Phadebas B2 micro test" and "Phadebas ferritin test" (Pharmacia Diagnostic, Uppsala, Sweden). The statistical analyses used were Student's t for B2m; for ferritin, the values do not have a normal distribution, which is why statistical analysis was camed out with nonparametric tests (Mann-Whitney's U test) ( 5 ) . Results and comments. Table 1 and Figs. 1 and 2 show the results obtained. Comparing the different groups, there was statistic significance for B2m and ferritin between patients with lymphoid neoplastic involvement in CNS and patients with LD without CNS infiltration (p<O.OOl and p<O.Ol, for B2m and ferritin, respectively). Patients with neoplastic infiltration and patients with bacterial meningitis did not show any difference i-ese proteins. The levels of B2 m and fe&itin were serially determined in CSF from two patients with


High cost is the dominating factor of convectional construction material which is affecting the housing system. As an alternative method to overcome this drawback which is decreasing the strength of building, it is necessary to make research on any alternating materials which will decrease the cost and increase the strength of concrete. This convectional construction material also made some problem to the environment cannot lead to proper disposal and many more results on increasing the impact on the environment. But coconut fiber which is natural fiber makes no effect on environment and also increases the strength of concrete compare to use of convectional fiber. Coconut fibre as one of the natural fibres abundantly available in tropical regions, how it is extracted from the husk of coconut fruit with its physical, chemical and mechanical properties are discussed. This paper presents the versatility of coconut fibres and its applications in different branches of engineering, particularly in civil engineering as a construction material.


This paper describes an algorithmic method iterative method for searching power series solutions of a partial differential equation. Power series expansions considered have support in some convex cone of RN. We do this by introducing a N-variables analog of the Newton polygon construction, used in the case of ordinary differential equations.


Provided is a wire loose prevention device for coli production of a power transformer with the purpose of solving the problem that wires may get loose due to desynchrony of a wire roller and a coil winding machine during the process of winding a coil of the transformer.Side plates are arranged at the top of a base. The tops of the side plates are provided with limiting grooves. A rotary wheel is rotatably installed on an outer side wall of one side plate. One end, facing the side plate, of the rotary plate is fixed with a hollow positioner. The inner wall of the positioned is composed of two segments of circular arc surfaces and two segments of planes. One end, away from the positioner, of the rotary wheel is fixed with a positioning ring, the inner wall of which is provided with multiple inserting holes. The outer wall of the side plate having the rotary wheel is provided with a support plate. The upper end of the support plate is fixed with a support in the shape of a circular ring. The support stretches into an inner cavity of the positioning ring. The support is further provided with a locking assembly for achieving relative fixation of the positioning ring and the support. The wire loose prevention device for coli production of the power transformer helps to increase efficiency of coil production by effectively preventing wires of the wire roll from loosening during the process of winding the transformer coil.


reading program, a plan that offers the time and opportunity for individuals to examine issues and problems relevant to their own lives through the themes of literature. Bibliotherapy requires a special sensitivity during discussion, when teacher and pupil sit together to examine the story's problems. Teachers are not therapists, yet most with whom I have talked find a need to deal with the concerns of today's trou


To solve fatigue failure problem of the clamparm of the heavy-load forging manipulator,an FEA fatigue analysis was used.Based on the fact that the worst load case took place in the actual forging process,the main forging procedure of stretching was simulated and the load spectrums for fatigue analysis of the clamparm were obtained.Then a multiaxial fatigue assessment and an exact finite element fatigue analysis were performed.It can be concluded that the most dangerous situation is the rectangular cross-section workpiece forged at the location close to the forging manipulator,and the clamparm experiences proportional multiaxial loads.The inherent shortcomings of the structure have great influence on the fatigue life.


Malignant melanoma is an aggressive tumor of the skin and still lacks effective preventive and therapeutic approaches. In melanoma, both the BRAF/MEK/ERK and PI3-K/AKT signaling pathways are constitutively activated though multiple mechanisms, which result in cell cycle progression and prevention of apoptosis. Therefore, the development of novel strategies for targeting BRAF and PI3-K are of utmost importance. In the current study, we found that the Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei) chalcones, 4-hydroxyderricin (4HD) and xanthoangelol (XAG), suppressed melanoma carcinogenesis by directly targeting both BRAFV600E and PI3-K, which blocked the activation of downstream signaling. This led to the induction of G1 phase cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in melanoma cells. Importantly, 4HD and XAG dramatically attenuated tumor incidence and volume in the BRAF-activated Pten-deficient melanoma mouse model. Our findings suggest that 4HD and XAG are promising chemopreventive or potential therapeutic agents against melanomagenesis that act by targeting both BRAF and PI3-K, providing hope for rapid clinical translation. Citation Format: Tianshun Zhang, Qiushi Wang, Hitoshi Ashida, Ann Bode, Zigang Dong. The Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei) chalcones 4-hydroxyderricin and xanthoangelol suppress melanomagenesis by targeting BRAF and PI3-K [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4798.


This The pellet sintering process is a physical chemistry process, which is pure time-delay and non-linear with more variables and discrete parameters. In order to solve this problem, a new BP algorithm of NN for the temperature identification of sintering shaft furnace is introduced in this paper. BP network is combined with PID control and simulation effects are given with MATLAB. The experiment results show this method can make the temperature of firebox conform the requirement of the control standard and can also improve the output and quality of the products.


In gas-driven flow focusing, mechanical disturbance is applied to modulate formation of droplets under the condition that the jet breaks at a high speed. By changing the conditions of jet generation, a systematic experimental study of the relevant parameters is carried out. In the axisymmetric mode, the diameter and velocity of the jet are affected by changing the flow rate and pressure drop condition. The results show that the jet can be regulated in a very large range, and the size of the generated droplets can also be accurately predicted. For viscous liquids, mechanical disturbances can also be used to make them break uniformly within a certain range. Due to the high frequency and precise controllability of droplet preparation in the experiment, these findings can be extended to more fields for practical applications.


Experiments were conducted to detect partial-discharge (PD) pulses in the presence of solid dielectrics (PTFE and glass-filled epoxy) as well as breakdown pulses in SF/sub 6/, N/sub 2/, and SF/sub 6/-N/sub 2/ mixtures under uniform field conditions using a broadband detection system. The effects of circuit parameters, overvoltages, gas pressure, and the distance between electrodes on pulse shapes were studied for various proportions of SF/sub 6/ in SF/sub 6/-N/sub 2/ mixtures. The observed PD pulses are similar to breakdown pulses for longer electrode gaps (>0.3 cm). In the case of surface discharges the pulses are oscillatory in nature and inconsistent in shape and magnitude. The effect of saturation on the increase in breakdown voltage of SF/sub 6/-N/sub 2/ mixtures with increase in percentage of SF/sub 6/ (i.e. synergism) is also observed in the presence of the solid dielectric. This synergistic effect is reflected in corresponding observed PD pulse shapes.<<ETX>>


All seahorse species found in Thai waters are categorized as vulnerable according to the IUCN Red List. Management and conservation plans for seahorse populations require basic knowledge of their population genetic structure and geological history. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate phylogeographical patterns of three commercially important seahorses in Thai waters, the spotted ( Hippocampus kuda ), the hedgehog ( H. spinosissimus ) and the three-spotted ( H. trimaculatus ) seahorses, based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. DNA sequences of three species were derived from previous studies in phylogeny of Thai seahorses and comparative phylogeography of Southeast Asian seahorses. The analyses of partial cytochrome b sequences from H. kuda (7 haplotypes, n=40), H. spinosissimus (24 haplotypes, n=32) and H. trimaculatus (13 haplotypes, n=28) suggested a distinct phylogeographical pattern in one out of the three species studied (the Gulf of Thailand vs . the Andaman Sea populations in H. kuda ). A distinct phylogeographical pattern in the shallow-water species, H. kuda could be explained by external factors, including geographical isolation between two oceans during the Pleistocene (2.5 million-10,000 years ago), along with ecological differences among species. The Pleistocene separation had no apparent effect on the present-day patterns of two deeper-water species, H. spinosissimus and H. trimaculatus , as their subsequent distribution could have blurred historical separation.


Two dependent examples are presented. 1. An example of two different convex 3D polytopes such that for each pair of their parallel facets, the facets are different, and there exists a unique translation putting one facet inside the other. 2. An example of a pointed tiling of S generated by a Laman-plus-one graph which can be regularly triangulated without adding new vertices. The paper explores the relationship between the theory of pseudo triangulations and the theory of hyperbolic virtual polytopes.


STAT1(Signal transducer and activator of transcription 1) protein is a cytoplasmic transcription factor which activity is linked to cell growth,survival,differentiation,apoptosis and interferon stimulation.And as a special inhibitor of STAT1,PIAS1(Protein inhibitor of activated STAT1) blocks DNA binding activity of STAT1 and inhibits STAT1-mediated gene activation in response to cytokine stimulation.STAT1 and PIAS1 have been extensively studied these years,however,systematic studies of STAT1 and PIAS1 expression during mammary development are lacking.In this study,qRT-PCR,western blotting and immunofluorescence were used to analyze the expression and location of STAT1 and PIAS1 during murine mammary development.Results suggested that STAT1,PIAS1 mRNA and protein levels were significantly elevated from pregnancy to lactation.And expression of them was mainly localized in the peripheral of mammary gland ductal epithelial cells and acinar cells,and weak in matrix.The results showed that the expression of STAT1 and PIAS1 in the moue mammary gland in quantity and location,and revealed their relationship with murine mammary gland development.


Greywater (GW) can be separated in different fractions where the kitchen component might be included. Constructed wetland (CW) systems are commonly used for the onsite treatment of GW, and the fraction treated might impact the performance, operation, and maintenance. These aspects are still poorly explored in the literature and are of importance for a proper design and system sustainability. In this study, a multi-stage household-scale CW system composed of a horizontal flow (HF), followed by a vertical flow (VF) unit, was monitored over 1330 days, focusing on different GW fractions and hydraulic and organic loading rates. The biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) was ~50% lower without the kitchen sink component (GWL) in the system inlet, while no drop was observed in the chemical oxygen demand (COD). Treatment with the GWL component caused a sudden drop in the hydraulic loading rate applied at the HF-CW (~114 to 35 mm per day) and the VF-CW (~230 to 70 mm per day). Even when the HF-CW received ~90 gCOD m−2 per day (GW), the multistage system reached a COD removal of 90%. The lower BOD load when treating GWL avoids clogging and decreases the frequency of maintenance. These variables can be used for the optimal design and operation of a CW, contributing with empirical data to CW guidelines in Brazil, and could additionally be expanded for application in other countries with similar climates.


No particular difficulty was met in the demonstration of the atrioventricular node and bundel of His in the human heart when standard methods such as that described by RENON and GERAUDEL (posteriorly referred as MAHAIM's method) was followed. The figures here presented refer to a white female 36 years old, not infected by Schizotrypanum cruzi, whose heart was apparently normal, macro and microscopically. They will be useful for comparison with similar structures to be latter reported in patients with chronic Chagas's disease. Our results confirm the total absence of ganglion-cells and nerves in the atrioventricular node and bundle of His of the human heart as opposed to what is found in the ungulates as well as the continuity between muscular fibers of the left branch and ordinary muscle fibers, and the presence of Purkinjke fibers in the musculature of the left ventricle lying immediately beneath the left branch which renders sometimes difficult to demarcate such a structure. A comprehensive survey of the literature was given, and the text transcribed whenever if was felt that a translation would perhaps distort the real meaning of the author.


A study was made of the dynamics of formation of laser erosion plasma jets, of the reflection and scattering of laser radiation, and of the brightness temperatures of the target surface as well as of the plasma jets generated as a result of interaction of quasi-cw neodymium laser pulses with Duralumin at moderate laser radiation power densities (q ~1–9 MW/cm2). The observed intermittent formation of the jets (characterized by a period of ~ 3–5 μsec) was related to the inhomogeneous nature of the evaporation and plasma formation in the range q = 4–6 MW/cm2. A study was made of the dynamics of the arrival of condensed phase particles and of their influence on the screening effect of erosion plasma jets. A correlation was established between pulsations of the intensity of the radiation emitted by these jets (characterized by a period of ~ 30–50 μsec), observed in the range q = 4–6 MW/cm2, and pulsations of the intensity of the scattered laser radiation and of the brightness temperature of the jets, which were due to an irregular supply of the condensed phase.


In the contemporary perception, security has ceased to be a luxury in governments or businesses that are concerned with the safeguarding of their sensitive data and privacy. This is as a result of the unswerving emergence of the niggling security threats which are found in dynamic IT systems. The primary purpose of this project is to scrutinize the effect that cyber-attacks has on acute infrastructure. This research essentially relies on qualitative data principally from secondary sources to define the objectives. The study institutes those emergent threats on security including sky Wiper (Flame), the Moonlight maze Stuxnet, and logic bomb as being critical concerns that several governments still struggle to combat. Basing his facts on the above findings, the author does recommend that the owners of critical infrastructure must establish the basic measures to combat these worms. Additionally, appropriate strategies should be put in place so as to address the issue in case it occurs in their firms. Moreover, the author gives a recommendation to scholars to conduct much more in-depth studies in order to determine the extent of these problems.


Lindberg et al., outlining the results of an eight-year retrospective study of Hemophilus influenzae type b meningitis, report an increased prevalence of neurologic and audiologic sequelae among children treated with ampicillin and chloramphenicol compared to children treated with either drug alone. The authors state, however, that cases treated with the combination of antibiotics occurred only in the last three years of the study. These patients, therefore, presumably had shorter-term follow-up than patients in other groups.


Celebrated as the only success of the Arab Spring, Tunisia has managed to deal with numerous challenges in the post-revolutionary period, thanks to the ability of the main political and social actors to frame compromises. However, the numerous forms of compromises that have characterized the Tunisian transition as well as their implications for democratic pluralism should be examined critically. The article analyses the institutional political transactions that have occurred since 2011 and shows that they have been marked by two different ways of envisaging compromise : reasoned confrontation or containment. It shows how, between 2011 and 2015, the much debated opposition between islamists and secularists has been replaced by a different, more decisive opposition between the partisans of democratic pluralism and the supporters of forced consensus.


David Rosenberger, Anne Rugh, and Frederick Meyer Cornell University's Hudson Valley Laboratory, Highland, NY Most inoculum of blue mold decay recycles from year to year on field bins. Good bin sanitation can keep inoculum levels low. If fruit must be treated with diphenylamine after harvest to control physiological storage disorders, then adding either Scholar or Penbotec to the drench solution will protect fruit from decay inoculum that collects in the drench solutions. This work supported by the New York Apple Research and Development Program and the New York Apple Research Association.


Objective To investigate the imaging of breast cancer in MRI dynamic enhanced scan and DWI,and the value in diagnosing the lesions' quality.Methods Collected and analyzed MRI imaging data of fifty cases breast cancer patients confirmed by pathology in our hospital.Results Breast caner presented slightly low signal by MRI plain csan and T1WI,class or slightly high signal by T2WI.The tumor's shape is irregular,some have leaflet,fuzzy boundaries,visible spicule sing,were uneven reinforcement by enhancement scan.The time-signal intensity curve is given priority to Ⅲ type curve,which take up 68%;Ⅱ type curve is less,take up 22%;Ⅰ type curve at least,only 10%.Thy early intensive rate of invasive cribriform cancer was highest,infiltrating ductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma in the next place,and mucous adenocarcinoma was lowest,compare the four cancer,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05);Compare peak reinforcement rate,the difference didn't have statistical significance(P0.05).The ADC of the lesions is(0.98±0.23)×10-3mm2/s,the ADC of the offside normal breast is(2.09±0.22)×10-3mm2/s,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).ConclusionMRI dynamic enhanced scan and DWI for breast cancer's qualitative diagnosis has important clinical value,it is worth clinical application.


This paper continues our work [1-3] on the search and optimization capabilities of teams of independent automata. We shall present numerical data on some mechanisms of adaptation of optimizing automata. These mechanisms represent attempts to overcome the basic contradiction, inherent in any search system, between the desire to maximize the speed of search for the proper action (i.e., minimize the number of purposeless actions) and the desire to maintain a sufficiently large repertoire of such actions. Such attempts, induced by biological associations, involve the introduction of inhibitions and excitations that are produced by the system itself in response to its estimate of the effect of these actions (this estimate can be termed emotional), and also the introduction of the estimates (which accumulate during the operation of the system) of the individual automata taking part in the process.


The study examined the technical efficiency of tomato production in Guyuk Local Government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 100 farmers using purposive and simple random sampling with aid of structured schedule. The result of the stochastic frontier production function analysis shows that the variance parameters, that is the sigma squared (δ2) and the gamma (γ) were statistically significant at 1% level for tomato production. The coefficient of farm size and seed were positive and significant at 1% level while family and hired labor was negative and insignificant. Profit level can be increased by increasing the farm size and quantity of seed, and decreasing the use of manual labor. Mean efficiency were 0.69, Farmers operated at 31.03% below frontier level due to variation in technical efficiency. The inefficiency model shows that the coefficient of Age, Gender and family size have negative apriori sign and in consonance with the apriori expectation. Better use of technology dissemination was suggested to enhance the production level at farmers field and optimum utilization of resources.


The creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) triggered various reactions worldwide, which ranged from indifference and suspicion to demands for cooperation. Iran was quick to seize the SCO's potential, relinquished the official position of non-alignment it had held since 1979 and applied for full membership on 24 March 2008. This article analyses the rationale for Iran's shift from its traditional policy of non-alignment to seeking full membership of the SCO. The article also argues that global changes have created opportunities for three key actors—China, Iran and Russia—to consolidate their regional influence and curb US hegemony in Asia and the Indian Ocean Region.


We might speak of a poetics of the monstruous in Góngora. Looming in the field of hyperbolic or paradoxical figures, the monster is a central principal of his writing. In Gracián's El Criticón, the monster becomes a category of moral thought, a concept so enlarged as to embrace the typical manifestations of the human being. Fragments of the late gothic morphology of the monstruous endure as membra disjecta in Spanish baroque literature – though their status has changed. In the Seventeenth century, monstrosity issued from the perspective adopted by the artist ; his vision and method of representation converged to create it.


Four comparative, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trials of oral rizatriptan versus oral sumatriptan including one Phase II trial and three Phase III trials were reported in this study. Forty mg rizatriptan was found to be more effective than 100 mg sumatriptan, but was associated with a high incidence of adverse effects. Five mg rizatriptan was comparable to 50 mg sumatriptan. In two trials, rizatriptan 10 mg, the recommended dose in most countries, had a more rapid onset of action than 50 mg and 100 mg of sumatriptan. In addition, 10 mg of rizatriptan resulted in more patients being pain-free after 2 h than 100 mg of sumatriptan, and resulted in fewer drug-related adverse events than sumatriptan.


Thermal desorption is an easy-to-use technique, but it implies some precautions and is of less general use than chemical desorption. The recovery of adsorbed compounds is based onto the different shape of adsorption isotherms at different temperatures. Since quantitative desorption of trapped molecules should ideally be accomplished at moderate temperatures, only weak adsorbing media are employed, with active adsorbing surface between 10 and 50 times smaller than that of activated charcoal. Use of thermal desorption requires therefore an accurate preliminary investigation about the adsorbed compound adsorbing medium pair. Stronger adsorbents are suitable for very volatile compounds, but will yield only partial desorption of heavier compounds. Anyway, backdiffusion (see page A3) is always lying in wait: due to the adsorbing medium weakness heavier compounds will eventually displace the more volatile ones. Once you have made an accurate choice of the adsorbing material, therefore, you should bear in mind that a real atmosphere is composed by a variety of compounds apart from those you are analyzing at unpredictable concentrations. As a consequence, sampling times can not be as long as those allowed by activated charcoal, otherwise lighter compounds will be lost. With the purpose of allowing reasonable sampling times (up to two weeks) the sampling rate has been dramatically reduced by changing the diffusive body from the white type (code 120) to the yellow one (code 120-2). E1


Exploring a new reaction system is necessary to widen the application of supersonic speed airflow grinding technology in chemical filed. In this work, the supersonic speed airflow grinding instrument was firstly improved via adding the microwave technology. And then the improved instrument was used to try to synthesize a Schiff base derived from 2, 3, 4- trihydroxybenzaldehyde and 4-aminobenzoic acid, and the molecular structure of synthesized Schiff base was characterized by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance and fourier transform infrared spectrometer. Finally the geometric structure of synthesized Schiff base was optimized by DMol3 density functional theory. The relevant results showed that the airflow grinding technology was a feasible method to synthesize the Schiff base, and HOMO and LUMO of optimized Schiff base were -0.197684 eV and -0.096761 eV, respectively. Additionally, the theoretical calculation further showed that, with increasing of temperature, the entropy, heat capacity and enthalpy of Schiff base increased, but the free energy decreased.


Corral de Lobato, a new karstic site in the area of Molina de Aragón is preliminary studied. Even though there are not many Neogene karstic sites in the Iberian Chain, it seems they can be grouped into four clusters, with ages ranging from latest middle Miocene (MN7/8) to early Pleistocene (MN17). The correlation between those clusters and the stratigraphical units of the Tagus basin, as well as with local and global events, is tentatively made. These karstic sites provide a complementary source of fossil vertebrate remains to that of the stratified sites formed lowland. The Heritage significance of such sites arises from the enhanced preservation of rare taxa or associations, and the operation of biotic concentrative processes.


Individual growth trajectories of psychological phenomena are often theorized to be nonlinear. Additionally, individuals' measurement schedules might be unique. In a structural equation framework, latent growth curve model (LGM) applications typically have either (a) modeled nonlinearity assuming some degree of balance in measurement schedules, or (b) accommodated truly individually varying time points, assuming linear growth. This article describes how to fit 4 popular nonlinear LGMs (polynomial, shape-factor, piecewise, and structured latent curve) with truly individually varying time points, via a definition variable approach. The extension is straightforward for certain nonlinear LGMs (e.g., polynomial and structured latent curve) but in the case of shape-factor LGMs requires a reexpression of the model, and in the case of piecewise LGMs requires introduction of a general framework for imparting piecewise structure, along with tools for its automation. All 4 nonlinear LGMs with individually varying time scores are demonstrated using an empirical example on infant weight, and software syntax is provided. The discussion highlights some advantages of modeling nonlinear growth within structural equation versus multilevel frameworks, when time scores individually vary.


Given a convex body K ⊂Rd, what is the probability that a randomly chosen congruent copy, Ka, of K is lattice-point free, that is, Ka∩Zd = ∅? Here Zd is the usual lattice of integer points in Rd. Luckily, the underlying probability is well defined since integer translations of K can be factored out. The question came up in connection with integer programming. We explain what the answer is for convex bodies of large enough volume. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2007


Posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) is defined as a recurrent seizure disorder due to injury to the brain following head trauma. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for 20% of symptomatic epilepsy in the general population and 5% of all epilepsy. Prevention or suppression of the development of PTE is a major unmet challenge in medicine. For an expanded treatment of this topic see Jasper's Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies, Fourth Edition (Noebels JL, Avoli M, Rogawski MA, Olsen RW, Delgado‐Escueta AV, eds) published by Oxford University Press (available on the National Library of Medicine Bookshelf [NCBI] at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books).


In this paper, the difference between combustion processes of g出 eousfuel in gravitational and microgravitational fields are studied by simulations. And the infl.uence of disturbances such回 impuritiesin fuel and thermal fluctuations on combustion processes are examined by simulations. In the gravitational field, gaseous fuel is supplied by convection, on the other hand, it is supplied by diffusion in microgravitational field. It follows from this fact that the difference in combustion proce路 esarises in both fields. In simulations, we show how the combustion processes change depending on the time constant of reaction and the ratio of diffusivity of g部 eousfuel.


This paper surveys whether there exists for Costa Rica any relationship between the expected growth of real economic activity and the slope of the yield curve or spread. Using monthly data from January 1989 to January 1996, the analysis indicates the existence of a clear relationship among the variables probably as a result of financial system reforms that permitted a major participation of market forces in yields determination.


Cho, Jun-Ho. 1997. A Study on Information Unification in VGerPs. Linguistics, 5-1, 85-98. The puropse of this paper is to explain consistently the noun and verbal properties English verbal gerund phrases(VGerPs) have, as used by multiple inheritance hierarchies, constraints, and lexical structures of HPSG Theory. The paper will suggest lexical structures of gerunds to solve the problems the gerunds have. By the same index, the unification of infomation between lexical words and phrases is a way to light the explanation of verbal property and noun property. The way also has a merit to catch and explain an unexpressed subject, PRO. (Hanlyo San Up University)


This paper researches on the design and application of concrete beams reinforced by BFRP that serve as a reinforcing material instead of steel.According to the mechanical properties of BFRP,by taking advantage of ADINA programs,the bending property of the beams reinforced by BFRP is analyzed with the basic theory of concrete beams and FEM.Load-deflection test results of the BFRP reinforced concrete beams are as same as the overall trend of simulation curve generally.The simulated deflection is bigger than the measured one at the same load,for the parameter inputs are specification values,showing that the digitals in the specifications are conservative.The value of N2/N1 is 1.17,1.16,1.12 respectively.Therefore,better non-peeling BFRP rebars should be made to ensure adequate bond strength with the concrete,which contribute much to the application of BFRP.The small module produces negative effects during the actual work,so BFRP should be used as pre-stressing force on design.


In this work we propose a deep architecture for the classification of multivariate time series. By means of a recurrent and untrained reservoir we generate a vectorial representation that embeds the temporal relationships in the data. To overcome the limitations of the reservoir vanishing memory, we introduce a bidirectional reservoir, whose last state captures also the past dependencies in the input. We apply dimensionality reduction to the final reservoir states to obtain compressed fixed size representations of the time series. These are subsequently fed into a deep feedforward network, which is trained to perform the final classification. We test our architecture on benchmark datasets and on a real-world use-case of blood samples classification. Results show that our method performs better than a standard echo state network, and it can be trained much faster than a fully-trained recurrent network.


AbstractThe effects of bathymetry on the process of wind-wave generation in the Persian Gulf have been investigated using a long-term hindcasting analysis. A 5-yr (2004–08) hindcasting procedure is first performed (denoted as origin) by using the Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) model and COAMPS wind field data. Two alternative scenarios, in which wave breaking (noBrek) and depth-induced refraction (noRefc) are deactivated, are also generated. By comparing the results from alternative cases with those from the ordinary cases, a 5-yr total energy deviation (TED) is calculated and presented as seasonal contour maps depicting the sensitivity to bathymetry. The results show only ±2% TED found in noBrek, but up to ±20% TED found in noRefc, an order of magnitude larger than depth-induced breaking. Similarly, the seasonal effects of refraction on the nearshore wave-propagating directions can be investigated by comparison between origin and noRefc. The seasonal histograms of mean wave angle are plotted and discu...


Fiscal science advertise in most analytical situations, while the principles reiterated by specialists in the field in various specialized works. The two components of taxation, the tax system relating to the theoretical and the practical procedures relating to tax are marked by frequent references and invocations of the underlying principles to tax. This paper attempts a return on equity fiscal general vision as a principle often invoked and used to justify tax policies, but so often violated the laws fiscality . Also want to emphasize the importance of devising procedures to ensure fiscal equitable treatment of taxpayers. Specific approach of this paper is based on the notion that tax equity is based on equality before tax and social policies of the executive that would be more effective than using the other tax instruments. I want to emphasize that if the scientific approach to justify the unequal treatment of the tax law is based on the various social problems of the taxpayers, then deviates from the issue of tax fairness justification explaining the need to promote social policies usually more attractive to taxpayers. Modern tax techniques are believed to be promoted especially in order to ensure an increasing level of high efficiency at the expense of the taxpayers obligations to ensure equality before the law tax. On the other hand, tax inequities reaction generates multiple recipients from the first budget plan, but finalities unfair measures can not quantify and no timeline for the reaction, usually not known. But while statistics show fluctuations in budgetary revenues and often find in literature reviews and analysis relevant to a connection between changes in government policies, budget execution and outcome. The effects of inequality on tax on tax procedures and budgetary revenues are difficult to quantify and is among others to this work. Providing tax equity without combining it with the principles of discrimination and neutrality in the tax to ensure an objective of fiscal policy.


The production of high-energy neutrinos is possible in several types of astrophysical sources. The detection of such neutrinos would yield information complementary to that provided by photons and charged particles. This paper presents results from a point source analysis using data taken during 2007 with the five-line partial configuration of the ANTARES neutrino telescope. This search was performed using a binned and an unbinned method. Results are presented both for a list of candidate sources and an all-sky scan. No evidence for any statistically significant ‖ Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.com Search for cosmic neutrino point sources with the 5-line ANTARES telescope 3 neutrino excess has been found. The corresponding upper limits on the cosmic neutrino flux have been determined. Assuming an E spectrum for the sources and for the energy range 3 – 400 TeV, the upper limits at 90% C.L. are E2dφνμ/dE ∼ 3−10×10 −10 TeV cm s, obtained for declinations between −90◦ and 15◦. PACS numbers: 95.55.Vj, 95.85.Ry Search for cosmic neutrino point sources with the 5-line ANTARES telescope 4