To study the adsorption characteristics of Cu2+ by amphoteric and nanometer zero-valent iron (NZVI)-modified riverbank soil, we used dodecyl dimethyl betaine (BS-12) for amphoteric modification of bank soils from the Jialing River (Sichuan section). Then, NZVI was loaded on the BS-12-modified riverbank soils by liquid-phase reduction. The physicochemical characteristics of different BS-12-and BS-NZVI (BS-12 and NZVI)-modified riverbank soils and their adsorption differences were studied under various conditions (pH, ion strength, and temperature). In addition, the isothermic adsorption and thermodynamic characteristics of Cu2+ on BS-12-and BS-NZVI-modified riverbank soils were analyzed. Results showed the following: (1) pH, cation exchange capacity and specific surface area (SBET) of different BS-12-and BS-NZVI-modified soils decreased, whereas their total organic carbon (TOC) increased. The surface of the original soils became smooth after BS-12 modification, whereas the surface of BS-12-modified soils became rough after loading with NZVI. NZVI was evenly distributed on the BS-NZVI-modified soil surface. (2) pH had minimal effect on the adsorption of Cu2+ by different soil samples. The adsorption of Cu2+ by different modified soils was promoted first and then restrained with the increase in ion strength. In the range of 20°C–40°C, the adsorption amount of Cu2+ by different modified soils showed a positive temperature effect. (3) The adsorption isotherms of Cu2+ for BS-12-and BS-NZVI-modified soils were all L-shaped, and the adsorption amount of Cu2+ by different soil samples was ranked in the order of BS-NZVI modification > BS-12 modification > without modification. BS-NZVI-modified soil samples effectively improved the removal rate of Cu2+. The adsorption of Cu2+ by different soil samples was a spontaneous, endothermic, and entropy-adding process. (4) TOC and SBET were the key factors that determined the maximum adsorption amount of Cu2+ by BS-12-and BS-NZVI-modified riverbank soils.


Legal abortion is one of the negative events of pregnancy that affects the individual and social aspects of one's life leading to a decrease in quality of life, depression and anxiety. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a combination of Rogersian and cognitive behavioral counseling on post-abortion depression and anxiety. In this quasi-experimental study, 120 pregnant women with legal abortion referral to counseling centers in Tehran during 139-13 years participated. Samples were divided into two groups of control (observation and data recording) and intervention group (face to face counseling before abortion and weekly telephone follow-up for up to 8 weeks). The control group and the control group were randomly assigned to the intervention group. After obtaining consent, demographic and pregnancy information questionnaires were completed for both groups. Then the samples were evaluated by Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventory before and 2 months after abortion and finally the two groups were compared. Data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software using chi-square, Fisher exact test, paired t-test and independent t-test. Significance level was considered p <0.05. The findings showed that the mean score of anxiety before intervention in the intervention and control groups were 24.7 ± 11.0, 22.76 12 12.67 and p = 0.412, respectively, and two months after the intervention the mean score Anxiety in the intervention group was 1.10 /1 1.70 (p <0.0001) and in the control group it was also 11.66 7 7.7 (p <0.001). So p = 0.028. The difference between the decrease in depression score was calculated in the intervention and control groups and the results were significant (12.56 9 9.64, 4.42 6 6.89 and p = 0.0001, respectively). It seems that providing integrated Rogers and Cognitive Behavioral Counseling services after abortion can reduce anxiety and depression and performing integrated Rogers and Cognitive Behavioral Counseling can be effective in promoting women's health.


Employers and colleges value individuals with leadership service, but there is limited evidence on whether leadership service itself creates skills. Identification in this context has proved difficult because settings in which leadership service accrues to individuals for ostensibly random reasons are rare. In this study we estimate the effects of random assignment to classroom leadership positions in a Chinese secondary school. We find that leadership service increases test scores, increases students' political popularity in the classroom, makes students more likely to take initiative, and shapes students' beliefs about the determinants of success. The results suggest that leadership service may impact human capital and is not solely a signal of preexisting skills. Data are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2483. This paper was accepted by John List, behavioral economics.


—Efficient medical image segmentation aims to pro- vide accurate pixel-wise prediction for the medical images with the lightweight implementation framework. However, lightweight frameworks generally fail to achieve high performance, and suffer from the poor generalizable ability on cross-domain tasks. In this paper, we propose a generalizable knowledge distillation method for robust and efficient segmentation of cross- domain medical images. Primarily, we propose the Model-Specific Alignment Networks (MSAN) to provide the domain-invariant representations which are regularized by a Pre-trained Semantic AutoEncoder (P-SAE). Meanwhile, a customized Alignment Consistency Training (ACT) strategy is designed to promote the MSAN training. With the domain-invariant representative vectors in MSAN, we propose two generalizable knowledge distillation schemes, Dual Contrastive Graph Distillation (DCGD) and Domain-Invariant Cross Distillation (DICD). Specifically, in DCGD, two types of implicit contrastive graphs are designed to represent the intra-coupling and inter-coupling semantic correlations from the perspective of data distribution. In DICD, the domain-invariant semantic vectors from the two models ( i.e. , teacher and student) are leveraged to cross-reconstruct features by the header exchange of MSAN, which achieves generalizable improvement for both the encoder and decoder in the student model. Furthermore, a metric named Fr´echet Semantic Distance (FSD) is tailored to verify the effectiveness of the regularized domain-invariant features. Extensive experiments conducted on the Liver and Retinal Vessel Segmentation datasets demonstrate the priority of our method, in terms of performance and generalization on lightweight frameworks.


Dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) is a sterilant proposed for use on wine immediately before bottling for the prevention of fermentation by yeast. The major breakdown products of DMDC in wine are carbon dioxide and methanol, primarily from hydrolysis. Earlier work has shown DMDC to react with ethanol and ammonia to form small amounts of residual by-products. Other by-products are expected. This study investigates the reaction of DMDC with higher alcohols. Work was done in model solution with n-propyl, isobutyl, isoamyl, active amyl, n-hexyl, and phenethyl alcohols. Product formation is linear with substrate concentrations. Predicted amounts of by-product formation in wine are in the low-micrograms-per-liter range.


The District Directorate 12D01 - Baba, Babahoyo, Montalvo - Health, is a State entity, dedicated to the management of health services of all the cantons that it covers, to fulfill this mission it has employees that contribute with their work to be able to achieve the assignment; However, this institution is in breach of employer obligations with the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security - IESS, for the payment of personal and employer contributions; that the entity as such must perform for each of its employees.
By not complying with what is stipulated in the Social Security Law, ie the timely payment of contributions, these generate fines that affect the institution financially, for which there are no monetary funds to cancel them, it is precisely at that moment that the amounts that are the object of this case study are generated: employer default and employer responsibility.


In this paper, the subject of the study is the description and analysis of the ISO 22000: 2005 and HACCP standards in a wine producing and bottling company. These production standards must be based on modern food and beverage businesses.
The collection of data and information on work will be done by primary and secondary method. The primary sources are data collected from the winery and are based on ISO 9001 and 22000 standards, and a survey of top-level questions in a sample of 30 people aged 25 to 65. Secondary sources will be based on data of the same of the company, in magazines and bibliographical references.
The action of the company's Board of Directors to implement Quality Design standards at the winery resulted in the company being the first to be certified with the standards ELOT EN ISO 22000: 2005 (HACCP) and ELOT EN ISO 9001: 2000 in its branch west Greece. The benefits from this action are: customer satisfaction with product safety, ensuring timely and reliable delivery of quality products at the lowest cost, having problem detection tools, improving quality, reducing the number of Defective batches of finished products through the implementation of appropriate measures, thus ensuring a reduction in the cost of production, also developing the concept of compliance and documentation on food and drink law, Coordinating all the activities and actions that are required to satisfy the consumer.


In the actual production process, some aluminum alloys need to go through annealing heat treatment followed by solution treatment; this paper explores the evolution of peripheral coarse grain (PCG) structure during annealing and solution treatment by metallographic observation and electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) of materials in the extruded state, after different annealing heat treatments and different solution treatments. It was found that recrystallization occurred in the surface layer of the material during the extrusion process, and the recrystallized grains developed into PCG during the solution process. The PCG was smaller when the annealing temperature was too low, or the solution temperature was too high, but the PCG structure was thicker. The annealing time had no significant effect on the PCG structure. The coarse grains appeared first at the edge of the material and then engulfed each other to develop into several huge grains.


Green residential buildings (GRBs) are one of the effective practices of energy saving and emission reduction in the construction industry. However, many real estate developers in China are less willing to develop GRBs, because of the factors affecting green residential building development (GRBD). In order to promote the sustainable development of GRBs in China, this paper, based on the perspective of real estate developers, identifies the influential and critical factors affecting GRBD, using the method of social network analysis (SNA). Firstly, 14 factors affecting GRBD are determined from 64 preliminary factors of three main elements, and the framework is established. Secondly, the relationships between the 14 factors are analyzed by SNA. Finally, four critical factors for GRBD, which are on the local economy development level, development strategy and innovation orientation, developer's acknowledgement and positioning for GRBD, and experience and ability for GRBD, are identified by the social network centrality test. The findings illustrate the key issues that affect the development of GRBs, and provide references for policy making by the government and strategy formulation by real estate developers.


Obiective In order to provide important reference for reasonable choice of clinical antimicrobial drugs in the region and dynamic monitoring of MRSA in the future.Methods 86 clinical isolated MRSA strains were collected from three Grade III Class A hospitals in Chengdu during 2013-2014.After strain identification and susceptibility testing,clinical distribution and drug resistance surveillance were unfolded.Results 86 MRSA strains mainly came from respiratory tract(60.5%),and were mainly from intensive care unit and respiratory department.There was significant statistical difference in the drug resistance rates of many antimicrobial drugs between MRSA and MSSA of random sampling(P0.01).Multiple drug-resistant MRSA strains accounted for 87.2%,and there were 22 kinds of joint resistance patterns.The drug resistance rates of MRSA to most antibiotics in ICU were almost higher than those in non-ICU departments.MRSA strains showed different degree resistance to most antimicrobial drugs,and the differences in vitro antibacterial activity were large.MRSA strains to which MIC of vancomycin was 2mg/L accounted for 7.0%.Conclusion The elderly Pneumonia patients of over 65 years old should be accepted active screening of MRSA strains as early as possible,in order to be diagnosed and treated in the early stage.The vast majority of MRSA strains have multiple drug-resistance at the present stage in Chengdu,and MRSA strains have serious resistance to most antibiotics.Drug-resistant surveillance and control of MRSA strains should be strengthened in intensive care unit.MIC of vancomycin should be monitored dynamicly in Chengdu.


Objectives: To evaluate the combined e"ect of a mixture of tetracycline, acid, and detergent (MTAD) and Nisin against Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis) and Actinomyces viscosus (A. viscosus) bio!lms. Methods: #is study was conducted between June and December 2013 in collaboration with Dental Caries Research Chair, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Single-species bio!lms (n=9/species/observation period) were generated on membrane !lter discs and subjected to 5, 10, or 15 minute incubation with MTADN (MTAD with 3% Nisin), 5.25% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), or normal saline. #e colony forming units were counted using the Dark !eld colony counter.


The effect of different soil particle sizes on the visible/near infrared spectra to detect soil organic matter contents was analyzed.The visible/near infrared spectra of soil samples with the particle sizes of 0.169-2 mm and 0.169 mm were measured at the range of 325-1 075 nm.Then the principal component analysis-back propagation neural network(PCA-BPNN),least squares-support vector machine(LS-SVM) and partial least squares(PLS) models were established to detect the soil organic matter contents.When the soil particle size range was from 0.169 to 2 mm,the correlation coefficients(r) of prediction of all three models were above 0.84 and root mean square errors of prediction(RMSEP) were below 0.20.When the soil particle size range was smaller than 0.169 mm,the r values of the models were below 0.71 and RMSEPs were above 0.23.When either the soil particle size range was from 0.169 to 2 mm or smaller than 0.169 mm,PLS models obtained better results than LS-SVM and PCA-BPNN models.The overall results show that the difference of soil particle size can significantly affect the prediction results of visible/near infrared spectra to detect the soil organic matter contents.


: The basic purpose of foundation design is to predict ultimate soil bearing (Q u ) and to determine actual load-carrying capacities (R u ) at the final set installation. One specific case study was when the project owner was only allowed to use limited CPT data of the high-cost reason for complete soil investigation. Besides that, the location was not only relatively densely populated, but also the soil investigation work could cause some noise during the implementation of field-testing methods using SPT and Borlogs. CPT has been selected and easy in predicting the Q u value of a single pile. Two points at one of the configurations of single piles were evaluated randomly by the PDA test in determining the actual load capacity or R u . In general conclusion, the Q u was less than R u values for all existing points of the single pile at the study area. To find out other values of Q u and R u in all piles were analyzed by a geospatial analysis. By using isotropic Moran's method, there was a positive autocorrelation in adjacent pile location since I = 0.1767 > I0 = - 0.25. Graphically, the semivariogram also validated Gaussian interpolation models as the best correlation in searching pair; distance; and semivariance values among the single pile. Finally, the ordinary Kriging method was used to plot all points graphically in 3 D based on Moran's and semivariogram of Q u and R u data. Thus, this method yields good results of Q u and R u for other single piles with an error of around 13.2% at the final set installation between 8.9 to 9.5 m.


HOSPITAL & COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY The above recommendations, translated into national policy, would help attract and retain competent, conscientious psychiatrists to maintain a good community mental health center system. If the need for change is ignored, then the psychiatrist has no choice but to serve elsewhere, since the community mental health center will not be a place where patients can receive proper treatment.


Cooing rates of captive unmated male mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) decreased markedly during a 2-day adjustment period following radio-tagging. In 4 of 7 experimental trials, cooing rates returned to previous levels by the 3rd day. In the other 3 trials cooing rates remained low, but dominance problems related to penning may have been a factor. In 4 of 6 experimental trials, captive radio-tagged males successfully paired with introduced females and began nesting. In the wild, 2 of 5 unmated radiotagged males successfully paired. Cooing rates of free-flying unmated radio-tagged males were comparable to those of back-tagged males in previous studies (8.7 vs. 8.2-8.9 coos/3 min). Based on 12 experimental trials and observations of 24 free-flying radio-tagged doves (both sexes), radio-tagging did not adversely affect previously established pair bonds. J. WILDL. MANAGE. 45(2):428-434 Radiotelemetry has been used extensively in avian research, but few thorough evaluations of effects of radio packages on behavior have been made. Inferences usually are drawn from field observations, although some have been based on controlled experiments; reported effects varied greatly with the species studied. Major studies include Ramakka's (1972) findings that radio-tagging resulted in reduced courtship and atypical breeding behavior in male woodcock (Philohela minor). In controlled experiments, captive red grouse (Lagopus 1. scoticus) consumed less food and were less active following radio-tagging (Boag 1972); however, breeding performance was not affected if radio packages were attached late in incubation (Lance and Watson 1977). Female willow grouse (L. 1. lagopus) adapted to the radio package and incubated and hatched their eggs normally (Erikstad 1979). In an experimental study, Greenwood and Sargeant (1973) observed that radio-tagged mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and bluewinged teal (A. discors) preened more than controls and exhibited a partial aversion to swimming. However, Gilmer et al. (1974) believed that social and breeding behaviors of instrumented mallards and wood ducks (Aix sponsa) were not adversely affected by radio packages. This study evaluated the effects of radio-tagging on the breeding behavior of mourning doves based upon controlled experiments with penned birds and observations of free-flying radio-tagged doves. We thank M. A. Parker and L. L. Wollard for technical aid; S. S. Clark, E. K. Fritzell, and F. B. Samson for editorial suggestions; and K. C. Sadler for advice and administrative support. METHODS AND MATERIALS Pen studies were conducted from May to August 1976-78. Three experiments 1Contribution from the Missouri Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Management Institute, Missouri Department of Conservation, and University of Missouri, cooperating). Research was funded by the Accelerated Research Program for Migratory Shore and Upland Game Birds, Contract USDI 14-160008-2091, administered by the Missouri Department of Conservation through agreement with the University of Missouri. Work was supported in part by Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Projects 182 and 184; this is Journal Series paper 8441. 428 J. Wildl. Manage. 45(2):1981 This content downloaded from 18.104.22.168 on Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:08:23 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms RADIO-TAGGING BREEDING MOURNING DOVES* Sayre et al. 429 were designed to evaluate behavioral effects associated with radio-tagging during different stages of pairing or nesting.


FIELD: electricity. SUBSTANCE: electric power generator has a chamber for generating electrostatic charges in a medium with dielectric substances, the chamber being made in an electrically insulating housing, a device for polarising the electric field, a device for moving the medium, first and second electrodes. According to the invention, the medium with dielectric substances is in form of a mixture of air and gaseous and solid products of thermal decomposition of carbonaceous materials fed into the chamber. The device for moving the medium has an injector, the gas stream output of which on a pipe is directed at a tangent to the side surface of the chamber. The device for polarising the electric field is placed in the pipe and is made as a device for generating a constant magnetic field with poles directed along the pipe. A metal splitter is made in the chamber. The first electrode is formed by the splitter and an inner metal cladding on the side surface of the chamber. The second electrode is formed by an outer metal cladding on the side surface of the housing. EFFECT: high power of the electric power generator. 6 cl, 5 dwg


e-mail: email@example.com The article discusses the reasons for the need for high-quality selection, selection and recruitment of employees of the enterprise in modern economic conditions. The relationship between the successful development of the organization and the qualitative formation of personnel is shown. The role of selection and selection of personnel and their influence on the economic indicators of the enterprise and the formation of its cultural and social environment is studied. The relationship between the effectiveness of staff selection and recruitment and the effectiveness of the organization's activities is demonstrated. The sources of formation of the organization's personnel structure and features of selection and selection of personnel depending on the source are studied. The author analyzes mandatory and variable requirements for personnel composition, and the specifics of requirements for a candidate depending on the vacant position. Strategic and tactical goals of selection and selection of personnel of the organization are demonstrated. Changes in the traditional approach to selection and recruitment technologies were studied and analyzed. The article analyzes the currently available technologies of personnel selection and methods of personnel selection, which allow to objectively assess the potential of the future employee, his professional qualities and personal characteristics. The conclusion is made about the importance of the HR service and its impact on the effectiveness of


The structure of dCMP hydroxymethylase from bacteriophage T4 in complex with the substrate dCMP and cofactor THF was determined at 1.9 Å resolution, providing the first view of the ternary complex of a pyrimidine hydroxymethylase.


Significance PbTe is known to be a promising thermoelectric material for waste heat recovery, so it has been the subject of extensive research involving new approaches. It is important to note that the performances of these developed materials can depend on the material synthesis conditions. We investigated three different routes of synthesizing 2% Na-doped PbTe and found that its thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, can be enhanced to ∼2.0 at 773 K. Also, the mechanical hardness of the sample synthesized by this condition was nearly double than that of the other samples. Our study shows that the size of nano- and microstructures can vary significantly by the choice of synthesis methods, which can explain the variation in zTs and mechanical hardness. In this paper, we systematically investigate three different routes of synthesizing 2% Na-doped PbTe after melting the elements: (i) quenching followed by hot-pressing (QH), (ii) annealing followed by hot-pressing, and (iii) quenching and annealing followed by hot-pressing. We found that the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, strongly depends on the synthesis condition and that its value can be enhanced to ∼2.0 at 773 K by optimizing the size distribution of the nanostructures in the material. Based on our theoretical analysis on both electron and thermal transport, this zT enhancement is attributed to the reduction of both the lattice and electronic thermal conductivities; the smallest sizes (2∼6 nm) of nanostructures in the QH sample are responsible for effectively scattering the wide range of phonon wavelengths to minimize the lattice thermal conductivity to ∼0.5 W/m K. The reduced electronic thermal conductivity associated with the suppressed electrical conductivity by nanostructures also helped reduce the total thermal conductivity. In addition to the high zT of the QH sample, the mechanical hardness is higher than the other samples by a factor of around 2 due to the smaller grain sizes. Overall, this paper suggests a guideline on how to achieve high zT and mechanical strength of a thermoelectric material by controlling nano- and microstructures of the material.


In data mining, frequent-pattern mining methods are used for handling binary databases. Utility mining addresses this limitation by considering the item utilities and quantities when discovering the high utility itemsets. In addition, to make these high utility patterns more human-explainable, we use the fuzzy-set theory to the utility mining algorithms. However, real-world databases are usually dynamic. That is, new transactions may be intermittently added, and the corresponding mined knowledge needs to be updated. This paper uses the famous incremental strategy, fast update (FUP), to modify high fuzzy utility itemsets from new coming data. We implement the FUP strategy on the Apriori-based approach for maintaining up-to-date high fuzzy utility itemsets.We also conducted experiments to demonstrate that the incremental algorithm significantly outperforms the Apriori-based batch mining method.


ABSTRACT Leaf area measurement is pivotal for plant physiologists. Hence, accurate measurement of their leaf area is incredibly relevant in agronomic terms. The plant Stevia rebaudiana is a sucrose-free plant species that is now vital to the global production of sucrose-free foods. Here, we estimated S. rebaudiana leaf area using a nondestructive methodology comprising allometric equations. Through leaf length (L), leaf width (W), and/or their product (LW) the leaf area was determined. One thousand leaves were sampled from four distinct S. rebaudiana genotypes for model construction. Linear or power models were generated, and the best equation was selected using a statistical criterion. The statistical criteria indicated that the linear models best suited all genotypes tested, included a function of LW, exhibited increased stability, and precisely estimated coefficients. ANOVA revealed that both generalized and combined equations were feasible. Nevertheless, grouping all genotypes into a single model was not possible as the genotype leaf architectures were very dissimilar.


: This article builds upon research which analyses the reconstruction of cities in China as an integral part of image-making discourses competing to attract mobile capital. It extends that literature beyond urban places to urbanisation processes, examining the material and linguistic features of networks and discourses of new high-speed rail infrastructure Guangxi, a poorer, rural, multilingual and multiethnic region of the People ' s Republic of China (China) in which tourism – propelled by high-speed trains – has become a pillar of economic development. It argues that these trains produce symbolically powerful discourses which contribute to cultural urbanisation across Guangxi, emplacing urban norms outside city limits in pursuit of profitable sameness, as tourism does not trade only upon difference. Local multilingualism, specifically, is erased as too different, a barrier to tourists ' (and tourism capital ' s) mobility. Amongst other ramifications, this reproduces social distance and ideologically displaces local languages. are 49 poor counties in Guangxi with about 7.9 million people living under the national poverty line[ … ] But the beauty of the places they live in is beyond imagination[ … Therefore developing tourism, a shortcut to[ … ] integrating [Guangxi ' s people] into the modern world, bears different meanings Guangxi.


Introduction
The T244I variant of the IL-7RA gene, rs6897932, is one of the first polymorphisms found to be associated with the development of multiple sclerosis (MS). Although several studies provided evidence for the association of MS and this variant, other studies could not confirm this result. These inconsistent results suggest that the role of this polymorphism in the development of disease is associated with ethnicity.

Methods
We investigated rs6897932 polymorphisms in a large cohort of patients with MS and healthy controls in a turkish population.

Results
In our study, there were no significant differences in genotype frequencies in the IL-7RA rs6897932 polymorphism and no significant difference between C and T alleles in patients with MS and controls.

Conclusion
This study is the first to evaluate the risk of the rs6897932 polymorphism in turkish patients with MS.


Graphite raw material has been defined as a critical raw material by many international organizations in order for countries with high technology potential to achieve these goals. Graphite deposits are a strategic mineralization whose use and importance in advanced technology issues are becoming widespread due to the properties of graphite such as high thermal and electrical conductivity and high temperature resistance. The evaluation of the use of remote sensing methods in bringing new graphite mineral deposits in our country, which is rich in amorphous graphite deposits, to the country's economy, is the subject of this study, especially since the use of graphene will increase gradually in the future. In this context, the most suitable spectral band combinations that can be used in Sentinel-2 satellite images for these bed formations were determined by the optimum index factor and their performances were evaluated. Bands developed for atmospheric correction are excluded from the evaluation. The optimum FCC (False Color Composite) color image that enables the successful separation of graphite deposits from water, plants, coal mines and other lithological units belongs to the [RGB 4: 7: 11] and [RGB 4: 8: 11] combination. Sentinel-2 satellite images contain the characteristic spectral properties of graphite with the spectral range of its detector and produce successful results in the determination of graphite deposits.


Long-wavelength electronic absorption spectra of 4-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde, its dimer complexes, and 4-hydroxy-3-(piperidine-1-ylmethyl)-1-naphthaldehyde are investigated using time-dependent density functional theory with the TPSSh functional within a continuum solvation model. The results are correlated to recent experimental findings on solvent-, pH- and concentration-dependent absorption. It is confirmed that with decreasing wavelength the spectrum is dominated by the deprotonated (360 nm–400 nm), the dimer (340 nm–370 nm) and the monomer (< 280 nm) species. The potential use of hydroxynaphthaldehydes for the design of tautomeric switches is discussed.


Foliated metamorphic, stratified sedimentary and regularity jointed rocks have properties(physical, mechanical) that vary with direction (β°) and are said to be anisotropic. The ground in Daegu area consists of shales, clastic sedimentary rocks. These shales have plane anisotropic or transversely isotropy characteristics. Engineering characteristics of shale in Daegu area are investigated by performing a series of rock test to the bedding(β =0, 30, 60, and 90 degrees). The results of tests show that the uniaxial compressive strength is a maximum at β = 0, 90° and is a minimum when β is around 60 degree.


The Antiphospholipid Syndrome II , subtitled Autoimmune Thrombosis, aims to give an overview, in four parts, of this intriguing syndrome. First is a brief overview of the history and epidemiology, a second part deals with immunology and pathophysiology, a third deals with clinical features, and, finally, several chapters discuss management and prognosis of the syndrome. Each part consists of a series …


Background Late-onset group B Streptococcus (LOGBS) sepsis is a cause of infection and death in infants. Infected breast milk has been considered a source of neonatal GBS infection and invasive infection. However, mother-to-infant transmission of GBS detected by the high-resolution diagnostic method is rarely reported. Methods This study describes a low-weight premature infant who developed late-onset GBS septicemia 21 days after birth. GBS strains isolated from the mother's cervical secretion, the mother's milk, and the baby's blood were cultured to identify the source of GBS infection. We further confirmed the GBS isolates through matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS). Finally, we performed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and phylogenetic analyses on the GBS strains recovered. Results GBS isolates were cultured from the bloodstream of the premature infant and the mother's milk, respectively. Subsequently, WGS and phylogenetic analyses on three GBS isolates demonstrated that the GBS strain from the infant's bloodstream was 100% homologous to that from the mother's breast milk, which had some different gene fragments from the GBS strain from the mother's cervical secretion. It provided evidence that this infant's late-onset GBS septicemia originated from his mother's breast milk instead of the vertical mother-to-infant transmission. Conclusion Through WGS and phylogenetic analysis of the GBS strains, we proved in this study that the late-onset GBS sepsis in a premature infant was derived from his mother's breast milk. It indicated that WGS diagnosis is an effective tool for infection tracing. Furthermore, this report provides direction for preventing late-onset GBS infection.


Objective To investigate morbidity and visual field loss of normal tension glaucoma (NTG) in healthy persons of examination obtain experiences that might help screening for the disease.Methods Four hundreds and sixty-one cases (813 eyes) with optic nerve changes in health examination, apply a Humphrey field analyzer using the Central 30-2 program (Zeiss-Humphrey Systems 750). Cases of abnormal result follow up repeat. Results sixty-two cases (112 eyes) with glaucomatous optic nerve changes. These eyes had been diagnosed NTG. It was calculated for 13.45% of all the persons of examination and 43.97% of all the persons with visual field loss. Conclusions The morbidity of NTG in healthy persons of examination is quite high. The visual field analyzer is an important method for screening of NTG, and the regular follow-up is of significance for the suspects.


A library of 34 compounds containing the DIM core have been synthesized and tested for their anticancer efficacy by measuring their cytotoxicity to cancer cell lines A549, HeLa and MCF-7. Some of the selected derivatives were N-glycosylated to increase their efficacy. Compound 7d, an N-glycosylated DIM derivative, was found to be effective at 1.3, 0.3 and 0.9 μmol concentrations against A549, HeLa and MCF-7, respectively. Immunochemistry studies revealed that it could induce apoptosis by upregulating a pro-apoptotic protein Par-4 and concomitantly diminishing the expression of pro-survival proteins Bcl-2 and GRP78. Flow cytometry studies showed that the compound arrested cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle and significantly abrogated the motility of HeLa cells. Computer docking simulations of 7d with GRP78 suggested its involvement in two H-bonds with Asp78, two H-bonds with Arg290, one with Arg367, and one water mediated H-bond interaction. The interaction patterns also demonstrated that the presence of bromide in the vicinity (within 3.5 A) of Lys294 generates the possibility of a halogen bond, which may also contribute in providing some extra stability to the complex. Hence, compounds of this class will be useful for the design of new anticancer agents.


Thirty years ago historians of witchcraft concentrated on two major points: 1) establishing when and where the mythology of diabolism originated (such elements as flight to the sabbath, pact with the devil, cannibalism, weather making, sexual intercourse with demons, etc.), and 2) how the legal process was deformed in such a way as to make charges of diabolism credible. These approaches culminated in the works of Norman Cohn and Richard Kieckhefer in the middle 1970s, who showed that the crime of witchcraft was mainly a learned fantasy that developed in the later Middle Ages. Ordinary people knew little of the crime and were more concerned with harmful magic {maleficium). The legal historians of that generation solidified the view that "inquisitorial" procedures replaced "accusatorial" procedures, and as a result, the salutary safeguards of medieval jurisprudence gave way to the dangers of personally remote, obsessive, misogynistic inquisitors. From both of these perspectives, witch hunting seemed to be driven from the top down, an assault on popular culture launched by the zealous, centralizing, "civilizing" forces of the early modern state and the Reformation churches (both Catholic and Protestant).


We have proposed and successfully demonstrated a new architecture of MMW RoF system with wavelength reuse to deliver VHT data/video services. Based on PolM-to-IM conversion, frequency multiplied MMW (54.8-GHz) and intensity-free OC with slight phase fluctuation were received by adjusting PCs. 1.0-Gb/s OOK DS signal has been transmitted over 25-km SMF and air links. Meanwhile, successful transmission of the rate-symmetric US signals is implemented by reusing the light-wave. Additionally, in order to strengthen the stability of the device, a commercial automatic polarization tracker could be employed to replace PC we used in BS.


Volt-ampere characteristic of sodium aminosalicylate on chitosan modified carbon paste electrode is discussed. And a quick analysis method is established by Chitosan's enrichment to PAS-Na in the acid condition. The linear range of this determine method is 5 × 10-6 -1 × 10 3 mol/L and the minimum detectabilily is 1 × 10-7 mol/L. The new method is satisfactory with practical application.


Author(s): Whitelam, Stephen | Abstract: A conceptually simple way to classify images is to directly compare test-set data and training-set data. The accuracy of this approach is limited by the method of comparison used, and by the extent to which the training-set data cover configuration space. Here we show that this coverage can be substantially increased using simple strategies of coarse graining (replacing groups of images by their centroids) and stochastic sampling (using distinct sets of centroids in combination). We use the MNIST and Fashion-MNIST data sets to show that coarse graining can be used to convert a subset of training images into many fewer image centroids, with no loss of accuracy of classification of test-set images by direct (nearest-neighbor) classification. Distinct batches of centroids can be used in combination as a means of stochastically sampling configuration space, and can classify test-set data more accurately than can the unaltered training set. The approach works most naturally with multiple processors in parallel.


This work presents improved audio-based user-verification analysis and results on Flickr videos, using a subset of the MediaEval 2011 [1] data set. User-verification is a new task, where the goal is to determine if two pieces of media are uploaded by the same user. Our best results, with a 19.7% Equal Error Rate, and a 53.9% Miss Rate at 1% False Positive, are obtained using an i-vector [2] system. A frequency-matching system that requires 96% less computation time than the other systems is also explored, and may be better suited for processing large datasets from Flickr and other social networks. The results have significant privacy implications as they present a framework for exploiting users' tendencies to assume that different accounts remain as separate realms.


This article focuses on the system construction of information service industry and the research on institution operation on the basis of industrial institution.The national innovation development and innovative country construction call for constructing socialization information service system.Demand-oriented service innovation,which determines the service system reforms in departments and systems,set up the relationship between system construction of knowledge information service industry and coordinated operation.Those changes need to reconstruct the information service system as well as to establish the industrial service institution according to its value orientation when the system reform deepens,and thus to make the service organizations to achieve the dual-track development as institutions and as industries.


In this article, we intend to decipher the most important codes that contribute to the creation of an efficient advertising message. Methodologically, the print advertising message is approached through the semio-rethoric-discursive and psycho-communicational perspectives that can reveal its complex significations beyond the immediate perception of the receiver. Though having a distinct role and a specific manifestation, each code contributes to the creation of a homogenous and persuasive message together with all the other codes. Besides this multi-layering of codes, the advertising communication stakes on the transmitter, the channel, the referent and the receiver in order to create a persuasive-rhetorical, unique and seductive message. All these instances that sustain the process of communication operate in a strategic-discursive dynamic relation to generate a unique icono-textual message that attracts the potential consumer to a perfect world, in which his/her needs are fulfilled.


We did research on mechanical properties of the Os femoris lower part of normal Chinese fresh corpses.We did the mechanical experiments of stretching,compressing,twisting,cutting,bending,and impacting on cancellous bone of lower part of Os femoris.We obtained the indexes of mechanical properties such as:damaging load of stretching and compressing,limit of strength,modulus of elasticity,damaging torque,strength limit for torsion and shearing,impact power,tenacity to impact,etc.Discussion of the sampling method and the fixing method for stretching and twisting cancellous bones were given,and finally,analysis and discussions of the mechanical properties of the cancellous bones of Os femoris lower part were given as well.


Hard X-ray undulator radiation at 3rd generation storage rings falls between the geometrical and the fully coherent limit. This is a result of the small but finite emittance of the electron beam source and means that the radiation cannot be completely modelled by incoherent ray tracing or by fully coherent wave propagation. We have developed using the wavefront propagation code Synchrotron Radiation Workshop (SRW) running in a Python environment, a parallel computer program using the Monte Carlo method for modelling the partially coherent emission from electron beam sources taking into account the finite emittance of the source. Using a parallel computing cluster with in excess of 500 cores and each core calculating the wavefront from in excess of a 1000 electrons, a source containing millions of electrons could be simulated. We have applied this method to the Diamond X-ray Imaging and Coherence beamline (113).


In 1959, in successive reviews of two surrealist filmmakers, Jean-Luc Godard twice invokes the 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Specifically Godard quotes the famous line, "Je est un autre" ("I is an other"), from the poet's two "lettres du voyant," written in 1871. First Godard draws a connection between Rimbaud and Jean Rouch, a contemporary surrealist ethnographer and documentarian. Discussing Rouch's film Moi, un Noir (1958), Godard writes, "In calling his film Moi, un Noir, Jean Rouch, who is white like Rimbaud, like him is saying I is another. His film, consequently, offers the open sesame to poetry." In his next review Godard implicitly compares Rimbaud to George Franju, another surrealist filmmaker: "This is where we discover the secret of Franju's art. This second reality is no longer the same as the first. I is now another." By virtue of quoting this line from Rimbaud, Godard constructs a genealogy between the two surrealist directors and the 19th-century poet. This connection is not surprising, as the surrealists themselves often cited Rimbaud as an essential precursor, along with such figures as Comte de Lautr eamont. Walter Benjamin called Rimbaud's long prose poem Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873) the "first document" of the surrealist movement, despite the fact that it was written 50 years before Andre Breton's first "Manifesto of Surrealism". But I suggest that Godard's invocation of Rimbaud in the same breath as Rouch and Franju goes beyond a mere reiteration of their surrealist forebears. Rather, in his specific attention to the line "Je est un autre," Godard shines a critical light on an aspect of surrealism that is often neglected—the desire to become other. As a filmmaker, Godard has cited and alluded to Rimbaud and the surrealists since the beginning, from his New Wave period to his most recent film, Adieu au Langage (2014). While it is of course not unusual for Godard's films to quote other figures, I posit that his frequent recourse to surrealism deserves our close attention. It indicates a reservoir of surrealist principles in his work, which surfaces at vital moments, even in films that do not feel particularly surreal. To be clear, this is not to say that Godard is a surrealist. Rather, I will show that Godard locates in surrealism a mode of engaging with alterity—epitomized in the line by Rimbaud, "Je est un


Proof planning is an application of AI-planning in mathematical domains. In particular, the incorporation and use of domain knowledge in the planning process has enabled the derivation of mathematical theorems that lay outside the scope of purely logic-based theorem proving systems (such as resolution provers). So far, exist ing applications often benefit from the existence of domain knowledge whose usage leads to very restricted search spaces. This facilitates the proving process for problems whose proofs are in a restricted search space but it excludes many problems and restricts the kinds of proofs that can be found for a given problem instance. Moreover, acquiring appropriate domain knowledge has proven to be quite challenging. Our proposal, supported by an empirical evaluation, is to make the proof planning process more general and more robust with regard to domain specific knowledge. Our work extends knowledge-based proof planning by incorporating a set of randomization rules into the planning process. Such an approach does not rely on finely tuned domain-specific control knowledge and is hence successful in domains that lack strong control information. Rather the approach takes advantage of the surprising diversity in terms of the size and style of possible proofs.


By giving full and accurate figures and making a close analysis, the essay conducts a survey of the history, development and existing problems in women's higher education in these regions. Thus, it reveals the impetuses and obstacles in the development of women's higher education and meanwhile, calls on the whole society to face such problems in urgent need for being concerned with, reflected upon and sorted out.


Abstract A decade ago, major reviews of engineering education in Australia and the USA resulted in a new, outcomes-based approach to program accreditation in engineering. These outcomes are based on a set of Graduate Attributes derived to meet the perceived needs of industry into the future. However, recent reports suggest that engineering graduates may not have the competencies required for contemporary practice, even though program outcomes have been designed to meet the stated needs of industry. This observable gap between education and practice points to a set of underlying causes that we call the competence dilemma in engineering education. This paper reviews the fundamental assumptions on which outcomes-based education is built, in a way that was not considered at the time of the earlier changes to program accreditation. It also critically examines the nature of this perceptual gap between the Graduate Attributes that universities are striving to produce in their graduates and the competencies needed in practice in order to perform satisfactorily in industry. This entails the inclusion of the students' attitudes and self-concept in the conception of professional competence. This analysis of this competence dilemma suggests a more holistic view of competence formation. On this basis, the paper presents the results of an exploratory study into identifying alternative ways in which students' competence is formed and influenced in education. The analysis of the empirical study leads to a multi-scale systems model of engineering competence, where the attitudes and self-image are located on a meta-level, and organise and contextualise the individual's particular set of competencies in a specific work situation. At a time when authorities in both countries are reviewing the operation and success of outcome based education in engineering, this paper points to an evidence-based way forward to address the competence dilemma.


An experimental program to study film cooling adiabatic effectiveness in the showerhead region of a turbine vane was completed. A typical first stage turbine stator vane was modeled in a nine-times scale, low speed test facility. The leading edge showerhead consisted of a row of holes at the stagnation point of the vane as well as two rows on the pressure surface and three rows on the suction surface. Film cooling performance on the pressure side of the showerhead is described in this paper. Experiments were conducted for a number of blowing ratios, from 0.3 to 2.9, and at a density ratio of nominally 1.8. The impact of high mainstream turbulence was studied by comparing performance at turbulence levels of 0.5% and 22%. The sensitivity to the stagnation line position was also investigated. The approaching stagnation line was positioned either directly on the stagnation row of holes or just to the suction side of that row. With the stagnation line directly on the stagnation row of holes at low turbulence, the direction of the coolant jets was observed to vary along the span of the airfoil. At high turbulence, this same effect did not occur. Moreover, at the high mainstream turbulence level, the coolant from the entire stagnation row of holes seemed to be spread more evenly throughout the stagnation region. At high blowing ratios, this resulted in higher effectiveness values in the stagnation region. Farther downstream, the high mainstream turbulence reduced the effectiveness at all blowing ratios.


This study compares the major Verbal Communication Verbs (VCVs) in English say, tell, speak and talk with their Swedish correspondents saga, beratta, tala and prata. The analysis is based on data f ...


Abstract The life history traits of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush in six lakes that vary in conductivity are described, and an adaptive management strategy that is based on differences in lake trout growth, fecundity, and maturity schedule is recommended. Lake trout in low-conductivity lakes exhibited slower somatic growth, matured at an older age, attained maturity at similar or smaller body sizes, and were less fecund than lake trout in high-conductivity lakes. To prevent overfishing of fecund components of lake trout populations, managers may need to restrict the harvest of females larger than 550 mm in fork length from low-conductivity lakes, whereas in high-conductivity lakes, regulations should limit removal of females that are 600 mm or larger in fork length. Extreme interpopulation differences in adult size structures support a change in management strategy, a change from a single regionwide regulation to lake-by-lake regulations that reflect lake conductivity and prey type base.


AbstractThis study investigated two overhanging 3-span composite girders to simulate the behavior of a suspension bridge. A new uplift-restricted and slip-permitted T-shape (URSP-T) connector is pr...


Field experiment of long-term enhanced UV-B radiation on plant photosynthesis were conducted in the Kobresia humilis meadow at the Haibei Alpine Meadow Ecosystem Research Station(37°29′~37°45′ N,101°12′~101°33′ E).The total daily exposure in treatment was 15.8 KJ·m-2 and stimulating a 5% ozone depletion in this region by enhanced UV-B radiation in the season of growth.The field experiment indicated that there was little negative effect of UV-B radiation on Pn in the most plant in the K.humilis meadow.Photosynthesis was inhibited in the Stipa aliena,Carex atrofusca and Astragalus sp.by long-term enhanced UV-B radiation.On the contrary,photosynthesis was stimulated in the Oxytropis ochrocephala,Gueldenstaedtia multiflora,Potentilla anserina,Aster flaccidus and Notoperygium forbesii.It was based on the characteristic of morphology and better Gs,WUE.Chl a/Chl b,Car/Chl and content of Car were increased in the plants of K.humilis meadow after long-term enhanced.It indicated that more UV-B radiation was absorbed to lessen injury and to protect photosynthetic apparatus.It was also a strategy to adapt to special surroundings of K.humilis meadow.Long-term supplementary UV-B radiation will not decrease the elementary productivity of K.humilis meadow.


The aim of this paper is to define and develop stronger forms of contra-continuous mappings and contra-α-continuous mappings that are known as bi-contra-continuous and bi-contra-α-continuous mappings.


The BODE index was devised to better reflect the multisystem effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), allowing for better prognostic estimation than that provided by forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) alone. The grading system, based on four parameters—that is, body mass index, airflow obstruction, Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea score and the 6 min walk distance—was verified by population studies.

This study set out to assess whether the BODE index …


This inventio ndiscloses a nuw-polypeptide-human beta-prekallikerin 9, polynucleotide for coding this polypeptide and the method for producing this polypeptide through DNA recombination technique. This invention also discloses the method for this polypeptide to cure several diseases, such as para-laryngocarcinoma tumour, nervous system disease, endocrinopathy, immune disease, inflammation, various tumours, growth and development obstruction disease, henotopathy and HIV infection. This invention further discloses an antagonist against this polypeptide and its therapeutic action, and the application of polynucleotide for coding this new human beta-prekallikrein 9.


Tinnitus and sleep are closely related. One of the most important aspects of tinnitus is its association with sleep disturbance. According to the literature, up to 71% of patients with tinnitus report sleep problems (1); furthermore, insomnia is also associated with more distressing tinnitus (2). Conversely, sleep disturbance was proposed as one of the causes of chronic tinnitus (3). The relationship of tinnitus with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSAS) has rarely been mentioned (4). In a recent population-based case-control study, the risk of tinnitus was found to increase 1.36 times in patients with OSAS. However, no detailed grading or severity of SDB (or OSAS) and tinnitus was provided. The purpose of this study was to investigate the exact relationship between tinnitus and SDB and delineate the incidence and severity of SDB in patients with chronic tinnitus; moreover, our study reports the preliminary outcome of tinnitus after intervention with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in selected patients with moderate to severe SDB.

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• JamB RGC dendritic development occurs in two phases, (1) dendrite elongation and field expansion and (2) elimination of dendritic protrusions and DF consolidation • Dendritic elongation requires glutamatergic activity in the retina • NMDA receptors on JamB RGCs are required for protrusion elimination, dendrite elongation, and DF expansion before eye-opening • NMDA receptors may be required for DF consolidation • Visual input drives DF consolidation Dendritic expansion requires glutamatergic activity 3517 D0117


Spanish intellectual and artist Cecilia Morillas (b. Salamanca, 1539–1581) often used her artistic skills to utilise, illustrate and participate in medical and scientific conversations and conventions relating to personal health, cosmography, mathematics and botany, among other topics. All the while, she invited each of her nine children to engage in and utilise these conversations and skills in various ways. She possessed a number of artistic talents including the illustration of manuscript documents and maps, and the creation of ornate needlework. She is known, for example, to have made lifelike silk replicas of flowers as a way to demonstrate and circulate her artistic talent and knowledge of botany and once crafted a terrestrial globe out of pieces of fabric and a ball of cork as a complement to her ongoing study of cosmography. Many of her works were housed in the museum of the Escorial, the royal residence of the Habsburg family, founded during the sixteenth century in Spain. As a counterpoint to the conservative model of humanistic education according to which such prominent authors as Fray Luis de León (1527–1591) and Juan Luis Vives (1493–1540) would have forbidden the explicit training of young women on matters not relevant to their duties as wife or mother, Morillas cultivated a home environment that enabled her children to develop considerable skills and talents in both the arts and sciences, often utilising the moralising endorsement of domestic chores, especially for her daughters, as an entry point into a variety of intellectual pursuits. As adults, Morillas's daughters, Madre Marı́a de San Alberto (1568–1640) and Madre Cecilia del Nacimiento (1570–1646), took vows at the Discalced Carmelite Convento de la Concepción in Valladolid. There the two sisters became copyists and archivists of their own and others' manuscripts, which included poetry, theatre and convent records. Madre Marı́a and Madre Cecilia won recognition for their leadership roles within the convent early in their lives. Many scholars, especially Electra Arenal, Stacey Schlau and Lisa Vollendorf, have highlighted the impact and importance of the intellectual contributions of Cecilia Morillas and her family within Spain.1 This article contributes new dimensions to her biography and the status of her family by bringing together for the first time a variety of


Considerable criticism has been leveled against the medical profession for its alleged failure to provide proper medical care for the entire population. Physicians have also been accused of not doing their full duty in the field of prevention of disease, leaving the task mainly to lay sanitarians. Whether these strictures are justifiable or not is outside the scope of this paper. I shall limit my inquiry to the r61e of the clinical pathologist in the general health program and the power inherent in the American Society of Clinical Pathologists to extend his usefulness. It would be superfluous to dwell on the importance of laboratory methods in the practice of medicine as their use has already received universal recognition and they are now considered indispensable both in hospitals and private practice. How far, however, have the services of the clinical pathologist been utilized in the care of patients throughout this country? What can our Society do to stimulate a wider employment of his talent? The medical profession has been reproached for not taking a positive attitude and greater initiative in spreading the benefits of scientific medicine to all strata of society. As specialists in one of its essential branches, the American Society of Clinical Pathologists should abandon a laisses faire policy and endeavor to devise ways and means whereby the benefits of the test tube and microscope may be more widely diffused than they are at present. Many elements of our citizenship are still deprived of the counsel of the clinical pathologist in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The lack is by no means limited to the poor


In this paper,we summarized the orchard establishment history,production capacity,genetic di-versity,and management of seed orchard of masson pine in China,and then made a proposal of the development trend of the seed orchard in China.


Subjective Logic is a recently emergent probabilistic logic system that allows for reasoning under uncertainty. Though algebraically expressive, there is a lack of software tooling to support computation, such as code libraries, calculators, and software for the development of decision support systems. With this motivation, we present a complete design for a library of opinion data structures and operators constructed from higher order functions that are capable of representing and evaluating well-formed expressions of Subjective Logic. By leveraging monads, mathematical objects from Category Theory, we have enabled our operators to detect and propagate run-time errors without sacrificing compositionality. Furthermore, we have conducted a termination analysis on the expression evaluator and a complexity analysis on a representative subset of the operators. We have also proposed and implemented extensions to the set of Subjective Logic operators. Lastly, we provide examples of how to compute the values of Subjective Logic expressions.


In each intervention heading to knowledge, cataloguing, conservation, recovery and exploitation of the environmental and architectural assets, survey is a catalysing element. I is a "reconstruct ion" of the assets , through different ways of enquiry (mensoria, historical-critical, archival, bibliographical, technical, technological), carried out with different criteria and proceedings, through the analysis of the reasons for it s coming into being with the pass ing of time. Concerning the existing situation, the scientific debate is focused on the distinction between surveying and survey since we mean by the first one the measuring aspect and by the second one the accumulation of the analysis and studies that have been dealt with by different disciplinary spheres (see also the final note drafted and approved by the partecipants at the Congress in Rome about "Document on Architectural Survey"). For years, surveying has been assigned to specialized architects and engineers' ability and experience, and its transcript ion has been expressed through not coded graphical forms, which aim at a representation that will be closer to iconic art than to science. Nowadays, surveying operation must document the metrical completeness of grafic data, of those concerning diagnostics , etc. It follows that surveying must have an hypothesis of scientific nature, based upon experience and, therefore , upon experiment repetitiveness. Anyone who is interested in monuments'survey, or generally in architectural and building heritage, knows well what the survey operation's value and meaning are. He knows how much engagement is required and how many hours of hard work on site are needed to survey, elaborate the data, verify and re-draw a plan, a facade, a cross-section. The bi-dimensional representat ion method, with grafic transcript ion on paper sheet, is a system which is infected by an abstract ing operation with reference to the real perception of an


We present a search for anomalous production of events with two leptons (e, µ) with same electric charge in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. There are many new physics scenarios that produce events with two leptons of the same electric charge. The standard model backgrounds are small, which allows us to perform an inclusive selection with one lepton above 20 GeV and the other one above 10 GeV. We use 1 fb −1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the CDF II experiment. No statistically significant discrepancies between the standard model predictions and the data were found. 1 The Standard Model of particle physics has been impressively successful in describing all experimental data taken in high energy collison data so far. Despite its successes, there are strong indications that this model is only an effective low-energy model and new physics must be present at a higher energy scale. An ideal signature to search for deviations from the standard model is dilepton production with both leptons of same electric charge. This signature occurs naturally in many beyond the standard model predictions, and it occurs rather rarely within the standard model. There are many new physics scenarios that can produce signatures with two or more leptons with same electric charge. For instance, any model that has a Majorana particle decaying through standard model-like bosons can lead to such a signature. Heavy Majorana neutrinos can be produced in pp collisions in association with a lepton through a virtual W boson [1] (p¯ p → ν R ±). This new particle can then subsequently decay to a W and another lepton (ν R → W ±). Given the Majorana nature of this neutrino, there is a 50% probability that the two leptons in the final state will have the same charge. In supersymmetric extensions of the standard model, pair produced chargino-neutralino (p¯ p → ˜ χ ± 1 ˜ χ 0 2) can decay into final states with three leptons (˜ χ ± 1 → lν˜χ 0 1 and˜χ 0 2 → ± ∓ ˜ χ 0 1). Two of those three leptons will have the same charge. These are just few examples of new models which predict an excess in the same-charge lepton channels at hadron colliders. In the standard model, there are few processes that can lead to final states with leptons with the same charge. This makes the …


We successfully enhanced the performance of a spin valve by inserting an ultra-thin layer of partially oxidized Fe in the pinned and free layers. With the exchange bias field kept large, the spin valve reached a GMR of 12%, which corresponded to a 55% increase in GMR when we compared it with that of spin valves without any inserted layer. The layer of partially oxidized Fe was more effective for improving the properties of the spin valve than the layer of partially oxidized Co??Fe₁?. Considering all the results, we can contribute the significant improvement to the combined effect of the modified local electronic structures at the Fe impurities and the enhanced spin-dependent reflections at the α-Fe₂O₃ phase in the magnetic layer.


study of this type of capital. One would prefer to see it undated rather than that it should be dated on no good reason at alL We must thank Miss Scrinari for setting in motion the Corpus of capitals, but we must hope for improvements in the format of the volumes. It is clear, too, that future editors must tread more warily than she has done, at least until more material is published and available for comparison. That is only one reason for hoping that this Corpus will be extended to include the Roman provinces as soon as possible ; unless it is, one will not understand the capitals of Italy.


This study examined the possible relationship of the coronary-prone Type A behavior pattern to performance of a complex monitoring task. The task was designed to functionally simulate the general task characteristics of future, highly-automated air traffic control systems in which passive monitoring is expected to be a principal job requirement. Thirty-six male subjects, half classified as Type A and half as Type B, monitored the simulated radar display over a two-hour session for infrequent critical changes in alphanumeric targets. In addition to performance, physiological changes and subjective reactions were also assessed. Type A individuals were found not to differ from Type B individuals in either task performance or in subjective reaction to the task. Task-related changes in heart rate, blood pressure and general restlessness failed also to provide any evidence of greater arousal in Type A's than in Type B's. The findings are discussed relative to other studies of Type A behavior and performance and to the specific problem of finding useful predictors of performance in operational monitoring situations.


Objective To determine the load and importance of respiratory viruses in hospitalized children with acute lower respiratory tract infections( ALRIs) in Suzhou Area. Methods A retrospective study of 433 children with ALRI in the Department of Pediatrics,Suzhou hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University from January,2013 to December,2014 was done. Respiratory syncytial virus( RSV),adenovirus( ADV),type 1 to 3 parainfluenza viruses( PIV),and type A and B influenza virus( flu) were detected by direct immunofluorescence. Results Of the 433 children with ALRI,viruses were detected in 113 specimens. RSV was common in children under 1 year old. And autumn was the peak of morbidity. Conclusion Respiratory viruses are the important cause of ALRIs in children in Suzhou Area,which accounts for 30. 7%. The RSV is the most common pathogen causing ALRIs. Most of the children are younger than 1 year old,and are more likely to present with bronchiolitis than pneumonia.


Self-assembled InSb submonolayer quantum dots (QDs) in an InAs matrix have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy using Sb2 and As2 fluxes. The structures exhibit bright midinfrared photoluminescence up to room temperature. Intense room temperature electroluminescence with a peak at wavelength near 3.8 μm was observed from p-i-n light emitting diode structures containing ten InSb submonolayer QD sheets inserted within the InAs active region.


A debate in ecology rages over the sources and types of dynamic behaviour driving ecological systems. Drylands have become a particular focus of this debate. In these environments extreme and unpredictable variability in rainfall are considered to confer non-equilibrium dynamics by continually disrupting the tight consumer–resource relations otherwise considered to pull a system towards equilibrium. This implies that livestock grazing in drylands, widely thought to cause degradation and desertification through bad management practices leading to overstocking, might not be causing irreversible ecological change through over-use of vegetation. An article recently published in Ecological Applications (Illius & O'Connor, 1999), however, argues that variability in arid and semi-arid grazing systems is not the outcome of qualitatively different dynamical behaviour, and that livestock do cause negative change through normal density-dependent relations. The authors maintain that these operate primarily in key resource areas and during drought periods. We contest these arguments on several grounds: that key terms are poorly applied in ways which suggest inconsistencies in the internal logic of the arguments; that the paper is unjustifiably selective in the choice and interpretation of evidence on which it builds; and that the authors do not engage critically with the crucial policy implications of the debate, particularly as they relate to pastoral landuse by African herders in areas under communal tenure and management. We do not suggest that degradation never occurs in arid and semi-arid rangelands, but that Illius and O'Connor's analysis of the mechanisms via which this might take place is misleading and at times, we feel, theoretically bizarre. In particular, we suggest that drought periods may be the times when density-dependent mechanisms are least likely to occur and that key resource areas exist because of ungrazeable reserves which effectively cannot be degraded, although subject to heavy grazing. We also attempt to draw out the theoretical implications of attributing change caused by biotic–abiotic effects to biotic–biotic interactions. We contend that non-equilibrium concepts remain crucial for both natural and social science approaches to understanding dryland environments and their multiple, dynamic uses by pastoralists. Illius and O'Connor's critique of non-equilibrium concepts as a means for understanding ecosystem behaviour in African drylands seeks to address a deepening conceptual fault line separating factions of the rangeland science and livestock development community. Epitomizing one side of this divide are understandings of semi-arid and arid environments in terms of relationships between their biotic components, emphasizing the potential for grazing by domestic livestock to perturb the system from a knowable and desirable climax community at equilibrium. On the other, is an emerging idea of such environments as continually driven, or disturbed , by abiotic factors, primarily rainfall, such that systemic effects of herbivory are relatively unimportant. The two approaches have been termed equilibrium and non-equilibrium , respectively. The debate is significant for ecological theory because viewing arid and semi-arid environments through these two lenses can influence what, and how, questions are asked about these environments, consequently affecting interpretations drawn from findings of ecological studies. However, its importance is greater than this. Equilibrium thinking in rangeland science has fostered a pervasive and self-referential narrative which holds that degradation and desertification are endemic in drylands, particularly those utilized by African livestock herders under communal forms of land tenure (see, for example, Stebbings, 1935; Grainger, 1982, 1990; Dregne, 1983; Lamprey, 1983; Chapman, 1992; Seely & Jacobson, 1994; Wolters, 1994; Middleton & Thomas, 1997). This degradation narrative carries critical implications for the institution of democratic policy and planning in these areas. The term non-equilibrium was coined by ecologist Wiens (1984) to describe the dynamics of arid and semi-arid ecosystems. As Illius & O'Connor (1999, p. 799) paraphrase, he argued that ...all ecological systems fall somewhere on a continuum from equilibrial to nonequilibrial ... the latter ... showing weak biotic coupling, independence of species, abiotic limitation rather than resource limitation, density independence and large stochastic effects . Illius and O'Connor insist that the validity of non-equilibrium theory depends on showing that non-equilibrium environments are qualitatively different from equilibrial environments governed by density-dependent interand intraspecific interactions (Illius & O'Connor, 1999, p. 800). While admitting the failings of rangeland GUEST EDITORIAL Journal of Biogeography, 29, 1595–1618


India has a major show in world buffalo population; Pakistan and China are second and third in the world of the buff alo population. Indian buffalo meat productions are growing significantly. Buffalo meat is one of the healthiest meats among red meat for human consumption; it is low in calories and cholesterol. Buffalo meat is dark red in colour; it is because of less intramuscular fat or more pigmentation. The da rk meat possesses good binding properties and is preferred in product manu facture. Buffalo meat can be very well used for production of sausage, a ready to eat and ready serve product. The quality and quantity of buffalo meat depend on many factors, the most important of which are the water buffalo type and breed, age, feeding intensity, management system and envir onmental conditions. This article presents a review on the buffalo meat production and the physicochemical properties of buffalo meat. Keyword : Buffalo, meat, production, nutritional value, phy sicochemical properties. Introduction Buffalo is one species being seen today as a


The wheat varieties of Ningchun-4, Ningzuo-6, 98j460 and 98j659 and the filial generation F 2 and Tal sterile spike were induced by 4 different chemicals to parthenocarpy. Results showed that setting percentage induced by liquid A is 7.5%~12.5%; spray and whole spike steeping are the best ways in several different inducing ways, and their setting percentage are 11.4 and 11.3 respectively; setting percentages of varieties and filial generation F 2 are higher than that of Tal sterile spike.


The aftermath forage of Russian wild ryegrass, Elymus junceus Fisch. was removed each fall from 1963 through 1967 by three methods: grazing by sheep, close clipping with a rotary mower, and spraying with diquat to desiccate the leaves and then burning. The five-year average seed yields were 294, 405, and 336 kg/ha, respectively, compared with 223 kg/ha from the stand where the residue was allowed to accumulate.Continuous close grazing of the aftermath forage of Russian wild ryegrass plants immediately after seed harvest and throughout August, September, and the first half of October over a number of years resulted in unproductive plants from the standpoint of seed yield.


Christianity in the West, 1400-1700Fires of FaithGod's LibraryThe Voices of MorebathThe Reformation: A Very Short IntroductionReassessing the Henrician AgeA People's TragedyJohn Henry NewmanReformation DividedSaints, Sacrilege and SeditionEnglish ReformationsEngland's Glorious Revolution 1688-1689Fire from HeavenThe Age of ReformationDreaming the English RenaissanceHeretics and BelieversThe Imaginative World of the ReformationThe Voices of MorebathThe Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683The Stripping of the AltarsThe Stripping of the AltarsBroken Idols of the English ReformationThe Sorcerer's TaleWhy Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?Doña María's StoryMarking the HoursRalph Tailor's SummerReligion and the Decline of MagicThe Voices of MorebathThe Voices of Morebath : Reformation and Rebellion in an English VillageEnglish Society 1580–1680Popular Politics and the English ReformationBeginning at JerusalemNew Worlds, Lost WorldsRoyal Books and Holy BonesThe Church of Mary TudorThe World Turned Upside DownA Country Merchant, 1495-1520Ten Popes Who Shook the WorldThe Renaissance and Reformation


A long tradition of research on schizophrenia has considered defects in logical reasoning one of the core features of this mental disorder. According to this view, reasoning in schizophrenia is severely impaired. Nevertheless, an increasing amount of data coming from the cognitive perspective is making this conclusion more controversial, and seems to be heading in the same direction as a very different kind of tradition, that of psychiatric phenomenology. This approach considers the typical features of schizophrenia in terms of an enhancement of logic, rather than a defect of it (cf. minkowski 1927, Binswanger 1956, Blankenburg 1971). In this paper, we will bring together these two different perspectives in order to explain why the "lack of logic" paradigm seems to fail to understand schizophrenics' reasoning


In this paper, we introduce a new class of functions called as (P;m)-function and quasi-m-convex function. Some inequalities of Hadamard's type for these functions are given. Some special cases are discussed. Results represent signicant renement and improvement of the previous results. We should especially mention that the denition of (P;m)-function and quasi-m-convexity are given for the first time in the literature and moreover, the results obtained in special cases coincide with the well-known results in the literature.


Literature constitutes an important socialisation tool, especially when it comes to readers still in the formative learning stages, such as children and adolescents. We know that, through reading, young people internalise ways of seeing the world and social dimensions, such as how relationships between individuals can be built. As such, we believe it is worth paying particular attention to books that target younger readers, given their influence and views of the world, which not only provide the insights of


Objective
To study the visfatin level changes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to study the correlation of visfatin level and atherosclerosis in RA.

Methods
Fifty cases of patients were divided to the plaque group (33 cases) and plaque-free group (17 cases) according to the carotid intima media thickness checked by carotid ultrasonography. In addition, their blood lipid level, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), rheumatoid factors (RFs), anti-CCP, visfatin etc. were measured. Fifty healthy people were set as the control group. The correlation between the visfatin level of RA patients and atherosclerosis was analyzed. The statistical analysis was carried out with independent t-test, analysis of variance, Spearman correlation analysis and multiple stepwise regression.

Results
The serum visfatin level of RA plaques group was obviously higher than that of the plaque-free group [(47±22) μg/L vs (34±19) μg/L, t=4.361, P<0.01]. The serum visfatin level of RA patients was positively correlated to HOMA-IR (r=0.567, P=0.001), RF (r=0.502, P=0.003), anti-cyclic peptide containing citrulline, (anti-CCP) (r=0.420, P=0.038) and carotid artery IMT (r=0.596, P=0.001). High-density lipoprotein-C (OR=1.009, P=0.020), HOMA-IR (OR=1.450, P=0.006), anti-CCP (OR=1.005, P=0.014) and visfatin (OR=0.971, P=0.008) were independent relevant factors affecting carotid artery IMT.

Conclusion
The serum visfatin level of RA patients is closely related to atherosclerosis.

Key words:
Arthritis, rheumatoid; Atherosclerosis; Visfatin


Objective To study the mental health of the elderly with diabetic and its related factors.Methods 100 eldrly with diabetic and 186 health elderly were investigated and analyzed by Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90),Social Support Rating Scale(SSRS) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ).Results The patients with diabetic were in worse mental health status than the health contrasting group.It was related to many factors.Stepwise regression indicated that sex,aged,occupation,education,children social support total score,impobjective support,EPQ-E,and EPQ-N were major factors.Conclusion Reinforcing mental health services would be important to prevention and treatment of the elderly with diabetic the services for mental health.


In this work, a refractive index sensor setup based on a biconically tapered fiber (BTF) concatenated to an intrinsic all-fiber micro Fabry-Perot interferometer (MFPI) is presented. Here, the power of the MFPI spectral fringes decreases as the refractive index interacts with theevanescent field of the BTF segment. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the RI sensitivity can be enhanced by bending the BTF segment.Finally, it is shown that by using this sensing arrangement, at ~1.53 µm wavelength, it is possible to detect refractive index changeswithin the measurement range of 1.3 to 1.7 RIU, with a sensitivity of 39.92 dB/RIU and a RI resolution of 2.5 x 10􀀀^-3 RIU with a curvature of C = 18.02 m^-􀀀1.


This contribution presents procedures of rotary swaging, which can be used to integrate sensitive sensor elements safely into load-bearing structures during shaping processes. Inside the tubular structure the sensor elements are protected from external perturbation. The high degree of freedom of the design for the inner and outer tube contour, which is given by using the rotary swaging technology, allows the creation of undercuts. This creates the opportunity for a form fit between sensor elements and load-bearing structures. Through the selective design of the transition section the sensor body is, on the one hand, protected against overstraining during rotary swaging and, on the other hand, an axial preload is achieved through a targeted flow of the tube material. For material bonds created in such a way can deliver important information about process monitoring already for the production process. In their future application they can be used for monitoring of forces and changes of states. In this contribution aspects of material flow figuration and the targeted adjustment of the aspired preload forces are being presented.


Abstract. Southeast coastal region is the most developed and populated area in China. Meanwhile, it has been the most severe acid rain impacted region for many years. The chemical compositions and carbon isotope ratio of dissolved inorganic carbon (δ 13 C DIC ) of rivers were investigated to evaluate the chemical weathering and associated atmospheric CO 2 consumption rates. Mass balance calculation indicated that the dissolved loads of major rivers in the Southeast Coastal Rivers Basin (SECRB) were contributed by atmospheric (14.4 %, 6.6–23.4 %), anthropogenic (17.8 %, 0–55.2 %), silicate weathering (38.3 %, 10.7–74.0 %) and carbonate weathering inputs (29.4 %, 3.9–62.0 %). The silicate and carbonate chemical weathering rates for these river watersheds were 10.0–29.6 t km −2 a −1 and 1.0–54.1 t km −2 a −1 , respectively. The associated mean CO 2 consumption rate by silicate weathering for the whole SECRB were 167 × 103 mol km −2 a −1 . The chemical and δ 13 C DIC evidences indicated that sulfuric acid (mainly from acid deposition) was significantly involved in chemical weathering of rocks. The calculation showed an overestimation of CO 2 consumption at 0.19 × 1012 g C a −1 if sulfuric acid was ignored, which accounted for about 25 % of the total CO 2 consumption by silicate weathering in the SECRB. This study quantitatively highlights that the role of sulfuric acid in chemical weathering, suggesting that acid deposition should be considered in studies of chemical weathering and associated CO 2 consumption.


The main objective of the research is to analyze the legal frameworkfor educational inclusion in accordance with the allocated structural units. Based on the analysis of legal instruments at different levels,the authors identified the objects of educational inclusion, revealed the essence of the inclusive education concept and characterized organizational and methodological conditions of inclusive education. The conclusions were drawn on the non-discriminatory, heterogeneous, integration development of inclusive education.


Abstract. Cobble size distribution (CSD) on the surface of a cobble bed is an important part of the river system, with important implications for river ecology and geomorphology. A digital image edge detection algorithm based on markers and detection lines is proposed to realize automatic statistics gathering of CSD. By making multiple detection lines outward from the markers, the cobble edge detection process of 2D images is transformed into a 1D space for analysis and processing. To correct the error detection points, an edge correction algorithm based on mutation point detection is designed. Simultaneously, a cobble edge reconstruction algorithm is proposed to restore covered cobble edges. The results of a verification experiment and comparative analysis indicate that the relative error of D50, which was estimated by the algorithm in our study, is 3% in the laboratory and 8% in the field. The proposed method is reliable for the estimation of CSD with grain size range of 5 to 50 cm. In conclusion, the proposed algorithm is suitable for river geomorphology research and physical habitat studies of cobble floodplains using an unmanned aerial vehicle for remote sensing photography.


TODAY IT IS a common belief of the residents of the Hawaiian Islands that the sandalwood tree was exterminated during the sandalwood trade in the early part of the . nineteenth century and that it is now extinct on the islands. To correct this impression, the following notes are presented.. There is a popular as well as a scientific interest in the sandalwood tree or iliahi of the Hawaiians, the fragrant wood of which was the first important article of commerce exported from the Hawaiian Islands. For centuries the sandalwood, with its pleasantly fragrant dried heartwood, was much sought for. In the Orient, particularly in China, Burma, and India, the wood was used for the making of idols and sacred utensils for shrines, choice boxes and carvings, fuel for funeral pyres, and joss sticks to be burnt in temples. The distilled oil was used in numerous medicines, perfumes, and cosmetics, and as a body rub. The thick oil pressed from the seed was used as illuminating oil. Though long believed to be native to India, the "white sandalwood," Santalum


Single Event Upset (SEU) is a major concern for SRAM-based FPGAs where a simple bit-flip can lead to an abnormal execution. We present in this paper, a new fault tolerance method based on hardware BER (Backward Error Recovery) to protect/correct system against the occurrence of transient faults. We use the partial dynamic reconfiguration offered by Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs to ensure hardware checkpoint and upon detection of fault we use recovery. Our method has several advantages: first it is non-intrusive (no internal modification of hardware modules of the system), second it is not based on redundant hardware resources (like most methods in the literature), and finally it has a static area overhead ratio when applied to a system. To validate our approach, we implemented it on a Xilinx platform based on a Partial Reconfigurable Region (PRR).


Considerable controversy exists as to both the nature and efficacy of mentoring among women professionals. As noted by Wrightsman, this controversy persists largely because researchers have failed to use a common scientific definition of the concept. In the present research a survey of existing studies was used to set a more stringent criterion of mentoring than that usually employed. Data were then gathered from a sample of women lawyers in the State of Oregon. Results indicated that those meeting the more stringent criterion perceived themselves as more successful and satisfied in their careers than those not meeting it. Those women who said that they had mentors but who did not meet the criterion reported themselves as less successful and satisfied than those who claimed to have a mentor and met the criterion. These results are seen as demonstrating the value of the more stringent criterion as well as the possible value of true mentors to women professionals.


In this article, we use deep neural networks (DNNs) to develop an end-to-end wireless communication system, in which DNNs are employed for all signal-related functionalities, including encoding, decoding, modulation, and equalization. However, accurate instantaneous channel transfer function, i.e., the channel state information (CSI), is necessary to compute the gradient of the DNN representing. In many communication systems, the channel transfer function is hard to obtain in advance and varies with time and location. In this article, this constraint is released by developing a channel agnostic end-to-end system that does not rely on any prior information about the channel. We use a conditional generative adversarial net (GAN) to represent the channel effects, where the encoded signal of the transmitter will serve as the conditioning information. In addition, in order to obtain accurate channel state information for signal detection at the receiver, the received signal corresponding to the pilot data is added as a part of the conditioning information. From the simulation results, the proposed method is effective on additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Rayleigh fading channels, which opens a new door for building data-driven communication systems.


The biodiversity crisis in global forests continues to be accelerated by habitat loss and con- sequent extinctions of floral and faunal species assemblages that cannot adjust to rapid, and often large scale, habitat alterations. In an effort to record arthropod diversity in northern temperate rainforests we have studied canopy arthropods in a number of Vancouver Island rainforest types since 1992. Based on these findings we summarize results to answer the following questions: (1) Does guild proportionality vary among different, geographically separated ancient rainforests? (2) Does the numerical dominance of the predator guild by spiders change across these ancient rainforests? (3) Do these ancient rainforests act as repositories for arthropod biodiversity? Answers to these questions are needed to address the issues that surround the maintenance of biological diversity (form and function) in these ancient forests and, in a broader context, rainforests throughout the world.


This article presents a sensor-based navigation algorithm for 3-degree-of-freedom car-like robots with a nonholonomic constraint. Similar to the classical Bug family algorithms, the proposed algorithm enables the car-like robot to navigate in a completely unknown environment by only using range sensor information. The car-like robot uses the local range sensor view to determine the local path so that it moves toward the goal. To guarantee that the car-like robot can approach the goal, the two modes of motion are repeated, termed as motion-to-goal and wall-following. The motion-to-goal behavior lets the robot directly move toward the goal and the wall-following behavior makes the car-like robot circumnavigate the obstacle boundary until it meets the leaving condition. For each behavior, the nonholonomic motion for the car-like robot is planned in terms of the turning radius at each step. The proposed algorithm is implemented with a real robot and the experimental results show the performance of the proposed algorithm.


The invention discloses a DC line carrier communicator, which is characterized in that: the communicator consists of a transmitting unit and a receiving unit, wherein, the transmitting unit is provided with a modulator, a carrier generator, a data buffer, a push-pull driver and a low-pass filter; and the receiving unit is equipped with an amplitude limiter, a band-pass filter, a frequency selective amplifier, an emitter follower, an envelope detector, a voltage comparator and a voltage reference source. The invention has the advantages of: simple structure, low cost, providing high direct current of a few amperes to dozens of amperes to loads, ensuring the quality of power supply of current, and enhancing the anti-interference ability of the communicator and also the confidentiality of data transmission.


A simple procedure is described for the isolation of protoplasts from plant cells using a high concentration of magnesium sulfate as an osmotic stabilizer. This new procedure was developed with callus cells of Symphytum officinale as a starting material, but was also successfully applied to other tissues and other plants. The floating protoplast fraction obtained had a purity of more than 90% and was highly enriched in nucleated protoplasts (about 80%). Microdensitometry of Feulgenstained fixed protoplasts from callus cells of Symphytum officinale revealed two ploidy levels (diploid and tetraploid), in contrast to protoplasts from leaf material that appeared to be diploid only.


As Indiana looks to the future, it must balance the long-term success of its large agricultural sector with the need to increase renewable energy production and combat climate change. Often these goals seem to conflict with one another, but agrivoltaics – the dual use of land for active agricultural use and solar farming – is one technology uniquely situated to address these competing interests. However, current policies do not explicitly consider agrivoltaic systems and are ill-suited to spur further solar development in Indiana. Therefore, we propose amending Indiana Code § 6-1.1-8 to establish a preferential land use assessment program for a new "dual-use solar" land type code. Such a change would initiate investment in agrivoltaics technology and incentivize farmland preservation in the solar energy sector.


1. Arthropod-borne Infections 2. Soil-mediated Helminthiases 3. Snail-mediated Helminthiases 4. Infections Acquired Through the Gastrointestinal Tract 5. Airborne Infections 6. Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV/AIDS 7. Other Infections Acquired Through the Skin and Mucous Membranes 8. Poisonous animals 9. Nutritional Disorders 10. Miscellaneous Disorders 11. Bibliography Index


Abstract The main study of research is to analyze the effect of changes in exchange rates of rupiah against share price in Indonesia. This research employed ARDL model and utilized monthly data for the variables of share price, nominal exchange rate, money supply and GDP. Data is generated from Bank Indonesia and Federal Reserve Economic Data webpage (FRED) from 2008 to 2017. The study results found a negative relationship between the exchange rate and stock price. It found convincing evidence that there is no two-way relationship between both parameters. But there is a positive relationship on other variables such as money supply and GDP during this period. On the basis of the research results obtained its current status, Bank Indonesia is recommended as monetary authority and OJK as capital market regulator must be more prudent in coordinating and cooperating to put together policies and strategies to maintain stable monetary policies to prevent unexpected external shocks which would eventually hit the capital market.


The present invention discloses a slurry stirring device, comprising: a slurry tank, a slurry having a pulp outlet tank and a supply system, characterized in that a spraying direction slurry tank to the housing side walls toward the bottom of the stirred slurry tank gun, and the horizontal centerline of the slurry was stirred tank lance comprises at least two first gun was stirred at the same height of the housing box side walls slurry was stirred at an acute angle cross section of the lance, the lance was stirred slurry tank along the same injection direction, the supply system are connected to the spray gun and the slurry was stirred for a stock inlet tank, supply system is provided with a valve, the control valve opening sequence stirred gun.