Fra modernisme til ny-marxistisk kritik. Ed. by Oluf Bohn. Reviewed by William Michelsen The bulk of this booklet is made up of four interpretations of Grundtvig's poem 'De Levendes Land' and of a poem by Klaus Rifbjerg. The authors are or have been lecturers at the University of Aarhus, and, in different ways, two of them adhere to a Marxist position. No matter how much the four critics disagree, they all seem to regard the view of life expressed in Grundtvig's poem as a piece of idealist ideology irretrievably belonging to the past. In the concluding symposium Niels Egebak (whose interpretation appeared in the last volume of Grundtvig-Studier) asserts that 'Grundtvig can fight the romantic ideology only by means of a new ideology which has to accept the premises of the ideology it is militating against, making use of its concepts, and inserting them in a new context. This is what he is doing in 'De Levendes Land'.' (p. 140.) If Egebak was right about this, no settlement with the dialectics of romantic ideology would ever be possible. But in the final words of the poem, this is precisely what Grundtvig achieves. Life is not limited to an airy millenium; it is here and now, but only where love is. Love creates life, and love is understood not only in an immaterial sense, but also in a material, physical sense. It is at once earthly and heavenly, human and Divine, creative. Grundtvig's Christian realism goes beyond all ideologies, idealist as well as materialist. Grundtvig denounced the dialectic between body and sould that prevailed in his age. The view of life advocated by him was different from the platonic view. Obviously, as can be seen from his political activities, this was bound to influence his attitude to social life. However, a great part of his cultural programme has not been effected.


Complex signals are common throughout the animal kingdom, consisting of one or more signals in one or more sensory modalities presented within a single display. I tested an efficacy-based backup hypothesis of complex signal function using the bimodal courtship signaling wolf spider Schizocosa uetzi. This hypothesis predicts that the visual and vibratory courtship displays function as backups to each other in the presence of environmental variability. I compared mating frequencies across four environmental treatments in which the visual and vibratory environments were manipulated independently in a 2 3 2 design with visual treatments of light/dark (i.e., visual signal present/absent) and vibratory treatments of filter paper substratum/ granite substratum (i.e., vibratory signal present/absent). Results did not match the predictions of an efficacy-based backup hypothesis. The vibratory environment affected mating frequency, with more mating occurring in the vibration-present treatments compared to the vibration-absent treatments, but the visual environment had no effect on mating frequency. A second experiment was then conducted to test for an inter-signal interaction. Using the video-playback technique, I presented females with manipulated video sequences simultaneous with a controlled vibratory signal to test the hypothesis that the presence of a vibratory signal alters a female's response to the visual signal. In the presence of a vibratory courtship signal, females were more receptive to more visually ornamented males. This increased receptivity to increased visual ornamentation was not seen in a previous study conducted on S. uetzi in the absence of a vibratory signal, suggesting a potential inter-signal interaction. In a third experiment, I tested whether a female's visual attention was altered by the vibratory signal by examining female response to a visual ''predator'' while exposed to all possible combinations of male courtship signals. Females were more likely to get caught, and thus less likely to notice a predatory visual stimulus when exposed to a courtship vibration, supporting the hypothesis that the vibratory signal alters a female's visual attention. Key words: attention-altering, complex signals, inter-signal interaction, limited attention, multimodal signals, spiders, video playback. [Behav Ecol]


Drug delivery refers to approaches, formulations, technologies, and systems for transporting a pharmaceutical compound in the body as needed to safely achieve its desired therapeutic effect. Skeletal drug delivery systems (SDDS) are used to deliver the drug directly to skeletal tissue through various conventional and novel approaches, thereby improving the therapeutic effectiveness of drugs in bone diseases. It may involve scientific site-targeting within the body, or it might involve facilitating systemic pharmacokinetics; in any case, it is typically concerned with both quantity and duration of drug presence. Ranging from used of poultice and now with the advent of self setting cements, nanoparticles, liposomes etc for targeting the drug to the poorly perfused body organs, the development of delivery systems to bones/ skeletal system have come a long way. The present work reviews the delivery systems that are prevalent and is dedicated towards a rationale selection of the drugs and dosage forms for skeletal diseases.


Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by chorea, behavioral manifestations, and dementia. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence and prevalence of HD through a systematic review of the literature. Medline and Embase databases were searched using terms specific to HD as well as studies of incidence, prevalence, and epidemiology. All studies reporting the incidence and/or prevalence of HD were included. Twenty original research articles were included. Eight studies examined incidence, and 17 studies examined prevalence. Meta‐analysis of data from four incidence studies revealed an incidence of 0.38 per 100,000 per year (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.16, 0.94). Lower incidence was reported in the Asian studies (n = 2), compared to the studies performed in Europe, North America, and Australia (n = 6). The worldwide service‐based prevalence of HD, based on a meta‐analysis (n = 13 studies), was 2.71 per 100,000 (95% CI: 1.55–4.72). Eleven studies were conducted in Europe, North American, and Australia, with an overall prevalence of 5.70 per 100,000 (95% CI: 4.42–7.35). Three studies were conducted in Asia, with an overall prevalence of 0.40 per 100,000 (95% CI: 0.26–0.61). Metaregression revealed a significantly lower prevalence of HD in Asia, compared to European, North American, and Australian populations. HD is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with a higher prevalence in Europe, North America, and Australia than in Asia. The difference in prevalence of this genetic disorder can be largely explained by huntingtin gene haplotypes. © 2012 Movement Disorder Society


We will discuss the development of nano-inks based on carbon nanotubes and methods of their integration into optical fibers. The hybrid nano-photonic devices allow to obtain lasers, gas and refractive Index sensors with improved characteristics.


Accretion discs around supermassive black holes are promising sites for stellar mass black hole mergers detectable with LIGO. Here we present the results of Monte Carlo simulations of black hole mergers within 1-d AGN disc models. For the spin distribution in the disc bulk, key findings are: (1) The distribution of χeff is naturally centred around $\tilde{\chi }_{\rm eff} \approx 0.0$, (2) the width of the χeff distribution is narrow for low natal spins. For the mass distribution in the disc bulk, key findings are: (3) mass ratios $\tilde{q} \sim 0.5\!-\!0.7$, (4) the maximum merger mass in the bulk is $\sim 100\!-\!200\, \mathrm{M}_{\odot }$, (5) $\sim 1{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of bulk mergers involve BH $\gt 50\, \mathrm{M}_{\odot }$ with (6) $\simeq 80{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of bulk mergers are pairs of first generation BH. Additionally, mergers at a migration trap grow an IMBH with typical merger mass ratios $\tilde{q}\sim 0.1$. Ongoing LIGO non-detections of black holes $\gt 10^{2}\, \mathrm{M}_{\odot }$ puts strong limits on the presence of migration traps in AGN discs (and therefore AGN disc density and structure) as well as median AGN disc lifetime. The highest merger rate occurs for this channel if AGN discs are relatively short-lived (≤1 Myr) so multiple AGN episodes can happen per Galactic nucleus in a Hubble time.


Shubnikov–de Haas (SdH) oscillations in metallic are studied in magnetic fields up to 35 Tesla. It is demonstrated that two characteristic frequencies determine the quantum oscillations of the conductivity. Angle dependent measurements and calculations of the Berry phase show that the two frequencies and describe oscillations from surface and bulk carriers, respectively. At low magnetic fields, only SdH oscillation from topological surface states can be detected whereas at high magnetic field the bulk oscillations dominate. The origin of the separation of bulk and surface SdH oscillations into different magnetic field ranges is revealed in the difference of the cyclotron masses . The bulk is nearly three times larger than the surface cyclotron mass resulting in a stronger attenuation of the bulk oscillation amplitude upon decreasing magnetic field. This makes it possible to detect and characterise the surface SdH oscillations in the low-field range and the bulk oscillations at high magnetic fields.


: this paper deals with the comparison of analysis of two legged humanoid robots during walking. This research area is characterized by the fact that there are a lots of publications, most of which are based on the classic Zero-Moment-Point (ZMP) method. First, a brief overview is provided on humanoid robots, and also models for the dynamic behavior are discussed. As base for these models these two methods Denavit Hartenberg and the Newton-Euler are used. Main aim of this work is to investigate the stability of humanoid robot developed. There is currently the low base of robot - consisting of feet, legs, hips and upper part of robots body. First, the existing low base of humanoid robot was simulated using Matlab / SimMechanics, where the derived by Newton-Euler model was used.


Occlusions are a major obstacle for those dealing with the problem of automatically finding conjugate point pairs in overlapping images. They lead to mismatches or uncorrelated areas or features in the images. This is particularly critical in urban areas, where many mismatches generally occur, caused by relief-displacement of buildings. This research addresses the problem of automatically detecting occlusions caused relief displacement in aerial, central perspective images. In a more formal, mathematical approach, an occlusion corresponds to a linear geometric relationship of points in the image space to points in the object space, involving the image perspective center and two additional points, all three of which are collinear. The altered order relationship is easily checked in a deterministic approach. However, because there are errors involved in the computation of the image coordinates of the perspective center and in the projections of ground points back onto the image space, a simple Boolean test may misconstrue the significance of the apparent order relationship. These errors or uncertainties in the coordinates propagate along the photogrammetric process and suggest the use of a probabilistic approach for solving the problem of automatic detection of occlusions in digital images. A Bayesian Network is suggested, implemented and tested for that purpose. The tests implemented show how a Bayesian network was successfully applied to the problem of automatically detecting occlusions in digital images. Three data sets, each of them containing 3D coordinates of point pairs, were used for testing: stereo-model measurements, simulated data, and digital orthoimage measurements.


AbstractPartitioning water distribution networks into district metered areas (DMAs) is a challenge for water utilities due to the complexity of network topology, especially for large-scale and high...


A generalization of Phelps' lemma to locally convex spaces is proven, applying its well-known Banach space version. We show the equivalence of this theorem, Ekeland's principle and Danes' drop theorem in locally convex spaces to their Banach space counterparts and to a Pareto efficiency theorem due to Isac. This solves a problem, concerning the drop theorem, proposed by G. Isac in 1997. We show that a different formulation of Ekeland's principle in locally convex spaces, using a family of topology generating seminorms as perturbation functions rather than a single (in general discontinuous) Minkowski functional, turns out to be equivalent to the original version.


Objective To investigate the relation rotavirus infection to liver lesion indrarrhea infants.Methods One hundred and six cases suffering diarrhea into rotavirus antigen positive group(observations group) and rotavirus antigen negative group(controls group),using rapid diagnostic test rotavirus antigen at the same time,drawing blood to measure liver function.Results The observations group had significant difference with controls group in the occurrence of the abnormal function of liver.The rate of unfuction of liver had obvious difference with the age of infant patients.The higher level of ALT had little difference with the serious of dehydration.Conclusion The patients of rotavirus diarrhea often occur liver lesion.There is no relation between the liver lesion with the serious dehydration.The younger of the age,the higher rate of unfuction of liver.


This is a good paper, provides pioneering information about rootstock effects on scion gene expression in conifers. This paper is meaningful for the rootstock-scion interaction study.


The heat conduction of air at low vacuum,middle vacuum and high vacuum is analyzed.The heat conduction in low-vacuum composite insulation steam pipeline and high-vacuum refrigeration LNG pipeline is calculated.


This study aimed to investigate the relationship between complex syntax and L2 comprehension. The participants were selected from among a high school in Rasht. For this purpose, 30 learners, who were in third grade of high school (aged 17 - 18 years old), participated in this study. Having being tested by a questionnaire (20 questions that tested syntax) 16learners were strong students selected and they were allocated into experimental group and 14 students were weak students and were allocated into control group. Then both groups sat for reading test, which was a reading comprehension test from steps to understanding book. The purpose of this test was to measure the learners' reading comprehension ability. Afterwards, the scores were analyzed and strong students got good marks but weak students got bad marks. It was explored from the study that learners' reading comprehension improved more when they were provided with the syntax. It was concluded that syntactical knowledge has a positive effect on learners' reading comprehension ability.


The use of terrestrial bryophytes to monitor atmospheric pollution is assessed on the basis of current knowledge of contaminant metabolism in lichens and mosses. A description of the principal uptake processes of inorganic and organic pollutants in bryophytes is presented. Sources and amplitude of variation of pollutant concentrations in bryophyte tissues are addressed by reviewing the most important biological and environmental components that govern the contaminant concentration levels in these plants. Aspects of various statistical analyses associated with biomonitoring surveys are also presented in this review. Results indicate that terrestrial bryophytes have a high potential as biomonitors of airborne contaminants. However, several factors must be taken into account in order to control the great variability of trace contaminant concentration associated with biological and environmental parameters. The bryophyte's growth, the morphology and ecology of species, the climatic conditions and the exposure...


Prompted by recent observations of ion flows from Doppler measurements of infrared auroras, we here discuss the nature of the plasma flow in Jupiter's high‐latitude ionosphere. The physical picture is based on a combination of three elements, namely an inner Hill‐type sub‐corotating region containing outward‐diffusing iogenic plasma, an outer sub‐corotating region where iogenic plasma is lost down the tail, principally in the dusk and midnight sector via the reconnection‐related Vasyliunas‐cycle, and finally an outermost boundary region located principally in the dawn‐side magnetosphere which is associated with solar wind interaction and the Dungey‐cycle. The nature of the ionospheric flow and currents resulting from the combined action of these processes is outlined. In particular, we point out that the region of open field lines associated with the Dungey‐cycle should be a region of near‐stagnation in the ionosphere in the rest frame of the dipole, compared with surrounding regions of few‐km s−1 sub‐corotational flow.


The national higher education exams for self- taught adults is an important component in the national education system for working professionals,of which the major feature is to train hands- on personnel. The national higher education exams for self-taught adults,as a standardized test,also has the feature of testing basic knowledge and application ability. As one of the testing subjects in National Higher Education Exam for self- taught adults,mathematics tests on contents all the way from high- school mathematics to advanced mathematics. Testing items in mathematics test has been evolving along with the development of national adult education system. The current study has great impact on personnel selection and enhancement of life- long education across the whole country.


This study aims to develop a multiple choice evaluation tool based on Wondershare Quiz Creator in economic mathematics courses, so as to produce valid evaluation tools that can be applied to students in understanding learning. This type of research is development research with the ADDIE development method which consists of 5 stages namely Analysis (Analysis), Design (Design), Development (Evaluation), Implementation (Implementation), Evaluation (Evaluation). Before the trial, the Wondershare Quiz Creator-based evaluation tool was first conducted a validation test by media experts and material experts. In addition, a questionnaire for students' responses to the Wondershare Quiz Creator-based assessment tool was also conducted. The results of the media expert validation were good, the results of the validated material expert validation were very good and the results of the questionnaire responses of the students were very good, namely for media experts 89.58%, for material experts 89.58% and student responses questionnaire 90.67%. So the evaluation tool is feasible to use. From the results of the calculation of the final analysis of the average student test using the right-t test shows that the value of t_count is greater than t_ (table) which is 15.12> 1.70 then H_0 is rejected. In addition, the completeness test was carried out stating that the experimental class was completed in a classical manner with a percentage of 94%. This means that the multiple choice evaluation tool based on Wondershare Quiz Creator in mathematics courses at STEKOM Semarang is better. The conclusion in this study is the Wondershare Quiz Creator based multiple choice evaluation tool in valid economic mathematics courses according to media experts, material experts, and student responses, as well as classically completing that the experimental class is better than the control class.


Abstract : The initial attachment of the barnacle is shown to be a purely mechanical hold by the suction cups of the cyprid antennae. An adhesive cement may be secreted for reinforcement but is not essential for permanent attachment. The Balanidae have permanent, periodically functioning glands which are located in the living mantle tissue. These glands develop directly from the cyprid cement glands. The cement glands and the rest of the cementing apparatus of the Balanidae are basically identical with those of the Lepadidae. The cementing apparatus is flushed after each cement secretion. In this way, old ducts are kept open for emergency repair or reattachment. This emergency secretion is expected to be chemically identical to the cyprid and the normally secreted adult cement.


Treatment of axolemma with pH 9 buffer results in a pellet enriched two‐fold in the mitogen for cultured Schwann cells. Heparitinase treatment releases 8% of the mitogen into solution, while heparin selectively solubilizes the mitogen, resulting in an extract which has a specific mitogenic activity approximately 2.5 times greater than the mitogenicity of the starting axolemma membrane. These data support a model in which the axolemmal mitogen is a positively charged molecule associated with negatively charged sulfated proteoglycans.


The present invention relates to an external preparation composition exhibiting good transdermal absorbability, which comprises a compound having a 6-deoxy-7,8-dihydro-6-oxomorphine skeleton (for example, hydromorphone), an ionic liquid, and water. provide.


The value of the services provided top human societies by natural ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles has recently been the topic of discussion and research. Here I review some of the basic economic principles necessary for understanding some of the questions that arise in this area. I argue that even with the best possible data and scientific understanding, the sense in which economists can value nature's services is limited. I also argue that valuing these services is much less important than providing incentives for their conservation, and that valuation and providing incentives for conservation are quite different. Valuation is neither necessary nor sufficient for conservation, whereas providing the right incentives is.


Four surveys of the attitudes of psychiatrists toward issues related to involuntary civil commitment law are reviewed. This article shows that, contrary to popular opinion, psychiatrists favor increased due process of law protections and rights for patients both during and after commitment proceedings. These attitudes have been relatively stable over the past decade. In contrast with other groups, psychiatrists may be less emphatic in their support of rights, but the attitudes of psychiatrists when examined on an absolute scale clearly favor increased rights.


Chronic kidney disease is a major health problem in Australia. Research shows that effective self-management behaviours can slow its progression and improve health outcomes. Knowledge of this disease is an important factor in self-management. This study, conducted at Inala Primary Care, evaluated the validity and reliability of instruments designed to measure kidney knowledge and self-management. This study found that while people with chronic kidney disease engage in some self-management, their knowledge was unexpectedly low. These instruments will be useful for clinicians to use in the real world so that educational support can be targeted to patient needs.


Herein, a strategy for improving both the stability and the emission intensity of Cu nanoclusters based on their entrapment into metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) is demonstrated. The latter effect reaches 20 times and is ascribed to a confinement‐assisted emission enhancement similar to the aggregation induced emission of fluorescent species in solution, evidenced by the prolonged emission lifetime. Cu nanoclusters are distributed homogeneously over the entire MOFs structure, as confirmed by combination of structural and elemental mapping studies. Toward potential applications of Cu nanocluster/MOF composites as chemical sensors, the authors demonstrate the selective quenching of their emission by 2,4,6‐trinitrotoluene attributed to specific electron‐withdrawing interactions with glutathione ligands on Cu clusters.


Indonesia's horse population has been decreasing from year to year. In 2002
approximately 446,000 horses , while in 2006 decreased to 329 864 horses. This
phenomenon illustrates that the horses in Indonesia are at risk of extinction. One
of the factor causing the extinction of the horses we the disease in horses. In
connection with the issue needs to be taken for the prevention of disease by
knowing the chemical profile of the horse blood .
The purpose of this study was to evaluate normal standard blood chemistry
including Serum Glutamic Piruvic Transaminase (SGPT) , Serum Glutamic
Oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) , Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine in
thoroughbred horses in DIY and Central Java. The results of this study could be
used as references of veterinary and veerinary clinical in disease to control the
disease quickly and accurately .
Healthy thoroughbred horses from Yogyakarta and Central Java were used. A
total of 2 pony came from stable in Yogyakarta and 5 come from Central Java.
Sex fillies by 2 and 5 stallions, horses ranged from 2.5 to 6 years of age. The
results showed that the activity value of SGPT 8,35-13,32 IU/L, SGOT 206,4-
360,6 IU/L, BUN 10,83-19,19 mg/dL and Creatinine 1,23-1,99 mg/dL.


This paper mainly discussed the pointwise degeneracy of linear delay differential equations.With the knowledge of matrix,we give the necessary and sufficient conditions of pointwise degeneracy on n-order delay differential equations.In addition,we also obtain the algebraic criteria of pointwise degeneracy for n-order linear delay differential equations.We think that it will widen the field of this system.


In transportation security applications, Computed Tomography (CT) scanners are widely used to scan checked baggage for threatening materials. Traditionally, images are reconstructed using direct methods, such as fi ltered back projection (FBP). Model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) potentially offers many important advantages over traditional methods for the security screening of checked baggage. It has the potential to reduce metal artifacts and improve resolution. All these improvements have the potential to improve the detection/false alarm tradeoff for CT security screening systems. Furthermore, automatic target detection and recognition from the scanned images can reduce the cost of human labors, help to extract important information and support human judgments. The objective of this research is to investigate the potential of MBIR algorithms for the security screening application. In addition, we aim to develop a new Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system which will incorporate advanced segmentation, feature extraction and classifi cation techniques in order to improve the current state-of-the-art ATR performance. To do this, we improved the existing MBIR algorithms, which are based on a monochromatic model for X-ray data, by estimating a polynomial for correction of nonlinear effects simultaneously with the image. We also built our new ATR system, which advances segmentation and classifi cation over the standard software provided by ALERT. During the last project period, we successfully achieved better reconstruction images, which reduce artifacts caused by nonlinear attenuation behavior, such as beam hardening, scatter and other incompletely modeled attributes of the data and improved detection/false alarm score in the ATR system. We will continue to develop new techniques in order to further improve performance for challenging cases, such as images with cluttered objects and metal streaking artifacts.


In this paper, we propose an improved embedded wavelet image coding based on zero-blocks and array structures - called I-EZBA. Then, we discuss the hardware realization of the technology. Its main purpose can reduce memory utilization on building significance map of sub-bands for EZBA, and omit a great deal of compared operation and time. It has the near coding efficient as EZBA, but it can save much cost and processing time. Finally, we propose various experimental results to prove that basic EZBA algorithm outperforms other wavelet-based image coding schemes, and show the difference of the architectures of EZBA and I-EZBA


We studied fundamental properties of spatial‐temporal evolution of energetic electrons trapped in the inner magnetosphere (L ≤ 7.4) during an isolated substorm by using a four‐dimensional drift kinetic simulation under the time‐dependent electric and magnetic fields provided by a global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation. When the interplanetary magnetic field turns southward, both the potential and induction electric fields start to increase in the inner magnetosphere, resulting in a gradual injection of low‐energy electrons (≤51.9 keV) and deceleration of high‐energy electrons (≥114 keV). The deceleration of high‐energy electrons results in a decrease in the phase space density of the high‐energy electrons during the growth phase. After a while, an abrupt transition of phase state (a substorm onset) occurs in the magnetosphere, which triggers abrupt changes in the magnetosphere and ionosphere. The AL index decreases rapidly, and magnetic field lines become dipole‐like. The dipolarization does not proceed smoothly in the inner magnetosphere because of significant force imbalance between the J × B force and the grad P force. As a consequence, the electric field oscillates with a period of 2–3 min, resulting in multiple injections of the low‐energy electrons. The low‐ and high‐energy electrons are accelerated under the strong influence of the drift betatron and gyro betatron, so that the acceleration process is essentially nonlinear. Our simulation results suggest that the force‐induced processes play an essential role in the substorm‐associated redistribution of energetic particles in the inner magnetosphere.


of epithelial cells and cells Pilomatricoma to be etymologically. Case Report: A 47 year old male was referred to the cytology lab from the general surgery outpatient department for a fine needle aspiration with a history of a swelling on the right side of the neck since 1 year which was gradually progressive in size, no pain/discharge. A clinical diagnosis of? sebaceous cyst was provided.On examination, solitary swelling on the right side of the neck, 5 cm below the angle of the mandible, measuring 1.5x1 cm, firm in consistency, well defined with a smooth surface and mild erythema. Skin over the swelling – pinchable. Fine needle aspiration was performed and on microscopy, the smears obtained were highly cellular and showed tight clusters of basaloid cells and few were singly dispersed. This was admixed with keratin flakes and few shadow cells, background also showed occasional multinucleate giant cells. A diagnosis of Benign adnexal tumour morphology favouring pilomatricoma was given. he underwent an excision biopsy. Grossly - skin covered nodular tissue bit, cut surface - grey white areas with specs of calcification. Microscopically, an encapsulated lesion composed of basaloid cells undergoing abrupt transition to the formation of shadow cells with central clearing, mixed inflammatory infiltrate and foreign body giant cells.A diagnosis of Pilomatricoma was made. Conclusion: Pilomatricoma (PMC) is a relatively uncommon benign skin neoplasm arising from the skin adnexa. Although there has been a gradual increase in the understanding of its clinical presentation and morphological features however, difficulties still persist in making a cytologic diagnosis. The purpose of this case report is to create awareness about the cytological features of pilomatricoma.


In order to apply multilevel security policies to prohibit the information flowing to untrusted destination,proposes a new security policy model to support the mandatory access control to information flow in multilevel security network.The model has expanded the security policies with enhanced integrality of BLP model into multilevel security network.The model provides security policies for data stream of network layer and data link layer.It is proved that the model has good confidentiality and integrality.


Based on the sustainable design which is the core design strategy direction of product conceptual design,it analyzed the important problems in current and future social development process,discussed the inevitable generation of sustainable design strategy in product conceptual design.And based on this,it showed some specific product conceptual design projects and proposed some good sustainable design strategies for product conceptual design.


The present invention provides an excellent stretchability, obtained conjugate fiber maturity shapeability improved manufacturing method thereof. Using number-average molecular weight difference of 5,000 to 50,000, a molecular weight distribution of each of the different coefficients of polymer fibers may be formed 1.5 to 2.5, producing a crimp elongation greater than or equal to 50%, the elastic recovery rate is 70% higher scalability, while a no-load treatment in boiling water after heat setting greater than equal to 80%, and tensile modulus of elasticity at 10% elongation of the rate of change before and after heat-set to 20% or less is excellent in stretchability, heat and amorphous composite fibers is improved. Using the conjugate fiber of the present invention is manufactured, reduce the residence time of the polymer during spinning in the spinning pack, so that molecular weight reduction, the raw yarn physical properties and stretchability is lowered to minimize the use of binding in the spinneret process, the surface modification coefficient of less than or equal to 1.2, 1.3 to 2.5 of deformed parallel type manufactured, whereby the curved wire caused problems during spinning processes, functionality and decreased physical properties minimized.


Green cabbage has great nutritional and therapeutical values and is usually used as the main ingredient for preparing fresh vegetable salad for consumption. The aim of this work was to identify the bacteria population in different sections of green cabbage heads obtained from some selected markets in Accra and also to determine the most appropriate method for washing to reduce the bacteria population prior to consumption. In the investigation, samples were obtained from five open markets in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Fresh leaves taken from the outer, middle and inner sections of the samples were analyzed for aerobic mesophilic organisms, coliforms and Escherichia coli. They were then washed with tap water, 5% salt solution or 50% vinegar solution for five minutes, and the effectiveness of the treatments in reducing the bacteria population determined. Results from the analysis showed that the outer sections of fresh green cabbage heads had high microbial load followed by the middle sections whilst the inner sections were almost sterile . The aerobic mesophilic counts ranged from 10 6 –10 8 CFU/g for the untreated outer section of the samples, 10 4 –10 6 CFU/g for the untreated middle sections, and 10 1 –10 2 CFU/g for the untreated inner sections. Coliforms ranged from 10 4 –10 6 CFU/g for the untreated outer section of the samples, 10 2 –10 4 CFU/g for the untreated middle sections and 10 1 CFU/g for the untreated inner sections. E.coli ranged from 10 2 –10 3 CFU/g for the untreated outer section of the samples and 10 1 CFU/g for the untreated middle sections. E. coli was however not detected in the untreated inner sections of the cabbage heads analyzed. The pathogens Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureus were also identified on the samples from the five markets. The treatment with 50% vinegar solution was most effective in reducing the bacteria population on the samples analyzed followed by 5% salt solution and tap water the least effective. The outcome of this work serves as a basis for creating awareness against the use of ordinary tap water by caterers and promote the use of vinegar or salt solutions as a means of reducing bacteria population in freshly served cabbages. Keywords: Cabbage, Aerobic mesophiles, Coliforms, E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus


By means of an objective prism plate, two emission-line galaxies have been identified within the 0.7-sq deg HEAO-A2 error box for the X-ray source H1834-653. Optical spectrophotometric observations are reported for both objects as well as the galaxy NGC 6684, which also lies near the position of H1834-653. These data show that one of the emission-line galaxies, ESO 103-G35, is a Seyfert galaxy with a high-excitation forbidden-line spectrum and weak broad emission wings at H-alpha. Further measurements of this galaxy reveal an infrared excess at wavelengths longer than 2.2 microns. The H-alpha luminosity of ESO 103-G35 is consistent with the X-ray luminosity estimated from the HEAO-A2 data, thus strengthening the likelihood of association of this galaxy with the X-ray emission.


This paper presents a novel battery degradation cost (BDC) model for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) based on accurately estimating the battery lifetime. For this purpose, a linear cycle counting algorithm is devised to estimate the battery cycle aging. In this algorithm, the local maximum and minimum values of the profile of the battery state of charge are identified by the proposed linear formulations. Then, the battery cycle aging due to the complete and incomplete cycles is determined. In this step, the battery cycle aging during an incomplete cycle is calculated by converting it to two complete cycles. After that, the calendar aging process of the LIB is linearly formulated based on the semi-empirical model to estimate the BDC accurately. After linearizing the LIB degradation process, a mechanism for computing the BDC during the scheduling horizon is designed by modeling the BDC as a series of equal payments over the LIB lifetime. In order to incorporate the BDC in the battery energy management problem, an iterative algorithm is presented for efficiently calculating the BDC associated with the adopted charging/discharging strategy. The numerical simulation results indicate that integrating the battery degradation process into the battery scheduling problem can reduce the amount of the battery capacity fading by 32.81%, as well as increase the profit of battery owners by 1.21%. Moreover, the conducted analyses highlight the importance of considering the LIB calendar aging process in determining the optimal LIB capacity.


Examples will be presented for applications of the following in-situ techniques: determination of mass changes with a quartz microbalance, determination of double layer properties with a fast impedance spectroscopy, and determination of surface microstructures from impedance analysis of vibrating quartz crystals. These examples are: Formation of copper/gold alloys from underpotential layers of copper on gold, electroless copper deposition with formaldehyde, and selective oxidation of copper/gold alloys.


The purpose of this study was to determine the efforts of gender equality contained in the Kartini film through the semiotic study of Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes's analysis is used to find out the meaning of denotation, connotation, and myth in an image contained in artistic visualization, act, and dialogue in the film "Kartini". The results of this study that the connotation meaning of the Kartini film in the perspective of gender equality is an effort to fight for gender equality by Kartini as a woman who likes to write and teach literacy to others while denotative meaningthe effort to fight for gender equality in Kartini's film is that Kartini struggles through the path of literacy because literacy is a good way to fight for gender equality, with literacy she breaks Javanese culture which considers women unequal to men andhave abilities below men.Keywords: Semiotics, Kartini, Gender equality. Keywords— : Semiotics; Kartini; Gender Equality.


Currently, the practical level of foreign language proficiency of philology graduates does not always correspond to the social order of society. In this paper, a model for professional foreign language training of philology stu-dents was developed, theoretically justified and experimentally tested. For this purpose, the Moodle tool was widely deployed and we identified and ex-perimentally tested pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of professional foreign language training for philology students. The experi-mental work involved a random sample of 305 students of the "bachelor" level of the training direction 5B021000 (6B023)–foreign philology. The re-sult of the qualitative and quantitative analysis allows to conclude the effec-tiveness of the proposed model of professional foreign language training of philology students based on Moodle, which is confirmed by the calculations during the statistical processing of the research results. The scientific novel-ty of the study is that the pedagogical conditions that ensure the effective-ness of the Moodle-based professional foreign language training of philology students were identified and experimentally tested. The results of the study showed the effectiveness of using distance learning in the current health context due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Background: The ankle joint, although not prone to primary osteoarthritis (OA), is known to be susceptible to secondary OA as a result of sports injuries and other trauma. Unlike the knee joint, a thorough investigation of talar cartilage lesions has not been previously reported. Methods: One hundred and five human tali from 67 donors were used to determine the type and location of the most common lesions through gross examination, radiography, diffraction enhanced imaging, and histology. "tram-track lesions" also are described. Results: The most anterior and posterior regions of the talar dome, along with the medial and lateral borders of the dome were most affected by cartilage degeneration. These are regions that appear to be most subjected to frictional forces from their articulating counterparts during high stress activities that move articulating surfaces slightly out of congruence with each other. One particularly striking cartilage degeneration pattern that, to our knowledge, has not been described histologically, is the tram-track lesion. These lesions displayed a longitudinally oriented groove in the cartilage, running from anterior to posterior, in which the deepest portion of the groove was located in the middle of the anterior-posterior axis of the talus. Several of these cartilage grooves had a bony ridge beneath, mirroring the cartilage groove whereas others did not. This suggests that the cartilage groove develops before the interruption of the tidemark (border between the calcified and uncalcified cartilage). In specimens for which the articulating tibial articular surface was available, (17) it was found that the tibia displayed small osteophytes on the anterior articular margin that exactly corresponded to their articulation with the talar cartilage grooves as the ankle articulated through plantar flexion and dorsiflexion. Conclusion: This study provides an in-depth histologic and gross anatomic look at the most common lesions of the talus of the ankle joint. In particular, the "tram-track" lesion was shown to be a consequence of its tibial articulation and to include both subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes.


Among water-related hazards, flood hazards have the most destructive impacts in Myanmar. Sittoung River Basin (SRB) is one of the flood affected basins in Myanmar. To prevent and reduce socioeconomic losses, the basin needs structural and non-structural countermeasures. Flood inundation maps are needed for flood risk management and the effectiveness of existing countermeasures should be examined for design return period flood events. In this study, Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model was used to develop the estimate flood inundations, to analyze the effectiveness of existing countermeasures, and to propose the new mitigation measures for future development works. The inundation analysis indicated that the existing countermeasures contribute to reduce inundated area, the affected paddy field and crops, and also peak-inundation depth. For the damage assessment, 110,454 hectares of paddy field will be inundated by 50-year return period as without countermeasure and the damage is about US $ 39 million. In case of existing countermeasure can reduce from 110,454 ha to 97112 ha and damage losses will be covered about US $ 5 million. Flood scenario for proposed countermeasure will be protected about 84000 ha of paddy field from flood inundation and about US $ 31 million will be saved from the flood losses. From the effectiveness of countermeasures for the pulse crop, about 211 km2 (21149 ha) of pulse crop area is affected by 50-year return period flood and total damage is about US $ 6.1 million in vegetative stage and 7.8 million in reproductive stage. US $ 1.9 million in vegetative stage and 3.2 million in reproductive stage will be saved by existing countermeasure as well as estimate US $ 5 million in vegetative stage and 6.6 million in reproductive stage will be saved by proposed countermeasure. . Keywords; Sittoung River Basin (SRB), Flood inundation map, RRI Model, existing countermeasures,


In this live interactive video session, scientists onboard the R/V Roger Revelle in the Philippine Sea off the coast of Taiwan describe the basic concept of sound propagation in the ocean in the context of an ongoing acoustic mooring deployment. Six acoustic source moorings and a distributed hydrophone array will be deployed during the course of the month‐long cruise. The scientists will give an introduction to how research is carried out at sea and will describe basic concepts and advantages of using acoustics as a tool to learn about the ocean environment. They will show examples of oceanographic instrumentation, including conductivity‐temperature‐depth sensors, acoustic sources, and hydrophone receivers, and will describe the process of deploying acoustic moorings and acquiring oceanographic data. The girl scouts will learn how sound is used to map the 6‐km deep ocean floor as well as how tomographic moorings can be used to sense the ocean interior. There will be the opportunity to interact with scient...


The article is devoted to narrators image in Dmitry Bortnikovs novel «The sleeping beauty». The author analyses the linguistic means of narrators image creation and also modification elements of modern prose noticed in the text. It is emphasized that narrators image of Dmitry Bortnikovs novel is revealed on the phonetic, lexical and grammar levels of the text. The article is written according to the text stylictics which is progressive in philological science.


In this paper, we present a model for multimodal content analysis. We distinguish between media and modality, which helps us to define and characterize three inter-modal relations. Then we apply this model for recorded course analysis for e-learning. Different useful relations between modalities are explained and detailed for this application.


Objective To discuss the joint diagnostic value of human epididymal protein 4,tumor associated carbohydrate antigen 125( CA125),tumor associated carbohydrate antigen( CA199) for ovarian cancer. Methods Electrochemiluminescence automatic immunoassay analyzer was used to detect serum HE4,CA125,CA199 in 96 ovarian patients,54 benign tumor patients and 60 healthy controls, and the results were compared among the three groups. Results Serum HE4 levels were 102. 2 pmol / L,57. 3 pmol / L and 37. 3 pmol / L in ovarian cancer group,benign tumor group and control group,and the corresponding positive rates were 78. 0%,7. 0% and 1. 6%,respectively. While the CA125 levels were 204. 9 U / L,34. 7 U / L, 18. 7 U / L in turn,and the corresponding positive rate were 59. 0% and 14. 8%,6. 6%; The average levels of CA199 were 123. 2 U / L 30. 5 U / L,28. 5 U / L in turn,and the corresponding positive rates were 50. 0%,22. 2% and 6. 6%. Mean values of HE4,CA125 and CA199 in patients with ovarian cancer were significantly higher than those in patients with ovarian benign tumor and healthy controls( P 0. 001). The area under ROC curve of HE4,CA 125 and CA 199 in ovarian cancer were 94. 4%,91. 4% and 91. 1% respectively; The diagnostic sensitivities were 97. 7%,95. 6% and 94. 0% respectively; The specificities were 91. 1%,87. 2% and 86. 4% respectively. Conclusion Joint detection of HE4 and CA125,CA199 can obviously improve the diagnostic sensitivity of ovarian cancer,having important clinical significance in early detection and early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.


The recognition that child sexual abuse is a significant problem has led to an increase in prevention initiatives. These initiatives need to involve comprehensive interventions that target individuals and families as well as the sociocultural factors that underlie this form of abuse. Childfocused sexual abuse prevention programs are an important component of these efforts to decrease child sexual abuse.


The techno-economic indexes of volume 2000 ~ 2500 m ̄3 blast furnace have been influenced by coke quality in China. The influences of the coke quality are researched for technical development of large blast furnace with pulverized coal injection and oxygen enrichment in this paper.


This paper discusses the necessity,characteristics and relevant preventive measures of "one-ventilation and three-prevention" in the process of safety production of colliery,and proposes its existing problems and developing direction,in order to create well climatic condition for underground construction and achieve the purposes of safety production.


To study the Prostheses Foundation(PF)'s prosthetics uses and subsequent attitudes in Surin. By interview and 155 questionnaires were sent out 1 year after the prostheses were used. 97 questionnaires were returned (62.58%). The most common cause of amputation is land mine explosion. The majority of amputees who went to fit PF's prostheses were found to need them. The biggest pre and post prosthetic fitting problem was stump pain. Their opinions of the PF's prostheses were good cosmetics, appearance and weight. In comparison with the old prostheses, PF's prostheses have many better aspects than the old. 95 amputees have used their prostheses (97.94%), put it on by themselves, worn the prostheses all day, have good self confidence and walk with their prostheses well. After 1 year the prostheses remained in good condition (90.72%). The most often repaired component is suspension. The second most is the foot. The results is beneficial in that they give an insight into what will be necessary to improve the prostheses and enable them to be properly fitted with Surin amputees.


The success of 3DTV, as one of the emerging multimedia formats, will largely depend on the quality of experience it provides to viewer when compared to conventional 2D media. Therefore reliable methods for quality assessment are crucial in order to optimize 3D systems and services. The goal of this paper is to review recent developments in 3D video quality assessment, and to discuss its future directions.


Recently it has been proposed to search for dark matter using mechanical sensors, exploiting the fact that all dark matter candidates couple to the size or position of atoms. While focus has been directed towards analyzing signal from gravitational wave detectors and equivalence principle tests, a unique opportunity has emerged to develop compact detectors based on cavity optomechanical systems, which have recently achieved force measurements at the quantum limit. I'll discuss this concept from an experimentalist's perspective, highlighting systems based on levitated dielectrics, silicon nitride membranes, and bulk acoustic wave resonators which are beginning to play an early role. In this context, our lab is developing a new generation of ultra-sensitive optomechanical accelerometers based on centimeter-scale silicon nitride membranes.

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Brunei Chinese poet LIN Ansong's collection of poems "Transient Guest in Autumn" was written in bilingual form with the artistic style of contrast,metaphor and symbol.In the pursuit of life eternity,the simple explanation of the identity of "Gypsy",and in the interlock of dream and reality,the poet achieved the pursuit of life itself from his innermost being.This paper tries to probe into the poetic soul from the innermost of the poet to his rational consciousness through the explanation of the text.


A enhances the thermal stability of the aluminum oxide which is not that doped and doped, also the CeO A 1200 ° C. in doped or undoped alumina having from 5 to 24 hours after baking 0.5 ml / g pore volume and 30 m Follows: prepare an aqueous solution of aluminum salt with optional co- dopant, the solution was treated with hydrogen peroxide, using a base to precipitate alumina, and filtered alumina, comprises to drying and firing. .FIELD 1


The paper shows the relevance of the research process protections of power units that reduce or prevent economic damage caused by the accident. For this data, the design methodology for coal-fired units with drum boilers, which allow to define the work on stored energy boiler auxiliary load. The proposed technique reduces the cost of implementing the considered technological protections.


Empowerment of Micro Enterprises and Cooperatives plays an important and strategic role in supporting the success of the MSME and cooperative programs, especially in the economic businesses of MSME and cooperative actors so that the potential that exists in society can be optimized and developed in the world of entrepreneurship. Empowerment activities for good and professional micro and cooperative businesses will have a positive impact on the local economy in particular and at the same time the national economy. Empowerment through training and mentoring of micro and cooperative businesses is expected to be a reference for partners in doing entrepreneurship. Various efforts in the context of developing MSMEs and cooperatives have been carried out by various parties, including empowerment through training and mentoring, introducing approaches in the framework of MSME financing, cluster approach patterns and partnership patterns. The purpose of the empowerment service is to increase the knowledge of partners in preparing accounting reports, marketing and developing human resources through training and mentoring activities. This entrepreneurial empowerment activity was carried out from the 5th to the 7th of June 2023 which took place at the Karangpandan Rejoso Pasuruan Village Hall. Activities are carried out using lecture methods, discussions and applications from making simple bookkeeping reports according to Indonesian Accounting Standards, online marketing and utilizing local potential in entrepreneurial activities. The results of the pretest and posttest in empowerment activities show that from the answers to the questionnaire initially the partner is in the category of not understanding the importance of a financial report and a marketing model but after completing training and mentoring the partners answer with the same questions stating that they already understand and feel the many benefits gained in doing entrepreneurship in increasing partner business.


SUMMARY The financial tsunami has certainly posted lots of challenges to the construction industry as the outlook of a country's economy could become more unpredictable. In order to survive in a volatile market, construction stakeholders must improve their competitive edge over their competitors. This is particularly the case if one would like to explore the opportunities in a more lucrative market like Mainland China, India, or Middle East. Unfortunately, construction has always been regarded as a traditional industry, leaving very little room for innovation or improvement. This mindset should be rectified especially through our next generation who is more ready to accept new ideas and concepts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the future direction of construction education so as to nurture the next generation of construction expertise. The findings are based on a recent study conducted in Hong Kong with students in the tertiary education institutions who are studying construction related programs. The paper begins by examining the condition of construction market around the world. The potential factors which can improve the competitive edge of students are identified. The results of the questionnaire survey are then presented. It is found that the soft skills of students doing construction related programs are lacking. Besides, it is beneficial for students to be exposed to the practices, legal framework and cultures of some emerging economies like Mainland China and Middle East during their study. In view of that, different strategies are put forwarded in the paper to improve construction education at tertiary level.


This paper describes the World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and supporting international guidelines. It examines the existing import risk analysis approach to determining quarantine measures used by WTO member countries and considers some possible methodological innovations — such as the incorporation of cost–benefit analysis — and the associated difficulties.


We were delighted to read Spencer and colleagues' excellent review of palliative radiotherapy aimed at general practitioners.1 But its last learning point, that "holistic palliative care may be more appropriate" in the final weeks of life, may mislead readers that they must choose one or the …


Summary form only given. Organic photoconducting materials hold the promise of low cost solar calls because they have a variety of absorption in the visible region. A close examination of C-V measurement over a wide range of frequency is needed to characterise the metal organic semiconductor interface. This paper deals with the characterisation of Ag/ClAlPc/ITO device by capacitance measurements. The device Ag/C1AlPc/ITO was made by successive vacuum thermal evaporation of ClAlPc and Ag on chemically cleaned ITO substrate. All the evaporation were carried out during same pump down at a back ground pressure less than 1.5 x 10/sup -5/ Torr. The capacitance measurements were taken on HP-LCZ meter at different frequencies with different d.c. bias. In orkanic semiconducting materials the use of low frequencies is often necessary to allow the trapped charge to equilibrate with a.c. probing voltage. The device Ag/ClAlPc/ITO has been studied in frequency range from 100 hz to 100 khz. The conductance (G) varies more than two order of magnitude in low frequency range and at higher frequencies a plateau is obtained which correlates with the electrical properties of the bulk material which is the most conductive part of the CIAIPc layer. The capacitance are also strongly affected by the application of forward bias and not effect of reverse bias. These result indicate that the Ag-ClAlPc form a barrier and ITO-ClAlPc is ohmic contact. Various device parameters have been calculated from the capacitance - voltage measurements and are discussed in details.


Both hyperthermia and ablation treatments are common medical procedures employed to thermal destruction of malignant tumors. Such interstitial techniques are based on the insertion of a needle applicators into hepatic cancer and then applying a microwave heating of such tissue to certain therapeutic levels. The aim of presented paper is to estimate the temperature and Arrhenius thermal damage profiles of liver tissue produced by a multi-slot coaxial antenna with a 50 !! feed. The changes in microwave input power elevations of used antenna is the simplest way to obtain the tumor heating at the requested level and achieve a state where all cancerous cells are irreparably damaged.


For the first known time, comprehensive RF life-tests are being run on a microwave power transistor. Previous reliability predictions have been based on DC life-tests. Preliminary data indicates a median life of the order of 106 hours (> 100 years) for a state-of-the-art 30 watt L-Band device operating under normal RF operation. This exceeds the desired device reliability levels in solid-state phased array radars using this device. Tests are being run under two typical pulsed RF conditions: 120 us and 1500 us pulse width at 1.4 GHz. Data has also been generated showing MTF (mean-time-to-failure) under pulsed RF conditions is 2-6 times greater than under CW (continuous wave) conditions. Furthermore, MTF at a given pulse width is shown to be inversely related to the pulse factor. Preliminary failure analysis indicates that the predominate failure mode under extreme stress conditions is the degradation of the emitter-base junction due probably to the dissolution of the SiO2 dielectric layer by the aluminum metallization.


The present invention relates to a viral vector comprising a nucleic acid and the nucleic acid capable of encoding and expressing the rods derived cone cell viability factors (RdCVF). The invention also relates to methods of producing or secreting the composition and pharmaceutical preparation of, RdCVF containing the above nucleic acids and vectors, and therapeutic methods.


Space filling curves (SFCs) are widely used in the design of indexes for spatial and temporal data. Clustering is a key metric for an SFC, that measures how well the curve preserves locality in mapping from higher dimensions to a single dimension. We present the onion curve, an SFC whose clustering performance is provably close to the optimal for cube and near-cube shaped query sets. We show that in contrast, the clustering performance of the widely used Hilbert curve can be far from optimal, even for cube-shaped queries. Since clustering performance is critical to the efficiency of multi-dimensional indexes based on the SFC, the onion curve can deliver improved performance for data structures for multi-dimensional data.


Aim. To study interrelationship between cardiovascular risk factors and cellular and vascular aging processes. Material and methods. Totally 136 patients were included having no signs of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes 2nd type and receiving no drug therapy, but with one or several risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (smoking, arterial hypertension, obesity, dyslipidemia, fasting hyperglycemia). The telomere length and telomerase activity was measured by polymerase chain reaction. The thickness of intima-media complex (TIMC) and presence of atherosclerotic plaques (ASP) were measured by duplex scanning of right and left carotid arteries. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) was measured by applanation tonometry. Biochemical tests done by standard. Results. PWV significantly correlated with age, body mass index, glycosilated hemoglobin level, fasting glycemia and telomere length. Presence of ASP and increased TIMC significantly correlated with age, body mass index, arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia. Conclusion. Increase of arterial wall stiffness and subclinical atherosclerotic disease have different causes. The level of PWV more linked with carbohydrate metabolism disorder, and TIMC and ASP are linked with lipid disorders.


Abstract the new bipyridylpolyene bridged bimetallic complexes [(LMO(NO)C1lNC5H5-(C>H>)***-C5H5N] (n = 2−4 all trans) have been synthesised along with their monometallic counterpart [{LMo(NO)Cl}NC5H5-(C> H>)***-C5H5N]. All of the bimetallic complexes exhibit EPR spectra consistent with fast electron exchange between the metal centres and may be reduced in two 1-electron processes, the separation between which decreases by aproximately 166 mV per additional ethenyl unit.


This paper analyzed the existing problem of econormic mathematics in detail.Based on this,it put up a primary thinking for the innovation of economic mathematics.


It has long been recognized that the employment of underwater robots have important practical significance, which includes pipe survey, oceanic search, under-ice exploration, mine reconnaissance, dam inspection, ocean survey and so on. Owing to the limitation of underwater environment, some regular sized robots are not suitable for limited spaces. Thus some micro-robots appeared, while sacrificed important abilities such as locomotion velocity and enduring time to achieve compact sizes. Then a mother-son robot system was proposed in our previous researches, which included several micro-robots as sons and an amphibious spherical robot as the mother. The mother robot was adopted to make up for the shortages of microrobots. This paper mainly focused on the structure and mechanism of the mother robot. The mother robot was designed with a spherical structure, which was composed of a fixed hemisphere hull and two operable quarter spherical hulls. It was actuated by four water-jet propellers and ten servomotors, capable of moving on land and in underwater environment. We developed a prototype and evaluated its walking and swimming motions in our previous experiments. Due to some problems in the process of assembly, the motion stability and reliability performed not so well. So, in this paper, we improved the structure and mechanism of the robot based on 3D Printing, which could eliminate some manufacture difficulties, shorten the production cycle, improve water-tightness, and enhance the robot's overall stability, compactness and aesthetics.


The paper presents how to extract bone lengths from the captured MRI data, ultimately, to determine the design parameters for prosthetic forearm. The original bone lengths of the lost arm are estimated from the MRI data regarding the living arm at opposite side. In detail a right forearm amputee participates in the experiment and the MRI data regarding his left forearm are used to determine the design parameters.


Abstract Sanism is the systematic oppression of people who have experiences often labeled as mental illness. The author, a psychiatrically disabled, queer art therapist, describes her direct experiences of stigma and sanism as a past art therapy student and current art therapy educator. The framework of disability justice, a creative and intersectional response to ableism and sanism, resists pathologizing, medical model approaches to disability and engages art as a means of change-making. Art therapy educators can use a disability justice framework to challenge sanism in the classroom and embrace anti-oppressive pedagogy as a means of dismantling oppressive cultural norms in art therapy.


Interoperability is important and probably the main driver of cost savings. So where are the IT vendors on interoperability? The answer is probably close to nowhere.


Medical and Ethical Foundations. Four Ethical Concerns. Transplantation and Foundational Biomedical Ethical Values. Beginning and End of Biological Life. Medical and Historical Perspectives. Medical Concerns of Procurement. History of Transplantation and Future Trends. Reproductive and Neurological Transplantation. Reproduction and Transplantation. Brain Tissue Grafting. Psychiatric and Philosophical Perspectives on Self-Identity. Psychological Perspectives on the Process of Organ Transplantation. Sexual Performance Before and After Transplantation. Body and Self-Identity. Religious Perspectives. Introduction to Religious Perspectives. Jewish Perspectives. Christian Perspectives. Legal and Other Perspectives. Legal Aspects of Procurement. Legal Aspects of Allocation. A Word from the Other Players. Conclusion. Reaping the Bene' ts. Index.


Electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antennas have been proposed to obtain multiple antenna functionality with only a single radio frequency (RF) chain. However, some signals cannot be transmitted using the ESPAR antennas (EA), because for those signals, the real part of the input impedance (RII) of the EA becomes negative. A negative input impedance implies that the EA cannot be realized and even if it is, it will not transmit that signal. In this work, we obtain approximate signals, which are close to the ideal signals in the mean square error (MSE) sense, for transmission that satisfy the requirement on input impedance. Specifically, we formulate and solve an optimization problem to minimize the MSE between the ideal and the approximate signals taking into account the constraint on the input impedance. We obtain closed-form expression for the approximate currents vector, thus, simplifying the processing at the transmitter. Our simulation results show that the EA system, transmitting the approximate signal, performs nearly the same as the standard multiple RFs antenna (SMA) system.


This paper describes the applications of a particular curve fitting technique to a series of points and restraints which define the route of a proposed road. The mathematical background of the least squares curve fitting method is briefly discussed and the subsequent operations, on the general polynomial equation thus formed, are described with the aid of flow charts and short sections of FORTRAN program. Emphasis is placed on the production of A conventional output, for design and plotting purposes, compatible with that of current highway design suites. Site setting out information, notably a difficult problem with the non-traditional forms of route alignment, is output in A form suitable for setting out the whole, or any part of the route from all standard chainage intervals using the long chord or unit sub-chord and theodolite method, incorporating the distances and bearings of permanent survey ground markers.(a) /TRRL/


【Objective】To discuss the value of antepartum sonography in diagnosis of membranaceous placenta.【Methods】Retrospective analyzed the datum of 21 cases who were confirmed with membranaceous placenta by pathology in our hospital from January 2005 to December 2008.【Results】Incidence rate of membranaceous placenta was 0.28‰(21/74 876),18 cases had the hints from antepartum sonography,the accurate rate was 85.71%(18/21).Among the 21 cases who were confirmed with membranaceous placenta: 6 cases had caesarean birthed,2 cases had natural childbirthed,13 cases had induced abortion.【Conclusion】Antenatal sonographic has high accurate rate in diagnosis of membranaceous placenta.It is valuable to estimate the prognosis in antenatal sonographic.


Abstract:As the Trump era revitalized questions of racial capitalism and the place of the US in the world in spectacular fashion, this essay centers the Iraq War as a key site of twenty-first century US imperialism. Specifically, it considers the large-scale privatization of the US war apparatus, and the ways in which the proliferation of corporate actors after 9/11 both enabled and transformed the imperial power of the state through military contracting. Not only did defense contractors underwrite traditional military operations, they worked to shift power from civil federal institutions to corporations. This allowed contractors to dilute the US government's onus of responsibility and operate with impunity by evading the barest forms of democratic accountability. The enduring legacies of these processes into the present highlight the critical role of corporate power in the structure and maintenance of contemporary US empire.


This thesis is breathing new life into the location choice models of establishments. The need for methodological advances in order to more realistically model the complexity of establishment decision-making processes, such as their optimal location choices, is the key motivation of this thesis. First, location choice models use geo-referenced data, for which choice sets have an explicit spatial component. It is thus critical to understand how to represent spatial aspect in location choice models. The final decision of an establishment seems to be related to the surrounding economic landscape. When accounting for the linkage between neighboring observations, the decision on the spatial weight matrix specification must be made. Yet, researchers overwhelmingly apply the Euclidean metric without realizing its underlying assumptions and its alternatives. This representation has been originally proposed due to scarce data and low computing power, rather than because of its universality. In areas, such as the Paris region, where high congestion or uncrossable physical barriers problems clearly arise, distances purely based on topography may not be the most appropriate for the study of intra-urban location. There are insights to be gained by mindfully reconsidering and measuring distance depending on a problem being analyzed. Rather than locking researchers into a restrictive structure of the weight matrix, this thesis proposes a flexible approach to intimate which distance metric is more likely to correctly account for the nearby markets depending on the sector considered. In addition to the standard Euclidean distance, six alternative metrics are tested: travel times by car (for the peak and off-peak periods) and by public transit, and the corresponding network distances. Second, what makes these location choices particularly interesting and challenging to analyze is that decisions of a particular establishment are interrelated with choices of other players.These thorny problems posed by the interdependence of decisions generally cannot be assumed away, without altering the authenticity of the model of establishment decision making. The conventional approaches to location selection fail by providing only a set of systematic steps for problem-solving without considering strategic interactions between the establishments in the market. One of the goals of the present thesis is to explore how to correctly adapt location choice models to study establishment discrete choices when they are interrelated.Finally, a firm can open a number of units and serve the market from multiple locations. Once again, traditional theory and methods may not be suitable to situations wherein individual establishments, instead of locating independently from each other, form a large orgnization, such as a chain facing a fierce competition from other chains. There is a necessity to incorporate interactions between units within the same and competing firms. In addition, the need to state a clear difference between the daytime and nighttime population has been emphasized. Demand is represented by pedestrian and car flows, the crowd of potential clients passing through the commercial centers, train and subways stations, airports, and highly touristic sites. The Global Survey of Transport (EGT 2010), among others, is of service to reach this objective. More realistically designed location choice models accounting for spatial spillovers, strategic interaction, and with a more appropriate definition of distance and demand can become a powerful and flexible tool to assist in finding a befitting site. An appropriately chosen location in turn can make an implicative difference for the newly-created business. The contents of this thesis provide some useful recommendations for transport analysts, city planners, plan developers, business owners, and shopping center investors.


The MEI (measured equation of invariance) procedure is modified to work with the finite element method. The modified MEI method was tested on several scatterer geometries for both TE (transverse electric) an TM (transverse magnetic) waves. For problems involving simple materials, the modified MEI method gives excellent results even if the artificial boundary is very close to the scatterer. In these cases, the modal expansion ABC (absorbing boundary condition) gives reasonable results, but not as good as the modified MEI method. The modified MEI method approaches the real solution as the mesh is refined.<<ETX>>


Introduction Safety First A Place of Their Own Flower Teepee Washing Line Tent Furniture Mosaic Table Decorating Furniture Active Play Climbing Wall Hop Scotch Slabs Growing Things Child-sized Potager Strawberry Tower Commemorative Trees Herb Pots Water Water Serpent Container Pond Wildlife and Pets Rustic Bird Feeder Wildlife Hide Parties and Celebrations Valentine's Day Easter Egg Hunt Finishing Touches Self Portrait Pots Mobiles and Chimes Case Studies: real children's gardens Cocodile Garden Relaxing Retreat 8 12 16 Vine Teepee Willow Screen Fort 30 Turt Stools Woven Bench 44 Tyre Nessie Rope Spider's Web 58 Patio Potatoes Seed Collecting Bog in a Box Indoor Hyacinths 72 Bubbling Spring Tube Cascade 86 Pet Place Catmint Basket 100 Mother's Day Halloween 114 'Frame It' Pots Stepping Stones 124 Jungle Outpost Toddler's play Area


Objectives: We have developed a portable system compatible with various clinical gamma cameras to perform three-dimensional (3D) small-animal molecular imaging. The spatial resolution of this system is close to that of commercial animal imaging systems, although its cost is much lower. Methods: The portable system consists of a rotating stage, a leveling plate, a line source phantom, and a calibration phantom. To obtain high-resolution single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images, we developed several methods for system alignment and applied geometric calibration. The projections of the subject were reimaged according to the calibration parameters and reconstructed by the 3D ordered subsets expectation maximization (OS-EM) algorithm. Results: The resulting images of the microdeluxe phantom showed 2.4-mm cold rods. The image quality of phantom scanning was stable when the portable system was applied to various gamma cameras from different manufacturers. The resultant images of a 99mTc-MDP bone scan of a mouse showed details of the spine, femur, pelvis, and tail. Furthermore, a radiopharmaceutical study of 99mTc-HYNIC-Annexin V on a liver inflammation-induced mouse was carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of this system for small-animal molecular imaging. Conclusions: The newly developed portable system was compatible with various gamma cameras and enabled successful performance of small-animal molecular imaging.


Based on plane graphs of mobile gravity variations and time sequence variations, combining earthquake cases within and around the Xingtai network,the anomaly characteristics of gravity field in Xingtai network before some earthquakes are studied in this paper.The results indicate that the gravity field within the network has the background with the raising feature,and the variations of the gravity field are obviously correlated to the surrounding earthquake active levels.Before earthquakes,the accelerating variation process or turning of gravity field appeared.At the same time,larger anomaly area with high values also comes forth in plane graphs.


Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor of the most sensitive is then the standard of behavior. As to this there has developed a tradition that is unbending and inveterate. Uncompromising rigidity has been the attitude of courts of equity when petitioned .... Only thus has the level of conduct of fiduciaries been kept at a level higher than that trodden by the crowd. I. INTRODUCTION Whether corporate decisions are unbiased, informed, established in good faith, made in the best interest of shareholders, and hence presumptively valid, has spawned a recurring, contentious, and at times luminous debate among commentators and dyspepsia among judges from Delaware to Colorado and from New York to Tennessee. This matter becomes particularly poignant when shareholders file or threaten to file derivative actions, and when the corporation strives to control the litigation process by rejecting their demands through the determinations of pre-emptive board or special committee decisions. Derivative proceedings are generally commenced by minority shareholders to redress alleged injuries for breach of fiduciary duty. Shareholder derivative suits may provide both direct and indirect benefits.2 Such suits may be a mechanism that helps provide proper monitoring of fiduciaries by shareholders. They may also be vehicles for mischief commenced largely for the benefit of entrepreneurial attorneys3 that, under the current regulatory framework, poorly align the interests of attorney and client.4 More importantly, it is equally imaginable that the interest of the corporation's shareholders and corporate litigation decisionmakers may also be poorly aligned. This may lead to directors not pursuing an appropriate and justifiable action, which achieves "norm management."5 Furthermore, it is possible that the convergence of this dual misalignment of interest coupled with insufficient judicial scrutiny may result in the settlement of meritorious claims on terms that fail to vindicate legitimate shareholder interest in the proper monitoring of their agents and fail to deter future egregious misbehavior committed by management. Taken together, this result may enlarge agency6 costs associated with the proper operation of the corporation while vitiating the social meaning of such suits.7 On the other hand, the notion of social meaning,8 like the concept of social reality,9 may be hauntingly attractive, yet potentially ineffable. While the current regulatory framework contains a number of safeguards against frivolous litigation10 by entrepreneurial attorneys and flagrant abuse of control by directors, the framework has nonetheless been deemed insufficient by opponents when it comes to precluding the filing of questionable cases, and as too constrained by those who wish to encourage and expand liability rules as a corporate governance mechanism. Current safeguards include the right of the shareholder to initiate litigation11 (but not necessarily to control it),12 the requirement of demand,13 and the creation of shareholder litigation committees by the corporation, judicial review, and concurrence in any settlement.14 This contentious and indeterminate15 framework continues to raise questions about: (A) the inability of plaintiff shareholders to monitor their attorney, which erodes the asserted value of the litigation paired with perhaps perverse incentives derived from indemnification rules, insurance exclusions, and the absence of internalized litigation cost in settlement;16 (13) the difficulty of ascertaining whether decisions taken by corporate boards and special committees are in the best interest of the corporation, including the meaning of the often elusive term "good faith;" (C) the procedural rights that a plaintiff possesses or should possess in both a pretrial and special litigation committee context;17 and (D) the appropriate standard of judicial review of corporate decisions to either discontinue derivative suits or refuse to commence them. …


The present paper explores migration phenomenon and the impacts of which on immigrant households to Tehran city. The aim of the study is to determine the scale of economic, social and cultural changes among the immigrants.
Through this study, the scale/rate of affectability of migrants is determined in terms of different social, ethical, welfare and attitudinal frames as compared with the natives.
The empirical part of the research includes 400 sample households comprising of 200 migrants to Tehran city and 200 native borns in Tehran city as an evidence group within normal resident households in districts 3,6 and 12 in Tehran city, whom should necessarily have children of 10 years of age and above.
The results of the research based on double –variable analyses of test of Kendall's tau-b shows that there is a meaningful relationship between social mobility and social status of the migrants. Similarly, it is concluded that there is a meaningful difference between the change of ethical status of the migrants and those of the natives. In the course of path analysis the rate of impacts of variables on change of status of the migrant , and consequently the re-appraisal of the migrant , and finally the impact of which on the tendency of the reverse migration, and continual to stay has been studies .
Clarification of the hypotheses has been achieved with emphasis on functional and classical theories of migration.


Summary: The figure of the idiot is central to Djuna Barnes's short 1936 novel Nightwood . It appears in the story in the shape of Felix, Guido, Nora, Robin, Jenny, and least likely of all, Doctor Matthew O'Connor—characters that relate to each other through idiocy. The multiplicity of idiotic characters points to the multiplicity of definitions and modes of idiocy. This reading of Nightwood takes as its point of departure this double multiplicity, and aims at bringing to light a trajectory common to all characters: in seeking knowledge in the figure of the doctor, they resist being defined as idiots, but in this very resistance, they wind up establishing themselves as such. Idiocy is a process by which the characters move towards knowledge all the while, and inevitably, straying from it. By consulting Doctor Matthew O'Connor, who represents both knowledge and cure, the characters turn idiocy into an affliction—a malady of ignorance—of which they want to but cannot be cured. Idiocy, however, goes beyond being an illness, and is not limited to the characters that inhabit Barnes's novel: it is implied in the very gesture of narration. As a result, the reader also becomes involved in its movement since he or she is made to undergo idiocy. To read Nightwood is to become an idiot. Resume: Dans Nightwood , le roman de Djuna Barnes publie en 1936, la figure de l'idiot se decline en plusieurs personnages qui se cotoient a travers leur idiotie : Felix, Guido, Nora, Robin, Jenny, et plus improbablement le docteur Matthew O'Connor. Cette multiplicite de personnages idiots fait signe vers la multiplicite de definitions et de modes de l'idiotie. Cet article se propose de lire Nightwood a la lumiere de cette double multiplicite, et revele une trajectoire commune a tous les personnages : en quete de savoir aupres du docteur, ils tentent de resister a l'idiotie, mais finissent par devenir idiots par ce meme geste de resistance. L'idiotie est le procede par lequel les personnages se dirigent vers le savoir tout en s'en eloignant inevitablement. En consultant la figure du docteur Matthew O'Connor, incarnation double du savoir et de la guerison, les personnages font de l'idiotie une maladie : souffrants ou atteints d'ignorance, ils cherchent a en guerir, meme si ce processus de guerison s'avere impossible. Mais l'idiotie n'est pas juste une maladie et ne se limite pas aux personnages du roman : elle sous-tend le geste narratif. Le lecteur a son tour s'implique dans son mouvement puisqu'en lisant le roman, il se fait idiot.


Demographic effects have been more important than selection in shaping patterns of variation at MHC genes in European hedgehogs, Erinaceus europaeus and Erinaceus concolor.


1Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. 2Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. 3School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 4Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. 5Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. 6Lead Contact


I n the first part of this study the histopathological effect of radioiodine administered to the mother was determined both on her own thyroid and on the thyroid glands of her suckling young. In each instance but a single injection of carrier-free NaI131 was given to the mother three days after she dropped her litter. The young mice received their radioiodine only by way of the mother's milk. The thyroid gland of the mothcix and their young were studied histologically at two months and at 10 weeks, following this single treatment with radioiodine. It is the purpose of this part of the paper to present the histological changes that were brought about by the presence in the thyroid glands of radioactive iodine, the dose of which was altered by the conditions of lactation and ~uckl ing .~


We consider protocol design and performance analysis in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) in a cross layer point of view. We investigate the behaviors of network layer, multiple access control (MAC) layer, and physical layer, and reveal the interactions among them. In addition, we also investigate the impact of mobility on network performance.
The objective of the thesis is as followings: demonstrate the importance of lower layer behaviors in the behaviors and performance of upper layers; eliminate the negative impact of mobility on protocol performance; set up performance analysis framework for upper layer protocols by incorporating lower layer behaviors and performance; and propose high performance protocols by exploiting lower layer behaviors.
First, at the network level, for efficient broadcast protocols we look at the low coverage problem caused by packet reception with probability under realistic physical layers. A redundant radius mechanism is provided to be incorporated into energy efficient broadcast protocols to guarantee network coverage while keep energy efficiency.
Secondly, we look at the effect of dynamic topology caused by mobility on the performance of network protocols. Proactive neighborhood tracking scheme is proposed to predict neighbors' actual positions when forwarding occurs.
Thirdly, we provide two cross-layer mathematical frameworks for the evaluation of routing protocols and MAC protocols, respectively. We model the proactive or reactive routing protocol with a combinatorial model, where the routing logic is synthesized along with the characterization of MAC performance. We also present a framework to incorporate the PHY effect and behaviors into the analysis and modelling of MAC protocols, which demonstrates the PHY behavior importance on MAC protocol design, and provides a way to analyze MAC protocol performance accurately.
After that, we aim to take advantages of PHY layer effect and behaviors in the design of high performance MAC protocols. We follow two directions: employ advanced PHY communication techniques or play with traditional PHY behavior effect. We first try to exploit the advanced one-to-multiple (Multi-packet Transmission: MPT) or multiple-to-one (Multi-packet Reception: MPR) PHY communication paradigm, and propose an adaptive MPT or MPR MAC protocol to let multiple transmissions occur concurrently corresponding to traffic conditions. However, currently this kind of advanced PHY communication needs expensive hard devices and is not popularized yet. Therefore, we employ the common peer-to-peer communication style, while aim to improve throughput by selecting appropriate receivers. It exploits PHY capture effect and is based on instant channel conditions achieved by probing to multiple possible receivers.


Summary Each year, roughly one-sixth of atmospheric carbon (115 Pg C) is cycled through terrestrial vegetation, channeled into the soils below, and respired back to CO2 ( IPCC, 2007 ). However, predicting the reactivity and CO2 buffering capacity of soil systems and thus the carbon-climate feedback in terrestrial ecosystems is limited by poor understanding of the accessibility and turnover of "recalcitrant" organic matter in soils ( Lehmann & Kleber, 2015 ). As major decomposers in soil ecosystems, fungi are among the few organisms on the planet that can feed on chemically stable forms of organic C ( Snajdr et al., 2011 ; Kirk & Farrell, 1987 ) but are also known to directly access recently produced plant photosynthate ( Hogberg et al., 2001 ). This study improves quantification of substrate utilization by different fungal ecotypes in order to help define the rates and controls of fungal production and the cycling of soil organic matter.


2014 The reversal of the direction of magnetization by domain wall movements has been studied on two thin evaporated ferromagnetic films (Fe and Ni-Fe) by the Bitter colloid technique. For each film the magnetization reversal was observed both parallel and perpendicular to the direction in which a magnetic field was applied during evaporation. The behaviour of the iron film is similar in both directions but in the case of the nickel-iron film the reversal of magnetization in the perpendicular direction takes place mainly by rotation. LE JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE ET LE RADIUM TOME 20, FÉVRIER-MARS 1959, In recent years several papers have been published showing experimental observations of domain configurations in evaporated polycrystalline thin films. The paper of Fowler, Fryer and Stevens [1] describes domain reversals in nickel-iron films observed by the Kerr effect, and that of Williams and Sherwood [2] gives a general survey of demagnetised, and magnetisation reversal, patterns in thin . films of various alloys. These papers show that a wide variety of domain wall processes can occur in thin films but little correlation has been established betweenthese processes and the controllable factors affecting the deposition of the film, although it is well established that evaporation in a magnetic field can produce uniaxial anisotropy. In the present work, it has been found that iron and nickel-iron films evaporated under the same conditions exhibit uniaxial anisotropy in varying degrees, although nickel-iron is less variable than iron. Domain patterns are shown for an iron film (400 A thick) with exhibits little anisotropy and a nickel-iron (80 % nickel) film (900 A thick) which has a well defined anisotropy. The course adopted, was to observe the domain reversal both in the direction in which the field was applied during evaporation (referred to as " parallel direction " in the text and marked E. D. on the figures) and perpendicular* to this direction (transverse direction). It was hoped that the additional information gained would allow a better understanding of the factors affecting the reversal process. The films were evaporated under the same conditions onto thin glass substrates at 330 °C in a magnetic field of 120 oersted, at a pressure of 3 X 10-5 mm Hg. An aluminium mask was used to give a circular film about 0. 6 cm diameter. The domain structures were observed by the Bitter colloid method. The Iron Film. PARALLEL MAGNETISATION REVERSAL. Figures 1 to 4 show stages in the magnetisation reversal in the parallel direction. The first of the composite photographs (Fig. 1)


Dedicated hardware modules on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are applied to achieve significant performance improvement over the software implementations. However, even in a simple system-on-chip (SoC) design on FPGA, hardware accelerators are managed explicitly by writing hardware/software interfaces. Programmers have to go through massive details to control and communicate with hardware accelerators, not to mention complicated functions to achieve memory allocation and hardware reuse. Besides, designing hardware accelerators still lacks productivity and flexibility. Promising data-level parallel applications can be accelerated by using recent parallel programming models. In this work, we extend software threads to hardware threads. By implementing a hybrid parallel computing framework the parallel applications are supported through the scheduling and reusing of the threads. Programmers can create software threads in an embedded OS environment without managing hardware details. Hardware manager takes over software threads and manage hardware resources in terms of reallocation and isolation. Experimental results demonstrate that hardware threads can achieve up to 10 times speedup over software implementation. The relationships between the length of scheduling time slices, and the performance and the response time are carefully evaluated. Besides, as the number of threads increases, the system demonstrates a good scalability.


counterparts in spiritual somnolence and secular involvement, although (thanks to the Observant movemtent) the friars in Ireland enjoyed more vitality and authority throughout the society. Succeeding chapters recount the first, limited suppression campaign against nine monasteries in the crown territories in 1537, the push for the complete dissolution of the religious houses within this area during 1539-1540, the extension of the commissioners' activities into the isolated crown territories (such as Limerick) and into the sovereign—Gaelic or Anglo-Irish—regions in 1540-1546, and the distribution of the spoils.


Simple Summary It is economically significant to perform early selection of breeding goats. Given that the effect of genetic and environmental factors on growth can be estimated more accurately, estimation of adult body weight is viable, and rapid genetic progress can be achieved in the herd through the application of selection in this manner. Thus, profitability can be increased in goat breeding. Additionally, genetic and maternal influences on pre-weaning growth traits are important in identifying variation between individuals. In this study, herd, sex, age of dam, type and year of birth, and maternal genetic influence were considered according to their effects on pre-weaning growth characteristics in Turkish Saanen kids. As a result of the study, it has been determined that the economic significance of the maternal effect is high due to its effect on the growth characteristics of Turkish Saanen kids. In the selection program for offspring who grew up alongside their mothers from birth until weaning, it is recommended to account for the maternal effect as well as environmental factors. Abstract Data on 4487 Turkish Saanen kids from 176 bucks and 1318 dam-goats, obtained from the Turkish Saanen goats in the Izmir region and collected between 2018 and 2019, were analyzed to examine the effect of genetic and non-genetic factors on growth traits. The average birth weight of the kids was determined as 3.33 ± 0.68 kg, the average W60 was 13.06 ± 2.94 kg, the average WW was 18.38 ± 4.14 kg, and the average PreWDG until weaning was 0.17 ± 0.04 g. Model 1, which does not account for the maternal effect, and Model 2, which includes the maternal effect, were used in the estimation of genetic parameters. The heritability estimates of BW, W60, WW, and PreWDG ranged from 0.05 to 0.59 in both models. It is recommended to consider the maternal effect as well as the environmental factors in the selection program for the best early breeder selection of kids growing alongside their mothers until the weaning period.