Through the comparative analysis on the concept features and technical contents of strategic planning and master planning,this paper analyzes the types of urban strategic planning and clarifies the status and role of strategic planning in the planning system of China.Through the case study on the interaction between strategic planning and master planning,the paper elaborates their mutual supporting and complementary relationship,and points out that emphasizing the differentiated development of these two kinds of planning is favorable for the technical progress of planning,and that strategic planning should focus on goal guidance and master planning should strengthen the comprehensive control.


The utility model discloses a multifunctional rescue vehicle, comprising a cab, a frame, a lifting machine and also comprising a loading machine, an excavating machine and an assistant supporting mechanism, wherein the loading machine comprises a scraper pan, a connecting rod, a rocker arm, a movable arm, a movable arm cylinder, a rotating bucket cylinder, a mounting support and a control device, the excavating machine comprises a movable arm cylinder, a bucket arm cylinder, an excavator bucket cylinder, a rocker arm, an excavator bucket, a bucket arm, a movable arm, a movable arm rotary cylinder, a movable arm rotary support, a switching mechanism and an operating platform, the assistant supporting mechanism comprises a front supporting mechanism and a rear supporting mechanism, the front supporting mechanism is arranged on the frame and is arranged at the front side and the rear side of the cab, the front supporting mechanism can be folded and also can go up and down, the rear supporting mechanism is arranged at the rear end of the frame, and the front supporting mechanism can go up and down. The multifunctional rescue vehicle disclosed by the utility model can realize one car for multipurpose and can meet multiple requirements in rescue, and mobility and flexibility are higher.


The analysis of the title, first as it is, and second as anagrammatized, constitutes the starting-point of our investigation into Anthony Burgess'manichean world. A thorough study of the leading characters reveals a fundamental contradiction reflecting in one way or another interpretation of evil, again linked to his own contradictoriness. A. Burgess' confrontation of opposites and use of multiple technical device of writing make the reader more and more aware of the mobility of both men and ideas in the macrocosm, god and or the devil being their masters. Augustinism and pelagianism are the two theological conceptions that A. Burgess adopts to his fluctuating thinking in order to explain the origin and the manifestations of evil in the XXth. Century. Structuralism and freudism mostly help us unearth the odontological structure of the novel in our second part. A short survey through history and a. Burgess' earlier works gives an idea of the importance of dental symbolism and structure in his novels. . . Time, space and the characters are then studied in relation to dental pain so as to bring out the onto-odontological structure of earthly powers. References to traditional symbolism as well as burgess' own one, to mythology and literature help us highlight his art.


This paper proposed a sensorless speed control strategy of a permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) using a full-order terminal sliding-mode observer (FOTSMO) with the stator resistance estimated. In the proposed observer, the low pass filter (LPF) in the conventional sliding-mode observer (SMO) is removed, so the control strategy can overcome the time delay and weaken the chattering phenomenon. Meanwhile, the time-varying stator resistance is identified online to improve the steady-state performance of the observer. The stator resistance adaptive law is determined by the Lyapunov second method, and the stability of the FOTSMO is proved. the feasibility of the proposed method is verified by simulations and experiments.


, and style of language). We thus move away from actor-centric approaches towards a content-centric approach of studying populism. Empirically, our study measures populism to varying degrees and forms in 3,564 Facebook posts of political parties in France, Germany and the United Kingdom during the 2014 EU election campaigns, the 2017 national parliamentary election campaigns, and a non-electoral period in 2018 in each country. The results show that populism is not a marginal phenomenon but that it is present in about one-fourth of all posts in some form; that there is variance between countries, party types, policy fields


In recent years, the social construction approach to strategy, organization, culture, management and learning has increasingly been criticized for ignoring the active role of the materiality of the social world (Barad 2007, Ingold 2012, Nicolini 2012, Taguchi 2009). Thus in the aftermath of the linguistic, discursive, and narrative turn, the quantum, material turn has emerged as one of the most recent research approaches to the study of organizational life. However, the quantum approach to organizational studies still needs scholarly discussions of the active agential role of body and of materiality in world-making phenomena. In this article, organizational development and change are viewed as world-making phenomena that emerge from material, embodied, storytelling practices and are dissipated in the organization through the living story web in fractal, rhizomatic organizing processes. Diffractively reading primarily Boje, Barad, Ingold, Heidegger, Bakhtin, and Deleuze and Guattari through each other, a quantum storytelling framework is proposed for better understanding organizing processes towards the future. Special attention is paid to the prospective, sense-shaping role of agential rhizomatic antenarratives in these processes (Boje 2011b, Boje 2014a). The practical contribution of the article is to heighten the awareness of practitioners towards the tensed interplay between centripetal, narrative stories of organized practices "in place", the dynamics of living stories of lifeworlds "in movement", and the sense-shaping, organizing antenarratives of an "unsettling" world in its becoming. The theoretical contribution is to further enrich our conceptual understanding of the entanglement between lifeworld living stories and agential materiality in world-making phenomena, as we move from inter-action to intra-action (Barad 2007, Barad 2003). The implication is to view organizational development and change from within-thephenomena.


Bacterial blossom blight of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae is known to be largely affected by weather conditions during the blooming period. While there have been many studies that investigated scientific relations between weather conditions and the epidemics of bacterial blossom blight of kiwifruit, no forecasting models have been developed thus far. In this study, we collected all the relevant information on the epidemiology of the blossom blight in relation to weather variables, and developed the Pss-KBB Risk Model that is based on the Maryblyt model for the fire blight of apple and pear. Subsequent model validation was conducted using 10 years of ground truth data from kiwifruit orchards in Haenam, Korea. As a result, it was shown that the Pss-KBB Risk Model resulted in better performance in estimating the disease severity compared with other two simple models using either temperature or precipitation information only. Overall, we concluded that by utilizing the Pss-KBB Risk Model and weather forecast information, potential infection risk of the bacterial blossom blight of kiwifruit can be accurately predicted, which will eventually lead kiwifruit growers to utilize the best practices related to spraying chemicals at the most effective time.


Recoil process of adatoms by ion beam bombardment has been studied by computer simulation. Owing to the focusing effect, the intensity of adatom recoil depends strongly on both the angle of incidence and the angular position of the detector. When the detector is arranged in a backward direction with respect to the direction of the primary ion beam, structural information on surface hydrogen and other light elements can be obtained efficiently.


This paper discusses about the social representations that pentecostalism has built upon alcohol and alcoholism. It is divided in two parts. In the first part it highlights three images of alcohol: elixir of death, brew of defeat and teratogen nectar. In the second part it looks at the communitary answers that pentecostalism had in order to deal with alcoholics where the religous community is contituted in a therapeutic community, and inside it, a penumatherapy.


This study aims to improve the learning outcomes of Grade VI students on natural science subjects with the subject of ecosystem equilibrium using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Model. This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this research is a students of Grade VI  Elementary School (SDN) 03 Jereweh with 25 students. This research took place in two cycles consisting of 3 meetings for cycle-1 and 2 meetings for cycle-2. Data collection techniques in this study were observation and tests. Classroom Action Research results by applying the Jigsaw Learning Model shows that student's natural science learning outcomes have increased. This is indicated by an increase in the average value of the class that is during cycle-1 the average value of 74 increased to 82.6 in cycle-2. Classical completeness of students has increased by 52% from cycle 1 to cycle 2. The conclusion of this study is that the application of Jigsaw Learning Model can improve student learning outcomes in the material ecosystem equilibrium in class VI SDN 03 Jereweh.


Objectives. The International Monetary Fund encourages privatization of stateowned tobacco industries. Privatization tends to lower cigarette prices, which encourages consumption. This could be countered with effective taxation policies. We explored how investment by British American Tobacco influenced taxation policy in Uzbekistan during privatization there. Methods. We obtained internal documents from British American Tobacco and analyzed them using a hermeneutic process to create a chronology of events. Results. British American Tobacco thoroughly redesigned the tobacco taxation system in Uzbekistan. They secured (1) a reduction of approximately 50% in the excise tax on cigarettes, (2) an excise system to benefit its brands and disadvantage those of its competitors (particularly Philip Morris), and (3) a tax stamp system from which it hoped to be exempted so that competing brands would suffer. Conclusions. Privatization can endanger effective tobacco excise policies, namely that of high tobacco excise taxes. The International Monetary Fund should review its approach to privatization and differentiate the privatization of an industry whose product kills from privatization of other industries. (Am J Public Health. 2007;97:XXX‐XXX. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.078378)


Admixtures now days play a predominant role in concrete manufacturing. The admixtures ranged from blood in history to fiber reinforcement admixture. In this paper the author analyzing the properties of concrete using salt water cured and oven dried human hair whose length exceeding 10cm as fiber reinforced admixture is studied and verified by strength of ordinary Portland cement without using any admixture. Using human hair length greater than 10cm as fiber reinforcement admixture gave good percentage of increment in compressive strength and flexural strength, but as the length of the human hair increases used for concrete as fiber reinforcement admixture reduces the strength.


An entropy balance equation including the transfers of heat and mass, work of external force of the ocean is presented and discussed. Entropy flux through the sea surface are calculated, and the results show that entropy flux due to heat transfer is about −555.6 mWm−2K−1, entropy flux connected with the work of wind stress is relatively smaller at about −0.09 mWm−2K−1, entropy flux due to mass transfer is −0.02 mWm−2K−1, the sum of all the entropy flux is −555.7 mWm−2K−1, the mean rate of generation of entropy inside the ocean must be 555.7 mWm−2K−1 when the ocean is in a climatic steady condition.


Chain dynamics in coronas of ionomer aggregates, or the areas surrounding the ionic cores, is reported at the segmental level for poly(styrene-b-sodium acrylate) reverse micelles and for sodium carboxylate terminated polystyrene aggregates in CCl 4 , on the basis of 2 H NMR measurement. NMR results clearly indicate that the mobility of the soluble segments near the ionic cores is reduced dramatically.


Current frontline chemotherapy and radiotherapy for head and neck cancer (HNC) is insufficient as ~60% of patients relapse within two years, indicating a need to identify novel targeted therapies to improve survival outcomes for HNC patients. Human papilloma virus (HPV) incidence is a major cause of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) in addition to tobacco use. HPV- HNSCC patients are less responsive to frontline treatment than HPV+ HNSCC patients. However, HPV- and HPV+ HNSCC patients are treated similarly. The cell cycle serine-threonine kinase polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is known to be overexpressed in HNC. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) revealed that high expression of Plk1 correlates with worse survival in HNSCC patients (p<0.05). Yet, Plk1 is expressed at similar levels when comparing HPV- and HPV+ HNSCC patients. Therefore, in this study we sought to establish if Plk1 inhibition with onvansertib (currently in Phase I/II clinical trials) alone and in combination with radiation would inhibit HPV- and HPV+ HNSCC growth. We used two HPV+ (UMSCC47, UDSCC2), and two HPV- (HN5, Cal27) human HNSCC cell lines. First, we confirmed that Plk1 inhibition with onvansertib stalls HNSCC cells at the G2/M phase of the cell cycle (n=3). Then, we determined that HNSCC cell viability is reduced in a dose-dependent manner after Plk1 inhibition with onvansertib. Surprisingly, HPV- HNSCC cells exhibited a 2-fold decrease in cell viability as compared to HPV+ HNSCC cells (n=3). These findings were confirmed when assessing 3D spheroid growth of HNSCC cells. Plk1 inhibition with onvansertib (25nM) reduced HPV- HNSCC spheroid growth more than HPV+ (n=2). Combining Plk1 inhibition with radiation also reduced colony formation (n=3, p<0.0001) and increased G2/M stalling (n=3) compared to either single agent in HPV- HNSCC cells. Functionally, onvansertib induces cleaved PARP and pPlk1 expression in HNSCC cells. However, pPlk1 is induced to a higher degree in HPV+ HNSCC cells potentially indicating a positive feedforward loop leading to decreased sensitivity to Plk1 inhibition. In HPV- but not HPV+ HNSCC cells, Plk1 expression is also increased after radiation emphasizing Plk1 as an attractive target to mitigate radioresistance in HPV- HNSCCs (n=3). Our findings that HPV+ HNSCC cells are more resistant to Plk1 inhibition than HPV- HNSCC cells provides novel mechanistic insight into these disease subtypes. As HPV- HNSCC is typically more resistant to standard therapies, these results support a novel combinatorial approach using an already approved Plk1 inhibitor with radiation to improve HPV- HNSCC patient outcomes.
 Citation Format: Julianna Korns, Samuel Thompson, Trisha Wise-Draper, Vinita Takiar. Plk1 signaling as a therapeutic target for HPV- head and neck cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 2832.


Background: The illegal production of alcoholic beverages, due to the non-standard conditions, increases the risk of producing counterfeit and toxic products. The chemical analysis of toxic components in illegally-produced alcoholic beverages is necessary for each country. The present study aimed to identify the existence of methanol and other potentially toxic compounds in the seized illegally-produced alcoholic beverages.Methods: In this descriptive laboratory-based study, we analyzed the toxic chemical components in sized illegally-produced alcoholic beverages, submitted to the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory of the Legal Medicine Center of Markazi Province, Arak City, Iran, in a year. A total of 100 seized illegally-produced alcohol beverage samples were collected. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of ethanol, methanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, and acetone was performed by the Gas Chromatography-Flame Ionization Detection (GC–FID) method. Results: Methanol was detected in 6% of the evaluated samples (concentration range:1.2%-12%v/v). Acetone was detected in two of the studied samples (mean concentration: 0.7%v/v), and 2-propanol with a concentration of 0.5%v/v was found in one sample. Besides, ethanol was detected in all explored samples (mean concentration: 24%v/v). Conclusion: Methanol was the main toxic chemical component in illegal alcoholic beverages; thus, it should be considered in public health policy and prevention programs in the country.


In this paper, a novel monocular visual servoing strategy is proposed to drive a wheeled mobile robot to several desired poses without prerecorded desired images. First of all, according to the feature points with known 3D coordinates, the transformation relationship between the frame of the feature point and that of the vehicle camera is estimated. Furthermore, the reference frame can be defined based on the projection of the feature frame. Then, the relationship between the reference frame and the current pose of the mobile robot is obtained. Therefore, the desired pose can be defined based on the reference frame, and then the relative pose relationship between current and desired poses can be obtained. After that, the robot can be adjusted to the desired pose by using the polar coordinate control law. Compared with existing methods that adopt the teaching pattern for visual regulation, this scheme can still work well without obtaining the desired image in advance. Simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of this strategy.


In the exotic atoms in which one electron is replaced by a negatively charged kaon, the kaon-nucleus hadronic interaction introduces an energy shift and broadening of the low-lying states of the kaonic atoms. The shift and width can be determined with high precision from the atomic x-ray spectroscopy, and this experimental method provides unique information to understand the low energy kaon-nucleus interaction at the production threshold.


The physical education teaching quality evaluation is a very important part of the current physical education teaching reform in colleges and universities, and many experts and scholars have achieved fruitful results in this area, which has played a role in promoting the development of physical education teaching evaluation theory and practice. But at the same time, it should be soberly recognized that, with the deepening reform of physical education teaching in colleges and universities, the current teaching quality evaluation system can no longer meet the needs of the current education situation, and there are still many problems that need to be further studied and improved. The teaching quality decision evaluation of college volleyball training is looked as the MAGDM. Thus, a useful MAGDM process is needed to cope with it. The information entropy is used for determination of target weight. Based on the grey relational analysis (GRA) and probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic term sets (PDHLTSs), this paper constructs the PDHLTS-GRA for MAGDM issues. Finally, an example for teaching quality evaluation of college volleyball training is used to illustrate the designed method.


The field o f human activity recognition (HAR) is a priority for cutting-edge study because of its potential to revolutionize the way we understand and improve our everyday lives. A large variety of ordinary, everyday tasks has been classified using H AR. Nevertheless, inc ontrast to basic human actions, the increasing demands of numerous real-world applications have attracted the interest of the HAR area of study. Electrical line workers (ELWs) face a variety of challenges, including long hours, working in isolated locations, and performing particularly hazardous tasks. Wearable sensor-based HAR allows for unobtrusive tracking of ELW efficiency and security. This study explores deep learning strategies for automatically categorizing ELWs' complicated actions through sensor data collected through a wrist-worn device. We propose ResNeXt, a deep residual neural network, and evaluate it with other deep learning networks for their ability to categorize ELW activities effectively. We employ a publicly available benchmark dataset that includes 10 ELW tasks. The results of the experiment demonstrate that the proposed ResNeXt achieved the highest accuracy (98.74%) and F1-score (98.81%) compared to other deep learning networks studied.


Purpose: improving the quality of text document analysis through the use of machine learning and intellectual analysis models in summarizing and topic modeling tasks, which will reduce the load on an expert who analyzes and generalizes significant volumes of semi-structured text data on information security topics from various sources. Methods: machine learning methods were used for the operational processing and analysis of large volumes of heterogeneous ill-structured information in natural language (NL). Methods of thematic modeling and summarization of texts based on deep neural networks, including neural network language models based on the architecture of transformers, are applied. Practical relevance: the main stages of the machine procedure of thematic modeling and summarization of professional texts in the field of information security are highlighted. The results of a comparative evaluation of the effectiveness of using clustering models, latent semantic analysis, Fast Text, Text Rank language models and BERT transformers for these purposes are presented. Recommendations are given regarding the prospects for the practical application of these models as a means of intellectual support for the professional activities of cybersecurity specialists. Scientific novelty: a complex of machine learning models for thematic modeling and summarization of professional texts is proposed, based on neural network models of attachments and transformer models, characterized by an algorithm for preparing a corpus of texts for training models and the use of a learning transfer algorithm, which will increase the efficiency of analysis and generalization of domain-specific corpora of texts.


The voluntary and not‐for‐profit sector accounts for an important and growing proportion of employment in the UK though it remains highly under‐researched. Rates of pay are often relatively low, necessitating forms of human resource management that emphasise non‐financial means of eliciting employee motivation and commitment. This paper examines HRM in a major charity that provides services to adults with learning disabilities. It finds that the intrinsic commitment to the job held by employees – which the organisation is trying to tap – can form a competing commitment towards different entities of the organisation. This competing commitment is difficult to reconcile to organizational objectives because it reflects ambivalences in existing power structures and group dynamics. The results have wider relevance to the management of employee commitment in other service sectors.


Employers often rely on an applicant for employment to provide accurate and true information in the interview and recruitment process. This includes details of past employment and the reasons for termination. These facts are important in order for a prospective employer to decide whether or not the applicant is suitable for the position.


There are lot of documents and confidential data involved in international trade. Banks offer financial services and also act as middleman for cross border trades. The verification process plays a vital role and it takes months to years, to complete. The major problem is to maintain integrity and confidentiality of the data shared, and to maintain fair trading process. Blockchain technology is introduced to increase the efficiency and security of the documents shared to the needed parties in the trade. Permissioned blockchain is used wherein the participants of the network are controlled and governed by the blockchain owner. Hyperledger fabric platform is used to implement the trade finance application. The main idea is to automate the verification processes in order to complete the trade financing within minutes to hours and to enhance security of the documents shared using Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) in cross border trades. The smart contracts in blockchain provides functionalities to assure that the information is tamper-free, auditable and verifiable.


An approach to analyze coupling RC interconnect delay based on "effective capacitance" is presented in this paper. We compare this new method with the traditional method that uses Miller capacitance. Results show that it not only improves the accuracy but also reflects the delay dependence on rise time. The method has the same complexity as the Elmore delay and can be widely used in performance-driven routing optimization.


The study was conducted on estimation of eviscerated carcass weight using live weight as predictor for Arsi Bale sheep and goat of both the sexes, reared under farmer's management and on natural pasture. The age group of the studied sheep and goat were 1 but < 2 years (category 2). The age of the animals were estimated by dentition method. The results indicated that the average slaughter weight of the studied animals were lower than those reported, this may be ascribed to poor nutrition obtained from the pasture grasses and also due to presence of internal parasites. The dressing percentage as assessed in the study was higher in the goats and among the goats was higher in the bucks. The study also indicates that the among the non linear and linear regression equations the best predictor for the carcass weight in rams in category 1 was by using Quadratic regression equation, while for the age category 2 it was by using the Sigmoid regression equation. The results for prediction of carcass weight in ewes indicate that the Quadratic regression equation provides the highest R values for both the age categories. The regression results also 2 shows that the best predictor for estimation of carcass weight in bucks for the age category 1 was by using the Quadratic regression method, while that for age category 2 was by using Logarithmic, growth, exponential and logistic regression method ( the R values being same for all). The results related to estimation of carcass weight 2 of the does indicate that the best predictor for age category 1 was by taking into account the Quadratic regression equation and that for age category 2 was by considering the power regression equation.


This work presents an algorithm for computing the maximum flow and minimum cut of undirected graphs, based on the well-known algorithm presented by Ford and Fulkerson for directed graphs. The new algorithm is equivalent to just applying Ford and Fulkerson algorithm to the directed graph obtained from original graph but with two directed arcs for each edge in the graph, one in each way. We present a proof of correctness and experimental results.


This study used directed content analysis to extend Darley and Latané's bystander decision making theory to the analysis of clergy workplace harassment. Bystander decision making theory, which was developed from analysis of bystander subjective experience in emergency incidents, was applied here to the target's subjective experience in non-emergency incidents. Interviews with United Church of Canada ministry personnel (N = 10) were coded using bystander decision steps as pre-determined categories. Findings were analysed to construct a model of clergy workplace harassment and a bystander task list. Additional findings were discussed with reference to normative abandonment and theological reflection on the ecclesial and missiological consequences of bystander immunity from communal responsibility.


Degradation of natural environment has a negative impact on the quality of life. In order to eliminate the factors that lead to excessive pollution, it is necessary to find alternative solutions - sustainable and environmentally friendly in all industrial fields, including electric energy generation and consumption. Consequently, renewable energy sources together with new generation of loads are a key factor in the development of future energy systems and those DC sources and DC loads that could be integrated in hybrid microgrids. Several configurations of hybrid microgrids are presented in this paper, together with a study case based on a local energy community of Prosumers with PV generation and potential DC loads.


Dairy processors are increasingly starting to test milk for mycotoxins, specifically aflatoxin. This testing stems from concerns of potentially high mycotoxin content in feeds produced during certain growing seasons. Southern Africa is currently experiencing arguably some of the highest levels of mycotoxins in feedstuffs, specifically maize and maize silage, in years. The following points may be helpful in better understanding this situation.


When Newton's method, or Halley's method is used to approximate the $p${th} root of $1-z$, a sequence of rational functions is obtained. In this paper, a beautiful formula for these rational functions is proved in the square root case, using an interesting link to Chebyshev's polynomials. It allows the determination of the sign of the coefficients of the power series expansion of these rational functions. This answers positively the square root case of a proposed conjecture by Guo(2010).


Europe, a world-player in research and technology development, is lacking the ability to turn scientific research and skills into economic and social wealth through innovation. Technology Institutes (TIs) are potential catalysts and exist as an interface between science and industry. TIs have a potentially powerful influence over economic and technological development through their contributions to industrial innovation. Therefore, understanding TIs' drivers of success is of great value. This study aims to analyse the most commercially successful European TIs to identify common drivers and best practices. The analysis focuses on drivers associated with customers, commercial staff, research strategy, S&T Policies, impact, and external factors. Some key drivers and best practices identified are: the inclusion of future needs of industry in research strategy; commercialization as a corporate-level activity, and specialized management.


The latest emerging technologies for road safety focuses on finding ways to avoid or minimize road accidents to road users with special concern by reducing the causes of road accidents. As depicted by data of certain advanced countries like Korea, Malaysia, Australia, United States of America, the major number of accidents causing death was very high during a previous couple of years due to the increased number of vehicles on road, which is getting unmanageable. However, Urethane Rollers invented in Korea has served to re-direct the uncontrolled moving vehicles and to balance it again causing reduction of accidents. In this paper, a study is carried out to explain its need in India perspective for using "Rolling Barriers" (RB) which has minimized the accidents rate in the above-mentioned countries. Rolling barriers provides cushioning effect during a crash, reduces the high-speed effect, constitutes material resilience with stiffness and have other performance characteristics that reduce injury to occupants and damage to the vehicle. The roller barriers are extremely effective and its implementation has given signified results in reducing the road accidents at flat roads, curved roads sections, ramps, medians, entrances/exit ramps in the parking garage etc. steep curved roads as in the mountainous terrain.


Abstract This study examines the relationship between student success measures on student achievement to inform our approach to mediating against potential barriers on persistence and retention for first generation and traditionally marginalized populations for students enrolled in a new Living Learning Community. Success measures examine those beyond the control of the university, including, but not limited to, High School GPA and ACT scores to determine where we should intervene and where we should build upon the strengths of our students. The theme of the PH LLC is Leadership Development and Career Exploration, a program that seeks to empower students by harnessing their individual strengths and capitalizing on them to be successful in college and beyond. The design of this program and its future prospects are also discussed.


Casual conversation seems to be the last domain in which logic may be successfully applied. We want to demonstrate here that this intuition is incorrect. On the contrary, logic offers a new perspective on conversation, not at the behavioural level, but at the argumentative level. By studying the way arguments are logically linked together, we can observe new phenomena, like conflicting beliefs or conflicting desires that are shared by participants, and strategies to escape from such situations. From this new perspective, conversation emerges as a logical constraint satisfaction process.


In order to make up for the shortcomings of traditional financial evaluation, this paper proposes a method of enterprise comprehensive performance evaluation system based on the balanced scorecard method and BP artificial neural network model. This method focuses on the application methods and steps of BP artificial neural network model in enterprise comprehensive performance evaluation system. In addition, it also makes a detailed study on the initial weight and threshold assignment of the BP network, the selection of training samples, the determination of hidden layer, the convergence of network, and so on. The experimental results show that this method verifies the comprehensive performance evaluation results of 15 manufacturers, and the results are 4 excellent, 5 good, 3 average, 2 poor, and 1 very poor. This method effectively reduces the limitations of enterprise comprehensive performance evaluation by introducing nonfinancial evaluation indicators.


The enediyne antibiotics had the most supreme antineoplasmic activity. This paper introduces two novel methods of enediyne biosynthesis based on its biosynthetic principle, combinatorial biosynthetic technology, RiboaptDB and Genome Sequence Tags.


Most of the developing countries are re-inventing the wheel in their efforts to launch egovernment initiatives — especially in the areas of healthcare, education, economic development, supply chains for food distribution, and emergency services. A Computer Aided Strategic Planner, part of the UN eNabler Toolset, has been developed to quickly and effectively produce detailed strategic plans for a wide range of egovernment services based on best practices and standards. The generated plan is highly customized for the type of service as well as the country/region by using the latest thinking in AI, ontologies, and patterns. The Planner, available through the UN-GAID initiative, can be and has been used very effectively to educate as well as assist the government officials of developing countries to accelerate progress in crucial areas.


Nothing seems to make the average historian more nervous than a new methodology that he does not readily understand. Over the past two decades we have seen vogues for the use of statistics, computers, socio- logical concepts, economic determinism, anthropological studies of cul- ture - the list is long. Some historians always seem ready to adopt the newest craze, whatever it is; most have numerous reasons ready that protect their own comfortable methodology, and consign the brash new- comer to the wastebasket. Often, whether they will admit it or not, how- ever, the nay-sayers feel a certain guilt about what they are doing; they seem to feel that they ought to be more up-to-date, but their ability to learn is limited by institutional and financial constrictions, and they greatly fear the adverse criticism that any use of the new methodologies in their work might receive.


The occurrence and frequency of Colletotrichum spp. were determined by sampling 980 apple fruit from orchards in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia in 1992 and 1993. Colletotrichum and Botryosphaeria spp. were recovered from 78.8 and 21.2% of the sampled fruit, respectively. Conidial and colony morphology, growth rate, and perithecial production were used to characterize the Colletotrichum spp. Based on conidial morphology, 68.6% of isolates were identified as C. acutatum and 31.4% as C. gloeosporioides. The C. acutatum isolates produced hyaline, elliptic-fusiform conidia tapered at one or both ends, whereas isolates of C. gloeosporioides produced hyaline oblong conidia with obtuse or rounded ends. Among the C. gloeosporioides isolates, 42.1% of monoconidial cultures produced the Glomerella cingulata teleomorph. None of the isolates identified as C. acutatum produced an ascigerous stage. All isolates of C. acutatum had a significantly slower growth rate on potato dextrose agar (PDA) than did isolates of C. gloeosporioides and G. cingulata. Among the isolates of C. acutatum, 90% were characterized as chromogenic types producing a distinct ruby red pigmentation on PDA. However, the ruby red colony color was not diagnostic for species identification as there were some isolates of C. acutatum that produced colonies orange to dark brown in color on PDA. The chromogenic isolates were only found among the isolates identified as C. acutatum. Of the Botryosphaeria spp. recovered, 84.1 and 15.9% of the isolates were identified as B. dothidea and B. obtusa, respectively. The majority of Botryosphaeria isolates were recovered from fruit with small (<0.5 cm in diameter), nondescript lesions. Among the bitter rot pathogens, three taxa, C. acutatum, C. gloeosporioides, and G. cingulata, could be distinguished. Based on this survey, there was considerable orchard-to-orchard variation in the frequency of the Colletotrichum spp. recovered.


The physical properties,diagenesis and porosity evolution of the Palaeogene- Neogene hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Sikeshu depression,Junggar Basin,Xinjiang are discussed on the basis of well logs,thin section examination and mercury-injection curves. The Palaeogene- Neogene hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Sikeshu depression are characterized by medium- to fine-grained sandstones,abundant primary porosity,and B substage of the early diagenesis and the A substage in local places. These hydrocarbon reservoirs belong to the moderate mesoporosity and mesopermeability reservoirs,and thus have good reservoir potential.


UNLABELLED
After spinal cord injury is common functionality is affected.

OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the functionality of patients with spinal cord injury.

METHOD
Cross-sectional study by means of the International Classification of Functionality (ICF). 109 adults with spinal cord injury in the city of Curitiba, Brazil were evaluated.

RESULTS
The categories most compromised in body were intestines and bladder, sexuality, energy, sleep, emotion and weight. In the domain activities and participation, there was greater difficulty in tasks of bathing, toilet and dressing, self care and leisure. In the domain environmental factors, the categories classified as facilitators were: medications, orthoses and wheelchair, attitude of family, transport, social foresight and health services. The categories classified as barriers were: attitude of authorities, social attitudes, education and work.

CONCLUSION
The application of the ICF in persons with spinal cord injury demonstrated a series of disabilities and limitations.


The association between lung deposition of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 µ m (PM 2.5 ) from welding fumes and lung function is unclear. We conducted a cohort study with a follow-up of 4 years in 115 shipyard workers to investigate the incidence rate of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and to evaluate the effects of welding fume PM 2.5 deposition on fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), lung function, and blood pressure using generalized estimating equation models. Personal exposure to welding fumes was measured, and deposition fractions of inhaled welding fume PM 2.5 in lung regions were estimated using multiple-path particle dosimetry. We observed the overall incidence rate of COPD to be 2.51 cases per 100 person-years. The incidence rate was higher in welding workers than in office workers and higher in non-smokers compared to smokers. In the overall cohort subjects, we observed that an increase in the interquartile range of PM 2.5 was associated with a 1.618-ppb decrease in FeNO, a 0.115-L decrease in FVC, a 0.091-L decrease in FEV 1 , a 0.520% increase in the FEV 1 /FVC ratio, a 0.259-L s –1 decrease in PEF, a 0.096-L s –1 decrease in FEF 25%-75% , a 0.215-L s –1 decrease in FEF 25% , and a 0.114-L s –1 decrease in FEF 50% (all p < 0.05). We observed that a


ABSTRACT Climate change can substantially affect infrastructure performance and safety. In this article, the impact of climate change on fungal decay of wooden infrastructure in ground contact is investigated. For this purpose, projections of three different climate change scenarios are used to assess the impact of climate change on fungal decay rate of untreated clear wood elements in ground contact in Sweden. The highest increase in the average decay rate is observed for four counties located in mid-Sweden, i.e. Örebro, Värmland, Västmanland, and Gävleborg. Furthermore, two illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate the impact of the increased decay rates on the structural performance and long-term reliability of timber elements in four selected counties, Skåne (southernmost Sweden), Örebro, Värmland, and Västmanland. In the first illustrative example, the impact of climate change on the bending moment capacity of untreated timber utility poles is assessed while in the second the impact on the long-term reliability of axially loaded untreated columns is investigated. In the four studied counties, it is found that climate change can have considerable impacts on the structural performance and long-term reliability of timber elements in ground contact.


Prevalence of hypercalciuria is markedly increased in patients
with calcium kidney stones, and recently it has been demon-
strated that the risk to produce stones is positively related with
the levels of calcium excretion in general population. The stone-
promoting effect of hypercalciuria depends on the unusually
high calcium concentrations in urine and tubular fluid, which fa-
vor calcium salt precipitation. However, the specific role of calci-
um in the pathogenetic pathway leading to stone formation has
not been elucidated and it is unclear whether initial events of
this process develop in tubules or in papillary interstitium.
Nephrocalcinosis occurs in the course of many hereditary or
acquired disorders having hypercalciuria as the common alter-
ation and can progressively damage kidney function. In spite of
the relevance of hypercalciuria for nephrocalcinosis, the specif-
ic effect of calcium in its development is yet unknown.
An increased frequency of hypercalciuria has also been
recorded among patients with arterial hypertension. It has
been hypothesized that a body calcium deficiency is induced
by hypercalciuria and leads to the elevation of blood pressure. This may be true in a subgroup of patients, while hypercalci- uria is likely to occur more commonly in patients with volume- dependent hypertension. Irrespective of its possible causal role, hypercalciuria may predict individual susceptibility to stones, nephrocalcinosis or
arterial hypertension. Measurement of 24 hour calcium excre-
tion could become an instrument to identify subjects predis-
posed to these disorders.


The building industry is the basis industry of the national economic and social development,to measure one of the important indicator of the level of industrialization of a country and the region,In recent years,China's construction industry share of GDP has remained at around 6%,and there is an upward trend year after year.on the basis of the macro analysis of the national construction industry' current development,focused on analysis the construction industry development status of Liaoning Province,then used stepwise regression analysis and regression models to empirical study,It is for the relationship between construction and economic growth of Liaoning Province from 2001 to 2009.Come to conclusion,the relationship of the construction industry of Liaoning Province and economic growth is significant,that is to say,the construction industry each increase of 1yuan can drive the growth of GDP 5.809 yuan.,then from several aspects such as the revitalization of the old industrial base of Liaoning,the "Twelfth Five-Year" development planning,the pillar industry position of construction industry,improving the operation of the market system and widening construction industry development space,put forward the policy recommendations of sustainable development for the construction industry of Liaoning Province.


DP Barrett esophagus (BE), also known as intestinal metaplasia, is a fairly prevalent condition. Studies commonly quote a prevalence of approximately 5% to 6% of the general population, although some studies report rates as high as 20%. BE may present with or without premalignant changes (dysplastic or nondysplastic, respectively). Detection of this condition is critical because of the higher risk of progression from dysplastic BE to esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), particularly in high-grade dysplasia (HGD). In the assessment of risk, demographics, symptoms, and environmental factors, including lifestyle habits, need to be taken into account. The individuals at greatest risk are male, white, and 55 years of age and older. Obesity (body mass index >30) also is a risk factor, specifically in patients with a high waist-to-hip ratio and central adiposity. Patients who have acid reflux or heartburn symptoms, especially those who have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and those whose GERD has advanced to erosive esophagitis, are at particularly high risk for the development of BE, with a roughly 5-fold increase in risk. Peptic strictures confer risk as well. Tobacco use or exposure, which is an independent risk factor due to a synergistic effect in patients with GERD, adds an Advances in Screening for Barrett Esophagus


In particular, new developments and applications of Internet technology in the political process of modern Russia, as well as the capabilities of the Internet in political modernization of society and self.


The development of Bekasi linked directly with the growth and expansion of Jakarta. Bekasi
region in colonial times was only a Kawedanan or district that almost half its area was
particulaire (private land). Unlike Jakarta, which has been projected as a colonial city and
rapidly flourished since the Dutch time. Bekasi emerged after independence and the status
increased to the district level. Significant progress has been noted in Instruksi Presiden No. 13
Tahun 1976 on the extention of the greater JABOTABEK area development that aims to relieve
the population explosion and to create an equitable distribution of development to the hinterland
areas .
Due to the conception, Bekasi designated to bear the burden of urban development as a buffer
city. The impact is quite noticeable in the sense of the industrial expansion. Residential facilities
and amenities are growing up due to the many developers who are interested in investments. As
well as rapid population growth occurred during the years 1970 to 1990 to make compliance
with increasing residential development, infrastructure facilities were built to support the
activities of its residents. This development changed Bekasi not only physically but also socialy
and economically. In which the main feature of this development was the shift from agricultural
area to urban site. On the basis of that response, the Subdistrict of Bekasi in particular was
changed to Administrative City of Bekasi in 1982. Ongoing development of Bekasi significantly
coincided with developments in the city of Jakarta as a strategic area and a buffer city .


The utility model relates to a gas-solid separation device, in particular to a separator used for a garbage pneumatic transportation system to cause garbage to be separated out from an airflow transporting the garbage. The separator comprises a separation cylinder, air and solid waste inlet pipes arranged at the middle part of the separation cylinder, a mesh plate arranged at the upper part of the separation cylinder and an air outlet pipe of air. The lower part of the separation cylinder is connected with a collector, the bottom of the collector is provided with an isolation door, the isolation door is movably connected with an air cylinder controlled by a system. The separator is characterized in that a collection cylinder which is connected with a feeding door of a compactor is arranged below the collector in a sealing way, and one side of the collection cylinder is provided with a pressure relief pipe which is communicated with the solid waste inlet pipe; the pressure relief pipe is provided with an electromagnetic valve controlled by the system. The utility model has the advantages that in the process of discharging the garbage and carrying out compaction, the system does not need to stop air extraction, and the equipment treatment efficiency is high. An air buffer chamber causes the garbage entering the separation cylinder to fully sink, and the garbage is completely separated with the airflow.


Malaysia is a tropical country that has a rich diversity of fruits. Fruits are sources of many essential elements, proximate composition and minerals that play vital roles in the proper development and good health of the human body. This study aimed at evaluating the content of mineral elements; macro and micro elements. Fruit samples were obtained from the local farm located at Bagan Datuk, Perak, Malaysia. The results obtained by chemical analysis were evaluated statistically with the majority of the fruit samples were rich in some of the essential minerals like sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, copper, manganese and zinc. The data were subjected to chemometric assessment to understand the association between the elements concentration and to classify the fruit samples according to their minerals content. The principal components analysis (PCA) clearly showed a good separation of samples in terms of mineral constituents. The results fall within the limits


Terrorism today is one of the main threats to Western civilization. Almost as dire a threat is the fight against terrorism itself. A broad spectrum of antiterrorism measures may significantly change the nature of society by destroying those forms of cooperative activity that underlie Western culture. This threat becomes obvious with an analysis of mathematical models of human moral behavior.


Ten methyl eugenol traps for trapping Bactrocera Malaysian A (Mal A) and Malaysian B (Mal B) of the Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) complex were evaluated. The traps were: a) 4 types of "container"‐traps: Steiner clear ‐ Fizzy bottle clear ‐ Fizzy bottle green ‐ Nakagawa yellow, and b) 6 types of sticky traps: sticky spheres red‐green‐yellow and sticky panels red‐green‐yellow. Three sites were sampled: a carambola orchard in Balakong area (BLK), an experimental farm in Universiti Malaya (UM) and Section 17 in Petaling Jaya (PJ 17), the last two had various species of fruit trees. Traps were set either at ground level, 1 m or 2 m high. Diversity of host plants present affected the species composition of catch. In BLK, Mal A was the dominant species caught (99 %), while in UM and PJ 17, Mal A and Mal B were almost equally common. The mean number of flies/trap/day was significantly different with respect to site and trap types (P < 0.001), but not the height of trap except for Mal B using sticky panel traps. The highest mean number of flies caught/day/trap was: for container traps, 473 Mal A at BLK and 42 Mal B at UM; for spherical sticky, 140 Mal A at BLK and 28 Mal B at PJ 17; for panel sticky, 137 Mal A at BLK and 26 Mal B at UM. The container types trapped more fruit flies than the sticky ones, with yellow Nakagawa traps caught the most per day (262 Mal A and 30 Mal B), followed by green fizzy bottles. However, basing on catch/cm2 entry hole, the fizzy bottles caught twice as many as the Nakagawa traps. Yellow and green sticky traps caught significantly more flies than red ones (spherical: Mal A: F2,116 = 20.67, Mal B: F2,116 = 7.73; panel: Mal A: F2,116 = 16.19, Mal B: F2,116 = 9.65, all P < 0.001). Sticky traps were not efficient in trapping Mal A, although they were better in trapping Mal B. Fizzy bottle traps appear to be the best as they cost little to make and trap more fruit flies than the others.


PURPOSE: to analyze the [+liquid] phonemes in two types of syllabic structure in production of speech of 35 Venezuelan subjects whit Broca's aphasia, with the purpose of determining if these structures are conserved or lost. METHODS: a sample of speech was used. It was obtained from conversations recorded with the subjects, 12 men and 23 women. From that sample, the syllabic productions with CCV and CV structure were selected in order to determine the frequencies and the possible errors or substitutions. RESULTS: from the total of analyzed syllabic structures, all of them showed a similar structure to the Spanish syllable. The CCV and CV structures were maintained. None of the observed errors contained sequences of badly formed sounds. CONCLUSIONS: it was possible to determine that in the production of speech of the aphasic subjects there is a great link with the syllabic structure, regardless of the reduction, assimilation, substitution, and elision processes. In addition, it is suggested that the syllable is a functional unit codified in the level of phonetic programming.


The change from CHP to BCHP was analyzed,advantages of BCHP were introduced in improving energy utilization efficiency,reducing environmental pollution and greenhouse effect.From practices of LiBr absorption air-conditioning system set by the company in thermal power plant,feasibility was analyzed of increasing economic benefits of thermal power plant through reconstruction BCHP.


We investigate the laser-assisted single XUV photon double ionization of ground state helium. By solving full six-dimensional time-dependent schr{o}dinger equation, we study the correlation and angular distribution. The discussion in joint energy and angular distributions reveals the competition in odd and even parity double ionization processes in the presence of weak laser field. The emission angle between two photoelectrons can be adjusted by the laser parameters. We depicts how the laser field enhance and/or enable the back-to-back and side-by-side emission of double ionization.


Purpose This study examined adult students' perspectives on what characteristics make for successful teaching and learning environments in the adult student classroom. Methodology One hundred and thirty-two adult students (ranging in age from 22 to 70) participated in a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) survey. Findings Adult students seem to prefer instructors with knowledge and respect for adult learners, applied experience in the fields in which they teach, and those who have clear communication, and are fair and understanding. Participants viewed not understanding or respecting adult students and being arrogant or condescending as problematic characteristics for instructors to have.


This document discusses the design, functional and cost requirements for high-temperature, heat recovery systems (recuperators) and describes the state-of-the-art systems, emerging industrial technologies and new concepts developed by EG and G Idaho, Inc. All systems/concepts are then evaluated and compared with respect to corrosion/durability, fouling, performance, operation and maintenance, and economics.


This article discusses the many problems with the U.S. News & World Report rankings of law schools. It argues, among other things, that the rankings magnify insignificant differences among law schools and that the rankings do not provide helpful consumer information.


The article analyzes the methods of calculating the intensity of aerobic health-improving loads and presents own solution the problem.
The effective use of aerobic exercises is based on the formula calculation of the parameters of physical activity corresponding to the individual characteristics of the practitioners, among which one of the most important is intensity. However, the practical application of the proposed formulas indicates that they do not always adequately take into account the most important, in this case, age characteristics and the functional state of the cardiovascular system.
The purpose of the research is to develop a method for determining the intensity of aerobic health-improving loads which makes it possible to calculate the target heart rate more adequately than the currently existing options.
Among the existing formulas the most adequate for calculating heart rate in the process of health-improving aerobic exercise is Karvonen's formula which takes into account not only age but also heart rate at rest which reflect the functional state of the cardiovascular system. Its advantage lies in the more correct determination of the lower target pulse. The disadvantage of this formula is that it reduces, rather than increases, the upper target pulse due to the increased efficiency of the cardiovascular system.
During the theoretical research it was established that it was impossible to develop a single formula that would allow to correctly determine the upper and lower target pulse. In this regard we came to the conclusion that to calculate the lower heart rate it is necessary to use the Karvonen formula and the upper tagert puls should be determined by the formula developed by us. It is based on the Haskell & Fox formula (HRmax = 220 - age). The proposed additions determine the upper heart rate as the result of subtracting the individual heart rate from the average age heart rate. A procedure for calculating specific puls based on knowledge of the upper and lower heart rate is proposed.


A 39-year-old African-American woman presented with a 12-year history of 'itchy dark spots all over my body,' excluding the face and acral surfaces. The lesions are slightly pruritic at baseline. Flares occur frequently, however, mostly with friction of drying off with a towel, resulting in urtication and increased pruritus of the skin lesions. The patient has similar flares with alcohol ingestion. The patient also reports chronic diarrhoea and headaches which began at approximately the same time she developed the skin lesions. Two previous colonoscopies and endogastroduodenoscopies were unremarkable. Evaluation by her primary care physician showed no identifiable cause for her headaches; a head CT was unremarkable. The headaches were treated with naproxen, causing flushing and palpitations; a cardiovascular workup was unremarkable. She additionally has chronic 'achy' bone pain in her thighs. All of the aforementioned symptoms are exacerbated by exercise, heat, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, alcohol and narcotics. She denies any formation …


This paper introduces the features of Simulink software and presents a method for the dynamic simulation of hydraulic proportional system by Simulink. It establishes a mathematical model for hydraulic proportional system based on four-way valve controlled asymmetric hydraulic cylinder. Based on the simulation model, the paper introduces how to use Simulink to simulate the dynamic characteristics of the hydraulic proportional system, and then obtains the main parameters of the dynamic characteristics of the system. The simulation results show that Simulink is an effective way for the dynamic simulation of the hydraulic proportional system.


This paper presents the growth conditions and characteristics of polycrystalline 3C-SiC thin-films for microsensors related to vehicle engine fields. The growth of the poly 3C-SiC thin-films on the oxided Si (100) wafers was been carried out by APCVD using HMDS precursor. To obtain an optimized growth condition, we have performed depositions under various conditions that temperature was adjusted from 1000 degC to 1200 degC, HMDS flow rates was changed from 5 to 9 sccm, and carrier gas (Ar) was kept up 500 seem. Each samples were analyzed by XRD (X-ray diffraction), XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy), and FT-IR (Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy) to find the optimized growth condition. Also, layer density, voids, and dislocations of the cross-section were measured by SEM (scanning electron microscope). From the results of experiment, we have obtained that temperature and HMDS flow rates of the optimized poly 3C-SiC thin-film growth condition were 1000 degC and 8 sccm, respectively.


From 26 to 30 March 2001, Chris Gastmans of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (Catholic University of Leuven) co-ordinated a course on the ethics of care and nursing ethics. This was the final part of a four-week session of the European Master in Bioethics course held at the University of Leuven. This MA programme in bioethics (www.masterbioethics.com) is a collaboration between the universities of Leuven (Belgium), Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Madrid (Spain) and Padua (Italy). Participants attend 16 residential courses spread over four months during a two-year period. The focus is on both the theoretical (e.g. theories of ethics, methods of ethics and history of ethics in health care) and the more practical and applied levels (e.g. palliative care, reproductive technologies and choices in health care). All 15 participants are health care professionals (medical doctors, specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers specializing in medical law and hospital chaplains), from Europe (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands) and further afield (Egypt, Israel, USA and Peru). Prior to this four-week session in Leuven, they had already taken part in two one-month courses in Nijmegen (March 2000) and in Madrid (September 2000). In September 2001, this unique training in bioethics will conclude its activities with a one-month session in Padua. During the first three weeks of the Leuven sessions of the Master's programme, the courses covered methods of ethics (chaired by Professor Toon Vandevelde), the ethics of reproductive technologies (chaired by Professor Paul Schotsmans) and theories of ethics (chaired by Professor Joseph Selling). During the final week the participants were introduced to the ethics of care and nursing ethics.


Objective To investigate the clinical value of whole body diffusion weighted imaging in the diagnosis of bone metastases in patients with malignant tumors. Methods eleven patients with malignant tumors and bone metastasis were enrolled. All patients have been proven by histopathologic examination and bone scintigraphy Whole body diffusion weighted imaging (WB-DWI) was used to scan 11 patients on 1.5T GE HD MR. all images were reconstructed to whole body images by software. Results WB-DWI images were obtained successfully in all 11 cases. All bone metastases lesions were clearly showed on 3D-MIP restructuring images. Whole body MR-DWI was sensitive to bone metastases lesions. Conclusion WB-DWI is a rapid and feasible method in detecting bone metastases and has a certain value in clinical application.


In biomedical applications realistic phantoms are becoming more useful for validation and testing of precursor systems. These artificial phantoms require stable and flexible tissue-mimicking materi ...


The complex physicochemical nature of proteins that enhances their potential as pharmaceuticals, also adds to their fragility. Typically, proteins are relatively stable in the solid‐state; however, exposure of lyophilized proteins to excess moisture has been reported to cause undesirable physical and chemical changes. These effects will have a direct impact on solid therapeutic protein formulations and on sustained‐release devises. Therefore, it is important to examine the stability of solid proteins under pharmaceutical relevant conditions. The goal of our study was to examine the stability and structural changes that a protein undergoes after moisture sorption, develop a rational stabilization strategy and prove this in a sustain release. The protein α‐chymotrypsin was used to study the effect of water sorption after incubation at different relative humidities. FTIR, circular dichroism, H/D exchange, enzyme kinetics and aggregation studies were perform. These studies demonstrated that moisture causes deleterious processes to occur to the solid‐state protein. Chemical modification with glycans was performed to test if glycosylation could decrease protein unfolding and aggregation. Results showed that chemical glycosylation reduced and/or prevent these deleterious processes. These glyco‐conjugates are been used to develop sustained release devices; initial results show high encapsulation efficiency and an increase in protein stability.


Multivariate data analysis of a chiral separation system using N-derivatized dipeptides as chiral counter-ions on porous graphitic carbon stationary phase


In open channel systems, the phenomena commonly referred to as 'clogging' is caused by settling of sediment and straining of suspended material as water moves through the sediment layer into the soil, and microbial transport and colonization and other biological action. This paper summarizes a three-year laboratory flume investigation of the clogging process as it occurs in sediment-laden open channel flow. Significant results include experimental relationships developed between major independent variables (i. e. flow velocity, suspended sediment concentration, and suspended sediment particle size distribution) and the hydraulic conductivity reduction occurring through a sand bed filter located in the bottom of a recirculating laboratory flume.


Depending on the reader's perspective, this treasury of a book is aimed at multiple audiences or is intended as the type of reference that can be taken off the shelf and consulted at many points in an individual general practitioner's (GP's) career. Advice on what kinds of intercalated BSc medical students might consider is followed by consideration of different paths within the speciality, whether based on the type of employment (partner versus salaried versus locum) or the content of the job (e.g. what does being a GP with specialist interest involve?). In the chapter on international primary care, Pettigrew and Heath even offer international work as option for partnership sabbaticals and retirement projects. Hutt and Park have assembled a knowledgeable 'Who's who' of authors (including two RCGP presidents) to cover key elements of a developing general practice career, including chapters on academia, teaching and international primary care.

In the foreword, Roger Neighbour claims that the book will help new doctors and students decide whether general practice is the right career and that it will provide those with teaching and mentoring roles 'with a persuasive ally.' Does the book deliver, and is there balance between the wisdom of the GP glitterati and street cred? Does this book capture enough of the essence of a career in general practice? Arguably, it does – and in a way that does not waste too many words!

Roger Neighbour's forward begins an implicit thread that runs through this book, namely that of professional identity. He describes the controversial 1958 statement of Lord Moran, President of the Royal College of Physicians, who suggested that GPs should not be paid the same as hospital doctors because they had fallen off 'the ladder' of a hospital career. Neighbour goes to describe the subsequent movement by GPs: to prove that clinical generalism and clinical competence were not mutually exclusive, to clarify the defining characteristics of good general practice and to pioneer the UK's system of GP vocational training. Neighbour defines general practice as the open-ended and unconditional medical care of the uniquely individual patient and in the chapter on professional development Dicker echoes Neighbour's definition of good practice when he describes how GP trainees have to unlearn hospital-based history taking habits in favour of an 'ethical conversation'. He defines this as what happens in a meeting between patient and doctor. It is devoid of judgementalism and attempts to place the patient's problem in the wider context of their life, using a systematic approach, and sharing an understanding of both the patient's and the doctor's perspective. Neighbour generously concedes, '… many good specialists try to remember that the patient is a complex and multidimensional individual. It's just that a true generalist can never forget it and wouldn't want to.'

Does this mean that GPs who concentrate on the biomedical aspects of practice are not 'true' generalists? The triumphalism of good general practice is sometimes challenged in the book by personal reflections on practice. Steve Iliffe, for example, states, 'The claim by general practice to be biopsychosocial medicine is exaggerated. Most GPs know little about either the "psycho-" or the "socio-" parts of the job as this is squeezed out of the curriculum …' and describes his own academic career as '… a belated attempt to catch up'. The manner in which such reflections can illustrate situations that are not ideal serves as a reality check for aspiring GPs – and just because senior colleagues might not value or be aware of ethical conversations and psychosocial aspects of practice does not mean that these aspects are not important or should be abandoned. In the chapter on academic general practice, Raymond argues that qualitative research can lead to a better understanding of health beliefs that affect patient health outcomes in diseases such as diabetes (a point of note even for the cynical among us). Raymond also rightly asserts, however, that primary care academia has more recently evolved to meet demands of chronic disease and acute disease management, which have moved from the hospital into community settings. Accordingly, there is major emphasis on quantitative approaches to research which can incorporate pharmaceutical research as well as public health, clinical trials and bio-bank research.

This book is for aspiring GPs and for anyone who would like to attempt to understand what current practice involves for GPs. Foundation-year doctors, GP trainees and qualified GPs may find the constant references to opportunities for medical students annoying at times, unless they are one of those precocious medical students who refer back to their old well-thumbed copy in years to come!


An energy management system of a microgrid (MG) has several basic objectives; e.g. to maximize the utilization of renewable energy resources (RES), to protect the internal components from overloading, and to ensure that the MG operates reliably under any operating conditions. Although many control techniques are available in the literature to monitor and control the energy flows among distributed RES in MGs, formal verification of those techniques was not proposed yet. The emphasis of this paper is to design and validate energy management system for a MG which consists of a solar photovoltaic (PV) array, a pair of battery energy storage systems (BESes), a diesel generator (DG) and a load (LD). The physics and dynamics of the MG are defined as energy flow invariants and the designed behaviours are abstracted, modelled and validated in this work. Therefore, we have considered an invariant based flow technique to manage the energy flow in an MG. The results are validated and verified with UPPAAL, a powerful industrial tool which is commonly used to verify the correctness of real-time systems like supervisory controllers, communication protocols and others.


The influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on the intraseasonal variability of monsoons in the Asian and African regions has long been recognized. For example, the organization of rainfall anomalies in the equatorial Indian Ocean, South and South-East Asia and the Maritime Continents during the boreal summer often arises from a combination of eastward propagation of organized convection along the Equator and northward propagation of the associated rainfall systems. A proper simulation of these phenomena is a pre-requisite for skilful long-range predictions of the active and break phases of the monsoon.


WNT signaling pathway plays a critical role in both normal epithelial regeneration and tumorigenesis in human colon. Epidemiological data has shown that genistein has its multifarious effects in colon cancer prevention. In this study, we hypothesized that genistein regulated specific genes in WNT signaling pathway. Colonic cancer cell lines DLD1, SW480 and SW1116 from different Duke stages were treated with 200μg/ml Novasoy70 or 75μM genistein for 4 days, and mRNA levels of several WNT signaling components were analyzed by Real‐Time qPCR. Methylation‐specific PCR and bisulfite sequencing were used to analyze methylation status in putative CpG islands. Both Novasoy70 and genistein treatments inhibited cell proliferation. WNT7a and NKD1 showed no significant responses to Novasoy70 or genistein in all three cell lines. WNT5a (in DLD1) and DKK1 (in SW480) mRNA had a time‐dependent induction to Novasoy70 and genistein. Overall WNT5a or DKK1 CpG island methylation level was not altered by Novasoy70 or genistein. In conclusion, genistein and NovaSoy70 affected expression levels of specific genes in WNT signaling pathway and these effects were not modulated at the analyzed CpG islands by DNA methylation.


The necessity of a new thought about the conceptual and methodological systematization of the Professional Education is justified facing what is begin proposed and expanding in educational terms for the Federal Institutions of  Education: training young people that transcends the technical demands of the business world, linking them with the prospect of knowledge reflective, critical and relational training. In this sense, the professional performance at the Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul – IFRS, campus Rio Grande and the adoption of an interdisciplinary approach represents the areas from where reflections on learning activities mobilize the collective subject based on a proposal that discusses how we build knowledge. The interdisciplinary field assumed by our experience tried to integrate the disciplines of Art and Electrical Machines, belonging to general and technical areas, respectively. The analysis proposed, initially, toured the common sense knowledge presented to the student, gradually deepen toward the originating germ unit of scientific concepts. This research process materialized in both disciplines from the elaboration and explanation of synthesis, vector images and aesthetics. The student, explaining the functionality of the theoretical frameworks phenomena, turned into abstractions of knowledge. Through the learning activity, attitudes and research skills were developed in students, allowing knowledge appropriation and not just memorize the content taught.


. The purpose of this paper is to understand the link between external environment and social entrepreneurship in Portugal. A quantitative approach is used in the study, and primary data were collected through an online survey. A questionnaire was emailed to both responsible of Portuguese Non ‐ Governmental organizations of development and cooperation, and responsible of projects valued on the social stock exchange. In the analysis of the data were used descriptive statistics, factorial analysis and t ‐ student tests to validate (or not) the research hypothesis. The results show that a favorable external environment has a low importance in the decision to create a social organization. This conclusion supports the idea that many social initiatives tend to locate on unfavorable environments and, then, to attenuate the social and economic differences between Portuguese regions. ABSTRACT. Research Infrastructures (RIs), either considered as "single ‐ sited", "distributed" (network of distributed resources) or "virtual" (based on e ‐ services provision) (Ahuja et al., 2003), are key players in the development of innovative processes and products in the regions of Southern Europe. They provide a shared access to common dispersed resources through distributed e ‐ infrastructures and/or unique research sites. In addition, RIs are sources of specialized knowledge, training and services, demanding technological developments for their construction and operation which are at the fore ‐ front of present knowledge. In fact, they operate as organizational knowledge systems primarily providing excellent resources for the advancement of science, but also enhancing the development of long ‐ term sustainable innovation capacity and competitiveness (Becerra ‐ Fernández & Sabherwal, 2001). Therefore, this piece of work takes stock of the developments in RI ‐ related policies at a multilevel perspective, and analyses the emerging trans ‐ regional cooperation trends between Southern European Regions.


We present a (to the best of our knowledge) new method for evaluating the relative distance between any two countries, among several, on the basis of individual data. First, clusters of respondents are formed and the proportion of each country's respondents who belong to the various clusters is calculated. Under the assumptions that 1) respondents in the same cluster are similar to one another (and different from those who belong to different clusters), and 2) that two countries are close to each other when their nationals distribute similarly between clusters, the distance between countries can be expressed in terms of distance between the observed distributions (the average of the squared differences between the ranks). The method is applied to the WVS (World Value Survey) dataset for the years 1994-2007, first separately, by "domain" (opinions and attitudes on, e.g., religion, politics, and family), and then on all of the (selected) variables together. On the basis of the data of the WVS, this procedure leads us to conclude that Italy and Poland, the two countries of interest in this study, are very close to each other in the European context.


The article deals with a research survey and restoration regarding hamams – traditional Azerbaijan pieces of architecture. Hamams are the bath facilities which came into existence in Azerbaijan everyday life starting from the medieval ages. The history of the hamam architecture and classification of hamams are described in this article. The role of hamams in the structure of the populated area development has been analyzed herein. An issue of restoration and construction of hamams has been also considered, as well as main problems relating to reconstruction and updating of these constructions have been analyzed.


A nest of Rhinocorynura inflaticeps, a rare Brazilian halictine bee, is described for the first time. The main burrow ends in a cavity in which the brood cells are clustered. No blind burrow issues from the cavity. The cell cluster is brittle and supported by pillars. The vertical cells are not closely spaced. In general appearance the nest resembles those of Pseudaugochloropsis and Neocorynura. Known nest types of Augochlorini are reclassified using arrangement and orientation of cells and presence or absence of lateroid burrows. Compared with those of Halictini, nests of Augochlorini are generally more specialized by absence of laterals, frequent appearance of clustered cells, and frequent vertical orientation of cells. A cladistic analysis of augochlorine nest types suggests the parallel evolution of two types of cluster nests, one with thickwalled clusters of predominantly vertical cells and one with thin-walled clusters of horizontal or tilted cells, and a secondary evolution of the supposedly primitive unclustered cells of Augochlora (Oxystoglossella). Nest types suggest that Paroxystoglossa and Augochlorodes were incorrectly placed in generic groups based on adult morphology. THE NUMEROUS SPECIES of augochlorine bees are important components of the Neotropical insect fauna. These frequently brilliant-green "sweat bees' visit a wide variety of flowers and are common in forested and open habitats from the coastal lowlands to the high Andes. In contrast to the cosmopolitan Halictini, the Augochlorini occur only in the Western Hemisphere and are most abundant and diverse in the Neotropical region, where Eickwort (1969a) recognized 24 genera. Only a few species of Augochlora, Augochlorella, and Augochloropsis occur widely in the United States and Canada. Biological studies of the halictine bees have stressed social behavior (reviewed in Michener 1974) and nest architecture. Most sweat bees make nests in the soil, although some species nest in dead wood. The most primitive type of halictine soil nest (fig. 8) (Sakagami and Michener 1962) consists of a main burrow that extends into the soil from the entrance and may be branched. Each cell is at the end of a long to short lateral burrow that connects it to the main burrow or one of its branches; this lateral is narrower than the main burrow. The cell is lined with a waterproof glandular secretion and is provided with a soft provision-mass of pollen and dilute honey. One egg is laid on top of the mass of provision, and the cell is then sealed by filling the lateral with soil. The main burrow terminates as. a blind burrow beyond the last cell in the nest. In some halictine nests, cells may be arranged end-to-end in series along a lateral, forming parodalous nests, while in others, the laterals may be very short and virtually absent. Each cell opens directly onto a burrow and is sealed with a thin closure of soil after oviposition. In some nests the cells may be clustered at one point of the burrow, and the cluster may be surrounded by a cavity that more or less isolates it from the surrounding soil except for some supporting pillars (figs. 1, 3). Cells in such clusters are commonly oriented in the same direction, forming a comb (fig. 3). The cell cluster or its surrounding cavity usually directly meets the burrow, but sometimes a lateroid burrow connects it to the main or


The work aims to construct a product innovation system based on the "Internet+ 3D Printing Technology". In the vision of intelligence society and innovation 3.0, the "Product Cloud Creativity Model" was established with the support of "Internet+" and 3D printing technology and based on Internet+ Public Creativity. Then, the "Product Cloud Design Model" was built based on Internet+ Public Design, the "3D Cloud Manufacturing Model" was constructed based on Internet+ 3D Printing Technology and the "3D Printing Cloud Sale Model" was founded based on Internet+ Sale Platform. The Product Innovation System, based on "Internet+ 3D Printing technology", consisting of "Product Cloud Creativity", "Product Cloud Design", "3D Cloud Manufacturing" and "3D Cloud Sale", could carry out the printing form and promotion of innovative products in an extreme short time. This system provides the most favorable conditions for updating product and capturing the market. This is a very important reform for the application of the 3D industrial chains and also a key point for some undergraduates to carry out entrepreneurship innovation training programs.


Secure systems are of growing importance for protecting the assets and rights of business and individuals, who are increasingly reliant on surveillance equipment for deterrence of criminals and enforcement of justice. The Integrated Intelligent Secure Sensor Systems project (I2S3) integrates the novel technology necessary to extend the capabilities of surveillance equipment to provide preemptive warnings by detection of suspicious activity. Advanced reconfigurable hardware provides an ultra low power platform to underlie the image analysis and novel remote biometric identification algorithms. Each of the distributed sensor nodes is secured through a novel technique named ICmetrics which exploits synergies between biological and artificial systems.


This paper considers the issues of organizing the reliable data transmission over non-stationary discrete communication channels. An analysis of existing data transmission systems with feedback is carried out, with defining the shortcomings of existing mechanisms for determining the optimal data block length in data transmission systems with feedback. Data transmission method is developed based on reinforcement learning.


One of the biggest challenges of current climate research is to analyse and understand the regional effects of global climate change, especially to describe consequences and impacts of climate change on a socially relevant scale. This is where the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM focuses on.
Since October 2009 experts of the nine German Centres of the Helmholtz Association's research field Earth and Environment are working together on different interdisciplinary research topics. In cooperation with nine universities, the Helmholtz research centres combine their expertise in regional climate change research. Regional observations and process studies coupled with model simulations will help to improve regional and global climate models, which provide a more solid basis for climate-related decision support.
REKLIM contributes to the strengthening of interdisciplinary regional climate research in Germany.

The Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM addresses the following research topics:
• Coupled modelling of the regional Earth systems
• Sea level changes and coastal protection
• Regional climate changes in the Arctic: Forcing and long-term effects at the land-ocean interface
• The Land surface in the climate system
• Chemistry-climate interactions on global to regional scales
• Extreme weather events - storms, heavy precipitation, floods and droughts
• Risk analysis and risk management for integrated strategies
• Abrupt climate change derived from proxy data

The REKLIM research network offers new possibilities for improving the knowledge of regional effects of climate change. Via the Helmholtz Regional Climate Offices (www.klimabuero.de) and the Climate Service Centre 2.0 (www.climate-service-centre.de) policymakers and other decision makers are supported in assessing risks and opportunities and designing mitigation and adaptation strategies based on results obtained from the REKLIM research network.
For more information on the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM, please visit our website: www.reklim.de

In conclusion of the first funding period, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM has organised the international conference
'Our climate – Our Future, regional perspectives on a global challenge'
taking place in Berlin, Germany from 6–9 October, 2014.

The conference aims at providing a forum were scientists from all over the world can present and discuss new results from regional climate research in the context of the REKLIM research topics.

The conference is divided into two parts:
The first part is a three-day international scientific conference from 6–8 October, 2014. The scientific programme offers a broad and interdisciplinary spectrum of current international and national research activities in regional climate change.
The second part consists of a public outreach event on 'Regional climate change – causes and effects' on the 9th of October, 2014, which focuses on the dialogue between scientists and decision makers from the fields of politics, administration and associations. This event will be held in German.


A system for error correction in digital transmissions using the so-called Reed Solomon coding/decoding techniques. At the reception side, the received data stream is processed using a new decoding algorithm. Also, with the described decoding algorithm, error correction is implemented using more simplified equip ment than that found in other types of conventional error correction systems. The components making up the error correction system of the invention basically consist of: (1) a central timing unit, (2) a preset unit and (3) at least one Reed Solomon coding/decoding circuit operating in accordance with the proposed algorithm.


China's Changing Maritime Defence Doctrine On 27 October 1994, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk while on routine patrol in the international waters off the Yellow Sea collided with a Chinese Han class nuclear submarine. In response the United States dispatched an S-3 Viking antisubmarine patrol aircraft to screen the movements of the Han class submarine. China meanwhile had earlier ordered two F-6 fighter to tail and monitor the S-3. As the tension at sea built-up an American attache in Beijing was informed by the Chinese that China will take all necessary measures to defend its air and maritime space from being violated. This incident signaled China's intention to operate its navy in the high seas beyond its coastal waters – an area that has traditionally been the preserve of the Americans.


Determinations of metal abundances among pre-main sequence clusters is a key observational tool to address many important open questions related to the stellar formation processes, the evolution of circumstellar disks, their capability to form planets, and the early phases of planetary systems. Furthermore, since these young stellar associations are the latest product of the Milky Way, their metallicity determination can also give insights on the latest chemical evolution of the Galactic disk.


Effective communication information,collection and integration of information is one of the major challenges for agent project. This paper points out that it's importance for information exchange and communication to an agent project on behalf of application of information integrated management system, analysis of information collection to agent project, construction of information integration management platform for the project's overall implementation framework under the agent management model based on the characteristics of agent.


AbstractInternational cooperation and exchange are being encouraged as a way to more successfully address complex problems such as the energy challenge. However, it is also recognized that what may be an appropriate solution for one country may not be appropriate for another. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Sweden's approach to the energy challenge in the built environment, to identify factors related to the alternatives chosen, and to gain insights as to how approaches may differ between countries. Information for the analyses was obtained from secondary sources and from personal interviews with Swedish researchers and policy makers. Various factors appear to affeect on policy decisions, which in turn are reflected in research priorities. Though countries may possess many similarities, the adoption of potential solutions needs to be considered in the context of the total environment.


Background: Tranilast is an anti-allergic drug that suppresses the release of cytokines. An antioxidant, probucol, prevents endothelial dysfunction and oxidation of low density lipoprotein and also inhibits the secretion of interleukin-1 by macrophages. In several studies, both the tranilast and probucol with multivitamins have been shown to decrease the frequency of angiographic restenosis after PCI. Methods : We analyzed clinical events and restenosis at 6 months following percutaneous coronary angioplasty in 93 patients with 113 coronary arterial lesions after coronary stenting at Soonchunhyang University Hospital between Jan 2001 and Apr 2003. The patients were assigned to following three groups: 39 patients who didn't receive tranilast and antioxidants (control group, M 29, F 10, 6110 years) : 25 patients who received probucol (500 mg), vitamin C (1,000 mg), vitamin E (400 mg) (antioxidant group, M 19, F 6, 6210 years) : 29 patients who received tranilast (400 mg) (Tranilast group, M 18, F 11, 599 years). Results : The restenosis per lesion between three groups was not different significantly (control group, 32.7%: antioxidant group, 26.7%: Tranilast group, 20.6%). At follow-up, minimal luminal diameter (MLD) was not different significantly between three groups (control group, 1.81.07 mm: antioxidant group, 2.11.18 mm: Tranilast group, 2.10.94 mrn). Target lesion revascularization was lower in Tranilast group (3.4%) as compared with control group (25.6%) and antioxidant group 06%, p


Lindberg, S. The Illusory Nordic Balance: Threat Scenarios in Nordic Security Planning. Cooperation and Conflict, XVI, 1981, 57-70. This article outlines a number of threat scenarios which might disturb the stability of the Nordic region and which have not been given sufficient attention in Nordic defense planning. The concept of a Nordic balance is central to security-political planning in the Nordic countries. Recent developments both in the global bipolarity and within the Nordic region may, however, erode the functionality of the existing security-political solutions. The Nordic balance conception, the author argues, may thus become illusory and even dangerous.


A fundamental study was carried out to understand the aging (or hardening) of the wax-oil gels formed in the subsea pipelines during the flow of crude oil from offshore wells to shore. The aging process is a counterdiffusion phenomenon where there exists a critical carbon number (CCN), and wax molecules with carbon numbers greater than the CCN diffuse into the gel matrices and vice versa. Using a careful analysis of carbon number distributions of gel deposits, collected from a cold finger after various deposition time intervals, the CCN for the wax-oil system was obtained. A mathematical model, based on a modified version of UNIQUAC model, was developed to predict the CCN for wax-oil systems. The size of the interaction units for n-alkanes in the solid-phase UNIQUAC model was found to be a strong function of the mean carbon number in the solid phase.


The course of pregnancy, birth outcomes and status of newborns of 33 women with IVF pregnancies have been observed, and the findings were compared with a group of women (25) with spontaneous pregnancies. In these groups the cardiovascular indicators (heart rate variability, blood pressure monitoring, echocardiography) have been investigated. Family and past history, determining the risk factors for cardiovascular disease after hormonal induction of superovulation, have been examined.


This article examines the contrasts found in the Lukan banquet parable (Lk. 14.12–24). While most scholars tend to focus on the role of the banquet host or on the role of the guests, many interpreters forget the role of the servant in the parable. This article re-considers the equally important roles of the inviting host, the invited guests, and the sent servant for a paradigmatic relation between a trinitarian theological paradigm of hospitality and a trinitarian church's hospitable identity and vocation in a contemporary world of hostility. It is argued that a trinitarian church must embody the Trinity in its twofold inseparable move of reaching out to the other by crossing their cultures as a metaphorical reflection of external Trinity and of receiving them in by making a hospitable space for the other as a reflection of internal Trinity.


Flatbar stiffeners are attractive in stiffened plates from a fabrication point of view. Flatbars are susceptible to torsional buckling and collapse. Current approaches to assess torsional buckling strength are uncertain. For instance, formulations for torsional buckling of stiffeners in steel panels are still debated. Compared to steel structures, the strength of aluminum structures is influenced not only by the residual stresses and initial imperfections, but also reductions in mechanical properties in heat-affected zones (HAZ). In the present paper, an experimental and numerical investigation of the torsional buckling strength of longitudinal stiffeners in aluminum (aluminum alloy 5083-H116 and 6082-T6) panels subjected to axial compression is conducted. The experimental results are presented and compared with numerical predictions by using finite element method code ABAQUS, considering the influence of the HAZ and actual initial deflections. The effect of the HAZ on the torsional buckling strength of t...


An innovative reconfiguration application is proposed to re-calculate the parameters of the Ferragina and Manzini exact search algorithm (or FM indexes), using a modular and efficient hardware implementation to accelerate alignment programs of short DNA sequence reads. Although these programs use multi-core execution strategies or multiple computers, they have become slow considering the very high speed at which the new massively parallel sequencing machines produce the reads to be aligned. Consequently, a search for different ways to accelerate the alignment is crucial. The proposed design runs with software functions in a hybrid system, and has the ability to align millions of reads to reference as large as the human genome. Tests on the M505k325t card show that a single alignment core can accelerate the computation by a factor close to [Formula: see text] in relation to BWA. Due to the minor consumption of area and power, multiple alignment cores can fill the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) by multiplying the computation speed. With a multiple-core implementation, the processing speed of the design outperforms applications that are accelerated by GPUs and competes with similar FPGA proposals whose cost is much higher.