FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
DESIGNS FOR RUBBLE -MOUND
BREAKWATER CONSTRUCTION
TSOYING HARBOR, TAIWAN
Hydraulic Model Investigation
TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 2-640
January 1964
FOR GOVT. AGENCIES USE ONLY
U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Vcksburg, Mississippi
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
DESIGNS FOR RUBBLE-MOUND
BREAKWATER CONSTRUCTION
TSOYING HARBOR, TAIWAN
Hydraulic Model Investigation
TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 2-640
January 1964
U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Vicksburg, Mississippi
ARMY"MRC VICKSBURG, MISS.
PREFACE
The model investigation described herein was requested by the District
Engineer, U. S. Army Engineer District, Okinawa, in a teletype to the
Director, U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, dated 28 July
1961. Authority to perform the investigation had previously been granted
by the Chief of Engineers in a teletype to the Division Engineer, U. S.
Army Engineer Division, Pacific Ocean, d


The invention relates to a non-touch type remote control applied to household appliances. Two or more cameras, a gesture recognition module, an instruction generation module and a wireless transmitting module arranged on a remote control body. The remote control is characterized in that the two or more cameras are used for acquiring hand posture images of a user, and used for coupling the hand posture images with the gesture recognition module; the gesture recognition module is used for recognizing hand posture information of the user based on the hand gesture images, and used for coupling the hand posture information to the instruction generation module; the instruction generation module is used for outputting an operation instruction corresponding to the hand posture of the user, and used for coupling the operation instruction to the wireless transmitting module; and the wireless transmitting module is used for transmitting the operation instruction to equipment which is controlled by the remote control in a remote control manner.


To develop a sensitive and specific triplex real-time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction(PCR) assay for the detection of Aeromonas hydrophila,3 sets of primers and probes were designed based on the sequences of the 16S rDNA,aerolysin(aerA) and serine protease(ahp) gene.High throughput real-time PCR system was used to evaluate the sensitivity of the assay,and the specificity was evaluated by 29 other common enteropathogenic bacteria and some isolates causing nosocomial infection.The sensitivity of the triplex real-time PCR assay for testing of recombinant plasmids was 1×102 copies per reaction,and that for testing of the Aeromonas hydrophila genome DNA was 5×10-2 pg per reaction.No specific amplification was presented when the 29 other common enter pathogenic bacteria and some isolates causing nosocomial infection were tested.Furthermore,the assay could be finished within 2 hours.The triplex real-time TaqMan PCR assay developed in our study was sensitive,specific and rapid,which could be used to detect Aeromonas hydrophila in samples and evaluate the potentially pathogenicity of the isolates simultaneously.


The study was designed to assess the protective role of Quercetin against Oanisidine toxicity. 24 male rats (Rattus norvegicus) were used and divided into 3 equal groups of 8 male rats each. The first group was the control group in which the animals were fed on a standard ration for 15 days, then they were terminated. The second group was fed on a ration contains 1000mg/kg O-anisidine hydrochloride for 15.The third group was fed on a ration contains 1000mg/kg O-anisidine hydrochloride + 80mg/kg Quercetin dihydrate for 15. The results revealed that the treatment with Oanisidine hydrochloride for 15 days (1rst treated group) caused significant decrease in the R.B.C. count, Hb concentration, P.C.V. percentage, neutrophil and lymphocyte counts and it caused significant increase in platelets count, total leukocytes, monocytes, eosinophil and basophil counts, as compared with control group. When Quercetin dihydrate was offered as a protective agent in the ration of the 2nd treated group, it showed a significant ameliorating effect by increasing the R.B.C. count, Hb concentration, P.C.V. percentage, neutrophil and lymphocyte counts and it caused significant decrease in platelets count, total leukocytes, monocytes, eosinophil and basophil counts, as compared with the 1rst treated group. For the blood indices (RDW, MCH, MCHC, MCV, and MPV) there were no significant differences among all the experiment groups except for the mean platelet volume (MPV), where Oanisidine hydrochloride caused significant decrease in the MPV of the 1rst treated group as compared with control and 2nd treated group at (P≤0.05). SIS Impact Factors:0.792 ,ISI Impact Factor:3.259 Bas.J.Vet.Res.Vol.14,No.1.2015


A preliminary report on the corrosion-related characteristics of 304L stainless steel samples that have been implanted, using plasma ion implantation techniques in a steady-state Penning discharge, with nitrogen ions having energies above 20 keV is presented. Plasma ion implantation offers many potential advantages over the widely used ion beam implantation, including short exposure times (on the order of minutes), isotropic incidence of the ions, and the ability to implant complex surfaces, such as screw threads, gear teeth, and turbine blades, uniformly. A principle objective of this research effort was to develop a fast, high-voltage switch capable of applying up to 50 kV to the sample for periods of approximately 10 mu s, and then rapidly turning off the voltage for a duty cycle of two or three times the period of voltage application. These short duty cycles allow the required fluence of ions (ions/cm/sup 2/) to build up in a few minutes, compared with exposure times of the order of an hour associated with long duty cycle switches based on spark gap technology. Another objective related to the technology of plasma ion implantation was development of electrical instrumentation for the current and voltage applied to the sample, so that the ion fluence and characteristic ion energies could be measured during the entire sample exposure time.<<ETX>>


Purpose: A miniature x‐ray tube with the diameter of 10 mm has been fabricated using a carbon nanotube(CNT)field emitter, optimal design of electron optics and x‐ray target, and vacuum sealing of the x‐ray tube. The CNT emitter with nm∼μm scale and simpler cathode structure was used for miniaturization of x‐ray tube. A truncated conical shaped beryllium (Be) and thin tungsten (W) coating were adopted to emit 3‐dimensionally uniform x‐ray as an isotropic radiation source. Anode grounded high voltage (HV) connection and vacuum sealed x‐ray tube structure within 10 mm diameter are advantages for intra‐cavitary or skin surface electronic brachytherapy. Methods: The miniature x‐ray tube consisted with a tip‐shaped CNT emitter with the diameter of 0.25∼0.8 mm, a focusing electrode, a transmission‐type x‐ray target, getter film and a metalized HV isolation ceramic. The CNT emitter has been fabricated by coating and sintering of CNT and Silver nano particle mixture on the flat W tip. The miniature x‐ray tube is brazed in a 3×10−6 torr of vacuum furnace. The electron and x‐ray emission are calculated by EGN2 and MCNP5 program, and measure using a precision current meter (Fluke multimeter 189), a soft x‐ray chamber (PTW 34013), and x‐ray spectrometer (Amptek XR‐100t‐CdTe). Results: The CNT emitter emitted electron current over 1 mA at −9.8 kV/5 mm, and 0.1 mA was continued for over 3000 minutes with decrease ratio of −0.01 μA/min. The diode‐type miniature x‐ray tube is started to emit less than 5 Gy/min x‐ray at cm air depth from −20 kV to −50 kV following the gate to CNTcathode gap, and applying cathode voltage. Conclusions: The miniature x‐ray tube using CNTfield emitter has been demonstrated. The CNT based x‐ray tube can be more miniature, and is expected to apply various field of electronic brachytherapy, soon. This work was supported by the R&D Program of MKE/KEIT (10035553, Development of multi‐direction X‐ray emitting super‐miniature X‐ray tube for intra‐cavity imaging system) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2010‐0020387).


We introduce a class of unitarily invariant, locally $\|\cdot\|_1$-dominating, mutually continuous norms with repect to $\tau$ on a von Neumann algebra $\mathcal{M}$ with a faithful, normal, semifinite tracial weight $\tau$. We prove a Beurling-Chen-Hadwin-Shen theorem for $H^\infty$-invariant spaces of $L^\alpha(\mathcal{M},\tau)$, where $\alpha$ is a unitarily invariant, locally $\|\cdot\|_1$-dominating, mutually continuous norm with respect to $\tau$, and $H^\infty$ is an extension of Arveson's noncommutative Hardy space. We use our main result to characterize the $H^\infty$-invariant subspaces of a noncommutative Banach function space $\mathcal I(\tau)$ with the norm $\|\cdot\|_{E }$ on $\mathcal{M}$, the crossed product of a semifinite von Neumann algebra by an action $\beta$, and $B(\mathcal{H})$ for a separable Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$.


This Corrective Action Decision Document/Corrective Action Plan (CADD/CAP) has been prepared for Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 447, Project Shoal Area (PSA)-Subsurface, Nevada, in accordance with the ''Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order'' (FFACO) (1996). Corrective Action Unit 447 is located in the Sand Springs Mountains in Churchill County, Nevada, approximately 48 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Fallon, Nevada. The CADD/CAP combines the decision document (CADD) with the Corrective Action Plan (CAP) and provides or references the specific information necessary to recommend corrective actions for CAU 447, as provided in the FFACO. Corrective Action Unit 447 consists of two corrective action sites (CASs): CAS 57-49-01, Emplacement Shaft, and CAS 57-57-001, Cavity. The emplacement shaft (CAS-57-49-01) was backfilled and plugged in 1996 and will not be evaluated further. The purpose of the CADD portion of the document (Section 1.0 to Section 4.0) is to identify and provide a rationale for the selection of a recommended corrective action alternative for the subsurface at PSA. To achieve this, the following tasks were required: (1) Develop corrective action objectives. (2) Identify corrective action alternative screening criteria. (3) Develop corrective action alternatives. (4) Perform detailed and comparative evaluations of the corrective action alternatives in relation to the corrective action objectives and screening criteria. (5) Recommend a preferred corrective action alternative for the subsurface at PSA. The original Corrective Action Investigation Plan (CAIP) for the PSA was approved in September 1996 and described a plan to drill and test four characterization wells, followed by flow and transport modeling (DOE/NV, 1996). The resultant drilling is described in a data report (DOE/NV, 1998e) and the data analysis and modeling in an interim modeling report (Pohll et al., 1998). After considering the results of the modeling effort, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) determined that the degree of uncertainty in transport predictions for PSA remained unacceptably large. As a result, a second CAIP was developed by DOE and approved by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) in December 1998 (DOE/NV, 1998a). This plan prescribed a rigorous analysis of uncertainty in the Shoal model and quantification of methods of reducing uncertainty through data collection. This analysis is termed a Data Decision Analysis (Pohll et al., 1999a) and formed the basis for a second major characterization effort at PSA (Pohll et al., 1999b). The details for this second field effort are presented in an Addendum to the CAIP, which was approved by NDEP in April 1999 (DOE/NV, 1999a). Four additional characterization wells were drilled at PSA during summer and fall of 1999; details of the drilling and well installation are in IT Corporation (2000), with testing reported in Mihevc et al. (2000). A key component of the second field program was a tracer test between two of the new wells (Carroll et al., 2000; Reimus et al., 2003). Based on the potential exposure pathways, two corrective action objectives were identified for CAU 447: Prevent or mitigate exposure to groundwater contaminants of concern at concentrations exceeding regulatory maximum contaminant levels or risk-based levels; and Reduce the risk to human health and the environment to the extent practicable. Based on the review of existing data, the results of the modeling, future use, and current operations at PSA, the following alternatives have been developed for consideration at CAU 447: Alternative 1--No Further Action; Alternative 2--Proof-of-Concept and Monitoring with Institutional Controls; and Alternative 3--Contaminant Control. The corrective action alternatives were evaluated based on the approach outlined in the ''Focused Evaluation of Selected Remedial Alternatives for the Underground Test Area'' (DOE/NV, 1998b). Each alternative was assessed against nine evaluation criteria. These criteria include overall protection of human health and the environment; compliance with appropriate requirements; long-term effectiveness; reduction of the toxicity, mobility, or volume of contamination; short-term effectiveness; implementability; cost; state acceptance; and community acceptance. Based on the results of this evaluation, the preferred alternative for CAU 447 is Alternative 2, Proof-of-Concept and Monitoring with Institutional Controls. The preferred corrective action alternative was chosen for its technical implementability, focusing on performance, reliability, feasibility, safety, and cost. Alternative 2 was judged to meet all requirements for the technical components evaluated and will control inadvertent exposure to contaminated groundwater at CAU 447.


Heterothallic species of Phytophthora require the presence of opposite mating types known as A1 and A2 of the same or different species for oospore formation (12). Recent evidence suggests the regulation of this type of sexual reproduction by sex hormones (8). Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands, an unspecialized root pathogen (6), is widespread on the island of Hawaii (7). The mating-type distribution of this fungus isolated from the island is one-sided. All 47 isolates obtained from soils and plant roots were of the A2 type (7). A further study showed that all 252 isolates of P. cinnamomi from roots of various plant species collected at 21 locations throughout the island were also A2 type (Ko, unpublished data). Two isolates from macadamia cankers were the only record of A1 type from this island (3). Phytophthora colocasiae Rac., the causal organism of leaf blight of taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott], is also heterothallic and common in taro fields on the island of Hawaii. The fungus is a specialized foliar pathogen (5, 14). Because of its great contrast to P. cinnailmomi, the mating-type distribution of P. colacasiae throughout the island of Hawaii was investigated. Pieces of taro leaves and petioles infected with P. colocasiae were placed on the selective medium developed by Masago et al. (10). After a 3-da incubation at 24 C, mycelia from the edges of P. colocasiae colonies were transferred to V-8-agar plates (10% V-8 juice, 0.02% CaCO3 and 2a% agar). The mating type of each isolate was determined by pairing with an A1 type (P991) and an A2 type (P731) of Phytophthora parasitica Dastur. Both isolates of P. parasitica were supplied by G. A. Zentmyer.


English language is now learned by many learners throughout the world but not all of the learners are aware of the importance of vocabulary and reading comprehension.The learners are not interested to learn English through reading because the reading text was too long and they did not know the meaning of the words. As a result, learners do not have enough vocabulary knowledge to understand the text. The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is a high correlation between vocabulary and reading comprehension achievement of the ninth graders. The subjects of this study are 71 ninth graders. The instrument of this study is the vocabulary and reading comprehension test to measure the learners' achievement of reading comprehension and vocabulary. The result of this study shows that there was a weak correlation between vocabulary and reading comprehension achievement of the ninth graders. The correlation coefficient index was 0,2337. This might be caused by the fact that the research instrument (the test) was of low reliability. Although the correlation coefficient was weak, it can still be recommended that the English teacher should teach vocabulary more often in order to develop learners' vocabulary knowledge to help them understand better English texts.


This paper proposes an aperture coupled circular polarized patch antenna operating at ISM band(5GHz). For improving the characteristic and performance of broadband circular polarization at single circular polarized patch antenna. We designed and analyzed the sequentially rotated arrayed(SRA) using phase delay of 0˚, 90˚, 180˚, 270˚ and 0˚, 45˚, 90˚, 135˚. Experimental result, the SRA antenna using phase delay of 90˚ and are improved at the wideband and axial ratio. Also, the SRA antenna using phase delay of 45˚ verified that it is better bandwidth and axial ratio than the SRA antenna using phase delay of 90˚.


Neo-liberalism has evinced an impressive ability to structure political possibilities and constrain the discursive space for political alternatives on a global scale. This is not only a truly impressive cultural and political achievement, but also an important institutional one. As the neo-liberal imaginary has been internalized, it has turned 'into other things', namely, 'neo-liberal political economy, new practices of various sorts, new identities, new material realities' (Fairclough 2006: 30). These achievements include the institutions and practices associated with the new constitutionalism. The continuing power of neo-liberalism to structure a 'universal common sense' (Bourdieu and Wacquant 2005), even in the face of an ongoing global recession, bespeaks of a discursive and institutional vigour that is difficult to overcome. But neo-liberal agents could not have secured this kind of supremacy without the ongoing complicity of states. Institutionalizing neo-liberalism requires a great deal of 'work by a large number of distinct institutions … and thereby partly shapes the actual work of states' (Sassen 2008: 232). State actors, indeed, have been energetically working to maintain neo-liberalism's supremacy. Much of this is achieved through the vehicle of legal reform. For a couple of decades, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has been tracking national regulatory changes having an impact on the entry and establishment of foreign investment. Taking the ten-year period 2000–10, there were a total of 1,944 regulatory changes introduced by 1,417 countries. This represents a vast amount of activity on the part of differing states (though a number of states will have been counted more than once). Amongst these changes, about 85 per cent had the effect of 'liberalizing' investment policy while only 15 per cent were investment restrictive (UNCTAD 2011). The number of restrictive changes has increased proportionately throughout the 2000s, precipitated in part by disenchantment with legal rules to promote and protect investment.


The current study examines the relationship between the extent of, and various types of, empathy and of questions on suspects' provision of information in 16 real-life police interviews. Multiple linear regressions were conducted to: predict suspects' information provision in relation to (a) open questions, (b) the extent of displayed empathy and (c) each of the empathy types. Verbatim transcriptions of police interviews with suspects of sexual offences were coded for: (a) the extent and types of interviewer empathy, (b) the proportionality of interviewer open versus closed questions, and (c) suspects' information provision. It was found that the proportion of open (versus closed) questions and the amount of empathy demonstrated by interviewers had a positive relationship with suspects' information provision. The latter supports a recent finding by the authors involving a different sample of police interviews. Whereas in a growing number of countries the training of police interviewers has been emphasizing use of open questions, the current study aids weight to the small amount of research literature on the importance of interviewer empathy. Indeed, the effectiveness of open questions might be influenced by the amount of interviewer empathy in an interview.


In the extreme south-west of England Narcissus tazetta grown for the outdoor flower crop is regularly attacked by narcissus fire (Sclerotinia polyblastis). A randomized strip experiment on the variety Soleil d'Or laid down in 1937, in which half the plots were sprayed each season, gave data on the effect of controlling this disease on the number and quality of flowers produced in 1939, 1940 and 1941, and on the weight and grade of bulbs lifted in 1941.

There was an average increase of 26 % in the number of flowers produced on sprayed plots, and a 35% increase in weight of bulbs. There was no evidence of a cumulative improvement because most of the gain in one year appears to have been immediately expended in increased flowers in the following season, but the sprayed plots maintained a higher general level throughout. The quality was improved by spraying, mainly by the addition to the inflorescence of an average of one extra 'bell'. Although not cumulative, there was a residual effect shown by the increased yield of bulbs in 1041 after a season in which only one post-flowering spray had been applied.

The effect of treatment on the date of flowering (anthesis) was negligible and its direction depended on the season. In this respect Soleil d'Or differs from Golden Spur, in which spraying induced the marked retardation of flowering noted in 1938 and 1939.


Fragrance compounds and essential oils are currently extracted more effectively and selected for a variety of purposes thanks to research over decades by industry and scientists working on medicines, food and cosmetics. Among the essential oils, peppermint oil is most widely known for its antimicrobial activity and as a multifunctional flavor compound. In this study, the flavor retention and properties of peppermint oil in the alginate biopolymer during encapsulation and storage are investigated. For this purpose, micro–nanocapsules are produced and characterized according to their structure, mean particle size and size distribution using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) technique. The stability of the essential oil during the encapsulation process is assessed using thin-layer chromatography (TLC), gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and Clevenger. The antimicrobial activity of micro–nanocapsules was evaluated using the Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli and the Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. It is demonstrated that the process of encapsulation is a suitable method for protecting peppermint natural oil.


In this note I wish to enter however belatedly into the discussion of error distributions in navigation (cf. Anderson and Anderson and Ellis). Not being a navigator my arguments will be purely statistical, but I hope that they will throw some light on the problem, which seems to be an important one. Hampton and Mills have commented that large errors occur more frequently than is predicted by gaussian behaviour; and Anderson remarks that in practice the 'skirts' of the empirical distribution are commonly hitched high over the estimated gaussian tails. The conclusion drawn is that navigational errors follow a distribution closer to the two-sided negative exponential than to the normal though, instead of peaking to a sharp point at the centre, the empirical distributions seem to have rounded heads.


The present study was conducted to elucidate the effects of feeding paddy rice as substitute for corn on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality in finishing pigs. Twenty one barrows (LW × D crossbred) from five litters were used. We prepared experimental diets: a control diet based on corn (control group) and paddy rice diets. To make the paddy rice diets, we replaced corn in the control diet with paddy rice: the levels of paddy rice contained in the paddy rice diets were 30 (30% rice group) or 40% (40% rice group). The pigs were fed these diets throughout fattening period (70 to 110 kg of body-weight). Daily gain of the 40% rice group was lower than that of the control and 30% rice group (P < 0.05). Fattening period of the 40% rice group was longer than that of the control group (P < 0.05). Backfat thickn ess of the 40% rice group was thicker than that of the control and 30% rice group (P < 0.05). There were no differences among the groups in other carcass characteristics. Muscle color a* and b* values of Longissimus dorsi (L. dorsi) muscles of the 30% rice group were higher than that of the control and 40% rice group (P < 0.05). Fat colors and melting point of inner layer backfat were not affected by the dietary treatments. Cooking loss, Warner-Bratzler shear force and intramuscular fat content of L. dorsi muscles also were not affected by the dietary treatments. There were no differences among the groups in fatty acid composition of L. dorsi muscles and inner layer backfat. These results suggest that a diet containing paddy rice at a level of 30% as substitute for corn fed to finishing pigs without negative effects on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality.


Based on a 15-month ethnographic study of the engineering division of an aeronautical company, I explore the role of bureaucracy in cross-expertise collaboration. I bring together an attention to s...


In view of existing situation that large collections of music data are shared by numerous users in Peer-to-Peer network, people raise higher demands for content-based music information retrieval. For more efficient searching, this paper mainly involves the following three points: Firstly, filter out the repeating patterns in original piece of music and extract the key information, which can reduce the space occupied by index structure. Secondly, we propose a music index structure based on ordered orthogonal list to store music features in a nested sparse matrix. Finally, a related search table is proposed according to user's search history to store the global connectivity of the network. Experimental results show that the proposed model can reduce the traffic cost and average response time effectively and have high retrieval accuracy.


This brief paper attains a decision algorithm for some properties of relationship on finite set based on semantic valuations,after formalizing some properties of relationship.Then proves the reliability and completeness of the algorithm,and analyzes their polynomial complexity.Finally,some examples are given to illustrate the application of this method.The algorithm is achieved in VC++.


Properties of photonic devices fashioned with dual‐grating metamaterials are reported. Enclosed by dual periodic regions, laterally propagating Bloch modes undergo radiative scattering and leaky‐mode resonance whose properties differ markedly from those with single periodicity. The resonance signatures are sensitively controlled by the relative parameters of the periodic regions. In particular, if they are physically identical and separated by a half‐wavelength, there ensues a bound state in the continuum (BIC) with extremely narrow resonance linewidth. On varying the separation between the periodic layers, the linewidth and corresponding Q can be tuned. This is confirmed experimentally via nanoimprinted dual‐grating membranes. The experimental spectra agree well with rigorously computed spectra as well with an analytical model due to Avrutsky. At grating‐depth and thickness values satisfying this model, three different types of BICs are supported by a single metamembrane. Two BICs appear at normal incidence at the Γ point with one being a quasi‐BIC on one band edge while a true symmetry‐protected BIC resides on the other edge. Moreover, a quasi‐BIC state away from the Γ point in the same device is demonstrated. Whereas these results are based on a simple model with 1D periodicity, the primary properties will carry over to general 2D/3D photonic lattices.


ABSTRACT
 The new paradigm known as the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to have a significant impact on business during the next years, as it leads to the connection of physical objects and the interaction between the digital and physical worlds. While prior literature addressing the business implications arising from this paradigm has largely considered IoT as an integrated technology, in this study we examine different components of IoT and assess whether firms concerned with the development of IoT solutions have adopted original business models to exploit the opportunities offered by the specific IoT architecture layer they operate in. In turn, based on primary survey data collected on a sample of IoT Italy association's members, we explore different dimensions of the business model and offer a reinterpretation of the business model Canvas framework adapted to the IoT environment. We show that the specificities of each IoT layer require firms to adopt ad-hoc business models and focus on different dimensions of the business model Canvas. We believe our research provides some important contributions for both academics and practitioners. For the latter, we provide a tool useful for making decisions on how to design the business model for IoT applications.


The niche breadth,overlap and proportion comparability of Agistemus exsertus Gouzalez and itsprimary preys,Phyllocoptruta oleivora (Ashmead),Panonychus citri(McGregor),Dialeurodes citri Ashmead and Aleurocanthus spiniferus(Quaintance),were studied in this paper.The spatial and temporal niche breadthes of A.exsertus were wider than those of its preys.The spatial and temporal niche breadthes of(P.oleivora) were wider than those of P.citri,D. citri and A.spiniferus.It was showed that A.exsertus and(P.oleivora) had longer(period) of occurrence and wider range of distribution.The value of spatial niche overlap of A.exsertus with P.citri was maximal and the value of temporal niche overlap of it with D.citri was the maximal.The value of spatial-temporal niche breadth of A.exsertus was higher than that of its preys.It meant that(A.exsertus) held distinct dominance in the space and time.


Point out heat recovery equipment is very important at air conditing system. Based on the compare of energy saving effect with heat pipe heat recovery and roate wheel heat exchanger, advice care choose base on fact instance.


T EA C H IN G E xc ep ti on al C hi ld re n , V ol . 47 , N o. 6 , pp . 30 1 – 30 9. C op yr ig ht 2 01 5 T he A ut ho r( s) . D O I: 1 0. 11 77 /0 04 00 59 91 55 87 67 0 Ms. Quincy and Ms. Lorenzo are special education teachers at Cato Town High School. Ms. Quincy is a veteran teacher who has worked with students with various disabilities and a range of support needs (e.g., specific learning disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder) throughout her career. Ms. Lorenzo, in her first year of teaching, is mentored by Ms. Quincy. Lately, Ms. Lorenzo has been asking questions about the components of the transition assessment process. Specifically, Ms. Lorenzo does not know where to begin to determine what to assess, where to find assessments, and how to make use of assessment data when developing transition plans. As a result of the demanding 21st-century workforce, local education agencies are beginning to refocus and retool to ensure students with disabilities have the knowledge and skills to be productive adults and attain positive postschool outcomes. The skills 21st-century transition assessments address are relevant to teachers and students given the need for all students to be college and career ready. However, there is evidence that practitioners are not familiar with the transition assessment process—a process that is essential to supporting students in developing the skills they need to achieve their college, career, and life goals. When considering the transition assessment process, it is important for teachers to be aware of the multitude of skills that can be assessed to provide a comprehensive picture of a student's abilities and needs. In the 21st century, conducting transition assessments with all students is beneficial. Transition assessments (e.g., vocational, career, selfdetermination, independent living, college readiness) provide teachers with information to ensure all students are college and career ready. Specifically, the Blueprint for Reform (hereafter Blueprint; U.S. Department of Education, 2010) outlined a plan for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and called for "better assessments" and "a complete education" for all students, including students with disabilities. Related to better assessment, the Blueprint called for assessments aligned with college and career success (U.S. Department of Education, 2010). The transition assessment process consists of five separate but interconnected processes (see Figure 1): determining what to assess, selecting appropriate assessments, conducting assessments, analyzing assessment results, and using assessment data. Transition assessment is an ongoing process of collecting information on a student's strengths, interests, preferences, skills or aptitudes, and needs related to current demands and future career, educational, personal, and social environments (Sitlington & Payne, 2004). Transition assessment provides a foundation for defining individualized education program (IEP) goals and transition services and guides instructional decision making. The transition assessment process is strengthened when teachers across the curricula collaborate to conduct transition assessments related to specific content areas (Mazzotti & Rowe, in press). Transition assessment should include four broad topics: academic achievement, self-determination, vocational interest and exploration, and adaptive behavior and independent living (Walker, Kortering, Fowler, Rowe, & Bethune, 2013). Neubert and Leconte (2013) suggested transition assessment information is further strengthened when it includes skills and aptitudes a student has as well as the skills needed to be successful in the next environment. 587670 TCXXXX10.1177/0040059915587670Council for Exceptional ChildrenTEACHING Exceptional Children research-article2015


Part 1 Introduction: The objectives of antitrust policy competition and regulation the meaning of "competition" in legal policy antitrust policy and legal technique the history and development of antitrust policy firms and markets. Part 2 Restrictive trade practices: the nature of collusion regulated practices legal control and the public interest horizontal collusion vertical arrangements. Part 3 Monopoly: the monopoly problem the objectives of monopoly policy the definitions of monopoly the process of assessment monopoly practices and the public interest. Part 4 Mergers: varieties of merger transaction the process of assessment mergers and the public interest the commercial and financial context. Part 4 Anti-competitive pracatices anti-competitive practices and monopoly control legal control the problem of intellectual property rights. Part 6 Remedies. Part 7 Extra-territoriality.


Indiscriminate use of antibiotics in livestock contributes to emergence of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens co-habiting the gastro-intestinal tract of animals. This study was to determine the Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) and Metallo-Beta-Lactamase (MBL) production in Pseudomonas species from cattle fecal samples. Cattle dungs were collected from the University of Ibadan Cattle Ranch and the Pseudomonas species isolated using Pseudomonas Base Agar with Pseudomonas CN Selective Supplement were identified using standard tests. Phenotypic detection of ESBL and MBL was by double disk synergy test and Ethylene Di-amine Tetra Acetic Acid Combined Disk Test respectively. Antibiotics susceptibility tests was done using the disc diffusion technique against ten antibiotics. A total of 144 Pseudomonas species were isolated and identified as P. aeruginosa (71.5%), P. fluorescens (19.4%) and P. stutzeri (9.1%) and 19 (37.1%) produced ESBL including P. aeruginosa (15), P. fluorescens (2) and P. stutzeri (2) while, one (6.7%) ESBL P. aeruginosa produced MBL. All the ESBL producers were resistant to cefotaxime and trimethoprim; resistance of P. aeruginosa to ciprofloxacin was 93.3% and to ceftazidime was 80.0%, while it was 13.3% (colistin) and 6.7% (imipenem). The ESBL producing P. fluorescens were resistant to ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin and trimethoprim, likewise, the ESBL producing P. stutzeri showed resistance to gentamicin, ciprofloxacin and trimethoprim. The production of ESBL and MBL observed among the Pseudomonas species in this study with high level of resistance to some antibiotics portend public health risk, hence a need for caution in the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3630802


Coalbed methane (CBM) resources are abundant on the earth. CBM brings man-kind harm but its also a clean type of resource. This article based on the analysis of CBM exploitation and utilization at home and abroad, analyzed the key issues for the slow development of CBM industry in China combining the domestic practical situation of coal mine gas drainage, and also proposed suggestions of reasonably exploiting and utilizing CBM.


Health Level 7 (HL7) is an international standards development organisation in the domain of healthcare information technology. Initially the mission of HL7 was to enable data exchange via the creation of syntactic standards for point-to-point messaging. For some 10 years, however, HL7 has increasingly conceived its mission as one of creating standards for semantic interoperability in healthcare IT on the basis of its "version 3" (v3) family of standards. Unfortunately, v3 has been marked since its inception by quality and consistency issues, and it has not been able to keep pace with recent developments either in semantics and ontology or in computer science and engineering. To address these problems, HL7 has developed what it calls the "Services-Aware Interoperability Framework" (SAIF), which is intended to provide a foundation for work on all aspects of standardization in HL7 henceforth and which includes HL7"s Reference Information Model as general purpose upper ontology. We here evaluate the SAIF in terms of design principles that must be satisfied by a semantic interoperability framework, principles relating both to ontology (static semantics) and to computational behaviour. We conclude that the SAIF fails to satisfy these principles.


Objective: To investigate the significance of contrast-enhanced ultrasound( CEUS) in diagnosis of various lesions in gallbladder treated by laparoscopic cholecystectomy( LC),and to provide an effective method for the preoperative evaluation before LC as well. Methods: From Sep. 2006 to Aug. 2013,a total of 417 patients with various lesions in gallbladder all underwent the examination of CEUS before LC. Results from CEUS,intraoperative exploration consequence and pathologic diagnosis of patients were retrospectively analyzed in the present study in order to evaluate the clinical value of CEUS before LC. Results: The overall diagnostic accuracy of CEUS in benign lesions and anatomic abnormalities was 93. 2%( 136 /146). And the diagnostic accuracy of CEUS was 94. 1%( 32/34) in gallbladder perforation,93.7%( 59/63) in surrounding adhesions,91.8%( 45/49) in anatomic abnormalities,respectively. The time to peak enhancement,the shape of enhancement and the destruction of the integrity of gallbladder wall in CEUS were integrated to diagnose gallbladder carcinoma. The diagnostic accuracy of CEUS in malignant lesion of gallbladder was 93. 9%( 31 /33) in comparison with pathological diagnosis. Conclusions: Preoperative evaluation of CEUS before LC can effectively differentiate gallbladder perforation,surrounding adhesions and anatomic abnormalities,and accurately screen potential gallbladder cancer. In view of its high clinical significance,CEUS should be routinely performed before LC in order to improve the operation safety and reduce the transfer rate.


Wood decomposition is a biogeochemical process fundamental to element cycling in forest ecosystems, which could alter the nutrient concentrations and enzyme activities of the underlying forest soils. Wood traits, which vary by tree species, can influence decomposition aboveground, but it is not well understood how wood decomposition associated with different tree types (i.e., angiosperm and gymnosperm species) influences underlying soil nutrient concentrations and enzyme activities. In this study, we evaluated how tree type (for four angiosperm vs. four gymnosperm species) affects underlying soil total carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) concentrations; microbial biomass C, N, and P concentrations; and C-, N-, and P-acquiring enzymes activities. We found that decomposing wood significantly increased soil total P, and microbial biomass C and P concentrations. However, the differences in the nutrient concentrations of soil and microbial biomass beneath decomposing wood were not different between angiosperm and gymnosperm species. Surprisingly, the activities of soil C-, N-, and P-acquiring enzymes beneath the decomposing wood differed significantly between angiosperm and gymnosperm species. The soils beneath decomposing angiosperm wood had higher P-acquiring enzyme activity, while the soils beneath gymnosperm wood had higher C- and N-acquiring enzyme activities. The soils beneath angiosperm and gymnosperm wood had a similar C-limitation for microbial metabolism, but the microbial metabolism in soils beneath angiosperm wood was more P-limited compared to soils beneath gymnosperm wood. In conclusion, our findings highlight that the tree types of decomposing wood may affect underlying soil enzyme activities and enzyme characteristics, improving our ability to accurately predict the role of wood decomposition on forest nutrient cycles.


In this study, the adsorption of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from heavy naphthenic oils (HNOs) on commercial activated carbons was evaluated. Among the aromatics, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are usually present in heavy oils and are contaminants that have potential carcinogenic and mutagenic characteristics. Oils with of PAH concentration less than 3 wt % are labeled as noncarcinogenic. The HNO samples used in this study had a high content of PAHs (ca. 8 wt %). Batch experiments were carried out to evaluate the adsorption capacity of activated carbons for PAHs (>160 mg/g), and to estimate the mass transfer parameters of the adsorption process. The pore diffusion model and the pore–surface diffusion model were applied to interpret and validate the kinetic experimental results. The results indicated the efficiency of activated carbons as potential adsorbent to adjust the polycyclic aromatics content of HNO.


This article describes the Collaborative Media Center pilot at SUNY Old Westbury, a digital literacy project with the aim of narrowing the digital divide at the College by embedding digital projects across the curriculum. The article explains how the Center supported students in four linked courses to create digital projects. Assessment data and student feedback indicate that while students prefer face-to-face support when learning new digital tools, online tutorials are used at a much greater frequency than face-to-face tutoring. Furthermore, attitudes toward online learning improve after a semester of blended support. An increase in digital tool use frequency was recorded and students reported growing interest in learning, and using, digital tools. Additionally, students reported an increased engagement with, and better retention of, course material when creating disciplinary digital projects. Conclusions indicate that offering blended (online and face-to-face) support for digital projects across the curriculum is effective for improving digital literacy.


COVID-19 which began to emerge in the world in 2019 has had a fantastic impact on all institutions, especially education system. The disease that is transmitted through droplets can be prevented by wearing a mask, washing hands with water and soap before or after doing something, also maintaining distance between individuals. Based on the observation and in depth interview, there are still many students of Wonokarang Elementary School who have not complied with the health protocol. Therefore, the activity of providing health education was carried out with the aim of increasing students' knowledge about the importance of implementing health protocol to prevent COVID-19 transmission. The socialization method applied is lecture and discussion with hand puppets media during the face to face learning system. The result of this socialization can be concluded that there is an increase in students' knowledge about the importance of the health protocol for preventing COVID-19 transmission.


ABSTRACT We examined microhabitat use patterns of different sizes and sexes of rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) in Long Lake, Wisconsin. Crayfish were sampled using modified Louisiana "pillow" traps, identified to species, and sexed. All captured specimens were classified into one of four size classes: <35; 35–50; 50–85; >85 mm total length. We found that different members of the crayfish populations were associated with different microhabitat types and the three most important environmental variables influencing crayfish distribution were intermediate cobble sized gravel, aquatic plants, and water depth. All size classes and both sexes of rusty crayfish were most abundant within fine grain soft bottom substrate (detritus or sand).


Wide-bandwidth vector-signal measurements with high spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR), are difficult to make with traditional instruments. Equivalent-time sampling oscilloscopes offer wide-bandwidth, however lack dynamic range (/spl ap/60dB SFDR). Vector signal analyzers have high dynamic range (/spl ap/75dB SFDR), however have limited IF bandwidth (<100MHz). The Maury MT4463A large-signal network analyzer has an IF bandwidth less than 10MHz and dynamic range less than 60dB, however allows calibrated measurement of distortion at harmonics of the fundamental. This paper presents a vector-corrected measurement of a wide-bandwidth signal (>800MHz) plus its sidebands and harmonics with dynamic range in excess of 80dB SFDR.


Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Approximately 15% of colorectal cancers are characterized by deficient DNA mismatch repair (MMR), leading to microsatellite instability (MSI) and mutations in critical genes involved in carcinogenesis, such as transforming growth factortype II receptor and BAX. It has long been recognized that MSI-high (MSI-H) tumors are pathologically distinct from colorectal tumors that arise from the traditional chromosomal instability pathway, with a predominantly proximal location in the right colon, poorer differentiation, mucinous histology, and peritumoral lymphocytic infiltration. Recent studies revealed that this pathologically unique subset of colorectal cancers also harbored significant differences in clinical behavior. Indeed, the seminal article by Ribic et al published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003 showed that among patients with stage II and III colon cancer pooled from five large, randomized clinical trials of adjuvant chemotherapy, 17% had MSI-H tumors. Patients with MSI-H tumors had a modestly better prognosis than those with microsatellite-stable (MSS) or MSIlow (MSI-L) cancers, yet also did not seem to benefit from adjuvant fluorouracil (FU) -based chemotherapy. This resistance to FU is presumably due to incorporation of FU metabolites into DNA rather than inhibition of its effective target, thymidylate synthase. In this issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology, Sargent et al have confirmed and extended these previous findings. They analyzed an additional 457 patients with stage II and III colon cancer from four of the five trials included in the Ribic study, as well as from another randomized trial of FU and leucovorin (LV) by the Gruppo Italiano di Valutazione Interventi in Oncologia (GIVIO). They found that deficient MMR status was associated with significantly improved 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) on univariate analysis (P .03), though not on multivariate analysis, in patients who were randomly assigned to surgery alone. Interestingly, in the subset of patients randomly assigned to adjuvant chemotherapy, MMR status did not seem to influence DFS, although the hazard ratios (HRs) do suggest a slight advantage for those with MMR deficiency. The authors then evaluated the impact of adjuvant chemotherapy according to MMR status, and, consistent with multiple large randomized trials, found a significant benefit for FU-based treatment on DFS, but only in patients with proficient MMR (multivariate HR 0.67; 95% CI, 0.48 to 0.93; P .02). Among stage II and III colon cancers characterized by MMR deficiency, absolutely no benefit was seen with adjuvant FU-based chemotherapy (multivariate HR for DFS 1.39; 95% CI, 0.46 to 4.15; P .56). For added power, the authors pooled data from these 457 patients with that of the 570 patients in Ribic et al's original analysis and came to similar conclusions; namely, deficient MMR status was prognostic for a better outcome only in patients treated with surgery alone, and was not associated with a DFS or overall survival benefit from adjuvant FU-based chemotherapy (P interaction .04). The larger number of patients in this pooled analysis allowed an interesting exploration of treatment effect by MMR status and stage of cancer. Among stage III patients with intact MMR, adjuvant chemotherapy led to a statistically significant improvement in DFS (HR 0.64; 95% CI, 0.48 to 0.84; P .001), but no differences in outcome were seen in MMR-deficient stage III cancer (HR 1.01; 95% CI, 0.41 to 2.51; P .98). Among patients with stage II colon cancer, those with proficient MMR status had a nonsignificant 16% reduction in the relative risk of recurrence or death, whereas there was a trend toward worse outcome in tumors with MMR deficiency (P .09). These differential findings between deficient and intact MMR status, and between stage II and stage III colon cancer, are important and may have clinical implications for treatment. A strength of this pooled analysis by Sargent et al is its inclusion of large, international clinical trials that randomly assigned patients with colon cancer to both an adjuvant FU treatment arm and a nontreatment arm. This study design is critical for determining whether MSI-H is prognostic, predictive, or both. A prognostic biomarker is one that is associated with clinical outcome in the absence of therapy or with administration of standard therapy, and often reflects the natural history of the cancer. A control group from a randomized clinical trial is the ideal population to test the prognostic abilities of a marker, and indeed, Sargent et al demonstrate that deficient MMR status is a favorable prognostic marker for stage II and III colon cancer patients treated with surgery alone. In contrast, a predictive marker is one that is associated with differential response to a specific treatment (in this case, adjuvant FU), based on the status of the biomarker, and is statistically represented as a significant interaction between the biomarker and treatment response. With their large, pooled database, the authors were able to show that response to adjuvant FU-based chemotherapy is statistically dependent on MMR status. Thus, with these current data that tumors with MMR deficiency are both prognostic for better outcome and predictive for lack of benefit from adjuvant FU-based treatment, should such therapy be JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY E D I T O R I A L S VOLUME 28 NUMBER 20 JULY 1


This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited 1 Cells (1×105 cells/ml) were inoculated into 96-well plates. 2 Cells were treated with vincristine (VCR), doxorubicin (ADM), etoposide phosphate (Vp-16), daunorubicin (DNR), mitomycin C (MMC), or cyclophosphamide (CTX) for 24 h before CCK8 (Dojindo) reagent was added to each well for 4 h at 37°C.


The IETM(Interaetive Eleetronic Technieal Manual) of class 5 is an integration of multifunction and multi-application. In this paper, ontology is the means of knowledge represents in IETM, and domain ontologies that describe conceptualizations are constructed. The question of sharing and interoperation between different agents is settled, and vocabularies we constructed are useful for semantic WEB.


It is argued that the temperature concept has a richer theoretical basis than is generally appreciated. The importance of an absolute comparative concept of temperature is emphasized. A set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and metricization of the temperature quantity is examined. It is shown that these conditions are all consequences of the laws of thermodynamics together with a number of ancillary thermodynamic assumptions. The absolute comparative concept of temperature as well as the absolute scale are introduced without employing the concept of a thermometer. The general notion of a thermometer is introduced as an addendum to thermodynamics.


This paper analyzes the average bit error rate performance of dual-hop cooperative systems over generalized multipath fading conditions. The considered system is differentially modulated and is assumed to operate based on the amplify-and-forward relaying protocol. Therefore, its main advantage is that it does not require any channel state information neither at the relay nor at the destination nodes. Novel closed-form expressions are derived for the end-to-end statistics for the case of generalized multipath fading conditions that follow the η-μ, distribution, which includes as special cases the well-known Nakagami-m, Rayleigh and Nakagami-g (Hoyt) fading models. Capitalizing on this, a closed-form expression is subsequently derived for the corresponding average bit-error-rate, which is given in terms of known elementary and special functions. The derived analytic expressions are then employed in evaluating the performance and behavior of the considered system and thus quantify the corresponding effects of generalized fading conditions on the achieved bit error rate performance. It is shown that the effect of multipath fading is detrimental at both high and low signal-to-noise ratio regimes as the corresponding deviations are often close to an order of magnitude. This indicates that accurate channel characterization is essential in effective design of cooperative communications as well as that differential modulation can be a suitable modulation scheme for relay systems since it can provide adequate performance at a reduced implementation complexity.


In the spring of 2020, the schools and universities in the Netherlands were closed for the first time. Urgently and unexpectedly, teaching had to be organised differently. At the time, our students at Utrecht University were well in their third quarter already.


Introduction. Aiming to study the literature sources referring to evolvement of the veterinary medicine into a science in Portugal of the XIV–XVIII centuries, the article presents the detailed description of the historical materials (books, works, records) existing and being kept in libraries and archives.Materials and methods. The materials taken for the study were literature sources and archival materials in Portuguese and Spanish. The data obtained during the research was structured, arranged in the chronological order of events and analysed.Results. The veterinary medicine of the country almost completely depended on historical events and cultural trends. Until the XVII century, due to the popularity of falconry, only the knowledge of horses and birds of prey anatomy and diseases received the noticeable development, whereas the literature sources on other animal species anatomy and diseases appeared only at the beginning of the XVIII century.Discussion and conclusions. The study of the materials leads to the conclusion that the history of the Portuguese veterinary medicine and its documentation in the literature sources were inextricably related to the historical events that took place in the country – the political and economic factors, as well as popular trends, had influenced the evolvement of the veterinary science and the amount of publications.


Functionalization of light-emitting poly(3-methylthiophene) (P3MT) nanowires (NWs) with probe-DNA (p-DNA) and their label-free recognition of target-DNA (t-DNA) were correlated quantitatively with both the photoluminescence (PL) color and intensity of P3MT NWs.


Wireless sensor networks are rapidly growing for research and commercial development which is used for monitor a given field of interest to change the environment wireless sensor network broadly used in health care, national security, surveillance, and military. We survey the current work on the coverage problem in wireless sensor network. There are two types of coverage. One is area coverage and another is target coverage. The issue of quality of service is related to the coverage problem in wireless sensor network. The coverage concepts depend from several points of view due to a variety of sensor node. Coverage in wireless sensor network is usually defined as a measure of how well and for how long the sensor nodes are able to observe the physical. In this paper present coverage problem in Wireless Sensor Network.


judicially established before the ICTY; non-judicial mechanisms for the establishment of facts about crimes from the past; victims' right to reparations; the role of the media in the processes of establishing the truth and accountability; culture and conflicts of memory and the process of reconciliation in post-conflict societies. Students also had the opportunity to visit places of crimes and memory in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, and meet the survivors and members of victims' families, where they spoke with them about memory and victims' rights to truth and justice


The study of the molecular and isotopic composition of oils and condensates allowed to establish that at least two source rocks participated in the formation of the oil deposits in the Gydan Peninsula (Figures 1b and 1c). The first group of oils has an increased ratio of isoprenoid regular structure of pristane to phytane (Pr/Ph = 2.5–3.0), low value of isoprenoid coefficient Ki ((Pr+Ph)/(nС17+nС18) = 0.3–0.4) and increased weight of carbon isotopic composition δС (-28...29 ‰). All of these point to the fact of non-marine occurrence of organic matter with high thermal maturity. The most probable source of these oils is organic rich shales from middle (J2) and lower (J1) Jurassic. The Rock-Eval pyrolysis show that these rocks are considered as having sufficient concentration of organic carbon (TOC = 2–4 %), good generation potential (S2 up to 8 mg HC/g of rock) and high thermal maturity (for J2 Tmax = 440–460 °С, for J1 it is nearby 470 °С). The second group of oils has a decreased Pr/Ph ratio (1.7–2.0), higher value of Ki (~0.6) and light carbon isotopic composition δС (31...-32 ‰). All of these are caused by influence of marine organic matter thermally less mature. Chloroform extracts from rocks of the Bazhenov horizon (the Golchikhin formation) have the same molecular and isotopic features. These rocks from Gydan territory has TOC up to 7%, generation potential S2 up to 15 mg HC/g of rock and its thermal maturity correspond to peal of oil window (Tmax = 440–450°С). Moreover, one of studied oils takes in-between position that implies its mixed nature.


The complete crystallographic distribution of field-evaporated W3+ and W4+ as well as field-desorbed hydrogen has been observed by using a new technique called field desorption spectrometry. The distributions are obtained during a single evaporation event in a modified field-ion microscope by recording the desorption image displayed on a spherical CEMA detector time gated with the arrival of an ion species of preselected mass-to-charge ratio. Preliminary observations show no unique crystallographic origin for W3+ or W4+ at 78 or 27 K during field evaporation in vacuum or imaging gas. Hydrogen appears to originate at random insterstitial locations at the surface and is not uniquely associated with the protruding atoms imaged in a conventional ion micrograph. The general lack of a one-to-one correspondence between gated desorption and ion micrograph images suggests that using the atom probe to identify individual preselected ion micrograph image spots may be much more difficult than originally anticipated.


This paper expounds the common public health emergencies in universities,and prevention and management of these events,as well as how to deal with them.Under new situation,we should not only improve the safety of university cafeteria,and launch a vaccination campaign,but also strengthen health education of college students and make great effort to prevent the public health emergencies.Therefore we should pay more attention to the construction and development of the university hospitals.In the university hospitals as center,all the departments should cooperate with each other,establish an effective management system which mainly in prevention,combining prevention and treatment,in order to cope with incidence and development of public health emergencies.It will ensure safety of school teachers and students,maintains the school stability.


ABSTRACT Fifty-five warthogs [Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Suidae: Artiodactyla)] from the Kruger National Park, Republic of South Africa, were examined for parasites. Adult filarial nematodes were found in lymphatic vessels adjacent to peripheral and visceral lymph nodes, and microfilariae were found in lymph nodes and circulating blood. Both the adult parasite and the microfilaria are described. Specific identification is pending confirmation and recovery of intact adult specimens and microfilariae identical to those described herein.


In a method for cleaning out defects from a yarn moved along the longitudinal direction thereof, measured values of a property of the yarn along the longitudinal direction are captured. Values of a yarn parameter (M) are determined from the measured values. An event field (6) is provided, which is formed by the yarn parameter (M) and an extension (L) of yarn parameter values in the longitudinal direction and which is divided into more than two regions (71-75), of which at least one region (71, 73-75) specifies allowed events and at least one other region (72) specifies disallowed events. The values of the yarn parameter (M) are classified together with the extension (L) thereof in the longitudinal direction (x) in the event field (6). The invention is particularly suited for cleaning fancy yarn, wherein additional allowed regions (73-75) prevent cleaning of the desired effects.


The fluorescence of ortho‐hydroxycinnamic acid was studied in aqueous solution over the pH 0‐14 range and in methanol. At pH values above 9.7, intense anion fluorescence is observed. In the pH 4‐9 range emissions are from both the monoanion (albeit weakly) and from the dianion due to photodissociation. In the pH 0‐4 range a blue and a green fluorescence was found, which is attributed to emissions from the unchanged molecule and from an unusual excited state tautomer respectively. The latter is assumed to be the phenolate anion of cinnamic acid and represents a tautomer with no equivalent in the electronic ground state. It is assumed to be formed by adiabatic photodissociation during the lifetime of the first excited singlet state.


In 2002, a large hole was discovered in the reactor vessel head of the Davis-Besse plant located in Ohio, US. Had the reactor pressure vessel ruptured, a major public safety event would have occurred. Further investigations revealed that, by the end of 2001, a shutdown order was drafted by the Regulatory Agency. Nonetheless, through a risk-informed decision-making approach, the Agency changed the decision related to the issuance of the order. Operations were then allowed to continue for six more weeks, despite the high likelihood that the reactor was operating with leaking cracks in the nozzles located at the reactor head. The reactor vessel head wastage, which had evolved unnoticed for years, was primarily due to borated water that leaked through a nozzle crack onto the carbon steel portion of the reactor head, resulting in boric acid corrosion. This paper aims to explore the Agency's decisionmaking to identify factors that might have contributed to the flawed decision. A better comprehension on the organizational factors and social processes that can adversely affect risk-informed decisions is crucial to enhance operational safety in high hazard industries. The paper concludes by suggesting possible ways to guard against the identified factors.


Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common cause of liver test abnormality and chronic liver disease in the world and can increase liver related mortality. Association of NAFLD with metabolic syndrome increase mortality due to cardiovascular disease too. NAFLD is categorized histologically into the nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Liver biopsy has been known as gold standard of evaluating NAFLD, but this procedure is invasive. It is time to replace available and easier way to diagnose, and predict the prognosis for better management of NAFLD. This study was comparing the result of transabdominal ultrasonography with Fibroscan as a new and accurate method for evaluating severity of fatty liver disease. This was a cross-sectional study that was conducted using 101 patients with NAFLD. All patients who had TUS by one experienced radiologist and fibro scan at the same time were included. Visual liver echogenicity was basis of grading in TUS. Fibro scans results are based on controlled attenuation parameters (CAP) which is not operator dependent. Other information, such as age, waist, and BMI, were also gathered. TUS has a low value for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis in NAFLD patients and predicting prognosis. TUS has a good correlation with fibroscan in grade 0 and 1of fatty liver, but in grade 2 and 3 of fatty liver, we can not rely on TUS for accurate grading.


The community college system is based on an open-door mission and serves to provide access to students of diverse backgrounds. Online learning is one of the fastest growing segments of community college offerings. If the community college system embraces its open-door mission, it must also embrace new ways of providing multicultural experiences within online classes. Yet, little research has been conducted in looking at connections between online learning and multicultural education within community colleges. This study asked if multiculturalism plays a significant role in the traditional face-to-face college classroom—what role, if any, does it play in an online classroom? Literature on multicultural education, distance learning, educational theory, and social psychology were explored within the context of community colleges. Community college faculty who reported using multicultural approaches within their online classes were interviewed and observed. The results indicated that these online instructors generally had a collection of instructional methods that correlated to Banks' (2004) Multicultural Dimensions. This article shares practices used by the faculty that can affect change in online students' experiences with multiculturalism.


The improper parameter setting of steam turbine governing system for emphasizing the performance of primary frequency regulation may cause low frequency oscillation of power grid while the optimal coordination between primary frequency regulation and dynamic stability can be achieved by the proper parameter adjustment. The comprehensive evaluation index of system dynamic stability and primary frequency regulation is formed by the stability margin and the reciprocal of rise time and the P-PSO(Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm based on P system) is applied to obtain the optimal evaluation index within the rational parameter range for the parameter optimization of steam turbine DEH(Digital Electro-Hydraulic) control system. The results of time-domain simulation show that,the optimized DEH parameters ensure both the performance of primary frequency regulation and the dynamic stability of power system.


Background The 2016 revised World Health Organization (WHO) classification system distinguishes prefibrotic (pre-PMF) from overtly fibrotic (overt PMF) primary myelofibrosis, based on the respective absence or presence of grade ≥2 bone marrow (BM) reticulin fibrosis (Blood. 2016;127:2391). The main objective of the current study was to determine the prognostic relevance of this distinction and compare clinical and genetic features between the two entities. Methods Study patients fulfilled the 2016 WHO criteria for the diagnosis of pre-PMF or overt PMF (Blood. 2016;127:2391). The degree of BM reticulin fibrosis was based on "real life" BM reports from Mayo Clinic hematopathologists and often in accordance with the European consensus scoring system (Haematologica 2005;90:1128). Targeted next generation sequencing was used to screen for prognostically-relevant mutations (Blood 2015 126:354). Statistical analyses considered clinical and laboratory parameters obtained at time of BM examination that was graded for reticulin fibrosis. Results Patient characteristics: Analysis was conducted on 467 patients (median age 64 years; 62% males), including 63 with pre-PMF and 404 with overt PMF. 302 (65%) patients harbored JAK2 mutations, 90 (19%) CALR, 24 (5%) MPL and 51 (11%) were "triple-negative"; among the 90 CALR-mutated cases, 74 (82%) were classified as "type 1/type 1-like". Dynamic international prognostic scoring system (DIPSS)-plus risk distribution (JCO 2011;29:392) was 30% high, 38% intermediate-2, 16% intermediate-1 and 15% low; 29% displayed red cell transfusion-dependency, 29% constitutional symptoms, 70% palpable splenomegaly and 37% abnormal karyotype, including 13% with unfavorable karyotype. 308 patients were screened for ASXL1 mutations with 39% mutated, 305 for SRSF2 mutations with 16% mutated, 291 for U2AF1 with 18% mutated, 264 for SF3B1 with 6% mutated, 240 for EZH2 with 5% mutated and 118 for IDH1/2 with 7% mutated. BM reticulin fibrosis was reported as grade 909 in 5 (1%) patients, grade 919 in 58 (12%), grade 929 in 169 (36%) and grade 939 in 235 (50%). After a median follow up of 3 years, 273 (59%) deaths and 42 (9%) leukemic transformations were documented. Clinical, cytogenetic and molecular comparisons between pre-PMF vs overt PMF: Significant differences included higher hemoglobin level (p Survival analysis: In univariate analysis, all 8 variables included in DIPSS-plus were significantly associated with shortened survival (p Conclusion The current study demonstrates the risk-adjusted prognostic relevance of the WHO distinction between pre-PMF and overt PMF. The two clinic-pathologic entities were otherwise similar in their spectrum of prognostically-relevant mutations or cytogenetic abnormalities, although pre-PMF clustered with thrombocythemic and triple-negative phenotype and overt PMF with adverse clinical features. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


.  This paper quantitatively evaluates the empirical claim that adding a third wh-phrase to object-initial multiple-wh-questions increases their acceptability (e.g., Bolinger 1978, Kayne 1983)—a claim that posed a problem for accounts of the subject/object asymmetry in multiple-wh-questions (e.g., Chomsky 1973, 1993; Lasnik & Saito 1984; Pesetsky 1987, 2000; Richards 2001). Recently, Clifton et al. (2006) evaluated this claim using quantitative methods and failed to find support for it. However, a potential concern with Clifton et al.'s results was insufficient power to detect the effect of the third wh-phrase, possibly because of variance associated with several potential interpretations of multiple-wh-questions in null contexts. The goal of this paper is to extend the findings of Clifton et al. to cases where the critical sentences are presented in supportive contexts, so that the pair-list reading—the reading that has been argued to result in Superiority effects—is unambiguously supported. The results of the current study were similar to those of Clifton et al. and therefore provide further evidence against the claim that adding a third wh-phrase to object-initial multiple-wh-questions increases their acceptability.


[Objective] To analyze the effect of tri-ankle fractures surgery. [Methods]42 cases of tri-ankle fractures were operated from 1998 to 2005. Medial, lateral and posterior ankles were incised and exposed consecutively, as to internal fixation it came to posterior, lateral and medial ankles. Plates and screws were employed for lateral ankles, and rag screws for medial and posterior ankles during the procedures. The function of the ankle joints was evaluated according to the clinical signs and X-ray examinations.[Results] All cases were followed up for 6 to 24 months. The function of the ankle joints was excellent in 14 cases, good in 20, fair in 3 and bad in 5 cases. The excellent rate is 80.9%. [Conclusion] Early anatomical reduction, rigid internal fixation and early exercise contribute to good functional recovery of the ankle joints, while the key to the procedure is the treatment of the lateral ankle. Complications such as traumatic arthritis and hardness occur in those cases with delayed surgical management, serious osteoporosis and bad soft tissue conditions.


Abstract Three different results on optically distorded nematic films are presented. They have been derived from T.I.R. experiments and graphical discussion on the observed far field diffraction pattern. First, the optically induced director reorientation profile (radial dependence) in a nematic film can be much more larger than the pump beam profile. Second, a maximum reorientation tilt angle as large as 80 degrees can be obtained and third, the same sample can be focusing, diffracting and defocusing depending on the pump power. The later is a pure thermal effect and occurs as the boundary conditions are very weak.


In this specification, it is laminated touch sensor layer and a touch sensor layer configured to receive touch input and a method and apparatus comprising a force sensor layer including an array of force sensors configured to receive force input is described. Force sensor array includes individual force sensors. Specific force sensors of the force sensor array disclosed to which key is actually pressed, and reads out the ryeotneunji additional information that can be used to avoid improper operation is associated with a specific location on the touch screen. Both of the touch signal and the power signal is used to determine the validity of the user touch input. In one embodiment, each of the force sensors may operate independently of the other force sensors. Using the coarse grid to determine a valid touch input, a specific embodiment is described making a determination of the center position based on the plurality of force sensors to determine valid touch inputs.


Introducing additional structures is often useful in a study of algebraic objects, in particular finitely presented algebras and their representations, – introducing topology in algebras gives a comprehensive theory of Banach algebras or, more generally, a theory of locally convex algebras; introducing an involution, which we can consider as some inner symmetry, calls into being the theory of ∗-algebras; considering an involution together with the corresponding norm gives the theory of C∗-algebras. Moreover, on the one hand, studying not all representations but only those which "conserve" this additional structure (for example, ∗-representations) is simple (for example, ∗-representations are indecomposable if and only if they is irreducible, see [1]) on the other hand, this is often sufficient for applications. In [1] the theory of ∗-representations of finitely presented ∗-algebras is studied, and the involution in the considered ∗-algebras often preserves filtration (see Definition 1). In this article we consider the following question. Let Fn be a free algebra with n generators x1, . . . , xn and an identity e, and lets us also have a unital finitely presented algebra


The article is an attempt at analyzing the descriptions of the relations between feelings, person and values that are presented in Edith Stein's "On the problem of empathy". Our aim is to show the correlations between person and values. To that end, it is essential to sketch Stein's phenomenology of feelings. The article argues that some of the views proposed by Stein are problematic. In particular, it is pointed out that Stein's analysis of the objective side of feeling and of the essence of values is inadequate. The central point of the critique concerns Stein's view of the relations between "feeling a value" (Wertfuhlen) and feelings (Gefuhle). The notion of person and its phenomenological constitution is then discussed with reference to Stein's dissertation, with a specific focus on its intersubjective dimension. It is argued that according to Stein one's own emotional life is crucial to understanding other persons. The analysis of "On the problem of empathy" is deepened through illustrations of some changes in the way of treating axiological problems in Stein's phenomenology.


Walton Hamilton was one of the major promoters of American institutionalism in the interwar period. Apart from his own writing - he introduced the term institutional economics into the literature in a 1918 conference paper - Hamilton was closely associated with the creation of educational programs with a decidedly institutionalist orientation. At Amherst College from 1916 to 1923 and at the Robert Brooking Graduate School between 1923 and 1928, Hamilton and his colleagues engaged in interesting experiments in economics education, and produced a quite remarkable stream of graduates. This paper will outline the programs developed by Hamilton, and the subsequent careers of many of the graduates, in both academics (in economics, political science, and law) and in government service. Many of Hamilton's students occupied key positions in the New Deal and, later, in international organizations such as the ILO and United Nations. In 1928 the Institute for Government Research and the Institute of Economics were merged into what became the Brookings Institution, and the Robert Brookings Graduate School was abandoned as a separate entity. The reasons for this seem to have included funding difficulties, internal politics, and Robert Brooking's concerns over the direction the School had taken. The closing of the School was an event that caused much anguish and public dispute. Hamilton left to join Yale Law School, and an important centre for institutional economics was lost. The paper will draw on archive material including the Walton Hamilton Papers, the Archives of the Brookings Institution, and an archive of taped interviews with former graduates of Brookings. These were conducted in the early 1970s by Robert Coleberd as part of a project on the Brookings Graduate School. He never completed this project, and deposited the tapes in the Brookings Institution Archive. As far as I am aware this material has not been accessed before.


The purpose of this study is to identify characteristics of well-aging related research conducted in Korea and to analyze the concept definition to present the direction for future well-aging research in Korea. As a research method, an integrated literature review suggested by Whittemore & Knafl was conducted. Study results found research conducted in Korea consisted of 2 literature reviews, case studies, qualitative studies, 3 survey studies, and 2 experimental studies. In addition, there were 3 studies performed prior to 2017 and 8 studies after that included 2 dissertations and 9 dissertations in academic journals. The definition of well aging consisted of physical, emotional, social, economic, and self-realization aspects. Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to provide education and programs according to life cycles to prepare well aging, and in the future, well-aging studies should be conducted in various academic fields.


A direct numerical simulation database is exploited to investigate the interaction of a normal shock wave with a turbulent boundary layer developing over a flat plate at free-stream Mach number M ∞ = 1.3 and moderate Reynolds number Re q ≈ 1,200 (based on the momentum thickness of the incoming boundary layer). At the selected conditions, the boundary layer does not exhibit separation in the mean flow, and the interaction region is characterised by the unsteady release of large vortical structures. The shock system is sufficiently strong to alter the near-wall streaky structures of the incoming boundary layer, which disappear past the interaction. This effect is quantitatively analysed, and found to be similar to that observed in turbulent channels with a moving wall.


The feedback of position and attitude information are important for the autonomous control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). But in the GPS-denied environments, it is hard to obtain the quadrotor UAV's position. The pose estimation problem for a quadrotor UAV is addressed in this paper. A miniature laser range finder and a miniature attitude heading reference system (AHRS) unit are employed as the main onboard sensors. And a new pose estimation algorithm is developed to provide accurate estimation for the UAV's position and attitude which can be utilized for the flight controller in the GPS-denied environments.


First, a quick review of the background: while working in a malaria control campaign in the northern section of the state of Minas Gerais, we came across a large bug locally called ''bar-beiro,'' which, like the bedbug, infests homes and attacks man at night, when the lights are out. Since this was a blood sucking insect and such insects are of importance in human and animal pathology as vectors of disease, we examined ''barbeiro'' specimens and found in their hindguts a flagellate of crithidial morphology. The next step was to ascertain whether this flagellate was just a parasite of the insect or a stage in the life cycle of a parasite of vertebrates. In almost all marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) specimens from the same region, we had found a parasitic trypanosome. We suspected that the ''barbeiro'' was the intermediate host, and the flagellate forms in its gut were stages in the life cycle of this parasite, Trypanosoma minasense Chagas. Because of this, we sent specimens of the bug to our director and teacher Dr. Oswaldo Cruz, who had them feed on a marmoset. Dr. Cruz succeeded in infecting this marmoset with a hemoflagellate which, being quite different in morphology from Trypanosoma minasense, we named Trypanosoma cruzi. I studied the new parasite and found, through repeated experiments, that the insect was indeed the intermediate host, and that it took at least eight days after a bite for transmission to take place. I then made another trip to Minas Gerais for the purpose of establishing the definitive habitual host of the flagellate. The habits of the ''barbeiro'' suggested a situation of intradomiciliary infection; we were most impressed by the poor state of health of those who lived in infested houses. After conducting physical examinations, we found that the affected persons, especially the children, showed symptoms of a chronic disease unlike those already known and described. These symptoms included some that occur in trypanosomiasis in man and household animals, such as generalized lymph node enlargement, edema, swollen face, etc. We then recalled many patients in that area who had sought me out earlier, sometimes with and sometimes without fever, and these patients always presented the same intense morbid condition and symptoms for which I was then unable to diagnose the cause. Their fever did not yield to quinine, and no malaria parasites could be found in their blood. Our first breakthrough was finding a cat with parasitic hemoflagellates in a house where ''barbeiros'' were abundant. The first examinations of fresh blood from chronic sufferers were without result. When we were later called to treat a child in grave condition, febrile, with very pronounced swelling in the face, many enlarged nodes in different regions, and thyroid hypotro-phy, we found numerous flagellates in freshly drawn blood. By staining them I was able to identify them as the same parasite transmitted by the ''barbeiro'' to laboratory animals. Examination of guinea pigs inoculated with blood from this first patient revealed a development of the same process previously observed, and in the lungs we found a schizogony of eight units identical to those observed in our studies of the life cycle of Schizotrypanum cruzi. We obtained more positive results by inoculating guinea pigs with blood from chronic patients. This procedure established the new human-disease entity produced by Schizotrypanum cruzi. We communicated the results of our work to Dr. Oswaldo Cruz, the director of the Manguinhos Institute, who sent a preliminary report to the National Academy of Medicine. Due to other commitments, we could not begin the detailed clinical study of the disease until ten months after these findings. The transmitting insect is a heteropterous hemipteran, species megistus, genus Conorhinus, family Reduvidae (sic). Dr. Arthur Neiva has recently published a detailed study of its biology in the Memorias do Institute Oswaldo Cruz. Conorhinids invade homes, where they actively multiply, becoming exceedingly numerous and troublesome to the occupants. The many cracks in the mud walls of primitive, grassthatched huts are the preferred habitat of the bug, where it greatly multiplies. Even better-built houses, if they offer suitable hiding places, are infested with the bug. The bug can find shelter in the cellars of houses, and enters occupied rooms at night through cracks in the floor. On small farms in the region, we found Conorhinids in different outbuildings such as carriage-houses, storerooms, stables, etc. The bug Source: Carlos Chagas: Coletânea de Trabalhos Cientificos. Brasilia, Editora Universidade de Brasilia, 1981. English version in The Challenge of Epidemiology: issues and Selected Readings. Pan American Health Organization, 1988. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association


Abstract The purpose of this research was to investigate whether or not the use of "Team Word-Webbing Technique" effective in teaching writing analytical exposition text at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Sungai Ambawang in academic year 2016/2017. This research applied a quasi-experimental design. The population of this research was XI IPA 2 as the experimental group and XI IPA 1 as the control group. The data was collected by using measurement technique with written test as the tool of collecting data. The research findings showed that the mean score of pre-test in the experimental group was 30.25, while the mean score of post-test was 66.71. On the other hand, the mean score of  pre-test in the control group was 28.15, while mean score of the post-test was 56.03. The computation result by using t-test showed the value of t-test was 6.34 with df 62 in the significance degree of 5%, t-table was 1.99897, it meant that t-test was higher than t-table. Furthermore, the effect size of treatment was 0.65 which was classified as "moderate". Thus, the significant difference could be interpreted that the use of team word-webbing technique was effective in improving the students' ability in writing analytical exposition text. Keywords: Analytical Exposition Text, Teaching Writing, Team Word-Webbing.


Natural convection in partially porous cylindrical cavities is of great interest as several engineering applications involve the interaction between a saturated porous medium and a free fluid which saturates it. Though stationary free convection in porous cavities has been widely investigated in the past, only few works consider the transient thermal evolution of this phenomenon and no works are available referred to partially porous annular cavities. However, most of the real technical applications operate in dynamic mode: for this reason, this paper focuses on the transient numerical analysis of heat transfer in partially porous cylindrical domains where natural convection occurs. A fully explicit version of the CBS algorithm is employed here to solve generalized porous medium flow equations which describe temporal evolution of velocity and temperature fields for both sub-domains of the cavity; a dual time stepping procedure is employed for transient analyses. Several cases have been analyzed, by changing the cavity aspect ratio and thermo-physical parameters of the fluid. Several results have been presented by changing both porous medium's properties and geometrical characteristics of the domain. Particular attention is given to the dependence of temperature fields on the properties and geometry of the porous layer, by comparing the results obtained for different positions and thickness of the porous sub-domain; The obtained results highlight that both the properties and the position of porous layer inserted into the computational domain strongly influence the thermal behavior of the cavity.


Clean water is essential for human health. Lack of it leads to water borne diseases and environmental pollution. Several techniques that include chlorination, distillation and water sediment filters have been used to purify water however, some of these techniques are expensive, toxic and have many limitations. The use of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) for water purification has been found to be easier, non-toxic and cost effective. Silver nanoparticles were biosynthesized from Moringa oleifera leaves, stem back, roots and seeds using biomass reaction of aqueous extracts from the different parts of the plants with aqueous solutions of silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ). Spectrometric results showed the presence of nanoparticles in all the extracts to be between the ranges of 350 to 450 wavelengths while the absorbance rate was seen to be within the standard range for silver nanoparticles (1nm – 100nm). This study reveals that Silver nano particles obtained from Moringa oleifera can be used in water purification even though further research on characterization of the particles needs to be done.


We simulate measurements of the absolute branching fractions for D0 meson semileptonic decays for D0→K-e+veand D0→π-e+ve by analyzing the Monte Carlo events generated for e+e-→Ψ(3770)→D,where the DD-meson pairs are set to automatically decay to all possible final states.These Monte Carlo events are simulated in the BES-Ⅲ detector.Based on a full Monte Carlo simulation and full physics analysis,we study how well we can measure the absolute branching fractions for D0→K-e+veand D0→π-e+ve with the data to be collected with the BES-III detector at the BEPC-Ⅱ collider.We find that we can measure these branching fractions at the accuracy levels of 2.2(2.0)% and 3.6(2.5)% with ~5(20) fb-1 of Ψ(3770) data.Based on the simulated measurements of decay branching fractions,we also study at what precision levels we can measure the form factors f+K(π)(0).These measurements will be of great importance in more precisely testing the standard model.


Cathy Greenhalgh considers the making of her essay film Cottonopolis(90', 2020). The film combines memories of three different yet interconnected 'Manchesters', that is historical mega-textile cities Manchester (England), Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India) and Łódź (Poland), with observations of contemporary handloom and power loom cotton manufacture. In her anticipated film Greenhalgh employs documentary techniques, reflexive essay and meditation, sensory and material culture ethnography, as well as oral historiography and experimental visual immersion. She sets out to discuss film production concerns related to questions of the cinematographic, ethnographic and essayistic. Her analysis is underpinned by a practice point-of-view, conversations with Indian film colleagues and various theories of essay, ethnographic and documentary film practice, eco-criticism, world cinema and diaspora aesthetics.


Abstract: Spatial planning and water policy in Europe have strong string interdependency on several territorial issues. This paper searches for the complementariness between them to explain that integration of water man-agement and territorial development can create opportunities for economic development but also reduces vulner-ability of regional development. This is illustrated against the backdrop of global climate change as one of the major challenges for territorial development. By proactively adapting to climate change, the economic develop-ment of the region can be safeguarded. Keywords : Spatial planning; Territorial cohesion; Adaptation strategies; Water Management; Climate Change 1 Introduction – climate change as a driving force for integrating spa-tial planning and water management in Europe Synergies between EU sectoral policies have been the profound objective at the backdrop of European Integra-tion. There are numerous complementarities and links between the Directorates-Generals (DGs) that are respon-sible for a specific task or policy area but integration of them has proven somewhat difficult. Nevertheless, the issue stands on the Commission's political agenda, as the white book on European governance illuminates (CEC, 2001). Ideally, spatial planning policy in Europe amalgamates the objectives of sectoral policies, thereby antici-pating on the European model of society, giving impetus to the European Integration, and stimulates economic growth, creation of jobs, and enhances quality of life on a sustainable matter. Without a formal Community competence, spatial planning in Europe is not even a policy and does not have a procedural legislative frame-work to describe spatial policy. As a matter of fact, '…European spatial planning is a game in the margins of formal EU policies played by a small number of officials from the Commission and the Member States, as well as some modestly concerned ministers responsible for spatial planning…'(Waterhout, 2007, p37). An example of a sectoral policy which has strong legislative instruments is the EU water policy under the DG environment. Water policy has several directives of the 'third wave' (Grimeaud, 2004) such as the Water Framework Directive (WFD) (2000) and the recently approved directive on the assessment and management of Floods (FMD) (2007). In these directives coordination and cooperation between sectoral policies is advocated. This paper focuses on the relation and interdependency between spatial planning and water management with the most eminent ques-tion why there should be (further) integration between territorial development and water management in Europe. Why search for causal links between water management and spatial planning in European context? One of the main driving forces for integration can be found in the adaptation to the occurrence of natural hazards. Natural hazards have always threatened the environment and its ecosystems, but due to their resilience, they re-covered and adapted to their impacts (De Bruijn, 2004). The past decades vulnerability of the environment has increased when natural and technical hazards –hazards emanating from technical constructs– enforced by human activities did not only posed a threat to ecosystems but also to the anthropogenic structures and socio-economic processes (Schmidt-Thome, 2006). One of the most challenging natural disasters which effects social,- eco-


In this paper, we present the effect of the bank of capacity linked to stator windings, which used for the excitation of the generator to regulate the amplitude of produced voltage and frequency. The machine that we study is the Double Fed Induction Generator (DFIG). The main object is to control voltage amplitude and the frequency by simple access to the produced power. Note that this generator is frequently used to the wind turbine and gives birth to the Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS). Looking to the instability of the wind and its variable speed, this condition makes very variable voltage amplitude. This result impresses a variable excitation system to stabilize voltage amplitude and the frequency.


According to the main workflow of the contaminated site investigation and evaluation in applications,design scheme of database for the contaminated site was discussed to manage the contaminated site and evaluate risk,which contained the establishment of data standard,the overall structure design and the datasheet design of the database.The contents also included design scheme of the contaminated site investigation and assessment information system,such as object of the system,overall structure and modular design.The design scheme provided technical support for further construction of the system.


Notes on the Contributors Introduction A.Kondo Citizenship Rights for Aliens in Japan A.Kondo Access to Citizenship for Aliens in the Netherlands G.Rene de Groot Citizenship Rights for Aliens in Sweden E.Dingu-Kyrklund Citizenship Rights for Aliens in France B.Guiguet Citizenship Rights for Aliens in Germany K.Hailbronner Patterns of Privilege Citizenship Rights in Britain Z.Layton-Henry The Rights and Obligations of Immigrant Citizens and Non-Citizens in Australia S.Castles & G.Zappala Aliens and Citizens in New Zealand P.Spoonley Citizenship Rights and Non-citizens: A Canadian Perspective D.Galloway Change and Convergence: Is American Immigration Still Exceptional?: T.C.Heller Comparison of Citizenship and Aliens' Rights A.Kondo Bibliography Index