The invention provides a method and a device for loading a video popped screen. The method comprises the following steps of loading a web page with a video in a browser, and acquiring the website information of the web page and the information of the video played in the web page; acquiring screen popping data corresponding to the played video according to the website information; generating at least one window on the side of the browser, and correspondingly displaying the screen popping data in the window according to the playing frame number information and/or playing time information of the played video. By the adoption of the method and the device, when the web page with the video is loaded in the browser, the information of the video can be acquired, and a comment corresponding to the video is loaded; the corresponding comment is loaded as the screen popping data according to the playing frame number of the video, so that a screen popping function can be added to videos on all web pages regardless of endowing of a video website with the screen popping function, and a user can add the video popped screen to the website video without the screen popping function.


This paper analyzes the status of the enterprise information technology and industrialization combination and investigates the way which promotes the enterprise information technology and industrialization combination.


In times where the prevalence of obesity increases steadily and has become one of the so called "top killers" of the world, it is necessary to understand more how obesity affects our body and more importantly why it affects our body in that manner. To do that this article will emphasize on the bidirectional relationship between obesity and mitochondrial dysfunction.  Overall said it appears that in patients suffering from obesity the total number of mitochondria seems to decrease in the different tissues due to an increase in production of the Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFa), which stimulates the extrinsic apoptotic pathway. However, it is of high importance to notice that the effects of obesity differ from tissue to tissue (as discussed later). Likewise, the production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) inside the mitochondria, seems to increase also. This increase in ROS is often also associated with damage of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) leading to mutations that may affect important metabolic pathways in the human body. Following mutations in the mitochondrial DNA can also be inherited in a maternal fashion and can lead to metabolic disorders like diabetes.  Moreover, it is important to mention that the effects of obesity will also differ from woman to men, because of hormonal reasons that cause different fat deposits in men (more visceral fat) compared to women, that tend to have higher fat deposits at gluteal and femoral subcutaneous regions. On the other hand, there is also a lot of evidence that supports the thesis of mitochondrial dysfunction leading to obesity. For example, in elderly people the volume of mtDNA decreases and may result also in metabolic changes. To conclude, this article gives some possible ideas on how mitochondrial dysfunction could be treated


The article proposed technical solutions for the use of a highly efficient contact water heater for heating systems and hot water supply for civil and industrial buildings. The schemes of the heating complex, separate for heating systems, separate for hot water systems and their description are given. The calculations of the economic efficiency of the contact method of heating are given. The expediency of using water contact heating units is shown. Bibl. 5, Fig. 5.


The aim of this paper is to evaluate the importance of semantic relations between words for the structure of a field. In order to do this, three notions 'lexical grouping', lexical field' and 'lexical net' are introduced. Each one of them can be seen as a candidate for the intuitive idea of lexical field. The three notions differ with respect to the weight they put on semantic relations between words as part of their semantic structure. Several relations between the three notions are investigated. This leads to the conclusion that a notion which employs dimensions as well as semantic relations is best for capturing the ground which intuitively a notion of lexical field should cover.


Abstract The use of inorganic supports as alternatives to organic solvents is becoming increasingly widespread in synthetic organic chemistry1,2. Such media involve milder reactions conditions, simpler work-up and often higher selectivity. We have undertaken a systematic study of anionic condensations on solid inorganic supports, and we have recently reported that malonic ester anions may be generated on "basic" inorganic supports (silica and alumina gels) where they undergo either intra- or intermolecular alkylation reactions selectively and in high yield3.


Erosion dominates among the degradation processes of chernozems (black soils) in Ukrainian. It covers 32% of the total area of agricultural land � 14.9 million hectares. The development of erosion processes depends on the combined effect of factors: climatic, geomorphologic, geologic (including the characteristics of parent rocks), hydrogeologic and technogenic impact. The purpose of the research is the analysis of natural and technogenic factors of chernozems degradation in Ukraine to develop the principles of preservation and restoration of their fertility. The comparative-analytical method, mechanical-mathematical bases of engineering geology in a complex with approaches of the system analysis were used in carrying out research. Remote sensing data (ALOS PALSAR, Sentinel) have been processed using a geoinformation system to the database of indicators of erosion processes such as relief steepness and Normalized Difference Moisture Index (NDMI). The assessment of the development of degradation processes has been done for the territory of polygon �Kherson", Ukraine. The parent rocks are loess, loess loam and sandy loams, eluvial rocks (carbonate), alluvial soils. There is a risk of development of the following dangerous geological processes: flooding, subsidence of loess soils, soil erosion, karst, development of gully network. The degree of erosion (degradation) within the polygon varies from 10-20% to 30-40%. Research methods developed to establish the patterns of erosion processes determined by natural factors will allow the development of zonal systems of anti-erosion measures aimed at protecting fertile soils.


Viewgraphs on technology transfer within NASA are provided. Assessment of technology transfer process, technology being transfered, issues and barriers, and observations and suggestions are addressed. Topics covered include: technology transfer within an organization (and across organization lines/codes) and space science/instrument technology and the role of universities in the technology development/transfer process.


The elastic displacement and stress fields of a bicrystalline thin foil formed by two welded anisotropic crystals are calculated when a biperiodic misfit dislocation network lies along the interface separating the two anisotropic crystal components. The analysis is similar to that already presented by us in this journal [R. Bonnet, phys. stat. sol. (a) 180, 487 (2000)] for two isotropic crystals. From calculations applied to the (111)CoSi 2 /(111)Si interface, anisotropic effects are shown to be much stronger near the heterointerface.


The invention relates to a multi-timezone time display system, which comprises a display screen, a zone location module, a clock interface generating module, a time adapter, a timezone time calculator and an updating trigger, wherein the zone location module is used for designating the position and size of the time display zone of each world timezone on a display screen; the clock interface generating module is used for generating a clock interface in the time display area of each world timezone which is designated by the zone location module; the time adapter is used for acquiring the current local system time; the timezone time calculator is used for calculating the current time of the world timezone according to the current local system time, local timezone and world timezone; and the updating trigger is used for demanding a color of the time display zone of each world timezone to update when a trigger event happens. The invention also discloses a multi-timezone time display method. According to the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the multi-timezone time display system can provide a multi-timezone time display service for users by using less system resources.


Summary form only given. The errors due to quantization in an image subband filter bank have been analyzed by explicitly incorporating a model for a Max-Lloyd quantizer into a quadrature mirror filter (QMF) splitting and reconstruction scheme. The used quantizer model, known as the gain-plus-additive-noise model, consists of a signal part with less than unity gain and a random part that is uncorrelated with the input signal. Measurements show that this model accurately fits the data. Moreover, it enables such coding errors as aliasing, QMF design errors, signal errors, and random errors to be discriminated. A mean-squared error (MSE) calculation and a subjective evaluation of these coding errors on both monochrome and color images have shown that luminance errors are more dominant than chrominance errors, even when the chrominance signals only use 25% of the bits. Further, aliasing errors do occur in the case of quantization. They are not completely cancelled anymore by the QMFs. These errors, however, can be neglected for filter lengths of 16 taps or more. The signal error determines the sharpness of the reconstructed image, while the random error appears in flat areas but also round edges.<<ETX>>


The poet Zhou Changyuan comes from Ankang city.He had worked hard for many years,and got lots of achievement.The Poetry anthology "Song of Ankang"had published recently.Poetry anthology shows the talent of the poet.The recital poem of Zhou Changyuan pays close attention to the current reality.The recital poem shows the intervention,the participation and the spirit of assumption.It shows the sprit of exploration and the literary valuable.The exploration and the practice in the art of Zhou Changyuan's poetry had shown the efforts that they went to establish close contact between history and reality.His creation provided rich resources and the experience that worth using for the creation currently.


Superhydrophobic nano-flower surfaces were fabricated using MEMS technology and microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) of carbon nanotubes on silicon micro-post array surfaces. The nano-flower structures can be readily formed within 1–2 min on the micro-post arrays with the spacing ranging from 25 to 30 µm. The petals of the nano-flowers consisted of clusters of multi-wall carbon nanotubes. Patterned nano-flower structures were characterized using various microscopy techniques. After MPCVD, the apparent contact angle (160 ± 0.2°), abbreviated as ACA (defined as the measured angle between the apparent solid surface and the tangent to the liquid–fluid interface), of the nano-flower surfaces increased by 139% compared with that of the silicon micro-post arrays. The measured ACA of the nano-flower surface is consistent with the predicted ACA from a modified Cassie–Baxter equation. A high-speed CCD camera was used to study droplet impact dynamics on various micro/nanostructured surfaces. Both static testing (ACA and sliding angle) and droplet impact dynamics demonstrated that, among seven different micro/nanostructured surfaces, the nano-flower surfaces are the most robust superhydrophobic surfaces.


This contribution is a plea for the substitution of the grand narratives of literary history by small 'good (hi)stories.' These 'good (hi)stories' must be based on a detailed reconstruction of the literary realities: on the testimony of the work itself, on its transmission, on the description of the social networks in which the works circulated and which they addressed. An integrated view of these 'good (hi)stories' can help develop a dynamically changing picture of a possible literary history of the Middle Ages which must be negotiated further in the scholarly discussion. Two examples will demonstrate this model: Otfried's Evangelienbuch and the paraphrase of the Song of Songs by Williram of Ebersberg.


Nonopioid medications were at least as effective as opioid medications for improving pain-related function over 12 months in adults with severe chronic back pain or knee or hip osteoarthritis pain. The evidence that opioids are not superior to nonopioid medications for chronic and acute pain continues to mount.


In this editorial, we provide guidance regarding the design and execution of replication, reproducibility, and generalizability studies and explain the unique purpose and empirical contribution of each research design to the overall knowledge generation and consolidation cycle. We evaluate these research designs within the confines of JOMSR's mission to avoid novel theorizing, but instead to engage only in testing of existing theory or of combinations of existing theory. We identify two important dimensions on which these research designs can vary, independence and constructiveness, and highlight the particular utility of independent studies that are high in constructiveness. We offer suggestions for the identification of suitable targets for reproducibility and replication as well as concrete examples demonstrating high-quality theory testing.


In this study, we investigate the electrical and noise performances of accumulation-mode n- and p-MOSFETs on Si(110) wafers and compare them with conventional MOSFETs fabricated either on Si(100) or Si(110) wafers. With regard to electrical performances, accumulation-mode p-type MOSFETs are in every aspect superior. However, its n-type counterpart does not provide the best performances even though they are still superior to conventional transistors when fabricated on the same type of wafer. Conventional inversion-mode n-MOSFETs on Si(100) wafers still display the best performances. The simultaneous improvement and reduction in drivability respectively in the p- and n-type transistors make the accumulation-mode MOSFETs fabricated on Si(110) wafers extremely well suited for complementary technologies owing to their great balance in terms of drivability. With regard to noise evaluation, accumulation-mode MOSFETs on Si(110) wafers exhibit the highest noise level even though they compare relatively well with the inversion transistors on Si(110) wafers, especially for p-type ones. The lowest noise level is obtained for conventional inversion-mode MOSFETs on Si(100) wafers, and the type of wafer upon which transistors are fabricated is the reason. Indeed, the fabrication of high-quality Si/SiO2 interfaces is better achieved for silicon wafers with a (100) crystallographic orientation, leading to few interface defects and consequently less noise.


Introduction: Injuries to facial bones, orbits, and adjacent soft tissue structures are common. They are usually caused by motor vehicle accidents. Scientific evidence has shown that maxillofacial trauma is related to severe injuries, so a meticulous evaluation of the injuries should be performed because they can have a devastating sequelae. The treatment of these situations is complex and challenging, since in addition to compromising the esthetic aspect, it also compromises the function of multiple structures and also causes psychological damage.
Objective: to detail the current information related to maxillofacial trauma, definitions, epidemiology, management, airway, circulation, hemorrhage control, prophylaxis with systemic antibiotics and maxillofacial surgery.
Methodology: a total of 52 articles were analyzed in this review, including review and original articles, as well as clinical cases, of which 39 bibliographies were used because the other articles were not relevant for this study. The sources of information were PubMed, Google Scholar and Cochrane; the terms used to search for information in Spanish, Portuguese and English were: facial trauma, maxillofacial trauma, facial fractures, airway management in trauma, antibiotic prophylaxis, facial surgery.
Results: oral-maxillofacial trauma represents approximately 7.4 to 8.7% of medical emergencies. Male-female ratio of 4:1, the most frequent causes being traffic accidents, aggressions, falls, sports accidents and accidents at work. The anatomical sites usually affected by facial fractures are the mandible with 44.2 %, zygomatic complex with 32.5 %, nasal bones with 16.2 %. There is a 10 to 15% probability of presenting a cervical spine injury in unconscious individuals with severe maxillofacial trauma. The frequency of infection following maxillofacial fractures varies according to various findings, with results ranging from 0 to 62%.
Conclusions: Trauma management has improved over time, decreasing mortality in the golden hour, however, there are still challenges in trauma management such as those presented in maxillofacial alterations in a polytraumatized individual. The importance of the totality of maxillofacial injuries is found in that they pose an immediate threat to life as a result of their proximity to both the airway and the brain. The approach to airway management in maxillofacial trauma is of utmost importance, so a patent or definitive airway must be maintained by means of orotracheal intubation, nasotracheal intubation and surgical airway. It is essential to have an adequate protocol for airway management in maxillofacial trauma, as well as to maintain control of circulation and possible bleeding. Currently the use of systemic antibiotic prophylaxis is an accepted procedure to reduce the risk of infection or clinical prevention strategy. Surgery in individuals with maxillofacial trauma, particularly those with full face fractures or severe complex comminuted fractures remains a challenge. Usually, maxillofacial trauma coexists with other injuries, which could imply not being able to perform early surgical correction, increasing the risk of leading to situations of infection, nonunion and malocclusion.
KEY WORDS: trauma, maxillofacial, airway, fractures, management, surgery.


Abstract : Concrete functioning individuals were shown to generalize in their impressions further than abstract functioning individuals at both higher and lower levels of informational input when the input was hedonically consistent with the direction of inference. Concrete functioning individuals generalized less than abstract functioning individuals, however, when the input information was hedonically inconsistent with the direction of inference. These findings may be interpreted as supporting the notion that concrete persons, more than abstract individuals, are disposed toward seeing the 'good' person as all good and the 'bad' person as all bad, minimizing the plausibility that the same person could simultaneously possess both good and bad characteristics. The findings thus point to concrete-abstract functioning as a variable of considerable weight in the extent of inferences people make of others. (Author)


Abstract A rigid–plastic/viscoplastic element free Galerkin (EFG) method is introduced based on the flow formulation for rigid–plastic/viscoplastic materials to analyse the metal forming processes. The penalty function method is employed to introduce the volume constancy condition, and the stiffness matrix equation is derived according to incomplete generalised variational principle. The transformation method is adopted to impose the essential boundary condition in the local coordinate system. In order to implement the frictional boundary conditions, the transform matrix from the global coordinate system to the local coordinate system is given, and the arctangent frictional model is used. The meshless analysis techniques for metal forming processes with arbitrary shaped die are developed. The plane strain forming process is analysed numerically by using the rigid(visco)–plastic EFG method. The simulation results of the EFG method are in good agreement with those obtained by using the rigid(visco)–plastic FEM, and the effectiveness of the model and key techniques is verified.


2020 started off with the hit of Covid-19 which has halted various sectors including the educational sector. The mode of learning has abruptly changed to online learning as the virus limits any physical contact and almost everyone was affected. Language anxiety is not a newly coined term and has been around for a long time. However, research that studies second language anxiety in online mode classes is still very limited. Therefore, this research intended to investigate the contributing factors towards KUPTM's TESL Undergraduates language anxiety and discover the coping strategies in dealing with such anxiety in an online learning environment. A mixed method study involving a survey and four (4) interviews was done. All 105 participants of this research were the students who were involved in online language learning. The data from the survey was analysed using IBM SPSS Statistic 25, while the interviews would support the quantitative findings through thematic analysis. The findings showed that the biggest factor that leads to language anxiety is the fear of negative evaluation, followed by the factor of distractions and the lack of a productive environment, and the third factor discovered from the data is communication apprehension. The coping strategies were divided into three domains; cognitive, affective and behavioural. It was found that the most used coping strategies by the participants of this research was behavioural. The results highlight a number of implications and recommendations for future researchers.


The invention relates to a simulator model used for simulating tumor ultrasonic radiography, comprising a tumor gum for simulating a tumor and a normal tissue gum for simulating the normal tissue around; the tumor gum shows high echo under a two dimension ultrasonic imaging mode and a harmonic wave ultrasonic imaging mode and then shows equal echo and no echo; and the normal tissues always shows the equal echo and no echo under the two dimension ultrasonic imaging mode and the harmonic wave ultrasonic imaging mode. The simulator can simulate the acoustics characteristics of the liver cancer under the ultrasonic radiography, which benefits the usage of the ultrasonic radiography scanning method and the exercise of tumor puncture biopsy and tumor ablation treatment under the guiding of the ultrasonic wave.


Aulascoscelinae, a small, neotropical subfamily of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), is almost unknown cytologi-cally. Although most male Aulacoscelis melanocera have 11+XO meioformula (corresponding to 2n = 23; X), with "nucleolus" attached to X, one male exhibited a condition best interpreted as ll + Xyp, with an unstable sex chromosome association.


Through a case of landscape planning and design object of green land of Henan Vocational-Technical Teachers College in Xinxiang, plot,principles and methods of landscape planning and design in the construction of green land of modern university campus were studied.


EFFECTS OF THE MINIMUM LEGAL DRINKING AGE ON THE BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS OF VICTIMS OF VIOLENT DEATH AGES 18-23 IN MARYLAND Stephanie A. Ainsworth, MA George Mason University, 2010 Thesis Director: David B. Wilson The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act is the most widely studied alcohol control policy in the United States. Despite this attention, however, inconsistencies remain among findings in previous literature. It is largely accepted that the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act was responsible for a considerable decrease in traffic-related teen fatalities, but little is known about its effectiveness in reducing homicides, suicides, and non-traffic accidents, the other leading causes of death among 18-23 year-olds in the United States. Moreover, most of the research that has been conducted thus far has been on a national scale using aggregate data for the U.S. The present analysis uses state-level data to analyze the effects of the minimum legal drinking age change on blood alcohol levels of victims of violent death in the state of Maryland. Data consists of all violent deaths of victims ages 18-23 in the state from one year before to one year after the minimum legal drinking age change. Using logistic regression and ANOVA, the data was analyzed for an interaction between age and the implementation of the minimum legal drinking age change. Although in the expected direction, results indicate that changing the minimum legal drinking age was not a significant factor in reducing violent deaths among the target population. These findings suggest that the minimum legal drinking age may have not have influenced traffic fatalities as was originally believed. Policy implications of these findings are further discussed.


Background: Avocado is a plant that can grow in tropical climates. In general, people only consume the fruit while the skin and seeds are not used. Avocado fruit, skin and seeds contain secondary metabolites such as flavonoids and tannins which have antioxidant activity. Objective: To determine antioxidant activity, total flavonoid, and total tannin content of the ethanol extract of avocado peel. Methods: P. americana Mill. was collected from Lubuk Linggau, South Sumatra. The ethanol extract of P. americana Mill. peel obtained by maceration with ethanol. Qualitative analysis of flavonoids using Mg and HCl while tannins using FeCl3. Determination of total flavonoid content was carried out with AlCl3 reagent and Folin-Ciocalteu reagent to determine the total tannin content and was measured by a UV-Vis Spectrophotometer. Determination of antioxidant activity using the DPPH method. Result: The results of the qualitative analysis showed that ethanol extract of avocado peel contained flavonoids and tannins. It also had antioxidant activity with IC50 of 41,93 µg/mL. The total flavonoid and tannin content of it were 125,01 mgQE/g extract and 53,82 mgTAE/g extract respectively. Conclusion: Ethanol extract of avocado peel had antioxidant activity, while the total flavonoid compounds was higher than the total tannins. Keywords: antioxidant, DPPH, total flavonoid, total tannins


Geopolymer (GP) foam as a fire protective coating was synthesized, deposited on a steel plate, hardened and evaluated using a burn‐through test at a reduced scale. It was shown that the GP foam acts as an efficient fire barrier (with 250°C reduction compared to virgin steel evaluated in the same conditions). A numerical model using Comsol Multiphysics (finite element code) was performed to simulate the fire behavior of the GP foam. It was based on the complete characterization of the GP foam to provide accurate input data for the model. The latter captures well the temperature rise, including the endothermal effect due to water vaporization. A parametric study of the porosity and the emissivity at the surface of the GP foam brings new insights to optimize the performance of the GP foam. It is shown that a porosity of 90% and an emissivity lower than 0.75 should provide the highest performance to GP foam. The fabrication of an optimized GP foam is feasible using a technology of low emissivity thin coating and by adjusting the synthesis of the GP foam to increase its porosity.


Some theoretical results about nanostar Dendrimer by topological indices are explained in this research paper. This paper details with 1st 2nd and 3rd cutting number Zagreb Index, Multiplicative and polynomial and also reverse hyper-Zagreb cutting number index multiplicative and polynomial of nanostar Dendrimer.


To investigate whether glutamine and glutamate (Glx) were elevated in Kennedy Disease (KD), and whether pathological proteins were spectroscopically visible as altered macromolecular (MM) resonances.


All educational technology, all pedagogy, has always explicit or implicit a philosophy of education, in order to determine the purposes of it, which will later lead to educational policies decided by the State. This article analyzes two paradigms in education: one conservative, the other progressive. Both of them hold education as a universal right, one from a "substitutionalist" universalism and the other from an "interactive" universalism. Only in the second one the differences can be thought as dismissing the hegemonic subject for which the recognition of the Other and the Other as an alter ego, mediated by narrative and dialogue is indispensable. This dialogue requires a comprehensive, understanding listening, that always reinforces the arguments of the other (he or she). This communication will be politically efficient if an inclusive moral contract exists. A contract that makes an invitation to tend bridges of listening as a precondition to collective construction.


In order to get sustainable harvesting and then to obtain the largest benefits,this paper bases on the model of increase in single spices making a detail study on the optimal exploitation of biological single spices,confirms the strategy of the optimal exploitation,extends the relative theories in literature and provides the theoretic basis for the practical management of renewable resources.


After more than a decade of the so-called Arab Spring in Egypt, it is perhaps time to carry out in cold an examination of the role the news media played during the uprising. In so doing, this piece examines the way Egyptian newspapers from the government and opposition reported those events. The study investigates to what extent the newspapers' coverage of the political events help to de-escalate or escalate tensions. It analyzed the content of two newspapers in Egypt; Al-Ahram, owned by the government and, Al-Wafd, owned by an opposition party. Our analysis included 366 news articles from 105 issues of the selected newspapers during nine weeks of 2011. The finding indicated that the coverage helped to escalate tension, including that of the government-owned newspaper that had more news coverage of this type than the opposition one. We argue that our findings invite further reflection upon normative assumptions regarding the news media editorial position, its relation to power, and individual agency.


Reducing insecurity: The principal objective of income transfers? Tax treatment of families in modern industrial countries: The role of the NIT


In Tripura, all the tribes are commonly called as Jhumias because they mainly depend on Jhum or shifting cultivation for their livelihood. Not only that, the socio-cultural life-pattern of the tribal communities is woven in such a way that it corresponds to this practice of cultivation. The Jhumias adopt primitive methods of food gathering or food production and make various traditional handicrafts. The paper documents the traditional system of crop husbandry and allied activities of tribals in Tripura.


American history teach ers are frequently frus trated by the demand to cover all of American his tory without being so su perficial that the students derive little from what is being taught. It is a challenge to incorporate the new developments in so cial and economic history without making political history too sketchy. Stu dents may see political de velopments as isolated events if politics are not discussed in relation to the larger society. When discussing post-Constitu tion political history, this can be accomplished by talking about political party systems rather than presidential administra tions. Party systems can be viewed not only as entities in themselves but also as part of a larger political culture. According to Professor John Lankford of the University of Missouri Columbia, a model of polit ical culture has component parts that are compatible and mutually reinforcing. (Gabriel Almond and Bingham Powell define political culture as "attitudes, beliefs, values, and skills which are current in an en tire population, as well as those special propensities and patterns which may be found within separate parts of that population" [23]). A change in one of the com ponents of a political cul ture is accompanied by changes in the other com ponents, and as a result one party system declines and a new one arises. Students can learn to make meaningful comparisons between party systems by studying a model which brings out different devel opments within the same structure. A broad model that includes social, eco nomic, and institutional development also shows the context in which political development has taken place. Once a model has been developed, students can use it to examine other systems. The model we will use has four components. The first is a rhetoric with various symbols, myths, and heroes that are peculiar to it. Leaders in the politi cal system constantly refer to these symbols and heroes to gain acceptance of a proposed or completed course of action; these key elements of the rhetoric are the short-hand phrases which make the political system meaningful to the general population. Polit ical opponents may share a common rhetoric, though each group will claim an exclusive proprietorship of the heroes and symbols involved. Each political culture is also characterized by a particular social psycholo gy. Popular participation in the political system influences the political ideology that the party will espouse and the way the political leaders will operate. Developing cer tain norms of belief and conduct is essential; the political structure could not operate effectively without them. Every political culture also has a key institution. While it is central to the operation of the political system, this institution


Objective
To study the preparation method and analytical technique of hyperoside from Flos Abelmoschus manihot.

Methods
Hyperoside was isolated and purified by solvent extract and chromatography, whose structure was determined by 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR. The purity was analyzed by TLC and HPLC.

Results
The TLC showed that the hyperoside had no impurity spot. The HPLC indicated that the purity reached more than 98.5%.

Conclusions
The mothod of isolation and purification for hyperoside reported in this paper was simple and economical.

Key words:
Hyperin; Extraction; Isolation & Purification; Chromatography, high pressure liquid


"Kafka was the rage," proclaimed literary critic Anatole Broyard (1993) in his memoir of Greenwich Village during the 1950s. But perhaps Broyard was mistaken to speak in the past tense, considering that Kafka is more popular than ever. Over the last decade, an international collection of scholars has produced new translations of Kafka's writings (Harmon, p. xii), and Kafka has emerged as an important cultural icon. For example, underground artist Robert Crumb published an illustrated account of Kafka's life (Mairowitz and Crumb 2000), and Kafka was the subject of two feature films and an Oscar-winning short feature (Soderbergh 1992; Jones 1993; Capaldi 1995). More recently, theatrical versions of "The Metamorphosis" were staged in major cities (Christiansen 2000), and avant-garde composer Philip


Abstract : General problems involved in the synthesis and performance of special-purpose multicomputer systems are discussed. Three trends in the organization of joint operation of computers are distinguished: (1) Joint operation of a few existing various general-purpose computers; (2) Joint operation of a few identical general-purpose computers; (3) A special-purpose computing system (SPCS) which may consist of different or identical computers. Parallel and sometimes series-parallel algorithms are most suitable for SPCS; their efficiency can be evaluated by the minimum algorithm length and the total number of required operations. These indices of performance of SPCA are considered: (a) productivity, i.e., the net machine time spent in solving a problem; (b) productivity ratio, i.e., the ratio of the time required to solve a problem by one computer to the time required to solve the same problem by SPCS consisting of identical computers; (c) structural suitability of algorithm to SPCS; (d) utilization factor of SPCS; (e) complexity and economy of SPCS.


We report an easy and low-cost method for the preparation of highly homogeneous electroactive substrates that can be used simultaneously for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and electrochemical measurements. The restriction...


As part of a programme to integrate the genetic and physical chromosome maps of Brassica oleracea we have carried out fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of B. oleracea var. alboglabra, using repeat sequence DNA probes. We have confirmed that there are three 18S-5.8S-25S rDNA sites in the haploid genome and accurately determined their locations for the first time; two occur subtelomerically on the short arms of the two satellited acrocentric chromosomes (chromosomes 4 and 7), whereas the third site is adjacent to the centromere on the short arm of a large submetacentric chromosome (chromosome 2). 5S rDNA sequences are located on the long arm of this same chromosome, with closely adjacent major and minor loci. A highly repeated sequence (pBcKB4) colocalizes with the pericentromeric heterochromatin on all chromosomes, but six chromosomes exhibit very strong signals whereas the remaining three show only weak signals. The construction of a partial karyotype for B. oleracea var. alboglabra, based on several major cytogenetical landmarks provided by FISH localization of repetitive DNA sequences, provides a valuable framework for the future physical mapping of nonrepetitive sequences.


In this paper, we consider decentralized optimization problems where agents have individual cost functions to mini-mize subject to subspace constraints that require the min-imizers across the network to lie in low-dimensional sub-spaces. This constrained formulation includes consensus optimization as special case, and allows for more general task relatedness models such as multitask smoothness and coupled optimization. In order to cope with communication constraints, we propose and study a quantized differential based approach where the communicated estimates among agents are quantized. The analysis shows that, under some general conditions on the quantization noise, and for sufficiently small step-sizes µ, the strategy is stable in the mean-square error sense. The analysis also reveals the influence of the gradient and quantization noises on the performance.


Heat exchanging type distillation column for separating the components in the fluid mixture. This heat exchanging type distillation column, a stripping section (S), and rectifying section (R), a compressor (2) are provided in between these stripping section and rectifying section. Furthermore, the stripping portion (S) and the rectifying section and the heat exchange assembly for transferring heat between the (R), mass transfer assembly for condensation and evaporation the heat exchanging type distillation column door is provided. Said stripping portion (S), the rectifying section (R), or the these stripping section (S) and the rectifying section (R), have a channel formed by adjacent channel assembly (6) and it is, each channel assembly comprises a structural portion of the heat exchanging type distillation to form a functional part of the mass transfer assembly and the heat exchanger assembly. A plate (8), and two or more packing is structured in the form of corrugated plates is provided. BACKGROUND OF THE 4a


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The electrochemical behavior of the methanol oxidation on the platinum electrode with different concentration H2SO4 solution was studied by using cycl ic voltammetry. The solution acidity scarcely affected the oxidation characteris tic of methanol on platinum. The peak potentials for methanol oxidation changed little, and reached 0.17 V and -0.03 V(vs. Hg / Hg2SO4) for potential forward an d backward scan respectively. However, the solution acidity affected the rate of methanol oxidation on platinum. The current of methanol oxidation increased wit h the decreasing of the solution acidity. This phenomenon could be explained by the difference of the formation of platinum oxide on platinum.


RFIDs are emerging as a vital component of the Internet of Things. In 2012, billions of RFIDs have been deployed to locate equipment, track drugs, tag retail goods, etc. Current RFID systems, howev...


The invention relates to an OSB (oriented strand board) high-strength composite laminated board and a production process. The OSB high-strength composite laminated board comprises an OSB board and a laminated board (3), and the laminated board (3) is pasted on an upper surface or/ and a lower surface of the OSB board. The production process includes following steps: a. OSB board surface sanding; b. gluing and veneering; c. cold-pressing; d. hot-pressing; e. maintenance; and f. polishing. The OSB high-strength composite laminated board has the advantages that since the laminated board is pasted on the surface of the OSB board, the composite laminated board is high in strength and smooth on surface, can be widely used as decorating boards, furniture face boards, vessel cabin boards and carriage boards and the like, application range of the OSB board is greatly enlarged. The composite laminated board is scientific and reasonable in production process, high in product qualification rate and fine in quality.


We establish stability inequalities for the problem of determining the potential, appearing in a Sch\"odinger equation, from partial boundary data in the high frequency limit. These stability inequalities hold under the assumption that the potential is known near the boundary of the domain under consideration.


The invention discloses a method for automatically registering for an account for a mobile phone client user, which comprises that: firstly, the unique identifier of a client is established, and when used for the first time, the client sends the unique identifier to a server; and secondly, a server receives and stores the unique identifier and at the same time, generates an account number and a password for the user. The method makes the user name and the password automatically allocated and managed by the system rather than input manually by the user when the user uses Internet application needing account registration, thereby bringing a great convenience to the mobile phone user.


Objective To study the anti-proliferation effect and preliminary mechanism of dehydroequol on NB4 cells.Methods Thiazole blue colorimetry and typan blue exclusion assay were used to study the effect of dehydroequol and analogues on proliferation of several types of tumor cells.Cell cycle analysis and apoptosis assay were used to investigate the preliminary mechanism of dehydroequol on NB4 cells.Results Dehydroequol was the strongest of these compounds by comparmy dehydroequol and its analogs.Dehydroequol significantly inhibited the proliferation of many cancer cell lines,especially the proliferation of NB4 cells.Dehydroequol significantly inhibited the proliferation of NB4 cells in a dose and time dependent manner,arrested NB4 cells in G1 phase and induced apoptosis in NB4 cells.Conclusion Dehydroequol can exert a conspicuous anti-proliferation on NB4 cells possibly by arresting NB4 cells in G1 phase and inducing apoptosis in NB4 cells.


The Proclamation of Jesus seeks to place Jesus in the context of first-century Palestinian Judaism. The authors hope to discern the essence of his preaching, his concept of the kingdom of God, and the place of purity in his teaching and activities. Better methods for assessing not simply the authenticity of reported sayings and deeds, but for tracing the development of tradition are considered. The authors are convinced that most of the Synoptic tradition is authentic, but that much of it has been reinterpreted and recontextualized. Herein lies the real challenge for those investigating the historical Jesus. The Proclamation of Jesus opens up new avenues of study and makes new proposals for understanding Jesus in the context of his place and time.


This study presents the textural characteristics of wheat-cassava bread in terms of its response to compression, piercing and tearing forces. High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) has been found suitable for incorporation into wheat flour for the production of acceptable bread. Compression, piercing and tensile or tearing tests were performed with a Universal texture testing machine Testometric (M500). Results showed that there was no significant change recorded (p 0.05) until day 2, i.e. the third day after baking and though the Control with no cassava was markedly different from the others, the cassava samples were comparable in texture. Storage time was found to influence textural characteristics in terms of compression more than the level of cassava inclusion while both level of cassava inclusion and storage time seem to affect piercing as well as tearing strengths. From this study, the inclusion of up to 20% cassava does not seem to impair the texture of wheat/cassava bread.


The author pleads for the use of surgical procedures, when indicated, which will conserve the functions of the larynx. It would seem that mutilating operations are used where lesser operations maintaining function would be equally successful.


The operation GE is a publicly held company that the shares of GE are being traded on New York, Boston and London Stock Exchanges. GE consists of six business lines which are GE Infrastructure,…


The present invention relates to a sensor module (1) for a motor vehicle, wherein the sensor module (1) comprising: a power supply device (10) which is adapted to provide electrical energy; a sensor device (20) which is coupled to the power supply means (10) and which is adapted to provide a measurement signal; and an interface device (30) which is coupled to the power supply means (10) and the sensor means (20) and which is formed to transmit the measurement signal to a control unit.


COPyRIGHT Copyright © 2017 by author(s) and EnPress Publisher LLC. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/ Cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It has become a major public health problem. Cancer develops from the transformation of normal cells into tumour cells in a multistage process that can affect any part of the body. Generally, there are six hallmarks of cancer, which includes sustaining proliferative signalling, evading growth suppressors, activating invasion and metastasis, enabling replicative immortality, inducing angiogenesis and resisting cell death. Research suggests two additional hallmarks which are emerging hallmarks (deregulating cellular energetics and avoiding immune destruction) and two enabling characteristics (tumour-promoting inflammation, and genome instability and mutation).


The purpose of the study was, "Development of Norms for Testing Breath Holding Capacity of Collegiate Students of Average Health in Pune City". The Researcher selected the Chandrasekhar Agashe College, Bharati Vidyapeeth College of physical education, S. P. Pune University Department of physical education for research purpose. 300 male collegiate students are selected for the data collection as per simple random sampling technique. After that researcher collects the data, from those collegiate students with the help of After Inhalation and After Exhalation. After, the data collection the researcher analysis the data with the help of descriptive statistics (percentile norms and t-test). To development of norms of collegiate students.


In multiple measurement vectors (MMV) problems, the sparsity structure, i.e., the support of the measurement vectors, remains constant for multiple instants. For machine type communication (MTC) context, this sparsity structure may remain constant over all symbols in a frame, which can be termed as frame-wise sparsity. Instead of employing symbol-by-symbol detection based on algorithms such as orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP), group orthogonal matching pursuit (GOMP) can take advantage of this constant sparsity structure and decodes group of symbols together in order to improve the accuracy. Unfortunately, the exponential growth in computational complexity of the GOMP algorithm with the group size prohibits it from increasing the group size and fully exploiting the frame-wise sparsity. This letter presents an iterative order recursive least square (IORLS) algorithm, which can exploit the frame-wise sparsity and increase accuracy. IORLS iteratively employs a modified OMP operations over a frame to gather the sparsity support information with manageable complexity. IORLS substantially reduces complexity by avoiding the matrix inversions in OMP and GOMP algorithms. Furthermore, it has been shown that the proposed algorithm is robust against noise, achieving near-oracle estimation performance.


A work based on the development of a new process for the fabrication of a C/C composite for aeronautic and aerospace industries, in order to reduce the infiltration duration of the carbon preform, is reported in this paper. The infiltration of a carbon fibrous preform by the mean of a hydrocarbon in the supercritical fluid state is done at high temperature in order to get a carbon matrix. The microstructure of the pyrocarbon coating is characterized by optical microscopy. The experimental parameters (temperature, hydrocarbon pressure, residence time) are tuned in order to elaborate the carbon matrix. The best conditions lead to a rapid densification in-depth from the top of the preform. After several experiments, the densification has been improved.


Establish the supply chain network equilibrium model with stochastic demands at the retail outlets,design a quantity discount contract,and point out that the decisions of supply chain network members will not be optimal under disruptions.It is proved by the numerical example that the antidisruption -ability of the supply chain network will be improved with the quantity discount contract.


In a type of single coronary artery, anomaly of right coronary artery originating from left circumflex coronary artery as a terminal extension is extremely rare. It has previously been reported mostly in young adult patients. We herein present the oldest case with a single coronary artery with anomalous right coronary artery arising from distal left circumfelx artery and severe atherosclerotic stenosis in the left anterior descending artery.


The mold temperature directly affect the forming quality and cost of the injection parts.This article analyzed the cooling circuits design principles and features,and used CAE analysis software Moldflow to analyze the cooling process,it improved the mold cooling circuits reasonable and efficiency,and short mold design cycle,cut down injection forming cycle.


BACKGROUND: Elevated free radical generation in inflamed joints and impaired antioxidant systems have been implicated in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The present study was performed to evaluate dietary nutrient intake and plasma oxidant status in RA patients. METHODS: This case-control study comprised 75 RA patients and equal number of age- and gender-matched controls. Nutrient intake was estimated by using a semi-quantitative food fre- quency questionnaire. Blood samples were obtained from each group, and as an indicator of oxidant status, plasma concentrations of malondiadehyde (MDA) were measured. RESULTS: The mean calorie intake of RA patients was lower than that of the healthy controls. Energy-adjusted intake of fat, vitamin A and s-carotene were significantly lower in patients than in control .Plasma MDA concentration was significantly higher in RA patients than in controls (4.9±1.8 vs 2.1±0.6 nmoles/ml respectively,P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: These results suggest proper antioxidant nutrient intake management may re- duce free radical generation and improve antioxidant status in RA patients.


Purpose
This paper aims to evaluate the career patterns and global mobility trajectories of hospitality and tourism graduates that are relevant for global knowledge and local talent management.

Design/methodology/approach
This study maps and assesses the public profiles of over 2,000 hospitality and tourism graduates from five institutions each from a different territory using a popular online professional network.

Findings
The findings highlight a network of worldwide mobility from hospitality and tourism graduates of the five institutions. The findings also suggest five different types of mobility trajectories (i.e. stateside, intra-regional, continental, inter-regional and global) and career patterns (i.e. rooted, prospector, seeker, two-homes and wanderer).

Research limitations/implications
Geographical mobility of graduates in tourism and hospitality is one of the less studied phenomena; however, it is important to understand due to growing concerns regarding globalization of the workplace and internationalization of education.

Practical implications
This study provides insights into how knowledge transfer and talent management could be impacted by the global graduate movements.

Originality/value
This is one of the first studies to date to combine mobility trajectories with a classification of career patterns to provide implications relevant for global knowledge and local talent management.


Naval aviation is an unusually stressful career because of the inherent demands of the work. Stress is recognized as a cause of mishaps which involve pilot error. A questionnaire was adapted from Rahe and Homes' list of stressful life events in order to determine the relationship between pilot behavioral, personality, and life change factors on the one hand and responsibility for accidents on the other. A number of factors regarding interpersonal relationships, changes in personal behavior, personality factors, and life changes were found to discriminate between pilots who were and were not at fault in accidents.


Abstract
 One of the key aspects of natural selection is competition, yet the concept of competition is not necessarily emphasized in explanations of natural selection. Because of this, we developed an activity for our class that focuses on competition and provides an example of the effects of competition on natural selection. This hands-on activity models the field study completed by David Lack on Darwin's finches. By using this historical study, we also give students an example of the nature-of-science concept of multiple methods. Although this activity was created for a college introductory biology course, it is appropriate for high school. We also provide an additional objective for upper-level ecology and evolution courses.


Farms are interested in growing organic because of the possibility of a reduction of costs for inputs, the awareness of the reduction of environmental impacts and improved functioning of agroecosystems. In this context, the use of green manure becomes essential. The aim of this work was to evaluate the practice of green manure in the organic horticulture system. The experimental design adopted was blocks at random, factorial scheme involving two factors: green manure (control, lupine-white, lathirus and sunn hemp) and vegetables (lettuce, pepper and carrot), with three repetitions. The green manure were sown to haul and cut after 100 days. On straw Vegetables were grown on straw, evaluating the productivity of each culture. Cauliflower was grown in succession to lettuce. The lupine-white, in general, was the best fertilizer for the cultivation of green vegetables studied. Sunn hemp was effective for increasing the production of pepper and lathirus for the cauliflower. The production of carrot was not influenced by green manure.


Enteroviruses, including poliovirus, coxsackievirus and enterovirus 71, etc., can cause a series of severe extra-intestinal diseases.In view of the enormous danger of enterovirus infection, the studies of enterovirus, especially the studies of enterovirus receptors, have been emphasized.In recent years, the new functions of classical receptors and new receptors of enteroviruses have been continuously discovered.The application of recombinant enterovirus receptors in the prevention and treatment of enterovirus infection have been also made progress.In this paper, the structure, function, mechanism and application of enterovirus receptor molecules were reviewed.

Key words:
Enterovirus; Receptor


Engagement kinematics formulas for a type of hypoid bevel gear with plane tooth are derived.The maximum Herz contact stress between hypoid bevel gear engagement surfaces is compared with the one between other engagement surfaces.It is concluded that hypoid bevel gear with plane tooth can transmit more power than other gears.


Recently, practitioners and researchers met to discuss the role of requirements, and AI and SE. We offer here notes on that fascinating discussion. Also, have you considered writing for this column? This "SE for AI" column publishes commentaries on the growing field of SE for AI. Submissions are welcomed and encouraged (1,000–2,400 words, each figure and table counts as 250 words, try to use fewer than 12 references, and keep the discussion practitioner focused). Please submit your ideas to me at email@example.com.—Tim Menzies


Self-healing schemes in the context of power distribution systems have the objective of performing fault location, isolation, and service restoration in an automated fashion, i.e., without (or with limited) distribution system operator and repair crew intervention. Some of the intrinsic benefits of this smart distribution technology are increased reliability due to outage duration reduction, more efficient use of personnel and resources (crews, operators, vehicles, etc), and increased operational flexibility. Reliability is naturally increased since less time is needed for locating and isolating faulted feeder areas, as well as for restoring customers located on healthy feeder sections. Self-healing schemes are an inherent part of the Smart Grid and are expected to play a fundamental role in modern and future distribution systems. It is worth noting that the switchgear technology (protective and switching devices, including adaptive protection), sensors, enterprise systems and communications infrastructures required for the implementation of self-healing schemes represent the basis for the execution of other smart distribution applications such as automated system reconfiguration and optimization. Therefore, a growing number of self-healing projects are being implemented by utilities as part of their power delivery modernization plans. This paper discusses the estimation of reliability benefits of self-healing schemes, with emphasis on Fault Location, Identification and Service Restoration (FLISR) applied to real distribution feeders.


The aggregation of input-output models is analyzed. Three axioms are shown to characterize a simple functional form for aggregation; then the properties of the aggregated model are analyzed relative to the original model. Since an input-output model is driven by a square substochastic matrix, these results can also be viewed as facts about abstract mappings involving substochastic matrices.


Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the verbal environment provided by nursery school teachers to the children. Teachers' language was analysed in two different interactive contexts: when interacting with a different number of interlocutors (study 1) and when talking to children of different linguistic competence (study 2). In the first study, 10 children from two age groups (10/11 months old and 31/37 months old) were monitored interacting with two teachers during a play session. Teachers' language produced in the two interactive situations (dyadic versus group) was then analysed for structural and thematic features. In the second study, two teachers were observed interacting with two groups of children aged 28/33 months, but with different linguistic competence (MLU 1, 6 versus 3, 1). The linguistic measurements collected included: structural features of teachers' language, total amount and kind of communicative intentions produced by both teachers and children. The results show that in bo...


This article presents a comparison of the research results concerning youth views on marriage, family and having children. It is a result of an international research project titled Ehe und Familie im Wandel was undertaken by Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg  (2003–2006). The survey was carried out among young people in the age group of 18–24 (pupils and students of various types of schools, colleges and universities). The author of the text focused on the comparison of the representative groups from: Poland, Germany and Spain. The results show the similarities and differences between young people as shown by their opinions on the definitions of family, the significance of marriage, attitudes to divorce, informal marriages and homosexual couples. The presented analyses show various processes linked to the transformation of the contemporary family and marriage in Europe. In the light of the research results family appears as a elementary social institution but taking various forms nowadays. Family, in youth opinions, doesn't has to lean on formalized relationship consisting of a man, and a woman who have children. The author points at the disappearance of the traditional social norms which have, until now influenced the creating and functioning of family, and appearance of new ones which are not explored enough. The family changes are influenced by the processes of the individualization and secularization. The comparison shows significant differences between countries. The most traditional perception of marriage and family was manifested in Poland and the most modern in Spain. The second part of the article contains an analyses of the chosen socio-cultural determinants of the youth opinions in the compared countries..


A new application is made of projected-unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory, namely, the calculation of electronic spectra for symmetric molecules. The excited electronic state is represented by a single determinant whose unrestricted nature allows for orbital rearrangement relative to the self-consistent ground state. The self-consistent calculation must be followed by spin projection to obtain appropriate spin eigenstates. It was necessary to develop modified procedures for portions of the spin projection calculation because the method of constructing the wave functions produces degeneracies among the natural orbitals. Illustrative calculations using the all-valence-electron INDO approximations produced results which compared favorably with configuration-interaction treatments. The method described should be most useful, however, in conjunction with ab initio calculations using flexible basis sets.


The present study examined the characteristic symptoms(Criteria A)and social/occupational dysfunc‑ tion(Criterion B)using diagnostic criteria for schzophrenia in DSM‑IV‑TRin terms of competence clinical psychology. The criteria were translated into24component symbols in the competence list consisting of five factors (cognitive physical social survival and general self‑esteem competence) with three graduate students of clinical psychology. The results suggest that Criteria A and Criterion B are associated with dysfunction of14components included in five competence factors. Further studies are warranted in order to argue causes of schizophrenia.


A method is described to measure the total velocity field and the complete Reynolds stress tensor using a two component LDV system. The method is applied in a turbulent pipe flow. To reduce the beam refraction to a negligible amount, pipe sections made of transparent film of 80 micrometers thickness are used. It proved necessary to calibrate the frequency trackers in order to obtain an acceptable accuracy. Results are given for fully developed pipe flow and a flow containing a strong swirl.


In this paper, a novel multi-task cascade framework, which jointly takes the detection and the segmentation into account, is presented for the scene text detection. To address the issue of multi-oriented scene text detection, we propose an instance-level mask approximation method through the auxiliary regression task on center and corner points. Specifically, the text instance in the image is first coarsely detected, followed by a contextual module which can capture more accurate instances. To cope with the scale variation existing in these detected instances, a combination of high-level semantic and low-level features is further exploited, achieving more robust and better performance. A series of experiments conducted on different benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


With the widely use of Automated Guided Vehicle(AGV), people pay more and more attention to the efficiency of AGV system. The paper proposes an approach for single AGV path planning. In this paper, to solve the path planning of single AGV in the environment with obstacles, an improved ant colony algorithm based on Honeycomb-Grid-Model is proposed. Pheromones Update with different methods according to the evaluation of each ant and each iteration, is developed to solve the problem of poor convergence and diversity in traditional algorithm. In simulation, the improved algorithm can obtain better path acquisition effect in the early stage of the algorithm and better convergence effect in the later stage of the algorithm, improve the efficiency of AGV.


The flora of the Rupestrian Savannah (Cerrado Rupestre) is composed of widely distributed species and endemic species from high altitude rocky outcrops. The aim of this study was to characterise the floristic composition, structure and diversity of fragments of Rupestrian Savannah in south-eastern Brazil and to examine the similarity with other rupestrian cerrado vegetations and with cerrado sensu stricto on profound soils. For this, phytosociological parameters, evenness and diversity were calculated and compared with other studies. The survey exhibited 72 species, 45 genera, 30 families and high floristic similarity with cerrado on profound soils. There were no indicator species of the Rupestrian Savannah, but there were typical species of rocky environments. The basal area was significantly larger in the profound soil cerrado in relationship to the Rupestrian Savannah and evenness was lower in the Rupestrian Savannah of this study compared to others. These variables reflect the lower exploration capacity of the root of rocky environments. The highest similarity between the Rupestrian Savannah and cerrado on profound soils refers to the canga ferruginous nature, which represents the limit of the tableland of cerrado on the edge of the plateaus, allowing greater sharing of flora.


FITRI RIANA : "THE COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING ENGLISH BY USING PREQUESTIONING AND MOTIVATION OF THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN 2 CIKEUSAL KEC.GEMPOL KAB.CIREBON"
language is the only instrument for human beings to communicate and interact with others. And by the language they can increase their lives by means of knowledge, science, technology, religion, politics and so on.
The aims of the research are; to find out the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning, to find out the students" achievement in speaking English by using motivation. And to know how is the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning and motivation. The method of the research in this thesis is using a quantitative data and the technique of analysis data for comparative by using T-Test formula and Standard Deviation.
The researcher will draw a conclusion based on the result of research is the highest score on the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning is 35 and categorized as " enough", and the lowest score is 20 and categorized is "poor". The mean of the result of the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning and motivation is 28. The highest score on the students" achievement in speaking English by using motivation is 45 and categorized as " good", and the lowest score is 30 and categorized is "enough". The mean of the result of the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre
motivation is 38. So it can be concluded there is significant comparison between the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning and motivation.: "THE COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING ENGLISH BY USING PREQUESTIONING AND MOTIVATION OF THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN 2 CIKEUSAL KEC.GEMPOL KAB.CIREBON"
language is the only instrument for human beings to communicate and interact with others. And by the language they can increase their lives by means of knowledge, science, technology, religion, politics and so on.
The aims of the research are; to find out the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning, to find out the students" achievement in speaking English by using motivation. And to know how is the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning and motivation. The method of the research in this thesis is using a quantitative data and the technique of analysis data for comparative by using T-Test formula and Standard Deviation.
The researcher will draw a conclusion based on the result of research is the highest score on the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning is 35 and categorized as " enough", and the lowest score is 20 and categorized is "poor". The mean of the result of the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning and motivation is 28. The highest score on the students" achievement in speaking English by using motivation is 45 and categorized as " good", and the lowest score is 30 and categorized is "enough". The mean of the result of the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre
motivation is 38. So it can be concluded there is significant comparison between the students" achievement in speaking English by using pre questioning and motivation.


In this paper, we focus on humor patterns in computer games. We first introduce humor, outlining the potential of humor in games. Then we describe the steps we are taking to develop a humor pattern language. Next, we present some of the humor patterns that we have developed: humor through popular culture references, Using Humor's Rule of Three in quest design, Laughter and initiation through humorous avatar death, and carnivalesque character design. We discuss issues that are arising from the pattern elaboration in our context. We hope, through humor patterns, to create tools that game designers can use for the greater enjoyment of all and, to produce new forms of comic games that delight and surprise us.


We have presented two cases of sarcoma, namely malignant fibrous histiocytoma and leiomyosarcoma, metastatic to the thyroid. Both were diagnosed clinically by fine needle aspiration cytology.


The complex-formation equilibria between MnII, CoII, NiII, CuII, and ZnII and ethylenediamine-N-acetic acid (Hedma) were investigated by potentiometric titrations in 0.5 mol dm–3 KCl solution at 25 °C. It was found that no protonated or hydrolysed complexes were formed in the pH range 2.0–11.5. The following overall formation constants βpqr=[MpHqLr]/[M]p[H]q[L]r were obtained: edma, log β011= 9.888(2), log β021= 16.860(3), log β031= 18.350(4); edma-MnII, log β101= 3.629(18); edma–CoII, log β101= 8.123(3), log β102= 13.050(9); edma–NiII, log β101= 10.106(5), log β102= 16.629(10); edma–CuII, log β101= 12.854(11), log β102= 20.373(19); edma–ZnII, log β101= 8.064(4), log β102= 13.655(7). The probable structures of the chelated compounds formed in aqueous solution were deduced and their stability constants compared with those of analogous chelated compounds. The equilibrium constants follow the Irving–Williams series.


In order to make a rational and effective cure measure for lung cancer,people need to establish suitable animal model.Spontaneous or induced model needs long time to form tumor and the rate is not steady.Xenograft mouse model is widely used in laboratories because of its steady tumor formation rate and less time in oncogenesis.Engineered mouse model which is based on genetic technology not only helps us to understand pathological process of lung cancer,but also can provide an ideal preclinical model of targeted therapy experiment,and it will be the important development direction of lung cancer animal model.

Key words:
Lung neoplasms; Models, animal


Ore deposits within N. Arizona breccia pipes are currently being exploited for U, but at various times during the past century Cu, Pb, Zn, and Ag were mined. These pipes formed as solution-collapses within the Mississippian Redwall Ls and stopped upward through overlying strata. The principal ore minerals are: uraninite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, tennantite-tetrahedrite, galena, sphalerite, millerite, gersdorffite, siegenite, and molybdenite. Common gangue minerals are marcasite, pyrite, barite, dolomite, calcite and quartz. Marcasite and pyrite appear to have formed prior to the ore minerals, followed closely by chalcopyrite. The Ni and Co phases also appear to be early: gersdorffite crystals are rimmed by later galena. Tennantite-tetrahedrite formed later than both galena and sphalerite; uraninite, the latest ore mineral, consisting fills interstices. Primary fluid inclusions in dolomite, quartz, and sphalerite show filling temperatures from 80 to 145/degree/C and high salinities, averaging 15 wt% NaCl (eq). Secondary inclusions in sphalerite have consistently higher filling temperatures from 105 to 173/degree/C, but similar salinities. Rock-Eval pyrolysis of pyrobitumen yields little or no volatile hydrocarbons (S/sub 1/=0-0.2 mg/gm), but large amounts of pyrolytic hydrocarbons (S/sub 2/=105-216 mg/gm). Temperatures of maximum pyrolytic yield are relatively low (424-430/degree/C), suggesting temperatures did not exceed 150/degree/C following pyrobitumen emplacement. Exceptmore » for uraninite, the breccia pipes are similar to Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits in mineralogy, fluid-inclusion filling temperatures and salinities, and associated organic material. Because MVT deposits do not host U minerals, a possible two-stage mineralization history of the pipes is suggested, the first by a MVT brine and perhaps a second forming the uraninite.« less


We will present a review of selected results on strange baryon production from nucleus-nucleus collisions at the AGS, SPS and RHIC. From the AGS and SPS heavy ion physics programme several intriguing aspects: centrality dependence of strangeness production, anti-hyperon yield, hyperon production enhancement and baryon number transport will be highlighted. Our discussion on RHIC results will focus on experimental probes of partonic degrees of freedom. Measurements of the elliptic flow v 2 and the nuclear modification factor and their distinctive particle dependence are presented as a function of transverse momentum.


Abstract As America refocuses its attention on the factory, design and manufacturing engineers must work together closely to design the appropriate products, and matching production process in a team effort. By building off the designer's CAE tools that predict product performance, the manufacturing engineer is today able to simulate the proposed production process. Process simulations for the following manufacturing processes are available or being developed: ▪Forging, ▪Machining, ▪Injection Molding, ▪Die Casting, ▪Investment Casting, ▪Metal Forming, ▪Heat Treating, ▪Assembly Tolerancing By utilizing the same 3-D solid model and finite element modeling tools used by the designer, coupled to powerful analysis simulation tools to predict the transient nonlinear heat transfer and plastic material flow found in many manufacturing processes, the manufacturing engineer is able to explore alternative processing plans, evaluate trade-offs and even influence the design to produce superior products. Process simula...


Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous in our daily life. With increased intelligence, equipment can be made more efficient and more adaptive to changes in its environment. Still, the intelligence of machines is quite weak, and even if there exist vacuum cleaners that vacuums on their own and cars that have intelligent systems that compensate for different weather types this kind of intelligence are hard to compare with human intelligence. One major difference between human intelligence and the intelligent machines of today is perhaps our unique ability to change our behavior as new information is learned, and our ability to generalize behavior to different situations. Most important, we have an ability to use previously learned knowledge to anticipate the outcome of an action even if we have never seen it being performed before. This is an ability that is absolutely essential for an intelligent system. To improve the intelligence of the equipment that is available today, a number of different cognitive functions must be added. One of these is the ability to anticipate actions and choices made by the intelligent system itself, but also those made by agents in its surroundings. The vacuum cleaner should not only learn to clean all corners of the room. It should also learn to anticipate the actions needed. For example when assigned the cleaning the room of the 10 years old boy it may choose to do this every Saturday afternoon, because on Saturday morning the boy is supposed to pick up all his toys laying around the floor. It should learn to anticipate that when it's raining outside, it may not be a good idea to vacuum in the hallway if someone has just come in from the rain. Instead it if it raining, the best solution may be to start clean the hallway before anyone enters the door completely soaked in water. Another case would be to control the attention of the machine depending on the situation. For example, again the vacuum cleaner should assign more of its attention towards the doorway when working and be prepared to move if anybody enter. The cognitive processes behind anticipation are hard to fully model, but there exist models of partial anticipatory system. We believe that it is necessary to develop anticipatory system to progress further toward truly intelligent systems, and the goal for the next three years is to develop a robot with anticipatory system. As participants in the Mind RACES project, some of Europes top researches in the field will work together to achieve this goal.


The concluding speeches of Love's Labor's Lost present a puzzle, for neither the 1598 Quarto nor the 1623 Folio indicates speech prefixes for the songs of Spring and Winter. And since we do not know the identity of the speakers, or singers, we also do not know what the actors looked like. Were they represented on Shakespeare's stage as male or female? Young or old? How were they costumed? And what hand props may they have brought onto stage? Modern editors have for the most part sidestepped these questions, though some have conjectured the singers' identities. John Kerrigan, noting Armado 's query "will you hear the dialogue that the two learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and the cuckoo?" (V.ii.885-87)1 identifies the singers as "Holof ernes and Nathaniel. No doubt the pair take the parts of the owl and the cuckoo in the dialogue which follows."2 G. R. Hibbard is only a little less certain: "Since no entry is provided for either Spring or Winter, these parts may have been represented by Sir Nathaniel and Holofernes."3 These views are perfectly plausible. It is not illogical to suppose that the makers of the songs should give them voice. The songs are so brief, moreover, that they hardly warrant the introduction of actors who are not already in the cast. Productions of Shakespeare's comedy, however, rarely follow the suggestions of editors. As Hibbard notes, "Most directors have preferred to hand these lyrics over to the rustics, but there have been occasions when the entire cast has joined in."4 The recent performance history of Love's Labor's Lost reveals an almost bewildering variety in the presentation of the songs. In


Abstract : Using both the plane-wave and the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method, the photon band structure is calculated within the scalar wave approximation for a fcc lattice of dielectric microspheres embedded within a uniform host medium. The plane-wave method is found to converge fairly rapidly. The optimal volume- filling fraction of spheres for the creation of a gap in the photon density of states is found to vary substantially with the relative dielectric constant r, and this gap persists for r as small as 3. Reprints. (rh)


Objective To report the clinical course,diagnosis,and treatment of one patient with chondroblastoma invading the middle cranial fossa and infratemporal fossa,with a review of related literature.Methods Clinical data of one patient with chondroblastoma invading the middle cranial fossa and infratemporal fossa was analyzed.MEDLINE literature search from 1966 to 2008 was perfomed.Results Chondroblastoma of this patient was originated from the middle cranial fossa and communicated to the infratemporal fossa.Surgical treatment was performed through zygomatic approach and Gamma-knife therapy was applied postoperatively.The patient was followed up for one year,and the symptoms got relived without postoperative complications.Conclusion Complete excision is recommended for temporal bone chondroblastoma and the residual tumor can be treated by the Gamma-knife therapy postoperatively.


Absorptiometric methods have gained widespread use in quantification of bone mineral density, particularly for the assessment of fracture risk in osteoporosis. The aim of the present study was to determine the radiation burden to patients and operators related to the assessment of bone mineral status in the spine using either dual X ray absorptiometry (DXA), or single energy spectrum quantitative computed tomography (SE-QCT). Effective dose to adult patients from spinal bone mineral density measurement was found to be in the order of 1 μSv in DXA and 100 μSv in SE-QCT. The radiation burden to the operators was found to be low.


An investigation of students' unsuccessful attempts to solve problems in structure analysis, even
though they possessed all the prerequisite knowledge, is described. The proposed teaching strategies
given to these students to help them develop confidence and skills in problem-solving and the evaluation
of these strategies are discussed.


A best set of neutron-capture cross section has been evaluated for the most important s-process isotopes. With this data base, s-process studies have been carried out using the traditional model which assumes a steady neutron flux and an exponeatial distribution of neturon irradiations. The calculated sigmaN curve is in excellent agreement with the empricial sigmaN-values of pure s-process nuclei. Simultaneously, good agreement is found between the difference of solar and s-process abundances and the abundance of pure r-process nuclei. We also discuss the abundance pattern of the iron group elements where our s-process results complement the abundances obtained from explosive nuclear burning. The results obrtained from the tradiational s-process model such as seed abundances, mean neutron irradiations, or neutron densities are compared to recent stellar model calculations which assume the He-burning shells of red giant stars an the site for the s-process.


The effect of E.coli infection in association with dibutylamine and sodium nitrate in induction of bladder inflammation and /or bladder carcinogenesis were investigated in 150 male albino rats, divided into five groups, as follows: The first group(G1) infected by E. coli , The second group (G2), given nitrosamine precursors in the diet , The third group(G3) infected by E. coli and given nitrosamine precursors in the diet ,The fourth group(G4) infected by E. coli , given nitrosamine precursors in the diet and received standard diet containing 1% Curcumin powder mixed in the diet and the fifth group (G5) , served as control group .
Results:
The worst histopathological changes are in G3 . A highly significant decrease in the mean cell lysate level of p21was found in different studied groups(G1,G2&G3) especially in(G3) where P values in these groups when compared to control group were (P < 0.0001) . In curcumin treated group(G4), there were downregulation in the mean cell lysate level of p21 gene when compared to control group but higher than other studied groups (G1,G2&G3) . A highly significant increase in the mean serum level of Bcl-2 was found in different studied groups(G1,G2&G3) especially in(G3) where P values in these groups (G1,G2,G3) when compared to control group were (P < 0.0001). (G4) showed higher Bcl-2 serum level when compared to control group, this difference was insignificant but this level is lower than other studied groups (G1,G2&G3) .
Conclusion:
The results in the present study indicate that both P21 and Bcl-2 can be used as biological markers in the diagnosis of bladder cancer . Curcumin have the ability to overcome the decrease in p21WAF1/CIP1 protein and the increase of Bcl-2 protein and reduce the induction of carcinogenic effect .


ABSTRACT This research is to investigate the performance and different parameters of implementing micro gas turbine (MGT) in range extender electric medium-heavy vehicle. In this paper, different software's such as Simulink, Advisor and Virtual engine – gas turbine have been used for different sorts of investigation and validation. From the analysis, it is found that in MGT-based system, the specific fuel consumption per 100 km is almost 2.8 L lower than the conventional diesel-based system. Sensitivity analysis shows the fluctuation of fuel consumption in case of mass and battery capacity and from the quasistatic simulation approach, it is seen that the acceleration time of MGT vehicle is almost two-thirds of the diesel operated vehicle to reach the average speed. In addition to this, the effect of relative humidity is also analysed taking two conditions into consideration. The use of evaporative turbine inlet cooler increases vehicle performance and reduces the emissions greatly. Some numerical findings are compared with experimental values found in literature and data provided by the manufacturer for proper validation.


A specific method of manufacturing a piece of thermoplastic composite material comprising a fibrous reinforcement and a thermoplastic polymer matrix based on a thermoplastic polymer impregnating said fibrous reinforcement which comprises: a) a step of impregnating said reinforcement fibrous dry injection on said reinforcement, at a higher T1 injection temperature HDT of said composite material if the matrix is amorphous and greater than Tf if said material is semi-crystalline, a p-reactive composition) of said precursor polymer, based reactive prepolymer of said thermoplastic polymer, and molding, with the polymerization step b) is simultaneous with the impregnation step and molding and T2 with the control temperature of said mold is kept constant throughout the molding cycle to a value lower than the HDT of the composite material when its matrix is composed of a polymer am Ouphe, and to a value between Tc and Tc-20 ° C to a semicrystalline matrix, and with a reheating of the internal surface of the mold just prior to said injection, at a temperature T3 of between T1-50 ° C and T1 + 50 ° C by an external heating means to the mold and removable, with c) demoulding the workpiece when the temperature T4 is equal to T2, and d) optionally continuing the polymerization, if partial releasability, in a step separate outside mold, by annealing in an oven at an annealing temperature Tr <HDT for amorphous polymer and Tr <Tf if semicrystalline. The invention also relates to the use of said method for the manufacture of mechanical parts and structure of composite material.


This work presents an arc furnace model, which takes into consideration the non-linear, unstable and chaotic nature of this kind of load. The proposed model is based on empiric relationships between diameter or arc length, voltage and electric current arc. For experiments, it is added some simulated random fluctuations to emulate the real ones produced by electric arc furnaces.
Obtained results by the model are compared with real measurements over an arc furnace working in a steelworks factory. Two methods for compensation are proposed to reduce the flicker effects, namely: one is the Static Var Compensator (SVC) and the other is Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator (D-STATCOM). To quantify the effectiveness of the studied methods, measures such as pst, power factor and power. The proposed approaches show comparable results.


The article seeks to form a political evaluation of the new rules of EU Economic Governance that have entered into force in the current economic crisis, pointing out at the same time their social impact, through the case study of Greece. The article concludes that although there have been significant steps towards tighter Economic Governance in the EU, and the eurozone in particular, actions should be taken in order to enhance the social dimension of the EMU institutional framework, so that austerity measures are accompanied by growth and coherence policies. In addition, a political debate regarding the institutional reorganisation of the Economic Governance framework should be launched, in order to enhance democracy, legitimacy and accountability in the European Union.


AGRIPINA ZAHARIA1, VIORICA GHISMAN PLESCAN2, ELENA MARIA ANGHEL3*, VIORICA MUSAT2* 1 Ovidius University of Constanta, Faculty of Dentistry, 7 Ilarie Voronca, 900684,Constanta, Romania 2 Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Centre of Nanostructures and Functional Materials-CNMF, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,47 Domneasca Str. 800008, Galati, Romania 3Institute of Physical Chemistry Ilie Murgulescu of Romanian Academy, 202 Splaiul Independetei, 60021, Bucharest, Romania

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Presents a survey of build‐up technologies based on the manufacture of microvia in thin dielectric sheets (< 100µm) deposited on PWB materials. These technologies will permit the PWB industry to manufacture high density interconnect substrates and answer the routeing requirements of high number I/Os, BGAs and new area array components. Bull Electronics Angers (BEA) has developed an HDI technology where microvias with hole diameters lower than 100µm are mechanically or laser drilled and interconnected lines at pitch down to 200µm are manufactured. In the frame of a European MEDEA project, ATEMAES, the design of an electronic subsystem manufactured by Magnetti Marelli in ceramic thick film technology has been adapted to the design rules of the HDI technology developed by Bull. This is part of an evaluation program for the use of HDI technology for automotive applications.


This work describes the use of tamarindus shell as an alternative adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue and chromium(VI) species from aqueous solutions. The adsorbent at unmodified form was used in sorption studies. The solid was characterized by MEV, BET and BJH. Acidic functional groups on the surface of the adsorbent were seen by FTIR, Boehm's titration and pHPCZ. The results showed that the kinetic equilibrium was reached after 120 and 180 min for the dye and the metal respectively. The kinetic data were better fitted to pseudo-first order for dye adsorption and to pseudo-second order for metal adsorption. The change points in sorption stages (rapid and slow phase) were defined by the MCVP parameter using Hung's algorithm. The effects of pH and ionic strength on adsorption capacity were also studied.


The method comprises: the inviting side requests the invited side to participate a game; said invited side determines to participate the game and establishes a connection with the game provider system for providing the game service, and indicates said inviting side that current game has been established. The invention also reveals a system and a instant communication client side thereof. The invention gives the invited side of a game an initiative right to establish a game so as to improve satisfactory level of the customer at invited side.


In this paper the effects of temperature on SOD activity in the liver of a desert lizard were studied. The lizards were acclimated at 4℃, 25℃ and 35℃ respectively for 15 days. And the SOD activities were measured by NBT-illumination method. The results showed that acclimating the desert lizard at 4℃, the SOD activity was 3661.69±369.828u/(h·gFW), was the lowest; at 25℃, the SOD activity was 4263.17±269.12u/(h·gFW); when the acclimated temperature was 35℃, the SOD activity was 4638.72±172.186u/(h·gFW), which was the highest(F0.05) was significantly different from the values of the other temperatures). Therefore, the SOD activity is related with the temperature and this relationship involves the physical states of the desert lizard at the different temperatures.