This paper describes a High SPL sound generated from banks of gas heater tubes in two ducts with an internal flow which are located parallel to each other and used in a boiler. The tube banks have two tubes each, with diameters of 6 mm and 3 mm. They are used in this experiment. The sound pressure, the flow velocity and the acoustic damping of the ducts are measured in order to clarify the cause of the High SPL sound and the suppression effect of various perforated baffle plates. First, the acoustic damping abilities of various perforated baffle plates and the damping treatments using the damping material are measured by the speaker test. Second, the relation between the acoustic damping abilities of the perforated baffle plates (ζh) and the damping treatment (ζm) are studied.Asa result, I discovered the perforated baffle plates have a damping effect and the damping ability increases with the perforated ratio being smaller. Also the relation of the ζh and ζm as the criterion of the High SPL sound occurrence can be obtained. The criterion can be used in case of P/D<2.0, where P is the tube pitch and D is the tube diameter. And it was found that the suppression effect of the baffle plate on the SPL is not only the destruction of the mode as is often said, but the suppression of the vortex shedding due to the change of the local mode.


Objective: To highlight the importance of considering anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis in an elderly patient presenting with a dementia syndrome.
Background: Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis is an immune-mediated syndrome that has increasingly gained attention. While it is often considered in younger patients presenting with subacute development of otherwise-unexplained psychiatric manifestations, the elderly too are at risk for development of this potentially treatable disease.
Design/Methods: We report the case of a 76 year old male with metastatic hormone sensitive prostate adenocarcinoma. Approximately 11 months before presentation, he developed short term memory impairment. This continued for 6 months, when he progressed to develop confusion, disorientation, and incoherent, illogical speech, along with visual hallucinations and widely varying states of alertness. He had dysautonomia with orthostasis, requiring pacemaker placement. On exam, he had asymmetrically increased tone. A degenerative process, such as DLB or MSA, was suspected given his age, symptoms, and subacute to chronic progression. Work-up included an unremarkable CT of the brain. An MRI was not performed given pacemaker incompatibility. EEG did not reveal epileptiform activity. CSF analysis demonstrated mild pleocytosis (12) and an elevated IgG index (1.02). CSF NMDA-R Ab cell-binding assay was positive, and immunofixation titer was highly positive (1:128). He was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
Results: At the time of this submission, the patient is receiving treatment with intravenous methylprednisolone and immunoglobulin therapy.
Conclusions: Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis should be considered in patients of all ages. It has been reported in infants as young as 8 months old, and in adults as old as 75 years of age. Literature review suggests this may be the oldest reported case of NMDA-receptor encephalitis. Given the treatable nature of the disease, it is a diagnosis that should be given careful consideration even in elderly patients with neuropsychiatric manifestations. Disclosure: Dr. Ali has nothing to disclose. Dr. Baron has nothing to disclose.


In order to suppress the change in the polarization of the transmitted He-Ne laser beam or CO₂ laser beam through a four spherical mirror system, a system of separate four transparent thin films is designed using computer optimization process. The final design obtained for He-Ne laser beam uses TiO₂ film and that for CO₂ laser beam uses PbTe film.


The process of fault diagnosis neural network knowledge base design in the fault diagnosis system application of 0.8m 3 fluid drive grab in Guiyang Kuangshan Machine Factory based on BP neural network intelligent fault diagnosis is introduced.Utilizing the example of hydraulic pump subsystem fault diagnosis,the method of building neural network,obtaining training samples and neural network learning in the process of intelligent fault diagnosis are expounded.


The 7th order geometrical aberration of rotationally symmetrical electron optic system and their expressions are given by using the eikonal method when the electric and magnetic fields exit.The 7th order geometrical aberrations can be divided into 8 types according to the power of initial or boundary conditions.There are 35 geometrical aberration coefficients.


In the traditional sense, steel has mainly been used as the reinforcement for structural elements. Nonetheless, concerns over its cost and availability have been raised especially in developing countries such as Ghana. Although bamboo has been employed as a construction material in several developing countries, its use has been limited due to the uncertainties associated with its properties and behaviour. In this paper, the laboratory results of two different Self-Compacting Concrete beams with beam IDs; SM1.4 BI and SM1.4 BII having varying shear span-to-depth ratios and percentage reinforcements were verified with a nonlinear finite computational platform (ABAQUS). The 2m long beams were modelled with each type of beam dimension reinforced with 1.2% and 1.5% amount of longitudinal bamboo reinforcement. The load-deflection behaviours of the models were the main benchmarks for the verification. The failure loads for the models placed the accuracies at 93.52% and 104.69% whilst the ultimate central deflections were 94.26%. and 102.37%. In conclusion, the finite element models were found to be slightly stiffer than the experimental beams during the initial stages of loading. Nevertheless, the entire load-deformation response of the model produced, compares well with the response from the experimental study. This gives confidence in the use of the ABAQUS software and the model developed.


Human interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) and normal peripheral blood monocytes had appreciable anticellular activities against KB cells such that in both cases, the rate of DNA synthesis, the number and percent viability of the cells were greatly reduced by 70-85% in about 3 days post-treatment. However, neither IFN-gamma nor monocyte alone was able to totally eliminate the tumor cells. Our results suggest that IFN-gamma and monocyte could effectively prevent the growth of residual tumor cells that would have escaped destruction when only one effector element was present.


This article counters the popular today idea regarding the myth as the synonym of delusion, or the anachronistic idea of something. It recovers its unending relevance as the axial construct of human existence and individual experience. The capacity of diminutives to destroy the illusion of the prevailing endearment in their emotional range and to be affirmed as mini-compendiums of mythological experience, constituted of an impressive poly-functional ensemble, as illustrated with examples from the works of Gombrowicz, is being put forth. The mediator role of diminutives within the communicative exchange between the individual and the Cosmos also unveils their ironic and form-destructive potential.


This study deals with coordination from a lexical-semantic view point and verifies the base structure of semantic predicates for each coordinating type. The first item sets up the general lexical-semantic hypothesis of the coordination starting with the predicate ALTERNATIVE which in successive forms exhaust the coordinated structure, with the predicate NEGATIVE. The second item considere that coordination in its development shows not only coordination of clauses but also coordination of performance. The third item sets up the problem of JUXTAPOSITION and of the distributive clauses in particular, in which the structure of asyndeton is established, and its semantic equalization to the copulative clause is stated.


Deep learning techniques have been demonstrated with a pronounced performance in diverse object recognition and classification fields. An accurate distribution map of trees provides sufficient information on forest ecosystems and underpins the need for the sustainable management of forests. For classification with a smaller number of reference datasets, applications of the CNN technique with transfer learning and fine-tuning process were reported to be suitable in the literature. This study applied the Mask R-CNN technique to tree species mapping for a hemiboreal mixed forest in Hokkaido, Japan. An orthoimage with 25 cm resolution generated via airborne RGB image was used for this study. The Mask R-CNN model was derived from a 5-ha reference image and evaluated by a 1-ha test image. The experimental results show that a moderate accuracy (F1 score = 0.72) can be achieved for the forest with six dominant species in this study. The accuracy measure changed dramatically in the species, ranging from 0.20 to 0.94. This accuracy appeared to be a function of the sample size in the reference dataset for machine learning via high-resolution airborne RGB images. In this work, the species with sample images of more than 200 seem sufficient to achieve an F1 score greater than 0.90.


Although abundant petroleum and coal have enabled the production of affordable primary power and transportation fuels over the past century, the recent emergence of natural gas as a significant fossil fuel resource has dramatically changed the energy landscape. With its favorable hydrogen-to-carbon ratio coupled with recently developed techniques to tap vast reserves that were previously not economically viable, natural gas has been touted by many as a bridge fuel to a low-carbon energy future. Hydrogen production from natural gas feedstock via the steam-methane reforming (SMR) process is a mature industrial technology; yet miniaturizing this process for distributed production has proven problematic. Owing to the strongly endothermic nature of the process, reaction temperatures in excess of 900°C are traditionally employed in large-scale SMR reactors to overcome the thermodynamic limitations of the process. For a distributed reactor system, a maximum operating temperature below 500°C is desired to improve safety and reduce material cost and preheating energy requirements.


What are race conditions? some issues and formalizations. 29 The negligible penalties on common dsm operations, as reported in Subsection 4.1, open the way for the rst time to a full integration of data race detection with the regular operation of the dsm. Indeed, the measurements using our benchmark application suit show that the resulting overheads are acceptable. Integrating djit in the regular dsm execution makes djit a lot more signiicant than just yet another development-time debugging tool, as is the current status of data race detection systems. 28 Choi and Min 5] were the rst to propose integration of the data race detection module with the cache coherency protocol. Although they discuss hardware multiprocessors, their work can be applied in dsms. They proposed a simple algorithm, integrated with the cache manager, for on-they detection of rst data races in the fork/join model, and further extend the model with nested parallelism. In order to tag access histories they use an English-Hebrew labeling algorithm 17] and task recycling algorithm 6]. Perkovi c and Keleher 19] proposed on-they data race detection for lazy release consistency dsms. Their method instruments read and write accesses to shared variables and check for race conditions during memory synchronization. Since the system is page-based, their method suuers high slowdowns due to the process of distinguishing false from true detections. Since the technique deals with lazy release consistency systems, false detections may occur (see discussion in 1]). Similarly, pinpointing the exact location of code where the rst data race occured becomes more diicult. Richards and Larus 20] used a ne-grain dsm to get access information and track accesses between barriers. Since they support only barrier synchronization, only some of the data races can be detected online. The others are detected in a post-mortem process when execution is over, merging recorded lock and unlock times with recorded access times. Although accesses can be recorded and checked at the byte level, doing so substantially degrades performance. Hence, coarser granularity is used and the detection becomes less accurate. 6 Conclusions In this work we presented djit { an algorithm for on-they distributed detection of the rst actual data race to occur in an execution. djit makes use of an underlying ne granularity dsm which provides sequentially consistent behavior. The detection process itself is thus tuned to work in the application speciic per variable sharing granularity. This \customized" detection granularity is the …


As the social value gradually increases, the company`s social responsibilities are granted and there are a growing number of requirements for a public value to economic value for the company. The cause marketing which has become widely known, it allows us to realize these values and in dictionary meaning, enterprises justification combines with marketing strategically, and is also illustrated as `Cause Related Marketing.` For specific action plan, it is a marketing by connecting the selling of the product and donation to work out together to improve environment, public health, and poverty. This study examines how the cause marketing impact on the consumer`s purchasing behaviour and purchasing intention and to find out whether there is an interrelationship. As a result, it turned out that cause marketing effect on purchasing attitudes and also the purchasing behaviour impact on the purchasing intention. Furthermore, the cause marketing influence on purchasing intention. As the idea of consumption gradually changes from the product consumption to value-based consumption as the time flows, the result of this research drew out the meaningful contents.


We demonstrate efficient photonic devices that rely on sub-100nm features in unmodified 45nm SOI CMOS, including photonic crystals, array-antenna grating couplers, and modulators. We then show monolithically integrated electronic-photonic systems comprising millions of transistors and thousands of photonic devices, including a complete chip-to-chip photonic link.


On the basis of previous research on college satisfaction and Cohen and Wills'(1985) social support framework, we hypothesized that structural social support has a main effect on college satisfaction and that the effect of positive college events on college satisfaction is boosted by self-esteem and belonging functional social support. Analyses were based upon a convenience sample of 392 community college students enrolled in psychology courses. Structural social support had a main effect on college satisfaction, and positive college events interacted with self-esteem functional social support. The beneficial effect of positive college events on college satisfaction increased as the level of self-esteem functional social support increased.


We study the implicit upwind finite volume scheme for numerically approximating the advection-diffusion equation with a vector field in the low regularity DiPerna-Lions setting. That is, we are concerned with advecting velocity fields that are spatially Sobolev regular and data that are merely integrable. We prove that on unstructured regular meshes the rate of convergence of approximate solutions generated by the upwind scheme towards the unique solution of the continuous model is at least one. The numerical error is estimated in terms of logarithmic Kantorovich–Rubinstein distances and provides thus a bound on the rate of weak convergence.


All problems related to urban land use are of great interest not only to geographers but to all those scholars who are interested in studying the spatial organization of economic activities within the city. The study of industrial location, however, has been traditionally awarded a low priority in spatial research, which has tended to emphasize the locational characteristics of other economic activities which take place in the city. Based on a brief review of the literature on industrial location, the present study tries to identify some general principles which govern the location of secondary sector activities in the city through time. These principles are then tested for their relevancy in the context of downtown Niteroi, the second most important municipio of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region.


The thermal compression test for high-strength weldable Al-Zn-Mg-Zr alloy containing Sc was carried on Gleeble-1500 thermal simulator,the flow stress of the alloy during thermal deformation was studied,and the processing map of the tested alloy was established based on dynamic material model and PRASAD instability criterion and the optimal thermal working process parameters of the alloy was obtained..The results show that the characteristic of high-temperature flow stress-strain curve of the tested alloy were mainly softening mechanism of dynamic recovery and dynamic recrystallization,the flow behavior could be described by a constitutive equation in hyperbolic sine function,and the deformation activation energy was 150.25 kJ·mol-1.The suitable thermal working process of the alloy was as follow: the deformation temperature was 360-400 ℃ and the strain rate was 0.001-0.003 s-1.


Background: Traditional medicinal plants could serve as a good supply of new dependable, biodegradable, renewable drugs and can be utilised for its anti‑bacterial activity directly or indirectly. Aims: To evaluate the phytochemical and anti‑bacterial properties of two morphologically similar indigenous medicinal plants Curcuma caesia and Curcuma aeruginosa belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. Materials and Methods: Evaluation of rhizome extracts using methanol was performed for the presence of active principles. Qualitative analysis was carried out for diverse phytoconstituents. Different concentrations (1.25, 2.5, 5.0 mg/ml) of hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate, acetone, methanol and water serial extracts from the rhizome of C. caesia and C. aeruginosa were tested against Gram positive (Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus haemolyticus and Bacillus cereus) and Gram negative (Salmonella typhi, Enterobacter aerogens, Vibrio cholerae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens) bacteria. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standard (NCCL) standards were strictly followed to perform anti‑bacterial disc susceptibility test using disc diffusion method. Statistical Analysis: All the values of the results were expressed as means of two independent experiments ± standard deviation. Results: Phytochemical screening of these two plants confirmed the presence of various bioactive substances and thus validating its use in herbal remedies. Anti‑bacterial studies showed varying degree of inhibitory action against all the tested bacteria. Among the Gram positive bacteria, acetone extract of C. caesia showed maximum activity against S. aureus and hexane extract of C. aeruginosa exhibited maximum activity against B. cereus. In Gram negative bacteria, chloroform extract of C. caesia showed maximum inhibitory action against S. marcescens, whereas the methanol extract of C. aeruginosa showed higher inhibitory action against S. typhi. Conclusions: The findings about present study suggest that the rhizome extract possess excellent anti‑bacterial potential that can be used for therapeutic purposes for many bacterial infectious diseases with proper evaluation procedures. The present study validated the use of these plants in traditional medicine and recommends for making new pharmaceuticals for therapeutic needs. Key words: Anti‑bacterial activity, Curcuma aeruginosa, Curcuma caesia, medicinal plants, plant extracts


The rotational state distributions of NO molecules scattered at clean and oxidized Ge surfaces were determined by means of laser induced fluorescence (LIF). For low incident kinetic energies (Ekin≲200 meV) scattering is dominated by trapping/desorption and the molecules coming off the surface are translationally accommodated to the surface temperature. The rotational state populations can in this case be approximated by a Boltzmann distribution. The rotational temperature Trot equals the surface temperature Ts, however only up to about 250 K. Further increase of Ts leads to a leveling off of Trot until a limiting value Trot,lim≈400 K is reached. (Rotational cooling in desorption.) At higher kinetic energies direct‐inelastic scattering dominates, and for Ekin=820 meV a pronounced non‐Boltzmann distribution (rotational rainbow) is observed. The observed effects are qualitatively interpreted in terms of current theoretical models.


Early-summer melt pond fraction is predicted using late-winter C-band backscatter of snow-covered first-year sea ice. Aerial photographs were acquired during an early-summer 2012 field campaign in Resolute Passage, Nunavut, Canada, on smooth first-year sea ice to estimate the melt pond fraction. RADARSAT-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data were acquired over the study area in late winter prior to melt onset. Correlations between the melt pond fractions and late-winter linear and polarimetric SAR parameters and texture measures derived from the SAR parameters are utilized to develop multivariate regression models that predict melt pond fractions. The results demonstrate substantial capability of the regression models to predict melt pond fractions for all SAR incidence angle ranges. The combination of the most significant linear, polarimetric and texture parameters provide the best model at far-range incidence angles, with an R 2 of 0.62 and a pond fraction RMSE of 0.09. Near- and mid- range incidence angle models provide R 2 values of 0.57 and 0.61, respectively, with an RMSE of 0.11. The strength of the regression models improves when SAR parameters are combined with texture parameters. These predictions also serve as a proxy to estimate snow thickness distributions during late winter as higher pond fractions evolve from thinner snow cover.


A face recognition method similar to human cognitive mechanism has been proposed. Motivated by the continuity rule of a same class samples, face recognition can be regarded as face pattern cognition. Compared with traditional statistical pattern based face recognition, it has a kind of relationship with human's cognitive mechanism. When face coverage of different people overlap, a person's face distribution in low dimension space has a certain kind of cohesion. With the increase of space dimension, the cohesion of a same class samples decreases, meanwhile the repellency of different class samples increases. However, with further increasing of dimension, both the cohesion of a same class and the repellency of different class decrease. The coverage of candidate face recognition is processed in a certain space. If it belongs to several candidate face coverage, Fisher LDA method can be applied to obtain the final results. Experiments based on ORL have proved that untrained random objects can be recognized perfectly.


The two Big Ideas around which an introductory microeconomics course should be constructed are efficiency and equity. Policy decisions generally affect both. This paper demonstrates that a simple analysis of government intervention in the blueberry market illustrates the concept of deadweight loss and the impact of market intervention on efficiency. The division of the deadweight loss, combined with transfers, provides the basis for weighing the impact on equity. A fuller understanding of these concepts demonstrates the need to balance equity and efficiency considerations in the public policy arena. These concepts and their application are well within the reach of introductory students.


MATERIALSAND METHODS Addition ofNH4'tothephotosynthesizing leaf cells ofDolichos lablab L.var.Lignosis Prain andleaf discs ofVigna sinensis L.savi exHassk caused asignificant increase intheflowofphotosynthetic carbon toward amino acids with aconcomitant decrease toward sugars without affecting theover-all photosynthetic rate. Similar diversion ofphotosynthetic carbon awayfromsugars wasalsoobserved inthephotosynthesizing isolated chloroplasts ofV.sinensis, butthelatter differed inthatthey accumulated organic acids rather thanamino, acids. Inaneffort tounderstand the mechanism ofNH4+-mediated regulation, thespecific andtotal activities ofNAD(P)-glutamate dehydrogenase, glutamine synthetase, pyruvate kinase, alkaline fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase, andNAD(P)-glyceraldehyde-3phosphate dehydrogenase oftheceUls ofD.lablabwerechecked butnone wasaffected bytheadded ammonium salts evenafter prolonged incubation. Atcertain concentrations, ammonium ions abolished thelight activation of NADP-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase andalkaline fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase inisolated chloroplasts fromdark-adapted Vigna leaves without interfering withthebasal darkactivity ofthese enzymes. Based on these observations, apossible mechanism ofaction ofNH4'inregulating thephotosynthetic carbon flow ispostulated.


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The aero optics effects caused by high speed flight may have a serious impact on the performance of space laser communication systems. In the field of space laser communication technology engineering and its practical application, this is a research problem that is highly significant. For the complex flow field that is generated by the interaction between the aircraft surface and air, the aero optics effects are usually divided into two parts, namely, laminar flow and turbulent flow. This paper discusses the principle of how the aero optics effect causes the image of the space laser communication optical system to blur and leads to a dispersed spot. The research focuses on the additional focal length (AFL) effect caused by the laminar flow field, a simulation analysis of the relationship between the flight altitude, speed, window shape and the system performance, and provides solutions to the defocus phenomenon that has been observed in airborne tests. Finally it is hoped that the paper can provide a solution that effectively compensates for the AFL effect on laser communication optical systems, and improves the communication between aircrafts.


A DISCUSSION OF STRATEGIES FOR SIX SIGMA IMPLEMENTATION, by Doug Sanders and Cheryl Hild, Six Sigma Associates, Knoxville, TN 37919 ABSTRACT: Many organizations are implementing Sir Sigma (6u) initiatives to improve organizational performance. This article contains observations on 6u implementation strategies based on the authors' experiences over the past 5 years. We discuss commonalities and differences between various strategies initially used to deploy 6u. We present three major categories of types of deployment strategies, discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and provide suggestions for improving any of the strategies. Many organizations are implementing Sir Sigma (6u) initiatives to improve organizational performance. This article contains observations on 6u implementation strategies based on the authors' experiences over the past 5 years. We discuss commonalities and differences between various strategies initially used to deploy 6u. We present three major categories of types of deployment strategies, discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and provide suggestions for improving any of the strategies. QUALITY ENGINEERING 12(3) 303 2000 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SUCCESS AND EVOLUTION OF SIX SIGMA AT SEAGATE, by Howard T. Fuller, Seagate Technology, 470 10 Kato Road, Bldg. 3, MIS 3C, Freemont, CA 94538 ABSTRACT: Lately, the quality initiative known as Six Sigma has been receiving increasing attention. To help facilitate a better understanding of Six Sigma and its potential impact, its deployment at Seagate Technology is described in this article. Particular attention is given to the structural elements that have helped to ensure its success at Seagate. Furthermore, the natural evolution of Six Sigma is also discussed. QUALITY ENGINEERING 12(3) 3 1 1 2000 THE EVOLUTION OF SIX SIGMA, by Gerald J. Hahn and Necip Doganaksoy, GE Corporate Research and Development, 1 Research Circle, Niskayuna, NY 12309 and Roger Hoerl, GE Corporate Audit Staff, 3135 Eastern Turnpike, Fairfield, CT 0643 1 ABSTRACT: The Six Sigma approach to quality improvement has had a profound impact on the mode of operation and the profitability of the companies that have embraced it. Moreover, in some form or other, it is the wave of the future for all organizations. We briefly review Six Sigma and provide references for further information. However, our major focus will be on how Six Sigma has evolved-especially its broadening from internal criteria, such as scrap reduction, to external ones, such as complete customer satisfaction. This has led to a change in focus from mainly manufacturing to everything we do and especially to product design and commercial operations. We also comment on some lessons learned. Although our discussion is based mainly on our experience in GE, we believe it has general relevance. QUALITY ENGINEERING 12(3) 3 17 2000


Based on successfully gained transgenic Tanichthys albonubes expressing red fluorescent proteins,we carried out genetic analysis combined with dot blot to investigate the genetic transmission rule of exogenous gene in transgenic fish.We also compared growth and reproduction between transgenic Tanichthys albonubes and non-transgenic fish.The results showed that the transgenic fish inherited its unique color directly from their parents,and passed the color along to their offspring whose phenotype according to Mendel's law of segregation.The exogenous fluorescent gene was integrated in single insertion,and there were no individuals which had the integration of silence in test crossing progenies.The growth and quantitative character contrast test from one family indicated that there were no significant differences in growth between non-transgenic Tanichthys albonubes and transgenic fish from juvenile to sexual maturity,in addition,there were also no differences in external morphology between sexually mature individuals from morphological characters contrast test.The contrast test on fecundity indicated that there were no significant differences among four groups which included fecundity and hatchability,while the rate of fertilization in group D(Tg fish×Tg fish) was lower than group A(non-Tg fish×non-Tg fish) and group C(Tg fish×non-Tg fish).Results of the study indicate as follows: it is possible to culture the pure line transgenic Tanichthys albonubes expressing red fluorescent proteins;transgenic fish do not have any apparent competitiveness advantage over non-transgenic fish on growth and reproduction,which provide foundation for evaluation of ecological impact of transgenic Tanichthys albonubes when they are accidentally released to the wild.


The Open Source and Open Science movements have demonstrated the success of distributed collaborative experimentation and intellectual property (IP) development. While those contributing to the effort may do so without seeking to secure IP rights, it is clear that credit and attribution are crucial to the scholarly lifecycle because they underpin reputation – when IP is created it is only fair that 'credit is given where credit is due'. We propose that there need to be systems in place, independent of the project, where the evidence of 'prior art' can be registered.


The introduction of talent work is an the important action for university implementing the talent make school strong strategy,is important content in teacher troop construction.Therefore,this article analyzed the necessity of introduction of talent,proposed the basic principle,the method,step and the main measure in view of the current problem in university.


On the social context of the rapid increase of China's comprehensive national strength,it is the main trends of the new era of sports development that putting sports into the public social service system,paying attention of the people's livelihood and letting all people participate in sports.Urban health green road as open public space,it greatly expands the sports public space and provides a new way for the realization of sports equalization of public services.However,urban health green road as the brand new thing in our country,it is in urgent need of scientific guidance for rational planning and effective use.In this paper,based on foreign experience as reference,it is proposed eco-sports mode like walking is an important way to build and improve the public service system of China sports.


Abstract Concessive adverbial clauses may precede or follow their associated matrix clauses. Previous research has revealed that multiple discourse-pragmatics and processing-related factors affect the ordering of these clauses. The present study purports to investigate the relative importance of competing motivators of the positioning of concessive clauses in a non-native discourse community. To this end, a corpus of 100 research articles written by Iranian non-native writers was used and all the finite concessive clauses accompanied by their main clauses were gathered. Random forest of conditional inference trees is the main statistical modelling in this study. The results demonstrated that Iranian writers use pre-posed concessive clauses more frequently than post-posed clauses. In addition, subordinator choice and bridging, which are discourse-pragmatics constrain on clause positioning, are far better predictors of the ordering of concessive clauses in this corpus. Finally, random forest modelling turned out to be slightly more efficient than logistic regression for the task of prediction.


Pouch of Douglas, lying somewhat nearer to the rectum than to the uterus, and extending in a downward direction between the rectum and the vagina, removed from a woman who died in consequence of an ectopic gestation. There were no signs of inflammatory action, and the deformity was evidently congenital.-Mr. MORRISON showed a specimen of Necrosis of the entire Shaft and Upper Epiphysis of Femur taken post mortem from a patient, aged 2.


In this article we consider the completely multiplicative sequences $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbf{N}}$ defined on a field $\mathbf{K}$ and satisfying $$\sum_{p| p \leq n, a_p \neq 1, p \in \mathbf{P}}\frac{1}{p}<\infty,$$ where $\mathbf{P}$ is the set of prime numbers. We prove that if such sequences are automatic then they cannot have infinitely many prime numbers $p$ such that $a_{p}\neq 1$. Using this fact, we prove that if a completely multiplicative sequence $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbf{N}}$, vanishing or not, can be written in the form $a_n=b_n\chi_n$ such that $(b_n)_{n \in \mathbf{N}}$ is a non ultimately periodic, completely multiplicative automatic sequence satisfying the above condition, and $(\chi_n)_{n \in \mathbf{N}}$ is a Dirichlet character or a constant sequence, then there exists only one prime number $p$ such that $b_p \neq 1$ or $0$.


Spectral graph theory is widely used in the process of characterization of complex networks properties, as well as the Internet infrastructure. This paper defines specific topological characteristics which can be used for the analysis of these networks. Moreover, the paper describes the use of spectral graph theory in the process of analyzing algebraic connectivity in the network.


Objective To establish a animal model of central diabetes insipidus. Methods Forty Sprague-Dalwley rats were randomly divided into both the experimental and control groups. Diabetes insipidus was induced by the stereotactic injection of kainic acid into the paraentricular nucleus (PVN) of hypothamus in the experimental group. The artifical cerebrospinal fluid was stereotacticallly injected into the PVN of the hypothamus in the control group. The volume of 1 hour urine was collected 30min after the injection. The plasma arginine vasopressim (AVP) was determined by radioimmunoassay. The change in the neurons of PVN were histologically observed. Results The urine volume significantly increased in the experimental group compared with that in the control group (P0.05). The level of plasma AVP in the experimental group was significantly lower than that in the control group (P0.05). The morphologic observation showed that Nissle bodies of the PVN neurons in the experimental group were fewer than those in the control group. Conclusion The diabetes insipidus model can be stably established by stereotactic injection of kainic acid into the PVN of hypothamus in rats.


Prolonged oral sugar clearance time has been correlated with an increased risk of higher caries incidence (C. LUNDQVIST, Odont. Revy, 3, Suppl. 1, 1952). In view of this finding, it is reasonable to suspect that there may be some observable difference in oral clearance times between individuals with different caries susceptibilities. Cox, DRAUS, and ENTRESS (Dent. Prog., 3:152 April 1963) have described a simple test for determining oral glucose clearance time. This technic was used to study clearance times in two groups of white male naval recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. The caries-resistant group consisted of 100 recruits who were participants in the Great Lakes caries immunity study. The men had no history of dental decay as determined by careful clinical and radiographic examination. Eighty-eight cariesactive recruits awaiting extensive restorative treatment comprised the second group. A superficial examination of these men, using tongue blades and available light, revealed a mean DMFT score of 23 and a range of 17 to 28 (third molars excluded). These figures should be considered conservative; it is likely that, even though many obvious open lesions


The development of the superconducting 28 GHz ECR ion source VENUS at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) [1] has pioneered high field superconducting ECR ion sources and opened a path to a new generation of heavy ion accelerators. Because of the success of the VENUS ECR ion source, superconducting 28 GHz ECR ion sources are now key components for proposed radioactive ion beam facilities. This paper will review the recent ion source development program for the VENUS source with a particular focus on the production of high intensity uranium beams. In addition, the paper will discuss a new R&D program started at LBNL to develop ECR ion sources utilizing frequencies higher than 28 GHz. This program addresses the demand for further increases of ion beam intensities for future radioactive ion beam facilities. The most critical technical development required for this new generation of sources is the high-field superconducting magnet system. For instance, the magnetic field strengths necessary for 56 GHz operation produce a peak field in the magnet coils of 12-14 T, requiring new superconductor material such as Nb3Sn. LBNL has recently concluded a conceptual, comparative design analysis of different coil configurations in terms of magnetic performance and has developed a structural support concept compatible with the preferred magnetic design solution. This design effort concludes that a sextupole-in-solenoid ECR magnet structure (VENUS type) is feasible with present Nb3Sn technology, but that an inverted geometry (solenoid-in sextupole) exceeds the capability of Nb3Sn superconductors and can be ruled out as candidate for a 56 GHz ECR ion source.


This paper presents a protection model based on software capabilities. Its main advantage is that capabilities are hidden from the application programmer, allowing the protection policy of an application to be defined independently from the application code. This is very interesting for protecting an already developed application.Our claim is that this protection model is well suited for a wide range of environments, from clusters of tightly coupled servers to large loosely coupled servers on the Internet. It is particularly interesting when applications are built by assembling many existing pieces of code into a single application.We argue our claim by describing our model and its integration in three different environments: a DSM (Distributed Shared Memory )system [Pérez 95], CORBA (Common Request Broker Architecture) [OMG 91] and the Java programming environment [Java 95].The rest of the paper is structured as follows. In section 2, we provide an overview of our protection model based on hidden software capabilities. Section 3 discusses the integration of this model in a DSM system, an ORB and the Java environment. We conclude in section 4.


Selfmutilation (SM) is a common phenomenon among patients with psychiatric disorders and has been reported frequently in patients with schizophrenia, personality disorders and occasionally with transsexuality. Several psychotropic agents, as alocohol or amphetamines, are able to induce intoxications during which SM is performed. Though SM related to psychotropic agents is probably a frequent phenomenon, literature lacks of systematic approaches and just provides single case reports. In this context we performed a systematic literature search and identified published cases of psychotropic substance induced selfmutilating behaviour (PSISM). Assessment of these cases shows that the typical patient that is on risk to develop PSISM is male, in the middle age and with a previous history of multiple substance abuse. Most frequent agents involved in PSIMS belong to the amphetamine group.


Importance. An important problem of using written digital texts as a means of teaching professional written communication in a non-linguistic university is posed. The purpose of the research is to show how modern digital technologies can effectively organize educational activities in the subject-language training of written communication of future specialists in the field of international business.
Research methods. The following research methods were used: general theoretical (analysis, synthesis, generalization, specification, functional method) and practical (description, observation, surveys, conversations, statistical analysis method).
Results and Discussion. Using internet-resources (news sites, professional online magazines), various tasks are offered that contribute to the formation of effective written communication skills. On the basis of step-by-step activity, the development of discursive skills in the professional sphere takes place, the formation of skills for critical comprehension of processed information, the ability to create a secondary written text.
Conclusion. Teaching students to work with digital text is one of the priority tasks of professional foreign language training of a specialist today. Successful mastering of written internet-communication allows students, working with digital resources, to form skills of diversification of the orientation of the profession, its movement towards the development of new digital practices.


Doctors in Turkey who post information about local covid-19 cases on social media are facing harassment and criminal charges from authorities anxious to hide the extent of the pandemic's spread in the country, the Turkish Medical Association has said.

As cases and deaths mount after the government's summer shift to a "normalisation" policy, tension is growing because of discrepancies between the official counts and reports from professionals on the ground.

Tension is growing too between the government and the medical profession. This month, as doctors around the country wore black ribbons to commemorate colleagues lost to the pandemic, President Recep Erdogan's coalition partner Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party, called for the Turkish Medical Association to be outlawed and its leadership prosecuted.

"The Turkish Medical Association is as dangerous as coronavirus and is disseminating threats," said Bahceli on Twitter. …


Aneurysms of neither traumatic nor syphilitic origin are unusual. The case here reported is an aneurysm originating from an infected embolus. Reports of such cases are seldom encountered in current medical literature. REPORT OF CASE Miss B. W., aged 23, entered St. Elizabeth's Hospital, March 25, 1924, complaining of a "tumor under the right arm." Her family history and past history were irrelevant. Seven weeks before admission to the hospital, an aching pain began in the right arm. A few days later, the fingers began to feel numb. The numbness gradually spread up the arm. Accompanying this was a paralysis of the fingers of the right hand, and a weakness of the entire right forearm and arm. Four weeks previous to admission, the patient's mother first noticed a round tumor in the right axilla. This mass was about the size of a hickory nut, and was tender on pressure. It


Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), International Barcode of Life (iBOL), Genome Canada, Ontario Genomics Institute, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Churchill Northern Studies Centre, and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.


This research aims to observe how the process of inner peace that owned by the students with behavior of misbehavior in school through religious approach. The method used is an intrinsic case study that aims to understand the intrinsic characteristics of a particular case as well. Participants in this research are five students in one of Junior High School in Jakarta. The researcher conduct interview in depth and provide mentoring through religious approach, namely mentoring and coaching to reading and studying the Qur'an (Juz 30) for these students who are guided by teachers who have the ability to teach reading the Qur'an, followed by related meanings contained in the letter of Qur'an that are read (worship, morals and values of life) and sharing. The result is that students do not have a sense of comfort in learning and performing actions that interfere with the learning atmosphere. Through religious approach (mentoring and guidance), this meeting was held, where each individual sharing from heart to heart, studentsing look more open in expressing personal issues and students with behavior Delinquent need attention and handling is different. Through this religious approach, the student feeling comfortable valued and heard what perceived. They are feeling closer to God and have the awareness to change for the better; the existence of the school's communication with parents intensively to figure out the conditions of the students at school; the availability of school facilities that can make students comfortable in learning and positive activity appropriate talent and their interest.


ABSTRACT Upon the third wave of democratization, environmental mobilization has increased throughout Latin America. In line with this process, the literature has analyzed different aspects of environmental mobilization, such as the types of groups involved and the resources mobilized. Yet, less attention has been paid to the impacts of those mobilizations. So, we ask: what are the impacts of environmental mobilization and how can they be best understood? Based on a review of the literature and on our own studies on Argentina, we build a novel typology to explain the connection between the political impacts of environmental mobilization and their concrete effects on the environment. We argue that the best way to understand those impacts is to analyze the state decisions that respond to such a mobilization, focusing on two key dimensions: the spatial and the temporal scope. We illustrate our typology with the analysis of four different environmental areas in Argentina.


Technological advancements have led to a proliferation machine learning systems to assist humans in a wide range of tasks. However, we are still far from accurate, reliable, and resource-efficient operations for many of these systems. Despite the strengths of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object recognition, these discriminative techniques have several shortcomings that leave them vulnerable to exploitation from adversaries. In addition, the computational cost incurred to train these discriminative models can be quite significant. Discriminative-generative approaches offers a promising avenue for robust perception and action. Such methods combine inference by deep learning with sampling and probabilistic inference models to achieve robust and adaptive understanding. In this talk, I will present our work on implementing a scalable, computationally efficient generative inference algorithm in hardware that can achieve real-time results in an energy efficient manner. I will also discuss future directions in designing scalable and efficient ML algorithms in hardware more broadly.


Objective:To investigate the effects of taurine intervention on retinal vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF) expression in retinal Muller cells of diabetic rats and the mechanism of taufine in the protection of diabetic rats from retinopathy. Methods:The rats were given intrapefitoneal injection of streptozotocin and then divided into 5 groups,i.e.normal control group(NC), diabetes mellitus group(DM),1% taufine intervention diabetes mellitus group(DM+1%T),5% taurine intervention diabetes mellitus group(DM+5%T),insulin treatment diabetes mellitus group(DM+I).2 weeks,1 month,2 months and 3 months after DM induction, VEGF expression in the detected retinal Muller cells were determined by RT-PCR,immunohistofluorescence and western-blotting. Results:From 2 weeks to 3 months,the mRNA and protein expression of VEGF gradually increased in diabetic retinal Muller cells.The VEGF expression in outer plexiform layer(OPL),inner plexiform layer(IPL)and outer segment of retina increased at 3 months after DM.A month after Taurine intervention,the mRNA and protein expression of VEGF in retinal Muller cells of diabetic rats down-regulated(P0.05).Conclusions:Taurine can down-regulate the mRNA and protein expression of VEGF in retinal Muller cells of diabetic rats,and can relieve diabetic rats from retinopathy.


When describing our conscious experiences, very often we simply describe the external objects and features that we are conscious of. But even on those occasions (supposing there are any) where we are concerned to speak of the subjective phenomenal character of experience itself, it can still be very natural to use some of the same predicates we use to characterise familiar external physical objects. For example: a subject who is enjoying a detailed visual hallucination – and who knows perfectly well that she is hallucinating – might describe some hallucinatory element in, or aspect of, her subjective visual field as 'hexagonal', 'blue', 'growing in size', 'rotating clockwise', 'to the left of' some other element, etc. How literally should we understand such descriptions? Can there be phenomenal features or elements to an experience which are quite literally square or blue or rotating clockwise? Or are these terms such as 'square', 'blue', 'rotating', being used here to do something other than literally predicate square-ness, blue-ness, rotation? There are two sorts of issues here, metaphysical and semantic. As a rough first pass, we can put the two questions as follows:


This study was carried out field conditions at Ata Botanical Park of Atatürk University, in 2011-2012. The Fern strawberry cultivar which has high yield potential in Erzurum conditions and five new strawberry cultivars (Sweet Ann, Crystal, Redlands Hope, Kabarla and Rubygem) was used. The research plots were established in 2011, clusters of flowers was plucked and there has not been evaluation the yield and quality in this year. The lowest yield of per plant was obtained from Rubygem (98.6g), the highest yield of per plant was obtained from Kabarla cultivar (296.2g), the smallest fruit was obtained from Fern (6.2g) and the largest fruit was obtained from Sweet Ann cultivar (9.0g) in the second year. The least number of fruit in Rubygem (11.8 number), the most number of fruit in Fern cultivar (42.3 number), the lowest puncture resistance of fruit in Redlands Hope (67.4 g/1.75 mm-tip), the highest puncture resistance of fruit in Crystal cultivar (92.5 g/1.75 mm-tip) was determined in the study. The least number of siblings in young plants was determined in Rubygem (2.1 number) while the highest number of siblings in young plants was determined in Kabarla and Sweet Ann cvs. (3.3 number). There was important differences as statistically in term of the marketable yield and the highest values in Redlands Hope (94.9%), the lowest values in Fern (81.6%) was obtained. The content of TSS and pH in fruit juice were significantly different. The value of TSS has ranging ratio from 7.3% (Kabarla) to 9.5% (Rubygem). The value of pH ranging ratio from 2.3 (Kabarla) to 2.9 (Rubygem). The content of ascorbic acid in fruit between cultivars were statistically significant. The lowest content of ascorbic acid was obtained from Redlands Hope (38mg/100ml) and the highest content of ascorbic acid was obtained from Crystal (56mg/100ml). As a result of this study, it was determined to the new strawberry cultivars such as Kabarla, Crystal and Sweet Ann may be an alternative to Fern strawberry cultivar in Erzurum conditions.


A numerical procedure is developed to predict the time-dependent natural convection induced in an initially quiescent and stratified Boussinesq fluid by the presence of thermally conducting sidewalls. The time evolution of the fluid velocity and temperature fields is obtained by solving the two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations with an algorithm that combines a pseudo-spectral Chebyshev space discretization with a finite-difference time-stepping scheme. The coupling between the walls and fluid temperatures is ensured iteratively at each time step, The procedure is applied to the study of the thermocline degradation in thermal storage tanks. The influence of the convection on the decay of the initial stratification is discussed for various wall to fluid heat conductivity and thermal diffusivity ratios, fluid aspect ratios, and initial Rayleigh numbers.


Music may play several roles and have many effects in advertising; it may attract attention, carry the product message, act as a mnemonic device, and create excitement or a state of relaxation. In this paper, the role of music within advertising is evaluated during low-attention conditions. The current experiment was carried out whereby participants were exposed to an advert that was embedded into a sequence of three other adverts, presented in the middle of an engaging TV programme, thus replicating natural conditions. There were four audio conditions examined in an example advertisement: jingle, instrumental music, instrumental music with voiceover and environmental sounds with voiceover, all four containing identical verbal information. The duration of the target advert was approximately 45 secs.Results indicate that music is effective in facilitating both implicit learning and recall of the advertised product, showing that, under non-attentive conditions, there appears to be a certain mechanism of unconscious elaboration of the musical signal. The role of previous musical training of the participants was shown to have little significance.


This study tested the effects of perceptions of organization politics (OP) on work outcomes- work engagement, innovative work behavior and turnover intention. Drawing from the COR theory, mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of LOC on OP-outcome relationship was investigated. Data were gathered from a sample of 393 full-time employee-supervisor dyads in India. Results suggest that OP is significantly related to intention to quit and innovative work behavior and this relationship is mediated by work engagement. LOC moderates the organizational politics-work outcome relationship.


Self-organized critical (SOC) models are used to describe the 1/f-spectra of rather different physical situations like snow avalanches, noise of electric currents or luminosities of stars. The prototype of the SOC-models is the sandpile model of Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld (Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, (1987) 381). We implement this model on the 8-fold AmmannBeenker tiling where the model can become either isotropic or anisotropic and investigate its properties.


In the 21st century the myth around communication skills as an inborn quality has been broken. It is also high time
that the education sector in India should become more student centric and produce an intelligent, innovative and
independent workforce that can create a niche at the global level and express themselves effectively. NEP 2020 also
emphasizes the need to develop globally confident workforce rather than passive graduate and post graduate
degree holders. Effective communication skills is now an integral part of one's overall success in different disciplines.
It was earlier believed that those who are good communicators had an intrinsic acumen for public speaking and this
is an area that can't be developed but now it is not so. Good schools these days give mike practice to even 3yrs old
children in play-way schools. They present their rhymes while facing their class right from the beginning. So
communication skills will be internalized right from the beginning. While, otherwise so far in the education sector
the student use to sit in the classroom as a passive learner and became a tool of receiving information from first
period of the time table till the ninth period. The present day education system requires to embed development of
effective communication skills. Deliberate and constant efforts along with regular practice will ensure improvement
of this skill. Besides, good knowledge of importance of verbal and non-verbal messages, signals, symbols help in
cultivating better relationships with peer group, colleagues, family, relatives, customers and business partners. At
the global level also we witness how S. Jaishankar gives prompt reply to scathing attacks of international journalists.
Power of persuasion, power of negotiation, power of conflict resolution, body language, couple communication,
group communication, interpreting others body language, public speaking, conversation with elders, with children
etc requires good training right from the beginning. The present paper focuses on the relevance of paralanguage
and communication skills in education sector.


The development of Western Canada's oil and gas reservoirs has resulted in a proliferation of wells. Many of these wells exhibit gas migration to surface. This migration occurs at rates between 0.01 and 200 m 3 /day and is of obvious industrial and public concern. Thus far, attempts to eliminate gas migration have been expensive and relatively unsuccessful as the problem is not yet well understood. Identifying the origin of the gas will improve the economics and the effectiveness of remedial measures. The isotopic composition of gases can reveal their origin and help determine the source of the migrating gas. Both the production horizon gases and the migrating gas in the Lindbergh-Lloydminster oil fields are predominantly (> 96%) methane with trace components of higher hydrocarbons. Despite the lack of chemical differentiation, the gases possess unique carbon isotopic signatures. The methane of the production gases is very depleted in 13 C (δ 13 C(PDB) ≃-68‰), indicative of a bacterial origin. The trace ethane, propane and butane components of the Manville Group production gases are relatively enriched in 13 C (δ 13 C ≃ -27‰, -18‰ and -20‰, respectively), and often the partitioning of 13 C/ 12 C between propane and butane is reversed compared to that of thermogenic gas, possibly the result of extensive biodegradation of these higher hydrocarbons. The source of the gas associated with the heavy oil field of the Lindbergh and Lloydminster regions is predominantly bacteriogenic, variably mixed with biodegraded thermogenic gas. Wherever sampled, the migrating gas was tagged by a δ 13 C ≃ -44‰ ethane. Such a signature is seen in the gases of the overlying Upper Cretaceous strata. The isotopic data suggest that the migrating gas is sourced from the shallow Fish Scales, White Speckled and perhaps the Lea Park Formations. Remedial efforts should therefore concentrate on Fish Scales and Second White Speckled shales.


Online advertising campaigns often consist of multiple ads, each with different creative content. We consider how various creatives in a campaign differentially affect behavior given the targeted individual's ad impression history, as characterized by the timing and mix of previously seen ad creatives. Specifically, we examine the impact that each ad impression has on visiting and conversion behavior at the advertised brand's website. We accommodate both observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity and take into account correlations among the rates of ad impressions, website visits, and conversions. We also allow for the accumulation and decay of advertising effects, as well as ad wearout and restoration effects. Our results highlight the importance of accommodating both the existence of multiple ad creatives in an ad campaign and the impact of an individual's ad impression history. Simulation results suggest that online advertisers can increase the number of website visits and conversions by varying the creative content shown to an individual according to that person's history of previous ad impressions. For our data, we show a 12.7% increase in the expected number of visits and a 13.8% increase in the expected number of conversions.


This paper investigates the radio frequency (RF)-induced heating in American Society for Testing and Materials phantom with a generic external fixation device for both birdcage (BC) coil and transverse electromagnetic (TEM) coil. Two typical orientations, i.e., fixture bar perpendicular to and parallel to the coil axis, have been considered. To compare the specific absorption rate and temperature rise in the two different RF coils at 3 T, both electromagnetic and thermal simulations were performed. It is found that tibia external fixation device with orientation parallel to the coil axis will induce severe heating effect in both coils. However, pelvic external fixation device induces larger heating level in TEM coil than BC coil. Furthermore, increasing the pin length or pin spacing of the pelvic external fixation device will cause a larger heating level in TEM coil, while such changes have no substantial effects on BC coil. We show that the transversely distributed electric field in TEM coil forms the underlying reason why pelvic external fixation device induces a higher heating level in TEM coil than BC coil. This finding also indicates that metallic external fixation devices with large dimensions along transverse direction, while might be safe in BC coil, can experience significant heating issue in TEM coil.


The stratigraphic record of Mesozoic arc accretion in the North American Cordillera is preserved in a discontinuous belt of clastic strata that are exposed inboard (cratonward) of the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane in southern Alaska, western Canada, and Washington State. LA‐ICPMS analyses of eight samples (n = 714 detrital zircon grains) collected at different stratigraphic intervals from the Jurassic‐Cretaceous Kahiltna assemblage in southern Alaska reveals a bulk U‐Pb age distribution of Precambrian‐Mesozoic age grains (Mz 74%, Pz 11%, Pc 15%). A comparison of U‐Pb ages from older to younger stratigraphic intervals within the Kahiltna assemblage reveals three stages of exhumation and basin development during arc accretion. Stages include (1) an initial Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous pre/early collisional phase during which detritus was derived almost solely from Middle–Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous magmatic sources of the outboard Wrangellia composite terrane (Mz 100%, Pz 0%, Pc, 0%), (2) a second Early Cretaceous syncollisional phase that reflects the introduction of Paleozoic and Precambrian detritus from the inboard Intermontane belt (Mz 84%, Pz 11%, Pc 5%) and an upsection increase in older detrital zircon grains compared to Mesozoic age grains (Mz 65%, Pz 11%, Pc 24%), and (3) a final Early‐Late Cretaceous late/postcollisional phase that represents continued detrital contributions from Precambrian–Mesozoic source areas (Mz 19%, Pz 22%, Pc 59%) located inboard and outboard of the Kahiltna basin. Similar bulk trends in detrital zircon age populations have been reported from along‐strike, age‐equivalent strata of the Gravina belt (Mz 74%, Pz 20%, Pc 6%) in southeastern Alaska suggesting that similar provenance trends may exist in basins along this >2000 km ‐long collisional zone.


Abstract : This report addresses reading grade levels (RGL) of course materials within A schools compared to reading grade levels of A school students. A total of 74 schools were examined. These were divided into two groups: group d1 (47 schools) supplied both course material and student RGLs were predicted from mean Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores. Based on a weighted mean reading grade level for all schools examined, it was determined that no overall literacy gap exists between the student RGL and the course material RGL. Some literacy gap was found in a few specific A schools. Includes as variables for a correlation analysis were setback and attrition rates, AFQT scores, course length, literacy gap, student RGL, and school RGL. Significant correlations were found between literacy gap and both student RGL and school RGL. Literacy gap did not correlate significantly with any other variable studied.


Observational evidence is presented for transfer of energy from the internal tide to near-inertial motions near 298N in the Pacific Ocean. The transfer is accomplished via parametric subharmonic instability (PSI), which involvesinteractionbetweena primarywave (the internaltide in this case) andtwo smaller-scale waves of nearly half the frequency. The internal tide at this location is a complex superposition of a low-mode waves propagating north from Hawaii and higher-mode waves generated at local seamounts, making application of PSI theory challenging. Nevertheless, a statistically significant phase locking is documented between the internal tide and upward- and downward-propagating near-inertial waves. The phase between those three waves is consistent with that expected from PSI theory. Calculated energy transfer rates from the tide to nearinertial motions are modest, consistent with local dissipation rate estimates. The conclusion is that while PSI does befall the tide near a critical latitude of 298N, it does not do so catastrophically.


A B S T R A C T Tension disc infiltrometers are being widely used for determining in situ saturated and near-saturated soil hydraulic properties. The objective of this paper was to characterize modifications of the hydraulic conductivity (K 0 ) and the porosity because of tillage and environmental factors effects, by means of a disc infiltrometer, on a typic Haplustoll soil of the central region of Cordoba Province, Argentina. One trial site was in a native forest (BN) and two sites with soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) monocropping with conventional tillage. The latter were selected because of their spatial position inside of a microbasin and correspond to high (C7) and low (E3) moisture areas. K 0 values to -20, -40, and -80 mm of water pressure application were of 22.61, 2.67 y 0.64 mm h -1 in BN, of 10.51, 7.57 y 4.19 mm h -1 in C7 and of 14.55, 9.47 and 4.09 mm h -1 in E3, respectively. In the site E3, the K 0 values decreased significantly after a disc plow was passed and after an intense rain that formed a superficial crust. It was observed that the pores larger than 0.75 mm bore 90, 45 y 56% of the total water flow in the BN, C7 and E3 sites, respectively. The hydraulic conductivity and the porosity estimated with a tension disc infiltrometer were sensitive parameters as indicators of soil quality.


Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) are followed for years due to older and likely biased works demonstrating a strong association with pancreatic carcinoma; more recent data are needed clarifying this relationship.


We present in this article two complete procedures to solve some problems of the road networks. First, we must start with a process of road networks extraction based on the fuzzy clustering unsupervised approaches, and then we apply another approach for the local registration and deformation of a cartographic and a satellite road networks. For this aim, the idea is to segment first the sensed data and to recognize the basic urban classes (vegetation, roads, and other sectors). Then, starting from these classes, we extract the structures and the infrastructures interest by applying two algorithms of road network extraction (The Connectivity Weighted Hough Transform (CWHT), and the Regularised Shortest-Path Extraction (RSPE)), their different capabilities are applied for the characterization of streets with different width and shape. Finally, the proposed local registration method consists in translating the cartographic data into a graph model, and then defining Markov random fields (MRF) to fit the graph and the satellite image.


A fascinating anecdote preserved in the Babylonian Talmud (b. ῾Abod. Zar. 17a) tells the story of a woman who comes before Rav Hisda and discloses to him that her younger son is the product of incestuous intercourse she has performed with her older son. Rav Hisda, in turn, rather than instructing her with regard to her penance, orders the preparation of her shrouds, thus indicating that her death is inescapable and imminent. Although the nature of the encounter between Rav Hisda and the sinner is not explicit in the story itself, the passage is situated within the Babylonian Talmud in the context of a broader legal and theological discussion centered on the penitential requirements for a person seeking to turn away from minut (heresy).


Attending higher education institutions affects graduates in a variety of dimensions. Among these dimensions are gaining knowledge, acquiring skills, and developing academic and professional independence; however, the most important dimension in which a change should be introduced is the acquirement of appropriate patterns of thinking. Does safety education lead to a change in cognitive patterns among graduates?


Materials & Methods: In this clinical trial study, 150 patients with renal colic were recruited in: Group one received 40 micrograms intranasal desmopressin, group two 25 miligrams intravenous pethidine and in group 3 both drugs were administered. VAS method was used to measure the intensity of pain in first minute and at 10, 20 and 30 minutes after administration. Kruskal-Walis and ANOVA were used to compare the pain severity between groups.


A method for in situ generation of boron trichloride from boron trifluoride etherate and silicon tetrachloride in the presence of triethylamine, traced by boron-11 nuclear magnetic resonance (11B-NMR) spectroscopy, was successfully developed, thus eliminating the need to use expensive boron trichloride for the exclusive ortho substitution reaction of N-monoalkylanilines. The method was readily adaptable to the reaction with N-monoaminoalkylanilines.


This chapter reviews insights about how the banking system affects real economic performance. After arguing that the causality debate—the high-level question of whether the characteristics of a banking system have causal consequences for the real economy—has essentially been settled, we evaluate the specific channels through which banking activity may exert real effects. We focus on the rich empirical literature spawned by the theoretically ambiguous impact of greater banking competition, which has found concentration of the banking system to be a significant determinant of the structure and health of non-financial industries. We also discuss how, after the 2007–9 financial crisis, there has been revitalized interest in modeling the role that financial intermediaries play in amplifying aggregate shocks and initiating crises. We conclude by noting the importance of accounting for the changing institutional, structural, and technological properties of the financial sector in understanding the interplay between financial and real activity.


Growing numbers of career change adults are entering alternative certification programs to become teachers. These adults bring to the classroom many of the same characteristics of traditionally-prepared teachers. They also come with some unique characteristics, among them age, reasons for entering teaching, prior career experience and well-developed personalities that include learning preferences. This study conceptualized non-traditional teachers as mature adults, persons whose personality types and learning styles preferences had been well developed and also reinforced by their previous career choices. The study explored the effect of non-traditional teachers' personal learning styles on their teaching styles. Four participants for this multiple-case study were identified through the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Each participant chosen for the study was representative of one of four learning styles quadrants based on the 16-type MBTI. Observations and interviews were used to gather data from the participants and their supervisors using the methodology framework of Yin (1991), and the methods of qualitative data analysis developed by Lecompte and Preissle (1993). In addition, videotaped teaching sessions were viewed and coded by the researcher and a peer for triangulation. Consistent with previous findings on the relationship between teaching and learning styles of traditional teachers, this study found that non-traditional teachers tend to select instructional strategies and media that support their


Due to the advantages of long-time and multi-angle observation, ground moving target detection with circular synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has recently attracted lots of interest from researchers. Our team has previously proposed the logarithm background subtraction algorithm for moving target detection in single-channel circular SAR. Its principle is that the background image (static clutter) is obtained by median filtering of the image sequence, and the foreground image (moving target) is obtained by subtraction. To further improve the performance of background and foreground separation, we introduce the low-rank sparse decomposition (LRSD) method into the previous framework. A new algorithm based on LRSD and adaptive threshold detector (ATD) is proposed in this letter. First, this letter introduces entropy metric to optimize parameters in LRSD to obtain better background and foreground separation. Second, since the statistical distribution of the foreground image is unknown, the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector cannot be applied to the foreground image. Therefore, an adaptive threshold detector (ATD) built on Otsu is presented in this letter, which is independent of image statistical properties. The final detection result is obtained via clustering using the modified density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) method. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by the experimental results on the airborne X-band Gotcha Volumetric SAR Data.


To observe the changes of the peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets in AIDS patients receiving highly active an- tiretroviral therapy(HAART),the expression of CD4~+ CD45RA~+,CD4~+ CD45RO~+,CD4~+ CD25~+,CD8~+ CD25~+,CD4~+ CD95~+,CDS~+CD95~+,CD4~+CD28~+,CDS~+CD38~+,CD14~+,CD19~+,CD56~+ lymphocyte subsets in peripheral blood were investigated by immunofluorescence staining method.In the AIDS patient,it was found that the percentages of CD4~+ CD45RA~+,CD4~+ CD28~+,CD4~+ CD45RO~+,CD4~+ CD95~+ lymphocytes were significantly lower and that of CD56~+,CD8~+ CD95~+,CD8~+ CD38~+ lymphocytes were significantly higher than that of healthy individuals.Afler treatment with HAART the percentages of CD4~+ CD45RA~+ and CD4~+ CD28~+ lymphocyte elavated,and that of CD56~+ lymphocytes decreased compared with that of the patients before HAART.These results suggest that the expression of CD45RA and CD28 on CD4~+ T lympho- cyte,and the CD56~+ lymphocytes can predict the effect of HAART on AIDS patients.


ABSTRACT This research aims to improve the toughness of Poly(lactic acid) (PLA)/wood sawdust (WS) composite by plasticising with tributyrin bio-plasticiser. Experimental results showed the toughness achievement of the plasticised PLA/WS composite, which reflected as the increase of the tensile strain at break and impact resistance. Thermal test indicated that the plasticised composites crystallised earlier than neat PLA and PLA/WS at lower crystallisation temperature (Tc) together with the increased degree of crystallinity (Xc). Thermal degradation test revealed that PLA/WS composite were less stable with the plasticiser incorporation, while the heat distortion temperature (HDT) was found to reduce from more than 85°C, in PLA/WS composite, down to less than 60°C when tributyrin was added at 15 wt%. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) indicated that with increasing the tributyrin plasticiser content, the storage modulus (E') was proportionally decreased. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) showed that the plasticised PLA/WS composite decomposed earlier than neat PLA and PLA/WS composite due to the decomposition of low molecular weight compositions. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) analysis indicated there was no chemical interaction among the raw materials added. The plasticised composites were found to absorb lower amount of water due to the incorporation of non-polar plasticiser.


This article regards semantic relations in a simple sentence. Provides a typology of semantic relations and noted that the same semantic relations can be expressed as complex and simple proposal.


This datasheet on Catharanthus roseus covers Identity, Overview, Distribution, Dispersal, Hosts/Species Affected, Biology & Ecology, Environmental Requirements, Natural Enemies, Impacts, Uses, Further Information.


........................................................................................II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......................................................................IV TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................V LIST OF TABLES................................................................................VI LIST OF FIGURES........................................................................................................VII Chapter 1: Introduction..........................................................................1 Chapter 2: Methods...............................................................................7 Participants.......................................................................................7 Procedures.......................................................................................9 Chapter 3: Results................................................................................12 Chapter 4: Discussion............................................................................20 REFERENCES......................................................................................27


The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of different explants, different concentrations and combinations of growth regulators on callus induction and plant regeneration of Spilanthes acmella M. Leaf explants were inoculated onto MS medium supplemented with different concentrations of α -naphthalene acetic acid (NAA), 2,4-Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D), Indol acetic acid (IAA) and benzyl adenine (BA) alone and auxins in combinations with BA for callus  induction. Callus initiation was observed in all media evaluated and the highest callus formation (0.29 ± 0.03 mg) wasobtained from explants cultivated in the presence of IAA alone at 10 µM in nodal explant or 15 µM BA + 5µM 2,4-D (0.33 ± 0.039 mg)in combination.Maximum shoot induction (81%) and highest number of shoot per call was obtained from callus induced on 15 µM BA + 5µM 2,4-D3 weeks after transferring the callus to a MS medium supplemented 1 0 µM BA + 5 µM NAA.The regenerated plantlets were well rooted by exposing to auxins (NAA, IAA, IBA) and auxin in combinations with increased level of sucrose. The successof plant tissue culture for in vitro culture of S.acmella was encouraged by acclimatization of the plantlets in the greenhouse conditions.


Until recently, relatively little was known of the exact nature of climatic change in southern Africa over the past two millennia. New research based on oxygen isotope analyses of cave speleothems and mollusc remains in shell middens, together with foraminifera studies of inshore marine deposits, palynological and micromammalian research and earlier dendrochronological work, has allowed more reliable identification of the effects of the 'Little Ice Age' in the subcontinent. Cooling prevailed from 1300 to 1850 with a warm episode occurring between about 1500 and 1675. In addition, the generally warmer period from about 900 to 1300 may have been associated with the Medieval Warm Epoch. Earlier distinctive events appear to have been a variable period of cooling from 600 to 900, a warmer period from about AD 250 to 600 and a notable interval of cooling between AD 100 and 200. Much of the evidence for the 'Little Ice Age' in southern Africa suggests that in the summer rainfall region drier conditions prevailed during the period of cooling. At the same time the winter rainfall region became wetter. This supports a previous postulation that as the tropical easterlies of the general circulation of the atmosphere strengthen and become more perturbed over southern Africa over extended periods, so the climate becomes wetter over the summer rainfall area. As the circumpolar westerlies strengthen and expand northward, so the summer rainfall region becomes drier, while the coastal Mediterranean winter rainfall region becomes wetter.


1 An ID is a non-executive director who is not an internal employee and is free from any material relationships with the company or any of its subsidiaries (ASX Corporate Governance Council, 2010). dissimilar board ties to other firms compared to the focal firm. Recently, many global regulatory bodies have recommended limits to the number of directorships a director may hold despite the fact that the academic debate on the benefits and downsides of multiple directorships is still unsettled. We contribute to this debate and extend the literature by drawing on strategic management literature and examining whether it is the absolute Abstract


Purpose
There is an emerging literature focusing on the impact of late career transitions on health, but little is known so far about the role working time modulations might play in explaining older workers' health. The paper aims to discuss this issue.

Design/methodology/approach
Using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Waves 4–7, the paper assesses the association between the different types of change in working time, the total weekly working hours at baseline and the level of income and the change in Self-perceived health (SPH). The model controls for financial wealth, qualification, gender, age, the sector of activity and self-reported health at baseline.

Findings
Respondents who retire have a better SPH compared with those who keep working at constant working time. Those who work long hours benefit more from retiring. Respondents working long hours before being unemployed tend to be less affected by a negative change in SPH. Those who reduce working time by 50 per cent or more and work long hours at baseline have lower probabilities to be affected by a negative change in SPH compared with those who work fewer hours. Finally, low-paid workers are those who benefit the most from retiring or reducing working time.

Social implications
Results point out the need to foster working time arrangements for low-paid workers to prevent adverse health impacts.

Originality/value
There is a significant association between change in working time and change in self-reported health that has not been examined by previous studies.


Data has begun to play a vital role in global, EU-wide and domestic economies. On 19 February 2020, the European Commission published the EU's strategy for data, which outlines a new and unprecedented approach to development. The vision thus described – a data-driven economy – is to be implemented within the next five years.However, this broad undertaking gives rise to a number of legal, economic and social issues which deserve to be more thoroughly examined. In this paper, the author considers how the data economy relates to aspects of competition law, including threats associated with the sharing of confidential company data, and information protected under intellectual property laws, among the participants of the market economy, i.e. businesses. Also, observations are made concerning the hypothetical emergence of monopolies and oligopolies, as well as collusive agreements between enterprises on the grounds of the new approach to development.


The collection of prayers for the days of week entitled the Words of the Luminaries is one of the most important documents for the history of Jewish prayer that has been discovered at Qumran. This chapter shows that the textual overlap with 4Q505 is tenable and suggest how the outstanding codi-cological questions may be resolved satisfactorily in order to uphold the identification of 4Q505 as the second copy of the Words of the Luminaries. It provides a diplomatic transcription of 4Q505 124 and his reconstruction of 4Q504 5 ii + 3 i. The author uses italics to indicate the text of 4Q505 and single underlining for 4Q506. The passage is from the prayer for the third day of the week. The chapter concludes that the most plausible scenario that would account for all the data is a classification of 4Q505 as a second copy of the Words of the Luminaries. Keywords:4Q505; Jewish prayer; Words of the Luminaries


Background: most individuals with glucose intolerance will eventually develop other metabolic abnormalities making them fit the criteria for a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type 2. This is serious because it means that due to the large number of individuals in those categories, a huge number of diabetes mellitus type 2 cases will be diagnosed soon in the future. Therefore, it has become essential to target individuals in these two categories to detect the defects early and prevent the progression to diabetes mellitus type 2 or delay it for the longest possible period. Methodology: We conducted this review using a comprehensive search of MEDLINE, PubMed, and EMBASE, January 1985, through February 2017. The following search terms were used: glucose intolerance, prediabetes, diabetes mellitus, health risks associated with pre-diabetes, management of pre-diabetes, metformin Aim: In this review, we aim to study the pathophysiology of prediabetes, the risks associated with it, and the its management with metformin Conclusion: Debates are still present on the best time to start metformin therapy, especially in prediabetic individuals who have a significantly higher risk of developing diabetes mellitus type 2 than the general population. Most studies have shown that proper control of prediabetic individuals is associated with improved outcomes and decreased rates of diabetic conversion. Interventions include lifestyle modifications and metformin therapy. Most studies have found that long-term use of metformin in prediabetic patients can significantly decrease the risk of conversion into diabetes mellitus type 2, and prevent diabetes in some cases.


The use of integrated systems had been presented as an option to improve livestock production systems. This study aimed to evaluate beef cattle production systems. The experiment was carried out at Embrapa Agrossilvipastoril, Sinop/MT, from August/2015 to July/2016, follow a randomized complete block design, with four systems and four replications, totaling 16 experimental units (2 ha each). Four production systems were evaluated: livestock (L) ? palisade grass (Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu) pastures; livestock-forestry (LF) integration ? palisade grass pastures with triple rows of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus urograndis, H13 clone), spaced 3 m between trees, 3.5 m between rows, and 30 m between ranks and height of 18 m; crop-livestock (CL) integration ? soybean crop (Glycine max L.), succeeded by maize (Zea mays L.) as the second crop snow along with palisade grass, which was used in the first 2 years to create a straw coverge of the soil for the no-till system implemented, and then used as first year pasture; and crop-livestock-forestry (CLF) - first year palisade grass pastures, after two years of crop as describe in CL system, with single rows of eucalyptus, spaced 3 m between trees, 37 m between ranks and height of 18 m.


bases of music is perhaps the last published work which will appear from the pen of the late Howard Murphy, a respected and distinguished teacher and theorist who had long been active in the Music Educators National Conference. Musical tone, time, notation, and the fundamental relationships between tones singly, in combination and in basic musical forms are the subjects discussed. The whole is in the form of questions and answers proceeding in thoughtful and logical progression. The succinctness, clarity, and definiteness of Mr. Murphy's writing reveals the type of orderly neatness of thought which distinguished him as a teacher throughout his many years' association with the Juilliard School of Music and Teachers College, Columbia


In this work, we analyse the controllability for certain classes of impulsive integro - differential equations(IIDE) of fractional order via Atangana Baleanu derivative involving finite delay with initial and nonlocal conditions using Banach fixed point theorem.


During and after armed conflicts, policy makers and practitioners often advocate education to support the physical, psychological, and social well-being of children. In such advocacy they reference education's role in promoting children's welfare, although there is evidence that schooling in particular can jeopardize children's well-being. For example, schools can be sites of political contestation where armed groups deliberately attack students and teachers and where teachers promote—through formal and hidden curricula—intolerance and exclusion of certain social or cultural groups (Bush and Saltarelli 2000; Davies 2004). In addition, the argument that education promotes children's well-being is very often made without reference to children's lived experiences of education during and after conflict. There is a dearth of information about the best ways to ensure in practice that education does support children's well-being, if indeed it does at all. In this article we argue that, under certain conditions and with certain approaches, schooling can support children's well-being. This subject has been given little attention in existing literature and practice. Using data collected on primary school students living in refugee and postconflict contexts through the International Rescue Committee's Healing Classrooms Initiative, we examine the diverse ways in which Eritrean refugee students in Ethiopia, Afghan students in Afghanistan, and Liberian refugee students in Sierra Leone conceptualize their own well-being in relation to their school experience. We then draw out the implications for policy and practice of these children's experiences and perceptions.


Deactivation Behaviour of Arenes and Heteroarenes. XLI. Structural and Environmental Effects on the Intramolecular [π4s + π4s]- Photocycloaddition Reaction of α, ω-Bis-(9-acridiziniumyl) - alkanes.

Fluorescence characteristics, including quantum yields and decay times, and quantum efficiencies for the reversible intramolecular [π4s + π4s]- photocycloaddition reaction for a series of α, ω-bis-(9-acridiziniumyl)-alkanes have been measured in several solvents and they have been compared with those of the model compounds acridizinium-ion. and 9-methyl-acridizinium-ion. These parameters of the bichromophores depend on the number of CH2-groups of chromophor linkage. The title compounds investigated were divided into groups of common behaviour, and differences are due to increasing bond angle strain and coulomb-repulsion in the photocyclomer state.


We fabricated a magneto-optical (MO) switch with a hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguide on an MO garnet. The switch is composed of a 2 × 2 Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The switch state is controlled by an MO phase shift through a magnetic field generated by a current flowing in an electrode located on the MZI. The switching operation was successfully demonstrated with an extinction ratio of 11.7 dB at a wavelength of 1550 nm.


Herein, the start laminar cooling temperature to obtain different volume fractions of ferrite and bainite/martensite is optimized. Lower start laminar cooling temperature yields a higher volume fraction of ferrite and also decreases the transformation temperature of bainite/martensite. The yield strength of the experimental dual‐phase steel at 600 °C increases from ≈484.8 to ≈526.2 MPa by decreasing the start laminar cooling temperature from 650 to 600 °C. To understand the effect of microstructure, the dislocation density, volume fraction of precipitates, and Young's modulus at elevated temperature are statistically analyzed. A machine learning method, known as gradient boosting decision tree, is used to classify the grain boundaries. The statistical results suggest that the steel subject to lower start laminar cooling temperature shows higher Young's modulus and larger volume fraction of precipitates at elevated temperature. Furthermore, at elevated temperature, the boundary is stable and the proportion of Σ3 boundary is greater, when lower start laminar cooling temperature is adopted. Theoretical calculations results suggest that the lower transformation temperature of bainite/martensite improves the fire resistance of dual‐phase steels.


Project management plays the most critical role in the success and sustainability of any project. Project Management Soft skills are now being regarded as essential to all professional endeavors. The study sought to examine the role of project management soft skills on the sustainability of Enwealth Financial Services projects. Therefore, Specific objectives of the study were to determine the role of communication skills on the sustainability of Enwealth financial services projects; to examine the role of negotiation skills in the sustainability of Enwealth Financial Services projects; to find out the role of time management skills in the sustainability of Enwealth Financial Services projects, and to assess the role of leadership skills in the sustainability of Enwealth Financial Services projects. These results are significant to the project managers as it assists them in exercising appropriate skills needed for successfully influencing the project sustainability. The study focused on Enwealth Financial Services projects. The study was guided by the resource-based view theory and development communication theory. This study adopted an explanatory research design, and the population of this study included all the 40 staff at Enwealth Financial Services. The entire population was examined since they are not many. Semistructured questionnaires were used to collect data from the respondents. The data were analyzed and tabulated using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The researcher concludes that soft skills such as communication skills and leadership skills are essential in ensuring project success and sustainability through providing stakeholder participation and reduce resistance. Additionally, negotiation skills and time management skills play the role of resource mobilization and securing proper resource utilization that ensure project success. The researcher recommends that all project stakeholders should be involved from the initiation stage to completion of the project as well as proper allocation of resources to avoid underutilization. The Organization should introduce collaboration tools that allow fast and seamless communication like the use of social media platforms and build leadership capacity through learning and development to ensure effective implementation and sustainability of projects.


From cultural point of view,there are two methods in translation:adaptation which is TL culture-oriented and alienation which is SL culture-oriented.What this article tries to prove is that each of them has its own strong and weak points,which leads to the conclusion that both methods are justified in their existence.And last,some points for attention are suggested for translation,which include the relationship between SL and TL,the type of texts and the translator's purpose.