Abstract In this article, I read Almodóvar's film La piel que habito (2011) as an example of what Edward Said calls late style. However, unlike the perfecting or visionary style of artists' later works, Almodóvar's late style, lacking the counter-cultural ground provided by La movida, the urban movement in post-Francoist Spain, becomes self-referential, not only in the repeated allusions to his earlier films, but also in his readiness to imitate Hollywood's canonical cinematic language. In fact, I argue that La piel que habito maintains an internal dialogue with Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The avant-garde aura identified with Almodóvar's cinema is often related to La Movida. Yet, as Eduardo Subirats contends in Modernidad y exilio, this cultural movement never attempted to revise the political, social and cultural content remaining from the fascist rule but rather recycled them into a form of cultural transvestism. I argue that, beyond its liberated disguise, Almodóvar's conception of sexuality is ideologically conservative, hinging on an understanding of gender relations that corroborate the tenets of Laura Mulvey's classic critique of the patriarchal gaze in Hollywood narrative cinema. The conservatism unearthed in this article refers to patriarchal conceptions of courtly love developed by Jacques Lacan in The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Particularly, I look at the construction of the feminine that results from Almodóvar's erotic conservatism.


A solid state system comprising a host material and a quantum spin defect has a quantum spin defect is greater than approximately 300μs at room temperature T2, the host material, the layer of single crystal CVD diamond having a total nitrogen concentration of less than about 20ppb hints, the following surface roughness R .BACKGROUND


Until the late 1980s a Soviet-type interpretation of internationalization was used in Hungary, which isolated countries of the communist bloc within the Iron Curtain. In 1993, after the democratic transformation, a new Higher Education Act was passed. Although the first democratic government started to replace the old type of higher education policy with a European one, the internationalization process progressed slowly. Hungarian education policy puts a special emphasis on internationalization strategies based mainly on the encouragement of individual mobility. However, the socio-economic disadvantages of Hungarian population compared to Western Europeans reduce the efficiency of these endeavors. This paper describes four aspects of higher education internationalization in Hungary drawing from a review of prior research and analysis of survey data: 1) the political and institutional context of higher education internationalization in Hungary; 2) the mobility of Hungarian faculty and researchers; 3) the outbound mobility of Hungarian students; and 4) incoming student mobility to Hungarian universities. Our paper is a significant contribution to the literature, because (1) we use the actorcentered approach of internationalization (2) we not only analyze national and international statistics, but also we drew our conclusions from original survey data, that is we are able to summarize the individual motives and obstacles as well.


Objective To assess the clinical efficiency of Azelastine spray in the treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR). Methods Azelastine spray was applied to 235 patients with AR and the efficiency was separately assessed two weeks and two months after first application. Results The differences of total symptom scores before and after Azelastine treatment in patients with mild intermittent,middle-severe intermittent,mild perennial and middle-severe perennial AR were statistically significant (P0.01). The effective rates in above groups were 95.9%,80.7%,95.1% and 77.9% respectively. Conclusion Azelastine spray can effectively relief the symptoms caused by Histamine and inflammatory cells and their mediators. Azelastine spray is effective and safe in the treatment of AR.


Teachers and staff of Erickson, Manitoba schools are working with Rolling River First Nation to develop a school environment based on the framework of Mino-Pimaatisiwin (The Good Life) and the Ojibwe Good Life Principles.


In order to ensure machining stability, it is essential to properly determine the dynamic properties of machine tool–workpiece system. Experimental modal analysis provides good results; however, due to high time consumption, in some cases, its use is not practically justified. Then, a receptance coupling method can be used, that allows for the synthesis of the experimental models of the machine tool components and analytical models of the workpiece. However, a significant disadvantage of this method is the need for the experimental identification of the rotational degrees-of-freedom, fully defining dynamic properties of the spindle. This paper presents an improved method based on inverse receptance coupling, which enables effective identification of the spindle dynamics with the properties of the joint. Then, a measurement procedure and results of the experimental validation are presented.


Compositions for reducing skin aging are disclosed herein. The composition may be topically applied to the skin area to reduce or prevent skin wrinkles, thin wrinkles, thinned skin, stubborn skin, dry skin and itchy skin.


Amendment, which prohibited the production, transport and sale of alcohol at the federal level, but it also gave states the right to regulate the sale and distribution of alcohol. Shortly thereafter, a new regulatory mechanism known as the threetier system emerged. This structure was intended to prevent a single company from managing multiple levels of the supply chain (known as vertical integration). It also provided an efficient way to collect state excise taxes and track alcohol through the middle, wholesale tier. Virginia's three-tier system is guided by Code of Virginia 4.1-215, which states Virginia finds it necessary and proper to separate interests between manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in order to prevent manufacturers from dominating local markets and to prevent excessive alcoholic beverage sales resulting from aggressive marketing techniques.


c/s-Diamminedichloroplatinum(ll) was found to bind to covalently closed circular supercoiled, covalently closed circular nonsupercoiled, and single-strand broken relaxed PM2 DMA and induce different types of DMA conformational changes. Using Kleinschmidt's technique, it was found that binding of c/'s-diamminedichloroplatinum(ll) decreased the DMA length to 75% of the original single-strand broken relaxed DNA without inducing superhelical conformational changes. c/s-Diamminedichloroplatinum(ll) also shortened the length of covalently closed circular nonsupercoiled DNA before a supercoiled con formation was generated. Single strand-specific nucleases were used to detect druginduced DNA structural alterations. Local single-strand regions or regions of denaturation were detected by S1 nuclease from Aspergillus oryzae and by BAL-31 nuclease from Alteromonas espejiana BAL-31. The single-strand regions or local denatur ation regions do not seem to be related to or caused by DNA superhelical conformational changes since they were detected at drug concentrations at which no significant DNA superhelical turns were found. DNA shortening, superhelical conformational changes, and local denaturation regions can be explained by the previously proposed "DNA intrastrand cross-linking" model (Stone era/., J. Mol. Biol., 104: 793-801, 1976).


Three-dimensional integral equations and integral solutions were derived for the fields generated by a Compton current distribution with arbitrary time and space variations in the presence of conducting air and ground with arbitrary time variations in conductivity. Here they are solved analytically for a number of important SREMP cases that include (1) arbitrary three-dimensional currents in the presence of infinitely conductive ground, (2) equal air and ground conductivities, and (3) arbitrary one-dimensional (height-dependent) currents when the ground conductivity is a constant multiple of the (time-dependent) air conductivity. Particular realistic forms for the Compton current are used to explicitly evaluate the solutions to find the SREMP fields produced by them.


In this article, we present a postprocessing tool to gain powered information for the interpretation of the raw data collected in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scans by simulations. The method can be extended to measurements raw data and various applications. The proposed approach is based on space ensemble and time ensemble correlation functions applied to GPR B-scan raw data and yields higher detailed information for tracking buried objects. The gprMax simulation results for soil and concrete models confirm the high resolution of the proposed method for sites' allocation and time stamp of underground objects. The method can be further extended by the introduction of stochastic collocations ensembles in computations.


Using a Langevin description of spinodal decomposition in fluids, we examine domain growth in the diffusive, viscous, and inertial regimes. In the framework of this model, numerical results corroborate earlier theoretical predictions based on scaling arguments and dimensional analysis. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.


The problem of automatic logical meaning representation for ambiguous natural language utterances has been the subject of interest among the researchers in the domain of computational and logical semantics. Ambiguity in natural language may be caused in lexical/syntactical/semantical level of the meaning construction or it may be caused by other factors such as ungrammaticality and lack of the context in which the sentence is actually uttered. The traditional Montagovian framework and the family of its modern extensions have tried to capture this phenomenon by providing some models that enable the automatic generation of logical formulas as the meaning representation. However, there is a line of research which is not profoundly investigated yet: to rank the interpretations of ambiguous utterances based on the real preferences of the language users. This gap suggests a new direction for study which is partially carried out in this dissertation by modeling meaning preferences in alignment with some of the well-studied human preferential performance theories available in the linguistics and psycholinguistics literature.In order to fulfill this goal, we suggest to use/extend Categorial Grammars for our syntactical analysis and Categorial Proof Nets as our syntactic parse. We also use Montagovian Generative Lexicon for deriving multi-sorted logical formula as our semantical meaning representation. This would pave the way for our five-folded contributions, namely, (i) ranking the multiple-quantifier scoping by means of underspecified Hilbert's epsilon operator and categorial proof nets; (ii) modeling the semantic gradience in sentences that have implicit coercions in their meanings. We use a framework called Montagovian Generative Lexicon. Our task is introducing a procedure for incorporating types and coercions using crowd-sourced lexical data that is gathered by a serious game called JeuxDeMots; (iii) introducing a new locality-based referent-sensitive metrics for measuring linguistic complexity by means of Categorial Proof Nets; (iv) introducing algorithms for sentence completions with different linguistically motivated metrics to select the best candidates; (v) and finally integration of different computational metrics for ranking preferences in order to make them a unique model.


Compensation of mental injury is an important problem in civil law. Based on the reference of other country's related legislation,this paper profoundly discusses our country's legislation deficiency on compensation of mental injury and emphasizes such aspects as the scope of infringing object,the range of compensation of damage,the scope of requesting main body,the modes of infringing responsibility and the principles of imputation.


Robin M. (Buzz) Towne was truly the icon of acoustical consulting in the Pacific Northwest. His intense interest in acoustics led him from a mechanical engineering consultant to a career in acoustics. He formed the first full‐time acoustical consulting firm in the Pacific Northwest in 1960 with just one other person, but built the firm to 15 consultants within ten years. The firm continues to prosper today under new leadership, but the legacy of Buzz remains in the minds of those that worked with him and the clients he served. Buzz was a dedicated consultant whose drive for acoustial perfection resulted in many colorful (and often times amusing) confrontations with both staff and clients. This paper recalls some of these incidents, as well as describing a few of his significant consulting projects.


We study the problem of reaching a consensus in the estimates of multiple agents forming a network with time-varying connectivity. Our main focus is on constrained consensus problems where the estimate of each agent is constrained to lie in a different closed convex constraint set. We consider a distributed "projected consensus algorithm" in which the local averaging operation is combined with projection onto the individual constraint sets. This algorithm can be viewed as an alternating projection method with weights that are varying over time and across agents. We study the convergence properties of the projected consensus algorithm. In particular, we show that under an interior point assumption, the estimates of each agent converge to the same vector, which lies in the intersection of the constraint sets.


A method for manufacturing a swing ring plate of a rotary body of a heavy construction equipment and a swing ring plate manufactured thereby are provided to perform an operation process relatively simply and easily by bending a band-shaped plate, thereby obtaining a completed swing ring plate, and to reduce the production costs substantially by preventing waste of material when obtaining a band-shaped unit plate by CNC processing and cutting. A method for manufacturing a swing ring plate of a rotary body of a heavy construction equipment comprises: a bending step(S10) of bending a band-shaped plate into a circular shape by using a bending equipment including one or more rollers; a cutting step(S20) of cutting a part that has been superposed toward an end part side by the bending step to form a joining part; a joining step(S30) of joining parts that have been bent and contacted with each other by the cutting step; a flatness measuring and correcting step(S40) of including a flatness measuring step of measuring flatness of the bent swing ring plate and a correcting step of correcting the bent swing ring plate within an error range; and a perforating and grinding step(S50) of including a perforating step of perforating a plurality of holes along a peripheral part of the corrected swing ring plate, and a grinding step of grinding a surface of the swing ring plate, wherein the joining step further comprises a welding step of joining the contacted parts with each other by welding, and the perforating step is performed by perforating the holes along the peripheral part of the swing ring plate such that the holes are spaced apart from one another.


International cooperation to mitigate climate change has come a long way since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro thirty years ago. However, while international climate diplomacy has made considerable progress, current mitigation efforts are not enough to achieve the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warming to 1.5°. In order to push towards a higher ambition in international climate policy, uniand minilateral approaches are gaining prominence and are starting to be adopted. Carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs), for instance, serve as unilateral measures to protect domestic industries and aim to incentivise the introduction of carbon prices by trade partners. Climate clubs, in comparison, are multilateral in nature, as they aim to increase international climate cooperation through a coalition of similarly ambitious jurisdictions. As a partnership of equals, the outcome of a climate club's negotiation process is relatively open. In contrast, a country or jurisdiction that is implementing a CBAM defines rules unilaterally, thereby giving other countries or jurisdictions the option to benefit from an alignment to these rules in a subsequent step. Despite their intrinsic differences, both instruments have similar objectives and can effectively complement each other.


In this paper, the effects of process parameters on bending angle in laser bending of tailor machined blanks are investigated experimentally. The Taguchi experimental design method is employed to study various parameters, which significantly affect the bending angle in the laser bending of tailor machined blanks. The start point of scan path, irradiating method, laser output power, beam diameter, and number of radiation passes are considered in the evaluations. A L18(21×34) Taguchi standard orthogonal array is chosen for the design of experiments. The level of importance of the process parameters on the bending angle is determined by using analysis of variance. The optimum process parameters combination is obtained by using the analysis of signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios. The variation of bending angle with process parameters is mathematically modeled by using the regression analysis method and a closed form equation is derived. The results show irradiating method, laser output power, beam diameter, number o...


Although Goode's assertion may look naive by contemporary pedagogical and museological standards, I still sometimes wish that the process of museum education was indeed that easy. However, in truth I know that such assertions are anathema, as both the primacy of museum objects, and our understanding of learning, has advanced considerably in the last 100 years. The museum emerged in the mid-19th century as a general archive, enclosing in one place, all times, all epochs, all forms, and all tastes. 2 Established in 1879 my museum, the Powerhouse Museum, embodied this vision. Up until the 1940s our displays used evolutionary narratives, to move visitors forward through predominantly artifactual learning environments. However, the preponderanceofartifactsandtheirpositionwithintheexhibitionmediumbegan to change after World War II. An influx of cheap, pulp mass media, and later the arrival of television, significantly altered visitor's media preferences. To keep pace, we quickly assimilated within exhibitions; photographs to give objects a sense of time and place; posters to provide ambience and atmosphere; and electro-mechanical interactives to increase visitor participation. Since the 1940s, the discipline of exhibition design has further evolved to provide shape, form, and structure to these otherwise dissonant media. Importantly as the discipline matured, the role and value of objects far from diminishing, was enhanced. Traditionally, these media were deployed to enhance and enliven communication between museum objects and the visitor. Then in the space of 10 years video and personal computing technologies inculcated our homes and later museums. And together these dynamic media contrived to tip the balance away from artifactual learning environments. And together propelled contemporary museums to look to harness the exciting potential of interactive multimedia (IMM) learning environments. And, it is the most recent of these media arrivals, computer-based IMM and its assimilation, both within and beyond the Museum's walls that I wish to explore. As we shall see this ubiquitousmediahasinafewshortyearshadaprofoundimpactonmuseums.


Various examples relating to a device and a method for providing a message service are provided. A message service method, according to one example, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a transmission terminal, a cancellation request for cancelling a transmission message transmitted to at least one reception terminal; determining whether the transmission message for each of the at least one reception terminal can be cancelled; and transmitting a transmission message cancellation command signal to a reception terminal for which the transmission message can be cancelled among the at least one reception terminal, wherein the at least one reception terminal is capable of including a plurality of terminals associated with the same user account. Various examples can be implemented in addition to the one example.


Keyword : Teaching, Method, Writing

Writing is the non verbal use of language that also can be used to communicate, express the ideas, opinions and feelings to others. Teaching writing will be more effective and efficient if it is established through the methods of the teacher himself. The method helps students understand the materials taught by the teacher. Methods in teaching are needed to make the teaching and learning purpose achieved because the effectiveness of teaching will be successful if the teachers apply good method in the class. The aim of this research are to know: (1) kinds of teaching method used by the teacher in teaching writing at SMK Negeri 4 Malang and (2) the implementation of the teaching method used by the teacher in teaching writing at SMK Negeri 4 Malang.

In this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative research and the subject of this research was one of the English teacher of SMK Negeri 4 Malang. To collect the data, the researcher conducted some observations and interview with the English teacher.

The result of this research showed that the methods used by the English teacher in teaching writing to tenth-grade students were Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Community Language Learning and Silent Way. These methods were applied by the teacher in order to make the students work actively in a group such as brainstorming and discussion.


High quality bedrock and tectonic maps are the platform for locating natural resources such as ore, oil, gas, and water. Bedrock maps are also used in the design of large constructions, including h ...


Material displacements for screw dislocations in anisotropic media with orthorhombic symmetry have been derived for those cases where the Burgers vectors lie along the crystallographic axes. From these displacements electron diffraction contrast patterns are calculated and compared to those observed in polyethylene. It is shown that under certain assumptions it is possible to determine relationships between the elastic constants of the material using this technique; e.g., it can be concluded that interlamellar slip along the a axis is approximately 50 times easier than intralamellar shear, whereas interlamellar slip is only 10 times easier when the shear direction is along the b axis.


Since the middle of the 1940s the use of antibiotics has meant a decisive improvement in the prognosis of superficial and anterior eye parts infections (e. g. ulcus serpens and ulcus marginale corneae, uveitis anterior suppurativa). By drops, salves, systematic therapy or subconjunctival injections we have usually been able to achieve sufficient concentrations of antibiotics in these infections. On the other hand, in suppurative infections of the vitreous, such as vitreous abscess, the disease is still difficult to manage and the prognosis is usually poorer than expected. Although the literature dealing with the treatment of eye infections by antibiotics is enormously extensive, there are only rare papers on antibiotic intravitreous injections, and even these have mainly originated during the first years of the antibiotic era. Intravitreous injections have been used rarely for several reasons. It is difficult to repeat continuous intravitreous injections. It has been found experimentally that other modes of application achieve sufficient concentrations of antibiotics in the vitreous. However, clinical experience and the results of these experimental researches are mutually contradictory to a certain extent. Our knowledge of the noxious effect of intravitreous antibiotic injections is very deficient and conflicting. Some investigators have found experimentally that penicillin and streptomycin injected into the vitreous damaged the retina (3, 4 and 7 ) , but this could not always be substantiated (2 and 6). It has also been observed that intravitreous chloromycetin produced opacity of the vitreous (I) , but according to Leopold et al. ( 7 ) the vitreous and the retina tolerate intravitreous chloromycetin well. Mann has noted that even if opacity


A recent study suggested that the location of a Q-wave myocardial infarction had no bearing on prognosis (Benhorin et al., J Am Coll Cardiol 1990;


The great figures of the Budapest school of psychoanalysis Sandor Ferenczi, Michael and Alice Balint, Imre Hermann had a strong influence on the development of modern psychoanalysis, particularly on object relation theory in a broader sense.


In this bachelor thesis, a method is introduced to improve the offline step of sparse grid density estimation with the combination technique. The developed approach exploits the geometrical properties of the subgrids in the combination scheme, to transform already decomposed corresponding system matrices. The transformation consists of a symmetric permutatation of the system matrix, aswell as the elementwise multiplication of a dimension blow-up factor. The former can be applied when two subgrids have level vectors, that are permutations of each other, while the latter yields an embedding into higher dimensions. The applicability is examined for the orthogonal decomposition into hessenberg form and the cholesky decomposition. For the orthogonal decomposition, the method has been implemented. Compared to the current implementation, it provides a speed up from cubic to quadratic time for the offline step of suitable component grids.


: Arti fi cial intelligence has become an integral part of our everyday life and is seen as a key technology for solving the major societal challenges (e.g.: Sustainable Development Goals) in the future. The accumulation of incidents (e.g.: pro fi ling, machine learning bias, ...) and problems to understand complex arti fi cial intelligences led the EU Commission to develop a proposal for the regulation of AI and high-risk AI. In this paper, we aim to highlight the technical challenges related to the proposed text regarding the de fi nition of AI.


BBC Radio 4's Analysis was first broadcast in 1970 and represented a striking departure from the tendency to combine news and comment in radio current affairs. It was created by a small network of broadcasters who believed that current affairs was distinct from radio journalism. The publication of the controversial document Broadcasting in the Seventies in 1969 and the outcry that followed it gave this group the opportunity to produce an elite form of radio.


Joseph Hellweg, "Manimory and the Aesthetics of Mimesis: Forest, Islam, and State in Ivoirian dozoya," 461-484/Sjaak van der Geest, "Between Death and Funeral: Mortuaries and the Exploitation of Liminality in Kwahu, Ghana," 485-501/ Marloes Janson, "'We Are All the Same, Because We All Worship God.' The Controversial Case of a Female Saint in The Gambia,'" 502-525/ George Ogola, "The Idiom of Age in a Popular Kenyan Newspaper Serial," 569-589.


The introduction of chlorination of public drinking water in the early 1900's was a major factor in the fight against waterborne disease. In the 1970's it was discovered that chlorine reacted with naturally occurring organic constituents, particularly in surface water, to yield small quantities of chlorinated by-products such as chloroform for which regulations were subsequently developed. Since then there has been shown to be a substantial number of other by-products some in concentrations of a few nanograms/l and others similar concentrations to the THM. Of particular note are the potent bacterial mutagen MX and the chlorinated acetic acids. Current research into the significance of these for man is described and the key issues for risk assessment are identified.


Due to rapid growth of technologies, a large amount of data gets generated. The need arises to handle this data for retrieving and analyzing useful information. Clustering of temporal data has been explored using evolutionary clustering. However the time dimension associated with the record has not been considered. Traditional clustering algorithms usually focus on grouping data objects based on similarity function. However, if temporal dimension is incorporated, it allows to perform cluster analysis for evolving patterns. Temporal data clustering extends traditional clustering mechanisms and provides underpinning solutions for discovering the condensing information over the period of time. This paper proposes a methodology for clustering records based on time frame. The proposed methodology first clusters the records based on time frame. When a new query record comes, using maximum likelihood estimation we try to identify its true representative cluster. The assignment of query record to a particular cluster is based on the distance measure.


Software-based GPS receivers are the focus of current research because of their reprogramming ease and flexibility. Sampling an incoming wideband signal will allow the receiver to capture more navigation signals from different standards. This task is very important for more accurate position determination. This article explains the various components needed to implement a GPS based software receiver and shows the results of one implemented in MATLAB


There is substantial within-industry variation in the prices that plants pay for their material inputs. Using plant-level data from the US Census Bureau, I explore the consequences and sources of this variation in materials prices. For a sample of industries with relatively homogeneous products, the standard deviation of plant-level productivity would be 7% smaller if all plants faced the same materials prices. Moreover, plant-level materials prices are persistent, spatially correlated, and positively associated with the probability of exit. The contribution of entry and exit to aggregate productivity growth is smaller for productivity measures that are purged of materials price variation. After documenting these patterns, I discuss three potential sources of materials price variation: geography, differences in suppliers' marginal costs, and within-supplier markup differences. Together, these variables explain 15% of the variation of materials prices.


As Internet traffic increases recently, much effort has been put on improving the performance of a web server. In addition to hardware side solutions such as replacement by high-end hardware or expansion of the number of servers, there are software side solutions to improve performance. Recent studies on these software side solutions have been actively performed. In this paper, we identify performance degradation problems occurring in a conventional TCP networking reception process and propose a way to solve them. We improve performance by combining three kinds of existing methods for Linux Networking Performance Improvement and two kinds of newly proposed methods in this paper. The three existing methods include 1) an allocation method of a packet flow to a core in a multi-core environment, 2) ITR(Interrupt Throttle Rate) method to control excessive interrupt requests, and 3) sk_buff data structure recycling. The two newly proposed methods are fd data structure recycling and epoll_event data structure recycling. Through experiments in a web server environment, we verify the effect of our two proposed methods and its combination with the three existing methods for performance improvement, respectively. We use three kinds of web servers: a simple web server, Lighttpd generally used in Linux, and Apache. In a simple web server environment, fd data structure recycling and epoll_event data structure recycling bring out performance improvement by about 7 % and 6%, respectively. If they are combined with the three existing methods, performance is improved by up to 40% in total. In a Lighttpd and an Apache web server environment, the combination of five methods brings out performance improvement by up to 36% and 20% in total, respectively.


Elizabeth Price Curates: IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY is a Hayward Touring Exhibition curated by Elizabeth Price which included: 'DEMO TOURING TEENAGERS'

This performance event employed 16 teenagers.

'DEMO TOURING TEENAGERS' was shown at The Whitworth, Manchester 2016 and Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea 2017.

Dimension: 5 x 3.5 x 6.5 m.
The ramp from Vito Acconci's performance Seedbed, 1972 is reconstructed. Placed on top is a partially rolled out 11 x 5 metre roll of Berber Carpet. On Saturdays a group of teenagers reside on the ramp and unravel threads using instruction sheets, scented liquids and apparatus provided. Unpicking threads are amplified through contact mics. A photograph of Seedbed can be viewed in relation to a view of underneath the ramp.

Immaterial and creative labour in adolescence is unpacked, performed and articulated over time. Vito Acconci's performance Seedbed provides a specific reference to the recumbent, fruitless – seeding body. The work began with basic instructions which became worker led leading to unknown relational outcomes. Methods of critical pedagogy are explored. Channels of communication and documentation were kept open through a WhatsApp group. An accelerated slideshow is available for educational talks only.


To separate and quantitate antitumor protein-bound polysaccharides of Coriolus versicolor, the constituents were obtained from the submerged culture of the mycelia(C) and from the extract of the carpophores of the wild fungus(N). The polysaccharides were degraded by methanolysis. The neutral monosaccharides were separated and quantitated by HPLC using microbondapak carbohydrate analysis column, refractive index detection and water-acetonitrile acetic acid elution. The analyses of these constituents by HPLC showed that the natural constituent(N) consisted of glucose, xylose and mannose, the average amount being 96.44, 2.16 and 1.73%, respectively. The fermentation constituent(C) consisted of mannose, glucose, xylose and galactose, the average amount being 61.30, 14.00, 12.95, and 11.75%, respectively. The analyses of these constituents by an amino acid analyzer showed that both C and N contained 17 amino acids.


Designing and applying a scale of directions (orientation ) for educational and psychological sciences students toward educational statistics material
The present research aims at designing and applying a scale of orientations for educational and psychological sciences students toward educational statistics material for finding out the validity and reliability of the scale and deriving statistical standards .It is applied on a sample consisted of (85 ) male and female students rating (36) male students and (49) female students from the third year at the educational and psychological sciences departments .The research tool consists of (29) items .Face validity is secured  and the reliability by using test –retest and Alpha cronbach .The results of the analysis reveal that there are five main factors out of nine factors which form the scale items in the final version according to standard marks .The results also show there are passive orientations in favour of  the third year students in the department toward the educational statistics


The effects of cryogenic treatment on the hardness and compressive properties of 7075 Al alloy were studied by hardness measurement and compression test.The results show that the hardness of the alloy can be enhanced remarkably through cryogenic treatment,moreover,its brittleness can be increased at the same time.After cryogenic treatment and aging at 120 ℃ for 5 h,the higher hardness and compressive properties of 7075 Al alloy can be obtained.


In this PFG a flight simulation user interface will be designed and built. The main objective is that the interface is as close as possible to a real flight controls but maintaining a low cost.


This paper deals with the modeling of wealth distribution considering a society with non-constant population and non-conservative wealth trades. The modeling approach is based on the kinetic theory of active particles, where individuals are distinguished by a scalar variable (the activity) which expresses their social state. A qualitative analysis of the model focusing on asymptotic behaviors and measurement of inequality through the Gini coefficient is presented. Finally, some specific case-studies are proposed in order to carry out numerical experiments to validate our model, characterize societies and investigate emerging behaviors.


The development of entrepreneurship after the coronavirus in Russia is becoming more urgent than ever. The introduced restrictions and the current conditions will not affect in any way a large backbone business, it will be difficult for representatives of medium and small business. Competition is a stimulus for economic growth and a standard of the state for progressive development, the main elements for the development of society. Promote the development of competition, find the development of new technologies, expand the quality and increase the price of competitive products, balance the most efficient production methods, and inform consumers about the choice of products - all these are opportunities for competition. Therefore, to maintain the competitiveness of small businesses, one of the most effective tools for working on the market is discount. Chain stores of this kind practice the movement of goods from one point to another, in which the goods are in higher demand in the current period, due to this, they achieve savings in their warehouses. Savings are defined in the range from 20 to 40%, in terms of reducing variable and direct costs.


The aim of this research was to develop students' critical thinking skills through a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) project in chemistry learning in thermochemistry topic. A qualitative research method was employed with interviews, observations, reflective journals, critical thinking tests, and student activity sheets as data collection tools. Forty secondary school students participated in the research using project based on learning consisting of six steps: Essential Questions, Project Planning, Schedule Compilation, Monitoring, Result Testing and Evaluation. The Miles and Huberman analysis technique, based on coding critical thinking, was used to analyze data. The five indicators of critical thinking skills identified by SCIT1020 (Power of Science and Technology), namely: Identify the Question at Issue, Conceptual Understanding, Ideas Connection, Assumptions and Inferences, the research found that the students' critical thinking skills were not significantly developed. Among the five critical thinking indicators, one specific skill found to be undeveloped was to identify the question at issue, meaning that the students were not able to formulate and identify questions relating to a problem or topic. This was due to the limited conceptual understanding of thermochemistry material. The students faced challenges in developing their critical thinking skills in relation to chemistry concepts. Critical thinking skills can help students navigate through their daily lives by applying what they learn at school to problems or issues that arise at home or in the community. The STEAM project involved making a steamship using thermochemistry, particularly heat, the enthalpy of standard combustion and enthalpy calculations. Methanol, ethanol and palm oils were the fuels used to move the steamships. In the project, students had to analyze which fuel caused their steamship to move the furthest.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the intense research activity with regard to the project inception stage. The need to establish the project parameters and performance requirements is crucial to the success of any construction project. Many organizations have been developing approaches to assist everyone involved in this process. This study aims to provide some data on one approach used by the authors during these early stages.Design/methodology/approach – One approach to these early stages of the project is the use of a workshop‐based technique termed "strategic needs analysis". Strategic needs analysis assists in these critical inception stages in the development of a project. Six action research studies based on these workshops were organized and analyzed by the authors. This has resulted in the development of a series of decision‐making attributes that capture the key characteristics relevant to the project inception stages.Findings – This paper analyzes and identifies on a two‐dimen...


Photoinstrumentation in undersea exploration is discussed with particular reference to the U.S. Navy's recent success with Project Sealab I. Photographic equipments used in the experiment are described and recommendations based on observations made during the experiment are outlined.


PURPOSE: A double-sided tape for a touch screen panel is provided to show excellent adhesion in a narrow contacting area, and to have excellent heat resistance, shock resistance, and reworkability. CONSTITUTION: A double-sided tape for a touch screen panel comprises: a base material layer (10) comprising an acryl foam coating layer (12) on the top surface of a polyester film (11); an adhesion layer (20) formed on the top and bottom sides of the base material layer; and a releasing layer (30) formed on the outer surface of the adhesion layer. A thickness of the base material layer is 110-155 micron. The acryl foam coating layer comprises an acrylonitrile foam material having 20-40 micron of particle size, and an acrylic binder mixed with a black pigment.


In this chapter the authors focus on the problem of reconfiguring embedded real-time systems. Such reconfiguration can be decided either off-line to determine if a given application can be run on a different platform, while preserving the timeliness constraints imposed by the application, or on-line, where a reconfiguration should be done to adapt the system to the context of execution or to handle hardware or software faults. The task model considered in this chapter is the classical sporadic task model defined by a Worst Case Execution Time (WCET), a minimum inter-arrival time (also denoted the minimum Period) and a late termination deadline. The authors consider two preemptive scheduling strategies: Fixed Priority highest priority first (FP) and Earliest Deadline First (EDF). They propose a sensitivity analysis to handle reconfiguration issues. Sensitivity analysis aims at determining acceptable deviations from the specifications of a problem due to evolutions in system characteristics (reconfiguration or performance tuning). They present a state of the art for sensitivity analysis in the case of WCETs, Periods and Deadlines reconfigurations and study to what extent sensitivity analysis can be used to decide on the possibility of reconfiguring a system.


Amorphous silicon layers have been deposited by low pressure chemical vapour deposition at 450°C using disilane as the only source gas. Simple inverted staggered thin-film transistors were made with thermal silicon dioxide as the gate insulator. Field-effect mobilities for electrons and holes were 1.4 cm2/V ·s and 0.1 cm2/V ·s, respectively. In order to obtain these high mobilities the transistor structures were carefully annealed in a hydrogen-radical rich ambient.


—The term "skandha", one of the most crucial ones in Buddhist doctrine and Abhidharma philosophy, has not been interpreted adequately until now. A pseudo literal and misleading "aggregate" is still prevalent as its translation. The situation with the any of the five skandhas of the list is no better. In this article is given a brief outline of a conceptual interpretation of this notion as well as each of the five skandhas. Primarily, it is neither a "Buddhist tenet" nor even a Buddhist philosophical concept of the human being but a scheme of self-observation recommended for a Buddhist yogi on the path. It consists of two pairs of structural units, which correspond to two main missions of mind viz. cognition and behavior control. The fifth item is an integrating mind function of choosing an object field.


We report on the development of hypocycloidal-core kagome HC-PCF operating efficiently in the 450nm-650nm visible spectral range. Transmission loss as low as 70dB/km is achieved. Strong Raman comb generation and laser beam delivery are demonstrated.


In North Africa, Cedrus
atlantica forests are in decline, following decades of anthropogenic
pressure and repeated drought events. Mixed C. atlantica-Quercus ilex stands located
in the Theniet El Had National Park (northwestern Algeria) were considered in
the present study. Based on a stratified sampling, six temporary plots were
established to describe structure (species composition, density, total height,
diameter and basal area) and radial growth in relation to type of stand (pure
and mixed), using a dendroecological approach. The diameter distribution of C. atlantica indicated the presence of few young individuals and a poor
regeneration status in all the stands. The density and basal area of C. atlantica were significantly higher in pure stands, which necessitate
silvicultural operations. In contrast, Q. ilex showed a progressive dynamic, at
moderate altitude. Radial growth showed a significant decline from 1980 to the
2000s. The absence of an appropriate management plan and the increase in
anthropogenic effects, without ruling out a role for the current climate
conditions marked by drought, seem to be the causes of C. atlantica decline.


UMKM can contribute to the Indonesian economy. In general, MSMEs in the Indonesian economy have a major role in economic development, provide the largest employment opportunities, also play an important role in local economic development and community empowerment as well as creating new markets and sources of innovation. Women are not only focused on their role as housewives, but women are also a support in fulfilling the family economy without forgetting their nature and responsibilities as a woman and a housewife at the same time. In general, economic needs encourage a person to behave productively, as well as with women who feel the need to contribute to the economic prosperity of the family. A prosperous family is a family that has been able to meet all basic needs, social psychological needs and family development. This research is a study of the effectiveness of government assistance for women's UMKM in increasing family income, in North Kawangkoan District, Minahasa Regency. This research raises the problem, namely: How the benefits of UMKM assistance for women entrepreneurs can increase family income. This research is a field research using qualitative method. Data collection techniques using observation, documentation and interviews. The data obtained, analyzed. The data analysis technique used is descriptive qualitative analysis, which consists of three streams of activities that take place simultaneously, namely data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. This technique is used as a reference to make it easier to understand the descriptions presented as the final result of the research. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of government assistance for women's MSMEs in increasing family income in North Kawangkoan District, Minahasa Regency The results of this study indicate that with government assistance for Women's UMKM in North Kawangkoan District, it can increase family income. This study shows that with the assistance of venture capital through UMKM, women who previously did not work, and did not generate income, can create work businesses so that they can generate income that can support family needs which have an impact on family welfare.


According to prevailing ecological theory one would expect the most stable vegetation on sites which are least disturbed (Odum 1971). According to theory one would also expect the most diversity of species on undisturbed sites (Odum 1971). This stable and diverse community would be produced over a period of many years through a process of plant succession where annual herbs are replaced by perennial herbs and finally woody plants would come to dominate and perpetuate the community. Another ecological theory holds that the complexity (structure and species diversity) of a plant community is dependent upon the amount of disturbance to which it is subjected (Woodwell, 1970). According to this theory the normal succession of a plant community through its various stages may be arrested at some point depending upon the nature and severity of the disturbance. In applying these theories to roadside vegetation it becomes apparent that mass herbicide spraying and extensive mowing of roadsides have produced a relatively simple and unstable vegetation. It follows that if disturbances were reduced not only would the roadside plant community increase in stability but maintenance costs and energy usage would be reduced. In this study the authors have investigated several aspects of reduced disturbances on roadside vegetation. Research has centered on the effectiveness of spot spraying techniques on noxious weed control, establishment of native grass cover where ditch cleaning and other disturbance has left the bare soil exposed, and the response of roadside vegetation when released from annual mass spraying. This study was carried out in Linn County, Iowa.


This letter proposes a cost-efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) for robust automatic modulation classification (AMC) deployed for cognitive radio services of modern communication systems. The network architecture is designed with several specific convolutional blocks to concurrently learn the spatiotemporal signal correlations via different asymmetric convolution kernels. Additionally, these blocks are associated with skip connections to preserve more initially residual information at multi-scale feature maps and prevent the vanishing gradient problem. In the experiments, MCNet reaches the overall 24-modulation classification rate of 93.59% at 20 dB SNR on the well-known DeepSig dataset.


Objective To determine the feasibility of transcaval transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TCTIPS) creation in patients with unusual anatomy between the hepatic veins and portal bifurcation, and inaccessible or inadequate hepatic veins. Methods Transcaval TIPS, performed in 65 patients, was indicated by active variceal bleeding (n=52), intractable ascites (n=12), and as a bridge to liver transplantation (n=1). The main reasons for transcaval rather than classic TIPS were the presence of an unusually acute angle between the hepatic veins and the level of the portal bifurcation (n=3), hepatic venous occlusion (n=2), and inadequate small hepatic veins (n=1). Results Technical and functional success was achieved in all patients. The entry site into liver parenchyma from the inferior vena cava was within 2 cm of the atriocaval junction. Conclusion In patients with unusual anatomy between the hepatic veins and portal bifurcation, and inaccessible or inadequate hepatic veins, transcaval TIPS creation is secure and feasible.


The need for custom designed Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for production testing of high volume commercial and consumer electronics is explored. Topics discussed include economic rationale, hardware and software design considerations, hardware interface, operator interface as well as the relationship between the ATE supplier and his customers.


The transformation of the market economy in the conditions of information society causes the necessity of development of cost management contemporary methodology. The formation of an effective system is possible only on the basis adapted to the innovative development of the principles and methods of management. These basic elements of the methodology need to be clarified. In connection with the transition to the market relations in the Russian economy the radical changes occurred: the form of property and owners changed in the majority of economic subjects; the whole system of productive-public relations was transformed; passage from planning and directive management to the competition methods and the self-regulation on a scale of the national economy occurred. At the same time scientific base of cost management, which industry enterprises use, both domestic and borrowed from the western scientific schools of management, is out-moded. The top-down administrative system for industrial enterprises' activity and cost management, which functioned in the USSR, is destroyed even in the 90's of past century, and industrial enterprises, large companies preserved only the separate elements of cost management system, they mainly use the methods of limitation and expenditures control, while the integrated system for expenditures management is necessary. The need for organising the comprehensive system for cost management requires renovation and development of methodological base. Contemporary society is increasingly more frequently defined as information-based, so this circumstance gives new quality both to production and to management, increases management capabilities everywhere and by the enterprises' economic activity in particular. But one must take into account, that the improvement of scientific base and management practice doesn't occur simultaneously, but represents the complex process of formatting, approbation and management system organizing, is exercised gradually. Substantial changes in the conditions and the nature of production, administrative processes determine the need of tasks' refining, continuous renovation and improvement of the methodological base of cost management.


When studying natural language, one inevitably needs to explain how linguistic signs and constructions map onto semantic concepts. Among concepts, perceptual categories form a special class in the sense that an insight into how they are acquired will have an important impact on theories of linguistic relativism. Linguistic relativism, also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, suggests an interplay between language and cognition, whereby language and concept acquisition influence each other. Among perceptual categories, colour categories are without doubt the best studied and still their origins and nature are controversial. Stakes are high; as Deacon writing on colour categories puts it ". .. this may at first appear to be a comparatively trivial example of some minor aspect of language, but the implications for other aspects of language evolution are truly staggering. " (p. 120, 1997) Berlin and Kay (1969) first reported the universality of colour categories: the fact that the foci of colour categories show a high degree of similarity across cultures. Their findings have recently been reconfirmed in a large-scale World Color Survey (Kay & Regier, 2003). Although the universal character of colour categories has been disputed (for a recent view see Roberson, 2005), many have accepted it and have put forward hypotheses about the processes underlying it. The most prominent hypothesis holds that colour categories are the result of the expression of innate constraints on colour perception and cognition. A second hypothesis puts forward that colour categories reflect the structure of human ecology. And a third hypothesis suggests that colour categories are culturally learned and puts somewhat less stress on their universal character. Combinations of these three views have received interest as well (for an overview see Steels & Belpaeme, 2005). However, most theories accounting for universalism are rhetorical and


This guideline specifies the usage of thin windows for vacuum vessels in terms of their design and application a Fermilab.


Vocational High School graduates are the biggest contributor to the unemployment rate in Indonesia, therefore steps and actions are needed to overcome this. Industrial imitation is a program to increase the uptake of graduates in the industrial world. This program is an activity carried out at SMK N 2 Kasih, Kulon Progo. The aims of this study were to find out: (1) the management of the Imitan Industri program in an effort to increase graduate uptake in SMKs; (2) supporting factors for the Industrial Imitation program; (3) inhibiting factors for the Industrial Imitation program; (4) activity program in Industrial Imitation. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative. Interviews, observations, and documentation studies are ways of collecting techniques. Data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions and preparing recommendations are used in data analysis techniques. The results showed: (1) the management of the Industrial Imitation program at SMK N 2 Pengasih; (2) supporting factors in the form of adequate financial availability, planned and measurable programs, students who are enthusiastic about participating in the industrial imitation program, parents of students who support the industrial imitan program, professional educators; (3) the inhibiting factor in the form of limited time availability can be overcome by using hours outside of the KBM (Learning and Teaching Activities. There are not many companies that work together; (4) some of the activities in the Industrial Imitation program include physical training, psychological test training, training character, and material provision by alumni of the Industrial Imitation program.


The experiment was conducted at Bako agricultural research center with an objective to evaluate the replacement effect of formulated concentrate mix with cowpea hay in the daily ration of lactating Horro cows fed natural grass hay. Five cows of same milk yield, body weight, age of lactation, but differing parities were arranged in 5x5 Latin square design. The animals were provided with natural grass hay based diet adlibitum and supplemented with cowpea hay 0 % (T1), 25 % (T2), 50% (T3) 75% (T4), 100% (T5) to replace concentrate mix. Results of chemical analysis of the experimental feeds indicated that cowpea hay had comparable nutritive value with concentrate mix. The daily dry matter (DM) and crude protien (CP) intake were significantly (P<0.05) differ among the treatments with the highest intake observed when cows were fed 50% cowpea hay (T3). Apparent DM digestibility of T3 (60.65%) was higher (P<0.001) than T5 (47.18%).  The milk yield were significant differences among the dietary treatments with lower mean milk yield recorded in T4 and T5 as compared to T1, T2 and T3. This implies that cowpea hay can replace up to 50% concentrate mix without any significant reduction in milk yield. Therefore, cowpea hay can be replace a concentrate diet up to 50% of replacement without significant reduction in milk yield and live weight of lactating cows fed a basal diet of natural grass hay. Keywords : Digestibility, Local breed, Intake and Milk quality


There are strong reasons from dc and pulsed-current measurements, and from thermal conductivity results, for thinking that narrow channels through films of oxidized atatic polypropylene are superconducting at room temperature. It is thought that the conducting channels, with diameters less than or of the order of a micrometre, are composed of smaller nanofilaments, with diameters of the order of a nanometre. In the present paper a possible explanation is given of measurements which show that the average resistance of non-superconducting channels through films increases with film thickness more slowly than linearly. This result is interpreted in terms of how the Bose condensation temperatures of bosons in arrays of nanofilaments depend on the length and numbers of filaments, and examples are given of parameters of the arrays which could explain the data. The dispersion for the bosons is assumed to consist of a sum of linear and quadratic terms, which is an approximate type of dispersion reported for Cooper pairs. In order to fit the data with the model used, it is necessary to suppose that values of superconducting T c for channels composed of large numbers of filaments are only slightly above room temperature. It is argued that the larger T cs reported in 1989 when currents of 0.5 A were passed through channels may arise because (a) currents concentrate in a subchannel of smaller width than the original channel, and (b) current–current interactions draw the filaments of the subchannel sufficiently close together to increase the transverse bandwidth and T c in the model by the required amount.


The problem is considered related to increase of the operational safety of industrial facilities made of composite materials by means of an a priori assessment of the maximum service life. Two tasks are being solved: development of the new methods and means of non-destructive testing allowing to identify the defects that appear in the process of testing products with various loads and in the process of their operation; development of the new methods and means for assessing service life of the products based on the results of non-destructive testing. The first problem is being solved by the development of optical-thermographic non-destructive testing, including the technologies of ultrasonic thermotomography and electric force thermography, which determine the state of the object by dynamic temperature fields and optical control technology based on the fiber-optic sensors that measure the amount of material internal deformation under a force effect on the structure. Solution to the second problem is based on the use of neural network analysis (artificial neural networks) for assessment and prediction of the service life using the results of non-destructive testing with preliminary training of the neural network. An estimate was obtained by the experimental studies related to the error in determining the products service life, which is 12.6 %. The implementation of the proposed approach will allow to create the new technologies for predicting the service life of elements and structures made of composite materials using the results of non-destructive testing, which will provide an additional opportunity for developing practical recommendations on the confirmation or extension of the service life and improvement of safety for structures operation.


Nothing damages trust in medical research more than the idea that clinical trial data are being hidden or manipulated. Randomised controlled trials are widely considered the best way to evaluate treatment benefits, but trials are time consuming, expensive, and complex. It is thus vital to make full use of all information collected, and it seems evident that the public interest is served by independent scrutiny and replication of trial results. These things can happen only if trial data are shared.

In 2013 The BMJ became one of the first journals to require data sharing in clinical trials of drugs or devices (doi:10.1136/bmj.e7888). In 2015 we extended that policy to require data …


Rib vaults appear in English architecture at the end of the eleventh century and by the early part of the next had spread throughout most parts of the country and across the Channel into Normandy. Rib construction was pioneered by the builders of great churches, first apparently at Durham, and was then developed and elaborated at sites such as Winchester, Gloucester, Peterborough, Lessay, Saint-Etienne in Caen, and many others. Although it is impossible to pinpoint the precise moment, by the second quarter of the twelfth century ribs were also being constructed in smaller churches in many areas of England and Normandy. Anglo-Norman parish church masons might construct ribs under towers or in porches, but the majority of survivals are in chancels, where the presence of ribs was clearly the result of a desire to distinguish and embellish the functionally most important and most sacred part of the church.


To the Editor. —Lehrer et al, 1 in the August issue of the Archives, attempt to show a link between vertigo and insulin resistance or hypertriglyceridemia. Unfortunately, the study suffers in several basic respects. There is no description of the patients studied and no mention is made of any possible associated comorbid states, such as the use of other medications or ethanol. Criteria for inclusion in the study not only included vertigo, but also "disequilibrium," which was poorly defined. The authors found "abnormal" insulin response curves and "elevated" triglyceride levels in many of their patients, yet the prevalence of these unquantified findings in a representative sample of their total patient population is not addressed. Dietary recommendations were temporarily associated with subjective reports of improvement, but there was no control group of untreated patients and there was no attempt to document dietary compliance. Basic follow-up data, such as weight loss, improvement


Abstract: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a life-threatening condition that can be difficult to diagnose early because there are no symptoms. The purpose of the proposed study is to develop and validate a predictive model for the prediction of chronic kidney disease. Machine learning algorithms are often used in medicine to predict and classify diseases. Medical records are often skewed. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) or chronic renal disease has become a significant issue with a steady growth rate. A person can only survive without kidneys for an average of 18 days, which makes a huge demand for a kidney transplant and Dialysis. It is important to have effective methods for the early prediction of CKD. Machine learning methods are effective in CKD prediction. This work proposes a workflow to predict CKD status based on clinical data, incorporating data prepossessing, a missing value handling method with collaborative filtering and attribute selection. Out of the 11 machine learning methods considered, the extra tree classifier and random forest classifier are shown to result in the highest accuracy and minimal bias to the attributes. The project also considers the practical aspects of data collection and highlights the importance of incorporating domain knowledge when using machine learning for CKD status prediction.


Nowadays the overloading of the transmission lines are increased due to which different types of faults and the main issue i.e., voltage collapse may occurs which affect the stability of the system. Thus the main objective of the system operator is to maintain the system in steady state limit. Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices plays a vital role in maintaining the power system stability, reducing the overall system losses and controlling the power flow in the system. But it is very necessary to investigate the optimal location of these FACTS devices for their satisfactory operation. In this paper, the optimum location of the thyristor controlled phase angle regulator (TCPAR) has been figure out in the system based on real power flow performance index (PI). The test case of IEEE -5 bus system is to be considered and the power flow of the system is carried out by using MATLAB. The results of MATLAB are verified with the power world simulator 12.0 software.


Elevated optic nerve sheath diameter on sonography is known to correlate with increased intracranial pressure and is observed in acute mountain sickness. This study aimed to determine whether optic nerve sheath diameter changes on ascent to high altitude are associated with acute mountain sickness incidence.


Next word prediction is the core problem of NLP, which has numerous applications, to predict which word will be said next. Researchers used several word-level statistical and deep learning models to generate the text. In the past, before the advancement of deep learning techniques, statistical techniques were used to predict the next word. These methods have the drawback of generating text without ensuring the syntactic accuracy of the sentences. Neural networks have also become more popular than traditional methods due to their accuracy in word prediction. Nowadays, word prediction is often done using LSTM, Bi-LSTM, and GRU. This paper provides a survey of different techniques with their classification for predicting the next word and evaluates them. Also, this work identified research gaps and provide some future directions based on the findings.


The remarkable predominance of right‐handedness in beta‐alpha‐beta helical crossovers has been previously explained in terms of thermodynamic stability and kinetic accessibility, but a different kinetic trapping mechanism may also play a role. If the beta‐sheet contacts are made before the crossover helix is fully formed, and if the backbone angles of the folding helix follows the energetic pathway of least resistance, then the helix would impart a torque on the ends of the two strands. Such a torque would tear apart a left‐handed conformation but hold together a right‐handed one. Right‐handed helical crossovers predominate even in all‐alpha proteins, where previous explanations based on the preferred twist of the beta sheet do not apply. Using simple molecular simulations, we can reproduce the right‐handed preference in beta‐alpha‐beta units, without imposing specific beta‐strand geometry. The new kinetic trapping mechanism is dubbed the "phone cord effect" because it is reminiscent of the way a helical phone cord forms superhelices to relieve torsional stress. Kinetic trapping explains the presence of a right‐handed superhelical preference in alpha helical crossovers and provides a possible folding mechanism for knotted proteins.


ObjectiveTo evaluate the effects of nutrition ed ucation on milk drinking behaviors of school-aged children and to provide scien tific basis for it.MethodsNutrition education programs l asted for 2 months among 716 second through fifth grade students and their paren ts in a primary school. Questionnaire and nutrition surveys were conducted to an alyze the changes in nutritional knowledge, milk drinking behaviors and calcium nutriture of students and their parents due to implementation of nutrition educa tion. ResultsAfter school-based nutrition education, over 80% of the students c ould correctly answer questions about milk and calcium, the percentages of stude nts who could drink milk initiatively and calcium nutriture of students improved . Combined with nutrition education provided to their parents, school-based nut rition education brought much more improvements in milk drinking behaviors of st udents, especially in milk consumption and in adaptation to milk drinking. ConclusionParent involved school-based nutrition education is effec tive in improving milk-drinking behaviors of school-aged children.


With the onslaught of Business Process Reengineering (BPR), an opportunity exists to improve the information system capabilities of corporations undertaking the reengineering effort with little change to the general techniques of BPR. A methodology is being outlined here to suggest a way to revamp the Information Service (IS) systems planning function, benejit from both the existing technology base and the legacy of sofware and hardware, plus strategize the future technology direction in IS . This, then, is a framework for augmenting general BPR techniques with little change to BPR methods, strategy or cost to develop a prioritized strategic plan for deployment of IS data assets


Five new transition metal complexes, containing the purine-mimetic ligands 7-amine-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine (7atp) and 4,5-dihydro-5-oxo-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine (5HtpO), and also malonate (mal2–) and succinate (suc2–) as secondary ligands are reported. Their formula are [Mn2(μ-7atp)2(μ-mal)2(H2O)2] (1), [Zn2(μ-7atp)2(μ-mal)2(H2O)2] (2), [Cu2(5HtpO)2(mal)2(H2mal)2(μ-H2O)2] (3), [Cu2(μ-5tpO)2(μ-Hsuc)2(H2O)2] (4), and [Cd2(μ-5tpO)2(μ4-suc)(H2O)2]n (5). Single-crystal X-ray analysis show that compounds 1–4 feature all dinuclear units with different topologies while compound 5 exhibits a 3D-network with small-diameter pores. The variety of coordination modes displayed by both triazolopyrimidine derivatives together with the bridging capability of the aliphatic α,ω-dicarboxylates used lead to compounds with interesting structural features and physical properties. The Cu(II) malonate dimer 3 exhibits weak ferromagnetic interactions (J = +1.5 cm–1) while a weak and a moderately strong antiferromagn...


A three-dimensional method for the evaluation of fatigue levels for determining the real fatigue state is put forward. Respiratory cycle standard deviation of cycle respiratory amplitude standard deviation of the amplitude and the number of yawn,extracted by the signal analysis technique of empirical mode decomposition and signal reconstruction, are used as characteristic parameters to identify statement of fatigue. By constructing the real-time monitoring system for driver's fatigue statement and doing plenty of simulation experiments,it is proved that the characteristic parameters can effectively reflect the fatigue statement. It is siginifcant decreasing the traffic accidents caused by driver fatigue.


A technology to change the figure of light spot in dot matrix hologram is introduced in this paper.According to the imaging theory,it can be come true to change the figure of light spot by imaging the arbitrary shape what is on the translucent masking on photoresist.It is indicated from the experiment result that the figure changed dot matrix hologram is more bright than common dot matrix hologram,and the figure can be encrypted on the hologram as designed.


The HortSyst model is a new discrete-time model to describe the dynamics of photothermal time (PTT), dry matter production (DMP), N uptake (Nup), leaf area index (LAI) and rate of transpiration (ETc) of greenhouse crops, it has 13 parameters. The model assumes that crops do not have water and nutrient limitations. The input variables of the model are hourly measurements of air temperature, relative humidity, and the integral of solar radiation. Two experiments were carried out in a greenhouse, with hydroponic tomato cv. "CID F1" at a density of 3.5 plants m-2, autumn-winter and spring-summer cycle, in Chapingo, Mexico. The first experiment was transplanted on August 21, 2015 and the second experiment on April 24, 2016. A weather station was installed inside the greenhouses, temperature and relative humidity were measured with a model S-TMB-M006 sensor and radiation global sensor S-LIB-M003. The objective of this research is to compare two growth models for tomato in greenhouses. According to the adjustment of its predictions against the measurements it can be of help in the supply water and nitrogen.


How the Chinese government positions itself in the present stage is not only a theoretically contentious issue but a practically significant one needed to be settled immediately.All the reasonable actions of the government is not from the theoretical design, but from the requirements of the development of the society.Guided by the fundamentals of the historical materialism,the author discusses the government functions from different sides,such as the objective requirements for the government to keep the market economy operating normally,the specific period of the developing countries,the public ownership and the structural transformation.


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The potential energy function (PEF) for H2O has been generated by the modified Shepard interpolation method using the fourth-order Taylor expansion at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level. The reference points for the interpolation have been set at only three points, i.e., the equilibrium structure plus two symmetrically equivalent points in the coupling region of OH symmetric and antisymmetric stretching modes. The vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF) and virtual configuration interaction (VCI) methods have been applied to determine fundamentals, overtones, and combination bands of H2O. The mean absolute deviation over these energy levels from the corresponding ones determined by the direct VCI method is only 4.8 cm−1.


In this paper, high-performance conducting Al-doped ZnO (AZO) electrodes were deposited on transparent and flexible muscovite mica substrates. The use of mica as a substrate material makes a van der Waals epitaxy possible, which significantly improves the structural, electrical, and optical properties of deposited AZO single-crystal-like films. AZO/mica retains its low electric resistivity, even after continuous bending of up to 1000 times on account of the unique layered structure of mica. When used as a transparent heater, AZO/mica shows an ultrahigh heating rate (200 °C/s) across large areas, which is a record among flexible transparent heaters.


This reflection paper is a brief analysis of the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si 'the Holy Father Francisco on Common Home Care, with the road map theories of Bioeconomy and Bio-development. The methodology used is qualitative, descriptive analytical. The most important conclusion is that there are sections of the encyclical where a thorough analysis of the inconsistency of the market economy, as one thought to the development of life on earth is identified. Where you can size as the Bioeconomy and Bio-development theories are emerging that can help in improving land called Common House from a Catholic vision.


The nasal pseudotumor is a rare and infrequent pathology; it was described for the first time in lung; when it is located in the head and neck the most frequent position is the orbital position. It is considered a benign tumor; however it can behave with certain malignancy characteristics. A nasal tumor that occurs from birth is described for the first time. Its growth is progressive and quick, reaching a large size. Image studies as well as of anatomical pathology were performed; they were useful for the diagnosis. We also describe some data on the clinical evolution of this entity.


Background: Nicolau syndrome is a rare complication of intramuscular injections of drugs, that characterized with variable degrees of skin, subcutaneus tissue and muscular necrosis.
Material and method: Here, we report a 56- years- old male patient who admitted to our clinic with 8x3 cm skin and subcutaneus tissue necrosis on his buttock due to intramuscular injection of diclofenac.
Results: Debridement was performed to the necrotic tissues of the patient and he was followed-up with moisture dressing for 15 days. The wound healed with scar.
Conclusion: We did not know any information about this syndrome until we came accross with it. So we decided to share this unknown complication with our collegues.


Principles of narrative analysis provide the foundation for a study of messages from the Shawnee female deity. The Shawnee hold a unique theological conception of their Creator, a female deity known as Our Grandmother. The purpose of this study is to investigate the origin and nature of the Shawnee female deity and reveal mediums of communication She has used to communicate with Her Shawnee people. This study provides an overview of Shawnee narratives, folklore, and spiritual beliefs. A major goal of this paper is to investigate Her unique messages to the Shawnee and the powerful impact Her words have had on Shawnee culture. The paper demonstrates the Shawnee female deity, Our Grandmother, had four separate, discernable message revelation techniques for chosen Shawnee individuals and four general message revelation techniques for Her grandchildren, the Shawnee people. Introduction Spirituality remains a cornerstone of Native American cultures (Thorton, 1998, Rogers and Steinfatt, 1999, Voegelin, 1936). One must investigate the spiritual beliefs of a people group in order to better understand their culture (Rogers and Steinfatt,1999). This study explores the Supreme Deity narratives of an Algonquin people known to English speakers as the Shawnee. Although the Shawnee have always been historically included in the Algonquin language group, their particular and unique beliefs about the Creator of the world merit closer inspection. Many Native American tribal groups generally ascribed the masculine gender to


With the rapid increase of complexity in system-on-a-chip (SoC) design, the electronic design automation (EDA) community is moving from RTL (Register Transfer Level) synthesis to behavioral-level and system-level synthesis. The needs of system-level verification and software/hardware co-design also prefer behavior-level executable specifications, such as C or SystemC. In this paper we present the platform-based synthesis system, named xPilot, being developed at UCLA. The first objective of xPilot is to provide novel behavioral synthesis capability for automatically generating efficient RTL code from a C or SystemC description for a given system platform and optimizing the logic, interconnects, performance, and power simultaneously. The second objective of xPilot is to provide a platform-based system-level synthesis capability, including both synthesis for application-specific configurable processors and heterogeneous multi-core systems. Preliminary experiments on FPGAs demonstrate the efficacy of our approach on a wide range of applications and its value in exploring various design tradeoffs.


Dictionary learning has been intensively applied to process multi‐channel seismic data due to its adaptively learned basis atoms that are data driven. Traditionally, dictionary learning is mostly used to attenuate random noise in the literature since the dictionary update operation is not sensitive to Gaussian noise. However, when dictionary learning is applied to seismic data containing strong erratic noise, which does not follow the Gaussian distribution, its performance greatly deteriorates. In this paper, we propose a novel robust dictionary learning method for dealing with both random and erratic noise. We formulate the dictionary‐learning‐sbased denoising problem as an iterative process. During each iteration, we gradually diminish the effect of the erratic noise and make the denoising problem more Gaussian type. Considering the computational overburden of the classic K‐singular value decomposition algorithm due to many iterations, we substitute the K‐singular value decomposition algorithm with an efficient algorithm, which does not require the singular value decomposition operation. We apply the proposed method to several synthetic and field datasets and obtain good performance, which demonstrates its potential for wide application.


It is shown that an electron avalanche travels with a velocity v_ that is dependent upon Townsend's ionization coefficient α and the diffusion coefficient for the electrons D_. Specifically, v_=μ_E+αD_, where μ_ is the electron mobility, and the applied field E is assumed constant. Numerical machine calculations have been made to study the effect of diffusion and secondary ionization at the cathode in pulsed Townsend discharges. Illustrative examples show the utility of these calculations in measurements of the Townsend ionization coefficients as well as electron and ion mobilities. It is shown that the diffusion‐broadened avalanche for high values of αd (d is the gap distance) requires more than the electron transit time d/v_ to make a gap crossing.


Enveloped virus infections have major impacts to global health and economy. For example, Hepatitis C virus is a leading cause of chronic hepatic disease, and the 2013 Ebola virus outbreak highlighted the need for broadly-active treatments. The immune factors behind successful control of these infections are poorly understood. A potential common target for intervention is the glycosylation patterns that decorate the surface proteins of enveloped virions.

L-ficolin is a liver-expressed lectin that binds several diverse enveloped viruses via their glycosylated surface envelope proteins, and contributes to the innate immune response through blocking of viral entry and complement activation. Two mutations, Thr236Met and Ala258Ser, in L-ficolin are maintained in human populations at high frequencies and influence ligand binding, serum L-ficolin concentration, and response to microbial infection.

In this study, expression of recombinant His6-tagged L-ficolin was optimised. It was hypothesised that L-ficolin mutants described above have superior ligand binding and antiviral properties. The T236M mutation conferred increased binding of acetylated BSA. In an associated study, L-ficolin was used as an oligomeric scaffold for presenting anti-HCV nanobodies. This novel chimaeric molecule, named ficobody, exhibited superior ligand- and HCV glycoprotein-binding activity when compared to L-ficolin. This is the first instance in which lectins have been used as a scaffold for protein presentation.

Furthermore, correlations between serum L-ficolin concentrations and HCV infection outcome and ethnicity were investigated, finding that chronic HCV patients had significantly lower L-ficolin concentrations. Finally, mutant viruses were used to explore if specific glycosylation sites on the HCV glycoproteins are essential for L-ficolin interaction, producing data that supported previous findings on the roles of specific glycosylation sites in HCV entry.

Understanding the antiviral significance of L-ficolin variants could inform the use of L-ficolin and ficobody in the prognosis, prophylaxis and treatment of a wide variety of enveloped virus infections.


In this work the features of long wave run-up of different polarity on a flat and non-reflecting slopes are investigated. The depth of non-reflecting bottom configurations, in which, under the theory of shallow water there is no reflection from the bottom, is related to the distance from the edge by the dependence h ~ x4/3 (where h is the depth of the basin and x is the distance from the edge). Only along Estonian coasts at least on 14 locations the bottom profile may be approximated by the exponent close to 4/3. For these locations the scenarios with high wave run-up are most probable. A long wave on such a beach, in the framework of the linear theory of shallow water, runs up particularly strongly, and the height of the wave on the coast significantly exceeds the height of the wave on a flat slope. A numerical solution was obtained within the framework of the nonlinear shallow water equations and Boussinesq type equations with the help of the CLAWPACK Software package (www.clawpack.org). The research was supported within the framework of the grant of the President of Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists (MK-1127.2017.5).


This paper presents a 3D reconstruction method to model wooden member of ancient architecture from point clouds based on improved deformable model. Three steps are taken to recover the shape of wooden member. Firstly, Hessian matrix is adopted to compute the axe of wooden member. Secondly, an initial model of wooden member is made by contour orthogonal to its axis. Thirdly, an accurate model is got through the coupling effect between the initial model and the point clouds of the wooden member according to the theory of improved deformable model. Every step and algorithm is studied and described in the paper. Using the point clouds captured from Forbidden City of China, shaft member and beam member are taken as examples to test the method proposed in the paper. Results show the efficiency and robustness of the method addressed in the literature to model the wooden member of ancient architecture.


Influence of the number of filaments on the deposition rate, structural, compositional and electrical properties of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (c-Si:H) deposited by hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) has been studied. Also a systematic study of the variation of silane concentration in the silane + hydrogen gas mixture has been done for different number of filaments. The films are characterized by Raman and FTIR spectra to see the crystalline volume fraction and composition respectively. Dark and photoconductivity measurement have been done to see the electrical properties of the material. Cross section SEM and AFM studies also have been done to see their structure and surface morphology. The advantage of using 8 filaments is that the deposition rate of the c-Si:H films is higher as compared to films deposited with 4 filaments without deteriorating the quality of c-Si:H films. Some more interesting results are observed here. The post deposition oxygen uptake is lower for films deposited with 6 sccm and beyond silane flow for the 8 filaments case, while in case of 4 filaments the oxygen uptake is lower beyond 3 sccm silane flow. Another difference is that these films become totally amorphous for 8 sccm silane flow with 8 filaments while in case of 4 filaments the film becomes amorphous when 7 sccm silane flow is maintained. Thus it is confirmed that a higher number of filaments aid in the formation of crystalline film. Moreover the hydrogen content in films is also low with higher number of filaments.


Ground penetrating radars (GPRs) are widely used in many fields such as underground pipe detection, ruin observation, and underground stream investigation. They are also expected to become a powerful measure to detect nonmetallic landmines [1]. There are various kinds of landmines, which are roughly categorized into anti-tank mines and anti-personnel ones. In this paper, our target is antipersonnel mines, which are in most cases buried shallowly in the ground. The authors previously proposed a stepped-frequency radar imaging system employing a newly developed complex-valued self-organizing map (CSOM) to visualize plastic landmines [2]. It observes reflection as two-dimensional images of complex amplitude (amplitude and phase) at multiple frequency points. The totally three-dimensional (two real space and one frequency space) data is fed to the CSOM, in which three-dimensional local texture is evaluated [3]. Through an unsupervised learning, the CSOM generates an adaptively segmented image to show the respective regions of a plastic landmine, metal fragment, stone, and soil, depending on differences in the textures. The process is completely different from most of conventional systems, which deals with simply the radar cross section of a reflecting object and tries to eliminate clutter. The texture observation brings not only a high-segmentation ability but also a high possibility to identify the reflecting objects. We also fabricated an array antenna for landmine detection. It comprises 144 (12×12) WalledLTSA (Walled Linearly tapered slot antenna) elements. They are switched electrically by RF mechanical switches to select trasmitting and receiving antenna pairs from the elements. However distances between transmitting and receiving elements are so close that the component of direct coupling is not negligible. In this paper, first we measure the coupling components at respective transmitting and receiving pairs. Then we remove the components of direct coupling by subtracting them in frequency domain. We also compensate the phase shift caused by path length difference. After such processing, the measured complex ampitude (amplitude and phase) is fed to a CSOM to visualize landmines. We report the results in observations of plastic landmines with the proposed system. We confirmed a successful visualization of the targets by using the Walled LTSA array in combination with the adaptive and phase-sensitive CSOM signal processing.


A rapidly progressive, fatal pneumonia occurred during the third week of hospitalization in an immunosuppressed man confined in a laminar airflow room. Respiratory syncytial virus was isolated from open lung biopsy tissue. Epidemiologic data suggested that the virus was community acquired. Respiratory syncytial virus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pneumonia in severely immunocompromised adults. (JAMA1981;246:366-368)


By using the high energy modified double-base propellant cylinder as the test object,the flexibility of different adhesives for propellant cylinder binding, the influence of different binding interfaces on the burning rate of propellant, and the inner ballistic properties of different binding form propellant cylinder were researched. The results showed that both the polyurethane adhesive(J-1) and the epoxy adhesive(H-1) are suitable for the binding of modified double-base propellant.The binding interface has a little influence on the burning rate, and the binding cylinder gives the same p-t curve features as the original cylinder basically. The binding process is an effective technique path for propellant cylinder production.


The objective of this research is to use low DP poly(p-benzamide) (PBA) segments, terminated by units forming supramolecular bonds, able to extend the overall DP of the aromatic polyamide. PBA fibers, and the related industrially produced PPTA (Kevlar), exhibit their most interesting ultra-high strength properties only when a considerably large DP (>100) is attained. Use of cumbersome and expensive syntheses and solvents are required to attain DP in the range (~200-300) of industrial interest. Moreover, the fully covalent polymers thus far produced are highly insoluble in common organic solvents. On the other hand, easier processing becomes feasible if the DP of conventional PBA (prepared by the Yamazaki reaction) is increased by supramolecular bonding through ionic or hydrogen bond interactions. The effects of three different binding methods were first investigated on short rigid monomers with promising results the same binding was then used on rigid segments of PBA. The binding methods used two diamine binders triethylenediame (TED) and bipiperidine (Bipip) to form ionic bonds with the monomer, and polymer segments. The last method utilized a 2(6-iso cyanato hexylamino carbonyl amino)-6-methyl-4[1H]pyrimidinone (Upy) end group covalently bonded to the PBA polymer. This end group has the ability to form 4 hydrogen bonds with itself and thus could be used to increase the overall DP of the polymer starting material. This is believed to be the first recorded hydrogen bonded supramolecular interaction in amide type solvents. The novel and revolutionary idea of using low DP segments of PBA to increase the overall DP of polymer could be an industrially viable way to produce the highly sought after industrial polyamides. Novel Supramolecular Polyamides


No one would disagree that scientific research has been unethical—even criminal—at times. Institutional review boards (IRBs) play a fundamental role in protecting people from unethical criminological research. At the same time, IRBs, as social entities, are subject to a wide range of influences that may affect their decisions regarding the ethicality of research. This research note draws on the paradigm of pure sociology and the logic underpinning Black's theory of law to propose a preliminary theory of IRBs' (dis)approval of research. Specifically, it suggests that IRBs apply less social control to criminological research involving higher status researchers and lower status research participants and, therefore, those persons are more often involved in research. The paper concludes with theoretically situated, practical advice for how (1) IRBs can reduce their discrimination, and (2) criminological researchers can reduce IRBs' disapproval of their projects and thereby increase their research output.


This work is part of the ICS project (Intelligent Commerce System) whose aim is to design and implement an effective B2B E-commerce system based on mobile and intelligent agents. The ICS lifecycle is based on five phases: User Modeling, Matchmaking, Negotiation, Contract Formation and Contract Fulfillment. We propose here an automated process for the Contract Formation and Fulfillment phases. We propose ontology for sharing knowledge between agents that participate in the configuration process of contract, besides a repository to store contract templates and contract instances. For managing the contract fulfillment, a Temporal Workflow and active rules based on ECA paradigm of Active Database System are applied in order to develop this process.


Accurate and systematic channel simulation technique is critical for performance verification of digital transceiver design over wireless channels. Despite the abundant results on Nakagami-m channel simulation techniques available in the literature, the accurate simulation of Nakagami-m fading channels satisfying the prescribed temporal autocorrelation property is still an open problem. Furthermore, the generation of Nakagami sequences satisfying proper phase distribution has not been studied yet. In this paper, we provide a systematic procedure on the reconstruction techniques of Nakagami-m fading autocorrelation property. We propose several new cumulative distribution function (CDF) mapping methods to realize arbitrary pre-specifled Nakagami auto-correlation function and with good numerical stability. In our method, we map the real and imaginary parts of complex Rayleigh fading samples disjointly to form complex Nakagami samples, which solves the phase ambiguity problem. Furthermore, we study the mapping between Rayleigh and Nakagami auto-correlation functions, and design an approach to calculate the original Rayleigh auto-correlation function to realize a specified Nakagami correlation function. Simulation results verify that our approach can accurately reconstruct arbitrary pre-specified auto-correlation property for the Nakagami channel generation, and also satisfy the proper phase property which follows a non-uniform distribution.