In the 1930s the Great Depression and a severe drought and dust storms rocked the U.S. A decade and a half before, the First World War marked a period of rising global wheat demand, and the Great Plains became an international breadbasket. American farmers met the demand and turned the region into a one-crop resource. The droughts of the early 1930s would further devastate the Plains topsoil, as farmers continued to break the sod and strove to top the yields of the war years. High winds took hold of the dry, overworked soil, now reduced to a fine powder, whipping up dangerous dust storms that transformed farmland into desert, and left thousands homeless and desperate. Inhabitants of the Plains, now termed the Dust Bowl, reacted to harsh conditions by attempting to combat nature, for the land ethic at the time was such that humans thought themselves stronger than and able to defeat the environment, rather than being part of it. At the same time, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 created domestic turmoil and international calamity, and the nation had to confront two unrelated crises simultaneously. With more than 15 million Americans unemployed, President Franklin Roosevelt sought to bolster American morale and unity through his ambitious New Deal, which enacted sweeping social and economic changes. The New Deal offered the American public a chance to combat its predicament and rise above its current circumstances, and the government and the populace united to boost morale by cultivating an attitude of toughness. That the Great Depression occurred at the same time as the Dust Bowl made it so that the environmental disaster was fought in the same manner as the economic crisis — with determination, perseverance, and grit, rather than understanding and moderation. Thus in the public consciousness the Great Depression was linked to an agricultural and environmental crisis, both of which had to be met with fierce resolve. As a result, there would be few opportunities to change the nation's land ethic. The Dust Bowl in and of itself could have presented a teachable moment, to even create a national environmental consciousness. Instead, the concurrence of the Great Depression postponed the start of the modern environmental movement, which would not emerge until the 1960s. •• • • CONTENTS • • Introduction • • Section I 8 • The Plow That Broke the Plains: Combating Nature • • • Section II 17 410 Farm Security Administration Photographs: Riling Up the Troops • • Section III ..29 • The Grapes of Wrath: Monsters, Victims, and Route 66 • • • Section IV ..42 • Farmer's Journal and Testimonies: Uniting the Spartans! • • Conclusion • • Bibliography • • • • • • •• •• •• •• Sundays were no longer reserved solely for God during the decade of the 1930s in the Great Plains region of the United States. They were also utilized for jackrabbit drives: whole towns came out to watch and participate in the slaughter of thousands upon thousands of jackrabbits. Men rounded up the animals into fenced off areas, and then everyone could grab a club and start pounding. Although it may have offered entertainment to some, for most these jackrabbit drives were necessary activities so as to protect the pitifully little amount of crops and food that were left. The rabbits had run out of their own vegetation due to the droughts so they came to the wheat fields in swarms to attempt to eat anything they could. At the end of the drive some rural folk brought back rabbit meat to feed their families, and some meat and fur were sent off to the big cities to be sold. Thousands though were left out in the blazing sun to shrivel up and blow away in the heat and dust that defined the 1930s in the Great Plains.


Human milk is the ideal source of nutrition for the healthy neonate. Milk from the mother whose diet is sufficient will supply the necessary nutrients. It is a considerable problem to discern if the milk supply is the adequate quantity for the infant. If the infant's water and caloric needs are not met for several days, signs and symptoms of hypernatremic dehydration >10% may develop. This report presents a case of a 15-day-old, breast-fed infant who developed significant hypernatremic dehydration.


The performance of a regression estimator based on the double ranked set sample (DRSS) scheme, introduced by Al-Saleh and Al-Kadiri (2000), is investigated when the mean of the auxiliary variable X is unknown. Our primary analysis and simulation indicates that using the DRSS regression estimator for estimating the population mean substantially increases relative efficiency compared to using regression estimator based on simple random sampling (SRS) or ranked set sampling (RSS) (Yu and Lam, 1997) regression estimator.  Moreover, the regression estimator using DRSS is also more efficient than the naive estimators of the population mean using SRS, RSS (when the correlation coefficient is at least 0.4) and DRSS for high correlation coefficient (at least 0.91.) The theory is illustrated using a real data set of trees.


The influence of the feed opening axis width and position in relation to the plasticizing system axis on the effectiveness of the extrusion process of poly(vinyl) chloride has been studied. The research was conducted on the extrusion line for profiles with the extruder of the screw diameter 25 mm and L/D ratio = 25. In the extruder, the extruder head was mounted with a die of a rectangular cross-section shape for extruding a sheet of a defined width and thickness. The extruder was adapted for mounting five feed segments in the feed zone of the plasticizing unit; the segments differed from one another in terms of their feed opening width, the values of which were 0.6 D, 0.7 D, 0.8 D, 0.9 D and 1.0 D, respectively, whereas the values of the longitudinal axis shift of the opening relative to the longitudinal axis of the plasticizing unit were 0.2 D, 0.15 D, 0.10 D, 0.05 D and 0.0 D, respectively, which corresponded to 5 mm, 3.75 mm, 2.5 mm, 1.25 mm and 0 mm, respectively. The effectiveness of the polyvinyl chloride extrusion process was determined by dependences of extrudate temperature, extruder screw torque, polymer mass flow rate, power supplied to the extruder and conveyed by the polymer, unit energy consumption and energy efficiency of the extrusion process on the feed opening width and its axis position relative to the plasticizing unit axis, at different values of the screw rotational speed. It was stated that the width and position of the feed opening in relation to the plasticizing system axis can be adjusted in such a way that the extrusion process will be the most effective and other conclusions were also drawn.


The fitting of the negative binomial distribution to populations of enchytraeid worms collected in coniferous forest soil is investigated. A regression between the two parameters m and k of the negative binomial distribution has been established. This regression is compared with the result of similar studies on other soil animals. This comparison shows that the variation in k is very great, but the regression seems to describe the average relationship between x and k found for the other soil animals. The effect of this non-normality upon the application of parametric, statistical methods used to compare means is examined using simulation in an electronic computer. It is found that the confidence intervals do not cover the true mean as often as expected according to the normal assumption. The discrepancy between the observed and the expected confidence probability is, however, not very significant when the mean is larger than about 10. A logarithmic transformation of the observations has been found to distort severely the confidence probability. However, with regard to the probability of type-I errors of the analysis of variance, the transformation has had a slight improving effect. The analysis of variance has, however, been found robust against the non-normality of the original data. Transformation for this purpose seems therefore to be unnecessary.


Cloud computing provides centralized data storage and online computing. For centralized data storage, to address both security and availability issue, distributed storage is an appealing option in that it can ensure file security without requiring data encryption. Instead of storing a file and its replications on multiple servers, we can break the file into components and store the components on multiple servers. In this paper, we develop the minimum storage regeneration (MSR) point based distributed storage schemes that can achieve optimal storage efficiency and storage capacity. Moreover, our scheme can detect and correct malicious nodes with much higher error correction efficiency. For online computing, we investigate outsourcing of general computational problems and propose efficient Cost-Aware Secure Outsourcing (CASO) schemes for problem transformation and outsourcing so that the cloud is unable to learn any key information from the transformed problem. We also propose a verification scheme to ensure that the end-users will always receive a valid solution from the cloud. Our extensive complexity and security analysis show that our proposed Cost- Aware Secure Outsourcing (CASO) scheme is both practical and effective.


A kinetic model was developed to describe the effects of light intensity on the photocorrosion of n-type semiconductor electrodes. The model is an extension of previous work by Gomes and co-workers that includes the possibility of multiple steps for the oxidation reaction of the reducing agent in the electrolyte. Six cases are considered where the semiconductor decomposition reaction is multistep (each step involves a hole); the oxidation reaction of the reducing agent is multistep (each step after the first involves a hole or a chemical intermediate), and the first steps of the competing oxidation reactions are reversible or irreversible. It was found, contrary to previous results, that the photostability of semiconductor electrodes could increase with increased light intensity if the desired oxidation reaction of the reducing agent in the electrolyte was multistep with the first step being reversible. 14 references, 5 figures, 1 table.


This cohort study investigates whether N290 latency to faces vs nonfaces is associated with autism polygenic scores and cross-disorder polygenic scores in infants with and without a family history of autism.


Cultivation techniques on Vitis willsonae were introduced briefly in the area Geermu,the survival rate in greenhouse was 90%.At the same time,management measures on Vitis willsonae in the growing season Geermu were stated to provide a scientific basis.


Thrombin-induced changes in PA, monophosphoinositide (MPI) , diphosphoinositide (DPI) and triphosphoinositide (TPI) of washed rabbit platelets have been examined. Platelets prelabeled by incubation with 32P-orthophosphate, 3H-glycerol, 3H-inositol or 14C-arachidonate were exposed to 0.33 u/ml thrombin for one minute, and the phospholipids extracted and separated by thin layer chromatography. Measurement of absolute amounts of PA and MPI by phosphorus assay showed that PA increased by 180% while MPI decreased by 15%. The changes in MPI with 3H-G, 3H-I and 14C-AA and in 1,2-diacyl glycerol (DG) indicate that some MPI may be converted to PA via DG. Changes in the 3H-G and 3H-I labeling of DPI and TPI suggest that the changes observed with 32P-Iabeled platelets are a result of the turnover of the phosphorylinositol moiety. The increase in AA with 14C-AA indicates that some of the decrease in MPI may be due to the formation of lyso MPI and free fatty acid. These results indicate that thrombin stimulation of platelets may affect inositol phospholipid metabolism through three pathways: (1) involving PA, DG and MPI; (2) the cleavage of free fatty acids from MPI; (3) turnover of the ester phosphates on DPI and TPI.


Chia (Salvia hispanica) and Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) seeds are often referred to as a "superfood" or functional food due to the claims of numerous health benefits. This often resulted in sudden increase in demand which frequently exceed existing supply capacities fostering fraudulent practices such as mislabeling and use of other species of inferior quality. To assess the authenticity of food products containing chia and quinoa, we developed real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) systems for the detection of seeds of these plant species. The developed methodology using chia- and quinoa specific primer-probe sets based on TaqMan technology was validated, and specificity, cross-reactivity, limit of detection, efficiency and robustness were determined. The methods were successfully applied to twelve (chia) and seven (quinoa) commercial samples proving its suitability for the verification of the authenticity of chia- and quinoa containing products in commercial trade.


For median filtering (MF) detection in altered digital images, this paper presents a new feature vector that is formed from autoregressive (AR) coefficients via an AR model of the gradients between the neighboring row and column lines in an image. Subsequently, the defined 10-D feature vector is trained in a support vector machine (SVM) for MF detection among forged images. The MF classification is compared to the median filter residual (MFR) scheme that had the same 10-D feature vector. In the experiment, three kinds of test items are area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC), classification ratio, and minimal average decision error. The performance is excellent for unaltered (ORI) or once-altered images, such as 3×3 average filtering (AVE3), QF=90 JPEG (JPG90), 90% down, and 110% up to scale (DN0.9 and Up1.1) images, versus 3×3 and 5×5 median filtering (MF3 and MF5, respectively) and MF3 and MF5 composite images (MF35). When the forged image was post-altered with AVE3, DN0.9, UP1.1 and JPG70 after MF3, MF5 and MF35, the performance of the proposed scheme is lower than the MFR scheme. In particular, the feature vector in this paper has a superior classification ratio compared to AVE3. However, in the measured performances with unaltered, once-altered and post-altered images versus MF3, MF5 and MF35, the resultant AUC by 'sensitivity' (TP: true positive rate) and '1-specificity' (FN: false negative rate) is achieved closer to 1. Thus, it is confirmed that the grade evaluation of the proposed scheme can be rated as 'Excellent (A)'.


Claudins are tight junction proteins that control passive paracellular transport of small ions across epithelia. Claudin‐2 is expressed in proximal renal tubules which partly re‐absorb Na(+) via the paracellular pathway and it forms cation‐selective paracellular pores in high resistance cell lines. To test the hypothesis that amino acid residues in the 1st extracellular loop line the paracellular pore, we used cysteine mutagenesis of Y35, H57, D65 and I66 in claudin‐2 and expressed these mutants in stable transfected MDCK I cells. H57C and D65C showed a partial loss of cation permeability (50% of P(Na+) of wild‐type claudin‐2), suggesting that these residues may participate in cation permeation. D65C also exhibited marked loss of charge and size selectivity and appeared as a dimer on non‐reducing polyacrylamide gels, indicating that conformational changes resulting from intermolecular disulfide bonding disrupted the pore structure. Permeability and selectivity of Y35C and I66C were preserved. Addition of cationic methanethiosulfonate reagents to I66C caused a prompt decrease in conductance of up to 35%, suggesting that this residue may line the pore lumen and be accessible to extracellular cations. By applying methods used to investigate transcellular ion channels, we are beginning to map the position of key residues within the paracellular pore and develop MTS reagents as potential pore blocking tools.


Cloud computing provides dynamically scalable and virtualized resources as a service over the network at a nominal initial investment. Data-center works as backbone in cloud computing there a large number of servers are networked to host computing & storage needs of the users. We study and seek to improve the confidentiality of application data stored on third-party computing clouds. Scalable database services allow data query only by primary key rather than supporting secondary-key or join queries. We propose to identify and encrypt all functionally encrypt able data, sensitive data that can be encrypted without limiting the functionality of the application on the cloud. Many data intensive applications produce enormous amounts of data which travel on cloud network. As the cloud users grow, cloud architecture should accommodate movement of voluminous data to avoid data congestion in the network. Many other applications such as payment and online auction services cannot afford any data inconsistency. Cloud computing model provides benefits for private enterprise environments where a significant physical infrastructure already exists. Private cloud management platforms have been emerging in the last several years providing new opportunities for efficient management of internal infrastructures leading to high utilization.


Preface A.Gordon-Reed Introduction Raised and Nurtured Presidential Household Enamoured with Freedom Not Even Paul Change of Mind His Own Free Hands First Families of Color The Right to Rise Appendix: A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index


In regional autonomy context, value for money is a bridge to deliver local government to achieve good governance. Value for money must be operated in local finance management and local budgeting. To support it, the management of public money with value for money concept, it needs regional budgeting and good local finance management. This research aims to set factors that influence performance accountability of local government organizations in Palembang. Factors that include are the influence of performance based budgeting and local financial accounting system to performance accountability as partial and simultan t . This research using purposive sampling which part of nonprobability sampling of research instrument by 129 questionnaires that directly spread to 43 local government organizations in Palembang to the head of finance department revenue treasurer, and expenditure treasurer. Data of this research was analize d by multiple regression using software SPSS 20.0. The result of this research show both as partial and simultan t performance based budgeting and local financial accounting system have positive influence and significant to performance accountability in local government organization


This literature review is aimed to identify the impact on home spatial design during the covid-19 pandemic. The covid-19 pandemic and the need to put people into lockdown, quarantine, and self-isolation at home require a reflection on the quality and capacity of home spatial to adjust to a specific function for they are not designed. The adjustment is to ensure the health and well-being of people during the pandemic and predict the future home spatial design for more human-centric. The qualitative method was conducted by viewing 50 papers and articles related to the pandemic, working from home, spatial design, residential real estate, habitability, and resilience from March 2020 to Dec 2021. The review indicates that the Covid-19 pandemic do influence the spatial design from the government enforcement of lockdown, fear of meeting people, and the "stay at home" lifestyle aspect. The pandemic increases people's need to control their living space, safe space, and the use of home space. This review will not only be useful to safeguard people's physical and mental health but with respect to the deficiencies and preferences of users about their homes. It can be taken as a starting point for updating the Malaysia development plans. In addition, it benefits real estate developers as a lifestyle reference on the design of healthy residential buildings in the future.


This paper compares Chinese PCB industry with other international PCB industries. It explains why we believe Chinese PCB is quite big; what have been improved for the last several years; what need to be continually improved; what are the criteria to classify as PCB industry as strong; and what Chinese PCB industry went through to strength itself. This paper also discuses 5 key characteristics to become a strong Chinese PCB industry: strong and solid industrial scale; optimization of industrial structure; complete integrated industrial chain; excellent of good quality management; consistent ability of innovation and development.


Contemporary constitutional theory rests on three premises. Brown v. Board of Education was correct, Lochner v. New York was wrong, and Dred Scott v. Sandford was also wrong. A few intrepid souls question whether Brown was correctly decided (although they would not have the Supreme Court overrule that decision}.! Some proponents of law and economics favor reviving the freedom of contract and the Lochner decision.z No one, however, wishes to rethink the universal condemnation of Dred Scott.3 "American legal and constitutional scholars," The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court states, "consider the Dred Scott decision to be the worst ever rendered by the Supreme Court."4 David Currie's encyclopedic The Constitution in the Supreme Court maintains that the decision was "bad policy," "bad judicial politics" and "bad law."s Commentators across the political spectrum describe Dred Scott as "the worst constitutional decision of the nineteenth century,"6 "the worst atrocity in the


In the future, the typical form of tour that sees the sights of famous tourist resorts will change into one that experience a unique life at difference places caused by different culture, history and geography. Besides, tourists` need for tourism will be more diversified, a wider variety of segmented markets will appear, and changed accommodations will be provided as well. A home-stay is capable of offering ample experiences required by the future tourism style, but there has been few systematic studies on that although how to develop it as one of established accommodations has been discussed. The purpose of this study was to define the basic concept of home-stay and its terms used in a confusing way, and to assess earlier studies and reports on home-stay. Moreover, it`s additionally attempted to determine the characteristics of demand for home-stay by referring to statistical data and studies, and to make an experimental survey of outsider tourists in order to suggest some realistic measures of activating home-stay, including (1) the development of both low- and high-price market. (2) the creation of a Korean Home- Stay Association. (3) the development of private houses for tourist home-stay in urban and tourist resort areas, (4) the development of the related Internet homepage, (5) the selection of tourist agency that offers an exclusive service for home-stay reservation. (6) the use of credit card for home-stay rates, and (7) the preparation of differentiated strategy for segmented market. But there were some limits in this study: first, opinions from foreigner tourists from various countries, including those who hadn`t ever visited our country, weren`t gathered because of the lack of on-the-spot survey. Second, more data should have been prepared. Finally, the literature related to accommodations similar to foreign home-stay, such as B&B, wasn`t reviewed fully. An effort to get over the limits and provide more detailed description of the above-mentioned home-stay development measures will be made in future study.


In what cases aggressiveness is destructive and it must be classified in the forms of the violence; in which cases, instead, it is constructive, and it must be classified in the forms of the nonviolence? What has the human history taught or what can it teach on the matter? And above all, what has people learned or what can learn from the history? They are questions that the two speakers, Francesco Occhetta and Martin Lintner, chaired by Giuseppe Trentin, don't directly set, but they help to understand how much long and fatiguing is the way that, from the war and the various forms of torture, leads to the peace or, at the least, to a more pacific cohabitation among the human beings.


The Hypersonic Airplane Space Tether Orbital Launch (HASTOL) Architecture uses a hypersonic airplane (or reusable launch vehicle) to carry a payload from the surface of the Earth to 150 km altitude and a speed of Mach 17. The hypersonic airplane makes a rendezvous with the grapple at the tip of a long, rotating, orbiting space tether boost facility, which picks up the payload from the airplane. Release of the payload at the proper point in the tether rotation boosts the payload into a higher orbit, typically into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), with lower orbits and Earth escape other options. The HASTOL Tether Boost Facility will have a length of 636 km. Its center of mass will be in a 604 km by 890 km equatorial orbit. It is estimated that by the time of the start of operations of the HASTOL Tether Boost facility in the year 2020, there will be 500 operational spacecraft using the same volume of space as the HASTOL facility. These operational spacecraft would likely be made inoperative by an impact with one of the lines in the multiline HASTOL Hoytether™ and should be avoided. There will also be non-operational spacecraft and large pieces of orbital debris with effective size greater than five meters in diameter that could cut a number of lines in the HASTOL Hoytether™, and should also be avoided. It is estimated, using two different methods and combining them, that the HASTOL facility will need to make avoidance maneuvers about once every four days if the 500 operational spacecraft and large pieces of orbital debris greater than 5 m in diameter, were each protected by a 2 km diameter miss distance protection sphere. If by 2020, the ability to know the positions of operational spacecraft and large pieces of orbital debris improved to allow a 600 m diameter miss distance protection sphere around each object, then the number of HASTOL facility maneuvers needed drops to one every two weeks.


Sometimes we find hope in the most unlikely places. Meet a 5th grader who, against all odds, beat out tens of thousands of other students for a national Sri Lankan scholarship.


The final thesis reviews the concept of food represented as a type of rituality in everyday life. Through Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, we talk about the historical and cultural reflexes of the food that are connected with today's life. In this way the food becomes an inexhaustible theme of inestimable value, always interesting to the people.


The high-pressure response of {epsilon}-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitrohexaazaisowurtizane (CL-20) has been examined to 27 GPa in diamond anvil cells using vibrational spectroscopy. The results reveal evidence of an {epsilon}{yields}{Upsilon} pressure-induced phase transition between 4.1 and 6.4 GPa and suggest the existence of a {Upsilon}{yields}{zeta} transition near 18.7 GPa. Several Raman and infrared frequencies were found to decrease in intensity as the phase boundaries are approached. An anomalous intensity increase was noted in the C-N-C infrared mode that is believed to result from an increase in the Raman cross-section due to a stronger interlayer coupling under pressure.


The ability to detect and interpret the chemicals in our environment affects nearly every aspect of our survival. The flavor of our food, i.e., the combination of its taste and smell, is used both to prompt ingestion of nutrients and to protect us from ingesting or inhaling toxins. In the study of taste and olfaction, there are certain as yet unresolved questions that date from the very earliest research into these areas. For example, there is continued debate on the nature of primary stimuli, on the mechanisms of transduction, and on the ways in which stimuli are encoded and interpreted by the nervous system. In this review, the current thinking about these questions, as well as some recent data that may help to resolve them, are outlined. Data from both animal and human models are used to show how technological advances, particularly in the realm of molecular neurobiology, are providing the tools for a new and more complete understanding of how we taste and smell the chemicals in our environment.

Keywords:

chemical senses;
gustation;
gustatory;
neural coding;
olfaction;
receptor;
sensory systems;
smell;
taste;
transduction


The Food Security Office of Baubau City has the task of carrying out government affairs in the field of food security, through technical policies and fostering the implementation of activities to support food security. The problem that occurs at the Baubau City Food Security Service is the lack of publication of information on food price predictions to the public and elements of government leadership. This is due to the absence of an information system that covers the publication of food price predictions in the City of Baubau. This study aims to create and design a web-based food price prediction system at the Baubau City Food Security Service which is able to record food price fluctuations throughout the year from various food commodities. The method used in calculating food price predictions is the Least Square method. This research produces a food price prediction information system that can be used as a reference for policymakers to find out the prices of staple foods in traditional markets in the city of Baubau and to carry out market operations if a staple commodity has an unnatural increase, so that price increases can be anticipated.


The Apsheron Bank is located in the Caspian Sea in the northwest part of the Apsheron Archipelago 26 km northeast of Artem Island; it is a large asymmetrical brachyanticline of west-northwest trend. The fold is 15 km long and 9 km wide along the top of the Kirmakin formation (KS). The angle of dip on the southwest flank is more gentle at 8-12°, whereas on the northeast flank it is steeper at 35-40°. See Figs. 1 and 2. flows


The article proposes "Tiga Tungku" as a local wisdom to become the basis of village financial management. By employing a constructive paradigm as well as literary study on the local wisdom, an alternative for village financial management is constructed. The worries and distrust that have occurred between the village government and the community can be dissipated by presenting elements of community leaders. Community leaders will act as mediators in the relationship between several parties, so that a "Tiga Tungku" relationship will break asymmetrical communication. This way, village fund management is not caused by compliance to regulations but rather the sense of obedience that becomes the moral bond between stakeholders.


ABSTRACT This study probes the execution of internal quality assurance vis-à-vis learning outcome assessments in Japanese and Taiwanese universities. To this end, it applies Elken and Stensaker's theoretical framework of 'quality work' to ascertain the following: (1) how universities build internal quality assurance; (2) what learning outcome assessments are embedded in internal quality assurance mechanisms; (3) how universities perceive internal quality assurance in relation to learning outcome assessments. Both nations offer shared perspectives on the correlations between internal quality assurance and learning outcome assessments: (i) tasks are simultaneously performed; (ii) internal quality assurance is the purpose and learning outcome assessment is a means to achieve it; (iii) the two tasks are decoupled. However, only Japan evinces the internal quality assurance as supply (assessment) and demand (outcomes). The finding initiates discourse on the purpose of internal quality assurance and cautions against their construction solely in response to external requirements.


PURPOSE: A puffer cylinder assembly is provided to reduce the number of working processes by performing one task inserting a second member into a first member. CONSTITUTION: A first member (10) includes a hollow load part. The load part is equipped within a cylinder part (11) A second member (20) is inserted into the load part. The second member is molded with a material having higher heat resistance than the first member. The cylinder part and the load part is molded into one body. The second member is pressed and inserted into the load part. The external diameter of the second member is relatively small compared to the inner diameter of the load part.


The objective of this study was to assess the potential of pure β-galactosidase and β-glucosidase for hydrolyzing isoflavone glycosides to aglycones in soy milk. Both pure β-galactosidase and β-glucosidase were added at various concentrations (0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 U/mL) to soy milk made from 4% soy protein isolate and incubated at 37C for up to 240 min. Isoflavones were quantified using high-performance liquid chromatography. The isoflavone contents of soy milk before and after autoclaving were also compared. β-Glucosidase and β-galactosidase were both able to hydrolyze the β-glucosidic linkages in isoflavone glycosides. A range of 43.3 to 77.2% of the total isoflavone glycosides was hydrolyzed at various β-galactosidase concentrations. The β-glucosidase hydrolyzed isoflavone glycosides more efficiently than β-galactosidase. At the most diluted β-glucosidase concentration (0.5 U/mL), 86.6% of isoflavone glycosides were hydrolyzed to aglycones at 240 min.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

Isoflavone glycosides, which are mainly found in the bean family, are the inactive forms of isoflavones. However, aglycones, which are the nonsugar component of a glycoside molecule that results from hydrolysis of the isoflavone glycosides, are the biologically active forms. Because of their similarity to female hormone, they are considered a "natural way" to relieve the menopausal symptoms as they prevent certain cancers and improve bone health. Only a small amount of the total isoflavones, however, exists in the aglycone forms in nature. A novel method to produce aglycones from natural isoflavones is highly important. β-Glucosidase has been claimed to be the only enzyme which is able to hydrolyze isoflavone glycosides to aglycones. However, other enzymes could hydrolyze isoflavone glycosides more efficiently and could be easier to produce. This paper investigates the ability of β-galactosidase to biotransform isoflavone glycosides to aglycones, as the source of the enzyme is abundant.


Inequality is a subject that arouses great controversy, eradication is difficult and their presence is everywhere. Despite this reality, the political debate on whether it should, how and how much to reduce it, often polarized. Ecuador is a country with high inequality and the cantons and Olmedo Chaguarpamba are no exception as provincial level these are at a disadvantage to other counties such as Loja, Catamayo, among others. Hence the importance of building social indicators and measuring inequality of opportunities and Olmedo Chaguarpamba Cantons.
This work seeks to determine what is the level of access for children in cantons Olmedo Chaguarpamba and services regarding education, housing, health TIC'sy?, For it was necessary to start from a baseline (2010) that allows know the value of different indicators of the cantons Chaguarpamba develop and Olmedo giving a starting point for research work. With the use of data representative of households in Chaguarpamba (322) and Olmedo (299) was constructed indicators for education, housing, early childhood TIC'sy whose calculation methodology detailed in the literature review. Furthermore, these indicators are helpful for building IOH, which includes in its measurement, economic indicators, social and anthropometric.
In building the IOH, focused on children between the ages of 0 and 16 years for each of the cantons, were analyzed eight times as basic, these were primary culmination of time, attendance, sanitation, electricity, no overcrowding, computers and internet access, chronic malnutrition and immunization, which are being grouped by categories or dimensions, the first two categories formed the HOI for education, the following three dimensions resulted in the HOI for housing, then the next two were the IOH TIC'sy finally the remaining two formed the IOH early childhood.
Chaguarpamba and Olmedo share similar characteristics in terms of population, economic and social dynamics, and these are explicit reasons why your IOH by category yielded similar percentages, is the case of the education category and Olmedo Chaguarpamba HOI for 91 , 31% and
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87.17% respectively, with respect to the level of access to ICT percentage values were obtained for Chaguarpamba 10.72% and 9.50% for the HOI Olmedo and finally presented percentages of Early Childhood 70, 33% and 70.87% Chaguarpamba Olmedo. With respect to the results of the General IOH, it is an average of the HOI by category, in both cantons indicates the presence of inequality rooted mainly in the ICT IOH. The overall percentage difference between cantons IOH is minimal (62.35 Chaguarpamba % and 59.03 Olmedo) and underlies the HOI housing category (77.04% Chaguarpamba and 68.61% Olmedo) as the percentage difference between the two cantons this category is 8.43%, this divergence lies in the opportunities of access to sanitation (66.2% Chaguarpamba and 63.03% Olmedo) and overcrowding (68.67% Chaguarpamba and 58.97% Olmedo). Equal opportunities is part of eradicating inequality and part of the development process and this is where the HOI intervenes, as it becomes a useful diagnostic tool for the analysis of public political focused on reducing inequality.


The results of an empirical, case-study analysis demonstrate that PV will become cost-effective as a distributed resource long before it becomes a costeffective, central station, energy supply option. This conclusion is based on the assumption that the nontraditional benefits that distributed PV systems offer to the electrical system and to utility customers, including transmission and distribution equipment deferrals and peak-shaving, are incorporated into cost-effectiveness analyses. The paper concludes that it is critical to capture the non-traditional or "distributed" benefits associated with investments in dispersed PV systems in order to commercialize the technology in grid-connected applications.


Objective It has been suggested that adverse early life exposures increase the risk of developing polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in later life. We hypothesized that women born preterm would have more biochemical and clinical signs of PCOS than women born at term. Design The ESTER Preterm Birth Study participants were born in Northern Finland and identified from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort and the Finnish Medical Birth Register. Altogether, 74 women born very or moderately preterm (<34 gestational weeks, VMPT), 127 born late preterm (at 34–36 weeks, LPT), and 184 born full term (≥37 weeks, controls) were included in the analysis (mean age: 23.2 years). Methods We measured serum total testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and calculated the free androgen index (FAI). PCOS according to the clinical and biochemical signs was defined either as hirsutism and oligoamenorrhea (via questionnaire) or as oligoamenorrhea and elevated testosterone levels (>2.4 nmol/L). Results Women born VMPT/LPT exhibited 33.0% (8.7, 62.8)/16.4% (−2.0, 38.1) higher testosterone, 28.5% (5.3, 45.9)/24.1% (5.6, 38.9) lower SHBG levels, and 64.6% (19.4, 127.1)/42.5% (11.1, 82.9) higher FAI than controls after adjusting for age and recruitment cohort, maternal BMI, smoking, and pregnancy disorders, parental education, history of hypertension, diabetes, myocardial infarction or stroke, and subject's birth weight s.d. Odds ratios for having PCOS were 1.67 (0.44, 6.23)/3.11 (1.26, 7.70). Conclusions Women born preterm have a more hyperandrogenic hormonal profile, and those born LPT are approximately three times more likely at risk to have PCOS compared to women born at term.


Steel angle frame reinforced concrete (SARC) beam is a kind of composite beam with encased steel angle frame. The torsion tests were carried out on six SARC beams and one reinforced concrete (RC) beam to investigate their torsional behavior. Test variables include space between steel plates, angle of steel plates, concrete cover depth, and concrete strength. The results showed that the reduction of space between steel plates causes specimens to crack in advance, but improves torsional behavior after cracking markedly. The energy dissipation coefficient reduces as concrete cover depth increases. Damage index can be effectively reduced by increasing concrete strength, reducing plates spacing, and increasing concrete cover depth. The overall torsional behavior of SARC beam can be improved by reducing the spacing between the plates, adopting staggered vertical and oblique steel plates, and increasing concrete strength, but the effect is adverse when concrete cover depth increases. Moreover, the space between steel plates should be greater than 100 mm, and concrete cover depth should be less than 35 mm for maximizing the torsional strength of steel angle frame. Considering the positive roles of steel angle frame and oblique steel plates, the calculation methods of cracking and ultimate torsional moment were proposed. This study can provide a theoretical basis for the engineering application of SARC beams subjected to torsion.


We examined the mathematical demography of northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) using simple deterministic population models. Our goals were to gain insights into the life history strategy, to determine demographic attributes most affecting changes in population size, and to provide guidelines for effective management of spotted owl populations. The spotted owl apparently has evolved high adult survival rates associated with irregular and unpredictable reproduction. The finite rate of population change (X) in this subspecies is most sensitive to variation in adult survival rate and relatively insensitive to variation in fecundity and age at first reproduction. However, rates of population change are strongly affected by reproductive senescence if it occurs before 15 years of age. Sound management practices should include efforts to control factors that adversely affect the survival rate of adult females. J. WILDL. MANAGE. 54(1):18-27 Considerable interest has developed over the harvesting of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and impacts on the long-term survival of the spotted owl. Current information suggests that the northern subspecies (S. o. caurina) is restricted to coniferous forests in mature and old-growth age classes (Forsman et al. 1984, see Gutierrez and Carey 1985) and that continued loss and fragmentation of the remaining old-growth forests may threaten the viability of the subspecies. The possible endangerment of the subspecies and the need to retain large areas of suitable habitat have generated heated debate because of perceived economic costs to the timber industry associated with setting aside large areas of older forests for the spotted owl (Dixon and Juelson 1987, Salwasser 1987, Simberloff 1987). In a search for solutions to this dilemma, the Forest Service (U.S. For. Serv. [USFS] 1986) and the academic community (Dawson et al. 1986) identified various aspects of the owl's biology and life history for further investigation and proposed guidelines for spotted owl research. An aspect of the owl's biology that was addressed in detail by both groups was the species' demographic life history. The apparent decline of the northern subspecies may be exacerbated by low preadult survivorship, low adult fecundity, and delayed age at first reproduction. These were features identified as primary parameters that should be estimated more precisely. Neither report gave a high priority to the annual adult survival rate even though adult survival rate significantly affects the rate of population change of both the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) (Mertz 1971, Verner 1978) and the snail kite (formerly the Everglade kite [Rostrhamus sociabilis]) (Nichols et al. 1980), species with demographic characteristics similar to those of the spotted owl. The conclusions by Dawson et al. (1986) and the USFS (1986) concerning the relative importance of various demographic parameters of the spotted owl have recently been criticized by Lande (1988). Our goal was to characterize the life history structure of the spotted owl and to determine demographic parameters that most influence rates of population change. Detailed, analytical analyses of a species' life history structure are not only a necessary prerequisite to understanding its population dynamics, but also suggest direction for future research. We analyzed the available demographic data of the northern spotted owl using life history and demography in an approach similar to Mertz (1971) and Nichols et al. (1980). We also assessed the direction of current spotted owl research and suggest future priorities indicated by our demographic analyses. The owl's basic demographic life history includes several parameters; however, accurate and precise estimates of all parameters are not available and these parameters might exhibit substantial geographic variation throughout the range of the northern spotted owl. It is thus of considerable interest to examine the effects of parameter variation on projected population


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a very difficult, yet all important and ongoing research question – how do we best use online collaborative learning modalities (CLM) to supplement conversations in multicultural education courses?Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative study examined emergent themes in asynchronous threaded discussions created by 23 students within a Master's level multicultural education course at a large land‐grant university in the USA.Findings – Engagement in threaded discussions fostered student understanding of a systems perspective of social realities. Power, privilege, and oppression related to race, gender, and economics in the USA were explored through student use of real world, concrete examples – something that does not always occur in face‐to‐face classroom encounters constrained by time and the pacing of curriculum.Research limitations/implications – Researchers would like to see more empirical research in using technologically mediated, CLM to ...


The contents of Hg,Zn,Pb,Cd,Cr of bivalves and fishes collected from culture areas and natural catching along Lianyungang coast were determined by atom fluorescence spectrometry,graphite furnace atomic Absorption spectrophotometer,flame atomic Absorption spectrophotometer,and the contents of the heavy metals were analyzed and assessed.Results show that the content of Pb of bivalves from culture areas and that of bivalves and fishes from natural catching were over the standards,the rest were below the legal limit,marine organisms were not polluted by heavy metals,indicating the environmental quality inshore was good.


Molecular core binding energies have been measured for some transition metal carbonyls and π-cyclopentadienyls and are discussed qualitatively in terms of the charge distributions in these molecules.


The public school system in El Salvador is not one of the best education systems in regards to teaching methodologies for English classes because it has a lot of deficiencies, especially in students who are in third cycle, because the majority of teachers use the traditional method for teaching English. Furthermore, English teachers are still using the traditional method based only in book's instructions, and the teacher plays the role of a controller, as a result students are just receptive of the information and they do not have the opportunity to develop their English skills. Moreover, English teachers in El Salvador have to follow the curriculum provided by the Ministry of Education and this curriculum has ten years without any modification, for that reason teachers and students are working with the same traditional methodology in the environment where they do not have the experience of a different English methodology, such as an innovative method based on students' needs with technological resources. Some issues that are affecting the learning process of the students from school Canton Aldea de las Mercedes are described below: The first issue presented in the English teaching is that teachers are still implementing the traditional method in their classes; they are not updated with different innovative strategies and technological tools to teach. The second issue is that teachers have the opportunity to teach with the technological tools that they have in the school such as: computer lab, CD player, projectors and so on, but they do not use them. The third issue is the lack of interest of the students to learn English, some students attend to the classes because they have to attend and just a few of them have enthusiasm to learn, furthermore the traditional methodology that the teacher applies creates a lack of interest on the students. In addition, English methodology should be changed at school Canton Aldea de las Mercedes because the students need to learn with an innovative methodology, in which the technological resources, the application of strategies and classroom activities; help them to improve their academic performance. However, the research team wants to apply an innovative method based on the book Joyful Fluency Model: Brain-Compatible Second Language Acquisition, whose purpose is to provide a practical guide for those teachers who wish to learn how to use the brain-compatible acquisition model to enhance language teaching and learning; so that teachers can make a transition from the traditional method to one that is more dynamic and innovative. The main purpose of this study is to compare the two different methods (the traditional method and the innovative method) of teaching applied in English syllabus, of third cycle, not only to facilitate the acquisition of a new language to the students, but also to provide didactic materials to English teachers at school of Nejapa.


Root resorption is one of the serious consequences of dental trauma. If left untreated, it may lead to loss of significant portion of the root, rendering the tooth unsalvageable. This report documents the nonsurgical management of a previously traumatized maxillary lateral incisor (#22) with a large periapical lesion, severely affected by inflammatory communicating internalexternal root resorption. A cone beam computed tomography was advised, to aid in diagnosis and treatment planning. Endodontic treatment comprised of copious irrigation with 1.5% sodium hypochlorite and 2% chlorhexidine gluconate, intracanal calcium hydroxide dressings and mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) placement in apical 5mm.Follow up at 6 months showed arrest of resorptive process and initiation of periapical healing. At 12 months, complete radiographic healing in the absence of clinical signs and symtoms was evident. © 2020 Published by Innovative Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)


This work presents a novel concept of elementary planetary gear trains such that the tooth-profiles of the pinion are hyperbolic. The pitch radius is kinematically replaced by the distance between the gear center and the tooth center. The triple vector product of differential geometry is used to derive the equation of meshing. A program is developed to solve the conjugate surface equations, and to show the solid modeling of proposed elementary planetary gear trains. This approach can be applied to design the elementary planetary gear trains in which the pinion is with hyperbolic tooth-profiles. The proposed novel elementary planetary gear trains can operate smoothly, can transmit more precision, can endure higher torque, and are more compact than traditional planetary gear trains.


Controlled Collapse Chip Connection (C4) flip-chip packaging is the current state of the art assembly technique. The C4 Organic Land Grid Array (OLGA) technology process to attach a silicon die to a package substrate involves seven process steps. In the current plan of record (POR) C4 OLGA flip-chip assembly process, solder wetability is achieved by removing Pb/Sn oxide films from the bump material by means of a flux and deflux process. An epoxy material is placed between the die and package. This underfill (UF) process has a long epoxy application step and curing time. We present a three-step chip-join assembly process using a no-flow-type underfill material combined with nonlead-containing bump metal on the chip side. This process has fewer process steps than the POR assembly process, and the underfill cure time is also reduced. The process described in this paper shortens the assembly process by eliminating fluxing, defluxing, and furnace reflow steps. We achieved more than a 90% assembly yield as a result of process parameter and material property optimization. INTRODUCTION Intel successfully introduced C4 OLGA technology into the Personal Computer (PC) market in April 1998. The technology has many advantages over wire bonding and Tape Automated Bonding (TAB): it has a higher Input/Output (I/O) number, shorter interconnects, and the silicon die self-aligns to the package. The current C4 OLGA plan of record (POR) process to attach a silicon die to a package substrate and apply the underfill material requires seven processing steps. An epoxy-type material is required in C4 packaging to prevent solder bumps on the silicon die from moving and electrically shorting during the life of the part. The underfill also mediates the thermal miss-match between the silicon die and the organic polymer package. The underfill material is applied in a liquid form to flow between the silicon C4 bumps and the package substrate. A high-temperature oven cure is required to set the polymer. Several different underfill formulations and bump metals were examined. We found a correlation between the size of particles in the underfill material and silicon bump to package substrate joint reliability. Different underfill resins were tested. Resins causing a higher viscosity showed better reliability after a temperature cycle reliability test. We examined the potential package assembly cost savings using our three-step process. By eliminating process steps and shortening the cure time, a substantial cost savings can be realized. This paper describes an assembly technology that targets future-generation C4 flip-chip packaging. We report a method to combine silicon chip join and epoxy underfill processes in one step with a shorter underfill cure time. The process has fewer steps than the POR assembly process. The POR assembly is shown in Figure 1 with our new assembly process flow shown in Figure 2. Intel Technology Journal Q3, 2000 Simultaneous Chip-Join and Underfill Assembly Technology for Flip-Chip Packaging 2 Figure 1: Current (P856) chip join assembly process Figure 2: New one-step chip join assembly process MATERIALS AND PROCESS Materials Die Test die were used with different bump metal material. To obtain good adhesion between the bump material and die, a Ti/Au under bump metallurgy was used. Substrate The test substrate was an OLGA material with Sn/3.5Ag eutectic pre-solder paste. UF Material The no-flow-type underfill material provided by Nitto Denko was used in the testing. The UF properties of the first formulation are listed in Table 1[1]. Table 1: No-flow-type UF property


To define the role of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) for treatment planning, guidance and follow‐up in focal therapy for prostate cancer based on a multidisciplinary Delphi consensus project.


The role of nonstaggered conformations in polymethylenes and in vinyl polymers is discussed in some detail. In incorporating such conformations into rotational isomeric state treatments, it is essential to so choose rotational states as to assure equitable sampling of configuration space. Tacit identification of rotational states with minima in the conformation energy surface, a common practice at present, may lead to serious errors. The significance and limitations of conformational energy calculations are discussed. It is pointed out that the alleged discrepancy between theory and experiments on the spatial configurations of isotactic polymers of α-olefins in general and of polypropylene in particular is unsupported by valid experiments on polymers of established stereochemical constitution.


First Nations tricksters, Coyote and Raven, work to indigenize Environmental Education but run up against mainstream languages, technologies, and educational practices. They try to do an end-run around the cognitive backfield, then portage through marginal spaces, but find that working between Indigenous languages and mainstream ones can work best by being conversational and bringing in humour and ways of knowing that do not only privilege post-Enlightenment agency but use understandings that gesture toward localized Indigenous practices and changing West Coast (Canada) geographies.


Abstract In this paper, having or lacking a rotating, magnetic field, and a time-dependent source of heat on a two-dimensional homogeneous, isotropic, and thermoelastic half-space was illustrated. The governing equations were formulated in the considering Maxwell's stresses. The surface boundary settings were explored considering the thermoelasticity model of Green and Naghdi (type II). The techniques of the eigenvalue method and the normal mode analysis were utilized to resolve the non-dimensional coupled equations. We analyzed theoretically and computed numerically the rotation, time, wave number, frequency, and magnetic field. A comparison between having or lacking of the rotation was made with the results obtained. The displacement components, temperature, dilatation, and average of the normal stress were displayed in graphs to illustrate the physical meaning of the wavenumber, frequency, rotation, magnetic field, and time-dependent heat source. Normal stresses have been displayed graphically to show the physical meaning of the magnetic field, rotation, frequency, wave number, and time-dependent heat source. The results obtained show that having rotation, magnetic field, and time affects significantly eigenvalue issue, especially in astrophysics, aircraft, engineering, astronomy, petroleum extracting, and structures.


The aim of this study is to explore the classroom management techniques used in EFL classes by preparatory school teachers. To be more specific,  the study examines how effectively the teachers of EFL use classroom management techniques in their classes. The sample of the study consisted of 5 teachers from one preparatory school. The qualitative data analysis process has been used in this study to collect the data. In other words, the data were collected from five randomly selected participants by means of a 40-minute face-to-face interview of six open-ended questions. A qualitative method was used to analyze the obtained data as the researcher transcribed the responses so as to find out the common themes. The results of the study show that effective room management techniques, namely effective communication, the constant engagement of learners in activities, regular use of questions by teachers, use of behavior contracts, teachers acting as models of good behavior, and monitoring, are all used by the members of the sample. The study recommends that school administrators should regularly organize seminars that aim at training teachers on these classroom management techniques due to their important role in the teaching and learning process.


This edition of Public Management Review includes three papers that focus upon lessons for public management which arise out of health services management. For the last couple of decades, health services around the world have often been at the forefront of new developments in public management – from quality management to the introduction of contracts and internal markets into public services. The three articles included here re ect on key current issues both for health services and public management. Beth Kewell and her colleagues consider important new evidence about the nature of regional differences in the provision of cancer care services in the UK. They then use this to develop a theoretical argument about the isomorphic tendencies of public services, even in the face of apparent decentralization. Necia France and her colleagues then analyse the impact of imposed market reforms upon health services in New Zealand. Their conclusions are not optimistic for the impact of such reforms upon public services – they conclude that many of the market models are too simplistic to deal with the complex rationing and decision making aspects of health services. Finally Rebecca Surender and her group turn the microscope upon the current popularity of evidence based public services. They suggest a number of key factors that need to be managed if this is to be effective, particularly about the role of macro-systems and of human agency. Taken together, these articles make an important contribution from health services management and to public management in its broader context.


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We examine the health plan choices that 23,894 employees at a U.S. firm made from a large menu of options that differed only in financial cost-sharing and premium. These decisions provide a clear test of the predictions of the standard economic model of insurance choice in the absence of choice frictions because plans were priced so that nearly every plan with a lower deductible was financially dominated by an otherwise identical plan with a high deductible. We document that the majority of employees chose dominated plans, which resulted in excess spending equivalent to 24% of chosen plan premiums. Low-income employees were significantly more likely to choose dominated plans, and most employees did not switch into more financially efficient plans in the subsequent year. We show that the choice of dominated plans cannot be rationalized by standard risk preference or any expectations about health risk. Testing alternative explanations with a series of hypothetical-choice experiments, we find that the popularity of dominated plans was not primarily driven by the size and complexity of the plan menu, nor informed preferences for avoiding high deductibles, but by employees' lack of understanding of health insurance. Our findings challenge the standard practice of inferring risk preferences from insurance choices and raise doubts about the welfare benefits of health reforms that expand consumer choice.


Abstract The results of analytical investigation of the processes of the non-stationary flow of reference gases in long vacuum sections of equipment for mass spectrometric inspection of the leaktightness of large objects in rocket and space technology (RST) (liquid rocket engines and space systems) are presented. Relationships are derived for evaluating the duration of periods of non-stationary flow of helium in vacuum inspection systems, including long vacuum lines. The experimental results can be used to solve the problems of designing the vacuum system of mass spectrometric inspection of the leaktightness of large objects in RST.


The concepts of both child abuse and child neglect are social constructs that have developed differently in different times and places. Prior to the nineteenth century, very little was written on the subject of child maltreatment. Child abuse and a concern for children generally revolved around issues of the exploitation of children in the workplace. In industrialized countries such as Britain and the United States, this concern was expressed through labor laws. Beginning around 1819, Britain enacted a series of child labor laws meant to protect children (Tuttle 2001). While several states in the US had passed restrictions on child labor in the early 1800s, national regulations would not find their way into law until 1938 (29 USC §203[l] and 29 USC §212). And while these and subsequent laws indicate a growing appreciation for the plight of children in certain parts of the world, they are not indicative of a universal agreement about what constitutes child abuse and neglect. In certain instances, family violence or child abuse is not distinguished from other types of harm, but is covered by charging offenders under the applicable criminal code (e.g., the Canadian Criminal Code). The socially constructed definition of abuse and neglect thus suggests that a fair amount of cultural relativity pervades the issue as not all cultures recognized the same acts or omissions as harmful.

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ethics;
normative ethics;
children;
harm;
legislation and regulations


This research departs from academic anxiety that so far anti-corruption education materials in Indonesia only contain positive legal coverage. In addition, the definition of corruption in the existing anticorruption education material is still very limited, namely detrimental to state finances. This research answers how corruption is in Islamic law, how about anti-corruption education materials in Indonesia, and how the concept of integration of Islamic law in anti-corruption education in Indonesia. The results of this study are as follows: first, corruption in Islamic law is understood as including façade deeds that destroy the order of life, and the perpetrator is categorized as committing a major sin. Islam views corruption as a criminal act (Jarimah) which in fiqh jinayah includes elements that cause others to suffer losses. The forms of corruption in Islam include: al-ghulul, al-rishwah, al-ghaṣb, al-khiyanah, al-sariqah, al-hirabah, almax, and al-ikhtilas. Second, anti-corruption education is a conscious and planned effort to realize a critical teaching and learning process. Anti-corruption education material should not be limited to transfer of knowledge (cognitive), but emphasizes efforts to form character (affective) and moral awareness (morality consciousness) in fighting (psychomotor) against corruption, because it is substantially against the principle of justice (al'is), accountability (al-amanah), and responsibility. Keywords— Integration, Islamic Law, Anti-Corruption Education.


Conjugated polymers have attracted broad interest from synthetic chemists and device developers in optoelectronic fields. In this study, we report a blue-light organic photodetector (OPD) based on our low-band and ambipolar PSeN polymer. Besides high stability, the device has excellent color-selective property in the visible-light region. At the bias of -3 V, the ratio of the external quantum efficiency (EQE) in blue to red is more than 10:1. Meanwhile, the device also shows very low dark current density of ∼21 nA/cm2 and high EQE more than 100% for blue light at the bias of -3 V. Then, the mechanism of the high EQE in single-sensitive layer structure devices is analyzed by considering the activation energy of traps and carrier injection. Furthermore, for portable purposes, a flexible blue-light OPD is designed. This OPD shows a great orthogonal light response to blue and orange contents in a white light source and will be a potential candidate in a two-channel visible-light communication system.


The invention discloses the time resource allocation frequently method in the wireless communication system, which includes: A. the work bandwidth is divided into subbands greater than one, and every district selects at least one subband as the dominant frequency subband of this district, and the remainder is used as vice frequency subband of this district; B. distribute the dominant frequency subband of every district to the dispersion transmission of this district or concentrated transmission, distribute the vice frequent subband of every district to the dispersion transmission of this district or concentrated transmission. The invention also discloses the time resource allocation device of wireless communication system and basic station and wireless communication system using same. After using the invention, it can concentrate the dispersion transmission subband on the dominant frequency subband or vice subband as far as possible or, consequently when adopting soft frequency reuse, dispersion transmission user can take the frequency resource as many as possible, so, it can improve the diversity performance evidently.


A convenient process for the synthesis of 4-aryl-4-methyl- and 4,4-dimethyl-4 H -pyrrolo[2,1- c ][1,4]benzothiazines has been developed. Cyclization of 1-{2-[1-aryl(or methyl)ethenylsulfanyl]phenyl}pyrroles, which are readily obtained by an easy four-step sequence starting from commercially available 2-sulfanylbenzenamines, to the desired heterocycles can be effected in good to excellent yields on treatment with a catalytic amount of hydriodic acid.


As the development of mobile communication technology,GPRS is widely used.The paper provides a solution of Internet ac-cess over GPRS on Windows Embedded CE devices.The solution is based on RIL(Radio Interface Layer),which makes full use of the cellular communication architecture of Windows Embedded CE,and implements a better integration for GPRS data service with other cellular applications such as telephony,SMS,SIM manager and so on.In addition,it uses virtual serial ports emulated by GSM07.10 multi-plexer driver,which enhance the concurrency of cellular applications.At the same time,virtual port switch mechanism is used to establish PPP link correctly in RIL based solution,while design and implementation of a RAS dial up program is provided.


Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome (RTH) is a rare disorder characterized by reduced peripheral tissue responses to thyroid hormones (TH) and elevated levels of circulating free thyroid hormones. Resistance to thyroid hormone is caused by mutations of the thyroid hormone receptor beta (THRB) gene. In this article, we present case of 26-years-old women who presented with unclear signs and symptoms. Thyroid morphology and function were evaluated with standard ultrasound of the thyroid, scintigraphy and cytological specimen obtained by FNAB. The features of the basic assessment of thyroid status with an emphasis on the concept of "±feedback" of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and TH. A differential diagnosis of TSH-secreting pituitary adenoma and RTH was discussed. Heterozygous mutation p.P453T in the THRB gene was detected. Thus, the given clinical case demonstrates the necessity of the thorough examination of patients in identifying disorders of the principle of "±feedback". The observation in dynamics is recommended.


The Ammonic system of inbred mouse strains was examined with light and electron microscopic methods in order to determine whether genetically‐associated variations occur in the distribution of dentate granule cell synapses (mossy fiber boutons) upon the dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons in Regio Inferior. The results of this investigation showed that both qualitative and quantitative variations of the mossy fiber system occur among the strains examined. The most striking variation was seen in strain BALB/cJ. These mice are unique in that their mossy fibers do not form an appreciable infrapyramidal synaptic field, but form an extensive intrapyramidal synaptic field instead. In marked contrast, SM/J mice exhibit an extensive development of infrapyramidal mossy fiber boutons while their intrapyramidal mossy fiber synaptic field, when present at all, is limited to a very small portion of Regio Inferior adjacent to the hilus of Area Dentata.


Abstract A theoretical study of the diffusion of transition metal atoms in the layered CuFeS2 structure obtained when lithium atoms are totally removed from LiCuFeS2 has been carried out using first-principles, density functional theory based methods. The low activation energy calculated for the displacement of copper atoms into the interlayer region is suggested to be at the origin of the experimentally observed metastable character of the layered trigonal CuFeS2 phase.


Formalism puts emphasis upon that aesthetics is an experience and feeling toward life and things rather than recognition and claims that it should break the automation inertia of customary thought and feeling,deepen and extend the aesthetic experience and feelings toward life and things with the help of the defamiliarization in order to recover the simple and fresh feelings of life.QianZhong-shu was fully acquainted with the theory of defamiliarization of formalism and Chinese archaic rhetoric.Therefore,to pursue the alien effect of novel,he consciously paid much attention to the skill of literary representation when it came to literary creation;paid out much elaboration when it came to literal embellishment.Meanwhile,defamiliarization should be controlled to an appropriate"extent"and established on the base of familiarization,which can bring people aesthetic sense of novelty and stimulation,without causing the reading and understanding impairment which may result in resistant contemplation.


Automatic ultrasonic signal classification of 3D braided composites is finding increasing use in many applications for the interpretation of signals. In this paper, we present a method for ultrasonic A-scan image classification based on deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model. The ultrasonic signal data set was obtained from Olympus Omniscan MX2 and divided into training data set and test data set. The batch normalization layer and the inception layer followed by max pool layer are added to the CNN model, which can speed up convergence of the deep learning network and improve the accuracy. With CNN model used for training the signals with debongding and the non-defect signals, experimental results showed that the accuracy rate of the method we proposed in the test data set reached 99.55%, which was greatly improved compared with AlexNet model and ResNet-34 network.


The effect of various concentrations of lithium sulfate on human erythrocytes in vitro has been studied. It has been shown that the effect of lithium salt in maximum pharmacological and toxic concentrations on cells leads to a modification of the physicochemical state of membrane-bound proteins and lipids. It was found that in human erythrocytes exposed to lithium ions, there is a decrease in the activity of membrane-bound acetylcholinesterase and methgemoglobin reductase, as well as a change in the microviscosity of the lipid bilayer of membranes. The results obtained can be used to create a cell test system for assessing the toxicity of lithium compounds.


: Training personnel to operate extremely complex and expensive equipment requires a large monetary investment and takes lengthy periods of time. It goes without saying that careful planning is of the outmost importance. Such is the case for military pilots. The Pilot Production, Absorption, Retention Simulation (PARSim) model that was developed by the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA) simulates the flow of pilots from recruitment, through training, onto the operational training units and into the various operational fleets, accounting for attrition, instructor pilots and staff requirements. A key feature of the model is that it simulates the acquisition of experience, dynamically adjusting the experience acquisition rate in response to the existing experience level on the squadrons and the availability of resources. The model is a tool that can be used to perform what-if analysis quickly and easily. This paper describes the simulation model and reports on a study where the impact of high production combined with reduced budgets is analysed.


A measurement of the lifetime and capture rate of negative muons in various elements is reported. The timing system was calibrated in terms of the accurately known positive muon lifetime. The values obtained are in reasonable agreement with previous experimental data, and have a comparable accuracy.


Abstract : The question of how government employees received their news took on an increased importance with the downsizing of the military force and the subsequent reduction in budget. The disintegration of the former Soviet Union and allied Soviet Bloc countries, and the shifts to low-intensity conflict and peacekeeping missions are among the topics that have taken on increased importance to those associated with the military.


In this paper, we evaluate the performance of various channel-sharing schemes in the forward link from a base station (BS) to several mobile stations (MSs). Simultaneous transmission (broadcasting) to all mobile stations using the entire available bandwidth is known to yield rates dominating any other channel-sharing technique for Gaussian channels. However, broadcasting is very complicated from an implementation point of view. We analyze and compare different channel-sharing techniques on the basis of the asymptotic minimum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) per MS necessary at the BS to transmit to a certain set of MSs in a single cell at a common data rate. From our results we conclude that suboptimal but practical methods like two- or three-level superposition coding when used in conjunction with frequency division multiplexing perform sufficiently close to the optimum and hence, are good alternatives to the optimal broadcasting scheme.


Organic white LEDs are fabricated by using blue fluorescent Phenylpyridine Beryllium (BePP\-2), orange fluorescent rubrene, green fluorescent Aluminum complex (Alq\-3) as three primary\|color dyes. Diamine derivative is used as hole\|transporting material. The C.I.E coordinates of organic white LEDs are (0\^33,0\^36) at 7V, approaching the equal\|energy white point (0\^33,0\^33). At the applied voltage of 17V, the luminance of the device is up to 3000cd/m\+2 and luminous efficiency is about 0\^3lm/W.


The aim of this paper is to investigate internal and external determinants that impact the Net Interest Margin (NIM). The paper employs an OLS-PSCE procedure using quarterly Panel Data (From March 2013 to December 2019) for commercial banks in Kosovo. Results suggest that the Net Interest Margin is the banking sector in Kosovo is mostly influenced by factors within the bank such as: Loan-to-Deposit Ratio; Operation Costs and Fee Income, but less affected by external factors besides inflation. In addition, results suggest that external factors do not influence the net interest margin; therefore, a governmental policy intervention might not have an impact on Net Interest Margin. The results of the research are important for commercial banks in Kosovo, since they can help improve the efficiency through the internal and external indicators that are impacting the NIM.


A Large Helical Device (LHD) equilibrium is studied by using the three dimensional MHD equilibrium code HINT, which does not assume the existence of nested magnetic flux surfaces. Especially, effects of a net toroidal current on an LHD equilibrium with n = I islands are investigated because they are deeply related to the local island divertor operation, which is proposed to control the edge plasma of LHD. The edge control is one of key issues for the realization of steady state plasmas. To carry out this analysis we treat full torus calculations and modify the code. We show that an island structure with n = I is affected by an Ohmic-like toroidal current.


Chicken growth hormone ( GH ) receptor gene was isolated from a genomic library, and its promoter region and several exons have been sequenced. The coding fragments span about only 10 kilobase, nnliv^ the human GH receptor gene, which spans at least 87 kilobase. Sex-linked dwarfism m chicken is a recessive genetic disorder that is characterized bv undetectable levels of hepatic GH-binding activity and a mutation in the GH receptor gene. With the region specific DNA probes from our genomic cloning, characterization of the GH receptor gene indicates that sex-linked dwarf chickens have a deletion of approximately 2 kilobase portion in the intracellular domain of the receptor gene. These direct evidence demonstrate that sex-linked dwarfism could result from a defeat in the structural gene of the GH receptor gene in chicken.


Humoral immunity does not play a prominent role during experimental cryptococcosis. However, previous studies have shown that immunoglobulin G (IgG) anti-Cryptococcus neoformans antibodies can mediate cell-dependent yeast killing in vitro. Therefore, the protective effect of a previously described monoclonal IgGl anti-C. neoformans antibody (El) administered intraperitoneally 24 h before intravenous infection with a C. neoformans serotype A strain was evaluated in mice. Heavily infected (3 x 106 cells) untreated mice died in 2.9 ± 0.5 (standard deviation) days. Survival time was 17.9 + 1.6 days for mice treated with 100 jig of E1 and 3.0 + 0.7 days for mice treated with 100 ,ug of a monoclonal IgGl anti-thyroglobulin antibody used as a control. Protection was dose dependent and required at least 10 ,ug of El (mean antibody concentration in serum + standard deviation, 6.6 + 2.3 ,ug/mn). Insufficient concentrations of IgG anti-C. neoformans antibody could explain previous negative results obtained with polyclonal immune serum. After infection with a smaller inoculum (5 x 103 to 5 x 104), the protective effect of E1 was confirmed by the presence of fewer CFUs in the spleens and brains of treated mice than in those of controls. CFU were still detected in the brains of protected mice 5 days after infection, although soluble antigen was negative in sera. These results suggest that passive serotherapy with monoclonal IgG antibodies could participate in the prevention or treatment of experimental cryptococcosis.


Objectives: (a) To determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites among primary school children in AlTaameem province. (b) To show the distribution of intestinal parasites in rural and urban areas. (c) To determine the frequency of single and multiple infections. Design: General slool examinalion was carried on by more than one method to determine parasites among primary school children. Seffil~g: The sli~(ly was carried out in Public Health laboratory in Al-Taameem province, during the period fmrn April 1988 to May 1989. Participants: One thousand, six hundreds and eighty-one school children, aged 6-12 years were included in this study. Intervention: The stool specimens were collected frorn the primary school children and examined for intestinal parasites by direct and concentration (MIF) techniques. Scotch tape method was used for detection of Enterobius vennicularis infection for children who were complair~ing of itching. Main outcome measures: The prevalence of infection in urban and rural communities was estimated to krlow tile distribution and its causes using stitdent t-test and its significance at 95 O/O confidence. Results; Intesti~lal parasites were found in 680 children (40.45 %). The rate of infection in rural area (44.92 %) was higher tllan urban area (37.96 Oh). Males (42.73 %) had higher rale of infeclion than females (37.63 Oh). The intestinal parasites were Giardia lamblia (30 39%), Entamoeba histolytica (19.08%), Entamoeba coli (1 7.03%), Hymenalepis nana (1 1.3%), Enterobius vermicularis (10.47%), Ascaris lurnbricoides {3.3%), Tnchomonas homirlis (2.49%), Strongyloides stercoratis (1.46%), Taenia spp. (1.3%), Chilomastix rnesr~ili (0.73%), Ancylostoma duodenale (0.73%), Endotimax nana and Fasciota hepatica (0.44% far each) and lodamoeba butschili (0.29%). Double infections was detected in 69 samples (9.3s0/o), distribuled in urban (32) and rural (37) areas. Triple infections were detected in three samples from rural area (0.04 '/u) Conclusion: The prevalence of intestinal parasilic infedion is high among primary school children. The rate of infection in ri~ral area was higher than urban area. Males had higher rate of infection than females. Combined infections were more common in rural area.


Conservative characteristic aims at boosting care or attention to the surrounding environment. Learning science based on scientific approach is beneficial to find out the reasons and impacts exist in the environment through the process of observation, questionning, collecting and processing information, and communicating. This study aims at finding out the difference of improvement of conservative characteristic through science for beginner based on scientific approach on children from 5-6 years of age. Research method used is quantitative method while research design is experimental design through One Group Pretest-Posttest. The sample used is 30 children on the age of 5-6. Sampling technique used is purposive sample. The result of this research analyzed with Paired Sample t-Test is that the improvement of 38,9 in percentage 38% coming from average value of pre- test from 102,27 turning into 141,17 for posttest average score. The increase is started from 25 points up to 57 points. This increase is resulted from t-test with -tcount= -27,422 less than -ttable= -2,045 that is -2,045>-27,422 or 27,422>2,045 with significance value (2-tailed) by 0,00 < 0,05. This means that there is such significant difference on conservative characteristic through science for beginner based on scientific approach on children from 5-6 years of age in TK IT As-Shiddiqy Jepara.


Dunbar, Garud, and Raghuram (this issue) claim that managers must discredit their interpretive frames when these beliefs no longer match environmental circumstances. Extending this argument, they conclude that business schools should teach deframing skills to help managers periodically destroy old beliefs and create new ones. In contrast, we argue that managerial frames are neither accurate nor inaccurate and that a frame's fit with the external environment is largely irrelevant. Instead, we suggest that a firm's success is a function of its ability to impose frames on the environment and that consistency of purpose and a focused mindset are the keys to competitive advantage. Finally, we suggest that business education's primary task is to teach managers how to develop strategies that are based upon their firm's unique skills and to pursue these strategies relentlessly.


Presents a new algorithm for the estimation of optical flow from a monocular sequence of images using clustered trajectories in velocity-time. In the new algorithm, the objects in the scene may exhibit rotation and translation in all three dimensions. In addition, interframe displacement may be large-of the order of many pixels. It is assumed that there is a known upper bound on the magnitudes of the x and y components of interframe displacement. The authors conducted tests to compare the performance of the algorithm with that of two prior algorithms for optical flow estimation. They present the results of these tests. The results suggest that the algorithm is an improvement over prior algorithms in its ability to compute the optical flow field accurately under several commonly encountered scene conditions that have posed problems to earlier algorithms for optical flow estimation.<<ETX>>


Xue Shiheng was one of the Lingan Poets in the Ming dynasty and was ignored by the academia for a long period of time.His poetry was not so many,but in ancient style,with unique personality,showing strong adherents complex and fully expressing the poetic pursuit of"elegant sending".His limited prose reflected the poetic ideals of reiterating poetry traditions,pursuing ancient style,standardizing"airflow in Qujiang"and advocating the Han and Tang Dynasties poetry.He influenced the excavation of Lingnan's poems in the Ming dynasty and the establishment of its status;moreover,he played an important role in the formation and development of Lingnan School of Poetry.


In this research, a hybrid method of computerized adaptive test and individual remedial instruction is proposed. The computerized adaptive testing algorithm is based on students' item structure and the individual remedial instruction is designed by experts' knowledge structure and students' item structure. Computerized adaptive test is first administrated for diagnosing individual student's learning profile. Based on this profile, the adaptive individual remedial instruction process is constructed and administrated. The difference of pre-test and post-test shows that the proposed method can help students to improve their learning situations.


Abstract This paper presents a review of the most relevant articles on fire-resistant (FR) steels, as part of a research project at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) on the FR properties of steelstructures. An important characteristic of FR steels is that they maintain their mechanical properties at high temperatures better than the more widely used structural steels, mainly due to their special chemical composition and the thermal treatment used in their manufacture. The available information on FR steel tests has been analysed. All the data allow us to study the evolution of mechanical properties at different temperatures. We have, in particular, conducted a comparative evolution of the yield stress (YE) and the yield stress ratio (Ra) at different temperatures. A summary is also presented of the most important elements in their composition and the different manufacturing treatments of these steels and their influence on the initial YE and RA at different temperatures. For example, molybdenum and niobium improve the YE considerably at elevated temperatures. The alloy Cr–Mo–V–Nb is considered effective in FR steels and the use of boron is recommended, if an FR steelstructure is required to withstand temperatures higher than 700°C and to decrease the percentage of carbon. In view of the temperatures associated with manufacturing treatments, it should be recalled that although accelerated cooling, such as quenching, increases YE at room temperature and at high temperatures, it reduces the Ra of these steels. The most effective thermal treatment is air cooling, although special attention should be paid to the influence of slab reheating and the finish rolling temperature.


There have been a countless number of methods for computing the value of π , with some dating back to the period of Ancient Babylonians. In this paper, the authors investigate a one-dimensional scenario involving two balls and a wall, to enumerate the digits of pi. Several assumptions follow the scenario, one of which pertains to the perfectly elastic nature of collisions involved. Then, the paper proceeds to analyze the movement of the balls by transforming the movement of the balls into a coordinate plane. This was done through the usage of phase diagrams with regards to energy and momentum. The coordinate planes were expressed as vectors to proceed with the mathematical derivation, in which the small angle approximation for arctan(x) was proven through definite integration of inverse trigonometric functions and other graphical elements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 06-04-2020 Date of Acceptance: 20-04-2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


In this paper, we develop an algorithm to extract the parameters of a multipath model of an UWB channel from measurement-simulated data. To this end, we cast the parameter estimation problem into a standard model selection problem and apply the well known minimum description length principle to solve the model selection problem. Numerical results obtained based on the CM1 and CM2 models suggest that the proposed algorithm is effective


Competitor Analysis (CA) is an important part of the strategic planning process. By spying every move of the competitors offers a company an advantageous position in decision making. With the advent of World-Wide-Web technology, many businesses extend their activities to the Internet platform, from online marketing to customer services, thereby left over traces of valuable information for competitor analysis. The scattered information can be collected from the Web for studying what the competitors are doing and what products and services they offer up-to- date. In the past CA was conducted manually and it was a tedious process. The sources of such Web information are diversified and the contents are updated frequently too. It is therefore desirable to build an efficient and automated tool that gathers competitor information, monitors the updates and formulates them into useful competitor intelligence with minimum human intervention. Although many information retrieval and monitoring technologies have been developed, they are more for generally tracking changes and downloading the whole websites for offline browsing. In this paper, a framework of automated competitor analysis is proposed as a holistic solution. It is a Web monitoring tool that works for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. The designs of the components and the operational challenges are discussed respectively. Index Terms—competitor analysis; Web information; Information system design


The article deals with the problems of education in the context of modern globalization, namely the organization of personalized student distance learning. A special approach is proposed on the decision making support in the distance learning educational service management. It is based on the selection of educational strategy that takes into account individual characteristics of the recipient of educational services. The article studies the methods on how to determine the distance learning student expertise profile which contains information on the student's aptitude for distance learning, their knowledge and representative system, followed by classification of students according to the profile data and the expert's opinion. An individual study plan will be developed for each student according to the analysis of the student profile data which is the main priority of the personalized educational service approach. The article analyzes the specifics of the distance education, its pros and cons, identifies existing problems. A special approach has been developed to determine the profile of a student taking into account their individual characteristics so as to determine the informational, functional and structural aspects of the system and define its requirements. There is a special approach on classifying distance learning students using a fuzzy logic method that allows for the subjectivity of the student profile data. This method and the collective expert opinion help to reduce the subjective influence in assessing the student profile. 2357-1330 © 2020 Published by European Publisher.


A rotor wheel for a gas turbine rotor has a first side having a plurality of curved paddles separated by a plurality of curved slots and a second side having a plurality of radial paddles separated by a plurality of radial slots. A method of purging a rotor of a gas turbine includes providing a flow of compressed air between adjacent rotor wheels of the rotor in a radially downward direction on a first side of each wheel and in a radially upward direction on a second side of each wheel; passing the flow through a curved slots on the first side of each rotor wheel; and passing the flow through radial slots on the second side of each rotor wheel.


The author of the publication presents issues connected to consumer 3.0 and presents a set of characteristics peculiar to the modern consumer. The article has a conceptual character. The basis for the research part of the paper are qualitative examinations conducted on a research group of suitably selected physically disabled consumers living in the Lubelskie Region. The achieved results authorize to express the thesis that comparatively younger physically disabled consumers share common features, as well as display the sequence of behaviours that allow to categorize them as consumers 3.0.


The current work is devoted to the investigation of relationships in creep of timber beams under natural (uncontrolled) environmental conditions and is aimed to define an appropriate mathematical model for the prediction of final deformation after some loading cycles. The presented creep model is a new version of the known Burger body concept. The proposed model has been numerically tested by estimates obtained from four-point bending tests in static loading of pine (Pinus Sylvestris) beams. There are two different loading regimes applied in testing: full load for 65 days (winter season) and half load for spring and summer seasons (220 days). It has been verified that the proposed model fits well with experimental results and may be used as appropriate for bending strain prediction in timber beams under natural environmental conditions with possible improvements in the future.


Abstract : Analytic evaluation of 'typical' Army cables demonstrates the coupling due to nuclear source-region EMP is sufficient to cause dielectric breakdown of the cable jacket dielectric, the air surrounding the cable, and, in some cases, the soil itself. The result of these nonlinearities is to greatly increase the late-time current that can be coupled into systems. The report presents the current waveforms induced on RG-8 and RG-58 cables exposed to high -altitude and source-region EMP environments over lengths of 100, 600, and 280 m. Experiments are suggested for validating some of the code assumptions.


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Jacobsthal's function was recently generalised for the case of paired progressions. It was proven that a specific bound of this function is sufficient for the truth of Goldbach's conjecture and of the prime pairs conjecture as well. We extended and adapted algorithms described for the computation of the common Jacobsthal function, and computed respective function values of the paired Jacobsthal function for primorial numbers for primes up to 73. All these values fulfil the conjectured specific bound. In addition to this note, we provide a detailed review of the algorithmic approaches and the complete computational results in ancillary files.