The class of entangled N-qubit states known as graph states, and the corresponding stabilizer groups of N-qubit Pauli observables, have found a wide range of applications in quantum information processing and the foundations of quantum mechanics. A review of the properties of graph states is given and core spaces of graph states are introduced and discussed. A bonding model of entanglement for generalized graph states is then presented, in which the presence or absence of a bond between two qubits unequivocally specifies whether or not they are entangled. A physical interpretation of these bonds is given, along with a characterization of how they can be created or destroyed by entangling unitary operations and how they can be destroyed by local Pauli measurements. It is shown that local unitary operations do not affect the bond structure of a graph state, and therefore that if two graph states have nonisomorphic bond structures, then local unitary operations and/or reordering of qubits cannot change one into the other. Color multigraphs are introduced to depict the bond structures of graph states and to make some of their properties more apparent.


Neurons have recently emerged as essential cellular constituents of the tumor microenvironment, where their activity increases the growth of a diverse number of solid tumors. While the role of neurons in tumor progression has been previously demonstrated, the importance of neuronal activity to tumor initiation is less clear, particularly in the setting of cancer predisposition syndromes. In the Neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) cancer predisposition syndrome, in which tumors arise in close association with nerves, 15% of individuals develop low-grade neoplasms of the optic pathway (optic pathway gliomas [OPGs]), during early childhood, raising the intriguing possibility that postnatal light-induced optic nerve activity drives tumor initiation. Here, we employ an authenticated murine model of Nf1-OPG to demonstrate that stimulation of optic nerve activity increases optic glioma growth, while decreasing visual experience via light deprivation prevents tumor formation and maintenance. We show that Nf1-OPG initiation depends on visual experience during a developmental period susceptible to tumorigenesis. Germline Nf1 mutation in retinal neurons results in aberrantly high optic nerve neuroligin-3 (Nlgn3) shedding in response to retinal neuronal activity. Moreover, genetic Nlgn3 loss or pharmacological inhibition of Nlgn3 shedding blocks murine Nf1 optic gliomagenesis and progression. Collectively, these studies establish an obligate role for neuronal activity in the development of certain brain tumors, elucidate a therapeutic strategy to reduce OPG incidence or mitigate tumor progression, and underscore the role of Nf1 mutation-mediated dysregulation of neuronal signaling pathways in the NF1 cancer predisposition syndrome.


This study aims to find out how the potential articles in the Mathematics Education Study Program at the Faculty of Science and Technology UIN Sunan Kalijaga to be published in the nationa l journal of accreditation and international journal. The type of research used in this study is qualitative research with a case study approach. The sample in this study are 25 articles selected from a total of 247 articles in the population. The research instruments use d in this study includ e article rating scales, interview guidelines, and observation guidelines. Data triangulation is done to test the validity of the data obtained. The data analysis technique use d in this study is descriptive quantitative and qualitative descriptive. The results showe s that (1) articles written by students of the Mathematics Education Study Program at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta have high potential to be published in reputable national journals and international journals in the abstract, preliminary aspects, aspects of research methods, outcome aspects, discussion, and conclusions, as well as aspects of language and display format; (2) articles written by students of the Mathematics Education Study Program at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta have the potential to be published in reputable national and international journals in the library aspect.


Juvenile western king prawn P. latisulcatus were fed 105 colony-forming units (CFU)/mL of two probiotics Pseudomonas synxantha and P. aeruginosa for 28 days. P. latisulcatus were then challenged with V. harveyi at 0 (control), 103, 105, and 107 CFU/mL. During the seven days of challenge, disease resistance of the probiotic-fed prawns was compared with that of prawns not fed probiotics. The immunological responses of the prawns did not improve during the challenge period in terms of total haemocyte count, hyalinocyte, semi-ganulocyte, granulocyte, clotting time, bacteraemia, and intestinal bacterial load. Overall, when prawns were challenged with V. harveyi, the LT50 values got shorter as V. harveyi concentration increased. LT50 values of prawns fed probiotics were significantly longer (P < 0.05) than those not fed probiotics. At a V. harveyi concentration of 103 CFU/mL, the 100% survival of the prawns fed probiotics was three times more likely than those of the prawns not fed probiotics.


X ray film is usually used for detecting the crack of the metal in the industry field, but it is inefficient and fallible for men to distinguish the crack from the noise background if the number of the X ray film is so many. In this paper, a very applied method based on the matched filtering is proposed. To realize the method, matched filtering the origin image, and then edge detecting. In order to realize the effect of the method , the crack will be measured and the edge of the crack will be marked with red color. According to the simulation, the method is feasible and reliable.


Internet is a great medium that allows us to share knowledge with people from all over the world. On the other hand, information from the internet is unreliable because one cannot tell whether it was provided by an expert or a novice. In many cases it does not matter because everybody has the right to his/her opinion about for example a video clip. However there are situations when the credibility of the information is vitally important. Often one wants to find a solution to an important problem, therefore she/he needs some method to ignore jokes, spam and wrong answers by unexperienced users and consider only credible answers. We have designed Asymptotic Trust Algorithm (ATA) to manage users' reputation in customer-to-customer environment like auction sites. In this paper we present an adaptation of ATA which allows to managed reputation of users of internet forums. We belive that our method will be useful for every internet forum which cares about reliability.


The nickel – nickel oxide electrode forms the positive plate in the charged nickel–cadmium battery. After "charging" the electrode to a chemical state represented by the non-structural formula NiOx...


Automatic parallel parking is critical to increase safety in urban narrow parking spots, maximize the traffic efficiency, and provide human drivers with mobility and convenience. Recent research integrates Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) to calculate optimal lateral motions without considering the longitudinal aspect and narrow spots; advances in nonlinear programming-based (NPB) parking methods consider time-optimal parking motion in narrow spots using the time-consuming optimization calculation. To address the computational efficiency of the planning of time-optimal parking maneuvers, a complete framework relying on the two compositions was introduced. First, nonlinear optimization that formulates the minimum motion time and vehicle constraint was used to generate the data of parking motions offline. These motions were subsequently learned by ANNs. Second, the ANNs trained on the offline data were employed by an improved MCTS to generate approximate time-optimal parking motions online. The time-optimized performance and run-time performance of the proposed method were confirmed by comparing with that of NPB and other mainstream methods. A success rate of 100% for parking slots with merely 10% larger length than the vehicle was realized in simulations. Experiments were conducted on a full-sized pure electric vehicle to further confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Due to the sensori-motor impairments, delayed physical development and functional activity limitations that characterize pediatric neurological conditions, physiotherapy plays an important role in facilitating recovery, minimizing secondary complications, and maximizing functional ability and the Health-related Quality of Life of affected children. This book reviewed records of all neurological conditions seen over a 3–year period at the physiotherapy clinic of a children's hospital in Nigeria. In decreasing order, cerebral palsy, injection-induced sciatic nerve palsy and obstetric brachial plexus palsy were the three most common conditions. The predominance of these potentially preventable pediatric neurological conditions as reported in this book has implications for more public health efforts, standardization of health care delivery, and formulation and implementation of relevant government policies required to address issues of maternal and child health.


The effects of vocalized tests (T) on paired-associate learning were compared with those of silent tests (t) and of blank (B, no test) trials by using six conditions, each repeating a pattern of six cycles including one study (reinforcement, R) trial: RT'111TT, RTtttT, RTtttt, RttttT, Rttttt, and RBBBBB. Vocalized tests facilitated short-term performance within a pattern, but not longer-term overall performance. Silent tests were similar to blank trials in failing to prevent forgetting but similar to vocalized tests in potentiating the effectiveness of subsequent study trials. Distinguishing the short-term effects of vocalization from its longer-term effects permits a reconciliation of its apparently inconsistent outcomes in the study, retention, and test phases of learning as well as rehearsal.


If one were to ask administrators over the years has been devoted to the and teachers what criticisms they "missionary" task of preaching the might level against counselors, unphilosophy of individual differences— doubtedly their complaints could be to the detriment of the original special summed up in the statement that counservices he was to provide (Blocher, selors fail to make any significant conTennyson, & Johnson, 1963). tribution to the organizational enterThe counselor's commitment to prise. This is not to say that they do principles of individual differences has not "do good," as defined in the counfostered an approach to his own tasks selor's own terms, but rather that adthat neglects much that has been ministrators and, perhaps more so, learned from social psychology. Social teachers cannot see where the counpsychology is mainly concerned with selor's efforts have any significant understanding how people relate with impact upon the school's raison one another. In an institutional set d'etre—namely, education. ting such as a school, role theory lends The question repeatedly raised is: itself admirably to the task of under What role does the counselor play in standing social behavior, the organizational enterprise of eduConsequently, when one views the eating students? There have been role of the counselor within this con many soul-searching attempts to ceptual framework, one looks for those answer this. One suggestion has been role relationships that tie his position that much of the counselor's energy t0 other positions within the organi zation. The frequency and importance of these relationships with members


High speed,light weight and low energy consumption have become the major goals for the car manufacturers all over the world.Besides the light weight,good tailorable and mechanical performances,natural fiber reinforced composites(NFRCs) have environment-friendly property.The major objective of this paper is to investigate the dynamic characteristics of the vehicles whose body parts are made from NFRCs.The free interface component mode synthesis method was employed to set up the dynamic system model possessing nonlinear and coupled rigid -elastic properties.Then the vibration characteristics of the vehicle under different road and engine excitation conditions were simulated in time-history.The obtained results were compared with those of vehicles having steel body parts.Based on the above study,the design principle of vehicle bodies made by NFRCs was proposed.This would provide theoretical basis for the large scale applications of NFRCs in automobile industry.


Agriculture is extremely important when it comes to the economy of India. Agriculture provides a livelihood for more than 50% of the population of India. Due to the increase in population, the demand for food has also increased and in order to meet this demand, there is a strong need to grow the crops in the particular area where they are best suited considering various factors that affect the crop growth. Aim of the study is to provide scientific support to farmers to grow a suitable crop by analysing the soil/land characteristics using Geospatial techniques. To analyse the appropriate crops in the study area various factors were considered, these are soil texture, soil drainage, soil depth, soil moisture, the slope of the land, and other nutrient checks for pH, organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. By studying the importance of each factor on crop growth, suitability is calculated. The web-based model is created to work on dynamic data and provide results accordingly. With the help of this result, we can do better and planned farming as we get to know the suitable crop and with all the right conditions and this in turn will help to get an increase in production per hectare.


Artificial recharge is a practical tool available for increasing the groundwater storage capacity. The efficiency of artificial recharge is related to various hydrogeological factors of the target area. In this study, a variable saturated groundwater flow model, FEMWATER, was used to evaluate the arrival times of recharged water that infiltrates from an artificial recharge pond to the groundwater table under various hydrogeological conditions. Forty-five arrival times were generated by FEMWATER. The relationships between the arrival times and hydrogeological factors used in the simulation of FEMWATER were analyzed by the grey correlation method. The results show the order of importance of the factors as they influence the arrival time. In order from high to low importance, they are a, Dg, h e, Dp, KS and b. Dg and Dp are interpreted as the potential for movement of the recharge water; he is the water storage capacity of soil, and KS represents the ability of soil to transport water. a and b describe the characteristic curve of the unsaturated soil. The method was applied to evaluate a suitable site for artificial recharge in the Yun-Lin area. Grey correlation analysis was performed to obtain the grey correlation grade using the minimum arrival time as a reference sequence. An index is proposed herein to determine the recharge efficiency of 20 sampling sites. A contour mapping of index values at the 20 sampling sites identified three areas for artificial aquifer recharge in Yun-Lin. Area A in the upper plain is considered more appropriate for groundwater recharge than areas B and C in the coast.


This study was factorial experimental research to determine melamine from hot, and cold plastic bags contaminated in warmed food at 100°C for 2-10 minutes, to determine melamine from hot plastic bags contaminated in fried food, and contaminated melamine from hot and cold plastic bags in general distributed food. The total food sample was 368 samples. The melamine examined by test kit of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jowaman Khaiarem. The result found melamine 0.04 ppm in warmed fatty food put in less thick hot plastic bags for 6-10 minutes, less thick cold plastic bags for 6 minutes, in fried food put in less thick hot plastic bags, and general sale food. The melamine levels in these foods were not higher than standard (2.5 mg/kg or ppm). However, warmed food under high temperature, long time, plastic bags type, thickness of plastic bags, and plastic type could result in increasing melamine contamination. In addition, if consumers received melamine continuously, their health may be at risk. Keyword: Melamine, Contamination, Plastic bags


Retinal embolism was produced in the owl monkey with autologous fibrin clot and the resultant damage studied by high speed fluorescein cinematography. Pictures were taken at 64 frames per second with 16-mm film and 24 frames per second with 35-mm film. The pattern of retrograde collateral flow was followed as it occurred. Often, emboli were present in the retinal arteries which were not observed until contrast studies were performed. Fibrin clot appeared to cause endothelial damage during passage, which was manifested by fluorescein leakage from arteries.


AS THOMAS EDGAR NOTES IN The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, some women in the early modern period were able to "shift it well enough" (6); nevertheless, in law they were generally subject to their husbands and fathers and encouraged--at least by conduct book writers and preachers--to listen to these men as figures of male authority. (1) At the same time, women were warned to guard their ears and "stop" them from hearing "dishonestie" (Overbury C4), as it was feared, thanks to the traditional commentary on Eve's role in the Fall, that women were more likely to be corrupted--and therefore to corrupt men--if they heard subversive or inappropriate ideas. These fears were most often expressed not as concerns over male speech but as unease about the female desire to listen, what Othello calls, in reference to Desdemona, her "greedy ear" (Othello 1.3.148), and appear connected to views of female sexuality. A number of critics, including Peter Stallybrass, Lynda Boose, and Douglas Bruster, discuss the link between the mouth and the vagina and the association between speech and sexual licentiousness in the period, and Linda Woodbridge notes the long-time connection between the ear and the vagina (Woodbridge 55). However, the link between all three orifices, the ear, mouth, and vagina, is often overlooked because of the current tendency to view ears as passive, ever-open orifices (Kilgour 131). In contrast, in the early modern period, ears, like mouths and vaginas, were regarded not only as passive openings through which the body could be penetrated, but also as sites through which desire could be expressed. I therefore wish to explore how these three orifices were constructed as sites of female desire and how this construction is revealed through the character of Anne Frankford in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness. Not only are the ear and mouth connected as one hears the speech the other produces, but they are also linked through the analogy of speech to food, an association common in the early modern period. (2) The idea of speech as "nourishment of the soule" (Primaudaye 126) was most fruitful for Protestant preachers who clearly had a vested interest in encouraging people to take in and digest the spoken word, at least when they were preaching. (3) According to these preachers, an open ear is necessary for both faith and obedience and those who exhibit a closed ear, who refuse to listen to God's word (or to God's earthly representatives), are ungodly. Protestant and Catholic writers alike revered the Virgin Mary as the ideal listener because she attended to and believed what she heard, bearing God's son (the Word made flesh) as a result (Hassel 54-55, 69-72). They insisted that this type of hearing was necessary for faithful, "fruitful" obedience. In contrast, Eve was deemed the epitome of an unfruitful hearer not only because she failed to maintain belief in God's word, accepting what the serpent said over God's earlier directive, but also because her act of listening brought the antithesis of fruitfulness--death--into the world. While Protestant ministers encouraged their congregations (and readers) to hunger for God's word and to incorporate it into their bodies so that they, like the Virgin Mary, might be transformed, preachers were also aware of how other voices could interfere with digestion. As Eve discovered, what the devil and the world say is often more appealing than what God says. Robert Wilkinson writes, "The diuel calleth by temptation and yee yeelde vnto it, the worlde calleth and ye listen to it, the fleshe calleth and ye come to it, but the worship of God calleth and ye care not for it" (B[V.sup.v]). Such an ear, according to Richard Crooke, is an "adulterous Eare" (Egerton A[4.sup.r-v]). (4) Moreover, he specifically associates these adulterous ears with transgressive female sexual desire, for they are known "as the Harlot is knowne, they are euer gadding to seeke their new Louers" (A[5. …


Quality records and the fracibility of components are important but difficult parts in manufacturing process. In order to improve production quality and productivity, now barcode management system can be used to resolve these question.


In this work, a bi-level Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation process was implemented to design the propulsion system of a single stage HTOHL spaceplane. The test case used as a reference for dimensions and aerodynamics is the CFASTT-1, a reusable launch vehicle developed for a SSTO mission whose concept is similar to the most recent ongoing project Skylon. The engine modelisation was carried out through HyPro, a medium-fidelity modular model which employs the equations of fluid dynamics to design the main components of a hybrid engine in all its configurations, airbreathing (ejector ramjet, ramjet and scramjet) and rocket. Due to its complexity, though, HyPro is too computationally expensive for the MDO process, so Surrogate Models were used instead. Once set the range of work of the four configurations, HyPro was used to create a database for each engine, inclusive of significative and uniformly distributed values of Mach, altitude and the sensitive areas, i.e. those cross sectional areas of the modules which most affect the thrust and mass flow output in each engine mode. These databases were the training sets for the Surrogate Models: neural networks specifically trained on the HyPro models data but much cheaper and more suitable for a process involving multiple iterations. The main objective of the MDO process is to optimise the propulsion system for a given mission profile: an inner loop solves the control problem and finds the optimal trajectory, an outer loop optimises the engine performances, i.e. its thrust, mass flow, and volume (and, as a consequence, its weight). The target driving the whole optimisation process is the objective function, which can be modified according to the purposes of the design process. In this specific case, the goal was to maximise the payload of the mission, thus finding the optimum hybrid propulsion system. This process was tested on a typical SSTO mission profile for access to space. Acknowledgements First of all, my gratitude goes to both my supervisor prof. Paolo Maggiore and co-supervisor prof. Edmondo Minisci for the opportunity I had to be a part of this project at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I am particularly thankful for prof. Minisci's dedication and help, this experience gave me the chance to learn so much and I could not be more grateful for everything he taught me and encouraged me to delve into on my own. I wish to thank prof. Ian Taylor and PhD student Mark De Luca from Glasgow University, communication and confrontation with them was extremely important in the first part of my work, especially for what regards the software HyPro and its features. Last but not least, I am extremely thankful for the ICE Lab team members, who made me feel welcome right from the beginning and never failed to give me a piece of advice when I needed one. Working with them and being in touch with them, even if just through a webcam, was the incentive I needed in these strange and difficult times to keep on studying and doing my best. Ad maiora!


Proclus, while interpreting the dialectical method of the Parmenides, makes the astonishing claim that Aristotle at Prior Analytics I 27 had imitated Plato here, but that, of course, what Plato laid out was more complete. This remark is important in three ways: first, this is the only surviving case where a connection is made between the Neoplatonic interpretation of the method of the Parmenides and Aristotle's Analytics; second, it provides a key to understand how Proclus interpreted the method; third, it reveals the increasing comfort – or decreasing antagonism – the later Neoplatonists had towards Aristotle. What I would like to do is to examine how Alexander interprets this passage, and in particular I will examine his development of per se predication here, how Proclus develops this in the context of the Parmenidean method and compare this to Philoponus' commentary on this passage.


The invention relates to a manufacturing method of a flexible normal-pressure heat pipe, which is characterized by adopting copper foil and aluminum foil as materials of the heat pipe; merging the selected materials into a flat space, using an adhesive for adhesion and only leaving one exhaust port; extruding the flat space for removing non-condensable gas in the heat pipe; adding a working substance which is suitable for the environment for hermetical adhesion; adding rigid heat conductors in an evaporation section and a condensation section; leading the outer walls to be in full contact with the inner walls of the rigid heat conductors after expanding the evaporation section and the condensation section; adding thermal insulation pipes in a heat transfer section or a separated type heatpipe condensate reflux pipe and an evaporation and transportation pipe; leading the outer walls to be in full contact with the inner walls of the thermal insulation pipes after expanding the heat transfer section or the separated type heat pipe condensate reflux pipe and the evaporation and transportation pipe; and connecting the rigid heat conductors with the thermal insulation pipes. The manufacturing method can solve the problems that the existing heat pump vacuum pumping process steps are complicated, vacuum negative pressure is greatly limited by the thickness and the shape of the selected materials, the range of applications of the heat pipe is small, and the cost of the required materials is high.


Plastic waste production is a global challenging problem since its accumulation in the environment is causing devastating effects on the planet's ecosystem. Sustainable and green solutions are urgently needed, and this pairs with increasingly stronger regulations combined with improved ecological awareness. This study proposes a simple, scalable and water-based process to produce free-standing, transparent and flexible bioplastic films by combining amyloid fibrils with biodegradable polymers as two main building blocks. Amyloid fibrils can be obtained through denaturation and self-assembly from a broad class of food proteins found in milk, soy, and egg, for example. Whey is used here as a model protein, since it is the major by-product of dairy industries, and its valorization creates a valuable opportunity to produce sustainable, biodegradable, and environmentally friendly bioplastics perfectly integrated within a circular economy. Against this background, we highlight the sustainability superiority of these bioplastics over common plastics and bioplastic via a detailed life cycle assessment, anticipating an important role of this new class of bioplastics in mitigating the pressing plastic pollution challenge.


The exhibition Venice, the Jews, and Europe: 1516-2016 organized on the occasion of the fifth centenary of the creation of the Venice Ghetto aimed to describe the many processes that led to the creation, implementation, and transformation of the first 'fence' for Jews in the world (Calabi, 2016). The Ghetto represented a city within the city, as has often been pointed out, an area that was completely self-sufficient and autonomous. Within its precincts, Jews of different nations gradually established the social and economic structures vital to community life.


AbstractUsing a real-time prediction model of lane-based queue lengths, the authors predicted the lane-based delay using real-time prediction of the incremental queue accumulation (IQA), which can ...


Photodynamic therapy is an effective treatment for actinic keratoses. Nevertheless, severe pain during the procedure is a serious adverse effect, which leads to interruption or even termination. Complete pain relief remains a difficult challenge.


To confront with the adverse conditions of the world, human being built the first tools and because of that his contact with the world became mediated and he distanced himself from the environment around him. In order to avoid the feeling of loneliness he turned to sorcery, so that the myth emerged; he found explanations for phenomena among the gods. Man realized that even being part of the world he set himself apart from it when started to think, by doing an activity that distinguish himself from the others. The search for the thinks that he couldn't see led him into thinking about water, earth, air and fire; elements that were inert and couldn't reflect upon themselves. He built tools for survival and had to find concepts for his understanding. He practiced science to build models that simulated the world. To measure the height of the pyramids of Egypt, Thales of Miletus built a simulacra with a measuring stick and measured his shadow, then repeated the operation with the shadow of the pyramid and used the rule of proportionality to determine its actual height, from then he created a rule which became the new universal parameter concerning relative experimental conditions. The Wise creates science, they establish universal laws that don't explain the universe, on the contrary, raise more doubts over it, but by these approximations, between the rules related to the conditions of their making and the field experiment. A open slit is set up through which man can access the world, and if not controls it or incorporates it, at least establishing a communication channel. The Greeks were not wise, but friendly. Facing the helplessness of finding themselves disconnected with the environment, and intending to be masters of the world, they sought not only transcendence but also invented palpable organisms to connect them to the surroundings. Man saw a model for experimenting in the world and from it he drew out rules that express truths, wisdom and knowledge, those which justify a supported concept. So man fabricated concepts. He became a friend of the concepts, thereby a friend of his own creation. In a world of equals friendship eased the strangeness of the world, other man's friends became friends of their creations and the creations of others. Man also became a philosopher. Surrounded by magic, dominated by the charm of the gods, the world's organizers, man also produced artifacts to communicate with the epiphany world. He created forms from pervasive feelings and dispersed sensations; specific forms that not only expressed their fears, desires, needs and oddities, but also that carried feelings of their peers.


Objective: In the present study, the main objective is to improve solubility and bioavailability of Quetiapine fumarate by formulation into micro emulsion. Method: The Quetiapine fumarate micro emulsion was formulated by using mixture of Isopropyl myristate and oleic acid as oil phase, Tween-80 as surfactant, Isopropyl alcohol and Ethanol mixture as co-surfactant by phase titration method. The prepared formulations were evaluated for Limpidity (% transmittance), droplet size, Zeta potential, Electrical conductivity, Rheology, pH, percentage of drug (assay), emulsifying time, in vitro drug diffusion studies and ex vivo permeation studies. Results and conclusion: The Optimized micro emulsion (Micro emulsion 11) formulation containing Quetiapine fumarate (25mg), Surfactant mixture (50%w/w), Oil (12%w/w) and distilled water (38%w/w) has a droplet size of 26.70 nm with a zeta potential of -5.62 millivolts. The micro emulsion was characterized and compared with the pure drug suspension. Microemulsion showed 31.25 fold increased solubility than that of pure drug suspension. In vitro drug release and ex vivo permeation study results were comparable and correlative. The Microemulsion 11 formulation showed 1.4763 times more drug release than that of pure drug suspension. The formulation was found to be stable for three months. Keywords: Microemulsion, Phase titration method, Quetiapine Fumarate,  Emulsifying time.


ABSTRACT With its intense drama and marked eroticism, the story of Judith's slaying of Holofernes was often represented in baroque visual art and music. The overwhelming majority of musical representations are found in oratorios, with only three cantatas known to have been devoted to the subject. The oratorio's dramatic framework was suited for emphasizing Judith's multifaceted figure through character depiction, contrast and conflict, while the cantata's epic nature and lack of direct character intervention made staging conflict in that genre more difficult. Yet precisely because of these limitations, the cantata constitutes a revealing case study for exploring the strategies composers employed to give agency to Judith. This article focuses on the baroque cantata settings of the Judith story by Sébastien de Brossard and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (both from about 1708, both based on a text by La Motte). To illustrate their differing perspectives on Judith, I employ the concept of focalization – used in literary theory to mean point of view or filtered perspective – as a theoretical framework. The well-known Judith paintings by Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi (the so-called Uffizi Judith) provide a lucid example of focalization through the differing perspectives of the two maidservants and offer a valuable methodological tool for understanding the two differing compositional approaches. Whereas Brossard follows La Motte's narrative dutifully by emphasizing swiftness of action at the expense of character depiction, Jacquet de La Guerre bypasses it through instrumental accompaniments and independent symphonies that give voice to Judith, despite a text that downplays her character.


A novel alloying technique to form ohmic contacts on SiC using a high power YAG pulse laser in room temperature atmosphere is described for the first time. Very low contact resistivity of 4 x 10{sup -5} {Omega}.cm{sup 2} has been achieved on n-type (4.2 x 10{sup 18} cm{sup -3}) 6H-SiC with Ti metal. A lateral Schottky diode fabricated by the new method demonstrates excellent electrical properties. (orig.) 6 refs.


Cross-hybridizations between Glebionis coronalia (L.) Spach and G. segetum (L.) Fourr., G. coronalia and Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. and G. segetum and L. vulgare by using ovule culture were successfully made the hybrid seedlings. RAPD primer OPA20 was found to isolate respective bands specific to G. coronalia, G. segetum, and L. vulgare. The F1 hybrids between G. coronalia and L. vulgare and G. segetum and L. vulgare showed morphologically rather the maternal-side leaf characters.


Nighttime light remote sensing data is regarded as an important data that can be used to measure human socioeconomic activities. Because of the positive correlation between long time-series nighttime light data and economic development, long time-series nighttime light data can be used to construct GDP forecasting models to predict GDP. However, there are different temporal resolutions, measurement standards, and errors due to different sources of nighttime light data. How to eliminate the data errors and the differences between different data sources to construct a reliable long time-series nighttime light data is currently a major problem. In addition, different GDP forecasting models have different applicable conditions and forecasting accuracy. How to choose the optimal GDP forecasting model is another major problem. In this paper, data errors and differences are dealt with at first to obtain long time-series nighttime light data that can be quantitatively analyzed. Then, the advantages and disadvantages of different GDP forecasting models are analyzed and compared. The main contents of this paper are as follows.


Objective: The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of a digital self-care intervention during the Covid-19 pandemic on the control of hypertension and diabetes in low-income populations comorbid with these conditions. Design and method: This was a retrospective study of 665 people in Nigeria (213 male, 431 female. Mean age - 58 years) with comorbid diabetes and hypertension enrolled on mDoc's digital self-care CompleteHealth™ platform from March 2020 till November 2021. Through the virtual platform, they were able to track their blood pressure and fasting blood glucose levels as well as co-create action plans with goals suited to achieve the best health outcomes with a virtual health coach. They were given personalised guidance and health education to help control their conditions. The change in blood pressure and fasting blood glucose level was calculated as the difference between the baseline value of the metric (the first value entered on CompleteHealth™) and the average of subsequent values entered on the platform. Results: 600 people (90.2%) had at least 1 interaction with a virtual health coach for a total of 10,030 interactions with the coach-led multidisciplinary team. Of the 665 people included in the study, 407 (61,2%) entered a subsequent blood pressure value, with systolic and diastolic blood pressure declining by an average of 6.25 mmHg and 4.27 mmHg respectively. 68.3% of these people had controlled blood pressure at the end-line, up from 41.8% at the baseline. 50.6% of these people saw an improvement in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure of 19.52 mmHg and 12.63 mmHg respectively. Of the 266 people (40%) who entered multiple blood glucose levels, 31.95% had controlled blood glucose levels with an average decline of 15.5 mmol/L. 58.65% saw an improvement in their blood pressure value of 44.44 mmol/L. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that digital self-care can play a key role in supporting low-income populations living with diabetes and hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic where restrictions exist on in-person service provision.


OPC technology is already a communication standard dedicated to industrial automation systems. These systems may be part of a larger computer system of the company, which must realize appropriate tasks assigned to them. These tasks are network services, which, depending on their purpose, can be segregated into sets. Therefore, this article presents models of vertical and horizontal communication of OPC UA technology, security model, and focuses on the presentation of functional sets of services, which include Discovery Service Set, Secure Channel Service Set, Session Service Set, NodeManagement Service Set, View Service Set, Query Service Set, Attribute Service Set, Method Service Set, MonitoredItem Service Set, and Subscription Service Set.


Orientation of the person with the problem, the results of the research orientation of the individual students of "Human Resources" of the Siberian State University of Communications.


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made within solution of research intention in Faculty of
Education of Masaryk University SCHOOL AND HEALTH FOR THE 21st
CENTURY. The project is inspired by ideas, which define new
paradigm in the school and health system both in our country
and in the world. These new ideas are determined first of all
by documents of World Health Organisation (WHO), which have
been accepted and elaborated by our government, social and
scientific authorities and organisations and new framework
curricula, which represent fundamental changes in our school
system


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The free movement of means of production has always been the basic precondition of the free and successful economy. One the one hand, the freedoms on the economic area are the ideal and the goal of many marked oriented societies and economic integrations like European Union. On the other hand, the efforts of the state to keep in hand many tools of the economic policy to control and to give the directions to the economic developments can be considered as their counterpart. In modern economies both the values have to be in some balance. The processes of the globalization are constantly changing the weight of the first and the second. The values mentioned above are based on national and international regulations. To draw and execute an effective economic policy, these regulations as well as the real developments on local and international markets should be taken into account. The analyses of the migrant legal position in EU indicates that these principals are violated by some regulations. The regulations limit the employee's possibilities to move freely in search for the job inside EU countries. The legal analyses of such a situation must draw our attention to a problem of violation of the principle of equality of EU citizens. In the consequence this can have harmful effects on economic performance and success also.


The assimilation of the life schemes of women and men is described as a trend of current labour markets. However, there are gender-specific disparities in these labour markets. Horizontal segregation is identified by industries and jobs that differ regarding the distribution of women and man. Vertical segregation refers to the discrepancies in hierarchies and power, which is demonstrated by the low proportion of women in highly qualified jobs and leading positions. The reason for this can be found in the contradictory socialisation of women characterised by a balancing of career and family. In the light of accelerated changes in labour markets, learning at work is regarded an important factor for maintaining and developing job-related competence. In an empirical study of learning at work it was shown that there are no or only marginal gender-specific effects given equivalent conditions


Experiences in early childhood have a great influence on a child's physical and mental development. Early childhood interventions are widely accepted as an effective way to prevent learning difficulties and to promote healthy development for children with special needs. For this reason, it is important for teachers who will work with children with special needs or children who are at risk to have sufficient knowledge about early childhood intervention and be competent in this area. Therefore, the present study aims to determine the views of preservice special education teachers about early childhood intervention. This study used quantitative research method and a questionnaire form was used to collect the data. The results are discussed in detail with reference to relevant literature. Implications and recommendations for further research are also provided in order to improve the quality of education policies, programs and practices related with early childhood intervention and increase awareness and knowledge related with early childhood interventions among teacher candidates.

Keywords: Early childhood, early intervention, preservice special education teachers, views.


VOL. 3, No. 6, of the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences is devoted entirely to the papers submitted for the symposium at Coimbatore in October 1935 on "Disease Resistance in Plants". Interest in the contributions lies in methods of stimulating disease resistance. These are adopted as a result of investigations along the lines of inheritance of resistance, structural modification associated with resistance and physiological conditions associated with the plants' response to the disease. Thus in the case of sugar-cane, frequently attacked by mosaic, N. L. Dutt, Syed Abbas Hussainy and M. K. Krishnaswami; C. S. Krishnaswami, and others, have found it possible to breed resistant plants and that those with Saccharum spontaneum parentage are more resistant than others.


Youth participation in sport tourism in Malaysia has been increasing over the years. This research is aimed to understand the factors that affecting youth involvement in sports tourism in Malaysia. The factors that were chosen was pull factors and push factors. The pull factors are identified as destination attribute, safety and security, attraction, and faculties; while the push factors are self-expressiveness, relaxation, time, and financial. Based on the sample of youth population in selected public universities (n=384), the study reveals the significant of push and pull factors among youth in participating sport tourism. The results show that the push factors have a higher influence on youth compared to pull factors.


The invention provides a screening method for macromolecule lenses, which comprises the steps of preparing preliminary dies; screening and obtaining die cavities having required functions by using the preliminary dies; manufacturing a production die; screening and obtaining die cavities having proper focal lengths for manufacturing a spherical lens by using the preliminary dies; screening and obtaining die cavities with required focal lengths and aberrations for manufacturing an aspheric lens by using the preliminary dies; screening and obtaining die cavity groups with required equivalent focal lengths and chromatic aberrations for manufacturing a lens battery by using the preliminary dies. The preliminary dies have 3 to 1000 die cavities, however, the preliminary dies preferably have 4 to 400 die cavities; the die cavities of the preliminary dies shall be marked with numbers or letters; the flow passages of the preliminary dies and the production die are balanced; the volumes of the die cavities of the preliminary dies are balanced. In the screening method, die cavities with required functions are screened and obtained by using the preliminary dies; the production die is used for manufacturing the macromolecule lens. The die screened and manufactured according to the functions can reach high precision easily; the frequency to repair the dies is reduced.


This paper proposes multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system for compressed video packets. Normally, video coding technologies compress video contents by removing similarities inherent in the video contents, so that it causes dependencies among the packets. It eventually results in inequality in terms of influence on video distortion, so that unequal protection is required to achieve better performance. As one way to impose priority on the compressed video packets, this paper proposes to set target bit error rate according to the influence of each packet. We modified an existing multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system to consider the target bit error rate imposed on each packet when allocating sub channels. For the same resulting video distortion, proposed system with the adaptive target bit error rate roughly doubled channel capacity from a system with fixed target bit error rate, where a specific circumstances of transmit power and bandwidth in this paper is assumed. Futhermore, fairness in terms of video distortion can be obtained by equalizing the target video distortion values.


The techniques of anaesthesia which have evolved in recent years and are commonly used for major surgery in neonates and small infants have been associated with improved results. Many advances have contributed to this. Amongst the factors involved are pre-operative correction of biochemical and fluid imbalance, maintenance of normal body temperature, a light level of general anaesthesia and accurate intravenous fluid and blood replacement. However, it is important to determine whether improved techniques of anaesthesia impart different or even additional risks to the patient. This paper reports an investigation into the effects of passive hyperventilation on the metabolic response to anaesthesia and surgery in children.


A communications apparatus comprises an antenna in the form of a super-toroidal conductor of length L, i.e. a conductor in which the windings of a toroidal helix are themselves constituted as helical windings. When the apparatus is to be used as a transmitter it is provided with an electrical signal generator (10, Figure 6), controllable to produce a signal with a frequency greater than 2c/L, where c is the speed of light, a coupler (13, Figure 6), to couple the generator to the antenna, and a modulator (11, Figure 6), to modulate the signal with data (12, Figure 6) to be transmitted. When the apparatus is to be used as a receiver the generator is replaced by a receiver (17, Figure 7), the modulator is omitted and a detector (17, Figure 7) is provided for detecting the information contained in a received signal. The coupler may provide direct connection to opposite ends of the conductor, or a number of connections at points around the super-torus, or may capacitively charge the super-torus. The super-torus can be of higher order (Figures 2 and 3), i.e. where the helical windings are themselves formed as helical windings. The super-toroidal antenna provides a broad band emission which is omnidirectional in the plane of the torus with substantial emission perpendicular to the plane of the torus (Figures 4 and 5).


Introduction: Since 1995, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) Survey has tested the use of World Wide Web based data collection. CES is a monthly panel survey of about 380,000 businesses conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The Web collection system has evolved from a "proof of concept" to a production prototype, to a full production system. The current system runs on a secure server and is password protected. The system uses e-mail for various respondent contact purposes such as advance notice to report and nonresponse follow-up. The collection instrument contains embedded logic and range edits to help ensure the accuracy of the data. Thus respondents participate directly in the edit reconciliation process. CES currently has about 100 Web reporters.


One of the U.S. Department of Transportation's top priorities is the improvement of pedestrian and bicyclist safety. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) promotes safe, comfortable, and convenient walking for people of all ages and abilities. Part of this effort has been to encourage a data-driven approach to identifying and mitigating safety problems. An initial step in reducing the frequency of pedestrian crashes is identifying where they occur or where there is a concern that they are likely to occur. As part of an FHWA project, the Guidebook on Identification of High Pedestrian Crash Locations was developed to assist State and local agencies in identifying high pedestrian crash locations, such as intersections (points), segments, facilities, and areas. The process of identifying high pedestrian crash locations resulted in a prioritized list of potential locations on the roadway system that could benefit from safety improvement projects.


Dear Editor, Residency in ophthalmology lays the foundation for the trainee to conduct a safe and independent practitioner of the subject. The initial training phase involves an in‐depth knowledge of using the slit lamp to analyze the anterior and posterior segment structures. Following the examination of a patient, a relevant case‐based discussion with a senior colleague forms an important hallmark of residency. This training can be enhanced or aided with the help of ocular photographs. Conventional slit‐lamp photography requires the usage of expensive adapters and cameras to obtain good anterior‐segment images. Smartphone usage has been rapidly expanding in the field of ophthalmology for a broad range of purposes, including ocular photography, patient education, telemedicine, and educational purposes.[1]


Privacy when using IP communication has become an important problem. It is a challenging problem that spans multiple layers in the OSI reference model with various constant identifiers that can be profiled. This leads to user privacy concerns. Location Privacy, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with revealing a user's identity as a function of mobility. When a user visits a new network and uses a fixed identifier, such as a Mobile IPv6 Home Address for communication, on-lookers can determine that the user has roamed. We address this problem of location privacy and provide a Privacy-Tag for use in place of a fixed identifier to protect user privacy. Our method is readily implementable using the Mobile IPv6 Return Routability [2] protocol and the Binding Update procedure.


Based on current exploration of Pinghu Oilfield,the hydrocarbon geological characteristics and accumulation law of this oilfield are analyzed,and its hydrocarbon potential is illustrated that undrilled structural and subtle traps are the best potential areas.Reserves of Pinghu Oilfield is not enough and it's urgent to increase its candidate reserves,so this paper proposes guiding exploration theory and goals which are:stick to the integration of exploration and development,strengthen study of hydrocarbon geology,introduce new technology,do overall evaluation,reduce risks and increase candidate reserves.Specified exploration planning is also made:explore mainly the middle part of structural traps and meanwhile pay attention to the west and east parts,and strengthen the exploration of subtle traps.


Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), a NAD dependent oxidoreductase was immobilized on a 0.5mm gold wire using layer by layer assembly technique. LDH coated electrode was used as the anode of the fuel cell and a Pt wire of 0.5mm was used as the cathode. The electrodes were set up in a single chamber fuel cell where lactate solution acted as the fuel substrate. LDH coated anode catalyzed the oxidation of lactate to pyruvate while Pt was used to catalyze the reduction of oxygen to water. Three parameters were selected to understand the behavior of the fuel cell under different load conditions. The parameters, lactate concentration, temperature of the cell and the flow rate, were varied within the physiological range to emulate conditions on the performance as an implantable fuel cell. The cell reported an average open circuit voltage of ~266mV and an efficiency of 3.6%.


Mandibular advancement devices (MAD) are an effective alternative treatment to CPAP. However, different maneuvers have been performed during the performance of drug sleep-induced endoscopy (DISE) to mimic the effect of MAD. Using the Selector Avance Mandibular (SAM) device, we aimed to identify MAD candidates during DISE using a titratable, reproducible, and measurable maneuver. This DISE-SAM protocol may help to find the relationship between the severity of the respiratory disorder and the degree of response, and to determine the advancement required to improve the collapsibility of the upper airway. Explorations were performed in 161 patients (132 males; 29 females) with a mean age of 46.81 (SD = 11.42) years, a BMI of 27.90 (SD = 4.19) kg/m2 and a mean AHI of 26.51 (SD = 21.23). Results showed no relationship between severity and MAD recommendation. Also, there was a weak positive relationship between the advancement required to obtain a response and the disease severity. Using the DISE-SAM protocol, the response and the range of mandibular protrusion were assessed, avoiding the inter-examiner bias of the jaw thrust maneuver. We suggest prescribing MAD as a single, alternative, or multiple treatment approaches following the SAM recommendations in a personalized design.


This paper introduces a novel image representation capturing feature dependencies through the mining of meaningful combinations of visual features. This representation leads to a compact and discriminative encoding of images that can be used for image classification, object detection or object recognition. The method relies on (i) multiple random projections of the input space followed by local binarization of projected histograms encoded as sets of items, and (ii) the representation of images as Histograms of Pattern Sets (HoPS). The approach is validated on four publicly available datasets (Daimler Pedestrian, Oxford Flowers, KTH Texture and PASCAL VOC2007), allowing comparisons with many recent approaches. The proposed image representation reaches state-of-the-art performance on each one of these datasets.


Soil core samples fromRhizophora mangleL. andAvicennia schauerianaStapf & Leech forests from south-eastern Brazil were analysed for their total organic matter content and their sugars, amino acid and amino sugars composition. Organic carbon and nitrogen contents were higher inAvicenniathan inRhizophorasoils. The contribution of sugars and amino acids to the total organic carbon pool was constant with depth inRhizophorasoils whereas inAvicenniasoils it increased. Spectral distribution of sugars and amino acids showed a dominance of Ca-affine monomers, particularly acidic amino acids, and the sugar arabinose. Biogeochemical indicators derived from ratios of individual sugar and amino acid monomers confirm previous studies which showed that organic matter in both soils is mainly of mangrove origin. The results further suggest accumulation of organic matter inRhizophorasoils and a continuing degradation of organic matter inAvicenniasoils. The latter may thus release more nutrients to adjacent ecosystems thanRhizophorasoils.


Radiogenic noble gas data provide valuable information on planetary evolution through their degassing histories. The relative abundance of 40Ar in the Cytherean atmosphere is 0.26 of that in the Earth's atmosphere. Calculation of a 40Ar degassing model along with mantle evolution and melt migration shows that the average magma production rate on Venus is about 5km3/yr. Duration of plate motion on Venus, if existed, would be less than several hundred million years. For Mars, estimated volume of erupted volcanic materials is compatible with the present Martian 40Ar, which is about 1/20 of 40Ar in the Earth's atmosphere. On the other hand, early degassing fraction estimated from Martian radiogenic 129Xe is as much as 1/3 of that of the Earth. This early degassing may be due to the magma ocean cooling. Detection of Martian 4He will be evidence of current degassing activity on Mars. Abundant 4He in Venus atmosphere, showing much longer residence time than the Earth's 4He, should correspond to current absence of magnetic field.


The boundary value problems of two points are considered for second-order linear homogeneous differential equation.The existence and uniqueness theorems are proved;and the similar structure and similar kernel function of the solutions are found.


The mathematical model of the mutual synchronization system with complete graph structure, composed of n (n∈N) oscillators, is investigated. This mathematical model is defined by the matrix differential equation with delayed argument. The solution of the matrix differential equation with delayed argument is obtained by applying the Lambert W function method. On the base of this solution, the step responses matrix of the synchronization system is defined and the transients in the system are investigated. The results of calculations, received by the Lambert function method, the dde23 method in Matlab and the exact method of consequent integration, are compared. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.42.4.2484


Cell Formation (CF) problem involves grouping the parts into part families and machines into manufacturing cells, so that parts with similar processing requirements are manufactured within the same cell. Many researches have suggested methods for CF. Few of these methods; have addressed the possible existence of exceptional elements (EE) in the solution and the effect of correspondent intercellular movement, which cause lack of segregation among the cells. This paper presents a simulation-based methodology, which takes into consideration the stochastic aspect in the cellular manufacturing (CM) system, to create better cell configurations. An initial solution is developed using any of the numerous CF procedures. The objective of the proposed method which provides performances ratings and cost-effective consist in determine how best to deal with the remaining EE. It considers and compares two strategies (1) permitting intercellular transfer and (2) exceptional machine duplication. The process is demonstrated with a numerical example


This document explores how mobility management could be provided based
on source routing like solutions and take SRv6 as an example for 5G
LAN service.


Water-conducting fractured zone is the direct inducement of water inrush, water losing, and environmental deterioration in coal mines. How to predict the height of water-conducting fractured zone economically and accurately has always been the research difficulty of water-preserved mining. The paper selects the Meihuajing coal mine in Ningdong mining area as the engineering background. Firstly, transform the distribution law of the water-conducting fractured zone into a deterioration mechanism of coal-rock strength under the action of water-rock. Through laboratory tests, the water-rock coupling degradation law of rock mass under uniaxial action is revealed, and an intelligent statistical model of damage rate response under different water content is proposed. Secondly, based on the cross-scale elastic modulus calibration principle and the rate response intelligent statistical model proposed above, the borehole elastic modulus instrument is used to quantitatively characterize the strength characteristics of elastic modulus rate response law and field lithological parameters. Finally, based on the 18 samples of the water-conducting fractured zone, a height prediction model of a water-conducting fractured zone based on the measured value of elastic modulus is proposed by using the method of PSO-SVR. Taking R2 and RMSE as evaluation indexes, the error comparison between PSO-SVR and the empirical formula is carried out. Research indicates that, compared with the empirical formula, R2 of the PSO-SVR model increased by 18.3% and RMSE decreased by 92.7%. The predicted value of the PSO-SVR is consistent with the measured value, which significantly improves the prediction accuracy of the height of the water-conducting fractured zone. It provides a theoretical basis and technical support for the coordinated development of safe and efficient development of coal and ecological protection in Ningdong mining area.


This report is the last status report. The mandate of subgroup 19 was for two years starting January 2001. It therefore formally ended December 2002. To mark this ending a workshop was held January 13 and 14, 2003 at IRMM in Geel, Belgium. Below a brief account will be given of this workshop. The report starts with the usual account of progress by the participants for the above mentioned period and ends with the status and time schedule for the final report.


To improve the load-following capability and the coal-quality applicability of a circulating field bed boiler (CFBB), a new coordinated control method with coal-quality correction is proposed in this paper. This method takes the primary air as another new control variable into the coordinated control of CFBB, which can take advantage of the unburned carbon in bed to improve its load-following capability. Simultaneously, a multivariable predictive controller based on augmented state space model is designed to deal with the CFBB's characteristics such as time-delay and strong coupling. Finally, an improved strategy to correct coal-quality online based on the disturbance observer is provided. Compared with the conventional control scheme, the simulation results for a 330MW CFBB shows that the method proposed in this paper can significantly improve the load-following capability and the coal-quality applicability.


A charge-coupled device (CCD) camera has been used to obtain
high-definition video images of the cross-section of the tube in a
graphite furnace atomizer. Image processing algorithms have been developed
to extract automatically from the images certain features which are of use
during the initial set-up and alignment of the atomizer in an atomic
absorption spectrometer. These features include the alignment of the tube,
the angle of a platform with respect to the vertical axis and the height
of an autosampler capillary tip above the tube wall or the platform. In
addition, algorithms have been developed to analyse images recorded after
sample injection, to detect whether all of the liquid has been deposited
correctly into the tube. Detection of the poor injection of a blood serum
sample is given to illustrate the usefulness of the
algorithm.


The taxonomy of omens is an essential feature of numerous linguistic researches of superstitious discourse. Classification principles suggested in these researches are based on superficial semantics. On deep level superstitious signs are formed by a few semiotic patterns. Their framework is filled with different cultural codes depending on time and society. A certain number of superstitious signs that belong to different types of rituals and different linguistic cultures and have different cultural codes and different functions may be reduced to one semiotic pattern. Classification by semiotic principle may be used to create a system of semiotic modeling of superstitious discourse as a naive way of cognition.


With the rapid development of Internet, e-commerce has become an important development trend in the information age. More and more people are online shopping, so it is necessary for customer to select e-commerce website with high credible degree to shopping. In order to assess the credibility of e-commerce websites and select appropriate e-commerce website, the appropriate evaluation methods are needed. Considering these, the paper establishes a credit evaluation model using of the fuzzy grey comprehensive evaluation method to evaluate the credit of e-commerce website .An e-commerce website is evaluated by the high credible model and the evaluation results prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the model in dealing with the fuzzy and gray nature of experts' judging information.


A universal apparatus is presented, designed to precisely generate a controlled state of mechanical stress upon any kind of optical fiber waveguide. With only minor procedural modifications, hydrostatic or radial pressure (up to about 300 MPa) can be generated, as well as an axial elongation up to 2000 microstrain and a twist up to about 50 full turns. A combination of any two of these types of stresses, such as twist under hydrostatic pressure, can also be generated to satisfy a specific need for a particular experiment. The apparatus provides a unique possibility to experimentally investigate several nontrivial effects associated with propagation of light through a waveguide remaining under a controlled stress environment. An example of such an application related to polarization coupling in highly birefringent fibers is also discussed.


The effect of many vitamins on the production of pyruvic acid by Torulopsis glabrata TK006 with glucose as carbon source and (NH4)2SO4 as sole nitrogen source was investigated. By using Box-Behnken center-united design and the method of response surface analysis together with SAS system, the optimum concentration conditions of thiamine, nicotinic acid, biotin, pyridoxine which were selected are 0.0125mg/L, 9.7mg/L, 0.022mg/L and 0.54mg/L. And thiamine was confirmed to be the most important factor affecting the production of pyruvic acid. The concentration, production intensity and yield to glucose of pyruvic acid reached 80.51g/L, 1.83g/L·h and 0.69g/g in 7L-jar fermentation, which were 44.36%, 57.48% and 22.78% higher than the control results respectively. The numbers has reached to or even surpassed the best international results ever reported using the similar strains.


Electron capture can determine the electron neutrino mass, while the beta decay of Tritium measures the electron antineutrino mass and the neutrinoless double beta decay observes the Majorana neutrino mass. Electron capture e. g. on 163Ho plus bound electron to 163Dy* plus neutrino can determine the electron neutrino mass from the upper end of the decay spectrum of the excited Dy*, which is given by the Q-Value minus the neutrino mass. The Dy* states decay by X-ray and Auger electron emissions. The total decay energy is measured in a bolometer. These excitations have been studied by Robertson and by Faessler et al.. In addition the daughter atom Dy can also be excited by moving in the capture process one electron into the continuum. The escape of these continuum electrons is automatically included in the experimental bolometer spectrum. Recently a method developed by Intemann and Pollock was used by DeRujula and Lusignoli for a rough estimate of this shake-off process for "s" wave electrons in capture on 163Ho. The purpose of the present work is to give a more reliable description of "s" wave shake-off in electron capture on Holmium. For that one needs very accurate atomic wave functions of Ho in its ground state and excited atomic wave functions of Dy* including a description of the continuum electrons. In the present approach the wave functions of Ho and Dy* are determined selfconsistently with the antisymmetrized relativistic Dirac-Hartree-Fock approach. The relativistic continuum electron wave functions for the ionized Dy* are obtained in the corresponding selfconsistent Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Potential. In this improved approach shake-off can hardly be seen after electron capture in 163Ho and thus can probably not affect the determination of the electron neutrino mass.


The developments and improvements in human–computer interaction and information and communication technologies have resulted in innovative assistive technology (AT) solutions for the people with disabilities (PWDs). Although, there have been many new ideas and technologies for assisting the PWDs, still very few of them have considered the workplace environment. Therefore, there is a need to develop a comprehensive universal AT solution that can maximize the PWDs productivity at work. In this work, an AT and smart context-aware solution has been developed to assist the PWDs at the workplace. This has been achieved through the designing and the implementation of a smart unified interface to guide and assist the PWDs. A wireless sensor network has been employed in this context-aware smart solution in order to track and determine user's location. The unified interface is adaptive and includes four modules that are smart helping, smart communication, smart editor, and auto emergency response. A proper AT process and technological design considerations have been adopted to achieve a comprehensive, universal, adaptive, and context-aware solution.


Comparative data on long‐term safety and efficacy of bioresorbable‐polymer‐BES versus durable‐polymer‐EES/ZES in ACS setting have hitherto been lacking. We sought to assess the safety and efficacy of bioresorbable‐polymer‐biolimus‐A9‐eluting stents (BES) compared with thin‐strut‐durable‐polymer‐everolimus‐ and zotarolimus‐eluting stents (EES/ZES) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) undergoing PCI.


Twenty children undergoing surgery received a caudal block using 1 ml per kg of a mixture of 50% lidocaine (1%) and 50% bupivacaine (0.25%). They were randomly allocated to two groups, one of which received midazolam 0.4 mg/kg rectally as premedication. Midazolam administration resulted in a significantly lower AUC value for lidocaine but did not influence the plasma concentrations of bupivacaine.


In order to get elementary junior and high school students interested in robots, and to convey the pleasure of manufacturing, we present the theme of how the mobile arm robot carrying a CCD camera performs the work containing intellectual elements. It is the recognition of the object according to the image processing and genetic algorithm approach.


The purpose of the study was to determine the essence and content of physical culture and sports rehabilitation as components of industry social practices. Materials and methods. Systemic approach, methods of analysis and synthesis, documentary method, methods of scientific induction and deduction were used in the study. Results and discussion. The peculiarities of the use of the term "rehabilitation" in the historical context, from the time of the First World War to the present day, are analyzed. Scientists are unanimous in the opinion that rehabilitation is a system of state, socio-economic, medical, professional, pedagogical, professional and other measures aimed at restoring health, the functional state of the human body and its working capacity. It has been studied that rehabilitation is a complex multifaceted concept, which means "restoration" and involves different types of rehabilitation. It has been established that physical culture and sports rehabilitation is a system of measures developed with the use of physical exercises to restore a person's health and is aimed at restoring and compensating with the help of physical culture and sports the functional capabilities of his/her body to improve his/her physical and psychological state. Taking into account the belonging of physical culture and sports rehabilitation to the field of physical culture and sports, which studies the impact of physical culture and sports on health, physical development and physical capabilities of the body, as well as on the recovery of athletes after injuries and illnesses, the application of physical culture and sports will contribute to the significant strengthening and improvement of the effectiveness of the recovery of athletes after injuries and illnesses. Conclusion. Physical culture and sports rehabilitation is an actual object of scientific research. As a postulate of scientific research in the field of physical culture and sports rehabilitation, we accept the statement that rehabilitation is a system of state, socio-economic, medical, professional, pedagogical, professional and other measures aimed at restoring health, the functional state of the human body and its working capacity. In contrast to physical therapy, which is based on the diagnosis and assessment of the functional state of the patient taking into account nosology, and involves the use of physical exercises along with medical and physiotherapeutic measures, physical culture and sports rehabilitation has a predominant focus on restoring and compensating the body's functional capabilities, physical and psychological state of a person with the help of physical education and sports. One of the main methodological provisions of physical culture and sports rehabilitation should be a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach, which involves the formation of the "FSR team" for the recovery of the athlete's condition from specialists in the field of physical culture and sports, and the involvement of specialists from other specialties in a consultative mode


The 2d orders are a sub class of causal sets, which is especially amenable to computer simulations. Past work has shown that the 2d orders have a first order phase transition between a random and a crystalline phase. When coupling the 2d orders to the Ising model, this phase transition coincides with the transition of the Ising model. The coupled system also shows a new phase, at negative β, where the Ising model induces the geometric transition. In this article we examine the phase transitions of the coupled system, to determine their order, as well as how they scale when the system size is changed. We find that the transition at positive β seems to be of mixed order, while the two transitions at negative β appear continuous/first order for the Ising model/the geometry respectively. The scaling of the observables with the system size on the other hand is fairly simple, and does, where applicable, agree with that found for the pure 2d orders. We find that the location of these transitions has fractional scaling in the system size.


This study investigated the extent to which environmental awareness creation through the mass media influence sustainable forest management in Ogoja local government area of Cross River State, Nigeria. Two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at .05 level of significance. The population of the study comprised of all adult male and female in the area of the study. A sample size of four hundred and seventy (470) respondents was drawn from the population of four thousand seven hundred (4700) using the stratified and simple random sampling technique. A four point modified Likert scale questionnaire titled "Environmental Awareness Creation through the Mass Media and Sustainable Forest Management Questionnaire" (EACTMMSFMQ) was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by two experts in the Department of Test and Measurement in the University of Calabar. The instrument was administered personally by the researchers with the help of two trained research assistants in the area of the study. The data was analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and a post hoc analysis using fishers' least significance difference (FLSD). The results of the analysis revealed that environmental awareness creation through the mass media (print and electronic media) significantly influence sustainable forest management in the area of the study. Based on the results of the study it was recommended that the government and environmental conservation agencies should make concerted effort to ensure that there is adequate awareness creation on sustainable forest management through the mass media. More so, the media should ensure that information on sustainable forest management is far reaching and widely spread to the forest communities.Keywords: Environmental Awareness Creation, Mass Media, Sustainable Forest Management, Ogoja, Cross River State, Nigeria


The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was an effect of the Auditory, Intellectually, And Repetition (Air) Model on Reading Comprehension in understanding the explanation text. This study used a Quasi-Experimental research design. In this study, the sample size was 48 students, including 24 students in the experimental class (XI IPS 2) and 24 students in the control class (XI IPS 1) at SMAN 8 South Bengkulu taken by purposive sampling. The experimental class has given the treatment using the Auditory, Intellectually, And Repetition AIR Model, while the control class did not use the AIR Model. The researchers collect data by administering tests twice, namely a pretest and a post-test. Prior to administering the post-test, the researcher administered four treatments in the experimental and control classrooms using different teaching models. The instrument employed in this study was a set of 20 valid multiple-choice questions. The data from the pre-test and post-test were examined using the t-test. The learning outcomes were as follows: First, the experimental class's mean score was 37,29, whereas the control class was 40,83. And for the post-test findings reveal that the experimental class has an average value of 81.25 while the control class has an average value of 70.42. Second, the sample score of the independent T-test shows the significant value (2 tailed) is 0,000 <0.05. In other words, Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. In brief, Auditory, Intellectually, And Repetition (AIR) Model can be one of effective ways in teaching reading for eleventh grade students.


Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a form of allergic conjunctivitis, also known as spring ophthalmia because of its recurrent and cyclical nature, which occurs in spring and summer. The main symptoms are ocular itching, photophobia and tearing, discharge, and foreign body sensation, and physical signs include flattened and thickened lid conjunctiva with pavement-like papillae, and gum-like thickening of the corneal rim of the upper lid (Horner-Trantas nodule). The pathogenesis of VKC is not yet fully understood and remains controversial. There are currently many treatment options for VKC, with the mainstream treatments being Western medicine and Chinese medicine, but with varying efficacy and individual differences. The author reviews the progress of research in the treatment of VKC with Chinese and Western medicine.


Compared to the narrow band signal, the wideband echo signal includes much more frequency components which have different scattering property with the center frequency. To simulate the scattering echo for the wideband synthetic aperture radar (SAR) more precise, the frequency domain based echo simulation method is proposed which considers the scattering properties of all frequency components. And the hybrid method that combines the geometrical optics (GO) and physical optics (PO), which considers the scattering of reflected rays and has a high calculation accuracy, is used to calculate the scattering property of each frequency component. With the wideband echo signal, the SAR image is generated to analyze to the impact of multiple scattering on complex target.


Workplace innovation is a hot issue that has been concerned with organizational
innovation research. Based on the theory of self-determination and regulatory
focus, this research systematically analyzes the mechanism and boundary
conditions of the creative leadership to employees' workplace innovative
behavior from a practical point of view, and constructs a new integrated
analysis framework. Among this framework, creative leadership affects
employees' workplace innovative behavior respectively through the individual
level and team level by regulatory focus, thriving, and team innovative
climate, while creative self-efficacy and team innovative climate moderated the
relationship of different stages between creative leadership and employees'
workplace innovative behavior.


A method for driving a fuel injection into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine valve having a valve opening-closing valve member and for the purpose of releasing the valve opening, the valve member to strokes driving electric actuator indicated, and defined for triggering valve member strokes lift amount of electric control signals applied to the actuator become. To compensate for an aging-related Hubabnahme of the valve member and the associated, deteriorated dosage of the injected fuel is a Hubverlustmodell, temperature and temperature changes on the valve as well as the number of strokes performed by the valve member to be included continuously in the predicts a decrease in the stroke amount as the lift loss and with the projected loss of stroke corrects the control signals.


A disulfide click strategy was disclosed for stapling to enhance metabolic stability and cellular permeability for therapeutic peptides. A seventeen-membered library of stapling reagents with adjustable lengths and angles was established for rapid double/triple click reactions, bridging S-terminal peptides from 3 to 18 cysteine residues to provide 18- to 48-membered macrocyclic peptides under biocompatible conditions. The constrained peptides exhibited enhanced anti-HCT-116 activity with locked α-helical conformation (IC50 = 6.81 μM vs biological incompetence for acyclic linear peptides), which can be unstapled for rehabilitating the native peptides under the assistance of tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP). This protocol assembles linear peptides into cyclic peptides controllably to retain the diverse three-dimensional conformations, enabling the cellular uptake followed by release of the disulfides for peptide delivery.


A review is given of recent works on electron and light emission from dispersed (island) thin films excited by the conduction current and infrared laser irradiation. The results are interpreted in terms of generation of hot electrons in nanosized particles which is possible because of strong reduction of electron-phonon coupling in such particles.


High-resolution optical spectra are analyzed for two of the four metal-rich, mildly hydrogen-poor or helium-enhanced giants discovered by Hema & Pandey, along with their comparison normal (hydrogen-rich) giants. The strengths of the MgH bands in the spectra of the program stars are analyzed for their derived stellar parameters. The observed spectra of the sample (hydrogen-poor) stars (LEID 39048 and LEID 34225) show weaker MgH bands, unlike in the spectra of the normal comparison giants (LEID 61067 and LEID 32169). The magnesium abundance derived from MgH bands is less by 0.3 dex or more for LEID 39048 and LEID 34225 than that derived from Mg i lines. This difference cannot be reconciled by making the changes to the stellar parameters within the uncertainties. This difference in the magnesium abundances derived from Mg i lines and from the MgH band is unacceptable. This difference is attributed to the hydrogen deficiency or helium enhancement in their atmospheres. These metal-rich, hydrogen-poor or helium-rich giants provide an important link to the evolution of the metal-rich subpopulation of ω Cen. These stars provide the first direct spectroscopic evidence for the presence of the He enhancement in the metal-rich giants of ω Cen.


OBJECTIVE
The history of oral health research and dental care provision for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples has been framed by oppressive colonial values and wrought with maltreatment and unethical behavior. This commentary aims to collate evidence regarding the healthy history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oral health, the implications of colonization on oral health, and the current portrayal of oral health.

CONCLUSION
We argue the need to reframe deficit focused discussions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oral health to strengths-based narratives by critically engaging with the ways in which the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oral health lies in the footprints of the past.


The purpose of this research is to reveal the characteristics of the Home Video-Game industry of the United States and to examine the reason why Japanese software publishers don't fully succeed in the US market. First, we report the present state of US Home Video-Game industry, and then make a brief comparison between the US and Japan regarding the management of software publishers. As the result of our investigation, we found that as opposed to the Japanese market, the US market is characterized by its own popular genres, the existence of PC game software as a rival market, its own distribution system, and the greater importance of advertising. Such characteristics of the competitive environment seem to affect the management of software publishers and accumulation of the capabilities within each firm.


When two or more subsystems of a quantum system interact with each other they can become entangled. In this case the individual subsystems can no longer be described as pure quantum states. For systems with only 2 subsystems this entanglement can be described using the Schmidt decomposition. This selects a preferred orthonormal basis for express-ing the wavefunction and gives a measure of the degree of entanglement present in the system. The extension of this to the more general case of n subsystems is not yet known. We present a review of this process using the standard representation and apply this method to the geometric algebra representation. This latter form has the advantage of suggesting a generalisation to n subsystems.


Software, in the context of connected and autonomous vehicles, is both the means for feature enhancement as well as the bearer of potential security risks and bugs. Software needs regular updating/upgrading to mitigate safety and security risks as well as to upgrade and add new functionality post-sale. Currently, to administer a software update the vehicle must be taken to a dealer or be parked and powered down; incurring significant downtime and inconvenience to the consumer. As autonomous vehicles roll out on our roads, the software will have to be updated seamlessly requiring minimum intervention and downtime. However, the existing automotive E/E architecture does not render itself to online dynamic updates or even partial updates while the car is operating with its software still in use. This paper presents as proof-of-concept, a container based (operating system level virtualisation) ECU approach to facilitate dynamic software updates in connected autonomous vehicles. The proposed approach was tested examining overall system latencies with promising results. Apart from finding a very convincing use case for automotive software updates, the use of a container based E/E architecture within the connected and autonomous vehicle can be enhanced. These supplementary enhancements include an overall reduced system weight and volume by limiting the need for distinct dedicated hardware and allowing multiple application-specific OS's to co-exist.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and their inhibitors tissue inhibitor matrix metalloproteinase (TIMP) gene expression and secretion during equine deep digital flexor tendon (DDFT) tenocyte and macrophage (undifferentiated, proinflammatory, and regulatory) co-culture.

SAMPLE
Third passage DDF tenocytes and donor-matched macrophages differentiated from peripheral blood CD14+ monocytes from 5 healthy horses ages 9-11 years, euthanized for reasons unrelated to musculoskeletal conditions.

METHODS
Passage 3 DDT tenocyte aggregate cultures were co-cultured with undifferentiated (control), proinflammatory (granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor; GM-CSF pretreated and lipopolysaccharide + interferon gamma-primed; LPS+IFN-γ) or regulatory (interleukin-4 and interleukin-10-primed; IL-4 + IL-10) macrophages in direct and transwell co-cultures for 72 hours. MMP-1, -2, -3, -9, -13, and TIMP -1, -2 mRNA were measured via real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (rtPCR). Co-culture media MMP -3, -9, and TIMP -1, -2 concentrations were quantified via ELISA.

RESULTS
Direct co-culture of DDF tenocytes with proinflammatory macrophages for 72 hours increased MMP-1, -3, and -13 mRNA levels whereas, MMP-9 mRNA levels decreased. Direct and transwell co-culture with proinflammatory and regulatory macrophages resulted in increased MMP-3 and decreased MMP-9 media concentrations. While direct co-culture with regulatory macrophages significantly increased TIMP-1 mRNA, overall, TIMP mRNA and culture media concentrations were largely unchanged.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE
Cell-to-cell contact between DDF tenocytes and macrophages is not essential to induce MMP gene expression and secretion. Co-culture systems offer a viable in vitro platform to screen and evaluate immunomodulatory properties of therapies aimed at improving equine intrasynovial tendon healing.


Herein, three-dimensional ordered macropore (3DOM) x% W/Ce0.8Zr0.2O2 (x = 0.5, 0.8, 1, 3) catalysts were prepared and employed for the simultaneous removal of PM (particulate matter) and NOx from diesel engine exhaust. The contact between the solid PM and the catalyst active site was strengthened by the special 3DOM structure. 3DOM 0.8% W/Ce0.8Zr0.2O2 had superior catalytic activity with a maximum concentration of CO2 at 408 °C and nearly 100% NO conversion at 378–492 °C, and also presented high catalytic activity even under a high space velocity of 50 000 h−1. Furthermore, the stability of the catalyst was excellent even after aging at 900 °C for 5 h. The large amount of chemisorbed oxygen species, good low temperature reduction performance as well as abundant acid sites enhanced the catalytic efficiency for simultaneous PM and NOx abatement over the 3DOM 0.8% W/Ce0.8Zr0.2O2 material; this is a promising catalyst for application in exhaust purification.


The largest nonflying ground beetle commonly found in the vicinity of Austin, Tex., is Pasimachus californicus (Chaudoir), a spunky black insect possessing rather large mandibles which can easily draw blood from the incautious collector. These beetles sometimes accumulate in street curbings adjacent to open fields, especially streets of recent construction. Being unable to successfully negotiate the sides of the curbing, they fall on their backs and struggle until death overtakes them, apparently from dehydration. The best time for collecting this species seems to be in the spring and fall, although I have found them in every month of the year except December. The lone January specimen was found wintering under a largeflat rock.


The article describes a system-structural analysis of 311 German pseudo-borrowings. The research objective was to classify pseudo-borrowed onyms in the German literary language as pseudo-borrowings or proper names. Pseudo-borrowed onyms are different from assimilates, erratives, pseudomotives, homeonims, memorative fictionyms, and pseudo-Latin cognomens. The sampling was based on six criteria: 1) the onyms developed from a morpheme of the donor language; 2) they violate the principle of reversibility; 3) they belong to the category of  nomina propria ; 4) they are capitalized; 5) they belong to the German language; 6) they imitate a foreign language. German pseudo-borrowed onyms are represented by fourteen segments, the largest of which are the Maccaronian (Common Romanian) segments of pseudo-Latinisms (88 units, 28.3 %) and pseudo-Italianisms (80 units, 25.7 %). The largest onymic subclasses are represented by anthroponyms in the subset of realonyms (36 units, 11.6 %) and fictionyms (149 units, 47.9 %), as well as pragmonyms in the pseudo-Italian segment (70 units, 22.5 %). Fictionyms (166 units, 53 %) dominate over realonyms and come from translated fiction. Pseudo-borrowed onyms differ from appellants in their word formation because they are not tied to prestigious donor languages. The hybrid specificity of pseudo-borrowed onyms make it impossible to localize them as onymic or appellative.


Learning of network embedding with vector-based node representation has attracted wide attention over the decade. It differs from the general setting of graph node embedding whereby the node attributes are also considered and yet may incur privacy issues. In this paper, we depart from the classic CPU/GPU architecture to consider the well-established network alignment problem based on network embedding, and develop a quantum machine learning approach with a low qubit cost for its near-future applicability on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. Specifically, our model adopts the discrete-time quantum walk (QW) and conducts the QW on the tailored merged network to extract structure information from the two aligning networks without the need for quantum state preparation which otherwise requires high quantum gate cost. Then the quantum states from QW are fed to a quantum embedding ansatz (i.e., parameterized circuit) to learn the latent representation of each node. The key part of our approach is to connect these two quantum modules to achieve a pure quantum paradigm without involving classical modules. To our best knowledge, there has not been any classic-quantum hybrid approach to network embedding, let alone a pure quantum paradigm being free from the bottleneck of communication between classic devices and quantum devices, which is still an open problem. Experimental results on two real-world datasets show the effectiveness of our quantum embedding approach in comparison with classical embedding approaches. Our model is readily and efficiently implemented in Python with a full-amplitude simulation of the QW and the quantum circuit. Therefore, our model can be readily deployed on an existing NISQ device with all the circuits provided, and only 13 qubits are needed in the experiments, which is rarely attained in existing quantum graph learning works.


Good news if you use an electronic health record (EHR) system?and a tip on how best to use it, courtesy of the Sage Healthcare Insights survey: Patients feel more comfortable with physicians who use an EHR system, and they believe that the information contained in the medical record is more accurate when they physically see the information being entered electronically.


Discussing theory in anthropology often means to discuss the discipline as a whole. Another possibility is to pinpoint certain topics to thoroughly explore them. But my option here is located more within the tradition of a sociology of knowledge. I view the issues that anthropologists address, their theoretical preoccupations, contributions to knowledge, dilemmas and mistakes, the heuristic and epistemological capabilities of the discipline, as embedded in certain social, cultural and political dynamics that unfold in contexts which, in turn, are differently and historically structured by changing power relations. The main sociological and historical forces that traverse anthropology's political and epistemological fields are connected to the dynamics of the world system and to those of the nation-states, especially regarding the changing roles "otherness" or "alterity" may play in such international and national scenarios.