Isotopic abundances of germanium were determined by secondary ion mass spectrometry. A pellet of 99.999% pure germanium was used as a sample. It was bombarded by 12 keV oxygen primary ion beam whose diameter and current were 70-100 μm and 1-5×10-7 A on the sample surface. The isotopic ratios obtained are 70Ge/74Ge=0.58303±0.00033, 72Ge/74Ge=0.76341±0.00028, 73Ge/74Ge=0.21458±0.00013 and 76Ge/74Ge=0.20771±0.00011. The isotopic abundances determined are 70Ge: 21.058±0.012, 72Ge: 27.573±0.011, 73Ge: 7.750±0.005, 74Ge: 36.118±0.006, and 76Ge: 7.502±0.004 in percent.


Abstract:Written in an effort "to frame questions of culture and power in different terms" from those of Edward Said, this case study of Ottoman Alexandria before the French invasion in 1798 (identified by Said as the "launchpad of modern Orientalism") reveals "lines between empowered and powerless, even East and West," blurred or erased by "cosmopolitan mixing.… So much attention is paid to the way that empires divide people against each other that it is easy to forget how empires have also brought populations together, forcibly at times, yet often with enduring effects. The cosmopolitan possibilities of empire, as opposed to narrower definitions of national belonging, would shape the life of Etienne Roboly," whose complicated existence in Egypt—as a citizen of both or neither the French state and/nor the Ottoman—is the focus of this study. The author asks her readers to glean from this article two "lessons": first, that "nation-states, as the briefest glance at twentieth-century history will confirm, have often proved themselves hostile toward minority populations. Yet we have also been taught to see empires as evil things, which makes the second lesson—that empires have sometimes been more accommodating of difference than many independent nations—seem somewhat counterintuitive.… The history of Alexandria invites us to look at how empire may provide an umbrella of common security for a range of cultures to coexist, and even at times intermingle." Still, "the larger question is whether and how inclusionary definitions of belonging can be made to oughtweigh exclusionary ones," regardless of the political context.


I will refrain from venturing into the field of legislation because it was extensively dealt with today and also because Law can vary vastly from one country to another. As an example, let me refer to the problem of identifying the responsible people: Greek Law accepts that, whereas the CEO is clearly responsible for any wrongdoing by his enterprise, he cannot know every and all decisions taken in the Corporation. Law therefore provides the possibility to nominate the Senior Officers in charge of-say-Sales and competition, Labour matters and Accident Prevention, Financial and Management Accounting, Environmental Protection and so on. The CEO is not thereby exonerated — he will be required to prove that Corporate Policies and his own instructions did not condone or encourage any wrongdoing. Yet the man-in-charge, in every case, is clearly identifiable.


There are abundant examples of figures of speech in the widely used teaching material" College English". This paper analyses the figures of speeches in the material and expounds the great significance of analyzing them in college English teaching.


Population aging in Brazil and worldwide is leveraging and with it the population growth of the frail elderly, which increases the demand of families and professionals who use various approaches to intervene in the quality of life of this population. Considering this significant number, reviews and ergonomic adjustments must be made. The wheelchair is a non-invasive hospital medical equipment, or used on the outside of the patient support. Being one of the resources of assistive technology, is configured as a facilitator in carrying out everyday activities of people who have difficulties or restrictions in mobility. This research aimed to investigate the physical implications concerning the existence of pain or discomfort in the elderly who use daily wheelchair. The method used for assessment and verification of such occurrences was the interview of application, where it was possible to verify claims that highlight the need for ergonomic fit in the machine.


Given the characteristics of electricity and the reforms that this sector has undergone, there is still a lot of discussion regarding the best way of ensuring adequate supply in such an environment. The situation is even more critical for countries like Colombia with high dependence on hydro resources and susceptibility to drastic climatic events typical of the region. This paper analyses how generators recover their costs in competitive electricity markets, how the necessary incentives are set and the different ways in which the regulator can ensure generation adequacy. Among these are market derivatives as well as administrative mechanisms. As it will be shown, a market mechanism is capable of ensuring the necessary reliability at an efficient price.


An experiment was performed in order to determine the magnitude of that portion of dry, kinetic friction which is contributed by Coulomb friction, or the mechanical interlocking of surface irregularities. The results indicate that the work of the mechanical component of friction accounts for only a few percent of the work of total measured friction.


THIS number of the REVIEW is the seventh in the series dealing with growth and development. The current number shows a continuation of the trends first noted about a decade ago; namely (1) an increased interest in research pertaining to the personal, social, and physiological aspects of development, and (2) a declining interest in research pertaining to mental and motor development. The triennium covered by this number of the growth and development series may be characterized by (1) prolific writing, especially in the area of personal, social, and physiological aspects of development, but with no startling positive results; (2) an increasing interest in changes which take place in later life; (3) the absence of basically new tools, new techniques, new methods of analysis and procedure—with but few exceptions, the studies reported in this number of the REVIEW are repetitions of, or elaborations upon, similar studies reported earlier; and (4) a wide variation in the quality of research reported—unfortunately, the outstandingly good pieces of research are not numerous. In line with policies established by previous committees on Growth and Development, the current number has excluded numerous studies dealing with specific manual skills where there is no consideration of changes with age. With the exception of a few in which there is a definite contribution to an understanding of the normal aging processes, studies involving clinical cases, in general, have not been included.


A comprehensive assessment of important science and societal issues that are likely to arise in marine science and ocean management in the first 20 years of the 21st century. The text brings together the world's ocean scientists and researchers to analyze the state of marine science and technology, identify key scientific issues for sustainable development, and evaluate the capability of scientists, governments and private-sector stakeholders to respond to those issues. It is sponsored by The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE).


The idea and organization of the CAD network collaborative design are introduced, at the same time the exchange of information used in design by internet is analyzed. The method of CAD network collaborative design through application of AutoCAD2004 is discussed. And exchange and connection are realized. It can promote share of resource and information.


The constant quest of low production cost and short time-to-market, together with the growing complexity of integrated circuits led to the globalization of the supply chain of silicon devices. One of the threats related to such a supply chain are Hardware Trojan Horses (HWTs), that, in the last years, became a serious issue not only for academy but also for industry. Although a large number of methodologies for HWTs prevention, detection and tolerance have been proposed, there is a lack of well-recognized methods and metrics to evaluate their effectiveness. In this paper we present HATE 1, a HArdware Trojan Emulation Environment. The goal of HATE is twofold: (i) the tool can be used to analyse whether a given HWT (or a given set of HWTs) is activated by a software running on a microprocessor, and (ii) it can be used to assess HWTs detection techniques in microprocessors against a set of generated HWTs (either randomly or not). HATE represents, in our vision, a step towards the definition of a reference benchmarking scenario, to provide a comparative ground for evaluating different proposals focusing on HWT detection/tolerance. A subset of MiBench programs have been used to analyse the efficiency of HATE.1HATE is freely available at http://cassano.faculty.polimi.it/


Calculation of the winding losses of high frequency transformer based on one‐dimensional field analysis is normally inapplicable for complex winding configurations. This paper presents a matrix modeling method which can produce a generalized mechanism to solve the AC winding losses. The transformer is modeled in a matrix connected filament. This is an alternative method to the finite element and is a filament approach. Experimental results and computation results using the proposed method are found to have good agreement.


Recently, smart parking management systems built on deep learning frameworks have achieved promising performance. However, most of them are designed for the day-time. To help these systems work at night also, extra labor-intensive efforts and extra training time are needed. In this paper, we propose a novel framework based on day-night domain adaptation, feature disentanglement, and style transfer to transfer the knowledge from day to night. The key idea behind our framework is to embed images into two spaces. A domain-invariant space captured shared feature for classification, and a domain-specific space characterized the day or night style. By taking advantage of the exchange of two domains, our framework not only transfers knowledge and labels across domains but also synthesizes the style-transferred images. These features enable our parking lot system to detect the status of spaces at night time in a more efficient way. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our framework for day-to-night adaptation regarding status classification. It also shows visually pleasing results after image-to-image translation.


PART I: A PSYCHO-SOCIAL RESEARCH PROJECT EXAMPLE: INTRODUCING PRINCIPLES, METHODS AND PRACTICES 1. Introduction: Knowing Mothers, Researching Becoming 2. Empirical Psycho-social Research: Design and Psychoanalytically Informed Principles 3. The Reality of Being a Young Girl: Agency, Imagination and Objectivity PART II: THREE PSYCHO-SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWING AND BECOMING: PSYCHOANALYTICALLY INFORMED THEORISING IN MOTHERS' AND RESEARCHERS' KNOWING 4. Weird Beyond Words: The Transgressive Corporeality of Pregnancy and Com-passion Based Ethics 5. Psychoanalytically Informed Data Analysis 6. Scenic Writing and Scenic Understanding PART III: ANALYSING THE POLITICS OF THE MATERNAL PSYCHO-SOCIALLY 7. 'I'm Not the Mother Type': Gender Identity Upheaval 8. Theorising Maternal Becoming Psycho-socially Conclusion 9. Unfinished Business


Purpose
The loading mechanism of textures considering turbulence has not been fully covered. This paper aims to investigate the effect of turbulence on the textured loading capacity under water lubrication and to analyze the causes of the turbulence effect.

Design/methodology/approach
Computational fluid dynamic models with different textured shapes are established after validation. The transition shear stress transport (SST) model, which is suitable for predicting the transition process of fluid from laminar state to turbulent state, is adopted in the present study. To illustrate the effect of turbulence, the loading capacity of textures predicted by transition SST model and laminar model is compared.

Findings
The loading capacity is higher after considering turbulence because more lubricant enters into textures and the flow rate of lubricant to textured outlet increases. There exists an optimal textured depth ratio and density for loading capacity and the change of flow state would not affect the optimal values. The degree of fluid blockage at textured outlet has a dominant influence on loading capacity. As the textured shape changes to triangle or ellipse from rectangle, the vortices at the textured bottom move forward and the blockage at a textured outlet is enhanced, which makes loading capacity improved under the action of blocking effect.

Originality/value
The enhancement of the blocking effect is found to be crucial to the improvement of textured loading capacity after considering turbulence. Present research provides references to understand the loading mechanism of textures under turbulent conditions.

Peer review
The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/ILT-04-2020-0149/


Recent studies on all-optical regeneration of (D)BPSK and (D)QPSK signals, especially those using fiber nonlinearities, are reviewed. Issues in using the regenerators in real systems are also discussed.


Background Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and practical treatment method for patients with severe, refractory, or emergency psychiatric disorders. However, ECT is often associated with hemodynamic fluctuations. Objective This study aims to investigate the patterns of hemodynamic changes in patients undergoing ECT. Methods This longitudinal study was conducted in Shafa Hospital, a referral and academic center in Rasht City, Iran, in 2020. The hemodynamic parameters, including heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and mean arterial pressure (MAP) were recorded before the induction of anesthesia (T0), 1 min after the induction of anesthesia (T1), 1 min after the seizure (T2), and 15 min after the wakefulness (T3). The trend of changes of these parameters was compared in the above-mentioned time intervals. Results The data from 126 patients were analyzed. Most of the cases were diagnosed with a psychotic disorder of schizophrenia (59.5%) and a minority had major depression (14.3%). Meanwhile, 15.9% of the patients suffered from comorbidities. In terms of SBP, DBP, and MAP, the trend of changes was significant (P=0.0001) at four measurement point times, but this was not true for HR (P=0.74). However, all changes in the hemodynamic parameters were kept in the normal range. Conclusion Our study showed that despite the fluctuations in the hemodynamic parameters during ECT, patient management was acceptable as a result of the teamwork and appropriate interaction of psychiatric and anesthesia teams.


Gábor Maksay Dept of Molecular Pharmacology, Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 17, 1525 Budapest, Hungary. Inhibitory neurotransmission in the mammalian CNS is mainly mediated by the amino acids GABA and glycine, which activate ionotropic GABAA receptors and glycine receptors (GlyRs), respectively. Both types of receptors are members of the group I ligand-gated ion channel superfamily [1]. GABAA receptors constitute major targets of widely used drugs such as barbiturates and benzodiazepines, whereas clinically applicable compounds that target GlyRs have yet to be identified. In this article, recent results from studies of the molecular pharmacology of mammalian GlyRs are summarized, and potential leads for clinically useful GlyR modulatory agents are discussed. Glycinergic synapses are found in many regions of the CNS but are particularly abundant in spinal cord, brain stem, caudal brain and retina, where they are implicated in the control of motor rhythm generation, coordination of reflex responses and processing of sensory signals [2]. The transmitter function of glycine has been studied mostly in spinal cord, where glycine mediates reciprocal inhibition in stretch reflex circuits via interneurons in addition to recurrent inhibition of motoneurons via Renshaw cells [2]. Decreases in glycine-mediated input therefore result in pathologies of muscle tone regulation [3]. The roles of glycine in sensory processing range from modulation of neuronal circuits in the central auditory pathway and of receptive fields in the retina to suppression of nociceptive signals in spinal structures. These multiple functions of glycine transmission correlate with the localization of different types of GlyRs in the respective brain regions [4,5]. Compounds that selectively potentiate GlyR responses are therefore potential therapeutics for spasticity, muscle relaxation and pain relief.


Based on Class-AB complementary symmetry power amplifier circuit theory,the designed low-frequency power amplifier using an integrated operational amplifier NE5532 as 3-level preamplifier circuit to amplify the weak signal effectively.The last stage power amplifier tube using high-power MOS transistors IRF9 640 and IRF 640 right tube constitutes a push-pull output circuit and can reduce the non-linear distortion effectively.An integrated filter MAX 261 was used to eliminate frequency signal interference.The amplifier output power,the supply power of DC power,efficiency of detection and display of the machine were controlled by the microcontroller AT89C51.In addition,the built-in DC power was made for the system to ensure the power output of the load.


The assumption that stock prices follow a random walk has critical implications for investors and firms. Among those implications is the fact that data frequencies and investment horizons are irrelevant (as defined below) when evaluating the risk of a security. However, if stock prices do not follow a random walk, ignoring either issue may lead investors to make misleading decisions. Using data from the first half of _the decade for thirteen European securities markets, I first argue that stock prices in these markets (not surprisingly) do not follow a random walk. Then, I show that investors that assume otherwise are bound to underestimate the total and systematic risk (and overestimate the compound and risk-adjusted returns) of European stocks. The underestimation of risk ranges between .53% and 2.94% a month, and averages 1.25% a month.


W estudy theelasticity ofrandom bernetworks.Starting from a m icroscopicpictureofthenona ne deform ation elds we calculate the m acroscopic elastic m oduliboth in a scaling theory and a self-consistent e ective m edium theory. By relating non-a nity to the low-energy excitations of thenetwork (\ oppy-m odes")we achievea detailed characterization ofthe non-a nedeform ations presentin brousnetworks.


ABSTRACT For many years accounting educators, professionals, and the small business community have called for different auditing requirements for small businesses. The solution was to replace section 320, "The Auditor's Study and Evaluation of Internal Control," of SAS No. 1 with the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 55, Consideration of the Internal Control Structure in a Financial Statement Audit, effective January 1, 1990. SAS No. 55 includes two exceptions that directly relate to small businesses. These exceptions allow the auditor to make adjustments in the small business audit. The requirements that the auditor meet the Generally Accepted Auditing standards have not changed. The small business community is likely to notice the difference only if the exceptions allow audits of some small businesses that were previously not large enough to incorporate a formal organizational structure or use extensive accounting procedures. INTRODUCTION Responsibilities of the auditor have become a major issue within the last decade. Users are putting more confidence in financial statements to help them make financial decisions, which puts more pressure on the auditor to make sure that these financial statements are presented correctly. Internal control of companies is one specific area where auditors have increased their focus. The study and evaluation of internal accounting control is a fundamental part of every audit. "The nature, extent and timing of the audit tests depend on the reliance that the auditor places on the strength of internal accounting controls" (Grollman and Colby, 1978). Internal control is also important because "good internal control . . . can help to increase productivity by minimizing waste, unintentional errors, and fraud" (Snyder, Broome and Zimmerman, 1989). MAIN ISSUE Most of the auditing pronouncements give a general list of requirements that companies must meet in relation to internal control. This list has brought about cries of anger from small businesses and the independent CPAs who perform audit services for small businesses. The two major distinguishing characteristics of small businesses are concentration in one or a few individuals and the limited segregation of duties and functions in the accounting system (Anderson, Dycus and Welker, 1982; Monk and Tatum, 1988; Raiborn, Guy and Zulinski, 1983). These groups argue that these pronouncements were written with the large businesses in mind, which in turn means that the list of requirements focus on auditing the large business's internal control structure. These groups also argue that small businesses are not equipped to meet these requirements. An auditor, after performing the audit, can either present an unqualified opinion, a qualified opinion, an adverse opinion, or a disclaimer. An unqualified opinion is given when the "financial statements taken as a whole present fatly the financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles" (Ricchiute, 1989). An adverse opinion is given when the "financial statements do not present fairly the financial position, results of operations, or cash flows in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles" (Ricchiute, 1989). A disclaimer of opinion means that an "auditor does not express an opinion on the financial position, results of operations, or cash flows" (Ricchiute, 1989). The small businesses are worried that since they cannot meet the requirements presented in the auditing pronouncements, the auditor will have to present a qualified opinion on the small businesses' financial statements. "A qualification should be the exception rather than the rule" (Anderson et al., 1982). Since small businesses use their financial statements to acquire loans or increase investment in companies just as large firms do, a qualified opinion might hamper these business transactions because users will question the accuracy of the financial statements. …


Driver Assistance Systems support drivers in their task of driving a vehicle. There are various applications which work on different levels of assistance and perform different types of assistance. All these applications need some information of their current situation. Adaptive Cruise Control for instance senses the velocity of the preceding vehicle and adapts the own velocity accordingly. Currently one application senses merely its required information and performs an assessment of the situation merely on the basis of this information. By bringing Situation Awareness to the Driver Assistance System all applications have access to a suitable situation description and may assess a situation more precisely and reliably at an early stage. Cooperation of distributed Situation-Aware Driver Assistance Systems allows the exchange of information on the current situation and thus enhances the quality of the situation description.
The objective of this paper is to present the concept of Cooperative Situation Awareness for Driver Assistance Systems that enables the deployment of more sophisticated and novel applications. These future applications will increase safety and efficiency on road.


In this preliminary report, our model of VBMT across a semiallogeneic barrier consistently brings about antigen-specific host tolerance with absence of GVHD in the majority of recipients. No immunologic or radiologic intervention was utilized. These results emphasized a potentially important mechanism for low-level stable mixed lymphoid chimerism (SMLC) in tolerance induction, independent of immune suppressive effects due to irradiation or immunopharmacologic intervention.


Single-mode optical fibers (SMFs) have become the backbone of modern communication systems. However, their throughput is expected to reach its theoretical limit in the nearest future. Utilization of multimode fibers (MMFs) is considered as one of the most promising solutions rectifying this capacity crunch. Nevertheless, differential equations describing light propagation in MMFs are a way more sophisticated than those for SMFs, which makes numerical modelling of MMF-based systems computationally demanding and impractical for the most part of realistic scenarios. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are known to outperform conventional numerical approaches in various domains and have been successfully applied to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) describing light propagation in SMFs. A comprehensive study on application of PINN to the multimode NLSE (MMNLSE) is still lacking though. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to deploy the paradigm of PINN for MMNLSE and to demonstrate that a straightforward implementation of PINNs by analogy with NLSE does not work out. We pinpoint all issues hindering PINN convergence and introduce a novel scaling transformation for the zero-order dispersion coefficient that makes PINN capture all relevant physical effects. Our simulations reveal good agreement with the split-step Fourier (SSF) method and extend numerically attainable propagation lengths up to several hundred meters. All major limitations are also highlighted.


The invention comprises: a baseboard whose one end has a motor supporting block, and another end has a load simulating unit. Said load simulating unit comprises a holding frame; the holding frame is secured on the baseboard; there is a friction plate on the holding frame; at one side of the holding frame there is a friction wheel synchronously rotating along with the output axis of the motor; the friction wheel is closely against the friction plate; a hold down mechanism is connected on the friction plate.


Case report The case presented is of a 42-year-old woman, para 3 who presented to the gynaecology clinic with a 5-year history of heavy periods and spasmodic dysmenorrhoea. Examination revealed an 8-week-sized uterus. Baseline investigations including blood count, ultrasound scan and pipelle biopsy were carried out, and she was treated initially with cyclokapron with no success. Scan revealed a fibroid uterus and the endometrial biopsy reported proliferative endometrium. She was counselled regarding the use of a mirena intrauterine system. This was inserted as an outpatient procedure. The following day she developed an itchy eruption on her shins spread later to the thighs, chest and arms. She was referred to the consultant dermatologist. She did not have a history of allergies or skin rashes. On the basis of the nature and distribution of the lesion a diagnosis of autoimmune progesterone dermatitis was made. She was treated with local steroids and oral antihistamines. This initially alleviated her symptoms but eventually, after 45 days, the IUS had to be removed because of unbearable cutaneous hypersensitivity. Her symptoms resolved after the coil was removed. She subsequently went on to have a hysterectomy for menorrhagia.


BOAL: When I returned in '86 to Rio there was a vice-governor who knew my work. He was doing something important politically, something revolutionary. He made a network of public schools where students-mostly from the slums-had breakfast, classes, lunch, and in the afternoon arts or sports, and then a bath (most of them had no water at home). Then they ate dinner-and some would take food home for children who were not yet old enough to go to school. This program was revolutionary because if a child leads a human life for a few years she will never accept going back to living the inhuman life that most Brazilians live today. The children did not have to steal to eat-they went to school and got fed. It was revolutionary also because they had health care and art. Social-cultural workers"cultural animators"-organized dances, singing, poetry readings, and theatre.


Leader–member exchange (LMX) has been characterized as a form of social support capable of buffering the effects of negative work experiences. However, employees with high-quality relationships with leaders in the organization may have stronger negative reactions when psychological contracts are breached. Thus, while a social support perspective would suggest that LMX minimizes the adverse impact of psychological contract breach on employee performance, a betrayal perspective proposes that high LMX would aggravate the negative effects. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs, results across three samples provided support for the betrayal perspective. That is, breach had a stronger negative relationship with organizational citizenship behaviours and in-role performance under conditions of high LMX. Implications of these results and future research directions are discussed.


Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease that affects millions of individuals across the world and has a significant impact on human existence. Diabetes mellitus is a well-known endocrine condition that is becoming increasingly prevalent in India. In this study, using suitable animal models, researchers evaluated an extract produced from Gymnema Silvestre leaves, Momordica charantia fruit juice extract, and Synzigium cumini seeds extract for pharmacological activities such as antihyperglycemic and antidiabetic activity. Following that, nanoparticles were created and characterised utilising a variety of techniques. Following that, a polyherbal tablet was developed and tested in a variety of pre and post compression conditions. Finally, the pharmacokinetic characteristics of a made-from-scratch polyherbal tablet was compared to a commercially available formulation.


land seismic data is often acquired in a limited form of geometry depending on the equipment availability, accessibility condition, and permission for the survey site. In this situation, refraction analysis should be performed using reflection data because it is impossible to acquire refraction-oriented data due to limited source and receiver geometry. In this study, we aimed to analyze the reliability of the results obtained by refraction traveltime tomography when using reflection data with a limited number of sources and receivers from irregular surface topography. By comparing the inversion result from irregular topography with that from flat surface, we found that the surface topography affects the reliability of the inversion results to some degree. We also found that the number of sources has little effect on the inversion results unless the number of sources are very small. On the other hand, we observed that velocity distortion occurred in the overlapped part of receiver arrays when using a limited number of receivers, and therefore suggested the size of the least overlapping ratio to avoid the velocity distortion. Finally, we performed numerical tests for the model which simulates the surface topography and acquisition geometry of the survey region and verified the reliability analysis of inversion results. We identified reliable areas and suspicious area of the inverted velocity model by applying the analysis results to field data.


In architecture, sparse research has been conducted on the effects of psychometric factors over the stylistic preferences of actors. The overlapping research between psychology and architectural aesthetics shows some consistent relationships between distinct facets of personality and visual preferences [Cleridou and Furnham 2014; Cook and Furnham 2012]. Those findings are incipient and are based on specific architectural styles. In the interest of producing general standard measurements for the architectural stylistic preferences of groups and individuals, this paper explores the following question: 'What aspects of trait personality can predict an actor's preferences for visual complexity in architecture?' The paper starts from the current state of the art in visual cognition, trait theory and complexity, followed by an experiment designed to test correlations between architectural visual preferences for complexity and personality traits. Seven participants had some type of architectural training while the other three were part of the general population. The sample's cultural background varied slightly most having a Romanian, British or Malaysian nationality. The findings describe possible linear relationships between high general complexity and intellect (p=0.004), and respectively broad extroversion (p=0.001). Other findings show possible links between self-consciousness (p=0.016) and high complexity interiors, as well as broad agreeableness (p=0.011) and medium complexity surfaces. Participant rated familiarity might not explain the high significance. The small sample sizes and other limitations are possible causes of the overly optimistic nature of the results. Successful developments in this area are potentially valuable in contemporary industrial research with applications in business intelligence. Other theoretical potential and use scenarios are discussed.


Background: Malnutrition is a major health problem, especially in developing countries. It affects almost 800 million people. Prevalence rates vary among different continents of the world. PEM is undoubtedly the most serious nutritional problem affecting several thousand young children in India. Objective: To find the prevalence of Protein energy malnutrition between urban and rural areas to study the factors associated with PEM among children of age 1 – 5 years in Guntur District. Study design: Cross-sectional study carried out during 01 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2018 in the Department of Paediatrics, KATURI Medical College & Hospital, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Comprised children of age group 1 – 5 years and total of 180 included in this study. Method of Collection of Data: The instrument used is a predesigned and pretested semi structured questionnaire. Physical measurements such as height and weight measured using standard methods. Statistical Analysis: Proportion, Chi square test, Independent 't' test. Results: The prevalence of Protein energy malnutrition is 67.7% (122). The prevalence of PEM is high among rural children (71.1%) compared to urban children (64.4%) and this difference is found to be statistically significant. Many preventable variables are found to be significant associates of Protein energy malnutrition. Study subjects included were both boys and girls, boys constituted 43.3% (78) and girls 56.7% (102). Each Urban and rural area constituted 50% i.e urban – 50%(90) and rural – 50% (90). Among 180 study subjects, 70% of children have MAC more than 13.5cms and 22.3% of children have MAC between 12.5 cms and13.5 cms whereas only 7% of children have MAC less than 12.5%. Mean weight was more among urban children(10.86) compared to rural children(9.54) and also mean height was higher among urban children(84.98) than rural children(81.69).The prevalence of Protein energy malnutrition is 67.7% (122).The prevalence of PEM is high among rural children (71.1%) compared to urban children (64.4%).36% of study subjects have Grade I PEM followed by Grade II (24.6%), Grade III (21.4%) and Grade IV (18.0%).Among urban children Grade I(43.1%) is common whereas among rural children, Grade II and III are common. The prevalence of PEM is high in 2 – 3 years of age group (97.9%). The prevalence of PEM is more among boys (74.3%) compared to girls (62.7%). The prevalence of PEM is more among Hindus (78.9%) compared to Muslims (48.2%). The prevalence of PEM is high among the subjects who belong to family size more than five (72.1%). The prevalence of PEM is high among socioeconomic class IV (82.5%). The prevalence of PEM is high among those study subjects whose fathers are illiterates (76.9%). The prevalence of PEM is high among those study subjects whose mothers are educated up to primary (75.0%). The prevalence is found to be high in those students whose fathers are unemployed (50.0%) /unskilled (69.6%) /semiskilled (68.6%). The prevalence is found to be high in those students whose mothers are unemployed (68.4%) /unskilled (71.2%) /semiskilled (33.3%).The prevalence of PEM is high among study subjects of Nuclear family (76.3%). The prevalence of PEM is more among study subjects mother who had ANC visits of less than 6 (around 80%). There is no statistical difference in prevalence of PEM among study subjects based on mode of delivery. The prevalence of PEM is more among birth weight less than 2.5 kgs (85.4%). The prevalence of PEM is more among study subjects mother who had initiated breast feeding after four hours (85%).The prevalence of PEM is more among study subjects mother who had not fed colostrum (78.5%).The prevalence of PEM is high among non exclusive breast feeding (71%).Housing conditions revealed that prevalence of PEM is more among semi puccka house (73.0%), in adequate ventilation (73.8%), overcrowding (77.2%) and solid fuel user (74.0%). Conclusion: Since it is a cross sectional study, no causal relationships can be established from this study. Dietary intake was assessed by 24-hour recall basis method and application of better and elaborate methods of dietary intake assessment was beyond the scope of the study.


The purpose of this paper is justification of methodological peculiarities of the development trajectories modeling in the multidimensional space from the positions of social geography; their practical application (geodemographic process in Kharkiv region is taken as an example). The object of social geography is social and geographical system and social and geographical process. Combination of natural, social and economic systems in it creates a unique variety of features and properties requiring consideration of a large number of these systems parameters. According to the geographical, system and synergetic approach all these processes are described in hundreds of parameters. Adequate and correct mathematical processing of such actual material is possible only with use of virtual multidimensional geographic space where the mathematical model of the real development trajectory of the object or process is offered. The main estimation parameters are given, in particular the main diagonal in the hypercube of the multidimensional space is considered as the standard of optimal development. Comparison of the real trajectory with the optimal, determining the projection of the vector of development on the optimal trajectory, deviations from the optimal trajectory contain information on the peculiarities of the process.
The proposed method was used for modeling of the geodemographic development trajectory in districts of Kharkiv region for 2002-2015 on the basis of 72 initial statistical parameters which are characterizing this process to demonstrate its peculiarities on the results of certain studies. The grouping of the districts of Kharkiv region, temporal peculiarities are shown, the phases of progressive and regressive demographic development for the studied period are established taking into account a considerable amount of the initial data. Modeling the development path allows us to define a clear perspective, to model and predict further development, to plan the pace of development. It is also a convenient monitoring tool; it also helps to develop scientifically-based management measures, etc.


The soil in the production of clonal seedlings of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) contributes to fusarium and nematodes infestation in commercial crops, and thus the usage of alternative substrates might be a preventive control measure against these pathogens. The aim of this study was to investigate the rhizogenic behavior of the cultivars Bragantina, Iaçará and Guajarina of black pepper in different substrates. The experimental design was in randomized blocks in a 3x4 factorial design (cultivars: Bragantina, Iaçará and Guajarina x substrates: soil + organic compound (18%), vermiculite, carbonized rice hulls and commercial substrate), with four replications of 16 cuttings each. The evaluated characteristics were: survival (%); rooting (basal or nodal) (%); nodal rooting (%); basal rooting (%); number of nodal roots; number of basal roots; total number of roots; length of the largest nodal root (cm); basal root length (cm); nodal root volume (cm3); basal root volume (cm3); Total root volume (cm3); nodal root dry mass (mg); basal root dry mass (mg) and the total root dry mass (mg). There are differences within black pepper cultivars as to the characteristics related to the root system. The vermiculite substrate was the most suitable, and carbonized rice hull is not recommended for the adventitious rooting of cuttings of cultivars Bragantina, Iaçará and Guajarina.


A series of binary transition metal phosphides (Ni3P, Ni12P5, Ni2P, Ni5P4, NiP, NiP2, FeP, FeP2, FeP4, VP2, CoP) were investigated by solid state 31P MAS NMR, leading to rather different lineshapes, shifts, relaxation times, and temperature dependences. The electronic structures of these compounds were computed using various DFT codes, based either on plane wave PAW potentials (VASP) or on all-electron basis sets in the FPLAPW formalism (Wien2K). Depending on the electronic features of the phosphide, self-interaction corrected formalisms (DFT+U or PBE0 hybrid functional) were also used to reach a better description of the electronic ground state and to establish a correlation with the shape and the nature of the NMR signals. As a result of the analysis, the main categories are diamagnetic compounds (FeP4, NiP2) and metallic ones, either real (VP2) or with some electronic localization in band tails (Ni12P5, Ni2P, Ni5P4, NiP) or with spin-polarized conduction bands (CoP, FeP). FeP2 appears somewhat ambiguou...


sistent, organized, meaningful ways" (p. 115). The desired wholeness is not a selfcontained wholeness, however, but one that seeks to identify with and point to what God is already doing in the world. Effective pastoral supervision, therefore, becomes a vehicle through which individual Christians grow, the body of Christ is built up, and the ministry to which individual and community alike are called is advanced. The brevity of the above sketch of the content and direction of Pohly's argument does not begin to capture either the practical wisdom or the theological depth of his work. At the same time, the value of his work is not that what he says is particularly new but that he does not see supervision confined to an academic environment or a relationship between two professional persons. Rather, supervision is viewed as the work of the whole people of God and intended to equip all persons for ministry. Especially helpful are the following emphases in no particular order. Pastoral supervision assumes mutuality, not hierarchy; in other words, it is covenantal more than contractual relativizing distinctions based primarly on status or role. Pastoral supervision is engaged in by and benefits the whole people of God, not just the professional leaders in the church. Pastoral supervision has as much to do with identity formation as it does with task performance. Thus, unless the whole person of both supervisee and supervisor are engaged, supervision is missing its mark. Finally, pastoral supervision is explicitly theological proceeding out of a discernible theological framework and bringing theological considerations to bear on the specific ministry events that form the content of the supervisory conversations. While Pohly's work will be of particular interest to those persons in the church in traditional positions of supervisor and supervisee whether in congregations, seminaries,or judicatory offices, its benefit to the church will be most far-reaching if it is not confined to such persons. All persons can benefit from supervisory relationships, both as supervisor and supervisee. It is a way of enhancing the ministry of the whole church, thus validating the basic premise of Pohly's book, namely "that pastoral and supervisory tasks are integral to the church and inseparably related to each other" (p. 100). -RANDY A. NELSON, PH.D.


Diabetes is one of the major health issues globally. Type 1 diabetes mellitus develops due to the destruction of pancreatic β cells. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) having remarkable self‐renewal and differentiation potential, can regenerate β cells. MSCs preconditioned with bioactive small molecules possess enhanced biological features and therapeutic potential under in vivo environment. Interestingly, compounds of naphthoquinone class possess antidiabetic and anti‐inflammatory properties, and can be explored as potential candidates for preconditioning MSCs. This study analyzed the effect of lawsone‐preconditioned human umbilical cord MSCs (hUMSCs) on the regeneration of β cells in the streptozotocin (STZ)‐induced Type 1 diabetes (T1D) rats. hUMSCs were isolated and characterized for the presence of surface markers. MSCs were preconditioned with optimized concentration of lawsone. T1D rat model was established by injecting 50 mg/kg of STZ intraperitoneally. Untreated and lawsone‐preconditioned hUMSCs were transplanted into the diabetic rats via tail vein. Fasting blood sugar and body weight were monitored regularly for 4 weeks. Pancreas was harvested and β cell regeneration was evaluated by hematoxylin and eosin staining, and gene expression analysis. Immunohistochemistry was also done to assess the insulin expression. Lawsone‐preconditioned hUMSCs showed better anti‐hyperglycemic effect in comparison with untreated hUMSCs. Histological analysis presented the regeneration of islets of Langerhans with upregulated expression of βcell genes and reduced expression of inflammatory markers. Immunohistochemistry revealed strong insulin expression in the preconditioned hUMSCs compared with the untreated hUMSCs. It is concluded from the present study that lawsone‐preconditioned hMSCs were able to exhibit pronounced anti‐hyperglycemic effect in vivo compared with hUMSCs alone.


Various sources report a low adoption of IT-based tools in emergency response, as well as a negative attitude of responders to such tools. The responders' needs, simply put, are not met by the IT-based tools offered to them. Observing this situation through a user-centered design lens, we note that such problems typically stem from insufficient or erroneous context analysis. The deficiencies become even more pronounced when considering that emergency response represents a complex, adaptive socio-technical system. We also note that the appropriate methodology for designing ER systems is rarely discussed in literature and in research papers. To fill that void, the present paper discusses a minimal set of techniques that, both in our experience and according to state of the art practice, can guide developers towards positively-accepted IT systems for emergency response.


A novel tube-shape thermoelectric module is fabricated from four ring-shaped thermoelements and its performance in electrical power generation is evaluated by measuring the power output as a function of temperature differences across the device. A theoretical model of the proposed configuration is established and employed for data analysis. The result indicates that a tube-shape thermoelectric module could achieve similar performance to that of a conventional plate-like module, and has an advantage in applications when heat flows in a radial direction.


The adsorption of cellulases from Trichoderma viride was studied during the hydrolysis of newspaper. By measuring individual enzyme activities it was found that in the early stage of hydrolysis enzyme components showing CxA; were adsorbed preferentially to those showing C1A; afterwards ths situation was inverted. Electrophoretic resolution of proteins in hydrolysates showed a continuous decrease of enzyme proteins in solution, and furthermore suggested that the enzymes once adsorbed remained immobilized on the substrate (even after extensive digestion). Experiments to recover the enzyme that had remained in solution after typical hydrolysis showed a potential saving of up to 40%.


The purpose of the present monographic study is to explain the uses of Big Data in the area of customer relations within the financial companies of Colombia, in addition to identifying the algorithms and challenges involved in the implementation of these solutions.
Thus, this document begins with a definition of the key concepts of Big Data, such as the origin of the data and the advantages that these companies can obtain when applying Big Data techniques.
Since the business areas of a Bank in which Big Data solutions can be implemented are very extensive, this monograph will only address the Customer Relations area, which will take into account: The Acquisition of New Customers, Customer Loyalty and Customer Retention. Each of them will explain what data and analytical techniques can be used to meet the objectives of the same


ABSTRACT The sovereign debt crisis since the late 2000s in the Euro Area revealed that, in reality, there are two monetary unions in Europe: the core and the periphery. The core-north countries have sounder fiscal balances and lower inflation rates, whereas the periphery-south ones are more prone to higher inflation and public deficits. The principal aim of this paper is to explore which countries handle the nominal exchange rate of the euro. By doing this we will effectively challenge the statement '.one size fits all' upon which the euro project was built. We used the real exchange rates of the initial 12 Eurozone members as an empirical instrument. Our evidence is based on the bivariate regression analysis and the Asymmetric Component GARCH (AC-GARCH) model. We discovered that the countries of the Eurozone core influence more the euro nominal exchange rate than the periphery ones. In addition, the euro is more vulnerable to the volatility shocks of the German and the French real exchange rates.


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 Habitat fragmentation is hypothesized to influence movements of animals between isolated habitat fragments and to affect survival of animals moving between fragments. Translocation experiments can provide quantitative information on movements and survival. We assessed potential barriers to dispersal and survival of pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis), a species of conservation concern that is hypothesized to be sensitive, after translocation, to fragmentation of its sagebrush habitats. We measured homing tendency and estimated survival of pygmy rabbits after short-distance (1–2 km) experimental translocations at sites in southeastern Oregon. We captured, radio-tagged, and translocated 59 pygmy rabbits across 3 landscape categories of habitat fragmentation. We used logistic regression to compare among landscapes the odds of homing, after accounting for sex and displacement distance of individuals. We used known-fate models in program MARK to estimate survival rates of rabbits after translocation. Fifteen percent of translocated pygmy rabbits successfully homed to within 150 m of their original capture locations. Individuals translocated across fragmented landscapes with patchy cover of big sagebrush were the most likely to home, whereas rabbits translocated across relatively continuous big sagebrush cover bisected by a road were least likely to home. We also found that pygmy rabbits that homed had higher survival rates than those that did not return to their hoirie areas, and rabbits that settled near roads had lower survival rates than those that did not settle near roads. The proximity of the largest patch of big sagebrush also had a positive influence on the survival of rabbits after translocation. Our results indicate that fragmentation does not necessarily impede movements nor does it necessarily reduce survival.


Background: Rheumatologists generally view their primary goal as control of inflammation in order to prevent long-term damage, and quantitative assessment involves measures of inflammatory activity (lab tests, joint counts, and indices). Although structural damage and patient distress (fibromyalgia, depression, etc.) are widely recognized, these problems generally are described narratively, and not assessed quantitatively. Recent advances in control of inflammation, as well as increased degenerative diseases in an aging population and recognition of a high prevalence of fibromyalgia, may have shifted rheumatologists' patient mix more prominently toward damage and distress vs inflammation. Objectives: To analyze physician global assessment (DOCGL) on a 0–10 visual analog scales (VAS), and 3 additional 0–10 VAS for inflammation, damage, and distress, as well as estimates of the proportion of each to explain DOCGL. Methods: Rheumatologists at one academic site complete a 0–10 DOCGL VAS, 3 further 0–10 VAS to assess inflammation (reversible disease) (DOCINF), joint and other organ damage (irreversible disease) (DOCDAM), and patient distress (fibromyalgia, depression), etc. (DOCSTR), in routine care. The proportion of DOCGL attributed to inflammation, damage, and distress (total=100%) also is estimated. Mean values were analyzed in a cross-sectional study of 570 patients, and compared in subgroups with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), or fibromyalgia (FM), using t tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results: Mean DOCGL VAS was 4.4/10 in all patients, 4.4 in 131 with OA, 4.6 in 98 with RA, and 5.2 in 89 with FM (table 1). Highest mean scores were seen for DOCINF in RA, DOCDAM in OA, and DOCSTR in FM (p<0.001), indicating face validity. Nonetheless, mean DOCDAM was higher than DOCINF in all groups, including RA, and mean estimates of the proportion of DOCGL attributed to damage was greater than to inflammation in all groups (table 1). Scores for DOCSTR were higher than for DOCINF in all groups other than RA.Table 1 Mean VAS Scores and % of clinical management decision attributed to inflammation, damage, and distress in patients with rheumatic diseases Mean VAS Scores ALLN=570 RAN=98 OAN=1311 FMN=89 P* VAS DOCGL 4.4 (1.6) 4.6 (1.8) 4.4 (1.5) 5.2 (1.6) 0.04 VAS DOCINF 1.8 (2.0) 2.8 (2.4) 0.7 (1.1) 0.8 (1.3) <0.001 VAS DOCDAM 3.1 (2.2) 3.8 (2.3) 4.4 (1.8) 1.7 (1.9) <0.001 VAS DOCSTR 2.1 (2.9) 1.2 (2.2) 1.5 (2.5) 6.0 (2.5) <0.001 p (DOCINF vs DOCDAM) 0.001 0.01 <0.001 <0.001 p (DOCINF vs DOCSTR) 0.11 <0.001† <0.001 <0.001 Mean % of clinical management decision attributed to… % inflammation 29 (31) 39 (29) 12 (19) 6 (11) <0.001 % damage 48 (35) 52 (30) 73 (31) 18 (23) <0.001 % distress 22 (34) 9 (20) 15 (27) 76 (27) <0.001 *ANOVA – RA vs OA vs FM † -only comparison in which DOCINF higher than DOCSTR Conclusions: VAS scores and estimates of the proportions of DOCGL attributed to damage were higher than for inflammation in all groups, including RA patients as a group. Control of inflammation remains a primary concern for rheumatologists, but has improved considerably in recent years, and damage and distress may have become more prominent in routine care. Systematic quantitation of inflammation, damage, and distress, in addition to DOCGL, appears feasible and of value in routine clinical care. Disclosure of Interest: T. Pincus Shareholder of: Dr. Pincus holds a copyright and trademark for MDHAQ and RAPID3 for which he receives royalties and license fees. All revenue is used to support further development of quantitative questionnaire measures for patients and doctors in clinical rheumatology care., I. Castrejon: None declared, J. Block: None declared


The skeletal metal catalyst for hydrogenation in fixed bed is prepared with the alloy powder of Al and one or several of Ni, Co, Cu and Fe as main material, jelly prepared with pseudothin diasphore and other inorganic matter as adhesive and sesbania powder, carboxymethyl cellulose or other natural or synthetic organic matter as pore template agent, and through direct kneading, formation, roasting and activation with caustic soda solution. The catalyst may be used in hydrogenating saturation of aldehyde, ketone, nitrile and other unsaturated compound in fixed bed, and has excellent activity, selectivity and stability.


At present, in the work to reestablish the market economy order, how to understand the important function of credit in the socialist market economy and strengthen the sense of whole society to be honesty and creditable, and standardize the behaviors of every economic entity, are very crucial topics.


Vocabulary is the most active part of a language,words do not have meanings,but people have meanings for them,the connotative meaning is the intentional meaning which a word suggests or implies.Because of the interdependence and interinfluence between language and culture,people from different cultural backgrounds may have different association for the same colour,and similar association for the different colours in intercultural communication.The interpretation of word's meaning depends on the ethnic culture where the language is spoken.This paper discusses the similarities and dissimilarities of connotation between Chinese and English colour terms from four correlated angles,and summarizes the lexical importance of the comparative study.


Abstract Wear on sugar cane rolls is an expensive maintenance problem for the sugar cane industry. Wear produces loss of sucrose extraction and loss of grip of the roll on the ba-gasse. This paper presents the evaluation of wear and loss of grip of hypoeutectic and hypereutectic high chromium welding deposits applied on ASTM A-36 steel and gray cast iron. A modified ASTM G-65 standard test was used. Wear was produced by the abrasive action of wet bagasse with three levels of mineral extraneous matter. Silica grains with sizes in the range of 0.212-0.300 mm (AFS 50/70) were used as mineral extraneous matter. Grip was evaluated by measuring the torque on the power transmis-sion shaft that moves the specimens. Worn surfaces were characterized by using scanning electron microscopy. Wear was found to increase proportionally related to the mineral extraneous matter content. Geometric changes of the weld deposits related to wear caused grip loss. For low mineral extraneous matter level, wear resistance of carbon steel was greater than that of gray cast iron; whereas the opposite was found for high mineral extraneous matter level.


Introduction : theory of quantum gravity explained that how gravity work in a subatomic universe. This theory explained the existence of gravitons or gravitational wave between two photons.


Considering Utopia from the angle of ideal, people are getting to realize it as a wide spread state of mind. The Utopia of wushu is the ideal and imagination of fighting art, which is reflected in its pursuit of the perfection of fighting skills as well as the comprehensiveness and multiple of its values. Wushu routine embodies its Utopia in the series of imaginary treatment and processing of the movement, which is getting fine, complex and comprehensive. The utopia of fighting context is reflected in people's interpretation of the movements in routine and aesthetic comment on wushu fighting art like Sanda. In addition, the pan harmony's pursuit of the movement, personal relations, the relation between man and nature, and the orientation of value also indicate it. Such a dream of wushu's fighting art is just the consuming content the society provides.


Hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir shows attenuation on seismic section, but the use of attenuation in hydrocarbon exploration is less popular than other attributes. This is due to the sophisticated and advanced technology required to measure attenuation. Meanwhile, some studies were designed to estimate attenuation by formulating rock quality factor equations from a wire-line log, although others run on sandstone samples. Therefore, this study aims to estimate rock quality factors in carbonate rock of Kujung Formation using three different methods, discriminate hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, and identifying the impact of carbonate facies. The results showed the P-wave quality factor method is sensitive to discriminate high gas saturation on facies A. Meanwhile, the QsQp ratio is sensitive to discriminate shale and carbonate. The SQp and SQs methods are sensitive to discriminate hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs and less affected by carbonate facies. The novelty of this is to estimate the rock quality factor from various methods and identify the impact of facies in hydrocarbon identification, especially for carbonate reservoirs in Northeast Java Basin. Therefore, a new understanding of facies impact on rock quality factor contributes to choosing the best methods in discriminating pore-filling fluid identification.


Accelerating agents Accelerant detection in fire residues (Stone, Lomonte, Fletcher, and Lowry), Jan., 78 Identification of accelerants in fire residues by capillary column gas chromatography (Armstrong and Wittkower), Oct., 662 Acetaminophen Quantitative gas chromatographic deterinination of acetaminophen using trimethylanilinium hydroxide as the derivatizing agent (Wahl and Rejent), Jan., 14 Acid phosphatase—see Phosphatases Alcohol Rapid method for blood alcohol determination by headspace analysis using an electrochemical detector (Jones), April, 283 Amphetamine Weakly basic impurities in illicit amphetamine (van der Ark, Verweij, and Sinnema), Oct., 693 Antigen systems Comparison of absorption-inhibition and absorption-elution methods in the letection of ABO(H) antigens found in vaginal samples submitted in sexual offense cases (Graves, White, Fitzpatrick, and Kuo), April, 345 MN determinations in bloodstains—selective destruction of cross-reacting activity (Shaler, Hagins, and Mortimer), July, 570 Arson Accelerant detection in fire residues (Stone, Lomonte, Fletcher, and Lowry), Jan., 78 Identification of accelerants in fire residues by capillary column gas chromatography (Armstrong and Wittkower), Oct., 662 Asphyxiation Death sequence in multiple carbon monoxide asphyxiations (Covey), July, 602 Automobiles Contributors to vehicular violence (Russell), Oct., 804 Automobiles Injuries to cadavers resulting from experimental rear impact (Jones, Bean, and Sweeney), Oct., 730 Trace element analysis of steel sections on either side of an oxygen cut in a vehicle suspected of being stolen (Powell and Robinson), Oct., 707


The present study was conducted to study the effect of coating the seeds with calcium paste before sowing, on plant growth, yield, the contents of some antioxidants and the activities of carbonic anhydrase and nitrate reductase in the Pisum sativum L. leaves under the influence of NaCl stress. NaCl stress reduced plant growth, photosynthetic pigment levels, ascorbic acid and calcium contents, and the activities of carbonic anhydrase and nitrate reductase. In contrast, proline and sodium contents were increased. These results are negatively reflected in the yield components. However, seed coating with calcium paste reduced the toxic effects of NaCl on plant growth and yield by increasing leaf pigments, ascorbic acid, proline contents and enzymatic activities. This study clearly highlights the effects of calcium paste as a seed coat in mitigating the phytotoxicity of NaCl stress in pea plants. Keywords: Calcium paste, carbonic anhydrase, nitrate reductase, ascorbate, growth, yield, Pisum sativum L


Introduction: Myocardial fibrosis is likely an important cause of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD) contributing to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this study we investiga...


Here, we report the synthesis of multiferroic, single-crystalline 1D YbMnO3 in nanoregime. By using ionic chemistry without the use of surfactant or template, we demonstrate control synthesis of one- and two-dimensional nanoparticles of YbMnO3. Magnetic properties of YbMnO3 show influence of morphology. Detailed alternating current (ac) and direct current (dc) magnetic study shows ferromagnetic interaction of Mn3+ and Yb3+ moments in nanorods of YbMnO3 below ∼35 K.


Acknowledgments 1. Militant Labor in Comparative Perspective 2. The Raison d'Etre: Culture or Economics? 3. The Social Organization of the May First Movement 4. The Women Worker's Movement 5. The Parameters of Reform 6. Strikes as Labor Militancy 7. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency 8. The Struggle for an Epoch Notes Index


The development and application of new information and communication technology (ICT) have opened many possibilities in education. In Environmental Education, the use of ICTs can provide awareness, as well as virtual knowledge of differentiated places and their social and environmental problems, no matter how spatially distant users are from the visited environment. Considering these issues from an Environmental Education outlook linked to pedagogy of complexity, a course material was built focused on Victorio Siquierolli Municipal Park in Uberlândia, in the state of Minas Gerais, which images, texts and sounds were implemented in digital form. The hypermedia has been tested and evaluated by students, and the results are the basis for reflection on the hypermedia's architecture and potential for its use in Formal Environmental Education. Key words: formal environmental education, Victorio Siquierolli Park, hypermedia.


With the rapid development of the aquaculture industry and widely adoptions of the high- density and monoculture techniques,various diseases occurred frequently in aquatic animals,which caused serious harm and risks to aquaculture,and is detrimental for healthy development of aquaculture industry. As feed additives,Chinese herb medicines have a great deal of advantages with their little toxicity,low drug resistance and drug residue,good effectiveness,and abundant resources,etc.,which play the dual roles of both nutrient and drug resistance. Chinese herb medicines have increasingly become a new generation of additives which could replace antibiotics,synthetic drugs and hormones. Therefore,Chinese herb medicines have been attracted widespread attentions by feed producers and researchers. This article introduced research progress of Chinese herb medicines on aquaculture from the aspects of their immune enhancement effects and functional mechanisms.


ABSTRACT The Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory (IELab) is a collaborative cloud-computing platform for compiling large-scale, high-resolution, enviro-socio-economic accounts based on multi-region input–output tables and for conducting integrated sustainability assessment projects. These include, for example, assessments of biofuels and low-carbon construction materials or high-resolution waste modelling. This contribution provides a structured review of IELab applications that were published in either peer-reviewed journal papers or in the form of conference proceedings. The main research question posed is 'What are the specific features of IELab that were used in the research and could the research have happened without them?' It is investigated whether the IELab has actually and truly enabled new research. A detailed analysis of IELab characteristics and their usage is presented. The results can help with the design of new research projects and inform existing and prospective users of the IELab about the options for academic research and practical applications.


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The liver of the cow is a cross-road of nitrogen metabolism in dairy cows. Urea is synthesized in the liver as a results of unused degradable protein in the rumen, the absorption of excess amino acids from rumen undegradable protein, and from the catabolism of amino acids that are not utilized for productive purposes. Dietary crude protein (CP, % of DM) is the one single dietary factor most closely associated with milk urea nitrogen (MUN). From a nutrition perspective, MUN of approximately 12 mg/dl associated with a diet of approximately 16.5% CP, indicates an optimal situation that does not penalize milk production, but avoids unnecessary losses of urinary nitrogen. Current data suggest also that MUN increases by approximately 2.0 mg/dl per percentage unit of increase in dietary CP in the range of 15.0% to 18.5%. Target values should be used cautiously to assess test-day MUN on farm because of large variations due to breed, parity, sample type (a.m. vs. p.m.), season, level of production, and in Holstein cows the interactions between milking frequency and season and between milking frequency and level of milk production. Target test-day MUN may not apply to records collected the first 35 days of lactation. During this period, MUN may be more reflective of the energy and protein balance of the cow than the adequacy of dietary inputs. The use of adjustment coefficients to standardize test-day MUN to a common base may facilitate interpretation and improve its dependability as a tool to fine-tune rations on commercial herds. For herds that manage DHI test-day MUN in combination with dietary data from frequent ration analysis, it might be possible to recommend target MUN in the range of 10-12 mg/dl. However in herds without such combined information, we would recommend not to "raise a flag" until MUN is above 14 mg/dl.


There is evidence of women artists producing art works throughout history, but often their work was attributed to their male guardian. However, in a remote rural area of south China women developed...


Sepsis is a life threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. It is a global health care problem and the leading cause of death in ICU patients. A rather unknown but effective mechanism to protect ourselves from such pathogen invasion is immune-adherence clearance (IAC). During IAC pathogens (including bacteria, fungi and viruses) can bind to red blood cells (RBCs) through complement opsonization and subsequent binding to complement receptor 1 (CR1, CD35) expressed on their cell surface. After binding of the pathogen to CR1, the RBCs deliver the pathogens to macrophages of the spleen and liver, where they are phagocytosed and degraded. To study the underlying mechanisms of IAC in more detail, we have developed an assay to monitor the transfer of opsonized pathogens bound to RBCs to human monocytes and/or macrophages under flow conditions, using confocal microscopy. The transfer of a variety of different pathogens, including S. aureus, E. coli and C. albicans, was studied in this assay. When looking at the transfer process in detail, it was noticed that RBC attach to the phagocyte prior to the transfer and remain attached shortly after the transfer, suggesting that RBC might be interacting with phagocytes through adhesion molecules such as integrins to establish firm binding between these two cell types. To test this hypothesis several adhesion molecules, on the phagocytes as well as on the RBC, were blocked by monoclonal antibodies and IAC was quantified. First, complement receptor 3 (CR3, amb2 CD11b/CD18 integrin) an important receptor for adhesion, migration and phagocytosis was blocked by monoclonal antibodies on the phagocytes, after which bacterial transfer was impaired. This indicated that CR3 is crucial for efficient IAC. To confirm the involvement of CR3 in IAC, we analyzed the monocytes of a known LAD-1 patient. This rare immunodeficiency is characterized by an inherited molecular defect of the β2integrin subunit (CD18) which results in impaired adhesion and migration of the patient9s leukocytes and clinically manifests in recurrent infections. Our results showed a highly reduced interaction between the phagocytes and the RBCs, resulting in a decrease in bacterial transfer of >70%. Next, we tested the effects of blocking antibodies directed against several RBC adhesion molecules on the transfer process. When blocking CD147 (Basigin, Ok blood group) and ICAM-4 (CD242, Landsteiner-Wiener), but not Glycophorin A (GPA, CD235a) on the RBC the transfer process was largely inhibited. These findings demonstrate the involvement of direct cell-cell interactions between RBC and macrophages in IAC and provide evidence that RBC adopt a "sticky" phenotype after binding a pathogen through CR1, which enables phagocytes to bind them under flow. We anticipated that blood bank filters (currently used for leukocyte depletion) might be used to bind and filter RBC-pathogen complexes from blood due to their "sticky" phenotype. This was found to be possible in a series of experiments, not only using in vitrogenerated RBC-pathogen complexes, but also using blood from septic patients. Filtration using a standard leukocyte reduction filter showed reduction of RBC-pathogen complexes close to 100%, independent of the type of pathogen. We foresee that this knowledge can be used to develop a generic approach to deplete RBCs carrying pathogens specifically from the blood stream, and thereby filter RBC-pathogen complexes from the blood of patients suffering from sepsis. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Cancers now have been regarded as complex diseases caused by the abnormity of genetics or epigenetics and the most affective disease for the life of human around the world. In the last decade, it is an opportunity to identify more and more novel biomarkers in genome level along with the outbreak of biological data. For the current biomedical field, biomarker identification is also an important step for translational medicine. Meanwhile, earlier studies have identified many cancer biomarkers with genetic alterations. Genomics and epigenomics are playing more and more important roles in the treatment of cancers.


The formal rule of law and the substantive rule of law are two basic classifications of the model of rule of law. The former pays more attention to compliance of rules, but it can easily lead to mechanical rigidity. The latter pays more attention to consideration of situational factors, but it is likely to cause arrogation of rules, and even has the danger of disintegrating the rule of law. From the perspective of legal interpretation and legal paradigm, their differences are investigated more clearly. Different modes of rule of law also have different influences on judicial adjudication, and although these influences have caused difficulties in judicial adjudication, they have also promoted the question of legality, thereby arousing scholars' re-concern about the rule of law in the new context.


There has been a gradual evolution in the provision of forensic mental health services in England and Wales over the past forty years following recommendations of the Butler and Glancy reports in the 1970s, the Reed Report in the 1990s, the Bradley Report in 2009 as well as other Departmental of Health and Home Office reviews and reports.


The variation of ionospheric parameters has crucial role in space weather, communication, and navigation. In this research, we analyze prediction performance of Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) regression model, one of deep learning algorithms, for F2-layer Critical Frequency (f0F2), F2-layer Height of the Peak Electron Density (hmF2), and Total Electron Content (TEC). Hourly f0F2 and hmF2 values of ROME (RO041) digisonde and hourly TEC values of an International GNSS Service (IGS) station with site code M0SE00ITA were obtained for the period between 01.01.2012 and 31.12.2013. Both stations are located in mid-latitude region and are situated very close. The inputs to be trained are the observation periods of data, hourly values of solar index F10.7 and geomagnetic index Ap, present values of f0F2(t), hmF2(t), TEC(t), and their values at t−23h. The output is the predicted values of parameters at t + 1. The 2012 values were used to train the model and they were predicted 1 hour in advance during 2013. Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and correlation values between observed and predicted data were compared for the whole year, summer, winter, and equinox periods. The results showed that prediction performance of model is generally higher in winter period and partially lower in summer period than the others. The statistical results obtained show that the model was generally successful in forecasting multiple ionospheric parameters.


A Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of tasks with small communication delays have to be scheduled on the identical parallel processors of clusters connected by a hierarchical network. The number or processors and of clusters is not limited. The communications have to be scheduled too to avoid contention. Task duplication is allowed. In this paper, we present and prove a new polynomial algorithm that, for a DAG with small communication delays and an architecture with communication channels that can transmit at most one message at any time, computes the earliest start dates of all tasks, avoids message contention, and always deliver messages on time. We also extend this result to architectures that include processors shared by two clusters or more.


As a consequence of the rapid rise of digital protection relays within the Netherlands, Dutch utilities are having increasing doubts about their existing maintenance strategies for protection relays. The utilities have the impression that modern digital relays offer possibilities for improving the efficiency of protection relay maintenance and that the maintenance costs can be reduced by switching over to a new maintenance strategy. In order to underpin this impression KEMA Transmission and Distribution has started a research program. The program has led to the drawing up of a new maintenance strategy for digital relays. In this paper the new maintenance strategy is presented.


The recent trade and productivity literature shows that trade liberalization can lead to productivity gains through increased competition and exit of inefficient firms and reallocation of market shares in favor of more efficient firms. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity in the Philippines. The country presents an interesting case due to its adoption of selective protection amidst an incomplete trade liberalization process. Based on an unbalanced firm-level panel dataset covering an eight-year period from 1996 to 2006, the results provide some evidence in support of the hypothesis that trade liberalization leads to productivity gains and conversely, protection leads to productivity losses. This is confirmed by the negative and significant coefficient on EPR for the purely importable sector. The results tend to indicate that the selective protection policy undermined the process of output restructuring and reshuffling of resources from less productive to more productive firms as protection of selected industries allowed the survival of inefficient firms.


Interactive forms of teaching in the process of professional teaching of designers at the higher education institution are discussed in the article. On the basis of work experience at the Design Department of Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities the author highlights the most effective of them and offers a model of work on the student design project.


Abstract Medium-speed catamarans are under development as a new class of vessels to meet requirements for highly efficient sea transportation with low environmental impact. Reduced service speed and increased deadweight will increase transport efficiency. Compared to current high-speed catamarans, these new vessels will operate in a transitional speed range between high-speed craft and conventional displacement ships. In this paper, design guidelines to choose appropriate main dimensions for medium speed catamarans with minimum resistance were derived and a preliminary design was made. These vessels will operate at Froude numbers of about 0.35 and have a relatively low prismatic coefficient of about 0.5 in conjunction with a small transom immersion. Different methods are discussed to correctly predict the calm water resistance, with RANSE (Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations)-based flow simulations being the most promising. It is shown that they are capable of predicting the hydrodynamic characteristics of medium-speed catamarans, such as drag force, trim and sinkage with acceptable accuracy.


This study investigates the relationship between sub-national institutional contingencies and corporate social responsibility performance (CSRP). Sub-national institutional contingencies (SNICs) play a moderating role in the link between CSRP and corporate financial performance (CFP). Using data from all A-share Chinese companies listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai exchanges for the period 2010 to 2015, ordinary least square (OLS) regression was used as a baseline methodology to draw inferences from the data. The study uses propensity score matching (PSM) to confirm the robustness and to tackle the possible issue of endogeneity. We find reliable evidence that SNICs have a positive and significant effect on CSRP. This positive relationship is more pronounced in cross-listed companies as compared to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and in companies located in the more developed region. Moreover, SNICs moderate the positive relationship between CSRP and CFP. The relationship is stronger in firms that are non-SOEs, are non-cross-listed, and are from less-developed regions as compared to their counterparts. The findings provide implications for regulators and individual companies. Investment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) helps companies to achieve their primary objective (i.e., financial performance). With respect to practical implications, the study indicates that policymakers, executives, and managers should refrain from "one size fits all" CSR policies. Instead, they need to simultaneously evaluate the effects of regional development, cross-listing, and ownership characteristics. Considering weak social performance by firms that are from less developed regions, are non-cross-listed, and that are non-SOEs, policymakers and the government should improve information transparency and the regulatory framework, and provide these firms with incentives. This study also provides insights for other emerging economies, especially those going through extraordinary government interventions.


Using a copper conductor externally strengthened with stainless steel, coils have been made which produce pulsed magnetic fields of up to 52 T over approximately 10 ms. The construction and performances of these coils are described as well as proposals for increasing the maximum field to 60 T. >


The automatic blood cell analyzer was used to assay the blood indexes of the mice induced by acute Pb toxicosis,and then Hitachi 7020 biochemical analyzer was used to check the serum indexes of the function of the liver and kidney.The results showed as follows:100mg/kg Pb impacted on the blood of mice immune system and significantly impacted on the number of cells like white blood(WBC),lymphocytes(Lymph),neutrophils(Gran) with significantly increased indexes(P 0.05).It had impacted on the platelet clotting system significantly,also impacted on the number of platelet(PLT) with significantly declined indexes(P 0.01).The red blood cells(RBC),hemoglobin(HGB),and the other indexes of the influence were not significant(P 0.05).Liver and kidney functional parameters such as alanine aminotransferase(ALT),aspartate aminotransferase(AST),blood urea nitrogen(UREA) creatinine(CREA) enzyme significantly deviated from the normal value(P 0.05).The results indicated that the Pb damages the function of kidney and liver significantly.Its toxic mechanism was discussed.


In order to determine the yield characteristics as well as the critical shear stress value of dewatered sludge when wall slip occurs,the rotating rheometer with parallel plate(R/S +CPS)and high-speed cameras(Trouble Shooter)are used for dewatered sludge with low moisture content,at the same time,linear marker and the sensitivity of the yield stress to shear rate as well as the dependence of the shear stress-shear rate data to parallel plate spacing are adopted,thus the existence of the slip and the critical condition can be identified.The results show that the dewatered sludge with the moisture content of 83%under the shear rate of 5~60s-1 show that the shear thinning,and because there may be the occurrence of wall slip,the yield stress is sensitive to shear rate,and its value decreases with the increase of shear rate.For the dewatered sludge with moisture content of 84%,85%and 86%,the occurrence of wall slip is obviously observed.Comparing with multiple sets of shear stress-shear rate data under different working conditions finds it isn't overlap;while for the moisture content as 88%,the results is just opposite.The wall slip velocity produced increases with the increase of wall shear stress.So shear stress and moisture content have some influences on wall slip velocity,and there even may be a critical shear stress.


Sticholysin I and II are two isoforms of pore-forming proteins from Stichodactyla helianthus sea anemone, exhaustively characterized. Sticholysin I and II have 176 and 175 amino acid residues respectively, and only 12 amino acid substitutions. Consequently, these isoforms have 99% of similarity and 93% of identity of sequences with very similar three-dimensional structures. However, sticholysin II is hemolytically more active than sticholysin I on human red blood cells and guinea pig blood cells. The reasons for theses functional differences are not known but interestingly most of the amino acid changes are located in functional regions such as: N-terminal segment, loops associated with membrane binding site, and protein-protein interaction sites. To deepen into the hemolytic activity differences between sticholysin I and II we designed and obtained three chimeric sticholysins in Escherichia coli that exchange different segments of both isoforms. The analysis of the hemolytic activity of these chimeras and their homology modeling provided new evidences on the pore-forming activity of actinoporins, as well as on the amino acid residues that could be involved in the functional difference between sticholysins I and II, in the interaction of these proteins with membranes or in the oligomerization process.


Replying to our article (D&K) – which shows that the proposed evidence for a clear causal effect of self-expression values on democracy is highly questionable – Welzel, Inglehart and Kruse (WIK) criticize our empirical evaluation of "Revized Modernization Theory". They claim that it is "irrelevant" (p.9) and "poses no challenge" (p.12) to the theory, asserting that "the evidence supports the emancipatory theory of democracy as it did in I&W's original analyses" (p.2).


ObjectiveTo probe into the nursing of stageⅡ-Ⅲ bedsore in the patients with seqauela of senile cerebrovascular disease.MethodPearl powder + cymometer,strong iodine + cymometer and Yunnan white drug + cymometer were used to treat stageⅡ-Ⅲ bedsore in the patients with seqauela of senile cerebrovascular disease and the effects among them were contrasted.ResultsPearl powder + cymometer and Yunnan white drug + cymometer showed good clinic effects,the wounds were cured in 3-8 days.ConclusionIt has direction meaning of using pearl powder + cymometer and Yunnan white drug + cymometer for stage Ⅱ-Ⅲ bedsore in the patients with seqauela of senile cerebrovascular disease.


The network era puts forward the severe challenges for the development of Library's development and the new requirements for the librarians.This paper emphatically expounds five consciousnesses including the consciousness of the competition,the consciousness of the opening,the consciousness of the innovation,the consciousness of the navigation,and the consciousness of the safety that must be established by the librarians in the network era,


Data Mining in Brain Imaging is an emerging field of high importance for providing prognosis, treatment, and a deeper understanding of how the brain functions. The field of Data Mining addresses the question of how best to use this data to discover new knowledge and improve the process of decision making. Discovering knowledge from data stored in typical alphanumeric databases, such as relational databases, has been the focal point of most of the work in database mining. The human brain has long been an area of immense fascination for researchers who believe that fully understanding its structure and functions would lead to great strides in the field of science, from biology to artificial intelligence. In this pursuit to completely understand the brain, scientists look to solve smaller and simpler problems before attempting to solve more complex ones and this is the reason the mouse brain has gained much attention from research groups from all across the scientific world. From a medical point of view, the study of the mouse brain could help in identifying and arriving at possible treatments for neurological disorders. In this research work, the Magnetic Resonance Images of Human Brain is taken to detect Alzheimer Diseases. Image obtained from Magnetic Resonance Imaging technique may consist of unwanted noises such as dots, stains or speckles etc. To overcome this, Image Smoothing technique is applied to filter the image without noise. The filtered image is then enhanced using Image Sharpening technique to improve the quality of image. After the preprocessing step, features are extracted and selected by eliminating the unpredictable information. The selected features are then classified to detect the abnormality ie., Alzheimer Disease from Brain MRI. Alzheimer Disease detected by the proposed method is one mode of technique to be used for diagnosis purpose and other provisions are there to diagnose the disease by the physicians.


The Federal Government spends approximately $500 billion per year on procurement actions to support government work, including contracts for products and services. Roughly eighty percent of those contracts are awarded to small businesses. With the rise of the Internet, initiating a contract with the Federal Government has become easier than ever through the use of on-line electronic portals, known as e-tools, that provide efficient and cost-effective means to do business with the government. Despite the ease of access, the execution of a government contract is a complicated process. Businesses who choose to engage in government contracts become subject to federal statutes and regulations, including the Anti-Kickback Act (Act), 41 U.S.C. §§ 51-55 (1986), that may be new or foreign to the normal course of business and may leave small businesses with the burden of compliance that is excessive and beyond its functional capabilities. Even though an individual contract may set out penalties for the violation of its terms, many times the incorporated regulations include civil penalties beyond the parameters of the contract. Civil penalties clauses, like the one in the Act, set forth monetary damages that the government may recover from violators under two conditions: 1) outright violations,


The analysis of functional oligosaccharide was difficult in food, related to which there were no national standards.Fructooligosaccharides and galactooligosaccharides were widely used in various foods as a function ingredients, especially as an important component of prebiotics in infant formula. The detection methods related to fructooligosaccharides and galactooligosaccharides in food were reviewed.


The use of an additional resonator and a coupled-by-radiation technique can increase the bandwidth of a traditional IFA for high-data-rate 5-GHZ WLANS.


The halophilic bacterial strain Halobacterium sodomense was shown to produce extracellular, halotolerant, alkali-stable and thermophilic ii-amylases activity. The culture conditions for higher amylases production were optimized with respect NaCl, temperature and substrates. Maximum amylase production was achieved in a mediumcontaining 25%NaCl at 55oC in the presence of 1% soluble starch and Yeast extract. The enzyme was purified to homogeneitywith an overall recovery of 24.2%and specific activity of 4133 U/mg. The native protein showed a molecular mass of 149 kDa composed of a homodimmer of 78 kDa polypeptide by SDS-PAGE. The optimum pH and temperature of the amylase were 6.0 and 55oC, respectively. The purified enzymewas stable frompH 7.5 to 9.0 and able to prolong its thermal stability up to 70oC. The amylase was activated by Na+, K+, Mn2+, Mg2+, and Fe2+. However, it was inhibited by Ca2+, Cd2+, Co2+, Zn2+, and EDTA. The purified amylase shows interesting properties useful for industrial applications.


The fifteenth of this month marks the second anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth. Anticipating such a memorable event in the annals of our history, we are gathered here tonight to celebrate it. To the Filipinos this anniversary means a great deal, for it commemorates a political fact that is the very threshold of their long delayed freedom. To the Americans, who have invested money and unstinted energies in democratic institutions in the Far East, it means a near fruition of a colonial experiment unique in the history of human kind. The preparation of an ethnic group for the responsibilities of independence and freedom, instead of their servile subjection and merciless exploitation a practice which has acquired the working import of a dogma in colonial behaviour is new to the world, because it was never done before. It remained for the United


X-ray absorption spectroscopy has been used to optimize the synthesis of Ni nano particles between thin layers of AlOx in an Al matrix. Al deposition is used to reduce previously oxidized Ni clusters. Ex-situ characterization shows absence of Ni/Al intermixing and of Ni oxidation for a wide range of Ni thickness and exposures to dry air. The system shows new magnetic properties reported here for the first time.


Review(s) of: Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia, by Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson (eds) 2010, UNSW Press, Sydney, 288pp, ISBN 9781742232256. Includes references.


Chemical pressure from the isovalent substitution of Se by a larger Te atom in the epitaxial film of iron chalcogenide FeSe can effectively tune its superconducting, topological, and magnetic properties. However, such substitution during epitaxial growth inherently leads to defects and structural inhomogeneity, making the determination of alloy composition and atomic sites for the substitutional Te atoms challenging. Here, we utilize machine learning to distinguish between Se and Te atoms in scanning tunneling microscopy images of single-layer FeSe1−xTex on SrTiO3(001) substrates. Defect locations are first identified by analyzing spatial-dependent dI/dV tunneling spectra using the K-means clustering method. After excluding the defect regions, the remaining dI/dV spectra are further analyzed using the singular value decomposition method to determine the Se/Te ratio. Our findings demonstrate an effective and reliable approach for determining alloy composition and atomic-scale electronic inhomogeneity in superconducting single-layer iron chalcogenide films.