timate details of character and personality are contextual details such as those describing the formation of the shoemakers' lodges that served as employment support centres, i.e. unions. Linking the personal and the collective to the economic realities of capitalism, Lee goes on to describe Sampson's 'bewilderment and annoyance' when he discovers that the French Canadian workers have formed the lodge which was to assert itself as a de facto union determined to demand a closed shop for hiring. My only reservations about the volume relate to its Canadian material and the interpretation of some aspects of Canadian history in the context of the out-migration of the French Canadians. First, I question two small points with regard to geographical accuracy. The town mentioned in New Brunswick should be Saint John, not St. John's which is in Newfoundland (p. 181). Secondly, I question whether the skyline shown in Fig. 3.7 is actually Montreal; my guess is that it is a view from Montreal Island looking to the south shore. More significantly, the reference to the 'Canadian Constitution' in the period 1837 41 is inaccurate. In fact the first document representing what might be thought of as a constitution is the Canadian British North America Act (BNA) of 1867, at which time Canada officially came into being. Actually, Canada did not have its own Constitution until 1982 when a Bill of Rights was incorporated into the BNA. Finally, the interpretation of the relationship French Canadians had with their rural farms in Quebec is problematic, as it relies upon drawing parallels with the experiences of the Acadians in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick which do not exist. In addition, one passage implies that the British were responsible for keeping the French Canadian farmers in unproductive practices, whereas research has shown that in fact soil depletion and the reticence to move into new types of farming were related to many decades of poor practice as well as lack of funding and material support from their colonial masters in France. Despite these reservations, the overall flowing narrative and superb ethnographic analysis of historic images and text archives make this a rewarding book. It should be of interest to a wide range of readers who will feel enriched by its sensitive exploration of the intimate and globalised lives of Chinese and French Canadian migrant workers in the context of the industrialisation of small American towns.


Analyses the significance for characters recognition system based on Web services, discusses the design and implement of characters recognition system based on Web services. It also brings forward the problem of the system need further study in aspect such as safe , charging.


T he Japanese government estimates that approximately 5 million tons of debris washed out to sea after the Tōhoku tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. Of that mass, about 1.5 million tons probably floated away from the near-coastal environment and could be transported to the beaches fringing the northeast Pacific Ocean, including the coast of Washington state. The debris has been difficult to track and represents a potential human and environmental hazard that results in concern about the type and volume of tsunami-generated materials that may wash ashore over the next few years. This analysis uses evidence from oceanographic studies and models to identify likely pathways and sinks for debris and estimate the fraction that might land in Washington. Results suggest that at least 75 percent of the floating debris will not make landfall and will end up in the Pacific SubTropical Convergence Zone. The remaining debris may make landfall, and observations suggest that most is likely to land along the coast of Alaska over multiple years as debris is entrained in and redistributed from the Sub-Arctic Gyre. In Washington, this analysis suggests that most of the debris that makes landfall will do so relatively rapidly (within 3-4 years). It is unlikely, however, that all of the debris will come ashore in any one year. We estimate that no more than 138,000 tons is likely to land along the coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia in any single year, with 11,000 tons as a more probable amount. If distributed evenly along the full length of tidal shoreline, this mass of debris would amount to between 0.5 and 6.7 tons/mile of beach, or about 1-13 times the current estimated " baseline " debris delivery to the outer coast of Washington state. Additionally , we estimate that this elevated level of debris accumulation will occur for a relatively short amount of time (1-2 years). Individual beaches may receive significantly more or less accumulation due to local oceanographic effects. While it is likely that tsunami debris will continue to make landfall for years to come, the levels of accumulation in Washington will probably not appreciably exceed the existing debris baseline beyond 2015.


To evaluate the accuracy of four equations based on serum creatinine concentration—the original Schwartz equation and the Leger, Bedside Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD), and Counahan‐Barratt equations—for determining glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease.


Mainly due to the recent years of large inflow of immigrants to Europe, and not least Sweden, the debate of ethnic diversity has become more intense, and thus so has the debate of social cohesion a ...


This study aims to analyze the influence of organizational culture and motivation on performance in Binda Kepri. This research uses path analysis method and hypothesis testing and hypothesis testing using partial t test and simultaneous F test. The results showed (1) Organizational Culture had a positive and significant effect on the leadership of Binda Kepri (2) Motivation had a positive and significant effect on the leadership of Binda Kepri. (3) Organizational culture has a negative and insignificant effect on the performance of Binda Kepri (4) Motivation has a negative and insignificant effect on the performance of Binda Kepri. (5) Leadership has a positive and insignificant effect on Binda Kepri's performance (6) Organizational culture has a negative and insignificant effect on Binda Kepri's performance with leadership as mediation (7) Motivation has a negative and insignificant effect on Binda Kepri's performance with leadership as mediation.


Twenty-three cage trials were conducted in 1995 and 1996 to assess fry-fingerling and fingerling-market production potential of Nile tilapia, common carp, crucian carp, wuchang carp (bream), and channel catfish in low-volume high-density (LVHD) cages. The objective of the trials was to test and demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of production of these species in LVHD cage culture systems with feeds formulated primarily from plant proteins. An all-plant protein diet was tested against similar diets containing 5-10% fish meal. The all-plant protein 'J' diet produced as good or better growth than the 'H' and 'K' diets containing 5% fish meal in 6 of 8 comparison trials with nile tilapia, 5 of 7 trials with common carp, and all trials with crucian carp and bream. Nile tilapia averaged daily weight gains of 5.4% and 3.1% per day for 50 g and >96 g fingerlings, respectively. Average net income was Y335/m 3 ($40.55/m 3 ) for all Nile tilapia trials reporting economic data. Highest net income was Y562/m 3 ($68.04/m 3 ) with the 'J' floating feed. Nile tilapia fry to fingerling production in LVHD cages was technically and economically feasible, with average net economic returns of Y360/m 3 ($43.58/m 3 ). Common carp did not demonstrate a requirement for fishmeal in formulated feeds. Fish in seven cage trials gained an average of 2.6% of body weight per day on all diets tested. Best comparative growth performance was with the 'H' and 'J' feeds. The 'H' feed produced 7-13% better growth than the 'K' feed in two comparison trials. There were no differences in growth with the 'K' and 'S' feeds in one comparative trial. Stocking density had no effect on common carp growth. Fish at 400-500/m 3 grew at an average rate of 2.65% of body weight per day, while fish at 270-300/m 3 grew at an average rate of 2.5% of body weight per day.


Introduction: Understanding of diet and reading behavior the nutrition fact on food labels have an important role to people with coronary heart disease (CHD) and hypertension which require control of nutrient intake, especially fat and sodium.
Purpose: The research aimed to analyze the correlation knowledge of diet and reading behavior the nutrition fact on food labels with diet adherence in outpatients with corononary heart disease (CHD) and hypertension.
Research method: A cross sectional study was conducted in a consecutive sampling of 37 patients aged ≥ 26 years in Dr. Moewardi Hospital. Knowledge of diet and reading behavior were obtained through an interviews using questionnaires. Adherence diet was measured through an interview using a semi-quantitatif FFQ during the last 1 month. Analysis of the relationship was tested using Fisher's Exact Test.
Results: Thirty (81,1%) respondents had good knowledge of diet, 22 (59,5%) respondents had a low to average reading the nutrition fact on food labels, and 20 (54,1%) respondents were categorized in non-adherence to diet. There was no significant correlation between knowledge of diet and adherence diet (p=0,680), as well as the nutrition fact on food labels and adherence diet with (p=0,157).
Conclusion: Knowledge of diet and reading behavior the nutrition fact on food labels not always adequately impact to diet adherence in people with diagnose CHD and hypertention.


A new single susceptibility scheme of macroscopic Maxwell equations has been derived by applying a long wavelength approximation to the general form of microscopic response represented by the simultaneous integral equations of induced current density and vector potential. The result turns out to be more general than the conventional 'E,D,B,H' scheme. The new (single) susceptibility contains the contributions of electric and magnetic polarizations together with their mutual interference effect in its different order terms of wavevector k. The conventional description via ϵ and μ can be reproduced only in the absence of chiral symmetry, under the additional condition that magnetic susceptibility defined with respect, not to H, but to B should be used. In the presence of chiral symmetry, the phenomenological Drude–Born–Fedorov constitutive equations cannot be justified by this microscopic approach.


Indonesia located at the confluence of Eurasian tectonic plate, Australian tectonic plate and the Pacific tectonic plate. Therefore, Indonesia has big geothermal potential. One of the areas that has geothermal potential is Ungaran Mount. Remote sensing technology can have a role in geothermal exploration activity to map the distribution of land surface temperatures associated with geothermal manifestations. The advantages of remote sensing are able to get information without having to go directly to the field with a large area, and it takes quick, so that the information can be used as an initial reference exploration activities. This study aimed to obtain the distribution of land surface temperature as a regional analysis of geothermal potential. The method of this research was a correlation of brightness temperature (BT) Landsat 8 with land surface temperature (LST) MODIS. The results of correlation analysis showed the R 2 value was equal to 0.87, it shows that between BT Landsat 8 and LST MODIS has a very high correlation. Based on Landsat 8 LST imagery correction, the average of fumarole temperature and hot spring is 24 0 C. Fumarole and hot spring are located in dense vegetation land which has average temperature around 26.9 0 C. Land surface temperature Landsat 8 can not be directly used to identify geothermal potential, especially in the dense vegetation area, due to the existence of dense vegetation which can absorb heat energy released by geothermal surface feature.


This paper discusses about the application of various tools and technologies of social media in library environment. How social media tools can integrated in providing better services to users has also been dealt with. Adopting social media in library enhances the visibility of the collection, service and importance of library in modern day environment.


A simple, direct route to purify, as-deposited, materials for the fabrication of organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) is reported. In situ purification of 8-tris-hydroxyquinoline aluminum (Alq3) can lead to devices with electroluminescence characteristics comparable to those of devices made with materials pre-purified via traditional separation processes such as recrystallization or vacuum sublimation.


A compact linearly polarized patch array antenna with super-low cross polarization is proposed in this letter using multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) process. The radiation unit with stacked structure consists of four partly overlapped and 45 ° tilted patches and one cavity-backed slot antenna fed by the microstrip line. The proposed patch array antenna inherits not only a compact size, but also an excellent suppression of the cross-polarized radiation. The overlapped scheme introduces the perfect magnetic wall and electric wall by physical connection through current other than by virtual connection through electric field, which suppresses the cross-polarized radiation around the corners. A prototype array antenna with 8 radiation units for vehicle radar applications is designed and fabricated to validate the proposed design. Experimental results of reflection coefficient, gain, cross polarization, and radiation patterns are consistent well with simulation predictions. The prototype array antenna can operate from 23.2 to 24.8 GHz (6.67%) with its reflection coefficient under -15 dB and its gain varied from 16 to 19 dBi. The main beam is stable at broadside with a maximum gain of 18.99 dBi at 24.5 GHz, and the cross-polarization level is better than -55 dB under the maximum gain across the entire operating bandwidth and the main 3-dB beamwidth.


With the development of science and technology, people's demand for energy is more and bigger, in addition to consider renewable energy. Electricity management system to study the effects of energy saving effect is also very necessary measures. Development of a complete set of monitoring, energy saving, control of intelligent power management system has very important practical significance. Finally, the paper puts forward the energy saving effect of validation, the energy saving analysis and evaluation. Based on the research of the content of this article, it finally realizes the intelligent management and scientific control of electric equipment, to solve the management of electric equipment of large power place management control is limited by geographical, effectively eliminate the phenomenon of energy waste. This system has good scalability can be slightly modified to meet more big power.


The Harmonics will make the motor generate additional losses, reduce energy efficiency and power factor, affect the normal operation of equipments, and also make the motor generate an electrical fault such as mechanical vibrations and noise, and also interfere with the nearby devices, and reduce their communication quality and EMC, EMI performances. In order to solve the existence of harmonic problems in AC servo motor control system, this paper proposes a low-cost harmonics detection method based on the DSP TMS320F2812, which also uses the corresponding harmonics suppression strategy to achieve purified control voltage and improves the stability and power efficiency of the motor.


We study procurement auctions when the buyer has complement-free (subadditive) objectives in the budget feasibility model (Singer 2010). For general subadditive functions we give a randomized universally truthful mechanism which is an O(log2 n) approximation, and an O(log3 n) deterministic truthful approximation mechanism; both mechanisms are in the demand oracle model. For cut functions, an interesting case of nonincreasing objectives, we give both randomized and deterministic truthful and budget feasible approximation mechanisms that achieve a constant approximation factor.


The present invention provides a method for monitoring the working process for the production of hot working tube, by tilting the drilling machine from a heated steel ingot, a hollow element with an internal tool consisting of a plug and a mandrel bar of what the tube is manufactured. Immediately after advancing from the inclined piercing mill, thermal radiation emanating from the outer surface of the hollow shell at least one limited external surface area of the hollow shell is detected completely thermograph the position and time resolving detection thermal image is compared with the reference image each at the same measuring point of the processed hollow shell of the same steel grade and the same nominal dimensions. .The 2A


Aging, the process of growing old or maturing, is one of the most widely seen natural phenomena in the world. For the stochastic processes, sometimes the influence of aging can not be ignored. For example, in this paper, by analyzing the functional distribution of the trajectories of aging particles performing anomalous diffusion, we reveal that for the fraction of the occupation time T+/t of strong aging particles, 〈(T+(t)2)〉 = 12 t with coefficient 1 2 , having no relation with the aging time ta and α and being completely different from the case of weak (none) aging. In fact, we first build the models governing the corresponding functional distributions, i.e., the aging forward and backward Feynman-Kac equations; the above result is one of the applications of the models. Another application of the models is to solve the asymptotic behaviors of the distribution of the first passage time, g(ta, t). The striking discovery is that for weakly aging systems, g(ta, t) ∼ t α 2 a t α 2 , while for strongly aging systems, g(ta, t) behaves as t α−1 a t .


Introduction: Lower urinary tract dysfunctions secondary to type 2 DM are common, chronic and costly disorders. The incidence of diabetic bladder dysfunction was estimated range between 43% and 87% for type 1 and 25% for type 2 diabetes. Ultrasonography is an easy-to-use, fast, safe, non-invasive, painless, pleasant and valuable method of assessing Bladder Post-Void Residual Volume (PVR).

Aim: To investigate prevalence of bladder dysfunction and its relation with risk factors, clinical features of diabetic cystopathy in women with diabetes, to identify the values predicting to have postvoid residual volume of the risk factors.

Methods: A cross sectional descriptive study, a cohort of 84 female inpatients and outpatients with diabetes mellitus who were treated at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital from 08/2017 to 08/2019 and 84 healthy control subjects were enrolled, the patients were carried out clinical finding, taken blood tests, and estimated postvoid residual volume using 2D ultrasound.

Results: the postvoid residual volume was presented in 67 cases (79.80%), the clinical symptoms of diabetic cystopathy were reported in 75% of women with diabetes. Blood glucose, HbA1c, clinical symptoms of diabetic cystopathy, postural hypotension and diabetic peripheral neuropathy were associated with postvoid residual volume. The HbA1c level had a great capability to predict who had postvoid residual volume, at HbA1c cutoff value of 9.1%, Se 65.67%, Sp 94.12%, AUC 0.811, p < 0.001. Conclusion: Bladder dysfunction made up a highly prevalent in women with poor glycemic control.

Key words: bladder dysfunction, diabetic cystopathy, bladder postvoid residual volume (PVR)


BackgroundAutism is a chronic and lifelong pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder that affects children's social, language/communication, and behavioral development. Risk factors for autism include prenatal, perinatal, and neonatal factors, whereas early detection of autism includes impairment of language and communication characteristics. Aim of the studyThe aim of the study was to identify the risk factors for autism. Patients and methodsThis study included 43 autistic children collected from psychiatric and pediatric clinics in Al-Ahsa Hospital (Al-Ahsa City, KSA). Autistic children were diagnosed clinically and confirmed by application of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic. The study also included 43 age-matched children who came for vaccination as a control group. Unfavorable prenatal, perinatal, and neonatal events and language and communication difficulties were examined and compared in both groups. ResultsThe majority of the autistic group were boys 34 (79.07%) in comparison with 24 boys (55.81%) in the control group (P=0.0213). The maternal age above 35 years was found in 17 (39.53%) patients in the study group versus five (11.63%) in the control group (P=0.0030). Among the autistic children, the rate of uterine bleeding 17 (39.53%), prolonged labor 18 (41.86%), low birth weight 11 (25.58%), and birth hypoxia 12 (27.91%) was significantly more than in the control group [4 (9.3%), 7 (16.28%), 3 (6.98%), and 4 (9.3%), respectively]. In the autistic group, family discord 23 (53.49%) and family move 17 (39.54%) were more frequent than in the control group [12 (27.91%) and 5 (11.63%), respectively]. Reciprocal social skills were less frequent in autistic children 17 (39.54%) than in the control group children 31 (72.09%), whereas lack of social smile, poor eye contact, and language delay were more frequent among autistic children [23 (53.49%), 21 (48.84%), and 35 (81.4%), respectively] than in the control group children [9 (20.93%), 7 (16.28%), and 8 (18.61%), respectively]. ConclusionStudy of risk factors for autistic disorder and follow-up assessment enable early diagnosis of autism in younger children, leading to earlier intervention and assistance for an improved prognosis and long-term outcome.


The present investigation is based on a detailed study of the family history of a serial homicide of the city of Quito, in the years 2002 and 2003, William Cumbajin Bautista, who was called the murderer of the bush by the national press, Which is based on the family systemic approach, to determine which factors in the family dynamics of the subject's life have influenced an antisocial personality disorder. In order to achieve the above, it was necessary to carry out research of a bibliographic type, in order to collect all the possible information of the subject, based on a qualitative methodology. Violence has been a problem of greater importance at the global level and much more still child abuse, since it affects a considerable number of children, so we will focus on the physical abuse, psychological and negligence to which the individual analyzed was Submitted. For these reasons it has been evidenced that all failures in the family life of Cumbajin, such as lack of rules, rules, lack of affection and mistreatment, which has caused a deviation of personality of the subject leading to have antisocial personality disorder with Homicidal behaviors.


Language skills are basic skills that are mastered and learned early childhood. Language skills obtained by the child through interaction with parents. Early childhood language development periods are categorized into two, namely pre-linguistic and linguistic periods. Pre-linguistic periods are passed by the child as a baby. If in the pre-linguistic period the child is introduced to the proper use of language then the language skills of the child develop in the linguistic period. The intensity of an interaction will affect the skills of listening and speaking of early childhood. Therefore, parents and teachers as a close to the child are very necessary to facilitate the development of the language of children. Dialogic reading is an approach used to develop language skills and basic literacy of children. Dialogic reading provides many opportunities for children to speak so that language skills and self-confidence are growing.


Measurements of shear viscosity as a function of molar composition ? and temperature T near the consolute point of the binary system aniline–cyclohexane are reported. The results are analyzed in terms of the mode coupling theory. The needed dependence of the correlation length on ? and T is established using a scaling equation of state. The agreement between experiments and theory is quite good.


Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and ICT investment for firm performance in the manufacturing and service industries. Explicitly, I use an extended version of the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a large unbalanced panel data set based on the innovation survey for Norway. Four different types of innovation and the number of patent applications are used as innovation output measures. I find that ICT investment is strongly associated with all types of innovation in both sectors, with the result being strongest for product innovation in manufacturing and for process innovation in service industries. The impact of ICT on patenting is only positive in manufacturing. Overall, ICT seems to be less important than R&D for innovation, but more important for productivity. These results support the proposition that ICT is an important driver of productivity growth. Given the high rate of ICT diffusion in Norway, my results also contribute to explaining what is referred to as the 'Norwegian productivity puzzle', i.e. the fact that Norway is one of the most productive economies in the OECD despite having relatively low R&D intensity.


Growth and feeding rates of four species of planktonic marine heterotrophic protists showed pronounced diel cycles. In most cases, rates were higher during the day and lower at night. However, for the ciliate Strobilidium sp., growth was highest at night. In another ciliate species, Balanion comatum, no day‐night difference in growth and feeding rates was found. Maintenance of day‐night rate differences during 24‐h exposures to continuous darkness demonstrated that most of these protists had circadian cycles. The heterotrophic dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina exhibited a clear irradiance threshold for maintenance of the circadian cycle: day‐night differences in growth and feeding rates were observed at irradiances as low as 2.6 × 10−3 µmol photons m−2 s−1 but not at 3.1 × 10−4 µmol photons m−2 s−1. We also studied growth and feeding in transition from complete darkness to culturing in a day : night light cycle in O. marina and found that resetting the circadian cycle in this dinoflagellate temporarily arrested growth and feeding. We suggest that protists use a time‐integrated light threshold rather than an instantaneous irradiance to maintain the circadian cell cycle. This allows them to avoid temporary arrests in growth and feeding when they are mixed over depth across the 3.1 × 10−4 µmol photons m−2 s−1 irradiance threshold. Overall, higher rates of feeding and growth during the light period, when phytoplankton are photosynthetically active, may strongly influence predator‐prey cycles in the euphotic zone.


Review(s) of: Tiny: A Little Dog on a Big Adventure, by Jennifer Castles, Photographs by Steve Otton, A and U, $24.95 hb, ISBN 9781741755473, November.


This article gives an brief outline of the applications of generalized special functions such as generalized hypergeometric functions, G-functions and H-functions into the general area of nuclear energy generation and reaction rate theory such as the energy generation in a simple stellar model and nuclear reaction rates in non-resonant and resonant as well as screened non-resonant


• A new plan for the landscape should be designed that clearly shows plants to be retained as well as those that will be removed. • Any new plants added near trees should be selected based on compatibility with the tree and its environment. Fig. 2. The mugo pine in this image needed less water than the (now dead) Japanese maple. Irrigation should have been managed to meet the greater water need of the maple.


The inclusion of a flat metric tensor in gravitation permits the formulation of a gravitational stress-energy tensor and the formal derivation of general relativity from a linear theory in flat spacetime. Building on the works of Kraichnan and Deser, we present such a derivation using universal coupling and gauge invariance. Next we slightly weaken the assumptions of universal coupling and gauge invariance, obtaining a larger "slightly bimetric" class of theories, in which the Euler-Lagrange equations depend only on a curved metric, matter fields, and the determinant of the flat metric. The theories are equivalent to generally covariant theories with an arbitrary cosmological constant and an arbitrarily coupled scalar field, which can serve as an inflaton or dark matter. The question of the consistency of the null cone structures of the two metrics is addressed. keywords: bimetric, causality principle, unimodular, null cone


We reviewed on the enhanced photon-tunneling and the near-field enhancement effect for a metallic nanoscale aperture with a concentric surface plasmon resonance structure. About two-orders larger light transmission and an enhanced near-field were achieved by optimizing the grating structures. This enhanced near-field was applied to optical recording, and about 100-nm recorded patterns were successfully made on phase change media. This surface plasmon optics would open up the ultra-high-density recording technology.


The GLT is an innovative product with high added value, but it still does not participate in quality programs such as the National Quality Wood – PNQM, and the Brazilian Program of Quality and Productivity Habitat – PBQP-H). This work aimed to create opportunities for greater visibility to the MLC product, assess their safer design and use, encourage the participation of companies producing MLC in national quality programs. Thus, we conducted a research on the products offered by Brazilian companies MLC, visits to industries, consultations to technical standards and resolutions of the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – INMETRO. Based on this survey we designed a program focused on MLC quality products structural and non-structural use. The implementation of the proposed quality program will facilitate obtaining grants to businesses and stimulate the consumption of MLC in the construction market.


A small demonstrator of wind-solar hybrid power was developed based on the mutual complementary principal of wind-solar.The device consisted of several parts,such as wind generator,solar cells,controller,battery and load.Both wind energy and solar energy were transformed into electrical energy and stored in batteries.The device showed the wind power system components,demonstrated the principles of wind power and associated aerodynamics.


High, speedy and safe circulation system with multi-channels coexistence is the key for the development of agricultural products. In the article, it expounded the construction status of agricultural products circulation system and difficulties and problems faced by agricultural products circulation in Shenyang, meanwhile did analysis on the problems, raised the suggestions for improving circulation system construction of agricultural products in Shenyang.


PERIOD 1: REGIONAL AND INTERREGIONAL INTERACTIONS (C. 1200 TO C. 1450) UNIT 1: THE GLOBAL TAPESTRY Explain the systems of government employed by Chinese dynasties and how they developed over time. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the effects of Chinese cultural traditions on East Asia over time. __________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the effects of innovation on the Chinese economy over time. ____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain how systems of belief and their practices affected society in the period from c. 1200 to 1450. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the causes and effects of the rise of Islamic states over time. ____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the effects of intellectual innovation in Dar al-Islam. ___________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain how the various belief systems and practices of South and Southeast Asia affected society over time.________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain how and why various states of South and Southeast Asia developed and maintained power over time.________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain how and why states in the Americas developed and changed over time. ____________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain how and why states in Africa developed and changed over time. Explain how the beliefs and practices of the predominant religions in Europe affected European society. ___________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the causes and consequences of political decentralization in Europe from c. 1200 to c. 1450. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the effects of agriculture on social organization in Europe from c. 1200 to c. 1450. ____________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the similarities and differences in the processes of state formation from c. 1200 to c. 1450. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Important Vocabulary: Important Events: SufiGreat Zimbabwe Civilization Champa Rice


Objective To amplify dendritic cells(DC) from porcine bone marrow and study their morphological,immunological characteristics. Methods Lymphocytes in porcine bone marrow were isolated on a Ficoll separation gradient. The selected cells were cultured with granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor(GM CSF), and the suspensive cells were collected 2 weeks after cultivation. The morphological features and numbers of DC were identified and counted with light microscopy. The co stimulation molecules on membrane surface were studied by FACS. The function was observed by means of MLR. Results The percentage of DC was 70%~80% in the DC enriched populations as confirmed under microscope. The cells showed typical morphology of DC and expressed high level of B7 molecules and were potent stimulators of human T cells in MLR. Conclusion The method to generate large numbers of DCs from porcine bone marrow is established, which might contribute to further study on the role of DC in xenotransplantation and tolerance induction.


BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF BOX BLIGHT CAUSED BY CYLINDROCLADIUM BUXICOLA Sarah Elizabeth Healy Advisor: University of Guelph, 2014 Professor Tom Hsiang A new fungus, Cylindrocladium buxicola, which causes disease on boxwood was recently observed in Ontario. The fungus, isolated from samples from a nursery in Southern Ontario, was positively identified by DNA sequence comparisons as the cause of box blight. Whole boxwood plants required wounding for successful infection, however detached leaves did not. The 'Green Series' boxwood cultivar 'Green Mountain' was found to be the least susceptible to C. buxicola compared to other cultivars. Survival of C. buxicola in Southern Ontario was low after the winter, but was higher throughout the fall. Whole genome sequencing of two C. buxicola isolates revealed the presence of the MAT1-1 gene within a German isolate and MAT1-2 in an Ontario isolate, implying the possibility for sexual reproduction. All other 50 isolates tested were MAT1-2. The preventative use of fungicides to control box blight in nurseries, rather than curative use, is likely to provide a better management option for disease.


The present studies investigated synergistic rodenticide effect on SD rats and mice,and compared different effcts on coagulation time(CT) and prothrombin time(PT) in SD rats and mice and pathological tissues in liver.The results showed that synegistic rodenticide induced a prolonged CT and PT in SD rats and mice respectively,and there were significantly prolonged CT and PT compared with warfarin alone,which suggested synegistic rodenticide had more powerful anticoagulant effect than traditional warfarin.Pathological observation indicated that synegistic rodenticide induced more necrotic liver in toxic rats and mice.All results showed that synegistic rodenticide had a more significant effect on SD rats.


Black cotton soil is typical expansive soil have inherent property of shrinking when they are dried and swelling when water is absorbed. For any structure, the foundation is very important and it has to be strong to support the entire structure. In order for the foundation to be strong, the soil around it plays a very critical role. To work on soils, we need to have proper knowledge about their properties and factors which affect their behavior. Expansive soils always create problems more for lightly loaded structures than moderately loaded structures. In this paper the experimental results obtained in the laboratory on expansive soils treated with industrial waste Coir Pith (CP) as a stabilizer are presented. A study is carried out to check the improvements in the properties of expansive soil with Coir Pith in varying percentages. The test results such as liquid limit, Modified proctor compaction, and Unconfined Compression strength test obtained on expansive clays mixed at different proportions of Coir Pith as a admixture ranging from 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.4%. The plasticity index (PI) of 0.1 &0.2% addition of coir pith is less compared to untreated BC Soil. The max dry density (MDD) of 0.1 &0.2% addition of coir pith is more compare to untreated BC Soil, optimum moisture content (OMC) is reduced compare to BC Soil. The unconfined compressive strength (UCS) for BC Soil treated with 0.1 &0.2% of 0,7,14 days curing is more compared to untreated BC Soil.


The interest in the design and numerical modelling of adhesively-bonded components and structures for industrial application is increasing as a research topic. Although research on joint failure under pure mode is widespread, applied bonded joints are often subjected to a mixed mode loading at the crack tip, which is more complex than the pure mode and affects joint strength. Failure of these joints under loading is the objective of predictions through mathematical and numerical models, the latter based on the Finite Element Method (FEM), using Cohesive Zone Modelling (CZM). The Single leg bending (bending) testing is among those employed to study mixed mode loading. This work aims to validate the application of FEM-CZM to SLB joints. Thus, the geometries used for experimental testing were reproduced numerically and experimentally obtained properties were employed in these models. Upon the validation of the numerical technique, a parametric study involving the cohesive laws' parameters is performed, identifying the parameters with the most influence on the joint behaviour. As a result, it was possible to numerically model SLB tests of adhesive joints and estimate the mixed-mode behaviour of different adhesives, which enables mixed-mode modelling and design of adhesive structures.


Streptococcus pyogenes expresses a fibronectin‐binding surface protein (Sfb protein) which mediates adherence to human epithelial cells. The nucleotide sequence of the sfb gene was determined and the primary sequence of the Sfb protein was analysed. The protein consists of 638 amino acids and comprises five structurally distinct domains. The protein starts with an N‐terminal signal peptide followed by an aromatic domain. The central part of the protein is formed by four proline‐rich repeats which are flanked by non‐repetitive spacer sequences. A second repeat region, consisting of four repeats that are distinct from the proline repeats and have been shown to form the fibronectin‐binding domain, is located in the Cterminal part of the protein. The protein ends with a typical cell wall and membrane anchor region. Comparative sequence analysis of the N‐terminal aromatic domain revealed similarities with carbohydrate‐binding sites of other proteins. The proline repeat region of the Sfb protein shares characteristic features with proline‐rich repeats of functionally distinct surface proteins from pathogenic Gram‐positive cocci. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed an even distribution of the fibronectin‐binding domain of Sfb protein on the surface of streptococcal cells. Analyses of 38 sfb genes originating from different S. pyogenes isolates revealed primary sequence variability in regions coding for the N‐termini of mature Sfb proteins, whereas sequences coding for the central and C‐terminal repeats were highly conserved. The repeat sequences are postulated to act as target sites for intragenic recombination events that result in variable numbers of repeats within the different sfb genes. A model of the Sfb protein is presented.


Machine learning methods are employed in many areas, such as medical data research, for their efficient and powerful data mining ability. However, submitting unprotected data to a third party, which attempts to train a machine learning model, may suffer from data leakage and privacy violation when the third party is compromised by an adversary. Hence, designing a protocol to execute encrypted computation is inevitably indispensable. In order to address this problem, we propose protocols based on secure multi-party computation to train a support vector machine model privately. Utilizing the semi-honest adversary model and oblivious transfer, the proposed protocols enable the training of a non-linear support vector machine on the combined data from various sources without sacrificing the privacy of individuals. The protocols are applied to train a support vector machine model with the radial basis function kernel on HIV sequence data to predict the efficacy of a certain antiviral drug, which only works if the viruses can only use the human CCR5 coreceptor for cell entry. Benchmarked on synthesized data with 10 data sources that consist of randomly generated integers, containing 100 labeled samples each, the protocol has consumed online time 2991.386/166.912 ms on average in arithmetic/boolean circuits, respectively. The cross-validation has reached 0.5819 F1-score on average on training data with the optimized parameters, which have reached 0.7058 F1-score afterwards on testing data set, which consists of protein sequence of CCR5 and its subtypes. The complete training and testing process on the real data, which contains in total 766 samples having 924 features after encoding, has consumed 43.75/15.84 seconds on average using arithmetic/boolean circuits, respectively, which shows the effectiveness and efficiency of our protocols compared to some of the existing studies in the literature.


Based on the impedance behavior of red cell at high frequency, the frequency response of series piezoelectric crystal sensor in the red cell suspension was derived and verified experimentally. A method of using piezoelectric crystal sensor to determine the conductivity of the interior of the cell was proposed. The experimental results show that the mean conductivity of rabbit red cell cytoplasm was 0.269 S/m and the mean shape factor of red cell was 2.05.


Abstract In this paper,the authors introduce the well function through the pressure distribu-tion formula of the weak elastic unsteady state seepage flow in porous medium,deducethe series expansion of the well function,and finally obtain the approximate expression of the well function. SUBJECT TERMS:well function,elastic seepage flow, series expansion


In the January issue of this Journal,I we presented year-by-year historical returns for common stocks, long-term U.S. government and corporate bonds, U.S. Treasury bills, and consumer goods (inflation) for the period 1926-74. In this paper, we present a simulation model to forecast probability distributions of returns for these assets. The model not only makes use of the historical data, but also employs the current U.S. government bond yield curve and integrates the two in a framework of capital market efficiency. Our forecasting procedure is inherently different from that used by most economists, financial analysts, long-range planners, etc. Whereas they use their expertise in an attempt to "outguess" the market, our purpose is to uncover the market's "consensus" forecast. In an efficient capital market, the consensus forecast removes the opportunity to outguess the market by eliminating overand underpricing of assets. To the extent that the simulation model portrays the market, its forecast can be thought of as a benchmark against which to compare other forecasts. In Part II we give a brief description of the historical data used in the simulations. In Part III, we present an overview of the entire model. The next two parts of the paper provide some justification for our techniques. Part IV examines the statistical characteristics of the historical data, while Part V explains the term structure characteristics of the yield curve. The formal model is presented in Part VI. The last two parts of the paper present the results. Part VII explains the forecast distributions over the period 19762000, while some of the major results are highlighted in Part VIII.


With developing the competition level in retailing industry and increasing diversity of the companies which have been entered the industry in recent years making decision and movement toward improving the competition position of company have been one of the critical measurements of chain stores managers, so knowing how different variables influence the willingness of customers to buy, can play an important role in their success. The study aims to examine the impact of store brand price- image on retailer equity dimension among the customers of Etka chain stores of Tehran. Based on research aim, the study is practical and in forms of data collection and analyzing them it is descriptive – correlation. For data analysis, structural equation model (SEM) was used. All the customers of Etka chain store branches of Tehran form the statistical population of the study. In the study 388 questioners were collected and used in analyses. The results showed that store brand price image has positive and significant impact on the awareness, quality and customers loyalty to store but it doesn't have any impact on the store association also it was found that perceived quality has impact on the retailors loyalty in the study.


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This master thesis is focused on the project of image building of the Safe Toys mark of the Institute for testing and certification, a.s. company. It is divided into theoretical and practi-cal part. The theoretical part describes product as a part of the marketing mix, defines the status of mark in the product policy and the role of marketing communication in the mark promotion. The practical part includes legislative requirements for toys production and distribution in the Czech Republic and the review of voluntary certification marks in the European Union with the focus on the Safe Toys mark. The main part includes a project, which aim is to increase the acquaintance of the mark between consumers and to attract new clients, who would like to certify their products with the Safe Toys certification mark. It is inspired by the results of the mark satisfaction survey and it contains the project of marketing communication including the time schedule and cost analysis of particular pro-cedures.


Purpose: The kinetics of 18F-FDG as measured by dPET-CT is determined by glucose transporters and hexokinases, which may be regulated by other genes. The dependency of 18F-FDG kinetics on hypoxiaand cadherin-related gene expression was assessed in this study. Procedures: Patients with colorectal tumors (n = 18) were studied with 18F-FDG dPET-CT. Tissue specimens were obtained from the tumor and the normal colon during the process of surgery, and then gene expression was examined using gene arrays. The dynamic PET data were assessed using compartmental (a two-tissue compartment model) and non-compartmental models (fractal dimension). Results: Overall, 13 hypoxiaand cadherin-related genes were identified with a tumor-to-normal ratio exceeding 2.0. The number of significant correlation was different for each PET parameter using a significance level of p <0.05. Statistical analysis revealed a significant correlation between K1 and H-cadherin 13 (CDH13) (r = 0.92) as well as between the Fractal Dimension (FD) and Protocadherin 43 (PCDHGC3) (r = 0.63). Furthermore, we detected a significant correlation between FD and Protocadherin gamma subfamily B, 7 (PCDHGB7) (r = 0.60), as well as between K1 and protocadherin 17 (PCDH17) (r = 0.55). SUV was correlated with protocadherin beta 17 (PCDHB17) with r = 0.56. A correlation coefficient of r = 0.42 was found for K1 and the expression of hypoxia-inducible protein 2 (HIG2). Conclusion: The transport rate for 18F-FDG (K1) is higher in tumors with a high expression of cadherinand hypoxia-related genes. The parameters of 18F-FDG dPET kinetics may be used to predict the expression of hypoxia and cadherin-related genes individually.


Librarians generally are unaware of the failure to index many book reviews on the part of sources used to identify reviews. It is evident by checking book reviews against rel evant indexes and obtaining information from the editors of such sources about policies followed that omissions oc cur both through carelessness and policy. Such policies are worth knowing about, since working definitions as to what constitutes a book review vary from publication to publica tion. This article first deals with book review indexing in the selected subject fields of general science, education, United States history, philosophy, and religion. After this, it covers several general book review sources.


Background and Purpose. With the rapid transition in professional (entrylevel) educational preparation from the master's degree to the doctoral degree in physical therapist education, the need for doctorally trained faculty is likely to increase substantially. Several different doctoral degrees that may meet the academic qualifications expected of core faculty members currently are offered; however, these doctoral degrees vary widely in their educational focus, rigor, and philosophy. Such differences in doctoral preparation, combined with faculty shortages, have increased the debate over the necessary academic qualifications for people who serve as core faculty members in physical therapist education programs. The purpose of this article is to suggest that the ideal faculty team in professional physical therapist education should include a balance of people possessing terminal academic degrees in physical therapy or a closely related field, people possessing terminal professional clinical degrees with documented clinical specialization, and people possessing terminal academic degrees in foundational sciences with or without physical therapy degrees. Position and Rationale. A diverse core faculty with a balance of academic training in complementary fields will benefit an education program in many ways, such as providing breadth of expertise, serving to maintain academic standards in doctoral education, and meeting requirements established by accrediting agencies and home institutions. Discussion and Conclusion. For programs providing professional physical therapist education, a variety of doctorally prepared people should be actively recruited for core faculty positions. Once hired, these faculty members should be vigorously supported and mentored so as to ensure their success in meeting the faculty expectations established by their academic institutions and pertinent accrediting bodies.


Introduction We aimed to determine in-hospital outcomes, length of hospital stay (LOS) and resource utilization in a contemporary cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and atrial fibrillation (AFIB). Material and methods The National Inpatient Sample database October 2015 to December 2017 was utilized for data analysis using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes to identify the patients with the principal diagnosis of IBD. Results Of 714,863 IBD patients, 64,599 had a diagnosis of both IBD and AFIB. We found that IBD patients with AFIB had a greater incidence of in-hospital mortality (OR = 1.3; 95% CI: 1.1–1.4), sepsis (OR = 1.2; 95% CI: 1.1–1.3), mechanical ventilation (OR = 1.2; 95% CI: 1.1–1.5), shock requiring vasopressor (OR = 1.4; 95% CI: 1.1–1.9), lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) (OR = 1.09, 95% CI: 1.04–1.1), and hemorrhage requiring blood transfusion (OR = 1.2, 95% CI: 1.17–1.37). Mean LOS ± SD, mean total charges and total costs were higher in patients with IBD and AFIB. Conclusions In this study, IBD with AFIB was associated with increased in-hospital mortality and morbidity, mean LOS and resource utilization.


Currently,the world financial crisis brought negative influence to our country economy,but also had important opportunity to the economic structure adjustment and the coordinate development of the economy and society.Therefore,it should seize the opportunity to accelerate the adjustment of economic structure through expanding domestic demand,powered by scientific and technological progress,supported by system innovation,oriented by new internationalization strategy.


This paper relatively detailedly analysed the influencing factors of construction project cost from the cost,time limit for a project,quality three elements,and pointed out that only understanding the relationship of interaction and interdependent of cost,time limit for a project,quality three elements and its own characteristics of construction project,in order to realize the effective control of project cost.


It is recommended that lattice QCD representations of the fermion determinant, including the discretization of the Dirac operator, be checked in the continuum limit against known QED determinant results. Recent work on the massive QED fermion determinant in two dimensions is reviewed. A feasible approach to the four-dimensional QED determinant with O (2) × O (3) symmetric background fields is briefly discussed.


The invention discloses a method and a device for measuring the wave height of an emergent light wave of inter-satellites laser communication by an interference wedge plate. In the method, the wave height of the emergent spherical wave is measured according to the feature that interference fringes rotate anticlockwise or clockwise caused by the different defocus aberrations of the emergent light waves. The post processing is applied to the computer for sampling the fringes of the light spots, the rotation angle of the interference fringe relative to the horizontal fringe is obtained and the positive and negative wave heights of the emergent spherical wave are deduced. The invention has the advantages of dependable principle, simple structure of an optical system and capability of rapidly and conveniently giving out a quantitative measurement result.


This paper reviews the MDC methods that have been developed for video communication in recent years. We give a prospective development of MDC techniques for video communication.


is "accompanied by a sense of pity, considerable satire, and some serious attempt toward an imaginative understanding of Chinese society as a whole." In Mr. Hsia's opinion, the best writings of modern China are in the form of satire. After dismissing the realism in modern Chinese fiction as merely a "fidelity to observable reality," Mr. Hsia proceeds to explain the psychological poverty of modern Chinese fiction. He believes that this psychological poverty was first conditioned by the tradition of Confucianism, and further coarsened by Western positivism and rationalism. In their preoccupation with national and social problems, the authors of modern China learned from "Dickens, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Maupassant, Zola— and Gorky" rather than "Flaubert, Dostoevsky and Henry James." And a "lack of adequate intercultural communication as well as Communist denigration of symbolist literature as a symptom of capitalist decadence" retarded the Chinese writers' interest in "Eliot, Joyce and Proust."


We report molecular dynamics simulation of crystallization of model alkane systems conducted under constant pressure conditions. We studied n‐eicosane (C20H42) and n‐Hexacontane (C60H122) both under quiescent and steady shear conditions and monitored their crystallization dynamics. We have compared an order parameter used in the simulations against one analogous to that used in dilatometry experiments. For both alkanes applying steady shearing significantly speeds up the crystallization process. The crystallization kinetics follows that of Avrami and we have calculated Avrami growth function and exponent for many cases. The Avrami exponent calculated using our order parameter for defining degree of crystallinity, agrees well with that obtained in the experiments.


introduction Change is hard. Not just mentally—learning new skills, steps, and technologies—but emotionally. But no matter how difficult, change is common in all sectors today, because globalization and the rapid development of new technologies keep moving the bar for quality, cost, speed, and service. As schools, their teachers, and outside facilitators redesign jobs and incorporate technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students and develop an Opportunity Culture for all, choosing the right school models is just one part of the task. The human experience—and experience in education—tells us that even perfect design will not work if teachers do not grasp it, embrace it, and contribute to its success. Understanding the key theories of organization change management can help schools working in different contexts make changes successfully, for students and teachers. Change management is just what it sounds like: the process of planning and executing major change steps in an organization to achieve the organization's goals, maximize the positive impact on employees who do the work after a change, and help leaders and staff make the new ways become a habit.


The strength of various variants of the TiAlN coating and its analogues on the iron surface is studied by using quantum chemistry methods. As a computer model, we consider a system of 5.5 atomic layers, 3 of which imitate the base (metallic iron), and 2.5 layers imitate its coating. The dependence of the coating strength on its chemical composition and the mutual arrangement of atoms of various elements is studied. It follows from the calculations that the strength of the optimal TiAlN coating is almost equal to the strength of the surface of pure iron. The proposed model was used also to study the role of the coating in protecting the iron surface from oxidation. It is shown that the considered coating variants practically do not undergo oxygen corrosion, which is one of the reasons for their high efficiency.


Emerging economic and demographic trends stimulate universities across the globe to promote better connections with industry, governments and communities. By clustering within Knowledge and Innovation Districts (KID), they are able to respond more quickly to societal and scientific challenges. Architecture is crucial in driving their success by providing spaces that encourage convergence, connectivity and proximity. In this paper, we report on the design process of a media façade for a new KID within Melbourne Innovation Districts. We analyze our process through the lens of client and design team, and illustrate how vision and motivation translate into tangible design outcomes. Our insights reveal interesting future directions for media architecture practice and research, by way of (1) its synergies with KIDs, (2) evaluating the success of noncommercial media architecture, and (3) the opportunities for media architects as experts that coordinate media architecture projects from conception to delivery.


We report a theoretical study of the variation of the self‐diffusion coefficient across a liquid–crystal interface at equilibrium. The study is based on the assumption that the interface is broad compared to the molecular diameter of the diffusing particle. The structure at the interface is described by a set of position‐dependent order parameters which change smoothly across the interface from zero in the pure liquid to nonzero constant values in the pure solid phase. The effective potential experienced by a particle at the interface is expressed in terms of these order parameters. A Smoluchowski equation is used to describe the dynamics in the presence of this effective potential. The calculated self‐diffusion coefficient changes sharply over a length of 4–5 molecular layers in the interface and reproduces the essential features observed in recent computer simulations. We find that significant topological ordering takes place on the liquid side of the interface before the self‐diffusion coefficient show...


ABSTRACT Class‐room discipline, an issue of 'power' and 'control' for many teachers and students, is investigated in relation to teachers' attitudes towards stereotyped models of masculinity and femininity. Two important issues are considered; firstly, that what is generally regarded as appropriate gender behaviour by teachers plays a major role in determining their approaches and responses to the behaviour of boys and girls in the classroom. This paper focuses on the experiences of girls and teachers' traditional perceptions of femininity and it is believed that the stereotyped, often middle‐class assumptions made by many teachers, which make up an overall view of how girls 'should' behave, have serious effects on girls' motivation, self‐esteem, reputations, their ability to fulfil their educational potentials and their futures. It will also seriously affect their class‐room behaviour. Secondly, stereotyped beliefs around women, men and power in our society, can influence the discipline measures of teach...


The invention relates to an electric multi-bottle transfusing apparatus comprising a dressing change valve, an electric pusher and a controller. When the liquid medicine in the first bottle is used up, nurses can connect multiple liquid medicine bottles with the dressing change valve; when a patient finishes transfusion with a first liquid medicine bottle, the patient or an accompany staff can move a valve plug by pushing a push rod of the electric pusher through a remote control of the controller; a liquid guiding hole of the valve plug can be used to deliver liquid medicine in the next liquid medicine bottle to a transfusing set, and the transfusing set can be used for transfusing liquid medicine to the patient. By repeating the above operations, liquid medicine of the last liquid medicine bottle can be delivered to the infusion apparatus, and the problem of lacking nurses is solved.


Survival and early growth and yield of Salix alba L. over two successive 2‐year rotations were evaluated under nursery conditions that included irrigation during the first growing season. A six‐yea...


Natural language Processing techniques have been proved very helpful in optimizing the software development process. It has improved the accuracy and speed of different steps of development process. Summarization of software artifacts is one of application of natural language processing techniques to help the developers or testers. Summarization tools and techniques have been applied to many software artifacts in the past like source code, discussions and bug reports. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of the natural language processing techniques applied for the summarization of bug reports. Bug reports are very important for development process because these have valuable knowledge of the problems and their resolution. By summarizing bug reports, a lot of developer's time can be saved during bug triaging when developers are looking for the similar problems from the past. Bug report summarization is done by various methods and techniques and it have helped the developer to save their time and better understanding of the problem at hand. This survey of the past techniques used for the summarization of bug reports will provide useful and wide background knowledge of this research field to the future researchers.


Within the academic preparation of future teachers we quite often notice that the students expect pedagogical or didactic disciplines to give them practical advice and guidelines for their teaching, which is logical. However, every experienced pedagogue knows how unrealistic such expectations are. The study of pedagogical sciences offers information basis, but its knowledge does not guarantee pedagogical mastery to any teacher. Our aim is to enrich the existing form of pedagogical programmes by adding a new dimension of personality development, which we want to achieve through psychosomatic disciplines. Completing this kind of preparation should enable the students to develop the so-called pedagogical condition. Graduates in Teacher Training programmes should then be not only academically educated professionals, but also authentic, self-reflecting personalities, capable of taking responsibility for their action.


This article analyses the memorials of Manuel Gaytan de Torres, a native of Jerez who developed an arbitrism of great scope, heterogeneity and originality of synthesis that articulates various issues and geographic spaces into a functional proposition of the Iberian world. His work facilitates an understanding of the intellectual construction of the polycentric monarchy from the perspective of an arbitrism in which the American viceroyalties are systematically related to the European world, and reproduces contemporary perceptions of the difficulties posed by the different dysfunctions of the Austrian possessions and their solutions.


Cardiovascular diseases(CVD) are a leading cause of unnecessary hospital admissions as well as fatalitoes placing an immense burden in the healthcare industry


Objective To investigate the cognitive situation and the impact of intervention factors of the 14 Curea breath test.Methods Randomly extracting 124 subjects who received 14 C-urea breath test examination from January to December in 2012 to obtain the cognition of the subjects about 14 C-urea breath test through on-the-spot inquiry.Results The total cognitive score was(21.5±4.4) and the scoring rate was 59.7%.The score ranking is as follows:coordinate nurse satisfaction basic knowledge.Univariate analysis shows that the differences in cognition of subjects depends on age,gender,ethnic and whether or not patients suffer from gastrointestinal diseases and other chronic diseases.The impact of effect factors has something to do with ethnic and the risk of gastrointestinal disease(P 0.05~0.01).Conclusion The physical examination cognition of the subjects was lower and we need to strengthen propaganda to enhance the cognition of Uygurs,other ethnic groups and patients with non-gastrointestinal disease.Effective nursing intervention in the pre-test is an important method to improve the accuracy of test results.


MICRO TO MACRO DYNAMICS OF SHARED AWARENESS EMERGENCE IN SITUATIONS THEORY: TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF SHARED AWARENESS Samuel F. Kovacic Old Dominion University, 2013 Director: Dr. Andres Sousa-Poza Engineering Management is an interdisciplinary field of study. As such, Engineering Management must rely on the energies of its participants to integrate toward the problem being solved. Many techniques exist to aid the researcher towards a common goal; however, it can only be surmised on how effective the techniques have been. Not until the activity is over and the participants reflect back on their results can they know whether they shared a common understanding of the problem. This study explores the emergence of shared awareness based the interactions of disparate perspectives at a particulate level. The study builds from observations of a real-world problem and explores how shared awareness emerges. Given the shared nature of multiple disciplinary approaches quantifying shared awareness would seem particularly important. It is not enough to say that shared awareness has occurred; more importantly it is necessary to know when shared awareness has occurred and with whom and what the conditions were for shared awareness in situ. Since any given project is longitudinal in nature, change is inevitable. With change comes different conditions for shared awareness; it cannot be assumed that shared awareness is sustained through change. Without knowing the prior conditions for shared awareness there is nothing to compare with when change has occurred. This study attempts to quantify when the emergent state of shared awareness has occurred and by extension the conditions where awareness is shared within a group o f individuals. Most importantly, this study will provide a method for studying shared awareness [probability threshold] using percolation theory. Percolation is one of numerous techniques being developed out of statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanics (reinterpreted for the use in this study) provides a framework for relating the microscopic properties of individual atoms and molecules [individual] to the macroscopic bulk properties of materials [whole] that can be observed in everyday life (Albert, 2002). An experiment is proposed to test the hypothesis formed within the study and canons to substantiate the findings of the experiment. Ultimately, the study proposes a General Theory for Shared Awareness that provides a foundation for further research. All that I am and who I strive to be is for one person alone, my soul-mate and wife Lynne. She has shown me that beyond hubris and arrogance is humility and it is from this position that learning and understanding is greatest. I am in her debt as an author, a scholar, and a person and dedicate the success of this work to her alone. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To attempt to thank in this acknowledgement all those that have contributed or supported me in my academic pursuit would jeopardize or marginalize not listing all the many excellent contributors that were 'part-and-parcel' to this work. Suffice it to say it takes a village to raise a scholar and many thanks are extended to each and every villager. However, a special 'thank you' goes out to Dr. William Welsh, Dr. Chuck Keating, Dr. Jose Padilla, Dr. Nina Mun, and Mr. Richard Myers, for providing support 'above and beyond' that I could not have hoped to expect. Additionally, my deepest appreciation and gratitude goes to my committee members: Dr. Van Brewer, Dr. Adrian Gheorghe, and Dr. Ghaith Rabadi. Above all, I would like to thank Dr. Andres Sousa-Poza, my committee chair, for his support and insistence to follow my passion. Rather than guide me through a maze of all that is known, Dr. Sousa-Poza challenged me (continuously) to explore beyond what was known and provided focus for my passion for deriving an understanding of the unknown. His influence is imprinted in this work and will always be present on all my future work as a scholar. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF T ABLES .......................................................................................................... ix LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................ x Chapter INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................1 1.1. Background................................................................................................................................ 1 1.2. What is Being Proposed...................................................................................................... !....7 1.3. Purpose..................................................................................................................................... 12 1.4. Research Objectives.................................................................................................................13 1.5. Significance of this Study....................................................................................................... 14 LITERATURE REVIEW..............................................................................................15 2.1. Anthropological Journey on Shared Awareness....................................................................15 2.2. Complex[ity]and Awareness...................................................................................................33 2.3. Shared Awareness................................................................................................................... 44 CONCEPT......................................................................................................................48 3.1. Nature of Shared Awareness.................................................................................................. 48 3.2. Conditions for Shared Awareness.......................................................................................... 51 3.3. Factors to Consider for Studying Shared Awareness............................................................53 3.4. A Theory for Explaining Emergence..................................................................................... 55 3.5. Percolation Theory Applied to Shared Awareness...............................................................59 METHODOLOGY........................................................................................................ 63 4.1. Inductive Rationalism.............................................................................................................63 4.2. M ethod.....................................................................................................................................65 4.3. Discussion of the Canons........................................................................................................69 4.4. Experimentation Protocols......................................................................................................71 4.5 Experimentation Element Coding........................................................................................... 74 4.6 Specific Code per Experiment..................................................................................................77 RESULTS....................................................................................................................... 80 5.1. Confidence in the Conclusions Drawn...................................................................................80 5.2. Experiment 1: Homogeneous Population...............................................................................81


Code of ethics for trustees from Sections 34 to 53 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency General Rules. The code of ethics establishes a standard for service to be provided by licensed insolvency trustees.


Ocean floor basalt pillows are among the most rapidly cooled igneous bodies on earth and offer an important opportunity to study the effects that rapid cooling rates have on the textural and mineralogical features of basalts. Many of the features of pillow basalts have been described by Bryan (1972), but in general they have not received the extensive study to which lunar basalts have been subjected (Dowty et al., 1974; Lofgren et al., 1975; Walker et al., 1976, and many others). The purpose of this paper is to describe the groundmass petrographic features of pillow basalts recovered on Leg 46 of Glomar Challenger and to examine the origin of these features in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the rates and mechanisms of the processes which occur during the crystallization of igneous rocks. The samples are from DSDP Hole 396B located about 160 km east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 22°59.14'N, 43°30.90'W. The overall results of the drilling and geologic setting have been presented by the Leg 46 Scientific Staff (this volume). The oldest sediment recovered at this site is middle Miocene (about 13 m.y.). The pillows examined come from the sparsely phyric pillow sequence (lithologic Units 1 and 2) and from the porphyritic pillow sequence (lithologic Unit 4). For the sparsely phyric pillows only glassy pillow rinds up to about 8 cm long were recovered. For the porphyritic pillows, rinds and one complete pillow about 45 cm thick were available. This paper will first describe the petrographic variation observed in the pillows, then briefly review some of the aspects of the theory of crystallization kinetics necessary to explain the variation, and finally discuss the petrography in the light of this theory.


Language features are ever-evolving in the real-world social media environment. Many trained models in natural language understanding (NLU), ineffective in semantic inference for unseen features, might consequently struggle with the deteriorating performance in dynamicity. To address this challenge, we empirically study social media NLU in a dynamic setup, where models are trained on the past data and test on the future. It better reflects the realistic practice compared to the commonly-adopted static setup of random data split. To further analyze model adaption to the dynamicity, we explore the usefulness of leveraging some unlabeled data created after a model is trained. The performance of unsupervised domain adaption baselines based on auto-encoding and pseudo-labeling and a joint framework coupling them both are examined in the experiments. Substantial results on four social media tasks imply the universally negative effects of evolving environments over classification accuracy, while auto-encoding and pseudo-labeling collaboratively show the best robustness in dynamicity.


A high gain low cross polarization Fabry-Perot cavity antenna (FPCA) designed by AMC ground is presented in this paper. In particular, a strip line AMC ground is used to replace the PEC ground in order to reduce the cross polarization level of the FPCA. A compact single layer FPCA with a dimension of $4.2\lambda_{0}\times 4.2\lambda_{0}$ and a profile of $0.5\lambda_{0}$ is designed and simulated. The proposed antenna can reach a peak gain of 20.8dBi at 12.5GHz and the cross polarization level in the 3dB beam-width is below −40dB.


A dual active bridge series resonant converter operating above its resonant frequency is investigated. A control method with a frequency variation in different ranges is used. As a result, the dependencies of the RMS inductor current from the output voltage are built. The experiment with a 200 W model of the converter validated the theoretical analysis.


Present study show the similarity as well as contradictory event among the four different wind data based on monthly, seasonally and annual wind pattern over Indian Ocean. All the four reanalysis wind sources exhibit almost similar trend in their annual as well as monthly average wind pattern, however there is no strong similarity at their peak condition in space and time.The statistical analysis, based on Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and correlation coefficient (R), exhibited that the ECMWF and NCMRWF wind shows comparatively good agreement with the moored buoy data than the NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/CFSR wind under the seasonal reversing wind pattern occurs across the consecutive monsoons.


Murder rates in the 16 German Bundeslander were associated with marriage, infant mortality, unemployment, and suicide rates and with population density.


PURPOSE: To provide a heating element capable of being easily arranged even to a passage having a plate bent at various angles and a method for producing the same. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of ceramic beads 28 having hollow parts 29 are arranged in one row and the small diameter parts 31 and fitting parts 32 of them are mutually fitted. A coil-shaped heating wiring 33 is passed through the hollow parts 29 of the beads to form a bead chain 27. This bead chain 27 is embedded in the groove formed to a hot runner manifold by a ceramic self-adhesive material. COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO


linked to BHR in asthma. These components of the epithelial-mesenchymal trophic unit (EMTU) 20 share a common fibroblastic progenitor, the mature phenotype of which is directed by growth factors, ADAM 33, the latest of the ADAM proteins to be described, has been identified as a major susceptibility gene in asthma linked to bronchial hyperresponsiveness. It provides an important breakthrough in our understanding of this complex disorder and its variable clinical and physiological presentations. he increasing incidence of peanut allergy prompted this group to look at the predispos- ing factors to the condition. A subgroup of 49 children with a clear history of peanut allergy was identified from the Avon longitudinal study (a cohort of 13 971 preschool children). Information was obtained from questionnaires, medical records, and cord blood. Peanut allergy was confirmed by double blind, placebo controlled food challenge in 23 of the 36 children tested. Allergic responses to food challenge included bronchospasm, stridor, and angioedema. Significant associations with peanut allergy were found with soy milk/formula consumption (odds ratio 2.6), family history, and history of atopy. Interestingly, rashes over joints (odds ratio 2.6) and the use of skin preparations containing peanut oils to these rashes (odds ratio 6.8) were associated with peanut allergy. The group hypothesised that allergic sensitisation occurs to peanut antigens through inflamed skin as they are present in emollients used for the treatment of diaper rashes, eczema, dry skin, and inflammatory cuta-neous conditions. More trials are needed, however, and, if this is the case, avoidance of expo- sure to emollients containing peanut oils may prove to be a cost effective therapeutic intervention.


Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm, we investigate whether firm performance is related to the accumulated stock of technological knowledge associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and what contextual factors affect this relationship. We test our research questions on a longitudinal matched patent-firm data set on medium and large firms filing 4IR patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). Our results show a significant and economically relevant positive association between the development of 4IR technologies and firm productivity, but no relationship with its profitability, thereby suggesting that the returns from costly technological investments are slow to cash in. We also find that late entrants benefit more from the development of 4IR technological capabilities than early entrants and experience a substantial "boost effect". We provide empirical support to an explanation of these findings in terms of the ability of late entrants to (i) manage the inherent complexity of the bundle of technologies comprising the 4IR and (ii) exploit profitable downstream applications of the 4IR.


In this paper, we develope a direct adaptive control framework for linear discrete‐time uncertain MIMO systems, based on assumptions that the system is controllable and the difference of the unknown system matrix from the stable solution is bounded by a given value. The proposed framework is Lyapunov‐based, and the controller guarantees adaptive stabilization. In addition, the adaptive laws are characterized by means of Kronecker calculus. Furthermore, the results can easily be extended to time‐varying cases, where the deviation from the stable solution is bounded, and the controllability assumption holds. The controller not only tolerates plant deviation, but also guarantees asymptotical stability of the closed‐loop system. Two numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the performance of the controller.


The magnetic and superconducting properties of $\mathrm{Ru}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}{\mathrm{Gd}}_{1.5}{\mathrm{Ce}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{10\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\delta}}$ polycrystalline samples with different oxygen-doping levels are presented. A strong suppression of the superconducting temperature $({T}_{c})$, as well as a reduction in the superconducting fraction, occurs as the oxygen content is reduced by annealing the samples in oxygen-deprived atmospheres. Drastic changes in the electrical resistivity are observed above ${T}_{c}$, possibly associated with oxygen removal, mainly from grain boundaries. However, the magnetic ordering is relatively less affected by the changes in oxygen content of the samples. The spin-glass transition is enhanced and shifted to higher temperatures with the reduction in oxygen content. This could be correlated with an increase in the spin disorder and frustration for the oxygen-depleted samples. Also, the same oxygen-vacancy-induced disorder could explain the reduction in the fraction of the sample showing antiferromagnetic order. We also report significant changes in the measured properties of the samples as a function of time.


This paper discusses hybrid fiber optic access network architectures combining baseband wireline and mm-wave channels. We focus on mm-wave radio over fiber (RoF) optical access network architectures which combine radio subcarrier multiplexing techniques to improve system efficiency with fiber dispersion mitigation provided by optical single sideband modulation techniques. Besides discussing the network architecture we focus on the intermodulation effects arising from the nonlinear characteristics of the optical modulator and the reflective semiconductor optical amplifier.


The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory has organized many international conferences since being founded in 1982. The purpose of these forums has been to address the current status of enduring problems across the interdisciplinary spectrum of the field and to herald, where possible, new conceptual and empirical developments that have both broadened and deepened approaches to the neural substrates of learning and memory. The contributions of researchers that are reported herein represent the distillation of the Seventh Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory— Making Memories in the Brain: Orchestration of Cells & Systems. This conference, held in Irvine, California on November 7–9, 2001, also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the center. The conference was organized into four sessions: "Local Synaptic Processing in Memory Formation," "Interaction of Brain Systems in Memory Formation," "Stress and Memory," and "Addiction and Memory: Common Mechanisms?" The first session focused on molecular events that are localized to synapses and are thought to contribute to long-lasting synaptic plasticity involved in memory formation. Kelsey Martin described her work using cultured sensory and motor neurons from the marine mollusk Aplysia. With her colleagues, she showed that local application of the biogenic amine serotonin (5HT) is capable of inducing branch-specific long-term synaptic facilitation (LTF) that is dependent on local protein synthesis. Using a cDNA library from isolated sensory neurites, she went on to show that there is a complex array of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) present in Aplysia synapses and that 5HT is capable of regulating their translation into protein. Tom Carew then presented evidence that he and his colleague Carolyn Sherff obtained showing that, in the CNS of Aplysia, several mechanistically distinct forms of LTF can be induced at sensori-motor synapses, depending upon the pattern and locus of 5HT application. One form, produced by repeated cell-wide 5HT application, requires presynaptic protein synthesis, whereas another form, induced by coincident application of a single pulse of 5HT to the cell body and synapse, requires local postsynaptic protein synthesis immediately, followed by delayed protein synthesis at the cell body. These results show that LTF expressed in the same time domain can result from different underlying mechanisms. Oswald Steward rounded out the session with his description of work that he and Paul Worley have carried out analyzing the cellular mechanisms that target newly synthesized mRNA transcripts to individual synapses, where they can be locally translated. They focused their attention on the mRNA of a particular immediate early gene called Arc (activity regulated cytoskelton-associated protein) and showed that synapse-specific targeting of Arc mRNA requires NMDA activation. This work revealed important aspects of a mechanism by which synaptic activity can induce both gene expression and target specific mRNA transcripts to synapses whose NMDA receptors have been activated. The second session was concerned with the level of brain circuits and systems, and


The invention discloses a health care product American ginseng and omei mountain kudzuvine capsule which can assist in reducing the blood sugar, and the capsule is prepared with American ginseng powder, omei mountain kudzuvine extract, astragalus extract, tartary buckwheat extract, momordica charantia extract, mulberry leaf extract and magnesium stearate as main raw and auxiliary materials. The technical scheme is as follows: 100 weight parts to 140 weight parts of American ginseng powder, 60 weight parts to 80 weight parts of omei mountain kudzuvine extract, 60 weight parts to 80 weight parts of astragalus extract, 40 weight parts to 60 weight parts of tartary buckwheat extract, 40 weight parts to 60 weight parts of momordica charantia extract, 30 weight parts to 40 weight parts of mulberry leaf extract and 1 weight part to 5 weight parts of magnesium stearate are collected, screened, mixed and prepared into the capsule. Every American ginseng and omei mountain kudzuvine capsule is 400mg, the preparation method is simple, no toxic and side effects exist, and the capsule is proven to have the function of assisting in reducing the blood sugar in an animal function test.


Abstract A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Potamonemus Cumberlidge & Clark, 1992 is described from Mount Manengouba Reserve and Bakossi National Park in the tropical rainforests of southwestern Cameroon, Central Africa. Potamonemusmansp. nov. is recognized by characters of the carapace and chelipeds. In addition, a phylogenetic analysis based on partial sequences of three mitochondrial DNA genes (COI, 12S rRNA, and 16S rRNA) that included representatives of all other freshwater crab genera found in Cameroon recovered each of the new species as a distinct lineage. A diagnosis and illustrations of the new species are provided, and it is compared to the other species of Potamonemus. Brief notes are provided on the ecology of the new species and the two other species of Potamonemus. An identification key to the species of Potamonemus is provided. The conservation status of the genus is discussed.


The method of ion-implantation doping (IID) is used extensively in the fabrication of semiconductor devices as it allows different dopants to be introduced into a semiconductor in a controlled manner. The authors present their results of measurements of boron distribution profiles in silicon after IID, using secondary-ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS), and electroreflection spectroscopy. The authors studied samples of p/sup +/-p structures, where the p/sup +/ layer was obtained by IID of boron with different values of energy and dose into single-crystal silicon with an initial p-type carrier concentration of 1.6 x 10/sup 16/ cm/sup -3/ and (111) orientation.


The last issue emphasized the changes taking place in the Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH) and discussed the reasons that the Associacao Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (ABHH) and her two sister societies decided to internationalize the journal.(1-3) It was pointed out that one of the primary reasons for this was the new Qualis classification by the Brazilian further education council (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - Capes). In several articles, editors of many Brazilian journals voiced their unanimous disagreement at the use of just the Thomson-Reuters impact factor in the preparation of this new classification.(4,5)

The impact factor has long been used inappropriately to assess the productivity of individual researchers and professors and consequently in academic decisions related to promotion. Thus, several reports exorcise the Thomson-Reuters impact factor and recommend that other indices, such as those of SCImago and SciELO, should also be used in the classification of scientific journals.(6,7) This is justified and so the objective of the Brazilian editors was to valorize national production and Brazilian journals.

In June, Crossref Quarterly, the e-letter of one of the institutions that attribute Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to scientific publications on the internet, reported on the Brazilian evolution over the last two years in respect to the number of requests for DOIs.(8) Crossref cites Brazil because of the recent increase in membership; the RBHH is one of these new members.

Another article from the Royal Society entitled "Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century" identifies the new emerging countries of great scientific power led by China and including Brazil and also throws light on the growing scientific production of countries that are not normally mentioned such as Iran, Turkey and Tunisia.(9)

China is now the second highest producer of scholarship articles worldwide and the fourth in medicine.(10) Eleven years ago it was the nineteenth in the ranking of SCImago in medicine, that is, behind Brazil which was the seventeenth (Table 1). China's contribution has accompanied its intense economic progress that has been observed over the last fifteen years.

Table 1

Scientific publications in medicine - 1996 to 2010(10)

Albeit not so evident, a similar evolution has happened number giving a larger slice of the share in these years (Figure 1). Today, both in general publications and in medicine, we are in the thirteenth position according to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR - Table 1).

Figure 1

Evolution of scientific production in Brazil between 1996 and 2010(10)

And how is the production of Hematology? Table 2 is the cumulated publications from 1996 to 2010. In 2009 and 2010 there was intense and comparable production in Italy, the UK and Germany; these countries produced the highest number of articles after the USA. Between 1999 and 2009 China climbed from the twenty-fifth place to the seventh place giving it an aggregate position of thirteenth in 2010 (Table 2).

Table 2

Scientific publications in hematology – 1996 to 2010(10)

In the same period, Brazil moved from twenty-fourth to fourteenth position and its aggregate position for 1996 to 2010 is eighteenth. This is important but it is even more significant if we look at the production of Brazil in 2010 when it is in the twelfth position and not so far behind countries such as Australia and Spain (Table 3).

Table 3

Scientific publications in hematology – 2010(10)

However we can improve as is clear on comparing the percentage of production in hematology in respect to the overall production of documents in Medicine. Table 4 is a simple comparison of evolution of randomly chosen years of the countries that lead aggregate ranking in Hematology as well as China and Brazil. What is observed is that every year the percentage contribution of the USA and Italy in the field of hematology compared to its overall scientific production in medicine is higher than China and Brazil which shows we can and should improve.

Table 4

Percentage of publications in hematology compared to the overall scientific publications in medicine of each country in 1999, 2004, 2009, cumulative of 2006 and 2009 and the year of highest productivity(10)

At this point we should emphasize that the RBHH has an important role in the evolution of hematology in Brazil; it is publishing most of the citable and cited documents which make up the score of the ranking of the SJR.

These data can be challenged or considered irrelevant, but should be viewed as a stimulus; an encouragement to continue with changes to transform the Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia.