Optimization of flavonoids extraction from Lippia graveolens and Lippia origanoides chemotypes with ethanol-modified supercritical CO2 after steam distillation

Abstract: Abstract Steam distillation of essential oils from Lippia origanoides K. and Lippia graveolens K. leaves plant material residues that can be valorized. Flavonoids can be selectively extracted from these substrates using ethanol-modified supercritical CO2, as attempted in this work. The thymol-rich L. origanoides chemotype was used to test extraction reproducibility. The effects of pressure, temperature, time, CO2 mass flow, particle size, and percent ethanol on the extraction yield of oleoresin and flavonoids were examined with a 2(6−2) fractional factorial screening design. The variables with a significant influence on yields (pressure, time, CO2 mass flow, and percent ethanol) were used in a simplex optimization to determine the conditions for maximum extraction from L. graveolens and three L. origanoides chemotypes. The extracts’ flavonoid content was estimated by UV–vis spectroscopy with a multivariate calibration model. UHPLC-ESI(+)-Orbitrap-MS was employed for extract identification and quantification. The extracts from the various plant material residues had qualitative and quantitative differences in flavonoid composition. Under the best extraction conditions found (307 bar, 5 % ethanol, 43 g CO2/min), the steam-distilled plant material from the phellandrene-rich L. origanoides chemotype afforded 4.1 g of pinocembrin per kg of dry substrate. Results of this work facilitate the implementation of supercritical CO2 extraction processes to valorize byproducts of the essential oil industry by obtaining extracts that contain flavonoids.


Concentrations and relative compositions of metallic elements differ between predatory squid and filter-feeding sardine from the Indian and South Atlantic oceans

Abstract: Abstract Although metallic elements occur naturally, they can occur or accumulate in organisms at levels toxic to the organism and/or their consumers. Concentrations of twenty-nine metallic elements in muscle tissue from sardine Sardinops sagax and chokka squid Loligo reynaudii from South Atlantic and Indian Ocean waters off South Africa were established, for the first time, using inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Chokka showed significantly higher (p


Optimization of Acquisition Time for 177- Lu SPECT with Two Energy Windows

Abstract: Background & Aim: The imaging process following the treatment of 177Lu-DOTATATE is in some medical clinics demanding on both patients and the clinic. Usually a number of images are acquired, with different time intervals to the time of injection. To facilitate for the patient and create the opportu- nity to treat more patients it is desirable to simplify the imaging process. At Skane University hospital (SUS) the number of imaging sessions has been reduced from four to one, acquired 96 hours p.i. Image acquisition is done with SPECT imaging, which is used for determination of absorbed dose. The main objective is a SPECT image of the kidneys, but there is also a great interest to map out the absorbed dose to tumours. In order to do so a two FOV SPECT image has to be acquired. Thus the total acquisition time becomes very long and patient movements has shown to be a great difficulty when matching the two FOV together. ::: ::: At SUS image acquisition is made with one energy window around the 208 keV photopeak and by adding a second one around the 113 keV photopeak, the acquisition time can hopefully be reduced. The determination of absorbed dose is based on a mean value of the activity concentration inside a VOI de- fined from CT image. Thus the task is to lower the acquisition time but still maintain a mean value with low uncertainty. This results in the question formulation: For SPECT imaging, of patients treated with 177Lu-DOTATATE, how much can the acquisition time be reduced when collecting information from 113 keV photopeak and 208 keV photopeak? ::: ::: Method: SPECT projection data of a cylindrical phantom, within it 6 spheres of different sizes, were simulated with Monte Carlo code SIMIND. Projection sets with activity in the spheres and activity in the background were simulated separately and added together in a later step. The reason for the separate simulation was to easily be able to modify the activity concentration in the spheres and background inde- pendent of each other. Different number of counts in the projection data can be a result of either different activity concentrations in source regions or due to different acquisition times. A quantity, named ”dis- integration concentration value”, was defined as the number of radioactive decay during the acquisition time, per unit volume, to be able to change the acquisition time in the projection data. The disintegration concentration in the spheres was changed by multiplying with so called Disintegration Concentration value (DC-value) [MBq s/ml], derived from activity concentration multiplied with an acquisition time. Thus a higher DC-value is derived from a longer acquisition time, therefore the spheres obtained a higher disintegration concentration. A set of 10 projection sets were created, all multiplied with different DC- values, i.e. different time per projection. The projection data of the sphere and background were added together and four different contrasts of disintegration concentration, between the spheres and the back- ground, were evaluated for all 10 DC-values. For every projection set 50 noise realisation were created. Reconstruction was done with OS-EM algorithm, using 6 subsets and 40 iterations. Projection data for 113 keV and 208 keV were simulated separately and data from the reconstructed images were later added together. Masks of the spheres was created to extract data from the reconstructed images. The data were evaluated by the recovery of the activity concentration and CV, where the standard deviation, of the 50 mean values from the 50 noise realisations, was divided with both the measured disintegration concentration and the true disintegration concentration, respectively. ::: ::: Result & Conclusion: Image acquisition with two energy windows, one around the 113 keV photo- peak and one around 208 keV photopeak, results in time per projections according to DC-value=22.50 MBq s/ml. For tumours it indicates a time per projection of 22.5 seconds but for kidneys the time per projection would have to be 225 seconds, due to its lower activity concentration 96 hours p.i. compared to the activity concentration in tumours at that time. At SUS the time per projection is 45 seconds, meaning that for image acquisition of tumours the time per projection can be shortened by a factor 2. However for image acquisition of kidneys the time per projection needs to be prolonged by a factor 5 compared to today’s image protocol.


CD93-Signaling Regulates Self-Renewal and Proliferation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells in Mice and Humans and Might be a Promising Target for Treatment


The Experts’ War on Poverty: Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America


VizieR Online Data Catalog: Sou323 ICRF reference sample (Liu+, 2017)


RACE-BASED EXPERIENCES OF BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTENDING PREDOMINATELY WHITE INSTITUTIONS


Pompe disease: PAS-positive lymphocyte vacuoles as diagnostic screening test


PECVD grown SiN photonic crystal micro-domes for the light extraction enhancement of GaN LEDs

Abstract: In this work, the effect of introducing a photonic crystal network of silicon nitride (SiN) micro-domes on the backside of silver coated gallium nitride (GaN) based light emitting diodes (LEDs) was studied. First, sapphire side of the top emitting LEDs, which is the bottom surface of the LEDs, is coated with silver (Ag). Light emitted towards the sapphire substrate is reflected upwards to the top surface and the amount of light extracted from the LED is expected to increase. In an alternative approach, SiN micro-domes forming a two dimensional photonic crystal, 2 μm in diameter and 80 nm in height in average, are deposited on the light emitting surface of the device with a period of 2 μm. Coating the backside with Ag has increased the efficiency of a top emitting LED by 11%. By introducing the SiN photonic crystal onto the Ag backside coated sample, total internal reflection is reduced via scattering and the amount of light emitted has been increased by 30% at 5·104 mA/cm2. Integration of SiN micro-domes with Ag coating has significantly impacted light extraction which has been shown to increase the efficiency of GaN based LEDs. Fabrication process and the results are discussed in detail.


Tolerance as a dominant social partnershih of intellectual education subjects

Scientific Visnyk V.O. Sukhomlynskyi Mykolaiv National University. Pedagogical Sciences


Structure of a minimal photosystem I from a green alga


A BIBLICAL HOLISTIC APPROACH TO PROVERTY

Abstract: Historically, 'the poor' are those who are in need materially and so the way to care for them is to give financial or material assistance. While there has been some progress in the recent century, poverty alleviation still remains a major issue in our world. From a Biblical perspective poverty is one of the consequences of sin, but it is understood in a broader way than merely physical poverty. God works to reverse the results of sin and restore all things, which includes all forms of poverty. ::: In the Old Testament the poor are most often discussed in economic terms, however there are also references to those in spiritual need. The primary principle was that the Israelites were to care for the poor among them, which reflected God's care for them. However, they often fail and are rebuked for exploiting the poor. ::: In the New Testament poverty is discussed even more clearly in an holistic way: there are the materially poor, the socially poor, but all people are spiritually poor. Hence the way to care for the poor must address these different types of poverty. Of paramount importance is to help people out of spiritual poverty, for that has eternal consequences. However, it is also clear that Christians who properly understand God's grace to them, will respond by caring for others holistically. ::: Such care was seen in the early NT church from congregations who were transformed to serve, as taught and modelled by Jesus. The ongoing challenge for Christian churches today is to continue to care for all varieties of the poor, enabling and empowering them to help themselves as Jesus' instructed.


The art of streamflow forecasting over Europe

Abstract: While floods are among the most damaging natural hazards, they have helped shape human ::: developments over the last millennia, fostering scientific understanding and technological ::: advances in an attempt for their mitigation. We now more skilfully predict floods at ::: increasing lead times, through probabilistic hydro-meteorological forecasting. But we are ::: now facing new challenges. ::: Have we reached the limits of predictability with seasonal streamflow forecasting? This ::: thesis contributed to the implementation and design of operational seasonal streamflow ::: outlooks, as part of the European and the Global Flood Awareness Systems. Openly ::: available, they give users an overview of potential streamflow changes on sub-seasonal to ::: seasonal timescales. The analysis of both systems highlighted current limits in seasonal ::: predictability and the importance of initial hydrological conditions and the land surface ::: memory. To tackle these limits of predictability, a sensitivity analysis was developed to ::: guide developments for tangible future seasonal streamflow forecast improvements. ::: Are technical and scientific advances increasing faster than the rate at which forecasts are ::: usable for decision-making? As shown by the application of serious games and research ::: interviews at the Environment Agency (to guide a successful transition to probabilistic ::: forecasts for flood early warning in England), science (e.g. forecast skill) is not necessarily ::: a limiting factor for decision-making. Improved communication between scientists and ::: decision-makers, aimed for instance at understanding the complex landscape in which ::: decision-makers operate, is key to a successful adoption of the latest science in practice. Art ::: can help bridge the communication gap, and this thesis culminated in an art exhibition, ::: ‘Gambling with floods?’, at The Museum of English Rural Life (Reading, UK) from 1 to 15 ::: November 2019, created to reach a wide audience. ::: Overall, this thesis has shown that a closer interaction between decision-makers, scientists ::: and artists is urgently needed for a co-leadership on improving science for society.


Ensembles for Time Series Forecasting


Identification of Yield and Yield-Related Quantitative Trait Loci for the Field High Temperature Condition in Backcross Populations of Rice (Oryza sativa L.)


Legal Status of the Caspian Sea: New Challenges for Energy Policy and Diplomacy

Proceedings of the External Challenges and Risks for Russia in the Context of the World Community’s Transition to Polycentrism: Economics, Finance and Business (ICEFB 2019)


CROSS-BORDER SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD FROM A CRIMINAL LAW PERSPECTIVE

Abstract: The role of state in an economic model and its consequence in genealogy fuse with the sovereignty of the state, coined as bio-politics and bio-power by Michel Foucault, as a power over life and death. To illustrate, punishing abortion or allowing new productive technologies could be regarded as issues lying on the sovereignty of the state. Surrogate motherhood appears as one of the challenges of the 21th century due to these two concepts. As opposed to earlier times, the current more advanced stage of scientific, technological, communication and traveling possibilities plays an essential role. Furthermore, the legal perception of surrogacy in a global perspective lies on the grey area. In other words, whether it is legal or prohibited varies from country to country, which creates a legal loophole. Here is the way in which the advent of surrogate motherhood defies the state’s sovereignty on its bio-politics and bio-power. Cross-border surrogate motherhood cases in law comes first at the legal recognition of the child by the country of the requesting people. As a matter of fact, its legal consequences appear firstly at civil law, inter alia, family law. Criminal law, with its subsidiary character, rises up by basing on the concepts, the definitions and the presumptions of civil law. Seeing these developments, to ensure individual human rights and prevent them from being victims or perpetrators of any crimes due to the cross border practiced surrogate motherhood cases, the question on where criminal law is supposed to stand rises, with which this study aims to explore. To be more precise, it mainly explores surrogacy as a possible criminal law issue. Additionally, the necessity on creating international legal documents in any form will be questioned.


Cell-Aware Diagnosis of Automotive Customer Returns Based on Supervised Learning


FOREIGN LANGUAGE DISCOURSE IN LINGUODIDACTICS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

International scientific journal «Education and Science»


A Smart-Phrase to Improve Documentation of Supportive Measures for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Abstract: Abstract Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive lung disease of unknown cause occurring in adults and affecting approximately 5 million people worldwide. The American Thoracic Society 2015 guidelines provide recommendations for the treatment of patients with IPF, including supportive care measures such as oxygen therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, gastric acid therapy, sleep apnea, vaccinations, lung transplant evaluation, and pulmonary hypertension assessment. A smart-phrase was developed that outlines the supportive care measures for the IPF patient, which was then implemented into a new patient clinic note in the electronic medical record. Documentation of the measures improved significantly after implementation of the smart-phrase.


Peter John Olivi on Perception, Attention, and the Soul’s Orientation towards the Body


Technology and Community in a Rural Culture: The Amish

Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies


Pregnancy-Related Complications


Chamber Effects on Soil Moisture and Plant Productivity in Furrow-Irrigated Rice on a Silt-Loam Soil in Arkansas

Journal of Rice Research and Developments


Methods and assessment


Perspectives on oxygen-based coal conversion towards zero-carbon power generation

Abstract: Abstract Projections made by credible institutions indicate that coal will continue to provide a major fraction of the global electricity mix for many decades to come. Assuming the validity of these projections and building on this likely scenario, this perspective article proposes oxygen-based coal conversion as a sustainable pathway for zero-carbon power generation, albeit not without its own challenges. The century-old tradition of burning coal in air is no longer sustainable. Achieving zero-carbon coal power dictates full capture of CO2 emissions. Unfortunately, renewable power is still far from fully displacing coal-based power despite major gains. Also, renewables are inherently non-dispatchable sources constrained severely by lack of utility-scale electricity storage. Moreover, prospects for total conversion of power generation to natural gas presents its own challenges due to uncertain impacts of hydraulic fracturing on the environment. It is highly likely that we will need both coal and natural gas for electricity production. Accordingly, this article proposes a roadmap that emphasizes rapid transitioning of coal-based (and natural gas-based) power generation from air-based combustion to oxygen-based conversion. The latter excludes nitrogen from entering the process stream and offers easy capture of CO2 to achieve zero-carbon electricity generation with significant savings on water demand.


A Review of Public Housing Delivery System in Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract: The importance of housing in Nigeria and the various housing strategies formulated by the Ogun state government in solving housing problems and efforts that have been made to-date has been acknowledged. Despite those efforts, it seems that much has not been achieved in terms of the availability of affordable housing. This paper provides a review of the housing programmes as well as public housing delivery in Nigeria with a further examination of the public housing delivery in Ogun State. In order to achieve this aim, a review of the relevant literature pertaining to public housing is made. A primary data gathering exercise is made with the senior officials at the Ogun State Housing Corporation (OSHC) to uncover the challenges as well as the strategies in place for the provision of affordable housing in Ogun State. The data was then supported with data from housing files obtained at the agency. It was revealed that OSHC has four (4) basic public estates in which allocation is made to the public. It was also noted in this study that (OSHC) is tilted to profit-making instead of social welfarism. This has made housing less affordable to the low and medium income earners.

International Journal of Property Sciences


Recognition of code-mixed gated words: Phonotactic features of Spanish and English

Abstract: Abstract Introduction This study examined word identification among Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual individuals, i.e., speech perception using a gated word task examining phonetic category formation. Methods Participants included 25 English-speaking monolingual and 10 fluent Spanish-English speaking bilingual adults. The experiment included a gating task incorporating Spanish sentences, English sentences, code-mixed Spanish-English sentences, and code-mixed English-Spanish sentences. The gated words at the end of the sentences consisted of voiceless initial consonants, voiced initial consonants, CV-tense words, or CV-lax words. Results There was a significant main effect for consonant voicing features and for language group. In addition, there was a significant interaction between consonant voicing features and language group. A significant main effect for vowel tenseness was also found along with a significant interaction between vowel tenseness and language group. Discussion Results suggest that bilinguals are capable of ultimate attainment, with phonotactic capabilities similar to that of monolingual speakers when identifying English words. Bilingual speakers may also be more sensitive to voicing features for both Spanish and English words.

Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología


Theoretical principles of studying metacommunication in modern psychology

Humanitarian studios: pedagogics, psychology, philosophy


Goldsworthy on Interpretation of Statutes and Constitutions: Public Meaning, Intended Meaning and the Bogey of Aggregation

Abstract: This chapter is for a festschrift in honor of Jeffrey Goldsworthy. Much of Goldworthy’s scholarship has been devoted to legal interpretation. I show the similarity and the difference between our views of legal interpretation.


A Systematic Review of Economic Impact Studies of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (Preprint)


Farm Household Scenario in Climatically Vulnerable Region in Odisha

Abstract: Present study has assessed the farm household condition in two climatically vulnerable districts of Odisha. Balasore and Khurda districts are vulnerable to cyclone & flood and drought & heat-wave, respectively. Farm families of Khurda district have a better socio-personal and socio-economic profile as compared to Balasore district; however, farmers of Balasore district are having better exposure to cosmopolite information sources than Khurda district thus carry better knowledge level on climate change. The lives of inhabitants are most at risk from cyclone and flood than from drought and heat wave. Poor are the worst affected. Not only they are worst hit, but also their capacity to recover from a disaster is relatively low. Any extreme situation traps the poor in a situation to sell off productive assets that become difficult to retrieve and thereby reinforcing the poverty almost permanently.


Visualization of Ionic Space Charge Layer Formed at Metal/Li-Ion-Conductive-Solid-Electrolyte Interface


Effect of MgO promoter on Ru/γ-Al2O3 Catalysts for Tricyclopentadiene Hydrogenation

Abstract: Abstract The objective of this study is to elucidate the effects of MgO promotors on the catalytic physico-chemical properties of Ru/γ-Al2O3 catalysts and the activity during the tricyclopentadiene (TCPD) hydrogenation reaction. Ru/γ-Al2O3 and Ru-MgO/γ-Al2O3 catalysts were produced by means of a coprecipitation method and formed in a bead type. The specific surface area of the regenerated Ru-MgO/γ-Al2O3 catalyst is much larger than that of the regenerated Ru/γ-Al2O3 catalyst. It was confirmed that the addition of MgO has the effect of alleviating the decrease of the specific surface area during the repetitive regeneration procedure. The addition of MgO had no significant effect on the reducibility of the Ru/γ-Al2O3 catalyst. The results of XRD, CO chemisorption and TEM imagery show that the addition of MgO to the Ru/γ-Al2O3 catalyst has the effect of decreasing the mobility of Ru atoms during repetitive regeneration at 650 °C. It was confirmed that the degree of catalyst deactivation during four repetitive regeneration trials was much lower than that with an unpromoted catalyst, likely because the addition of MgO prevented the sintering of Ru at the regeneration temperature of 650 °C. The Ru-MgO/γ-Al2O3 catalyst is a possible candidate as a reusable catalyst for use during the TCPD hydrogenation reaction.


Holocene matters: Landscape history accounts for current species richness of vascular plants in forests and grasslands of eastern Central Europe


Governing Insecurity: Institutional Design, Compliance, and Arms Control

Abstract: Author(s): Reddie, Andrew William | Advisor(s): Aggarwal, Vinod K. | Abstract: Governing Insecurity examines the various efforts to regulate, constrain, or ban military technology. In the process, it outlines the considerable variation in both the design of these frameworks and in compliance outcomes that existing theoretical work fails to explain. In this dissertation project, I present an original Arms Control Design Dataset (ACDD) to provide new data and methods to quantitatively assess the design features of arms control regimes and their effect upon state behavior---specifically compliance. I focus this analysis on agreement type, membership, type of verification regime, and the decision to include sunset provisions in four quantitative chapters. The dissertation concludes by considering the lessons learned from this analysis for future efforts to regulate military technologies.


Features of Creating and Implementing an Action Script on a Documentary Basis


07: Collaborative Writing


VARIATION AND SELECTION IN AXON NAVIGATION THROUGH MICROTUBULE-DEPENDENT STEPWISE GROWTH CONE ADVANCE

Abstract: Myosin II (MII) activity is required for elongating mammalian sensory axons to change speed and direction in response to Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and laminin-1 (LN). NGF signaling induces faster outgrowth on LN through regulation of actomyosin restraint of microtubule advance into the growth cone periphery. It remains unclear whether growth cone turning on LN works through the same mechanism and, if it does, how the mechanism produces directed advance. Using a novel method for substrate patterning, we tested how directed advance occurs on LN by creating a gap immediately in front of a growth cone advancing on a narrow LN path. The growth cone stopped until an actin-rich protrusion extended over the gap, adhered to LN, and became stabilized. Stepwise advance over the gap was triggered by microtubule +tip entry up to the adhesion site of the protrusion and was independent of traction force pulling. We found that the probability of microtubule entry is regulated at the level of the individual protrusion and is sensitive to the rate of microtubule polymerization and the rate of rearward actin flow as controlled by adhesion-cytoskeletal coupling and MII. We conclude that growth cone navigation is an iterative process of variation and selection. Growth cones extend leading edge actin-rich protrusions that adhere transiently (variation). Microtubule entry up to an adhesion site stabilizes a protrusion (selection) leading to engorgement, consolidation, protrusive activity distal to the adhesion site, and stepwise growth cone advance. The orientation of the protrusion determines the direction of advance.


A Hybrid Hyper-heuristic Flower Pollination Algorithm for Service Composition Problem in IoT

Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications


Swelling Pressure of Superdisintegrants in the Presence of Alcohol


Moist Heat Stress on a Hotter Earth

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences


Structural basis for mRNA recognition by human RBM38


About commissions for preservation and maintenance of religious facilities of the Serbian Ortodox Church between the two world wars


Estimating UCS of cement-grouted sand using characteristics of sand and UCS of pure grout

Abstract: For quality control and the economical design of grouted sand, the prior establishment of the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) estimating formula is very important. This study aims to develop an empirical UCS estimating formula for grouted sand based on the physical properties of sands and the UCS of cured pure grout. Four sands with varying particle sizes were grouted with both microfine cement and Ordinary Portland cement. Grouted specimens were prepared at three different relative densities and at three different water-to-cement ratios, and unconfined compression tests were performed. The results demonstrate that UCS of grouted sand can be expressed as the power function of the UCS of cured pure grout: UCSgrouted sand / 1 MPa = Asoil x (UCSpure / 1 MPa)N. Because the exponent N strongly depends on the combination of pore area and pore size, N is expressed as the function of porosity (n) and specific surface (Sa). Additionally, because Sa determines the area of the sand particle that cement particles can adsorb and n determines the number of cementation bondings between sand particles, Asoil is also expressed as the function of n and Sa. Finally, the direct relationship between Asoil and N is also investigated.


APPLICATION OF FLOWER COLOR VARIATIONS TO Impatiens balsamina L. AS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ACID-BASE INDICATOR


Effect of Solvent polarities on the molecular properties of 2-(2-nitrovinyl) furan

Abstract: This study investigated the effects of solvents’ polarities on the geometry and electronic properties of 2-(2-nitrovinyl) furan, (NVF). The investigation was carried via theoretical approach, using an ab-initio [Hartree Fock (HF/6-31G*)] and Density Functional Theory (DFT/B3LYP/6-31G*).The properties investigated are optimized structures, energy gaps (ELUMO – EHOMO) and associated global properties, chemical potential (ƙ), global hardness (η), ionization energy (IE), Electron affinity (EA), dipole moment (μ), polarizability (α) and electronic charges. NVF was sparingly soluble in water, very soluble and more active in polar organic solvent than non-polar solvents. The solvent polarities do not change the structural parameters of NVF widely, but have significant changes on the electron density re-distribution. The highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMO) of the molecule showed π-characters, an indication of intermolecular charge transfer characteristics for the excitation of electrons in NVF. The change in the dipole moment associated with low energy gaps for NVF in the polar solvent showed that NVF has strong activity in the solvents. The theoretical data obtained in this study are in good agreement with the earlier reported experimental data.

Journal of Physical & Theoretical Chemistry


Circuiti criminali e area grigia Una ricerca sulla presenza delle mafie nel Nordest

Abstract: The penetration of mafia organisations in the northern-central Italian regions is today recognised by numerous judicial investigations and various scientific studies. In Come pesci nell’acqua. Mafia, impresa e politica in Veneto, Gianni Belloni and Antonio Vesco explore the presence of the mafia phenomenon in the Veneto region, over a period of almost fifty years. Employing a large variety of empirical sources, the book analyses, through the case-study methodology, a constellation of events where the encounter between mafia groups and criminal business networks takes place in the form of corruption, tax evasion, money laundering, and a whole series of illicit practices that are considered legitimate by part of the local business and political class. The authors emphasize the need to situate the analysis as firmly as possible to the local contexts conditions that make this territory compatible with the presence of mafia groups.


Measuring the competitiveness of Iran's health tourism


The impact of the expression of the transcription factor MYBL2 on outcomes of patients with localized and advanced prostate cancer.

Abstract: 149Background: Patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) have a variable response to ADT and some benefit from the addition of docetaxel or an androgen signaling pathway in...


Mark von Hagen (21 July 1954-14 September 2019)


ECOTROPICA is back

Abstract: The Society for Tropical Ecology/Gesellschaft fur Tropenokologie (STE/gto) and we, the editors, are happy to announce the relaunch of ECOTROPICA. More than four years have passed since the last issue was released. Since then, the board of STE/gto have worked on finding a way to relaunch ECOTROPICA, while keeping it as a low-cost journal. We believe we have found a feasible solution and the first papers are now available. The new ECOTROPICA is quite different from the previous versions. From now on, it will be published online only as an open access journal. This brings substantial flexibility with, for example, increased opportunities to include colour images and figures. Manuscripts can now be submitted online, too. With regard to the type of papers published in ECOTROPICA, we will keep our “classical” categories - Article, Short Communication and Review but will add new categories -“Field Station Profiles” and occasional “Essays”. The former provides the opportunity to present well known and lesser known field stations to a broader audience. Essays are short papers that address topics and issues in tropical ecology not only from a strictly scientific viewpoint but taking a broader perspective. They will be published at the discretion of the editors. ECOTROPICA welcomes contributions to all fields of tropical ecology from fellow tropical ecologists from all over the world. We hope that the relaunch of ECOTROPICA will strengthen the visibility of tropical ecology research and be a part of the increasingly urgent efforts to conserve our tropical natural heritage. ::: Eckhard W. Heymann & Marco Tschapka, Co-Editors


IMPROVING STUDENTS’ INTEREST BY USING PICTURE MEDIA AT TK NUR ASSALAM

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to improve students' interest in English vocabulary through picture media in TK Nur Assalam. This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR). The participants of this research were 6 students. The results obtained from efforts to the improving students interest in English vocabulary using the picture media involving active learners in the learning process. The role of picture media in learning activities is very important for children, especially in the next education level. Teaching and learning activities in early childhood will quickly develop if parents and teachers intensive to develop it. There are several attempts to create a sense of pleasure in early childhood by using picture media in the learning process. From the result of research indicate that when pre-action take result (15%). In cycle I, it increased to (55%) sufficient criteria. In cycle II, it increased again to (85%) good criteria. So, the increase that occurred from the pre-action to the cycle I that is (40%). The increase from cycle I to cycle II that is (30%). And increase from pre-action to cycle II that is (70%). From the research results obtained, then to the improving students interest in English vocabulary can be improved by using picture media in the learning process. Keywords : Students’ Interest, Vocabulary and Picture Media

PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education)


Office Flinders Point With Bow BLACK


Tornado victims reflect on losses, but focus on blessings on Thanksgiving holiday

Abstract: Thanksgiving is a day to reflect on the things you are fortunate enough to have. But for some, it can be a painful reminder of what they are missing.


Maternal Determinants of Childhood Stunting

Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Health in Tropical and Subtropical Regions


Construction of the Iodoargentates with Diverse Architectures: Template-Syntheses, Structures and Photocatalytic Properties

Abstract: Guided by diverse solvated metal cations, three novel iodoargentates with various architectures ranging from a one-dimensional chain to a two-dimensional layered-network have been successfully constructed and further characterized. Compounds {[Cr(DMSO)6][Ag6I9]·H2O} (1) and [Ni(DMSO)6][Ag5I7] (2) present the anionic Ag–I infinite chain structure wherein different secondary building units could be readily observed. Separated by [V(DMSO)5(H2O)]2+ cations, the [Ag6I8]2– layers are generated in compound 3 and further stacked into a three-dimensional supramolecular architecture by virtue of the electrostatic interactions as well as intermolecular forces. Structural analysis suggests that inorganic molecular templates together with diverse connection modes of AgI4 motifs play a significant role in the formation of the final products. Notably, the small band gap of solids 2 and 3 affords a great opportunity for photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes under UV light irradiation. Compound 2 possesses photodegra...


Vedic Wisdom to Corporate Excellence : A Paradigm Shift and Holistic Perspective

Abstract: Purpose: The objective of the paper is an attempt to integrate the basic principles of Vedic management and corporate socialresponsibility, to create new perspectives in Corporate Veda, with an insight into human nature through concept of gunassuch as tamas, rajas and sattva, leading to a spiritual relationship management that inspires and makes the subordinates workwith vision.

Global Journal of Enterprise Information System


LibGuides: Enrolled Nursing: Legal & Ethical


Submodality-dependent spatial organization of neurons coding for visual long-term memory in macaque inferior temporal cortex


Do the media in South Africa offer alternatives to violence in their coverage of protests

Abstract: Against the backdrop of the many social ills affecting the country, South Africa continues to make strides in the creation of a non-racist, non-sexist and non-violent society. The media's role in this endeavour is important. Hence, this research examined whether the media in South Africa offered alternatives to violence in their coverage of the municipal protests recorded between 2009 and 2011. The research revealed that the media's coverage of these protests was narrow and partial. In order for the coverage to be holistic, it is critical that the media go beyond reporting the violence, its causes and its effects to offering alternatives to violence. However, offering alternatives to violence is not the magic tool to prevent or even stop violence - it is a professional activity that highlights the key issues the media could focus on in order fully to inform the audience in the public interest. It is also about socially responsible media.

Communicare; Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa


A Dialectic of Freedom: The Dutch Post-War Clash Between Socialism and Neoliberalism

Abstract: In 1944, the Austrian philosopher and economist Friedrich Hayek published The Road to Serfdom. It soon became a foundational text of the movement then referred to by its adherents as neoliberalism. In the book, Hayek portrayed central planning and government intervention in the economy as a slippery slope towards the bondage of man: totalitarian society. The intended target of his critique was above all democratic socialism and the dominant influence of the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. In 1951, the Dutch social democrat party (Partij van de Arbeid PvdA) published a plan of an ambition unequalled since: The Road to Freedom. It aimed at the liberation of man through socialism. Socialism as a movement, the introduction states, is 'a current that aims to reform the whole of society, such as it has become under the effect of the capitalist system, into a community of free human beings'. As the title suggests, the plan is a rebuttal to Hayek and his Dutch followers. The then


Students’ Perceptions of the Image of a Scientist and Academic Achievement in Senior School Chemistry

Abstract: This study investigated students’ perceptions of the image of a scientist and academic achievement in Senior School Chemistry in Delta State Capital Territory. The study used descriptive survey and ex-post facto research designs. Sample of the study was 3000 (1500 male and another 1500 female) Senior School Two students. Four research questions and five null hypotheses were posted. Two reliable instruments, Perception of a Scientist Task (POST) and Students’ Promotion Examination Results (SPER) were used to collect data. More significant number of students were of the perception that a scientist was a male than those that were of the perception that a scientist was a female; more significant number of male than female students were of the perception that a scientist was a female. The students that were of the perception that a scientist was a male had a higher, significant, mean academic achievement in Senior School Chemistry than the students that were of the perception that a scientist was a female. Implications of the study and recommendations were highlighted to encourage girls into science and related subjects.

Journal of Educational Policy and Entrepreneurial Research


Drawing and intellectualism: Contested paradigms of knowledge

Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education


The Emmanuel movement


Attention biases associated with not just right experiences


The Reality of International Law

Abstract: Machiavelli begins his Discourses by observing that “the curious nature of men, so prompt to blame and so slow to praise, makes the discovery and introduction of any new principles and systems as dangerous almost as the exploration of unknown seas and continents.” The Political Foundations of International Law runs this hazard, as it is both a splendid pioneering venture and vulnerable to all sorts of criticism. Although it most suggestively studies the theoretical interaction of law and politics, it provides scant doctrinal support. Although it brilliantly applies systems analysis and prudently uses decision-making theory, structural functional approaches, institutional studies, and a subtle form of historicism, it flirts outrageously with the relevance of game theory to the role of law in international affairs. Although it advances its views of international jurisdiction with unprecedented sophistication, it resorts to amateurish simplification when it discusses the United Nations Charter or the major European regional organizations. In sum, Political Foundations is at once profoundly provocative and frustratingly unrealized. However, its achievements are so much greater than its defects that it warrants high praise and mild rebuke.


Metropolitan America in the 1970s@@@Regional and Metropolitan Growth and Decline in the United States.


Merkmale von funktionalen, sozialen und umweltbezogenen Bereichen im Sinne der ICF bei Patienten mit Abhängigkeitserkrankungen

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Impairments in functioning, activities and participation as theoretically included in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) account for illness consequences and reduced quality of life. The aim of the study was to analyze the specific characteristics in patients with substance-related disorders. METHODS: An expert-rated instrument (HoNOS-D) was applied in a multi-center, consecutive sample of 417 inpatients with substance-related disorders and in a multi-center sample of 3 169 inpatients with mental disorders. RESULTS: Specific characteristics in functioning, activities and participation and environmental factors can be identified in inpatients with substance-related disorders. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need for more specific instruments measuring activities and participation and environmental factors differentially.


GLOBALIZATION ERA AND DISCUSSION ON SPORT SCIENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract: Since the 1980s, globalization has led to a new world order and today the concept of globalization has become the buzzword in the fields of social sciences, education, and management. It has exhibited a monolithic order on the one hand and diversity on the other. Today, globalization is accepted as an umbrella phenomenon for the universality of democratic concepts and rules, universal human rights, liberalism and ecological problems. For this reason, globalization has led to certain outcomes in many different aspects of political, social, and economic areas. By reviewing the current literature, this study explores the concept of globalization in relation to sport education in Turkey and Bologna process. In that regards, this article surveys two interrelated research questions; “What are the reflections of globalization on sport sciences in higher education institutions of Turkey?” and “Is the field of sport sciences in Turkey aware of the globalization’s implications and effects?” Accordingly, changes and problems are discussed in Turkey’s sport sciences within the process of globalization and a couple of conclusions are stated; Sport sciences in Turkey needs a structural transformation. Universities that fulfill the criteria of establishing “Sport Sciences Faculty” should initiate the necessary legal processes. Faculty members in the field should further involve in international venues and cooperate with scholars outside of Turkey in order to enhance their professional and academic capabilities. Organizations of sport education should complete their infrastructures and further institutionalize toward “Sport Sciences Institute” in the field of graduate education. New departments of sport sciences should be established if Turkey shows insufficiency in the field. Overall, some departments in the field of sport sciences encounter certain problems in terms of international recognition, fulfilling the needs of the field, and anxiety regarding their future. For this reason the Thematic Network Project of AEHESIS (Aligning a European Higher Educational Structure In Sport Science) should be seriously discussed by decision makers and scholars of sport sciences in Turkey.


Book Review: I and II Corinthians. Introduction, Authorized Version, Revised Version with Notes, Index, and MapI and II Corinthians. Introduction, Authorized Version, Revised Version with Notes, Index, and Map. By MassieJ., M. A., D.D., Oxford University Press, American Branch.


Book Review: Igor Klyukanov, A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of SignificanceKlyukanovIgorA Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.


The Politics of Gender and the Making of the Welfare State, 1900–1940: A Comparative Perspective


A journal of my internship at Pearson, Crahan & Fletcher Group : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)


Factors influencing teachers' differentiated curriculum and instructional choices and gifted and non -gifted students' self -perceptions


Examining experiences of teaching music to a child with autism while using a music learning theory-based intervention during informal music sessions infused with DIR/Floortime strategies


City Mouse and Country Mouse


Church and State in Colombia as Observed by American Diplomats, 1834-1906


The Effect of Attachment and Psychological Separation on Career Development and Choices: A Literature Review in Korea


Michael L. Fleisher, Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania–Kenya Frontier. Ann Arbor MI: Michigan University Press, 2000, 214 pp., £37.00 (US$59.50), ISBN 0 472 11152 3 hard covers, £12.50 (US$19.95), ISBN 0 472 08698 7 paperback.


Herbaria of the United States

Abstract: lines". Certainly if the misfit, the mentally ill person, is "one whose disposition is not capitalized in his culture", (Ruth Benedict) then analysis of the culture along with analysis of the patient's own depths may be needed to furnish the key to his problems. The wide scope of the schizophrenia chapter has commended it to leading representatives of both psychological and physiological schools. John W. Whitehorn comments upon its "remarkably lucid perspective over current and recent investigation". Winfred Overholser of St. Elizabeth's describes it as "a sound and progressive as well as inclusive presentation of the accomplishments and prospects in the field". Herbert H. Jasper of the Montreal Neurological Institute describes it as "a most comprehensive review of all the important approaches to the understanding of the working of the brain in health and disease". On the interesting question of the relation between psychological and physiological work, Jasper ventured the view that if Freud (whose early work was in neurology) "were alive today, he would be thrilled with the opportunities afforded by the newer methods of investigation and would like again to tackle the more basic physiology of the brain in his attempt to understand the workings of the mind".


Tenth Pugwash Conference


Ilhan New, Soldier for the Modern Nation: Recovering a Protestant Martial Alternative to Korean Hegemonic Masculinity

Abstract: Twentieth century Korean hegemonic masculinity has validated the right to employ violence for the benefit of the nation unchecked by any higher ethical concerns. This arose in the early twentieth century in reaction to a crisis of Korean masculinity, identified by the first Korean nationalists. The supposed pernicious effects of Confucianism created the crisis by making men effete. This in turn “led” Korea to lose its independence. While scholars have recognized alternative Korean masculinities arising since the 1990s, including Catholic masculinities, they have overlooked a Protestant martial masculinity personified by Ilhan New [1895–1971]. New was a much lauded business pioneer, but his military career has not been analyzed in terms of its place in the history of masculinity. Mentored by a leading Protestant nationalist, New personified in mid-century an alternative Protestant martial masculinity, which created soldiers fighting for the nation under the discipline of a conventional military, bound by Protestant norms.


Socioeconomic Status Affects Perceptions of Juvenile Defendants in Adult Criminal Court


Soviet social scientists talking: An official debate about women: edited by Mary Buckley, 107 pages. Macmillan Press, Houndmills, England, 1986. Price cloth US$45.00


Rumination and suppression: A comparison of memory effects


Changes in arousal as a function of emotional or nonemotional appraisal

Abstract: Eighteen college freshmen were given a list of “arousal” or “relaxation” side effects after taking a placebo pill. All were then aroused by experiencing failure on a test supposedly predictive of college success. It was predicted that Ss who made an emotional appraisal of the situation (those who could not attribute


Public Finance in Democratic Process, Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice. By Buchanan James M.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967. Pp. x, 307. $7.75.)


Black Worker Unrest in South Africa, 1971-1973, in Its Historical Context

Abstract: The 1970s may prove a period of unrest and activity among South African black workers following a long and remarkable quiescence. Oddly enough, the first stirrings did not occur in any of the Republic's major industrial areas. A quite unexpected and apparently spontaneous walkout of Ovambo migrant workers in the small port of Walvis Bay (1969 figures: 8,500 whites and 12,000 blacks, half migrant workers) in the Republic's appanage of South West Africa,1 in December 1971, was the first manifestation of widespread black industrial discontent.2 A series of strikes there has ensued, unprecedented in their wide geographical spread, in the numbers of workers involved and in their remarkable solidarity, despite large numbers involved and the obstacles to effective trade union organization among blacks. They have also been remarkable for the lack of serious public disorder; for the reasonableness of the demands and the breadth of white sympathy; and for the jolt which they have given to careless and complacent employers. Even the government has been at least momentarily aroused from its characteristic lethargy. First government reactions seemed to concede that the time had come for the removal of restrictions upon the right to strike and the power of African workers to form trade unions. Although this quick march towards what, elsewhere, might be regarded as normal patterns of labor organization, was followed by a halt and a mark-time,


Book Review: Radical Approaches to Social Skills Training

The British Journal of Occupational Therapy


Neural correlates of alexithymia in response to emotional stimuli : a study of anorexia nervosa patients


Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism.William K. Carroll


“The Day They Tied Me Up”: Serial Return, Punishment, and the Phenomenology of Memory in the Work of Sharon Olds


A Self-Concept (AVA) Profile for High Achieving College Students


The Meaning of Realized Personality through the Interaction between Confucianism and Buddhism in the Nature of the Mind within the Buddhist Community of Joseon Dynasty : Focused on the Argument Concerning Taekeuk(太極) of Confucianism and Woonbong’s “Daseongnon(多性論)”

The Korean Journal of Philosophy of Education


Mechanism of specifying level of detail in episodic future thinking


The Nature and Attributes of God


Review of Deinstitutionalising Women: An Ethnographic Study of Institutional Closure by Kelley Johnson


Turkey—Europe's Bridge to the Middle East


Review of Practical lessons in psychiatry.


Non Verbal Communication


University, social identity construction and autonomy development: social representation about the university degree

Abstract: This paper will report on the obtained results from our actual research project whose overall objective is to analyze the social representations of young entrants to university about college and university study. To get this objective we had been used a qualitative methodological design using as a research technique the interview on a population of admitted students at major universities in the city of Cordoba, Argentina. Data were analyzed through the constant comparative method, which allowed building a semantic mapping of the main concepts associated with the University. What is distinctive in this paper is the deepening of the category representations college degree, which has been interpreted in relation to the concept of identity. We can anticipate that the title becomes a means of identity construction of young university, and as a positive element in their independence. However, we found that the establishment of the autonomy of the young man is a budding process, which is necessary to work from the universities, since it becomes a determinant for university transit psychosocial process.


Ethnic diversity and schooling in national education systems: Issues of policy and identity (Introduction thematic section)


THE CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF OPIUM ATTITUDE QUESTIONNAIRE AMONG GUIDANCE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS


Belly Dancers' Reunion

Abstract: Some people called Elna a hermit, but she did still answer her door. She might only peek through a crack, but a knock could rouse her out of her darkly comfortable basement. Maybe she thought Harry would drop by. Or the Arabic drummer. Whatever it was that kept her answering, one day she heard a substantial commotion at her side door. She put a bookmark in her novel and climbed out of her basement, head down, aware of the lint on the stairs and the black scum on the bannister. Pausing at the top, she saw two faces on the other side of the door's glass pane. Two large women were peering in, looking curiously at Elna in her cable knit sweater and wool skirt spattered with turquoise and pink flecks. Because she was startled to see such girth on her narrow porch, such an abundance of cheeks, breasts, and upper arms, she opened her door wider than usual. "We've been sent to you," one of the women said through the screen door. "We need help," the other interrupted. The two were like water trying to rush through a slow drain pipe. "There's a hundred dollar prize," Elna managed to decipher from the chaos on her porch. "For what?" she asked. "Somebody at our office is a neighbor of yours. We told him we'd decided to be exotic dancers at the Silver Zephyr's Amateur Night. He said you used to belly dance and might have costumes."


Style Preference and Benefits Sought by Women for Customized Swimwear Based on Body Shape, Age, and Dress Size


Videolab: (De)construction of (un)real space

Abstract: Within '[koligrica' Studio for Creative Education, Video-la-(b) project has been developing a series of video workshops for preschoolers since 1991. Its specific approach to media education was based on the use of CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) technique, enabling children to watch their own and others' activities on the screen as they perform them. This 'pseudo mirror' situation gives opportunity for organizing games of increasing complexity and opens interesting possibilities in two domains: media education and spatial cognition. As far as media education is concerned, the experience of partaking in the process of creating 'live pictures' counteracts the tendency of taking visual presentations for granted, contributing to the awareness of the mediatory and artificial nature of visual media. At the same time, it is possible that simultaneous presence in both actual and represented space, and the opportunity for their immediate comparison, might help the child to overcome the adherence to his/her own point of view and become capable of coordinating different perspectives. In Piagetian terms, as far as cognitive development is concerned, the described approach could turn out to have a stimulating effect on decentration, at least in the spatial domain.


The role of ne temere in the decline of an Irish custom regarding the religious affiliation of the children of mixed marriages

Abstract: There existed a custom in Ireland regarding the religious affiliation of the children of mixed marriages: the sons would follow the religion of their father and the daughters that of their mother. This custom, whilst it is impossible to determine how widespread it was, certainly existed in the popular consciousness throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offered a compromise, as it still does today. It removes the existential threat posed by mixed marriage, in the case of all the children following one parent's religion. It pragmatically allows the perpetuation of two belief systems, one through the male line and one through the female line.

The Australasian journal of Irish studies


Compensation and Transworld Personal Identity


Recent Progress in Intention Research : Guide to Special Feature Articles( A Wide Spectrum of Research in Intention)


Early Stages of Language Development in Children with Severe Hearing Impairment

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the early development in young children with severe hearing impairment. Four girls whose language developed relatively favorably in spite of severe hearing losses of approximately 80dB or more were selected for this purpose. Language education was begun by their mothers who participated in our home training program when the girls were one year and five months old, one year and seven months old, one year and ten months old, and two years and four months old respectively. Data was collected through the use, by their mothers, of special diary to evaluate the psychos logical development and the development of language comprehension as well as verbal and nonverbal expressions, as observed in their deaf children. The results obtained are as follows:1. The development of language comprehension preceeded the growth of vocabulary in all cases.2. Pointing or inquisitive behavior emerged between the ages of two years and two years and eleven months.3. As soon as pointing behavior emerged, vocabulary began to increase rapidly, and infantile words, which previously held only generalized meanings, began to differentiate into individual words with specific meanings.4. At this time, most mothers commented that their child had found “All things have their own names.”As far as these four cases are concerned, the findings mentioned above suggest the conclusion that there is a critical period for language development in young children with severe hearing impairment. The rationale for this critical period may be explained by Vygotsky's theory that the curve of development of thought and speech, till then separate, meet and join to initiate a new form of behavior in which speech begins to serve the intellect and thoughts begin to be spoken.


The Thorpe Park experience.


Reform Activity in Behalf of the Antebellum Needlewomen, 1840—1860


Shaftesbury on Locke


Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists: The Balkan Sworn Virgin: Still a Mystery


Peter Gerhard, The southeast frontier of New Spain

Caravelle-cahiers Du Monde Hispanique Et Luso-bresilien


Asianism: The External and Internal Manifestation of Ethnopolitics in Central Asia

Abstract: Time changes the methodology of investigating global social processes. It is useless to attempt to make them fit rigid patterns, to establish "obligatory" models for the course of history. Relatively reliable prognoses require a certain fullness of political facts, a knowledge of their nature, and an understanding of the real needs of ethnic groups and states.


Attentinal modulation of visual search process


Effects of individuals’ motivations on communications in online health forums

Abstract: Our aim was to analyze the effects of individuals’ motivations, specifically reciprocity, experience, activity, and emotion, on their communications in an online health forum. We employed an exponential random graph approach to analyze concrete models embedded in online health networks. According to the research that we conducted over a 5-year period on a dataset drawn from a global diabetes forum, reciprocal information diffusion occurred in the forum; a high level of online activity had a positive impact for gratification of the individual user. Both having more experience and expressing polarized emotions played an important role in individuals’ post contributions, however these factors had little influence on reply interaction among users. We also modeled post contribution and reply interaction in the same network in respect to the relationship-building processes, which may help in gaining more understanding about the mechanisms underlying communication in online health forums.


Private Housing Estates


남급의 「丙子日錄」 연구

Abstract: This study is an analysis of Namkub's 「Byungjaillok(丙子日錄)」. This reference is written by Namkub who escorted the King Injo to Namhan Mount. Fortress Wall and the title Byungjaillok(丙子日錄) are correct. There are four different versions of this reference which contains a ‘diary’ and records of ‘accomplishment’. As tracing back each version, we found that the reference was made by two channels. The motivation was the pain he experienced throughout the warfare. It was intended to reflect the fault and pain of the past history. I've looked into the structure and contents of the diary part and accomplishments. The diary is written chronological form based on his personal experiences and this became a good storybook. It also contains a considerable tension which is needed to unfold the story. There is also a message based on criticism against spoiled politics and the horrible war. The intention of the writer is effectively displayed through an objective descriptive style. The accomplishment part is written according to incident of several figures who appear in many other books. It is unique since rather than mentioning his own opinion he tries to write down the facts. The objective viewpoint against each heroic figure gives message to the readers.


Bersyukur ala Nanggroe: Intervensi psikososial berbasis indigenous psychology

Abstract: The 2004 tsunami disaster in Aceh still remain some psychological impact for the victims. On the other hand, the victims have to possess a preparedness to face similar disasters in the future. Therefore, we need not only a preventive intervention program but also curative. Aceh is a region that has a strong attachment with the local customs and culture. These customs and culture based on the norms of Islam. Based on those culture and religious context, one of many concept may be internalized to the public is ‘gratitude’. Gratitude could bring happiness and well-being within individu. The concept of gratitude derived from western theories generally have a lot of mismatches when applied in the context of local wisdom. Based on this problem, the planned psychosocial intervention program would be oriented to the indigenous psychology, which mainly purposed to create a gratitude training accordingly match with the principles of Aceh local wisdom. The psychosocial intervention consist of four steps. Phase I: Qualitative research using ethnographic methods, to produce an empirical construct of ‘kebersyukuran’ in the Acehnese local communities’ point of view. Later the construct would be used to produce a ‘syukur’ scale and training module. Phase II: Creating intervention program plan and building the team. Phase III : Training. Phase IV: Post-test, evaluation, and monitoring. The target of this intervention is the residents in four villages in Meuraksa and Jaya Baru, Banda Aceh. Keyword : syukur, training, Acehnese indigenous


Domestic stalking violence in Spain: Could certain types of stalking behaviors be related with aggressions?


J_Cole Sorry for Autism Lyric

Abstract: J_Cole Sorry for Autism Lyric! wistiaEmbed = Wistia.embed("8fvxi32rd0", { version: "v1", videoWidth: 640, videoHeight: 360, volumeControl: true, controlsVisibleOnLoad: true });


'Adventure time' and gender stereotypes

Abstract: 'Adventure Time', the Cartoon Network series created by Pendleton Ward, is ubiquitous. Almost every primary school kid I know is obsessed with the adventures of Jake the dog and Finn the human. The characters, stories and relationships have escaped the confines of TV and now saturate the cultural landscapes of primary schoolchildren (and quite a few adults, too). The Ooovian characters can be found in video games, on lunchboxes and on clothing, and the series seems to be the birthday party theme of the year. So what is it about this talking dog and his adopted human brother that garners such devotion? Part of the appeal lies in the dreamy yet loopy hand-drawn animation style. Another compelling factor is the ever-expanding mythology of the Candy Kingdom, in the Land of Ooo, that has built up over the as-yet-unfinished series. And among its vast array of characters, surely almost every viewer can find at least one to identify with.


Measurement of the Reconstruction, Identification, and Trigger Efficiencies

Abstract: This chapter discusses the extraction of the reconstruction, identification, and trigger efficiencies for prompt photons. The reconstruction efficiency is evaluated using Monte Carlo samples. The identification efficiency is evaluated for reconstructed photons using Monte Carlo samples modified by the observed differences with data. A data-driven method, using electrons from W decays, is also discussed. The trigger efficiency is estimated using collision data with a boot-strap method, using a series of triggers with different thresholds. Finally, the systematic uncertainties affecting the efficiency measurements are estimated.


Collision broadening of the microwave spectrum of methyl chloride by hydrogen and argon at pressure up to 100 atmospheres


The remarkable phase space of the radiating electron


As the result of the inherent deficiencies of mechanical rectifiers (instability of mechanical contacts, small


The Classical Logical Calculus

Abstract: Logic selects inference methods used in science and considered to be correct, and then constructs logical systems on them. These systems are sets of various laws and rules which, when followed, yield all the inferences we can immediately accept. There is perfect agreement in mathematics as to which methods of inference are acceptable and which are not. It does not happen that some people consider some rules of inference to be correct, while others consider them to be entirely wrong. There are only slight differences of opinion about the meaning of some rules and about the extent of their applicability. The set of almost all the methods of inference that are used in mathematics is called classical logic.


Multiplicities in a QCD-motivated description of very high energy particle interactions

Abstract: Abstract At high energy a significant fraction of the cross section consists of events containing QCD jets. The rapid increase of the rate of these high multiplicity events with energy naturally results in a breakdown of KNO scaling. At the presently available collider energies the violations of KNO scaling found in such a model are very similar to those resulting from the negative binomial parametrization of the multiplicity distribution.


Magnetic susceptibility of Tl 2 Ba 2 CuO 6+y


Mixing evolution of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability.


Mixing Times for Random Walks on Finite Lamplighter Groups

Abstract: Given a finite graph G, a vertex of the lamplighter graph consists of a zero-one labeling of the vertices of G, and a marked vertex of G. For transitive graphs G, we show that, up to constants, the relaxation time for simple random walk in corresponding lamplighter graph is the maximal hitting time for simple random walk in G, while the mixing time in total variation on the lamplighter graph is the expected cover time on G. The mixing time in the uniform metric on the lamplighter graph admits a sharp threshold, and equals |G| multiplied by the relaxation time on G, up to a factor of log |G|. ::: ::: For the lamplighter group over the discrete two dimensional torus of sidelength n, the relaxation time is of order n^2 log n, the total variation mixing time is of order n^2 log^2 n, and the uniform mixing time is of order n^4. In dimension d>2, the relaxation time is of order n^d, the total variation mixing time is of order n^d log n, and the uniform mixing time is of order n^{d+2}. These are the first examples we know of of finite transitive graphs with uniformly bounded degrees where these three mixing time parameters are of different ::: orders of magnitude.


Discussion of 'Bayesian analysis of DNA profiling data in forensic identification applications'by LA Foreman, AFM Smith & IW Evett

Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-statistics in Society


RXTE detection of Rapidly Varying Transient Swift J164449.3+573451


THERMAL NEUTRON CAPTURE CROSS-SECTION OF Na 23 AND Mn 55


Meson photoproduction on light Nuclei

Abstract: The photoproduction of mesons on light nuclei was studied intensively with the calorimeter TAPS at the tagged photon facility of the Mainzer Microtron MAMI. Threshold enhancements for η production on light nuclei are summarized. Furthermore, the evidence of η‐mesic 3He is discussed.


Measurement of the Branching Fraction of B^0 ->D^*+&-circ;nu by Partial Reconstruction


I. PHENOMENOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF HIGH ENERGY PROTON-PROTON SCATTERING. II. MESON PRODUCTION BY PROTONS ON DEUTERONS


Experimental evidence for the decay W --> tau$\nu$sub(tau) of the charged intermediate vector boson at the CERN p$\overline{p}$ collider


A period study of the near-contact binary IR Cassiopeiae

Abstract: The near-contact binary IR Cas was observed in 2003 October. Two new observed times of the primary minimum were derived. All of the available eclipse times, including the new ones, spanning 90 years were analyzed. It was shown that the period change of the system is very complex. A period oscillation with a period of 53.24 years and an amplitude of about 0.0133 days were found, while it undergoes a secular decrease at a rate of dP/dt = -1.18 x 10(-7)(+/- 0.09)dyr(-1). The mechanisms that could explain the period changes and the evolutionary state of the system are discussed.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan


Refractive index as a function of wavelength through spectrally resolved white light interferometry

Abstract: In classical interferograms only one degree of freedom (shape of fringes) is utilized. There are, however, additional two degrees of freedom in every interferogram (intensity changes along fringes and fringe blurring) which can be used to record up to three sets of data into just one so-called complex interferogram. Possibilities of analyzing complex interferograms on personal computers are discussed.


Black holes and gravitational waves : new eyes in the 21st century : the 9th Yukawa international seminar : proceedings of the symposium held at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, June 28 - July 2, 1999

京都大学基礎物理学研究所


XMM Observations of the Double Relic Cluster A3376


Secondary Cosmic Muon Angular Distributions with High Statistics

Abstract: Project GRAND preents a map in right ascension and declination for single cosmic secondary tracks which have been identified as muons. These muons are measured in stations of proportional wire chambers (PWCs) which have a mean angular resolution of 0.26 deg. A 50 mm steel plate interspersed with the PWCs is used to distinguish muons from electrons. Two years of data are accumulated in a map of right ascension and declination which covers all of the northern hemisphere and a small portion of the southern hemisphere. The total number of muon tracks in this data sample are 40 billion. Significant large angular structure is found in this map; the deviations from average are small compared to the average, but because of the high statistics, the deviations from average are statistically significant to many standard deviations. Systematic effects in the data are minimized by averaging over this two year period. These results are similar to those obtained in previous data.


Multi-spacecraft observations of the structure and motion of field-aligned cusp currents under strong IMF BX and BY conditions


"Visiting Companies" : Building a CD-Vidéo to give students practical images to support teaching


Umāsvāti/Umāsvāmi's Tattvārtha Sūtra : that which is : with the combined commentaries of Umāsvāti/Umāsvāmi, Pūjyapāda and Siddhasenagaṇi

Abstract: This translation provides in one volume a detailed explanation of the universe, the place of humanity within it and the path through it through Jain philosphy, and their perspective of it.


Scaling Properties of Runaway Electrons in HL-1M Tokamak


Automatic Classification of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata

Abstract: Cellular automata, a class of discrete dynamical systems, show a wide range of dynamic behavior, some very complex despite the simplicity of the system’s definition. This range of behavior can be organized into six classes, according to the Li-Packard system: null, fixed point, two-cycle, periodic, complex, and chaotic. An advanced method for automatically classifying cellular automata into these six classes is presented. Seven parameters were used for automatic classification, six from existing literature and one newly presented. These seven parameters were used in conjunction with neural networks to automatically classify an average of 98.3% of elementary cellular automata and 93.9% of totalistic k = 2 r = 3 cellular automata. In addition, the seven parameters were ranked based on their effectiveness in classifying cellular automata into the six Li-Packard classes.


Periodic Behaviour in Sudden Disappearances of Solar Prominences


Semiflexible magnetic filaments

Bulletin of the American Physical Society


On the unitarizability of principal series representations of $\mathfrak{p}$-adic Chevalley groups

Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University


Simplified structure factor and electron density formulae for the 230 space groups of mathematical crystallography


Direct floquet method for stability limits determination—I: Theory

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents a systematic and analytically exact procedure for a direct calculation of unstable regions of the first and second kind for linear, periodically parameter-excited systems. The method is widely independent of system order and parameter-excitation intensity. The accuracy follows from the stability problem exactly solved—in the numerical sense—by the Floquet integration controlled by an independent global error calculation, while the direct computation of the limits themself is responsible for a minimum of process time. The application of the approach and some results including nonordinary phenomena will be shown with several multicylinder torsional crankshaft models in Part II, paying due attention to procedural and system properties.


CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES: Noise Characteristics of Optocouplers on Neutron Radiation


SIGN BACKGROUNDS AND ANGULAR POSITION

Abstract: SIGN TARGET VALUE AND ANGULAR POSITION, THE TWO MAJOR FACTORS IN COMPELLING DRIVER ATTENTION, ARE STUDIED. TARGET IS THE ABILITY OF SIGN TO BE VISIBLE AGAINST ITS BACKGROUND AND PROVIDE EARLY RECOGNITION AND DISCRIMINATION OF THE SIGN TYPE WHICH PREPARES THE DRIVER FOR THE POTENTIAL MESSAGE MOMENTS BEFORE ACTUAL READING OF THE LEGEND. MAJOR FACTORS AFFECTING THE TARGET VALUE OF A SIGN ARE ITS COLOR AND BRIGHTNESS, PRODUCING WHATEVER MEASURE OF CONTRAST THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUND PERMITS. ALTHOUGH TARGET VALUE IS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY BACKGROUND, IT IS SOMEWHAT DEPENDENT ON THE POSITION OF THE SIGN WITH RESPECT TO THE DRIVERS CENTRAL POINT OF FIXATION. THE FIELD STUDY CONSISTED OF RECORDING A SAMPLE OF SIGN BACKGROUNDS ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS AND SIMULTANEOUS RECORDING OF THE ANGULAR POSITION RELATIVE TO THE DRIVERS VISUAL AXIS, INCLUDING A COMPARISON OF THESE FINDINGS WITH MATSONS CRITERIA. INFORMATION OBTAINED WAS CATEGORIZED BY TYPES OF TERRAIN. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE ABILITY OF A SIGN TO COMPEL A MOTORISTS ATTENTION IN THE DAYTIME IS RELATED TO THE BACKGROUND WITH WHICH IT MUST COMPETE. BACKGROUNDS MOST FREQUENT ARE DARK TREES, SKY AND BRIDGE. LIMITS ARE SUGGESTED FOR MAXIMUM ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT OF SIGNS RELATIVE TO THE DRIVERS VISUAL AXIS. THE INFORMATION PRESENTED ESTABLISHES THE NEED FOR IMPROVED SIGN POSITIONING IF ANGULAR POSITION RELATIVE TO THE DRIVERS VISUAL AXIS IS TO BE OBTAINED. THE BASIC INFORMATION ON THE NATURE AND FREQUENCY OF TRAFFIC SIGN BACKGROUNDS SHOULD BE OF INTEREST IN THE DESIGN AND PLACEMENT OF TRAFFIC SIGNS FOR MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS AND ATTENTION VALUE


Progress in Inertial Fusion

Abstract: The objectives of the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program at LLNL are to understand, develop, and utilize the science and technology associated with the ICF concept. The current emphasis and the largest fraction of our effort is on understanding fundamental target physics and driver/target interactions, learning how to fabricate targets of various design, and developing a driver capable of igniting a high-gain target. These activities are appropriate for both the military and civilian applications. Smaller efforts are devoted to near-term military uses of the laser facilities that have little applicability to the civilian goals and, conversely, to nonoverlapping civilian-oriented development. Thus, while it can be said that more than 3/4 of our effort is devoted to military applications, it is also true that more than 3/4 of our effort is devoted to the civilian applications.

Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena


Determination of the Brunt-Väisälä frequency from vertical velocity spectra

Abstract: Recent work on the spectra of vertical velocity oscillations due to gravity waves in the troposphere, stratosphere and the mesosphere has revealed a typical feature which we call the Brunt-Vaisala cutoff. Several observers noticed a spectral peak near the Brunt-Vaisala frequency. This peak often is characterized by a very steep slope at the high frequency part, but a fairly shallow slope towards lower frequencies. Some example spectra of stratosphere observations are given. This distinct spectral shape (most clear at the upper height 22.5 km) can be explained by the fact that the vertical velocity amplitudes of atmospheric gravity waves increase with frequency up to their natural cutoff at the Brunt-Vaisala frequency. The measurement of the frequency of the peak in a vertical velocity spectrum was found to yield most directly the Brunt-Vaisala-frequency profile. Knowing the Brunt-Vaisala frequency profile, one can deduce the potential temperature profile, if one has a calibration temperature at one height. However, even the uncalibrated profile will be quite useful, e.g., to determine fronts (defined by temperature inversions) and the tropopause height. This method fails for superadiabatic lapse rates when the Brunt-Viasala frequency is imaginary. The application of this method will also be difficult when the wind velocity is too high, causing the Doppler effect to smear out the total spectrum and blur the Brunt-Vaisala cutoff. A similar deficiency will also appear if the gravity-wave distribution has a maximum in wind direction.


Connections between various subclasses of planar harmonic mappings involving generalized Bessel functions

Abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to establish connections between various subclasses of harmonic univalent functions by applying certain convolution operator involving generalized Bessel functions of first kind. To be more precise, we investigate such connections with Goodman-R{\o}nning-type harmonic univalent functions in the open unit disc \mathcal{U}.


Filters for Far Infrared Astronomy

Abstract: In developing far infrared photometers for astronomical purposes one of the main problems is the efficient spectral filtering of the radiation. As a consequence of the unknown spectral distribution of the usually weak radiation of the objects, the filterbands must have a high transmission with steep edges; in addition a specified spectral band and bandwidth should be attainable. To lower the background radiation, which limits the performance of our broadband detector low temperature operation is required. From literature (Hadni) it appears that such problems can be solved by applying the reststrahlen reflection of crystal materials : the remarkable high reflection of crystal materials : the remarkable high reflection at low temperatures permits one to use multiple reflections, thus obtaining a high rejection specially for the short wavelengths, which are the most troublesome.


PULSAR PLSR1018 Tri-Fuel (Natural Gas, Propane, and Gasoline) Kit

Abstract: PULSAR PLSR1018 uses an adapter that makes it possible to operate an engine on three different fuels Propane, Natural Gas, and Gasoline.


On the Natural Vibrations of a Multilayer Resonator


Some MHD Solutions for the Bottom of the Solar Convective Layer


Mid-Infrared Imaging of Exo-Earths: Impact of Exozodiacal Disk Structures


Performance analysis of Color Spaces in Image Retrieval

Abstract: Color features are key-elements which are widely used in image retrieval, video content-analysis, and object recognition. In the present study we are using the Image retrieval technique, based on color content. The standard way of extracting a signature from an image is to generate a color histogram. The retrieval results depend on the following features such as color space, the number of histogram bins (quantized space) and the distance metrics used for histogram matching. A technique known as histogram intersection has been widely studied and is considered to be effective for color-image indexing. The key issue of this algorithm is the selection of an appropriate color space and optimal quantization of the selected color space. The goal of this article is to measure the model performance in predicting human judgment in similarity measurement for various images, to explore the capability of the model with a wide set of color spaces, and to und the optimal quantization of the selected color spaces.

Assam University Journal of Science and Technology


CLAS Measurement of NarrowDelta(1232) Quadrupole Transition Form Factors


Groups, Rings and Galois Theory


Some new aspects of Cayley-quantum theory


GEIGER FLOW COUNTERS FOR LOW-BACKGROUND APPLICATIONS


Reanalysis of near-infrared extragalactic background light based on the IRTS observation

Abstract: We reanalyze data of near-infrared background taken by Infrared Telescope in Space (IRTS) based on up-to-date observational results of zodiacal light, integrated star light and diffuse Galactic light. We confirm the existence of residual isotropic emission, which is slightly lower but almost the same as previously reported. At wavelengths longer than 2 {\mu}m, the result is fairly consistent with the recent observation with AKARI. We also perform the same analysis using a different zodiacal light model by Wright and detected residual isotropic emission that is slightly lower than that based on the original Kelsall model. Both models show the residual isotropic emission that is significantly brighter than the integrated light of galaxies.


Mathematical description of heat power engineering behaviour of glass in the building industry

Abstract: The magnitude of heat flux of sunshine through glass used in the building industry is examined. Equations are given that help to determine the resultant heat flux reaching the inside and the temperature of glass pane. The equations have been solved for some glazings and attention has been called to some optical properties of glass significantly influencing the magnitude of heat flux getting through glazing.


MOST: Canada's First Space Telescope Part 2

Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada


Retracted: Occluded Face Recognition Based on Double Layers Module Sparsity Difference


Structure of Pomeranchuk pole and inclusive spectra


Status report on RADIOASTRON.


Acoustic Finite Element Methods for Unbounded Domains


International time and frequency comparison using very long baseline interferometer


Traffic flow equations coming from the Grad's method.


Study of Turbulence Structure Using the Invariants of the Velocity Gradient Tensor


Simple computer model for the nonlinear beam-beam interaction in isabelle

Abstract: The beam‐beam interaction for two counter‐rotating continuos proton beams crossing at an angle can be simulated by a 1‐dimensional nonlinear force. The model is applicable to ISABELLE as well as to the ISR. Since the interaction length is short compared with the length of the beam orbit, the interaction region is taken to be a point. The problem is then treated as a mapping with the remainder of the system taken to be a rotation of phase given by the betatron tune of the storage ring. The evolution of the mean square amplitude of a given distribution of particles is shown for different beam‐beam strengths. The effect of round‐off error with resulting loss of accuracy for particle trajectories is discussed.


A possible periodic variation of the Earth's rotation


Evolution of Cluster Morphology: X-ray data vs. CDM models

Abstract: We compare the evolution of morphology in X-ray cluster data and in clusters obtained in a simulation of flat CDM, normalized to the observed cluster abundance. We find that the evolution rate in model clusters is significantly higher than in data clusters. The results is stricking, as our cluster data are all just for $z \simlt 0.2$, but is not contrary to expectations, as is known that the CDM spectrum is too flat, around the cluster scale, and therefore induces the presence of too many substructures. The cluster simulations were run using a TREESPH code and therefore include hydrodynamical effects. The test we performed, which turns out to be very sensitive, starts from the so--called power ratios introduced by Buote and Tsai, and makes use of the 2--dimensional generalization of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov test. The discrepancy between data and model is however directly visible through linear regression techniques and using simpler statistical tests.


The Helmholtz Theorem and Superluminal Signals

Abstract: The conventional decomposition of a vector field into longitudinal (potential) and transverse (vortex) components (Helmholtz's theorem) is claimed in [1] to be inapplicable to the time-dependent vector fields and, in particular, to the retarded solutions of Maxwell's equations. Because of this, according to [1], a number of conclusions drawn in [2] on the basis of the Helmholtz theorem turns out to be erroneous. The Helmholtz theorem is proved in this letter to hold for arbitrary vector field, both static and time-dependent. Therefore, the conclusions of the paper [2] questioned in [1] are true. The validity of Helmholtz's theorem in the general case is due to the fact that the decomposition above of vector field does not influence the field time coordinate, which plays, thus, a passive role in the decomposition procedure. An analysis is given of the mistakes made in [1]. It is noted that for point particle the longitudinal and transverse components of electric field, taken separately, are characterized by the infinitely great velocity of propagation. However, superluminal contributions to the expression for the total electric field cancel each other.


Understanding our Galaxy - key contributions from the Parkes telescope

Abstract: Young massive stars, with their spectacular masers and HII regions, dominate our Galaxy, and are a cornerstone for understanding Galactic structure. I will highlight the role of Parkes in contributing to these studies - past, present and future.

arXiv: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics


Nonproduct Interpolation and Approximation

Abstract: We consider the following multivariate problem: Let D be a compact set in IR r , r ≥ 2. We want to interpolate or, more generally, to approximate elements of C(D) by elements of a fixed subspace V ⊂ C(D) with dim V = N < ∞. As in the univariate case (r = 1) there are available the theorems of Stone-Weierstras and of Lebesgue-Banach-Steinhaus as the framework. But there are also particular multivariate problems which we summarize by the key-words ::: ::: ::: variety of D’s of special interest, ::: ::: ::: realization by concrete operators, ::: ::: ::: Lebesgue-constants, ::: ::: ::: genuine (i.e. non-product) arguments, ::: ::: ::: high dimensions, and ::: ::: ::: high numerical complexity.

Multivariate Approximation and Interpolation


POTENTIAL OSCILLATIONS OF A CYLINDRICAL CHARGED PLASMA CARRYING A CURRENT.


Boundary terms long range effects and chiral symmetry breaking

Abstract: The aim of these lectures is to discuss the role of boundary terms in the presence of long range interactions (typically Coulomb-like). Significant examples are provided by gauge theories and by many-body theories with Coulomb interactions (Coulomb systems). The main point is that, in the presence of long range interactions, boundary terms can give rise to volume effects and there- fore be equivalent to (non negligible) externa! fields. As we will explain, this phenomenon has no counterpart in the case of short range interactions and this may explain why such terms have been generally regarded as irrelevant for the definition of the dynamics. One of the most interesting cases in which it has been reaiized that a boundary term (actually a four divergence term in the Lagrangean) has relevant implications and may give rise to physicai effects is the θ term in QCD [1] [2].


Kinetic theory analysis of flow in plasmas of varying degree of collisionality

Abstract: Using a Krook collision model with relaxation to a flowing Maxwellian distribution function, a one dimensional flowing plasma solution to the kinetic equation is obtained for ions. The theory extends the analysis of collisionless flow from a theta pinch to include collisions, and yields a distribution function in the transition regime between collisonless and collisional flow. The model shows features of each extreme, and permits calculation of the fundamental system parameters including thermal energy flux and parallel viscosity to replace classically derived fluid description concepts which break down in this regime. A second problem which is investigated is the analysis of collisionless flow interaction with a representative reflecting surface. Reflected densities are calculated and presented for both specular and diffuse reflection. A comparison with a conventional reflected shock wave is also presented. The results indicate a density buildup near the reflector, as would be expected, and this effect is more pronounced when the reflected temperature is lower.


An orbital sequence design for lunar missions combining elliptic orbital segments with constraints


Comparison Of Methods For The Correction Of Closed Orbits And Vertical Dispersion In LEP-70


Book Review: Corpi Numerici e Algebre

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society


Macroscopic Mean-Field Dynamics using a Modified Wang-Landau Density of States


ON THE INELASTIC SCATTERING OF DEUTERONS

Abstract: The inelastic scattering of deuterons is assumed to occur in some cases by direct interaction. The incident deuteron is merely scattered and forms the outgoing particle. An expression is derived for the anunlar distribution of the scattered deuterons and found to agree with the experimental ohservations for 14.4 Mev deuterons scattered from the 4.61 Mev level of Li/sup 7/ (tr-auth)


Linear Processing Techniques


The HEGRA Experiment

Abstract: HEGRA is a large scintillation counter array for the observation of extended air showers. Details of the detector, its performance and initial results from a source search are presented. A short overview of the on-going upgrade program will be given.


ROSAT Pointed Observations of Cool Magnetic White Dwarfs

Abstract: Observational evidence for the existence of a chromosphere on the cool magnetic white dwarf GD 356 has been reported. In addition, there have been theoretical speculations that cool magnetic white dwarfs may be sources of coronal X-ray emission. This emission, if it exists, would be distinct from the two types of X-ray emission (deep photospheric and shocked wind) that have already been observed from hot white dwarfs. We have used the PSPC instrument on ROSAT to observe three of the most prominent DA white dwarf candidates for coronal X-ray emission: GD 356, KUV 2316+123, and GD 90. The data show no significant emission for these stars. The derived upper limits for the X-ray luminosities provide constraints for a revision of current theories of the generation of nonradiative energy in white dwarfs.


Magnetic Properties of New SeriesR-Mo-Fe Nitrides with the ThMn12-Type Structure at a Lower Mo Content

Abstract: A systematic study has been made on formation condition, crystallographic structure and magnetic properties of RMo1.5Fe10.5Nx, where R=Y, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er. The interstitial nitrogen atom effects on Curie temperature, saturation magnetization and magneto-crystalline anisotropy have been investigated. Two important preliminary results have been obtained. (1) A single phase crystallized in the ThMn12-type structure was stabilized with a smaller content of molybdenum, thus, the compounds possess a higher Curie temperature and a larger spontaneous magnetization. (2) A complete system of compounds with 1:12 type structure containing the light rare earth cerium and praseodymium was synthesized, which will be favorable for developing new rare earth hard magnetic materials.


On No-Node Solutions of the Lazer-McKenna Suspension Bridge Models

Abstract: In this paper, we are concerned with the existence and multiplicity of no-node solutions of the Lazer-McKenna suspension bridge models by using the fixed point theorem in a cone.

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics


Detection of a z=0.0515, 0.0522 absorption system in the QSO S4 0248+430 due to an intervening galaxy

Abstract: In some of the few cases where the line of sight to a Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO) passes near a galaxy, the galaxy redshift is almost identical to an absorption redshift in the spectrum of the QSO. Although these relatively low redshift QSO-galaxy pairs may not be typical of the majority of the narrow heavy-element QSO absorption systems, they provide a direct measure of column densities in the outer parts of galaxies and some limits on the relative abundances of the gas. Observations are presented here of the QSO S4 0248+430 and a nearby anonymous galaxy (Kuhr 1977). The 14 second separation of the line of sight to the QSO (z sub e = 1.316) and the z=0.052 spiral galaxy, (a projected separation of 20 kpc ((h sub o = 50, q sub o = 0)), makes this a particularly suitable pair for probing the extent and content of gas in the galaxy. Low resolution (6A full width half maximum), long slit charge coupled device (CCD) spectra show strong CA II H and K lines in absorption at the redshift of the galaxy (Junkkarinen 1987). Higher resolution spectra showing both Ca II H and K and Na I D1 and D2 in absorption and direct images are reported here.


Hilbert and Godel: The Recent History of the Axiomatic Method.


Electron doping of MgB2 by Sc substitution


Rotons in Liquid Helium and the Fractionally Charged Quantum Hall Effect


Transport theory. Atlas Symposium No. 3: Proceedings of the symposium on interdisciplinary applications of transport theory. Oxford, England, 1 - 4 September 1970.

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer


Projected Hartree--Fock calculations of spin--isospin matrix elements in A = 17--27 nuclei


Experimental studies of collision and fragmentation phenomena


It is shown that electrodynamics can be implemented in the formalism presented in the first part of this work. An electromagnetic field having a holonomic unimodular vector potential is examined. The properties of such electromagnetic fields are also examined.


Turbidity coefficient of the auroral ionosphere


Sailing Boats, Probably in the Pool of London near Old London Bridge ?1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner


The effect of Emotion, Consumer-Brand Relationship and Brand Loyalty on Travel Consumer's Experiential Value


Mo1473 – Seladelpar for the Treatment of Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Experience with 26 Cirrhotic Patients


LibGuides: Ethnic Studies: Citations


LibGuides: ENG 32 (Cole) - U.S. Women's Literature: Articles


Secularity and Separation of Churches and the State: An Attempted Historiographical Assessment (2003-2005)


Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging of myocardial ischemia and infarctionl


Eric Hobsbawm, Bandits, New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1971, pp. 128