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  1. JUST Vol. 28 No. 2 Aug 2008

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    ben

    2008-08-02

    Aug 2, 2008 ... operating in fading environments (Hueda and Rod- rigruez, 2004), and ... networks supporting mobile computing (Lee et al.,. 1999). ... The transition diagram of the system analyzed in this report is given in Fig. 1, having N+1 ...

  2. Justicia y racionamiento sanitario en el Plan AUGE: dilemas bioéticos asociados a la distribución de recursos escasos Justiça e fundamentação sanitária no Plano AUGE: dilemas bioéticos associados à distribuição de recursos escassos Justice and health care rationing in AUGE: bioethical dilemmas associated to the distribution of scarce resources

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    Alejandra Zúñiga Fajuri

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available Los criterios de racionamiento en materia sanitaria establecidos por el Plan AUGE en Chile, se fundan principalmente en máximas de eficiencia que son contrarias a los principios de equidad que debieran sustentar las políticas sanitarias de las sociedades democráticas. Para la aplicación y justificación de las técnicas de racionamiento sanitario se requiere no sólo una reflexión desde la ciencia médica y la economía de la salud, sino que también desde la filosofía moral y la bioética. El estudio de las teorías de la justicia distributiva sanitaria permite valorar críticamente los criterios de racionamiento sanitarios utilizados por las Guías Clínicas de cada una de las patologías GES/AUGE que resultan contrarios al principio de equidad.Os critérios de fundamentação em matéria sanitária estabelecidos pelo Plano AUGE, no Chile, se fundam, principalmente, em máximas de eficiência que são contrárias aos princípios de equidade que deveriam sustentar as políticas sanitárias ds sociedades democráticas. Para a aplicação e justificação das técnicas de racionamento sanitário se requer não só uma reflexão a partir da ciência médica e da economia da saúde, mas, também, a partir da filosofia moral e da bioética. O estudo das teorias da justiça distributiva sanitária permite valorar criticamente os critérios de racionamento sanitário utilizados pelas Guias Clínicas de cada uma das patologias GES/AUGE que resultam contrários ao princípio da equidade.Rationing criteria in health care establish by AUGE, in Chile, are based, mainly, in maximum efficiency, contrary to the equity principle, which should sustain health care policies in democratic societies. For the application and justification of health care rationing techniques is required not only a medical science and health care economy reflection, but a moral philosophy and bioethical reflection as well. The study of health care distributive justice theories

  3. EAMJ Aug Inter.indd

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    2009-08-08

    Aug 8, 2009 ... BIRTH WEIGHT IN NEWBORNS IN A COHORT OF PREGNANT WOMEN FROM. A MALARIA ... shown to be associated with a significant increase in malaria infection in ... Study population: Pregnant women at a gestational.

  4. EAMJ Factors Aug.indd

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    2009-08-01

    Aug 1, 2009 ... Objective: To bridge the existing gaps by examining the factors associated with attrition. Design: ... Results: In this cohort study, 1353 women were enrolled at delivery and 1188 (88%) ... wage earners with poor social support.

  5. AUG is the only initiation codon in eukaryotes

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    Sherman, F; McKnight, G; Stewart, J W

    1980-01-01

    An analysis of mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae indicates that AUG is the sole codon capable of initiating translation of iso-1-cytochrome c. This result with yeast and the sequence results of numerous eukaryotic genes indicate that AUG is the only initiation codon in eukaryotes; in contrast, results with Escherichia colia and bacteriophages indicate that both AUG and GUG are initiation codons in prokaryotes. The difference can be explained by the lack of the t/sup 6/ A hypermodified nucleoside (N-(9-(..beta..-D-ribofuranosyl)purin-6-ylcarbamoyl)threonine) in prokaryotic initiator tRNA and its presence in eukaryotic initiator tRNA.

  6. Non-AUG translation: a new start for protein synthesis in eukaryotes.

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    Kearse, Michael G; Wilusz, Jeremy E

    2017-09-01

    Although it was long thought that eukaryotic translation almost always initiates at an AUG start codon, recent advancements in ribosome footprint mapping have revealed that non-AUG start codons are used at an astonishing frequency. These non-AUG initiation events are not simply errors but instead are used to generate or regulate proteins with key cellular functions; for example, during development or stress. Misregulation of non-AUG initiation events contributes to multiple human diseases, including cancer and neurodegeneration, and modulation of non-AUG usage may represent a novel therapeutic strategy. It is thus becoming increasingly clear that start codon selection is regulated by many trans -acting initiation factors as well as sequence/structural elements within messenger RNAs and that non-AUG translation has a profound impact on cellular states. © 2017 Kearse and Wilusz; Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

  7. Lorena Córdoba (editora. Dos suizos en la selva. Historias del auge cauchero en el Oriente Boliviano

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    Stefano Pau

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available El libro "Dos suizos en la selva. Historias del auge cauchero en el Oriente Boliviano" presenta, por primera vez traducidos al castellano, los testimonios memoriales de dos trabajadores caucheros originarios de Suiza que permanecieron en la región de la selva boliviana en los años de su juventud, a comienzos del siglo pasado.

  8. Complete motif analysis of sequence requirements for translation initiation at non-AUG start codons.

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    Diaz de Arce, Alexander J; Noderer, William L; Wang, Clifford L

    2018-01-25

    The initiation of mRNA translation from start codons other than AUG was previously believed to be rare and of relatively low impact. More recently, evidence has suggested that as much as half of all translation initiation utilizes non-AUG start codons, codons that deviate from AUG by a single base. Furthermore, non-AUG start codons have been shown to be involved in regulation of expression and disease etiology. Yet the ability to gauge expression based on the sequence of a translation initiation site (start codon and its flanking bases) has been limited. Here we have performed a comprehensive analysis of translation initiation sites that utilize non-AUG start codons. By combining genetic-reporter, cell-sorting, and high-throughput sequencing technologies, we have analyzed the expression associated with all possible variants of the -4 to +4 positions of non-AUG translation initiation site motifs. This complete motif analysis revealed that 1) with the right sequence context, certain non-AUG start codons can generate expression comparable to that of AUG start codons, 2) sequence context affects each non-AUG start codon differently, and 3) initiation at non-AUG start codons is highly sensitive to changes in the flanking sequences. Complete motif analysis has the potential to be a key tool for experimental and diagnostic genomics. © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.

  9. Wyobraźnia wzrokowa Paula Celana - das Aug, dunkel

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    Grzegorz Nowakowski

    2007-08-01

    Full Text Available The article "The Visual Imagination of Paul Celan - das Aug, dunkel" raises the problem of the poet's search for language and "the place, from where you can see the best perspective". It shows the number of methodological dilemmas which inevitably result from analysing the visual imagination. It speaks of "the eye" understood as the crucial element of Celan's poetics. The author questions in his article the common percepcion of Celan as a poet of Shoah (as if shifting the momentum to the eye. The eye, reduced in the very grammatical form of the word (Auge is turned into Aug, gives the unity to Celan's work. The eye, the restless wanderer, accompanies this poetry from the first to the last poem. The author of the article ventures to elucidate various aspects of the use of the organ of vision in Celan's poetry and draws a conclusion that the consistent theory of visual perception is central to Celan's work.

  10. JUST Vol. 28 No. 2 Aug 2008

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    ben

    2008-08-02

    Aug 2, 2008 ... set of values, standard expectations and behaviour patterns. ... changes. Ironically, their management and im- .... For teachers, misbehaviour creates problems. The sad truth ..... sorbing students regardless of their professional.

  11. Mitte-Augé mittekohad / Terje Toomistu

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    Toomistu, Terje

    2012-01-01

    Maailma tuntumaid antropolooge Marc Augé külastas seoses oma teose "Kohad ja mittekohad : sissejuhatus ülimodernsuse antropoloogiasse" (Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2012, tlk. Anti Saar) eestikeelse tõlke ilmumise ja Tallinna Ülikooli humanitaarinstituudi ning kultuuriteaduste ja kunstide doktorikooli intensiivseminariga 12.-13. oktoobril Eestit

  12. Inkanyiso full journal 7 Aug 2013.fm

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    Holardoughyean

    2013-08-07

    Aug 7, 2013 ... The findings reveal identity construction in online social interactions as a ... the multi-dimensional nature of identity construction and reconstruction. ..... in keeping in touch with loved ones compared with making phone calls.

  13. JUST Vol. 28 No. 2 Aug 2008

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    ben

    2008-08-02

    Aug 2, 2008 ... species against a wide range of microorganisms was studied. To validate the ... and protecting against oxidant injury to fibroblast cells. Keywords: ..... Clinical Nutrition. 24:979-987. ... Datura alba on burn wounds in albino rats.

  14. New Strategic Plan Takes the ALS into the Future

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    Kirz, J.; Chemla, D. S.; Feinberg, B.; Krebs, G. F.; Padmore, H. A.; Robin, D. S.; Robinson, A. L.; Smith, N. V.; Warwick, T.; Hussain, Z.

    2007-01-01

    A new strategic plan is in place to upgrade the ALS so it can continue to address fundamental questions, such as size-dependent and dimensional-confinement phenomena at the nanoscale; correlation and complexity in physical, biological, and environmental systems; and temporal evolution, assembly, dynamics and ultrafast phenomena. Moreover, the growing number of ALS users (now exceeding 2,000 per year) requires increased attention. Accordingly, our plan concentrates on projects that will continue to make it possible for ALS users to address grand scientific and technological challenges with incisive world-class tools and quality user support. Our highest priority is to begin top-off operation, in which electrons are injected into the storage ring at intervals of approximately 1 minute. The combination of top-off and concurrent development of small-gap in-vacuum undulators and superconducting undulators will allow an increase in brightness from eight to more than 100 times, depending on the specific undulators and photon energy range. As part of our core mission in the VUV and soft x-ray regions, we plan to exploit these accelerator developments to extend our capabilities for high spatial and temporal resolution and utilize the remarkable coherence properties of the ALS in a new generation of beamlines. Ranked by priority, several proposed beamlines will follow completion of five new beamlines already under construction or funded. The intellectual excitement of the ALS has been a powerful tool in the recruitment and retention of outstanding staff, but additional sustained efforts are required to increase diversity both in gender and in underrepresented groups. To this end, we intend to expand the ALS Doctoral Fellowship Program by giving special emphasis to underrepresented groups. We also envision a distinguished postdoctoral fellowship program with the same emphasis, to increase and diversify our pool of candidates for beamline scientist positions

  15. New Strategic Plan Takes the ALS into the Future

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    Kirz, J.; Chemla, D.S.; Feinberg, B.; Hussain, Z.; Krebs, G.F.; Padmore, H.A.; Robin, D.S.; Robinson, A.L.; Smith, N.V.; Warwick, T.

    2006-01-01

    A new strategic plan is in place to upgrade the ALS so it can continue to address fundamental questions, such as size-dependent and dimensional-confinement phenomena at the nanoscale; correlation and complexity in physical, biological, and environmental systems; and temporal evolution, assembly, dynamics and ultrafast phenomena. Moreover, the growing number of ALS users (now exceeding 2,000 per year) requires increased attention. Accordingly, our plan concentrates on projects that will continue to make it possible for ALS users to address grand scientific and technological challenges with incisive world-class tools and quality user support. Our highest priority is to begin top-off operation, in which electrons are injected into the storage ring at intervals of approximately 1 minute. The combination of top-off and concurrent development of small-gap in-vacuum undulators and superconducting undulators will allow an increase in brightness from eight to more than 100 times, depending on the specific undulators and photon energy range. As part of our core mission in the VUV and soft x-ray regions, we plan to exploit these accelerator developments to extend our capabilities for high spatial and temporal resolution and utilize the remarkable coherence properties of the ALS in a new generation of beamlines. Ranked by priority, several proposed beamlines will follow completion of five new beamlines already under construction or funded. The intellectual excitement of the ALS has been a powerful tool in the recruitment and retention of outstanding staff, but additional sustained efforts are required to increase diversity both in gender and in under represented groups. To this end, we intend to expand the ALS Doctoral Fellowship Program by giving special emphasis to under represented groups. We also envision a distinguished postdoctoral fellowship program with the same emphasis, to increase and diversify our pool of candidates for beamline scientist positions

  16. Au-Ge based Candidate Alloys for High-Temperature Lead-Free Solder Alternatives

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    Chidambaram, Vivek; Hald, John; Hattel, Jesper Henri

    2009-01-01

    Au-Ge based candidate alloys have been proposed as an alternative to high-lead content solders that are currently being used for high-temperature applications. The influence of the low melting point metals namely In, Sb and Sn to the Au-Ge eutectic with respect to the microstructure and microhard......Au-Ge based candidate alloys have been proposed as an alternative to high-lead content solders that are currently being used for high-temperature applications. The influence of the low melting point metals namely In, Sb and Sn to the Au-Ge eutectic with respect to the microstructure...... was primarily strengthened by the refined (Ge) dispersed phase. The distribution of phases played a relatively more crucial role in determining the ductility of the bulk solder alloy. In the present work it was found that among the low melting point metals, the addition of Sb to the Au-Ge eutectic would...

  17. Inkanyiso full journal 7 Aug 2013.fm

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    Holardoughyean

    2013-08-07

    Aug 7, 2013 ... Colonial rule impacted profoundly on the lives of Nigerian women and led ... tenets of Victorian society in the colonies. ...... “Lagos and the Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Nigeria 1920-60”, Journal of African History, Vol.

  18. JUST Vol. 28 No. 2 Aug 2008

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    ben

    2008-08-02

    Aug 2, 2008 ... communication, research and socio-economic growth of a people; external factors such as chemi- cal, biological, physical and disasters can also deteriorate multimedia materials. Finally, caution must be taken when blending the methods of preservation. Keywords: Preservation, Libraries, Print, Non-Print.

  19. Identification of evolutionarily conserved non-AUG-initiated N-terminal extensions in human coding sequences.

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    Ivanov, Ivaylo P

    2011-05-01

    In eukaryotes, it is generally assumed that translation initiation occurs at the AUG codon closest to the messenger RNA 5\\' cap. However, in certain cases, initiation can occur at codons differing from AUG by a single nucleotide, especially the codons CUG, UUG, GUG, ACG, AUA and AUU. While non-AUG initiation has been experimentally verified for a handful of human genes, the full extent to which this phenomenon is utilized--both for increased coding capacity and potentially also for novel regulatory mechanisms--remains unclear. To address this issue, and hence to improve the quality of existing coding sequence annotations, we developed a methodology based on phylogenetic analysis of predicted 5\\' untranslated regions from orthologous genes. We use evolutionary signatures of protein-coding sequences as an indicator of translation initiation upstream of annotated coding sequences. Our search identified novel conserved potential non-AUG-initiated N-terminal extensions in 42 human genes including VANGL2, FGFR1, KCNN4, TRPV6, HDGF, CITED2, EIF4G3 and NTF3, and also affirmed the conservation of known non-AUG-initiated extensions in 17 other genes. In several instances, we have been able to obtain independent experimental evidence of the expression of non-AUG-initiated products from the previously published literature and ribosome profiling data.

  20. Eurydice at Euston?: Walter Benjamin and Marc Augé Go Underground

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    Graeme Gilloch

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available Taking as its point of departure Walter Benjamin’s repeatedly unsuccessful attempt to give spatial form to his past, this paper suggests that it is perhaps the contemporary French anthropologist, Marc Augé, who provides the most appropriate envisioning of a ‘map of memories’ in his brief writings on the Parisian métro system. For Augé, the labyrinthine subway network constitutes nothing less than a ‘memory machine’ in which lines and station names serve as mnemonics, recalling long-forgotten childhood encounters and experiences. Mirroring the cityscape above, places themselves unexplored, unknown, the serried toponyms of the métro become an incantation summoning forth the shades of the past. As Augé points out, those stations that provide opportunities to change lines are felicitously termed ‘correspondences’, a Baudelairean term that fascinated Benjamin and informed his key historiographical notion of the ‘dialectical image,’ the intersection and mutual illumination of past and present moments. For me, Augé’s highly suggestive reflections bring to mind my own memories of a London childhood around 1970. Looking at the London underground map today, I cannot but see the sites of many past meetings and partings, dots connected by lines forming complex figures, constellations of memory.

  1. Inkanyiso full journal 7 Aug 2013.fm

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    Holardoughyean

    2013-08-07

    Aug 7, 2013 ... First, he assumed that accumulation of private property allowed people to provide for themselves and their families the necessities of life. Once freed .... Yoruba, things themselves are imbued with ontological and social values, accounting for why they incite in their owners a feeling of satisfaction and pride.

  2. JUST Vol. 28 No. 2 Aug 2008

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    ben

    2008-08-02

    Aug 2, 2008 ... The overall mean age of sexual activity debut among both boys and girls was 11.4 years. High. -risk sexual behaviour increased with increasing age and class, and was significantly higher among females than males. Condom use was generally low among ... are more likely to suffer from low self-esteem, a.

  3. 462- 27 Aug 2009.indd [ Final version].indd

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    2009-08-27

    Aug 27, 2009 ... the patient is the captain of the team and the doctors, diabetes educator ...... The good research guide for small-scale social research projects, 3rd edn., ... and critical appraisal for evidence-based practice, 6th edn.,. Mosby, St ...

  4. JUST Vol. 28 No. 2 Aug 2008

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    ben

    2008-08-02

    Aug 2, 2008 ... ingly, argued that world history – which he has undertaken in Age of Capital is only possible after ... of Marxism, he quotes from Marx to serve as a ... Engel's prediction of the rebirth of socialism in ...... and especially cotton in return for no advantages, ... pean stock are treated as winners together with Ja-.

  5. 466-Sabelo-28 Aug 2009.indd [Final version].indd

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    2009-08-28

    Aug 28, 2009 ... Nurses' perceptions about Botswana ART adherence .... in Botswana, based on the established prevalence rate among pregnant women (UNAIDS 2004:1). ..... because some had to travel up to 200 kilometres to reach the.

  6. 48 CFR 2452.216-73 - Performance evaluation plan.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 6 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 true Performance evaluation plan... 2452.216-73 Performance evaluation plan. As prescribed in 2416.406(e)(3), insert the following clause in all award fee contracts: Performance Evaluation Plan (AUG 1987) (a) The Government shall...

  7. 458- 21 Aug 2009 [FINAL VERSION version].indd

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    2009-08-21

    Aug 21, 2009 ... More research is recommended to measure the impact of these strategies on a long- ... In terms of iron status, 10% of children in South Africa are iron-depleted, one in ..... Food models and cooked porridge samples were used as memory ..... may have been too short to have a statistically significant impact.

  8. Olawumi et al., Afr. J. Infect. Dis.

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    2011-08-31

    Aug 31, 2011 ... Consequently pathogen reduction using riboflavin and UV light, which is a method by which infectious pathogens, including plasmodium in blood for transfusion are inactivated by adding riboflavin and irradiating with UV light , is another effort in transfusion medicine to ensure blood safety. (Hardwick et al,.

  9. Ab initio correlated study of the Al13H- anion: Isomers, their kinetic stability and vertical detachment energies

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    Moc, Jerzy

    2012-01-01

    We report correlated ab initio calculations for the Al13H- cluster anion isomers, their kinetic stability and vertical detachment energies (VDEs). Of the two most energetically favored anion structures involving H atom in terminal and threefold bridged sites of the icosahedral Al13-, the higher energy ‘threefold bridged' isomer is shown to be of low kinetic stability. Our results are consistent with the recent photoelectron spectroscopy (PE) study of Grubisic et al. who observed two distinct Al13H- isomers, one of them identified as ‘metastable'. The VDE energies computed at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ//MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level for the ‘terminal' and ‘threefold bridged' Al13H- isomers of 3.21 and 2.32 eV are in good agreement with those determined in the PE study.

  10. The deprotonation energies of BH5 and AlH5: Comparisons to GaH5

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    Speakman, Lucas D.; Turney, Justin M.; Schaefer, Henry F.

    2007-01-01

    Hypercoordinate boron is most unusual, leading to considerable theoretical and experimental research on the parent BH 5 molecule. The deprotonation energies of BH 5 and the related molecules AlH 5 and GaH 5 have been of particular interest. Here the energy differences for XH 5 ->XH 4 - +H(X=BandAl) are computed to be 332.4 and 326.3kcalmol -1 , respectively, with an aug-cc-pVQZ basis set at the CCSD(T) level of theory. Vibrational frequencies for BH 4 - and AlH 4 - are also reported as 1098, 1210, 2263, and 2284cm -1 and 760, 779, 1658, and 1745cm -1 , respectively, again at the CCSD(T) aug-cc-pVQZ level of theory. Comparisons with the valence isoelectronic GaH 5 molecule are made

  11. Cambios en el consumo de tabaco: auge del tabaco de liar e introducción de los cigarrillos electrónicos

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    Marina Tarrazo

    2017-05-01

    Conclusión: Entre 2007 y 2015, la prevalencia de consumo de tabaco ha disminuido en Galicia y ha aumentado la prevalencia de fumadores que consumen tabaco de liar. El uso de cigarrillos electrónicos es bajo y más frecuente entre los fumadores, aunque no exclusivo. El auge del tabaco de liar y la introducción de los cigarrillos electrónicos reflejan la importancia de mantener sistemas de vigilancia que puedan identificar de forma inmediata cambios de comportamiento asociados al consumo de tabaco.

  12. 867.pdf | aug2012 | jess | Indian Academy of Sciences

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    Home; jess; aug2012; 867.pdf. 404! error. The page your are looking for can not be found! Please check the link or use the navigation bar at the top. YouTube; Twitter; Facebook; Blog. Academy News. IAS Logo. 29th Mid-year meeting. Posted on 19 January 2018. The 29th Mid-year meeting of the Academy will be held from ...

  13. Microstructure degradation in high temperature fatigue of TiAl

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    Kruml, Tomáš; Obrtlík, Karel

    2014-01-01

    Roč. 65, AUG (2014), s. 28-32 ISSN 0142-1123 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP107/11/0704 Institutional support: RVO:68081723 Keywords : Low cycle fatigue * lamellar TiAl alloy * high temperature fatigue * dislocations Subject RIV: JL - Materials Fatigue, Friction Mechanics Impact factor: 2.275, year: 2014

  14. Novel Au- and Ge-based two-dimensional materials formed through topotactic transitions of AlB2-like structures

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    Tsetseris, Leonidas

    2016-07-01

    The topotactic reaction of a layered compound, for example CaGe2, with HCl solution is a common and facile method to produce two-dimensional (2D) materials. In this work we demonstrate with first-principles calculations that this technique can potentially lead to a whole new family of 2D materials starting from three-dimensional crystals with AlB2-like structures. As representative cases, we show here that the de-intercalation of Sc and Ca atoms from ScAuGe and Ca2AuGe3 crystals is strongly exothermic and produces the stable 2D monolayers AuGeH and AuGe3H3, respectively. Remarkably, both metals (AuGeH) and semiconductors (AuGe3H3) can be prepared by this method. Based on the broad availability of AlB2-like structures with varying stoichiometries, there are several possibilities to prepare novel functional 2D materials with suitable topotactic transitions.

  15. The Indispensable N-Terminal Half of elF3j/HCR1 Cooperates with its Structurally Conserved Binding Partner eIF3b/PRT1-RRM and with eIF1A in Stringent AUG Selection

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    ElAntak, L.; Wagner, Susan; Herrmannová, Anna; Karásková, Martina; Rutkai, Edit; Lukavsky, P. J.; Valášek, Leoš

    2010-01-01

    Roč. 396, č. 4 (2010), s. 1097-1116 ISSN 0022-2836 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50200510 Keywords : translation initiation * AUG recognition * eIF3 Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 4.008, year: 2010

  16. Personnel dosimetry: specialized industrial services. Jan 1997-Aug 2001

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    Guillen, J.A.

    2001-09-01

    The purpose of this report is to evaluate data from personnel dosimetry of the Servicios Industriales Especializados, that is a licensee with gamma sources for non destructive testing. Data of the period Jan-97 to Aug-01 are evaluated in terms of collective doses. This report was made according to the national regulations that stablish to control that annual limits and reference levels in personnel dosimetry must be controlled

  17. Del discurso del desarrollo al buen vivir: una aproximación con enfoque étnico diferencial a la intervención megaminera en el Alto Putumayo

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    Pardo Quintero, Andrés Felipe

    2015-01-01

    Este estudio de caso aborda el tema de las alternativas al desarrollo convencional, concretamente el concepto de Buen Vivir- Sumak Kawsay, a la luz de la descripción y el análisis de los impactos del auge minero en la región del Alto Putumayo, territorio ancestral de los pueblos indígenas Inga y Camëntsá. Este trabajo quiere mostrar que la apuesta por un modelo económico extractivista, está inspirado en un plan de dominación global de recursos naturales por parte del algunas potencias, que a ...

  18. "Estudio estadístico del auge y declive de la Gran Logia de Cuba durante el periodo de 1945 a 1980"

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    Jorge Luis Romeu

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available Presentamos un análisis estadístico e histórico del auge y declive de los masones cubanos durante el periodo 1945- 1980, basado en nuestro estudio demográfico de esta institución. Nuestro trabajo identifica, y evalúa cuantitativamente, importantes factores que han contribuido, primero al crecimiento, y luego a declive de su membresía, en los primeros 30 años de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. A la vez, el trabajo introduce el uso de nuevas herramientas de análisis, utilizadas exitosamente en otras áreas de las humanidades y de las ciencias sociales.

  19. Greta Kaits 9. apr. 1928 - 29. aug. 1946 : [luuletused] / Mats Traat

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    Traat, Mats, 1936-

    2008-01-01

    Sisu : Greta Kaits 9. apr. 1928 - 29. aug. 1946 ; Villem Hänilane 1898 - 1952 ; Peeter Pedak 1897 - 1953 ; Max Äidse 1903 - 1959 ; Lavinia Laidam ; Buchard Pruus ; Sergei Krivokopõtov ; Allan Luht 5. VII 1962 - 17. V 2007 ; Karl Saarmets 9. III 1924 - 14. IX 1981 ; Raimo Ritsik

  20. Architectures fromagères en pays d’Auge

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    Yannick Lecherbonnier

    2012-02-01

    Full Text Available Camemberts, livarots et pont-l’évêque participent encore largement à l'identification du pays d'Auge. Entre Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives et Livarot, de nombreux hâloirs, ou pièces d’affinage, témoignent de l’importance d’une production fermière aujourd’hui révolue et souvent peu documentée. Une simple lecture architecturale de ces édifices permet cependant de déterminer quels fromages y ont été affinés. Elle remet aussi en cause les principes couramment admis concernant leur aménagement, en particulier la disposition de leurs ouvertures, et montre que les prescriptions techniques émises au XIXe siècle et relayées par les sociétés savantes, sont restées lettre morte.Camemberts, livarots and pont-l’évêque are still largely part of the characterizing components of the pays d’Auge. Between Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives and Livarot, many hâloirs or cheese maturing rooms attest the importance of that bygone and often poorly documented agricultural production. A mere architectural examination of these buildings allows us nevertheless to determine which kind of cheese had been matured in which building. It gives us also a whole new perspective on the commonly received principles about the arrangement of the buildings, especially the setting of their apertures, and points the fact that the technical prescriptions from the 19th century that have been spread through the scientific societies have had no follow-up.

  1. The deprotonation energies of BH{sub 5} and AlH{sub 5}: Comparisons to GaH{sub 5}

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    Speakman, Lucas D. [Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, 1004 Cedar Street, Athens, GA 30602-2556 (United States)], E-mail: speakman@ccqc.uga.edu; Turney, Justin M. [Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, 1004 Cedar Street, Athens, GA 30602-2556 (United States); Schaefer, Henry F. [Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, 1004 Cedar Street, Athens, GA 30602-2556 (United States)

    2007-01-08

    Hypercoordinate boron is most unusual, leading to considerable theoretical and experimental research on the parent BH{sub 5} molecule. The deprotonation energies of BH{sub 5} and the related molecules AlH{sub 5} and GaH{sub 5} have been of particular interest. Here the energy differences for XH{sub 5}->XH{sub 4}{sup -}+H(X=BandAl) are computed to be 332.4 and 326.3kcalmol{sup -1}, respectively, with an aug-cc-pVQZ basis set at the CCSD(T) level of theory. Vibrational frequencies for BH{sub 4}{sup -} and AlH{sub 4}{sup -} are also reported as 1098, 1210, 2263, and 2284cm{sup -1} and 760, 779, 1658, and 1745cm{sup -1}, respectively, again at the CCSD(T) aug-cc-pVQZ level of theory. Comparisons with the valence isoelectronic GaH{sub 5} molecule are made.

  2. Solid-state reactions during mechanical milling of Fe-Al under nitrogen atmosphere

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    Jirásková, Yvonna; Buršík, Jiří; Čížek, J.; Jančík, D.

    2013-01-01

    Roč. 568, AUG (2013), s. 106-111 ISSN 0925-8388 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP108/11/1350 Institutional support: RVO:68081723 Keywords : milling * mechanical alloying * Mössbauer phase analysis * Fe-Al alloy * microstructure Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 2.726, year: 2013

  3. EL PLAN GLOBAL FRENTE AL RIESGO DE INUNDACIÓN EN LA RIBERA DEL JÚCAR

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    Gemma Barber Arlandis

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available El Plan Global del Júcar frente al riesgo de inundación pretende minimizar los daños causados por las avenidas que periódicamente afectan a la Ribera del Júcar. En el presente artículo se describen y analizan las actuaciones de este Plan, la génesis del mismo, el proceso de elaboración y sus resultados. La problemática es compleja, ya que el riesgo de inundación abarca un territorio muy poblado, con un importante desarrollo industrial y agrícola. Además, la existencia de espacios naturales de elevado valor ambiental, hace que las intervenciones derivadas del Plan consideren al mismo nivel la defensa frente a avenidas y las demandas sociales y ambientales, tras el consenso alcanzado en un proceso de participación pública. El Plan incorpora aspectos innovadores en ingeniería hidráulica, cuyo resultado es una actuación integrada y sostenible, que compatibiliza la protección frente a avenidas con la recuperación y mejora del ámbito fluvial, y su función como corredor vertebrador del territorio.

  4. Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Faculty of So

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    Aug 18, 2015 ... Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management 8(6): 662 – 668, 2015. ... functionality of the emergency response plan systems; assessment of magnitude and ... Nigerian Aviation Industry is not in compliance with the International recommendation of ... to include among others: air traffic control.

  5. Strontium-90 and cesium-137 in milk (consuming districts) (from May 1982 to Aug. 1982)

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    1982-01-01

    Strontium-90 and cesium-137 in milk (consuming districts from May to Aug. 1982) were determined. Commercial milk was purchased in 20 consuming districts. The results are shown in a table. (Namekawa, K.)

  6. Temperature-induced assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals into fractal architectures and thermoelectric power properties in Au/Ge bilayer films

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    Li Quanbao; Wang Jian; Jiao Zheng [Shanghai Applied Radiation Institute, Institute of Nanochemistry and Nanobiology, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444 (China); Wu Minghong, E-mail: mhwu@staff.shu.edu.cn [Shanghai Applied Radiation Institute, Institute of Nanochemistry and Nanobiology, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444 (China); Shek, Chan-Hung; Lawrence Wu, C.M.; Lai, Joseph K.L. [Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong (Hong Kong); Chen Zhiwen, E-mail: cnzwchen@yahoo.com.cn [Shanghai Applied Radiation Institute, Institute of Nanochemistry and Nanobiology, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444 (China); Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong (Hong Kong)

    2011-08-15

    Highlights: > Ge fractal architectures were achieved by temperature-induced assembly. > The appearance of fractal architectures influences the thermoelectric power. > But it has little effect on the resistivity. > The values of the superlocalization exponent were within 1.22 {<=} {xi} {<=} 1.29. > It was higher than expected for two-dimension fractal system. - Abstract: Fractal architectures of semiconductor nanocrystals were successfully achieved by temperature-induced assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals in gold/germanium (Au/Ge) bilayer films. New assessment strategies of fractal architectures are of fundamental importance in the development of micro/nano-devices. Temperature-dependent properties including resistivity and thermoelectric power (TEP) of Au/Ge bilayer films with self-similar fractal patterns were investigated in detail. Experimental results indicated that the microstructure of Au film plays an important role in the characteristics of Au/Ge bilayer films after annealing and the crystallization processes of amorphous Ge accompany by fractal formation of Ge nanocrystals via temperature-induced assembly. The appearance of fractal architectures has significantly influence on the TEP but little effect on the resistivity of the annealed bilayer film. By analysis of the data, we found that the values of superlocalization exponent are within 1.22 {<=} {xi} {<=} 1.29, which are higher than expected for two-dimension fractal systems. The results provided possible evidence for the superlocalization on fractal architectures in Au/Ge bilayer films. The TEP measurements are considered a more effective method than the conductivity for investigating superlocalization in a percolating system.

  7. ANÁLISIS SISTÉMICO DE LA TUTORÍA VIRTUAL A PARTIR DEL AUGE DEL E-LEARNING

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    Héctor Mazurkiewicz

    2013-07-01

    Full Text Available Este estudio tiene como objetivo de investigación establecer en qué medida la acción tutorial en espacios virtuales, concebida como un sistema ontológico material, se corresponde con el modelo ontológico sistémico material CAEMS. La metodología del estudio es integrativa, pues incorpora diversas herramientas metodológicas, pero el enfoque del análisis es sistémico y se fundamenta en el modelo CAEMS de Herrera (2007 quien a su vez se basa en el modelo sistémico materialista CESM de Mario Bunge. En cuanto al tipo de investigación, es analítica con un diseño documental, también el diseño es transeccional contemporáneo porque los datos corresponden al periodo del auge del e-learning y es univentual dado que solo se estudia la tutoría virtual; se utilizó como instrumentos de recolección de datos, matrices de análisis. Los resultados derivaron como conclusión, que la acción tutorial en espacios virtuales se corresponde con un sistema material de cuatro componentes complejos y con propiedades emergentes, denominados composición, estructura, mecanismos y superestructura, tal que al carecer del ambiente supuesto en la investigación, dicho sistema se corresponde parcialmente con el modelo sistémico ontológico material CAEMS. El estudio cierra recomendado la aplicación de este modelo en investigaciones cuyo objeto o evento de estudio sea un sistema material; también se recomienda continuar el ciclo de la investigación para alcanzar otros estadios más avanzados de la misma y para identificar el ambiente de la acción tutorial en espacios virtuales.

  8. Al Sahawa - The Awakening: An Education and Training Resource Guide

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    by US personnel at Abu Ghraib prison. These and related is- sues, festering since 2003, gained traction in the spring of 2004 and provided recruitment...Iraqi people to fight the occupiers, the ex- tremists, led by the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, demanded to lead the jihad with the intent of first...the Apr 2004 fight for Fallujah,” Abu Nour, insurgent and kidnapper of Jill Carroll; “The Jill Carroll Story, ”Christian Science Monitor (18 Aug

  9. Evaluation of the plasma hydrogen isotope content by residual gas analysis at JET and AUG

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    Drenik, A.; Alegre, D.; Brezinsek, S.; De Castro, A.; Kruezi, U.; Oberkofler, M.; Panjan, M.; Primc, G.; Reichbauer, T.; Resnik, M.; Rohde, V.; Seibt, M.; Schneider, P. A.; Wauters, T.; Zaplotnik, R.; ASDEX-Upgrade, the; EUROfusion MST1 Teams; contributors, JET

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    The isotope content of the plasma reflects on the dynamics of isotope changeover experiments, efficiency of wall conditioning and the performance of a fusion device in the active phase of operation. The assessment of the isotope ratio of hydrogen and methane molecules is used as a novel method of assessing the plasma isotope ratios at JET and ASDEX-Upgrade (AUG). The isotope ratios of both molecules in general shows similar trends as the isotope ratio detected by other diagnostics. At JET, the absolute values of RGA signals are in relatively good agreement with each other and with spectroscopy data, while at AUG the deviation from neutral particle analyser data are larger, and the results show a consistent spatial distribution of the isotope ratio. It is further shown that the isotope ratio of the hydrogen molecule can be used to study the degree of dissociation of the injected gas during changeover experiments.

  10. Development and status of the AL Mixed Waste Treatment Plan or I love that mobile unit of mine

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    Bounini, L.; Williams, M.; Zygmunt, S.

    1995-01-01

    Nine Department of Energy (DOE) sites reporting to the Albuquerque Office (AL) have mixed waste that is chemically hazardous and radioactive. The hazardous waste regulations require the chemical portion of mixed waste to be to be treated to certain standards. The total volume of low-level mixed waste at the nine sites is equivalent to 7,000 drums, with individual site volumes ranging from 1 gallon of waste at the Pinellas Plant to 4,500 drums at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Nearly all the sites have a diversity of wastes requiring a diversity of treatment processes. Treatment capacity does not exist for much of this waste, and it would be expensive for each site to build the diversity of treatment processes needed to treat its own wastes. DOE-AL assembled a team that developed the AL Mixed Waste Treatment Plan that uses the resources of the nine sites to treat the waste at the sites. Work on the plan started in October 1993, and the plan was finalized in March 1994. The plan uses commercial treatment, treatability studies, and mobile treatment units. The plan specifies treatment technologies that will be built as mobile treatment units to be moved from site to site. Mobile units include bench-top units for very small volumes and treatability studies, drum-size units that treat one drum per day, and skid-size units that handle multiple drum volumes. After the tools needed to treat the wastes were determined, the sites were assigned to provide part of the treatment capacity using their own resources and expertise. The sites are making progress on treatability studies, commercial treatment, and mobile treatment design and fabrication. To date, this is the only plan for treating waste that brings the resources of several DOE sites together to treat mixed waste. It is the only program actively planning to use mobile treatment coordinated between DOE sites

  11. Influence of Fe2O3 on alloying and magnetic properties of Fe–Al

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    Jirásková, Yvonna; Buršík, Jiří; Zitovski, O.; Cuda, J.

    2014-01-01

    Roč. 186, AUG (2014), s. 73-78 ISSN 0921-5107 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP108/11/1350; GA MŠk 7AMB12SK009 Institutional support: RVO:68081723 Keywords : Fe–Al alloy * Mechanical alloying * Microstructure * Intergrain interaction * magnetic properties Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism; BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism (UFM-A) Impact factor: 2.169, year: 2014

  12. Auge y Caída de Japón en Chile, 1897-1943

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    César David Ross Orellana

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    Full Text Available La interrogante que guía este trabajo se pregunta por cuáles son las claves explicativas de la relación bilateral entre Japón y Chile durante su primera gran fase (1897-1943. Se plantea como un proceso histórico de auge (1897-1939 y caída (1939-1943 que en su final estuvo marcado por una intensa dimensión política que ha estado casi totalmente ausente del debate académico. El enfoque teórico-metodológico de este trabajo es el de la Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales, centrado en determinar las claves de continuidad y cambio dentro de un proceso histórico específico. Se concluye que el debate académico referido a las relaciones entre Japón y América Latina y el Caribe (ALC -en general- y las relaciones entre Japón y Chile -en particular-, ha generado interpretaciones globales basadas en generalizaciones válidas para el ámbito mundial y para los patrones históricos derivados de la política y la acción internacional de las potencias hegemónicas. Tal planteamiento no resulta igualmente válido para las relaciones entre dos países cuya historia, ubicada en los bordes de los grandes acontecimientos de entonces, se escribía conectada pero al margen de esos fenómenos.

  13. Auge y Caída de Japón en Chile, 1897-1943

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    César David Ross Orellana

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available La interrogante que guía este trabajo se pregunta por cuáles son las claves explicativas de la relación bilateral entre Japón y Chile durante su primera gran fase (1897-1943. Se plantea como un proceso histórico de auge (1897-1939 y caída (1939-1943 que en su final estuvo marcado por una intensa dimensión política que ha estado casi totalmente ausente del debate académico. El enfoque teóricometodológico de este trabajo es el de la Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales, centrado en determinar las claves de continuidad y cambio dentro de un proceso histórico específico. Se concluye que el debate académico referido a las relaciones entre Japón y América Latina y el Caribe (ALC —en general— y las relaciones entre Japón y Chile —en particular—, ha generado interpretaciones globales basadas en generalizaciones válidas para el ámbito mundial y para los patrones históricos derivados de la política y la acción internacional de las potencias hegemónicas. Tal planteamiento no resulta igualmente válido para las relaciones entre dos países cuya historia, ubicada en los bordes de los grandes acontecimientos de entonces, se escribía conectada pero al margen de esos fenómenos.

  14. Comparación de ranking del Ministerio de Salud (Minsal e impacto financiero de las 40 primeras patologías Auge-GES vigentes en Chile Comparing the Minsal ranking with the financial impact of the first 40 Auge-GES pathologies in Chile

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    Miguel Bustamante-Ubilla

    2010-04-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo compara el ranking Minsal de 40 patologías Auge-GES con el determinado por impacto financiero. Se elaboró una base de datos homogénea, se estandarizaron datos y se aplicaron correlaciones Pearson y Spearman. Se concluye que el criterio de impacto financiero cambia efectivamente las prioridades y modifica la congruencia social de la política de Estado.This article compares the Minsal ranking of 40 Auge-GES pathologies with their financial impact. A homogeneous database was built, the data was standardized and Pearson and Spearman correlations were applied. The financial impact approach changes priorities and the social consistency of the state policy.

  15. Latvijas ozolu audžu augšņu raksturojums

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    Stalīdzāns, Didzis

    2012-01-01

    Maģistra darba mērķis ir noskaidrot augsnes faktora lomu parastā ozola (Quercus robur L.) izplatībai Latvijas teritorijā sastopamajās mežaudzēs. Maģistra darbā ir apkopota informācija par parastā ozola izplatības areālu Latvijas teritorijā un citviet pasaulē. Sniegts - parastā ozola ekoloģiskais raksturojums, raksturīgākie augšanas apstākļi, audžu atjaunošanās un ar to saistīto problēmu izklāsts. Pētījumā izlases veidā tika atlasīti 24 ozolu audžu parauglaukumi, kuros veikta audzes augsne...

  16. 5'-Terminal AUGs in Escherichia coli mRNAs with Shine-Dalgarno Sequences: Identification and Analysis of Their Roles in Non-Canonical Translation Initiation.

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    Full Text Available Analysis of the Escherichia coli transcriptome identified a unique subset of messenger RNAs (mRNAs that contain a conventional untranslated leader and Shine-Dalgarno (SD sequence upstream of the gene's start codon while also containing an AUG triplet at the mRNA's 5'- terminus (5'-uAUG. Fusion of the coding sequence specified by the 5'-terminal putative AUG start codon to a lacZ reporter gene, as well as primer extension inhibition assays, reveal that the majority of the 5'-terminal upstream open reading frames (5'-uORFs tested support some level of lacZ translation, indicating that these mRNAs can function both as leaderless and canonical SD-leadered mRNAs. Although some of the uORFs were expressed at low levels, others were expressed at levels close to that of the respective downstream genes and as high as the naturally leaderless cI mRNA of bacteriophage λ. These 5'-terminal uORFs potentially encode peptides of varying lengths, but their functions, if any, are unknown. In an effort to determine whether expression from the 5'-terminal uORFs impact expression of the immediately downstream cistron, we examined expression from the downstream coding sequence after mutations were introduced that inhibit efficient 5'-uORF translation. These mutations were found to affect expression from the downstream cistrons to varying degrees, suggesting that some 5'-uORFs may play roles in downstream regulation. Since the 5'-uAUGs found on these conventionally leadered mRNAs can function to bind ribosomes and initiate translation, this indicates that canonical mRNAs containing 5'-uAUGs should be examined for their potential to function also as leaderless mRNAs.

  17. The DELPHI expert process of the German umbrella project AUGE as basis for recommendations to CO2 storage in Germany

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    Pilz, Peter; Schoebel, Birgit; Liebscher, Axel

    2016-04-01

    Within the GEOTECHNOLOGIEN funding scheme for geological CO2 storage by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany 33 projects (135 subprojects) have been funded with a total budget of 58 Mio € (excluding industry funds) from 2005 to 2014. In 2012, the German parliament passed the transposition of the EU CCS Directive 2009/31/EG into the national "Carbon Dioxide Storage Law" (KSpG). Annex 1 of the KSpG provides a description of criteria for the characterization and assessment of a potential CO2 storage site. Annex 2 describes the expected monitoring system of a CO2 storage site. The criteria given in the appendices are of general nature, which reflects (1) that the CO2 storage technology is still being developed and (2) that site specific aspects needs to be considered. In 2012 an umbrella project called AUGE has been launched in order to compile and summarize the results of the GEOTECHNOLOGIEN projects to underpin the two Annexes scientifically. By integration of the individual project results AUGE aims at derive recommendations for the review and implementation of the KSpG. The recommendations shall be drafted based on a common ground of science, public authorities and industry. Therefore, the AUGE project includes a Delphi expert process as an essential part. It is realized in cooperation with the company COMPARE Consulting, Göppingen. The implementation of the Delphi-Process is organized in three steps: • After the technical preparation of a standardized questionnaire (2014/2015) it was sent to 129 experts from science, industry and public authorities in Germany. After a few weeks of consideration time, 40 persons (30 %) had decided to participate actively in this inquiry. • Following the results of the first interrogation campaign, the second survey campaign started at the end of 2015. The same list of questions was used, complemented with the results of the first inquiry campaign. The intention is reduce the variance of the

  18. Sequential modelling of ICRF wave near RF fields and asymptotic RF sheaths description for AUG ICRF antennas

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    Full Text Available A sequence of simulations is performed with RAPLICASOL and SSWICH to compare two AUG ICRF antennas. RAPLICASOL outputs have been used as input to SSWICH-SW for the AUG ICRF antennas. Using parallel electric field maps and the scattering matrix produced by RAPLICASOL, SSWICH-SW, reduced to its asymptotic part, is able to produce a 2D radial/poloidal map of the DC plasma potential accounting for the antenna input settings (total power, power balance, phasing. Two models of antennas are compared: 2-strap antenna vs 3-strap antenna. The 2D DC potential structures are correlated to structures of the parallel electric field map for different phasing and power balance. The overall DC plasma potential on the 3-strap antenna is lower due to better global RF currents compensation. Spatial proximity between regions of high RF electric field and regions where high DC plasma potentials are observed is an important factor for sheath rectification.

  19. Groundwater monitoring program plan and conceptual site model for the Al-Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center in Iraq.

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    Copland, John Robin; Cochran, John Russell

    2013-07-01

    The Radiation Protection Center of the Iraqi Ministry of Environment is developing a groundwater monitoring program (GMP) for the Al-Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center located near Baghdad, Iraq. The Al-Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center was established in about 1960 and is currently being cleaned-up and decommissioned by Iraqs Ministry of Science and Technology. This Groundwater Monitoring Program Plan (GMPP) and Conceptual Site Model (CSM) support the Radiation Protection Center by providing: A CSM describing the hydrogeologic regime and contaminant issues, recommendations for future groundwater characterization activities, and descriptions of the organizational elements of a groundwater monitoring program. The Conceptual Site Model identifies a number of potential sources of groundwater contamination at Al-Tuwaitha. The model also identifies two water-bearing zones (a shallow groundwater zone and a regional aquifer). The depth to the shallow groundwater zone varies from approximately 7 to 10 meters (m) across the facility. The shallow groundwater zone is composed of a layer of silty sand and fine sand that does not extend laterally across the entire facility. An approximately 4-m thick layer of clay underlies the shallow groundwater zone. The depth to the regional aquifer varies from approximately 14 to 17 m across the facility. The regional aquifer is composed of interfingering layers of silty sand, fine-grained sand, and medium-grained sand. Based on the limited analyses described in this report, there is no severe contamination of the groundwater at Al-Tuwaitha with radioactive constituents. However, significant data gaps exist and this plan recommends the installation of additional groundwater monitoring wells and conducting additional types of radiological and chemical analyses.

  20. The Impact of Planning on the Quality of Educational Programs at Al- Balqa' Applied University

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    Hamdan Salim Alawamleh; Ahmed Bdah; Nidal Alahmad

    2013-01-01

    The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of planning on the quality of educational programs at Al- Balqa' Applied University from the perspective of the faculty members and heads of academic departments and deans and their assistants and their deputies in order to detect whether if there is a significance statistical differences due to the variables (Sex, qualification, years of experience, the functional level), after the statement of the correlation between the variables of the stu...

  1. Translation of the shallot virus X TGB3 gene depends on non-AUG initiation and leaky scanning.

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    Lezzhov, Alexander A; Gushchin, Vladimir A; Lazareva, Ekaterina A; Vishnichenko, Valery K; Morozov, Sergey Y; Solovyev, Andrey G

    2015-10-01

    Triple gene block (TGB), a conserved gene module found in the genomes of many filamentous and rod-shaped plant viruses, encodes three proteins, TGB1, TGB2 and TGB3, required for viral cell-to-cell movement through plasmodesmata and systemic transport via the phloem. The genome of Shallot virus X, the type species of the genus Allexivirus, includes TGB1 and TGB2 genes, but contains no canonical ORF for TGB3 protein. However, a TGB3-like protein-encoding sequence lacking an AUG initiator codon has been found in the shallot virus X (ShVX) genome in a position typical for TGB3 genes. This putative TGB3 gene is conserved in all allexiviruses. Here, we carried out sequence analysis to predict possible non-AUG initiator codons in the ShVX TGB3-encoding sequence. We further used an agroinfiltration assay in Nicotiana benthamiana to confirm this prediction. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to demonstrate that the ShVX TGB3 could be translated on a bicistronic mRNA template via a leaky scanning mechanism.

  2. Biodiesel Test Plan

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    2014-07-01

    Biodiesel Test Plan Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release; distribution is unlimited. July 2014 Report No. CG-D-07-14...Appendix C) Biodiesel Test Plan ii UNCLAS//Public | CG-926 R&DC | G. W. Johnson, et al. Public | July 2014 N O T I C E This...Development Center 1 Chelsea Street New London, CT 06320 Biodiesel Test Plan iii UNCLAS//Public | CG-926 R&DC | G. W. Johnson, et al

  3. Planning als leerproces : een grondslagenonderzoek (samenvattend overzicht)

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    Kleefmann, F.

    1985-01-01

    "Planning as a learning process: a study of fundamentals" is the overall title of three publications by the author, which are a response to the demand for clarification of the principles underlying the task and function of planning within contempary social organization. The publications

  4. LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT AND LAND USE IN QATAR: AN INTEGRATED PLANNING STRATEGY FOR AL-QASSAR’S TOD

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    Raffaello Furlan

    2016-11-01

    Full Text Available The State of Qatar is presently facing the development of major transport infrastructure, to be finalized (A by 2022 for the planned FIFA World Cup and (B by 2030, as envisioned by the comprehensive national development planning strategy, also named Qatar National Vision (QNV-2030. The under-development metro system foresees the construction of four main lines. In addition, Doha, the capital city of the State of Qatar, is experiencing the progress of (1 prestigious mega projects and (2 several transit villages around the major metro stations. These projects are the manifestation of the deliberate attempt of Qatar to establish Doha as the service, economic and cultural hub of Middle East. Currently, traffic is considered a major concern: ‘Park-and-Ride’ facilities along train stations may reduce the general amount of vehicles on the road network and provide a ‘stress-free’ passenger experience when transitioning to and from the new Doha Metro System. Therefore, one of major challenges for urban planners is guaranteeing that all metro-stations and facilities (A are fully integrated within the urban context of their surroundings and (B provide multi modal transportation facilities. This urban planning strategy aims at reducing traffic through the design of compacted, mixed used transit villages, or Transit Oriented Developments (TODs. This paper explores the case of the neighborhood of Al-Qassar metro station. The exploration starts with the review of the relevant literature and the analysis of the site. Finally, the resultant planning-strategy for an integrated conceptual development of AL-Qassar-TOD envisions the development of a compact transit village, which contributes to reduce the traffic, to enhance pedestrian connectivity and to shape a liveable community.

  5. Public affairs plan

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    1994-09-01

    The purpose of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project Public Affairs Plan is to establish goals for the Fiscal Year 1995 UMTRA public affairs program and identify specific activities to be conducted during the year. It also describes the roles of various agencies involved in the conduct of the public affairs program and defines the functions of the Technical Assistance Contractor (TAC) Public Affairs Department. It integrates and replaces the Public Participation Plan (DOE/AL/62350-47D) and Public Information Plan (DOE/AL/623590-71). The plan describes the US Department of Energy`s (DOE) plans to keep stakeholders and other members of the public informed about project policies, plans, and activities, and provide opportunities for stakeholders and interested segments of the public to participate in project decision-making processes. The plan applies to the UMTRA Project Office; the DOE Albuquerque Operations Office, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (OIEA); the UMTRA TAC; the UMTRA Remedial Action Contractor (RAC); and other cooperating agencies.

  6. Public affairs plan

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    1994-09-01

    The purpose of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project Public Affairs Plan is to establish goals for the Fiscal Year 1995 UMTRA public affairs program and identify specific activities to be conducted during the year. It also describes the roles of various agencies involved in the conduct of the public affairs program and defines the functions of the Technical Assistance Contractor (TAC) Public Affairs Department. It integrates and replaces the Public Participation Plan (DOE/AL/62350-47D) and Public Information Plan (DOE/AL/623590-71). The plan describes the US Department of Energy's (DOE) plans to keep stakeholders and other members of the public informed about project policies, plans, and activities, and provide opportunities for stakeholders and interested segments of the public to participate in project decision-making processes. The plan applies to the UMTRA Project Office; the DOE Albuquerque Operations Office, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (OIEA); the UMTRA TAC; the UMTRA Remedial Action Contractor (RAC); and other cooperating agencies

  7. Department of Defense Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, & Modernization Program Plan

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    2009-05-15

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  8. Rotational Excitation of Aluminium Monofluoride (AlF) by He Atom at Low Temperature

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    Owono Owono, L.C.; Gotoum, N.; Nkem, C.; Hammami, K.; Jaidane, N.

    2010-05-01

    We report on the calculation of collision induced rotational excitation cross sections and rate coefficients of AlF by He atom at low temperature. These quantities were obtained by first computing the interaction potential energy surface (PES) of the AlF(X 1 Σ + )-He( 1 S) van der Waals complex at the ab initio Coupled Cluster with Single and Double and perturbative Triple excitations [CCSD(T)] level of theory. The aug-cc-pVQZ guassian basis, to which was added a set of bond functions, was used for that purpose. The calculations account for basis set superposition errors (BSSE). The interaction potential presents a minimum of ∼24 cm -1 below the AlF-He dissociation limit. The PES was fitted on a basis of Legendre polynomial functions to allow for the calculation of cross sections in the close-coupling (CC) approach. By averaging these cross sections over a Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution, rate coefficients were inferred at low temperatures (T ≤ 300 K). From our computations, a propensity towards ΔJ = 1 transitions is observed. (author)

  9. Interdiffusion between U-Mo alloys and Al or Al alloys at 340 deg. C. Irradiation plan

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    Fortis, A.M.; Mirandou, M.; Ortiz, M.; Balart, S.; Denis, A.; Moglioni, A.; Cabot, P.

    2005-01-01

    Out of reactor interdiffusion experiments between U-Mo alloys and Al alloys made close to fuel operation temperature are needed to validate the results obtained above 500 deg. C. A study of interdiffusion between U-Mo and Al or Al alloys, out and in reactor, has been initiated. The objective is to characterize the interdiffusion layer around 250 deg. C and study the influence of neutron irradiation. Irradiation experiments will be performed in the Argentine RA3 reactor and chemical diffusion couples will be fabricated by Friction Stir Welding (FSW) technique. In this work out-of-pile diffusion experiments performed at 340 deg. C are presented. Friction Stir Welding (FSW) was used to fabricate some of the samples. One of the results is the presence of Si, in the interaction layer, coming from the Al alloy. This is promising in the sense that the absence of Al rich phases may also be expected at low temperature. (author)

  10. Análisis del clima laboral y adaptación al cambio organizacional del personal adscrito al Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes de la Policía Metropolitana de Santiago de Cali

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    Torres León, Javier Alexander

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    Tesis (Maestría en Gerencia del Talento Humano). Universidad de Manizales. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, 2014 Este proyecto, se enmarco en la implementación del modelo de gestión humana, en la Policía Nacional y tiene como finalidad correlacionar las características entre el clima laboral y la adaptación al cambio, del personal adscrito al Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrante de la Policía Metropolitana de Santiago de Cali (MECAL). El proyecto se realizó dent...

  11. Development of Au-Ge based candidate alloys as an alternative to high-lead content solders

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    Chidambaram, Vivek; Hald, John; Hattel, Jesper Henri

    2010-01-01

    Au-Ge based candidate alloys have been proposed as an alternative to high-lead content solders that are currently being used for high-temperature applications. The changes in microstructure and microhardness associated with the addition of low melting point metals namely In, Sb and Sn to the Au......-Ge-In and Au-Ge-Sn combinations was determined to be the classic solid solution strengthening. The Au-Ge-Sb combination was primarily strengthened by the refined (Ge) dispersed phase. The aging temperature had a significant influence on the microhardness in the case of the Au-Ge-Sn candidate alloy...

  12. "Tan lejos, tan cerca..." Auge y decadencia en la frontera carbonífera. El caso de Curanilahue y Lebu, 1880-1930.

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    Felipe Delgado Valdivia

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available El siguiente trabajo versa sobre el dispar desarrollo que registraron dos importantes campamentos mineros de la zona del Golfo de Arauco durante un período en el cual la industria del carbón experimenta un gran auge gatillado por el crecimiento del mercado interno en nuestro país, el trazado de nuevas rutas de transporte a nivel internacional y, hacia fines de este período, el estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Bajo estas condiciones, mientras Curanilahue nace como un centro minero de primer orden a nivel nacional con un fuerte impacto económico en la zona producto de la construcción de ferrocarril que une a esta ciudad con Concepción, Lebu, uno de los primeros y más tradicionales asentamientos carboníferos del país, se ve fuertemente afectado por el período de recesión económica de la década de 1870, el cual no logra superaren los años posteriores, exhibiendo evidentes signos de declinación y decadencia que relegan a este puerto a un lugar muy secundario respecto al resto de los centros mineros esparcidos por la cuenca carbonífera de Arauco.

  13. Del desarrollismo al (neoextractivismo (1969-2017. Auge, decadencia y resurgimiento de la minería del hierro en Sierra Grande, provincia de Río Negro (Argentina

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    Sebastián Gómez Lende

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available Aunque en la Argentina la problemática del avance del extractivismo y la minería metalífera ha sido ampliamente debatida en tiempos recientes, en el pasado esta última actividad ha sido clave respecto de la configuración de la matriz productiva de ciertas provincias. Tal es el caso del complejo minero-fabril de Sierra Grande (provincia de Río Negro, única explotación metalífera surgida en el país por iniciativa del Estado nacional. Este trabajo analiza el auge, decadencia y resurgimiento de la minería del hierro en Sierra Grande, a la luz del contexto impuesto por proyecto desarrollista estatal primero (1969-1992, la fase neoliberal después (1993-2004, y finalmente el modelo (neoextractivista (2005-2017. Asimismo, se demuestra que este último período ha sido escenario del despliegue de variadas formas de acumulación por desposesión, como la privatización y extranjerización de bienes comunes, la configuración de enclaves exportadores, la superexplotación del trabajo, la expropiación político-económica y la desapropiación socio-ecológica.

  14. Medición de la cristalización electoral de un movimiento de protesta: de la indignación al voto

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    Lobera, Josep; Rogero-García, Jesús

    2017-01-01

    Nuestro trabajo trata de aportar nuevas aproximaciones metodológicas y conceptuales al análisis del impacto electoral de movimientos sociales y de protesta. Dos campos de estudio, el de los movimientos sociales y el de nuevos partidos políticos, parecen haber dejado un hueco analítico escasamente tratado entre los dos: la conexión entre el auge de movimientos sociales y la posterior aparición de nuevos partidos políticos. Concretamente, nos interesa indagar ...

  15. Gulf War Air Power Survey. Volume 1. Planning and Command and Control

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    1993-01-01

    country into the war." [DELETED]." [DELETED]. 74(S) Bac4fouud paper (S), MaJ Runs Thompson, Capt Tom Clemmons , Capt Philip Sawer, Lt Ed Men. How to Kill...Strike Planning, Cdr Donald W. McSwaln and Cd" Maurice Smith, Dec 1990, Task Force 4 Files, OWAPS. "Rpt, "Trip Report," CWpt S. U. Ramsdell, USN, 14...officer assigned to the Black Hole, Cdr Maurice Smith. were rad into pet of Instan Thunder on 23 Aug-they received the rest of the briefing later. (B

  16. Processed CTD and Water Sample Data from Research Vessel Ocean Starr in the NE Pacific, Aug. 31 and Sept. 01, 2012 (NCEI Accession 0156932)

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    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — The expedition by research vessel Ocean Starr on Aug. 31 and Sept. 01, 2012 had the objective to recover and re-deploy a number of moored platforms from the CORC...

  17. Un plan de acción para incrementar la incorporación de las embarazadas al programa de psicoprofilaxis con actividad física

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    Rafaela Montero Lafargue

    2017-11-01

    Full Text Available El artículo contiene un plan de acción para incrementar la incorporación de las embarazadas al programa de psicoprofilaxis con actividad física. Para darle solución al objetivo propuesto se utilizaron métodos de nivel teórico, empírico y estadístico, logrando el trabajo conjunto del equipo multidisciplinario de salud en la atención a embarazadas, permitiendo incrementar su articipación en la actividad física del programa de psicoprofilaxis.

  18. The Characteristics of Marine Environment around the Ieodo in Aug. 2016

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    Choi, E.; KIM, S. H.; KIM, E.; KIM, B. N.; CHOI, B. K.

    2017-12-01

    The sea area around Ieodo is analyzed from the CTD data and the S-ADCP data observed in 23 Aug. 2016. Ieodo, an underwater reef, is located 149 km southwest of Marado in Republic of Korea. It has 4 peaks and is about 4.6 meter below sea level. It stretches about 600m north to south and 750m east to west from its top. It has the same geographical characteristics as the seamount. In the sea area around Ieodo, the northward flow appeared during the ebb tide, the southward flow appeared during the flood tide. The strong stratification formed in summer seems to change the depth depending on the sea water current. The thermocline depth becomes deeper at the north of the Ieodo when the northward current flows and the upwelling flow occurs. And the thermocline depth becomes shallower at the south when the southward current flows and the downwelling flow occurs. In this way, the upwelling and downwelling seems to be according to the tide's direction. Acknowledgements This research was a part of the projects entitled "Construction of Ocean Research Stations and their application Studies, Phase 2", funded by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea.

  19. PLAN DE GESTIÓN DE LA CALIDAD DEL SERVICIO EN ATENCIÓN AL CLIENTE PARA LA ESPAM MFL

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    Wladimir Alexander Palacios Zurita

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available En los últimos años ha ganado espacio en la gestión institucional, el concepto operativo de la calidad de servicio en cuanto a brindar una atención óptima al usuario, de un determinado producto o servicio. La literatura revisada indica que son pocos los avances logrados en esta materia y, específicamente, en el sector universitario. En este trabajo se realiza un análisis situacional a la gestión del servicio de las siete carreras que conforman la Politécnica de Manabí, a través de una matriz de diagnóstico que detecta la presencia de requisitos básicos preestablecidos, en la normativa técnica nacional e internacional. Mediante la investigación bibliográfica de las dimensiones existentes de la calidad de servicio en la educación superior, se determinaron y acondicionaron los parámetros (dimensiones idóneos de calidad del servicio al cliente, para esta institución y se evaluaron, por la aplicación de encuestas, en muestras poblacionales de estudiantes, sociedad, personal docente y administrativo traducidos en tablas de frecuencia relativa e histogramas. Finalmente, se combinaron los resultados alcanzados con los criterios de evaluación con fines de acreditación planteados por el CEAACES, coincidentes con el enfoque de la temática en estudio para dar cumplimiento al objetivo general de la investigación, de diseñar un plan de gestión de la calidad en el servicio para la atención al cliente en la ESPAM MFL, que aporte no solo a la gestión institucional, sino al proceso de acreditación en el que esta se encuentra inmersa.

  20. Experimental Study of the Effect of Si/Al Composition on the Aluminum Distribution in (Al)MCM-41

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    Dědeček, Jiří; Žilková, Naděžda; Čejka, Jiří

    44-45, 1/3 (2001), s. 259-266 ISSN 1387-1811 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA4040001; GA AV ČR IBS4040017 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4040901 Keywords : (Al)MCM-41 * Al distribution * VIS spectroscopy Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 2.497, year: 2001

  1. mRNA secondary structure at start AUG codon is a key limiting factor for human protein expression in Escherichia coli

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    Zhang Weici; Xiao Weihua; Wei Haiming; Zhang Jian; Tian Zhigang

    2006-01-01

    Codon usage and thermodynamic optimization of the 5'-end of mRNA have been applied to improve the efficiency of human protein production in Escherichia coli. However, high level expression of human protein in E. coli is still a challenge that virtually depends upon each individual target genes. Using human interleukin 10 (huIL-10) and interferon α (huIFN-α) coding sequences, we systematically analyzed the influence of several major factors on expression of human protein in E. coli. The results from huIL-10 and reinforced by huIFN-α showed that exposing AUG initiator codon from base-paired structure within mRNA itself significantly improved the translation of target protein, which resulted in a 10-fold higher protein expression than the wild-type genes. It was also noted that translation process was not affected by the retained short-range stem-loop structure at Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequences. On the other hand, codon-optimized constructs of huIL-10 showed unimproved levels of protein expression, on the contrary, led to a remarkable RNA degradation. Our study demonstrates that exposure of AUG initiator codon from long-range intra-strand secondary structure at 5'-end of mRNA may be used as a general strategy for human protein production in E. coli

  2. Sample-Based Motion Planning in High-Dimensional and Differentially-Constrained Systems

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    2010-02-01

    path planning and motion primitives to enable crawling gaits on rough terrain e.g. [Rebula et al., 2007, Kolter et al., 2008,Pongas et al., 2007,Ratliff...demonstrating robust planning and locomotion over quite challenging terrain (e.g., [Rebula et al., 2007, Kolter et al., 2008, Pongas et al., 2007, Zucker, 2009...and Systems. [ Kolter et al., 2008] Kolter , J. Z., Rodgers, M. P., and Ng, A. Y. (2008). A control architecture for quadruped locomotion over rough

  3. Characterization of microstructure and properties of Al–Al3Zr–Al2O3 ...

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    2016-08-26

    Aug 26, 2016 ... Bulletin of Materials Science. Current Issue : Vol. 39, Issue 6. Current Issue Volume 39 | Issue 6. October 2016. Home · Volumes & Issues · Special Issues · Forthcoming Articles · Search · Editorial Board · Information for Authors · Subscription ...

  4. Tadris Al Mufradat Li Tathbiq Maharah Al Kalam Fi Madrasah Al Muallimin Al Islamiyyah Li Mahad Bait Al Arqam Balong Jember

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    Muhammad Ardy Zaini

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available There are four  skills in teaching Arabic. Ie listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Among these four, speaking considered one of the most important objectives of learning foreign language. In order to speak properly, one must know the vocabulary and apply it in a sentence. The aims of this research is to describe the teaching of vocabulary to apply the speaking skill in the school of Islamic teachers in the Institute of Bait al Arqom Balong Jember. This study used qualitative approach. The data collection was taken trough observation, personal interview, history and documentation. The teaching of vocabulary to apply the speaking skill at the Islamic Teachers' School at the Institute of Bait Al Arqam Balong Jember has gone well in terms of planning (general objectives and specific objectives, implementation (materials, use of the teaching method and teaching aids, and evaluation (assessment and evaluation. This teaching is to apply the speaking skill in terms of conversation or dialogue and lecture.

  5. Disminución del rendimiento académico con el Plan Bolonia respecto al plan anterior en España

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    María Isabel LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ

    2016-05-01

    Full Text Available La incorporación del Sistema Europeo de Transferencia de Créditos (ECTS verá sus frutos en breve con la salida al mercado laboral de los primeros egresados. En este estudio se realiza una primera valoración de los resultados obtenidos, analizando si el plan de estudios (grado o licenciatura y el uso de las nuevas metodologías docentes han marcado diferencias significativas en el rendimiento académico. Los resultados indican que éste es mayor en los licenciados y para los alumnos que se han beneficiado de una nueva herramienta pedagógica. Se han considerado los datos de dos promociones de doble licenciatura y doble grado. Descartadas, como causas, inputs potencialmente importantes como nivel preuniversitario y opción de bachillerato se plantea, como causa de la disminución del rendimiento, la implantación de los grados con una inversión prácticamente nula, lo que habría supuesto que el alumnado carezca de la disminución de presencialidad requerida para la correcta autogestión académica

  6. Plan de negocios de una empresa productora y comercializadora de aceite de aguacate gourmet ubicada en Salento - Quindío

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    Bernal Tabares, Leidy Johana; Peña Ospina, Dina Nayibe; Villegas Ramírez, Natalia Alejandra

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    En la actualidad predominan las tendencias hacia el consumo de productos naturales que tengan beneficios para la salud, además los productos Light han tenido un gran auge durante los últimos años, es por esto que la necesidad de los consumidores se enfoca en este tipo de productos dentro de los cuales el nuestro respondería principalmente, en el ámbito regional, al segmento de las personas que padezcan enfermedades cardiovasculares, que tengan los niveles de colesterol y triglicéridos muy alt...

  7. Ansambel Smilers esineb täna Kadrinas. Sex Pistolsi kontsert Tallinnas jääb ära

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    Ansambli Smilers kontserdist ETV Live raames 29. juulil Kadrinas. Briti punkansambli Sex Pistols kontsert 22. aug. Tallinnas Rocca al Mare suurhallis jääb ära, piletid kehtivad 20. aug. Riias toimuval kontserdil või ostetakse tagasi kuni 21. septembrini

  8. Comentarios al Salto Social

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    Full Text Available 1. El Plan considera que la política social es un componente central de la estrategia macroeconómica. A diferencia de la administración Gaviria, lo social ha dejado de ser un asunto marginal, es consustancial al desarrollo y, por tanto, se le confiere una dimensión cualitativamente diferente.

  9. PERENCANAAN PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM PADA KULLIYATUL MU’ALLIMIEN AL-ISLAMIYAH

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    Nur Widia Wardani

    2016-05-01

    Full Text Available Curriculum Development Planning Kulliyatul Mu'allimien Al-Islamiyah. The purpose of this study are: (1 identify curriculum development planning; (2 identify curriculum development process; (3 determine the factors supporting and curriculum development planning; and (4 determine the strategy to overcome the inhibiting factors  curriculum development planning. This study used a qualitative approach to describe the planning of curriculum development at Kulliyatul Mu'allimien Al-Islamiyah. The design of the study is a multi-site study means combining multiple sites, subject, background, and the scene is different. The key instrument is the researchers themselves, with the source of the research that led cottage, a team of curriculum developers, teachers, and students. Data obtained through observation, interviews, and documentation. The validity of the data that has been analyzed using the criteria of the credibility of the data with the triangulation of data sources. The results of the research, that the planning of curriculum development at KMI is aimed at character building through micro teaching, improvement of skills of students and teacher competence that leads to the career development of teachers. Perencanaan Pengembangan Kurikulum Kulliyatul Mu’allimien Al-Islamiyah. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah: (1 mengidentifikasi perencanaan pengembangan kurikulum;(2 mengidentifikasi proses pengembangan kurikulum ; (3 mengetahui faktor pendukung dan penghambat perencanaan pengembangan kurikulum; dan (4 mengetahui strategi mengatasi faktor penghambat perencanaan pengembangan kurikulum. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif untuk mendeskripsikan tentang perencanaan pengembangan kurikulum pada Kulliyatul Mu’allimien Al-Islamiyah. Rancangan penelitian yang digunakan adalah studi multi situs yang berarti menggabungkan beberapa situs, subyek, latar, dan tempat kejadian yang berlainan. Instrumen kunci adalah adalah peneliti sendiri, dengan

  10. A single sequence context cannot satisfy all non-AUG initiator codons in yeast†

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    Wang Tzu-Ling

    2010-07-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background Previous studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed that ALA1 (encoding alanyl-tRNA synthetase and GRS1 (encoding glycyl-tRNA synthetase respectively use ACG and TTG as their alternative translation initiator codons. To explore if any other non-ATG triplets can act as initiator codons in yeast, ALA1 was used as a reporter for screening. Results We show herein that except for AAG and AGG, all triplets that differ from ATG by a single nucleotide were able to serve as initiator codons in ALA1. Among these initiator codons, TTG, CTG, ACG, and ATT had ~50% initiating activities relative to that of ATG, while GTG, ATA, and ATC had ~20% initiating activities relative to that of ATG. Unexpectedly, these non-AUG initiator codons exhibited different preferences toward various sequence contexts. In particular, GTG was one of the most efficient non-ATG initiator codons, while ATA was essentially inactive in the context of GRS1. Conclusion This finding indicates that a sequence context that is favorable for a given non-ATG initiator codon might not be as favorable for another.

  11. Advanced ECCD based NTM control in closed-loop operation at ASDEX Upgrade (AUG)

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    Reich, Matthias; Barrera-Orte, Laura; Behler, Karl; Bock, Alexander; Giannone, Louis; Maraschek, Marc; Poli, Emanuele; Rapson, Chris; Stober, Jörg; Treutterer, Wolfgang

    2012-10-01

    In high performance plasmas, Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs) are regularly observed at reactor-grade beta-values. They limit the achievable normalized beta, which is undesirable because fusion performance scales as beta squared. The method of choice for controlling and avoiding NTMs at AUG is the deposition of ECCD inside the magnetic island for stabilization in real-time (rt). Our approach to tackling such complex control problems using real-time diagnostics allows rigorous optimization of all subsystems. Recent progress in rt-equilibrium reconstruction (< 3.5 ms), rt-localization of NTMs (< 8 ms) and rt beam tracing (< 25 ms) allows closed-loop feedback operation using multiple movable mirrors as the ECCD deposition actuator. The rt-equilibrium uses function parametrization or a fast Grad-Shafranov solver with an option to include rt-MSE measurements. The island localization is based on a correlation of ECE and filtered Mirnov signals. The rt beam-tracing module provides deposition locations and their derivative versus actuator position of multiple gyrotrons. The ``MHD controller'' finally drives the actuators. Results utilizing closed-loop operation with multiple gyrotrons and their effect on NTMs are shown.

  12. Litvinenko mõrva uurib Interpol / Tuuli Aug, Ravil Khair Al-Din

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    2006-01-01

    Seoses Aleksandr Litvinenko mürgitamisega Londonis kuulati Venemaal üle ärimees Andrei Lugovoi. Saksa uurijad on veendunud, et polooniumi tõi Moskvast Saksamaale Dmitri Kovtun. Vene uurijad kavatsevad mõningatel andmetel Suurbritannias üle kuulata Boriss Berezovski ja Ahmed Zakajevi. Lisa: Polooniumijälg kui buldooserivagu

  13. Decision-making for tracheostomy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): a retrospective study.

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    Ceriana, Piero; Surbone, Sara; Segagni, Daniele; Schreiber, Annia; Carlucci, Annalisa

    2017-11-01

    ALS patients should discuss the issue of tracheostomy before the onset of terminal respiratory failure. While the process of shared decision-making is desirable, there are few data on the practical application of this real-life situation. To determine how a decision-making process is actually carried out, we analysed the episodes of acute respiratory failure preceding tracheostomy. We studied the charts of a group of ALS patients after tracheostomy. An interview focusing on the existence of anticipated directives was carried out. Tracheostomies were classified as planned or unplanned according to the presence of a decision plan. A total of 209 ALS patients were cared for during a three-year period. Of these patients, 34 (16%) were tracheotomised. In 38% of cases, tracheostomy was planned, 41% were unplanned, and 21% remained undiagnosed. A minority of ALS patients make a voluntary decision for tracheostomy before the procedure is conducted. The advising process of care still presents limits that have been thus far poorly addressed. In the future, we will need to develop guidelines for the timing and content of the shared-decision making process.

  14. Identification systems subject to plan cybersecurity; Identificacion de sistemas sujetos al plan de Ciberseguridad

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    Guerrero Sanz, J.; Perez Alcaniz, T.; Garcia Garcia, I.

    2012-07-01

    The implementation of a Plan Cybersecurity ensures that systems and communications networks that perform functions related to both physical security such emergency action and their support systems, and interfaces that may affect them, are protected with an effective system against cyber attacks.

  15. Alopecia frontal fibrosante: una enfermedad en auge

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    Quintana-Sancho, A. de; Piris-García, X.; Valle-García, N.; Hierro-Cámara, M.

    2016-01-01

    La alopecia frontal fibrosante (AFF) es un tipo de alopecia cicatricial cuya incidencia está aumentando de forma significativa en nuestro país. Se caracteriza por un retroceso en la línea de implantación del pelo a nivel frontotemporal que afecta mayoritariamente a mujeres postmenopaúsicas, con un impacto negativo en su calidad de vida. Se asocia a menopausia precoz en un 14% de los casos y a hipotiroidismo en un 15%. Con respecto al tratamiento, son los inhibidores de la 5alfa-reductasa, los...

  16. Origen, evolución y auge del periodismo literario latinoamericano: desde las crónicas de indias y el modernismo hasta las revistas especializadas

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    Jeovanny Moisés Benavides

    2015-03-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo se propone señalar la forma en que surge el periodismo literario en América Latina. Hay escasos estudios en la región y ante el desafío de tener una orfandad teórica planteamos en este artículo un acercamiento a la génesis de esta tendencia, a su evolución y brindamos, además, una perspectiva sobre su desarrollo y manifestación en las revistas especializadas. Analizamos los principales antecedentes del periodismo literario y, para ello, nos remontamos a las crónicas de indias, avanzamos hacia el modernismo y refutamos la forma en que algunos estudiosos han situado el origen de esta tendencia en la corriente estadounidense denominada “Nuevo Periodismo”. Ya en el modernismo, a fines del siglo xix, las crónicas de José Martí, Rubén Darío o de Gutiérrez Nájera eran el preludio de un movimiento al que varios investigadores han llamado el nuevo boom de las letras hispánicas. En este trabajo indagamos, además, en el auge que el periodismo literario ha tenido en América Latina desde fines de la década de 1990 a partir del surgimiento de revistas especializadas como Gatopardo (México, SoHo (Colombia, Etiqueta Negra (Perú, Piauí (Brasil y Anfibia (Argentina.

  17. Preparation and characterization of water-absorbing composite ...

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    Aug 16, 2012 ... 2007; Doorkosh et al., 2000), and natural polymers (Yu et al., 2009; Doorkosh et al., ... Zhang et al., 2007; Lee and Chen, 2005; Neaman et al.,. 2004; Lin et al., 2001). ..... Li A, Zhang JP, Wang AQ (2007). Utilization of starch ...

  18. Public affairs plan

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    1995-09-01

    The purpose of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project Public Affairs Plan is to establish goals for the fiscal year (FY) 1996 UMTRA Project public affairs program and to identify specific activities to be conducted during the year. It describes the roles of various agencies involved in the public affairs program and defines the functions of the UMTRA Project Technical Assistance Contractor (TAC) Public Affairs Department. It replaces the FY 1995 Public Affairs Plan (DOE/AL/62350-154). The plan also describes the US Department of Energy's (DOE) plans to keep stakeholders and other members of the public informed about UMTRA Project policies, plans, and activities, and provide opportunities for stakeholders and interested segments of the public to participate in UMTRA Project decision-making processes. The plan applies to the UMTRA Project Team; the DOE Grand Junction Projects Office (GJPO); the DOE Albuquerque Operations Office, Office of Public Affairs (OPA); the TAC; the UMTRA Project Remedial Action Contractor (RAC); and other cooperating agencies

  19. Twitter como herramienta de atención al cliente. El caso de Mercadona

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    Susana MIQUEL-SEGARRA

    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available En la sociedad actual en la que las redes sociales permiten que las organizaciones establezcan diálogos e interactúen con sus públicos, la red de microblogging Twitter se presenta como una opción interesante para las marcas. Si bien numerosos estudios confirman que las empresas no aprovechan el potencial dialógico que ofrecen las redes sociales, la utilización de las mismas como herramienta de servicio de atención al cliente se convierte en una práctica en auge .La agilidad e inmediatez de Twitter facilita la rapidez en el tiempo de respuesta y genera directamente satisfacción y confianza en los usuarios. El objetivo de este estudio se basa en analizar el perfil de Twitter de Mercadona para comprobar en qué medida aprovecha este canal como herramienta de atención al cliente. Para ello, en primer lugar se recurre a la metodología cuantitativa y posteriormente se realiza un análisis de contenido de 936 tuits (publicados entre el 21 y 30 de noviembre de 2016.Los principales resultados ponen de manifiesto que la Atención al Cliente es uno de los principales usos que Mercadona trata de ofrecer a través de su cuenta de Twitter, sin embargo solo resuelve o da solución directa a un 25% de las cuestiones.

  20. Plan para control de Malaria en Colombia

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    1943-02-01

    Full Text Available Con motivo de la colaboración de la Oficina de Relaciones Interamericanas en la solución de algunos problemas de Higiene pública en Colombia, el Secretario del Ministerio de Trabajo, Higiene y Previsión Social, doctor Alfonso Orozco, me pidió la elaboración de un breve plan para control de Paludismo en Colombia. El Plan fué presentado al Ministerio por una parte y por otra enviado al doctor Mark F. Boyd de la International Health Division de la Fundación Rockefeller.

  1. El plan estratégico de marketing

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    2007-01-01

    El Tema analizado en esta Monografía, es aplicado para desarrollar El Plan Estratégico de Marketing como una herramienta clave para alcanzar las metas de todo tipo de empresa o negocio, esta reflexión es ampliada en el capitulo 2, como una introducción previa al conocimiento del tema propuesto. Los principales objetivos que se plantearon al iniciar el desarrollo del tema fueron primeramente conceptualizar este Plan y los elementos que lo constituyen, las premisas para su determinación y el en...

  2. Conexiones naturales de la gran ciudad con las áreas periurbanas de Naturaleza. Aplicación al caso de Madrid

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    Alicia Bedmar Perlado

    2015-09-01

    Full Text Available La movilidad peatonal se está convirtiendo cada vez más en un en objeto de atención para la sociedad. Después de un largo periodo de abandono debido al auge del transporte privado y al deterioro consecuente del espacio público, se mira al peatón como un agente regenerador de la ciudad, capaz de promover la integración social. Este hecho y la necesidad de acercar la Naturaleza a las ciudades motivan la búsqueda de soluciones para conseguir este fin.Se probará una metodología basada en estudios recientes sobre movilidad peatonal, para posibilitar la llegada de los ciudadanos a las áreas de Naturaleza cercanas. Para probar y refinar la metodología se aplica a un estudio de caso, la ciudad de Madrid. El análisis de las posibles salidas de la ciudad, contrastará las conclusiones sobre la marcha a pie dentro de la ciudad. Como conclusión del estudio de caso se analizará la accesibilidad desde los distritos de Madrid a los puntos de Naturaleza cercanos.

  3. Alén Diviš. Proklaté ticho

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    Lahoda, Vojtěch

    -, březen (2005), s. 40-45 ISSN 1213-8398 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : Czech painting * expressionism * existencialism Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  4. Johann Barvitius als Mäzen im rudolfinischen Prag

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    Šroněk, Michal

    -, č. 8 (2008), s. 49-57 ISSN 1213-5372 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : Rudolfine art * Hans von Aachen * Johann Barvitius Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  5. Automation of radiation treatment planning. Evaluation of head and neck cancer patient plans created by the Pinnacle{sup 3} scripting and Auto-Planning functions

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    Speer, Stefan; Weiss, Alexander; Bert, Christoph [Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Erlangen (Germany); Klein, Andreas [EKS Engineering GmbH, Fuerth (Germany); Kober, Lukas [Strahlentherapie Tauber-Franken, Bad Mergentheim (Germany); Yohannes, Indra [Rinecker Proton Therapy Center, Munich (Germany)

    2017-08-15

    Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) techniques are now standard practice. IMRT or volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) allow treatment of the tumor while simultaneously sparing organs at risk. Nevertheless, treatment plan quality still depends on the physicist's individual skills, experiences, and personal preferences. It would therefore be advantageous to automate the planning process. This possibility is offered by the Pinnacle{sup 3} treatment planning system (Philips Healthcare, Hamburg, Germany) via its scripting language or Auto-Planning (AP) module. AP module results were compared to in-house scripts and manually optimized treatment plans for standard head and neck cancer plans. Multiple treatment parameters were scored to judge plan quality (100 points = optimum plan). Patients were initially planned manually by different physicists and re-planned using scripts or AP. Script-based head and neck plans achieved a mean of 67.0 points and were, on average, superior to manually created (59.1 points) and AP plans (62.3 points). Moreover, they are characterized by reproducibility and lower standard deviation of treatment parameters. Even less experienced staff are able to create at least a good starting point for further optimization in a short time. However, for particular plans, experienced planners perform even better than scripts or AP. Experienced-user input is needed when setting up scripts or AP templates for the first time. Moreover, some minor drawbacks exist, such as the increase of monitor units (+35.5% for scripted plans). On average, automatically created plans are superior to manually created treatment plans. For particular plans, experienced physicists were able to perform better than scripts or AP; thus, the benefit is greatest when time is short or staff inexperienced. (orig.) [German] Intensitaetsmodulierte Strahlentherapie (IMRT) hat sich als Standard durchgesetzt. Mit IMRT oder volumenmodulierter Arc-Therapie (VMAT) lassen sich

  6. Optimization of cultural conditions for production of chitinase by ...

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    2008-08-04

    Aug 4, 2008 ... Sticklen, 1994; Ancillo et al., 1999; Takakura et al., 2000;. Troedsson et al., 2005; ... Chemicals Company, USA) by the method of Mathivanan (1995). The chitin flakes were ground ..... chitin-containing compost. Appl. Environ.

  7. Los Alamos National Laboratory SAVY-4000 Field Surveillance Plan Update for 2016

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    Kelly, Elizabeth J.; Stone, Timothy Amos; Smith, Paul Herrick; Prochnow, David Adrian; Weis, Eric M.

    2016-01-01

    The Packaging Surveillance Program section of the Department of Energy (DOE) Manual 441.1-1, Nuclear Material Packaging Manual (DOE 2008), requires DOE contractors to ''ensure that a surveillance program is established and implemented to ensure the nuclear material storage package continues to meet its design criteria.'' The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) SAVY-4000 Field Surveillance Plan was first issued in FY 2013 (Kelly et al. 2013). The surveillance plan is reviewed annually and updated as necessary based on SAVY-4000 surveillance and other surveillance findings, as well as results of the lifetime extension studies (Blair et al. 2012, Weis et al. 2015a). The LANL SAVY-4000 Field Surveillance Plan Update was issued in 2014 (Kelly et al. 2014). This 2016 update reflects changes to the surveillance plan resulting from restrictions on handling residue materials greater than 500 g, the addition of specific engineering judgment containers, and 2015 surveillance findings. The SAVY-4000 container has a design life of five years, which was chosen as a conservative estimate of the functional properties of the materials used in the construction of the SAVY 4000 when exposed to the potential insults including temperature, corrosive materials and gases, and radiation. The SAVY-4000 container design basis is described in a safety analysis report (Anderson et al. 2013). In the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) approval of the safety analysis report, it was recommended that the design life clock begin on March 2014 (Nez et al. 2014). However, it is expected that a technical basis can be developed to extend the design life of the SAVY-4000 containers to approximately 40 years (Blair et al. 2012, Weis et al. 2015a). This surveillance plan update covers five years (2015-2019) and is developed to ensure SAVY-4000 containers meet their design criteria over the current five-year design life and to gather data that can be used in

  8. ALS insertion devices

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    Hoyer, E.; Chin, J.; Halbach, K.; Hassenzahl, W.V.; Humphries, D.; Kincaid, B.; Lancaster, H.; Plate, D.

    1990-11-01

    The Advanced Light Source (ALS), the first US third generation synchrotron radiation source, is currently under construction at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The low-emittance, 1.5 GeV electron storage ring and the insertion devices are specifically designed to produce high brightness beams in the UV to soft X-Ray range. The planned initial complement of insertion devices includes four 4.6 m long undulators, with period lengths of 3.9 cm, 5.0 cm (2) and 8.0 cm, and a 2.9 m long wiggler of 16 cm period length. Undulator design is well advanced and fabrication has begun on the 5.0 cm and 8.0 cm period length undulators. This paper discusses ALS insertion device requirements; general design philosophy; and design of the magnetic structure, support structure/drive systems, control system and vacuum system. 18 refs., 9 figs., 5 tabs

  9. Plan de cuidados de enfermería al paciente con esquizofrenia

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    Vila Bonet, Laia

    2016-01-01

    Un plan de cuidados de enfermería a un paciente con esquizofrenia ha de estar bien elaborado y trabajado de manera interdisciplinar con otros profesionales, ha de ser individualizado para cada paciente, a su contexto familiar y debe incluir la rehabilitación y la integración del enfermo en la sociedad. Además, el tratamiento de la enfermedad engloba la fármacoterapia, la psicoterapia y las intervenciones familiares. El objetivo del presente trabajo es realizar un plan de cuidados de enfermerí...

  10. The Advanced Light Source (ALS) Radiation Safety System

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    Ritchie, A.L.; Oldfather, D.E.; Lindner, A.F.

    1993-08-01

    The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) is a 1.5 Gev synchrotron light source facility consisting of a 120 kev electron gun, 50 Mev linear accelerator, 1.5 Gev booster synchrotron, 200 meter circumference electron storage ring, and many photon beamline transport systems for research. Figure 1. ALS floor plan. Pairs of neutron and gamma radiation monitors are shown as dots numbered from 1 to 12. The Radiation Safety System for the ALS has been designed and built with a primary goal of providing protection against inadvertent personnel exposure to gamma and neutron radiation and, secondarily, to enhance the electrical safety of select magnet power supplies

  11. 40 CFR 62.8105 - Identification of plan.

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    2010-07-01

    ... Gases, Organic Compounds, Particulates and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Existing Hospital/medical..., 1999. [64 FR 43094, Aug. 9, 1999] Air Emissions From Existing Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste...

  12. on indomethacin-induced gastric ulcer in rats

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    Balogun

    2013-08-07

    Aug 7, 2013 ... gastroprotective activity in animal studies (Malairajan et al., 2007; Rao et al., ... of the stem in water has been demonstrated to exhibit a high anti-parasitic .... kidney and blood cells, it induces single strand breaks. (Traore et al.

  13. AIS ASM Operational Integration Plan

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    2013-08-01

    Rack mount computer AIS Radio Interface Ethernet Switch 192.168.0.x Firewall Cable Modem 192.168.0.1 VTS Accred. Boundary AIS ASM Operational... AIS ASM Operational Integration Plan Distribution Statement A: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. August 2013 Report No...CD-D-07-15 AIS ASM Operational Integration Plan ii UNCLAS//Public | CG-926 R&DC | I. Gonin, et al. | Public August 2013 N O T I C

  14. Correlation induced paramagnetic ground state in FeAl

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    Mohn, P.; Persson, C.; Blaha, P.; Schwarz, K.; Novák, Pavel; Eschrig, H.

    2001-01-01

    Roč. 87, č. 19 (2001), s. 196401-1-196401-4 ISSN 0031-9007 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z1010914 Keywords : FeAl * paramagnetic ground state Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 6.668, year: 2001

  15. Envisioning a Post-Conflict Tripoli: The Inclusive Urban Strategy and Action Plan for Bab Al-Tabbaneh and Jebel Mohsen

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    Fabiano Micocci

    2017-02-01

    Full Text Available The Inclusive Urban Strategy and Action Plan is a study conducted by a multi-disciplinary international team focused on the post-conflict area of Tripoli, the second largest city of Lebanon. The project includes the neighbourhoods of Bab Al-Tabbaneh and Jebel Mohsen and the conflict zone in between where hostilities ended thanks to the implementation of a security plan in 2014. The aim of the proposal is to initiate and foster peace and reconciliation between the conflicting communities, while addressing spatial, social and economic segregations by a holistic and tactical urban approach.The strategy results from a deep study and understanding of the actual fragile conditions in Tripoli, and derives its guidelines from the fractures and the intrinsic resources of the place. It is structured in three main layers (urban armature, functional injections and placemaking and envisions the possibility to establish new relations and synergies inside the hugely fragmented environment.Instead of proposing concrete solutions, the strategy aims at initially generating the necessary conditions to trigger processes of recovery and therefore development, encountering positive outcomes and opportunities as well as possible threats. Adaptability and retrofitting thus became keywords in developing a realistic strategy that can take into consideration the difficulty of programming and making decisions in the context of post-conflict reconstruction.

  16. Preparing for the Great American Eclipse of Aug. 21: for Yourself, and for Holding an Event for the Public and Students.

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    Duncan, D. K.

    2016-12-01

    On Aug. 21, 2017 a Total Eclipse of the Sun will cross the US. For the first time in 40 years every state will have at least 80% of the sun covered by the moon, and lucky people from Oregon to South Carolina will see the beauty of the total eclipse and remember it all their lives. It is as difficult to convey the impression of a total eclilpse as it is to convey what the Grand Canyon is like. Words cannot do it justice. It looks like the end of the world as the flames of solar prominances rise from the edge of the "black hole" of the eclipsed sun, and silver streamers of the sun's corona stretch across the sky. People scream, applaud, or cry. Animals do strange things. At a total eclipse in the Galapagos dozens of whales and dolphins surfaced at the time of the total elcipse, surrounded our boat, and after the eclipse swam away. At a partial eclipse, even a 99% eclipse, those spectacular aspects are not seen, so it is a good idea to make plans to go to where the eclipse is total. This session will use examples from 10 total eclipses the author has viewed and made available to the public, since March 7, 1970, to suggest practical preparations for the evnt. Advice will be given on how and where to see the eclipse yourself, and how to help the public, teachers, and students where you live enjoy the spectacle and raise their interest in science. It is hoped that by the time of the AGU meeting "Kits" of educational materials and safe eclipse-watching glasses will be available to AGU members. This will be discussed. A Public Service Announcement suitable for use on television, the Internet, or in schools should also be available.

  17. New basis set for the prediction of the specific rotation in flexible biological molecules

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    Baranowska-Łaczkowska, Angelika; Z. Łaczkowski, Krzysztof Z. Łaczkowski; Henriksen, Christian

    2016-01-01

    are compared to those obtained with the (d-)aug-cc-pVXZ (X = D, T and Q) basis sets of Dunning et al. The ORP values are in good overall agreement with the aug-cc-pVTZ results making the ORP a good basis set for routine TD-DFT optical rotation calculations of conformationally flexible molecules. The results...

  18. El espíritu científico frente al desafío sensacionalista. Guía para periodistas

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    Dr. Raymond Colle

    2001-01-01

    Full Text Available Frente a un aparente auge de la manipulación sensaciona1ista de la información en algunos medios de comunicación, nos parece justa la actitud de un vasto público que denuncia este hecho y protesta por él. Pero al mismo tiempo, mezclada con esta actitud vá1ida y necesaria, se está desarrollando otra que, al contrario, nos parece más bien perjudicial. La crítica, en efecto, se extiende en algunos casos a la desautorización o ridiculización de los testigos o de los investigadores e informadores de fenómenos poco comunes o aún inexplicados. En este caso, se está incurriendo en un doble error censurado por la ética: falta de respeto a las personas (testigos, investigadores y falta de respeto a la verdad, al no investigar los hechos antes de emitir el juicio. Esta situación hace urgente, a nuestro entender, una puntualización acerca de la actitud que todo analista objetivo y serio debería asumir: la actitud científica. Trataremos de mostrar como ha de aplicarse dicha actitud en el caso especifico de los "Objetos Voladores No Identificados" u "OVNIs", que ocupa cada vez más la atención de los periodistas en la actualidad.

  19. A Strategic Planning Primer: Model, Methods, and Misunderstandings

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    1992-06-01

    ý.omfplc\\ social atctivity thai cannot be sirnpl stnlct tired b.\\ rules, of thumb or quaint itatk e procedures. Tb is papel attempt,, to bring to~gether mnan...Planners. 1988, pp. 172-183. Hlack. Gary. Phvswal Planning and Urban Design. in Cantonese and Snyder. Urban Planning, Second Edition, 1988, pp. 187-220...Washington. D.C., 1984. Sn\\ der. James C.. Fise’al Planning amn Budgeting. in Cantonese and Snder. Urban Planning, 1988, ,,p. 140-158. 34 Index A action

  20. Magnetic, magnetoelastic and other electronic properties of a UIrAl single crystal

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    Andreev, Alexander V.; Mushnikov, N. V.; Honda, F.; Sechovyský, V.; Javorský, P.; Goto, T.

    272-276, - (2004), e337-e339 ISSN 0304-8853 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA106/02/0943 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z1010914 Keywords : uranium intermetallics * UIrAl * UPtAl * ferromagnetism * pressure effects Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.031, year: 2004

  1. Genua als ein Paradigma und eine Parallele zur Wallensteins Architektur

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    Muchka, Ivan

    -, č. 10 (2010), s. 161-166 ISSN 1213-5372 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : Albrecht of Wallenstein * architecture * gardens Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  2. The MRCI studies of low-lying electronic states of Al.sub.3./sub. and Al.sup.-./sup.3

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    Czernek, Jiří; Živný, Oldřich

    2011-01-01

    Roč. 512, 1-3 (2011), s. 40-43 ISSN 0009-2614 R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP205/11/2070 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40500505; CEZ:AV0Z20430508 Keywords : Al3 * excitations * MRCI Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics Impact factor: 2.337, year: 2011

  3. Planning voor Stad en Land

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    Hidding, M.

    2006-01-01

    In dit boek wordt zowel de theorie als de praktijk van de ruimtelijke planning vanuit verschillende invalshoeken belicht. Diverse actuele thema's zoals de Nota Ruimte, het gebiedsgericht beleid en de zorg voor omgevingskwaliteit worden besproken. De auteur illustreert de aanpak van ruimtelijke

  4. Water relations of Pseudomonas solanacearum

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    GREGORY

    2010-08-30

    Aug 30, 2010 ... pathogens of plants, especially, Erwinia chrysanthemi. (Mildenhall et al., 1988; Prior et al., 1994; Gouesbet et al., 1995; Gouesbet et al., 1996). This helps to determine how they survive in dry soil for long periods as saprophytes. Experiments undertaken here on P. solanacearum give a glimpse of what may ...

  5. Original Article Hospital Acquired Infection in Obafemi Awolowo ...

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    2011-08-07

    Aug 7, 2011 ... This study assesses the pattern of hospital acquired infections. (HAIs) and state of hygiene ... Unfortunately, due to inadequate resources and commitment to ... Turkey, India and Mexico (Rosenthal et al., 2005;. Salomao et al.

  6. Anisotropy of the magnetocaloric effect in DyNiAl

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    Kaštil, J.; Javorský, P.; Andreev, Alexander V.

    2009-01-01

    Roč. 321, č. 15 (2009), s. 2318-2321 ISSN 0304-8853 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100520 Keywords : magnetocaloric effec * DyNiAl * magnetism * anisotropy Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.204, year: 2009

  7. Optimization of friction and wear behaviour of Al7075-Al2O3-B4C metal matrix composites using Taguchi method

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    Dhanalakshmi, S.; Mohanasundararaju, N.; Venkatakrishnan, P. G.; Karthik, V.

    2018-02-01

    The present study deals with investigations relating to dry sliding wear behaviour of the Al 7075 alloy, reinforced with Al2O3 and B4C. The hybrid composites are produced through Liquid Metallurgy route - Stir casting method. The amount of Al2O3 particles is varied as 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 wt% and the amount of B4C is kept constant as 3wt%. Experiments were conducted based on the plan of experiments generated through Taguchi’s technique. A L27 Orthogonal array was selected for analysis of the data. The investigation is to find the effect of applied load, sliding speed and sliding distance on wear rate and Coefficient of Friction (COF) of the hybrid Al7075- Al2O3-B4C composite and to determine the optimal parameters for obtaining minimum wear rate. The samples were examined using scanning electronic microscopy after wear testing and analyzed.

  8. Identification and expression analysis of CYP4G25 gene from the ...

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    Jane

    2011-08-08

    Aug 8, 2011 ... hormone, fatty acid, steroid, drug insecticide and phytotoxin (Mansuy et al., ... pyrethroid and organophosphate resistance (Andersen et al., 1994; Kasai and ... novel cytochrome P450 gene was identified from A. pernyi and its ...

  9. Plan-Belief Revision in Jason

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    Jensen, Andreas Schmidt; Villadsen, Jørgen

    2015-01-01

    When information is shared between agents of unknown reliability, it is possible that their belief bases become inconsistent. In such cases, the belief base must be revised to restore consistency, so that the agent is able to reason. In some cases the inconsistent information may be due to use of...... of incorrect plans. We extend work by Alechina et al. to revise belief bases in which plans can be dynamically added and removed. We present an implementation of the algorithm in the AgentSpeak implementation Jason....

  10. Magnetism in UPtAl under high pressure

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    Honda, F.; Eto, T.; Oomi, G.; Sechovský, V.; Andreev, Alexander V.; Takeshita, N.; Môri, N.

    2002-01-01

    Roč. 52, č. 2 (2002), s. 263-266 ISSN 0011-4626. [Czech and Slovak Conference on Magnetism /11./. Košice, 20.08.2001-23.08.2001] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z1010914 Keywords : UPtAl * high pressure * electrical resistivity Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 0.311, year: 2002

  11. Comportamiento y estabilidad del fondo de un plan de pensiones contributivo

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    García González, Ana

    2001-01-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo se realiza un análisis de la estabilidad del fondo de un plan de pensiones de tipo contributivo promovido por una empresa a favor de sus trabajadores y en el que realizan contribuciones tanto el promotor como los partícipes del plan. Para el cálculo de las funciones asociadas al modelo representativo del plan de pensiones, utilizamos el Método Actuarial del Crédito Unitario. Definidas las variables del modelo, determinamos la evolución del fondo del plan. Para ello analizamos la estabilidad del fondo de pensiones, así como su sensibilidad ante pequeñas variaciones en algunos de los parámetros más significativos del modelo. Con este estudio, se pretende analizar las características inherentes al fondo de un plan de pensiones de tipo contributivo, con el fin de que el actuario o el gestor financiero del plan pueda considerar durante todo el horizonte temporal en el cuál el plan es operativo, las repercusiones que el nivel alcanzado por el fondo tiene respecto de la solvencia del plan para garantizar las prestaciones contraídas con sus beneficiarios

  12. High Caloric Diet for ALS Patients: High Fat, High Carbohydrate or High Protein

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    Sarvin Sanaie; Ata Mahmoodpoor

    2015-01-01

    ALS is a fatal motor neurodegenerative disease characterized by muscle atrophy and weakness, dysarthria, and dysphagia. The mean survival of ALS patients is three to five years, with 50% of those diagnosed dying within three years of onset (1). A multidisciplinary approach is crucial to set an appropriate plan for metabolic and nutritional support in ALS. Nutritional management incorporates a continuous assessment and implementation of dietary modifications throughout the duration of the dise...

  13. CHAPTER 1

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    Dr Olaleye

    2017-08-20

    Aug 20, 2017 ... expertise and poor infrastructure (Kay et al. 2011; King et al. 2012); concerns around security, and privacy of highly sensitive patient data (Wickramasinghe & Goldberg, 2009;. Whittaker, 2012), scalable architecture, which would enable programmes to run on every device in the market (Ehrler et al. 2013).

  14. LOAD FORECASTING FOR POWER SYSTEM PLANNING AND OPERATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AT AL BATINAH REGION OMAN

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    HUSSEIN A. ABDULQADER

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available Load forecasting is essential part for the power system planning and operation. In this paper the modeling and design of artificial neural network for load forecasting is carried out in a particular region of Oman. Neural network approach helps to reduce the problem associated with conventional method and has the advantage of learning directly from the historical data. The neural network here uses data such as past load; weather information like humidity and temperatures. Once the neural network is trained for the past set of data it can give a prediction of future load. This reduces the capital investment reducing the equipments to be installed. The actual data are taken from the Mazoon Electrical Company, Oman. The data of load for the year 2007, 2008 and 2009 are collected for a particular region called Al Batinah in Oman and trained using neural networks to forecast the future. The main objective is to forecast the amount of electricity needed for better load distribution in the areas of this region in Oman. The load forecasting is done for the year 2010 and is validated for the accuracy.

  15. Plan de ordenamiento territorial. Plan estratégico de desarrollo urbano territorial, Presidencia De La Plaza, Chaco, Argentina

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    Alberto Patricio Mahave

    2017-11-01

    Full Text Available El Plan Estratégico Territorial para la Municipalidad de Presidencia de la Plaza pone de manifiesto varios puntos claves, esenciales para el desarrollo equilibrado de las potencialidades y oportunidades dentro del entorno tanto local como externo. La dimensión ambiental incluye temas como la calidad del aire y el agua, la adaptación al cambio climático, la reducción de la vulnerabilidad a las amenazas naturales y la cabertura de los servicios públicos; la dimensión del desarrollo urbano considera los aspectos físicos, económicos y sociales; y la dimensión legal aborda las características de una buena gobernabilidad, entre ellas la transparencia, participación pública y gestión pública moderna. Al mismo tiempo, examina los instrumentos normativos ya que son necesarios para el normal deselvonviemiento de la institución municipal y el desarrollo y crecimiento económico, social, urbano y territorial del municipio. Por ello, se pretende atender cuestiones que hacen al ordenamiento urbano, al espacio público y al medio natural, elementos estructurantes para el buen desarrollo del municipio tanto en lo social como en lo económico, con el objeto de producir acciones tendientes al funcionamiento óptimo del territorio y a la vez sustentable, garantizando a la población un ambiente saludable e integral. El éxito del Plan Estratégico Territorial para la Municipalidad de Presidencia de la Plaza depende de la voluntad política de las autoridades locales como de la ciudadanía, ya que resulta de vital importancia la sostenibilidad de las propuestas e intervenciones en corto, mediano y largo plazo que contribuirán a una modificación adecuada al territorio.

  16. Plan de marketing: Dougall’s

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    Cambero Yllera, Jaime

    2016-01-01

    RESUMEN: El presente Trabajo Fin de Grado supone un acercamiento al sector cervecero en España, y su objetivo fundamental es elaborar un Plan de Marketing para una empresa de cerveza en Liérganes, Cantabria; cerveza Dougall’s. El Plan de Marketing de la empresa estará enfocado a la creación de un nuevo producto, una cerveza de trigo. Para ello partiremos de cero, mostrando todos los pasos necesarios que conlleva el lanzamiento del producto, desde el comienzo de su elaboración en fabrica hasta...

  17. The Traverse Planning Process for the Drats 2010 Analog Field Simulations

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    Horz, Friedrich; Gruener, John; Lofgren, Gary; Skinner, James A., Jr.; Graf, Jodi; Seibert, Marc

    2011-01-01

    Traverse planning concentrates on optimizing the science return within the overall objectives of planetary surface missions or their analog field simulations. Such simulations were conducted in the San Francisco Volcanic Field, northern Arizona, from Aug. 26 to Sept 17, 2010 and involved some 200 individuals in the field, with some 40 geoscientists composing the science team. The purpose of these Desert Research and Technology Studies (DRATS) is to exercise and evaluate developmental hardware, software and operational concepts in a mission-like, fully-integrated, setting under the direction of an onsite Mobile Mission Control Center(MMCC). DRATS 2010 focused on the simultaneous operation of 2 rovers, a historic first. Each vehicle was manned by an astronaut-commander and an experienced field geologist. Having 2 rovers and crews in the field mandated substantially more complex science and mission control operations compared to the single rover DRATS tests of 2008 and 2009, or the Apollo lunar missions. For instance, the science support function was distributed over 2 "back rooms", one for each rover, with both "tactical" teams operating independently and simultaneously during the actual traverses. Synthesis and integration of the daily findings and forward planning for the next day(s) was accomplished overnight by yet another "strategic" science team.

  18. Enhancing English Language Planning Strategy Using a WebQuest Model

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    Al-Sayed, Rania Kamal Muhammad; Abdel-Haq, Eman Muhammad; El-Deeb, Mervat Abou-Bakr; Ali, Mahsoub Abdel-Sadeq

    2016-01-01

    The present study aimed at developing English language planning strategy of second year distinguished governmental language preparatory school pupils using the a WebQuest model. Fifty participants from second year at Hassan Abu-Bakr Distinguished Governmental Language School at Al-Qanater Al-Khairia (Qalubia Governorate) were randomly assigned…

  19. Planning DMPO pelvis using the algorithm of Pinnacle

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    Dorado Rodriguez, M. P.; Exposito, R. D.; Planes Meseguer, D.

    2011-01-01

    This paper presents a planning protocol for pelvic pathologies using the algorithm Direct Machine Parameter Optimization (DMPO) from Philips Pinnacle3, I improves compliance rate (vant Riet Conformation of Nurnber et al.) Of PTVs and significantly reduces the dosage in organs at risk, without incurring a large increase in the planning time or irradiation, and in which verification is possible monitor routine unit.

  20. Microstructure evolution of an Al-Pd-Co alloy

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    Kahalová, Ĺ.; Kusý, M.; Buršík, Jiří; Svoboda, Milan; Illeková, E.; Švec, P.; Dolinšek, J.; Janovec, J.

    2008-01-01

    Roč. 46, č. 4 (2008), s. 221-227 ISSN 0023-432X R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA106/07/1259 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20410507 Keywords : complex metallic alloys * Al-Pd-Co system * differential thermal analysis Subject RIV: JG - Metallurgy Impact factor: 1.345, year: 2007

  1. Hepatoadrenal syndrome in Egyptian children with liver cirrhosis ...

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    Amel A.M. Elfaramawy

    2012-08-03

    Aug 3, 2012 ... E-mail address: amelhome4@gmail.com. Peer review under responsibility of Ain Shams University. Production and hosting by ..... [23] Ho JT, Al-Musalhi H, Chapman MJ, Quach T, Thomas PD, Bagley. CJ, et al. Septic shock ...

  2. Functional characterization of a gluthathione S- transferase gene ...

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    2010-08-09

    Aug 9, 2010 ... Real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) indicated that the LbGST1 can be differentially ... stress signaling pathways (Dixon et al., 2002a, b;. Edwards et al., 2000 .... Construction of the yeast expression vector and yeast.

  3. Optimization of divalent cation in Saccharomyces pastorianus ...

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    USER

    2010-08-16

    Aug 16, 2010 ... 1Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. ... potential as a biofuel to replace fossil fuels (Rakin et al.,. 2009). It is one of ... agricultural products or waste materials (Rakin et al.,.

  4. A missense mutation of HOXA13 underlies hand-foot-genital ...

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    Lihua Cao

    2017-08-16

    Aug 16, 2017 ... These abnormalities in limb appears to be fully penetrant, bilateral, and ... gross deletions have also been reported (Frisén et al. 2003;. Utsch et al. 2007 .... known to be linked to human developmental disorders. Mutations in ...

  5. Gastrointestinal helminths of resident wildlife at the Federal ...

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    ADEYEYE

    2014-08-12

    Aug 12, 2014 ... 2012) In Nigeria there is still a lacuna of data on the diseases and parasites ... management of zoological exhibits (Hotez et al.,. 2008; Thompson et al., ..... Coimbatore, Zoo's Print Journal, 15(5): 257-. 258. Wenz A, Heymenn ...

  6. Strategic Team AI Path Plans: Probabilistic Pathfinding

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    Tng C. H. John

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper proposes a novel method to generate strategic team AI pathfinding plans for computer games and simulations using probabilistic pathfinding. This method is inspired by genetic algorithms (Russell and Norvig, 2002, in that, a fitness function is used to test the quality of the path plans. The method generates high-quality path plans by eliminating the low-quality ones. The path plans are generated by probabilistic pathfinding, and the elimination is done by a fitness test of the path plans. This path plan generation method has the ability to generate variation or different high-quality paths, which is desired for games to increase replay values. This work is an extension of our earlier work on team AI: probabilistic pathfinding (John et al., 2006. We explore ways to combine probabilistic pathfinding and genetic algorithm to create a new method to generate strategic team AI pathfinding plans.

  7. Institutional Issues in the Planning and Implementation of a Program to Dispose of High-Level Radioactive Wastes

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    1981-02-01

    environment including political and psychosociological variables, (2) implementation (2) H. Igor Ansoff , Roger P. Declerck and Robert L. Hayes, "From...Strategic Planning to Strategic Management" in From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management, edited by H. Igor Ansoff et al., John Wiley & Sons, 1976...Hanagement," in From Strategic Planning to Strategic Nanagement, edited by H. Igor Ansoff et al., Jon.𔃻 Wiley & Sons, 1976, p. 33. -44- is not willing to

  8. ICRF waveguide couplers. Progress report, February 1983-Aug 1983

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    Scharer, J.E.

    1983-08-01

    Calculations were made for the reflection coefficient from a dielectric loaded TE 10 waveguide operating at 54.8 MHz to a plasma with a prescribed density profile. Optimum waveguide proportions are determined to minimize reflections and the proper match point for a coaxial feed to match the system is determined. Future plans call for fabrication and field measurements of a prototype design and the design of an all metal launcher

  9. Anti-hyperlipidemic and biochemical effect of extract of Tulbaghia ...

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    Yomi

    2012-08-30

    Aug 30, 2012 ... Tulbaghia violacea rhizomes on high cholesterol diet fed rats. O. S. Olorunnisola1, G. ... parts of Asia (Ashraf et al., 2005; Sans et al., 1997) and recently in ... 2001). A large body of studies in experimental animals has clearly ...

  10. Serum lipase should be the laboratory test of choice for suspected ...

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    Aug 3, 2014 ... all patients presenting to the surgical admissions unit with acute ..... John KD, Segal I, Hassan H, Levy RD, Amin M. Acute pancreatitis in Sowetan ... Clavien PA, Robert J, Meyer P, et al. ... Sutton PA, Humes DJ, Purcell G, et al.

  11. Purification, composition analysis and antioxidant activity of different ...

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    2012-08-14

    Aug 14, 2012 ... explored as novel potential antioxidants (Chen et al.,. 2008b; Ge et al., 2009; ... well as a medicinal mushroom cultured in China and. Japan. It belongs to ... Dextran standards of T-2000, 500, 70, 40, 20, 10 were purchased.

  12. Phase stability of CuAlMn shape memory alloys

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    Zárubová, Niva; Novák, Václav

    2004-01-01

    Roč. 378, - (2004), s. 216-221 ISSN 0921-5093 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z1010914 Keywords : CuAlMn * shape memory alloys * martensitic transformation * - stress -strain tests * tension-compression cycling * history dependent phenomena Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.445, year: 2004

  13. Quantitative trait loci for rice yield-related traits using recombinant ...

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    2011-08-19

    Aug 19, 2011 ... lated by map-based cloning strategy (Ashikari et al. 2005). ... 2000; Kojima et al. 2002; Doi et al. 2004). ... and PH but also on rice yield (Xue et al. 2008; Yan et al. ..... Cho Y. C., Suh J. P., Choi I. S., Hong H. C., Baek M. K., Kang K. H. et al. .... Yan C. J., Liang G. H., Chen F., Li X., Tang S. Z., Yi C. D. et al.

  14. Karel VI. & Alžběta Kristýna

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    Vácha, Štěpán; Veselá, I.; Vlnas, V.; Vokáčová, P.

    2010-01-01

    Roč. 2, č. 3 (2010), s. 85-90 ISSN 1803-6988 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : coronation * emperor Charles VI * empress Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel * baroque * festivities Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

  15. TWRS Retrieval and Storage Mission and Immobilized Low Activity Waste (ILAW) Disposal Plan

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    BURBANK, D.A.

    1999-01-01

    This project plan has a twofold purpose. First, it provides a waste stream project plan specific to the River Protection Project (RPP) (formerly the Tank Waste Remediation System [TWRS] Project) Immobilized Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Disposal Subproject for the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) that meets the requirements of Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement) Milestone M-90-01 (Ecology et al. 1994) and is consistent with the project plan content guidelines found in Section 11.5 of the Tri-Party Agreement action plan (Ecology et al. 1998). Second, it provides an upper tier document that can be used as the basis for future subproject line-item construction management plans. The planning elements for the construction management plans are derived from applicable U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) planning guidance documents (DOE Orders 4700.1 [DOE 1992] and 430.1 [DOE 1995a]). The format and content of this project plan are designed to accommodate the requirements mentioned by the Tri-Party Agreement and the DOE orders. A cross-check matrix is provided in Appendix A to explain where in the plan project planning elements required by Section 11.5 of the Tri-Party Agreement are addressed

  16. Idaaratu al Wahdah al Namthiyah li at Tathwiri al Tarbiyah al Islamiyah

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    Ahmad Danusiri

    2016-04-01

    Full Text Available Islam, through the Quran, proclaims that its mission includes the teachings to the whole universe, Everything in the universe is maintained by Islam, and none of the symptoms are ignored. The revelations also include the traditions of the Prophet that are authentic (shahih and good (hasan in quality. Both the Quran and maqbulah hadiths are accepted by Muslims on the basis of faith. When some experts of UIN Walisongo from various disciplines try to understand the sacred words of these two resources, their understanding continues, reaching the paradigm of the unity of science which essentially unites the normative, social, and natural sciences. The effect of this paradigm has brought up an issue for the author. Is there any hadiths or Prophetic traditions that can be used as a grand theory in the management disciplines of Islamic education.To address this issue, the authors conducted a literature research with the title Development of Islamic Education Management Module. Sources of data were focused on nine books of Hadiths : Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud, Sunan at-Turmudzi, Sunan an-Nasai, Sunan Ibn Majah, Sunan ad-Darimi, Muwatta Malik, and Musnad Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal in the form of digital data Lidwa Reader Software Book 9 Imam Hadith. The findings of the study stated that the meaning of the word Rabb includes: creating, nurturing, maintaining, teaching, educating, and organizing. Thus, in an academic term, the word Rabb implies a manager or leader. Meanwhile, in the concept of comprehensive manager it contains at least 14 nomenclature denotations: planning, responsibility, organization, coordination, system of employee payroll, learning, resources, humanity, principle of making it easier for the manager to the employee, motivated to achieve optimal performance, preventing unproductivity, education participation, institutional costs, monitoring, and evaluation system. Each nomenclature has numerous hadiths that could serve

  17. Planning ATES systems under uncertainty

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    Jaxa-Rozen, Marc; Kwakkel, Jan; Bloemendal, Martin

    2015-04-01

    Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) can contribute to significant reductions in energy use within the built environment, by providing seasonal energy storage in aquifers for the heating and cooling of buildings. ATES systems have experienced a rapid uptake over the last two decades; however, despite successful experiments at the individual level, the overall performance of ATES systems remains below expectations - largely due to suboptimal practices for the planning and operation of systems in urban areas. The interaction between ATES systems and underground aquifers can be interpreted as a common-pool resource problem, in which thermal imbalances or interference could eventually degrade the storage potential of the subsurface. Current planning approaches for ATES systems thus typically follow the precautionary principle. For instance, the permitting process in the Netherlands is intended to minimize thermal interference between ATES systems. However, as shown in recent studies (Sommer et al., 2015; Bakr et al., 2013), a controlled amount of interference may benefit the collective performance of ATES systems. An overly restrictive approach to permitting is instead likely to create an artificial scarcity of available space, limiting the potential of the technology in urban areas. In response, master plans - which take into account the collective arrangement of multiple systems - have emerged as an increasingly popular alternative. However, permits and master plans both take a static, ex ante view of ATES governance, making it difficult to predict the effect of evolving ATES use or climactic conditions on overall performance. In particular, the adoption of new systems by building operators is likely to be driven by the available subsurface space and by the performance of existing systems; these outcomes are themselves a function of planning parameters. From this perspective, the interactions between planning authorities, ATES operators, and subsurface conditions

  18. Predicting the Extent of Inundation due to Sea-Level Rise: Al Hamra Development, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. A Pilot Project

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    Arthur Robert M.

    2016-06-01

    Full Text Available As new information is received, predictions of sea-level rise resulting from global warming continue to be revised upwards. Measurements indicate that the rise in sea-level is continuing at, or close to, the worst case forecasts (Kellet et al. 2014. Coastal areas are coming under increasing risk of inundation and flooding as storms are predicted to increase in frequency and severity, adding to the risk of inundation due to higher sea levels. Stakeholders, government agencies, developers and land owners require accurate, up to date information to be able to protect coastal areas. Geographic Information Systems (GIS along with accurate remote sensing technologies such as LiDAR provides the best means for delivering this information. Using these technologies, this paper predicts the risk posed to a large multi-use development in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. This development, Al Hamra Village, is situated on the coast of the Arabian Gulf. Al Hamra’s physical relationship to the Gulf is in common with other developments in Ras Al Khaimah in its and for this reason has been used as a pilot project. The resulting GIS model shows that Al Hamra is indeed at risk from predicted flood events. How this information can be used as a planning tool for numerous strategies is discussed in this paper.

  19. Lattice stabilities, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of Al3Tm and Al3Lu intermetallics under high pressure from first-principles calculations

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    Xu-Dong, Zhang; Wei, Jiang

    2016-02-01

    The effects of high pressure on lattice stability, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of L12 structure Al3Tm and Al3Lu are studied by first-principles calculations within the VASP code. The phonon dispersion curves and density of phonon states are calculated by using the PHONONPY code. Our results agree well with the available experimental and theoretical values. The vibrational properties indicate that Al3Tm and Al3Lu keep their dynamical stabilities in L12 structure up to 100 GPa. The elastic properties and Debye temperatures for Al3Tm and Al3Lu increase with the increase of pressure. The mechanical anisotropic properties are discussed by using anisotropic indices AG, AU, AZ, and the three-dimensional (3D) curved surface of Young’s modulus. The calculated results show that Al3Tm and Al3Lu are both isotropic at 0 GPa and anisotropic under high pressure. In the present work, the sound velocities in different directions for Al3Tm and Al3Lu are also predicted under high pressure. We also calculate the thermodynamic properties and provide the relationships between thermal parameters and temperature/pressure. These results can provide theoretical support for further experimental work and industrial applications. Project supported by the Scientific Technology Plan of the Educational Department of Liaoning Province and Liaoning Innovative Research Team in University, China (Grant No. LT2014004) and the Program for the Young Teacher Cultivation Fund of Shenyang University of Technology, China (Grant No. 005612).

  20. Improving Financial Planning Graduate Employability Through Enterprise Education

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    John Teale

    2013-09-01

    Full Text Available Financial planning requires students to display tacit learning. However, the traditional teaching approach concentrates on theory development independent of any applied connection with the profession. This paper uses an adaptation of the Goetz et al. (2005 model to demonstrate how curricula can provide a smoother progression into the financial planning profession. Further, a number of teaching strategies are described to provide a closer connection with the profession.

  1. Interaction between COCHLEATA and UNIFOLIATA genes enables ...

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    2011-08-19

    Aug 19, 2011 ... FLORAL ORGANS (UFO) of Arabidopsis thaliana (Hofer et al. 1997; Lee et al. ... uni-tac allele of UNI, which does not lead to loss of fertility, has been deployed ..... gests that there must also exist an extra-UNI pathway(s) of.

  2. Sorghum bicolor L.

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    sgopalakrishnan

    2010-08-05

    Aug 5, 2010 ... acetic acid (IAA) and siderophore (Vivas et al., 2006;. Hanane et al., 2008). Soil microorganisms not ... Among the soil microorganisms, bacteria and fungi have received considerable attention as plant ... solubilizing substances and intracellular siderophores, which induce germination of seeds and their ...

  3. Assessment Planning within the Context of University English Language Teaching (ELT) in China: Implications for Teacher Assessment Literacy

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    Xu, Yueting

    2016-01-01

    Teacher assessment literacy (AL) is a concern for both educational assessment and teacher education research. As part of teacher AL, teacher competency of assessment planning has remained underexplored. To address this gap, this study explored how a group of 20 contest-winning university English teachers in China planned for assessment through…

  4. Al-Qurû’ fi Al-Qur’an ‘Inda Al-Anbary fi Al-Adhdâd

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    Raushani Azza

    2018-03-01

    Full Text Available This study examines about the term al-Qurû in the Qur’an. Al-Qurû is one of the most popular discussions among muslim scholars and mufasir, both in terms of language and fiqh. However, there is a bate among muslim scholar and mufasir about the meaning of al-Qurû. It’s because al-Qurû is one of the sentence of al-Adhdâd wich has two meaning, especially in the Qur’an, namely haid (menstruation and thahr. One of the most popular muslim scholar who concern in Qur’an and Arabic is al-Anbari with his book al-Adhdâd. Al-Anbari explains that Qurû has two meanings, First, al-Qurû in etymology is the form of Jama’ from aqra and qurû. Second, al-Qurû has a meaning of menstruation, thahr, or the period of iddah as a sign of being allowed to remarry after certain period of time.

  5. Plasma spraying of Fe-Cr-Al alloy powder

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    Voleník, Karel; Leitner, J.; Kolman, Blahoslav Jan; Písačka, Jan; Schneeweiss, Oldřich

    2008-01-01

    Roč. 46, č. 1 (2008), s. 17-25 ISSN 0023-432X R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA1041404 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20430508; CEZ:AV0Z20410507 Keywords : Fe-Cr-Al alloy powder * plasma spraying * oxidation * vaporization * composition changes Subject RIV: JK - Corrosion ; Surface Treatment of Materials Impact factor: 1.345, year: 2007

  6. Impact of superbends at the ALS

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    Nishimura, H.; Robin, D.

    1999-01-01

    To satisfy a demand for high energy, high brightness x-ray sources at the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a plan is in place to replace three 1.3 Tesla normal conducting bending magnets with three 5 Tesla superconducting magnets (superbends) in the year 2001. In this paper they discuss the impact of the superbends on the ALS beam parameters and particle dynamics. In particular they show the effect on the emittance, energy spread, and lifetime. They find that by adjusting the dispersion to be positive in the straight section they are able to largely restore the horizontal emittance. The vertical emittance can be adjusted independently to control the lifetime. The particle dynamics are investigated through particle tracking with a frequency analysis postprocessor. They find that by placing the three superbends symmetrically around the ring there is ample dynamic aperture for injection and lifetime

  7. Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Olabisi

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    USER

    2015-08-21

    Aug 21, 2015 ... The data used in this study were obtained from Federal Road Safety. Commission ... Key Words: Road Traffic, Accident, GIS, Vehicles Analysis, Nigeria. Introduction ... data and also as a potential tool for improving ... large number of databases and also provides a ... network as line features. Similarly,.

  8. Environmental quality assessment of groundwater resources in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Sultanate of Oman

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    Al-Kalbani, Mohammed Saif; Price, Martin F.; Ahmed, Mushtaque; Abahussain, Asma; O'Higgins, Timothy

    2017-11-01

    The research was conducted to assess the quality of groundwater resources of Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Oman. 11 drinking water sources were sampled during summer and winter seasons during 2012-2013 to evaluate their physico-chemical quality indicators; and assess their suitability for drinking and other domestic purposes. Sample collection, handling and processing followed the standard methods recommended by APHA and analyzed in quality assured laboratories using appropriate analytical methods and instrumental techniques. The results show that the quality parameters in all drinking water resources are within the permissible limits set by Omani and WHO standards; and the drinking water quality index is good or medium in quality based on NFS-WQI classification criteria, indicating their suitability for human consumption. There is an indication of the presence of high nitrate concentrations in some groundwater wells, which require more investigations and monitoring program to be conducted on regular basis to ensure good quality water supply for the residents in the mountain. The trilinear Piper diagram shows that most of the drinking water resources of the study area fall in the field of calcium and bicarbonate type with some magnesium bicarbonate type indicating that most of the major ions are natural in origin due to the geology of the region. This study is a first step towards providing indicators on groundwater quality of this fragile mountain ecosystem, which will be the basis for future planning decisions on corrective demand management measures to protect groundwater resources of Al Jabal Al Akhdar.

  9. Manajemen Madrasah Berbasis Nilai Pesantren Di MTs al-Islam Joresan

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    Uswatun Ni’mah

    2016-11-01

    Full Text Available Abstract: Modernization with various impacts should be anticipated the educator by mastering two competences, science and technology competency and spiritual competency. A weakness in one of those competences makes the students’ development is not balanced which finally lead to their split personality. Therefore, the human potential includes both of competences  must be internalized and developed in students simultaneously. In that context, this research conducted to discuss the implementation of school management based on the pesantren value which is developed at MTs Al – Islam Joresan Mlarak Ponorogo. The approach of this research is qualitative on case study. The results of this research conclude that: (1 Pesantren value developed at MTs Al – Islam Joresan Mlarak Ponorogo is the essential value defined in Five Spirits of Madrasah, (2 The Teachers’ Management at MTs Al – Islam Joresan Mlarak Ponorogo includes: Planning, Recruitment, Selection, Training, Teachers Development, Evaluation of Work Performance, and Compensation, (3 The curriculum management at MTs Al – Islam Joresan covered: the subject planning, curriculum organizing, curriculum implementation, and evaluation of Madrasah programs. Abstrak: Modernisasi dengan berbagai macam dampaknya perlu dipersiapkan pendidik yang memiliki dua  kompetensi sekaligus; yakni Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Teknologi (IPTEK dan nilai-nilai spiritual keagamaan (IMTAQ. Kelemahan di salah satu kompetensi tersebut menjadikan perkembangan anak tidak seimbang, yang akhirnya akan menciptakan pribadi yang pincang (split personality, sebab itu potensi-potensi insani yang meliputi kedua hal tersebut secara bersamaan harus diinternalisasikan dan dikembangkan pada diri anak didik. Dalam konteks itulah penelitian ini berupaya mengupas implementasi manajamen madrasah berbasis nilai-nilai pesantren yang dikembangkan MTs al-Islam Joresan Mlarak Ponorogo. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif studi

  10. Plan de negocio agencia de marketing digital

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    Menéndez Díaz, Borja

    2015-01-01

    Con la realización de este plan de negocio, se tratará de estudiar la viabilidad para la puesta en marcha de una empresa dedicada al marketing digital, especializándose en el sector sanitario y fijándose como clientes potenciales todas aquellas empresas farmacéuticas en el ámbito nacional. La empresa pretende hacer marketing digital orientado al sector farmacéutico siguiendo unos procesos rigurosos y estandarizados con los que el cliente esté acorde en todo momento, manteniendo una actitud...

  11. 45-day safety screen results and final report for tank 241-C-202, auger samples 95-Aug-026 and 95-Aug-027

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    Baldwin, J.H.

    1995-01-01

    Two auger samples from tank 241-C-202 (C-202) were received at the 222-S Laboratories and underwent safety screening analysis, consisting of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and total alpha activity. Two samples were submitted for energetics determination by DSC. Within the triplicate analyses of each sample, one of the results for energetics exceeded the notification limit. The sample and duplicate analyses for both augers exceeded the notification limit for TGA. As required by the Tank Characterization Plan, the appropriate notifications were made within 24 hours of official confirmation that the limits were violated

  12. Al-Âyah al-Mutasyâbihât al-Lafzhiyyah fi Sûrah al-An’âm ‘Inda al-Kirmâny

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    Hikmatiar Pasya

    2017-07-01

    Full Text Available This paper discusses about the verses of mutasyâbihât in the Quran. The debate of this verses caused various opinions. The meaning of the mutasyâbihât in this paper is the similarity and difference of the words in the Qur'an. Mufasir have different opinion about the meaning of the verse of mutasyâbihât al-lafdzi. In addition, many Hufadz of the Quran who are confused from one verse to another, or one chapter to another. It’s because similarity of verses in the Qur'an with other verses. So the writer wants to explain the verses mutasyâbihât al-lafdzi in the perspective of Hamzh al-Karmani in Surah al-An'âm. In this discussion the author discovers some passages in mutasyâbihât al-lafdzi, namely Asrâru al-balaghah fi mutasyabih al-lafdzi, Asrar al-balaghah fi mutasyabih al-hurf, and murâ'ah al-ikhtilâfmurâd bi al-lafdzi al-mukarrar.

  13. Cost-effective electrostatic-sprayed SrAl2O4: Eu 2 phosphor ...

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    2016-08-26

    Aug 26, 2016 ... Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nambu University, 864-1 Wolgye-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju 506-824, Korea; Department of Electronic and Photonic Engineering, Honam University, 59-1 Seobong-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju 506-714, Korea; Department of Photonic Engineering, Chosun ...

  14. Folitse et al., Afr., J. Infect. Dis. (2017) 12 (1): 28-32

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    2017. Accepted: Aug, 7. 2017. Published Online: Nov, 15. 2017 .... This study appears to be the first report documenting the detection of CPV antigen in the faeces of dogs in Ghana. In this study, out of 72 dogs .... Norton, W. W. &. Company ...

  15. Maltrato al anciano en el Ecuador.

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    Palacios Zavala, Carlos Renán

    2005-01-01

    El maltrato, expresado en todas sus formas, especialmente el que se dirige hace grupos vulnerables, es un fenómeno reciente en su estudio pero constante en su Prevalencia en la historia humana, en la actualidad el auge que ha tomado las medidas de prevención del maltrato inicialmente el infantil, luego la mujer e incluso de el las personas con discapacidad, ha relegado en el país el análisis, la discusión, la prevención y la sanción del maltrato contra un grupo poblacional o...

  16. Translation Initiation from Conserved Non-AUG Codons Provides Additional Layers of Regulation and Coding Capacity

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    Ivaylo P. Ivanov

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available Neurospora crassa cpc-1 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae GCN4 are homologs specifying transcription activators that drive the transcriptional response to amino acid limitation. The cpc-1 mRNA contains two upstream open reading frames (uORFs in its >700-nucleotide (nt 5′ leader, and its expression is controlled at the level of translation in response to amino acid starvation. We used N. crassa cell extracts and obtained data indicating that cpc-1 uORF1 and uORF2 are functionally analogous to GCN4 uORF1 and uORF4, respectively, in controlling translation. We also found that the 5′ region upstream of the main coding sequence of the cpc-1 mRNA extends for more than 700 nucleotides without any in-frame stop codon. For 100 cpc-1 homologs from Pezizomycotina and from selected Basidiomycota, 5′ conserved extensions of the CPC1 reading frame are also observed. Multiple non-AUG near-cognate codons (NCCs in the CPC1 reading frame upstream of uORF2, some deeply conserved, could potentially initiate translation. At least four NCCs initiated translation in vitro. In vivo data were consistent with initiation at NCCs to produce N-terminally extended N. crassa CPC1 isoforms. The pivotal role played by CPC1, combined with its translational regulation by uORFs and NCC utilization, underscores the emerging significance of noncanonical initiation events in controlling gene expression.

  17. Examining the language and behavioural profile in FTD and ALS-FTD.

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    Saxon, Jennifer A; Thompson, Jennifer C; Jones, Matthew; Harris, Jennifer M; Richardson, Anna Mt; Langheinrich, Tobias; Neary, David; Mann, David Ma; Snowden, Julie S

    2017-08-01

    A proportion of patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It is currently unknown whether the behavioural and cognitive syndrome in bvFTD with ALS (ALS-FTD) is indistinguishable from that of bvFTD alone. A retrospective cohort of 241 patients with clinical diagnoses of bvFTD (n=185) or ALS-FTD (n=56) was examined with respect to behavioural, cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Features were rated as present or absent based on information recorded from clinical interviews and detailed neuropsychological assessment. A number of behavioural and affective changes were reported more frequently in bvFTD than ALS-FTD: social disinhibition (pALS-FTD than bvFTD (pALS-FTD than bvFTD: agrammatism (pALS-FTD. In particular, while changes in social behaviour are prominent in bvFTD alone, there may be a comparatively greater degree of language impairment in ALS-FTD. Prospective exploration of the pattern of differences between these groups will be essential. Identification of a distinct neuropsychological phenotype in ALS-FTD may have clinical implications for early diagnosis, disease management and care planning and theoretical implications for our understanding of the relationship between ALS and FTD. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.

  18. Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma in an 18-year-old female

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    I. Saguem

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    Aug 1, 2016 ... et al., the mean age and range of ages of patients were 50.9 years ... Eggener et al. reviewed 119 renal tumors .... Am J Surg Pathol 2010;34:1233–40. [23] Volpe A, Novara G, Antonelli A, Bertini R, Billia M, Carmignani. G, et ...

  19. Evaluation of antibacterial properties of tannins isolated from ...

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    Aug 6, 2007 ... vity of leaf extract pf Eugenia uniflora and reported that tannins, alkaloids and glycosides were detected (Adebajo et al., 1983). African medicinal plants have been found to exert good in vivo antimicrobial activities and some active principles have been isolated (Damintoti et al., 2005). Examples are.

  20. Solar Cycle Variation of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection ...

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    2010-08-25

    Aug 25, 2010 ... 3Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences ... ICME-associated CME latitudes during solar cycle 23 using Song et al.'s method. ..... latitudes during the three phases of cycle 23 separately for the northern (left panel) and southern. (right panel) ...

  1. Electrical resistance and magnetoresistance of UCoAl under high pressure

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    Honda, F.; Oomi, G.; Andreev, Alexander V.; Sechovský, V.; Shiokawa, Y.

    --, - (2002), s. 126-128 ISSN 0022-3131 R&D Projects: GA ČR GP202/01/D045 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z1010914 Keywords : UCoAl * non-Fermi liquid * itinerant metamagnetism * electrical resistance * high pressure Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 0.572, year: 2002

  2. Linear reciprocating wear behaviour of plasma-sprayed Al2O3 ...

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    Balmukund Dhakar

    2017-08-31

    Aug 31, 2017 ... However, few reports are available on the compound effects of the variations in ... polished samples is studied by using field emission scan- ning electron microscope (FESEM, Zeiss Supra-55). The phases present in the ... calculated by measured track depth and width by Altisurf. 500 optical profiler (figure ...

  3. Math-related career aspirations and choices within Eccles et al.'s expectancy-value theory of achievement-related behaviors.

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    Lauermann, Fani; Tsai, Yi-Miau; Eccles, Jacquelynne S

    2017-08-01

    Which occupation to pursue is one of the more consequential decisions people make and represents a key developmental task. Yet the underlying developmental processes associated with either individual or group differences in occupational choices are still not well understood. This study contributes toward filling this gap, focusing in particular on the math domain. We examined two aspects of Eccles et al.'s (1983) expectancy-value theory of achievement-related behaviors: (a) the reciprocal associations between adolescents' expectancy and subjective task value beliefs and adolescents' career plans and (b) the multiplicative association between expectancies and values in predicting occupational outcomes in the math domain. Our analyses indicate that adolescents' expectancy and subjective task value beliefs about math and their math- or science-related career plans reported at the beginning and end of high school predict each other over time, with the exception of intrinsic interest in math. Furthermore, multiplicative associations between adolescents' expectancy and subjective task value beliefs about math predict math-related career attainment approximately 15 years after graduation from high school. Gender differences emerged regarding career-related beliefs and career attainment, with male students being more likely than female to both pursue and attain math-related careers. These gender differences could not be explained by differences in beliefs about math as an academic subject. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).

  4. Diffusion-induced quadrupole relaxation of 27Al nuclei in dilute Al-Ti, Al-Cr, Al-Mn, and Al-Cu alloys at high temperatures

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    Bottyan, L.; Beke, D.L.; Tompa, K.

    1983-01-01

    The temperature dependence of the laboratory frame spin-lattice relaxation time of 27 Al nuclei is measured in 5N Al and in dilute Al-Ti, Al-Cr, Al-Mn, and Al-Cu alloys at 5.7 and 9.7 MHz resonance frequencies. The relaxation in pure aluminium is found to be purely due to the conduction electrons. An excess T 1 -relaxation contribution is detected in all Al-3d alloys investigated above 670 K. The excess relaxation rate is proportional to the impurity content and the temperature dependence of the excess contribution is of Arrhenius-type with an activation energy of (1.3 +- 0.3) eV for all of the investigated alloys. The relaxation contribution is found to be quadrupolar in origin and is caused by the relative diffusional jumps of solute atoms and Al atoms relatively far from the impurity. (author)

  5. Interfacial phenomena in the reactions of Al-B, Al-Ti-B, and Al-Zr-B alloys with KF-AlF3 and NaF-AlF3 melts

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    Lee, M.S.; Terry, B.S.; Grieveson, P.

    1993-01-01

    The interfacial phenomena occurring during the contacting of liquid Al-B, Al-Ti-B, and Al-Zr-B melts with KF-AlF 3 liquid fluxes have been investigated by optical examination of quenched metal drops previously immersed in the liquid fluxes. Reactions in the Al-B/KF-AlF 3 system involve the formation of metastable AlB 12 at the metal/flux interface. At high KBF 4 levels in the flux, the AlB 12 is dispersed in the flux and also at low KBF 4 levels in the metal. Reactions in the Al-Ti-B/KF-AlF 3 system involve the formation of TiB 2 , which may be dispersed in either the metal or the flux depending upon the composition of the flux. The results obtained for the Al-Ti-B/NaF-AlF 3 and Al-Zr-B/KF-AlF 3 systems were similar to those observed for the Al-Ti-B/KF-AlF 3 system

  6. Research

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    abp

    2015-08-27

    Aug 27, 2015 ... All DH's have a 24-hour Accident and Emergency unit and are equipped .... planning [38,39]. Such planning requires accurate data and should .... Prioritizing injury care: a review of trauma capacity in low and middle-income ...

  7. Mechanical design and fabrication processes for the ALS third-harmonic cavities

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    Franks, M.; Henderson, T.; Hernandez, K.; Otting, D.; Plate, D.; Rimmer, R.

    1999-01-01

    It is planned to install five third-harmonic (1.5 GHz) RF Cavities in May/June 1999 as an upgrade to the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). This paper presents mechanical design features, their experiences in using electronic design models to expedite the manufacturing process, and the fabrication processes employed to produce these cavities for the ALS. They discuss some of the lessons learned from the PEP-II RF Cavity design and fabrication, and outline the improvements incorporated in the new design. They also report observations from the current effort

  8. Al-Zubarah Archaeological Park as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site

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    Kinzel, Moritz; Thuesen, Ingolf

    2011-01-01

    includes large-scale excavation and heritage work that will develop the site of al-Zubarah into a heritage park, which is at present on the UNESCO World Heritage provisional list. The poster paper presents the strategies for the heritage master plan, including procedures for site management, preservation...

  9. COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON MOSSES FOR AIR POLLUTION ...

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    Osondu

    2012-08-16

    Aug 16, 2012 ... research works by Kovacs et al. and Rovinsky et al., (1993) have shown that mosses have proved to be better bio-indicators of pollution because they are more sensitive to atmospheric pollution. The usefulness of mosses in determining heavy metal concentrations in different geographical areas has been ...

  10. El plan de desarrollo de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana, "Plan Sucre 2007-2013”, y las implicaciones para la seguridad nacional de Colombia

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    Hurtado, Camilo; Cadena Afanador, Walter René

    2015-01-01

    Este trabajo de investigación analiza, desde la cosmovisión neorrealista de las Relaciones Internacionales, los alcances del Plan de Desarrollo de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana, Plan Sucre, y las repercusiones que su consolidación tendrá para la seguridad nacional de Colombia. Inicialmente se plantea un marco teórico y conceptual, lo cual permite avanzar al segundo capítulo el cual tiene como propósito fundamental describir en qué consiste el Plan Sucre. El capítulo tres analiza los a...

  11. Creep of cast Fe-36Al-2Ti alloy

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    Dobeš, Ferdinand; Kratochvíl, P.; Milička, Karel

    2006-01-01

    Roč. 14, 10-11 (2006), s. 1199-1203 ISSN 0966-9795. [EUROMAT 2005. Praha, 05.09.2005-08.09.2005] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA106/05/0409 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20410507 Keywords : iron aluminides, based on FeAl * creep * mechanical testing Subject RIV: JG - Metallurgy Impact factor: 1.943, year: 2006

  12. Synthesizing (ZrAl3 + AlN)/Mg-Al composites by a 'matrix exchange' method

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    Gao, Tong; Li, Zengqiang; Hu, Kaiqi; Han, Mengxia; Liu, Xiangfa

    2018-06-01

    A method named 'matrix exchange' to synthesize ZrAl3 and AlN reinforced Mg-Al composite was developed in this paper. By inserting Al-10ZrN master alloy into Mg matrix and reheating the cooled ingot to 550 °C, Al and Mg atoms diffuse to the opposite side. As a result, liquid melt occurs once the interface areas reach to proper compositions. Then dissolved Al atoms react with ZrN, leading to the in-situ formation of ZrAl3 and AlN particles, while the Al matrix is finally replaced by Mg. This study provides a new insight for preparing Mg composites.

  13. Coupled growth of Al-Al2Cu eutectics in Al-Cu-Ag alloys

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    Hecht, U; Witusiewicz, V; Drevermann, A

    2012-01-01

    Coupled eutectic growth of Al and Al 2 Cu was investigated in univariant Al-Cu-Ag alloys during solidification with planar and cellular morphology. Experiments reveal the dynamic selection of small spacings, below the minimum undercooling spacing and show that distinct morphological features pertain to nearly isotropic or anisotropic Al-Al 2 Cu interfaces.

  14. AL ITTIJAHAT AL MUNHARIFAH FI AT TAFSIR LI BADLI ASHAB AL MADZAHIB AL NAHWIYYAH WA BADL MAN YAJHALUNA QAWAID AL LUGHAH AL ARABIYYAH FI NADHAR MUHAMMAD HUSAIN AL DZAHABIY

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    Misbakhudin Misbakhudin

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available One of the most precious achievement in qur’anic studies was the book of Al-Ittijâhât al-Munharifah fî al-Tafsîr: Dawâfi’uha wa Daf’uha written by A great Islamic scholar, Muhammad Husein al-Dzahabî. He was succeeded in discussing several issues of corruptions of the exegesis of the holy Qur’an. This article is aimed to explain and to describe his analysis toward several corrupted linguist interpretations in their originations and such corrupted linguistic interpretations of the holy Qur’an which are ignoring Arabic structures and grammers

  15. UMTRA project office federal employee occupational safety and health program plan

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    1994-06-01

    This document establishes the Federal Employee Occupational Safety and Health (FEOSH) Program for the US Department of Energy (DOE) Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project Office. This program will ensure compliance with applicable requirements of DOE Order 3790.1B and DOE Albuquerque Operations Office (AL) Order 3790.lA. FEOSH Program responsibilities delegated by the DOE-AL to the UMTRA Project Office by AL Order 3790.1A also are assigned. The UMTRA Project Office has developed the UMTRA Project Environmental, Safety, and Health (ES ampersand H) Plan (DOE, 1992), which establishes the basic programmatic ES ampersand H requirements for all participants on the UMTRA Project. The ES ampersand H plan is designed primarily to cover remedial action activities at UMTRA sites and defines the ES ampersand H responsibilities of both the UMTRA Project Office and its contractors. The UMTRA FEOSH Program described herein is a subset of the overall UMTRA ES ampersand H program and covers only federal employees working on the UMTRA Project

  16. USSR Report, Physics and Mathematics.

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    1987-03-12

    10), Aug 86) 3A Occurrence of Boson Resonances During pp-Interactions at 32 GeV/s (Ye. A. Kozlovskiy, V. A. Bumazhnov, et. al.; YADERNAYA FIZIKA... BOSON RESONANCES DURING pp-INTERACTIONS AT 32 GeV/s Moscow YADERNAYA FIZIKA in Russian Vol 44, No A(10), Aug 86 (manuscript received 14 Oct 85) pp 968...scalar leptons with gauge and Higgs fermions. Omission of mixing has been found to result in appreciable errors. With constraints on the masses of

  17. Natrona County/Casper, Wyoming. Revised Uniform Summary of Surface Weather Observations (RUSSWO). Parts A-F.

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    1982-07-16

    el_ STATON STATbON NA ViAlS 24 HOUR AMOUNTS IN INCHES MYwA JAN FES MAR APR MAY JUN JUL. AUG. SEP. OCT. NOV. OEC MOLTS ., . 3. 7. S__3 5. 5.1 2 A T. k...344I1 6? -! -" 171 1*1 16 16 _311_302 lement Ill) ZX8 21 M e. Obra . Mame me. of Newe Wilk To e mtw" Rol. lio. *Towl wet sikll, a". Poin IN ,e " ’ ..4...569 NATRONA CO/CASPER WY 73-61 $’AT ON ST-ATIO. N ANE viAls MRS L S T i JAN FES MAN APR MAY JUNl Jut AUG SEP OCT NO0V DEC ANNUAL MEAN 124*61824.&2324

  18. Modulus, Strength and Thermal Exposure Studies of FP-Al2O3/Aluminum and FP-Al2O3/Magnesium Composites.

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    1981-01-01

    for the ~AUG18IS~ 1W Symposium on Comites and Advanced Materials*M sponsored by the American Ceramic Society Coco Beach, Florida, January 18424, 1981E...properties of cFP-A203 fiber reinforced composites prepared by liquid metal infiltration f a techniques. The first approach was the incorporation of a...coated FP-A1203 fibers in the composites. This coating is readily wet by molten aluminum and permitted the use of more conventional aluminum alloys

  19. Effect of potassium on micromorphological and chemical ...

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    STORAGESEVER

    2009-08-04

    Aug 4, 2009 ... molybdate/NSA using an auto analyzer system II respectively. (Winkleman et al., 1990). For P and K analysis, dry ashing was done (Jones et al., 1991) and P was determined colorimetrically and K by flame photometer. Chlorophyll content was estimated by method of Arnon (1949), modified by Kirk (1968).

  20. Plan de negocios para la exportación de productos manufacturados del austro al mercado de migrantes ecuatorianos residentes en la ciudad de Nueva York – E.E.U.U.

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    Vintimilla Ullauri, Hernán Javier

    2013-01-01

    Este trabajo tiene como objetivo principal elaborar un plan de negocios, en el cual se desarrolla la idea principal de exportar productos manufacturados elaborados en el austro del Ecuador para destinarlos a la población de migrantes ecuatorianos que se encuentran radicados en la ciudad de Nueva York – EEUU., por lo que se busca mediante la aplicación de herramientas y técnicas adecuadas encontrar la solución al problema, por lo que este trabajo cuenta con seis capítulos: El primer capítulo s...

  1. Plan estratégico del Puerto de Paita

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    Dávila Salazar, Javier Erwin; Morales Dávila, Eric Rubén; Pomar Hachimine, Cecilia Sofía; Santos Conde, Alina Liliana

    2016-01-01

    xix, 252 h. : il. ; 30 cm El presente estudio desarrolla el Plan Estratégico del Puerto de Paita con el objetivo de lograr posicionarlo dentro de los principales 25 puertos de contenedores de Latinoamérica. Los análisis realizados en base al modelo secuencial del proceso estratégico revelan que el puerto tiene importantes ventajas comparativas y competitivas que generan estrategias de tipo intensiva y de diversificación, cuya aplicación convertirá al Puerto de Paita en el principal eslabón...

  2. Plan de mercadeo Café Castillo de Wandra

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    Jaramillo Peña, Omar Darío

    2015-01-01

    Café Castillo de Wandra es el resultado que se obtuvo al buscar una buena forma para mejorar los ingresos en la finca Santana del municipio de Támesis (Antioquia), a partir de agregarle valor al grano producido en ella -- Para poder cumplir los objetivos de ventas e ingresos, es necesario elaborar un plan de mercadeo ejecutable a un año que contenga todas las variables del mix de mercadeo y que permita que el producto tenga un posicionamiento estratégico dentro de su mercado objetivo -- El pl...

  3. A Demand-driven Model of Decentralised Land-use Planning and ...

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    sulaiman.adebowale

    2006-08-25

    Aug 25, 2006 ... of alternatives and reversals in which he appears to be arguing that decentralisation is .... From top-down to bottom-up visions of tenure, .... to raise funds for the logistical costs associated with the allocation process, including ...

  4. Operations program plan: Revision 3

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    1988-07-01

    This document, the Operations Program Plan (OPP), has been developed as the seven-year master plan for operation of WIPP. The OPP was authorized by the Albuquerque Field Office of the Department of Energy (DOE-AL) and that organization's WIPP Project Office (DOE-WPO) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The OPP is the directive from the DOE-WPO Project Manager as to how the WIPP is to be managed, operated, and administered. As the top tier management document for WIPP, the OPP establishes organizational responsibilities and an organizational structure for the Waste Isolation Division (WID) of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The OPP sets policy and tone for conducting WIPP operations; it requires and specifically authorizes implementing documents (e.g., manuals). It has also proven instrumental in the budgeting and planning process, most particularly in expediting the preparation of specific budgets and detailed schedules for each of the numerous work packages. The OPP is also used to communicate information about WIPP operations

  5. Agriculture in the plan change to build peace. An internal critique El agro en el plan Cambio para construir la paz. Una crítica interna

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    Rivera Carlos Fernando

    1999-06-01

    Full Text Available This article presents the nature, bases, and coherence requirements of a plan, in order to specify the methodological criteria of its internal critique of the agricultural chapter. The examination of its diagnosis leads to a different diagnosis, which is inferred by the objective of "integrating the rural sector": the persistence of the agrarian problem, expressed in a bimodal structure, polarized into 'the economic' and 'the social'. The plan's objective reveals a long-term vision: to
    contribute to the solution of the agrarian problem. Thus, the policies differentiate between the advanced entrepreneurial and peasant sectors, for which it designs different strategies which assign different roles for the state: to facilitate socioeconomic processes for the former, and to promote rural development for the latter. The article shows that the Plan maintains internal coherence, and illustrates its limitations
    due to the institutional environment, which is manifested in its
    design and in the possibilities for its execution. It concludes that the most important policies are the weakest, and that rural developmerlt is not only a problem of social design, but above all of the mentality and commitment of society on all levels.Este articulo expone la naturaleza, fundamentos y requerimientos de coherencia de un plan para precisar los criterios metodologicos de su critica interna al capitulo agropecuario. El examen de diagnostico lleva a un diagnostico diferente, que se infiere del objetivo de "integrar al sector rural" la persistencia del problema agrario en el pais, expresada en un estructura bimodal, polarizada en lo economico y en lo social. El objetivo del plan revela una vision de largo plazo: contribuir a resolver el problema agrario. Adi, las politicas diferencian entre sector empresarial avanzado y campesino, para los cuales diseña estrategias distintan que asignan un papel distinto al Estado: facilitar procesos socio-economicos para

  6. BKR.2013.026 (Galley_Proof)

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    Femi Olorunniji

    2013-08-25

    Aug 25, 2013 ... However, other studies have linked superoxide generation with endothelial ... induced neural stem cell proliferation (Topchiy et al., 2013). Using the ... cells were obtained and characterised by methods previously described.

  7. Download this PDF file

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    Aug 3, 2009 ... Leefwysesiektes soos obesiteit word verwaarloos in ontwikkelende lande weens die fokus op ..... the 25% attributable to infectious diseases (Bradshaw et al. .... UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2008, Glossary: Pupil-teacher.

  8. Influence of cooling rate and cerium addition on rapidly solidified Al-TM alloys

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    Michalcová, A.; Vojtěch, D.; Schumacher, G.; Novák, P.; Klementová, Mariana; Šerák, J.; Mudrová, M.; Valdaufová, J.

    2010-01-01

    Roč. 48, č. 1 (2010), s. 1-7 ISSN 0023-432X Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40320502 Keywords : rapid solidification * Al-TM * microstructure * aluminium Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 0.471, year: 2010

  9. Planned place of birth

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    Overgaard, Charlotte; Coxon, Kirstie; Stewart, Mary

    Title Planned place of birth: issues of choice, access and equity. Outline In Northern European countries, giving birth is generally safe for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies, and their babies. However, place of birth can affect women’s outcomes and experiences of birth. Whilst tertiary...... countries, maternity care is provided free to women, through public financing of health care; universal access to care is therefore secured. Nevertheless, different models of care exist, and debates about the appropriateness of providing maternity care in different settings take place in both countries...... in Denmark Coxon K et al: Planned place of birth in England: perceptions of accessing obstetric units, midwife led units and home birth amongst women and their partners. How these papers interrelate These papers draw upon recent research in maternity care, undertaken in Denmark and in England. In both...

  10. Performance of yam microtubers from temporary immersion system ...

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    Jane

    2011-08-22

    Aug 22, 2011 ... Irrigation and other cultural practices were developed following the. Yam Technical ... plants in their natural habitat and cleaning obtained through tissue .... Internacional de Recursos Fitogeneticos , Roma, Italia. Jova et al.

  11. Planning of Distribution Networks in Baghdad City

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    Thamir M. Abdul-Wahhab

    2015-02-01

    Full Text Available Planning of electrical distribution networks is considered of highest priority at the present time in Iraq, due to the huge increase in electrical demand and expansions imposed on distribution networks as a result of the great and rapid urban development. Distribution system planning simulates and studies the behavior of electrical distribution networks under different operating conditions. The study provide understanding of the existing system and to prepare a short term development plan or a long term plan used to guide system expansion and future investments needed for improved network performance. The objective of this research is the planning of Al_Bayaa 11 kV distribution network in Baghdad city based on the powerful and efficient CYMDist software as a tool for the simulation and analysis of the network. The planning method proposed in this thesis is to reach the optimum operating conditions of the network by combining the network reconfiguration in sequence with the insertion of capacitors with optimal sizing and locations. The optimum performance of the network is achieved by reducing losses, improving voltage profile and alleviating overload for transformers and cables.

  12. Plan de empresa DROP S.A.S. artículos y accesorios para mascotas

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    Este trabajo es un plan de empresa que determina la viabilidad del proyecto DROP S.A.S, que tiene como finalidad la producción y comercialización de artículos para mascotas. Para lograr este fin, se ha realizado el plan de mercadeo, plan de producción, plan de organización y plan financiero, al hacer un estudio detallado de cada uno de estos módulos Inicialmente se elaboró el plan de mercadeo, en el que se hizo un análisis de las fuerzas del entorno, dentro del cual, se encuentra el estud...

  13. Ageing effects in a Cu-Al-Ni shape memory alloy

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    Daříček, Tomáš; Lašek, Jiří; Zárubová, Niva; Novák, Václav; Bartuška, Pavel

    2001-01-01

    Roč. 11, - (2001), s. Pr8-179-Pr8-184 ISSN 1155-4339 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA1010909; GA AV ČR IAA1010817 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z1010914 Keywords : Cu-Al-Ni alloy * shape memory * martensitic transformation * resistometry Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 0.401, year: 2001

  14. Austenite-martensite interfaces in strained foils of CuAlNi alloy

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    Ostapovets, Andrej; Paidar, Václav; Zárubová, Niva

    2009-01-01

    Roč. 100, č. 3 (2009), 342-344 ISSN 1862-5282 R&D Projects: GA MŠk OC 149; GA AV ČR(CZ) IAA200100627 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100520 Keywords : martensitic transformation * CuAlNi * habit planes Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 0.862, year: 2009

  15. Familial ALS

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    Boylan, Kevin

    2015-01-01

    Synopsis Genes linked to ALS susceptibility are being identified at an increasing rate owing to advances in molecular genetic technology. Genetic mechanisms in ALS pathogenesis appear to exert major effects in ~10% of patients, but genetic factors at some level may be important components of disease risk in most ALS patients. Identification of gene variants associated with ALS has informed concepts of the pathogenesis of ALS, aided the identification of therapeutic targets, facilitated research to develop new ALS biomarkers, and supported the establishment of clinical diagnostic tests for ALS-linked genes. Translation of this knowledge to ALS therapy development is ongoing. PMID:26515623

  16. Malamih al-Ashwat al-'Arabiyyah wa Makharijaha

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    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available This writing discusses on al-ashwat al-‘arabiyyah that is known with “phonetic” term. It talks and interprets makharij al-huruf or place for producing sounds and also processing production of sounds by parts of mouth in Arabic language. The problems of sounds and its systems in Arabic language have been conducted by the scholars of al-ashwat al-‘arabiyyah attractively, neatly, and detail and gotten ahead the phonetic western scholars. Part of their analysis results formulate the study about al-ashwat al-sakinah (al-Shamit is known with vocal and consonant sounds in research questions shawait – shawamit. Ibnu Jinni has formulated “harakat”(wowel in Arabic language and dimension of letter  mad and liyn on alif  letter - waw - ya’ (ا و ي, from these letters create  harakat fathah, dammah, and kasrah. Moreover, in this writing also exist the description of hija’i letters and its makhraj that are correct from parts of mouth and the unity of coordinative sounds that produce sounds in morphemes arrangement, in one word that produces meaning. The result of phonological study has divided al-ashwat to be kinds of sound like the pronounced sounds, produced sounds from mouth, and heard sound.

  17. Oncorhynchus mykiss

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    Aug 30, 2017 ... immune system and behaviour (reviewed in Donaldson et al. 2008). Changes in ..... An involvement of the GADD45 proteins in resistance to ... Consumer Protection Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (pilot project: Rainbow ...

  18. 76 FR 61717 - Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing

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    ... Aug 30; 5(8): e1299; doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001299. 2. Klion AD, et al. Cloning and... untoward clinical events. Development Stage: Prototype. Inventors: James M. DeLeo and Patricia P. Sengstack...

  19. New technique for system simplification using Cuckoo search and ESA

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    Afzal Sikander

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    Aug 17, 2017 ... previously published work and the results are compared in terms of performance indices. Keywords. Cuckoo search; Eigen spectrum analysis; optimization; reduced ... et al [7], by which they demonstrated the advantages of.

  20. Transient oxidation of Al-deposited Fe-Cr-Al alloy foil

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    Andoh, A.

    1997-01-01

    The oxide phases formed on an Al-deposited Fe-Cr-Al alloy foil and an Fe-Cr-Al alloy foil of the same levels of Al and (La+Ce) contents, and their oxidation kinetics have been studied in air at 1173 and 1373 K using TGA, XRD and SEM. Al deposition promotes the growth of metastable aluminas (θ-Al 2 O 3 , γ-Al 2 O 3 ). Scales consisting of θ-Al 2 O 3 and a small amount of α-Al 2 O 3 develop on the Al-deposited foil at 1173 K and exhibit the whisker-type morphology. In the early stage of oxidation at 1373 K, thick scales consisting of θ-Al 2 O 3 and α-Al 2 O 3 grow rapidly on the Al-deposited foil. The transformation from θ-Al 2 O 3 to α-Al 2 O 3 is very fast, and the scales result in only α-Al 2 O 3 . In contrast, α-Al 2 O 3 scales containing a minor amount of FeAl 2 O 4 develop on the alloy foil. The growth rate of α-Al 2 O 3 scales on the Al-deposited foil is smaller than that on the alloy foil and very close to that on NiAl at 1373 K. (orig.)

  1. Neuropsychological deficits in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS: a South India experience

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    Jamuna Rajeswaran

    2013-04-01

    Full Text Available ALS is a terminal progressive degenerative neurological disorder studies suggest that approximately 35% to 52% of ALS patients experience cognitive deficits which may be identified early in the course of the disease. Cognitive deficits being the integral part of the disease has not been studied in the Indian setting. This is one of the first studies assessing the pattern of cognitive impairment in ALS in the Indian condition. The objective is to examine the neuropsychological profile of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Cognitive function was studied in 20 ALS patients: mean age 45.85±13.9 years (22-65. Neuropsychological test battery was administered. In all 21 test were administered individually in 4-5 sessions which lasted for 7-8 hours. The results show that the majority of patients were from lower/middle socio-economic background. Scores were compared with gender, age and education specific norms, wherein scores falling below 15th percentile of the normative data were treated as deficits. ALS-associated cognitive impairments include deficiencies in visual attention, working memory, fluency, cognitive flexibility, response inhibition, planning, problem solving, and visual-perceptual skills.These impairments indicate executive dysfunction. In conclusion ALS is a disease that affects higher cognitive frontal functions, especially the EF.

  2. TWRS retrieval and disposal mission. Immobilized high-level waste storage plan

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    Calmus, R.B.

    1998-01-01

    This project plan has a two fold purpose. First, it provides a plan specific to the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) Immobilized High-Level Waste (EMW) Storage Subproject for the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) that meets the requirements of Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement) milestone M-90-01 (Ecology et al. 1996) and is consistent with the project plan content guidelines found in Section 11.5 of the Tri-Party Agreement action plan. Second, it provides an upper tier document that can be used as the basis for future subproject line item construction management plans. The planning elements for the construction management plans are derived from applicable U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) planning guidance documents (DOE Orders 4700.1 (DOE 1992a) and 430.1 (DOE 1995)). The format and content of this project plan are designed to accommodate the plan's dual purpose. A cross-check matrix is provided in Appendix A to explain where in the plan project planning elements required by Section 11.5 of the Tri-Party Agreement are addressed

  3. Manta: una ciudad-puerto en el siglo XIX. Economía regional y mercado mundial

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    Tatiana Hidrovo Quiñónez

    2006-11-01

    Full Text Available El ensayo analiza el surgimiento de la ciudad e Manta como estación de enlace entre la región de Manabí y el mercado mundial en el siglo XIX. Esta región económica estuvo integrada por un sistema de pequeñas localidades, cada una de las cuales cumplía una función determinada. El puerto de Manta experimentó un sorprendente despegue debido al auge manufacturero de los sombreros de paja toquilla y, más tarde, al auge agroexportador de la tagua y el cacao. Estudia, además, el proceso de recolonización por parte de los grupos blanco-mestizos y la segmentación del espacio entre los nuevos inmigrantes y los descendientes de los antiguos indios.

  4. Rulison Monitoring Plan

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    radionuclides created by the test are unlikely to migrate appreciable distances (hundreds of feet) from the detonation zone (Cooper et al. 2007, 2009). The Monitoring Plan was developed to provide a cautious and comprehensive approach for detecting any potential contaminant migration from the Rulison test site. It also provides an independent confirmation of results from the industry sampling and analysis plan while effectively increasing the sampling frequency of wells near the site.

  5. Cube-phase in excess Hg-type Al-Mg-Si alloy studied by EFTEM

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    Matsuda, K.; Ishida, Y.; Müllerová, Ilona; Frank, Luděk; Ikeno, S.

    2006-01-01

    Roč. 41, č. 9 (2006), s. 2605-2610 ISSN 0022-2461 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20650511 Keywords : Al-Mg-Si alloy * beta-phase * cube-phase * EFTEM * EDS Subject RIV: JA - Electronics ; Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering Impact factor: 0.999, year: 2006

  6. Fully automated VMAT treatment planning for advanced-stage NSCLC patients

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    Della Gala, Giuseppe [Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rotterdam (Netherlands); Universita di Bologna, Scuola di Scienze, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna (Italy); Dirkx, Maarten L.P.; Hoekstra, Nienke; Fransen, Dennie; Pol, Marjan van de; Heijmen, Ben J.M. [Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rotterdam (Netherlands); Lanconelli, Nico [Universita di Bologna, Scuola di Scienze, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna (Italy); Petit, Steven F. [Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rotterdam (Netherlands); Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA (United States)

    2017-05-15

    VMAT-Systems fuer NSCLC wurde fuer 41 Patienten der autoVMAT-Plan mit dem manuell erzeugten, klinisch applizierten intensitaetsmodulierten Strahlentherapieplan (IMRT) verglichen. AutoVMAT-Plaene wurden ferner mit manuellen und ohne Zeitdruck erstellten VMAT-Plaenen verglichen. Fuer 16 Patienten mit reduzierter Dosisverordnung des Planungszielvolumens (PTV) im klinischen IMRT-Plan (zur Vermeidung einer Verletzung von Toleranzdosen fuer Risikoorgane) wurde das Potenzial fuer eine Dosiseskalation mit autoVMAT untersucht. Zwei Aerzte bewerteten 35 von 41 autoVMAT-Plaenen (85 %) als klinisch akzeptabel. Verglichen mit den manuell erzeugten IMRT-Plaenen zeigten autoVMAT-Plaene eine statistisch signifikant bessere PTV-Abdeckung (V{sub 95%} erhoeht um 1,1 % ± 1,1 %), eine hoehere Dosiskonformitaet (R{sub 50} verringert um 12,2 % ± 12,7 %) und eine geringere durchschnittliche Dosis in Lunge, Herz und Oesophagus (verringert um je 0,9 Gy ± 1,0 Gy, 1,5 Gy ± 1,8 Gy, 3,6 Gy ± 2,8 Gy; alle p < 0,001). Um die restlichen 6 autoVMAT-Plaene aus klinischer Sicht akzeptabel zu machen, benoetigte ein Dosimetrist zur Feinabstimmung jeweils weniger als 10 min. AutoVMAT-Plaene wurden verglichen zu manuell optimierten VMAT-Plaenen als gleichwertig oder sogar besser erachtet. Fuer 6 von 16 Patienten ermoeglichte autoVMAT eine Dosiseskalation im Tumor um 5-10 Gy. Fuer die grosse Mehrheit von Patienten mit fortgeschrittenem NSCLC konnte ein klinisch applizierbarer, hochqualitativer autoVMAT-Plan vollautomatisch erstellt werden. Fuer eine Subgruppe ermoeglichte autoVMAT eine Dosiseskalation im Tumor. (orig.)

  7. Drivers for liquidation and transfer in small firms : Theory of Planned Behavior and firm conditions

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    2009-01-01

    Recently Leroy et al. (2008) tested if the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) predicts exit behavior of entrepreneurs: liquidation or transfer. He added the purchasers view to the TPB: firm viability and intangible assets. We retested Leroy et al. hypotheses on a more refined dataset of 136 firms in

  8. Characterization of copper resistant ciliates: Potential candidates for ...

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    Aug 17, 2011 ... algae (Rehman and Shakoori, 2001), yeast (Shakoori et al., 2005) ... organisms, this study was undertaken to determine the efficiency of ...... copper, mercury and zinc to ciliates from activated sludge plants. Bull. Environ.

  9. (Helianthus annuus L.) on physiology of wheat

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    Aug 4, 2009 ... African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 8 (15), pp. 3555-3559, 4 ... physiology of wheat seedlings including protein, proline, sugars, DNA, peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and .... (1956) as modified by Johnson et al. (1966).

  10. The role of intraperitoneally administered vitamin C during ...

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    Aug 9, 2010 ... membranes thereby contributing to the cellular degene- ... husks and fresh leafy vegetables. ... (Beutler et al., 1963), plasma for determination of ascorbic acid ... total proteins (Reinhold, 1953), as well as urea and creatinine.

  11. Biochemical factors associated with cassava resistance to whitefly

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    Aug 17, 2017 ... interactions having been suggested to be ... (Achidi et al., 2008); free sugars, protein and ... would elucidate the contribution of these ...... mays. Journal of Molecular Plant-Microbe .... Population dynamics of Bemisia tabaci and.

  12. Proton irradiation studies on Al and Al5083 alloy

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    Bhattacharyya, P.; Gayathri, N.; Bhattacharya, M.; Gupta, A. Dutta; Sarkar, Apu; Dhar, S.; Mitra, M. K.; Mukherjee, P.

    2017-10-01

    The change in the microstructural parameters and microhardness values in 6.5 MeV proton irradiated pure Al and Al5083 alloy samples have been evaluated using different model based techniques of X-ray diffraction Line Profile Analysis (XRD) and microindendation techniques. The detailed line profile analysis of the XRD data showed that the domain size increases and saturates with irradiation dose both in the case of Al and Al5083 alloy. The corresponding microstrain values did not show any change with irradiation dose in the case of the pure Al but showed an increase at higher irradiation doses in the case of Al5083 alloy. The microindendation results showed that unirradiated Al5083 alloy has higher hardness value compared to that of unirradiated pure Al. The hardness increased marginally with irradiation dose in the case of Al5083, whereas for pure Al, there was no significant change with dose.

  13. Comunidad y desarrollo en los Andes Peruanos. Una critica etnografica al Programa de Culturalidad

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    Vries, de P.A.

    2013-01-01

    En las últimas décadas la desconstrucción del desarrollo, conocida como el ‘postdesarrollismo’, ha cobrado gran auge en las ciencias sociales. En Latinoamérica el programa teórico denominado modernidad/colonialidad/descolonialidad (MCD) se propone descolonizar el pensamiento moderno reescribiendo la

  14. 7 CFR 1207.313 - Customs Service.

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    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 10 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Customs Service. 1207.313 Section 1207.313... PLAN Potato Research and Promotion Plan Definitions § 1207.313 Customs Service. Customs Service means the United States Customs Service of the United States Department of the Treasury. [56 FR 40229, Aug...

  15. Aplicación Móvil de Realidad Aumentada para la Enseñanza de la Clasificación de los Seres Vivos a Niños de Tercer Grado

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    Cesar Augusto Solano; Johan Fabiel Casas Díaz; Juan Carlos Guevara Bolaños

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    Las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC) ha tenido un gran auge en lo los últimos años y es debido a este auge que se han ido introduciendo en el aula de clase con resultados prometedores. Por esta razón es indispensable crear herramientas innovadoras que fortalezcan los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de los estudiantes, además de motivarlos a usar este tipo de herramientas tanto dentro como fuera del aula. El presente documento tiene como objetivo presentar al lector...

  16. Servicio farmacéutico de deshabituación al tabaco

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    March Pujol, Marian; Travé i Mercadé, Pere; Via Sosa, Ma. de los Ángeles; Fuentes Almendras, Miriam; Badía Palacín, Josefa

    2012-01-01

    Se describe qué es el tabaquismo, con que enfermedades se asocia, el proceso de deshabituación tabáquica,fases del mismo e intervenciones farmacéuticas. Materiales y herramientas necesarios para prestar el servicio de deshabituación al tabaco. Técnica, tests de valoración, plan de acción y registros. Manejo de la terapia sustitutiva de la nicotina.

  17. PEMBARUAN MASLAḤAH DALAM MAQĀṢID AL- SHARĪ‘AH: TELAAH HUMANISTIS TENTANG AL-KULLIYYĀT AL-KHAMSAH

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    Zaenuddin Mansyur

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available Abstract:   In order to answer a variety of issues faced by human being in the current era, such as human rights abuses, social disintegration, and terrorism, the renewal of Islamic law in the level of theoretical and practical aspects is very urgent. This paper aims to examine one of the Islamic legal reform efforts, namely to build a more technical understanding of the concept of maṣlaḥah contained in the maqāṣīd sharī‘ah, called the al-kulliyat al-khamsah. Therefore, the concept of maṣlaḥah in ḥifẓ al-dīn is technically defined as al-ḥurriyah al-i‘tiqād (freedom of religion and schools; in ḥifẓ al-nafs as al-karamat al-insān (human being breeding; in ḥifẓ al-nasl as ḥifẓ al-usrah (wholeness and harmony of the family; in ḥifẓ al-māl as al-taḍammun al-insān (social solidarity , and in ḥifẓ al-‘aql as al-ḥuqūq as al-tarbiyāt (increasing human resources quality.Abstrak: Demi menjawab aneka persoalan zaman yang dihadapi manusia era sekarang, seperti penyelewengan terhadap HAM, disintegrasi sosial, dan terorisme, maka pembaharuan hukum Islam dalam tataran teoretis dan praktis urgen dilakukan. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji salah satu upaya pembaruan hukum Islam, yaitu membangun pemahaman yang lebih teknis terhadap konsep maṣlaḥah yang terkandung dalam maqāṣīd sharī‘ah, yang disebut dengan al-kulliyāt al-khamsah. Oleh karena itu, konsep maṣlaḥah dalam ḥifẓu al-dīn secara teknis dimaknai sebagai ḥurriyah al-i‘tiqād (kebebasan untuk beragama dan beraliran; dalam ḥifẓu al-nafs sebagai al-karāmāt al-insān (pemuliaan kemanusiaan; dalam ḥifẓu al-nasl sebagai ḥifẓu al-usrah (keutuhan dan keharmonisan keluarga; dalam ḥifẓu al-māl sebagai al-taḍammun al-insān (solidaritas sosial; dan dalam ḥifẓu al-‘aql sebagai al-ḥuqūq al-tarbiyāt (peningkatan sumber daya manusia.

  18. Recycling-friendly planning and construction; Recyclinggerechtes Planen und Bauen

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    Willkomm, W. [Hannover Univ. (Germany). Fachbereich Architektur]|[Institut fuer Industrialisierung des Bauens GmbH, Hannover (Germany)

    1995-09-01

    Building materials recycling is part and parcel of any intelligent, resource-conserving materials recycling concept. Principally, however, it can never be more than the second best solution. This is because it must always come after all has been done to prevent building material residues from arising in the first place. The greatest potential for waste avoidance in the building industry lies in the planning phase. Planning nowadays is oriented more to production, utilisation, reutilisation, maintenance, and recycling processes, i.e. more to processes in general than to the design of any certain product. (orig./HW) [Deutsch] Baustoff-Recycling ist ein unverzichtbarer Beitrag zu intelligenten, resourcensparenden Materialkreislaeufen. Es stellt aber immer nur die zweitbeste Loesung dar. Denn zunaechst muessen alle Moeglichkeiten genutzt werden. Bauabfaelle gar nicht erst entstehen zu lassen. Die groessten Potentiale zur Abfallvermeidung in der Bauproduktion liegen in einer Bauplanung, die sich intensiver als bisher an Herstellungs-, Nutzungs-, Umnutzungs-, Instandhaltungs- und Recyclingprozessen orientiert, also eher prozessorientierte Planung als Produktgestaltung. (orig./HW)

  19. Combustion synthesis of AlB2-Al2O3 composite powders with AlB2 nanowire structures

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    Yang, Pan; Xiao, Guoqing; Ding, Donghai; Ren, Yun; Yang, Shoulei; Lv, Lihua; Hou, Xing

    2018-05-01

    Using of Al and B2O3 powders as starting materials, and Mg-Al alloy as additives, AlB2-Al2O3 composite powders with AlB2 nanowire structures were successfully fabricated via combustion synthesis method in Ar atmosphere at a pressure of 1.5 MPa. The effect of different amount of Mg-Al alloy on the phase compositions and morphology of the combustion products was investigated. The results revealed that AlB2 and Al2O3 increased, whereas Al decreased with the content of Mg-Al alloy increasing. The impurities MgAl2O4 and AlB12 would exist in the sample with adding of 18 wt% Mg-Al alloy. Interestingly, FESEM/TEM/EDS results showed that AlB2 nanowires were observed in the products when the content of Mg-Al alloy is 6 wt% and 12 wt%. The more AlB2 nanowires can be found as the content of Mg-Al alloy increased. And the yield of AlB2 nanowires with the diameter of about 200 nanometers (nm) and the length up to several tens of micrometers (μm) in the combustion product is highest when the content of Mg-Al alloy is 12 wt%. The vapor, such as Mg-Al (g), B2O2 (g), AlO (g) and Al2O (g), produced during the process of combustion synthesis, reacted with each other to yield AlB2 nanowires by vapor-solid (VS) mechanism and the corresponding model was also proposed.

  20. The effects of boron in TiAl/Ti3Al

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    Feng, C.R.; Michel, D.J.; Crowe, C.R.

    1989-01-01

    The authors discuss the TiAl/Ti 3 Al interfacial misfit dislocations structures investigated by TEM in Ti-45Al alloy and Ti-45Al/TiB 2 composite. For TiAl with c/a = 1.02, only a single set of misfit dislocation arrays are crystallographically possible; these were observed in Ti-45Al alloy. However, the observation of three sets of misfit dislocation arrays in the Ti-45Al/TiB 2 composite suggests that the occupation of octahedral sites in the TiAl structure by excess boron was responsible for a decrease in the c/a ratio leading to an increased fcc character of the TiAl at the TiAl/Ti 3 Al interface

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    Aug 1, 2011 ... production in poultry (Suzuki et al., 2010). ORT was reported in the ... medication costs, increased loss rates and poor pro- duction (Ghanbarpour .... Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale in commercial birds in Peru. Avian. Dis., 49: ...

  2. Spirulina platensis

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    Aug 28, 2013 ... techniques for cultivation of useful microalgae ... cheaper nutritional sources such as ammonia and urea. (Bezerra et al., 2008; .... The analysis was conducted with .... tion effect was less marked with urea due to enzymatic.

  3. cDNA cloning and primary structure analysis of invariant chain in ...

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    Aug 10, 2011 ... tiation antigen CD74, is a type II transmembrane protein that associates with the ... may result in autoimmune diseases (Ansari, 1993; Bryan et al., 2008). .... swissmod/SWISS-MODEL.html) to predict conformation. RESULTS.

  4. In Situ Fabrication of AlN Coating by Reactive Plasma Spraying of Al/AlN Powder

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    Mohammed Shahien

    2011-10-01

    Full Text Available Reactive plasma spraying is a promising technology for the in situ formation of aluminum nitride (AlN coatings. Recently, it became possible to fabricate cubic-AlN-(c-AlN based coatings through reactive plasma spraying of Al powder in an ambient atmosphere. However, it was difficult to fabricate a coating with high AlN content and suitable thickness due to the coalescence of the Al particles. In this study, the influence of using AlN additive (h-AlN to increase the AlN content of the coating and improve the reaction process was investigated. The simple mixing of Al and AlN powders was not suitable for fabricating AlN coatings through reactive plasma spraying. However, it was possible to prepare a homogenously mixed, agglomerated and dispersed Al/AlN mixture (which enabled in-flight interaction between the powder and the surrounding plasma by wet-mixing in a planetary mill. Increasing the AlN content in the mixture prevented coalescence and increased the nitride content gradually. Using 30 to 40 wt% AlN was sufficient to fabricate a thick (more than 200 µm AlN coating with high hardness (approximately 1000 Hv. The AlN additive prevented the coalescence of Al metal and enhanced post-deposition nitriding through N2 plasma irradiation by allowing the nitriding species in the plasma to impinge on a larger Al surface area. Using AlN as a feedstock additive was found to be a suitable method for fabricating AlN coatings by reactive plasma spraying. Moreover, the fabricated coatings consist of hexagonal (h-AlN, c-AlN (rock-salt and zinc-blend phases and certain oxides: aluminum oxynitride (Al5O6N, cubic sphalerite Al23O27N5 (ALON and Al2O3. The zinc-blend c-AlN and ALON phases were attributed to the transformation of the h-AlN feedstock during the reactive plasma spraying. Thus, the zinc-blend c-Al

  5. Instability of TiC and TiAl3 compounds in Al-10Mg and Al-5Cu alloys by addition of Al-Ti-C master alloy

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    2006-01-01

    The performance of Al-Ti-C master alloy in refining Al-10Mg and A1-5Cu alloys was studied by using electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA) and X-ray diffractometer (XRD) analysis.The results indicate that there are obvious fading phenomena in both Al-10Mg and Al-5Cu alloys with the addition of Al-5Ti-0.4C refiner which contains TiC and TiAl3 compounds.Mg element has no influence on the stability of TiC and TiAl3, while TiC particles in Al-10Mg alloy react with Al to form Al4C3 particles, resulting in the refinement fading.However, TiC particles are relatively stable in Al-5Cu alloy, while TiAl3 phase reacts with Al2Cu to produce a new phase Ti(Al, Cu)2, which is responsible for the refinement fading in Al-5Cu alloy.These indicate that the refinement fading will not occur only when both the TiC particles and TiAl3 compound of Al-Ti-C refiner are stable in Al alloys.

  6. PEMAHAMAN HADITS TARBAWI BURHAN AL ISLAM AL ZARNUJI DALAM KITAB TA’LIM AL MUTA’ALLIM

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    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper explores the understanding of tarbawi (education hadith from one of the major influential clerics in the Islamic educational system, especially in pesantren. He is Burhan al Islam al Zarnuji with his landmark book Ta’lim al Muta’allim. The conclusion that can be drawn is that al Zarnuji has shades of sufistical view in understanding tarbawi hadith. This can be seen in his understanding of hadith on obligation to seek knowledge (thalab al ilmi faridhatun ‘ala kulli muslimin wa muslimatin, which is interpreted as ilm al hal, the science concerning the condition of the human religious or simplistically said as the religious sciences; and the hadith of intention of studying (innama al a’malu bi al niyyat with the intention for the sake of the hereafter and religion, not mundane. Such an understanding is not something taken for granted, but it can be reinterpreted and perfected in accordance with the spirit of the times of context.

  7. Calculation of Gibbs energy of Zr-Al-Ni, Zr-Al-Cu, Al-Ni-Cu and Zr-Al-Ni-Cu liquid alloys based on quasiregular solution model

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    Li, H.Q.; Yang, Y.S.; Tong, W.H.; Wang, Z.Y.

    2007-01-01

    With the effects of electronic structure and atomic size being introduced, the mixing enthalpy as well as the Gibbs energy of the ternary Zr-Al-Cu, Ni-Al-Cu, Zr-Ni-Al and quaternary Zr-Al-Ni-Cu systems are calculated based on quasiregular solution model. The computed results agree well with the experimental data. The sequence of Gibbs energies of different systems is: G Zr-Al-Ni-Cu Zr-Al-Ni Zr-Al-Cu Cu-Al-Ni . To Zr-Al-Cu, Ni-Al-Cu and Zr-Ni-Al, the lowest Gibbs energy locates in the composition range of X Zr 0.39-0.61, X Al = 0.38-0.61; X Ni = 0.39-0.61, X Al = 0.38-0.60 and X Zr = 0.32-0.67, X Al = 0.32-0.66, respectively. And to the Zr-Ni-Al-Cu system with 66.67% Zr, the lowest Gibbs energy is obtained in the region of X Al = 0.63-0.80, X Ni = 0.14-0.24

  8. The phytochemical, antibacterial and antioxidant activity of five ...

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    Aug 23, 2012 ... suppression and allergic reactions (Ahmad et al., 1998). There is an increased .... presence of antioxidant compounds was detected by yellow spots against a purple ... and animals (McGaw and Eloff, 2008). A literature survey.

  9. Efficiency and response of conilon coffee genotypes to nitrogen supply

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    Aug 31, 2016 ... tolerance to the deficit of these nutrients in the soil. (Colodetti et al., 2014; ... be passive of exploration using genotypes of rapid growth and low nutritional ... amino acids, proteins, nucleotides, hormones and chlorophyll ...

  10. Relevance of the formal red meat classification system to the South ...

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    Aug 1, 2015 ... Keywords: Communal farmers, marketing system, meat industry .... Goat production. There are about 6.6 million goats in South Africa (De Villiers et al., 2009). Sixty-three ...... North West Province, South Africa. MSc thesis ...

  11. 810 Future plans

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    Etkin, A.; Foley, K.J.; Hackenburg, R.W.; Longacre, R.S.; Love, W.A.; Morris, T.W.; Platner, E.D.; Saulys, A.C.; Lindenbaum, S.J.; Chan, C.S.; Kramer, M.A.; Hallman, T.J.; Madansky, L.; Bonner, B.E.; Buchanan, J.A.; Chiou, C.N.; Clement, J.M.; Corcoran, M.D.; Kruk, J.W.; Miettinen, H.E.; Mutchler, G.S.; Nessi-Tedaldi, F.; Nessi, M.; Roberts, J.B.

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    It is believed that a good bet for finding the Quark-Gluon Plasma at AGS energies is with the heaviest projectiles on the heaviest target, i.e. Au on Au. One of the likely signatures of the plasma is strangeness enhancement. Al Saulys has shown what it's like to find Δ and K degree with Si projectiles. Our Monte Carlo simulations show track densities 4 times higher for Au projectiles. In addition, the Au beam itself produces 30 times more ionization. Thus the present TPC's will be limited to only a few hundred ions per sec. This paper discusses plans for these experiments and modification to TPC. 9 figs

  12. Bipolar characteristics of AlGaN/AlN/GaN/AlGaN double heterojunction structure with AlGaN as buffer layer

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    Peng, Enchao; Wang, Xiaoliang; Xiao, Hongling; Wang, Cuimei; Yin, Haibo; Chen, Hong; Feng, Chun; Jiang, Lijuan; Hou, Xun; Wang, Zhanguo

    2013-01-01

    Highlights: •2DEG and 2DHG coexist in the AlGaN/AlN/GaN/AlGaN DH-structure. •The sheet densities of 2DEG and 2DHG vary with buffer Al content and GaN thickness. •The conditions for the disappearance of 2DHG are discussed. •Increasing buffer Al content provides better electron confinement. •Dislocation scattering is reduced in the DH-structure. -- Abstract: This is a theoretical study of AlGaN/AlN/GaN/AlGaN double heterojunction (DH) structure with AlGaN as buffer layer. Our calculation shows that as the buffer Al content increases, though two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) sheet density decreases, the channel back-barrier caused by polarization-induced electric field in GaN provides better electron confinement. And under certain conditions the DH-structure shows bipolar characteristics, with an additional two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) formed at GaN/AlGaN interface. The influence of the buffer Al content and GaN channel thickness on the 2DEG and 2DHG sheet densities are investigated, and the conditions for the disappearance of 2DHG are discussed. Also, the mobility inhibited by dislocation scattering is enhanced in DH-structure due to the enhancement of screening effect of the 2DEG

  13. SAVY-4000 Field Surveillance Plan Update for 2017

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    Kelly, Elizabeth J. [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Stone, Timothy Amos [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Smith, Paul Herrick [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Reeves, Kirk Patrick [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Veirs, Douglas Kirk [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Prochnow, David Adrian [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

    2017-03-20

    The Packaging Surveillance Program section of the Department of Energy (DOE) Manual 441.1-­1, Nuclear Material Packaging Manual (DOE 2008), requires DOE contractors to “ensure that a surveillance program is established and implemented to ensure the nuclear material storage package continues to meet its design criteria.”This 2017 update reflects changes to the surveillance plan resulting from surveillance findings as documented in Reeves et al. 2016. These findings include observations of corrosion in SAVY and Hagan containers and the indication (in one SAVY container) of possible filter membrane thermal degradation. This surveillance plan update documents the rationale for selecting surveillance containers, specifies the containers for 2017 surveillance, and identifies a minimum set of containers for 2018 surveillance. This update contains important changes to the previous surveillance plans.

  14. The code of light: al-ghazali and al-suhrawardi

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    2017-01-01

    The Code of Light: Al-Ghazali and Al-Suhrawardi The Bachelor’s thesis The Code of Light in Islam: al-Ghazali and al-Suhrawardi presents a comparative study of light. The study analyses the philosophical systems of al-Ghazali and al-Suhrawardi through the reconstruction of the image of light and its operation principles. The main subject of the thesis are the attributes of light. The main problem of the research is the semantics and contextuality of light in Islamic theology and philosophy. Th...

  15. Pemikiran Filosofis Sadra Dalam Tafsir Al-Qur’an Al-Karim : Surah Al-’A‘la

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    Full Text Available Abstrak : Dalam tafsir atas Surah al-’A‘lā, Mulla Sadra, melalui karyanya Tafsīr al Qur’ān al-Karīm, mengajak jiwa kita berpetualang menuju lapisan makna terdalam untuk mengenali realitas ketauhidan (al- mabdā’, kenabian (shirāth atau nubuwwah dan kebangkitan (ma‘ād dan mengulasnya secara filosofis. Penelitian ini merupakan suatu upaya untuk menggali manfaat dari aspek-aspek penting dari sumber-sumber keagamaan yang tergali dari petunjuk al Qur’an yang berpadu dengan prinsip- prinsip rasional filosofis dan pengalaman mistik (intuitif Sadra. Setiap bab pada tafsir ini diberikan judul dengan tasbīḥ (pernyataan pemujian dan pensucian, dengan tetap memaparkan beragam pokok persoalan terkait metafisika al-Qur’an. Prinsip-prinsip filosofis yang digunakan dalam risalah tafsir ini bisa menjadi salah satu bukti ketidakberjarakan antara filsafat dengan teks-teks keagamaan. Sadra menggunakan metode tafsir yang tetap menerima sisi lahiriah al-Qur’an, dan selanjutnya mencari misteri-misteri, rahasia-rahasia, dan dengan bantuan intelek (akal, intuisi dan iluminasi Tuhan untuk memperoleh realitas-realitas dan makna- makna dibalik selaput ekternalnya (aspek literalnyaKata kunci : Ḥikmah Muta’āliyah, irfan, al-mabdā’, kebangkitan setelah mati, nubuwwah, takwīl, gerak substansial (ḥarakah jawhariyyah, denotasi utama (al-maqshūd al-ashlī, penyempurnaan diri (takammul, tasbīḥ.  Abstract : In his commentary on Surah al-’ A‘lā, Mulla Sadra, through his Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-Karīm invites our souls to ventureinto the deepest layers of meaning to recognize the reality of Divinity (al- mabdā’, prophethood (Ṣirāṭ or nubuwwah and resurrection (ma‘ād and discusses it in a more philosophical manner. This study is an attempt to explore the benefits of these important aspects of religious sources unearthed from Qur’anic injunctions combined with rational principles of philosophical and mystical experiences

  16. A united refinement technology for commercial pure Al by Al-10Ti and Al-Ti-C master alloys

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    Ma Xiaoguang; Liu Xiangfa; Ding Haimin

    2009-01-01

    Because flake-like TiAl 3 particles in Al-Ti-C master alloys prepared in a melt reaction method dissolve slowly when they are added into Al melt at 720 deg. C, Ti atoms cannot be released rapidly to play the assistant role of grain refinement, leading to a poor refinement efficiency of Al-Ti-C master alloys. A united refinement technology by Al-10Ti and Al-Ti-C master alloys was put forward in this paper. The rational combination of fine blocky TiAl 3 particles in Al-10Ti and TiC particles in Al-Ti-C can improve the nucleation rate of α-Al. It not only improves the grain refinement efficiency of Al-Ti-C master alloys, but also reduces the consumption

  17. Cell interaction with modified nanotubes formed on titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V

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    Moravec, H.; Vandrovcová, Marta; Chotová, K.; Fojt, J.; Průchová, E.; Joska, L.; Bačáková, Lucie

    2016-01-01

    Roč. 65, Aug 1 (2016), s. 313-322 ISSN 0928-4931 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA15-01558S Institutional support: RVO:67985823 Keywords : titanium * electrochemical oxidation * hydrothermal modification * thermal treatment * protein adsorption * cell interaction Subject RIV: EI - Biotechnology ; Bionics Impact factor: 4.164, year: 2016

  18. Liquidus projection of the Nb-Cr-Al system near the Al3(Nb,Cr) + Cr(Al,Nb) eutectic region

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    Souza, S.A.; Ferrandini, P.L.; Nunes, C.A.; Coelho, A.A.; Caram, R.

    2006-01-01

    The system Nb-Cr-Al was investigated in the region near the Al 3 (Nb,Cr) + Cr(Al,Nb) eutectic and the liquidus projection of that region was determined based on the microstructural characterization of arc melted alloys. The characterization utilized scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), differential thermal analysis (DTA) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results allowed one to determine three primary solidification liquidus surfaces ((Cr,Al) 2 Nb, Cr(Al,Nb) and Al 3 (Nb,Cr)), that are originated from the binary systems Cr-Nb, Cr-Al and Al-Nb. It is proposed the occurrence of the invariant reaction L + (Cr,Al) 2 Nb ↔ Al 3 (Nb,Cr) + Cr(Al,Nb) and of a point of minimum, which involves a three phase reaction, L ↔ Al 3 (Nb,Cr) + Cr(Al,Nb). All alloys studied showed formation of the Al 3 (Nb,Cr) + Cr(Al,Nb) eutectic as the last solidification step with Al(Nb)Cr 2 precipitating from Cr(Al,Nb)

  19. A united refinement technology for commercial pure Al by Al-10Ti and Al-Ti-C master alloys

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    Ma Xiaoguang [Key Laboratory of Liquid Structure and Heredity of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan 250061 (China); Liu Xiangfa [Key Laboratory of Liquid Structure and Heredity of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan 250061 (China)], E-mail: xfliu@sdu.edu.cn; Ding Haimin [Key Laboratory of Liquid Structure and Heredity of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan 250061 (China)

    2009-03-05

    Because flake-like TiAl{sub 3} particles in Al-Ti-C master alloys prepared in a melt reaction method dissolve slowly when they are added into Al melt at 720 deg. C, Ti atoms cannot be released rapidly to play the assistant role of grain refinement, leading to a poor refinement efficiency of Al-Ti-C master alloys. A united refinement technology by Al-10Ti and Al-Ti-C master alloys was put forward in this paper. The rational combination of fine blocky TiAl{sub 3} particles in Al-10Ti and TiC particles in Al-Ti-C can improve the nucleation rate of {alpha}-Al. It not only improves the grain refinement efficiency of Al-Ti-C master alloys, but also reduces the consumption.

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    Aug 22, 2011 ... and radiotherapy (Xie et al., 2009). The herb ... integration of multiple survival and death signals (Galluzzi ... (IAP) families of proteins also plays a critical role. The ..... factor Smac/DIABLO as therapy for multiple myeloma (MM).

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    Aug 5, 2013 ... Bener, et al.: Patients satisfaction evaluation and management of diabetes care. 219 ... socioeconomic status (SES), females and the elderly.[5‑8] .... the subject was standing bare feet and with normal straight posture. Weight ...

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    Aug 4, 2009 ... cleaves blood fibrin clots and some other extracellular proteins (Dano et al., ... include the activation of platelet PLC and PKC via G- protein (21). Cannon ... environment relatively rich in plasminogen. Plasminogen is found in ...

  3. Adherencia al tratamiento nutricional en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 que asisten a un programa educativo

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    Mariela A. Carvajal

    2017-03-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este estudió fue evaluar la adherencia al tratamiento nutricional por medio de la hemoglobina glicosilada en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 que asistieron a un programa educativo en diabetes en la ciudad de Guatemala, así como evaluar los principales factores que influyen en ella. Se realizó un estudio de tipo prospectivo, longitudinal, experimental, pareado de intervención no medicamentosa. Se utilizó la prueba de Morinsky-Green Levine para evaluar la adherencia al tratamiento nutricional, el cual consiste en cuatro preguntas de auto informe sobre la adherencia. La muestra estuvo conformada por 126 pacientes que recibieron una intervención educativa durante cinco meses. La metodología utilizada permitió analizar la adherencia al tratamiento por medio de la prueba de hemoglobina glicosilada, una encuesta de adherencia, evaluación del consumo por grupos de alimentos al inicio y al final. Uno de los principales hallazgos fue que los pacientes están convencidos que su plan nutricional les beneficia y les evitaría complicaciones. El apoyo familiar también juega un papel muy importante en la adherencia de estos pacientes al tratamiento nutricional. Los indicadores de adherencia que se encontraron más afectados son los relacionados al costo del plan de alimentación y la dificultad para seguirlo. Se concluye que es posible utilizar la hemoglobina glicosilada como un indicador efectivo de adherencia, ya que el porcentaje de pacientes con hemoglobina glicosilada controlada aumentó de un 50 a un 65.9% después de la intervención.

  4. Caso Clínico: Plan de cuidados al paciente con hemorragia subaracnoidea

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    Sánchez Galarraga, Iciar

    2016-01-01

    Trabajo fin de grado en Enfermería Introducción: La hemorragia subaracnoidea es una de las enfermedades cerebrovasculares que a pesar de ser poco frecuente en España, tiene una mortalidad elevada y produce secuelas que conllevan un gran impacto en la vida de quienes la padecen. Objetivo: Realizar un plan de cuidados estandarizado para el paciente con hemorragia subaracnoidea compleja. Material y Método: Durante el primer día de ingreso, se realiza una entrevista a cerca del estado de...

  5. United modification of Al-24Si alloy by Al-P and Al-Ti-C master alloys

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    韩延峰; 刘相法; 王海梅; 王振卿; 边秀房; 张均艳

    2003-01-01

    The modification effect of a new type of Al-P master alloy on Al-24Si alloys was investigated. It is foundthat excellent modification effect can be obtained by the addition of this new type of A1-P master alloy into Al-24Simelt and the average primary Si grain size is decreased below 47 μm from original 225 μm. It is also found that theTiC particles in the melt coming from Al8Ti2C can improve the modification effect of the Al-P master alloy. Whenthe content of TiC particles in the Al-24Si melt is 0.03 %, the improvement reaches the maximum and keeps steadywith increasing content of TiC particles. Modification effect occurs at 50 min after the addition of the Al-P master al-loy and TiC particles, and keeps stable with prolonging holding time.

  6. Nanoporous Al sandwich foils using size effect of Al layer thickness during Cu/Al/Cu laminate rolling

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    Yu, Hailiang; Lu, Cheng; Tieu, A. Kiet; Li, Huijun; Godbole, Ajit; Kong, Charlie

    2018-06-01

    The roll bonding technique is one of the most widely used methods to produce metal laminate sheets. Such sheets offer interesting research opportunities for both scientists and engineers. In this paper, we report on an experimental investigation of the 'thickness effect' during laminate rolling for the first time. Using a four-high multifunction rolling mill, Cu/Al/Cu laminate sheets were fabricated with a range of thicknesses (16, 40, 70 and 130 μm) of the Al layer. The thickness of the Cu sheets was a constant 300 μm. After rolling, TEM images show good bonding quality between the Cu and Al layers. However, there are many nanoscale pores in the Al layer. The fraction of nanoscale pores in the Al layer increases with a reduction in the Al layer thickness. The finite element method was used to simulate the Cu/Al/Cu rolling process. The simulation results reveal the effect of the Al layer thickness on the deformation characteristics of the Cu/Al/Cu laminate. Finally, we propose that the size effect of the Al layer thickness during Cu/Al/Cu laminate rolling may offer a method to fabricate 'nanoporous' Al sandwich laminate foils. Such foils can be used in electromagnetic shielding of electrical devices and noisy shielding of building.

  7. EC assisted start-up experiments reproduction in FTU and AUG for simulations of the ITER case

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    Granucci, G.; Ricci, D.; Farina, D.; Figini, L. [Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, IFP-CNR, Via R. Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano (Italy); Cavinato, M. [F4E C/Josep Pla2, Torres Diagonal Litoral - Building 83 08019 Barcelona (Spain); Mattei, M. [CREATE via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli (Italy); Stober, J. [Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Association, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching bei München (Germany); Tudisco, O. [Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, C.R. Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati (Roma) (Italy)

    2014-02-12

    The breakdown and plasma start-up in ITER are well known issues studied in the last few years in many tokamaks with the aid of calculation based on simplified modeling. The thickness of ITER metallic wall and the voltage limits of the Central Solenoid Power Supply strongly limit the maximum toroidal electric field achievable (0.3 V/m), well below the level used in the present generation of tokamaks. In order to have a safe and robust breakdown, the use of Electron Cyclotron Power to assist plasma formation and current rump up has been foreseen. This has raised attention on plasma formation phase in presence of EC wave, especially in order to predict the required power for a robust breakdown in ITER. Few detailed theory studies have been performed up to nowadays, due to the complexity of the problems. A simplified approach, extended from that proposed in ref[1] has been developed including a impurity multispecies distribution and an EC wave propagation and absorption based on GRAY code. This integrated model (BK0D) has been benchmarked on ohmic and EC assisted experiments on FTU and AUG, finding the key aspects for a good reproduction of data. On the basis of this, the simulation has been devoted to understand the best configuration for ITER case. The dependency of impurity distribution content and neutral gas pressure limits has been considered. As results of the analysis a reasonable amount of power (1 - 2 MW) seems to be enough to extend in a significant way the breakdown and current start up capability of ITER. The work reports the FTU data reproduction and the ITER case simulations.

  8. Structural stability and electronic properties of AlCu3, AlCu2Zr in AlZr3: Stabilnost strukture in elektronske lastnosti AlCu3, AlCu2Zr in AlZr3:

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    Cheng, Rong; Wu, Xiao-Yu

    2013-01-01

    First-principles calculations were performed to study the alloying stability and electronic structure of the Al-based intermetallic compounds AlCusub3, AlCusub{2}Zr and AlZrsub3. The results show that the lattice parameters obtained after the full relaxation of the crystalline cells are consistent with the experimental data, and these intermetallics have a strong alloying ability and structural stability due to their negative formation energies and their cohesive energies. A further analysis ...

  9. New ways of inhabiting the city: Aerotropolis and Generic City. The case of Quito

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    Rosero Añazco, Verónica

    2015-01-01

    Is the contemporary city like the contemporary airport- “all the same”? This hypothesis in "The Generic City" (Koolhaas, 1997) is even more controversial with the following scenario: what happens when a territory is planned based on an airport, a "non-place", as qualified by Marc Augé? (Augé, 1993) The "aerotropolis" is an urban model that has been applied in various cities around the world in general terms, despite the obvious differences that may exist in cultural, geographical, economic, i...

  10. 77 FR 3635 - Connect America Fund; A National Broadband Plan for Our Future; Establishing Just and Reasonable...

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    ...-208; Report No. 2945] Connect America Fund; A National Broadband Plan for Our Future; Establishing Just and Reasonable Rates for Local Exchange Carriers; High-Cost Universal Service Support et al... applicability. Subject: Connect America Fund: A National Broadband Plan for Our Future; Establishing Just and...

  11. Numerical optimization of the ramp-down phase with the RAPTOR code

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    Teplukhina, Anna; Sauter, Olivier; Felici, Federico; The Tcv Team; The ASDEX-Upgrade Team; The Eurofusion Mst1 Team

    2017-10-01

    The ramp-down optimization goal in this work is defined as the fastest possible decrease of a plasma current while avoiding any disruptions caused by reaching physical or technical limits. Numerical simulations and preliminary experiments on TCV and AUG have shown that a fast decrease of plasma elongation and an adequate timing of the H-L transition during current ramp-down can help to avoid reaching high values of the plasma internal inductance. The RAPTOR code (F. Felici et al., 2012 PPCF 54; F. Felici, 2011 EPFL PhD thesis), developed for real-time plasma control, has been used for an optimization problem solving. Recently the transport model has been extended to include the ion temperature and electron density transport equations in addition to the electron temperature and current density transport equations, increasing the physical applications of the code. The gradient-based models for the transport coefficients (O. Sauter et al., 2014 PPCF 21; D. Kim et al., 2016 PPCF 58) have been implemented to RAPTOR and tested during this work. Simulations of the AUG and TCV entire plasma discharges will be presented. See the author list of S. Coda et al., Nucl. Fusion 57 2017 102011.

  12. of redroot pigweed in relation to imazethapyr application

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    Aug 16, 2013 ... were included because they influence mothers with regard to ..... Fathers are key decision-makers with regard to infant feeding, and their support is ... In one study, Tohotoa et al14 concluded that paternal, emotional, practical ...

  15. The immunotoxicity of Dicerothamnus rhinocerotis and Galenia ...

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    Aug 18, 2009 ... include species of plants or animals that cause harm during food production, processing, storage, transport and/or marketing (Clementi et al., ..... Two types of murine helper T cell clone. I. Definition according to profiles of ...

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    Aug 22, 2014 ... South African Journal of Animal Science 2014, 44 (Issue 5, ... average up to 2.25 times more energy, compared to carbohydrates (McDonald et al., 2002). ... this study were approved by the Interfaculty Animal Ethics Committee.

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    Aug 24, 2011 ... analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science®. Data were .... knowledge in pain management, and could be a resource in the management of these .... Gaughan DM, Hughes MD, Carey VJ, et al. The prevalence ...

  20. cDNA cloning and expression analysis of two distinct Sox8 genes in ...

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    2010-08-06

    Aug 6, 2010 ... Each has an intron of different length in the conserved HMG-box region. ... apparent in brain and testes of adult tissues (Schepers et al. 2000). ... Females and males were induced to mate by intramuscular injection of.

  1. High folate production by naturally occurring Lactobacillus sp. with ...

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    2010-08-16

    Aug 16, 2010 ... high folate production, isolation and identification of Lactobacilli in traditional fermented milk ... mended for pregnant women (Van Der Put et al., 2001; ...... utilization of folic acid and vitamin B12 by lactic cultures in skim milk.

  2. 77 FR 72511 - Approval, Disapproval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Arizona; Regional...

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    ... wilderness areas designated as Class I areas. Arizona has a wealth of such areas. The three power plants... commenters (American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), AEPCO, APS, AUG, Navajo Nation, PacifiCorp...

  3. AFM observation of Fe-Al single crystals under in situ deformation

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    Veselý, J.; Cieslar, M.; Kopeček, Jaromír

    2012-01-01

    Roč. 122, č. 3 (2012), s. 618-621 ISSN 0587-4246. [International Symposium on Physics of Materials, ISPMA /12./. Praha, 04.09.2011-08.09.2011] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP107/10/0438 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100520 Keywords : atomic force microscopy * Fe 3 Al * TEM Subject RIV: JG - Metallurgy Impact factor: 0.531, year: 2012

  4. Pilot-scale treatability test plan for the 200-UP-1 groundwater Operable Unit

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    Wittreich, C.D.

    1994-05-01

    This document presents the treatability test plan for pilot-scale pump and treat testing at the 200-UP-1 Operable Unit. This treatability test plan has been prepared in response to an agreement between the US Department of Energy, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Washington State Department of Ecology, as documented in Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Ecology et al. 1989a) Change Control Form M-13-93-03 (Ecology et al. 1994). The agreement also requires that, following completion of the activities described in this test plan, a 200-UP-1 Operable Unit interim remedial measure (IRM) proposed plan be developed for use in preparing an interim action record of decision (ROD). The IRM Proposed Plan will be supported by the results of the testing described in this treatability test plan, as well as by other 200-UP-1 Operable Unit activities (e.g., limited field investigation, development of a qualitative risk assessment). Once issued, the interim action ROD will specify the interim action for groundwater contamination at the 200-UP-1 Operable Unit. The approach discussed in this treatability test plan is to conduct a pilot-scale pump and treat test for the contaminant plume associated with the 200-UP-1 Operable Unit. Primary contaminants of concern are uranium and technetium-99; the secondary contaminant of concern is nitrate. The pilot-scale treatability testing presented in this test plan has as its primary purpose to assess the performance of aboveground treatment systems with respect to the ability to remove the primary contaminants in groundwater withdrawn from the contaminant plume

  5. El Plan concertado de Prestaciones Básicas de Servicios Sociales en España (Once años de Plan Concertado

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    ANTONIO GUTIÉRREZ RESA

    2001-01-01

    Full Text Available La intervención público-estatal ha sido una constante en materia de bienestar social y servicios sociales, y habiendo acabado el siglo XX estimamos conveniente que el Estado siga siendo la garantía básica de aquellas personas que padecen dificultades, junto al mercado y, sobre todo, junto a las entidades sin ánimo de lucro. El Plan CCB o comunidad cristiana de bienes es la fuente de inspiración de los servicios sociales de base o comunitarios en los años sesenta. Constituye la tradición española más inmediata que fue capaz de organizar los citados servicios como beneficencia y caridad. A partir de la reinstauración democrática y algunos años después (1988 se desarrolla una red pública de servicios sociales generales y para todos, que comienza a consolidarse con un nivel de prestaciones básicas en la década de los noventa. El acuerdo entre la Administración Central, Comunidades Autónomas y Entes Locales haría posible la red básica de servicios sociales públicos. Con el acuerdo nace el Plan Concertado (1988 y se consolida en torno al año 1995. Sobrepasados los diez años del Plan Concertado (1988-1998, la experiencia acumulada y la información disponible permiten albergar transformaciones que lo adapten a las nuevas necesidades de la sociedad española. Las exigencias de nuevas necesidades y los servicios sociales para todos marcan la pauta de lo que debe constituir el avance del Plan Concertado.

  6. A pragmatic study

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    AHMED

    2012-08-31

    Aug 31, 2012 ... Traditional techniques of decision-making have hindered the technical efficiency of most professionals and ... models which aid in the planning, management, costing, ..... optimization system (Taha 2000) was used in the.

  7. 1 Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management 7(1): 1 ...

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    Osondu

    2013-08-07

    Aug 7, 2013 ... Downstream communities have been neglected in dam construction planning process in Nigeria.. A survey ... Fanga, Bele, Bere, Gaba and Baru communities, using structured ... increased levels of out-migration of fishermen).

  8. DESAIN KAPAL LCU TNI-AL MENGGUNAKAN METODE OPTIMISASI

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    Full Text Available Landing Craft Utility (LCU mempunyai peranan yang penting bagi Tentara Nasional Angkatan Laut (TNI-AL digunakan sebagai kapal amphibious mendaratkan: pasukan, logistik dan kendaraan. Desain  LCU TNI-AL mengunakan metode optimasi belum pernah dilakukan, desain kapal umumnya menggunakan metode spiral design yang berlangsung beberapa putaran secara manual yang membutuhkan waktu yang lama dan seringkali tidak mencapai hasil yang optimal. Untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut dalam makalah ini digunakan metode Non Linier Constrains Optimization sehingga perlu satu putaran untuk menyelesaikannya yaitu pada tahap preliminary design. Pemodelan optimasinya dilibatkan ukuran utama dan hull form secara bersamaan sehingga tidak diperlukan pembuatan lines plan. Variables yang dicari adalah ukuran utama dan propulsi kapal; constrains adalah ukuran utama, rasio ukuran utama, stabilitas dan propulsi; objective functions adalah meminimalkan biaya pembanguan.  Dari hasil perhitungan didapatkan Landing Craft Utility yang optimal adalah: bentuk round bilge, Lpp=46,76m, B=9,63m, T=2,56m, H=4,63m, dan Vs= 11knot.

  9. Inhibition of growth of some phytopathogenic and mycotoxigenic ...

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    Aug 18, 2008 ... produce and contaminate them with mycotoxins (Payne,. 1992; Pitt et al., .... In this report, we present evidence that C. imberbe wood ash extracts are .... the role of cellular energy status as a regulator of the induction aflatoxin ...

  10. Environmental effects on the stable carbon and oxygen isotopic ...

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    Aug 16, 2010 ... which may be influenced by the river run-off due to heavy rainfall. The coral skeleton was ... including cloud cover (Weber and Woodhead, 1972;. Muscatine et al. ..... The effect of colony topography on climate signals in coral ...

  11. In vitro assessment of bioactive components of Mirabilis jalapa ...

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    Aug 22, 2011 ... discovery of lead compounds in drug design (Newman et al., 2003; Chibale, 2005). ... Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) Vom Plateau State, Nigeria. The plant was identified in .... We are grateful to Prof. A.O. Oyewale of the ...

  12. Genetic analysis and location of gene for resistance to stripe rust in ...

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    Aug 6, 2013 ... Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No 2, West ... The molecular marker Xbarc59 closely linked to the gene YrSD could be ... and a minor resistance gene postulated in it (Calonnec et al.

  13. Assessment of physicochemical qualities, heavy metal ...

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    Aug 23, 2012 ... dominance of metals in the water followed the sequence: Al > Zn > Cu > Fe > Mn > Cd > Pb > Hg > As. ... ted and treated waters poses a considerable health risk ..... quently used to assess the general hygienic quality of water ...

  14. Evaluation of oxidative stress using exhaled breath 8‑isoprostane ...

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    Aug 5, 2013 ... progress, plasma 8‑isoprostane levels significantly increase. A significant .... Horvath I, Hunt J, Barnes PJ, Alving K, Antczak A, Baraldi E, et al. ATS/ERS ... Lenaz G. Role of mitochondria in oxidative stress and ageing. Biochim ...

  15. Plan de negocio Gimnasio Health-Fit Chinchón

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    Este trabajo de Fin de Grado consiste en la realización de un plan de negocio de un gimnasio en la localidad de Chinchón (Madrid). El gimnasio se llamará Health-Fit Chinchón y a partir de los resultados de este plan de negocio se verificará la viabilidad del proyecto. Para ello, en primer lugar se ha realizado un estudio de mercado en el que se ha podido ver la situación del sector tanto a un nivel del macroentorno como del microentorno. Gracias al análisis PEST(M) se ha podido observar conte...

  16. /Cu-Al System

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    Kish, Orel; Froumin, Natalya; Aizenshtein, Michael; Frage, Nachum

    2014-05-01

    Wettability and interfacial interaction of the Ta2O5/Cu-Al system were studied. Pure Cu does not wet the Ta2O5 substrate, and improved spreading is achieved when relatively a high fraction of the active element (~40 at.% Al) was added. The Al2O3 and AlTaO4 phases were observed at the Ta2O5/Cu-Al interface. A thermodynamic evaluation allowed us to suggest that the lack of wetting bellow 40 at.% Al is due to the presence of a native oxide, which covers the drop. The conditions of the native oxide decomposition and the formation of the volatile Al2O suboxide strongly depend on the vacuum level during sessile drop experiments and the composition of the Cu-Al alloy. In our case, Al contents greater than 40% provides thermodynamic conditions for the formation of Al2O (as a result of Al reaction with Al2O3) and the drop spreading. It was suggested that the final contact angle in the Ta2O5/Cu-Al system (50°) is determined by Ta adsorption on the newly formed alumina interlayer.

  17. Project licensing plan for UMTRA [Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action] sites

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    1984-07-01

    The purpose of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project Licensing Plan is to establish how a disposal site will be licensed, and to provide responsibilities of participatory agencies as legislated by the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) of 1978 (Public Law 95-604). This Plan has been developed to ensure that the objectives of licensing are met by identifying the necessary institutional controls, participatory agency responsibilities, and key milestones in the licensing process. The Plan contains the legislative basis for and a description of the licensing process (''Process'') for UMTRA sites. This is followed by a discussion of agency responsibilities, and milestones in the Process. The Plan concludes with a generic timeline of this Process. As discussed in Section 2.1, a custodial maintenance and surveillance plan will constitute the basis for a site license. The details of maintenance and surveillance are discussed in the Project Maintenance and Surveillance Plan (AL-350124.0000). 5 refs., 4 figs

  18. Metodologi Kitab Ma‘alim al-Tanzil Karya Al-Bagawiy

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    M. Rusydi Khalid

    2017-12-01

    This study aims to describe the metodology of Ma'a> lim al-tanzi>l book by al-Bagawi. The book is one of the books of exegesis written on the basis of hadith, which by the commentary scholars recognized avoided from heresy and weak hadith. The author of this book is Imam Abu Humaid Hussein bin Mas‘u>d al-Farra>’ Al-Bagawi al-Syafi‘i>, died in the year 510 H. This exegesis book combines the interpretation of the companions, tabi‘i>n, and tabi‘i> tabi‘i>n. Interpretation is broken down with easy, simple, and concise diction choices. The stoning of the interpretation of the salaf scholars without mentioning the sanad as already mentioned in the introduction to his book. This book was first printed in one edition with the exegesis book of Ibn Kas}i>r and al-kha>zin. This book interprets the Qur'an analytically from the beginning to the end of the surah by using the method of interpretation based on the hadith, namely by mentioning the arguments of the hadith sahih, the fatwa of the companions and the tabi‘i>n. The characteristic or purpose of this book is fiqh oriented, which tends to the Shafi‘i fiqh.   Abstrak Tulisan ini mendeskripsikan metode penafsiran dalam kitab Ma’a>lim al-tanzi>l karya al-bagawi. Kitab tafsir ini merupakan salah satu di antara kitab-kitab tafsir yang ditulis berdasarkan riwayat, yang oleh para ulama tafsir diakui terhindar dari bid’ah dan hadis dhaif (lemah. Penulis buku ini adalah Imam Abu Muhammad Husain bin Mas‘u>d al-Farra>‘ al-Bagawi al-Syafi‘i>, wafat pada tahun 510 H. Kitab ini adalah kitab pertengahan yang mengutip penafsiran para Sahabat, ta>bi‘i>n, dan tabi‘i ta>bi‘i>n. Penafsiran diuraikan dengan pilihan diksi yang mudah, sederhana, dan ringkas. Penukilan dari interpretasi ulama salaf tanpa menyebutkan sanad karena telah disebutkan dalam pendahuluan bukunya. Buku ini pertama kali dicetak dalam satu edisi dengan tafsir Ibn Kas\\i>r dan tafsir al-Kha>zin. Kitab ini menafsirkan al-Qur’an secara

  19. ALS Association

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    ... toward a world without ALS! Walk to Defeat ALS® Walk to Defeat ALS® draws people of all ... We need your help. I Will Advocate National ALS Registry The National ALS Registry is a congressionally ...

  20. Evaluation of Urban Planning Projects Criteria Using Fuzzy AHP Technique

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    Walid Mustafa Kamas

    2017-05-01

    Full Text Available In this research, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process technique is applied (Fuzzy AHP which is one of multi-criteria decision making techniques to evaluate the criteria for urban planning projects, the project of developing master plan of Al-Muqdadiyah city to 2035 has been chosen as a case study. The researcher prepared a list of criteria in addition to the authorized departments criteria and previous researches in order to choose optimized master plan according to these criteria. This research aims at employing the foundations of (Fuzzy AHP technique in evaluating urban planning criteria precisely and flexible. The results of the data analysis to the individuals of the sample who are specialists, in this aspect. The land use criteria are more important than the rest of the criteria in these projects, where it received the relative importance with percentile (42.1 %.

  1. AlN nanoparticle-reinforced nanocrystalline Al matrix composites: Fabrication and mechanical properties

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    Liu, Y.Q.; Cong, H.T.; Wang, W.; Sun, C.H.; Cheng, H.M.

    2009-01-01

    To improve the specific strength and stiffness of Al-based composites, AlN/Al nanoparticles were in-situ synthesized by arc plasma evaporation of Al in nitrogen atmosphere and consolidated by hot-pressing to fabricate AlN nanoparticle-reinforced nanocrystalline Al composites (0-39 vol.% AlN). Microstructure characterization shows that AlN nanoparticles homogeneously distribute in the matrix of Al nanocrystalline, which forms atomically bonded interfaces of AlN/Al. The hardness and the elastic modulus of the nanocomposite have been improved dramatically, up to 3.48 GPa and 142 GPa, respectively. Such improvement is believed to result from the grain refinement strengthening and the interface strengthening (load transfer) between the Al matrix and AlN nanoparticles

  2. ORCWM test and evaluaton master plan. Revision 00

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    1995-08-01

    The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) describes the program Test and Evaluation (T ampersand E) policy, objectives, requirements, general methodology (test flow and description of each T ampersand E phase), responsibilities, and scheduling of test phases for the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System (CRWMS). This TEMP is a program-level management planning document for al CRWMS T ampersand E activities and will be used in conjunction with Section 11 of the Quality Assurance Requirements and Description (QARD), as appropriate, as a guide for the projects in developing their T ampersand E plans. In the OCRWM document hierarchy, that is described in the OCRWM Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), the TEMP is subordinate to the program SEMP. To ensure CRWMS operates as an integrated system, the plans for verifying the performance and evaluating the operational suitability and effectiveness of the overall system are also described. Test and evaluation is an integral part of the systems engineering process. Key aspects of the systems engineering process, more fully described in the OCRWM SEMP, are discussed in this TEMP to illustrate how T ampersand E supports the overall systems engineering process

  3. Comparison of one and two-neutron transfer near the Coulomb barrier for the 27Al(18O, 16O)29Al, 27Al(18O, 17O)28Al and 27Al(13C, 12C)28Al reactions

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    Schiller, S.A.; Eck, J.S.

    1975-01-01

    Total reaction cross sections for the transfer reactions 27 Al( 18 O, 16 O) 29 Al, 27 Al( 18 O, 17 O) 28 Al and 27 Al( 13 C, 12 C) 28 Al are reported for center-of-mass energies between 13 and 20 MeV for 18 O projectiles and between 11 and 17.5 MeV for 13 C projectiles. The reaction products, 29 Al, and 28 Al, beta decay to 29 Si and 28 Si, respectively, and the subsequent γ decays of 29 Si and 28 Si were measured. Due to the relatively long beta decay half lives, data were taken in a beam-off mode, resulting in very clean spectra. Total cross sections were calculated and compared with a theoretical model for barrier penetration proposed by C.Y. Wong. Differences between 18 O induced one and two-neutron total transfer reaction cross sections are discussed. (orig.) [de

  4. Investigation of reactivity between SiC and Nb-1Zr in planned irradiation creep experiments

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    Lewinsohn, C.A.; Hamilton, M.L.; Jones, R.H.

    1997-08-01

    Thermodynamic calculations and diffusion couple experiments showed that SiC and Nb-1Zr were reactive at the upper range of temperatures anticipated in the planned irradiation creep experiment. Sputter-deposited aluminum oxide (Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}) was selected as a diffusion barrier coating. Experiments showed that although the coating coarsened at high temperature it was an effective barrier for diffusion of silicon from SiC into Nb-1Zr. Therefore, to avoid detrimental reactions between the SiC composite and the Nb-1Zr pressurized bladder during the planned irradiation creep experiment, a coating of Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} will be required on the Nb-1Zr bladder.

  5. P comp Phytoc osition hemic ns of fo al, pro our lea Easte oximate ...

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    tment of Plan constituents .... liver problems and impaired defense immune systems. (Eseyin et al. ... diseases. It provides oil used as aromatic in the drink ... leaves are sharp-bitter and sweet and widely used as a ... 2005). The medical values of leafy vegetables are dictated ..... Efficacy, Safety, Quality Control Marketing and.

  6. Topological model of austenite-martensite interfaces in Cu-Al-Ni alloy

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    Ostapovets, Andriy; Zárubová, Niva; Paidar, Václav

    2012-01-01

    Roč. 122, č. 3 (2012), s. 493-496 ISSN 0587-4246. [International Symposium on Physics of Materials, ISPMA /12./. Praha, 04.09.2011-08.09.2011] R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA100100920 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100520 Keywords : CuAlNi * alloy * experimental data * in-situ * topological models * transmission electron microscopy Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 0.531, year: 2012

  7. Al-matrix composite materials reinforced by Al-Cu-Fe particles

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    Bonneville, J; Laplanche, G; Joulain, A; Gauthier-Brunet, V; Dubois, S

    2010-01-01

    Al-matrix material composites were produced using hot isostatic pressing technique, starting with pure Al and icosahedral (i) Al-Cu-Fe powders. Depending on the processing temperature, the final reinforcement particles are either still of the initial i-phase or transformed into the tetragonal ω-Al0 0.70 Cu 0.20 Fe 0.10 crystalline phase. Compression tests performed in the temperature range 293K - 823K on the two types of composite, i.e. Al/i and Al/ω, indicate that the flow stress of both composites is strongly temperature dependent and exhibit distinct regimes with increasing temperature. Differences exist between the two composites, in particular in yield stress values. In the low temperature regime (T ≤ 570K), the yield stress of the Al/ω composite is nearly 75% higher than that of the Al/i composite, while for T > 570K both composites exhibit similar yield stress values. The results are interpreted in terms of load transfer contribution between the matrix and the reinforcement particles and elementary dislocation mechanisms in the Al matrix.

  8. Piezo-tunnel effect in Al/Al2O3/Al junctions elaborated by atomic layer deposition

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    Rafael, R.; Puyoo, E.; Malhaire, C.

    2017-11-01

    In this work, the electrical transport in Al/Al2O3/Al junctions under mechanical stress is investigated in the perspective to use them as strain sensors. The metal/insulator/metal junctions are elaborated with a low temperature process (≤200 °C) fully compatible with CMOS back-end-of-line. The conduction mechanism in the structure is found to be Fowler-Nordheim tunneling, and efforts are made to extract the relevant physical parameters. Gauge factors up to -32.5 were found in the fabricated devices under tensile stress. Finally, theoretical mechanical considerations give strong evidence that strain sensitivity in Al/Al2O3/Al structures originates not only from geometrical deformations but also from the variation of interface barrier height and/or effective electronic mass in the tunneling oxide layer.

  9. Generation and evolution of nanoscale AlP and Al{sub 13}Fe{sub 4} particles in Al-Fe-P system

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    Qiao, Huan; Gao, Tong; Zhu, Xiangzhen; Wu, Yuying; Qian, Zhao; Liu, Xiangfa, E-mail: xfliu@sdu.edu.cn

    2015-02-15

    Highlights: • Diffusion and gradual solid reactions between Al and Fe{sub x}P phases in Al-Fe-P alloy were investigated. • Nanoscale AlP clusters are in-situ generated and evolve during the whole process. • This novel Al-Fe-P alloy has an excellent low-temperature refining performance on hypereutectic Al-Si alloy. - Abstract: In this paper, the gradual solid reactions between Al and Fe{sub x}P phases in Al-Fe-P alloy were investigated. The results show that the whole reaction process undergoes four main stages: the diffusion of Al atom, the generation of (Al, Fe, P) intermediate compound, the precipitation of nano AlP and Al{sub 13}Fe{sub 4} clusters and their growth to submicron particles. The microstructure of Fe-P particles evolves from the “egg-type”, the “sponge-type” to the “sesame-cake” structure. AlP and Al{sub 13}Fe{sub 4} nano phases have in-situ generated and evolved during the whole process. The gradual reaction mechanism has been discussed. Furthermore, a novel Al-Fe-P alloy which contains (Al, Fe, P) intermediate compounds and nano AlP particles has been synthesized and its low-temperature refining performance on A390 alloy has also been investigated.

  10. Non―invasive prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities ...

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    Aug 27, 2016 ... The Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics (2017) 18, 1–7. HOSTED BY ... Despite several reports describing a 1% increase in cffDNA ..... In the large multicentric study conducted by Norton et al., no results on cffDNA ...

  11. Genetic structure of a novel biofuel-producing microorganism ...

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    2012-08-09

    Aug 9, 2012 ... 1392R reverse primer (Liu et al. 1997) were used. ..... 21, 4–8. Heipieper H. J., Isken S. and Saliola M. 2000 Ethanol tolerance and membrane fatty acid ... by metabolic engineering of the ammonium assimilation. Metab. Eng. 3 ...

  12. Evaluation of the production technologies and the microbial and ...

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    2016-08-31

    Aug 31, 2016 ... undertaken for food security and livelihood (Sessou et al, 2013). Among livestock ..... were more contaminated (14.03 x106±7.81 x106 cfu/ml) than the others. ..... milk in Malaysia Food Microbiology 21: 535–541. Gran HM ...

  13. Is APOE ε3 a favourable factor for the longevity: an association study ...

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    2011-08-19

    Aug 19, 2011 ... ents lived for more than 90 years of age were excluded from this study. .... frequent in elderly individuals and their offspring than in controls, and that this was .... Norris C. et al. 2007 A comprehensive view of sex-specific issues.

  14. miRNAs: Small but deadly

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    Jane

    2011-08-24

    Aug 24, 2011 ... Levels of some miRNAs are found altered in cancers, so we might expect these regulatory ..... males is the prostate cancer (PCa) (Jemal et al., 2008). ..... 1 growth factor receptor family members HER-1, HER-2, and HER-3.

  15. Pancreatic cancer: Incidence, clinical profile, and frequency of ...

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    2012-08-09

    Aug 9, 2012 ... Diabetes has been postulated to be both a risk factor and a consequence of pancreatic cancer, ... (A.A.. El-Basmi),. Shihab@yahoo.com. (S.H. Al-Mohannadi) ..... A recent meta-analysis reported that obese people may have a ...

  16. Genetic studies on morpho-phenological traits in lentil (Lens ...

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    Aug 12, 2014 ... c Indian Academy of Sciences. RESEARCH NOTE ... pattern of these qualitative traits will also help in the identifi- cation of true to type F1 ... 2013), and also in some other research organizations (Ahmad et al. 1995; Fratini and ...

  17. Inheritance of DNA methylation in DH and its backcrossed lines of ...

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    Aug 1, 2011 ... (Chen and Li, 2004). Salmon et al. .... M primer. MSAP bands. CTGCAG. Figure 2. A flowchart showing the MSAP method. ..... Doyle JJ, Doyle JL (1990). .... Yoon DB, Kang KH, Kim HJ, Ju HG, Kwon SJ, Suh JP, Jeong OY, Ahn.

  18. Influence of electrical stimulation on carcass and meat quality of ...

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    2014-08-24

    Aug 24, 2014 ... meat and carcass quality attributes of cattle, based on the way cattle were slaughtered. ... the release of Ca2+ at higher temperatures (Savell et al., 1981). ... pH of carcasses after slaughter, stress before or at slaughter could ...

  19. Perspectives of South African general surgeons regarding their ...

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    Aug 3, 2014 ... in the service platform, most commonly in the public sector. De. Beer et al. ... general surgery in the different departments is not uniform, the use of extended ... uniform, the role of the private sector is not uniform, and lastly the.

  20. GnRH injection before artificial insemination (AI) alters follicle ...

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    2009-08-04

    Aug 4, 2009 ... releasing hormone (GnRH) injection on day 6 of the estrous cycle. The estrous cycles ... follicle at the time of GnRH injection (Silcox et al., 1993;. Twagiramungu .... Waves and their Effect on pregnancy rate in the Cow. Reprod.

  1. The relationship between osteoarthritis of the hands, bone mineral ...

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    Abir Naguib

    2011-08-09

    Aug 9, 2011 ... Methods: Twenty post-menopausal women aged 50–73 years (mean: 62.4 ± 6.5) diagnosed with .... pain (five items), stiffness (one item), and function (nine items). ..... al.24 found a direct relation between HOA and low cortical.

  2. Molecular characterization and expression analysis of a hepcidin ...

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    2011-08-03

    Aug 3, 2011 ... the liver, intestine and brain were 2.4, 1.5 and 2-fold increase, respectively, compared with the control animals after 5 days .... (sex change) of RFE attracted more attention (Cheng et al., 2003 ...... Molecular Biology. New York: ...

  3. Analysis of genetic diversity in pigeon pea germplasm using ...

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    MANEESHA

    2017-08-16

    Aug 16, 2017 ... fied polymorphic DNA (RAPD), simple sequence repeats. (SSR), amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), diversity array technology (DArT), genic-simple sequence repeats (genic-. SSR) etc. (see review by Varshney et al. 2013). Since retrotransposons are ...

  4. Cuidados de enfermería al paciente con traumatismo de la columna vertebral

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    Moreno María Elisa

    1994-06-01

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    Los traumatismos de columna vertebral afectan principalmente a adultos jóvenes en edad productiva. Su principal complicación la constituyen las lesiones medulares que son irreversibles y comprometen funciones corporales que limitan la independencia de las personas. El cuidado de enfermería para éste tipo de pacientes tiene como meta prevenir complicaciones, apoyar al paciente y motivarlo para que aproveche al máximo sus capacidades residuales en busca de su independencia. El presente artículo presenta un plan de cuidados basado en los diagnósticos de enfermería prioritarios y más frecuentes.

  5. Japanese version of the ALS-FTD-Questionnaire (ALS-FTD-Q-J).

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    Watanabe, Yasuhiro; Beeldman, Emma; Raaphorst, Joost; Izumi, Yuishin; Yoshino, Hiide; Masuda, Michihito; Atsuta, Naoki; Ito, Satoru; Adachi, Tadashi; Adachi, Yoshiki; Yokota, Osamu; Oda, Masaya; Hanashima, Ritsuko; Ogino, Mieko; Ichikawa, Hiroo; Hasegawa, Kazuko; Kimura, Hideki; Shimizu, Toshio; Aiba, Ikuko; Yabe, Hayato; Kanba, Makoto; Kusumi, Kimiyoshi; Aoki, Tetsuya; Hiroe, Yu; Watanabe, Hirohisa; Nishiyama, Kazutoshi; Nomoto, Masahiro; Sobue, Gen; Nakashima, Kenji

    2016-08-15

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) share common clinical, genetic and neuropathological features. Some ALS patients have behavioral/personality changes, which could result in significant obstacles in the care provided by family members and caregivers. An easy screening tool would contribute greatly to the evaluation of these symptoms. We translated the ALS-FTD-Questionnaire, developed in the Netherlands, into Japanese (ALS-FTD-Q-J) and examined the clinimetric properties (internal consistency, construct and clinical validity). Patients with ALS and/or behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD) were evaluated alongside healthy controls in this multicenter study. All ALS patients, regardless of bvFTD status, were further evaluated by the frontal behavioral inventory (FBI) and for frontal/executive function, cognition, anxiety/depression, and motor functions. Data from 146 subjects were analyzed: ALS (92), ALS-bvFTD (6), bvFTD (16), and healthy controls (32). The internal consistency of the ALS-FTD-Q-J was good (Cronbach α=0.92). The ALS-FTD-Q-J showed construct validity as it exhibited a high correlation with the FBI (r=0.79). However, correlations were moderate with anxiety/depression and low with cognitive scales, in contrast to the original report, i.e. a moderate correlation with cognition and a low correlation with anxiety/depression. The ALS-FTD-Q-J discriminated ALS patients from (ALS-)bvFTD patients and controls. Thus, the ALS-FTD-Q-J is useful for evaluating Japanese ALS/FTD patients. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  6. Radiation detection with Nb/Al-AlOx/Al/Nb superconducting tunnel junctions

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    Matsumura, Atsuki; Takahashi, Toru; Kurakado, Masahiko

    1992-01-01

    Superconductor radiation detectors have the possibility of 20-30 times better energy resolution than that of a high resolution Si detector. We fabricated Nb/Al-AlOx/Al/Nb superconducting tunnel junctions with low leakage current. X rays were detected with large area junctions of 178x178 μm 2 . High energy resolution of 160 eV for 5.9 keV was obtained. We also fabricated series connected junctions which covers a rather large area of 4x4 mm 2 . α particles injected into the rear substrate were detected using nonthermal phonons induced by the radiations in the substrate. (author)

  7. ALS-Plus Syndrome: Non-Pyramidal Features in a Large ALS Cohort

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    McCluskey, Leo; Vandriel, Shannon; Elman, Lauren; Van Deerlin, Vivianna M.; Powers, John; Boller, Ashley; Wood, Elisabeth McCarty; Woo, John; McMillan, Corey T.; Rascovsky, Katya; Grossman, Murray

    2014-01-01

    Objective Autopsy studies show widespread pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but clinical surveys of multisystem disease in ALS are rare. We investigated ALS-Plus syndrome, an understudied group of patients with clinical features extending beyond pyramidal and neuromuscular systems with or without cognitive/behavioral deficits. Methods In a large, consecutively-ascertained cohort of 550 patients with ALS, we documented atypical clinical manifestations. Genetic screening for C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansions was performed in 343 patients, and SOD1, TARDBP, and VCP were tested in the subgroup of patients with a family history of ALS. Gray matter and white matter imaging was available in a subgroup of 30 patients. Results Seventy-five (13.6%) patients were identified with ALS-Plus syndrome. We found disorders of ocular motility, cerebellar, extrapyramidal and autonomic functioning. Relative to those without ALS-Plus, cognitive impairment (8.0% vs 2.9%, p=0.029), bulbar-onset (49.3% vs 23.2%, pALS-Plus. Survival was significantly shorter in ALS-Plus (29.66 months vs 42.50 months, p=0.02), regardless of bulbar-onset or mutation status. Imaging revealed significantly greater cerebellar and cerebral disease in ALS-Plus compared to those without ALS-Plus. Conclusions ALS-Plus syndrome is not uncommon, and the presence of these atypical features is consistent with neuropathological observations that ALS is a multisystem disorder. ALS-Plus syndrome is associated with increased risk for poor survival and the presence of a pathogenic mutation. PMID:25086858

  8. Tailoring ultrafine grained and dispersion-strengthened Ti 2 AlC/TiAl ...

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    In situ Ti 2 AlC/TiAl composite was fabricated by hot-pressing method via the reaction system of Ti 3 AlC 2 and Ti-Al pre-alloyed powders at low temperature of 1150 ∘ C. The composite mainly consisted of TiAl, Ti 3 Al and Ti 2 AlC phases. Fine Ti 2 AlC particles were homogeneously distributed and dispersed in the matrix.

  9. Specific heat and magnetism of LuFe.sub.6./sub.Al.sub.6./sub..

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    Svoboda, P.; Andreev, Alexander V.; Šantavá, Eva; Šebek, Josef

    2008-01-01

    Roč. 113, č. 1 (2008), s. 307-310 ISSN 0587-4246. [CSMAG'07. Košice, 09.07.2007-12.07.2007] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100520 Keywords : specific heat * LuFe 6 Al 6 Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 0.321, year: 2008

  10. Assessing behavioural changes in ALS: cross-validation of ALS-specific measures.

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    Pinto-Grau, Marta; Costello, Emmet; O'Connor, Sarah; Elamin, Marwa; Burke, Tom; Heverin, Mark; Pender, Niall; Hardiman, Orla

    2017-07-01

    The Beaumont Behavioural Inventory (BBI) is a behavioural proxy report for the assessment of behavioural changes in ALS. This tool has been validated against the FrSBe, a non-ALS-specific behavioural assessment, and further comparison of the BBI against a disease-specific tool was considered. This study cross-validates the BBI against the ALS-FTD-Q. Sixty ALS patients, 8% also meeting criteria for FTD, were recruited. All patients were evaluated using the BBI and the ALS-FTD-Q, completed by a carer. Correlational analysis was performed to assess construct validity. Precision, sensitivity, specificity, and overall accuracy of the BBI when compared to the ALS-FTD-Q, were obtained. The mean score of the whole sample on the BBI was 11.45 ± 13.06. ALS-FTD patients scored significantly higher than non-demented ALS patients (31.6 ± 14.64, 9.62 ± 11.38; p ALS-FTD-Q was observed (r = 0.807, p ALS-FTD-Q. Good construct validity has been further confirmed when the BBI is compared to an ALS-specific tool. Furthermore, the BBI is a more comprehensive behavioural assessment for ALS, as it measures the whole behavioural spectrum in this condition.

  11. Status of the RERTR program: overview, progress and plans

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    Travelli, A.

    1985-01-01

    The status of the US Reduced Enrichment Research and Test Reactor (RERTR) Program is reviewed. After a summary of the accomplishments which the RERTR Program had achieved by the end of 1984 with its many international partners, emphasis is placed on the progress achieved during 1985 and on current plans and schedules. A new miniplate series, concentrating on U 3 Si 2 -Al and U 3 Si-Al fuels, was fabricated and is well into irradiation. The whole-core ORR demonstration is scheduled to begin in November 1985, with U 3 Si 2 -Al fuel at 4.8 g U/cm 3 . Altogether, 921 full-size test and prototype elements have been ordered for fabrication with reduced enrichment and the new technologies. Qualification of U 3 Si-Al fuel with approx.7 g U/cm 3 is still projected for 1989. This progress could not have been achieved without the close international cooperation which has existed since the beginning, and whose continuation and intensification will be essential to the achievement of the long-term RERTR goals

  12. Plastic deformation of Al13Fe4 particles in Al-Al13Fe4 by high-speed compression

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    Yoneyama, N.; Mizoguchi, K.; Kumai, S.; Sato, A.; Kiritani, M.

    2003-01-01

    Spray-formed Al-Fe alloys having undergone high-speed deformation were examined under a high-voltage electron microscope. Two types of specimens were examined; one containing fine Al 13 Fe 4 particles, and the other containing large particles. In the former specimen, deformation is found to proceed in three patterns, depending on specimen thickness and strain rate: (1) without deformation of the Al 13 Fe 4 ; (2) breaking of the Al 13 Fe 4 ; or (3) melting of the Al 13 Fe 4 . Local melting is found to alter some of the Al 13 Fe 4 particles, to impart five-fold symmetry in diffraction or an amorphous structure. In the latter specimen, introduction of glide dislocations enabled us to determine a shear system in the mc102 monoclinic c2/m crystal of Al 13 Fe 4 . On the bases of these observations, the mechanism of high-speed deformation is discussed while taking into account the highly stressed and/or heated states of Al 13 Fe 4 embedded in Al matrix

  13. Internet plan and planning

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    Kahriman Emina

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available Paper discuss specific features of internet plan as well as planning as management process in general in the contemporary environment. No need to stress out that marketing plan and marketing planning is core activity in approaching to market. At the same time, there are a lot specific c request in preparing marketing plan comparing to business planning due to marketing plan is an essential part. The importance of internet plan and planning rely on specific features of the internet network but as a part of general corporate as well as marketing strategy.

  14. Synthesis and characterization of pillared bentonite with Al, AL/Fe and impregnated with Pd; Sintese e caracterizacao de bentonitas pilarizadas com Al, AL/Fe e impregnadas com Pd

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    Silva, Marcus Vinicius Costa; Pizarro, Alejandro Herrero; Molina, Carmen Belen, E-mail: marcus.ufpa@yahoo.com.br [Universidade Federal do Para (UFPA), Belem, PA (Brazil). Instituto de Tecnologia. Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica; Seccion de Ingenieria Quimica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma de Madri (Spain)

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    In this work, a north american bentonite was pillared with Al and Al/Fe, creating the Al-PILC and Al-Fe-PILC, respectively. Then the Pd was impregnated in the materials, generating Pd-Al-PILC and Pd-Al-Fe-PILC, respectively. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis and thermogravimetric and N{sub 2} adsorption at 77 K to determine the specific surface area by BET method (Brunauer - Emmett - Teller). There was an increase in the basal spacing of bentonite from 12.4Å in the original sample to 17.81Å in the Al-Fe-PILC, 17.20Å in Pd-Al-PILC and 17.05Å in the Pd-Al-Fe-PILC. The specific surface area increased from 19.05m{sup 2}/g in the original sample to 173.49m{sup 2}/g in Al-Fe-PILC, 101.31m{sup 2}/g to Pd-Al-PILC and 92m{sup 2}/g in Pd-Al-Fe-PILC. The pillaring process was successful and the synthesized materials have great potential for use as catalysts. (author)

  15. Sm , Bi phosphors with high efficiency white-light-emittin

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    Aug 29, 2017 ... Therefore, researches on high efficiency red phos- phors are very important. So far ..... ing concentration and reached a maximum at y = 8 mol%. A .... [10] Xue L P, Wang Y J, Lv P W, Chen D G, Lin Z, Liang J K et al. 2009 Crystal ... [28] Liu J, Xu B, Song C, Luo H, Zou X, Han L et al 2012 Cryst-. EngComm.

  16. Management plan for electrical insulation, transformers and bulbs high pressure sodium retired from electrical distribution lines of the Unidad Estrategica de Negocios Servicio al Cliente Electricidad of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad

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    Badilla Sanabria, Daniela; Chaves Morales, Angelica; Rodriguez Mendez, Susan

    2012-01-01

    The Unidad Estrategica de Negocios Servicio al Cliente Electricidad of Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad has completed a management plan for electrical insulation, transformers and sodium vapor bulbs high pressure, that are retired from electrical distribution lines. The three residues have been characterized and identified in its physical composition, chemical and hazardous properties, generating selection, analysis and proposals for alternative of recovery, treatment or final disposal, viable from an environmental, technical and economic view. A series of recommendations and procedures have been performed using tabs and instructions for the purpose of unifying management practices appropriate in the Area de Sostenibilidad Ambiental of the ICE. (author) [es

  17. Electrodeposition of Al from a 1-butylpyrrolidine-AlCl3 ionic liquid

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    Giridhar Pulletikurthi

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available The addition of 1-butylpyrrolidine to AlCl3 results in the formation of an electrolyte that is suited to Al deposition. The feasibility of electrodepositing Al from the synthesized electrolyte was investigated. Several compositions of AlCl3 and 1-butylpyrrolidine were prepared for this purpose. These mixtures show a different phase behavior at various compositions of AlCl3 and 1-butylpyrrolidine. IR, Raman and NMR spectroscopy were employed to characterize the synthesized liquids. Among the prepared compositions, 1:1.2 mol ratio of 1-butylpyrrolidine:AlCl3 and the upper phase of 1:1.3 mol ratio of 1-butylpyrrolidine:AlCl3 were found to be suitable for Al electrodeposition at room temperature (RT. Uniform and thick (~µm thick layers of Al were obtained on copper at RT. Al deposition occured from the cationic species of AlCl3−xLy+ (where x≤2, y=1–2, and L=1-butylpyrrolidine in this electrolyte. This behavior is contrary to the well investigated classic AlCl3 based ionic liquids, where the deposition of Al occurs mainly from anionic Al2Cl7− ions.

  18. Orientation of Al3Ti platelets in Al-Al3Ti functionally graded material manufactured by centrifugal method

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    Watanabe, Y.; Fukui, Y.

    1997-01-01

    Al-Al 3 Ti functionally graded materials (FGMs) were manufactured by the centrifugal method with a commercial ingot of Al-5 mass% Ti master alloy. The alloy was melted at a liquid/solid coexisting temperature, at which Al 3 Ti remains as a solid, and then it was cast into a thick-walled ring. It was found that the Al-Al 3 Ti functionally graded material can be successfully fabricated by the centrifugal method. It was also found that the volume fraction of the Al 3 Ti can be increased by repetition of the centrifugal method. Since the shape of Al 3 Ti particles in a commercial alloy ingot is that of a platelet, the Al 3 Ti particles are arranged with their platelet planes nearly perpendicular to the radial direction. The orientation effects become stronger when the G number becomes larger. Although the final centrifugal casting was conducted under a very large centrifugal force for the specimen cast three times, the orientation effects were weaker than those in the specimen cast one time. From these observations, it is concluded that the origin of orientation of Al 3 Ti platelets can be attributed to the angular velocity gradient of the melt along the radial direction produced by the difference in the viscosity. (orig.)

  19. In situ synthesis of Ti{sub 2}AlC–Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}/TiAl composite by vacuum sintering mechanically alloyed TiAl powder coated with CNTs

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    Wang, Jian [Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Tianjin University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300072 (China); Zhao, Naiqin, E-mail: nqzhao@tju.edu.cn [State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin (China); Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Tianjin University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300072 (China); Nash, Philip [Thermal Processing Technology Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, IL (United States); Liu, Enzuo; He, Chunnian; Shi, Chunsheng; Li, Jiajun [Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Tianjin University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300072 (China)

    2013-11-25

    Highlights: •Using zwitterionic surfactant to enhance the dispersion of the CNTs on the powder surface. •CNTs as carbon source decreased the formation temperature of Ti{sub 2}AlC. •Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} was generated in situ from the oxygen atoms introduced in the drying procedure. •Nanosized Ti{sub 3}Al was precipitated at 1250 °C and distribute in the TiAl matrix homogeneously. •Ti{sub 2}AlC–Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}/TiAl composite was synthesized in situ by sintering pre-alloy Ti–Al coated with CNTs. -- Abstract: Bulk Ti{sub 2}AlC–Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}/TiAl composites were in situ synthesized by vacuum sintering mechanically alloyed Ti–50 at.% Al powders coated with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The pre-alloyed Ti–50 at.% Al powder was obtained by ball milling Ti and Al powders. The multi-walled carbon nanotubes as the carbon resource were covered on the surface of the pre-alloyed powders by immersing them into a water solution containing the CNTs. A zwitterionic surfactant was used to enhance the dispersion of the CNTs on the powder surface. The samples were cold pressed and sintered in vacuum at temperatures from 950 to 1250 °C, respectively. The results show that the reaction of forming Ti{sub 2}AlC can be achieved below 950 °C, which is 150 °C lower than in the Ti–Al–TiC system and 250 °C lower than for the Ti–Al–C system due to the addition of CNTs. Additionally, the reinforcement of Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} particles was introduced in situ in Ti{sub 2}AlC/TiAl by the drying process and subsequent sintering of the composite powders. Dense Ti{sub 2}AlC–Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}/TiAl composites were obtained by sintering at 1250 °C and exhibited a homogeneous distribution of Ti{sub 2}AlC, Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} and precipitated Ti{sub 3}Al particles and a resulting high hardness.

  20. 27Al NMR studies of NpPd5Al2

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    Chudo, H.; Sakai, H.; Tokunaga, Y.; Kambe, S.; Aoki, D.; Homma, Y.; Shiokawa, Y.; Haga, Y.; Ikeda, S.; Matsuda, T.D.; Onuki, Y.; Yasuoka, H.

    2009-01-01

    We present 27 Al NMR studies for a single crystal of the Np-based superconductor NpPd 5 Al 2 (T c =4.9K). We have observed a five-line 27 Al NMR spectrum with a center line and four satellite lines separated by first-order nuclear quadrupole splittings. The Knight shift clearly drops below T c . The temperature dependence of the 27 Al nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate shows no coherence peak below T c , indicating that NpPd 5 Al 2 is an unconventional superconductor with an anisotropic gap. The analysis of the present NMR data provides evidence for strong-coupling d-wave superconductivity in NpPd 5 Al 2 .

  1. Magnetic tunnel junctions with AlN and AlNxOy barriers

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    Schwickert, M. M.; Childress, J. R.; Fontana, R. E.; Kellock, A. J.; Rice, P. M.; Ho, M. K.; Thompson, T. J.; Gurney, B. A.

    2001-01-01

    Nonoxide tunnel barriers such as AlN are of interest for magnetic tunnel junctions to avoid the oxidation of the magnetic electrodes. We have investigated the fabrication and properties of thin AlN-based barriers for use in low resistance magnetic tunnel junctions. Electronic, magnetic and structural data of tunnel valves of the form Ta (100 Aa)/PtMn (300 Aa)/CoFe 20 (20 Aa - 25 Aa)/barrier/CoFe 20 (10 - 20 Aa)/NiFe 16 (35 - 40 Aa)/Ta (100 Aa) are presented, where the barrier consists of AlN, AlN x O y or AlN/AlO x with total thicknesses between 8 and 15 Aa. The tunnel junctions were sputter deposited and then lithographically patterned down to 2 x 2μm 2 devices. AlN was deposited by reactive sputtering from an Al target with 20% - 35% N 2 in the Ar sputter gas at room temperature, resulting in stoichiometric growth of AlN x (x=0.50±0.05), as determined by RBS. TEM analysis shows that the as-deposited AlN barrier is crystalline. For AlN barriers and AlN followed by natural O 2 oxidation, we obtain tunnel magnetoresistance >10% with specific junction resistance R j down to 60Ωμm 2 . [copyright] 2001 American Institute of Physics

  2. Value of information-based inspection planning for offshore structures

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    Irman, Arifian Agusta; Thöns, Sebastian; Leira, Bernt J.

    2017-01-01

    with each inspection strategy. A simplified and generic risk-based inspection planning utilizing pre- posterior Bayesian decision analysis had been proposed by Faber et al. [1] and Straub [2]. This paper provides considerations on the theoretical background and a Value of Information analysis......-based inspection planning. The paper will start out with a review of the state-of-art RBI planning procedure based on Bayesian decision theory and its application in offshore structure integrity management. An example of the Value of Information approach is illustrated and it is pointed to further research......Asset integrity and management is an important part of the oil and gas industry especially for existing offshore structures. With declining oil price, the production rate is an important factor to be maintained that makes integrity of the structures one of the main concerns. Reliability based...

  3. Effect of Enrichment of Maize Meal with Nicotinic Acid and Riboflavin ...

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    1974-08-14

    Aug 14, 1974 ... The urine samples were preserved with oxalic acid and assayed for ... The planning and design of this experiment and the data obtained from ... rejecting true hypotheses). ..... It was, therefore, decided to use relatively simple.

  4. Positive behavioral support planning in the inpatient treatment of severe disruptive behaviors: A description of service features.

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    Hamlett, Nakia M; Carr, Erika R; Hillbrand, Marc

    2016-05-01

    Positive behavior support (PBS) plans are increasingly used on inpatient units to assess and treat serious and dangerous behaviors displayed by patients with serious psychiatric impairment. A contemporary extension of traditional applied behavior analytic procedures, PBS plans integrate theories from several domains with perspectives on community psychology, positive psychology, and recovery-oriented care. Because there is little evidence to suggest that more invasive, punitive disciplinary strategies lead to long-term positive behavioral change (Parkes, 1996), PBS plans have emerged as an alternative to the use of seclusion and restraint or other forms of restrictive measures typically used on inpatient psychiatric units (Hammer et al., 2011). Moreover, PBS plans are a preferred method of intervention because more invasive interventions often cause more harm than good to all involved (Elliott et al., 2005). This article seeks to provide an integrated framework for the development of positive behavior support plans in inpatient psychiatric settings. In addition to explicating the philosophy and core elements of PBS plans, this work includes discussion of the didactic and pragmatic aspects of training clinical staff in inpatient mental health settings. A case vignette is included for illustration and to highlight the use of PBS plans as a mechanism for helping patients transition to less restrictive settings. This work will add to the scant literature examining the use of positive behavioral support plans in inpatient psychiatric settings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

  5. Short communication Effect of pesticides applied in cowpea ...

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    Mrs Mabel Antwi

    2014-08-02

    Aug 2, 2014 ... cowpea crop, application of lambda cyhalothrin, dimethoate, and cypermethrin is recommended (Afun et al.,. 1991) and commonly practised in Ghana and other sub-Saharan African countries. Inherent problems of pesticide residue accumulation and degradation compounds in edible tissues (Laben, 1968) ...

  6. Molecular cloning and characterization of a cytoplasmic cyclophilin ...

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    Jane

    2011-08-08

    Aug 8, 2011 ... In real-time qPCR analysis, the Sc-CyP gene showed induced expression under ... signaling pathway was also existed in plants (Luan et al.,. 1993). ... Construction of prokaryotic expression vector of Sc-CyP gene. pET29a (+) ...

  7. Antimicrobial activity of the ethanolic extract of Bryonopsis laciniosa ...

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    2009-08-04

    Aug 4, 2009 ... cholera, colic, consumption, convulsions, cough, delirium, fertility, headache, megalospleny, paralysis, phthisis, snake bite. The chloroform extract of B. laciniosa has exhibited significant anti-inflammatory activity (Gupta et al., 2003). Analgesic and antipyretic activity of methanol extract of B. laciniosa also ...

  8. A study of the Al-rich part of the Al-Re alloy system

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    Balanetskyy, S.; Grushko, B.

    2008-01-01

    The Al-rich part of the Al-Re phase diagram was reinvestigated by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction and differential thermal analysis. The earlier reported Al 12 Re, Al 6 Re, and Al 11 Re 4 phases were confirmed. Close to the Al 4 Re composition a high-temperature h-Al 4 Re and a low-temperature l-Al 4 Re phase were found to be formed at slightly different compositions. Both exhibited compositional ranges. A new phase was revealed close to the Al 3 Re composition. The Al 11 Re 4 phase is formed congruently at 1650 deg. C, Al 3 Re peritectically at 1610 deg. C, h-Al 4 Re peritectically at 1410 deg. C, l-Al 4 Re peritectically at ∼1000 deg. C, Al 6 Re peritectically at 813 deg. C and Al 12 Re peritectically at 746 deg. C. Finally, the Al 12 Re-(Al) eutectic is formed at 658 deg. C. The Al 3 Re and h-Al 4 Re are decomposed by eutectoid reactions at ∼946 and 833 deg., respectively. The structure of the h-Al 4 Re phase has not yet been clarified, but it is distinctly different from the Al 4 W phase suggested earlier. The structure of l-Al 4 Re was confirmed. The Al 3 Re phase was found to have a monoclinic structure with a = 0.5180(4) nm, b = 3.97641(9) nm, c = 0.4955(3) nm and β = 99.55(7) o

  9. El crecimiento de los open sources de fabricación digital y su implementación en el media lab. De la high-tech al do it yourself

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    José Manuel Ruiz Martín

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available La aparición y el auge del movimiento maker y de los recursos abiertos u open sources, sobre todo los ligados a la fabricación digital, desde principios de siglo XXI, parece confirmar una tendencia transformadora generacional de gran relevancia en los medios y procesos creativos, hecho que se une al notable crecimiento de laboratorios donde estos perfiles desarrollan su labor. Pero ¿existe un cambio de paradigma en el uso de nuevos medios? ¿Qué características poseen? ¿Resulta este hecho sintomático de una transformación cultural relevante? ¿De qué forma se interrelacionan y retroalimentan dichos procesos con la cultura digital actual? La respuesta a estas cuestiones, tan candentes en la actualidad, nos ayudará a valorar el nivel de impacto de este movimiento en los procesos creativos y culturales actuales y la transformación sufrida por la tecnología implementada en dichos centros desde la segunda mitad del siglo pasado.

  10. Una mirada al desarrollo de los medios electrónicos en Colombia A look at electronic media development in Colombia.

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    Marín Ochoa Beatriz Elena

    2008-07-01

    Full Text Available El periodismo exige unas formas de redacción específicas que reciben el nombre de narrativas, las cuales tienen unas características determinadas de acuerdo al medio en el cual se presentan (prensa, radio, televisión e Internet. Por eso y para el desarrollo de la presente investigación se abordó el estudio de las narrativas propias de los medios digitales “on line” (específicamente en Internet, teniendo en cuenta que son una integración de narrativas de otros medios periodísticos, impresos, radiales y televisivos que suponen lenguajes escritos, orales y audiovisuales y que propician un nuevo fenómeno denominado Convergencia de medios , que hoy adquiere connotaciones particulares gracias al aporte e impulso de las tecnologías y el auge de los procesos de digitalización de contenidos. Journalism demands some specific kind of writing called narratives, which has some particular characteristics according to the media and form they are presented. (Written press, radio, television and Internet Due to that fact and in order to develop this investigation, we decided to approach the study of “on line” digital media’s own narratives, specifically Internet. We always kept in mind that these narratives are a mix of other media narratives such as journalistic media, printed, radio and television, which assume written, oral and audiovisual languages. They favour a new phenomenon called Media Convergence, which nowadays gets some particular connotations due to the contribution and boost of technologies and contents digitalization peak.

  11. Geomagnetic Pc3 pulsations during the total solar eclipse on Aug 11, 1999

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    Střeštík, Jaroslav; Prikner, Karel

    2003-01-01

    Roč. 47, č. 3 (2003), s. 565-578 ISSN 0039-3169 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA205/99/0915 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z3012916 Keywords : geomagnetic pulsations * solar eclipse * MHD waves Subject RIV: DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography Impact factor: 0.426, year: 2003

  12. Financial Preparation for Retirement in Brazil: a Cross-Cultural Test of the Interdisciplinary Financial Planning Model.

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    França, Lucia H F; Hershey, Douglas A

    2018-03-01

    In this investigation, we attempt to replicate the Interdisciplinary Financial Planning Model advanced by Hershey et al. (International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 70, 1-38, 2010) using a sample of Brazilian adults. This model, which was originally tested on individuals from The Netherlands and the United States, posits that psychological, social, and economic forces are key determinants of retirement planning practices and perceptions of saving adequacy. Taken together, fifteen hypotheses were subject to evaluation. Participants were 167 Brazilian working adults, 21-69 years of age, who were married or cohabitating at the time of testing. A path analysis model showed substantial support for the theoretical framework, with all variables found to contribute directly or indirectly to the prediction of financial planning and saving adequacy. Furthermore, two new paths were found to emerge in the Brazilian model that were not observed in the original investigation. This cross-national replication of the Interdisciplinary Financial Planning Model extends research on the topic to a developing country in which relatively few empirical studies of retirement planning have been carried out. Other analyses in the article focus on direct comparisons between the Brazilian model and the models developed based on American and Dutch respondents, with an eye toward better understanding how cultural forces shape the retirement planning process. The discussion focuses on how models of financial planning, such as the Hershey et al. (2010) model, can inform the development of savings-oriented education and intervention programs.

  13. Abu al-Layth al-Libi

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    success. As an Arab participant acknowledged very early on, “the situation was really harsh. All the brothers were tired,” as they lacked food and... glorious battles that occurred during the early Islamic period.133 He stressed the importance of the battlefield as the path to achieve honor and dignity...diaspora in Waziristan. In the words of Walid Othmani, a French jihadi trained by al-Qa`ida in Waziristan in 2008, “[Al-Libi] was someone well-known and

  14. SAP-like ultrafine-grained Al composites dispersion strengthened with nanometric AlN

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    Balog, M.; Krizik, P.; Yan, M.; Simancik, F.; Schaffer, G.B.; Qian, M.

    2013-01-01

    This paper reports the development of novel Sinter-Aluminum-Pulver (SAP)-like Al–AlN nanocomposites via replacing the native Al 2 O 3 thin films on fine Al powder with a large volume fraction of in situ formed nanometric AlN dispersoids. Fine gas-atomized Al powder (d 50 =1.3 µm) compacts were first partially nitrided at 590 °C in flowing nitrogen, controlled by a small addition of Sn (0.3–0.4 wt%), and subsequently consolidated by hot direct extrusion. The resulting Al–AlN composites consisted of submicrometric Al grains reinforced with nanometric AlN dispersoids together with some nanometric Al 2 O 3 dispersoids. An Al–13 vol% AlN nanocomposite fabricated this way achieved exceptional ultimate tensile strength of 227 MPa, yield strength of 195 MPa and Young's modulus of 66 GPa at 300 °C, superior to typical SAP materials and coarse grained Al–AlN composites. In addition, the Al–13 vol% AlN nanocomposite exhibited good thermal stability up to 500 °C. The strengthening mechanism is discussed

  15. Plan de empresa: 3-DIY

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    El objeto del proyecto es el desarrollo de una pequeña empresa que ofrezca los servicios de fabricación y venta de piezas 3D con dos canales de venta: la propia tienda y el canal internet. La empresa debe ofrecer la posibilidad de plasmar en 3 dimensiones las piezas que el cliente desee. Así pues, el objetivo de nuestro plan de empresa no es otro que el de sacar provecho a base de acercar la impresión tridimensional al público particular. A pesar de que este proyecto está estim...

  16. Analisis Kecenderungan Manhaj Akidah Shaykh Shams al-Din al-Sumatera’i

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    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available Shaykh Shams al-Din al-Sumatera'i is a very great and respected scholar during 16th and 17th century of Acheh. His knowledge in various fields recognized by local and international scholars. He had been a Qadi Malik al-’Adil, a religious leader, who became a referred by communities and country during the reign of the three Sultans of Aceh. He has authored nearly 40 pieces of books related to the theology and sufism. This study focuses on the methods used by Shaykh Shams al-Din al-Sumatera'i in his theological writings. This study found that Shaykh Shams al-Din al-Sumatera'i had used six methods in the such writings.

  17. Microstructural analyses of intermetallic TiAl(Nb)-compounds prepared by arc melting and by powder metallurgy

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    Chen, S.

    1988-01-01

    Intermetallic compounds based on TiAl with Nb or V as alloying additions prepared by powder metallurgy (P/M) and arc melting (A/M) techniques have been investigated with respect to their potential as new high temperature materials. All the alloys with nominal Al-concentrations 34-36 wt% contain two phases, γ-TiAl and α 2 -Ti 3 Al, but significant differences in the distribution of γ and α 2 were found between the P/M and A/M materials. The role of impurities during processing and the microstructural stability in the planned service temperature range 700-1000 0 C are discussed. In the P/M TiAl alloys two carbide precipitates have been found, which are the cubic Perovskite-AlTi 3 C phase in the γ-matrix and the hexagonal H-AlTi 2 (C, N) phase at grain boundaries. At high temperatures the AlTi 3 C phase dissolves and is replaced by more stable H-phase, and therefore no longer contributes to the high temperature strength of the material. Mechanical properties of both the P/M and A/M alloys are compared in association with the processing methods and the resulting microstructures. (orig.) With 71 figs., 22 tabs [de

  18. Ultrasonic spot welding of Al/Mg/Al tri-layered clad sheets

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    Macwan, A.; Patel, V.K.; Jiang, X.Q.; Li, C.; Bhole, S.D.; Chen, D.L.

    2014-01-01

    Highlights: • The optimal welding condition is achieved at 100 J and 0.1 s. • Failure load first increases and then decreases with increasing welding energy. • The highest failure load after welding is close to that of the clad sheets. • At low energy levels failure occurs in the mode of interfacial failure. • At high energy levels failure takes place at the edge of nugget region. - Abstract: Solid-state ultrasonic spot welding (USW) was used to join Al/Mg/Al tri-layered clad sheets, aiming at exploring weldability and identifying failure mode in relation to the welding energy. It was observed that the application of a low welding energy of 100 J was able to achieve the optimal welding condition during USW at a very short welding time of 0.1 s for the tri-layered clad sheets. The optimal lap shear failure load obtained was equivalent to that of the as-received Al/Mg/Al tri-layered clad sheets. With increasing welding energy, the lap shear failure load initially increased and then decreased after reaching a maximum value. At a welding energy of 25 J, failure occurred in the mode of interfacial failure along the center Al/Al weld interface due to insufficient bonding. At a welding energy of 50 J, 75 J and 100 J, failure was also characterized by the interfacial failure mode, but it occurred along the Al/Mg clad interface rather than the center Al/Al weld interface, suggesting stronger bonding of the Al/Al weld interface than that of the Al/Mg clad interface. The overall weld strength of the Al/Mg/Al tri-layered clad sheets was thus governed by the Al/Mg clad interface strength. At a welding energy of 125 J and 150 J, thinning of weld nugget and extensive deformation at the edge of welding tip caused failure at the edge of nugget region, leading to a lower lap shear failure load

  19. A computational model of the allocentric and egocentric spatial memory by means of virtual agents, or how simple virtual agents can help to build complex computational models

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    Brom, C.; Vyhnánek, J.; Lukavský, Jiří; Waller, D.; Kadlec, R.

    17-18, JUL-AUG 2012 (2012), s. 1-24 ISSN 1389-0417 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70250504 Keywords : spatial cognition * disorientation effect * intelligent virtual agent Subject RIV: AN - Psychology Impact factor: 0.750, year: 2012

  20. analysis of the measured medical waste generation at amana

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    kagonji

    2011-08-16

    Aug 16, 2011 ... In this study the medical waste generation rates at Amana and Ligula hospitals ...... making the situation difficult to administrators to plan and budget. ..... Management Meeting, Peacock Hotel, Dar es Salaam, 9th-11th June,.

  1. Recommendations for making Ahmedabad, India, safer and more ...

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    Aug 25, 2016 ... Policy brief 5: Vatwa Resettlement Sites – Gender insecurity and violence ... inequality, and violence in urban India: Towards more inclusive urban planning. ... While it is the largest city in India's northeastern state of Assam, ...

  2. Knowledge provides alternatives to a life of crime for urban youth ...

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    Aug 8, 2016 ... Knowledge provides alternatives to a life of crime for urban youth ... related to public housing, education, and family planning also need reform. ... and civil society leaders in Mexico and Central America together to address ...

  3. Advocacy for International Family Planning: What Terminology Works?

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    Huber, Douglas; Martin, Raymond; Bormet, Mona

    Advocating for international family planning while avoiding miscommunications with politically and religiously conservative policy makers and the public requires care and clarity with language. We find that terms such as "international family planning" are well received when the meaning is clearly explained, such as "enabling couples to determine the number and timing of pregnancies, including the voluntary use of methods for preventing pregnancy - not including abortion - harmonious with their beliefs and values". Family planning also helps reduce abortions - a powerful message for conservative policy makers and the public. We concur with Dyer et al. (2016) that the messenger is important; we find that many of the most effective advocates are religious leaders and faith-based health providers from the Global South. They know and validate the importance of family planning for improving family health and reducing abortions in their communities. "Healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy" is positive language for policy makers, especially when describing the health impact for women and children. Universal access to contraceptive services is emerging as vital for family health and also to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (UN 2015). Language on international family planning will evolve, and clarity of meaning will be foundational for effective advocacy.

  4. Synergism between Ni and W in the NiW/gama-Al2O3 Hydrotreating Catalysts

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    Spojakina, A.A.; Palcheva, R.; Jirátová, Květa; Tyuliev, G.; Petrov, L.

    2005-01-01

    Roč. 104, 1-2 (2005), s. 45-52 ISSN 1011-372X Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40720504 Keywords : NiW/gama-Al2O3 * Thiophene hydrodesulfurization * TPR, XPS Subject RIV: CI - Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Impact factor: 2.088, year: 2005

  5. Reaction layer between U-7WT%Mo and Al alloys in chemical diffusion couples

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    Mirandou, M.; Granovsky, M.; Ortiz, M.; Balart, S.; Arico, S.; Gribaudo, L.

    2005-01-01

    Several failures in U-Mo dispersion fuel plates like pillowing and large porosities have been reported during irradiation experiments. These failures have been assigned to the formation of a large (U-Mo)/Al interaction product under high operating conditions. The modification of the matrix by alloying Al to change the interaction layer and improve its irradiation behavior, has been proposed. This paper reports diffusion experiments performed between U-7wt%Mo and various Al alloys containing Mg and / or Si. By the use of Optical Microscopy, SEM and X-Ray diffraction, it was found that with a concentration of 5.2wt% or 7.1 wt%Si the interaction layer is constituted mainly by (U,Mo)(Si,Al) 3 and no (U,Mo)Al 4 is detected. As part of the studies of properties of the U-Mo alloys the time for isothermal transformation start at different temperatures of the γ phase is being evaluated for the present U-7wt%Mo alloy. These results are used to plan the future diffusion program that will include diffusion under irradiation at CNEA RA3 reactor. (author)

  6. KITAB AL-SANĪ AL-MAṬĀLIB: INTERKONEKSI NAHWU DAN TASAWUF

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    Zakiyah Zakiyah

    2012-12-01

    Tulisan ini mereview buku yang berjudul al-Sanī al-Maṭālib yang ditulis oleh Kiai Nur Iman Mlangi Yogyakarta. Buku ini ditulis dalam bahasa Arab yang me­ngandung interkoneksi antara ilmu Nahwu (tata bahasa Arab dengan mis­tisis­me. Buku ini sangat menarik karena kenyataan bahwa kedua pengetahuan tersebut memiliki aturan sendiri-sendiri. Selain itu, sangat sedikit penulis yang menulis dengan gaya seperti itu. Salah satunya adalah Syaikh Abdul Qadir bin Ahmad al-Kuhany dengan karyanya yang berjudul Manniyat al-Fāqir al-Munjarid wa Sayrat al-Murīd al-Mutafarrid. Buku al-Saniy al-Muthalib diduga telah ditulis pada akhir abad ke-18 atau awal abad ke-19, menurut periode kehidupan Kiai Nur Iman yaitu sekitar pertengahan abad ke-18. Aturan Nahwu dalam buku ini dijelaskan secara teosofi yang dimulai dengan penjelasan mengenai tauhid (keesaan Tuhan sebagai kajian dasar bagi orang Islam, yang diikuti dengan makna dari masing-masing aturan bahasa Arab dalam aspek mistiknya.

  7. Rekonstruksi Konsep Ijtihad: Studi Pemikiran Ben’umar tentang al-Ijtihad fi al-Waqi’

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    Duski Ibrahim

    2015-10-01

    Full Text Available This paper is the result of a research that evaluating the reconstruction the concept of ijtihad, by discuss the idea of al-Ijtihad Ben'umar fi al-waqi’. This paper concludes that Al-Ijtihad fi al-waqi’ is actually a form of collective ijtihad (al ijtihad al-jama'i, by gathering the experts of shari'ah law (fuqaha` ash-shar'i and experts Researchers and scientists (khubara` al-'ashr. Because experts know the nash purposes, while researchers and scientists (al-khubara` know the reality (al-waqi’, the effects in the future (ma'alat = future effect and challenges (tahaddiyat. The idea of formulating the concept of al-ijtihad fi al-waqi’ emerged based on a premise that ijtihad is a creation of experts to implement Islamic law in society. Therefore, the concept of ijtihad experienced a significant development, start from using the nash from the language aspects, continue to the using of logic. At the moment when the situation people are increasingly develop, then the creation of ijtihad become a necessary to developed, for example in the form of al-ijtihad fi al-waqi’ . About the source of the formation of the concept of al -ijtihad fi al-waqi’ comes from theory about the functions of nash, al-manath theory in Islamic law, and supported by the theory of al-mashlalah al-mursalah.

  8. Candidates stick to party guns. In lieu of new healthcare plans, Bush, Gore follow party reform proposals.

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    Gardner, J; Hallam, K

    2000-07-03

    As the Democratic and GOP nominating conventions approach next month, presumptive nominees Al Gore and George W. Bush are offering no new healthcare plans, both preferring to ride the healthcare waves already set in motion by their respective party's leadership. And the really interesting thing is, the plans aren't that different. Call it creeping incrementalism.

  9. Tri-Lateral Noor al Salaam High Concentration Solar Central Receiver Program

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    Blackmon, James B

    2008-03-31

    This report documents the efforts conducted primarily under the Noor al Salaam (“Light of Peace”) program under DOE GRANT NUMBER DE-FC36-02GO12030, together with relevant technical results from a closely related technology development effort, the U.S./Israel Science and Technology Foundation (USISTF) High Concentration Solar Central Receiver program. These efforts involved preliminary design, development, and test of selected prototype power production subsystems and documentation of an initial version of the system definition for a high concentration solar hybrid/gas electrical power plant to be built in Zaafarana, Egypt as a first step in planned commercialization. A major part of the planned work was halted in 2007 with an amendment in October 2007 requiring that we complete the technical effort by December 31, 2007 and provide a final report to DOE within the following 90 days. This document summarizes the work conducted. The USISTF program was a 50/50 cost-shared program supported by the Department of Commerce through the U.S./Israel Science and Technology Commission (USISTC). The USISTC was cooperatively developed by President Clinton and the late Prime Minister Rabin of Israel "to encourage technological collaboration" and "support peace in the Middle East through economic development". The program was conducted as a follow-on effort to Israel's Magnet/CONSOLAR Program, which was an advanced development effort to design, fabricate, and test a solar central receiver and secondary optics for a "beam down" central receiver concept. The status of these hardware development programs is reviewed, since they form the basis for the Noor al Salaam program. Descriptions are provided of the integrated system and the major subsystems, including the heliostat, the high temperature air receiver, the power conversion unit, tower and tower reflector, compound parabolic concentrator, and the master control system. One objective of the USISTF program was to conduct

  10. UN SEGMENTO DEL TURISMO INTERNACIONAL EN AUGE: EL TURISMO DE CAZA

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    Juan Ignacio Rengifo Gallego

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available El número de turistas internacionales viene creciendo de forma continuada desde que existen fuentes estadísticas. Este crecimiento, que no sólo ha sido cuantitativo, sino espacial, ha ido acompañado de una segmentación del mercado en función de las motivaciones. Entre estos segmentos se halla el turismo cinegético, modalidad que ha experimentado un importante crecimiento en los últimos años por diversos motivos. Este incremento ha ido asociado a la movilidad de un porcentaje importante de cazadores de Europa y Estados Unidos, a la existencia de una gran variedad de especies cinegéticas en el mundo que se distribuyen de forma irregular por el territorio y al desarrollo de un entramado empresarial que participa en la comercialización de la caza.

  11. Prone surgery and laryngeal mask airways: an overview of recent ...

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    2013-08-17

    Aug 17, 2013 ... muscular blocking drugs with their own risks and side- effect profiles. • Patients ... Alternatively, the use of high-dose propofol and opiates to facilitate ..... be respected if approached poorly and with bad planning. Conflict of ...

  12. a clinical trial of carbutamide (bz 55) in diabetics admitted to hospital

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    2012-08-02

    Aug 2, 2012 ... and Bertram et al.,IQ in Germany described the effects of a new sulphonaInide ..... workers and is illustrated by its success in all four patients of this kind ... Secondly it must be admitted that the natural history of diabetes itself is ...

  13. NJP Number 39 Vol 1, 2012.cdr

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    Aug 4, 2007 ... xiphoid process (bifid sternum) with the heart ... diaphragm does not develop, and the paired ... through the resulting sternal and abdominal wall ... variants have been described by Toyoma et al. He ... (SCBU) of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano ... and include craniofacial and central nervous system.

  14. Archachatina marginata

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    Aug 7, 2013 ... Department of Animal Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. Accepted ... highly appreciated as a valuable source of animal protein ... extinction. Puurtinen et al. (2004) also noted that genetic threats associated with small population size may contribute to the elevated extinction risk of small and.

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    Aug 6, 2007 ... Four Mucor hiemalis strains (M1, M2, M3 and M4), isolated from soil at a depth of 0 - 15 ... Plant oils were inhibitors of fatty acid production by these strains. .... The procedure was adapted from Kates (1982) and Kennedy et al.

  16. RNA interference in plant parasitic nematodes

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    Aug 4, 2008 ... grower preference or by government restrictions to limit the environmental ... risks associated with chemical control and (c) the pro- vision of ... certain model organisms. The first ... reproductive system (Lilley et al., 2005b), sperm (Urwin .... interference of dual oxidase in the plant nematode Meloidogyne.

  17. In vitro storage of synthetic seeds: Effect of different storage ...

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    Aug 30, 2010 ... comparative regrowth and conversion capacity of synthetic seeds. Cold stored .... solution for 35 min. After complexation, the hardened alginate ... difference (LSD) test at 5% probability level (Steel et al., 1997). RESULTS AND ..... dure already proposed by Roussos and Pontikis (2002) that simplified the ...

  18. Post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage after bipolar diathermy vs. cold ...

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    Aug 17, 2015 ... Abstract Introduction: Tonsillectomy is a common surgical procedure done by otolaryngologists. Tonsillectomy ... Tonsillectomy dates back over 2000 years1 and is now the most .... Tomkinson et al.9 reported that patients older than 12 years .... 12. Windfuhr JP, Chen YS, Remmert S. Hemorrhage following.

  19. Environmentally safe in vitro regeneration protocol for Curcuma ...

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    Aug 10, 2011 ... Japanese and Indian cuisines and traditional Southeast. Asian medicines. These species are important natural sources of spices, herbal medicines, dyes, perfumes and multipurpose aesthetic compounds (Chaveerach et al.,. 2008). Myanmar, situated in Southeast Asia, is considered as one of the center of ...

  20. Recent progress in the differentiation of bone marrow derived ...

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    Aug 9, 2010 ... Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) are one of the cells found in bone marrow stromal. A large number of ..... BMMSCs and myocardial cells using biomimetic electrical ... effect ventricular remodeling after infarction. Meyern et al. ... to small sample sizes and different experimental con- ditions.

  1. Production of milk-clotting enzyme by Bacillus subtilis B1 from wheat ...

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    Aug 22, 2011 ... average percentages of starch, proteins, moisture, crud fibers, ash and others in ... To confirm optimum reaction temperature, the milk samples were previously equilibrated at ... casein digestion method (Shieh et al., 2009). One unit of ..... medium for α-amylase production from a hyper-producing Bacillus.

  2. Study of the 26Al(n,p)26Mg and 26Al(n,α)23Na reactions using the 27Al(p,p')27Al inelastic scattering reaction

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    Benamara, S; De Séréville, N; Hammache, F; Stefan, I; Roussel, P; Ancelin, S; Assié, M; Guillot, J; Le Crom, B; Lefebvre, L; Adsley, P; Laird, A M; Barton, C; Diget, C; Fox, S; Coc, A; Deloncle, I; Hamadache, C; Kiener, J; Lefebfre-Schuhl, A

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    26 Al was the first cosmic radioactivity ever detected in the galaxy as well as one of the first extinct radioactivity observed in refractory phases of meteorites. Its nucleosynthesis in massive stars is still uncertain mainly due to the lack of nuclear information concerning the 26 Al(n,p) 26 Mg and 26 Al(n,α) 23 Na reactions. We report on a single and coincidence measurement of the 27 Al(p,p') 27 Al(p) 26 Mg and 27 Al(p,p') 27 Al(α) 23 Na reactions performed at the Orsay TANDEM facility aiming at the spectroscopy study of 27 Al above the neutron threshold. Fourteen states are observed for the first time within 350 keV above the 26 Al+n threshold. (paper)

  3. AlN/Al dual protective coatings on NdFeB by DC magnetron sputtering

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    Li Jinlong; Mao Shoudong; Sun Kefei [Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201 (China); Li Xiaomin [Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050 (China); Song Zhenlun [Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201 (China)], E-mail: songzhenlun@nimte.ac.cn

    2009-11-15

    AlN/Al dual protective coatings were prepared on NdFeB by DC magnetron sputtering in a home-made industrial apparatus. Comparing with Al coating, AlN/Al coatings have a denser structure of an outmost AlN amorphous layer following an inner Al columnar crystal layer. The coatings and NdFeB substrate combine well, and moreover, there is occurrence of metallurgy bonding in the interface layer. Both Al and AlN/Al coatings have a good protective ability to NdFeB. Especially, the corrosion resistance of AlN/Al coated NdFeB is improved largely. AlN/Al and Al protective coatings not only do not deteriorate the magnetic properties of NdFeB, but contribute to their slight increase.

  4. AlN/Al dual protective coatings on NdFeB by DC magnetron sputtering

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    Li Jinlong; Mao Shoudong; Sun Kefei; Li Xiaomin; Song Zhenlun

    2009-01-01

    AlN/Al dual protective coatings were prepared on NdFeB by DC magnetron sputtering in a home-made industrial apparatus. Comparing with Al coating, AlN/Al coatings have a denser structure of an outmost AlN amorphous layer following an inner Al columnar crystal layer. The coatings and NdFeB substrate combine well, and moreover, there is occurrence of metallurgy bonding in the interface layer. Both Al and AlN/Al coatings have a good protective ability to NdFeB. Especially, the corrosion resistance of AlN/Al coated NdFeB is improved largely. AlN/Al and Al protective coatings not only do not deteriorate the magnetic properties of NdFeB, but contribute to their slight increase.

  5. La Argentina y el Plan Marshall: promesas y realidades Argentina and the Marshall Plan: promises and realities

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    Mario Rapoport

    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available El artículo analiza los intereses y prioridades de la política económica externa de los Estados Unidos y las complejas relaciones entre Washington y el gobierno de Buenos Aires en relación a la puesta en marcha del Plan Marshall de reconstrucción de Europa Occidental. La no participación de la Argentina en él dificultó su proceso de industrialización al restringir su comercio con el viejo continente e impedirle obtener las divisas necesarias para comprar en los EEUU, proveedor fundamental de los bienes que necesitaba.The article analyze both the interests and priorities of the foreign economic policy of the United States and the complex relationship between Washington and the peronist government when President Truman impose the Marshall Plan in Europe making more difficult the industrialisation of Argentina.

  6. Co2+ Ions as Probes of Al Distribution in the Framework of Zeolites. ZSM-5 Study

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    Dědeček, Jiří; Kaucký, Dalibor; Wichterlová, Blanka; Gonsiorová, O.

    2002-01-01

    Roč. 4, - (2002), s. 5406-5413 ISSN 1463-9076 R&D Projects: GA MŠk OC D15.20 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4040901 Keywords : Al distribution in zeolites * ZSM-5 * Vis spectroscopy Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 1.838, year: 2002

  7. Al-Si/Al2O3 in situ composite prepared by displacement reaction of CuO/Al system

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    Zhang Jing

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available Al2O3 particle-reinforced ZL109 composite was prepared by in situ reaction between CuO and Al. The microstructure was observed by means of OM, SEM and TEM. The Al2O3 particles in sub-micron sizes distribute uniformly in the matrix, and the Cu displaced from the in situ reaction forms net-like alloy phases with other alloy elements. The hardness and the tensile strength of the composites at room temperature have a slight increase as compared to that of the matrix. However, the tensile strength at 350 ℃ has reached 90.23 MPa, or 16.92 MPa higher than that of the matrix. The mechanism of the reaction in the CuO/Al system was studied by using of differential scanning calorimetry(DSC and thermodynamic calculation. The reaction between CuO and Al involves two steps. First, CuO reacts with Al to form Cu2O and Al2O3 at the melting temperature of the matrix alloy, and second, Cu2O reacts with Al to form Cu and Al2O3 at a higher temperature. At ZL109 casting temperature of 750–780 ℃, the second step can also take place because of the effect of exothermic reaction of the first step.

  8. AlGaN nanocolumns and AlGaN/GaN/AlGaN nanostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy

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    Ristic, J.; Sanchez-Garcia, M.A.; Ulloa, J.M.; Calleja, E. [Departamento de Ingenieria Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid (Spain); Sanchez-Paramo, J.; Calleja, J.M. [Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid (Spain); Jahn, U.; Trampert, A.; Ploog, K.H. [Paul-Drude-Institut fuer Festkoerperelektronik, Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin (Germany)

    2002-12-01

    This work reports on the characterization of hexagonal, single crystal AlGaN nanocolumns with diameters in the range of 30 to 100 nm grown by molecular beam epitaxy on Si(111) substrates. The change of the flux ratio between the Al and the total III-element controls the alloy composition. The Al composition trend versus the Al flux is consistent both with the E{sub 2} phonon energy values measured by inelastic light scattering and the luminescence emission peaks position. High quality low dimensional AlGaN/GaN/AlGaN heterostructures with five GaN quantum discs, 2 and 4 nm thick, embedded into the AlGaN columns, were designed in order to study the quantum confinement effects. (Abstract Copyright [2002], Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)

  9. Individual Differences in Diabetes Risk: Role of Sleep Disturbances

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    2008-08-01

    daily metabolic and hormonal processes and appetite regulation. It is clear that chronic sleep deprivation has deleterious effects on carbohydrate...163−78. 15. Ayas NT, White DP, Al-Delaimy WK, Manson JE, Stampfer MJ, Speizer FE, et al. A prospective study of self-reported sleep duration and...Normative sleep data, cognitive function and daily living activities in older adults in the community. Sleep 2005 Aug 1;28(8):981−9. 33. Singh M

  10. Plan de marketing para el posicionamiento de mercado del Taller Automotriz "Los Turbos".

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    Lomas Lomas, Shirley Karina; Riera Cevallos, Jenny Belén

    2015-01-01

    Propuesta de un plan de marketing para mejorar el posicionamiento del taller automotriz “Los Turbos”, a través de la evaluación del comportamiento del cliente y el diseño de estrategias, que permitan al negocio obtener una ventaja competitiva, incrementando la cuota de mercado y las ventas crezcan. Proposal for a marketing plan to improve the positioning of the business "Turbos", through the evaluation of customer behavior and designing strategies that allow the business to obtain a ...

  11. KONSEPSI AL-QURAN DAN AL-HADITS TENTANG OPERASIONAL BANK SYARIAH

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    Muhammad Ardy Zaini

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Islam hadir dengan beberapa tujuan, diantaranya adalah terciptanya khoirul ummah dan rahmatan lil’alamin dengan al-Qur’an dan al-Hadits sebagai penuntun umat Islam demi tercapainya tujuan tersebut. Sebagai pedoman hidup, al-Qur’an dan al-Hadits memberikan berbagai petunjuk tentang keteraturan dan permasalahan hidup, termasuk didalamnya mengenai perbankan yang telah memenuhi hampir separuh sisi-sisi kehidupan manusia. Untuk memaksimal ajaran syariah secara kaffah, maka nilai-nilai yang terdapat dalam al-Quran harus mampu diturunkan pada tataran praktis. Salah satu usaha dan langkah dalam rangka menemukan formula perbankan masa depan, al-Quran dan Hadits memiliki konsepsi dalam kegiatan operasional Bank Syariah. Hal ini dilakukan untuk membentuk sikap mental atau watak yang terjabarkan dalam pola berpikir, cara berbicara, dan etika bertingkah laku, sebagai ekspresi jiwa dari manusia yang beriman dan bertakwa kepada Allah Swt. Agar umat Islam mampu menjadi umat yang unggul (khayr ummah.

  12. Exclusión y seguridad social en el plan de desarrollo Exclusion and social security in the Development Plan

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    Rodríguez Salazar Oscar

    1999-06-01

    Full Text Available Este articulo analiza la forma en que el Plan de Desarrollo "Cambio para contruir la Paz" trata el sistema de seguridad social y su interpretacion sobre las causas de la exclusion social. El plan carece de una vision de conjunto del sistema por cuanto no aborda los aspectos reisgos profesionles y pensiones; articula el concepto de solidaridad a las relaciones interpersonales y, asi, subestima el papel del Estado en el logro de esa meta. Por otra parte, las politicas laborales esbozadas en el Plan conducen en forma inexorable a una mayor exclusion social. En cuanto al sistema de seguridad social en salud, dado que la cobertura se ha extendido mediante el regimen subsidiado, la ausencia de una politica que promueva el control social puede acentuar la clientelizacion que Estado manifiesta querer combatir.This article analyzes the way that the Development Plan "Changeto Build Peace" treats the social security system and its interpretation of the causes of social exclusion. The Plan lacks a vision of the system as a whole as it does not address the aspects of professional risks and pensions; it articula tes the concept of solidarity to interpersonal relations and thus underestimates the role of the State in achieving that goal. Moreover, the labor policies outlined in the Plan lead inexorably to greater social exclusion. As far as the social security system for health, given that coverage has been extended by meansof the subsidized regime, the absence of a policy that promotes social control may accentuate the clientelization of the State which the Plan claims to want to combato.

  13. Fabrication of AlN-TiC/Al composites by gas injection processing

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    YU Huashun; CHEN Hongmei; MA Rendian; MIN Guanghui

    2006-01-01

    The fabrication of AlN-TiC/Al composites by carbon-and nitrogen-containing gas injection into Al-Mg-Ti melts was studied. It was shown that AlN and TiC particles could be formed by the in situ reaction of mixture gas (N2+C2H2+NH3) with Al-Mg-Ti melts. The condition for the formation of AlN was that the treatment temperature must be higher than 1373 K, and the amounts of AlN and TiC increased with the increase of the treatment temperature and the gas injection time.It was considered that AlN was formed by the direct reaction of Al with nitrogen-containing gas at the interface of the gas bubble and the melt. However, the mechanism of TiC formation is a combination mechanism of solution-precipitation and solid-liquid reaction.

  14. Planning and operating energy efficient factories; Energieeffiziente Fabriken planen und betreiben

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    Mueller, Egon; Strauch, Joerg [Technische Univ. Chemnitz (Germany). Professur fuer Fabrikplanung und Fabrikbetrieb; Engelmann, Joerg [Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH, Zwickau (Germany). Werktechnik / Umweltplanung; Loeffler, Thomas [Technische Univ. Chemnitz (Germany). Professur fuer Fabrikplanung und Fabrikbetrieb; IREGIA e.V., Chemnitz (Germany)

    2009-07-01

    This book presents systematic approaches to developing energy saving potentials in the planning and operation of factories. The authors describe the drivers of the current energy debate and the state of the art in making factories energy efficient. They explain important principles that must be observed in considering factories as a system and in order to understand questions relating to energy. They have developed methods for finding appropriate energy-efficient solutions in factory planning. Detailed explanations are given on energy-relevant installations which require planning such as drives, compressed air systems or ventilation systems. The book presents methods and instruments for the analysis and evaluation of energy consumption which can be used for assessment purposes during the initial planning as well as for monitoring and influencing energy consumption during normal operation. Selected practical examples, notably from the automotive industry, serve to illustrate the material presented. The book is intended primarily for planning and production engineers in the piece goods industry as well as for students in related fields. [German] Das Buch zeigt auf, wie beim Planen und Betreiben von Fabriken systematisch Potenziale fuer Energieeinsparungen erschlossen werden koennen. Die Autoren beschreiben die Treiber der aktuellen Energiedebatte und den Status Quo der ''Energieeffizienten Fabrik''. Sie erlaeutern wichtige Grundlagen, um die Fabrik als System und energetische Zusammenhaenge zu verstehen. Eine von ihnen entwickelte Methodik hilft, bereits bei der Planung von Fabriken adaequate energieeffiziente Loesungen zu finden. Energierelevante Planungsobjekte wie elektrische Antriebe, Druckluft- oder Lueftungssysteme werden naeher erlaeutert. Fuer die Analyse und Bewertung des Energieverbrauchs werden Methoden und Instrumente vorgestellt, mit denen sowohl die Ausgangsituation bei der Planung beurteilt als auch der Energieverbrauch im

  15. The formation of AlB2 in an Al-B master alloy

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    Wang Xiaoming

    2005-01-01

    The formation of borides in an Al-3 wt.%B master alloy, produced via chemical reactions of KBF 4 and aluminium has been investigated. The chemical reactions produce boron, which dissolves into molten aluminium and subsequently forms aluminium borides. Backscattered electron imaging (BEI) of the Al-3 wt.%B master alloy under a scanning electron microscope (SEM) revealed the presence of two types of phases that contain different levels of boron. Combined with X-ray diffraction (XRD) results, the two types of phases are identified as AlB 2 on AlB 12 . This gives a direct evidence for a peritectic reaction of AlB 12 and aluminium, which produces AlB 2 . The thermodynamic properties of the reactions that may be involved are examined, and the presence of AlB 12 phase in the master alloy explained. The observed microstructure is explained according to the peritectic reaction in an Al-B phase diagram. The stability of AlB 2 and AlB 12 at lower temperature than 975 deg. C is clarified

  16. Construction and evaluation of multi-component Zn-Al based bearing alloys (Zn-Al-Si, Zn-Al-Cu)

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    Shahmiri, M.; Shahin, K.

    2001-01-01

    Zn-Al based alloys, with excellent mechanical properties, are finding increasing applications in various industries, especially bearing and bushing fields. Observed dimensional instabilities, in their multicomponent systems, (e. g. Zn-Al-Si and, Zn-Al Si-Cu), is believed to be as the result of some kinds of phase transformation, due to the temperature variations, while in service. Profound understanding of the phase transformations due to the temperature variation, requires detailed evaluations of the isothermal sections of the multi-components phase diagrams of Zn-Al-Si and, Zn-Al-Si-Cu alloy systems. In the present article, the isothermal sections of the aforementioned ternary and quaternary systems in the solid state regions have been investigated and observed phase transitions have been critically evaluated

  17. Blue Genes: Sharing and Conserving the World's Aquatic Biodiversity

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    Aug 31, 2004 ... ... can manage their aquatic genetic resources in the biotechnology age. ... The advance of genetic sciences has led to a “blue revolution” in the way we ... Linking research to urban planning at the ICLEI World Congress 2018.

  18. Addressing inadequate compensation | IDRC - International ...

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    Aug 12, 2016 ... The issue LSLAs raise a number of concerns regarding compensation, including ... at a meeting with traders in Lamu, Kenya, where a new port is planned. ... compensation and a fair share of benefits and risks in land deals.

  19. The Existence of a Designer Al=Al Double Bond in the LiAl2 H4- Cluster Formed by Electronic Transmutation.

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    Lundell, Katie A; Zhang, Xinxing; Boldyrev, Alexander I; Bowen, Kit H

    2017-12-22

    The Al=Al double bond is elusive in chemistry. Herein we report the results obtained via combined photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio studies of the LiAl 2 H 4 - cluster that confirm the formation of a conventional Al=Al double bond. Comprehensive searches for the most stable structures of the LiAl 2 H 4 - cluster have shown that the global minimum isomer I possesses a geometric structure which resembles that of Si 2 H 4 , demonstrating a successful example of the transmutation of Al atoms into Si atoms by electron donation. Theoretical simulations of the photoelectron spectrum discovered the coexistence of two isomers in the ion beam, including the one with the Al=Al double bond. © 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

  20. Situación actual de las revistas académicas nicaragüenses y sus posibilidades de incorporación al movimiento de Acceso Abierto

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    Mauricio García

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available Con la iniciativa de Acceso Abierto (Open Access, la comunidad científica -a través de las revistas académicas- promueve el acceso gratuito a la literatura científica de manera que se pueda leer, imprimir o distribuir, teniendo garantizada la calidad mediante la revisión de pares. La iniciativa, surgida en los paísesindustrializados, ha ido tomando auge en los países pequeños. Sin embargo, se desconoce su alcance. Aquí se expone el estado de las publicaciones académicas Nicaragüenses en relación a sus procesos de gestión editorial, el cumplimiento de normas y estándares de calidad propios de las revistas científicas, la gestión de los derechos derivados de la propiedad intelectual, y su posición y requerimientostécnicos, tecnológicos, económicos, y de capacitación, respecto al acceso abierto y a su disposición de convertirse en una publicación electrónica de acceso abierto.

  1. Después de la guerra: una república azucarera en auge

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    Alejandro GARCÍA ÁLVAREZ

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: Al concluir la guerra hispano-norteamericana, los EE.UU. se hicieron con el control de Cuba, transformándola en una neocolonia o protectorado, y aplicaron sus criterios sobre la reorganización de la administración pública cubana. Al mismo tiempo, fueron favorecidas las inversiones procedentes de los EE.UU. y se propició el ensanchamiento de las relaciones económicas con dicho país. Este trabajo analiza la evolución de la economía cubana a partir de estos hechos y hasta mediados de los años 20. La extensión del latifundio cañero, el crecimiento de la industria azucarera, la expansión del ferrocarril y la creciente emigración fueron algunos de los fenómenos que caracterizaron el nuevo rumbo de la isla con repercusiones notables sobre el conjunto de la sociedad cubana de la época. Palabras Clave: Cuba, EE.UU. Economía, Sociedad, Industria azucarera. ABSLRACL: At the end of the Spanish-American War, the United States gained control of Cuba, transforming it into a neo-colony or protectorate, and applied its criteria regarding the reorganization of the Cuban public administration. At the same time investments from the U.S. were favord as was the extension of economic relations with that country. Lhis study analyzes the evolution of the Cuban economy from the until the mid-1920's. The extension of the large sugar cane estates, the growth of the sugar industry, the expansion of the railroad and growing emigration were some of the phenomena that characterized the new course of the island, with noteworthy repercussions on the Cuban society of the age as a whole. Key words: Cuba, U.S., Economy, Society, Sugar Industry.

  2. Surveillance and Maintenance Plan for the Uranium Trioxide(UO3) Facility

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    McGuire, J.J.

    1999-01-01

    This document provides a plan for implementing surveillance and maintenance (S and M) activities to ensure the Uranium Oxide(UO3) Facility is maintained in a safe, environmentally secure, and cost effective manner until subsequent closure during the final disposition phase of decommissioning. This plan has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines provided in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Decommissioning Resource Manual (DOE 1995) and Section 8.6 of TPA change form P-08-97-01 to the Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement) (Ecology, et al. 1996)

  3. Pilot-scale treatability test plan for the 200-BP-5 operable unit

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    1994-08-01

    This document presents the treatability test plan for pilot-scale pump and treat testing at the 200-BP-5 Operable Unit. This treatability test plan has been prepared in response to an agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the State of Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology), as documented in Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement, Ecology et al. 1989a) Change Control Form M-13-93-03 (Ecology et al. 1994) and a recent 200 NPL Agreement Change Control Form (Appendix A). The agreement also requires that, following completion of the activities described in this test plan, a 200-BP-5 Operable Unit Interim Remedial Measure (IRM) Proposed Plan be developed for use in preparing an Interim Action Record of Decision (ROD). The IRM Proposed Plan will be supported by the results of this treatability test plan, as well as by other 200-BP-5 Operable Unit activities (e.g., development of a qualitative risk assessment). Once issued, the Interim Action ROD will specify the interim action(s) for groundwater contamination at the 200-BP-5 Operable Unit. The treatability test approach is to conduct a pilot-scale pump and treat test for each of the two contaminant plumes associated with the 200-BP-5 Operable Unit. Primary contaminants of concern are 99 Tc and 60 Co for underwater affected by past discharges to the 216-BY Cribs, and 90 Sr, 239/240 Pu, and Cs for groundwater affected by past discharges to the 216-B-5 Reverse Well. The purpose of the pilot-scale treatability testing presented in this testplan is to provide the data basis for preparing an IRM Proposed Plan. To achieve this objective, treatability testing must: Assess the performance of groundwater pumping with respect to the ability to extract a significant amount of the primary contaminant mass present in the two contaminant plumes

  4. Characterization of N-polar AlN in GaN/AlN/(Al,Ga)N heterostructures grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition

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    Li, Haoran; Mazumder, Baishakhi; Bonef, Bastien; Keller, Stacia; Wienecke, Steven; Speck, James S.; Denbaars, Steven P.; Mishra, Umesh K.

    2017-11-01

    In GaN/(Al,Ga)N high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMT), AlN interlayer between GaN channel and AlGaN barrier suppresses alloy scattering and significantly improves the electron mobility of the two-dimensional electron gas. While high concentrations of gallium were previously observed in Al-polar AlN interlayers grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, the N-polar AlN (Al x Ga1-x N) films examined by atom probe tomography in this study exhibited aluminum compositions (x) equal to or higher than 95% over a wide range of growth conditions. The also investigated AlN interlayer in a N-polar GaN/AlN/AlGaN/ S.I. GaN HEMT structure possessed a similarly high x content.

  5. KRITIK ATAS KRITIK EPISTEMOLOGI TAFSIR M. ABIED AL JABIRI: Studi Kritis atas Madkhal ila al Quran al Karim

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    Ahmad Fawaid

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available This paper critically views the epistemology of Muhammad Abid al Jabiri’s interpretation in his book, Madkhal ila al Quran al Karim. His latest work is projected to make the Quran relevant to mankind today and with certainly critiquing classical Quranic studies that have been constructed by previous scholars. Starting from Arab criticism, which is expected to synergize the gap between Turath and modernity, al Jabiri tried out his theory in the realm of Quranic studies oriented to maintain its originality and interpretation from sectarian influence. Focusing on al Jabiri’s review on the Quran, this paper examines and associates some of the problems with the epistemology of critique in Arab reasoning. Finally, it is inferred that the epistemologic offer of al Jabiri used in Turath is not fully applicable in Quranic studies for several reasons. First, the Quranic studies existed within the chain of sanad in its formation. Secondly, at the application stage, al Jabri often overlooked the sanad and narrations from the companions.

  6. Analysis of reaction between c+a and -c+a dislocations in GaN layer grown on 4-inch Si(111) substrate with AlGaN/AlN strained layer superlattice by transmission electron microscopy

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    Sugawara, Yoshihiro; Ishikawa, Yukari, E-mail: yukari@jfcc.or.jp [Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Atsuta, Nagoya, 456-8587 (Japan); Watanabe, Arata [Research Center for Nano Devices and Advanced Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, 466-8555 (Japan); Miyoshi, Makoto; Egawa, Takashi [Research Center for Nano Devices and Advanced Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, 466-8555 (Japan); Innovation Center for Multi-Business of Nitride Semiconductors, Nagoya Institute of Technoloy, Nagoya, 466-8555 (Japan)

    2016-04-15

    The behavior of dislocations in a GaN layer grown on a 4-inch Si(111) substrate with an AlGaN/AlN strained layer superlattice using horizontal metal-organic chemical vapor deposition was observed by transmission electron microscopy. Cross-sectional observation indicated that a drastic decrease in the dislocation density occurred in the GaN layer. The reaction of a dislocation (b=1/3[-211-3]) and anothor dislocation (b =1/3[-2113]) to form one dislocation (b =2/3[-2110]) in the GaN layer was clarified by plan-view observation using weak-beam dark-field and large-angle convergent-beam diffraction methods.

  7. Lubrication performance and mechanisms of Mg/Al-, Zn/Al-, and Zn/Mg/Al-layered double hydroxide nanoparticles as lubricant additives

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    Li, Shuo; Bhushan, Bharat

    2016-01-01

    Highlights: • Mg/Al-, Zn/Al- and Zn/Mg/Al-layered double hydroxide were synthesized. • Mg/Al-LDH had superior tribological performance compared to other LDHs. • The best thermal stability of Mg/Al-LDH was responsible for its friction property. - Abstract: Solid lubricant particles are commonly used as oil additives for low friction and wear. Mg/Al-, Zn/Al-, and Zn/Mg/Al-layered double hydroxides (LDH) were synthesized by coprecipitation method. The benefits of LDH nanoparticles are that they can be synthesized using chemical methods where size and shape can be controlled, and can be modified organically to allow dispersal in fluids. The LDH nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, thermogravimetry, and differential scanning calorimetry. A pin-on-disk friction and wear tester was used for evaluating the friction and wear properties of LDH nanoparticles as lubricant additives. LDH nanoparticles have friction-reducing and anti-wear properties compared to oil without LDHs. Mg/Al-LDH has the best lubrication, possibly due to better thermal stability in severe conditions.

  8. Lubrication performance and mechanisms of Mg/Al-, Zn/Al-, and Zn/Mg/Al-layered double hydroxide nanoparticles as lubricant additives

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    Li, Shuo [School of Materials Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian Distract, Beijing 100083 (China); Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLBB), The Ohio State University, 201 W. 19th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1142 (United States); Bhushan, Bharat, E-mail: bhushan.2@osu.edu [Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLBB), The Ohio State University, 201 W. 19th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1142 (United States)

    2016-08-15

    Highlights: • Mg/Al-, Zn/Al- and Zn/Mg/Al-layered double hydroxide were synthesized. • Mg/Al-LDH had superior tribological performance compared to other LDHs. • The best thermal stability of Mg/Al-LDH was responsible for its friction property. - Abstract: Solid lubricant particles are commonly used as oil additives for low friction and wear. Mg/Al-, Zn/Al-, and Zn/Mg/Al-layered double hydroxides (LDH) were synthesized by coprecipitation method. The benefits of LDH nanoparticles are that they can be synthesized using chemical methods where size and shape can be controlled, and can be modified organically to allow dispersal in fluids. The LDH nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, thermogravimetry, and differential scanning calorimetry. A pin-on-disk friction and wear tester was used for evaluating the friction and wear properties of LDH nanoparticles as lubricant additives. LDH nanoparticles have friction-reducing and anti-wear properties compared to oil without LDHs. Mg/Al-LDH has the best lubrication, possibly due to better thermal stability in severe conditions.

  9. Dakwah Kultural Bayt al-Qur’an al-Akbar Ukiran Kayu Khas Melayu Palembang

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    Reza Pahlevi

    2016-07-01

    Full Text Available Penelitian ini berusaha mengungkap berbagai fenomena yang menggambarkan serangkaian kegiatan dakwah kultural Bayt al-Qur’an al-Akbar Ukiran Khas Melayu Palembang. Sehingga dapat diperoleh sejumlah informasi mengenai berbagai upaya penerapan program yang dimaksud. Penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan, pertama kontribusi Bayt al-Qur’an al-Akbar Ukiran Khas Melayu Palembang terhadap perkembangan metode dakwah kultural adalah dakwah melalui seni. Kedua, Bayt al-Qur’an al-Akbar Ukiran Khas Melayu Palembang sebagai tempat Wisata Religi yang sangat signifikan.   This research tries to reveal the various phenomenon that describe a series of cultural propaganda activities Bayt al-Qur’an al-Akbar Ukiran Khas Melayu Palembang. In order to obtain some informations about the efforts of the implementation of the program in question. It can be concluded, the first contribution of Bayt al-Qur’an al-Akbar Ukiran Khas Melayu Palembang on the development of methods of cultural propaganda is propaganda through art. Second Bayt al-Qur’an al-Akbar Ukiran Khas Melayu Palembang as a very significant Religious Tourism.

  10. Optical phonon scattering on electronic mobility in Al2O3/AlGaN/AlN/GaN heterostructures

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    Zhou, X. J.; Qu, Y.; Ban, S. L.; Wang, Z. P.

    2017-12-01

    Considering the built-in electric fields and the two-mode property of transverse optical phonons in AlGaN material, the electronic eigen-energies and wave functions are obtained by solving Schrödinger equation with the finite difference method. The dispersion relations and potentials of the optical phonons are given by the transfer matrix method. The mobility of the two dimensional electron gas influenced by the optical phonons in Al2O3/AlGaN/AlN/GaN heterostructures is investigated based on the theory of Lei-Ting force balance equation. It is found that the scattering from the half-space phonons is the main factor affecting the electronic mobility, and the influence of the other phonons can be ignored. The results show that the mobility decreases with increasing the thicknesses of Al2O3 and AlN layers, but there is no definite relationship between the mobility and the thickness of AlGaN barrier. The mobility is obviously reduced by increasing Al component in AlGaN crystal to show that the effect of ternary mixed crystals is important. It is also found that the mobility increases first and then decreases as the increment of the fixed charges, but decreases always with increasing temperature. The heterostructures constructed here can be good candidates as metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility-transistors since they have higher electronic mobility due to the influence from interface phonons weakened by the AlN interlayer.

  11. Investigation of the Failure Mechanism of HTPB/AP/Al Propellant by In-situ Uniaxial Tensile Experimentation in SEM

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    Ramshorst, M.C.J. van; Benedetto, G.L. di; Duvalois, W.; Hooijmeijer, P.A.; Heijden, A.E.D.M. van der

    2016-01-01

    The failure mechanism of a propellant consisting of hydroxyl terminated poly-butadiene filled with ammonium perchlorate and aluminum (HTPB/AP/Al) was determined by performing in-situ uniaxial tensile tests in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The experimental test plan contained uniaxial tensile

  12. Al2O3 adherence on CoCrAl alloys

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    Kingsley, L.M.

    1980-04-01

    Adherence of protective oxides on NiCrAl and CoCrAl superalloys has been promoted by a dispersion of a highly oxygen reactive element or its oxide being produced within the protection system. Two aspects of this subject are investigated here: the use of Al 2 O 3 as both the dispersion and protective oxide; and the production of an HfO 2 dispersion while simultaneously aluminizing the alloy. It was found that an Al 2 O 3 dispersion will act to promote the adherence of an external scale of Al 2 O 3 to a degree comparable to previously tested dispersions and an HfO 2 dispersion comparable to that produced by a Rhines pack treatment is produced during aluminization

  13. Tracing Al Shabaab’s Decision to Cooperate with Al Qaeda in Somalia (2008

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    Adlini Ilma Ghaisany Sjah

    2014-02-01

    Full Text Available 'Al Shabaab, a Somali insurgent with predominantly nationalistic causes (alongside transnational [global Jihad] and Islamic goals made the choice to fight on behalf of Al Qaeda in 2008. The decision to do so contrasted with Al Shabaab’s previous behaviour of actively denying cooperation and distancing itself from Al Qaeda. This study aims to uncover factors that contributed to Al Shabaab’s decision through the use of process-tracing. The results show that Al Shabaab’s declaration of cooperation with Al Qaeda in August 2008 was brought about by a series of events that traced back to four factors: public reactions to the implementation of a Salafi ideology, the shift to a radical leadership, Al Shabaab’s inability to maintain stability in areas under its control and its increasing attacks by Al Shabaab on the Somali public. Al Shabaab pursued cooperation with Al Qaeda after realizing that their nationalistic preference was no longer achievable in the near future.' ' '

  14. Phylogenetic study on Microcotyle sp. (Monogenea) from common ...

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    2015-08-13

    Aug 13, 2015 ... other parasites and secondary bacterial infections (Cruz e Silva et al., 1997; ... Parasites (2-6 mm in length) attaching to the gills of fish were observed in ... AF026103. Diclidophoridae. Chalguacotyle mugiloides isolate Ch1a. Pinguipes chilensis. Chile. 744/904 (82%). KJ397726. Choricotyle australiensis.

  15. Design of a new hairpin DNAzyme: The activity controlled by TMPyP4

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    2011-08-01

    Aug 1, 2011 ... activity and increase cell toxicity (Abdelgany et al., 2007). The hairpin DNAzyme is a ... fixed concentration of 5×10-4M in 50 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH= 7.5,. 25°C) with 10 mM ..... Functional nucleic acid sensors. Chem. Rev.

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    Aug 14, 2013 ... growth was rated visually as appressed (flat), slightly raised and raised from the agar ... through cheese clothes into sterile beaker, while thoroughly stirring, ... technique described in detail by Girma et al. (2009b) and ... Design (CRD) replicated three times, and the pathological analysis ... pattern (Figure 1).

  17. The population abundance, distribution pattern and culture studies ...

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    Aug 18, 2009 ... The population abundance, distribution pattern and culture studies of ... plankton species belong mainly to the nanoplankton and microplankton ... Algal samples were collected from the shore using microalgal net cone shaped of .... species diversity of Porto Novo, Tamil Nadu and De et al. (1994) in the ...

  18. All About ALS

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    ... Subscribe August 2015 Print this issue All About ALS Understanding a Devastating Disorder En español Send us ... Sports Concussions Wise Choices How Can I Help ALS Research? If you have ALS, join the National ...

  19. Atomistic simulations of diffusion mechanisms in off-stoichiometric Al-rich Ni3Al

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    Duan, Jinsong

    2007-01-01

    This paper presents dynamics simulation results of diffusion in off-stoichiometric Al-rich Ni 3 Al (Ni 73 Al 27 ) at temperature ranging from 1300 to 1550 K. The interatomic forces are described by the Finnis-Sinclair type N-body potentials. Particular attention is devoted to the effect of the extra 2% of Al atoms sitting on the Ni sublattice as antisite point defects (Al Ni ) on diffusion. Simulation results show that Ni atoms mainly diffuse through the Ni sublattice at the temperatures investigated. Al atoms diffuse via both the intrasublattice and antistructure bridge (ASB) mechanisms. The contribution to Al diffusion from the ASB mechanism decreases at the lower temperature (T Ni ) enhances both Al and Ni diffusion in Ni 73 Al 27 . The Ni-Al coupled diffusion effect is observed and understood at the atomic level for the first time

  20. Methodology and Characteristics of Zad al-masir fi ‘ilm al-tafsirby AllamaIbn al-Jawzī (Urdu

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    Full Text Available This article describes the methodology and characteristics of Zad al-masir fi ‘ilm al-tafsir. This is one the finest work of AllamaIbn al-Jawzī, a 6th century prominent Interpreter. Several editions of this Tafsir have been published. However, the edition of dar al-kitab al-‘arbi, Beirut published in four volumes is selected for this study. This exegesis is based on conventional narrations, authentic quotations from the Islamic Scholars and lingual & grammatical discussions. As a witness, causes of verses (asbabal-Nuz┴l,Makki and MadaniSurah’s (chapters, the abrogating and abrogated verses (al-nasikhwal-mans┴kh and Islamic jurisprudence have been discussed in it where needed. The quality of this translation which is admirable is that mostly authentic Ahadith from original sources, and references to well known basic books in relevant discussions have been described. `

  1. Phenotypic and genotypic studies of ALS cases in ALS-SMA families.

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    Corcia, Philippe; Vourc'h, Patrick; Blasco, Helene; Couratier, Philippe; Dangoumau, Audrey; Bellance, Remi; Desnuelle, Claude; Viader, Fausto; Pautot, Vivien; Millecamps, Stephanie; Bakkouche, Salah; Salachas, FranÇois; Andres, Christian R; Meininger, Vincent; Camu, William

    2018-03-01

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are the most frequent motor neuron disorders in adulthood and infancy, respectively. There is a growing literature supporting common pathophysiological patterns between those disorders. One important clinical issue for that is the co-occurrence of both diseases within a family. To collect families in which ALS and SMA patients co-exist and describe the phenotype and the genotype of ALS patients. Nine families with co-occurrence of SMA and ALS have been gathered over the last 15 years. Epidemiological, phenotype and genetic status were collected. Out of the nine families, six corresponded to the criteria of familial ALS (FALS). Clinical data were available for 11 patients out of the 15 ALS cases. Mean age of onset was 58.5 years, site of onset was lower limbs in nine cases (81.8%), median duration was 22 months. Four ALS patients carried a mutation: three mutations in SOD1 gene (G147N in two cases and one with E121G) and one repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene. Three patients had abnormal SMN1 copy numbers. While the high proportion of familial history of ALS cases in these ALS-SMA pedigrees could have suggested that these familial clusters of the two most frequent MND rely on a genetic background, we failed to exclude that this occurred by chance.

  2. Eutectic microstructures of Al-ThA13 and Al-UA14 alloys

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    Vieira, R.R.; Ambrozio Filho, F.

    1990-01-01

    This paper deals on the microstructures of systems Al-ThAl3 and Al-UAL4, which are composed by a non faceted phase (aluminium) and an intermetallic phase (ThAl3 or UAL4) which is normally faceted phase. (C.M.)

  3. Interface reactions in the Al-Si-SiC and Mg-Al-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} composite systems

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    Johnson, P.K. [Commission of the European Communities, Petten (Netherlands). Inst. for Advanced Materials; Fazal-Ur-Rehman [Imperial Coll. of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Materials; Fox, S. [Imperial Coll. of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Materials; Flower, H.M. [Imperial Coll. of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Materials; West, D.R.F.

    1995-12-31

    Structural and compositional observations are reported on the influence of the interfaces on the mechanisms and kinetics of liquid metal-ceramic reactions in Al-SiC, Al-Si-SiC, Mg-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} and Mg-Al-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} composites. The aluminium based materials contained up to 20 vol% SiC in particulate form, and were produced by a spray casting process; subsequently the interface reactions were studied in samples heated to temperatures up to 1100 C. The reaction product was Al{sub 4}C{sub 3} in both Al-SiC and Al-Si-SiC composites. The influence of the crystallography and topology of the SiC particle surfaces on the nucleation of the Al{sub 4}C{sub 3} has been demonstrated; surface asperities play an important role. Growth of nuclei proceeds to form continuous reaction product layers which control the subsequent kinetics. The magnesium based composites contained 5 vol% Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} fibres (3 {mu}m in diameter), and were produced by a liquid infiltration process. SD Safimax fibres with relatively low and high porosity, and also RF Saffil fibres, with a silica binder, were investigated. Fibre porosity plays a major role in accelerating the penetration of Mg into the fibres with reaction to form MgO. Silica binder on the fibre surface transforms to MgO. The reaction rate was reduced by the presence of aluminium in the matrix. The factors controlling the reactions in the aluminium and magnesium based composites are compared. (orig.)

  4. Twinning processes in Cu-Al-Ni martensite single crystals investigated by neutron single crystal diffraction method

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    Molnar, P.; Šittner, P.; Novák, V.; Lukáš, Petr

    2008-01-01

    Roč. 481, Sp.Iss.SI (2008), s. 513-517 ISSN 0921-5093 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA100480704 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10480505 Keywords : Cu-Al-Ni * single crystals * neutron diffraction Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders Impact factor: 1.806, year: 2008

  5. Economic Instruments and the Pollution Impact of the 2006-2010 Vietnam Socio-Economic Development Plan

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    Jensen, Henning Tarp; Tarp, Finn; Xuan, Hong Vu

    plan for Vietnam (Jensen et al.; 2008). The current study demonstratesthat effective implementation and moderate expansion of optimal emission charges, under certain conditions, could have been used, as part of the 2006-2010 SEDP development plan, to control pollution emissions at 2005 levels. Moreover...... plans, in order to control pollution emissions as development progresses in Vietnam.......The current study derives optimal growth paths for pollution emission charges, in order to control future water pollution emissions in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector. The study builds on a prior study, which estimated the manufacturing sector pollution impact of the 2006- 2010 SEDP development...

  6. KONSTRUKSI FIQH BUKHARI DALAM KITAB AL-JAMI’ AL-SHAHIH

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    Abdul Sattar

    2011-06-01

    Popularitas Imam Bukhari sebagai penyusun kitab Hadits memiliki posisi yang tinggi di kalangan masyarakat muslim. Kitab Al-Jami ‘al-Shahih karya Imam  Bukhari dianggap sebagai koleksi hadits terbaik setelah Quran. Namun, tidak ada banyak informasi tentang kemampuannya di bidang Hukum Islam (fiqh. Ada beberapa pertanyaan yang dapat diajukan dalam hal tersebut;  pertama, apakah pemikiran Imam Bukhari dipengaruh salah satu dari empat fuqaha Sunni saat menulis al-Jami ‘al-Shahih?. Kedua, apa yang diupayakan Imam Bukhari untuk mengartikulasikan pemikirannya tentang hukum Islam? Dengan menggunakan pendekatan eksploratif, verifikatif dan hermenetical, artikel ini akan mengungkapkan bahwa Imam Bukhari tidak berada di bawah pengaruh madhab tertentu dalam mengartikulasikan pemikirannya tentang hukum Islam. Dia mengartikulasikan pandangannya dengan cara yang unik dan execelent berdasarkan kapasitasnya sebagai muhaddits.

  7. Fabrication of extruded wire of MgB2/Al composite material and its superconducting property and microstructure

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    Matsuda, K.; Nishimura, K.; Ikeno, S.; Mori, K.; Aoyama, S.; Yabumoto, Y.; Hishinuma, Y.; Müllerová, Ilona; Frank, Luděk; Yurchenko, V. V.; Johansen, T. H.

    2008-01-01

    Roč. 97, - (2008), 012230:1-6 E-ISSN 1742-6596. [European Conference on Applied Superconductivity /8./ - EUCAS 2007. Brussels, 16.09.2007-20.09.2007] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20650511 Keywords : MgB2/Al composite * superconductors * electron microscopy Subject RIV: JI - Composite Materials

  8. La "historia de los omeyas de al-Andalus" en los Masalik al-Absar

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    Molina, Luis

    2005-01-01

    [ES]Los Masalik al-absar de Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umari incluyen un breve resumen de la Historia de los omeyas de al-Andalus. En este trabajo se analizan las relaciones textuales entre ese pasaje y el Muqtabis de Ibn Hayyan, crónica que resulta ser la fuente casi única utilizada por al-`Umari para redactar ese capítulo. [EN]The Masalik al-absar by Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umari contains a brief summary of the Umayyad history in al-Andalus. In this article, the textual relationship between this p...

  9. Análisis de un plan de pensiones de empleo según diferentes métodos actuariales de costes

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    Peláez Fermoso, Francisco José

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo tratamos de realizar un análisis comparativo de la viabilidad financiera de un plan de pensiones cuando se considera para su valoración periódica algunos de los métodos de distribución de costes más relevantes y racionales legalmente aceptados. Este plan de pensiones, creado por una determinada empresa en favor de sus trabajadores, es de prestación definida y tiene como objeto el diferimiento de los salarios hasta el momento de la jubilación así como la aplicación de incentivos para motivar al empleado y mejorar la productividad durante su vida laboral. La implementación de estos métodos actuariales de costes aportará al gestor del plan información sobre el valor de una serie de funciones, tanto de carácter financiero como actuarial, lo que le va a permitir comprobar la estabilidad del plan y la solvencia del fondo de pensiones asociado en cualquier momento del horizonte temporal establecido para su estudio.

  10. Cryptanalysis of Lin et al.'s Efficient Block-Cipher-Based Hash Function

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    Liu, Bozhong; Gong, Zheng; Chen, Xiaohong; Qiu, Weidong; Zheng, Dong

    2010-01-01

    Hash functions are widely used in authentication. In this paper, the security of Lin et al.'s efficient block-cipher-based hash function is reviewed. By using Joux's multicollisions and Kelsey et al.'s expandable message techniques, we find the scheme is vulnerable to collision, preimage and second

  11. Planning DMPO pelvis using the algorithm of Pinnacle; Planificacion de pelvis usando el algoritmo DMPO de Pinnacle

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    Dorado Rodriguez, M. P.; Exposito, R. D.; Planes Meseguer, D.

    2011-07-01

    This paper presents a planning protocol for pelvic pathologies using the algorithm Direct Machine Parameter Optimization (DMPO) from Philips Pinnacle3, improves compliance rate (Conformation Number of van't Riet et al.) of PTVs and significantly reduces the dosage in organs at risk, without incurring a large increase in the planning time or irradiation, and in which verification is possible monitor routine unit.

  12. Channel Dredging and Geomorphic Response at and Adjacent to Mobile Pass, Alabama

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    2010-09-01

    Aug 3 Gulf Shores, AL 1 974 80 Erin 1995 Oct 4 Perdido Key, FL 3 938 110 Opal 1997 Jul 19 Mobile Pass, AL 1 987 65 Danny 1998 Sept 28 Ship Island...study evaluating the potential impacts of offshore sand mining on coastal change. Overall, many authors discuss the effect of hurricanes on...longshore sand transport rate for the ocean fronting portion of Dauphin Island. As such, potential uncertainty calculations can be deter- mined relative

  13. The Ghana Journal of Linguistics is a peer-reviewed scholarly ...

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    Aug 5, 2017 ... Hajek, J. et al. (2000) ... nasal vowels from different points within the utterance. The first .... Figure 3: Duration of oral and nasal portions of vowels. ...... ana ̃́bã́ alã́ŋ͜m̀g͡bã́ lizard b èmṹbà èrṍŋ͜m̃́gbà thought c bã́dza ...... runs from relatively monolingual second language learners to highly proficient (near.

  14. Plan de Marketing para Muebles Moncayo

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    Treball Final de Màster Interuniversitari en Màrqueting i Investigació de Mercats. Codi: SRB100. Curs: 2016/2017 El proyecto que se describe a continuación consiste en un Plan de Marketing para Muebles Moncayo, empresa de Barcelona dedicada a la comercialización al por menor de muebles de hogar. En la actualidad esta tiene una política de negocio clásica, ya que no tiene definidas las estrategias operativa y de negocio. Dada esta situación, se ha llevado a cabo un análisis de la situación,...

  15. From Kitāb al-ḥadā’iq to Kitāb al-dawā’ir: Reconsidering Ibn al-Sīd al-Batalyawsī’s Philosophical Treatise

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    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available The philosophical treatise known as Kitāb al-ḥadā’iq is generally ascribed to the 12th century Andalusian author Ibn al-Sīd al-Batalyawsī, although this attribution is sometimes contested. This paper offers a new interpretation of the title, textual history, authorship, sources, and literary genre of this treatise, on the basis of new textual evidence, a reexamination of known evidence, and a comparison between the treatise and Batalyawsī’s works. The conclusions of this study are first, that Kitāb al-ḥadā’iq was not the treatise’s original title, and therefore it should be renamed Kitāb al-dawā’ir; second, that Kitāb al-dawā’ir was originally part of (one of the versions of Batalyawsī’s Kitāb al-masā’il; and third, that the textual and stylistic similarities between this treatise and Batalyawsī’s other works prove the authenticity of the treatise’s attribution to Batalyawsī. In addition, new findings regarding Batalyawsī’s use of formulas from the Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Safā, in Kitāb al-dawā’ir and Kitāb al-masā’il provide further evidence for the deep impact of the Ikhwān on Batalyawsī’s thought, as well as for the close connection between Kitāb al-dawā’ir and Kitāb al-masā’il. This connection is further highlighted according to the attribution of both treatises to the genre of questions and answers in Arabic literature. The evidence gathered in this paper supports the claim that Batalyawsī’s Kitāb al-dawā’ir should be seen as an integral part of his literary oeuvre, as well as of Andalusian philosophical literature in general.Generalmente el tratado filosófico conocido como Kitāb al-ḥadā’iq se asocia al autor andalusí del siglo XII Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsī, aunque esta atribución ha sido discutida en ocasiones. Este artículo ofrece una nueva interpretación del título, la historia del texto, la autoría, las fuentes e incluso del género literario al que se

  16. Theory and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Aluminum Coordination Complexes – Al K-Edge Studies of Charge and Bonding in (BDI)Al, (BDI)AlR2, and (BDI)AlX2 Complexes.

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    Altman, Alison B; Pemmaraju, C D; Camp, Clément; Arnold, John; Minasian, Stefan G; Prendergast, David; Shuh, David K; Tyliszczak, Tolek

    2015-08-19

    Polarized aluminum K-edge X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy and first-principles calculations were used to probe electronic structure in a series of (BDI)Al, (BDI)AlX2, and (BDI)AlR2 coordination compounds (X = F, Cl, I; R = H, Me; BDI = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl-β-diketiminate). Spectral interpretations were guided by examination of the calculated transition energies and polarization-dependent oscillator strengths, which agreed well with the XANES spectroscopy measurements. Pre-edge features were assigned to transitions associated with the Al 3p orbitals involved in metal-ligand bonding. Qualitative trends in Al 1s core energy and valence orbital occupation were established through a systematic comparison of excited states derived from Al 3p orbitals with similar symmetries in a molecular orbital framework. These trends suggested that the higher transition energies observed for (BDI)AlX2 systems with more electronegative X(1-) ligands could be ascribed to a decrease in electron density around the aluminum atom, which causes an increase in the attractive potential of the Al nucleus and concomitant increase in the binding energy of the Al 1s core orbitals. For (BDI)Al and (BDI)AlH2 the experimental Al K-edge XANES spectra and spectra calculated using the eXcited electron and Core-Hole (XCH) approach had nearly identical energies for transitions to final state orbitals of similar composition and symmetry. These results implied that the charge distributions about the aluminum atoms in (BDI)Al and (BDI)AlH2 are similar relative to the (BDI)AlX2 and (BDI)AlMe2 compounds, despite having different formal oxidation states of +1 and +3, respectively. However, (BDI)Al was unique in that it exhibited a low-energy feature that was attributed to transitions into a low-lying p-orbital of b1 symmetry that is localized on Al and orthogonal to the (BDI)Al plane. The presence of this low-energy unoccupied molecular orbital on electron-rich (BDI)Al distinguishes

  17. (QTLs) underlying drought tolerance at g

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    Aug 14, 2012 ... soybean since 1980s (Gu et al., 1998). In the past decade, a great deal of information has. *Corresponding author. E-mail: duweijun68@126.com. ...... Wollenweber B, Porter JR, Schellberg J (2003). Lack of interaction between extreme high-temperature events at vegetative and reproductive growth stages ...

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    Aug 8, 2011 ... transformation system (Zhan et al., 2003). Stable expression of foreign gene is important for commercial use of genetic transformation in long-lived tree species as well as for ecological risk-assessment studies. However, analysis of the instable/stable transgene expression in tree is more problematic than in ...

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    Aug 20, 2014 ... aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa as test organisms. The minimum inhibitory ... the models for 50% Western drugs (Giridhari et al.,. 2011). .... stored at 25°C until required for use. .... The problem of antimicrobial resistance has consi- ... infects the pulmonary tract, urinary tract, burns, wounds but also ...

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    Aug 1, 2014 ... 1Department of Chemistry and Physics, CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar-125 004, India. ... natural products, which can be obtained from a wide .... molecular mass 403.4 in azoxystrobin at four different collision .... matter. Bending et al. (2006) reported variability in the degradation rates of the ...

  1. Vertically transmitted HIV-l infection in children

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    Aug 9, 1990 ... Rogers MF, Thomas PA, Starcher ET, Noa MC, Bush TJ, Jaffe HW. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in children: report of tbe Centers for. Disease Control national surveillance, 1982-1985. Pediaerics 1987; 79: 1008-1014. 16. Ryder RW, Nsa, W, Hassig SE ec al. Perinatal transmission of the human.

  2. Motor neuron disease in blacks

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    Aug 19, 1989 ... amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - 27 men (75%), 12 women (52%). Those with predominant affection of bulbar muscles, including those of LMN type, were classified as progressive bulbar palsy (BP - 5 men, 6 women) and those with predominant LMN involvement of limb and trunk muscles were labelled ...

  3. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) startup plan

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    1988-03-01

    To allow the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to transition from a Major System Acquisition to an operating demonstration facility, the Acquisition Executive and the Energy System Acquisition Advisory Board (ESAAB) must concur in the facility's readiness to receive waste. This action, designated in DOE Order 4700.1 as Key Decision Four, concludes with the Chairman of the ESAAB issuing a Record of Decision. Since the meeting leading to the Record of Decision is scheduled for August 1988, plans must be made to ensure all activities contributing to that decision are completed in a clear and well-coordinated process. To support that effort, this Start-Up Plan was prepared to identify and track key events necessary to verify WIPP's readiness to receive waste; this provides a management/scheduling/tracking tool for the DOE WIPP Project Office (WPO) and a tracking mechanism for the DOE Albuquerque Operations Office (DOE-AL) and for DOE Headquarters (DOE-HQ); and describe the process to ensure readiness is documented by providing relevant data and reports to the cognizant decision makers. The methods by which these two purposes are achieved are discussed in further detail in the remainder of this plan

  4. Thermodynamic properties of Al-Mn, Al-Cu, and Al-Fe-Cu melts and their relations to liquid and quasicrystal structure

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    Zaitsev, A I; Zaitseva, N E; Shimko, R Yu; Arutyunyan, N A; Dunaev, S F; Kraposhin, V S; Lam, Ha Thanh

    2008-01-01

    Thermodynamic properties of molten Al-Mn, Al-Cu and Al-Fe-Cu alloys in a wide temperature range of 1123-1878 K and the whole range of concentrations have been studied using the integral effusion method and Knudsen mass spectrometry. Thermodynamic functions of melts were described by the associated solution model. The possibility of icosahedral quasicrystal (i-QC) precipitation from liquid Al-Mn and Al-Cu-Fe alloys was found to be a consequence of the existence in liquid associates (clusters). A geometric model is suggested for the structure of associates in liquid

  5. BALANCE DEL PLAN DE MODERNIZACIÓN DE LOS SERVICIOS INTERURBANOS POR AUTOBÚS

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    Andújar Martínez, Montserrat; Tarruella Vidal, Elena; Nieto Corella, Berta; León Fariñas, María del Amor

    2016-01-01

    [ES] El Plan de Modernización de los servicios de transporte público regular permanente de viajeros del Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid, aprobado a finales de 2009, tiene como objetivo revitalizar el servicio de transporte en los autobuses urbanos e interurbanos de la Comunidad de Madrid. Este Plan abarca tanto a los vehículos como a la tecnología necesaria para la mejora del servicio y de la información al usuario. Las mejoras llevadas a cabo han implicado unos desarrollos e inve...

  6. LA ADAPTACIÓN DE LAS SOCIEDADES COOPERATIVAS AL NUEVO PLAN GENERAL CONTABLE: ANÁLISIS DE LAS PRINCIPALES IMPLICACIONES ECONÓMICAS Y FINANCIERAS/THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES TO THE NEW GENERAL ACCOUNTING PLAN: ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

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    Javier ITURRIOZ DEL CAMPO

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available La aprobación de la Ley 16/2007, de reforma y adaptación de la legislación mercantil en materia contable en España, así como del Plan General de Contabilidad, y del Plan General de Contabilidad para Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas, han permitido la incorporación de los nuevos criterios contables recogidos en la Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF para dar respuesta al objetivo marcado desde la Unión Europa de favorecer la comparación de los estados contables elaborados en los distintos estados miembros, para contribuir así a incrementar la transparencia de los mercados en un entorno económico cada vez más global e internacional. No obstante, en el caso de las sociedades cooperativas, todavía está pendiente de publicación la correspondiente norma sectorial. Por ello, a lo largo de este trabajo se pretende analizar las implicaciones que tienen en las sociedades cooperativas tanto las novedades contables ya publicadas como los aspectos que deben ser fijados en la citada regulación sectorial atendiendo a sus características especiales. /The Law 16/2007, of reform and adjustment of the mercantile legislation about accounting in Spain, as well as of the General Plan of Accounting, and of the General Plan of Accounting for Small and Medium Companies, they have allowed the incorporation of the new accounting criteria gathered in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS to give response to the aim marked from the European Union of favouring the comparison of the accounting forms elaborated in the different member states, to help to increase this way the transparency of the markets in an economic environment increasingly globally and internationally. Nevertheless, in case of the cooperative societies, the sectorial normative has not been published. This work centres on the analysis of the implications that have in the cooperative societies so much the accounting innovations already published as the aspects that

  7. Sintering Behavior of CNT Reinforced Al6061 and Al2124 Nanocomposites

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    Nouari Saheb

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available Ball milling and spark plasma sintering were successfully used to produce carbon nanotube reinforced Al6061 and Al2124 nanocomposites which have potential applications in the fields of aerospace, automotive, electronics, and high precision instrumentation. Al2124 and Al6061 nanocomposite powders containing 0.5 to 2 wt.% CNTs prepared through sonication and wet ball milling were spark plasma sintered at 400, 450, and 500°C for 20 minutes under a pressure of 35 MPa. CNTs were better dispersed, and less agglomerated and had good adhesion to the matrix in composites containing 1 wt.% CNTs. The increase of CNT content to 2 wt.% led to the formation of CNT clusters which resulted in less uniform and homogenous composite powders. Almost full densification of Al6061 reinforced with CNTs was achieved at 500°C. Also, CNTs reinforced Al2124 nanocomposites reached very high densities at 500°C. Composites reinforced with 1 wt.% CNTs displayed better densification compared to composites containing 2 wt.% CNTs. The increase of CNTs content from 0.5 to 1 wt.% increased the hardness of the Al6061 and Al2124 alloys to maximum values. Further increase of CNTs content to 2 wt.% decreased the hardness to values lower than that of the monolithic alloys.

  8. Planning of outsourced operations in pharmaceutical supply chains

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    Boulaksil, Y.

    2010-01-01

    In this dissertation, we focus on the planning and control of supply chains where part of the supply chain is outsourced to a contract manufacturer(s). Supply Chain Management deals with the integration of business processes from end-customers through original suppliers that provide products, services and information that add value for customers (Cooper et al., 1997). In a narrow sense, a supply chain can be ‘owned’ by one large company with several sites, often located in different countries...

  9. Tetragonal phase in Al-rich region of U-Fe-Al system

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    Meshi, L.; Zenou, V.; Ezersky, V.; Munitz, A.; Talianker, M.

    2005-01-01

    A new ternary aluminide U 2 FeAl 20 with the approximate composition Al-4.2at% Fe-8.5at% U was observed in the Al-rich corner of the U-Al-Fe system. Transmission electron microscopy and electron microdiffraction technique were used for characterization of the structure of this phase. It has a tetragonal unit cell with the parameters a=12.4A and c=10.3A and can be described by the space group I4-bar 2m

  10. Ilhaq al-Masa'il bi Nazairiha dan Penerapannya dalam Bahth al-Masa'il

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    Luthfi Hadi Aminuddin

    2013-11-01

    Full Text Available Abstract: Ilh}a>q al-Masa>’il bi Naz}a>iriha is one of the methods used by Nahdlatul Ulama in resisting the opinion based on (manhaji analytical concept of Islamic jurisprudence (the solution for complex social problems as the main purpose of Islamic shari’ah. As known that, up to now, ilh}a>q has been understood as a process of answering a new case by the way of equating to the old one which is written in the book called al-mu’tabarah. Such ilh}a>q has got many criticisms both from the definitions, procedures and its epistemogical footing. This paper is about to reveal how the NU clerics of Islam understand the concept of Ilh}a>q}, what its epistemological footing was and how the concept was applied in discussing many cases (bah}th al-masa>’il. Based on the writer’s study to several documents of decision results of NU that Ilh}a>q did not only simplify to equate the new cases with the old ones that have been freely discussed in the books of al-mu’tabarah, but both cases should have similar legal substance, that is, both should be under the decrees of laws of al-qawa> ‘id al-fiqhi>yah. Thus, Ilh}a>q is actually answering the problem by applying al-qawa>‘id al-fiqhi>yah, whereas the formulation al-qawa>‘id al-fiqhi>yah itself was set off from the examination of a number of furu>’ generated by qiya> s. This paper also found three variations of the implementation of Ilh}a>q in bah}th al-masa>’il. First, the application of Ilh}a>q was without mentioning al-qawa> ‘id al-fiqhi>yah which covered new cases (mulh}aq and the old case law that has been known in the books of fiqh (mulh}aq bih/attached to. Second, the application of Ilh}a>q was accompanied by mentioning mulh}aq bih and al-qawa> ‘id al-fiqhi>yah. Third, the application of Ilh}a>q, was only by the mentioning al-qawa> ‘id al-fiqhi>yah.

  11. Studies on morphology, electrical and optical characteristics of Al-doped ZnO thin films grown by atomic layer deposition

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    Chen, Li; Chen, Xinliang; Zhou, Zhongxin; Guo, Sheng; Zhao, Ying; Zhang, Xiaodan

    2018-03-01

    Al doped ZnO (AZO) films deposited on glass substrates through the atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique are investigated with various temperatures from 100 to 250 °C and different Zn : Al cycle ratios from 20 : 0 to 20 : 3. Surface morphology, structure, optical and electrical properties of obtained AZO films are studied in detail. The Al composition of the AZO films is varied by controlling the ratio of Zn : Al. We achieve an excellent AZO thin film with a resistivity of 2.14 × 10‑3 Ω·cm and high optical transmittance deposited at 150 °C with 20 : 2 Zn : Al cycle ratio. This kind of AZO thin films exhibit great potential for optoelectronics device application. Project supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Nos. 2011CBA00706, 2011CBA00707) and the Tianjin Applied Basic Research Project and Cutting-Edge Technology Research Plan (No. 13JCZDJC26900).

  12. Optimization of Squeeze Parameters and Modification of AlSi7Mg Alloy

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    Full Text Available The paper present the examination results concerning mechanical properties of castings made of AlSi7MG alloy in correlation both with the most significant squeeze casting parameters and with the modification treatment. Experiments were planned and held according to the 23 factorial design. The regression equations describing the influence of the squeeze pressure, the mould temperature, and the quantity of strontium modifier on the strength and elongation of the examined alloy were obtained. It was found that the main factor controlling the strength increase is the squeeze pressure, while the plasticity (A5 of the alloy is affected most advantageously by modification. The application of modification treatment in squeeze casting technology enables for production of the slab-type castings made of AlSi7Mg alloy exhibiting strength at the level of 230 MPa and elongation exceeding 14%.

  13. Nanoindentation studies of ex situ AlN/Al metal matrix nanocomposites

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    Fale, Sandeep; Likhite, Ajay; Bhatt, Jatin

    2014-01-01

    Highlights: • Formation of in-situ phases nucleated on AlN particles strengthens the matrix. • Formation of in-situ phases increases with AlN content in nanocomposites. • Stronger in-situ phases results in increased hardness and modulus of elasticity. - Abstract: Nanocrystalline Aluminium nitride (AlN) powder is dispersed in different weight ratio in Aluminum matrix to fabricate metal matrix nanocomposite (MMNC) using ex situ melt metallurgy process. The synthesized Al–AlN nanocomposites are studied for phase analysis using high resolution scanning electron microscopy (FEG-SEM) and for hardness behavior using microindentation and nanoindentation tests. Quantitative analysis of the oxide phases is calculated from thermodynamic data and mass balance equation using elemental data obtained from energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) results. Role of oxide phases in association with AlN particles is investigated to understand the mechanical behavior of composites using nanoindentation tester. Load–displacement profile obtained from nanoindentation test reveals distribution of oxide phases along with AlN particle and their effect on indent penetration

  14. High Temperature Creep of an Al-8,5Fe-1,3V-1,7Si Alloy

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    Kuchařová, Květa; Zhu, S. J.; Čadek, Josef

    2002-01-01

    Roč. 40, č. 2 (2002), s. 69-84 ISSN 0023-432X R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IBS2041001 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z2041904 Keywords : Al-8,5Fe 1,3V 1,7Si alloy * creep behavior , true threshold stress Subject RIV: JI - Composite Materials Impact factor: 0.493, year: 2002

  15. Isothermal cross-sections of Sr-Al-Ge and Ba-Al-Ge systems at 673 K

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    1987-01-01

    X-ray and microstructural analyses are used to study phase equilibria in Sr-Al-Ge and Ba-Al-Ge systems. Existence of SrAl 2 Ge 2 , Sr(Al, Ge) 2 Ba(Al, Ge) 2 , Sr 3 Al 2 Ge 2 , Ba 3 Al 2 Ge 2 ternary compounds is confirmed, a new BaGe 4 binary compound and also new ternary compounds of approximate composition Sr 57 Al 30 Ge 13 and Ba 20 Al 40 Ge 40 , which crystal structure is unknown, are detected. Aluminium solubility in SrAl 4 and BaAl 4 binary compounds (0.05 atomic fraction) is determined. Ba(Al, Ge) 2 compound homogeneity region is defined more exactly (aluminium content varies from 0.27 to 0.51 at. fractions)

  16. Production of 26Al by spallation of Fe, Si, Al nuclei

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    Cross sections for 7 Be, 10 Be and 26 Al formation in Al, Si and Fe targets bombarded with 0.6 and 24GeV protons have been measured by using highly selective chemical separation and low level background counters. Results for 26 Al at 0.6GeV are in mb: 17.9 + or - 2.7 in Al, 12.5 + or - 2.5 in Si and 0.45 + or - 0.14 in Fe; at 24GeV 2.6 + or - 0.5mb in Fe. Results for 10 Be are not valid on account of experimental difficulties. It is deduced from these values of aluminium in cosmic ray propagation that 26 Al is not yet cosmic ray chronometer [fr

  17. 143 - 148_Makeri et al.

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    Jun 1, 2015 ... Yuan et al., 2003), antimicrobial activity (Sundarrao et al., 1993; Betancur-Galvis et al., 1999; Takashi et al., 2006), anti-parasitic, anti-malarial activities (Alali et al., 1998; Jaramillo et al., 2000; Luna et al.,. 2005). This study evaluates the antibacterial activity of extract of stem –bark and leaf extracts of Annona.

  18. Escribir la antropología: del texto al contexto

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    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar que el contexto de la escritura de las narraciones antropológicas tiene una influencia determinante sobre su clasificación como texto científico. En el análisis de obras seleccionadas de Bronislaw Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss, Marc Augé y Nigel Barley, descubrimos que el estatus y prestigio de cada uno de los autores influenciaron el destino académico de sus respectivas narrativas. Asimismo, se presentarán los resultados de la exploración de algunos de los senderos epistemológicos del saber antropológico, resaltando el peso determinante del constructo social de las condiciones de publicación.

  19. Phase relationships in the Al-rich region of the Al-Cu-Er system

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    Zhang Ligang; Masset, Patrick J.; Cao Fuyong; Meng Fangui; Liu Libin; Jin Zhanpeng

    2011-01-01

    Research highlights: → One ternary phase τ 1 -Al 8 Cu 4 Er in Al-rich region with a composition of 59.4-60.4 at.% Al, 32.2-33.8 at.% Cu, and 6.4-7.7 at.% Er is observed in both as-cast and annealed alloys. At 673 K, the binary Al 3 Er phase dissolves about 3.51 at.% Cu. → The calculated solidification paths (based on the CALPHAD method) of as-cast alloys are in agreement with the experimental results. → It can be found that the resultant thermodynamic database can be applied to case studies of as-cast alloys, showing that the literature thermodynamic description of the Al-Cu-Er system is reliable as a working basis for computer-assisted alloy design. - Abstract: The Al-rich region of the ternary Al-Cu-Er system is investigated using the method of X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Phase equilibria in the Al-rich region of the Al-Cu-Er system at 673 K have been obtained, and the microstructures of as-cast alloys in the Al-rich region are also investigated. One ternary phase τ 1 -Al 8 Cu 4 Er with a composition of 59.4-60.4 at.% Al, 32.2-33.8 at.% Cu, and 6.4-7.7 at.% Er is observed in both as-cast and annealed alloys. At 673 K, the binary Al 3 Er phase dissolves about 3.51 at.% Cu. The calculated solidification paths (based on the CALPHAD method) of as-cast alloys are in agreement with the experimental results.

  20. EL PLAN DE FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL BÁSICA EN EL MARCO DE LA INCLUSIÓN EDUCATIVA

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    Full Text Available El presente estudio se inscribe en la línea de investigación Políticas Educativas, Currículum y Enseñanza (PECE del Departamento de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; particularmente, en el proyecto Estudio de las formas escolares. En este trabajo se analiza el Plan FPB de CETP-UTU y su proceso de implementación como una de las propuestas representativas de la política de inclusión educativa. El objetivo fue recuperar las voces de diferentes actores vinculados al Plan FPB, para lo cual se realizaron 25 entrevistas semiestructuradas a directores, docentes y educadores. También se recurrió al análisis de los documentos del CETP-UTU vinculados al diseño del plan. El trabajo de campo se realizó en dos escuelas, una, ubicada en la periferia montevideana y, otra, en una ciudad del departamento de Canelones. Los resultados de este estudio dan cuenta de algunas tensiones que se manifiestan en los discursos docentes sobre la implementación del plan, sus propuestas curriculares y el rol docente en los programas de inclusión; y nos aportan algunas pistas sobre la configuración de una educación orientada a la justicia e igualdad.  Palabras clave: inclusión educativa, currículum, rol docente. THE BASIC PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PLAN IN THE CONTEXT OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: MAIN TENSIONS WITHIN TEACHERS’ DISCOURSE Abstract  This paper analyses CETP-UTU’s Basic Professional Education (BPE Plan and its implementation as part of a broader inclusive educational policy. The aim is to capture the voices of different actors involved in BPE, for which 25 semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers, directors and educators. CETP-UTU’s documents regarding the plan were also examined. Field work was conducted in two schools, one located in the outskirts of Montevideo and the other in a city located in the province of Canelones. The results of this piece of research reveal some tensions

  1. Mechanical properties and deformation behavior of Al/Al7075, two-phase material

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    Sherafat, Z.; Paydar, M.H.; Ebrahimi, R.; Sohrabi, S.

    2010-01-01

    In the present study, mechanical properties and deformation behavior of Al/Al7075, two-phase material were investigated. The two-phase materials were fabricated by mixing commercially pure Al powder with Al7075 chips and consolidating the mixture through hot extrusion process at 500 o C. Mechanical properties and deformation behavior of the fabricated samples were evaluated using tensile and compression tests. A scanning electron microscope was used to study the fracture surface of the samples including different amount of Al powder, after they were fractured in tensile test. The results of the tensile and compression tests showed that with decreasing the amount of Al powder, the strength increases and ductility decreases. Calculation of work hardening exponent (n) indicated that deformation behavior does not follow a regular trend. In a way that the n value was approved to be variable and a strong function of strain and Al powder wt% of the sample. The results of the fractography studies indicate that the type of fracture happened changes from completely ductile to nearly brittle by decreasing the wt% of Al powder from 90% to 40%.

  2. De las áreas ecológicas significativas al Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo

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    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available En ámbitos metropolitanos el medio natural y el medio artificial pugnan y compiten uno sobre otro. Sus desarrollos, aparentemente desconectados, tienen importantes puntos en común. El interés por abordar, en un mismo nivel, los procesos que conforman los ecosistemas naturales y el artefacto urbano nos abren el camino al estudio de los ecosistemas en la ciudad y al urbanismo de redes (Dupuy, 1998. Este artículo presenta los resultados parciales de una investigación (tesis doctoral que pretende señalar la importancia de la determinación de las denominadas areas ecológicas significativas en la práctica del urbanismo. A través del análisis de caso de la ciudad de Montevideo, Uruguay, se caracterizan detalles de los aspectos espaciales y temporales de los ecosistemas naturales en la ciudad, señalando la manera en que se reconocen y se integran en el planeamiento territorial. Existen instrumentos de análisis y estudios que colaboran en la determinación espacialmente compleja de la realidad natural de los territorios. Será por medio de la revisión de trabajos de otros autores como se busca conocer la manera como ha sido estudiado e interpretado el conocimiento e interrelación de los ecosistemas y la ciudad, lo que permitirá en consecuencia, obtener instrumentos urbanísticos para delimitar y revalorizar los ecosistemas naturales intra y periurbanos.

  3. A Scholar from Saray: Mawlana Zada al-Sarayi (754/1353–791/1389 in the Biographical Dictionary of Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (766/1365–845/1441 “Kitab al-Muqaffa al-Kabir” (The Great Rhymed Book

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    D.R. Zaynuddinov

    2017-03-01

    Full Text Available Research objective: to introduce into academic circulation previously unknown source on the Golden Horde history. Research materials: biographical dictionary of Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (766/1365 – 845/1441 “Kitab al-Muqaffa al-Kabir” (The Great Rhymed Book. Results and novelty of the research: This article contains materials from the works of historians engaged in the narrative biography, which V.G. Tiesenhausen did not include in his “Collection of Materials on the Golden Horde history (extract from Arab writings”, although their writings contain very valuable information about the Golden Horde History. Research novelty consists in the fact that the author of this article presents one paragraph from biographical dictionary of Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi, whose article number 421 provides information about a scholar from Saray – Mawlana Zada al-Sarayi. The author provides its translation and commentary referring to the more than ten medieval Arab sources. After receiving basic education at home, Mawlana Zada al-Sarayi traveled to many Eastern countries in search of knowledge and after having received high recognition he settled in Cairo as a teacher of Sharia Sciences. Despite the fact that his life was interrupted at an early age (36 years, he left a deep mark in science. His son Muhibbu al-Din (Cairo, 791/1389 – Mecca, Friday, the 3rd of Dhu al-Hijjah 859/13 November 1455 also became a great scholar as well as an imam of Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay himself and other sultans after him. Nisba al-Sarayi sounded on the lips of the Ulema of the East as a symbol of learnedness and high temper. As a result of research it must be said that the study of life of Mawlana Zada al-Sarayi (754/1353 – 791/1389 and the number of migrants from Desht-i Kipchak in Egypt will help researchers in a deeper and more detailed study of the Golden Horde history.

  4. Improved AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Grown on Si Substrates Using Stacked AlGaN/AlN Interlayer by MOCVD

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    Wang Yong; Yu Nai-Sen; Li Ming; Lau Kei-May

    2011-01-01

    AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are grown on 2-inch Si (111) substrates by MOCVD. The stacked AlGaN/AlN interlayer with different AlGaN thickness and indium surfactant doped is designed and optimized to relieve the tensile stress during GaN epitaxial growth. The top 1.0μm GaN buffer layer grown on the optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer shows a crack-free and shining surface. The XRD results show that GaN(002) FWHM is 480 arcsec and GaN(102) FWHM is 900 arcsec. The AGaN/GaN HEMTs with optimized and non-optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer are grown and processed for comparison and the dc and rf characteristics are characterized. For the dc characteristics of the device with optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer, maximum drain current density I dss of 737mA/mm, peak transconductance G m of 185mS/mm, drain leakage current density I ds of 1.7μA/mm, gate leakage current density I gs of 24.8 μA/mm and off-state breakdown voltage V BR of 67 V are achieved with L g /W g /L gs /L gd = 1/10/1/1 μm. For the small signal rf characteristics of the device with optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer, current gain cutoff frequency f T of 8.3 GHz and power gain cutoff frequency f max of 19.9 GHz are achieved with L g /W g /L gs /L gd = 1/100/1/1 μm. Furthermore, the best rf performance with f T of 14.5 GHz and f max of 37.3 GHz is achieved with a reduced gate length of 0.7μm. (condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties)

  5. Mechanical properties of Fe-Mn-Cu-Al alloy systems and optimization of their composition

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    Tkachenko, I.F.; Baranov, A.A.

    1981-01-01

    Studied is the separate and combined effect of Cu and Al on mechanical properties of the Fe-Mn-Al-Cu system alloys using a simplex- lattice method of experiment planning. Heat treated specimens in the form of plates have been subjected to mechanical tests. It is shown that mechanical properties of studied alloys change sufficiently in the result of tempering in heterogeneous (α+γ) region. Studied alloys have the most favourable conbination of characteristics of strength, plasticity and impact strength after tempering at 630 deg C during 2 hours. Diagrams are obtained which characterizes dependence of mechanical properties of alloys on their composition. They permit to select optimum compositions of alloys with the necessary combination of strength, plasticity and impact strength [ru

  6. Infection of hepatitis C virus genotypes in hepatocellular carcinoma ...

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    Aug 8, 2011 ... East, Central Africa and Egypt (Higuchi et al., 2002). Genotypes 5 and 6 are ... routes of infection such as history of taking different injections, history of ... catheterization, abscess drainage, esophageal vortices, sclera- therapy ... 10 ml of venous blood was collected from all the study subjects and sera were ...

  7. 78 FR 77755 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Depository Trust Company; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule...

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    .... Bloomfield, et al., SEC Rel. No. 62750 (Aug 20, 2010), available at http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2010... Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., Regulatory Notice 09-05, available at http://www.finra.org/web/groups... post all comments on the Commission's Internet Web site ( http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml ). Copies...

  8. Biochemical characterization of digestive amylase of wheat bug ...

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    Aug 4, 2009 ... ... Boyd et al., 2002). Wheat bug also feeds on different stage of developing grains. ... the grain during feeding, Wheat bug enzymes degrade gluten proteins and cause rapid relaxation of dough resulting in the production of .... A blank without substrate but with α-amylase extract and a control containing no ...

  9. Terrorism Base Potential in the Tri-Border Area of Latin America

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    Inseguridad en el Cono Sur Americano,” Military Review, Spanish Edition (July-August 2002). 69 “Investigan nexos con terroristas,” La Estrella de... Estrella de Iquique. “Investigan nexos con terroristas,” Year XXXVII, no. 13.174, April 3, 2003. La Nación. “Preocupa al Mercosur el auge delictivo en

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    Aug 6, 2014 ... Child and youth care workers (CCWs) in these centres are encouraged to .... underweight, poor bone health and dental caries (Wenhold et al. 2008:443) ... habits; secondly, children who feel stressed, unsafe or anxious do not eat well, ..... America indicate that even though CCWs seem to be well educated ...

  11. Effect of Terminalia chebula fruit extract on lipid peroxidation and ...

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  12. Opportunities Green Roofs Can Offer Ghanaians and their Cities

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    Aug 17, 2015 ... rising faster than the daily maximum thereby decreasing the comfort index of city dwellers. Electricity ... also on the rise. Green roofs have ..... by 6%. In Central Florida in the U.S., Cummings et al. .... levels, provision of habitat for animals and plants and .... representation of the Mediterranean Sea. Bull.

  13. Lupinus albus L

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    Aug 28, 2013 ... quality (Prusakova et al., 1999) and the induction of resis- tance towards .... 5434 Afr. J. Biotechnol. rate of monoculture yeast (Saccharomyces cerivisiae) and its effect .... detected under UV-light at 254 and 365 nm, stained with 10% (v/v) ethanolic ..... mutants showed that they play an essential role in main-.

  14. Effect of Listeria monocytogenes inoculation, sodium acetate and ...

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    Aug 8, 2011 ... monocytogenes has been isolated from surface fresh waters and ... been reported that contamination of aquatic products with ..... In fish sausage treated with nisin, the peroxide value was lower in comparison with that of control (Raju et al., 2003). TBA assay is usually used as indicator for the assessment of.

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    Aug 18, 2008 ... parents together with the information regarding nature and magnitude of gene effects controlling quantitative traits (Basbag et al., 2007). GCA and SCA which identify the hybrids with high yield are the most important criteria in breeding programs (Ceyhan, 2003). High GCA and. SCA for seed yield and yield ...

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  19. THE MECHANISM OF PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS*

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  2. Fusion–fission dynamics studies using mass distribution as a probe

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  3. Konsepsi Ibnu Jarir Al-Tabari Tentang Al-Qur’an, Tafsir Dan Ta’wil

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    Full Text Available The objective of this research is to describe the concept of Ibnu Jarir al-Tabari about al-Qur’an, tafsir and ta’wil. Ibn Jarir al-Tabari is an outstanding expert in the classic Islamic tradition. His knowledge in hadits, fiqh, lughah, history, and tafseer is unquestionable. This study uses an analytical descriptive design. The findings show that: Firstly, in defining al-Qur’an, al-Tabari focused on the al-Qur’an as an Arabic language text, not in other language. Secondly, al-Qur’an is written in sab’ah ahruf. It means that there are 7 different kinds of language with the same meaning. Thirdly, al-Qur’an comes from seven heaven’s door. Fourthly, there is no different word between tafseer and ta’wil. They have same meaning. These concepts are different to other concepts proposed by other ulama.

  4. Proyecto de nave para fabricación de pinturas al agua

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    Pinto Pareja, Juan Carlos

    2016-01-01

    Se pretende la construcción de una nave industrial con la actividad de fabricación de pinturas al agua, sobre una parcela situada en el polígono industrial de Pelagatos, en Chiclana de la Frontera. La parcela dispone de una superficie de 1000 metros cuadrados, con una fachada de 20 metros y un fondo de 50 metros. La parcela es plana en general. Debe construirse la superficie máxima que permita el Plan General de Ordenación Urbana. Se dispondrán en planta baja las siguientes dep...

  5. Studies of Environmental Risk Factors in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and a Phase I Clinical Trial of L-Serine.

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    Bradley, Walter G; Miller, R X; Levine, T D; Stommel, E W; Cox, P A

    2018-01-01

    β-N-Methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) has been linked to Guam ALS/PDC and shown to produce neurodegeneration in vitro and in vivo (Drosophila, mice, rats, primates). BMAA misincorporation into neuroproteins produces protein misfolding and is inhibited by L-serine. Case-control studies in Northern New England indicate that living near to water-bodies with cyanobacterial blooms increases the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The distribution of addresses of ALS cases in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Florida was compared to that of controls. Areas of statistically significantly increased numbers of ALS cases were examined for sources of environmental toxins. A phase I trial of oral L-serine was performed in 20 ALS patients (0.5 to 15 g twice daily). Safety and tolerability were assessed by comparing the rate of deterioration with 430 matched placebo controls. The distribution of residential addresses of ALS cases in New England and Florida revealed many areas where the age- and gender-adjusted frequency of ALS was greater than expected (P ALS patients suggests that residential exposure to environmental pollutants may play an important role in the etiology of ALS. L-Serine in doses up to 15 g twice daily appears to be safe in patients with ALS. Exploratory studies of efficacy suggested that L-serine might slow disease progression. A phase II trial is planned.

  6. Composition of Solid Waste in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, a Mountain Region Undergoing Rapid Urbanization in Northern Oman

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    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available There is a lack of data on the generation and composition of waste in rural areas worldwide. The present study analyzed the composition of solid waste in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, a rural mountain region in the Sultanate of Oman, which is presently experiencing a rapid rate of urbanization due to tourism development. The solid wastes here are generated by the municipality collecting waste from residential, commercial, institutional and recreational areas, the military from a training camp and a few non-governmental private companies from their camps and hotels. The whole load from each of the three sources was manually segregated each month from June 2013 – May 2014. The results indicated that plastic is the dominant category in the wastes collected by the municipality and accounts for 26.7%, followed by paper (17.9% and then food (14.4%. Food is the dominant category in the wastes collected by the military and private companies and accounts for 36.5% and 45.5% respectively. Management issues associated with solid waste are briefly considered. The study concluded that the municipality should implement an improved system for the collection of plastic waste and initiate a system for recycling it; the military and private companies should reduce the quantities of food waste by improved planning and management of the catering services.

  7. El proyecto minero Cobre Mirador y su relación con el plan de ordenamiento territorial de la I. Municipalidad de El Pangui y El Plan Nacional del buen vivir (Sumak Kawsay)

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    2015-01-01

    El proyecto minero “Cobre Mirador” constituye el primer ejemplo de explotación a gran escala en el Ecuador. Se ubica al sureste del país, a lo largo del valle del río Zamora en la provincia de Zamora Chinchipe, cantón El Pangui, adyacente a la frontera del Ecuador con el Perú. Su explotación debería estar integrada dentro del Plan de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial (2011) propuesto por la I. Municipalidad de El Pangui en concordancia con el Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir (Suma...

  8. Technical Note: Improving the VMERGE treatment planning algorithm for rotational radiotherapy

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    Gaddy, Melissa R., E-mail: mrgaddy@ncsu.edu; Papp, Dávid, E-mail: dpapp@ncsu.edu [Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8205 (United States)

    2016-07-15

    Purpose: The authors revisit the VMERGE treatment planning algorithm by Craft et al. [“Multicriteria VMAT optimization,” Med. Phys. 39, 686–696 (2012)] for arc therapy planning and propose two changes to the method that are aimed at improving the achieved trade-off between treatment time and plan quality at little additional planning time cost, while retaining other desirable properties of the original algorithm. Methods: The original VMERGE algorithm first computes an “ideal,” high quality but also highly time consuming treatment plan that irradiates the patient from all possible angles in a fine angular grid with a highly modulated beam and then makes this plan deliverable within practical treatment time by an iterative fluence map merging and sequencing algorithm. We propose two changes to this method. First, we regularize the ideal plan obtained in the first step by adding an explicit constraint on treatment time. Second, we propose a different merging criterion that comprises of identifying and merging adjacent maps whose merging results in the least degradation of radiation dose. Results: The effect of both suggested modifications is evaluated individually and jointly on clinical prostate and paraspinal cases. Details of the two cases are reported. Conclusions: In the authors’ computational study they found that both proposed modifications, especially the regularization, yield noticeably improved treatment plans for the same treatment times than what can be obtained using the original VMERGE method. The resulting plans match the quality of 20-beam step-and-shoot IMRT plans with a delivery time of approximately 2 min.

  9. Predicting glass-forming compositions in the Al-La and Al-La-Ni systems

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    Gargarella, P.; de Oliveira, M.F.; Kiminami, C.S.; Pauly, S.; Kuehn, U.; Bolfarini, C.; Botta, W.J.; Eckert, J.

    2011-01-01

    Research highlights: → The glass-forming ability of the Al-La and Al-La-Ni systems was studied using the λ* and the λ.Δe criteria. → Both criteria predicted with just 1% at. of error the best glass-former verified so far in the Al-La system. → Four new glass-former compositions could be predicted in the Al-La-Ni system using the λ.Δe criterion. → The best glass-former reported so far in the Al-La-Ni system was found. - Abstract: In this work, a criterion considering the topological instability (λ) and the differences in the electronegativity of the constituent elements (Δe) was applied to the Al-La and Al-Ni-La systems in order to predict the best glass-forming compositions. The results were compared with literature data and with our own experimental data for the Al-La-Ni system. The alloy described in the literature as the best glass former in the Al-La system is located near the point with local maximum for the λ.Δe criterion. A good agreement was found between the predictions of the λ.Δe criterion and literature data in the Al-La-Ni system, with the region of the best glass-forming ability (GFA) and largest supercooled liquid region (ΔT x ) coinciding with the best compositional region for amorphization indicated by the λ.Δe criterion. Four new glassy compositions were found in the Al-La-Ni system, with the best predicted composition presenting the best glass-forming ability observed so far for this system. Although the λ.Δe criterion needs further refinements for completely describe the glass-forming ability in the Al-La and Al-La-Ni systems, the results demonstrated that this criterion is a good tool to predict new glass-forming compositions.

  10. Electric quadrupole moments of neutron-rich nuclei {sup 32}Al and {sup 31}Al

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    Kameda, D., E-mail: kameda@ribf.riken.jp; Ueno, H. [RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan); Asahi, K.; Nagae, D.; Takemura, M.; Shimada, K. [Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Physics (Japan); Yoshimi, A.; Nagatomo, T.; Sugimoto, T. [RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan); Uchida, M.; Arai, T.; Takase, K.; Suda, S.; Inoue, T. [Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Physics (Japan); Murata, J.; Kawamura, H. [Rikkyo University, Department of Physics (Japan); Watanabe, H. [Australian National University, Department of Nuclear Physics (Australia); Kobayashi, Y.; Ishihara, M. [RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan)

    2007-11-15

    The electric quadrupole moments for the ground states of {sup 32}Al and {sup 31}Al have been measured by the {beta} ray-detected nuclear quadrupole resonance method. Spin-polarized {sup 32}Al and {sup 31}Al nuclei were obtained from the fragmentation of {sup 40}Ar projectiles at E/A = 95 MeV/nucleon, and were implanted in a single crystal {alpha}-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} stopper. The measured Q moment of {sup 32}Al, |Q({sup 32}Al)| = 24(2) mb, is in good agreement with a conventional shell-model calculation with a full sd model space and empirical effective charges, while that of {sup 31}Al is considerably smaller than the sd calculations.

  11. The constitution of alloys in the Al-rich corner of the Al-Si-Sm ternary system

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    Markoli, B.; Spaic, S.; Zupanic, F.

    2001-01-01

    The constitution of alloys and the liquidus surface in the Al-rich corner of the Al-Si-Sm ternary system were determined by the examination of controlled heated and cooled specimens, as well as heat-treated specimens by means of optical and scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, differential thermal analysis and X-ray diffraction. The Al-rich corner of the Al-Si-Sm ternary system comprises five regions of primary crystallisation (α Al , β Si , Al 3 Sm, Al 2 Si 2 Sm and AlSiSm) with following characteristic invariant reaction sequences: ternary eutectic reaction L → α Al + β Si + Al 2 Si 2 Sm, and two liquidus transition reactions, i. e., L + Al 3 Sm → α Al + AlSiSm, and L + AlSiSm → α Al + Al 2 Si 2 Sm. Along with the position of ternary eutectic and both interstitial points in the Al-rich corner of the Al-Si-Sm ternary system, the temperatures for each reaction were determined. (orig.)

  12. Lingots et couteaux en fer d'Alésia. Études archéométriques de pièces inédites

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    Pleiner, Radomír; Fluzin, P.; Mangin, M.; Billon, M.; Dillmann, P.; Vega, E.; Rabeisen, E.

    2003-01-01

    Roč. 52, - (2003), s. 91-130 ISSN 1266-7706 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z8002910 Keywords : lingots * knives * metallography * oppidum * Alésia Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

  13. Tank 241-AZ-102 Privatization Push Mode Core Sampling and Analysis Plan

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    RASMUSSEN, J.H.

    1999-01-01

    This sampling and analysis plan (SAP) identifies characterization objectives pertaining to sample collection, laboratory analytical evaluation, and reporting requirements for samples obtained from tank 241-AZ-102. The purpose of this sampling event is to obtain information about the characteristics of the contents of 241-AZ-102 required to satisfy the Data Quality Objectives For TWRS Privatization Phase I : Confirm Tank TIS An Appropriate Feed Source For High-Level Waste Feed Batch X(HLW DQO) (Nguyen 1999a), Data Quality Objectives For TWRS Privatization Phase 1: Confirm Tank TIS An Appropriate Feed Source For Low-Activity Waste Feed Batch X (LAW DQO) (Nguyen 1999b), Low Activity Waste and High Level Waste Feed Data Quality Objectives (L and H DQO) (Patello et al. 1999) and Characterization Data Needs for Development, Design, and Operation of Retrieval Equipment Developed through the Data Quality Objective Process (Equipment DQO) (Bloom 1996). The Tank Characterization Technical Sampling Basis document (Brown et al. 1998) indicates that these issues, except the Equipment DQO apply to tank 241-AZ-102 for this sampling event. The Equipment DQO is applied for shear strength measurements of the solids segments only. Poppiti (1999) requires additional americium-241 analyses of the sludge segments. Brown et al. (1998) also identify safety screening, regulatory issues and provision of samples to the Privatization Contractor(s) as applicable issues for this tank. However, these issues will not be addressed via this sampling event. Reynolds et al. (1999) concluded that information from previous sampling events was sufficient to satisfy the safety screening requirements for tank 241-AZ-102. Push mode core samples will be obtained from risers 15C and 24A to provide sufficient material for the chemical analyses and tests required to satisfy these data quality objectives. The 222-S Laboratory will extrude core samples, composite the liquids and solids, perform chemical analyses

  14. Enseñar y aprender de las emociones en Educación Infantil

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    Pardo-García, Marina Rosalía

    2015-01-01

    El desarrollo del ser humano es un proceso complejo. En él cohabitan diferentes factores: desde el desarrollo puramente físico al intelectual, pasando inevitablemente por el desarrollo emocional. Éste último fue relegado durante años al ámbito estrictamente familiar, hasta que la conciencia hacia el desarrollo integral del niño y el auge de teorías sobre inteligencia emocional hicieron necesaria su introducción en el entorno educativo. Actualmente, las leyes estatales atribuyen cierta impo...

  15. Pease AFB, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Revised Uniform Summary of Surface Weather Observations (RUSSWO). Parts A through F.

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    1972-05-25

    SNOW DEPTH IN INCHES lIAS*O ON Liss THAN PULL NONTHS1 MON I tJAN, FEB. MAN. APR. MAY JUN JUL. AUG. SEP. OCT. NOV. DC. ALL 5* ’SNO OPTH _ _ _~DAYS...J- 3 iL-i- A1 L L_ 4L -10 ’- .0 _m GoAlI ’SW .. L JL 44.. ak af AL aw 1* 4. l.0 4.2 6...4. s fl .40 1& .0 -0 -7. __ on ltil - -. C TWAL NUMM

  16. DIFICULTADES EN LA IMPLEMENTACION DEL PLAN BEPS EN COLOMBIA

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    Rodríguez-Díaz, Nidia Rocio

    2015-01-01

    El presente trabajo tiene como finalidad analizar las principales dificultades que debe contraponer Colombia en la implementación del Plan BEPS, cuyo objetivo principal es evitar la erosión de las bases imponibles, lo cual requiere efectuar diversos cambios principalmente en la normatividad referente a aspectos contables y tributarios. Precisamente es esta situación la que genera mayores dificultades, por cuanto entre los Estados se genera competencia al tratar de atraer nuevos inversionistas...

  17. Ordenación y gestión del patrimonio cultural y el paisaje. La experiencia del Plan Especial de la Sierra de los Molinos en Campo de Criptana

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    2008-01-01

    su entorno. Para ello se ha redactado un instrumento urbanístico (Plan Especial, que aporta una aproximación al entorno patrimonial abierta al concepto territorial de paisaje. En este sentido,el Plan converge con los postulados del Convenio Europeo del Paisaje sobre la necesidad de aplicar políticas en materia de paisaje que establezcan instrumentos de intervención destinados a la protección, gestión y ordenación del paisaje.

  18. Disordered crystal structure of 20H-AlON, Al10O3N8

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    Banno, Hiroki; Funahashi, Shiro; Asaka, Toru; Hirosaki, Naoto; Fukuda, Koichiro

    2015-01-01

    The disordered crystal structure of 20H-AlON (Al 10 O 3 N 8 ) was determined by combined use of X-ray powder diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The title compound is hexagonal with space group P6 3 /mmc (Z=2) and the unit-cell dimensions are a=0.307082(5) nm, c=5.29447(8) nm and V=0.432376(12) nm 3 . The structural model showed the positional disordering of three of the six Al sites in the unit cell. The reliability indices calculated from the Rietveld method were R wp =6.97%, S (=R wp /R e )=1.68, R p =5.45%, R B =5.13% and R F =4.56%. We interpreted the disordered structure of 20H-AlON as a statistical average of six different types of ordered structural configurations, which are composed of an octahedral [Al(O, N) 6 ] layer and tetrahedral [Al(O, N) 4 ] layers. We demonstrated the high correlations between the hexagonal unit-cell dimensions and the octahedral layer concentrations for AlON and SiAlON polytypoids. - Graphical abstract: Variations of a and c/(n O +n T ) with n O /(n O +n T ). The a and c are the hexagonal unit-cell dimensions of AlON, SiAlON and AlN. The n O and n T are, respectively, the numbers of octahedral and tetrahedral layers in the unit cells. The unit-cell dimensions in literature are plotted in black plus for AlON and black cross for SiAlON. The unit-cell dimensions of AlN are a=0.3110 nm and c=0.4980 nm. - Highlights: • Crystal structure of Al10O3N8 is determined by laboratory X-ray powder diffraction. • The atom arrangements are represented by the split-atom model. • Six types of ordered atom arrangements are derived from the disordered structure. • Hexagonal unit-cell dimensions changed systematically for AlON and SiAlON compounds

  19. Prinsip Pendidikan Karakter dalam Islam: Studi Komparasi Pemikiran Al-Ghazali dan Burhanuddin Al-Zarnuji

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    Agus Setiawan

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available The impelemtantion of character education that is done by the Indonesian government recently has been provoked by al-Ghazali and Burhanuddin al-Zarnuji long ago. It was proven by some written thoughts of al-Ghazali and Burhanuddin al-Zarnuji. They were very famous scientists in their era and widely welknown as educational experts who produced some phenomenal thoughts many people use today. Al-Ghazali and Burhanuddin al-Zarnuji lived in the era of Bani Abbasiyah monarchy, but Both of them lived in different era. Al-Ghazali was born first, then Burhanuddin al-Zarnuji. They had different mazhab, al-Ghazali went to the traditional principle of mazhab Syafi’I and Burhanuddin al-Zarnuji went to the modern principle of mazhab Hanafi. The differences, of course, would create a different thought. Still, they might have a similar principle of Islamic character education. The thoughts of character education of al-Ghazali have been poured in the “Ayyuha Walad” focusing to the students’ character building characterized by religiously obedient, skillfull of general and religious knowledge, socially helpful, affectionate, generous, good citizen, and coloring the society. Some applicable thoughts of character education of Ayyuha al-Walad of al-Gazhali to the contemporary education are: the balance of the happiness purposes of the recent life and the life after death, qana’ah and tawakal, affectionate, caring other, patience, honesty, philanthrophy, social works, generousity, democratic, peace makers, and patriotic. Those characters are also directed in the islamic character education nowdays. So that, the thoughts of al-Ghazali positively and responsively are absorbed by the Indonesian government to build the national character widely implementing in the national curriculum based on the local wisdom and the Islamic values. In the end, the students are able to live happily based on the Islamic rules by implementing the good behavior. Similar to the al

  20. FRACTIONAL RECRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS IN DIRECTLY COLD ROLLED Al-Mg, Al-Mg-Sc AND Al-Mg-Sc-Zr ALLOY

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    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available The evaluation of texture as a function of recrystallization has been characterized for directly cold rolled Al-6Mg, Al-6Mg-0.4Sc and Al-6Mg-0.4Sc-0.2Zr alloys. Samples were annealed isothermally at 400 °C for 1 to 240 minutes to allow recrystallization. Recrystallization kinetics of the alloys is analyzed from the micro-hardness variation. Isothermally annealed samples of aluminum alloys were also studied using JMAK type analysis to see if there exists any correlation between the methods. Recrystallization fraction behavior between two methods the scandium added alloys show the higher variation due to precipitation hardening and higher recrystallization behavior. The scandium and zirconium as a combined shows the more variation due to formation of Al3(Sc, Zr precipitate. From the microstructure it is also observed that the base Al-Mg alloy attained almost fully re-crystallized state after annealing at 400 °C for 60 minutes