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SPECTRO-INTERFEROMETRY AND DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY WITH AMBER AND THE VLTI

In the last 10 years, Optical Long Baseline Interferometry (OLBI) has entered a phase of sustained scientific production, with more than 450 refereed science papers, which represents more than 75% of the science production of optical interferometry since the first observations (Michelson & Pease 1921). One of the reasons of this success is that major interferometers, such as the Keck Interferometer (http://www.keckobservatory.org, Colavita et al. 2003, Colavita et al. 2004), CHARA and the VLTI have “general user oriented” instruments “. Strictly speaking, only the VLTI instruments are truly “general user” with calls for proposals to all the astronomic community (with a priority but not an exclusivity to ESO member states). This contributes to the fact that the VLTI has produced more than 60% of the interferometric science results since the beginning of optical interferometry (http://olbin.jpl.nasa.gov/). However, the KI and CHARA are also open to a broad community of scientists. This strong scientific output is being obtained in spite of the fact that optical interferometers produce regularly images only since 2008, and so far less than 15% of the science papers have been based on interferometric imaging. However, the community of science users of OLBI is growing slowly, and the technique is not yet considered as just “one of the observing tools” available for the astrophysicist, even when it is applicable to his targets of interests. One of the goals of this paper is to insist on the proximity between optical interferometry and other observing techniques such as spectroscopy. Almost all current OLBI focal instruments are equipped with more or less ambitious spectrographs and are actually spectro-interferometers. We want to illustrate the fact that spectro interferometry is much more than interferometry providing spatial information in different spectral channels. In fact, the cross analysis of the interferometric information obtained simultaneously in different spectral channels, sometimes called Differential Interferometry (DI) (Petrov 1989) or, more recently, Self Phase Referencing Interferometry (Woillez et al. 2012), yields much more information than the sequential analysis in different spectral channels.
Aggregate and Regional Economic Effects of New Railway Infrastructure

Economists expect positive returns to investments in infrastructure. However a project with higher national returns might have less favourable effects on a regional level than the alternative. Therefore new infrastructure should also be assessed on a regional level, but econom(etr)ic evaluation models are scarce, especially in regional science. This paper proposes new approaches to evaluate infrastructure by a dynamic spatial econometric model that allows long-term predictions. We investigate the regional effects for two Austrian railway projects and show that infrastructure returns are positive on an aggregate and at a regional level but spatial variation can be large.
Interactive comment on “Modeling and measurement of two-layer-canopy interception losses in a subtropical mixed forest of central-south China” by G. Zhang et al

This ms deals with the modelling and measuring of throughfall in a subptropical mixed forest in China. Until now, this was not modelled for these forest in China. The authors use all standard procedures how to deal with these kind of measurements to simulate interception losses in forests. Novelties are: two layer model and measurements; the parameter values derived from the measurements which are in the same order as previously found;
Factors affecting patient satisfaction in the health care sector in Serbia Фактори који утичу на задовољство пацијената у здравственом сектору у Србији

* Accepted papers are articles in press that have gone through due peer review process and have been accepted for publication by the Editorial Board of the Serbian Archives of Medicine. They have not yet been copy edited and/or formatted in the publication house style, and the text may be changed before the final publication. Although accepted papers do not yet have all the accompanying bibliographic details available, they can already be cited using the year of online publication and the DOI, as follows: the author’s last name and initial of the first name, article title, journal title, online first publication month and year, and the DOI; e.g.: Petrović P, Jovanović J. The title of the article. Srp Arh Celok Lek. Online First, February 2017. When the final article is assigned to volumes/issues of the journal, the Article in Press version will be removed and the final version will appear in the associated published volumes/issues of the journal. The date the article was made available online first will be carried over.
Socio-political control in urban China: changes and crisis

This paper examines urban China’s socio-political control crisis under the impact of economic reforms as an epitome of a more general social crisis. The traditional urban institutional form of socio-political control in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the work unit form of control, is a variant of age-old forms. The latter’s reproduction in variant form in the former was premised upon the fact that the PRC’s industrialization was carried out by a peasant-based party creating a new working class of rural migrants engaged in non-market production and exchange. The persistence of non-market economic relations ensured this form of control’s continued reproduction. Post-1978 market-oriented reforms have undermined this form. As the emergence of new forms has been slow, a socio-political control crisis has arisen, at a time when millions of urban employees are being thrown out of work. In dealing with the crisis, the of cial trade union, an organic constituent institution of the work unit form of control, plays a prominent part, in being given the tasks of sustaining this decaying form, and preventing and defusing potential social explosion. Yet, the very economic reform programme that has undermined the work unit form of control, is also gravely weakening the union.
N URTURING AND LEVERAGING VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES : A TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROCESS MODEL Completed Research Paper

Despite the optimism surrounding the business potential of virtual communities (VCs), our knowledge of how VCs can be nurtured and leveraged to create value for the organizations that sponsor them is limited. To address this knowledge gap, a twodimensional process model of the development and leverage of a VC is inductively derived from a case study of one of the most commercially successful VCs in Singapore. The model suggests that different IT competencies drive the development of various VCenabled capabilities in different stages of VC maturity. Moreover, as the VC becomes increasingly mature, the number of ways in which it can be leveraged for organizational value creation increases. With its findings, this study sheds light on the key mechanisms of VC-enabled organizational value creation, and provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded framework for practitioners to analyze and optimize their investments in VCs.
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Land surface models (LSMs) need to balance a complicated trade-off between computational cost and complexity in order to adequately represent the exchanges of energy, water and matter with the atmosphere and the ocean. Some current generation LSMs use a simplified or composite canopy approach that generates recurrent errors in simulated soil temperature and turbulent fluxes. In response to these issues, a new version of the Interactions between the Surface Biosphere 5 Atmosphere (ISBA) land surface model has recently been developed which explicitly solves the transfer of energy and water from the upper canopy and the forest floor which is characterized as a litter layer. The so-called Multi Energy Balance (MEB) version of ISBA is first evaluated for three well-instrumented contrasting local scale sites, and sensitivity tests are performed to explore the behavior of new model parameters. Second, ISBA-MEB is benchmarked against observations from 42 10 forested sites from the global micro-meteorological network (FluxNet) for multiple annual cycles. It is shown that ISBA-MEB outperforms the composite version of ISBA in improving the representation of soil temperature, ground, sensible and to a lesser extent latent heat fluxes. Both versions of ISBA give comparable results in terms of simulated latent heat flux because of the similar formulations of the water uptake and the stomatal resistance. However, MEB produces a better agreement 15 with the observations of sensible heat flux than the previous version of ISBA for 87.5 % of the simulated years across the 42 forested FluxNet sites. Most of this improvement arises owing to the improved simulation of the ground conduction flux, which is greatly improved using MEB, especially owing to the forest litter parameterization. It is also shown that certain processes are also modeled more realistically (such as the partitioning of evapotranspiration into transpiration and ground evap20
The effectiveness of experiential-existential psychotherapy groups compared to social support groups

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Stable amylaze-produsing micromycetes isolated from soils of South Caucasus

Production of stable enzymes is one of the actual problems in bioand enzyme technology. Conducting of the fermentation processes at pasteurization temperature is of great importance (2800 strains) because of making possible to minimize pollution of the reaction medium. Collection of micellar fungi isolated from different ecological niches of the Caucasus has been created in Durmishidze Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 39 strains producers of amylase were revealed in the collection as a result of screening. Most of these strains belong to the genus Aspergillus. The temperature optimum of thermophilic strains was studied. In the cultural liquids obtained after the submerged cultivation of selected strains -amylase producers were tested in the temperature range 30-45 oC, at 5 oC intervals. The temperature optimum of the strains was established to be within the range 65-70 oC, making possible to use them in bioand enzymatic technologies to diminish the pollution of the reaction medium while conducting the fermentation process at pasteurization temperature (65 oC). Consequently, the selection of stable, operable at pasteurization and higher temperatures amylase preparation is of great importance. Proposed technology is cost-effective, ecologically safe, competitive and provides deep hydrolysis of starch to fermentable sugar at the elevated temperature (65-70 oC) in one step, by means of only one, stable amylase preparation.
Landscape genetics, adaptive diversity, and population structure in P. vulgaris

Complete List of Authors: Rodriguez, Monica; Università degli Studi di Sassari, Dipartimento di Agraria Rau, Domenico; Università degli Studi di Sassari, Dipartimento di Agraria Bitocchi, Elena; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali Bellucci, Elisa; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali Biagetti, Eleonora; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali Carboni, Andrea; Consiglio per la ricerca e la sperimentazione in agricoltura (CRA-CIN), Centro di Ricerca per le Colture Industriali Gepts, Paul; University of California, Department of Plant Sciences / MS1 Nanni, Laura; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali Papa, Roberto; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali Attene, Giovanna; Università degli Studi di Sassari, Dipartimento di Agraria; Università degli Studi di Sassari, Centro per la Conservazione e Valorizzazione della Biodiversità Vegetale
GENERATIONAL AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN RELATION TO EMPATHY AMONG PRE-GRADUATE TEACHERS

Insufficient attention is paid to the issue of empathy in the context of undergraduate teacher training. Nevertheless, empathy is one of the important skills that facilitates and deepens interpersonal relationships and strengthens interpersonal interactions. Empathy as a psychological construct consists of an affective (feeling an adequate emotion triggered by the emotions of others), cognitive (the ability to understand or predict what the other person might think, feel, do) and a mixed component (cognitive and affective). In this paper the authors focused on the differences in the degree of empathy based on various generations (X, Y, and Z generations) and sex. The data were obtained by means of the Empathy Quotient (EQ) approach on a sample of 313 pre-service teachers. The sample comprises 115 men and 196 women. The X generation was represented by 67, the Y generation by 104, and the Z generation by 140 students of teaching professions. The ANOVA test (using Welch’s correction) suggested that the level of empathy differed significantly in each age group of respondents, F (2, 177.048) = 99.131, p <. 001. A post-hoc analysis (Games-Howell) confirmed significant differences among all groups (p <.001) with a gradually increasing degree of empathy. An independent t test suggested that the degree of empathy varied considerably across the groups of respondents by sex; women had significantly higher empathy scores than men, t (309 = -9.524, p <.001). © 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy. org.UK
IMPACT OF USING PEA VINES AS NON-CONVENTIONAL FEEDSTUFF ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF RABBITS

The aim of this work was to study the effect of partial and total substitution of clover hay by pea vines (PV) in rabbit diets and their effects on growth performance and fecal digestibility of New Zealand White rabbit. Forty five rabbit, six weeks old with an average body weight 728.2 g were randomly divided into five groups. Each group consisted of three replicates (of three rabbits each). Results of growth trail revealed that 50% PV fed group achieved significantly (P<0.05) better LBW by 11.5%, ADG by 18% and FCR by 4.1% compared with control group. Regarding to fecal digestibility's, the recorded values for control and 50% PV diets were 64.99% vs. 69.25% for DM; 67.09% vs. 71.36% for OM. ; 65.08 vs. 72.36% for CP. ; 44.49 vs. 51.40% for CF and 73.28 vs. 75.31% for NFE, respectively. The same trend for fecal digestibility were significant found (P<0.05) between 75% compared with control group, being 64.99% vs. 67.59% for DM and 65.08% vs. 68.56% for CP, respectively. Rabbit group fed 50% PV recorded the highest values of DCP, TDN and DE in comparison with other experimental groups. It could be concluded that incorporation pea vines as non traditional fiber source in rabbit diets at 25, 50, 75 and 100% has no negative effect on growth performance and digestibility of most of nutrients and nutritive values of tested diets.
The formation of the stigmatic surface in Passiflora elegans (Passifloraceae)

Part of the PhD thesis of the first author. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Depto. Botânica, Lab. Anatomia Vegetal. Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Prédio 43423, s/206, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. CNPq Productivity in Research Scholarship recipient. *Corresponding author: jorge.mariath@ufrgs.br Abstract The stigma surface is a complex multicellular structure where the development of the pollen tube begins. This development is necessary for sucess in fertilization and depends on recognition processes that involve the anatomy of the stigma. Passiflora is an economically important genus because of its edible fruits. Many authors have described the stigma of Passiflora but nothing is known about the ontogenesis of this structure. This work aimed to describe the formation of the stigmatic surface of Passiflora elegans. Results showed that, in bud, the stigmatic surface of this species is flat with small cells. The cells in the subdermal layer have large vacuoles and the nucleus, near to the external periclinal walls. During its development the stigma surface becomes uneven due to the elongation of cells in the subdermal layer. Elongation results in an increase of external secretory surface area of the stigmas, and probably plays an important role in pollen recognition. The polysaccharide content found in the inner walls of these structures might be involved in the signal process for pollen tube growth during its early development. The morphological evidence presented here shows that, as the stigma of Passiflora is formed by dermal and subdermal cells, it should not be characterized as colleters or papillae and, therefore, it is defined here as stigma emergences. Key-words: anatomy, stigma development, stigma emergence, pollination.
Comparison of the Patient Groups with and Without Dissociative Disorder Comorbidity among the Inpatients with Bipolar Disorder Yatarak Tedavi Gören Bipolar Bozukluk Hastalarinda Dissosiyatif Bozukluk Eştanisi Olan ve Olmayan Hasta Gruplarinin Karşilaştirilmasi

Introduction: This study aims to compare sociodemographic characteristics of the patients with bipolar disorder (BD) with and without comorbid dissociative disorder (DD) and to investigate the eventual effect of the comorbidity on the treatment. Methods: We enrolled a total of 149 patients diagnosed with BD and treated as inpatients consecutively in Şisli Etfal Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic between 2010 and 2011. For the patients who were diagnosed with DD using SCID-D and with BD using SCID-I, sociodemographic characteristics, YMRS, HAM-D, BPRS, DES scores and duration and number of hospital stays were evaluated. Results: 23 patients (15.4%) had dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DD-NOS), 4 patients (2.6%) had dissociative identity disorder (DID) and 1 patient (0.6%) had dissociative amnesia. BD patients with comorbid DD were found to be predominantly female (p=0.015) and younger (p=0.002) and to have significantly higher DES scores than BD patients without DD (p<0.001). The total score of DES was correlated with duration hospital stay (p=0.001, Spearman r=0.336) in the total sample. Total HAM-D score at the time of admission was significantly higher in the comorbidity group (p=0.027), and suicide item was found to be significantly higher both at admission and at discharge (p<0.001 and p=0.035). Among BPRS scores at admission, hallucinatory behavior item was found to be higher in the comorbidity group (p=0.019). Among YMRS scores both at admission and at discharge, velocity and amount of speech item (p=0.027) and insight item at admission (p=0.006) was found to be significantly higher in the pure bipolar group (p=0.018). Conclusion: In patients with BD, DD comorbidity should be investigated. The BD patients with DD comorbidity tend to be female and younger, and show higher depression scores, leading to a prolonged hospital stay. In the presence of dissociation comorbidity,
Fault Detection of Gearbox from Inverter Signals Using Advanced Signal Processing Techniques

The gear faults are time-localized transient events so time-frequency analysis techniques (such as the Short-Time Fourier Transform, Wavelet Transform, motor current signature analysis) are widely used to deal with non-stationary and nonlinear signals. Newly developed signal processing techniques (such as empirical mode decomposition and Teager Kaiser Energy Operator) enabled the recognition of the vibration modes that coexist in the system, and to have a better understanding of the nature of the fault information contained in the vibration signal. However these methods require a lot of computational power so this paper presents a novel approach of gearbox fault detection using the inverter signals to monitor the load, rather than the motor current. The proposed technique could be used for continuous monitoring as well as on-line damage detection systems for gearbox maintenance.
TEST BIAS: AN OUJECTIVE DEFINITION FOR TEST ITMS

ABSTRACT A test bias definition, applicable at the item-levl of a test is presented. The definition conceptually equates test bias with measuring different things in different groups, and operationally equates test bias with a difference in item fit to the Rasch Model, greater than one, between groups. It is suggested that the proposed definition avoids confusing etiology with measurement by capitalizing on ti_a "objectivity" property of the logistic Rasch Measurement Model. Application of the definition, to 914 applicants (black = 367; white = 547) in a "real" selection situation is described and resulted in identifying two items as biased. The two items so defined, were different than the two items identified as biased by comparing the item success rates (i.e., item difficulty) of black vs. white candidates. A content evaluation of the items by two black, female reviewers was subsequently performed. Their comments lend preliminary support to the proposed psychometric test bias definition. Additional encouraging support is provided by the match between the content comments and the item bias index values, for other items ia the test. Implications for future applications and research are presented. (Author)
Fueling AGN II: Spatially Resolved Molecular Inflows and Outflows

We analyse the 2-dimensional distribution and kinematics of the stars as well as molecular and ionised gas in the central few hundred parsecs of 5 active and 5 matched inactive galaxies. The equivalent widths of the Brγ line indicate there is no on-going star formation in their nuclei, although recent (terminated) starbursts are possible in the active galaxies. The stellar velocity fields show no signs of non-circular motions, while the 1-0 S(1) H2 kinematics exhibit significant deviations from simple circular rotation. In the active galaxies the H2 kinematics reveal inflow and outflow superimposed on disk rotation. Steady-state circumnuclear inflow is seen in three AGN, and hydrodynamical models indicate it can be driven by a large scale bar. In three of the five AGN, molecular outflows are spatially resolved. The outflows are oriented such that they intersect, or have an edge close to, the disk – which may be the source of molecular gas in the outflow. The relatively low speeds imply the gas will fall back onto the disk; and with moderate outflow rates, they will have only a local impact on the host galaxy. H2 was detected in two inactive galaxies. These exhibit chaotic circumnuclear dust morphologies and have molecular structures that are counter-rotating with respect to the main gas component, which could lead to gas inflow in the near future. In our sample, all four galaxies with chaotic dust morphology in the circumnuclear region exist in moderately dense groups with 10–15 members where accretion of stripped gas can easily occur. Subject headings: galaxies: active – galaxies: ISM – galaxies: kinematics and dynamics – galaxies: nuclei – galaxies: Seyfert – infrared: galaxies