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STUDY ON RELATION BETWEEN INELASTIC AND ELASTIC DISPLACEMENT FOR VRANCEA EARTHQUAKES
Authors: Gutunoi Adrian , Zamfirescu Dan 
Published: January 2014

Abstract
At present, Romanian code for seismic design P100 is in a process of assimilation of the requirements from the equivalent European code, EN-1998-1. However, the unique characteristics of the Vrancea earthquakes require additional adjustment for some relations. One of these relations regards the simplified calculation of inelastic displacements and represents the main objective of this article. The paper uses dynamic nonlinear analysis performed on single degree of freedom systems as the main investigation tool. For all the analyses, two hysteretic models are used: Takeda and kinematic hardening. In the beginning, the paper presents the influence of overstrength on inelastic displacements for several behaviour factors. Next, the overstrength-period diagram is proposed based on a case study. Finally, the spectrum of c, the ratio between inelastic and elastic displacement is calculated. The main result of the study is the simplified equations proposed for c factor, relations that can be successfully used in current design.
The Unpredictable Errors of Micro Tactile Metrology – Factors Affecting Stylus tip Contamination
Authors: Kinnell P. , Habeb R. 
Published: January 2014

Abstract
In 3D tactile micro-metrology the contamination of probing devices is a major problem that affects the accuracy and repeatability of measured dimensions. Despite a large body of research in the field of micro CMM and micro probe design there is limited research which has been done so far to explain and tackle this problem. In this work, experimental probing on a range of materials using a micro coordinate measuring machine was conducted to investigate the mechanism of stylus tip contamination. In addition the effects of surface finish on the build-up of stylus tip contamination were also studied. The results provide practitioners with guidelines which allow for the likely build-up of stylus tip contamination to be minimized based on sample material type and surface finish.
3D Optical Measuring Systems and Laser Technologies for Scientific and Industrial Applications
Authors: Chugui Yu. , Verkhoglyad A. , Poleshchuk A. , Korolkov V. , Sysoev E. , Zavyalov P. 
Published: January 2014

Abstract
Modern industry and science require novel 3D optical measuring systems and laser technologies with micro/nanometer resolution for solving actual problems. Such systems, including the 3D dimensional inspection of ceramic parts for electrotechnical industry, laser inspection of wheel pair diagnostic for running trains and 3D superresolution low-coherent micro- /nanoprofilometers are presented. The newest results in the field of laser technologies for high-precision synthesis of microstructures by updated image generator using the semiconductor laser are given. The measuring systems and the laser image generator developed and produced by TDI SIE and IAE SB RAS have been tested by customers and used in different branches of industry and science.
BEHAVIOR OF SOME ROMANIAN TRITICALE VARIETIES IN THE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS OF THE CENTER OF MOLDAVIA, ROMANIA / Comportarea unor soiuri romaneşti de triticale în condiţiile pedoclimatice din centrul Moldovei, Romania.
Authors: Pochişcanu Simona-Florina , Buburuz Alexandra , Pomohaci Tr. , Leonte Alexandra , Naie Margareta 
Published: January 2014

ABSTRACT
Knowledge of the particularities of the new varieties response to environmental conditions is important for the best possible territorial zoning and site stating that they need to occupy in varieties structure for each area. This paper presents research results of environmental testing of six Romanian triticale varieties at the Agricultural Research-Development Station (A.R.D.S.) Secuieni, Neamţ county, Romania, during 2007-2012 and followed the zoning of the most adapted and performing genotypes, increasing their biodiversity, so as to diminish the genetic and environmental vulnerability of agroecosystems. On average for the five years of experimentation, triticale yields achieved ranged from 6984 kg/ha (Cascador) and 8439 kg/ha (Haiduc). Of the five years of experimentation, the crop years 2008-2009 and 2010-2011 were normal in terms of rainfall, the yields achieved in these years being the highest. Depending on the average yield achieved in the five years of experimenting, the top three varieties were ranked Haiduc (8439 kg/ha), Stil (8320 kg/ha) and Plai (7961 kg/ha), the first two varieties having a very low coefficient of variability (<10). During the experiment, Romanian triticale varieties showed good resistance to winter, lodging and diseases.
EFFECT OF ROW SPACING ON THE YIELD OF COTTON CULTIVARS
Authors: Jahedi M.B. , Vazin F. , Ramezani M.R. 
Published: January 2014

ABSTRACT
Modern cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivars with herbicide resistance have rejuvenated an interest in narrow row cotton production, primarily because of the reduction of weed control problems encountered in the past with narrow row systems. While the primary goal of narrow row cotton is to reduce production costs, an agronomic and physiological evaluation of this cropping system is also needed. The objectives of this study were to determine the feasibility of using modern cotton cultivars in narrow rows (30 cm) for cotton production in the Gonabad and to assess the effect of these various systems on cotton growth, lint yield, and fiber quality. Plant height, sympodia and total bolls per plant were reduced in cotton grown in narrow row spacing. In most cases, cotton grown in narrow rows had lint yields equal to or higher than those attained in the 70 cm spacing. modern cultivars in narrow row cotton production did not improve lint yield. No conclusions could be made regarding the impact of plant stature on lint yield. Row spacing had little impact on fiber quality narrow row cotton appeared to be a viable agronomic cotton production practice for the Gonabad compared with conventionally - grown cotton based upon lint yield and fiber quality.
New approaches to achieve sustainable regional development
Authors: Káposzta József 
Published: January 2014

Abstract
We are facing a transnational future. Globalization is getting more and more important in economic development, processes are becoming global, and the allocation of goods, capital and resources is carried out on the global market. In such transnational system, the role of large business centers of resource concentration is getting more significant and the ability of nations to balance the allocation of resources is getting poorer. Consequently, the micro-regions, counties and settlements need to face direct global challenges and the self-generated competition as well. Micro-regions, which are not able to adapt to the global resource market and competition, fall out of this allocation space and surely lag behind. Their future greatly depends on how they can represent their interests and how they can improve their positions.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THEMATIC VILLAGES IN POLAND
Authors: Kłoczko-Gajewska Anna 
Published: January 2014

Abstract
In recent years, rural areas in Poland have undergone significant changes. Agricultural production is getting more and more specialized. Consequently, bonds between farmers within the same village weaken, while farmers get to socialize more with those with the same specialization, no matter the distance. As a result, social life in some of the villages declines. Simultaneously, small- and medium-scale farmers, who cannot compete with large farms, have been looking for additional, off-farm sources of income. One of the ways to revive feeling of a common goal and cooperation and at the same time to get additional income is creating a thematic village, whose development is focused on a certain topic (local food, craft, history, or some other ideas). It seems that this idea gives a chance for strengthening the social activeness and self-confidence of the villagers, and in some cases also for getting additional income.
Postmodernism in the eighteenth century? Enlightenment intellectual contexts and the roots of 21st century concerns in Tristram Shandy
Authors: Gurr Jens Martin 
Published: January 2014

This essay argues the case for a reconciliation of two traditions of reading Tristram Shandy : interpretations of Sterne as a postmodernist avant la lettre do justice to his undeniable modernity but ahistorically wrest him from his eighteenth-century contexts, while purely historicizing interpretations which adequately read him in his historical contexts
frequently neglect Sterne’s distinctly •modern” appeal. These two traditions,
however, can be reconciled if what seems so postmodern about Tristram Shandy is traced to Sterne’s 18th-century intellectual contexts. By locating their origins in 18th-century debates and concerns, the essay explores four areas in which Sterne appears to anticipate 20th-and 21st-century concerns or literary techniques : (1) the critique of science and progress, (2) metafictional narrative techniques and strategies, which can be shown to grow out of a reflection on the limits of tolerance, (3) post-modern narrative games with time, and (4) the problematization of history and historiography.
Tristram Shandy’s mirroring images: refracting pictorial models and staging melancholy
Authors: Friant-Kessler Brigitte 
Published: January 2014

Cette étude aborde la question de l’emprunt chez Sterne et chez les illustrateurs, plus précisément l’articulation entre la reprise de modèles
iconographiques et la représentation de la mélancolie telle qu’elle est véhiculée au travers de Walter Shandy et Maria. Depuis l’ouvrage
Illustrations of Sterne de John Ferriar consacré aux emprunts littéraires et
philosophiques de Sterne, les critiques n’ont cessé de s’attacher à répertorier
ces sources. Les illustrations de Tristram Shandy portent également les
traces d’une esthétique de l’emprunt qui inscrit ce dernier dans une modalité de l’absorption. Le va-et-vient entre le texte et les images vise à montrer que la reprise des mots et la réfraction des images constituent l’un
des nombreux rouages de la machine narrative dans Tristram Shandy.
La Philosophie épistolaire de Locke : la vérité à l’épreuve de l’amitié
Authors: Baillon Jean-François 
Published: January 2014

Some Thoughts Concerning Education trouve son origine dans la correspondance de Locke avec des amis. Ce constat ne devrait pas être sans
conséquences sur notre lecture de cet ouvrage, voire du reste de l’oeuvre du
philosophe. Sa théorie sous-jacente comme sa pratique constante de la correspondance amicale suggèrent en effet un rapport essentiel entre vérité,
amitié et correspondance où l’écriture philosophique prend toujours la forme d’un contrat implicite que le lecteur est appelé à contresigner en engageant sa responsabilité dans la réponse. Locke serait-il l’inventeur de la
philosophie par lettres ? C’est l’hypothèse qui est développée dans le présent article.
Espace, populations et Providence dans les écrits des « Pères Pèlerins » (1620-1622)
Authors: Henneton Lauric 
Published: January 2014

Cet article retrace l’évolution de la perception des populations
amérindiennes par les fondateurs de Plymouth, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, avant et peu après la migration de 1620, à travers une relecture des récits des premiers colons : l’Histoire de la Colonie de Plymouth de William Bradford, principalement, mais aussi Mourt’s Relation, attribué à Bradford et Edward Winslow (1622), où figure une longue lettre de Robert Cushman, et Good Newes from New England de Winslow (1624). L'auteur souligne l’indissociabilité des différents groupes de populations et de l’espace, véritable échiquier sur lequel les Anglais ont finalement su s’intégrer, en analysant le prisme providentiel inhérent aux auteurs calvinistes ainsi que les dimensions diplomatique et le
discours visant à légitimer l’installation des Anglais sur des terres déjà
occupées.
William Blake. Lectures de la Bible
Authors: Menneteau Patrick 
Published: January 2014

Étant donné ce que Blake dit lui-même de la Bible, et des
relectures qu’il en fait, il est clair que la faculté visée par le poète-prophète à travers son écriture est celle de «la sensation spirituelle», tant comme
source d’inspiration que comme fondement d’une lecture de sa poésie. delà les structures de mots et d’images d’un langage qui appartient au monde déchu, c’est l’esprit de consolation du Christ qui est invoqué. Une lecture jungienne de ce phénomène peut en rendre compte en termes de rencontre de
l’Autre, en mettant l’accent, comme dans la tradition gnostique, l’expérience individuelle de l’efficacité symbolique. Ainsi la poésie de
William Blake vise-t-elle à renouer avec l’universel à travers le subjectif, la
base affective de Jacob Boehme.
Les origines juives à la lumière de l’histoire profane : Origines Judaicae de John Toland (1709)
Authors: Lurbe Pierre 
Published: January 2014

Origines Judaicae propose une réinterprétation de l’épisode fondateur de la sortie d’Égypte à la lumière du récit qu’en donne le géographe grec Strabon, et non plus en suivant le livre de l’Exode. Prenant le contrepied des thèses de Pierre-Daniel Huet (Demonstratio Evangelica, 1679), Toland voit en Moïse un fondateur d’État, dont la religion aurait été une forme de panthéisme. La prétention de l’Irlandais à
faire véritablement oeuvre d’historien ne peut toutefois être prise au sérieux. Le statut de source fiable accordé à la Géographie de Strabon relève d’un parti pris méthodologique que rien ne justifie, et Toland n’est pas moins infidèle que Huet à la méthode critique : l’un comme l’autre confèrent une autorité injustifiée à certaines sources au détriment d’autres.
William Collins’s Odes : description and the "Silent Eye”
Authors: Jung Sandro 
Published: January 2014

This article introduces the idea of the silent eye and relates it to the poetry of William Collins (1721-1759). The traditional contextualisation of mid-eighteenth-century poetry as descriptive is reconsidered in order to define the allusive anti-pictorialism and its creation of mood - a sensation to be apprehended in more complex ways than visual perception - that characterise the poet’s spiritual landscapes as much as the deities that he invokes through the hymnal context of his odes. Mood is interpreted as the situational spirituality that the speaker experiences while anticipating the encounter with
the deity. Collins’s desire to be non-visual in his depiction of the speaker’s
apprehension of the divine is explained with the limitations of pictorial representations in which sublime obscurity is destroyed in favour of definite
images. A mimetic representation of the divine and the speaker’s experience ofit
according to Collins must not be pictorial as it then loses its mystery and charm.
German Immigrants and the Birth of the Piano in Great Britain: Bach, Zumpe, their friends and the square piano
Authors: Portier François 
Published: January 2014

In the late 1760s small "square pianos" began to appear in
significant numbers in Great Britain. They soon enjoyed an enormous success and were produced in great quantities. They were widely exported all over Europe. The role of German immigrants, notably Johannes Zumpe and Johann Christian Bach, is especially significant in the early technical and artistic history of the new instrument. Square pianos were comparatively cheap, which made them accessible to music-loving amateurs from the middle as well as the upper class. The aim of this paper is to seek the aesthetic as well as social causes of this spectacular success, while focusing on the role of the small community of German musicians and craftsmen living in London.
Assessment of immunoglobulin G antibodies against oxidized low-density lipoproteins in patients with acute coronary syndrome
Authors: Mokhtar Mohamed S. , Hassan Zaghla Hanan E. , Samy Wael , Mahmoud Abdou 
Published: January 2014

Abstract

Background
Oxidative modification of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) induces formation of immunogenic epitopes in the LDL molecule, which leads to the formation of antibodies against oxidized low-density lipoprotein (OxLDL) that can be detected in serum.

Aim of the study
The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between autoantibodies against OxLDL and acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Patients and methods
A total of 50 patients diagnosed as having ACS (37 male patients and 13 female patients), age ranging between 19 and 82 years and admitted to the critical care department, Cairo University, and 19 matched healthy controls were enrolled in our study. All patients were subjected to detailed medical history-taking and physical examination, serial 12-lead ECGs, serial cardiac biomarkers on admission and 24 h later, echocardiography, coronary angiography and assessement of severity using the Gensini score, and IgG anti-OxLDL antibodies measurement.

Results
We found significant difference in the level of antibody between patients with ACS and matched healthy controls (P < 0.001). With respect to the correlation of anti-OxLDL antibodies and the severity of ACS, we found significant correlation between the level of antibodies in patients with ACS as assessed by the Gensini score (r = 0.709) as well as between the echocardiographic findings as assessed by the wall motion score index (r = 0.589). During hospitalization, there was significant correlation of the antibody level with mechanical complications (P = 0.047) and needed immediate intervention (P < 0.001). However, the antibody level was correlated with malignant arrhythmias but P value (0.219) was insignificant because of high SD, and there was no correlation with ischemic complications (P = 0.798).

Conclusion
With respect to the correlation of anti-OxLDL antibodies and ACS, the patients with ACS had higher anti-OxLDL antibodies level. In addition, anti-OxLDL antibodies level was correlated with the Gensini score, wall motion score index, and major adverse cardiovascular events during hospitalization.
Serum visfatin in chronic renal failure patients on maintenance hemodialysis: a correlation study
Authors: Lotfy Abdel Wahab M. , Mohammed Nagwa A. , El-Tokhy Hanan M. , Attia Fatma A. 
Published: January 2014

Abstract

Background and aim of work
Endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease are strongly linked to chronic kidney disease. It has been hypothesized that visfatin may play an important role in uremia-related atherosclerosis and the relation between visfatin and endothelial dysfunction has been proved. We aimed to study and characterize the relation of visfatin to some clinical and biochemical parameters among chronic renal failure (CRF) patients on regular hemodialysis.

Patients and methods
This study was carried out on a total of 90 individuals, divided into two groups: group A included 68 patients with CRF on regular hemodialysis (44 men and 24 women) and group B included 22 healthy individuals as controls (four men and 18 women). All participants were subjected to the following: full clinical assessment, BMI assessment, FBS (Fasting blood sugar), PPBS (postprandial blood sugar), Hb level, lipid profile, serum urea, creatinine, potassium, phosphorus, and serum visfatin.

Results
Serum visfatin concentration was significantly high in group A (uremic on hemodialysis) compared with group B (control) (48.95 ng/ml ±11.62 compared with 22.65 ng/ml ± 5.24; P < 0.001); a highly significant positive correlation was found between serum visfatin and serum low-density lipoprotein (r = 0.39; P < 0.001) and a significant positive correlation between serum visfatin and serum triglycerides and serum uric acid (r = 0.28; P < 0.05 and r = −0.24; P < 0.05), respectively, whereas a highly significant negative correlation between serum visfatin and Hb (r = −0.43; P < 0.001) and a significant negative correlation between serum visfatin and serum urea (r = −0.25; P < 0.05), blood sugar, both fasting and postprandial (r = −0.34; P < 0.001 and r = −0.39; P < 0.001), respectively, were found in the patients in group A, without a significant correlation either to high-density lipoprotein, serum creatinine, the etiology of CRF, or to the duration of dialysis in the patients in group A.

Conclusion
This study proves the association of serum visfatin with CRF, unrelated to the biochemical parameter of kidney functions; however, further studies to examine visfatin expression within renal tissue may clarify its definitive role in CRF.
Association between insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and duration of hepatitis C in Egyptian patients
Authors: Zakaria Ebtissam , Fayad Tarek , Rizk Mary N. , Ghanem Nashwa S. , Kamal Maisa 
Published: January 2014

Abstract

Background
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects around 170 million individuals worldwide. Egypt has one of the highest prevalence of patients with HCV worldwide. A higher prevalence of insulin resistance (IR) is found in this population.

Aim
The aim of this work was to study the relation between IR, metabolic syndrome (MS), and hepatitis C in nondiabetic patients and to assess their relation to the duration of HCV infection.

Patients and methods
This was a cross-sectional study of 50 participants matched for age (49 ± 7.6 years), sex, and BMI. These participants were divided into three groups: 20 controls, 15 patients with HCV for less than 10 years’ duration, and 15 patients with HCV for more than 10 years. We assessed patients for MS according to the AACE diagnostic criteria. Fasting and postprandial insulin levels were also assessed. IR was evaluated using the homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) equation.

Results
There was a statistically significant difference in HOMA-IR levels between controls (median 0.43 μU/ml) and those with HCV for more than 10 years (median 0.75 μU/ml; P = 0.001) as well as those with HCV for less than 10 years (median 0.89 μU/ml; P = 0.001). There was no significant difference in HOMA-IR levels between both groups of HCV (P = 0.8). The increase in the HOMA-IR test values was mainly because of increased fasting insulin levels in both groups because of the significant positive correlation between HOMA-IR and fasting insulin in patients with chronic HCV less than and those more 10 years’ duration (r = 0.902, r = 1, respectively; P = 0.001 in both groups). MS was found in four of 15 patients in each group of patients; yet, none of the controls fulfilled the diagnosis criteria.

Conclusion
MS and IR are significantly higher in Egyptian HCV patients when compared with normal controls irrespective of the duration of HCV.