La giuridificazione del canone dell'efficienza della pubblica amministrazione

Differentially expressed antioxidant genes. The genes were manually summarized by reviewing GO and NR annotation. (XLSX 14 kb

患者再現videoを利用したPBLテュートリアルの有用性に関する研究

研究科: 千葉大学大学院医学薬学府（先端医学薬学専攻）学位記番号: 千大院医薬博甲第医1338号博士（医学）千葉大学 = Chiba Universit

Reason to Destroy Contemporary Art

For all the paradoxical anti-philosophy of contemporary art as a post-conceptual practice, it is in every case correlationist. As such, contemporary art has nothing to offer non-correlational realism. Put the other way, a rigorous realism can readily dispense with art as it now stands without loss or limitation. From yet another angle, realism’s provocation to art is the undoing of aesthetic experience as a condition or term of art, even in the avowal of art’s ineluctable materiality. Which is to say that realism speculatively indicates the conditions for another art than contemporary art

Centrifuge modelling of building response to tunnel excavation

Understanding the building response to tunnelling-induced settlements is an important aspect of urban tunnelling in soft ground. Previous centrifuge modelling research demonstrated significant potential to study this tunnel–soil–structure interaction problem. However, these recent studies were limited by simplified building models, which might result in uncertainties when interpreting the building performance to tunnelling subsidence. This paper presents an experimental modelling procedure and the results of a series of centrifuge tests, involving relatively complex surface structures subjected to tunnelling in sand. Powder-based three-dimensional (3D) printing was adopted to fabricate building models with realistic layouts, facade openings and foundations. The 3D printed material had a Young's modulus and a brittle response similar to historic masonry. Modelling effects and boundary conditions are quantified. The good agreement between the experimentally obtained results and previous research demonstrates that the soil–structure interaction during tunnel excavation is well replicated. The experimental procedure provides a framework to quantify how building features affect the response of buildings to tunnelling subsidence.The authors are grateful to EPSRC grant EP/K018221/1 and Crossrail for the financial support

Stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial designs: a review of reporting quality and design features

Background The stepped wedge (SW) cluster randomized controlled trial (CRCT) design is being used with increasing frequency. However, there is limited published research on the quality of reporting of SW-CRCTs. We address this issue by conducting a literature review. Methods Medline, Ovid, Web of Knowledge, the Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, the ISRCTN registry, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched to identify investigations employing the SW-CRCT design up to February 2015. For each included completed study, information was extracted on a selection of criteria, based on the CONSORT extension to CRCTs, to assess the quality of reporting. Results A total of 123 studies were included in our review, of which 39 were completed trial reports. The standard of reporting of SW-CRCTs varied in quality. The percentage of trials reporting each criterion varied to as low as 15.4%, with a median of 66.7%. Conclusions There is much room for improvement in the quality of reporting of SW-CRCTs. This is consistent with recent findings for CRCTs. A CONSORT extension for SW-CRCTs is warranted to standardize the reporting of SW-CRCTs.This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust (grant number 099770/Z/12/Z to MJG); the Medical Research Council (grant number MC_UP_1302/2 to APM) and the National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (MC_UP_1302/4 to JMSW)

Model Seleksi Premi Asuransi Jiwa Dwiguna untuk Kasus Multiple Decrement

This article discusses a select survival model for the case of multiple decrements in evaluating endowment life insurance premium for person currently aged ( + ) years, who is selected at age with ℎ years selection period. The case of multiple decrements in this case is limited to two cases. The calculation of the annual premium is done by prior evaluating of the single premium, and the present value of annuity depends on theconstant force assumption

Search for Natural Supersymmetry with the Run 2 Data Collected by the CMS Detector at the LHC

The Standard Model (SM) is the most successful, experimentally verified theory which describes ordinary matter and the laws of their interactions. However, it also has several weaknesses such as the so-called hierarchy problem and it does not include any candidates for the known existence of dark matter. Supersymmetry is a beautiful framework which provides solutions to these weaknesses by introducing a super-partner to each SM particle. Two searches of Supersymmetry are presented in this dissertation, based on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. Both searches target supersymmetric partners to the top quark, called top squarks, in the final states of multiple jets, large transverse momentum imbalance, and no leptons. The first search, which is based on the data collected in 2016, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb−1 and has been published with no statistically significant excess observed between data and predictions of the SM background. Consequently, exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on various top-squark production processes, also known as “simplified models.” For simplified models involving the direct production of top squarks, top-squark masses of up to 1020 GeV and neutralino masses of up to 430 GeV have been excluded. While for models involving gluino mediated production of top squarks, gluino masses of up to 2040 GeV and neutralino masses of up to 1150 GeV have been excluded. The second search, which is based on the full Run 2 dataset (2016, 2017 and 2018) corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1, is prospective and not yet final. Simulation-based results show that the full Run 2 dataset has improved sensitivity and is expected to be able to exclude top-squark masses up to around 1300 GeV and neutralino mass up to around 650 GeV for simplified models involving direct top-squark production. In the case of simplified models for gluino mediated top-squark production, gluino masses up to about 2200 GeV and neutralino masses up to about 1300 GeV can be excluded. Various models with small mass differences between the top squark and the neutralino have also been studied and top squark masses of up to 650 GeV can be excluded if the mass difference is smaller than 80 GeV

Community-based incentive coordination in payments for ecosystem services: China’s Wolong Nature Reserve

Community-based Payments for Ecosystem Services (CB-PES) have received continued attention because of their ability to help Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) improve local outcomes and sustain community support. This study scrutinizes the role of community-based incentive coordination in PES using the case of China’s Wolong Nature Reserve (WNR). Combining theoretical modeling and empirical analysis of the WNR, this study demonstrates that CB-PES can deploy a range of incentive-coordinated techniques and practices, eventually improving economic outcomes for stakeholders and environmental benefits for society. In addition, this study also highlights the fact that CB-PES aiming to achieve incentive coordination rely on participatory intermediary governance. Finally, designing community-based incentive coordination mechanisms in PES remains challenging, as it also depends on coordinated conservation efforts to optimize the economic outcomes and environmental benefits of PES.</p

GC-ECD chromatogram of the extracts from the cultures of <i>Phanerochaete chrysosporium</i> incubated with pentachlorophenol.

<p>After preincubated for 60 h, the 25-ml potato dextrose broth cultures were added with 37.5 <i>µ</i>M pentachlorophenol (dissolved in 25 <i>µ</i>l acetone), and incubated for 4 days at 37°C in darkness. The cultures were then acidified, extracted and acetylated. P, pentachloroacetoxybenzene. A, pentachloroanisole. B, tetrachloro-1,4-diacetoxybenzene (acetylated tetrachlorohydroquinone). The inner figure shows the peak of compound B by scaling up the vertical axis.</p

Table_1_Kolmogorov complexity metrics in assessing L2 proficiency: An information-theoretic approach.DOCX

Based on 774 argumentative writings produced by Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, this study examined the extent to which Kolmogorov complexity metrics can distinguish the proficiency levels of beginner, lower-intermediate, and upper-intermediate second language (L2) English learners. Kolmogorov complexity metric is a holistic information-theoretic approach, which measures three facets of linguistic complexity, i.e., overall, syntactic, and morphological complexity simultaneously. To assess its validity in distinguishing L2 proficiency, Kolmogorov complexity metric is compared with traditional syntactic and morphological complexity metrics as well as fine-grained syntactic complexity metrics. Results showed that Kolmogorov overall and syntactic complexity could significantly distinguish any adjacent pair of L2 levels, serving as the best separators explored in the present study. Neither Kolmogorov morphological complexity nor other complexity metrics at both the syntactic and morphological levels can distinguish between all pairs of adjacent levels. Results of correlation analysis showed that Kolmogorov syntactic complexity was not or weakly correlated with all the fine-grained syntactic complexity metrics, indicating that they may address distinct linguistic features and can complement each other to better predict different proficiency levels.</p