The teaching tool for learned the mechanism of wind power generation in junior high school industrial arts and homemaking course was developed. Developed teaching tool is a windmill of the savonius-type. The magnetic levitation bearing has been installed so that the impeller may lightly rotate. The rotation of the blades are accelerated by the gear, and the magnet rotates it. The transformer has been installed at the lower, and the electricity is being generated by the change of the magnetic field. The main body is made in the transparent acrylic pipe, as to observe the transmission of the power is possible. The class practice was carried out by the utilization of this teaching tool for junior high school students. As the result, it was possible to learn the mechanism of the wind power generation experimentally, and the fixing of the learning heightened.

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The ambulatory ECG (AECG) or Holter monitor has been available for decades. Historically, this device has been used to assess individuals with complaints of palpitations or with other signs or symptoms of frequent arrhythmia. Advancements in the field have expanded the use of AECG as a tool for assessing risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). This discussion will address the presence and quantification of ventricular arrhythmias, long-term heart rate variability (HRV), heart rate turbulence (HRT), and modified-moving average T-wave alternans (TWA) and their use in non-invasive risk stratification for SCD. Emphasis will be placed on trial data and clinical utility of these measures along with a discussion of general challenges of non-invasive risk stratification.

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Ten dialysis patients with evidence of . . . were studied on X-ray, chemical finding and bone histology.
AL-P, P. T. H. increased in most patients with evidence of . . . but estradiol decreased. In bone histology, four cases were osteitis fibrosa, four sclerotic type and one mixed type. Patients with evidence of osteitis fibrosa was younger than those with other type. It is suggested that the development of . . . is correlated with secondary hyperparathyroidism and other endocrine function.

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Keynes and Paley are two names rarely conjoined in the literature of either figure. Keynes, however, made significant references to Paley in four of his essays. Most commentators treat these as historical ephemera, but closer investigations reveal that they illuminate key aspects of his thought. These include whether Paley or Malthus was the first Cambridge economist, methodological issues concerning the nature of economic theorising and how best to disseminate economic thought, and relationships between scientific and religious explanations. They also serve the useful task of clarifying and correcting certain errors in Keynes’s essays due to exaggeration or inaccuracy. In these contexts, Keynes’s remarks on Paley repay investigation.

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The influence of soil structure on the breakthrough of a copper contaminant plume when passing through undisturbed decomposed granite soil was studied. The copper concentration was measured in real time by means of two fibre-optic sensors with reflective-type located on either side of the undisturbed granite soil sample. The adsorption properties were also studied by the column and batch testing. It was found that the copper adsorption of both slightly and severely decomposed granite soil followed a Freundlich model, and the measured values of both samples corresponded well with the calculated values. In this paper, the experimentally obtained copper dispersion characteristics are compared with the contour and velocity vectors by FEM analysis using the advection-dispersion equation. It is shown that the copper concentration and velocity distributions in the severely decomposed granite soil are dependent on the usual parameters, such as the modified coefficient of permeability, retardation factor, dispersion length and dispersivity, which control the flow into the macro (>0.1 μm) and meso pores (0.002-0.1 μm).

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This paper deals with the measurement of copper contaminant migration in soils by means of a fibre-optic sensor operating with yellow light buried in the soil. The resulting breakthrough curve is compared with a numerical analysis using the advection-dispersion equation. In order to examine the copper adsorption properties, a batch experiment was carried out. It was found that the copper adsorption on silica sand follows a Langmuir model at high concentration. The copper dispersion coefficient was estimated from the plume shape, assuming that a Gaussian distribution of concentration is applicable to the copper plumes. It is demonstrated that the measured breakthrough curve is in reasonable agreement with the one calculated from the dispersion coefficient or the longitudinal dispersivity and retardation factor measured by the batch method. The retardation factor is observed to decrease sharply with increasing concentration of copper solution up to 10 (g/L).

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Patients with primary malignant brain tumor experience deterioration of multi-focal neurological deficits such as hemiparesis, aphasia, visual field defects, dysphagia, and disturbance of recent memory at the advanced stage of disease. With these advancing neurological deficits, many patients will inevitably prepare for death and may experience psychological and spiritual distress. Active listening is an important skill to explore the fears of patients with a terminal illness but in the advanced stage of a primary brain tumor, patients usually have great difficulty with verbal expression. Even if patients do not suffer from complete expressive aphasia, they often have difficulty verbalizing their thoughts and feelings. Sadly, disturbance of vocal expression is a common accompaniment of this pathology. Unless the pathophysiology is understood, an observer may fail to comprehend the patient's non-verbal communication. Seeking to understand these issues is a prerequisite of the preservation of dignity and provision of ethical care for such patients.

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Direct quenching (DQ) has become widespread instead of conventional reheat quenching in order to obtain good mechanical balance of high strength steels in addition to productivity, energy savings, alloy savings, and weldability. It is well known that mechanical properties of DQ steel can be changed by varying slab reheating temperature, finish rolling temperature, and cooling rate in addition to alloy composition. The effect of pancaking by controlled rolling at low temperatures on mechanical properties was investigated. The effect of pancaking depends on hardenability determined by alloy contents. Pancaking increased strength or toughness when alloy-determined hardenability is high. But pancaking decreased strength when alloy-determined hardenability is low.

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The effect of carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen content on the surface roughness and cutting force was studied with regard to the microstructure of specimen and the behavior of void formation and built-up edge during cutting. Specimens to plunge-cutting were prepared by adding each element into pure iron.
Two-phase microstructure such as ferrite-pearlite and ferrite-grain boundary where phosphides precipitate, increase the surface roughness and reduce the cutting force. On the contrary, the single-phase microstructure, that is to say, ferrite containing soluble nitrogen, slightly improves the surface roughness but raises the cutting force.
Since the ductility of each phase in the two-phase microstructure is different from each other, the formation of voids takes place along the interface due to cutting force. The void formation behavior in the primary shear zone is closely related to the projection length of the built-up edge and the surface roughness.

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This study examined the effects of ceramic tool materials on the surface roughness and cutting force when low-carbon resulfurized free-machining steels were plunge-machined. The Tool materials used for the study were 9 kinds in total; 7 kinds ceramics-TiN, TiC, HfO₂, ZrN, Al₂O₃, ZrO₂ and La₂O₃-and a high-speed steel (Fe₃C) and a cemented carbide (WC+Co).
(1) Surface roughness and cutting force are the smallest in the ZrO₂ tool, increasing in the order of TiN, ZrN, Al₂O₃, TiC, HfO₂, WC+Co, La₂O₃ and Fe₃C tools.
(2) ZrO₂, TiN, ZrN and Al₂O₃ tend to adhere selectively to manganese sulfide inclusions in steels, resulting in the formation of MnS films over the rake face of tools. On the other hand, HfO₂, WC+Co, Fe₃C and La₂O₃ tend to adhere selectively to the ferrite phase, forming a kind of built-up edge, whereas TiC hardly to manganese sulfide inclusions and ferrite phase.
(3) Surface roughness and cutting force decrease in proportion to the area percentage of MnS films formed over the rake face of tools, because the MnS films play a role as a lubricant.
(4) Adhesion of manganese sulfide inclusions to tools may not only stem from physical properties such as surface roughness of the tools but also from chemical bonding.

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The National Forest Policy, in conjunction with the Wood and Paper Industries Strategy and the Regional Forest Agreement process, are key elements in the Government's policy of integrating industry and conservation objectives for Australia's native forests. This integration will remove uncertainty over access to native forest resources in Australia, and allow for the establishment of an internationally competitive forest-based industry in Australia. This industry will not only be internationally competitive, but will operate within the framework of a world class reserve system under the international guidelines of ecologically sustainable forest management, as determined and applied by the Montreal Process criteria and indicators.

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Recent years, the number of patients with long-term hemodialysis are rapidly increasing. These patients may develop secondary hyperparathyroidism with oral symptoms and have many complications caused by abnormal change in bone, cardiovascular and immunological dysfunction, etc.
The problems of many complications and surgical procedure were discussed.
Case 1. A 25-year-old man with 8-year history of hemodialysis therapy was admitted to our hospital on Aug. 24. 1982 because of masticatory disturbance. He had remarkable bone change involving the whole skeleton, especially tumrous enlargement of the palatal bone. AL-P and PTH level were 91.2 K.A.U. and 73.7 ng/ml, respectively. The tumorous enlargement of the palatal bone was resected partially under general anesthesia.
Case 2. A 33-year-old woman with 11-year history of hemodialysis therapy as admitted to our hospital on Feb. 15. 1984 because of masticatory disturbance and aesthetic dissatisfaction. She had remarkable bone change involving the skeleton, especially tumorous enlargmement of the maxilla. AL-P and PTH level were 273. 4 K.A.U. and 20.2 ng/ml, respectively. The tumorous enlargment of the maxilla was resected partially under general anesthesia.

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Shearing tests on powders in a two-dimensional model were carried out for the purpose of determining the translational, rotational, rolling, and sliding movements of individual particles in a piled bed. These microscopic measurements were made by direct observation of the front surface of a two-dimensional bed and were used to calculate the overall stress-strain (τ/σ-d) relation. These calculated results were in reasonable agreement with the experimental (macroscopic) stress-strain curves.

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Agent-based approaches to modelling biological phenomena are becoming popular and proving successful in a number of areas. However, the underlying basis of these techniques is sometimes rather ‘ad-hoc’ and the models are often only applied to specific systems. This paper describes a general approach that is based on the use of fully general computational models, using a formal model of an agent and a rigorous approach to building systems of communicating agents within virtual environments. A collection of tools has been built which allow for efficient simulation of such systems and their visualisation. Included in this work is the implementation of the simulations on parallel clusters of computers to enable large numbers of agents to be simulated. Application areas where the method has been successfully applied include: • Signal transduction pathways, specifically the NF-κB pathway. This model has been validated using single cell data from GFP transvected cells. The model has enabled the prediction of the possible role of actin filaments in the sequestration and feedback control of IκB. • The epitheliome project involves building models of the development of both skin and urothelial tissue and the investigation of the role of calcium and juxtracrine signalling in the development and differentiation of tissue. Again, the models have been validated with ’in vitro’ tissue cultures under a number of important laboratory conditions. • Populations of Pharoah’s ants have been simulated and closely compared with real populations within the laboratory. The role of pheromone signalling has been studied and the modelling has led to a new understanding of the use of pheromone trails in foraging behaviour. This has shown that the geometry of the trails contains vital information that is used in the navigation of the trails by the insects.

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