Electrical resistivity and viscosity of Pb–Sb alloys are measured to investigate Peierls distortion behavior in the melts. In Pb30Sb70, Pb20Sb80, and Pb10Sb90 melts, temperature dependence of resistivity deviates fro...Electrical resistivity and viscosity of Pb–Sb alloys are measured to investigate Peierls distortion behavior in the melts. In Pb30Sb70, Pb20Sb80, and Pb10Sb90 melts, temperature dependence of resistivity deviates from linear dependence during cooling. At 663 °C, different trends in isothermal behavior between experimental and theoretical resistivities, are interpreted as the existence of Peierls distortion in Sb-rich melts. In Pb30Sb70 and Pb20Sb80 melts, abnormal viscosity results verify the existence of abnormal structure transition, which is attributed to the formation of large Sb clusters with Peierls distortion. In undercooled liquid Pb20Sb80, minute resistivity coefficient and quadratic resistivity behavior are interpreted as the rapid increase of cluster size of Sb clusters with Peierls distortion, which provides preferential nucleation sites for higher structure similarity to the crystalline and lower liquid–solid interfacial energy.展开更多
The increase of competition, economic recession and financial crises has increased business failure and depending on this the researchers have attempted to develop new approaches which can yield more correct and more ...The increase of competition, economic recession and financial crises has increased business failure and depending on this the researchers have attempted to develop new approaches which can yield more correct and more reliable results. The classification and regression tree (CART) is one of the new modeling techniques which is developed for this purpose. In this study, the classification and regression trees method is explained and tested the power of the financial failure prediction. CART is applied for the data of industry companies which is trade in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) between 1997-2007. As a result of this study, it has been observed that, CART has a high predicting power of financial failure one, two and three years prior to failure, and profitability ratios being the most important ratios in the prediction of failure.展开更多
Multilingualism and multiculturalism have become so characteristic of our times that it is hard to come by a literary work that is strictly monolingual. Languages in contact influence each other in various ways. One l...Multilingualism and multiculturalism have become so characteristic of our times that it is hard to come by a literary work that is strictly monolingual. Languages in contact influence each other in various ways. One language could be more influential than the other as a result of linguistic and non-linguistic factors. A language that is documented and enjoys a more privileged political, economic, cultural, or religious position is likely to be more influential than another language that lacks these qualities. Languages in contact often borrow words from each other though a language that is considered to be more prestigious than another is more likely to be the donor language less prestigious one. Loanwords are therefore common among languages in contact. Intercultural literary communication is mostly effected through translation. Due to Africa's colonial experience, literary translation practice in Africa often involves European languages, Arabic, and indigenous African languages. In Nigeria, the languages that have played significant roles in literary translation include English, French, German, Arabic, and indigenous Nigerian languages. Franz Kafka's Brief an den Vater which was written in German has been translated into English as Letter to His Father by Ernest Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins and into Igbo as Soro Okwu m maobu Leta (Ndi) Nna by Felicia Ibemesi. This paper sets out to study loanwords in the English and Igbo translations from a target reader's perspective展开更多
Hydrogen-Metal pure at thousand thousandth in ingots is a superconductive metal. The sole "additive" which is bounding to the molecules and to the atoms of Hydrogen is an "inert" gas which is a new isotope of H an...Hydrogen-Metal pure at thousand thousandth in ingots is a superconductive metal. The sole "additive" which is bounding to the molecules and to the atoms of Hydrogen is an "inert" gas which is a new isotope of H and which is as the property of holding them together without modifying their characteristics, which means that the forces of Van der Waals and especially the forces of repulsion annihilate themselves: The molecules do not move apart from each other when pressure is lowering. That is the secret of the production of Hydrogen-Metal stable at High Pressure-Low Pressure and High Temperature 6-Low Temperature. In 2007, at the ICENES 2007 conference, it was supposed to be officially announced the existence of the first two Hydrogen-Metal ingots, pure at thousand thousandth and stable at ambient temperature. If in a certain scientific club this reality was communicated but since the strategic importance of such a discovery in the military as well as the financial domain and considering also its civil application, according to my will, it was not officially publicized until November 2007 at the INCANSE 2007 conference in Bandung.展开更多
The principal objectives of this research are to provide information, commentary, and analysis of the potential opportunities for Qatar in developing its Islamic financial services and industry. This research examines...The principal objectives of this research are to provide information, commentary, and analysis of the potential opportunities for Qatar in developing its Islamic financial services and industry. This research examines how competitive Qatar is today and its future prospects in Islamic finance. This research provides policy makers and Islamic finance stakeholders with a superior understanding of the role of the key competitive factors in Islamic fmance. It is anticipated that this research will influence the growth and diversification of Islamic financial services in Qatar.展开更多
Since the 18th century, the irritating but also fascinating scenes of urbanity--a complex phenomenon with cultural, social, political, economic, temporal, spatial, functional, and formal dimensions--have been describe...Since the 18th century, the irritating but also fascinating scenes of urbanity--a complex phenomenon with cultural, social, political, economic, temporal, spatial, functional, and formal dimensions--have been described in literary works. Many seemingly opposite facts, such as individuality/society, freedom/loneliness/socialization, anonymity/strangeness/identity/belonging, diversity/chaos/segregation, indifferent city-dweller/initiative citizenship, have been revealed through literary works, travel and utopian writing, urban theories, scientific studies, manifestos, and newspaper articles. On the one hand, there are those who advocate a life outside the city because they consider the problems produced by the city and the phenomenon of density which they perceive merely in quantitative terms, as unsolvable problems. On the other hand, there are those who see the production of loose urban fabric as a solution or those who accept the (seemingly) opposite facts of urbanity as positive values and therefore support city life. All of these ideas are still as actual today as they were in the past. We are often unable to use our citizen rights to the city, to encounter different classes (social/etlmic/religious), to experience heterogeneity as an aspect inherent in city life and in the route of our daily life--following the orders of the capitalist system mainly organized around work--and we are often drawn into the same districts on the same paths. Our perception of our urban environments may get monotonous and shallow, but the irritating yet fascinating features of the first big cities still exist and may be grasped and brought into consciousness. Throughout their architectural education, especially in urban design studios, students can be encouraged to investigate the rhythm of their daily life, the conditions of their urban environments, and discovering the city as an intellectual and sensual programme, so that the phenomenon of urbanity can be grasped not just on formal, but on various other dimensions as well. This study focuses on the process and outcomes of two urban studios located in Taksim Square and along the shores of the Golden Horn in Istanhul. Taking the multidimensional content of urbanity into account, acquired theoretically through literary works and studies on urban planning and its history, the main aim of these studios has been the phenomenological understanding of the dynamic content of urbanity by the students. Through creative analysis of permanent/temporary spaces engendered by the diversity of user profiles and actions discovered on phenomenological excursions, students examine the qualitative values of density and global and local dynamics. We believe that designing spaces as "prototypes" helps highlight the multidimensional content of urbanity. The present study aims not only to highlight the multidimensional content of urbanity, but also to encourage its discussion in architectural design education and to emphasize the positive contribution of theoretical readings and phenomenological studies to urban design studios. The present study also aims to emphasize the beneficial correlation of global and local dynamics as the two faces of urbanity; important more than ever for the big cities of the 21 st century if we advocate for a vivid and resilient city life and citizens.展开更多
The present study gives a detailed analysis of HM (heavy metals) accumulation in mollusks Nodularia (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from the transboundary part of the Amur River (Russia-China). This river basin experience...The present study gives a detailed analysis of HM (heavy metals) accumulation in mollusks Nodularia (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from the transboundary part of the Amur River (Russia-China). This river basin experiences different levels of toxic pollution. Differences in the rate of HM bioaccumulation in mollusks are identified depending on their size, sex (male and female), content of HM in environment, and ratio of accumulating macro- and micro-components in tissue. Mollusks' response to the change of HM content in the environment is expressed in the different intensities of their accumulation in tissue. The possibility of estimating toxic danger for mollusk according to the index of HM bioaccumulation with consideration of frequency of pathologies is shown. These indexes permitted estimation of the ecotoxicological condition of the mollusks population in the parts of the Amur, upstream and downstream of the inflow of the Sungari River and before and after the accidental pollution, respectively. It is found out that mollusks are able for bioremediation when pollution of the aquatic environment decreases. Quantitative correlation of HM bioaccumulation index in mollusks to HM content in the environment makes it possible to forecast the population condition, and to substantiate the necessity of ecological control of anthropogenic load on the ecosystem.展开更多
Present-day conditions of the Lake Kenon ecosystem are determined by a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors. We have estimated the effects of a complex of factors on the condition of the abiotic environmen...Present-day conditions of the Lake Kenon ecosystem are determined by a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors. We have estimated the effects of a complex of factors on the condition of the abiotic environment and on specific biological components in the lake ecosystem. Change in biogenic load has caused an increase in the role of phytoplankton in the general balance of organic matter during the high-water period. Charophytes are the main dominants of bottom vegetation. Anthropogenic load has caused a decrease in both fish species and fish capacity. The lake application as a water reservoir-cooler has influenced the average annual water mineralization (from 420 mg/L to 530.0 mg/L with a maximum 654 mg/L in 1993) and fluctuations in its hydrochemical composition. The present composition of the lake is sulfate-hydrocarbonate-chloride calcium-sodic-magnesium in character. S(Y44 content is twice as much as the maximum permissible concentration in fishery waters. Water drainage from an ash disposal area to the lake has caused an increase in chemical-element concentrations including the heavy metals. Hg concentration in Perca fluviatilis muscles is 0.5 9g/g dry wt. Thus, understanding directions in the ecosystem of the water reservoir-cooler under changing hydrological conditions will let us forecast the consequences of new combined heat and power plant operation.展开更多
The fundamental relationship between accounting variables and stock returns is a recurring theme in financial research. One of the major purposes of accounting is to help investors provide reliable, comparable and acc...The fundamental relationship between accounting variables and stock returns is a recurring theme in financial research. One of the major purposes of accounting is to help investors provide reliable, comparable and accurate information. If accounting data are informative about fundamental values and changes in values, they should be correlated with stock price changes. This study provides theory and evidence showing how accounting variables explain stock returns and examines the relationship between the stock returns and accounting variables of listed non financial companies in ISE-100 Indice for 2006-2008 period by using panel data methodology. Empirical analysis consists of 192 observations of 64 companies in years 2006-2008 to examine the effects of inventory, accounts receivable, gross margin, operating expense, return on assets, cash flow, leverage, liquidity, price/earnings, return on equity on stock returns. The results of the study confirm that the predicted roles of fundamental factors and stock returns are significantly related to gross margin, cash flow, leverage and equity variables. The model explains about 13.35 % of the variation of annual stock returns with the leverage variable with most of the significant power.展开更多
基金Project (50971083) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘Electrical resistivity and viscosity of Pb–Sb alloys are measured to investigate Peierls distortion behavior in the melts. In Pb30Sb70, Pb20Sb80, and Pb10Sb90 melts, temperature dependence of resistivity deviates from linear dependence during cooling. At 663 °C, different trends in isothermal behavior between experimental and theoretical resistivities, are interpreted as the existence of Peierls distortion in Sb-rich melts. In Pb30Sb70 and Pb20Sb80 melts, abnormal viscosity results verify the existence of abnormal structure transition, which is attributed to the formation of large Sb clusters with Peierls distortion. In undercooled liquid Pb20Sb80, minute resistivity coefficient and quadratic resistivity behavior are interpreted as the rapid increase of cluster size of Sb clusters with Peierls distortion, which provides preferential nucleation sites for higher structure similarity to the crystalline and lower liquid–solid interfacial energy.
文摘The increase of competition, economic recession and financial crises has increased business failure and depending on this the researchers have attempted to develop new approaches which can yield more correct and more reliable results. The classification and regression tree (CART) is one of the new modeling techniques which is developed for this purpose. In this study, the classification and regression trees method is explained and tested the power of the financial failure prediction. CART is applied for the data of industry companies which is trade in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) between 1997-2007. As a result of this study, it has been observed that, CART has a high predicting power of financial failure one, two and three years prior to failure, and profitability ratios being the most important ratios in the prediction of failure.
文摘Multilingualism and multiculturalism have become so characteristic of our times that it is hard to come by a literary work that is strictly monolingual. Languages in contact influence each other in various ways. One language could be more influential than the other as a result of linguistic and non-linguistic factors. A language that is documented and enjoys a more privileged political, economic, cultural, or religious position is likely to be more influential than another language that lacks these qualities. Languages in contact often borrow words from each other though a language that is considered to be more prestigious than another is more likely to be the donor language less prestigious one. Loanwords are therefore common among languages in contact. Intercultural literary communication is mostly effected through translation. Due to Africa's colonial experience, literary translation practice in Africa often involves European languages, Arabic, and indigenous African languages. In Nigeria, the languages that have played significant roles in literary translation include English, French, German, Arabic, and indigenous Nigerian languages. Franz Kafka's Brief an den Vater which was written in German has been translated into English as Letter to His Father by Ernest Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins and into Igbo as Soro Okwu m maobu Leta (Ndi) Nna by Felicia Ibemesi. This paper sets out to study loanwords in the English and Igbo translations from a target reader's perspective
文摘Hydrogen-Metal pure at thousand thousandth in ingots is a superconductive metal. The sole "additive" which is bounding to the molecules and to the atoms of Hydrogen is an "inert" gas which is a new isotope of H and which is as the property of holding them together without modifying their characteristics, which means that the forces of Van der Waals and especially the forces of repulsion annihilate themselves: The molecules do not move apart from each other when pressure is lowering. That is the secret of the production of Hydrogen-Metal stable at High Pressure-Low Pressure and High Temperature 6-Low Temperature. In 2007, at the ICENES 2007 conference, it was supposed to be officially announced the existence of the first two Hydrogen-Metal ingots, pure at thousand thousandth and stable at ambient temperature. If in a certain scientific club this reality was communicated but since the strategic importance of such a discovery in the military as well as the financial domain and considering also its civil application, according to my will, it was not officially publicized until November 2007 at the INCANSE 2007 conference in Bandung.
文摘The principal objectives of this research are to provide information, commentary, and analysis of the potential opportunities for Qatar in developing its Islamic financial services and industry. This research examines how competitive Qatar is today and its future prospects in Islamic finance. This research provides policy makers and Islamic finance stakeholders with a superior understanding of the role of the key competitive factors in Islamic fmance. It is anticipated that this research will influence the growth and diversification of Islamic financial services in Qatar.
文摘Since the 18th century, the irritating but also fascinating scenes of urbanity--a complex phenomenon with cultural, social, political, economic, temporal, spatial, functional, and formal dimensions--have been described in literary works. Many seemingly opposite facts, such as individuality/society, freedom/loneliness/socialization, anonymity/strangeness/identity/belonging, diversity/chaos/segregation, indifferent city-dweller/initiative citizenship, have been revealed through literary works, travel and utopian writing, urban theories, scientific studies, manifestos, and newspaper articles. On the one hand, there are those who advocate a life outside the city because they consider the problems produced by the city and the phenomenon of density which they perceive merely in quantitative terms, as unsolvable problems. On the other hand, there are those who see the production of loose urban fabric as a solution or those who accept the (seemingly) opposite facts of urbanity as positive values and therefore support city life. All of these ideas are still as actual today as they were in the past. We are often unable to use our citizen rights to the city, to encounter different classes (social/etlmic/religious), to experience heterogeneity as an aspect inherent in city life and in the route of our daily life--following the orders of the capitalist system mainly organized around work--and we are often drawn into the same districts on the same paths. Our perception of our urban environments may get monotonous and shallow, but the irritating yet fascinating features of the first big cities still exist and may be grasped and brought into consciousness. Throughout their architectural education, especially in urban design studios, students can be encouraged to investigate the rhythm of their daily life, the conditions of their urban environments, and discovering the city as an intellectual and sensual programme, so that the phenomenon of urbanity can be grasped not just on formal, but on various other dimensions as well. This study focuses on the process and outcomes of two urban studios located in Taksim Square and along the shores of the Golden Horn in Istanhul. Taking the multidimensional content of urbanity into account, acquired theoretically through literary works and studies on urban planning and its history, the main aim of these studios has been the phenomenological understanding of the dynamic content of urbanity by the students. Through creative analysis of permanent/temporary spaces engendered by the diversity of user profiles and actions discovered on phenomenological excursions, students examine the qualitative values of density and global and local dynamics. We believe that designing spaces as "prototypes" helps highlight the multidimensional content of urbanity. The present study aims not only to highlight the multidimensional content of urbanity, but also to encourage its discussion in architectural design education and to emphasize the positive contribution of theoretical readings and phenomenological studies to urban design studios. The present study also aims to emphasize the beneficial correlation of global and local dynamics as the two faces of urbanity; important more than ever for the big cities of the 21 st century if we advocate for a vivid and resilient city life and citizens.
文摘The present study gives a detailed analysis of HM (heavy metals) accumulation in mollusks Nodularia (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from the transboundary part of the Amur River (Russia-China). This river basin experiences different levels of toxic pollution. Differences in the rate of HM bioaccumulation in mollusks are identified depending on their size, sex (male and female), content of HM in environment, and ratio of accumulating macro- and micro-components in tissue. Mollusks' response to the change of HM content in the environment is expressed in the different intensities of their accumulation in tissue. The possibility of estimating toxic danger for mollusk according to the index of HM bioaccumulation with consideration of frequency of pathologies is shown. These indexes permitted estimation of the ecotoxicological condition of the mollusks population in the parts of the Amur, upstream and downstream of the inflow of the Sungari River and before and after the accidental pollution, respectively. It is found out that mollusks are able for bioremediation when pollution of the aquatic environment decreases. Quantitative correlation of HM bioaccumulation index in mollusks to HM content in the environment makes it possible to forecast the population condition, and to substantiate the necessity of ecological control of anthropogenic load on the ecosystem.
基金Supported by the RFBR No.14-05-98013"Siberia"(2014–2016)the Project of SB of the RAS VIII.79.1.2."Dynamics of natural and natural-anthropogenic systems in the conditions of climate change and anthropogenic pressures(on the example of Transbaikalia)"(2012–2017)
文摘Present-day conditions of the Lake Kenon ecosystem are determined by a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors. We have estimated the effects of a complex of factors on the condition of the abiotic environment and on specific biological components in the lake ecosystem. Change in biogenic load has caused an increase in the role of phytoplankton in the general balance of organic matter during the high-water period. Charophytes are the main dominants of bottom vegetation. Anthropogenic load has caused a decrease in both fish species and fish capacity. The lake application as a water reservoir-cooler has influenced the average annual water mineralization (from 420 mg/L to 530.0 mg/L with a maximum 654 mg/L in 1993) and fluctuations in its hydrochemical composition. The present composition of the lake is sulfate-hydrocarbonate-chloride calcium-sodic-magnesium in character. S(Y44 content is twice as much as the maximum permissible concentration in fishery waters. Water drainage from an ash disposal area to the lake has caused an increase in chemical-element concentrations including the heavy metals. Hg concentration in Perca fluviatilis muscles is 0.5 9g/g dry wt. Thus, understanding directions in the ecosystem of the water reservoir-cooler under changing hydrological conditions will let us forecast the consequences of new combined heat and power plant operation.
文摘The fundamental relationship between accounting variables and stock returns is a recurring theme in financial research. One of the major purposes of accounting is to help investors provide reliable, comparable and accurate information. If accounting data are informative about fundamental values and changes in values, they should be correlated with stock price changes. This study provides theory and evidence showing how accounting variables explain stock returns and examines the relationship between the stock returns and accounting variables of listed non financial companies in ISE-100 Indice for 2006-2008 period by using panel data methodology. Empirical analysis consists of 192 observations of 64 companies in years 2006-2008 to examine the effects of inventory, accounts receivable, gross margin, operating expense, return on assets, cash flow, leverage, liquidity, price/earnings, return on equity on stock returns. The results of the study confirm that the predicted roles of fundamental factors and stock returns are significantly related to gross margin, cash flow, leverage and equity variables. The model explains about 13.35 % of the variation of annual stock returns with the leverage variable with most of the significant power.