In this study, a series of hemp shives (chènevotte) with different chemical compositions and properties, namely raw (SHI-R), washed water (SHI-W), three samples chemically modified KOH (SHI-OH), Na2CO3 (SHI-C) or H3PO4 (SHI-H), sample prepared by grafting carboxylic groups (SHI-BTCA), were used as adsorbents for the removal copper present in aqueous solutions. This article presents abatements k...

The description logic SHI extends the basic description logic ALC with transitive roles, role hierarchies and inverse roles. The known tableau-based decision procedure [9] for SHI exhibit (at least) NEXPTIME behaviour even though SHI is known to be EXPTIME-complete. The automata-based algorithms for SHI often yield optimal worst-case complexity results, but do not behave well in practice since ...

This is a paper about wearable exoskeleton that addresses the lack of assistive devices for people with walking difficulties. The research revolves around major problem in which inpatient suffer their dependency on caretaker basic tasks such as toiletries and fetching water or food even cores themselves. People disabilities from many social mental pressures due to exclusion society just being d...

Growing up in rural China under the imposed hardships of the cultural revolution, Yigong Shi did not have the luxury of toys. Instead Shi, now the dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, made elaborate models out of clay he collected from the fields. “I would stay for hours to a make a ship or train model with small parts,” he recalls. Decades later, as a structur...

Y. Bito, K. Hirata, T. Ebisu, Y. Kawai, Y. Otake, S. Hirata, T. Shirai, Y. Soutome, H. Ochi, M. Umeda, T. Higuchi, and C. Tanaka Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan, Neurosurgery, Nantan General Hospital, Nantan-shi, Kyoto, Japan, Medical Informatics, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Nantan-shi, Kyoto, Japan, Neurosurgery, Meiji University of Integra...

Adam Wagstaff (2009) reports on a statistical comparison of social health insurance (SHI) versus tax financed (TF) health systems within the OECD. On average, SHI financing is more expensive than TF and yields no better health outcomes. It lowers overall labour force participation and reduces the share of the formal sector. Why, then, is interest in SHI increasing in developing countries?Consid...

The shi...de construction in Mandarin Chinese is a cover term for at least four distinct constructions. We focus on the remarkable internal properties of the shi...de pattern proper, where both shi and de are present. We concur with a long tradition of scholarship identifying shi...de as a cleft construction, but we show it to have very different properties from itor pseudo-clefts in languages ...