We used critical discourse analysis to study U.S. newspaper discourse of the conflict in Afghanistan. The study uses acombination of discourse analytic methods and quantitative corpus linguisticsto analyze the discourse. Fifty newspaper articles were selected from six major U.S. newspapers in a sample designed to be representative of newspaper coverage from April to July of 2012. Several parameters were studied, including direct quotes, indirect quotes, negative emotion, and words denoting violence and conflict. We conclude that American soldiers are heroized, whereas Afghani soldiersare depicted as traitors.

The formation of soot particles is one of the most complex problems in combustion science, still by for not well understood. However, intense experimental and theoretical researches within the last two decades improved the fundamental understanding and led to detailed picture of the soot particles formation process. This paper discusses soot combustion fundamental processes in term of the in-cylinder combustion and emission. The new research requested both simulation and experimental researches to study fundamental process involved in diesel engines in order to define possible strategic scenario toward zero emission level. Our investigations can be divided into groups, which are however closely linked with each other: 1. The application of chemical kinetics to problems relating to the theory of combustion and explosion processes. 2. Mathematical formulation of the concentration of reactants. 3. Experimental and simulation results of soot in-cylinder concentration. 4. The influence of antismoking additives on thermal and combustion efficiencies. This paper presents data from tests conducted by internal combustion diesel engines, a testing laboratory and results of numerical simulation. The results of calculation are compared to experimental data showing good agreement for soot particles concentration in diesel cylinder.

Culture of organizations has received increasing attention in recent years. The questions that remain unanswered are however: what are the dominant cultural values of architectural firms and which characteristics of the firms determined the dominant culture of firms? To answer these questions, we carried out a survey of 92 architectural firms in Nigeria. The factor which best described the cultural values of the firms was innovation and staff orientation dimension, while the factor which least described the cultural values of the firms was the business- orientation dimension. The cultural value dimensions were explained by factors both internal and external to the firms. The results show that the age, size and legal ownership form of the firms were the firm characteristics which determined the dominant cultural values of the firms. The leadership style of the principal was also a major cultural value determinant. This suggests that each firm may need to adapt cultural values to their unique characteristics. The value of this study lies in its empirical nature in investigating the dominant cultural values of architectural firms, an area that hitherto had received little attention from scholars.

Different parts of this M. oleifera ( Drum Stick Tree ) contain a profile of important minerals, and are a good source of vitamins, β-carotene, amino acids and various phenolics. The Moringa plant provides a rich and rare combination of zeatin, quercetin, β-sitosterol, caffeoylquinic acid and kaempferol. In addition to its compelling water purifying powers and high nutritional value. Various parts of this plant such as the leaves, roots, seed, bark, fruit, flowers and immature pods act as cardiac and circulatory stimulants, possess antitumor, antipyretic, antiepileptic, antiinflammatory, antiulcer, antispasmodic, diuretic, antihypertensive, cholesterol lowering, antioxidant, antidiabetic, hepatoprotective, antibacterial and antifungal activities, and are being employed for the treatment of different ailments in the indigenous system of medicine, particularly in South Asia. Global industrialization and the increasing demand for environmental friendly products make moringa have great potential as a source of pharmaceuticals, dyes, biofuel, human food, animal and fish feed, and water purification products. This review focuses on the detailed phytochemical composition, therapeutic applicability, along with pharmacological assets of different parts of this multipurpose tree. Dietary consumption of its part is therein promoted as a strategy of personal health preservation and self-medication in various diseases. The enthusiasm for the health benefits of M. oleifera is in dire contrast with the scarcity of strong experimental and clinical evidence supporting them. Fortunately, the chasm is slowly being filled. Reported studies number and variable in design, seem rigorously concordant in their support of therapeutic potential. Phytochemical analyses have shown that its leaves are particularly rich in K, Ca, P, Fe, vitamins A and D, essential amino acids, as well as such known antioxidants such as β- carotene, vitamin C, and flavonoids. Further research considering releva

The purpose of this paper is to trace the method of developing the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) from the Mission and Vision statements of an Engineering College in Muscat, Oman. In this context, KPIs provides parameters for measuring the quality and standards of the institute. For an educational institute the KPIs extend into areas that are beyond the realm of financial fields as the primary aim here is to develop students from the high schools in to responsible and capable engineers and the monitory returns, perhaps, take a very important second position status

The previously published data are examined on the base of the hypothesis about the existence of chromosomes differential polyteny and excessive chromatin diminution during the first stages of sugar beet plant embryogenesis. It has been concluded that available data provide the genetic proof of that chromatin diminution is one of the mechanisms underlying the origin of polymorphism in sugar beet agamospermous progenies.

Rice husks and algae plant substrates were success- fully used to produce biogas. A metal fixed-dome biodigester (bioreactor) was used for the characterization of the biogas generated from these plants wastes. A total of 35 kg of slurry (sludge) made from 5 kg of rice husks and 30 kg of algae were mixed in water in the ratio of 1:6 and fed into the biodigester (bioreactor). The digestion of slurry was undertaken in batch-type anaerobic digestion and mesophilic temperatures range at 29.00oC – 33.45oC. For over period of 75 days, the cumulative biogas produced from the wastes was 156.25 litres. The percentage of the methane component of produced biogas was 52.3% .The biogas from the seeded rice husk was combustible on the 45th day.

This paper describes the steps used to develop a professional competence profile which allows a residential child/youth care worker to perform his or her tasks in an efficient, effective and confident way. Among the strategic and specific competencies, 11 were selected which explain a high percentage of performance (empathy, planning, resistance to stress, responsibility, problem solving, flexibility, collaboration, teamwork, commitment, expertise and communication skills). Once the list of competencies has been established, the behaviors that reflect them are determined and a questionnaire to evaluate the candidates for the position is elaborated.

This paper presents the valuation of credit risk via reduced-form approach. Credit risk arises whenever a borrower is expecting to use future cash flows to pay a current debt. It is closely tied to the potential return of investment, the most notable being that the yields on bonds correlate strongly to their perceived credit risk. Credit risk embedded in a financial transaction, is the risk that at least one of the parties involved in the transaction will suffer a financial loss due to decline in creditworthiness of the counter-party to the transaction or perhaps of some third party. Reduced-form approach is known as intensity-based approach. This is purely probabilistic in nature and technically speaking it has a lot in common with the reliability theory. Here the value of firm is not modeled but specifically the default risk is related either by a deterministic default intensity function or more general by stochastic intensity.

Today, because of the vulnerability of standard authentication system, law-breaking has accumulated within the past few years. Identity authentication that relies on biometric feature like face, iris, voice, hand pure mathematics, handwriting, retina, fingerprints will considerably decrease the fraud. so that they square measure being replaced by identity verification mechanisms. Among bioscience, fingerprint systems are one amongst most generally researched and used. it's fashionable due to their easy accessibility. during this paper we tend to discuss the elaborated study of various gift implementation define strategies together with their comparative measures and result analysis thus as realize a brand new constructive technique for fingerprint recognition.