Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) Is a fundamental concept in artificial intelligence used to solve combinatorial problems by satisfying a set of constraints. The Zebra Puzzle is a classical example that involves assigning attributes such as nationality, house color, pet, drink, and candy to five houses based on logical clues. This study aims to implement CSP techniques using the Prolog programming language to solve the Zebra Puzzle. The methodology includes classifying all relevant attributes, encoding constraints into Prolog predicates, and applying helper functions to represent adjacency and ordering relationships. The puzzle is modeled as a list of structured facts, and Prolog’s inference engine is used to derive consistent solutions. The program successfully assigns all attributes to the correct house positions. For example, the Englishman lives in the red house, the Spaniard owns the dog, and the Ukrainian drinks tea. The Norwegian lives in the first house and drinks water, while the Japanese owns the zebra. These results confirm the effectiveness of Prolog in solving structured logic puzzles using CSP. The study concludes that logic programming is a reliable tool for modeling and solving constraint-based problems. This implies broader applicability of CSP in intelligent systems.

Although children can combine words to express meanings like 'red house' or 'two cats', they do not represent number words compositionally (e.g. 'twenty-six' as 6+20) until late in development. One reason for this might be that smaller number words in most languages are not composed via rules, limiting children's exposure to the syntactic structure underlying larger number words. However, historically, many languages have featured number systems with smaller bases or anchors, thus relying more on rules to represent smaller numbers. Might children acquire rules for combining numbers sooner, when exposed to evidence of such rules? We explored this in two experiments. In experiment 1, children learned a system anchored at 2, and many children could compose small number words using a conjunctive rule-e.g. 'two-and-one apples'. Some older children could also comprehend novel multiplicative expressions-e.g. 'two twos of bananas'. Experiment 2 found that children applied additive rules even to a system of novel number words ('Monkey numbers') anchored at three. We suggest that children can acquire rules for composing number words when made salient in their input, sometimes even before they learn how to accurately count large sets.This article is part of the theme issue 'A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems'.

Recently, the ecological awareness of society and the need to take care of the natural environment have increased significantly. There is also an urgent problem of searching for new, environmentally friendly, and safe for people plant protection techniques using biological preparations, which reduce the intensive and cause significant health problems chemical protection. The study was conducted in a foil tunnel on the ‘Red House’ cultivar roses grown using an adapted method with shoot bending. Maintaining their health under tunnel conditions is often problematic. The study determined the effect of biopreparations on plant health (disease index), photosynthesis parameters, and gas exchange, as well as the species composition of fungi inhabiting roses. The preparations used did not negatively affect the process of photosynthesis and gas exchange. Among the 25 species of fungi obtained from its organs, the polyphagous species Botrytis cinerea dominated; the organs were very often colonized by fungi from the genera Fusarium, Phoma, and Alternaria alternata. The highest concentration of the Biosept 33 SL biopreparation shows a protective effect similar to that of the preparations used in chemical protection, and the degree of leaf blade infection shows a similar level.

Quality control in disease diagnosis and treatment is critical for ensuring patient safety, optimizing resource utilization, and improving clinical outcomes. In endometrial cancer management, rigorous quality control ensures accurate diagnosis through standardized protocols, reducing misdiagnosis and enabling early detection. Treatment is guided by evidence-based guidelines, fostering multidisciplinary collaboration and minimizing unnecessary variations in care. Quality control also enhances patient safety by reducing medical errors and ensuring compliance with ethical and legal standards. By fostering transparency, professional development, and patient-centered care, it supports the sustainable advancement of healthcare systems, ultimately improving outcomes for patients and the broader medical community. This Quality control of endometrial cancer was drafted by the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University based on the American Joint Committee on Cancer's TNM staging (AJCC, 8th edition, 2017) and the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology's surgical pathological staging (FIGO, 2009).

Nests play a crucial role in the bird life cycle by providing a safe space for egg-laying, incubation, and chick-rearing, protecting them from predators and harsh environmental conditions. However, habitat destruction due to deforestation, urbanization, and agricultural expansion is making it increasingly difficult for many bird species to find suitable nesting sites. This study seeks to explore avian preferences for artificial nests constructed from diverse natural materials and assess their efficacy in offering appropriate nesting locations. A total of 118 artificial nests were constructed utilizing different types of locally available materials. The design of these nests emulates natural habitats. Observations indicated that various bird species displayed distinct preferences influenced by factors such as nest size, material, and placement. Some species, including the Red Munia, Greater Coucal, House Sparrow, and Indian Robin, have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to artificial nests, whereas others still depend on natural nesting sites. The investigation emphasises the promise of artificial nests in aiding bird populations, particularly in regions experiencing habitat degradation. Additional investigation is essential to enhance nest designs and guarantee their successful application in avian conservation initiatives.

Abstract: In the modern context of rapid development of artificial intelligence, it provides a new direction for the development of public art in the new situation. The digital reconstruction of modern and contemporary public art has provided new experiences in terms of interaction and emotion. The popularization of interactive devices and virtual reality technologies has made the forms of public art more diverse and the audience's experience more personalized. As the carrier of Chinese civilization, Chinese characters have their special cultural significance and resonance. Translating Chinese characters through public art is a good form of expression. Currently, there is a lack of public art works with cultural identity in urban public spaces in China. This article will use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the public art and Chinese character design cases of the Red Steel City Red House architectural complex in Qingshan District by sorting out relevant concepts and combining case study methods. Ultimately exploring the combination of digital technology and virtual reality, incorporating Chinese characters as a creative element in contemporary art and design. Intended to provide reference and inspiration for art creators and related practitioners.

Cultural visitation routes represent an important opportunity for the public display of the famous historical and cultural city of Beijing, and its pedestrian environment, as a linear spatial carrier linking various historical and cultural attractions, is of great significance for the preservation of the famous historical and cultural city of Beijing through analysis of its spatial quality. At present, Beijing’s cultural visitation routes are in the stage of exploration and improvement, and scholars mainly focus on the selection, integration, and construction of cultural visitation routes in their research on cultural visitation routes, while the amount of research on the quality of the pedestrian environment for visitors is relatively small; in particular, the evaluation methods and indicator systems are still in the exploration stage. In this study, from the perspective of environmental behaviour theory, we took the Forbidden City–The Red House of Peking University–Wangfujing cultural visitation route as the research object and constructed a structural equation model to determine the perception of the pedestrian environment quality of the cultural visitation route in Beijing, starting from the visitors’ feelings of the pedestrian environment of the cultural visiting route. This study found that there is a positive correlation between the quality of spatial behaviours, the quality of the pedestrian environment, and the quality of the facilities on the emotional response of the visitors, with the quality of the facilities having the greatest impact on the emotional response of the visitors; among the observational variables, cultural and scientific facilities, spatial landscapes, street furniture, and safety play a more obvious role, and they are the main factors affecting the emotional response of the visitors. Based on the results of this study, an optimisation strategy for enhancing the pedestrian environments of Beijing’s cultural visitation routes is proposed to provide a reference for their design and optimisation.

This study explores the dynamics of feminist cyberactivism in China, using the Shanghai Red House Incidence as a case study to analyze the impact and limitations of social media, specifically Weibo, in advocating for women’s rights and feminist causes. Despite the increasing surveillance and censorship by the Chinese government, which has constrained traditional forms of activism, the paper reveals how women in China have adapted their strategies. By employing symbolic imagery, multiple hashtags, and referencing popular culture, these activists circumvent censorship, fostering a new form of de-organized, grassroots digital activism. At this point, no academic articles have been published on the incident. Leveraging Vegh’s cyberactivism categorization framework and analyzing a rich dataset of over 2,000 Weibo posts, this paper employs qualitative content analysis and quantitative analysis to uncover the nuanced ways feminist activism morphs within authoritarian confines. This research contributes to the understanding of how social media platforms serve both as spaces for feminist expression and as battlegrounds against state surveillance in China, highlighting the evolving nature of feminist cyberactivism in authoritarian contexts.

Reviewed by: Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark Blake Stricklin (bio) philosophy for spiders: on the low theory of kathy acker McKenzie Wark Duke University Press https://www.dukeupress.edu/philosophy-for-spiders 216 pages; Print, $21.95 Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark's new book on the late author, appears to break with the telegraphic intimacy of their published email correspondence, I'm Very into You (2015). In the first part of Philosophy for Spiders, Wark visits Acker in San Francisco, where they eat, ride a motorcycle, and fuck. Yet the book is not a literary biography like Chris Kraus's After Kathy Acker (2017). Wark instead aims for "a writing-and-reading between bodies rather than subjects." Philosophy for Spiders shows how bodies create concepts; or as Wark later explains: "the critical theory here is bottom theory." When Acker fucks Wark with one of her dildos, static gendered pronouns become inadequate to describe the experience. "He (her) fucks him (her) while her (him) fucks her (him)." The sex Wark remembers with Acker reads a lot like one of her own texts. As Acker tells Sylvère Lotringer, "in my world people don't even remember their names, they aren't sure of their sexuality, they aren't sure if they can define their genders." Wark takes this radical project seriously in Philosophy for Spiders, which she describes as a "revolution to unleash the generative, generous capacity of non-identity-for anyone and everyone." Her new book on Acker resists a complete portrait of the late author and her work. Yet any serious engagement with Acker will do just this, as it is the incompleteness of identity that makes her writing revolutionary. How should we read the I in Kathy Acker? In I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac (1974), one I answers that she "means an unknown number of individuals," [End Page 86] where "each individual exists for a present duration and exemplifies one or more characters." Wark describes the I in Acker's work as an act of "selving," which creates "a philosophy not of subjectivity and its pet projects but of selves as things that happen to be wild in the world." The individual character we might expect to find in the (bourgeois) novel does not last long in an Acker text. At the end of Blood and Guts in High School (1984) Janey Smith dies, but "soon other Janeys are born, and these Janeys covered the Earth." When Janey begins to write her book report on The Scarlet Letter, she takes on the identity of Hester: "I, Hester, am a red house lost in the thickening mist." Hester is one of the Janeys, and the men who "own the language" note how the rebels in Blood and Guts "are all Janeys. They're all perverts, transsexuals, criminals, and women." Wark will later add that this act of "selving" is also a "philosophy for brutes: women, slaves, beasts … whose skill is threading words together as its own kind of more carnal love." In Acker's work, individual characters are not overly concerned with self-expression. A character in an Acker text instead speaks in a kind of collective enunciation that expresses selves over a self. As Wark reminds us, Acker appears more interested in "eyes rather than an I. The compound eyes of spiders." This is the first philosophy in the Acker-web. Acker, then, writes in what Deleuze and Guattari call a minor literature. She might say, with them, that what matters is not so much the "I" but that "we are no longer ourselves … we have been aided, inspired, multiplied." Such literature "selves" the subject in order to find this more collective expression. Wark too wants to "push [Acker] back in the direction of, in every sense, a minor literature," especially since her posthumous reception has made her more of a canonical figure. She specifically wants to see Acker as a writer of trans lit, and Wark concludes Philosophy for Spiders with a summary of the Trans | Acker symposium that she organized at The New School. Wark does not want to...

This study investigated the possibility of COVID-19 medical face masks to affect bacterial and macrofaunal communities in open soil environment. An estimated 1.24 trillion of face masks have been used and discarded as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a significant part of this ending up in the soil environment, where they degrade gradually over time. Because bacteria and macrofauna are sensitive indicators of changes in soil ecosystem, we investigated possible impacts of face masks on population, distribution, and diversity of thesesoil species. Effect on soil bacterial community was studied by both culture-based and advanced molecular (metagenomics) approach, while impact on macrofauna was investigated by examining monoliths around heap of masks for soil insects. In both cases, control soil experiments without face masks were also set up and monitored over a period of 48weeks. The study found that the presence of face masks led to a more diverse bacterial community, although no influence on overall bacterial population was evidenced. More importantly, bacteria belonging to the genera Cellulomonas and Acinetobacter were found prominently around face masks and are believed to be involved in biodegradation of the masks. The bacterial community around the masks was dominated by Proteobacteria (29.7-38.7%), but the diversity of species increased gradually with time. Tiny black ants (Monomorium invidium) were attracted to the face masks to take advantage of water retained by the masks during the period of little rainfall. The heaps of face masks also provided shelter and breeding "haven" for soil insects, notably the red cotton bug (Dysdercus suturellus) and house cricket (Acheta domesticus), thereby impacting positively on the population of insect species in the environment. This study provides insights into the actual impacts of face masks on soil organisms under normal outdoor environmental conditions.

Oral Health Status and Literacy/Knowledge Amongst Pregnant Women in Shanghai

Guanzhong region of Shaanxi province has a continental monsoon climate of warm temperate zone, with hot in summer and cold in winter. Therefore, the strategies of traditional houses dealing with wind environment are mainly ventilation in summer and wind protection in winter. Due to the limitation of technical and economic conditions, winter heating has always been the core problem of rural houses, so people usually adopt a relatively closed space layout to strengthen the windproof performance of buildings, but also lead to poor indoor ventilation in summer.With the development of social economy, rural residents have higher requirements for living quality, so it is very important to improve ventilation efficiency in summer under the condition of ensuring wind protection in winter. Taking the red brick house project in Ezi village of Xianyang as a practical case, in order to improve indoor wind pressure ventilation and thermal pressure ventilation efficiency, the project introduces double-height space and skylight that commonly used in urban buildings into rural houses, providing reference for the construction of similar residential buildings in Guanzhong area.

Reading Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) makes it possible for Esperanza Cordero to imagine an idyllic site of empowered identity in The House on Mango Street. Yet, I argue that Esperanza’s transformed identity can only reside outside her original community and that her journey from the sad red house of Mango Street to her reconceived clean house at the end of the text is necessarily a trajectory of desired uprootedness that follows the script presented in The Water-Babies. Like Tom, Kingsley’s protagonist, Esperanza undergoes a metamorphosis to shed off the traits that categorize her as Chicana in order to embrace a remodeled subjectivity and, consequently, become an ontologically deterritorialized Hispanic.

The onset of the migrant crisis has caused the appearance of new works in the European cinema but Bulgaria has been lagging behind with the articulation of the ‘refugee’ theme. The figure of the foreigner does exist on our contemporary movie screen but the emphasis usually falls on the rethinking of the traumatic totalitarian past. There are, however, directors who are developing the socially engaged cinema and searching for different approaches to the study of the Other/the Alien. Unavoidably, these cinematic works tie in xenophobia, the hardened monocultural mentality, the widespread national disillusionment with the perpetual transition and the feeding of marginalization within the EU. The first short documentaries appeared in 2006 thanks to the initiative of The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate which no longer exists in Sofia. The so-called Invisible Minorities package comprises five titles. The authors of these films do not belong to the professional cinema community but they have managed to provoke a discussion. Recently several mature and young directors summoned the courage to discuss the image of the refugee, sending various messages to the audience (local and international). With the aid of the film studies toolbox – but within the contexts of the socio-cultural environment I have analyzed the documentaries Long Live Bulgaria (2017, by Adela Peeva) and The Good Postman (2016, by Tonislav Hristov); the shorts - Trials (2017, by Boya Harizanova) and Dobry (2017, by Orlin Milchev); and the feature film Fear (2020, by Ivaylo Hristov).

The circadian rhythms of body functions in mammals are controlled by the circadian system. The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus orchestrates subordinate oscillators. Time information is conveyed from the retina to the SCN to coordinate an organism’s physiology and behavior with the light/dark cycle. At the cellular level, molecular clockwork composed of interlocked transcriptional/translational feedback loops of clock genes drives rhythmic gene expression. Mice with targeted deletion of the essential clock gene Bmal1 (Bmal1−/−) have an impaired light input pathway into the circadian system and show a loss of circadian rhythms. The red house (RH) is an animal welfare measure widely used for rodents as a hiding place. Red plastic provides light at a low irradiance and long wavelength—conditions which affect the circadian system. It is not known yet whether the RH affects rhythmic behavior in mice with a corrupted circadian system. Here, we analyzed whether the RH affects spontaneous locomotor activity in Bmal1−/− mice under standard laboratory light conditions. In addition, mPER1- and p-ERK-immunoreactions, as markers for rhythmic SCN neuronal activity, and day/night plasma corticosterone levels were evaluated. Our findings indicate that application of the RH to Bmal1−/− abolishes rhythmic locomotor behavior and dampens rhythmic SCN neuronal activity. However, RH had no effect on the day/night difference in corticosterone levels.

A Blues Odyssey Joel Harrison (bio) Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues David Dann University of Texas Press https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dann-guitar-king 776 Pages; Print, $34.95 Michael Bloomfield’s life was a great story waiting to be told, and David Dann has done it considerable justice. His passion for his subject and the depth of his research are extraordinary (leading to an equally extraordinary length of the tome— 776 pages.) He positions Bloomfield as something of a neglected genius, whose meretricious choices, refusal to be co-opted by the burgeoning pop industry, excessive drug use, and early death relegated him to the margins of rock n’ roll history. This book is foremost about music, but it’s also about mental illness. Bloomfield suffered his whole adult life from some combination of anxiety, manic depression, narcissism, and insomnia, and it ultimately killed him. Proper diagnosis and treatment seemed elusive as Bloomfield self-medicated with sleeping pills, heroin, and alcohol. However, even the best medical advice may not have saved him, as he was hell-bent on self-destruction. As someone intimately familiar with the back acres of guitar history, I was pleased to find myself the target audience of Dann’s protean effort. Though I was aware of the bare outlines of the guitarist’s best-known moments, playing with Dylan on Like a Rolling Stone, leading The Electric Flag, and playing in the first Paul Butterfield Band, I knew all too little about Bloomfield’s odyssey. Dann painstakingly chronicles his brief thirty-seven years in minute detail. Contemporaries such as Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana became household names, and Dann believes Bloomers, as his friends called him, deserves to be part of that pantheon. He claims Bloomfield as the first real rock guitarist to solo (as opposed to just playing chords), someone who inspired folk-rock and psychedelic rock, laid the groundwork for jazz fusion, and started the first rock band with a horn section. Some of this is disputable, but it may not matter. Bloomfield’s wild exploits are a terrific tale, a mirror for the cultural revolutions of the time. Dann methodically sets his story amidst momentous events such the Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix’s arrival as Jimmy James in New York City, Dylan’s electric performance at Newport Folk Festival, and innumerable societal upheavals small and large. In the author’s hands the era leaps to life. Mike Bloomfield was first and foremost an excellent blues guitarist. The book opens with vignettes of him sneaking off from his rich parents’ mansion north of Chicago to the city’s poor South Side where he soaked in the sounds of blues masters such as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Michael didn’t just worship these giants from the back of the room; he befriended them and as a teenager began to join them onstage. His idols apparently more than tolerated him, they appreciated and encouraged him. It was no simple thing to cross the lines of class and race in the urban geography of the late 1950’s. It took heart and guts. Bloomfield’s hunger for this music was bottomless, and his musical gifts shine most brightly when he plays the music of this lineage — electrified Chicago blues. He also mastered the acoustic ragtime, stomps, and novelty tunes of the previous era, written by country folk such as Josh White, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Tampa Red, and Son House. Bloomfield was one of the first white rock guitarists who built his sound firmly upon this rock. As Dann relates it, dramatizing a meeting that occurred in Chicago in 1963, Bob Dylan himself thought he was “about the best damn guitar player I ever heard,” and was amazed at the breadth of Bloomfield’s historical chops. Dylan, an authority on every aspect of American roots music, found a kindred spirit, and a year later hired him on his groundbreaking record, Highway 61 Revisited (1965). To understand Bloomfield’s impact, you must imagine those few years, ‘63 to ‘66, when rock guitar music was birthed. Specifically, you have to see the world before...

Building damage induced by the excavation conducted for the three-storey basement of the Kerry Center – a modernised business centre comprising large-scale departmental stores, business offices, apartments and a hotel in Hangzhou, China – was investigated. A method for estimating the building damage level considering the spatial effects of soil deformation around the excavation was also developed. The excavation site is in the Hangzhou urban centre, near to which stands an ancient building known as the Red House. Settlement, horizontal displacement and cracks on the Red House were studied to estimate the actual damage level. Surface settlements around several excavations were analysed to obtain a surface profile along the excavation. The results showed that the profile could be simplified to a parabolic model. A damage criterion based on the average state of strain in the distorted portion of the structure was derived considering the spatial effects of soil deformation. Different damage criteria, including tensile stress, cracks, distortion and horizontal strain, were used to evaluate the damage level of the Red House. The result obtained from the damage criterion presented in this paper agrees well with the actual building damage level. This criterion formed the basis of the preliminary analysis conducted prior to finite-element modelling.

Use of protective coverings can be an economically viable option in fruit nurseries than in fully mature commercial orchards. In protected nurseries, photoselective coverings can influence the growth of rootstocks, budding success, and budding growth of the budded scion cultivar. The effect of photoselective coverings (white, silver, green, red and stainless steel net house) along with open conditions (control) was studied on plant growth, nutrient uptake and root growth of rough lemon and Carrizo citrange rootstock seedlings which were subsequently budded with Kinnow and Daisy mandarin cultivar buds, respectively. The rough lemon plants under red net had better height, internodal length and budding success, while in open conditions, higher seedling diameter, root diameter, shoot and root dry weight, leaf number and secondary root number were recorded in rough lemon seedlings. The Carrizo seedlings in red net had better seedling diameter, internodal length, leaf area and number, shoot dry weight and budding success. The higher nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and zinc levels were recorded in the leaves of rough lemon and Carrizo citrange under red shade net. The plant height of rough lemon seedlings was positively correlated to internodal length, budding success and leaf areaas well as leaf phosphorus and iron levels. The highest buddable seedlings were recorded in open conditions but, budding success in red shade net house. The highest sprout lengths of Kinnow and Daisy mandarin saplings were recorded in red net followed by green net and white net. Higher photosynthesis and stomatal conductance were recorded under red shade net, whereas lowest PAR interception was recorded in open conditions.

: This study extends previous studies (Milton, 2001, 2002, 2008) made on the first ever Brazilian book club, the Clube do Livro (1942-1989). It examines the background of the censorship of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) and gives examples of items which were cut by the Clube do Livro in its translations. It then attempts to explain how, despite rigorous censorship, the Clube do Livro managed to publish translations of two works from Romania which contained much socialist realism at the peak of the dictatorship.

This study examines the gender representation of action-sports athletes in Red Bull Media House’s YouTube videos. A longitudinal analysis of videos from 2008 to 2018 (N = 108) revealed that female athletes in Red Bull Media House receive more representation than what is often documented in the mainstream sports-broadcasting coverage. However, their representation was primarily limited to feature stories and only specific action sports, such as surfing and skiing. The results from this study showed that Red Bull does represent a potential fissure in hegemonic ideology by which male athletes are normalized as authentic athletes through the process of inclusion. However, that visibility was tightly constrained within a normative matrix for imagining the female athletic subject, a process that limits Red Bull Media’s counterhegemonic potential.