1. The unusual chain formation already observed (4) at the time of diakinesis in Hypericum punctatum apparently does not occur in any other species described in this article. 2. In every form studied the chromosomes seem to pair in the usual manner at diakinesis. 3. H. perforatum appears to have a haploid count of sixteen. During meiotic division its chromosomes often tend to lag. At maturity many of its pollen grains are morphologically sterile and aborted. Because of its chromosome count it is apparently a tetraploid form, and because of its chromosome behavior and abundant pollen sterility it may be a natural hybrid. 4. The species H. adpressum and its variety spongiosum, as well as H. lobocarpum, H. aureum, H. nudiflorum, and H. kalmianum, appear to have a haploid chromosome count of nine and to be regular in chromosome behavior. The chromosomes in H. adpressum and its variety spongiosum are distinctly larger than those found in the other forms just mentioned. 5. H. arnoldianum and H. dawsonianum, which are recognized as hybrids, have a haploid count of nine and apparently come from compatible parents, since their chromosome behavior is regular and no morphological sterility is present. 6. H. ellipticum, H. mutilum, H. boreale, H. majus, and H. canadense all have a haploid chromosome count of eight, and the chromosome behavior is normal. 7. H. gentianoides, called by Britton and Brown Sarothra gentianoides, is in many ways distinct from the other species studied. The haploid chromosome count is twelve. 8. H. virginianum, classified by Britton and Brown as Triadenum virginianum, is also distinct. The haploid chromosome count is nineteen.


Correlations have been developed to estimate critical constants, acentric factor, and dipole moment of model coal compounds and other hydrocarbons and their derivatives. The correlations express the characterization parameters as functions of normal boiling point, specific gravity, and molecular weight, which are the inspection data normally obtained for undefined petroleum and coal fluids. Currently available correlations are applicable only to petroleum and nonpolar coal-fluid fractions. The present correlations extend the range of application to polar and associating fluids.


Tough competition from emerging low-cost fluorspar suppliers in Southeast Asia is making it difficult for producers elsewhere to sustain mines that cannot match these new market entrants on opex, IM learned at the Marrakech fluorspar meeting.

Supplies from this region compensate to some extent for the closure of the Witkop and Buffalo fluorspar mines in South Africa and the potential mothballing of Okorusu in Namibia, which faces being shut down owing to poor demand for its production. Competition from China remains the main challenge for these projects


In view of the problem that C-means cluster algorithm easily trap in a local optimum and strongly depends on the initialization, one kind new model of intrusion detection based on the cluster analysis and the immunity genetic algorithm is proposed to, modify the immunity genetic algorithm is proposed, and improve the algorithm in the overall situation search ability and the convergence rate, avoid the sensitive to the initialization value obviously. Finaly, through the experiment proved that this intrusion detection model surpasses the classics genetic algorithm and C-means cluster algorithm, and the anticipated effect is achieved.


Purpose To describe a case with acute postoperative uveitis, posterior synechia and iris atrophy following iris-claw phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation. Methods A case report. Results A 26-year-old man with high myopia had implantation of a −14.0 diopter, foldable, iris-claw Artiflex (model 401) anterior chamber pIOL (Ophtec B.V.) in both eyes. On the third postoperative day, the patient had significant postoperative inflammation in the left eye and received topical steroids and mydriatic eye drops. On the fifth postoperative day, the right eye had a round pupil and centered pIOL, but the left eye had an atrophic iris and dilated pupil with significant posterior synechias over the inferior half of the pupil. Despite intensive topical steroid application, the synechias remained one year after surgery. Conclusion Severe uveitis with posterior synechia can occur after iris-claw pIOL implantation. We hypothesized that excessive iris tissue enclavation in the pIOLs haptics and large iridotomies may be an associated factor.


Given their complexity, semiconductor manufacturing processes are highly fragmented. Hundreds of different products are processed by complex machines (so-called cluster tools) under different settings. In their turn, cluster tools are divided into different modules (generally into cassette, process, and transfer modules). Modeling semiconductor manufacturing processes for each of the resulting processing paths (i.e., combinations of modules, machine settings, machines, etc.) becomes intractable. This paper tackles the issue of data fragmentation in modeling the processing times associated with a Chemical-Mechanical Planarization (CMP) machine. Based on a cloud of available observations, the variability of processing times is modeled with different granularities. The distribution characteristics of empirical processing time data are determined via a moment-based approximation. Through an illustrative study conducted on a benchmark dataset, this paper quantifies statistically the value (resp. loss) induced by a fine (resp. macroscopic) representation of the processing times of a CMP machine.


STAQ – Static Traffic Assignment with Queuing: Model properties and applications Luuk Brederode, Adam Pel, Luc Wismans, Erik de Romph & Serge Hoogendoorn To cite this article: Luuk Brederode, Adam Pel, Luc Wismans, Erik de Romph & Serge Hoogendoorn (2018): STAQ – Static Traffic Assignment with Queuing: Model properties and applications, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, DOI: 10.1080/23249935.2018.1453561 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2018.1453561


Software reengineering can be tlefinctl iis the examination, analysis and alteration of any existing software system to reconstitute it in a new form, and the subsequent implementation of the new form. In broad terms this [>ri)cess typically encompasses a combination of reverse engineering, rc-tiocumcnlation. restructuring, and forward engineering 194 j. All software projects and |iroducls constitute of source code. Now, it is also around this source code that the cost, complexity or simplicity of the software lies. One's ability to read, understand and above all draw the futurity oi' present knowledge from die first Iwcs would ultimately lead to easily reengineerable software.


A composite magnetic member having a chemical composition comprising, by weight, consisting essentially of 0.30 to 0.80% C, more than 16.0% but not more than 25.0% Cr, 0.1 to 4.0 % Ni, 0.01 to 0.06 N, at least one of the elements Si, Mn and Al in an amount of not more than 2.0% in total, and iron and impurities as the balance is that a ferromagnetic portion and a non- has magnetic portion.


Introduction. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with high morbidity and hospitalization rate. In infectious diseases, host genetics plays a critical role in susceptibility and immune response, and the immune pathways involved are highly dependent on the microorganism and its route of entry. Objective. To identify genetic risk loci for CAP using a one-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS). Methods. We performed a GWAS on 3,765 Spanish individuals, including 257 adult patients hospitalized with CAP and 3,508 population controls. Pneumococcal CAP was documented in 30% of patients; the remaining 70% were selected among patients with unidentified microbiological etiology. Genotyping and imputation allowed testing the association of 7,6 million variants using logistic regressions. Subsequently, we prioritized genes and likely causal variants based on Bayesian fine mapping and functional evidence. Imputation and association testing of the classic HLA alleles and amino acids was also conducted. Results. We revealed six independent sentinel variants that were genome-wide significant (p<5x10-8), three located on chromosome 6p21.32, and one for each of the chromosomes 4q28.2, 11p12, and 20q11.22. Our analyses prioritized C4orf33 on 4q28.2, TAPBP on 6p21.32, and ZNF341 on 20q11.22. Interestingly, genetic defects of TAPBP and ZNF341 are previously known inborn errors of immunity predisposing to bacterial pneumonia, including pneumococcus and Haemophyilus influenzae. Associations were all non-significant for the classic HLA alleles. Conclusions. We completed a GWAS of CAP and identified four novel risk loci involved in CAP susceptibility.


INTRODUCTION Organic chemical industries dealing with batch or semi-batch reaction processes usually need various separation processes to purify reaction products. In particular, a multipurpose high-efficiency distillation system is very useful after or during a reaction process. For example, it is of practically great importance to rectify solvent mixtures contaminated with reaction byproducts and/or reactant substances. A new rotating stirrer named "Wall Wetter" (Yamaji et al. 2001 & 2002, Noda et al. 2005) is installed into the kettle-type reboiler of a batch distillation system. The Wall Wetter reboiler can keep the rate of evaporation constantly high during the entire distillation process (Yamaji et al. 2002). A batch distillation system accompanied with the Wall Wetter reboiler is very useful as the rectifier not only for the recovery of various solvents but also for the separation of unreacted substances, monomers and byproducts from the main reaction products. The Wall Wetter evaporator can also be utilized as the batch reactor vessel. Even during the term of batch reaction process, such a distillation column equipped with a vacuum controlling system can be employed to remove volatile byproducts or inhibitive components from the reacting solution. This study deals with the characteristics of an experimental distillation system equipped with the Wall Wetter reboiler.


Hypertension doubles the risk of cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease (CHD), congestive heart failure (CHF), ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, renal failure, and peripheral arterial disease.1 Objectives of this study is to estimate hypertension prevalence and its risk factors in Aguelhok. A community based cross-sectional study was carried out among the people aged 20 to 99 years living in Aguelhok area. The prevalence of hypertension in the present study (31.11%). Occupation, smoking and obesity have strong correlation with hypertension in this study. Women develop hypertension predominantly around the age of menopause; men who develop hypertension at early age are predominantly systolic hypertension. Hypertensive cases were predominantly among married individual. Increasing age is proved to be an independent risk factor for hypertension.


In this paper, we showed that $\tau$-tilting finite simply connected algebras are representation-finite. Consequently, some related algebras are considered, including critical algebras, iterated tilted algebras, tubular algebras, and so on. In particular, we studied the muti-staircase algebras introduced by Magdalena Boos, which are strongly simply connected.


The utility model discloses a pluggable distribution network automation terminal which comprises a shell. The shell is in a cubic structure. The front and back sides of the shell are open sides. The back side of the shell is provided with a connection motherboard, and the interior of the shell is provided with a power supply module plug-in, a processor module plug-in, a communication module plug-in, and a plurality of terminal data acquisition module plug-ins. The power supply module plug-in, the processor module plug-in, a control module plug-in, the communication module plug-in and the plurality of terminal data acquisition module plug-ins are connected together via the connection motherboard, and can transmit data via the connection motherboard. The above plug-ins are connected with the shell via a sliding assembly. The pluggable distribution network automation terminal is convenient to use, and is low in cost of use and maintenance.


Hepatic vascular exclusion (HVE) combines portal triad clamping and occlusion of the inferior vena cava. Although HVE has been performed for major liver resections during the last 2 decades, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its satisfactory hemodynamic tolerance. Consequently, we performed a comprehensive study of both hemodynamic and hormone responses to HVE. Twenty-two patients who underwent liver resection for secondary tumors developed in noncirrhotic livers were prospectively studied. Heart rate, arterial blood pressure, pulmonary artery pressure, mixed venous saturation, cardiac output, and left ventricular dimensions determined by transesophageal echocardiography were monitored in HVE patients. Blood concentrations of arginine vasopressin (AVP), epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, and atrial natriuretic peptide and plasma renin activity (PRA) were measured before clamping; 5, 15, and 30 min after clamping; and 15 min after unclamping. Hemodynamic response to HVE was characterized by a significant (P < 0.05) decrease in left ventricular dimensions, fractional area change, and pulmonary artery pressure. We also observed a marked decrease in cardiac output (50%) and an increase in heart rate and systemic vascular resistance. After unclamping, there was peripheral vasodilation, assessed by a significant decrease in systemic vascular resistance from the preclamping value to unclamping. An acute and sustained increase in AVP and norepinephrine that returned to baseline after unclamping and the absence of modification in PRA concentrations were noted. The marked decrease in venous return that characterizes HVE is compensated for by an increase in vascular resistance secondary to an important activation of the AVP and sympathetic systems. The PRA system does not play an important role in maintaining arterial blood pressure during HVE.


Separate records of oil and condensate productions are necessary during development of oil accumulation with gascondensate cape and gas-condensate accumulation with oil fringe. This problem is not simple. We have long experience for decision it for some fields of Tomsk region and suggest several approach in dependence of accumulation type


Peach rusty spot has regularly occurred in Serbia in recent years, causing
 significant economic losses in the production of late maturing cultivars
 (Summerset, Suncrest, Fayette and O'Henry). Concerns regarding the etiology
 of this disease have been solved using molecular identification and
 cross-pathogenicity tests, which have proved that peach rusty spot is caused
 by Podosphaera leucotricha. The usual recommended strategy for its control,
 by multiple treatments starting from petal fall phenophase, has not proved
 satisfactory in agro-ecological conditions in Serbia. After testing the
 fungicide efficacy, a three-year study was carried out to determine the
 precise treatment terms and make the control of P. leucotricha more
 efficient. The investigation was conducted in the conditions of natural
 infection in a Summerset cultivar orchard at the locality of Bela Crkva,
 during the period 2006-2008. Nine different variants of both single and mixed
 treatments were tested, covering six defined peach growth phenophases - from
 green top, until the phenophase of second fruit falling. In the conditions of
 high levels of natural infection in the control plots, in all three
 investigation years the most efficient was the variant in which
 kresoxim-methyl was applied three times: in green top, pink bud and full
 bloom phenophases (91.69 - 91.92%), followed by the variant of treatments in
 the phenophases of rose bud, full bloom and petal fall (86.3-87.87%) and the
 variant of two treatments, performed in the phenophases of pink bud and full
 bloom (79.3-83.09%). The other tested variants showed significantly lower
 efficiency. The results obtained could significantly contribute to better
 peach fruit production, without losses caused by peach rusty spot which is
 commercially very important disease in Serbia.


Methods of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW MRI) provides information on the microstructural state of various tissues and organs. Also, a diffusion-weighted image (DWI) obtained using DW MRI applied to the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant tumors. Purpose – to compare the values obtained ADC meningiomas with cell density and proliferative activity index Ki67 tumor. Material and methods. The study included DW MRI program with 37 patients for brain meningiomas. ADC was calculated on DWI with a maximum diameter of meningioma, in the area of interest have not been included cystic and necrotic areas of the tumor. When meningiomas morphological study assessed the degree of malignancy according to WHO classification, the index of Ki67 proliferative activity and cell density in tumor tissue. Results. In most typical cases detected (MI) and atypical (MII) meningiomas – at 37.8 % and 56.7 % of patients, respectively. Anaplastic (MIII) meningioma verified in 5.5 % of patients. The average value for meningiomas ADC MI was 1375,5 ± 197,5 mm2 /s. ADC for meningiomas MII and MIII costavili 1113.1 ± 180 mm2 /sec and 689 ± 31.1 mm2 /s, respectively. Statistically significant differences between the mean values obtained by comparing ADC meningiomas MI and MIII (p=0.008) and meningiomas MII and MIII (p=0.012). No significant differences between the cell density was not detected meningiomas (p=0,834, p=0,684 p=0,766 respectively for the MI/MII, MII/MIII and MI/MIII). Statistically significant differences between the values of Ki67 index were found when comparing the groups meningiomas MI and MIII (p=0.002) and MII and MIII (p=0.007). ADC between index values and proliferative activity of Ki67, expressed marked correlation (r=-0,699, p=0,001). Conclusion. DW MRI and ADC maps can be used as an additional non-invasive method of differential diagnosis brain meningioma gradation.


Mechanism of action Thiazide and thiazide-like diuretics act on the nephron mainly at the proximal part of the distal tubule. Sodium excretion and urine volume are increased by interference with transfer across cell membranes. The result is a reduction in blood volume. However, changes in cardiac output and extracellular fluid volume are transient and, in the long-term, the major haemodynamic effect is a reduction in peripheral resistance due to subtle alterations in the contractile responses of vascular smooth muscle.


NMDA receptor,which is composed with multisubunits,is the one of the most important glutamate receptors,mainly distributed in the central nervous system.Due to many regulating sites of this receptor,it could be affected by glutamic acid,glycin,Ca2+,some enzymes and so on.Calcium influx which is mediated by NMDA receptor is involed in variety physiological actions.LTP,which is induced by one of the actions,plays an important role in learning and memory.


Objective To explore the Influence of antipsychotic drug on liver function of schizophrenia patients.Methods Eighty-six schizophrenia patients were randomly divided into two groups.One group received the treatment of typical antipsychotic drug(chlorpromazine),another received the treatment of atypical antipsychotic drug(risperidone).The indexes of liver function in all patients were compared respectively before the treatment,after 4 and 8 weeks of treatment.Results Liver function in the patients of schizophrenia group became remarkably abnormal after four weeks of treatment.The influence of atypical antipsychotic drug on liver function was lower than typical antipsychotic drug.There was significant difference between them.Conclusion Antipsychotic drug can cause liver function to be abnormal.Patients's liver function damage caused by atypical antipsychotic drug is lower.


Cement flowing flyash,as a new material applied in highway embankment engineering,greatly reduce the frequency and severity of vehicle bump,which can be adopted during construction design stage. Some experienced construction company should widely collect similar informaiton in construction in order to improve her competitiveness.


We revisit the problem of designing optimal, individually rational matching mechanisms (in a general sense, allowing for cycles in directed graphs), where each player --- who is associated with a subset of vertices --- matches as many of his own vertices when he opts into the matching mechanism as when he opts out. We offer a new perspective on this problem by considering an arbitrary graph, but assuming that vertices are associated with players at random. Our main result asserts that, under certain conditions, any fixed optimal matching is likely to be individually rational up to lower-order terms. We also show that a simple and practical mechanism is (fully) individually rational, and likely to be optimal up to lower-order terms. We discuss the implications of our results for market design in general, and kidney exchange in particular.


The present invention provides a mask for the coating system comprising a coating apparatus in a range not to be coated in the base layer to be coated with a working side which is exposed to the material flow of the coating material, it should not be the coating range of the coating apparatus is constituted by at least one rotatable disk, the present invention relates to the mask is perpendicular to the disc upper side of the disk material flow of the coating material. Another aspect of the present invention comprises a thermal and / or dynamic coating system having at least one injection device and a corresponding method for manufacturing a substrate to be coated. .The


This paper discusses efforts to improve and adapt a method of evaluation of results and impacts of research programs and its application to the PROSAB program (Basic Sanitation Research Program) sponsored by FINEP, Brazil's federal agency for financing studies and projects. The PROSAB program is executed mainly by universities, although its purpose is to meet the technological needs of Brazilian society in the area of sanitation. The study concentrates on the discussion of the importance of evaluating research programs and on the creation of a methodology that can capture the inherent aspects resulting from those programs. The study was developed along two lines: evaluation of results, which concentrated on measuring the program's inputs and outputs; and evaluation of impacts, which was based on measurements of the intensity and importance of potential or perceived transformations in Brazilian society as a result of the program. The evaluation of results focused on the people executing the program (PROSAB researchers), and the unit of reference for the analysis was the research project. The evaluation of impacts encompassed the entire set of actors related to Brazil's sanitation sector, comprising the research community, sanitation companies, public actors at local and federal levels, and the unit of analysis was the program itself.


Abstract: Background: Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is an important risk factor for skin cancer in transplant recipients. In view of the potential suppressive effect of UVR on host resistance it was examined whether exposure to UVR was also associated with the occurrence of various skin infections.


This research is about the design of steel structure building by using EBF stiffener. The purpose of this research is to design a high-level bulding of steel structures with EBF stiffener that is strong to withstand all the loads that work on the structure. The calculation method that used in this design include loads analysis and structural analysis that each folows the prevailing standards. SNI 1729:2015 is used for the design of steel structure (column and beam), SNI 2947:2013 for design of reinforced concrete structure (floor pelate), and also SNI 1726:2012 and SNI 1727:2013 are used for loading planning. The EBF design is designed using type of bracing "split K-braced" with the type of link is "intermediate link". Structural analysis was performed using the structural software SAP 2000. The result of this research show that design with EBF stiffener is able to withstand all working loads.
Penelitian ini adalah tentang perancangan bangunan struktur baja dengan menggunakan pengaku EBF. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk merancang bangunan tingkat tinggi struktur baja dengan pengaku EBF yang kuat menahan seluruh beban yang bekerja pada sturktur. Metode perhitungan yang digunakan dalam perancangan ini antara lain analisis pembebanan dan analisis struktur yang masing-masing mengikuti standar yang berlaku. Digunakan SNI 1729:2015 untuk desain struktur baja (kolom dan balok), SNI 2847:2013 untuk desain struktur beton bertulang (pelat lantai), serta SNI 1726:2012 dan SNI 1727:2013 untuk perencanaan pembebanan. Desain EBF dirancang menggunakan tipe pengaku split K braced dengan tipe link adalah "intermediate link". Analisis struktur dilakukan dengan menggunakan program struktur SAP 2000. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa seluruh desain struktur dengan pengaku EBF mampu menahan seluruh beban yang bekerja.


Background : data acquired from the Ministry of Health showing the prevalence of obesity in
Indonesian women was 32,9 %, a rise from approximately 18,1 % in 2007 (13,9%) dan 17,5 %
from 2010 (15,5% and obesity has for quite some time been seen as a risk factor for a
pregnancy.
Purpose : Aimed to give a profile of obese pregnant women who delivered in RSUD Dr.
Soetomo during the period of January 2016 – December 2016 & the correlation of BMI towards
maternal and fetal outcomes.
Method : This study is a hospital-based analytic study with the samples were Obese pregnant
women who gave birth during the period of January 2016 – December 2016.
Result : There were 206 obese pregnant women data collected during the study, as well as 227
data of of the infants delivered with 16 cases of twin, 1 triplet, & 1 quadruplet. Among 206
Women, 120 (58.3%) were classified as early adult according to Depkes RI Classification. 111
(53.8%) were classified as class I obese, 46 (23.3%) in class II obese, and 49 (23.7%) in class
III obese. 89.8% of 206 sample had cesarean delivery, 6.3% had postpartum hemorrhage, 7.8%
had gestational diabetes, & 73.3% had preeclampsia. On the other hand, among 227 infants
1.8% had birth defect, 4.4% were macrosomic, 7.1% were classified as IUGR, & 1.8% were
sitllbirth cases.


1. Contextual Translating and adapting concepts, tools, and processes to local contexts: − Tailoring the process and approach to match existing approaches, and to be responsive to local concerns and contexts (e.g. Ethiopia, Tajikistan, Shyamnagar, Eskilstuna, ALH, Pacific herring, Helge å, Arctic, Limpopo), e.g. by starting workshop with a community walk (Tajikistan), focusing the limited time on what was new relative to existing work in the organization (Ethiopia), developing their own resilience practice approach adapted to their context (Murray, Goulburn-Broken, Kangaroo Island, Shyamnagar, Limpopo), adapting resilience metrics and principles to the local contexts (Pacific herring, ALH), and letting resilience outcomes, "of what" and "to what", be defined for each case by local case experts (Arctic) (relates to 5. Adaptive). − Identifying different sub-systems within the system/region, e.g. based on different livelihoods and landscape dynamics (Helge å, Shyamnagar, Goulburn-Broken, Kangaroo Island, Murray), and differentiating priorities and implementation strategies between the sub-systems, and/or supporting development of local/sub-regional plans and visions (Goulburn-Broken, Murray, Kangaroo Island, ALH). − Framing resilience in a more normative, contextual sense, e.g. by focusing on resilience as a positive attribute of communities and their livelihoods, (Shyamnagar, ALH, Arctic). − Adapting language and terms to the local context, from e.g. Ethiopian village, to Australian natural resource management and planning, to an international UN organization (e.g. Murray, Ethiopia). − Formulating multiple purposes for the process, from the perspectives of the participants and the different partner organizations (ALH). − Starting with a first workshop with only the partner organization, or only community elders and leaders, to familiarize them with the approach, evaluate its usefulness for them, and let them decide whether they want to proceed with a resilience assessment or not (Ethiopia (local), Eskilstuna). − Performing a "social test" on proposed strategies to check that their relevance for lay people and local communities (Shyamnagar). − Tailoring process depending on access to resources and data (e.g. Kangaroo Island).


The essay analyses how Paulo Freire's philosophy and its appropriation by authors from Popular Education in Health (PEH) re-signify care while dialoguing with the literature regarding this thematic. Firstly, we reflected on the notions underlying the Freirean ontology: valorization of popular knowledge and cultures, dialogue, respect, and lovingness. Next, we presented the comprehensions and assumptions of care in the literature from PEH, also highlighting the proposed ways to confront the hegemony of biomedicine, a conception that reduces care to a set of technical procedures centered in the disease. The analysis showed that care is assumed as a political act that through different ways must have a commitment with the world construction that implies building an authentic life that allows overcoming the oppressions. Finally, we added to the Freirean approach as word-action of care.


The research on the restoration method for the GMPLS are mostly using the concept of traditional method, but the features of GMPLS about recovery technology require the restoration method with some special requirements. In this paper, we develop some problems first, which occur in GMPLS's fault recovery. Based on this, the article proposes a new GMPLS recovery algorithm based on multi-constrained recovery (MCR), and describes how to set the constraint conditions. Then we apply this algorithm in mesh network and give the implement and feature. These algorithms draw on the experience of the traditional recovery techniques and also fully consider the properties in GMPLS, so make it successive and compatible


This paper proposes a method of acoustic vibration testing based on a point source generated by laserinduced breakdown in the air. A highpower Nd: YAG pulse laser is used in this system for generating the laserinduced breakdown in acoustic fields. Plasma formation can be realized by the laserinduced breakdown if the local intensity of the laser beam reaches 10 W/m. The shock wave that is yielded by consuming a part of the plasma energy becomes a sound source. Assuming that the laser beam is focused to a small volume through a convex lens and the sound source by the laser inducedbreakdown has nondirectional property, it is possible to create a point source with this technique. Securing the laser light path installs no device for acoustic excitation in acoustic fields. The system is validated by comparing the resonant frequencies of a microspace measured by the laserinduced breakdown and calculated by theoretical model.


ObjectiveTo investigate long-term outcome after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) with or without posttraumatic seizure (PTS). Methods225 inpatients of severe TBI were analyzed retrospectively, with parts of them followed up for 2~5 years after injury.Results31 cases (13.8%) were diagnosed as PTS. All the PTS patients and 66 TBI patients without PTS were followed up. There were lower scores of quality of life index (QLI) in PTS patients (5.23±2.25) than those without PTS (7.05±2.28).ConclusionThere was a worse long-term outcome in TBI patients with PTS.


Having graduated not at the right time is a common phenomena among college students and  procrastinantion which is delaying the final assignment become the reason. One of factors that affect  procrastination is self-efficacy. Self-efficacy that is predicting academic achievement is academic self-efficacy. This research uses quantitative methods to examine the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic procrastination among 210 students who are completing the last assignment. Instrument used are academic procrastination scale and academic self-efficacy scale. Result shows that there is no significant correlation between academic self-efficacy and academic procrastination among students who were completing the last assignment (r = -0.059, p = 0.398). Besides, academic procrastination had significant differences by age, gender, year of admission, residence, and activities. In the same time, the academic self-efficacy had differences by age, year in, obstacles and activities.


High-temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials is achieved by hole or electron doping of the parent Mott insulator. In this paper, electron-doped Nd2−xCexCuO4±δ films with different content of cerium have been grown on (010) SrTiO3(TiO2) substrates through a dc sputtering technique. Since the normal conducting films can be obtained by controlling the oxygen content inside the crystalline structure by means of appropriate annealing procedures (that allow a reduction process), different as-grown nonsuperconducting films have been obtained. The samples have been thermally treated ex-situ at different temperatures and atmospheres in order to investigate the effects of different content of oxygen on the films properties. The results of the composition analysis, of the structural characterization and of the electric transport measurements on samples with a Ce fraction of 0 and 0.15 will be discussed.


Abstract Fullerenol, C60 (OH) n (n is about 24), was investigated by using electrochemical techniques on Platinum electrode in aqueous solutions. Fullerenol was found to promote hydrogen adsorption during cathodic polarization, while its electrochemical inertness was observed within the potential window of water. This effect was involved by the formation of multi-layer adsorption of fullerenol on Pt surface.


ABSTRACT The integration of the geologic data from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Risk Based Data Management System (RBDMS) with Geographix software is a quick and efficient process by which an operator can create, or update, their well database throughout the state. A process by which data is retrieved from RBDMS and tailored into a form usable by Geographix is reviewed.


Four masters in late Qing Dynasty is not only the ending of traditional Ci theory but also the beginning of modern that.They took the throne of Ci creation and took the lead in the poetic world in their times.Their initiation in Ci theory and reforms in Ci writing had great achievements and influence on Ci studies.For one thing,they impelled the revival of Ci studies and made it a magnificent end relying on their creative accomplishments,Ci poetic thought and activities.Simultaneously they exhorted and promoted newer comers,as a result,had set up a new force for modern and contemporary times.In a word,they performed deeds of valor at Ci poetic development.


The weak form quadrature element method is a high-order algorithm which has been applied successfully to consolidation analysis of saturated and unsaturated soils. Its superiority over the conventional finite element method has been verified. However, in consolidation analysis, pore pressure oscillations will appear when small time increments are used due to the very small permeability and near-incompressibility of the pore water. This can produce almost zero values of main diagonal elements in the coefficient matrix. To overcome the pressure oscillations, we propose a coupled composite quadrature element in which different orders of integration are employed for the pore pressure and the displacement. Its performance is evaluated and compared with that of the standard element through 1D and 2D numerical tests. Our results show that pressure oscillations can be effectively alleviated and stability and accuracy can be significantly enhanced by using the proposed element.


A case of primary cutaneous plasmacytoma is described. The 76-year-old patient presented with a 10-year history of recurrent painless subcutaneous nodules predominantly on the neck and the upper trunk. Histopathological and immunohistochemical studies of paraffin-embedded tissue revealed dense, nodular infiltration of plasma cells with restriction of immunoglobulin κ-chain expression within the entire dermis and subcutaneous tissue, suggesting clonal proliferation of cutaneous plasma cells. The patient was submitted to systemic chemotherapy with melphalan and prednisone and showed good response.


The utility model discloses a pitch-based polyurethane foam insulated pipeline, which has a three-layer pipe wall, and the three layers are in sequence of a metal pipeline layer (1), a pitch-based polyurethane foam insulating layer (2), and a polyethylene protective layer (3) from inside out, wherein, the pitch-based polyurethane foam insulating layer (2) is solidly bonded on the outer surface of the metal pipeline layer (1) and the inner surface of the polyethylene protective layer (3). The pipeline is a novel pipeline which not only has corrosion resistance, and strong bonding with a substrate, but also has heat insulation, thus prolonging the service life of the pipeline.


This paper presents a DFM cost comparison of injection molding and stamping, the processes most commonly used in the production of consumer oriented special purpose components. The general guidelines obtained and conclusions drawn in order to determine if a component should be injection molded or stamped, and/or if several components should be combined into a single component or not, are discussed. The cost evaluation and comparison are primarily in terms of the functional equivalence of feature, component, and assembly.


Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text Abstract Background: In patients with complex true coronary bifurcation lesions (CBLs), Crush or Culotte stenting has been the commonest approaches of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, the optimal one remains in debate. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies searched from PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), VIP information database, and WangFang Data Information Site, to compare the long-term safety and efficacy of PCI with Crush versus Culotte in patients with CBLs. The primary end point was target lesion revascularization (TLR) and secondary end points were a composite of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) including cardiac death (CD), myocardial infarction (MI), stent thrombosis (ST), and target vessel revascularization (TVR) by PCI or bypass surgery, and each individual component at long-term follow-up. Furthermore, omitting each study in turn was used to sensitivity analysis for high heterogeneity of studies. Results: A total of 7 studies were included to perform a meta-analysis, 3 randomized trials and 4 observational studies with 2211 patients, 1281 treated with Crush and 930 with Culotte. There was no significant difference in TLR and MACE between Crush and Culotte [RR 0.76, 95% CI (0.48–1.23), I2 = 57%; RR 0.78, 95% CI (0.47–1.29), I2 = 83%, respectively]. ST tended to be lower in patients treated with Crush [RR 0.61, 95% CI (0.37–1.01), I2 = 23%]. CD and MI were comparable between the 2 groups [RR 0.80, 95% CI (0.43–1.49), I2 = 0%; RR 0.74, 95% CI (0.49–1.13), I2 = 32%, respectively]. TVR was also associated with the similar risk [RR 0.76, 95% CI (0.49–1.16), I2 = 60%]. However, high heterogeneity was detected for TLR, MACE, and TVR, and the source of heterogeneity was DKCRUSH-III study by Chen, SL. Conclusions: In the treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions, TLR and MACE were not significant difference between the Crush and Culotte groups, but TLR and MACE were also regarded as high heterogeneity mainly due to better outcomes achieved by DK Crush and there was a trend toward lower ST in the Crush group. Crush, particularly DK Crush, may be superior to conventional Culotte for treatment of CBLs. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42018111868.


In chronic central serous chorioretinopathy, fluid accumulates in the subretinal space and causes permanent vision loss in ≈ 30% of patients. There is no definitive treatment. Previous research suggests that the mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist eplerenone is effective but it is not licensed for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy.

 The objective was to evaluate whether or not eplerenone was safe and superior to placebo for treating chronic central serous chorioretinopathy. We also aimed to set up a biobank of DNA, serum and plasma samples from treatment-naive participants for future research.

 The trial was a parallel, randomised (1 : 1 ratio), multicentre, double-masked, placebo-controlled superiority trial comparing eplerenone plus usual care with placebo plus usual care. Participants were randomly allocated to eplerenone or placebo using a secure online system that returned a unique number corresponding to a bottle of the investigational medicinal product. Participants, clinical care teams, pharmacists, outcome assessors and the trial management group were masked.

 The trial took place in 22 NHS hospitals in the UK.

 Eligible participants were patients aged 18–60 years with treatment-naive chronic central serous chorioretinopathy of at least 4 months' duration, a best corrected visual acuity score of 54–85 letters and no other conditions affecting visual acuity or contraindications to taking eplerenone or placebo.

 The intervention was oral eplerenone (25 mg/day for 1 week, increased to 50 mg/day for up to 12 months). Placebo was a lactose-filled capsule that appeared identical to the overencapsulated eplerenone tablets. To maintain blinding, participants in the placebo group followed the same dose escalation schedule as the eplerenone group. Usual care was included in both groups and was administered at the discretion of clinicians.

 The primary outcome was best corrected visual acuity score at 12 months. Secondary outcomes were low-luminance visual acuity, central subfield retinal thickness, change in subretinal fluid thickness, systemic and ocular adverse events, macular atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, subfoveal choroidal thickness, choroidal permeability, resolution of subretinal fluid, time to recurrence of subretinal fluid, fundus fluorescein angiography phenotype, incidence of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy in the fellow eye, and patient-reported visual function.

 Between 11 January 2017 and 22 February 2018, 57 participants were randomised to eplerenone and 57 to placebo; 57 and 54 participants, respectively, were included in the analysis of the primary outcome. The modelled mean best corrected visual acuity score at 12 months in the eplerenone and placebo groups was 80.4 letters (standard deviation 4.6 letters) and 79.5 letters (standard deviation 4.5 letters), with an estimated difference between groups of 1.73 letters (95% confidence interval –1.12 to 4.57 letters; p = 0.24). Hyperkalaemia occurred in eight participants in each group (14%). No serious adverse events occurred in the eplerenone group; three unrelated serious adverse events occurred in the placebo group.

 Limitations included the inability to prevent co-treatments and discontinuation of the investigational medicinal product in the event of resolution or hyperkalaemia.

 Eplerenone was safe but not superior to placebo in improving best corrected visual acuity in people with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy during 12 months of follow-up. In future work, ophthalmologists should investigate alternative treatments for this condition, which remains complicated to treat.

 Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN92746680.

 This project was funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme, a MRC and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) partnership. This will be published in full in Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation; Vol. 8, No. 2. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.


Objective:To summarize the treatment experience of laparoscopic cholecystectomy(LC) in the treatment of acute cholecystitis.Methods: Clinical records of 53 cases of acute cholecystitis treated by LC from October 2001 to October 2007 were retrospective reviewed.Results: Among 53 cases,the operation was successfully completed in 46 cases(86.79%),and 7 cases changed to take laparotomy(13.21%).The operation time was 40~185 minutes(average 100 minutes).Conclusions: In acute cholicystitis,although LC operation is relatively difficult and diverse,it is feasible to take LC operation once you strictly control surgery indication and LC operation technology.


Abstract : Description of scientific research goals is as follows: induce low energy ion bombardment related effects in ferroelectric thin films, to enhancing the oxygen incorporation efficiency to modify the properties; understanding space-charge related effects on polarization switching phenomena; understanding and correlation of intrinsic multi-tunneling process across heterojunctions in ferroelectric thin films; establish correlation between low energy oxygen ion bombardment to space-charge and heterojunction based conduction and their impact on polarization switching; correlation of switching mechanism via write voltage time dependence to the low energy induced property modifications.


years; antisera from rabbits, rats, and guinea pigs immunized with MTV-containing tissue extracts are capable of neutralizing the biologic activity of the virus (1, 2, 3, 6, 9). More recently, it has been demonstrated that MTV is also immunogenic in the mouse; antisera from immunized mice react with MTV antigen in immunodiffusion to produce a precipitate line specific for MTV (5, 11). The present communication reports that mouse antiserum is also capable of neutralizing the biologic activity of MTV. MTV antigen for immunization of the mice was prepared by centrifugation of MTV in a sucrose density gradient, as pre viously described (7, 8). The source of virus was milk obtained from BALB/cCrgl mice that had been fostered on DBA/2Crgl mice, and therefore were infected with the MTV carried by that strain. Each of five I"/BiCrgl adult female mice received an intraperitoneal injection of saline containing the MTV derived from 0.01 ml milk on Days 1, 4, 8, and 22. The mice were bled 2 weeks after the last injection, and their sera were pooled and frozen in a commercial refrigerator. The pooled serum contained antibodies against MTV, as measured by the development of the precipitate line specific for MTV, when it was tested in immunodiffusion against MTV antigen (5). Normal mouse serum for control purposes was obtained from normal adult BALB/c male mice. Serum from several donors was pooled and frozen until needed. Biologically active MTV for the neutralization experiment was prepared from an extract of BALB/cfC3HCrgl lactating mammary gland tissue by sedimentation in the ultracentrifuge, as previously described (3). The neutralization procedure was carried out in vitro at room temperature (3, 6). Equal amounts of undiluted mouse serum and saline, or saline alone, were combined in test tubes with the virus preparation so that 1 ml of solution contained MTV from 0.05 gm of lactating gland tissue. After 2 hours, 0.2-ml


The article studies theoretical researches of intensity by water absorption of the crushed wood. The article studies the major factors influencing these processes, wood structure, intensity of loss of a moisture at sublimation. Basic schemes of containers with natural air and ways of formation from them wood-transport units are resulted.


Objective To analyze the clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with cardiac amyloidosis.Methods Using echocardiogram,ECG,and pathological findings,the clinical data of 10 patients with cardiac amyloidosis were retrospectively analysed.Results Patients with cardiac amyloidosis commonly had symptoms of weight loss(9 cases),fatigue(8 cases),oedema(8 cases),dyspnoea(7 cases),chest pain(5 cases),and chronic diarrhea(6 cases).And they also exhibited the characteristics of large atriums,hypertrophic ventricular walls and strong echo light-spots under the endocardiomembrane on echocardiography,as well as low limb lead voltage on ECG.Most patients had renal,dermatic and gastrointestinal involvements.Conclusion Patients having cardiac dysfunction of unknown origin and meanwhile showing the characteristics of restrictive cardiomyopathy on echocardiogram and low limb lead voltage on ECG should be considered the possibility of cardiac amyloidosis and need to prove it through biopsy.


Slurry erosion of turbine components is a serious problem in most of the hydraulic power plants all around the world. Although some counter measures such as catchment area treatment to reduce the amount of sand particles going through the turbine components and modifying the hydraulic shape of turbine to reduce slurry erosion have been taken, still slurry erosion is responsible for heavy economic losses. Research is also in progress for improving the surface properties of the turbine components by the application of thermal sprayed coatings. Among various thermal spray processes, high-velocity oxy fuel (HVOF) spray process is a relatively industrially established and economical process. In this paper, an attempt has been made to describe HVOF thermal spray technology. Further, this paper presents a tutorial introduction, comprehensive history, and review of research work done on the use of this technique to provide protection against slurry erosion of some metals and alloys with a special emphasis on the hydraulic turbine steels.


Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) hydrogel with various PVA/PEO compositions was prepared by freezing/thawing method. The effect of PEO content on the structure and property of the gel was investigated. The molecular chains of PEO with relatively high crystalline and molecular weight may limit the movement of PVA chains, resulting in the increase in glass transition temperature (T g) of PVA and enhancement of the mechanical properties of PVA hydrogel. With increasing content of PEO, the equilibrium swelling ratio of PVA/PEO hydrogel films increased, resulting in the formation of porous structure with increasing pore size and capillary water absorption capacity. However, the swelling rate constant k decreased, because the formed loose network decreased the osmotic pressure, which weakened the driving force to absorb water. Most of the water in PVA hydrogel was in the form of free water and freezing bound water, and relatively less water was in the form of nonfreezing bound water. With increasing content of PEO, the free water content was remarkably increased and the weight ratio of freezing and nonfreezing bound water to dry gel weight increased, indicating that the interaction between PVA/PEO molecules and water molecules was enhanced.


This paper presents new techniques dealing with the reliability of complex systems. A power station reliability assessment model is used to illustrate the approach. Before calculating the state transient probabilities for the overall electrical power plant, the failure and repair rates of each generating unit are needed. These two coefficients can form a transition rate matrix, which represents each generator. To form the overall system a special technique is required. In the present study the direct‐differentiation and the Kronecker algebra methods are used to form the overall transition rate matrix, which represents the whole system. Forming the overall system is the first part (major part) of the current study. The second part is to calculate the state transient probabilities, following the Adams method. Two electric power plants from the State of Bahrain are analysed as examples. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Most cells in the human body possess primary cilium, a tiny antenna‐like projection from the cell surface to the environment. In endothelial cells, the primary cilia function as a sensor of blood flow and sheer stress and contribute to both calcium and nitric oxide signaling. Bardet‐Biedl syndrome (BBS) proteins are associated with cilia‐related structures such as the basal body. At least 21 BBS genes (Bbs1‐Bbs21) have been identified so far. The BBS1 protein is an important member of the BBSome complex which contain seven additional BBS proteins (BBS2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 18). The BBSome mediates protein trafficking to the cilia membrane and perhaps to other cellular compartments. To investigate the role of the cilia protein and the BBSome in endothelial cell function, we generated mice lacking the Bbs1 gene specifically in endothelial cells by crossing mice carrying floxed alleles of the Bbs1 gene (Bbs1fl/fl) with the endothelial –specific Tie2cre mice. The Bbs1fl/fl/Tie2Cre mice developed normally compared to littermate control mice. We assessed vascular function ex vivo using aortic rings and resistance‐sized mesenteric arteries. Interestingly, we found that loss of the Bbs1 gene leads to endothelial dysfunction. In aortic rings, relaxation responses to acetylcholine were decreased in female Bbs1fl/fl/Tie2Cre mice compared to controls (Max. relaxation: 40.1±7.7% vs 73.6±15.3%, P<0.05). The male Bbs1fl/fl/Tie2Cre mice displayed a slightly decreased response that was not statistically different (Max relaxation: 70.4±0.6% vs 76.5±1.7%). In the resistance‐sized mesenteric arteries, both male and female Bbs1fl/fl/Tie2Cre mice showed significantly decreased in relaxation response to acetylcholine (Max. relaxation: male: 38.3±5.5% vs 67.4±5.5% in controls, P<0.05; female: 27.5±12.9% vs 80.8±11.3% in controls, P<0.05). However, the relaxation responses evoked by sodium nitroprusside were not different in male and female Bbs1fl/fl/Tie2Cre mice in both the aorta and mesenteric arteries, indicative of endothelial but not smooth muscle dysfunction in the endothelium‐specific Bbs1 null mice. Thus, disruption of the Bbs1 gene in endothelial cells leads to vascular endothelial dysfunction. Our studies have identified the BBS1 protein as a novel regulator of vascular endothelial function.


This article address central issues surrounding harmonization of unjust enrichment, such as its scope, the relationship between unjust (or unjustified) enrichment and restitution, and the subsidiary of unjust enrichment. The article argues also that the gap between continental law and common law vis-a-vis unjust enrichment is not so broad. From the perspective of Israeli law the paper refers to the distinction between restitution and unjust enrichment, the expansive role of unjust enrichment as a tool for deterring interference (encroachment) upon others' rights and the use of constructive trusts.


The law on cutting off supply under 33 II has been drafted with two objectives. Firstly, the district heating utility is to have a safeguard against future arrears of payment and be provided with a means of applying pressure for obtaining arrears of payment for previous supplies. Secondly, the consumer is to be protected from the serious consequences of loss of supply by additional formal requirements, i.e. formal notice, a notice of restriction of supply and a two-week deadline. In order to achieve a fair balance between the interests of the district heating utility and those of the consumer, the proportionality of the consequences of deprivation of supply and the utility's objectives must always be examined. The circumstances of each individual case must always be considered.


The segmentation and representation of complex features in higher dimensional data sets is of paramount importance for machine recognition and human perception of image informa- tion. A multiresolution and multi—aspect data representation paradigm, a morphological skeleton, is used in this paper to provide a hierarchical framework for efficient representa- tion and visualization of data for machine recognition and human perception of data features. The utilization of fuzzy operators establishes a basis within this framework for organizing packets, or fuzzy sets, of approximate information by minimum coverings or maximal sub- tense. 3—D and 2—D image data are used to demonstrate applications of these techniques on higher dimensional data sets. Grayscale mathematical morphology provides an established basis and an algebra for fuzzy operators due to its representation of fuzzy maps over a set support. Specifically, the applica- tion of morphological operators in scale and orientation paradigms with tractable support shapes provides an ordered basis for topological analysis and user perception of data. To eliminate precision loss grayscale morphology utilizes only set operations requiring only computer addition and comparison.


Dehiscence following intestinal surgery results in significant patient morbidity and mortality. Thorough knowledge and application of modern evidence-based principles relating to the procedures of ...


Three neo-clerodane diterpenoids, jodrellin A, jodrellin B and clerodin have been isolated from Scutellaria spp. and assayed for antifungal activity against the plant pathogenic fungi Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici and Verticillium tricorpus. Spore germination of V. tricorpus was delayed by clerodin and jodrellin B. Growth of F. oxysporum and V. tricorpus was inhibited by the clerodanes in a dose dependent manner. Ecological implications are discussed.


though this seems to be due partly to a misunderstanding of the term "maintenance of the individuality of chromosomes." The single spireme, which results from the fusion of chromomeres upon the lining thread, enters into the synaptic stage. In accord with LAWSON, Miss WOOLERY has found by measurements, which she records, that there is an enlargement of the nuclear cavity; but, contrary to the former's conclusions, the space occupied by the chromatin material is found by actual measurement, which she also records, to be less. During synapsis there is a shortening and a thickening of the thread to form the uniform spireme which later emerges from the synaptic ball. Unfortunately, there are no drawings to show the thread at the time of greatest contraction. During second contraction the first appearance of the split spireme is recorded, though the double structure spoken of in figs. i i and I 2 may possibly have been an earlier appearance of this condition. In several places considerable mphasis has been placed upon the fact that portions of the spireme are in connection with the nuclear membrane. The question would arise here, whether these were connections of any significance or merely portions of the chromatin that were tardy in movement. Reduction is by means of cross segmentation at the periphery of the radiating loops, as found during second contraction; this act being followed by a side-to-side approximation of the limbs of the loops or of separate portions of the thread, thereby forming the bivalent chromosomes. Evidences of spindle formation do not bear out LAWSON'S theory that the fibers are expressions of lines of tension due to the contraction of the nuclear membrane. The idea that the resting nucleus is composed of two substances, chromomeres and lining, is still held by this investigator. Before definite conclusions can be drawn concerning the structure of the resting nucleus and the formation of the spireme from the resting condition, a closer series during the early prophases and the late telophase of the last division of the sporogenous tissue must be made. The careful measurements of the nuclear cavity and the chromatin mass at the time of the first contraction cannot fail to show fallacies in the view put forward by LAWSON.-MILDRED NOTHNAGEL.


This paper studies women`s clothing and textiles recorded in the 『the Odes』, and refers research materials on the old commentaries about the 『the Odes』 and the various kinds of records and remains. The results regarding women`s clothing in the 『the Odes』are as follow: 1. Ti-i(翟衣), Chan-i(展衣) are the women`s ceremonial dresses. Ti-i is a kind of the court dress and the shape is a long dress embroidered with pheasant. Chan-i belongs to the lower grade compared with the six ritual dresses worn by the queen and is made of Hu(穀) that is a kind of the white soft-wrinkled fabrics. 2. A women`s I-Shang (衣裳) is composed of a blouse and a skirt. It is the classic style before the She^n-I(深衣) appears in China. Also we find that they use the standard colours for a blouse and the intermediate colours for a skirt in Chou period. 3. Chiung-I(경의), Chiung-Shang(경상) and Hsieh-Pen(설번) are a kind of the robe put over the former garment made of Chin(錦) not to display the elegance. 4. Fu(副), Che^n-Fa(진발), Pei(被) and T`i(체) are a kind of women`s wig. Ti(체) and the six-Chia (육가) are women`s hair ornaments. Ch`i-Chin(기건) and Ju-Lu¨(여려) are a kind of the working women`s turbun. 5. The women`s belt ornaments are classified into the practical things and the decorational things like those for men. The results regarding fabrics in the 『the Odes』 are as follow : 1. The silk fabrics; There are Chin(錦), Hu(穀), Chou(추), Tzu˘(緇), Su(素), Hsiu(繡), 縞. 2. The woolen fabrics; There is Ho(褐). 3. The linen fabrics: There are the hemp and the ramie in the remains of Chou period. Also there are Ch`ih(치) and Hsi(격) categorized in Ko(葛) fabrics.


Steganography will pick up its significance because of the exponential development and mystery correspondence of potential PC clients over the web. It can likewise be characterized as the investigation of undetectable correspondence that ordinarily deals with the techniques for disguising the nearness of the bestowed message. For the most part information implanting is accomplished in correspondence, picture, content, voice or interactive media content for copyright, military correspondence, confirmation and numerous different purposes. In picture Steganography, riddle correspondence is expert to introduce a message into cover picture (used as the transporter to embed message into) and deliver a stego picture (created picture which is passing on a covered message). In this paper we have on a very basic level researched diverse steganographic strategies. For hiding data we used virtual key replacement technique which provides high data security in terms of payload, Image Quality etc.


Two studies were conducted to examine age and sex differences in friends' activities and relations of participation in these activities to perceived friendship quality. In Study 1, 52 fourth and eighth graders were asked open-ended questions about activities they do with their best friends. In Study 2, 105 fourth and eighth graders reported both on perceived friendship quality and frequency of participation in 40 activities mentioned in Study 1. Eighth graders participated in more school, maintenance, media, and socializing activities with friends than fourth graders did. Boys participated in more sports and media activities with friends than girls did. Students who did more socializing, school, and maintenance activities with friends perceived more positive features in their friendships. These results suggest that engaging in some but not all types of activities with friends may enhance the development of high-quality friendships.


THE INVENTION CONCERNS A HYDRAULIC SYSTEM SHOCK AMORTIZATION BY TYPE WAY necked. SAID SYSTEM FEATURES A DIVER IN 1 MOBILE LENGTHWISE CYLINDER 5 TO MOVE IN A FLUID PASSAGE LIMIT AND 4 BRAKE MHD AGENCY SO THAT THE FLUID HANDLING DRIVER OF pRODUCE ELECTRICITY GRADIENT PRESSURE ELECTROMAGNETICALLY ALONG THE PATH OF MOVING FLUID AND CREATING FORCE OPPOSING THIS MOVEMENT. APPLICATION TO NUCLEAR REACTOR COOLED LIQUID METAL.


In allocating the RF spectrum for the transmission of sensed data from space to earth, the characteristics of the data produced by each sensor are discussed. For example, data may be in the form of a continually varying voltage (analog) or may be a series of discrete pulses (digital). For the analog signal, its important characteristics to the spectrum allocator are its highest frequency component (bandwidth) and its range from minimum values (dynamic range or signal-to-noise ratio). For the digital signal, the characteristic of interest is the bit rate.


Galois theory is often regarded as a difficult area of mathematics. It's certainly not easy. But in a certain sense, this article argues, it's all really just a game. The most immediately important question addressed by Galois theory is the solubility of polynomial equations.


This work analyzes and presents theoretical performance of a marine water-breathing ramjet propulsor. A conceptual scheme of the motor is shown, the equation of thrust is presented, and the dependence on cruise velocity and depth are discussed. Different propellant compositions, representing a wide variety of formulations suitable for propelling a water-breathing ramjet, are investigated. The theoretical results reveal that the specific impulse of a water-breathing ramjet can increase by as much as 30% compared to a standard rocket, when using a conventional hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene (HTPB)-ammonium perchlorate (AP) propellant, which does not react chemically with the water. When employing a water-reactive propellant containing metal particles such as magnesium or aluminum, the specific impulse may be more than doubled. The thrust coefficient of the propulsor was computed at different cruise velocities and depths and was found to be greater than the predictable drag even at significant depth.


The article analyzes the influence of seasonal and temporal factors, as well the water areas geographic coordinates on the distribution parameters value of turbulized interlayers in depth. As the initial data for these studies, vertical profiles of the temperature and velocity of water masses were used.


We report measurements of spin correlations and analyzing powers in 'He(p, 2p) and 'He(p, pn) quasielastic scattering as a function of momentum transfer and missing momentum at 197 MeV using a polarized internal target at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Cooler Ring. At sufficiently high momentum transfer we find 'He(p, pn) spin observables are in good agreement with free p n-scattering observables, and therefore that 'He can serve as a good polarized neutron target. The extracted polarizations of nucleons in 'He at low missing momentum are consistent with Faddeev calculations.


-This study compares hunting practices and preferences of Lacandon, Tzeltal, and Mestizo hunters from five communities adjacent to Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in the Lacandon Forest, Chiapas, Mexico. We conducted interviews and directly observed animals taken by hunters during one year. Wildlife was hunted by most Indian and Mestizo residents primarily for food and to reduce crop damage. Per capita, Lacandon hunters extracted more wildlife biomass than both Tzeltal and Mestizo hunters. Total biomass extracted from 32 wildlife species was 8160 kg/year. Ungulates and rodents made up 87% of the total biomass harvested. Paca, red brocket deer, white-tailed deer, and collared peccary were the species with the greatest harvest rates. Harvest rates were positively correlated with the intrinsic rate of natural increase of species (rm",)' Species that reproduce faster were hunted more frequently. There were no correlations between harvest rates and body mass, standing biomass, density, or local economic value of game species. Our results suggest that rmdX of species should be considered when managing subsistence hunting and that hunting should be regulated, preferably through community-based management, for the benefit of both residents and local wildlife populations.


Results on a large dynamic range front-end integrated circuit for readout of avalanche photodiodes with an associated low consumption non-linear compressor scheme are presented.


Abstract Dengue fever is a major public health concern in India with epidemics occurring periodically. Hemorrhagic complications of varying severity are described in dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. Although thrombocytopenia and hemorrhage are the much hyped complications, there is little literature on the thrombotic complications of dengue. We report a case of a 39-year-old lady who developed pulmonary thromboembolism during the first week of the illness with successful clinical outcome. The probable mechanisms of thrombosis and the treatment dilemma posed during the management of the patient are discussed.


For about 30 years in the middle of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht dominated Western theater by virtue of their difference. Beckett represented a theater of the absurd and Brecht a theater of political commitment, each defining the other by their incompatibilities. Only their successors began to question the dichotomies and to draw on both their legacies. This volume looks back at the common ground of these two dramatists: their modernism and its legacy, their innovations in new media, the ways they directed their own work, and the shape of their thinking and writing. This territory is explored from the various perspectives of directors, dramaturgs, actors, and theorists in these contributions from a 2001 symposium at the University of Dublin.


1. Gemifumaratnaya salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-trifluoromethyl-benzyloxyimino] -ethyl} -2-ethylbenzyl) azetidine-3-carboxylic kisloty.2. Gemifumaratnaya salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-trifluoromethyl-benzyloxyimino] -ethyl} -2-ethylbenzyl) azetidine-3-carboxylic acid of claim 1, wherein said salt is substantially crystalline .3. Crystalline Form A gemifumaratnoy salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-triftormetilbenziloksiimino] ethyl} -2-ethylbenzyl) azetidine-3-carboxylic kisloty.4. Crystalline Form A gemifumaratnoy salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-triftormetilbenziloksiimino] ethyl} -2-ethylbenzyl) azetidine-3-carboxylic acid according to claim 3, characterized in that a crystalline form of has a powder X-ray diffraction, comprising at least one specific peak at angle 2 theta = about 20.7 ° .5. Crystalline Form A gemifumaratnoy salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-triftormetilbenziloksiimino] ethyl} -2-ethylbenzyl) azetidine-3-carboxylic acid according to claim 3, characterized in that a crystalline form of It has a powder diffraction pattern comprising specific peaks at about 2 theta = 6.9 °, 17.5 °, 18.1 °, 20.4 ° and 20.7 ° .6. Crystalline Form A gemifumaratnoy salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-triftormetilbenziloksiimino] ethyl} -2-ethylbenzyl) azetidine-3-carboxylic acid according to claim 3, characterized in that a crystalline form of It has a powder diffraction pattern substantially the same as the powder X-ray diffractogram shown in fig.1.7. Crystalline Form B gemifumaratnoy salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-triftormetilbenziloksiimino] ethyl} -2-ethylbenzyl) azetidine-3-carboxylic kisloty.8. Crystalline Form B gemifumaratnoy salt 1- (4- {1 - [(E) -4-cyclohexyl-3-trifluoromethyl-benzyloxy


The study scrutinises intermingled relations between children literature and some ecological issues. Such interwoven relationships would be highly recommended to encourage children to explore and identify themselves with nature from early ages to avoid facing an extreme experience later on.  The research limits its scope to two novels Suzanne Collins' (1962) The Hunger Games trilogy (2003-2007) and William Golding's (1911-1993) Lord of the Flies (1954), and both novels have no direct connections with Ecology and the Eco-consciousness, yet it offers an insightful description about Man's experience with Nature. Moreover, it raises serious moral questions, raises awareness, heals wounds and suggests solutions for the problems that are both cultural and physical about man's interactions with nature. The study narrows its theoretical methodology to the thematic contents of literature rather than their form.
Nevertheless, theories of ecocriticism such as Serpil Oppermann's, Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm are to be mentioned due to their relevance to the main ideas mentioned in the research. The conclusion sums up that the environment is turned to be man's collective problem rather than a mere didactic issue. This problem is referred to not only as a problem of nature, but also as social, psychological, and cultural problem that negatively affect all components of the earth. It is about a broad perspective which includes human as well as nonhuman nature.


ABSTRACT The concept of care coordination is at the forefront of national conversations in the context of health care reform. As pediatric social workers, we are interested in how care coordination benefits our patients, and which disciplines are providing coordination services. We have determined that significant overlap exists between the work social workers are already doing in inpatient and outpatient medical settings and the literature's definition of care coordination activities. This article outlines our process of literature review and creation of a working definition of care coordination, and frames the concepts we believe remain central to the process of care coordination.


where DF (x) denotes the differential of nth iterate of F evaluated at x and k·k is a norm on TxM. Since, TxM is a k-dimensional vectorial space, all its norms are equivalent, and thus l(x,v) does not depend on the chosen norm. It can be proved that for each x [ M, l(x,·) takes finitely many different values: 21 1⁄4 lx0 , lx1 , · · · , lxsx . In fact, there exists a linear filtration of TxM, V 1⁄4 {Vi:i 1⁄4 0,


Intracellular calcium and cAMP are the 2 second messengers that regulate renin release; cAMP stimulates renin release from juxtaglomerular (JG) cells, whereas increased intracellular calcium inhibits it. We hypothesized that decreased intracellular calcium acts by activating calcium-inhibitable isoforms of adenylyl cyclase, increasing cAMP, and stimulating renin secretion. We used a primary culture of JG cells isolated from C-57/B6 mice. Cells were plated to a density of 70% in serum-free medium and incubated for 2 hours with or without 100 &mgr;mol/L of the cytosolic calcium chelator 5′5-dimethyl-1,2-bis-(2-aminophenoxy)-ethane-N,N,N′,N′-tetra-acetic acid (BAPTA-AM) to decrease intracellular calcium. JG cell cAMP content and renin release were determined by radioimmunoassay. Intracellular cAMP content was 4.04±0.92 pM/mL per milligram of protein, and it increased by125±33% (P<0.01) with BAPTA-AM. Basal renin was 1.28±0.40 &mgr;g of angiotensin I per milliliter per hour per milligram of protein, and BAPTA-AM increased it by 182±62% (P<0.025). Western blots using an antibody that recognizes adenylyl cyclase types V and VI yielded a characteristic band of ≈135 kDa. When primary cultures of isolated JG cells were tested for the calcium-inhibitable isoforms of adenylyl cyclase, they showed intense focal cytoplasmic staining. Cells stained for both renin and adenylyl cyclase V/VI showed colocalization in the cytoplasm, primarily on the granules. An adenylyl cyclase inhibitor (SQ 22,536) completely blocked BAPTA-AM–stimulated renin release and JG cell cAMP content. We conclude that calcium-inhibitable isoform(s) of adenylyl cyclase (types V and/or VI) exist within the JG cell. Thus, decreased intracellular calcium stimulates adenylyl cyclase, resulting in cAMP synthesis and, consequently, renin release.


Mutations affecting the production of aflatoxin might be useful in studying its biosynthesis, and in understanding the wide variation in aflatoxigenicity of fungal strains isolated from nature. Two methods of isolating mutants of Aspergillus in which aflatoxin production is attenuated or lost are presented. In one method mutants are selected on the basis of altered fluorescence under ultraviolet light. The second method utilizes a mutant strain which produces aflatoxin and an orange-red mycelial pigment not detected in the wild type. Unpigmented mutants derived from this strain exhibit lowered or lost aflatoxigenicity.


【Purpose: Masseter muscle is an important muscle of mastication. Because it has a great influence on the shape of low facial contour, patients who have masseteric hypertrophy show square-shaped jaw appearance. As aesthetic procedures for the reduction of the masseter muscle volume, radiofrequency ablation or botulinum toxin injection is at the center of attention. Authors studied the anatomical measurement of the thickness and width of masseter muscle and the surface mapping of the maximal thickness point using computed tomography (CT) scan to identify the useful guide for the injection of botulinum toxin in masseteric hypertrophy patients. Methods: We analyzed 2 mm-thickness OMU (ostiomeatal unit) CT of 112 normal people (224 masseter muscles) taken from June 2009 to May 2010. First, we measured the thickness, width and depth of the masseter muscle from the skin surface and analysed each by side, sex and age, respectively. The distribution of the thickness of the muscle and the correlation of thickness and width of the muscle were studied also. Second, we underwent surface mapping of the maximal thickness point using CT analysis by means of checking the vertical and horizontal distance from the angle of the mandible. Results: The average thickness and width of the masseter muscle was 17.73 mm and 40.78 mm in the male patients and were 14.33 mm and 37.42 mm in the female patients. Statistically, both figures of the male patients were larger than those of the female patients. However, the depth of the muscle from the skin surface in female patients (7.37 mm) was larger than that of the male patients (6.15 mm). There were no statistical difference in side or age. The width and thickness of the masseter muscle were in the positive correlation. The location of maximal thickness point of the masseter muscle was 27.77 mm vertically and 27.68 mm horizontally in the male patients, and 25.19 mm vertically and 25.42 mm horizontally in the female patients from the angle of mandible. Conclusion: We were able to present statistical evidence of the diagnosis and treatment of the masseteric hypertrophy regarding the anatomical measurements such as the thickness and width. And the maximal thickness point of the masseter muscle may be a useful guide for the clinical procedures of botulinum toxin injection.】


Romania's public road network is mainly composed of 153,014 km of public roads, of which 51% have bituminous or Portland cement concrete surface. This length corresponds to 0.64 km/sq. km and to 6.58 km/1,000 inhabitants. Out of this quantity, about 52% are urban roads, considered legally in built-up areas. The main part of the rural roads is the so-called national highway network, which, although it represents only one fifth of the public rural roads, supports about 65% of the non-urban traffic. Out of the national highway network, which has a length of almost 15,000 km, about 4,500 km length represents the "E" highways, i.e. European or international traffic highways. The paper deals with the situation of the road safety in Romania in the last decade of the twentieth century. The main characteristics of the road transportation system are briefly presented. After a short description of the main obstacles met by the analysts of the road traffic safety in Romania, the general trends in the number of severe accidents, road fatalities and serious casualties are analysed. Some interesting and important particularities of the road safety situation are emphasised and their importance is discussed. At the end, some proposals are presented. For the covering abstract see ITRD E111131.


In an ATM network, information is transferred in packets of a short fixed length named cells. Due to the asynchronous way of multiplexing , queuing of cells at switching points in the network is needed. There is a maximum of cells that can be queued. If more cells need to be queued than possible, cells are lost. Besides cell loss, cells are delayed due to the queuing. The variation of cell delay(delay jitter) is also a performance measure. The jitter is important when a time relation between cells is required, since this time relation is disturbed by the queuing delay. Simulation is needed to validate assumptions made by analytic modeling of a virtual connection. The analytic modeling is done to study the performance of a virtual connection in an ATM network. The values of the performance measures are that extreme that conventional simulation will last too long. The main object of this graduation report is to study and implement a simulation technique to estimate, with relative short simulation runs, the probability of performance measures. The small probabilities of the performance measures can be expressed as probability of rare events. Restart is a method for accelerating simulations by estimating rare events. Restart stands for repetitive simulation trials after reaching a threshold. To implement Restart a simulation environment is created. This simulation environment named Simmust, is developed using an object oriented approach. With Simmust it is possible to simulate a diversity of models of virtual connections. Using Simmust as basis Restart is implemented. Restart is applied on one particular model. On this model Restart is used to determine the probability of cell loss. Finally some experiments are done to see in what way the acceleration of the method can be improved.


Investigators have shown that a history of physical abuse, sexual abuse, or both is associated with more severe interpersonal problems and higher rates


Hereby, one kind of facile carbon dots (CDs) from hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose (HPMC) has been successfully provided, which obviously emitted blue fluorescence. With the related characterizations in detail, the CDs prepared here mainly consisted of C and O, owing to the functional groups of–OH and C=O on their surfaces. Likewise, the CDs also showed multiple advantages, including excellent photostability, superior dispersity and desirable stability. Moreover, the CDs were applied for sensing ciprofloxacin due to forming complexes with ciprofloxacin, thus leading to the fluorescence quenching of CDs. This proposed method was permitted to sense ciprofloxacin in a linear range of 10 nM L^–1–90 μM L^–1, suggesting that it may broaden the sensing ways for assaying ciprofloxacin.


341Background: Genome-wide analysis is widely applied to detect molecular alterations in tumor and non-tumor tissue during oncogenesis and tumor progression. We analyzed DNA methylation profiles of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which was is the third-highest cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and investigated the clinical role of most heyper-methylated gene, encodes T-box 15 (TBX15), which was originally involved in mesodermal differentiation. Methods: We used an Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip Kit to conduct a genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation of tumor and non-tumor tissue of 15 patients with HCC. Methylation scores for CpG sites were assigned a Beta-value. Another validation set, which comprised 58 patients with HCC who underwent radical resection, was analyzed to investigate the relationships between tumor phenotype, prognosis, and TBX15 mRNA expression. Results: TBX15 was the most hyper-methylated gene (Beta-value in tumor tissue = 0.52 compared with non-tumor tissue), an...


Three lawsuits, later consolidated into one, grew out of a 1980 designation of certain areas of the Alton coal fields in southern Utah as unsuitable for surface coal mining under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. One of the issues raised by the case and by later unsuitability petition proceedings is the propriety of the legislative hearing provided by the regulations as opposed to an adjudicatory hearing. This Comment reviews the general legal principles of rulemaking and adjudication and describes the theory underlying the petition process. It indicates some problems in its practical application which Utah International, Inc. v. Watt serves to highlight. These include the stripping of UII of its property rights. 114 references.


The phenomenon of the rise of narcotics in society has become common knowledge that narcotics distribution is still continuing its efforts to pressure law enforcement to take the drug problem more seriously. The development of drug abuse must be suppressed in addition to endangering children and adolescents and adults, but also the nation's generation. This is what should be a concern since the enactment of the law on narcotics. In addition to economic factors, the tendency of women to work in the drug industry is social because it shows that they are part of modern society and can overcome the hustle and bustle. The type of narcotic used, the personality of the user, and the situation or condition of the user all play an important role in the effect that drug abuse has on a person. A person's physical, psychological, and social aspects are usually affected by drug addiction. The majority of drug users are teenagers or young people. It is closely related to the intense curiosity of teenagers.
Keywords: Abuse; Drugs; Legislation.


Extracellular adenosine and purine nucleotides are elevated in many pathological situations associated with the expansion of CD11b + Gr1 + myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). Therefore, we tested whether adenosinergic pathways play a role in MDSC expansion and functions. We found that A 2B adenosine receptors on hematopoietic cells play an important role in accumulation of intratumoral CD11b + Gr1 high cells in a mouse Lewis lung carcinoma model in vivo and demonstrated that these receptors promote preferential expansion of the granulocytic CD11b + Gr1 high subset of MDSCs in vitro. Flow cytometry analysis of MDSCs generated from mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells revealed that the CD11b + Gr-1 high subset had the highest levels of CD73 (ecto-5 9 -nucleotidase) expression ( D mean fluorescence intensity [MFI] of 118.5 6 16.8), followed by CD11b + Gr-1 int ( D MFI of 57.9 6 6.8) and CD11b + Gr-1 2 /low ( D MFI of 12.4 6 1.0) subsets. Even lower levels of CD73 expression were found on Lewis lung carcinoma tumor cells ( D MFI of 3.2 6 0.2). The high levels of CD73 expression in granulocytic CD11b + Gr-1 high cells correlated with high levels of ecto-5 9 -nucleotidase enzymatic activity. We further demonstrated that the ability of granulocytic MDSCs to suppress CD3/CD28-induced T cell proliferation was significantly facilitated in the presence of the ecto-5 9 -nucleotidase


We study individual decision making in a lottery-choice task performed by three subject populations: gamblers under psychological treatment ("addicts"), gamblers' relatives ("victims"), and normal (as far as gambling is considered) individuals. We find that addicts are willing to take less risk than normal individuals, but the large majority of victims reports themselves unwilling to take any risk at all. Furthermore, both addicts and victims maintain their choices invariant across different scenarios concerning the risk-return tradeoff.


In this article, the surfaces of polypropylene (PP) fibers were grafted by three different grafting systems, of which the initiators belonged to three different types, namely, the water-soluble initiator, the redox initiator, and the oil-soluble initiator, respectively. The grafted products were characterized by FTIR, and the grafting degrees were determined by acid–base titration. In comparison, it was found that the oil-soluble initiator might be more suitable for the surface grafting modification of PP fibers. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 99: 734–737, 2006


Hyperbranched polymer surfactant(amphiphilic hyperbranched polymer) is a novel amphiphilic polymer with multi terminated groups and three-dimension structure.This review summarized different structure of hyperbranched polymer surfactant,which are liner-dendritic and dendritic core-liner shell,annular dendritic core-liner shell,dendritic core-annular shell and liner core-dendritic shell.The hyperbranched polymer surfactant was applied on encapsulation-released of drugs and dye,membrane additions,grafting on the surface of silicon and carbon,encapsulated nanoparticle,which was exhibited an attractive prospect.


In order to reduce the cost of time and bandwidth in the transfer process and satisfy the need for monitoring accuracy in excavation monitoring system,it is necessary to implement lossless compression of the checkerboard image.So the characteristics of the checkerboard image are analyzed,and based on the lossless compression theory,several image lossless compression algorithms including Huffman,RLE,AE,LZW and so on,are compared.The effect of image lossless compression after DCT transform is also discussed.Experimental results show that the LZW encoding method,with the largest compress ratio and speed for the checkerboard image,is the most ideal perfect lossless compression method in excavation monitoring system.


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In a first course in mathematical statistics or categorical data analysis, the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters of the multinomial distribution are often "derived" using calculus. However, the important step of verifying that the resulting estimators indeed maximize the likelihood is omitted or done incorrectly. In this paper, two simple methods of obtaining the maximum likelihood estimates are presented.


Over the past 30 years, crime geography in China has set out, as the demand for crime prevention increased very rapidly. In order to get an objective and comprehensive understanding of the research development in China, a statistical analysis on crime geography studies was conducted. Taking periodical papers selected from Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI), WANFANG DATA, and VIP Database as samples, we retrospect the changes of contents and researchers on crime geography during three periods: 1986~1990, 1991~2000,and 2001~2010. The results show that periodical papers, research organizations and related researchers have expanded greatly in number since mid-1980s, indicating a promising tendency. Core authors, who can motivate more researchers, have emerged in four main research aspects of crime geography: urban crime geography,PGIS, CPTED, and Situational Crime Prevention. In 21stcentury, both new opportunities and challenges come out for crime geography. While more and more mathematical models are employed, the percentage of quantitative researches has declined significantly. It is also the same for case studies. What's more, the study areas constricts to Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin region, and Pearl River Delta. With emerging research groups and declining share of core authors, crime geography in China has entered a phase of reorganization. In the future, much more efforts will be needed for the further development of crime geography. We should not only try to synthesize multiple theories and conduct more case studies in the Chinese context, but also pay attention to the unification of research norms and cultivation of next-generation core authors.


This paper discusses how an upper riparian country can establish its water right of fulfilling own water needs through development of a transboundary river in a contested terrain of water management. Citing the case of the development of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and adoption of the Declaration of the Principles by the Eastern Nile Basin States, this paper highlights the major lessons that South Asia need to learn to achieve water security in the region through cooperation. This paper further argues that if, economically weak upstream riparian country, Ethiopia can initiate such an important and strategic project, then Nepal must also be in similar position to fulfill own demand without causing significant harm, rather benefiting the downstream countries. Like Egypt and Sudan, the lower riparian countries Bangladesh and more importantly India need to be in a position to acknowledge the downstream benefit principle. This paper states that without cooperation among riparian states of the Ganges basin, the sustainable development of the region seems limited.  HYDRO Nepal Journal Journal of Water Energy and Environment Issue: 21, July, 2017 Page: 17-24 Upload Date: July 18, 2017


Towards a cartography of the Vernacular Milieu the past as a source of social aspiration - popular song and social change parody and performance James Lyons - singer and story-teller - his repertory and aesthetic West Country gypsies - key songs and community identity the ethogenics of music performance - a case study of the Glebe Live Music Club. Conclusion: studying the everyday arts.


The invention provides a sheet feed device and an image forming apparatus including the same. A sheet housing portion of the sheet feed device has a lock release member that switches between a locked state of a sheet stacking plate where the sheet stacking plate is locked to the bottom surface of the sheet housing portion and a state where the locked state is released, and at the time of inserting the sheet housing portion, by a time when the sheet housing portion reaches a first position, the locked state of the sheet stacking plate is released by the lock release member and thus the sheet stacking plate is raised to a feed position. According to the invention, in the paper feed device which stores and feeds multiple paper sheets, OHP sheets and other sheets, a simple structure is used to enable the configuration of a pickup roller to be as stable as possible while preventing positional misalignment of the sheets and damage to the sheets due to contact between the pickup roller and an uppermost sheet at the time of an operation to mount/demount the sheet housing portion in/from an image forming apparatus main body.


Discussions of media in architectural design typically revolve around graphical forms, be they digital or analog. For example, much current research addresses the relationship between design sketching and cognitive process affecting the products of individual designers. This emphasis on graphics overshadows the role of text in design. While most CAD tools pursue increasingly realistic computer graphics, the interactions of designing require broader support.
In this paper, we consider the importance of text in collaborative architectural design. Text is a common medium to record information in computer technology and has a role to play in an architectural design process. In the collaborative environment, a shared understanding and preserved history are important for communication. In this way, just as graphics can be seen as a cognitive aid, so too can text. Any singular design medium is insufficient to present the design idea thoroughly. Several design media should coexist.
This paper outlines the cognitive background graphics in design, then reviews the role of text in design collaboration, drawing upon experimental results from cognitive science and architectural settings. As a conclusion, the paper sets out a direction for future research and development of tools to support collaborative design communication.


This paper introduces the ECG(electrocardiogram) real-time filtering algorithms for power-line interference,electromyography noise,and base-line drift,and implemented by a digital signal processor on digital ECG instrument.In order to get high quality ECG signal,a notch filter is used to eliminate the power-line noise with base-line shift and a low-pass filter is used to eliminate the muscle noise.The experiment results prove that the filtering algorithms have the advantages of fast speed and effectual effect.


This paper presents a review of the evolution of the
inmunization practice in the world since the 18th century
up to the most recent development of vaccines through
genetic engineering. The goal has been fa achieve a nontoxic,
inmunogenic product capable of providing longlasting
protection. Epidemiological patterns of the
Expanded Program of Immunizations are reviewed, In
this regard, the Mexican goals for 1988 are mentioned,
The authors also emphasize the high cost benefit ratios
of the vaccination programs and they point out that the
measles vaccine is the one that has had the greatest impact
on child survival.


Considering many lighting energy-saving modification programs have the phenomenon of diseconomy; this paper takes into account economic evaluation to solve this problem. The optimal program of total energy-saving benefit will be found under the limited investment according to economic evaluation of the price, life span and power consumption of lighting equipments. Firstly, the benefit ratio will be used to evaluate on the necessity of modification, and get the order. If the biggest benefit ratio exists in different equipments simultaneously, the better one will be selected in terms of relative payback period of investment. And on the basis, the relative remaining time is innovatively introduced into economic evaluation to determine the locations of modification. Then an example from a factory can prove that the program is workable.


Demixing of proteins and nucleic acids into condensed liquid phases is rapidly emerging as a ubiquitous mechanism governing the organisation of molecules within the cell. Long disordered low complexity regions (LCRs) are a common feature of proteins that form biomolecular condensates. RNA-binding proteins with prion-like composition have been highlighted as drivers of liquid demixing to form condensates such as nucleoli, paraspeckles and stress granules. Splicing factor proline- and glutamine-rich (SFPQ) is an RNA- and DNA-binding protein essential for DNA repair and paraspeckle formation. Here, we show that the shorter C-terminal LCR of SFPQ is the main region responsible for the condensation of SFPQ in vitro and in the cell. In contrast, we find that, unexpectedly, the longer N-terminal prion-like LCR of SFPQ attenuates condensation, suggesting a more regulatory role in preventing aberrant condensate formation in the cell. Our data add nuance to the emerging understanding of biomolecular condensate formation, by providing the first example of a common multifunctional nucleic acid-binding protein with an extensive prion-like region that serves to regulate rather than drive condensate formation. Graphical Abstract