The important issue of how to protect public interests by public law has been neglected in the academic circle in recent years. But in life, public interests are often violated, especially by the public power actions. However, all kinds of defensive measures are either short-sighted or non-essential. To avoid the violation of public interests by public power action, law procedures rather than policy measures and procedure law rather than substantial law should be maintained. Meanwhile, the basic principles and institutions of the administrative procedure law should be made scientifically and rationally.


A paper delivered to the International Associacion of Museums of Arms and Military History in the Museo Arqueológico, Madrid, 8 September 1993, by William Reid CBF: FSA, Honorary Life President. The year 1793 was an interesting one. The Louvre became Frances national art gallcry. In Washington the corner-stone of tbe Capitol was laid. A nine-ycar-old child called Nicolo Paganini made his debut as a virtuoso violinist. And Napoleon Bonaparte's declarations of war brought Spain, Portugal anó Britain mio a close, if sometimes uneasy alliance. So, by the time an expeditionary force led by General Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the 1 st Duke of Wellington, disembarked in Portugal in August 1808, the British Army had been at war with France for fifteen years. lf the experience gained during campaigns on five continents had sharpened the effieiency of the departnsent whose staff supplied and transponed its rations Wellington might not have complained, "1 have had the greatest difficulty in organising my commissariat for the march. This department needs your serious attention." He was writing to Lord Castlereagh. Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, after only a wcek in Portugal about a service that was crucial to the success of his campaign. Yet despite his criticism, which the Commissariat had to endure throughout the Peninsular War and into the peace, much of the British Army's success in the ficíd depended on its effectiveness Seven departments at Wellington's headquarters were staffed by civilians. The Medical Department was supported by an independent


Starting from quaternionic N=8 supersymmetric mechanics we perform a reduction over a bosonic radial variable, ending up with a nonlinear off-shell supermultiplet with three bosonic end eight fermionic physical degrees of freedom. The geometry of the bosonic sector of the most general sigma-model type action is described by an arbitrary function obeying the three dimensional Laplace equation on the sphere S{sup 3}. Among the bosonic components of this new supermultiplet there is a constant which gives rise to potential terms. After dualization of this constant one may come back to the supermultiplet with four physical bosons. However, this new supermultiplet is highly nonlinear. The geometry of the corresponding sigma-model action is briefly discussed.


This paper expounds the necessity of constructing the doctoral and master's dissertation database, probes into the basic procedures of constructing the doctoral and master's dissertation database by using TPI system, and points out some problems needing attention in the construction of the doctoral and master's dissertation database aiming at making the library serving better the subject construction, teaching and scientific research and provide conditions for inter-library loan and resources sharing.


Cased non-luminous ophthalmoscope. Ebony & brass handle, brass rims for lenses and mirror. Coccius lens holder for small diameter minus powered lenses is broken at its mount. Condensing lens in situ. Mirror is lost. Case is fitted to house 5 small lenses and one spare condensing lens. Only 2 Coccius lenses and 1 condensing lens remain. Case covered in black leatherette and lined with purple velvet. Instrument: L 128 x W 45 x D 15mm. Case: L 143 x W 65 x H 27mm.


Spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation rates of oxygen-17 of water in aerosol OT reverse micelles hosting hydrophilic enzymes like peroxidase and α-chymotrypsin have been measured. It has been observed that the enzyme show maximum activity when all the water molecules present in the aqueous core are strongly bound to the micellar interface as well as enzyme surface hosted in the micelles leaving no free water domain.


The temperature dependence of the threshold current in electron-beam-pumped (EBP) lasers using p-type GaAs (2 × 10l8 cm−3) at 27 KV is theoretically determined, taking into account the inhomogeneous distribution and the temperature dependence of the lifetime of the excess carriers. The computed dependence is found to be in excellent agreement with the experimental observation. A comparison is then made of the result with results obtained under different assumptions to confirm positively that, in the study of the performance of these lasers, the above two features cannot be ignored.


reality one cannot literally be another person but can only emulate the role of another. This was difficult for the stutterer because for him symbolic activity was felt as real activity, as illustrated in his speech. However, to make this change from the impossible to the feasible constituted separation from the person of the therapist. Again this separation was difficult for the stutterer because it flew in the face of one 103


An experimental study of shear behaviour of high strength reinforcedconcrete corbels with and without fibers was investigated. Seventeen high strength reinforced-concrete corbels were tested. The test variables were steel fiber content (Vf%), shear span-to-depth ratio (a/d), concrete strength (fcu), area of main steel reinforcement (Asm) and presence of horizontal stirrups. Test results showed that, addition of steel fibers or/and horizontal stirrups improves both shear strength and ductility of the tested corbels, and results in a more ductile failure mode. Test results were compared with shear strength predicted using ACI 38-08 equations and those proposed by other investigators. Comparison between the experimental and the predicted values of shear strengths showed that the model proposed by G. Campione et.al. [1], satisfactory predicted the ultimate load for high strength fiber reinforced-concrete corbels.


A wheel for a tire comprising at least one component to be produced from the crosslinked elastomeric material, said component is, (a) at least one and a diene elastomeric polymer, (b) 50 ° C. above the glass transition temperature ( providing a tire comprising an elastomeric composition comprising at least one cycloolefin polymer having a T Preferably, said component is a tread band of a tire.


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Background/Aim: We have recently shown that oral recombinant methionase (o-rMETase) prevents obesity in mice on a high-fat (HF) diet. The present study aimed to determine if o-rMETase can inhibit the onset of diabetes in mice on a HF diet. Materials and Methods: The mice on a HF diet were divided into two groups: 1) HF+phosphate buffered saline (PBS) group; 2) HF+o-rMETase group. Results: The blood glucose level in the HF+PBS group increased to average of 201 mg/dl during the experimental period of 8 weeks. In contrast, the blood glucose level in the HF+o-rMETase group maintained an average of 126 mg/dl (p<0.01, HF+PBS vs. HF+o-rMETase). The glucose tolerance test showed a significant increase in tolerance in the HF+o-rMETase group at 120 min after glucose injection compared to the HF+PBS group (p=0.04). Visceral adipose tissue was significantly less in the HF+o-rMETase group than the HF+PBS group (p=0.05). There was no difference in insulin levels, cholesterol or triglycerides between the HF+PBS and HF+o-rMETase groups. Conclusion: o-rMETase inhibited the onset of diabetes as well as prevented obesity on a high-fat diet, offering a possibility of a new and easy-to-use alternative to severe dieting or insulin injections.


Gravity's Rainbow is not an easy book to read. Its language is daunting and torrential. Its hundreds of voices--dialogically compressed and often presented without identifiable speaker--yatter off the page in a kind of acoustical hallucination. Many of these voices mimic the pure, exclamatory speech that might be produced were the "watching agent" to turn in for the night. This is uncensored language, contradictory, disturbing, and rendered at times into not even good English.


Abstract : The purpose of this discourse is to prove the significant advantages that deception operations will provide in any future conflict. The potential use of deception as a 'force multiplier,' renders its understanding by the operational commander as imperative. This understanding is critical as deception used incorrectly can have grave consequences. The proper use of deception and the resultant effects on the principles of war provide the operational commander with distinct advantages. Through historical analysis of two World War II deception operations, lessons can be derived as a result of both the failures as well as the successes of these operations. These lessons are intended to span the ages of time so as not to limit there future utility. Deception is not intended to be a substitute for sound operational planning but rather as another tool for the operational commander to utilize. With the advent of technology, the ability to deceive in the future comes into question. Will this ability be enhanced or will it be thwarted? In the final analysis, to forgo this inexpensive multiplier or to utilize it incorrectly is to invite disaster and the unnecessary loss of life. Operational deception, Benefits, Historical use.


BACKGROUND
Silencing of several genes are critical for cancer therapy. These genes may be apoptotic gene, cell proliferation gene, DNA synthesis gene etc. Ribonucleotide Reductase (RR) two subunit RRM1 and RRM2 are critical for DNA synthesis. Hence targeting the blockage of DNA synthesis at tumour site can be a smart mode of cancer therapy. Specific targeting of blockage of RRM2 has been done effectively by SiRNA. The drawback of siRNA delivery in the body is pool uptake by all kinds of cell, questionable stability under physiological condition, non-target effect and ability to trigger immune response. These obstacles may be overcome by target delivery of siRNA at tumour site. This review presents a holistic overview about role of RRM2 in controlling cancer progression. The nanoparticles are more effective due to its specific characters like cell membrane penetration capacity, less toxicity etc. RRM2 have been found to be elevated in different type of cancer and has been identified as the prognostic and predictive marker of the disease. Reductase. RRM1 and RRM2 regulate the protein and gene expression of E2F which is critical for protein expression and progression of cell cycle and cancer. Knockdown of RRM2 leads to apoptosis via Bcl2 in cancer. Both Bcl2 and E2F is critical in progression of cancer, hence a gene that can affect both in regulating DNA replication is essential for cancer therapy.

AIM
The aim of the review is to identify critical and related gene whose silencing may inhibit cancer progression.

CONCLUSION
In this review, we illuminate the critical link between RRM-E2F, RRM-Bcl2, RRM-HDAC for the therapy of cancer. Altogether, this review presents an overview on all type of SiRNA targeted for cancer therapy with especial emphasis on RRM2 for controlling tumour progression.


The act of communicating is, by definition, the transmission of a message from a communicator to a receptor. The message may be a simple signal or an extensive body of oral or recorded symbolic or pictorial representations. Communication can take place within an individual organism, between two individuals, or among the members of an aggregate, but always there is a mutually intelligible 'language' as well as a carrier or medium; and while there may be multiple receptors, in any given instance there can be only one transmitter. Just as in the biological organism there is a neural communication system, so in organized societies there is a social communication network. While the agencies which are a part of this network are easily recognized, and their functions easily identified, the fundamental nature of the communication process within society is only imperfecdy understood. Students of society know lamentably little about the ways in which knowledge and information are communicated within a culture, even a primitive culture. For that matter, psychologists and specialists in the operation of the human nervous system know precious little about the communication of information within the individual. Analogies have been drawn with the electronic circuitry of the computer just as the communication of information within a society has been likened to the spread of epidemics in a population.


To analyze performance of grid-side converter with LCL filter for doubly-fed wind power system under different current control structures,root locus of closed current loop with grid-side current feedback or converter-side current control structure has been separately analyzed.It compares performances of different current control structures,presents their performances under cases for ideal grid without filter damping,non-ideal grid without filter damping and ideal grid with filter damping.Analysis and simulation results show that it has less harmonic current and better stability with converter-side current feedback control structure than that with grid-side current feedback control structure,but with the latter structure it is simpler and easier to realize unity power factor control.


In this paper, we develop an efficient Hermite spectral-Galerkin method for nonlocal diffusion equations in unbounded domains. We show that the use of the Hermite basis can de-convolute the troublesome convolutional operations involved in the nonlocal Laplacian. As a result, the "stiffness" matrix can be fast computed and assembled via the four-point stable recursive algorithm with O(N2) arithmetic operations. Moreover, the singular factor in a typical kernel function can be fully absorbed by the basis. With the aid of Fourier analysis, we can prove the convergence of the scheme. We demonstrate that the recursive computation of the entries of the stiffness matrix can be extended to the two-dimensional nonlocal Laplacian using the isotropic Hermite functions as basis functions. We provide ample numerical results to illustrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithms.


Introduction: The climatic conditions which govern the formation of the North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD) on Mars are influenced by interactions with vast mid-latitude ground ice deposits. Deciphering the paleoclimate record depends on understanding the behavior of the water sources and how they interact with each other and with the NPLD [1]. Both theoretical and observational work show that shallow subsurface ice is abundant in the mid-high latitudes For example, Haberle [2] showed that subsurface ice affects the seasonal CO2 cycle by storing heat during summer and releasing it at winter, altering the seasonal cover. The ground ice changes the thermal inertia from ~200 J m-2 K-1 s-0.5 without subsurface ice to ~2000 J m-2 K-1 s-0.5 when ice is present [3] and allowing more heat to be stored. In this work we explore how subsurface ice grows and recedes as function of changes in orbital elements and how it, in turn, affects the NPLD accumulation and chemical composition. Methods: Our methods rely on linking two models that simulate aspects of the climate on two timescales— seasonal changes by a global climate model, and millennial changes by an ice evolution model.


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First results of the differential cross section in dp elastic scattering at 1.25 GeV/u measured with the HADES over a large angular range are reported. The obtained data corresponds to large transverse momenta, where a high sensitivity to the two-nucleon and three-nucleon short-range correlations is expected.


The stereochemistry the 2,4-di-arene substituted 3,7-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-one 1,5-dicarboxylate skeleton was found to be regulated by the kind of substituents attached to the arene rings as well as to the nitrogens N3 and N7. Conformational isomers, i.e., chair/chair, boat/chair and chair/boat, in addition to cis/trans conflgurational isomerism with respect to the arene rings were reported. Since the analgesic potency of the diazabicyclononanones, which is related to their affinity toward the κ-opioid receptor, is governed by the stereochemistry of the molecules, the influence of the substituents at nitrogen N7 was studied herein. The various differently N7 substituted diazabicyclononanones were found to crystallise in a highly symmetrical chair/chair conformation. However, beside HZ2 none of the compounds exhibits high affinity to the κ receptor. In contrast, some compounds with affinity to the μ receptor could be identified. In addition, the N7-(4-carboxybenzyl) substituted compound was found to have affinity to the δ receptor in the submi-cromolar range of concentration.


mRNA transcription profiles are an alternative to DNA markers for predicting hybrid performance. Our objective was to investigate their prediction accuracy in an unbalanced maize data set. We focused on the effectiveness of preselecting a core set of genes for transcription profiling and on the comparison of prediction models. A total of 254 hybrids were evaluated for grain yield and grain dry matter content. The mRNA transcripts of a core set of 2k genes and the genotype of 1k AFLP markers were assessed in the parental lines. Predictions based on transcriptomebased distances determined from the 2k core set of genes resulted in prediction accuracies below 0.5 and could not reach the high accuracies observed with a 46k micro-array in earlier studies. Predictions based on ridge regression resulted in prediction accuracies greater 0.6. Only marginal differences were observed in the prediction accuracies of mRNA transcripts compared with AFLPs. We conclude that mRNA transcription profiles are suitable for hybrid prediction with ridge-regression models in unbalanced designs, even if limited resources allow only transcription profiling of a core set of genes.


Due to the widespread usage of social media sites and the enormous number of users who utilize irony implicit words in most of their tweets and posts, it has become necessary to detect sarcasm, which strongly influences understanding and analyzing the crowd's opinions. Detecting sarcasm is difficult due to the nature of sarcastic tweets, which vary based on the topic, region, the user's attitude, culture, terminologies, and other criteria. In addition to these difficulties, detecting sarcasm in Arabic has its challenges due to its complexities, such as being morphologically rich, having many different dialects, and having low resources.In this research, we present our submission of (iSarcasmEval) sub-task A of the shared task on SemEval 2022. In Sub-task A; we determine whether the tweets are sarcastic or non-sarcastic. We implemented different approaches based on Transformers. First, we fine-tuned the AraBERT, MARABERT, and AraELECTRA. One of the challenges that faced us was that the data was not balanced. Non-sarcastic data is much more than sarcastic. We used data augmentation techniques to balance the two classes, significantly affecting the performance. The performance F1 score of the three models was 87%, 90%, and 91%, respectively. Then we boosted the three models by developing an ensemble model based on hard voting. The final performance F1 Score was 93%.


To strengthen the teaching style building, is the core of the university study style and ethos of building universities to achieve the main carrier of the connotation of development. This article by my proofreading teaching style Investigation of statistical analysis of data, showing the main problems of school teaching style building, more importantly, from the meso level schools to the macro level, college and professional lines and micro level of individual teachers revealed cause the profound causes of the current problem, and then puts forward the main ways to further strengthen the construction of the school teaching style.


From 1971 to 1976, cast bracing method was applied to 46 fractures of the lower extremities.The ages of patients ranged from 6 to 78 years. Seven fractures were open, 32 closed and 2 pathological. Thirteen fractures were treated by cast brace 4 to 5 weeks after skeletal traction, and 32 fractures after wound healing of osteosynthesis using intramedullary nailing or plating. The fracture healing was favourable in all cases and no pseudarthrosis occurred.Ten patients in the former group could sit in Japanese way, while 21 patients in the latter. No severe stiffness of the knee joint less than 30 degrees was encountered.


Summary The study area is located in the Gabes-Tripoli (G–T) Basin in western offshore Libya. There are today unsolved questions concerning the tectonic and stratigraphic processes that controlled both basin evolution and reservoir development through time. This study presents interpretations of the tectonic system in the G–T Basin based on 3D-seismic-reflection data and 13 industrial wells. This research uses a workflow specifically designed to enhance the seismic interpretability of faults. The workflow integrates 3D-seismic data pre-conditioning, surface attributes, isochore maps and rose diagrams. Subsurface attribute interpretations show that (1) different groups of faults with different structural orientation characterise different stratigraphic intervals; (2) major anticlines (associated with the main hydrocarbon reservoirs) trend WSW-ENE and SSE-NNW, which is oblique to the dominant NW-SE fault trend; (3) large N–S oriented, synsedimentary listric normal faults formed at the edges of major anticlines bounding kilometre-scale depocentres; (4) anticline growth and growth faulting at the anticline edges is decoupled from the dominant NW-SE fault trend. This study documents partial decoupling of overburden faulting in the western study area from otherwise dominant strike-slip tectonics, indicating that lateral and vertical salt movement in the deeper subsurface exerted a major control on deformation patterns in the offshore G–T Basin.


Information on age of onset can easily be incorporated into regressive logistic models by assuming that age of onset follows a logistic distribution. This is analogous to previously proposed models based on the normal distribution. The two distributions, and hence the two types of models, are very similar. In each case the generalized modulus power transformation can be used as a basis for more flexibly modeling the age of onset distribution.


Leaves of Ficus tsiela were extracted with different solvents and evaluated the phytochemical analysis and antimicrobial activity. The presence of biological constituents namely terpenoids, tannins, steroids, anthraquinones, flavonoids, saponins, cardiac glycosides and phlobatannin were confirmed through preliminary phytochemical analysis. Alkaloid was absent in all the extracts treated with different solvents investigated. The presence of these bioactive constituents was associated with the antimicrobial activity of the plants. Agar well diffusion method revealed all the solvent extracts exhibited antimicrobial activity. Similarly, no antimicrobial activity was observed with the aqueous extracts, although high activity was exhibited with the ethanol, moderate activity with methanol and mild activity with chloroform extracts. The Gram!negative bacteria appeared to be more susceptible to the antimicrobial effect of the extracts than the Gram! positive organisms. The results confirmed that F. tsiela could be used as source of drugs to fight infections caused by susceptible bacteria. To the best of our knowledge, this may be the first report on antimicrobial activity that has not been previously reported and phytochemical screening is also observed for the first time from the extracts of F. tsiela.


List of birds and locations contributed by David L. Dankert. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of spring 1992.


Lupus Erythematous Systemic (SLE) is a disease of autoimmune character systemic, of unknown etiology, however it is estimated that genetic factors and environmental contribute to the onset of the disease. Its incidence is higher in women of reproductive age. One of the complications is the kidney disease lupus, which can be fatal for the patient, so it requires a timely diagnosis and effective treatment to improve their quality of life. An example of this complication is the case clinically developed in the present article. Female patient of 18 year old with SLE diagnosed a year ago, joined the ward Mario Catarino Rivas (HMCR) with 7 days of evolution of progressive ascites accompanied by pain history epigastric and progressive dyspnea. Laboratorial: C3: 62.4mg/dl, C4: 5.0mg/dl, antinuclear antibody (ANA) positive, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) 91.6 mg/dl, creatinine 5.5 mg/dl. Not held renal biopsy due to lack of supplies in the hospital. The patient dies within 7 days of your hospitalization. Discussion may be suspected nephritis patient with lupus, if hematuria or urine foamy appearance, also if you have high blood pressure or shows signs of edema, features present in the patient in our case report. Rev. Cient. Esc. Univ. Cienc. Salud, Vol.1(2) 2014: 31-37


As increasing the number of IPs integrated in a single chip and requiring high communication bandwidth on a chip, the trend of SoC communication architecture is changed from bus- or crossbar-based architecture to packet switched network architecture, NoC. However, highly complex control logics in routers require multiple cycles to switch packet. In this paper, we design low complex router to improve the communication latency. Our NoC design is verified by simulation platform modeled by ESL tool, SoC Designer. We also evaluate our NoC design comparing to the previous NoC architecture based on VC router. Our results show that our NoC architecture has less communication latency, even small throughput degradation (about 1-2%).


Recently, the use of risk information in regulatory decision as well as operation and maintenance of nuclear power plant has been gradually increased. Application of risk information to optimize the inservice inspection of nuclear piping system has been one of such an attempt in Korea. An accurate evaluation of the risk, or failure probability for each pipe subcomponent is essential to the application of the risk-informed inservice inspection. For this purpose, a probabilistic fracture mechanics code based on Monte Carlo simulation techniques was developed to handle various flaw shapes and orientations in nuclear piping system. Then, the failure probabilities of various subcomponents of the main coolant loop in a pressurized water reactor were calculated, and the relative risk ranking was determined using the plant's data. Also, the effects of in-service inspection and frequency on the risk were investigated. Finally, the application of the probabilistic fracture mechanics methods to the risk-informed inservice inspection of nuclear piping system was discussed.Copyright © 2008 by ASME


The use of bicycles on two-lane rural roads in Spain has been increasing in recent years. However, these roads have no bicycle infrastructure, being cyclists forced to share the road and interact with motorized vehicles. In rural environments, the interaction between road users from the cyclist's point of view is still not well understood. To analyze it, the relationships between risk perceptions and behavioral factors of rural cyclists according to their demographic characteristics, profile, and self-reported knowledge on traffic rules were obtained. An online survey was used, which collected the opinion of 523 cyclists. Data were analyzed by using structural equation models. The Thurstonian Item Response Theory approach was adopted to include raking responses. Different perceptions among demographic groups were found. Younger cyclists present the lowest risk perception while having a higher risk behavior. The knowledge about traffic rules was correlated with safety behavior, showing the importance of this factor. These results are in line with urban cycling. However important differences under risk elements for rural cyclists, mainly associated with potential hazards on the shoulder, have been drawn. These findings may help policy makers to integrate cycling with vehicular traffic on two-lane rural roads in a safe way.


Studying the existence possibility territory in Orenburg region, where they have causes of the hemorrhagic fiver with renal syndrome as part like territory of Samara region and republic Bashkortostan.


Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume is an indigenous orchid species in Indonesia. This orchid has a white large flower. The large flower is caused by the existence of gene that has an important role in flower development. One of the genes is SEPALLATA 1. This gene is a member of superfamily MADS-Box gene. SEPALLATA 1 gene is a marker of primordial flower organ. This study aimed to isolate SEPALLATA1 gene from Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume by PCR using forward primer 5'-GCT-GGA-GCG-GAT-CGA-GAA-CA-3'and reverse primer 5'-TCA-TGC-AAG-CCA-ACC-AGG-TG-3' . This study successfully amplified 691 bp lengths of SEPPALATA1 fragment, lacking 20 bp upstream which consist its start codon. Keywords: Flower development regulation, Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume, SEPALLATA 1 gene.


Every one and then one can hear in the molecular electronics community that asymmetric couplings (Γs 6= Γt) of the dominant level (molecular orbital) to electrodes (s and t) having shapes different of each other may be responsible for current rectification observed in experiments. Using a general single level model going beyond the Lorentzian transmission limit, in this work we present a rigorous demonstration that this is not the case. In particular, we deduce an analytical for the bias (V ) driven shift of the level energy δε0(V ) showing that δε0(V )/V scales as Γt/Wt − Γs/Ws, which is merely a tiny quantity because the electrode bandwidths Ws,t are much larger than Γs,t. This result invalidates a previous, never-deduced formula in use in some previous publications that neither could be justified theoretically nor is supported by experiment. To the latter aim, we present new experimental evidence adding to that already inferred in earlier analysis.


This paper addresses the problems of artifacts, blur, and color patches that can result from multi-exposure fusion when there are more pronounced moving objects in multi-frame LDR images. We propose a new dual-branch high dynamic range image reconstruction network, namely the multi-frame images fusion branch and the reference image structure enhancement branch. In the fusion branch, we perform deformable convolution between the reference feature and adjacent features to perform feature alignment, and increase the weight of detailed features such as texture in the high-light and low-light regions. The aligned features are concatenated and fed into the dilated residual dense blocks (DRDBs) to obtain dense local features. In the enhancement branch, we use six cascading residual local feature blocks (RLFBs) modules to extract structural features, and then add the shallow features of the input reference image to the extracted features to ensure that the network can guarantee the structural information of the reference image. Through the comparison of experimental results, it is verified that the proposed algorithm can remove artifacts and color blocks while maintaining image saturation and detail recovery in the shadow area.


Solid State Drive (SSD) devices are used as either a cache or tier in hybrid storage structure, which is popular in storage industry for balanced drive response time and cost. The policies used to identify the hot/cold data and control the migration flow are critical to the performance. In particular, the migration size is one of the key factors. Fixed size of data migration generally cannot provide good performance when the workload properties change significantly. In this paper, we design a hybrid caching algorithm based on fuzzy control and decision tree which can adaptively adjust the data migration policies according to the workload properties. The fuzzy rules can be automatically generated through the training process of decision tree classification and regression. In addition, we develop a verified hybrid storage simulator with flexible structures and configurations. From the simulation, we show that the hybrid disk performance can be improved up to 20% for dynamically changed workload.


ABSTRACT This article presents in closed form new influence functions for displacements and stresses to a boundary value problems (BVP) of thermoelasticity within a strip, caused by a unit point heat source. We also obtain the respective new integration formula of Green's type, which directly determines the thermal stresses in the form of integrals of the products between specified internal heat sources, temperature, or heat flux prescribed on boundary and derived thermoelastic influence functions (kernels). The general Green's type integral formula permits to derive new solution to one particular BVP of thermoelasticity for a strip in the form of elementary functions. Graphical representation of thermal stresses, created by an internal point heat source and by a boundary temperature, is included.


The painful consequences of political, economic and social shocks provoked by the Arab Spring forced the political elites of the Middle Eastern states to revisit traditional approaches to maintaining stability and security in the region. This inevitably aff ected the activities of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which was from the outset established in order to enhance cooperation between the countries of the region primarily in the fi eld of security. This paper attempts to identify the key milestones, factors and trends that have shaped the GCC decision-making process in the security sphere over the past 10 years since the beginning of the Arab Spring. The author shows that the Arab Awakening has encouraged the GCC member-states to deepen military-political integration, aimed at strengthening their defense capabilities, as well as their abilities to respond to external and internal challenges. The author notes that the GCC countries still view Iran as the main source of all these threats; moreover, con-sidering substantial strengthening of Iran's infl uence in the Middle East their position has even hardened. Tehran is accused of meddling in the internal aff airs of the GCC member-states, supporting illegal Shiite groups operating on their territory, and instigating religious discord. In this context, it is quite natural that the Iran's nuclear programme is of particular concern to the GCC. At the same time, the author emphasizes, that although the GCC member-states declare common approach towards Iran, their practical actions can vary signifi cantly. In particular, it was Qatar which opposed an excessively hard-line approach towards Iran. This fact, as well as accusations against Doha of supporting terrorist and extremist groups, led to two crises that shook the GCC in the 2010s. However, the fact that these crises have been eventually settled shows that security issues still press regional actors towards strengthening the capacities of the GCC. Especially since military threats have been compounded by a new threat — of the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The author concludes that this new threat, which has already incited the GCC to promote cooperation in a health sector, will also strengthen the member-states' focus on various nonmilitary challenges including epidemiological and environmental ones.


Massive stellar clusters are the best available laboratories to study the mass function of stars. Based on NTT/SofI near-infrared photometry, we have investigated the properties of the massive young cluster Westerlund 1. From comparison with stellar models, we derived an extinction  mag, an age τ= 4 ± 0.5 Myr and a distance d= 4.0 ± 0.2 kpc for Westerlund 1, as well as a total mass of . Using spatially-dependent completeness corrections, we performed a two-dimensional study of the cluster's initial mass function (IMF) and, in addition, of the stellar density profiles of the cluster as a function of mass. From both IMF slope variations and stellar density, we find strong evidence of mass segregation. For a cluster with some 105 stars, this is not expected at such a young age as the result of two-body relaxation alone. We also confirm previous findings on the elongation of Westerlund 1; assuming an elliptical density profile, we found an axial ratio of a:b= 3:2. Rapid mass segregation and elongation could be well explained as the results of subclusters merging during the formation of Westerlund 1.


Breast cancer remains the largest cancer killer amongst Australian women with 2,500 deaths and 10,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Information plays an integral part in the ability to make health and lifestyle decisions, and to facilitate greater consumer participation in their own health care. Whilst there is a plethora of information available for women, this generally presumes a uniform audience, where 'one size fits all'. The current project, funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, recognizes the importance of timely, accurate, accessible, and 'personalised' information provision to women and their families. An 'intelligent portal' to an online repository of breast cancer resources will be developed to meet the breast cancer community's diverse information needs. The study involves an extensive user-needs analysis based on focus groups and individual interviews with a purposively selected sample to represent a range of women and their families. Field work has indicated that variables such as age, ethnicity, educational level, disease stage and psychological makeup are vital determinants in the demand for information. The data will be matched with authoritative existing breast cancer resources, both in print and online. In order to address the 'personalised' information needs, an innovative descriptive metadata schema which matches user profiles with resources will be developed and form the basis of the IT prototype architecture designed to deliver personalized, quality information. The paper will give an overview of the scope and goals of the project. It will discuss the range of information needs which will be met through the intelligent portal.


Since the 1990s, as the theories of postcolonialism and cultural studies have developed in Shakespeare studies, a great number of works concerning the localization of Shakespeare in performance in Asian countries have attracted wider attention among Shakespearean scholars and theatre practitioners worldwide. Significant books such as Shakespeare in Asia (2010) edited by Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan, or Performing Shakespeare in Japan (2001) by Minami Ryuta, Ian Carruthers and John Gillies, have shown us how Asian theatre has adapted or sometimes appropriated Shakespeare's "original" texts in the process of modernization and globalization. With this book, Shakespeare Performances in Japan: Intercultural-Multicultural-Translingual, Emi Hamana, one of the leading scholars of theatre studies in Japan, updates our perspective of the localization of Shakespeare through performance in contemporary Japanese theatre. With outstanding examples of "case studies" of Shakespeare performances in Japan within the last ten years or so, this book allows us to discover the power of a Shakespearean performance which can change our cognitive and even social reality in international, multilingual and translingual ways. This book is divided into two parts; Part I "Intercultural and Multilingual Performance" composed of 4 chapters, and Part II "Translingual Performance" consisting of 3 chapters. Apart from chapter 5, where fundamental concepts of translingual practice is demonstrated by close-reading and analyzing the translingual moment between Henry and Katharine in the well-known wooing scene in Henry V, the book discusses Shakespeare performances in Japan from 2008 to 2017, aiming "to investigate them against the broad background of world Shakespeare performance studies" (12). Hamana began the project "combining Shakespeare studies and intercultural education more than


Since 2004,China has always been adjusting its export tax rebate rate,which plays a very important role in promoting the growth of China economy and adjusting its economic structure.The effectiveness of the implementation of the new policy on export tax rebate has a significant impact on the development of China's foreign trade and the stability of its regional economy.This paper analyzes the positive and negative effects of the latest adjustment of export tax rebate and proposes suggestions to perfect the export tax rebate mechanism.


This article presents a sociostylistic approach which is located within the
context of interactive sociolinguistics. Social styles of communication are
defined as complexes of multimodal expression which participants associate
with social characteristics. Through the elaboration and usage of these
styles, participants are able to react to the problems they encounter in their
daily life by associating them with social characteristics by means of categorisations.
The demonstration of this conception is based on a case study
of young second generation German-Turkish migrants (a group of young
girls studied collectively in different situations) who live in Germany.


As a participant and contributor in the development of fine arts in Guangdong,the present author has experienced and witnessed many important events.The whole process is still fresh in my memory and contains many years of hard work.Although I am now a Cantonese in Beijing still working at academic research,I feel the distinct difference both in perspective and judgment.Time is like flowing water that takes away the dust of history.In retrospect,the 30-year-history of Fine Arts Narration in Guangdong is connected by a series of important persons and events.Here I choose several Keywords,such as "Bingxiong Night",Guangdong Museum of Art,Guangdong Fine Artists,Art Exhibition,Lingnan Spirit.


major extrinsic factors contributing to premature death of laboratory animals and humans from degenerative disease and cancer at the end of this century. It is only recently that toxicological scientists have gained a general appreciation that ad libitum (AL) overfeeding of laboratory rodents is one of the most insidious, but significant, uncontrolled variables affecting the current bioassay. AL overfeeding is the single-most significant factor that accounts for much of the continued variability seen in these studies, potentially compromising their useful-


The growing interest in the cosmeceuticals by natural products has fostered research on the screening of plant-derived raw materials for identifying new antioxidants. Fruit peels as sources of powerful natural antioxidants are often the waste parts of various fruits from daily consumption or food industry. Among the fruit peels, mangosteen peel is an essential source of natural phenolic antioxidants. The a-mangosteen, known as the first compound of Garcinia mangostana L, has the most potent antioxidant activity among the other substances. The new application into sunscreen product will be potentially based on their activity to inhibit the photo-damaged caused by free radical elements from ultraviolet A and B (UVA and UVB). Thus, this formulation into a nanoparticle product may achieve a better effect and efficacy both as cosmetics and pharmaceutics.


The research objective was to assess community participation in each phase of activity in the PNPM Urban at Kleak Village, Malalayang District of Manado City. The method used is qualitative method, which examines the public participation at every stage and sustainability of PNPM Urban. Informants in this study amounted to 5 people on the basis that they can represent the object under study, consisting of: Head of the village, the board of the Institute for Community Empowerment (LPM), Community Self-Supporting Agency, Project Management Team / TPK PNPM Mandiri, and community members. The results showed that people at KleakVillage participated in the implementation of each phase of activity PNPM. It is shown from the community who donated labor, materials and equipment to build their physical environment, but in contributing to the fund are indeed not all community memberwho voluntarily donate. The research conclude that in the process of planning the activities of the National Program for Community Empowerment (PNPM Urban Selfhelp) community in the Kleak Village, had participated fairly well. Kleak Village communities already participating in the implementation of PNPM it is seen from the community who donated labor, materials and equipment to build their physical environment, but in contributing to the fund are indeed some who voluntarily contribute.


1 . Introduction Predict ion problem, which i s r e c e i v i n g much a t t e n t i o n r e c e n t l y , has been viewed mostly in two d i r e c t i o n s . One i s .the c l a s s i c a l approach based on the independence of s t a t i s t i c s and t h e i r exact d i s t r i b u t i o n s . Such i s the case in Lawless [ 9 ] , Paulkenberry [8], Kaminsky, Luks and Nelson [7 J and a lso in Lingappaiah [10] , [i 1] . But, another method, i s the Bayes approach with poster ior d i s t r i b u t i o n s and su i tab le p r i o r s . Such works are seen i n Bancroft and Dunsmore [ l ] , Aitcheson and Dunsmore [2] and Dunsmore [3] , [4] . Our development here i s based on l a s t of these r e s u l t s Dunsmore [4] and Lingappaiah [ 1 1 ] . Our main motivation, here , i s about what can be done where more than a pair of samples are a v a i l a b l e . What we have done here i s to consider the poster ior d i s t r i b u t i o n at a c e r t a i n stage as the prior f o r the next s t a g e , on the l i n e s of Khan [12] and in so doing, we have developed the predict ive d i s t r i b u t i o n f o r an order s t a t i s t i c at the sth stage ((s+1)th sample) and a lso f o r the d i f f e r e n c e of two s t a t i s t i c s at t h i s s tage . We have discussed the variance in each of these two cases in r e l a t i o n to number of s t a g e s . Also , we have evaluated the probabi l i ty i n t e g r a l f o r both the s i t u a t i o n s and p a r t i c u l a r cases are considered f o r i l l u s t r a t i o n s .


Having a large dataset of labeled samples is necessary for the supervised training of most convolutional neural network (CNN) models. Lacking sufficient data or labeled samples for training a CNN can be problematic. To address this issue, we present a new approach for unsupervised learning that all CNN models with an image data type will be able to deploy. We tested this approach for object recognition on two popular datasets (CIFAR-10, and STL-10), and compared the results with results from available methods [11,20]. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach is comparable with the other methods of unsupervised training.


Background:  Mannose‐binding lectin plays a central effector role in the lectin pathway of complement activation. Frequently occurring MBL2 polymorphisms result in mannose‐binding lectin deficiency, which increases susceptibility to infection. We characterized mannose‐binding lectin levels and function in non‐inflamed and inflamed human eyes, and evaluated its relationship to blood mannose‐binding lectin levels and function.


The authors have followed during 10 years a girl with Bartter's syndrome who developed severe insulin resistance with acanthosis nigricans. In this rare association, hypokalemia and renal failure did not appear to be relevant factors triggering the onset of diabetes. The therapeutic difficulties in this case have still not been resolved.


The term evidence-based policy has become a formulaic expression in contemporary governance speak, including in the realm of drug policy. The term suggests the presumption of scientific objectivity versus subjective opinions. This chapter argues that the production, selection, and interpretation of evidence is a normative process. It takes the term evidence-based as an invitation to analyse what evidence is used, how, and to what end, in the formulation of municipal drug policy. The chapter is based on ethnographic research into the development of local regulations on the use of 'soft' drugs in shared public spaces. The central argument is that an analysis of the evidence used to legitimise policy offers valuable insights into the power dynamics that shape the context in which policy is developed and implemented.


Internationally operating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly involved in international politics and policy-making. The term NGO is very broad and encompasses a wide variety of organizations. Divergence is typical for the ways in which NGOs are organized and for the scope and objectives of NGOs. NGOs range from large, long-established organizations such as the Red Cross, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and Greenpeace to, for instance, small community- based self-help groups in the South and small networks maintaining websites for the support of other NGOs or individuals. A growing number of NGOs engage in both operational and advocacy activities. Sometimes, it is difficult to determine of which function the activities of NGOs are typical. From the perspective of legitimacy, it is sometimes necessary to specify further types of actions and policies within the operational and advocacy functions, depending on the possible beneficial or adverse impact on the parties involved. Keywords: international politics; legitimacy; non-governmental organizations (NGOs); policy-making


A pedestrian and vehicle passage building on a traffic road is characterized in that a pedestrian and vehicle passage building 10 connected with a ground pedestrian and vehicle passage 11 and having emergency rescue and comprehensive business service functions is built on the ground at the position of road junction and at a section of an urban ground traffic road. A pedestrian walkway 1, a non-motor-driven vehicle running road 2 and a motor-driven vehicle running road 3 of the pedestrian and vehicle passage building is connected with the pedestrian and vehicle passage 11 of the traffic road ground. A road centre line isolation belt 5 is arranged on the road surface, and a left-turn passage area 12 special for buses and emergent and licensed vehicles is reserved at the intersection. The pedestrian and vehicle passage building 10 adopts framework supporting columns 6 to connect the upper portions and lower portions of the pedestrian and vehicle passage. Road layers with the traffic function, an underground passage layer 7 with the emergency rescue and business service functions and a passage overbridge layer 8 are fixedly connected together by the framework supporting columns 6 to form the multifunctional pedestrian and vehicle passage building 10. The framework supporting columns 6 are built on the center lines between lanes, the passage overbridge layer 8 and the underground passage layer 7 are connected with road traffic through a vehicle transition road bridge and a pedestrian stepped road bridge 9 in transition mode.


Objective: To study the mechanism of the complement‐mediated antibodydependent enhancement (C'‐ADE) of HIV infection which may play a significant role in the progression of HIV‐disease. Methods: In vitro complement activating and complement‐mediated HIV‐infection enhancing abilities of three human anti‐gp41 monoclonal antibodies (MAb) were tested. C'‐ADE was estimated using HIV‐1IIIB and CR2 (CD21)‐carrying MT‐4 target cells. Normal human serum (NHS), purified C1q, C1q‐deficient (C1qD) and C2‐deficient (C2D) human sera were applied as complement sources. Results: All MAb mediated increased C1q binding to solid‐phase gp41. All MAb had a marked dose‐dependent and strictly complement‐mediated HIV‐infection enhancing effect. Mixtures of the MAb with purified C1q also significantly increased HIV‐1 infection. C1qD serum had a markedly lower enhancing effect than NHS, which could be raised to normal level by addition of purified C1q. Pretreatment of the target cells with anti‐CR2 antibodies only partially inhibited the enhancing effect of the MAb plus normal human serum. Conclusion: These novel findings indicate that besides the well‐known facilitation of entry of HIV‐1 by the interaction between virus‐bound C3 fragments and CR2 present on the target cells, fixation of C1q to intact virions also results in an enhanced productive HIV‐1 infection in the MT‐4 cell cultures.


A detailed discussion of the philosophical ideas and context of Giordano Bruno's argument in his best known work, De la causa.


The novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in Indonesia on March 2, 2020 and then it called for prevention. At the same time, emissions of carbon dioxide reported to have decreased that imply global climate change. Furthermore, the climate change due to a reduction in CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the demand and supply side of goods and services which in turn had an impact on the economy. One of important indicators in macroeconomics is the inflation rate. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of climate change due to the reduction of CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic and Coronavirus disease on inflation and food inflation in Indonesia. This study uses time series daily data and analysis using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). The result show that the number of COVID-19 cases has a negative effect on both inflation and food inflation, while the number of recovered cases has a positive effect on both dependent variables. The number of death is only significant to the inflation rate, but it is not significant to the food inflation. The variable of temperature as a proxy variable of climate change has negative influence to the food inflation, but it has not any effects to the inflation rate. In addition, the level of citizen compliance with physical distancing will determine the level of CO2 emission reduction.


40 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, tables. Published April, 1981. Scanned by UO from item HT168 .M66 M65 1981 May, 2009.


A comprehensive cross-national understanding of the classroom learning environment (CLE) is critical to advancing CLE's development. This study compares the English and Chinese CLE literature to enhance a complete understanding of CLE. We conducted bibliometric analysis on 3,130 English literature from Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and 1,261 Chinese literature from the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI). The results show that both Chinese and English literature focus on the influence of CLE on students' cognitive and affective learning outcomes and the incorporation of information technology in CLE. The results also reveal the differences between Chinese and English literature from two perspectives: (1) Chinese CLE research mainly focuses on English education, and English CLE research mainly focuses on science education and (2) Chinese CLE research mainly analyzed the pedagogical aspect of CLE, while English CLE research focused on CLE's social and psychological aspects. We also discussed that future research should focus on (1) the balance of analyzing CLE from the perspective of students and other educational stakeholders such as teachers and school leaders, (2) student differences from the pedagogical level, (3) the physical level of CLE, (4) the use of statistical methods such as structural equation modeling that can analyze the mechanisms underlying the effects of CLE on student learning, and (5) the interdisciplinary research on CLE.


Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) Advanced Education continues to play its pivotal role as the agent of change in bringing about a consistent upgrade of the socioeconomic status of the surrounding community, by offering various short-term programmes, including competency-building courses, in collaboration with both governmental bodies and the private sector.


first indirect effect In this work, the authors report on cloud microphysical properties of low-level marine clouds inferred from UV-polarization lidar. The lidar was deployed during the dry season months of 2016 and 2017 on a remote south Atlantic island. A new technique developed in an earlier work (Donovan et al., 2015) was applied to infer microphysical parameters (aerosol optical depth, cloud droplet effective radius, and cloud droplet number concentration) and compared with in situ measurements from AERONET and instruments deployed during the ARM LASIC campaign. Although the work provides valuable insights into the complex ACI at Ascension Island, the authors have contributed some preliminary understanding to processes contributing to the observed interactions due to smoke intrusions into the cloud deck, environmental and instrumental effects on measured uncertainties, but they do not relate their findings to the growing body of literature in this region for comparison. I believe this paper is worthy of publication after these components have been more clearly addressed for compliance with ACP criteria, therefore major revision is recommended.


boards. The lens-boards themselves are mounted on a plastic plate housed in a metal frame. E can position each of the shutters by means of the rod. When the rod is pushed to one stop, light comes through one shutter; when the rod is pulled back, light comes through the second shutter. With solenoids, it is possible to position the assembly from a remote location and thereby eliminate the manual operation of the rod. The shutters may be activated mechanically, electrically, or pneumatically. This comparatively simple device can be constructed easily and inexpensively. We are not aware of a simpler workable device capable of programming two different exposure-durations. U.S. Army Edgewood Arsenal MICHAEL H. SIEGEL EDWARD HOWARD


JuKES, T. H., AND C. H. CANTOR. 1969. Evolution ofprotein molecules, pp. 21-132. In H. N. Munroe (ed.), Mammalian Protein Metabolism. Academic Press, N.Y. KLUGE, A. G., AND J. S. FARRIS. 1969. Quantitative phyletics and the evolution of anurans. Syst. Zool. 18:1-32. LAKE, J. A. 1987. A rate-independent technique for analysis of nucleic acid sequences: Evolutionary parsimony. Molec. BioI. Evol. 4:167-191. LARSON, A., AND A. C. WILSON. 1989. Patterns of ribosomal RNA evolution in salamanders. Molec. BioI. Evol. 6:131-154. MARTIN, P. G., D. BoULTER, AND D. PENNY. 1985. Angiosperm phylogeny studied using sequences of five macromolecules. Taxon 34:393-400. PENNY, D., M. D. HENDY, AND L. R. FOULDS. 1980. Techniques for the verification of minimal phylogenetic trees illustrated with ten mammalian haemoglobin sequences. Biochem. J. 187:65-74.


For KKV without an orbit control engine along its longitudinal axis, an OGL is developed based on the linear kinematical model of space interception, by adopting a new time to go algorithm. Using OGL and PN, the computer simulations have been done for the case of plane interception, and the results show that OGL has better performance than PN while intercepting maneuvering targets.


Jining was an important city on the Great Canal in the Yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties.During this period,Jining boasted of its prosperous economy caused by the opening transport of the rice of tribute through the Great Canal.And its tax revenue of business became the major source of the sovernmental revenue.At same time,the development of Jining's economy brought up the booming of the commodity trade of around areas and the changes of the folk custom.


Effects of elliptically polarized Alfven waves on thermal ions are investigated. Both regular oscillations and stochastic motion of the particles are observed. It is found that during regular oscillations the energy of the thermal ions can reach magnitudes well exceeding the plasma temperature, the effect being largest in low-β plasmas (β is the ratio of the plasma pressure to the magnetic-field pressure). Conditions of low stochasticity threshold are obtained. It is shown that stochasticity can arise even for waves propagating along the magnetic field provided that the frequency spectrum is nonmonochromatic. The analysis carried out is based on equations derived from using a Lagrangian formalism. A code solving these equations is developed. Steady-state perturbations and perturbations with the amplitude slowly varying in time are considered.


In this paper, an efficient fast full search motion estimation algorithm, which is accelerated by sub-sampled preprocess, is proposed to reduce the computation costs of block matching algorithm in video compressions. The proposed fast global elimination algorithm (FGEA) can skip unnecessary search positions by the preprocessing unit. We employ the preprocessing unit to calculate the sub-sampled sum of subblock absolute difference (sub-sampled SSAD) for each candidate macro-block (MB) in the search range, where the preprocessing can select a number of probable candidate motion blocks. Then we calculate the sum of absolute difference (SAD) from these selected candidate blocks and find out the final motion vector. The proposed FGEA which uses the sub-sampled skill, reduces the computation cost of preprocessing and maintains the same compensated video quality in comparison with the previous GEA, which almost provides the same quality as the well-known full search block matching algorithm (FSBMA). Software simulation results show that the proposed fast block matching motion estimation algorithm can reduce about 38% absolute difference (AD) costs and perform average 1.64 runtime faster than the previous GEA method on the basis of the same compensated video quality with the FSBMA Through VLSI implementations, the realization of the FGEA only needs 22.1 k gate counts to achieve real-time process 30 frames/sec CIF-format video sequences.


Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry was used to detect synthetical compounds illegally mixed into tradi-tional Chinese medicine antidiabetic preparations.The organic extract of the traditional Chinese medicine antidiabetic cap-sule was analyzed through a C18 column with a mobile phase of methanol-formic acid(80.0∶20.0∶0.1).Two compo-nents illegally added into the traditional Chinese medicine antidiabetic capsule were identified according to the chroma-tographic behavior and mass spectral data by comparison with those of reference substances.As a result,each capsule(400.mg)for oral administration was quantited to contain 2.6 mg phenformin and 2.0 mg glibenclamide.The conclusion is that liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry can be used as a selective and sensitive instrumentality to detect compounds illegally mixed into the traditional Chinese medicine antidiabetic preparations.


The finite element method is applied to the study of crack propagation in reinforced concrete beams. Cracking is simulated in the finite element model by introducing "local anisotropy" in areas where cracks tend to form. Good agreement between analytical and experimental results is obtained in shapes and distribution of cracks and in the ultimate strength of the structure. The method is also applied to a study of the mechanical behavior of the concrete model. Elastic modulus of concrete obtained from the model agreed reasonably well with test results. The effect of friction on the loaded faces was simulated by means of spring elements. It was found that the stress distribution and mode of failure in the finite element model were in accord with common experience: end friction had a significant effect. /Author/


We demonstrate the use of a new wavefront analyser called MIROMA in a laser chain to measure the residual spatial modulations of the beam induced by footprints of a deformable mirror and prevent optical damages.


The Plain Language Act of 2010 requires all Federal agencies to communicate clearly so that the public can understand and use the information. The latest update in 2014 expands upon this promise and establishes further guidelines and requirements for communicating government information.


This paper examines two aspects of weld and welded joint variability, that are relevant to the current limit states revision of the structural welding design method, particularly to the underlying reliability analysis. The first issue is the basic model for weld strength that is currently used both in the design standard and in the reliability analysis. The second issue is the use of the all weld metal tensile strength both as a design criteria and as a quality control tool.


Fakultas Dakwah dan Komunikasi IAIN Antasari The purpose of development communication is not just to promote the development and delivery of messages of development, but more important than it is to grow, move, and maintain community participation in development. Communication strategy undertaken to increase community participation in rural development started since the foundation of society analytical skills through education and training so that they are able to recognize the problems and potential of the village, as well as the benefits of development to be done. The community is also involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of rural development, based on the ability of the community. When this is done, the rural development will be achieved effectively and efficiently. Keywords: communication strategy, development communication, participation


Ethiopian contacts with the fifteenth century Mediterranean world have tended to concentrate on her relations with the Holy Lands, Egypt and Italy Perhaps one of the least explored areas of her foreign relations are her contacts with Spain and more especially the Kingdom of Aragon. The attempted 1428 alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon is, almost certainly, the earliest negotiations Ethiopia ever conducted with a European power. However, much of the documentation has not been available to Ethiopianists because it came to light after the basic study by Francesco Cerone 2 or because much of it has been written in Catalan and is thus relatively inaccessible 3. One of the more vexing and complex problems for the Spanish medievalist of this period, the eastern policy of Alfonso V, has not been dealt with here since it is essentially in the realm of Mediterranean and


Abstract : The response of re-entry vehicle-type shells to blast loads is investigated and is described in terms of surface loads on the vehicle. Extensive data on both surface pressures and structural response of cylindrical and conical shells are presented. Peak pressure and impulse are identified as the important load characteristics which determine structural response and critical loads are presented in these terms. A theoretical description of dynamic buckling of cylindrical shells subjected to transient surface pressures is given to explain observed modes of failure and to predict critical loads for buckling over a wide range of load and structural parameters.


1. A method of combining the three-dimensional data [3D] graphical images and auxiliary data, characterized in that the method comprises the steps of: obtaining information of scaling and / or offset for use with these three-dimensional [3D] Image scaling and / or shifting the three-dimensional data [3D] image according to the scaling information and / or shear in this order to create a spatial area of black stripes, which is not occupied by the scaled and / or shifted data three-dimensional [3D] image obe Dinh scaled and / or shifted data three-dimensional [3D] graphical images and auxiliary data in such a way that the auxiliary graphic data placed within the spatial zone polosy.2 black. A method according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary graphic data are at least one of: two-dimensional information, subtitle information pieces of two-dimensional images, three-dimensional information, three-dimensional subtitle iinformatsii izobrazheniya.3 fragments. A method according to claim 1, wherein the scaling information and / or shear is at least one of: a scale factor, the scale factor applied for the scale in the display plane as the x, and y; offset in at least kakom- then one of: a horizontal direction in the plane direction in the display plane ivertikalnogo otobrazheniya.4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary graphic information located entirely within the spatial zone polosy.5 black. A method according to claim 1, wherein the spatial zone is filled with black stripes infor


For providing immense care on the patient's health, it is obligatory to nurture the patient's health records. This health care circumstance of the patient info is stored using blockchain networks. Distinctive healthcare specialists can access the data via this shared network infrastructure-the healthcare quarter profits immensely from a decentralized and dependable database. The details would be collected and documented securely in the Mongo dB database as encoded chunk data after document validation by the CA server with minimal computation time. The details stored in this database can be accessed using RNN when the user id and password match up with the database. The interface, smart contract, user access management, monitoring, mapping modules are processed to create a blockchain. The patient's details will be collected in the P ATREC chain, and the gathered information is applied to the blockchain, where it is stored in the list of blocks. Then it generates a hash value for that information in the block. Each patient's health details can be stored in their account, which can be shared or allow access by others using smart contact after authentication. Hence, it is mandatory to securely maintain these patient health care details as a single encrypted hash value using blockchain, which cannot access.


On October 14, 2010, the former vice president of sales and marketing for Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. ("Chi Mei"), Hsin-Tsung Wang, was indicted on price-fixing charges relating to the sale of…


The present article is the result of an ongoing research carried out in a high school and elementary school in the public education network of the State of Goiás. Initially, the bibliographic survey was started, and then the analytical-relational confrontation between theory and practice and contribute to debate about diversity in contemporary school. It is said that it is not enough to analyze the crisis in education or school only with parameters related to diversity itself. It is necessary to go further, and understand the dynamics of the school and diversity in the context of the crisis of the current model of society.


This innovative technology evaluation report (ITER) presents information on the demonstration of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 Superfund Field Analytical Screening Program (FASP) method for determining pentachlorophenol (PCP) contamination in soil and water. This method was demonstrated in Norrisville, North Carolina, in August 1993. The FASP PCP Method was developed by the EPA Superfund Branch for use at Superfund sites. The method uses a gas chromatograph (GC) equipped with a megabore capillary column and either a flame ionization detector (FID) or an electron capture detector (ECD). Gas chromatography is an EPA-approved method for determining PCP concentrations in soil, water, and waste samples. The FASP PCP Method is an abbrevaited, modified version of approved methods. Soil and water samples require extraction before GC analysis. To remove interferences caused by petroleum hydrocarbons, an acid-base partition cleanup step is used during the FASP PCP Method.


The shaped material cutting problem is deeply studied.And the mathematical model of corresponding problem and the algorithm are presented.The comparison with other softwares is made.The experiment shows that the method is much better than the others.


During our 2019 ConVerge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) conference in Boston, we focused on the theme "Proving Market Value with Pragmatic Innovation in Healthcare" (see https://conv2x-2019.eventcreate.com/). This year, along with BHTY editorial board members, conference speakers were invited to join with Tory Cenaj, Publisher of BHTY, to contribute their expertise and share insights for the near-term landscape of blockchain in healthcare.


Th i s article is addressed to users of classification procedures in the social historical sciences. Accord ing to this aim an e x a m p l e from historical family research is used to descr ibe t he steps necessary to solve a classification task. These steps are : (1) Selection of classification a t t r ibutes and un i t s . (2) Trea tmen t of miss ing data . (3) Trans format ion of classification a t t r ibu tes to comparable scales. (4) S tandard iza t ion of classification un i t s . (5) Selection of dissimilari ty and s imilar i ty measures . (6) Selection of classification procedures . (7) Calcula t ion of cluster solut ions . (8) Validition of cluster solut ions by stabili ty and sensit ivity analysis . As can be seen from the prev ious list some steps especially step (2), (3) and (8) are neglected or unde re s t ima ted in most books on cluster analysis, a l though they are of p rac tical impor t ance : How can missing data be t rea ted? W h a t are the effects of different t r e a t m e n t s of miss ing data on classification results? Is it bet ter to t ransform classification a t t r ibutes to c o m p a r a b l e scales by empir ica l or theoret ical procedures? How do these different m e t h o d s of data t r ans format ion inf luence the results of c luster analysis? Final ly, how can the validity of a cluster analysis be tested? The art icle t r ies to answer these ques t ions . F u r t h e r m o r e s tandard text books on cluster analysis pay little a t t en t ion , how a user of statistical p rogram packages can realize methodological rules within the p rog ram used: H o w can cer tain types of dissimilar i ty measures be calcula ted wi thout * Address all communications to Dr. Johann Bacher, Institute of Sociology, Uni versity of Linz, A-4020 Linz, Austria. 6 Historical Social Research, Vol. 14 — 1989 — No. 2, 6-167


Canola (Brassica napus L., Brassicaceae) research in Virginia began in the mid 1980s. A concerted and focused cooperative effort was initiated, with USDA-CSREES-National Canola Research Program funds, in 1993 by Virginia's two Land Grant Universities: Virginia State University and Virginia Tech. A major goal of this effort, until recently, has been establishment of canola as a domestic source of edible oil. Currently, we are interested in using canola oil for food and as a feedstock for biodiesel.


Objective:To investigate the effects of modified apple polysaccharides(MAP)on the apoptosis of human colon cancer HT29 cells and the mechanisms.Methods:The effects of different doses of MAP on proliferation of HT29 cells were observed by MTT assay,and the effects of MAP on the apoptosis of HT29 cells were investigated by TUNEL assay and flow cytometric analysis.And Western Blot was employed to determine the expressions of caspase 3,8,9,Bax and Bcl-2 of HT29 cells after given MAP.Results:MAP can inhibit proliferation of HT29 cells significantly in a dose-dependent manner in contract to control.And MAP can also induce the apoptosis of HT29 cells,increase the expression of caspase 3,8,9 and Bax and decrease the expression of Bcl-2 in HT29 cells dose-dependently.Conclusions:MAP could induce apoptosis of HT29 cells.And it seems that MAP exerts this function through both the intrinsic and extrinsic ways of apoptosis.


This text gathers in the positive integral Liouville foundation and goes forward a line of factor and factor numberses check against,using the mathematics inductive method proves a character of the number quality from the France mathematician Liouville.


Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are envisioned in a range of applications pertaining to improving the operation safety in underground mines; of which, tracking of mining personnel and equipments, mine environment monitoring, and communication systems for emergency response in post-disaster scenarios remain to be of high impact. While underground mine deployment experiences using WSNs have been reported in the past; there has been limited focus on communication challenges in highly confined mine spaces, such as mine galleries. In this paper, we report real-world studies conducted in two different underground mine types, and these were investigated under three different confined mine settings: (i) straight mine roadways, typically used for transportation and access to other mine zones; (ii) near face zones, representational of the working regions of most miners; (iii) curved gallery. We present various wireless characterization studies; and the impact of underground mine features on the communication link span, quality, and reliability. From our analysis, we observe that a number of assumptions made in the theoretical wireless communication models do not hold in practice. We believe that our current work will be a useful guideline to practitioners in the design of reliable and robust wireless networking solutions for the mining industry.


Microphase separation are the decisive factor for the performance of polyurethane. The blends of polyurethane/carbon nanotubes were prepared by the method of solution blending, and the influence of carbon nanotubes on the microphase separation behaviors of polyurethane was studied. The results show that carbon nanotubes play as the nucleating agent in the blends of polyurethane/ carbon nanotubes. The average diameter of the polyurethane phase was improved even only a very small amount of carbon nanotubes were present. Introduction As a well-known thermoplastic elastomer material, polyurethane (PU) is widely used in the fields of building material, garments, biomedical materials, etc. Recent years, carbon nanotubes (CNT) has been frequently applied to improve the mechanical properties and thermal stability of PU[1-9]. These improvements are greatly caused by the modification of the micro structure of PU. In this paper, the influence of CNT on the micro phase separation structure of PU was discussed. Experimental The type of PU is Bayer 985U. The type of CNT is TNIM4. It's a multi-wall CNT and was purchased from Chengdu Organic Chemical Co., Ltd. N,N-dimethyl formamide (DMF) were purchased from Shanghai Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. To prepare the PU/CNT blend, PU solution was first prepared with DMF. Then certain amount of CNT was added into the solution and the solution was stirred for 24 h at the speed of 100 RPM. For the preparation of film, certain amount of PU/CNT blend solution was poured on the dry clean glass plate (10  10 cm2 in size). A film with the thickness of 100 μm was prepared with an adjustable film maker (Shanghai Le Ao Test Instrument Co., Ltd.). The film was then dried in the vacuum oven in the temperature of 80 oC for 24 h. After that the film was peeled off from the glass plate, and observed with the phase contrast microscope (AE2000, Shanghai Yiyuan Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.). Results and Discussions The interaction of PU and CNT was first investigate by viscosity of PU solution. The results are displayed in Figure 1. From Figure 1 we can see that very small amount of CNT could cause a significant increase of the solution viscosity. This was caused by the entanglement between PU molecular chains and the structure of CNT. Figure 2 shows the microphase separation structure of PU/CNT blends with various CNT contents. The morphology of PU microstructure refers to the shape, size and composition of the phases, the width of the phase boundary layer and the degree of molecular entanglement of the two neighboring phases, which are closely related to the properties of PU materials. From Figure 1, a bicontinuous phase separation structure can be observed. This structure was formed by the rigid segments and soft segments of PU molecular chains. The phase size of the sample without CNT (Figure 1-A) is small,


. Creating a functionally oriented, including nanostructured, anti-friction materials and coatings with qualitatively new complex of service properties is an important scientific and practical problem. In particular, for the cable industry it is urgent task of ensuring the high performance properties of fast deteriorating stretching and supporting rollers. Working surfaces of these parts operate under practically dry friction conditions with constantly updated material of stretching wire. Plasma spraying is one of the widely used methods of surface engineering to create wear resistant coatings and which is characterized with process flexibility and the ability to create coatings using various materials and alloys including composite ones. The installation UPU-3D with the PP-25 plasma torch was used for plasma spraying. The thickness of the sprayed layer was 0.8–1.1 mm. As a material for the deposition of composite coatings a powder mixture of self-fluxing nickel alloy PG-HN80SR4 (system Ni–Fe–Cr–Si–B–C) and a neutral oxide ceramics Al 2 O 3  was used. The amount of ceramics varied from 15 to 33 %. This ceramic oxide was selected due to the desire to reduce coatings' costs while providing high durability. Carried out phase and microstructural studies have shown when ceramics was added in an amount more than 20 % a formation of conglomerates formed by not melted alumina particles often was observed. These conglomerates serve as crack formation centers in the coating. The phase composition of the coatings practically does not depend on the content of ceramics compounds. Tribological tests have shown that the best results were obtained when the content of the oxide ceramic in the coating was in the range from 15 to 20 %.


A safety assessment approach based on analytical hierarchy process and system functionality is proposed in this paper for power plant safety. The multi-hierarchy valuation structure is established on a basis of key influence factors for power plant safety. The preponderant function of system safety is constructed by using system functionality principle and analytical hierarchy process for resolving the problem that systems safety preponderates over the weight sum of sub-systems safety. The proposed analysis approach can adjust the harmonics of safety assessment factors for power plants, and provide decision-making advices or safety simulation means for the enterprise managers for safety management and safety assessment. The proposed method is applied successfully to the enterprise safety assessment of Datang Luoyang Shouyangshan Power Plant.


Background: Clinical assessment of swollen joint count (SJC) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) might be affected by obesity in terms of obesity-related excess adipose tissue. Objectives: To compare the level of agreement between synovitis evaluated by Power Doppler ultrasound (PDUS) and clinical examination (SJC as component of SDAI) in obese (O) (i.e. Body Mass Index (BMI) >30) versus non-obese (NO) (BMI≤30) RA patients. Methods: RA patients ≥18 years fulfilling 2010 ACR-EULAR criteria were included in the cross-sectional multicentre (13 centres) French observational RABODI study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03004651). Clinical synovitis was evaluated on 44 joints. ESR and CRP were collected and SDAI, DAS28, DAS were calculated. A standard US examination on 44 joints was performed by an independent investigator blinded to clinical data. US synovitis was defined by a synovial hypertrophy ≥1 and PD signal≥1 on a semi-quantitative scale according to the EULAR-OMERACT scoring system. Levels of agreement between number of synovitis defined by PDUS and clinical examination were compared in O versus NO patients using Chi2 test, and Kappas (k) and ORs were calculated. A patient was considered "discordant" if ≥1 joint was discordantly classified by PDUS and clinical examination. SDAI was calculated and compared, with SJC defined either by clinical examination or PDUS. Results: 121 patients were included: mean (SD) age of 58.5 (12.7) years, mean disease duration of 11.1 (9.7) years. 81% were female, 84.3% anti-CCP positive, 63.6% had erosive disease. Mean SDAI was 12.6 (±10.2). 53 (43.8%) had a BMI >30 and 68 (56.2%) ≤30. 59 (48.7%) and 62 (51.2%) had a SDAI≤11 and >11, respectively. The 2 groups were comparable, except for weight (mean (SD) 65.4 (13.5) vs 96.7 (14.7) kg, p Conclusion: In RA patients, despite a perceived higher difficulty to clinically detect SJ in O patients, the discrepancy between clinically- and PDUS defined synovitis was not significantly higher than in NO patients, and did not impact the extend of the definition of disease activity level. Disclosure of Interests: Gael Mouterde: None declared, Federico Manna: None declared, Benoit Le Goff: None declared, Jean-David Albert: None declared, Sandrine Jousse-Joulin: None declared, Frederique Gandjbakhch: None declared, Damien LOEUILLE: None declared, Philippe Gaudin Speakers bureau: Lilly, Muriel PIPERNO: None declared, BANAL Frederic: None declared, Benedicte Jamard: None declared, Carine Salliot: None declared, Nicolas Molinari: None declared, Bernard Combe Grant/research support from: Novartis, Pfizer, Roche-Chugai, Consultant of: AbbVie; Gilead Sciences, Inc.; Janssen; Eli Lilly and Company; Pfizer; Roche-Chugai; Sanofi, Speakers bureau: Bristol-Myers Squibb; Gilead Sciences, Inc.; Eli Lilly and Company; Merck Sharp & Dohme; Pfizer; Roche-Chugai; UCB, Maria-Antonietta D'Agostino: None declared, Cedric Lukas: None declared


The effect of adding a t-butyl group to the core molecule of CyMe4-BTBP, with the aim of improving solubility in organic diluents, has been studied with regard to the extraction of Am(III) and Eu(III) from HNO3. Synthesis of t-Bu-CyMe4-BTBP is described in detail. Metal nitrates are extracted from nitric acid in the form of 1:2 complexes, M(NO3)3(BTBP)2. Whether in 1-octanol, kerosene, or cyclohexanone diluents, t-Bu-CyMe4-BTBP extracts with larger distribution ratios but with slower kinetics than CyMe4-BTBP. The general trends previously observed for CyMe4-BTBP regarding the diluent and modifier influence were also found for t-Bu-CyMe4-BTBP.


Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is deemed as one of the main causes of death in humans. Therefore, the prediction of an SCD event will help people to receive timely treatment, allowing saving their life. In this sense, this paper introduces a new methodology based on the adroit fusion of fractal dimension (FD) algorithms and a fuzzy logic system for predicting an SCD event automatically. Five FD implementations are investigated in this work: Katz's FD, Sevcik's FD, Box's FD, Higuchi's FD, and Petrosian's FD, in order to evaluate the geometrical complexity in electrocardiogram signals of 20 patients with SCD and 18 patients with a normal cardiac rhythm offered by Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The results indicate that the FD-based methodology can predict an SCD event up to 60[Formula: see text]min before the onset, reaching an accuracy of 91.54%.


The theme of confession, present in the reflection of Michel Foucault since the early
1960s, pursued the same direction of his researches from the late 1970s concerning
the problem of government and the studies of governmentality. Under this perspective,
confession is taken as recognition through which the subject authenticates in himself
or herself his or her own actions and thoughts. Therefore, it is not only a verbal act by
means of which the subject states the truth of his or her being; confession also binds
the subject to truth, throwing him or her in a relation of dependency regards the other,
and, at the same time, modifying the relationship that he or she establishes with himself
or herself. According to Foucault, this is what explains the massive growth of practic-
es of confession in Western societies up until their actual inscription at the heart of
procedures of individualization typical of modern political power. This paper explores
Foucault's analysis of confessional practices and its recent developments in the work of
Giorgio Agamben (Opus Dei. Archeologia dell'Ufficio , 2012) and Roberto Esposito (Due.
La macchina della teologia politica e il posto del pensiero, 2013).


Abstract How Black learners are made to feel in the classroom by their general and special education professionals affect how they learn and navigate their world. An historical account of American education for the Black mind can be viewed as dull, dangerous, and deadly. It is imperative that each child feels physical and psychological safety in every educational environment. This is the premise of this article.


The problem of the propagation of electromagnetic energy down an infinitely long rectangular wave guide partially filled by a ferrite slab is solved. The solution is expressed in the form of a transcendental equation involving the propagation constant. Calculations are carried out for a lossless ferrite, and the phase constant is evaluated as a function of the appropriate parameters, namely, the ferrite slab thickness, the lateral position of the slab in the guide, and the applied transverse static magnetic field intensity. The results are plotted in graphic form for values of the static magnetic field in the region of ferrite saturation both above and below ferromagnetic resonance. The electromagnetic field configurations within the wave guide are plotted in detail for values of the parameters of practical interest. Two versions of the nonreciprocal phase shifter are discussed. The first consists of a single slab placed asymmetrically in the wave guide, while the second consists of two symmetrically plac...


Antithrombin, a serine protease inhibitor, plays an important role in the regulation of the coagula tion cascade. It inhibits thrombin as well as factors Xa, IXa, XIa, and XIIa. Heparin markedly accelerates the rate at which antithrombin inhibits these enzymes. To prevent the formation of clots in the extracorporeal cir cuit, heparin is used during cardiopulmonary bypass sur gery (CPB). However, in a small proportion of patients, adequate anticoagulation, defined as an activated clotting time (ACT) of >400 s after an intravenous bolus of hep arin in a dose of 300 U/kg, is not achieved. Conventional treatment of heparin resistance includes fresh frozen plasma or large doses of heparin. Antithrombin concen trates were given to 12 patients who were considered to be heparin resistant at our institution. All patients had received >300 U/kg of heparin before antithrombin con centrates were infused. In all patients, the ACT pro longed to >400 s after concentrates were infused, and in nine of 12 cases to >600 s. Of these nine patients, six (67%) did not receive any allogeneic transfusions, whereas three (33%) required allogeneic blood transfu sions. In nine of 12 patients, no more heparin was given after infusing antithrombin concentrate. It appears that antithrombin concentrate, which is a fractionated, pas teurized plasma product, is a possible safer alternative to excessive heparin doses or fresh frozen plasma for CPB patients who are heparin resistant. Key Words: An tithrombin—Cardiopulmonary bypass—Heparin resis tance.


It is important to conform to the security rules of medical and electrical equipment for guaranteeing medical quality and personal safety.The paper is on stardard power supply for clean operating room in hospital.


Objective:We proposed a new blood purification modality——hemodialysis with plasma based dialysate(HD PBD) for patients with hyperbilirubinemia, and evaluated the effect of this treatment in the removal of serum bilirubin. Methodology:Eleven patients with hyperbilirubinemia were involved in this study. Four of them were treated with high volume hemofiltration (HVHF) for 12 hours, 3 patients were treated with hemoperfusion(HP) using macroporous resin sorbents, the other four were treated with a this new modality——PHD for 6 hours. During a session of PHD, 4 000 ml frozen plasma was circulated in the dialysate route at flow rate of 6 000 ml/hr, and a BLS816G filter was used as the dialyzer. Serum total bilirubin(TB), direct bilirubin(DB) and indirect bilirubin(IB) were monitored before and after treatment in all the patients. TB, DB and IB concentrations were determined in the ultrafiltrates of the patients treated with HVHF, and in the wasted plasma dialysate in the patient treated with PHD. Results:After a 12 hour's treatment of HVHF, the mean reduction of serum TB, DB, IB is (10 4±4 2)%,(10 0±6 3)% and (10 1±7 5)%,respectively, and the average concentration of TB, DB and IB in the ultrafiltrates is (3 33±0 96),(1 98±0 81) and (1 35±0 26) μmol/L, respectively. After a session of HP treatment, the mean reduction of serum TB, DB and IB is (14 4±3 2)%,(14 4±4 0)% and (14 8±3 2)%, respectively. After a 6 hour's treatment with PHD, the mean reduction of serum TB, DB and IB is (21 5±5 3)%, (20 5±2 9)% and (24 1±14 0)% respectively. Conclusion:PHD, a newly proposed modality for patients with hyperbilirubinemia, is more effective in the removement of serum bilirubins than other modalities as HVHF or as HP.


Objective:To analyze the treatment of cervical disc collagenase injection effect.Methods:From December 2006 to November 2008 in our hospital 92 cases of cervical disc herniation received treatment with Collagenase injection.Results:92 cases of patients with 86 cases of needle injection of Collagenase and the success of intubation, 80 patients with 6 to 12 months follow-up results, excellent in 17 cases, good in 53 cases, 7 cases of valid and invalid 3.The total fine was 87.5%.Conclusion:The injection of Collagenase treatment of cervical disc herniation, clinical results is satisfactory, it is an effective treatment.


Currently Internet of Things has been envisioned as a key technology for smart city, intelligent transportation, and green buildings. Data aggregation is largely applied to sense the data collection in Internet of Things, as it can improve the efficiency of data sensing and forwarding to final sink nodes. The reliability and efficiency of data aggregation have significant influence on the functionality of e nvironmental parameter sensing and emergence response s. However, data reliability is usually verified by each forwarding hop for confirming the data integrity of receiving data. This verification method at each intermediate aggregative node induces much computation overhead. In this paper, researchers propose a novel scheme that requires v erification only once and only at final sink node. It is a homomorphic hash function based data reliability verification scheme that largely reduces the computation overhead by only computing hash function only once. This scheme relies on the dedicated characteristic of homomorphic hash function. The theoretic analysis and simulation results justified that the scheme can improve the efficiency of data aggregation in Internet of Things.


Interactions of Ca(OH)2 with various modifications of SiO2: amorphous (Hi-Sil, TSD) or crystalline (quartz) silica were established. The molar ratio of primary mixtures CaO/SiO2 was 0.5. The samples were cured in a vapour chamber (20 oC, 100% humidity) for 7 and 28 days. The products were characterized by X–ray diffraction, thermogravimetry, differential scanning calorimetry, Fourier-transform infrared and scanning electron microscopy analysis. SiO2 modification used had a decisive influence on the processes of formation of calcium silicate hydrates. In the mixture with amorphous SiO2, Ca(OH)2 reacted completely during 7 days of synthesis, while large quantity of Ca(OH)2 remained unreacted even after 28 days when quartz was used. It was found that in the Ca(OH)2–amorphous SiO2–H2O system, after a 28-day exposure, the surface of SiO2 globules was totally covered with well-crystalline C-S-H(I) plates. Moreover, in the samples with quartz, only the gaps between quartz crystals were filled with C-S-H(I).


The authors find that the capacity depends more on interference from surrounding cell users as the cell radius decreases. They propose a DS-CDMA system with orthogonal sequence spreading and analyze its reverse-link performance. For microcellular systems, synchronization errors between mutual users are relatively small when every reverse-link signal is synchronized with synchronized forward-link signals at the receiver. Orthogonal sequence spreading in the reverse-link reduces the interference generated by users in the same cell without additional processing. The system has a large capacity when the radius is such that interference from users in surrounding cells is comparable to that from users in the same cell.


In previous lectures, we studied Nash Equilibria in normal form games. A strategy is in NE if no single player can gain by deviating from the strategy. In extensive form games the notion of NE remains the same, if no single player can gain by deviating in any way from the actions prescribed to him by the strategy, then the strategy is in NE. The problem in extensive form games is that players act in turns. This introduces what we call "empty threats": In some cases a player can deviate from his strategy because he knows the other player will see this and be forced to deviate as well, resulting in an overall profit for the first player. Hence the notion of a single player deviation from the overall strategy is too weak for extensive form games. SPE will eliminate these empty threats by requiring ideal play in any sub-game the players find themselves in, i.e. a strategy which is a "best response" at any history.