Despite significant advances in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a major cause of morbidity and premature mortality in the United States. During the past decade, increased attention has focused on disparities in CVD and its attendant major risk factors. In this context, disparities refer to preventable differences in the indicators of cardiovascular health of different population groups as defined by gender, race, ethnicity, educational level, socioeconomic status, and geographic location of residence. Recent reports from the Institute of Medicine, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Institutes of Health reaffirm that reducing health disparities is a major public health challenge in the United States and is central to achieving the goals for the nation as defined in Healthy People 2010. Based on available evidence and a series of reports generated by the American Heart Association's national conference, ''Discovering the Full Spectrum of Cardiovascular Disease: The Minority Health Summit,'' a recent themed issue of Circulation was dedicated to disparities in CVD. Included in this issue are the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirming differences in the prevalence of CVD and potentially modifiable risk factors (ie, obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension) by gender, race, ethnicity, and geographic location of residence. Most important to the CVD prevention agenda and offered as one comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to eliminating disparities in cardiovascular health, is a special report including strategic imperatives within a framework for action. One strategic imperative focuses on accelerating interventions in health promotion and disease prevention, evaluation, treatment, and control of CVD in populations with the highest CVD and risk factor burdens. Communitybased participatory research has been identified as an important collaborative strategy for developing such interventions and is offered as another imperative in the action plan along with the need for multidisciplinary, transectoral partnerships, particularly with those communities that bear an excess burden of CVD. Acknowledging the multilevel challenges inherent in eliminating disparities, another imperative focuses on advancing policy and systems changes in the healthcare setting. Key features of successful models are outlined and include the formation of partnerships based on common goals to provide care, to educate, and to rebuild healthcare systems with emphasis on prevention, health education, case management, disease management tracking, centralized data collection, appropriate use of technology and informatics for data analysis, provider feedback, and service coordination. Other key elements of the framework include 10 focal areas that reflect the complex etiology of health disparities: (1) access to care; (2) quality of healthcare delivered; (3) patient preferences, patterns of healthcare utilization, adherence; (4) culture, lifestyles, and personal behaviors; (5) regulations, policies, and systems of care; (6) geographic and environmental influences; (7) income and educational levels; (8) prejudice, discrimination, and bias; (9) psychosocial stressors; and (10) biology, genomics, and geneenvironment interactions. Within these identified areas, access to care and quality of care are emphasized as having the most to contribute toward the elimination of disparities. Relatedly, emphasis is placed on the need for innovative Laura L. Hayman, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, New York, NY. Suzanne Hughes, MSN, RN Education Coordinator, Center for Family Medicine, Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio.


Power analysis of internal combustion engine mechanical losses was performed and methods of its determination were considered. It is shown that the power of the mechanical losses of the piston engine is small, and it quickly decreases with a decrease in the speed of the engine shaft, which negatively affects the braking efficiency.

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car, braking by internal combustion engine, power of mechanical losses


In a global market the boundaries of the municipality/area of the world is in the era of Economic Digital is not known yet, to him it is the readiness of taking advantage of opportunities to market to the world market the product and potential - regional asset owned through electronic markets is something that is very strategic in order to advance society lasimnya as has been done by the developed countries.
In the world of new trade takes place on a medium electronic where the message can be received, the image happens we can see through the computer that can connect with millions of channels in the world we commonly call cyberspace electronics, small things can eliminate the geographical distance that limits of a market to another. The main shift in a trade that has geographical distance into cyberspace represent an extraordinary change in humanitatian organizations and required an objective that can be understood and bring about chnge very quickly from any perception to the human and social relations.
In order to utilize the opportunity of the free market the Asean Economic Community (AEC_ in the era of the digital economy, the Electronic Markets both traditional Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and the new paradigm of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a matter that cannot be circumvented by the municipality/regions in the world be able to acess global outlets.


AbstractThe mechanisms of occurrence and characteristics of intermittency at the boundary of generalized synchronization in mutually coupled systems with complex (two-sheet) chaotic attractor topology are investigated. It has been established that the occurrence of intermittency in this case is due to the imaging point jump from one sheet of the chaotic attractor to another. At the same time, distributions of laminar phase durations and dependences of average laminar phase durations on the supercriticality parameter obey exponential laws.


In this study, we perform single-trial EEG classification in memory retrieval predictions using classifiers trained on a leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) cross-validation basis. We also compare the performance to that of classification using leave-one-trial-out (LOTO) when trained on data for an individual subject. Unlike traditional single-trial EEG analysis performed within an individual subject, we show that it is possible to perform single-trial EEG classification using classifiers trained on different subjects leading the way to more general classifiers for brain-computer interface (BCI) applicable to first-time BCI users.


Partially linear regression is capable of providing more complete description of the linear and nonlinear relationships among random variables. In support vector regression (SVR) the hyper-parameters are known to affect the performance of regression. In this paper we propose an iterative reweighted least squares (IRWLS) procedure to solve the quadratic problem of partially linear support vector regression with a modified loss function, which enables us to use the generalized approximate cross validation function to select the hyper-parameters. Experimental results are then presented which illustrate the performance of the partially linear SVR using IRWLS procedure.


Formulae are derived for the calculation of the energy eigenvalues in cylindrical and elliptic quantum wires with finite potential barriers. Calculated values are given for quantum wires of the Ga0.47 In0.53As/InP system and experimental results are explained.


This paper presents the simulation results of evaporation process of lower alcohols - ethanol (E), butanol (B) and their binary mixtures individual droplets with 2 mm droplet initial size in hot air (T∞ = 440 ÷ 675K) and atmospheric pressure. The evaporating droplets size, composition and temperature histories are obtained using descrete-component approach to describe different initial composition fuel mixtures heat-mass transfer processes. The comparative analysis of obtained data allowed to propose a possible mechanism of multicomponent fuel mixtures droplets evaporation and explain some of predicted features in main process characteristics behavior.


Two-dimensional spread spectrum system is simply introduced first. Compared with traditional DS-CDMA systems, the system copies the time-domain spread signals to form several parallel branches and spreads them with an orthogonal code in the frequency-domain. So it uses the frequency bands more efficient and can realize frequency diversity. Because of two-dimensional spread spectrum, the system can contain more users in the whole system. Then this paper provides a detailed discussion of the transmitter and receiver in a multi-carrier two-dimensional CDMA system and the system integrates this technology. From the mathematical deduction, this paper knows how this system works and why it is better than the existing systems. Based on the previous analysis, with perfect synchronization, finally the bit error rate of the two-dimensional spread spectrum system for AWGN channel is presented and the graph is shown. Mathematical result and the corresponding graph show that the system has a low bit error rate. Therefore this new technology is feasible under the situations provided in this paper.


Background. The aim of this study was to describe the effects of acupuncture in the treatment of low‐back and pelvic pain during pregnancy and compare it with physiotherapy.


Probabilistic roadmaps are an effective tool to compute Ihe connectivity of the collision-free subset of high-dimensional robot configuration spaces. This paper extends them to capture the pertinent features of continuous functions over high-dimensional spaces. This extension has several possible applications, but the focus here is on computing energetically favorable motions ofbio-moleculcs. Many bio-chemical processes essential to lite require the interacting molecules to adopt ditferent shapes over time. Computational tools predicting such motions can help better understand these processes and design useful molecules (e.g., new drugs). In thi s context a molecule is modeled as an articulated structure moving in an energy field. The set of all its 3-D placeme nts is the molecule's conformational space, over which the energy field is defined. A probabilistic conformational roadmap (PCR) t rie s to capture the connectivity of the low-energy subset of a conformational space, in the form of a network of weighted local pathways. The weight of a pathway mea'mes the energetic difficulty for the molecule to move along il. The power of a PCR derives from its ability to compactly encode a large number of energetically favorable molecular pathways, each defined as a sequence of contiguous local pathways. This paper describes general techniques to compute and query PCRs, and presents implementations to study ligand-protein binding and protei n f olding.


The investigation of cardiovascular abnormalities demands a still, cooperative patient, for sometimes as long as three hours. It is usual to perform cardiac catheterisation by way of the basilic or long saphenous vein, proceeding to pressure recordings in the accessible chambers of the heart and great vessels, coupled with removal of blood samples for estimation of oxygen saturation. Radiographic screening with the aid of an image intensifying apparatus is the rule. Angiography is often carried out following these investigations, and it is, therefore, necessary to have the child at its quietest at the end of what may have been a long and trying session. Finally, the opportunity is sometimes taken, especially in infants, of phonocardiographic recording. Maintenance of anasthesia in a darkened room for any length of time is always a taxing experience, and the intensity of radiation near the hands of the anmthetist makes an endotracheal tube desirable, since a leadened glove does not allow the delicate 'touch' required for small children. The administration of oxygen invalidates oxygen saturation measurements and nitrous oxide interferes with Van Slyke determinations. Moreover, the use of inhalational agents may further complicate the chemical and photo-electrical investigations, whilst ether and cyclopropane provide an unjustifiable explosion hazard in the presence of a veritable battery of electrical apparatus. Some method is, therefore, required to surmount these problems.


With the development of intelligent phones and speech recognition technology, there is a great demand for generating meeting minutes automatically. In this paper, we design and implement Yanji, an automated system for generating meeting minutes based on speech and speaker recognition. The Yanji system realizes the following functions: recording the audio of the conference, uploading audios to IBM cloud in real time, transcribing audios to texts and identifying various speakers with IBM Speech to Text API, and finally generating complete meeting minutes. Yanji greatly reduces the recording storage space and the labor cost of listening and writing, and improves the meeting efficiency.


ULF geomagnetic field measurements in Antarctica are a very important tool for better understanding the dynamics of the Earth's magnetosphere and its response to the variable solar wind conditions. We review the results obtained in the last few years at the Italian observatory at Terra Nova Bay


The numerical simulation for dynamic characteristics of the flow field of a novel twin-screw kneader is carried out. The flow field model of the twin-screw kneader is established, and the three-dimensional, isothermal and steady numerical analysis of non-Newtonian fluid is presented based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) theory, and the characteristics under the conditions of different speeds and center distances such as the distribution of pressure and velocity field, the maximum shear stress, the mass flow rate and so on, are studied. The research results show that: with increasing speed, the maximum flow pressure, the mass flow rate, the maximum shear stress will increase; the maximum shear stress increases first and then decreases with increasing of center distance of the screw rotors, while the mass flow rate increases with increasing of center distance; but when the center distance reaches a certain degree, the mass flow rate will be negative and the material will appear serious reflux which can lead the kneader to stopping working.


Pulsed low‐energy (about 100 eV) ion irradiation during Ge/Si heteroepitaxy was found to stimulate the nucleation of 3D Ge islands. This method provides the smaller average island's size, increasing density of islands, narrower size distribution of 3D islands as compared to conventional molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Perfect crystal Si cap layer above Ge irradiated film can be grown by Si MBE.


PURPOSE: To control venting motion during venting and after venting and make the closing part resealable so as to be pressure-resistant after venting by providing a closing part sealing an opening and a venting means emitting gas from the container at a required time or when a rupture means is broken in response to a raised pressure. CONSTITUTION: A breakable diaphragm 39 for a venting means seals the upstream of an air passage 43 in a normal flowless state. When the stem 57 is fastened downward so to press the lower breakable diaphragm 39 of a closing means, the air passage 43 is sealed and when the stem 57 is retracted, the gas in a container 11 can be emitted from the breakable diaphragm at a lower pressure than the rupture pressure. When the breakable diaphragm 39 is broken by the high inner pressure in the container body 13, the gas 45 in the container generated by the evaporation of a venting mixture 47 passes through the upstream passage 41 and the broken diaphragm 39 and it is emitted from the container through the air passage 53. In this way, the container is protected from a high pressure explosion and the emitting speed or the gas is controlled and further the container can be resealed. COPYRIGHT: (C)1991,JPO


Climate models generally underestimate the pronounced warming in the sea surface temperature (SST) over the North Atlantic during the mid‐Pliocene that is suggested by proxy data. Here we investigate the influence of the North Atlantic cold SST bias, which is observed in many climate models, on the simulation of mid‐Pliocene surface climate in a series of simulations with the Kiel Climate Model. A surface freshwater‐flux correction is applied over the North Atlantic, which considerably improves simulation of North Atlantic Ocean circulation and SST under present‐day conditions. Using reconstructed mid‐Pliocene boundary conditions with closed Bering and Arctic Archipelago Straits, the corrected model depicts significantly reduced model‐proxy SST discrepancy in comparison to the uncorrected model. A key factor in reducing the discrepancy is the stronger and more sensitive Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and poleward heat transport. We conclude that simulations of mid‐Pliocene surface climate over the North Atlantic can considerably benefit from alleviating model biases in this region.


When subjected to a uniform magnetic flux density, ferromagnetic materials can be regarded as magnetic flux concentrators. In the same magnetic environment, high‐ temperature superconductors (HTS) rather expel the surrounding magnetic flux. Putting these materials together in macroscopic hybrid ferromagnetic / superconductor structures enables for significant improvements of the magnetic properties of each materials considered separately. In particular, we study in this work how ferromagnetic tubes could enhance the shielding properties of HTS tubes subjected to a uniform magnetic field parallel to its axis.


The subject of consideration is the African policy of France during the presidency of Emmanuel Macron (2017-2022). The proclaimed slogans, the official rhetoric of the tenth president of the Fifth Republic, the political practices of the Elysee Palace during this period are reviewed in the context of the geopolitical changes taking place in West Africa. The purpose of the study is to find out the factors that in one way or another have influenced the African policy of Paris in recent years, to determine the obvious motives and latent aspirations of French diplomacy on the African continent. The article deals with very recent events that took place in Tropical Africa, and are therefore relatively little studied both in Russian African studies and in French political science and anthropology. The author comes to the conclusion that the Fifth Republic is rapidly losing its economic, political and military-strategic positions in African countries, which were quite recently a zone of its undeniable influence. He connects this process with the emergence here of new actors in international relations, which allowed Africans to diversify their foreign economic and political orientations.


Introduction Transplantation is a definitive treatment option for many people suffering from end-stage organ failure. Organ supply, however, far exceeds the supply. While recent studies suggest that improved management of deceased organ donors may increase transplant rates and allograft function, research to support best practices in donor management is sparse. The DONATE Pilot Observational Study aims to identify and to address logistical and regulatory complexities prior to embarking upon a national observational study that will improve the care of organ donors and lay the foundation for future clinical trials. Methods This 12 month prospective cohort study was conducted between September 2015 - April 2017 in the intensive care units (ICUs) of 8 Ontario and Quebec hospitals enrolled consecutively consented adult deceased donors [donation after neurological determination of death (DND) and donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD). The primary outcomes of this pilot study included the successful application of a waived research consent model, the time to complete the case report forms (CRF) and the completeness of transplant recipient data. Detailed data from various hospital sources and provincial organ donation organizations included death determination procedures, cardiopulmonary monitoring technologies, basic and advanced life sustaining therapy, general prophylactic interventions, organ donation specific therapies and clinical complications, defined a priori, from one day prior to donation consent up to the time of organ recovery. We also recorded specific limited data about the transplant recipients. Results In collaboration with ethicists, lawyers and privacy officers, all hospitals obtained authorization to implement this study with a waiver of research consent. The study, includes 180 consecutive deceased donors (58% DND; 42% DCD). The most common critical illness leading to organ donation was global anoxic brain injury (n = 37, 20.,6%). The mean time from donation consent to organ recovery was 2.39 days (SD = 0.72). Research coordinators estimated that prospective data completion required 5-7 hours per participant, but retrospective approaches required more time. With formal data sharing agreements, we obtained recipient data. Conclusion This pilot study identified and addressed some unique logistical and regulatory organ donation research challenges. The process provides a framework for addressing the same issues, and refining data collection, in the context of an upcoming national prospective cohort study. Clinical findings from the national cohort will inform the design of future trials in organ donor management. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Canadian National Transplant Research Program.


One mindset about the development of thematic villages around the riverbank area (DAS) is a bout the new paradigm coming from the Malang city government. Jodipan (KWJ) Colorfulkampong, 3D kampong (tridi), and White kampong in Klojen kampong can now be said to have been transformed because of this mindset. Currently there were new tourist villages,namely Kampung Biru Arema, which located in the Kiduldalem sub-district, which that had just been formalized and was in the process of being changed different with Jodipan, which has a variety of distinguished building color characteristics, Kampung Biru Arema only had one color that matches its name, which is blue. One of the characteristics that candistinguish between buildings with another to understand is the characteristics of the facade type a building. It can see these elements in the form of door and window opening elements. The purpose of this study was to identify the typology of doors and windows on the facades of houses in Kampung Biru Arema. The method used in this paper is a descriptive qualitative method, with a typology approach. The residential building is chosen as an object through the purposive sampling method. This study focused on the identification and analysis of door and window elements in house facades located in Kampung BiruArema RW.05 neighbourhood of Kiduldalem village, Malang city. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/lw.v10i2.2681


As the Indian industry becomes globally competitive in several sectors, one of the critical factors is the success of the engineering and technical education. The objective of this paper is to present a research study initiated for developing an integrated framework for quality excellence in engineering education. About 20 quality excellence models and international quality awards were studied in depth and it was found that almost all models lack predictive ability. In order to incorporate predictive ability of the quality excellence models, system dynamics methodology was used in the study. The system dynamics model thus developed for predicting quality excellence was used to generate various scenarios and analysed. Interesting results were obtained, which are presented in this paper.


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An assembly for cutting sheet material is disclosed herein and includes a conventional circular saw which has been modified to provide a reliable dust pick up arrangement for collecting the sawdust produced during the operation of the saw and preventing this sawdust from escaping into the ambient surroundings. This arrangement includes a main dust pick up and a secondary dust pick up which are strategically located relative to the blade of the saw to capture and collect the dust at the saw's front end as the saw blade cuts through the sheet material. The cutting assembly also includes means to prevent dust at the back end of the saw from escaping to the ambient surroundings and, when a hollow open-ended sheet is being cut, means for capturing and collecting dust produced at the interior of the sheet.


It was very troublesome to evaluate source rock with the traditional method of geochemistry. Log-identifying has the advantages of economy and accuracy. Compared with the traditional methods of logging, the artificial neural network has many advantages and adaptabilities. Based on the analysis of prior methods, combining Kohonen network and BP network successfully, I practically apply it to 19 wells in Cambrian-Ordovician of Tarim. It is indicated that this method is useful?efficient and reliable hence open up a new area of source rock evaluation.


Mercury has a relatively high sulfur content on its surface, and a signal consistent with ionized atomic sulfur (S+) was observed by the fast ion plasma spectrometer (FIPS) instrument on the MESSENGER spacecraft. To help confirm this assignment and to better constrain the sources of exospheric sulfur at Mercury, 193 nm photon‐stimulated desorption (PSD) of neutral sulfur atoms (S0) from MgS substrates was studied using resonance‐enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectroscopy and time‐of‐flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. Though the PSD process is inherently nonthermal, the measured velocities of ejected S0 were fit using flux‐weighted Maxwellian distributions with translation energies expressed as translational "temperatures" Ttrans = /μkB. A bimodal distribution consisting of both thermal (Ttrans = 300 K) and suprathermal (Ttrans > 1,000 K) components in roughly a 2:1 ratio was found to best fit the data. The PSD cross‐section was measured to be approximately 4 × 10−22 cm2 and, together with the velocity distributions, was used to calculate the PSD source rate of S0 into the exosphere of Mercury. Exosphere simulations using the calculated rates demonstrate that PSD is likely the primary source of S0 in Mercury's exosphere at low (<1,000 km) altitudes.


In an attempt to improve the salt tolerance of rice, we introduced kat E, a catalase gene of Escherichia coli , into the indica rice cultivar Kasalath. Transformation was carried out using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA101 harboring a binary vector pIES6/Hm/ kat E which contains genes for catalase kat E, hygromycine resistance gene HPT and kanamycin resistance gene NPTII in the T-DNA region. With the inclusion of acetosyringone, higher amount of transgenic cells and regenerated plants were obtained. Transformation was confirmed by PCR with kat E and HPT primer. Transgenic plants at a very young stage (three - four days) were able to grow up to 15 days in 100 mM NaCl solution and seven days in 250 mM NaCl solution whereas control plants died within five days in 100 mM and seven days in 50 mM NaCl. Plants stressed for four weeks could survive for a long time and were able to flower. Different morphological characters varied in transgenic compared to control plants. Introduction of kat E gene significantly improved the salt tolerance of the transgenic indica lines which could mature and set seed under stress. Key words : Rice, Oxidative stress, Enhanced salt tolerance, Transformation, Morphological variation D.O.I. 10.3329/ptcb.v18i1.3266 Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 18 (1): 57-63, 2008 (June)


There is a growing trend towards quality assurance and accreditation of medical schools worldwide.1 Globally, countries use accreditation and standards as regulatory mechanisms to ensure the quality of medical education, and in turn healthcare. Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools set standards and accredit medical schools in the USA and Canada respectively.2 Ireland, Australia and many other countries have adapted World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) standards for accreditation purpose.3 WFME is an international body, with the goal to improve the quality of medical education globally.4 WFME published first set of standards for Basic Medical Education in 2003 and further refined them in 2012 and 2015,1, 3, 4 based on feedback from international experts. Their purpose is to encourage self-evaluation and bring improvements among institutions providing medical education.3, 4 WFME Guest Editorial


Parents need to understand the child's condition from an early age, pay attention to the behavior of children who are growing normally in general so that they can take various actions and also other things that are considered important related to the child's future. Choosing to enroll children in special schools is certainly supported by the daily lives of children who do require special behavior in studying school learning. The formulation of the research problem is to determine the class of children with special needs using the Certainty Factor method based on the diagnosis of symptom and characteristic data that can help teachers and parents get information about the types of characteristics of children with special needs students at the State Special School (SLBN) Serdang Bedagai. The characteristics of children with special needs according to the data on the number of symptoms and characteristics discussed are 52 symptoms and 5 characteristics. (Autism JK01, Tuna Grahita JK02, Deafblind JK03, Blind JK04, Tuna Daksa JK05. This application can help teachers and parents find out the characteristics of children with special needs quickly and accurately. This application can be used in every special school to determine early knowing the types of characteristics of children with special needs


Review(s) of: Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide, by Arthur C. Brooks, (Basic Books, 2006, 256 pages). Associate Professor and Head, School of History and Politics, University of Woolongong


Under the background of global climate change, the occurrence of extreme climate events is becoming more and more frequent. Drought has become one of the most extensive and far-reaching disasters in the world. Drought is an objective natural phenomenon. In the past, researches on drought mainly focused on two aspects: one is the relationship between climate and drought; the other is the impact of drought on crops. The effects of drought on crops are shown in various aspects. In this paper, the effects of drought on summer maize roots and the main techniques and methods of root research were reviewed. In the results, previous studies mainly focused on the growth and development of summer maize, as well as the configuration, physiology and internal anatomical structure of root system, but the explanation of mechanism was relatively less. In addition, the effect of drought on the root system of summer maize was not completely damage, but also had compensation effect under certain water conditions. The future research is also prospected.


The assessment of methodological quality of primary research is an important review component and it is essential to ensure that the review has a clinical and epidemiologically strong scientific foundation. This evaluation is also an indispensable tool to reviewers and editors of scientific journals. This study aimed to develop a questionnaire to evaluate the quality of observational epidemiological analytical research (QuALIEPI) and to assess its face validity. The study was conducted in five steps: a literature review on this matter and search for papers that were used in the QuALIEPI pretest; development of the questionnaire and instructions; questionnaire pretest; evaluation of its face validity; analysis of this validation results. The QuALIEPI was divided into 13 parts, containing 78 items. The maximum score is 75 points. studies with scores greater than 50 points were classified as scientifically valid. In what regards to the face validity it was obtained percentages ranging from 47.5 to 67.8% for the evaluated aspects and 46,4 to 84.6% for the evaluators, with overall percentage of 60.6%. The percentages obtained by QuALIEPI in this evaluation indicate an insufficient face validity of this instrument. The improvement of this questionnaire may improve its validity, giving some contributions to assess the scientific quality of epidemiological studies.


These two excellent books are complimentary and are reviewed as an item. Their subtitle; Practical design information and data; aptly summarises their content. Airframe Structural Design first published in 1988 contains one lone chapter on composites, but is otherwise devoted to the 'all metal' aircraft. Few, if any, changes have been made to the first edition. Composite Airframe Structures first published in 1992 also remains unchanged and a few paragraphs do require updating. Airframe Stress Analysis and Sizing first published in 1997 (not reviewed here) completes the most comprehensive treatment of airframe structural design, by a single author, yet to appear in print.


Although Beethoven's hearing loss is arguably the most celebrated case of deafness in history, virtually no attention has been given to the composer's use of technology for hearing improvement.2 Moreover, his letters and related contemporary documents reveal descriptions of hearing perception that have never been seriously analyzed. This article examines Beethoven's hearing loss to determine how long he could hear speech and music and his use of early hearing adjuncts. The first section examines Beethoven's hearing until he began to use ear trumpets around 1812. The second section investigates his perception of speech using ear trumpets. Finally, the third section examines his perception of music using both ear trumpets and other hearing aids. Symptoms of a hearing impairment apparently began sometime between 1796 and 1798. Beethoven's despair is revealed in letters to Karl Amenda and Franz Gerhard Wegeler in 1801 and culminated in the Heiligenstadt Testament of 1802. Despite the distress expressed in these documents, his hearing evidently remained fairly intact for a number of years. Carl Czerny stated that Beethoven could hear speech and music normally until 1812. Other contemporaries noted that Beethoven's hearing would remain normal for many months early in the course of his affliction. Several remarks in Beethoven's early letters indicate that he heard conversations and music. The composer conducted the Third Symphony in 1804 and appeared as soloist in the Fourth Piano Concerto in 1807 and 1808. His last public performance 19th-Century Music XVII/3 (Spring 1994). O by The Regents of the University of California.


Strong light-matter interaction between InAs/GaAs quantum dots and optical nanoresonators (photonic crystals or nanometallic) is studied, with applications ranging from quantum technologies to optical switches. Alternative platforms such as impurities in SiC are considered.


Previous works were dedicated to the functional k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) and the local linearity method estimations of a regression operator. In this paper, a sequence pair of (Xi,Yi)i=1,…,n of functional mixing observations are considered. We treat the local linear estimation of the cumulative function of Yi given functional input variable Xi. Precisely, we combine the kNN method with the local linear algorithm to construct a new and fast efficiency estimator of the conditional distribution function. The main purpose of this paper is to prove the strong convergence of the constructed estimator under mixing conditions. An application to the functional times series prediction is used to compare our proposed estimator with the existing competitive estimators, and show its efficiency and superiority.


This paper serves as a vehicle for disseminating information and eliciting feedback on a unique and timely pedagogic intervention program. Ultimately, the project is expected to engender and enhance innovative and cooperative learning opportunities for disadvantaged and minority students, particularly African-Americans participating in a DoD funded Science, Mathematics and Engineering (SME) program. The purpose of the project is to provide a support network for year-round after-school learning in Math and Information Technology (IT) in the Richmond, Virginia metropolis. The project which is ongoing, will lead to the implementation of a Web based support network where (i) homework Math and IT projects and assignments are discussed in moderated groups, (ii) students will have the opportunity to review their class work in Math through short self-paced lectures consisting of solutions to sample problems that directly mirror assigned homework, and (iii) students will acquire or enhance their IT skills through directed and self-paced IT courses in computer programming and applications.


Title of dissertation: SPECTROSCOPY WITH LASER-COOLED FRANCIUM AND PROGRESS ON ATOMIC PARITY NON-CONSERVATION Jiehang Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Luis A. Orozco Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland Department of Physics and National Institute of Standards and Technology Francium, the heaviest alkali, possesses a unique combination of structural simplicity and great sensitivity to effects such as atomic parity non-conservation (APNC). We report in this thesis our progress towards measuring weak-interaction physics in a low energy system: the francium atom. We have built a new generation of high-efficiency laser cooling and trapping facility at TRIUMF national laboratory in Canada. We constructed a precision science chamber and demonstrate francium atom transfer into the precision trap, where the electromagnetic field environments can be exquisitely controlled such that weak-interaction studies via optical and microwave excitations can take place. We perform laser spectroscopy measurements of the hyperfine structure and isotope shifts in a chain of francium isotopes near the neutron closed shell (N = 126), including both ground and isomeric nuclear states. These measurements provide a basis for benchmarking state of the art atomic theory, as well as future nuclear structure calculations in Fr, necessary for interpreting the weak-interaction studies. These developments lay important foundations for precision parity non-conservation measurements with francium.


We use scale invariant scattering theory to exactly determine the renormalization group fixed points of a q-state Potts model coupled to an r-state Potts model in two dimensions. For integer values of q and r the fixed point equations are very constraining and show in particular that scale invariance in coupled Potts ferromagnets is limited to the Ashkin–Teller case ( q=r=2 ). Since our results extend to continuous values of the number of states, we can access the limit r → 1 corresponding to correlated percolation, and show that the critical properties of Potts spin clusters cannot in general be obtained from those of Fortuin–Kasteleyn clusters by analytical continuation.


This paper shows how to derive nonstationary spatio-temporal covariance functions via spatio-temporal covariances and intrinsically stationary variograms.Many new spatio-temporal functions are obtained.Some samples are given to illustrate the results obtained in this paper.


loc-Hydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D, has been synthesized with a specific activity of 4 Ci/mmol, and its metabolism in rats has been studied. It is rapidly converted to ln,25-dihydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D, in uiuo. Following an intravenous or oral dose, a maximal concentration of loc,25-dihydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D, is found 2 and 4 hours, respectively, before the maximal intestinal calcium transport response is observed. Similarly, la,25-dihydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D, accumulation in bone precedes the bone calcium mobilization response. It appears, therefore, that the biological activity of lcu-hydroxyvitamin D, is largely, if not exclusively, due to its conversion to la,25-dihydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D,. lu-Hydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D, and la,25-dihydroxy [6-3H]vitamin D, appear in intestine equally well after an oral or an intravenous dose of la-hydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D,. However, much less of both la-hydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D, and la,25dihydroxy[6-3H]vitamin D, appears in bone and blood after an oral than after an intravenous dose. A much reduced bone calcium mobilization response is also noted following an oral dose as compared to an intravenous dose of la-hydroxyvitamin D,, suggesting that oral lo-hydroxyvitamin D, is not utilized as well as intravenously administered material.


'citizens at work, people with a right to respect, rest, job security, income security and a voice' (p. 339, original italics) and Peetz advocates for urgent, conscientious action and stresses that this is required now. The book encourages thoughtful and purposeful deliberation and action now, rather than assuming an acquiescent 'stand by' position. The book assumes an intelligent and motivated reader with prior knowledge of labour and economic trends and would therefore be suited to social science and business school researchers and postgraduate students alike. The book would be a suitable textbook for those at Master's level as it is comprehensive and, as an added bonus, it is available online for free download from the publisher. Peetz maintains a close focus in relation to issues of power, structure and inequality throughout the book. He takes the reader on the journey and addresses the reader as 'we' which supports this orientation. The temporal merging of the actual realities of the present with the potential realities of the future is an effective way to ground the main arguments of the book. Through an analysis that includes multiple references to the dystopian literature and 'sliding doors' scenarios, the author provides creative and contemporary insights related to the future of work. Kate Bone Massey University, New Zealand


In 1986 and 1987 work was carried out to investigate the quality and extent of evaluation processes associated with implementation of local food health policies (LFHP). The responses from two national postal questionnaires suggest the following trends:

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Most Health Authorities and Health Boards (HA & HBs) with a formally approved LFHP recognize the need for evaluation.

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Some confusion probably exists between the processes of collecting baseline data, monitoring {checking on the progress by repeatedly collecting data using similar methods), evaluation (determining effectiveness of an action or series of actions), and review (deciding to continue, stop or modify action).

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Most evaluation of LFHP activity appears to have taken place within the NHS.

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Questionnaires appear to be the most frequently used (71%) research tool.

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Most research aims to assess levels of nutritional knowledge or dietary behaviour, with little attention being paid to investigations of food availability. Recommendations for the future development of evaluative processes for LFHPs are made.


Vision is one of the most important sense in humans. Numerous attempts to mimic that powerful sense have been the main topic of extensive robotic research for decades. Demonstrated applications of vision control in which information acquired from camera(s) is used for guiding a robot system, span the broad range of human activity and include well-known theoretical, as well as practical knowledge of visual servoing themes. Visual servoing problem is, in fact, the problem of systems of nonlinear equations solving, which is a mature and well founded mathematical area with rich foundations of papers, studying the various type of problems with appropriate approaches. Uncalibrated, model free, robot visual servoing has been widely applicable in robot vision due to minimal requirements related to calibration and robot kinematic's parameters. The appropriate solutions are mostly derived from quasy-Newton approach for the nonlinear problem solving and represent various iterative approaches for acquiring an optimal solution.

However, if the robot has been controlled in the unstructured environments, the mentioned problem has been proven hard as the real system has been influenced with the noise. Up to now, there are numerous examples which successfully use described approach for robot visual servoing. The numerical quasy-Newton methods serves as a theoretical background for problem solving, which has been proven hard as the real system has been influenced with the noise. Consequently, additional attention has to be paid which assured stability and the robustness of the proposed method. Various methods offer specific improvements which are related mostly to the specific task requirements. This lecture has a goal to present and compare the efficacy of the various iterative optimization procedures which, due to their successfulness, established itself as a paradigm for appropriate problem solving.


The drugs roxithromycin 1 and erythromycin 2 differ in their ability to produce a hepatotoxic effect or drug interactions involving macrolide antibiotics. The major metabolite of 1, RU39001 (3) does not induce hepatic cytochrome P-450 while the metabolite of 2, erythralosamine (4) has greater interaction properties either in vitro or in vivo with the cytochrome P-450 system. A combination of NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics (MD) has shown that the conformations of 1 and 2, in CDCl3 solution, undergo an interesting conformational reorganization. The movement of the macrocycle induces five different orientations of the desosamine sugar. The use of MD simulation has facilitated the identification of conformations of their major metabolites in solution as predicted by NMR spectroscopy. There is a significant proportion of an active conformation for 4 and a conformation which can be related to the inhibition of cytochrome P-450 for 3. These results also demonstrate the importance of the nature of hydrogen bonding for 1 and its metabolite 3 which may also explain some of the biological differences observed for 1 and 3 with respect to erythromycin 2 and its metabolite 4. Similarly, the ionization of the amino group favouring one inactive conformation could allow changes in the motion and in the reactivity of the desosamine unit.


The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between plant traits and yield per spike in wheat genotypes. The measured plant traits were: length of flag leaf blade, peduncle extrusion, peduncle, spike and sheath, culm diameter and plant height. Data were analyzed with correlation and path coefficient analysis. Yield per spike correlated positively with spike length and culm diameter. Path coefficient analysis indicated that, under irrigated condition, yield per spike had a positive direct effect and a positive correlation with spike length and culm diameter and, under non-irrigated condition, yield per spike showed a positive direct effect and a positive correlation with culm diameter, spike length and plant height. Culm diameter and spike length, under irrigated condition, and also plant height, under late season water stress condition, were the plant traits most related to higher grain yield per spike in wheat.


The article deals with one of the basic formulas of Russian speech etiquette «addressing» against a background of Vietnam lingvoculture. Its characteristics and usage in different intercourse situation between communicators of various categories are also demonstrated.


Based on the analysis of the formation causes of cracks in surface of storage yard, this paper puts forward relevant prevention and treatment measures and matters needing attentions from multiple aspects such as design, material, construction, curing and application, etc.


Quantum key distribution (QKD) is the first quantum information task to reach the level of mature technology, already fit for commercialization. It aims at the creation of a secret key between authorized partners connected by a quantum channel and a classical authenticated channel. The security of the key can in principle be guaranteed without putting any restriction on an eavesdropper's power. This article provides a concise up-to-date review of QKD, biased toward the practical side. Essential theoretical tools that have been developed to assess the security of the main experimental platforms are presented (discrete-variable, continuous-variable, and distributed-phase-reference protocols).


Abstract The analysis of variation among 203 nucleotide sequences of Co-1 gene (DNA-barcode) for 45 species, 31 genera and 7 families of the order Perciformes from the Far Eastern seas of Russia has been performed. As a result, 42 species (93.3%) can be unambiguously identified using molecular DNA-barcode at Co-1, whereas more variable markers are required for other species (6.7%): Stichaeus grigorjewi, S. nozawae, and Lumpenus sagitta. The latter includes as well 2 morphologically distinct (by number of vertebrae) but genetically unresolved species, L. sagitta (Sea of Okhotsk) and L. fabricii (Bering Sea). In addition, within this genus morphologically poorly characterized but genetically well-distinguished cryptic species has been detected. Amphi-Pacific distribution is in question relative to L. sagitta. Cryptic diversity was observed in the genus Ammodytes.


The engineering design of sewage treatment plant for the Chongqing city,P.R.China is analyzed in this paper.Considering the situation of China and other projects,the characteristics of falling water reactor for the environment protection project and economy of investment is introduced;the application and foreground of falling water aeration in the process of sewage treatment is discussed,such as Oxidation-ditch,SBR,and so on.The conclusion indicated that the falling water aeration can be designed and used as an independent aeration,and,it is an upgraded technology of sewage treatment which is adaptive for city water environment control in middle and small towns in China.The falling water aeration may reduce running cost of the sewage treatment plant,is adaptive for foothill and the mountainous areas,and reduces project investment and environments damage.


Landslide hazard is one of the most common hazards in many countries of the world including Sri Lanka. It is taken as a stratagem consideration in many countries all over of the world. Landslide hazard monitoring and prediction have been paid attention for all kind of scientific communities. Landslide hazard zonation (LHZ) is a very important content of landslide hazard prediction modelling. In Sri Lankan contest LHZ become more significant because 20% of the total lands threatened by landslides. The spatial distribution of landslides of the country mainly influenced by geospatial criteria, rainfall distribution, lithology, geology, hydrology, landforms, land-use and changes of land-use, slope angle, and drainage network. However, above factors are not equally contributed to determine the landslides susceptibility. Hence this study attempted to evaluate the level of contribution of those factors on spatial distribution of landslide hazard zonation in Kegalle District. In this study corresponding geospatial data were collected and convert into raster format having same spatial resolution for each criterion. Levels of contribution of each criterion were identified by Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) and spatial multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE) models in GIS-based environments. Finally, weighted overlay operations were run to obtain the spatial distribution of landslide hazards. Landslide inventory maps prepared by national building research organization (NBRO) of Sri Lanka and satellite data were effectively utilize to validate the obtained results. The developed SMCE model was in acceptable level with 0.071 consistency ratio value (p < 0.01). Results concluded that the landslides not likely occur on 27% (469 Km) of the district. However, 35%, 27% and 9% of the area show moderate level of landslide hazard, expected landslide and landslide most likely to occur respectively. In addition, results revealed that the highest hazard zones observed in the land cover changes taking place from natural forest to plantations.


Purpose
This study aims to investigate the Hijri calendar effect in Borsa Istanbul (BIST) precious metal market and foreign exchange market (Dollar and Euro market) of Turkey.

Design/methodology/approach
The data of BIST gold market index and foreign exchange market are used for the period of 4 March 2003-30 September 2016 (1 Muharram 1424 – 28 Dhu al-Hijja 1437) in the study. These data are analyzed by using the dummy variable regression model and Kruskal–Wallis (KW) test.

Findings
The results of the regression models and KW test indicate that there is a Ramadan effect in the gold market and after-Ramadan effect in the Euro market. On the other hand, the Hijri month effect does not exist in the Dollar market.

Originality/value
This is the first paper that investigates the Hijri calendar effect in gold and foreign exchange markets of Turkey other than the stock market.


FIELD: process engineering. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to machine building and may be used for surface grinding. Surface is cleaned using revolving reciprocating tool Invention covers abrasive tool to be incorporated with said revolving reciprocating tool. Cleaning is performed in contact between part surface and tool abrasive surface in several abrasion jobs. EFFECT: higher quality of grinding. 19 cl, 2 tbl, 8 ex


Educational administration is a whole process of joint activities in the field of education, which includes: planning, organizing, directing, reporting, coordinating, supervising and guiding, using available facilities, both personnel, material, and spiritual to achieve effective and efficient educational goals. . The fields covered in the administration of education are the field of school administration, the field of student personnel, the field of teacher personnel, the field of supervision (supervision), the field of curriculum implementation and guidance.


This report describes the results from laboratory tests performed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) to evaluate candidate stabilization technologies that have the potential to successfully treat liquid secondary waste stream effluents produced by the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP). WRPS is considering the design and construction of a Solidification Treatment Unit (STU) for the Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) at Hanford. The ETF, a multi-waste, treatment-and-storage unit that has been permitted under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), can accept dangerous, low-level, and mixed wastewaters for treatment. The STU needs to be operational by 2018 to receive secondary liquid waste generated during operation of the WTP. The STU will provide the additional capacity needed for ETF to process the increased volume of secondary waste expected to be produced by WTP. This report on radionuclide retention mechanisms describes the testing and characterization results that improve understanding of radionuclide retention mechanisms, especially for pertechnetate, {sup 99}TcO{sub 4}{sup -} in four different waste forms: Cast Stone, DuraLith alkali aluminosilicate geopolymer, encapsulated fluidized bed steam reforming (FBSR) product, and Ceramicrete phosphate bonded ceramic. These data and results will be used to fill existing datamore » gaps on the candidate technologies to support a decision-making process that will identify a subset of the candidate waste forms that are most promising and should undergo further performance testing.« less


Thank you so much Ed. You have successfully appropriated my Good Citizenship Award. In all fairness, you and this tolerant assemblage should know that I lost the election for that award by a vote of twenty-two to two. My best friend voted for me and I voted for myself. The class was outraged when the teacher decided to "give it to the boy who came in second." This was their first exposure to a fixed election (Florida in 2000 was their second). I can only hope that the proceedings that led to the Kober Medal were more wholesome.


1. Phospholipid vesicles reconstituted with Na—K‐ATPase show an (ATP+phosphate)‐stimulated Rb—Rb exchange, with properties similar to the K—K exchange of human red cells. This includes a rate 15‐20% of the rate of active ATP‐dependent Na—K exchange.


The invention discloses a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly comprises a rotor body and a balance block which are matched with each other. The two ends of the rotor body are both provided with a clamp. The balance block is provided with clamping grooves matched with the clamps in a connected mode. In the assembling and using process, reliable assembly between the balance block and the rotor body is achieved through clamping connection between the clamps and the clamping grooves, and therefore the assembly strength of the whole assembly can be guaranteed under the condition that rivets and other auxiliary fasteners are not needed to be additionally arranged, structural components of the rotor assembly are remarkably reduced, the overall structure of the rotor assembly is simplified, and the assembly efficiency of the rotor assembly is improved; meanwhile, the clamps and the clamping grooves are matched and are consistent in specification, the assembly structure adaptability between balance blocks in different specifications and the rotor body and component universality are greatly improved, and the work condition adaption capacity of the components is improved. The invention further discloses a motor provided with the rotor assembly.


Health-related quality of life measures play an important role in the assessment of the overall impact of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the patient's quality of life. Up to now, many health-related quality of life measures have been developed. CAT can be widely applied because of its convenience and similar discriminative properties to the much more complex questionnaires.

Key words:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Quality of life; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test


In the last years the availability of new intense radioactive ion beams has been recognized as a fundamental tool for future research in Nuclear Physics. The ISOL (Ion Separation On Line) method, represented in Europe by CERN[1] facility as its most relevant example, is complementary to the fragmentation method, presently used at GSI. For the future development GSI[2] has presented the proposal of a major upgrading of the fragmentation facility, while for the ISOL method a European proposal, named EURISOL[3] is under completion. The size of EURISOL is comparable to the American project RIA[4] , but it takes advantage from the complementarily with GSI present and future capabilities. The time scale for EURISOL is likely to be behind fifteen years from now. In the meantime an important role for RIB's Physics should be played by European national laboratories, with facilities like SPES (Study and Production of Exotic nuclear Species) at LNL (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro). This facility, with an intermediate size between existing first generation facilities and EURISOL, will allow, together with an extensive physics program, to boost the technological development (accelerator, production targets, detectors..) in view of the European project. The block diagram of the facility is shown in Fig. 1, with an order of magnitude comparison with EURISOL. At LNL the design work for EURISOL is perfectly integrated in the design and R&D work for SPES, and with the accelerator development for future high intensity linacs (TRASCO[5] ). A first design report of SPES was published in '99 (ref. [6]) while a detailed Technical Design Report [7] has been published this year. Another very important requisite for the implementation of the new facility is the real estate, available thanks to the extension of the Laboratory site (more than a factor two in area). New infrastructures (like a 40 MW power station) are being implemented


PURPOSE
In this study we assessed patients' clinical tolerance to extended wear of Hoya Hard EX contact lenses, which have a Dk of 125, and determined resulting changes in corneal radius and thickness.

METHODS
Hoya Hard EX rigid gas permeable contact lenses (Dk = 125) were fitted to 57 eyes of 29 patients; all eyes were free of pathology. The average duration of contact lens wear was 5.28 +/- 1.43 days. Changes in the radius and thickness of the cornea were measured after 1,3, and 6 months of lens wear.

RESULTS
At 1 month, keratometer readings indicated significant flattening in both the horizontal (P < 0.01) and vertical meridians (P < 0.001). At 3 and 6 months, the flattening of both meridians had become more significant (P < 0.001). Although there were no statistically significant changes in corneal thickness at 1 month, significant decreases in thickness were observed at 3 and 6 months (P < 0.001). During the study, patients' vision was stable and lens wear caused no serious complications. At the end of the study, all 29 patients continued extended wear of their contact lenses.

CONCLUSIONS
High-Dk RGP contact lenses are an alternative to soft lenses for extended wear.


The antecedent points of reference that shape methodological decisions
What does the unit (and its staff) need & want?
What is the context for the evidence – what needs to be provided and what type of interpretation is needed?
What assumptions does the unit (and its staff )have? What are the assumptions of students, academic staff, senior leaders and other external stakeholders hold about the unit and its programs?
What is the theoretical grounding of the unit's practice? How consistent is it with the rest of the institution's mindset?
What is practical given internal expectations, regulatory compliance requirements, timelines and resource limitations?

What USQ's SDS has accomplished and next steps in the learning analytics saga


Experiments with anaphylactic shock are usually made by the relatively rapid injection of antigen into the sensitized animal. Under such conditions a maximum dose immediately comes into contact with the tissues and elimination begins rather promptly. While such conditions occur clinically, it would seem that the continuous injection of the antigen might simulate more nearly the effects that we observe under clinical conditions of sensitization. We have accordingly carried out a series of experiments on sensitized dogs in which we have injected the antigen intravenously with the Woodyatt Pump over a considerable period of time.
 Experimental. The animals were sensitized by three successive daily injections of egg albumin, the reinjection being made after an interval of two weeks. The thoracic duct was incannulated under local anesthesia and observations made on blood pressure, muscle and rectal temperature, peripheral leukocytes, lymph and blood sugar, lymph volume, protein, CO2 combining power, calcium and potassium.


TaxonWorks is an integrated web-based application for practicing taxonomists and biodiversity specialists. It is focused on promoting collaboration between researchers and developers. TaxonWorks has a modular structure that enables various components of the application to target specific needs and requirements of different groups of users. Specific areas of interest may include nomenclature-related tasks (Yoder and Dmitriev 2021) designed to help assemble and validate scientific name checklists of a target group of organisms; and collection management tasks, including interfaces to create, filter, and edit collecting events, collection objects, and loans. This presentation focuses on matrix-related tools integrated into TaxonWorks. A matrix, which could either be used for phylogenetic analysis or to build an identification key, is structured as a table where columns represent numerous characters that could be used to describe a set of entities, taxa or specimens (presented as rows of the table). Each cell of the table may contain observations for specific character/entity combinations. TaxonWorks does not generate a table for each a particular matrix—all observations are stored as graphs. This structure allows building of a matrix of an unlimited size as well as reuse of individual observations in multiple matrices. For matrix columns, TaxonWorks supports a variety of different kinds of characters or descriptors: qualitative, presence/absence, quantitative, sample, gene, free text, and media. Each character may have specific properties, for example a qualitative descriptor may have numerous characters states, and a quantitative descriptor may have a measurement unit defined. For an entity in a matrix row, TaxonWorks supports either collection objects (specimens) or taxa as Operational Taxonomic Units (OTU). OTUs could either be linked to nomenclature or be stand alone entities (e.g., representing undescribed species).
 The matrix, once built, could serve several purposes. A matrix based on qualitative and quantitative characters could be used to build an interactive key (Fig. 1), construct standardized natural language descriptions for each entity, and determine a diagnosis (a minimal set of characters that separate one entity from all others). It could also be exported and used for phylogenetic analysis or to build an interactive key in an external application. TaxonWorks supports export files in several formats, including Nexus, TNT, NeXML. Application Programming Interfaces (API) are also available. A matrix based on media descriptors could be used as a pictorial identification tool (Fig. 2).


Analytic solutions of simple optimal control problems may be found using classical tools such as the calculus of variations, dynamic programming or the minimum principle. However, in practice, a closed-form expression for the optimal control is difficult or even impossible to determine for general nonlinear optimal control problems. Therefore such intricate optimal control problems must be solved numerically. The research goals of this dissertation are to furnish an efficient, accurate, rapid and robust optimal control solver, and to produce a significantly small-scale nonlinear programming problem using few collocation points. To this end, we introduce a direct optimisation method based on a novel Gegenbauer collocation integration scheme which draws upon the power of well-developed nonlinear programming techniques and computer codes, and the well-conditioning of the numerical integration operators. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter highlighting the strengths and the weaknesses of various solution methods for optimal control problems, and provides the motivation for the present work. The chapter concludes with a general framework for using Gegenbauer expansions to solve optimal control problems and an overview of the remainder of the dissertation. Chapter 2 presents some preliminary mathematical background and basic concepts relevant to the solution of optimal control problems. In particular, the chapter introduces some key concepts of the calculus of variations, optimal control theory,


Materials and Methods: Total 150 patients between" May 2011 to July 2014 with clinical and CT features of chronic rhino sinusitis, not responding to maximal medical treatment, were subjected to endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS/FESS).75 patients were included in Group A (Interventional-MMC) and 75 patients in group B (Control-Saline). There were 30 unilateral and 45 bilateral, thus 120 operative sides in each group. Follow up visits were done at weekly for first two weeks and then at 1st, 2nd and 3rd month and subjective parameters evaluated included total score and individual symptom score of 4 symptoms-Facial pain/pressure, Nasal block, Discharge and Hyposmia, SNOT-20 score and its 4 domainsRhinologic domain, Ear & facial domain, Sleep and Psychologic domains.


For improving the management efficiency and level of college student,in this paper,according to the demand analysis of the fact and the problems in A college,a college student's management information system of rewards and penalties was developed,and the functional modules were designed.The research completes the student's management in rewards and penalties,and supplies reference value for the further study in this area.


The interpretation of hydrogen Balmer spectra emitted from a high‐pressure arc discharge (Radtke and Günther, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 26, 143 (1986)) is re‐examined. Assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium, synthetic Balmer spectra are calculated for given temperature and density conditions. Radiation transport is accounted for using a one‐dimensional plasma layer model. The lineshape of bound‐bound transitions is determined using a microscopic quantum‐statistical approach. Free‐free and free‐bound contributions are added by taking expressions from literature. Comparing the synthetic spectra with experimental ones, plasma temperature and density conditions are inferred. The plasma parameters are confronted with theoretical results for the compositions of dense plasma. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


The purpose of this studed aims to investigate the relationship among the personal characteristics, professional identities, and job burnout of the preschool teachers in Kaohsiung city.The subjects (N = 682) who were randomly choosed were preschool teachers in Kaohsiung city. In this study, they had to fill out "The Qestionnaire of the Personal Chracteristics, Professional Identities, and Job Burnout of the Preschool Teachers." The collected data were analyzed through the descriptive and inferential statistics, including means, standard deviation, t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis.The results of the study were:1. the preschool teachers' scores of personal characteristics were totally above the mean, and they got the highest score on the sub-dimension, "conscientiousness";2. their scores of professional identities were totally higher than the mean score, and they preformed best on the "professional ethics" among the sub-dimensions.3. their scores of job burnout were on a lower degree, and the sub-dimension, "emotion exhaustion" was the highest one.4. the preschool teachers who were above 31 years old, married, and with 11-years work experience and more got the highest score in the personal characteristics.5. those who were above 31 years old, married, and with 11-years work experience and more obtained the highest score in the professional identities.6. those who were below 31 years old, unmarried, and with 16-years work experience and more earned the highest score in the job burnout.7. the preschool teachers' personal characteristics and professional identities had a positive relation, but had a negative relation with job burnout.8. the sub-dimension, "emotioinal stability" was a significant predict or to the job burnout, personal charactistics, and professional identities.According to the results, the researcher proposed that the educational bureau and preschool should set up a counseling system and hold recreation activities to accommodate teachers' emotion.


Sport at the universities is a logical consequence in the educational system in the process of sport education of the youth. Different sport programs and contents applied with university students have positive impact not just on their motor development, health and wellbeing but more important, toward their habits for active and health life style. At Universities in Macedonia, university sport is realized in different forms. From five state Universities, sport as an obligatory university curriculum is realized only at two. At all Universities, outdoor activities for students such as hiking and cross running are the only form of sport activity of the students. They are mainly realized once or twice a year, as traditional manifestations (day of sport) attended obligatory by the students from the first year of study and optionally by the students from all other years of study from all faculties at the University. University leagues are the main sports event organized between all state Universities. Outdoor activities organized at Goce Delcev University in Stip are one of most preferred and attended sport activities by the students. From variety of outdoor sport, as a part of university sport programs, students manly practice hiking realized on every two weeks, activity which is compulsory for all students; cross country running realized as a competition between students and winter sports practiced only by student's choice and their free will. According the summarized results from several studies, students prefer individual outdoor activities that are not competitive; practiced both as a part of university curriculum and as activity in the leisure time. These activities help them to reduce stress, increase their physical condition, mental ability and positive emotions. They also suggested bicycling, rolling as well as summer and winter sports to be implemented as university curricula in all years of study


Abstract In order to compare the protein quality and metabolizable energy (M.E.) of dried yoghurt and dried skim milk three experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, drum dried skim milk, dried yoghurt prepared from drum dried skim milk and dried yoghurt prepared from fresh skim milk were used as test materials. The gross protein value (G.P.V.) of these test materials were 87, 99 and 133 respectively. These values were significantly different (p Bioassay showed that the concentration of methionine was greater in dried yoghurt than in dried skim milk (p In the third experiment the M.E. of drum dried skim milk, dried yoghurt prepared from drum dried skim milk and dried yoghurt prepared from fresh skim milk were 2.723, 3.928 and 4.127 kcal./gm. respectively. These values were significantly different (p The results of these experiments suggest that the superiority of G.P.V. and M.E. of dried yoghurt as compared with dried skim milk could be due to increasing the availability of nutrients and decreasing the concentration of lactose in process of conversion of dried skim milk to dried yoghurt.


The damage mechanism of the total dose ionizing (TID) effect of SiGe heterojunction bipolor transistar (SiGe HBT) is explored by using three-dimensional simulation of semiconductor device (TCAD).In the simulation, the trapped charge defects are introduced into different locations of oxidationin SiGe HBT to simulate the TID effect. Then the degradation characteristics of the forward Gummel characteristic and the reverse Gummel characteristic of the device are analyzed, and the TID damage law of SiGe HBT is obtained. Finally, the simulation results are compared with the 60Co γ irradiation test results, showing that the trapped charges introduced by TID irradiation in SiGe HBT device mainly affect the Si/SiO2 interface near the p-n junction, resulting in the change in the depletion region of the p-n junction and the increase of carrier recombination. Eventually, the base current increases and the gain decreases. The trapped charges generated in the EB spacer oxide layer mainly affect the forward Gummel characteristics, and the trapped charges in the LOCOS isolation oxide layer are the main factor causing the reverse Gummel characteristics to degrade. The experimental results on 60Co γ irradiation under different biases are consistent with those from the total dose effect damage law of SiGe HBT obtained by numerical simulation analysis.


Switch-mode power supplies are a popular and sometimes necessary choice for DC-DC power conversion. These circuits offer distinct benefits and tradeoffs when compared to alternative methods of converting DC power. This article presents a brief summary of the advantages and tradeoffs of switch-mode power supplies, and also offers a simple review of their operation and theory. This article was also featured in Maxim's Engineering Journal, vol. 61 (PDF, 440kB). Considering the multiple DC voltage levels required by many electronic devices, designers need a way to convert standard power-source potentials into the voltages dictated by the load. Voltage conversion must be a versatile, efficient, reliable process. Switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs) are frequently used to provide the various levels of DC output power needed for modern applications, and are indispensable in achieving highly efficient, reliable DC-DC power-conversion systems. Why SMPS? The majority of electronic DC loads are supplied from standard power sources. Unfortunately, standard source voltages may not match the levels required by microprocessors, motors, LEDs, or other loads, especially when the source voltage is not regulated. Battery-powered devices are prime examples of the problem: the typical voltage of a standard Li+ cell or NiMH stack is either too high/low or drops too far during discharge to be used in conventional applications. Versatility Fortunately, the versatility of SMPSs solves the problem of converting a standard source voltage into a usable, specified output voltage. There are numerous SMPS topologies, which are classified into fundamental categories—these power supplies step up, step down, invert, or even step up and down the input voltage. Unlike linear regulators, which can only step down an input, SMPS are attractive because a topology can be selected to fit nearly any output voltage. Customization Additionally, modern SMPS ICs are designed with varying levels of integration, allowing the engineer to choose among topologies with more or less of the standard SMPS features brought into the IC. In doing so, manufacturers ease the design burden for commonly used, application-specific power supplies or offer the engineer basic SMPS ICs for custom projects, thereby enhancing the versatility of these widely used devices. Efficiency Engineers also face the other common problem of how to convert DC power efficiently. For instance, it is often required to step down an input voltage to achieve a lower output voltage. A simple solution implements a linear regulator, as this device requires only a few capacitors and adequate thermal management. However,


In this paper we examine a representative agent forecasting prices in a first-order self-referential overlapping generations model. We first consider intermediate stage learning, where agents update the forecasting rule every periods. We show that, in theory and simulations, the learning rule does not converge to the rational expectations equilibrium (REE). We next consider two stage learning, where agents learn the functional mapping between the current forecast function and the previous forecast function. We show that in theory and simulations the two stage learning rule converges to the REE.


Digital characters have been taken an very important role for filmmaking and video games over the last decade. Now we are at the border that the difference between digital characters and real ones are vanishing. In this course we will introduce the fundamental knowledge of how to create digital characters. A state-of-the-art workflow consists of three stages: creating of the facial and body puppet, applying the right deformation techniques to the puppet, and driving the puppet with keyframe animation or motion capture data through retargeting. Our goal is to present the best practice guide in terms of making digital humans for visual production. We start with an general overview of the process on how to make digital characters. It then focuses on the details about production of facial and body puppets through 3D acquisition of geometry and texture, template registration techniques that are based on generic deformation or morphable models, using deformation transfer to automatically create believable poses, and how to use motion capture data to enhance the current poses. The second part of the course will introduce various important deformation techniques such as skinning, pose space deformation, and how to do volumetric deformation based on real body medical imaging data. Finally several animation techniques will be presented to show how to make puppets perform.


Since its inception in the late 2000s, blockchain has emerged as a powerful tool for creating trust without intermediaries to incentivize global communities for working for a common goal, such as the improvement of its very ecosystem, its applications and community adoption. While first blockchains were mainly devised for confirming transactions of their innate cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, smart-contract blockchains like Ethereum can interface with the real-world through so-called "oracles", which feed trustful off-chain information. This paper introduces digital twins of physical objects and processes as computational oracles to effectively unleash the tremendous opportunity offered by blockchain to the realm of fundamental science, research and technology development (RTD). The crowdsourcing concept is illustrated with the example of centrifugal flow control in microfluidic "Lab-on-a-Disc" (LoaD) systems.


The syntheses of the K-oxides and K-imine derivatives of benzo[b] phenanthro[2,3-d]thiophene and benzo[b]phenanthro[3,2-d]thiophene are described. The parent hydrocarbons (1) and (2) were oxidized with osmium tetroxide and sodium metaperiodate, and the dialdehydes (12) and (18) so formed, cyclized to the corresponding epoxides 1a,12b-dihydrobenz[b]- oxireno[9,10]phenanthro[2,3-d]thiophene (7) and 1a,12b-dihydrobenz[b]- oxireno[9,10]phenanthro[3,2-d]thiophene (13). Reaction of the oxiranes with sodium azide gave mixtures of azido-alcohols that, in turn, were transformed to the thiaarene imines 1a,12b-dihydrobenz[b]azirino- [9,10]phenanthro[2,3-d]thiophene (8) and 1a,12b-dihydrobenz[b]azirino- [9,10]phenanthro[3,2-d]thiophene (14),respectively, with the aid of tri-n-butylphosphine


The black start scheme for Shaanxi Power Network is studied.On the basis of determining the power source for black start, two sub schemes for blak start are thoroughly researched and several executive black start schemes for Shaanxi Power Network are given. Some problems to which the attention should be paid during the black start process are analyzed. The selection of the power source for black start is of originality and the research and calculation on the self excitation, overvoltage and restoration of power loads are lucubrated. The presented black start scheme is feasible and it lies a foundation for the implementation of black start scheme in the future.


The Economist should analyze some variables in the external environment of the company, being the leader, team member or consultant. For this, some aspects of the external environment are considered to be, the environment in the production chain, the environment in the industry, the domestic environment and the international environment.


Meta-learning as a study mode of supervising,monitoring,controlling and self-reflecting has become an important approach and the key to students'learning how to learn.Differentiating and analyzing some dialectiacl relations and guiding ideology is helpful to construct some teaching strategies of meta-learning ability from the insight of instructional theory so as to make students learn how to learn.


Asthma is a heterogeneous disease with several phenotypes, endotypes and severity degrees, in which different T‐cell subpopulations are involved. These cells express specific miRNAs (i.e. inflamma‐miRs) that can be released to serum in exosomes after activation and be used as biomarkers of underlying inflammation. Thus, we aim to evaluate specific T‐cell miRNA signatures in serum exosomes from different subgroups of asthmatic patients.


Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species that is ideal for research. It is easy to obtain, grow and manipulate. The relatively fast life cycle makes it the optimal choice for inducing mutations. Benzo(a)pyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. It has been labeled a cancer causing agent. The effects depend on dose, duration, pathway, other chemical exposure and individual characteristics. BaP is of special concern because contact with it is virtually unavoidable. It has been found in almost all environmental media and food ingested by humans and animals. A mutation that results from the exposure of a cell to exogenous DNA modifiers such as chemicals or radiation is termed an induced mutation. The objective for this experiment was to induce and observe mutations within the yeast genome. The yeast was grown and BaP was added to the experimental group. The diluted broths were plated on a plate containing a nutrient broth. After an incubation period, DNA was extracted from the colonies. The DNA was cut with restriction enzymes and the amplified with PCR. Then electrophoresis was run. Due to problem in the electrophoresis procedure, there were no results. The anticipated results were that there would be changes in the size of the DNA fragments in the gel. Had there been results, the rate of mutagenesis could have been found. Future studies should allow for more time to make sure that each step is successful.


JEFFREY BROOKS is professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 (Princeton University Press, 1985); Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2000); and, with Georgiy Chernyavskiy, Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State: A Brief History with Documents (Palgrave, 2006); as well as many essays on Russian culture and politics.


This text of a lecture describes the importance of Zygmunt Bauman's work for sociological theory and intellectual debate in Germany. The main points are: (1) the tension between the German Sonderweg thesis and Bauman's analysis of the Holocaust; (2) the relationship between Bauman's theory of modernity/postmodernity and the writings of Elias, Horkheimer/Adorno and Beck; (3) a critique of Bauman's neglect of democratic alternatives within modernity, particularly American intellectual and political traditions; and (4) a discussion of Bauman's emphasis on pre-societal sources of morality in his postmodern ethics and the pragmatist understanding of intersubjectivity and morality.


Ocimum champechianum (OC) is a medicinal specie popularly known as " alfa‐vaca†and widely distributed in American. This specie is often used in the folk medicine as analgesic, antipyretic, and diuretic. To date, there were no toxicological studies of the hydroalcoholic extract (HE) of OC concerning to bowel lesions. This study propose to evaluate whether there are possible bowel lesions caused by HE of leaves from OC. Ten Wistar males rats with 8 weeks of age were submitted to the administration of the dose 75mg/Kg of the HE of the OC, by gavage, five times at week, during 8 weeks. All the animals were sacrificed after twenty‐eight weeks and the bowel were observed and collected for microscopy. The incidence of AC observed in these groups was 0.66 ± 1.41 in the rectum, 11,74 ± 14.88 in the colon and 11.22 ± 6.03 in the cecum. The bowel of control group had no lesions. In conclusion, the macroscopic evaluation of the bowel revealed aberrant crypts (AC) and there were no neoplasmic lesions in the groups treated with the HE of the OC.


Sen (1970) and Peacock and Rowley (1972) have questioned the compatibility of liberal and Paretian principles. Sen asserts that they are inconsistent: "[I]n a very basic sense liberal values conflict with the Pareto principle. If someone takes the Pareto principle seriously, as economists seem to do, then he has to face problems of consistency in cherishing liberal values, even very mild ones.... Or, to look at it in another way, if someone does have certain liberal values, then he may have to eschew his adherence to Pareto optimality" (1970, p. 157). Peacock and Rowley agree with Sen and assert further that the Paretian principle "emasculates radical reaction to the status quo" (1972, p. 482). The published comments on Sen's article [see Hillinger and Lapham (1971) and Ng (1971)] are directed toward his formal characterization of liberalism. That characterization is indeed unsatisfactory. But even if we grant it for the sake of argument, it does not support the assertions quoted above. Those assertions are false.


Abstract In this paper, we investigate the t-quasi continuous property for modules. It is proved that M is t-quasi continuous, if and only if M is a direct sum of a Z 2-torsion module and a quasi-continuos module. Moreover we characterize the rings R for which certain R-modules are t-quasi continuous. We show that every R-module is t-quasi continuous, if and only if R (ℕ) is t-quasi continuous, if and only if every free R-module is t-quasi continuous.


The purpose of this article is to identify possible ways out of the complicated political situation associated with the constitutional crisis of 1993 in Russia based on the analysis of the transcript of the meeting of the seventeenth extraordinary session of the Moscow city Council (the Council). Based on previously unpublished archival materials, the author reveals the main options for overcoming the constitutional crisis of 1993, which were proposed by the deputies of the Moscow city Council. The study of archival material found that the deputies proposed all possible scenarios for the development of the situation, from radical to mutually acceptable.


In the process of cold rolling aluminum foils,lubrication states can be synthetically evaluated by the radio of lubricant film thickness,the coefficient of friction and the surface quality of rolled aluminum foil.Results show that the inlet oil film thickness is much lower than composite surface roughness, the surface quality of rolled aluminum foil is much better,and the composite surface roughness of rolled aluminum foil with lubricant additives are lower than that with only lubrication oil.Lubrication additives have already worked,the lubrication states are mainly in boundary lubrication.


A series of in situ toughened, Al, B and C containing, silicon carbide ceramics (ABC-SiC) has been examined with Al contents varying from 3 to 7 wt%. With increasing Al additions, the grain morphology in the as-processed microstructures varied from elongated to bimodal to equiaxed, with a change in the nature of the grain-boundary film from amorphous to partially crystalline to fully crystalline. Fracture toughness and cyclic fatigue tests on these microstructures revealed that although the 7 wt.% Al containing material (7ABC) was extremely brittle, the 3 and particularly 5 wt.% Al materials (3ABC and 5ABC, respectively) displayed excellent crack-growth resistance at both ambient (25°C) and elevated (1300°C) temperatures. Indeed, no evidence of creep damage, in the form of grain-boundary cavitation, was seen at temperatures at 1300°C or below. The enhanced toughness of the higher Al-containing materials was associated with extensive crack bridging from both interlocking grains (in 3ABC) and uncracked ligaments (in 5ABC); in contrast, the 7ABC SiC showed no such bridging, concomitant with a marked reduction in the volume fraction of elongated grains. Mechanistically, cyclic fatigue-crack growth in 3ABC and 5ABC SiC involved the progressive degradation of such bridging ligaments in the crack wake, with the difference in the


CMOS pixel sensors (CPS) are attractive for use in the innermost particle detectors for charged particle tracking due to their good trade-off between spatial resolution, material budget, radiation hardness, and readout speed. With the requirements of high readout speed and high radiation hardness to total ionizing dose (TID) for particle tracking, fast readout CPS are composed by integrating a data compression block and two SRAM IP cores. However, the radiation hardness of the SRAM IP cores is not as high as that of the other parts in CPS, and thus the radiation hardness of the whole CPS chip is lowered. Especially, when CPS are migrated into 0.18-μm processes, the single event upset (SEU) effects should be also considered besides TID and single event latchup (SEL) effects. This paper presents a radiation-hardened SRAM with enhanced radiation hardness to SEU. An error detection and correction (EDAC) algorithm and a bit-interleaving storage strategy are adopted in the design. The prototype design has been fabricated in a 0.18-μm process. The area of the new SRAM is increased 1.6 times as compared with a non-radiation-hardened SRAM due to the integration of EDAC algorithm and the adoption of radiation hardened layout. The access time is increased from 5 ns to 8 ns due to the integration of EDAC algorithm. The test results indicate that the design satisfy requirements of CPS for charged particle tracking.


This paper provides a study of sol-solitons in the pseudo-Riemannian case. In the Riemannian case, all nontrivial homogeneous sol-soliton are expanding sol-solitons. In this paper, we obtain steady sol-solitons and shrinking sol-solitons in the Lorentzian setting.


ABSTRACTA dual-sensor towed streamer records the pressure and vertical component of particle motion associated with the incident wavefield that may be used to separate the wavefield into its up- and downgoing parts. This procedure requires information about the water properties (wave-propagation velocity and density) and is robust in the presence of errors in the estimation of these quantities of the magnitude likely to be encountered. In practice, the particle motion data recorded by current towed marine streamers encounter very strong mechanical noise such that, for the lowest frequencies, the wavefield separation must be approximated by deconvolving the ghost function from the pressure data. This procedure requires information about the streamer depth and is robust to small depth errors over the frequency range for which it is required for dual-sensor streamer processing, but it is much more sensitive if applied over the bandwidth necessary to deghost pressure data acquired at a conventional streamer d...


Localization of mobile elements P and hobo in the genomes of isofemale Drosophila lines obtained from a natural population from Biisk (Altai) was analyzed by in situ hybridization. The average copy number per genome was 27.1 for P and 22.0 for hobo. The highest number of P and hobo copies was recorded in the 3R and 21 chromosomes, respectively. The X chromosome contained the lowest number of hobo copies. For P, this relationship was not shown. Both transposons had preferential localization sites, or {open_quotes}hot spots,{close_quotes} which partly coincided with intercalary heterochromatin regions. Correlation analysis of P and hobo copy number showed independent distribution of these hybrid dysgenesis determinants. The 1A site, which is thought to be associated with the P cytotype expression, was not labelled in any line. 40 refs., 1 fig., 5 tabs.


Overexpression of metastatic tumor antigen 1 (MTA1) was correlated with poor prognosis of hepatitis B virus (HBV)‐associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HBV‐HCC). The aim of this study was to examine the clinical significance of the expression of MTA1 and its exon 4‐excluded form (MTA1dE4), the most abundant spliced variant of MTA1, in patients receiving curative resection for HBV‐HCC. We collected 102 patients with HBV‐HCC and received curative resection retrospectively and examined the expressions level of total MTA1/MTA1dE4 in their paired nontumor and tumor liver tissues by using RT‐qPCR. The association between MTA1/MTA1dE4 expression and various tumor features as well as tumor recurrence was analyzed. During the median follow‐up period of 4 years, 25 patients (24.5%) showed early recurrence (within 12 months postresection) and 42 (54.5%) showed late recurrence. In Kaplan‐Meier analysis, MTA1dE4 overexpression in tumor, but not MTA1, was associated with early recurrence (P = 0.0365), but not late recurrence. In multivariate analysis, only alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP) ≥200 ng/mL (P = 0.006) and large tumor size (P = 0.027) were correlated with early recurrence. In the subgroup of patients with AFP <200 ng/mL, high MTA1dE4, but not total MTA1, expression could help predict early recurrence (P = 0.0195). In vitro, wound healing and invasion assays were performed in HCC cells, and MTA1dE4 was found to exhibit a higher ability in promoting migration and invasion of hepatoma cells than full‐length MTA1. Conclusion: MTA1dE4 expression is correlated with more aggressive tumor characteristics and might serve as a more sensitive marker for early recurrence of HBV‐HCC, especially for low‐AFP patients.