The purpose of this study was to select the most suitable method of treatment of sulfated water produced by an open pit coal mine in Venezuela. Samples of water taken on surface, middle and bottom of water bodies in three areas were subjected to basic, gravimetric, volumetric and colorimetric analysis. The results indicated that the pH is within limits permitted by current environmental regulations, while total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, and sulfates exceed the normed values. The aerobic wetland method was selected as the most efficient for the removal of sulfates, depending on the physicochemical characteristics of the sulphated waters from the mine and because they are systems that use natural energy to purify water, its construction and maintenance costs Is significantly inferior to the conventional treatments and because, being replicas of natural ecosystems, they are integrated to the environment.


The dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) feature offered by modern FPGAs provides the flexibility of adapting the underlying hardware according to the needs of a particular situation at runtime, in response to application requirements. In recent times, DPR along with drastically reduced reconfiguration overheads has allowed the possibility of scheduling multiple real-time applications on FPGA platforms. However, in order to effectively harness the computation capacity of an FPGA floor, efficient techniques which can schedule real-time applications over both space and time are required. It may be noted that safety-critical systems often require resource-optimal solutions to reduce size, weight, cost and power consumption of the system. However, the scheduling of real-time tasks on FPGAs in the presence of non-negligible reconfigurationlcontext-switching overheads requires careful exploration of the state space which often makes it prohibitively expensive to be applied on-line. Hence, off-line formal approaches are often preferred in the design of reconfiguration controllers (i.e., schedulers) that are correct-by-construction as well as optimal in terms of usage of resources. In this paper, we propose a formal scheduler synthesis framework that generates an optimal scheduler for a set of non-preemptive periodic real-time tasks executing on a FPGA platform. We show the practical viability of our proposed framework by synthesizing schedulers for real-world benchmark applications and implementing them on FPGAs.


The reaction of fumaronitrile with triethylamine in bulk at 295–353 K gives in high yields dark-colored polymers. The polymerization occurs at one of the two nitrile groups and not at the (CC) double bond. The kinetics of the reaction were investigated and the polymers characterized analytically.


Pr rimary peritonitis is a diffuse suppurative peritoneal infection without an identifiable source that may occur in healthy infants and children as well as in children with underlying diseases such as immunodeficiency, cirrhosis, and nephrotic syndrome. Streptococcus pneumoniae and group A P-hemolytic streptococci (GABHS) are the traditional etiologic agents, although some case series note predominance of gram-negative bacilli. ",2 The case of a patient with GABHS primary peritonitis and toxic shock-like syndrome is presented to highlight this poten-


A new audio watermarking algorithm based on Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) domain is presented. Watermark embedding procedure relies on probability density function (pdf) modeling. The proposed method ensures optimal detection for weak watermarks even when they are exposed to some common attacks such as noise addition and compression. The performance of this technique is evaluated in terms of Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR).


The present application relates to an apparatus and a winding termination portion of the core for the generator. A coil formed from at least one wire (W), and the core portion (20) having a longitudinal axis (20 '). A coil (19) is wound by the wire dispenser (21) with respect to the relative movement of the core in translation and rotational relative movement; extending portion extending from the at least one wire coil, and the extending portion is provided with a line for terminating the connection to the a core portion (20) of the termination structure (22) portions (W4), the terminating structure, such as tangs. The positioning apparatus comprises a core portion adjacent an end portion of the groove (120) is positioned a deflector line, to (120) intercept line and aligned with the groove line. The apparatus may comprise means for applying a torque, the apparatus for applying a torque on the pulley in both directions, according to the position of the supply line to the dispenser and the position of the core in translation in rotation.


treatment of hypertension in risks of stroke and coronary heart disease. In this perspective it is of interest to note that the new angiotensin II receptor antagonist, the AT 1 receptor selective agent eprosartan, has been shown to effectively reduce systolic blood pressure, both in patients with severe hypertension as well as in other patient groups. J Clin Basic Cardiol 2001; 4: 131–134.


"Is college worth it?" In the past several years nearly every major news outlet in the United States has run a story posing some variation of the question.1 Rising tuition prices and student debt levels have increased the public's concern over whether college investments are worth the money, and recent revelations of fraud and deceptive practices by large college chains have shed light on the reality that not all universities contribute positively to students' success, and fueled calls for greater accountability for institutions receiving public funds. It may seem paradoxical that skepticism over the quality and value of postsecondary education has intensified in recent years, as the college earnings premium has risen over the past several decades and is currently near record levels.2 But while a deep body of research has answered the value proposition "is college worth it?" with a resounding "yes" on average—that is, on average the return to a college degree is not just positive but very high relative to other investments a person might make—this is a comforting answer to the wrong question. For families choosing a college and for policymakers targeting support or sanctions to poorly performing institutions, the relevant question is whether a particular college is "worth it," or which of a set of colleges is most "worth it."


The fiber reinforced polymer laminates have found extensive applications because of its advantages over other materials in terms of strength to weight ratio, manufacturing flexibility and so on. But in the transverse direction, strength is comparatively less so that a failure mechanism called delamination will occur in case of poor manufacturing or when tools are dropped. In this paper, Surface based Cohesive contact behavior is implemented at the interface between base and sub laminate to investigate for 60mm through the width buckling driven delamination growth. The computational prediction of delamination growth initiation is obtained by solving a HTA/6376C composite laminate specimen for geometric non linearity using SC8R continuum shell elements of Abaqus CAE and by plotting the inplane loads versus out of plane displacements.


Quantitative precipitin tests have been carried out with fowl antisera to BSA and BGG using isotopically labelled antigens. The peculiarities of fowl precipitating antisera raise analytical difficulties which are most easily overcome by the use of labelled reagents. The results have confirmed the importance of the NaCl concentration of the medium in determining the amount of antibody precipitated. An apparent anomaly in the AbN/AgN ratio curves may be explainable in terms of the properties of `heavy' and `light' antibodies in fowl sera. A rapid method for the analysis of fowl sera for precipitins is described.


Magnetic Fe3O4/ZnWO4 and Fe3O4/ZnWO4/CeVO4 nanoparticles with different molar ratios of CeVO4 to other inorganic components were synthesized through co-precipitation with a sonochemical-assisted method. X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, vibrating sample magnetometry, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) methods were used for the physico–chemical characterization of the obtained nanoparticles. As shown in the SEM images, the average sizes of the Fe3O4/ZnWO4 and Fe3O4/ZnWO4/CeVO4 nanoparticles that formed aggregates were approximately 50–70 nm and 80–100 nm, respectively. The photocatalytic performance of these nanoparticles was examined by measuring methylene blue degradation under visible light (assisted by H2O2). The sample with a mass ratio of 1:2:1 (Fe3O4/ZnWO4/CeVO4, S4) exhibited optimal photocatalytic performance, and thus this sample was subsequently used for the photodegradation of different organic pollutants upon irradiation with ultraviolet (UV) and visible light. Approximately 90% and 70% degradation of methyl violet and methylene blue, respectively, was observed after visible light irradiation. Additionally, the mechanism of the photocatalytic reaction was investigated by measuring ·OH release under UV light in a system with terephthalic acid and by measuring the release of ·O2−, ·OH, and hole scavengers. Catalysts 2020, 10, 494; doi:10.3390/catal10050494 www.mdpi.com/journal/catalysts Catalysts 2020, 10, 494 2 of 17


In this letter, we research a spatiotemporal-domain-based time-frequency peak filtering (TFPF) method in order to remove the large error (bias) of the conventional TFPF in intermediate-frequency seismic record discrimination. An intermediate-frequency seismic signal is one whose dominant frequency is about 40 Hz or higher. To find a balance between noise attenuation and reflected signal preservation, the radial-trace TPFT (RT-TFPF) takes both the unbiased condition and the adjacent seismic traces' correlation into consideration, and uses the RT transform to obtain a reduced-frequency input to decrease the TFPF error. Therefore, this method can discriminate some reflection events weakened by the conventional TFPF algorithm. First, we decrease the intermediate frequencies along RTs nearly aligned with the reflection event. Then, we obtain a less biased TFPF estimation with suitable window length τ. Finally, we recover the original intermediate frequency with the inverse RT transform. With the RT-TFPF, we can enhance reflection events without sacrificing frequency components while attenuating as much random noise as possible. Experiments on both synthetic model and field data demonstrate that the RT-TFPF performs well both in random noise attenuation and intermediate-frequency preservation, in addition to presenting advantages over the conventional TFPF.


Great Nations are the result of the encouraging vision of a group of men, who with a thorough understanding of reality are capable of finding the necessary solutions. For Sarmiento, education was the ultimate instrument for the making of a modern state, but he was also concerned about the strengthening of the Army and the Navy after his experiences in the Argentine and American civil wars and the war of the Triple Alliance. This paper focuses on Sarmiento's military thoughts, which materialized during his different appointments, and especially during his presidency with the acquisition of modern military equipment and the creation of the first military academies.


Today diaspora becomes highligthed issue when people become parts of global world. The term of diapora cannot be separated from old world/new world, past/present, or rooted/uprooted. In a diaporic position, people usually face a condition of in-betweeness, the situation between the homeland where they come from and that of the new land where they have to live today. By using Vertovec's ideas which suggests diaspora as type of consciousness, this paper intends to discuss women's roles in diasporic world experienced by the Asian-Indian female characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unnaccustomed Earth and Only Goodness. As one of the diasporic ethnic groups in the world, Asian Indian women encounter paradoxical nature, the situation in which they have to adapt to the new environment but on the other side they still maintain their old habits. Languages, beliefs, traditions, costums, and foods become the apparatuses that the women use as the negotiation tools between old world and new world. By focusing on these women's roles, this paper depicts how these female characters still maintain the Indian values yet on the occasion also adopt the American's. On each generation, the in-betweenness situation is different. The efforts of maintaining old world tradition may react the resistance from the latter generation. However, in both short stories, Lahiri reveals the the importance of maintaining the old world. In her ways, she appreciates the maintaining old world values among the Americans'.

Keywords : diaspora, identity, old world, new world


There were few English poems Donald Davie liked less than Thomas Hardy's 'The Darkling Thrush'. Published in The Times on 1 January 1900, and written to mark the arrival of the new century, it was a poem, as Davie saw it, which anticipated all that was worst about twentieth-century British poetry. The defining quality of such 'occasional poems', he argued, was that they 'cannot give offence', and Hardy's readiness to write them was thus symptomatic of that 'decent liberalism' which represented his 'crucial selling short of the poetic vocation, for himself and his successors'.[1] Hardy's tendency, that is, to rise 'dutifully to public occasions' was for Davie cause for considerable regret (p. 36). But so too was Charles Tomlinson's belief, 'There is no occasion too small for the poet's celebration.' It was a belief, Davie complained, 'naturally at home in a society that makes no distinction between small occasions and big ones, a society that resists any ranking of certain human and civic occasions below or above certain others', such a society being, as he observed, a 'social democracy'.[2] There was, in other words, a conflict in Davie's thinking on this matter: to write in recognition of large public occasions being to show a liberal's lack of ambition, while to honour small occasions was to acquiesce to the social democratic impulse. It was a conflict that went to the root of Davie's criticism. He could not see how any occasion coloured by democracy could be fit for poetic attention, because he was unsure how, if at all, poetry and democracy could be thought compatible. The problem was hardly a new one. Writing a century before Davie in Democratic Vistas, Walt Whitman observed: Our fundamental want to-day in the United States, with closest, amplest reference to present conditions, and to the future, is of a class, and the clear idea of a class, of native authors, literatuses, far different, far higher in grade than any yet known, sacerdotal, modern, fit to cope with our occasions.[3] Same problem; different spin. Whitman, like Davie, wonders how the poet can meet the requirements of democratic occasions, but thinks that to do so would be no modest achievement. On the contrary, it is 'our fundamental want today', and the poet who satisfies it will glory in a status higher than any yet known. The purpose of this article is to up-date these arguments and, with Whitman's exhortation in mind, to dispute Davie's suggestion that the idea of such a democratic poet is self-contradictory. Through the work of Denise Riley and John Ashbery and, in a theoretical coda, through the twin philosophical traditions of pragmatism and speech-act theory, I will consider what it now means, at the end of another century, to speak of democratic occasions, arguing that it is poetry attuned to the tradition of the avant-garde which is most fit, to borrow Whitman's expression, to cope with such occasions. There are compelling reasons for considering Denise Riley's writing in this connection. For a start, she is profoundly concerned with questions of democracy. Indeed one way of reading her most recent collection Mop Mop Georgette is as a beautifully rigorous, dialectical meditation on the possibility of democratic poetry; sometimes, as in 'Knowing in the Real World', echoing Davie ('There's no democracy in beauty'), but more often than not, as in 'Red Shout', striving to find the means to refute him: I still wait for a really human sign as light and shocking as an annunciation -- sometimes I get it and in democratic form: Red Shout.[4] That Riley takes the relation of poetry to democracy so seriously would seem one reason for the good press she has been receiving of late. For John Kerrigan, writing in the TLS, her 'stylish, demotic wit counters any suspicion that British experimental verse must be hieratic'.[5] Nigel Wheale approves the fact that her poetry has 'no recurrent default mechanism to any one characteristic locale, no fall-back to pastorale, or remorselessly emphatic advance to inner-city vanguardism';[6] while 'A note by Douglas Oliver' carried on the cover of Mop Mop Georgette announces: 'POETRY'S FUTURE probably lies in the direction Denise Riley is taking and many of us read her work to find out how to do it [. …


The lasso problem, least squares with a ℓ1 regularization penalty, has been very successful as a tool for obtaining sparse representations of data in terms of given dictionary. It is known, but not widely appreciated, that the lasso problem need not have a unique solution. Sufficient conditions which ensure uniqueness of the solution are known but necessary and sufficient conditions have been elusive. We present three structural results on the lasso problem. First, we show that when the dictionary has more columns than rows, it is always possible to ensure that the dictionary has full row rank. Next we show that the feasible set for the dual lasso problem is bounded if and only if the dictionary has full row rank. Lastly, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of a lasso solution.


An experiment is described which proves, using single photons only, that the standard hidden variables assumptions (commonly used to derive Bell inequalities) are inconsistent with quantum mechanics. The analysis is very simple and transparent. In par- ticular, it demonstrates that a classical wave model for quantum mechanics is not ruled out by experiments demonstrating the violation of the traditional hidden variable assumptions.


Adaptive full-order observer is widely used for speed-sensorless control of induction motors. However, it is unstable at low speed. To address this problem, this paper proposes an improved speed-adaptive law and introduces a feedback gain matrix into the system with improved speed-adaptive law. The improved speed-adaptive law is obtained by local linearization of the rotor flux distribution on the estimated rotating coordinate system. This method can improve the observation accuracy of speed. Furthermore, the introduction of the feedback gain matrix can make the poles of the observer far away from the imaginary axis and increase the dynamic performance of the system. Comparative study shows that the proposed method has better stability. The simulation results verify the effectiveness and feasibility of this method.


The author suggests a number of ideas for customers on how to insure themselves against numerous risks that tend to appear due to negligent conduct of suppliers. Besides that, the article answers such question as: how do the risks appear, how to deal with them in the most effective way and how should the risk distribution be organized between all the participants of bidding while the process of purchase is in progress.


Non-negative Matrix Factorization is a technique for decomposing large data sets into bases and code words, where all entries of the occurring matrices are non-negative. A recently proposed technique also incorporates sparseness constraints, in such a way that the amount of nonzero entries in both bases and code words becomes controllable. This paper extends the Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Sparseness Constraints. First, a modification of the optimization criteria ensures fast inference of the code words. Thus, the approach is real-time capable for use in time critical applications. Second, in case a teacher signal is associated with the samples, it is considered in order to ensure that inferred code words of different classes can be well distinguished. Thus, the derived bases generate discriminative code words, which is a crucial prerequisite for training powerful classifiers. Experiments on natural image patches show, similar to recent results in the field of sparse coding algorithms, that Gabor-like filters are minimizing the reconstruction error while retaining inference capabilities. However, applying the approach with incorporation of the teacher signal to handwritten digits yields morphologically completely different bases, while achieving superior classification results.


PhRMA's revised marketing code, which goes into effect January 2009, tightens the restrictions on gifts, meals, and honoraria given to healthcare providers.


Objective To explore the experence of treatment of thoracic lumbar vertebra TB by via front route one stage focus debridement bone graft fusion internal fixation.Methods Retrospectively analyze the data of 18 cases hospitalized Feb 2001-Feb,2007.Results After 15 month follow-ap,spinal nerve function recovered of different degree,posterior convex angle averagely correction 21.3°.Conclusion This method to treat thoracic lumbar TB can achieve satisfied stability,which is a safe effective way to treat vertebra TB.


Traceability is considered crucial for establishing and maintaining consistency between software development artifacts. Although considerable research has been devoted to relating requirements and design artifacts with source code, less attention has been paid to relating requirements with architecture by using well-defined semantics of traces. We present a tool that provides trace establishment by using semantics of traces between R&A (Requirements and Architecture). The tool provides the following: (1) generation/validation of traces by using requirements relations and/or verification of architecture, (2) generation/validation of requirements relations by using traces. The tool uses the semantics of traces together with requirements relations and verification results for generating and validating traces. It is based on model transformations in ATL and term-rewriting logic in Maude.


Therapists have always encountered ethical problems at work. However, these are becoming more important as changes in health care systems take place and patients' rights and autonomy become dominant in practice. An introduction is given to ethical theories and processes, and these are related to clinical issues identified during a series of research studies with occupational therapists and physiotherapists.


This study investigated the IEQ effects on learning performance by means of field survey, and the target group was late-teen students. The field experiments were carried out at two technical colleges in Japan. At each college, a ordinary use classroom was adopted for the experiment. In order to evaluate the effects of indoor temperature and outdoor air supply rate, air conditioning units and ventilation fans were controlled at 3 levels (22, 25, 28 °C; 5, 10, 20 m3/s/person) and 5 combinations of them were adopted as the experimental cases. In every case, the learning performance was evaluated with a 30-minute examination after a 180-minute video image lecture. The results showed that the examination score decreased in the case of low temperature or low outdoor air supply rate. However, the examination score was not changed in the case of high temperature, which might be caused by seasonal effect. According to comparisons with previous studies, the learning performance of late-teen people was considered to be less affected by indoor environment than that of older people, if their background knowledge of the learning subjects was equivalent to the older people.


Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common mental health disorder of childhood, affecting approximately 3%-8.7% of children and adolescents in the U.S. (NIMH, 2008). ADHD is a chronic and stigmatizing neurobiological disorder with deficits in the neurotransmitter systems that effect executive functioning. Etiology is primarily genetic, with only 7% of cases related to head trauma, lead poisoning, or low birth weight. Seven genes have been shown to have statistically significant evidence of association with ADHD (the dopamine 4 and 5 receptors, the dopamine transporter gene, dopamine – hydroxylase gene, the serotonin transporter gene, the serotonin 1B receptor, and the synapt osomal associated protein 25 gene) (Faraone, Perlis, Doyle, Smoller, Goralnick, Holmgren & Sklar, 2005). Although ADHD is considered an environmentally-dependent disorder, with symptoms increasing and decreasing in relation to environmental demands and expectations, there is no evidence to suggest that ADHD is caused by poor parenting practices or diet (Barkley, 2006).


147Background: Literature on recurrence and outcomes of HPGEC is scarce. The aim of this study was to determine pattern of recurrence and outcomes after curative intent surgery for locally advanced HPGEC. Methods: A retrospective database was used to identify consecutive patients with gastroesophageal adenocarcinomas undergoing curative intent resection between 2011 and 2016 at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Clinico-demographic data were extracted from the electronic health record. Patterns of relapse are classified as nonvisceral (defined as recurrences in the bone, peritoneal or both), visceral (not nonvisceral, including the brain), or both. Time to relapse (TTR) and overall survival (OS) were calculated from date of histologic diagnosis. Results: Of 45 patients with HPGEC, 78% were male, and 91% were non-Asian. Median age was 64.4 years (interquartile range [IQR] 53, 70); 60% were gastroesophageal junction, 24% were gastric, and 16% were esophageal adenocarcinomas; 31% were poorly differentiated...


Multiple insulin injection therapy can easily be adapted to the patient's needs. Therefore, it is supposed that more intensive insulin therapy is associated with better metabolic control and less hypoglycaemia compared with a conventional insulin strategy in patients with type 2 diabetes.


* The labeling of the antibiotic azithromycin now states that the drug can prolong the QT interval, which can lead to potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias.

* Certain patients are at greater risk for QT interval prolongation, including older adults, those with a history of QT prolongation, those taking other drugs that promote a prolonged QT interval, and those with a history of cardiac disease.


The understorey of tropical forests is heterogeneous across time, and plants that inhabit this layer may exhibit adaptations (e.g. trait plasticity) that enable them to exploit this variability to their advantage. We tested the hypothesis that two widespread understorey herbs would perform equally well in a variable as in a constant environment, using a 2‐year shade‐house experiment. We measured demographic traits (growth and survival), a physiological trait (maximum photosynthetic capacity), and life‐history traits (leaf life span and biomass allocation) of Heliconia tortuosa and Calathea crotalifera. We investigated how these traits were affected by light availability at the seedling stage, precipitation, and whether individuals experienced a constant or variable light environment. Whether or not a variable environment was favourable for plants depended upon precipitation and the environment in which individuals started life. At low precipitation, plants in a variable light environment grew more than those in a constant environment, but only when individuals had lived as seedlings in low light. At high precipitation, plants in a constant environment grew more than those in a variable environment, regardless of early conditions. Survival was lower in a variable environment at low precipitation, and more so at high precipitation. Photosynthetic capacity was lower for individuals in a variable environment than in a constant environment when they had lived in high light as seedlings. Calathea grew faster and survived more poorly than Heliconia, independently of the treatments. Calathea grew more at high than low precipitation while Heliconia grew more at low than high precipitation. Leaf life span and biomass allocation did not differ among treatments, although Calathea had a significantly greater proportion of its biomass above‐ground vs. that of Heliconia. Synthesis. Environmental variability had a neutral or positive effect on biomass allocation, photosynthetic capacity, and leaf life span for these species. Survival was the only trait that was always lower in a variable environment. The effect of environmental variability was dependent on early life conditions as well as precipitation, suggesting that generalist species may experience high fitness as forest environments become more variable by maintaining high growth at the expense of survival.


We consider the reuse of knowledge in the analysis, design, and assurance of safety-critical appliances. We refer to this knowledge as safety patterns for whom a considerable amount of literature has been
published. However, relationships across this literature seem relatively unexplored. Our first analysis indicates, e.g. scattered information about
properties and combinations of such patterns. In this paper, we present results of the first stage of a three-staged literature study. With these results we aim to stimulate discussion and request for comments for the
subsequent stages we are going to conduct -- a systematic mapping study and a systematic literature review.


This study is related with one of the components of a hybrid decision support system called CAPCAST, implemented under a research project conducted by WIMIIP AGH. It is a model of knowledge representation about materials in the form of a relational database, designed to allow the transformation of its records into components of a rule-based knowledge base.


The invention relates to a rolling method of cold rolling strip steel, in particular to a control method of edge portion strip shape of thin strip steel rolled by a cold continuous rolling mill or a two-stand temper mill. In a strip shape feedback control system centered on a last stand and on the basis of fundamental strip shape control function of major control for conventional edge waves and center waves, the method identifies the state of the edge portion strip shape of the strip steel based on the difference between the actual measured strip shape of strip steel edge portion together with the adjacent areas at the exit of last stand and an objective strip shape, and adjusts the corresponding strip shape executive mechanisms of the last stand and the rest stands according to the state of the edge portion strip shape to realize effective control for the edge portion strip shape of the strip steel, such as small edge waves and small side waves, thereby further improving the quality of the strip steel after cold rolling or temper rolling.


Violence against women with disabilities – how to prevent, recognize and respond to it. Women with functional impairments are victims of violence to a greater extent than other women, but this has long been an invisible social problem. These women are rarely seen, in research as well as in public debate. The violence looks different from violence against other women and often relates to the woman's disability. The situation of women with disabilities who are victims of violence is marked by dependence on the outside world and in many cases also on the perpetrator. The problem is made invisible as a result of ignorance, prejudice and complexity. These women are particularly vulnerable because of their functional impairments. In the Nordic countries, women with disabilities are a particularly vulnerable group, for example in programmes against domestic violence. In recent years, alarming reports have been published. Reports of hidden cases of abused women with disabilities and also the existing system's difficulties in meeting the target groups' needs and rights. Internationally, the theme of violence against women with disabilities has been recognized explicitly in several contexts including the UN, EU and Council of Europe. The safety aspect is central to the theme. The states need to develop systems to prevent and detect violence against women with disabilities. There are also several aspects of legal security. Legal systems need increased knowledge on what various functional impairments mean in terms of needs of protection and accessibility. Legal systems need to be more accessible to people with disabilities. Also in terms of information: many women with disabilities do not know where to turn if they are subjected to violence or threats of violence. In addition to the states' commitments and obligation to protect its citizens from violence according to their social and legal system, the Nordic countries have also ratified the UN Convention on the rights of women, CEDAW. There are also a number of relevant articles in the UN Convention on Human Rights for persons with disabilities, UNCRPD. For example Article 6 (Women with Disabilities), 16 (right to be free from exploitation, violence and abuse), 12 (equality before law), 13 (access to justice).


Right ventricular infarction is present in up to 80% of autopsy specimens following fatal myocardial infarction. The clinical features suggestive of right ventricular infarction such as raised systemic venous pressure, clear lung fields, hypotension and atrio-ventricular nodal disturbances usually occur in association with inferior myocardial infarction, with an incidence of 30–50%. Kussmaul's sign of a paradoxical rise in the jugular venous pressure wave on inspiration is both sensitive and specific for right ventricular infarction. A 1mm rise in the V4R ST segment on ECG has a positive predictive value for right ventricular infarction of over 70%, increasing to 90% with the addition of ST elevation in leads VSR and V6R. ECG changes are often transient.

Acute management of right ventricular infarction includes fluid loading and inotropic support with dobutamine as necessary, with avoidance of vasodilators and diuretics. Mortality from acute myocardial infarchon is increased by right ventricular infarction, but may be lessened by thrombolytic therapy in eligible patients.


This paper is part of a program to combine a staggered time and staggered spatial discretization of continuum mechanics problems so that any property of the continuum that is proved using vector calculus can be proven in an analogous way for the discretized system. We require that the discretizations be second order accurate and have a conserved quantity that approximates the energy for the system and guarantees stability for a reasonable constraint on the time step. We also require that the discretization is time explicit so as to avoid the solution of large system of possibly nonlinear algebraic equations. The well known Yee grid discretization of Maxwell's equations is the same as our discretization and is an early example of using a staggered space and time grid .
To motivate our discussion we begin by studying the staggered time or leapfrog discretization of the harmonic oscillator and use this to introduce the modification of the energy that is conserved. Next we use systems of linear equations to motivate the definition of the modified energy for more complex systems of ordinary differential equations and then apply our ideas to the scalar wave equation in one spatial dimension. We finish by discretizing the three dimensional scalar wave and Maxwell's equations. Because the spatial discretization is mimetic, we obtain that the divergence of the electric and magnetic fields are constant when there are no sources. Using the mimetic properties the proof of this trivial and is essentially the same as in the continuum.


A purified antigen was derived from Shigella sonnei by diethylene glycol extraction.
 It exhibited the chemical properties of a carbohydrate-lipid-complex but displayed a low toxicity with an LD50 in mice greater than 10 mg. It showed good immunogenic capacity in mice.


More daring and more illuminating is Austin's contention that alongside these three must be placed not another individual but another style-jazz. This, he admits, "risks repelling some." (I shall never forget the otherwise humble matron saying to me, "Oh you are a professor of music at the University; well I don't like jazz, either.") Actually it is the two condensed but perceptive chapters on jazz that most greatly distinguish Music of the 20th Century as a masterpiece of proportion and vision. Only Wilfred Mellers in his Music in a New Found Land has


"bei+VI/AP" is a newly emergent language phenomenon which has aroused the special attention of some scholars such as sociologists,linguists,etc.The paper makes some illustrations to the structure "bei+VI/AP".It is concluded that "bei+VI/AP" is a construction,whose meaning cannot be derived directly from "bei" and "VI/AP" respectively.In addition,it is admitted that the high frequency of its occurrence also results from many reasons.


Santa Cruz de Mar Pequena, a small settlement on the African Atlantic coast opposite the Canary Islands, which belonged to Spain for fifty years between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, nowadays lies ignored by his- tory. But since the reign of Carlos III, and especially during the second half of the nineteenth century, the reconquest became almost an obsession for Spanish governments. The memory of the presence of Spain in the Atlantic enclave raised passions among our africanists, especially after the Spanish victory over Morocco in the African War (1859- 1860), which became Santa Cruz de Mar Pequena in a legitimate war booty recognized by the Moroccan sultan. The aim of its occupation triggered a series of negotiations between representatives of the sultans and representatives of the Spanish monarchs that led to the establishment of Spain in Sidi Ifni in 1934.


TYMPANIC TEMPERATURE AGREEMENT WITH VISCERAL TEMPERATURE BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER MAXIMAL BRUCE PROTOCOL TREADMILL EXERCISE Raymond LW, Willoughby JD. Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Charlotte, NC; Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC and Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC. Purpose of Study: Purpose of Study: Tympanic temperature (TT) has been widely studied and applied in pediatric practice but less is known of its use in exercising adults. Methods Used:Methods Used: 38 healthy men and women (29male, age 34 + 9SD, BMI 25.3 + 3.7) ingested disposable thermistors (CorTemp HT150002) which transmitted visceral temperature (VT) before, during and after maximal Bruce protocol treadmill exercise (BPTE). An infrared thermistor bolometer (Omron MC-505) was used to measure TT. Thermal discomfort was gauged by the Young Index (YI, 0-8, maximal heat discomfort = 8). Summary of Results: Summary of Results: BPTE duration was 13.9+3.1 minutes and YI was 6.2 + 1.0. TT rose by 1.6oF to 99.6oF and VT rose by 1.3oF to 100.1oF. Overall agreement between TT and VTwas expressed by the linear relationship TT = 0.76 TV + 23.2, r = 0.58, p = 0.001. AltmanBland plotting showed close agreement (VT TT = 0.3 + 1.4oF) with only 3 of 152 mean values beyond two standard deviations from the mean, including one outlier. Pre-exercise TT was 0.8oF below VT, but exceeded VT by 0.5oF at end-exercise, before falling to 0.6 oF below VT at 10 minutes post-exercise, these differences being non-significant. Conclusions: Conclusions: TT is closely associated with VT in healthy adults before, during and after maximal Bruce protocol treadmill exercise. Anatomic differences in bodily heat transfer may account for TT changes that precede exercise-related changes in VT. A larger series of observations might further elucidate this latter thermal transient.


LPC Mel Cepstrum Coefficient(LPCMCC) which comes from LPC Cepstrum(LPCC) changed nonlinear by Mel scale according to human auditory characteristics,thus closer to human auditory system.This paper presents a method based on the feature parameter of LPCMCC,and through using dynamic time warping algorithm to audio data classificate and retrieve.Experimental results show that the accuracy rate of this method is better than LPCC,and the efficiency of retrieval is significantly higher than Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients(MFCC).


Passive transfer of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) was performed with lymph node cells from donor rats immunized with spinal cord or purified encephalitogenic basic protein and any of several adjuvant combinations. Transfer was inhibited by injection of recipients with the brain basic protein. Basic proteins from rat and guinea-pig CNS inhibited transfer from donors immunized with rat or guinea-pig spinal cord or basic protein. Monkey basic protein inhibited transfer from donors immunized with monkey or human cord. There was only partial cross-inhibition between rodent and primate groups. The inhibition was organ specific in that basic proteins from lung, spleen and adrenal did not inhibit transfer of EAE. Furthermore, transfer of adrenalitis from donors immunized with adrenal tissue was inhibited by adrenal extracts but not by CNS basic protein.

Pertussis and typhoid vaccines injected into recipients inhibited transfer of either EAE or adrenalitis. This non-specific inhibition was also demonstrated after simultaneous transfer of both EAE and adrenalitis, whereas CNS basic protein eliminated only EAE in such recipients.

Inhibition was complete in experiments terminated one day after transfer. In longer experiments, inhibition lasted only 3 or 4 days. Basic protein was rapidly cleared from the blood. Neither spleen nor adrenals were necessary for its action. Brain basic protein prevented the interaction between encephalitogenic cells and the target organ by an immunologically specific mechanism which may be a type of desensitization.

The inhibition could not be reproduced in vitro. Bioassay and radioactive tracers revealed that basic protein bound non-specifically to living or dead lymph node cells in vitro. The effects of incubation could be accounted for by this non-specific carry-over of basic protein into the recipients.


In this thesis,we design a protocol based on Zero-Knowledge Proof to realize the real time secure communication.This protocol is realized through the way of intertactive communication and is also an application of the Zero-Knowledge Proof in identification.The security of this protocol is based on the factorization of large numbers and RSA problems.This protocol can complete the identification with less amount of intetactive communication.


In general, different wet and dry methods were employed for the production of Virgin coconut Oil (VCO). Natural fermentation is a traditional process with industrial application and is common in commercial and domestic processing, but, this method has contamination problem. In the present study, production of VCO was carried out by using certain probiotic organisms under controlled conditions to overcome the contamination problem which was frequently encountered in natural fermentation. It was carried out in computer controlled bioreactor by using L. fermentum NDRI-141, L. plantarum NDRI-184 and L. acidophilus NDRI-II individually; by studying the effect of different parameters viz., temperature, pH, inoculum concentration, fermentation end time, oxygen requirements and were optimized and compared. L. plantarum showed highest yield of VCO than L. fermentum and L. acidophilus and there was no contamination of coconut milk. For all the three species of Lactobacillus; fermentation temperature 45±1 0 C, pH 5±0.1, inoculum concentration 2%, fermentation end time 48 hrs were optimum. In the case of oxygen requirement, anaerobic condition was optimum for L. plantarum and microaerophilic was for the remaining two species. The results suggest that utilization of L. plantarum may be the choice of organism for induced fermentative production of VCO. VCO produced in induced fermentation process has characteristic natural coconut flavour, water white in color and sweet in aroma.


Aiming at the problem of automatic measurement of piston oil chamber,this paper studies an piston oil chamber image measuring method based on CT image.In order to evaluate the quality of each piston oil chamber, an industrial CT is used to obtain the piston oil chamber information and extract the distortion and position of oil reservoir through image processing.Considering the problem that the oil chamber affects the image edge detection precision,maximum variance separate method and median filtering method are adopted to preprocess the image.The software LabVIEW was used to author's measuring softwere,and the piston was dissected to measure oil chamber as comparative experiment.Experiment results show that the proposed method based on CT image is stable and reliable,high precision measuring of piston oil chamber is achieved,which makes a quality evaluation for piston oil chamber automatic measurement.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that serves as: a potential how‐to guide for place managers; an evolution of place branding strategy; a cautionary tale about place brands developed without stakeholder involvement; and a way to open up the theory space to arrive at a potentially ideal marketing mix. The framework reveals consequences of relying on imagery with little connection to the place's reality. Place brands developed without these characteristics could lead to auto‐communication, which could affect the organization‐public relationship by stunting genuine organization learning and simulating meaningful two‐way dialogue.Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual framework was developed using Qualitative Media Analysis to explore several constructs – market‐based models of governance, public relations models, Baudrillard's phases of the image, and six promotional tactics cities are used to promote the place.Findings – Based on the concepts employed, it is argued...


Abstract: Myofiber characteristics, R values, and eating quality were studied in Longissimus thoracis (LT), Psoas major (PM), and Semitendinosus (ST) muscles that had been excised from 10 Chinese Simmental bulls. The diameters of type I, IIA, and IIB fibers in PM are the smallest, and the percentage of type I, IIA, and IIB fibers is highest in PM, LT, and ST, respectively. R248 and R250 values are higher in PM than in LT and ST. R248 and R258 are negatively correlated to the proportion of type IIA fibers and positively correlated to the area percentage of type I fibers. PM has a lower Warner–Bratzler shear force (WBSF) and hardness values compared with LT and ST. Semitendinosus has a higher L* value than PM. WBSF, hardness, and h values are positively correlated with the diameter of all three fiber types. Warner–Bratzler shear force has a negative relationship with the percentage of type I fibers, while WBSF and hardness are positively correlated with the area percentage of type IIB fibers. The results demonstrate that the muscle fiber type influences postmortem metabolic rate and meat quality of Chinese Simmental cattle. An increase in the percentage of type I fibers and a decrease in the percentage of type IIB fibers correspond to an improvement in meat quality.


The design of a planar three-terminal ohmic Gunn-effect pulse regenerator giving increased output power levels is described. Experimental results are presented which show that a parallel structure can give double the output power of a single structure.


In this paper we consider directed cographs, which are defined by Bechet et al. by the disjoint union, series, and order composition, from an algorithmic point of view. Using their recursive structure we give dynamic programming algorithms to show that for every directed cograph the size of a largest edgeless subdigraph, the size of a largest subdigraph which is a tournament, the size of a largest semicomplete subdigraph, and the size of a largest complete subdigraph can be computed in linear time. Our main results show that the hamiltonian path, hamiltonian cycle, regular subdigraph, and directed cut problem are polynomial on directed cographs.


Computer special field trainee the main body of a book is educated specifically for opening to the outside world has carried out the common problem appearing in teaching,has brought forward the concept and main merit " Witkey practice ",has concentrated on having given concre " Witkey practice " estimating that aspect carries out out method.


Hypothesis / aims of study There is substantive evidence supporting a role for chronic stress in the development, maintenance and even enhancement of functional bladder disorders such as painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis (PBS/IC). More than half of patients with PBS/IC report daily or constant pain and urinary frequency, which are exacerbated by stressful circumstances. Stress can alter the sympathetic nervous system, whose activity is augmented in PBS/IC patients. While the etiology of functional disorders such as PBS/IC are not known, alterations in the bladder urothelium have been detected in both patients and animals diagnosed with PBS/IC. The urothelium not only forms a high-resistance barrier but also functions as an integral part of a 'sensory web' that can sense changes in their environment including those produced by chronic stress and via release of transmitters, can activate sensory nerves.


Short message service (SMS, aka text messaging) is a low-cost and effective means of communication for organizations attempting to maintain contact with many people. In this paper we look at the deployment and of a bulk mobile text-messaging platform (Bulk SMS), conceived and commissioned by a health non-governmental organization (NGO) for use in communicating with the 100+ private health facilities. We show how the platform emerged from existing practices, the features and expectations of the system, and the ways in which it was used. Common failure points include infrastructural limitations, human error, and unexpected use cases. We find that 1) the use of SMS as a media enables new types of communication, and 2) SMS alone is not sufficient for maintaining relationships within the NGO program.


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to biotechnology. The bacterial system is intended for normalising microbiocenosis of a human or animal organism. The system comprises a support which is a carbon-mineral enterosorbent (enterumin), eubiotic bacteria (bifidobacteria) immobilised thereon and nutrient components and a protective medium. The carbon-mineral enterosorbent is modified by oxidative treatment (with hydrogen peroxide) and the bacteria titre in the finished preparation is 1 x 10 7 KOE/g of the bacterial system. EFFECT: invention increases functional and colony-forming activity of eubiotic bacteria and increases sorption capacity thereof. 3 cl, 3 tbl, 7 ex


We consider the maximization of the weighted sum-rate on a multiuser-OFDM downlink with adaptive modulation and power under a total transmit power constraint and a user-wise target BER. We allow each subcarrier to be shared by more than one user. We show that this optimization problem can be decomposed into two subproblems: a subcarrier assignment and a power allocation. We prove that the optimal subcarrier assignment is exclusive, that is each subcarrier is allocated to only one user. The optimal power allocation corresponds to a multilevel water-filling. When the achievable rate region is convex, the optimality of the exclusive subcarrier assignment for arbitrary weights means that the OFDMA is the optimal sharing scheme for various performance criteria.


The bachelor thesis deals with the Tombstone of Jean Louis Raduit de Souches in Church of St. James in Brno. It describes progress of construction, final form and iconography of tombstone, that was originally located in destroyed chapel. Also compares the original sketches of tombstone with final form.


A theoretical investigation of the influence of noise in a passively mode-locked semiconductor laser with a slow saturable absorber is presented. Difference equations for the pulse energy and jitter are derived. We find that noise leads to increased pulse durations and considerable jitter. The influence of noise, for systems with and without self-phase modulation and group velocity dispersion, on the pulse energy and stability regions is discussed.


A comparison of the feeding mechanisms of A. bicaudatus was made on the fungi, Pyrenochaeta terrestris, Sporobolomyces sp., Hansenula saturnus, and the alga, Stichococcus bacillaris. The nematode fed briefly and the feeding mechanism, involving an exploration and penetration phase and an ingestion phase, was similar on all four microorganisms. A. bicaudatus removed the host cell contents mechanically and no injection of glandular secretions into the cell by the nematode was observed. The nematode oriented its stylet against the cell wall at a right angle to the cell surface and only a minimal lip contact with the cell surface was necessary for penetration. Metacorporal pulsations were associated with stylet protrusion and resulted from action of its radial muscles. Duration of feeding, number of thrusts required for penetration and rate of metacorporal pulsations varied with the organism used as food. Feeding on P. terrestris, Sporobolomyces sp., H. saturnus and S. bacillaris on an average lasted for 21, 28, 4 and 5 sec, respectively. A recurrent contraction and re-elongation of the tail region caused a back and forth movement of intestinal lumen contents.


Abstract In addition with traditional electron density radial profile measurements, fast frequency sweeping reflectometry technique can handle the fluctuations of the reflected signal to recover plasma density fluctuation measurements with a high spatial and temporal resolution. This paper illustrates how the large size turbulence related to magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) activity and the associated magnetic islands can be recorded.


With automatic electric potential titrantion and sodium gluconate as the complexing agent,which can coordinate to the aluminum in the sodium aluminate solution, followed by the replacement of aluminum in sodium aluminate solution with KF and the same equivalent weight of OH~- to that of aluminum was released, the contents of caustic hydroxide,sodium carbonate and alumina in the sodium aluminate solutions can be continuously determined. It makes the analysis simple, fast and the result is satisfied.


In Ref. [1] an NMR experiment on gases in the presence of a unidirectional magneticfield gradient was considered. As distinct from the traditional description of molecular selfdiffusion, the decoherence of the induction signal ( ) S t is calculated taking into account the memory in the particle dynamics. This is done using the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) in which the friction force is modeled by the convolution of a memory kernel with the particle velocity. The kernel exponentially decreases in time. This equation is solved with respect to the positional autocorrelation function (PAF) of the particle, ( ) (0) x t x   . The obtained PAF is then used to calculate ( ) S t from Eq. (3),


Summary and Limitations of Psychosocial TreatmentStudies To date, the aforementioned researchers have laid an initialempirical foundation for the benefit of psychosocial treatments foradult ADHD. Most of these studies made an effort to stabilizemedication treatment before introducing therapy to assess thedistinct contribution of psychosocial interventions (apart frommedication effects) to clinical and functional improvements. Therewere no significant differences between the few treatment partic-ipants who were not taking medications for ADHD and those whowere, either before or after treatment.Comparisons across the different studies must be made cau-tiously as there was great variability in the manner in whichADHD was diagnosed, the focus of change in the treatments, andhow therapeutic change was measured. A common outcome vari-able in all studies was a measure of overall ADHD symptoms.When collapsed across the studies reporting posttreatment ratingsof overall ADHD symptom severity, the mean effect size ( d) forADHD symptom improvement was 1.59, which is considered alarge effect size (i.e., d .80; Cohen, 1992).


THE AM H u L A'IOK Y potential of chi Id re n with cerebral palsy (cP) is a concern o f both parents and health professionals involved in these children's treatment. Overall, the number of children with CP that become ambulatory is reported to be between 53 and 90 per cent' '. Early identification of factors which predict anibulation would assist in the setting of realistic goals and the development of an appropriate treatment plan. Literature from the past S O years which examined the prognosis for anibuIation in children with CP was reviewed. Possible predictors of ambulation can be divided into the following three general categories: ( 1 ) primitive reflexes and postural reactions3, 5 . x, (2) gross motor skillsl. 2. . I . 5. 7 . X , and ( 3 ) type of CP' 5,7.x.


Professional basketball market is a dynamic system which is formed by some profit-correlated organizations by managing,performing,serving and competing.Administrative and economic subordinate relationship had existed in these organizations,but nowadays we should confirm the legal relationship between organizations when reviewing them in marketing vision.Between Chinese basketball association and its departments of sport management centre、the organization of CBA men's professional basketball league tournament,professional basketball club,there are the subordinate relationship of leading and being led in the administration,cooperative and contradictive,relationship in economy,legal compact relationship of right and obligation,fairness and justice,responsibility and efficiency.


We report the dynamic magnetic resonance imaging findings (MRI) of a metaplastic carcinoma of the breast. A 44-year-old woman presented with a 2-month history of a mass in the right breast. The tumor showed a central irregular necrosis that was depicted upon low signal intensity on a T1-weighted image and high signal intensity on a T2-weighted image. The periphery of the tumor showed strong enhancement on a contrast enhanced T1-weighted image. The time-signal intensity curve revealed an early strong contrast enhancement and a delayed washout pattern.


SUMMARY B2B is a strong multidisciplinary research field with many constituent disciplines and technologies. This paper deals with the B2B interoperability in the sense of open component and framework standards. In particular, underlying network technologies, protocols, the components and concepts of Web intelligence, and the frameworks for B2B interoperability are described. All technologies described are covered by an overview of relevant standards. Concluding remarks emphasize a critical overview of the current state of B2B openness and future directions in research and standardization in terms of fundamental technologies described here. The most of discussed issues are of wider interest for many e-applications.


As an emerging member of endohedral fullerenes, metal cyanide clusterfullerenes (CYCF) are unique in terms of the encapsulation of a monometallic cluster. To date the reported carbon cages of CYCFs are limited to C82 and C76 , and little is known about the chemical reactivity of CYCFs. Herein, two isomers of the first C84 -based CYCFs, YCN@C84 , were isolated as trifluoromethyl derivatives, including YCN@C84 (23)(CF3 )18 and three isomers of YCN@C84 (13)(CF3 )16 , which are based on a unique chiral C2 -C84 (13) cage. As a common feature of the CF3 addition patterns, the YCN@C84 (CF3 )16/18 compounds are stabilized by the formation of isolated C=C bonds and benzenoid rings on the carbon cages. The interplay between the endohedral YCN cluster and the exhohedral CF3 addends was unveiled according to single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies, thus offering new insight into the chemical reactivity of CYCFs.


The COVID 19 epidemic has grown to be a serious public health issue. Dental care practitioners were at high risk despite the fact that everyone was at risk because of the nature of their work, which necessitates closeness to the patient's oropharyngeal region and the use of aerosol-generating techniques.COVID-19 has become a major issue for both patients and dentists professionally. Standard Operating Protocols and guidelines to be followed during COVID 19 were issued by international agencies like World Health Organisation and Indian government. A modication in dentistry is now necessary to avoid cross-infection. COVID 19 has left serious repercussions on dentists, dental students and also on patients. This review focuses on the impact of COVID 19 on dentistry and changes developed post COVID 19.


The circulant approximation of vector and quadratic forms involving the inverse of a Toeplitz covariance matrix R is addressed. First, a result is presented which increases the rate of convergence of the average matrix error under certain conditions on \undertilde{r} , the vector which defines R. Concerning vector and quadratic operations using R-1, it is noted that if \undertilde{x} is AR(p), then the p-banded, near-Toeplitz structure of R-1results in an O(1/N)-type mean convergence of associated errors.


The principles of General Relativity allow for a non-vanishing cosmological constant, which can possibly be interpreted at least partially in terms of quantum-fluctuations of matter fields. Depending on sign and magnitude it can cause accelerated or decelerated expansion at certain stages of cosmic evolution. Recent observations in cosmology seem to indicate that we presently live in an accelerated phase. We recall the history and fundamental issues connected with the cosmological constant and then discuss present evidences for a positive value, which causes the accelerated expansion.


The manipulation of acoustic waves plays an important role in a wide range of applications. Currently, acoustic wave manipulation typically relies on either acoustic metasurfaces or phased array transducers. The elements of traditional metasurfaces are usually designed with complex artificial structures and limited by the additive manufacturing capability, which are difficult to apply in MHz frequency underwater acoustic wave control. Phased array transducers, suffering from high‐cost and complex control circuits, are usually limited by the array size and the filling ratio of the control units. Coding piezoelectric metasurfaces are reported; three wave functionalities, including beam steering, beam focusing, and vortex beam focusing are demonstrated; and acoustic tweezers and ultrasound imaging are eventually realized. The information coded on the piezoelectric metasurfaces herein is frequency independent and originates from the polarization directions, pointing either up or down, of the piezoelectric materials. Such a piezoelectric metasurface is driven by a single electrode and acts as a controllable active sound source, which combines the advantages of acoustic metasurfaces and phased array transducers while keeping the devices structurally simple and compact. The coding piezoelectric metasurfaces lead to potential technological innovations in underwater acoustic wave modulation, acoustic tweezers, biomedical imaging, industrial nondestructive testing, and neural regulation.


The study dealt with the improvement of cooling water system utilizes by ATC in its metal heat treatment facilities and equipment. The study was specifically expected to determine the causes of overheating and to come up with a practical, economic, and effective way to resolve the problem. The study aimed to provide a reasonable and economical approach to improve the cooling water system on carburizing furnace. Specifically, it also aimed to stop the clogging on the heat exchanger because of unwanted contaminants in the water. Findings revealed that outside air brings dirt to the cooling system that in turn causes the cover on heat exchanger to accumulate thick mud which creates the clogging.


Objective To analyse the changes of hard tissue with skeletal AngleⅡ~1 malocclusion treated with MBT.Methods Thiteen patients with skeletal AngleⅡ~1 malocclusion and ANB 5° was treated with MBT.Their lateral cephalograms before and after treatment were analyzed.Results All patients Class Ⅱmalocclusion were corrected.There was a significant decrease in U1-SP、ANB、U1-SN、L1-MP and U1-L1.There was no statistically significance in the change of A-SP、 B-SP and L1-SP.Conclusion The patients with skeletal AngleⅡ~1 malocclusion could be treated effectively with MBT.


Even though Namibia was never a British colony, English was chosen by the new government at the time of independence in 1990 as the only official language of the country and the main or sole medium of instruction in schools. The main focus of this article is to demonstrate the detrimental effect that education in an unfamiliar language is having on the development of a reading culture among Namibian youth. This situation is contributing to the neglect and deterioration of the 12 other Namibian languages. The discussion includes a description of the Namibian language scene and the consequences of the language policy on the publishing of multilingual children's books in Namibia, which again jeopardises the incentives and creativity of Namibian children's book authors and illustrators. A statistical analysis of books published for Namibian children for the period 1906-2011 is presented, albeit not a comprehensive one. Lastly, a brief overview of the Namibian Children's Book Award and the publishing projects of a non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Namibian Children's Book Forum (NCBF), is presented.


* 1. The Dynamics of Systemic Crisis * 2. The Imperialism Counteroffensive: Contradictions, Challenges and Opportunities * 3. Post 9/11: A Period of Empire Building * 4. Argentina: Between Disintegration and Revolution * 5. Right/Left Polarization: The Ballot Box and the Street * 6. Cod: An Ecological Crisis of Industrial Capitalism * 7. Latin American Peasants against the State * 8. Indigenous Peoples Arise: Ecuador on the Move * 9. Los Piqueteros: New Actors on the Political Stage * 10. The Dynamics of Anti-Globalization


This video demonstrates output of a large scale molecular dynamics computation of 4.7 million atoms, simulating glass fracture over the course of over a nanosecond. Post-processed data consists of 500 frames at 3 GB per frame. We generate approximate charge density volume data to highlight the overall structure. Rendering is performed using Nanovol, a volume raycasting tool for computational chemistry.


Effects of different light qualities(green light,blue light,red light,and white light)on growth of Porphyridiumi cruentum were studied by measuring the alga density,optical absorption of algae water,content of phycobilin and soluble total protein.The results indicated that the biomass,content of phycobilin and soluble total protein were highest under green light, compared with the other treatments.The blue light treatment took the second effect.On the contrary,the growth of Porphyridium cruentum was lowest under red light treatment.The result suggested that green treatment could accelerate the growth of Porphyridium cruentum.The information in the present study is important to improve the culture condition and enlarge the biomass of Porphyridium cruentum in the future.


most basic reason is the seemingly total absence of a realistic anti-capi-talist, or at least anti-neoliberal, left-wing political strategy related to the European Union. There is not even a debate on the crucial issue of whether the can at all be a vehicle for anti-capitalist politics. It is not easy to summarize the project of the Left Party. It is the only party that has an anti-capitalist critique of power, but for 25 years has worked to gain legitimacy as the Social Democrat's collaborative partner. For years, the party has supported a right-wing Social Democratic party that has cut taxes and weakened the redistribution policy. They have voted in favour of budget rules that jeopardize the Swedish economy. The result has been deeper class inequalities and an extreme concentration of wealth. Welfare and democracy are thus undermined. 17


The performance of a laser system consisting of piezoelectrically tunable short cavity dye lasers pumped with a nitrogen‐TEA laser is presented. The design and construction details of the nitrogen laser are given, and its pulse energy and pulse duration under various operating conditions are presented. Typically, UV pulses (337 nm) from the N2 laser had energies of 80 μJ and durations of 600 ps. The shortest dye laser pulses measured were about 90 ps at 600 nm.


This paper presents the the formulation of an adaptive disturbance accommodating controller for nonlinear stochastic systems with unknown nonlinearities and external disturbances. The disturbance accommodating control scheme presented here utilizes an estimator to determine the corrections to the nominal control input required to minimizes the effects of both unknown system nonlinearities and external disturbances on the controlled system. Similar to the disturbance accommodating controller for linear systems, performance of the nonlinear disturbance accommodating controller depends on the accuracy of the assumed disturbance model. The proposed formulation indicates that an adaptive law can be developed for updating the process noise covariance matrix associated with the disturbance model online so that the controlled system is stable.


Roman influence at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods at Samothrace is well documented in the literary and archaeological records. This article asks whether some reflection of Romans' demonstrable involvement at Samothrace appears in Rome itself. I argue that the tradition of a genealogical link between Rome and Samothrace existed as early as the second century B.C.E. I then systematically examine monuments in Rome that suggest an indebtedness to Samothracian cult or architecture, especially the Temple of the Lares Permarini, the Round Temple on the Tiber, and the altars of the Samothracian gods in the Circus Maximus, but also the Porticus Octavia, the Temple of Hercules Musarum, and the theater next to the Temple of Apollo in Circo. These monuments reveal the impact of Samothrace's famous mystery cult and renowned Hellenistic architecture in Rome. They demonstrate that the relationship between Rome and Samothrace was dynamic, affecting Rome on levels both cultic and architectural. Ultimately, Samothracian influences at Rome help us better understand the mechanisms of hellenization in Rome in the second century B.C.E. They also demonstrate the impact of Samothrace's cult and architecture beyond the sanctuary's heyday in the fourth and third centuries B.C.E. and beyond the Greek-speaking world.


[ This article is an edited version of a lecture delivered in November 2004 to Melbourne University Juris Doctor students. It takes as its starting point the argument that the ethics of the adversarial legal system ill accord with the norms of society and that we should discard it in favour of the inquisi- torial system. That view is contrasted with the school of thought which takes the ethical superiority of the adversarial system as given and with the idea that increasing commercialisation of the legal profession may be leading us away from the nobler traditions of the adversarial system. ]


In this analysis, we look into how digital tools have altered classroom practice. Technology has had a profound effect on rural education through the use of online resources, improved communication between students and teachers, personalized learning, and expanded access to higher education. Based on the findings of this research, it appears that technological advancements have improved the educational experience by giving students more opportunities to learn, more ways to learn, more control over their learning, and more ways to further their education.


Abstract Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used for optimizing the drying technology of sweet pepper under low-vacuum. It was found that pH value has greater influence on the organic Se index, while drying temperature has greater effect on the chlorophyll index. The optimized parameters of drying temperature, pH value and blanching time were obtained, respectively.


To observe the attenuation by Shenfu injection (SFI) in NP plan for non-minicell lung cancer (NMLC). Methods: 42 cases of NMLC were allocated to 2 groups (each group 21 cases) randomly. GroupⅠwas treated by SFI with NP in the first week and NP plan alone in the second week; GroupⅡby NP plan in the first week and SFI with NP plan in the second week. The influence of SFI for toxicity of NP plan was observed. Results: The white blood cell (WBC), toxicity of neutrophil (TN), the symptoms of nausea, vomiting and constipation of SFI with NP plan were lower than NP alone ( P 0. 05, P 0. 01), the other parameters of both plans were very close (P 0. 05). In GroupⅠ, WBC, TN, symptoms of nausea, vomiting and constipation of SFI with NP plan were lower than by NP plan alone, comparison of first and second week showed ( P 0. 05) . In cases with qi - deficiency and phlegm - dampness type (QPT), the WBC and TN of SFI with NP were lower than by NP plan alone ( P 0. 05). Conclusion: SFI can reduce the toxicity of hematology and digestive tract in NP plan for NMLC, and attenuation for QPT was markedly. A better effect was obtained by early application of SFI with NP plan.


Pasteurella piscicida is the causative agent of pseudotuberculosis in cultured yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata. Preservation of the bacteria without genetic changes, especially in pathogenicity, is essential not only for bacteriological and pathological studies but also for the production of highly effective bacterins for the control of the disease.This report describes the survival and pathogendcity of P. piscicida preserved by freeze-drying. Freeze-drying media, prefreezing methods, and storage temperatures were investigated. Freeze drying media with a serum base were assessed. Prefreezing was carried out in liquid N2, solid CO2 with ethanol, solid CO2, and in a freezer (-20°C). The freeze-dried bacteria were stored at 25, 4, -20 and -80°C. Virulence of the control bacteria was maintained using fish passages where the bacteria were injected into yellowtail and recovered on media. For the pathogenicity assessment, fish were infected by the waterborn route in sea water. Freeze-dried bacteria were recovered from the ampoules and cultured in media, then added to sea water.The results showed mist desiccans was the most effective drying medium with high survival for 6 months after preservation. The mist desiccans contained 3 parts calf serum and 1 part nutrient broth with 7.5% galactose and 0.5% NaC1. Prefreezing method and storage temperature below 4°C did not affect the survival. However, storage at 25°C decreased survival at 6months after drying. Pathogenicity was maintained for at least 6 months after freeze-drying.


The uniqueness of this surgical case report is in the use of a stitchless anastomosis of the harvested greater auricular nerve cable graft with the sealant gel to the stump ends of the facial nerve. A liberal use of the gel was done in the full length of the cable graft and a folded hammock support by the temporalis fascia was used to reinforce the stability of the nerve. The restoration of the grafted facial nerve has been documented in different stages in its course of the recovery. Our review of medical literature in PubMed and Medscape search engines failed to show such a sequential pictorial account of documented nerve grafting with the use of sealant gel in the Indian perspective.


MODIS (MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instruments are key contributors to the NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua missions. Launched in December 1999 and May 2002, Terra and Aqua MODIS have successfully operated for more than 19 and 17 years, respectively. MODIS has 36 spectral bands covering wavelengths from visible (VIS) to long-wave infrared (LWIR). Observations from both Terra and Aqua MODIS instruments have been used to generate a wide range of data products that have enabled many studies of the Earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans. Sixteen of the 36 MODIS spectral bands, with wavelengths ranging from 3.7 μm to 14.4 μm, are referred to as the Thermal Emissive Bands (TEBs). Key calibration parameters that are related to detector gains of the MODIS TEBs are calibrated on a scan-by-scan basis using an on-board blackbody. As both sensors continue to operate beyond their specified design lifetime of 6 years, it has become increasingly important to constantly monitor and evaluate the on-orbit performance and calibration consistency of their long-term data records. In this study, we examine the long-term calibration stability of each sensor and the calibration consistency between two MODIS instruments using multiple daily (nadir) observations over Dome Concordia. The near-surface temperature measurements from an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) are used as a proxy reference to help determine the calibration stability and relative bias between the Terra and Aqua MODIS TEBs.


The production of ethanol by microbial fermentation as an alternative energy source has been of interest because of increasing oil price. Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zymomonas mobilis are two of the most widely used ethanol producers. In this study, characteristics of ethanol fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CHY1077 and Zymomonas mobilis CHZ2501 was compared. Brown rice, naked barley, and cassava were selected as representatives of the starch-based raw materials commercially available for ethanol production. The volumetric ethanol productivities by Saccharomyces cerevisiae from brown rice, naked barley and cassava were 0.68 g/l·h, 1.03 g/l·h and 1.28 g/l·h respectively. But for the Zymomonas mobilis, 2.19 g/l·h(brown rice), 2.60 g/l·h(naked barley) and 3.12 g/l·h(cassava) were obtained. Zymomonas mobilis was more efficient strain for ethanol production than S. cerevisiae.


This paper presents quasi-experimental evidence on interactions between two different early-life investments: high quality preschool childcare and a nurse home visiting (NHV) program. We use administrative and historical data from Denmark together with variation in the timing of program implementation across municipalities between 1933 and 1960. Our results point to lasting benefits of access to childcare at age 3 on outcomes through age 65—educational attainment increases, income rises (for men), and the probability of survival increases (for women). Further, the benefits persist to the next generation, who have higher educational attainment by age 25. However, the interaction effects between childcare and NHV are negative, suggesting that the two interventions are substitutes rather than complements. Cohorts who did not receive NHV at birth experience larger positive impacts of childcare than those who did— NHV reduces the effect of childcare by 85 percent for years of schooling (of the first generation) and by 86 percent for adult income among men. ∗We thank Hoyt Bleakley, Shelly Lundberg, Michael Mueller-Smith, Jeffrey Smith, and seminar participants at UC Santa Barbara, University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, the University of Copenhagen, and Santa Clara University for helpful comments. We are grateful to Peder Dam and the "DigDag" project for invaluable help with the data on Denmark's historical administrative structure. Ida Lykke Kristiansen provided excellent research assistance. The Danish Data Archive provided the data from the "Statistical Commune Data Archive." We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Danish Council for Independent Research (grant # 4003-00007). †University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Economics; NBER; IZA. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. ‡The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI). E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


The authors extend the theory of the three-terminal double-heterostructure opto-electronic switch (DOES) device, in which the third terminal (the injector) makes contact to the bulk section of the active region, to the four-terminal DOES, in which the fourth terminal (the source) accesses the inversion channel at the n-n heterojunction. The source is shown to be capable of initiating switching at lower current densities than the injector. The effects of incident light on the device are also examined, yielding results similar to the injection of carriers at the source and injector. Incomplete ionization of the charge sheet and two-dimensional quantum effects in the channel, which have been neglected in previous DOES models, have been included. These effects are shown to affect significantly the characteristics of the device and to reduce the discrepancy between simulated and experimental results. >


The upcoming November election is a quandary for a lot of people, including Christians. How would God want us to view it? Mark Warren, lead pastor of Grace Capital (Pembroke Foursquare Church) in Pembroke, N.H., shares how we can encourage our church members to get involved in prayer and action.


Tumor necrosis factor receptor associated factor 3 (TRAF3) is an intracellular adaptor protein that plays multiple cell type- and context-dependent roles. In B cells, TRAF3 negatively regulates signaling by several receptors important to survival and activation, including the B cell activating factor receptor (BAFF-R), CD40, toll-like receptors and the IL-6 receptor. Deletions or inactivating mutations of TRAF3 are common in the human B cell malignancies multiple myeloma and B cell lymphoma (BCL). Enhanced homeostatic B cell survival in B cell-specific TRAF3-deficient mice (B-Traf3−/−) causes enlarged secondary lymphoid organs, spontaneous germinal centers, and autoantibody production. Highlighting the role TRAF3 plays as a B cell tumor suppressor, B-Traf3−/− mice develop BCL at an increased rate as they age.
 The B cell antigen receptor (BCR) is crucial for B cell antigen recognition, survival, proliferation, and antibody production. Defects in BCR signaling can lead to malignancy, and many BCLs are dependent upon BCR signaling for survival. TRAF3 regulates the signaling of several pathways that interact with the BCR pathway, but the role of TRAF3 in regulating BCR signals is unknown, a knowledge gap we are currently addressing. Our initial studies show that TRAF3 associates with CD79b of the BCR complex. Phosphorylation of Syk, a proximal BCR signaling target, is increased after BCR stimulation in the absence of TRAF3, with increased downstream phosphorylation and activation of Btk, PLCγ2, Akt, Erk, and canonical NF-κB. This suggests that TRAF3 plays an important role as a regulator of BCR signaling. Ongoing studies are examining the mechanisms of this regulation.


This current issue of JAAS explores some of the recent trends within my own discipline's approach to examining and interpreting the history of Asian American experiences. Diane Fujino presents an exhaustive and meticulous study of work focused on the Asian American Movement of the 1960s -1970s period. Four shorter pieces follow, which emanate from a panel organized by their authors for the 2007 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Augusto Espritu and Madeline Y. Hsu pay particular attention to the growing significance of transnational perspectives in shaping research on Asian Americans, Espiritu within the Filipino/a American context and Hsu in the form of a more comprehensive challenge to preoccupation with the nation-state. Lili Kim and Shirley Jennifer Lim analyze new directions in two areas of rapidly expanding productivity: the histories of Korean Americans and of Asian American youth culture. Together, these five articles offer an insightful and provocative investigation of some key developments in the evolution of our field's historical scholarship—one that I hope you will find stimulating. In addition to introducing JAAS 11.2, I am most pleased to welcome my friend, Huping Ling, as the journal's Editor-Elect. The many years of our professional and personal interactions have inspired my deepest respect for Professor Ling's scholarship, integrity, and exceptional organizational skills. Her appointment indeed promises an ever-brighter future for the Journal of Asian American Studies and its continued collaboration EdiTor'S PrEfAcE


Visual Surveillance systems have greatly increased in past few years. Several methods have been proposed in order to improve the efficiency of Face Detection but still remains a challenging task due to various illumination, poses and occlusion conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel method for Face Detection where a decision boundary is defined for skin classifier based on training dataset. Log-Gabor filter is used for feature extraction which is superior to Gabor filter as they can represent better frequency properties of the objects present in the video and SVM classifier is used for classifying it as face or non-face. The proposed method is tested on standard and our own collected video sequences, which shows good tolerance and is better than those of existing related algorithms.


Chapter 1. Indivisible, Interdependent, and Interrelated Human Rights Chapter 2. Antecedents of the Universal Declaration Chapter 3. International Guarantees and State Responsibility before the Universal Declaration Chapter 4. From Declaration to Covenant Chapter 5. Including Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Chapter 6. Division of the Covenant Chapter 7. Indivisibility as Postcolonial Revisionism: 1952-1968 Chapter 8. Indivisibility as Economic Justice: 1968-1986 Chapter 9. Indivisibility as Restoration: 1986-2009 Chapter 10. Indivisible Human Rights: Past and Future Appendix: Covenants on Human Rights: Drafting Procedures and Timeline Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments


We report experimental results on write error rate and read disturbance as a function of read/write pulse width and amplitude in electric-field-controlled magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Results are shown for 50 nm perpendicular MTJs. We also design and simulate the performance of a 256 kilobit (Kbit) magneto-electric random-access memory (MeRAM) macro in a 28 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process, based on the measured MTJ device data. The results show that existing electric-field-controlled MTJs are capable of delivering write error rates below <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10^{{-9}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> for 10 ns total write and verify time and read disturbance below <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10^{{-16}}$</tex-math> </inline-formula> for 2 ns read time in a 256 Kbit MeRAM array.


As the representative of the north and south metropolis daily in China,Southern Metropolis Daily and Liaoshen Evening News,had passed big training during London Olympic coverage on 2012,both of which has its own characteristics and advantages in themes,focus,angles,pages and columns setting,also has shortcomings and problems. This article is about to analyze and summarize both advantages and problems of this two metropolis daily coverage on London Olympic,in order to provide suggestions on gaining a competitive advantage for domestic metropolis daily reports of upcoming national games in Liaoning.


The protection of the Natura 2000 species Cucujus cinnaberinus (Scopoli, 1774), protected by Romanian and European legislation, requires knowledge of distribution, threats and conservation status. In Romania the species is protected in only 9 Natura 2000 areas of the 442 SCI declared until 2021. All the protected areas in which the species is mentioned are located along the Carpathian Arch except ROSCI0135 Pădurea Bârnova – Repedea located in the Central Moldavian Plateau. The identification of the species in ROSCI0045 Coridorul Jiului brings new data about the distribution of the species and its conservation status. Observations on the species in larval stage were made by direct searches in specific habitats in the protected area. In the months of May, August and September 2022, Cucujus cinnaberinus was identified in several points along the protected area: Dăbuleni on poplar wood in the Danube River meadow, Foișor on poplar wood in the Jiului meadow, Bratovoești in ploplar wood of the former channels of the meanders Jiului River, Calopăr on ash wood from the Dâlga valley and Turburea on alder wood in the Gilortului meadow. The identification of Cucujus cinnaberinus Natura 2000 species requires further monitoring at the site and the implementation of appropriate protection and conservation measures.


Glycerolysis of the methyl esters of oleic and stearic acid has been investigated in presence and absence of zeolite 4A. By removing the methanol produced this zeolite improved the yields of glyceride substantially. Other factors studied which influenced the yields were temperature, reactant concentrations and proportions and catalyst.


For some time now, scholars and other critics have warned for a decline in the quantity and the quality of international news coverage in almost all Western societies. Investigating international news in three Flemish newspapers between 1986 and 2006 and interviewing journalists on the issue, this Working Paper tends to moderate these accusations of a fast and increasingly shrinking international news agenda. Despite a gradual decline in the 1990s, we observed a fairly steady percentage of 15.5% over a period of twenty years, notwithstanding occasional peaks and lows due to exceptional news events. The quality newspapers De Morgen and De Standaard devoted considerably more attention and space to international news as compared to the more popular Het Laatste Nieuws. Nonetheless, international news reporting in all Flemish newspapers displayed several biases in terms of geographic and thematic diversity. The data support the claim that the newspapers in the sample reproduce a certain world order, characterized by Eurocentrism. Although we observed a shift to more human interest and entertainment-oriented stories, international news coverage still mainly deals with hard and negative news.


The present opinion, based on extensive research in the last decades, is that the major part of the smectite in the buffer will survive for tens to hundreds of thousands of years under KBS3-repository conditions at temperatures up to 80 C. However, the temperature gradient that prevails for some thousand years in the deposition holes or tunnels may affect the performance of the buffers by enrichment of solutes and cementation through precipitation of mineral compounds. One process of importance is the transport of ions from the clay and the surrounding groundwater to the wetting front of initially unsaturated clay buffer. The ion transport is due to the cyclic evaporation/condensation of water that is driven in from the colder surroundings and yields accumulation of substances in the hotter part of the clay. Another process is the precipitation in the hot part of substances that have a lower solubility at higher temperature, like certain sulphates. It causes a sink that drives in ions emanating from accessory minerals in the clay and from the surrounding groundwater. Cementation by precipitation of such components, which tends to reduce the expendability and yield brittleness of the clay, may be significant at high temperature gradients if themore » groundwater is rich in electrolytes or if the clay contains certain impurities like pyrite and gypsum. It can be reduced by purifying the clay and by preparing the clay so that the initial degree of water saturation is very high, and by applying a high external water pressure.« less


Objective To investigate the clinical efficiency in laparoscopic surgery with ectopic pregnancy.Methods From January 2004 to December 2006,212 cases with ectopic pregnancy were trested by laparoscopy.Results Patients were divided into two groups according to cavity blood(group Ⅰ800 ml.group Ⅱ≥800 ml).Surgery ways were compared in terms of the surgery time,in-hospital time and the volume of bleeding.No significant difference appeared in statistic examination(P0.05).Conclusion Peritoneoscope surgery is feasible and safe.In-hospital time is short.The ectopic pregnancy massive hemorrhage is not the peritoneoscope surgery contraindication.Fully preventive measures can ensure the success of surgery.


Background: Intensive care units provide care to patients with severe or life-threatening illnesses and injuries, which require constant support, close supervision from life support equipment and medication in order to ensure normal bodily functions. It is staffed by highly trained physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists who specialize in caring for critically ill patients. ICUs are also different from general hospital wards by a higher staff-to-patient ratio and access to advanced medical resources and equipment that is not routinely available somewhere else. Common conditions include acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, and other life-threatening conditions that are treated within ICUs. Aim of the study: The aim of the study was to assess the operational power, existing facilities, bed requirement, patients source and follow up and to determine and analyze the mortality in the ICU of this institution. Methods: It was a retrospective study conducted in the General Intensive Care Unit of Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 2019 to December 2019. A total of 607 patients who had been taken admission in General ICU unit of the hospital was recruited as study population. According to the criteria of analysis already informed, data were collected from admission register and mortality record books. We divided the total number of patients into 4 age groups, 10-30 years, 31-45 years, 46-65 years and above 65 years. We calculated patients' mortality and male female ratio. We also considered patients coming from different specialties those who were referred to the ICU. We observed the relationship of mortality with number of organ failure too. We categorized the patients as single, double or more organs involvement and its relationship with mortality. Duration of stay in the ICU was defined as the number of days between the admission in ICU and discharge with a minimum stay of one day and also more. Relationship with mortality and number of staying days was noticed. All data were collected within data collection sheets. Result: Hospital ICU mortality in an average was 45%. Patients with long ICU stay have higher mortality than shorter stay. Nonsurvivors were older than survivors. Patients from outside have a higher mortality (85%) than those from ward, postoperative and emergency (35%).25% of patients were in the intensive care unit for more than 3 days and shared 80% of bed occupancy. Much mortality was due to inappropriate early discharge, lack of meticulous attention before admission and inadequate care after discharge. Conclusion: So strengthening of facilities may be provided by appropriate transport system and acute medicine service at emergency and also by step down units or high dependency unit in ICU surroundings. Resources and study should be directed towards the low probable mortalities to improve the ICU outcome and to decrease the mortality percentage. Continuous advice and follow up should be provided to the patients after transferring to the ward, cabin or home.


This paper offers a complete scientific basis for operative crop water management on a large-scale that was developed by means of the latest achievements of soil physics and biophysics. Not only are all the main factors which exert influence on the water regime taken into account, but also the fundamental laws of evapotranspiration. It was used to develop a Complex Information System (CIS), operative by means of a computer. (...)


RF magnetron sputtering was used to prepare SmCo films on drums for use in magnetic rotary encoders and the recording and playback characteristics were investigated. It was found that for a head-medium spacing of 15 ¿m, recording and playback with an S/N ratio of at least 30 dB was possible at bit lengths as short as 50 ¿m, corresponding to a maximum resolution of approximately 3150 PPR when adopted in ordinary 50 mm diameter encoders.


Abstract A MARKED growth promoting effect of a fermentation supplement, now known to contain aureomycin, for turkey poults was reported by McGinnis et al. (1949). This growth response was obtained under conditions where materials containing vitamin B12 failed to give a stimulus. Stokstad et al. (1949) also reported that a fermentation supplement produced by Streptomyces aureofaciens promoted better chick growth than that obtained with vitamin B12. More recently Stokstad and Jukes (1950) showed that a highly purified preparation of aureomycin promoted growth of chicks and turkey poults comparable to that obtained with a dried aureomycin fermentation mash. Luecke et al. (1950) found that streptomycin was effective in promoting growth of pigs. A similar effect of aureomycin on growth of pigs was observed by Jukes et al. (1950). Morehouse (1949) reported that 3-nitro-4-hydroxybenzene arsonic acid stimulated growth of turkeys fed a practical type of diet. A series of experiments were conducted at . . .


An electroluminescent arrangement, composed of a substrate, a Anorde, an electroluminescent element and a cathode, wherein at least one of the two electrodes in the visible spectral range is transparent, and the electroluminescent element has one or more zones selected from the group consisting of hole-injecting zone, hole-transporting zone, electroluminescent zone, containing the electron-transporting zone and an electron injection zone in said sequence, each of the zones present may also take over tasks of the other zones mentioned, characterized in that the electroluminescent element includes an azomethine-metal complex.