severity (n=18) performed faster and more efficiently than those who were not on all FC measures, all t>2.07, all p<.05, all d>1.1. Cognitive performance was better in the less symptomatic group, t=3.34, p=.003, d=1.25. Discussion: Positive clozapine treatment response was associated with better performance on measures of both functional capacity and cognitive performance. These differences were significant even in this small sample size and the effect sizes were quite substantial. These data suggest that being a clozapine responder is associated with considerably less impairment in the ability to perform critical functional tasks and in cognitive performance. All patients were severely ill before clozapine treatment and 12 achieved re- mission. As there are no healthy controls, we cannot make normative state-ments about performance, but the large effect sizes suggest considerable differences associated with positive clozapine response. Background: Comorbid illicit substance use is associated with poor clinical outcomes in established psychotic disorders. However, less is known about the impact of substance misuse in first episode psychosis (FEP). We conducted a largescale electronic health record (EHR) study using text mining software to investigate the associations of cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines and MDMA with risk of psychiatric hospitalization. Methods: Data were obtained from 1,835 people with FEP in South London using the Clinical Record Interactive Search tool (CRIS). TextHunter was used to identify exposure to cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines or MDMA documented in free text EHRs. Their relationship with number of psychiatric hospital admissions over a 5-year period was analyzed using multivariable negative binomial regression with age, gender and ethnicity as covariates. Results: The most frequently used illicit substance was cannabis (58.5%) followed by cocaine (24.4%), amphetamines (3.7%) and MDMA (3.1%). Cannabis (IRR 1.58, 95% CI 1.37 to 1.83) and cocaine (1.36, 1.17 to 1.59) were associated with increased frequency of psychiatric hospital admission. Amphetamines showed no significant association (1.05, 0.77 to 1.45) while MDMA was associated with a reduction in frequency of admissions (0.59, 0.40 to 0.86). Discussion: Cannabis and cocaine are associated with a significant increase in frequency of psychiatric hospital admissions. These findings highlight the importance of addressing comorbid illicit substance use in people with FEP. urine blood tests and psychological evaluations performed. Further investigations after the initial check-up. and clinical scales administered and scored the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), and Inventory for Drug Taking Situations (IDTS). psychotic acute episodes, specific positive symptoms that could trigger sui- cide behaviors, and co-morbid substance use disorders are the most sup-ported suicide risk factors. Methods: A literature search was performed in the main electronic data-bases (Cochrane, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Thomson Reuters/Web of Science) using as keywords "suicide risk", "suicide ideation", "suicide attempts", "schizophrenia", "schizoaffective disorder", and "psychotic disorders". All papers published between 1998 and 2018 have been in- cluded in the primary analysis. Inclusion criteria: observational, interven-tional, randomized, single/double-blind or open trial, national registry analysis, retrospective chart analysis or outpatient recordings review; age between 18 and 65; patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffec-tive disorder, psychotic disorder not otherwise specified who presented at least one episode of suicidal ideation or at least one suicide attempt; use of structured methods for evaluation of the suicide risk. Exclusion crite- ria: unspecified trial design, case reports, case series, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, age under 18 and above 65, multiple somatic and psychiatric co-morbidities, lack of a specified instrument for suicide risk evaluation. Results: A number of 82 papers were found after the primary search, but only 4 remained after inclusion and exclusion criteria filters were applied. These four papers were retrospective analyses based on hospital charts and outpatients' recordings analysis (n=3), and one prospective clinical trial. A total number of 17,582 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and related disorders were included in these four papers. Higher Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS) score, anxiety, guilt, gender, age, number of previous hospitalizations, previous suicide attempts, finan-cial or relationship losses, multiple psychiatric co-morbidities were the most reported risk factors for suicide in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Discussion: Background: The Prodromal Questionnaire-16 (PQ-16; Ising et al., 2012) is a measure used to screen for attenuated psychotic symptoms that may indi- cate the presence of the at-risk mental state. The PQ-16 has been validated for use in help-seeking populations and the structure of the measure in this population is categorized by three subscales. These are perceptual abnor-malities/hallucinations subscale, the unusual thought content/paranoia subscale, and negative symptoms subscale. The present study aimed to ex-amine the structure of the PQ-16 in a non-help-seeking population through exploratory factor analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis. Methods: Participants (n=722) were recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and completed the PQ-16 as part of a battery of questionnaires. For the exploratory factor analysis, the mean age of the sample was 27.93 years (SD=4.8), 55% of the sample were male, and 49% were single. The exploratory factor analysis, using principal axis factoring and oblique rotation, indicated a two-factor model was suitable for the PQ-16 in this population. Based on the current study and previous studies, three separate confirmatory factor models will be analyzed using SPSS Amos Version 25. Results: The exploratory factor analysis indicated that there was a two-fac- tor model suitable for this sample. Factor 1 appeared to represent perceptual abnormalities/hallucinations, while factor 2 was interpreted as general symptoms. Factor loadings indicated that items 2 & 14 of the PQ-16 did not fit into either factor and were excluded from the two-factor confirm- for current sui- cidal ideation in our sample, the development of predictive algorithms that combine proximal and distal stressful events can improve the assessment of psychotic patients at risk of suicide.


Study objective involved comparison of two cardioplegic solutions: HTK-solution possessing high buffer capacity and a new ACH-solution with aminoacid buffer. Results revealed high cardioprotective efficiency during surgical repair of complex congenital heart disease both in the group that had received Custodiol and in the group that had received ACH-solution. Clinical and morphological parameters demonstrate high level of myocardial protection from intraoperative ischemia for single usage of ACH-solution during cardioplegic ischemia under 60 minutes in duration.


Inspired by the results of a previous mechanistic study, a series of mostly new nonsymmetric phenanthrolines were synthesized and tested as ligands in the palladium-catalyzed reductive carbonylation reaction of nitrobenzene to methyl phenylcarbamate. Very good results were obtained when the asymmetry was of an electronic nature (a donating substituent in the para position of one of the two pyridinic rings and an electron-withdrawing or no substituent on the para position of the other pyridinic ring), but steric hindrance in the ortho or meta position retarded the reaction. The TOF for the modified system is the highest ever reported for any carbonylation reaction of nitroarenes.


Heritage tourism is recently becoming the key domain of tourism research,which is related to the rapid development of heritage tourism and to the affair,which is the ruin and pollution of heritage resource.The study of heritage tourism drops behind the rapid development of heritage tourism.It is time to strengthen the research on the conception and connotation of heritage tourism.This paper attempts to study on the conception and connotation of heritage tourism,based on the domestic and overseas heritage tourism research,and study on the relation between heritage and tourism,intending to arouse further research on this domain.


In this thesis, we study resource allocation problems that arise in the context of stochastic sequential decision making problems. The practical utility of optimal algorithms for these problems is limited due to their high computational and storage requirements. Also, an increasing number of applications require a decentralized solution. We develop techniques for approximately solving certain class of resource allocation problems that arise in the context of stochastic sequential decision making problems that are computationally efficient with a focus on decentralized algorithms where appropriate. The first resource allocation problem that we study is a stochastic sequential decision making problem with multiple decision makers (agents) with two main features 1) Partial observability Each agent may not have complete information regarding the system 2) Limited Communication Each agent may not be able to communicate with all other agents at all times. We formulate a Markov Decision Process (MDP) for this problem. The features of partial observability and limited communication impose additional computational constraints on the exact solution of the MDP. We propose a scheme for approximating the optimal Q function and the optimal value function associated with this MDP as a linear combination of preselected basis functions. We show that the proposed approximation scheme leads to decentralization of the agents' decisions thereby enabling their implementation under limited communication. We propose a linear program, ALP, for selecting the parameters for combining the basis functions. We establish bounds relating the approximation error due to the choice of the parameters selected by the ALP with the best possible error given the choice of basis functions. Motivated by the need for a decentralized solution to the ALP, which is equivalent to a resource allocation problem with separable, concave objective function, we analyze a general class of resource allocation problems with separable concave objective functions. We propose a distributed algorithm for this class of problems when the objective function is differentiable and establish its convergence and convergence rate properties. We develop a smoothing scheme for non-differentiable objective functions and extend the algorithm for this case. Finally, we build on these results to extend the decentralized algorithm to accommodate non-negativity constraints on the resources. Numerical investigations on the performance of the developed algorithm show that our algorithm is competitive with its centralized counterpart. The second resource allocation problem that we study is the problem of optimally accepting or rejecting arriving orders in a Make-To-Order (MTO) manufacturing firm. We model the production facility of the MTO manufacturing firm as a queue and view the time of the production facility as a resource that needs to be optimally allotted between current and future orders. We formulate the Order Acceptance Problem under two arrival processes Poisson process (OAP-P), and Bernoulli Process (OAP-B) and formulate both problems as MDPs. We provide insights into the structure of the optimal order acceptance policy for OAP-B under the assumption of First Come First Served (FCFS) scheduling of accepted orders. We investigate a class of randomized order acceptance policies for OAP-B called static policies that are practically relevant due to their ease of implementation and develop a procedure for computing the policy gradient for any static policy. Using these results for OAP-B, we propose 4 heuristics for OAP-P. We numerically investigate the performance of the proposed heuristics and compare their performance with other heuristics reported in literature. One of our proposed heuristics, FCFS-ValueFunction outperforms other heuristics under a variety of conditions while also being easy to implement. Thesis Supervisor: Daniela Pucci de Farias Title: Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering Thesis Supervisor: David Simchi-Levi Title: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Acknowledgments I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Daniela Pucci de Farias for her constant support for my research and for being a wonderful mentor. It has been a privilege working with her and learning from her. I am thankful to my advisor Prof. David Simchi-Levi for his support and guidance for my research. I have enjoyed the research discussions I had with him and learnt a lot from his insightful observations. I thank my defense committee member Prof. Steven Lerman for his valuable suggestions. My special thanks to my roommate for 6 yrs M.N.Srinivas and office mate for 6 yrs, Sivaram. I will always remember and cherish the many wonderful moments we have had. My thanks to Deepak, J. Srini, Mani, Vikram, Vijay, Rags, Madhu for providing me such a wonderful atmosphere at MIT. My special thanks to Rags and Jaykumar for their insightful research discussions. I thank my friends Senthil and Mythreyi for their wonderful company and support. I thank my friends Satish, Somu and Muthu who have been pillars of strength from my school days. I thank my family for their unconditional support in all my endeavours.


Aim of the present study was to observe the measurements of anterior papillary muscles present in tricuspid valve of human heart. Measurements of anterior papillary muscles in tricuspid valve gains utmost importance in cardiac surgeries because they are the causes of myocardial infarction in recent times because of its variations and detection of these causes by advent in modern technologies which will help in treatment of tricuspid valve diseases. This study was carried out on 96 normal formalin fixed human heart specimens. Dissection was performed according to standard techniques. Anterior papillary muscles were observed and length, width and thickness of each muscle were measured and documented. In the present study, numbers of anterior papillary muscles were present with a frequency of 1-3, with most common appearance of 1 muscle in 66 hearts (68.8%) and least common incidence of 3 muscles in 6 hearts (6.3%). Anterior papillary muscles were present in all 96 hearts. In measurements, anterior papillary muscles mean height was 1.49±0.44 cm; mean width was 0.82±0.21 cm and mean thickness was 0.64±0.15 cm respectively. We hope this study will serve to understand the morphometry of anterior papillary muscles better and will help in various surgical procedures and cardiac treatment done on tricuspid valve.


This study investigates the possible adsorption configurations and dissociative reactions of NH3 on the anatase (101) surface by employing the first principles calculations. In addition, the hydroxyl group effect is also included to study how this effect influences the adsorption and the dissociative reactions. Without the presence of the hydroxyl group, the most stable adsorbate is the bidentate adsorbate Ti-N-O (Eads = 44.9 kcal/mol), and the second is the bidentate adsorbate Ti-(H)N-O (Eads = 40.8 kcal/mol). NH3 can also be adsorbed on 5c-Ti, forming H3N-Ti, which is the third most stable adsorbate (Eads = 27.5 kcal/mol). The hydroxyl group present on the surface has the effect of significantly enhancing the adsorption of the monodentate adsorbates H2N-Ti and HN-Ti. However, such a presence only slightly enhances the bidentate adsorbate Ti-N-O. In addition, the adsorption energy increases as the number of hydroxyl groups on the surface increases. The hydroxyl group also has the effect to diminish the a...


Jane Addams is best known as one of the American greatest social reformers. As founder of Hull-House, and prominent leader of a host of progressive causes, she is remembered as a woman of compassion and commitment. She saw herself however, as both a reformer and a theorist; part of an emerging social science movement that sought to combine scientific study of social conditions with a commitment to social amelioration. Using her own brand of interpretive research, she probed the social relationships that characterized industrial America in the Progressive Era. This essay considers aspects of the life and work of Jane Addams as an opportunity to reflect anew about sociologists' own vocations as social scientists and as citizens.


Auvinen, Tommi Narrative leadership: Studies on leadership storytelling research and practice Jyvaskyla: University of Jyvaskyla, 2013, 94 p. (+articles) (Jyvaskyla Studies in Business and Economics, ISSN 1457-1986; 119) ISBN 978-951-39-5029-3 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-5030-9 (PDF) This dissertation belongs to the field of management and leadership. The aim is to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of the significance of the narrative approach to leadership. The dissertation consists of an introductory essay and five published articles. The main research task is to dissect how and why managers communicate their intentions in narrative form and what meanings storytelling has for the construction of their leadership. Furthermore, each article has its own unique research task. Four of the articles are empirical studies based on qualitative methodology while one is conceptual. The premise of narrative leadership is that storytelling has a significant role in leadership and organizational rationality. Its theoretical underpinnings stem from the narrative paradigm, which says that all human beings are storytellers (homo narrans). Stories are engaged with power in organizations. Alongside knowledge, values and emotions, stories convey leadership influence by mediating and shaping organizational reality. The stories make sense in the organizational flow, which takes place discursively in social interaction, both on formal and informal occasions. According to the findings, the managers aspire to construct their leadership influence by telling stories in different situations. The areas of leadership influence were identified as inspiring and motivating followers, influencing own superiors, discovering focus, preventing conflicts and constructing trust. Furthermore, managers may tell stories with a view to manipulate their subordinates. The types of manipulation in storytelling were identified as humorous, pseudo-participative, seductive and pseudo-empathetic. The ethics of manipulation in storytelling is also discussed. Leadership storytelling is also dissected from the subordinate's standpoint. The ghost leader metaphor is used with a view to illustrate the significance of organizational storytelling both in the sense of constructing and resisting leadership. Potential future aspects of leadership research are also pointed out. In particular, the antenarrative approach is used as a recent approach to organizational storytelling and using visualization to analyze complex qualitative data is also suggested.


The results of investigation of cadmium and copper accumulation by water hyacinth, depending on the conditions of exposure, are discussed. The main specialty of the study consists in the use of mesocosm approach that allows estimating consequences of pollutant effect on ecosystem in conditions as close to natural as possible. It includes the use of mesocosms – polyethylene capacities installed directly into studied water reservoir. This approach provides data that allow describing the course of studied processes in nature due to taking into consideration a climatic factor as well as buffer capacity of the real system to pollutants in its current state. Test substances were introduced in mesocosms followed by the study of their elimination dynamics and accumulation in plants. It was shown that the degree of cadmium and copper removal by water hyacinth is 74–92% and 88–91%, respectively, and it depends on the way of pollutant introducing into the reservoir. Uptake by plankton and sedimentation do not contribute significantly in this process. It was found that cadmium does not affect the accumulation of copper, whereas the presence of copper inhibits removal of cadmium in case of sequential addition. Nevertheless for both the elements, the values of bioconcentration factor (BCF) are high enough: BCFCu = 3500 ± 200 and BCFCd = 2600 ± 150, which indicates a high ability of the plant to accumulate these elements. About 9% of Cd migrates to the stems and leaves of water hyacinth in the process of bioaccumulation, while more than 97% of copper concentrates in the roots.


In the Big Data era, graph processing has been widely used to represent complex system structure, capture data dependency and uncover relationship insights. Due to the ever-growing graph scale and algorithm complexity, several distributed graph processing frameworks have attracted many interests from both academia and industry. In this talk, I will investigate how to achieve the trade-off between performance and cost for large scale graph processing on the Cloud. System-aware and machine learning models are developed to predict the performance of distributed graph processing tasks. Consequently, cost-efficient resource provisioning strategies could be recommended by selecting a certain number of VMs with specified capability subject to the predefined resource price and user preference. At the end of this talk, I will briefly introduce our recent projects on urban computing, disease simulation and social network analytics based on graph processing and real world data.


Abstract. The objective of this study was to analyze the flood stage considering the uncertainty caused by the river roughness coefficients and discharge. The methodology of this study involved the generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) to quantify the uncertainty bounds applying three different storm events. The uncertainty range of the roughness was 0.025 ∼ 0.040. In case of discharge, the uncertainty stemmed from parameters in stage-discharge rating curve. Parameters in rating curve were optimized by non-linear regression model and assumed by t-distribution. The range of parameters in rating curve was 5.138 ∼ 18.442 for A, -0.524 ∼ 0.104 for B and 2.427 ∼ 2.924 for C. By sampling 10,000 parameter sets, Monte Carlo simulations were performed. The simulated stage value was represented by 90% confidence interval. In storm event 1 ∼ 3, the average bound was 0.35 m, 0.74 m and 0.86 m, respectively. The peak bound was 0.49 m, 1.23 m and 1.61 m, respectively. The recurrence year of each storm event applying the frequency analysis was 1-year, 10-year and 25-year, respectively.


The bladder is a rare site for an extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma, and to our knowledge this is the first report of the ultrasound appearances of this tumor in this location.


Coders hub provides a system where online working is much easier and to earn money with less effort. In this, Programmers can register and login using their username and password. Coders Hub helps the clients (people who want to give a job) to easily find programmers based on their location, skills in the programming languages etc. Clients can also make out who is the best programmer by checking their point based ranks. Clients can text privately with the programmers to discuss on their works done and send information related to the work assigned. This system simultaneously helps the programmer as well as the client. Programmers can earn using their skills and transactions are done between the client and the programmer. The final payment would be done only if the client is satisfied with programmers work. The admin keeps track of the work done by the programmer and the client.


In 38C B lymphocytes, membrane IgM is expressed on the surface, whereas secretory IgM (sIgM) is rapidly degraded. Here, we localize this degradation and characterize the proteases involved in this process. Upon treatment with brefeldin A, degradation of sIgM in 38C cells was strongly inhibited, as was secretion from the sIgM-secreting D2 hybridoma. Moreover, the brefeldin A-induced Golgi resorption resulted in galactosylation of sIgM and partial resistance to endoglycosidase H. However, sIgM avoided degradation neither due to modified terminal glycosylation nor as a consequence of the brefeldin A-induced altered milieu of the endoplasmic reticulum. When these modifications were prevented by inhibiting retrograde transport with nocodazole or by abrogating terminal glycosylation with was still rescued from degradation. Oligosaccharide Moieties by Probing with Lec-tins-Immunoprecipitates of IgM SDS-PAGE electroblotted biotinylated communis (1 pg/ml) (Sigma), of incubation with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated avidin (Sigma). peroxidase 4-chloronaphthol


We describe a 2D model for quantum-well lasers that solves self- consistently the electrical and optical equations. The model includes a wavelength- and position-dependent gain function that is derived from a quantum-mechanical calculation. We have also incorporated the effects of strain into the model, through an anisotropic parabolic band approximation of the band structure from a Luttinger-Kohn k.p theory. With this model we are able to predict the lasing characteristics such as the light-current behavior, current and optical field distributions, as well as the optical gain, spontaneous emission rate and dependence of the characteristics on geometry and layer design. Examples of the utility of our approach are shown which, for instance, clearly show the benefit of strain to laser design.


Exserohilum turcicum and Puccinia sorghi cause foliar fungal diseases that affect maize crop in Argentina. These diseases, northern leaf blight and common rust respectively, are presented each year with different levels of severity affecting significantly the yield in susceptible hybrids. Disease control usually consists in the use of resistant cultivars and chemical control. Biological control as a preventive method is a viable alternative to evaluate. The aims of this study were to evaluate the natural incidence of both foliar diseases in maize after application of two antagonists, to determine the survival of the antagonists in the maize phyllosphere and to evaluate the effect of inoculation on grain yield at harvest. Plants treated with both biological control agents showed significant reductions in the incidence of both foliar diseases. In northern leaf blight the reduction was higher than 50% during 40 days in plants treated with Bacillus spp. Moreover, grain yield was significantly higher as compared to control treatments.


Objective
To investigate the value of TI-RADS for sonographic diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) and to evaluate the sonographic findings of FTC compared to PTC .

Methods
The clinical and sonographic data of 363 cases of pathology confirmed thyroid nodules were retrospectively analyzed. The thyroid nodules were classified by TI-RADS grading criteria, the accuracy of TI-RADS and sonographic findings between FTC and PTC was analyzed.

Results
In 363 thyroid nodules, 114 cases were confirmed as benign lesions; 249 cases were confirmed as carcinomas, including 50 FTC cases and 199 PTC cases. The sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and accuracy of PTC were 97.0%(193/199), 85.1%(97/114), 91.9%(193/210), 85.8% (97/113), 95.7%(290/303) respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and accuracy of FTC were 97.0%(193/199), 85.1%(97/114), 91.9%(193/210), 85.8% (97/113), 95.7%(290/303) respectively. There were significant differences of nodule size, shape, margin, echogenecity, calcification, halo and flow between FTC group and PTC group (P<0.05).

Conclusion
TI-RADS has higher value in the sonographic diagnosis of PTC than that of FTC .FTC are greatly different from PTC in many sonographic findings making it less valuable for the diagnosis of FTC.

Key words:
Thyroid neoplasms; Carcinoma, papillary; Adenocarcinoma, follicular; TI-RADS


Base on the planning ofLinyanshan scenery and tourist district, the paper sets forth that scenery and tourist district planning must persist in the modern planning concept presupposing tourism development orientation ,aiming of landscape environment protection and closely combining the tourism development with ecological environment protection.


At the early elongating stage of sugarcane, the length and diameter of internodes from the second to the eighth were determined in eight genotypes (ie YT86-368, ROC16, NL8, Badila, Saccharum spontaneum L and three F1 clones) And internodes of the third, fifth and eighth were taken to determine the content of soluble protein in the cytoplasm, the ionically-bound protein and the covalently-bound protein in the cell wall and total soluble sugar From the second to the eighth internode, changes of the internode's length of all the genotypes were similar, and the sixth internode was the longest except Sacchanum spontaneum L But the internode's diameter after the sixth still kept increasing slightly From the third to the fifth and the eighth, the protein content in internodes decreased but the content of total soluble sugar increased gradually The contents of protein were relatively higher and the content of total soluble sugar were relatively lower in three genotypes, ie Badila, YT86-368 and F1 clone No 3 , whose stalk diameter were thicker than the others


The Fukushima accidents highlighted that both the in-depth understanding of such sequences and the development or improvement of adequate Severe Accident Management (SAM) measures are essential in order to further increase the safety of the nuclear power plants operated in Europe. To support this effort, the CESAM (Code for European Severe Accident Management) R&D project, coordinated by GRS, started in April 2013 for 4 years in the 7th EC Framework Programme of research and development of the European Commission. It gathers 18 partners from 12 countries: IRSN, AREVA NP SAS and EDF (France), GRS, KIT, USTUTT and RUB (Germany), CIEMAT (Spain), ENEA (Italy), VUJE and IVS (Slovakia), LEI (Lithuania), NUBIKI (Hungary), INRNE (Bulgaria), JSI (Slovenia), VTT (Finland), PSI (Switzerland), BARC (India) plus the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC). The CESAM project focuses on the improvement of the ASTEC (Accident Source Term Evaluation Code) computer code. ASTEC,, jointly developed by IRSN and GRS, is considered as the European reference code since it capitalizes knowledge from the European R&D on the domain. The project aims at its enhancement and extension for use in severe accident management (SAM) analysis of the nuclear power plants (NPP) of Generation II-III presently under operation or foreseen in near future in Europe, spent fuel pools included. In the frame of the CESAM project one of the tasks consisted in the preparation of a report providing an overview of the Severe Accident Management (SAM) approaches in European Nuclear Power Plants to serve as a basis for further ASTEC improvements. This report draws on the experience in several countries from introducing SAMGs and on substantial information that has become available within the EU "stress test". To disseminate this information to a broader audience, the initial CESAM report has been revised to include only public available information. This work has been done with the agreement and in collaboration with all the CESAM project partners. The result of this work is presented here.


Subjects taught in elementary, secondary and vocational schools are covered by two, more or less, separate programs dtin higher education. One of them aims to educate experts while the other one provides for regular teacher training. The natural "development" of a subject within higher education is that the "experts-only" program should be extended to teacher training when a new social need appears (e.g. recently in computer science). In our global age this process has accelerated remarkably and the relevant decision-makers have a hard time to identify and respond properly to new, rapidly increasing needs. In the case of new developments, the following key questions need to be answered: 1/ when to introduce the subject to the general education? 2/ who will do it? 3/ what they will teach? As a relative "newcomer" in higher education, GIS is still mainly at the "for experts-only" stage within subjects such as geodesy, geography, environment, geology and civil engineering. GIS is mainly absent from most teacher training courses, though there are some excellent individual initiatives to apply GIS as an educational tool in secondary education (e.g. internet site of teaching history with GIS – www.library.thinkquest.org) there remains no concerted program yet to teach GIS as a subject to teachers. This chapter reports on a survey conducted in secondary schools with the conclusion that teachers have recognised the need to use GIS as an educational tool and they would be willing to integrate it in their teaching program. Although the institutions have the necessary technical background, they lack the teachers who are trained to be able to use and teach GIS. Therefore higher education faces two challenges 1/ to establish continuing in-service educational programs for secondary school teachers (geography, history, information) on the application of GIS as a new teaching tool and subject; and 2/ to integrate this knowledge in the curriculum of relevant undergraduate programs. In the paper the likely content and methodology of such a program is discussed with a specific focus on the following questions: What subjects should be included in the curriculum? What level these subjects should be taught?


COVID-19 is an infectious disease that is primarily spread by respiratory droplets of infected patients. Their droplets are generated while they speak, sneeze, or cough. In Thailand, wearing a face mask seems a must when you travel and go around to other places. The policy of wearing a face mask is applied in almost everywhere both indoor and outdoor, especially indoor places. You will be not allowed to enter the places without wearing a mask. In this paper, we developed a convolutional neural network and trained it with the data set of 848 images with resolution of 416x416 pixels. The accuracy rate is 81% based on the performance of the trained model. We implemented it successfully and installed the system (both hardware and software) in a real environment, i.e., in a front gate of a campus building during an open-house event.


A rapid method has been devised for the determination of free formaldehyde in phenol-formaldehyde syrups.

The neutralized alcoholic solution of the sample is treated with hydroxylamine hydrochloride solution and the liberated hydrochloric acid then titrated with standard alkali to pH 3·4 by means of a direct-reading pH meter.


The brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a peptide responsible for the homeostasis of the cardiovascular system. In this study, the kinetics of BNP blood plasma levels after pneumonectomy, where certain hemodynamic alterations do occur were analyzed and a possible predictive value of postoperative complications is examined. Thirtyfive patients enrolled, underwent a scheduled pneumonectomy for non-small cell cancer of the lung. The BNP plasma levels were recorded pre-operatively, immediately after the ligation of pulmonary artery, at 3, and at 24 hours post-operatively. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistical analysis, using students t-test, Chisquare, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The differences considered significant at p<0.05. BNP showed a statistically significant increase after the ligation of the pulmonary artery in all of the patients. The patients were divided into 2 groups according to the presence or not of the complications. In the complications group the BNP increase was significantly greater than in the non-complication group. There was direct correlation of BNP value at 24 hours postoperatively and the occurrence of complications. The cut-off value was set at 100 pgr/ml (sensitivity 91.6% and specificity 93.75%). Preoperatively BNP values above 15 pgr/ml have 17.41% probability for a complication to occur (60% sensitivity and 70.83% specificity). The results of the study of the BNP after pneumonectomy are interesting and are in the path of a safety and economical routine clinical use for the prediction and prevention of post-operative complications.


SUMMARY A high speed 3D shape reconstruction method with multiple video cameras and multiple computers on LAN is presented. The video cameras are set to surround the real 3D space where people exist. Reconstructed 3D space is displayed in voxel format and users can see the space from any viewpoint with a VR viewer. We implemented a prototype system that can work out the 3D reconstruction with the speed of10.55 f ps in 313 ms delay.


Abstract Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a pilot telehealth program applied to a wide population of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Design: Vital signs data were transmitted from the home of the patient on a daily basis using a patient monitoring system for review by community nurse to assist decisions on management. Setting: Community services for patients diagnosed with COPD. Participants: Two Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) enrolled 321 patients diagnosed with COPD into the telehealth program. Two hundred twenty-seven (n = 227) patients having a complete baseline record of at least 88 days of continuous remote monitoring and meeting all inclusion criteria were included in the statistical analysis. Intervention: Remote monitoring. Methods: Resource and cost data associated with patient events (inpatient hospitalization, accident and emergency [A&E], and home visits) 12 months before, immediately before and during monitoring, equipment, start-up, and administration...


We examine the history of VMI's use of the Major Field Test as an assessment tool for its Department of Economics and Business. Further, we chronicle how the information gathered from a decade and a half of use has shaped the curriculum, faculty composition and policies within the Department. There is evidence that the policies surrounding how and when the Major Field Test is administered influences student performance on the test and that it can be a valuable component of a comprehensive assessment program.


Knowledge of background properties is essential for various applications such as systems engineering and evaluation (e.g. electro-optical sensors or for camouflage design), operational planning and development of ATR algorithms. A series of field tests was conducted in the NEGEV desert in Israel, as a joint effort of the FGAN-FfO (Germany) and EORD (Israel) for characterizing properties of backgrounds in arid climatic regions. Diurnal cycles of background surface temperatures were measured during summer and winter periods in several sites in the NEGEV. The measurement equipment consisted of imaging cameras, most of them calibrated, covering the spectral region from the visible up to the thermal infrared. This paper presents the measurement set- up, the measurement techniques that were used, and some of the first analysis results.


Cloud computing recently offers immense benefits. But higher education institutions (HEIs) are hesitating to adopt. As a result, they are not benefited more from such technology. This is because key adoption capabilities are not explored in detail in HEIs context. In addition to this, there is no comprehensive empirically validated adoption readiness assessment model which helps them to adopt Cloud solutions efficiently. Hence, to fill this gap this study identifies the critical capabilities and develops a model to assess Cloud computing adoption readiness of higher education institutions before initiating the adoption. Resource based view theory was used as theoretical lens to identify capabilities and to build the model. The conceptual model considers adoption readiness and adoption success from technological, human, organizational, financial and external environment dimensions. The model proposes that the degree to which an organization holds these capabilities is related to the degree to which they are ready to deploy and use computing resources, thereby increasing the possibility of adoption success. Further empirical research will be used to validate and refine the conceptual model.


When to look for sleep disturbances in heart failure patients and how best to treat them: a practical and evidence-based expert opinion https://bit.ly/3LpCnNP


The spin state of Fe2+ ion in CsFeCl3 is known as the singlet ground state presenting the magnetic order at only around the level crossing field, Bx, of 7.5 T and at low temperatures below 2.5 K. In order to study the magnetic fluctuations of Fe2+ spin of this material, the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time, T1, of Cs is measured mainly at 4.2 K, i.e., at the paramagnetic phase, under the applied magnetic field up to 15 T. A drastic decrease of T1 around Bx is observed. We propose a new mechanism of T1 inherent in the level crossing based on the direct flip process between the nuclear spin and the exchange broadened electron spin system.


Extensive communication has become an indispensable part of smartgrids. With the help of this connectivity, constant monitoring and control can be utilized to operate these systems in a more efficient and productive way. Increased presence of Information Technologies (IT) in power system field had large benefits such as novel applications that enable transmission lines to utilize a larger portion of its capacity, demand side management schemes that coordinate power use with respect to available energy and electric vehicle charge-discharge management solutions. Connecting all these different devices leads to implementation of Internet of Things in smart grids. However, this brings along its own challenges. So far, power systems have been operated with very limited communication and these networks have always been isolated, stand-alone systems with no connection to outside world. With the recent advancements in IT and Smartgrids, this paradigm is changing. For better coordination and control various players such as electric vehicles, smart meters, market operators and house owners are also included in these communication networks. This opens the door for cybersecurity issues that are unknown to the power system domain. A review of these challenges is presented in this paper along with solution efforts and future work.


The invention relates to capsules for heat and phlegm clearing and detoxification. The capsules comprise capsule casings and powdery or granular filler wrapped in the capsule casings, wherein the capsule casings are selected from capsule casings mainly made from gelatin, capsule casings mainly made from hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, capsule casings mainly made from seaweed polysaccharide, capsule casings mainly made from pectin or capsule casings mainly made from carboxymethyl cellulose; the filler comprises active substances and diluting agents; the diluting agents are selected from one or more of starch, dextrin, carboxymethyl starch, hydroxypropyl starch, improved starch, pregelatinized starch, lactose, powdered sugar, microcrystalline cellulose, calcium phosphate, calcium hydrophosphate, calcium carbonate and the like. The capsules have good biological effects on heat and phlegm clearing and detoxification.


In order to decrease the production cost,some new simple and useful machines and electrical equipment control device were designed, based on the original carbon-bod-inserting machine for R6 batteries.It could detect and eliminate the bad products effectively.It was showed that the new machines could improve the technical level of carbon-rod-inserting machine, and improve the automation level and production speed.


Movies that aim to ask and answer big questions are generally rare. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Is there some higher influence at play in our destiny? Perhaps the most famous of the films to try, 2001: A Space Odyssey, remains one of the most talked about (and debated) inquiries into our own fundamental nature. 2001 set the tone for science fiction until the release of Star Wars made gun-toting space operas the norm, the latter a fact many sci-fi fans still lament (see Beale, 2014). But a few films since 2001 have tried to recapture that existential exploration and often reveal the pitfalls of such attempts. Even the Alien universe set off on a darker existential exploration with Prometheus, a grimly beautiful film despite its glaring plot holes (why, for instance, would aliens place stellar maps around Earth leading to the ammunition dump set up to wipe us out?). Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan, is the latest in this tradition, a film both brilliant and flawed, but, whatever its limitation, certain to set the imagination onto the origins of humankind.


Abstract The ordinary least squares and ridge regression estimators in a multiple linear regression model with multicollinearity and y-direction outliers lead to unfavorable results. In order to mitigate such situation, the available literature provides few ridge M-estimators to get precise estimates. The ridge parameter, k, plays a vital role in a bias-variance tradeoff for these estimators. However, for high signal-to-noise ratio and multicollinearity with y-direction outliers, the available methods may not perform well in terms of their mean squared error. In this article, we propose a new quantile based ridge M-estimator. The new estimator gives an automated choice of quantile probability of ridge parameter according to the level of noise and multicollinearity. Based on a simulation study, the new estimator outperforms the ordinary least square estimator, ridge estimator, and other considered ridge M-estimators especially for high multicollinearity, significant error variance, and y-direction outliers. Besides normal distribution, new estimator also performs well for heavy-tailed error distribution. Finally, two real-life examples are used to illustrate the application of the proposed estimator.


Objective: We developed and implemented an intervention program regarding "eating many vegetables" and "eating moderate meals" that single male employees can easily execute. We further investigated whether subsequent vegetable intake and body composition changed. Methods: The research design was before-after trials. Sixteen healthy single male employees (42.4±5.4 years) participated for a total of 12 weeks. Participants set the action target to execute "eating many vegetables" and "eating moderate meals" at the start, and reported the action target executive level four times on a scale of 1–10 (the higher the number, the higher the execution level). Two 30-minute small-group (4–5 people) cooking demonstrations were provided in each company's meeting room. We evaluated outcomes using the semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire. Energy and food group intake were calculated per 1,000 kcal. Physical active mass, body composition, visceral fat area, and subcutaneous fat area were measured. We analyzed each item before and after intervention. Results: The action target executive levels were on an upward trend regarding "eating many vegetables" and on a downward trend about "eating moderate meals." No significant statistical difference regarding energy intake was found between preand post-intervention results, but the intake of green-yellow and other vegetables significantly increased. Body fat percentage tended to decrease, and skeletal muscle percentage, upper arm muscle percentage, and trunk muscle percentage significantly increased. Conclusions: Transformative actions were promoted by the hearing of the action target upon which single male employees decided and by simple cooking demonstrations. Furthermore, vegetable intake and body composition changed. Jpn. J. Nutr. Diet., 77 (6) 167~175 (2019)


ABSTRACT As the practice of using population models for wildlife risk assessment has become more common, so has the practice of using surrogate data, typically taken from the published scientific literature, as inputs for demographic models. This practice clearly exposes the user to inferential errors. However, it is likely to continue because demographic data are expensive to gather. We review potential errors associated with the use of previously published demographic data and how those errors propagate into the endpoints of demographic projection models. We suggest methods for inferring bias in model endpoints when multiple and opposing biases are present in the demographic input data. We provide an example using Eastern Meadowlarks (Sturnella magna), a common songbird in Midwestern grasslands and agro-ecosystems. We conclude with a brief review of methods that could improve inference made using published demographic data, including methods from life-history theory, meta-analysis, and Bayesian statistics.


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In their recent review,1 Limdi et al . appear to have understated the frequency of cancer in patients with hereditary haemochromatosis (HH). While everybody is aware of the risks of hepatocellular cancer in male patients with haemochromatosis and cirrhosis, the risks of non-hepatic malignancies are not widely …


A geothermal system and method of installing the same comprises the steps successively driving a drive pipe structure vertically into the ground at a plurality of locations so that a major portion of the length of the drive pipe structure is located below the frost line. An elongate geothermal pipe having closed ends is inserted into the drive pipe structure and its lower end is interlocked with a drive point device located at the lower end of the drive pipe structure. Thereafter, when the drive pipe is removed, the geothermal pipe remains anchored to the drive point. The geothermal pipes are connected together by conduits and connected to a heat pump so that a heat exchange liquid will be circulated through the system.


A Dissertation Submitted to University of Gezira as Partial Fulfillment for the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Masterof Sciences,in Haematology and munohaematology
Department of Haematology and Immunohaematology,Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences ,May, 2018


IN the process of completing a recent study of the effectiveness of one area of professional education, a number of problems arose that may well be of interest to others planning investigations of a similar nature. For this reason, this article has been prepared to describe some of these problems and the methods by which they were met. The study concerned was made to ascertain the effectiveness of college training for executives in retailing in terms of selected objectives determined to be desirable. To do this, the performance of retailing graduates in respect to these objectives was measured by means of an achievement examination and compared with the performance of other groups.


Several commonly used microwave power amplifiers based on AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMT's) are described. Two major processing tecnologies for microwave power amplifiers,flip-chip IC (FC-IC) and coplanar wire (CPW), are introduced. And finally, AlGaN/GaN HEMT's, the core devie for power amplifiers, are developed, and their characteristics are analyzed.


This study investigated the efficacy of Cognitive Therapy (CT) on the managementof Psychological Distress (PD) among adolescents with hearingimpairment in Oyo State. The pretest-posttest control group, quasi experimentalresearch design was employed. A total of 53 adolescents with hearingimpairment from three integrated secondary schools in two senatorial districtsof Oyo State were purposively selected for the study. Kesler PsychologicalDistress Scale with the index score of 19 and above was the screeningtool used to determine the adolescents with PD. Participants were randomlyassigned to CT (31) and control (22) groups. The treatment lasted 10 weeks.Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (r=0.71), Rosenberg Self-esteem,Rating (r=0.58) and Kesler Psychological Distress (r=0.63) scales were usedfor data collection. Data collected were analysed using Analysis of Covarianceand Bonferronni post-hoc test at 0.05 level of significance. Results showedthat participants in the CT group managed their PD better than those in thecontrol group. Participants with high self-esteem benefitted from the treatmentthan those with moderate and low self-esteem. Based on these findings,special educators, counselling and clinical psychologists and social workersare advised to use the therapy to manage psychological distress among adolescentswith hearing impairment.


Reversible changes in solar cell performance were induced by AM1 illumination and evaluated by measuring short-circuit current, weak light spectral response, and minority carrier diffusion length. In n(+)p cells the change manifests itself as a reduced short-circuit current, a loss of the red response, and a reduction in minority carrier diffusion length. In p(+)n cells there are two-photon induced effects: (1) enhancement of the blue spectral response, presumably occurring in the p(+) layer and (2) degradation in open-circuit voltage at low light levels due to increased leakage occurring only after the junction edge is exposed to bright light. Most of these photon effects are attributed to defects in the silicon.


This thesis presents execution of user friendly and cost effective home automation system with remote control of home appliances. This model is developed to help the handicapped and elder persons at home in addition to that; home automation can also be used to improve the living status of human being. The primary control system uses a GSM Module which gives a remote access to mobile phones. In order to control appliances, status of the home appliances and surrounding environment are required. The main focus of our work is to control home appliances in real time through GSM service based on sensor output. Based on this whole system is developed. Signals from sensors and status of the devices are provided to ATmega328 microcontroller. Further, using logics and processing the input signal, control signal are sent to control the home appliances through relay. On the other hand, Arduino codes are developed in its IDE (Integrated Development Environment) platform. The system is made to control electrical appliances of the house with ease of use and installation.


Rapid advances in consumer electronics have led to the anomaly that consumer off the shelf (COTS) gaming hardware and software now provide better interactive graphics than military and other specialized systems costing orders of magnitude more. UTSAF is bridging software written to take advantage of the power of gaming systems by allowing them to participate in distributed simulations with military simulators such as OneSAF which use the DIS protocol. UTSAF parses DIS PDUs and uses the information gained to control entities within the Unreal game engine using the Game-Bots modification. This paper describes the advantages of game engine based simulation and the UTSAF bridging and control architecture. Our main contribution is to build a simulation bridge that enables affordable high-quality 3-D viewers for military simulations.


The invention proposes a method and an emulsifying apparatus for the operation of a diesel engine with a water-diesel fuel emulsion, wherein the water fraction is varied as a function of the engine operating point and/or the emulsifying apparatus and/or parts of the injection line are flushed with pure diesel fuel upon a shutdown of the engine.


Unions have a long tradition of commitment on the subject environment. In recent years these activities have begun to occupy a central place. International trade union organizations as the International Confederation of Trade Unions and Global Unions have taken positions on climate change climate and make proposals at a series of international forums (eg, ITUC, ETUC, TUAC, 2006; TUAC Secretariat, 2008). These federations have begun to include environmental clauses in international framework agreements that contain commitments on specifi c environmental issues (ILO, 2007).


The collected essays in this volume, which have their genesis in a 2014 colloquium held at McGill University and Concordia University, examine the coming back to life thematic in a variety of ancient Mediterranean contexts. Our interests lie in the exploration of how antique communities configured, tested, and actualised the boundaries between past and present , mortality and immortality , death and life . In this introductory essay we define our problematic, outline the scope of analysis, and survey the major themes and contributions of each essay.


For purpose of detecting cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) hierarchically via hemodynamic parameters (HDPs) derived from sphygmogram, a fused hierarchical neural networks (FHNNs) scheme is proposed, which provides a noninvasive way to detect CVDs. To deduce conclusion via FHNNs, method of variance analysis is used to categorize HDPs. The categorized HDP sets are then inhaled by different sub neural networks (sub-NNs) of FHNNs according to importance and relevance of sets, and outputs of former sub-NNs are inhaled as inputs of latter sub-NNs, so that FHNNs have higher overall accuracy, especially in dealing with mixed CVDs. The sub-NNs are implemented by probabilistic neural networks (PNNs) or learning vector quantization networks (LVQ) due to their diverse advantages in dealing with different HDP categories. The preliminary testing results on site sampled data sets prove that the proposed method is promising for detecting CVDs.


ObjectiveTo investigate the influence of short-term mythylprednisolone treatment on fasting blood glucose (FBG) and electroly te in patients with SARS.MethodsIn this retrospective study, we analyzed the changes of FBG and electrolyte levels in 39 patients during the first week of mythylprednisolone therapy and one week after stopping the therap y compared with patients without glucocorticoid treatment.ResultsIn the course of (12.1±4) days the mean dosage of mythylprednisolone was ( 113±44) mg/day, and total dosage was (1347±773) mg. The findings were as follo ws:(1)First week in the mythylprednisolone treatment, FBG level, compared with c ontrol group, increased by 25.5%[(6.4±2.5) vs (5.1±1.1)mmol/L,P0.001 ]. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups one week after stopping mythylprednisolone therapy [(4 9±1 8) vs (4 9±0.9) m mol/L,P0.05]. (2)The percentage of patients with FBG≥7.0 mmol/L was high er than that in control group (39.5% vs 11.9%, P0.05) and the rate of pat ients with normal glucose was lower than that in patients without glucocorticoi d 55.3% vs 85 5%(P=0.01). One week after stopping mythylprednisolone th erapy, serum natrium and chloride level decreased markedly (P0 05), but th e value was still in normal range.Conclusions(1) Compared wi th the control group, the FBG level of patients with mythylprednisolone therapy could increase by 25.5% in the first week of treatment, which could lower to alm ost normal range one week after stopping the treatment. (2) Short-term mythylpr ednisolone treatment had no negative effects on serum potassium, natrium and chl oride level.


In legal systems,essence values is the fundamental one that controls other value.Determining by the whole culture and economic construction in modern society,the essence value of modern law is the unification of individual freedom and so- cial justice,it differs from traditional and post-modern legal values.To our country civil law legislation,essence value of modern law is benificial to overcome our straying of value and false place of subject,endure core value of individual free- dom,carry on the principle of autonomy of civil law practicaly,lay stress on value of social justice and realise the unifica- tion and harmony of individual freedom and social justice.


In the foreword to this little volume, Oscar Handlin declares that it is "not a history of social welfare, but rather an analysis of social work's development as a profession." Presumably by this statement he means that Roy Lubove has written a history of social work rather than of social welfare, for surely we shall not insist that historical analysis must be distinguished from history. Actually, the book is a thoughtful discussion of the development of social casework (for it deals almost exclusively with that particular method; hence, the subtitle is a misnomer), and of the none too gentle displacement of the volunteer from the office to the board room until, in the author's view, he became a virtual supernumerary. The displacement of the volunteer occurred, by and large, in two phases: During the first, between 1880 and 1900, when most visiting was actually done by the volunteers of charity organization societies, the hired district agent increasingly displayed a "tendency . . . to usurp the functions of the volunteer." During the second phase, after 1900, the volunteer became "subordinate to the professional" in all branches of social work. In the charity organization societies the caseworker performed the tasks of both agent and visitor, "which meant that the volunteer performed no distinctive function superior to that of the paid worker." As the training of the paid caseworker became more important, the relatively untrained volunteer found his usefulness waning. This change in the relative status of paid and volunteer workers was paralleled by a significant shift from a moralistic view of poverty to an environmental one. The change was epitomized, ironically, by the publication, in 1917, of M'.11'y Richmond's Social Diagnosis, just as the fashion in causation was again changing. Lubove believes that the effect of the environmental view of poverty was to force the upper-class volunteer into the background. Friendly visiting had been identified with moral superiority in an age when drink was regarded as perhaps the principal cause of poverty and pauperism; in the new century this attitu?e and approach were no longer viewed as valid. Once the "professional relationship" based on skill and knowledge had become essential, the professional worker's task was to find a new


The present invention is a method of calculating a conversion parameter in Montgomery modular multiplication in order to improve processing efficiency in software


Industrial areas located around the waters of Banten Bay affect the water quality and also the biota. The use of materials containing Pb as an industrial material will result in waste that can pollute the waters and impact on the biota. Pb is typically used in industry as an additive in mineral processing, battery charger material, paint material as well as textile dyes. This study was aimed to analyze the accumulation of Pb in threadfin bream, Nemipterus sp. (meat (muscle), skin and gills) in Banten Bay waters, thus it can be taken into consideration in making aquatic environmental management policy especially in Banten Bay. Sample collection was conducted in July-August 2016 and later analyzed using atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS). Based on the research result, Pb accumulation in threadfin bream contained in muscles, skin, and gills was at high concentration and already exceeded the quality standard set by BPOM, that is 0.3 mg kg. The highest concentration was found in the gills (22.02-70.56 mg kg) with the average concentration of 43.54±21.58 mg kg. Moreover, the lowest concentration was found in muscles (11.08-31.59 mg kg) with the average of 17.24±7.95 mg kg. Industrial, residential, and fisheries activities produce waste that generates pollutants one of which is Pb in the environment around the waters of Banten Bay. Establishment of regulation by the government concerning the threshold of waste disposal is needed to reduce the level of pollution.


As microwave systems become more and more complex, demands for improved performance and versatility in microwave circuitry increase. In answer to these demands a series of high performance microwave integrated circuits, microwave detectors, microwave couplers, IMP ATT amplifier and oscillators, operating at 4 and 6 GHz have been developed for use in Bell System Microwave Radio Relay Systems. These strip transmission line circuits, now in manufacture, integrate numerous microwave functions into single packages.


Tick and Beaudoin's companion is a monument to Tick's dedication to the subject as a musicologist. Drawing upon the narratives of the insiders and outsiders of American music stretching over 460 years, it dives into the 'unruliness' of musical culture in the USA. In their display of experiential accounts, a large part of these texts speak to us en vivant. The editors had the arduous responsibility of presenting an adequate, clear, and representative selection. (There is no information regarding the precise editorial roles of Tick and Beaudoin. Since the introduction is unsigned, I will assume that 'me' and 'my' refer to Tick.) Providing non-invasive notes, which could have provided more substance, is no simple task, either. The overall experience derived from these 159 chapters is that of a long journey through diverse stories within overlapping time-frames. Roughly defined periods shrink in equal proportions: 1540^1770 (the Colonial period: 90 years); 1770^1830 ('progressive trends': 60 years); 1830^80 ('arrival of American popular music': 50 years); 1880^1920 (stability: 40 years); 1920^50 ('a high point'/ 'synergy': 30 years); 1950^75 ('intersections of social change, media, and technology': 25 years); 1975^2000 (postmodernism: 25 years). The succinctness of earlier periods yields an uneven unfolding of the larger narrative; after a mere 110 pages, we are in the middle of the nineteenth century. But what is vital are interconnections, rather than differences; the chapters teem with cross-referencing and multi-contextualization: Whitman linked with Gershwin; Sessions and Dika Newlin with Schoenberg; Bernstein with Copland, Gershwin, and African-American music; Muddy Waters with the Rolling Stones and Charlie Parker; Chuck Berry with Count Basie and Jimi Hendrix; Laurie Anderson with Cage; black spirituals with rap; contemporary jazz with neoclassicism; John Williams with Wagner; Glass with music theatre, Boulanger, Ravi Shankar, and Buddhism; 'regional accordion' with immigration, mobility, and hybridization; Michael Jackson with Astaire; Sergei Eisenstein with Prokofiev, Tolkien, and Adorno; Cowell with turntable-scratch music. The editors favour so many excerpts with multiple subjects, who tend to have hybridized personalities, that one wonders if space constraints end up eclipsing truly egalitarian treatment. American themes such as control versus noncontrol, cross-cultural and ethno-racial diversity, adaptation, and migration are established without much ado (see, for example, John FanningWatson's polemical tract regarding religious debates on undisciplined hymn singing, and Tick's comment that '[w]ords also travel through sound to experience' (p. xxxiii)). The motifs of energy, travel, and journeying recur throughout the anthology, which is addressed to the 'Mind-Traveling Reader'ça term borrowed from the 1634 travelogue of William Wood. The editors' intention 'to harness the formidable energy of primary sources' is directed at students, teachers, and music lovers, who are invited to '''mind-travel'' into the many worlds of American music' (p. vii). Nonetheless, the epic journey of a thousand voices/texts jollying around is so open-ended that any 'centre' vanishes too easily. Indeed, the companion is 'fueled by territorial expansionism' (p. 270), making the transcontinental journey bumpy with both pleasant and disorienting morsels. Several chapters, containing 'sidebars', can be confusing or disruptive in their fast-forward and backward jumpsçsuch as two texts from 1931 and 1983 placed in the same chapter. Still, when the contexts and connections are established effectively, they instigate a sense of congruity. Coherence and fluidity are usually difficult to achieve in anthologies, in which texts are often approached as a tourist outing. Documentary histories in this subject include J. Heywood Alexander's To Stretch our Ears (New York, 2002) and Bill F. Faucett and Michael J. Budds's Music in America (Hillsdale, NY, 2009). Despite the potential inadequacies of documentary historiesçarguably, an abused genreçTick and Beaudoin, although providing their version of What to Read in American Music, do not force-feed us What to Think about It. Indeed, Tick asks early on: 'What


The Ministry of Transport (MOT) in Saudi Arabia uses Pavement Condition Rating (PCR) to report pavement condition. The PCR was developed by the World Bank in 1986. PCR is based on International Roughness Index (IRI), Rutting (RUT), Cracking (CRA), and Raveling (RAV). The MOT collects pavement condition data using a digital inspection vehicle (DIV). On some expressways, the MOT measures the Skid Number (SN) using a Skid Test Unit as complimentary measurement for safety issues. The objective of this paper is to develop a general prediction model for The Saudi Arabia Inter-Urban road network. Two models have been developed for the Inter-Urban road network using 10 years survey data for overlaid sections on some expressways in the network. One model is for PCR and the other one is for IRI. The PCR model is a function of pavement age (T), Traffic Volume (TV), and IRI. The IRI model is a function of RUT, RAV, and CRA. Overlaid sections across the entire network have been selected to study the mechanisms of pavement deterioration, to develop the model and to draw conclusions.


The term Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the use of standard internet protocols for interaction between human to things or things to things in an embedded network. Although the security needs are well-recognized, it is still not fully clear how existing IP-based security protocols can be applied to this new setting. In this paper we discuss the various security challenges in an IoT system. The paper also provides a standard IP-based security protocols and its implementation model which can be used as a security system for IoT.


This study was conducted in Thin Keo Village, Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, to investigate three factors: 1) farmers' knowledge and understanding of the system of rice intensification (SRI), 2) cultivation problems regarding SRI, and 3) farmers' adoption and satisfaction with the SRI. A questionnaire was used for data collection. It was found that most of the farmers understood the principles of SRI very well. However, they could not perform the correct cultural practices of SRI. Problems arose in two areas, i.e., water control in the paddy field (64.86%) and transplanting the seedlings in an "L" shape (94.74%). Cultivation constraints of SRI found at a medium level were: 1) labor shortages (x=x1.89), 2) disease and insect damage (x=x1.89), 3) water shortages (x=x1.80), 4) flooding in some areas (x=x1.80), and 5) a lack of knowledge of SRI practices (x=x1.71). The overall feedback from farmers indicated that SRI was adopted at a high level (x= 2.92) in this village.


. The diets of three syntopic Gulf of California Acanthemblemaria (A. balanorum, A. crock-eri and A. macrospilus) and A. castroi from the Galapagos Island are nearly uniformly composed of harpacticoid copepods and other small benthic-vagile or planktonic crustaceans. On occasion, large prey items such as crabs or other small fishes are taken. HORN'S index of niche overlap indicates that the three syntopic Acanthemblemaria are not separated along the food resource utilization axis. Slight variations in diets among the syntopic species seem to be related to differences in degree of microhabitat specialization.


Recoupling coefficients and isoscalar factors of a chain of compact topological groups (finite or continuous) are discussed in terms of character formulae. Special emphasis is put on the chain SU2 contains/implies G where G is isomorphic with the spinor group of a point symmetry group.


The 2019 edition "New Challenges in Drug Discovery", one of the biennial meetings under the patronage of the SEQT and EFMC, was held at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria‐Gasteiz from July 8 to 11, 2019. On this occasion, attendees from Spain as well as from five EU countries and three non‐EU countries were spectators of many scientific highlights related with the main research areas for different diseases and with protein−protein interactions, analytical tools and methods in discovery and development of drugs and computer‐assisted methods in medicinal chemistry. The interesting scientific program was also complemented by an entertaining social program: a gastronomic opening ceremony held at the Museum of Fine Arts of Alava, visits to the Medieval Old City of Gasteiz and a gala dinner in a typical restaurant nestled in a building from the XVth Century.


The present study examined the robustness of morphosyntactic information (inflectional case marking) vs. semantic information (animacy) in non-canonical SOV-and-V structures in Russian, a morphologically rich language with relatively free word order. Results from a self-paced moving window paradigm followed by a comprehension question indicated that case marking was a relatively weak cue during online reading and offline comprehension compared to animacy, which was relied upon heavily throughout. The results suggest that even in languages with rich inflectional morphology, morphosyntax is fragile. Furthermore, the results provide support for memory-based models of sentence processing in which similarity-induced interference affects memory for previously encountered constituents and the integration of incoming material.


A Transverse Electromagnetic Mode (TEM) cell is an interesting option for studying the biological efiects of radiofrequency radiation at reduced scale (in vitro studies). Controlled and well-characterized exposure conditions are essential for a conclusive investigation: the biological sample is exposed to a uniform incident electromagnetic wave and the dose of absorbed radiation is precisely determined and correlated with the efiect. Unfortunately, experimental dosimetry is often unavailable or inapplicable, so that a pre- characterized and validated experimental setup is most valuable. As such, the primary objective of the present work is to experimentally validate a computational model of a self-built TEM cell designed for bioelectromagnetic experiments in the 100MHz{1GHz frequency range. Validation is achieved by comparing the computed vs. measured values for three signiflcant parameters: scattering parameters, incident electric fleld distribution, and absorbed power in a set of liquid samples. Successful validation and characterization is achieved by using CST Microwave Studio's flnite integration technique (FIT), and respectively a network analyzer for the experimental setup. The secondary objective is a dosimetric study of four difierent liquid samples loaded in the cell. The absorption coe-cient (AC) is used, assimilated to the speciflc absorption rate (SAR) of energy deposition in the entire sample volume. AC is shown to converge in experiment and simulation up to 800MHz for all samples. AC doesn't depend directly on the samples' volume (despite greater volumes frequently showing higher absorption) but rather upon the internal fleld distribution, which in turn mostly depends on the frequency and on the dimensions of the liquid samples.


UDC 656.07+ 658.8; JEL Classification: N7, R49, L91 The absence of the basic law of logistics leads to a significant limitation of the practice of structuring and optimizing flows in it. The practice of research shows that to establish the quantitative form of any basic law requires a certain minimum of specific private laws, and besides in the widest possible range of causes (costs) and consequences (results). It is the generalization, extrapolation of this dependence that will establish the basic law of logistics in quantitative form. But the current existence of only three private laws of logistics (20-80; 10-70; 5-50) is not enough for this. To solve this problem, the authors hypothesized the possibility of establishing two more private laws of logistics, and in two key places in the range: at the very beginning and at the very end. This will cover virtually the entire range of private laws of logistics and establish the basic law of logistics in quantitative form. The purpose of this study is to establish the quantitative form of the basic law of logistics. Research methods: review of literature sources, 2C70, VEO, historical-logical, induction-deduction, theory of Babaylov's method. Results: two new (fourth and fifth) private laws of logistics were discovered; on the basis of three existing and two new private laws of logistics, the basic law of logistics was established in its quantitative form. Scientific novelty: for the first time two new private laws of logistics were established and on this basis the basic law of logistics in its quantitative form was established. Practical significance: the basic law of logistics in quantitative form is the only technique in the practice of logistics, which will provide a rational (logistical) organization of flows for any ratio of costs and results.


'Home' is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus' epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of 'the home' in antiquity means bringing together two separate, if closely related, fields of study. On the one hand, study of the family, both in the legal frameworks that define it as institution and the literary representations of it in daily life; on the other, archaeological study of the domestic setting, within which such relationships are played out. Ranging across a period of over a millennium, this collection looks at the home as a force of integration: of the worlds of family and of the outsider in hospitality; of the worlds of leisure and work; of the worlds of public and private life; of the world of practical structures and furnishings and the world of religion.


We present a practical roadmap to achieve optical cycling and laser cooling of asymmetric top molecules (ATMs). Our theoretical analysis describes how reduced molecular symmetry, as compared to diatomic and symmetric non-linear molecules, plays a role in photon scattering. We present methods to circumvent limitations on rapid photon cycling in these systems. We calculate vibrational branching ratios for a diverse set of asymmetric top molecules and find that many species within a broad class of molecules can be effectively cooled with a manageable number of lasers. We also describe methods to achieve rotationally closed optical cycles in ATMs. Despite significant structural complexity, laser cooling can be made effective using extensions of the current techniques used for linear molecules. Potential scientific impacts of laser-cooled ATMs span frontiers in controlled chemistry, quantum simulation, and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.


This paper is a study on the response of rotating hard disks subjected to a half-sine acceleration in the axial or pitching direction. The solution is obtained by using the multimodal expansion approximation and applying the Galerkin method to the resulting equations. Numerical results are obtained by using the Newmark β method for 5.25", 3.5" and 2.5" hard disks spinning at 3 600 rpm. It is found that the disk holds its maximum displacement and acceleration when the input duration τ is about 1.5 times the natural half period of the (m, n)=(0, 0) mode. Here, m and n are the numbers of nodal circles and diameters, respectively. Results also show that the acceleration with 11 ms, which is nowadays widely used as a standard input on the shock test of the disk drive units, leads to only 60-70% of the maximum displacement and acceleration.


This paper reviews the use of square facets of a single standard size on horizontal belts on a paraboloidal solar concentrator.


Sands and the sand-gravel mixes (SGM) from which more than a half of nonmetallic construction materials is manufactured in the Russian Federation serve as one of main types of the mineral raw materials used for production of the nonmetallic construction materials (NCM). Production of non-solid building materials (NSM) — sand, gravel, sand and gravel mixture — is necessary for the normal functioning of the construction industry: the larger the settlement, the greater the volume of production of NSM for construction enterprises. Many areas of the NSM are confined to the floodplain or channel of water bodies. Often, the interests of organizations engaged in the extraction of NSM near water bodies conflict with the interests of other water users, so the issue of regulating the production of NSM is very relevant. At the same time, environmental, hydrological aspects are the most important in the regulation, which are largely manifested through the deformation of the channel [1; 13–15]. In this article the assessment of the impact on water bioresources of the Irtysh River when developing fields on extraction of sand and sand-gravel mix on Oseredkovy, Pokrovsk and Molokan fields within the Omsk region is given. Comparative hydrobiological characteristic in the area of each deposit is given. Monitoring studies have shown that the main component of the damage in the extraction of non-solid building materials was fodder organisms. This work revealed changes in hydrobiological indicators in the number and biomass of fodder organisms depending on the location of deposits on the Irtysh River. The maximum amount of damage to water bioresources per 1000 m3 of mined soil is observed at the Molokanskoye deposit, the minimum loss of ichthyomass is noted at the Oseredkov deposit, which is located upstream of the river.


This paper uses the recently published 2002 Vehicle Inventory and Use survey to determine the number of commercial trucks in the categories that are most likely to idle for periods of more than 0.5 h at a time. On the basis of estimated numbers of hours for both overnight idling by sleepers and long-duration idling by all size classes during their workdays, the total fuel use by idling trucks is estimated to be more than 2 billion gallons per year. Workday idling is determined to be a potentially much larger energy user than overnight idling, but data are required before any definitive conclusions can be reached. Existing technologies can reduce overnight idling, but development may be needed to reduce workday idling.


We present the most relevant results of the project MaCoCu: Massive collection and curation of monolingual and bilingual data: focus on under-resourced languages in its second year. To date, parallel and monolingual corpora have been produced for seven low-resourced European languages by crawling large amounts of textual data from selected top-level domains of the Internet; both human and automatic evaluation show its usefulness. In addition, several large language models pretrained on MaCoCu data have been published, as well as the code used to collect and curate the data.


Analysis of the NMR shifts of unsaturated carbon atoms in monounsaturated linear long-chain esters and acids, including new data from jojoba oil, rules out any explanation in terms of an 'electric field effect', but is semiquantitatively consistent with a 'σ-inductive' mechanism, having an attenuation factor of 1.75 per saturated C–C bond.


ABSTRACT Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is among the contemporary maintenance methodologies used to increase reliability of industrial systems. RCM is used to ensure that the functions of any given component of an asset or operating system are preserved in terms of safety, quality, and economy without environmental impact. Decision processes in traditional RCM applications feature predominantly qualitative information requirements, used in decision-making processes without adequate criteria and subject to errors caused by human factors. In this context, this research proposes the creation of a knowledge database that merges qualitative and quantitative information to be used in analyzing and improving decisions in RCM deployments. The choice of the best data items to be used in the implementation and evaluation of RCMs, as well as formalization of information for application in decision-making, is important accomplishments to ensure the program's suitability to the company context, thereby resulting in the delivery of program objectives.


In the process of constructing the harmonious society,the medical students' humanistic quality education is very important to establish harmonious doctor-patient relationship,promote the development of medical and health services,and advance the social harmony.In view of existing deficiencies in humanistic quality education of our medical colleges,the author puts forward some corresponding countermeasures,so as to realize the combination of medicine and humanities,and then contribute to a harmonious society.


Abstract : This study is an evaluation of the Japanese harbors of Buckner Bay and Naha, Okinawa as typhoon 'havens.' Characteristics of the harbors discussed include wind and wave action, storm surge and the topographical effects on winds prior to and during the passage of tropical cyclones. Problems to be considered when remaining in port and evasion procedures are examined. The tracks of tropical cyclones from 1947-1973 for the western North Pacific were analyzed to determine the probability of threat to the harbors. Observations by the authors and information obtained in conversations with harbor authorities are utilized in reaching conclusions. The conclusion reached by this study is that all vessels should evade from Buckner Bya and Naha when threatened by a typhoon.


Africa's renewable energy resource base is large. Traditional patterns of energy use have resulted in widespread environmental degradation. Renewable energy technologies are capable of harnessing this energy on a sustainable basis. However, despite some notable successes, efforts to disseminate these tech nologies have resulted in numerous failures. The failure of such efforts has been attributed to a variety of problems which have yet to be evaluated in a comprehensive and policy-relevant form. Such analysis is prerequisite to enabling policy-makers to act effectively.


Progymnasmata are collections of speaking and writing exercises for students of rhetoric. As historians have shown, they played an extremely important role in European education from Antiquity to the beginnings of the Modern Era. Unfortunately, they are treated today, if at all, as an historical curiosity, a relic of the old "school rhetoric." Occasionally, there are attempts to revive the traditional sequence. Both approaches miss what I believe is most valuable about the progymnasmata, the very idea of a unified pedagogical program in the language arts, spanning primary, secondary, and higher education, oriented toward the shaping of rhetorical character, and organized around a sequence of well-defined exercises in verbal analysis and composition.


— The framework of a new probabilistic model of short fatigue crack growth was laid down in the preceding paper. In this paper, the model is used to analyze growth rate statistics for surface fatigue cracks in Ti 6Al-2Sn-4Zr-6Mo. Specific models are proposed for the evolution of the stochastic growth control variable, which appears subsequently as an independent variable in a parametric law for the growth rate. Comparison with data shows that for cracks of length 10–250 μm in Ti 6–2-4–6, fluctuations in the instantaneous rate of propagation of each surface crack tip depend only on the visible surface microstructure in the tip's immediate neighborhood. They are not influenced by the microstructural environment of the subsurface crack front. Furthermore, they probably depend only on the sizes of at most the three grains nearest the crack tip, i.e. those within about 30 μm of it.


This work verifies the effect of Job Crafting on organizational commitment through innovative actions, and analyzes the regulatory effect, by setting up knowledge sharing among members as factors that promote Job Crafting and Innovative Action. Depending on the level of knowledge sharing, the indirect effects of Job Crafting from organizational commitment of the members through innovative actions are expected to vary, and the controlled mediated effects are analyzed. Totally, 463 individuals were surveyed, including start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, public institutions, and large enterprise workers. The hypothesis was subsequently verified through analysis by applying SPSS 18.0 and SPSS Process Macro. Our results reveal that Job Crafting has a positive impact on the innovation behavior of the members. Secondly, a higher level of knowledge sharing had a greater positive outcome in the member's innovation behavior. Third, all innovative actions positively impacted the organizational commitment of the members. The fourth notable point was that innovation behavior imparted only a moderate impact on the association between Job Crafting and Organizational Commitment. Finally, it was determined that there was no significance in the controlled mediated effect of knowledge sharing on the indirect effects of Job Crafting affecting organizational commitment through innovative actions. Based on the data verifying the hypothesis, we present here the theoretical and practical implications of this study.


The purpose of this note is to trace in more detail the consequences of treating the conservation law for heavy particles1 on a par with the conservation law for electric charges. It is thus an attempt to guess at the properties of particles as yet unknown and their interactions, and therefore speculative. However, it does not attempt a classification of elementary particles similar to that proposed recently by several writers, in particular, A. Pais.2 In this regard it is somewhat more conservative.


Although hyperlipidemia is traditionally considered a risk factor for type-2 diabetes (T2D), evidence has emerged from statin trials and candidate gene investigations suggesting that lower LDL-C increases T2D risk. We thus sought to comprehensively examine the phenotypic and genotypic relationships of LDL-C with T2D. Using data from the UK Biobank, we found that LDL-C was negatively associated with T2D (OR=0.43[0.41, 0.45] per mmol/L unit of LDL-C), despite positive associations of LDL-C with HbA1c and BMI. We then performed the first genome-wide exploration of variants simultaneously associated with lower LDL-C and increased T2D risk, using data on LDL-C from the UK Biobank (n=431,167) and the GLGC consortium (n=188,577), and T2D from the DIAGRAM consortium (n=898,130). We identified 31 loci associated with lower LDL-C and increased T2D, capturing several potential mechanisms. Seven of these loci have previously been identified for this phenotype, and 9 have previously been implicated in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Finally, two-sample Mendelian randomization analyses suggest that low LDL-C causes T2D, although causal interpretations are challenging due to pleiotropy. Our findings extend our current understanding of the higher T2D risk among individuals with low LDL-C, and of the underlying mechanisms, including those underlying the diabetogenic effect of LDL-C-lowering medications.


: To explore the application of meticulous and predictive management in pediatric emergency nursing. 280 pediatric patients were randomly divided into observation group and control group according to time, with 140 children in each group. There were 95 women and 45 men in the observation group, and 82 women and 58 men in the control group. The control group was given routine nursing, while the observation group was given meticulous and predictable management. The results were statistically analyzed using SPSS 22.0 software. The management quality of the observation group in business assessment, safety management, management records and basic management was much higher than that of the control group, with statistical significance (P<0.05). The nursing satisfaction of the observation group was significantly higher than that of the control group (P<0.05). And the incidence of risk events in the observation group was significantly lower than that in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). The application of meticulous and predictive management in pediatric emergency nursing can effectively improve the comprehensive quality of nursing staff, improve the quality and safety of nursing, and reduce the incidence of adverse events, which has wide clinical promotion value.


This work proposes a new improvement of the 'Search and Replace' function well known from most text processing software. The standard search and replace function is used to replace exact form of words or phrases by another words or phrases in text documents. It is quite sufficient for languages with minimal inflection such as English. However, a well working word or phrase replacement function for morphologically rich languages requires much more thought. We explore the issues of implementing a useful search and replace in the Czech language and propose solutions to majority of the problems: A syntactic parser is employed to identify the phrases containing the search word or phrase. The correct word forms used as a replacement are generated by a morphological analyser. A web demonstration utilizing the proposed solution is presented. The attached examples of use reveal the cases in which the implemented method works well.


Constructing a GIS-based 3D Urban Model Using LiDAR and Aerial Photographs. (December 2004) Wei-Ming Lin, B.S., Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Hongxing Liu Due to the increasing availability of high-resolution remotely sensed imagery and detailed terrain surface elevation models, urban planners and municipal managers can now model and visualize the urban space in three dimensions. The traditional approach to the representation of urban space is 2D planimetric maps with building footprints, facilities and road networks. Recently, a number of methods have been developed to represent true 3D urban models. Those include panoramic imaging, Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), and Computer-aided Design (CAD). These methods focus on aesthetic representation, but they do not have sufficient spatial query and analytical capabilities. This research evaluates the conventional approaches to 3D urban models, and identifies their advantages and limitations; GIS functionalities have been combined with 3D urban visualization techniques to develop a GIS-based urban modeling method; The algorithms and techniques have been explored to derive urban objects and their attributes from airborne LiDAR and high-resolution


Objective To study the main problems of operating room management work, to provide measures for hospital infection control, and to analysis the application effect. Methods The record data from February 2013 to November 2013, and December 2013 to July 2013 were retrospective studied, and questionnaire investigation was conducted. The problems existing in the operating room were summarized, the practical effects were evaluated. Results The infection rate was decreased from 2.97% to 0.51, and the sterilization quality was improved. Conclusion Only formulate scientific and reasonable operating room management strategy, strict process, strengthen the operating room disinfection and isolation, the sense of responsibility, improve the medical staff can effectively reduce the hospital infection rate, strengthen medical and health level.


In this study, we presented data on the role of free radicals in human spermatozoa, particularly in the context of centrifugation and the potential development of defective sperm function. In order to achieve this, methods were developed to directly measure intracellular free radicals in human sperm and the effects of exogenously applied free radicals on sperm function were established. The role of brief and prolonged centrifugation and the associated generation of free radicals was also investigated. In the first part of the study, we established flow cytometry as a reliable tool for directly measuring intracellular free radicals in human spermatozoa. It was shown that flow cytometry is an accurate, objective and relatively easy technique that can be applied to detect and measure intracellular nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in human spermatozoa by employing the fluorescent probes DAF-2/DA and DCFH respectively. In the second part of the study the effects of centrifugation on free radical generation in sperm was investigated. It was shown that a brief period of centrifugation (10 min) led to increased NO and ROS generation whereas prolonged centrifugation (30 min) decreased NO generation whilst ROS generation was increased. These increases in NO and ROS generation due to centrifugation were attenuated by the addition of the NOS enzyme inhibitor, L-NAME, and the ROS scavenger, MPG, respectively. Centrifugation furthermore led to impaired sperm motility parameters and decreased cell viability, which could be restored completely by ROS scavenging (MPG), but not by NOS inhibition (L-


Cultural cognition refers to the influence that individuals' values have on their perceptions of technological risk. We conducted a study to assess the cultural cognition of synthetic biology risks. Examining the attitudes of a large and diverse sample of Americans (N = 1,500), we found that hierarchical, conservative, and highly religious individuals - persons who normally are most skeptical of claims of environmental risks (including those relating to nuclear power and global warming) - are the persons most concerned about synthetic biology risks. We attribute this inversion of the normal cultural profile of risk perceptions to the seemingly anti-religious connotations of synthetic biology. We discuss implications of this finding for future study and for risk communication.