Using a panel fi xed e ff ects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975 – 2005, we examine how fi nancial development, fi nancial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all fi nance variables increase income inequality. The level of fi nancial development conditions the impact of fi nancial liberalization on inequality. Also the quality of political institutions conditions the impact of fi nancial liberalization on income inequality, in contrast to the quality of economic institutions. Our main fi ndings are robust for using random e ff ects, cross-country regressions and legal origin as instrument for fi nancial development.


The article presents a method of representing the topology of the electrical grid on the basis of a topological list (T-list), including both structural and numerical information about the elements of the grid. The method of calculation of emergency operation modes parameters of power supply system (PSS) with T-list use, which can be used for calculation on the personal computer, is resulted. The considered approach allows optimizing computing resources at calculation of emergency operation modes of industrial enterprises PSS.


Three girls at Evans Bay looking at the Solent flying boat operated by TEAL. Photograph taken circa 7 Sep 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer
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Abstract In this paper, an approach to simulate the spatial distribution of urban population is proposed using urban land use and population statistical data through the geographical information systems (GIS). Then, the spatial population distribution of Urumqi as a case is simulated by the approach mentioned above and its varying patterns are analyzed by the raster population surface. As a result, producing raster population surface is more accurate and natural than the traditional choropleth map of population density. Concerning the spatial population distribution of Urumqi, the population density declines from south to north and the population distribution mainly presents "T-type", the population distribution presents multi-centre agglomeration and the population distribution of the districts shows different features. The population density varies significantly with the increase in the distance from central business district (CBD). Finally, it is found in this paper that the development history of districts, terrain and traffic road are main factors that have an influence Urumqi's population distribution. This paper tries to provide more accurate population data for the plan and management of urban land, traffic and public facilities in order to enrich the researches on urban population distribution.


A consensus sequence of the euchromatic portion of human genome has been generated by the whole genome shot-gun sequencing method that was developed while sequencing the genomes of Haemophilus influenzae and Drosophila melanogaster. The 2.9 billion bp sequence, was generated over nine months from 27,271,853 high quality sequence reads (≁5X coverage of the genome) from both ends of plasmid clones made from the DNA of five individuals: three females and two males of African-American, Asian-Chinese, Hispanic and Caucasian ethnicity. The coverage of the genome in cloned DNA represented by paired end-sequences exceeds 37X. Two assembly methods, a whole genome assembly and a regional hybrid assembly were utilized, combining BAC data from GenBank with Celera data. Over 90 assemblies of 500,000 bp or greater and 2510 million bp or larger. Analysis of the genome sequence reveals - 26,178 protein-encoding genes for which there is strong corroborating evidence and an additional 12,000 computationally derived genes with mouse homologues or other weak supporting evidence. Comparative genomic analysis indicates vertebrate expansions of genes associated with neuronal function, tissue-specific developmental regulation, and in the hemostasis and immune systems. DNA sequence comparisons among the five individuals provided locations of 2.6 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The haploid genomes of a randomly drawn pair of humans differ at a rate of one per 1,250 bp on average but there is marked heterogeneity in the level of polymorphism across the genome. Only 0.75% of the SNPs led to possibly dysfunctional proteins.


Q.-An old gipsy mentioned that years before he lhad been crippled by rheumatism, and a wise woman of his people advised that he should be rubbed all over with nettles. This was done; he swelled to twice his usual size, and the water poured out of him. This treatment cur-ed his rheumatism. Is there any scientific reason why this treatment should be effective, and would it be reasonable to recommend it in practice in certain types of rheumatism when other methods have failed? Are there any risks attached to such treatment ?


The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) subcommittee TR41.6 has initiated project PN-3670, private network mobility management, to develop standards to enable PBX systems with wireless capability to perform registration and subscription for visiting users. These procedures will allow visitors to make and receive voice and data communications with equivalent convenience as at their home site.


The invention relates to a sterilization composite with synergy. The sterilization composite contains the following effective active components of ZJ0712 and thiophanate-methyl,wherein the weight ratio of the ethirimol to the ZJ0712 is 5-80:40-1; and wettable powder, water dispersible granule and suspending agent can be prepared by adding auxiliary agent and excipient into the effective active components. The sterilization composite of the invention can be used for preventing and curing powdery mildew, anthracnose, rice blast and rust disease of vegetables and cereal crops.


Desorption/adsorption of guest molecules in a nano-porous material is one of the sensitive tools to control the nature of the host framework via the strong guest-host interaction. A Co–Fe cyanide film, Na0.20Co[Fe(CN)6]0.71zH2O, shows a spin state transition from the high-spin (HS) phase [Co2+ (S = 3/2)–Fe3+ (S = 1/2)] to the low-spin (LS) phase [Co3+ (S = 0)–Fe2+ (S = 0)] at Tc = 220 K. Here, we found that the existence (Tc = 220–263 K) and nonexistence (Tc≤0 K) of the phase transition reversibly switched by the site-selective desorption of the guest waters. Such a gigantic controllability of Tc is ascribed to subtle competition between the HS phase and the LS phase together with the cooperative nature of the transition.


This paper advocated learning from the ashes of "non-exclusive theory" point of view,in-depth analysis of works by Issey Miyake convey philosophical thinking,exploring fashion design innovative way of thinking,with a view of China's art of costume design help.


Education is essentially a mode of inculcating worth & values to furnish the children for leading a life that is gratifying to the individual in pursuance with the intended values and ideals of the society. Teachers and students are the most affecting factors in education system. Peace education depends on the teacher's sense of responsibility and responsiveness towards the students and also the position of mind of learners are responsible for this. The present investigation aimed to investigate the attitude of teachers and students towards Peace Education. Descriptive survey method has been used in this research and 150 samples were purposely chosen. The investigator has taken 50 college teachers and 100 students at the under-graduate level by using purposive sampling technique. Data were gathered with the help of peace education awareness self-constructed questionnaire with attitude scale, which was developed by the researcher himself. The combined scores of teachers and students were attitude of teacher and students towards Peace Education. To find out the significant of difference between various groups, t-test was applied for analysis and interpretation of the data.


As a new kind of sub-wavelength elastic metamaterials, elastic metasurfaces have attracted much attention in recent years since their unique ability in elastic wave modulation. Lately, adaptive elastic metasurfaces make the elastic wave modulation more flexible by introducing new degrees of freedom into the metasurface designs. In this paper, the subunits of the adaptive metasurface are designed by combining the piezoelectric patches with shunted inductance circuit. Due to the tunability of the shunt circuit, the phase shifts for the subunits can be regulated by adjusting the electrical parameters without changing the configuration. According to the generalized Snell's law (GSL), the designed adaptive elastic metasurface can realize negative refraction with variable deflection angles and plane focusing with variable focal lengths. Besides, the designed metasurface has adjustable operating bandwidth compared with the traditional elastic metasurfaces. Our proposed adaptive elastic metasurface has potential applications in structural damage detection, vibration control and energy harvesting.


Lumpy skin disease of local Buffalo breeds at Basrah governorate, Iraq, has been investigated and diagnosed clinically. The present study was conducted to examine (88) local buffalo breeds 2-4 years old and of both sexes. Diseased animals show acute clinical manifestations and Cutaneous nodules of 2–5 cm in diameter develop at different body regions, These nodules are circumscribed, firm, round and raised, and involve the skin, subcutaneous tissue and might also involve the underlying muscles. Thirteen (13), clinically normal local buffalo breeds served as controls. A statistically significant increase has been indicated in body temperature, respiratory rate, heart rate and capillary refill time of diseased buffalo than in controls, However, the rate of ruminal contractions was significantly decreased. Results of hematological examinations revealed no change indicated in the values of total erythrocytes count and hemoglobin concentration, However, a significant increase was encountered in the packed cell volume, in diseased buffalo compared with controls. Moreover, a significant decrease has been found in total leukocytes count, which was due to a significant decrease lymphocytes. Examination of clotting factor indices indicated a significant decrease of the total thrombocytes count of diseased buffalo compared with controls, Whereas, a significant increase was encountered in thrombocytes volume, thrombocytes distribution width, fibrinogen time, clotting time, prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time. It has been concluded that, lumpy skin disease could infect buffalo, reflecting poor health and productivity, resulting sometimes in high morbidity rate and mortalities and terminated with economic losses, Therefore, prophylactic and control measures should always be followed .


Application of artificial intelligence in the wood industry. Computer performance is to carry out the tasks arising from the algorithm. Artificial Intelligence is to create a machine that mimics human thinking. The study characterizes the various systems of artificial intelligence and their application in the woodworking industry.


only qualitative data, but is easy to carry out and requires only a few common chemicals, whereas the procedure invented by Jeuniaux must be very laborious as it requires the isolation and purification of the enzymes chitinase and chitobiase. I believe the following results obtained by the chitosan method are valid qualitatively. Hydroids. It is generally accepted that the periderm of hydroids is chitinous. Tests made on the athecate hydroid Tubularia and the thecate hydroids Obelia and Aglaop/zenia are confirmatory ; their periderm gave a good positive test. Medusae. Hydrozoan medusa Polyorchis and scyphozoan medusa Linuche dissolved in the hot alkali and hence are devoid of chitin. Velelia. The sail of this well-known chondrophore is supported by an internal plate of cartilaginous consistency which gave a good color test. Nematocysts. Pieces of the tentacles of Physalia loaded with nematocysts dissolved completely in the hot alkali, an indication that the capsular wall of the nematocysts is not chitinous as sometimes thought. Entoprocts. Barentsia zorbunai and Barentsia disoreta dissolved completely in the hot alkali, hence are devoid of chitin, in sharp contrast with the ectoprocts which are mostly highly chitinous, except cyclostomes. Cyclostomatous ectoprocts. I previously reported a negative result with the one cyclostome available, Crisia eburnea. I have now made tests on the following species : Crisia eburnea, Crisia maxima, Crisina radians, Bicrisia edwardsiens, Crisulipora occiden talis, Filicrisia francanciscana, Diaperoecia californica, and Tubulipora tuba. All were negative. Jeuniaux reported a feeble content of chitin in Crisia denticulata and attributed my negative result to the less sensitive chitosan method. In any case the chitin content of cyclotomatous estoprocts must be very small in comparison with that of other ectoprocts. Brachiopods. Pieces of the shell of Lingula including the bristles gave a strong color test as previously known. An effort was made to recover the bristles, lost in the previous test ; they are strongly chitinous. In previous tests on Discinisca the bristles also were not recovered, hence a special effort was made this time to recover them; they also gave a strong color test.


This Element introduces the notion of curatorial composing to account for certain musical practices that emerged from the 1960s as the founding concepts of music as an art – instituted in the modern era – were systematically dismantled. It raises the key question of how musical value and authority might be produced without recourse to an external principle, origin, transcendental framework, or other foundation. It argues that these practices do not dismiss the issue of value or simply relativise it but shift the paradigm to a curatorial concern for composing public encounters and staging events. The Element shows that Lydia Goehr's elaboration of the work-concept provides a framework that was transformed by John Cage in his work from 0'00" (1962) onwards. The Element then introduces Heiner Goebbels' practice and focus on his role as Artistic Director of the Ruhrtriennale (2012–14), which it argues was an extension of his curatorial composing.


Investigation of underground water becomes very important because it involves human life. The difficulty experienced by the community is the limited potential of underground water, this is due to the uneven distribution of underground water in an area. The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence of groundwater in subsurface rock areas. Groundwater investigations around the bedrock have been successfully carried out using the geoelectric method. The geoelectric survey with Schlumberger configuration was carried out in the investigation area. The results of the study have been observed zones that contain groundwater around rocks with varying thicknesses of 73.25 meters and 119 meters.


Preventing crime rather than waiting for a crime to be committed is appealing. There is a wellestablished association between personality disorder and offending but the nature of the relationship is less well understood. Personality disorders lead to a disturbance in functioning as great as that in most major mental disorders. They are associated with high rates of separation and divorce; unemployment and inefficiency; and poor quality of life for the individual and his/her family. Patients with personality disorders have an increased risk of mortality through suicide, homicide, and accidents. By knowing the relation between personality disorders and criminal behavior it is possible to take precautions in preventing the crimes.


In this paper, we propose a new type of haptic interface, named active link mechanism. This device realizes physical man-machine interaction (PMI) between machines and persons. Two prototypes were developed to demonstrate the potential of the active link mechanisms. Developed interface devices are an active tetrahedron and an active icosahedron. Nine-DOF micro spherical joints and pressure control pneumatic cylinders were developed to realize the active tetrahedron, while fifteen-DOF micro spherical joints and intelligent pneumatic cylinders were developed for the active icosahedron. The tetrahedron successfully realizes "virtual touch"; the operators feel actions, forces, and shapes of the virtual objects in PC and also move and deform them. Real time PMI is realized by building the developed devices into MSC.Visual-Nastran4D. MSC.VisuaI-Nastran4D is a mechanism analysis software, which can make motion analysis in real time. The active icosahedron also realized dynamic interaction with virtual objects in PC, showing the potential of the devices as a haptic interface.


Homotopy methods have proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the multitude of solutions provided by the coupled-cluster polynomial equations. This endeavor has been pioneered by quantum chemists that have undertaken both elaborate numerical as well as mathematical investigations. Recently, from the perspective of applied mathematics, new interest in these approaches has emerged using both topological degree theory and algebraically oriented tools. This article provides an overview of describing the latter development.


Effective management of water resources in the river basin is impossible without information about the intra-annual distribution of runoff and its regularities. To analyze the intra-annual distribution of river discharge, graphs of the change in flow over time and curves for the provision of average daily discharges are used. The share of the basic runoff in the year under consideration is estimated using the coefficient of natural flow regulation (CNFR). The CNFR is taken into account when solving engineering and scientific problems. The value of CNFR is determined according to the graph of the supply curve for average daily expenses or by another approximate method. This article uses a previously developed method for calculating CNFR in the Mathcad environment. The values of CNFR for the rivers of the Kaliningrad region are calculated based on the results of observations of average daily discharges in 2020 obtained from the Automated Information System for State Monitoring of Water Bodies of the Russian Federation for eight hydrological posts. It has been established that 2020 in the Kaliningrad region was characterized by low water content. Under these conditions, the CNFR of the rivers of the region turned out to be noticeably higher than that of the rivers of the North-West of Russia. The exception was the rivers Instruch and Zlaya. It is determined that CNFR has a close stochastic relationship with the ratio of the average and maximum flow of this river. The growth trend of CNFR can be traced with an increase in the area of the catchment area.


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has undertaken dozens of regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) and benefit–cost studies related to the objectives of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Originating with President Reagan's Executive Order 12291 in 1981, and supported through subsequent Executive Orders, the EPA is required to undertake these analyses for all major rules, with the objective of maximizing net benefits and avoiding regulations where the costs to the society do not justify the benefits. Because the environmental research field of nonmarket valuation was nascent when the early Executive Orders were initiated, leadership at the EPA committed funds and expertise to support original research by economists, usually in collaboration with scientists from other disciplines. One goal of these efforts was to provide estimates of monetary value for water quality improvements to inform regulatory analysis. Estimating economic benefits in this setting requires the use of nonmarket valuation techniques, as most water quality and related aquatic ecosystem services are not commodities that are bought and sold directly in markets. Sources of benefits tied to the direct use of water bodies, such as fishing in a river or living near a lake, can be inferred from the expenditures people make to use the resource. But, benefits can accrue that are unrelated to use. For example, people may value water quality because it is beneficial to other species, to preserve the resource for future generations, or out of a sense of stewardship for the environment. As these nonuse values cannot be inferred from observed behavior in markets or related settings, economists have devised survey methods to measure the public's willingness to pay (WTP) for improved environmental quality. These stated preference methods conceptually capture both use and nonuse values. Directed by the Executive Orders to quantify all sources of value possible, the EPA has played an important role in supporting research that measures the benefits of water quality improvements. Notable early studies provided foundational methods and empirical estimates to support federal regulatory design for water resources at EPA and other federal agencies (e.g., refs. 1–3). Despite the methodologies and findings generated by these studies and a related body of economics research, the funding and knowledge base for water quality valuation has not kept up with new and evolving needs of the Agency (4–6). This has resulted in EPA economic analyses with categories of water quality benefits that are either left unquantified (e.g., nonuse values) or estimated using arguably obsolete methods and data (7, 8). To fill these critical knowledge gaps, the EPA issued a request for applications (RFA) in 2015 to provide financial support for interdisciplinary nonmarket valuation studies. The basis of this RFA was to improve estimates of benefits across multiple types of water resources including, "...the Nation's inland fresh water small streams, lakes and rivers, estuaries, coastal waters, and the Great Lakes." The Agency identified three research areas that could prove fruitful for future benefit estimates. The first of these is to understand how individuals perceive and value changes in water quality. For instance, how do individuals value the attainment of a water quality standard versus a comparable change in water quality that does not cross a defined threshold? The second pertains to the spatial scale and scope of water quality benefits and sought interdisciplinary research that could strengthen the link between hydrological and ecological models and end points that affect human welfare. Third, this RFA provided support for methodological advancements, such as new ways to communicate changes in environmental quality within stated-preference questionnaires, to improve the estimation of both use and nonuse sources of value. In response to the RFA, EPA awarded $4.8 million in funding to six multi-institutional teams. To increase the quality and collective impact of the studies and enhance their ability to inform local and national decisions on water quality, the EPA encouraged sharing of methodological advances across the teams and promoted joint efforts to address research challenges. This resulted in a tightly integrated body of valuation research. The set of studies, together, will support the next generation of water quality valuation methods at EPA. The articles in this PNAS symposium provide key results from studies funded under the RFA by academic researchers and closely related original research by EPA analysts and scientists.


The present invention relates to a vehicle seat rail locking device, it is provided in the upper rail and a low rail is coupled to be movable in the upper rail the sheet is fixed, the seat of the vehicle to regulate as required the movement of the upper rail in the rail a locking device, the low rail and is provided between the upper rail, a plurality of lock guide fitting hole is formed and; A plurality of lock units, which is fitted to the exit or a plurality of lock holes formed on the low rail perform the locking and unlocking action of the seat rails and; And the lock lever for movement to the lock unit; It is fixed to the upper rail and the guide lever of the hinge fixed to the lock lever; It characterized in that the lever comprises a spring for elastically supporting the lock lever. Accordingly, by fitted to the lock hole of the low rail configuring a plurality of locking protrusions to perform a locking function as separate parts, respectively, even if the position error during the installation of the seat rail occurs for one of the lock projections of a plurality of locking projections lock hole is fixed by the locking action is yirueojim, there is an effect that it is possible to improve the reliability on the safety of the driver.


LEE SECHRESTNorthwestern UniversityRONALD GALLIMOREBishop Museum, HonoluluAND PAUL D. HERSCHUniversity of ConnecticutThe investigation stems from a recommendation by Holt that clinicians shouldhave training which makes it possible for them to validate themselves asclinical predictors in much the same way as tests are cross-validated. 3 experi-ments were devised to provide feedback concerning accuracy of predictionsin the expectations that feedback could be used to improve performance. The"clinicians" studied were undergraduate students, and the prediction taskinvolved interpretation of short sentence-completion protocols. In all 3 experi-ments there was evidence for the superior performance of those Ss whoreceived feedback, but the bulk of the evidence suggested that the feedbackeffect was attributable to enhancement of motivation of the Ss rather than tospecific informational value.


In previous years various cases of cardiac disease and abnormal heart rate and blood pressure adjustments have been reported. Even such accidents lead to death. Hence, awareness of critical circumstances concerning swimming and children is essential to an organization. This thesis suggests a heart and blood pressure monitoring-based swimmingsave program. There are two units: the swimmer and the rescuer. The machine checks the pulse rate and blood pressure of the swimmer, and then stores the hero's cell app attributes. Those values are related to standard pulse and pressure levels. When such values are not within the standard range, the program may trigger an alert. Keywords—Telehealth, Heartbeat, Pressure, Monitoring, Security INTRODUCTION A throw-and-collect rescue look for survivors in destroyed construction sites was built [1]. The suggested auditor contains directions for blowing and painting, and a camera-equipped infant computer. A machine is mounted on the site which acts as a parent robot. Then, and the unit field is analysed[2]. When there is an barrier, the device will spit out a baby machine with a pneumatic ring for the magnetic brake; the system will then begin the trial. The idea of the Wireless Electrocardiogram (ECG) program was introduced in order to track ECG operation continuously [3]. The program suggested is designed primarily for the diagnosis of arrhythmias. One patient carries a wearable ECG transmitter that transmits a portable computer with ECG signals. This system tracks the reported ECG signal continuously and identifies any deviations using an automated detector for arrhythmias [4]. Even with the firewall, this device will operate as a continuous event tracker, and the baby machine is restored later [5]. European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine ISSN 2515-8260 Volume 07, Issue 09, 202


The invention discloses a magnetic suspension supporting system, a magnetic suspension bearing, a compound magnetic suspension bearing, a magnetic force centering bearing and a rotor bias magnet gravity-reducing device. The magnetic suspension supporting system is characterized in that a motor (9) with a radical air gap is arranged in the middle part of a horizontal rotor (19), and then repelled radical magnetic suspension bearings (7, 12) with radical air gaps, repelled axial magnetic suspension bearings (6, 13) with convex-concave stators and rotors, attractive axial magnetic suspension bearings (8, 11) with radial air gaps, attractive radial magnetic suspension bearings (5, 14) with axial air gaps and the rotor bias magnet gravity-reducing device are symmetrically distributed on rotor shaft rods (19) at both sides of the motor (9). Reliable running is realized with a differential fuzzy control method in the prior art.


This study examined the ability of the Personality Assessment Inventory scores to predict noncompliance and probation revocations among a sample of sex offenders mandated to participate in community-based treatment. Scores on the Borderline Features (BOR) scale and subscales were the strongest predictors of noncompliance, with effect sizes as large as d = 1.50, outperforming scores on scales designed to predict treatment rejection and antisocial traits. Relatively low BOR cut scores (e.g., 50T, 55T) appeared to be most useful for identifying those at risk for noncompliance, suggesting that those with even moderate levels of borderline or personality disorder traits may be at risk for noncompliance.


This article has the general aim of assessing the worldwide research productivity of Elaeis guineensis Jacq. and Elaeis oleifera or more commonly known as oil palm, as reflected by the literature indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases. Specifically, the research aims to identify the most productive countries, institutions and authors in this area of research. It also investigates the subject characteristics of the publication and collaborative patterns among researchers and institutions. Overall, based on the number of publications indexed by both WoS and Scopus, the Asian region, represented by seven countries, are the dominant producers of publications in this field, of which Malaysia is in the number one position. Whereas, USA and some European countries, such as United Kingdom and France, are also leading in terms of publications and citations. Research in the areas of food science and technology (WoS) as well as agricultural and biological sciences (Scopus) account for the highest number of publications. High levels of collaboration among authors are evident among the top 10 most productive countries. This is a good indication of collaboration impact with increased research output.


Postpartum weight retention is a significant contributor to obesity in reproductive‐aged women, but the key implementation characteristics of postpartum weight management interventions have not been systematically identified to inform policy and practice. This study aimed to evaluate the intervention characteristics associated with weight loss in postpartum women using the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) framework. We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PSYCINFO, and EBM databases to identify lifestyle intervention RCTs in postpartum women (within 2 years after birth) published up to January 2018. From 4512 studies, 33 studies were included in the systematic review and meta‐analysis (n = 4960 women). Health professional‐delivered interventions had significantly greater weight loss than those delivered by nonhealth professionals (mean difference, 95% confidence interval: (−3.22 kg [−4.83, −1.61] vs −0.99 kg [−1.53, −0.45], P = 0.01 for subgroup differences)). Diet and physical activity combined had significantly greater weight loss compared with physical activity‐only interventions (−3.15 kg [−4.34, −1.96] vs −0.78 kg [−1.73, 0.16], P = 0.009 for subgroup differences). The extent of weight loss was not influenced by intervention intensity (duration, number of sessions) and setting (individual or group).


FIELD: engines and pumps. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to mechanical engineering, namely to systems consisting of an internal combustion engine, a flywheel mounted in a starter-generator flywheel housing and connecting the flywheel to the friction clutch gearbox. System for starter generator application (3) for an internal combustion engine includes an internal combustion engine. A flywheel (1) is installed on the engine crankshaft. A starter generator (3) is mounted in the flywheel housing (2). A friction clutch (4) connects the flywheel (1) to the gearbox. At that, an intermediate element (5) is fixed on the output side of the flywheel (1). The torque transmitting fastener (8) of the intermediate element (5) on the flywheel (1) in relation to the radial distance (6) from the axis (7) of flywheel (1) rotation, is located radially inside relatively to the torque transmitting fastener (9) of the intermediate element (5) on the friction clutch (4). The intermediate element (5) forms an abutment surface (11) of the support for the friction lining (12) of the friction clutch (4). EFFECT: invention is small, at least in the axial direction. 15 cl, 2 dwg


Objective To evaluate the bioequivalence of Pantoprazole enteric capsules.Methods Eighteen healthy volunteers are randomly divided into two groups,and single oral dose of Pantoprazole at the dose of 40mg of test enteric capsule and reference one are given respectively.The plasma drug time-concentrations of Pantoprazole are determined by high performance liquid chroma-mass spectrography(HPLC-MS).The means of the main pharmacokinetic parameters(AUC_(0→13)、AUC_(0→∞))are analysed by variance,and their bioequivalence is judged by two-one side t-test.The bioequivalence of Tmax is judged by signed rank test.Results The pharmacokinetic parameters AUC_(0→13),AUC_(0→∞),T_(max),C_(max),t_(1/2) of test enteric capsule and reference enteric capsule of the two kind of Pantoprazole is 7670.1±2509.6 and 7549.6 ±2149.9,7724.4±2535.1 and 7591.2±2161.2 [ng/(h·mL)],3.0±0.2 and 3.0±0.2(h),3107.2±567.0 and 3267.2±717.3(ng/mL),1.1±0.3 and 1.0±0.2(h) respectively.The relative bioavailability of test enteric capsule is 100.8±10.3%.The results of analysis of variance show that the main pharmacokinetic parameters(AUC_(0→13),AUC_(0→∞)) are not significantly diferent from two preparations.The results of two-one side t-test and signed rank test show that the two preparations of Pantoprazole are bioequivalent.


Statement of the Problem: Using plate and screws as the conventional bone fixation method in maxillofacial fractures leads to many complications as plate exposure, infection or unpleasant feeling on touching.  Finding a substitute fixation method has been a far desire for many years.
Purpose: This study compared the new bone formation using an experimental bone adhesive containing a functional monomer (benzophenone tetracarboxylic di-methacrylate, BTDMA) and the conventional plate and screw in fractured mandibles of rabbit.
Materials and Method: This is an experimental animal study. The artificial fractures were induced at the mandibular angles of three male New Zealand rabbits. Screw and plate were used as control and titanium mesh with the resin-based bone adhesive containing 15 wt. % BTDMA monomer were applied as treatment. The mandible radiography were obtained and the density of the fracture line was compared to the control. The newly formed bone was assessed by a microscope.
Results: The results obtained from the MTT cytotoxicity assay showed that 70% of cells were able to grow in the presence of the adhesive. The radiographic density of mesh-adhesive specimens was 119.88±76.29, while conventional plate specimens' density was 120.38±73.89. The average new bone formation score in the mesh specimens and plate specimens was 3.67±4.62 and 7±4.36, respectively. There was no significant difference between the two groups. The application of bone adhesive containing 15% BTDMA monomer in a group of the rabbits showed lamellar bone formation.
Conclusion: Using bone adhesives containing BTDMA could lead to a new bone formation with high density in the case of adequate bonding to the fractured area.


A new biological chitin was extracted from snail shell and employed for the production of high purity and porous chitosan. The chitin and chitosan were analyzed using IR spectroscopy and element analysis to show the efficiency of N-deacetylation. The prepared chitosan was investigated as a chelating material for zinc (II) metal ion from ZnO waste water by equilibrium method. Atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) was used to determine the milligram of chelated Zn (II) ion per gram of ligand molecule. At pH 4.5, the maximum chelation capacity was 6.5 x 10 6 mg of zinc per gram of chitosan over 24hrs of the experimental duration.


and counter-espionage activities, her argument might have been strengthened by a fuller examination of the political context. It was not only the FBI and the military intelligence agencies that took a highly critical view of the Soviet Union. Throughout the war there were patriotic Catholics, fundamentalist Protestants, democratic Socialists and much of organized labor that were unrelenting in their suspicions of the Soviet Union and its activities, and, if they were not in a position to know much about espionage as such, their views anticipated those that became pervasive in American society during the Cold War. J. Edgar Hoover and the like were not exactly alone. While the author makes, valid points about wartime experience, the theme of its continuing impact seems a bit strained at times. Eventually she does concede that with the Cold War ''a far more comprehensive counterintelligence and counterespionage program'' (246) was undertaken, which smacks slightly of having things both ways. Was the Cold War transformative or not? But if the argument does not wholly convince, the research remains impressive, and it is larded with interesting detail. One intriguing point is that the British authorities did not allow the FBI to interrogate Klaus Fuchs until after his trial in 1950, which suggests that the Attlee government may have been more resistant to US pressure on security issues than that of Tony Blair!


THE B. U. very Ratchford helpful survey and P. article B. Han by 1 B. U. Ratchford and . B. H 1 may inaugurate an overdue investigation into this important subject. Their views obviously differ from mine.2 However, the precise areas of disagreement and agreement are not altogether clear to me; and it may be worthwhile to attempt a brief statement and n arrowing of issues, without trying to settle the merits.


Complete Scalp Avulsion Treated With Tissue Replantation Petar Kiskinov, Elean Zanzov, Kiril Atliev Madjit Kadim, Elena Krasteva Department of Propedeutics of Surgical Diseases; Section of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and Thermal Trauma, Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Department of Urology and General Medicine, *St. George University Hospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Corresponding Author: Petar Kiskinov, Department of Propedeutics of Surgical Diseases; Section of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and Thermal Trauma, Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Received date: 23 August 2022; Accepted date: 13 September 2022; Published date: 20 September 2022 Citation: Kiskinov P, Zanzov E, Atliev K, Kadim M, Krasteva E (2022) Complete Scalp Avulsion Treated With Tissue Replantation. J Med Case Rep Case Series 3(13): https://doi.org/10.38207/JMCRCS/2022/DECA03130395 Copyright: © 2022 Petar Kiskinov. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


Objective To explore the clinical care of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.Methods Take clinical cares to 95 cases of ICP patients.Results 80 cases show skin pruritus and pass examination,15 cases have no such symptoms.Conclusion 95 cases of ICP patients all have taken effective clinical cares and the anxiety of the patients is removed,the premature rate,post-partum hemorrhage rate of the patients and mortality rate of the infants during the prenatal period are reduced.


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Tomographic imaging with radionuclides commonly used in nuclear medicine, such as 111In (171 and 245 keV) and 131I (364 keV), is in high demand for medical applications and small animal imaging. The Si/CdTe Compton camera with its high angular and high energy resolutions is an especially promising detector to extend the energy coverage for imaging to the range that covers gamma ray emitted from these radionuclides. Here, we take the first steps toward short-distance imaging by conducting experiments using 3-D phantoms composed of multiple sphere-like solutions of 111In and 131I with a diameter of 2.7 mm, placed at a distance of 41 mm. Using simple back-projection (SBP) methods, the positions of the sources are reproduced with a spatial resolution of 11.5 and 9.0 mm (FWHM) for 111In and 131I, respectively. We found that a list-mode maximum-likelihood expectation maximization (LM-MLEM) method gives a better resolution of 4.0 and 2.7 mm (FWHM). We resolve source positions of a tetrahedron structure with a source-to-source separation of 28 mm. These findings demonstrate that Compton Cameras have the potential of close-distance imaging of radioisotopes distributions in the energy range below 400 keV.


Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, this book undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating U.S. settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. The book traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the U.S. colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors. The book shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. The book demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of U.S. national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire. The book connects Catholic history and the history of U.S. empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself.


Matrix diffusion is a phenomenon in which tracer particles convected along a flow channel can diffuse into porous walls of the channel, and it causes a delay and broadening of the breakthrough curve of the tracer pulse. The lattice-Boltzmann method is a popular tool for simulating flow through porous materials, and for similar reasons it is an attractive tool for modeling the matrix diffusion phenomenon. In this work sorption of the tracer particles is also included in such simulations with this method. The proposed approach is compared with conventional methods for modeling matrix diffusion phenomena.


The deformation behavior of rapidly-grown tetragonal KD{sub 2x} H{sub 1(1-x)} PO{sub 4} (KDP and DKDP) single crystals, with a deuteration degree x of 0.0, 0.3, and 0.6, is studied by nanoindentation with a 1 {micro}m radius spherical indenter. Within experimental error, the deformation behavior is found to be independent of deuterium content and different for (001) and (100) surfaces. Multiple discontinuities (so called ''pop-in'' events) in force-displacement curves are observed during indentation loading, but not during unloading. Slip is identified as the major mode of plastic deformation in DKDP, and pop-in events are attributed to the initiation of slip.


In this paper, a differential comparator featuring a high speed of conversion, is described and analyzed. The designed comparator is intended to be implemented in a 10bit, 20MHz pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converter dedicated to RF WLAN applications. This comparator is based on the switched capacitor network using a two-phase nonoverlapping clock. The analyses and simulation results which have been obtained using 0.8μm CMOS AMS process parameters, with a power supply voltage of 5V and an input common mode of 2-3V, show that this comparator exhibits a propagation delay of 1 7.3ns, a good accuracy and a low power consumption of about 0.8mW. The predicted performance is verified by analysis and simulations using PSPICE tool.


In some adaptive filtering applications, the least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm may be too computationally- and memory-intensive to implement. The authors present two adaptive algorithms that update only a portion of the coefficients of the adaptive system on average. These algorithms use a decimated version of the regressor vector signal and thus are particularly suited to filtered-regressor algorithms used in infinite-impulse-response (IIR) filtering and active noise control applications. The authors provide statistical analyses and simulations of these algorithms that indicate that their behavior with stationary random input signals is similar to that of a periodic update version of the LMS adaptive algorithm. The robustness of the proposed algorithms for periodic inputs is also discussed.<<ETX>>


In the present study an attempt has been made to characterize lentil accessions based on qualitative traits. There were variations among 44 lentil accessions. Erect growth habit was observed in 24 % of the accessions where 8% were from Algeria. Conversely, prostrate growth habit was observed in 34% of the accessions. The majority of the remaining accessions (41.32%) were intermediate. Stem with anthocyanin pigmentation was showed in 44% of the accessions, whereas, 56% had no pigmentation (green stem). About half of the accessions had grey green leaves (53%) and 23% of accessions were light green. Among the characters, flower color showed the highest variation. White flowers were observed in 64% accessions and violet flowers were found in 36% accessions. Flowers, with violet stripes in the standard petal (SVE) were observed in 44% accessions and the majority (56%) lacked violet stripes. Yellow cotyledons were observed in 61% accessions, while the rest (39%) had red cotyledons. The majority of accessions (81%) were observed with brown testa while 14% were green and 5% had yellow testa. Absence of seed coat pattern was observed in 69% accessions. However, 8% accessions with spots, 5% with dots, 16% were marbled and the remaining 2% were complex. Flattened seed shape was observed in 60% of accessions. Conversely, globose shape was observed in 40% of the accessions, among of them 27% were from Algeria.


Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of a product is very important for manufacturers and customers to make decisions. Several sentiment analysis systems are proposed to determine the opinions of customers about products and product features. However, the aggregation methods used are not able to estimate a true reputation value and to reflect the recent opinions quickly. Most of these systems are based on single source and therefore suffer from availability and susceptibility issues. In this paper, we propose a multi-source reputation model where several aggregation methods are introduced in order to evaluate product based on features. In addition, we also propose a method which uses four parameters in order to rank the reputability of each rating before considering it for reputation values. The results show that the proposed model estimates good reputation values even in the presence of biased behaviors, robust to false ratings and reflects the newest opinions about product rapidly.


Among the Pontifical Roman Athenaeums libraries that are part of the URBE Association (Roman Union of Ecclesiastical Libraries), we have been considering those institutes, which have created a new library building (or extension building) in the 21st century. Investments and service innovation are here analyzed in relation to the architectural project. In these cases it is possible to find the presence of library architecture trends in an international context.


Pigment‐based chemotaxonomy is a widely utilized tool to determine the biomass of phytoplankton classes from pigment biomarkers. The CHEMTAX approach is sensitive to the initial estimates of pigment‐to‐chlorophyll a (Chl a) ratios for the phytoplankton classes required, even though these are modified by the CHEMTAX process. We present an alternative chemotaxonomic method that utilizes simulated annealing with a steepest descent algorithm to derive class abundances and pigment‐to‐Chl a ratios. The simulated annealing algorithm is tested on two synthetic datasets of Southern Ocean phytoplankton communities. Each dataset is composed of 1000 inversion samples (set of phytoplankton class abundances, pigment ratios, and pigment profiles) with sizes ranging between 5 and 60 individual samples. We show that the new simulated annealing approach displays higher accuracy than two common configurations of the CHEMTAX method, with lower differences between true and estimated class abundances. Symmetric mean absolute percentage error were 4.8–11%, compared to 18–70% with CHEMTAX approaches. Proportions of variance explained (R2) between true and estimated class abundances using the simulated annealing approach were 0.98–0.99 compared to 0.71–0.89 for CHEMTAX. Overall, this new methodology is capable of determining phytoplankton class abundances at higher accuracy than CHEMTAX without sensitivity to initial estimates of pigment‐to‐Chl a ratios.


The measures controlling the CO2 emission at home and abroad were introduced in this paper,including controlling the CO2 source,reducing CO2 emission,absorbing and storing CO2,etc..the applicability of every way and the development trend of the CO2 control technique in the future were put forward.


Value added tax (VAT) has become an increasingly important source of public revenue in many states. However, its inherent characteristics entail various risks. This article points out the main forms of VAT fraud, focusing on missing trader and carousel fraud as the most dangerous and damaging types, and presents an overview of measures used to prevent tax fraud. Reverse taxation seems to be the most effective and easily applicable measure of the existing proposals which would considerably reduce tax fraud.


The crop damage by wild animals in Babanrafi forest with special emphasis on African elephant (Loxodonta africana ) was investigated through the administration of questionnaires designed for the local farmers. The data indicated a significant damage to crops planted by the local farmers by the elephants (57.50%). This happen when the elephants migrate from the neighbouring areas into the forest. During rainy season, the migration frequency was reported low (9.17%) however, they become more frequent in the dry season (55%) and the harmattan period (35.83%). The principal cause of their migration is in search for water (100%) and food (85%). The traditional methods of deterrence include raising of alarm by noise making (100%), fire and watching over their farms (100%). Others include the use of repellants and irritants.


Identifying appropriate seismic events is the primary precondition for conducting meaningful analysis in seismological research. The successful creation of a method to automatically identify earthquakes from large amounts of data has become increasingly vital, especially with the construction of seismic stations, the collection of extensive seismic data, and the development of earthquake early warning (EEW) systems. To accurately identify seismic events, a combined model based on a generative adversarial network (GAN) and a support vector machine (SVM) is proposed to distinguish between earthquakes and microtremors. We first use 52,537 strong ground motion records from Japan to train a GAN and extract the characteristics of P waves and then use an SVM to discriminate seismic events in the testing set, thereby transforming the complex seismic event identification into a simpler binary classification of earthquakes and microtremors. The results illustrate that the combined model can achieve accuracies of 99.74% for P waves and 99.93% for microtremors, which represents an increase in accuracy of 14.13% compared with the traditional short-term averaging/long-term averaging (STA/LTA) method. Additionally, 98% of the local seismic events in the Great East Japan earthquake were identified. Therefore, the combined model has a wide range of applications in EEW and earthquake monitoring.


This study investigated joining of Al to Cu sheets by electromagnetic pulse welding, which is a solid-state welding process that uses electromagnetic forces to join materials. The interfacial morphology and mechanical properties of the Al/Cu joints were analysed and related to the welding process parameters and weld properties. The centre section of the Al/Cu joints evolved from a non-welded to a welded zone. The welded zone started with a wavy interface, consisting of thick interfacial layers with defects and evolved to a relatively flat interface without an interfacial layer. The interfacial layer thickness is determined by both the discharge energy and the stand-off distance. A higher tensile force, up to 4.9 kN, was achieved at a higher energy and a lower stand-off distance of 2 mm. The tensile force is directly related to the weld width, since a higher tensile force is achieved for a higher weld width. In addition, the presence of interfacial layers can contribute to a small extent to a higher tensile force.


This article discusses the financial administration of Regional Public Service Agency (Badan Layanan Umum Daerah) and its alignment with the financial plan of the Regional Public Assistance Organization. The Regional Public Assistance Organization is a local government entity that provides assistance without prioritizing profit. Its management is governed by Regulation Number 1 of 2004 regarding State Storage Institutions and Unofficial Law Number 12 of 2019 concerning Territorial Monetary Administration. The topics covered include revenue, utilization, and funding of the Regional Public Assistance Organization. Revenue sources encompass administrative fees, collaborations, local government budgets (APBD), and others. Administrative rates are determined by unit costs and reserve profit. Tax systems consider maintenance, enhancement, purchasing power, and fairness. Despite financial management improvements enhancing governance effectiveness, deficiencies highlighted by the Supreme Audit Agency (Badan Pengkajian Unggul or BPK) regarding the financial administration of the Regional Public Assistance Organization underscore the need for development in the financial administration of the Regional Public Service Agency.


A task of estimation of complex sinusoid frequency is considered. A particular but practically important case of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is studied. The low SNR threshold, commonly overlooked in development of the rapid estimator of complex sinusoidals, is addressed. Signals of different length are considered and SNR is varied in wide limits. It is demonstrated that a simple interpolation with factor 2 lowers the SNR threshold by 1.5dB for the most complicated practical situations. Further interpolation does not bring any improvement. This allows proposing a compromise practical algorithm that provides accuracy close to the limit and is still very simple and fast.


That political and economic forces play a vital role in the development of ethnocentrism, in both its institutional and individual psychological forms, is no longer questioned by social scientists or even by most laymen. In modern industrial societies ethnocentric ideology has been utilized by a great variety of sociopolitical movements which can be broadly characterized as fascist, prefascist, reactionary, imperialistic, chauvinistic. It is not within the scope of the present research to investigate directly the social movements and structures—monopoly, the concentration of power and wealth, labor unions, changing government functions, the declining middle class, and so on—which are crucial for the elimination of ethnocentrism or for its further development in such forms as war and rigid socioeconomic stratification. We are concerned, however, with the ideologies of these social groupings, with the organization of ideologies in the individual, and with some of the factors responsible for these broad ideological patterns) What patterns of politico-economic ideology arrelated to ethnocentric and anti-ethnocentric "group relations" ideology?j There is good reason to believe that the "right-left" dimension politically 'Ts correlated with ethnocentrism. Fascism, which represents the most extreme right-wing political and economic structure and ideology, is also the most virulent antidemocratic form of ethnocentrism. The emphasis in ethnocentrism on a static, rigid stratification of groups finds its politico-economic analogue in the fascist


Fraud is defined as intentional actions in which one or more people, including from the
management, employees, or the third parties, venture to obtain an unjust or illegal benefit. According to the researches, the average cost of fraud was determined as 5% of total incomes. The fraud, which has the results like a financial iceberg besides the direct losses, causes damages like loss of reputation, and adverse effects of customer relations. Auditing and detection of fraud, which has such vast effects, is of great importance. In this study, we have developed a model that is designed for detecting mistreatments with logistic regression and the abuses in the performance-based salary system in the health sector. For this, some imaginary surgery data were added into the actual data of laparoscopic cholecystectomy operations performed in a public hospital in 2015, and to distinguish this fictitious data, the success of the generated logistic regression model was
tested. Consequently, it shows that the model had 83.30% of the success rate for detecting the false data added to real data.


Air Collectors (Magneti Marelli): QC process based on comparison between Measured and Theoretical Acoustic Mode of inner cavities, using special design excitation loudspeaker and measuring microphones. Refrigerators (Electrolux): Complete Refrigerators are tested at the end of the production line using an accelerometer automatically attached to the Refrigerator body. Dishwasher machines (Electrolux): Dishwasher machines are tested in a small reverberant room with a microphone system, the results are compared to the Acoustic power data previously certified in a standard room. Electrical motors (Electrolux): Electrical motors for washing machines are tested on the production line with an accelerometer automatically positioned on the external stator pack, tests are performed on a variable run/up and in stationary rotating conditions. Each motor arrives in the test station on a pallet carrying identification codes. The system is reading the code and loads the corresponding measurement parameters and reference mask. Injectors (Fiat): System at high sampling frequency (1 MHz), for transient analysis of: pressures, noise, current and acceleration of diesel engine injectors with Common Rail technology. Security belts (TRW): Quality control of noise emitted by rolling movement of safety belts. Gearboxes (Graziano, Ferrari, Iveco, Euroricambi, Iran Khodro): Automatic test of gearbox performed in run up order tracking, a complete test bench is also capable of driving the gearbox in a specific way, automatically changing shifts and controlling load. Seats (Lear Corporation, Johnson Control): Squeak and rattling from automotive seats controlled using a test bench where the seat is excited with an electrodynamic shaker with random vibration controller in close loop, reproducing a PSD spectra taken from road measurements. The complete test system is placed in an acoustical insulated room. Turbine blades (Ansaldo Energia): Automatic check of turbine blades resonant frequencies acoustically excited; frequencies are compared with predefined values within given tolerances. Gas Valves (Sit la Precisa): Automatic control for defects in the open/close action of gas valve, using acoustic detection. Automotive Electronic Devices (Facet): Test on electrical continuity of high tension switches and other electronic components while artificially vibrated using electrodynamic shaker in close loop control. Vibration absorbers (Integra Fiat): Acoustic emission of car vibration absorber under fatigue test. Power plants chimney (AEM Torino): Continous monitor of noise emitted by power plants chimneys in urban area Carbon powder process (SNAM Priolo): Continous check of carbon agglomerated parts in a supply tank, using acoustic detectors. Applicable to many different products Production faults classification Measurement flexibility One Touch operations Advanced Database Wide range of mathematical and spectral functions Automatic reference mask creation Components table Time-Frequency analysis Ramp up/down detection Orders tracking Multichannels acquisition Subjective judgement Windows environment BASIC FEATURES QC EXAMPLES


Abstract The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks instituted a 23-cm minimum length limit for black crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus and white crappie P. annularis in Lake Alvin on 1 January 1996 because an undesirable size and age structure indicated that these populations were being overharvested. Crappies were sampled annually using trap (modified fyke) nets from 1992 to 1999. Mean catch per unit effort (fish/net night) was higher in the postregulation years (1996–1999) than in the preregulation years (1992–1995) for both species. The mean length of age-3 fish in the postregulation years was not different from that of the 1995 baseline for either species. The relative stock density of 23-cm crappies did not increase after implementation of the length limit. Limited prey availability, which was inferred from the negative trend of relative weight with respect to length, was the likely reason that larger crappies did not appear. The 23-cm minimum length limit was removed on 1 January 2000 to giv...


To improve the accuracy of STR-PCR typing method. The size of different alleles of D19S253 were analysed using GeneScan2.1 software on ABI Prisrn377 DNA Sequencer. 3 methods were used to produce allele ladder: (1) mixing PCR products containing different alleles-purifying- reamplifying; (2) making mixture-AE (agarose gel electrophoresis)-extracting and purifying DNA from gel-reamplifying; (3) making mixture-PAGE (native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis)- extracting and purifying DNA from gel-reamplifying. The first method is simpler and more economic than others. When using allelic ladders, the results of STR-typing are more accurate. The method is easy to type.


For political scientists and pollsters the way the individual voted on previous occasions provides an important source of data. In the absence of longitudinal studies, recall of past vote tends to be taken as equivalent to actual vote cast. How accurate is such recall? How far does accuracy decrease with time, where recall concerns not one, but two, previous elections? How far do errors introduce a systematic bias in the conclusions drawn from such data?


This paper first gives a brief review of Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) concept, functions and architecture, then summarizes recent international research and development activities in this area especially in commercial aviation industry. A clear trend is that IVHM has become a focus in aerospace industry. All commercial aircraft manufacturers have spent significant amount of resources on IVHM technology R&D and use IVHM technology to improve their products. International standard organizations are also interested in this area by trying to form some industry standards. But as a new emerging filed there are still some issues could be solved or further explored. These experiences and lesson learned could be useful as China begins entering international commercial aviation market.


Germany's main interests likely will continue to be the maintenance of the transatlantic partnership, the further integration of Western Europe, and all‐European stability. Given its dependence on access to world markets, Germany requires a peaceful international environment. German history has demonstrated the need for a continued Western policy orientation. While European unification remains a long‐term vision, Germany is well‐advised to give highest priority to German‐American relations.


Abstract : The technical feasibility of applying solidification/stabilization (S/S) technology to sediment from the New Bedford Superfund Site, New Bedford, MA, was investigated in laboratory studies. Sediment samples from the New Bedford site were solidified/stabilized using three selected processes: a generic process (portland cement), a generic process modified with a proprietary additive (portland cement with Firmix proprietary additive), and a proprietary process (Silicate Technology Corporation proprietary additive). The ability of these processes to eliminate or substantially reduce the pollutant potential of sediment from the New Bedford Superfund Site was evaluated on the basis of data from physical and chemical tests. Unconfined compressive strength (UCS) was the key test for physical stabilization, and sequential batch leach tests were the key tests for chemical stabilization. The UCS data showed that New Bedford sediment can be converted to a hardened mass. Conversion of dredged material from a plastic state to a solid monolith should reduce the accessibility of water to the contaminated solids. The range in 28-day UCS was 20 to 481 psi (0. 14 to 3.3 MPa). This range in product strength is indicative of the versatility of solidification as a physical stabilization process for New Bedford Harbor sediment.


A low cost converged wireline and 60GHz wireless hybrid system utilizing a single wavelength is proposed, employing two single electrode LiNbO3 modulators for all-optical mm-wave frequency up-conversion and baseband modulation, respectively. Additionally, a novel 15dBi, broadband, coplanar based, photonic patch array antenna is designed on a high dielectric substrate for application as an indoor compact photonic-wireless transceiver. In order to evaluate the fiber-wireless system performance a microwave/optical/wireless design is utilized, employing 3Gb/s orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) broadband wireless and passive optical network (PON) signals, co-propagating in a single mode fiber (SMF). An acceptable performance is calculated for a 10m indoor wireless channel and a PON urban link in the order of up to 20km, respectively. At last, a comparison of alternative RoF/PON photonic up conversion schemes is presented.


Lettered words have been a component of Chinese vocabulary,they have foreign words and Chinese words.There are three kinds of combination ways,and their form,sound and meaning are more complicated.There are a few problems in lettered words,but their advantages make up a deficiency of Chinese expression.It is necessary to use lettered words,and it should be cautious and normative.


The paradigm of fog computing has set new trends and heights in the modern world networking and have overcome the major technical complexities of cloud computing. It is not a replacement of cloud computing technology but it just adds feasible advanced characteristics to existing cloud computing paradigm.fog computing not only provide storage, networking and computing services but also provide a platform for IoT (internet of things). However, the fog computing technology also arise the threat to privacy and security of the data and services. The existing security and privacy mechanisms of the cloud computing cannot be applied to the fog computing directly due to its basic characteristics of large-scale geo-distribution, mobility and heterogeneity. This article provides an overview of the present existing issues and challenges in fog computing.


Material was a vital component of human being and the social development.Many researches in the organic and polymeric materials were funded by CNSF.Projects in organic and polymeric materials between 1986~2010 were collected and analyzed in the annual distribution,project type,regional distribution,donor-recipient,funded institution,etc.The conclusion of the analysis was also presented.


mechanism by creating a shared purpose, mutual understanding or building joint efforts on a joint values frame. In this way values could function as integrators. In our study we also consider the role of leadership. The study findings provide insight into how network orchestrators, such as network leaders or managers, deal with values in practice. We have collected data on how these orchestrators deal with clashing values, similar values and value trade-offs among network partners. And, additionally, how their role, position, skills and competencies relates to this. Conclusions: To gain a deeper understanding of how collaboration in integrated care networks takes place, it is important to look at social-behavioural aspects. Our provisional study results suggest that the role of values in differentiation and integration deserve more attention. This is relevant for leaders, coordinators and innovators pursuing integrated care.


: Background: Gentamicin (GNT) is a highly effective aminoglycoside antibiotic that is commonly used to treat life-threatening bacterial infections. Aim: The aim of the current study is to determine whether tadalafil can protect against GNT-induced nephrotoxicity. Methods: Twenty-four male Albino rats were used in the study, which were randomly divided into four groups, six animals each. Control untreated group received distilled water (5ml/kg, P.O) for 12 days and on days 6-12, they received (5ml/kg,i.p) normal saline daily, one hour after oral administration of distilled water. Tadalafil group received tadalafil (5mg/kg, P.O) for 12 days and on days 6-12, they received (5ml/kg,i.p) of normal saline daily, one hour after oral administration of tadalafil. Gentamicin group received distilled water (5ml/kg, P.O) and on days 6-12, they received gentamicin (011mg/kg,i.p) one hour after oral administration of distilled water. Gentamicin+Tadalafil group received tadalafil (5mg/kg, P.O) for 12 days and on days 6-12, they received gentamicin (100mg/kg,i.p) one hour after oral administration of tadalafil. Body weight and kidney weight were investigated. Urine volume as well as urinary albumin, creatinine, creatinine clearance and albumin /creatinine ratio (ACR) performed. The results of the present study showed that GNT decreased creatinine clearance and increased the serum levels of renal function parameters. GNT caused a significant increase in renal cortex MDA, NO and urine levels of KIM-1, while it decreased CAT and SOD activities. Gentamicin administration resulted in increased immunohistochemical expression of iNOS enzyme while decreasing eNOS expression. Renal corpuscles and tubules also showed histological and ultrastructural changes. Pretreatment with tadalafil, on the other hand, reversed the effects of GNT administration. In conclusion , findings of the present study indicate that tadalafil reduces GNT-induced kidney damage by inhibition of inflammation, oxidative stress, and apoptosis.


This study investigates the information content of losses reported by companies to investors. It was motivated by the possibility that losses and profits have different associations with share return because losses are perceived by investors as temporary. Losses are likely to be considered temporary since shareholders can always liquidate the firm rather than suffer from indefinite losses. Because of this liquidation option, losses are less informative than profits about the firm's future prospects and thus more weakly associated with return than profits. The sample consists of 643 firm-years for the period 1999-2001, available from Jakarta Stock Exchange. It is partitioned into profitable and loss firm-years in order to examines the effect of losses on the estimate regression. The statistical method used in this research is linear regression and regression correlation determination. Consistent with the evidence in Hayn (1995) the finding shows that share returns do have a lower association with losses. This result thus providing further insight into the relationship between returns and losses especially in Indonesia.


A detailed treatment has been given of radial transport in and through a hollow cylindrical membrane for two initial distributions of diffusant within the membrane of practical interest. Expressions are given for concentration distributions of diffusant and for unit length of membrane, amounts present, fluxes through radial planes, and amounts transported up to time t across those planes. Some consideration has been given to forward and reverse flow and to relations between flow quantities characteristic of those transports. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


In complex inspection of patients with polyps cervice a uterus important value has histologic inspection. The lead purposeful inspection allows to establish the diagnosis, to develop tactics of conducting and treatment. Tactics of conducting patients of a uterus depending on the age, accompanying defeats cervice a uterus, character of a polyp, its localization and its revealing should be individual. The basic method of treatment is surgical or termosurgical.


ABSTRACT In recent years, due to increasing awareness of the need for environmental protection, there have been significant efforts to improve consumers' acceptance of green information technology(IT) products for sustainable development. This study first investigated how knowledge about a green IT product (e-books) influences consumers' planning processes by using the technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behavior. Data from 320 respondents were analyzed using structural equation modeling to examine the hypothesized relationships in the research model. Results show that perceived usefulness, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control have a significant and positive impact on the intention to purchase e-books. Results also show the moderating effect of consumers' knowledge about the environmental friendliness of e-books on their intention to buy e-books. Finally, important implications of the findings are discussed, and directions for future research are also provided in this paper.


OBJECTIVE
To study the mobilization effects of recombinant human IL-8(rhIL-8) on mouse peripheral blood hematopoietic progenitors (HPCs).

METHODS
A daily single dose of rhIL-8 was intravenously injected into normal or G-CSF-treated mice for two days. The number of colony-forming unit-Mix (CFU-Mix) in peripheral blood was analyzed by colony assay, while the number of c-kit+ Sca-1+ HPCs was examined by immunofluorescence staining. In addition, colony forming unit of spleen (CFU-S) and marrow repopulating ability (MRA) cells were examined by transplanting lethally irradiated mice.

RESULTS
Single dose of rhIL-8 (30 micrograms) significantly increased the numbers of CFU-Mix[(194 +/- 61) x 10(3)/L] and c-kit+ Sca-1+ cells [(3186 +/- 517) x 10(3)/L] in the peripheral blood as compared with that of normal saline controls [(7 +/- 3) x 10(3)/L and (644 +/- 341) x 10(3)/L] at 15 minutes after intravenous injection. G-CSF could also increase peripheral CFU-Mix and c-kit+ Sca-1+ cells to (790 +/- 48) x 10(3)/L and (10,729 +/- 2339) x 10(3)/L, respectively, after subcutaneously injection for two days, this increase was further augmented by rhIL-8 injection. IL-8 alone or in combination with G-CSF could significantly increase the number of CFU-S and MRA cells in circulating blood.

CONCLUSION
IL-8 alone or in combination with G-CSF could significantly mobilize circulating HPCs.


The content of major and trace elements, Rb-Sr isochron age and Sr - Nd isotope compositions were determined for granites in the Boeun areas of the middle part of the Ogcheon Fold Belt in Korea. The granites of the this area are distributed in the shape of a batholith, and they intrude the middle part of Ocheon Fold Belt. These granites includes the granodiorite or granite of fine or coarse grained. The geochemical characters of this granite indicated to crystallize from a calc-alkaline series and to enrich in alkali elements by magmatic differentiation, they appear to form at the environment of continental plate or island arc. The isotopic compositions of the granites give a defined Rb-Sr whole rock isochron age of 272.8±3.6Ma corresponds to the middle Permian Period, the Sr initial ratio is 0.711864±0.000054. (2σ) isotope ratios are 0.511506∼0.511869. And, eNd values are -12.98∼-19.05, eSr values are +96.89∼+111.99, and model age is 2.05∼2.58 Ga. As a result, the isotopic evidence from granites of the study area indicate that their source material may be derived from partial melting of continental crust materials.


Surgically treatable conditions are increasingly recognized as important public health problems in lowand middle-income countries.1,2,3 In Mozambique, the majority of surgery in rural areas is performed by "técnicos de cirurgia" – non-physician surgeons trained locally. To better define rural surgical needs in Mozambique and to improve surgical care, the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) formed a research partnership with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2010. Funded by a Medical Education Partnership Initiative linked award, the specific aims of the of the project are to identify the best strategies for building emergency and essential surgical capacity in rural areas of Mozambique and increase capacity for surgical research at UEM and its allied institutions.


Relativistic thermodynamics is generalized to accommodate four-dimensional rotation in a flat spacetime. An extended body can be in equilibrium when each of its elements moves along a Killing flow. There are three types of basic Killing flows in a flat spacetime, each of which corresponds to translational motion, spatial rotation, and constant linear acceleration; spatial rotation and constant linear acceleration are regarded as four-dimensional rotation. Translational motion has been mainly investigated in the past literature of relativistic thermodynamics. Thermodynamics of the other two is derived in the present paper.


Introduction: Suicide in children and young adolescents up to 14 years of age has been increased in many countries. This study aimed to determine the incidence, gender difference, timing difference, and cause of suicide attempts among children and teenagers in Qazvin Province, Iran, between 2007 and 2012. Methods: A descriptive-analytic study was performed in a register-based manner. In total, 2771 children and teenagers with suicide attempts who were referred to urban or rural health centers, hospitals, and legal medicinal centers in Qazvin Province were recruited. The residential background, the cause of suicide attempts, and the nature of the suicide acts were assessed. Results: Among all the children who had suicide attempts, 32.12% were male and 67.88% were female (sex ratio 0.47). Most of the suicide cases happened in autumn, and 786 (28.37%) were between 20:00 and 24:00 h. Swallowing poisonous drugs was the most prominent suicide methods, while hanging was the most dangerous method. In addition, familial dispute was the leading cause of suicide. Conclusion: It is a largely complex issue why some children attempt or commit suicide. The understanding of the pattern of suicide can help us provide suitable preventive programs.


In this study, we propose an efficient sorting method for encrypted data using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). The proposed method extends the existing 2-way sorting method by applying the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-way sorting network for any prime <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to reduce the depth in terms of comparison operation from <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$O(\log _{2}^{2}~n)$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$O(k\log _{k}^{2}~n)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, thereby improving performance for <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula> slightly larger than 2, such as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k=5$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. We apply this method to approximate FHE which is widely used due to its efficiency of homomorphic arithmetic operations. In order to build up the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-way sorting network, the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-sorter, which sorts <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-numbers with a minimal comparison depth, is used as a building block. The approximate homomorphic comparison, which is the only type of comparison working on approximate FHE, cannot be used for the construction of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-sorter as it is because the result of the comparison is not binary, unlike the comparison in conventional bit-wise FHEs. To overcome this problem, we propose an efficient <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-sorter construction utilizing the features of approximate homomorphic comparison. Also, we propose an efficient construction of a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-way sorting network using cryptographic SIMD operations. To use the proposed method most efficiently, we propose an estimation formula that finds the appropriate <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula> that is expected to reduce the total time cost when the parameters of the approximating comparisons and the performance of the operations provided by the approximate FHE are given. We also show the implementation results of the proposed method, and it shows that sorting 56 = 15625 data using 5-way sorting network can be about 23.3% faster than sorting 214 = 16384 data using 2-way.


INTRODUCTION: Tumor hypoxia is a main problem arising in the treatment of cancer due to its resistance to radiation therapy and chemotherapy, and selection for more aggressive tumor phenotypes. Attempts to improve and quantify tumor oxygenation are in development and tools to assess the success of such schemes are required. Monitoring oxygen level with MRI using a T1 based method (where oxygen acts as T1 shortening agent) is a dynamic and noninvasive way to study tumor characteristics [1]. The method's sensitivity to oxygen is higher in lipids than in water due to higher oxygen solubility in lipids [1]. Our study aims to develop a timeefficient method to spatially map the T1 of fat inside the tumor. We are combining two techniques: Fat/Water imaging and Look Locker (LL) [2] (a rapid T1 measurement technique). Fat/Water Imaging is done using the extended two point Dixon [3]. The combination of these techniques poses new challenges that are tackled using spin dynamics simulations as well as experiments in a phantom and mouse in vivo.


A suspended axle for a motor vehicle comprising a torsionally flexible beam (1), in which axle each wheel carrier (5) is mounted via a pivot (16) and, some distance away from the pivot, via a wheel-steering device, the steering device comprising a hydroelastic articulation, the device further comprises a steering operating system, the system comprising means designed to vary the volume of an incompressible fluid so as to bring about the steering of the wheel (2).


Silicon-29 NMR spectra of a neutral, dilute aqueous silicic acid solution, with a pH and Si concentration typical of soil solutions, reveal that a significant fraction of the silicon is incorporated in two five-coordinated organosilicon complexes when sodium gluconate is present.


Road traffic accidents in Sweden are today registered in the national database called STRADA (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition). To every accident information is gathered, but an efficient way of compiling this information is lacking.

In countries like Germany or Denmark accidents are classified by the type of manoeuvre that leads to the accident. With help from reference tables, every movement possible for a part involved in an accident is given a code, and searches are possible based on accident type. There is also a European accident database, CARE, where accidents are registered based on CADaS structure.

By building up a code system and then analyse serious and fatal accidents in Gothenburg and Malmo (2nd and 3rd biggest cities in Sweden) between 2009 and 2013, traffic accidents could be studied in a different way than before.

The conclusion is that accident classification similar to CADaS gives another view of the safety problems. Much of the information can only be found in the accident sketch and makes it important to identify the contributing factors. Since a majority of the accidents are single accidents hospital data contribute a lot to understanding the extent of the safety problems, but not as much to understanding the conditions of the accidents. However, going into too much disaggregation quickly results in very few accidents per type and becomes meaningless.


Photoinduced charge generation is studied in a model donor/acceptor blended system, consisting of bulk-heterojunction blends of the conjugated polymer regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and the dye molecule phthalocyanine (PC). Excitation at 780 nm, into the PC NIR absorption band, creates excitons in PC domains without populating the P3HT excited state. The kinetics of geminate polaron pairs (GPP) and free polarons can then be followed without the interference from the signatures of directly created polarons, energy transfer, or significant exciton migration. The donor/acceptor film morphology has a significant impact on the ratio of free polarons and GPP that are formed: increased phase segregation leads to a pronounced increase on the fraction of free polarons formed directly. Unlike the free polaron population, GPPs are affected by fast recombination directly to the ground state, occurring with a time constant of 170 ps. Both GPP and free polarons are formed at the P3HT/PC interfaces. Free pol...


Proper selection of autoregressive order plays a crucial role in econometrics modeling cycles and testing procedures. This paper compares the performance of various autoregressive order selection criteria in selecting the true order. This simulation study shows that Schwarz information criterion (SIC), final prediction error (FPE), Hannan-Qiunn criterion (HQC) and Bayesian information criterion (BIC) have considerable high performance in selecting the true autoregressive order, even if the sample size is small, whereas Akaike's information criterion (AIC) over-estimated the true order with a probability of more than two-thirds. Further, this simulation study also shows that the probability of these criteria (except AIC) in correctly estimating the true order approaches one as sample size grows. Generally, these findings show that the most commonly used AIC might yield misleading policy conclusions due to its unsatisfactory performance. We note here that out of a class of commonly used criteria, BIC performs the best for a small sample size of 25 observations.


In the context of the prospective 2004 enlargement, with 10 new Member States entering the Union, the need for a new framework for relations with neighbouring countries to the east and the south was felt. The EU decided to construct a policy aimed at avoiding (new) dividing lines between the Union and its (new) neighbours: The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). ii The main aim of the ENP is to, as former Commission President Romano Prodi stated, create a "ring of friends" surrounding the Union's external borders. However, significant is that the ENP neither offers a prospect for accession nor an alternative to accession. Through the neighbourhood strategy the Union uses the bilaterally negotiated Action Plans, that are regularly monitored, to achieve a high(er) level of integration, stabilisation, democracy, rule of law and strengthened cooperation. In this sense ENP is the practical elaboration of the first ever common strategic vision of the Union, the in December 2003 adopted European Security Strategy (EES). The EES provides the EU with a general strategy for external action at the global and regional level and highlights the need to build security "in the neighbourhood."


Background: The key source of income in India is agriculture, so farming is called as backbone of Indian economy. To satisfy the need of increasing population increase in the crop yield is very important. India country programming framework stated that, the annual soil loss in India is about 5.3 billion tonnes. Methods: Majority farmers are small or marginal scale and are dependent on natural resources like soil-quality, rainfall and environmental condition etc. for their yield. Based on experience farmers decide which crop to be adopted. Government is arranging trainings and exhibitions to enhance the skillset of farmers. Result: A land which gives poor yield for one crop may produce adequate yield for some other crop/crops. To know the possible suitable crop/crops proposed machine learning model focuses current and potential suitability evaluation for available scenario.


We conduct a study of public-key cryptosystems based on variants of the Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem. The main LPN variant in consideration was introduced by Alekhnovich (FOCS 2003), and we describe several improvements to the originally proposed scheme, inspired by similar existing variants of Regev's LWE-based cryptosystem. To achieve further efficiency, we propose the first public-key cryptosystem based on (a variant of) the ring-LPN problem, which is a more recently introduced LPN variant that makes for substantial improvement in terms of both time and space. For both cases, we compute the parameters required for various security levels in practice, given the best currently known attacks. Our conclusion is that the basic LPN-based scheme is in several respects not competitive with existing practical schemes, as the public key, ciphertexts and encryption time become very large already for 80-bit security. On the other hand, the ring-LPN based scheme is far better in all these respects. Although the public key and ciphertexts are still larger than for, say, RSA at comparable security levels, they are not prohibitively large; moreover, for decryption, the scheme outperforms RSA for security levels of 112 bits or more. Thus LPN-based public-key cryptography seems to be somewhat more promising for practical use than has been generally assumed so far.


Density functional theory based calculations have been employed to understand the lowest energy conformers of bare [Au4M2] and ligated [Au4M2(SCH3)6] and [Au4M2(PH3)6]2+ (where M = Au, Cu, Ag, Ni, Pd, Pt) clusters in the gas phase and in various implicit solvent media (water, DMSO and DCM). Computations predict that [Au4M2] clusters in all three charge states exist with a planar 2D-geometry, with distortion introduced by the hetero atoms. And the studies show that the ligation promotes a 2D to 3D geometrical conversion either through bridging coordination or single bond formation. The sulfur atom in the thiol ligand becomes a part of the cluster skeleton, while the PH3 forms a passivation layer around the cluster. Moreover, the presence of sulfur in the cluster skeleton increases the chemical stability of coinage metal containing clusters, while stability decreases for d8 metal containing clusters. And the PH3 passivation layer decreases the chemical stability of both coinage metal and d8 metal atom containing clusters. The computed redox behaviors show that the addition of an electron requires less energy compared to that needed for removal, and both occur with negligible geometrical reorganisation. The calculated blue shift in excitation energy values show a ligand to metal charge transfer in the –SCH3 ligated cluster. However, the red shift in wavelength is observed for the –PH3 passivated cluster, which corresponds to excitation from the HOMO to LUMO, where the orbitals have an equal contribution from the metals and ligands.


Exploration in New Zealand is moving beyond the Taranaki Basin with its mainly terrestrial source rocks. Good to excellent quality marine source rocks exist and have generated oil in the Northland, East Coast W North Taranaki Basins. These high quality source rocks are Wespread throughout the late Cretaceous - Paleocene passive margin sequence in these basins as well in offshore Canterbury and the Great South Basin. This paper details the character, distribution, generative capacity and maturation behavior of the two main source units and shows how they can be correlated to the numerous seeps and oil impregnations found in the East Coast and Northland Basins. As well as being useful in basin modelling, kinetic maturation parameters for these two source rock facies help to explain differences in the biomarker and isotopic composition of seep oils and also explain trends in Rock Eval Tmax which are unrelated to maturity. In the East Coast Basin alone, the raw oil potential of the Waipawa Black Shale approaches 80 billion barrels. An understanding of the marine source rocks described here is crucial to evaluating the hydrocarbon prospectivity of New Zealand away from the Taranaki Basin.


Existing moving target indication (MTI) methods are limited either by the sufficient and homogeneous secondary data (SD) condition or by the high signal-to-clutter-ratio (SCR) requirement. In practice, such constraints are hard to be satisfied. In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based method for the MTI (CNN-MTI) to overcome the limitations of these methods. In the proposed method, the CNN architecture is deliberately designed, and the training data set is greatly augmented to ensure the CNN be deep and well-trained; in addition, the SD only act as the background interference during the augmentation of the training data set. These procedures ensure that the effective features of different classes of moving targets can be extracted, so that good MTI performance can be achieved without the requirement of the sufficient and homogeneous SD or the high SCR condition. Simulation results from the synthetic data and the experimental data demonstrate the validity and the robustness of the CNN-MTI with limited SD support in non-homogeneous and low SCR environment.


The community health care agent is the driver of the knowledge in the Family Health Program, this is who makes home visits, knowing thus the lifestyle of that community, its history and health impairments. Given the gradual expansion of the process of organizing primary care services in the municipalities, this professional needs programs and contents that allows one to perform their duties, increasingly close to the health needs of the population. Therefore, this study has as main objective to build a primer education and training, easy to interpret, to instruct the agent community in the targeted nutritional care to patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension. It is intended, also, through the implementation of this educational tool to disseminate basic knowledge about diabetes and hypertension, aimed at changing the nutrition patterns of the assisted population. We understand that the book "Nutritional Guidelines for the Family Health Diabetes and Hypertension," developed in this study will help teams of primary health care, particularly the community health agent, guiding the community in relation to feeding diabetes and hypertension.


This paper introduces how to realize the principle and technology of Client/Server and Browser/Server network model. After surveyed and analyzed the main problem existing in management information system of some China' s supermarket we propose a new support system based on a multi-model of Client/Server and Browser/Server. And then we also introduce the application background, function design, operation flow and implementation of the presented method.